Pentecost tournament, Ghent
19-05-1945 > 27-05-1945
| International group | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Tot | ||
| 1 | Soultanbeieff, Victor Ivanovich | RUS | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Van Seters, Frits | NED | 0 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Davey, Stanley Clifford | ENG | 0 | 0 | – | ½ | 1 | 1 | 2½ |
| 4 | Plavchitch, Spiro | YUG | 0 | 0 | ½ | – | ½ | ½ | 1½ |
| 5 | Ianovchik, Vlad | ROM | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | – | 1 | 1½ |
| 6 | Van Hoorde, Edouard | BEL | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | – | ½ |
National group: 1. Lemaire 4/5 2 Degreef 3 Buysschaert 4 Delafontaine 5 Vanderbeken 6 Van Mol 0
To celebrate the freeing of Belgium, a small tournament was organised by the Ghent chess club. The main section was an international group, although this was pretty much in name only. Soultanbeieff, Van Seters, and Plavchitch had been in Belgium for ages. Ianovchik, from Bessarabia, was not a new name either. Davey was a flight lieutenant in the RAF and was stationed in Ghent. The game were played in Hotel den IJzer, Vlaanderenstraat 65. The playing schedule as given in [4] is rather bizarre: on Saturday, May 19th from 16:00 to 20:00; on Sunday, May 20th from 15:00 to 19:00, on Monday, May 21st from 09:00 to 13:00, on Saturday, May 26th from 16:00 to 20:00; and on Sunday, May 27th from 09:00 to 13:00.
The national group was won by a young Lemaire. Unfortunately, I haven’t found any games from the international group in contemporary Belgian newspapers. I only have one from Soultanbeieff’s collection of his own games ([2]) and one from the magazine of the Belgian Chess Federation ([5]). I did find one game from the minor tournament in [3].
Wanted
- All but one of the games.
- The crosstables from the national group.
Sources
- La Lanterne 26/05, 07 & 14/06/1945
- V. I. Soultanbeieff, Guide pratique du jeu des combinaisons, Échec et Mat 1950
- Zondagspost Vol.1 Nos.18 & 23
- Het Volk 19/05/1945
- Revue Belge des Echecs Vol.2 No.5
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