1944 USSR Chess Championship

Soviet chess tournament 13th Soviet Chess Championship (1944) Moscow 21 May – 17 June 1944 Mikhail Botvinnik 1940 USSR Chess Championship 1945 USSR Chess Championship The 1944 Soviet Chess Championship was the 13th edition of USSR Chess Championship, and the first to be held since 1940. The tournament was won by Mikhail Botvinnik.Cafferty, Bernard. (2016). The Soviet Championships. Londres: Everyman Chess. p. 53 Tables and results + 13th Soviet Chess Championship (1944) Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Total1URS Mikhail Botvinnik - 1 1 1 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 0 1 112½2URS Vassily Smyslov 0 - 0 ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 110½3URS Isaac Boleslavsky 0 1 - ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½104URS Salo Flohr 0 ½ ½ - ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 19½5URS Vladas Mikenas 0 0 ½ ½ - ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 0 1 0 196URS Vladimir Makogonov ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ - 0 0 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 197URS Alexander Tolush 1 0 0 0 0 1 - ½ 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 18½8URS Andor Lilienthal 0 1 0 ½ 1 1 ½ - ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½7½9URS Alexey Sokolsky ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 0 0 ½ - 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 07½10URS Gavriil Veresov 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 - 1 0 0 0 1 1 ½7½11URS Viacheslav Ragozin ½ 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 - 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 1712URS Alexander Kotov 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 - 0 ½ 1 1 0713URS Abram Khavin 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 - 1 1 1 ½714URS Georgy Lisitsin 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 0 - ½ 1 1715URS David Bronstein 1 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 ½ - 0 ½6½16URS Vladimir Alatortsev 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 - 15½17URS Grigory Ravinsky 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 -4½ References Chess Soviet Union Category:USSR Chess Championships Category:1944 in chess Chess