[Event "CCLA \"consensus game\""]
[Site "corr USA"]
[Date "1955.??.??"]
[White "<Dreibergs_L>/Farber_I et al"]

[Black "Manney_O/Tears_C et al"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E49"]
[EventType "corr"]

<1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Bd3 O-O 9. Ne2 b6 10. O-O Ba6 11. Bxa6 Nxa6 12. Ng3 Qd7 13. f3 Rfe8 14. Qd3 Nc7 15. e4 dxe4 16. fxe4 cxd4 17. cxd4 Ne6 18. Nf5 Nf8 19. Nh6+ Kh8 20. e5 gxh6> (if 20... Rxe5 21. Nxf7+! Qxf7 22. dxe5) <21. Rxf6 Rxe5 22. Bxh6 Re7 23. d5 Ng6 24. Qd4 Ne5> (if 24... Kg8 25. Rd6) <25. Raf1 Qg4 26. Bf4 Rg8 27. g3 Rg5 28. d6> 1-0

It was the 1st big international chess tournament in the American Military Occupation zone. During the tournament, the union released five numbers of the special "Augsburger Schachecho" newspaper.

" ... Among Latvian players participated in the tournament was a 'man without nerves' - Dreibergs ... For Dreiberg's strengths - the Gentlemen considered having strong defense and the shining end game ..."

The winner of the tournament Wolfgang Unzicker finished with 14/16, 2nd was Elmars Zemgalis 13/16, 3-4 place shared Povilas Tautvaisas (Lithuania) and Friedrich Sämisch 10.5/16.
Leonids Dreibergs with 7.5/16 shared 10-12 place with August Rankis and Max Riedmiller.

Source: "Latvju Domas", October 12, 1946, p.3
http://periodika.lv/periodika2-view...

Bohatirchuk, Endzelins, Zemgailis and some other strong players didn't took part in this tournament that was held in Russian and Ukraine prisoners camp Schleissheim (near Munich), because the invitations were sent too late. Most of the chess players received the invitation few days before beginning of the tournament and some of the players didn't received them at all. Poor living conditions impacted the quality of games, but DP chess players impressed with fierce battles.

Dreibergs shared 5-6 place with Kozma (7.5/12).

Results:
1-3. Tautvaišas, Selezniov, Shindler 8.5/12
4. Ozols 8/12
5-6. Dreibergs, Kozma 7.5/12
7. Arlauskas 7/12
8. Jasinski 6/12
9-11. Stabinš, Sabronov, Stojanovski 4.5/12
12-13. Sprengler, Pamiljens 1.5/12

The tournament winners were Povilas Tautvaišas (Dilingen), Russian master from Moscow A. S. Seleznev (Arschafenburg) and participated out of competition German master Schindler, many times Munich champion.

("Mūsu šachmatai", 1947, Nr. 4, pp. 2-5)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eqydf4kmz...

[Event "American Zone DP championship"]
[Site "Schleissheim"]
[Date "1947.03.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Dreibergs, Leonids"]
[Black "Tautvaisas, Paul"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C47"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[Source "'Mūsu šachmatai', 1947, Nr. 4, pp. 3-4"]

"American military zone DP championship took place in Schleissheim camp. Our chess players Endzelins and Zemgailis did not arrive, nor did the Ukrainian grand master Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk.

The first place was shared by the Lithuanian Tautvaišis, the Russian Selezniov and Shindler, out of competition participant, with 8.5/12 everyone. Latvian Ozols, Chech Kozma and Latvian
Dreibergs with 7.5 points shared 5-6 place. 7th - Lithuanian Arlauskas with 7 points. 8th - Russian Jasinski 6 points. 9-11 place shared Russians Stojanovski and Sapronov with Latvian Stabiņš - 4.5 points. 12 place took Latvian Pamiliens and Russian Spengler - 1.5 points.

The championship will be decide by Tautvaišas - Selezniov match.

Tautvaišas was on the 2nd place during most of the tournament, but in the last round he beat the Stabiņš and won the tournament. After the well-played opening, Stabiņš did not find the right continuation, nor did it get the "remis" expected.

80 years old world renowned top composer Seleznev demonstrated his outstanding top-of-the-line endgame technique.

Shindler was much helped by luck, although he can be proud of his achievements in past, sharing 1-2 place in Germany championship 1927.

Ozols, like in grand tournament of Hanau, missed the fateful 1/2 point also this time.

The most dramatic game was Kozma - Dreibergs. Dreibergs needed to win this game to share 1st place. Kozma, however, defeated his opponent with an effective queen sacrifice.

The lower than expected place was taken by Arlauskas.

New talent among Russian emigrants is 21 years old Jasinski, who surprised his opponents with excellent knowledge of opening theory.

A rapid game tournament was held as well. The winner was Tautvaišas.

The American military zone DP chess union was established to promote future cooperation. Melņikov (Munich) was elected as a chairman of the board. Tautvaišas (Dilingen), Bolshakov (Munich), Dreibergs (Munich), Stabiņs (Augsburg), Lankav (Munich) and Selezņev (Aschaffenburg) were elected as a board members."

Results:
1-2. Lūcijs Endzelīns and Kārlis Ozols 11.5/13
3. Elmārs Zemgalis 10.5/13
4-5. Arvīds Zirnis and Leonids Dreibergs 8.5/13
6. Jānis Pamüjrns 6.5/13
7-8. I. Garais and I. Kalniņš 6/13
9. A. Krūmiņš 5.5/13
10. G. Rūdelis 5/13
11. E. Nagels 4.5/13
12-13. K. Līdums and L. Gaigals 2,5/13
14. I. Strāls 2/13

The first three winners did not lose any game, but Zemgali's third place was result of bigger number of games ended with a draw.

Source: "Latvija", June 22, 1948, p. 4.
http://periodika.lv/periodika2-view...

Hanau Endzelīns - Ozols match for American zone Latvian championship 1948 ended on June 12 with overwhelming victory of Endzelīns with result 4.5:1.5.

The 1st and 2nd places with 6 points in the nine-player contest were shared by Elmar Zemgalis and Leonids Dreibergs; they both got 4 wins and 4 games ended with a draw. It is expected that Zemgalis with Dreibergs will play additional match in the next few weeks. Similarly, last year's champion was clarified by L. Endzelins match with Ozols.

Results:
1-2. E. Zemgalis and L. Dreibergs 6/8
3. J. Garais 5.5/8
4. A. Zirnis 5/8
5. I. Zibins 4.5/8
6. A. Melnbardis 3/8
7. L Kalnins 2.5/8.
8. J. Pamiljens 2/8
9. H. Stirna 1.5/8

Following the Championship Tournament was held "blitz" tournament. Beside Latvians players participated two German guests.

Zemgalis and Dreibergs won again with the same number of points (7); Dreibergs lost to Zemgalis, so Zemgalis was considered a winner by the rules.
Pamilens, with 5 p. took 3rd place. 4th was Long 4.5 p., 5th and 6th shared by Kalniņš with Zirni 4 p., 7th Zibins 2.5 p.

Munich and the surrounding DP camps championship 1950, featuring 28 chess players of five nationalities won Leonids Dreibergs. The championship started with 2 groups of 14 players tournaments. The 1st group winner was Leonids Dreibergs, the 2nd group winner was Janis Pamiljens. The seven best of each group played the final. All seven Latvians were among players completed the strong final competition. In the finals, the 1st place with 11 points out of 13 took Leonids Dreibergs. 2nd was Pamiljens 9.5/13, 3rd was Russian Sapronov 9/13, 4th Ukrainian Priphans 9/13, 5th Kukovlšņiks and 6th Egle.

11 players participated in Latvians blitz championship. J. Pamiljens won with 7.5/10, leaving 2nd and 3rd L. Dreibeigs and M. Swanfeld with 7/10.

In the autumn regular game chess tournament competed best 6 Latvian players in two games each with each. 1st and 2nd places with 8/10 shared Dreibergs and Pamiljens.

The majority of the Munich Latvian chess players are leaving (Dreibergs thinks of Canada, Pamiljens and Znotin of USA, Swanfeld of New Zealand) and big events are no longer predictable.

Royal game fighters - Latvians and another nations chess players will be remembered with respect. In the early years of the camps and also recently they achieved many victories, both individually (Dreibergs, Pamiljens) and in team competitions."

Latvia vs Lithuania vs Estonia Displaced Persons team match, Augsburg, 20-22 September 1946. Latvia won with 9.0/12; while Lithuania and Estonia both got 4.5/12.

Match details (In Board order; the country given first has White on odd-numbered boards):

ROUND 1, 20 September 1946
LATVIA 3.5 - LITHUANIA 2.5
1. Endzelins 0.5 - Skema 0.5
2. Rankis 0 - Arlauskas 1
3. Dreibergs 0.5 - Tautvaisas 0.5
4. Ozols 1 - Repecka 0
5. Zirnis 0.5 - Zalys 0.5
6. Zemgalis 1 - Skibniauskas 0

ROUND 2, 21 September 1946
ESTONIA 0.5 - LATVIA 5.5
1. Sepp 0 - Endzelins 1
2. Poolake 0 - Rankis 1
3. Nedzvetsky 0 - Dreibergs 1
4. Tullus 0 - Ozols 1
5. Nurme 0.5 - Zirnis 0.5
6. Blaubriku 0 - Zemgalis 1

ROUND 3, 22 September 1946
LITHUANIA 2 - ESTONIA 4
1. Skema 1 - Sepp 0
2. Arlauskas 0.5 - Poolake 0.5
3. Tautvaisas 0.5 - Nedzvetsky 0.5
4. Repecka 0 - Tullus 1
5. Zalys 0 - Nurme 1
6. Skibniauskas 0 - Mikk 1

Source:
"Tevzeme", 27 September 1946, page 5.
http://www.periodika.lv/periodika2-...

(Possibly someone like <hemy> should check I've interpreted all this correctly.)

I think with a name like that, the "A. ♘edzvetsky" here is probably the same player as the "G. ♘edsvedsky" who beat ♗oboljubov at Tallinn 1930 - see my post here: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/kibi... Some of the initials of the players are internally inconsistent in the source above, so it is possible that they have the initial "A" wrong as well.

<hemy>

Thanks so much for posting all this invaluable primary source information about the DP events.

I used some of your research along with material from rusbase and John Donaldson's biography of Elmars Zemgalis to write this biography of Arvids Zirnis- if you see anything to change or add, please let me know: