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The World Chess Championship Zonal Qualifiers 1948-1951 (C01)

Index of all Zonals • C01 Clippings

Player	GMG data	Zt	IZ
D. Abraham Yanofsky	Canadian ch./Zonal	z00*	$I
Isaak Boleslavsky	Selected by ballot		$I
Igor Bondarevky	Selected by ballot		$I
Eero Book	Nordic Zonal	z00*	$I
David Bronstein	Selected by ballot		$I
Salomon Flohr	Selected by ballot		$I
Svetozar Gligoric	Selected by ballot		$I
Alexander Kotov	Selected by ballot		$I
Andor Lilienthal	Selected as reserve by ballot		$I
Erik Lundin	Selected as reserve by ballot		$I
Miguel Najdorf	Selected by ballot		$I
Ludek Pachman	Selected by ballot		$I
Vasja Pirc	Selected as reserve by ballot		$I
Viacheslav Ragozin	Selected by ballot		$I
Gideon Stahlberg	Selected by ballot		$I
Lajos Steiner	Selected by FIDE ballot		$I
Goesta Stoltz	Selected as reserve by ballot		$I
Laszlo Szabo	Selected by ballot		$I
Savielly Tartakover	Selected by ballot		$I
Petar Trifunovic	Selected by ballot		$I

Interzonal (IZ) legend:-

$I : IZ Saltsjobaden

GMG notes:-

• Hilversum Zonal 1947 gathered the champions of the various European FIDE member nations together. O'Kelly de Galway of Belgium came 1st, but must have declined to play at Saltsjobaden. Trifunovic and Pachman shared second. Szabo came in a tie for fifth. Pirc, Gligoric and Tartakover were not invited to Hilversum, but were nominated by ballot by the FIDE directors to play in the Interzonal.
• Isaac Kashdan came in second at the U.S. ch. of 1946. Reshevsky the winner was seeded into the 1948 World ch. at The Hague/Moscow, and Kashdan qualified to play at Saltsjobaden IZ 1948. Arnold Denker was selected by FIDE ballot, but apparently both Kashdan and Denker declined to play. Israel Horowitz seems to have been offered a place as well as a replacement, but must have declined as well.
• Najdorf and Stahlberg shared first and Erich Eliskases came third in a strong tournament at Mar Del Plata in 1947. Eliskases must have declined to play.
• All Soviet players were selected based on their results in ballots submitted by the FIDE directors. Boleslavsky came second at the 15th USSR ch. 1947, and Bondarevsky shared 3rd.

For more about 'GMG data' and the other data in the table, see Zonal Qualifiers C01-C12 (August 2019). For more about 'GMG notes', see Zonal Qualifiers C01-C12 More++ (September 2019)