Maróczy Memorial Tournament in 1952 (5th part)

Submitted by cgs on Sun, 07/13/2008 at 7:17am.

The background of Maróczy’s retirement

Maróczy married in 1904, and had born one son and one daughter during his marriage. In 1908 he arrived at Worker Accident Insurance Booking-office to work. There he intended to present the best of his knowledge, and for this activity – and provision for his family – overnight threw away his world-wide fame and withdrew from chess-playing so to speak completely. If we examine the matter more intimately, was another cause of his retirement. The world successes of 1902-1908 years made the air re-echo among the government and community, and they gave testimony in form bankets and speeches. However he got holydays with great difficulties and intervene of patronage to preparations and engagment in competitions.Maróczy mostly started out to his competition from beside his writing-desk and usually arrived late. In spite of the fact he was participant in 17 tournament between 1900-1908, and achieved results: 7 first and 5 second places. In those years was his golden age. In this period he was held as the most qualified person to match his strenght against Lasker for the world championship.Dr. József Szily wrote a book about Maróczy in 1957: „The life and career of Géza Maróczy”. I’ll browse into the chapters: „At the head of tournaments of the world. (1902-1908)” in the next part, where we will know how subjected to conditions the world champion the invite. (to be continued)On the Memorial Tournament in the seventh round happened two world champion beating. The first did Szily against the real world champion Botvinnik, the second did Stahlberg against the next world champion Petrosian. (At a later date we are more wise) We can view either game, the second with analyzing of winner.

On the picture there are Maróczy and his wife in the early 1900 years.

Results, VII. series of games:

Szabó – Platz 1-0 Sliwa – Smyslov 0-1 Gereben – Barcza 0-1 Geller – Pilnik 1-0 Benko" – Troianescu 0-1 Golombek – Keres ½-½ Kottnauer – O’Kelly ½-½

Analyzis from chess-journal „Magyar Sakkélet”, 1952.

Analyzed by Gideon Stahlberg

Geller, Keres and Stahlberg are the leaders with 5,5 – 5,5 points. Stahlberg is still unbeaten.

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by chawil - 26 days ago
Lowestoft, Suffolk United Kingdom

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Dozy wrote :

"Quote: It’s visible that 42.Rxf6+ gxf6 43.Qxf6+ Ke8 44.Rxe7+ Qxe7 45.Qc6+ guarantees decisive advantage.

Csaba, If I haven't missed something it wouldn't be possible for black to play 44...Qxe7. Is the position correct?"

Dozy you are forgetting the sealed move 41...Qb4.

A note on sealed moves. These are made when a game runs into a second session of play and is adjourned. The player making the move writes it on a piece of paper which only he/she can see, seals it in an envelope and stops the game clock. The envelope is left, along with the game clock, with the tournament director for safe keeping. When the game is resumed the envelope is opened and the move sealed inside MUST be played. The game then resumes as normal, using the time left over from the previous session. Needless to say this gives the sealing player a tremendous advantage because only they know what the move is and so they can analyse the position extensively before play resumes.

by cgs - 46 days ago
Veszpre'm Hungary

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Dosy, as you see on the chessboard the Black Queen this move is impossible. (Qxe7) Earlier you can read that Black had put in envelope 41… Qb4. Thus the Queen could move from b4 to e7. It's my mistake that I began the analyzing with the 42nd move and not with the 41... Qb4. Naturally it happened at the end of Botvinnik game. Excuse me.