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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: Miguel Najdorf

 page 1 of 1; 15 games  PGN Download 
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Najdorf vs Szabo  ½-½451956Alekhine MemorialE64 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav System
2. Najdorf vs Unzicker  1-0641956Alekhine MemorialA30 English, Symmetrical
3. Taimanov vs Najdorf 1-0391956Alekhine MemorialA16 English
4. Najdorf vs Sliwa  1-0271956Alekhine MemorialD41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
5. Stahlberg vs Najdorf ½-½351956Alekhine MemorialA37 English, Symmetrical
6. Najdorf vs Gligoric  ½-½281956Alekhine MemorialE64 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav System
7. Botvinnik vs Najdorf 1-0731956Alekhine MemorialE42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein)
8. Najdorf vs Uhlmann 1-0371956Alekhine MemorialE98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1
9. Keres vs Najdorf ½-½411956Alekhine MemorialB68 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 9...Be7
10. Najdorf vs Golombek  1-0421956Alekhine MemorialE47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3
11. Smyslov vs Najdorf ½-½391956Alekhine MemorialE66 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav Panno
12. Najdorf vs V Ciocaltea  1-0651956Alekhine MemorialA15 English
13. Pachman vs Najdorf  ½-½161956Alekhine MemorialA05 Reti Opening
14. Najdorf vs Bronstein  ½-½221956Alekhine MemorialE69 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line
15. N Padevsky vs Najdorf  ½-½281956Alekhine MemorialE89 King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox Main line
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