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USSR Training Tournament (1953) Bondarevsky withdrew after three rounds. His games can be found here: Training Tournament+ (1953).  page 2 of 2; games 26-45 of 45  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 26. Smyslov vs Averbakh ½-½ 39 1953 USSR Training Tournament A26 English 27. Geller vs Taimanov 1-0 65 1953 USSR Training Tournament A22 English 28. Keres vs Geller 0-1 38 1953 USSR Training Tournament A48 King's Indian 29. Geller vs Averbakh   ½-½ 16 1953 USSR Training Tournament E14 Queen's Indian 30. Kotov vs Geller   ½-½ 25 1953 USSR Training Tournament C48 Four Knights 31. Geller vs Petrosian 0-1 26 1953 USSR Training Tournament C15 French, Winawer 32. Boleslavsky vs Geller 1-0 30 1953 USSR Training Tournament B64 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack 33. Ragozin vs Geller   ½-½ 41 1953 USSR Training Tournament B64 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack 34. Keres vs Kotov   1-0 41 1953 USSR Training Tournament A20 English 35. Geller vs Smyslov 0-1 33 1953 USSR Training Tournament D18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch 36. Keres vs Boleslavsky   ½-½ 43 1953 USSR Training Tournament A16 English 37. Smyslov vs Keres 1-0 92 1953 USSR Training Tournament A21 English 38. Keres vs Ragozin 1-0 41 1953 USSR Training Tournament E26 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch 39. Petrosian vs Keres ½-½ 60 1953 USSR Training Tournament A09 Reti Opening 40. Taimanov vs Keres ½-½ 82 1953 USSR Training Tournament D24 Queen's Gambit Accepted 41. Keres vs Tolush 0-1 64 1953 USSR Training Tournament E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 42. Tolush vs Kotov   0-1 41 1953 USSR Training Tournament D28 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical 43. Smyslov vs Kotov 1-0 26 1953 USSR Training Tournament A25 English 44. Averbakh vs Kotov   ½-½ 41 1953 USSR Training Tournament A21 English 45. Kotov vs Taimanov   ½-½ 42 1953 USSR Training Tournament A22 English  page 2 of 2; games 26-45 of 45    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Jul-06-22    offramp: A training tournament is a high-quality tournament with zero awards and zero prizes. Attendance is MANDATORY. In the 1950s the politburo liked to go there. It is on the Black Sea, and near to Sochi. Moscow is only a short hop flight to Gagra, it's 7 hours. Outside toilets. You go for the Khash, but you'll stay for the Khash. Jul-06-22    perfidious: You no play, off to gulag or, if you give really hard time, Lubyanka. Mar-22-24    Cassandro: This was probably the strongest training tournament ever. Just look at the incredible participants! Because no awards and prizes were up for grabs, it also contains lots of somewhat wild and hugely entertaining games since the players could let themselves loose a bit, so to speak. Mar-22-24    Sally Simpson: Sounds a bit suspicious this one. A 'Training Tournament a few months before the Zuerich Candidates (1953) Eight of the players here played in Zurich, the only missing Soviet player from those playing in Zurich is Bronstein who was not party to the rigging of the games which was clearly going on to ensure that Smyslov won the candidates. Bronstein and Veinstein were no doubt busy just after this 'training tournament' writing the book of the 1953 candidates because they knew the results and the score of the games between the Soviet players long before the Zurich candidates had even started. And there is more than one suspicious circumstance here. 1953. Stalin dies, Elizabeth II is crowned, Hilary and Tenzing Norgay conquer Everest and Bondarevsky goes missing during a chess training exorcise. (May 1953 was also the 'Stanley Mathews' Cup Final. Blackpool 4 Bolton Wanderers 3 but I do not think Bondarevsky had anything to do with that.) 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