6th Soviet Team Chess Cup: Rīga 1968

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Basic data

6th Soviet Team Chess Cup
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: Upper group: 17th - 30th December 1968
Lower group: 1968
City: Upper group: Rīga, Latvian SSR
Lower group: Erevan, Armenian SSR
Venue: Upper group: Trade union palace of culture
(Дом культуры профсоюзов)
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: Upper group: 12 (incl. 9 teams from previous edition, two promoted teams and Dinamo)
Lower group: 6
Players participating: Upper group: 131 (incl. 16 GMs, 6 IMs and 9 WIMs)
Lower group: N/A
Games played: Upper group: 660
Lower group: 150
Competition format: Two group ten board round robin.
Twelve teams participated in the upper group (league), while the remaining six competed in the lower group. The results (promotion/relegation) had no real impact on the following championship since the system of play was changed.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. (?)Match points
Time control: N/A
Website: RusBase
Downloadable game file: 68sov_cup.zip


Tournament review

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Best board results

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Stein, Leonid AVAN 10 65.0
2. GM Polugaevsky, Lev BURE 7 11 63.6
3. GM Geller, Efim SOVA 7 11 63.6

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Suetin, Alexander SPAR 10 75.0
2. GM Taimanov, Mark BURE 8 11 72.7
3. Klovāns, Jānis DAUG 7 11 63.6

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Boleslavsky, Isaak SPAR 11 77.3
2. GM Liberzon, Vladimir SOVA 7 10 70.0
3. GM Smyslov, Vassily BURE 4 6 66.7

4th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Lein, Anatoly SOVA 9 83.3
2. Kimmelfeld, Rudolf TRUD 6 9 66.7
3. Vooremaa, Andres KALE 7 11 63.6

5th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Kapengut, Albert BURE 8 68.8
2. IM Lutikov, Anatoly SOVA 6 9 66.7
2. Shianovsky, Vladislav AVAN 6 9 66.7

1st Boys' Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Karpov, Anatoly SOVA 10 11 90.9
2. Mikliaev, Ilya BURE 9 11 81.8
3. Popov, Nikolai MOLD 7 11 63.6
3. Tsikhelashvili, Giorgi DINA 7 11 63.6

2nd Boys' Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Kupreichik, Viktor BURE 9 11 81.8
2. Fedorov, Vladislav TRUD 11 77.3
3. Beliavsky, Alexander AVAN 11 68.2

1st Women's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. WIM Gaprindashvili, Nona BURE 11 77.3
2. WIM Andreeva, Olga AVAN 7 11 63.6
3. WIM Borisenko, Valentina LOKO 7 11 63.6

2nd Women's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Skegina, Klara SOVA 7 11 63.6
2. Medianikova, Nina LOKO 7 11 63.6
2. WIM Zatulovskaya, Tatiana BURE 7 11 63.6

Girls' Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Lemachko, Tatiana BURE 11 68.2
2. Gordon, N. MOLD 7 11 63.6
2. Shul, Marta AVAN 7 11 63.6


Interesting games


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