Incomplete record. This archive holds 32 of the 148 games played; 116 are missing. The full reciprocal matrix and explicit historical count establish 148 played games plus five unplayed Urzică defaults. After PostgreSQL and bounded approved-source checks, 32 final scores are available and 116 played pairings remain missing.
Eighteen players contested the final of the 41st Romanian men’s championship at Sibiu. Florin Gheorghiu scored 12/17, finishing two points ahead of Theodor Ghitescu, Mihail Ghinda and Emil Ungureanu. It was his eighth national title.
The championship final
The field combined eight players carried over from the previous final, eight qualifiers from B finals at Timișoara and Galați, and two players from a Bucharest qualifying playoff. Those earlier stages were separate competitions. The Sibiu final was a single round robin.
Gheorghiu’s 12 points gave him a clear winning margin. Ghitescu, Ghinda and Ungureanu all finished on 10, followed by Ioan Biriescu and Corvin Radovici on 9½. The published points are retained without claiming a tie-break order within equal-point groups.
Urzică’s withdrawal
Aurel Urzică withdrew for health reasons before the last five rounds. Gheorghiu, Biriescu, Paul Voiculescu, Mihai Suba and Parik Stefanov received forfeit points. The full table marks these defaults separately, and the later reconstruction explicitly records 148 games actually played.
The surviving record
The current archive selection contains 32 final scores and preserves their original year-only dates, unknown rounds and player names. Two further source-labeled games involve players outside the final field and are excluded.
The Ciocaltea–Ungureanu score is preserved as a win for White, matching both the native record and the complete score published in the reconstruction. The final tables give a draw, an unresolved source conflict. The archive does not change the original result to make the partial scores reproduce the official totals.
Result
148 games were played and five pairings were decided by default. The archive currently has 32 scores. Ciocaltea–Ungureanu is preserved as the native and full-score 1–0, although both final tables print a draw. Published totals are shown without an asserted tie-break order.