Soviet Stats, Revisited
I have re-calculated the USSR championship stats (included all the championship play-off matches and tournaments and the 1931 semifinals, which were parts of the same competitions). This is a list of top 50 players who played at least 30 games and bottom 50 overall (with players with 15-29 games greyed out).
The exact win-draw-lose scores of the 1967 USSR Championship, which was contested in a Swiss tournament, are unknown, except for the top 5 (Polugaevsky, Tal, Vasiukov, Taimanov, Platonov). So, the other participants of that tournament will only have their known wins, draws and losses listed, with asterisk demarking their participation.
Only played games count in this table. The +/- scores after players withdrew from tournaments were not counted. All games by withdrawn players do count (for instance, Tal's sole game at the 1988 championship).
| Player | + | - | = | Games | Pts | Pts% |
| Top 50 players | ||||||
| Efim Bogoljubov | 24 | 2 | 10 | 36 | 29 | 80.56% |
| Alexander Alekhine | 9 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 12 | 80.00% |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | 125 | 33 | 84 | 242 | 167 | 69.01% |
| Anatoly Karpov | 36 | 7 | 65 | 108 | 68.5 | 63.43% |
| Leonid Stein | 68 | 19 | 96 | 183 | 116 | 63.39% |
| Fedor Bohatirchuk | 52 | 22 | 39 | 113 | 71.5 | 63.27% |
| Garry Kasparov | 26 | 9 | 33 | 68 | 42.5 | 62.50% |
| Vladimir Epishin | 7 | 1 | 16 | 24 | 15 | 62.50% |
| Boris Spassky | 80 | 28 | 106 | 214 | 133 | 62.15% |
| Petr Izmailov | 9 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 13.5 | 61.36% |
| Tigran Petrosian | 91 | 30 | 152 | 273 | 167 | 61.17% |
| Viktor Korchnoi | 114 | 47 | 142 | 303 | 185 | 61.06% |
| Mikhail Tal | 127 | 52 | 174 | 353 | 214 | 60.62% |
| Lev Polugaevsky | 120 | 48 | 181 | 349 | 210.5 | 60.32% |
| Boris Verlinsky | 48 | 28 | 22 | 98 | 59 | 60.20% |
| Mikhail Mukhin | 6 | 2 | 13 | 21 | 12.5 | 59.52% |
| Petr Romanovsky | 65 | 38 | 40 | 143 | 85 | 59.44% |
| Paul Keres | 88 | 40 | 135 | 263 | 155.5 | 59.13% |
| Alexey Vyzmanavin | 15 | 8 | 18 | 41 | 24 | 58.54% |
| Nikolai Riumin | 29 | 18 | 25 | 72 | 41.5 | 57.64% |
| Sergei Belavenets | 16 | 8 | 30 | 54 | 31 | 57.41% |
| Isaak Boleslavsky | 66 | 34 | 121 | 221 | 126.5 | 57.24% |
| Solomon Gotthilf | 11 | 6 | 18 | 35 | 20 | 57.14% |
| Mark Taimanov | 143 | 83 | 209 | 435 | 247.5 | 56.90% |
| Vasily Smyslov | 110 | 59 | 207 | 376 | 213.5 | 56.78% |
| Boris Gelfand | 4 | 2 | 9 | 15 | 8.5 | 56.67% |
| Ratmir Kholmov* | 80 | 44 | 173 | 310 | 175 | 56.45% |
| Evgeny Bareev | 20 | 14 | 13 | 47 | 26.5 | 56.38% |
| Vladimir Makogonov | 49 | 31 | 62 | 142 | 80 | 56.34% |
| Ilya Rabinovich | 60 | 41 | 55 | 156 | 87.5 | 56.09% |
| Efim Geller | 132 | 81 | 209 | 422 | 236.5 | 56.04% |
| David Bronstein | 119 | 74 | 182 | 375 | 210 | 56.00% |
| Lev Psakhis | 30 | 18 | 54 | 102 | 57 | 55.88% |
| Andrei Sokolov | 15 | 7 | 46 | 68 | 38 | 55.88% |
| Vasily Ivanchuk | 5 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 9.5 | 55.88% |
| Artur Yusupov | 33 | 22 | 45 | 100 | 55.5 | 55.50% |
| Abram Model | 13 | 10 | 5 | 28 | 15.5 | 55.36% |
| Vyacheslav Einhorn | 28 | 15 | 83 | 126 | 69.5 | 55.16% |
| Yuri Balashov | 67 | 42 | 166 | 275 | 150 | 54.55% |
| Grigory Levenfish | 83 | 63 | 78 | 224 | 122 | 54.46% |
| Yuri Averbakh | 70 | 45 | 168 | 283 | 154 | 54.42% |
| Alexander Chernin | 12 | 7 | 38 | 57 | 31 | 54.39% |
| Aivars Gipslis | 28 | 18 | 74 | 120 | 65 | 54.17% |
| Oleg Romanishin | 50 | 38 | 57 | 145 | 78.5 | 54.14% |
| Mikhail Podgaets | 8 | 5 | 27 | 40 | 21.5 | 53.75% |
| Vsevolod Rauzer | 44 | 36 | 35 | 115 | 61.5 | 53.48% |
| Isaak Mazel | 17 | 14 | 14 | 45 | 24 | 53.33% |
| Lembit Oll | 4 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 53.33% |
| Fedor Dus-Chotimirsky | 34 | 28 | 29 | 91 | 48.5 | 53.30% |
| Vitaly Chekhover | 29 | 24 | 38 | 91 | 48 | 52.75% |
| Valery Salov | 14 | 11 | 30 | 55 | 29 | 52.73% |
| Alexander Beliavsky | 70 | 58 | 102 | 230 | 121 | 52.61% |
| Alexander Konstantinopolsky | 33 | 27 | 59 | 119 | 62.5 | 52.52% |
| Alexander Kotov | 56 | 48 | 55 | 159 | 83.5 | 52.52% |
| Vladislav Silich | 8 | 7 | 7 | 22 | 11.5 | 52.27% |
| Konstantin Lerner | 26 | 21 | 64 | 111 | 58 | 52.25% |
| Abram Rabinovich | 21 | 19 | 11 | 51 | 26.5 | 51.96% |
| Jaan Ehlvest | 13 | 11 | 27 | 51 | 26.5 | 51.96% |
| Abram Zamikhovsky | 11 | 10 | 5 | 26 | 13.5 | 51.92% |
| Arvid Kubbel | 20 | 18 | 17 | 55 | 28.5 | 51.82% |
| Bottom 50 players (worst performance on top) | ||||||
| Nikolai Novotelnov | 2 | 13 | 2 | 17 | 3 | 17.65% |
| Vitaly Scherbakov | 1 | 13 | 5 | 19 | 3.5 | 18.42% |
| Ivan Golubev | 2 | 11 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 20.00% |
| Vladimir Lepeshkin | 2 | 12 | 5 | 19 | 4.5 | 23.68% |
| Evgeny Terpugov* | 1 | 13 | 3 | 30 | 7.5 | 25.00% |
| Dmitry Pavlov | 1 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 26.67% |
| Nikolai Kutuzov | 3 | 15 | 9 | 27 | 7.5 | 27.78% |
| Viktor Lyublinsky | 3 | 19 | 14 | 36 | 10 | 27.78% |
| Grigory Goldberg | 4 | 20 | 12 | 36 | 10 | 27.78% |
| Andrei Smorodsky | 4 | 20 | 13 | 37 | 10.5 | 28.38% |
| Alexander Nikitin | 0 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 5.5 | 28.95% |
| Nikolai Bakulin | 1 | 9 | 9 | 19 | 5.5 | 28.95% |
| Grigory Ravinsky | 4 | 14 | 6 | 24 | 7 | 29.17% |
| Alexander Mund | 3 | 9 | 3 | 15 | 4.5 | 30.00% |
| Yuri Nikitin* | 1 | 13 | 5 | 32 | 10 | 31.25% |
| Iosif Livshin | 4 | 11 | 4 | 19 | 6 | 31.58% |
| Yuri Anikaev | 2 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 5.5 | 32.35% |
| Boris Goldenov | 5 | 25 | 27 | 57 | 18.5 | 32.46% |
| Chrysogon Kholodkevich | 4 | 11 | 5 | 20 | 6.5 | 32.50% |
| Archil Ebralidze | 3 | 12 | 13 | 28 | 9.5 | 33.93% |
| Alexander Korelov | 2 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 6.5 | 34.21% |
| Boris Ratner | 4 | 12 | 10 | 26 | 9 | 34.62% |
| Alexey Sokolsky | 10 | 31 | 30 | 71 | 25 | 35.21% |
| Andrei Kharitonov | 1 | 11 | 22 | 34 | 12 | 35.29% |
| Andrei Lukin* | 0 | 3 | 8 | 24 | 8.5 | 35.42% |
| Vladimir Lyavdansky | 3 | 14 | 21 | 38 | 13.5 | 35.53% |
| Lev Aronson | 4 | 10 | 7 | 21 | 7.5 | 35.71% |
| Nikolai Tselikov | 5 | 9 | 1 | 15 | 5.5 | 36.67% |
| German Khodos | 3 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 7 | 36.84% |
| Edward Gerstenfeld | 4 | 9 | 6 | 19 | 7 | 36.84% |
| Anton Kaspersky | 8 | 20 | 19 | 47 | 17.5 | 37.23% |
| Alexander Zakharov | 7 | 16 | 13 | 36 | 13.5 | 37.50% |
| Ilya Smirin | 6 | 17 | 22 | 45 | 17 | 37.78% |
| Solomon Rosenthal | 5 | 11 | 9 | 25 | 9.5 | 38.00% |
| Sergei Lebedev | 6 | 11 | 4 | 21 | 8 | 38.10% |
| Arkady Novopashin | 6 | 15 | 17 | 38 | 14.5 | 38.16% |
| Vladimir Yuriev | 3 | 7 | 7 | 17 | 6.5 | 38.24% |
| Iosif Pogrebyssky | 5 | 9 | 3 | 17 | 6.5 | 38.24% |
| Alexander Cherepkov* | 3 | 17 | 18 | 51 | 19.5 | 38.24% |
| Abram Khasin | 17 | 38 | 41 | 96 | 37.5 | 38.89% |
| Mark Tseitlin* | 8 | 22 | 12 | 55 | 21.5 | 39.09% |
| Vladimir Karasev* | 9 | 16 | 17 | 55 | 21.5 | 39.09% |
| Yakov Rokhlin | 8 | 17 | 17 | 42 | 16.5 | 39.29% |
| Andrei Peterson | 2 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 7.5 | 39.47% |
| Nikolai Pavlov-Pianov | 10 | 19 | 14 | 43 | 17 | 39.53% |
| Oleg Moiseev* | 11 | 23 | 23 | 63 | 25 | 39.68% |
| Boris Vladimirov | 6 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 8 | 40.00% |
| Konstantin Klaman | 10 | 18 | 12 | 40 | 16 | 40.00% |
| Alexander Sergeyev | 11 | 22 | 22 | 55 | 22 | 40.00% |
| Semyon Dvoiris | 12 | 23 | 21 | 56 | 22.5 | 40.18% |
