Moscow International 1982

Tal and Vaganian finish together in Moscow
May 1982 · Moscow, USSR
Mikhail Tal and Rafael Vaganian shared first with 9/13.

Mikhail Tal and Rafael Vaganian shared first with 9/13. Across 91 games, the 14-player single round robin completed every scheduled pairing; the archive reproduces the published final score vector in full.

Date
May 1982
Venue
Moscow, USSR
Format
Single Round Robin, 14 players
Result
Mikhail Tal and Rafael Vaganian shared first with 9/13.

The complete field

The tournament brought 14 players together in a single round robin. Every pair met once, producing 91 official played games — C(14,2) = 91.

The direct crosstable and the archived scores agree on all 14 final point totals, including the winning score.

The result

Mikhail Tal and Rafael Vaganian shared first with 9/13. Efim Geller and Rainer Knaak shared the next score on 8, one point behind the winners; Yuri Razuvaev and Valery Chekhov followed on 7½.

Tal was unbeaten at +5 =8 −0; Vaganian reached the same 9 points with +6 =6 −1. Their historical shared first is preserved even though their win totals differ.

What the archive preserves

All 91 scores are present and legal: 45 decisive games and 46 draws. The supplied round labels are retained, with source order preserving games that share a round. The computed standings reproduce the historical player count, game total, leaders, and points.

14
Players
91
Complete games
9/13
Shared winning score

Final Standings

9/13
Mikhail Tal and Rafael Vaganian shared first with 9/13.
# Player Score Record Games
=1 Vaganian, Rafael A 9/13 +6 -1 =6
=1 Tal, Mikhail 9/13 +5 -0 =8
3 Knaak, Rainer 8/13 +6 -3 =4
4 Geller, Efim P 8/13 +5 -2 =6
=5 Chekhov, Valery A /13 +4 -2 =7
=5 Razuvaev, Yuri S /13 +4 -2 =7
7 Meduna, Eduard /13 +4 -4 =5
8 Anikaev, Yuri N /13 +3 -3 =7
9 Zaitsev, Igor A /13 +3 -5 =5
10 Szekely, Peter /13 +0 -2 =11
=11 Unzicker, Wolfgang 5/13 +1 -4 =8
=11 Zeitlein, Michael 5/13 +1 -4 =8
13 Abramovic, Bosko /13 +2 -6 =5
14 Westerinen, Heikki MJ /13 +1 -7 =5

Cross Table

Rank Player 1234567891011121314
1 Vaganian, Rafael A ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1
2 Tal, Mikhail ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1
3 Knaak, Rainer 1 0 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1
4 Geller, Efim P ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½
5 Chekhov, Valery A 0 ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½
6 Razuvaev, Yuri S ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1
7 Meduna, Eduard 0 ½ 1 0 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0
8 Anikaev, Yuri N 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1
9 Zaitsev, Igor A ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 1 1
10 Szekely, Peter ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½
11 Unzicker, Wolfgang 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 0 ½
12 Zeitlein, Michael 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½
13 Abramovic, Bosko ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 1
14 Westerinen, Heikki MJ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0

Each cell shows the row player's per-game results against the column player (in round order). ● = same player.