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1959 USSR Chess Championship
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26th Soviet Chess Championship (1959) Tbilisi Tigran Petrosian 1958 USSR Chess Championship 1960 USSR Chess Championship
The 1959 Soviet Chess Championship was the 26th edition of USSR Chess Championship which was held from 9 January to 11 February 1959 in Tbilisi. The tournament was won by Tigran Petrosian. The final were preceded by semifinals events at Baku, Moscow, Rostov and Tashkent.Cafferty, Bernard 2016 The Soviet Championships London Everyman Chess 99http://worldcat.org/oclc/41940198 Soviet chess, 1917-1991 Soltis, Andy. 2000 McFarland & Co 0-7864-0676-3 41940198
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Table and results
+ 26th Soviet Chess Championship (1959) Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Total1URS Tigran Petrosian
- ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½13½2URS Mikhail Tal
½ - ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 0 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 112½3URS Boris Spassky
½ ½ - ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 112½4URS Ratmir Kholmov
½ ½ ½ - 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½125URS Mark Taimanov
½ ½ 1 0 - 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½126URS Lev Polugaevsky
½ 0 1 ½ 1 - 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1117URS Paul Keres
½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 - ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½10½8URS Yuri Averbakh
0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ - 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½10½9URS Viktor Korchnoi
½ 1 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 - 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½1010URS Anatoly Lutikov
0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 - 1 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½9½11URS Efim Geller
½ 0 0 0 0 1 1 ½ 0 0 - ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 19½12URS Eduard Gufeld
0 1 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½913URS David Bronstein
½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ - 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1914URS Yacov Yuchtman
0 1 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 - ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 18½15URS Semyon Furman
0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ - ½ 0 ½ 1 1816URS Bukhuti Gurgenidze
½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ - ½ ½ 0 ½717URS Evgeni Vasiukov
0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ - ½ 1 ½718URS Nikolai Krogius
0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ - ½ ½6½19URS Rashid Nezhmetdinov
0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 0 ½ - 1620URS Alexander Nikitin
½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 -5½
References
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