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🏆 Ujpest (1934)

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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: Vasja Pirc

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Stahlberg vs Pirc  0-1311934UjpestD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
2. Pirc vs K Sterk  1-0341934UjpestD39 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin, Vienna Variation
3. Eliskases vs Pirc  ½-½311934UjpestD48 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran
4. Lilienthal vs Pirc ½-½311934UjpestD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
5. Pirc vs P Frydman  0-1421934UjpestD64 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
6. K Treybal vs Pirc  ½-½411934UjpestD13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
7. Pirc vs Flohr ½-½251934UjpestA97 Dutch, Ilyin-Genevsky
8. Vidmar vs Pirc  ½-½301934UjpestD63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
9. Pirc vs P Rethy  1-0241934UjpestD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
10. E Steiner vs Pirc 0-1411934UjpestB85 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Classical
11. Pirc vs Tartakower  1-0601934UjpestA46 Queen's Pawn Game
12. Gruenfeld vs Pirc  ½-½251934UjpestD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
13. Pirc vs K Havasi  ½-½321934UjpestD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
14. Pirc vs L Steiner 1-0621934UjpestD05 Queen's Pawn Game
15. G Thomas vs Pirc 0-1271934UjpestB40 Sicilian
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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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