1900 in chess
Events in chess in 1900:
News
- The American team wins the Anglo-American cable match for the second consecutive year with the score 6–4. The top board game between Harry Pillsbury and Joseph Henry Blackburne is a draw as is the second board between Jackson Showalter and Francis Joseph Lee. US Champion Frank Marshall loses a drawn game due to a time-keeping error. The US fails to start Marshall's clock when he cables a draw offer on his move, and Marshall loses on time.
- World Champion Emanuel Lasker wins the Paris tournament, ahead of Harry Pillsbury, Géza Maróczy and Frank Marshall. The tournament is held as part of the Exposition Universelle.
- Richard Teichmann wins the London tournament.
- Carl Schlechter wins the tournament at Vienna.
- First place at the German Chess Congress in Munich is shared by Maróczy, Pillsbury, and Schlechter.
- S. Lipschutz wins at New York.
- Mikhail Chigorin wins the 1900/01 Moscow tournament.
- The inaugural U.S. Open Championship is won by Louis Uedemann.
- Henry Ernest Atkins wins the British Championship.
Births
- Josef Cukierman: was a Polish-born French chess master.
- Marcel Engelmann Belgian master.
- Karl Poschauko was an Austrian chess master.
- Emmanuel Sapira, Romanian-born Belgian chess master.
- January 29 – Irving Chernev, American chess player and author is born in Pryluky, Russian Empire.
- March 18 – Roberto Grau Argentine master born in Buenos Aires.
- March 23 – José Joaquín Araiza, Mexican chess master.
- May 13 – Theodore Tylor, British chess player born in Bournville, England.
- August 13 – Nils Bergkvist Swedish master.
- October 24 – Robert Crépeaux, French master born in Grasse,
- November 24 – Kurt Richter, German International Master and chess writer born in Berlin.
- December 11 – Wolfgang Hasenfuss Latvian master born in Jēkabpils, Russian Empire.
Deaths
- February 12 – Ellen Gilbert, American correspondence player, dies in Hartford, Connecticut at age 62.
- April 18 – Rudolf Charousek, Hungarian master, dies in Budapest at age 26.
- August 12 – Wilhelm Steinitz, World Champion 1886–94, dies in poverty in New York City at age 64.
- November 10 – Luigi Centurini, Italian chess player and composer, dies in Genoa at age 80.