| 6th Soviet Team Chess Cup: Rīga 1968 |
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| 6th Soviet Team Chess Cup (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | Upper group: 17th - 30th December 1968 Lower group: 1968 |
| City: | Upper group: Rīga, Latvian SSR Lower group: Erevan, Armenian SSR |
| Venue: | Upper group: Trade union palace of culture (Дом культуры профсоюзов) |
| Tournament Director: | N/A |
| Chief Arbiter: | N/A |
| Teams participating: | Upper group: 12 (incl. 9 teams from previous edition, two promoted teams and Dinamo) Lower group: 6 |
| Players participating: | Upper group: 131 (incl. 16 GMs, 6 IMs and 9 WIMs) Lower group: N/A |
| Games played: | Upper group: 660 Lower group: 150 |
| Competition format: | Two group ten board round robin. Twelve teams participated in the upper group (league), while the remaining six competed in the lower group. The results (promotion/relegation) had no real impact on the following championship since the system of play was changed. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points; 2. (?)Match points |
| Time control: | N/A |
| Website: | RusBase |
| Downloadable game file: | 68sov_cup.zip |
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| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Stein, Leonid | AVAN | 6½ | 10 | 65.0 |
| 2. | GM Polugaevsky, Lev | BURE | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| 3. | GM Geller, Efim | SOVA | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Suetin, Alexander | SPAR | 7½ | 10 | 75.0 |
| 2. | GM Taimanov, Mark | BURE | 8 | 11 | 72.7 |
| 3. | Klovāns, Jānis | DAUG | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Boleslavsky, Isaak | SPAR | 8½ | 11 | 77.3 |
| 2. | GM Liberzon, Vladimir | SOVA | 7 | 10 | 70.0 |
| 3. | GM Smyslov, Vassily | BURE | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Lein, Anatoly | SOVA | 7½ | 9 | 83.3 |
| 2. | Kimmelfeld, Rudolf | TRUD | 6 | 9 | 66.7 |
| 3. | Vooremaa, Andres | KALE | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Kapengut, Albert | BURE | 5½ | 8 | 68.8 |
| 2. | IM Lutikov, Anatoly | SOVA | 6 | 9 | 66.7 |
| 2. | Shianovsky, Vladislav | AVAN | 6 | 9 | 66.7 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Karpov, Anatoly | SOVA | 10 | 11 | 90.9 |
| 2. | Mikliaev, Ilya | BURE | 9 | 11 | 81.8 |
| 3. | Popov, Nikolai | MOLD | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| 3. | Tsikhelashvili, Giorgi | DINA | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Kupreichik, Viktor | BURE | 9 | 11 | 81.8 |
| 2. | Fedorov, Vladislav | TRUD | 8½ | 11 | 77.3 |
| 3. | Beliavsky, Alexander | AVAN | 7½ | 11 | 68.2 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WIM Gaprindashvili, Nona | BURE | 8½ | 11 | 77.3 |
| 2. | WIM Andreeva, Olga | AVAN | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| 3. | WIM Borisenko, Valentina | LOKO | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Skegina, Klara | SOVA | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| 2. | Medianikova, Nina | LOKO | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| 2. | WIM Zatulovskaya, Tatiana | BURE | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Lemachko, Tatiana | BURE | 7½ | 11 | 68.2 |
| 2. | Gordon, N. | MOLD | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |
| 2. | Shul, Marta | AVAN | 7 | 11 | 63.6 |