7th Viktor Goglidze Memorial — Tbilisi 1986

Azmaiparashvili and Tal share first in Tbilisi
17 November–8 December 1986 · Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Zurab Azmaiparashvili and Mikhail Tal shared first with 10/14, half a point ahead of Oleg Romanishin and Boris Kantsler. The archive holds 103 of 105 games; two wins over Bukhuti Gurgenidze are absent from Mega2024.

Zurab Azmaiparashvili and Mikhail Tal shared first in the seventh Viktor Goglidze Memorial with 10/14 each. Fifteen players competed in Tbilisi. This archive holds 103 of the 105 games played.

Two unbeaten leaders

Azmaiparashvili and Tal each won six games and drew eight. Oleg Romanishin and Boris Kantsler finished half a point behind on 9½; Romanishin also went unbeaten.

The event was the seventh Tbilisi memorial honoring Georgian master and chess organizer Viktor Goglidze.

Two scores absent from Mega2024

OlimpBase records all 105 round-robin results. Each of the 103 available Mega2024 games agrees by players, colors and result. The two missing scores are Tal–Gurgenidze in round six and Malaniuk–Gurgenidze in round eight, both White wins. No matching game appears under another 1986 MasterDB event label.

Tal’s official 10/14 and Vladimir Malaniuk’s 8/14 each include one of those wins. Gurgenidze’s official 3/14 includes both losses. The missing games have no replay pages here.

Final standings

10/14
Zurab Azmaiparashvili and Mikhail Tal shared first with 10/14, half a point ahead of Oleg Romanishin and Boris Kantsler. The archive holds 103 of 105 games; two wins over Bukhuti Gurgenidze are absent from Mega2024.
# Player Score Record Games
=1 Azmaiparashvili, Zurab 10/14 +6 -0 =8
=1 Tal, Mikhail 10/14 +6 -0 =8
=3 Romanishin, Oleg M 9½/14 +5 -0 =9
=3 Kantsler, Boris 9½/14 +6 -1 =7
5 Ubilava, Elizbar 9/14 +4 -0 =10
=6 Cvitan, Ognjen 8/14 +2 -0 =12
=6 Malaniuk, Vladimir P 8/14 +4 -2 =8
=8 Kaidanov, Gregory S 7½/14 +3 -2 =9
=8 Zaichik, Gennadi 7½/14 +4 -3 =7
=10 Arkhipov, Sergey 6/14 +2 -4 =8
=10 Foisor, Ovidiu Doru 6/14 +3 -5 =6
12 Karolyi, Tibor Jr 5½/14 +1 -4 =9
13 McDonald, Neil R 4/14 +1 -7 =6
14 Gurgenidze, Bukhuti 3/14 +2 -10 =2
15 Pekarek, Ales 1½/14 +0 -11 =3

Cross Table

Rank Player 123456789101112131415
1 Azmaiparashvili, Zurab ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1
2 Tal, Mikhail ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 · 1
3 Romanishin, Oleg M ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1
4 Kantsler, Boris 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1
5 Ubilava, Elizbar ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½
6 Cvitan, Ognjen ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1
7 Malaniuk, Vladimir P ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 · 1
8 Kaidanov, Gregory S 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1
9 Zaichik, Gennadi 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1
10 Arkhipov, Sergey ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1
11 Foisor, Ovidiu Doru ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1
12 Karolyi, Tibor Jr ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½
13 McDonald, Neil R 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1
14 Gurgenidze, Bukhuti 0 · 0 0 0 ½ · 0 0 0 0 1 1 ½
15 Pekarek, Ales 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½

Each cell shows the row player's recorded results against the column player. ● = same player. · = game played but lost (not preserved in our source).