Interzonal tournament in Riga 1979

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The interzonal Riga in 1979 was in September and October 1979 as a round robin tournament with 18 participants in Riga held. It was organized by the World Chess Federation FIDE and was intended to identify three other participants in the candidate competitions for the 1981 World Chess Championship .

Closing table

Attendees 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th Points
01 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Mikhail Tal 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 14th
02 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Lev Polugayevsky 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 11½
03 Hungary 1957Hungary András Adorján ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 11
04 Hungary 1957Hungary Zoltan Ribli ½ ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 11
05 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Oleh Romanyschyn 0 0 1 1 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 10½
06 Romania 1965Romania Florin Gheorghiu 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 10½
07 DenmarkDenmark Bent Larsen ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 10
08 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Hennadij Kuzmin 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 9
09 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vitaly Zeschkowski 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 9
10 EnglandEngland Anthony Miles 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 9
11 United StatesUnited States James Tarjan 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 0 0 1 ½ 1 8th
12 IsraelIsrael Yehuda Grünfeld ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 0 1 1 ½ 1 7½
13 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Ljubomir Ljubojević 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 0 6½
14th Brazil 1968Brazil Herman van Riemsdijk ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 5½
15th TunisiaTunisia Slim Bouaziz ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 1 1 5½
16 United StatesUnited States Edmar Mednis 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 5½
17th Brazil 1968Brazil Francisco Trois 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 5
18th Philippines 1944Philippines Ruben Rodriguez 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 ½ 4th

Playoff for 3rd place

The play-off between the two Hungarian grandmasters took place in Budapest in October and November 1979 . He went over six games and ended in a 3-3 draw. With wins in the first and third game, Ribli initially took the lead with 2½: ½. After that Adorján won games 4 and 5 and reached a draw in the last game. This 3: 3 was enough for Adorján to qualify for the candidate matches because of the better Sonneborn-Berger rating in the interzonal tournament.

Web links

Commons : 1979 Riga Interzonal Tournament  - collection of images, videos and audio files