The World Chess Championship 1948

Author: Golombek, Harry (1911- 1995 ) signed by Max EuweYear: 1950Publisher: David McKay CompanyPlace: PhiladelphiaDescription:vi+229 pages with diagrams and tables. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original blue cloth with black lettering to spine. Signed by Max Euwe, one of the participants. (Betts:25-184) First American edition.Contains short biographies of the five contestants, with career records and portraits, all 50 games, fully annotated and with commentary on each round, a chapter on the theoretical value of the openings and an index of openings.World chess champion Alexander Alekhine died on 23 March 1946. At the July 1946 Winterthur congress, FIDE proposed a contest for the vacant title be scheduled for June 1947 in the Netherlands. They planned a quadruple round robin tournament featuring the following candidates- Samuel Reshevsky, Reuben Fine, Mikhail Botvinnik, Paul Keres, Vasily Smyslov, and the winner of either the upcoming Groningen or Prague tournaments, decided by a