| 6th Soviet Team Chess Championship: Moscow 1959 |
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| 6th Soviet Team Chess Championship part of 2nd Soviet Spartakiad of Nations (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | 6th - 15th August 1959 |
| City: | Moscow, Russian SFSR |
| Venue: | N/A |
| Tournament Director: | N/A |
| Chief Arbiter: | N/A |
| Teams participating: | 17 |
| Players participating: | 170 (incl. 14 GMs, 7 IMs and 5 WIMs) |
| Games played: | Final groups: 288 Preliminary groups: 360 |
| Competition format: | Two stage nine board round robin. All 17 teams were split into three preliminary groups, then top two from each group qualified to the championship final, while lower placed teams were put in respective consolation groups. Top nine teams qualified to the 1960 team championship final. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points; 2. Match points |
| Time control: | N/A |
| Websites: | RusBase |
| Downloadable game file: | 59sov_team.zip (only ca. 40% games are in there) |
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| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Keres, Paul | EST | B | 6½ | 8 | 81.3 |
| 2. | GM Spassky, Boris | SPET | A | 6 | 8 | 75.0 |
| 3. | IM Cholmovas, Ratmir | LTU | B | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |
| 3. | GM Boleslavsky, Isaak | BLR | B | 6 | 9 | 66.7 |
| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Smyslov, Vassily | MOSC | A | 6 | 7 | 85.7 |
| 2. | Nikolaevsky, Yury | UKR | A | 6 | 8 | 75.0 |
| 3. | Suetin, Alexander | BLR | B | 6½ | 9 | 72.2 |
| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Petrosian, Tigran | MOSC | A | 5 | 7 | 71.4 |
| 2. | IM Aronin, Lev | RUS | A | 5½ | 8 | 68.8 |
| 3. | IM Makogonov, Vladimir | AZE | B | 4½ | 7 | 64.3 |
| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Klovāns, Jānis | LAT | A | 6½ | 8 | 81.3 |
| 2. | GM Bronstein, David | MOSC | A | 6½ | 9 | 72.2 |
| 3. | Arulaid, Aleksander | EST | B | 5½ | 8 | 68.8 |
| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Averbakh, Yury | MOSC | A | 7½ | 9 | 83.3 |
| 2. | Shagalovich, Abo | BLR | B | 5½ | 7 | 78.6 |
| 3. | Tarve, Udo | EST | B | 3 | 4 | 75.0 |
| 3. | Sarkisian, A. | ARM | C | 6 | 8 | 75.0 |
| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Chernykh, Vassily | MOSC | A | 7 | 9 | 77.8 |
| 2. | Genin, Albert | SPET | A | 6 | 8 | 75.0 |
| 3. | Khodos, German | RUS | A | 6½ | 9 | 72.2 |
| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WIM Zvorykina, Kira | BLR | B | 7½ | 9 | 83.3 |
| 1. | Zatulovskaya, Tatiana | AZE | B | 7½ | 9 | 83.3 |
| 3. | WIM Volpert, Larisa | SPET | A | 6 | 8 | 75.0 |
| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Yakir, Lubov | UKR | A | 6½ | 9 | 72.2 |
| 2. | Vialaya, N. | KAZ | B | 5½ | 8 | 68.8 |
| 2. | Vardanian, Marlena | ARM | C | 5½ | 8 | 68.8 |
| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Gaprindashvili, Nona | GEO | A | 8½ | 9 | 94.4 |
| 2. | Ranniku, Maaja | EST | B | 6½ | 8 | 81.3 |
| 3. | Doktor, M. | TKM | C | 5½ | 8 | 68.8 |
| no. | name | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Antoshin, Vladimir | RUS | A | 4 | 5 | 80.0 |
| 2. | Stein, Leonid | UKR | A | 4½ | 6 | 75.0 |
| 2. | Randviir, Jüri | EST | B | 3 | 4 | 75.0 |