Born in Berlin, in 1895 he went to South Africa. At that time, though he knew something about chess, he was totally unacquainted with its deeper mysteries.
He joined the Johannesburg Chess Club in January of 1898, but in April he migrated to Quebec in Canada, where he lived for nine months.
While there he met Professor Isaac Rice (1850-1915), the Bavaria-born master and inventor of the Rice Gambit who had moved to the US together with his parents at the age of six. Rice introduced Siegheim, who by that time had developed into a strong player, to the Rice Gambit germ.
Seigheim's next experience was with the Manhattan
Club in New York where he worked his way up to one of their strongest players, even taking third place in a Rice Gambit tournament in 1903. In the Manhattan Chess Club Championship of 1903, David Baird took first and Seigheim finished second.
In October of 1904, Seigheim returned to South Africa and returned to the Johannesburg C.C. At that time a player named Dr. Nax Blieden was acknowledged to be the strongest player in the country.
Seigheim was strong enough that a match with Blieden was arranged.
Seigheim scored +6 -2 =2 in the first ten games, but then Blieden scored four straight wins to even the score! According to the match arrangements the match was to be continued until one of the players score 9 points which Seigheim succeeded in doing.
Seigheim won the championship of South Africa in 1906 at Capetown, scoring +5 -0 =2.
In 1910, he lost a challenge to Dr. Blieden, he defeated Harry Duhan in a challenge in 1911, then defeated Henk Meihuizen in challenge in1912. Also in 1912, he captured his second South African championship.
After World War I, he tied for 5-6th in th British Championship at Malvern (F.D. Yates won). At the annual Hastings Christmas Congress of 1922/23 he shared 2nd with Richard Réti, behind Akiba Rubinstein. He also is reported to have played a match against Mir Sultan Khan at London in 1929, but I was unable to find any details.
Bruno Siegheim–A. Frere1–0D52Offhand Game Johannesburg CC1910Stockfish 16
D52: Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Variation 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.c3 f6 4.g5 bd7 The Cambridge Springs Defense has been around for over
a century and is still one of the most popular ways of meeting the Queen's
Gambit, second only to 4...Be7. It also sets what is known as the Elephant
Trap. 5.e3 5.cxd5 This is quite playable. exd5 White should now play
either 6.Nf3 or 6.e3 6.xd5 Falling for the Elephant Trap. xd5 7.xd8 b4+ 8.d2 xd2+ 9.xd2 xd8 and black has won a piece. 5...c6 6.f3 a5 At the time of this gme this move had been abandoned as insatisfactory.
However, that opinion has changed and today 6...Qa4 is the main line. Black
intends ...Bb4 and possibly ...Ne4 with pressure along the a5–e1 diagonal. 7.d2 e4 7...b4 This is the modern way. 8.c2 0-0 9.e2 c5 White has
a wide choice of replies. 8.cxd5 8.dxe4 dxe4 9.h4 Akso playable is 9.
Bf4 b4 10.b3 e5 11.a3 exd4 12.xb4 xb4 13.axb4 dxc3 14.bxc3 Dobrev,N
(2179)-Hristov,A (2259) Albena BUL 2010. Chances are equal. 8...xc3N 8...xd2 9.xd2 exd5 10.d3 b4 11.0-0 0-0 Marshall,F-Teichmann,R
Cambridge Springs 1904. White is slightly better. 9.bxc3 xd5 10.h4 f5
Much too weakening. 10...e5 11.f3 exd4 12.exd4 12.cxd4 is inferior.
After b4+ 13.e2 Black is better. 12...e7 13.xe7 e4+ 14.e2 xe7 15.0-0 f6 16.e1 0-0 17.c4 c7 equals. 11.h5+ g6 12.g5 a5 12...b6 to hinder Bc4 is not any better. 13.a4 a5 14.e2 and black is still
at a positional disadvantage. 13.c4 f7 13...g8 14.xe6 h6 15.g3 g7 16.xd7+ xd7 17.f6 f7 18.xg6 is also unfavorable for black. 14.0-0 d6 15.e4 White already has a decisive advantage and must figure out how to
dig out black's King which Siegheim does quite efficiently. h6 16.xe6+ g7 16...xe6 17.xg6+ f6 18.xf6+ d7 19.f7+ e7 20.xe7# 17.e3 f4 17...g5 runs into 18.xf5 gxh4 19.h3 So that he can check on g4.
Black's K is exposed and is totally helpless. A samll line.. b6 20.g4+ f8 21.xc8 xc8 22.e5 e7 23.h3 d5 24.f4 c5 25.f5 cxd4 26.f6 c5 27.h1 dxc3 28.f3 b6 29.xh4 h7 30.g6+ e8 31.e6 c2 32.f7+ d8 33.ac1 c7 34.xc2 a4 35.b3 xb3 36.axb3 18.f3 g5 This wins a piece, but further
weakens his position. 19.c4 c7 20.e5 e7 21.h5 f8 21...gxh4 22.f7# 22.d6 The purpose of this move is to lure the B away from the defense of
the g-Pawn. 22.xg5 is also playable. Here is just a sampke of how play
could go. hxg5 23.d6 xe5 24.xc8 axc8 25.xc8 xc8 26.dxe5 e6 27.ad1 d8 28.xd8 xd8 29.d1 e7 30.h4 gxh4 31.d4 f7 32.g4+ g6 33.xg6+ xg6 34.xf4 22...xd6 22...xe5 would have given him a fighting chance. 23.xc8 xd6 24.dxe5 g6 25.xg6+ xg6 26.xb7 ab8 27.xc6 gxh4 28.fd1 b6 29.e4+ g5 30.d5 c8 31.e6+ f6 32.f5+ xe6 33.e1 xc3 34.xf4
White is better and should be able to win. 23.xg5 hxg5 24.xg5+ h7 25.f5+ The last words of Hamlet, "The rest is silence" is appropriate here! xf5 26.xf5+ g7 27.g5+ h7 28.exd6 xd6 29.fe1 f6 30.e5 d7 31.xf4 f8 32.ae1 Black resigned. Forceful plat by Siegjeim! 1–0
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