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Carlsbad 1907 chess tournament

The Carlsbad 1907 chess tournament was one of four well-known international chess tournaments held in the spa city of Carlsbad (Bohemia, then Austria-Hungary Empire). The other tournament years were 1911, 1923 and 1929.

The 1907 tournament was held at the Kurhaus (Kaiserbad) imperial bath hotel. Twenty-one great masters, under the direction of Viktor Tietz, played from August 20 to September 17, 1907.

The results and standings:

# Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Total
1 Akiba Rubinstein (Russian Empire) / Poland x ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 15.0
2 Géza Maróczy (Austria-Hungary) / Hungary ½ x 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 14.5
3 Paul Saladin Leonhardt (German Empire) / Poland ½ 1 x ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 13.5
4 Aron Nimzowitsch (Russian Empire) / Latvia 1 ½ ½ x 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 12.5
5 Carl Schlechter (Austria-Hungary) / Austria ½ ½ 1 0 x ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 12.5
6 Milan Vidmar (Austria-Hungary) / Slovenia ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ x 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 0 0 12.0
7 Richard Teichmann (German Empire) / Thuringia 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 x 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 11.5
8 Oldřich Duras (Austria-Hungary) / Bohemia 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 x 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 11.5
9 Gersz Salwe (Russian Empire) / Poland 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 x ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 11.0
10 Heinrich Wolf (Austria-Hungary) / Austria ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ x ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 10.5
11 Frank James Marshall (United States) / New York 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ x 1 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 1 10.0
12 Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky (Russian Empire) / Ukraine 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 x 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 10.0
13 Rudolf Spielmann (Austria-Hungary) / Austria 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 x 0 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 1 9.5
14 Savielly Tartakower (Austria-Hungary) / Poland 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 x 0 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 9.0
15 Dawid Janowski (France) / Poland 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 x 1 1 1 0 1 1 8.5
16 Johann Berger (Austria-Hungary) / Austria 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 x 1 1 0 ½ ½ 7.5
17 Mikhail Chigorin (Russian Empire) / Russia 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 x 0 1 0 1 7.5
18 Jacques Mieses (German Empire) / Saxony ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 x 1 1 0 7.5
19 Adolf Georg Olland (Netherlands) / Utrecht 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 x 1 1 6.5
20 Erich Cohn (German Empire) / Brandenburg 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 x 1 5.0
21 Paul Johner (Switzerland) / Zürich 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 x 4.5
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