It looks like you two are close to a consensus on the <"By the 10th round Botvinnik..."> issue?

If you can come to a conclusion sometime today or tomorrow, I'll be happy to use your "team edit."

Also, at the risk of ruining everyone's weekend, if someone has the time/inclination to fact check all of the online sources for Game Collection: WCC: FIDE WCC Tournament 1948, that would be grand.

I went through them all a few days ago when I stripped the full source listings out of the body of the draft, and by my reckoning all of the sources should be correct.

<By the 10th round Botvinnik led the field by a point and faced Keres. Due to a scheduling vagary, Keres was playing after an unusually long layoff. Before the tournament, Botvinnik had noticed this odd scheduling possibility and warned his countrymen that "when we get to The Hague, one of you will get six days of rest, and lose like a child on the seventh day." Botvinnik's prophecy came true. As Botvinnik later recalled, "After six days' rest, Keres sat across from me, pale as death." Keres proceeded to lose in 23 moves Botvinnik vs Keres>

<By the 10th round Botvinnik led the field by a point and faced Keres. Due to a scheduling vagary, Keres was playing after an unusually long layoff. Before the tournament, Botvinnik had noticed this odd scheduling possibility and warned his countrymen that "when we get to The Hague, one of you will get six days of rest, and lose like a child on the seventh day." In fact, as Botvinnik later recalled, "After six days' rest, Keres sat across from me, pale as death." Keres proceeded to lose in 23 moves Botvinnik vs Keres>

And another possibility is an adverb. To wit,

< ____________ly as Botvinnik later recalled, "After six days' rest, Keres sat across from me, pale as death.">

6 Botvinnik, Achieving the Aim, pp.107-108

4 "CHESS" (Dec 1946), p.63. In Edward Winter, "Interregnum."

On first glance, that latest edit looks pretty good to me.

I was forced to work "half a Saturday" today so I'm not yet able to think.

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I fixed the "Achieving the Naked Aim" quotations.

But I think note 4 is correct- referring to the USSR not yet being a member of FIDE?

Here's the relevant section of <Winter's> article:

<Under the title ‘World championship bust-up’, <<<page 63 of the December 1946 CHESS>>> gave this account:

‘Holland having got together £4,000 for the world championship tournament planned by the FIDE next June, Euwe arranged a meeting of the six prospective participants (himself, Fine and Reshevsky of the USA and Botvinnik, Keres and Smyslov of the USSR) at Moscow. At this, Botvinnik in anger stated that one Dutch paper during the Groningen tournament [won by Botvinnik, ahead of Euwe and Smyslov] had said that the Russian participants might work together to put him into first place. He therefore refused to play for the championship in Holland. Russians know no ‘freedom of the press’. It was finally agreed to stage the event half in Holland, half in Russia, but there was further argument over the question of where the first half should be held.

The first thought that came to me was "don't get it all rumpled."

Me, too.

Game Collection: WCC: FIDE WCC Tournament 1948

8 Erwin Voellmy, "Schweizerische Schachzeitung" (Oct 1947), pp. 154-55. In Edward Winter, "Interregnum."

pp.154-155

18 Botvinnik, "Achieving the Aim" pp.113-14

Sounds good- I put it in the mirror, but please look at it just to triple-check I have the text the way we want it:

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By the 10th round Botvinnik led the field by a point and faced Keres. Due to a scheduling vagary, Keres was playing after an unusually long layoff. Before the tournament, Botvinnik had noticed this odd scheduling possibility and warned his countrymen that "when we get to The Hague, one of you will get six days of rest, and lose like a child on the seventh day." "After six days' rest", Botvinnik later recalled, "Keres sat across from me, pale as death."<19> Keres proceeded to lose in <23 moves> <insert game link>- Botvinnik vs Keres, 1948, allowing Botvinnik to carry a 1.5 point lead into the Moscow leg.

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<Karpova>

<8 Erwin Voellmy, "Schweizerische Schachzeitung" (Oct 1947), pp. 154-55. In Edward Winter, "Interregnum."

pp.154-155

18 Botvinnik, "Achieving the Aim" pp.113-14

pp.113-114>

You meant the extra space between the pp. 154-155 right?

I fixed that now:

<8> Erwin Voellmy, "Schweizerische Schachzeitung" (Oct 1947), pp.154-55. In Edward Winter, "Interregnum."

How did you ever notice that, since the extra space was "hidden" in a line break?

I fixed this too:

<<18> Botvinnik, "Achieving the Aim" pp.113-114>

It looks fine now, but there is still

8 Erwin Voellmy, "Schweizerische Schachzeitung" (Oct 1947), pp.154-55. In Edward Winter, "Interregnum."

The <1> in <155> is missing, it should look like

<The Hague venue: The "Kierentuin," which before the war was headquarters of the local zoo.>

Excellent, thank you both.

So just to be clear- I'm to change the spelling to <Deuterium>?

I'm on it...

Anyone prefer "angry over"? Not a big deal.

<In Moscow the masters played in the magnificent Salle Des Collones in front of 2,000 spectators, with 3,000 more in the streets outside following the action on a giant demonstration board.>

Is "outside" redundant? I don't recall Moscow having any inside streets. Or maybe "in the streets" is redundant. I am also okay with it as is, since it does emphasize that they weren't gathered in a park or something, which evokes images of crowds in years gone by watching replays of sporting events while gathered "in the streets".

Should be "pp. 105-106"

<20 Golombek, p.126

23.....In Taylor Kingston, pp.4-5>

Is the inconsistency purposeful because one is a book and one is an article? Two points of inconsistency: The first name, and "In".

Will anything after:

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