L’Échiquier International Tournament, Brussels 1937

O’Kelly wins the four-player international
9–14 January 1937 · L’Échiquier, Brussels, Belgium
Albéric O’Kelly de Galway won with 4½ points from six games, half a point ahead of Movša Feigins. Paul Devos scored two and Emil Joseph Diemer 1½.
Incomplete record·7 of 12 games archived
Event Index 7 GAMES

Incomplete record. This archive holds 7 of the 12 games played; 5 are missing. Seven of the twelve played games are available. The remaining five scores have not been recovered.

Albéric O’Kelly de Galway won the four-player international at Brussels’s L’Échiquier club with 4½ points from six games. Movša Feigins finished half a point behind.

A return journey through Brussels

Feigins and Emil Joseph Diemer stopped in Brussels after the Christmas congress at Hastings. L’Échiquier arranged a tournament in which each player met every opponent twice.

O’Kelly finished first, followed by Feigins, Paul Devos and Diemer. The event was O’Kelly’s first international tournament victory.

Seven of twelve games

The seven available scores include Feigins’s win over O’Kelly and O’Kelly’s return victory. The final published table accounts for all twelve played games.

Five scores are missing. The available games are retained in their original form rather than used to calculate incomplete tournament standings.

Result

4½/6
Albéric O’Kelly de Galway won with 4½ points from six games, half a point ahead of Movša Feigins. Paul Devos scored two and Emil Joseph Diemer 1½.

Seven of the twelve played games are available. The remaining five scores have not been recovered.

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