1933 in chess

Events in chess in 1933:

*The 5th Chess Olympiad (known at the time as the Folkestone Team Tournament or the Hamilton-Russell Cup) is held in Folkestone. The United States wins the gold medal, Czechoslovakia silver, and Sweden bronze.
*The Women's World Championship is held in conjunction with the Olympiad. Vera Menchik (Czechoslovakia) easily retains her title.
*The Bulgarian Championship is inaugurated in Varna.
*"Chess Review" is established by Isaac Kashdan. The leading American chess magazine for most of its run, the "Chess Review" would be published from January 1933 until November 1969 when it merged with "Chess Life" to form "Chess Life & Review".

Tournaments

*Hastings Christmas Congress, held 28 December 1932 to 6 January 1933, is won by Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia) for the second consecutive year, scoring 7/9 with no losses. Vasja Pirc (Yugoslavia) is second with 6½ followed by Mir Sultan Khan with 6. []

Matches

*57th Varsity Match in April is won by Oxford over Cambridge, 5–2. Cambridge leads the overall series by 26 matches to 25, with 6 ties.citation|editor-last=Kashdan|editor-first=Isaac|author-link=Isaac Kashdan|title=News of the Month|periodical=The Chess Review|year=1933|month=May|volume=1|issue=5|page=3]
*Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia) beats Henry Grob (Switzerland), 4½–1½.
*Reuben Fine defeats Arthur Dake +4−2=3 in a match held in New York City at the Marshall Chess Club and the Manhattan Chess Club.
*Flohr and Mikhail Botvinnik draw a match held in Moscow and Leningrad, 2 wins, 2 losses and eight draws each.citation|editor-last=Kashdan|editor-first=Isaac|author-link=Isaac Kashdan|title=News Events|periodical=The Chess Review|year=1933|month=November–December|volume=1|issue=11–12|page=2]

Exhibitions

*The National Chess Federation (United States) organized a chess program for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. World Champion Alexander Alekhine played a blindfold simultaneous exhibition on a record-setting 32 boards, winning 19, drawing 9, and losing 4. This broke the previous record of 30 simultaneous blindfold games set by George Koltanowski in Antwerp. Alekhine also played three games of living chess, in which the chess pieces were people in medieval costumes arrayed on a large outdoor board. The last of these games, held on June 19, was against Edward Lasker. A masters tournament was planned for the Fair but was canceled due to lack of funds. The scheduled Intercollegiate Tournament was held and was won by Lieutenant John O. Matheson of West Point.citation|editor-last=Kashdan|editor-first=Isaac|author-link=Isaac Kashdan|title=Picking Up the News|periodical=The Chess Review|year=1933|month=September|volume=1|issue=9|pages=3–5]

Births

*Burt Hochberg, American chess writer and editor
*February 3 — Raúl Sanguinetti in Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentinan GM
*March 5 – Evgeni Vasiukov in Moscow, Russian/Soviet GM
*May 29 – Nikola Padevsky in Plovdiv, Bulgarian GM
*September 30 – János Flesch in Budapest, Hungarian GM
*October 7 – Jonathan Penrose in Colchester, English GM and Correspondence GM
*October 15 – Zadok Domnitz in Tel Aviv
*October 15 – James Sherwin in New York City, American IM
*November 12 – Borislav Ivkov in Belgrade, Serbian/Yugoslavian GM
*November 13 – Bukhuti Gurgenidze in Surami, Georgia, Georgian/Soviet GM
*November 15 – Egon Varnusz in Budapest, Hungarian FM and chess writer

Deaths

*March 7 – Hermann von Gottschall, 70, German player
*March 27 – William Samuel Viner, 52, Australian player
*April 23 – Henry William Barry, 54, American problemist and problem editor of the "American Chess Bulletin"
*July 22 – Adolf Georg Olland, 66, leading Dutch player
*October 17 – Johann Berger, 88, Austrian player, theorist, and endgame composer

References

External links

* [http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables4.htm 1933 crosstables]