Modern Grandmaster Chess as Exemplified int he 1964 USSR Zonal Tournament

Author: Andrew Karklins (1974- )Year: 1974Publisher: Chicago Chess BooksPlace: ChicagoDescription:119 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables and index. Small quarto (10 1/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with black lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition.While the USSR Championship generally served as the country's Zonal tournament in appropriate years, 1964 saw a separate event. The top six finishers from the recently concluded 1963 Championship (Leonid Stein, Boris Spassky, Ratmir Kholmov, David Bronstein, Efim Geller, Alexey Suetin) were joined by Viktor Korchnoi for a double-round robin tournament to determine the three qualifiers. It was close all the way with only two points separating first from last at the finish. Kholmov started the quickest. By round 5, he had three points and was a full point up on the field. Literally. Everyone else had two points. However, he suffered a loss in round 7, leaving these standings at the end of the first half: