15 August 2007

The World Championship Interregnum

The timeline I created to document The Botvinnik - Keres Rivalry reminded me of a related timeline I created a few years ago to document the 'Interregnum and the first FIDE World Championship cycle' in the thread FIDE Zonals on the About Chess forum.

  • 1945-05 • WWII ends in Europe
  • 1946-03 • Death of Alekhine
  • 1946-07 • FIDE Congress, Winterthur, Switzerland
  • 1946-08 • Groningen WCC qualifier, Botvinnik 1st
  • 1946-09 • USSR/USA match, Moscow (all 6 WCC invitees present)
  • 1946-10 • Prague WCC qualifier, Najdorf 1st
  • 1946-10 • U.S. zonal, New York
  • 1947-?? • Nordic zonal, Helsingfors
  • 1947-?? • Canadian zonal, Quebec City
  • 1947-07 • European zonal, Hilversum
  • 1947-07 • FIDE Congress, The Hague
  • 1948-03 • World Championship match tournament (WCC), The Hague/Moscow
  • 1948-08 • First Interzonal, Saltsjobaden (Stockholm)
  • 1948-08 • FIDE Congress, Saltsjobaden (Stockholm)
  • 1949-07 • FIDE Congress, Paris
  • 1950-05 • Candidates' tournament, Budapest; playoff 1950-07 Moscow
  • 1950-07 • FIDE Congress, Bellevue (Copenhagen)
  • 1951-03 • First World Championship match, Botvinnik - Bronstein, Moscow

I see there are still a few '??' to be filled in.

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