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The USSR Chess Championship was played from 1921 to 1991. Organized by the USSR Chess Federation, it was the strongest national
The Soviet Chess Championship 1920-1991
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ussr Chess Championship Chess national championships
The USSR Chess Championship was played from 1921 to 1991. Organized by the USSR Chess Federation, it was the strongest national chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...
championship ever held, with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winners. It was held as a round-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament (or all-go-away-tournament) is a competition in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & C. Me ...
with the exception of the 35th and 58th championships, which were of the Swiss system.
Most wins
*Six titles:Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, ( – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist and was a pioneer in computer chess.
Botvinn ...
, Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal; rus, Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, ''Mikhail Nekhem'yevich Tal' '', ; sometimes transliterated ''Mihails Tals'' or ''Mihail Tal'' (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet-Latvian chess player ...
*Four titles: Tigran Petrosian
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (, ; 17 June 1929 – 13 August 1984) was a Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his almost-impenetrable defensive playing style, ...
, Viktor Korchnoi
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi ( rus, Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, p=vʲiktər lʲvovʲɪtɕ kɐrtɕˈnoj; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (before 1976) and Swiss (after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. H ...
, Alexander Beliavsky
*Three titles: Paul Keres
Paul Keres (; 7 January 1916 – 5 June 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, and narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on fi ...
, Leonid Stein, Anatoly Karpov
List of winners
:See also
* Women's Soviet Chess Championship * Russian Chess ChampionshipPublications
* Mark Taimanov, Bernard Cafferty, Soviet Championships, London, Everyman Chess, 1998 ()References
Further reading
*The Soviet Chess Championship 1920-1991
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ussr Chess Championship Chess national championships
Championship
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Championship systems
Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship.
Title match system
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Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...
Recurring sporting events established in 1920
Recurring events disestablished in 1991