Interzonal tournament Biel 1976

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The Biel 1976 interzonal tournament was held in July and August 1976 as a round-robin tournament with 20 participants in Biel , Switzerland. It was organized by the World Chess Federation FIDE and was intended to identify three other participants in the candidate competitions for the 1978 World Chess Championship .

Closing table

Attendees 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th 19th 20th Points
01 DenmarkDenmark Bent Larsen 0 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 12½
02 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Tigran Petrosian 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 1 12
03 Hungary 1957Hungary Lajos Portisch 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 0 1 12
04 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Mikhail Tal ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 12
05 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vasily Smyslow ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 11½
06 United StatesUnited States Robert Byrne 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 11½
07 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Robert Huebner ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 11½
08 SwedenSweden Ulf Andersson ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 10½
09 Hungary 1957Hungary István Csom ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 ½ 10
10 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Efim Geller ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 1 1 10
11 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Jan Smejkal 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 10
12 NetherlandsNetherlands Gennady Sosonko ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 9½
13 IsraelIsrael Vladimir Liberson 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 9
14th United StatesUnited States Ken Rogoff ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 9
15th Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Boris Gulko ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 9
16 ArgentinaArgentina Raúl Sanguineti 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 8½
17th Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Aleksandar Matanović 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 8th
18th ColombiaColombia Óscar Castro 0 1 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 6th
19th SwitzerlandSwitzerland André Lombard 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 5
20th CubaCuba Joaquín Carlos Díaz 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 2½

Playoff for second and third place

A playoff for two places in the candidate competitions was required among the tied players in places 2 to 4. It took place in Varese in October 1976 . Each participant had to play four times against each of the other two. Of the 12 games, 10 ended in a draw. Petrosjan won in the first round against Portisch and the latter won the second of the four rounds against Tal, who was therefore not represented in the further World Cup cycle.

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