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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: ... [more]
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Player: Ernst Gruenfeld
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| Feb-15-23 | | Messiah: LOYALTY, PRIDEEEEEEEEEEE, MIRACLE OF ÚJPEEEEEEEEEEEEEST! 💪 ⚽ 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOh... |
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| 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? |
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Jul-30-24
 | | 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. |
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Jul-30-24
 | | 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. |
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Jul-30-24
| | 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. |
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| 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?? |
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Jul-31-24
| | perfidious: <unspiek>, did you read the beginning of my first post here? |
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| Jul-31-24 | | unspiek: <perfidious>
Yes. |
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