Cheboksary Master-Qualification Tournament 1960

◇An asymmetric examination

The masters examined the candidates rather than competing among themselves. Six masters met every candidate twice; Vladimir Antoshin played each candidate once. Every candidate therefore played thirteen games, six examiners played fourteen, and Antoshin played seven. These reported game counts establish 91 played encounters.

The candidates and examiners had different competitive roles, and Antoshin had a shorter schedule. Their totals belong to separate groups; no overall individual ranking is implied. The contemporary account reports no default, withdrawal or subsequent title playoff.

◇Candidate standings

Khodos of Rostov-on-Don finished first with 7½/13, followed by Sergievsky of Cheboksary with 7, Boris Kalinkin of Chelyabinsk with 6½, Vasiliev of Khabarovsk with 6, Goltsov of Kaluga with 5, Krasnov of Omsk with 3 and Tylevich of Sverdlovsk with 2½. Kalinkin missed the seven-point norm by half a point.

◇The examiners

Evgeni Vasiukov scored 10½/14, Felix Ignatiev 10/14, Yuri Kotkov 8½/14, Zaitsev and Ilivitsky 7½/14 each, and Yudovich junior 5/14. Antoshin scored 4½/7 on his single encounter with each candidate.

◇The surviving record

Nineteen approved scores survive in the archive, including Sergievsky’s win over Kotkov, independently matched in full to the contemporary Moscow chess bulletin. The primary yearbook supplies all fourteen participants and their totals, but a complete individual-result matrix has not been obtained. The missing encounter results, colors and rounds are not reconstructed.

All native scores retain their year-only dates and unknown rounds. The other qualification tournaments reported in the same yearbook—Leningrad, Kyiv, Tbilisi and Ashkhabad—were separate competitions.