| Amsterdam Interzonal (1964) |
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This qualification tournament for the 1965 Candidates matches was held 20 May - 21 June in the building of the GAK (Social Security Organization) in Amsterdam. The purpose was to select a challenger for Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian, the World Champion. The first six finishers would qualify, with the restriction that only three players from the Soviet Union could advance. (1) Two players were seeded into the Candidates matches: Mikhail Botvinnik (as the loser of the Botvinnik - Petrosian World Championship Match (1963)) and Paul Keres (as the winner of the Keres - Geller 2nd place Candidates Playoff (1962) that followed after the Curacao Candidates (1962)). (1, 2) Botvinnik later (in March 1965 (3)) withdrew from the cycle so that Efim Geller (who failed to qualify in the USSR Zonal (1964) and therefore did not play in the Interzonal) went to the Candidates matches after all (by virtue of his placement in Curacao). All five participants from the Soviet Union finished in the top six, so the fifth and sixth-place finishers Stein and Bronstein were excluded as qualifiers, with Ivkov advancing instead, and after a playoff with Reshevsky, Portisch. The American champion Robert James Fischer chose not to participate. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 20 May - 21 June 1964 (4, 5) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 Pts
=1 Smyslov * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 17
=1 Larsen ½ * 1 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 17
=1 Spassky ½ 0 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 17
=1 Tal ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 17
5 Stein ½ 1 ½ ½ * 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 16½
6 Bronstein ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 15
7 Ivkov ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 15
=8 Reshevsky ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 14½
=8 Portisch 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 14½
10 Gligoric 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 14
11 Darga 0 0 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ * 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 13½
12 Lengyel 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 13
13 Pachman ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ 12½
14 Evans 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 10
15 Tringov ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 9½
16 Benkö ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 1 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 9
=17 Bilek 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 8
=17 Foguelman ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 * ½ 0 1 1 0 1 8
=17 Rosetto ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 1 0 1 8
20 Quinones 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 1 ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 7
21 Porath 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 ½ * 0 ½ ½ 5½
22 Perez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 1 * 1 1 5
23 Berger 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 * 0 4½
24 Vranesic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 * 4
Arbiters: H. J. J. Slavekoorde and Harry de Graaf. (6) The top four finishers are listed here in Neustadtl order.
Playoff 25-29 June (see Amsterdam Interzonal Playoff (1964) for games): 1 2 3
1 Portisch 1 ½ 1 2½
2 Reshevsky 0 ½ 0 ½
Smyslov, Larsen, Spassky, Tal, Ivkov, and Portisch advanced to the Candidates matches:Geller - Smyslov Candidates Quarterfinal (1965)
Spassky - Keres Candidates Quarterfinal (1965)
Larsen - Ivkov Candidates Quarterfinal (1965)
Tal - Portisch Candidates Quarterfinal (1965)
Notes
1) Tidskrift för Schack, September 1958, p. 195 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1958...) and The Times, 18 June 1964, p. 12.
2) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cand....
3) Tidskrift för Schack, April-May 1965, p. 107 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1965...).
4) Magyar Sakkelet, 1964, p. 99. In Di Felice, Chess Results 1964-1967, pp. 5-6.
5) Game dates are from Alexander Khalifman (ed.), Mikhail Tal Games II (Chess Stars 1995), pp. 56-68.
6) Schakend Nederland, June 1964.
Original collection: Game Collection: Amsterdam Interzonal 1964 by User: Sneaky Pete. Previous: Stockholm Interzonal (1962). Next: Sousse Interzonal (1967)
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Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. I Bilek vs Portisch |
| ½-½ | 30 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | A06 Reti Opening |
| 2. Bronstein vs Tal |
 | ½-½ | 30 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | C28 Vienna Game |
| 3. Ivkov vs Gligoric |
| ½-½ | 30 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | B45 Sicilian, Taimanov |
| 4. Larsen vs Pachman |
 | 1-0 | 60 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange |
| 5. O Quinones Carrillo vs Smyslov |
| 0-1 | 25 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack |
| 6. K Darga vs Spassky |
| 1-0 | 96 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | E17 Queen's Indian |
| 7. G Tringov vs Stein |
| 0-1 | 63 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 8. Evans vs F J Perez Perez |
| ½-½ | 30 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | A40 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 9. Lengyel vs B Berger |
| 1-0 | 61 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | A06 Reti Opening |
| 10. Reshevsky vs Benko |
| ½-½ | 30 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | A32 English, Symmetrical Variation |
| 11. H Rossetto vs Foguelman |
| ½-½ | 30 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | D91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5 |
| 12. Z Vranesic vs Y Porat |
| ½-½ | 56 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | E42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein) |
| 13. I Bilek vs Lengyel |
| ½-½ | 31 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | E19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3 |
| 14. Stein vs Bronstein |
| 0-1 | 71 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | B15 Caro-Kann |
| 15. Y Porat vs Ivkov |
| ½-½ | 52 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | A04 Reti Opening |
| 16. Portisch vs Tal |
| ½-½ | 39 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | A04 Reti Opening |
| 17. Smyslov vs K Darga |
| 1-0 | 25 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | A04 Reti Opening |
| 18. Spassky vs G Tringov |
| 1-0 | 46 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 19. Benko vs Evans |
| ½-½ | 26 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | A37 English, Symmetrical |
| 20. B Berger vs Reshevsky |
| 0-1 | 34 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov |
| 21. Foguelman vs Larsen |
| 0-1 | 40 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | D59 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower |
| 22. Gligoric vs H Rossetto |
| 1-0 | 56 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | C42 Petrov Defense |
| 23. Pachman vs O Quinones Carrillo |
| 1-0 | 36 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav |
| 24. F J Perez Perez vs Z Vranesic |
| 1-0 | 34 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | E12 Queen's Indian |
| 25. Reshevsky vs I Bilek |
| ½-½ | 30 | 1964 | Amsterdam Interzonal | A04 Reti Opening |
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| Jan-22-15 | | Petrosianic: <zanzibar>: <Are you sure the 64 Soviet Ch wasn't a Zonal in disguise?> In ordinary cycles, both the US and Soviet championships served as a zonal every 3rd year. But for some reason there was a separate Soviet Zonal that year. |
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 | | perfidious: <In ordinary cycles, both the US and Soviet championships served as a zonal every 3rd year....> As was also the case in Canada; through the 1984 championship, it was held <only> in zonal years. <....But for some reason there was a separate Soviet Zonal that year.> Don't recall why, but the whole business smacked of typical behind-the-scenes political manoeuvring in Mother Russia; to wit, Smyslov's participation. |
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| Jan-22-15 | | Petrosianic: Maybe, but Smyslov didn't play in the Zonal. Not sure how he got into the Interzonal, but he certainly justified the faith placed in him. I know there had been a lot of grumbling worldwide about his omission from the previous cycle, with people claiming he could have given Pawn and Move to the qualifiers from the Southeast Asian Zonal. |
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| Jan-22-15 | | Petrosianic: Interestingly, all of the post-war world champions, with the exception of Botvinnik, either won or tied for first in an Interzonal at some point. |
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Jan-22-15
| | perfidious: <Petrosianic> Most amusing--I had never heard the pawn and move bit till now. And some posters have wondered how old So-and-So got his IM title in the distant past...... The good old two-thirds rule had its uses. |
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 | | Fusilli: <Petrosianic: ... he could have given Pawn and Move to the qualifiers from the Southeast Asian Zonal.> Probably, but I always thought the inclusion of players from many places was good for the diffusion of chess. Besides, the super GMs had to compete not only at fighting each other but at being effective killing the cannon fodder. And occasionally, there would be an upset or two that made things more interesting. As an example, in the Stockholm Interzonal (1962), both Geller and Korchnoi lost to Cuellar. |
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| Jan-22-15 | | Petrosianic: Well, that was the idea, yes. To have all the zones represented. It was always an imperfect solution, though. The idea of a recent ex-world champion being out of the picture seems wrong. They did make improvements to the system, though. Like in the '65 and '68 cycle, they had an 8th candidates match between the two semifinal losers, to see which one would get a seat in the next Interzonal. Later on, all of the Candidates in one cycle would automatically be in the next Interzonal. |
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| Jan-22-15 | | Olavi: As for Smyslov's Place in the Interzonal (he should have been the eight player in the zonal), Korchnoi in <Chess is my life>: "Smyslov put in an application to the Federation, requesting that he be allowed to have one of the four qualifying places (...) The Federation rejected the claim. He then turned to his friends with access to the Government and leading Party Organs. From there came an order which was unconditionally accepted by the USSR Sports Committee, and the head of the Chess Federation (Rodionov) was reprimanded.
(...) chess followers will now be able to guess why, at the Biel Interzonal tournament in 1976, Kuzmin was replaced By Smyslov." As for me, the origins of his place in the 1982 Las Palmas Interzonal is unclear. |
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Jan-22-15
| | perfidious: That qualifies as 'internal manoeuvring', right enough! Ol' Vasily Vasilyevich had some juice, it would seem. |
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| Jan-22-15 | | Petrosianic: <As for me, the origins of his place in the 1982 Las Palmas Interzonal is unclear.> Yeah, that's a mystery. He hadn't played in the 1981 Soviet Championship, or for several years before that. His Federation must have exercised their discretion, similar to the way Fischer got in, to try to get their best players in. Smyslov usually did very well in Interzonals, and finished only a half point out of the money in 1970, 1973 and 1976, and then qualified in 1982. |
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| Jan-22-15 | | Olavi: I forgot to mention that there was a separate zonal in 1982. No Smyslov there.
http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/... |
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| Jan-22-15 | | Petrosianic: I didn't know about that one. And Yusupov, Psakhis and Tukmakov, the top three finishers did play in the Interzonals. I wondered why I didn't have the 1981 Soviet Championship marked as a Zonal, even though it seemed like it ought to be. For that matter, 1975, and 1978 don't show as Zonals either. An omission, or were there separate zonals those years too? |
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| Jan-22-15 | | Olavi: <And Yusupov, Psakhis and Tukmakov, the top three finishers did play in the Interzonals.> 4th Geller too. http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/... http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/... In 1985 the championship was again a zonal. |
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| Jan-23-15 | | zanzibar: Thanks <Benzol> and everyone. This will take me a little while to go through. As for 1964, I think the <Tournament of Seven> was also to the benefit of Korchnoi, who was "hot" at about that time. I think the officials wanted to give him a second chance to qualify. Smyslov was the big-gun driving the bus through, and the <CG> mention of the <Tournament of Seven> should mention him, which I don't think it does. |
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| Jan-24-15 | | Howard: Regarding Perfidious' comment about not having heard the ol' "pawn and move" story, that was mentioned in Al Horowitz' book on the history of the world championship---came out around the time of the Fischer-Spassky match. More specifically, the book said that many experts had pointed out that Spassky, Bronstein, and Smyslov (in other words, not just Smyslov) could have given pawn-and-move odds to the eastern Asian qualifiers to the Stockholm interzonal, in 1962, and still beaten 'em ! But none of these greats made it into the 1962 event, as most of us know. |
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| Jan-24-15 | | Howard: Regarding Perfidious' comment about not having heard the ol' "pawn and move" story, that was mentioned in Al Horowitz' book on the history of the world championship---came out around the time of the Fischer-Spassky match. More specifically, the book said that many experts had pointed out that Spassky, Bronstein, and Smyslov (in other words, not just Smyslov) could have given pawn-and-move odds to the eastern Asian qualifiers to the Stockholm interzonal, in 1962, and still beaten 'em ! But none of these greats made it into the 1962 event, as most of us know. Also, as far as Smyslov's unexplained appearance in the 1982 Las Palmas interzonal...that wasn't the first time he made such an appearance. In the 1976 interzonal in Biel, Kuzmin was supposed to be in that--Chess Life and Review had run a list a few months in advance of all the participants. But at the tournament, Smyslov appeared in his place. As CL and R put it, "no explanation was given" for the last-minute change. |
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| | perfidious: < Howard: Regarding Perfidious' comment about not having heard the ol' "pawn and move" story, that was mentioned in Al Horowitz' book on the history of the world championship---came out around the time of the Fischer-Spassky match.> Dang it, ya mean Ah don't remember everthang?
In all seriousness, I have a copy of that book in mothballs and first read it many years ago, but obviously forgot that charming little bit. |
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| Oct-23-15 | | Everett: So the claims that Smyslov was favored by the authorities seem to have some validity. I wonder how far back this goes... |
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| Feb-19-16 | | A.T PhoneHome: Spassky's quiver was filled and the arrows were on-point in this tournament if one likes puns. His playing here was inspirational, he was like a new man and I attest to that. |
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| May-08-16 | | Everett: Bronstein had a very good tournament, and could have had things go differently if he finished some great positions; one vs Tringov, another vs Benko Benko vs Bronstein, 1964 And his lone loss, vs. Larsen, could have been drawn in many ways. One for the ages, that one. |
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 | | keypusher: I was reminded of the limit on the number of Soviet participants by this story from the Olympics: <[Gabby] Douglas will be kept out of the final because gymnastics only allows two gymnasts per country to compete in the final of any event. So even though Douglas is arguably one of the three best all-around gymnasts in the world, she is being left out because two Americans, Simone Biles and Aly Raisman, finished first and second, respectively.> http://www.businessinsider.com/gabb... |
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Aug-08-16
| | perfidious: <keypusher> There was no keeping 'Grandma' out, as Raisman is known to her teammates. |
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| Jan-26-18 | | ughaibu: There are a lot of posts about how Smyslov got in but I can't see any about how Tal did. Also, a rule limiting the number of Soviets who can qualify for the candidates, after the candidates were changed from a tournament to matches, is just bananas. |
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| Apr-27-20 | | Everett: So, Ivkov and Portisch advance, instead of Bronstein and Stein, due to Chess affirmative action. Sad |
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| Mar-30-21 | | Nosnibor: Out of the 23 rounds in this event Larsen held or shared first place .Only in rounds 13-15 and 20 did he fall below this. Whereas Tal only shared first place twice throughout. |
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