2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad
Template:Short description The second unofficial Chess Olympiad was a team chess tournament held in Budapest from June 26 to July 15, 1926, during the third FIDE Congress.[1] Six teams applied to contest the team tournament but Austria and Czechoslovakia withdrew before the start. Hungary won the tournament ahead of Yugoslavia, Romania and Germany.
Several individual tournaments which also featured international participation were held at the Congress. Ernst Grünfeld of Austria and Mario Monticelli of Italy won the strongest individual event, a sixteen-player round robin sometimes referred to as the first "FIDE Masters" tournament. Another sixteen players of mixed local and international backgrounds competed in a second round robin, won by Max Walter of Czechoslovakia. Edith Holloway of the UK won the women's tournament, and Sandor Zinner won an open tournament contested by the local Hungarians.[2]
Results
The final results were as follows:
Team Tournament
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First FIDE Masters
# Player Points Berger 1 Template:Flagathlete 9½ 68.00 Template:Flagathlete 9½ 65.25 3 Template:Flagathlete 9 67.00 Template:Flagathlete 9 63.50 Template:Flagathlete 9 63.25 6 Template:Flagathlete 8½ 7 Template:Flagathlete 8 56.75 8 Template:Flagathlete 8 54.50 9 Template:Flagathlete 7½ 59.25 10 Template:Flagathlete 7½ 56.75 11 Template:Flagathlete 6½ 12 Template:Flagathlete 6 44.00 13 Template:Flagathlete 6 42.75 14 Template:Flagathlete 6 41.75 15 Template:Flagathlete 5½ 16 Template:Flagathlete 4½
Mixed tournament
Max Walter of Bratislava won this sixteen-player round robin with a score of 11½ out of 15. Balázs Sárközy of Budapest finished in second place with a score of 10½, and Anatoly Chepurnov of Vyborg scored 9½ to finish third.[3]
Women's tournament
Eight women from London, Vienna and Budapest competed in a round robin. Edith Holloway of London won the tournament scoring 6½ out of 7, while Paula Wolf-Kalmar and Gisela Harum of Vienna both scored 5½ to tie for second and third places.[3]
References
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- ↑ Stanisław Gawlikowski Olimpiady szachowe 1924 - 1974 Wyd. Sport i Turystyka, Warszawa 1978
- ↑ OlimpBase :: Budapest 1926 Chess Summit: Team Tournament - Tournament Review
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