1948 USSR Chess Championship

The 1948 Soviet Chess Championship was the 16th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 10 November to 13 December 1948 in Moscow. The tournament was won by David Bronstein and Alexander Kotov. Mikhail Botvinnik did not participate in the championship again, as he had recently won the world title in the tournament at The Hague and Moscow. In fact he was to take a three-year break, to work on his doctorate. Quarterfinal tournaments were played in the cities of Tbilisi and Yaroslavl; and semifinals in Sverdlovsk, Leningrad and Moscow.Cafferty, Bernard. (2016). The Soviet Championships. Londres: Everyman Chess. p. 62

Table and results + 16th Soviet Chess Championship (1948) Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Total1 David Bronstein - ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1122 Alexander Kotov ½ - ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1123 Semyon Furman 0 ½ - 0 0 1 0 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½114 Salo Flohr ½ ½ 1 - ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½10½5 Alexander Tolush 0 1 1 ½ - 1 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1106 Alexander Konstantinopolsky ½ 1 0 ½ 0 - ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½9½7 Georgy Lisitsin ½ 0 1 0 1 ½ - ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½9½8 Igor Bondarevsky ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ - ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 19½9 Paul Keres 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ - ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 19½10 Georgy Ilivitsky 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 1 0 ½ - 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½911 Andor Lilienthal ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 - ½ 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1912 Ratmir Kholmov ½ 0 0 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ - 1 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 18½13 Grigory Levenfish ½ 1 0 0 1 0 ½ 1 0 1 1 0 - ½ ½ 0 1 0 0814 Viacheslav Ragozin ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ 1815 Yuri Averbakh 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ - 1 0 1 ½816 Vasily Panov 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 - ½ ½ ½7½17 Vladimir Alatortsev ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ - 1 ½7½18 Mark Taimanov 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 - 0619 Lev Aronin 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 -6

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