Kiev 1903 chess tournament
The 3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament took place in the rooms of the Kiev 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.[1]
A Polish nobleman, count A.F. Plater, the president of the Kiev Chess Society (Kievskoye Shakhmatnoye Obshchestvo) was the tournament patron,[2] Loxting and Vengerov were tournament officials.[3]
The results and standings:[4][5][6]
# 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 Saint Petersburg 
Russiax 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1⁄2 1 1 1 1 1 + 1 1⁄2 1 1 15.0 2 Ossip Bernstein Zhytomyr 
Ukraine1 x 1 1⁄2 1 0 1⁄2 1⁄2 1⁄2 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 + 14.0 3 Vladimir Yurevich Moscow Russia1 0 x 1⁄2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 13.5 4 Gersz Salwe Łódź 
Poland0 1⁄2 1⁄2 x 1⁄2 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1⁄2 1 1 1 1 + 13.0 5 Akiba Rubinstein Łódź Poland0 0 1 1⁄2 x 1⁄2 0 1⁄2 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 + 11.5 6 Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Saint Petersburg Russia0 1 0 0 1⁄2 x 1⁄2 1 0 1⁄2 1 1⁄2 1 0 1 1 1 1 + 11.0 7 Moishe Lowtzky Kiev Ukraine0 1⁄2 0 0 1 1⁄2 x 1⁄2 1 1 1 1⁄2 0 1 1⁄2 1 1⁄2 1 1 11.0 8 Stepan Levitsky Nizhny Tagil Russia0 1⁄2 0 1 1⁄2 0 1⁄2 x 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 10.5 9 Stefan Izbinsky Kiev Ukraine1⁄2 1⁄2 1 0 0 1 0 1 x 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1⁄2 1 1 9.5 10 Sergey Lebedev Saint Petersburg Russia0 0 0 0 0 1⁄2 0 1 1 x 1 1 1⁄2 0 1⁄2 1 1 1 1 9.5 11 Abram Rabinovich Vilna 
Lithuania0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 x 0 1 1 1⁄2 1 1 1 + 8.5 12 Emanuel Schiffers Saint Petersburg Russia0 0 0 1 0 1⁄2 1⁄2 0 0 0 1 x 1 1 1 1 0 1⁄2 + 8.5 13 Viacheslav Kulomzin Kostroma Russia0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1⁄2 0 0 x 1 1 1 1 1⁄2 + 8.0 14 N. Kalinsky Novokhopersk Russia0 1 0 1⁄2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 x 1 0 1 1 1 7.5 15 Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky Kiev Ukraine- 0 0 0 1 0 1⁄2 0 1 1⁄2 1⁄2 0 0 0 x 1⁄2 1 1 1 7.0 16 P.P. Benko Kiev Ukraine0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1⁄2 x 1 1 1 6.5 17 Boris Nikolaev Kiev Ukraine1⁄2 0 0 0 0 0 1⁄2 0 1⁄2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 x 1 1 4.5 18 Wilhelm von Stamm Riga 
Latvia0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1⁄2 1⁄2 0 0 0 0 x 1 2.0 19 V.V. Breev Kiev Ukraine0 - 0 - - - 0 0 0 0 - - - 0 0 0 0 0 x 0.0
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