Editing Grandmaster (chess) (section)

===Early tournament use===
[[File:Tarrasch 72.jpg|thumb|upright=0.90|[[Siegbert Tarrasch]] (1862–1934)]]
The [[Ostend 1907 chess tournament|Ostend tournament of 1907]] was divided into two sections: the Championship Tournament and the Masters' Tournament. The Championship section was for players who had previously won an international tournament.<ref name="fqmpqc">{{Harvard citation no brackets|Sunnucks|1970|p=223}}</ref> [[Siegbert Tarrasch]] won the Championship section, over [[Carl Schlechter]], [[Dawid Janowski]], [[Frank Marshall (chess player)|Frank Marshall]], [[Amos Burn]], and [[Mikhail Chigorin]]. These players were described as grandmasters for the purposes of the tournament.

The [[San Sebastián chess tournament|San Sebastián 1912 tournament]] won by [[Akiba Rubinstein]] was a designated grandmaster event.<ref name="Oxford"/> Rubinstein won with 12½ points out of 19. Tied for second with 12 points were [[Aron Nimzowitsch]] and [[Rudolf Spielmann]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nimzowitsch.com/Tourn_and_Match/sanseb12.htm|title=nimzowitsch.com|access-date=29 June 2015|archive-date=3 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703201159/http://nimzowitsch.com/Tourn_and_Match/sanseb12.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

By some accounts, in the [[St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament]], the title Grandmaster was formally conferred by [[Russian Tsar Nicholas II]], who had partially funded the tournament.<ref name="fqmpqc"/> The Tsar reportedly awarded the title to the five finalists: [[Emanuel Lasker]], [[José Raúl Capablanca]], [[Alexander Alekhine]], [[Siegbert Tarrasch]], and [[Frank Marshall (chess player)|Frank Marshall]]. [[Edward Winter (chess historian)|Chess historian Edward Winter]] has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources that support this story are an article by Robert Lewis Taylor in the June 15, 1940, issue of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' and Marshall's autobiography ''My 50 Years of Chess'' (1942).<ref name="KCAK">{{citation |last1=Winter |first1=Edward |author1-link=Edward Winter (chess historian) |year=1999 |title=Kings, Commoners and Knaves: Further Chess Explorations |edition=1 |publisher=Russell Enterprises, Inc. |isbn=978-1-888690-04-0
|pages=315–316}}</ref><ref name="Chess Omnibus">{{citation |last1=Winter |first1=Edward |author1-link=Edward Winter (chess historian) |year=2003 |title=A Chess Omnibus |edition=1 |publisher=Russell Enterprises, Inc. |isbn=978-1-888690-17-0 |pages=177–178}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter38.html|title=Chess Notes by Edward Winter|access-date=29 June 2015|archive-date=28 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328070143/http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter38.html|url-status=live}}</ref>