All Russian Tournament of Masters: Vilnius 1912

Author: Gillam, Anthony J (editor), W G Povarov and Jan KalendovskyYear: 1995Publisher: The Chess PlayerPlace: NottinghamDescription:32 pages with diagrams and tables. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's yellow stapled wrappers. Additional research by W G Povarov and J Kalendovsky. First edition limited to 100 copies of which this is number 46.The All-Russian Masters tournament held in Vilnius (also Vilna or Vilno) from August 19-September 17, 1912 was the last of Akiba Rubinstein's string of consecutive tournament victories that year. The entrants in this double round-robin event were: Semion Alapin, Alexander Alekhine, Ossip Bernstein, Alexander Flamberg, Grigory Levenfish, Stefan Levitsky, Aron Nimzowitsch, Abram Isaakovich Rabinovich, Akiba Rubinstein, Georg Salwe, and Sergey Nikolaevich von Freymann. Rabinovich dropped out before the end of the first cycle, and the nine games he played did not count in the final results. As a result, each player received in effe