All-Union Grandmasters Blitz — Moscow 1971

Petrosian scored 14½/15 in the 1971 Moscow grandmasters blitz
31 March 1971 · Moscow, USSR
Petrosian 14½; Korchnoi 11½; Balashov 10½; Kotov, Tal and Kholmov 9½ (Karpov and Vasiukov are also reported in the tie for fourth).
Incomplete record·21 of 120 games archived
Event Index 21 GAMES

Incomplete record. This archive holds 21 of the 120 games played; 99 are missing.

Tigran Petrosian won the 1971 All-Union grandmasters' lightning tournament in Moscow with 14½ out of 15.

The tournament

Sixteen grandmasters, among them Petrosian, Tal, Korchnoi and the young Karpov, played a one-day lightning round robin in Moscow. Korchnoi was second with 11½ and Balashov third.

The surviving games

The archive holds 21 of the 120 games.

Result

14½/15
Petrosian 14½; Korchnoi 11½; Balashov 10½; Kotov, Tal and Kholmov 9½ (Karpov and Vasiukov are also reported in the tie for fourth).

The archive holds 21 of the 120 games of the sixteen-player round robin; 99 are absent from MasterDB, so no cross-table is computed.

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