Incomplete record. This archive holds 29 of the 91 games played; 62 are missing. The approved archives contain 29 of 91 played games. The other 62 scores are missing from the approved sources.
Lutz Espig won the fifteenth Varna international with 10 points from thirteen games. Mihai Suba also remained unbeaten and finished second on 9½, with Gennadi Kuzmin third on 9.
Two unbeaten leaders
Espig scored seven wins and six draws. Suba’s six wins and seven draws left him half a point behind; Kuzmin took third, followed by Josef Pribyl on 8½ and Milorad Knezevic on 8.
The contemporary final report in Sportul confirms the leading scores. The complete historical matrix and round ledger supply all fourteen final totals.
The home field
Ventzislav Inkiov was the highest placed Bulgarian with 6½ points, sharing seventh to ninth with Laszlo Barczay and Janos Tompa. Georgi Daskalov’s tournament review, reproduced by OlimpBase, describes a well attended event at the Youth House and praises Espig’s consistent play.
An incomplete archive
The tournament comprised 91 played games. The approved game sources retain 29; the other 62 are identified in the complete published results but are missing from these sources. The official standings are shown alongside the surviving archive.
The native game headers preserve month-only dates and mostly unknown rounds. No missing moves have been reconstructed from external scores.
Result
The complete published standings accompany 29 approved scores; 62 played-game scores are missing from the approved archives.