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Polish Championship Jurata

Polish Championship Jurata 1937, chess postmark

For the first time the tournament for the Polish championship took place in the coastal city of Jurata in June 1937.

The great foreign chess masters were: Gedeon Stahlberg (Sweden), Vasja Pirc (Yugoslavia), Jan Foltys (Czechoslovakia), Lajos Steiner (Hungary) and Erik Andersen (Denmark).

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International Tournament Kecskemét 1927, chess postmark

International Tournament held in Kecskemét, Hungary in 1927. A roller type slogan postmark commemorates this tournament. Twenty chess players, divided into two sections of ten, participated in the International Masters Tournament held in Kecskemet, Hungary from June 25 to July 12 1927.

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