AVRO 1938 chess tournament
- AVRO 1938 chess tournament
The AVRO tournament was a chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company Algemeene Vereeniging Radio Omroep. The event was a double round-robin tournament. Eight of the world's top players took part: World Champion Alexander Alekhine, former champions José Raúl Capablanca and Max Euwe, and potential challengers Mikhail Botvinnik, Paul Keres, Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr. Keres and Fine tied for first place, with Keres winner on tiebreak by virtue of his 1½-½ score in their individual games. Jose Capablanca, who had only lost 26 tournament games over a span of 29 years, lost 4 games in this one event. It should be noted that he had suffered a stroke during this tournament, and his ill health was largely responsible for this poor performance.
The tournament was apparently organised in the hope that it would provide a challenger to Alekhine, but it was not an official Candidates Tournament. However, when FIDE organised its 1948 match tournament for the world title after Alekhine's death in 1946, it invited the six surviving AVRO participants (Capablanca had also died), except that Flohr was replaced by Vasily Smyslov.
chedule
The AVRO tournament was played from November 6 to November 27, 1938. The players moved from one city to another in the following order: [AVRO tournament game collection on ChessGames.com. [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1006941] ]
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ee also
*Nottingham 1936 chess tournament
*World chess championship
External links
* [http://www.endgame.nl/AVRO1938.htm AVRO 1938]
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1006941 AVRO 1938 game collection] on Chessgames.com
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