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Chess 03 Jan 1952, Thu The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
Geller vs. Keres
Included in the scores of the recent U.S.S.R. championships were:
Keres 12 points;
2. Geller and Petrosian 11½-4;
4. Smyslov 11½;
5. Botvinnik 10;
6. Averbach, Bronstein and Tajmanov 9;
9. Aronin and Flohr.
The result strongly supports the doubts which were expressed recently in this column, whether tournaments and their vagaries really provide the best method of producing a candidate for a world championship match. Had this contest been the “candidates tournament.” normally an even stronger contest both the actual world champion, Botvinnik, and Bronstein, the runner-up, still in our opinion the strongest players, would have been out of the running.
