Zürich Easter Tournament 1936

Eliskases wins the Easter training tournament
10–13 April 1936 · Zürich, Switzerland
Erich Eliskases won with 4½/5, ahead of Oskar Naegeli on 3½ and Hans Johner on 3.
Incomplete record·8 of 15 games archived

Incomplete record. This archive holds 8 of the 15 games played; 7 are missing. Eight of the fifteen games inferred from the original ordinary-result matrix have approved archive scores; seven scores are unavailable here.

Erich Eliskases won the six-player Easter tournament with four wins and one draw. Oskar Naegeli finished second on 3½/5, followed by Hans Johner on 3.

Preparation in Zürich

The Schachgesellschaft Zürich invited Eliskases to play alongside five Swiss masters in a single round robin. Its contemporary report describes the event as preparation for the national tournament in Lucerne that June.

The original report emphasizes Eliskases’s hard-fought win over Naegeli. Gygli held the winner to his only draw; Gygli and Walter Henneberger shared fourth with 1½ points, ahead of Staehelin on 1.

The surviving record

The original Wiener Schach-Zeitung table supplies all fifteen ordinary reciprocal results and six totals. That complete table supports the inference that fifteen games were played; no concrete default or withdrawal is identified in the inspected report, which gives no separate physical-game census.

Eight scores survive in the checked approved archives. The other seven pairings have empty archive records but no playable score here. All native moves, dates, rounds, results and names are retained. A later club history’s complete Hans Johner–Staehelin score agrees with all 79 plies of the preserved game.

Final standings

4½/5
Erich Eliskases won with 4½/5, ahead of Oskar Naegeli on 3½ and Hans Johner on 3.

The standings below are the historical final result. Only 8 of the 15 games played survive in our source; the remaining 7 are lost and appear as · in the cross table.

# Player Score Record Games
1 Eliskases, Erich Gottlieb 4½/5 +4 -0 =1
2 Naegeli, Oskar 3½/5 +3 -1 =1
3 Johner, Hans 3/5 +3 -2 =0
=4 Gygli, Fritz 1½/5 +1 -3 =1
=4 Henneberger, Walter 1½/5 +1 -3 =1
6 Staehelin, Adolf 1/5 +1 -4 =0

Cross Table

Rank Player 123456
1 Eliskases, Erich Gottlieb 1 1 ½ 1 1
2 Naegeli, Oskar 0 1 · · ·
3 Johner, Hans 0 0 1 · 1
4 Gygli, Fritz ½ · 0 · ·
5 Henneberger, Walter 0 · · · ·
6 Staehelin, Adolf 0 · 0 · ·

Each cell shows the row player's recorded results against the column player. ● = same player. · = game played but lost (not preserved in our source).