1953 Zürich chess candidates rare footage

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In 1953, three years after the tournament in Budapest, the second candidates tournament took place in Zurich.

It was a gigantic event: 15 participants played a double-round-robin, that is, each participant had to play 28 games. Zurich 1953 is still one of the most famous tournaments in chess history, not least because of the legendary tournament book by Bronstein which many chess players consider to be one of the best chess books ever written. But though Bronstein is officially the author of this chess classic the idea to this book goes back to Bronstein's mentor Boris Vainshtein, a high-ranking and influential KGB officer. Vainshtein also wrote "the entire narrative part", Bronstein contributed only the analyses.

But in Zurich Bronstein could not repeat his success from Budapest. He scored 16.0 / 28 to share second to fourth place with Keres and Samuel Reshevsky.

The tournament was won by Vassily Smyslov 18/28

However, Smyslov failed to overcome Botvinnik: just like Bronstein in 1951 he "only" tied the world championship match 1954 against Botvinnik and Botvinnik once again narrowly defended the title.