XVI Chess Olympiad Tel-Aviv November 1964

Author: Czerniak, Moshe (1910-1984)Year: 1966Publisher: Israel Chess FederationPlace: Tel AvivDescription:184 pages with diagrams, tables, illustrations and index. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine and the state medallion of the Olympics in Israel and on the back chess pieces in gilt. (Betts: 25-354) First edition.Contains 165 selected annotated games, individual results, reproductions of photographs of the players. Algebraic notation.The 16th Olympiad was the first ever to be held in Asia; it also attracted a new record number of participants. The chosen representatives of fifty countries entered for the event, among them a team from Australia. For the first time in the history of the Chess Olympiads, players from all five continents were able to take part in a world gathering. In the preliminaries, which took place from November 3rd to 10th, the big surprise was the failure of the East Germans to qualify for the Final. England