Moritz Billecard

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Maurice (Moritz) Billecard (3 August 1876, in Lure – 8 December 1940) was a French chess master.

He tied for 7-8th at Paris 1896 (Dawid Janowski won), tied for 14-15th at Munich 1900 (the 12th DSB Congress, Géza Maróczy, Harry Pillsbury and Carl Schlechter won), took 4th at Paris 1901 (Quadrangular, Adolf Albin and Stanislaus Sittenfeld won),[1] withdrew from the 1902 Monte Carlo chess tournament,[2] and took 20th in the Ostend 1907 chess tournament (Masters' Tournament, Ossip Bernstein and Akiba Rubinstein won).[3]

He lived in Algeria.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
  2. ^ "The MonteCarlo Chess Tournament of 1902". Archived from the original on 2007-09-22. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
  3. ^ "Ostendab". Archived from the original on 2008-01-28. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
  4. ^ "Chess Notes by Edward Winter".