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Mikhail Tal Paul Keres Tigran Petrosian Vassily Smyslov Bobby Fischer Svetozar Gligoric

N° FLAGS  NAME 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TOTAL 
01 Soviet Union  Latvia  Mikhail Tal 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 20.0 
02 Soviet Union  Estonia  Paul Keres 1 1 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 15.5 
03 Soviet Union  Armenia  Tigran Petrosian ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 0 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 15.0 
04 Soviet Union  Russia  Vasily Smyslov 1 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 15.0 
05 United States  Illinois  Robert Fischer 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 12.5 
06 Yugoslavia  Serbia  Svetozar Gligoric 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 12.5 
07 Iceland  Iceland  Fridrik Olafsson 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ 1 10.5 
08 United States  Hungary  Pal Benko 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 0 8.0 


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Bulgaria   Wikipedia - World Chess Championship 1961
Denmark   Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - VM i skak 1961
Germany   Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Schachweltmeisterschaft 1961
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France   Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Championnat du monde d'échecs 1961
Italy   Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Campionato del mondo di scacchi 1961
Poland   Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Mistrzostwa swiata w szachach 1961
Portugal   Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Campeonato Mundial de Xadrez de 1961
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World Chess Championship 1961
Mikhail Nekhemievich TalMikhail Botvinnik



The 1961 World Chess Championship was played between Mikhail Botvinnik and Mikhail Tal in Moscow from March 23 to May 20, 1961.

The match was played as best of 24 games. If it ended 12-12, Tal, the title holder, would retain the Championship.

Botvinnik regained his title.


 

 
     World Chess Championship 1961. (12 July 2011 at 13:16). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 27 August 2009, at 11.15, from
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1961





    
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