| 3rd Clare Benedict Chess Cup: Lenzerheide 1956 |
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| 3rd Clare Benedict Chess Cup (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | 1956 |
| City: | Lenzerheide, Switzerland |
| Venue: | N/A |
| Tournament Director: | N/A |
| Chief Arbiter: | N/A |
| Teams participating: | 6 |
| Players participating: | N/A (probably 30) |
| Games played: | 60 |
| Competition format: | Four board round robin. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points |
| Time control: | N/A |
| Downloadable game file: | 56cbc.zip (only 3 games are available!) |
| no. | team | code | ∑ | players |
| 1. | West Germany | GER | 14 | Unzicker, Darga, Schmid, Niephaus |
| 2. | Netherlands | NED | 13 | Euwe, Van den Berg, Van Scheltinga, Donner |
| 3. | Italy | ITA | 9½ | Nestler |
| 4. | Switzerland | SUI | 9 | |
| 5. | Austria | AUT | 8 | |
| 6. | England | ENG | 6½ | Golombek |
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West Germany appeared for the first time led by Unzicker and Schmid to take their first ever trophy. Virtually the same squad took excellent 5th in the 12th Olympiad in Moscow 1956 later on that year. |
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