Yugoslavia vs USSR — Ohrid 1972

Ten boards beside Lake Ohrid, and a source record that needs caution
25 June – 1 July 1972 · Ohrid, SR Macedonia, Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia vs USSR, Ohrid 1972: 40 surviving games.

The seventeenth USSR–Yugoslavia match brought six men's boards, two women's boards and two boys' boards to Ohrid in the summer of 1972. The Soviet Union won all three sections and the match, 26½–13½. Forty games are attributed to the match, but there's no way to be sure they are the complete match, so the page has no crosstable.

Three sections, one Soviet victory

The published breakdown gives the Soviet men a 13½–10½ edge, the women a 6–2 win, and the boys a 7–1 win. Together those sections produce the official 26½–13½ total. It was the seventeenth meeting in an almost annual series that ran from 1956 through 1979, and like every other edition it ended in a Soviet team victory.

The archived roster includes Tigran Petrosian, Viktor Korchnoi, Leonid Stein, Rafael Vaganian, Vitaly Tseshkovsky, and Aivars Gipslis on the Soviet side of the record, with Svetozar Gligorić, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Albin Planinc, Dragoljub Velimirović, Milan Matulović, and Bruno Parma among the Yugoslav players.

Why the page does not claim a full record

The official score accounts for forty games, and forty games are filed under Ohrid. The matching count alone doesn't prove they are the same forty games, so the page lists them in their original order without a team table.

Result

Yugoslavia vs USSR, Ohrid 1972: 40 surviving games.

We have 40 games from this event. The full results are not known, so there is no cross table; the games are listed in their original order.