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Nottingham 1936, was a 15-player round robin chess tournament held August 10–28 at the University of Nottingham. It was one of the strongest of all time. Dr. J. Hannak wrote in his 1959 biography of Emanuel Lasker that "when it comes to awarding the plum for 'the greatest chess tournament ever', in 1936, the Nottingham Tournament was certainly just that".〔Dr. J. Hannak, ''Emanuel Lasker: The Life of a Chess Master'', Simon and Schuster, 1959, p. 297.〕 W. H. Watts in the Introduction to the tournament book called Nottingham 1936 "the most important chess event the world has so far seen".〔A. Alekhine, ''The Book of the Nottingham International Chess Tournament'', Dover Publications, 1962, p. ix. ISBN 0-486-20189-9.〕 It is one of the very few tournaments in chess history to include five past, present, or future world champions (Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe and Botvinnik).〔Hannak wrote in 1959, "it is certainly the only tournament in chess history that could boast the attendance of as many as five world champions, past, present, and future". Hannak, p. 297.〕〔Since then, Moscow 1971 and the 1973 Soviet Chess Championship both included five world champions: Anatoly Karpov, Vasily Smyslov, Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Tal, and Boris Spassky. Chess Informant, Volume 12, Šahovski Informator, 1972, p. 235. B. Cafferty and M. Taimanov, ''The Soviet Championships'', Cadogan Books, 1998, p. 160. ISBN 1-85744-201-6.〕 A number of other prominent players, such as Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr, were in the tournament. According to the unofficial Chessmetrics ratings, the tournament was (as of March 2005) one of only five tournaments in history that had the top eight players in the world playing, and was (in terms of the leading players playing) the third strongest in history.〔("Formulas" ). Chessmetrics.com. Retrieved on 2009-02-19.〕 All of the top twelve players on Chessmetrics' August 1936 rating list competed in the tournament except for numbers nine and ten (Andor Lilienthal and Paul Keres).〔(August 1936 rating list ). Chessmetrics.com. Retrieved on 2009-02-19.〕 The event is also notable for being Lasker's last major event,〔Hannak, pp. 297, 299.〕〔J. Sonas, (Chessmetrics Player Profile: Emanuel Lasker ). ChessMetrics.com. Retrieved on 2009-01-17.〕 and for Botvinnik achieving the first Soviet success outside the Soviet Union. In parallel with the main tournament, the venue also played host to the 1936 British Women's Championship. The event was won by Edith Holloway (1868-1956), age sixty-eight and a former winner in 1919.〔K. Whyld, ''Guinness Chess, The Records'', Guinness Books, 1986, p. 91. ISBN 0-85112-455-0.〕 ==Results== : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nottingham 1936 chess tournament」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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