Bernhard Kagan

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Bernhard Kagan

Bernhard Kagan (born August 15, 1866 in Grodno , † November 27, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German chess player , journalist , publisher and patron in Berlin.

Chess player

Kagan mainly took part in local tournaments: 7th 1898, 7th – 9th. 1902, 6. 1903, split 2. 1923, 7. – 10. 1925. He was divided 4th in Hanover in 1902, 6-7. in Ostend 1907, 10th in Prague 1908.

Kagan (standing) in the 1918 Berlin tournament

organizer

After the First World War , Kagan organized several tournaments in Berlin from 1918 to 1920. Emanuel Lasker , Akiba Rubinstein , Carl Schlechter and Siegbert Tarrasch played in the most popular tournament in the Kerkau Palace from September 28 to October 11, 1918 . In 1921 he organized Alekhine matche against Teichmann and suede .

patron

During the First World War he supported interned Russian chess players in Germany, including Bogoljubow , Romanowski , Selesnjow .

publisher

Kagan was the author of a number of chess monographs. From 1917 to 1927 he published Kagan's chess catalog . From 1921 to 1932 he was the editor of the first quarterly, later monthly magazine Kagan's Latest Chess News . In the appendix to this magazine there was an overview of numerous chess tournaments of that time.

Publications (selection)

  • Kagan, Bernhard: The Rubinstein-Schlechter chess competition from Jan. 21 to 30, 1918 in Berlin. Berlin, Verlag Bernhard Kagan, 1918
  • Kagan, Bernhard: Chess master Erich Cohn. Berlin, Verlag Bernhard Kagan, 1918
  • Kagan, Bernhard: The Grand Master Tournament in the Kerkau Palace in Berlin in October 1918. Berlin, Verlag Bernhard Kagan, 1918
  • A. Selesnieff, Em. Lasker: 35 endgame studies by chess master A. Selesnieff . Bernhard Kagan publishing house, Berlin 1919
  • Kagan, Bernhard: The chess boy Samuel Rzeschewski in America. Berlin, Bernhard Kagan Publishing House, 1921
  • Kagan, Bernhard: Alechin-Teichmann chess competition, played in June 1921 in the Berlin chess home. Berlin, Bernhard Kagan Publishing House, 1921
  • AA Troitzky : 500 endgame studies . Berlin, Bernhard Kagan chess publisher, 1924

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables , An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, September 1, 2004 ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Saweli Jurewitsch Dudakow: Kaissa i Wotan. Jerusalem / Moscow 1909, p. 100. ISBN 978-5-98575-356-1 . ( Digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Kagan, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player, journalist, publisher and patron in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Grodno
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1932
Place of death Berlin