For a quarter-century after he fled the Soviet Union, Alexander Alekhine was treated as a traitor and an enemy of the people. This attitude softened within a decade of his death, and in 1956 the Soviet Union held an important international event in his memory. Earlier that year, in April, a Soviet delegation, including Smyslov, Keres, Bronstein, Geller and Petrosian, had marked the tenth anniversary of his death at a ceremony, organised by FIDE, in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris. ... [more]
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Player: Mark Taimanov
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| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
1. Taimanov vs Bronstein |
 | 1-0 | 41 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | E73 King's Indian |
2. N Padevsky vs Taimanov |
| 0-1 | 32 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | B22 Sicilian, Alapin |
3. Taimanov vs Najdorf |
 | 1-0 | 39 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | A16 English |
4. Unzicker vs Taimanov |
 | ½-½ | 18 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | C70 Ruy Lopez |
5. Taimanov vs Szabo |
| ½-½ | 24 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | D54 Queen's Gambit Declined, Anti-Neo-Orthodox Variation |
6. Taimanov vs Sliwa |
 | 1-0 | 28 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | E58 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line with 8...Bxc3 |
7. Stahlberg vs Taimanov |
| ½-½ | 22 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto |
8. Taimanov vs Gligoric |
| ½-½ | 32 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | E64 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav System |
9. Botvinnik vs Taimanov |
| ½-½ | 24 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | A16 English |
10. Taimanov vs Uhlmann |
| ½-½ | 41 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | E94 King's Indian, Orthodox |
11. Keres vs Taimanov |
| ½-½ | 46 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | B62 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer |
12. Taimanov vs Golombek |
| 1-0 | 54 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | E47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 |
13. Smyslov vs Taimanov |
| ½-½ | 21 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto |
14. Taimanov vs V Ciocaltea |
| 1-0 | 43 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | E97 King's Indian |
15. Pachman vs Taimanov |
| ½-½ | 23 | 1956 | Alekhine Memorial | A16 English |
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