Chilean Championship 1961

Incomplete record. This archive holds 90 of the 91 games played; 1 is missing. The published fourteen-player results list records 91 ordinary results. Ninety scores survive in the approved archives; the round-12 Pilnik–Fernández win has no moves. No default notation was found; 91 played games is inferred from that complete result list.

Rodrigo Flores won the 1961 Chilean Championship with 10½ points from thirteen rounds. Herman Pilnik finished unbeaten on 10, and René Letelier took third with 9. Fourteen players contested a single round robin at the Club Universidad de Chile.

◇A strong national final

The championship opened at 7 p.m. on 19 June in the club’s rooms. The opening-day newspaper highlighted defending champion René Letelier, grandmaster Herman Pilnik, Rodrigo Flores and Julio Salas Romo.

◇The final order

Flores scored nine wins, three draws and one loss. Pilnik’s seven wins and six draws left him half a point behind. Eduardo Schroeder followed Letelier with 8½, and Carlos Jáuregui scored eight without a draw.

◇The surviving scores

Both approved archives preserve the same ninety scores. Pilnik’s round-12 win over Eduardo Fernández appears in the published result list, but its approved archive record has no moves. The list gives 91 ordinary results and contains no default notation; the total of 91 played games is inferred from that record. The available scores therefore do not produce the full final standings.