Mirotvor Schwartz CHESS HISTORY on STAMPS (1950-1959)
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Mirotvor Schwartz CHESS HISTORY ON STAMPS (1950-1959) This is a part of my “CHESS HISTORY ON STAMPS” thematic exhibit. It covers events that took place during the 1950s (from 1950 to 1959). Hungarian Championship 1950 (postponed from 1949) (Budapest) 1.Gedeon Barcza (2.Ferenc Koberl, 3-4.Jozsef Pogats, Gyorgy Szilagyi) Women's Hungarian Championship 1950 (Tatabanya) 1.Jozsa Langos (2.Marta Vanyi, 3.Erzebet Finta) 1 Candidates Tournament 1950 (Budapest) 1.David Bronstein (USSR) 2.Isaac Boleslavsky (USSR) 8-10.Andor Lilienthal (USSR) 8-10.Laszlo Szabo (Hungary) (3.Vasily Smyslov (USSR)) 2 Olympiad 1950 (Dubrovnik) 1.Yugoslavia (Svetozar Gligoric, Vasja Pirc, Petar Trifunovic, Braslav Rabar, Milan Vidmar Jr, Stojan Puc) (2.Argentina, 3.West Germany) 3 Hungarian Championship 1950 (Budapest) 1.Laszlo Szabo (2.Gedeon Barcza, 3.Pal Benko) Lucerne International Tournament 1950/51 1-2.Max Euwe (Netherlands) (NOTE: This pertains to the image on the left only). (1-2.Hermann Pilnik (Argentina), 3-4.Alberto Mario Giustolisi (Italy), Martin Christoffel (Switzerland)) 4 Women's Hungarian Championship 1951 (Budapest) 1.Jozsa Langos (2.Belane Kertesz, 3-4.Klara Dancs, Erzebet Finta) World Championship 1951 (Moscow) Game 23: Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR) - David Bronstein (USSR) 1:0 Botvinnik - Bronstein 12:12 5 Women’s Soviet Championship 1951 (Kyiv) 1.Kira Zvorykina (2.Olga Ignatieva, 3-4.Valentina Borisenko, Larisa Volpert) Hungarian Championship 1951 (Budapest) 1.Gedeon Barcza (2.Laszlo Szabo, 3.Elek Bakonyi) 6 Geza Maroczy Memorial 1952 (Budapest) 1.Paul Keres (USSR) 6.Laszlo Szabo (Hungary) (2.Efim Geller (USSR), 3-5.Gideon Stahlberg (Sweden), Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR), Vasily Smyslov (USSR)) Olympiad 1952 (Helsinki) 6.Hungary (Laszlo Szabo, Gedeon Barcza, Jozsef Szily, Tibor Florian, Jozsef Pogats, Istvan Molnar) (1.USSR, 2.Argentina, 3.Yugoslavia) 7 Interzonal Tournament 1952 (Saltsjobaden) 15.Gedeon Barcza (Hungary) (Qualified for Candidates Tournament 1953: 1.Alexander Kotov (USSR), 2-3.Mark Taimanov (USSR), Tigran Petrosian (USSR), 4.Efim Geller (USSR), 5.Yuri Averbakh (USSR), 6.Gideon Stahlberg (Sweden), 7.Laszlo Szabo (Hungary), 8.Svetozar Gligoric (Yugoslavia)) Women’s Candidates Tournament 1952 (Moscow) 8-10.Jozsa Langos (Hungary) (1.Elisaveta Bykova (USSR), 2-3.Fenny Heemskerk (Netherlands), Olga Ignatieva (USSR)) 8 Hungarian Championship 1952 (Budapest) 1.Laszlo Szabo (2.Gedeon Barcza, 3.Lajos Tipary) Women's Hungarian Championship 1952 (Budapest) 1.Jozsa Langos (2.Belane Kertesz, 3-4.Lujza Gurszky, Iren Honsch) 9 Bucharest International Tournament 1953 Boris Spassky (USSR) - Vasily Smyslov (USSR) 1:0 (don’t mind Wilhelm Steinitz’s pic, it was supposed to be Spassky’s) 3.Vasily Smyslov (USSR) 4-6.Boris Spassky (USSR) (1.Alexander Tolush (USSR), 2.Tigran Petrosian (USSR)) 10 Women’s World Championship 1953 (Moscow) Lyudmila Rudenko (USSR) - Elisaveta Bykova (USSR) 6:8 Elisaveta Bykova became the third women’s world champion. 11 Candidates Tournament 1953 (Zurich) 13.Svetozar Gligoric (Yugoslavia) (1.Vasily Smyslov (USSR), 2-4.David Bronstein (USSR), Paul Keres (USSR), Samuel Reshevsky (USA)) Hungarian Championship 1953 (Budapest) 1.Bela Sandor (2.Gyula Kluger, 3-4.Gedeon Barcza, Lajos Tipary) 12 Women's Hungarian Championship 1953 (Budapest) 1.Zoltanne Herendi (2.Borbala Bradt, 3.Brigitta Sinka) 13 Women’s Soviet Championship 1953 (Rostov-on-Don) 1.Kira Zvorykina (2.Lyudmila Rudenko, 3-5.Valentina Borisenko, Larisa Volpert, Olga Semenova-Tyan-Shanskaya) 14 Yugoslav Championship 1953 (Zagreb) 1-3.Vasja Pirc (1-3.Braslav Rabar, Andrija Fuderer) 15 World Championship 1954 (Moscow) Game 12: Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR) - Vasily Smyslov (USSR) 1:0 Botvinnik - Smyslov 12:12 Hungarian Championship 1954 (Budapest) 1.Laszlo Szabo (2.Pal Benko, 3-4.Gedeon Barcza, Miklos Bely) 16 Olympiad 1954 (Amsterdam) 3.Yugoslavia (Vasja Pirc, Svetozar Gligoric, Petar Trifunovic, Braslav Rabar, Andrija Fuderer, Aleksandar Matanovic) 6.Hungary (Laszlo Szabo, Gyula Kluger, Gedeon Barcza, Bela Sandor, Erno Gereben) (1.USSR, 2.Argentina) 17 Women's Hungarian Championship 1954 (Budapest) 1.Belane Kertesz 2.Josza Langos (3.Borbala Bradt) Hungarian Championship 1955 (Budapest) 1.Gedeon Barcza (2.Laszlo Szabo, 3-4.Gyorgy Szilagyi, Pal Benko) 18 Women’s Belgrade Championship 1955 1-2.Katarina Jovanovic Women's Hungarian Championship 1955 (Budapest) 1.Erzebet Finta (2.Brigitta Sinka, 3.Edit Lang) 19 World Student Team Championship 1955 (Lyon) 3.Hungary Gyozo Forintos (Hungary) (1.USSR, 2.Yugoslavia) 20 Team Match 1955 (Budapest) Hungary - USSR 12:20 Pal Benko (Budapest), top performer on the Hungarian team Team Match 1955 (Moscow) Samuel Reshevsky (USA) - Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR) 1:0 Overall: Reshevsky - Botvinnik 2½ : 1½ USSR - USA 25:7 21 Women’s Candidates Tournament 1955 (Moscow) 14.Eva Kertesz (Hungary) (1.Olga Rubtsova (USSR), 2.Larisa Volpert (USSR), 3.Edith Keller-Herrmann (East Germany)) Women’s Zagreb International Tournament 1955 1.Jozsa Langos (Hungary) (2-3.Milunka Lazarevic (Yugoslavia)) 22 World Deaf and Mute Championship 1956 (Zakopane) (1.Mojmir Svabensky (Czechoslovakia), 2.Atanas Nedev (Bulgaria), 3.Roland Walter (West Germany)) 23 World Student Team Championship 1956 (Uppsala, Sweden) 2.Hungary Istvan Bilek (Hungary) Gyozo Forintos (Hungary) (1.USSR, 3.Yugoslavia) 24 Candidates Tournament 1956 (Amsterdam) 3-7.Laszlo Szabo (Hungary) (1.Vasily Smyslov (USSR), 2.Paul Keres (USSR)) U.S. Junior Chess Championship 1956 (Philadelphia) 1.Robert James Fischer (USA) (2-3.Charles Henin, Arthur Feuerstein) 25 Olympiad 1956 (Moscow) 2.Yugoslavia (Svetozar Gligoric, Aleksandar Matanovic, Borislav Ivkov, Nikola Karaklajic, Borislav Milic, Bozidar Djurasevic) 3.Hungary (Pal Benko, Lajos Portisch) (1.USSR) 26 Women’s World Championship 1956 (Moscow) 1.Olga Rubtsova (USSR) (2.Elisaveta Bykova (USSR), 3.Lyudmila Rudenko (USSR)) Olga Rubtsova became the fourth women’s world champion. 27 Rosenwald Trophy 1956 (New York) Donald Byrne (USA) - Robert James Fischer (USA) 0:1 5-7.Donald Byrne (USA) 8-10.Robert James Fischer (USA) (1.Samuel Reshevsky (USA), 2.Arthur Bisguier (USA), 3-4.Edmar J. Mednis (USA), Arthur Feuerstein (USA)) 28 Women’s Soviet Championship 1956 (Dnepropetrovsk) 1.Kira Zvorykina (2.Larisa Volpert, 3.Valentina Borisenko) 29 Women's Hungarian Championship 1956 (Budapest) 1.Belane Kertesz 2.Iren Honsch (3.Jozsa Langos) 30 Hungarian Championship 1957 (postponed from 1956) (Budapest) 1.Gedeon Barcza 2-3.Istvan Bilek (2-3.Pal Benko) Soviet Championship 1957 (Moscow) 1.Mikhail Tal (2-3.David Bronstein, Paul Keres) 31 World Championship 1957 (Moscow) Game 17: Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR) - Vasily Smyslov (USSR) 0:1 Botvinnik - Smyslov 9½ : 12½ 32 Vasily Smyslov became the seventh world champion. 33 Women’s Olympiad 1957 (Emmen, Netherlands) 1.USSR (Kira Zvorykina) 4.Hungary (Iren Honsch, Eva Kertesz) (2.Romania, 3.East Germany) 34 Women's Hungarian Championship 1957 (Budapest) 1.Iren Honsch (2.Brigitta Sinka, 3.Belane Kertesz) 35 U.S. Championship 1957/58 (New York) 1.Bobby Fischer (qualified for Interzonal Tournament 1958) (2.Samuel Reshevsky, 3.James Sherwin) 36 Hungarian Championship 1958 (postponed from 1957) (Budapest) 1.Lajos Portisch (2.Karoly Honfi, 3-4.Gedeon Barcza, Gyozo Forintos) Soviet Championship 1958 (Riga) 1.Mikhail Tal (2.Tigran Petrosian, 3.David Bronstein) 37 Women’s World Championship 1958 (Moscow) Olga Rubtsova (USSR) - Elisaveta Bykova (USSR) 5½ : 8½ Elisaveta Bykova regained her women’s world champion title. 38 World Championship 1958 (Moscow) Vasily Smyslov (USSR) - Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR) 10½ : 12½ Mikhail Botvinnik regained his world champion title. 39 Women's Hungarian Championship 1958 (Budapest) 1.Istvanne Bilek (2.Gyulane Karakas, 3-4.Erzebet Finta, Jozsa Langos) World Student Team Championship 1958 (Varna) (1.USSR, 2.Bulgaria, 3.Czechoslovakia) 40 Interzonal Tournament 1958 (Portoroz, Yugoslavia) Fridrik Olafsson (Iceland) - Bobby Fischer (USA) 1:0 Svetozar Gligoric (Yugoslavia) - Bobby Fischer (USA) ½ : ½ 1.Mikhail Tal (USSR) (qualified for Candidates Tournament 1959) 2.Svetozar Gligoric (Yugoslavia) (qualified for Candidates Tournament 1959) 5-6.Fridrik Olafsson (Iceland), Bobby Fischer (USA) (both qualified for Candidates Tournament 1959) (Also qualified for Candidates Tournament 1959: 3-4.Tigran Petrosian, Pal Benko) 41 Olympiad 1958 (Munich) Svetozar Gligoric (Yugoslavia), Best Performance on Board One 2.Yugoslavia 13.Hungary (Laszlo Szabo, Gedeon Barcza, Lajos Portisch, Istvan Bilek, Karoly Honfi, Gyozo Forintos) (1.USSR, 3.Argentina) 42 Hungarian Championship 1958 (Budapest) 1.Lajos Portisch (2.Laszlo Szabo, 3.Gedeon Barcza) Correspondence Olympiad 1958-61 2.Hungary (Janos Balogh, Jozsef Szily, Karoly Honfi, Ervin Haag, Nandor Dalko, Sandor Brilla-Banfalvi) (1.USSR, 3.Yugoslavia) 43 Women’s Candidates Tournament 1959 (Plovdiv) 7.Eva Ladanyike-Karakas (Hungary) (1.Kira Zvorykina (USSR), 2.Verica Nedeljkovic (Yugoslavia), 3.Larisa Volpert (USSR)) 44 World Student Team Championship 1959 (Budapest) 3.Hungary Istvan Bilek (Hungary) Gyozo Forintos (Hungary) (1.Bulgaria, 2.USSR) 45 Candidates Tournament 1959 (Bled – Zagreb – Belgrade) Mikhail Tal (USSR) - Vasily Smyslov (USSR) 1:0 46 1.Mikhail Tal (USSR) 4.Vasily Smyslov (USSR) 8.Pal Benko (2.Paul Keres (USSR), 3.Tigran Petrosian (USSR)) 47 Women's Hungarian Championship 1959 (Budapest) 1.Jenone Sillye (2.Karolyne Honfi, 3.Istvanne Bilek) Hungarian Championship 1959 (Budapest) 1.Laszlo Szabo (2.Gedeon Barcza, 3.Lajos Portisch) 48 Women’s World Championship 1959/60 (Moscow) Elisaveta Bykova (USSR) - Kira Zvorykina (USSR) 8½ : 4½ 1940-1949 1960-1969 CHESS HISTORY ON STAMPS 49 .