Amsterdam Spring Tournament 1936

Van den Bosch finishes undefeated in first place
29 March–9 April 1936 · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Johannes van den Bosch won undefeated with 5½ points from seven games. Friedrich Sämisch followed on five and Rudolf Spielmann on four.
Incomplete record·10 of 28 games archived
Event Index 10 GAMES

Incomplete record. This archive holds 10 of the 28 games played; 18 are missing. Ten of the 28 played games are available. The remaining eighteen scores have not been recovered.

Johannes van den Bosch won Amsterdam’s spring tournament with 5½ points from seven games. Friedrich Sämisch finished second on five, with Rudolf Spielmann third on four.

Seven rounds in Amsterdam

The tournament brought together eight players over seven rounds between 29 March and 9 April. Both Van den Bosch and Sämisch remained unbeaten.

Antonie Knoppers and Salo Landau shared fourth on 3½ points. Willem Koomen and Lodewijk Prins scored 2½ each, while C. Struylaart finished on 1½ after defeating Landau in the final round.

Adjournments and the surviving record

Several games continued in later sessions, and Van den Bosch played his final-round game against Koomen ahead of schedule. The final results account for 28 played games.

Ten scores are available here. Contemporary reports identify the players in Sämisch’s draw with Van den Bosch, correcting their reversed source labels while retaining the supplied score. Eighteen other played games are missing.

Result

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Johannes van den Bosch won undefeated with 5½ points from seven games. Friedrich Sämisch followed on five and Rudolf Spielmann on four.

Ten of the 28 played games are available. The remaining eighteen scores have not been recovered.

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