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Tilburg Interpolis (1977) The inaugural Interpolis international chess tournament, held in Tilburg, the Netherlands from September 23rd to October 6th, 1977 was a category XIV event. Twelve grandmasters, including the world champion, competed in the round robin format. The participants were (in order of Elo): Anatoli Karpov (2690), Vlastimil Hort (2620), Robert Huebner (2600), Vasily Smyslov (2595), Jan Timman (2590), Ulf Andersson (2565), Yuri Balashov (2565), Svetozar Gligoric (2565), Fridrik Olafsson (2560), Anthony Miles (2555), Lubomir Kavalek (2545), and Gennady Sosonko (2530). Karpov beat Miles by a full point to earn his first of many titles at this event. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 01 Karpov * 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 8 02 Miles 0 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 7 03 Hort ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 6 04 Timman ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 6 05 Kavalek ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 6 06 Huebner 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 6 07 Gligoric ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 5½ 08 Andersson 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 5 09 Balashov 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ * 1 ½ ½ 5 10 Smyslov ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ 4½ 11 Sosonko ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 4 12 Olafsson 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * 3 Original collection: Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1977, by User: suenteus po 147.  page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 66  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Gligoric vs Kavalek   ½-½ 23 1977 Tilburg Interpolis E81 King's Indian, Samisch 2. Sosonko vs Andersson   ½-½ 16 1977 Tilburg Interpolis A62 Benoni, Fianchetto Variation 3. Smyslov vs F Olafsson   ½-½ 19 1977 Tilburg Interpolis E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto 4. Karpov vs Timman ½-½ 53 1977 Tilburg Interpolis B08 Pirc, Classical 5. Balashov vs Huebner   ½-½ 24 1977 Tilburg Interpolis B10 Caro-Kann 6. Miles vs Hort   ½-½ 20 1977 Tilburg Interpolis E92 King's Indian 7. F Olafsson vs Gligoric   ½-½ 17 1977 Tilburg Interpolis C28 Vienna Game 8. Timman vs Huebner 1-0 40 1977 Tilburg Interpolis B42 Sicilian, Kan 9. Andersson vs Smyslov   ½-½ 36 1977 Tilburg Interpolis E17 Queen's Indian 10. Karpov vs Miles 1-0 25 1977 Tilburg Interpolis A33 English, Symmetrical 11. Kavalek vs Balashov   ½-½ 32 1977 Tilburg Interpolis C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd 12. Hort vs Sosonko 1-0 53 1977 Tilburg Interpolis A17 English 13. Huebner vs Kavalek   ½-½ 17 1977 Tilburg Interpolis E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto 14. Miles vs Timman   ½-½ 28 1977 Tilburg Interpolis B08 Pirc, Classical 15. Sosonko vs Karpov ½-½ 39 1977 Tilburg Interpolis E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3 16. Smyslov vs Hort ½-½ 47 1977 Tilburg Interpolis B58 Sicilian 17. Gligoric vs Andersson ½-½ 56 1977 Tilburg Interpolis E41 Nimzo-Indian 18. Balashov vs F Olafsson   ½-½ 32 1977 Tilburg Interpolis B83 Sicilian 19. Timman vs Kavalek   ½-½ 26 1977 Tilburg Interpolis A07 King's Indian Attack 20. Miles vs Sosonko   1-0 35 1977 Tilburg Interpolis A18 English, Mikenas-Carls 21. Karpov vs Smyslov ½-½ 62 1977 Tilburg Interpolis C82 Ruy Lopez, Open 22. Hort vs Gligoric   ½-½ 20 1977 Tilburg Interpolis E92 King's Indian 23. F Olafsson vs Huebner   0-1 25 1977 Tilburg Interpolis A17 English 24. Andersson vs Balashov   ½-½ 18 1977 Tilburg Interpolis E18 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 7.Nc3 25. Balashov vs Hort   ½-½ 16 1977 Tilburg Interpolis B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation  page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 66    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Apr-24-16    Howard: Kavalek wrote a nice article about this event in CL&R, but he was exaggerating, in my view, when he said that this super-strong event would probably go down as the "strongest tournament of the decade." Oct-17-17    offramp: <Howard: Kavalek wrote a nice article about this event in CL&R, but he was exaggerating, in my view, when he said that this super-strong event would probably go down as the "strongest tournament of the decade."> These tournaments seem strong at the time, then fade over the years. Kavalek himself did not make massive efforts to win this super-strong tournament. He scored +1, =10. 1. vs Gligoric ½-½ 23 2. vs Balashov ½-½, 32 3. vs Huebner ½-½ 17 4. vs Timman ½-½ 26 5. vs Olafsson 1-0 31 6. vs Ulf Andersson ½-½ 19 7. vs Hort ½-½ 20 8. vs Karpov ½-½ 18 9. vs Miles ½-½ 13 10. vs Sosonko ½-½ 15 11. vs Smyslov ½-½ 16. This tournament finished 40 years and 11 days ago. Oct-17-17    Howard: Good point---wasn't aware of all those short (and super-short) draws he played. He had that same pattern (along with Benko) at the 1975 U.S. championship incidentally---that is, several short draws, two losses, and no wins. Then...there was the 1984 championship. In that one, he scored 15 draws, two wins, and no losses. Interestingly enough, the two wins were against the bottom-two finishers ! Sometimes he just didn't want to exert himself, apparently. Oct-17-17    keypusher: < offramp: <Howard: Kavalek wrote a nice article about this event in CL&R, but he was exaggerating, in my view, when he said that this super-strong event would probably go down as the "strongest tournament of the decade."> These tournaments seem strong at the time, then fade over the years. Kavalek himself did not make massive efforts to win this super-strong tournament. He scored +1, =10.> Looks like Miles was the only player to draw fewer than half of his games. At Hastings (1895) Schlechter was the only player who drew more than half of his games. Oct-18-17    moronovich: If only Miles would have played 1.e4-a6 vs Karpov... But it was a couple of years too early for that. Oct-18-17    Retireborn: <moronovich> A bit awkward given that Karpov played 1.c4 :) Oct-18-17    Troller: <Strongest tournament of the decade> is indeed an exaggeration. Chessmetrics is perhaps not always accurate, and ratings are of course not everything, but still these are the world rankings of the players according to Chessmetrics September list 1977: Karpov 1 Miles 46 Hort 9 Timman 22 Kavalek 53 Huebner 26 Gligoric 30 Andersson 38 Balashov 12 Smyslov 17 Sosonko 40 Olafsson 48 Stronger tournaments of the decade would of course include the Interzonals and the USSR Championships, but also Bugojno (1978), Milan (1975), Montreal (1979) just to mention some. Still, this was a fine event putting Karpov in his heyday on display. Oct-18-17    moronovich: <Retireborn: <moronovich> A bit awkward given that Karpov played 1.c4 :)> Lol! Btw,I knew of a dane in CCchess(toplevel) who during a tournament played 1.d4-Nf6.2.c4-a6(!?/?!) with fine results. 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