Groningen 1946: Het Staunton Wereldschaak Tournooi

Author: Machgielis (Max) Euwe (1901-1981) and Hans KmochYear: 1947Publisher: J Niemeijeris UitgeversmaatschaappiPlace: GroningenDescription:390 pages with tables, diagrams and plates. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Written in Dutch. (Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5677) First edition.The "miracle" tournament of Groningen (August-September 1946) - the miracle being that an event of such magnitude could be organized in war-torn Holland a mere fifteen months after the war - set a new trend in international tournaments. Except for Bogoljubow in the early 1920 and Botvinnik in the 1930s, only two Soviet players had been allowed to play abroad between the wars. Rabinovich at Baden-Baden,1925 and Ragozin at Semmering 1937. Here for the first time a whole team of Soviet masters came to tackle the enemy in his own territory - successfully, as it turned out, four of the Soviet players occupied first, third, sixth and seventh places and the fifth