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Overview of the events of 1932 in chess
Events in
chess in 1932:
Tournaments
No tournaments in 1932 equal the strength of Bled 1931, but several important contests are held.
[1]
Hastings 1931/2 won by
Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia) scoring 8/9, followed by
Isaac Kashdan (United States) with 7½. Further back were
Max Euwe (Netherlands) at 5½ and
Mir Sultan Khan (India) at 4½.
London "Sunday Referee" tournament featured five players from Hastings (Flohr, Kashdan, Sultan Khan,
Sir George Thomas , and
Vera Menchik ) with the addition of
Alexander Alekhine (France),
Savielly Tartakower , and
Géza Maróczy . Alekhine won 9/11, followed by Flohr at 8 and Kashdan and Khan tied at 7½.
Bern featured the
most important tournament of the year, with ten Swiss players and six foreign masters. Alekhine won scoring 12½/15, followed by Euwe and Flohr at 11½, Sultan Khan at 11, and
Ossip Bernstein and
Efim Bogoljubov at 10½.
Pasadena won by Alekhine 8½/11, followed by Kashdan at 7½, and
Arthur Dake ,
Samuel Reshevsky , and
Herman Steiner at 6.
Mexico City hosts the first international chess tournament held in Mexico. Alekhine and Kashdan share first with 8½/9, followed by Captain
José Joaquín Araiza (champion of Mexico and organizer of the tournament) at 6.
Hungarian Championship won by
Géza Maróczy 13/17 ahead of
Esteban Canal at 12,
Endre Steiner at 11, and
Lajos Steiner and
Andor Lilienthal tied at 10½.
British Championship won by
Sultan Khan 8½/11, followed by
C. H. O'D Alexander , at 8,
Sir George Thomas at 7,
R. P. Michell at 6½, and
Theodore Tylor and defending champion
Frederick Yates tied at 6.
Bad Sliač won by
Salo Flohr and
Milan Vidmar tied at 9½/13, followed by
Vasja Pirc at 8½ and
Esteban Canal ,
Géza Maróczy , and
Rudolf Spielmann at 8.
Western Chess Association Championship at
Minneapolis won by
Reuben Fine with 9½, followed by
Samuel Reshevsky at 9,
Fred Reinfeld at 8½, and
Herman Steiner at 7½.
Trebitsch Memorial in
Vienna is won by
Albert Becker with 9/11, ahead of
Ernst Grünfeld with 7½ and
Erich Eliskases and
Baldur Hönlinger tied at 7.
[2]
Matches
Alexander Alekhine remains
World Champion as no championship matches are held.
[1]
Exhibitions
Several record-breaking
exhibitions were held in 1932.
[1]
George Koltanowski played 160 boards simultaneously at
Antwerp , with 135 wins, 18 draws, and 6 losses.
[3]
Koltanowski also holds the
blindfold simultaneous record with 30 boards, winning 20 and drawing 10 with no losses.
Alexander Alekhine played 60 teams of five players each in
Paris , winning 37, drawing 17, and losing 6.
José Raúl Capablanca played 66 teams of five players each in
Havana , winning 46, drawing 16, and losing 4.
Births
Deaths
January 12 –
Daniël Noteboom , 21, Dutch player, namesake of the Noteboom Variation of the
Slav Defense
April 20 –
Edgard Colle , 34, Belgian player, namesake of the
Colle System
April 22 –
Alexander Fritz , 79, German player, namesake of the Fritz Variation of the
Two Knights Defense
April 22 –
Sándor Takács , 39, Hungarian player
June 15 –
Louis van Vliet , 77, Dutch player
November 4 –
Rudolf Loman , 71, Dutch player, winner of several unofficial
Dutch Championships
November 10 –
Frederick Yates , 48, English chess player and six-time
British Champion
November 25 –
Fritz Riemann , 73, German player
November 16 –
Hermanis Matisons , 38, Latvian player and problemist
References
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a
b
c
Kashdan, Isaac , ed. (January 1933), "A Review of the Year",
The Chess Review , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3–4
^ Kashdan, Isaac, ed. (February 1933), "News of the Month",
The Chess Review , vol. 1, no. 2, p. 2
^ These numbers add up to 159, but are given in The Chess Review , Vol. 1. No. 1, p. 4. Perhaps one game was not finished.
Burgess, Graham (1999), Chess Highlights of the 20th Century , Gambit Publications,
ISBN
1-901983-21-8
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