Mannheim 1914 Chess Tournament

Wondering if any players have an english  "google link" to the story behind this great tournament ....known as the "Unfinished Tournament"...the most interesting report I could find was in this german chess column...

http://de.chessbase.com/post/das-unvollendete-turnier-mannheim-1914

"Das unvollendete Turnier: Mannheim 1914".

the photos and maps look great...wondering if there is  an English version similar to this....I particular am interested in the human drama and stories behind the tournament also... as well as the games

THAT was excellent Jam..........What a story !!!....High Drama...Chess "Giants" together ( Some were to become legends of chess)...money crisis (It's a shame Rubinstein didn't play) ....and through the first outbreak of war (In this case world war 1)......chess brought together Germans / Russians / an American / Austrian - Hungarian ...who ....in a twist of fate would become some of the  the actual countries in COMBAT.........

add Bogolyubov...who "got the girl as you put it"  (and who was from the Ukraine) marrying a german girl and you have a HOLLYWOOD MOVIE in the making.......

the only question is "who will play ALEKHINE in the movie................

https://web.archive.org/web/20140709013943/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/mannheim.pdf

http://www.schaakwinkel-hetpaard.nl/schaakboeken/recente-boeken/mannheim-1914-and-the-interned-russians---a-j-gillam

thank you kindaspongey..........what a great source of information. Capturing the drama and emotions of the time.  I wonder what would have happened if Alekhine was fit for military action....with so many good men lost in that war....

Can you imagine..........a fortnight in prison...and these chess players...some to become legends of the ""game of chess""........were brutally assaulted with the butts of rifles and savagely treated while interned...I will try and do some research on what happened to these players in later life. A "colleague" has begun the process.....

Okay.........well Milan Vidmar.... was an Austrian-hungarian. He was in  second place at the Mannheim "unfinished" tournament at the time. A highly educated chess player who was in the best "half dozen" chess players in the world between 1911 and 1929. His claim to fame was that he remained an amateur all through that period before becoming a grandmaster in 1950. He was also a referee in the 1948 world championships which Botvinnik won

Player

	Rd 5	Rd 10	Rd 15	Rd 20	Rd 25
Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR)	3½	6	9	12	14
Vasily Smyslov (USSR)	2	4	5½	8½	11
Paul Keres (USSR)	2	4	6½	7½	10½
Samuel Reshevsky (USA)	2½	4½	6	8½	10½
Max Euwe (NED)	0	1½	3	3½	4

I had the Lauterbach paperbound copy of this unfinished tournament which I eventually sold along with 300 other chess books 25 years ago.  As I remember, from the crosstable showing the incomplete standings, I thought that Vidmar had an excellent chance to finish in first ahead of Alekhine.

Old topic, but thanks a ton for the posts. I remember reading an article in Chess Life years ago - probably around 1999-2000ish - that alluded to the "unfinished tournament," but I never read a detailed account of it because I never could find one.

Mannheim 1914 and the Interned Russians by A. J. Gillam

https://chesscafe.com/the-skittles-room/mannheim-1914-and-the-interned-russians/

Can you believe it .....they played a blinfold game together at the police station

Bogoljubow,E – Alekhine,A [C40]
Police Station, Mannheim 1914

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Bg5

3.c4 is stronger, followed by Nc3.

3…Ne4! 4.Bh4 g6 5.e3 Bg7 6.c4

Perhaps 6.c3, followed by Bd3, is better.

6…c5 7.Nc3 cxd4 8.Nxe4 dxe4 9.Nxd4 Qb6 10.Qd2 Nc6 11.Nxc6 bxc6 12.Rb1 Bg4 13.b4?

13.Be2! was necessary. Now, with his next move, Black achieves a decisive advantage.

13…Rd8!

[FEN “3rk2r/p3ppbp/1qp3p1/8/1PP1p1bB/4P3/P2Q1PPP/1R2KB1R w Kk – 0 14”]

14.Qc2

White has nothing better. After 14.c5 Rxd2 15.cxb6 Bc3!, the game is over.

14…Qxb4+! 15.Rxb4 Bc3+ 16.Qxc3 Rd1# 0-1

Lost the English version to this great story that Jam kindly sent me before she left suddenly...only have the German translation

I remember reading this months ago, it appears all of Jams comments are removed. I mentioned this forum when I first sent her a PM

This tournament and the 1924 tournament in the Manhattan club new York....are the two I would like to go back in time to watch

Who is J.W.T. Patton whom played in a New York chess tournament in 1914? I have his medallion