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Bogoljubow, Efim 
  
 
 
| Ratings 
 
 
  | Year | Rank | Edo | Dev. | Games |  
  | 1909 | 82 | 2376 | (51) | 11 |  
  | 1910 | 69 | 2404 | (40) | 26 |  
  | 1911 | 57 | 2426 | (32) | 56 |  
  | 1912 | 35 | 2458 | (36) | 19 |  
  | 1913 | 25 | 2486 | (32) | 38 |  
  | 1914 | 18 | 2531 | (29) | 64 |  
  | 1915 | 9 | 2550 | (35) | 35 |  
  | 1916 | 16 | 2512 | (39) | 22 |  
  | 1917 | 19 | 2497 | (40) | 24 |  
  | 1918 | 12 | 2530 | (43) | 0 |  
  | 1919 | 6 | 2563 | (32) | 44 |  
  | 1920 | 6 | 2571 | (27) | 78 |  
  | 1921 | 8 | 2553 | (29) | 47 |  
  | 1922 | 6 | 2579 | (28) | 57 |  
  | 1923 | 6 | 2598 | (30) | 37 |  
  | 1924 | 4 | 2644 | (28) | 57 |  
  | 1925 | 4 | 2653 | (27) | 79 |  
  | 1926 | 6 | 2615 | (35) | 14 |  
  | 1927 | 6 | 2576 | (29) | 59 |  
  | 1928 | 5 | 2592 | (28) | 53 |  
  | 1929 | 5 | 2580 | (29) | 56 |  
  | 1930 | 7 | 2564 | (30) | 44 |  
  | 1931 | 7 | 2558 | (27) | 65 |  
  | 1932 | 10 | 2516 | (31) | 38 |  
  | 1933 | 9 | 2533 | (32) | 34 |  
  | 1934 | 9 | 2529 | (29) | 67 |  
  | 1935 | 15 | 2511 | (30) | 38 |  
  | 1936 | 21 | 2500 | (29) | 52 |  
  | 1937 | 14 | 2513 | (31) | 37 |  
  | 1938 | 16 | 2507 | (32) | 30 |  
  | 1939 | 18 | 2503 | (29) | 62 |  
  | 1940 | 18 | 2494 | (34) | 20 |  
  | 1941 | 24 | 2474 | (31) | 47 |  
  | 1942 | 32 | 2456 | (33) | 40 |  
  | 1943 | 37 | 2443 | (39) | 21 |  
  | 1944 | 43 | 2444 | (47) | 7 |  
  | 1945 | 47 | 2437 | (51) | 0 |  
  | 1946 | 58 | 2430 | (47) | 4 |  
  | 1947 | 49 | 2438 | (37) | 72 |  
 
Rating table notes
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| Biographical data |  | 
   | Name: Bogoljubow, Efim Dimitrijewitsch |  | Also known as: Bogolyubov |  
   | Born: 14 Apr. 1889 |  
   | Died: 18 June 1952 |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1901-1920, page 301 |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1921-1930, page 319 |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1931-1935, page 376 |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1936-1940, page 348 |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1941-1946, page 335 |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1947-1950, page 453 |  
   | Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachturniere, page 300 |  
   | Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 44 |  
   | McGowan, Kurt Richter, page 359 |  
   | Soltis, Soviet Chess, page 28, 43, 440 |  
   | Thulin, Name index to CTC, page 33 |  
   | Woodger, Reuben Fine, page 348 |  | Periodicals |  
   | [WSZ], vol. 14, no. 21, Nov. 1911, page 347 |  |  | 
 Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)
 
  | Flamberg, A.D. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1910 | (f) | 4.5 | - | 0.5 |  |  
  | Flamberg, A.D. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1911 | (f) | 4.5 | - | 1.5 |  |  
  | Izbinsky, S.K. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1911 | (f) | 5 | - | 3 |  |  
  | Flamberg, A.D. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1913 | (f) | 3 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Salwe, G.H.S. 1913 | (f) | 6 | - | 4 |  |  
  | Capablanca, J.R. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1914 | (c) | 1 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Rabinovich, I.L. 1914 (1) | (f) | 3.5 | - | 0.5 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Rabinovich, I.L. 1914 (2) | (f) | 6 | - | 1 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Selezniev, A.S. 1917 | (f) | 4.5 | - | 3.5 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - von Bardeleben, C.C.A. 1919 | (f) | 4 | - | 1 |  |  
  | Rubinstein, A.K. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1920 | (f) | 6.5 | - | 5.5 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Hakansson, A. 1920 | (c) | 5.5 | - | 2.5 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Sjoberg, V. 1920 | (c) | 3.5 | - | 1.5 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Owesson, B. 1920 | (c) | 4 | - | 2 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Nimzowitsch, A. 1920 | (f) | 3 | - | 1 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Wendel, V. 1920 | (f) | 3 | - | 3 |  |  
  | Alekhine, A.A. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1921 | (c) | 2 | - | 2 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Kupchik, A. 1924 | (f) | 4 | - | 2 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Bohatirchuk, F.P. 1924 | (f) | 2 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Romanovsky, P.A. 1924 | (f) | 8 | - | 4 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Euwe, M. 1928 | (f) | 5.5 | - | 4.5 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Euwe, M. 1929 | (f) | 5.5 | - | 4.5 |  |  
  | Alekhine, A.A. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1929 | (f) | 15.5 | - | 9.5 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Stahlberg, A.G.T. 1930 | (f) | 3.5 | - | 0.5 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Rodl, L. 1931 | (f) | 4 | - | 2 |  |  
  | Spielmann, R. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1932 | (f) | 5.5 | - | 4.5 |  |  
  | Alekhine, A.A. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1933 | (f) | 0.5 | - | 0.5 |  |  
  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Muller, Ha. 1934 | (f) | 9.5 | - | 5.5 |  |  
  | Alekhine, A.A. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1934 | (f) | 15.5 | - | 10.5 |  |  
  | Ahues, C.O. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1935 | (f) | 1.5 | - | 0.5 |  |  
  | Eliskases, E.G. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1939 | (f) | 11.5 | - | 8.5 |  |  
  | Euwe, M. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1941 | (f) | 6.5 | - | 3.5 |  |  
  | Alekhine, A.A. - Bogoljubow, E.D. 1943 | (f) | 1 | - | 1 |  |  Tournament data 
  | Kiev 1909 | Kiev City Championship | 7 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Odessa 1910 | South Russian Tournament | 5 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Warsaw 1910 (2) | Warsaw Tournament | 12 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Kiev 1911 (1) | Kiev Championship | 11.5 | / | 13 |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Izbinsky, S.K. | 2 - 0 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Kiev 1911 (2) | Little Kiev Championship | 3.5 | / | 6 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Saint Petersburg 1911 (3) | All-Russian Hauptturnier | 12 | / | 21 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Vilnius 1912 (2) | Russian National Tournament - Hauptturnier | 15.5 | / | 20 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Lodz 1913 (1) | Lodz Tournament | 9.5 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Kiev 1913 (1) | Kiev Tournament | 2.5 | / | 5 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Kiev 1913 (2) | Kiev Championship | 3.5 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Kiev 1913 (3) | Kiev Summer Tournament | 1.5 | / | 3 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Saint Petersburg 1914 (1) | All-Russian Championship | 9.5 | / | 17 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Mannheim 1914 (1) | 19th German Chess Federation Congress - Meisterturnier | 5.5 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Baden-Baden 1914 | 1st Tournament of Interned Russian Players | 8 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Kiev 1914 | Kiev Match Tournament | 8 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Triberg 1915 (1) | 2nd Tournament of Interned Russian Players | 7.5 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Triberg 1915 (2) | 3rd Tournament of Interned Russian Players | 4.5 | / | 5 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Triberg 1915 (3) | 4th Tournament of Interned Russian Players | 7.5 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Triberg 1915 (4) | 5th Tournament of Interned Russian Players | 8 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Triberg 1916 (1) | 6th Tournament of Interned Russian Players | 7 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Triberg 1916 (2) | 7th Tournament of Interned Russian Players | 5.5 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Triberg 1917 | 8th Tournament of Interned Russian Players | 7 | / | 16 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Berlin 1919 (1) | Berlin Tournament | 5 | / | 6 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Berlin 1919 (2) | Café Kerkau Tournament | 3.5 | / | 6 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Stockholm 1919 (2) | Stockholm Tournament | 12.5 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Stockholm 1919 (3) | Stockholm Tournament | 5.5 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Stockholm 1920 (1) | Stockholm Handicap Tournament |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Rubinstein, A.K. | 1 - 0 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Goteborg 1920 (1) | Göteborg Tournament - Section A | 8 | / | 13 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Stockholm 1920 (3) | Stockholm Tournament | 12.5 | / | 14 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Berlin 1920 (13) | Berlin Tournament | 5.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Kiel 1921 (2) | Kiel Tournament | 7.5 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Triberg 1921 (1) | Triberg Tournament | 5 | / | 8 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Budapest 1921 (2) | Budepest Tournament | 5 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Triberg 1921 (2) | Triberg Tournament | 6 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Pistyan 1922 (1) | Breyer Memorial Master Tournament | 15 | / | 18 |  |  |  |  |  
  | London, England 1922 (1) | British Chess Federation Congress - Master Tournament | 9 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Hastings 1922 | Hastings Tournament | 4.5 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Vienna 1922 (1) | Austrian Chess Association Congress - Master Tournament | 6.5 | / | 14 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Margate 1923 (1) | 19th Kent County Chess Association Congress - Master Tournament | 4.5 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Carlsbad 1923 | Carlsbad Tournament | 11.5 | / | 17 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Moravska Ostrava 1923 | Mahrisch Ostrau Master Tournament | 6.5 | / | 13 |  |  |  |  |  
  | New York 1924 (1) | New York Tournament | 9.5 | / | 20 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Moscow 1924 (1) | 3rd Soviet Congress - Championship | 15 | / | 17 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Leningrad 1925 (1) | Leningrad Tournament | 7 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Baden-Baden 1925 | Baden-Baden Tournament | 13 | / | 20 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Breslau 1925 (1) | 24th German Chess Federation Congress - Master Tournament | 9.5 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Leningrad 1925 (2) | 4th Soviet Union Championship | 14 | / | 19 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Moscow 1925 (3) | Moscow Tournament | 15.5 | / | 20 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Berlin 1926 (1) | Berlin Tournament | 7 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Munich 1926 (2) | Munich Tournament | 3.5 | / | 5 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bremen 1927 (2) | 26th Lower Elbe Chess Federation Tournament | 6 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Berlin 1927 (7) | Berlin Tournament | 6 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Scarborough 1927 | Scarborough Tournament | 4.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Homburg 1927 | Homburg Tournament | 7 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Magdeburg 1927 (2) | 25th German Chess Federation Congress - Master Tournament | 10.5 | / | 13 |  |  |  |  |  
  | London, England 1927 (8) | British Empire Club Master Tournament | 6.5 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Berlin 1928 (1) | Berlin Tournament | 9.5 | / | 13 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Dortmund 1928 | 6th Westphalian Chess Federation Tournament | 4 | / | 8 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Kissingen 1928 (1) | 11th Bavarian Chess Federation Congress - Master Tournament | 8 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Berlin 1928 (8) | Berlin Tournament | 8.5 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Carlsbad 1929 | Carlsbad Tournament | 11.5 | / | 21 |  |  |  |  |  
  | San Remo 1930 | San Remo Tournament | 9.5 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Mnichovo Hradiste 1930 | Mnichovo Hradiste Tournament | 5.5 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Stockholm 1930 (2) | Stockholm Tournament | 4 | / | 6 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Tallinn 1930 | Tallinn Tournament | 5 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Helsinki 1930 (2) | Bogoljubow Tournament | 4.5 | / | 5 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Swinemunde 1931 | 27th German Chess Federation Congress | 8 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Prague 1931 (5) | 4th Olympiad | 12.5 | / | 17 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Pyrmont 1931 (1) | 9th Westphalian Chess Federation Congress - Meisterturnier | 3.5 | / | 4 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bled 1931 | Bled Tournament | 15 | / | 26 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Sliac 1932 | Bad Sliac Major Tournament | 6.5 | / | 13 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bern 1932 (2) | International Tournament | 10 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Aachen 1933 | Aachen Tournament | 7.5 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Pyrmont 1933 (1) | German Chess Federation Congress - Championship | 11.5 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Scheveningen 1933 | Dutch Chess Association Congress - International Tournament | 5.5 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Zurich 1934 (1) | Zurich International Tournament | 11.5 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Karlsruhe 1934 | Badische Schachkongress - Meisterturnier | 9 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Berlin 1935 | Berlin Master Tournament | 6.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Nauheim 1935 | Bad Nauheim Tournament | 6 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Zoppot 1935 | Germany - Sweden Match Tournament | 4 | / | 8 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Saarow 1935 | Bad Saarow Tournament | 8.5 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Elster 1936 | Bad Elster Tournament | 7.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Nauheim 1936 | Bad Nauheim Tournament | 5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Dresden 1936 | Dresden Tournament | 5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Zandvoort 1936 | Zandvoort Tournament | 6 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Nottingham 1936 (1) | Nottingham Master Tournament | 5.5 | / | 14 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Berlin 1937 (2) | Berliner Schachgesellschaft Jubilee Tournament | 5 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bremen 1937 | Bremen Tournament | 2.5 | / | 3 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Baarn 1937 (1) | Baarn Tournament - Section 1 | 3 | / | 3 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Elster 1937 | Bad Elster Tournament | 7 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Saarow 1937 | Bad Saarow Tournament | 5.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Nauheim and Stuttgart and Garmisch 1937 | Bad Nauheim-Stuttgart-Garmisch Tournament | 3.5 | / | 6 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bergedorf 1938 (1) | Bergedorf Easter Tournament | 1.5 | / | 3 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Elster 1938 | Bad Elster Tournament | 6.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Noordwijk 1938 | Noordwijk Tournament | 4.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Harzburg 1938 | Bad Harzburg Tournament | 6 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Karlsruhe 1939 | Robert Rutz Memorial Tournament | 7 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Kemeri and Riga 1939 | Kemeri-Riga Tournament | 8.5 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Carlsbad 1939 (2) | Germany - Hungary Match |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Steiner, E. | 2 - 0 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Stuttgart 1939 (1) | Europa Tournament | 7.5 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Stuttgart 1939 (2) | Berliner Schachgesellschaft - Mannheimer Schachklub Match |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Richter, K. (2) | 1 - 0 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Stuttgart 1939 (6) | Mannheimer Schachklub - Münchener Schachklub Match |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Kohler, A. | 1 - 0 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Stuttgart 1939 (11) | Deutsches Schachverein-Vienna - Mannheimer Schachklub Match |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Muller, Ha. | 0 - 1 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Stuttgart 1939 (13) | Augustea Schachklub-Leipzig - Mannheimer Schachklub Match |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Blumich, R.M. | 1 - 0 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Stuttgart 1939 (15) | Mannheimer Schachklub - Hamburger Schachklub Match |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | Bogoljubow, E.D. - Heinicke, H.T. | 1 - 0 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Berlin 1940 (4) | Willi Schlage Memorial Tournament | 7.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Krakow and Krynica and Warsaw 1940 | 1st General Government Championship Tournament | 7.5 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Krefeld 1941 | Krefeld Tournament | 9 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Munich 1941 | 2nd Europa Tournament | 9.5 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Krakow and Warsaw 1941 | 2nd General Government Championship Tournament | 7.5 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Cottbus 1942 | Cottbus Tournament | 7.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Salzburg 1942 | Salzburg Tournament | 3.5 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Munich 1942 (1) | Europa Tournament - Group 1 | 7 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Krakow and Warsaw and Lublin 1942 | 3rd General Government Tournament | 6 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Salzburg 1943 | Salzburg International Tournament | 4 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Krynica 1943 | Krynica Tournament | 6.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Radom 1944 | Radom Tournament | 8.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Zurich 1946 | Zurich Tournament | 3 | / | 4 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Luneburg 1947 | Luneburg Tournament | 14.5 | / | 17 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Kassel 1947 | Kassel Tournament | 7.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Heringen 1947 | Heringen Tournament | 8 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Stuttgart 1947 | Stuttgart Tournament | 6 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Hanau 1947 | Hermanis Matisons Memorial Tournament | 9.5 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Flensburg 1947 | Flensburg Tournament | 8.5 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
 
| Player information updated: 20 Sept. 2025 |  
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