DTFC Oldrich Duras Memorial Tournament

Hello, everyone, this is a chess 960 tournament.

Two Days  will be three Rounds and the final between the best three players. 4 concurrent games per round.

Remembering Oldřich Duras who died 65 years ago today. Oldřich Duras Chess Artist and Composer , one of the first 27 players awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE  in 1950 for his past achievements.

Oldřich Duras (also Důras; 30 October 1882, Pchery, Bohemia, then Austria-Hungary – 5 January 1957, Prague, then Czechoslovakia) was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century. FIDE awarded him the title of International Grandmaster in 1950, when the title was first introduced, in recognition of his achievements in the early twentieth century.

Among his noted tournament wins (all shared) are Bremen (1905), Prague (1908), Vienna (1908) and Breslau (1912). He had plus scores against Richard Teichmann (+6-2=6), David Janowski (+3-1=0), Carl Schlechter (+2-1=11) and Aron Nimzowitsch (+3-2=3), and level scores with Siegbert Tarrasch and Géza Maróczy. He lost the one game he played with Emmanuel Lasker, had a draw and loss against José Raúl Capablanca, and heavy minus scores against Akiba Rubinstein, Ossip Bernstein and Milan Vidmar and was one game behind with Frank Marshall (+7-8=5).

Duras was also a noted chess composer.

The next game won Duras a brilliancy prize.