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🏆 Hamburg Olympiad (1930)

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Alexander Alekhine, Savielly Tartakower, Friedrich Saemisch, Akiba Rubinstein, Sultan Khan, Marcel Duchamp, Vladimir Petrov, Aristide Gromer, Arpad Vajda, Karel Treybal, George Thomas, Fricis Apsenieks, Johannes van den Bosch, Hans Kmoch, Janos Balogh, Salo Landau, Gosta Stoltz, Sandor Takacs, Amos Pokorny, Josef Rejfir, Herman Steiner, Kazimierz Makarczyk, Hans Mueller, Erik Lundin, Paulino Frydman, Salomon Flohr, Manuel Golmayo, Gideon Stahlberg, Heinrich Wagner, Endre Steiner, Angel Ribera Arnal, Kornel Havasi, William Winter, Olaf Barda, Frank Marshall, Daniel Noteboom, Isaac Kashdan, Fred Dewhirst Yates, Kurt Richter, Geza Maroczy, Theodore Tylor, Karl Berndtsson, Erich Eliskases, H Taubmann, Willem Schelfhout, Jon Gudmundsson, Gyde Jorgensen, Leonardas Abramavicius, Andre Voisin, Matafia Scheinberg, Siegfried Reginald Wolf, Asmundur Asgeirsson, Alexandru Tyroler, Oluf Kavlie-Jorgensen, Jacob Gemzoe, Birger Rasmusson, James Allan Anderson, Placido Soler, Trygve Halvorsen, Aage Olsen, Abraham Baratz, Arne Desler, Eggert Gilfer, Carl Oscar Hovind, Aleksander Macht, Haakon Larsen, Arvids Taube, Ilmari Rahm, Isakas Vistaneckis, Dawid Przepiorka, Louis Betbeder Matibet, Josef Lokvenc, Carlos Lafora, Ladislav Prokes, Carl Ahues, Karl Ruben, Valentin Marin y Llovet, Thorsten Gauffin, Arne Krogdahl, Carl Carls, Erik Andersen, Henri Weenink, Einar Thorvaldsson, Ragnar Krogius, Movsa Feigin, Ion Gudju

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Hamburg Olympiad (1930)

Crosstable: http://www.olimpbase.org/1930/1930f....

 page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 306  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. C Carls vs K Berndtsson  1-0351930Hamburg OlympiadA18 English, Mikenas-Carls
2. Rubinstein vs Maroczy 1-0251930Hamburg OlympiadE42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein)
3. Marshall vs Duchamp ½-½381930Hamburg OlympiadE12 Queen's Indian
4. C Ahues vs S Khan  1-0301930Hamburg OlympiadB30 Sicilian
5. J Rejfir vs E Lundin 1-0201930Hamburg OlympiadD47 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
6. G Stoltz vs K Treybal ½-½711930Hamburg OlympiadC72 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, 5.O-O
7. Stahlberg vs Flohr  0-1511930Hamburg OlympiadB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
8. S R Wolf vs Noteboom 0-1411930Hamburg OlympiadB20 Sicilian
9. S Takacs vs Tartakower  0-1441930Hamburg OlympiadA92 Dutch
10. F Apsenieks vs E Gilfer  1-0331930Hamburg OlympiadC50 Giuoco Piano
11. M Feigin vs E Thorvaldsson  1-0331930Hamburg OlympiadA45 Queen's Pawn Game
12. A Pokorny vs K Berndtsson 1-0341930Hamburg OlympiadE76 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack
13. C Carls vs G Thomas 1-0281930Hamburg OlympiadA16 English
14. H Mueller vs S Landau  1-0501930Hamburg OlympiadE19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3
15. J van den Bosch vs J Lokvenc 0-1371930Hamburg OlympiadB58 Sicilian
16. A Asgeirsson vs Petrov  0-1141930Hamburg OlympiadB56 Sicilian
17. I Rahm vs L Abramavicius  1-0511930Hamburg OlympiadD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
18. A Baratz vs A Ribera Arnal  1-0621930Hamburg OlympiadA06 Reti Opening
19. P Soler vs H Taubmann  ½-½371930Hamburg OlympiadD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
20. A Gromer vs Kashdan  ½-½511930Hamburg OlympiadC77 Ruy Lopez
21. H Weenink vs Kmoch  1-0631930Hamburg OlympiadA45 Queen's Pawn Game
22. Alekhine vs A Baratz 1-0361930Hamburg OlympiadD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
23. Flohr vs K Richter 1-0561930Hamburg OlympiadA52 Budapest Gambit
24. S Khan vs O Barda 1-0271930Hamburg OlympiadC01 French, Exchange
25. C Carls vs J Rejfir  ½-½201930Hamburg OlympiadA34 English, Symmetrical
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Kibitzer's Corner
Oct-06-23  generror: This is what William Winter had to tell the world about the game Sultan Khan - Kmoch in 1963:

<At the Team Tournament at Hamburg (1930) [Khan] also did extremely well on the top board against the best continental opposition though his apparent lack of any intelligible language annoyed some rivals. “What language does your champion speak?”, shouted the Austrian, Kmoch, after his third offer of a draw had been met only with Sultan’s gentle smile. “Chess”, I replied, and so it proved, for in a few moves the Austrian champion had to resign.>

Nice story, eh. This is what Kmoch had to say about it:

<Not that it matters, nor that I would cast any blame on the late Winter, whom I knew as a perfect gentleman. It is only for the sake of curiosity that I ask permission to comment on Winter’s story concerning my game against Sultan Khan.

I never asked Winter or anybody else what language Sultan Khan spoke. Nor did I shout (I never do). Sultan Khan and I had met before. What little conversation there was between us was done in English, of which we both had a command sufficient for the purpose.

Winter, being not asked, had no opportunity to reply “Chess” or anything else.

I did not offer a draw three times, nor did Sultan Khan, who never smiled, meet my offers with a smile. Nor again did I resign a few moves later. And I was not the Austrian champion (contests have not been held at all in my active time).

Sultan Khan had White; we played a Giuoco Piano. After a small number of moves, probably 18 or so, a position was reached which I considered as fully satisfactory for Black.

I offered a draw so as to gain time for my work as a reporter. (I used to be very strict in never offering a draw to anybody unless my position, to the best of my understanding, was fully satisfactory.)

Sultan Khan accepted my offer outright. The game’s ending in a draw is a provable fact.>

I am by now well acquainted with this strange notion of historical truth of many chess writers, but that anecdote isn't even based on a grain of truth, but complete fabrication. Amazing!

Oct-06-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sally Simpson: Hi generror,

Sadly Chess is littered with such myths. Edward Winter, no relation as far as I know except for the seasonal connection, and to a certain extent chessgames. com explodes a lot of them. See C.N. 3960 where Edward shatters this one.

Why William Winter fabricated such a tale which can easily be disproved I've no idea. Perhaps he got the opponent, the game and the date mixed up.

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