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

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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.

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of Austria and Mario Monticelli 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

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of Czechoslovakia. Edith Holloway 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

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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. Edith Holloway of London won the tournament scoring 6½ out of 7, while Paula Wolf-Kalmar and

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

References

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