AVRO 1938 chess tournament
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AVRO 1938 chess tournament
For other uses, see Avro (disambiguation).
The AVRO tournament was a chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO. The event was a double round-robin tournament. The eight players generally regarded as the strongest in the world took part: World Champion Alexander Alekhine, former champions José Raúl Capablanca and Max Euwe, future champion Mikhail Botvinnik and challengers Paul Keres, Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr. Keres and Fine tied for first place, with Keres winning on tiebreak by virtue of his 1½-½ score in their individual games. Capablanca, who had only lost 26 tournament games over a span of 29 years, lost four games in this event. He had suffered a mild stroke during this tournament and his ill health was largely responsible for this poor performance.[1]
The tournament was apparently organised in the hope that it would provide a challenger to Alekhine, but it was not an official Candidates Tournament, and World War II dashed any hopes of a championship match for years to come. 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.
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Schedule
The AVRO tournament was played from November 6 to November 27, 1938. The players travelled from one city to another in the following order:[2]
| Round | Place | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amsterdam | Nov. 6 |
| 2 | The Hague | Nov. 8 |
| 3 | Rotterdam | Nov. 10 |
| 4 | Groningen | Nov. 12 |
| 5 | Zwolle | Nov. 13 |
| 6 | Haarlem | Nov. 14 |
| 7 | Amsterdam | Nov. 15 |
| 8 | Utrecht | Nov. 17 |
| 9 | Arnhem | Nov. 19 |
| 10 | Breda | Nov. 20 |
| 11 | Rotterdam | Nov. 22 |
| 12 | The Hague | Nov. 24 |
| 13 | Leiden | Nov. 25 |
| 14 | Amsterdam | Nov. 27 |
Crosstable
| No. | Name | State | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Keres |  Estonia |
XX | 1= | == | == | 1= | == | 1= | == | 8½ |
| 2 | Reuben Fine |  United States |
0= | XX | 1= | 10 | 10 | 11 | == | 1= | 8½ |
| 3 | Mikhail Botvinnik |  Soviet Union |
== | 0= | XX | =0 | 1= | 1= | =1 | == | 7½ |
| 4 | Max Euwe |  Netherlands |
== | 01 | =1 | XX | 0= | 0= | 01 | 1= | 7 |
| 5 | Samuel Reshevsky | United States |
0= | 01 | 0= | 1= | XX | == | == | 1= | 7 |
| 6 | Alexander Alekhine |  France |
== | 00 | 0= | 1= | == | XX | =1 | =1 | 7 |
| 7 | José Raúl Capablanca |  Cuba |
0= | == | =0 | 10 | == | =0 | XX | =1 | 6 |
| 8 | Salo Flohr |  Czechoslovakia |
== | 0= | == | 0= | 0= | =0 | =0 | XX | 4½ |
The longest game was a 68-move win of Fine over Alekhine. The shortest game was a 19-move draw between Flohr and Fine. Of the 56 games played: White won 17, Black won 7, and 32 were drawn.
See also
- Botvinnik versus Capablanca A game from the 11th round
- Nottingham 1936 chess tournament
- World chess championship
References
- ^ David Hooper and Ken Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess, 2nd ed., 1992, p. 69
- ^ AVRO tournament game collection on ChessGames.com. [1]
АВРО-турнир: Состязание сильнейших гроссмейстеров мира. Голландия, 1938 год / [Авт.-сост. Г. Г. Торадзе]. Москва: Галерия, 2006. 295 с ISBN 5-8137-0159-1.
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