Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz was a Russia

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

n and Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 chess master.

Rosenkrantz was born in Libava (now Liepāja

Liepaja

Liepāja ; ), is a republican city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea directly at 21°E. It is the largest city in the Kurzeme Region of Latvia, the third largest city in Latvia after Riga and Daugavpils and an important ice-free port...

, Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

), then in the Courland Governorate

Courland Governorate

Courland Governorate, also known as the Province of Courland, Governorate of Kurland , and Government of Courland , was one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire, that is now part of the Republic of Latvia....

 of the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

. He shared 1st with Robert Behting (Roberts Betinš), followed by Karl Behting (Kārlis Bētiņš), etc., at Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

 1899 (the 1st Baltic Chess Congress

Baltic Chess Championship

The first Baltic Chess Congress took place in Riga, Latvia , in 1899. The winner was Robert Behting, the elder brother of Karl Behting, who won a play-off game with Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz. The second Baltic Chess Congress was played in Dorpat, Estonia , in 1901...

) and lost a play-off game to him, took 6th at Berlin 1899/1900 (Curt von Bardeleben

Curt von Bardeleben

Curt von Bardeleben was a Count and a German chess master who committed suicide by jumping out of a window in 1924. His life and death were the basis for that of the main character in the novel The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov, which was made into the movie The Luzhin Defence...

 won), tied for 8-9th at Munich 1900 (DSB Congress

DSB Congress

The Deutschen Schachbund had been founded in Leipzig on 18 July 1877. When the next meeting took place in the Schützenhaus on 15 July 1879, sixty-two clubs had become member of the chess federation. Hofrat Rudolf von Gottschall became Chairman and Hermann Zwanziger the General Secretary...

, Hauptturnier A, Rudolf Swiderski

Rudolf Swiderski

Rudolf Swiderski was a German chess master.He took 6th at Eisenach 1896 , took 2nd at Annaberg 1897, tied for 7-8th at Berlin 1897, and tied for 3-6th in Amsterdam. He made his mark in 1900 when he won 1st place at the Munich Hauptturnier...

 won), took 11th at Moscow 1901 (the 2nd All-Russian Masters' Tournament

Russian Chess Championship

-Imperial Russia:In 1874, Emanuel Schiffers defeated Andrey Chardin in a match held in St. Petersburg with five wins and four losses. Schiffers was considered the first Russian champion until his student, Mikhail Chigorin, defeated him in a match held in St. Petersburg in 1879...

, Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin also was a leading Russian chess player...

 won), shared 1st with K. Behting, Wilhelm von Stamm

Wilhelm von Stamm

Wilhelm von Stamm was a Latvian chess master.He won at Riga 1899 , took 4th at Riga 1900 , tied for 11-12th at Riga 1900/01 , shared 1st with Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz, K. Behting and W...

 and W. Sohn at Dorpat 1901, and won at Riga 1907.

Before World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, he played in many tournaments in St. Petersburg. He tied for 2nd-3rd (Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Eugene Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky was a Russian chess master, music and drama critic, teacher and author. Born in Saint Petersburg, he settled in Paris in 1920, and lived there for the rest of his life.-Biography:...

 won) and 9-11th (Chigorin won) in 1904, took 2nd, 3rd and 4th in 1905, tied for 8-10th in 1905/06 (the 4th RUS-ch, Gersz Salwe

Gersz Salwe

Gersz Salwe was a Polish chess player.-Biography:Salwe was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw ....

 won), shared 1st with Sergey von Freymann

Sergey von Freymann

Sergey von Freymann was a Russian-Uzbekistani chess master.In 1906, von Freymann took 2nd, behind Semyon Alapin, in Sankt Petersburg. In 1907, he tied for 6-7th in St Petersburg . In 1907/08, he took 5th in Lodz . The event was won by Akiba Rubinstein...

 in 1908, tied for 7-8th in 1909 (Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

 won), and took 14th in 1911 (Stepan Levitsky

Stepan Levitsky

Stepan Levitsky was a Russian chess master and national chess champion....

 won).

Rosenkrantz lived in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

 following the First World War and Russian Revolution

October Revolution

The October Revolution , also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution , Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917...

 and participated in several Moscow tournaments. He took 5th in 1921 (Moscow City Chess Championship

Moscow City Chess Championship

-References: ****** from chessbase.com...

, Nikolai Grigoriev

Nikolai Grigoriev

Nikalai Dmitrievich Grigoriev was a Russian chess player and a composer of endgame studies. He was born on 14 August 1895 in Moscow, and he died there in 1938....

 won), took 5th in 1924 (Nikolai Zubarev

Nikolai Zubarev

Nikolai Zubarev was a Russian chess master.During World War I, he won ahead of Peter Yurdansky at Moscow 1915, and tied for 4-5th at Moscow 1916. After the war, he won twice Moscow City Chess Championship in 1927 and 1930...

 won), took 14th in 1925 (Moscow-ch, Aleksandr Sergeyev won), tied for 8-9th in 1926 (Moscow-ch, Abram Rabinovich

Abram Rabinovich

Abram Rabinovich was a Lithuanian–Russian chess master.-Biography:...

won), and shared 6th in 1928 (Trade Unions-ch, Grigoriev won).