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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 moscow 1969
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#Moscow_1969
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🔷 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 moscow 1969
🔹 USSR
🔹 September 5 - October 12
🔹 CHAMPION: Tigran Petrosian|14/22 (+6 -0 =16) |
🔰 The 37th Soviet Chess Championship was held in the capital city of Moscow from September 6th to October 12th, 1969. Twenty-three of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and master competed in the round robin tournament.
A number of players qualified from the four Soviet semi-final championships held earlier in the year, and the rest of the field was filled out by invitations sent to the very best of Soviet mastery.
Among those invited was Tigran Petrosian, who had lost his match for the world championship to Boris Spassky just a few months earlier. Petrosian remarked it was a great relief to have been defeated and actually later remarked that his years as world champion were some of the worst and most difficult of his life.
As it turned out, being relieved of the world championship made Petrosian more dangerous as a player, as seen here in the largest non-Swiss style Soviet Championship ever held. He finished tied for first with Lev Polugaevsky, each with 14/22. A playoff match of six games was scheduled and held from February 20th to the 28th, 1970 in order to determine a sole victor for the zonal standings, and Petrosian defeated Polugaevsky by two points having only played five of the six games. Though Petrosian would never again challenge a match for the world championship, his win here was the third of an eventual four Soviet crowns he would earn over his long and successful career as one of the best chess players in the world.
♦️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
♦️ Download " Moscow 1969 " Games database by PGN format👇
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🔹 moscow 1969
🔹 USSR
🔹 September 5 - October 12
🔹 CHAMPION: Tigran Petrosian|14/22 (+6 -0 =16) |
🔰 The 37th Soviet Chess Championship was held in the capital city of Moscow from September 6th to October 12th, 1969. Twenty-three of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and master competed in the round robin tournament.
A number of players qualified from the four Soviet semi-final championships held earlier in the year, and the rest of the field was filled out by invitations sent to the very best of Soviet mastery.
Among those invited was Tigran Petrosian, who had lost his match for the world championship to Boris Spassky just a few months earlier. Petrosian remarked it was a great relief to have been defeated and actually later remarked that his years as world champion were some of the worst and most difficult of his life.
As it turned out, being relieved of the world championship made Petrosian more dangerous as a player, as seen here in the largest non-Swiss style Soviet Championship ever held. He finished tied for first with Lev Polugaevsky, each with 14/22. A playoff match of six games was scheduled and held from February 20th to the 28th, 1970 in order to determine a sole victor for the zonal standings, and Petrosian defeated Polugaevsky by two points having only played five of the six games. Though Petrosian would never again challenge a match for the world championship, his win here was the third of an eventual four Soviet crowns he would earn over his long and successful career as one of the best chess players in the world.
♦️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
♦️ Download " Moscow 1969 " Games database by PGN format👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Moscow_1969
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✴️ Review our selected game from Moscow 1969 chess tournament👇
🔸 Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian vs Vladimir Savon
🔸 USSR Championship (1969), Moscow URS, rd 5, Sep-11
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation. Petrosian System (D91)
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🔸 Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian vs Vladimir Savon
🔸 USSR Championship (1969), Moscow URS, rd 5, Sep-11
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation. Petrosian System (D91)
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Judit Polgar (Hungary), Susan Polgar (Hungary), and Alisa Galliamova (Russia) during Award Ceremony at the 1992 Budapest, Hungary, Women’s World Blitz Championship.
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Susan Polgar receives her award for her victory in the 1992 Women’s World Blitz Championship in this photo. In the competition, each player was given five minutes to make their moves. Pictured beside her are her sister, Judit Polgar, who took second place in the tournament, and Russian player Alisa Galliamova who finished third. Polgar took first in the 1992 Women’s World Rapid Championship, which was held at the same venue. In that competition, she went undefeated, and placed ahead of her other sister, Sofia, who took second, as well as former Women’s World Chess Champion Maya Chiburdanidze in third, and Judit in fourth place.
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Wijk aan Zee, 11th Jan 1968 ,2nd round of the Hoogovens, Yugoslav grandmaster Aleksandar Matanović is in play v. Viktor Korchnoi (USSR). In the background is Milko Bobotsov (Bulgaria)
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☑️ YUG-URS (1979), Teslic BIH
⚪️ Mikhail Tal
⚫️ Dragoljub Velimirovic
English Opening: Symmetrical Variation. General (A30)
Result : 1-0
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⚪️ Mikhail Tal
⚫️ Dragoljub Velimirovic
English Opening: Symmetrical Variation. General (A30)
Result : 1-0
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GMs Aleksandr Lenderman (2626), Yuriy Kuzubov (2655), Aleksey Dreev (2649), S.P. Sethuraman (2673) lead the Fall Chess Classic - Group A after two rounds.
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