Erich Cohn

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{{Short description|German chess player (1884–1918)}}

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Erich Cohn ({{langx|he|אריק קוהן}}, March 1, 1884, Berlin – August 28, 1918, France) was a German chess master.[http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/profili/Cohn%20Eric.htm COHN Erich] at xoomer.alice.it

He won or tied for 1st in several tournaments in Berlin (1902, 1905, 1906, 1909/10, 1914).[http://berlinerschachverband.de/archiv/chronik/19.html Berliner Schachverband :: Chronik der Jahre 1901 bis 1920] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507075212/http://www.berlinerschachverband.de/archiv/chronik/19.html |date=May 7, 2008 }} at berlinerschachverband.de In strong tournaments, he tied for 11-12th at Berlin 1903 (Horatio Caro won). He took 10th at Coburg 1904 (the 14th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A, Augustin Neumann won).[http://www.endgame.nl/dsb.htm Deutschen Schachkongresse] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204043026/http://www.endgame.nl/dsb.htm |date=December 4, 2011 }} at www.endgame.nl In 1905, he took 5th in Barmen (A tourn). In 1906, he took 6th at Nuremberg 1906 (the 15th DSB Kongress; Frank Marshall won). In 1907, he took 6th in Berlin (Richard Teichmann won), tied for 12-14th in Ostend (B tourn; Ossip Bernstein and Akiba Rubinstein won), and took 20th in Carlsbad (Rubinstein won).[http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/itornei1900-09.htm I tornei dal 1900 al 1909] at xoomer.alice.it

In 1908, he took 19th in Vienna (Oldřich Duras, Géza Maróczy and Carl Schlechter won). In 1909, he tied for 8-9th in St Petersburg (Emanuel Lasker and Rubinstein won), and took 3rd in Stockholm (Rudolf Spielmann won). In 1911, he tied for 14-16th in Carlsbad (Teichmann won). In 1912, he tied for 15-17th in Bad Pistyan (Rubinstein won), tied for 13-14th in Breslau (18th DSB Kongress; Duras and Rubinstein won), took 3rd in Abbazia (Spielmann won) and took 2nd, behind Alexander Alekhine, in Stockholm (the 8th Nordic Chess Championship). He tied for 2nd-3rd with Paul Krüger, behind Kurt Pahl, at Berlin 1913, and shared 1st with Spielmann at Berlin 1914 (Quadrangular).{{cite web|url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=February 19, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |archivedate=July 4, 2007 }} Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, September 1, 2004

In matches, he won against Carl Carls (+5 –1 =1), drew with Ehrhardt Post (+4 –4 =1), both at Berlin 1906,Litmanowicz, Władysław & Giżycki, Jerzy (1986, 1987). Szachy od A do Z. Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka Warszawa. {{ISBN|83-217-2481-7}} (1. A-M), {{ISBN|83-217-2745-X}} (2. N-Z) and lost to Rudolf Spielmann (+1 –2 =0) at Munich 1906,[http://www.thechesslibrary.com/files/ShortMatchesOf20thCentury.htm Short Matches of the 20th Century] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928140535/http://www.thechesslibrary.com/files/ShortMatchesOf20thCentury.htm |date=September 28, 2007 }} at www.thechesslibrary.com and Edward Lasker (+0 –1 =3) at Berlin 1909.[http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter20.html Chess Notes] by Edward Winter at www.chesshistory.com

He died in the western front, as a field doctor of the Red Cross, at the end of World War I.