7th Ivan Parčetić Memorial — Sombor 1976

Pal Benko, Vlatko Kovačević and Vlastimil Jansa shared first with 9 points from 13 rounds at the seventh Ivan Parčetić Memorial. Román Hernández finished one point behind them.

◇A three-way tie

The local newspaper’s final report identifies Benko, Kovačević and Jansa as joint leaders on 9 points. Hernández took fourth with 8; Milorad Knežević and Jan Plachetka shared fifth on 7½; Péter Székely and Kim Commons followed on 7.

The remaining totals were Janez Barle 6½, Mato Damjanović 6, Zdenko Krnić 4½, Momir Trifunov 4, Franja Begovac 3½ and Ljubomir Mašić 2½. The report describes the two-week tournament in Sombor and notes that the contest for first place remained open until the last round.

◇The complete result record

The archive represents all 91 pairings of the fourteen-player single round robin. Every native result and round agrees with the full published secondary ledger. All fourteen final totals and all seven last-round results also agree with the contemporary newspaper report. No concrete default, withdrawal, annulment or additional playoff is identified.

The 91-game census follows from this full ordinary-results and positive-score reconciliation; an original full reciprocal table or an explicit primary prose count of played and defaulted games was not obtained. The earlier 10 December newspaper report prints standings before the final round, rather than the final table.

◇Original scores and dates

The retained native dates run from 24 November through 8 December 1976, with seven games in each of thirteen rounds. The contemporary final report independently describes a two-week event; it does not supply both precise endpoints. Original dates, rounds, names, results and moves remain unchanged.

Hernández–Székely survives here as an 11-ply drawn score from the final round. The original final report confirms the draw, but does not print its moves. The native score is retained without asserting that the full historical game ended at that recorded endpoint.