Chess Olympiad 1930

Jungfernstieg in Hamburg around 1905

The 3rd Chess Olympiad took place from July 13th to 27th, 1930 in Hamburg . It was organized by FIDE and consisted of a men's competition. The 1930 women's world chess championship took place in the same context .

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Venue: Logenhaus on Moorweidenstrasse

Germany, which had taken over the organization of the Chess Olympiad, chose the city of Hamburg as the venue, where the Olympiad was linked to the centenary of the Hamburger SK . The venue was the box house of the Provincial Lodge of Lower Saxony on Moorweidenstrasse.

This time 18 teams took part in the Olympics, which played against each other in a round-robin tournament . Lithuania, Norway and Iceland made their debuts at this tournament.

The tournament favorite Poland won with Rubinstein , Tartakower , Przepiorka , Makarczyk and P. Frydman , ahead of the Hungarian team with Maróczy , Takács , Vajda , E. Steiner and Havasi .

The German team achieved third place in the line-up of Ahues , Sämisch , Carls , Richter and Wagner .

Final result as a cross table

Rg	team	code	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	BP	MP	+	=	-
1	Poland	POLE	●	3½	2	2	1½	2	1½	3	4th	2½	2½	3½	3	2½	4th	4th	3½	3½	48½	27	12	3	2
2	Hungary	HUN	½	●	2	2	1½	3	1½	2	2	3	3½	3½	3½	4th	4th	4th	4th	3	47	24	10	4th	3
3	Germany	GER	2	2	●	3	2	½	1½	3	3	3½	3½	3	2½	3½	2	2½	3	4th	44½	26th	11	4th	2
4th	Austria	AUT	2	2	1	●	2	4th	2	1½	2	3½	3	3	2	3	3½	2	3	4th	43½	23	8th	7th	2
5	Czechoslovakia	CSR	2½	2½	2	2	●	2	½	2½	3½	1	2	3½	2½	2	4th	3	3½	3½	42½	25th	10	5	2
6th	United States	United States	2	1	3½	0	2	●	2½	2	2	2½	2½	1½	2½	3½	3	3	4th	4th	41½	24	10	4th	3
7th	Netherlands	NED	2½	2½	2½	2	3½	1½	●	1½	1½	1½	3	3	3½	1	2½	3	4th	2	41	22nd	10	2	5
8th	England	CLOSELY	1	2	1	2½	1½	2	2½	●	2	3	2½	3½	2½	2	2½	3½	3	3½	40½	24	10	4th	3
9	Sweden	SWE	0	2	1	2	½	2	2½	2	●	2	2½	3	3	3½	3½	3	3½	4th	40	23	9	5	3
10	Latvia	LAT	1½	1	½	½	3	1½	2½	1	2	●	1	2	3	3	4th	3	2	3½	35	17th	7th	3	7th
11	Denmark	THE	1½	½	½	1	2	1½	1	1½	1½	3	●	2	2	1	3	2½	2½	4th	31	13	5	3	9
12	France	FRA	½	½	1	1	½	2½	1	½	1	2	2	●	2½	3½	1½	3	3	2½	28½	14th	6th	2	9
13	Romania	ROME	1	½	1½	2	1½	1½	½	1½	1	1	2	1½	●	1	3½	3½	2½	2½	28½	10	4th	2	11
14th	Lithuania	LTU	1½	0	½	1	2	½	3	2	½	1	3	½	3	●	0	1	1	2	22½	09	3	3	11
15th	Iceland	ISL	0	0	2	½	0	1	1½	1½	½	0	1	2½	½	4th	●	1	3½	2½	22nd	09	4th	1	12
16	Spain	ESP	0	0	1½	2	1	1	1	½	1	1	1½	1	½	3	3	●	2	1½	21½	06th	2	2	13
17th	Finland	FIN	½	0	1	1	½	0	0	1	½	2	1½	1	1½	3	½	2	●	2	18th	05	1	3	13
18th	Norway	NOR	½	1	0	0	½	0	2	½	0	½	0	1½	1½	2	1½	2½	2	●	16	05	1	3	13

Most successful participant

space	Surname	country	Points	Games	%
1	Akiba Rubinstein	Poland	15th	17th	88.2
2	Salo Flohr	Czechoslovakia	14½	17th	85.3
3	Isaac Kashdan	United States	14th	17th	82.4
4th	Frank James Marshall	United States	12½	17th	73.5
5	Erik Lundin	Sweden	12	17th	70.6
5	Savielly Tartakower	Poland	12	16	75.0

Team lineups

→ Main article : Team line-ups for the 1930 Chess Olympiad

literature

• Arpad Földeak: Chess Olympiads, Ten Have Verlag 1971

Web links

• 3rd Chess Olympiad: Hamburg 1930 OlimpBase (English)