List of the most important chess tournaments (1901–1949)

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This is a partial list of the list of the most important chess tournaments , which covers the period 1901 to 1949.

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year place winner 2nd place 3rd place
1901 Monte Carlo Dawid Janowski ( France ) Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary ) Theodor von Scheve ( Germany ), Michail Tschigorin ( Russia )
1902 Monte Carlo Géza Maróczy ( Austria-Hungary ) Harry Nelson Pillsbury ( USA ) Dawid Janowski ( France )
  Hanover Dawid Janowski ( France ) Harry Nelson Pillsbury ( USA ), Henry Ernest Atkins ( England )
1903 Monte Carlo Siegbert Tarrasch ( Germany ) Géza Maróczy ( Austria-Hungary ) Harry Nelson Pillsbury ( USA )
  Vienna Mikhail Chigorin ( Russia ) Frank James Marshall ( USA ) Georg Marco ( Austria-Hungary )
1904 Cambridge Springs Frank James Marshall ( USA ) Dawid Janowski ( France ), Emanuel Lasker ( Germany )
  Monte Carlo Géza Maróczy ( Austria-Hungary ) Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary ) Frank James Marshall ( USA )
  Coburg Curt von Bardeleben ( Germany ), Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary ), Rudolf Swiderski ( Germany )  
1905 East End Géza Maróczy ( Austria-Hungary ) Dawid Janowski ( France ), Siegbert Tarrasch ( Germany )
  Barmen Dawid Janowski ( France ), Géza Maróczy ( Austria-Hungary ) Frank James Marshall ( USA )
1906 East End Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary ) Géza Maróczy ( Austria-Hungary ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland )
  Nuremberg Frank James Marshall ( USA ) Oldřich Duras ( Austria-Hungary ) Leó Forgács ( Austria-Hungary ), Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary )
  Stockholm Ossip Bernstein ( Ukraine ), Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary )   Jacques Mieses ( Germany )
1907 Carlsbad Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Géza Maróczy ( Austria-Hungary ) Paul Saladin Leonhardt ( Germany )
  Ostend A Siegbert Tarrasch ( Germany ) Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary ) Frank James Marshall ( USA ), Dawid Janowski ( France )
  Ostend B Ossip Bernstein ( Ukraine ), Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland )   Jacques Mieses ( Germany ), Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Latvia )
  Copenhagen Paul Saladin Leonhardt ( Germany ) Géza Maróczy ( Austria-Hungary ), Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary )
  Vienna Jacques Mieses ( Germany ) Oldřich Duras ( Austria-Hungary ) Savielly Tartakower ( Austria-Hungary ), Milan Vidmar ( Austria-Hungary ), Géza Maróczy ( Austria-Hungary )
1908 Vienna Oldřich Duras ( Austria-Hungary ), Géza Maróczy ( Austria-Hungary ), Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary )  
  Prague Oldřich Duras ( Austria-Hungary ), Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary )   Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland )
  Dusseldorf Frank James Marshall ( USA ) Georg Salwe ( Poland ) Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria-Hungary )
1909 St. Petersburg Emanuel Lasker ( Germany ), Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Oldřich Duras ( Austria-Hungary ), Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria-Hungary )
  Gothenburg Milan Vidmar ( Austria-Hungary ) Paul Saladin Leonhardt ( Germany ) Oldřich Duras ( Austria-Hungary )
  Stockholm Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria-Hungary ) Paul Saladin Leonhardt ( Germany ) Erich Cohn ( Germany )
1910 Hamburg Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary ) Oldřich Duras ( Austria-Hungary ) Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Latvia )
1911 San Sebastian José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ), Milan Vidmar ( Austria-Hungary )
  Carlsbad Richard Teichmann ( Germany ) Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary ), Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland )
1912 San Sebastian Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Latvia ), Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria-Hungary )
  Wroclaw Oldřich Duras ( Austria-Hungary ), Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Richard Teichmann ( Germany )
  Pistyan Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria-Hungary ) Frank James Marshall ( USA )
  Vilnius Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Ossip Bernstein ( Ukraine ) Stepan Levitsky ( Russia )
  Stockholm Alexander Alekhine ( Russia ) Erich Cohn ( Germany ) Georg Marco ( Austria-Hungary )
1913 Havana Frank James Marshall ( USA ) José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Dawid Janowski ( France )
  new York José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Frank James Marshall ( USA ) Charles Jaffé ( USA )
1913/1914 St. Petersburg Alexander Alekhine ( Russia ), Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Latvia ) Alexander Flamberg ( Poland )
1914 St. Petersburg Emanuel Lasker ( Germany ) José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Alexander Alekhine ( Russia )
  Mannheim Alexander Alekhine ( Russia ) Milan Vidmar ( Austria-Hungary ) Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria-Hungary )
  Baden-Baden Alexander Flamberg ( Poland ) Efim Bogolyubov ( Ukraine ) Ilja Rabinowitsch ( Russia )
1914/1915 Triberg Efim Bogolyubov ( Ukraine ) Ilja Rabinowitsch ( Russia ) Pyotr Romanovsky ( Russia )
1915 New York City José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Frank James Marshall ( USA ) Oscar Chajes ( USA ), Abraham Kupchik ( USA )
1916 New York City José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Dawid Janowski ( France ), Oscar Chajes ( USA )
1917/1918 Vienna Milan Vidmar ( Austria-Hungary ) Savielly Tartakower ( Austria-Hungary ) Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary )
1918 Berlin Milan Vidmar ( Austria-Hungary / Slovenia ) Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary ) Jacques Mieses ( Germany )
  Košice Richard Réti ( Austria-Hungary / Czechoslovakia ) Milan Vidmar ( Austria-Hungary / Slovenia ) Gyula Breyer ( Austria-Hungary / Hungary ), Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary / Austria )
  Berlin Emanuel Lasker ( Germany ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Carl Schlechter ( Austria-Hungary )
  New York City José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Boris Kostić ( Austria-Hungary / Serbia ) Frank James Marshall ( USA )
1919 Hastings José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Boris Kostić ( Serbia ) George Alan Thomas ( England ), Frederick Yates ( England )
  Stockholm Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Efim Bogolyubov ( Ukraine )
1920 Gothenburg Richard Réti ( Czechoslovakia ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Efim Bogolyubov ( Ukraine )
  Berlin Gyula Breyer ( Hungary ) Efim Bogoljubow ( Ukraine ), Savielly Tartakower ( Poland )
1921 Budapest Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Ernst Grünfeld ( Austria ) Boris Kostić ( Yugoslavia ), Savielly Tartakower ( Poland )
  The hague Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Savielly Tartakower ( Poland ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland )
1922 Piešťany Efim Bogolyubov ( Ukraine ) Alexander Alekhine ( France ), Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria )
  London José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Milan Vidmar ( Yugoslavia )
  Hastings Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) George Alan Thomas ( England ), Efim Bogoljubow ( Ukraine )
  Teplitz-Schönau Richard Réti ( Czechoslovakia ), Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria ) Ernst Grünfeld ( Austria ), Savielly Tartakower ( Poland )
  Vienna Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Savielly Tartakower ( Poland ) Heinrich Wolf ( Czechoslovakia )
1923 Carlsbad Alexander Alekhine ( France ), Efim Bogoljubow ( Ukraine ), Géza Maróczy ( Hungary )
  Moravian-Ostrava Emanuel Lasker ( Germany ) Richard Réti ( Czechoslovakia ) Ernst Grünfeld ( Austria )
1924 New York City Emanuel Lasker ( Germany ) José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Alexander Alekhine ( France )
  Meran Ernst Grünfeld ( Austria ) Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ), Dawid Przepiórka ( Poland ), Alexei Selesnjow ( Russia / France )
1925 Baden-Baden Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Friedrich Sämisch ( Germany )
  Wroclaw Efim Bogolyubov ( Ukraine ) Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Denmark ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ), Heinrich Wagner ( Germany )
  Marienbad Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ), Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Denmark ) Frank James Marshall ( USA ), Carlos Torre ( Mexico )
  Moscow Efim Bogolyubov ( Ukraine ) Emanuel Lasker ( Germany ) José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba )
1926 Dresden Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Denmark ) Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland )
  Semmering Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria ) Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Milan Vidmar ( Yugoslavia )
1927 New York City José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Denmark )
  Kecskemét Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Denmark ), Lajos Steiner ( Hungary )
  London Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Denmark ), Savielly Tartakower ( Poland ) Frank James Marshall ( USA )
1928 Bad Kissingen Efim Bogoljubow ( Germany ) José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Max Euwe ( Netherlands ), Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland )
  Berlin José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Denmark ), Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria )
1929 Budapest José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Savielly Tartakower ( Poland )
  Carlsbad Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Denmark ) José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ), Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria )
  Rohitsch-Sauerbrunn Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland ) Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ) Géza Maróczy ( Hungary ), Vasja Pirc ( Yugoslavia ), Sándor Takács ( Hungary )
1929/1930 Hastings José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Milan Vidmar ( Yugoslavia ) Frederick Dewhurst Yates ( England )
1930 San Remo Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Denmark ) Akiba Rubinstein ( Poland )
1930/1931 Hastings Max Euwe ( Netherlands ) José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Mir Sultan Khan ( England )
1931 Bled Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Efim Bogoljubow ( Germany ) Aaron Nimzowitsch ( Denmark )
  Rotterdam Salo Landau ( Netherlands ) Edgard Colle ( Belgium ) Savielly Tartakower ( Poland )
1931/1932 Hastings Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ) Isaac Kashdan ( USA ) Max Euwe ( Netherlands )
1932 Sliač Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ), Milan Vidmar ( Yugoslavia ) Vasja Pirc ( Yugoslavia )
  London Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ) Isaac Kashdan ( USA ), Mir Sultan Khan ( England )
  Bern Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Max Euwe ( Netherlands ), Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia )
  Pasadena Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Isaac Kashdan ( USA ) Arthur Dake ( USA ), Samuel Reshevsky ( USA )
1932/1933 Hastings Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ) Vasja Pirc ( Yugoslavia ) Lajos Steiner ( Hungary ), Mir Sultan Khan ( England )
1933/1934 Hastings Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ) Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Andor Lilienthal ( Hungary )
1934 Budapest Andor Lilienthal ( Hungary ) Vasja Pirc ( Yugoslavia ) Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ), Paulino Frydman ( Poland )
  Leningrad Mikhail Botvinnik ( USSR ) Pyotr Romanovsky ( USSR ), Nikolai Ryumin ( USSR )
  Zurich Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Max Euwe ( Netherlands ), Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia )
1934/1935 Hastings Max Euwe ( Netherlands ), Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ), George Alan Thomas ( England )
1935 Margate Samuel Reshevsky ( USA ) José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) George Alan Thomas ( England )
  Moscow Michail Botwinnik ( USSR ), Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ) Emanuel Lasker ( Germany )
1935/1936 Hastings Reuben Fine ( USA ) Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ) Savielly Tartakower ( Poland )
1936 Margate Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ) José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Gideon Ståhlberg ( Sweden )
  Moscow José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Mikhail Botvinnik ( USSR ) Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia )
  Bad Nauheim Alexander Alekhine ( France ), Paul Keres ( Estonia ) Carl Ahues ( Germany )
  Nottingham Michail Botvinnik ( USSR ), José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ) Max Euwe ( Netherlands ), Reuben Fine ( USA )
  Zandvoort Reuben Fine ( USA ) Max Euwe ( Netherlands ) Paul Keres ( Estonia ), Savielly Tartakower ( Poland )
  Amsterdam Reuben Fine ( USA ), Max Euwe ( Netherlands ) Alexander Alekhine ( France )
  Poděbrady Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ) Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Jan Foltys ( Czechoslovakia )
1936/1937 Hastings Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Reuben Fine ( USA ) Erich Eliskases ( Austria )
1937 Margate Reuben Fine ( USA ), Paul Keres ( Estonia ) Alexander Alekhine ( France )
  Kemeri Samuel Reshevsky ( USA ), Vladimirs Petrovs ( Latvia ), Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia )
  Bad Nauheim / Stuttgart / Garmisch Max Euwe ( Netherlands ) Efim Bogoljubow ( Germany ), Alexander Alekhine ( France )
  Semmering / Baden near Vienna Paul Keres ( Estonia ) Reuben Fine ( USA ) José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba )
1937/1938 Hastings Samuel Reshevsky ( USA ) Paul Keres ( Estonia ), Hugh O'Donel Alexander ( Ireland )
1938 Noordwijk Erich Eliskases ( German Empire ) Paul Keres ( Estonia ) Vasja Pirc ( Yugoslavia )
  Netherlands ( AVRO tournament ) Paul Keres ( Estonia ), Reuben Fine ( USA ) Mikhail Botvinnik ( USSR )
  Margate Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Rudolf Spielmann ( Austria ) Vladimir Petrovs ( Latvia )
  Lodsch Vasja Pirc ( Yugoslavia ) Savielly Tartakower ( Poland ) Vladimirs Petrovs ( Latvia ), Erich Eliskases ( German Empire ), Gideon Ståhlberg ( Sweden )
1938/1939 Hastings László Szabó ( Hungary ) Max Euwe ( Netherlands ) Salo Landau ( Netherlands ), Vasja Pirc ( Yugoslavia )
1939 Leningrad / Moscow Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia ) Samuel Reshevsky ( USA ) Andor Lilienthal ( Hungary ), Wladimir Makogonow ( USSR ), Grigori Löwenfisch ( USSR ), Vyacheslav Ragosin ( USSR )
  Margate Paul Keres ( Estonia ) José Raúl Capablanca ( Cuba ), Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia / USSR )
  Kemeri / Riga Salo Flohr ( Czechoslovakia / USSR ) Gideon Ståhlberg ( Sweden ), László Szabó ( Hungary )
  Stuttgart Efim Bogoljubow ( Germany ) Kurt Richter ( Germany ) Erich Eliskases ( German Empire ), Ludwig Engels ( Germany ), Georg Kieninger ( Germany ), Milan Vidmar ( Yugoslavia )
  Buenos Aires Miguel Najdorf ( Poland ), Paul Keres ( Estonia ) Gideon Ståhlberg ( Sweden ), Moshe Czerniak ( Palestine )
  Rosario Vladimir Petrovs ( Latvia ) Erich Eliskases ( German Empire ) Vladas Mikėnas ( Lithuania )
1940 New York City Samuel Reshevsky ( USA ) Reuben Fine ( USA ) Isaac Kashdan ( USA )
  Moscow Andor Lilienthal ( USSR ), Igor Bondarewski ( USSR ) Vasily Smyslow ( USSR )
  Budapest Max Euwe ( Netherlands ) Milan Vidmar ( Yugoslavia ) Gedeon Barcza ( Hungary )
  Krakow / Krynica / Warsaw Efim Bogoljubow ( Germany ), Anton Kohler ( Germany ) Kurt Richter ( Germany )
1941 Moscow / Leningrad Mikhail Botvinnik ( USSR ) Paul Keres ( USSR ) Vasily Smyslow ( USSR )
  Mar del Plata Gideon Ståhlberg ( Sweden ) Miguel Najdorf ( Poland / Argentina ) Erich Eliskases ( German Empire / Argentina )
  Buenos Aires Gideon Ståhlberg ( Sweden ), Miguel Najdorf ( Poland / Argentina )   Paulino Frydman ( Poland / Argentina )
  São Paulo Erich Eliskases ( German Empire / Argentina ), Carlos Guimard ( Argentina )   Ludwig Engels ( Germany / Brazil ), Paulino Frydman ( Poland / Argentina )
  Munich Gösta Stoltz ( Sweden ) Alexander Alekhine ( France ), Erik Lundin ( Sweden )
  Krakow / Warsaw Alexander Alekhine ( France ), Paul Felix Schmidt ( Germany ) Efim Bogoljubow ( Germany )
1942 Mar del Plata Miguel Najdorf ( Poland / Argentina ) Gideon Ståhlberg ( Sweden ), Herman Pilnik ( Argentina )
  Salzburg Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Paul Keres ( Estonia ) Klaus Junge ( Germany ), Paul Felix Schmidt ( Germany )
  Munich ( advertised as " European Championship ") Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Paul Keres ( Estonia ) Jan Foltys ( Czechoslovakia ), Efim Bogoljubow ( Germany )
  Warsaw / Lublin / Krakow Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Klaus Junge ( Germany ) Efim Bogoljubow ( Germany )
  Prague Alexander Alekhine ( France ), Klaus Junge ( Germany ) Jan Foltys ( Czechoslovakia )
1943 Mar del Plata Miguel Najdorf ( Poland / Argentina ) Gideon Ståhlberg ( Sweden ) Paul Michel ( Germany / Argentina )
  Prague Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Paul Keres ( Estonia ) Miroslav Katětov ( Czechoslovakia )
  Salzburg Paul Keres ( Estonia ), Alexander Alekhine ( France ) Paul Felix Schmidt ( Germany )
1944 Moscow Mikhail Botvinnik ( USSR ) Vasily Smyslow ( USSR ) Isaak Boleslawski ( USSR )
  New York City Arnold Denker ( USA ) Reuben Fine ( USA ) Herman Steiner ( USA ), Samuel Reshevsky ( USA )
  Mar del Plata Herman Pilnik ( Argentina ), Miguel Najdorf ( Poland / Argentina ) Paul Michel ( Germany / Argentina ), Carlos Guimard ( Argentina )
  La Plata Miguel Najdorf ( Poland / Argentina ) Gideon Ståhlberg ( Sweden ) Julio Bolbochán ( Argentina )
1945 Hollywood Samuel Reshevsky ( USA ) Reuben Fine ( USA ) Herman Pilnik ( Argentina )
1945/1946 Hastings Savielly Tartakower ( Poland / France ) Folke Ekström ( Sweden ) Max Euwe ( Netherlands ), Herman Steiner ( USA ), Arnold Denker ( USA )
1946 Groningen Mikhail Botvinnik ( USSR ) Max Euwe ( Netherlands ) Vasily Smyslow ( USSR )
1947 Moscow Mikhail Botvinnik ( USSR ) Vyacheslav Ragosin ( USSR ) Isaak Boleslawski ( USSR ), Vasily Smyslow ( USSR )
1948 The Hague / Moscow (World Cup tournament) Mikhail Botvinnik ( USSR ) Vasily Smyslow ( USSR ) Paul Keres ( USSR ), Samuel Reshevsky ( USA )
  Saltsjöbaden (interzonal tournament) David Bronstein ( USSR ) László Szabó ( Hungary ) Isaak Boleslawski ( USSR )
  New York City Reuben Fine ( USA ) Miguel Najdorf ( Poland / Argentina ) Max Euwe ( Netherlands ), Herman Pilnik ( Argentina )
1949 Heidelberg Wolfgang Unzicker ( Germany ) Nicolas Rossolimo ( France ) Paul Felix Schmidt ( Germany ), Georg Kieninger ( Germany ), Albéric O'Kelly de Galway ( Belgium )