1933 in Chess - Tournaments

Tournaments

• Hastings Christmas Congress, held 28 December 1932 to 6 January 1933, is won by Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia) for the second consecutive year, scoring 7/9 with no losses. Vasja Pirc (Yugoslavia) is second with 6½ followed by Mir Sultan Khan with 6.
• Masters tournament in Budapest is won by Esteban Canal with 10/14, followed by Pál Réthy with 9½, Andor Lilienthal with 9, Lajos Steiner with 8½, and Erich Eliskases with 8.
• United States Team Tournament held to select players to join Frank Marshall and Isaac Kashdan on the US Olympiad team is won by Reuben Fine with 8/11, followed by Arthur Dake and A.C. Simonson tied at 7½.
• Aachen is the site of a National Masters tournament in June, won by Efim Bogoljubow. The tournament is organized by the Grossdeutsche Schachbund, a new state-supported chess federation with Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels serving as honorary chair. The editors of Chess Review decry the virtual exclusion of Jews from German chess, not only from tournaments but also from chess cafés and playing rooms.
• Western Open held September 23 to October 1 in Detroit is won by Reuben Fine with 12/13 over Samuel Reshevsky with 11 and Arthur Dake with 9½. Fine scored +10−1=0, the only loss being to Reshevsky.