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Mark Taimanov, Bernard Cafferty, Soviet Championships, London, Everyman Chess, 1998 (
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and four world championship finalists among its winners. It was held as a
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Petrosian defeated Polugaevsky in a playoff held in Feb 1970 by +2=3.
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this tournament was later recognized as the first USSR championship.
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The participants of the fourth USSR Chess Championship in 1925.
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A Soviet stamp dedicated to the 1962 USSR Chess Championship
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after he emigrated to Canada and was declared a nonperson.
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Minasian won this Swiss-style tournament on tiebreak over
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Known as the All-Russian Chess Olympiad at the time,
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Index

Photograph of the participants of the fourth USSR Chess Championship in 1925
Vilner
Levenfish
Rokhlin
Gotthilf
I. Rabinovich
Bogolyubov
Ilyin-Genevsky
Duz-Khotimirsky
Romanovsky
Sergeyev
Nenarokov
Verlinsky
A. Rabinovich
von Freymann
Sozin
Eremeev
Grigoriev
Zubarev
Selezniev
Kaspersky
Kutuzov
Weinstein
USSR Chess Federation
chess
world chess champions
round-robin tournament
Swiss system
Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Tal

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