Schlechter Memorial 1923

Tartakower wins Vienna's Schlechter Memorial
25 November – 5 December 1923 · Vienna, Austria
Tartakower won with 9/11

Savielly Tartakower finished first in the 1923 Schlechter Memorial in Vienna with 9 points from eleven games. Twelve players contested a complete sixty-six-game round robin.

A memorial tournament in Vienna

The event was recorded as the Schlechter Memorial Tournament and ran from 25 November to 5 December. Its twelve-player schedule gave every competitor eleven games.

The historical table records Tartakower in first place with 9 points from those eleven games.

Sixty-six games, no gaps

The archive preserves all sixty-six distinct pairings in the single round robin. The complete score makes the final standings independently reproducible from the game results.

Final standings

9/11
Tartakower won with 9/11
# Player Score Record Games
1 Tartakower, Saviely 9/11 +7 -0 =4
2 Reti, Richard 8½/11 +6 -0 =5
3 Spielmann, Rudolf 7½/11 +5 -1 =5
=4 Steiner, Lajos 7/11 +6 -3 =2
=4 Gruenfeld, Ernst 7/11 +4 -1 =6
6 Becker, Albert 6½/11 +4 -2 =5
7 Opocensky, Karel 6/11 +3 -2 =6
8 Takacs, Sandor 5/11 +3 -4 =4
=9 Fischer, Felix 3/11 +1 -6 =4
=9 Wolf, Siegfried Reginald 3/11 +1 -6 =4
11 Patay von Bay, Gyula 2/11 +0 -7 =4
12 Gruber, Theodor 1½/11 +0 -8 =3

Cross Table

Rank Player 123456789101112
1 Tartakower, Saviely ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 ½
2 Reti, Richard ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1
3 Spielmann, Rudolf ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1
4 Steiner, Lajos 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1
5 Gruenfeld, Ernst 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1
6 Becker, Albert ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1
7 Opocensky, Karel 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1
8 Takacs, Sandor 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1
9 Fischer, Felix 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½
10 Wolf, Siegfried Reginald 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1
11 Patay von Bay, Gyula 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½
12 Gruber, Theodor ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½

Each cell shows the row player's recorded results against the column player. ● = same player.