1915 in chess

Chess events in brief

• Marshall Chess Divan started by Frank James Marshall. Forerunner to Marshall Chess Club.

  Tournaments

• Triberg chess tournament won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Peter Romanovsky, 1914/15
• New York, won by Edward Lasker, January
• Vienna, won by Józef Dominik, March
• 25th London City championship, won by George Alan Thomas, March
• New York won by José Raúl Capablanca followed by Frank James Marshall, Oscar Chajes and Abraham Kupchik, Jacob Bernstein and Ed Lasker, 19 April – 7 May
• 16th US Open Chess Championship, won by Jackson Whipps Showalter ahead of Norman Tweed Whitaker, finished 21 August
• Utica won by Charles Jaffe
• Triberg won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Alexander Flamberg
• Triberg won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Alexey Selezniev and Ilya Rabinovich
• Triberg won by Efim Bogoljubow of Ilya Rabinovich and Alexey Selezniev
• Moscow won by Nikolai Zubarev ahead of Peter Yurdansky
• St. Petersburg won by Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky and Golubev
• 6th Danish Chess Championship, won by Johannes Giersing
• Amsterdam won by G.J. van Gelder
• Rotterdam won by G.J. van Gelder
• Scheveningen won by Max Marchand
• Hastings won by Reginald Price Michell
• 7th Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament, won by Carl Schlechter followed by Richard Réti, Arthur Kaufmann, Georg Marco, František Schubert, and Ignatz von Popiel
• Moscow won by Alexander Alekhine ahead of Vladimir Nenarokov and Peter Yurdansky, December
• 26th London championship, won by Theodor Germann and Edward Guthlac Sergeant, 1915/16
• Triberg, won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Alexey Selezniev, 1915/16

  Matches

• 17–20 May - Addey Dixon beat H. Thomas in Belfast.
• ca.24 May - John O'Hanlon beat Addey Dixon in Portadown.
• Gyula Breyer won against Jan F. Esser in Budapest.
• Jacques Mieses defeated Siegbert Tarrasch in Berlin.
• Edward Guthlac Sergeant beat Theodor Germann in London, 1915/16.

  Births

• 21 February - René Letelier in San Bernardo. Chilean ch. 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1973, IM 1960.
• 3 March - Kazimierz Plater born in Vilna. Polish ch. 1949, 1956, 1957. IM 1950.
• 20 April - Maximilian Ujtelky born in Hungary/Slovakia. Slovak IM 1961.
• 20 May - Erik Jakob Larsson born in Landskrona, Sweden.
• 14 June - Nicolaas Cortlever, born in Amsterdam. Dutch IM 1950.
• 30 August - Hermann Albrecht, born in Marburg, Germany. IJComp 1957.
• 31 August - David Vincent Hooper, born in Reigate, England. British cr ch 1944.
• 27 November - Shlomo Smiltiner, Israeli master.
• Edward Gerstenfeld born in Lvov. Polish-Ukrainian master.
• David Polland born in USA ? U.S. Open ch 1937 and NYS ch 1937.

  Deaths

• Thomas Bright Wilson died of cholera. Secretary of the Manchester Chess Club, England. He invented the first mechanical chess clock in 1883.
• Mattia Cavallotti died in Milan. Cavallotti Countergambit.
• Matteo Gladig died in Ljubljana. Italian master.
• 19 March - Eugene Cook, died in Hoboken, NJ. 1st American composer of note.
• 2 November - Isaac Rice, American inventor and chess patron, died in USA. Rice Gambit.