Chess Results - 1951 - 1955 - A Comprehensive Record with 1,620 Tournament Crosstables and 144 Match Scores, with Sources

2010·2.5 MB·English

by  Gino Di Felice

Chess Results,
1951–1955
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Chess Results,
1951–1955
A Comprehensive Record with
1,620 Tournament Crosstables and
144 Match Scores, with Sources
G D F
INO I ELICE
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London
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Di Felice, Gino, ¡955–
Chess results, 1951–1955 : a comprehensive record
with 1,620 tournament crosstables and 144
match scores, with sources / Gino Di Felice.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-0-7864-4801-2
softcover : 50# alkaline paper
1. Chess—Tournaments. 2. Chess—Records. I. Title.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface ix
Symbols and Abbreviations x
Chess Results, 1951–1955 1
Bibliography 525
Index of Sections 527
Index of Events 528
Index of Players 545
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PREFACE
This work documents the results of the main essential, since various sources carry different
chess competitions that took place all over the spellings for a player (because of different alpha-
world from 1951 through 1955. bets, transliterations, translations and pronun-
Jeremy Gaige’s excellent and ground-break- ciations across countries): Jeremy Gaige’s Chess
ing four volumes of Chess Tournament Crossta- Personalia was the authority.
bles stopped at 1930. Whenever possible, for every contest I report
Later on, Gaige published other fundamental the place where it was played, together with the
works such as Chess Personalia: A Biobibliogra- nation in parentheses, partial or full dates and
phy; Chess Tournaments:A Checklist, vol. 1, 1849– the name of the event. In nearly all instances I
1950, and Chess Tournaments: A Checklist, vol. 2, have provided a citation to the published source
1951–1980. The present work refers to these vol- of information.
umes for names and results. Competitions are presented in chronological
In the second of the Checklistvolumes, Gaige order by year; within each year, the reader will
lists a series of tournaments in the period 1951– find individual tournaments, individual matches,
1960, whose crosstables he indicates he possesses team tournaments and team matches. For each
for the most part; so far, they have not been pub- of these sections, competitions are given in
lished. They number, by my count, 1,234 cross- alphabetical order. The chronological-and-then-
tables (for 1951–1960). I have found most of those alphabetical ordering has been very slightly
listed, as well as many more; my two volumes of altered in some cases, purely to more economi-
Chess Resultsfor the decade of 1951–1960 include cally store the crosstables and match scores with-
exactly 3,010 tournament crosstables. out wasting space. The reader should have no
My research for the present volume focused difficulty finding a chess event.
primarily on the most important magazines for Events played over two years are entered in
the 1951–1955 period: I would like to thank the the year in which they ended: for example, re-
Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague for allow- sults of tournaments that began in 1951 and
ing me to gather much of the material. Even ended in 1952 are at the beginning of 1952.
more is still left to do. The book is completed by a bibliography, an
Women’s and correspondence competitions index of sections (year by year), an index of
have both been excluded in the present volume, events and an index of players.
with the thought that they can be the object of Many thanks go to my dear friend Ivo Fasiori
separate works. for the advice that brought this work to its final
Standardization of full names was deemed draft.
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