List of USSR champions in chess

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This list enumerates the USSR champions in chess . The 1920 championship was played before the official founding of the Soviet Union and was considered the 1st All-Russian Olympiad , but was later counted as the first USSR championship. The last championship took place in 1991.

Form of event

Almost all championships were held as a round-robin tournament (everyone against everyone). There were three exceptions:

  • In 1929 4 quarter-finals and 2 semi-finals were played, 4 players qualified for the final
  • In 1967, according to the Swiss system played
  • also in 1991

Overview

year host master
1. 1920 Moscow Alexander Alekhine
2. 1923 Petrograd ( Saint Petersburg ) Pyotr Romanovsky
3. 1924 Moscow Efim Bogolyubov
4th 1925 Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Efim Bogolyubov
5. 1927 Moscow Fedir Bohatyrchuk , Pyotr Romanovsky
6th 1929 Odessa Boris Werlinski
7th 1931 Moscow Mikhail Botvinnik
8th. 1933 Leningrad Mikhail Botvinnik
9. 1934 Leningrad Grigori Löwenfisch , Ilja Rabinowitsch
10. 1937 Tbilisi Grigori lionfish
11. 1939 Leningrad Mikhail Botvinnik
12. 1940 Moscow Andor Lilienthal , Igor Bondarewski
13. 1944 Moscow Mikhail Botvinnik
14th 1945 Moscow Mikhail Botvinnik
15th 1947 Leningrad Paul Keres
16. 1948 Moscow David Bronstein , Alexander Kotow
17th 1949 Moscow David Bronstein , Vasily Smyslow
18th 1950 Moscow Paul Keres
19th 1951 Moscow Paul Keres
20th 1952 Moscow Mikhail Botvinnik
21st 1954 Kiev Yuri Averbach
22nd 1955 Moscow Efim Geller
23. 1956 Leningrad Mark Taimanow
24. 1957 Moscow Mikhail Tal
25th 1958 Riga Mikhail Tal
26th 1959 Tbilisi Tigran Petrosian
27. 1960 Leningrad Viktor Korchnoi
28. 1961 Moscow Tigran Petrosian
29 1961 Baku Boris Spassky
30th 1962 Yerevan Viktor Korchnoi
31. 1963 Leningrad Leonid Stein
32. 1964 Kiev Viktor Korchnoi
33. 1965 Tallinn Leonid Stein
34. 1966 Tbilisi Leonid Stein
35. 1967 Kharkov Lev Polugayevsky , Mikhail Valley
36. 1968 Alma-ata Lev Polugayevsky
37. 1969 Moscow Tigran Petrosian
38. 1970 Riga Viktor Korchnoi
39. 1971 Leningrad Volodymyr Zavon
40. 1972 Baku Mikhail Tal
41. 1973 Moscow Boris Spassky
42. 1974 Leningrad Alexander Beliavsky , Mikhail Tal
43. 1975 Yerevan Tigran Petrosian
44. 1976 Moscow Anatoly Karpov
45. 1977 Leningrad Boris Gulko , Josif Dorfman
46. 1978 Tbilisi Michail Tal , Vitaly Zeschkowski
47. 1979 Minsk Efim Geller
48. 1980 Vilnius Lev Psachis , Alexander Beliavsky
49. 1981 Frunze (Bishkek) Garry Kasparov , Lev Psachis
50. 1983 Moscow Anatoly Karpov
51. 1984 Lviv Andreï Sokolov
52. 1985 Riga Mikhail Gurevich
53. 1986 Kiev Vitaly Zeschkowski
54. 1987 Minsk Alexander Beliavsky
55. 1988 Moscow Anatoly Karpov , Garry Kasparov
56. 1989 Odessa Rafael Vaganian
57. 1990 Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Alexander Beliavsky
58. 1991 Moscow Artashes Minassyan

statistics

Individual evidence

  1. ^ After a playoff against Vasily Smyslow with the same points
  2. ^ After a playoff against the tied Ratmir Cholmow and Boris Spasski
  3. ↑ Games from the 48th USSR championship in Wilna Schach-Echo 1981, issue 3, pages 52 to 58 (with comments by Salo Flohr and photos).
  4. ^ After a playoff against Viktor Gavrikov and Alexander Tschernin tied on points in Vilnius
  5. ↑ According to Sonneborn-Berger evaluation in front of the tied Leonid Judassin , Jewgeni Barejew and Alexei Wyschmanawin

See also

literature

  • B. Cafferty, ME Taimanov: The Soviet championships . Cadogan Chess, London 1998, ISBN 9781857442014 .

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