{"title":"Chess Tounaments","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"25","title":"Analysen Van AVRO's Wereld-Schaak-Tournooi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMachgielis \"Max\" Euwe (1901-1981) \u003cspan style=\"color: blue;\" color=\"blue\"\u003e\u003cb\u003esigned\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAlgemeene Vereeniging Radio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eAmsterdam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e146 pages with diagrams, tables and 8 plates of the participants. Octavo (8 7\/8\" x 6\"). bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with red boards with a black and white pictorial cover. \u003cspan style=\"color: blue;\" color=\"blue\"\u003e [signed by Max Euwe]\u003c\/span\u003e Dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Max Euwe Chess Club of Amsterdam tipped on front paste down. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5574) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe A.V.R.O. 1938 was a double-round tournament held in November 1938 under the sponsorship of the Dutch wireless company, Algemene Verenigde Radio Omroep. The participants, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Capablanca, Euwe, Fine, Flohr, Keres and Reshevsky, included the reigning World Champion and all his potential challengers. The sponsors intended the event to be regarded as an unofficial Candidates tournament, and the winner (or the runner-up in the case of a victory by Alekhine) was promised financial backing for a World Championship match. For a tournament of such importance, the playing conditions were appalling. The players traveled through Holland, ten venues in different towns were used, and on playing days the competitors were often forced to miss dinner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese circumstances naturally favored the younger grandmasters at the expense of Alekhine and Capablanca. The final scores were: Keres and Fine 8 1\/2, Botvinnik 7 1\/2, Alekhine, Reshevsky and Euwe 7, Capablanca 6, Flohr 4 1\/2. The tie for first place was broken in favor of Keres, who had the superior Sonneborn-Berger rating. The projected match between Alekhine and Keres did not take place, since Alekhine had already contracted to defend his title first against Flohr, who was the official FIDE World Championship challenger. Alekhine did promise to play a subsequent match against Keres if he retained the title, but the start of the Second World War terminated all negations. 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Staunton and his colleagues had ambitious objectives for this tournament, including convening a \"Chess Parliament\" to: complete the standardization of the moves and other rules, as there were still very small national differences and a few self-contradictions; to standardize chess notation; to agree time limits, as many players were notorious for simply \"out-sitting\" opponents. Staunton also proposed the production of a compendium showing what was known about chess openings, preferably as a table. Since he thought there would not be time for a single \"Chess Parliament\" session to handle this as well, he suggested further congresses, some perhaps including knowledgeable enthusiasts of below top-class playing strength, and a review process for dealing with contentious issues and possible mistakes in earlier decisions. The tournament was planned as knock-out contest involving sixteen of Europe's best players. Invitations had been extended to foreign masters Vincent Grimm, József Szén, and Johann Löwenthal from Hungary; Adolf Anderssen, Bernhard Horwitz, Carl Mayet, and von der Lasa from Germany; Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant and Lionel Kieseritzky from France, and Carl Jaenisch, Alexander Petrov and Ilya Shumov from Russia. The British players were to be Howard Staunton, Henry Thomas Buckle, Marmaduke Wyvill, Elijah Williams, Captain Hugh Alexander Kennedy, Samuel Newham, and Henry Bird.Unfortunately many of the invitees were unable to play. Grimm was unable to attend as he was exiled in Aleppo after his participation in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Löwenthal had also participated in the failed revolt but fled to America, where he established himself in business. Löwenthal left his affairs behind to travel to London to play. Saint-Amant was unavailable as he had been sent by the French government to California as a diplomat following its independence from Mexico during the California Gold Rush. Von der Lasa and Petrov were also unable to attend. Jaenisch and Shumov could not arrive in time to play. Jaenisch arrived in London late, and played a post-tournament match with Staunton that Staunton won +7−2=1. Buckle also did not make the tournament, and as he was generally considered second only to Staunton among British players, he was the strongest British player missing. The dispute with the London Chess Club prevented Daniel Harrwitz from playing, and also weakened the pool of substitutes available, as George Walker, George Perigal, and George Webb Medley could have made for a stronger field if not for the boycott. Anderssen was reluctant to accept his invitation, as he was deterred by the travel costs. However Staunton offered to pay Anderssen's travel expenses out of his own pocket if necessary, should Anderssen fail to win a tournament prize; Anderssen accepted this generous offer. As part of the project the London International Tournament's committee also organized a \"London Provincial Tournament\" for British players who were not strong enough to be invited to play in the International Tournament. The committee \"promoted\" E.S. Kennedy, Edward Löwe, James R. Mucklow, and Alfred Brodie to play in the International Tournament rather than the Provincial Tournament, in order to obtain the number of players required for a knock-out tournament. The tournament was organized as single elimination matches, with the eight losers in the first round being dropped from the tournament. Each first-round match was a best-of-three games, draws not counting. Subsequent rounds were best-of-seven, and losers played consolation matches. The pairings were made by chance, i.e. there was no seeding system of the type commonly used in tennis tournaments. Kieseritsky, Bird, and Löwenthal all lost in the first round. Anderssen beat Staunton soundly, 4–1 in the third-round semi-final. In the fourth-round final Anderssen beat Wyvill to take first place. Wyvill had had a relatively easy draw in the tournament to finish second. Staunton suffered a bitter defeat to Williams in the last round consolation match to finish a disappointing fourth. Despite the obvious flaws in the knockout format of the tournament, the outcome was just, as Anderssen was the best player. As provided by the rules of the tournament, Staunton immediately challenged Anderssen to a twenty-one-game match for a £100 stake. Anderssen agreed to the match, but could not play right away as he had been away from Germany and his job as a school teacher for over two months. In addition Staunton was physically unfit for an immediate contest. 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Royal octavo (9 3\/4\" X 6 1\/2\") bound in original publisher's red wrappers. (Betts: 25-134;(Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5578) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 39th American Chess Federation Congress, also known as the North American Championship, was held at the Hotel Touraine. A total of 42 players participated (with one additional no-show), and were divided in six seven-player preliminary sections from which the top two finishers qualified for the Championship final, 3rd-4th for the Consolation Masters, and 5th-7th for the Class A Final. In the preliminary phase, two rounds were played most days in the afternoon and evening, with adjournments  played off in the afternoon before round 5. The qualifiers for the championship round were Isaac Kashdan, Israel Albert Horowitz, Boris Blumin, David S Polland,  Anthony Santasiere, Harold Morton, George Shainswit, John W Collins, Charles Jaffe, Jack Moskowitz, Paul Rosenzweig and Burton O Dahlstrom. Polland sprinted to the lead as both Horowitz and Kashdan lost in the early rounds. However, both came back with wins over Polland to eventually tie for first, tail-ender Dahlstrom taking a critical half-point from Kashdan. Interest was expressed in holding a match between the two victors, and sufficient funds were raised to make a 10-game match a reality. Both were busy, so it took from mid-October to the end of December 1938 to play the 10 games. 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After due consideration, he doubled the prize fund and offered any GM in the world free travel and lodging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat did the trick. Even with the non-response of the Soviet Union, 22 Grandmasters and eleven IMs showed up among the 44 players for what was the strongest Swiss-System tournament held up to that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurprises began early when Larry Evans was beaten in the first round by the #2 woman in the world, Alla Kushnir. At least, if stories floating around can be believed, it was a surprise to Bobby Fischer, who supposedly called Pal Benko to ask how Evans explained what happened. Of course, Lone Pine veterans could remember back to 1971 when Evans won the initial tournament with six straight wins after a first round loss, and talk of the \"Evans Swiss Gambit\" resurfaced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBe that as it may, Evans promptly reeled off four wins in a row, and by the two-day break following round five he was tied for first place with Miguel Quinteros and Gudmundur Sigurjonsson, with Walter Browne and Vladimir Liberzon a half-point behind. A huge group of eighteen players followed at 3-2, and would have something to say about matters before the finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRound six saw Quinteros drop back with a loss to Liberzon, who joined Evans, Sigurjonsson, and Browne in the top group at 4.5. Moving up to join Quinteros at 4.0 were Biyiasas, Gheorghiu, Panno, and Shamkovich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrowne took the sole lead after round 7, defeating Sigurjonsson while Evans and Liberzon drew. Round 8 saw Evans defeat Browne to go past him to 6.5, where he was joined by Liberzon after a defeat of the fading Sigurjonsson. A half-point behind were Browne, Quinteros and Shamkovich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince Evans and Liberzon had already played each other as well as Browne, they were paired against Quinteros and Shamkovich. Evans had to resort to a perpetual for a draw, but Liberzon slowly outplayed Shamkovich to take the sole lead with a round to go. That proved to be a good time to do so; when Evans couldn't get anything going with Black against Gheorghiu in the last round (after a bitter dispute about the pairings), Liberzon was happy to take a draw with White against Gligoric to clinch first place. (Chess dot com)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped, some light pencil check marks next to some of the games. 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All contestants brought a second except for Bronstein and Reshevsky: Miroljub Trifunovic (Gligoric), Salomon Flohr (Taimanov), Julio Bolbochan (Najdorf), Andre Lilienthal (Petrosian), Mikhail Beilin (Averbakh), Carel Benjamin van den Berg (Euwe), Kristian Skold (Stahlberg), Tibor Florian (Szabo), Alexey Sokolsky (Boleslavsky), Viktor Moiseev (Kotov), Igor Bondarevsky (Geller), Vladimir Simagin (Smyslov), and Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush (Keres). The opening banquet featured speeches by FIDE President Folke Rogard, Mark Taimanov, and Miguel Najdorf. Smyslov sang an aria from Italian opera and Taimanov played piano compositions by Tchaikovsky and Chopin. Play began on Sunday 30 August in the spacious Kirchgemeindehaus (Parish Hall), which would host the first eight rounds. In Round 9 play began in the Kongresshaus (Salon of Music in the House of Parliament) in Zurich, which would host the rest of the tournament. From rounds 9-11 Reshevsky led, only to be overtaken by Smyslov in round 12. At the conclusion of the first half of the tournament, Smyslov was the only undefeated player, leading Reshevsky and Bronstein by a point. The American kept pace with Smyslov, sharing the lead by Round 21. The stage was set for a showdown in Round 25, with Reshevsky just a half point behind Smyslov and facing him in their second meeting of the tournament- Smyslov vs Reshevsky, 1953. Smyslov obtained an advantage out of the opening and began inexorably to restrict black's activity. According to Smyslov, the first critical moment came when Reshevsky made a \"reckless attempt to complicate matters\". Reshevsky resigned after 56 moves, giving Smyslov a 1 1\/2 point lead over him with five rounds to go. 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Octavo (8 1\/2\" x 5 1\/2\") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with black lettering to spine and pictorial to cover in original jacket. Games annotated by Larry Evans. (Betts: 25-233) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first of a series of strong year-end invitational tournaments sponsored in part by Lessing J. Rosenwald of Sears Roebuck Co. One goal was to provide young US masters strong competition at home, with the long-term aim of improving US performance in international events. The absence of any US team at the 1954 International Team Tournament in Amsterdam no doubt played a role in bringing this series about. The initial plan was to have the Rosenwald Trophy rotate each year until a player had won it three times. The fourth Rosenwald tournament would double as the US championship and would be Fischer's first entry into a US championship and also his first of his eight US championships. Rounds 1-5 were held at the Manhattan Chess Club 19-23 Dec 1954 and were directed by Hans Kmoch. Rounds 6-10 were held at the Marshall Chess Club 26 Dec 1954 - 2 Jan 1955 and were directed by Al Horowitz. Reuben Fine was originally invited, but declined. Robert Byrne was also invited, but decided against playing because of his graduate studies. James Sherwin, the US speed champion at the time, was selected as Byrne's replacement. Samuel Reshevsky Reshevsky dominated US championship tournaments from its inception in 1936 until Robert James Fischer took over in 1957, with Reshevsky winning every championship he entered, with the exception of the 1951 event, which was won by Evans. Reshevsky played on eight US Olympiad teams from 1937-1974, winning one individual bronze and one gold and one bronze team medal. With both Isaac Kashdan and Reuben Fine both retired from active play and Fischer yet to emerge as a force, Reshevsky was clearly the dominant player in US chess at the time. Larry Melvyn Evans Evans won the Marshall Chess Club championship at age 15, played in his first US championship at age 16, and his first Olympiad at 18. He would play for the US team in eight Olympiads from 1950-1976 second to Robert James Fischer for the candidate matches leading up to the 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky, but Lombardy replaced Evans for the Spassky match. Evans is best remembered for his columns and books. Arthur Bisguier won the US Championship in 1954. Bisguier would play for the US team in five Olympiads, but is known more for his results in major domestic tournaments than for international events. Donald Byrne Byrne won the 1953 US Open and played for the US team in three Olympiads, winning one individual silver and one individual bronze medal. Bryne would lose to a young Fischer in the so-called \"Game of the Century\" (D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956) in the third Rosenwald tournament. James T Sherwin -- Sherwin was NY state champion in 1951 and won the US speed championship several times. He would play in a number of US championships, usually finishing around third or fourth. George Mortimer Kramer -- Kramer played in a number of US championships and was a reserve for the US team at the 1950 Olympiad, winning an individual bronze medal. Reshevsky jumped out to a comfortable lead in the first half of the tournament with 4½-½. Evans and Sherwin were tied for second at 3-2. Despite losing to Bisguier in Round 8, Reshevsky was able to hold his lead and win the tournament by scoring 3-2 in the second half, as Evans was only able to gain a half point with 3½-1½. Sherwin lost every game in the second half, so faded from contention. Bisguier was able to finish third on the strength of an impressive 4½-½ in the second half.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShelf wear, small book dealer's label on back paste down. 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Octavo (9 1\/2\" x 6 1\/4\") issued in pictorial red, black and white wrappers. (Van der Linde-Niemijieriana: 5704) First edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDanish chess championship, 45 games. Tied first Christian Poulsen and Theo D Van Scheltinga with 6 1\/2; tied third and fourth Baruch Harold Wood and Stormb Herseth with 5 1\/2; fifth and sixth Alfred August Christensen and Goesta Stoltz with 5; seventh and eighth Tage Nielsen and Julius Nielsen; ninth Ta Sorensen with 3 and tenth A Hansen with 1. 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Quarto (10 1\/4\" x 8 1\/2\") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with spiral spine. Annotations by David Hooper and William Winter. Errata taped to back inside board. (Betts: 25-221) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains an introduction covering the general course of the tournament, the performances of the players and the general openings trends (by Winter); the 210 games with brief notes; and a detailed index of openings (by Hooper). Reissued in 1968 by The Chess Player, as number 77 in The Chess Player series of tournament books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Swiss Chess Federation spent 100,000 Swiss Francs in order to stage the event, which was one of the reasons they insisted that host countries pay the travel expenses for their respective players. Prize money for first place was 5,000 Swiss francs. Alois Nagler was tournament director. All contestants brought a second except for Bronstein and Reshevsky: Miroljub Trifunovic (Gligoric), Salomon Flohr (Taimanov), Julio Bolbochan (Najdorf), Andre Lilienthal (Petrosian), Mikhail Beilin (Averbakh), Carel Benjamin van den Berg (Euwe), Kristian Skold (Stahlberg), Tibor Florian (Szabó), Alexey Sokolsky (Boleslavsky), Viktor Moiseev (Kotov), Igor Bondarevsky (Geller), Vladimir Simagin (Smyslov), and Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush (Keres). The opening banquet featured speeches by FIDE President Folke Rogard, Mark Taimanov, and Miguel Najdorf. Vasily Smyslov sang an aria from Italian opera and Taimanov played piano compositions by Tchaikovsky and Chopin. 1 The players and their seconds stayed at the Bellevue Hotel in the beautiful resort town of Neuhausen am Rheinfall. 4 Play began on Sunday 30 August in the spacious Kirchgemeindehaus (Parish Hall), which would host the first 8 rounds. A local factory had pledged a gold watch to whoever led after Round 7, which turned out to be both Smylsov and Reshevsky. Both got a watch. In Round 9 play began in the Kongresshaus (Salon of Music in the House of Parliament) in Zürich, which would host the rest of the tournament. From rounds 9-11 Reshevsky led, only to be overtaken by Smyslov in Round 12. At the conclusion of the first half of the tournament, Smyslov was the only undefeated player, leading Reshevsky and Bronstein by a point. The American kept pace with Smyslov, sharing the lead by Round 21. The stage was set for a showdown in Round 25, with Reshevsky just a half point behind Smyslov and facing him in their second meeting of the tournament- Smyslov vs Reshevsky, 1953. Smyslov obtained an advantage out of the opening and began inexorably to restrict black's activity. According to Smyslov, the first critical moment came when Reshevsky made a \"reckless attempt to complicate matters\" with \u0026lt;33...f5\u0026gt;. Smyslov judged that \"objectively, this move should be condemned, since it makes it easier for White to attack.\" Reshevsky resigned after 56 moves, giving Smyslov a 1 1\/2 point lead over him with just 5 rounds to go. Smyslov cruised home easily to win the tournament by 2 points. He had earned the right to play Mikhail Botvinnik in a match for the world championship: Botvinnik - Smyslov World Championship Match (1954).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome pencil notations, edges slightly darkened. 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(Vanderlinde Niemeijeriana:5589) First edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1938 will go down in chess history as an outstanding year. It was ushered in by the traditional Invitation Masters Tournament sponsored by the Hastings and St. Leonard's Chess Club (England). In one of the strongest fields of recent years. United States Champion, Samuel Reshevsky, finished first, half a point ahead of C. H. O'D, Alexander (the British champion) and Paul Keres of Estonia. The center of interest then turned to the United States, which staged the biennial United States Chess Championship Tournament. Seventeen of the country's outstanding players battled for three weeks to determine the question of supremacy. The scene of action was the R.C.A. Building in New York City and Samuel Reshevsky repeated his fine performance of 1936 by retaining the title for another two years. Pressing him closely were Reuben Fine (who finished second. half a point behind), Albert C. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") issued in reddish brown pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Annotations, analysis, general history of the tournament and round by round commentary by Hans Kmoch. (Betts: 25-189) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe tournament of 1948-49 was not as large as those of 1924 and 1927, but it was an important one, because of the participation of the three famous grandmasters Euwe, Fine and Najdorf. Unlike the two preceding tournaments, it was not planned a long time in advance, but organized spontaneously by the Manhattan Chess Club when it was learned that Euwe, Najdorf and Stahlberg by mere chance would all be in New York at about the same time in December 1948. I might appear somewhat pagan to schedule play on Christmas and New Year, but the organizers had no choice since some of the players could not start earlier and others could not finish later. While there was little doubt throughout the tournament about Fine and Najdorf winning the top two prizes, uncertainty prevailed almost to the very last round as to who would take the next two prizes; except for Denker and Steiner, all had chance, Euwe by far the best one. When the third and fourth prize finally went to Euwe and Pilnik, the foreigners had at least the satisfaction of having taken all the prizes but the first. Horowitz and Kashadan showed the qualities of experienced warriors but also the frustrating effect of too little practice. 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Small octavo (7 1\/2\" x 5\") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. (Betts: 25-39) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA selection of 50 lightly annotated games played in the annual Monte Carlo tournaments of 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904. No more volumes published. The Monte Carlo chess tournament was established in 1901. There were a series of very strong tournaments held in Monte Carlo, from 1901 to 1904, and again after a long break from 1967 to 1969. David Janowski won the first edition of the tournament. In the second edition Geza Maroczy was the clear winner over Harry Nelson Pillsbury. In the third edition Siegbert Tarrasch captured first in a hard fought contest over Maroczy. In the fourth edition Maroczy was again the winner over Carl Schlechter. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") issued in reddish brown pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Annotations, analysis, general history of the tournament and round by round commentary by Hans Kmoch. (Betts: 25-189) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe tournament of 1948-49 was not as large as those of 1924 and 1927, but it was an important one, because of the participation of the three famous grandmasters Euwe, Fine and Najdorf. Unlike the two preceding tournaments, it was not planned a long time in advance, but organized spontaneously by the Manhattan Chess Club when it was learned that Euwe, Najdorf and Stahlberg by mere chance would all be in New York at about the same time in December 1948. I might appear somewhat pagan to schedule play on Christmas and New Year, but the organizers had no choice since some of the players could not start earlier and others could not finish later. 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Principle games annotated by I Kashdan and others. (Betts: 25-101) First edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe next Olympiad was scheduled to be held in Spain, 1932 but it was cancelled short before the start due to financial problems. Spain waited for their second chance until 2004, by the way. Another offer came from USA who wanted to host the event in Chicago. Since the idea of making chess one of disciplines of the Summer Olympic Games finally fell through there wasn't even a discussion about possible 1932 Los Angeles contest. The FIDE congress, the Olympiad and the Women World Championship commenced on June 12th opened by the Major of Folkestone. Despite of modest financial capabilities of BCF they organized the event games without reservation. 19 teams applied but Mexico, Spain and Argentina scratched and Estonia did not arrive. Estonia were, however, kept in the official cross-table and crossed off some time later.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUSA, the titleholders were clear favorites. They had same core of the team as in 1931 but yet more experienced and well-trained. The rest was a mystery. Czechoslovakia lead again by top GM Salo Flohr were unanimously one of major favorites for a medal. Poland seemed strong as ever. Austria were reckoned to have good prospects though they were missing Spielmann this time. One might never forget about Sweden and Hungary, even considering their unsuccessful performance last time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnlike the Olympiads played so far the order of the teams was settled early in the run and altered very slightly. Team USA were dominant all over the field. The Americans took an early lead trashing some lower ranked teams without mercy. They were followed by Poland and Latvia who scored valuable 2-2 vs Czechoslovakia in the very first round. The latter, after leisure day were thrown down the middle of the table. USA convincingly wiped out Poland in round 4 and extended their lead since Latvia unexpectedly lost to France (no Matisons in Latvian squad this time so Alekhine had no problems). Lithuania lead by superb youngster Mikėnas beat Belgium 4-0 and took second place for a moment. Czechoslovakia picked up the speed and joined the chasing group (still with one extra match to play). Despite Flohr's tragic miniature lost to Mikėnas Czechoslovakia beat Lithuania in round 7 and finally went into the medal area way behind USA and a fraction behind firm Austrian team. The next round brought huge sensation as Czechoslovakia were demolished by Hungary, a team with young and brightly shining star Lilienthal in the squad. USA retained secure lead despite having a bye and Lithuania wasted huge chance to take back a lead of the chasing group having drawn to mediocre Iceland. After 9th round USA were in clear lead some 5 points ahead of the rest who were clustered in 1½ point range, namely Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary and Sweden. The Czechs recovered quickly crushing couple of weaker teams with ease and started dazzling pursuit trying to level the Americans who seemed a bit lazy and tired those days. Hungary took 3rd place with series of nice victories. Poland were down to 7th place. In 12th round USA wrote off Lithuanian hopes forever with unpleasant 4-0. Sweden was determined to fight for bronze and Czechoslovakia lost to France even though they were missing Alekhine on that day! His substitute, Betbeder Matibet beat Flohr with Black pieces anyway. Hungary lost both to Poland and USA but their hopes for a medal were still lengthened. In penultimate round USA suffered their first defeat in a match against desperate Swedish players. Czechoslovakia beat Poland and Hungary outscored Latvia by a huge margin. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA battle of giants was to come in the last round. Czechoslovakia needed a 3½-½ score to win the Championship and they were close to it. It seemed probable they would have won all four games but Treybal went too risky and lost the game and the gold medals for the Czechs. Sweden lost to Latvia and were caught by Hungary, who wasted their chances as well (a mere draw vs England), and Poland. However they won the bronze medals thanks to their Match Point record (21, vs 20 for Poland and 18 for Hungary). Austria, who had superior Match Point record to all above needed just a small win over Italy to secure themselves the medals but they lost two games and were classified down in 7th place, half a point behind the bronze medal winners. England were a bit disappointed seeing themselves in 10th place and Denmark once again were found at the bottom of the table. Unlike Prague Olympiad each team enjoyed at least one match win.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUSA won without any doubts despite of their rather poor finish. Their top 4 played without any slip ups. Only substitute Simonson did not show his best. The pillar of the Czech team was most unexpectedly Opočenský who scored amazing 89% at board 4. Tragic loss vs Hungary did not demoralize them much and they were very close to a sensational triumph. Sweden failed to have a reserve player in their squad but Lundin won top prize for individual result at board 3 and the rest of the players scored over 50% without exception. Poland were not a disappointment although they missed a medal, something that never happened to them before. Regedziński, who was usually reliable member of the team felt badly due to specific, maritime climate at Folkestone. Havasi finally learned one should play chess also with Black pieces and did reasonably well. The strongest point of the Hungarian side was young Lilienthal. Austria were much disappointed, not only because of their last round failure. Grünfeld a teenager from Tirol Eliskases played very firm, but were definitely too much in a drawish mood, an ailment that has tormented the Austrian for a long time. Alekhine once again won gold medal for his individual score but since his team-mates were, to put it most mildly, in bad shape (famous painter Duchamp's individual score was 4th worst among all, superior only to three Scotsmen) French performance was average. The smallest of the Olympiads brought however many interesting games and solid background for future development of the Chess Olympiads, the most magnificent chess event ever invented. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e142 fully annotated games with indexes of openings, and players. 1 USA; 2 Czechoslovakia; 3 Sweden. 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Quarto (11 1\/2\" x 9\") issued in yellow folder. \u003cspan color=\"blue\" style=\"color: blue;\"\u003eSigned\u003c\/span\u003e by the author. (Lusis: 1423) First edition limited to 475 copies of which this is number 297.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA preface discusses the publication of tournament books. Four players and 18 games. First Rubinstein, second Chigorin, third Flamberg, and fourth Salwe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Lodz Chess Society organized this tournament and according to Grekov it took place immediately after the Chigorin - Salwe match (+7 -5 =3 in Chigorin's favor, March to April). The Tournament consisted of three cycles after which everyone had played every other one time so one cycle equals three rounds. 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Royal octavo (9 1\/2\" x 6 1\/2\") issued in wrappers with dark brown lettering to cover and spine, red chess board pictorial on cover. (van der Linde: 5651) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarting off as purely South American tournaments, the Mar del Plata events gradually increased in strength and international importance so that, by the 1950s and 1960s, they had developed into tournaments of world wide importance. The First tournament took place in 1928 and contained competitors (seventeen in all) from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. First prize went to Grau (Argentina) followed by Palau and Souza Mendez. Moishe Mieczslaw Najdorf was born near Warsaw Poland on April 15, 1910. He was a pupil of Savielly Tartakower. At the age of 20, he became a Polish National Master. He played for Poland in the 1935, 1937, and 1939 Chess Olympiads. At the Buenos Aires Olympiad in 1939 when World War II broke out, he decided not to attempt to return home, taking Argentine citizenship (1944) and changing his first name to Miguel. His family died in German concentration camps. In 1942, he won at Mar del Plata, with 13.5\/17; in 1943, he was second at Mar del Plata, behind Stahlberg, scoring 10\/13. In 1943, he won at Rosario. In 1944, he won at La Plata, with 13\/16, In 1944, he tied for first with Herman Pilnik at Mar del Plata, with each scoring 12\/15, ahead of Paul Michel and Carlos Guimard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eText block separated from wrapper. 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Quarto (10 1\/2\" x 8 3\/4\") bound in original publisher's grey wrappers with black lettering to cover. (Betts: 25-260) First edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 153 games, without notes, and indexes of players, openings. 1. Pachman; 2-3. Benko and Gligoric. An Tostal, meaning \"The Pageant\") was the name for a series of festivals held in Ireland in the 20th Century. Inaugurated in 1953 as a celebration of Irish life, it continued on until 1958 when it died out in most centers except Drumshanbo. The original purpose of the festival was a celebration of Irish culture, with an emphasis upon drawing tourists into the country during the Easter off-season. It was marked by a series of regional parades, arts and sporting events. Many towns began a clean-up plan, thus starting off the National Tidy Town Awards, which is running still in Ireland. In 1953, a set of commemorative stamps designed by Limerick artist Fergus O'Ryan, were issued by the Irish Post Office. 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(Betts: 25-42) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains an introduction with biographical notes, a general review of the play, and a survey of openings used, together with selected games, briefly annotated. The games are unnumbered; includes 42 pages of games played by the first three prize winners (i.e. most of their games) and selected games of the other contestants. (1. Tarrasch; 2. Marcozy; 3. Pillsbury).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1903 the quarter of Monte Carlo in the principality of Monaco hosted the third of four chess master tournaments designed to help bolster tourism during the winter season. Previously, the Monte Carlo (1902) event saw more invited players turn up to contest the prizes, but 1903 saw only 14 masters participating in the double round robin event. Mikhail Chigorin was turned away for his criticism of games won by Prince Andrey Dadian of Mingrelia, and Semion Alapin, Isidor Gunsberg and David Janowski had to decline due to the invitations being sent last minute. Games were played between February 10th and March 17th in the Monte Carlo Casino, and when the players complained of the noise to tournament director Jules Arnous de Riviere, he told them they would just have to get used to it. Siegbert Tarrasch won the tournament after several losses in the opening rounds. Geza Maroczy who had won the tournament the previous year came in second. Harry Nelson Pillsbury, whose health in the last few years was steadily declining, managed only third place in what would be his penultimate international tournament. For Richard Teichmann, this was also another tournament that would contribute to the nickname of \"Richard the Fifth\" as he placed fifth in the standings just behind Carl Schlechter. Despite the absence of the alternate scoring for draws or replayed games (rules in place in the previous two installments), all of the games were hard fought each round of the event. Monte Carlo (1904) repeated the tradition the next year by featuring a themed event starting with a King's Gambit Accepted (C39) position.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped, points rubbed, spine ends rubbed with light fraying. 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Tall octavo (9 3\/4\" x 7 1\/2\") bound in original publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Magazine portrait of the players tipped to page opposite title. Analysis by Max Euwe, commentaries by H Kmoch. Translated and edited by B H Wood with assistance by J Creevey and J Jackson. First published in Dutch 1947. (Betts: 25-166). First edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \"miracle\" tournament of Groningen (August-September 1946) - the miracle being that an event of such magnitude could be organized in war-torn Holland a mere fifteen months after the war - set a new trend in international tournaments. Except for Bogoljubow in the early 1920s and Botvinnik in the 1930s, only two Soviet players had been allowed to play abroad between the wars. Rabinovich at Baden-Baden,1925 and Ragozin at Semmering 1937. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") (Betts: 25-183) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains short biographies of the five contestants, with career records and portraits, all 50 games, fully annotated and with commentary on each round, a chapter on the theoretical value of the openings and an index of openings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorld chess champion Alexander Alekhine died on 23 March 1946. At the July 1946 Winterthur congress, FIDE proposed a contest for the vacant title be scheduled for June 1947 in the Netherlands. They planned a quadruple round robin tournament featuring the following candidates- Samuel Reshevsky, Reuben Fine, Mikhail Botvinnik, Paul Keres, Vasily Smyslov, and the winner of either the upcoming Groningen or Prague tournaments, decided by a match if necessary. Max Euwe was also included because he had previously held the world title. The tournament was delayed, partly because the USSR was not yet a FIDE member. On 15 September 1946, the proposed contestants (except Fine) met in Moscow to iron out the details. This meeting occurred a day after the USSR-USA match ended, and did not involve FIDE. Botvinnik reportedly announced that he would not play in the Netherlands. He was angry about a Dutch news report that suggested his fellow Russians might collude to help him win the title. The five contestants then compromised with a plan to divide the event between the Netherlands and Moscow. The Soviet Sports Committee refused this idea outright because they wanted all the games to be played in Moscow. Meanwhile, FIDE president Alexander Rueb withdrew FIDE's claim to organize the tournament. FIDE therefore decided to stage a quintuple round robin, for a total of 25 rounds, with one player having a bye each round. The time control was 40 moves in 2 1\/2 hours and 16 moves per hour after that. Players were permitted two assistants to help analyze adjourned games. First prize was $5,000; second $3,000; third $2,000; fourth $1,500; and fifth $1,000. Milan Vidmar was arbiter, assisted by Alexander Kotov. Decided by lot, the first 10 rounds were held in The Hague, followed by 15 rounds in Moscow. During the first leg, all players except Botvinnik lodged at the Kurhaus in Scheveningen. Botvinnik objected to the Kurhaus, explaining that he wanted to stay \"in a hotel where I can get to... (the Dierentuin playing hall) on foot in twenty minutes. Botvinnik led the field by a point when he faced Keres in the 10th round. Due to a scheduling vagary, Keres was playing after an unusually long layoff. Before the tournament, Botvinnik had noticed this odd scheduling possibility and warned his countrymen that \"when we get to The Hague, one of you will get six days of rest, and lose like a child on the seventh day.\" \"After six days' rest\", Botvinnik later recalled, \"Keres sat across from me, pale as death. Keres proceeded to lose in 23 moves, enabling Botvinnik to carry a 1.5 point lead into the Moscow leg. In Moscow, the masters played in the magnificent Salle des Colonnes in front of 2,000 spectators. Botvinnik clinched the title by round 22, finishing three points ahead of Smyslov. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome foxing to end papers, head page ends soiled, previous owner's name on front end paper. Jacket edge wear, spine ends and corner chipped, spine age darkened. 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Royal octavo (9 1\/2\" x 6 3\/4\") issued in yellow wrappers with black lettering to spine and red and black lettering to front wrapper with red and black pictorial. (Lusis: 2123) First edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe UAE chess federation was founded in 1976 and had about 2,000 registered players at the time of the Olympiad. They had absolutely no experience in international chess apart from Pan-Arab Chess Federation established in 1979. But many of the players in Dubai called this Olympiad the best organized ever. The hosts were said to have spent more than half a million pounds on beautifying the playing site alone. The lavish opening ceremony was a testament to the care taken to ensure that this was an enjoyable and memorable competition. The players stayed at the best city hotels. The transport was also perfect. As no Arab nation had previously held such an immense sporting event as this Chess Olympiad they wanted to stun the world, but the first problem was to persuade the world to attend. With weeks to go before the starting date, no attendance records were due to be broken. Yet the organizers offered $1 million for free air tickets to those who were reluctant or experiencing difficulties. This boosted number of participating countries to a new record of 107. Of course Israel, officially in the state of war with most of Arab countries, couldn't participate. Some West European nations, namely Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands withdrew as an act of solidarity with Israel. Some individuals like Kortschnoi, Hubner or Lobron refused to come to Dubai as well. According to FIDE rules the Olympic organizing committee had right to refuse to invite one selected country. At the Dubai FIDE congress the US chess authorities put a demand that this rule be abolished under threat of their withdrawal from the Olympiad (they were the leaders at the time). It had been rejected and the only amendment was enacted that once the organizing committee asks for the right to refuse anyone it has to pass 75% majority voting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpine sunned, corners bumped, light edge wear. 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Royal octavo (9 1\/4\" x6 1\/4\") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe third biennial chess championship of the United States, New York 1940, was the first such championship to be held under the auspices of the fledgling United States Chess Federation. New York 1940 was also the last national championship held under pre-war conditions. The country was still torn between coming to the aide of the Al­lies and remaining in its isolation. Yet the coming conflict could not be ignored, and before the second championship conducted under the USCF took place the nation would be inextricably involved in the terror spanning the globe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work places New York 1940 in its broader context, not only in terms of chess but in terms of world events. Even seen in isolation, New York 1940 involved much more than merely the championship tournament leaving Reshevsky once more, for the third time, in possession of the national title. New York 1940 included the woman's championship. It included competitors who had to fight their way through preliminary round robin tournaments. And it included an exhibition match between two giants of an earlier generation, Frank Marshall and Emanuel Lasker. Each of these aspects of what today is recalled as New York 1940 is covered in detail in this work, in addition to extensive coverage of the players themselves, as well as additional games they have left us. Crosstables for the preliminary events appear in the text. The crosstable for the Men's Final appears following Chapter 6, while an Appendix gives in full an article on the tournament originally appearing in the New Yorker for June 15, 1940. 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First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Master's tournament 36 participants were divided into four group of nine each, labelled A, B, C and D. First-round pairings saw Group A play against Group B, and Group C against D. After the first stage the players with the three lowest scores in each group retired from the tourney, with the consolation prizes according to their scores. The remaining six masters in each of the four of the four groups proceeded to play a second stage - A playing C and B meeting D. The two lowest scores from each group then withdrew with further consolation prizes. Of the sixteen remaining competitors (four in each group), A then played D and B faced C - thus completing the round-robin among the four groups. A fourth stage pitted group members against each other - A playing A, etc. The seven lowest players were then eliminated. Of the remainder Schlechter didn't appear destined for the winner's circle. Four successive victories in the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th rounds (Johner, Marco Fahrni and Bur) had propelled him into a half-point lead over Maroczy. A loss to Bernstein in the 17th round dropped him into a tie for first with Maroczy and Janowski. The blow by blow continuation is here in contained in this wonderful production.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped. 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From 1999 this tournament also had a women's section. In the past twenty years, apart from this rapid tournament, several other memorial tournaments have been played in honor of Keres. In 1975, Keres won a tournament in Vancouver. It was his last tournament he would ever play in, as on his way back to his native Estonia, he died from a heart attack. There has been an annual memorial tournament in Vancouver ever since. This tournament had a strong contingent with Tigran Petrosian the winner with +12, followed closely by Mikhail Tal and Rafael Vaganjan with +11 1\/2. David Bronstein, at 55 was the oldest player and was clear fourth with +10. Gyula Sax of Hungary ad David Veingold of Estonia tied for 5th and 6th at 9 1\/2 - 6 1\/2. At 8 points, well below the leaders, was a multiple tie involving William Hartson, Ranier Knaak, Valleri Zilberstein and Jiri Lechtnsky. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") bound in original quarter grey cloth with blue label in gilt lettering to spine over blue boards with pictorial knight in gilt to cover. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5755) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Saltsjobaden Interzonal 1948 was the first of its kind. Sweden was relatively well off after the War. They also had a well organized chess life (much thanks to the efforts of Ludvig Collijn), three world class players, and the FIDE Vice President, Folke Rogard. In addition to the interzonal tournament, the program consisted of a competition between the Nordic countries Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway (10-14 August), and the FIDE Congress (11-14 August). The opening ceremony took place on 15 July in the Stockholm City Hall, after which the players went to luxurious Grand Hotel in Saltsjbaden, 12 km east of Stockholm where play started the next day at 6 pm. Thinking time was 40 moves in 2 1\/2 hours then 16 moves every hour. Any time during play, the participants could have fresh air (or a cigarette) on a nearby balcony with a view to the Baltic Sea.After the quintuple round tournament that had given Botvinnik the title in 1948, after Alekhine's death, FIDE selected players for the first Interzonal without going through the preliminary Zonal stage which was later developed. The system of zonal and interzonal tournaments was not yet firmly established, and the participants of this first interzonal were selected by FIDE based on 'zonal performances'. From Budapest (1948) came Szabó and Gligoric. From Hilversum (1947) arrived Pachman and Trifunovic (but not the winner Alberic O'Kelly de Galway). From Helsinki (1947) came the co-winners Book and Stoltz. From Quebec (1947) came the winner Yanofsky, and from Mar del Plata (1948) arrived Najdorf and Stahlberg (but not Erich Eliskases). From New York (1946) came none (all declined or could not come). The Soviet players were also picked by FIDE, partly based on Moscow (1947). Steiner was chosen to represent Australia, and O'Kelly and Eliskases were replaced by Pirc and Lundin. The plan was that the top five from Saltsjobaden and the five (or, as it turned out, four) losers of the FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948) would compete in the Budapest Candidates (1950). But on 12 August, before the penultimate round, FIDE decided that nine players could go to the Candidates. But Bondarevsky got sick, and when Reuben Fine, Max Euwe and Samuel Reshevsky also withdrew, eight players from Saltsjobaden ended up against Paul Keres and Vasily Smyslov in the Budapest Candidates (1950). David Bronstein won, and went on to challenge Bottvinnik for the World Championship. One point behind were Laszlo Szabo and Isaak Boleslavsky with 12 1\/2. Alexander Kotov captured fourth with 11 1\/2 followed by Andor Lilienthal with 11. Next a tie for sixth through ninth were Igor Bondarevsky, Salo Flohr, Miguel Najdorf and Gideon Stahlbeg with 10 1\/2 each. Petar Trifunovic held the lone tenth spot with a score of 10. Vasja Pirc, Eero Book and Svetozar Gligoric tied for eleventh through thirteenth with 9 1\/2. A point behind was Viacheslav Ragosin and Daniel Abraham Yanofsky. The aging Saviely Tartakover held the lone sixteenth spot with 8 followed a half point behind by Ludek Pachman. Pulling up the end was Goesta Stoltz with 6 1\/2; Lajos Steiner 5 1\/2 and Erik Lundin with 4 1\/2. The Hungarian Szabo held the lead during rounds 7-17, but in the last round he unexpectedly lost to Lundin whereas Bronstein defeated Tartakower. Thus the only Soviet that did not have the Russian GM title won the tournament. He was also the only player without losses. The tournament controller: Fritz Andersson, assisted by Herman Soderborg and John Collett (among others). Appeals committee: Fritz Andersson plus four of the players. The banquet was attended by 125 people. Speeches were made by heavyweights such as Gustaf Collijn, Erik Olson, Carl Oscar Hovind, and David Bronstein! Prizes were awarded by FIDE President Alexander Rueb. First Brilliancy Prize went to Lilienthal for Lilienthal vs Najdorf, 1948. 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Provenance from the library of \u003cspan color=\"green\" style=\"color: green;\"\u003eBibliothek des Schachereins Andersen in Breslau\u003c\/span\u003e (Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5235) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Deutschen Schachbund had been founded in Leipzig in 1877. When the next meeting took place in the Schützenhaus in 1879, sixty-two clubs had become member of the chess federation. Hofrat von Gottschall became Chairman and Zwanzig the General Secretary. Twelve players participated in the master tournament of Leipzig 1879. Thereafter the field increased and improved.When foreign players were invited for Berlin 1881, an important and successful formula was completed: 1. A master tournament was organized every second year, in a time when few international events took place. 2. Germans could partake in many groups and their talents qualified for master tournaments by a master title in the Hauptturnier. Many important chess players took part, but Lasker found the prizes too low, when he was world champion. Tarrasch and Schlechter won three master events. Organizers kept a balance between the interests of amateurs and professionals. The Great War ended a fine tradition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCoinciding with the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e7th Congress of the German Chess Association\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a series of chess events were held in Dresden in 1892, including the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDresden 1892 Chess Tournament\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e that brought together renowned chess players of the time: the German champion of the era Siegbert Tarrasch, the English master Joseph H. Blackburne, the strong Austrian player Georg Marco, the outstanding Romanian chess player Adolf Albin, the Polish player Szymon Winawer or the great German promise Carl August Walbrodt, among others. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTarrasch started a priori as favorite given that he had been awarded the two previous major tournaments: Breslau 1889 and Manchester 1890 but started the tournament very imprecisely, with two draws and one defeat in the first four rounds. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDespite his 51 years old, Blackburne shared that stigma of favorite for his victory in Berlin 1881 and his second place in Manchester 1890 and so it seemed at first to prove it with 3 wins and a draw in his first 4 games, but as the tournament progressed his game became inaccurate and somewhat disappointing, losing defeats to players theoretically inferior to his level of play. The game chosen by the jury as a prize for brilliance and awarded to the English master Joseph Henry Blackburne. The Dresden 1892 Chess Tournament was won by S. Tarrasch who won a first prize of 1000 marks. The second place was shared by the Hungarian player Gyula Makovetz, editor of the chess magazine \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/epa.oszk.hu\/01900\/01965\/00036\/pdf\/sakkszemle_1892_08-09-10.pdf#page=2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/epa.oszk.hu\/01900\/01965\/00036\/pdf\/sakkszemle_1892_08-09-10.pdf#page=2\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBudapesti Sakkszemle\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e and the Czech player Moritz Porges, resident in Prague, who shared equally 700 marks and 500 marks of the 2nd and 3rd prize. 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The book not only presents the games with unusually detailed notes, it also portrays the mood and feeling of the tournament - the atmosphere, the personalities and the myriad of creative talents and hidden foibles at work in each game. Marco's round introductions make us feel that we are there, evoking in us just the right frame of mind to fully appreciate the games that follow. Marco annotated games 1 through 151 and game 206; Schlechter provided notes to games 152 through 205 and games 207 through 210. 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A very good copy issued without jacket.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500978159816,"sku":"C6920","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc1134tcc_2nd.jpg?v=1618130334"},{"product_id":"1139","title":"Groningen 1946: Het Staunton Wereldschaak Tournooi","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMachgielis (Max) Euwe (1901-1981) and Hans Kmoch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eJ Niemeijeris Uitgeversmaatschaappi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eGroningen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e390 pages with tables, diagrams and plates. Royal octavo (9 3\/4\" x 6 1\/2\") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Written in Dutch. (Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5677) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \"miracle\" tournament of Groningen (August-September 1946) - the miracle being that an event of such magnitude could be organized in war-torn Holland a mere fifteen months after the war - set a new trend in international tournaments. Except for Bogoljubow in the early 1920 and Botvinnik in the 1930s, only two Soviet players had been allowed to play abroad between the wars. Rabinovich at Baden-Baden,1925 and Ragozin at Semmering 1937. Here for the first time a whole team of Soviet masters came to tackle the enemy in his own territory - successfully, as it turned out, four of the Soviet players occupied first, third, sixth and seventh places and the fifth scored 50%. The tournament thus introduced a period of Soviet domination of international chess which lasted about twenty years till Fischer, Larsen and Portisch succeeded in challenging the might of the USSR. The contest immediately developed into a duel between Botvinnik and Euwe, the lead changing several times between these two. At half-way (round 10) Botvinnik had scored 9, Euwe 7 1\/2. Denker and Smyslov 7, but five rounds later the score read Euwe 12 1\/2, Botvinnik 11 1\/2. Both leaders were shaky by now, and after Botvinnik had regained the lead both lost in the last round (one of the most sensational on record) - Botvinnik to Najdorf and Euwe to Kotov. 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(Lusis: 1537) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes notes on the players and an opening survey. 66 games with annotations and commentary. This was a Zonal tournament, in which the top three finishers, Sammy Reshevsky, William Addison and Pal Benko qualified for the 1970 Interzonal in Palma de Mallorca. By failing to play in this US Championship, Bobby Fischer apparently gave up all hope of playing in the 1972 World Championship, to which the Interzonal was the first stepping stone. Why Fischer refused to play and how he got in anyway is therefore, a tale worth recounting. Bobby Fischer had both played for, and won the US Championship 8 times, usually by hefty margins, and along the way had racked up an eye-popping record of +61-3=26 (by an amazing coincidence, Sammy Reshevsky had an identical +61-3=26 record after 90 US Championship tournament games, not counting his match with Horowitz or his playoff vs. Kashdan. The tournament itself though, was something of a classic, with many good games, and a reemergence of the great Sammy Reshevsky, winning the championship for the 7th time, and the first time since 1946. As it turns out, though, Bobby was not out in the cold, as far as the 1972 Championship was concerned. 3rd Place finisher Pal Benko, gave up his spot in the 1970 Interzonal to Fischer, who accepted it, played, and went all the way to the championship, at last.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLight edge wear, some age darkening to edges, pencil check marks. 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Octavo (8 1\/4\" x 5 1\/4\") bound in half blue cloth with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine and marbled boards. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5256) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike the historic London competition nearly half a century earlier (1851), the third Paris international tournament was conducted in the exciting splendor of the world's fair. A total of 17 players from Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Austria, the Untied States, England, Russian and France competed for 12,800 in prize money and four valuable Servres fases donated by the French Government. The Grande Cercle club served the visiting masters free coffee, tea and lemonade during the competition. The participants were permitted to take all their meals in the club, which was known for its superior cuisine. The Paris organizing committee, following the example of the London 1883 and New York 1889 tournaments, required that all drawn games be replayed. 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From the library of \u003cspan color=\"green\" style=\"color: green;\"\u003e Studenterforeningens Skakklub\u003c\/span\u003e (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5236) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough top players participated in the early \u003ci\u003econgresses\u003c\/i\u003e, the atmosphere was relaxed, because the players had fine jobs and the stakes were low. 4-6 players took part in the main event. When the master tournament was unfinished at the end of the official program, extra days were added. A more professional mood was created, when the field increased to ten, and chess clocks were used. Two games were played per day and a tight time schedule was applied. A tradition of \u003ci\u003econgress\u003c\/i\u003e books started at once and continued. The \u003ci\u003eDeutschen Schachbund\u003c\/i\u003e had been founded in Leipzig on August 18, 1877. When the next meeting took place in the Schützenhaus on August 5, 1879, sixty-two clubs had become members of the chess federation. Hofrat von Gottschall became Chairman and Zwanzig the General Secretary. Twelve players participated in the master tournament of Leipzig 1879. Thereafter the field increased and improved. When foreign players were invited for Berlin 1881, an important and successful formulae was completed: 1. A master tournament was organized every second year, in a time when few international events took place. 2. Germans could partake in many groups and their talents qualified for master tournaments by a master title in the Hauptturnier. Many important chess players took part, but Lasker found the prizes too low, when he was world champion. Tarrasch and Schlechter won three master events. Organizers kept a balance between the interests of amateurs and professionals. The Great War ended a fine tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1893 in Kiel the 8th German championship in the series took place with (1-2 Bardeleben 6\/8, and Walbrodt 6, (3 Lipke 5, (4-6.Seuffert 4.5, Gottschall 4.5, and Metger 4.5, (7 Mieses 2.5, (8 Schallopp 2, (9 Varain 1. These congresses have become very difficult to obtain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWrappers detached with edges chipped, spine chipped, internally very good. Provenance \"Studenterforeningens Skakklub\" stamped on front wrapper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500979372232,"sku":"C0965","price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc1169tcc.jpg?v=1618130383"},{"product_id":"2567","title":"Schacklandskamperna Danmark-Finland-Norge-Sverige I Saltsjobaden den 10- 15 augusti 1948","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMandal, Hjalmar J (1893-1963)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSveriges Schackf0rbunds Forlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eOrebro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e82 pages with diagrams, tables and photographs. 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Among the participants were veterans like Jacques Mieses and Georg Marco, and established masters like Alexander Alekhine, Akiba Rubinstein, and Savielly Tartakower. Max Euwe, an amateur, participated by virtue of having become the new Dutch champion earlier in the year. The event was another victory for Alekhine, who would go on to dominate tournaments and the elite for decades to come, most as world champion. First Alexander Alekhine (+7 -0 =2) a full point ahead of second place finisher Savielly Tartakower; third was Akiba Rubinstein half point behind. Borislav Kostic and Geza Maroczy shared fourth and fifth a point behind Rubinstein. In sole sixth was Jacques Mieses with a score of fourth. Georg Marco captured seventh a full point behind. Jacques Davidson placed eight with a score of 2.5. 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Octavo (8 1\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") issued in wrappers. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5682)First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarl Oscar Ahues won in front of second and third tie Herbert Heinicke and Fritz Saemisch a full point and half behing. Other players include Wilfried Lange at 7, Wilhelm Elm, Claus Torber and Ludwig Rellstab Sr. tied with 6. 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Royal octavo (9 1\/2\" x 6 1\/2\") in original decorative binding. Notes by Grunfeld and Beeker. Includes 214 pages on chess problems which in turn includes a part on retrograde analysis by Kluver. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5550) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUpon the dissolution of Austria-Hungary after World War I, its generally German-speaking population found itself in newly established Czechoslovakia (CSR). Here, the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUstredni Jednota Ceskych Sachistu\u003c\/i\u003e (Central Chess Union of CSR) was open to all players, but the German citizens established in 1921 a separate organization, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDer Deutsche Schachverband in der CSR\u003c\/i\u003e (German Chess Federation in CSR).  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe new federation held congresses every year, and in 1922, at its first congress in Teplitz-Schönau. Fourteen players participated in the round robin event. Despite the absence of world champion Jose Raul Capablanca (#1), Alexander Alekhine (#2), Milan Vidmar (#4), former world champion Emanuel Lasker (#5), Efim Bogoljubov (#7), Max Euwe (#19) and Aron Nimzowitsch (#22), all players were later estimated to be in the top 25 of the world at that time. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBogoljubov had signed up, but he withdrew at a late stage and was replaced by Friedrich Sämisch (#21). The others were: Akiba Rubinstein (#3), Savielly Tartakower (#6), Borislav Kostic (#8), Ernst Grünfeld (#9), Rudolph Spielmann (#10), Richard Réti (#11), Geza Maroczy (#12), Heinrich Wolf (#13), Siegbert Tarrasch (#14), Richard Teichmann (#15), Jaques Mieses (#17), Paul Johner (#24) and Karel Treybal (#25). Two months earlier, Rubinstein, Tartakower, Réti and Maroczy had played in London (1922), and Rubinstein and Tarrasch arrived more or less straight from  Hastings (1922). Spielmann warmed up by giving a simul in Bratislava (Pressburg) 27 September (+12 =5 -1) (loss vs Wagner). The tournament had been postponed (for some amount of time), with the inauguration scheduled for 30 September and the meeting of the German Chess Federation in CSR set to 1 October. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlay was booked for 2-15 October. Time control was 2 hours for the first 30 moves - then 1 hour every 15 moves, and draws before move 45 could only be made in agreement with the tournament leaders. The Times noted that \"It remains to be seen how this experiment will affect the much debated drawn game question.\" The top prizes were 3000, 2500, 2000, 1500, 1000, 500 and 300 Czechoslovak korunas (Kc). In addition, the players got 60 Kc for each game, 40 to the winner and 20 to the loser. They also got 1000 Kc for stay costs, and free railway transport to and from Teplice. (7) The venue was the Císarské lázne (Imperial Baths), on the first floor. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore the last round, five players (Réti, Spielmann, Tartakower, Grünfeld and Rubinstein) hoped to win the first prize. But Tartakower and Rubinstein lost (vs Teichmann and Kostic, respectively), and the other three drew. Réti, the hypermodernist, and Spielmann, the romanticist, tied for first place, each with nine points out of thirteen rounds. For Réti, this was an impressive follow up to his win at Gothenburg (1920). He had three losses, but earned eight points in wins against over half the field, including three of the top finishers. After 1920, he spent his time to write the now classic Die neuen Ideen im Schachspiel (Modern Ideas in Chess). He lost a match 1.5 : 4.5 to Spielmann in 1921, and played in Bad Pistyan (1922). For Spielmann, the first place was also a significant achievement. His passionate play and opening choices had been more admirable than successful, but now he lost one game only (vs Réti). 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Royal octavo (9 1\/2\" x 6\") bound in original wrappers. \u003ci\u003eTidskrift for Schack\u003c\/i\u003e Volume XXII , numbers 8 and 9. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5324). First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Danish Chess Championship was organized by the Danish Chess Union (DSU) and first held in 1910. A masterclass was first introduced in 1915. But it is only from 1922 that the title of Danish chess champion was introduced, this was the first year also players from Copenhagen joined. The Master Class for 1916 was contested by 8 players. It was won b P F Johner with a score of 5 and tied two through 4 by M Marchand, O. von Lowenborg and H Krause. 5th place was claimed by O Sevensson with 3 points. 6th place was a tie between Johs Giersing and G Nyholm. The last place was regulated to E Jacobson with 1 1\/2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners creased, spine and edges sunned, pages still unread else a vary good copy.","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500980322504,"sku":"C0789","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc2528tcc.jpg?v=1618132064"},{"product_id":"2529","title":"Norisk Schakforbunds 8de Schakkongres Med Turnering Kristiania 10-24 Juni 1917","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGustaf Collijn (1878-1939) and Ludvig Collijn editors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eF Engulands Forlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eStockholm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e159-258 pages with frontispiece, diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1\/2\" x 6 1\/4\") bound in original wrappers. \u003ci\u003eTidskrift for Schack\u003c\/i\u003e volume XXIII, numbers 9 and 10. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5327). First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Danish Chess Championship was organized by the Danish Chess Union (DSU) and first held in 1910. A masterclass was first introduced in 1915. But it is only from 1922 that the title of Danish chess champion was introduced, this was the first year also players from Copenhagen joined. The master class for this year consisted of six players and the tournament was held in Kristiania in June 1917. G Nyholm captured lone first with 7 1\/2 points followed by K Berndtsson with 6 1\/2. Lone third was O Smedal with 5 and a half point behind for fourth was V Sjober. J Giersing and O Lowenborg rounded out the tournament with 3 1\/2 and 3 respectively.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome edge wear to wrapper with some closed tears, some pages unread with folds still attached. A very good copy.","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500980355272,"sku":"C0788","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc2529tcc.jpg?v=1618132065"},{"product_id":"2548","title":"XVIII. Kongreß des Deutschen Schachbundes, e.V. 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The implacable Rubinstein repeated his triumphs of San Sebastian and Pistyan (9+ -2 =6), but had to share honors with Duras (+10 -3 =4). Rubinstein relinquished the lead to Tarrasch, Marshall and Teichmann in turn between the eight and 15th rounds, but he entered the last round with a half-point lead. Meanwhile, Duras secured his share of the first prize by defeating Burn in the last round. The excitement of the tournament is underscored by the fact that the leaders remained bunched throughout the competition. Teichmann, Tarrasch and Schlechter were always within striking distance of pocketing the 2,000 mark first prize. The closeness of the Breslau struggle is seen in the fact that only a single point separated the first five players. Squeaking out third-place honors was Teichmann (+7 -1 =9), who finished a scant half-point ahead of Schlechter and Tarrasch, the fourth-fifth place winners. His only setback came at the hands of Tarrasch in the second round. Surprise of the 17th and final round was Carls' defeat of the veteran Tarrasch. It is noteworthy that Schlechter followed up his score of drawn games at Pistyan (14!) by going through he Breslau tournament undefeated. Despite compiling 12 draws, Schlechter amassed six points against the top finishers. The always exuberant Spielmann (+7 -4 =6) got off to a falter start, losing the first two games to Lowtzky and Carls. Mieses made a welcome reappearance in the tournament arena and following an unpromising start, qucikly recovered his earlier form to tally five points against the top finishers. Two native sons, Barasz (+3 -3 =11) and Breyer (+6 -6 =5), performed well to dived the eight and ninth prizes. The German master Erich Cohn (+3 -6 =8) received a special prize for the best score (four draws) by a nonprizewinner aginst the top four places.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRebound in attractive cloth, some occasional internal pencil marginalia, notes on back end paper in ink else a very good copy. ","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500980682952,"sku":"C0767","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc2548tcc_3rd.jpg?v=1618132107"},{"product_id":"2549","title":"Wereldschaaktoernooi Amsterdam 1950","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMachgielis (Max) Euwe (1901-1981) and Lodewijk Prins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1951\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDe Tijdstroom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eLochem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e279 pages with diagrams, photograph and tables. Royal octavo (9 1\/2\" x 6 3\/4\") Bound in quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine with origibnal wrappers bound-in. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5791) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!-- x-tinymce\/html --\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the winter of 1950 Lodewijk Prins, backed by a committee presided over by Hendrik Jan Van Steenis, organized an international chess tournament that was held at the stock exchange in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Invitations went out to all the strongest chess masters of the day, whether they reside in Europe, the Soviet Union, or the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Soviet Chess Federation declined the invitations sent to their masters (they would refrain from entering international competitions until late 1952), as did Lazslo Szabo. Nevertheless, the eventual line-up was still one of the finest selections to be found of the best, active Western chess masters of the day. The field was notable also for the healthy mix of both early century chess mastery and post-war talent emerging for the next generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll of the best Dutch masters were present, including former world champion Max Euwe and the recent Hoogovens champion, 23 year old Jan Hein Donner. Another example of the generational split among the players was the presence of Savielly Tartakower, who had played against all the greats of the early 20th century, and his former pupil Miguel Najdorf who journeyed from Argentina to attend the event. Other notable participants both young and old were Samuel Reshevsky from the United States, Swedish champion Gideon Stahlberg, Yugoslavian players Svetozar Gligoric and Vasja Pirc, and Belgium's strongest master Alberic O'Kelly de Galway. All twenty players participated in the round robin event from November 11th to December 9th. G. van Harten served as wedstrijdleider (chief arbiter).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe event was a spectacular run for Najdorf, who won clear first undefeated with 15 points out of 19 rounds. He earned wins against half the field, further cementing his status as one of the best players in the world at the time (there had been controversy surrounding his absence from the 1948 world championship tournament). However, Najdorf only finished one point ahead of clear second place Reshevsky who also finished undefeated, scoring an impressive 9 wins in the process. Stahlberg also had 9 wins, but tragically could not share second place with Reshevsky by a measly half point (a half point he failed to win in his draw with Tartakower where the good doctor blundered a pawn in an opening experiment but then tenaciously defended).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOther masters who placed in the top standings were Pirc and Gligoric shared 4th and Euwe and Herman Pilnik shared 6th. The brilliancy prize of the tournament went to Nicolas Rossolimo from France in his sixth round win against Dutch player Theo Daniel Van Scheltinga. Rossolimo maneuvered for 55 moves in a Caro-Kann, achieving a won endgame with a pushed passed pawn and a temporary queen sac in the finale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe tournament can be seen as a transitional gem, when the austere mastery of the pre-War years would soon give way (but not this year!) to the competitive talents of next generation and the Soviet Chess Machine of the 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRebound, back table with colored blocks, some rippling to the last few pages else a good to very good copy.","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500980781256,"sku":"C0768","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc2549tcc.jpg?v=1618132110"},{"product_id":"1229","title":"Zweites Internationales Schachturnier, Zu San Sebastian, 1911","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMieses, Jacques (1865-1954) and Moritz Lewitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eVerlag Dr Wedeking \u0026amp; Co\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e128 pages with diagrams, tables and plates. Royal ctavo (9 3\/4\" x 6 1\/2\") issued in wrappers. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5304)1st edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis tournament was remarkable for three reasons of which two are virtually forgotten today. Organized and run by Mieses, it was the first at which all competitors were reimbursed for their fares and living expenses; it thus constituted an enormous advance in the development of chess as a profession. Secondly, it was one of the few non-FIDE events for which a special qualification was demanded. Only those master were invited who had won at least two fourth prizes. As a result there were a number of amusing incidents, such as Bernstein objecting to the participations of Capablanca (who was invited on the strength of his match-win over Marshall) and then being slaughtered by the Cuban in the very first round; while Vidmar was warned, though in a very friendly manner, by Schlechter that this gathering of the elite might be too strong for hm and tha he might do better to play in a small event at San Remo-whereupon he shared the second prize. The third feature of the contest, however, will never be forgotten: Caplabanca's triumphant entry into European Chess. Leading scores: Capablanca 9 1\/2; Rubinstein and Vidmar 9, Marshall 8 1\/2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpine chipped, edge wear with chips, wrappers separated, some soiling. 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Octavo (8 1\/2\" 5 3\/4\") bound in original publisher's wrappers. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5416) First edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Eight players traveled to Bad Niendorf in 1927 to compete in a small round robin tournament. They were Aron Nimzowitsch, Savielly Tartakower, Edgar Colle, Hans Kmoch, Borislav Kostic, Alfred Brinckmann, Karl Ahues, and Lajos Steiner. Nimzowitsch and Tartakower shared first place, both having gone undefeated. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") bound in original wrappers. \u003ci\u003eTidskrift for Schack\u003c\/i\u003e Volume XVIII, numbers 7, 8 and 9.(Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5314) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was another in the series of Nordic Chess Congresses in which several outside masters were invited in to give the locals some strong practice. The full list included: Alexander Alekhine; Erich Cohn; Fritz Englund; Joel Fridlizius; Johannes Hjalmar Giersing; Hugo W Langborg; Georg Marco; Gustaf Nyholm; Adolf Georg Olland; Victor Sjoberg; Rudolf Spielmann. Alekhine, still just 19, dominated the proceedings despite being upset in the third round by Sweden's Fridlizius. Once he had defeated all the other outside masters (Cohn, Marco, Spielmann), he was not to be stopped. 1 Alexander Alekhine * 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 = 1 1 8.5; 2 Erich Cohn 0 * 1 1 = = 0 1 1 1 1 7.0; 3 Georg Marco 0 0 * 1 0 1 = 1 1 1 1 6.5; 4 Adolf Georg Olland 0 0 0 * 1 1 1 1 = 0 1 5.5; 5 Rudolf Spielmann 0 = 1 0 * 0 1 0 1 1 = 5.0; 6 Hugo W Langborg 0 = 0 0 1 * 1 1 0 0 1 4.5; 7-9 Victor Sjoberg 0 1 = 0 0 0 * 1 1 = 0 4.0; Joel Firdlizius 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 * 0 1 1 4.0; Fritz Englund = 0 0 = 0 1 0 1 * 1 0 4.0; 10 Johannes Hjalmar Giersing 0 0 0 1 0 1 = 0 0 * 1 3.5; 11 Gustaf Nyholm 0 0 0 0 = 0 1 0 1 0 * 2.5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome creasing to corners, punch holes at hinge, some tears and chips at head hinge else a good to very good copy.","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500981502152,"sku":"C0782","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc2535tcc_2nd.jpg?v=1618132077"}],"url":"https:\/\/chesscollectorshop.com\/collections\/chess-tounaments.oembed?page=7","provider":"The Chess Collector","version":"1.0","type":"link"}