Les Six candidats au championnat du monde des echecs 1948: Botvinnik, Euwe, Fine, Keres, Reshevsky et Smyslov. 30 parties, 30 fins de parties. Introduction et commentaires par Victor Kahn et Georges Renaud

Author: Victor Kahn (1889-1971) and Georges RenaudYear: 1948Publisher: Le TribouletPlace: MonacoDescription:101 pages with tables and diagrams. Duodecimo (6 1/2" x 4 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. (Linde-Niemeijeriana: 3012) First edition.The 1948 World Chess Championship was a quintuple round-robin tournament played to determine the new World Chess Champion following the death of the previous champion Alexander Alekhine in 1946. The tournament marked the passing of control of the championship title to FIDE, the International Chess Federation which had been formed in 1924. Mikhail Botvinnik won the five-player championship tournament, beginning the era of Soviet domination of international chess that would last over twenty years without interruption. Before the tournament, Botvinnik was considered the favorite because of his victory at Groningen 1946 and his pre-war results. Keres and Reshevsky were veterans of international competition. Although Euwe was the former worl