When Pirc won Alekhine

In December 1930 a quick chess tournament was organized in Ljubljana. Honored guest was Alexander Alekhine, at the time world champion.

Alekhine and Vasja Pirc tied at the first place; with Pirc winning the champion in a beautiful game.

*The tournament should have lasted about 2 hours & most probably the time control was 15 secs per move [I couldn't find the exact info for the main tournament, but this was applied for a following exhibition game]. Milan Vidmar seems to be the arbiter, giving the signal for each move. [main info from Jutro & Jugoslovan of 13.12.1930: after google translation]

After the tournament Milan Vidmar & Alexander Alekhine seem playing an exhibition quick game with 15 secs/move...

But though it seemed having an interesting start with pawn pressure, the game ended in a quick draw... taking in account that this was just a blitz game. Possibly nobody wanted to lose...

... and two more photos from Tedenske slike of 18.12.1930

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