The West-European zonal tournament was held in Hotel Santbergen and Hans Kmoch was the arbiter. Originally, Savielly Tartakower was supposed to represent France, but he could not come. The Belgian GM Albrec O’Kelly qualified when Czech GM Ludek Pachman lost to the Bulgarian IM Alexander Tsvetkov in the last round, while O'Kelly defeated Jan Donner who was to be awarded the GM title in 1959.
White was played by the Swiss IM Max Blau (1918-1984) who was the Swiss Champion in 1953, 1955, 1956 and 1967.
The winner was Tjeerd Daniel (generally known as Theo) van Scheltinga (1914-1994) a Dutch IM who was one of the leading Dutch players from 1936 to the late 1950s.
[Event "Hilversum Zonal"] [Site "Hilversum NED"] [Date "1947.07.22"] [Round "7"] [White "Max Blau"] [Black "Theo Daniel van Scheltinga"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C64"] [Annotator "Stockfish 17"] [PlyCount "84"] [EventDate "1947.??.??"] {C65: Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 {This, the ancient Berlin Defense, has long had a reputation for being solid and drawish. About the only player of note who played it in recent times was GM Arthur Bisguier who was never noted to be the type who played for a deaw. However, in the 2000 World Championship match Kramnik used it toget a draw against Kasparov it enjoyed a revival and was played by aggressive players like Shirov, Topalov, Nakamura, Carlsen and Anand.} 4. O-O {Slightly less often seen is 4. d3 which leads to similar results.} Bc5 5. c3 O-O 6. d4 Bb6 7. Re1 d6 8. h3 Qe7 9. Bg5 (9. Na3 Bd7 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bxf6 Qxf6 12. Nc4 {is about equal. Polgar,J (2677) -Svidler,P (2713) Frankfurt 1999}) 9... h6 (9... Nb8 10. Nbd2 c6 11. Ba4 {White's position is more active. Heino,J (2124)-Lehto,V (2203) Finland 2005}) 10. Bxf6 {Retreating to either e3 or h4 were both acceptable.} Qxf6 11. Na3 Ne7 12. Nc4 Ng6 13. Nxb6 axb6 {The position is equal, but it's instructive to see how van Scheltinga manages to exploit the fact that white's 8.h3 has ever so slightly weakened the K-side. Black's 9...h6 has also weakened his own K-side, but the difference is that white is unable to exploit it.} 14. Bf1 {Played withe the intention of playing g3 guarding the weak square f5, but before he can play g3 he wants to gusrd he. Apparently Blau has already realized that he is on the defensive.} Nf4 15. Kh2 g5 16. Ng1 {This was apparently played in the hope of lessening the effect of the further advance of black's g-Pawn. Precenting its advance with 16.g4 would not have been a good idea.} g4 { [%mdl 512] The start of what turns out to be a very dangerous attack.} 17. g3 { Sacrificing a P with the hope of slowing down black's attack.} (17. hxg4 Qh4+ 18. Nh3 Bxg4 {is not a position white would want to defend.}) 17... Nxh3 18. Nxh3 gxh3 19. Qd2 Qg6 20. f4 Bg4 21. f5 Qh5 {Black has been able to hang onto his extra P and the advance of his g-Pawn has opened up lines of attack. With exact play white may be able to survive, but the task will not be easy. In Shootouts white scored +0 -2 =3} 22. d5 Kh7 23. Be2 Rg8 24. Bxg4 Rxg4 25. Re3 Rag8 26. Qf2 Qg5 27. Rg1 h5 {White is undert tremendous oressure and his position is now beyond saving.} 28. Re2 Qh6 29. Qe3 R8g5 30. Ree1 h4 {Black is clearly winning.} 31. gxh4 Rxg1 32. hxg5 Rxg5 {[%mdl 4096] White has managed to avoid getting mated, but the ending is lost. van Scheltinga finishes him off with precision.} 33. Qf3 Rg2+ 34. Kh1 Qh4 35. Rg1 Rxg1+ 36. Kxg1 Kh6 37. Kh1 Kg5 38. Qe3+ Qf4 39. Qe2 Qg3 40. c4 Kf4 41. Qd2+ Kxe4 42. Qe2+ Kf4 { White resigned. Forceful play by van Scheltinga.} 0-1
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