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Notable Games Of
THE 1940s

  1. Tartakower vs Euwe, 1948
    "Don't Shoot the Piano Player"
  2. Smyslov vs I Rudakovsky, 1945
    "Ruda Wakening"
  3. Euwe vs Keres, 1940
    "Paul Vault"
  4. B Molinari vs L Roux Cabral, 1943
    "The Uruguayan Immortal"
  5. Y Gusev vs E Auerbach, 1946
    "Gusev's Immortal"
  6. Denker vs Botvinnik, 1945
    "The Golden Age of Radio"
  7. Botvinnik vs Boleslavsky, 1941
  8. Pachman vs Bronstein, 1946
    "Pachman Ghosted"
  9. Nezhmetdinov vs P Ermolin, 1946
    "Nez to Meet You"
  10. Keres vs Botvinnik, 1941
    "Absolutely Smashing!"


YEAR BY YEAR

1940
  1. Euwe vs Keres, 1940
  2. Marshall vs H Rogosin, 1940
  3. Keres vs Vladimir Petrov, 1940
  4. Pachman vs Eckert, 1940
  5. M Stolberg vs Botvinnik, 1940
  6. Lilienthal vs Botvinnik, 1940
  7. Foltys vs Mohyla, 1940
  8. Denker vs H Avram, 1940
  9. W Adams vs A Simonson, 1940
  10. Booth vs Fazekas, 1940
Honorable mentions: I A Horowitz vs NN, 1940, Koltanowski vs J Salazar, 1940


1941
  1. Botvinnik vs Boleslavsky, 1941
  2. Keres vs Botvinnik, 1941
  3. Efimov vs Bronstein, 1941
  4. Smyslov vs Botvinnik, 1941
  5. Bronstein vs V Mikenas, 1941
  6. V Mikenas vs S F Lebedev, 1941
  7. Smyslov vs Boleslavsky, 1941
  8. P Leepin vs Alekhine, 1941
  9. Reshevsky vs Fine, 1941
  10. P F Schmidt vs H Nowarra, 1941
Honorable mentions: Alekhine vs Supico, 1941, F M Wren vs W E Mayfield, 1941


1942
  1. Alekhine vs K Junge, 1942
  2. W A Foldeak vs F Nagy, 1942
  3. H Helms vs O Tenner, 1942
  4. Keres vs K Richter, 1942
  5. Rada vs Kostal, 1942
  6. Lewis vs E L Dayton, 1942
  7. Alekhine vs K Junge, 1942
  8. Alekhine vs Keres, 1942
  9. Keres vs V Rootare, 1942
  10. P Larsson vs Englund, 1942
Honorable mentions: Najdorf vs NN, 1942, Najdorf vs NN, 1942


1943
  1. B Molinari vs L Roux Cabral, 1943
  2. V Liublinsky vs Botvinnik, 1943
  3. F J Perez Perez vs Alekhine, 1943
  4. Saemisch vs A Medina Garcia, 1943
  5. Alekhine vs Opocensky, 1943
  6. V Soultanbeieff vs V Borodin, 1943
  7. Sajtar vs M Dietze, 1943
  8. Alekhine vs Sik, 1943
  9. K Prucha vs Foltys, 1943
  10. E Zagorjansky vs Konstantinopolsky, 1943


1944
  1. Reshevsky vs A Vasconcellos, 1944
  2. R Krogius vs A Ojanen, 1944
  3. Bronstein vs Botvinnik, 1944
  4. Boleslavsky vs Ufimtsev, 1944
  5. Sokolsky vs Navrodsky, 1944
  6. Kotov vs Bronstein, 1944
  7. Stahlberg vs A Becker, 1944
  8. A Davis vs C F Tears, 1944
  9. Lisitsin vs Smyslov, 1944
  10. Tolush vs Botvinnik, 1944
Honorable mention: Alekhine vs De Cassio, 1944


1945
  1. Smyslov vs I Rudakovsky, 1945
  2. Denker vs Botvinnik, 1945
  3. Aganalian vs Petrosian, 1945
  4. Denker vs A R Shayne, 1945
  5. Smyslov vs Reshevsky, 1945
  6. Boleslavsky vs Fine, 1945
  7. Alekhine vs A Munoz, 1945
  8. Krogius vs N Aratovsky, 1945
  9. Tolush vs Kotov, 1945
  10. Ragozin vs Veresov, 1945
Honorable mention: H Steiner vs NN, 1945


1946
  1. Y Gusev vs E Auerbach, 1946
  2. Pachman vs Bronstein, 1946
  3. Nezhmetdinov vs P Ermolin, 1946
  4. Botvinnik vs Vidmar, 1946
  5. F Zita vs Bronstein, 1946
  6. Petrosian vs Korchnoi, 1946
  7. Smyslov vs C Kottnauer, 1946
  8. Gligoric vs Bidev, 1946
  9. C Kottnauer vs Kotov, 1946
  10. C J Corte vs Jacobo Bolbochan, 1946
Honorable mention: L Stumpers vs Euwe, 1946


1947
  1. Y Rusakov vs B Verlinsky, 1947
  2. Foltys vs Golombek, 1947
  3. Szabo vs T van Scheltinga, 1947
  4. Chulkov vs Gavemann, 1947
  5. Nezhmetdinov vs Suetin, 1947
  6. Keres vs Kotov, 1947
  7. C H Alexander vs Szabo, 1947
  8. R Slade vs D Hooper, 1947
  9. Boleslavsky vs B Goldenov, 1947
  10. Boleslavsky vs Kasparian, 1947
Honorable mention: Yanofsky vs J Therien, 1947


1948
  1. Tartakower vs Euwe, 1948
  2. Maczynski vs W Pratten, 1948
  3. Rossolimo vs I Romanenko, 1948
  4. Botvinnik vs Reshevsky, 1948
  5. Botvinnik vs Euwe, 1948
  6. Botvinnik vs Euwe, 1948
  7. Botvinnik vs Keres, 1948
  8. B Siff vs Kashdan, 1948
  9. E J Diemer vs Portz, 1948
  10. Smyslov vs Botvinnik, 1948
Honorable mention: Korchnoi vs Spassky, 1948


1949
  1. Spassky vs Avtonomov, 1949
  2. Tal vs Leonov, 1949
  3. Tal vs J I Zilber, 1949
  4. Tal vs M Strelkov, 1949
  5. G Barcza vs Bronstein, 1949
  6. Sokolsky vs Kotov, 1949
  7. V G Kirillov vs Furman, 1949
  8. Fine vs Najdorf, 1949
  9. Taimanov vs Lisitsin, 1949
  10. G Barcza vs Simagin, 1949
Honorable mention: Kholmov vs Tal, 1949




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