World Chess Championship 1966

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World Chess Championship 1966
 
Defending champion

Challenger
 
Tigran Petrosian
Tigran Petrosian
Boris Spassky
Boris Spassky
  Soviet Union Tigran Petrosian Soviet Union Boris Spassky
 
12½Scores11½
  Born 17 June 1929
36 years old		 Born 30 January 1937
29 years old
  Winner of the 1963 World Chess Championship Winner of the 1965 Candidates Tournament
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File:1966 CPA 3357.jpg
A Soviet stamp dedicated to the World Chess Championship 1966

A World Chess Championship was played between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky in Moscow from April 9 to June 9, 1966. Petrosian won.

1964 Interzonal Tournament

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Opening of the interzonal tournament in Amsterdam. Left-right: Mikhail Tal, R. van den Bergh (city official), Vasily Smyslov and Max Euwe

An interzonal tournament was held in Amsterdam in the Netherlands in May and June 1964. Six spots in the Candidates tournament were on the line.

1964 Interzonal Tournament
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Total
1 File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Vasily Smyslov (Soviet Union) – ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 17
2 File:Flag of Denmark.svg Bent Larsen (Denmark) ½ – 1 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 17
3 File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Boris Spassky (Soviet Union) ½ 0 – ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 17
4 File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Mikhail Tal (Soviet Union) ½ ½ ½ – ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 17
5 File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Leonid Stein (Soviet Union) ½ 1 ½ ½ – 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 16½
6 File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg David Bronstein (Soviet Union) ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 – ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 16
7 File:Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Borislav Ivkov (Yugoslavia) ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ – ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 15
8 File:Flag of the United States.svg Samuel Reshevsky (United States) ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ – ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 14½
9 File:Flag of Hungary.svg Lajos Portisch (Hungary) 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ – ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 14½
10 File:Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia) 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ – ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 14
11 File:Flag of Germany.svg Klaus Darga (West Germany) 0 0 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ – 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 13½
12 File:Flag of Hungary.svg Levente Lengyel (Hungary) 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 – ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 13
13 File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Luděk Pachman (Czechoslovakia) ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ – ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ 12½
14 File:Flag of the United States.svg Larry Evans (United States) 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ – 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 10
15 File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Georgi Tringov (Bulgaria) ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 – ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 9½
16 File:Flag of the United States.svg Pal Benko (United States) ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ – ½ 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 9
17 File:Flag of Argentina (civil).svg Héctor Rossetto (Argentina) ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ – ½ ½ ½ 0 1 0 1 8
18 File:Flag of Argentina (civil).svg Alberto Foguelman (Argentina) ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ – 0 0 1 1 0 1 8
19 File:Flag of Hungary.svg István Bilek (Hungary) 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 – ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 8
20 File:Flag of Peru.svg Oscar Quiñones (Peru) 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 1 ½ – ½ 1 ½ 1 7
21 File:Flag of Israel.svg Yosef Porat (Israel) 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ – 0 ½ ½ 5½
22 File:Flag of Cuba.svg Francisco José Pérez (Cuba) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 1 – 1 1 5
23 File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Béla Berger (Australia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 – 0 4½
24 File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Zvonko Vranesic (Canada) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 – 4

Since FIDE rules only allowed a maximum of three players from the same nation to qualify from the interzonal, Stein and Bronstein were ineligible. Instead Ivkov qualified. The sixth and final place in the Candidates Tournament was decided in a 4-game playoff in which Portisch beat Reshevsky 2½–½. Bobby Fischer, the winner of the previous Interzonal in 1962, declined his invitation, despite qualifying by winning the 1963–64 US Championship.[1]

1965 Candidates matches

After the controversy surrounding the previous Candidates tournament, the 1965 tournament was the first to be played as a knock-out series of matches. Two players were seeded directly into the tournament: Mikhail Botvinnik (loser of the last championship match) and Paul Keres (2nd place in the 1962 Candidates). Botvinnik declined, and his place was taken by Efim Geller, who finished 3rd in the 1962 Candidates.

Spassky won, earning the right to challenge champion Petrosian for the title. Larsen and Geller played a third place playoff in Copenhagen, Denmark in March 1966. Larsen won 5–4.

1966 Championship match

The match was played as best of 24 games, with the champion (Petrosian) retaining the title in the event of a 12–12 tie. While Petrosian retained the title with a 12–10 lead after Game 22, he and Spassky decided to play the final two games anyway.[2] This was the first World Chess Championship match since 1934 in which the reigning World Chess Champion defeated his opponent.

World Chess Championship Match 1966[3]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Points
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Tigran Petrosian (Soviet Union) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 12½
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Boris Spassky (Soviet Union) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 11½

References

  1. ↑ Frank Brady, Profile of a Prodigy (2nd ed.). David McKay. OCLC 724113, pp. 80–81
  2. ↑ From Morphy to Fischer (Batsford, 1973), Israel Horowitz, p.231
  3. ↑ "Petrosian vs Spassky 1966". Retrieved 1 July 2016.

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