| 50th USSR Championship (1983) |
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There was no USSR Championship held in 1982 so a special effort was made to make the 50th event held in Moscow from the 2nd to the 28th of April 1983 a representative contest. This tournament was considered to be the strongest held since the 41st USSR Championship (1973). Kasparov and Smyslov were absent but Karpov was playing in his first final since his victory in the 44th USSR Championship (1976). Lerner, Azmaiparashvili, Malaniuk, and Razuvaev were the qualifying winners of the four Otborochny tournaments. Agzamov and Vaganian were promoted to the final as the winners of the 18-player First League which had been held at Telavi, Georgia in December 1982. The field began with the odd number of seventeen players but Tal fell ill with dangerously high blood pressure and was forced to withdraw after the ninth round. In the latter rounds two players had byes. Crosstable:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
1 Karpov * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 9½
2 Tukmakov ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 9
3 Polugaevsky ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 8½
4 Vaganian ½ 0 ½ * 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 8½
5 Balashov ½ ½ ½ 1 * 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 8
6 Malaniuk ½ 0 1 ½ 1 * ½ 0 ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 7½
7 Petrosian ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 7½
8 Psakhis ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ * 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 7½
9 Romanishin 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 * 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 7½
10 Agzamov ½ 1 0 0 0 1 ½ 1 0 * 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 7
11 Azmaiparashvili 1 ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 7
12 Beliavsky 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 1 7
13 Razuvaev ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 0 7
14 Geller 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * 1 ½ 6½
15 Yusupov 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 0 1 0 * ½ 6½
16 Lerner 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ * 5½
Tal* - x - ½ - - ½ - - - - - ½ 0 - 0 1½
*Due to illness Tal only played six games with losses to Geller and Lerner and draws with Petrosian, Vaganian and Razuvaev. His Round 8 game with Tukmakov was adjourned after 40 moves and wasn't resumed. It was subsequently annulled with no result. On medical advice he withdrew from the tournament.The main source for this collection was the 50th USSR Championship Final Moscow 1983 booklet edited by Robert Wade and Leslie Stephen Fraser Blackstock. Original collection: Game Collection: USSR Championship 1983 by User: Benzol.
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| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. Tukmakov vs Razuvaev |
 | 1-0 | 27 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | E15 Queen's Indian |
| 2. Geller vs Tal |
 | 1-0 | 44 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | B83 Sicilian |
| 3. A Beliavsky vs A Yusupov |
| 1-0 | 33 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | D35 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 4. A Yusupov vs V Malaniuk |
| 1-0 | 57 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | D85 Grunfeld |
| 5. Psakhis vs K Lerner |
| 1-0 | 51 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | E43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation |
| 6. V Malaniuk vs Balashov |
| 1-0 | 59 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | A46 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 7. K Lerner vs Tal |
| 1-0 | 45 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation |
| 8. Karpov vs A Yusupov |
| 1-0 | 44 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | C82 Ruy Lopez, Open |
| 9. Romanishin vs K Lerner |
| 1-0 | 43 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | A07 King's Indian Attack |
| 10. Polugaevsky vs G Agzamov |
| 1-0 | 41 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | D19 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch |
| 11. A Beliavsky vs Geller |
| 1-0 | 29 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | D31 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 12. Balashov vs G Agzamov |
| 1-0 | 63 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | C35 King's Gambit Accepted, Cunningham |
| 13. Petrosian vs A Beliavsky |
| 1-0 | 41 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | D35 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 14. A Beliavsky vs K Lerner |
| 1-0 | 65 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd |
| 15. G Agzamov vs Azmaiparashvili |
| 1-0 | 74 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | B07 Pirc |
| 16. Tukmakov vs Romanishin |
| 1-0 | 38 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | A61 Benoni |
| 17. Polugaevsky vs Psakhis |
| 1-0 | 45 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical |
| 18. Karpov vs Geller |
| 1-0 | 31 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 19. Geller vs Tukmakov |
| 1-0 | 37 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation |
| 20. Vaganian vs A Beliavsky |
| 1-0 | 41 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | A07 King's Indian Attack |
| 21. Polugaevsky vs Romanishin |
| 1-0 | 61 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | A61 Benoni |
| 22. Karpov vs K Lerner |
| 1-0 | 50 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | B07 Pirc |
| 23. Romanishin vs G Agzamov |
| 1-0 | 38 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | C77 Ruy Lopez |
| 24. A Yusupov vs Romanishin |
| 1-0 | 46 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | E94 King's Indian, Orthodox |
| 25. Karpov vs A Beliavsky |
| 1-0 | 78 | 1983 | 50th USSR Championship | C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
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| Jun-19-15 | | visayanbraindoctor: These old USSR championships were killers. If the entire present-day Norway Chess participants were to play in this, I would give Carlsen and Anand as the only two who would have fair chances of winning it. And even then I would place my money on Karpov. Why isn't there a page for USSR Championship 1988? Both Kasparov and Karpov participated in it, the last of the great Soviet tournaments. |
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Mar-16-16
 | | Benzol: <Why isn't there a page for USSR Championship 1988? Both Kasparov and Karpov participated in it, the last of the great Soviet tournaments> <visayanbraindoctor> There is the collection Game Collection: USSR Championship 1988 but it will need some work before it could be promoted to a tournament page. |
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Jun-10-17
| | Benzol: <visayanbraindoctor> At last 55th USSR Championship (1988) :) |
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Jun-10-17
 | | perfidious: Paul, all the games from the '88 event were listed under some random tag or other--do not recall which--but I converted most, if not all of them to the correct form some weeks back. |
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Jun-10-17
| | Benzol: Alan thanks, that is great work. The 1988 event was probably the last great USSR Championship and it's good to finally see it as a tournament page.
Cheers matey.
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Sep-29-19
 | | Fusilli: What was Petrosian's health status during this tournament? He died of cancer 16 months later. Here he broke even, with lots of fightless draws. He beat only Beliavsky (convincingly) and Polugaievsky (blunder) and lost two games with white, uncharacteristic of him. I am guessing he must have been feeling the effects of his illness already, whether he had been diagnosed yet or not... |
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| Sep-29-19 | | ewan14: I do not think Karpov performed as well as he should have in all the USSR championships he participated in |
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Sep-29-19
| | Fusilli: <ewan14> Well... He won the tournament solo. His three short draws in the last five rounds suggest that was his goal. Who can blame him... It was the friggin' Soviet championship! |
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| Sep-29-19 | | JimNorCal: Just to "bookend" ewan14, I strongly believe Karpov performed exactly as expected for the USSR Championships he did not participate in. |
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