Munich 1906
Carlsbad 1907
Ostende 1907
Carlsbad 1911

<Scarce (many copies were destroyed by the Nazis because Cohn was Jewish). This was a little 18-page booklet dedicated to his memory since he was killed in action for Germany on 28 August 1918 after three years’ service.>

1-2. E. Cohn 3.5
1-2. Teichmann 3.5
3. Spielmann 3.0
4. Von Bardeleben 2.0

Cohn and Teichmann shared the combined 1st and 2nd prizes (500 + 300 Mark), Spielmann got 250 Mark and Von Bardeleben 150 Mark.

From page 212 of the 1910 'Wiener Schachzeitung'

The position in the mystery game (diagram 145 page 197 of the German edition of My System)

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Black (Nimzowitsch) to make his 16th move.

"Erich Cohn was a highly gifted young man, of a family too poor to send him to the University. However, he had found a patron who offered to pay his way through college to enable him to get his degree of Doctor of Philosophy, so that he could obtain a teaching position in his favorite field, the History of Art. Cohn was as handsome as a "Greek God," withal very modest and serious, interested in every phase of intellectual endeavor. But chess proved his undoing. After winning the Master title he could not withstand the temptation to travel to the many master tournaments which were organized in Germany and the adjoining countries. He was not as lucky as I, who possessed three friends to help fight the demon, the habit-forming mental opiate which chess can be to young, impressionable, ambitious boys. Cohn gradually neglected his studies, he did not graduate in proper time, and his patron withdrew his support. Thus he was reduced to playing chess professionally. But without the driving energy of a Mieses and the towering strength of a Teichmann, Cohn drifted from bad to straitened circumstances, and when he was killed in the early days of the first world war, many of his friends thought of the proverb: "Whom the Gods love, they from the earth in his youth."