CURAÇAO 1962

Hi everybody, the present forum aims to allow our dearest chess.com members, to share all kinds of materials (pics, videos, games etc) in relation with the candidates tournament of Curaçao in 1962.

As a start, i'll share with you these pictures:

Gorgeous Curaçao beach

Here's also some pics of Willemstad Curaçao in 1962:

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Hi Philip, can you devlop a little bit your comment? Thanks

Hi everybody, here's a game played during the Curaçao 1962 tournament, i like it because it features the sicilian defense (my favourite)...enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufiEkBuHSc

The winner of the tournament and the next world champion: Tigran PETROSSIAN

thx for sharing, likes the set with Tal & Fischer

My pleasure

Then, Curaçao maintained it's international chess traditions:

The final ranking of the tournament:

FINAL STANDINGS:

                  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    Score    W   D   L

  1. Petrosian  xxxx ½½½½ ½½½½ ½1½½ ½½11 ½½1½ 11½- ½11½  17½- 9½   8  19   0

  2. Keres      ½½½½ xxxx ½½½½ 0½1½ ½½1½ 1110 1½1- ½11½  17 -10    9  16   2

  3. Geller     ½½½½ ½½½½ xxxx 11½0 ½½1½ ½½½1 ½11- ½11½  17 -10    8  18   1

  4. Fischer    ½0½½ 1½0½ 00½1 xxxx 010½ 01½1 ½1½- 1½1½  14 -13    8  12   7

  5. Korchnoi   ½½00 ½½0½ ½½0½ 101½ xxxx ½½½0 10½- 1111  13½-14½   7  13   7

  6. Benko      ½½0½ 0001 ½½½0 10½0 ½½½1 xxxx 10½- 011½  12 -15    6  12   9

  7. Tal        00½- 0½0- ½00- ½0½- 01½- 01½- xxxx 10½-   7 -14    3   8  10

  8. Filip      ½00½ ½00½ ½00½ 0½0½ 0000 100½ 01½- xxxx   7 -20    2  10  15

Here are the candidates...not all of them reached the shores of the Caribbean island: