He finished fourth in the very strong St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, behind only World Champion Lasker and future World Champions José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, and ahead of Marshall, Ossip Bernstein, Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, Blackburne, Janowski, and Gunsberg.
Chess tradition was highlighted by the 1914 international tournament, in which the title "Grandmaster" was first formally conferred by Russian Tsar Nicholas II to five players: Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tarrasch and Marshall, and which the Tsar had partially funded.
The same sacrificial pattern was echoed in a number of later games, notably Nimzowitsch–Tarrasch, St Petersburg 1914; Miles–Browne, Lucerne 1982; and Polgar–Karpov, Seventh Essent 2003.
Tarrasch Trap refers to two different chess opening traps in the Ruy Lopez that are named for Siegbert Tarrasch.
He took 11th at Berlin 1881 (2nd DSB–Congress, Blackburne won); took 15th at Nuremberg 1883 (3rd DSB–Congress, Simon Winawer won); tied for 16-17th at Hamburg 1885 (4th DSB–Congress, Isidor Gunsberg won); tied for 5-6th at Leipzig 1888 (Curt von Bardeleben and Fritz Riemann won), and tied for 16-17th at dresden 1892 (7th DSB–Congress, Siegbert Tarrasch won).