Triberg 1914–15 (Interned Russians)

Russian players interned at Triberg held tournaments through the First World War
December 1914 – 1915 · Triberg, Black Forest, Germany
Efim Bogoljubow won the Triberg tournaments, ahead of Ilya Rabinovich, with Romanovsky, Flamberg, Selezniev and Samuil Weinstein completing the field of interned Russians.

Russian chess players interned at Triberg after the outbreak of war in 1914 played a series of tournaments there, led by Efim Bogoljubow and Ilya Rabinovich.

The internment tournaments

The Russian participants of the 1914 Mannheim congress were interned when Germany declared war. At Triberg they organised several round-robin tournaments among six players, in which Bogoljubow, who stayed in Germany after the war, finished first.

The surviving games

The archive holds 64 available games from the overlapping events; no authoritative total is published.

Result

Efim Bogoljubow won the Triberg tournaments, ahead of Ilya Rabinovich, with Romanovsky, Flamberg, Selezniev and Samuil Weinstein completing the field of interned Russians.

The archive holds 64 available games from several overlapping Triberg events that Mega2024 files under one label; no complete count or crosstable is published, so none is shown.