Unveiling the Victory - How Spassky Won...

009 PREFACE

011 INTRODUCTION

015 1. Chess competitions for youth players

019 2. World Junior Championships
019 First Tournament: Birmingham, June 11-23, 1951
021 Second Tournament: Copenhagen, July 3-21, 1953

023 3. Assigning the Third Junior World Championship 1955 to Antwerp

025 4. Hendrik Baelen

027 5. The Invitations
027 Determining the dates and the location
027 The Registrations

029 6. The preparation: logistical, financial and organizational aspects
029 Lodgings for the participants and their chaperones/seconds
030 The search for funding
032 The Venue
033 Printed matters
034 Bulletins and photos
035 The referee committee
035 Rate of play

037 7. The participants and their seconds
037 Australia - John Purdy
039 Great Britain - Kenneth Lloyd
039 Belgium - Gustaaf Somers
039 Switzerland - Dieter Keller
040 Austria - Ernst Kreppenhofer
040 Denmark - Vagn Jørgensen
040 Yugoslavia - Dragoljub Čirić
041 Saarland - Donia Günter
041 Norway - Svein Johannessen
041 Spain - Miquel Farré
042 The Netherlands - Johannes Jacobus van Oosterom
042 Federal Republic of Germany - Hans-Jürgen Klages
043 United States - Edmar Mednis
044 Ireland - Dónal Déiseach
044 Luxembourg - Georges Philippe
045 Finland - Leo Hällström
045 Bulgaria - Georgi Tringov
046 U.S.S.R. - Boris Spassky
046 Sweden - Hans Brodén
046 France - Armand Muller
047 Iceland - Ingi Jóhannsson
047 Belgium - Michel Vanhoorne
047 Argentina - Samuel Schweber
048 Hungary - Lajos Portisch
048 The seconds

053 8. The toumament, corollary activities, the awards ceremony
053 Arrival and lodging of the players
054 Arrival
055 Lodging
056 The drawing of lots
058 The start of the tournament
060 The course of the tournament
060 The preliminaries
068 The Final
068 Final A
071 The Classification Tourney
071 The beauty awards
072 Proclamation and awards ceremony on Monday, August 8, 1955 at 3 p.m.
072 Trophies and cups
073 Prizes in kind
077 Cash prizes
078 Followed by the farewell banquet at 7 p.m.
078 And Ball from 9 p.m.
080 Reception at the Soviet Embassy in Brussels on Tuesday, August 9, 1955
080 Spassky speaks his mind

083 9. Side events
083 Days off for the players
085 Simultaneous displays
086 Visitors to the tournament

089 10. After the toumament
089 The financial picture
090 Proprietary photos
090 Resonance in the domestic and foreign chess press
091 Baelen youth leader FIDE?

097 11. The players later on

107 12. An honorary salute to Hendrik Baelen
107 Baelen: The Father of Youth Chess in Belgium
107 1. Baelen is looking for interest in chess among the teaching staff
107 2. Baelen encourages chess at school
109 3. Baelen organizes interschool competitions
109 4. Baelen promotes youth chess
111 5. Stimulates youth work in other leagues
112 6. Makes the link between school chess and youth chess
112 7. Organizing international meetings
115 8. Emphasizes international meetings
115 9. Brings within the B.C.F.youth chess to the fore
116 10. Seeks financial resources for youth chess activities
116 11. Have a youth team play in an adult team competition
117 Baelen: The Organizer of the 3d FIDE Junior World Championship

123 13. GAMES
124 Preliminary Group A
136 Preliminary Group B
147 Preliminary Group C
157 Final A

199 Afterword

201 APPENDIX 1: EXTRAIMAGES
207 APPENDIX 2: DOCUMENTS
233 APPENDIX 3: LESSKNOWN GAMES

234 Endnotes
236 Bibliography
237 List of images
241 List of documents in appendix
242 Name Index