The Bad Kissingen 1928 chess tournament was a major international chess tournament, held in Bad Kissingen, Germany in August 1928.
The tournament included most of the leading players at the time, except for world champion Alexander Alekhine. Chessbase listed it as one of the 50 greatest chess tournaments of 1851−1986.The greatest chess tournaments of all time, Chessbase, 6/8/2004
The tournament was won by Efim Bogoljubow, ahead of José Raúl Capablanca, who had lost the World Championship to Alekhine the previous year. It was widely expected that Capablanca would challenge Alekhine to a rematch, but after this win, Bogoljubow emerged as a potential challenger;A Century of Chess: Bad Kissingen 1928, Sam Kahn, chess.com, October 2, 2024 and Bogoljubow played Alekhine in a world championship match the following year.From Morphy to Fischer, Israel Horowitz, Batsford, UK, 1973, p. 96
Results # Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total1 Efim Bogoljubow * 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 8.02 José Raúl Capablanca 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 7.03 Max Euwe ½ ½ * 1 ½ 1 0 1 0 ½ ½ 1 6.54 Akiba Rubinstein 0 ½ 0 * 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 6.55 Aron Nimzowitsch ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 6.06 Richard Réti 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 5.57 Savielly Tartakower ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 5.08 Frank Marshall 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 * 1 1 ½ ½ 5.09 Fred Yates 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 5.010 Rudolph Spielmann 0 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ 4.511 Siegbert Tarrasch 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 4.012 Jacques Mieses ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 3.0 Bad Kissingen (1928), Chessgames.com
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