Author: Stahlberg, Anders Gideon Tom (1908-1967)
Year: 1951
Publisher: Sveriges Schackförbunds förlag
Place: Orebro
221 pages with diagrams, table and photographs. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with blue label to spine and gilt lettering, gilt knight to front blue board. Forward by Folke bogard. (Bibliotheek Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5800) First edition.
The 1950 Candidates tournament was held in Budapest, Hungary in April and May 1950. The players who finished second through fifth in the 1948 championship tournament (Smyslov, Keres, Reshevsky, and Euwe) were seeded directly into the tournament, along with Reuben Fine, who had been invited to the 1948 tournament but had to withdraw for health reasons. Reshevsky, Euwe, and Fine all declined to take part. The remaining two (Smyslov and Keres) were joined by the top eight finishers from the Interzonal. The co-winners, David Ionovich Bronstein and Isaac Boleslavsky, then played a 12-game rematch in Moscow in July and August 1950. Bronstein thus earned the right to challenge the reigning champion, Mikhail Botvinnik.
Condition:
Corners bumped, some rippling to the early page edges else a very good copy.
Year: 1951
Publisher: Sveriges Schackförbunds förlag
Place: Orebro
221 pages with diagrams, table and photographs. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with blue label to spine and gilt lettering, gilt knight to front blue board. Forward by Folke bogard. (Bibliotheek Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5800) First edition.
The 1950 Candidates tournament was held in Budapest, Hungary in April and May 1950. The players who finished second through fifth in the 1948 championship tournament (Smyslov, Keres, Reshevsky, and Euwe) were seeded directly into the tournament, along with Reuben Fine, who had been invited to the 1948 tournament but had to withdraw for health reasons. Reshevsky, Euwe, and Fine all declined to take part. The remaining two (Smyslov and Keres) were joined by the top eight finishers from the Interzonal. The co-winners, David Ionovich Bronstein and Isaac Boleslavsky, then played a 12-game rematch in Moscow in July and August 1950. Bronstein thus earned the right to challenge the reigning champion, Mikhail Botvinnik.
Condition:
Corners bumped, some rippling to the early page edges else a very good copy.