Uruguay vs USSR — Montevideo 1954
In April 1954 the touring Soviet team crossed from Buenos Aires to Montevideo and sat down against Uruguay's national side across ten boards. They played the line-up through twice — twenty games in all — and Uruguay scored half a point. The final margin, ½–19½, was the most one-sided of the six international matches the Soviet team contested that year.
The Soviet team in South America
Montevideo was the second stop on a Soviet trip across the Río de la Plata. From 16 to 24 March the same delegation had met Argentina in Buenos Aires over four rounds of eight boards, winning 20½–11½ against a home team led by Miguel Najdorf. Uruguay was next, and the Soviets fielded ten men there.
Board by board the Soviet order ran Bronstein, Averbakh, Taimanov, Kotov, Petrosian, Geller, Boleslavsky, Tolush, Flohr, Suetin. Uruguay used twelve players over the two rounds — Linskens, Rotunno, Canepa, Infantozzi, Kalkstein, Ibarburu, Corral, Olivera, Aguilera, Etcheverry, Masoero and Bademian Orchanian. Among them was Ernesto Rotunno, twice Uruguayan champion in 1938 and 1939, who had played first board for Uruguay at the 1939 Olympiad in Buenos Aires.
The Soviet touring year ran on from there — Paris in April, New York in June, London and Stockholm in July. None of those hosts came as close to nothing as Uruguay did.
Ibarburu's draw
The first round finished ½–9½ and the second 0–10. Uruguay's entire score came on board four in round one, where Ibarburu held Alexander Kotov to a draw with the white pieces. When the same pair met again in the return round, Kotov won.
Twenty games were played and Uruguay lost nineteen of them. The archive here holds all twenty, in board and round order.
Result
We have 20 games from this event. The full results are not known, so there is no cross table; the games are listed in their original order.