8th Soviet Team Chess Cup: Moscow 1974

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Basic data

8th Soviet Team Chess Cup - Кубок СССР
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: Upper league: 20th August - 2nd September 1974
First leagues: Spring 1974
City: Upper league: Moscow, Russian SFSR
First leagues: Vilnius (Lithuanian SSR) and Dushanbe (Tajik SSR)
Venue: Upper league: CSKA Weightlifting palace
(Дворец тяжёлой атлетики ЦСКА)
Head Secretary: Upper league: IA V. Dvorkovich (URS)
Chief Arbiter: Upper league: IA G. Goldberg (URS)
Teams participating: Upper league: 10
First leagues: 7 (3 and 4)
Players participating: Upper league: 100 (incl. 18 GMs, 8 IMs and 9 WIMs)
First leagues: N/A
Games played: Upper league: 405
First leagues: 54 (36 and 18)
Competition format: Upper league: Nine board round robin. Bottom three teams were relegated
First leagues: Six board round robin.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points
Time control: N/A
Websites: RusBase
Downloadable game file: 74sov_cup.zip (only ca. 25% games are in there)


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Best board results

1st Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Tāls, Mihails DAUG 9 72.2
2. IM Tseshkovsky, Vitaly TRUD 6 9 66.7
3. GM Geller, Efim SOVA 5 8 62.5

2nd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. GM Polugaevsky, Lev LOKO 7 9 77.8
2. GM Taimanov, Mark BURE 7 64.3
3. GM Savon, Vladimir SOVA 5 8 62.5

3rd Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. IM Romanishin, Oleg AVAN 6 9 66.7
2. Kirpičņikovs, Vladimirs DAUG 9 61.1
3. GM Balashov, Yury BURE 4 7 57.1

4th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. IM Podgaets, Mikhail SOVA 9 83.3
2. Gulko, Boris BURE 8 68.8
3. Bykov, Valery ZENI 7 64.3

5th Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Klovāns, Jānis SOVA 7 8 87.5
2. IM Razuvaev, Yury BURE 5 8 62.5
3. Kozlov, Vladimir TRUD 9 50.0
3. Kapengut, Albert SPAR 4 8 50.0

Boys' Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Ivanov, Alexander BURE 9 61.1
2. Zaid, Leonid DINA 9 61.1
3. Machulsky, Anatoly LOKO 5 9 55.6

1st Women's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Semenova, Lidia AVAN 6 9 66.7
2. WIM Kozlovskaya, Valentina TRUD 6 9 66.7
3. WIM Zatulovskaya, Tatiana DINA 6 9 66.7

2nd Women's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Mkrtchian, Alla SPAR 8 9 88.9
2. WIM Kislova, Alexandra TRUD 7 9 77.8
3. Shcherbina, L. SOVA 5 9 55.6

Girl's Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Ozola, Astra DAUG 8 9 88.9
2. Alekhina, Natalia BURE 6 9 66.7
3. Zaitseva, Ludmila TRUD 9 61.1

Reserve Board
no. name code pts gms %
1. Rashkovsky, Nukhim SPAR 5 7 71.4
2. Kogan, Boris AVAN 3 5 60.0
3. GM Gufeld, Eduard SOVA 6 58.3


Interesting games


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