33rd Soviet Championship, Tallinn, 1965: Final Candidates

Author: Swiss Chess AgencyYear: 1965Publisher: Swiss Chess Agency (Schweizer Schachdienst)Place: ZurichDescription:76 pages with illustrations, table and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") issued in wrappers with spiral spine. Typescript, parallel German and English text. (Betts:25-372) First edition.Contains the 190 games of the Championship, unannotated, with round-by-round surveys and cartoon portraits of the players (1. Stein; 2. Polugayevsky; 3. Taimanov); also the 11 games of the Candidates' Match Tal v Spassky. Includes and index of openings. Algebraic notation. The 33rd Soviet Chess Championship was held in the city of Tallinn, Estonia from November 21 to December 24, 1965, featuring twenty of the Soviet Union's strongest players, including reigning champion Viktor Korchnoi. Six seats to the championship were won in USSR semi-final tournaments held earlier in the year: Evgeni Vasiukov and Gennadi Kuzmin qualified from Kaliningrad, Semyon Abramovich Furman and Vladas Mikenas qualified