| Amsterdam IBM (1961) |
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"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
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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
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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)
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| Game |
| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. P de Rooi vs F Kuijpers |
| 1-0 | 31 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation |
| 2. W Wolthuis vs H L Tan |
| ½-½ | 40 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | E43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation |
| 3. K Langeweg vs O Bernstein |
 | 1-0 | 39 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | A34 English, Symmetrical |
| 4. C van den Berg vs J H Donner |
| ½-½ | 26 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | B42 Sicilian, Kan |
| 5. H Johner vs H Crabbendam |
| ½-½ | 34 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | A56 Benoni Defense |
| 6. J Enevoldsen vs R G Wade |
| ½-½ | 45 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | B58 Sicilian |
| 7. F Kuijpers vs H Johner |
| 0-1 | 34 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | E60 King's Indian Defense |
| 8. H L Tan vs P de Rooi |
| 1-0 | 65 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | B32 Sicilian |
| 9. K Langeweg vs J Enevoldsen |
| 1-0 | 43 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch |
| 10. J H Donner vs W Wolthuis |
| 1-0 | 42 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | D35 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 11. O Bernstein vs H Crabbendam |
| ½-½ | 51 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein |
| 12. R G Wade vs C van den Berg |
| ½-½ | 43 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | E25 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch |
| 13. W Wolthuis vs R G Wade |
| 0-1 | 24 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | E11 Bogo-Indian Defense |
| 14. H Johner vs H L Tan |
| ½-½ | 30 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | E43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation |
| 15. P de Rooi vs J H Donner |
| 0-1 | 29 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | B42 Sicilian, Kan |
| 16. J Enevoldsen vs O Bernstein |
| 1-0 | 46 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | E73 King's Indian |
| 17. C van den Berg vs K Langeweg |
| 0-1 | 35 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | B96 Sicilian, Najdorf |
| 18. H Crabbendam vs F Kuijpers |
| 0-1 | 34 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | B58 Sicilian |
| 19. J Enevoldsen vs C van den Berg |
| 1-0 | 40 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | B30 Sicilian |
| 20. R G Wade vs P de Rooi |
| 1-0 | 34 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | E77 King's Indian |
| 21. H L Tan vs H Crabbendam |
| 0-1 | 29 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | A07 King's Indian Attack |
| 22. K Langeweg vs W Wolthuis |
| 1-0 | 36 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav |
| 23. J H Donner vs H Johner |
| 1-0 | 30 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | A56 Benoni Defense |
| 24. O Bernstein vs F Kuijpers |
| 0-1 | 37 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | B73 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical |
| 25. W Wolthuis vs J Enevoldsen |
| ½-½ | 40 | 1961 | Amsterdam IBM | E91 King's Indian |
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Feb-19-25
 | | 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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