AApril 1950
Inaugural Candidates Tournament in Budapest from April 11 to May 18, 1950. Shown here are Isaac Boleslavsky, Seymon Furman, and David Bronstein. It was a double round-robin competition with 10 competitors: Bronstein, Boleslavsky, Smyslov, Keres, Najdorf, Kotov, Stahlberg, Lilienthal, Szabo, and Flohr. The Budapest event became the only Candidates Tournament to result in a first-place tie with no tiebreaker in place. Original b/w photo source: FIDE.
August 28, 1950
Evening Despatch, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, Monday, August 28, 1950
Chess challenger
Soviet grandmaster David Bronstein has won the right to challenge the world's champion chess player Mikhail Botvinnik by defeating Boleslavsky in Moscow yesterday. In the 14th game Bronstein won on the 30th move having taken Boleslavsky's queen. Bronstein and Botvinnik will meet next year.
