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re:R. Fine & The 1948 World Champ. Tourn. - 2006/06/13 15:08
_ "... a natural solution suggested itself with a tournament composed of the surviving AVRO contingent. Unespectedly Smyslov replaced Flohr ... the tournament was to be played in Holland in the spring of 1947.
later often repeated, that the Soviet players would throw their games to one another in order to allow a Soviet master to become world champion. ... The Soviet government, knowing full well what the answer would be, then demanded that the
When the Dutch refused, the Soviets, in retaliation, withdrew from the tournament.
... The result was a rescheduling of the tournament for the following year, with the vital difference that now half was to be played in Holland, half in the U. S. S. R. Dissatisfied with this arrangement and the general tenor of the event, I withdrew. (Incidentally, there was no real financial compensation offered to any of the Western players, who, unlike their Soviet counterparts, were totally unsubsidized.) ... Botvinnik, playing in brilliant style, carried off first prize.
However, his surprising loss to Keres in the last round, allowing the Soviet grandmaster to finish in a tie for third with Reshevsky, looked very suspicious.
... In 1948 I took my doctorate in psychology and have been a practicing psychologist ever since." - Fine
For details about 1946-1948, see the Edward Winter
Chess Notes feature (3006, 3018, 3028, 3048, and
3057).
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