3rd Clare Benedict Cup — Lenzerheide 1956
Incomplete record. This archive holds 18 of the 60 games played; 42 are missing.
West Germany won the third Clare Benedict Cup with 14 board points, one ahead of an unbeaten Dutch team, after a five-round contest at Lenzerheide.
The national-team invitation
West Germany made its cup debut with a formidable quartet: Wolfgang Unzicker, Klaus Darga, Lothar Schmid and Walter Niephaus. Austria, England, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland completed the four-board, five-round field.
Germany won four matches and drew one to score 14 board points. The Netherlands also went unbeaten but finished on 13; Italy took third with 9½, ahead of Switzerland and Austria.
The result and the archive record
OlimpBase's written account has a slip that gives the Netherlands 13½ and Italy 9. Its standings, crosstable, round results and player totals all give 13 and 9½, which are the figures used here.
Only 18 of the 60 games survive; the source database also has two endgame fragments that are not full games. The page shows the official standings without a board-by-board grid.
Final standings
Only 18 of the 60 games survive, so the page shows the official table without a board-by-board grid.
This archive holds 18 of the 60 games played; the standings above are the official final result.
| # | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Germany | 14 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 13 |
| 3 | Italy | 9½ |
| 4 | Switzerland | 9 |
| 5 | Austria | 8 |
| 6 | England | 6½ |