1946 Groningen Participants

While working on an unrelated project involving my photo archive, I discovered a group photo picturing the participants of the 1946 Groningen. Many of the participants were familiar, but there were a few I didn't know. Had anyone identified everyone in the photo?

Google image search on 'chess 1946 groningen' (expanded)

A Google image search returned two versions of the photo, of which the second expanded to 6425. Groningen, 1946 (chesshistory.com; December 2009). All of the participants are identified here, including the tournament director Hans Kmoch.

The tournament has a unique place in chess history, because it was the first event in the long list that I include in the index of World Chess Championship Zonals. Although not a zonal, it was designated as a title tournament qualifier by FIDE.

The format of the Google image search results is also worth a mention. The thumbnails previously expanded to a horizontal row in the middle of the page. Now they expand to a vertical column on the right of the page. The column scrolls independently from the thumbnail display, meaning that more information can be attached to the image.

The photo and list of participants figured in an earlier post on this blog: Blog -> Email -> Facebook -> Ebay (November 2010). A few months after I wrote that post, the item reappeared on eBay. [Later: In fact, the second appearance of the item had some signatures in different places. Ergo: not the same item!]