1937 USSR Chess Championship

Soviet chess tournament 1937 USSR Chess Championship Tbilisi Grigory Levenfish 1934/1935 USSR Chess Championship 1939 USSR Chess Championship thumb | right | alt=Grigory Levenfish | Grigory Levenfish The 1937 USSR Chess Championship was the 10th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 12 April to 14 May 1937 in Tbilisi. The tournament was won by Grigory Levenfish. Qualification was by way of the championships of Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, as well as various other events. In October and November 1937, Botvnnik and Levenfish played a match for the Soviet title, which ended in a draw (+5 -5 =3). So Levenfish kept the title.Cafferty, Bernard. (2016). The Soviet Championships. Londres: Everyman Chess. p. 41 Table and results + 1937 USSR Chess Championship Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Total1URS Grigory Levenfish - 0 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½12½2URS Viacheslav Ragozin 1 - ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ 1 1 1123URS Alexander Konstantinopolsky ½ ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½124URS Vladimir Makogonov 0 ½ ½ - 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 0 0 0 ½ 1 111½5URS Sergey Belavenets 1 ½ ½ 0 - ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 1116URS Victor Goglidze 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ - ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1117URS Georgy Lisitsin 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ - ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1118URS Vsevolod Rauzer 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 ½ - ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 ½10½9URS Mikhail Yudovich ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ - 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½1010URS Igor Bondarevsky ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 - ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½9½11URS Ilya Rabinovich ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ - ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 19½12URS Vladimir Alatortsev 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 1 ½ - ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ 1 19½13URS Ilya Kan 1 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ - ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½914URS Andor Lilienthal ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ - ½ 1 0 1 ½ ½8½15URS Vasily Panov 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 ½ - 1 0 ½ 0 1816URS Alexander Budo ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 - 1 0 ½ ½7½17URS Vitaly Chekhover 0 ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 0 - 0 ½ 17½18URS Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 - ½ ½7½19URS Genrikh Kasparian 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ - ½720URS Archil Ebralidze ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ -5 References Chess Soviet Union Category:USSR Chess Championships Category:1937 in chess Chess