World Championship Candidates' Tournament, 1953 at Neuhausen and Zurich
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World Championship Candidates' Tournament, 1953 at Neuhausen and Zurich

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Author: William Winter (1897-1955) and David Vincent HooperYear: 1968Publisher: Chess PlayerPlace: NottinghamDescription: [4]=96 pages in type script with table and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 8") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Annotations b D Hooper and W Winter. (Betts 25-121) Chess Player number 77 first published by Ken Whyld in 1953. The Swiss Chess Federation spent 100,000 Swiss francs in order to stage the event, which was one of the reasons they insisted that host countries pay the travel expenses for their respective players. Prize money for first place was 5,000 Swiss francs. Alois Nagler was tournament director.  All contestants brought a second except for Bronstein and Reshevsky: Petar Trifunovic (Gligoric), Salomon Flohr (Taimanov), Julio Bolbochan (Najdorf), Andre Lilienthal (Petrosian), Mikhail Beilin (Averbakh), Carel Benjamin van den Berg (Euwe), Kristian Skold (Stahlberg), Tibor Florian (Szabó), Alexey Sokolsky (Boleslavsky), Viktor Moiseev (Kotov), Igor Bo

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