The Russian internees played eight tournaments, the first in Baden-Baden (1914) and all the others in Triberg im Schwarzwald (1914–1917).
Ilya Repin | Ilya Kabakov | Ilya Prigogine | Ilya Kaminsky | Ilya Ehrenburg | Ilya Salkind | Ilya Maksimov | Roman Rabinovich | Ilya Ilyin | Ilya Glazunov | Ilya | Abraham Rabinovich | Nahum Rabinovich | Moshe Leib Rabinovich | Menahem Rabinovich | Ilya Rabinovich | Ilya Musin | Ilya Kovalchuk | Ilya (comics) | Ilya Blyznyuk | ILYA |
He drew a match (+4 –4 =1) with Grigory Levenfish in 1910, he tied for 3rd place at Odessa 1910 (Boris Verlinsky won), tied for 15-16th at St. Petersburg 1911 (Stepan Levitsky won), and tied for fourth with Ilya Rabinovich in the seventh All-Russian Masters' Tournamenr (Hauptturnier) at Vilna 1912, Lithuania (then Russian Empire).