| 1st Soviet Team Chess Championship: Leningrad 1948 |
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| 1st Soviet Team Chess Championship (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | Final: 12th - 22nd September 1948 Preliminaries: June 1948 |
| City: | Final: Leningrad, Russian SFSR Preliminaries: Frunze (today Bikshek - Kyrgyz SSR), Tbilisi (Georgian SSR) and Rīga (Latvian SSR) |
| Venue: | N/A |
| Tournament Director: | N/A |
| Chief Arbiter: | N/A |
| Teams participating: | Final: 7 Preliminaries: 14 (4 teams qualified to the final without play) |
| Players participating: | Final: 79 Preliminaries: 141 |
| Games played: | Final: 210 Preliminaries: 260 |
| Competition format: | Preliminaries: Three groups of 4-5 temas (ten board round robin). Winner of each group qualifies to the final. Final: three winners of preliminary groups were joined Moscow, Leningrad, Russia and Ukraine to play ten board round robin. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points; 2. Match points |
| Time control: | N/A |
| Websites: | RusBase |
| Downloadable game file: | 48sov_team.zip (only 35 games are available) |
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The Soviet Union was established in 1922 but only in 1948 the premier all-union team Championship (первое командное первенство СССР по шахматам) took place. All 16 Soviet Republics took part joined by the cities of Leningrad and Moscow, making total of 18 participants. As much as 4 of 7 final spots were assigned without qualification (as future proved - that was good idea since all winners from preliminaries were nowhere close in the final table to the seeded top four). The Moscow city team led by post-Hungarian GM Lilienthal and post-Czechoslovak GM Flohr took easy win with six clear picks (no worse score than 6-4). |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Mikėnas, Vladas | LTU | 5 | 6 | 83.3 |
| 2. | Boleslavsky, Isaak | RUS | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |
| 3. | Bondarevsky, Igor | SPET | 2½ | 5 | 50.0 |
| 3. | Lilienthal, Andor | MOSC | 3 | 6 | 50.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Taimanov, Mark | SPET | 5 | 6 | 83.3 |
| 2. | Ilivitsky, Grigory | RUS | 4½ | 6 | 75.0 |
| 2. | Flohr, Salomon | MOSC | 4½ | 6 | 75.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Ragozin, Viacheslav | MOSC | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |
| 2. | Kholmov, Ratmir | LTU | 3 | 5 | 60.0 |
| 3. | Kopaev, Nikolai | UKR | 3½ | 6 | 58.3 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Veiser | GEO | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |
| 2. | Višomirskis, Romanas | LTU | 3 | 5 | 60.0 |
| 3. | Lisitsyn, Grigory | SPET | 3½ | 6 | 58.3 |
| 3. | Simagin, Vladimir | MOSC | 3½ | 6 | 58.3 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Vasiliev, Victor | SPET | 5 | 6 | 83.3 |
| 1. | Averbakh, Yury | MOSC | 5 | 6 | 83.3 |
| 3. | Kotlerman, Samuel | UKR | 4½ | 6 | 75.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Bannik, Anatoly | UKR | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |
| 1. | Dubinin, Petr | RUS | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |
| 1. | Panov, Vassily | MOSC | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Geller, Efim | UKR | 6 | 6 | 100.0 |
| 2. | Zagorovsky, Vladimir | RUS | 3 | 6 | 50.0 |
| 2. | Konstantinopolsky, Alexander | MOSC | 3 | 6 | 50.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Nezhmetdinov, Rashid | RUS | 4½ | 6 | 75.0 |
| 2. | Kogan, Efim | UKR | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |
| 3. | Kan, Ilya | MOSC | 3½ | 6 | 58.3 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Yudovich, Mikhail sr | MOSC | 2½ | 4 | 62.5 |
| 2. | Sakharov, Yury | UKR | 3½ | 6 | 58.3 |
| 2. | Bastrikov, Grigory | RUS | 3½ | 6 | 58.3 |
| 2. | Buslaev, Alexander | GEO | 3½ | 6 | 58.3 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Bykova, Elizaveta | MOSC | 5½ | 6 | 91.7 |
| 2. | Rudenko, Ludmila | SPET | 3 | 4 | 75.0 |
| 3. | Borodkina | LTU | 3 | 5 | 60.0 |