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]
References
edit- ^ 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
- ^ "The MonteCarlo Chess Tournament of 1902". Archived from the original on 2007-09-22. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
- ^ "Ostendab". Archived from the original on 2008-01-28. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
- ^ "Chess Notes by Edward Winter". www.chesshistory.com.
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