Giovanni Martinolich
Giovanni Martinolich was an Italian chess master.
He was born in Trieste, the son of Dr Giovanni Martinolich, a lawyer, Sec. of the Austrian Association of Maritime law and legal advisor to the British and US Consulates and Anna Gerolimich of Lussinpiccolo a ship owner. He studied in Vienna. In 1905/06, he took 4th, behind Leopold Löwy, Jr, Milan Vidmar and Savielly Tartakower, in campionato di Vienna. He won, ahead of Stefano Rosselli del Turco and Arturo Reggio, at Milan 1906, took 9th at Vienna 1907, and won, ahead of Matteo Gladig, at Triest 1909.
In 1910, he published an article Il Fegatello nell'apertura Spagnola in the Rivista Scacchistica Italiana. He died suddenly at the age of 26, of heart related causes.
