2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad
The 2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad (Summit) was held in Budapest, June 26 to July 15, 1926, during the FIDE Congress.[1] Team tournament (six teams applied but Austria and Czechoslovakia withdrew before the start) was won by Hungary. The individual tournaments, among them a masters', an open, and a women's tournament, had also been played. Ernst Grünfeld (Austria) and Mario Monticelli (Italy) won the individual event known as 1st FIDE Masters. Ms. Edith Holloway (England) won women's tournament and Sandor Zinner (Hungary) won an open tournament.[2]
Results
The final results were as follows:
Team Tournament
# Team Players Points 1 .svg.png)
Steiner E., Vajda, Sterk, Négyesy, Bakonyi, Zinner S. 9 2 .svg.png)
Kostić, Asztalos*, Ćirić, György* 8 3 
Balogh*, Bródy*, Tyroler*, Mendelssohn, Proca 5 4 .svg.png)
Moritz, Schönmann, Machate, Rüster 2
*HUN-born
First FIDE Masters
# Player Points Berger 1 
9½ 68.00 .svg.png)
9½ 65.25 3 9 67.00 9 63.50 .svg.png)
9 63.25 6 8½ 7 
8 56.75 8 .svg.png)
8 54.50 9 
7½ 59.25 10 7½ 56.75 11 6½ 12 
6 44.00 13 6 42.75 14 6 41.75 15 5½ 16 .svg.png)
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References
- Stanisław Gawlikowski Olimpiady szachowe 1924 - 1974 Wyd. Sport i Turystyka, Warszawa 1978
- OlimpBase :: Budapest 1926 Chess Summit: Team Tournament - Tournament Review
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