Kemeri 1937 was a

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tournament held in the

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Ķemeri Ķemeri resort (originally ''Ķemeres'', also known as ''Kemmern'') JŪRMALA, Nature and Cultural Heritage, Ed. LaimaSlava, Neputns 2004, , pages 83-95 is a part of Jūrmala in Latvia, 44 km from Riga. From 1928 to 1959, Ķemeri was a separat ...

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, at the

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from 16 June to 8 July 1937. There were three co-winners:

Samuel Reshevsky Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960 ...

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and Vladimir Petrov. Petrovs was one of the world's leading chess players in the late 1930s (e.g., the

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1939), but due to the political tragedies that befell the Baltic states in World War II, he became a victim of the Soviet oppression and perished in

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(Russia)

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in 1943. The final standings and crosstable:

References

External links

Kemeri 1937 International Tournament
Sport in Jūrmala International chess tournaments Chess in Latvia 1937 in chess 1937 in Latvian sport {{chess-tournament-stub