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Interzonals 1979: Riga The Riga Interzonal was held in September & October 1979.It was an eighteen-player round robin,with the top two players qualifying for the Candidates matches.The winner was Tal with 14/17 (+11 =6 -0),the runner-up was Polugaevsky with 11.5.Just missing out with 11 were Adorjan and Ribli.The round fifteen game between Bouaziz and Gruenfeld was not played,Gruenfeld had a default victory. 152 games, 1979 Interzonals 1979: Rio de Janeiro The Interzonal at Rio de Janeiro was a nineteen-player round robin,with the top three qualifying for the Candidates matches.After two rounds,Mecking withdrew,his games are not included in the points scored in the tournament,but his two games are included in this collection. There was a three-way tie for first place;Huebner,Petrosian and Portisch all with 11.5,just missing out with 11 was Timman.There is one game missing from the database-Torre v Smejkal from round 9 which was drawn after 13 moves of a closed Ruy Lopez,Flohr system (C92). 154 games, 1979 Joseph Henry Blackburne The best games of Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841-1924),the strongest British player in the late nineteenth Century. 29 games, 1862-1899 My favourite games from the 21st century 9 games, 2002-2008 Playing against unusual openings 14 games, 1966-2006 Richard Reti 5 games, 1920-1925 Rubinstein Memorial 2000 The Rubinstein Memorial 2000 was a ten-player round robin,cat.17 tournament.It was played in Poland in August 2000,and the lineup included two Polish players(Krasenkow and Markowski). It was won by Gelfand with 6.5/9 (+4 =5),with Shirov and Van wely joint-second with 6. There is one game missing from the database, the round two game Ivanchuk-Fedorov,the opening was a Sicilian Dragon,and white won in 39 moves. 44 games, 2000 USSR v Rest of the World, Match London 1984 The second match between the USSR and the Rest of the World was played in London in June 1984. It was a ten-board Match,played over four rounds.The first two rounds were drawn 5-5,but the USSR won each of the last two rounds by 5.5-4.5.So the overall result was a win for the USSR by 21-19. There are two games missing from the database,these are the two games between Beliavsky and Seirawan,Beliavsky won both of these games. 38 games, 1984 Victor Korchnoi in Olympiads Under construction 206 games, 1960-2008 Vladimir Kramnik 31 games, 1992-2009 Vlastimil Hort 20 games, 1962-1988 Wolfgang Unzicker (1925-2006) Wolfgang Unzicker was the best player from West Germany after the second World war until the emergence of Robert Huebner in the 1970s. He never reached the Candidates tournament, but recorded victories against some of the strongest players in the world including Smyslov,Fischer,Botvinnik,Tal,Keres,Korchnoi, Gligoric and Larsen. 26 games, 1949-1985 Xie Jun Xie Jun was the women's World Champion between 1991-1996 and again between 1999-2001. Here are some of her best games, these include victories against Short (twice), Larsen, Smyslov, Spassky,Timman as well as most of the leading women players from the 1990s. 47 games, 1990-2004

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