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🏆 Alekhine Memorial (1956)

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For a quarter-century after he fled the Soviet Union, Alexander Alekhine was treated as a traitor and an enemy of the people. This attitude softened within a decade of his death, and in 1956 the Soviet Union held an important international event in his memory. Earlier that year, in April, a Soviet delegation, including Smyslov, Keres, Bronstein, Geller and Petrosian, had marked the tenth anniversary of his death at a ceremony, organised by FIDE, in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris. ... [more]

Player: Victor Ciocaltea

 page 1 of 1; 15 games  PGN Download 
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Stahlberg vs V Ciocaltea  1-0451956Alekhine MemorialE63 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation
2. V Ciocaltea vs Gligoric 0-1301956Alekhine MemorialE75 King's Indian, Averbakh, Main line
3. Botvinnik vs V Ciocaltea 1-0361956Alekhine MemorialC75 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense
4. V Ciocaltea vs Uhlmann 0-1321956Alekhine MemorialC02 French, Advance
5. Keres vs V Ciocaltea  ½-½211956Alekhine MemorialB68 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 9...Be7
6. V Ciocaltea vs Golombek  ½-½481956Alekhine MemorialB12 Caro-Kann Defense
7. Smyslov vs V Ciocaltea 1-0421956Alekhine MemorialB58 Sicilian
8. Szabo vs V Ciocaltea  ½-½631956Alekhine MemorialE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
9. V Ciocaltea vs Pachman 0-1411956Alekhine MemorialB16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation
10. Bronstein vs V Ciocaltea  ½-½431956Alekhine MemorialB53 Sicilian
11. V Ciocaltea vs N Padevsky  ½-½411956Alekhine MemorialC90 Ruy Lopez, Closed
12. Najdorf vs V Ciocaltea  1-0651956Alekhine MemorialA15 English
13. V Ciocaltea vs Unzicker 0-1951956Alekhine MemorialC90 Ruy Lopez, Closed
14. Taimanov vs V Ciocaltea  1-0431956Alekhine MemorialE97 King's Indian
15. V Ciocaltea vs Sliwa  1-0371956Alekhine MemorialC73 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense
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