Moritz Billecard

Maurice (Moritz) Billecard (born 3 August 1876 in Lure (Haute-Saône) – died 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
  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. http://sbchess.sinfree.net/MonteCarlo1902_tournament.html
  3. http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1907ostendab.htm
  4. http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter30.html


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