Wilhelm von Stamm was a Latvian chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He won at Riga 1899 (the 1st Baltic Congress, B tournament), took 4th at Riga 1900 (T. Muller won), tied for 11-12th at Riga 1900/01 (Karl Behting won), shared 1st with Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz

Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz

Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz was a Russian and Soviet chess master.Rosenkrantz was born in Libava , then in the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire...

, K. Behting and W. Sohn at Dorpat 1901 (the 2nd Baltic Congress), won at Riga 1902, took 18th at Kiev 1903 chess tournament

Kiev 1903 chess tournament

The 3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament took place in the rooms of the Kiev Chess Society in the Popov Building at No. 29 Kreshchatyk in Kiev on September 1–26, 1903...

 (the 3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament

Russian Chess Championship

-Imperial Russia:In 1874, Emanuel Schiffers defeated Andrey Chardin in a match held in St. Petersburg with five wins and four losses. Schiffers was considered the first Russian champion until his student, Mikhail Chigorin, defeated him in a match held in St. Petersburg in 1879...

, Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin also was a leading Russian chess player...

 won), and took 10th at Reval 1904 (Bernhard Gregory

Bernhard Gregory

Bernhard Gregory was an Estonian chess master.In 1902, he tied for 16-19th in Hannover . In 1903/04, he tied for 9-10th in Berlin...

and V. Ostrogsky won).