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🏆 Ujpest (1934)

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the รšjpest chess club, an international tournament was held in รšjpest (near Budapest), Hungary, 2-20 May 1934. Chief organizers: ... [more]

Player: Ernst Gruenfeld

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Gruenfeld vs Vidmar  0-1761934UjpestD48 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran
2. P Rethy vs Gruenfeld  ½-½321934UjpestA06 Reti Opening
3. Gruenfeld vs E Steiner  1-0651934UjpestE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
4. Tartakower vs Gruenfeld  ½-½321934UjpestD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
5. Gruenfeld vs Lilienthal  ½-½551934UjpestE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
6. Gruenfeld vs K Havasi ½-½211934UjpestD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
7. G Thomas vs Gruenfeld  0-1471934UjpestC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
8. Gruenfeld vs L Steiner  ½-½301934UjpestD57 Queen's Gambit Declined, Lasker Defense
9. Stahlberg vs Gruenfeld  ½-½341934UjpestE38 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 4...c5
10. Gruenfeld vs K Sterk  ½-½321934UjpestD63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
11. Eliskases vs Gruenfeld ½-½271934UjpestD57 Queen's Gambit Declined, Lasker Defense
12. Gruenfeld vs Pirc  ½-½251934UjpestD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
13. P Frydman vs Gruenfeld  ½-½301934UjpestD44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
14. Flohr vs Gruenfeld  ½-½241934UjpestD44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
15. Gruenfeld vs K Treybal  1-0231934UjpestD43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
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Kibitzer's Corner
Feb-15-23  Messiah: LOYALTY, PRIDEEEEEEEEEEE, MIRACLE OF รšJPEEEEEEEEEEEEEST! ๐Ÿ’ช โšฝ ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ 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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