4th Swiss Team Chess Championship: 1954

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4th Swiss Team Chess Championship
(see all-time tournament summary)
Dates: 2nd May - 3rd October 1954
City: Various locations (season-long competition)
Organizers: Schweizerischer Schachverein
Tournament Director:
Chief Arbiter:
Teams participating: 5
4 teams retained from the 1953 top division
New entrant: SG Schaffhausen. Genève did not take part and Court left the top division.
Players participating: 63 (incl. 2 IMs)
Games played: 64
Competition format: Round Robin
Final order decided by: Match points, then board points.
Time control:
Sources: SSZ 1954 (schedule and third-round results); seven newspaper clippings supplied by the user, including 18 July, 11 September and 5 October 1954.
Missing data: Incomplete individual results: the 16 games from round 1 are missing. The PGN covers rounds 2–5 only. Confirmed final standings (match points / board points): Zürich 7/20½, Nimzowitsch 4/16, Luzern 4/15½, Basel 4/14½, Schaffhausen 1/13½. Standings calculated from the incomplete PGN alone will differ.
PGN game file: 54swiss.pgn