| 3rd Swiss Team Chess Championship: 1953 |
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| 3rd Swiss Team Chess Championship (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Dates: | 10th May - October 1953 |
| City: | Various locations (season-long competition) |
| Organizers: | Schweizerischer Schachverein |
| Tournament Director: | |
| Chief Arbiter: | |
| Teams participating: | 6 4 teams retained from the 1952 top division New entrants: SG Zürich and CÉ Court. The admission route remains unconfirmed. |
| Players participating: | 59 (incl. 2 IMs) |
| Games played: | 80 (2 games were forfeited) |
| Competition format: | Round Robin |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Match points; 2. Game points |
| Time control: | |
| Sources: | SSZ 1953, no. 4, p. 61 (schedule) and no. 11, p. 184 (results and final table); newspaper clippings supplied by the user. |
| PGN game file: | 53swiss.pgn |
| Individual results are incomplete: 10 board results from the first round are missing. Final standings (match points / board points): Zürich 7/17½, Nimzowitsch 6/17, Basel 5/15, Genève 5/13, Luzern 4/15½, Court 3/12. The published score of Leepin-Batchinsky ends at 42.Nd4, before the actual resignation. | |