The match was played as a preparation for the "Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR". It was played on 10 boards, according to the rules of the "Spartakiad".

I had assumed Mikenas was on Board 1 as he was given as such in both Rusbase and "Lietuvos Sporto Zinynas 1965-1968". But I think you are right that Maslov played Board 1, as he does so in the 1967 Spartakaid and in the Lithuania-Latvia match in March 1967, both times ahead of Mikenas. But the scenario you give still doesn't work. Because earlier you said: <On 1st board Bagirov won against Mikenas 1:0 and against Lithuanian champion Maslov 2.5:0.5>. So this would give Maslov only 0.5/3, not 2/3. Therefore, there is something wrong with the scores given in "Lietuvos Sporto Zinynas 1965-1968". In addition:

(1) Both you and Rusbase say Vistaneckis obtained 3/3, whereas "Lietuvos Sporto Zinynas 1965-1968" says he only got 2.5. So there's a definite error there.

(2) The scores given for the 8 players listed in "Lietuvos Sporto Zinynas 1965-1968" already total 19.5. And the implied scores from this for their opponents is only 12.5. Therefore they need another 4-0 somewhere to bring their score up to 16.5. This implies you would have lost 0-4, but you say you scored 3 draws and a win.

(3) <It was played on 10 boards>. The total score of games in the match is 36 (19.5 plus 16.5). As there were 4 rounds, this must imply there were 9 boards. If there were 10 boards, the total score of games would be 40. It seems to me that there were 9 boards, but 10 players, with not all players (eg Vistaneckis) playing 4 games. (This is assuming that the match score of 19.5-16.5, given in both Rusbase and "Lietuvos Sporto Zinynas 1965-1968", is correct.)

I agree that it is big mess. Rusbase and "Lietuvos Sporto Zinynas 1965-1968" are not an original sources, they are a secondary, copying from other sources.

From contemporary source - "Shachmati" magazine we have: I.Vistaneckis 3/3
Kausilaite 3/4
Bagirov - Maslov 2.5:0.5
Lithuania - Latvia 19.5:16.5
So you right, match was played on 9 boards.

After adjusting results table from "Lietuvos Sporto Zinynas 1965-1968" we have:

V.Mikënas 2.5:1.5
L.Maslovas 0.5:2.5
A.Butnorius 2:2
I.Vistaneckis 3:0
D.Lapienis 2:2
V.Kausilaitë 3:1
M.Kartanaitë 2.5:1.5
I.Raugaitë 3:1
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18.5:11.5

Sorry to keep querying this one - something is still not right.

If we take your score for the 8 players listed of <18.5:11.5>, then add your own score <I played on board 7 against Gennadi Govashelishvili and fished 2.5:1.5, winning the last game>, then we get a score of 21:13. But Lithuania's total score was only 19.5.

Perhaps part of the problem resides in the score given for I.Raugaite. If your memory is correct and Saakova beat her, then the score given for her of 3:1 cannot be correct.

It would be interesting to know what source "Lietuvos Sporto Zinynas 1965-1968" used. Whatever it was, somebody messed up somewhere.

"... Kaunas team (Maslov, Alekseev, Ostrauskas, Butnorius and Spikiene won Lithuanian team championship with 25 points. Vilnius (Mikenas, Lapenis, Vistaneckis, Kasimov, Kausilaite) - 24 points..."

This article returned some memories about my chess activities at high school period.
Master Vistaneckis honored my school principal with short visit. It resulted with permission to skip lessens when I represented Vilnius or Lithuania in tournaments.

"... Vilnius chess players defeated Kaliningrad region team 14:10 (7:5 7:5). 2 points scored only Lithuanian women champion M. Kartanaite. D. Lapenis and N. Kasimovas scored 1.5 each one, Vistaneckis 1, Vladas Mikenas only 0.5 point..."

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qcsmaezva...

<hemy> today you are honored as cg.com "Player of the Day."

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Player of the Day
Nechemia Kasimov

(1947-)

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Now is a good time to reflect on how fortunate we are to have you here.

I'm trying my best by contributing to CG, while most of the time I'm busy with "Lithuanian chess history up to XXI century" project.
My friend and coauthor Eugenijus Paleckis (Klaipeda, Lithuania) writing it in Lithuanian language. It is too big for 1 book and most likely will include 7 books.

I'm lucky to be a member of great CG community, where I found many friends.

I received from <Annie> advise regarding publishing online chapters of the "Lithuanian chess history up to XXI century" project.
Appears that many publishers may reject books that can already be found online.

<hemy> I also think it would be best to publish a print run first.

Eugenijus speaks only Lithuanian and Russian. My English is not good enough for such a task. First we will try to find some institution or person in Lithuania who is willing to sponsor book editing + printing. Later we will check the possibility of translation to English.

lithuanian: Kasimovas, Nechemijas
hebrew: קסימוב, נחמיה russian: Касимов, Нехемия (or Неемия)

for my player database, i add the players’ names in their native form as well, including the variants of the places where they lived or were born.

finally, could you tell me your patronymic, as i include it for all players who were born during the period of the russian empire and soviet union.

either here or by email would be greatly appreciated - cameosis@gmx.net

In Russian my name is Нехемья Касимов. The name of Mikhail Tal's father is also Нехемья. Full name of Tal in Russian is Таль, Михаил Нехемьевич.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/i...

My father's name in Lithuanian is Benjamin, in Russian - Беньямин, in Hebrew - בנימין

totally forgot about tal, whom i already had in my database with his complete name in latvian and russian ... heh

i had copied the english spelling from the chessgames profile, as i thought this is the version that you preferred.

It is 3475 pages pdf, project that together with Eugenijus Paleckis we worked on since 2016.
Many of colleagues from around the glob contributed to this project, thanks for all of them.
The biggest contribution belongs to dear friend from New Zealand <chesshistoryinterest>.