Belgium vs. France, Brussels

1973

1 Boey, Jozef Martin 2390 0-1 1-0 Haïk, Aldo
2 Van Seters, Frits 1-0 0-1 Letzelter, Jean-Claude
3 De Bruycker, Bernard ½-½ ½-½ Benoît, Michel
4 Beyen, Roland
Limbos, Paul
2280
0-1

½-½
Meinsohn
5 Rooze, Jan 1-0 ½-½ Boutteville, César 2290
6 Lemaire, Robert 0-1 0-1 Raizman, Maurice
7 Bonne, Marck 1-0 1-0 Michalet, Guy
8 Meulders, Richard ½-½ 1-0 Goldenberg, Richard
9 Verstraeten, Roeland 1-0 0-1 Derreumeaux, Patrick
10 Tonoli, José ½-½ 1-0 Giffard, Nicolas
Tot Belgium 5½-4½ 5½-4½ France

A good victory for the Belgian team, although it must be admitted that some good French players were missing. I found the results and a few games in [1]. [1] also mentions that Belgian junior player Varfis was no match for his French counterpart Bessenay (I guess that means he lost twice, but I’m not sure). There was probably also two women competing – as was the case in the previous and later editions – but I don’t know these results and they didn’t count to the official final result. Apparently, grandmaster Kotov arbitrated the games Rooze-Boutteville and De Bruycker-Benoît from the second round.

Wanted

  • Almost all games.
  • Did Francis or Pierre Meinsohn play?

Sources

  1. De Volksgazet 29-05 & 05-06-1973
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Bonne, Marck (?) - Michalet, Guy (?)
Belgium vs. France (1)
1. c4 g6 2. Nc3 Bg7 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. d5 Ne5 6. Nxe5 dxe5 7. e4 e6 8. Be2 f5 9. O-O Nf6 10. f3 O-O 11. Be3 Nh5 12. Qd2 b6 13. Rfd1 f4 14. Bf2 Bf6 15. Qe1 Qe7 16. a3 Bb7 17. b4 Ng7 18. c5 exd5 19. exd5 Rfd8 20. Bc4 Kh8 21. Ne4 Nf5 22. Rd3 Nd4 23. Nxf6 Qxf6 24. Rxd4 exd4 25. Qe4 Qf7 26. Bxd4+ Kg8 27. Qe5 Kf8 28. d6 cxd6 29. cxd6 1-0

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