Das Meisterturnier - Kleine Bücherei der großen Schachereignisse, Heft 2: Die Weltmeisterschaft 1948
by Werner Laaser
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
72 pages with diagrams, tables and photographs. Octavo (8" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers First edition.
The 1948 World Chess Championship was a 5 player five-cycle round robin (each player plays against each other 5 times) between 37 year old Mikhail Botvinnik of the Soviet Union, 27 year old Vasily Smyslov also of the Soviet Union, 37 year old Smauel Reshevsky of the United States, 32 year old Paul Keres of the Soviet Union and 47 year old Max Euwe of the Netherlands. After 25 rounds of play, Botvinnik was crowded the first FIDE world champion finishing with 14 points out a possible 25. Smyslov took second with 11. Tied for third were Reshevsky and Keres each finishing with 10 1/2. Euwe came in last,and only had 4 points, 6 1/2 points behind 3rd place and 10 points behind the winner. Mikhail Botvinnik had became the 6th official world championship.
Condition: Light edge wear with bumped corners, pages age toned else very good.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C2620a
- Title
- Das Meisterturnier - Kleine Bücherei der großen Schachereignisse, Heft 2: Die Weltmeisterschaft 1948
- Author
- Werner Laaser
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Otto Meissners Verlag
- Date Published
- 1949
- Pages
- 72 pages with diagrams, tables and photographs
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
- Bookseller catalogs
- /chess;
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