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🔹 AVRO 1938
🔹 By Dutch broadcasting company AVRO
🔹 November 6 - 27
🔹 Paul Keres | 8.5/14 (+3 -0 =11) |
🔰 The AVRO tournament was a famous chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO. The event was a double round-robin tournament between the eight strongest players in the world.
Paul Keres and Reuben Fine tied for first place, with Keres winning on tiebreak by virtue of his 1½-½ score in their individual games.
The tournament was presented as one to provide a challenger to World Champion Alexander Alekhine, though it had no official status. In any event, World War II dashed any hopes of a championship match for years to come. However, when FIDE organised its 1948 match tournament for the world title after Alekhine's death in 1946, it invited the six surviving AVRO participants (Capablanca had also died), except Flohr who was replaced by Vasily Smyslov.
The longest game was a 68-move win of Fine over Alekhine. The shortest game was a 19-move draw between Flohr and Fine. Of the 56 games played: White won seventeen, Black won seven, and thirty-two were drawn
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‼️ About Capablanca in this tournament:
Capablanca's play was satisfactory in the first half of the event (50%), but collapsed in the second half, when he lost three games. He had only lost 26 tournament games in 29 years. Hooper and Whyld say "he suffered a slight stroke". His wife Olga recalled that his high blood pressure nearly cost him his life: "A doctor screamed at me, 'How could you let him play?'" (at AVRO 1938). In a 1939 interview Capablanca attributed his performance to "very high blood pressure and related circulatory disorders". His doctor wrote that he had dangerously high blood pressure while he was treating him from 1940 until his death in 1942, and believed that it contributed to his death.
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🔰 AVRO (Algemeene Vereeniging voor Radio Omroep - literally the General Association for Radio Broadcasting) brought together the World Champion and every one of his major challengers. It ran from the 6th to the 27th of November 1938 with the players based in Amsterdam and each successive round played in a different Dutch town.
🌐 SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM & WIKIPEDIA
♦️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
♦️ Download "AVRO 1938" Games database by PGN format👇
♦️ Review our selected short game from this tournament👇
▪️ Paul Keres vs Jose Raul Capablanca
▪️ AVRO (1938), The Netherlands, rd 6, Nov-14
▪️ French Defense: Tarrasch Variation. Open System Main Line (C09)
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🔹 AVRO 1938
🔹 By Dutch broadcasting company AVRO
🔹 November 6 - 27
🔹 Paul Keres | 8.5/14 (+3 -0 =11) |
🔰 The AVRO tournament was a famous chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO. The event was a double round-robin tournament between the eight strongest players in the world.
Paul Keres and Reuben Fine tied for first place, with Keres winning on tiebreak by virtue of his 1½-½ score in their individual games.
The tournament was presented as one to provide a challenger to World Champion Alexander Alekhine, though it had no official status. In any event, World War II dashed any hopes of a championship match for years to come. However, when FIDE organised its 1948 match tournament for the world title after Alekhine's death in 1946, it invited the six surviving AVRO participants (Capablanca had also died), except Flohr who was replaced by Vasily Smyslov.
The longest game was a 68-move win of Fine over Alekhine. The shortest game was a 19-move draw between Flohr and Fine. Of the 56 games played: White won seventeen, Black won seven, and thirty-two were drawn
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
‼️ About Capablanca in this tournament:
Capablanca's play was satisfactory in the first half of the event (50%), but collapsed in the second half, when he lost three games. He had only lost 26 tournament games in 29 years. Hooper and Whyld say "he suffered a slight stroke". His wife Olga recalled that his high blood pressure nearly cost him his life: "A doctor screamed at me, 'How could you let him play?'" (at AVRO 1938). In a 1939 interview Capablanca attributed his performance to "very high blood pressure and related circulatory disorders". His doctor wrote that he had dangerously high blood pressure while he was treating him from 1940 until his death in 1942, and believed that it contributed to his death.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
🔰 AVRO (Algemeene Vereeniging voor Radio Omroep - literally the General Association for Radio Broadcasting) brought together the World Champion and every one of his major challengers. It ran from the 6th to the 27th of November 1938 with the players based in Amsterdam and each successive round played in a different Dutch town.
🌐 SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM & WIKIPEDIA
♦️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
♦️ Download "AVRO 1938" Games database by PGN format👇
♦️ Review our selected short game from this tournament👇
▪️ Paul Keres vs Jose Raul Capablanca
▪️ AVRO (1938), The Netherlands, rd 6, Nov-14
▪️ French Defense: Tarrasch Variation. Open System Main Line (C09)
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33.c6? [Kaidanov should not have rushed to push the c-pawn. The preparatory moves were necessary in order to make the advance of the pawn.]
[33.Bd2! △Na5 33...Qe7 34.c6 Be5 35.Qd7=]
33...Rc2! 34.Qd7 [¹34.Na5!? Nc3 △Ne2 35.Bb2 Ne2+ 36.Kf1 Rxb2 37.Nb3 e3! 38.fxe3 Nc3 39.c7 Nxd1 40.c8Q Nxe3+ 41.Kg1 Qxc8 42.Qxc8+ Kg7 43.Nc5 Rxg2+ 44.Kh1 Rf2 45.Qc7+ Kh6 46.h3 Re2-/+]
34...Qxd7 35.cxd7 Rc7 [△R×d7]
36.Bb2 Be7! [There's no need to rush to take the pawn.]
[36...Rxd7?! 37.Nc5! Re7 38.Bxf6 Nxf6 39.h3 Kf7 40.Rd6³]
37.Nd4 Kf7 [△R×d7]
38.f3 e3! 39.Bc1 Rxd7–+ 0–1
[33.Bd2! △Na5 33...Qe7 34.c6 Be5 35.Qd7=]
33...Rc2! 34.Qd7 [¹34.Na5!? Nc3 △Ne2 35.Bb2 Ne2+ 36.Kf1 Rxb2 37.Nb3 e3! 38.fxe3 Nc3 39.c7 Nxd1 40.c8Q Nxe3+ 41.Kg1 Qxc8 42.Qxc8+ Kg7 43.Nc5 Rxg2+ 44.Kh1 Rf2 45.Qc7+ Kh6 46.h3 Re2-/+]
34...Qxd7 35.cxd7 Rc7 [△R×d7]
36.Bb2 Be7! [There's no need to rush to take the pawn.]
[36...Rxd7?! 37.Nc5! Re7 38.Bxf6 Nxf6 39.h3 Kf7 40.Rd6³]
37.Nd4 Kf7 [△R×d7]
38.f3 e3! 39.Bc1 Rxd7–+ 0–1