Interzonal tournament Saltsjöbaden 1948

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The 1948 interzonal tournament was the first interzonal tournament of the world chess association FIDE and took place from July 16 to August 15, 1948 in Saltsjöbaden , Sweden . It served to determine the participants for the Candidates Tournament 1950 and was thus a qualification level for the 1951 World Chess Championship .

prehistory

The organization of the first qualification cycle to determine the challenger by FIDE was accompanied by numerous failures: At the 18th FIDE Congress in The Hague in 1947 it was decided to organize eight zone tournaments in the sphere of influence of the world chess federation, which was spread over eight zones FIDE nominated players should determine who will participate in the interzonal tournament. In total, however, only four zone tournaments could be held.

The five players identified in this way were: Albéric O'Kelly de Galway , the winner of the 1947 Hilversum zone tournament , Eero Böök , the winner of the Helsinki zone tournament (also Scandinavian championship) and the runner-up Gösta Stoltz , Isaac Kashdan , who won the 1946 US championship in New York City , functioning as a zone tournament, qualified in which he was runner-up to Samuel Reshevsky (who was pre-qualified for the 1950 Candidates' tournament and did not need to intervene in the interzonal tournament) and Daniel Abraham Yanofsky , the winner of the Canadian Championship 1947, which was the fourth zone tournament.

Of the qualifiers, O'Kelly and Kashdan canceled their participation. FIDE named Andor Lilienthal from the Soviet Union to replace Kashdan . Luděk Pachman took part as runner-up in the Hilversum zone tournament.

FIDE also received rejections from Erich Eliskases and Arnold Denker , who were previously named.

course

David Bronstein from the Soviet Union won the tournament and was subsequently able to win the Budapest Candidates Tournament (in a playoff against Isaak Boleslawski ). In addition to the tournament winner, the players in ranks two to five originally qualified. Due to numerous cancellations to the Candidates Tournament in 1950, the circle of qualifiers was expanded to the next ranks; shortly before the start of the candidates' tournament , Igor Bondarewski , who was unable to play , was replaced by Salo Flohr .

Prize money in Swedish kronor was distributed for the first five places in the following distribution: I. 2,000, - II. 1,000, - III. 700, - IV. 500, - V. 300, -. In addition, four beauty prizes were awarded in this order: the first went to Andor Lilienthal for his win against Miguel Najdorf (5th round), the second to Petar Trifunović for his win against Igor Bondarewski (4th round), the third to Isaak Boleslawski for his win against Lajos Steiner (9th round) and the fourth to Vyacheslav Ragosin for his win against Igor Bondarewski (1st round).

The organization received widespread praise. Saltsjöbaden (the name means "Salt Sea Bath"), a suburb of Stockholm , was also the venue for the 1952 interzonal tournament in the course of the second FIDE World Cup cycle .

Closing table

Surname 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th 19th 20th total
1. Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union David Bronstein 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 13.5
2. Hungary 1946Hungary László Szabó 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 12.5
3. Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Isaak Boleslawski ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 12.0
4th Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Alexander Kotow 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 11.5
5. Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Andor Lilienthal ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 11.0
6th Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Igor Bondarewski ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 10.5
7th ArgentinaArgentina Miguel Najdorf ½ 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 10.5
8th. SwedenSweden Gideon Ståhlberg ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 10.5
9. Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Salo Flohr ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 10.5
10. Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Petar Trifunović ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 10.0
11. Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Vasja Pirc 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 9.5
12. Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Svetozar Gligorić ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 1 9.5
13. FinlandFinland Eero Böök ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 9.5
14th Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Vyacheslav Ragosin 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 8.5
15th Canada 1921Canada Daniel Yanofsky ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 8.5
16. FranceFrance Savielly Tartakower 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 8.0
17th CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Luděk Pachman ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 7.5
18th SwedenSweden Gosta Stoltz 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 6.5
19th AustraliaAustralia Lajos Steiner 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 5.5
20th SwedenSweden Erik Lundin 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 4.5

literature

  • Vasja Pirc: Međuzonski Turnir Saltsjöbaden 1948 , Zagreb 1949
  • Gideon Ståhlberg: Interzonala Schackturneringen Saltsjöbaden 1948. Turneringsbok utgiven av Sveriges Schackförbund , Sveriges Schackförbunds Förlag, Örebro 1949

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Shachmaty. Enzyklopeditscheski Slowar, Moscow 1990, p. 130
  2. ↑ Schachmatnyj Slowar, Moscow 1964, pp. 108-109
  3. ↑ Shachmaty. Enzyklopeditscheski Slowar, Moscow 1990, p. 294
  4. ↑ E. G. R. Cordingley: World Chess Championship Candidates' Tournament Budapest 1950 , ed David Regis, Devon 2006, p. 10.
  5. ↑ Vasja Pirc: Međuzonski Turnir Saltsjöbaden 1948 , Zagreb 1949, p. 15.

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