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🏆 Hastings 1954/55

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Ten grandmasters and masters were invited to the 30th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival premier tournament, led by Vasily Smyslov and Paul Keres from the Soviet Union. The field also featured Luděk Pachman, two-time Hastings winner and returning co-champion Conel Hugh Alexander, three-time Hastings winner László Szabó, previous Hastings winner Wolfgang Unzicker, Dutch champion Jan Hein Donner, British co-champion Alan Phillips, and international masters William Fairhurst and Andrija Fuderer. ... [more]

Player: Laszlo Szabo

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. J H Donner vs Szabo 0-1561954Hastings 1954/55E00 Queen's Pawn Game
2. Szabo vs Pachman  ½-½171954Hastings 1954/55E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto
3. Szabo vs W Fairhurst  1-0461954Hastings 1954/55B10 Caro-Kann
4. Smyslov vs Szabo 1-0431955Hastings 1954/55D74 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O
5. Szabo vs Unzicker  ½-½351955Hastings 1954/55E53 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3
6. C H Alexander vs Szabo  ½-½551955Hastings 1954/55B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation
7. Szabo vs A Phillips  1-0541955Hastings 1954/55A53 Old Indian
8. Keres vs Szabo 1-0281955Hastings 1954/55A15 English
9. Szabo vs A Fuderer  1-0411955Hastings 1954/55B56 Sicilian
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Kibitzer's Corner
Feb-16-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: <He had lost the Botvinnik - Smyslov World Championship Match (1954) in May>

Like Yale against Harvard, he lost via a tie.

Jeremy Lim (kibitz #62072)

Love these Hastings collections.

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