36th USSR Championship Handwritten score sheet between Juri Lwowitsch Awerbach and Mikhail Yakovlevich Podgaets

Author: Juri Lwowitsch Awerbach "Averbakh" (1922-2021) and Mikhail Yakovlevich Podgaets signed Year: 1969Publisher: USSR Chess FederationPlace: Alma Ata, Kazakhstan Description: One sheet score card. Octavo (9" x 6") printed official score record handwritten record of game No. 47 Awerbach - Podgaets at the 36th USSR Championship in Alma Ata on January 7, 1969.  Signed by both contestants. King's Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation ending in a 64 move draw.The 36th USSR Championship was held in Alma-Ata (now called Almaty), Kazakhstan.  Twenty of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and masters were invited to, and qualified for, the event. The tournament was a second straight victory for Polugaevsky, who had won the 126 player Swiss-style championship the year before alongside Mikhail Tal. Although Tal was present again, it was Alexander Zaitsev who tied with Polugaevsky after the initial event. A six game playoff to determine first place was held after the championship's completion, an