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🔹 Kharkov 1967
🔹 35th Soviet Chess Champion

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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Kharkov 1967
🔹 7 - 26 December
🔹 35th Soviet Chess Champion

🔰 CHAMPION: Lev Polugaevsky | 10/13 |
SHARED WITH: Mikhail Tal | 10/13 |

♦️ The 35th USSR Championship was held in Kharkov from December 7-26, 1967, and was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution which brought the Communist Party to power. For such an occasion, it was felt that a return to mass participation was in order, so the tournament was organized as a 13-round Swiss for 126 players.

Of course, there were other reasons. 1967 had been a very busy year for the top Soviet players, with major international tournaments in Leningrad and Moscow as well as the Sousse Interzonal. Many were expected to skip the Championship to rest, so it seemed a good idea to open things up and see what kind of talent was out there.

Quite a few of the top stars did skip the tournament, and were probably not too disappointed. The Swiss System format proved very unpopular with complaints about the pairings starting in the very first round. By the end, several players had dropped out and the general opinion was that the Swiss System might work well enough in bourgeois nations like the United States, but the Soviet Union would henceforth stick to its elitist round robins.
💢 Tal summed up matters well by remarking:
"The Swiss System is good: we should adopt it again for the one hundred year anniversary of the Revolution!"

Some future stars did make their debuts, such as Lev Alburt, Mark Dvoretsky, Boris Gulko, Gennady Sosonko, Evgeni Sveshnikov, and Rafael Vaganian.

💢 However, the co-champions were the experienced players Mikhail Tal and Lev Polugaevsky.

🌐 SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM / WIKIPEDIA / GRAEME CREE's /
🌐 http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1967/ch_urs67.html

🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download Kharkov 1967 Games Database" by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from this tournament👇

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♦️ Review our selected game from "Kharkov 1967 Chess Tournament"👇
▪️ Aleksander S Nikitin vs Lev Polugaevsky
▪️ USSR Championship (1967), Kharkov URS, rd 5, Dec-??
▪️ King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation. Classical Main Line (E69)

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🔹 "Kharkov 1967 Games Database"
🔹 PGN format
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Christiansen,Johan-Sebastian (2541)
⚫️Guramishvili,Sopiko (2378)
🔸0-1

36...Qc6! [The most accurate move. Black controls the vital h1–a8 diagonal and prevents Nf6+.]

[36...Qa6? 37.Bxf8 Kxf8 38.Qd7 gxh5 39.Qd8+ Kg7 40.Re8 Nf3+ 41.Kg2 Qb7 42.Rg8+ Kh7 43.Rh8+ Kg6 44.Qg8+ Kf6 45.Qd8+=; 36...d2? 37.Nf6+ Kh8 38.Bxd2 Qc6 39.Ne4 Nc2 40.Re2 Nd4 41.Re3 f5 42.Qf4 Kg8 43.Ng5+–]

37.Re3 d2 [37...Ra8!? △Ra1 38.Kh2 d2 39.Bg5 Nf3+ 40.Qxf3 Qxf3 41.Rxf3 d1Q–+]

38.Qd1 Ra8 39.Nf4 Nc2!–+ 40.Kh2 Ra1 41.Re8+ Kh7 42.Ne6 Rxd1

0–1

⚫️#105 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Arab,Adlane (2482)
🔸Skoberne,Jure (2565)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

19...Nxg3+?! [19...f5! By playing this strong move, Black could have activated his rook and would have participated it in the attack. 20.Be5 fxe4 21.fxe4 Rf3 22.Qc4 Qf7 23.Qe2 a5 24.c4 a4 25.Rab1 Rb3µ; 19...b6 20.Ra6 c5 21.Qc4 cxd4 22.cxd4 Nxg3+ 23.hxg3 b5 24.Qb4 Rfc8 25.Rb1 Rab8 26.Kg2 Rc6 27.Rxc6 Qxc6 28.Ra1µ]

20.hxg3 Rfc8 21.Rfb1 b6 22.Ra6 Rab8 23.Kg2 Rb7 24.Qc4 c5 25.d5 exd5 26.exd5 Rd8 27.Rd1 Qc8 28.Qa2 Qd7 29.c4 Re8 30.Ra1 Re7 31.Qa3 Qd6 32.Qc3 Rbd7 33.Qd3 Qe5 34.Qc2 h5 35.f4 Qd4 36.Rxb6 Rxd5 37.Rb8+ Rd8 38.Rxd8+ Qxd8 39.Qf5 Qd4 40.Ra5 g6 41.Qxc5 Qe4+ 42.Kh2 h4 43.Rxa7 hxg3+ 44.Kxg3 Rxa7 45.Qxa7 Qxc4 46.Qa8+ Kg7 47.Qa1+ Kg8 48.Qa8+ Kg7 49.Qa1+ Kg8 50.Qa8+
½–½

⚫️#105 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Nedev,Trajko (2496)
🔸Hovhannisyan,Robert (2621)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

38...g5! [38...f6 39.Ne1 fxe5 40.fxe5 Rxe5 41.Nd3 Re8 42.Nxc5 Ra3 43.Nce4 Rea8 44.Ke2 g5 45.Nf3 Kg7 46.Kd2 R8a4µ; 38...Kh7 39.Ke2 g5 40.g3 Kg6 41.Ne3 Rd8 42.f5+ Kg7³]

39.g3 Kf8 40.Kf2 Raa8 41.Ne1 Reb8 42.Ke2 Ra3 43.Nef3 Rb2 44.Kd1 Rxf3 45.Kc1 [45.Nxf3 Rb1+–+]

45...Rxd2 46.Kxd2 Rxg3 47.fxg5 hxg5 48.Kc2 Ra3 49.Kb2 Ra7
0–1

⚪️#106 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Mohammad Fahad,Rahman (2263)
🔸Andriamasoandro,Miora (2126)
🔸Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 106
public poll

A) f4 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
Jonas, Nikhil, Vincent, @WataxPin, Matthew

C) Qf4 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
future, Farshid

B) Rac1 – 1
👍 13%
@h_a_d_I_1169

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚫️#106 (Endgame-‌Black to Move)
🔸Anton Guijarro,David (2639)
🔸Bogner,Sebastian (2619)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 106
public poll

C) Kg7 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 100%
@M_L_110213, Jonas, Nikhil, @BehroudR, Vincent, @RichardPeng, @AryanLeekha, @WataxPin, Matthew

A) e5
▫️ 0%

B) Kf8
▫️ 0%

👥 9 people voted so far.

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🔹 Minsk 1979
🔹47th Soviet Chess Champion

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