3rd Clare Benedict Chess Cup: Lenzerheide 1956

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Basic data

3rd Clare Benedict Chess Cup
(see all-time tournament summary)
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!)



Final standings

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 Nestler
4. Switzerland SUI 9
5. Austria AUT 8
6. England ENG Golombek


Tournament review

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.



Best board results

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Viewable games


Only some of games from this event are available. As we are not able to offer you detailed results at the moment, you may browse them from here:

See the games online


This one is nonexistent in any chess database, but is one of most thrilling draws all-time!
Paoli, Enrico (ITA) - Schmid, Lothar (GER) ½ - ½