Yugoslavia vs USSR — Budva 1967

◇Eleventh in an unbroken run — with a twist

Budva 1967 was the eleventh of twenty-one editions of the USSR–Yugoslavia team match played between 1956 and 1979, all won by the Soviet Union. Wikipedia's breakdown of the official result — men 19–17, women 11–7, boys 13½–4½ to the USSR, totalling 43½–28½ — shows the match kept its usual three-section structure. What changed was how the men's boards were run: instead of a fixed six-a-side Scheveningen, the twelve men played each other once apiece, Soviet against Soviet and Yugoslav against Yugoslav included, in an eleven-round all-play-all. The 19–17 men's score that counted toward the official match total is embedded inside that round-robin as the sum of just the thirty-six cross-national games; the other thirty games, between team-mates, were 'extra' results that filled out the schedule.

◇Korchnoi's runaway

In the round robin, counting all thirty games between teammates, Viktor Korchnoi won outright with 8/11 (five wins, six draws, no losses), a point and a half ahead of Mikhail Tal and Svetozar Gligorić, who tied for second on 6½. Efim Geller, Aivars Gipslis and Enver Bukić shared fourth on 6, and Alexey Suetin finished last on 2½/11. It was one of nine invitational tournaments in a row that Korchnoi won around this time.

This archive holds all sixty-six games of that men's round-robin — but none from the women's or boys' boards, which do not appear here at all. Following the pattern of six rounds seen in the series' other editions, those sections likely contributed a further three dozen or so games that are simply not part of this collection.