[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.11"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[ECO "E45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "113"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Ne2 Ba6 6.a3 Be7 7.Nf4
O-O 8.b4 d5 9.b5 Bb7 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Bb2 c5 12.Be2 c4 13.O-O
a6 14.a4 Bb4 15.Qc2 Qd7 16.Rfb1 Re8 17.Ba3 Bxa3 18.Rxa3 Qd6
19.Ra2 a5 20.Qc1 Nbd7 21.Qa3 Qxa3 22.Rxa3 Nf8 23.h4 Rad8
24.Bf3 Ne6 25.Nh5 Nxh5 26.Bxh5 g6 27.Bf3 f5 28.Ra2 Kg7 29.Kf1
h6 30.g3 Kf6 31.Kg2 Rh8 32.Rh1 Rhe8 33.Rd2 Re7 34.Re2 Ree8
35.Kf1 Rh8 36.Ke1 Rhe8 37.Kd2 Re7 38.Ree1 Ree8 39.Ne2 Rh8
40.g4 Rhg8 41.Reg1 fxg4 42.Bxg4 Rdf8 43.Bxe6 Kxe6 44.Nf4+ Kd6
45.Rh2 Rf6 46.Rhg2 Bc8 47.Rxg6 Rgxg6 48.Rxg6 Rxg6 49.Nxg6 Bf5
50.Ne5 Bb1 51.Kc3 Ba2 52.e4 dxe4 53.Nxc4+ Bxc4 54.Kxc4 h5
55.d5 Ke5 56.d6 Kxd6 57.Kd4 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.11"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "A54"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "132"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 e5 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. g3 g6 6. Bg2 Bg7
7. O-O O-O 8. b3 Re8 9. Qc2 c6 10. Rd1 Qa5 11. e4 Nf8 12. d5
c5 13. a4 Nh5 14. Ne1 f5 15. Nd3 Qd8 16. a5 Nd7 17. f3 Rf8
18. Nb5 Ndf6 19. b4 fxe4 20. fxe4 a6 21. Nc3 cxb4 22. Na4 Qxa5
23. Be3 Qc7 24. Bb6 Qe7 25. c5 Bg4 26. Re1 Rac8 27. Nxb4 Nd7
28. c6 Nxb6 29. Nxb6 Rc7 30. Qb3 Bh6 31. h3 Bc8 32. Na8 b5
33. Nxa6 Ra7 34. Nc5 dxc5 35. d6+ Qf7 36. Qxf7+ Raxf7 37. Nb6
Be6 38. d7 Nf6 39. Rad1 Nxd7 40. cxd7 Rd8 41. Bf1 c4 42. Kg2
Kg7 43. g4 Bg5 44. Rd6 Bxd7 45. Red1 c3 46. Nxd7 c2 47. Bxb5
cxd1=Q 48. Rxd1 Bf4 49. Rd5 Rc8 50. Nc5 Re7 51. Kf3 Ra8
52. Ba4 Rf8 53. Bd7 Rf6 54. h4 Bg5+ 55. Kg3 Bf4+ 56. Kf3 Bc1+
57. Ke2 Ba3 58. g5 Rb6 59. Nd3 Rd6 60. Bg4 Rxd5 61. exd5 Ra7
62. Nxe5 Ra4 63. Kd3 Rf4 64. h5 Bb2 65. h6+ Kh8 66. Nc4 Rd4+
0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.11"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Salomon Flohr"]
[Black "Mark Taimanov"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "56"]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.b3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.Bb2 O-O 7.O-O
Ne8 8.Nc3 f5 9.d4 Bf6 10.Qc2 Nd6 11.Rad1 Nc6 12.Qb1 Qe8 13.d5
Ne7 14.dxe6 dxe6 15.Nd4 Bxg2 16.Kxg2 Nc6 17.Ndb5 Nxb5 18.Nxb5
Bxb2 19.Qxb2 Rf7 20.Rd2 a6 21.Nd4 Rd8 22.Rfd1 Nxd4 23.Rxd4
Qc6+ 24.f3 Rfd7 25.Rxd7 Rxd7 26.Rxd7 Qxd7 27.Kf2 Qd6 28.f4 Kf7
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.11"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Efim Geller"]
[ECO "B26"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "95"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6 6.Be3 Rb8 7.Qd2 b5
8.Nd1 b4 9.h3 e6 10.Ne2 Nd4 11.O-O Ne7 12.Nxd4 cxd4 13.Bh6 O-O
14.Bxg7 Kxg7 15.f4 e5 16.b3 Qc7 17.a3 Nc6 18.Nb2 f6 19.f5 a5
20.h4 bxa3 21.Rxa3 Nb4 22.Nc4 gxf5 23.Rxa5 fxe4 24.dxe4 Be6
25.Rfa1 Bxc4 26.Ra7 Rb7 27.Rxb7 Qxb7 28.bxc4 Nc6 29.Kh2 Ra8
30.Rf1 Ra2 31.Rxf6 Qe7 32.Qh6+ Kg8 33.c5 Rxc2 34.cxd6 Qg7
35.d7 Qxh6 36.Rxh6 Nd8 37.Rd6 Kf7 38.g4 Ke7 39.Rd5 Nf7 40.g5
Rc6 41.Bh3 Rd6 42.Kg2 Rxd5 43.exd5 Nd6 44.h5 Ne4 45.g6 hxg6
46.hxg6 Nf6 47.d6 Kd8 48.g7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.11"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Keres"]
[Black "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[ECO "D07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "43"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Bxf3
7.gxf3 Nb6 8.d5 Nb8 9.Bf4 c6 10.Qb3 N8d7 11.Rd1 Qc8 12.Bh3 g6
13.Na4 f5 14.Nxb6 axb6 15.exf5 Nc5 16.Qxb6 e5 17.dxe6 Ra6
18.f6 Nxe6 19.Qb3 Kf7 20.O-O c5 21.Rfe1 c4 22.Qb5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.11"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[Black "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[ECO "E43"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "68"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 b6 5. Nf3 Bb7 6. Bd3 c5
7. O-O O-O 8. a3 cxd4 9. Na4 Be7 10. exd4 Qc7 11. b4 Ng4
12. g3 f5 13. Re1 f4 14. Bxf4 Rxf4 15. gxf4 Qxf4 16. d5 exd5
17. Rxe7 Nc6 18. Re1 Rf8 19. Be4 dxe4 20. Qd5+ Kh8 21. Qxe4
Qf6 22. Qxg4 Nd8 23. Qg3 Bxf3 24. Rac1 Ne6 25. Nc3 Nd4 26. Re3
Bc6 27. Nd5 Qf7 28. Rce1 b5 29. Re7 Qg8 30. Kf1 bxc4 31. Ne3
c3 32. Rc1 c2 33. Nxc2 Qc4+ 34. Ke1 Nf3+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.11"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vladimir Simagin"]
[Black "Lev Aronin"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nf3 O-O 5.e4 d6 6.h3 c5 7.Be2 Nc6
8.d5 Na5 9.O-O b6 10.Bg5 h6 11.Be3 Kh7 12.Bd3 e5 13.dxe6 Bxe6
14.b3 Nd7 15.Rc1 Ne5 16.Nxe5 dxe5 17.Nd5 Nc6 18.Qd2 Nd4
19.Bxd4 cxd4 20.a4 Bf6 21.Rc2 Be7 22.Qe2 a5 23.Re1 Bc5 24.Kh1
Re8 25.Rec1 Kg7 26.Re1 Qd6 27.f3 Bb4 28.Rec1 Ba3 29.Ra1 Bb4
30.Rac1 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.11"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "D34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "78"]

1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.g3 Nf6 7.Bg2
Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.Bg5 Be6 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.Rc1 Bb6 12.Na4 d4
13.Nxb6 axb6 14.a3 h6 15.Bf4 Bd5 16.Ne1 Bxg2 17.Kxg2 Re8
18.Rc2 Qd5+ 19.f3 Re7 20.Nd3 Rae8 21.Bc1 Qb3 22.Re1 Nd5 23.Nf2
Ne3+ 24.Bxe3 Rxe3 25.Rd2 Qb5 26.Nd3 Na5 27.Kf2 Nc4 28.Rc2 R3e7
29.Qc1 Ne3 30.Rc8 Qh5 31.Kg1 Qh3 32.Rxe8+ Rxe8 33.Nf4 Qd7
34.Qd2 g5 35.Ng2 Nc4 36.Qc2 Qe6 37.Kf2 b5 38.Rd1 Qh3 39.Kg1
Qxg2+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.11"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[Black "Yuri Averbakh"]
[ECO "A27"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 Nge7 6.O-O O-O 7.d3
d6 8.Rb1 a5 9.a3 Bf5 10.h3 h6 11.b4 axb4 12.axb4 Qd7 13.Kh2
Be6 14.b5 Nd8 15.Nd2 f5 16.Nd5 Bf7 17.Qc2 Nc8 18.Bb2 Ne6
19.Ra1 Nb6 20.Nb4 Nc5 21.Nb3 Nba4 22.Nxc5 Nxc5 23.Nd5 Be6
24.Bc3 Kh7 25.Rxa8 Rxa8 26.Ra1 Rxa1 27.Bxa1 Bxd5 28.Bxd5 c6
29.bxc6 bxc6 30.Bg2 Qa7 31.Qb1 Qa6 32.Bc3 Nb7 33.Qb2 Kg8 34.f4
Nc5 35.Qb8+ Kh7 36.Qxd6 Nb7 37.Qe7 Kg8 38.Bxe5 Bxe5 39.fxe5
Qb6 40.e6 f4 41.Qf7+ Kh8 42.Qxf4 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.14"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Salomon Flohr"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "D14"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "161"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Bf4 Bf5 7.e3
e6 8.Bd3 Bxd3 9.Qxd3 Be7 10.Ne5 O-O 11.h3 Rc8 12.O-O Nd7
13.Nxd7 Qxd7 14.Rac1 Rfd8 15.Rfd1 Na5 16.Qb5 Qxb5 17.Nxb5 Rxc1
18.Rxc1 Nc6 19.Kf1 Kf8 20.Ke2 Ke8 21.Nc3 Rc8 22.Kd1 Kd7 23.Bg3
h5 24.Ne2 h4 25.Bh2 g5 26.Rc2 Rg8 27.Nc1 Bd6 28.Bxd6 Kxd6
29.Ke2 f6 30.Nd3 b6 31.f3 Re8 32.Rc1 Re7 33.Kd2 Rc7 34.b3 Re7
35.Ke2 Re8 36.Kd2 Rh8 37.Ke2 Rg8 38.Kd2 Rg7 39.Ke2 Rh7 40.Kd2
Rb7 41.Ke2 Rh7 42.Kd2 Rh8 43.Nf2 e5 44.dxe5+ fxe5 45.Nd1 Rc8
46.Nc3 Ke6 47.Ne2 Kd7 48.Nc3 Ne7 49.Rg1 Ke6 50.Re1 Nc6 51.Rc1
Nb4 52.a3 Nc6 53.b4 Ne7 54.Re1 Kd7 55.Kd3 Rc6 56.Rg1 Rf6
57.Rc1 Rf8 58.Rd1 Rd8 59.Rc1 Rc8 60.Rg1 Ke6 61.Re1 Nf5 62.e4
Ne7 63.Nxd5 Nxd5 64.exd5 Kxd5 65.Re4 Ke6 66.b5 Rc5 67.a4 Kf5
68.Rg4 Rd5+ 69.Ke3 Rd1 70.Ke2 Rc1 71.Kd2 Rc5 72.Kd3 Rd5+
73.Ke3 Rd7 74.Ke2 Rd4 75.Ke3 Rd1 76.Ke2 Ra1 77.Ke3 Ra3+ 78.Ke2
Kf6 79.Kd2 Ra2+ 80.Ke3 Kg6 81.Kd3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.14"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Yuri Averbakh"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "B93"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "84"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. f4 e5
7. Nf3 Qc7 8. Bd3 Nbd7 9. O-O b5 10. a3 Be7 11. Kh1 O-O
12. fxe5 dxe5 13. Nh4 Bd8 14. Qe1 Nc5 15. Bg5 Be6 16. Nf5 Nh5
17. Qh4 Nf4 18. g3 Bxg5 19. Qxg5 f6 20. Qg4 Nfxd3 21. cxd3 g6
22. Nd5 Bxd5 23. exd5 Kh8 24. Ne3 f5 25. Qd1 Na4 26. Qd2 Qd6
27. Qb4 Qxb4 28. axb4 Nxb2 29. Ra3 Na4 30. Raa1 Nb6 31. Rac1
f4 32. Ng4 Nxd5 33. Nxe5 fxg3 34. Rxf8+ Rxf8 35. hxg3 Nxb4
36. Rc7 Kg8 37. Rd7 g5 38. d4 a5 39. Rb7 a4 40. Rxb5 a3
41. Ra5 a2 42. Kg2 Rc8 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.14"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Efim Geller"]
[Black "Vladimir Simagin"]
[ECO "D41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e3 Be7 7.Bd3
Nxc3 8.bxc3 Nd7 9.O-O O-O 10.e4 b6 11.Bf4 Bb7 12.Qe2 g6
13.Rfd1 cxd4 14.cxd4 Bf6 15.Rac1 Rc8 16.Ba6 Bxa6 17.Qxa6 Rxc1
18.Rxc1 Qa8 19.Bd6 Rd8 20.e5 Bg7 21.Rc7 Qe4 22.Nd2 Qe1+ 23.Nf1
Nf8 24.Qxa7 Bh6 25.Rxf7 Qb1 26.Qe7 Rc8 27.Rxh7 Nxh7 28.Qxe6+
Kg7 29.Qd7+ Kg8 30.Qxc8+ Kg7 31.Qc7+ Kg8 32.e6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.14"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[Black "Paul Keres"]
[ECO "B32"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "117"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 d5 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.exd5 Qxd5
7.Nc3 Qxd1+ 8.Nxd1 Nf6 9.Bc4 e6 10.Ne3 Be7 11.O-O O-O 12.Rd1
Nd5 13.Bf1 Rb8 14.Rd3 Rd8 15.Rb3 Bd7 16.Nxd5 cxd5 17.Be3 Bf6
18.c3 Ra8 19.Ba6 Bc6 20.h3 e5 21.Rc1 Rd7 22.Be2 Be7 23.Bb5 Rc8
24.Bxc6 Rxc6 25.Rb8+ Bf8 26.Rd1 f6 27.Rb5 d4 28.cxd4 a6 29.Rb8
Kf7 30.d5 Rc2 31.Rb6 a5 32.Rb5 a4 33.Rc1 Rxc1+ 34.Bxc1 Bd6
35.Be3 Rc7 36.Ra5 Rc2 37.Ra7+ Kg6 38.Ra6 Bb4 39.d6 Rxb2 40.d7
Rb1+ 41.Kh2 Rd1 42.Rxa4 Be7 43.Ra7 Bd8 44.a4 Rd5 45.g4 h5
46.Kg2 hxg4 47.hxg4 e4 48.Kh3 f5 49.Ra6+ Kf7 50.gxf5 Rxd7
51.Kg4 Bf6 52.Ra7 Rxa7 53.Bxa7 Be5 54.a5 Ke8 55.a6 Kd7 56.Be3
Kc6 57.Kg5 Bc7 58.Bd4 Bd6 59.Kg6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.14"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[ECO "E34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.e3 O-O 6.Nf3 c6 7.Bd3
Nbd7 8.O-O dxc4 9.Bxc4 Bd6 10.Rd1 Qe7 11.Ne2 c5 12.Ng3 a6
13.e4 cxd4 14.Nxd4 Bxg3 15.hxg3 b5 16.Bf1 Bb7 17.f3 Rac8
18.Qf2 Rfd8 19.Bf4 Ne8 20.Nb3 e5 21.Be3 Nf8 22.Bc5 Qf6 23.Bb4
Qh6 24.Bd2 Qg6 25.Qa7 Ba8 26.Ba5 Rxd1 27.Rxd1 Qc6 28.Bc3 f6
29.Na5 Qe6 30.a4 Nc7 31.Bb4 Qf7 32.Rc1 Nfe6 33.axb5 axb5
34.Bxb5 Rd8 35.Bc4 Qd7 36.Qxc7 Qxc7 37.Bxe6+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.14"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Lev Aronin"]
[Black "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[ECO "C91"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "77"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5
7. Bb3 O-O 8. d4 d6 9. c3 Bg4 10. d5 Na5 11. Bc2 c6 12. dxc6
Qc7 13. Bg5 Nc4 14. Nbd2 Nxb2 15. Qb1 Na4 16. Bxa4 bxa4
17. Qb4 Qxc6 18. Nxe5 dxe5 19. Qxe7 Nd7 20. c4 Rfb8 21. Rab1
Be6 22. Be3 h6 23. f3 Kh7 24. Qa3 Nb6 25. Rbc1 Nd7 26. c5 a5
27. Nc4 Qb5 28. Qc3 f6 29. a3 Ra6 30. Nb6 Bb3 31. Qd2 Nf8
32. Qe2 Qxe2 33. Rxe2 Ne6 34. Rd2 Ra7 35. c6 Rc7 36. Rd7 Rd8
37. Kf2 Kg8 38. Rxd8+ Nxd8 39. Nd5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.14"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "D94"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "124"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 g6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. Bd3 O-O
7. O-O Bg4 8. h3 Bxf3 9. Qxf3 e6 10. Rd1 Nbd7 11. b3 Re8
12. Bb2 Qe7 13. Rac1 e5 14. Bf1 exd4 15. exd4 Qd6 16. cxd5
Nxd5 17. Nxd5 cxd5 18. Qc3 Nf8 19. Qc5 Qxc5 20. Rxc5 Red8
21. g3 Ne6 22. Rc2 Rac8 23. Rxc8 Rxc8 24. Rd2 Ng5 25. Bg2 Ne4
26. Re2 f5 27. Kh2 Bf8 28. f3 Nf6 29. Bf1 Kf7 30. Rg2 Bd6
31. Bd3 Nh5 32. f4 Nf6 33. Rc2 Re8 34. Re2 Ne4 35. Kg2 h6
36. h4 Kf6 37. Bc1 Bb4 38. Rc2 Be1 39. Re2 Bc3 40. Be3 Re6
41. Kf3 h5 42. Rc2 Rc6 43. a3 Be1 44. Rxc6+ bxc6 45. b4 Nd6
46. Bf2 Bc3 47. Ke2 Ke6 48. Kd1 Ne4 49. Kc2 Nxf2 50. Kxc3 Kd6
51. a4 Ne4+ 52. Kc2 Nxg3 53. b5 Ne4 54. bxc6 a5 55. Bb5 Kc7
56. Kd3 Nd6 57. Ke2 Nf7 58. Ke3 Nd8 59. Ke2 Ne6 60. Ke3 Kd6
61. Be2 Kxc6 62. Bb5+ Kd6 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.14"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mark Taimanov"]
[Black "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[ECO "D15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nbd7 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Bf4 e6 7.e3
Be7 8.h3 a6 9.a4 O-O 10.Bd3 b6 11.O-O Bb7 12.Qe2 Ne4 13.Rfc1
f5 14.Na2 g5 15.Bc7 Qe8 16.Ne5 Nxe5 17.Bxe5 Bd8 18.f3 Nf6
19.Nb4 a5 20.Bb5 Nd7 21.Nd3 Qe7 22.Bh2 Rc8 23.Rxc8 Bxc8 24.Rc1
Bb7 25.Ne5 Nxe5 26.Bxe5 f4 27.Qd2 fxe3 28.Qxe3 Rf7 29.Rc3 Qb4
30.b3 Rf5 31.Bc7 Bf6 32.Bxb6 Qd6 33.Bc7 Qe7 34.Bd3 Qb4 35.Bxf5
exf5 36.Qe6+ Kg7 37.Be5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.14"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[Black "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[ECO "E02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "60"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 dxc4 5.Qa4+ Bd7 6.Qxc4 Bc6
7.Nf3 Nbd7 8.O-O Nb6 9.Qd3 Be4 10.Qb3 Bd5 11.Qc2 Be4 12.Qb3
Bd5 13.Qe3 Rc8 14.Nc3 Bc6 15.Qd3 Bb4 16.Re1 Bxc3 17.bxc3 Be4
18.Qb5+ c6 19.Qc5 Qd5 20.Qa3 a5 21.Bf1 Nc4 22.Qb3 Bxf3 23.exf3
b5 24.a4 O-O 25.f4 Rb8 26.Bg2 Qd7 27.Bf1 Qd5 28.Bg2 Qd7 29.Bf1
Qd5 30.Bg2 Qd7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.15"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Mark Taimanov"]
[ECO "E40"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "74"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 Nc6 5.Ne2 d5 6.a3 Be7 7.Ng3 h5
8.cxd5 exd5 9.Bd3 h4 10.Nf1 h3 11.g3 O-O 12.Nd2 Bg4 13.f3 Bc8
14.b4 a5 15.b5 Nb8 16.O-O c5 17.bxc6 bxc6 18.Na4 Ba6 19.Nb3
Bb5 20.Nbc5 Na6 21.Nxa6 Bxa6 22.Rb1 Qc7 23.Bxa6 Rxa6 24.Qd3
Ra7 25.Bd2 Bd6 26.e4 dxe4 27.fxe4 Rd8 28.Qf3 Bf8 29.Bc3 Re8
30.e5 Nd5 31.Bd2 Qd7 32.Rb3 Rb7 33.Rxb7 Qxb7 34.Nc3 Nxc3
35.Bxc3 Bxa3 36.Bxa5 Bb2 37.Bb6 Qd7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.15"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[Black "Salomon Flohr"]
[ECO "B17"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Ng3 e6
7.Bd3 Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.c4 c5 10.b3 b6 11.Bb2 Bb7 12.Bc2 Re8
13.Qd3 Nf8 14.Rad1 Qc7 15.dxc5 bxc5 16.Ne5 Ng6 17.Nxg6 hxg6
18.Qc3 a5 19.Rfe1 a4 20.Re3 axb3 21.axb3 Red8 22.Red3 Rxd3
23.Rxd3 Bc6 24.Rd1 Rd8 25.Rxd8+ Qxd8 26.f3 Ne8 27.Qe1 Bf6
28.Bxf6 Nxf6 29.Qe5 Qd2 30.Qxc5 Qxc2 31.Qxc6 Qd1+ 32.Kf2 Qd4+
33.Kf1 Qd1+ 34.Kf2 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.15"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[Black "Efim Geller"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "45"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.d5 Nh5
8.g3 Nd7 9.Bg5 Ndf6 10.h3 c5 11.Qd2 a6 12.a4 Bd7 13.g4 Nf4
14.Bxf4 exf4 15.Qxf4 b5 16.O-O b4 17.Nd1 Qe7 18.Bd3 Rac8
19.Re1 h5 20.Nh2 Nh7 21.Nf3 Nf6 22.Nh2 Nh7 23.Nf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.15"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Keres"]
[Black "Lev Aronin"]
[ECO "B62"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "125"]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd3
Be7 8.Rd1 O-O 9.Be2 d5 10.exd5 Nb4 11.Qg3 Nfxd5 12.Nxd5 Nxd5
13.Bxe7 Qxe7 14.O-O e5 15.Bf3 Nf4 16.Ne2 Nxe2+ 17.Bxe2 Bf5
18.Bd3 Qe6 19.b3 Rac8 20.Rfe1 Bxd3 21.Qxd3 Qe7 22.h3 b6 23.Qe4
f6 24.Rd5 Rfd8 25.Red1 Rxd5 26.Qxd5+ Kf8 27.c4 g6 28.a4 Rc7
29.a5 bxa5 30.Qxa5 Rd7 31.Rd5 Qe6 32.Qc5+ Kf7 33.Rxd7+ Qxd7
34.b4 Ke6 35.g3 Qd1+ 36.Kg2 Qd7 37.h4 Qb7+ 38.Kh2 Qd7 39.Qf8
h5 40.Qg8+ Kf5 41.c5 Qd4 42.Qc8+ Ke4 43.Kg2 Kd3 44.Qa6+ Kd2
45.Qd6 Ke2 46.Qxd4 exd4 47.c6 d3 48.c7 d2 49.c8=Q d1=Q 50.Qe6+
Kd3 51.Qd7+ Ke2 52.Qe7+ Kd3 53.Qa7 Qg4 54.Qe3+ Kc4 55.Qc5+ Kd3
56.Qe3+ Kc4 57.Qc5+ Kd3 58.b5 Qe4+ 59.Kh2 Qa8 60.Qc6 Qa2
61.Kg2 g5 62.b6 gxh4 63.Qf3+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.15"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "B85"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "134"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nf3 a6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 d6 6.Be2 Qc7 7.O-O
Nf6 8.f4 Nc6 9.Be3 Be7 10.Qe1 O-O 11.Qg3 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 b5 13.a3
Bb7 14.Kh1 Rfd8 15.Bd3 Ne8 16.Rae1 Bf8 17.e5 g6 18.Ne4 Bxe4
19.Bxe4 Rab8 20.f5 exf5 21.Bxf5 dxe5 22.Bxe5 Bd6 23.Bd3 Rd7
24.Bxd6 Nxd6 25.b3 Re7 26.Rxe7 Qxe7 27.Re1 Qf6 28.Qe5 Kg7
29.g3 Qxe5 30.Rxe5 Kf6 31.Rd5 Ke6 32.Rd4 a5 33.Kg2 f5 34.Kf3
Ke5 35.Ke3 g5 36.c4 bxc4 37.bxc4 Rb3 38.Rd5+ Ke6 39.Kd4 Rxa3
40.Re5+ Kf6 41.Rd5 Ke6 42.g4 fxg4 43.Rxg5 Ra2 44.Re5+ Kd7
45.Rh5 Rd2 46.c5 Nb5+ 47.Kc4 Na3+ 48.Kc3 Rd1 49.Be2 Rb1
50.Bxg4+ Kc6 51.Bf3+ Kb5 52.c6+ Kb6 53.Rxh7 Nb5+ 54.Kc2 Rb4
55.Rb7+ Kc5 56.c7 Nd6 57.c8=Q+ Nxc8 58.Rc7+ Kb6 59.Rc6+ Kb7
60.h4 Kb8 61.h5 Rf4 62.Be2 Ne7 63.Ra6 Kc7 64.Rxa5 Nc6 65.Ra8
Nd4+ 66.Kd3 Nxe2 67.Kxe2 Rh4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.15"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vladimir Simagin"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "D34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "39"]

1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.g3 Nf6 7.Bg2
Be7 8.O-O Be6 9.b3 O-O 10.Bb2 b6 11.Rc1 Rc8 12.Na4 Ne4 13.dxc5
bxc5 14.Nd2 Nxd2 15.Qxd2 c4 16.Rfd1 Bb4 17.Qf4 Bd6 18.Qd2 Bb4
19.Qf4 Bd6 20.Qd2 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.15"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[Black "Yuri Averbakh"]
[ECO "E08"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "62"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.O-O Nbd7 7.Qc2
c6 8.Bf4 b6 9.Nfd2 Bb7 10.e4 Rc8 11.Nc3 c5 12.exd5 exd5
13.Nxd5 Nxd5 14.cxd5 cxd4 15.Qa4 Nc5 16.Qxd4 Ne6 17.Qe4 Rc5
18.Be3 Bxd5 19.Qb1 Bxg2 20.Kxg2 Rd5 21.Rd1 Bf6 22.Kg1 Re8
23.a4 h5 24.Nc4 h4 25.Qc2 h3 26.Qe2 Nd4 27.Qf1 Qc8 28.Bxd4
Bxd4 29.Rd2 Qg4 30.Rad1 Bxf2+ 31.Qxf2 Qxd1 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.15"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[ECO "E56"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "49"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 c5 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. Nf3 O-O
7. O-O d5 8. a3 Ba5 9. cxd5 exd5 10. dxc5 Bxc3 11. bxc3 Qa5
12. Rb1 Qxc5 13. Rb5 Qe7 14. c4 a6 15. Rb2 dxc4 16. Bxc4 b5
17. Be2 Bf5 18. a4 b4 19. a5 Qc5 20. Qa4 Nd5 21. Nd4 Nxd4
22. exd4 Qxd4 23. Bf3 Rad8 24. Bxd5 Rxd5 25. Rxb4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.15"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[Black "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[ECO "A43"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "97"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 d6 4.Nc3 g6 5.e4 Bg7 6.Be2 O-O 7.Bg5
Bg4 8.Qd2 Nbd7 9.Bh6 a6 10.O-O b5 11.Bxg7 Kxg7 12.Ng5 h6
13.Bxg4 hxg5 14.Bxd7 Qxd7 15.Qxg5 b4 16.Ne2 Nxe4 17.Qe3 Nf6
18.Rad1 Rh8 19.h3 Rh5 20.Qb3 Re5 21.Ng3 Qb5 22.Rfe1 c4 23.Qf3
Rxe1+ 24.Rxe1 Qxd5 25.Rxe7 Qxf3 26.gxf3 d5 27.Rb7 a5 28.Ne2
Re8 29.Kf1 Rh8 30.Kg2 Ra8 31.a3 d4 32.Nxd4 c3 33.bxc3 bxa3
34.Rb3 a2 35.Ra3 Nd5 36.c4 Nf4+ 37.Kg3 Nh5+ 38.Kg4 Rc8 39.Rxa5
Rxc4 40.c3 Kh6 41.h4 Rxc3 42.Rxa2 Rc4 43.Rd2 f5+ 44.Kh3 Nf4+
45.Kh2 Kh5 46.Nc2 Ne6 47.Ne3 Rxh4+ 48.Kg1 Ng5 49.Kg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.18"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[ECO "E40"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 d5 5.a3 Be7 6.Nf3 O-O 7.b4
Nbd7 8.Bb2 c6 9.Qc2 Re8 10.Bd3 dxc4 11.Bxc4 a5 12.b5 Nb6
13.Bd3 cxb5 14.Nxb5 Bd7 15.Ne5 Rc8 16.Qe2 Na4 17.O-O Qb6
18.Rab1 Nxb2 19.Rxb2 Red8 20.Rfb1 Be8 21.Qd2 a4 22.Na7 Qxa7
23.Rxb7 Qa8 24.Rxe7 Rb8 25.Rc7 Rxb1+ 26.Bxb1 Nd5 27.Rc1 Qb8
28.Qc2 g6 29.Ba2 Ne7 30.h3 Kf8 31.Qc7 Rc8 32.Qxb8 Rxb8 33.Rc2
Nf5 34.Nc4 Rc8 35.Rb2 Ne7 36.e4 Rd8 37.Rd2 Bb5 38.Ne3 Nc6
39.d5 Ne5 40.Rb2 Bd3 41.Rb4 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.18"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Salomon Flohr"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "E67"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. Nc3 d6 6. Nf3 Nbd7
7. O-O e5 8. Qc2 exd4 9. Nxd4 Nb6 10. Qd3 Nfd7 11. b3 a5
12. Be3 a4 13. Rad1 Nc5 14. Qc2 axb3 15. axb3 Re8 16. Bc1 c6
17. Bf4 Bf8 18. e4 Nbd7 19. b4 Na6 20. b5 Nb4 21. Qb2 c5
22. Nc2 Nxc2 23. Qxc2 Nb6 24. Nd5 Nxd5 25. Rxd5 Be6 26. Rd2
Qa5 27. Rc1 Qa4 28. Qxa4 Rxa4 29. Bf1 Bg4 30. Bxd6 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.18"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Efim Geller"]
[Black "Paul Keres"]
[ECO "C99"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "62"]

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 cxd4 13.cxd4
Bb7 14.Nf1 Rac8 15.Bb1 d5 16.exd5 exd4 17.Bg5 h6 18.Bh4 Nxd5
19.Qd3 g6 20.Bg3 Bd6 21.Bxd6 Qxd6 22.Qd2 Nf4 23.Qxa5 Bxf3
24.gxf3 Nxh3+ 25.Kg2 Nf4+ 26.Kg1 Nh3+ 27.Kg2 Nf4+ 28.Kg1 Qd5
29.Ng3 d3 30.Ne4 Qf5 31.Qb4 Rfe8 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.18"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Vladimir Simagin"]
[ECO "A53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "131"]

1.d4 d6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.h3
Bxf3 8.Bxf3 Nc6 9.O-O Nd7 10.Bg2 Nxd4 11.Bxb7 Rb8 12.Bg2 a5
13.e3 Ne6 14.Qc2 Nec5 15.Rd1 f5 16.Nb5 Rb6 17.Bd2 c6 18.Nd4
Qa8 19.Bc3 Nf6 20.Nb3 Nfe4 21.Bxa5 Nxb3 22.axb3 Ra6 23.b4 c5
24.Ra3 Rb8 25.Rda1 cxb4 26.Bxb4 Rxa3 27.Bxa3 Qb7 28.Rb1 Be5
29.Bf3 Ra8 30.Rd1 Qc6 31.Bg2 Ra4 32.Rc1 Bf6 33.Qb3 Kg7 34.Rc2
Ra6 35.Qd3 h5 36.h4 Ra4 37.Bf3 Ra6 38.Qd1 Qa4 39.Rc1 Qa5
40.Rc2 Nc3 41.Qe1 Ne4 42.Qxa5 Rxa5 43.Kf1 Kf7 44.Ke2 Ke8
45.Kd3 Nc5+ 46.Kd2 Nb3+ 47.Kd1 Kd7 48.Bd5 e6 49.Bg2 Ra4 50.Bf1
Kc6 51.Bg2+ Kd7 52.Bf1 Kc6 53.f3 Ra7 54.Rh2 Be5 55.Rg2 Bf6
56.Bd3 Nc5 57.Bc2 Rb7 58.Kc1 Ra7 59.Kb1 Rg7 60.b4 Ra7 61.Ka2
Bc3 62.bxc5 Bb4 63.Kb3 Bxa3 64.cxd6 Bxd6 65.Kc3 Be5+ 66.Kd2
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.18"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[ECO "E71"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "164"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 g6 4. e4 Bg7 5. h3 O-O 6. Be3 c5
7. d5 e6 8. Bd3 exd5 9. exd5 Na6 10. Nf3 Nc7 11. O-O b5
12. Qd2 bxc4 13. Bxc4 Qd7 14. Bh6 Bb7 15. Bxg7 Kxg7 16. Rad1
Rfe8 17. Qf4 h6 18. Rfe1 Rxe1+ 19. Nxe1 Re8 20. Nc2 Re5
21. Ne3 Qe7 22. a3 a5 23. Ba2 h5 24. Kh2 Ne4 25. Nxe4 Rxe4
26. Qf3 Ba6 27. g3 Qe5 28. Rd2 Ne8 29. Bb1 Rd4 30. Rxd4 Qxd4
31. Qe4 Nf6 32. Qxd4 cxd4 33. Ng2 Nxd5 34. Ne1 Kf6 35. Kg2 Nb6
36. Bd3 Bc8 37. h4 a4 38. Kf1 Ke5 39. Ke2 Kd5 40. Kd2 Kc5
41. Bc2 Nc4+ 42. Kc1 Bd7 43. Nd3+ Kb6 44. Nf4 Bc6 45. Bb1 Ne5
46. Kd2 Bb5 47. Bc2 Kc5 48. Be4 Bc4 49. Bc2 Kb5 50. Be4 Bb3
51. Bb1 Ng4 52. Ke1 Kb6 53. Be4 Bc4 54. Bc2 Ka5 55. Be4 Kb5
56. Bc2 Ne5 57. Kd2 Ka5 58. Be4 Kb6 59. Bb1 Bb5 60. Bc2 Kc5
61. Be4 Ng4 62. Ke1 d3 63. Bxd3 Bxd3 64. Nxd3+ Kc4 65. Nc1 d5
66. Ke2 d4 67. Nd3 f6 68. Kd2 Ne5 69. Nf4 Kb3 70. Kc1 g5
71. hxg5 fxg5 72. Nxh5 Nd3+ 73. Kb1 Nxb2 74. Nf6 Nc4 75. Ne4
g4 76. Nc5+ Kxa3 77. Kc2 Ne5 78. Na6 d3+ 79. Kc3 Ka2 80. Nc5
a3 81. Ne4 Kb1 82. Kb3 Kc1 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.18"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Yuri Averbakh"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "C75"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. c3 Bd7 6. d4 Nf6
7. O-O Be7 8. Re1 O-O 9. Nbd2 exd4 10. cxd4 Nb4 11. Bxd7 Qxd7
12. Nf1 c5 13. a3 Nc6 14. d5 Ne5 15. Nxe5 dxe5 16. Ng3 Ne8
17. f4 Bd6 18. Nf5 f6 19. g3 g6 20. Nh6+ Kh8 21. f5 c4 22. h4
Bc5+ 23. Kg2 gxf5 24. Nxf5 Nd6 25. Nxd6 Bxd6 26. Rf1 f5
27. Bh6 Rf7 28. exf5 Rxf5 29. Qc2 Rxf1 30. Rxf1 Rg8 31. Qf5
Qxf5 32. Rxf5 Rg6 33. Bg5 Kg8 34. h5 Rg7 35. Kf3 b5 36. Bh6
e4+ 37. Kxe4 Rxg3 38. Rf6 Bc5 39. d6 Kh8 40. Kd5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.18"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mark Taimanov"]
[Black "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[ECO "D45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "139"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.Bd2
O-O 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 e5 10.dxe5 Nxe5 11.Nxe5 Bxe5 12.O-O-O
Qe7 13.Kb1 a5 14.f4 Bxc3 15.Bxc3 Ng4 16.Rhe1 Nxe3 17.Bd3 Nxc2
18.Rxe7 Nb4+ 19.Bxb4 axb4 20.Bc4 Bf5+ 21.Kc1 b5 22.Bb3 c5
23.Rd5 c4 24.Rxf5 cxb3 25.axb3 Ra1+ 26.Kd2 Rb1 27.Kc2 Rg1
28.Re2 f6 29.Rxb5 Rc8+ 30.Kd3 Rd1+ 31.Ke3 Re8+ 32.Kf2 Rxe2+
33.Kxe2 Rb1 34.Rxb4 Rxb2+ 35.Kf3 h5 36.h4 f5 37.Rb7 Kh7 38.Kg3
Kg6 39.Rb6+ Kf7 40.Kf3 Rb1 41.Ke3 Rb2 42.Kf3 Rb1 43.b4 Rb3+
44.Kf2 Rb2+ 45.Kg3 Rb3+ 46.Kh2 Ke7 47.b5 Kf7 48.Rb8 Kg6 49.b6
Kf7 50.Kg1 Rb2 51.Kf1 Kg6 52.g3 Rb3 53.Ke2 Rxg3 54.Rc8 Rb3
55.Rc6+ Kf7 56.Kd2 Ke7 57.Kc2 Rb5 58.Kc3 Kd7 59.Rg6 Rb1
60.Rxg7+ Kd6 61.Kc4 Rc1+ 62.Kb5 Rb1+ 63.Ka6 Ra1+ 64.Kb7 Ra4
65.Rg5 Rxf4 66.Rxh5 Rf1 67.Kc8 Rc1+ 68.Kb8 Ke6 69.b7 f4 70.Ka7
1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.18"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[Black "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[ECO "E45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "69"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Nge2 Ba6 6.a3 Be7 7.Nf4
O-O 8.e4 d6 9.Be2 c5 10.e5 Ne8 11.dxc5 dxe5 12.Qxd8 Bxd8
13.Bf3 Nc7 14.cxb6 axb6 15.Bxa8 Nxa8 16.Nd3 Nc6 17.b3 Nd4
18.Rb1 Nxb3 19.Nb5 Nxc1 20.Rxc1 Nc7 21.a4 Bb7 22.O-O Na6
23.Nxe5 Nc5 24.Rfd1 Bg5 25.Ra1 Ra8 26.Nd6 Bf6 27.f4 Bxe5
28.fxe5 Bc6 29.Nb5 Nd7 30.Rd6 Nxe5 31.Re1 Bxb5 32.cxb5 f6
33.Rxb6 Rxa4 34.Rb1 Kf7 35.Ra6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.18"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Lev Aronin"]
[Black "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[ECO "A26"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "71"]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6 6.e3 Nf6 7.Nge2
Ne7 8.d4 c6 9.O-O O-O 10.e4 exd4 11.Nxd4 d5 12.cxd5 cxd5 13.e5
Ne4 14.Nxe4 dxe4 15.Bf4 Nd5 16.Bxe4 Nxf4 17.gxf4 Qh4 18.Qf3
Bh6 19.Qg3 Qxf4 20.Rfe1 Re8 21.Nf3 Re7 22.Kg2 Bg4 23.h3 Bh5
24.Bd5 Rd8 25.Rad1 Kg7 26.Qxf4 Bxf4 27.Bb3 Bxf3+ 28.Kxf3 Rxd1
29.Bxd1 Bxe5 30.b4 f5 31.Ba4 Kf6 32.Rd1 Bc3 33.b5 Re4 34.Bb3
Bd4 35.Bd5 Rh4 36.Kg3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.19"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "D44"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "99"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 b5 7.e5 h6
8.Bh4 g5 9.exf6 gxh4 10.Ne5 Qxf6 11.g3 Nd7 12.Qe2 Nxe5 13.dxe5
Qe7 14.Bg2 Bb7 15.O-O-O Bg7 16.f4 O-O 17.Rd6 Rad8 18.Rhd1 Rxd6
19.exd6 Qd8 20.Ne4 Qa5 21.Kb1 Qb6 22.Qg4 f5 23.Qg6 c5 24.g4
Bxe4+ 25.Bxe4 fxe4 26.g5 hxg5 27.fxg5 Qd8 28.Qxe6+ Kh8 29.Qg4
Qe8 30.g6 Bh6 31.Qxh4 Kg7 32.d7 Qd8 33.Qxe4 Bg5 34.a4 Qe7
35.Qg4 Qf6 36.Ka2 b4 37.Rg1 b3 38.Ka3 Be3 39.Qh5 Bh6 40.Qxc5
Rd8 41.Rd1 Kxg6 42.Qg1+ Kh7 43.Kb4 Rb8+ 44.Kc5 Be3+ 45.Qxe3
Qb6+ 46.Kxc4 Qxe3 47.d8=Q Rxd8 48.Rxd8 Qe6+ 49.Rd5 a5 50.h4
0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.19"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[Black "Salomon Flohr"]
[ECO "D29"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.O-O a6 7.Qe2
b5 8.Bb3 Bb7 9.Rd1 Nbd7 10.a4 Be7 11.Na3 O-O 12.Bd2 cxd4
13.exd4 bxa4 14.Bxa4 Nb6 15.Ba5 Qd6 16.Bxb6 Qxb6 17.Nc4 Qc7
18.Nfe5 Rac8 19.Rac1 Bd5 20.h3 Qa7 21.b3 Rfd8 22.Na5 Rxc1
23.Rxc1 Qxd4 24.Nac6 Qf4 25.Nxe7+ Kf8 26.Qb2 Qg5 27.Nxd5 Nxd5
28.Bc6 Nf4 29.Kf1 f6 30.Qa3+ Kg8 31.Qe7 Rc8 32.Re1 Qf5 33.Be4
Qh5 34.Bf3 Qe8 35.Qxe8+ Rxe8 36.Nc6 Kf7 37.h4 e5 38.Ra1 e4
39.Be2 e3 40.g3 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.19"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[Black "Efim Geller"]
[ECO "A43"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 d6 4.Nc3 g6 5.e4 Bg7 6.Be2 O-O 7.Bg5
Nbd7 8.Qd2 Qa5 9.O-O Re8 10.Bh6 Bh8 11.Ng5 a6 12.f4 Qb4 13.Kh1
Qxb2 14.Rab1 Qa3 15.e5 dxe5 16.d6 exf4 17.Rxf4 c4 18.Bxc4 Ne5
19.Qe2 Nxc4 20.Qxc4 Be6 21.Nxe6 b5 22.Qc6 Rac8 23.Nc7 exd6
24.Rf3 Qa5 25.Qxa6 Qxc7 26.Nxb5 Qxc2 27.Rbf1 Qe2 28.a4 Rc2
29.Rg1 Ng4 30.Bf4 Nf2+ 31.Rxf2 Qxf2 32.Bg3 Qe3 33.Nxd6 Qxg1+
0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.19"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Paul Keres"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 Nc6 3.Nbc3 d6 4.g3 g6 5.Bg2 Bg7 6.d3 Nf6 7.Be3
Bd7 8.h3 a6 9.O-O O-O 10.Kh2 b5 11.Qd2 b4 12.Nd1 Ne8 13.d4
cxd4 14.Nxd4 Rb8 15.a3 bxa3 16.Rxa3 Nc7 17.Nxc6 Bxc6 18.Bh6
Bxh6 19.Qxh6 Rb5 20.Re1 Qa8 21.Qd2 Rfb8 22.Rae3 Ne6 23.b3 Rb4
24.Nc3 Rd4 25.Qc1 Nc5 26.Nd5 e5 27.c3 Nd3 28.Rxd3 Rxd3 29.Nf6+
Kg7 30.Qc2 Rxg3 31.Nh5+ gxh5 32.fxg3 Qb7 33.Rf1 f6 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.19"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "E68"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "103"]

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 exd4 9.Nxd4 a5 10.h3 Nc5 11.Re1 Re8 12.Qc2 a4 13.Be3
c6 14.Rad1 Qa5 15.Bf4 Bf8 16.Bf1 Nh5 17.Be3 Nf6 18.Bf4 Nh5
19.Bc1 Ng7 20.Kh2 Bd7 21.a3 Nge6 22.Be3 Nxd4 23.Bxd4 Nb3
24.Be3 Be6 25.f4 Rad8 26.Qf2 Qa6 27.Bb6 Rd7 28.c5 Bc4 29.Bxc4
Qxc4 30.e5 d5 31.Ne4 dxe4 32.Rxd7 Bxc5 33.Bxc5 Nxc5 34.Rd4 Qe6
35.Qc2 b6 36.Rd6 Qc8 37.Qc4 h5 38.Rxg6+ Kf8 39.Rf6 Qd7 40.Rd6
Qf5 41.Rf6 Qd7 42.Rd1 Qc7 43.Qe2 h4 44.Qg4 Rd8 45.Rxd8+ Qxd8
46.Rd6 hxg3+ 47.Kxg3 Qc7 48.Qh4 Ke8 49.Qh8+ Ke7 50.Qf6+ Ke8
51.Rxc6 Qd7 52.Qd6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.19"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vladimir Simagin"]
[Black "Yuri Averbakh"]
[ECO "D32"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "98"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e3 c5 5.d4 Nc6 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Be2
c4 8.O-O Bb4 9.Ne5 O-O 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Na4 c5 12.a3 Ba5
13.Nxc5 Rb8 14.Qc2 Bc7 15.Bd2 Ng4 16.Bxg4 Bxg4 17.f4 Qf6
18.Bc3 Bf5 19.Qa4 Bb6 20.Nd7 Bxd7 21.Qxd7 Rfd8 22.Qg4 Re8
23.Rae1 Re4 24.Qh5 Rd8 25.Rf3 g6 26.Qh3 Rde8 27.Ref1 Bc7 28.g4
a5 29.Be1 Bd8 30.g5 Qe7 31.Bd2 Bc7 32.Qh6 f5 33.gxf6 Qxf6
34.Rg3 Qf7 35.Rg2 Bd8 36.Rf3 Qf5 37.Rh3 R4e7 38.Rf3 Rb7 39.Bc3
Qb1+ 40.Rf1 Qf5 41.Rg3 Rb3 42.Qh3 Qxh3 43.Rxh3 Be7 44.e4 dxe4
45.f5 Bf6 46.Re3 g5 47.Rfe1 Rb5 48.Rxe4 Rxe4 49.Rxe4 Rd5
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.19"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[ECO "B24"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. d3 d6 6. Nf3 Nf6
7. O-O O-O 8. h3 e5 9. Kh2 Nd4 10. Be3 b5 11. a3 Bd7 12. Ne2
a5 13. c3 Nxe2 14. Qxe2 Qe7 15. Nd2 Bc6 16. b4 axb4 17. axb4
cxb4 18. cxb4 Qe6 19. Rfc1 Rxa1 20. Rxa1 Ra8 21. Rxa8+ Bxa8
22. Qd1 d5 23. Qa1 Bc6 24. Nb3 d4 25. Nc5 Qc8 26. Bd2 Nd7
27. Nb3 Nb6 28. Qa7 Qb7 29. Qa5 Qb8 30. h4 Na4 31. Bh3 Bf6
32. Qa6 Qb7 33. Qxb7 Bxb7 34. Bd7 Be7 35. Na5 Ba8 36. Bxb5 Nc3
37. Bd7 Bxb4 38. Nc4 f6 39. f4 exf4 40. Bxf4 Ne2 41. Bd6 Bxd6
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.19"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[Black "Mark Taimanov"]
[ECO "B88"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 e6 7.O-O
Be7 8.Bb3 a6 9.f4 Qc7 10.Be3 Na5 11.Qe2 b5 12.f5 Nxb3 13.axb3
b4 14.Na4 e5 15.Nf3 Bb7 16.Nb6 Rb8 17.Nd5 Nxd5 18.exd5 Bxd5
19.Rxa6 O-O 20.Ra7 Rb7 21.Rxb7 Bxb7 22.Qc4 Qa5 23.Qg4 f6
24.Rc1 Rc8 25.h4 d5 26.h5 Bc5 27.Bxc5 Qxc5+ 28.Kh2 e4 29.h6
Qc7+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.19"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[Black "Lev Aronin"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "156"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bc4 e6
7. O-O Be7 8. Bb3 O-O 9. Be3 Nc6 10. f4 d5 11. e5 Nd7 12. Qd2
Nc5 13. Rad1 a5 14. Qf2 Nxb3 15. axb3 f6 16. Qg3 fxe5 17. fxe5
Bd7 18. Bh6 Rxf1+ 19. Rxf1 Bf8 20. Ndb5 Ne7 21. Nd6 Ng6
22. Be3 Bxd6 23. exd6 Bc6 24. Rd1 Qh4 25. Qxh4 Nxh4 26. Bb6
Nf5 27. Bc7 b5 28. Ra1 Kf7 29. Ne2 e5 30. Ng3 Nd4 31. c3 Nxb3
32. Rf1+ Ke6 33. Nf5 d4 34. cxd4 exd4 35. Nxg7+ Kd5 36. Nf5
Bd7 37. Nh4 Re8 38. Kf2 a4 39. Rd1 b4 40. Nf3 a3 41. bxa3 bxa3
42. Bb6 a2 43. Bxd4 Nxd4 44. Nxd4 Ra8 45. Ne2+ Ke5 46. Ra1
Kxd6 47. Kg3 Be6 48. Nc1 Rg8+ 49. Kf2 Bd5 50. g3 Ra8 51. Ke3
Ke5 52. Nd3+ Kf5 53. Kd4 Be6 54. Nc5 Bf7 55. Nb7 Kg4 56. Nd6
Bg6 57. Nb5 Kh3 58. Ke5 Ra5 59. Kf6 Rxb5 60. Rxa2 Rc5 61. Ra3
Kxh2 62. g4 Rd5 63. Rb3 Rd3 64. Rb4 Kg3 65. Kg5 Rd5+ 66. Kh6
Re5 67. g5 Re4 68. Rb3+ Kf4 69. Rb6 Rd4 70. Ra6 Bf5 71. Rb6
Rd1 72. Rb4+ Be4 73. Ra4 Rd6+ 74. Kg7 Re6 75. Ra5 Re5 76. Ra4
Rxg5+ 77. Kh6 Rg6+ 78. Kh5 Rg1 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.21"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[ECO "E45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "173"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Ne2 Ba6 6.a3 Be7 7.Nf4 d5
8.b3 O-O 9.Bb2 c6 10.Bd3 Bd6 11.O-O Nbd7 12.Nh5 Nxh5 13.Qxh5
f5 14.Qe2 Rc8 15.f3 Qh4 16.g3 Qh3 17.Rad1 dxc4 18.Bxc4 Bxc4
19.bxc4 Rce8 20.f4 Nf6 21.e4 Ng4 22.e5 Be7 23.Rd3 Rc8 24.Qg2
Qh5 25.h3 Nh6 26.Bc1 g5 27.fxg5 Bxg5 28.Bxg5 Qxg5 29.Ne2 Nf7
30.Nf4 Qh6 31.Qe2 Ng5 32.Kh2 Rfd8 33.Qh5 Qxh5 34.Nxh5 Nf7
35.Re1 Kf8 36.g4 fxg4 37.hxg4 Ke7 38.Kg3 b5 39.c5 a5 40.Kf4
Rg8 41.Nf6 Rg7 42.Rh1 h6 43.a4 b4 44.Rd2 Rg6 45.Ke3 Rd8
46.Rdh2 Rb8 47.Rf2 Rh8 48.Rhf1 Nd8 49.Rf4 Rg7 50.Rh1 Rg6
51.Ne4 Rhg8 52.Kf3 R8g7 53.Nd2 Rg8 54.Nb3 Nb7 55.Kg3 R8g7
56.Rh2 Rg8 57.Rh4 Rh8 58.Kf3 Rh7 59.Nd2 Nd8 60.Nc4 Nb7 61.Rh3
Rhg7 62.Ne3 Rh7 63.Rh2 Nd8 64.Ke4 Rf7 65.Nc4 Rxf4+ 66.Kxf4 Nb7
67.Kg3 Kf8 68.Nd2 Nd8 69.Nb3 Nb7 70.Rf2+ Kg7 71.Kh4 Kh7 72.Nc1
Nd8 73.Nb3 Nb7 74.Nd2 Rg8 75.Rf7+ Rg7 76.Rxg7+ Kxg7 77.Kh5 b3
78.Nxb3 Kh7 79.d5 exd5 80.e6 Kg7 81.e7 Kf7 82.Kxh6 Kxe7 83.g5
Nd8 84.g6 Ne6 85.Nxa5 d4 86.Nxc6+ Kd7 87.Ne5+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.21"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "177"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. f3 c6 5. Be3 Qb6 6. Qc1 Bg7
7. Nge2 O-O 8. Nf4 Qa5 9. Be2 e5 10. dxe5 dxe5 11. Nd3 Nbd7
12. O-O Re8 13. a4 Nf8 14. b4 Qc7 15. a5 Ne6 16. Rd1 Nh5
17. Bf1 Qe7 18. Rb1 Kh8 19. Nc5 Nd4 20. Ne2 b6 21. Na4 bxa5
22. bxa5 Ne6 23. Qd2 Bf8 24. Qc3 Qc7 25. Nc1 Nhf4 26. g3 Nh5
27. Nd3 f6 28. Nb4 Nd4 29. Bxd4 exd4 30. Qxd4 Be6 31. Nc5 Qxa5
32. Nxe6 Rxe6 33. Nd3 Rd6 34. Qa1 Qxa1 35. Rxa1 Rad8 36. Ra6
c5 37. Rxd6 Rxd6 38. Ra1 c4 39. Nf2 Rd2 40. Rd1 c3 41. Rxd2
cxd2 42. Nd1 Bc5+ 43. Kg2 f5 44. exf5 gxf5 45. Bb5 f4 46. g4
Nf6 47. c4 h6 48. Kf1 Nh7 49. h4 Nf8 50. Ke2 Ng6 51. Nc3 Nxh4
52. Ne4 Be3 53. Ba4 Ng6 54. c5 Nf8 55. c6 Ne6 56. Nxd2 Bb6
57. Nb3 Kg7 58. Kd3 Kf6 59. Ke4 Bc7 60. Kd5 a6 61. Nd2 Ng5
62. Bd1 Ke7 63. Nc4 Nf7 64. Nb2 Nd6 65. Be2 a5 66. Ba6 Ne8
67. Na4 Bd6 68. Ke4 Kf6 69. Nb6 Nc7 70. Bc4 Kg5 71. Bf1 Bc5
72. Na4 Bd6 73. Bc4 Kf6 74. Nc3 Bc5 75. Na4 Bd6 76. Kd4 Be5+
77. Kc5 Ke7 78. Nb6 Bd6+ 79. Kd4 Bb4 80. Ke5 Bc3+ 81. Kf5 Kd6
82. Na4 Bd4 83. Kg6 Kxc6 84. Kxh6 Ne8 85. g5 Ng7 86. g6 Bf6
87. Kh7 Nf5 88. Bd3 Ng7 89. Bc4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.21"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Salomon Flohr"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Bd2 c5 7.dxc5
dxc5 8.e3 Nc6 9.a3 Ba5 10.O-O-O Qe7 11.Bd3 Bd7 12.Rhg1 Rfd8
13.g4 g6 14.g5 Nh5 15.Ne4 Bc7 16.Be2 a5 17.Bc3 Nb4 18.axb4
axb4 19.Nf6+ Nxf6 20.Bxf6 Ra1+ 21.Kd2 Ba4 22.Nd4 Rxd1+ 23.Qxd1
Qxf6 24.gxf6 Bxd1 25.Rxd1 cxd4 26.exd4 Rxd4+ 27.Kc2 Rxd1
28.Bxd1 Bxh2 29.c5 Be5 30.Kb3 Bxf6 31.Bf3 Bd4 32.Kxb4 Bxb2
33.Kc4 Be5 34.Bxb7 f5 35.Kd3 Kf7 36.Ke3 g5 37.Kf3 h5 38.Kg2 g4
0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.21"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Efim Geller"]
[Black "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[ECO "D46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "91"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.e4
dxe4 8.Nxe4 Nxe4 9.Bxe4 e5 10.O-O O-O 11.dxe5 Nxe5 12.Nxe5
Bxe5 13.Bxh7+ Kxh7 14.Qh5+ Kg8 15.Qxe5 Re8 16.Qc3 Bf5 17.Be3
Qd3 18.Rac1 Rad8 19.Qxd3 Bxd3 20.Rfe1 b6 21.f3 f6 22.Kf2 Kf7
23.h4 c5 24.g4 Rh8 25.Red1 Rd7 26.Rc3 Bf5 27.Rxd7+ Bxd7 28.Rd3
Be6 29.Kg3 Re8 30.b3 Bc8 31.Bf4 Be6 32.Rd6 Re7 33.Rd8 Rb7
34.h5 Ke7 35.Rb8 Rxb8 36.Bxb8 Kd7 37.Bxa7 Kc7 38.f4 Kb7
39.Bxb6 Kxb6 40.g5 Bf5 41.g6 Kc6 42.Kh4 Be6 43.h6 gxh6 44.Kh5
Kd6 45.Kxh6 Ke7 46.g7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.21"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Paul Keres"]
[ECO "E00"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1.d4 e6 2.c4 Bb4+ 3.Nc3 c5 4.e3 b6 5.Ne2 Nf6 6.a3 Ba5 7.Rb1
Na6 8.Ng3 Bb7 9.f3 h5 10.e4 Bxc3+ 11.bxc3 h4 12.Ne2 h3 13.Bg5
Qc7 14.Bf4 d6 15.Ng3 O-O-O 16.a4 Nb8 17.a5 Nbd7 18.gxh3 Nh5
19.Be3 f5 20.Nxh5 Rxh5 21.Bg2 bxa5 22.O-O Nb6 23.Qb3 Ba6
24.Rfd1 Bxc4 25.Qa3 fxe4 26.fxe4 Be2 27.dxc5 Nc4 28.Qa2 Nxe3
29.Qxe2 Qxc5 30.Rd4 e5 31.Qxe3 exd4 32.cxd4 Qg5 33.Qc3+ Kd7
34.e5 Ke7 35.Qc7+ Kf8 36.e6 Kg8 37.Qf7+ Kh7 38.e7 Rb8 39.Re1
Qh4 40.Be4+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.21"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Yuri Averbakh"]
[Black "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[ECO "B11"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 Bg4 4. h3 Bxf3 5. Qxf3 Nf6 6. d3 e6
7. g3 Be7 8. Bg2 O-O 9. O-O Na6 10. Qe2 Ne8 11. e5 Nac7 12. h4
b5 13. Nd1 Qd7 14. c4 f5 15. Bf4 Rb8 16. Rc1 Na6 17. cxd5 cxd5
18. d4 Nb4 19. Nc3 Nc7 20. Qd2 Rfc8 21. Bg5 Bf8 22. Bh3 Qf7
23. Rfd1 Qe8 24. Bf1 a5 25. Be3 a4 26. Qe1 Nc6 27. Ne2 Nb4
28. Nc3 Nc6 29. Ne2 Nb4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.21"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[Black "Vladimir Simagin"]
[ECO "E70"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "60"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 O-O 5.Nf3 d6 6.h3 e5 7.d5 Nh5
8.Be3 f5 9.exf5 gxf5 10.Be2 Nf6 11.Qc2 Na6 12.g3 Nb4 13.Qb3 a5
14.O-O-O f4 15.gxf4 Bf5 16.Ne1 exf4 17.Bd4 Kh8 18.a3 c5
19.Bxf6 Qxf6 20.axb4 axb4 21.Nb5 Ra1+ 22.Kd2 f3 23.Nc2 Bxc2
24.Kxc2 fxe2 25.Rxa1 Qg6+ 26.Kd2 Bh6+ 27.Qe3 Rxf2 28.Rhe1
Bxe3+ 29.Kxe3 Qg3+ 30.Kd2 Qf4+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.21"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Mark Taimanov"]
[Black "Lev Aronin"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "57"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.g3 O-O 5.Bg2 d6 6.e3 c6 7.Nge2
Nbd7 8.O-O Nb6 9.b3 d5 10.cxd5 Nbxd5 11.Bb2 Bg4 12.h3 Nxc3
13.Bxc3 Bxe2 14.Qxe2 Nd5 15.Bb2 Qa5 16.Rfc1 Rfd8 17.Rc5 Qb6
18.Rac1 e6 19.R5c4 Rd7 20.h4 h5 21.Be4 Rad8 22.Bg2 a6 23.Qe1
Qc7 24.Bh3 Nb6 25.Rc5 Bf8 26.R5c2 Nd5 27.Rc4 Nb6 28.R4c2 Nd5
29.Rc4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.21"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[ECO "D07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nf3 e6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Bg5 f6 6.Bd2 Nge7 7.e3
O-O 8.a3 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 Nf5 10.Qb3 Nce7 11.Bd3 b6 12.cxd5 exd5
13.O-O Be6 14.Rac1 Qd7 15.Bb4 Nd6 16.Qc2 c6 17.Bxh7+ Kf7
18.Bd3 a5 19.Bxd6 Qxd6 20.Nd2 Rfc8 21.Rfe1 c5 22.dxc5 bxc5
23.e4 d4 24.Nc4 Bxc4 25.Bxc4+ Kf8 26.e5 fxe5 27.Qh7 Qh6
28.Qxh6 gxh6 29.Rxe5 Rab8 30.b3 Rc7 31.a4 Rb4 32.g3 Nc8 33.Bf1
Rxb3 34.Rexc5 Rxc5 35.Rxc5 Nb6 36.Rxa5 Ra3 37.Rf5+ Ke7 38.a5
Ke6 39.Rf4 Rxa5 40.Rxd4 Ra1 41.Rh4 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.22"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "C92"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "77"]

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 Be6 10.d4 Bxb3 11.Qxb3 Qd7 12.Bg5 h6 13.Bxf6
Bxf6 14.d5 Na5 15.Qc2 c6 16.dxc6 Qxc6 17.Nbd2 Rac8 18.Rac1
Rfd8 19.Nf1 Nc4 20.b3 Nb6 21.Ne3 d5 22.Ng4 d4 23.Nxf6+ Qxf6
24.Qb2 dxc3 25.Rxc3 Nd7 26.Rec1 Rxc3 27.Qxc3 Qd6 28.Qc6 Nf6
29.Qxd6 Rxd6 30.Nxe5 Nxe4 31.f3 Ng5 32.f4 Ne6 33.f5 Nd8 34.Rc8
Kf8 35.Kf2 Ke7 36.Ke3 Rd1 37.Ra8 Kf6 38.Nd3 Nc6 39.Rxa6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.22"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Mark Taimanov"]
[ECO "E24"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 b6 6. f3 Ba6
7. e4 d5 8. e5 Ng8 9. Nh3 Ne7 10. Bg5 Bxc4 11. Bxc4 dxc4
12. O-O Qd7 13. Bxe7 Qxe7 14. f4 Nc6 15. f5 O-O-O 16. Qg4 h6
17. a4 Qd7 18. Nf4 Rhg8 19. fxe6 fxe6 20. Qxe6 Qxe6 21. Nxe6
Rde8 22. Nf4 Ne7 23. a5 b5 24. a6 c6 25. Rf3 Ref8 26. Raf1 Kd7
27. h4 g5 28. hxg5 Rxg5 29. Ne2 Rxf3 30. Rxf3 c5 31. Rf6 cxd4
32. Rd6+ Ke8 33. cxd4 Rg6 34. e6 Rg5 35. Rb6 Rd5 36. Rb7 Nc6
37. Nc3 Rxd4 38. Nxb5 Rd1+ 39. Kf2 c3 40. Nxc3 Rd2+ 41. Kg1
Nd8 42. Rxa7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.22"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vladimir Simagin"]
[Black "Salomon Flohr"]
[ECO "C85"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Bxc6 dxc6
7.d3 Nd7 8.Nbd2 O-O 9.b3 Re8 10.Bb2 Bd6 11.Nc4 c5 12.a4 f6
13.Nfd2 Be7 14.f4 exf4 15.Rxf4 Nf8 16.Qh5 Be6 17.Raf1 Qd7
18.Ne3 Bf7 19.Qd1 Bd6 20.R4f2 Ng6 21.Ng4 Be6 22.Ne3 b5 23.axb5
axb5 24.Nf5 Be5 25.Bxe5 Nxe5 26.h3 Ra2 27.Nf3 Nxf3+ 28.Rxf3 c4
29.bxc4 bxc4 30.Kh1 cxd3 31.Qxd3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.22"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Lev Aronin"]
[Black "Efim Geller"]
[ECO "C90"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "110"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
O-O 8.d3 d6 9.c3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.Nbd2 Nc6 12.Nf1 Nd7 13.d4
exd4 14.cxd4 Nb6 15.d5 Ne5 16.Nxe5 dxe5 17.f4 Bf6 18.Qh5 g6
19.Qf3 exf4 20.e5 Bh4 21.Rd1 Bb7 22.Bxf4 Bxd5 23.Be4 Bxe4
24.Qxe4 Qe7 25.Ne3 Rad8 26.Qc6 Bg5 27.g3 Bxf4 28.gxf4 Nc4
29.Nxc4 bxc4 30.Qf6 Qxf6 31.exf6 Rd4 32.Rxd4 cxd4 33.Rc1 Rc8
34.Kf2 Kf8 35.b3 c3 36.Ke2 Rc6 37.Kd3 Rxf6 38.Kxd4 Rxf4+
39.Kc5 Rf2 40.a4 Rxh2 41.Kb6 g5 42.Kxa6 Rb2 43.Rxc3 g4 44.a5
h5 45.Kb6 h4 46.a6 g3 47.a7 Ra2 48.Rc8+ Ke7 49.Rc7+ Kd8
50.Rxf7 h3 51.a8=Q+ Rxa8 52.Rf8+ Kd7 53.Rxa8 h2 54.Rg8 h1=Q
55.Rxg3 Qc6+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.22"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Paul Keres"]
[Black "Yuri Averbakh"]
[ECO "C83"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "74"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3
d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.c3 Be7 10.Nbd2 O-O 11.Qe2 Nc5 12.Nd4 Nxb3
13.N2xb3 Qd7 14.Nxc6 Qxc6 15.Be3 Bf5 16.Rfd1 Qg6 17.f3 c6
18.Qf2 Rfe8 19.Re1 f6 20.Bd4 fxe5 21.Bxe5 a5 22.a4 bxa4
23.Rxa4 c5 24.Rxa5 Rxa5 25.Nxa5 Qb6 26.b4 Qb5 27.Nb3 cxb4
28.Nd4 Qd7 29.Nxf5 Qxf5 30.Qd4 bxc3 31.Bxg7 c2 32.Bh6 Qf7
33.Rc1 Bf6 34.Qg4+ Kh8 35.Rxc2 Qa7+ 36.Kf1 Qa6+ 37.Kf2 Qa7+
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.22"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "D43"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "78"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6 Qxf6 7.Qb3
dxc4 8.Qxc4 Nd7 9.g3 e5 10.Bg2 exd4 11.Nxd4 Be7 12.f4 Qd6
13.Nf5 Qf6 14.Nxe7 Qxe7 15.O-O O-O 16.Ne4 Kh8 17.Rfd1 f5
18.Nd6 Nb6 19.Qd4 Be6 20.Qe5 Rab8 21.Nxf5 Qf6 22.Qxf6 gxf6
23.Nd6 Rfd8 24.Kf2 Kg7 25.e4 Rd7 26.Bf3 Kf8 27.b3 Ke7 28.e5
fxe5 29.fxe5 Rf8 30.Rd4 Rc7 31.Kg2 Bh3+ 32.Kxh3 Rxf3 33.Rf4
Rxf4 34.gxf4 Nd5 35.f5 Nf4+ 36.Kh4 Nd3 37.f6+ Ke6 38.f7 Nxe5
39.Re1 Kd5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.22"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[Black "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[ECO "E53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. Nf3 c5
7. O-O Nbd7 8. a3 Ba5 9. Qc2 dxc4 10. Bxc4 cxd4 11. exd4 a6
12. Ba2 b5 13. b4 Bb6 14. d5 exd5 15. Nxd5 Nxd5 16. Bxd5 Ra7
17. Rd1 Qc7 18. Qb2 Nf6 19. Bh6 Bxf2+ 20. Qxf2 Ng4 21. Qd4
Nxh6 22. Rac1 Qe7 23. Re1 Be6 24. Bxe6 fxe6 25. Rc6 Nf5
26. Qf2 a5 27. Rcxe6 Qd7 28. R6e5 axb4 29. axb4 Rc7 30. Qb6
Rb7 31. Qc5 Rc8 32. Ng5 g6 33. Qf2 Rbc7 34. Ne4 Kh8 35. Nc5
Qf7 36. g4 Ng7 37. Qd4 Rf8 38. R5e2 Kg8 39. g5 Qf5 40. Rg2
Rcf7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.22"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "C59"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "107"]

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 Qd4 11.f4 Bc5 12.Rf1 Bb6
13.c3 Qd6 14.b4 Nb7 15.Na3 O-O 16.Nac4 Qc7 17.a4 a5 18.Rb1
axb4 19.Nxb6 Qxb6 20.Ba3 Qc7 21.cxb4 Nd5 22.g3 Bh3 23.Rc1 Bxf1
24.Kxf1 c5 25.bxc5 Rfd8 26.Qc2 Na5 27.c6 f6 28.Ng6 Qf7 29.c7
Qxg6 30.cxd8=Q+ Rxd8 31.Rb1 Nxf4 32.Qc7 Ne6 33.Qxa5 e3 34.d3
Rxd3 35.Rb8+ Kh7 36.Bb4 Rb3 37.Qd5 Rb1+ 38.Be1 Rxb8 39.Qxe6
Re8 40.Qd7 Kh8 41.Bd3 f5 42.a5 e2+ 43.Kg2 Rf8 44.Qe7 Qc6+
45.Kh3 Rf6 46.a6 Qc8 47.Qb7 Qe8 48.a7 Rf8 49.Bb5 Qe3 50.a8=Q
Rxa8 51.Qxa8+ Kh7 52.Qd5 Kg6 53.Bd3 Qg5 54.Qe6+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.22"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[Black "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[ECO "E03"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "60"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 dxc4 5.Qa4+ Nbd7 6.Qxc4 a6
7.Qc2 c5 8.dxc5 Bxc5 9.Nc3 O-O 10.Nf3 Qc7 11.O-O Rb8 12.Bg5 h6
13.Bxf6 Nxf6 14.Rac1 Ba7 15.e3 Rd8 16.Rfd1 Bd7 17.Ne4 Qxc2
18.Nxf6+ gxf6 19.Rxc2 Ba4 20.Rxd8+ Rxd8 21.Rd2 Rc8 22.h3 Bb6
23.b3 Rc1+ 24.Kh2 Bb5 25.Nd4 Ba5 26.Rc2 Rxc2 27.Nxc2 Bd3 28.b4
Bc7 29.Ne1 Bc4 30.Bxb7 a5 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.26"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Vladimir Simagin"]
[ECO "D49"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4
b5 8.Bd3 a6 9.e4 c5 10.e5 cxd4 11.Nxb5 axb5 12.exf6 Bb7 13.O-O
gxf6 14.Bxb5 Rg8 15.Bf4 Ra5 16.a4 Rxb5 17.axb5 Ne5 18.Bxe5
fxe5 19.Ra7 Qd5 20.Rxb7 Qxb7 21.g3 Bd6 22.Re1 f6 23.Qb3 Kf7
24.Nxd4 Qd5 25.Qxd5 exd5 26.Nf5 Ke6 27.Nxd6 Kxd6 28.Rc1 d4
29.Rc6+ Kd5 30.Rxf6 Rc8 31.Kf1 Rc2 32.Rf7 Rxb2 33.Rxh7 Rb1+
34.Ke2 Rb2+ 35.Kf1 Rb1+ 36.Kg2 e4 37.Rd7+ Kc4 38.h4 Rb2 39.Kf1
Rb1+ 40.Kg2 Rb2 41.Kf1 Rb1+ 42.Kg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.26"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[ECO "E53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "55"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 d5 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Bd3 c5
7. O-O b6 8. cxd5 exd5 9. dxc5 bxc5 10. Ne2 Bg4 11. b3 Nbd7
12. Bb2 Qe7 13. Ng3 Rfd8 14. Be2 Nf8 15. Ne5 Bxe2 16. Qxe2 Qe6
17. Nd3 Rac8 18. Rfd1 Ng6 19. Rac1 Qa6 20. a3 Ba5 21. Nxc5
Qxe2 22. Nxe2 Bb6 23. Na4 Ne4 24. Nd4 Bxd4 25. Bxd4 a6 26. f3
Nd6 27. Rxc8 Rxc8 28. Bc5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.26"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Salomon Flohr"]
[Black "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[ECO "E64"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "102"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.Nc3 d6 6.Nf3 Nbd7 7.O-O
e5 8.b3 Re8 9.Qc2 c6 10.Rd1 Qa5 11.e4 Nf8 12.d5 c5 13.Ne1 Nh5
14.Bf3 Qd8 15.Qe2 Nf6 16.a3 h5 17.b4 b6 18.Bg2 N8h7 19.Nf3 Rf8
20.Bd2 Ne8 21.b5 Bf6 22.a4 a5 23.bxa6 Rxa6 24.Nb5 Bg4 25.h3
Bd7 26.Ra3 Ng5 27.Nxg5 Bxg5 28.Be1 Qc8 29.Kh2 Bd8 30.Rda1 h4
31.g4 f6 32.f3 g5 33.Bf1 Qa8 34.Qb2 Kf7 35.Bd3 Ke7 36.Bc3 Nc7
37.Be2 Nxb5 38.cxb5 Ra7 39.Bc4 Bc7 40.Qa2 Qb7 41.Kg2 Qa8
42.Qd2 Rb8 43.Qb2 Kf7 44.R1a2 Rbb7 45.Kf1 Ra5 46.Ke2 Raa7
47.Qa1 Qh8 48.Kd2 Ke7 49.Kc2 Kd8 50.Kb3 Kc8 51.Qg1 Bd8 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.26"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Mark Taimanov"]
[Black "Efim Geller"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "86"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.b3 Bg7 4.Bb2 O-O 5.e3 d5 6.Be2 Ne4 7.O-O
c5 8.Qc1 cxd4 9.Bxd4 Bxd4 10.exd4 Nc6 11.Qe3 Bg4 12.Nbd2 Nxd2
13.Qxd2 e6 14.Rfd1 Qf6 15.Ne5 Bxe2 16.Qxe2 Rfc8 17.Ng4 Qf4
18.c3 h5 19.Ne3 Rc7 20.g3 Qf6 21.Rd3 Rac8 22.Re1 b5 23.Nc2 Ne7
24.Rf3 Nf5 25.Qd2 Qg7 26.Rd3 a5 27.Ne3 Nd6 28.f3 Qf6 29.Kg2
Nf5 30.Re2 Qg5 31.a3 h4 32.f4 Qh5 33.Nxf5 gxf5 34.gxh4 Rxc3
35.Rg3+ Kh7 36.Rf2 b4 37.axb4 axb4 38.Qe1 Qxh4 39.Qe5 Rg8
40.Rf3 Rc2+ 41.Kf1 Rxh2 42.Qe3 {? White missed a brilliant
saving combination: 42. Rxg8! Kxg8 (42.Rh1? Rg1+-) 43.Rg3+!!
Qxg3 44.Qb8+ Kg7 45.Qg8+! 1/2-1/2} Ra8 43.Rg7+ Kh6 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.26"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[Black "Paul Keres"]
[ECO "E47"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 Re8 6.Ne2 e5 7.dxe5
Rxe5 8.O-O Re8 9.Nd5 Bf8 10.Ng3 d6 11.Bd2 Nbd7 12.Bc3 g6
13.Qd2 Bg7 14.Rac1 h5 15.f3 c6 16.Nxf6+ Nxf6 17.e4 Be6 18.Ne2
Qe7 19.Rcd1 Rad8 20.Rfe1 d5 21.cxd5 cxd5 22.e5 Ne4 23.Qc2 Nxc3
24.Nxc3 Qb4 25.Nb5 Bd7 26.a3 Qf4 27.Nd6 Bxe5 28.Nxe8 Qxh2+
29.Kf1 Qh1+ 30.Kf2 Bd4+ 31.Re3 Qh4+ 32.g3 Qh2+ 33.Ke1 Qg1+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.26"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[ECO "A56"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "85"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 d6 4.Nc3 e6 5.dxe6 fxe6 6.Bg5 Nc6 7.e3
Be7 8.Nf3 O-O 9.Bd3 Bd7 10.a3 Ng4 11.Bf4 e5 12.Bg3 Nh6 13.Nd5
Bf5 14.Bxf5 Nxf5 15.Nd2 Rb8 16.Ne4 Qe8 17.O-O Qg6 18.f3 h5
19.Bf2 Rf7 20.Qe2 Rbf8 21.Rad1 h4 22.h3 Bd8 23.Rd3 Nh6 24.Kh2
Rf5 25.Ndc3 Nf7 26.Rfd1 Be7 27.Nb5 Rd8 28.Qd2 Nd4 29.exd4 exd4
30.Nc7 Ne5 31.Nd5 Qf7 32.Qe1 g5 33.Rb3 Nxc4 34.Nxe7+ Qxe7
35.Nxg5 Ne3 36.Bxe3 dxe3 37.Ne4 d5 38.Rxe3 dxe4 39.Rxe4 Rxd1
40.Qxd1 Re5 41.Rg4+ Kh8 42.Qd2 Re6 43.Qc3+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.26"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "E33"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "46"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 Nc6 5. Nf3 d5 6. a3 Bxc3+
7. bxc3 Na5 8. Ne5 Nd7 9. Nxd7 Bxd7 10. cxd5 exd5 11. Bf4 Bb5
12. h4 O-O 13. Rb1 Qd7 14. Rh3 Rfe8 15. Rg3 Nc4 16. Bh6 g6
17. Qc1 Nd6 18. Qf4 Ba6 19. e3 Nf5 20. Bxa6 bxa6 21. Rb7 Rab8
22. Rxc7 Rb1+ 23. Ke2 Qa4 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.26"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Yuri Averbakh"]
[Black "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[ECO "C70"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "75"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Be7 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 d6 7.c3
Bf6 8.d4 Bg4 9.d5 Na5 10.Bc2 Ne7 11.a4 O-O 12.Na3 c6 13.b4 Nc4
14.Nxc4 bxc4 15.dxc6 Qc7 16.h3 Be6 17.Bg5 Bxg5 18.Nxg5 Nxc6
19.a5 Rad8 20.Qe2 Na7 21.Qe3 Bc8 22.Rfd1 f6 23.Nf3 Rf7 24.Rd2
Bd7 25.Qb6 Bb5 26.Qe3 Rfd7 27.Nh4 g6 28.f4 d5 29.exd5 Rxd5
30.Rxd5 Rxd5 31.Be4 Rd7 32.fxe5 Qxe5 33.Nf3 Qg3 34.Re1 Kg7
35.Nd4 Qd6 36.Bf3 Ba4 37.Ne6+ Kg8 38.Nc5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.26"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Lev Aronin"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "128"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bf4 Bg7 4.e3 O-O 5.Nbd2 c5 6.c3 b6 7.Bd3
Ba6 8.Bxa6 Nxa6 9.O-O Qc8 10.Qe2 d5 11.h3 Qb7 12.Ne5 Rac8
13.a4 Rfd8 14.Rfb1 Nb8 15.a5 b5 16.dxc5 Rxc5 17.Nb3 Rcc8 18.a6
Nxa6 19.Nd4 Nc5 20.Qxb5 Qxb5 21.Nxb5 a6 22.Na7 Ra8 23.Nac6 Re8
24.Ra5 Nb7 25.Ra3 Ne4 26.Rba1 Bxe5 27.Bxe5 f6 28.Bh2 Nbc5
29.Nb4 Red8 30.Nxa6 Nd3 31.f3 Nd6 32.Nb4 Rxa3 33.bxa3 Nc5
34.Nc6 Rd7 35.Nxe7+ Kf7 36.Nxd5 Nc4 37.e4 Rb7 38.Nb4 Rd7
39.Bg3 Rd2 40.Bf2 Nb3 41.Rb1 Nba5 42.a4 f5 43.Be1 Rb2 44.Rxb2
Nxb2 45.Kf2 fxe4 46.fxe4 Nxa4 47.Ke3 Nc5 48.Nd3 Ne6 49.Ne5+
Kf6 50.c4 Nb7 51.Nd3 Ned8 52.Bc3+ Ke6 53.Nf4+ Kd6 54.Bb4+ Kd7
55.Nd5 Nc6 56.Bc3 Ke6 57.Nf4+ Kd7 58.Nd3 Nd6 59.c5 Nc4+ 60.Kf4
Ke6 61.Kg5 Ne3 62.Nf4+ Kf7 63.e5 Nd8 64.Ba5 Nc6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.28"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "199"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 h6 4.Bh4 g5 5.Bg3 Ne4 6.Nbd2 Nxg3
7.hxg3 Bg7 8.c3 d6 9.e3 Nc6 10.Bd3 Bd7 11.Qc2 Qe7 12.O-O-O a5
13.e4 a4 14.a3 Na5 15.Rde1 O-O-O 16.Kb1 Kb8 17.e5 d5 18.g4 Rc8
19.Qd1 c5 20.Bc2 Qe8 21.dxc5 Rxc5 22.g3 Nc6 23.Re3 Ra5 24.Rhe1
Bf8 25.c4 Bc5 26.R3e2 Ne7 27.Ka1 Qd8 28.Rh1 Ba7 29.Qb1 Rc5
30.cxd5 exd5 31.Bf5 Nxf5 32.gxf5 Bb5 33.Ree1 Rc7 34.Rh2 g4
35.Nh4 Qg5 36.f4 gxf3 37.Nhxf3 Qxg3 38.e6 fxe6 39.fxe6 Rhc8
40.Rxh6 Bf2 41.Reh1 Qg4 42.Rg6 Qf4 43.Rg5 Qd6 44.Qf5 Be3
45.Qxd5 Qxd5 46.Rxd5 Bc6 47.Rhh5 Bxd5 48.Rxd5 Re7 49.Re5 Bh6
50.Re4 Rc6 51.Rxa4 Rexe6 52.Re4 Rf6 53.Ka2 Kc7 54.Re7+ Kc8
55.Re2 Rc2 56.Kb1 Rcc6 57.Nd4 Rcd6 58.N2b3 Bg7 59.Ka2 Rf1
60.Nc2 Rf5 61.Rg2 Bf6 62.Nb4 Kd7 63.Rh2 Kc7 64.Nc2 Rg5 65.Nd2
Re6 66.Nb4 Bg7 67.Kb3 Re3+ 68.Ka2 Re6 69.Kb3 Re3+ 70.Ka2 Re8
71.Kb3 Kb8 72.Nb1 Re3+ 73.Nc3 Reg3 74.Rd2 Rg2 75.Rxg2 Rxg2
76.Nd3 Rh2 77.Kc4 Rd2 78.a4 Ka7 79.Nb5+ Kb6 80.b4 Rc2+ 81.Kb3
Rg2 82.Nc3 Rg3 83.Kc4 Rg4+ 84.Kb3 Rg3 85.Kc4 Bxc3 86.a5 Kc7
87.Kxc3 Kc6 88.Kc4 Rg4+ 89.Kc3 Kb5 90.Nc5 Rc4+ 91.Kd3 Rxb4
92.Nxb7 Kc6 93.a6 Kd5 94.Nd8 Rd4+ 95.Ke3 Re4+ 96.Kd3 Rf4 97.a7
Ra4 98.Nf7 Rxa7 99.Ng5 Ra3+ 100.Ke2 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.28"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "B26"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "77"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. d3 d6 6. Be3 Nh6
7. Qc1 Ng4 8. Bd2 Nd4 9. h3 Ne5 10. Nce2 Qb6 11. f4 Nxc2+
12. Qxc2 Qxb2 13. Qxb2 Nxd3+ 14. Kf1 Bxb2 15. Rb1 Be6 16. Bc3
Bxa2 17. Rxb2 Nxb2 18. Bxb2 Rg8 19. Kf2 Bc4 20. Nf3 Bxe2
21. Kxe2 Kd7 22. Rd1 a5 23. Ne5+ Kc7 24. Nxf7 a4 25. e5 a3
26. Ba1 Rge8 27. Ng5 Ra5 28. Ne6+ Kd7 29. Bd5 a2 30. g4 Rc8
31. Ng5 Rf8 32. f5 gxf5 33. gxf5 h6 34. Be6+ Kc7 35. exd6+
exd6 36. Ne4 Ra3 37. Nxd6 Rxh3 38. Be5 Ra8 39. Nc4+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.28"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Paul Keres"]
[Black "Salomon Flohr"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6 6.Bc4 Bd6
7.Qe2+ Qe7 8.Qxe7+ Kxe7 9.O-O Be6 10.Bb3 Bxb3 11.axb3 Na6
12.Nd4 Kd7 13.Nf5 g6 14.Nxd6 Kxd6 15.Ra4 Nc7 16.d3 Ne6 17.Bd2
f5 18.f3 a6 19.g4 b5 20.Ra5 Rhe8 21.b4 Kc7 22.gxf5 gxf5
23.Raa1 Kb7 24.Rae1 Rad8 25.Kf2 Rd5 26.Rg1 Rc8 27.Rg3 f4
28.Rh3 h5 29.Rh4 c5 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.28"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Efim Geller"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "D50"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bxe7 Qxe7
7.Nf3 Nxc3 8.bxc3 c5 9.e3 Nc6 10.Bd3 O-O 11.O-O b6 12.Rb1 cxd4
13.cxd4 Bb7 14.Be4 Na5 15.Qd3 h6 16.Bxb7 Qxb7 17.Ne5 Rac8
18.Rbc1 Rxc1 19.Rxc1 Rc8 20.Rc3 Rxc3 21.Qxc3 f6 22.Ng6 Kf7
23.Qd3 Qc8 24.h4 Qc4 25.Qe4 Nc6 26.Nf4 Ne7 27.h5 Qc1+ 28.Kh2
Qc6 29.Qd3 Nd5 30.Qg6+ Kf8 31.Qd3 Qc7 32.g3 Nxf4 33.gxf4
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.28"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Lev Aronin"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "B85"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 Qc7 7.f4
Nc6 8.Be3 e6 9.O-O Be7 10.Qe1 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 b5 12.e5 dxe5
13.fxe5 Nd7 14.Ne4 Bb7 15.Bh5 O-O 16.Nf6+ Kh8 17.Nxd7 Qxd7
18.c3 Kg8 19.Rd1 Qc6 20.Bf3 Qc7 21.Bh5 Bd5 22.a3 Rac8 23.Qe3
Bc5 24.Rf2 Bxd4 25.cxd4 Qb7 26.Rdf1 Rc7 27.Be2 Bc4 28.Rc1 Bxe2
29.Rxe2 Rfc8 30.Rc5 Rd8 31.b4 Rcd7 32.Rd2 Rd5 33.Qe4 Qe7
34.Rxd5 Rxd5 35.Kf2 a5 36.Rc2 f5 37.exf6 Qxf6+ 38.Ke3 axb4
39.axb4 Rd8 40.Rc6 Kf7 41.Rc7+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.28"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vladimir Simagin"]
[Black "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[ECO "A17"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "86"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e3 c5 5.d4 cxd4 6.exd4 Be7 7.c5
Nc6 8.Bb5 O-O 9.O-O Ne4 10.Qc2 Nxc3 11.Qxc3 Bf6 12.Bxc6 bxc6
13.Bf4 a5 14.a4 Re8 15.Rfe1 Ba6 16.Rab1 Qc8 17.b4 axb4 18.Rxb4
Bd8 19.Rb2 Bc4 20.Reb1 Ba5 21.Qc2 f6 22.Rb7 Ba6 23.Rb8 Qd7
24.Rxa8 Rxa8 25.h3 Qe8 26.Rb3 Bc4 27.Rb7 Ba6 28.Rb3 Bc4 29.Rb7
Ba6 30.Rb3 Qd7 31.Qb1 Re8 32.Rb8 g5 33.Bd6 Rxb8 34.Qxb8+ Qc8
35.Qb3 Qb7 36.Qe3 Qf7 37.Nh2 Bc8 38.Ng4 Kg7 39.h4 h6 40.hxg5
hxg5 41.Qh3 Bd8 42.Qh6+ Kg8 43.a5 Ba6 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.28"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[Black "Mark Taimanov"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Be7 4.d4 d6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.h3 O-O 7.d5
Nb8 8.g4 c6 9.g5 Ne8 10.a3 a6 11.Be3 b5 12.Be2 c5 13.a4 b4
14.Nb1 f5 15.gxf6 Bxf6 16.Nbd2 Nd7 17.Nc4 a5 18.b3 Nb6 19.Nxb6
Qxb6 20.Nd2 Qd8 21.Bb5 Bg5 22.Ke2 Bf4 23.Qg1 Ra7 24.Qg2 Raf7
25.Rag1 Qh4 26.Bxe8 Rxe8 27.Bxf4 Qxf4 28.Qg3 Ba6+ 29.Ke1 Qf6
30.Rh2 Rc8 31.Qg4 Rcc7 32.Nc4 Bxc4 33.bxc4 Qe7 34.Rhg2 Rf4
35.Qe2 Qe8 36.Rg4 Rcf7 37.Rxf4 Rxf4 38.Rg4 Rf7 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.28"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[Black "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "118"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 d5 4.c4 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Nbd2 Nbd7 7.Bd3
b6 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.Bxe7 Qxe7 10.O-O c5 11.Qe2 Bb7 12.Ba6 Bxa6
13.Qxa6 cxd4 14.exd4 Nb4 15.Qa4 Rfc8 16.Rfc1 a5 17.a3 Nd5
18.Rc6 Rxc6 19.Qxc6 Rd8 20.Rc1 h6 21.g3 Nb8 22.Qc4 Qb7 23.Ne5
Nd7 24.Ne4 N7f6 25.Nd2 Ne7 26.Qc7 Qxc7 27.Rxc7 Rxd4 28.Rxe7
Rxd2 29.Nxf7 Nd7 30.Nd8 Kf8 31.Rxe6 Nc5 32.Rxb6 Rxd8 33.Rb5
Nd3 34.Rxa5 Nxb2 35.Kg2 Rd4 36.h4 Rd2 37.a4 Nd1 38.Rf5+ Ke7
39.Kf1 Ra2 40.a5 Ke6 41.Rf4 Rxa5 42.Re4+ Re5 43.Rd4 Nc3 44.Kg2
Nd5 45.Ra4 Nf6 46.g4 h5 47.Ra6+ Kf7 48.g5 Nd5 49.Kg3 Ne7
50.Ra7 Re4 51.f3 Rd4 52.g6+ Ke6 53.Ra6+ Rd6 54.Rxd6+ Kxd6
55.Kf4 Ke6 56.Kg5 Nd5 57.f4 Nf6 58.f5+ Kd5 59.Kf4 Ne4 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.28"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[Black "Yuri Averbakh"]
[ECO "D51"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "113"]

1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 c6 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bd3
Be7 8.Qc2 Nf8 9.Nf3 Ng6 10.O-O-O Be6 11.h4 Nf8 12.Ne5 N6d7
13.Nxd7 Qxd7 14.Kb1 Bxg5 15.hxg5 O-O-O 16.Na4 Qe7 17.Rc1 Kb8
18.Qb3 Rd6 19.Qb4 Qd8 20.Nc5 Bc8 21.Rc3 Ne6 22.Nxe6 Rxe6
23.Bf5 Ree8 24.Bxc8 Qxc8 25.Qd6+ Qc7 26.Qh2 Re6 27.Rcc1 f6
28.Qh3 Qe7 29.Qg3+ Ka8 30.Rh5 g6 31.gxf6 Qxf6 32.Rh6 a6
33.Rch1 Qf5+ 34.Ka1 Rf8 35.f3 Rxe3 36.Rxh7 Qf4 37.Qxg6 Rfe8
38.Rd1 Re1 39.Rh1 R1e2 40.a3 Qe3 41.Rd3 Qf2 42.Rb1 Qxg2 43.Qf7
R2e7 44.Qf4 Qg6 45.Rbd1 Re2 46.Ka2 R2e7 47.Rb3 Rf7 48.Qd2 Qe6
49.Rc1 Qe2 50.Qb4 Qe7 51.Qa5 Qc7 52.Rb6 Re6 53.Rc3 Rd6 54.Rcb3
Qc8 55.R6b4 Rdd7 56.Ra4 Rc7 57.Qc5 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.29"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Paul Keres"]
[ECO "E41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "116"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3
b6 8.e4 d6 9.Ne2 e5 10.O-O Nd7 11.Qa4 Qc7 12.d5 Na5 13.Ng3 O-O
14.Qd1 Re8 15.Nf5 Nf8 16.Ne3 Ng6 17.g3 Qe7 18.Ra2 Bh3 19.Re1
Bd7 20.f3 a6 21.a4 Reb8 22.Bf1 Qe8 23.Nf5 Qf8 24.Rb2 f6 25.f4
Nh8 26.Qg4 Bxf5 27.Qxf5 Nf7 28.Qh5 Rb7 29.Qe2 Qe8 30.Qd1 Rab8
31.Bd3 b5 32.axb5 axb5 33.cxb5 c4 34.Bc2 Qc8 35.Ba4 Nb3 36.Be3
Ra8 37.Ra2 Rxb5 38.Bxb3 cxb3 39.Rxa8 Qxa8 40.c4 Rb4 41.Bd2
Qa7+ 42.Kh1 Rb8 43.Qf3 Qd4 44.Qc3 Qf2 45.Qe3 Qxe3 46.Bxe3 b2
47.Rb1 Rb3 48.c5 Rxe3 49.Rxb2 g6 50.c6 Rc3 51.Rb7 Kg7 52.c7
Rc2 53.Kg1 h5 54.h4 Rc4 55.Kg2 Rc2+ 56.Kf1 Rc4 57.Kg2 Rc2+
58.Kf1 Rc4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.29"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Vladimir Simagin"]
[ECO "B37"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "85"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. c4 Bg7 6. Nb5 d6
7. Be2 Nf6 8. N1c3 O-O 9. Be3 a6 10. Nd4 Nxd4 11. Bxd4 b5
12. cxb5 axb5 13. Bxb5 Bb7 14. O-O e5 15. Be3 Nxe4 16. Nxe4
Bxe4 17. a4 Bb7 18. Qd2 Qh4 19. f3 h6 20. Qxd6 e4 21. f4 Bxb2
22. Rad1 Rac8 23. f5 Rfd8 24. Bd7 Rc6 25. Qg3 Qxg3 26. hxg3
Rc3 27. Bb6 e3 28. Bxd8 Rc2 29. Rf3 Bxf3 30. gxf3 Rd2 31. Re1
Rxd7 32. Bb6 gxf5 33. f4 Rd2 34. Bxe3 Rd3 35. a5 Ra3 36. Bb6
Rxg3+ 37. Kf2 Ra3 38. Re8+ Kg7 39. Ra8 Ra4 40. Ke3 Bc1+
41. Kd3 Bxf4 42. a6 Ra3+ 43. Kc4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.29"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Salomon Flohr"]
[Black "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Bf5 3.c4 e6 4.Qb3 Nc6 5.c5 Rb8 6.Bf4 Nge7 7.e3
a6 8.Nc3 Ng6 9.Bg3 Be7 10.Qd1 Qd7 11.Bd3 Bxd3 12.Qxd3 O-O
13.O-O f5 14.Rab1 Nh8 15.b4 g5 16.a4 Ng6 17.h3 f4 18.Bh2 a5
19.b5 Nb4 20.Qe2 b6 21.c6 Qd6 22.Rfe1 Bf6 23.exf4 gxf4
24.Qxe6+ Qxe6 25.Rxe6 Kf7 26.Re2 Rfe8 27.Rbe1 Rxe2 28.Rxe2 Rd8
29.Kf1 Nd3 30.Rd2 Nc5 31.dxc5 Bxc3 32.Rd3 d4 33.cxb6 cxb6
34.g3 Ne7 35.Ng5+ Kg6 36.Ne6 Rd6 37.Nxf4+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.29"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Efim Geller"]
[ECO "E67"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "78"]

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 exd4 9.Nxd4 Nc5 10.Nb3 Be6 11.Nxc5 dxc5 12.Qe2 c6
13.Rd1 Qe7 14.Bf4 Rad8 15.Na4 Rd4 16.Rxd4 cxd4 17.c5 b5
18.cxb6 axb6 19.Qc2 b5 20.Qc5 Qb7 21.Nb6 Ng4 22.e5 Rb8 23.h3
g5 24.Bd2 Nxe5 25.Ba5 d3 26.a4 b4 27.Re1 Qa6 28.Qd6 Re8
29.Rxe5 d2 30.Bf1 Bxe5 31.Qxd2 Qxa5 32.Qxg5+ Kh8 33.Nc4 Bxc4
34.Bxc4 f6 35.Qh5 Re7 36.Qg4 Qd8 37.a5 Bxb2 38.a6 Bd4 39.Qf3
Rc7 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.29"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[Black "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Be7 4. d4 d6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. O-O O-O
7. h3 a6 8. a4 exd4 9. Nxd4 Nb4 10. Nd5 Nbxd5 11. exd5 Nd7
12. a5 Bf6 13. c3 Ne5 14. Bb3 Re8 15. Bc2 Bd7 16. f4 Ng6
17. Qd3 c5 18. dxc6 bxc6 19. Nf5 Bxf5 20. Qxf5 d5 21. Bd2 Nf8
22. Qd3 c5 23. Rfe1 Rxe1+ 24. Bxe1 c4 25. Qe2 Qc7 26. Qf3 Rd8
27. Bf2 d4 28. Qe4 g6 29. cxd4 Rb8 30. d5 Rxb2 31. Rd1 c3
32. d6 Qxa5 33. d7 Qc7 34. Qe8 Bd8 35. Qe4 Bf6 36. Qe8 Rb8
37. Kh1 Rd8 38. Ba4 c2 39. Rc1 Qxf4 40. Be3 Qxa4 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.29"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "E56"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "86"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 d5 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Bd3 c5
7. O-O Nc6 8. a3 Ba5 9. cxd5 exd5 10. dxc5 Bxc3 11. bxc3 Qa5
12. c4 Qc3 13. cxd5 Qxa1 14. Qc2 Na5 15. e4 Bd7 16. Bb2 Qa2
17. Nd4 Rfc8 18. Ra1 Rxc5 19. Rxa2 Rxc2 20. Nxc2 Rc8 21. f3
Bb5 22. Ne1 Bxd3 23. Nxd3 Nd7 24. Bd4 b6 25. Nb4 Rc4 26. Be3
f5 27. exf5 Kf7 28. Re2 Kf6 29. g4 Ne5 30. Kg2 g6 31. fxg6
hxg6 32. h4 Nf7 33. Kg3 Nb3 34. Nc6 Rc3 35. Bf2 Rd3 36. Re3
Rxe3 37. Bxe3 Nd6 38. Bg5+ Kf7 39. Nxa7 Nc5 40. Bf4 Nc4
41. Nb5 Ke7 42. h5 gxh5 43. gxh5 Kf6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.29"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mark Taimanov"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "D51"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "91"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 c6 6.cxd5 cxd5 7.Bd3
Be7 8.Nf3 a6 9.O-O b5 10.a4 b4 11.Nb1 O-O 12.Nbd2 Bb7 13.Qe2
Bd6 14.Rfc1 Qb8 15.Nb3 Ne4 16.Bh4 a5 17.Bb5 Ndf6 18.Nc5 Nxc5
19.dxc5 Bc7 20.Bg3 Ne4 21.Bxc7 Qxc7 22.c6 Bc8 23.Bd3 Nf6
24.Nd4 e5 25.Nb5 Qe7 26.Qc2 e4 27.Be2 Qe5 28.Qd2 Ng4 29.Bxg4
Bxg4 30.Rc5 Be6 31.Qd4 Qg5 32.Qxe4 dxe4 33.Rxg5 Rfc8 34.Rc5
Ra6 35.Nd4 Kf8 36.Rac1 Ke7 37.h4 Kd6 38.Kh2 g6 39.Kg3 Bd5
40.Kf4 h6 41.Nb5+ Ke6 42.b3 f6 43.Nd4+ Kd6 44.h5 g5 45.Kf5
Bf7+ 46.Kxf6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.29"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Yuri Averbakh"]
[Black "Lev Aronin"]
[ECO "D28"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "99"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.O-O a6 7.Qe2
b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.a4 c4 10.Bc2 Nbd7 11.e4 Be7 12.Bg5 O-O 13.Nbd2
Re8 14.Rfd1 h6 15.Bf4 Nf8 16.Ne5 Bd6 17.Nf1 Qc7 18.Bg3 N6d7
19.Nxd7 Nxd7 20.Bxd6 Qxd6 21.Ra3 f6 22.Rg3 Nf8 23.e5 Qe7
24.exf6 Qxf6 25.Ne3 Rad8 26.Ng4 Qf4 27.Qe3 Qxe3 28.fxe3 Kh8
29.Rf1 Re7 30.Ne5 Kg8 31.Ng4 Kh8 32.Ne5 Kg8 33.Rf6 Nd7 34.Nxd7
Rdxd7 35.Rxh6 e5 36.Bf5 exd4 37.Bxd7 Rxd7 38.exd4 b4 39.a5 c3
40.bxc3 bxc3 41.Rh5 c2 42.Rc5 Be4 43.Kf2 Rb7 44.Rgc3 Rb2
45.Ke3 Bh7 46.h4 Kf7 47.Rc7+ Ke6 48.R3c6+ Kd5 49.Rc5+ Kd6
50.Rxg7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.11.29"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[Black "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[ECO "E47"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "103"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.Nge2 d5 7.O-O
dxc4 8.Bxc4 e5 9.a3 exd4 10.axb4 dxc3 11.bxc3 Ne5 12.Bb3 Bf5
13.Nd4 Qc8 14.Ra5 b5 15.Rxb5 Re8 16.f4 Bg4 17.Qc2 Ned7 18.Qa2
Rf8 19.h3 Bh5 20.g4 Nxg4 21.Rxh5 Ngf6 22.Rg5 Ne4 23.Rg2 Ndf6
24.Kh2 a5 25.bxa5 c5 26.Nf3 Qc7 27.a6 Ra7 28.Bc2 Re8 29.c4 Re6
30.Qb2 Raxa6 31.Ng5 Nxg5 32.Rxg5 Ne8 33.Re5 Rxe5 34.Qxe5 Qxe5
35.fxe5 Nc7 36.Be4 Kf8 37.Bd5 Ne6 38.e4 Ke7 39.Be3 Ra3 40.Bg1
h6 41.Rb1 Ra2+ 42.Kh1 Ng5 43.Bxc5+ Kd7 44.Rb3 Re2 45.Re3 Rf2
46.Kg1 Rd2 47.Bb6 Ne6 48.c5 Nd4 49.Bxf7 g5 50.Bc4 Rc2 51.Rd3
Rxc4 52.Rxd4+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.02"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "38"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 h6 4.Bxf6 Qxf6 5.e4 d6 6.Nc3 a6 7.e5
Qd8 8.Bd3 d5 9.Ne2 c5 10.c3 Nc6 11.O-O Bd7 12.Qd2 Qb6 13.Rad1
cxd4 14.cxd4 Be7 15.Nf4 g5 16.Ne2 g4 17.Ne1 Nxd4 18.Bxa6 Nc6
19.Bc4 Bg5 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.02"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "E19"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "118"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 Be7 6. O-O O-O
7. Nc3 Ne4 8. Qc2 Nxc3 9. Qxc3 f5 10. b3 Bf6 11. Bb2 a5
12. Qd2 Na6 13. Rfd1 Qe8 14. Ne1 Bxg2 15. Nxg2 g5 16. Re1 Qg6
17. f3 Bg7 18. e3 d6 19. Rad1 Rae8 20. Re2 Kh8 21. Rf1 e5
22. a3 Qh5 23. Ne1 Qf7 24. Qd3 Nb8 25. Rg2 Nd7 26. a4 Re7
27. Nc2 Qg6 28. b4 exd4 29. exd4 Rfe8 30. bxa5 bxa5 31. Bc3 c5
32. Bxa5 cxd4 33. Nxd4 Nc5 34. Qd1 f4 35. gxf4 Nd3 36. Nc6 Re3
37. Bd2 R3e6 38. Rxg5 Qf7 39. Nb4 Nb2 40. Qc2 Re2 41. Bc3 Rxc2
42. Bxg7+ Qxg7 43. Rxg7 Rxc4 44. Rb7 Rg8+ 45. Kh1 Rg7 46. Rb8+
Rg8 47. Rb7 Rg7 48. Rb5 Nxa4 49. Nd5 Rc8 50. f5 Nc3 51. Rc1
Rgc7 52. Rxc3 Rxc3 53. Nxc3 Rxc3 54. Kg2 Kg7 55. Rb7+ Kf6
56. Rxh7 Kxf5 57. Kg3 d5 58. Rd7 Ke6 59. Rd8 Rc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.02"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[Black "Salomon Flohr"]
[ECO "D29"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.O-O a6 7.Qe2
b5 8.Bb3 Bb7 9.a4 Nbd7 10.axb5 axb5 11.Rxa8 Qxa8 12.Nc3 b4
13.Nb5 Qb8 14.e4 cxd4 15.Nfxd4 Nc5 16.e5 Nfd7 17.Bf4 Nxb3
18.Nxb3 Be7 19.Rd1 Ba6 20.Nc7+ Qxc7 21.Qxa6 O-O 22.Nd4 Nc5
23.Qc4 Rd8 24.Ra1 Qb7 25.Be3 Bf8 26.h3 Ra8 27.Rxa8 Qxa8
28.Qxb4 Qe4 29.Qb5 Nd3 30.Nf3 Nf4 31.Qe8 h6 32.Kh2 Nd3 33.Qb5
g5 34.b3 Bg7 35.Qe8+ Bf8 36.Qb8 Kg7 37.Qb5 Kg6 38.Qa4 Qd5
39.Qd4 Qxd4 40.Bxd4 Kf5 41.Nd2 Bb4 42.Nc4 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.02"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Efim Geller"]
[Black "Yuri Averbakh"]
[ECO "D50"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "60"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Be7 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bxe7 Qxe7
7.Nf3 Nxc3 8.bxc3 O-O 9.e3 b6 10.Bd3 Bb7 11.Qc2 h6 12.Bh7+ Kh8
13.Be4 Bxe4 14.Qxe4 Nd7 15.O-O c5 16.a4 Rab8 17.Rfb1 cxd4
18.cxd4 Rfc8 19.Qd3 Qd8 20.Rc1 Rxc1+ 21.Rxc1 Rc8 22.Rc4 Kg8
23.h3 Rc7 24.Qc2 Rxc4 25.Qxc4 Kf8 26.Kf1 Ke7 27.Qb4+ Ke8
28.Qc3 Kf8 29.Ke2 Qb8 30.Qc6 Ke7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.02"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Keres"]
[Black "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[ECO "E46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.O-O
h6 8.h3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Bd6 10.e4 e5 11.Be3 a6 12.Re1 Bd7 13.Qc2
Re8 14.a3 exd4 15.Nxd4 Ne5 16.Bf1 Ng6 17.Rad1 Qe7 18.g3 Nxe4
19.Bc1 f5 20.Bg2 Ne5 21.Nxf5 Bxf5 22.Nxe4 Nf7 23.Qb3 Rab8
24.Bd2 Qe6 25.Qxe6 Rxe6 26.Nxd6 cxd6 27.Bd5 Rxe1+ 28.Rxe1 Kf8
29.Rc1 Nd8 30.Rc7 Be6 31.Bxe6 Nxe6 32.Rd7 Ng5 33.Bxg5 hxg5
34.Rxd6 Rc8 35.Kg2 Rc5 36.Rb6 Rc7 37.Kf3 Rf7+ 38.Kg4 Rxf2
39.Rxb7 Rh2 40.a4 a5 41.Rb5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.02"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "B85"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "93"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 Qc7 7.O-O
e6 8.f4 Nc6 9.Be3 Be7 10.Qe1 O-O 11.Rd1 Bd7 12.Qg3 Nxd4
13.Bxd4 Bc6 14.Bd3 Nh5 15.Qh3 e5 16.Nd5 Bxd5 17.exd5 exd4
18.Qxh5 g6 19.Qf3 Bf6 20.f5 Rae8 21.Rde1 Rxe1 22.Rxe1 Qa5
23.Rf1 Qxa2 24.h4 Qa5 25.Qe2 Qd8 26.fxg6 hxg6 27.h5 Bg5 28.g3
Be3+ 29.Kg2 Qg5 30.hxg6 fxg6 31.Rxf8+ Kxf8 32.Qf3+ Kg7 33.Qe4
Qf6 34.Qg4 Qf7 35.Qf3 Qe7 36.Qg4 Qe8 37.b3 a5 38.Qe6 Qxe6
39.dxe6 Kf6 40.e7 Kxe7 41.Bxg6 d5 42.Kf3 Bc1 43.Bd3 Kd6 44.Ke2
Kc5 45.Bg6 b5 46.Be8 Kb4 47.Kd3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.02"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vladimir Simagin"]
[Black "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "69"]

1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.e3 f5 4.b3 Nf6 5.Bb2 Be7 6.Qc2 O-O 7.Nc3 c6
8.Be2 a5 9.h3 Ne4 10.d3 Nxc3 11.Bxc3 Bf6 12.d4 Qe8 13.O-O Nd7
14.Ne5 Nxe5 15.dxe5 Be7 16.a3 b6 17.b4 a4 18.cxd5 exd5 19.Bd4
Bd8 20.Rac1 Bb7 21.f4 Bc7 22.Bd3 Qe6 23.g4 fxg4 24.Bxh7+ Kh8
25.Bg6 c5 26.f5 Qe7 27.hxg4 Qh4 28.Rf2 Kg8 29.Rh2 Qxg4+ 30.Rg2
Qh3 31.bxc5 Bxe5 32.Qe2 Bxd4 33.exd4 Rf6 34.Qe7 bxc5 35.Bh5
1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.02"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Mark Taimanov"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "115"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. g3 e6 3. Bg2 d5 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. Qa4+ Nbd7 6. Qxc4
c5 7. O-O a6 8. Qb3 Be7 9. d3 O-O 10. Bd2 Qc7 11. a4 b6
12. Na3 Bb7 13. Nc4 Nd5 14. Rfc1 a5 15. Na3 Bc6 16. Nb5 Qb7
17. Bg5 N5f6 18. e4 Rfd8 19. Bf4 Ne8 20. Nd2 g5 21. Be3 Ne5
22. Bf1 Ng4 23. Nc4 Nxe3 24. fxe3 Bf6 25. Be2 Bg7 26. Rf1 Rd7
27. Rf2 Bxb5 28. Qxb5 Nd6 29. Nxd6 Rxd6 30. e5 Bxe5 31. d4
Rxd4 32. exd4 Bxd4 33. Raf1 Rd8 34. Qb3 Qd5 35. Qxd5 Rxd5
36. Bc4 Bxf2+ 37. Rxf2 Rd4 38. b3 Kg7 39. Kf1 Kg6 40. Ke2 Rd6
41. Rf3 f5 42. Rd3 Rxd3 43. Kxd3 Kf6 44. Ba6 Ke5 45. Kc4 f4
46. gxf4+ Kxf4 47. Kb5 g4 48. Kxb6 h5 49. Kxa5 h4 50. Kb6 e5
51. Bf1 g3 52. hxg3+ hxg3 53. a5 e4 54. a6 e3 55. a7 e2
56. Bxe2 g2 57. a8=Q g1=Q 58. Qf8+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.02"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Lev Aronin"]
[Black "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "212"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 g6 7.f4
Qc7 8.Bb3 Bg7 9.O-O O-O 10.Nf3 Nbd7 11.Qe2 Nc5 12.e5 dxe5
13.fxe5 Nxb3 14.axb3 Ng4 15.Bf4 f6 16.exf6 Qc5+ 17.Kh1 Nxf6
18.Rae1 Nd5 19.Be5 Nxc3 20.bxc3 Bxe5 21.Qxe5 Qxe5 22.Rxe5 e6
23.Rd1 b5 24.Kg1 Ra7 25.Rc5 Raf7 26.Ne5 Rf5 27.h4 Rf4 28.Rd6
Re4 29.Rb6 Re1+ 30.Kh2 a5 31.Rbxb5 Ba6 32.Rxa5 Bf1 33.Nd3 Re2
34.Rg5 Rxc2 35.Nc5 Rff2 36.Ra8+ Kf7 37.Ra7+ Kg8 38.Ra8+ Kf7
39.Ra7+ Kg8 40.Nxe6 Bxg2 41.Nd4 Rcd2 42.Re7 Bf1+ 43.Kg1 Bd3
44.Re1 Kg7 45.b4 Kh6 46.Rd1 Rg2+ 47.Rxg2 Rxd1+ 48.Kf2 Rc1
49.Rg3 Rxc3 50.Re3 Rc4 51.Rxd3 Rxb4 52.Nf3 Kh5 53.Rd5+ Kg4
54.Rg5+ Kf4 55.Ng1 Rb2+ 56.Ne2+ Ke4 57.Rc5 h6 58.Rc6 Kf5
59.Kf3 Rb3+ 60.Nc3 Ke5 61.Kg4 Rb4+ 62.Kg3 Rb3 63.Kg4 Rb4+
64.Kg3 Rb3 65.Rc4 Kf5 66.Rf4+ Ke5 67.Rf3 Rb4 68.Re3+ Kf5
69.Nd5 Rg4+ 70.Kh3 Rd4 71.Ne7+ Kf6 72.Nc6 Rd5 73.Rf3+ Kg7
74.Rg3 Rd1 75.Kg4 Rh1 76.Nd4 Kf6 77.Nf3 Ra1 78.Kh3 Rb1 79.Rg1
Rb3 80.Kg3 Ra3 81.Rc1 Rb3 82.Rc6+ Kf5 83.Rc5+ Kf6 84.Rd5 Ra3
85.Kg4 Ra6 86.Rd4 Kg7 87.Rd7+ Kf6 88.Kg3 Ra3 89.Rd4 Rb3 90.Kg4
Rb5 91.Rd3 Rb4+ 92.Kg3 Rb6 93.Nh2 Rb7 94.Ng4+ Kg7 95.Kf3 Rf7+
96.Ke3 Re7+ 97.Kd4 Rd7+ 98.Ke4 Rxd3 99.Kxd3 h5 100.Nh2 Kf6
101.Nf3 Kf5 102.Ke3 Kg4 103.Kf2 Kh3 104.Ke2 Kg3 105.Ke3 Kg4
106.Ke4 Kg3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.05"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[ECO "A81"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "74"]

1.d4 f5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 g6 4.Nc3 Bg7 5.Bg5 Nc6 6.Qd2 d5 7.Bxf6
Bxf6 8.Nxd5 Bxd4 9.Nxc7+ Kf7 10.Nf3 Bxb2 11.Rb1 Qxd2+ 12.Nxd2
Bc3 13.Rb3 Bxd2+ 14.Kxd2 Be6 15.Nxe6 Kxe6 16.Rxb7 Rhd8+ 17.Kc1
Nd4 18.Re1 Rac8 19.Rb2 Rc5 20.e3 Nb5 21.Rd1 Rdc8 22.Rd5 Rxd5
23.Bxd5+ Kxd5 24.Rxb5+ Ke4 25.Rb7 Re8 26.Rxa7 Kf3 27.a4 Kxf2
28.a5 g5 29.a6 Kxe3 30.Rd7 e5 31.a7 Ra8 32.Rxh7 f4 33.gxf4+
gxf4 34.Kd1 f3 35.c4 Rd8+ 36.Kc2 f2 37.Rf7 Ra8 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.05"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Paul Keres"]
[ECO "C99"]
[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 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2
cxd4 13. cxd4 Bb7 14. d5 Bc8 15. Nf1 Bd7 16. N3h2 Rfc8 17. Bd3
Nb7 18. b4 a5 19. Bd2 axb4 20. Bxb4 Nc5 21. a3 Qa7 22. Ng3 Bd8
23. Bf1 Ba5 24. Qf3 Qb6 25. Ng4 Nxg4 26. hxg4 g6 27. Rab1 Qd8
28. Qe3 Qh4 29. Be2 Bxg4 30. Bxb5 Bb6 31. Bc6 Rab8 32. Bd2 Bd7
33. Bxd7 Nxd7 34. Qd3 Bd4 35. Be3 Nc5 36. Qc2 Bxe3 37. Rxe3
Rxb1+ 38. Qxb1 Qd8 39. Nf1 Rb8 40. Qc2 Ra8 41. Nd2 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.05"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Salomon Flohr"]
[Black "Lev Aronin"]
[ECO "E60"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "78"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.Nc3 d6 6.e3 e5 7.Nge2
Qe7 8.O-O e4 9.h3 h5 10.Nf4 c6 11.b4 Nbd7 12.Qe2 Re8 13.Ba3 a6
14.Bb2 Nb6 15.c5 Nbd7 16.a4 d5 17.b5 h4 18.Ba3 Nf8 19.bxc6
bxc6 20.Rab1 g5 21.Nh5 g4 22.Nxf6+ Qxf6 23.Rb6 gxh3 24.Bh1 Qg5
25.Kh2 Bg4 26.Qd2 Re6 27.Ne2 Bxe2 28.Qxe2 hxg3 29.fxg3 Rg6
30.g4 Nd7 31.Rf5 Qh4 32.Rh5 Qd8 33.a5 Nf6 34.Rh4 Qc7+ 35.Kxh3
Bh6 36.Bb4 Bg5 37.Be1 Kg7 38.Rh5 Qd7 39.Kh2 Nxg4+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.05"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Mark Taimanov"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "A53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "53"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.g3 e5 4.Bg2 Nbd7 5.e3 c6 6.Nc3 Be7 7.Nge2
O-O 8.O-O Nb6 9.b3 exd4 10.Nxd4 d5 11.cxd5 Nbxd5 12.Nxd5 Nxd5
13.Bb2 c5 14.Nf5 Bxf5 15.Qxd5 Bd3 16.Qxb7 Bxf1 17.Rxf1 Rb8
18.Qxa7 c4 19.Be5 Rb5 20.Bc7 Qd3 21.bxc4 Qxc4 22.a4 Bc5 23.Qa6
Rb4 24.Qxc4 Rxc4 25.a5 Bxe3 26.fxe3 Rxc7 27.a6 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.05"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[Black "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[ECO "B92"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "52"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5
7. Nb3 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. f4 Nbd7 10. Qe1 b5 11. a3 Bb7 12. Bf3
Rc8 13. Kh1 Re8 14. Qf2 Bf8 15. Bd2 d5 16. Nxd5 Rxc2 17. fxe5
Nxd5 18. exd5 Nxe5 19. Nd4 Nd3 20. Nxc2 Nxf2+ 21. Rxf2 Bxd5
22. Bxd5 Qxd5 23. Bc3 Qc4 24. Raf1 f6 25. Rd1 Re2 26. b3 Qe4
0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.05"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Vladimir Simagin"]
[ECO "A35"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "93"]

1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 g6 4.e3 d6 5.d4 Bg4 6.Be2 Bg7 7.d5 Nb8
8.h3 Bxf3 9.Bxf3 Nf6 10.O-O O-O 11.Qd2 a6 12.Rb1 Nbd7 13.Be2
Ne8 14.b3 e5 15.dxe6 fxe6 16.Bb2 Qe7 17.Rbd1 Rd8 18.f4 Ndf6
19.Bf3 Nc7 20.g4 b5 21.g5 Nfe8 22.h4 b4 23.Ne4 Bxb2 24.Qxb2 d5
25.Nf2 Qg7 26.Qxg7+ Nxg7 27.Ng4 Nf5 28.Kf2 dxc4 29.bxc4 a5
30.Nf6+ Kg7 31.Nd7 Rf7 32.Nxc5 Rxd1 33.Rxd1 Nxh4 34.Nd7 Nxf3
35.Kxf3 Nd5 36.Nc5 Nc7 37.Ke4 h6 38.Rd6 hxg5 39.fxg5 Kf8
40.Rc6 Ke8 41.Ke5 Kd8 42.Rb6 Kc8 43.Kd6 Rf2 44.Kc6 Rc2 45.Rb7
Ne8 46.Ra7 Kb8 47.Re7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.05"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Yuri Averbakh"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "A53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 e5 4.d5 g6 5.e4 Bg7 6.h3 Nbd7 7.Bd3 Nc5
8.Bc2 a5 9.Bg5 h6 10.Be3 O-O 11.g4 Kh7 12.Nf3 Ng8 13.Rg1 Ne7
14.Qd2 c6 15.h4 cxd5 16.cxd5 b5 17.h5 b4 18.Na4 Nxa4 19.Bxa4
gxh5 20.gxh5 Ng8 21.Rg3 f5 22.exf5 Bxf5 23.Ke2 Rc8 24.Rag1 Rf7
25.Ke1 Be4 26.Bd1 Qe7 27.Qe2 Bf5 28.Rg6 Kh8 29.R6g3 Bh7 30.Qa6
Qd8 31.Nh4 Ra8 32.Qc4 Nf6 33.Ng6+ Bxg6 34.Rxg6 Rc8 35.Qd3 e4
36.Qd2 Ng8 37.Bg4 Rc4 38.Be6 Re7 39.Bxg8 Qxg8 40.Rxh6+ Bxh6
41.Rxg8+ Kxg8 42.Bxh6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.05"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[Black "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[ECO "C70"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Be7 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 d6 7.c3
Bf6 8.a4 Bd7 9.d4 Na5 10.Bc2 Ne7 11.b4 Nb7 12.axb5 axb5
13.Rxa8 Qxa8 14.dxe5 dxe5 15.Bg5 Bxg5 16.Nxg5 Nd8 17.Qh5 Qa2
18.Bd3 Ng6 19.g3 h6 20.Nf3 Qe6 21.Na3 c6 22.Nc2 O-O 23.Ne3 Re8
24.Nd2 Qd6 25.Qe2 Bh3 26.Rd1 Ne6 27.Nb3 Qe7 28.Qh5 Ng5 29.Nc5
Qf6 30.Nf5 Kh7 31.Bc2 Rd8 32.Nd7 Qe6 33.Bb3 Qe8 34.Nf6+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.06"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Lev Aronin"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "C03"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 a6 4.e5 c5 5.c3 Nc6 6.Ndf3 Bd7 7.dxc5
Bxc5 8.Bd3 Nge7 9.Bf4 Bb6 10.Bg3 Bc7 11.Qe2 Qb8 12.Kf1 Nf5
13.Bf4 Nfe7 14.Bg3 h6 15.h4 f6 16.Re1 O-O 17.exf6 Rxf6 18.Bxc7
Qxc7 19.g4 Raf8 20.g5 R6f7 21.gxh6 gxh6 22.Rh2 Rg7 23.Ne5 Nxe5
24.Qxe5 Qxe5 25.Rxe5 Nc6 26.Re3 e5 27.Rg2 Rf4 28.Rgg3 Rxg3
29.Rxg3+ Kf7 30.Bg6+ Kf6 31.h5 e4 32.Ke2 Ne5 33.Ke3 Rg4 34.Kd4
Rxg3 35.fxg3 Nxg6 36.hxg6 Bg4 37.c4 dxc4 38.Kxe4 Kxg6 39.Kf4
h5 40.Ke4 Kf6 41.Kd4 b5 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.06"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "E60"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "89"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 d6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O Nbd7
7. Qc2 e5 8. Rd1 Re8 9. Nc3 c6 10. e4 a6 11. h3 b5 12. dxe5
dxe5 13. Be3 Qe7 14. cxb5 axb5 15. a4 Bb7 16. Nd2 b4 17. Ne2
Bf8 18. Nc4 Qe6 19. Nc1 Ba6 20. b3 Bxc4 21. bxc4 Bc5 22. Bxc5
Nxc5 23. a5 Reb8 24. Nb3 Nfd7 25. f4 Qe7 26. f5 Rb7 27. Kh2
Rba7 28. Rdb1 Rb7 29. Qd2 Na6 30. Rb2 Ndc5 31. Nxc5 Qxc5
32. f6 Nc7 33. Ra4 Na6 34. Qh6 Qf8 35. Qg5 Nc5 36. Ra1 h6
37. Qe3 Kh7 38. Rd2 Ne6 39. a6 Rba7 40. Rda2 c5 41. h4 Qd6
42. h5 g5 43. Qf2 Nd4 44. Rd2 Kg8 45. Rda2 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.06"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Efim Geller"]
[Black "Salomon Flohr"]
[ECO "D15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "68"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.d4 c6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.e4 b5 6.e5 Nd5 7.a4 e6
8.axb5 Nxc3 9.bxc3 cxb5 10.Ng5 Bb7 11.Qh5 g6 12.Qg4 Be7 13.Be2
Nd7 14.h4 h5 15.Qg3 Nb6 16.O-O a5 17.Rb1 b4 18.f4 Qd7 19.Ra1
b3 20.f5 gxf5 21.Nh3 a4 22.Qg7 O-O-O 23.Bg5 a3 24.Qxf7 Bxg5
25.Nxg5 Qxf7 26.Nxf7 a2 27.Nxd8 Kxd8 28.Rfd1 Rg8 29.d5 Bxd5
30.Bf3 Ke7 31.Kf2 Bxf3 32.gxf3 Nd5 33.Rd2 Nxc3 34.Ke3 Nd5+ 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.06"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[Black "Efim Geller"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "88"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.O-O d6 6.Nc3 e5 7.d3
Nbd7 8.Rb1 Nc5 9.b4 Ne6 10.Ng5 c6 11.b5 Qc7 12.bxc6 bxc6
13.Nb5 cxb5 14.Bxa8 bxc4 15.Nxe6 Bxe6 16.Bg2 c3 17.Rb7 Qa5
18.Be3 a6 19.Qc2 Rc8 20.Rfb1 Nd7 21.a4 d5 22.Bb6 Nxb6 23.R7xb6
Bd7 24.Rb8 Rxb8 25.Rxb8+ Bf8 26.Bxd5 Qxd5 27.Qxc3 Kg7 28.a5
Bd6 29.Rb6 Bh3 30.e4 Qa2 31.Qb2 Qxa5 32.Qb1 Bc5 33.Rb2 Bd4
34.Ra2 Qb5 35.Qxb5 axb5 36.Ra5 b4 37.Rb5 Bc3 38.f4 Bd7 39.Rb7
Bc6 40.Rb8 Ba4 41.fxe5 b3 42.Rb7 Bxe5 43.Kf2 b2 44.Ke3 Bc2 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.06"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Keres"]
[Black "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[ECO "E07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "49"]

1.c4 e6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 Nf6 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.O-O Be7 6.d4 O-O 7.Nbd2
b6 8.b3 Bb7 9.Bb2 Rc8 10.Rc1 c6 11.e3 Qc7 12.Ne5 Nxe5 13.dxe5
Nd7 14.f4 Rfd8 15.cxd5 exd5 16.Qg4 c5 17.Nf3 Qc6 18.e6 Nf6
19.exf7 Kf8 20.Qh3 h6 21.Ne5 Qd6 22.Qf5 Rc7 23.g4 Bc8 24.Qg6
Nxg4 25.Nd7+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.06"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Yuri Averbakh"]
[ECO "E39"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 c5 5.dxc5 O-O 6.Bg5 Na6 7.a3
Bxc3+ 8.Qxc3 Nxc5 9.Bxf6 Qxf6 10.Qxf6 gxf6 11.f3 a5 12.e4 b6
13.Rd1 a4 14.Ne2 Rd8 15.Nc3 Ba6 16.Rd6 Rab8 17.Be2 Kf8 18.Kf2
Ke7 19.Rhd1 Rdc8 20.Na2 Rc6 21.R6d2 Rc7 22.Nb4 Bb7 23.Ke3 Rg8
24.Bd3 Nb3 25.Rc2 Rc5 26.g3 Rgc8 27.Re1 Na5 28.Rec1 Nb3 29.Rd1
Na5 30.Rdc1 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.06"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "D15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "101"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6 5. e4 b5 6. e5 Nd5
7. a4 e6 8. axb5 Nxc3 9. bxc3 cxb5 10. Ng5 Bb7 11. Qh5 g6
12. Qg4 Be7 13. Be2 Nd7 14. h4 h5 15. Qg3 Nb6 16. O-O a5
17. d5 Nxd5 18. Rd1 Qc7 19. Ne4 O-O-O 20. Bg5 Bxg5 21. Qxg5 a4
22. Qg3 f5 23. Nd6+ Rxd6 24. exd6 f4 25. Qxg6 Qxd6 26. Bf3 Bc6
27. Re1 Re8 28. Bxd5 Qxd5 29. Rad1 Qf5 30. Qxf5 exf5 31. Rxe8+
Bxe8 32. f3 Kc7 33. Kf2 Kb6 34. Ke2 Ka5 35. Rb1 a3 36. Kd2 b4
37. cxb4+ Ka4 38. Kc3 a2 39. Ra1 Ka3 40. Kxc4 Kb2 41. Re1 a1=Q
42. Rxa1 Kxa1 43. b5 Bd7 44. b6 Bc8 45. Kd4 Kb2 46. Ke5 Kc3
47. Kxf4 Kd4 48. Kg5 Ke5 49. Kxh5 Kf6 50. g4 Bb7 51. Kh6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.06"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Vladimir Simagin"]
[Black "Mark Taimanov"]
[ECO "B24"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "111"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6 6.Nf3 Rb8 7.O-O e6
8.a3 Nge7 9.Bg5 O-O 10.Qd2 b5 11.Bh6 Nd4 12.Bxg7 Kxg7 13.Nxd4
cxd4 14.Ne2 e5 15.c3 dxc3 16.bxc3 Bg4 17.f3 Be6 18.f4 f6 19.h3
Nc6 20.Rab1 Qa5 21.Kh2 Nd4 22.Nxd4 exd4 23.Rb4 Qxa3 24.Rxd4
Bg8 25.e5 fxe5 26.fxe5 Rxf1 27.Bxf1 dxe5 28.Rd7+ Bf7 29.Bg2
Re8 30.Rb7 a6 31.Qf2 Re7 32.Rb6 Re6 33.Rxe6 Bxe6 34.Qa7+ Kf6
35.d4 exd4 36.Qxd4+ Kf7 37.Qh8 Qf8 38.Qxh7+ Qg7 39.Qh4 Qxc3
40.Qf4+ Qf6 41.Qd6 Bc4 42.Qc7+ Kf8 43.h4 Bf7 44.Qc1 b4 45.Qc5+
Qe7 46.Qd4 Kg8 47.h5 g5 48.Bf3 a5 49.g4 a4 50.Be4 Qc7+ 51.Kg2
Qc8 52.Bf5 Qc6+ 53.Be4 Qc8 54.Bf5 Qc6+ 55.Be4 Qc8 56.Bf5
1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.06"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[ECO "E30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "107"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bg5 h6 5.Bh4 g5 6.Bg3 Ne4 7.Qc2
Nxg3 8.hxg3 d5 9.a3 Bxc3+ 10.Qxc3 Nd7 11.e3 c6 12.Nf3 Qf6
13.Be2 Nf8 14.b4 Bd7 15.Ne5 Ng6 16.f4 Nxe5 17.fxe5 Qg6 18.Bh5
Qe4 19.O-O dxc4 20.Bxf7+ Ke7 21.Bh5 Raf8 22.Bf3 Qd3 23.Qxd3
cxd3 24.Be4 d2 25.Rxf8 Rxf8 26.Rd1 a5 27.Rxd2 axb4 28.axb4 Ra8
29.Kf2 Ra3 30.Rb2 Be8 31.g4 Kd8 32.Bf3 Kc7 33.Be2 Rc3 34.Bf3
Bg6 35.b5 Rc2+ 36.Rxc2 Bxc2 37.bxc6 bxc6 38.Ke1 Kb6 39.Kd2 Bb1
40.Kc3 Ba2 41.Be2 Bd5 42.g3 c5 43.Bc4 Bf3 44.Bxe6 Kc6 45.Kd3
Bg2 46.Bf5 Bf1+ 47.Kd2 cxd4 48.exd4 Bg2 49.Ke3 Kd5 50.Bc2 Bh3
51.Bb3+ Kc6 52.Kf3 Bf1 53.Ke4 Bh3 54.Kf5 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.06"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[Black "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "113"]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 b6 3.g3 Bb7 4.Bg2 c5 5.O-O g6 6.d3 Bg7 7.e4 O-O
8.Nc3 Nc6 9.Bg5 h6 10.Bf4 Kh7 11.h3 e6 12.Bd6 Rh8 13.e5 Ne8
14.Ne4 Na5 15.Nfd2 Nxd6 16.Nxd6 Bxg2 17.Kxg2 Rf8 18.f4 f6
19.Qe2 Nc6 20.Nf3 a6 21.h4 h5 22.Qe4 Qc7 23.Rae1 Rab8 24.Rh1
Ne7 25.b3 Qc6 26.Re2 fxe5 27.fxe5 Qxe4 28.Nxe4 Nc6 29.Rf1 Kg8
30.Nd6 Rxf3 31.Rxf3 Nd4 32.Re4 Nxf3 33.Kxf3 Rf8+ 34.Ke2 Rb8
35.a4 Bf8 36.d4 Bxd6 37.exd6 Rc8 38.d5 Kf8 39.dxe6 dxe6
40.Rf4+ Kg7 41.Rf1 Rd8 42.Rd1 Kf6 43.Ke3 Kf5 44.d7 Ke5 45.Rd2
Kf5 46.Rd6 Ke5 47.Rd1 Kf5 48.b4 a5 49.b5 Kg4 50.Ke4 Kxg3
51.Ke5 Kxh4 52.Kxe6 g5 53.Ke7 Ra8 54.d8=Q Rxd8 55.Kxd8 g4
56.Kc7 g3 57.Kxb6 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.07"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Efim Geller"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "124"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.g3 d5 3.c4 dxc4 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Nxe5 Nxe5
7.dxe5 Qxd1+ 8.Nxd1 Ne4 9.Bg2 Bb4+ 10.Kf1 Nc5 11.Be3 Be6
12.Nc3 O-O-O 13.f4 Bxc3 14.bxc3 Na4 15.Rc1 Bd5 16.Bh3+ Kb8
17.Rg1 Rhe8 18.Kf2 Be4 19.Rgd1 Rxd1 20.Rxd1 Nxc3 21.Rc1 Nxa2
22.Ra1 Nb4 23.Bxa7+ Ka8 24.Bb6 Kb8 25.Ba7+ Ka8 26.Be3 Na6
27.Ra4 Bd5 28.Bd7 Rd8 29.Bb5 Be6 30.Bxa6 bxa6 31.Rxa6+ Kb7
32.Ra5 Rd1 33.Rc5 Rh1 34.Kg2 Ra1 35.Rb5+ Kc6 36.Rc5+ Kd7 37.f5
Bxf5 38.Rxc4 Ra2 39.g4 Be6 40.Rd4+ Kc8 41.Kf3 Ra5 42.g5 c5
43.Rh4 c4 44.Rxh7 g6 45.Rh8+ Kc7 46.Rd8 Bd5+ 47.Kf2 c3 48.Rd6
c2 49.h4 Bc4 50.Rd4 Ba6 51.Rf4 Rxe5 52.Rxf7+ Kc6 53.Rf6+ Kd5
54.Rxa6 Rxe3 55.Ra1 Rc3 56.Rc1 Kc4 57.Ke1 Kb3 58.Kd2 Kb2
59.Rxc2+ Rxc2+ 60.Kd3 Kb3 61.e4 Rc4 62.e5 Kb4 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.07"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[ECO "B03"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "123"]

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. Nf3 Bg4 10. Qd2 Be7 11. O-O-O O-O
12. Ne4 Bf5 13. Nc5 a5 14. b3 Nd7 15. Bd3 Bxc5 16. dxc5 Ndxe5
17. Bxf5 Qxd2+ 18. Bxd2 exf5 19. Nxe5 Nxe5 20. Bc3 Rfe8
21. Rhe1 f6 22. Bxe5 Rxe5 23. Rxe5 fxe5 24. Rd7 Rc8 25. Kd2 h5
26. h4 Kh7 27. Rd5 Re8 28. Rd7 Rc8 29. Rd5 Re8 30. c6 bxc6
31. Rxa5 Kg6 32. Rc5 f4 33. Rxc6+ Kf5 34. Rxc7 g5 35. hxg5 Rg8
36. Ke1 Rxg5 37. Kf2 h4 38. Rh7 Kg4 39. c5 e4 40. b4 e3+
41. Ke2 Kg3 42. c6 Rg8 43. Rf7 Ra8 44. Rg7+ Kh2 45. Kf3 Re8
46. Ke2 Ra8 47. a3 Rxa3 48. Kf3 Ra2 49. Kxf4 e2 50. Re7 Rb2
51. Kf3 Rxb4 52. Rxe2 Rb3+ 53. Re3 Rb2 54. Rc3 Rxg2 55. Rc4
Rg3+ 56. Kf4 Kh3 57. Rc1 Rg4+ 58. Kf5 Ra4 59. c7 Ra5+ 60. Kf4
Ra4+ 61. Kf3 Ra3+ 62. Kf2 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.07"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Salomon Flohr"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "A84"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 b6 5.Bd3 Bb7 6.Nf3 Bb4 7.Bd2
O-O 8.Qc2 a5 9.a3 Bxc3 10.Bxc3 Ne4 11.O-O-O d5 12.Ne5 Nd7
13.Nxd7 Qxd7 14.Be1 dxc4 15.Bxc4 Bd5 16.f3 Bxc4 17.fxe4 Qb5
18.a4 Qb3 19.Qxb3 Bxb3 20.Rd3 Bxa4 21.exf5 Rxf5 22.Rc3 c6
23.Bg3 Raf8 24.b3 Bb5 25.Kb2 a4 26.Ra1 axb3 27.Kxb3 h6 28.Kb2
Rf1 29.Rxf1 Rxf1 30.Bc7 Rf2+ 31.Rc2 Rf7 32.Bg3 Ra7 33.Rc3 Kh7
34.Bb8 Rb7 35.Be5 Kg6 36.e4 Rf7 37.Kb3 Kh7 38.h4 h5 39.Kb4 Ra7
40.Kb3 Rf7 41.Kb4 Ra7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.07"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Paul Keres"]
[ECO "A12"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "112"]

1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 c6 3.b3 Nf6 4.g3 Bf5 5.Bg2 e6 6.Bb2 Nbd7 7.O-O
h6 8.d3 Bc5 9.Nbd2 O-O 10.Qc2 Bh7 11.e4 dxe4 12.Nxe4 Nxe4
13.dxe4 Nf6 14.Ne5 Qb6 15.Nd3 Nxe4 16.Nxc5 Nxc5 17.Qc3 f6
18.Qe3 Nd3 19.Qxe6+ Kh8 20.Bc3 Rfe8 21.Qg4 Rad8 22.Qh5 Ne5
23.Rad1 Bg6 24.Qh4 Rxd1 25.Rxd1 Nd3 26.Bd4 Qa5 27.h3 Kh7
28.Bf3 Ne1 29.Bh1 Nc2+ 30.Bf3 Re1+ 31.Rxe1 Qxe1+ 32.Kh2 b6
33.Qf4 c5 34.Be3 Nxe3 35.Qxe3 Qxe3 36.fxe3 Bb1 37.a3 a5 38.Bd1
Kg6 39.Kg2 Kf5 40.Kf2 Ke5 41.a4 g5 42.Ke2 Bf5 43.g4 Bb1 44.Kf3
f5 45.gxf5 Kxf5 46.Kf2 Be4 47.Kg3 Kg6 48.Kf2 h5 49.Kg3 h4
50.Kf2 Bf5 51.Kg2 Kf6 52.Kh2 Ke6 53.Kg2 Ke5 54.Kh2 Bb1 55.Kg2
Ke4 56.Kf2 Kd3 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.07"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "E67"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nf3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.O-O Nbd7 7.Nc3
e5 8.e4 exd4 9.Nxd4 Nc5 10.f3 a5 11.Be3 c6 12.Nb3 Ne6 13.Na4
Ra6 14.Qd3 Bd7 15.Rfd1 c5 16.Nc3 a4 17.Nc1 Qa5 18.N1e2 Nc7
19.Bd2 Qb6 20.Rab1 Be6 21.Nf4 Nd7 22.Nxe6 Ne5 23.Qf1 fxe6
24.Kh1 Raa8 25.Bg5 Rf7 26.Rd2 h6 27.Bf4 g5 28.Bxe5 Bxe5 29.Qd3
Qa5 30.Bh3 Raf8 31.Bg4 a3 32.Rc2 Rh7 33.bxa3 h5 34.Bh3 Rhf7
35.Qe3 Bd4 36.Qxg5+ Rg7 37.Qd2 Rxf3 38.Nb5 Qxd2 39.Rxd2 Nxb5
40.Bxe6+ Kh8 41.Rxb5 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.07"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vladimir Simagin"]
[Black "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "108"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd3 c5
7. O-O cxd4 8. exd4 dxc4 9. Bxc4 a6 10. Qe2 b5 11. Bb3 Bb7
12. Rd1 Nd5 13. Ne4 Nd7 14. Ne5 Rc8 15. Bd2 N7f6 16. Ng5 h6
17. Ngf3 Qb6 18. Qe1 Qd6 19. a3 Rfe8 20. Ba2 Qb8 21. Bb1 Nb6
22. h4 Nc4 23. Bc1 Qa8 24. Qe2 Be4 25. Re1 Bxb1 26. Rxb1 Qd5
27. g4 Nxe5 28. Nxe5 Nd7 29. Qf3 Nxe5 30. Qxd5 exd5 31. dxe5
Bxh4 32. Re2 f6 33. e6 Rc6 34. Be3 Rexe6 35. Rd2 Rc4 36. Rxd5
Rxg4+ 37. Kf1 Bg5 38. Bxg5 Rxg5 39. Rxg5 fxg5 40. Rd1 Rc6
41. Rd7 Kh7 42. Ra7 Kg6 43. b3 g4 44. a4 bxa4 45. bxa4 h5
46. a5 Rf6 47. Kg2 h4 48. Rb7 Kh6 49. Rb6 Kh5 50. Kg1 h3
51. Rb7 g6 52. Rb4 Rf5 53. Ra4 g5 54. Ra2 Rf3 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.07"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mark Taimanov"]
[Black "Yuri Averbakh"]
[ECO "E52"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "109"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 6.Nf3 b6 7.O-O
Bb7 8.Bd2 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Nbd7 10.Qe2 c5 11.a3 Bxc3 12.Bxc3 Ne4
13.Rac1 Rc8 14.Rfd1 Nxc3 15.Rxc3 cxd4 16.Nxd4 Qe7 17.Rdc1 Nc5
18.b4 Ne4 19.R3c2 Nd6 20.Ba6 Rxc2 21.Rxc2 e5 22.Nc6 Bxc6
23.Rxc6 Rd8 24.h3 g6 25.Qc2 Kg7 26.Be2 Ne8 27.Qc3 Kg8 28.a4
Kg7 29.a5 bxa5 30.bxa5 Rd7 31.f4 f6 32.fxe5 fxe5 33.Rc5 Kf6
34.Rc6+ Kg7 35.Rc8 Nd6 36.Rc5 Kf6 37.Rc6 Kg7 38.Bg4 Nf5 39.Kh2
h5 40.Bxf5 gxf5 41.Rc5 h4 42.Kg1 Qd6 43.Rc6 Qd5 44.Rc4 Kg6
45.Rxh4 Qd2 46.Qc6+ Qd6 47.Qa8 Qf6 48.Qg8+ Rg7 49.Qe8+ Rf7
50.Rh8 Kg5 51.a6 e4 52.Qg8+ Rg7 53.Qb8 Kg6 54.Qe8+ Qf7 55.Qc6+
1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.07"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[Black "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[ECO "D49"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "153"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4
b5 8.Bd3 a6 9.e4 c5 10.e5 cxd4 11.Nxb5 Nxe5 12.Nxe5 axb5
13.Qf3 Bb4+ 14.Kf1 Qd5 15.Qxd5 Nxd5 16.Bxb5+ Ke7 17.Ke2 f6
18.Nc6+ Kd6 19.Nxb4 Nxb4 20.Bd2 Nxa2 21.Bb4+ Kd5 22.Bd3 Rb8
23.Ba3 Nb4 24.Rhc1 Nxd3 25.Kxd3 Ba6+ 26.Kd2 Rhc8 27.Rxc8 Rxc8
28.Be7 Bb5 29.Ra5 Rb8 30.Ba3 Rb7 31.Ra8 e5 32.f3 Bf1 33.Rd8+
Ke6 34.g4 Bg2 35.Rd6+ Kf7 36.f4 exf4 37.Rxd4 g5 38.Rd3 Rc7
39.Bb4 Be4 40.Rd6 Rc2+ 41.Ke1 Bf3 42.Bc3 Bxg4 43.Rxf6+ Kg8
44.h4 Re2+ 45.Kf1 f3 46.hxg5 Bh3+ 47.Kg1 Rg2+ 48.Kh1 f2 49.Bd4
Rg1+ 50.Kh2 f1=Q 51.Rxf1 Rxf1 52.Kxh3 Rf4 53.Bc5 Rf5 54.b4
Rxg5 55.Kh4 Rd5 56.Kg4 Kf7 57.Kf4 Ke6 58.Kg4 Rf5 59.Bd4 h5+
60.Kg3 Rg5+ 61.Kh3 Kf5 62.Bc5 Kg6 63.Bd6 Rd5 64.Bc5 Re5 65.Bd6
Re3+ 66.Kh4 Re4+ 67.Kg3 h4+ 68.Kg2 Kh5 69.Kh2 Kg4 70.Kg2 Re2+
71.Kg1 Rb2 72.Bb8 Rxb4 73.Bc7 Rb2 74.Bd6 Kf3 75.Bc7 Rg2+
76.Kh1 Rg6 77.Bb8 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.07"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[Black "Lev Aronin"]
[ECO "E77"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "138"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Bd3 O-O 6.Nge2 Nc6 7.f3
Nd7 8.Be3 e5 9.d5 Nd4 10.Bb1 Qh4+ 11.Bf2 Qg5 12.Ng3 h5 13.h4
Qe7 14.Nge2 c5 15.dxc6 bxc6 16.Nxd4 exd4 17.Bxd4 Ne5 18.Bc2
Nxc4 19.Bxg7 Kxg7 20.Qd4+ Ne5 21.O-O-O Qf6 22.Qxd6 Be6 23.Qd2
Qe7 24.Qd6 Qf6 25.Qd2 Qe7 26.f4 Nc4 27.Qd4+ f6 28.f5 Rad8
29.Qf2 Bf7 30.Bb3 gxf5 31.Qg3+ Kh7 32.Bxc4 Bxc4 33.exf5 Bf7
34.Rxd8 Rxd8 35.Re1 Qd7 36.Ne4 Qd4 37.Qe3 Kg7 38.Qg3+ Kh6
39.Qf4+ Kh7 40.Qd2 Qc4+ 41.Qc3 Kg7 42.Qxc4 Bxc4 43.Nc3 Rd4
44.g3 Kf7 45.b3 Bd3 46.Re6 c5 47.Rc6 Bxf5 48.Rxc5 Rd3 49.Rc7+
Ke8 50.Nb5 a6 51.Rc5 Bg4 52.Nc7+ Ke7 53.Nxa6 Rxg3 54.Rc7+ Kd6
55.Rf7 f5 56.b4 Ke6 57.Rf8 Ke7 58.Rc8 f4 59.Rc7+ Kd6 60.Rf7 f3
61.b5 Ke6 62.Rf8 Bf5 63.Nc5+ Ke5 64.Kd2 f2 65.Ke2 Rf3 66.Rxf5+
Kxf5 67.Kf1 Kf4 68.Ne6+ Ke3 69.Ng7 Rf7 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.09"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "B63"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "159"]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2
h6 8.Bxf6 gxf6 9.O-O-O a6 10.Be2 Bd7 11.f4 Qb6 12.Bh5 Nxd4
13.Qxd4 Qxd4 14.Rxd4 Rg8 15.g3 Be7 16.Rf1 Bc6 17.f5 Rg5 18.Be2
Bd8 19.Rxd6 Ke7 20.Rdd1 Bc7 21.Bf3 Be5 22.Ne2 Bb5 23.Rfe1 Rgg8
24.Nd4 Bd7 25.Bg2 Bc7 26.Nf3 Rad8 27.Rd2 Bc8 28.Rxd8 Rxd8
29.Rd1 Rg8 30.Bh3 Bd7 31.Nh4 Bc6 32.Bg2 Be5 33.Bf3 Rg5 34.c3
Rg8 35.Re1 b5 36.Bd1 Bc7 37.Nf3 Bb7 38.Nd4 e5 39.Nc2 Bd6
40.Bf3 Rc8 41.a3 a5 42.Kb1 Bb8 43.Ne3 Ba7 44.Nd5+ Bxd5 45.exd5
b4 46.axb4 axb4 47.cxb4 Bd4 48.Rc1 Rxc1+ 49.Kxc1 Bg1 50.h3 Bf2
51.g4 Be1 52.b5 Ba5 53.Kc2 Kd6 54.Kd3 Kc5 55.d6+ Kxd6 56.Kc4
Bb6 57.b4 Bf2 58.Be4 Bb6 59.Bc2 Bf2 60.Bb1 Bb6 61.Be4 Bf2
62.Bf3 Bb6 63.Kd3 Bf2 64.Be4 Bb6 65.Ke2 Bd4 66.Kf3 Bc3 67.b6
Bxb4 68.b7 Kc7 69.Ke2 Bc5 70.Kd3 Bf2 71.Kc4 Be1 72.Kb5 Bf2
73.Ka6 Kb8 74.Bd5 Bd4 75.Bxf7 e4 76.Bd5 e3 77.Bf3 Be5 78.h4
Bg3 79.g5 fxg5 80.hxg5 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.09"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Lev Aronin"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "B32"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. c4 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6
7. Nc3 O-O 8. Be2 Ne8 9. Qd2 f5 10. exf5 gxf5 11. f4 Nc7
12. O-O-O d6 13. Bf3 Bd7 14. h3 Na5 15. Qe2 e5 16. Nb3 Nxb3+
17. axb3 e4 18. Bh5 Ne8 19. Bxe8 Bxe8 20. Qd2 a5 21. Bd4 a4
22. b4 Bf7 23. Bxg7 Kxg7 24. Qd4+ Kg8 25. g4 Bg6 26. g5 Bf7
27. Nd5 Bxd5 28. Qxd5+ Kh8 29. Qd4+ Kg8 30. Qd5+ Kh8 31. c5
Qe8 32. cxd6 Qd7 33. Kb1 a3 34. Rc1 a2+ 35. Ka1 Rfc8 36. Qe5+
Kg8 37. Rc7 Rxc7 38. dxc7 Re8 39. Qxe8+ Qxe8 40. Rd1 Kf7
41. Rd8 Qb5 42. c8=Q 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.09"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Salomon Flohr"]
[ECO "D23"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "228"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qa4+ Nc6 5.e3 e6 6.Ne5 Bd7
7.Nxd7 Nxd7 8.Qxc4 e5 9.dxe5 Ndxe5 10.Qe4 Qd7 11.Bb5 Bb4+
12.Nc3 f5 13.Qc2 Qd5 14.Bxc6+ Qxc6 15.Bd2 O-O 16.O-O Rf6 17.f3
Kh8 18.Rac1 Nc4 19.Nb1 Nxd2 20.Nxd2 Qe8 21.a3 Qxe3+ 22.Rf2
Bxd2 23.Qxd2 Qxd2 24.Rxd2 Rf7 25.Rcd1 g6 26.Kf2 Re8 27.f4 Kg7
28.Kf3 Rfe7 29.Rd3 Kf6 30.h3 h6 31.g4 Re2 32.R1d2 R8e3+
33.Rxe3 Rxd2 34.b4 Rh2 35.Kg3 Ra2 36.Rc3 c6 37.Kh4 Rf2 38.Kg3
Rd2 39.Kf3 a6 40.Re3 Rd7 41.Rc3 Rd2 42.Re3 Rd5 43.Kg3 a5
44.bxa5 Rxa5 45.Kf3 b5 46.Rc3 Ra6 47.Re3 c5 48.gxf5 gxf5
49.Rb3 Ra5 50.Rc3 c4 51.Ke3 Ra8 52.Kd4 Rd8+ 53.Kc5 Rd3 54.Rc1
Rxa3 55.Kxb5 Rxh3 56.Kxc4 Re3 57.Rh1 Kg6 58.Rh4 Rg3 59.Rh1 Rg4
60.Kd3 h5 61.Ke3 h4 62.Ra1 Kh5 63.Ra8 Rg6 64.Kf3 Rg3+ 65.Kf2
Kg4 66.Rg8+ Kxf4 67.Ra8 Rd3 68.Ra4+ Kg5 69.Kg2 Re3 70.Kf2 Re4
71.Ra8 Rc4 72.Kg2 Kg4 73.Rg8+ Kf4+ 74.Ra8 Rc3 75.Ra4+ Kg5
76.Ra8 Rd3 77.Ra4 Rg3+ 78.Kf2 Rg4 79.Ra8 h3 80.Rg8+ Kf4 81.Rh8
Rg2+ 82.Kf1 Kg3 83.Rg8+ Kf3 84.Rh8 Kg3 85.Rg8+ Kf3 86.Rh8 Rg3
87.Rh7 Ke3 88.Rh8 Kf3 89.Rh4 f4 90.Rh8 Kg4 91.Rg8+ Kf5 92.Rf8+
Ke4 93.Re8+ Kf3 94.Rh8 Ke3 95.Rh7 Kd2 96.Kf2 Re3 97.Rd7+ Rd3
98.Rh7 Kd1 99.Kf1 Rf3+ 100.Kg1 Ke2 101.Ra7 Rd3 102.Re7+ Re3
103.Ra7 Rd3 104.Re7+ Kf3 105.Kh2 Kf2 106.Ra7 Re3 107.Ra1 Re1
108.Ra2+ Kf1 109.Kxh3 Re3+ 110.Kg4 f3 111.Kg3 f2 112.Kh2 Re8
113.Ra1+ Ke2 114.Ra2+ Kf3 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.09"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Efim Geller"]
[Black "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[ECO "E26"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.a3 Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 c5 6.e3 Nc6 7.Bd3
d6 8.Ne2 e5 9.O-O Nd7 10.e4 b6 11.Ng3 g6 12.dxe5 dxe5 13.Qe2
Qe7 14.Rd1 Bb7 15.Nf1 O-O-O 16.Ne3 Na5 17.Nd5 Qd6 18.Rb1 Bxd5
19.cxd5 Nb8 20.a4 Kc7 21.Bd2 Nb7 22.Rb2 Qe7 23.Rdb1 Rd6 24.Be3
a5 25.Ba6 Nd7 26.Qb5 Nd8 27.Qc4 f5 28.Rb5 Qf6 29.f4 Re8
30.Bxc5 bxc5 31.Rxc5+ Nxc5 32.Qxc5+ Kd7 33.Qa7+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.09"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Keres"]
[Black "Vladimir Simagin"]
[ECO "A97"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1.d4 f5 2.g3 e6 3.Bg2 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.c4 d6 7.Nc3
Qe8 8.Re1 Qh5 9.e4 fxe4 10.Nxe4 Nxe4 11.Rxe4 Nc6 12.Bf4 Bf6
13.Qd2 Kh8 14.Rae1 Bd7 15.c5 dxc5 16.dxc5 e5 17.Nxe5 Nxe5
18.Bxe5 Bc6 19.Bxf6 Bxe4 20.Bxg7+ Kxg7 21.Qd4+ Rf6 22.Rxe4 Rf8
23.h4 Kh8 24.Re7 Qf5 25.f4 Qg6 26.Kh2 Rf7 27.Re8+ Kg7 28.Be4
Qg4 29.Bd5 Qd7 30.Qe5 h6 31.Bxf7 Kxf7 32.Rf8+ Kxf8 33.Qxf6+
Kg8 34.Qg6+ Kh8 35.Qxh6+ Kg8 36.Qg6+ Kh8 37.Qf6+ Kg8 38.h5 Qd1
39.Qg6+ Kh8 40.Qe8+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.09"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[Black "Mark Taimanov"]
[ECO "E14"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "113"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. d4 b6 4. e3 Bb4+ 5. Nbd2 Bb7 6. Bd3 Ne4
7. Qc2 f5 8. O-O Bxd2 9. Nxd2 Qh4 10. f3 Nxd2 11. Bxd2 O-O
12. b4 Nc6 13. c5 a6 14. Bc3 Ne7 15. Qf2 Qh5 16. Bd2 Rf6
17. a4 Ng6 18. g3 Nh8 19. Be2 Nf7 20. f4 Qg6 21. Rfc1 Be4
22. cxb6 cxb6 23. Bxa6 Rxa6 24. Rc8+ Nd8 25. Rxd8+ Rf8
26. Rxf8+ Kxf8 27. Qe2 Ra8 28. a5 bxa5 29. bxa5 Qe8 30. a6 Kg8
31. d5 Bxd5 32. Bc3 Qc8 33. Qd3 Qc5 34. Ra5 Qc4 35. Qxc4 Bxc4
36. a7 d6 37. Bb4 Bd5 38. Bxd6 Rc8 39. Bc5 Kf7 40. Kf2 Ke8
41. Ke2 h6 42. Kd3 g5 43. Rb5 Kd7 44. Kd4 g4 45. Rb8 h5
46. Bb6 Bf3 47. Ke5 Bd5 48. Kf6 Re8 49. Kg5 Rc8 50. Kxh5 Be4
51. Kg5 Bd5 52. Kf6 Re8 53. Bd4 Rc8 54. Be5 Re8 55. Kf7 Rc8
56. Rb6 Bc6 57. Bb8 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.09"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "D25"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "124"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 g6 5. Bxc4 Bg7 6. Nc3 O-O
7. e4 Bg4 8. Be3 Nfd7 9. Be2 Nb6 10. O-O Nc6 11. d5 Bxf3
12. Bxf3 Ne5 13. Be2 c6 14. Qb3 cxd5 15. Nxd5 Nxd5 16. exd5 a5
17. a4 Qd6 18. Rac1 Rfc8 19. Qxb7 Rcb8 20. Qc7 Rxb2 21. Bb5
Ng4 22. Qxd6 exd6 23. Bb6 h5 24. Rc6 Bf8 25. h3 Ne5 26. Rc7
Bg7 27. Rfc1 Nd3 28. Rd1 Nb4 29. Rd7 Na2 30. Bc6 Re8 31. Be3
Nc3 32. Rf1 Ne2+ 33. Kh1 Rxe3 34. fxe3 Ng3+ 35. Kg1 Nxf1
36. Kxf1 Be5 37. Rb7 Ra2 38. Be8 Kf8 39. Bxf7 Rxa4 40. Bxg6
Ra2 41. Bxh5 a4 42. Bd1 a3 43. Ra7 Bg3 44. Bb3 Rf2+ 45. Kg1
Re2 46. Bc4 Rxe3 47. Bf1 Rb3 48. h4 Kg8 49. Ra4 Kh7 50. Ra7+
Kh6 51. Ra8 Re3 52. Rh8+ Kg6 53. Rf8 Kg7 54. Ra8 Kf7 55. Ra7+
Kf6 56. Ra8 Rc3 57. Ra4 Ke5 58. Rc4 Rxc4 59. Bxc4 Kd4 60. Ba2
Bxh4 61. Kh2 Kc3 62. Kh3 Kb2 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.09"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[Black "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "53"]

1.c4 e6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 Nf6 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.b3 Be7 6.Bb2 O-O 7.O-O
b6 8.d4 Bb7 9.Nbd2 Rc8 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Rc1 Bd6 12.Ne5 Bxe5
13.dxe5 Ng4 14.Bh3 Ndxe5 15.Nf3 Nxf3+ 16.exf3 Nf6 17.Bxc8 Qxc8
18.Bxf6 gxf6 19.Qd4 c5 20.Qxf6 Qd8 21.Qf4 d4 22.Rfe1 Qd5
23.Kg2 f6 24.Re7 Rf7 25.Rce1 d3 26.Qg4+ Qg5 27.Rxb7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.09"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Yuri Averbakh"]
[Black "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 g6 7.O-O
Bg7 8.Bb3 O-O 9.f4 Nbd7 10.Nf3 Nc5 11.Qe1 Nxb3 12.axb3 Qc7
13.Kh1 e6 14.Be3 Bd7 15.Bd4 Bc6 16.Qh4 Nxe4 17.Bxg7 Kxg7
18.Nxe4 Bxe4 19.Ng5 Bxg2+ 20.Kxg2 Qxc2+ 21.Qf2 Rac8 22.Rac1
Qxf2+ 23.Kxf2 d5 24.h4 Rc6 25.Rxc6 bxc6 26.Ra1 Rb8 27.Rxa6 h6
28.Nf3 Rxb3 29.Rxc6 Rxb2+ 30.Kg3 Rb7 31.Ne5 Rb3+ 32.Kg2 Rb2+
33.Kf3 Rb3+ 34.Kg2 Rb7 35.Kg3 Kf6 36.Ng4+ Kg7 37.Ne5 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.10"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[Black "Alexander Kotov"]
[ECO "A54"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "41"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 e5 4.d5 Bf5 5.g3 Be7 6.Nf3 Ne4 7.Nxe4
Bxe4 8.Bh3 c6 9.O-O cxd5 10.Nd2 Bg6 11.Qa4+ Nd7 12.cxd5 f5
13.e4 O-O 14.exf5 Bxf5 15.Bxf5 Rxf5 16.Ne4 Nc5 17.Qc2 Nxe4
18.Qxe4 Rf7 19.h4 Qb6 20.b3 Bd8 21.Be3 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.10"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "David Bronstein"]
[Black "Efim Geller"]
[ECO "C99"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "99"]

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
cxd4 13. cxd4 Bb7 14. d5 Bc8 15. Rb1 Bd7 16. Bd3 Rfc8 17. Nf1
Bd8 18. Ng3 Qa7 19. Rf1 Ne8 20. Kh1 Nb7 21. b4 a5 22. a3 axb4
23. axb4 Be7 24. Ne2 Bd8 25. Bd2 Bb6 26. Nc3 Bxf2 27. Nxb5 Qb6
28. Qe2 Bg3 29. Be3 Qd8 30. Na7 Rc3 31. Qd2 Ra3 32. Nc6 Qf6
33. Nfxe5 Bxe5 34. Rxf6 Bxf6 35. Bc4 Rc3 36. e5 Rxc4 37. exf6
Nxf6 38. Bd4 Bxc6 39. dxc6 Rxc6 40. Qg5 d5 41. Rf1 h6 42. Qg3
Ne8 43. Qe5 Rd8 44.Qh5 Nf6 45.Bxf6 Rxf6 46.Rxf6 gxf6 47.Qf3
Rd6 48.Qg4+ Kh7 49.Qc8 Rb6 50.Qc7 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.10"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Salomon Flohr"]
[Black "Yuri Averbakh"]
[ECO "E19"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.Nc3
Ne4 8.Qc2 Nxc3 9.Qxc3 f5 10.Be3 Bf6 11.Qd2 d6 12.Rfd1 Qe8
13.Rac1 Be4 14.Ne1 Bxg2 15.Nxg2 Nd7 16.Qc2 a5 17.Qa4 Nb8
18.Qxe8 Rxe8 19.h4 e5 20.dxe5 Bxe5 21.Rd2 Nd7 22.Nf4 Bxf4
23.Bxf4 Nc5 24.Kg2 Re4 25.f3 Re7 26.Rc3 Kf7 27.Kf2 Rae8 28.Bg5
Re5 29.Bf4 R5e7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.10"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[Black "Paul Keres"]
[ECO "E14"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "116"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.e3 Bb7 5.Bd3 c5 6.O-O Be7 7.Nc3 d5
8.cxd5 exd5 9.Bb5+ Bc6 10.Qa4 Bxb5 11.Qxb5+ Qd7 12.Ne5 Qxb5
13.Nxb5 Na6 14.Rd1 O-O 15.Nc6 Rfe8 16.Nbxa7 Bf8 17.Bd2 Re6
18.dxc5 bxc5 19.Bc3 Nb8 20.Nxb8 Rxa7 21.Bxf6 Rxf6 22.Rxd5 Rd6
23.Rxd6 Bxd6 24.Rd1 Rxa2 25.g3 Rxb2 26.Rxd6 Rxb8 27.Rc6 g6
28.Rxc5 h5 29.Rc2 Kg7 30.Kg2 Rb5 31.Kf3 Kf6 32.h4 Rf5+ 33.Kg2
Ra5 34.Kh3 Ra4 35.Rd2 Ke5 36.Rb2 Kf6 37.Rb5 Ra2 38.Kg2 Ra4
39.Kf3 Ra3 40.Kf4 Ra2 41.f3 Re2 42.e4 Re1 43.Rb6+ Kg7 44.Ra6
Rb1 45.Rc6 Rg1 46.Rc2 Kf6 47.Ra2 Kg7 48.Re2 Kf6 49.Re3 Kg7
50.e5 Kf8 51.g4 hxg4 52.fxg4 Kg7 53.Kg5 Rf1 54.Re4 Rf3 55.h5
gxh5 56.gxh5 f6 57.Kg4 Rf1 58.h6+ Kg6 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.10"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vladimir Simagin"]
[Black "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e3 f5 5.Nf3 Nd7 6.Bd3 Nh6 7.b3 Bd6
8.Bb2 O-O 9.Qc2 Qe7 10.h3 Kh8 11.O-O-O dxc4 12.Bxc4 e5 13.dxe5
Nxe5 14.Nxe5 Bxe5 15.f4 Bc7 16.g4 Be6 17.Bd3 Rad8 18.Kb1 Qh4
19.g5 Ng8 20.Nb5 Bb6 21.Qc3 Rf7 22.Qe5 Bd5 23.Nd6 Rxd6 24.Qxd6
Bxh1 25.Rxh1 Qh5 26.Bc4 Qf3 27.Rd1 Bc5 28.Qd3 Rf8 29.b4 Bxb4
30.Qd4 Qe4+ 31.Qxe4 fxe4 32.Rd7 Ne7 33.Be6 b5 34.h4 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.10"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vasily Smyslov"]
[Black "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[ECO "B24"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "77"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. d3 d6 6. Nge2 Rb8
7. a4 Nh6 8. O-O O-O 9. h3 f5 10. Be3 Nd4 11. Qd2 Nf7 12. f4
Bd7 13. Kh2 Bc6 14. Rab1 a5 15. Bg1 Qd7 16. Nxd4 cxd4 17. Ne2
e5 18. c3 dxc3 19. Nxc3 exf4 20. gxf4 b5 21. exf5 Bxg2
22. Qxg2 Qxf5 23. axb5 Rfe8 24. b6 a4 25. Nxa4 d5 26. b4 Ra8
27. Nc5 Bh6 28. Qg4 Ra2+ 29. Kh1 Nd6 30. Rbe1 Rxe1 31. Rxe1
Rb2 32. b7 Rxb4 33. Qxf5 gxf5 34. Ra1 Nxb7 35. Ra8+ Kf7
36. Ra7 Rxf4 37. Rxb7+ Kg8 38. Kg2 Rh4 39. Bf2 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.10"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mark Taimanov"]
[Black "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.g3 O-O 5.Bg2 d6 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Nge2
c6 8.O-O Nb6 9.b3 d5 10.cxd5 Nbxd5 11.Na4 Nd7 12.Bb2 N5b6
13.Nac3 a5 14.Qc2 Nf6 15.Nf4 Bd7 16.Rfd1 Rc8 17.Nd3 Nbd5
18.Na4 Bf5 19.Qe2 Be4 20.Bf1 Bf5 21.Ne5 Rc7 22.Bg2 Nb4 23.a3
Na6 24.Bc3 Rc8 25.Nc5 Nd5 26.Nxb7 Qb6 27.Bxa5 Qxb7 28.e4 f6
29.Nc4 Bxe4 30.Bxe4 Qxb3 31.Rab1 Qa4 32.Bc2 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.10"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[Black "Lev Aronin"]
[ECO "A25"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 f5 4.Bg2 Nf6 5.e3 d6 6.d4 e4 7.f3 exf3
8.Nxf3 g6 9.O-O Bg7 10.d5 Ne7 11.Nd4 O-O 12.Nce2 g5 13.Nc3 Ng4
14.Ne6 Bxe6 15.dxe6 c6 16.Ne4 Nc8 17.c5 d5 18.Rxf5 Rxf5
19.Qxg4 Re5 20.Nf2 Qe8 21.Nd3 h5 22.Qb4 Rxe6 23.Qxb7 Ne7
24.Bh3 g4 25.Bg2 Nf5 26.Nf4 Re7 27.Bxd5+ cxd5 28.Qxd5+ Rf7
29.Ne6 Ne7 30.Qc4 Qd7 31.Ng5 Qd1+ 32.Kg2 Raf8 33.Nxf7 Rxf7 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.10"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[Black "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[ECO "D06"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "111"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d5 3.cxd5 Nxd5 4.Nf3 Bf5 5.Qb3 e6 6.Nc3 Nc6 7.e4
Nxc3 8.exf5 Nd5 9.a3 Qd6 10.Qxb7 Rb8 11.Qa6 Be7 12.Bb5 Rb6
13.Bxc6+ Rxc6 14.Qd3 exf5 15.O-O O-O 16.Qxf5 Rb6 17.Ne5 Qe6
18.Qxe6 Rxe6 19.Bd2 f6 20.Nf3 Rb8 21.b4 Rc6 22.Rfc1 Rbb6
23.Ne1 Rxc1 24.Rxc1 Ra6 25.Nc2 Bd6 26.Kf1 Kf7 27.Ke2 Rc6 28.g3
h5 29.Kd3 Ra6 30.Kc4 c6 31.Ra1 Rb6 32.Ne3 Nxe3+ 33.Bxe3 Ke6
34.Re1 Kd7 35.Rd1 Ra6 36.Rd3 Bb8 37.d5 cxd5+ 38.Kb5 Rd6 39.Bc5
a6+ 40.Ka4 Re6 41.Rxd5+ Kc6 42.Rxh5 Bc7 43.Rh7 g6 44.Re7 Rxe7
45.Bxe7 f5 46.Bg5 Bb6 47.Be3 Bd8 48.h4 Bc7 49.Kb3 Kd5 50.a4
Bd8 51.b5 Ba5 52.bxa6 Kc6 53.a7 Kb7 54.Kc4 Be1 55.Kd5 f4
56.gxf4 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.13"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Yuri Averbakh"]
[Black "Mikhail Botvinnik"]
[ECO "C07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "39"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 exd5 5.Bb5+ Nc6 6.Ngf3 Bd6
7.O-O cxd4 8.Nb3 Ne7 9.Bxc6+ Nxc6 10.Re1+ Be7 11.Nfxd4 O-O
12.Bf4 Nxd4 13.Qxd4 Bf5 14.c3 Qd7 15.Rad1 Rfd8 16.Qd2 Bg4
17.f3 Be6 18.Nd4 Bc5 19.Be3 Bb6 20.Kh1 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.13"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Igor Bondarevsky"]
[Black "David Bronstein"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bf4 d6 4. h3 c5 5. e3 Qb6 6. Nbd2 Qxb2
7. Bc4 Bg7 8. Rb1 Qc3 9. O-O O-O 10. dxc5 dxc5 11. Bc7 Nfd7
12. Ng5 Qf6 13. Nde4 Qc6 14. Bg3 Nb6 15. Bb5 Qd5 16. Qxd5 Nxd5
17. Rfd1 Nb4 18. Bc4 h6 19. Nxf7 b5 20. Rxb4 bxc4 21. Rxb8
Rxb8 22. Bxb8 Bf5 23. Be5 Kxf7 24. Bxg7 Kxg7 25. Nxc5 Rc8
26. e4 Rxc5 27. exf5 Ra5 28. fxg6 Rxa2 29. Rd7 Kxg6 30. Rxe7
Kf6 31. Rh7 Rxc2 32. Rxh6+ Ke5 33. Ra6 Rc1+ 34. Kh2 Rf1
35. Rxa7 Rxf2 36. Rc7 Kd4 37. Rd7+ Ke3 38. Kg3 Rf5 39. Rc7 Kd4
40. Rd7+ Ke3 41. Rc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.13"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Oleg Leonidovich Moiseev"]
[Black "Salomon Flohr"]
[ECO "D26"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "64"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 dxc4 4.e3 c5 5.Bxc4 e6 6.O-O cxd4
7.Nxd4 a6 8.Nc3 Bc5 9.Nb3 Bd6 10.Qe2 Nbd7 11.Bd3 b5 12.a3 Bb7
13.e4 Rc8 14.Rd1 Bc7 15.Bg5 Be5 16.Rac1 Bxc3 17.bxc3 h6 18.Bh4
Qb6 19.Nd4 Ne5 20.Bb1 Ng6 21.Bg3 O-O 22.Kh1 Rfd8 23.f4 Re8
24.Rf1 Qa5 25.h4 h5 26.e5 Ng4 27.Nxe6 Rxe6 28.f5 Rxe5 29.Bxe5
N6xe5 30.f6 Rxc3 31.Rxc3 Qxc3 32.Be4 Qg3 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.13"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Efim Geller"]
[Black "Nikolay Novotelnov"]
[ECO "D43"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c6 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Qc2 Be7 7.Bf4
Nbd7 8.e3 Nf8 9.Bd3 Ng6 10.Bg3 O-O 11.O-O Re8 12.Rab1 Nh5
13.b4 Nxg3 14.hxg3 a6 15.Rfc1 Bd6 16.a4 Qf6 17.b5 axb5 18.axb5
Bg4 19.bxc6 bxc6 20.Nh2 Be6 21.Rb6 Bd7 22.Nf3 Qd8 23.Rcb1 Qe7
24.Na4 Reb8 25.Rb7 Rxb7 26.Rxb7 Rb8 27.Ra7 Qd8 28.Nc5 Be8
29.Qa4 Qb6 30.Nd7 Bxd7 31.Rxd7 Bc7 32.Ng5 Nf8 33.Rxf7 h6
34.Qd1 hxg5 35.Qh5 Bd6 36.Rf3 Qb7 37.e4 Qe7 38.e5 Bc7 39.g4
Rb4 40.Rxf8+ Kxf8 41.Qh8+ Kf7 42.Bg6+ 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.13"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Keres"]
[Black "Mark Taimanov"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.e3 Be7 5.b3 O-O 6.Bb2 b6 7.d4 Bb7
8.Bd3 dxc4 9.bxc4 c5 10.O-O cxd4 11.exd4 Nc6 12.Qe2 Re8
13.Rfd1 Rc8 14.Rac1 Qd6 15.Bb1 Qf4 16.d5 exd5 17.cxd5 Nb8
18.Rd4 Qd6 19.Rcd1 Bf8 20.Ne4 Nxe4 21.Rxe4 Rxe4 22.Qxe4 Qh6
23.Ng5 Bd6 24.h4 Nd7 25.Qf5 Nf6 26.Bxf6 gxf6 27.Nxf7 Qc1
28.Qxh7+ Kf8 29.Nxd6 Qxd1+ 30.Kh2 Qxd5 31.Nxb7 Qe5+ 32.g3 Rc7
33.Qh8+ Kf7 34.h5 Rxb7 35.Qh7+ Ke6 36.Qxb7 Qxh5+ 37.Kg2 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.13"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Kotov"]
[Black "Isaac Lipnitsky"]
[ECO "E34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 exd5 6.a3 Be7 7.Bf4
Be6 8.e3 O-O 9.Bd3 Nbd7 10.Nf3 c5 11.Ng5 h6 12.Nxe6 fxe6
13.Qe2 Qb6 14.O-O Bd6 15.Na4 Qc6 16.Bb5 Qc7 17.dxc5 Bxf4
18.exf4 Rae8 19.g3 e5 20.fxe5 Rxe5 21.Qc2 a6 22.Bd3 Qc6 23.b4
Ng4 24.h3 Ngf6 25.Nc3 Qe6 26.Kg2 Rh5 27.Rh1 Ne5 28.Rae1 Qc6
29.Rhf1 d4+ 30.Ne4 Nf3 31.Re2 Ng4 32.Qb3+ Kh8 33.a4 Qc8 34.Rh1
Ngh2 35.h4 Qg4 36.Rxh2 Nxh2 37.Kxh2 Rf3 38.Nf6 Rxh4+ 39.Kg2
Qh3+ 40.Kxf3 Qh1# 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.13"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Evgeny Terpugov"]
[Black "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "78"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. d5 b5 4. Bg5 Qb6 5. Nc3 h6 6. Bxf6 exf6
7. e4 a6 8. a4 bxa4 9. Nxa4 Qc7 10. Be2 d6 11. O-O Be7 12. Nd2
Nd7 13. Bg4 O-O 14. Ra3 Rb8 15. Rg3 Kh8 16. Bf5 Qd8 17. Qg4
Rg8 18. Qh5 Qe8 19. b3 Bf8 20. Qe2 g6 21. Bh3 f5 22. f4 Nf6
23. Re1 fxe4 24. Bxc8 Qxc8 25. Nxe4 Nxe4 26. Qxe4 Bg7 27. Rd3
Rb4 28. Qf3 c4 29. Rd2 cxb3 30. cxb3 Qf5 31. g3 g5 32. Qd3
Qxd3 33. Rxd3 gxf4 34. Re7 fxg3 35. hxg3 Rgb8 36. Rxf7 Rxb3
37. Rxb3 Rxb3 38. Kg2 Rb4 39. Rf4 Bd4 0-1

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.13"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov"]
[Black "Vladimir Simagin"]
[ECO "D86"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "119"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7
7.Bc4 O-O 8.Ne2 Nc6 9.Bg5 Na5 10.Bb3 Nxb3 11.axb3 h6 12.Be3 e6
13.O-O b6 14.f3 Bb7 15.c4 Kh7 16.Qd2 Qe7 17.b4 Rfd8 18.c5 Bc6
19.Rfd1 bxc5 20.bxc5 f5 21.Nc3 f4 22.Bf2 Qxc5 23.Nd5 Qd6
24.Nxf4 Be8 25.Ra5 g5 26.e5 Qe7 27.Qc2+ Kg8 28.Ne2 Rdb8 29.Qe4
c6 30.h4 Rb2 31.hxg5 hxg5 32.Rda1 Qb7 33.g4 Qb3 34.Ng3 Qc3
35.Qe3 Qxe3 36.Bxe3 Rb3 37.Kf2 Rb2+ 38.Ke1 Rab8 39.Rxa7 Bf8
40.Ne4 Bg6 41.Nf6+ Kh8 42.Ra8 Bb4+ 43.Kf1 Rxa8 44.Rxa8+ Kg7
45.Ra7+ Kh8 46.Bxg5 Bc3 47.Rd7 Rb1+ 48.Kg2 Rb2+ 49.Kh3 Rb1
50.Be3 c5 51.Kh4 cxd4 52.Kg5 Bc2 53.Bxd4 Bd2+ 54.f4 Rf1
55.Rd8+ Kg7 56.Nh5+ Kh7 57.Bc5 Rd1 58.Nf6+ Kg7 59.Rd7+ Kh8
60.Bf8 1-0

[Event "USSR Championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1951.12.13"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Lev Aronin"]
[Black "Vasily Smyslov"]
[ECO "B08"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "102"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bg5 h6 6. Be3 c6
7. Qd2 b5 8. Bd3 Ng4 9. Bf4 e5 10. dxe5 dxe5 11. Bg3 h5
12. Bh4 f6 13. h3 Bh6 14. Qe2 b4 15. Na4 g5 16. Bg3 h4 17. Bh2
Nxh2 18. Nxh2 Nd7 19. Bc4 Bf8 20. Ng4 Nb6 21. Rd1 Qe7 22. Bb3
Rb8 23. O-O Nxa4 24. Bxa4 Rb6 25. Qc4 Qe6 26. Qd3 Qe7 27. Qd5
Be6 28. Qd3 Bg7 29. Bb3 O-O 30. Ne3 Bxb3 31. Qxb3+ Qf7 32. Nf5
Qxb3 33. axb3 Rf7 34. Rd8+ Kh7 35. Ra1 Bf8 36. Ra8 Rbb7
37. Rd1 Rbc7 38. Rdd8 Bg7 39. Kf1 Rfd7 40. Rxd7 Rxd7 41. Rc8
Kg6 42. Rg8 Kh7 43. Rxg7+ Rxg7 44. Nxg7 Kxg7 45. g4 hxg3
46. fxg3 g4 47. h4 c5 48. Ke2 Kh7 49. Kd3 Kh6 50. c3 a5
51. cxb4 axb4 1/2-1/2

