"Who would have thought that the participants of the interzonal tournament would be greeted by such heat in Smederevska Palanka - 37-40 °C in the shade - that even the most careful organization and management could not make them forget. The air conditioning installed in the hall did not alleviate the suffering much. When the first round began, the temperature in the hall was 33 °C." (Sakkélet, transl.)
"The greatest joy at the start was experienced by our national team player and national champion, international master Alisa Maric. Against former world champion Nona Gaprindashvili, the biggest favorite, she played bravely and without respect. For a long time it seemed that the game would end in a draw. However, Gaprindashvili forced the game and overlooked one of Maric's tactical moves, which led to her defeat. The unexpected defeat hit the Soviet player hard. Immediately after the game, she protested to the tournament director Dejan Stablovic about the unbearable heat in the hall and threatened that if the conditions did not change by tomorrow, she would leave the tournament. The organizers have taken measures to have the cooling devices .. ready by the start of tomorrow's second round. ... The tournament was opened by Slobodan Milosevic, president of the organizing committee, and then all the participants were welcomed by FIDE secretary general Kok Ann Lim." (ПОЛИТИКА, transl.)
Smederevska Palanka, Yugoslavia (Serbia), 16 July - 3 August 1987
Age Elo* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts
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1 Litynska 38 2415 ● ½ 0 1 1 1 1 ½ 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 11
=2 Levitina 33 2350 ½ ● ½ 0 1 1 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 10½
=2 Gaprindashvili 46 2495 1 ½ ● ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 10½
=2 Richtrova 28 2380 0 1 ½ ● ½ 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10½
5 Schleining 25 2340 0 0 ½ ½ ● 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 10
=6 Madl 17 2335 0 0 ½ 1 0 ● 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 9½
=6 Koren 23 2120 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ● ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9½
=8 Maric 17 2360 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 ½ ● 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ 9
=8 Lalic 21 2335 1 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ● 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 9
10 Voyska 24 2350 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 ● 1 ½ ½ 0 0 1 6½
=11 An 23 2280 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 ● 0 ½ 1 1 1 5½
=11 Wu 26 2205 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ● 1 ½ ½ 1 5½
13 Markovic 36 2335 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ● ½ 1 1 5
14 De Armas Perez 32 2220 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ● ½ 1 4
15 Chaves 25 2130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ ● 0 2½
16 Nyberg 25 2045 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ● 1½
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This event and the Tuzla Interzonal (Women) (1987) were held in order to qualify six players for the Candidates. The 16 players in Smederevska Palanka had qualified from about 15 zonal tournaments. Fifteen rounds in 19 days, starting on Thursday 16 July. Rest days 20, 25 & 29 July, 2 August (120 games). Litynska won, and after a playoff in Tbilisi, Georgia in September 1987,1 Gaprindashvili ●● ½½ 11 3
2 Levitina ½½ ●● 1½ 2½
3 Richtrova 00 0½ ●● ½
Gaprindashvili and Levitina also qualified for the Tskaltubo Candidates (Women) (1988).
Sources
Wikipedia article: Smederevska Palanka
Olimpbase (https://olimpbase.org/ind-wwcc/wwc1...)
Mark Weeks (https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/87...)
*FIDE rating list July 1987 (https://web.archive.org/web/2022112...)
Sakkélet, 1/1988, pp. 11-15 (https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Sak...)
Tidskrift för Schack, 7/1987, p. 250 (https://tfsarkiv.schack.se/pdf/1987...)
ПОЛИТИКА (Politics), 1987.07.18, p. 17 (https://adt.arcanum.com/en/view/Pol...)
Борба (Borba), 4 August 1987, p. 8 (https://istorijskenovine.unilib.rs/...)
Other Borba issues (available at https://pretraziva.rs/search)
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