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50th USSR Championship (1983) There was no USSR Championship held in 1982 so a special effort was made to make the 50th event held in Moscow from the 2nd to the 28th of April 1983 a representative contest. This tournament was considered to be the strongest held since the 41st USSR Championship (1973). Kasparov and Smyslov were absent but Karpov was playing in his first final since his victory in the 44th USSR Championship (1976). Lerner, Azmaiparashvili, Malaniuk, and Razuvaev were the qualifying winners of the four Otborochny tournaments. Agzamov and Vaganian were promoted to the final as the winners of the 18-player First League which had been held at Telavi, Georgia in December 1982. The field began with the odd number of seventeen players but Tal fell ill with dangerously high blood pressure and was forced to withdraw after the ninth round. In the latter rounds two players had byes. Crosstable: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 Karpov * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 9½ 2 Tukmakov ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 9 3 Polugaevsky ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 8½ 4 Vaganian ½ 0 ½ * 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 8½ 5 Balashov ½ ½ ½ 1 * 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 8 6 Malaniuk ½ 0 1 ½ 1 * ½ 0 ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 7½ 7 Petrosian ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 7½ 8 Psakhis ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ * 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 7½ 9 Romanishin 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 * 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 7½ 10 Agzamov ½ 1 0 0 0 1 ½ 1 0 * 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 7 11 Azmaiparashvili 1 ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 7 12 Beliavsky 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 1 7 13 Razuvaev ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 0 7 14 Geller 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * 1 ½ 6½ 15 Yusupov 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 0 1 0 * ½ 6½ 16 Lerner 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ * 5½ Tal* - x - ½ - - ½ - - - - - ½ 0 - 0 1½ *Due to illness Tal only played six games with losses to Geller and Lerner and draws with Petrosian, Vaganian and Razuvaev. His Round 8 game with Tukmakov was adjourned after 40 moves and wasn't resumed. It was subsequently annulled with no result. On medical advice he withdrew from the tournament. The main source for this collection was the 50th USSR Championship Final Moscow 1983 booklet edited by Robert Wade and Leslie Stephen Fraser Blackstock. Original collection: Game Collection: USSR Championship 1983 by User: Benzol.  page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 126  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Tukmakov vs Razuvaev 1-0 27 1983 50th USSR Championship E15 Queen's Indian 2. K Lerner vs Azmaiparashvili   ½-½ 62 1983 50th USSR Championship B06 Robatsch 3. Vaganian vs Balashov   0-1 40 1983 50th USSR Championship A04 Reti Opening 4. Geller vs Tal 1-0 44 1983 50th USSR Championship B83 Sicilian 5. Karpov vs Polugaevsky   ½-½ 56 1983 50th USSR Championship E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 6. Petrosian vs Psakhis   ½-½ 41 1983 50th USSR Championship A29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto 7. Beliavsky vs Yusupov   1-0 33 1983 50th USSR Championship D35 Queen's Gambit Declined 8. V Malaniuk vs G Agzamov   0-1 58 1983 50th USSR Championship C80 Ruy Lopez, Open 9. Azmaiparashvili vs Vaganian   0-1 37 1983 50th USSR Championship A00 Uncommon Opening 10. Balashov vs Beliavsky   ½-½ 40 1983 50th USSR Championship C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed 11. Romanishin vs Geller   ½-½ 32 1983 50th USSR Championship D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 12. G Agzamov vs Karpov   ½-½ 35 1983 50th USSR Championship E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 13. Tal vs Petrosian ½-½ 29 1983 50th USSR Championship C18 French, Winawer 14. Psakhis vs K Lerner   1-0 51 1983 50th USSR Championship E43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation 15. Polugaevsky vs Tukmakov   ½-½ 16 1983 50th USSR Championship D85 Grunfeld 16. Yusupov vs V Malaniuk   1-0 57 1983 50th USSR Championship D85 Grunfeld 17. Beliavsky vs Azmaiparashvili   ½-½ 39 1983 50th USSR Championship B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack 18. V Malaniuk vs Balashov   1-0 59 1983 50th USSR Championship A46 Queen's Pawn Game 19. Karpov vs Yusupov 1-0 44 1983 50th USSR Championship C82 Ruy Lopez, Open 20. Petrosian vs Romanishin 0-1 52 1983 50th USSR Championship A29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto 21. Razuvaev vs Polugaevsky   ½-½ 22 1983 50th USSR Championship E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 22. Vaganian vs Psakhis 0-1 36 1983 50th USSR Championship A46 Queen's Pawn Game 23. K Lerner vs Tal 1-0 45 1983 50th USSR Championship D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 24. Tukmakov vs G Agzamov 0-1 77 1983 50th USSR Championship D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 25. G Agzamov vs Razuvaev   ½-½ 19 1983 50th USSR Championship A46 Queen's Pawn Game  page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 126    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Jun-19-15    visayanbraindoctor: These old USSR championships were killers. If the entire present-day Norway Chess participants were to play in this, I would give Carlsen and Anand as the only two who would have fair chances of winning it. And even then I would place my money on Karpov. Why isn't there a page for USSR Championship 1988? Both Kasparov and Karpov participated in it, the last of the great Soviet tournaments. Mar-16-16    Benzol: <Why isn't there a page for USSR Championship 1988? Both Kasparov and Karpov participated in it, the last of the great Soviet tournaments> <visayanbraindoctor> There is the collection Game Collection: USSR Championship 1988 but it will need some work before it could be promoted to a tournament page. Jun-10-17    Benzol: <visayanbraindoctor> At last 55th USSR Championship (1988) :) Jun-10-17    perfidious: Paul, all the games from the '88 event were listed under some random tag or other--do not recall which--but I converted most, if not all of them to the correct form some weeks back. Jun-10-17    Benzol: Alan thanks, that is great work. The 1988 event was probably the last great USSR Championship and it's good to finally see it as a tournament page. Cheers matey. :) Sep-29-19    Fusilli: What was Petrosian's health status during this tournament? He died of cancer 16 months later. Here he broke even, with lots of fightless draws. He beat only Beliavsky (convincingly) and Polugaievsky (blunder) and lost two games with white, uncharacteristic of him. I am guessing he must have been feeling the effects of his illness already, whether he had been diagnosed yet or not... Sep-29-19    ewan14: I do not think Karpov performed as well as he should have in all the USSR championships he participated in Sep-29-19    Fusilli: <ewan14> Well... He won the tournament solo. His three short draws in the last five rounds suggest that was his goal. Who can blame him... It was the friggin' Soviet championship! Sep-29-19    JimNorCal: Just to "bookend" ewan14, I strongly believe Karpov performed exactly as expected for the USSR Championships he did not participate in. NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion. Please observe our posting guidelines: No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language. No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts. No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against other members. Nothing in violation of United States law. No cyberstalking or malicious posting of negative or private information (doxing/doxxing) of members. No trolling. 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