2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad

Hungary won the tournament ahead of Yugoslavia, Romania and Germany.

Several individual tournaments which also featured international participation were held at the Congress.

Ernst Grünfeld of Austria and Mario Monticelli of Italy won the strongest individual event, a sixteen-player round robin sometimes referred to as the first "FIDE Masters" tournament.

Another sixteen players of mixed local and international backgrounds competed in a second round robin, won by Max Walter of Czechoslovakia.

[2] The final results were as follows: Max Walter of Bratislava won this sixteen-player round robin with a score of 11½ out of 15.