1st Chess Balkaniad (men): Belgrade 1946

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Basic data

1st Chess Balkaniad (men)
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 24th - 31st August 1946
City: Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Venue: N/A
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: 4
Players participating: 35
Games played: 48
Competition format: Eight board round robin.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points
Time control: N/A
Downloadable game file: 46balk.zip (only 11 games are available)

Tournament review

N/A

Best board results

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Tsvetkov, Alexandar BUL 2½ 3 83.3
2. Troianescu, Octav ROM 2 3 66.7
3. Trifunović, Petar YUG 1½ 3 50.0

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Neikirch, Oleg BUL 2 3 66.7
2. Rădulescu, Mihai ROM 2 3 66.7
3. Pirc, Vasja YUG 2 3 66.7

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Gligorić, Svetozar YUG 3 3 100.0
2. Urseanu, Veniamin ROM 2 3 66.7
3. Toshev, Yury BUL ½ 3 20.0

4th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Kostić, Boris YUG 3 3 100.0
2. Seimeanu, Petre Vlad ROM 2 3 66.7
3. Malchev, Andrei BUL 1 3 33.3

5th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Popov, Veselin BUL 2½ 3 83.3
2. Vidmar, Milan jr YUG 2½ 3 83.3
3. Alexandrescu, Gheorghe ROM 1 3 33.3

6th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Tomović, Vasilje YUG 3 3 100.0
2. Kiprov, Alexandar BUL 1½ 3 50.0
3. Samarian, Sergiu ROM 1½ 3 50.0

7th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Andriţoiu, Nicolae ROM 1½ 3 50.0
2. Vuković, Savo YUG 1 2 50.0
3. Bederev BUL ½ 1 50.0

8th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Marković, Mihajlo YUG 1 1 100.0
2. Karastoichev, Emil BUL 2½ 3 83.3
3. Popa, Toma ROM 2 3 66.7

1st Reserve Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Rabar, Braslav YUG 2½ 3 83.3
2. Dimitrov, Krastjo BUL ½ 1 50.0

Interesting games


Simple yet romantic.
Gligorić, Svetozar (YUG) - Urseanu, Veniamin (ROM) 1 - 0

Black holds double "fouk" but still it doesn't help a little!
Karastoichev, Emil (BUL) - Vuković, Savo (YUG) 1 - 0