Triberg chess tournament
The Triberg chess tournament constitutes a series of chess tournaments, held in Triberg im Schwarzwald, Imperial Germany, during World War I.
History
Eleven players from the Russian Empire, who participated in the interrupted Mannheim 1914 chess tournament, were interned in Rastatt, Germany, after the declaration of war against Russia on August 1, 1914. A few weeks later, on September 14, 17, and 29, 1914, four of them (Alekhine, Bogatyrchuk, Koppelman, Saburov) were freed and allowed to return home via Switzerland.{{Cite web|url=https://chesscafe.com/the-skittles-room/mannheim-1914-and-the-interned-russians/|title=Mannheim 1914 and the Interned Russians|last=Gillam|first=Anthony|date=6 August 2014|website=Chess Cafe|access-date=2 May 2016}} A fifth player, Romanovsky was freed and went back to Petrograd in 1915,{{cite book
| author=Romanov, Isaak Zalmanovich
| title=Petr Romanovsky
| publisher=Fizkultura i sport
| year=1984
| pages=20 (Russian edition)
}} and a sixth one, Flamberg was allowed to return to Warsaw in 1916.
Eight tournaments were played by the internees, the first at Baden-Baden 1914 (won by Alexander Flamberg) and all the others in Triberg im Schwarzwald. Participation by the internees varied, but the tournaments were mostly won by Efim Bogoljubow.{{cite web
| url=http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter04.html
| title=The Internees
}}
Participants
- Efim Bogoljubow {{flag|Ukraine}}
- Alexander Flamberg {{flag|Poland}}
- Boris Maljutin {{flag|Russia}}
- Ilya Rabinovich {{flag|Russia}}
- Peter Romanovsky {{flag|Russia}}
- Alexey Selezniev {{flag|Russia}}
- Samuil Weinstein {{flag|Russia}}
- Hans Fahrni {{flag|Switzerland}}
Results
=Triberg 1914/15=
1. Bogoljubow,
2. Rabinovich,
3. Romanovsky,
4. Flamberg,
5. Selezniev,
6. Weinstein.
=Triberg 1915=
1. Bogoljubow,
2. Rabinovich,
3. Flamberg,
4. Selezniev,
5. Romanovsky
6. Weinstein.
=Triberg 1915/16=
1. Bogoljubow,
2. Rabinovich,
3. Selezniev.
=Triberg 1916=
1. Rabinovich,
2-3. Bogoljubow
and Selezniev,
4-5. Fahrni
and Weinstein,
6. Maljutin.
=Triberg 1917=
1-2. Selezniev
and Rabinovich,
3. Bogoljubow,
4. Weinstein.
Trivia
After the war, the Ukrainian master Bogoljubow remained in Triberg, where he married a local woman and spent most of the rest of his life in Germany (settling permanently in 1926).