3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad
The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation (Grossdeutscher Schachbund) as a counterpart of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events.[1] FIDE’s position regarding the Munich Olympiad was set out on pages 10–11 of the minutes of its Congress in Warsaw in August 1935. In short, given that parts of the German Chess Federation’s statutes were anti-Semitic, FIDE could have no involvement in the Munich Olympiad. However, since Germany had agreed, for that event, to drop its ban on Jews, FIDE’s General Assembly voted to leave Federations free to decide whether or not to participate.[2] Finally, many Jewish chess players took part in the event. Significantly, the "Jewish" teams of Hungary (i.e. Lajos Steiner, Endre Steiner, László Szabó, Ernő Gereben, Kornél Havasi) and Poland (i.e. Paulino Frydman, Miguel Najdorf, Henryk Friedman, Leon Kremer, Henryk Pogorieły) beat "Aryan" Germany. Also Jewish masters from other countries played leading role there (i.e. Movsas Feigins, Gunnar Friedemann, Imre König, Lodewijk Prins, Isakas Vistaneckis, Emil Zinner, etc.).
The Schach-Olympia 1936 took place in Munich between August 17 and September 1, 1936. In that extra-Olympiad (non-FIDE) 208 participants, representing 21 countries, played 1680 games. The Munich unofficial Olympiad was the biggest team competition ever held.[3]
Results
Final
# Country Points 1 Hungary
110.5 2 Poland
108 3 Germany
106.5 4 Yugoslavia
104.5 5 Czechoslovakia
104 6 Latvia
96.5 7 Austria
95 8 Sweden
94 9 Denmark
91.5 10 Estonia
90 11 Lithuania
77.5 12 Finland
75 13 Netherlands
71.5 14 Romania
68 15 Norway
64.5 16 Brazil
63 17 Switzerland
61.5 18 Italy
59 19 Iceland
57.5 20 France
43.5 21 Bulgaria
38.5
Team medals
Individual medals
See also
- 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad (Paris 1924)
- 2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad (Budapest 1926)
- Against Chess Olympiad (Tripoli 1976)
References
- ^ OlimpBase :: Chess Olympiad, Munich 1936, information
- ^ Edward Winter: The 1936 Munich Chess Olympiad
- ^ Stanisław Gawlikowski: Olimpiady szachowe 1924-1974, Wyd. Sport i Turystyka, Warszawa 1978