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In January 1946, less than a week after Hastings (1945/46), the newspaper Sunday Chronicle sponsored a Victory Tournament in Farringdon-street Memorial Hall, London, with Walter Hatton-Ward as director. The idea was to celebrate the end of the war, with attendance of masters from all over the world. Things were lined up for the biggest of events, but eventually it became clear that the Russians (incl. Mikhail Botvinnik) would not turn up. World Champion Alexander Alekhine was invited, but Max Euwe and the Dutch Chess Federation, and Denker and the USCF, protested because of Alekhine's alleged Nazi sympathies. In November 1945, Hatton-Ward wrote to Alekhine and cancelled the invitation. The players were divided into two supposedly equally strong groups, A and B. Group B consisted of Euwe - Dutch champion and former World Champion (1935-1937), Denker - United States champion, Christoffel - the Swiss champion, Thomas - former British champion (1923 & 1934) and now 64 years old, Abrahams - strong British amateur and author of chess books, König - strong Yugoslav professional player and UK immigrant (1938), Medina - the Spanish champion, Lupi - strong Portuguese player and a friend of Alekhine, Devos - the Belgian champion, Winter - former British champion (1935 & 1936), Wood - the London champion, and Newman - the British Army champion. On Saturday 26th, after the adjourned games were finished, Euwe could lift one of the two silver cups given by newspaper giant Gomer Berry (Wikipedia article: Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley). London, England, 14-25 January 1945 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1 Euwe * 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 9½
2 Christoffel 0 * 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8
3 Denker 0 1 * ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 7
=4 Thomas 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 0 6½
=4 Abrahams 0 0 1 0 * 0 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 6½
=4 König ½ 1 0 ½ 1 * ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 6½
=7 Newman 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ * ½ 0 1 1 1 4½
=7 Medina 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ * 1 1 1 1 4½
=9 Devos 1 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 * 0 0 1 3½
=9 Winter 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 0 1 * 0 1 3½
=9 Wood 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 1 * 1 3½
12 Lupi 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 * 2½
For the A-group, see London A (1946).Tournament book: Book of the "Sunday Chronicle" Chess Tournament, by Walter Hatton-Ward. Chess SC, Sutton Coldfield 1946. 106 pp. Original collection: Game Collection: London B 1946 by User: Tabanus.
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| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 51. I Koenig vs G Abrahams |
| 1-0 | 51 | 1946 | London B | D02 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 52. R H Newman vs A Medina Garcia |
| ½-½ | 33 | 1946 | London B | D08 Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit |
| 53. G J Wood vs G Thomas |
| ½-½ | 34 | 1946 | London B | D41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch |
| 54. Euwe vs Denker |
 | 1-0 | 45 | 1946 | London B | B73 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical |
| 55. G Abrahams vs W Winter |
| 1-0 | 30 | 1946 | London B | B20 Sicilian |
| 56. P Devos vs R H Newman |
| 1-0 | 27 | 1946 | London B | B74 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical |
| 57. F Lupi vs M Christoffel |
| 0-1 | 42 | 1946 | London B | B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen |
| 58. A Medina Garcia vs G J Wood |
| 1-0 | 69 | 1946 | London B | C80 Ruy Lopez, Open |
| 59. G Thomas vs I Koenig |
| ½-½ | 22 | 1946 | London B | C17 French, Winawer, Advance |
| 60. W Winter vs G Thomas |
| 0-1 | 33 | 1946 | London B | B01 Scandinavian |
| 61. M Christoffel vs Euwe |
| 0-1 | 27 | 1946 | London B | D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav |
| 62. R H Newman vs F Lupi |
| 1-0 | 35 | 1946 | London B | D79 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O, Main line |
| 63. I Koenig vs A Medina Garcia |
| 1-0 | 38 | 1946 | London B | D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav |
| 64. Denker vs G Abrahams |
| 0-1 | 43 | 1946 | London B | D02 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 65. G J Wood vs P Devos |
| 1-0 | 57 | 1946 | London B | D29 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical |
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| Feb-21-17 | | diagonal: After that famous Sunday Chronicle Victory Tournament (divided into two equal strong round robin groups: section A was won by Herman Steiner, ahead of Bernstein, followed by Tartakower, section B was won by Max Euwe, ahead of Christoffel, followed by Denker) in 1946, London was mostly a desert for international chess tournaments up to the mid-1970s! |
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| Jan-13-21 | | cameosis: könig represented yugoslavia @ the tournament, so »hungarian« is only correct in regard to his ethnicity, not his citizenship at the time. neither was he an amateur, he was a professional player: https://britishchessnews.com/2020/0... |
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