Salo Flohr: Difference between revisions

In addition, Flohr enjoyed a fair amount of success in match play,. and heHe played matches with two of his main rivals for the titleright ofto challenger tochallenge reigning champion [[Alexander Alekhine]]. He tied a 16-game match against Euwe in 1932 (+3 −3 =10), and he tied a match against Botvinnik in 1933 (+2 −2 =8). Flohr beat [[Gösta Stoltz]] by 5½–2½ in 1931, and a year later he beat [[Mir Sultan Khan]], the 1932 and 1933 [[British Chess Championship|British Champion]], by 3½–2½. Flohr also defeated Johannes van den Bosch at the [[Hague]] in 1932 by 6–2. In 1933, he won two matches in Switzerland, first over [[Oskar Naegeli]] by 4–2 at Bern, and then by 4½–1½ over [[Henri Grob]] at [[Arosa]].