Vitaly Georgievich Tarasov
Number of games in database: 77
Years covered: 1949 to 1996
Overall record: +9 -26 =42 (39.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Queen's Pawn Game (7)      D02 A46 E10  Sicilian (6)      B90 B52 B29 B40 B65  King's Indian (5)      E79 E62 E70  Grunfeld (4)      D75 D85 D94 D74	With the Black pieces:  Ruy Lopez (9)      C76 C92 C75 C68 C97  King's Indian (6)      E80 E74 E77 E61 E68

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Petrosian vs V Tarasov, 1961 1/2-1/2

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VITALY GEORGIEVICH TARASOV (born Jan-20-1923, died Jul-05-1977) Russia [what is this?]

page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 77  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. L Shamayev vs V Tarasov   1-0 47 1949 Ch URS (1/2 final) C25 Vienna 2. V Tarasov vs Levenfish   ½-½ 49 1949 Ch URS (1/2 final) E19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3 3. Ufimtsev vs V Tarasov   ½-½ 21 1949 Ch URS (1/2 final) B72 Sicilian, Dragon 4. V Tarasov vs Taimanov   ½-½ 21 1949 Leningrad A46 Queen's Pawn Game 5. V Tarasov vs Zamikhovsky   1-0 58 1949 URS-ch sf D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 6. V Tarasov vs Ragozin   1-0 62 1950 Ch URS (1/2 final) D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 7. Novotelnov vs V Tarasov   1-0 49 1951 URS-ch sf E68 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Variation, 8.e4 8. V Tarasov vs V Zak   ½-½ 32 1951 URS-ch sf D75 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O c5, 8.dxc5 9. Shamkovich vs V Tarasov   1-0 36 1951 Ch URS (1/2 final) B74 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical 10. V Tarasov vs Korchnoi   0-1 52 1954 Yerevan D94 Grunfeld 11. Bannik vs V Tarasov   ½-½ 43 1954 URS-chT C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin 12. Antoshin vs V Tarasov   1-0 28 1955 URS-ch 1L B16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation 13. Bannik vs V Tarasov   1-0 54 1955 URS-ch 1L A31 English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation 14. V Tarasov vs Kotov   ½-½ 81 1955 1/2 final E10 Queen's Pawn Game 15. I Livshin vs V Tarasov   0-1 60 1956 URS-ch sf A15 English 16. Bannik vs V Tarasov   ½-½ 42 1956 URS-ch sf B08 Pirc, Classical 17. V Tarasov vs Vasiukov   ½-½ 28 1956 URS-ch sf A88 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6 18. Boleslavsky vs V Tarasov   ½-½ 38 1956 URS-ch sf C76 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, Fianchetto Variation 19. V Tarasov vs Zamikhovsky   1-0 29 1956 URS-ch sf E14 Queen's Indian 20. G Borisenko vs V Tarasov   ½-½ 22 1956 URS-ch sf E74 King's Indian, Averbakh, 6...c5 21. V Tarasov vs J Yuchtman   0-1 48 1957 URS-ch sf A46 Queen's Pawn Game 22. Gurgenidze vs V Tarasov   1-0 65 1957 24th USSR Championship E80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation 23. V Tarasov vs Petrosian 0-1 64 1957 Ch URS A56 Benoni Defense 24. Bannik vs V Tarasov   ½-½ 25 1957 URS-ch24 C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical 25. V Tarasov vs Korchnoi 0-1 30 1957 URS-ch24 Moscow B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein  page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 77

Mar-25-05    lopium: Maybe an interesting player who played against the best players in the world. Jun-25-08    Karpova: He died in Omsk, Russia. Jun-25-08    Benzol: As he died in 1977 the date of the last game here is incorrect or it was played by someone else. Sep-24-09    returnoftheking: Shared first in the Russian Ch 1960 with GM Taimanov,shared first in the USSR semis 1956 with Nezhmetdinov and Boleslavsky ahead of f.e. Kholmov, Suetin Simagin. His career was probably cut short when his title was taken away after the famous incident with Kholmov and Nezhmetdinov. All were punished for "not sportmanslike behavior" - Tarasov the most.

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