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TOURNAMENT STANDINGS
Zandvoort Tournament

Reuben Fine8.5/11(+6 -0 =5)[games]
Max Euwe7.5/11(+5 -1 =5)[games]
Savielly Tartakower6.5/11(+3 -1 =7)[games]
Paul Keres6.5/11(+5 -3 =3)[games]
Efim Bogoljubov6/11(+4 -3 =4)[games]
Geza Maroczy6/11(+3 -2 =6)[games]
Ernst Gruenfeld5.5/11(+1 -1 =9)[games]
Rudolf Spielmann5.5/11(+1 -1 =9)[games]
Salo Landau5.5/11(+4 -4 =3)[games]
Gerrit van Doesburgh4/11(+1 -4 =6)[games]
Albert Becker3/11(+1 -6 =4)[games]
Lodewijk Prins1.5/11(+0 -8 =3)[games]
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Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Zandvoort (1936)

In the summer of 1936, between the events at Moscow and Nottingham, an international tournament was organized in Zandvoort, The Netherlands from July 18th to August 1st. Twelve chess masters from various countries, including the world champion, gathered to compete in the round robin format. The tournament was a strong event in a year of strong international competitions due to the fact that, in addition to Max Euwe's presence, former challenger for the world championship Efim Bogoljubov was also participating along with 66 year old Geza Maroczy who had once been favored as a potential challenger for Lasker. The star of Zandvoort, though, turned out to be the 21 year old American Reuben Fine who, through his "somersault" style (as Dr. Tartakower put it), won the tournament undefeated. This win would be the first of many successes for Fine that included Margate (1937) and culminated in his shared first at AVRO (1938) with Paul Keres.

The final standings and crosstable:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 1 Fine * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 8½ 2 Euwe ½ * ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 7½ =3 Tartakower 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 6½ =3 Keres 0 0 ½ * 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 6½ =5 Bogoljubov ½ 1 ½ 0 * ½ 0 1 0 ½ 1 1 6 =5 Maroczy 0 0 ½ 1 ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 6 =7 Gruenfeld ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 5½ =7 Spielmann ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 5½ =7 Landau 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ * 1 1 1 5½ 10 Van Doesburgh ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * 0 1 4 11 Becker 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 * ½ 3 12 Prins 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ * 1½

Wiener Schach-Zeitung: http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...

Original collection: Game Collection: Zandvoort 1936, by User: suenteus po 147.

 page 3 of 3; games 51-66 of 66  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
51. Spielmann vs Tartakower  ½-½331936ZandvoortA81 Dutch
52. L Prins vs Gruenfeld  ½-½751936ZandvoortD04 Queen's Pawn Game
53. Maroczy vs Keres 1-0511936ZandvoortB18 Caro-Kann, Classical
54. Bogoljubov vs Fine ½-½551936ZandvoortD27 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical
55. A Becker vs Tartakower 0-1381936ZandvoortB05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
56. Euwe vs Maroczy 1-0351936ZandvoortD63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
57. Fine vs L Prins 1-0371936ZandvoortD95 Grunfeld
58. Gruenfeld vs G van Doesburgh  ½-½271936ZandvoortD63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
59. Keres vs Spielmann  ½-½251936ZandvoortD13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
60. S Landau vs Bogoljubov  1-0311936ZandvoortD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
61. Bogoljubov vs A Becker 1-0311936ZandvoortD63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
62. Maroczy vs Gruenfeld  ½-½241936ZandvoortC49 Four Knights
63. L Prins vs S Landau  0-1361936ZandvoortD04 Queen's Pawn Game
64. Spielmann vs Euwe ½-½301936ZandvoortC01 French, Exchange
65. Tartakower vs Keres ½-½581936ZandvoortC46 Three Knights
66. G van Doesburgh vs Fine  ½-½301936ZandvoortC01 French, Exchange
 page 3 of 3; games 51-66 of 66  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Feb-10-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: Voort is a fort which is a castle. Zandvoort means Sandcastle.
Feb-10-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: "Zandvoort is known to exist in 1100, called Sandevoerde (a combination of "sand" and "voorde", meaning ford)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zandvo...

Feb-10-15  whiteshark: Playing venue: <Grand Hotel Wust>; photo: http://blogimages.seniorennet.be/za...

Organiser: Zandvoortse Schaakclub

Photo of the participants: http://blogimages.seniorennet.be/za...

Cover tournament book: http://blogimages.seniorennet.be/za...

Feb-10-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: <whiteshark: Playing venue: <Grand Hotel Wust...>>

An English translation of voort or ford could be wyke or wyche or wich.

Wust is Frisian for sausage.

So Hotel Wust, Zandvoort means 'Hotel Sausage Sandwich.'

Feb-10-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: <Reuben Fine who, through his "somersault" style (as Dr. Tartakower put it)>

Care to elaborate, Dr. Tartakower?

Feb-10-15  whiteshark: Here's a fine gallery with old photos from the Zandvoort 'Boulevard': http://www.zandvoortvroeger.nl/boul...

For <Grand Hotel Wüst> scroll halfway down.

Sep-19-16  ughaibu: "former challengers for the world championship [ ] Geza Maroczy"

Was that a forgotten FIDE weekend in a casino event?

Sep-19-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  Retireborn: <ughaibu> According to Hooper & Whyld, Lasker and Maroczy did sign an agreement in April 1906 to play a World championship match six months later; the match fell through for various reasons.

Maroczy's tournament results between 1899-1908 certainly made him a worthy challenger, although I'm not sure he would have worried Lasker any more than Marshall, Janowski, and Tarrasch.

Sep-19-16  ughaibu: <the match fell through for various reasons>

So, to be nit-pickingly precise, Maroczy wasn't a challenger, was he?

Oct-28-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <Retireborn> It still seems a loose usage of the term 'challenger' to thus style a man who never actually got to play a match for the title.
Oct-28-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  Retireborn: <perfidious> Certainly bracketing him with Bogoljubow could well give a misleading impression. The writer wants to emphasize the strength of the tournament, but that seems clear enough without mentioning that Maroczy had been one of the best players in the world 30 years earlier.

I have a soft spot for Maroczy, who was apparently a nice guy, at least by the standards of chess players(!)

Jan-23-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  An Englishman: Good Evening: Reuben Fine played with a "Somersault" style? Pardonnez-moi?!
Mar-12-23  Morphy number 4: Is it too late to correct all these linguistic inexactitudes? For the sake of science, and realising fully well that I am asking for abuse by the twitterati, I proffer the following insights:

• Zand (in Dutch) = sand (so that’s correct);

• Voort = ford (NOT fort) = a shallow water or river crossing;

• wyk (or rather wijk) = VICUS (Latin, used to indicate the merchant's neighbourhood outside a town) and indeed equals the English "wich" as in Ipswich, or Norwich (Dutch “Noordwijk”).

• Wust in NOT a Frisian word for sausage, that would be “worst” (Dutch), “woarst” (Frisian) or “wurst” (German); anyway the hotel’s u spots am “umlaut” = ü, so it is called Wüst, a common family name (e.g. multiple Olympic gold medalist and world champion Irene Wüst).

Pedantic? Yes.
Correct? Also true.
Sorry, chessmates. In future, just ignore this auld man.

Beannachd leibh.

Mar-12-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  moronovich: A fine lesson <Morhpy number 4> , thanks.

In my lanquage (danish) wijk = vig. And that is the root for vi(g)kings !

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