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The Clare Benedict Cup was a chess tournament for national teams from Western and Northern Europe, which took place 23 times from 1953 to 1979.
Clare Benedict (1871–1961), author and patron, was originally from Cleveland, Ohio, but moved to Switzerland in 1945, where she founded the tournament.[1] She was a distant relative of author James Fenimore Cooper.
Benedict spent her twilight years on Lake Lucerne and met Max Euwe, who helped Clare in finding Alois Nagler (a Swiss chess player) and the Chess Society of Zurich, the ideal partners who appreciated her vision of a peaceful nations tournament in an exalted and sophisticated atmosphere.[2][3]
Tournament Styleedit
The Clare Benedict Cup was organized as a round-robin tournament, where everyone plays against each other.[3] Each team was made up of four players plus a substitute. They played using only five boards at the first tournament in 1952. In the original rules it stated that six teams participated. However, in recent years this has increased to up to eight teams. The teams were first evaluated by game points.[3]
In 1954 in Zurich, they changed the tournament style from the teams playing against each other to a single player tournament consisting of 12 players. The German Grandmaster Lothar Schmid took first place followed by Erwin Nievergelt from Switzerland and finally ex-champion Max Euwe.
^ abcWojciech Bartelski & Co (2018). "Clare Benedict Chess Cup". OlimpBase. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
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clare, benedict, this, article, lead, section, short, adequately, summarize, points, please, consider, expanding, lead, provide, accessible, overview, important, aspects, article, october, 2021, chess, tournament, national, teams, from, western, northern, euro. This article s lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article October 2021 The Clare Benedict Cup was a chess tournament for national teams from Western and Northern Europe which took place 23 times from 1953 to 1979 Contents 1 Overview and History 1 1 Foundation 1 2 Tournament Style 2 Participating Countries 3 Results 4 ReferencesOverview and History editFoundation edit Clare Benedict 1871 1961 author and patron was originally from Cleveland Ohio but moved to Switzerland in 1945 where she founded the tournament 1 She was a distant relative of author James Fenimore Cooper Benedict spent her twilight years on Lake Lucerne and met Max Euwe who helped Clare in finding Alois Nagler a Swiss chess player and the Chess Society of Zurich the ideal partners who appreciated her vision of a peaceful nations tournament in an exalted and sophisticated atmosphere 2 3 Tournament Style edit The Clare Benedict Cup was organized as a round robin tournament where everyone plays against each other 3 Each team was made up of four players plus a substitute They played using only five boards at the first tournament in 1952 In the original rules it stated that six teams participated However in recent years this has increased to up to eight teams The teams were first evaluated by game points 3 In 1954 in Zurich they changed the tournament style from the teams playing against each other to a single player tournament consisting of 12 players The German Grandmaster Lothar Schmid took first place followed by Erwin Nievergelt from Switzerland and finally ex champion Max Euwe Participating Countries editCountry Participations Wins Hosts nbsp Belgium 0 2 0 0 0 0 nbsp Denmark 0 4 0 1 0 1 nbsp Germany 21 12 0 2 nbsp England 18 0 2 0 2 nbsp France 0 2 0 0 0 0 nbsp Italy 10 0 0 0 0 nbsp Netherlands 21 0 5 0 0 nbsp Norway 0 1 0 0 0 0 nbsp Austria 23 0 1 0 1 nbsp Scotland 0 1 0 0 0 0 nbsp Sweden 0 2 0 0 0 0 nbsp Switzerland 23 0 1 15 nbsp Spain 17 0 1 0 2Results edit Year Host City 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 1 1953 Mont Pelerin nbsp Netherlands nbsp Austria nbsp Switzerland 2 1955 Mont Pelerin nbsp Netherlands nbsp Switzerland nbsp Austria 3 1956 Lenzerheide nbsp Germany nbsp Netherlands nbsp Italy 4 1957 Bern nbsp Germany nbsp Netherlands nbsp Austria 5 1958 Neuchatel nbsp Switzerland nbsp Spain nbsp Germany 6 1959 Lugano nbsp Germany nbsp Spain nbsp Austria 7 1960 Biel nbsp Germany nbsp England nbsp Switzerland 8 1961 Neuhausen nbsp Austria nbsp Germany nbsp England 9 1962 Bern nbsp Germany nbsp Spain nbsp England 10 1963 Luzern nbsp Germany nbsp Netherlands nbsp England 11 1964 Lenzerheide nbsp Germany nbsp Netherlands nbsp Austria 12 1965 Berlin nbsp Germany nbsp Spain nbsp Netherlands 13 1966 Brunnen nbsp Netherlands nbsp Spain nbsp Germany 14 1967 Leysin nbsp Germany nbsp Spain nbsp England 15 1968 Bad Aibling nbsp Germany nbsp Netherlands nbsp England 16 1969 Adelboden nbsp Netherlands nbsp Switzerland nbsp Germany nbsp England nbsp Spain 17 1970 Paignton nbsp Spain nbsp England nbsp Germany 18 1971 Madrid nbsp Netherlands nbsp England nbsp Spain 19 1972 Wien nbsp Germany nbsp Netherlands nbsp Spain 20 1973 Gstaad nbsp Germany nbsp England nbsp Denmark 21 1974 Cala Galdana nbsp England nbsp Germany nbsp Switzerland 22 1977 Kopenhagen nbsp Denmark nbsp England nbsp Sweden 23 1979 Cleveland nbsp England nbsp Germany nbsp NetherlandsReferences edit Di Felice Gino 2016 Chess Competitions 1971 2010 Jefferson North Carolina McFarland ISBN 978 1 4766 6207 7 Richard Forster Schachgesellschaft Zurich 1809 bis 2009 Chess Club Zurich 2009 ISBN 9783033019171 a b c Wojciech Bartelski amp Co 2018 Clare Benedict Chess Cup OlimpBase Retrieved 30 January 2019 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Clare Benedict Cup amp oldid 1221704926, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
