XI olympiade des echecs schaakolympiade

Author: Fédération Internationale des ÉchecsYear: 1954Publisher: Fédération Internationale des ÉchecsPlace: AmsterdamDescription:unpaginaged with eight pages of plates, tables and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. (Foldeak 218) First edition.During the war and in the decade afterwards Argentina became quite a force in the chess world. This stimulated the national federation to undertake - at the FIDE Congress at Helsinki - the organization of the 11th Olympiad. It promised to refund the traveling expenses (continent to continent) of the European teams, which comprised the best part of the competitors - both as regards quantity and quality. With preparations along these lines in progress everywhere the Argentine Chess Federation stated, only six weeks before the proposed date of the start, that growing financial difficulties prevented it from organizing the Olympiad after all. It seemed that the great event would fall through, but two days later Hol