Vasily Smyslov
Winner of the Candidates' Tournament 1953 in Neuhausen/Zurich
Vasily Smyslov
The winner in action
Opening Ceremony in Neuhausen
President of the Organization Committee: Ch. Perret
Opening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony in "Neuhausen", near the border to Germany
Opening Ceremony
with Smyslov, Boleslavsky, Kotov and FIDE president Rogard
Opening Ceremony
Jury Averbakh, Paul Keres at the opening ceremony
Analog 'LiveStream'
The old way of transmitting the moves to the audience!
Taimanov
walking to his table
Playing Hall
View into the Playing Hall with the audience, the players, and the arbiters who display the last moves on the large boards on the wall.
Playing Hall
The Journalists sitting in the first row, taking notes.
Crowd
watching the last moves of two opponents
Round 1: Black wins
Instead a possible draw by repetition, Szabo gives away a pawn and later on the game
Round 1: Black wins again
Taimanov-Bronstein 0:1
First Round, first victory for Max Euwe
Kotov still hoping for salvation?
Post mortem analysis
Juri Averbakh and Efim Geller
Round 3 is about to begin
Petrosjan-Bronstein: draw
Bronstein
Endgame studies.
Kotov-Keres
Draw in round 7
Euwe-Gligoric: Draw in round 7
Boat Trip
on the Rhine River
Vicinity of Neuhausen
In the background: Rhine Falls
Trip to the Medieval Village Stein am Rhein
Old house in the small village of 'Stein am Rhein' near Neuhausen
Group of players and members of the organization committee
Playin cards during pass time
Lake of Zurich
After round 8 the tournament moved to Zurich
Samuel Reshevsky
Samuel Reshevky leading after round 10
Round 10
Draw in a 'Nimzo-Indian' between Samuel Reshevsky and Vasily Smyslov
Reshevsky and wife
Reshevsky had no coach but his wife at his side
Round 11: Draw!
In time trouble Reshevsky overlooks the winning move 38... Rf6!
Post-Mortem Analysis
of the game Euwe-Gligoric
Breakfast
Getting ready for the fight
USSR Chess Chief Dmitri Postnikov and Jury Averbakh at the dinner table
Vasily Smyslov as a singer
Vasily Smyslov was a baritone singer, and only positively decided upon a chess career after a failed audition with the Bolshoi Theatre in 1950...(excerpt from Wikipedia). Here, together with Mark Taimanov at the piano in a studio of the Swiss TV-Station in Zurich, he sings the Prolog to Leoncavallo's "Bajazzo"
left: USSR Chess Chief Dmitri Postnikov
Members of the organization committee and Efim Geller
"Cashing In"
Gligoric getting his salary in old 'Swiss Francs'
Alois Nagler
Tournament director and long-term president of the "Zurich Chess Club" Alois Nagler talking to Srecko Nedeljkovic
