Author: Chess Player
Year: 1962
Publisher: Chess Player
Place: Nottingham
Description:
50 typescript pages with tables and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's yellow pictorial wrappers. The Chess Player series number 2. (Betts: 25-324) First edition.
All 253 games unannotated with and index openings. Includes the five additional games of the play-off for the eighth candidates' place between Gligoric and Benko.
Scheduled for January 27 until early March, 1962, the Interzonal tournament in Stockholm was a 23-player round robin, with six players qualifying for the Curacao Candidates (1962) stage. The winner was Bobby Fischer with 17.5 (+13 =9 -0), joint-second with 15 were Geller and Petrosian, and joint-fourth with 14 were Filip and Korchnoi. But there was a three-way tie for sixth place among Gligoric, Benko and Stein, all with 13.5 points. They then played a double round-robin playoff tournament to decide sixth place. Stein won with 3/4, Benko had 2/3 and Gligoric 0/3. The final game between Gligoric and Benko was not played. Stein qualified only as a reserve, due to a ruling limiting the number of players from one country participating in the Candidates tournament to three, so the last place went to Benko.1 Gideon Stahlberg was arbiter.
Condition:
Light edge wear else a near fine copy.
Year: 1962
Publisher: Chess Player
Place: Nottingham
Description:
50 typescript pages with tables and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's yellow pictorial wrappers. The Chess Player series number 2. (Betts: 25-324) First edition.
All 253 games unannotated with and index openings. Includes the five additional games of the play-off for the eighth candidates' place between Gligoric and Benko.
Scheduled for January 27 until early March, 1962, the Interzonal tournament in Stockholm was a 23-player round robin, with six players qualifying for the Curacao Candidates (1962) stage. The winner was Bobby Fischer with 17.5 (+13 =9 -0), joint-second with 15 were Geller and Petrosian, and joint-fourth with 14 were Filip and Korchnoi. But there was a three-way tie for sixth place among Gligoric, Benko and Stein, all with 13.5 points. They then played a double round-robin playoff tournament to decide sixth place. Stein won with 3/4, Benko had 2/3 and Gligoric 0/3. The final game between Gligoric and Benko was not played. Stein qualified only as a reserve, due to a ruling limiting the number of players from one country participating in the Candidates tournament to three, so the last place went to Benko.1 Gideon Stahlberg was arbiter.
Condition:
Light edge wear else a near fine copy.