Match O’Kelly de Galway vs. van den Berg, Noordwijk

19-11-1947 > 03-12-1947

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Tot
O’Kelly de Galway, Albéric BEL 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½
van den Berg, Carel Benjamin NED 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½

This match was played in cafe-restaurant Seinpost on November 19-22, 26-29 and December 2-3, starting at 18:00. Herfkens, president of the Leidse Chess Federation, opened the match with a speech, wherein he thanked the organising club (Daniël Noteboom Noordwijk) and Van Beelen, the owner of Seinpost. Mayor Van Berckel played the first move.

A small local tournament was played alongside and won by Schüsz and Barkema. According to [1], Galjaard was arbiter. The following picture comes from Leidsch dagblad 20/11/1947 and depicts the first move of the match:

OdGvdB1947

Wanted

  • Games 7 and 10 are missing.

Sources

  1. Leidsch dagblad 15/11-04/12/1947
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