[BrianWall-ChessList] Nimzowitsch GM victory details

[Brian Wall]

----- Forwarded message from Torbjörn Lindelöf <lindelof at algonet.se> -----
    Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:03:13 +0200
    From: Torbjörn Lindelöf <lindelof at algonet.se>


 Hi,

 I¹ll be happy to contribute the following trivia.

 At the time this game was played I was still in senior high-school, and the
 year would have been around 1955. At the age of 18 I was a member of the
 Stockholms Schacksällskap (Stockholm Chess Society), a gathering of mostly
well weathered gentlemen and 1 woman, Swedish champion at the time. Grand
 Master Gideon Stahlberg, fairly recently returned from some sort of exile to
 Argentina during the war, was a rarely seen member. Most members preferred to
 play unorganized games, just for the love of it and as a means to meet and
 talk.
Site for the simultaneous event is likely to have been some other Stockholm
 chess club, possibly one run by the Workers¹ Unions. The localities of my club
 were much too ³dignified² to invite any Tom, Dick and Harry for simultaneous
 play.

 A cherished memory from my time with that club is a solid silver milk-pail
imitation, created by members of our sister club in Helsinki. A special annual
 tournament was set up for this valuable prize, meant to run for 10 years.
 However, after 9 rounds had been played, in 1965, I was leaving Sweden and was
 awarded the milk-pail since nobody could match my score of 4 wins.

-
Torbjörn Lindelöf
lindelof at algonet.se


 Torbjörn,
 Nice  game ! BTW, can you recall what year (or thereabouts) you
 played the game and  the playing site? How old were you then and were you a
 rated player at the time?  These "trivial" details would make your story all
the
 more  interesting, IMHO. Anything else you could add?


 Respectfully,


 Scott

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