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Ujpest (1934) To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Újpest chess club, an international tournament was held in Újpest (near Budapest), Hungary, 2-20 May 1934. Chief organizers: Bernat Steiner and Jenö Diamant. Andre Lilienthal won with 11/15. Age 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 1 Lilienthal 23 • ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 11 2 Pirc 26 ½ • ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 10½ =3 Flohr 25 ½ ½ • 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 9 =3 Frydman 28 ½ 1 0 • 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 9 =5 Eliskases 21 0 ½ ½ 1 • ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 8½ =5 Grünfeld 40 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ • ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 8½ =5 Ståhlberg 26 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ • 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 8½ 8 Vidmar 48 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 • ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 7 =9 Rethy 29 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ • 0 ½ 1 1 0 ½ ½ 6½ =9 Treybal 49 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 • ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 6½ =9 L Steiner 30 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ • ½ 1 ½ 1 1 6½ =12 Tartakower 47 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ • ½ 1 0 ½ 6 =12 Havasi 42 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ • 1 ½ 1 6 =12 E Steiner 32 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 0 ½ 0 0 • ½ 1 6 15 Sterk 52 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ • ½ 5½ 16 Thomas 52 0 0 1 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ • 5 ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The game Havasi vs Flohr (a draw in Round 1) was not available. Sources Prágai Magyar Hirlap, 20 May 1934, p. 12: https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/v... Magyar Sakkvilág, June 1934, pp. 129-145: https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Mag... Chess-Results: https://chess-results.com/tnr573403... (with right pairings, wrong dates) Tidskrift för Schack, May-June 1934, pp. 83-87, 105-106: https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1934... Hungarian newspapers (incl. Pesti Hirlap with about 22 games): https://adt.arcanum.com/en Wiener Schach-Zeitung, Mai/Juni 1934 pp. 156-161: https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/... Wiener Schach-Zeitung, Juni 1934 pp. 182-186: https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/... Game dates Flohr had to leave early. Rounds 14 and 15 switched pairings so that he could play his 'last' round game vs Tartakower on an earlier date. Round 01: Wednesday 2 May - Magyar Hirlap 3 May 1934 p. 6; Népszava 3 May 1934 p. 8. Round 02: Thursday 3 May - Magyar Hirlap 4 May 1934 p. 10; Wiener Schach-Zeitung Mai/Juni 1934 p. 157. Round 03: Friday 4 May - Magyar Hirlap 5 May 1934 p. 5; Ujság 5 May 1934 p. 4. Round 04: Saturday 5 May - Népszava 6 May 1934 p. 13; Prágai Magyar Hirlap 8 May 1934 p. 10. Round 05: Sunday 6 May - Magyar Hirlap 8 May 1934 p. 4 (WSZ 1934 p. 158 has 7 May for Stahlberg vs Vidmar). ----------- Round 06: Tuesday 8 May - Magyar Hirlap 9 May 1934 p. 7; Pesti Hirlap 9 May 1934 p. 8. Round 07: Wednesday 9 May - Magyar Hirlap 10 May 1934 p. 5; Wiener Schach-Zeitung Juni 1934 p. 184. Round 08: Thursday 10 May - Magyar Hirlap 12 May 1934 p. 6. Round 09: Friday 11 May - Magyar Hirlap 12 May 1934 p. 6. ----------- Round 10: Sunday 13 May - Magyarság 15 May 1934 p. 4; Wiener Schach-Zeitung Juni 1934 p. 186. ----------- Round 11: Tuesday 15 May - Magyar Hirlap 16 May 1934 p. 4; Wiener Schach-Zeitung Juni 1934 p. 186. Round 12: Wednesday 16 May - Magyar Hirlap 17 May 1934 p. 6. Round 13: Thursday 17 May - Magyarság 18 May 1934 p. 10. Round 14: Friday 18 May - Magyarság 19 May 1934 p. 11; Népszava 19 May 1934 p. 2. ----------- Round 15: Sunday 20 May - Pesti Hírlap 23 May 1934 p. 5. Tartakower vs Flohr: 17 May according to Prágai Magyar Hirlap 20 May 1934 p. 12.  page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 65  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. G Thomas vs K Treybal ½-½ 47 1934 Ujpest C70 Ruy Lopez 2. K Sterk vs Eliskases   ½-½ 76 1934 Ujpest A47 Queen's Indian 3. E Steiner vs Lilienthal   ½-½ 48 1934 Ujpest C14 French, Classical 4. P Frydman vs Stahlberg   ½-½ 63 1934 Ujpest D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense 5. K Treybal vs L Steiner   ½-½ 43 1934 Ujpest C77 Ruy Lopez 6. P Rethy vs Gruenfeld   ½-½ 32 1934 Ujpest A06 Reti Opening 7. Eliskases vs Pirc   ½-½ 31 1934 Ujpest D48 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran 8. K Sterk vs P Frydman   ½-½ 40 1934 Ujpest E18 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 7.Nc3 9. G Thomas vs Vidmar   ½-½ 48 1934 Ujpest C86 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack 10. Tartakower vs Lilienthal   ½-½ 31 1934 Ujpest A04 Reti Opening 11. L Steiner vs Flohr   ½-½ 42 1934 Ujpest C11 French 12. K Treybal vs K Sterk ½-½ 50 1934 Ujpest B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 13. Tartakower vs Gruenfeld   ½-½ 32 1934 Ujpest D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 14. P Rethy vs G Thomas   ½-½ 24 1934 Ujpest D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 15. Lilienthal vs Pirc ½-½ 31 1934 Ujpest D52 Queen's Gambit Declined 16. Vidmar vs L Steiner   ½-½ 30 1934 Ujpest D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 17. L Steiner vs P Rethy   ½-½ 59 1934 Ujpest D52 Queen's Gambit Declined 18. Eliskases vs K Treybal   ½-½ 34 1934 Ujpest C53 Giuoco Piano 19. Gruenfeld vs Lilienthal   ½-½ 55 1934 Ujpest E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 20. K Havasi vs Tartakower   ½-½ 35 1934 Ujpest D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 21. Lilienthal vs P Frydman   ½-½ 29 1934 Ujpest D55 Queen's Gambit Declined 22. P Rethy vs Stahlberg   ½-½ 30 1934 Ujpest C11 French 23. Gruenfeld vs K Havasi ½-½ 21 1934 Ujpest D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 24. K Treybal vs Pirc   ½-½ 41 1934 Ujpest D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation 25. Flohr vs Eliskases   ½-½ 29 1934 Ujpest E38 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 4...c5  page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 65    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Feb-15-23    Messiah: LOYALTY, PRIDEEEEEEEEEEE, MIRACLE OF ÚJPEEEEEEEEEEEEEST! 💪 ⚽ 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOh... Jul-30-24    unspiek: Flohr's general play at Ujpest looks strangely awful, by comparison to what he did both before and after. Is there some backstory to it? Anyone know? Jul-30-24    perfidious: Have never heard of anything to indicate a problem, quite unlike Flohr's disastrous performance at AVRO 1938, but the explanation may be that he was simply off form. Happens to all of us. Jul-30-24    Chessical: The deteriorated in Flohr's performance the late 1930's most probably was due to increasing insecurity and threats in his wider life. As a Jew, he had to flee with his family from the advancing Facist menace. Nazi Germany had invaded Czechoslovakia and Flohr managed to get his family first to Netherlands and later Soviet Union. Jul-30-24    perfidious: <Chessical: The deteriorated in Flohr's performance the late 1930's most probably was due to increasing insecurity and threats in his wider life....> No doubt in my mind; that set of circumstances could prove unsettling to the strongest character. Flohr's win at Leningrad / Moscow training (1939), coming as it did mere weeks after AVRO finished, came as a shock to contemporaneous journalists. Jul-31-24    unspiek: <perfidious>: <Chessical: The deteriorated in Flohr's performance the late 1930's most probably was due to increasing insecurity and threats in his wider life....> All quite true, but not on point. My question was about an event in 1934, not 1938. In the last event in the DB before Ujpest, Flohr had taken first at Hastings ahead of Alekhine. Next after it, he tied for second with Euwe, behind Alekhine, in the strong Zuerich event. But in Ujpest, he seemed to lack any ambition, and he made a ghastly dog's dinner of his first-round game against tail-ender Thomas. But the weirdest thing is, Flohr wasn't the only one off his game. Only Lilienthal, Pirc, and maybe Frydman, seemed to be in decent form. Vidmar and Tartakower and Lajos Steiner finished with minus scores! Was there a distillery in the picture, or what?? Jul-31-24    perfidious: <unspiek>, did you read the beginning of my first post here? Jul-31-24    unspiek: <perfidious> Yes. NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion. Please observe our posting guidelines: No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language. No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts. 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