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Kiev 1903 chess tournament

The 3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament took place in the rooms of the Kiev Chess Society in the Popov Building at No. 29 Kreshchatyk in Kiev on September 1-26, 1903. The Society used the rooms of the Kiev Bicycle Association which had its premises on the second floor of the aforementioned building on the corner of the Kreshchatyk & Lutheran (#29 Kreshchatyk) right next door to the Warsaw Café.

A Polish nobleman, count A.F. Plater, the president of the Kiev Chess Society (Kievskoye Shakhmatnoye Obshchestvo) was the tournament patron, Loxting and Vengerov were tournament officials.

The results and standings:

# Player City Country 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Total
1 Mikhail Chigorin Saint Petersburg Russia x 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 + 1 ½ 1 1 15.0
2 Ossip Bernstein Zhytomyr Ukraine 1 x 1 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 + 14.0
3 Vladimir Yurevich Moscow Russia 1 0 x ½ 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 13.5
4 Gersz Salwe Łódź Poland 0 ½ ½ x ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 + 13.0
5 Akiba Rubinstein Łódź Poland 0 0 1 ½ x ½ 0 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 + 11.5
6 Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Saint Petersburg Russia 0 1 0 0 ½ x ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 + 11.0
7 Moishe Lowtzky Kiev Ukraine 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ x ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 11.0
8 Stepan Levitsky Nizhny Tagil Russia 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 ½ x 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 10.5
9 Stefan Izbinsky Kiev Ukraine ½ ½ 1 0 0 1 0 1 x 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 ½ 1 1 9.5
10 Sergey Lebedev Saint Petersburg Russia 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 1 x 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 9.5
11 Abram Rabinovich Vilna Lithuania 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 x 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 + 8.5
12 Emanuel Schiffers Saint Petersburg Russia 0 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 x 1 1 1 1 0 ½ + 8.5
13 Viacheslav Kulomzin Kostroma Russia 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 ½ 0 0 x 1 1 1 1 ½ + 8.0
14 N. Kalinsky Novokhopersk Russia 0 1 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 x 1 0 1 1 1 7.5
15 Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky Kiev Ukraine - 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 x ½ 1 1 1 7.0
16 P.P. Benko Kiev Ukraine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 ½ x 1 1 1 6.5
17 Boris Nikolaev Kiev Ukraine ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 x 1 1 4.5
18 Wilhelm von Stamm Riga Latvia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 x 1 2.0
19 V.V. Breev Kiev Ukraine 0 - 0 - - - 0 0 0 0 - - - 0 0 0 0 0 x 0.0
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