[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.05.13"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Andre Lilienthal"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "E70"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "150"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 O-O 5.g3 d6 6.Bg2 e5 7.d5 Nbd7
8.Nge2 Nh5 9.Be3 f5 10.f3 Ndf6 11.exf5 gxf5 12.Qc2 f4 13.gxf4
Nxf4 14.Bxf4 exf4 15.O-O-O c5 16.dxc6 bxc6 17.Nd4 Qb6 18.Na4
Qb7 19.Rhe1 Rb8 20.Ne6 Bxe6 21.Rxe6 d5 22.Rde1 Qb4 23.a3 Qa5
24.b4 Qd8 25.Rxc6 Re8 26.Rce6 Rxe6 27.Rxe6 dxc4 28.Qxc4 Kh8
29.Re2 a5 30.Bh3 axb4 31.axb4 Nd5 32.Rd2 Qh4 33.Qxd5 Qxh3
34.Nc5 Qf1+ 35.Kc2 h6 36.Qf7 Qa1 37.Qxf4 Ra8 38.Kd3 Qf1+
39.Ke4 Qb1+ 40.Kd5 Rf8 41.Qe4 Qa1 42.Rd3 Rc8 43.Kc4 Rb8 44.Rd7
Qa2+ 45.Kd3 Ra8 46.Ke3 Qa1 47.Ke2 Ra2+ 48.Rd2 Rxd2+ 49.Kxd2
Qb2+ 50.Kd1 Qa1+ 51.Kd2 Qb2+ 52.Kd1 Qxh2 53.Qe8+ Kh7 54.Qe4+
Kh8 55.f4 Qb2 56.Qe8+ Kh7 57.Qe4+ Kh8 58.Nd3 Qd4 59.Qxd4 Bxd4
60.Ke2 Kg7 61.Kf3 Kf6 62.Ke4 Bg1 63.Ne5 h5 64.Nf3 Bf2 65.Ng5
Be1 66.b5 Ba5 67.Nf3 Bc7 68.Ne5 h4 69.b6 Bxb6 70.Nd7+ Kg6
71.Nxb6 h3 72.Kf3 h2 73.Kg2 Kf5 74.Nd5 Ke4 75.Kxh2 Kxd5
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "C19"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Nf3
Qa5 8.Bd2 c4 9.a4 Nd7 10.Be2 Nb6 11.O-O Nxa4 12.Nh4 Ng6
13.Nxg6 hxg6 14.Re1 Bd7 15.Bf1 b5 16.Qf3 Rb8 17.Reb1 Qc7
18.Bc1 a5 19.Ba3 Rb6 20.Qg3 Qd8 21.Bd6 Rxd6 22.exd6 Bc6 23.h3
Kd7 24.Re1 Qh4 25.Qe5 Qf6 26.Qg3 Rh4 27.Re3 Rf4 28.Be2 Qh4
29.Bf3 b4 30.Qxh4 Rxh4 31.g3 Rh8 32.cxb4 axb4 33.Rb1 Rb8 34.h4
Rb7 35.Kh2 Kxd6 36.g4 Nc3 37.Ra1 Nb5 38.Rd1 Ra7 39.h5 g5
40.Kg2 Ra2 41.Be2 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "D87"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 c5
7.Bc4 Bg7 8.Ne2 O-O 9.O-O Nd7 10.a4 Qc7 11.Ba2 b6 12.Be3 Ba6
13.Re1 Rad8 14.Qb3 e5 15.d5 c4 16.Qa3 f5 17.Bg5 Bf6 18.Bh6 Rf7
19.exf5 gxf5 20.a5 b5 21.Rad1 Nc5 22.Ng3 Be7 23.Qc1 f4 24.Nh5
Qd6 25.Bg7 Rxg7 26.Nxg7 Kxg7 27.Bb1 Bc8 28.Qc2 Rh8 29.Qe2 Bf6
30.Qh5 Bd7 31.Bc2 e4 32.Bxe4 Qe5 33.Qf3 Re8 34.Bd3 Qxe1+
35.Rxe1 Rxe1+ 36.Bf1 Ne4 37.Qxf4 Nxc3 38.Qg3+ Kf7 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[ECO "C79"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "91"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O d6 6.c3 Bd7 7.d4 g6
8.Nbd2 Qe7 9.Re1 Bg7 10.Nf1 O-O 11.Bg5 h6 12.Bh4 Qe8 13.Bc2
Nh5 14.Ne3 Ne7 15.dxe5 dxe5 16.Bg3 Nxg3 17.hxg3 Rd8 18.Qe2 Nc8
19.Rad1 c6 20.Rd2 Qe7 21.Red1 Nb6 22.b4 Be6 23.Bb3 Rxd2
24.Qxd2 Bxb3 25.axb3 Qe6 26.c4 Bf6 27.c5 Nc8 28.Qd7 Qxb3
29.Qxb7 Bg5 30.Nxg5 hxg5 31.Qxa6 Ne7 32.Qb7 Re8 33.Qd7 Kf8
34.Qd6 Qxb4 35.Ng4 Ra8 36.Qxe5 Qb3 37.Rd7 Ng8 38.Qd6+ Kg7
39.Qd4+ Kh7 40.Nf6+ Nxf6 41.Qxf6 Kg8 42.Kh2 Rf8 43.Qxc6 Kg7
44.Qd5 Qb1 45.Qd4+ Kh7 46.c6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Alexander Koblents"]
[ECO "D46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "51"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 Be7 7.O-O
O-O 8.b3 b6 9.Bb2 Bb7 10.Qe2 Rc8 11.Rac1 Bd6 12.e4 dxc4
13.bxc4 e5 14.dxe5 Bxe5 15.Rcd1 Qe7 16.Nh4 Qb4 17.Qc2 Nc5
18.a3 Qa5 19.Nf5 Rcd8 20.f4 Nxd3 21.Rxd3 Qc5+ 22.Kh1 Qxc4
23.fxe5 Rxd3 24.exf6 Rd7 25.Qc1 Rfd8 26.Rg1 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "C59"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5+ c6
7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Be2 h6 9.Nf3 e4 10.Ne5 Bd6 11.d4 exd3 12.Nxd3
Qc7 13.Nd2 O-O 14.b4 Nd5 15.Bb2 Nxb4 16.Nxb4 Bxb4 17.O-O Rb8
18.Nb3 Rd8 19.Be5 Rxd1 20.Bxc7 Rxa1 21.Rxa1 Nxb3 22.Rd1 Ra8
23.Rd8+ Bf8 24.axb3 Bb7 25.Bb8 a5 26.f3 a4 27.bxa4 Rxa4 28.Kf2
c5 29.Ke3 Bc6 30.Bd3 Ra8 31.Bc4 Ra3+ 32.Kd2 g5 33.Rc8 Bd7
34.Rd8 Bc6+ 35.Bd3 Ra8 36.Ke3 Kg7 37.Be5+ f6 38.Rxa8 Bxa8
39.Bc7 Bc6 40.h3 Kf7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. d4 Nbd7 4. g3 e5 5. Bg2 c6 6. O-O e4
7. Ne1 d5 8. Nc3 Bd6 9. Qb3 dxc4 10. Qc2 Qe7 11. Nxe4 Nxe4
12. Bxe4 h5 13. Bg2 Nb6 14. Nf3 Bg4 15. a4 a5 16. b3 cxb3
17. Qxb3 Nd5 18. e4 Nb4 19. d5 Bxf3 20. Bxf3 Be5 21. Bb2 h4
22. Bxe5 Qxe5 23. dxc6 bxc6 24. Rad1 O-O 25. Bg2 Rab8 26. Qc4
Rfd8 27. Qe2 c5 28. Rxd8+ Rxd8 29. Qb5 Qd4 30. Qxa5 Nd3 31. e5
Nxe5 32. Qc7 Rd7 33. Qc8+ Rd8 34. Qc7 Rd7 35. Qc8+ Kh7 36. a5
c4 37. a6 g6 38. Bb7 h3 39. Qb8 Rxb7 40. Qxb7 Qd3 41. f4 Qd4+
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[ECO "C34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "71"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e5 Nh5 5. d4 g5 6. h4 g4
7. Ng5 d5 8. exd6 Bxd6 9. Bc4 Ng3 10. Bxf7+ Kf8 11. Be6 Qe7
12. d5 Nxh1 13. Qxg4 h6 14. Ne4 Bxe6 15. dxe6 Nc6 16. Bxf4 Qg7
17. Bxd6+ cxd6 18. Qf4+ Ke8 19. Nbc3 Rf8 20. Qe3 Qd4 21. Qxd4
Nxd4 22. O-O-O Nf2 23. Nxd6+ Ke7 24. Rxd4 Rad8 25. Ndb5 a6
26. Rxd8 Rxd8 27. Nc7 Rd4 28. N3d5+ Kd6 29. c3 Re4 30. e7 Ng4
31. e8=Q Rxe8 32. Nxe8+ Kxd5 33. Kd2 Ke5 34. Ng7 Nf6 35. Ke3
Nd5+ 36. Kf3 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "C75"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "64"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. c3 Bd7 6. O-O Nge7
7. d4 Ng6 8. Be3 Be7 9. Nbd2 h6 10. Re1 Bg5 11. Nf1 Bf4
12. Ng3 Bxg3 13. fxg3 O-O 14. h3 exd4 15. cxd4 Nce7 16. Bb3
Be6 17. Rc1 Bxb3 18. Qxb3 Rb8 19. d5 Qd7 20. Ba7 Ra8 21. Qxb7
Rfc8 22. Bd4 Qa4 23. Bc3 Rab8 24. Qa7 c5 25. e5 Nxd5 26. exd6
Qb5 27. d7 Rd8 28. Be5 Rb6 29. Red1 Nge7 30. Bc7 Rb7 31. Qxb7
Qxb7 32. Bxd8 Qxd7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Andre Lilienthal"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "37"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Nc3 b5
7. Bb3 d6 8. a4 Bg4 9. axb5 Nd4 10. Rxa6 Nxb3 11. cxb3 Rxa6
12. bxa6 Qa8 13. d4 Qxa6 14. dxe5 dxe5 15. Nd5 Nxd5 16. Qxd5
f6 17. Qc4 Qxc4 18. bxc4 Be6 19. Bd2 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "57"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ gxf6 6. d4
Bf5 7. Bd3 Bg6 8. Bf4 e6 9. O-O Bd6 10. Bg3 Bxg3 11. hxg3 Nd7
12. Qd2 O-O 13. Rad1 Kg7 14. Rfe1 Qc7 15. c4 Nb6 16. b3 Rfd8
17. Qe3 Rd7 18. g4 Qd8 19. g3 c5 20. Bxg6 hxg6 21. Kg2 cxd4
22. Nxd4 Qf8 23. Rh1 Kg8 24. Nxe6 Rxd1 25. Nxf8 Rxh1 26. Kxh1
Rxf8 27. Qe7 Kg7 28. Qxb7 Nc8 29. Qd7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "C98"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5
7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d6 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2
Nc6 13. d5 Nd8 14. Nf1 Ne8 15. a4 Rb8 16. axb5 axb5 17. c4 b4
18. g4 g6 19. Ng3 Ng7 20. Kh2 f6 21. Rg1 Kh8 22. b3 Nf7
23. Qe2 Bd7 24. Bb2 Ra8 25. Raf1 Rg8 26. Bb1 Raf8 27. Ne1 Qc8
28. Ng2 Re8 29. Ne3 Bd8 30. Rg2 Qc7 31. Rh1 Bc8 32. Kg1 Rgf8
33. Kf1 Nh6 34. Ke1 Nf7 35. Kd1 Rg8 36. Rhg1 Ng5 37. Rh1 Nf7
38. f3 Ref8 39. h4 Nh6 40. Bc1 Nf7 41. Bb2 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[Black "Salomon Flohr"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ gxf6 6.g3 Bg4
7.Bg2 e6 8.d4 Nd7 9.O-O Bg7 10.Re1 O-O 11.Be3 Re8 12.Qc1 Nf8
13.c3 e5 14.Qc2 Ng6 15.h3 Be6 16.dxe5 fxe5 17.Ng5 Qe7 18.Be4
Bd5 19.c4 Bxe4 20.Nxe4 Qd7 21.Kh2 Nf8 22.Qe2 Qe6 23.Rad1 Qg6
24.Nd6 Re7 25.Qg4 h5 26.Qxg6 fxg6 27.Ne4 Rd7 28.Rxd7 Nxd7
29.Rd1 Nf8 30.Kg2 b6 31.Rd6 c5 32.b3 Rc8 33.Bg5 Rc7 34.Kf3 Kf7
35.Bd8 Rc8 36.Bg5 Rc7 37.Bd8 Rc8 38.Rd5 Rc6 39.Bg5 Rc7 40.Nd6+
1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Salomon Flohr"]
[Black "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[ECO "E33"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "69"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 Nc6 5.Nf3 d5 6.a3 Bxc3+
7.Qxc3 Ne4 8.Qb3 O-O 9.e3 b6 10.Bd3 Bb7 11.Qc2 f5 12.b3 Rf6
13.cxd5 exd5 14.Bb2 Rh6 15.Rc1 Rc8 16.b4 Qe7 17.Qe2 Rf8 18.g3
Nd8 19.Ne5 c6 20.O-O Nd6 21.b5 c5 22.dxc5 bxc5 23.Rxc5 Nc4
24.Rxc4 dxc4 25.Bxc4+ Kh8 26.Rd1 Rd6 27.Qh5 Rxd1+ 28.Qxd1 Ne6
29.Qh5 Kg8 30.Bc3 Rd8 31.Nc6 Bxc6 32.bxc6 g6 33.Qh6 Rd6 34.Bb4
Rd1+ 35.Kg2 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "B83"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "62"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Be2 Be7 7.O-O
a6 8.f4 Qc7 9.Bf3 Nc6 10.Be3 O-O 11.Qe1 Bd7 12.Rd1 Nxd4
13.Bxd4 e5 14.Be3 Bc6 15.Qf2 b5 16.Rfe1 Rac8 17.Kh1 b4 18.fxe5
dxe5 19.Nd5 Bxd5 20.exd5 Bd6 21.Rd2 e4 22.Be2 Bxh2 23.Red1 Bg3
24.Qf5 Qd6 25.Bg5 Rce8 26.Bxf6 gxf6 27.Rd4 Re5 28.Qg4+ Rg5
29.Qxe4 f5 30.Qe3 Qh6+ 31.Kg1 f4 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "B84"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 Qc7 7.O-O
e6 8.Be3 b5 9.a3 Bb7 10.f3 Be7 11.Qd2 O-O 12.g4 Nc6 13.g5 Nxd4
14.Bxd4 Nh5 15.Be3 e5 16.Rf2 f5 17.Nd5 Qd8 18.c4 bxc4 19.Bxc4
Kh8 20.Rg2 fxe4 21.fxe4 Nf4 22.Bxf4 exf4 23.h4 Rc8 24.b3 Bxd5
25.exd5 Qd7 26.Rf1 Qf5 27.Rf3 Bd8 28.Kh2 Bb6 29.Bxa6 Ra8
30.Qd3 Qxd3 31.Bxd3 Rxa3 32.Bc4 Be3 33.Re2 Rfa8 34.Kg2 g6
35.Rf1 Kg7 36.Kf3 Ra1 37.Rxa1 Rxa1 38.Rh2 Rg1 39.Ra2 Rg3+
40.Ke4 Kf7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "D98"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "179"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qb3 dxc4 6.Qxc4 O-O 7.e4
Bg4 8.Be2 Nc6 9.d5 Bxf3 10.gxf3 Ne5 11.Qb3 c6 12.f4 Ned7
13.dxc6 bxc6 14.e5 Nd5 15.Nxd5 cxd5 16.Qxd5 e6 17.Qd6 Rb8
18.O-O Nb6 19.Qxd8 Rfxd8 20.Re1 Nd5 21.Bf3 Nb4 22.Be4 a5
23.Be3 Bh6 24.b3 Nd5 25.Bxd5 Rxd5 26.Rad1 Rdb5 27.Rd4 Bf8
28.Red1 Kg7 29.Rc4 Rd5 30.Rxd5 exd5 31.Rc7 Bb4 32.Bd4 Kf8
33.Kg2 Ke8 34.Kf3 Be7 35.Ra7 Bb4 36.Rc7 Rd8 37.f5 gxf5 38.Rc6
Bd2 39.Ke2 Bb4 40.Kd3 Kd7 41.Rh6 Rc8 42.Rxh7 Ke7 43.Be3 f4
44.Bxf4 a4 45.Bd2 Bc5 46.f4 axb3 47.axb3 Rb8 48.Kc2 Ke6 49.h4
Rc8 50.Rh6+ Kf5 51.Kd3 Be7 52.h5 Rb8 53.b4 f6 54.Kd4 Rb5
55.Rg6 Rb8 56.Rh6 Rb5 57.Bc3 Bd8 58.Kd3 fxe5 59.fxe5 d4 60.Kc4
Rxe5 61.Bxd4 Re4 62.b5 Kg5 63.Rd6 Bc7 64.Rd5+ Kh6 65.Kd3 Re7
66.Be3+ Kh7 67.b6 Rxe3+ 68.Kxe3 Bxb6+ 69.Kf3 Bg1 70.Rd6 Bc5
71.Rc6 Bb4 72.Kg4 Bd2 73.Kf5 Be3 74.Rg6 Bd2 75.Rg2 Be3 76.Re2
Bc1 77.Re1 Bd2 78.Rd1 Be3 79.Rd3 Bc1 80.Rc3 Bd2 81.Rc2 Be3
82.Ra2 Kh6 83.Ra3 Bc1 84.Ra1 Be3 85.Re1 Bd2 86.Rd1 Be3 87.Rd3
Bc1 88.Rc3 Bd2 89.Rc2 Be3 90.Rc3 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Andre Lilienthal"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "E44"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "85"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Ne2 Bb7 6.a3 Be7 7.d5 a5
8.e4 e5 9.Ng3 O-O 10.Bd3 Ne8 11.h4 Na6 12.Nf5 Nc5 13.Bc2 Nd6
14.Nxd6 Bxd6 15.Be3 Be7 16.Rb1 Bc8 17.b4 axb4 18.axb4 Na6
19.Na2 d6 20.b5 Nb8 21.Nb4 f5 22.exf5 Bxf5 23.Bxf5 Rxf5 24.g3
Qe8 25.Ra1 Nd7 26.Rxa8 Qxa8 27.Nc6 Rf7 28.O-O Bf6 29.Qg4 Qa2
30.Rc1 Kf8 31.Nb8 Ke8 32.Na6 Bd8 33.Nb4 Qa8 34.Na6 Nf6 35.Qh3
Kf8 36.Rc2 Ng8 37.Ra2 Ne7 38.Nb4 Qb8 39.Bg5 h6 40.Bxe7+ Bxe7
41.Nc6 Qe8 42.Ra7 Kg8 43.Rxc7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[Black "Andre Lilienthal"]
[ECO "A28"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "90"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d4 e4 5.Nd2 Nxd4 6.Ndxe4 Ne6
7.g3 Nxe4 8.Nxe4 Be7 9.Bg2 O-O 10.Nc3 c6 11.O-O d6 12.Be3 Qa5
13.Qd2 Qh5 14.f4 Nc7 15.Rfe1 Be6 16.Bf3 Qg6 17.b3 Rfd8 18.Bd4
d5 19.cxd5 Nxd5 20.Nxd5 Bxd5 21.e4 Bxb3 22.Qb2 Bc4 23.Qxb7 Qe6
24.Qb2 Rab8 25.Qf2 Bb4 26.Red1 a5 27.Rac1 Bb5 28.Ba1 Bf8
29.Kg2 Rxd1 30.Rxd1 Ba4 31.Rc1 Rd8 32.Bd4 Bb4 33.f5 Qd6 34.Be3
Qd3 35.g4 Ba3 36.Re1 Bb4 37.Rc1 Qa3 38.e5 Rd3 39.Bf4 c5 40.e6
fxe6 41.fxe6 Rxf3 42.Qxf3 Qxa2+ 43.Kg3 Qxe6 44.Qe3 Bd7
45.Qxe6+ Bxe6 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Koblents"]
[Black "Andre Lilienthal"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "54"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Nb3 Bb6 6.Nc3 d6
7.Be2 Qh4 8.O-O Nf6 9.g3 Qh3 10.Kh1 h5 11.Bg5 Ng4 12.Bxg4 hxg4
13.Bh4 Ne5 14.Nd2 Nf3 15.Nxf3 gxf3 16.Rg1 g5 17.Nd5 Qe6
18.Qxf3 gxh4 19.gxh4 Bd7 20.Nf6+ Kd8 21.c3 Bc6 22.Rg7 Rxh4
23.Rg8+ Ke7 24.Rxa8 Qxf6 25.Qxf6+ Kxf6 26.f3 Rxe4 27.Kg2 Re2+
0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[Black "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[ECO "A10"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1.c4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 d5 5.d4 c6 6.Qc2 Bb4+ 7.Nbd2
O-O 8.O-O Nbd7 9.a3 Bd6 10.cxd5 cxd5 11.b4 Nb6 12.Ne5 Bd7
13.Nb3 Ba4 14.Nd3 Qe7 15.Bg5 h6 16.Bxf6 Qxf6 17.e3 Nc4 18.Rfc1
Rac8 19.Qa2 b6 20.Nd2 Nxd2 21.Qxd2 Bb3 22.Bf1 Bc4 23.f4 b5
24.Nc5 Rf7 25.a4 Rb8 26.axb5 Bxf1 27.Kxf1 Rxb5 28.Ra6 Bxc5
29.Rxc5 Rb8 30.Qc3 Kh7 31.Rcc6 Rfb7 32.Rxe6 Qf7 33.g4 fxg4
34.Qd3+ Kg8 35.Qg6 Rxb4 36.Kg2 Rb1 37.Kg3 Rg1+ 38.Kf2 Qxg6
39.Rxg6 Rh1 40.Rxa7 Rb2+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[Black "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[ECO "D81"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "71"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Qb3 dxc4 5.Qxc4 Bg7 6.e4 O-O 7.Bf4
c6 8.Rd1 b5 9.Qb3 Qa5 10.Bd3 Be6 11.Qc2 c5 12.d5 Bd7 13.Bd2 c4
14.Be2 b4 15.Nb1 c3 16.bxc3 Ba4 17.Qd3 Bxd1 18.Bxd1 Qxa2
19.cxb4 Nbd7 20.Nf3 a5 21.O-O axb4 22.Bxb4 Rfb8 23.Nc3 Qa7
24.Bxe7 Nc5 25.Bxc5 Qxc5 26.e5 Ra3 27.Ne4 Nxe4 28.Qxe4 Rb4
29.Qe1 Qc3 30.Bc2 Rb5 31.e6 Qxe1 32.Rxe1 fxe6 33.dxe6 Ra1
34.Rxa1 Bxa1 35.e7 Kf7 36.e8=Q+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "D17"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "133"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.Nh4 Bg4 7.f3
Bc8 8.e4 e5 9.dxe5 Nfd7 10.Nf5 Nxe5 11.Qxd8+ Kxd8 12.Bg5+ f6
13.O-O-O Ke8 14.Bf4 Be6 15.Bg3 g6 16.Nd4 Bf7 17.f4 Nd3+
18.Bxd3 cxd3 19.e5 f5 20.Bh4 Bc4 21.b3 Ba6 22.Ndb5 Bxb5
23.axb5 Nd7 24.bxc6 bxc6 25.Na4 Bh6 26.g3 Bf8 27.Rxd3 Nb6
28.Nxb6 axb6 29.Rhd1 Ra1+ 30.Kc2 Rxd1 31.Rxd1 Be7 32.Ra1 Bxh4
33.gxh4 Kd7 34.Ra7+ Ke6 35.Rc7 Kd5 36.Kd3 c5 37.h5 gxh5
38.Rd7+ Kc6+ 39.Rd6+ Kb5 40.Rf6 Ra8 41.Rxf5 Kb4 42.e6 Kxb3
43.Re5 c4 44.Kd4 Rd8+ 45.Rd5 Rxd5+ 46.Kxd5 c3 47.e7 c2 48.e8=Q
c1=Q 49.Qb5+ Ka3 50.Qa6+ Kb2 51.Qxb6+ Ka1 52.Qd4+ Kb1 53.Qe4+
Ka1 54.f5 Qf1 55.Qe5+ Kb1 56.Ke6 h4 57.Ke7 Qc4 58.f6 Qb4+
59.Ke8 Qa4+ 60.Kf8 Qb4+ 61.Kg7 Qg4+ 62.Kxh7 h3 63.f7 Qh4+
64.Kg8 Qc4 65.Qf5+ Ka1 66.Qxh3 Qd5 67.Qg4 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Alexander Koblents"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "49"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6 6. Nxe5
Nxe5 7. Rxe5+ Be7 8. Bd3 O-O 9. Nc3 Bf6 10. Re3 g6 11. b3 b6
12. Bb2 Bb7 13. Qg4 Bg7 14. Rae1 f5 15. Qh3 Re8 16. Rxe8+ Nxe8
17. Bc4+ d5 18. Bf1 Nd6 19. Qe3 Qf8 20. Qe6+ Qf7 21. Qxf7+
Kxf7 22. Nd1 d4 23. Ba3 Bf8 24. f3 a5 25. Nb2 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[ECO "B83"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "57"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be2 Be7
7. O-O O-O 8. Be3 Nc6 9. f4 Qc7 10. Qe1 Nxd4 11. Bxd4 e5
12. Be3 Be6 13. f5 Bc4 14. Bxc4 Qxc4 15. Bg5 Rfe8 16. Bxf6
Bxf6 17. Nd5 Bd8 18. c3 b5 19. b3 Qc5+ 20. Kh1 Rc8 21. Rf3 Kh8
22. f6 gxf6 23. Qh4 Rg8 24. Nxf6 Rg7 25. Rg3 Bxf6 26. Qxf6
Rcg8 27. Rd1 d5 28. Rxg7 Rxg7 29. Rxd5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[ECO "C74"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. c3 f5 6. exf5 Bxf5
7. d4 e4 8. Ng5 d5 9. f3 e3 10. Bxe3 h6 11. Nh3 Bxh3 12. gxh3
Bd6 13. Qe2 Nge7 14. Nd2 O-O 15. O-O-O Nf5 16. Bb3 Nce7
17. Bf2 Kh8 18. Rdg1 Rf6 19. Ne4 Re6 20. Qd2 Qf8 21. Nxd6 cxd6
22. Re1 Rf6 23. Kb1 Qf7 24. Qe2 Ng6 25. Bg3 b5 26. a3 Qb7
27. Bc2 Nge7 28. Qd3 a5 29. Re2 b4 30. cxb4 axb4 31. Rhe1 bxa3
32. b3 Nc6 33. Re8+ Rxe8 34. Rxe8+ Kh7 35. Bxd6 Qd7 36. Rf8
Rxf8 37. Bxf8 g6 38. Bxa3 Ncxd4 39. Bb2 Nxc2 40. Qxc2 Qb5
41. Qc7+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ gxf6
6. Be2 Bg4 7. d4 Qc7 8. O-O Nd7 9. h3 Bf5 10. c4 Rg8 11. Nh4
Bg6 12. Nxg6 hxg6 13. d5 O-O-O 14. Qa4 Kb8 15. dxc6 Nb6
16. Qa5 Qxc6 17. c5 Qa4 18. Bd2 Rd5 19. Qc3 Nd7 20. b4 Bg7
21. Rad1 f5 22. Bf4+ Ka8 23. Qc4 Rxd1 24. Bxd1 Qc6 25. Qxf7
Qc8 26. Bb3 Nf6 27. Qxe7 Qf8 28. Qc7 Rh8 29. c6 Qxb4 30. Qxg7
1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[Black "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[ECO "B40"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "114"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 d5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bg5 cxd4 6.Nxd4 dxe4
7.Nxe4 Qa5+ 8.Qd2 Qxd2+ 9.Nxd2 a6 10.O-O-O Bd7 11.Be2 Nc6
12.N2b3 Ne4 13.Be3 Nc5 14.Kb1 Nxd4 15.Nxd4 Be7 16.f4 Rc8
17.Bf3 b5 18.c3 Rc7 19.Nc2 a5 20.Bd4 f6 21.Rhe1 Kf7 22.Bg4 Bc8
23.Bf2 f5 24.Bh5+ g6 25.Be2 Bd7 26.Bd4 Rhc8 27.Be5 Ra7 28.Nd4
b4 29.c4 a4 30.Bf3 b3 31.axb3 axb3 32.Re3 h5 33.Rde1 Ba4
34.Nb5 Rd7 35.Rd1 Rxd1+ 36.Bxd1 Ne4 37.Rd3 Rxc4 38.Nd4 Nf2
39.Bxb3 Nxd3 40.Bxc4 Nxe5 41.fxe5 Bd7 42.Kc2 Bd8 43.Bb5 Ke7
44.Kd3 Bc7 45.Bxd7 Kxd7 46.Nf3 g5 47.Kd4 g4 48.Ne1 Bb6+ 49.Kc4
f4 50.Kd3 Bf2 51.Nc2 Bg1 52.Ke4 Bxh2 53.Nd4 h4 54.Ne2 h3
55.gxh3 f3 56.Ke3 fxe2 57.Kxe2 gxh3 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "E07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "112"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.d4 Nbd7 7.b3
c6 8.Bb2 b6 9.Nbd2 Bb7 10.cxd5 cxd5 11.Ne5 Nxe5 12.dxe5 Nd7
13.Rc1 Rc8 14.Rxc8 Qxc8 15.e4 Qa8 16.exd5 Bxd5 17.Bxd5 Qxd5
18.Nc4 Qc6 19.Nd6 Nc5 20.Qd4 a5 21.Ba3 Rd8 22.Bxc5 bxc5 23.Rc1
f6 24.Qg4 Qd7 25.Nc4 f5 26.Qf3 a4 27.Kg2 axb3 28.axb3 Qd4
29.Rc2 Bg5 30.h4 Bh6 31.Ra2 g6 32.Ra6 Qd5 33.Rd6 Rxd6 34.exd6
Bf8 35.Qxd5 exd5 36.d7 Be7 37.Ne5 c4 38.bxc4 dxc4 39.Kf1 f4
40.Nc6 Kf7 41.d8=Q Bxd8 42.Nxd8+ Ke7 43.Nb7 Ke6 44.Ke2 fxg3
45.fxg3 c3 46.Nc5+ Kd5 47.Nd3 Ke4 48.Nc5+ Kd5 49.Nd7 c2 50.Kd2
Ke4 51.g4 h6 52.Kxc2 Kf4 53.Nf6 Kg3 54.g5 h5 55.Kd3 Kxh4
56.Ne4 Kg4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[Black "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[ECO "E87"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "162"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 O-O 5.f3 d6 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 Nh5
8.Qd2 f5 9.exf5 gxf5 10.O-O-O a6 11.Kb1 Nd7 12.Nge2 Ndf6
13.Nc1 Bd7 14.Bd3 Qe8 15.Bc2 b5 16.c5 b4 17.N3e2 f4 18.Bf2 e4
19.Bd4 e3 20.Qxb4 Qf7 21.Nc3 Rfb8 22.Qa3 dxc5 23.Qxc5 Rb7
24.N1e2 Rab8 25.b3 Bf8 26.Qc4 Bd6 27.Qd3 Nxd5 28.Nxd5 Bb5
29.Qxh7+ Qxh7 30.Bxh7+ Kxh7 31.Ndc3 Bc6 32.Nc1 Rg8 33.Rhg1
Rbb8 34.Nd3 Rbe8 35.Rde1 Rg6 36.Rc1 Ba3 37.Rc2 Rd8 38.Ne2 Bb5
39.Rxc7+ Kg8 40.Rc3 a5 41.Nexf4 Nxf4 42.Nxf4 Rxd4 43.Nxg6 e2
44.Kc2 Bb4 45.Rc8+ Kg7 46.Ne5 Rd2+ 47.Kc1 Rxa2 48.Kb1 Rd2
49.Rc2 Rd5 50.Nc4 e1=Q+ 51.Rxe1 Bxe1 52.Kb2 Bb4 53.f4 Rd4
54.g3 Kf6 55.h4 Be1 56.Nxa5 Bxg3 57.h5 Bxf4 58.Rc5 Be2 59.Nc4
Bh6 60.Rc6+ Kg5 61.Nd6 Bf8 62.Rc2 Bxh5 63.Rg2+ Bg4 64.Nc4 Re4
65.Kc3 Kf6 66.Rf2+ Bf5 67.b4 Kg5 68.Rg2+ Kf4 69.Rf2+ Kg4
70.Rg2+ Kf3 71.Rg5 Kf4 72.Rg1 Be7 73.Rf1+ Kg5 74.Rg1+ Kh6
75.Rh1+ Kg7 76.Rg1+ Kf7 77.Rf1 Bf6+ 78.Kd2 Ke6 79.Ne3 Rd4+
80.Ke1 Bh4+ 81.Ke2 Bd3+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Koblents"]
[Black "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 O-O 5.e3 d6 6.Bd3 Bxc3+
7.Qxc3 e5 8.dxe5 dxe5 9.Ne2 e4 10.Bc2 Qe7 11.b3 Nc6 12.a3 Bf5
13.Bb2 Rfe8 14.Nd4 Nxd4 15.Qxd4 c5 16.Qc3 Rad8 17.O-O Bg4
18.f3 exf3 19.gxf3 Bh3 20.Rfe1 Nh5 21.Kh1 Qh4 22.Re2 Rd6
23.Rg1 f6 24.Qe1 Qxe1 25.Rgxe1 f5 26.Bc1 Rde6 27.e4 fxe4
28.Rxe4 Nf6 29.Rxe6 Bxe6 30.Kg2 Kf7 31.Kf2 Rd8 32.Be3 b6 33.a4
g6 34.a5 Bf5 35.Bxf5 gxf5 36.Ke2 Re8 37.Kf2 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[Black "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "78"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 O-O 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 a5 7.e3
a4 8.Bd3 d6 9.Ne2 Qe7 10.Bd2 e5 11.dxe5 dxe5 12.Ng3 Na6 13.Qc2
Nc5 14.Bf5 Bxf5 15.Qxf5 Rfd8 16.O-O-O Nb3+ 17.Kc2 Nxd2 18.Rxd2
Qc5 19.Rxd8+ Rxd8 20.Kb1 Qd6 21.Qc2 Qd7 22.h3 Ne8 23.Ne4 Qc6
24.f3 Nd6 25.Rd1 Rc8 26.Nxd6 cxd6 27.Qd3 g6 28.e4 Qa6 29.Rc1
Rc5 30.Rd1 Rc6 31.Qd5 Rc5 32.Qxd6 Qxc4 33.Qd3 Qxd3+ 34.Rxd3 b5
35.Rc3 Rxc3 36.bxc3 Kf8 37.c4 Ke7 38.Kc2 Kd6 39.cxb5 Kc5
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "D60"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "55"]

1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 Be7 6.Nc3 O-O 7.Bd3
dxc4 8.Bxc4 a6 9.a4 b6 10.O-O Bb7 11.Qe2 Nd5 12.Bxd5 exd5
13.Bxe7 Qxe7 14.a5 Rfe8 15.Qc2 Qd6 16.Rfe1 Re6 17.Ne2 c5
18.dxc5 bxc5 19.b4 c4 20.Red1 Bc6 21.Ned4 Ree8 22.Rab1 Nf6
23.Ne2 Red8 24.Nc3 Qc7 25.h3 g6 26.Rb2 Rab8 27.Nd4 Be8 28.Rdb1
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[Black "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "49"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.c3 Nf6 6.Bf4 Bg4 7.Qb3
Na5 8.Qa4+ Bd7 9.Qc2 Qb6 10.Nf3 Bb5 11.Bxb5+ Qxb5 12.Na3 Qb6
13.Qa4+ Nc6 14.O-O e6 15.Nb5 Rc8 16.Nd6+ Bxd6 17.Bxd6 Ne4
18.Ba3 Qa5 19.Qb3 b5 20.Rad1 Qb6 21.Nd2 Na5 22.Qb4 Nc6 23.Qb3
Na5 24.Qb4 Nc6 25.Qb3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[Black "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[ECO "C71"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "37"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. c4 Bd7 6. Nc3 g6
7. d4 Bg7 8. Bg5 f6 9. Be3 Nge7 10. d5 Na5 11. Bxd7+ Qxd7
12. Nd2 c5 13. b4 cxb4 14. Na4 O-O 15. Nb6 Qc7 16. Qa4 Rad8
17. Qxa5 f5 18. f3 fxe4 19. fxe4 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[Black "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[ECO "A54"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "54"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 e5 4. e4 exd4 5. Qxd4 Nc6 6. Qd2 a5
7. b3 a4 8. Rb1 axb3 9. axb3 g6 10. Nge2 Bg7 11. g3 Ne5
12. Bg2 Bg4 13. Qe3 O-O 14. h3 Bc8 15. O-O Re8 16. Bb2 c6
17. Rfd1 Qc7 18. Qc1 Ned7 19. Qc2 Nc5 20. Nd4 Qb6 21. Ba1 h5
22. b4 Ne6 23. Nde2 Ng5 24. Nf4 Qc7 25. b5 Ne6 26. Nfe2 Ng5
27. Nf4 Ne6 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[Black "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[ECO "E67"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "100"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O d6 6. Nc3 e5
7. d4 Nbd7 8. Qc2 exd4 9. Nxd4 Nb6 10. Qd3 c6 11. e4 Re8
12. Nc2 Ng4 13. Ne3 Ne5 14. Qe2 Be6 15. b3 Nexc4 16. bxc4 Bxc3
17. Rb1 Qe7 18. Rd1 Rad8 19. Qc2 Bg7 20. Ba3 c5 21. Bb2 Bxb2
22. Rxb2 Bd7 23. Re1 Bc6 24. f3 Qe5 25. Rbb1 Qd4 26. Qf2 Ba4
27. Bf1 Rd7 28. Rxb6 axb6 29. Nd5 Qxf2+ 30. Kxf2 Rdd8 31. Nf6+
Kf8 32. Nxe8 Bxe8 33. Rb1 Ra8 34. Rb2 Ra3 35. Be2 Bc6 36. Ke1
Ke7 37. Kd2 Kd7 38. Bd3 Kc7 39. f4 Bd7 40. Be2 f6 41. Bd3 Be6
42. Bf1 b5 43. Rxb5 Rxa2+ 44. Ke3 Bd7 45. Rb1 Rxh2 46. Be2 Bc6
47. Rg1 Bxe4 48. Kxe4 Rxe2+ 49. Kd5 Kd7 50. Rd1 f5 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "E60"]
[WhiteElo "2203"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "135"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.e4 d6 6.Ne2 e5 7.O-O Nc6
8.d5 Ne7 9.Nbc3 Nh5 10.Be3 f5 11.Qd2 Nf6 12.f3 fxe4 13.Nxe4
Nf5 14.Bg5 c5 15.dxc6 bxc6 16.Nxf6+ Bxf6 17.Bxf6 Qxf6 18.f4
Bd7 19.Rfe1 Rae8 20.Nc3 exf4 21.Rxe8 Rxe8 22.Qxf4 Qe7 23.Rd1
Kg7 24.Ne4 d5 25.cxd5 cxd5 26.Qc7 Ba4 27.Qc3+ Qe5 28.Rxd5 Qxc3
29.Nxc3 Bc2 30.Rd2 Ne3 31.Rd7+ Kh6 32.Rxa7 Ng4 33.Bc6 Re1+
34.Kg2 Bd3 35.Bb5 Bxb5 36.Nxb5 Rb1 37.b3 Rb2+ 38.Kf3 Nxh2+
39.Ke4 Nf1 40.Kf3 Nh2+ 41.Kf4 Rf2+ 42.Ke4 Nf1 43.g4 Nh2 44.a4
Nxg4 45.a5 Nf6+ 46.Kd4 Rf4+ 47.Kd3 Nd5 48.Rd7 Nb4+ 49.Kc3 Na6
50.Kb2 Nb4 51.Nd4 Nd3+ 52.Kc3 Nc5 53.Rc7 Ne4+ 54.Kd3 Nd6
55.Rd7 Nc8 56.Rd8 Na7 57.b4 g5 58.Rd7 Nc8 59.Rc7 Rf8 60.b5 g4
61.b6 g3 62.Nf5+ Kg5 63.Nxg3 Nxb6 64.axb6 Rb8 65.b7 h6
66. Ne4+ Kf4 67.Nc5 Ke5 68.Rc8 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.e3 b6 3.Bd3 Bb7 4.Nf3 c5 5.Nbd2 Nc6 6.a3 e6 7.O-O
Be7 8.b3 O-O 9.Bb2 d6 10.Qe2 Nd7 11.Rad1 Qc7 12.Ne4 d5 13.Ng3
Na5 14.c4 Nf6 15.dxc5 bxc5 16.Qc2 h6 17.Qc3 Qb6 18.Bc2 dxc4
19.Rd7 Rfe8 20.bxc4 Bxf3 21.gxf3 Nxc4 22.Ba1 Nd6 23.Ne4 Ndxe4
24.Bxe4 Bf8 25.Rd2 Nxe4 26.fxe4 e5 27.f4 Qg6+ 28.Rg2 Qxe4
29.fxe5 Re6 30.Rf4 Qb1+ 31.Rf1 Qe4 32.Rf4 Qb1+ 33.Rf1 Qb6
34.Qc4 Rd8 35.Bc3 Rd7 36.Qg4 Qb3 37.Bd2 Rxd2 38.Rxd2 Qxe3+
39.Rff2 Rg6 40.Qxg6 fxg6 41.Rd8 Qg5+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[Black "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[ECO "E70"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Bg5 d6 5.e4 Nbd7 6.f3 c5 7.d5 a6
8.Qd2 h6 9.Be3 Qa5 10.Nh3 Nb6 11.Nf2 Qb4 12.Ncd1 a5 13.Be2
Nfd7 14.Rc1 Ne5 15.b3 O-O 16.O-O g5 17.Qc2 a4 18.Bd2 axb3
19.axb3 Qa3 20.Bc3 Qa2 21.Bb2 Qa7 22.Ne3 Qb8 23.Bc3 e6 24.dxe6
fxe6 25.Rfd1 Bd7 26.Rd2 Nc6 27.e5 dxe5 28.Qe4 Rf4 29.Qb1 Qf8
30.Nd3 Rf7 31.Ng4 Rf5 32.Bf1 h5 33.Ngf2 Be8 34.Ne4 Nd7 35.b4
b6 36.bxc5 bxc5 37.Qb7 Ra4 38.Qxc6 Rxc4 39.Qxe6+ Qf7 40.Qxf7+
Kxf7 41.Nd6+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[Black "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[ECO "A22"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "114"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.g3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 Nxc3 6.bxc3 c5
7.Rb1 Nc6 8.d3 Be7 9.Nf3 O-O 10.O-O Qc7 11.Be3 Bf5 12.Qa4 Rab8
13.Rfc1 h6 14.g4 Bd7 15.Qe4 Qd6 16.g5 f6 17.gxf6 Rxf6 18.Nd2
Kh8 19.Bf3 b5 20.Qd5 Qc7 21.Bxc5 Rg6+ 22.Kh1 e4 23.Nxe4 Be6
24.Qh5 Bf7 25.Qf5 Ne5 26.Bxe7 Qxe7 27.Bh5 Rf8 28.f4 Rg5
29.fxg5 Bxh5 30.Qh3 Bxe2 31.Rf1 Bxd3 32.Rxf8+ Qxf8 33.Re1 Nf3
34.Nf2 Nxe1 35.Nxd3 Qa8+ 36.Kg1 Nf3+ 37.Kf2 Nxg5 38.Qf5 a6
39.h4 Ne4+ 40.Ke3 Nxc3 41.Nf4 Qe8+ 42.Kd3 Nxa2 43.Ng6+ Kg8
44.h5 Nb4+ 45.Kd4 a5 46.Kc5 Qc6+ 47.Kd4 Qc4+ 48.Ke3 Qc3+
49.Ke2 Qc2+ 50.Qxc2 Nxc2 51.Ne7+ Kf7 52.Nc6 a4 53.Kd2 Na3
54.Kc3 Nc4 55.Nd4 Nd6 56.Kb4 Kf6 57.Kc5 Nf5 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[Black "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[ECO "A47"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 b6 3.Bg5 Bb7 4.e3 h6 5.Bh4 d6 6.Nbd2 Nbd7 7.Be2
g6 8.O-O Bg7 9.a4 a5 10.c3 O-O 11.Qc2 e5 12.dxe5 Nxe5 13.Nd4
Qe7 14.Rac1 c5 15.Nb5 d5 16.f4 Nc6 17.Bf3 Qd7 18.Rfd1 Na7
19.Nc4 Nxb5 20.axb5 Qe6 21.Ne5 Ne8 22.e4 Nc7 23.exd5 Bxd5
24.Bxd5 Nxd5 25.Re1 Rfe8 26.Nc4 Qd7 27.Qd2 Re6 28.Red1 Re4
29.Qxd5 Qxd5 30.Rxd5 Rxc4 31.Rd8+ Rxd8 32.Bxd8 a4 33.Ra1 Bf8
34.Bxb6 a3 35.Rxa3 Re4 36.Ra8 Kg7 37.Bc7 Re2 38.c4 f6 39.Ra7
Kg8 40.b6 Rxb2 41.b7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[ECO "D03"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "53"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Bg5 c5 4.dxc5 e6 5.Nbd2 Bxc5 6.e3 Nbd7
7.Bd3 h6 8.Bh4 Be7 9.O-O O-O 10.Qe2 b6 11.Rad1 Bb7 12.c4 Rc8
13.Nb3 dxc4 14.Bxc4 Qc7 15.Bb5 Bd6 16.Nbd4 Ne5 17.Bxf6 Nxf3+
18.Nxf3 gxf6 19.Ba6 Rfd8 20.Bxb7 Qxb7 21.Nd4 f5 22.h3 Be5
23.Nf3 Bf6 24.b3 Kh7 25.Rxd8 Rxd8 26.Rd1 Rxd1+ 27.Qxd1 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[Black "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[ECO "A53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "114"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nf3 Nbd7 4.g3 e5 5.Bg2 Be7 6.Nc3 O-O 7.O-O
c6 8.e4 Re8 9.h3 Qc7 10.Be3 Nf8 11.Rc1 Ng6 12.Ne1 exd4 13.Bxd4
Be6 14.Nd5 cxd5 15.cxd5 Qd7 16.dxe6 Qxe6 17.Qb3 Qxb3 18.axb3
Bd8 19.Nd3 Ne5 20.Nxe5 dxe5 21.Be3 Re6 22.Rfd1 Bb6 23.Bxb6
Rxb6 24.Rd3 Kf8 25.Rc5 Re8 26.Kf1 Rc6 27.Rxc6 bxc6 28.Rc3 Rc8
29.Rc5 Nd7 30.Ra5 Rc7 31.Ke1 Ke7 32.Bf1 Kd6 33.Bc4 Nc5 34.f3
Rb7 35.Ra3 g6 36.Kd2 f5 37.exf5 gxf5 38.Ke3 a5 39.g4 f4+
40.Kd2 a4 41.bxa4 Rxb2+ 42.Ke1 Rb4 43.Bg8 Nxa4 44.Bxh7 Nc5
45.g5 e4 46.fxe4 Ne6 47.Rd3+ Ke5 48.h4 Rb1+ 49.Kf2 Rh1 50.Bf5
Nc5 51.Rd8 Nxe4+ 52.Bxe4 Kxe4 53.g6 Rh2+ 54.Kf1 Rh1+ 55.Kf2
Rh2+ 56.Kf1 Rh1+ 57.Kf2 Rh2+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[Black "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[ECO "E34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.e3 O-O 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.Qxc3
a5 8.Nf3 Nc6 9.b3 Bd7 10.Bb2 a4 11.b4 dxc4 12.Bxc4 Na7 13.Ne5
Bb5 14.Ba2 Nc8 15.Qc2 Ne7 16.h4 Ra6 17.Rc1 Nfd5 18.Bb1 f5
19.Qc5 c6 20.Bd3 Bxd3 21.Nxd3 Nc8 22.Qc2 Ra7 23.Nc5 Qd6
24.Nxa4 Nxe3 25.fxe3 Qg3+ 26.Kf1 f4 27.Nc5 fxe3+ 28.Kg1 Rf2
29.Qe4 Nd6 30.Qxe6+ Kh8 31.Rh2 Ra8 32.Bc3 Raf8 33.Nd3 e2 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[Black "Andre Lilienthal"]
[ECO "E33"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "155"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 Nc6 5.e3 e5 6.d5 Ne7 7.Ne2
O-O 8.a3 Bxc3+ 9.Nxc3 d6 10.g3 Nd7 11.Bg2 f5 12.f4 a5 13.b3 e4
14.O-O Nc5 15.Rd1 c6 16.Bf1 cxd5 17.cxd5 Bd7 18.Bc4 Rc8 19.Bb2
Qe8 20.Qe2 Kh8 21.Rdc1 Ng8 22.b4 Nd3 23.Bxd3 exd3 24.Qxd3 Nf6
25.Re1 Qg6 26.Re2 Rfe8 27.Rae1 Ne4 28.Nxe4 fxe4 29.Qd4 Bg4
30.Rf2 Bf3 31.f5 Qf7 32.f6 gxf6 33.Qxf6+ Qxf6 34.Bxf6+ Kg8
35.bxa5 Rc5 36.Rb2 Kf7 37.Bd4 Rxa5 38.Rxb7+ Re7 39.Rxe7+ Kxe7
40.Ra1 Bg4 41.a4 Be2 42.Bb6 Rxd5 43.a5 Ba6 44.Ra4 Rd1+ 45.Kg2
Rd2+ 46.Kh3 h5 47.Rxe4+ Kf7 48.Rf4+ Kg6 49.g4 Bc8 50.Kg3 hxg4
51.Rc4 Be6 52.Ra4 Bd7 53.Rc4 Be6 54.Rb4 Ra2 55.Rd4 d5 56.Rf4
Bf5 57.Rb4 Kh5 58.Bc7 Be4 59.Rb8 Kg5 60.Rg8+ Kf5 61.Rf8+ Kg5
62.Bd8+ Kh6 63.Kxg4 Rxh2 64.Rh8+ Bh7 65.Bb6 Ra2 66.Kf4 Ra4+
67.Ke5 Kg7 68.Rxh7+ Kxh7 69.Kxd5 Kg6 70.Kc6 Kf7 71.Kb7 Re4
72.a6 Re7+ 73.Kc6 Re6+ 74.Kb5 Re5+ 75.Bc5 Re8 76.a7 Ke6 77.Kc6
Rg8 78.Bb6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[Black "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[ECO "C49"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "78"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bb4 5.O-O O-O 6.Bxc6 dxc6
7.d3 Re8 8.h3 Bd6 9.Nh2 c5 10.Qe2 Nd7 11.Nd5 Nf8 12.c3 f5
13.Nf3 f4 14.d4 c6 15.dxc5 Bxc5 16.Qc4 Ne6 17.Nb4 a5 18.Nc2 b6
19.Qe2 Ba6 20.c4 Bd6 21.b3 c5 22.g3 Bb7 23.Nh4 Nd4 24.Qd3 Qf6
25.Bd2 Rad8 26.Rae1 Bc7 27.Bc1 Nf5 28.Qf3 Nxh4 29.gxh4 Qxh4
30.Kh2 Rd6 31.Rg1 Bc8 32.Rd1 Rh6 33.Rd3 Bxh3 34.Qxh3 Qxf2+
35.Rg2 Rxh3+ 36.Rxh3 Qf1 37.Bb2 f3 38.Rd2 f2 39.Rg3 Re6 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Koblents"]
[Black "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[ECO "B84"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be2 a6 7.a4
Qc7 8.O-O b6 9.f4 Bb7 10.Bf3 Nbd7 11.Kh1 Be7 12.e5 dxe5
13.fxe5 Nxe5 14.Bf4 Nfd7 15.Re1 Bxf3 16.Nxf3 f6 17.Nxe5 fxe5
18.Bg5 Bxg5 19.Qh5+ g6 20.Qxg5 O-O 21.Rad1 Rf7 22.Ne4 Raf8
23.c3 Qc6 24.h3 Qxa4 25.b4 Qc6 26.Qe3 a5 27.Kh2 axb4 28.cxb4
Qc4 29.b5 Nc5 30.Nxc5 bxc5 31.Qxe5 Qxb5 32.Qxe6 Qb8+ 33.Kg1
Qc7 34.Rd6 Rc8 35.Rf1 Rf8 36.Rd5 c4 37.Rd4 Qc5 38.Rf4 c3
39.Kh2 Qc7 40.Rc4 Qb8 41.Kg1 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Koblents"]
[Black "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[ECO "E17"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "98"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.O-O d6 7.Nc3
Ne4 8.Qc2 Nxc3 9.Qxc3 O-O 10.Ne1 Bxg2 11.Nxg2 Nc6 12.d5 Bf6
13.Qd3 Ne5 14.Qc2 Qd7 15.f4 Ng6 16.e4 c5 17.Rd1 exd5 18.cxd5
Rfe8 19.a4 Re7 20.e5 dxe5 21.f5 Nf8 22.Qe4 h6 23.h4 Qb7 24.g4
Nh7 25.Ra3 Rd7 26.Rh3 Re8 27.Kf2 Bd8 28.g5 h5 29.Nf4 Bxg5
30.hxg5 Nxg5 31.Qg2 Nxh3+ 32.Nxh3 f6 33.Qg6 Red8 34.Bh6 Rf7
35.Qg2 Kf8 36.Be3 Rfd7 37.Qg6 Rxd5 38.Rg1 Rd1 39.Qxh5 Rxg1
40.Nxg1 Qf7 41.Qh1 Kg8 42.a5 Qb3 43.Ne2 Qxb2 44.axb6 axb6
45.Qe4 Qa2 46.Qc6 Qc2 47.Qe6+ Kh7 48.Kf3 Qd1 49.Qxb6 Qf1+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[ECO "D87"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "134"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 c5
7.Bc4 Bg7 8.Ne2 O-O 9.O-O cxd4 10.cxd4 Nc6 11.Be3 Bg4 12.f3
Na5 13.Rc1 Nxc4 14.Rxc4 Bd7 15.Qb3 Qa5 16.Rc5 Qa6 17.Nc3 e6
18.Rb1 b6 19.Rc7 Rfd8 20.a4 Rac8 21.Rxc8 Rxc8 22.Nb5 Qa5
23.Rd1 Bxb5 24.Qxb5 Qc3 25.Kf2 Qa3 26.Rd2 Bf8 27.d5 exd5
28.exd5 Rd8 29.Qc6 Qb4 30.Rd4 Qb2+ 31.Kg3 Qe2 32.Bf4 g5 33.Bc7
Re8 34.Rg4 h6 35.h4 Bg7 36.hxg5 h5 37.Rf4 Qe7 38.Kh3 Rc8 39.d6
Qe6+ 40.g4 hxg4+ 41.Rxg4 Re8 42.Qe4 Qd7 43.Qd3 Re5 44.g6 f5
45.Qc4+ Kf8 46.Rf4 Rc5 47.Qb3 Be5 48.Rh4 f4+ 49.Rg4 Kg7 50.Bd8
Bxd6 51.Bf6+ Kxf6 52.g7 Rh5+ 53.Kg2 Qxg7 54.Rxg7 Kxg7 55.Qe6
Rg5+ 56.Kf1 Bc5 57.Qd7+ Kf6 58.Qxa7 Be3 59.Qc7 Ra5 60.Qd6+ Kf7
61.Qd7+ Kf6 62.Ke2 Rc5 63.Kd3 Ra5 64.Qd6+ Kf7 65.Qc6 Ke7
66.Ke4 Kf7 67.Qd6 Rxa4+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "C74"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 d6 5.c3 f5 6.exf5 Bxf5 7.d4
e4 8.Ng1 d5 9.Ne2 Bd6 10.Nf4 Ne7 11.Bb3 Bxf4 12.Bxf4 Ng6
13.Qh5 O-O 14.Be3 Na5 15.Nd2 Nxb3 16.axb3 Qd7 17.h3 Be6 18.Qe2
Nf4 19.Bxf4 Rxf4 20.O-O-O a5 21.Qe3 Rf6 22.Kc2 Raf8 23.Rhf1
Qf7 24.f3 Qg6 25.fxe4 Rxf1 26.Rxf1 Rxf1 27.Nxf1 Qxg2+ 28.Nd2
dxe4 29.h4 Qh1 30.Qxe4 Qxe4+ 31.Nxe4 Bf5 32.Kd3 Kf7 33.Ke3
Bxe4 34.Kxe4 Ke6 35.c4 g6 36.Kf4 h6 37.Kg4 Kf6 38.Kf4 g5+
39.hxg5+ hxg5+ 40.Kg4 Kg6 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.??"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Andre Lilienthal"]
[Black "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[ECO "E46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "134"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Ne2 d5 6.a3 Be7 7.Ng3
Nbd7 8.Bd3 c5 9.cxd5 exd5 10.Nf5 Re8 11.Nxe7+ Qxe7 12.O-O b6
13.dxc5 bxc5 14.b4 Ne5 15.Bb5 Rd8 16.bxc5 Qxc5 17.Qd4 Qe7
18.f4 Ng6 19.a4 Nh4 20.Ba3 Qe6 21.e4 Nxe4 22.Nxe4 Nf5 23.Qd2
Qxe4 24.Rae1 Qd4+ 25.Qxd4 Nxd4 26.Be7 Be6 27.Bxd8 Rxd8 28.Bd3
g6 29.Rb1 a5 30.Rb6 Rc8 31.Ra6 Rc3 32.Bb5 Nb3 33.Rc6 d4 34.Rf3
Rxc6 35.Bxc6 Nc5 36.Bb5 Bf5 37.Rf1 Nb3 38.Kf2 Bc2 39.Ke2 Be4
40.g3 Bf5 41.Re1 Kg7 42.Bc4 Nc5 43.Kf3 d3 44.Ke3 Kf6 45.Rb1
Bd7 46.Kd4 Ne6+ 47.Bxe6 fxe6 48.Kxd3 Bxa4 49.Kd4 Bc2 50.Rb5 h5
51.h4 Bf5 52.Rxa5 Bh3 53.Re5 Bg2 54.Kc5 Bd5 55.Kd6 Bb3 56.Re3
Bd5 57.Re5 Kf7 58.Rg5 Bf3 59.Re5 Bd5 60.Kc5 Kf6 61.Kd4 Bf3
62.Rc5 Bg2 63.Rg5 Bf3 64.Kc5 Bg4 65.Kd6 Bf5 66.Kc5 Bg4 67.Re5
Bf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Salomon Flohr"]
[ECO "D22"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 a6 4.e3 Bg4 5.Bxc4 e6 6.Qb3 Bxf3
7.gxf3 Ra7 8.Bd2 Nf6 9.Nc3 Nbd7 10.Be2 c5 11.d5 e5 12.a4 Bd6
13.O-O Qe7 14.Kh1 e4 15.Rg1 exf3 16.Bxf3 Ne5 17.Be2 O-O 18.f4
Ng6 19.Bd3 Raa8 20.Qc2 Qc7 21.b3 Rfe8 22.Raf1 Rad8 23.Qd1 Bxf4
24.exf4 Nxd5 25.Nxd5 Rxd5 26.Rg3 Red8 27.Qe2 Qd7 28.Rff3 Rd4
29.Bc3 Re8 30.Qf1 Nh4 31.Bxd4 cxd4 32.Rf2 Re3 33.Kg1 Qe7
34.Re2 Qc5 35.Rc2 Qf8 36.Rxe3 dxe3 37.Qh3 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Alexander Koblents"]
[ECO "D28"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "75"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c5 3.c4 dxc4 4.e3 Nf6 5.Bxc4 e6 6.O-O a6 7.Qe2
Nc6 8.Rd1 b5 9.dxc5 Qc7 10.Bd3 Bxc5 11.a4 bxa4 12.Rxa4 Nb4
13.Bb5+ Nd7 14.Ng5 O-O 15.Bd2 Rb8 16.Bxd7 Bxd7 17.Rxb4 Bxb4
18.Qd3 g6 19.Bxb4 Rxb4 20.Qxd7 Qxd7 21.Rxd7 Rc8 22.Nd2 Rc1+
23.Nf1 Rxb2 24.Ne4 a5 25.g4 f5 26.Nf6+ Kf8 27.Nxh7+ Ke8
28.Nf6+ Kf8 29.h4 Rbb1 30.Kg2 Rxf1 31.g5 Rfd1 32.Ra7 Rh1 33.h5
gxh5 34.Kf3 Rhg1 35.Kf4 Rb5 36.f3 h4 37.Rh7 a4 38.Rd7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[Black "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[ECO "D51"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 c6 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bd3
Be7 8.Qc2 Nf8 9.Nf3 Bg4 10.O-O-O Ne6 11.Bh4 Qa5 12.Kb1 O-O-O
13.Bf5 Bxf5 14.Qxf5 g6 15.Qh3 Rde8 16.Ne5 Rhf8 17.Nxf7 Bb4
18.Ng5 Kd7 19.Ne2 Bd6 20.Bg3 Nh5 21.Rhf1 h6 22.Nxe6 Rxe6
23.Bxd6 Kxd6 24.g4 Nf6 25.Nf4 Re4 26.Nxg6 Rg8 27.Ne5 Qc7
28.Qxh6 Qg7 29.Qxg7 Rxg7 30.Rc1 Nxg4 31.Rg1 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "D03"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bg5 c5 4. dxc5 e6 5. Nbd2 Bxc5 6. e3
Nc6 7. Bd3 h6 8. Bh4 Be7 9. O-O b6 10. e4 dxe4 11. Nxe4 Bb7
12. Qe2 Nxe4 13. Qxe4 Bxh4 14. Nxh4 Qd4 15. Rad1 O-O-O
16. Qxd4 Rxd4 17. Nf3 Rb4 18. b3 Rg4 19. h3 Rf4 20. Be2 g5
21. Rd2 Rd8 22. Rfd1 Rxd2 23. Rxd2 Rf5 24. Kf1 Rc5 25. c4 Ra5
26. a4 Rc5 27. Nd4 Nxd4 28. Rxd4 Re5 29. Bd3 a5 30. f3 f5
31. Kf2 Kc7 32. g3 Rc5 33. Bc2 Bc8 34. Rd1 f4 35. Rg1 fxg3+
36. Kxg3 Re5 37. Kf2 Bb7 38. Rd1 Rc5 39. Ke3 Bc8 40. Be4 h5
41. h4 gxh4 42. Rh1 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[Black "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[ECO "C57"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "181"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 b5 6.Bxb5 Qxd5
7.Bxc6+ Qxc6 8.O-O Bb7 9.Qf3 e4 10.Qb3 O-O-O 11.Qh3+ Kb8
12.Nc3 Rd7 13.Re1 Bb4 14.d3 exd3 15.cxd3 Rhd8 16.Be3 Bxc3
17.bxc3 Qxc3 18.Rab1 Qxd3 19.Qf3 Qd5 20.Qxd5 Nxd5 21.Bd4 h6
22.Ne4 Nb6 23.Bc3 Bxe4 24.Rxe4 Rd1+ 25.Re1 Rxb1 26.Rxb1 f6
27.h4 c5 28.Kf1 Kc7 29.Ke2 Kc6 30.g4 Rd7 31.g5 hxg5 32.hxg5
Nd5 33.Bd2 fxg5 34.Rg1 Nf4+ 35.Kd1 Ne6 36.Kc1 Rd5 37.Re1 Kd6
38.Re3 Rf5 39.Rd3+ Kc6 40.Be3 Rd5 41.Rb3 Rd8 42.Ra3 Rd7 43.Ra4
Rf7 44.Kd1 Nd4 45.Ra6+ Kb5 46.Rg6 Kc4 47.Rxg5 Rb7 48.Kc1 a5
49.Bxd4 Kxd4 50.Kc2 Rf7 51.Rg4+ Kd5 52.Rg5+ Kc6 53.Kb3 Rf3+
54.Kc4 Rf4+ 55.Kb3 a4+ 56.Ka3 Kb5 57.Rxg7 Rf3+ 58.Kb2 a3+
59.Kb1 Rxf2 60.Rb7+ Ka4 61.Rb8 Rh2 62.Rb7 Rg2 63.Rb8 Re2
64.Rb7 Rh2 65.Rb8 Rg2 66.Rb7 Re2 67.Rb8 Rf2 68.Rb7 c4 69.Rb8
Rh2 70.Rb7 Rg2 71.Rb8 Re2 72.Rb7 Rd2 73.Rb8 Rf2 74.Rb7 Ka5
75.Rb8 Rg2 76.Rb7 Rg1+ 77.Kc2 Ra1 78.Kc3 Rxa2 79.Rb8 Ra1
80.Ra8+ Kb5 81.Rb8+ Kc6 82.Ra8 Kb5 83.Rb8+ Kc5 84.Rc8+ Kd5
85.Rd8+ Kc5 86.Rc8+ Kd6 87.Rd8+ Kc7 88.Ra8 a2 89.Kb2 Rh1
90.Kxa2 Kb6 91.Kb2 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[Black "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[ECO "C43"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "42"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 exd4 4.e5 Ne4 5.Qxd4 d5 6.exd6 Nxd6
7.Nc3 Nc6 8.Qf4 g6 9.Bd2 Bg7 10.O-O-O O-O 11.Bd3 Be6 12.h4 Qf6
13.Qh2 Ne5 14.Nxe5 Qxe5 15.Qxe5 Bxe5 16.h5 Rfe8 17.b3 Bf5
18.Bxf5 Nxf5 19.Nd5 c6 20.Ne3 Nxe3 21.Bxe3 Rad8 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Andre Lilienthal"]
[Black "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[ECO "E40"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 O-O 6.Bd3 d6
7.Ne2 c5 8.O-O Nc6 9.e4 e5 10.d5 Ne7 11.Bg5 Nd7 12.Ng3 f6
13.Bd2 Rf7 14.Rb1 Nf8 15.Qh5 b6 16.Nf5 Nfg6 17.Rfe1 Qd7 18.Kh1
Ba6 19.Qg4 Rd8 20.a4 Bc8 21.a5 bxa5 22.Nxe7+ Qxe7 23.Qd1 Qc7
24.Qb3 f5 25.exf5 Bxf5 26.Bxf5 Rxf5 27.f3 Qf7 28.Qd1 Rf8
29.Ra1 Nf4 30.Bxf4 Rxf4 31.Qd3 Qf5 32.Qe2 Qf7 33.h3 Qc7
34.Reb1 a6 35.Ra2 Qd8 36.Kh2 Qg5 37.Rxa5 e4 38.fxe4 Qe5 39.Kh1
Rxe4 40.Qd2 Re2 41.Qd3 Re1+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[Black "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[ECO "D44"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "68"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 c6 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.a4 Bb4 7.g3
Qa5 8.Bd2 Nbd7 9.Bg2 O-O 10.O-O Rd8 11.Qc2 c5 12.Rfd1 cxd4
13.Nxd4 a6 14.Ne4 Nxe4 15.Bxe4 Bxd2 16.Rxd2 Nf6 17.Bg2 Rb8
18.Rad1 Bd7 19.Nf3 Bc6 20.Qxc4 Rxd2 21.Nxd2 Rd8 22.Bxc6 bxc6
23.Qf4 Qd5 24.f3 Qc5+ 25.Kf1 e5 26.Qf5 Nd5 27.b4 Ne3+ 28.Ke1
Qd4 29.Qe4 Nxd1 30.Qxd4 Rxd4 31.Kxd1 Rxb4 32.a5 Rb5 33.Nc4 Rc5
34.Nd6 Rd5+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[Black "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[ECO "D13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "158"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 c6 4.cxd5 cxd5 5.Nc3 e6 6.Bf4 Qb6 7.Qb3
Qxb3 8.axb3 Bb4 9.e3 Ne4 10.Rc1 Nc6 11.Bb5 Bd7 12.O-O Ke7
13.Nxe4 dxe4 14.Bxc6 Bxc6 15.Ne5 Rhc8 16.Rc4 Bd6 17.Rfc1 Bxe5
18.Bxe5 f6 19.Bf4 Rd8 20.Rc5 Rd7 21.b4 a6 22.h4 h6 23.Kf1 g5
24.Bg3 Rg8 25.Kg1 Rgd8 26.Kf1 Rd5 27.Kg1 Rf8 28.Kf1 Kd7 29.Kg1
Rf7 30.Kf1 f5 31.hxg5 hxg5 32.Be5 Bb5+ 33.Kg1 Rxc5 34.dxc5 Kc6
35.Rd1 Bd3 36.f3 Kd5 37.Bc3 e5 38.fxe4+ Kxe4 39.Bxe5 Kxe3
40.Re1+ Be2 41.Rc1 f4 42.c6 bxc6 43.Rxc6 Ke4 44.Rf6 Re7 45.Bd6
Rd7 46.Kf2 Bb5 47.Kg1 Kd5 48.Bb8 Rd8 49.Bc7 Rd7 50.Bb8 Rb7
51.Bd6 Bd3 52.g3 Rd7 53.Bb8 Rd8 54.Bc7 Rc8 55.Bd6 Rc1+ 56.Kh2
f3 57.Bc5 Ke5 58.Rf8 g4 59.Re8+ Kf5 60.Rf8+ Ke6 61.Bf2 Rf1
62.Bd4 Be4 63.Bg1 Rb1 64.Re8+ Kf5 65.Rf8+ Kg6 66.Bf2 Rxb2
67.Kg1 Rb1+ 68.Kh2 Rf1 69.Bg1 Bf5 70.Bd4 f2 71.Kg2 Rd1 72.Rf6+
Kg5 73.Rxf5+ Kxf5 74.Bxf2 Ke4 75.Bc5 Rd2+ 76.Kf1 Kf3 77.Ke1
Rd7 78.Bf2 Rd5 79.Kf1 Rd1+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.07"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "D13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.cxd5 cxd5 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bf4 e6 7.e3
Be7 8.Bd3 O-O 9.h3 Bd7 10.O-O a6 11.Rc1 Be8 12.Bb1 Nh5 13.Bh2
f5 14.Na4 Bd6 15.Nc5 Bxh2+ 16.Nxh2 Qe7 17.Qb3 Rf7 18.g4 fxg4
19.hxg4 Nf6 20.f4 b6 21.Qxb6 Rb8 22.Qxa6 e5 23.dxe5 Nxe5
24.fxe5 Qxe5 25.Qe6 Qg3+ 26.Kh1 Rxb2 27.Rc2 Rb8 28.Rg2 Qh4
29.g5 Nh5 30.g6 hxg6 31.Bxg6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.07"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "D03"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "74"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 d5 3. Nf3 c6 4. Nbd2 Qb6 5. e3 Bf5 6. Bd3 Bg6
7. O-O Nbd7 8. Qe2 e6 9. c4 Be7 10. c5 Qd8 11. b4 O-O 12. Bxg6
hxg6 13. b5 e5 14. bxc6 bxc6 15. Qa6 exd4 16. exd4 Qc8
17. Qxc8 Rfxc8 18. Rab1 Bd8 19. Bf4 Bc7 20. Bxc7 Rxc7 21. Rfe1
Nf8 22. Ng5 N6h7 23. Ndf3 Nxg5 24. Nxg5 f6 25. Nf3 Kf7 26. Rb3
Ne6 27. h4 Re8 28. Kf1 Ree7 29. Reb1 Nd8 30. Rb8 Nb7 31. Nd2
Na5 32. Nb3 Nc4 33. Re1 a5 34. Ra8 Rxe1+ 35. Kxe1 Re7+ 36. Kf1
Rb7 37. g3 Rb5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.07"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[ECO "E26"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "166"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.a3 Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 c5 6.e3 b6 7.Bd3
Bb7 8.f3 Nc6 9.Ne2 e5 10.O-O d6 11.e4 Qe7 12.f4 Nd7 13.Be3 f6
14.Kh1 O-O-O 15.fxe5 dxe5 16.d5 Na5 17.Nc1 Kb8 18.Nb3 Nxb3
19.Qxb3 Qd6 20.Rf2 a5 21.Rb1 Ka7 22.Rfb2 Ba6 23.Qd1 Rde8
24.Qf1 Rb8 25.Bc2 Rb7 26.Ba4 Nb8 27.Qf2 Rc8 28.h3 Rcc7 29.Qf5
Bxc4 30.Qxh7 Bd3 31.Bc2 Bxc2 32.Rxc2 Re7 33.Rcb2 Na6 34.c4 Qd7
35.Rb5 Qd6 36.Qh5 Rb8 37.R1b2 Reb7 38.Qd1 Nc7 39.R5b3 Ne8
40.Rb5 Nc7 41.R5b3 Ka6 42.Qg1 Ne8 43.Rb5 Nc7 44.Rc2 Qd7 45.a4
Nxb5 46.axb5+ Ka7 47.Bxc5 bxc5 48.Qxc5+ Ka8 49.d6 Rc8 50.Qd5
Kb8 51.Kh2 Rxb5 52.c5 Rc6 53.Rc3 a4 54.Rc4 a3 55.Ra4 Rbxc5
56.Qb3+ Qb7 57.Rb4 Qxb4 58.Qxb4+ Kc8 59.Qxa3 Rc4 60.Qa8+ Kd7
61.Qf8 Rd4 62.Qxg7+ Kxd6 63.Qxf6+ Kd7 64.Qxe5 Rcc4 65.Qf5+ Ke7
66.e5 Rc6 67.Qf3 Rdc4 68.Qd5 R4c5 69.Qe4 Re6 70.Qb7+ Ke8
71.Qb8+ Kd7 72.Qa7+ Kc6 73.Qa8+ Kc7 74.h4 Rexe5 75.Kg3 Kd7
76.Kf4 Rf5+ 77.Ke4 Rce5+ 78.Kd4 Ra5 79.Qb7+ Ke6 80.Qc6+ Kf7
81.g4 Ra4+ 82.Ke3 Rxg4 83.Qd7+ Kf6 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.07"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[Black "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[ECO "C47"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "90"]

1.e4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6
7.Bd3 d5 8.exd5 cxd5 9.O-O O-O 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Bxf6 Bxf6 12.Qh5
g6 13.Qxd5 Be6 14.Qa5 c6 15.Qa6 Qc7 16.Bc4 Bc8 17.Qa4 Rb8
18.Bb3 a5 19.a3 Ba6 20.Rfe1 Be5 21.Qh4 Kg7 22.Rad1 Rbd8 23.h3
Bf6 24.Qg4 Rxd1 25.Rxd1 Re8 26.Qf3 Re7 27.Ba4 Bb7 28.Qd3 c5
29.b3 Bd4 30.Ne2 Bb2 31.Nc3 Qe5 32.Nb5 Qg5 33.g3 Be4 34.Qe3
Qxe3 35.fxe3 Be5 36.Nd6 Bxc2 37.Rd2 Bxd6 38.Rxd6 c4 39.Kf2 Rb7
40.Bc6 Rxb3 41.a4 Rb6 42.Rd2 Bb3 43.Bb5 c3 44.Rd3 c2 45.Rc3
Rd6 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.07"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[Black "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "131"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 O-O 5.Bg5 d6 6.e3 Bxc3+
7.Qxc3 Qe7 8.Bd3 e5 9.Ne2 Re8 10.O-O Nc6 11.d5 Nb8 12.b4 a5
13.a3 h6 14.Bxf6 Qxf6 15.e4 b6 16.c5 bxc5 17.bxc5 Ba6 18.Nc1
Bxd3 19.Nxd3 c6 20.Rac1 cxd5 21.exd5 dxc5 22.Nxc5 Qd6 23.Rfd1
Nd7 24.Nb7 Qf8 25.d6 Rec8 26.Qh3 Rxc1 27.Rxc1 Rc8 28.Rc7 Rxc7
29.dxc7 Nb6 30.Qd3 Qc8 31.Qd8+ Kh7 32.Qxc8 Nxc8 33.Nxa5 Kg6
34.Nc4 Kf6 35.a4 Ke6 36.a5 Kd7 37.Nxe5+ Kxc7 38.Nxf7 Kb7 39.g4
Ka6 40.Kg2 Kxa5 41.Kg3 Kb5 42.Kf4 Kc5 43.Ke5 Ne7 44.f4 Nc6+
45.Kf5 Ne7+ 46.Ke6 Nd5 47.f5 Kd4 48.Nd6 Nc7+ 49.Kd7 Nd5 50.Ke6
Nc7+ 51.Kf7 Ke5 52.Kxg7 Kxd6 53.Kxh6 Ke5 54.Kg5 Nd5 55.h4 Kd6
56.Kg6 Ke7 57.Kg7 Nf6 58.g5 Ne8+ 59.Kg8 Nd6 60.h5 Nf7 61.g6
Nd6 62.g7 Nf7 63.Kh7 Kf6 64.g8=Q Ng5+ 65.Qxg5+ Kxg5 66.Kg7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.07"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[Black "Alexander Koblents"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "52"]

1.Nf3 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.b3 Be7 5.Bb2 O-O 6.d4 c5 7.Bd3 Nc6
8.O-O b6 9.Nbd2 Bb7 10.Qe2 Rc8 11.Rad1 cxd4 12.exd4 Rc7
13.Rfe1 Qa8 14.Bb1 Rd8 15.a3 a5 16.Rc1 Bf8 17.cxd5 Nxd5 18.Qe4
g6 19.Qh4 Bg7 20.Ne4 h6 21.Qg3 Qb8 22.Rcd1 Nce7 23.Ne5 Nc6
24.Nf3 Nce7 25.Ne5 Nc6 26.Nf3 Nce7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.07"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Andre Lilienthal"]
[Black "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "123"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Nbd7 5.e3 Be7 6.Bd3 O-O 7.O-O
dxc4 8.Bxc4 c5 9.Qe2 a6 10.a4 cxd4 11.exd4 Nb6 12.Bb3 Nbd5
13.Re1 Bb4 14.Bd2 Qd6 15.Bc2 Rd8 16.Ne5 Bd7 17.g4 Bc6 18.g5
Bxc3 19.bxc3 Nd7 20.Rab1 b5 21.Qd3 Nf8 22.Re4 Ne7 23.c4 bxc4
24.Nxc4 Qc7 25.Nb6 Ra7 26.a5 Qb7 27.Bb4 Bb5 28.Qh3 Neg6 29.Bc5
Qc7 30.Qg3 e5 31.Bb3 exd4 32.Qxc7 Rxc7 33.Rxd4 Rxd4 34.Bxd4
Ne6 35.Be3 Ne5 36.Nd5 Rd7 37.Rc1 Rd8 38.f4 Nd4 39.Rd1 Nxb3
40.Nf6+ gxf6 41.Rxd8+ Kg7 42.fxe5 fxe5 43.Bb6 e4 44.Rd6 Bd3
45.Kf2 Nd2 46.Bd4+ Kf8 47.Bf6 e3+ 48.Kg2 Bf1+ 49.Kg1 Bb5
50.Rd8+ Be8 51.Kg2 Nc4 52.Kf3 Nxa5 53.Kxe3 Nc6 54.Ra8 Ne7
55.Bxe7+ Kxe7 56.Rxa6 Kf8 57.Ra8 Ke7 58.Kf4 Bb5 59.Ke5 Bd3
60.Ra7+ Kd8 61.Kf6 Bg6 62.Kg7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.07"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[Black "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[ECO "E34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "94"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.d4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.e3 O-O 6.a3 Be7 7.Nf3
Nbd7 8.c5 c6 9.Bd3 Qc7 10.e4 Nxe4 11.Nxe4 dxe4 12.Bxe4 h6
13.Qe2 b6 14.cxb6 axb6 15.Bd3 Bb4+ 16.Kf1 Bd6 17.Qe4 Nf6
18.Qh4 Nh7 19.Bd2 Ba6 20.Bxa6 Rxa6 21.Qe4 Nf6 22.Qd3 Raa8
23.g3 Rfd8 24.Kg2 Nd5 25.Rhe1 Be7 26.Ne5 Bf6 27.Qe4 Bxe5
28.dxe5 c5 29.Qf3 Qc6 30.Re4 Ne7 31.Bc3 Rd7 32.Rae1 Rad8 33.g4
Ng6 34.Kg3 Qc7 35.h4 Rd5 36.R4e3 h5 37.Kh3 hxg4+ 38.Qxg4 Ne7
39.Rg1 Nf5 40.Re4 Qe7 41.Kh2 Kf8 42.h5 Qd7 43.Rf4 Rd1 44.Rxd1
Qxd1 45.Qxd1 Rxd1 46.Ra4 Rd8 47.Ra7 Ne7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.09"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "C77"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Qe2 Be7 6.c3 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.O-O O-O 9.a4 b4 10.a5 Rb8 11.Bc4 d5 12.exd5 Nxd5 13.d3
Qd6 14.cxb4 Ndxb4 15.Nc3 Bg4 16.Be3 Kh8 17.Ne4 Qg6 18.Nc5 Nc2
19.Nd7 N2d4 20.Bxd4 Nxd4 21.Nxd4 Bxe2 22.Nxf8 Bxf8 23.Nxe2
Rxb2 24.Nc3 Bb4 25.Nd5 Bc5 26.Nxc7 Qd6 27.Nxa6 Bxf2+ 28.Rxf2
Qd4 29.Rf1 e4 30.dxe4 Rxf2 31.Rxf2 Qxc4 32.Nb8 Qb5 33.Rxf7
Qxb8 34.g3 Kg8 35.Rf4 Qb1+ 36.Kf2 Qa2+ 37.Kf3 Qxh2 38.Rf5 Qa2
39.g4 Qa3+ 40.Kf4 Qd6+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.09"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[ECO "B03"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. f4 dxe5 6. fxe5 Nc6
7. Be3 Bf5 8. Nc3 e6 9. Be2 Be7 10. Nf3 O-O 11. O-O f6
12. exf6 Bxf6 13. Qd2 Qe7 14. Rad1 Rad8 15. Qc1 Bg6 16. Kh1
Rd7 17. d5 Nb4 18. a3 Na6 19. b4 Rfd8 20. Bd4 c5 21. Bxf6 gxf6
22. Nh4 exd5 23. Bg4 cxb4 24. axb4 Rc7 25. c5 Nxc5 26. bxc5
Qxc5 27. Nxg6 Qxc3 28. Qh6 Qc6 29. Rde1 f5 30. Bxf5 Rf7
31. Ne7+ Rxe7 32. Qg5+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.09"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "B95"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 a6 7.Be2
Nbd7 8.O-O b5 9.a3 Bb7 10.f4 Be7 11.Bf3 Qb6 12.Kh1 O-O 13.Bh4
Rac8 14.Qd3 Rfd8 15.Rae1 Ne5 16.Qd1 Nxf3 17.Rxf3 b4 18.axb4
Qxb4 19.Na2 Qc4 20.b3 Qc5 21.Rff1 Rd7 22.Qd3 Qa5 23.Nc1 Nxe4
24.Rxe4 Bxh4 25.f5 Bxe4 26.Qxe4 e5 27.Qxh4 exd4 28.f6 Rdc7
29.Qg4 g6 30.Qh4 Qh5 31.Qxd4 Rxc2 32.Nd3 Rd2 33.Rg1 Qf5 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.09"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[Black "Andre Lilienthal"]
[ECO "C98"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "93"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 Nc6 13.dxc5
dxc5 14.Nf1 Be6 15.Ne3 Rfd8 16.Qe2 h6 17.g4 Bf8 18.g5 hxg5
19.Nxg5 g6 20.Qf3 Bg7 21.Nxe6 fxe6 22.Ng2 Rf8 23.Nh4 Nh5
24.Qg2 Nf4 25.Bxf4 Rxf4 26.Nxg6 Rf6 27.Re3 Rd8 28.Rd1 Kh7
29.Rg3 Rxd1+ 30.Bxd1 Bh6 31.Bh5 Qd8 32.Nh4 Qd2 33.Rg6 Qc1+
34.Qf1 Rxg6+ 35.Bxg6+ Kg7 36.Be8 Ne7 37.Qxc1 Bxc1 38.b3 Bb2
39.c4 bxc4 40.bxc4 Nc8 41.Bd7 Nd6 42.Bxe6 Nxe4 43.a4 Kf6
44.Bd5 Nc3 45.Bc6 Nd1 46.Bd5 Nc3 47.Bc6 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.09"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[Black "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[ECO "D51"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "68"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.Nf3 c6 6.Qc2 Be7 7.e3
O-O 8.Rd1 a6 9.a4 Re8 10.Bd3 dxc4 11.Bxc4 Nd5 12.Bxe7 Qxe7
13.O-O Nb4 14.Qb3 b6 15.Ne5 a5 16.f4 f6 17.Nf3 Kh8 18.e4 Bb7
19.Rd2 c5 20.Kh1 cxd4 21.Nxd4 Nc5 22.Qd1 Red8 23.Qe2 Rac8
24.b3 Nc6 25.Nxc6 Bxc6 26.Rfd1 Rxd2 27.Rxd2 Rd8 28.f5 Rxd2
29.Qxd2 exf5 30.exf5 Qd7 31.Qf4 Qe8 32.h3 Nd7 33.Be6 Ne5
34.Qd4 Qb8 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.09"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[ECO "B84"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "95"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be2 a6
7. f4 Qc7 8. Bf3 Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Qe1 Nc6 11. Nb3 Bd7
12. Kh1 Rfd8 13. Be3 b5 14. Rc1 Rab8 15. Ne2 a5 16. g4 d5
17. e5 Ne4 18. Ng3 a4 19. Nd4 Nxd4 20. Bxd4 Bc5 21. c3 Nxg3+
22. Qxg3 Rdc8 23. Bxc5 Qxc5 24. a3 Qe3 25. Bg2 Qxg3 26. hxg3
Rc4 27. Rfd1 Rbc8 28. Bf1 R4c5 29. g5 g6 30. Rd4 Kg7 31. Bd3
h5 32. gxh6+ Kxh6 33. Kg2 Kg7 34. Rh1 Rh8 35. Rxh8 Kxh8
36. Kf3 Kg7 37. Ke3 f6 38. Rb4 fxe5 39. fxe5 Kh6 40. Rf4 Rc8
41. Rf7 Rd8 42. Kf4 Be8 43. Re7 g5+ 44. Kf3 Bh5+ 45. Ke3 g4
46. Rxe6+ Kg5 47. Rd6 Rf8 48. Rf6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.09"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[Black "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[ECO "E38"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "118"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 c5 5.e3 O-O 6.Nf3 d6 7.Bd2
Qe7 8.Bd3 Nbd7 9.O-O Bxc3 10.Bxc3 b6 11.e4 e5 12.dxe5 dxe5
13.g3 Bb7 14.Rfe1 Ne8 15.Be2 Nd6 16.Nd2 Nb8 17.b4 Nc6 18.bxc5
bxc5 19.Rab1 Rac8 20.Bd3 Ba8 21.Qa4 Rfd8 22.Bf1 Nd4 23.Bxd4
cxd4 24.Bd3 h5 25.h4 Ne8 26.Qb4 Qc7 27.Nb3 Nf6 28.c5 Rb8
29.Qa5 Qe7 30.Rbc1 Rdc8 31.f3 Ne8 32.Kg2 g5 33.hxg5 Qxg5
34.Rh1 Ng7 35.Bc4 Qe7 36.Qd2 Rc6 37.Bd5 Rg6 38.c6 h4 39.c7 Rc8
40.Bxa8 Rxg3+ 41.Kf2 Ne6 42.Qh6 Rg6 43.Qxh4 Qxh4+ 44.Rxh4 Rxc7
45.Bd5 Re7 46.Bxe6 Rexe6 47.Rc5 Ra6 48.Na5 Rab6 49.Nc4 Rb1
50.Rxe5 Rc1 51.Re8+ Kg7 52.Ne5 Rc2+ 53.Kf1 Rb6 54.Rg4+ Kh7
55.Rh4+ Kg7 56.Rg4+ Kh7 57.Nd3 Rb1+ 58.Ne1 d3 59.Re5 Kh6
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.09"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Bg5 h6 5.Bxf6 Qxf6 6.Nc3 c6 7.Qb3
dxc4 8.Qxc4 Nd7 9.Rd1 Be7 10.g3 e5 11.Bg2 Nb6 12.Qb3 exd4
13.Nxd4 O-O 14.O-O Bg4 15.h3 Bd7 16.Kh2 Rad8 17.f4 Bc5 18.Ne4
Qe7 19.f5 Bxd4 20.Rxd4 Qe5 21.Qd1 Nd5 22.f6 Ne3 23.Qd2 Nxg2
24.fxg7 Kxg7 25.Rf6 Qh5 26.Rxd7 Rxd7 27.Qxd7 Qxe2 28.Qd4 c5
29.Rxf7+ Kxf7 30.Qf6+ Kg8 31.Qg6+ Kh8 32.Qxh6+ Kg8 33.Qg6+ Kh8
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.10"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[ECO "D13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "124"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.cxd5 cxd5 5.Nc3 e6 6.Bf4 Bd6 7.e3
O-O 8.Bd3 a6 9.O-O b5 10.Ne5 Bb7 11.Rc1 h6 12.Bb1 Qe7 13.Qd3
Rc8 14.Ne2 Nbd7 15.Nxd7 Qxd7 16.Be5 Be7 17.f3 Rxc1 18.Nxc1 Kf8
19.Qd2 Qd8 20.Nd3 Nd7 21.Bg3 Rc8 22.Rc1 Rxc1+ 23.Qxc1 Qc8
24.Qd2 Ke8 25.Kf2 Qc4 26.b4 Qc8 27.Nc5 Nxc5 28.bxc5 Bc6 29.Be5
f6 30.Bg3 Qd8 31.Ke1 a5 32.Qd3 f5 33.Kd1 Kf7 34.Be5 Bf6 35.Bf4
Bg5 36.g3 Bxf4 37.exf4 g6 38.Kd2 Qb8 39.Kc1 Kf6 40.Qe3 Qc7
41.g4 Kf7 42.h4 h5 43.a3 Qb8 44.Bc2 Be8 45.g5 Ke7 46.Bd3 Bc6
47.a4 b4 48.Bb5 Bxb5 49.axb5 Qxb5 50.Qe5 Qc4+ 51.Kd2 Qc3+
52.Ke2 Qc2+ 53.Ke3 Qc3+ 54.Kf2 Qc2+ 55.Kg3 Qc1 56.Qd6+ Ke8
57.Qxe6+ Kd8 58.Qxd5+ Kc7 59.Qd6+ Kc8 60.Qc6+ Kb8 61.Qe8+ Kc7
62.Qf7+ Kc8 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.10"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "E69"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "111"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 e5 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. g3 g6 6. Bg2 Bg7
7. O-O O-O 8. e4 c6 9. h3 exd4 10. Nxd4 Nb6 11. b3 d5 12. cxd5
cxd5 13. exd5 Nbxd5 14. Nxd5 Nxd5 15. Bb2 Qa5 16. Qf3 Rd8
17. Rfd1 h5 18. a3 Qb6 19. Rd2 h4 20. Rad1 Nf6 21. Kh2 Re8
22. Re2 Rxe2 23. Qxe2 Bd7 24. Qf3 Re8 25. Qxb7 Qd6 26. Qf3 Qe5
27. Rd2 hxg3+ 28. fxg3 Qg5 29. Bc1 Ne4 30. Rd1 Qd5 31. Nc2 Qc6
32. Nb4 Qc8 33. Qd3 Bf5 34. Qc4 Qxc4 35. bxc4 a5 36. Nc6 Nf2
37. Rd8 Rxd8 38. Nxd8 Nd3 39. Be3 a4 40. c5 Bf8 41. Nb7 Be6
42. Nd6 f5 43. Bc6 g5 44. Bb5 f4 45. Bd4 Ne1 46. Bc3 Nc2
47. Bxa4 Nxa3 48. gxf4 gxf4 49.Bb4 Nb1 50.Bc2 Ba2 51.c6 Nd2
52.c7 Be6 53.Bxd2 Bxd6 54.Bb3 Bxc7 55.Bxe6+ Kg7 56.Kg2 {"And
after a few moves, 1-0" -- Kotov} 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.10"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "107"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 c6 4. e3 e6 5. Nbd2 g6 6. Bd3 Bg7
7. O-O O-O 8. e4 dxe4 9. Nxe4 Nxe4 10. Bxe4 Qc7 11. Bg5 h6
12. Be3 Nd7 13. Qc1 f5 14. Bc2 g5 15. Re1 c5 16. h4 g4
17. Bxh6 Nf6 18. Bxg7 Qxg7 19. Ng5 g3 20. fxg3 Ng4 21. Qf4 Qf6
22. Bd1 Qxd4+ 23. Qxd4 cxd4 24. Bxg4 fxg4 25. Rad1 Rd8 26. Rd3
b5 27. cxb5 Rb8 28. Re4 Rxb5 29. Rexd4 Rbd5 30. Rxd5 exd5
31. Rd4 Bf5 32. Kf2 Kg7 33. Ke3 Kf6 34. Ra4 Rd7 35. Kd4 Bb1
36. Ra6+ Kf5 37. Ra5 Kg6 38. b4 Rc7 39. Ra6+ Kf5 40. Ra5 Rc4+
41. Kxd5 Rxb4 42. a3 Rb2 43. Kd4+ Kg6 44. Ra6+ Kg7 45. Rxa7+
Kg6 46. Ra6+ Kg7 47. h5 Rxg2 48. h6+ Kf8 49. Ne4 Kf7 50. Rf6+
Kg8 51. Ng5 Bc2 52. Rc6 Kf8 53. Rc7 Bb1 54. h7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.10"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "104"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bh4 c5 4.f3 g5 5.fxe4 gxh4 6.e3 Bh6 7.Qd3
Nc6 8.Nd2 cxd4 9.exd4 Qb6 10.Nb3 a5 11.a4 d5 12.Nf3 Nb4 13.Qd1
O-O 14.Bd3 Nxd3+ 15.Qxd3 Qg6 16.Nxh4 Qxe4+ 17.Qxe4 dxe4 18.g4
Kh8 19.h3 e6 20.Nd2 f5 21.Rf1 Ra6 22.Ng2 Kg8 23.h4 Rb6 24.Nc4
Rc6 25.b3 b6 26.Rf2 Ba6 27.Ne5 Rd6 28.g5 Bg7 29.c3 Rc8 30.Nc4
Bxc4 31.bxc4 Rxc4 32.Ra3 Rdc6 33.Kd2 Bf8 34.Rb3 Rxa4 35.Ne3
Ra2+ 36.Ke1 Rxf2 37.Kxf2 a4 38.Rb1 a3 39.Nd1 f4 40.Ke2 Kf7
41.h5 Be7 42.Ra1 b5 43.Kf1 e3 44.Ke2 b4 45.cxb4 Rc2+ 46.Kd3
Rd2+ 47.Kc4 Rxd1 48.Rxd1 e2 49.Rb1 f3 50.Kd3 a2 51.g6+ hxg6
52.hxg6+ Kg7 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.10"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[Black "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "138"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.e3 Be7 4.Bd3 O-O 5.O-O d5 6.Nbd2 c5 7.c3
Nc6 8.Qe2 Nd7 9.e4 cxd4 10.cxd4 Nb4 11.Bb1 b6 12.Re1 Ba6
13.Qe3 Rc8 14.a3 Nc6 15.b4 dxe4 16.Nxe4 Nf6 17.Nc3 Nd5 18.Nxd5
exd5 19.Bb2 Bf6 20.Bf5 Rc7 21.Rad1 Ne7 22.Bb1 Nc8 23.Ne5 Nd6
24.f4 Bc8 25.Qf3 Bb7 26.a4 Be7 27.Bxh7+ Kxh7 28.Qh5+ Kg8
29.Rd3 Bc8 30.g4 Bxg4 31.Nxg4 g6 32.Qxd5 Nc4 33.Qxd8 Rxd8
34.Ba1 Bxb4 35.Rc1 Rcc8 36.Rh3 Ne3 37.Rxc8 Rxc8 38.Rxe3 Rc1+
39.Kg2 Rxa1 40.Re8+ Kg7 41.Rd8 Rxa4 42.Ne5 Bc3 43.Rd7 Kf6
44.Kf3 Bxd4 45.Nc6 Bc5 46.Nd8 Be7 47.Nc6 Ra3+ 48.Kg4 Re3
49.Rxa7 Bd6 50.Rd7 Ke6 51.Rb7 Kd5 52.Ne5 Re4 53.Kf3 g5 54.Nxf7
Rxf4+ 55.Ke2 Bc5 56.Nxg5 Rf2+ 57.Kd3 Rxh2 58.Rd7+ Kc6 59.Rh7
Rxh7 60.Nxh7 Be7 61.Kc4 Kb7 62.Kb5 Kc7 63.Kc4 Kc6 64.Kc3 Kc5
65.Kb3 Kd4 66.Kb2 Kc4 67.Kc2 b5 68.Kb2 Kb4 69.Kc2 Ka3 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.10"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[Black "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[ECO "A52"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "50"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. d4 e5 3. dxe5 Ng4 4. e4 Nxe5 5. f4 Nec6 6. Be3
Na6 7. Nc3 Bc5 8. Qd2 d6 9. Nf3 O-O 10. Bd3 Bxe3 11. Qxe3 Nc5
12. Bc2 Nb4 13. O-O-O Nxc2 14. Kxc2 Re8 15. Rhe1 Bd7 16. e5 b6
17. Kc1 dxe5 18. fxe5 Qc8 19. Qg5 h6 20. Qg3 Qa6 21. Rd4 Bf5
22. Nd2 Rad8 23. Rxd8 Rxd8 24. Rf1 Bg6 25. Nd5 Qxa2 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.10"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[Black "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[ECO "E34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bh4
c5 8.Nf3 Nc6 9.dxc5 g5 10.Bg3 Ne4 11.e3 Qf6 12.Nd4 Nxd4
13.exd4 Qxd4 14.Bb5+ Kf8 15.O-O Qxc5 16.Be5 Rg8 17.Qe2 Bxc3
18.bxc3 Bf5 19.Bd4 Qc7 20.Bd3 Re8 21.Qb2 Rg6 22.Qa3+ Kg8
23.Qxa7 Nd6 24.Bxf5 Nxf5 25.Rab1 Qc4 26.Qxb7 Rge6 27.Qb3 Nxd4
28.cxd4 Qxd4 29.Rbd1 Qc4 30.h3 Re4 31.Qxc4 dxc4 32.Rc1 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.10"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[Black "Alexander Koblents"]
[ECO "D18"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "113"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.e3 e6 7.Bxc4
Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.a5 Nbd7 10.Qe2 Bg4 11.Rd1 Qc7 12.h3 Bxf3
13.Qxf3 e5 14.d5 a6 15.dxc6 bxc6 16.Ne2 Rfb8 17.g4 e4 18.Qf4
Ne5 19.Ng3 Rd8 20.Rxd8+ Rxd8 21.Nxe4 Nxe4 22.Qxe4 Nxc4 23.Qxc4
Rd1+ 24.Kg2 Qd6 25.Ra3 Bf6 26.e4 Re1 27.Qc2 c5 28.Be3 c4
29.Ra4 Rxe3 30.fxe3 Bh4 31.e5 Qxe5 32.Kh1 Qxe3 33.Ra3 Qe1+
34.Kg2 Be7 35.Rf3 Bc5 36.Rf1 Qe5 37.Rf5 Qd4 38.Qe2 Qg1+ 39.Kf3
Qh1+ 40.Qg2 Qd1+ 41.Qe2 Qh1+ 42.Kf4 Bd6+ 43.Ke3 g6 44.Rf3 Qc1+
45.Kd4 Bf8 46.Kd5 Qg5+ 47.Qe5 Qd8+ 48.Kxc4 Bg7 49.Qd5 Qe8
50.Kb3 Qb8+ 51.Ka4 Qc7 52.Ka3 h6 53.Ka2 Qa7 54.h4 Qe7 55.h5 g5
56.Rb3 Bf6 57.Rb7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.13"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "B62"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Bb5
Bd7 8.O-O Be7 9.Kh1 h6 10.Be3 a6 11.Be2 e5 12.Nb3 O-O 13.Nd5
Nxd5 14.exd5 Na5 15.Nd2 b5 16.b4 Nb7 17.c4 f5 18.f3 Bg5 19.Qb3
Bxe3 20.Qxe3 Qg5 21.f4 exf4 22.Qb6 Rab8 23.Qxa6 Qe7 24.Rae1
Qe3 25.Nf3 Ra8 26.Qxb7 Ra7 27.Bd3 Rxb7 28.Rxe3 bxc4 29.Re7
cxd3 30.Ne1 Rf7 31.Rxf7 Kxf7 32.Nxd3 Bb5 33.Rd1 Bxd3 34.Rxd3
Rxb4 35.Rd1 Ra4 36.Rd2 Kf6 37.h4 g5 38.Kg1 Ke5 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.13"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[ECO "B72"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "85"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be2 Bg7
7. Be3 O-O 8. f4 a6 9. Bf3 Qc7 10. Nd5 Nxd5 11. exd5 b5 12. h4
Nd7 13. h5 Nb6 14. c3 Bb7 15. hxg6 hxg6 16. f5 Nxd5 17. Bxd5
Bxd5 18. Qg4 Rfc8 19. Qh4 Kf8 20. Bh6 Bxh6 21. Qxh6+ Ke8
22. fxg6 Kd7 23. Qh3+ Be6 24. Qe3 Qc4 25. a3 fxg6 26. O-O-O
Rf8 27. b3 Qd5 28. Rhe1 Rf6 29. Nxe6 Qxe6 30. Qb6 Rc8 31. Rxe6
Rxe6 32. Kd2 Rc5 33. Qb7+ Ke8 34. Rf1 Ree5 35. b4 Rc4 36. Qxa6
Kd7 37. Re1 Rc6 38. Qa8 Rc8 39. Qxc8+ Kxc8 40. Rxe5 dxe5
41. c4 bxc4 42. Kc3 e4 43. Kxc4 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.13"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[Black "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[ECO "C74"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "198"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 d6 5.c3 f5 6.exf5 Bxf5 7.d4
e4 8.Ng5 d5 9.f3 e3 10.Bxe3 h6 11.Nh3 Bxh3 12.gxh3 Qf6 13.Qd3
Bd6 14.Nd2 Nge7 15.Bc2 Qh4+ 16.Bf2 Qxh3 17.O-O-O O-O-O 18.Bg3
Rhf8 19.Qh7 Rf7 20.Rdg1 Rdf8 21.Bxd6 g6 22.Rg3 Qh4 23.Rg4 Rxh7
24.Rxh4 cxd6 25.Rg1 Rf6 26.Rhg4 Rg7 27.R4g3 Nd8 28.Nf1 Ne6
29.Ne3 Nf4 30.Kd2 Re6 31.Re1 Rf7 32.Reg1 Kd7 33.Ba4+ Kd8
34.Bc2 g5 35.Re1 Rff6 36.Bd1 Neg6 37.Ng4 Rxe1 38.Kxe1 Re6+
39.Kd2 Nh4 40.Ne3 Kd7 41.Rg1 Kc7 42.Rg3 Kd7 43.Ba4+ b5 44.Bd1
Kc6 45.Rg1 Re7 46.Rg3 Rb7 47.Rg1 b4 48.cxb4 Rxb4 49.Kc3 a5
50.a3 Rb7 51.Ng4 Nf5 52.Re1 Rc7 53.Kd2 h5 54.Nf6 Nxd4 55.Re8
Rf7 56.Ng8 Ng6 57.Rc8+ Kb7 58.Rd8 Ne5 59.Kc3 Nec6 60.Re8 Nxf3
61.b4 axb4 62.axb4 Rf4 63.b5 Rc4+ 64.Kb2 Nce5 65.Nf6 Rd4
66.Bb3 Nd3+ 67.Kc3 Nf4 68.Rh8 h4 69.Nd7 Ne2+ 70.Kc2 Rd2+
71.Kb1 Nc3+ 72.Kc1 Nxb5 73.Rf8 Rd3 74.Bxd5+ Rxd5 75.Rxf3 Nd4
76.Rd3 Kc6 77.Nf6 Rf5 78.Ne4 Nb5 79.h3 d5 80.Nd2 d4 81.Rf3
Rc5+ 82.Kb2 Nd6 83.Rf6 Kd7 84.Rg6 d3 85.Kb3 Ke7 86.Rg7+ Kf6
87.Rd7 Ke6 88.Rd8 Rd5 89.Ra8 Ke5 90.Ra4 Kf5 91.Kc3 Nb5+ 92.Kc4
Rd4+ 93.Kxb5 Rxa4 94.Kxa4 g4 95.hxg4+ Kxg4 96.Kb3 h3 97.Nf1
Kf3 98.Kc3 Kf2 99.Nh2 Ke2 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.13"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[Black "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "60"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Qc2 Nbd7 7.cxd5
exd5 8.Bd3 Re8 9.Nge2 Nf8 10.O-O-O c6 11.Kb1 Ng4 12.Bxe7 Qxe7
13.Ng3 Be6 14.h3 Nf6 15.Nf5 Bxf5 16.Bxf5 N6d7 17.Bd3 Nb6
18.Na4 Nc8 19.Nc5 Nd6 20.Rd2 Rac8 21.Rc1 g6 22.Qa4 a6 23.Rdc2
Nb5 24.h4 Ne6 25.h5 Nxc5 26.Rxc5 Qh4 27.hxg6 hxg6 28.g3 Qf6
29.R5c2 Kg7 30.Qb4 Nd6 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.13"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[Black "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[ECO "C04"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "151"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nc6 4. Ngf3 Nf6 5. e5 Nd7 6. c3 f6
7. Nh4 Qe7 8. Bd3 Qf7 9. f4 Be7 10. O-O f5 11. Ndf3 Nf8
12. Ng5 Bxg5 13. fxg5 Ng6 14. Nf3 Bd7 15. b4 a6 16. a4 O-O
17. h4 Nge7 18. Ne1 Qe8 19. Be2 Nd8 20. Nd3 b6 21. Bh5 g6
22. Bf3 Nb7 23. Nf4 b5 24. a5 c6 25. Kf2 Kg7 26. Rh1 Rh8
27. Be3 Qg8 28. Qd2 Rf8 29. Rh3 Kf7 30. Rah1 Ke8 31. h5 Qg7
32. hxg6 hxg6 33. Rh6 Nd8 34. Bh5 Rxh6 35. gxh6 Qh7 36. Bf3 g5
37. Bh5+ Nf7 38. Nh3 f4 39. Bxf4 Kd8 40. Bxf7 Qxf7 41. Nxg5
Qxf4+ 42. Qxf4 Rxf4+ 43. Ke3 Ng6 44. h7 Rg4 45. h8=Q+ Nxh8
46. Rxh8+ Kc7 47. Nf3 Rxg2 48. Ne1 Rg3+ 49. Kd2 c5 50. dxc5 d4
51. cxd4 Bc6 52. Rh7+ Kb8 53. Rh2 Rb3 54. Nd3 Be4 55. Rh8+ Kc7
56. Nf4 Kd7 57. Rh6 Rxb4 58. Rxe6 Rxd4+ 59. Ke3 Ra4 60. Rxa6
Bc6 61. e6+ Kc7 62. e7 Re4+ 63. Kd3 Rxe7 64. Ra7+ Kd8 65. Rxe7
Kxe7 66. Kc3 Kd7 67. Kb4 Kc7 68. Ne6+ Kb8 69. Nd4 Bg2 70. Kxb5
Ka7 71. Nc6+ Kb7 72. Nd8+ Kc7 73. Ne6+ Kb7 74. a6+ Ka7 75. Ka5
Bf1 76. Nc7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.13"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "D49"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "2203"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Bd3 Nbd7 6.Nf3 dxc4 7.Bxc4
b5 8.Bd3 a6 9.e4 c5 10.e5 cxd4 11.Nxb5 axb5 12.exf6 Qb6
13.fxg7 Bxg7 14.b4 O-O 15.O-O f5 16.Qe2 e5 17.Bxb5 e4 18.Bc4+
Kh8 19.Ng5 d3 20.Qh5 Qg6 21.Qxg6 hxg6 22.Rb1 Nb6 23.Bb3 Bd4
24.Be3 Bxe3 25.fxe3 Bd7 26.Rf4 Kg7 27.Rh4 Rh8 28.Rxh8 Rxh8
29.Rc1 Kf6 30.Nh3 Rc8 31.Rxc8 Bxc8 32.Nf2 Ke5 33.Nd1 Nd5 34.a3
g5 35.g3 Bd7 36.Kf2 Be8 37.h4 gxh4 38.gxh4 Bh5 39.Nb2 f4
40.Nc4+ Kf5 41.Nd6+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.13"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[Black "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[ECO "E34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "51"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.e3 c5 6.Nf3 cxd4 7.exd4
O-O 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 b6 10.O-O Bb7 11.Qe2 Nbd7 12.Bg5 h6
13.Bd2 Bxc3 14.Bxc3 Nd5 15.Bd2 Rc8 16.Bd3 N7f6 17.Rac1 Qd6
18.Qe5 Qe7 19.a3 Rxc1 20.Rxc1 Rc8 21.Rxc8+ Bxc8 22.Qg3 Nh5
23.Qe5 Nhf6 24.Qg3 Nh5 25.Qe5 Nhf6 26.Qg3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.14"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "E67"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "128"]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.d4 d6 3.c4 Nbd7 4.g3 g6 5.Bg2 Bg7 6.Nc3 e5 7.O-O
O-O 8.e4 c6 9.d5 cxd5 10.cxd5 Nc5 11.Qc2 a5 12.Nd2 b6 13.Nb3
Ba6 14.Rd1 Ncd7 15.a4 Rc8 16.Bh3 Rc7 17.Be3 h5 18.Bg5 Qe8
19.f3 Nh7 20.Be3 Qe7 21.Bf1 Bxf1 22.Rxf1 f5 23.Qe2 f4 24.Nb5
Rcc8 25.gxf4 exf4 26.Bd4 Nhf6 27.Na7 Rce8 28.Qg2 Kh7 29.Rac1
Nc5 30.Nc6 Qd7 31.Nxc5 bxc5 32.Bc3 Bh6 33.Rcd1 Qf7 34.Rfe1 Bg7
35.Bxa5 Nd7 36.Bc3 g5 37.Bxg7 Qxg7 38.Kh1 Ne5 39.Rg1 Kh6
40.Nxe5 Qxe5 41.Qh3 Rf6 42.Rg2 Rg8 43.Rdg1 Qd4 44.Re1 Rfg6
45.Qf5 Qd3 46.Rf2 Qd4 47.Rg2 Rf6 48.Rd2 Rxf5 49.Rxd4 Re5
50.Rd3 Rb8 51.b3 g4 52.Kg2 Kg5 53.a5 Ra8 54.Ra1 Re7 55.Ra3
Rea7 56.e5 dxe5 57.d6 Kf5 58.Rd5 Rd8 59.Ra2 Ke6 60.Rxc5 Rxd6
61.Rac2 Rd5 62.Rxd5 Kxd5 63.b4 Ra8 64.Kf2 Rb8 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.14"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 d6 4.f3 Nf6 5.e4 g6 6.Qd2 Nbd7 7.Bh6
Bxh6 8.Qxh6 c5 9.c3 Qb6 10.Qd2 cxd4 11.cxd4 e5 12.Na3 d5
13.dxe5 Nxe5 14.Bb5+ Kf8 15.exd5 Kg7 16.Ne2 a6 17.Bc4 Re8
18.Rd1 Bh3 19.Kf1 Nxf3 20.Qf4 Ng4 21.Qxf3 Ne3+ 22.Ke1 Bxg2
23.Qf2 Bxh1 24.Rd3 Qb4+ 25.Rd2 Rac8 26.Bb3 Bxd5 27.Bxd5 Nxd5
28.Qd4+ Qxd4 29.Rxd4 Nf6 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.14"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[Black "Andre Lilienthal"]
[ECO "A28"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "119"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e3 Bb4 5.d4 exd4 6.Nxd4 O-O
7.Be2 Ne4 8.Qc2 Re8 9.Nxc6 dxc6 10.O-O Nxc3 11.bxc3 Bc5 12.Bd3
Qh4 13.Re1 Be6 14.e4 Rad8 15.Be3 Bxe3 16.Rxe3 Qe7 17.e5 h6
18.Qe2 Qc5 19.Re1 Kf8 20.f4 g6 21.Qf2 Ke7 22.f5 gxf5 23.Bxf5
Qxc4 24.Bxe6 Qxe6 25.Rf3 Rg8 26.Rf1 Rg7 27.Rf6 Qd5 28.Rxh6
Rdg8 29.g3 Kd8 30.Rh5 Kc8 31.Rf5 b6 32.a4 Kb7 33.Qf3 Re8
34.Qxd5 cxd5 35.Rxf7 Rxf7 36.Rxf7 Rxe5 37.Kf2 a5 38.Rf4 b5
39.axb5 Kb6 40.h4 Kxb5 41.g4 c5 42.g5 a4 43.g6 Re8 44.h5 a3
45.Rh4 a2 46.Rh1 Rh8 47.g7 Rxh5 48.Rxh5 a1=Q 49.g8=Q Qb2+
50.Kg1 Qc1+ 51.Kh2 Qf4+ 52.Qg3 Qd2+ 53.Kh3 Kc4 54.Rh4+ d4
55.cxd4 cxd4 56.Rh8 Qc3 57.Rc8+ Kb3 58.Rxc3+ dxc3 59.Qd3 Kb2
60.Qb5+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.14"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Koblents"]
[Black "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[ECO "A25"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "85"]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.e3 Bg7 5.Bg2 Nge7 6.Nge2 d6 7.O-O
h5 8.h3 h4 9.g4 f5 10.gxf5 Bxf5 11.d4 exd4 12.Nxd4 Nxd4
13.exd4 Qd7 14.Kh2 O-O-O 15.Be3 Kb8 16.b4 Be6 17.Qb3 Nf5
18.Rad1 g5 19.Bxg5 Rdg8 20.Ne4 Nxd4 21.Qd3 Qf7 22.Rc1 Qg6
23.Rg1 Rf8 24.Be3 Be5+ 25.f4 Rxf4 26.Bxd4 Rf3 27.Bxe5 Rxd3
28.Bxh8 Qf5 29.Rgf1 Rxh3+ 30.Kg1 Qg4 31.Rf8+ Bc8 32.Nf2 Qg5
33.Nxh3 Qxc1+ 34.Kh2 Qxc4 35.Nf2 a5 36.bxa5 Qxa2 37.Bh3 Ka7
38.Bxc8 Qxa5 39.Bd4+ Ka6 40.Bd7 c5 41.Ra8+ Kb6 42.Rxa5 Kxa5
43.Bc3+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.14"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 Nbd7
7. e3 e5 8. Nge2 exd4 9. exd4 d5 10. c5 c6 11. a3 Ba5
12. O-O-O O-O 13. g4 Re8 14. f3 Bc7 15. Bf2 b6 16. h4 Ba6
17. g5 Nh5 18. Bh3 Nf4 19. Nxf4 Bxf4+ 20. Kb1 Nf8 21. Bg4 Rb8
22. gxh6 Bxh6 23. Bg3 Ra8 24. Qa4 Bb7 25. Bd6 Ne6 26. Ka1 b5
27. Qc2 a5 28. Ne2 b4 29. Ng3 bxa3 30. bxa3 g6 31. h5 Nxd4
32. Rxd4 Qf6 33. Qb2 Bg7 34. Rhd1 Ba6 35. hxg6 fxg6 36. Bd7
Bc4 37. Bxe8 Rxe8 38. f4 Qh4 39. Qf2 Re2 40. Qxe2 Bxe2
41. Nxe2 Qf2 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.14"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[Black "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[ECO "D13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "147"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.cxd5 cxd5 5.Nc3 e6 6.Bg5 a6 7.e3
b5 8.Bd3 Be7 9.O-O Nbd7 10.a4 b4 11.Ne2 h6 12.Bh4 O-O 13.Nc1
Bb7 14.Nb3 Bd6 15.Qe2 a5 16.Rfc1 Qb6 17.Bb5 Rfc8 18.Bg3 Bxg3
19.hxg3 Bc6 20.Bd3 Ne4 21.Nfd2 f5 22.g4 Ndf6 23.gxf5 exf5
24.Bxe4 fxe4 25.f3 Re8 26.fxe4 Nxe4 27.Nxe4 Rxe4 28.Nc5 Re7
29.Nd3 Be8 30.Ne5 Rc7 31.Qf3 Rd8 32.Rf1 Bg6 33.Qg4 Be4 34.Rf2
Kh7 35.Raf1 Rdc8 36.Nd7 Qd6 37.Rf7 Qg6 38.Nf8+ Rxf8 39.Qxg6+
Bxg6 40.Rxc7 Re8 41.Rf3 Re6 42.Rg3 h5 43.Rc5 Be4 44.Rxa5 Kh6
45.Rb5 Rc6 46.Rc5 Ra6 47.a5 h4 48.Rg4 g5 49.Rb5 Ra7 50.Rxe4
dxe4 51.d5 Kg7 52.d6 Kf6 53.Rxb4 Rxa5 54.Rd4 Ra8 55.Rxe4 Rd8
56.Rd4 Rd7 57.Kf2 Ke6 58.Ke2 Kf7 59.Kf3 Ke8 60.Kg4 Rb7 61.d7+
Kd8 62.b4 Rb5 63.e4 Re5 64.Kf3 Rb5 65.Ke3 Re5 66.Rd5 Re6 67.e5
g4 68.Kf4 Rg6 69.Kf5 Rg8 70.e6 h3 71.Rc5 Ke7 72.Rc8 Rd8 73.Ke5
hxg2 74.Rxd8 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.14"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[Black "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[ECO "D46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "74"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.O-O
O-O 8.e4 dxc4 9.Bxc4 e5 10.Bg5 Qe7 11.d5 Rd8 12.Qe2 h6 13.Bh4
Nf8 14.Rad1 Ng6 15.Bg3 Nh5 16.Qc2 Bg4 17.dxc6 bxc6 18.Ne2 Bxf3
19.gxf3 Nf6 20.Qc1 Nh7 21.Rd3 h5 22.h3 Ng5 23.Kg2 h4 24.Bh2
Qf6 25.Rfd1 Kh7 26.Qe3 Bc7 27.Rxd8 Rxd8 28.Rxd8 Qxd8 29.Qxa7
Bb6 30.Qa3 Qd7 31.Ng1 Qd2 32.Ne2 Qe1 33.Bg1 Nxh3 34.Kxh3 Qf1+
35.Kh2 Bxf2 36.f4 Nxf4 37.Qf3 Bg3+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.14"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[Black "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[ECO "A28"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "126"]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Bg5 h6
7.Bh4 Ne5 8.e3 Ng6 9.Bg3 Ne4 10.Qb3 Bxc3+ 11.bxc3 O-O 12.Be2
d6 13.Rd1 Qe7 14.Bf3 Nc5 15.Qb1 Ne5 16.Be2 Be6 17.Nxe6 Qxe6
18.Rd5 Ned7 19.Rd4 Ne5 20.O-O Rab8 21.Rfd1 Rfe8 22.Qc2 Qd7
23.Rd5 Qa4 24.Qxa4 Nxa4 25.Rc1 Nc5 26.f3 Ned7 27.Bf2 Nb6
28.Rh5 Rbd8 29.e4 Nbd7 30.Rd1 Nf6 31.Rf5 Nfd7 32.Bd4 g6 33.Rf4
h5 34.Rh4 Ne6 35.Kf2 Ng7 36.g4 g5 37.Rh3 hxg4 38.Rg3 gxf3
39.Bxf3 f6 40.Rh1 Ne5 41.h4 Ne6 42.Be3 Rf8 43.Ke2 Rd7 44.Bg4
Nxg4 45.Rxg4 Rg7 46.hxg5 fxg5 47.Rhg1 Kf7 48.a4 a5 49.Rf1+ Ke8
50.Rf5 b6 51.Kd3 Rgf7 52.Rxf7 Rxf7 53.e5 dxe5 54.Ke4 Kd7
55.Kxe5 Rf3 56.Ke4 Rf1 57.c5 bxc5 58.Bxg5 Ra1 59.Kd5 c6+
60.Ke5 Re1+ 61.Kf5 Nxg5 62.Rxg5 Kd6 63.c4 Re5+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.20"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Andre Lilienthal"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "D43"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bxf6
Qxf6 8.Qb3 Bd6 9.e3 Nd7 10.Bd3 Qe7 11.O-O-O Nf6 12.Rhe1 Be6
13.Qc2 O-O-O 14.Ne5 Kb8 15.f4 c5 16.Kb1 c4 17.Bf5 Bxf5 18.Qxf5
Bb4 19.Qc2 Rd6 20.Re2 Bxc3 21.bxc3 Ne4 22.Ka1 Ra6 23.Qc1 Rd8
24.Rc2 Rdd6 25.Ng4 Rg6 26.h3 h5 27.Ne5 Rgb6 28.Nf3 Qa3 29.Ng5
Nxc3 30.Qxa3 Rxa3 31.Rdc1 Nb5 32.Nxf7 Rxe3 33.Ne5 Kc7 34.g4
Nxd4 35.Rd2 Ne2 36.Re1 Nc3 37.Rc1 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.20"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[Black "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[ECO "D94"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "105"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Bd3 O-O 7.O-O
Bg4 8.h3 Bxf3 9.Qxf3 e6 10.Rd1 Nbd7 11.e4 e5 12.dxe5 Nxe5
13.Qe2 d4 14.Nb1 Nfd7 15.Bf4 Nxd3 16.Qxd3 Nc5 17.Qf3 f5 18.e5
Qb6 19.b3 Rae8 20.Nd2 Nd7 21.c5 Qxc5 22.Rac1 Qe7 23.Nc4 Nxe5
24.Bxe5 Bxe5 25.Nxe5 Qxe5 26.Rc4 Rd8 27.Qd3 c5 28.b4 b6
29.bxc5 bxc5 30.Qa3 Qe2 31.Qb3 Rb8 32.Rb4 Kg7 33.Rxb8 Rxb8
34.Qxb8 Qxd1+ 35.Kh2 Qc1 36.Qd6 Qc4 37.f4 Qf7 38.a4 h5 39.a5
Kh7 40.a6 c4 41.Qxd4 Qc7 42.Qd5 Qxf4+ 43.g3 Qf2+ 44.Kh1 Qxg3
45.Qf7+ Kh6 46.Qf8+ Kg5 47.Qd8+ Kf4 48.Qd4+ Kf3 49.Qc3+ Kf2
50.Qd2+ Kf1 51.Qd1+ Kf2+ 52.Qd2+ Kf3 53.Qc3+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.20"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[Black "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Nbd7 6. Nxf6+
gxf6 7. Bh4 c5 8. d5 Qb6 9. Nf3 Qxb2 10. Be2 Qc3+ 11. Kf1 Bg7
12. dxe6 fxe6 13. Rb1 O-O 14. Bg3 Nb6 15. h4 e5 16. h5 Be6
17. h6 Rfd8 18. Qc1 Bh8 19. Rh4 Bf5 20. Ne1 Rd4 21. Rb3 Rxh4
22. Bxh4 Qd4 23. Nf3 Qd6 24. a4 Be6 25. Rd3 Qc7 26. Nd2 Nd5
27. Ne4 Qf7 28. Rg3+ Kf8 29. Nxc5 Qe7 30. Nxe6+ Qxe6 31. Qa3+
Ne7 32. Kg1 Rd8 33. Qb4 Rd4 34. Qxb7 Rxh4 35. Rc3 Rxh6
36. Qb8+ Kg7 37. Rc7 Rh4 38. Qe8 Qd6 39. Rxe7+ Kh6 40. Qf8+
1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.20"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "D48"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "2203"]
[PlyCount "89"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4
b5 8.Bd3 a6 9.O-O c5 10.a4 b4 11.Ne4 Bb7 12.Ned2 Bd6 13.Qe2
Bc7 14.Nb3 Qe7 15.Nxc5 Nxc5 16.dxc5 Qxc5 17.e4 O-O 18.Bg5 Ng4
19.Rac1 Qd6 20.g3 Bb6 21.Rcd1 h6 22.Bb1 Qc5 23.Bf4 e5 24.Rc1
Qa5 25.Bd2 Rac8 26.Nh4 Rxc1 27.Bxc1 Nf6 28.Nf5 Bc8 29.Qf3 Qxa4
30.Nxh6+ Kh7 31.g4 Bd8 32.Nf5 Be6 33.g5 Nd7 34.Qh5+ Kg8
35.Nxg7 Bc4 36.Qh6 Nc5 37.Nf5 Ne6 38.g6 fxg6 39.Qxg6+ Kh8
40.Qh6+ Kg8 41.Kh1 Rxf5 42.exf5 Qc6+ 43.Kg1 Bxf1 44.Qg6+ Kh8
45.fxe6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.20"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[Black "Alexander Koblents"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "50"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c6 4.Nbd2 f5 5.g3 Nd7 6.Bg2 Bd6 7.O-O g5
8.cxd5 exd5 9.Nb3 h6 10.Ne1 Qf6 11.Nd3 Ne7 12.f4 g4 13.Be3 h5
14.Nbc5 h4 15.Qc2 Qh6 16.Nxd7 Bxd7 17.b4 hxg3 18.hxg3 Qh2+
19.Kf2 Rh3 20.Bd2 Qxg3+ 21.Kg1 Rh2 22.Ne1 O-O-O 23.Qc3 Qh4
24.Rb1 Rh8 25.Rb3 Rh1+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.20"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[ECO "E01"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "114"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Nbd7 5.Nc3 dxc4 6.Qa4 a6 7.Nf3
Rb8 8.Qxc4 b5 9.Qb3 Bb7 10.Bf4 Rc8 11.Rd1 c5 12.dxc5 Qa5
13.Bd6 Bd5 14.Qc2 Bxd6 15.cxd6 Nb6 16.a3 O-O 17.O-O Rfd8
18.Qb1 Bb3 19.Rd3 Bc4 20.Rd2 Nbd5 21.Nxd5 Bxd5 22.Rd4 Rc4
23.Rxc4 bxc4 24.Rd1 Rxd6 25.Rd4 Qc5 26.Qd1 Ne8 27.Ne1 Bxg2
28.Rxd6 Nxd6 29.Kxg2 Kf8 30.Nc2 Ke7 31.Qd4 Qxd4 32.Nxd4 Nb7
33.Kf3 Kd6 34.Ke3 Kd5 35.Nc2 a5 36.Kd2 Nd6 37.f3 Kc5 38.Kc3
Nb5+ 39.Kd2 Nc7 40.e4 Nb5 41.Ke3 e5 42.f4 f6 43.fxe5 fxe5
44.Ne1 Nd4 45.Kd2 a4 46.h4 h5 47.Ke3 Nb5 48.Nf3 Kd6 49.Nd2 c3
50.Nc4+ Ke6 51.bxc3 Nxc3 52.Kd3 Nb5 53.Kc2 Nd4+ 54.Kd3 Nb5
55.Kc2 Nd4+ 56.Kd2 Nb5 57.Kd3 Kf6 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.20"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[Black "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[ECO "A54"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "62"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 e5 4.d5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Bd3 Nbd7 7.Nge2
c6 8.O-O Nc5 9.Bc2 a5 10.Ng3 cxd5 11.cxd5 Bg4 12.f3 Bd7 13.Kh1
b5 14.Nce4 Ncxe4 15.Nxe4 Nxe4 16.Bxe4 f5 17.Bd3 Bf6 18.Bd2 Qe8
19.e4 f4 20.Rc1 Bd8 21.Qe2 Rf6 22.Rc2 Qh5 23.Be1 Rh6 24.g4
fxg3 25.Bxg3 Rb8 26.Qd1 Qg6 27.Qc1 Bb6 28.f4 Qxg3 29.Rg2 Qxd3
30.fxe5 Qxe4 31.e6 Rxh2+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.20"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[Black "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[ECO "B02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.e4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e5 Nfd7 4.Nxd5 Nxe5 5.Ne3 c5 6.b3 g6 7.Bb2
Bg7 8.Nc4 Nbc6 9.f4 Nxc4 10.Bxg7 Rg8 11.Bc3 Nb6 12.Bb5 Bd7
13.Nf3 a6 14.Bxc6 Bxc6 15.Qe2 Nd5 16.O-O-O Nxf4 17.Qf2 Qd5
18.Ne5 g5 19.Nxc6 bxc6 20.Rde1 Qxg2 21.Qxc5 Ne6 22.Qb6 c5
23.Rhf1 Qd5 24.Rf5 Qd7 25.Ref1 Rg6 26.Rxf7 Nf4 27.R7xf4 gxf4
28.Qxc5 Qb5 29.Qf2 Qf5 30.Qd4 e5 31.Qxe5+ Qxe5 32.Bxe5 O-O-O
33.Rxf4 Rg1+ 34.Kb2 Rxd2 35.Rc4+ Kd8 36.Bf4 Re2 37.h4 Rgg2
38.Bg5+ Kd7 39.b4 h5 40.a3 Re6 41.Kb3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.23"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "E67"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.g3 g6 6.Bg2 Bg7 7.O-O
O-O 8.e4 c6 9.b3 exd4 10.Nxd4 Re8 11.Bb2 Nc5 12.Qc2 Ng4
13.Rad1 Qg5 14.h3 Nh6 15.b4 Ne6 16.Nf3 Qe7 17.Rfe1 f6 18.Kh2
Nf7 19.Nh4 Nf8 20.f4 a5 21.b5 Be6 22.bxc6 bxc6 23.Nf5 Qb7
24.Nxg7 Kxg7 25.c5 dxc5 26.Na4 Qb4 27.Nxc5 Bc4 28.Qf2 Rab8
29.Ba1 Red8 30.e5 Rxd1 31.Rxd1 Rb5 32.Nd7 Qa4 33.exf6 Kg8
34.Rd2 Rb1 35.Nxf8 Rxa1 36.Nd7 Qb4 37.Rb2 Rxa2 38.Qe3 Nd6
39.Qe7 Bf7 40.Qf8# 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.23"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Qd2 Ne4 5. Nxe4 dxe4 6. O-O-O
Qd5 7. Kb1 Nc6 8. h4 h6 9. Bf4 e3 10. Qxe3 Bg7 11. Nf3 Be6
12. b3 Bf5 13. Qc3 a5 14. e3 Nb4 15. Rd2 b5 16. Ne5 O-O 17. f3
Qb7 18. e4 Be6 19. Qc5 Rab8 20. d5 Bc8 21. a3 Na6 22. Qc6 Bxe5
23. Bxe5 Qxc6 24. dxc6 f6 25. Bf4 Kg7 26. Be3 Be6 27. a4 Nb4
28. Bxb5 f5 29. Ba7 Rbe8 30. c3 Na6 31. Bxa6 Ra8 32. Bd4+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.23"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[Black "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[ECO "D46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 Bb4 7.O-O
O-O 8.Qc2 Bd6 9.e4 dxc4 10.Bxc4 e5 11.dxe5 Nxe5 12.Nxe5 Bxe5
13.h3 Qe7 14.Bd3 Nh5 15.Ne2 Qh4 16.f4 Bc7 17.f5 Ng3 18.Rf3
Nxe4 19.Bf4 Bb6+ 20.Kh2 Nf2 21.Bg3 Ng4+ 22.Kh1 Qh5 23.a4 Ne3
24.Qb1 a5 25.Bf2 Re8 26.Qg1 Bxf5 27.Bxf5 Nxf5 28.g4 Qh6
29.gxf5 Rxe2 30.Bxb6 Rae8 31.Raf1 Rxb2 32.Bd4 Rb4 33.Bxg7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.23"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "126"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6
6. Bc4 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. h3 Qc7 9. d4 c5 10. Qe2 Nc6 11. c3
cxd4 12. cxd4 Bf5 13. Be3 Rad8 14. Rac1 Qb8 15. Rfd1 Bd6
16. a3 Rfe8 17. Nh4 Be4 18. Qh5 Re7 19. Nf5 Bh2+ 20. Kh1 Red7
21. Qg4 Bxf5 22. Qxf5 Be5 23. Bb5 g6 24. Qe4 f5 25. Qb1 Bxd4
26. Bg5 Rc8 27. Rc4 Qe5 28. Qd3 Qxb5 29. Rxd4 Qxd3 30. R4xd3
Rxd3 31. Rxd3 Rc7 32. Bf6 h6 33. h4 Kh7 34. Re3 Rc8 35. f3 Kg8
36. Rd3 Re8 37. b4 Re6 38. Bc3 a6 39. a4 f6 40. Rd7 b6 41. Rb7
Ne5 42. Ra7 Rc6 43. Bd2 g5 44. Rxa6 g4 45. fxg4 Rd6 46. Be3
Rd1+ 47. Bg1 fxg4 48. Kh2 g3+ 49. Kxg3 Rxg1 50. Rxb6 Rf1
51. Rb5 Kf7 52. a5 Ke6 53. Rb6+ Kd5 54. a6 f5 55. Rf6 Ke4
56. a7 Ra1 57. b5 Rxa7 58. Rxh6 Rg7+ 59. Kh3 Kf4 60. Rd6 Rg3+
61. Kh2 Ng4+ 62. Kg1 Rb3 63. Kf1 Rb4 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.23"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[Black "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[ECO "B60"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Be2
Be7 8.Qd2 O-O 9.O-O-O a6 10.Nb3 Qb6 11.Be3 Qc7 12.f4 b5 13.Bf3
Nd7 14.Qf2 Rb8 15.Kb1 Nb6 16.Bxb6 Rxb6 17.Rhe1 Rb8 18.Ne2 a5
19.Nbd4 Nxd4 20.Nxd4 Bd7 21.Qd2 Rfd8 22.g4 a4 23.g5 Bf8 24.f5
e5 25.Ne2 b4 26.Rf1 d5 27.exd5 b3 28.cxb3 Bxf5+ 29.Ka1 Qa7
30.bxa4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.23"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[Black "Andre Lilienthal"]
[ECO "E16"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "87"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 7.O-O
c5 8.Nc3 Qc8 9.d5 exd5 10.cxd5 Nxd5 11.Nxd5 Bxd5 12.Bc3 Bb7
13.Bxg7 Rg8 14.Bc3 Nc6 15.Qc2 Rg6 16.Bh3 Qc7 17.Rfd1 O-O-O
18.Qf5 Re6 19.Rd2 Kb8 20.Qxf7 Rh6 21.Bg4 d5 22.Bg7 Rhd6 23.Ne5
Bg5 24.f4 Qxf7 25.Nxf7 Rg6 26.fxg5 Rxg7 27.Nxd8 Nxd8 28.Bf3
Rxg5 29.Bxd5 Rxd5 30.Rxd5 Bxd5 31.Rd1 Bxa2 32.Rxd8+ Kc7 33.Rh8
Bb1 34.Kf2 a5 35.Ke3 b5 36.Kd2 a4 37.g4 Kb7 38.h4 b4 39.Kc1
Be4 40.Re8 Bd5 41.e4 Bb3 42.h5 a3 43.bxa3 bxa3 44.Rf8 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.23"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[Black "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[ECO "D98"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "56"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qa4+ Bd7 6.Qb3 dxc4
7.Qxc4 O-O 8.e4 Bg4 9.Be2 Nc6 10.Be3 Bxf3 11.Bxf3 e5 12.d5 Nd4
13.O-O-O Ne8 14.h4 Nd6 15.Qd3 c5 16.h5 g5 17.h6 Bf6 18.Rh5 Kh8
19.Kb1 Rg8 20.Bg4 c4 21.Qf1 b5 22.Ne2 Qb6 23.f4 gxf4 24.Bxd4
exd4 25.Qxf4 Nxe4 26.Qxe4 d3 27.Nc1 Rxg4 28.Qxg4 Qf2 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.23"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Koblents"]
[Black "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "74"]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.e3 d5 4.b3 Bd6 5.Bb2 Nbd7 6.d4 c6 7.Bd3
Qe7 8.Ne5 Bb4+ 9.Kf1 O-O 10.a3 Bd6 11.c5 Bc7 12.b4 Nxe5
13.dxe5 Nd7 14.Nd2 f6 15.exf6 Nxf6 16.e4 e5 17.h3 Be6 18.Qe2
Qf7 19.Kg1 Rad8 20.Bc2 Rd7 21.Nf3 Qh5 22.g4 Nxg4 23.Nd4 Rxf2
24.hxg4 Rxe2 25.Rxh5 exd4 26.exd5 Rxc2 27.dxe6 Re7 28.Bxd4
Rxe6 29.b5 cxb5 30.Rd5 Re4 31.Rd7 Rxg4+ 32.Kf1 Rf4+ 33.Kg1 Rf7
34.Rd5 Rd2 35.Re1 h6 36.Re8+ Kh7 37.Rc8 Bh2+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.24"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "E36"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "68"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 Nc6
7.Nf3 Ne4 8.Qb3 Na5 9.Qa4+ c6 10.cxd5 exd5 11.e3 Bf5 12.Bd3
Qb6 13.Qc2 Nb3 14.Rb1 c5 15.Nh4 Be6 16.O-O Rc8 17.Bxe4 cxd4
18.Qd3 dxe4 19.Qxe4 O-O 20.exd4 Rfe8 21.d5 Bd7 22.Qd3 Qb5
23.Qd1 Qc4 24.Be3 Re5 25.g3 Bg4 26.f3 Bh3 27.Re1 g5 28.f4 Rxd5
29.Qf3 gxh4 30.g4 Nd2 31.Bxd2 Rxd2 32.Qxh3 Qxf4 33.Qxh4 Rcc2
34.Qg3 Qd4+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.24"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Alexander Koblents"]
[ECO "C35"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "57"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Be7 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. e5 Ng4 6. O-O d6
7. exd6 Qxd6 8. d4 O-O 9. Nc3 Ne3 10. Bxe3 fxe3 11. Qd3 Nc6
12. Rae1 Bg4 13. Rxe3 Qh6 14. Ree1 Bd6 15. Ne5 Nxe5 16. dxe5
Bc5+ 17. Kh1 Be6 18. Ne4 Bb6 19. c3 Rad8 20. Qe2 Rfe8 21. Bxe6
Rxe6 22. Qf3 Re7 23. Ng3 Red7 24. Nf5 Qg5 25. Qxb7 Rd2 26. Qf3
Bc5 27. b4 Bf8 28. Nd4 Kh8 29. Ne6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.24"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[ECO "E24"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "93"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.a3 Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 d6 6.f3 Nbd7 7.e4
O-O 8.Bd3 e5 9.Ne2 Qe7 10.Ng3 g6 11.Bg5 c5 12.O-O cxd4 13.cxd4
exd4 14.f4 Kg7 15.Be2 h6 16.Bh4 Qe6 17.Qxd4 Kh7 18.Rae1 Ng8
19.Nf5 f6 20.Nxd6 Nb8 21.f5 Nc6 22.Qd1 Qe5 23.fxg6+ Kxg6
24.Bg4 Qc5+ 25.Kh1 Rd8 26.Bxc8 Rxd6 27.Qg4+ Kf7 28.Bg3 h5
29.Bxd6 hxg4 30.Bxc5 Rxc8 31.e5 b6 32.Bd6 Re8 33.Re4 Re6
34.Kg1 Nh6 35.Rxf6+ Rxf6 36.exf6 Kxf6 37.c5 b5 38.Bf8 Nf5
39.Rxg4 a5 40.Rf4 Ke5 41.Rf2 Ne3 42.h4 Ng4 43.h5 Nxf2 44.h6
Nd8 45.h7 Nf7 46.Bg7+ Kd5 47.Kxf2 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.24"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Andre Lilienthal"]
[Black "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[ECO "B16"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "105"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ gxf6 6.c3 Bf5
7.Nf3 Qc7 8.Bc4 e6 9.Qe2 Nd7 10.Nh4 Bg6 11.f4 O-O-O 12.O-O f5
13.a4 Bd6 14.a5 Kb8 15.a6 b6 16.Nf3 Bh5 17.Qe3 Bxf3 18.Qxf3
Rhg8 19.Bd3 Rg4 20.c4 Rdg8 21.Be3 c5 22.dxc5 Bxc5 23.Rf2 Bxe3
24.Qxe3 R4g6 25.Be2 Nc5 26.Bf3 Rd8 27.b4 Nd7 28.Rd1 Rgg8
29.Rfd2 Nf6 30.Rxd8+ Rxd8 31.Rxd8+ Qxd8 32.Qe5+ Kc8 33.h3 Kd7
34.c5 bxc5 35.Qxc5 Qc7 36.Qd4+ Ke7 37.Bb7 Ne4 38.Bxe4 fxe4
39.Qxe4 Qb6+ 40.Kh2 Qxa6 41.Qxh7 Qc4 42.Qh4+ f6 43.Qf2 a6
44.Qd2 Qe4 45.Kg3 Kf7 46.Kf2 Kg6 47.g4 Qh1 48.Kg3 Qg1+ 49.Kh4
Qf1 50.Qe3 Qg2 51.Qd3+ Kg7 52.Kh5 f5 53.Qd7+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.24"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[Black "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[ECO "C77"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "132"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.d3 d6 7.h3 b5
8.Bb3 Na5 9.Ne2 c5 10.Ng3 h6 11.c3 Nxb3 12.axb3 O-O 13.O-O Re8
14.Re1 Bf8 15.Nh2 d5 16.Qc2 Be6 17.f4 dxe4 18.dxe4 Qb6 19.Kh1
exf4 20.Bxf4 Rad8 21.Nf3 Bc8 22.c4 g5 23.Bd2 b4 24.Rf1 Bg7
25.Rae1 Bb7 26.Bc1 Qc7 27.e5 Bxf3 28.Rxf3 Rxe5 29.Ref1 Re6
30.Qf2 Rde8 31.Rf5 Rc8 32.Be3 Rc6 33.Qf3 Qe7 34.Bg1 Re6 35.Nh5
Nxh5 36.Qxh5 f6 37.h4 Re1 38.Rxe1 Qxe1 39.hxg5 hxg5 40.Qf3
Qh4+ 41.Qh3 Qxh3+ 42.gxh3 Kf7 43.Rxc5 Rd8 44.Rc7+ Kg6 45.c5
Rd3 46.c6 Bf8 47.Rd7 Bd6 48.Kg2 Rg3+ 49.Kf1 Be5 50.Bh2 Rxh3
51.c7 Bxc7 52.Bxc7 Rxb3 53.Rd2 f5 54.Kg2 f4 55.Bd6 a5 56.Bc7
a4 57.Bd6 Kf5 58.Bc5 Ke5 59.Bd4+ Ke4 60.Bc5 a3 61.Rd4+ Kf5
62.bxa3 bxa3 63.Rd5+ Kg4 64.Be7 Rb2+ 65.Kg1 a2 66.Rxg5+ Kf3+
0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.24"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "E34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "49"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. cxd5 Qxd5 6. Nf3 c5
7. Bd2 Bxc3 8. Bxc3 cxd4 9. Nxd4 Nc6 10. e3 Nxd4 11. Bxd4 Bd7
12. Qc5 Qxc5 13. Bxc5 Bc6 14. f3 Nd7 15. Bd6 f6 16. Bc4 Kf7
17. Kf2 Nb6 18. Bb3 Bd5 19. Bxd5 Nxd5 20. e4 Rhd8 21. exd5
Rxd6 22. dxe6+ Rxe6 23. Rae1 Rxe1 24. Rxe1 Rc8 25. Re2 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.24"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "121"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Nbd2 c5 7.dxc5
Bxc5 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Be2 h6 10.Bh4 Re8 11.O-O Nc6 12.Nb3 Bb6
13.Nfd4 Re4 14.Bg3 Bxd4 15.exd4 Qb6 16.Bd3 Re8 17.f3 Nh5
18.Re1 Be6 19.Bf2 Nf4 20.Bf1 Bf5 21.Qd2 Ne6 22.Nc5 Qb4 23.Qxb4
Nxb4 24.Nxb7 Nc2 25.Nd6 Nxe1 26.Rxe1 Bg6 27.Nxe8 Rxe8 28.Re5
Rd8 29.g3 Rd6 30.h4 f6 31.Re2 Kf7 32.Bh3 Bb1 33.b3 g5 34.hxg5
Nxg5 35.Bg2 Ra6 36.a4 Rc6 37.Rb2 Bc2 38.Be3 Bf5 39.Bxg5 hxg5
40.a5 Rc1+ 41.Kf2 Rd1 42.b4 a6 43.Bf1 Bd3 44.Bxd3 Rxd3 45.b5
axb5 46.Ra2 Rc3 47.a6 Rc8 48.a7 Ra8 49.Ke3 g4 50.fxg4 Kg6
51.Kd3 Kg5 52.Kc3 Kxg4 53.Kb4 Kxg3 54.Kxb5 Kf3 55.Kc5 Ke4
56.Re2+ Kd3 57.Re7 f5 58.Kxd5 f4 59.Rf7 Ke3 60.Kc5 f3 61.Kb6
1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.24"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[Black "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "90"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c6 4.Qc2 Nf6 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.Nc3 dxc4 7.e4
b5 8.Be2 h6 9.Bh4 Qa5 10.O-O Bb7 11.Rfe1 Nb6 12.a3 a6 13.Ne5
Be7 14.Nxf7 Kxf7 15.e5 h5 16.exf6 Bxf6 17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.Qe4
Rae8 19.Qh4 Ke7 20.Ne4 Nd5 21.Nc5 Bc8 22.Bf3 Qd2 23.Bxd5 cxd5
24.Qg3 Kf7 25.Rad1 Qxb2 26.Re3 Rhg8 27.Qf4 Qc2 28.Rde1 Qf5
29.Qd6 h4 30.Nxa6 Qg4 31.g3 Qxd4 32.Nc7 Rd8 33.Qc6 hxg3
34.hxg3 Bd7 35.Qd6 Qg4 36.Qb6 e5 37.Nxd5 Qe6 38.Qc5 Rc8 39.Nc7
Qc6 40.Qxc6 Bxc6 41.Na6 Rh8 42.f3 Rh3 43.Nb4 Bb7 44.f4 Rch8
45.Kf1 Rh2 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.25"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "104"]

1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 e6 3.b3 Nf6 4.Bb2 c5 5.e3 Nc6 6.d4 cxd4 7.exd4
Bb4+ 8.Nbd2 dxc4 9.Bxc4 a6 10.O-O b5 11.Bd3 Be7 12.a3 Qd5
13.Re1 Bb7 14.b4 O-O 15.Ne4 Rfd8 16.Rc1 Rac8 17.Nc5 Bxc5
18.Rxc5 Qd6 19.d5 exd5 20.Bf5 Ra8 21.Nd4 Re8 22.Nxc6 Bxc6
23.Re3 Rxe3 24.fxe3 Re8 25.Qc2 Bd7 26.Bxf6 Bxf5 27.Qxf5 Qxf6
28.Qxf6 gxf6 29.Kf2 Re5 30.Rc8+ Kg7 31.Rd8 Kg6 32.Rd6 Re6
33.Rxd5 Rc6 34.Rd3 Kf5 35.Kf3 Ke6 36.g4 Rc4 37.Rd8 Rc3 38.Re8+
Kd6 39.Rh8 Rxa3 40.Rxh7 Ke6 41.Rh8 Ke7 42.h4 Ra4 43.Ra8 Rxb4
44.Rxa6 f5 45.gxf5 Rxh4 46.e4 b4 47.Rb6 b3 48.Ke3 Rh3+ 49.Kd4
f6 50.Re6+ Kf7 51.Rc6 Ke7 52.Rb6 Rg3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.25"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "C52"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "75"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 d6
7. Qb3 Nh6 8. Bxh6 gxh6 9. Bxf7+ Kf8 10. dxe5 Qe7 11. Bd5 Nxe5
12. Nxe5 Qxe5 13. Qa3 Bb6 14. Nd2 Bc5 15. Qb2 c6 16. Bb3 b5
17. O-O Ke7 18. Nf3 Qg7 19. Kh1 Bd7 20. e5 Raf8 21. exd6+ Kxd6
22. Nd4 Kc7 23. Rad1 Bd6 24. Rfe1 Qg5 25. Be6 Rf6 26. Bxd7
Kxd7 27. a4 a6 28. axb5 cxb5 29. Qa2 Ra8 30. Nf3 Qc5 31. Ne5+
Kc7 32. Qa5+ Kc8 33. Nd3 Qh5 34. h3 Kb7 35. c4 Rf3 36. Nf4
Rxf4 37. Rxd6 Qf7 38. Qb6+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.25"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[ECO "E22"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qb3 Nc6 5. e3 d5 6. a3 Be7
7. cxd5 exd5 8. Nge2 O-O 9. g3 Na5 10. Qa4 c6 11. Bg2 Bf5
12. O-O b5 13. Qd1 Qd7 14. Nf4 Bd6 15. Nce2 Rfe8 16. b3 Nb7
17. Re1 a5 18. a4 b4 19. Bb2 Qe7 20. Nd3 Nd7 21. Nef4 Qf6
22. f3 g5 23. Nh3 Qg6 24. Nhf2 Nf6 25. Rc1 Rac8 26. Ne5 Bxe5
27. dxe5 Nd7 28. g4 Be6 29. f4 f5 30. exf6 Bf7 31. f5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.25"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[Black "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "52"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 c5 3.dxc5 Ne4 4.Bf4 Nc6 5.Qd5 f5 6.Qxf5 d5
7.Qh5+ g6 8.Qh4 Nd4 9.Be5 Nxc2+ 10.Kd1 Nxa1 11.Bxh8 Qa5 12.Nc3
Nxc3 13.Bxc3 Qxa2 14.e3 Qb1+ 15.Ke2 d4 16.Qxd4 Bd7 17.Qb4
O-O-O 18.f4 Nc2 19.Qa5 Qc1 20.Bd4 Nxd4+ 21.exd4 Qxb2+ 22.Kf3
Qxd4 23.Ne2 Bc6+ 24.Kg4 h5+ 25.Kh4 Qf6+ 26.Kg3 e5 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.25"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[Black "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[ECO "D12"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "101"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e3 Bf5 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Qb3 Qc8
7.Bb5+ Nfd7 8.O-O e6 9.Bd2 Nc6 10.Rc1 Qc7 11.Qa4 Rc8 12.Ba5
Nb6 13.Bxb6 Qxb6 14.Ne5 Bd6 15.f4 Bxe5 16.fxe5 O-O 17.Nc3 a6
18.Bxc6 Qxb2 19.Nd1 Qd2 20.Nf2 bxc6 21.Qa3 Rb8 22.Rd1 Qe2
23.Re1 Qb5 24.Rac1 Rfc8 25.e4 Bxe4 26.Nxe4 dxe4 27.Rxe4 Qb2
28.Qe3 Qxa2 29.Rf1 Rb1 30.Ref4 Rxf1+ 31.Rxf1 Qd5 32.Rb1 h6
33.Rc1 Rd8 34.Kf2 a5 35.Rc5 Qxd4 36.Rxa5 Qd2+ 37.Qxd2 Rxd2+
38.Kf3 Kh7 39.Ra6 Rd5 40.Ke4 c5 41.g4 Rd4+ 42.Kf3 g5 43.Ra7
Kg6 44.Rc7 Rd3+ 45.Ke4 Rh3 46.Rxf7 h5 47.Rf6+ Kg7 48.Rxe6 hxg4
49.Kf5 Kf7 50.Rc6 c4 51.Kxg5 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.25"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "D41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "39"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e3 Be7 7.Bc4
Nxc3 8.bxc3 O-O 9.O-O Nd7 10.Qe2 b6 11.e4 Bb7 12.Bf4 cxd4
13.cxd4 Nf6 14.Bd3 Rc8 15.Rad1 Qe8 16.Bb5 Bc6 17.Bd3 Bb7
18.Bb5 Bc6 19.Bd3 Bb7 20.Bb5 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.25"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[Black "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "92"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Bg5 h6 5.Bh4 d6 6.e4 O-O 7.Bd3
Nc6 8.Nge2 e5 9.d5 Nd4 10.Nxd4 exd4 11.Ne2 Re8 12.f3 c5 13.O-O
Qb6 14.Qd2 Nd7 15.Rae1 Ne5 16.Nc1 a5 17.h3 Qb4 18.Qc2 b5 19.a3
Qa4 20.Qxa4 bxa4 21.Rf2 Ba6 22.Rc2 Rab8 23.Bf1 g5 24.Bg3 Rb6
25.Bxe5 Bxe5 26.g4 Bg3 27.Rd1 Bf4 28.Nd3 f6 29.Kg2 Be3 30.Be2
Kg7 31.Rh1 Reb8 32.Kg3 Bxc4 33.Rxc4 Rxb2 34.Re1 Rd2 35.Kg2 Rb3
36.Kf1 Rxa3 37.Rb1 Raa2 38.Rb7+ Kf8 39.Nc1 Ra1 40.Ke1 d3
41.Rb8+ Ke7 42.Rb7+ Kd8 43.Bxd3 Rxd3 44.Ke2 Rd4 45.Rxd4 Bxd4
46.Kd2 a3 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.25"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Koblents"]
[Black "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[ECO "B18"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "45"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.h4
Nh5 8.Ne5 Nxg3 9.fxg3 Nd7 10.Nxg6 hxg6 11.Bc4 e6 12.c3 Bd6
13.Qf3 Qc7 14.Bf4 Bxf4 15.Qxf4 Qxf4 16.gxf4 Nf6 17.g3 Ne4
18.Rg1 Nd6 19.Bd3 O-O-O 20.Kf2 Kc7 21.Rad1 Nf5 22.Bxf5 gxf5
23.Rge1 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.27"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.g3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 Nc7 6.Nf3 Nc6
7.O-O e5 8.b3 Be7 9.Bb2 O-O 10.Rc1 f6 11.Ne1 Bf5 12.Na4 Na6
13.Nc2 Qd7 14.Ne3 Be6 15.d3 Nd4 16.Qd2 Rad8 17.Nc3 Nb4 18.Ba1
f5 19.Nc4 Bf6 20.Rfd1 b5 21.Nb2 e4 22.e3 Nf3+ 23.Bxf3 exf3
24.Qe1 Rc8 25.d4 cxd4 26.exd4 Bg5 27.d5 Bf7 28.a3 Rfe8 29.Qf1
Bxc1 30.Rxc1 Nxd5 31.Nd3 Nxc3 32.Bxc3 Bxb3 33.Nf4 Bc4 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.27"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Andre Lilienthal"]
[Black "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[ECO "B16"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "84"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ gxf6 6.g3 Qd5
7.Nf3 Bf5 8.c4 Qe4+ 9.Qe2 Na6 10.a3 O-O-O 11.Bg2 e5 12.Qxe4
Bxe4 13.dxe5 Nc5 14.O-O Nb3 15.Bf4 Nxa1 16.Rxa1 Rg8 17.Bh3+
Kc7 18.e6 Bd6 19.exf7 Rgf8 20.Nd4 Bxf4 21.Ne6+ Kb6 22.Nxd8
Rxd8 23.gxf4 Bg6 24.Be6 f5 25.Re1 Rf8 26.Re5 Bxf7 27.Bxf7 Rxf7
28.Kf1 Rd7 29.Ke2 Rd4 30.c5+ Kb5 31.Rxf5 Kc4 32.Rf7 b5 33.Rxa7
Rxf4 34.Rxh7 Kb3 35.Rh6 Kxb2 36.Rxc6 Kxa3 37.Rc8 b4 38.c6 Rc4
39.c7 Kb3 40.h4 Kc3 41.h5 b3 42.h6 b2 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.27"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[Black "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[ECO "E53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "115"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.e3 O-O 6.Bd3 c5 7.O-O
Nbd7 8.Qe2 a6 9.Rd1 dxc4 10.Bxc4 b5 11.Bb3 Bb7 12.Bc2 Qc7
13.Bd2 e5 14.dxc5 Bxc5 15.Rac1 Qb6 16.Ng5 Be7 17.Be1 h6
18.Nge4 Rfd8 19.Ng3 Nc5 20.Rxd8+ Rxd8 21.Rd1 b4 22.Nb1 Rxd1
23.Qxd1 Bd5 24.b3 Qb7 25.f3 Qb5 26.Bf2 g6 27.Ne2 a5 28.Qd2 Be6
29.Bg3 Nfd7 30.Nc1 Qb6 31.Nd3 e4 32.Nxc5 Bxc5 33.Bf2 exf3
34.gxf3 a4 35.bxa4 Ne5 36.Kg2 Bxa2 37.Be4 Be6 38.Qc1 f5 39.Bc2
b3 40.Bd1 Nc4 41.Qc3 Nxe3+ 42.Bxe3 Bxe3 43.a5 Qa7 44.Bxb3 Bxb3
45.Qxb3+ Kf8 46.a6 Qe7 47.Qb8+ Kf7 48.Qb3+ Kf8 49.Qb8+ Kf7
50.Qb7 Qxb7 51.axb7 Ba7 52.Na3 Ke6 53.Nc2 Kd6 54.Nb4 Kc7
55.Nd5+ Kxb7 56.Ne7 Kc7 57.Nxg6 Kd6 58.f4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.27"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "B80"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. g3 Nc6
7. Bg2 Nxd4 8. Qxd4 Bd7 9. O-O Be7 10. a4 O-O 11. Nb5 d5
12. e5 a6 13. Nc3 Ne8 14. Ne2 Rc8 15. c3 f6 16. Bf4 b5 17. a5
b4 18. Qb6 g5 19. exf6 Bxf6 20. Be3 bxc3 21. bxc3 Rc6 22. Qb3
Nd6 23. Nd4 Rc8 24. Bc1 Nb5 25. Bb2 Rb8 26. Qc2 Qc7 27. Ne2
Rfc8 28. c4 Bxb2 29. Qxb2 dxc4 30. Qf6 Qc5 31. Rad1 Rf8
32. Qh6 Nd6 33. Rd5 Nf7 34. Rxc5 Nxh6 35. Rxg5+ Kh8 36. Rc5
Rb2 37. Nd4 Rc8 38. Rxc8+ Bxc8 39. Rc1 e5 40. Nc6 Bf5 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.27"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[Black "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[ECO "E16"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "96"]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.d4 e6 3.c4 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Qe7 7.O-O
Bxd2 8.Nbxd2 d6 9.Qc2 O-O 10.Rfe1 c5 11.e4 Nc6 12.d5 Nb4
13.Qc3 e5 14.a3 Na6 15.Nf1 Nc7 16.Nh4 g6 17.Qd2 Nce8 18.h3 Ng7
19.Qh6 Kh8 20.Rad1 Ng8 21.Qc1 Bc8 22.Nf3 Bd7 23.Re2 Rae8
24.Rde1 a6 25.Qc3 Qd8 26.N1d2 f6 27.Kh2 Re7 28.Ng1 f5 29.f4
exf4 30.gxf4 fxe4 31.Nxe4 Bc8 32.Ng5 Rxe2 33.Rxe2 Rxf4 34.Ne6
Bxe6 35.dxe6 Qf6 36.Qb3 Nxe6 37.Qxb6 Rd4 38.Bd5 Nf4 39.Qb8
Rxd5 40.cxd5 Nxe2 41.Nxe2 Qf2+ 42.Kh1 Qxe2 43.Qxd6 Qe7 44.Qc6
Nf6 45.d6 Qe1+ 46.Kg2 Qe2+ 47.Kg1 Qd1+ 48.Kh2 Qd2+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.27"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[Black "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[ECO "D50"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bd3
Re8 8.Qc2 Nbd7 9.O-O-O Nf8 10.Nge2 c6 11.Ng3 Be6 12.Nf5 Bxf5
13.Bxf5 N6d7 14.Bf4 Nb6 15.h4 g6 16.Bd3 Bxh4 17.Rh3 Bg5 18.Be5
Bf6 19.f4 Nbd7 20.e4 Bxe5 21.fxe5 c5 22.e6 Nxe6 23.Nxd5 cxd4
24.Kb1 a6 25.Qf2 Rf8 26.Rdh1 Ng5 27.Rh6 f6 28.Qh4 Rf7 29.Rxg6+
Kh8 30.Nxf6 Nxf6 31.Rxg5 Ng8 32.e5 Qc7 33.e6 Re7 34.Qxd4+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.27"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[Black "Alexander Koblents"]
[ECO "C97"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "52"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5
7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2
Re8 13. Nf1 Bf8 14. N3h2 g6 15. Qf3 Bg7 16. Bg5 Nd7 17. dxc5
dxc5 18. Ng4 f6 19. Bc1 Kh8 20. Nfe3 Bb7 21. Qg3 c4 22. Nd5
Bxd5 23. exd5 Nb6 24. h4 Nxd5 25. h5 f5 26. h6 fxg4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.27"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[ECO "E72"]
[WhiteElo "2203"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.g3 O-O 6.Bg2 e5 7.Nge2
exd4 8.Nxd4 Nc6 9.Nc2 Be6 10.Nd5 Ne5 11.Nce3 c6 12.Nxf6+ Bxf6
13.Qe2 Qa5+ 14.Bd2 Qa6 15.Rc1 b5 16.b3 bxc4 17.bxc4 Qa3 18.O-O
Qd3 19.Qxd3 Nxd3 20.Rc2 Rab8 21.Bc3 Bxc3 22.Rxc3 Nc5 23.Rd1
Rfd8 24.Ra3 a6 25.Ra5 f6 26.f4 Ra8 27.e5 Nb7 28.Ra3 dxe5
29.fxe5 Rxd1+ 30.Nxd1 Nd8 31.Ne3 fxe5 32.Ra5 Kf7 33.Rxe5 Rb8
34.Ra5 Rb1+ 35.Kf2 Rb2+ 36.Kf3 Bc8 37.h4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.28"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "18"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[ECO "C33"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nxd5 Qh4+ 5. Ke2 Bd6 6. d4
Nf6 7. Nf3 Bg4 8. Nxf6+ gxf6 9. c3 Bxf3+ 10. gxf3 c5 11. dxc5
Bxc5 12. Qe1 Qg5 13. Qd2 Qh4 14. Qxf4 Qf2+ 15. Kd1 Nc6 16. Bd2
Rd8 17. Kc2 Ne5 18. Bb5+ Ke7 19. Rhf1 Qg2 20. Rae1 Rd6 21. Kc1
Bf2 22. Rd1 Rhd8 23. Be2 Bb6 24. Rfe1 Qf2 25. Qg3 Qxg3
26. hxg3 Bf2 27. Rf1 Bxg3 28. Kc2 h5 29. Be3 Nc6 30. Bc5 h4
31. f4 h3 32. Rf3 Bxf4 33. Rxf4 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.28"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "18"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Andre Lilienthal"]
[Black "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[ECO "C92"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "151"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Nd7 10.d4 Bf6 11.a4 Na5 12.Bc2 b4 13.Nbd2
bxc3 14.bxc3 c5 15.d5 Nb6 16.Nb3 Nb7 17.Nbd2 Rb8 18.a5 Na8
19.Nc4 Bd7 20.Be3 Nc7 21.Ba4 Nb5 22.Qc2 Be7 23.Nb6 Be8 24.c4
Nxa5 25.Bd2 Nb7 26.cxb5 axb5 27.Bxb5 Bxb5 28.Nc4 Ra8 29.Rab1
Bxc4 30.Qxc4 Qc7 31.Qb5 Ra7 32.Bc3 Rc8 33.Nd2 c4 34.Ra1 Rxa1
35.Rxa1 Nc5 36.Qxc4 Qd7 37.Bb4 f5 38.Bxc5 Rxc5 39.Ra8+ Kf7
40.Qe2 g6 41.exf5 Qxf5 42.Ne4 Rc7 43.Kh2 Kg7 44.Ra6 h5 45.Rc6
Rd7 46.g3 h4 47.g4 Qf7 48.Qd3 Rb7 49.Kg2 Rd7 50.Qd2 Kh7 51.Rc3
Kg7 52.Rf3 Qg8 53.g5 Rd8 54.Nf6 Qf7 55.Nh5+ gxh5 56.Rxf7+ Kxf7
57.Qd3 Bxg5 58.Qf5+ Bf6 59.Qxh5+ Kg7 60.Qg4+ Kh6 61.Qe6 Kg6
62.Kf3 Ra8 63.Qxd6 Ra4 64.Qe6 Rd4 65.d6 Kg5 66.Qg8+ Kf5 67.d7
Bg5 68.Qf7+ Bf6 69.Ke3 Rd6 70.Ke2 Rd4 71.Qg8 Bg5 72.Qc8 Kg6
73.f4 exf4 74.Qc5 Re4+ 75.Kf2 Bf6 76.Qc2 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.28"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "18"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "C97"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "119"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5
7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2
Re8 13. Nf1 Bb7 14. d5 c4 15. b4 cxb3 16. axb3 Bc8 17. Bd2 Nb7
18. b4 Nd7 19. Bd3 Qb8 20. c4 bxc4 21. Bxc4 a5 22. bxa5 Nbc5
23. Qc2 Ba6 24. Reb1 Qc8 25. Rc1 Bxc4 26. Qxc4 Qa6 27. Ne1
Reb8 28. Rab1 Rxb1 29. Qxa6 Rxa6 30. Rxb1 Bd8 31. Rb5 Nxe4
32. Bb4 Nec5 33. Ne3 Kf8 34. N1c2 Bc7 35. Nc4 Ra8 36. Kf1 Ke8
37. Ba3 Ne4 38. Nb4 Ndc5 39. Na2 Na6 40. f3 Nec5 41. Nb4 Na4
42. Nxa6 Rxa6 43. Bb4 Kd8 44. Ke2 f5 45. Kd3 h5 46. Kc2 h4
47. Kb3 Nc5+ 48. Bxc5 dxc5 49. Rxc5 e4 50. fxe4 fxe4 51. Kc3
Bh2 52. Rb5 Rg6 53. Kd4 Rxg2 54. Rb7 Kc8 55. a6 Bg1+ 56. Kxe4
Re2+ 57. Kd3 Rh2 58. Nd6+ Kd8 59. Nf7+ Ke8 60. d6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.28"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "18"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[Black "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[ECO "E16"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "114"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Qe7 7.O-O
Bxd2 8.Qxd2 d6 9.Qc2 O-O 10.Nc3 c5 11.Rad1 Nc6 12.e3 Rac8
13.dxc5 bxc5 14.Qa4 Rfd8 15.Nd2 Ne8 16.Qc2 Nb4 17.Qb1 Bxg2
18.Kxg2 f5 19.f4 Nf6 20.e4 g6 21.Nf3 d5 22.cxd5 fxe4 23.Nxe4
exd5 24.Nxf6+ Qxf6 25.Ne5 d4 26.Qe4 Qe6 27.Kg1 Re8 28.Rde1 Qd5
29.Qxd5+ Nxd5 30.Nc4 Rb8 31.Rxe8+ Rxe8 32.Kf2 Nf6 33.Kf3 Kg7
34.Rc1 Nd7 35.Kf2 Kf6 36.b3 Re6 37.Rc2 Kf5 38.Nb2 Ra6 39.Nd3
Ke4 40.Ke2 Kd5 41.Kd2 Re6 42.Rc1 Re3 43.Rc4 h5 44.Rc1 h4
45.gxh4 Rh3 46.Rh1 Nf6 47.f5 Rxh4 48.fxg6 Rg4 49.h4 Rg2+
50.Kc1 Rxa2 51.Kb1 Rd2 52.Rh3 Nh5 53.Kc1 Rg2 54.Rh1 c4
55.bxc4+ Kxc4 56.Ne5+ Kb4 57.Nc6+ Kc3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.28"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "18"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Grigory Abramovich Goldberg"]
[Black "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "108"]

1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4
a6 8.a4 c5 9.O-O Nc6 10.Re1 Qc7 11.Qe2 Rd8 12.dxc5 Bxc5 13.h3
b6 14.e4 Nd4 15.Nxd4 Bxd4 16.Bd3 Bb7 17.Ra3 Nd7 18.Bg5 Bf6
19.Bxf6 Nxf6 20.Nd1 Rd4 21.Qe3 Rad8 22.f3 Qd7 23.Nf2 e5 24.Bf1
Qe7 25.Rc1 h6 26.Nd3 Ne8 27.a5 b5 28.Rac3 f6 29.Nc5 Bc8 30.Nb3
Be6 31.Nc5 Bc8 32.b3 Kh7 33.Kh2 Nd6 34.Be2 Ne8 35.Bd3 Nd6
36.Be2 Ne8 37.Bf1 Nd6 38.R3c2 Kh8 39.Bd3 Nb7 40.Be2 Nxa5
41.Ra2 Nc6 42.Nxa6 R4d6 43.Bxb5 Nd4 44.Nc7 f5 45.Ra7 f4 46.Qf2
Rg6 47.Ra2 Rg3 48.Nd5 Qh4 49.Bf1 Bxh3 50.gxh3 Nxf3+ 51.Qxf3
Rxf3 52.Bg2 Rxb3 53.Rf1 Rd6 54.Raf2 Rxh3+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.28"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "18"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Alexander Koblents"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.b3 Bb4 7.Bd2
Qe7 8.Be2 c6 9.O-O Nbd7 10.Qc2 dxc4 11.bxc4 e5 12.Ne4 Nxe4
13.Bxb4 Qxb4 14.Qxe4 exd4 15.exd4 Nf6 16.Qf4 Bg4 17.Rab1 Qe7
18.Rfe1 Bxf3 19.Bxf3 Qd7 20.Red1 Rfd8 21.h3 Rab8 22.Qe5 b6
23.Qf4 Rbc8 24.a4 Qe6 25.d5 cxd5 26.cxd5 Qd6 27.Qxd6 Rxd6
28.Rbc1 Rxc1 29.Rxc1 Kf8 30.a5 Ke7 31.Rc8 Nxd5 32.a6 b5 33.Ra8
Rd7 34.Bxd5 Rxd5 35.Rxa7+ Ke6 36.Kf1 Rd2 37.Ke1 Ra2 38.Ra8 b4
39.Kd1 Ke7 40.a7 g6 41.g4 b3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.28"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "18"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[Black "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[ECO "E67"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.g3 O-O 5.Bg2 d6 6.Nf3 Nbd7 7.O-O
e5 8.e4 c6 9.b3 Re8 10.Bb2 a5 11.Qc2 exd4 12.Nxd4 Nc5 13.Rad1
Qb6 14.Nde2 a4 15.Nc1 axb3 16.axb3 Rd8 17.h3 Be6 18.Kh2 Ne8
19.f4 f6 20.f5 Bf7 21.N3e2 gxf5 22.exf5 Rd7 23.Nf4 Re7 24.Bd4
Qa5 25.Ncd3 Nd7 26.Ra1 Qd8 27.Rxa8 Qxa8 28.Ne6 Bxe6 29.fxe6
Rxe6 30.Nf4 Re7 31.Qf5 Nf8 32.Nh5 Qd8 33.Nxf6+ Nxf6 34.Bxf6
Bxf6 35.Qxf6 Rd7 36.Qd4 Qg5 37.h4 Qe5 38.Qf2 Ng6 39.Re1 Rf7
40.Qd2 Qc5 41.Re6 Rf2 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.06.29"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "18"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Ilia Abramovich Kan"]
[ECO "D50"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.e3 h6 7.Bf4
O-O 8.c5 c6 9.Bd3 b6 10.b4 a5 11.a3 axb4 12.axb4 Rxa1 13.Qxa1
Nh5 14.Qa7 Nxf4 15.exf4 bxc5 16.bxc5 f6 17.O-O e5 18.Bf5 exd4
19.Na4 Nb6 20.Bxc8 Nxc8 21.Qb7 d3 22.Qxc6 Na7 23.Qa6 Qc7
24.Qxd3 Qc6 25.Qc2 Nb5 26.Qb3 Kh8 27.Rb1 Ra8 28.g3 Ra5 29.Qb4
Qa6 30.Nb6 Na3 31.Rc1 Rb5 32.Qe1 Bxc5 33.Qe8+ Kh7 34.Nxd5 Qd6
35.Qe4+ Kh8 36.Rd1 Rb2 37.Ne3 Qf8 38.Nh4 Kg8 39.Qe6+ Kh7
40.Qf5+ Kg8 41.Ng6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.07.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "19"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Konstantinopolsky"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "C09"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "114"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 exd5 5.Ngf3 Nc6 6.Be2 Nf6
7.O-O Be6 8.Re1 Qb6 9.Nf1 cxd4 10.a3 Bd6 11.Bd3 O-O 12.Ng3
Rae8 13.Bg5 Ng4 14.b4 h6 15.Bd2 Bc8 16.Nh5 Nce5 17.h3 Nxd3
18.cxd3 Ne5 19.Nxe5 Bxe5 20.Qf3 Qg6 21.Nf4 Qf6 22.Rac1 Bd7
23.Nxd5 Qxf3 24.gxf3 Bc6 25.Bf4 f6 26.Bxe5 fxe5 27.Nc7 Re7
28.b5 Bxf3 29.Rc5 Rf5 30.Kh2 Rg5 31.Rg1 Rxg1 32.Kxg1 b6 33.Rc4
Be2 34.Nd5 Re6 35.Rc6 Kf7 36.Rc7+ Kf8 37.Rc6 Rxc6 38.bxc6 Ke8
39.f4 Bf3 40.Nb4 exf4 41.Kf2 Bh1 42.h4 a5 43.c7 Kd7 44.Nc2
Kxc7 45.Nxd4 Kd6 46.Nf5+ Ke5 47.Nxg7 b5 48.Ke2 Bc6 49.Kd2 Bd7
50.Nh5 Bg4 51.d4 Kf5 52.Ng7+ Ke4 53.Ne8 Kxd4 54.Nd6 Bd7 55.Ke2
b4 56.axb4 axb4 57.h5 b3 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.07.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "19"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "C15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "74"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 dxe4 6. Bc4
Nf6 7. Bg5 Nc6 8. Ne2 h6 9. Bh4 Na5 10. Ba2 b6 11. O-O Ba6
12. f3 e3 13. Re1 g5 14. Bg3 Nd5 15. Bxd5 Qxd5 16. Nc1 Nc4
17. Nd3 O-O-O 18. Nb4 Qb7 19. Qd3 f5 20. Nxa6 Qxa6 21. Rxe3 b5
22. Ree1 Qc6 23. Be5 Rhg8 24. Re2 Rd5 25. Rb1 a5 26. Ra1 Nxe5
27. Rxe5 Rxe5 28. dxe5 Rd8 29. Qe3 Rd5 30. h4 f4 31. Qe4 Qxc3
32. Re1 Qd4+ 33. Kh2 Qxe4 34. Rxe4 Rc5 35. hxg5 hxg5 36. Re2
Rc3 37. Kh3 Rxa3 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.07.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "19"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "B80"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.g3 Nc6 7.Bg2
Bd7 8.Nde2 a6 9.O-O b5 10.a3 Qc7 11.h3 Be7 12.Kh1 O-O 13.g4
Kh8 14.Ng3 b4 15.axb4 Nxb4 16.g5 Ng8 17.f4 Bc6 18.Nce2 Bb5
19.Bd2 d5 20.Bc3 dxe4 21.Nh5 f6 22.Nxg7 Bxe2 23.Qxe2 Kxg7
24.Bxe4 Nd5 25.Qh5 Rfd8 26.Rg1 Bc5 27.gxf6+ Kf8 28.Rxg8+ Kxg8
29.Bxh7+ Kf8 30.Qg6 Nxf6 31.Qxf6+ Qf7 32.Qh6+ Ke7 33.Qg5+ Kd7
34.Qxc5 Qxh7 35.Rd1+ Ke8 36.Qc6+ Kf8 37.Bb4+ Kf7 38.Qc7+ Kg6
39.f5+ Kh6 40.Qf4+ Kg7 41.Qg5+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.07.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "19"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Andre Lilienthal"]
[ECO "C79"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "48"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O d6 6.Re1 Bd7 7.c3
g6 8.d4 Qe7 9.dxe5 dxe5 10.Bg5 b5 11.Bc2 Bg7 12.Nbd2 h6 13.Be3
Ng4 14.Nf1 O-O 15.h3 Nxe3 16.Nxe3 Na5 17.b4 Nb7 18.c4 bxc4
19.Nxc4 Bb5 20.Bb3 Bxc4 21.Bxc4 c5 22.bxc5 Nxc5 23.Qe2 Rfd8
24.Red1 a5 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.07.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "19"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Viacheslav Ragozin"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "E01"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "126"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Nbd7 5.Nf3 c6 6.O-O Be7 7.Nc3
O-O 8.Qc2 b6 9.Rd1 Bb7 10.b3 c5 11.cxd5 exd5 12.Bf4 Rc8 13.Nb5
a6 14.Nd6 Bxd6 15.Bxd6 Re8 16.Qb2 Nf8 17.dxc5 bxc5 18.Be5 N8d7
19.Bf4 Qe7 20.Re1 Ne4 21.Rad1 Ndf6 22.Bh3 Rcd8 23.e3 Bc8
24.Bg2 Bg4 25.h4 h6 26.Be5 Qe6 27.Bxf6 Nxf6 28.Rc1 Rc8 29.Nd2
Qb6 30.e4 dxe4 31.Nxe4 Nxe4 32.Rxe4 Rxe4 33.Bxe4 Re8 34.Qc2
Qb4 35.Bg2 Re1+ 36.Rxe1 Qxe1+ 37.Kh2 Qe5 38.Qc4 Be2 39.Qc2 Bb5
40.Qd2 Qd4 41.Qxd4 cxd4 42.Bd5 Kf8 43.f4 Ke7 44.Kg2 Kd6
45.Bxf7 Kc5 46.Kf2 Kb4 47.g4 d3 48.g5 d2 49.Bh5 Bd3 50.Bd1 Kc3
51.Ke3 Bc2 52.Ke2 h5 53.b4 Bf5 54.Ke3 Bg4 55.Bb3 g6 56.Ke4
Bf5+ 57.Ke5 Bc2 58.Bxc2 Kxc2 59.Kf6 d1=Q 60.Kxg6 Qd6+ 61.Kxh5
Qxf4 62.g6 Qf6 63.a4 Kd3 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.07.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "19"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vitaly Chekhover"]
[Black "Isaac Boleslavsky"]
[ECO "B63"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "121"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2
Be7 8.Nb3 O-O 9.Be2 a6 10.a4 Qc7 11.O-O b6 12.Be3 Ne5 13.Qd4
Ned7 14.f4 Bb7 15.Bf3 Nc5 16.Nxc5 bxc5 17.Qc4 Rfb8 18.Rad1 Bc6
19.b3 Rb4 20.Qd3 Qb7 21.e5 dxe5 22.fxe5 Ng4 23.Bxc6 Qxc6
24.Bf4 c4 25.Qg3 cxb3 26.Qxg4 Qxc3 27.cxb3 Qxb3 28.a5 Qa4
29.Kh1 Rf8 30.Qg3 Rb3 31.Qe1 Qb4 32.Bd2 Qb5 33.Bc3 Bb4 34.Bxb4
Rxb4 35.Qf2 Qxa5 36.Rd7 Qb6 37.Qe1 Rc4 38.Qd1 Rc7 39.Rd6 Qc5
40.Qa1 a5 41.Ra6 Ra7 42.Rd6 a4 43.Rc1 Qa5 44.Rdc6 a3 45.Qd4 a2
46.Ra1 h6 47.h3 Rb7 48.Rcc1 Rfb8 49.Qe4 Rb2 50.Rg1 Qd2 51.Qa4
R8b3 52.Kh2 Qe3 53.Qa8+ Kh7 54.Rge1 Qf4+ 55.Kg1 Rxh3 56.Qe4+
Qxe4 57.Rxe4 Rb1+ 58.Re1 Rxe1+ 59.Rxe1 Rb3 60.Kh2 Rb1 61.Re3
0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.07.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "19"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vladimir Alatortsev"]
[Black "Boris Yakovlevich Ratner"]
[ECO "A57"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 e6 5.Nc3 exd5 6.Nxd5 Bb7
7.Nxf6+ Qxf6 8.Nf3 d5 9.g3 Qb6 10.a4 Be7 11.Bg2 Bf6 12.O-O O-O
13.Rb1 h6 14.b4 d4 15.bxc5 Qxc5 16.Qd3 Rd8 17.Ba3 Qh5 18.Ng5
Qxg5 19.Bxb7 Nd7 20.f4 Qh5 21.Bxa8 Rxa8 22.Qf3 Qxf3 23.Rxf3
Nb6 24.a5 Nc4 25.Rd3 Nxa5 26.Bc5 Nc4 27.Bxd4 Be7 28.Ra1 Bd8
29.Rxa7 Rb8 30.Kg2 Ba5 31.Rb3 Rd8 32.e3 Rb8 33.Ra6 Bb6 34.Bxb6
Nxb6 35.Ra7 g6 36.e4 Kg7 37.e5 Kf8 38.Rc3 Nd5 39.Rc5 Rd8
40.Kf3 Ke8 41.Ke4 Ne7 42.b6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1945.07.01"]
[EventDate "1945.??.??"]
[Round "19"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Koblents"]
[Black "Iosif Rudakovsky"]
[ECO "B83"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "123"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be2 Be7 7.O-O
O-O 8.Kh1 Nc6 9.f4 Qc7 10.Nb3 a6 11.a4 b6 12.Bf3 Bb7 13.Qe2
Nb4 14.Be3 d5 15.e5 Ne4 16.Bxe4 dxe4 17.Rac1 f5 18.Qf2 Bd8
19.Rfd1 Nd5 20.Nxd5 exd5 21.Nd4 Qd7 22.c4 Rc8 23.cxd5 Rxc1
24.Bxc1 Qxd5 25.Qc2 Qf7 26.e6 Qh5 27.Ne2 Qe8 28.Rd7 Ba8 29.Qb3
Kh8 30.Qb4 Bf6 31.Qxb6 e3 32.Bxe3 Qh5 33.Qd6 Re8 34.Ng3 Qh3
35.Qd2 h5 36.Ra7 Qg4 37.Qd7 Qg6 38.Qf7 Kh7 39.Kg1 h4 40.Qxg6+
Kxg6 41.Nf1 Bd5 42.Rxa6 Bxe6 43.Rd6 Kh5 44.a5 Bc4 45.Nd2 Rxe3
46.Nxc4 Re4 47.b3 Rxf4 48.a6 Bd4+ 49.Rxd4 Rxd4 50.Nb6 h3
51.gxh3 Rd1+ 52.Kf2 Rd2+ 53.Ke1 Ra2 54.Na4 Ra1+ 55.Ke2 Ra2+
56.Kd3 Rxh2 57.a7 Rxh3+ 58.Kc4 Kg4 59.a8=Q g5 60.Nc3 Rf3
61.Ne2 Rf2 62.Qh1 1-0

