Budapest World Candidates Tournament 1950

Author: Edgar George Reginald Cordingley (1905-1962) editorYear: 1951Publisher: Chess Students QuarterlyPlace: LondonDescription:72 pages with 2 tables and index. Octavo (8" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to cover. Cordingley limited editions of tournament books number 18. (Betts: 25-197) First edition.Typescript. Limited edition of 360 copies of which this is number 335. The first candidates' Tournament in the newly inaugurated series of world championship qualifying tournaments. All 90 games are given, most with notes from various sources. Includes an introduction and indexes of players. Re-issued Nottingham, The Chess Player, 1967. After the FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948) was held, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) began a series of cycles that would select a challenger to Mikhail Botvinnik. The tournament was held from April 9 through May 16 (and the subsequent play-off was held in July and August) . The world was divided