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Berlin 1897 chess tournament

The Internationales Turnier Berlin 1897 celebrated seventy years of the Berliner Schachgesellschaft. Twenty great chess masters started but Curt von Bardeleben had to withdraw after a short draw. They played in the Architektenhaus from September 13 to October 4, 1897. Eventually the event became a race between Rudolf Charousek and Carl August Walbrodt. The youngsters had prevailed at the end of the tiring event. The first won 2000 Mark and the second one - 1500 Mark. Unfortunately, they would die within a few years (Charousek in 1900, and Walbrodt in 1902).

The results and standings:

# Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Total
1 Rudolf Charousek (Austria-Hungary) / Hungary x 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 13.5
2 Carl August Walbrodt (German Empire) / Netherlands 1 x 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 13.0
3 Joseph Henry Blackburne (United Kingdom) / England ½ 0 x ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 12.0
4 Dawid Janowski (France) / Poland 0 ½ ½ x 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 11.5
5 Amos Burn (United Kingdom) / England 1 0 ½ 0 x 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 0 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 11.0
6 Carl Schlechter (Austria-Hungary) / Austria ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 x 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 10.5
7 Georg Marco (Austria-Hungary) / Romania ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 x 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 10.5
8 Simon Alapin (Russian Empire) / Lithuania 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 x 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 10.5
9 Horatio Caro (German Empire) / England 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 x ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 10.0
10 Mikhail Chigorin (Russian Empire) / Russia 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ x ½ 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 9.5
11 Emanuel Schiffers (Russian Empire) / Russia 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ x 1 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 9.0
12 Johannes Metger (German Empire) / Lower Saxony ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 x 1 0 1 1 1 0 ½ 8.5
13 Wilhelm Cohn (German Empire) / Brandenburg 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 0 x 0 0 1 1 ½ 1 7.5
14 Szymon Winawer (Russian Empire) / Poland 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 x 1 ½ 0 1 1 7.5
15 Hugo Süchting (German Empire) / Schleswig-Holstein 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 x 1 ½ 0 1 7.0
16 Richard Teichmann (German Empire) / Thuringia 0 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 ½ 0 x ½ ½ 0 6.5
17 Berthold Englisch (Austria-Hungary) / Czech Silesia ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ x 0 1 5.5
18 Adolf Zinkl (Austria-Hungary) / Bohemia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 x 1 5.5
19 Adolf Albin (Austria-Hungary) / Romania 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 0 0 x 2.0
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