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Amsterdam IBM Tournament

Kick Langeweg9/11(+9 -2 =0)[games]
Jan Hein Donner8.5/11(+7 -1 =3)[games]
Jens Enevoldsen7/11(+5 -2 =4)[games]
Robert Wade6.5/11(+5 -3 =3)[games]
Hiong Liong Tan6/11(+4 -3 =4)[games]
Carel van den Berg5/11(+3 -4 =4)[games]
Frans Kuijpers5/11(+5 -6 =0)[games]
Hans Johner5/11(+4 -5 =2)[games]
H Crabbendam4.5/11(+2 -4 =5)[games]
Paul de Rooi4.5/11(+4 -6 =1)[games]
Willem Wolthuis4/11(+2 -5 =4)[games]
Ossip Bernstein1/11(+0 -9 =2)[games]
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Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Amsterdam IBM (1961)

"In the 1960-61 season, the second team of the United Amsterdam Chess Society (VAS) pulled off a stunt by becoming champions of the Netherlands. Two years later, VAS even played with three teams in the premier league. The Amsterdammers had hardly any competition in the Netherlands. Withuis (VAS member and great organizer, ....) therefore came up with a tournament in which five or six VAS players could score an international master norm. The first tournament in 1961, then called IBM/VAS tournament, was an immediate success. The 24-year-old Kick Langeweg won the twelve-match with 9 out of 11 (without draws!) ahead of Hein Donner. He scored no less than two and a half points above the master norm." (Schaaksite, Google transl. from Dutch)

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 25 May - 6 June 1961

Age 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 ——————————————————————————————————————————————— 1 Langeweg 24 • 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 2 Donner 33 1 • ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 8½ 3 Enevoldsen 53 0 ½ • ½ 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 7 4 Wade 40 0 0 ½ • 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 6½ 5 Tan 22 1 1 0 1 • ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 6 =6 Van den Berg 37 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ • 1 0 1 0 ½ 1 5 =6 Kuijpers 20 0 0 1 0 1 0 • 0 1 0 1 1 5 =6 Johner 72 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 • ½ 1 0 1 5 =9 Crabbendam -- 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ • 0 1 ½ 4½ =9 De Rooi 32 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 • ½ 1 4½ 11 Wolthuis 40 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ • 1 4 12 Bernstein 78 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 • 1 ———————————————————————————————————————————————

Eleven rounds in 13 days, starting on Thursday 25 May. Rest days: Sundays 28 May & 4 June. Langeweg won with 9/11.

Photo (Wade, Langeweg, Donner & Enevoldsen): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...

Sources
Dutchbase (https://maxeuwe.nl/files-dutchbase/...)
Endgame website (https://web.archive.org/web/2012041...)
Schaaksite website (https://www.schaaksite.nl/2011/06/0...)
Eric Delaire website (https://web.archive.org/web/2008042...)
Skakbladet, 7/1961, p. 100 (https://danbase.skak.dk/skakbladet/...)
Skakbladet, 8/1961, pp. 120-121 (https://danbase.skak.dk/skakbladet/...)
Dutch newspapers (available at https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten)

Next: Amsterdam IBM (1962)

 page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 66  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. P de Rooi vs F Kuijpers  1-0311961Amsterdam IBMB31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation
2. W Wolthuis vs H L Tan  ½-½401961Amsterdam IBME43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation
3. K Langeweg vs O Bernstein 1-0391961Amsterdam IBMA34 English, Symmetrical
4. C van den Berg vs J H Donner ½-½261961Amsterdam IBMB42 Sicilian, Kan
5. H Johner vs H Crabbendam  ½-½341961Amsterdam IBMA56 Benoni Defense
6. J Enevoldsen vs R G Wade  ½-½451961Amsterdam IBMB58 Sicilian
7. F Kuijpers vs H Johner  0-1341961Amsterdam IBME60 King's Indian Defense
8. H L Tan vs P de Rooi  1-0651961Amsterdam IBMB32 Sicilian
9. K Langeweg vs J Enevoldsen  1-0431961Amsterdam IBMD40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
10. J H Donner vs W Wolthuis  1-0421961Amsterdam IBMD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
11. O Bernstein vs H Crabbendam ½-½511961Amsterdam IBMB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
12. R G Wade vs C van den Berg  ½-½431961Amsterdam IBME25 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
13. W Wolthuis vs R G Wade  0-1241961Amsterdam IBME11 Bogo-Indian Defense
14. H Johner vs H L Tan  ½-½301961Amsterdam IBME43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation
15. P de Rooi vs J H Donner  0-1291961Amsterdam IBMB42 Sicilian, Kan
16. J Enevoldsen vs O Bernstein  1-0461961Amsterdam IBME73 King's Indian
17. C van den Berg vs K Langeweg  0-1351961Amsterdam IBMB96 Sicilian, Najdorf
18. H Crabbendam vs F Kuijpers  0-1341961Amsterdam IBMB58 Sicilian
19. J Enevoldsen vs C van den Berg  1-0401961Amsterdam IBMB30 Sicilian
20. R G Wade vs P de Rooi  1-0341961Amsterdam IBME77 King's Indian
21. H L Tan vs H Crabbendam  0-1291961Amsterdam IBMA07 King's Indian Attack
22. K Langeweg vs W Wolthuis  1-0361961Amsterdam IBMD17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
23. J H Donner vs H Johner  1-0301961Amsterdam IBMA56 Benoni Defense
24. O Bernstein vs F Kuijpers  0-1371961Amsterdam IBMB73 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical
25. W Wolthuis vs J Enevoldsen  ½-½401961Amsterdam IBME91 King's Indian
 page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 66  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Feb-19-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: <The two-week tyranny of Ossip Bernstein in the IBM building in Amsterdam has come to an end. Leaning on his cane, the 'grand old' (1.89 m. tall and 79 years old) shuffled through the corridors and rooms of the mysterious electron house. No room was sacred to him, he walked in and out of boardrooms and passed the most expensive computer installations unmoved. As a chess player, the Jewish-Russian Frenchman did not have much to contribute, but IBM has come to know him as a formidable kleptomaniac. He stole a pen stand from a boardroom that was part of a writing set. A telephone book went missing from the reception after a visit from Herr Groszmeister and a chess clock is still being sought. On the other hand, he neatly returned a pocket knife that he stole from the press room because, according to him, it was too heavy in his trouser pocket.

This first IBM masters tournament, which was held on the initiative of the oldest Dutch chess club VAS, had two grandmasters, Bernstein and the Dutch ex-title holder Jan Hein Donner. We followed the game between these two greats from the tournament from a few meters away. Hein Donner is known to be not at his best against old, dawdling chess players. During the last Hoogoven chess tournament, Donner lost his game against the elderly Austrian grandmaster Gruenfeld, who used to use maximum thinking time by groaning and blowing over the board. Bernstein has a different method of delaying a game. When Donner was about to deliver the devastating blow, Bernstein stood up with the words ‘Entschuldigen Sie Please, ich musz mal anrufen.’ Bernstein’s resurrection ritual is impressive in itself. Like a rocket, he rises very slowly from the launching device. Halfway through, he sometimes sinks back and then starts again. Once he is up, he grabs over the glasses of water, cups of tea, squeezed lemons, a board to wave coolness and a saucer of biscuits to get his stick. Then he slowly sails out of the room, like an admiral's ship. Donner had to wait for three quarters of an hour before he was allowed to make the last four or five moves. Wringing his hands, he walked through the dressing room, while his opponent sat quietly smoking a cigar in the porter's lodge downstairs. He had plenty of time, because the sign 'Think' that can be found everywhere in the IBM building is not there for him. He uses only 15 to 20 minutes of playing time for a game, or actually only writing time, because as soon as the opponent has played, he writes down the move and then answers it immediately. He thinks in between, when he sits, breathing briefly, in all his pompous bulkiness, wearing a white shirt and braces, staring at the board. Finally, when Bernstein finally returned from the phone call, he asked the frightened Donner what they had put down for him in the meantime, tea or coffee. Donner said confusedly: ‘Ich glaube Tea, aber ich weisz es nicht sicher.’ Then the old man wanted to give check with his Queen, but it was right on the back row and he could not reach it — over all the cups and glasses. ‘Reichen Sie mir meine Dame an, please, ich will schach geben,’ he asked Donner, who brought the piece to the desired position and thus shot into his own goal, as it were. After two more moves Bernstein offered a draw, Donner just laughed and finally got the game. The tall Dutchman quickly made off to escape the torrent of words Bernstein used to end his games with.>

Vrij Nederland, 10-June-1961, p. 5.

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