London Chess Congress 1946 (January 14th - January 26th)

Author: Edgar George Reginald Cordingley (1905-1962) editorYear: 1946Publisher: E G R CordingleyPlace: LondonDescription:[3]+43 pages with tables, index and diagrams. Quarto (10" x 8 14") bound in original publisher's blue cloth. Cordingley limited editions of tournament books number 16. Notes by I Konig, supplemented by notes of M Euwe, H Steiner, etal, specially written for this record of the first large post-war chess congress. (Betts: 25-86) First edition limited to 270 copies of which this is number 247.Typescript, numbered as leaves, but stenciled on both sides. All 132 games, annotated with and index of openings.In January 1946, less than one week after Hastings (1945/46), the newspaper Sunday Chronicle sponsored a Victory Tournament in Farringdon-street Memorial Hall, London, with Walter Hatton-Ward as director. The idea was to celebrate the end of the war, with attendance of masters from all over the world. Things had been lined up for the biggest of events, but eventually it