The 1929 USSR Chess Championship was the 6th edition of USSR Chess Championship . Held from 2–20 September in Odessa . The tournament was won by Boris Verlinsky . The event was held outside Moscow and Leningrad for the first time. 36 players competed in four quarterfinal sections, with the top three in each advancing into two six-player semifinals. The top two from each semifinals were then to play a double round final to determine the champion (but due to the withdrawal of one of the finalists, the final tournament had only three players).
15-647: Chess competition in the Soviet Union [REDACTED] The participants of the fourth USSR Chess Championship in 1925. Sitting (left to right): Vilner , Levenfish , Rokhlin (organizer), Gotthilf , I. Rabinovich , Bogolyubov (winner), Ilyin-Genevsky , Duz-Khotimirsky , Romanovsky , Sergeyev , Nenarokov , Verlinsky , A. Rabinovich . Standing (left to right): von Freymann , Sozin , Eremeev (organizer), Grigoriev , Zubarev , Selezniev , Kaspersky , Kutuzov , Weinstein (organizer). The USSR Chess Championship
30-766: A playoff +2=2. 55 25 Jul–19 Aug 1988 Moscow Anatoly Karpov Garry Kasparov 11½/17 (+6−0=11) 11½/17 (+6−0=11) 56 22 Sep–16 Oct 1989 Odessa Rafael Vaganian 9/15 (+5−2=8) 57 18 Oct–3 Nov 1990 Leningrad Alexander Beliavsky Leonid Yudasin Evgeny Bareev Alexey Vyzmanavin 8½/13 (+5−1=7) 8½/13 (+4−0=9) 8½/13 (+6−2=5) 8½/13 (+5−1=7) 58 1–13 Nov 1991 Moscow Artashes Minasian 8½/11 (+7−1=3) Minasian won this Swiss-style tournament on tiebreak over Elmar Magerramov . [REDACTED] A Soviet stamp dedicated to
45-412: A playoff +2−1=3. 21 7 Jan–7 Feb 1954 Kiev Yuri Averbakh 14½/19 (+10−0=9) 22 11 Feb–15 Mar 1955 Moscow Efim Geller 12/19 (+10−5=4) Geller defeated Vasily Smyslov in a playoff +1=6. 23 10 Jan–15 Feb 1956 Leningrad Mark Taimanov 11½/17 (+8−2=7) Taimanov defeated Boris Spassky and Yuri Averbakh in
60-844: A playoff. 24 20 Jan–22 Feb 1957 Moscow Mikhail Tal 14/21 (+9−2=10) 25 12 Jan–14 Feb 1958 Riga Mikhail Tal 12½/18 (+10−3=5) 26 9 Jan–11 Feb 1959 Tbilisi Tigran Petrosian 13½/19 (+8−0=11) 27 26 Jan–26 Feb 1960 Leningrad Viktor Korchnoi 14/19 (+12−3=4) 28 11 Jan–11 Feb 1961 Moscow Tigran Petrosian 13½/19 (+9−1=9) 29 16 Nov–12 Dec 1961 Baku Boris Spassky 14½/20 (+10−1=9) 30 21 Nov–20 Dec 1962 Yerevan Viktor Korchnoi 14/19 (+10−1=8) 31 23 Nov–27 Dec 1963 Leningrad Leonid Stein 12/19 (+6−1=12) Stein defeated Boris Spassky and Ratmir Kholmov in
75-427: A playoff. 32 25 Dec 1964–27 Jan 1965 Kiev Viktor Korchnoi 15/19 (+11−0=8) 33 21 Nov–24 Dec 1965 Tallinn Leonid Stein 14/19 (+10−1=8) 34 28 Dec 1966 – 2 Feb 1967 Tbilisi Leonid Stein 13/20 (+8−2=10) 35 7–26 Dec 1967 Kharkiv Lev Polugaevsky Mikhail Tal 10/13 10/13 The tournament
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105-3963: The 1962 USSR Chess Championship See also [ edit ] Women's Soviet Chess Championship Russian Chess Championship Publications [ edit ] Mark Taimanov, Bernard Cafferty, Soviet Championships, London, Everyman Chess, 1998 ( ISBN 978-1-85744-201-4 ) References [ edit ] ^ "USSR Championship 1952" . Chessgames.com. 1953-02-05 . Retrieved 2012-05-26 . ^ "USSR Championship 1955" . Chessgames.com . Retrieved 2012-05-26 . ^ "USSR Championship 1968/69" . Chessgames.com . Retrieved 2012-05-26 . ^ "USSR Championship 1969" . Chessgames.com. 1969-10-12 . Retrieved 2012-05-26 . ^ "USSR Championship 1977" . Chessgames.com. 1977-12-22 . Retrieved 2012-05-26 . ^ "USSR Championship 1987" . Chessgames.com . Retrieved 2012-05-26 . Further reading [ edit ] Soltis, Andrew (1999). Soviet Chess 1917-1991 . McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-0676-3 . The Soviet Chess Championship 1920-1991 RUSBASE (part V) 1919-1937,1991-1994 RUSBASE (part IV) 1938-1960 RUSBASE (part III), 1961-1969,1985-1990 RUSBASE (part II) 1970-1984 v t e Chess national championships Present Albania Algeria Andorra Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Canada Catalonia Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic El Salvador Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Guatemala Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kenya Kosovo Latvia Lebanon Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malaysia Malta Mexico Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Myanmar Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Northern Ireland Norway Pakistan Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Serbia Seychelles Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Sweden Switzerland Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Ukraine United Arab Emirates United States women's Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Wales Zambia Zimbabwe Defunct Czechoslovakia Serbia and Montenegro USSR women's Yugoslavia Cities Berlin Kiev Leningrad Moscow Paris v t e Top sport leagues in
120-1104: The Absolute Championship, 23 Mar–29 Apr 1941, Leningrad/Moscow, 13½/20 (+9−2=9) 13 21 May–17 Jun 1944 Moscow Mikhail Botvinnik 12½/16 (+11−2=3) 14 1 Jun–3 Jul 1945 Moscow Mikhail Botvinnik 15/17 (+13−0=4) 15 2 Feb–8 Mar 1947 Leningrad Paul Keres 14/19 (+10−1=8) 16 10 Nov–13 Dec 1948 Moscow David Bronstein Alexander Kotov 12/18 (+7−1=10) 12/18 (+10−4=4) 17 16 Oct–20 Nov 1949 Moscow Vasily Smyslov David Bronstein 13/19 (+9−2=8) 13/19 (+8−1=10) 18 10 Nov–12 Dec 1950 Moscow Paul Keres 11½/17 (+8−2=7) 19 11 Nov–14 Dec 1951 Moscow Paul Keres 12/17 (+9−2=6) 20 29 Nov–29 Dec 1952 Moscow Mikhail Botvinnik 13½/19 (+9−1=9) Botvinnik defeated Mark Taimanov in
135-730: The All-Russian Chess Olympiad at the time, this tournament was later recognized as the first USSR championship. 2 8–24 Jul 1923 Petrograd Peter Romanovsky 10/12 (+9−1=2) 3 23 Aug–15 Sep 1924 Moscow Efim Bogoljubov 15/17 (+13−0=4) 4 11 Aug–6 Sep 1925 Leningrad Efim Bogoljubov 14/19 (+11−2=6) 5 26 Sep–25 Oct 1927 Moscow Fedor Bogatyrchuk Peter Romanovsky 14½/20 (+10−1=9) 14½/20 (+12−3=5) All of Bogatyrchuk's tournament results were erased from Soviet records after he emigrated to Canada and
150-1222: The Odesa chess championships four times (1918, 1923, 1925, and 1928). He won the Ukrainian championships three times; at Kyiv 1924 (ahead of Fedor Bohatirchuk ), at Kharkiv 1925 (ahead of Nikolai Sorokin ), and at Odesa 1928 (with Vladimir Kirillov ). He also won at Odesa 1926 (ahead of Russo), and at Kyiv 1929 (with Bohatirchuk). He played in several Soviet chess championships. In July 1923, he tied for 11-13th in Petrograd (2nd URS-ch; Peter Romanovsky won). In September 1924, he tied for 6-8th in Moscow (3rd URS-ch; Efim Bogoljubow won). In 1925, he tied for 11-13th in Leningrad (4th URS-ch; Bogoljubow won). In October 1927, he tied for 15-17th in Moscow (5th URS-ch; Bohatirchuk and Romanovsky won). In September 1929, he tied for 8-9th in Odesa (6th URS-ch qual.; Boris Verlinsky won). Unfortunately, Vilner died young due to chronic asthma. 1929 USSR Chess Championship Izmailov could not play at
165-553: The Soviet Union National championships in the Soviet Union Recurring sporting events established in 1920 Recurring events disestablished in 1991 Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Yakov Vilner Yakov Vilner (1899, Odesa – 29 June 1931, Leningrad ) was a Ukrainian chess master. Vilner won
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#1732787992067180-1300: Was a 126-player Swiss. 36 30 Dec 1968–1 Feb 1969 Alma-Ata Lev Polugaevsky Alexander Zaitsev 12½/19 (+7−1=11) 12½/19 (+6=13) Polugaevsky defeated Zaitsev in a playoff +2−1=3. 37 6 Sep–12 Oct 1969 Moscow Tigran Petrosian 14/22 (+6−0=16) Petrosian defeated Polugaevsky in a playoff held in Feb 1970 by +2=3. 38 25 Nov–28 Dec 1970 Riga Viktor Korchnoi 16/21 (+12−1=8) 39 15 Sep–17 Oct 1971 Leningrad Vladimir Savon 15/21 (+9−0=12) 40 16 Nov–19 Dec 1972 Baku Mikhail Tal 15/21 (+9−0=12) 41 1–27 Oct 1973 Moscow Boris Spassky 11½/17 (+7−1=9) 42 30 Nov–23 Dec 1974 Leningrad Alexander Beliavsky Mikhail Tal 9½/15 (+6−2=7) 9½/15 (+6−2=7) 43 28 Nov–22 Dec 1975 Yerevan Tigran Petrosian 10/15 (+6−1=8) 44 26 Nov–24 Dec 1976 Moscow Anatoly Karpov 12/17 (+8−1=8) 45 28 Nov–22 Dec 1977 Leningrad Boris Gulko Iosif Dorfman 9½/15 (+4−0=11) 9½/15 (+4−0=11) A playoff, held in 1978,
195-904: Was declared a nonperson. 6 2–20 Sep 1929 Odessa Boris Verlinsky 5½/8 (+4−1=3), 4/5 (+4−1=0), and 3½/4 (+3−0=1) The tournament was conducted in three stages. 7 10 Oct–11 Nov 1931 Moscow Mikhail Botvinnik 13½/17 (+12−2=3) 8 16 Aug–9 Sep 1933 Leningrad Mikhail Botvinnik 14/19 (+11−2=6) 9 7 Dec 1934–2 Jan 1935 Leningrad Grigory Levenfish Ilya Rabinovich 12/19 (+8−3=8) 12/19 (+9−4=6) 10 12 Apr–14 May 1937 Tbilisi Grigory Levenfish 12½/19 (+9−3=7) 11 15 Apr–16 May 1939 Leningrad Mikhail Botvinnik 12½/17 (+8−0=9) 12 5 Sep–3 Oct 1940 Moscow Andor Lilienthal Igor Bondarevsky 13½/19 (+8−0=11) 13½/19 (+10−2=7) Mikhail Botvinnik won
210-1082: Was drawn +1−1=4. 46 1–28 Dec 1978 Tbilisi Mikhail Tal Vitaly Tseshkovsky 11/17 (+5−0=12) 11/17 (+6−1=10) 47 29 Nov–27 Dec 1979 Minsk Efim Geller 11½/17 (+6−0=11) 48 25 Dec 1980–21 Jan 1981 Vilnius Lev Psakhis Alexander Beliavsky 10½/17 (+8−4=5) 10½/17 (+6−2=9) 49 27 Nov–22 Dec 1981 Frunze Garry Kasparov Lev Psakhis 12½/17 (+10−2=5) 12½/17 (+9−1=7) 50 2–28 Apr 1983 Moscow Anatoly Karpov 9½/15 (+5−1=9) 51 2–28 Apr 1984 Lviv Andrei Sokolov 12½/17 (+8−0=9) 52 22 Jan–19 Feb 1985 Riga Viktor Gavrikov Mikhail Gurevich Alexander Chernin 11/19 (+4−1=14) 11/19 (+6−3=10) 11/19 (+5−2=12) 53 4–28 Feb 1986 Kiev Vitaly Tseshkovsky 11/17 (+6−1=10) 54 4–29 Mar 1987 Minsk Alexander Beliavsky 11/17 (+7−2=8) Beliavsky defeated Valery Salov in
225-908: Was played from 1920 to 1991. Organized by the USSR Chess Federation , it was the strongest national chess championship ever held, with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winners. It was held as a round-robin tournament with the exception of the 35th and 58th championships, which were of the Swiss system . Most wins [ edit ] Six titles: Mikhail Botvinnik , Mikhail Tal Four titles: Tigran Petrosian , Viktor Korchnoi , Alexander Beliavsky Three titles: Paul Keres , Leonid Stein , Anatoly Karpov List of winners [ edit ] Edition Date Place Winner Score Notes 1 4–24 Oct 1920 Moscow Alexander Alekhine 12/15 (+9−0=6) Known as
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