World Junior Championship 1961

[JustinHorton]

Does anybody know who the competitors were in this? I know Bruno Parma won it, but I'm struggling to find a crosstable: Chessgames has one for 1957, not not 1961. (Contemporary magazines? Kazic?)

[JustinHorton]

Thanks to Richard James I now have this!

[Roger de Coverly]

Does anybody know who the competitors were in this?

A database search for the games of the event, coupled with a bit of Google comes up with (in alphabetic order)

Calvo, Minguez Ricardo (ESP)
Diekstra, John
Gheorghiu, Florin (ROM)
Gilden, Lawrence C (USA)
Gulbrandsen, A V (NOR)
Holaszek, Hans (AUT)
Hort, Vlastimil (GER)
Jakobsen, Ole (DEN)
Kinnmark, Ove (SWE)
Kuindzhi, Alexander (RUS)
Kuttner, Uwe
Larusson, Gudmundur
Maalouf,Carlos
Markus, Marcel
Minaya, Juan (COL)
Nagy, Bela (HUN)
Parma, Bruno (SLO)
Pfleger, Helmut (GER)
Phillips, James Rodney (NZL)
Rischette, Robert
Rosino, Antonio (ITA)
Rubinetti, Jorge (ARG)
Schmidt, Wlodzimierz (POL)
Smith, David (ENG)
Thomson, Derek (SCO)
Westerinen, Heikki M J (FIN)
Wostin, Rik H (BEL)
Zuidema, Coen (NED)

The name of the English representative was unknown to me, but he played in the Student Olympiad in both 1962 and 1963 in both cases on board 2 behind Adrian Hollis on 1.

Modern nationality designations are shown, the winner, Parma, would have been from Yugoslavia. Dr Pfleger is from West Germany, there's not positive confirmation of the inclusion or exclusion of an East German representative.

(edit) Uwe Kuttner was the likely GDR representative, Google coming up with this game
http://www.chess.com/games/view?id=122006
(/edit)

[Richard James]

Yes, Kuettner was East German. Diekstra: Netherlands. Larusson: Iceland. Maalouf: Lebanon. Markus: Switzerland. Rischette: Luxembourg.

Hort (then Czechoslovakia) finished in a 4-way tie for 1st place in his preliminary group, missing out on a place in the finals on tie break, and didn't play in the second section of the finals. Raymond Weinstein had entered but was apparently too old.

Sources: BCM Oct 1961, BigBase, Wikipedia.

[Gordon Cadden]

Played D.A. Smith in the British U-21 championship in 1961. We agreed a draw after 35 moves. If Adrian Hollis was on board. 1, that would be correct, since I seem to remember Adrian winning the U-21 Championship.

[Ian Kingston]

As Justin speculated, International Championship Chess by Bozidar Kažić (Batsford, 1974, pp. 275-277) has a crosstable of the Final A and summary results of the preliminary groups, Final B and Final C. I can scan the relevant pages later today if that would be helpful. (Richard James may have used the same source, in which case this may be redundant.)

[Richard James]

The games are all on BigBase/MegaBase so I was able to generate crosstables.

(If your brain does that sort of thing you'll notice that the Swedish representative's name is KRAMNNIK in reverse.)

Wch U20 prel-A 1961

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 Gheorghiu,Florin * ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 5.0/6
2 Nagy,Bela1 ½ * 1 0 ½ ½ 1 3.5/6 10.25
3 Thomson,Derek R ½ 0 * 1 1 0 1 3.5/6 9.50
4 Holaszek,Hans 0 1 0 * ½ 1 0 2.5/6 6.75
5 Rubinetti,Jorge Alberto 0 ½ 0 ½ * 1 ½ 2.5/6 6.00
6 Jakobsen,Ole 0 ½ 1 0 0 * ½ 2.0/6 6.25
7 Schmidt,Wlodzimierz 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ * 2.0/6 4.75


Wch U20 prel-B 1961

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 Zuidema,Coen * 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 4.0/6 10.75
2 Pfleger,Helmut 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 4.0/6 10.75
3 Kinnmark,Ove ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 4.0/6 10.00
4 Hort,Vlastimil 0 ½ ½ * 1 1 1 4.0/6 9.00
5 Rosino,Antonio 0 ½ 0 0 * 1 1 2.5/6
6 Smith,David A 0 ½ ½ 0 0 * 1 2.0/6
7 Maalouf,Carlos ½ 0 0 0 0 0 * 0.5/6


Wch U20 prel-C 1961

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 Parma,Bruno * 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 4.5/6
2 Larusson,Gudmundur 0 * 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 4.0/6
3 Westerinen,Heikki MJ ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 3.5/6
4 Gilden,Lawrence C 0 ½ ½ * 1 0 1 3.0/6 7.75
5 Minaya Molano,Juan M ½ 0 ½ 0 * 1 1 3.0/6 7.00
6 Diekstra,John ½ ½ 0 1 0 * 0 2.0/6
7 Rischette,Robert 0 0 0 0 0 1 * 1.0/6

 
Wch U20 prel-D 1961

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 Kuindzhy,Alexander * ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 6.5/7
2 Calvo Minguez,Ricardo ½ * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 5.0/7
3 Gulbrandsen,Arne Vinje 0 0 * ½ 1 1 1 1 4.5/7
4 Phillips,James Rodney 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 4.0/7
5 Kuettner,Uwe 0 ½ 0 ½ * 1 1 ½ 3.5/7
6 Keogh,Eamon 0 0 0 0 0 * 1 1 2.0/7
7 Markus,Marcel 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 * 1 1.5/7
8 Wostin,Rik Hendrik 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 * 1.0/7


Wch U20 fin-A 1961

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1 Parma,Bruno * 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 9.0/11
2 Gheorghiu,Florin 0 * 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.5/11
3 Kuindzhy,Alexander 1 1 * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 0 8.0/11
4 Zuidema,Coen ½ 0 ½ * 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 1 7.0/11 32.75
5 Pfleger,Helmut 0 ½ ½ 0 * 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 7.0/11 30.75
6 Westerinen,Heikki MJ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 * 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 5.5/11
7 Calvo Minguez,Ricardo 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 * ½ 0 1 1 1 5.0/11
8 Gulbrandsen,Arne Vinje 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 4.5/11
9 Nagy,Bela1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 ½ * 0 0 ½ 4.0/11
10 Larusson,Gudmundur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 * 1 1 3.0/11
11 Kinnmark,Ove 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 * ½ 2.5/11
12 Thomson,Derek R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ * 2.0/11


 
Wch U20 fin-B 1961

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
1 Phillips,James Rodney * ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 8.5/10
2 Jakobsen,Ole ½ * 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 7.0/10
3 Kuettner,Uwe 0 0 * 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 6.5/10
4 Gilden,Lawrence C 0 1 0 * 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 6.0/10
5 Minaya Molano,Juan M 0 0 1 1 * ½ 0 1 1 1 0 5.5/10
6 Holaszek,Hans 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * 0 1 1 ½ 1 5.0/10
7 Smith,David A ½ 0 0 0 1 1 * 0 ½ ½ 1 4.5/10
8 Rubinetti,Jorge Alberto 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 * 1 1 ½ 3.5/10
9 Diekstra,John 0 1 0 1 0 0 ½ 0 * 0 ½ 3.0/10 16.50
10 Rosino,Antonio 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 * 1 3.0/10 10.25
11 Keogh,Eamon ½ 0 0 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 * 2.5/10

Wch U20 fin-C 1961

1 2 3 4 5
1 Schmidt,Wlodzimierz ** ½1 11 11 11 7.5/8
2 Markus,Marcel ½0 ** 11 11 1½ 6.0/8
3 Maalouf,Carlos 00 00 ** 1½ ½1 3.0/8
4 Wostin,Rik Hendrik 00 00 0½ ** 1½ 2.0/8
5 Rischette,Robert 00 0½ ½0 0½ ** 1.5/8

[Richard James]

Justin's article on this.

[JustinHorton]

Ah, that article doesn't mention the Junior Championship. (Well at least I don't.)

[Ian Kingston]

Kažić contains no information that isn't already in this thread (now that Richard has produced the crosstables), so my offer to scan is redundant. Still happy to do it if requested.

[JustinHorton]

Yes please!

[Ian Kingston]

Here are the pages from Kažić.

[JustinHorton]

Thank you sir

[John Clarke]

Hort (then Czechoslovakia) finished in a 4-way tie for 1st place in his preliminary group, missing out on a place in the finals on tie break, and didn't play in the second section of the finals.

The crucial game for Hort was his last-round encounter with Zuidema, which he only needed to draw to qualify for the top final. Instead of taking it steady, he tried to wipe his opponent off the board with an early piece sac. Alas, an error allowed Zuidema to force the queens off and eventually win an exhausting 90-mover of R+B+hP against R+gP+hP. Definitely one for endgame fanatics!

[JustinHorton]

One wonders whether that defeat was traumatic enough to be the cause of his apparent withdrawal.

Today's posting on the East German entrant (and other matters). Thanks to Ian, Richard and everybody else who chips in comments there or here.