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🏆 USSR Championship (1977)

Player: Boris Gulko

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Gulko vs Tal  ½-½181977USSR ChampionshipA17 English
2. Tukmakov vs Gulko 0-1411977USSR ChampionshipE15 Queen's Indian
3. Gulko vs Alburt  ½-½411977USSR ChampionshipA32 English, Symmetrical Variation
4. Gulko vs Bagirov  ½-½181977USSR ChampionshipD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
5. Gulko vs Balashov 1-0881977USSR ChampionshipE17 Queen's Indian
6. Geller vs Gulko  ½-½201977USSR ChampionshipC09 French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line
7. Romanishin vs Gulko 0-1441977USSR ChampionshipB25 Sicilian, Closed
8. Dorfman vs Gulko  ½-½361977USSR ChampionshipE19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3
9. Gulko vs K Grigorian  ½-½371977USSR ChampionshipD40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
10. G Kuzmin vs Gulko  ½-½181977USSR ChampionshipC07 French, Tarrasch
11. Sveshnikov vs Gulko  ½-½301977USSR ChampionshipC18 French, Winawer
12. Gulko vs Petrosian  ½-½311977USSR ChampionshipB06 Robatsch
13. Polugaevsky vs Gulko  ½-½271977USSR ChampionshipA04 Reti Opening
14. A Kochyev vs Gulko ½-½311977USSR ChampionshipA15 English
15. Gulko vs Smyslov 1-0351977USSR ChampionshipA25 English
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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-11-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  Open Defence: Dorfsman had been awarded the IM title the same year he wins the USSR Championship jointly with Boris Gulko ahead of Petrosian , Tal and Geller
Dec-12-24
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: Back then, did the winners of the USSR Championship automatically receive a GM title? Those tournaments could become terrifically difficult.
Dec-12-24  Olavi: No they did not. Not an international tournament; the one country rule was lifted much later. Also then it would give you only one title norm, for 15 games in this case.
Dec-12-24
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  perfidious: Not to mention that, in those days, title norms only lasted three years, so that one needed to make their norms within a rolling three-year period, a phenomenon written of by Soltis in (I believe) <Confessions of a Grandmaster>.
Dec-12-24
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  Open Defence: Also as per many players accounts, good results were crucial to get permission to play in tournaments outside the USSR
Dec-12-24
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  perfidious: Good results were one component; being a Communist Party member and having the right party official's ear was crucial, and no misbehaviour was tolerated, as below:

<An (excerpt) from Genna Sosonko's book "Smart Chip from St.Petersburg". Sosonko was interviewing Ratmir Holmov who had this to say 'So it turned out that Bronstein played a World Championship match in '51 and I was disqualified in the same year. For what? We were sitting around at a tournament, that's Tarasov, Nezhmetdinov and me, drinking, and two chicks came up to us. Well, Rashid was kind of in the way, he was about fifteen years older than Tarasov and me. You turn off the tape recorder now, turn it off, can you imagine if my wife reads this... 'Anyway, basically, Rashid was flushed, he was drunk, of course, he went out to the balcony and started throwing crockery off it - vases and plates. When Nezhmetdinov drank he had all kinds of psychoses, he'd lie down under a tram or do some other dumb thing. On this occasion nothing would have happened, other than the noise of the plates, but Kotov had to stick his nose into it. He started asking questions and whatever. There was an uproar, and the police came. To cut a long story short, they summoned all three of us to Moscow, to see Rodionov, who was chairman of the Sports Committee. Nezhmetdinov grovelled before him and they decided to pardon him as he was a party member, but Tarasov and I were disqualified for a year. They also cancelled my stipend, which I received as a member of the national team.'>

Then there was Korchnoi, who socialised with a woman other than his wife at the casino during Curacao 1962 and was subsequently invited to play the first Piatigorsky Cup, but the Soviet authorities made him stay home.

Dec-13-24
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  Open Defence: I wonder how much of Botvinnik's personal views on how chess players should behave shaped the official attitudes.. Or was it the other way around?

Anyways this is an interesting account from GM Serper

https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

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