7th Soviet Team Chess Championship: Moscow 1960

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Information

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Basic data

7th Soviet Team Chess Championship
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: Final group: 1st - 15th October 1960
Lower group: 16th - 28th October 1960
City: Final group: Moscow, Russian SFSR
Lower group: Tashkent, Uzbek SSR
Venue: N/A
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: Final group: 9
Lower group: 8
Players participating: Final group: 102 (incl. 12 GMs, 6 IMs and 5 WIMs)
Lower group: N/A
Games played: Final group: 360
Lower group: 280
Competition format: Ten board round robin (both groups).
Nine best teams from 1959 Spartakiad earned right to participate in the final group and the rest competed in the lower group. Top two teams from the lower group qualified to the 1962 final group, since no Spartakiad was to take place meanwhile; bottom two team from top division were relegated.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Match points
Time control: N/A
Websites: RusBase
Downloadable game file: 60sov_team.zip (only ca. 25% games are in there)


Tournament review

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Best board results

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Polugaevsky, Lev RUS 5 7 71.4
2. GM Smyslov, Vassily MOSC 3½ 5 70.0
3. Suetin, Alexei BLR 5½ 8 68.8

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Petrosian, Tigran MOSC 4 5 80.0
2. Stein, Leonid UKR 6 8 75.0
3. GM Taimanov, Mark SPET 5½ 8 68.8
3. Nei, Ivo EST 5½ 8 68.8

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Spassky, Boris SPET 5½ 8 68.8
1. GM Bronstein, David MOSC 5½ 8 68.8
3. Sakharov, Yury UKR 4½ 8 56.3
3. Kļaviņš, Jānis LAT 4½ 8 56.3

4th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Kotov, Alexander MOSC 5½ 7 78.6
2. GM Bondarevsky, Igor SPET 6 8 75.0
3. Klovāns, Jānis LAT 5½ 8 68.8

5th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. IM Simagin, Vladimir MOSC 6½ 8 81.3
2. Antoshin, Vladimir RUS 5½ 7 78.6
3. Gufeld, Eduard UKR 4½ 8 56.3

6th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Shamkovich, Leonid RUS 6 8 75.0
2. Shianovsky, Vladislav UKR 4 7 57.1
2. Khasin, Abram MOSC 4 7 57.1

Boys' Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Blekhtsin, Igor SPET 6½ 8 81.3
1. Khodos, German RUS 6½ 8 81.3
3. Pavlenko, Oleg AZE 5 8 62.5

1st Women's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WIM Volpert, Larisa SPET 6½ 8 81.3
2. Malinova, Elena UKR 4½ 8 56.3
2. WIM Borisenko, Valentina RUS 4½ 8 56.3
2. WIM Bykova, Elisaveta MOSC 4½ 8 56.3
2. WIM Zvorykina, Kira BLR 4½ 8 56.3

2nd Women's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Dmitrieva, Flora SPET 7 8 87.5
2. Kure, Urve EST 5½ 8 68.8
3. Kakabadze, Eliso GEO 4½ 8 56.3

Girls' Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Gaprindashvili, Nona GEO 7½ 8 93.8
2. Kushnir, Alla MOSC 6½ 8 81.3
3. Rožlapa, Vija LAT 5 8 62.5


Interesting games


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