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EVENTS · OCTOBER 18, 2026

Historical championships and preserved records

Championship archives add surviving scores, published standings and clear accounts of missing games.

Joseph Blackburne — historical chess photograph, 1905
Photo: Gidden, Theo F · Public domain · Photo details

Cheltenham’s 1913 British Championship adds fifty preserved records and the original standings, led by F. D. Yates, James Mahood and Joseph Blackburne. Twenty short opening fragments and one ending remain replayable; sixteen full scores are missing. The contemporary report identifies Hamond’s flagged loss as a played game lost on time.

Debrecen’s 1913 national masters tournament adds twenty-six scores, with Lajos Asztalos winning ahead of Richard Réti and Károly Sterk. The full table and contemporary reports establish thirty played games; four scores remain missing. The page explains the conflict between the event’s July dates and the June dates retained in its game records.

Chester’s 1914 British Championship adds thirty-six scores from fifty-five played games. Fred Yates and Joseph Blackburne tied on 8½ from ten games; each also received a default point against the nonstarter Wardhaugh. The page separates those defaults from played games and explains the deciding match that never took place.

Lexington’s 1917 Western Championship adds twelve scores and the complete original standings, led by Edward Lasker on 6½/8. Eight played scores remain missing, including both Winter–Moorman games. Two contemporary magazines print different endings to the missing Showalter–Lasker game; the page records that difference.

Berlin’s 1920 Hauptturnier I adds twenty-four scores. The original eleven-player table records Friedrich Sämisch’s victory and fifty-five counted results, with thirty-two scores missing. Wöhl–Krusius remains replayable outside the official standings; the wider physical-game total is unknown.

Sweden’s 1927 championship record links four Örebro Masters scores with all five games of Stoltz’s challenge to Allan Nilsson. Nilsson retained the title after a drawn match. The page gives the original Masters standings and explains forty-one missing scores, two incomplete or variant records, and the conflicting title-match location and dates.

Bautzen’s 1929 Saxon Congress adds eighteen scores from a seven-round Swiss tournament. Blümich, Engert, Gilg and Jacques Mieses shared the highest score on five points. The original prizewinners’ table proves seven further results without surviving approved scores; the page gives every final total and keeps the full physical-game count unknown.

Ebensee’s 1930 anniversary tournament adds twenty-six scores and the full original table, led by Hans Kmoch on 6/7. Becker–Kramer and Kramer–Eliskases are missing from both approved archives. The page explains a two-move difference between the original Eliskases–Becker score and the preserved native version.

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