Candidates tournament Zurich 1953

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The 1953 Zurich Candidates Tournament was the second candidate tournament of the World Chess Federation FIDE and took place from August 29 to October 24 in Zurich and Neuhausen as a double-round tournament with fifteen participants. The players in places one to eight in the Saltsjöbaden 1952 interzonal tournament had qualified for participation. Also eligible to participate were David Bronstein as the loser in the competition for the 1951 World Chess Championship , the players on places two to five in the Budapest Candidates' tournament in 1950 and Max Euwe and Samuel Reshevsky as other participants in the 1948 World Chess Championship .

Vasily Smyslow won by two points and received the right to challenge world champion Mikhail Botvinnik in the 1954 World Chess Championship .

The first seven rounds took place in the Neuhausen parish hall, from round 8 they played in the chamber music hall of the German Congress House in Zurich.

Closing table

Surname 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th Points
1. Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Vasily Smyslow ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 18th
2. Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union David Bronstein ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 16
Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Paul Keres 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 16
United States 48United States Samuel Reshevsky ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 16
5. Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Tigran Petrosian ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 15th
6th Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Efim Geller 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ ½ 14½
ArgentinaArgentina Miguel Najdorf ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 14½
8th. Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Alexander Kotow ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 0 0 1 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 14th
Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Mark Taimanow ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 0 ½ 0 1 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 14th
10. Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Yuri Averbach ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 0 0 13½
Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Isaak Boleslawski ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 13½
12. Hungary 1949Hungary László Szabó ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 13
13. Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Svetozar Gligorić 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 12½
14th NetherlandsNetherlands Max Euwe 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 11½
15th SwedenSweden Gideon Ståhlberg 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 8th

literature

  • D. I. Bronstein: Medschdunarodnij Turnir Grossmeisterov , Fiskultura i Sport, Moscow 1956. (3rd edition 1983)
  • David Bronstein: Great moments of chess. Zurich 1953 , Sportverlag Berlin 1991 (abridged version). ISBN 3328004289 .
  • Max Euwe : Chess Elite in Fight. World Championship Candidates Tournament 1953 in Neuhausen and Zurich , Edition Olms, Zurich 1986. ISBN 3283000662 .
  • Miguel Najdorf: Zurich 1953. 15 Contenders for the World Chess Championship , Russell Enterprises, Milford 2012. ISBN 9781936490431 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zurich 1953: A search for traces. In: chessbase.com. September 2, 2019, accessed April 13, 2020 .

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