3rd Chess Balkaniad (men): Athens 1971

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Basic data

3rd Chess Balkaniad (men)
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 3rd - 10th July 1971
City: Athens, Greece
Venue: N/A
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: 5
Players participating: 34 (incl. 5 GMs and 12 IMs)
Games played: 60
Competition format: Six board round robin.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points
Time control: N/A
Downloadable game file: 71balk.zip (only 6 games are available)

Tournament review

The Balkan games came back to live in Greece after 24 year long brake following the initiative of late Rosa Sjapera. Romania and Bulgaria won two top places achieving minimal edge over Yugoslavia. Greece and Turkey were both far behind but the lessons they gained were quite useful and the profits appeared in the near future.

Best board results

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. IM Ljubojević, Ljubomir YUG 3½ 4 87.5
2. GM Bobotsov, Milko BUL 2½ 4 62.5
3. GM Gheorghiu, Florin ROM 2 4 50.0

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Tringov, Georgi BUL 3 4 75.0
2. IM Ciocâltea, Victor ROM 2½ 4 62.5
3. GM Damjanović, Mato YUG 1 2 50.0

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. IM Ghiţescu, Theodor ROM 2½ 3 83.3
2. IM Planinc, Albin YUG 2½ 4 62.5
3. Makropoulos, Georgios GRE ½ 1 50.0

4th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Ghizdavu, Dumitru ROM 4 4 100.0
2. Skalkotas, Nikolaos GRE 2½ 4 62.5
3. IM Radulov, Ivan BUL 2½ 4 62.5

5th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. IM Popov, Luben BUL 3 4 75.0
2. IM Vukić, Milan YUG 2½ 4 62.5
3. IM Drimer, Dolfi ROM 2½ 4 62.5

6th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Peev, Peicho BUL 3½ 4 87.5
2. Ungureanu, Emil ROM 1½ 2 75.0
3. IM Kovačević, Vlatko YUG 1½ 3 50.0

Reserve Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Marangunić, Srđan YUG 3 4 75.0
2. Pavlov, Mircea ROM 1 3 33.3
3. Kazilaris, Nikolaos GRE ½ 3 16.7

Interesting games


Shortest decisive game.
Ghizdavu, Dumitru (ROM) - Boysan, Mübin (TUR) 1 - 0

The final position is quite picturesque.
Bilyap, Sıracettin (TUR) - Tringov, Georgi (BUL) 0 - 1