Wijk aan Zee Grandmaster Chess Tournament 1975
Glen Cove, New York: R.H.M. Press, 1976.
Hardcover.
Chronicle of the 1975 37th annual Hoogovens Chess Tournament held in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands. The annual tournament was begun in 1938 by Hoogovens Steelworks and moved to Wijk aan Zee in 1968. The steelworks has changed ownership twice since and the tournament name changed to the Corus Chess Tournament in 1999 and the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in 2003 (its present title).
The roster of 16 players (9 grandmasters and 7 masters) in 1975 was Lajos Portisch (the winner); Vlastimil Hort, Jan Smejkal, Lubosh Kavalek, Svetozar Gligoric, Robert Hubner, Genna Sosonko, Walter Browne, Efim Geller, Jan Timman, Semyon Furman, Christian Langeweg, Hans Ree, Johannes Donner, Franciscus Kuijpers, and Ivan Popov.
Table of contents: Hoogovens Steelworks; History of the Hoogoven Chess Tournament by Piet Zwart; Winners of Hoogovens Chess Tournaments 1938-1975; What it is all about; Tournament Tables; Index to Games; The Tournament; Index to Annotators; Index to Openings. Lubosh Kavalek, the ultimate winner of the tournament, makes comments about every game and provides deep analysis of many of the most interesting games played.
Item #901538ISBN: 0890582149
5-3/8 x 8-1/4", blue paper over boards, x, 272pp, index to annotators, index to openings, 5pp publisher's ads, illus.
Publisher's change of address label title page and half-title (change from Albertson, New York to Glen Cove, New York); Labate's Chess Centre (Anaheim, CA) half-title; owner's inkstamp first paste-down endpaper. Faint foxing top-edge and a faint stain top of first two leaves, else internally clean, tight, square, very good in dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $40.00