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Moscow (1963) This tournament was played at the Moscow Central Chess Club. (1) Moscow, Soviet Union (Russia), 29 October - 20 November 1963 (2, 3) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts 1 Smyslov * ˝ 1 ˝ ˝ 1 ˝ 1 ˝ ˝ ˝ 1 1 1 1 1 11˝ 2 Tal ˝ * 1 ˝ 1 0 ˝ 1 ˝ ˝ 1 ˝ 1 1 1 ˝ 10˝ 3 Gligoric 0 0 * ˝ ˝ ˝ ˝ 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 10 4 Antoshin ˝ ˝ ˝ * ˝ 0 1 1 ˝ 1 ˝ ˝ 1 ˝ ˝ 1 9˝ 5 Vladimirov ˝ 0 ˝ ˝ * 1 ˝ 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 =6 Liberzon 0 1 ˝ 1 0 * 1 0 1 ˝ ˝ 1 ˝ 0 1 ˝ 8˝ =6 Keres ˝ ˝ ˝ 0 ˝ 0 * 0 1 ˝ 1 ˝ ˝ 1 1 1 8˝ =8 Simagin 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 * 1 0 ˝ ˝ ˝ 1 1 ˝ 8 =8 Szabó ˝ ˝ 0 ˝ 1 0 0 0 * ˝ ˝ 1 1 ˝ 1 1 8 =10 Hort ˝ ˝ 0 0 1 ˝ ˝ 1 ˝ * ˝ ˝ ˝ 0 ˝ 1 7˝ =10 Matanovic ˝ 0 1 ˝ 0 ˝ 0 ˝ ˝ ˝ * ˝ ˝ 1 ˝ 1 7˝ 12 Pietzsch 0 ˝ 0 ˝ 0 0 ˝ ˝ 0 ˝ ˝ * ˝ ˝ 1 1 6 13 Padevsky 0 0 0 0 0 ˝ ˝ ˝ 0 ˝ ˝ ˝ * 1 1 ˝ 5˝ 14 Jimenez 0 0 0 ˝ 0 1 0 0 ˝ 1 0 ˝ 0 * ˝ ˝ 4˝ 15 Kuijpers 0 0 0 ˝ 0 0 0 0 0 ˝ ˝ 0 0 ˝ * 1 3 16 Balcerowski 0 ˝ 0 0 0 ˝ 0 ˝ 0 0 0 0 ˝ ˝ 0 * 2˝ (1) Rusbase [rusbase-1] (2) Crosstable from Magyar Sakkelet, 1963, p. 181. In Di Felice, Chess Results 1961-1963, pp. 329-330. (3) Rounds and game dates from: Alexander Khalifman, ed., Mikhail Tal Games II (Chess Stars 1995), pp. 34-43. Original collection: Game Collection: Moscow 1963 by User: sneaky pete. Unfinished collection completed by User: TheFocus.  page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 120  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Antoshin vs Keres 1-0 43 1963 Moscow E55 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System, Bronstein Variation 2. Simagin vs W Pietzsch   ½-½ 26 1963 Moscow D59 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower 3. Smyslov vs N Padevsky 1-0 29 1963 Moscow D42 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 7.Bd3 4. E Jimenez Zerquera vs Szabo   ½-½ 30 1963 Moscow B42 Sicilian, Kan 5. Hort vs B Vladimirov   1-0 73 1963 Moscow E79 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack, Main line 6. Tal vs F Kuijpers 1-0 37 1963 Moscow C79 Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense Deferred 7. Gligoric vs V Liberzon ½-½ 62 1963 Moscow E68 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Variation, 8.e4 8. W Balcerowski vs A Matanovic   0-1 36 1963 Moscow E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 9. A Matanovic vs Gligoric 1-0 66 1963 Moscow C74 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense 10. Keres vs B Vladimirov   ½-½ 42 1963 Moscow B42 Sicilian, Kan 11. F Kuijpers vs Simagin 0-1 40 1963 Moscow B11 Caro-Kann, Two Knights, 3...Bg4 12. W Pietzsch vs W Balcerowski   1-0 29 1963 Moscow B07 Pirc 13. V Liberzon vs Smyslov 0-1 36 1963 Moscow E54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System 14. Szabo vs Hort ½-½ 43 1963 Moscow A25 English 15. N Padevsky vs E Jimenez Zerquera   1-0 66 1963 Moscow C79 Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense Deferred 16. Antoshin vs Tal   ½-½ 30 1963 Moscow E52 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line with ...b6 17. Smyslov vs A Matanovic   ½-½ 22 1963 Moscow E19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3 18. Gligoric vs W Pietzsch   1-0 41 1963 Moscow C19 French, Winawer, Advance 19. B Vladimirov vs Szabo 0-1 24 1963 Moscow E97 King's Indian 20. Simagin vs Antoshin   0-1 60 1963 Moscow C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 21. Tal vs Keres ½-½ 48 1963 Moscow C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 22. E Jimenez Zerquera vs V Liberzon   1-0 75 1963 Moscow B06 Robatsch 23. W Balcerowski vs F Kuijpers   0-1 60 1963 Moscow E88 King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox, 7.d5 c6 24. Hort vs N Padevsky   ½-½ 29 1963 Moscow A28 English 25. W Pietzsch vs Smyslov 0-1 40 1963 Moscow B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation  page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 120    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Feb-03-14    WCC Editing Project: <TheFocus>, <Sneaky Pete> I can't thank you enough for constructing this event, with the round numbers and dates also. Any reason why you haven't listed the <start-finish> dates of this event in the intro, since you have listed the dates of each game in the collection? Might you tell me your source for these dates? Curiosities I've found: In In Edward Winter, ed. "Word Chess Champions" (Pergamon 1981), p.150, <Winter> lists <Smyslov> winning the <5th Central Chess Club Championship> in Moscow 1963 with +8 -0 =7. Clearly <Winter> means this tournament here, but he's mislabeled it- here is the actual <5th Central Chess Club Championship 1962>, which wasn't played in 1963: http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... And here is the <6th Central Chess Club Championship 1963> http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour..., which *was* played in 1963 and was won by Vladimir Mikhailovich Liberzon, who also appears in the tournament on this page, which might help explain <Winter's> mistake. So in their title for the event on this page, <Rusbase> calls it the <International Tournament of Central Chess Club 1963> and lists the correct crosstable: http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1963/.... But when I downloaded all the games from this <Rusbase> page, I found they are all labeled <Alekhine Memorial 1963>, with "chessbase" listed as the source for the game scores. I don't think the "chessbase" title can be correct because there was an <Alekhine Memorial> in 1956, and the next one wasn't until 1971. So I think it likely this tournament was indeed played at the <Moscow Chess Club>. But what we know for sure is that it was an international tournament played in <Moscow 1963>. I would really like to know where the dates for these games came from though. The "chessbase" PGNs from the <Rusbase> tournament page list the round numbers, but not the dates. So if you could help me with this information, I'd be grateful. Feb-04-14    sneaky pete: I was only trying to build a game collection, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition. The dates are from Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1960-66 by Hilary Thomas, published by Batsford in 1979. A number of games in this database (I believe the Keres games and some others) already had a date. None of these dates here conflicted with the Thomas dates I used for my reconstruction of the event. Some of the games I found here had the clearly wrong event tag Alekhine Memorial. The undated (it's probably from 1964) Yugoslav booklet by Bozic and Matanovic that I used to make the collection (and from which I submitted 17 missing games) calls it V (= 5th) Medjunarodni Turnir U Moskvi. On another page the dates are given: 28.X = 20.XI.1963. I guess October 28 was the day of the opening ceremony, the first round was played the next day and the last round November 20. I think medjunarodni means international, so this was the 5th (in a series started in 1959) International Tournament organised by the Moscow Chess Club. I believe we have collections of some of the earlier tournaments here. The magazines from 1963 I consulted (Deutsche Schachzeitung and Schakend Nederland) gave no details about prize money and playing hall and things like that. Matanovic wrote a 4 page introduction in the Yugoslav booklet mentioned above, but I have no idea what he's talking about. Feb-04-14    nok: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!! Feb-04-14    WCC Editing Project: <sneaky pete> Thanks for giving such a thorough explanation of your data provenance, and also of the detailed process of how you put the puzzle together. Your information supports mine. At the least, it doesn't contradict the conclusion I reached, so I'm breathing a little easier now. I'm glad to hear of the "5th" matching the number of Moscow chess club "Internationals." It also helps explain how <Winter> may have made his error. And yes I can confirm that medjunarodni means international in <Bosnian>. At the least, when I type "medjunarodni" into the Google translator set to go from "Bosnian to English," then it coughs up the word "international." I'm a little concerned at how heavily <Rusbase> relies on "chessbase" for its information though. That was "chessbase" that had every single game in this event mislabeled "Alekhine Memorial." Here is some rare film footage that also supports your thesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqr... NOTE: You need to pick a username and password to post a reply. Getting your account takes less than a minute, is totally anonymous, and 100% free—plus, it entitles you to features otherwise unavailable. Pick your username now and join the chessgames community! If you already have an account, you should login now. 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