International Schaaktournooi Noordwijk 1938

Author: Hans Joseph Kmoch (1894-1973)Year: 1938Publisher: A W SijthoffPlace: LeidenDescription:viii+77 pages with table and diagrams. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards in original pictorial jacket. (Vanderlinde Niemeijeriana:5589) First edition1938 will go down in chess history as an outstanding year. It was ushered in by the traditional Invitation Masters Tournament sponsored by the Hastings and St. Leonard's Chess Club (England). In one of the strongest fields of recent years. United States Champion, Samuel Reshevsky, finished first, half a point ahead of C. H. O'D, Alexander (the British champion) and Paul Keres of Estonia. The center of interest then turned to the United States, which staged the biennial United States Chess Championship Tournament. Seventeen of the country's outstanding players battled for three weeks to determine the question of supremacy. The scene of action was the R.C.A. Building in New York City and Samuel Reshevsky repeated h