| 5th Soviet Team Chess Cup: Moscow 1966 |
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| 5th Soviet Team Chess Cup (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | Upper group: 24th September - 5th October 1966 Lower group: 23rd - 30th September 1966 |
| City: | Upper group: Moscow, Russian SFSR Lower group: Baku, Azerbaijan SSR |
| Venue: | N/A |
| Tournament Director: | N/A |
| Chief Arbiter: | N/A |
| Teams participating: | Upper group: 11 Lower group: 6 |
| Players participating: | Upper group: 144 (incl. 20 GMs, 7 IMs and 9 WIMs) Lower group: N/A |
| Games played: | Upper group: 660 Lower group: 180 |
| Competition format: | Two group twelve board round robin. Eleven teams (criterion unknown) participated in the final group, while the remaining six competed in the lower group. Top two teams from the lower group were promoted while bottom two from the upper group were relegated. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points |
| Time control: | N/A |
| Websites: | RusBase |
| Downloadable game file: | 66sov_cup.zip (only 266 games are available) |
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| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Botvinnik, Mikhail | TRUD | 6 | 9 | 66.7 |
| 2. | GM Geller, Efim | SOVA | 6½ | 10 | 65.0 |
| 3. | GM Petrosian, Tigran | SPAR | 6 | 10 | 60.0 |
| 3. | GM Tāls, Mihails | DAUG | 6 | 10 | 60.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Korchnoi, Viktor | TRUD | 7½ | 10 | 75.0 |
| 2. | GM Vasiukov, Evgeny | SOVA | 7 | 10 | 70.0 |
| 3. | GM Polugaevsky, Lev | BURE | 6½ | 10 | 65.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | IM Gufeld, Eduard | SOVA | 8 | 10 | 80.0 |
| 2. | GM Kholmov, Ratmir | SPAR | 8 | 10 | 80.0 |
| 3. | GM Taimanov, Mark | BURE | 5½ | 8 | 68.8 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Liberzon, Vladimir | SOVA | 7 | 10 | 70.0 |
| 2. | GM Krogius, Nikolai | TRUD | 5 | 8 | 62.5 |
| 3. | GM Boleslavsky, Isaak | BURE | 4 | 7 | 57.1 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Zaitsev, Igor | LOKO | 7½ | 10 | 75.0 |
| 2. | Nikitin, Alexander | BURE | 7 | 10 | 70.0 |
| 3. | Zheliandinov, Viktor | SOVA | 6 | 9 | 66.7 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Yukhtman, Yakov | SPAR | 8 | 10 | 80.0 |
| 2. | IM Osnos, Viacheslav | TRUD | 6 | 9 | 66.7 |
| 3. | Tseshkovsky, Vitaly | BURE | 5 | 8 | 62.5 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Vītoliņš, Alvis | SOVA | 7 | 10 | 70.0 |
| 2. | Tukmakov, Vladimir | BURE | 6½ | 10 | 65.0 |
| 3. | Balashov, Yury | TRUD | 6 | 10 | 60.0 |
| 3. | Manin, V. | MEKH | 6 | 10 | 60.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Timoschenko, Gennady | TRUD | 8 | 10 | 80.0 |
| 2. | Dvoretsky, Mark | SPAR | 7 | 10 | 70.0 |
| 3. | Rashkovsky, Nukhim | BURE | 6½ | 10 | 65.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Kosikov, Alexei | AVAN | 9 | 10 | 90.0 |
| 2. | Shvarts, Alexander | SPAR | 8 | 10 | 80.0 |
| 3. | Bilunov, Boris | SOVA | 7 | 10 | 70.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WIM Borisenko, Valentina | LOKO | 7 | 10 | 70.0 |
| 2. | Rubtsova, Elena | SPAR | 6½ | 10 | 65.0 |
| 3. | WIM Kushnir, Alla | TRUD | 6½ | 10 | 65.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WIM Volpert, Larisa | TRUD | 7½ | 8 | 93.8 |
| 2. | Skegina, Klara | SOVA | 7 | 10 | 70.0 |
| 3. | Postnikova, Ekaterina | BURE | 4½ | 7 | 64.3 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | WIM Kislova, Alexandra | TRUD | 8 | 10 | 80.0 |
| 2. | Kakhabrishvili, Tsitsino | BURE | 6½ | 10 | 65.0 |
| 3. | Vapnichnaya, Raisa | SPAR | 6 | 10 | 60.0 |