won), took second place behind Smorodsky in 1913, and shared first with von Freymann in 1914 (Hexagonal).

Romanovsky participated in the Mannheim 1914 chess tournament (the 19th DSB Congress), begun on 20 July and stopped on 1 August, when World War I broke out. He was tied for second-fourth places in the Hauptturnier B event. After the declaration of war by the German Empire on the Russian Empire, eleven