15th Soviet Team Chess Championship: Moscow 1981

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Basic data

15th Soviet Team Chess Championship
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 16th - 30th May 1981
City: Moscow, Russian SFSR
Venue: Final group: Central Chess Club (ЦШК)
Lower group: Olympic Center Krylatskoe
(Спортивный комплекс Крылатское)
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: 20 (incl. three reserve teams)
Players participating: Final group: 90 (incl. 27 GMs, 14 IMs, 6 WGMs and 2 WIMs)
Lower group: N/A
Games played: Final group: 360
Lower group: 360
Competition format: Both groups: eight board round robin.
Top ten teams from 1979 Spartakiad played in the final group. Since reserve teams (Russia, Ukraine, Moscow) took top three places in the lower group, teams ranked 4th-5th (Lithuania and Armania) were eligible to play in the consecutive Soviet Team Ch, had it been played in the league system (in fact it wasn't).
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Direct match result, 3. Number of match wins
Time control: N/A
Websites: RusBase
Downloadable game file: 81sov_team.zip (only 119 of 360 games are available)
81sov_finalB.zip (only 71 of 360 games are available)


Tournament review

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Best board results

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Tāls, Mihails LAT 7 9 77.8
2. GM Beliavsky, Alexander UKR 6 9 66.7
3. GM Spassky, Boris RUS 5 8 62.5

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Kochiev, Alexander SPET 9 61.1
1. GM Gufeld, Eduard GEO 9 61.1
3. GM Balashov, Yury MOSC 8 56.3

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Yusupov, Artur MOSC 9 72.2
2. IM Psakhis, Lev RUS 6 9 66.7
3. GM Gurgenidze, Bukhuti GEO 5 8 62.5

4th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Dorfman, Iosif UKR 6 9 66.7
2. Nevednichy, Boris MDA 9 61.1
3. Ehlvest, Jaan EST 6 58.3

5th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Tukmakov, Vladimir UKR 6 9 66.7
1. IM Vītoliņš, Alvis LAT 6 9 66.7
3. Yuferov, Sergei BLR 7 64.3

6th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. IM Lerner, Konstantin UKR 7 9 77.8
2. GM Makarichev, Sergei MOSC 9 61.1
3. Popa, Viktor MDA 9 50.0
3. Ķeņģis, Edvīns LAT 3 6 50.0
3. Azmaiparashvili, Zurab GEO 3 6 50.0

1st Women's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WGM Litinskaya, Marta UKR 9 72.2
2. WGM Levitina, Irina SPET 6 9 66.7
3. WGM Kozlovskaya, Valentina RUS 9 61.1
3. WGM Fatalibekova, Elena MOSC 9 61.1
3. WGM Chiburdanidze, Maia GEO 9 61.1

2nd Women's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WGM Ioseliani, Nana GEO 9 83.3
2. Grinfeld, Alla RUS 6 9 66.7
2. Zaitseva, Ludmila MOSC 6 9 66.7
2. Pärnpuu, Leili EST 6 9 66.7

Reserve Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Panchenko, Alexander RUS 5 7 71.4
2. IM Petkevičs, Jusefs LAT 5 70.0
3. Sturua, Zurab GEO 4 6 66.7


Interesting games


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