World Championship Match between Mikhail Botvinnik and David Bronstein and the Staunton Memorial Tournament 1951

Author: Wood, Baruch Harold [editor]Year: 1951Publisher: ChessPlace: Sutton ColdfieldDescription:[138]-268 pages with diagrams, tables, photographs and illustrations. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7 1/2") bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and original wrappers bound in. Volume 16, numbers 187-191 of Chess magazine. First edition.The 1951 World Chess Championship was between 39 year old defending champion Mikhail Botvinnik of the Soviet Union and 27 year old challenger David Bronstein who was also the defending champion. To determine who would challenge Botvinnik for the title, FIDE held one interzonal tournament, with the top 8 advancing. The top 8 advancing were Bronstein (13.5/19), Laszlo Szabo (12.5/19), Isaac Boleslavsky (12/19), Alexander Kotov (11.5/19), Andre Lilienthal (11/19) along with Miguel Najdorf, Gideon Stahlberg and Salomon Flohr (those 3, along with Igor Bondarevsky all finished with 10.5/19, and were going to compete for the 3 remaining spots in the next roun