Events in chess in 1915:

Chess events in brief

Tournaments

Matches

Births

Deaths

  • Thomas Bright Wilson died of cholera. Secretary of the Manchester Chess Club, England. He invented the first mechanical chess clock in 1883.
  • Mattia Cavallotti died in Milan. Cavallotti Countergambit.
  • Matteo Gladig died in Ljubljana. Italian master.
  • 19 March - Eugene Cook, died in Hoboken, NJ. 1st American composer of note.
  • 2 November - Isaac Rice, American inventor and chess patron, died in USA. Rice Gambit.

References

  1. "Short Matches of the 20th Century". Archived from the original on 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
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