- USSR Championship 1979
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The 47th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XII event held in the city of Minsk from November 29th to December 27th, 1979. Eighteen of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and masters participated in the round robin tournament, including (in order of ELO): Mikhail Tal (2615), Yuri Balashov (2600), Alexander Beliavsky (2595), Rafael Vaganian (2570), Oleg Romanishin (2560), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (2560), Efim Geller (2550), Garry Kasparov (2545), Evgeni Sveshnikov (2545), Viktor Kupreichik (2540), Tamas Georgadze (2535), Sergey Makarichev (2500), Nukhim Rashkovsky (2500), Sergey Dolmatov (2495), Artur Yusupov (2490), Konstantin Lerner (2475), Yuri Razuvaev (2470), and Yuri Anikaev (2455). Geller, who had last won the USSR championship in 1955, finished clear first with six wins and eleven draws. He set a record for the longest number of years between winning Soviet crowns at 24 years. Alas, it was to be Geller's last hurrah at an event of this magnitude, but he showed he still had the goods even if it was well after his prime. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 1 Geller 11.5/17 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 2 Yusupov 10.5/17 ½ * 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 0 3 Kasparov 10/17 ½ 1 * ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 4 Balashov 10/17 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 5 Makarichev 9.5/17 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 6 Georgadze 9.5/17 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * 1 1 ½ ½ 0 1 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 7 Kupreichik 9.5/17 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 * 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 8 Vaganian 9/17 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 * 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 9 Lerner 8.5/17 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 10 Rashkovsky 8/17 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 11 Beliavsky 8/17 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 0 * ½ 0 0 0 1 1 ½ 12 Razuvaev 8/17 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 13 Romanishin 8/17 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ * 1 1 ½ 0 1 14 Dolmatov 7.5/17 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 1 0 0 * ½ 1 1 ½ 15 Tal 7.5/17 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ * 0 1 1 16 Sveshnikov 7/17 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 * 1 ½ 17 Anikaev 5.5/17 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 * ½ 18 Tseshkovsky 5.5/17 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ *
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153 games, 1979 - USSR Championship 1980/81
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The 48th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XII event held in the city of Vilnius from December 25th, 1980 to January 21st, 1981. Eighteen of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and masters participated in the round robin tournament, including (in order of ELO): Yuri Balashov (2600), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (2595), Alexander Beliavsky (2590), Rafael Vaganian (2590), Oleg Romanishin (2580), Efim Geller (2565), Evgeni Vasiukov (2545), Tamas Georgadze (2540), Valery Chekhov (2535), Sergey Dolmatov (2535), Viktor Kupreichik (2535), Lev Psakhis (2535), Gennadi Kuzmin (2530), Nukhim Rashkovsky (2520), Yuri Razuvaev (2515), Sergey Makarichev (2495), Artur Yusupov (2485), and Smbat Lputian (2445). Beliavsky and Psakhis finished shared first with 10.5/17 each. It was Beliavsky's second of an eventual four USSR championship victories, while it was the first of what would be two consecutive Soviet crowns for Psakhis. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 1 Psakhis 10.5/17 * 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 2 Beliavsky 10.5/17 0 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 3 Balashov 10/17 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 4 Romanishin 10/17 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 5 Yusupov 10/17 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 6 Dolmatov 9.5/17 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ * 1 1 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 7 Kupreichik 9.5/17 1 1 ½ 0 0 0 * ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 8 Kuzmin 9.5/17 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 9 Tseshkovsky 9.5/17 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ * ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 10 Vaganian 9/17 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 11 Rashkovsky 8.5/17 0 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 12 Vasiukov 8.5/17 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 1 ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 13 Makarichev 7.5/17 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ * ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 14 Geller 6.5/17 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ 0 ½ 0 15 Georgadze 6.5/17 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ * 1 ½ 1 16 Lputian 6/17 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 * 0 ½ 17 Razuvaev 6/17 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 * 1 18 Chekhov 5.5/17 1 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 * *This collection would not have been possible without the work and time of <Phony Benoni>. He has my eternal gratitude.
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153 games, 1980 - USSR Championship 1981
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The 49th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XII event played in the city of Frunze from November 27th to December 22nd, 1981. Eighteen of the USSR's best grandmasters and masters participated in the tournament, including (in order of ELO): Garry Kasparov (2630), Alexander Beliavsky (2615), Boris Gulko (2590), Oleg Romanishin (2590), Viktor Kupreichik (2580), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (2575), Artur Yusupov (2575), Gennadi Kuzmin (2550), Sergey Dolmatov (2545), Adrian Mikhalchishin (2535), Evgeni Sveshnikov (2535), Gennadi Timoshchenko (2510), Josif Dorfman (2505), Lev Psakhis (2500), Vladimir Tukmakov (2480), Georgy Agzamov (2435), Viktor Gavrikov (2365), and Leonid Yudasin (2365). Young Garry Kasparov shared first place with Lev Psakhis at 12 and a half points each out of 17. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 01 Psakhis 12.5/17 * 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 02 Kasparov 12.5/17 0 * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 03 Romanishin 10/17 0 ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 04 Gavrikov 9.5/17 ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 05 Tukmakov 9.5/17 0 0 ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 06 Agzamov 9/17 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 0 07 Beliavsky 9/17 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ 08 Yusupov 8.5/17 1 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 * ½ 0 1 0 1 1 1 ½ 0 1 09 Dorfman 8.5/17 ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 10 Sveshnikov 8/17 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 * 1 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 11 Kupreichik 8/17 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 * ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 12 Dolmatov 8/17 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 13 Tseshkovsky 8/17 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 ½ * ½ 0 1 ½ 1 14 Yudasin 7.5/17 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 0 ½ 0 1 1 ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ 15 Kuzmin 6.5/17 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ * 0 0 1 16 Gulko 6.5/17 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 * 1 ½ 17 Timoshchenko 6/17 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 0 * ½ 18 Mikhalchishin 5.5/17 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ *
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153 games, 1981 - USSR Championship 1984
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The 51st Soviet Chess Championship was a category X event held in the city of Lvov from April 2nd to the 28th, 1984. Eighteen of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and masters participated in the round robin event. Fourteen qualified from semi-final tournaments played earlier the previous year. The fourteen qualifiers were (with ELO at the time of the championship): Alexander Beliavsky (2565), Alexey Myzvanavin (2470), and Vereslav Eingorn (2475) from Minsk; Smbat Lputian (2540), Alexander Chernin (2475), and Valery Chekhov (2535) from Irkutsk; Konstantin Aseev (2390), Adrian Mikhalchishin (2480), Andrei Sokolov (2495), Valery Salov (2440), and Konstantin Lerner (2485) from Nikolaev; and Evgeni Sveshnikov, Igor Novikov (2420), and Jaan Ehlvest (2480) from Volgodonsk. Because Karpov would not attend as returning champion and he and Kasparov had an extended world championship match that year, four wild card seats were presented to four top finishers of the Soviet League Championship played in Tallinn at the end of 1983. The four wild cards went to Josif Dorfman (2515), Lev Psakhis (2535), Andrei Kharitonov (2455), and Yuri Balashov (2535). Sveshnikov was unable to participate and his seat was given to Vladimir Tukmakov (2550). With the exception of Tukmakov, the entire line up of players had qualified for the championship, a format not seen in the Soviet crown's long history. The tournament was also surprising in terms of the results. The more egalitarian field finished quite differently than ratings would otherwise indicate. The talented, but young Sokolov finished clear first, having gone undefeated. The top six bucked convention by being some of the lower rated players of the events, and only one (Lputian, at sixth place) was rated over 2500. Previous winners of the Soviet crown, such as Psakhis and Dorfman, finished in the lower half of the field. The final standings and crosstable are as follow: 1 Sokolov 12.5/17 * = = 1 = 1 1 1 1 = 1 = = = = 1 = 1 2 Lerner 11.5/17 = * = = = = 0 1 1 1 1 = = = 1 1 = 1 3 Eingorn 10.5/17 = = * 1 1 = 1 0 = = = = 1 = = 1 = = 4 Mikhalchishin 9.5/17 0 = 0 * 1 = = = = = = 1 = 1 1 = = = 5 Lputian 9/17 = = 0 0 * = = = 1 1 = = = = 1 = = = 6 Novikov 9/17 0 = = = = * 1 = 1 = = = 0 = 1 0 = 1 7 Tukmakov 9/17 0 1 0 = = 0 * = 1 = = = 1 = 1 1 0 = 8 Beliavsky 9/17 0 0 1 = = = = * 0 0 = 1 = 1 = 1 = 1 9 Vyzmanavin 8.5/17 0 0 = = 0 0 0 1 * 1 1 0 = 1 1 = 1 = 10 Ehlvest 8/17 = 0 = = 0 = = 1 0 * = 0 1 1 0 1 = = 11 Chernin 8/17 0 0 = = = = = = 0 = * = = = 1 = = 1 12 Psakhis 7.5/17 = = = 0 = = = 0 1 1 = * = = 0 0 = = 13 Dorfman 7.5/17 = = 0 = = 1 0 = = 0 = = * = = = 1 0 14 Salov 7/17 = = = 0 = = = 0 0 0 = = = * = = 1 = 15 Aseev 7/17 = 0 = 0 0 0 0 = 0 1 0 1 = = * = 1 1 16 Chekhov 7/17 0 0 0 = = 1 0 0 = 0 = 1 = = = * 1 = 17 Balashov 6.5/17 = = = = = = 1 = 0 = = = 0 0 0 0 * = 18 Kharitonov 6/17 0 0 = = = 0 = 0 = = 0 = 1 = 0 = = * *This collection would not have been possible without the work and time of <Phony Benoni>. He has my eternal gratitude.
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153 games, 1984 - USSR Championship 1985
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The 52nd Soviet Chess Championship was a category XI event held in the city of Riga from January to February, 1985. Twenty of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and masters participated in the round robin tournament. Thirteen seats went to the top finishers of the two semi-final league championships held at the end of 1984. The thirteen qualifiers were (with ELO at the time of the championship): Viktor Gavrikov (2550), Viktor Kupreichik (2470), Lev Psakhis (2555), Mikhail Gurevich (2435), Alexander Chernin (2495), and Bukhuti Gurgenidze (2445) from Sverdlovsk; and Georgy Agzamov (2590), Sergey Smagin (2405), Smbat Lputian (2530), Arshak Petrosian (2510), Boris Gulko (2475), Yuri Razuvaev (2520), and Evgeni Sveshnikov (2530) from Tashkent. The remaining seven invitations went out to Vladimir Tukmakov (2570), Andrei Sokolov (2550), Efim Geller (2540), Vereslav Eingorn (2525), Konstantin Lerner (2520), Adrian Mikhalchishin (2505), and Yuri Balashov (2495). Once again with the absence of Karpov and Kasparov due to the world championship, a more egalitarian lineup of Soviet chess mastery was on display this year. Despite the presence of the highest rated Tukmakov, as well as former Soviet champions Sokolov, Psakhis, and Gulko, three relative new comers to the Soviet elite tied for first after the long championship. Chernin, Gavrikov, and Gurevich each finished with +3 at the final. Rather than award each of the three, a tiebreak was devised to be held among the three finishers at Vilnius in December of 1985. All three participated, and while all six games were hard fought, every one was eventually concluded as a draw. A second tiebreak was suggested but outside pressure from news sources ultimately forced the Soviet organizers to award all three as champion. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 01 Gavrikov 11/19 * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 02 Gurevich 11/19 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 03 Chernin 11/19 ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 04 Sokolov 10.5/19 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 05 Balashov 10.5/19 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 06 Smagin 10.5/19 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 07 Agzamov 10/19 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 * 1 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 08 Psakhis 10/19 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 09 Eingorn 9.5/19 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 1 10 Gulko 9.5/19 0 0 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 11 Lerner 9.5/19 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 12 Lputian 9.5/19 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 1 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 13 Sveshnikov 9.5/19 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 14 Razuvaev 9/19 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 15 Tukmakov 9/19 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 16 Mikhalchishin 9/19 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 17 Petrosian 8/19 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * 0 1 ½ 18 Geller 8/19 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 * 1 ½ 19 Kupreichik 7.5/19 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ 0 0 * 0 20 Gurgenidze 7.5/19 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 * The final standings and crosstable of the playoff: 1 Gurevich 2/4 ** ½½ ½½
2 Gavrikov 2/4 ½½ ** ½½
3 Chernin 2/4 ½½ ½½ **
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196 games, 1985 - USSR Championship 1986
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The 53rd Soviet Chess Championship was a category X event played in the city of Kiev from April 2nd to the 28th, 1986. Eighteen of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and master competed in the round robin tournament, including (in order of ELO): Alexander Beliavsky (2625), Vereslav Eingorn (2560), Viktor Gavrikov (2550), Smbat Lputian (2545), Konstantin Lerner (2530), Yuri Balashov (2515), Sergey Dolmatov (2515), Mikhail Gurevich (2510), Sergey Smagin (2500), Vladimir Malaniuk (2495), Alexander Khalifman (2490), Leonid Yudasin (2485), Yuri Yakovich (2480), Semen Dvoirys (2470), Zurab Azmaiparashvili (2465), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (2455), Nikhim Rashkovsky (2425), and Evgeny Bareev (2365). Tseshkovsky, who won his first Soviet crown alongside Mikhail Tal back in Tbilisi in 1978, won his second and final championship here as sole first with 11/17. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 1 Tseshkovsky 11/17 * = = 1 = = 1 = = = = 1 = 0 1 = 1 1 2 Malaniuk 10/17 = * 1 0 = = 1 1 = 0 = = 1 = = 1 0 1 3 Eingorn 10/17 0 = 0 * = = 1 0 1 = = 1 1 = 1 = = = = 4 Lerner 10/17 0 1 = * = = = = 1 = = = 1 = 1 = 1 0 5 Balashov 10/17 = = = = * 1 = = 0 = = = = 1 = 1 1 = 6 Gavrikov 10/17 = = 0 = 0 * 1 = 1 1 = = 1 = 0 1 = 1 7 Bareev 10/17 0 0 1 = = 0 * 0 1 1 = 1 1 1 0 = 1 1 8 Rashkovsky 9/17 = 0 0 = = = 1 * 0 = 1 = 0 = 1 = 1 1 9 Yudasin 8.5/17 = = = 0 1 0 0 1 * = = = 1 = 0 = 1 = 10 Gurevich 8.5/17 = 1 = = = 0 0 = = * = 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 11 Dolmatov 8/17 = = 0 = = = = 0 = = * = = 1 = = = = 12 Khalifman 8/17 0 = 0 = = = 0 = = 1 = * = = = = = 1 13 Lputian 7.5/17 = 0 = 0 = 0 0 1 0 1 = = * 1 1 = = 0 14 Beliavsky 7.5/17 1 = 0 = 0 = 0 = = 0 0 = 0 * = 1 1 1 15 Azmaiparashvili 7/17 0 = = 0 = 1 1 0 1 0 = = 0 = * = = 0 16 Yakovich 6/17 = 0 = = 0 0 = = = 0 = = = 0 = * 1 0 17 Smagin 6/17 0 1 = 0 0 = 0 0 0 1 = = = 0 = 0 * 1 18 Dvoirys 6/17 0 0 = 1 = 0 0 0 = 0 = 0 1 0 1 1 0 * *This collection would not have been possible without the work and time of <Phony Benoni>. He has my eternal gratitude.
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153 games, 1986 - USSR Championship 1987
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The 54th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XII event played in the city of Minsk from March 4th to the 29th, 1987. Eighteen of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and master competed in the round robin tournament, including (in order of ELO): Artur Yusupov (2645), Alexander Beliavsky (2630), Vladimir Malaniuk (2575), Lev Psakhis (2575), Vladimir Tukmakov (2575), Alexander Chernin (2570), Viktor Gavrikov (2550), Valery Salov (2550), Vereslav Eingorn (2545), Mikhail Gurevich (2540), Evgeny Bareev (2535), Sergey Dolmatov (2515), Alexander Khalifman (2515), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (2510), Smbat Lputian (2500), Viktor Kupreichik (2475), Nukhim Rashkovsky (2470), and Jaan Ehlvest (2445). Despite leading the field the entire tournament, Ehlvest's last round loss to Yusupov allowed both Beliavsky and Salov to overtake him in the final at 11/17 each. A playoff match was organized to determine a sole winner, and four games were played from April 29th to May 4th, with Beliavsky emerging as the winner with a healthy 3/4 final score. It was Beliavsky's second consecutive Soviet crown and his third overall. The final standings and crosstables are as follows: 1 Beliavsky 11/17 * = = 1 1 0 1 = 1 = = 1 0 = 1 = = 1 2 Salov 11/17 = * = = = 1 1 = = 1 1 0 0 = 1 1 1 = 3 Ehlvest 10.5/17 = = * = 0 0 0 1 = 1 1 1 = = 1 1 = 1 4 Eingorn 10.5/17 0 = = * = = = 1 = = = 1 = 1 = = 1 1 5 Chernin 10/17 0 = 1 = * = = = = = 1 1 1 = 1 0 = = 6 Yusupov 10/17 1 0 1 = = * 1 0 1 = 0 = 1 = = = = 1 7 Dolmatov 9.5/17 0 0 1 = = 0 * = = = = 0 1 1 1 1 1 = 8 Kupreichik 9/17 = = 0 0 = 1 = * 0 1 1 0 = 1 0 = 1 1 9 Lputian 9/17 0 = = = = 0 = 1 * 0 = 1 1 = = 1 = = 10 Psakhis 9/17 = 0 0 = = = = 0 1 * = 1 = = 1 = = 1 11 Tukmakov 9/17 = 0 0 = 0 1 = 0 = = * 1 1 1 = 1 = = 12 Bareev 8/17 0 1 0 0 0 = 1 1 0 0 0 * 1 1 = 1 = = 13 Gavrikov 6.5/17 1 1 = = 0 0 0 = 0 = 0 0 * = = = = = 14 Rashkovsky 6.5/17 = = = 0 = = 0 0 = = 0 0 = * = = 1 = 15 Malaniuk 6.5/17 0 0 0 = 0 = 0 1 = 0 = = = = * = 1 = 16 Khalifman 6/17 = 0 0 = 1 = 0 = 0 = 0 0 = = = * 0 1 17 Gurevich 5.5/17 = 0 = 0 = = 0 0 = = = = = 0 0 1 * 0 18 Tseshkovsky 5.5/17 0 = 0 0 = 0 = 0 = 0 = = = = = 0 1 * 1st Place Playoff:
1 Beliavsky 3/4 = = 1 1
2 Salov 1/4 = = 0 0
*This collection would not have been possible without the work and time of <Phony Benoni>. He has my eternal gratitude.
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157 games, 1987 - USSR Championship 1988
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The 55th Soviet Chess Championship held in the capital city of Moscow from July 25th to August 18th, 1988 was a category XIV event. The Soviet Union's top eighteen players participated in the event, making it the strongest USSR championship since 1973. Eight grandmasters qualified for the championship from two First League swiss-style tournaments played the year before. Vassily Ivanchuk (2625), Leonid Yudasin (2505), Mikhail Gurevich (2630), and Viktor Gavrikov (2545) qualified from Lvov, with Alexander Chernin and Vereslav Eingorn (2560) qualifying as reserve players. Ilya Smirin (2500), Alexander Khalifman (2530), Andrei Kharitonov (2550), and Vladimir Malaniuk (2520) qualified from Sverdlovsk, with Vitaly Tseshkovsky and Boris Gelfand qualifying as reserve players. Alexander Beliavsky (2665), Valery Salov (2625), and Jaan Ehlvest (2580) qualified as the top three finishers of the 54th USSR Final. The remaining seats went out as invitations to the world champion, Garry Kasparov (2760), former world champions Anatoli Karpov (2725), Mikhail Tal, and Vasily Smyslov (2550), and world championship candidates Andrei Sokolov (2600), Rafael Vaganian (2595), and Artur Yusupov (2620). Games were conducted in Moscow's new International Hotel, where one thousand seats were set up for spectators, with Mikhail Botvinnik serving as the head arbiter. Tal was only able to play his first game of the tournament against Vaganian, where he was forced to draw quickly due to illness. When Yusupov was asked to play his round two game at Tal's sick bed in his hotel room, he refused and so it was determined that Tal should be replaced. Verelav Eingorn was pulled from the reserve list and played in Tal's place, forcing Vaganian to replay his first round draw. Tal's lone game is included in this collection for completeness and historical accuracy. The tournament itself was both a showcase of established Soviet chess brilliance, but also a debut for new talents and the next generation of players. Nevertheless, Kasparov and Karpov both emerged triumphant, tied for first having gone undefeated with 11½/17. While a play-off match was the normal course to determine a sole winner (see Beliavsky's triumphant play-off against Salov from '87), both Karpov and Kasparov refused to play an extraneous match against one another. Although everyone was disappointed and Botvinnik pleaded with both players to comply, it was understandable why both would be reluctant considering they had just played four world championship matches against each other in as many years. Since no resolution could be reached, both players were declared champion, and both received identical trophies to mark their achievement. It was Karpov's third and final Soviet crown, as well as his first shared, and it was Kasparov's second shared and final Soviet crown (though he would be sole first in the Russian Super-Final in 2004, after the fall of Soviet Russia). In the strongest championship in 15 years, the two strongest players in the world showed that once again they were without peer even among the very best of their own countrymen. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 1 Kasparov 11½/17 * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 2 Karpov 11½/17 ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 3 Yusupov 10/17 ½ 0 * 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 4 Salov 10/17 0 ½ 0 * ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 5 Eingorn 9½/17 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 6 Ivanchuk 9½/17 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 7 Yudasin 9/17 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 8 Beliavsky 8½/17 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ * ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 9 Ehlvest 8/17 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ * 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 10 Smyslov 8/17 ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 11 Gavrikov 8/17 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 12 Sokolov 8/17 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 13 Vaganian 8/17 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 14 Khalifman 7½/17 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 15 Smirin 7/17 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 1 ½ 16 Gurevich 7/17 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ 17 Malaniuk 6/17 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ 18 Kharitonov 6/17 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ *
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154 games, 1988 - USSR Championship 1989
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The 56th Soviet Chess Championship, held in the city of Odessa from September 22nd to October 16th, 1989, was a category XIII event. Sixteen of the USSR's best grandmasters and masters participated in the round robin event, including (in order of ELO): Alexander Beliavsky (2620), Sergey Dolmatov (2615), Andrei Sokolov (2595), Boris Gelfand (2590), Rafael Vaganian (2585), Alexey Dreev (2570), Vladimir Tukmakov (2565), Vereslav Eingorn (2560), Vladimir Malaniuk (2560), Lembit Oll (2550), Yuri Balashov (2535), Konstantin Lerner (2530), Ilia Smirin (2530), Semen Dvoirys (2520), Konstantin Aseev (2485), and Giorgi Giorgadze (2470). The Armenian grandmaster Vaganian took clear first, half of a point ahead of the four shared seconds. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 1 Vaganian 9/15 * 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 2 Beliavsky 8.5/15 1 * ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 1 3 Gelfand 8.5/15 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 4 Dolmatov 8.5/15 ½ 1 ½ * ½ 1 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 1 5 Eingorn 8.5/15 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 6 Oll 8/15 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 * ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 7 Lerner 8/15 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 8 Dreev 7.5/15 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 0 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 9 Aseev 7.5/15 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 10 Sokolov 7/15 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 11 Tukmakov 7/15 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ * 1 0 1 ½ 0 12 Giorgadze 7/15 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 * ½ 1 0 ½ 13 Balashov 6.5/15 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 14 Dvoirys 6.5/15 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ * 1 1 15 Malaniuk 6/15 ½ 1 1 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 * 0 16 Smirin 6/15 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 0 1 *
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119 games, 1989 - USSR Championship 1990
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The 57th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XIV event held in the city of Leningrad from October 18th to November 5th, 1990. Fourteen of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and masters competed in the round robin event, including (in order of ELO): Alexander Khalifman (2615), Leonid Yudasin (2615), Alexander Beliavsky (2605), Evgeny Bareev (2590), Vladimir Epishin (2590), Alexey Vyzmanavin (2585), Konstantin Aseev (2575), Igor Novikov (2575), Eduardas Rozentalis (2565), Alexander Shneider (2560), Semen Dvoirys (2555), Ilia Smirin (2555), Vereslav Eingorn (2550), and Gennadi Kuzmin (2540). One of the smallest USSR championships saw a four-way tie for first place: It was Beliavsky's fourth and final Soviet crown, and it was a first time win for Bareev, Vyzmanavin, and Yudasin. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 1 Beliavsky 8.5/13 * = 1 1 = = = 1 = 0 = 1 = 1
2 Yudasin 8.5/13 = * = = = = = = = 1 1 = 1 1
3 Bareev 8.5/13 0 = * = 0 1 1 = 1 1 = 1 1 =
4 Vyzmanavin 8.5/13 0 = = * = = = = = 1 1 1 1 1 5 Epishin 7.5/13 = = 1 = * = = = = 1 0 1 = =
6 Khalifman 7.5/13 = = 0 = = * 1 = 1 = 1 = = =
7 Kuzmin 6/13 = = 0 = = 0 * 1 = = 1 = 0 =
8 Rozentalis 6/13 0 = = = = = 0 * = = = = 1 =
9 Eingorn 6/13 = = 0 = = 0 = = * = = = = 1
10 Shneider 5.5/13 1 0 0 0 0 = = = = * 1 = = =
11 Dvoirys 5.5/13 = 0 = 0 1 0 0 = = 0 * = 1 1
12 Novikov 5/13 0 = 0 0 0 = = = = = = * = 1
13 Aseev 4/13 = 0 0 0 = = 1 0 = = 0 = * 0
14 Smirin 4/13 0 0 = 0 = = = = 0 = 0 0 1 *
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91 games, 1990 - USSR Championship 1991
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The 58th and final USSR Chess Championship was played in the Soviet capitol of Moscow from November 1st to the 13th, 1991. The tournament was organized as 64 player Swiss event, which included some of the most senior as well as newest grandmasters and masters in the Soviet Union. Artashes Minasian and Elmar Magerramov tied for first, with each scoring 8.5/11 for final, with Minasian declared winner on tiebreaks. The Soviet Union would dissolve over a month later, and while the separate nations that made up the USSR would continue to hold their individual championships, there would never again be a Soviet chess championship. The complete list of players and final standings follow: 1 Minasian,Artashes 2510 + 1/12 + ½/4 - 1/40 + 1/6 - ½/7 - 1/24 + 1/26 + 0/2 - ½/3 - 1/23 + 1/10 8.5 / 11 2 Magerramov,Elmar 2560 + ½/31 - ½/32 + ½/45 - 1/58 + ½/5 - 1/21 + 1/29 - 1/1 + 1/25 - 1/4 + ½/3 8.5 / 11 3 Epishin,Vladimir 2615 + ½/42 - ½/15 + 1/50 - ½/29 + ½/4 - ½/30 + 1/51 - 1/28 + ½/1 - 1/25 - ½/2 7.5 / 11 4 Bologan,Viktor 2535 + 1/39 - ½/1 + 1/27 - ½/5 - ½/3 + ½/28 - 1/11 + ½/7 - 1/6 + 0/2 - ½/13 7.0 / 11 5 Rublevsky,Sergei 2420 - ½/22 + ½/14 - 1/59 + ½/4 - ½/2 + 1/41 - ½/19 + 0/6 - 1/35 + ½/9 - 1/18 7.0 / 11 6 Kiselev,Sergey 2510 + 1/38 - 1/26 + ½/24 - 0/1 + ½/23 - 1/46 + ½/25 - 1/5 + 0/4 - 1/15 - ½/7 7.0 / 11 7 Ruban,Vadim 2575 + 1/57 - 0/24 + 1/16 - 1/34 + ½/1 - ½/29 + ½/28 - ½/4 + ½/23 - 1/17 + ½/6 7.0 / 11 8 Nenashev,Alexander 2475 + ½/30 - ½/20 + ½/51 - 1/12 + ½/21 - 0/26 + 1/50 - ½/36 + ½/28 - 1/27 - 1/19 7.0 / 11 9 Vyzmanavin,Alexey 2590 + 0/27 - 1/54 + ½/42 - ½/15 + ½/57 - 1/34 + ½/24 - 1/29 + ½/17 - ½/5 + 1/22 7.0 / 11 10 Kharlov,Andrei 2515 + 1/41 - ½/23 + ½/25 - ½/30 - ½/18 + 0/19 - ½/13 + 1/40 - 1/44 + 1/11 - 0/1 6.5 / 11 11 Frolov,Artur 2470 + 1/49 - 1/50 + ½/23 - ½/26 + ½/24 - ½/25 + 0/4 - ½/16 + 1/30 - 0/10 + 1/37 6.5 / 11 12 Vaganian,Rafael A 2585 - 0/1 + 1/48 - ½/22 + 0/8 + ½/58 - 0/39 -
1/53 + 1/63 - 1/43 + ½/14 + 1/25 6.5 / 11
13 Shirov,Alexei 2610 + ½/15 - ½/42 + 0/34 + 0/33 - 1/59 - 1/58 + ½/10 - 1/24 + ½/27 - 1/28 + ½/4 6.5 / 11 14 Tiviakov,Sergei 2535 + ½/62 - ½/5 + ½/60 - 1/47 + 0/29 - ½/16 + ½/20 - ½/32 + 1/39 - ½/12 + 1/23 6.5 / 11 15 Kuzmin,Alexey 2520 - ½/13 + ½/3 - ½/18 + ½/9 - ½/43 + 1/40 - 1/52 - ½/23 + ½/36 + 0/6 - ½/20 6.0 / 11 16 Kramnik,Vladimir 2490 - ½/44 + ½/18 - 0/7 + 1/59 - ½/35 + ½/14 - 1/37 + ½/11 - ½/19 + ½/20 - ½/29 6.0 / 11 17 Malaniuk,Vladimir P 2510 + 0/23 - ½/41 + 1/36 - ½/20 + ½/46 - 1/45 + ½/30 - 1/26 - ½/9 + 0/7 - ½/21 6.0 / 11 18 Akopian,Vladimir 2590 + ½/34 - ½/16 + ½/15 - 1/42 + ½/10 - ½/51 + ½/27 - ½/30 + ½/33 - 1/26 + 0/5 6.0 / 11 19 Krasenkow,Michal 2550 + ½/32 - ½/31 + ½/58 - ½/45 + 1/60 - 1/10 + ½/5 - 0/25 + ½/16 - 1/33 + 0/8 6.0 / 11 20 Novikov,Igor A 2550 - ½/63 + ½/8 - ½/43 + ½/17 - ½/33 + ½/57 - ½/14 + ½/22 + 1/32 - ½/16 + ½/15 6.0 / 11 21 Makarichev,Sergey 2535 - ½/56 + ½/43 - 1/53 + ½/52 - ½/8 + 0/2 + ½/32 - ½/39 + ½/24 - 1/44 + ½/17 6.0 / 11 22 Chekhov,Valery A 2525 + ½/5 - ½/60 + ½/12 + ½/41 - ½/63 - 1/31 + 0/23 - ½/20 + 1/46 - 1/36 - 0/9 6.0 / 11 23 Dreev,Alexey 2610 - 1/17 + ½/10 - ½/11 + ½/27 - ½/6 + ½/52 - 1/22 + ½/15 - ½/7 + 0/1 - 0/14 5.5 / 11 24 Nikolenko,Oleg 2450 - 1/59 + 1/7 - ½/6 + ½/28 - ½/11 + 0/1 - ½/9 + 0/13 - ½/21 + ½/35 + ½/30 5.5 / 11 25 Shabalov,Alexander 2535 - ½/47 + 1/61 - ½/10 + 1/32 - ½/28 + ½/11 - ½/6 + 1/19 - 0/2 + 0/3 - 0/12 5.5 / 11 26 Yakovich,Yuri 2560 - 1/48 + 0/6 - 1/33 + ½/11 - ½/27 + 1/8 - 0/1 + 0/17 - 1/29 + 0/18 - ½/31 5.5 / 11 27 Ionov,Sergey 2510 - 1/9 + ½/40 - 0/4 - ½/23 + ½/26 + 1/44 - ½/18 + ½/35 - ½/13 + 0/8 - ½/36 5.5 / 11 28 Yurtaev,Leonid 2525 + ½/60 - 1/62 + 1/47 - ½/24 + ½/25 - ½/4 - ½/7 + 0/3 - ½/8 + 0/13 - ½/32 5.5 / 11 29 Aseev,Konstantin N 2525 - ½/61 + 1/64 - ½/52 + ½/3 - 1/14 + ½/7 - 0/2 + 0/9 + 0/26 - 1/42 + ½/16 5.5 / 11 30 Dokhoian,Yury 2545 - ½/8 + ½/63 - 1/56 + ½/10 - ½/52 + ½/3 - ½/17 + ½/18 - 0/11 + ½/43 - ½/24 5.5 / 11 31 Bagirov,Vladimir 2485 - ½/2 + ½/19 - ½/35 + ½/44 - ½/40 + 0/22 - ½/41 + ½/37 - ½/50 + 1/51 + ½/26 5.5 / 11 32 Ibragimov,Ildar 2485 - ½/19 + ½/2 - 1/37 - 0/25 + 0/51 + 1/64 - ½/21 + ½/14 - 0/20 + 1/59 + ½/28 5.5 / 11 33 Serper,Grigory 2490 + ½/36 - ½/46 + 0/26 - 1/13 + ½/20 - ½/50 + ½/39 - 1/51 - ½/18 + 0/19 - ½/35 5.5 / 11 34 Sorokin,Maxim 2510 - ½/18 + ½/44 - 1/13 + 0/7 - ½/41 + 0/9 - 0/47 + 1/64 - ½/38 + ½/40 - 1/50 5.5 / 11 35 Sveshnikov,Evgeny 2540 + ½/45 - ½/58 + ½/31 - ½/60 + ½/16 - 1/55 + ½/36 - ½/27 + 0/5 - ½/24 + ½/33 5.5 / 11 36 Lputian,Smbat G 2570 - ½/33 + 0/52 - 0/17 + 1/61 - 1/53 + 1/63 - ½/35 + ½/8 - ½/15 + 0/22 + ½/27 5.5 / 11 37 Rashkovsky,Nukhim N 2540 + ½/58 - ½/45 + 0/32 - ½/39 + ½/54 - 1/60 + 0/16 - ½/31 + 1/57 + 1/47 - 0/11 5.5 / 11 38 Balashov,Yuri S 2590 - 0/6 - 0/57 + 0/39 + ½/48 - 1/61 + ½/53 - 1/58 - ½/42 + ½/34 + ½/41 - 1/43 5.5 / 11 39 Kantsler,Boris 2430 - 0/4 + 0/59 - 1/38 + ½/37 - ½/49 + 1/12 - ½/33 + ½/21 - 0/14 + ½/50 - ½/46 5.0 / 11 40 Eingorn,Vereslav S 2585 + 1/54 - ½/27 + 0/1 - ½/57 + ½/31 -
0/15 + 1/45 - 0/10 + ½/52 - ½/34 + ½/48 5.0 / 11 41 Yudasin,Leonid 2595 - 0/10 + ½/17 + 1/62 - ½/22 + ½/34 - 0/5 + ½/31 - ½/50 + ½/42 - ½/38 + ½/44 5.0 / 11 42 Budnikov,Alexandar 2525 - ½/3 + ½/13 - ½/9 + 0/18 - ½/64 +
½/43 - ½/63 + ½/38 - ½/41 + 0/29 - 1/57 5.0 / 11 43 Korzubov,Peter 2455 + ½/51 - ½/21 + ½/20 - 0/46 + ½/15 - ½/42 + 1/55 - 1/57 + 0/12 - ½/30 + 0/38 5.0 / 11 44 Ulibin,Mikhail 2565 + ½/16 - ½/34 + ½/57 - ½/31 + ½/45 - 0/27 +
1/54 - 1/52 + 0/10 + 0/21 - ½/41 5.0 / 11
45 Makarov,Marat 2475 - ½/35 + ½/37 - ½/2 + ½/19 - ½/44 + 0/17 - 0/40 + ½/61 - ½/55 + ½/57 - 1/59 5.0 / 11 46 Tal,Mihail 2575 - ½/52 + ½/33 - ½/63 + 1/43 - ½/17 + 0/6 - ½/57 + ½/47 - 0/22 - ½/48 + ½/39 5.0 / 11 47 Maljutin,Evgeni 2435 + ½/25 - 1/55 - 0/28 + 0/14 + ½/50 - ½/54 + 1/34 - ½/46 + ½/51 - 0/37 + ½/49 5.0 / 11 48 Panchenko,Alexandar G 2490 + 0/26 - 0/12 + 0/54 - ½/38 + 1/62 - ½/49 + ½/60 - ½/55 - 1/61 + ½/46 - ½/40 5.0 / 11 49 Lerner,Konstantin Z 2540 - 0/11 + 0/53 - ½/64 - ½/62 + ½/39 + ½/48 - ½/61 + ½/59 - ½/63 + 1/52 - ½/47 5.0 / 11 50 Dvoirys,Semen I 2525 - 1/53 + 0/11 - 0/3 + 1/56 - ½/47 + ½/33 - 0/8 + ½/41 + ½/31 - ½/39 + 0/34 4.5 / 11 51 Shneider,Aleksandr 2540 - ½/43 + ½/56 - ½/8 + ½/63 - 1/32 + ½/18 - 0/3 + 0/33 - ½/47 - 0/31 + ½/54 4.5 / 11 52 Sakaev,Konstantin 2495 + ½/46 - 1/36 + ½/29 - ½/21 + ½/30 - ½/23 + 0/15 + 0/44 - ½/40 - 0/49 + ½/55 4.5 / 11 53 Meister,Yakov 2430 + 0/50 - 1/49 + 0/21 - ½/55 + 0/36 - ½/38 + 0/12 - 0/56 + ½/62 + 1/64 - 1/63 4.5 / 11 54 Titov,German 2505 - 0/40 + 0/9 - 1/48 + ½/64 - ½/37 + ½/47 - 0/44 - 0/60 + ½/58 + 1/63 - ½/51 4.5 / 11 55 Sherbakov,Ruslan 2525 - ½/64 + 0/47 - ½/61 + ½/53 - 1/56 + 0/35 - 0/43 + ½/48 + ½/45 - ½/60 - ½/52 4.5 / 11 56 Aleksandrov,Aleksej 2450 + ½/21 - ½/51 + 0/30 - 0/50 + 0/55 + 0/61 - 0/59 + 1/53 - 1/64 - ½/62 + 1/60 4.5 / 11 57 Naumkin,Igor 2490 - 0/7 + 1/38 - ½/44 + ½/40 - ½/9 - ½/20 + ½/46 + 0/43 - 0/37 - ½/45 + 0/42 4.0 / 11 58 Savon,Vladimir A 2460 - ½/37 + ½/35 - ½/19 + 0/2 - ½/12 + 0/13 + 0/38 - ½/62 - ½/54 + ½/61 - ½/64 4.0 / 11 59 Neverov,Valeriy 2540 + 0/24 - 1/39 + 0/5 - 0/16 + 0/13 - ½/62 +
1/56 - ½/49 + 1/60 - 0/32 + 0/45 4.0 / 11
60 Zaitsev,Igor A 2405 - ½/28 + ½/22 - ½/14 + ½/35 - 0/19 + 0/37 - ½/48 + 1/54 - 0/59 + ½/55 - 0/56 4.0 / 11 61 Brodsky,Michail 2415 + ½/29 - 0/25 + ½/55 - 0/36 + 0/38 - 1/56 + ½/49 - ½/45 + 0/48 - ½/58 + ½/62 4.0 / 11 62 Lukin,Andrei M 2445 - ½/14 + 0/28 - 0/41 + ½/49 - 0/48 + ½/59 - ½/64 + ½/58 - ½/53 + ½/56 - ½/61 4.0 / 11 63 Kruppa,Yuri 2485 + ½/20 - ½/30 + ½/46 - ½/51 + ½/22 - 0/36 + ½/42 - 0/12 + ½/49 - 0/54 + 0/53 3.5 / 11 64 Novik,Maxim 2405 + ½/55 - 0/29 + ½/49 - ½/54 + ½/42 - 0/32 + ½/62 - 0/34 + 0/56 - 0/53 + ½/58 3.0 / 11
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352 games, 1991 - Vienna 1873
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Vienna, western capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and a city rich in culture and chess, hosted a World's Fair in the spring of 1873. In the tradition of earlier world exhibitions, great buildings were constructed, inventions and events were hosted and people all over the world were invited to come, observe, and participate in the modern Vienna.
The central hall of the exhibition was erected at the Prater and the fair opened on May 1st. Unfortunately for the city and the fair, the stock market crashed the following week (later known as the "Panic of 1873") and a cholera epidemic later swept through the city and its people in early July. Whereas previous world's fairs were attended by hundreds of thousands to millions of people, Vienna was virtually deserted during the summer following the market crash and the growing epidemic. In spite of these conditions, or perhaps because of them, Kaiser Franz Josef along with Baron Albert Rothchild and Ignatz Von Kolisch pooled together a large prize fund and organized an international chess tournament to be played from July 19th to August 29th, a period that would be during the worst of the epidemic. Games were played in the rooms of the Wiener Schachgesellschaft, and the tournament was organized differently from the previous world's fair competitions. The international chess tournament held at the London world's fair of 1851 was a knockout tournament. In 1862, it was the first all-play-all with draws to be replayed. At the Paris world's fair in 1867, double rounds had been played where draws were not counted. In Vienna an all-play-all system was devised, wherein each of the players were paired against each other and then made to play best of three rounds for each pairing. Unlike traditional scoring in previous tournaments, the results of all three games would be used to determine a sole winner for the pairing or if the two players were drawn. In the event a player won the first two games of the pairing, the third round need not be played. One of the goals of this format was to avoid replaying of draws and also to increase the chances of a definite result. Second round games were played with colors reversed, and if a third round game was required, the players would resume the colors they played in the first round. The schedule called for one game to be played a day, and twenty moves had to be played each hour. Every seventh day was a rest day, although chess masters who quickly dispatched an opponent could get "an extra rest day" on scheduled days for third round play.
Twelve chess masters were invited to participate in the elite event. Adolf Anderssen, who had won the previous world's fair competitions in 1851 and 1862, and Louis Paulsen participated on behalf of Germany. Joseph Henry Blackburne, Henry Edward Bird, and Wilhelm Steinitz (who had long played in Vienna prior) participated on behalf of Great Britain. Samuel Rosenthal, originally from Poland, participated on behalf of France. And the final six seats were occupied by chess masters of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, including Maximilian Fleissig, Oscar Gelbfuhs, Josef Heral, Philipp Meitner, Karl Pitschel, and Adolf Schwarz. Eight games from the tournament were decided by forfeit and they are omitted from this collection. Pitschel withdrew from the tournament after the completion of the eighth pairing's third round, so his six remaining games were forfeited. In the final pairing, both Fleissig and Meitner forfeited a game to each other. Although Anderssen was the clear favorite going into the competition, previous world's fair tournament participant and long time Viennese player Steinitz rose to the occasion and tied British chess master Blackburne in his international debut. Traditional scoring would have placed Blackburne a full point ahead of Steinitz in the final, but because the scoring followed best of three games for each pairing, both men finished with 10 points out of a possible 11 total. A two round playoff match was devised to determine a sole winner, and Steinitz, hot off a fourteen game winning streak to finish the tournament, swept the playoff match winning both games. His last sixteen wins here would contribute to an overall twenty-five game winning streak in professional competition, a record for chess history. Steinitz was crowned champion, being paid the prize fund of 1000 francs as well as an additional 200 golden ducats for winning the playoff match. Blackburne, as second, was awarded 600 francs, while Anderssen (as clear third) received 300 francs. Rosenthal received 200 francs for finishing clear fourth. The remaining players were compensated for their travel expenses. The tournament was later seen as a landmark moment in chess history, with the passing of the guard from Anderssen's reckless, swashbuckling style to Steinitz's more studied, "modern" play, a style that would come to influence the latter century of chess players and theory and herald a new era of competition. The final standings and crosstable:
=1st Blackburne 10/11 ** 11½ 101 00½ 110 11 11 110 11 110 1½1 011 <21½> =1st Steinitz 10/11 00½ ** 11 11 11 11 11 ½½1 ½½1 11 11 11 <20½> 3rd Anderssen 8½/11 010 00 ** 101 11 101 101 0½1 ½1½ 110 11 1½1 <19> 4th Rosenthal 7½/11 11½ 00 010 ** 0½1 00 110 11 11 11 011 11 <17> =5th Paulsen 6½/11 001 00 00 1½0 ** 11 0½1 11 1½1 1½0 11 11 <16> =5th Bird 6½/11 00 00 010 11 00 ** 10½ 11 11 11 11 11 <14½> =9th Heral 3/11 00 00 010 001 1½0 01½ ** ½10 01½ 10½ ½10 001 <12> =7th Fleissig 3½/11 001 ½½0 1½0 00 00 00 ½01 ** 101 01½ 010 11 <11½> =7th Meitner 3½/11 00 ½½0 ½0½ 00 0½0 00 10½ 010 ** ½11 1½½ 11 <11½> =9th Schwarz 3/11 001 00 001 00 0½1 00 01½ 10½ ½00 ** ½½½ 1½½ <10½> =9th Gelbfuhs 3/11 0½0 00 00 100 00 00 ½01 101 0½½ ½½½ ** ½11 <10> 12th Pitschel 1/11 100 00 0½0 00 00 00 110 00 00 0½½ ½00 ** <5> Playoff Match
1st Steinitz 2/2 1 1
2nd Blackburne 0/2 0 0
*Much of the historical content for this tournament comes from the incredible hard work of Jan van Reek and others.
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163 games, 1873 - Vienna 1882
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In 1882, two men associated with the Wiener Schachgesellschaft--Ignaz Freiherr von Kolisch, an honorary member of the club, and Albert Baron von Rothschild, the club's president--organized an international tournament to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Between the two of them they collected over 7500 francs as a prize purse for the top six places and a brillancy prize, to which Kaiser Franz Josef added 2000 Austrian Gulden as a 'Kaiserpreis' to be paid to the winner. Vienna was the site of one of the very first international tournaments in 1873, as well as the early stomping grounds for one Wllhelm Steinitz. In the tradition of these two facts, Steinitz agreed to participate and 17 other chess masters from around the world were invited, among them the top ten in the world at the time. Of note, Simon Winawer and Mikhail Chigorin came from Russia, George Mackenzie and James Mason from the U.S, Joseph Henry Blackburne from England, and Louis Paulsen from Germany, making this the most internationally diverse tournament at that point. The tournament was a double round robin, held from May 10th to June 24th. Games started each day at 10am, and players had to make 15 moves every hour. After the first four hours, all ongoing games were suspended for a two hour break, only to be resumed again for another four hours. Any games continuing until midnight were adjourned to be finished on rest days. Under this format, up to 90 moves minimum had to be played each day unless completed beforehand. Everyone was eager to prove himself against Steinitz, the best player in the world, especially since he had been out of practice, having last played (and won) a match against Blackburne in 1876. However, Steinitz proved to be as formidable as ever. Despite a rough start (prompted by the end of his 25 game winning streak in the third round), he was only one point behind the leader Mackenzie, and half a point behind second place Winawer after the first half of games. As the tournament wore on, the grueling schedule took its toll on many of the players: Josef Noa left Vienna after the first half of games; Bernard Fleissig abandoned the tournament after the 20th round; Bird fell ill between rounds 29 and 33; and a few players unable to rank abdicated their games in the last few rounds. All of their games were forfeited to their opponents; these games have been ommitted from this collection. At the end, Steinitz and Winawer tied for first with 24 points each. A two game play off match was devised to determine the victor, but it was tied at one game each, leaving the lion's share of the prize purse to be split between the two winners. The tournament was both Steinitz and Winawer's greatest international victory, as well as a historic and landmark event for international chess. It would be only four years later that Steinitz would go on to defeat one of his tournament rivals, Zukertort, in a match for the world championship, becoming the greatest undisputed player in the world. The tournament itself would later be heralded as the strongest of the 19th century, if not all time. The final standings and crosstable:
=1st Steinitz 24/34 ** 1½ ½½ 0½ ½1 10 ½½ 11 01 1½ 01 10 11 11 11 01 11 11 =1st Winawer 24/34 0½ ** 00 1½ 0½ 10 11 10 01 1½ 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 01 3rd Mason 23/34 ½½ 11 ** 0½ ½1 ½½ ½½ 11 11 10 01 11 ½1 1½ 0½ 11 01 ½1 =4th Zukertort 22½/34 1½ 0½ 1½ ** ½½ 0½ 0½ 11 11 00 11 01 01 11 11 11 11 01 =4th Mackenzie 22½/34 ½0 1½ ½0 ½½ ** 10 ½1 1½ ½0 11 11 01 01 11 10 1½ 11 11 6th Blackburne 21½/34 01 01 ½½ 1½ 01 ** ½½ 0½ 10 01 10 11 1½ 11 10 11 01 11 7th Englisch 19½/34 ½½ 00 ½½ 1½ ½0 ½½ ** 11 ½0 ½½ ½½ 0½ ½½ 01 11 11 11 ½1 8th Paulsen 18½/34 00 01 00 00 0½ 1½ 00 ** ½½ ½1 ½1 11 ½1 ½1 ½1 11 ½1 ½1 9th Wittek 18/34 10 10 00 00 ½1 01 ½1 ½½ ** ½0 01 10 ½½ ½½ ½1 1½ ½1 11 10th Weiss 16½/34 0½ 0½ 01 11 00 10 ½½ ½0 ½1 ** 0½ 11 0½ 0½ 01 00 11 11 11th Hruby 16/34 10 00 10 00 00 01 ½½ ½0 10 1½ ** 10 ½½ 11 01 10 01 11 =12th Chigorin 14/34 01 00 00 10 10 00 1½ 00 01 00 01 ** 11 00 11 1½ 01 01 =12th Schwarz 14/34 00 00 ½0 10 10 0½ ½½ ½0 ½½ 1½ ½½ 00 ** ½0 11 ½0 01 11 14th Meitner 13/34 00 00 0½ 00 00 00 10 ½0 ½½ 1½ 00 11 ½1 ** 01 01 01 11 15th Bird 12/34 00 00 1½ 00 01 01 00 ½0 ½0 10 10 00 00 10 ** 11 ½1 01 16th Ware 11/34 10 00 00 00 0½ 00 00 00 0½ 11 01 0½ ½1 10 00 ** 01 11 17th Noa 9/34 00 00 10 00 00 10 00 ½0 ½0 00 10 10 10 10 ½0 10 ** ½0 18th Fleissig 7/34 00 10 ½0 10 00 00 ½0 ½0 00 00 00 10 00 00 10 00 ½1 ** Playoff Match:
=1st Winawer 10
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270 games, 1882 - Vienna 1898
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In the summer of 1898, Adolf Baron von Rothschild organized a double round robin tournament to be held in Vienna, Austria to celebrate the jubilee of Kaiser Franz Josef. He sent invitations to the best chess masters in the world, eventually garnering twenty participants. Among the notable absentees, World Champion Emmanuel Lasker declined his invitation on the grounds that too many players (over sixteen) had been invited to compete. Charousek was also invited but declined due to poor health. The twenty players, including old masters like Chigorin and Steinitz, as well as new masters like Tarrasch and Pillsbury, assembled at Baron von Rothschild's Heugasse palace on May 31st. The tournament was conducted within the club hall of Wiener Schachklub at Schottengasse 7. Games started promptly each morning at 10am, with a time control of thiry moves every two hours. The adjournment bell was rung at 2pm, with play resuming at 5pm to be continued until 9pm at which point a minimum of fifteen moves per hour must be made. It was forbidden to analyze adjourned games. Among the highlights of the tournament, the elderly Adolf Schwarz was forced to resign during his eighth round game and then leave Vienna due to health reasons. His remaining games in the first half were forfeited and he was removed from the schedule of the second half. In addition to these forfeited games, two more games were decided by forfeit, all of these games have been omitted from this collection. On the 26th of July a large banquet was held in the tournament hall for all the players to celebrate the end of the tournament. Prizes were awarded and several players made haste after the feast to catch the train to Koln where another tournament was being held at the start of August. Tarrasch and Pillsbury had finished the tournament tied for first, so a playoff mini-match of four games was devised to be played on consecutive days following the prize banquet. The remaining players stayed to observe the play off match and cheered Tarrasch as the eventual winner. Tarrasch won 6000 Kronen for first; the Krone being equal in value to the Franc or Mark at the time. Pillsbury won 4000 Kronen as well as a 400 Kronen bonus for a brilliancy prize. The tournament stands as the largest international tournament ever played as well as Tarrasch's greatest tournament victory in his whole chess career. The final standings and crosstable:
=1st Tarrasch 28½/37 ** 01 01 ½1 ½1 ½1 1½ ½½ ½1 1½ ½½ 11 11 11 1½ ½1 11 11 ½1 1 =1st Pillsbury 28½/37 10 ** 01 1½ ½1 10 ½0 1½ 10 ½1 11 11 ½1 ½1 11 11 11 11 11 1 3rd Janowski 26½/37 10 10 ** 11 1½ 11 ½1 00 ½½ 11 0½ 11 ½1 11 11 00 ½1 11 11 1 4th Steinitz 24½/37 ½0 0½ 00 ** ½1 01 ½½ 11 1½ 1½ ½½ 10 11 11 10 ½1 1½ 11 11 1 5th Schlechter 22½/37 ½0 ½0 0½ ½0 ** ½½ 11 ½½ ½½ 1½ 0½ ½1 ½1 1½ 11 ½0 ½1 11 11 1 =6th Chigorin 21/37 ½0 01 00 10 ½½ ** 01 01 1½ 1½ ½0 01 10 11 10 11 01 10 11 1 =6th Burn 21/37 0½ ½1 ½0 ½½ 00 10 ** ½1 0½ ½½ ½½ ½0 ½0 11 10 11 1½ 11 11 1 =8th Lipke 20½/37 ½½ 0½ 11 00 ½½ 10 ½0 ** ½½ ½½ ½0 1½ 11 1½ ½0 ½1 ½½ 11 ½½ 1 =8th Maróczy 20½/37 ½0 01 ½½ 0½ ½½ 0½ 1½ ½½ ** ½½ ½1 11 ½½ 10 0½ 01 ½1 ½½ 11 1 10th Alapin 19/37 0½ ½0 00 0½ 0½ 0½ ½½ ½½ ½½ ** 1½ 1½ 11 00 10 11 ½1 01 11 1 11th Schiffers 18/37 00 00 00 01 ½0 10 ½1 0½ 00 0½ ½½ ** 10 1½ 11 ½1 1½ 11 ½1 1 =12th Blackburne 17½/37 ½½ 00 1½ ½½ 1½ ½1 ½½ ½1 ½0 0½ ** ½½ 0½ ½0 0½ ½½ 00 11 1½ ½ =12th Marco 17½/37 00 ½0 ½0 00 ½0 01 ½1 00 ½½ 00 1½ 01 ** 11 ½1 1½ 1½ ½1 10 1 14th Showalter 16/37 00 ½0 00 00 0½ 00 00 0½ 01 11 ½1 0½ 00 ** ½1 11 11 01 11 1 15th Walbrodt 15½/37 0½ 00 00 01 00 01 01 ½1 1½ 01 1½ 00 ½0 ½0 ** 00 11 0½ 11 1 16th Halprin 15/37 ½0 00 11 ½0 ½1 00 00 ½0 10 00 ½½ ½0 0½ 00 11 ** ½½ ½1 1½ 1 17th Caro 13½/37 00 00 ½0 0½ ½0 10 0½ ½½ ½0 ½0 11 0½ 0½ 00 00 ½½
** 11 ½1 1
18th Baird 9/37 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 ½½ 10 00 00 ½0 10 1½ ½0 00 ** 1½ 1 19th Trenchard 6/37 ½0 00 00 00 00 00 00 ½½ 00 00 0½ ½0 01 00 00 0½ ½0 0½ ** 1 20th Schwarz ½/19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ** Playoff match:
1st Tarrasch 2½/4 1 0 1 ½
2nd Pillsbury 1½/4 0 1 0 ½
*This collection could not have been possible without the efforts of <sneaky pete>. He has my special thanks as well as my eternal gratitude.
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352 games, 1898 - Vienna 1904
Following the success of its thematic Vienna Gambit tournament in 1903, the city of Vienna was host once again to a thematic tournament in 1904. This time the theme position of the tournament was a familiar one found in the King's Gambit Declined, 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5:
click for larger viewAmong the ten participants of the double round robin event were strong masters of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire, including Geza Maróczy, Milan Vidmar, and Vienna's own Carl Schlechter. Due to Vidmar's withdrawl from the tournament after the sixth round, the way was open for Schlechter to triumph in another of many Viennese tournaments. Vidmar's remaining games in the first cycle were forfeited and his games in the second cycle were cancelled. All games decided by forfeit have been omitted from this collection. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Schlechter 14½/17 ** ½½ 1½ 1½ 11 11 11 ½1 11 1 2nd Maróczy 14/17 ½½ ** 10 11 11 11 ½1 1½ 11 1 3rd Perlis 10/17 0½ 01 ** 1½ 10 ½1 10 ½1 ½½ 1 =4th Neumann 9/17 0½ 00 0½ ** 1½ ½½ 10 1½ 11 1 =4th Wolf 9/17 00 00 01 0½ ** ½½ 11 ½1 11 1 6th Albin 7/17 00 00 ½0 ½½ ½½ ** ½½ ½1 01 1 7th Loewy, Sr. 6½/17 00 ½0 01 01 00 ½½ ** 10 ½½ 1 8th Marco 6/17 ½0 0½ ½0 0½ ½0 ½0 01 ** 11 0 9th Loewy, Jr. 3/17 00 00 ½½ 00 00 10 ½½ 00 ** 0 10th Vidmar 2/9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 *
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70 games, 1904-1905 - Vienna 1907
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The first Trebitsch Memorial Tournament was organised and promoted by the Vienna Chess Club in 1907 with funds bequeathed to it by Leopold Trebitsch, a wealthy businessman who had been vice-president of the club until his death on Dec. 12, 1906 -- a month before the tournament. The competition attracted a strong field including such international figures as Oldrich Duras, Jacques Mieses, Geza Maróczy, Milan Vidmar, Savielly Tartakower -- plus a strong coterie of Austrian masters led by Carl Schlechter and Dr. Julius Perlis. "The result was a triumph for players who favor brilliancy in preference to ultra-modern tendencies, Mieses and Duras admittedly producing some of the most effective examples of contemporary chess from the spectacular point of view." -- THE YEAR-BOOK OF CHESS. Victory went to the action-prone Mieses; it was one of the most notable achievements of a professional chess career spanning more than 50 years. In capturing the 1,000-crown first prize, the ebullient Leipziger displayed brilliant form (+9 -2 =2), losing only to Rudolf Spielmann and Duras while taking the measure of Vidmar, Schlechter (an exciting last round affair), Perlis, Heinrich Wolf, Johann Berger, Adolf Albin, Leopold Loewy, Giovanni Martinolich and Ladislav Prokes. Schlechter was awarded the second brilliancy prize for round 2 win over Maróczy in a model Kingside attack lasting 28 moves. Thanks go to Paul Morten and Warren Goldman for the historical background provided to this collection. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Mieses 10/13 * 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
2nd Duras 9/13 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 =3rd Tartakower 8½/13 ½ ½ * 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 1 =3rd Vidmar 8½/13 0 ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 =3rd Maróczy 8½/13 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 6th Schlechter 7½/13 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 * 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 =7th Berger 6½/13 0 ½ ½ 0 1 1 * 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 =7th Perlis 6½/13 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 1 * 1 0 0 1 1 1 =9th Spielmann 6/13 1 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 1 0 ½ =9th Wolf 6/13 0 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ =9th Martinolich 6/13 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 ½ * 1 1 1 =12th Albin 3/13 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 * ½ 0 =12th Loewy 3/13 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 0 ½ * 1
14th Prokes 2/13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 *
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91 games, 1907 - Vienna 1923
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The 1st Carl Schlechter Memorial Chess Tournament was held in his home city of Vienna, Austria, in 1923. Twelve masters, including longtime Viennese players Savielly Tartakower and Rudolph Spielmann, were invited to participate. Tartakower took first place, undefeated, employing Schlechter's own 1.e4 in each of his games as white in memory of the world champion challenger. The Final Standings:
1st Tartakower 9 points (+7, -0, =4);
2nd Réti 8½ points (+6, -0, =5);
3rd Spielmann 7½ points (+5, -1, =5);
=4th Steiner 7 points (+6, -3, =2);
=4th Grünfeld 7 points (+4, -1, =6);
6th Becker 6½ points (+4, -2, =5);
7th Opocensky 6 points (+3, -2, =6);
8th Takacs 5 points (+3, -4, =4)
=9th Fischer 3 points (+1, -6, =4);
=9th Wolf 3 points (+1, -6, =4);
11th Von Patay 2 points (+0, -7, =4);
12th Gruber 1½ points (+0, -8, =3).
*Thanks go to <sneaky pete> for help putting the finishing touches on this collection.
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66 games, 1923 - Waddinxveen 1979
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The small Dutch town of Waddinxveen hosted an international four-man double round robin chess tournament in June of 1979. Among the participants were (in order of ELO) world champion Anatoli Karpov (2705), Czech grandmaster Vlastimil Hort (2600), US grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek (2595), and Dutch grandmaster Gennady Sosonko (2535). The average of the combined ratings of the four players qualified the tournament as a category XV event. According to Hans Ree, the tournament was significant in that both Karpov and Hort were countrymen of Sosonko and Kavalek respectively. Kavalek had emigrated to the United States from Czechoslovakia in 1969, and Sosonko had been born in Leningrad. There was a time when such a tournament wouldn't take place, but Ree referred to this event as "a tournament of reconciliation." In attendance at the opening ceremony were Dutch prime minister Dries van Agt and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, father of the future Queen Beatrix. The Soviet Ambassador to the Netherlands even wished Sosonko luck, saying ""Do your best, Leningrader!" according to Ree. Alas, it was not to be, in spite of the spirit reconciliation, for Karpov dominated the event in what had become a customary performance. Kavalek managed to place clear second with a win over Sosonko, but the Soviet born, Dutch grandmaster finished in last place, having forfeited two whole points to the winner by the final. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 1 Karpov 5/6 ** 1½ ½1 11
2 Kavalek 3/6 0½ ** ½½ ½1
3 Hort 2.5/6 ½0 ½½ ** ½½
4 Sosonko 1.5/6 00 ½0 ½½ **
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12 games, 1979 - WCC Index [Zurich 1953]
These are the games in order according to David Bronstein's excellent book, "Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953." He participated in the tournament with the strongest in the world at that time as a Candidates match to determine the challenger for then world champion Mikhail Botvinnik. The complete list of participants in addition to Bronstein include: Smyslov, Keres, Reshevsky, Petrosian, Geller, Najdorf, Kotov, Taimanov, Averbakh, Boleslavsky, Szabo, Gligoric, Euwe, and Ståhlberg. A treasury of games, as Bronstein (and two of his fellow players who also compiled books) well knew, which are as interesting to read about as to play through. While specific games may have excerpts from Bronstein's book quoted, this list is meant as recommendation to purchase and read through this book yourself, and to give easy reference for people playing through the games.
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210 games, 1953 - Wijk aan Zee Corus 2000
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The inaugural Corus Chess Tournament (which resulted when Hoogovens, the former sponser, merged with British steel) was a category XVIII event held in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands from January 14th to January 30th, 2000. 14 top grandmasters, including the world champion, competed in a round robin format in the prestigous A event. The participants were (in order of ELO): Garry Kasparov (2851), Vishwanathan Anand (2769), Vladimir Kramnik (2758), Alexander Morozevich (2748), Peter Leko (2725), Michael Adams (2715), Nigel Short (2683), Viktor Korchnoi (2659), Predrag Nikolic (2659), Judit Polgar (2658), Jan Timman (2655), Loek Van Wely (2646), Jeroen Piket (2633), and Smbat Lputian (2605). Kasparov won his second Wijk aan Zee tournament in a row, undefeated with 9.5/13. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 01 Kasparov 9.5/13 * = = = 1 = = 1 1 = 1 1 = 1
02 Kramnik 8/13 = * = = = 1 = = = 1 = = 1 =
03 Leko 8/13 = = * = = = = = 1 = = 1 1 =
04 Anand 8/13 = = = * = = = = 1 = = 1 1 =
05 Morozevich 7.5/13 0 = = = * = = 0 1 = 1 = 1 1 06 Adams 7/13 = 0 = = = * = 1 0 1 = = = 1
07 Piket 6.5/13 = = = = = = * 1 0 1 0 0 1 =
08 Timman 6.5/13 0 = = = 1 0 0 * = = = = 1 1
09 Nikolic 6/13 0 = 0 0 0 1 1 = * = = 1 = =
10 Short 5.5/13 = 0 = = = 0 0 = = * 1 = = =
11 Polgar 5/13 0 = = = 0 = 1 = = 0 * = 0 =
12 Korchnoi 5/13 0 = 0 0 = = 1 = 0 = = * 0 1
13 Lputian 4.5/13 = 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 = = 1 1 * =
14 Van Wely 4/13 0 = = = 0 0 = 0 = = = 0 = *
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91 games, 2000
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Kibitzing
