Gran Torneo de Kermeri, 1937
Gran Torneo de Kermeri, 1937
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Gran Torneo de Kermeri, 1937

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Author: Marimón, Luis de and B Lopez Esanola

Year: 1958

Publisher: Ricardo Aguilera

Place: Madrid

Description:

246 pages with cross-tables. Duodecimo (6 1/2" x 4 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Coleccion los Grandes Certamenes del Ajedrez III. First edition.

Kemeri 1937 was a chess tournament held in the resort town Ķemeri, Latvia, at the Gulf of Riga from 16 June to 8 July 1937. There were three co-winners: Samuel Reshevsky, Salo Flohr and Vladimir Petrov. Petrovs was one of the world's leading chess players in the late 1930s (e.g., the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939), but due to the political tragedies that befell the Baltic states in World War II, he became a victim of the Soviet oppression and perished in Kotlas (Russia) gulag in 1943. Tied for fourth through fifth were Alexander Alekhine and Paul Keres half point behind with 11 1/2.

Condition:

Light edge wear, previous owner's name to front end paper else a near fine copy.