Maróczy Memorial Tournament in 1952 (3rd part)

Submitted by cgs on Tue, 07/01/2008 at 1:28pm.

Difficulties of career Maróczy’s. Four Queens on the chessboard at the same time

In the first decade of 20th century Maróczy was estimeed as the most deserving adversary of the world champion. In his time the title of world champion was in private ownership and had to pay for the invite high amount of money. He never had enough money for this purpose. Although he was obtaining the series of victories for Hungarian people, and achieved the apprecation of world’s chess-players, the Hungarian State didn’t guarantee the possibility for him to participate in tournaments constantly. He never got such employment which would have insured the required oppurtinity to take part in a tuornament. His official bosses refused the holydays from him in a lot of instance. When Maróczy reached the I.-III. place in Munich, they refused from the prolongation of his holyday with some days, and so he couldn’t have played the threefold all-against-all tournament for the first place.Between such conditions, in the full vigour of manhood, in 1908 he withdrew from the active engagment in competition temporalily… (to be continued)Here is a scarce photograph: Chalupetzky and Maróczy at the chessboard in 1924, Gyor. (from the Gyor Tournament-book) Both of eminent chess-players died in 1951. (19, August and 29, May)

Results, IV. series of games:

Smyslov – Benko" 1-0 Platz – Geller 0-1 Troianescu – Szabó 1-0 Keres – Pilnik 1-0 O’Kelly – Gereben ½-½ Petrosian – Sliwa 1-0 Kottnauer – Szily 1-0 Botvinnik – Stahlberg ½-½

Analyzed by Csaba Gerencsér

Results, V. series of games:

Sliwa – Keres 0-1 Szily – O’Kelly ½-½ Stahlberg – Barcza ½-½ Golombek – Platz 1-0 Szabó – Botvinnik ½-½ Pilnik – Smyslov 1-0 Benko" – Kottnauer 1-0 Geller – Petrosian ½-½