1902 in chess
Below is a list of events in chess in the year 1902:
News
- Géza Maróczy wins the Monte Carlo [chess tournament|Monte Carlo tournament], ahead of Harry Pillsbury and Dawid Janowski.
- March 14–15 – The United States team wins the Anglo-American cable match 5½–4½. Harry Pillsbury and Frank Marshall are in Europe to play at Monte Carlo, so they traveled to London to play their games in person.
- Janowski wins the German Open Championship, followed by Pillsbury and Henry Ernest Atkins.
- Karl Schlechter defeats Janowski in match at Karlsbad by the score 7½–2½.
Births
- Eduard Glass, Austrian master and 1929 Austrian co-champion with Erich Eliskases
- Ludwig Schmitt, German chess master
- January 16 – Róża Herman, Polish chess player, is born in Łódź
- February 20 – Virgilio Fenoglio, Argentine master, is born in Santa Fe
- March 16 – Mario Monticelli, Italian IM and GME, is born in Venice
- June 5 – Georg Kieninger, German International Master, is born in Munich
- July 27 – Teodors Bergs, Latvian master, is born in Riga
- August 5 – Rudolf Pitschak, Czech–German master, is born in Rumburk
- October 15 – María Teresa Mora, Cuban Woman International Master, is born in Havana
- December 3 – Feliks Kibbermann, Estonian master, is born in Rakvere
- December 6 – G. H. Diggle, British chess player and writer, is born in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England
Deaths
- Samuel Rosenthal, Polish-French master and chess writer, dies Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, at age 65
- June 15 – Stanislaus Sittenfeld, Polish-French master, dies in Davos, Switzerland, at age 36
- December 28 – Hieronim Czarnowski, Polish master and activist, dies at age 68