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USSR Training Tournament (1953) Bondarevsky withdrew after three rounds. His games can be found here: Training Tournament+ (1953).  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 45  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Tolush vs Ragozin 1-0 37 1953 USSR Training Tournament D26 Queen's Gambit Accepted 2. Petrosian vs Kotov   ½-½ 56 1953 USSR Training Tournament D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 3. Taimanov vs Petrosian 0-1 38 1953 USSR Training Tournament A70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3 4. Petrosian vs Tolush ½-½ 44 1953 USSR Training Tournament A61 Benoni 5. Petrosian vs Averbakh   ½-½ 23 1953 USSR Training Tournament D91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5 6. Boleslavsky vs Petrosian 1-0 40 1953 USSR Training Tournament B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 7. Petrosian vs Smyslov 1-0 42 1953 USSR Training Tournament D85 Grunfeld 8. Ragozin vs Petrosian 0-1 40 1953 USSR Training Tournament B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6 9. Averbakh vs Ragozin 0-1 32 1953 USSR Training Tournament E52 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line with ...b6 10. Ragozin vs Boleslavsky 0-1 34 1953 USSR Training Tournament C07 French, Tarrasch 11. Ragozin vs Taimanov 0-1 43 1953 USSR Training Tournament B88 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack 12. Smyslov vs Ragozin 1-0 37 1953 USSR Training Tournament A74 Benoni, Classical, 9...a6, 10.a4 13. Kotov vs Ragozin 1-0 35 1953 USSR Training Tournament D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 14. Boleslavsky vs Smyslov   ½-½ 42 1953 USSR Training Tournament E54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System 15. Taimanov vs Smyslov 0-1 45 1953 USSR Training Tournament D19 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch 16. Smyslov vs Tolush   ½-½ 41 1953 USSR Training Tournament A07 King's Indian Attack 17. Boleslavsky vs Taimanov   ½-½ 32 1953 USSR Training Tournament D52 Queen's Gambit Declined 18. Taimanov vs Averbakh   1-0 42 1953 USSR Training Tournament E52 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line with ...b6 19. Taimanov vs Tolush 1-0 57 1953 USSR Training Tournament D16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 20. Averbakh vs Boleslavsky 1-0 75 1953 USSR Training Tournament E75 King's Indian, Averbakh, Main line 21. Kotov vs Boleslavsky   ½-½ 33 1953 USSR Training Tournament A16 English 22. Tolush vs Boleslavsky   ½-½ 71 1953 USSR Training Tournament E86 King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox, 7.Nge2 c6 23. Averbakh vs Tolush   1-0 25 1953 USSR Training Tournament A76 Benoni, Classical, 9...Re8 24. Averbakh vs Keres ½-½ 41 1953 USSR Training Tournament C87 Ruy Lopez 25. Tolush vs Geller 0-1 49 1953 USSR Training Tournament E73 King's Indian  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 45    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Jul-06-22    offramp: A training tournament is a high-quality tournament with zero awards and zero prizes. Attendance is MANDATORY. In the 1950s the politburo liked to go there. It is on the Black Sea, and near to Sochi. Moscow is only a short hop flight to Gagra, it's 7 hours. Outside toilets. You go for the Khash, but you'll stay for the Khash. Jul-06-22    perfidious: You no play, off to gulag or, if you give really hard time, Lubyanka. Mar-22-24    Cassandro: This was probably the strongest training tournament ever. Just look at the incredible participants! Because no awards and prizes were up for grabs, it also contains lots of somewhat wild and hugely entertaining games since the players could let themselves loose a bit, so to speak. Mar-22-24    Sally Simpson: Sounds a bit suspicious this one. A 'Training Tournament a few months before the Zuerich Candidates (1953) Eight of the players here played in Zurich, the only missing Soviet player from those playing in Zurich is Bronstein who was not party to the rigging of the games which was clearly going on to ensure that Smyslov won the candidates. Bronstein and Veinstein were no doubt busy just after this 'training tournament' writing the book of the 1953 candidates because they knew the results and the score of the games between the Soviet players long before the Zurich candidates had even started. And there is more than one suspicious circumstance here. 1953. Stalin dies, Elizabeth II is crowned, Hilary and Tenzing Norgay conquer Everest and Bondarevsky goes missing during a chess training exorcise. (May 1953 was also the 'Stanley Mathews' Cup Final. Blackpool 4 Bolton Wanderers 3 but I do not think Bondarevsky had anything to do with that.) 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