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🏆 USSR Championship (1949)

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The 17th USSR chess championship took place in the Soviet capital of Moscow from October 16th to November 20th, 1949. Twenty of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and masters qualified or received invitations to participate in the round robin event. Twelve players qualified from semi-final tournaments held earlier in the year: ... [more]

Player: Semyon Abramovich Furman

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Furman vs Kholmov  ½-½311949USSR ChampionshipD54 Queen's Gambit Declined, Anti-Neo-Orthodox Variation
2. Furman vs Sokolsky  ½-½251949USSR ChampionshipE41 Nimzo-Indian
3. N Kopilov vs Furman 1-0421949USSR ChampionshipA24 English, Bremen System with ...g6
4. Furman vs Taimanov  1-0521949USSR ChampionshipD46 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
5. Ragozin vs Furman 1-0781949USSR ChampionshipC77 Ruy Lopez
6. Furman vs V Liublinsky  1-0341949USSR ChampionshipD41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
7. Kotov vs Furman 1-0411949USSR ChampionshipA34 English, Symmetrical
8. Furman vs Smyslov 1-0551949USSR ChampionshipD85 Grunfeld
9. Flohr vs Furman  ½-½151949USSR ChampionshipD14 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
10. Furman vs Geller 0-1411949USSR ChampionshipE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
11. Keres vs Furman 0-1481949USSR ChampionshipC86 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack
12. Furman vs Lilienthal 1-0361949USSR ChampionshipE47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3
13. Aronin vs Furman ½-½311949USSR ChampionshipC86 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack
14. Furman vs Petrosian 1-0411949USSR ChampionshipE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
15. V Mikenas vs Furman 1-0391949USSR ChampionshipA18 English, Mikenas-Carls
16. Furman vs G Goldberg  1-0411949USSR ChampionshipC05 French, Tarrasch
17. Bronstein vs Furman ½-½611949USSR ChampionshipC92 Ruy Lopez, Closed
18. Furman vs Levenfish  1-0301949USSR ChampionshipA80 Dutch
19. Boleslavsky vs Furman 0-1421949USSR ChampionshipC97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin
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Kibitzer's Corner
Aug-06-13
Premium Chessgames Member		  GrahamClayton: Bronstein started the tournament with 6/11, but a run of 7/8 propelled him to the title.
Jul-25-16
Premium Chessgames Member		  Sally Simpson: Small error in the text.

"While this championship was Smyslov's first and last Soviet crown."

Smyslov shared it again in 1955.

Game Collection: USSR Championship 1955

Jul-26-16  ughaibu: But Smyslov lost the play-off, in 1955.

How did Bronstein come closer to being world champion, without succeeding, than Schlechter or Leko?

Jul-27-16
Premium Chessgames Member		  whiteshark: Fair question!
Jul-27-16
Premium Chessgames Member		  Sally Simpson: 'Smyslov lost the play-off'

Then the small error is in the Smyslov Bio.

USSR Championship (1949)

Soviet champion in 1955 sharing the first place with Efim Geller.

(no mention of a play-off.)

Apr-26-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  Chessical: Petrosian's first Soviet Championship, he qualified from the semi-final held in Tiflis.
Apr-26-17  Nosnibor: This was Geller`s debut and he scored 10 wins which exceeded both of the joint winners decisive games.Also noticeable is that he scored 4.5 points against the first six without losing a single game.
Sep-02-17  Arconax: Goldberg got lost in all the variations.
Sep-02-18
Premium Chessgames Member		  fiercebadger: Petrosian lost five games
Sep-02-18
Premium Chessgames Member		  Check It Out: <fiercebadger: Petrosian lost five games>

Not eight as listed here?

Sep-02-18  siimens: Well, closest probably because Bronstein didn't lose Botvinnik but tied the 1951 title match
Feb-16-19
Premium Chessgames Member		  perfidious: <fiercebadger: Petrosian lost five games>

He lost the first five.
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