In October of 1975 another Alekhine Memorial International Chess Tournament was organized in the Soviet capital of Moscow. Eight grandmasters from the USSR were pitted against eight grandmasters from Europe and the Americas in an all-play-all round robin event. The participants were (in order of ELO): Viktor Korchnoi (2665), Tigran Petrosian (2645), Mikhail Tal (2645), Boris Spassky (2625), Robert Byrne (2600), Efim Geller (2600), Vlastimil Hort (2600), Ratmir Kholmov (2540), Albin Planinc (2535), Rafael Vaganian (2530), Alexander Beliavsky (2500), Gyozo Forintos (2490), Silvino Garcia Martinez (2445), Levente Lengyel (2410), Hans Bohm (2300), and Michael Stean (2300). The average of the combined ratings of all the players qualified the memorial as a category XII event. It was another stellar event for Geller who edged out former world champion Spassky for clear first by half a point in the final.The final standings and crosstable:
1st Geller 10½/15 * 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1
2nd Spassky 10/15 0 * ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1
=3rd Kholmov 9½/15 ½ ½ * 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1
=3rd Vaganian 9½/15 ½ 0 0 * 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1
=3rd Korchnoi 9½/15 0 ½ 1 0 * ½ 1 0 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
=6th Hort 9/15 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ * ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1
=6th Petrosian 9/15 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½
=8th Beliavsky 8½/15 0 0 0 0 1 1 ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½
=8th Tal 8½/15 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1
10th Forintos 7/15 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 * ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1
11th Byrne 6/15 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 ½ 1
=12th Lengyel 5½/15 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 0
=12th Garcia-Martinez 5½/15 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½
14th Planinc 5/15 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 0 * 0 1
15th Stean 4/15 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 * 0
16th Bohm 3/15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 1 *
Kibitzing
