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Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament

Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament was a chess competition organized by the family of Austrian silk manufacturer Leopold Trebitsch. Twenty tournaments were played in Vienna between 1907 and 1938.

Wealthy industrialist Leopold Trebitsch (1842–1906) was a lover of chess and a patron of chess competitions. His family advanced the considerable sum of 100,000 kronen to the to organize a series of tournaments. Since Trebitsch died one month before the start of the first tournament, the competitions were named in his memory. Six of the first nine events (1907–1918) were won by Carl Schlechter, but his death in December 1918, along with the loss of the Club's Trebitsch fund in the aftermath of Austria's debacle in World War I, put a temporary halt to the tournament. In 1926, Leopold Trebitsch's son, Oskar, made more funds available, enabling eleven additional competitions to be held until 1938, when Germany's annexation of Austria ended the event.

Winners

:{| class="sortable wikitable" ! # !!Year !! Winner |- | 1 || 1907 || Jacques Mieses / Saxony |- | 2 || 1909/10 || Richard Réti / Slovakia |- | 3 || 1910/11 || Carl Schlechter / |- | 4 || 1911/12 || Carl Schlechter / |- | 5 || 1913 || Carl Schlechter / |- | 6 || 1914 || Carl Schlechter / |- | 7 || 1915 || Carl Schlechter / |- | 8 || 1916/17 || Carl Schlechter / |- | 9 || 1917/18 || Milan Vidmar / |- | 10 || 1926 || Rudolf Spielmann |- | 11 || 1927 || Ernst Grünfeld |- | 12 || 1928 || Ernst Grünfeld Sándor Takács |- | 13 || 1929/30 || Rudolf Spielmann Hans Kmoch |- | 14 || 1931 || Albert Becker |- | 15 || 1932 || Albert Becker |- | 16 || 1933 || Ernst Grünfeld Hans Müller |- | 17 || 1934/35 || Albert Becker |- | 18 || 1935 || Erich Eliskases Lajos Steiner |- | 19 || 1936 || Henryk Friedman |- | 20 || 1937/38 || Lajos Steiner |}

References

[http://www.endgame.nl/trebitsch.htm History of the Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament (including the list of winners)] {{webarchive. link. (2008-12-06)

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