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<div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Chess competition in the Soviet Union</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:4th_ussr_chess_championship_1925.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Photograph of the participants of the fourth USSR Chess Championship in 1925" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/4th_ussr_chess_championship_1925.JPG/410px-4th_ussr_chess_championship_1925.JPG" decoding="async" width="410" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/4th_ussr_chess_championship_1925.JPG/615px-4th_ussr_chess_championship_1925.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/4th_ussr_chess_championship_1925.JPG/820px-4th_ussr_chess_championship_1925.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3255" data-file-height="2181" /></a><figcaption>The participants of the fourth USSR Chess Championship in 1925.<br />Sitting (left to right): <a href="/wiki/Yakov_Vilner" title="Yakov Vilner">Vilner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grigory_Levenfish" title="Grigory Levenfish">Levenfish</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yakov_Rokhlin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yakov Rokhlin (page does not exist)">Rokhlin</a> (organizer), <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Gotthilf" title="Solomon Gotthilf">Gotthilf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ilya_Rabinovich" title="Ilya Rabinovich">I. Rabinovich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Efim_Bogolyubov" class="mw-redirect" title="Efim Bogolyubov">Bogolyubov</a> (winner), <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Ilyin-Genevsky" title="Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky">Ilyin-Genevsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fedor_Duz-Khotimirsky" title="Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky">Duz-Khotimirsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Romanovsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Romanovsky">Romanovsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Sergeyev_(chess_player)" title="Aleksandr Sergeyev (chess player)">Sergeyev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Nenarokov" title="Vladimir Nenarokov">Nenarokov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boris_Verlinsky" title="Boris Verlinsky">Verlinsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abram_Rabinovich" title="Abram Rabinovich">A. Rabinovich</a>. <br />Standing (left to right): <a href="/wiki/Sergey_von_Freymann" title="Sergey von Freymann">von Freymann</a>, <a href="/wiki/Veniamin_Sozin" title="Veniamin Sozin">Sozin</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Valerian_Eremeev&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Valerian Eremeev (page does not exist)">Eremeev</a> (organizer), <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Grigoriev" title="Nikolai Grigoriev">Grigoriev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Zubarev" title="Nikolai Zubarev">Zubarev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexey_Selezniev" title="Alexey Selezniev">Selezniev</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Anton_Kaspersky&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anton Kaspersky (page does not exist)">Kaspersky</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nikolay_Kutuzov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nikolay Kutuzov (page does not exist)">Kutuzov</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Boris_Weinstein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Boris Weinstein (page does not exist)">Weinstein</a> (organizer).</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>USSR Chess Championship</b> was played from 1920 to 1991. Organized by the <a href="/wiki/USSR_Chess_Federation" title="USSR Chess Federation">USSR Chess Federation</a>, it was the strongest national <a href="/wiki/Chess" title="Chess">chess</a> championship ever held, with eight <a href="/wiki/World_chess_championship" class="mw-redirect" title="World chess championship">world chess champions</a> and four world championship finalists among its winners. It was held as a <a href="/wiki/Round-robin_tournament" title="Round-robin tournament">round-robin tournament</a> with the exception of the 35th and 58th championships, which were of the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_system_tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss system tournament">Swiss system</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Most_wins">Most wins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USSR_Chess_Championship&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Most wins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Six titles: <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Botvinnik" title="Mikhail Botvinnik">Mikhail Botvinnik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tal" title="Mikhail Tal">Mikhail Tal</a></li> <li>Four titles: <a href="/wiki/Tigran_Petrosian" title="Tigran Petrosian">Tigran Petrosian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Korchnoi" title="Viktor Korchnoi">Viktor Korchnoi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Beliavsky" title="Alexander Beliavsky">Alexander Beliavsky</a></li> <li>Three titles: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Keres" title="Paul Keres">Paul Keres</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Stein" title="Leonid Stein">Leonid Stein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Karpov" title="Anatoly Karpov">Anatoly Karpov</a></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_winners">List of winners</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USSR_Chess_Championship&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: List of winners"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Edition</th> <th>Date</th> <th>Place</th> <th>Winner</th> <th>Score</th> <th width="700">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1920_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1920 USSR Chess Championship">1</a></b></td> <td>4–24 Oct 1920</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Alekhine" title="Alexander Alekhine">Alexander Alekhine</a></td> <td>12/15 (+9−0=6) </td> <td>Known as the All-Russian Chess Olympiad at the time, <br />this tournament was later recognized as the first USSR championship. </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1923_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1923 USSR Chess Championship">2</a></b></td> <td>8–24 Jul 1923</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Petrograd</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Peter_Romanovsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Romanovsky">Peter Romanovsky</a></td> <td>10/12 (+9−1=2) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1924_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1924 USSR Chess Championship">3</a></b></td> <td>23 Aug–15 Sep 1924</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Efim_Bogoljubov" class="mw-redirect" title="Efim Bogoljubov">Efim Bogoljubov</a></td> <td>15/17 (+13−0=4) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1925_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1925 USSR Chess Championship">4</a></b></td> <td>11 Aug–6 Sep 1925</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Leningrad</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Efim_Bogoljubov" class="mw-redirect" title="Efim Bogoljubov">Efim Bogoljubov</a></td> <td>14/19 (+11−2=6) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1927_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1927 USSR Chess Championship">5</a></b></td> <td>26 Sep–25 Oct 1927</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fedor_Bogatyrchuk" class="mw-redirect" title="Fedor Bogatyrchuk">Fedor Bogatyrchuk</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Peter_Romanovsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Romanovsky">Peter Romanovsky</a> </td> <td>14½/20 (+10−1=9)<br />14½/20 (+12−3=5) </td> <td>All of Bogatyrchuk's tournament results were erased from Soviet records <br />after he emigrated to Canada and was declared a nonperson. </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1929_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1929 USSR Chess Championship">6</a></b></td> <td>2–20 Sep 1929</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Odessa" class="mw-redirect" title="Odessa">Odessa</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boris_Verlinsky" title="Boris Verlinsky">Boris Verlinsky</a></td> <td>5½/8 (+4−1=3),<br />4/5 (+4−1=0),<br />and 3½/4 (+3−0=1) </td> <td>The tournament was conducted in three stages. </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1931_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1931 USSR Chess Championship">7</a></b></td> <td>10 Oct–11 Nov 1931</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Botvinnik" title="Mikhail Botvinnik">Mikhail Botvinnik</a></td> <td>13½/17 (+12−2=3) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1933_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1933 USSR Chess Championship">8</a></b></td> <td>16 Aug–9 Sep 1933</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Leningrad</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Botvinnik" title="Mikhail Botvinnik">Mikhail Botvinnik</a></td> <td>14/19 (+11−2=6) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1934/1935_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1934/1935 USSR Chess Championship">9</a></b></td> <td>7 Dec 1934–2 Jan 1935</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Leningrad</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grigory_Levenfish" title="Grigory Levenfish">Grigory Levenfish</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/Ilya_Rabinovich" title="Ilya Rabinovich">Ilya Rabinovich</a> </td> <td>12/19 (+8−3=8)<br />12/19 (+9−4=6) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1937_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1937 USSR Chess Championship">10</a></b></td> <td>12 Apr–14 May 1937</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grigory_Levenfish" title="Grigory Levenfish">Grigory Levenfish</a></td> <td>12½/19 (+9−3=7) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1939_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1939 USSR Chess Championship">11</a></b></td> <td>15 Apr–16 May 1939</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Leningrad</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Botvinnik" title="Mikhail Botvinnik">Mikhail Botvinnik</a></td> <td>12½/17 (+8−0=9) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1940_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1940 USSR Chess Championship">12</a></b></td> <td>5 Sep–3 Oct 1940</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Andor_Lilienthal" title="Andor Lilienthal">Andor Lilienthal</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Igor_Bondarevsky" title="Igor Bondarevsky">Igor Bondarevsky</a> </td> <td>13½/19 (+8−0=11)<br />13½/19 (+10−2=7) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Botvinnik" title="Mikhail Botvinnik">Mikhail Botvinnik</a> won the Absolute Championship,<br />23 Mar–29 Apr 1941, Leningrad/Moscow, 13½/20 (+9−2=9) </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1944_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1944 USSR Chess Championship">13</a></b></td> <td>21 May–17 Jun 1944</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Botvinnik" title="Mikhail Botvinnik">Mikhail Botvinnik</a></td> <td>12½/16 (+11−2=3) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1945_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1945 USSR Chess Championship">14</a></b></td> <td>1 Jun–3 Jul 1945</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Botvinnik" title="Mikhail Botvinnik">Mikhail Botvinnik</a></td> <td>15/17 (+13−0=4) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1947_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1947 USSR Chess Championship">15</a></b></td> <td>2 Feb–8 Mar 1947</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Leningrad</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_Keres" title="Paul Keres">Paul Keres</a></td> <td>14/19 (+10−1=8) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1948_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1948 USSR Chess Championship">16</a></b></td> <td>10 Nov–13 Dec 1948</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_Bronstein" title="David Bronstein">David Bronstein</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Kotov" title="Alexander Kotov">Alexander Kotov</a> </td> <td>12/18 (+7−1=10)<br />12/18 (+10−4=4) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1949_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1949 USSR Chess Championship">17</a></b></td> <td>16 Oct–20 Nov 1949</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vasily_Smyslov" title="Vasily Smyslov">Vasily Smyslov</a><br /><a href="/wiki/David_Bronstein" title="David Bronstein">David Bronstein</a> </td> <td>13/19 (+9−2=8)<br />13/19 (+8−1=10) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1950_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1950 USSR Chess Championship">18</a></b></td> <td>10 Nov–12 Dec 1950</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_Keres" title="Paul Keres">Paul Keres</a></td> <td>11½/17 (+8−2=7) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1951_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1951 USSR Chess Championship">19</a></b></td> <td>11 Nov–14 Dec 1951</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_Keres" title="Paul Keres">Paul Keres</a></td> <td>12/17 (+9−2=6) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1952_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1952 USSR Chess Championship">20</a></b></td> <td>29 Nov–29 Dec 1952</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Botvinnik" title="Mikhail Botvinnik">Mikhail Botvinnik</a></td> <td>13½/19 (+9−1=9) </td> <td>Botvinnik defeated <a href="/wiki/Mark_Taimanov" title="Mark Taimanov">Mark Taimanov</a> in a playoff +2−1=3.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1954_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1954 USSR Chess Championship">21</a></b></td> <td>7 Jan–7 Feb 1954</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiev">Kiev</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Averbakh" title="Yuri Averbakh">Yuri Averbakh</a></td> <td>14½/19 (+10−0=9) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1955_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1955 USSR Chess Championship">22</a></b></td> <td>11 Feb–15 Mar 1955</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Efim_Geller" title="Efim Geller">Efim Geller</a></td> <td>12/19 (+10−5=4) </td> <td>Geller defeated <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Smyslov" title="Vasily Smyslov">Vasily Smyslov</a> in a playoff +1=6.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1956_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1956 USSR Chess Championship">23</a></b></td> <td>10 Jan–15 Feb 1956</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Leningrad</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mark_Taimanov" title="Mark Taimanov">Mark Taimanov</a></td> <td>11½/17 (+8−2=7) </td> <td>Taimanov defeated <a href="/wiki/Boris_Spassky" title="Boris Spassky">Boris Spassky</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yuri_Averbakh" title="Yuri Averbakh">Yuri Averbakh</a> in a playoff. </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1957_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1957 USSR Chess Championship">24</a></b></td> <td>20 Jan–22 Feb 1957</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tal" title="Mikhail Tal">Mikhail Tal</a></td> <td>14/21 (+9−2=10) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1958_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1958 USSR Chess Championship">25</a></b></td> <td>12 Jan–14 Feb 1958</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Riga" title="Riga">Riga</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tal" title="Mikhail Tal">Mikhail Tal</a></td> <td>12½/18 (+10−3=5) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1959_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1959 USSR Chess Championship">26</a></b></td> <td>9 Jan–11 Feb 1959</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tigran_Petrosian" title="Tigran Petrosian">Tigran Petrosian</a></td> <td>13½/19 (+8−0=11) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1960_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1960 USSR Chess Championship">27</a></b></td> <td>26 Jan–26 Feb 1960</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Leningrad</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Korchnoi" title="Viktor Korchnoi">Viktor Korchnoi</a></td> <td>14/19 (+12−3=4) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1961_USSR_Chess_Championship_(28th)" title="1961 USSR Chess Championship (28th)">28</a></b></td> <td>11 Jan–11 Feb 1961</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tigran_Petrosian" title="Tigran Petrosian">Tigran Petrosian</a></td> <td>13½/19 (+9−1=9) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1961_USSR_Chess_Championship_(29th)" title="1961 USSR Chess Championship (29th)">29</a></b></td> <td>16 Nov–12 Dec 1961</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boris_Spassky" title="Boris Spassky">Boris Spassky</a></td> <td>14½/20 (+10−1=9) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1962_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1962 USSR Chess Championship">30</a></b></td> <td>21 Nov–20 Dec 1962</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Korchnoi" title="Viktor Korchnoi">Viktor Korchnoi</a></td> <td>14/19 (+10−1=8) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1963_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1963 USSR Chess Championship">31</a></b></td> <td>23 Nov–27 Dec 1963</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Leningrad</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Stein" title="Leonid Stein">Leonid Stein</a></td> <td>12/19 (+6−1=12) </td> <td>Stein defeated <a href="/wiki/Boris_Spassky" title="Boris Spassky">Boris Spassky</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ratmir_Kholmov" title="Ratmir Kholmov">Ratmir Kholmov</a> in a playoff. </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1964_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1964 USSR Chess Championship">32</a></b></td> <td>25 Dec 1964–27 Jan 1965</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiev">Kiev</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Korchnoi" title="Viktor Korchnoi">Viktor Korchnoi</a></td> <td>15/19 (+11−0=8) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1965_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1965 USSR Chess Championship">33</a></b></td> <td>21 Nov–24 Dec 1965</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tallinn" title="Tallinn">Tallinn</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Stein" title="Leonid Stein">Leonid Stein</a></td> <td>14/19 (+10−1=8) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1966_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1966 USSR Chess Championship">34</a></b></td> <td>28 Dec 1966 – 2 Feb 1967</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Stein" title="Leonid Stein">Leonid Stein</a></td> <td>13/20 (+8−2=10) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1967_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1967 USSR Chess Championship">35</a></b></td> <td>7–26 Dec 1967</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kharkiv" title="Kharkiv">Kharkiv</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lev_Polugaevsky" title="Lev Polugaevsky">Lev Polugaevsky</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tal" title="Mikhail Tal">Mikhail Tal</a></td> <td>10/13<br />10/13 </td> <td>The tournament was a 126-player Swiss. </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1968_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1968 USSR Chess Championship">36</a></b></td> <td>30 Dec 1968–1 Feb 1969</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alma-Ata" class="mw-redirect" title="Alma-Ata">Alma-Ata</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lev_Polugaevsky" title="Lev Polugaevsky">Lev Polugaevsky</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Zaitsev_(chess_player)" title="Alexander Zaitsev (chess player)">Alexander Zaitsev</a> </td> <td>12½/19 (+7−1=11)<br />12½/19 (+6=13) </td> <td>Polugaevsky defeated Zaitsev in a playoff +2−1=3.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1969_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1969 USSR Chess Championship">37</a></b></td> <td>6 Sep–12 Oct 1969</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tigran_Petrosian" title="Tigran Petrosian">Tigran Petrosian</a></td> <td>14/22 (+6−0=16) </td> <td>Petrosian defeated Polugaevsky in a playoff held in Feb 1970 by +2=3.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1970_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1970 USSR Chess Championship">38</a></b></td> <td>25 Nov–28 Dec 1970</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Riga" title="Riga">Riga</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Korchnoi" title="Viktor Korchnoi">Viktor Korchnoi</a></td> <td>16/21 (+12−1=8) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1971_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1971 USSR Chess Championship">39</a></b></td> <td>15 Sep–17 Oct 1971</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Leningrad</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Savon" title="Vladimir Savon">Vladimir Savon</a></td> <td>15/21 (+9−0=12) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1972_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1972 USSR Chess Championship">40</a></b></td> <td>16 Nov–19 Dec 1972</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tal" title="Mikhail Tal">Mikhail Tal</a></td> <td>15/21 (+9−0=12) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1973_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1973 USSR Chess Championship">41</a></b></td> <td>1–27 Oct 1973</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boris_Spassky" title="Boris Spassky">Boris Spassky</a></td> <td>11½/17 (+7−1=9) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1974_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1974 USSR Chess Championship">42</a></b></td> <td>30 Nov–23 Dec 1974</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Leningrad</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Beliavsky" title="Alexander Beliavsky">Alexander Beliavsky</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tal" title="Mikhail Tal">Mikhail Tal</a></td> <td>9½/15 (+6−2=7)<br />9½/15 (+6−2=7) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1975_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1975 USSR Chess Championship">43</a></b></td> <td>28 Nov–22 Dec 1975</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tigran_Petrosian" title="Tigran Petrosian">Tigran Petrosian</a></td> <td>10/15 (+6−1=8) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1976_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1976 USSR Chess Championship">44</a></b> </td> <td>26 Nov–24 Dec 1976</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Karpov" title="Anatoly Karpov">Anatoly Karpov</a></td> <td>12/17 (+8−1=8) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1977_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1977 USSR Chess Championship">45</a></b></td> <td>28 Nov–22 Dec 1977</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Leningrad</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boris_Gulko" title="Boris Gulko">Boris Gulko</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Iosif_Dorfman" class="mw-redirect" title="Iosif Dorfman">Iosif Dorfman</a></td> <td>9½/15 (+4−0=11)<br />9½/15 (+4−0=11) </td> <td>A playoff, held in 1978, was drawn +1−1=4.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1978_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1978 USSR Chess Championship">46</a></b></td> <td>1–28 Dec 1978</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tal" title="Mikhail Tal">Mikhail Tal</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Vitaly_Tseshkovsky" title="Vitaly Tseshkovsky">Vitaly Tseshkovsky</a> </td> <td>11/17 (+5−0=12)<br />11/17 (+6−1=10) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1979_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1979 USSR Chess Championship">47</a></b></td> <td>29 Nov–27 Dec 1979</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Minsk" title="Minsk">Minsk</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Efim_Geller" title="Efim Geller">Efim Geller</a></td> <td>11½/17 (+6−0=11) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1980_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1980 USSR Chess Championship">48</a></b></td> <td>25 Dec 1980–21 Jan 1981</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vilnius" title="Vilnius">Vilnius</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lev_Psakhis" title="Lev Psakhis">Lev Psakhis</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Beliavsky" title="Alexander Beliavsky">Alexander Beliavsky</a> </td> <td>10½/17 (+8−4=5)<br />10½/17 (+6−2=9) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1981_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1981 USSR Chess Championship">49</a></b></td> <td>27 Nov–22 Dec 1981</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bishkek" title="Bishkek">Frunze</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Garry_Kasparov" title="Garry Kasparov">Garry Kasparov</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lev_Psakhis" title="Lev Psakhis">Lev Psakhis</a> </td> <td>12½/17 (+10−2=5)<br />12½/17 (+9−1=7) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1983_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1983 USSR Chess Championship">50</a></b></td> <td>2–28 Apr 1983</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Karpov" title="Anatoly Karpov">Anatoly Karpov</a></td> <td>9½/15 (+5−1=9) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1984_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1984 USSR Chess Championship">51</a></b></td> <td>2–28 Apr 1984</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lviv" title="Lviv">Lviv</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Andrei_Sokolov" title="Andrei Sokolov">Andrei Sokolov</a></td> <td>12½/17 (+8−0=9) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1985_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1985 USSR Chess Championship">52</a></b></td> <td>22 Jan–19 Feb 1985</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Riga" title="Riga">Riga</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Gavrikov" title="Viktor Gavrikov">Viktor Gavrikov</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gurevich_(chess_player)" title="Mikhail Gurevich (chess player)">Mikhail Gurevich</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Chernin" title="Alexander Chernin">Alexander Chernin</a> </td> <td>11/19 (+4−1=14)<br />11/19 (+6−3=10)<br />11/19 (+5−2=12) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1986_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1986 USSR Chess Championship">53</a></b></td> <td>4–28 Feb 1986</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiev">Kiev</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vitaly_Tseshkovsky" title="Vitaly Tseshkovsky">Vitaly Tseshkovsky</a></td> <td>11/17 (+6−1=10) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1987_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1987 USSR Chess Championship">54</a></b></td> <td>4–29 Mar 1987</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Minsk" title="Minsk">Minsk</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Beliavsky" title="Alexander Beliavsky">Alexander Beliavsky</a></td> <td>11/17 (+7−2=8) </td> <td>Beliavsky defeated <a href="/wiki/Valery_Salov" title="Valery Salov">Valery Salov</a> in a playoff +2=2.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1988_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1988 USSR Chess Championship">55</a></b></td> <td>25 Jul–19 Aug 1988</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Karpov" title="Anatoly Karpov">Anatoly Karpov</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Garry_Kasparov" title="Garry Kasparov">Garry Kasparov</a> </td> <td>11½/17 (+6−0=11)<br />11½/17 (+6−0=11) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1989_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1989 USSR Chess Championship">56</a></b></td> <td>22 Sep–16 Oct 1989</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Odessa" class="mw-redirect" title="Odessa">Odessa</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rafael_Vaganian" title="Rafael Vaganian">Rafael Vaganian</a></td> <td>9/15 (+5−2=8) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1990_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1990 USSR Chess Championship">57</a></b></td> <td>18 Oct–3 Nov 1990</td> <td><a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">Leningrad</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Beliavsky" title="Alexander Beliavsky">Alexander Beliavsky</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Yudasin" title="Leonid Yudasin">Leonid Yudasin</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Evgeny_Bareev" title="Evgeny Bareev">Evgeny Bareev</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Alexey_Vyzmanavin" title="Alexey Vyzmanavin">Alexey Vyzmanavin</a> </td> <td>8½/13 (+5−1=7)<br />8½/13 (+4−0=9)<br />8½/13 (+6−2=5)<br />8½/13 (+5−1=7) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/1991_USSR_Chess_Championship" title="1991 USSR Chess Championship">58</a></b></td> <td>1–13 Nov 1991</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Artashes_Minasian" title="Artashes Minasian">Artashes Minasian</a></td> <td>8½/11 (+7−1=3) </td> <td>Minasian won this Swiss-style tournament on tiebreak over <a href="/wiki/Elmar_Magerramov" title="Elmar Magerramov">Elmar Magerramov</a>. </td></tr></tbody></table></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USSR_Chess_Championship_1962_stamp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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href="/wiki/Women%27s_Soviet_Chess_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's Soviet Chess Championship">Women's Soviet Chess Championship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Chess_Championship" title="Russian Chess Championship">Russian Chess Championship</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USSR_Chess_Championship&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Mark Taimanov, Bernard Cafferty, Soviet Championships, London, Everyman Chess, 1998 (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2012-05-26</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=USSR+Championship+1987&rft.pub=Chessgames.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chessgames.com%2Fperl%2Fchesscollection%3Fcid%3D1016747&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUSSR+Chess+Championship" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USSR_Chess_Championship&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSoltis1999" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Soltis" title="Andrew Soltis">Soltis, Andrew</a> (1999). <i>Soviet Chess 1917-1991</i>. McFarland & Company. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7864-0676-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-7864-0676-3"><bdi>0-7864-0676-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Soviet+Chess+1917-1991&rft.pub=McFarland+%26+Company&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=0-7864-0676-3&rft.aulast=Soltis&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUSSR+Chess+Championship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080128115927/http://members.aol.com/graemecree/chesschamps/ussr/index.htm">The Soviet Chess Championship 1920-1991</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080517022544/http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/index.html">RUSBASE (part V) 1919-1937,1991-1994</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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title="Kenyan Chess Championship">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosovan_Chess_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="Kosovan Chess Championship">Kosovo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latvian_Chess_Championship" title="Latvian Chess Championship">Latvia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebanese_Chess_Championship" title="Lebanese Chess Championship">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_Chess_Championship" title="Lithuanian Chess Championship">Lithuania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_Chess_Championship" title="Luxembourg Chess Championship">Luxembourg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macedonian_Chess_Championship" title="Macedonian Chess Championship">Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malagasy_Chess_Championship" title="Malagasy Chess Championship">Madagascar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysian_Chess_Championship" title="Malaysian Chess Championship">Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maltese_Chess_Championship" title="Maltese Chess Championship">Malta</a></li> <li><a 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