| 15th Soviet Team Chess Championship: Moscow 1981 |
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| 15th Soviet Team Chess Championship (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Kochiev, Alexander | SPET | 5½ | 9 | 61.1 |
| 1. | GM Gufeld, Eduard | GEO | 5½ | 9 | 61.1 |
| 3. | GM Balashov, Yury | MOSC | 4½ | 8 | 56.3 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Yusupov, Artur | MOSC | 6½ | 9 | 72.2 |
| 2. | IM Psakhis, Lev | RUS | 6 | 9 | 66.7 |
| 3. | GM Gurgenidze, Bukhuti | GEO | 5 | 8 | 62.5 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Dorfman, Iosif | UKR | 6 | 9 | 66.7 |
| 2. | Nevednichy, Boris | MDA | 5½ | 9 | 61.1 |
| 3. | Ehlvest, Jaan | EST | 3½ | 6 | 58.3 |
| 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 | 4½ | 7 | 64.3 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | IM Lerner, Konstantin | UKR | 7 | 9 | 77.8 |
| 2. | GM Makarichev, Sergei | MOSC | 5½ | 9 | 61.1 |
| 3. | Popa, Viktor | MDA | 4½ | 9 | 50.0 |
| 3. | Ķeņģis, Edvīns | LAT | 3 | 6 | 50.0 |
| 3. | Azmaiparashvili, Zurab | GEO | 3 | 6 | 50.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WGM Litinskaya, Marta | UKR | 6½ | 9 | 72.2 |
| 2. | WGM Levitina, Irina | SPET | 6 | 9 | 66.7 |
| 3. | WGM Kozlovskaya, Valentina | RUS | 5½ | 9 | 61.1 |
| 3. | WGM Fatalibekova, Elena | MOSC | 5½ | 9 | 61.1 |
| 3. | WGM Chiburdanidze, Maia | GEO | 5½ | 9 | 61.1 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WGM Ioseliani, Nana | GEO | 7½ | 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 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Panchenko, Alexander | RUS | 5 | 7 | 71.4 |
| 2. | IM Petkevičs, Jusefs | LAT | 3½ | 5 | 70.0 |
| 3. | Sturua, Zurab | GEO | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |