Moscow Zonal 1964

Spassky wins a seven-player Soviet zonal after a difficult start
1964 · Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Spassky won with 7/12
Event Index 42 GAMES

Boris Spassky won the 1964 Moscow Zonal with 7/12. The compact seven-player double round robin preserves all 42 games from the event that sent him forward to the Amsterdam Interzonal.

A tournament of seven

Seven players met twice each across 14 scheduled rounds, with one bye in every round. The 42 official played games are all present, and each pairing appears exactly twice.

The Soviet zonal was a qualifying event for the 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal. Spassky's victory kept alive the campaign that would take him to his first World Championship match.

Spassky recovers

Spassky opened with a draw and two losses but recovered to finish on 7, scoring four wins, six draws, and two defeats overall. David Bronstein and Leonid Stein shared the next score on 6½, with Ratmir Kholmov on 6.

The full crosstable published by OlimpBase agrees with every point total and with Spassky's one-half-point margin.

The games

There were 17 decisive games and 25 draws. The standings give Spassky first and Bronstein and Stein tied behind him.

Final standings

7/12
Spassky won with 7/12
# Player Score Record
1 Spassky, Boris Vasilievich 7/12 +4 -2 =6 games
=2 Bronstein, David Ionovich 6½/12 +2 -1 =9 games
=2 Stein, Leonid 6½/12 +2 -1 =9 games
4 Kholmov, Ratmir D 6/12 +2 -2 =8 games
=5 Korchnoi, Viktor Lvovich 5½/12 +3 -4 =5 games
=5 Suetin, Alexey S 5½/12 +2 -3 =7 games
7 Geller, Efim P 5/12 +2 -4 =6 games

Cross Table

Player 1234567
1 Spassky, Boris Vasilievich ½½ ½½ 01 ½1 1½ 01
2 Bronstein, David Ionovich ½½ ½½ ½½ 10 1½ ½½
3 Stein, Leonid ½½ ½½ ½½ ½1 ½1 0½
4 Kholmov, Ratmir D 10 ½½ ½½ 1½ 0½ ½½
5 Korchnoi, Viktor Lvovich ½0 01 ½0 0½ ½½ 11
6 Suetin, Alexey S 0½ 0½ ½0 1½ ½½ 1½
7 Geller, Efim P 10 ½½ 1½ ½½ 00 0½

Each cell shows the row player's recorded results against the column player. ● = same player.

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