Kemeri 1937 was a chess tournament held in the resort town Ķemeri, Latvia, at the Gulf of Riga from 16 June to 8 July 1937. There were three co-winners: Samuel Reshevsky, Salo Flohr and Vladimir Petrov. Petrovs was one of the world's leading chess players in the late 1930s (e.g., the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 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 (Russia) gulag in 1943.http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_jw/jw_Vladimirs_Petrovs.html VLADIMIRS PETROVS: A Chessplayer's Story From Greatness to the Gulags
The final standings and crosstable:
+ Kemeri 1937# Player 010203040506070809101112131415161718TotalPlace 01 x 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 12 1–3 02 0 x ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 12 1–3 03 ½ ½ x ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 12 1–3 04 1 ½ ½ x ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 11½ 4–5 05 0 ½ ½ ½ x 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 11½ 4–5 06 0 ½ ½ 0 0 x 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 11 6 07 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 x 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 10½ 7 08 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 x ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 9 8 09 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ x 0 0 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 8½ 9 10 0 1 ½ 1 0 0 1 ½ 1 x 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 8 10 11 1 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 x 0 ½ 1 0 0 1 ½ 7½ 11–13 12 1 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 x ½ 1 1 0 1 ½ 7½ 11–13 13 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ x 0 1 1 ½ 1 7½ 11–13 14 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 0 1 x 0 1 1 ½ 6½ 14 15 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 x 0 ½ 1 5½ 15–16 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 x 1 1 5½ 15–16 17 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0x 0 3½ 17–18 18 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1x 3½ 17–18
Background The German-born chess master Jacques Mieses covered the tournament as a correspondent for British, French, Spanish and American newspapers. On 5 July 1937 he was struck by a bus in Ķemeri; the injuries left him with a permanent limp.
References
External links Kemeri 1937 International Tournament