7th Soviet Team Chess Championship: Moscow 1960

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Information

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Basic data

7th Soviet Team Chess Championship
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: Final group: 1st - 15th October 1960
Lower group: 16th - 28th October 1960
City: Final group: Moscow, Russian SFSR
Lower group: Tashkent, Uzbek SSR
Venue: N/A
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: Final group: 9
Lower group: 8
Players participating: Final group: 102 (incl. 12 GMs, 6 IMs and 5 WIMs)
Lower group: N/A
Games played: Final group: 360
Lower group: 280
Competition format: Ten board round robin (both groups).
Nine best teams from 1959 Spartakiad earned right to participate in the final group and the rest competed in the lower group. Top two teams from the lower group qualified to the 1962 final group, since no Spartakiad was to take place meanwhile; bottom two team from top division were relegated.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Match points
Time control: N/A
Websites: RusBase
Downloadable game file: 60sov_team.zip (only ca. 25% games are in there)


Tournament review

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Best board results

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Polugaevsky, Lev RUS 5 7 71.4
2. GM Smyslov, Vassily MOSC 5 70.0
3. Suetin, Alexei BLR 8 68.8

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Petrosian, Tigran MOSC 4 5 80.0
2. Stein, Leonid UKR 6 8 75.0
3. GM Taimanov, Mark SPET 8 68.8
3. Nei, Ivo EST 8 68.8

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Spassky, Boris SPET 8 68.8
1. GM Bronstein, David MOSC 8 68.8
3. Sakharov, Yury UKR 8 56.3
3. Kļaviņš, Jānis LAT 8 56.3

4th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Kotov, Alexander MOSC 7 78.6
2. GM Bondarevsky, Igor SPET 6 8 75.0
3. Klovāns, Jānis LAT 8 68.8

5th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. IM Simagin, Vladimir MOSC 8 81.3
2. Antoshin, Vladimir RUS 7 78.6
3. Gufeld, Eduard UKR 8 56.3

6th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Shamkovich, Leonid RUS 6 8 75.0
2. Shianovsky, Vladislav UKR 4 7 57.1
2. Khasin, Abram MOSC 4 7 57.1

Boys' Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Blekhtsin, Igor SPET 8 81.3
1. Khodos, German RUS 8 81.3
3. Pavlenko, Oleg AZE 5 8 62.5

1st Women's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WIM Volpert, Larisa SPET 8 81.3
2. Malinova, Elena UKR 8 56.3
2. WIM Borisenko, Valentina RUS 8 56.3
2. WIM Bykova, Elisaveta MOSC 8 56.3
2. WIM Zvorykina, Kira BLR 8 56.3

2nd Women's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Dmitrieva, Flora SPET 7 8 87.5
2. Kure, Urve EST 8 68.8
3. Kakabadze, Eliso GEO 8 56.3

Girls' Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Gaprindashvili, Nona GEO 8 93.8
2. Kushnir, Alla MOSC 8 81.3
3. Rožlapa, Vija LAT 5 8 62.5


Interesting games


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