Bohor Hallegua (188o-?) was a Turkish

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master. In 1914, he played in three tournaments in pre-war Europe. He took 4th, behind

Frank James Marshall Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century. Chess career Marshall was born in New York Cit ...

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...

and André Muffang, in the Quadrangular tournament of the Café Continental in Paris on July 12–14, and took 2nd, in a tournament in the

Café de la Régence The Café de la Régence in Paris was an important European centre of chess in the 18th and 19th centuries. All important chess masters of the time played there. The Café's masters included, but are not limited to: * Paul Morphy * Françoi ...

in Paris. Hallegua won (leading), ahead of

Ilya Rabinovich Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich (; 11 May 1891 – 23 April 1942) was a Russian and later Soviet chess player, among the best in his country for three decades, from 1910 to 1940. His best result was a shared first place in the 9th Soviet Championship ...

and

Oscar Tenner Oscar Tenner (sometimes ''Oskar'') (; 5 April 1880, in Lemberg – 24 December 1948) was a Galicia (Poland)-born German–American chess master. At the beginning of his career, he played in several tournaments in Germany. He won (elim.) and took 4t ...

, ''Hauptturnier A'' in Mannheim tournament (interrupted the 19th

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, July/August 1914).Schach Nachrichten
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References

External links

B. Hallegua at 365Chess.com
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