Berlin City Chess Championship

The Berlin Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament in Germany. The first unofficial Berlin Chess Championship was held in 1853, and Jean Dufresne won a match against Max Lange.[1] Since 1904, official Berlin championships have taken place. The first event was won by Horatio Caro, followed by Ossip Bernstein, Rudolf Spielmann, Wilhelm Cohn, Benjamin Blumenfeld, etc.[2][3]

As a result of the post-war division of the city into East Berlin and West Berlin, from 1953 until 1990 two separate championships were held.[4] Since the 1991 reunification of Germany, the Berlin championships are again held as single events.[5]

  1. ^ Berliner Schachverband :: Berliner Meisterschaft 1853 Archived September 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Berliner Schachverband :: Berliner Meisterschaft 1904 Archived September 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2011-12-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
  4. ^ Berliner Schachverband :: Sieger Berliner Einzelmeisterschaft Archived 2008-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Berliner Schachverband :: Sieger Berliner Einzelmeisterschaft Archived April 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine