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Vienna 1908 chess tournament

The Internationales Schachturnier Wien 1908 was held in honour of the sixtieth anniversary of Franz Joseph I of Austria’s elevation as monarch to the Austria-Hungary Empire. Twenty great masters played at the Wiener Schach-Club in Vienna, from March 23 to April 17, 1908.

The results and standings:

Vienna 1908
# Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Total
1-3 Géza Maróczy (Austria-Hungary) / Hungary x ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 14
1-3 Carl Schlechter (Austria-Hungary) / Austria ½ x ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 14
1-3 Oldřich Duras (Austria-Hungary) / Bohemia 0 ½ x 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 14
4 Akiba Rubinstein (Russian Empire) / Poland ½ ½ 1 x ½ 1 ½ 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 13
5 Richard Teichmann (German Empire) / Thuringia ½ ½ ½ ½ x ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 12
6 Rudolf Spielmann (Austria-Hungary) / Austria ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ x 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 11½
7-8 Julius Perlis (Austria-Hungary) / Poland ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 x 0 ½ 1 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 11
7-8 Savielly Tartakower (Austria-Hungary) / Poland 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 x ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 11
9-11 Paul Saladin Leonhardt (German Empire) / Poland ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ x 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ 10
9-11 Jacques Mieses (German Empire) / Saxony 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 x 0 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1 10
9-11 Frank Marshall (United States) / New York ½ 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 x ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 10
12 Rudolf Swiderski (German Empire) / Saxony 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 1 ½ x 1 0 1 0 ½ 1 1 1
13 Gersz Salwe (Russian Empire) / Poland 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 x ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1
14 Paul Johner (Switzerland) 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 1 1 ½ x 1 ½ 0 0 1 1
15 Johann Berger (Austria-Hungary) / Austria 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 x 0 ½ 0 1 1 7
16-18 Hugo Süchting (German Empire) / Schleswig-Holstein 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 x ½ 0 ½ ½
16-18 Curt von Bardeleben (German Empire) / Brandenburg 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ x 0 ½ 1
16-18 Simon Alapin (Russian Empire) / Lithuania 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 x 0 1
19 Erich Cohn (German Empire) / Brandenburg ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 x 1 6
20 Richard Réti (Austria-Hungary) / Slovakia 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 x
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