Smederevska Palanka 1971

Šmejkal wins unbeaten, half a point ahead of Karaklajić
October 8–26, 1971 · Smederevska Palanka, Yugoslavia
Jan Šmejkal won unbeaten with 11/15, half a point ahead of the also unbeaten Nikola Karaklajić.
Incomplete record·games missing

Incomplete record. This archive holds 21 games of this event; the others are missing, and the number played is not established. Played scores are missing: only 21 survive. Thirteen of Ivkov’s fifteen draws and all eight final-round scores are absent, with one overlap. The exact whole-event played count is unproved.

Jan Šmejkal won the sixteen-player international tournament unbeaten on 11/15. Nikola Karaklajić also avoided defeat and finished half a point behind him; Bojan Kurajica placed third on 9.

An unbeaten finish

Šmejkal finished on 11 points, ahead of Karaklajić on 10½ and Kurajica on 9. The contemporary Jaque report credits Šmejkal with a grandmaster norm. Borislav Ivkov drew every game and joined the group on 7½.

The surviving games

The archive holds 21 scores. Published reports identify additional games that were played but have no surviving score here, including thirteen of Ivkov’s fifteen draws and all eight games of the last round. The exact total of games physically played has not been established.

Rajkovic–Vukovic stops at move 40 in the surviving score. A contemporary report lists a 63-move draw, so a continuation may be missing.

Result

11/15
Jan Šmejkal won unbeaten with 11/15, half a point ahead of the also unbeaten Nikola Karaklajić.

These are the complete published final standings, independently matching in Jaque and Borba. Their 120 total points are not used as a physical-game count. No whole-event count is asserted because the complete results/default census was not established.