11th Allied Armies Chess Championship: Tbilisi 1986

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Basic data

11th Allied Armies Chess Championship (5th team event)
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 2nd - 12th April 1986
City: Tbilisi, Soviet Union (today's Georgia)
Venue: N/A
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: 5
Players participating: N/A (incl. 2 GMs and 2 IMs)
Games played: 80
Competition format: Four board double round robin.
Time control: 40 moves in 120 minutes, then each next 20 moves in 60 minutes
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Match points
Downloadable game file: 86armies.zip (only ca. 33% of games are available)


Final results

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no. team code 1 2 3 4 5 + = -
1. Soviet Union URS 4 2 3 4 26 7 1 0
2. Bulgaria BUL ½ 0 3 2 4 19 5 1 2
3. Hungary HUN 2 1 2 3 2 18½ 3 3 2
4. Poland POL ½ 1 ½ 1 2 2 10 0 2 6
5. Cuba CUB 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 2 1 1 6

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URS: GM Chekhov (6½/8), IM Vladimirov (6/6), Vyzmanavin (6/8), Yermolinsky (6/8), IM Klovans (1½/2)
BUL: GM Inkiov, GM Ermenkov, IM Grigorov, IM Danailov
HUN: GM Pinter, IM Horvath, IM Petran, IM Liptay
POL: IM J.Adamski (1½/8), Hass (0/5), Sapis (3½/8), Szypulski (3½/8), Łokasto (1½/3)
CUB: IM J.Hernandez, J.Gutierrez, Junco (...)



Tournament review

The same five team as in Sofia, 1984, arrived to the capital of Georgian SSR to compete in the fifth Allied Armies Team Championship (and 11th Allied Armies event overall). It was clear that USSR, Bulgaria and Hungary will vie for top positions while Poland and Cuba will struggle to avoid questionable honour of being the anchormen of the event.

USSR won in style taking all four individual board prizes. Bulgaria came second despite doing badly vs the Soviets (½-7½). Hungary scored respectable 3½-4½ vs the winners but lost 3-5 to Bulgaria and dropped a few points with Poland and Cuba. Poland came fourth although they were the team not to score a single match win.



Best board results

bd name code pts gms %
1. Chekhov, Valery URS 8 81.3
2. Vladimirov, Evgeny URS 6 6 100.0
3. Vyzmanavin, Alexei URS 6 8 75.0
4. Yermolinsky, Alexander URS 6 8 75.0


Interesting games

White lost the theoretically drawn ending.
Horváth, József (HUN) - Sapis, Witalis (POL) 0 - 1

It is not common to see pawn a7 to be focus point of the game.
Chekhov, Valery (URS) - Pintér, József (HUN) ½ - ½

18 h4! was key to successful finish.
Yermolinsky, Alexander (URS) - Danailov, Silvio (BUL) 1 - 0

A double-edged struggle full of tactical traps under mutual time pressure.
Vyzmanavin, Alexei (URS) - Szypulski, Andrzej (POL) 0 - 1