19th Soviet Team Chess Championship: Azov 1991

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Information

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Basic data

19th Soviet Team Chess Championship
part of 10th Soviet Spartakiad of Nations
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 1991
City: Azov, Soviet Union
Venue: N/A
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: 13 (With just months before final dissolution of the Soviet Union three Baltic republics and Georgia unilaterally declared independence and subsequently ignored all-Soviet events.)
Players participating: 78 (incl. 8 GMs and 18 IMs)
Games played: Finals: 126
Preliminaries: 216
Competition format: Two stage six board round robin.
All the teams were split into two preliminary groups, then top three from each group qualified to the championship final, while the rest were put in the consolation group. Results from preliminaries were carried over to the finals.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Match points
Time control: 40 moves in 2 hours, then 20 moves in 1 hour, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game
Official logo: AZOV 1991
Websites: RusBase
Downloadable game file: 91sov_team.zip


Tournament review

This was the very last Soviet Spartakiad and one of last Soviet sport events ever played sine USSR was dissolved in December 1991.



Best board results

1st Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. GM Lputian, Smbat ARM A 9 72.2
2. GM Beliavsky, Alexander UKR A 8 68.8
3. Annageldiev, Orazly TKM B 9 61.1

2nd Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. Guseinov, Aidyn AZE B 8 9 88.9
2. GM Eingorn, Vyacheslav UKR A 7 8 87.5
3. IM Dydyshko, Viacheslav BLR A 8 56.3

3rd Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. Nenashev, Alexander UZB A 8 81.3
2. Agrest, Evgeny SPET B 7 9 77.8
3. GM Lerner, Konstantin UKR A 8 68.8

4th Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. IM Anastasian, Ashot ARM A 7 9 77.8
2. IM Zagrebelny, Sergei UZB A 8 68.8
2. IM Neverov, Valeriy UKR A 8 68.8

5th Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. Moldobaev, Emelbek KGZ B 6 9 66.7
2. IM Saltaev, Mikhail UZB A 5 8 62.5
3. Khuseinov, A. TJK B 9 61.1
3. Nikolenko, Oleg MOSC A 9 61.1

6th Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. Maximenko, Andrei UKR A 7 8 87.5
2. Rublevsky, Sergei RUS A 7 9 77.8
3. Kotsur, Pavel KAZ B 5 9 55.6
3. Verdikhanov, Vladislav AZE B 5 9 55.6


Interesting games


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