The 3rd 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...

 took place in the rooms of the Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

 Chess Society in the Popov Building at No. 29 Kreshchatyk in Kiev on September 1–26, 1903. The Society used the rooms of the Kiev Bicycle Association which had its premises on the second floor of the aforementioned building on the corner of the Kreshchatyk & Lutheran (#29 Kreshchatyk) right next door to the Warsaw Café.

A Polish nobleman, count A.F. Plater, the president of the Kiev Chess Society (Kievskoye Shakhmatnoye Obshchestvo) was the tournament patron,
Loxting and Vengerov were tournament officials.

The results and standings:

#	Player	City	Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Total
1	Mikhail Chigorin Mikhail Chigorin Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin also was a leading Russian chess player...	Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...	Russia	x	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	1
1	½	1	1	15.0
2	Ossip Bernstein Ossip Bernstein Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein was a Russian chess grandmaster and a financial lawyer.-Biography:...	Zhytomyr Zhytomyr Zhytomyr is a city in the North of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zhytomyr Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Zhytomyr Raion...	Ukraine	1	x	1	½	1	0	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1
14.0
3	Vladimir Yurevich	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...	Russia	1	0	x	½	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	13.5
4	Gersz Salwe Gersz Salwe Gersz Salwe was a Polish chess player.-Biography:Salwe was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw ....	Lodz Lódz Łódź is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 742,387 in December 2009. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is approximately south-west of Warsaw...	Poland	0	½	½	x	½	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	½	1	1	1	1
13.0
5	Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was a famous Polish chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. He was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1914, but it was cancelled because of the outbreak of World War I...	Lodz Lódz Łódź is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 742,387 in December 2009. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is approximately south-west of Warsaw...	Poland	0	0	1	½	x	½	0	½	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	1
11.5
6	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:...	Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...	Russia	0	1	0	0	½	x	½	1	0	½	1	½	1	0	1	1	1	1
11.0
7	Moishe Lowtzky Moishe Lowtzky -Biography:He was born into a Jewish family in Ukraine. In 1903, Lowtzky tied for 6-7th with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in Kiev . The event was won by Mikhail Chigorin. In 1903, he took 4th in Dresden . In 1904, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Coburg . In 1910, he tied for 1st with Thoenes in Hamburg...	Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....	Ukraine	0	½	0	0	1	½	x	½	1	1	1	½	0	1	½	1	½	1	1	11.0
8	Stepan Levitsky Stepan Levitsky Stepan Levitsky was a Russian chess master and national chess champion....	Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, situated east of the virtual border between Europe and Asia. Population: -History:...	Russia	0	½	0	1	½	0	½	x	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	10.5
9	Stefan Izbinsky Stefan Izbinsky Stefan Konstantinovich Izbinsky was a Ukrainian chess master.He tied for 9-10th in the Kiev 1903 chess tournament , tied for 8-10th at St. Petersburg 1905/06 , took 13th at St...	Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....	Ukraine	½	½	1	0	0	1	0	1	x	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	½	1	1	9.5
10	Sergey Lebedev Sergey Lebedev Sergey Fedorovich Lebedev was a Russian chess master.S.F. Lebedev lived in Saint Petersburg before World War I, during and after the war . He took 4th at Moscow 1899 , took 3rd at St...	Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...	Russia	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	1	1	x	1	1	½	0	½	1	1	1	1	9.5
11	Abram Rabinovich Abram Rabinovich Abram Rabinovich was a Lithuanian–Russian chess master.-Biography:...	Vilna	Lithuania	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	x	0	1	1	½	1	1	1
8.5
12	Emanuel Schiffers Emanuel Schiffers Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers was a Russian chess player and chess writer. For many years he was the second leading Russian player after Mikhail Chigorin.Schiffers parents emigrated from Germany...	Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...	Russia	0	0	0	1	0	½	½	0	0	0	1	x	1	1	1	1	0	½
8.5
13	Viacheslav Kulomzin	Kostroma Kostroma Kostroma is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian towns, it is located at the confluence of the Volga and Kostroma Rivers...	Russia	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	½	0	0	x	1	1	1	1	½
8.0
14	N. Kalinsky	Novokhopersk	Russia	0	1	0	½	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	x	1	0	1	1	1	7.5
15	Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky Fedor Ivanovich Duz–Khotimirsky was a Ukrainian chess master....	Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....	Ukraine	-	0	0	0	1	0	½	0	1	½	½	0	0	0	x	½	1	1	1	7.0
16	P.P. Benko	Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....	Ukraine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	½	x	1	1	1	6.5
17	Boris Nikolaev	Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....	Ukraine	½	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	½	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	x	1	1	4.5
18	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...	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,...	Latvia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	0	0	0	x	1	2.0
19	V.V. Breev	Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....	Ukraine	0
0
0	0	0	0
0	0	0	0	0	x	0.0