USSR Chess Championship

This list counts the USSR champion in chess. The championship was played in 1920 before the official founding of the Soviet Union and was considered a first All- Russian Olympiad, but was later counted as the first USSR championship. The last championship was held in 1991.

Discharge form

Almost all the championships were conducted as round-robin tournament ( round robin ). There were three exceptions:

Survey

Statistics

  • Most titles won Mikhail Botvinnik and Mikhail Tal, namely six.
  • Efim Bogolyubov participated twice and won every time.
  • With a total of 430 games Mark Taimanov sat most on board.
  • Vitaly Zeschkowski won twice. Every time he finished last in the subsequent championship.
Moscow 1923 1924 Efim Bogoljubov 1925 1927 1929 1931 1933 1934 1937 1939 1940 Andor Lilienthal 1944 1945 1947 Paul Keres 1948 David Bronstein 1949 1950 1951 1952 1954 Yuri Averbakh 1955 Efim Geller 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 Boris Spassky 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 Almaty 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 Alexander Beliavsky 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 Bishkek 1983 1984 Andrei Sokolov 1985 Mikhail Gurevich (chess player) 1986 1987 1988 1989 Rafael Vaganian 1990 Artashes Minasian Alexey Vyzmanavin USSR Women's Chess Championship
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