Budapest–Leningrad City Match — 1959
Leningrad defeated Budapest 26½–17½ across four eleven-board rounds. The exact archive is bounded to the queued Mega2024 identity and reconciled against the published historical match ledger.
◈The historical match
Played at Budapest, Hungary on 11–18 March 1959, the contest used this format: four eleven-board rounds; aggregate board score. Leningrad defeated Budapest 26½–17½ across four eleven-board rounds.
All 44 official boards are present under the exact row; no other Budapest or Leningrad match is included.
◈The surviving games
All 44 official boards are preserved as standard replayable Mega2024 games.
Every included record has a unique Mega2024 SourceGameId, a unique replayable mainline and no PGN parse error. Adjacent event labels and unqueued identities are excluded.
◈An honest team view
The official player ledger maps every archived participant to one city, and the computed totals reproduce the published result; a checked roster grid is therefore proposed.
The official board score remains visible even where the public archive covers only part of the historical ledger, so missing games cannot silently distort the displayed result.
◈Final Standings
The archive contains 44 of 44 official played boards. The complete ledger and checked roster reproduce the official score, so the computed two-team grid is safe. All 44 official boards are present under the exact row; no other Budapest or Leningrad match is included.
| # | Team | Points | MP | Match record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leningrad | 26½ | 6 | +3 =0 -1 |
| 2 | Budapest | 17½ | 2 | +1 =0 -3 |
Cross Table
| Rank | Team | 1 | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leningrad | 26½ | |
| 2 | Budapest | 17½ |
Each cell shows the row team's board (game) points in its match against the column team, out of the boards played. ● = same team. Ranking is by total board points; match points (2 for a match win, 1 for a draw) are the secondary column.