Berlin City Chess Championship
The Berlin Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament in Germany. The first unofficial Berlin Chess Championship was held in 1853, and Jean Dufresne won a match against Max Lange.[1] Since 1904, official Berlin championships have taken place. The first event was won by Horatio Caro, followed by Ossip Bernstein, Rudolf Spielmann, Wilhelm Cohn, Benjamin Blumenfeld, etc.[2][3]
As a result of the post-war division of the city into East Berlin and West Berlin, from 1953 until 1990 two separate championships were held.[4] Since the 1991 reunification of Germany, the Berlin championships are again held as single events.[5]
Berlin Champions
Year Winner 1904 Horatio Caro 1905 Horatio Caro, Moritz Lewitt 1906 Erich Cohn 1908 Wilhelm Cohn 1909 Moritz Lewitt 1910 Richard Teichmann 1911 Carl Ahues 1919 Karl Stephan 1920 Ernst Schweinburg 1921 Willi Schlage 1922 Kurt Richter 1923 Kurt Richter 1924 Carl Ahues, Richard Teichmann 1925 Friedrich Sämisch 1926 Willi Schlage 1927 Berthold Koch 1928 Karl Helling 1929 Carl Ahues, Kurt Richter 1930 Kurt Richter, Ludwig Rellstab, Simon Rotenstein 1932 Karl Helling 1933 Kurt Richter, Berthold Koch 1934 Carl Ahues, Friedrich Sämisch 1935 Efim Bogoljubow, Kurt Richter 1936 Kurt Richter 1937 Ludwig Rellstab 1938 Kurt Richter 1939 Franz Mölbitz 1940 Rudolf Palme 1941 Ludwig Rellstab 1942 Josef Grammatikoff 1943 Rudolf Teschner 1944 Rudolf Teschner 1946 Berthold Koch 1947 Rudolf Teschner 1948 Kurt Richter 1949 Gerhard Pfeiffer 1950 Rudolf Teschner 1951 Berthold Koch 1952 Rudolf Teschner
West Berlin and East Berlin Champions
Berlin Champions
Year Winner 1991 Jörg Seils 1993 Jörg Seils 1994 Alexander Lagunow 1995 Alexander Lagunow 1996 Alexander Lagunow 1997 Robert Rabiega 1998 Manfred Glienke 1999 Ulf von Herman 2000 Robert Rabiega 2001 Ulf von Herman 2002 Sergey Kalinitschew 2003 Jakov Meister 2004 Jakov Meister 2005 Jakov Meister 2006 Ulf von Herman 2007 Jakob Meister 2008 Ulf von Herman 2009 Ulf von Herman 2010 René Stern 2011 René Stern 2012 René Stern 2013 Sergey Kalinitschew 2014 René Stern 2015 Sergey Kalinitschew, Hendrik Möller 2016 Jakov Meister 2017 Jakov Meister 2018 Atila Gajo Figura 2019 Johannes Florstedt 2020-2021 no championship 2022 Johannes Florstedt
References
- ^ Berliner Schachverband :: Berliner Meisterschaft 1853 Archived September 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Berliner Schachverband :: Berliner Meisterschaft 1904 Archived September 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2011-12-05.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01 - ^ Berliner Schachverband :: Sieger Berliner Einzelmeisterschaft Archived 2008-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Berliner Schachverband :: Sieger Berliner Einzelmeisterschaft Archived April 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine