2nd Soviet Women's Team Chess Championship: Azov 1991

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Information

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Basic data

2nd Soviet Women's Team Chess Championship
(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: 52 (incl. 4 WGMs and 16 WIMs)
Games played: Finals: 84
Preliminaries: 144
Competition format: Two stage four 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_tchw.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. WIM Sakhatova, Gulnara KAZ A 6 8 75.0
2. WIM Zayats, Elena BLR B 6 9 66.7
2. Aslanian, Ludmila ARM B 6 9 66.7

2nd Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. Florova, Olga SPET B 6½ 9 72.2
2. WIM Chelushkina, Irina UKR A 5½ 8 68.8
3. WIM Eidelson, Rakhil BLR B 6 9 66.7

3rd Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. WIM Fomina, Tatjana EST A 6½ 9 72.2
2. WGM Semenova, Lidia UKR A 5½ 8 68.8
3. Brandis, Irina MDA A 5 8 62.5

4th Board
no. name code fin. pts gms %
1. Tsõganova, Monika EST A 7½ 9 83.3
2. WIM Ruchieva, Natalia UKR A 5½ 8 68.8
2. Tazhieva, Lyazzat KAZ A 5½ 8 68.8

Interesting games


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