16 pages with frintispiece, plates, some portrait sketches, and 2 diagrams. Octavo (9" x 5 1/2") bound in original pictorial stapled wrappers. From the library of Lothar Schmid. (Linde 5395) First edition.
Abraham Baratz won the tournament ahead of Dawid Janowsky by a score of 8 1/2 of 9. Janowsky at 7 followed by Max Romi with 6 points.
Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid (10 May 1928 - 18 May 2013) was a German chess grandmaster. He was born in Radebeul near Dresden into a family who were the co-owners of the Karl May Press, which published the German Karl May adventure novels. He was best known as the chief arbiter at several World Chess Championship matches, in particular the 1972 encounter between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky at Reykjavic. He was also an avid collector of chess books and paraphernalia. It was reputed that he owned the largest known private chess library in the world, as well as a renowned collection of chess art, chess boards and chess pieces from around the globe.
Condition: Lothar Schmid's book plate to front wrapper verso. Light edge wear with bumped corners, some toning to wrappers else very good of a scarce tournament title.