IIIrd World Student Chess Championship Uppsala, Sweden 6-15 April 1956

Author: Jaroslav Šajtar (1921-2003)Year: 1956Publisher: International Union of StudentsPlace: Prague Description: 56 pages with diagrams, tables and photographs. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's back and red checkered stapled wrappers. (Betts 25 - 254) First edition.Following the decision of the FIDE Congress in Göteborg in 1955, the IIIrd of the already popular student chess tournaments was held in the historic Swedish University centre of Uppsala from April 5—15th, 1956. Owing to the great number of teams that had applied, it had become necessary to divide the participants into four preliminary groups. Altogether 8 teams advanced into the winning group where competitions were going on for the title of world champion. In the final group the struggle for the first place, and thereby for the title of world champion was practically decided during the first three rounds. The Soviet team won in the first round against the Bulgarian 4-0, in the second beat Spain 3-1 an