Kemeri 1937 was a chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 tournament held in the resort town Ķemeri

Ķemeri

Ķemeri resort is a part of Jūrmala in Latvia, 44 km from Riga. From 1928 to 1959, Ķemeri was a separate town, famous for the healing mud baths and luxurious hotel. Now about 2 200 inhabitants live there, while the main hotel is under reconstruction....

, Latvia

Latvia

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, at the Gulf of Riga

Gulf of Riga

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 from 16 June to 8 July 1937. There were three co-winners: Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel "Sammy" Herman Reshevsky was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess Grandmaster...

, Salo Flohr

Salo Flohr

Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...

 and Vladimir Petrov

Vladimirs Petrovs

Vladimirs Petrovs or Vladimir Petrov was a Latvian chess master.He was born in Riga, Latvia. Though he learned the game of chess relatively late, at age thirteen, Petrovs made rapid progress. By 1926, at age 19, he won the Riga Championship and finish third in the national championship...

. Petrovs was one of the world's leading chess players in the late 1930s (e.g., the 8th Chess Olympiad

8th Chess Olympiad

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 at Buenos Aires

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 1939), but due to the political tragedies that befell the Baltic states in World War II, he became a victim of the Soviet oppression and perished in Kotlas

Kotlas

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 (Russia) gulag

Gulag

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in 1943.

The final standings and crosstable:

Kemeri 1937

#	Player	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total	Place
01		x	1	½	0	1	1	½	1	½	1	0	0	1	½	1	1	1	1	12.0	1-3
02		0	x	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	12.0	1-3
03		½	½	x	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	12.0	1-3
04		1	½	½	x	½	1	½	1	½	0	½	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	11.5	4-5
05		0	½	½	½	x	1	½	½	0	1	1	1	½	1	½	1	1	1	11.5	4-5
06		0	½	½	0	0	x	1	1	0	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	½	1	11.0	6
07		½	½	½	½	½	0	x	1	½	0	1	1	1	½	½	1	½	1	10.5	7
08		0	0	½	0	½	0	0	x	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	9.0	8
09		½	0	½	½	1	1	½	½	x	0	0	1	½	½	0	1	½	½	8.5	9
10		0	1	½	1	0	0	1	½	1	x	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	8.0	10
11		1	0	0	½	0	½	0	½	1	1	x	0	½	1	0	0	1	½	7.5	11-13
12		1	0	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	x	½	1	1	0	1	½	7.5	11-13
13		0	0	½	½	½	0	0	0	½	1	½	½	x	0	1	1	½	1	7.5	11-13
14		½	0	0	½	0	0	½	0	½	1	0	0	1	x	0	1	1	½	6.5	14
15		0	0	0	0	½	0	½	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	x	0	½	1	5.5	15-16
16		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	x	1	1	5.5	15-16
17		0	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	½	1	0	0	½	0	½	0	x	0	3.5	17-18
18		0	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	½	½	0	½	0	0	1	x	3.5	17-18

External links

• Kemeri 1937 International Tournament