Victor Kahn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Victor Kahn

Russian-French chess player

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1889

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 06-Oct-1971

Profession: chess player

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Victor Kahn

  • Victor Kahn (Russian: ?????? ???; 1889 in Moscow – 6 October 1971 in Nice) was a Russian–French chess master. He was born in Moscow but left Russia in 1912 eventually ending up in France going via Sweden, Denmark and Germany.
  • He won the Copenhagen Championship in 1916.
  • He also played at Hamburg 1916.
  • He tied for 8-9th at Copenhagen 1918. After World War I, he tied for 1st-2nd at Haarlem 1919.
  • He took 10th at Paris 1920 (Frederic Lazard won).
  • In 1921, he took 3rd in Utrecht (Quadrangular; Adolf Olland won).
  • In 1922, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Paris (AndrĂ© Muffang won).
  • In 1923, Kahn won in Paris (Cercle Philidor Tournament). In 1924, he tied for 4-7th in Paris (Eugene Znosko-Borovsky won).
  • In 1925, he tied for 5-7th in Paris City Championship (Abraham Baratz and Vitaly Halberstadt won), took 4th in Scarborough (Max Romih won), tied for 1st-2nd with Bertrand in Paris.
  • In 1926, he tied for 3rd-4th in Paris Championship (Leon Schwartzmann won), tied for 3rd-4th in Paris (Peter Potemkine and Halberstadt won), tied for 5-6th in Scarborough (Alexander Alekhine won), and took 3rd in Paris Baratz won).
  • In 1927, he tied for 8-9th in Paris Championship (Baratz won).
  • In 1930, he tied for 3-5th in Paris Championship (Josef Cukierman won).After settling in Nice, he acquired French citizenship.
  • In 1932, he took 9th in La Baule (11th FRA-ch; Maurice Raizman won).
  • In 1933, he tied for 3rd-4th in Sarreguemines (12th FRA-ch; Aristide Gromer won).
  • In 1934, he won the 13th French Championship in Paris, tied for 1st-2nd with Raizman in 16th Paris Championship, and took 2nd, behind Znosko-Borovsky, in Nice.
  • In 1935 he lost a match against Spanish player Ramon Rey Ardid (+0 –2 =4) in Zaragoza, he tied for 1st-2nd with George Koltanowski in Mollet.
  • In 1937, he took 3rd in Nice (Quadrangular; Alekhine won), and took 3rd in Toulouse (16th FRA-ch; Gromer and AmĂ©dĂ©e Gibaud won).
  • In 1938, he took 4th in Nice (17th FRA-ch; Raizman and Gromer won).Kahn played in several Chess Olympiads.
  • He represented Russia in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924, and played for France four times. In 1931, at third board in 4th Olympiad in Prague (+1 –7 =5); In 1933, at third board in 5th Olympiad in Folkestone (+3 –3 =6); In 1935, at fourth board in 6th Olympiad in Warsaw (+1 –4 =4); In 1939, at third board in 8th Olympiad in Buenos Aires (+4 –9 =5).

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