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TOURNAMENT STANDINGS
Ujpest Tournament

Andre Lilienthal11/15(+7 -0 =8)[games]
Vasja Pirc10.5/15(+7 -1 =7)[games]
Salomon Flohr9/15(+4 -1 =10)[games]
Paulino Frydman9/15(+6 -3 =6)[games]
Erich Eliskases8.5/15(+3 -1 =11)[games]
Ernst Gruenfeld8.5/15(+3 -1 =11)[games]
Gideon Stahlberg8.5/15(+5 -3 =7)[games]
Milan Vidmar7/15(+2 -3 =10)[games]
Pal Rethy6.5/15(+2 -4 =9)[games]
Karel Treybal6.5/15(+2 -4 =9)[games]
Lajos Steiner6.5/15(+3 -5 =7)[games]
Savielly Tartakower6/15(+1 -4 =10)[games]
Kornel Havasi6/15(+2 -5 =8)[games]
Endre Steiner6/15(+4 -7 =4)[games]
Karoly Sterk5.5/15(+1 -5 =9)[games]
George Thomas5/15(+2 -7 =6)[games]
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Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Ujpest (1934)

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Újpest chess club, an international tournament was held in Újpest (near Budapest), Hungary, 2-20 May 1934. Chief organizers: Bernat Steiner and Jenö Diamant. Andre Lilienthal won with 11/15.

Age 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 1 Lilienthal 23 • ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 11 2 Pirc 26 ½ • ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 10½ =3 Flohr 25 ½ ½ • 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 9 =3 Frydman 28 ½ 1 0 • 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 9 =5 Eliskases 21 0 ½ ½ 1 • ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 8½ =5 Grünfeld 40 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ • ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 8½ =5 Ståhlberg 26 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ • 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 8½ 8 Vidmar 48 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 • ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 7 =9 Rethy 29 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ • 0 ½ 1 1 0 ½ ½ 6½ =9 Treybal 49 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 • ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 6½ =9 L Steiner 30 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ • ½ 1 ½ 1 1 6½ =12 Tartakower 47 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ • ½ 1 0 ½ 6 =12 Havasi 42 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ • 1 ½ 1 6 =12 E Steiner 32 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 0 ½ 0 0 • ½ 1 6 15 Sterk 52 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ • ½ 5½ 16 Thomas 52 0 0 1 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ • 5 ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

The game Havasi vs Flohr (a draw in Round 1) was not available.

Sources

Prágai Magyar Hirlap, 20 May 1934, p. 12: https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/v...
Magyar Sakkvilág, June 1934, pp. 129-145: https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Mag...
Chess-Results: https://chess-results.com/tnr573403... (with right pairings, wrong dates)
Tidskrift för Schack, May-June 1934, pp. 83-87, 105-106: https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1934...
Hungarian newspapers (incl. Pesti Hirlap with about 22 games): https://adt.arcanum.com/en
Wiener Schach-Zeitung, Mai/Juni 1934 pp. 156-161: https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/...
Wiener Schach-Zeitung, Juni 1934 pp. 182-186: https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/...

Game dates

Flohr had to leave early. Rounds 14 and 15 switched pairings so that he could play his 'last' round game vs Tartakower on an earlier date.

Round 01: Wednesday 2 May - Magyar Hirlap 3 May 1934 p. 6; Népszava 3 May 1934 p. 8.
Round 02: Thursday 3 May - Magyar Hirlap 4 May 1934 p. 10; Wiener Schach-Zeitung Mai/Juni 1934 p. 157.
Round 03: Friday 4 May - Magyar Hirlap 5 May 1934 p. 5; Ujság 5 May 1934 p. 4.
Round 04: Saturday 5 May - Népszava 6 May 1934 p. 13; Prágai Magyar Hirlap 8 May 1934 p. 10.
Round 05: Sunday 6 May - Magyar Hirlap 8 May 1934 p. 4 (WSZ 1934 p. 158 has 7 May for Stahlberg vs Vidmar).
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Round 06: Tuesday 8 May - Magyar Hirlap 9 May 1934 p. 7; Pesti Hirlap 9 May 1934 p. 8.
Round 07: Wednesday 9 May - Magyar Hirlap 10 May 1934 p. 5; Wiener Schach-Zeitung Juni 1934 p. 184.
Round 08: Thursday 10 May - Magyar Hirlap 12 May 1934 p. 6.
Round 09: Friday 11 May - Magyar Hirlap 12 May 1934 p. 6.
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Round 10: Sunday 13 May - Magyarság 15 May 1934 p. 4; Wiener Schach-Zeitung Juni 1934 p. 186.
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Round 11: Tuesday 15 May - Magyar Hirlap 16 May 1934 p. 4; Wiener Schach-Zeitung Juni 1934 p. 186.
Round 12: Wednesday 16 May - Magyar Hirlap 17 May 1934 p. 6.
Round 13: Thursday 17 May - Magyarság 18 May 1934 p. 10.
Round 14: Friday 18 May - Magyarság 19 May 1934 p. 11; Népszava 19 May 1934 p. 2.
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Round 15: Sunday 20 May - Pesti Hírlap 23 May 1934 p. 5. Tartakower vs Flohr: 17 May according to Prágai Magyar Hirlap 20 May 1934 p. 12.

 page 5 of 5; games 101-119 of 119  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
101. K Treybal vs Tartakower ½-½301934UjpestB03 Alekhine's Defense
102. Stahlberg vs Lilienthal  ½-½261934UjpestE22 Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann Variation
103. Pirc vs K Havasi  ½-½321934UjpestD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
104. K Sterk vs L Steiner  0-1311934UjpestD05 Queen's Pawn Game
105. Eliskases vs Stahlberg  ½-½301934UjpestC13 French
106. Flohr vs Gruenfeld  ½-½241934UjpestD44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
107. Vidmar vs Tartakower  ½-½231934UjpestD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
108. K Treybal vs K Havasi  ½-½581934UjpestC77 Ruy Lopez
109. P Frydman vs G Thomas 0-1241934UjpestD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
110. Pirc vs L Steiner 1-0621934UjpestD05 Queen's Pawn Game
111. P Rethy vs E Steiner  0-1701934UjpestB83 Sicilian
112. K Sterk vs Lilienthal 0-1571934UjpestC11 French
113. Gruenfeld vs K Treybal  1-0231934UjpestD43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
114. K Havasi vs P Frydman  ½-½301934UjpestD55 Queen's Gambit Declined
115. Stahlberg vs K Sterk  1-0281934UjpestD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
116. Lilienthal vs P Rethy 1-0591934UjpestD13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
117. L Steiner vs Eliskases 0-1301934UjpestC64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
118. E Steiner vs Vidmar  1-0401934UjpestC86 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack
119. G Thomas vs Pirc 0-1271934UjpestB40 Sicilian
 page 5 of 5; games 101-119 of 119  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Feb-15-23  Messiah: LOYALTY, PRIDEEEEEEEEEEE, MIRACLE OF ÚJPEEEEEEEEEEEEEST! 💪 ⚽ 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOh...
Jul-30-24  unspiek: Flohr's general play at Ujpest looks strangely awful, by comparison to what he did both before and after. Is there some backstory to it? Anyone know?
Jul-30-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Have never heard of anything to indicate a problem, quite unlike Flohr's disastrous performance at AVRO 1938, but the explanation may be that he was simply off form.

Happens to all of us.

Jul-30-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  Chessical: The deteriorated in Flohr's performance the late 1930's most probably was due to increasing insecurity and threats in his wider life.

As a Jew, he had to flee with his family from the advancing Facist menace. Nazi Germany had invaded Czechoslovakia and Flohr managed to get his family first to Netherlands and later Soviet Union.

Jul-30-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <Chessical: The deteriorated in Flohr's performance the late 1930's most probably was due to increasing insecurity and threats in his wider life....>

No doubt in my mind; that set of circumstances could prove unsettling to the strongest character.

Flohr's win at Leningrad / Moscow training (1939), coming as it did mere weeks after AVRO finished, came as a shock to contemporaneous journalists.

Jul-31-24  unspiek: <perfidious>: <Chessical: The deteriorated in Flohr's performance the late 1930's most probably was due to increasing insecurity and threats in his wider life....> All quite true, but not on point. My question was about an event in 1934, not 1938. In the last event in the DB before Ujpest, Flohr had taken first at Hastings ahead of Alekhine. Next after it, he tied for second with Euwe, behind Alekhine, in the strong Zuerich event. But in Ujpest, he seemed to lack any ambition, and he made a ghastly dog's dinner of his first-round game against tail-ender Thomas.

But the weirdest thing is, Flohr wasn't the only one off his game. Only Lilienthal, Pirc, and maybe Frydman, seemed to be in decent form. Vidmar and Tartakower and Lajos Steiner finished with minus scores! Was there a distillery in the picture, or what??

Jul-31-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <unspiek>, did you read the beginning of my first post here?
Jul-31-24  unspiek: <perfidious>
Yes.

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