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).[1][2]

The results and standings:[3]

# 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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