The Carlsbad 1907 chess tournament was one of four well-known international

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

tournaments held in the spa city of

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( Bohemia, then

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). The other tournament years were

1911 A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * Ja ...

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and

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholi ...

. The 1907 tournament was held at the Kurhaus (Kaiserbad) imperial bath hotel. Twenty-one great masters, under the direction of

Viktor Tietz Viktor Tietz (13 April, 1859, Rumburg ( cs, Rumburk, northwest Bohemia, Austrian Monarchy 8 December, 1937, Karlsbad ( cs, Karlovy Vary), Bohemia, Czechoslovakia) was an ethnic-German Austrian and Czechoslovak chess player, chess life organizer a ...

, played from August 20 to September 17, 1907. The results and standings: :

References

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