47th USSR Championships 1979 Unknown - 1980

70 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. The 47th Soviet Chess Championship was a category XII event held in the city of Minsk from November 29th to December 27th, 1979. Eighteen of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and masters participated in the round robin tournament, including (in order of ELO): Mikhail Tal (2615), Yuri Balashov (2600), Alexander Beliavsky (2595), Rafael Vaganian (2570), Oleg Romanishin (2560), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (2560), Efim Geller (2550), Garry Kasparov (2545), Evgeni Sveshnikov (2545), Viktor Kupreichik (2540), Tamas Georgadze (2535), Sergey Makarichev (2500), Nukhim Rashkovsky (2500), Sergey Dolmatov (2495), Artur Yusupov (2490), Konstantin Lerner (2475), Yuri Razuvaev (2470), and Yuri Anikaev (2455). Geller, who had last won the USSR championship in 1955, finished clear first with six wins and eleven draws. He set a record for the longest number of years between winning Soviet crowns… Leer más

Chess Player, 1980. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:0906042321