The USSR vs. USA radio chess match in 1945 was conducted from September 1 to September 4. The ten leading masters of the United States played the ten leading masters of the Soviet Union (except for Paul Keres). Each player faced his opponent in two games.
The time control was the then-standard 40 moves in 2.5 hours and 16 moves per hour thereafter. Using the Uedemann Code, it took an average of five minutes to transmit a move.
The USA team played at the Henry Hudson Hotel in New York. The Soviet team met at the Central Club of Art Masters in Moscow. The USSR team won the match 15½–4½.
This result surprised the chess world, and presaged their dominance in world chess for over four decades to come.
USSR USA
1 Botvinnik 11 Denker 00
2 Smyslov 11 Reshevsky 00
3 Boleslavsky =1 Fine =0
4 Flohr 10 Horowitz 01
5 Kotov 11 Kashdan 00
6 Bondarevsky 0= Steiner 1=
7 Lilienthal == Pinkus ==
8 Ragozin 11 Seidman 00
9 Makogonov 1= Kupchik 0=
10 Bronstein 11 Santasiere 00
Result USSR - USA: 15.5 - 4.5Round 1: 8 - 2
Round 2: 7.5 - 2.5
The following players were reservists in the USA team, to be called on, in the order given, if any of the primary team were unable to compete: Alexander Kevitz, Robert Willman, Jacob Levin, George Shainswit, Weaver Warren Adams, Edward Lasker, Fred Reinfeld, Edward Schuyler Jackson, Samuel D Factor, and Martin Charles Stark. The Soviet reserves were: Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Vitaly Chekhover, Iosif Rudakovsky, and Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky.
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