2nd Soviet Team Chess Championship: Tbilisi 1951

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Basic data

2nd Soviet Team Chess Championship
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: Final: 6th - 14th September 1951
Preliminaries: 10th - 16th August 1951
City: Final: Tbilisi, Georgian SSR
Preliminaries: Yaroslavl (Russian SFSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Kyiv (Ukrainian SSR) and Baku (Azerbaijan SSR)
Venue: N/A
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: Final: 6
Preliminaries: 16 (Moscow and Leningrad, top two teams from previous edition, qualified to the final group without play)
Players participating: Final: 60 (incl. 4 GMs, 8 IMs and 2 WIMs)
Preliminaries: N/A
Games played: Final: 150
Preliminaries: 240
Competition format: Preliminaries: Four groups of 4 temas (ten board round robin). Winner of each group qualified to the final.
Final: Moscow and Leningrad were joined by four winners of preliminary groups.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Match points
Time control: N/A
Websites: RusBase
Downloadable game file: 51sov_team.zip (only 23 games are available)


Tournament review

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Best board results

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Boleslavsky, Isaak RUS 5 70.0
1. GM Bronstein, David MOSC 5 70.0
3. IM Makogonov, Vladimir AZE 3 5 60.0

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. IM Aronin, Lev RUS 5 70.0
1. GM Flohr, Salomon MOSC 5 70.0
3. Lipnitsky, Isaak UKR 3 5 60.0

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Bannik, Anatoly UKR 5 70.0
2. IM Tolush, Alexander SPET 3 5 60.0
2. Amirkhanov, Rinat AZE 3 5 60.0

4th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Goldenov, Boris UKR 5 70.0
1. Ilivitsky, Grigory RUS 5 70.0
3. Furman, Semen SPET 3 5 60.0
3. Zagorovsky, Vladimir MOSC 3 5 60.0

5th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. IM Chekhover, Vitaly SPET 4 5 80.0
1. Suetin, Alexander RUS 4 5 80.0
3. Sokolsky, Alexei UKR 5 70.0

6th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Nezhmetdinov, Rashid RUS 4 5 80.0
2. IM Averbakh, Yury MOSC 5 70.0
3. Ratner, Boris UKR 5 50.0
3. Borisenko, Grigory SPET 5 50.0

7th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Shamkovich, Leonid RUS 4 5 80.0
2. Kopylov, Nikolai SPET 5 70.0
3. Moiseev, Oleg MOSC 5 50.0

8th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Kotlerman, Samuel UKR 5 90.0
2. Veltmander, Yoganess RUS 5 70.0
3. Goldberg, Grigory SPET 3 5 60.0
3. Chistiakov, Alexander MOSC 3 5 60.0

1st Women's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WIM Bykova, Elizaveta MOSC 5 90.0
2. Kogan, L. UKR 3 5 60.0
2. Filanovskaya, T. RUS 3 5 60.0

2nd Women's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Zvorykina, Kira SPET 5 90.0
2. Ignatieva, Olga MOSC 5 70.0
3. Vaisberg, Berta UKR 3 5 60.0
3. Gurfinkel, Iosifa RUS 3 5 60.0


Interesting games


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