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Bucharest Tournament

Alexander Tolush14/19(+10 -1 =8)[games]
Tigran Petrosian13/19(+7 -0 =12)[games]
Vasily Smyslov12.5/19(+7 -1 =11)[games]
Boris Spassky12/19(+8 -3 =8)[games]
Laszlo Szabo12/19(+9 -4 =6)[games]
Isaac Boleslavsky12/19(+6 -1 =12)[games]
Gedeon Barcza11.5/19(+6 -2 =11)[games]
Stefan Szabo11/19(+6 -3 =10)[games]
Alberic O'Kelly de Galway11/19(+4 -1 =14)[games]
Bogdan Sliwa10.5/19(+6 -4 =9)[games]
Victor Ciocaltea9.5/19(+6 -6 =7)[games]
Miroslav Filip9.5/19(+7 -7 =5)[games]
Jaroslav Sajtar8.5/19(+4 -6 =9)[games]
Zdravko Milev8/19(+6 -9 =4)[games]
Olaf Barda8/19(+6 -9 =4)[games]
Gosta Stoltz7/19(+3 -8 =8)[games]
Harry Golombek6/19(+4 -11 =4)[games]
Mihai Radulescu6/19(+3 -10 =6)[games]
Octavio Troianescu5/19(+2 -11 =6)[games]
Emanoil-George Reicher3/19(+1 -14 =4)[games]

 page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 190  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. O'Kelly vs M Radulescu  1-0511953BucharestC42 Petrov Defense
2. Petrosian vs Golombek 1-0721953BucharestA47 Queen's Indian
3. Z Milev vs Smyslov 0-1361953BucharestC97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin
4. Spassky vs Smyslov 1-0351953BucharestE31 Nimzo-Indian, Leningrad, Main line
5. Tolush vs Smyslov 0-1371953BucharestA27 English, Three Knights System
6. Petrosian vs Spassky ½-½151953BucharestD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
7. Z Milev vs Szabo 0-1351953BucharestB92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
8. M Radulescu vs Szabo  0-1341953BucharestE00 Queen's Pawn Game
9. Szabo vs V Ciocaltea  ½-½411953BucharestB95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6
10. Szabo vs Petrosian  ½-½241953BucharestA49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
11. E Reicher vs S Szabo  0-1691953BucharestD78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6
12. S Szabo vs Sliwa  ½-½421953BucharestC77 Ruy Lopez
13. S Szabo vs Boleslavsky ½-½1041953BucharestB10 Caro-Kann
14. Filip vs J Sajtar  ½-½301953BucharestA28 English
15. G Stoltz vs Filip  1-0341953BucharestD85 Grunfeld
16. Filip vs S Szabo 1-0431953BucharestD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
17. Barcza vs Filip 0-1301953BucharestB76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack
18. J Sajtar vs Boleslavsky  ½-½321953BucharestA54 Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3
19. O'Kelly vs J Sajtar  ½-½161953BucharestB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
20. J Sajtar vs O Barda  0-1321953BucharestE40 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3
21. Sliwa vs G Stoltz 1-0411953BucharestE40 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3
22. Sliwa vs Barcza  ½-½421953BucharestD73 Neo-Grunfeld, 5.Nf3
23. E Reicher vs Sliwa  ½-½151953BucharestC49 Four Knights
24. Boleslavsky vs O Troianescu  ½-½451953BucharestE87 King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox
25. Boleslavsky vs G Stoltz  1-0511953BucharestD33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
 page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 190  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Oct-05-23  Orson00: Great tournament! Surprised by the lack of commentary...
Oct-05-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: Tolush had had a standard start to the tournament. In the first 7 rounds he had scored +2 -1 =4.

For the rest of the tournament said Tolush said,
<"I went on a roaring rampage of revenge. I roared and I rampaged and I got bloody satisfaction. In all, I've beaten 13 people to get to this point right now. I have only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination...">

I'm not sure Tolush was on about.

Oct-05-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sally Simpson: This was the tournament where Spassky became a Master with a little 'help from his friends' in the Kremlin.

https://www.kingpinchess.net/2007/1...

"Suddenly there came a telegram from Moscow ordering us to stop shedding our own blood and insisting that we should draw all our games between ourselves.

Luckily, I had already scored a point against Smyslov, but I think, taking into account my youth and lack of experience, that it would have been difficult for me to make draws with such grandmasters as Boleslavsky and Petrosyan.

However, this order from the Kremlin helped me, everybody obeyed it and so I became an International Master."

Oct-05-23  stone free or die: <offramp> - he likely was on about the poor copy.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki....

Oct-05-23  stone free or die: I think this is a nice enough tournament to desire an xtab and intro...
Oct-05-23  stone free or die: There's an online xtab here:

https://www.belgianchesshistory.be/...

I wonder if a Swiss xtab would clearly demonstrate the drawing decree mentioned by Sally?

Oct-05-23  stone free or die: <<Bucharest 1953>

The 1953 București (Romanian for Bucharest) International Invitational can be regarded as the strongest chess event ever held in Romania in the 20th century, and is often cited along with the 1954 tournament.

...

Alexander Tolush was awarded the GM title for his victory in Bucharest. This tournament triumph was by far the highlight of Tolush's career, an imaginative attacking player with rather erratic results. He was a well-known coach and chess journalist.

Tolush and Spassky began working together in 1952, and Tolush accompanied his pupil Spassky to his first international tournament in Bucharest, where they both played. Tolush was Spassky's coach for eight years, from 1952 to 1960. Alexander Tolush, born in 1910, died in 1969, just a few months before Boris Spassky became World Champion that year.

Boris Spassky was awarded the IM title for his fine joint fourth place, Filip and Sliwa were also awarded the IM title.>

https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-s...

Oct-05-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: Somewhere online I found a Romanian tournament book, can't remember if it was for this year or for 1954. Of course I can't find it now.
Oct-05-23  stone free or die: <kp> Maybe this one?

<Al III - lea Turneu International de Sah al Romaniei ian.-febr.1953>

https://www.okazii.ro/al-iii-lea-tu...

Looks like tournament was played over Jan-Feb 1953, which seems to match the couple of games I sampled.

Oct-05-23  stone free or die: It's for sale here:

https://chesscollectorshop.com/prod...

The RR xtab is given in a sample page. Is the next-to-last column the prize money or a tb score?

Oct-05-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: <stone free> Probably. But the full text was online.

And my eyes ain't so good, but I thought I saw something like Sonnenberg-Berger or whatever it is at the head of that column.

Oct-05-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  beatgiant: It looks like "Punctaj Sonneb-Berger." And you don't have to speak Romanian to guess it's the Sonneborn-Berger Score.
Oct-05-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: More information can be found here:

https://www.arhisah.ro/wp-content/u...

Oct-05-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: I see that Stalin's funeral was the biggest story in Romanian chess at the time.
Oct-05-23  stone free or die: <keypusher: I see that Stalin's funeral was the biggest story in Romanian chess at the time.>

Let sleeping dogs lie.

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