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).
The results and standings:
| # | Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Rudolf Charousek (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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 7.5 |
| 14 |  Szymon Winawer (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) |
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) |
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)
|
½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | x | 0 | 1 | 5.5 |
| 18 |  Adolf Zinkl (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 (Romania) |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | x | 2.0 |
References
- Internationales Turnier Berlin 1897 Archived October 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- Berlin 1897 Archived 2008-06-19 at the Wayback Machine
- "Berlino". Archived from the original on 2008-01-28. Retrieved 2009-01-31.