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The World Chess Championship Zonal Qualifiers 1951-1954 (C02)

Index of all Zonals • C02 Clippings

Player	GMG data	Zt	IZ
Yuri Averbakh	19th USSR ch./Zonal	z02*	$I
Gideon Barcza	East Zonal	z03*	$I
Julio Bolbochan	South Zonal	z07*
Erich Eliskases	South Zonal	z07*	$I
Efim Geller	19th USSR ch./Zonal	z02*	$I
Svetozar Gligoric	West Zonal	z01*	$I
Harry Golombek	West Zonal	z01*	$I
Alexander Kotov	Seeded Candidate		$I
Alexander Matanovic	West Zonal	z01*	$I
Ludek Pachman	East Zonal	z03*	$I
Tigran Petrosian	19th USSR ch./Zonal	z02*	$I
Herman Pilnik	?		$I
Lodewijk Prins	West Zonal	z01*	$I
Luis Sanchez	?	z06*	$I
Gideon Stahlberg	Seeded Candidate/Host		$I
Herman Steiner	U.S. ch./Zonal	z04*	$I
Gosta Stoltz	East Zonal	z03*	$I
Laszlo Szabo	East Zonal	z03*	$I
Mark Taimanov	19th USSR ch./Zonal	z02*	$I
Wolfgang Unzicker	West Zonal	z01*	$I
Paul Vaitonis	Canadian ch./Zonal	z05*	$I
Robert Wade	?	z08*	$I

Interzonal (IZ) legend:-

$I : IZ Saltsjobaden

GMG notes:-

• [z02*] Lev Aronin shared 9th at Moscow, failing to qualify.
• [z04*] Evans came 1st at the U.S. ch. 1951, beat Steiner in a match, but didn't go to Stockholm. Reuben Fine had retired to work as a psychologist.
• [z05*] D. Abraham Yanofsky won the Canadian ch./zonal at Winnipeg 1953, but Canada did not send a player to Goteborg IZ 1955.
• Julio Bolbochan withdrew after playing a few games at Stockholm.

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)