1946 THE GRONINGEN INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT, by WOOD - Listing # 14049

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"THE GRONINGEN INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT 1946"

By B. H. Wood

Wood, B. H. (Ed.): "THE GRONINGEN INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT 1946". Analyses by Dr. M. Euwe. Commentaries by H. Kmoch. Translated and Edited by B. H. Wood. With the kind assistance for some chapters of Messrs. J. Creevey and J. Jackson.

Sutton Coldfield, Chess, 1949. Original publisher's cloth edition, with gilt Title in spine. Title page + 164 pages. 24,5 x 18,4 cm. In English.

Very good to excellent: Minor defects in covers, with some light touch or small spot, barely perceptible to the eye (the photo does not do justice), and with the Title on the spine very slightly faded. Very light foxing in the endpapers. Otherwise, inside in excellent condition.

Not in Linde - N.!! Betts: 25-166.

The "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. 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. (Golombek: 133).

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Item weight 360g

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Location:	Spain
Started:	2019-03-23 09:22:06
Ended:	2019-03-24 21:05:00
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