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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Baku 1972
🔹 40th Soviet Chess Champion
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🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔹 Baku 1972
🔹 40th Soviet Chess Champion
#chess_history_tornaments
#Baku1972
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
@unitychess
🔵 Chess History - Tournaments
🔸 Baku 1972
🔸 40th Soviet Chess Champion
🔰 CHAMPION: Mikhail Tal | 15/21 (+9 -0 =12) |
✅ The 40th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XI event played in the city of Baku from November 16th to December 19th, 1972. Nineteen of the USSR's best masters and grandmasters qualified for the round robin tournament, which also counted as a zonal event for the world championship cycle, from the four Soviet semi-finals held earlier in the year.
✅ The qualifiers were (with ELO at time of championship):
▪️ Semyon Furman (2520),
▪️ Evgeni Vasiukov (2575),
▪️ Mikhail Mukhin (2420),
▪️ Ratmir Kholmov (2550)
🔺 Qualified from Uzhgorod;
▪️ Nukhim Rashkovsky (2430),
▪️ Eduard Gufeld (2525),
▪️ Anatoly Lein (2530),
▪️ Yuri Razuvaev (2490),
▪️ Karen Grigorian (2470)
🔺 Qualified from Cheliabinsk;
▪️ Valery Zhidkov (2490),
▪️ Roman Dzindzichashvili (2500),
▪️ Leonid Shamkovich (2535),
▪️ Yuri Balashov (2560),
▪️ Vitaly Tseshkovsky
🔺 Qualified from Kaliningrad;
▪️ Lev Alburt (2450),
▪️ Gennadi Kuzmin (2520),
▪️ Valery Zilberstein (2445),
▪️ Albert Kapengut (2485),
▪️ Vladimir Tukmakov (2560)
🔺 Qualified from Odessa.
🔺 Tseshkovsky was unable to attend so he was replaced with Vladimir Bagirov (2515).
▪️ The field was completed by the attendance of David Bronstein (2585) and Mikhail Tal (2625), both previous Soviet champions, and by the attendance of last year's Soviet champion Vladimir Savon (2595).
✅ Although not as strong as some of the top championships in the past, Tal dominated with his usual flair, finishing undefeated and clear first with 15/21, two points ahead of sole second place, Tukmakov. This Soviet crown was Tal's fourth of an eventual six he would win in his longer career as one of the world's very best chess players.
✳️ Third and fourth place playoff (in 1973, Interzonal qualification):
=1 Kuzmin ½½ ½½ 2
=1 Savon ½½ 01 2
=1 Mukhin ½½ 10 ** 2
🌐 SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM
🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download " Baku 1972 Games Database" by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from Baku 1972 tournament👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Baku1972
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
@unitychess
🔸 Baku 1972
🔸 40th Soviet Chess Champion
🔰 CHAMPION: Mikhail Tal | 15/21 (+9 -0 =12) |
✅ The 40th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XI event played in the city of Baku from November 16th to December 19th, 1972. Nineteen of the USSR's best masters and grandmasters qualified for the round robin tournament, which also counted as a zonal event for the world championship cycle, from the four Soviet semi-finals held earlier in the year.
✅ The qualifiers were (with ELO at time of championship):
▪️ Semyon Furman (2520),
▪️ Evgeni Vasiukov (2575),
▪️ Mikhail Mukhin (2420),
▪️ Ratmir Kholmov (2550)
🔺 Qualified from Uzhgorod;
▪️ Nukhim Rashkovsky (2430),
▪️ Eduard Gufeld (2525),
▪️ Anatoly Lein (2530),
▪️ Yuri Razuvaev (2490),
▪️ Karen Grigorian (2470)
🔺 Qualified from Cheliabinsk;
▪️ Valery Zhidkov (2490),
▪️ Roman Dzindzichashvili (2500),
▪️ Leonid Shamkovich (2535),
▪️ Yuri Balashov (2560),
▪️ Vitaly Tseshkovsky
🔺 Qualified from Kaliningrad;
▪️ Lev Alburt (2450),
▪️ Gennadi Kuzmin (2520),
▪️ Valery Zilberstein (2445),
▪️ Albert Kapengut (2485),
▪️ Vladimir Tukmakov (2560)
🔺 Qualified from Odessa.
🔺 Tseshkovsky was unable to attend so he was replaced with Vladimir Bagirov (2515).
▪️ The field was completed by the attendance of David Bronstein (2585) and Mikhail Tal (2625), both previous Soviet champions, and by the attendance of last year's Soviet champion Vladimir Savon (2595).
✅ Although not as strong as some of the top championships in the past, Tal dominated with his usual flair, finishing undefeated and clear first with 15/21, two points ahead of sole second place, Tukmakov. This Soviet crown was Tal's fourth of an eventual six he would win in his longer career as one of the world's very best chess players.
✳️ Third and fourth place playoff (in 1973, Interzonal qualification):
=1 Kuzmin ½½ ½½ 2
=1 Savon ½½ 01 2
=1 Mukhin ½½ 10 ** 2
🌐 SOURCE: CHESSGAMES.COM
🔹 The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
🔹 Download " Baku 1972 Games Database" by PGN format👇
🔹 Review our selected game from Baku 1972 tournament👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Baku1972
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
@unitychess