International tournament, Mar del Plata

13-03-1948 > 31-03-1948

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Tot
1 Eliskases, Erich Gottlieb ARG – 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 13
2 Ståhlberg, Gideon SWE 0 – ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 11½
3 Medina García, Antonio Ángel ESP ½ ½ – 0 0 1 1 1 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 11
4 Najdorf, Miguel ARG 0 1 1 – ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 0 1 ½ 10
5 Rossetto, Héctor Decio ARG ½ 0 1 ½ – 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 10
6 O’Kelly de Galway, Albéric BEL ½ 0 0 1 0 – ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 0 9½
7 Szabó, László HUN ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ – 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 9½
8 Maderna, Carlos Hugo ARG ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 – ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 0 1 9
9 Pilnik, Herman ARG ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ – 1 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 8½
10 Luckis, Marcos ARG 0 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 – ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 8
11 Bolbochán, Jacobo ARG 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ – 1 1 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 8
12 Michel, Paul ARG 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 – 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 8
13 Guimard, Carlos Enrique ARG ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 – 1 ½ 1 1 1 7
14 Castillo Larenas, Mariano CHI ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 – 1 ½ 0 1 6½
15 de Freitas, Márcio Elísio BRA 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 – 1 ½ 0 6½
16 Sanguinetti, Renato ARG 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ 0 – ½ ½ 6
17 Denker, Arnold Sheldon USA 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ – ½ 6
18 Olivera, Alfredo URU 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ – 5

This tournament clearly showed how many players stayed in Argentina after the 1939 olimpiad when WWII broke out: Eliskases and Michel (Germany), Najdorf (Poland) and Luckis (Lithuania) had all played there for a European team and didn’t go back. O’Kelly’s victory over Denker is quite famous.

Wanted

  • Some organisational details.

Sources

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