The second unofficial

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was a team chess tournament held in

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from June 26 to July 15, 1926, during the third FIDE Congress. Six teams applied to contest the team tournament but Austria and Czechoslovakia withdrew before the start. Hungary won the tournament ahead of Yugoslavia, Romania and Germany. Several individual tournaments which also featured international participation were held at the Congress. Ernst Grünfeld of Austria and

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of Italy won the strongest individual event, a sixteen-player round robin sometimes referred to as the first "FIDE Masters" tournament. Another sixteen players of mixed local and international backgrounds competed in a second round robin, won by Max Walter of Czechoslovakia.

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of the UK won the women's tournament, and Sandor Zinner won an open tournament contested by the local Hungarians.OlimpBase :: Budapest 1926 Chess Summit: Team Tournament - Tournament Review
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Results

The final results were as follows:

Team Tournament

First FIDE Masters

Mixed tournament

Max Walter of Bratislava won this sixteen-player round robin with a score of 11½ out of 15. Balázs Sárközy of Budapest finished in second place with a score of 10½, and Anatoly Chepurnov of

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scored 9½ to finish third.

Women's tournament

Eight women from London, Vienna and Budapest competed in a round robin.

of London won the tournament scoring 6½ out of 7, while

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and

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of Vienna both scored 5½ to tie for second and third places.

References

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