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XXXIII USSR Championship

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batgirl
Nov 9, 2016
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played from Nov. 21 -Dec. 24, 1965 was won by Leonid Stein


 

a half-point ahead of Lev Polugaevsky


Gennady Kuzmin, pictured above, place 18/20. Korchnoi finished 10th.


 












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TalSpin
Nov 9, 2016
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Stein was a great player and he must have had a great amount of patience to oversee the 1972 Spassky-Fischer WC match.
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soulpower74
May 19, 2020
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Stein is my favorite Soviet player. A pity he died so young.