Game Collection: WCC: Botvinnik-Bronstein 1951

Thank you- I have sorted the sourcing issue a bit better now. At least I know who <Leonard Barden> is. I read a book he co-wrote about Spassky once. Or twice.

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Good to see you!

What are the <Daniel Diaries>? Is it a highly unauthorized and lurid account of the notorious life of our webmaster?

Aha, thanks for the clarification.

<Colleagues>- Since Daniel has now finished the corrections on FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948), here is the new due date, when I'll submit our next draft to <crawfb5>:

Game Collection: WCC: Botvinnik-Bronstein 1951

Thank you!

I changed the sentence to this:

"But his performance against the best opposition was not yet strong enough to attain the Soviet grandmaster title."

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I corrected the page number for note <7> to 180-181:

Depending on the year, or maybe even on the month, the Soviet Chess Federation would change the precise requirements for granting a master or grandmaster title.

What remained constant, at least up through the years of our current topic, was that the requirements were stiff.

In <Smyslov's> case, in the early 1940s the "rule" was that you had to win a USSR Championship to get the grandmaster title. But as you suggest, "rules" were flexible. Though <Smyslov> finished only 3d in the USSR Championship (1940), and 3d again in the USSR Absolute Championship (1941), he was awarded the grandmaster title for the combined achievement in both events.

-Smyslov, "125 Games" pp.9-10

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With respect to FIDE titles, yes they were awarded by vote at successive FIDE congresses.

<Bronstein> was awarded the FIDE International Grandmaster title in July 1949. From the FIDE congress of that year:

"1) The title of international grandmaster goes to the following players... Players who are qualified to participate in FIDE's Candidates tournament, for now the 14 who are qualified for Budapest..."

That said, I think the word "attained" is accurate in the case of <Bronstein> in the years spoken of in the first paragraph.

"But his performance against the best opposition was not yet strong enough to warrant the Soviet grandmaster title."

"But his performance against the best opposition was not yet strong enough to be awarded the Soviet grandmaster title."

"But his performance against the best opposition was not yet strong enough to achieve the Soviet grandmaster title."

"Eddie Project"?
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Happy Easter sir.

Well you sold me. I'm putting this one in the draft now:

<But his performance against the best opposition was not yet strong enough to achieve the Soviet grandmaster title.>

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I also slightly changed this sentence:

<A year later, his strong 2d behind Isaac Boleslavsky in the 1940 Ukrainian Championship earned him the Soviet national master title.<3,4>>

And I replaced <Hooper and Whyld> as the source for note <4>.

I put in a more direct source for Bronstein attai(cough) achieving the <national> master title, which <crawfb5> alerted me to:

That is an excellent find, thank you! The article even gives proper data provenance with primary sources with page numbers.

I will add the chessnote with <memphis> list to the mirror, just below the draft.

I should check again with him, but if I recall correctly, I believe <crawfb5> has no problem with us working on his draft.

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<Edward Winter, Chess Note 8641. Lasker v Marshall world title match> http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

<which earned him a spot on the lower boards in Soviet team events>

Game Collection: WCC: Botvinnik-Bronstein 1951