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Mirotvor Schwartz CHESS HISTORY on STAMPS (1970-1979) Mirotvor Schwartz CHESS HISTORY ON STAMPS (1970-1979) This is a part of my “CHESS HISTORY ON STAMPS” thematic exhibit. It covers events that took place during the 1970s (from 1970 to 1979). Women's Hungarian Championship 1970 (postponed from 1969) (Budapest) 1.Maria Ivanka (2.Eva Karakas, 3.Zsuzsa Veroci) Hungarian Championship 1970 (Budapest) 1.Istvan Bilek (2.Istvan Polgar, 3-4.Gyula Kluger, Andras Adorjan) 1 Hungarian Student Championship 1970 1-2.Gyula Sax 2 The Match of the Century 1970 (Belgrade) USSR - Rest of the World 20½ : 19½ Board 3: Viktor Korchnoi (USSR) - Lajos Portisch (Rest of the World) 1½ : 2½ 3 European Team Championship 1970 (Kapfenberg, Austria) 2.Hungary Levente Lengyel (Hungary) Istvan Bilek (Hungary) 4 Istvan Csom (Hungary) Gyozo Forintos (Hungary) Andras Adorjan (Hungary) (1.USSR, 3.East Germany) 5 President’s Cup 1970 (Caracas) 4-6.Anatoly Karpov (USSR) (became a grandmaster) (1.Lubomir Kavalek (Czechoslovakia/USA), 2-3.Leonid Stein (USSR), Oscar Panno (Argentina)) Olympiad 1970 (Siegen, West Germany) 2.Hungary (Lajos Portisch, Levente Lengyel, Istvan Bilek, Gyozo Forintos, Istvan Csom, Zoltan Ribli) (1.USSR, 3.Yugoslavia) 6 Women's Hungarian Championship 1970 (Budapest) 1.Maria Ivanka 2.Erzebet Finta (3.Brigitta Sinka) Budapest International Tournament 1970 1.Paul Keres (USSR) 2.Laszlo Szabo (Hungary) 5-6.Lajos Portisch (Hungary), Levente Lengyel (Hungary) (3-4.Borislav Ivkov (Yugoslavia), Alexei Suetin (USSR)) 7 European U-20 Championship 1970/71 (Groningen) 1.Zoltan Ribli (Hungary) (2.Alexander Belyavsky (USSR), 3.Rene Borngasser (West Germany)) Tallinn International Tournament 1971 (1-2.Mikhail Tal (USSR), Paul Keres (USSR), 3.David Bronstein (USSR)) 8 Women’s Interzonal Tournament 1971 (Ohrid, Yugoslavia) 5.Maria Ivanka (Hungary) (Qualified for Women’s Candidates Matches 1971: 1.Nana Alexandria (USSR), 2-3.Milunka Lazarevic (Yugoslavia), Tatiana Zatulovskaya (USSR)) 9 Candidates Quarterfinal Match 1971 (Vancouver) Robert James Fischer (USA) - Mark Taimanov (USSR) 6:0 10 Manhattan Blitz 1971 (New York City) Andrew Soltis - Robert James Fischer 0:1 1.Robert James Fischer 11 Soviet Championship 1971 (Leningrad) Vasily Smyslov - Anatoly Karpov 1:0 2-3.Vasily Smyslov 4.Anatoly Karpov (1.Vladimir Savon, 2-3.Mikhail Tal) Hungarian Championship 1971 (Budapest) 1.Lajos Portisch 2.Zoltan Ribli (3-5.Istvan Bilek, Andras Adorjan, Bela Toth) 12 Candidates Final Match 1971 (Buenos Aires) Game 2: Tigran Petrosian (USSR) - Bobby Fischer (USA) 1:0 Fischer - Petrosian 6½ : 2½ 13 World U-20 Championship 1971 (Athens) 2.Zoltan Ribli (Hungary) (1.Werner Hug (Switzerland), 3.Kenneth Rogoff (USA)) Hungarian Junior Championship 1971 1.Gyula Sax 14 Women's Hungarian Championship 1971 (Budapest) 1.Maria Ivanka 3.Zsuzsa Veroci (2.Eva Karakas) Women’s Balaton International Tournament 1971 1.Edith Bilek (Hungary) 15 Women’s European Champions Cup 1971 (Vrnjacka Banja) 1.Zsuzsa Veroci (Hungary) European U-20 Championship 1971/72 (Groningen) 1.Gyula Sax (Hungary) (2.Rene Borngasser (West Germany), 3.Petar Velikov (Bulgaria)) 16 Women's Yugoslav Championship 1972 1.Katarina Jovanovic (NOTE: the inscription says “1971”, but it’s a typo) 17 IBM International Tournament 1972 (Amsterdam) Lev Polugaevsky (USSR) - Bertus Enklaar (Netherlands) 1:0 1.Lev Polugaevsky (USSR) 15-16.Bertus Enklaar (Netherlands) (2.Viktor Korchnoi (USSR), 3.Wolfgang Uhlmann (East Germany)) 18 Women's World Championship 1972 (Riga) Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR) - Alla Kushnir (USSR) 8½ : 7½ 19 World Championship 1972 (Reykjavik) Game 1: Boris Spassky (USSR) - Bobby Fischer (USA) 1:0 20 Game 3: Spassky - Fischer 0:1 Game 5: Spassky - Fischer 0:1 21 Game 21: Spassky - Fischer 0:1 Spassky - Fischer 8½ : 12½ 22 Bobby Fischer became the eleventh world champion. 23 World Student Team Championship 1972 (Graz) 2.Hungary Andras Adorjan (Hungary) Gyula Sax (Hungary) (1.USSR, 3.West Germany) 24 Hungarian Championship 1972 (Budapest) 1.Istvan Csom 2.Andras Adorjan 3.Zoltan Ribli 25 Olympiad 1972 (Skopje) 26 (NOTE: the position depicted is not entirely correct. There should be a White pawn on b4. Another White pawn should be on h3, not h2. And the White king should be on g1, not g2). Arthur Bisguier (USA) - Anatoly Karpov (USSR) 0:1 27 USSR - USA 3:1 1.USSR 2.Hungary (Lajos Portisch, Istvan Bilek, Gyozo Forintos, Zoltan Ribli, Istvan Csom, Guyla Sax) 3.Yugoslavia (Svetozar Gligoric, Borislav Ivkov, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Aleksandar Matanovic, Milan Matulovic, Josip Rukavina) 9.USA 28 Women's Olympiad 1972 (Skopje) 3.Hungary (Maria Ivanka, Zsuzsa Veroci, Gyulane Krizsan) 10.Yugoslavia (Katarina Jovanovic) (1.USSR, 2.Romania) 29 1972 October 26, 1972. Max Euwe (Netherlands) and Berry Withuis (Netherlands) present the book Jeugdschaak (Chess for the Young). Women's Hungarian Championship 1972 (Budapest) 1.Maria Ivanka (2.Maria Porubszky, 3.Gyulane Krizsan) 30 Women’s World Correspondence Championship 1972-77 11.Erzebet Cynolter (Hungary) (1.Lora Yakovleva (USSR), 2.Olga Rubtsova (USSR), 3.Merike Rotova (USSR)) Orense International Tournament 1973 (1.Florin Gheorghiu (Romania), 2-3.Nikola Padevsky (Bulgaria), Pal Benko (USA)) 31 Wijk aan Zee International Tournament 1973 Bertus Enklaar (Netherlands) – Miguel Najdorf (Argentina) ½ : ½ 6-9.Bertus Enklaar (Netherlands) 10-11.Miguel Najdorf (Argentina) (1.Mikhail Tal (USSR), 2.Yuri Balashov (USSR), 3.Evgeni Vasiukov (USSR)) Tallinn International Tournament 1973 (1.Mikhail Tal (USSR), 2.Lev Polugayevsky (USSR), 3-6.Yuri Balashov (USSR), Paul Keres (USSR), Boris Spassky (USSR), David Bronstein (USSR)) 32 Hungarian Championship 1973 (Budapest) 1.Zoltan Ribli 2.Andras Adorjan 3.Istvan Csom 33 Soviet Schoolchildren's Championship 1973 (Kishinev) 34 Las Palmas International Tournament 1973 (1.Tigran Petrosian (USSR), 2.Leonid Stein (USSR), 3-6.Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia), Oscar Panno (Argentina), Ulf Andersson (Sweden), Zoltan Ribli (Hungary)) Women’s Budapest U-11 Championship 1973 1.Zsuzsa Polgar 35 Interzonal Tournanent 1973 (Leningrad) (1-2.Viktor Korchnoi (USSR), Anatoly Karpov (USSR) (both qualified for Candidates Matches 1974), 3.Robert Byrne (USA)) 36 European Team Championship 1973 (Bath, England) 3.Hungary Istvan Bilek (Hungary) Zoltan Ribli (Hungary) 37 Istvan Csom (Hungary) Gyozo Forintos (Hungary) Andras Adorjan (Hungary) Gyula Sax (Hungary) (1.USSR, 2.Yugoslavia) 38 Tungsram International Tournament 1973 (Budapest) 1.Efim Geller (USSR) 2.Anatoly Karpov (USSR) 3-6.Andras Adorjan (Hungary), Laszlo Szabo (Hungary) (3-6.Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia), Rafael Vaganian (USSR)) Women's Hungarian Championship 1973 (Budapest) 1.Zsuzsa Veroci 3.Maria Ivanka (2.Maria Porubszky) 39 Wijk aan Zee International Tournament 1974 Jan Timman (Netherlands) - Milan Matulovic (Yugoslavia) ½ : ½ 3-5.Milan Matulovic (Yugoslavia) 6-8.Jan Timman (Netherlands) (1.Walter Browne (USA), 2.Jan Donner (Netherlands), 3-5.Hans-Joachim Hecht (West Germany), Albin Planinc (Yugoslavia)) Candidates Quarterfinal Match 1974 (Palma de Mallorca) Tigran Petrosian (USSR) - Lajos Portisch (Hungary) 7:6 40 Soviet Youth Championship 1974 (Chelyabinsk) 41 Candidates Semifinal Match 1974 (Odessa) Viktor Korchnoi (USSR) - Tigran Petrosian (USSR) 3½ : 1½ (Petrosian withdrew) 42 Candidates Semifinal Match 1974 (Leningrad) Anatoly Karpov (USSR) - Boris Spassky (USSR) 7:4 43 Olympiad 1974 (Nice) 44 2.Yugoslavia (Svetozar Gligoric, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Borislav Ivkov, Albin Planinc, Dragoljub Velimirovic, Bruno Parma) 6.Hungary (Lajos Portisch, Istvan Bilek, Istvan Csom, Zoltan Ribli, Gyozo Forintos, Gyula Sax) (1.USSR, 3.USA) 45 Lublin International Chess Festival 1974 (1.Mikhail Tal (USSR), 2.Josef Pribyl (Czechoslovakia), 3.Mihai Suba (Romania)) Women's Hungarian Championship 1974 (Budapest) 1.Maria Ivanka 2.Zsuzsa Veroci (3.Maria Porubszky) 46 World Student Team Championship 1974 (Teesside, England) 3.Hungary Andras Adorjan (Hungary) Gyula Sax (Hungary) Jozsef Pinter (Hungary) (1.USSR, 2.USA) 47 Women's Olympiad 1974 (Medellin) 4.Hungary (Maria Ivanka, Zsuzsa Veroci-Petronic, Maria Porubszky-Angyalosine) 7.Yugoslavia (Katarina Jovanovic) (1.USSR, 2.Romania, 3.Bulgaria) 48 Candidates Final Match 1974 (Moscow) Game 21: Viktor Korchnoi (USSR) - Anatoly Karpov (USSR) 1:0 (NOTE: The caption incorrectly attributes this image to World Championship 1978). Karpov - Korchnoi 12½ : 11½ 49 Women's Yugoslav Championship 1974 1.Katarina Jovanovic Central American and Caribbean Team Championship 1974 (San Salvador) (1.Cuba, 2.Mexico, 3.El Salvador) 50 Hungarian Championship 1974 (Budapest) 1.Zoltan Ribli 2.Gyula Sax (3.Andras Adorjan) 51 Women’s Correspondence Olympiad 1974-79 4.Hungary (1.USSR, 2.West Germany, 3.Czechoslovakia) Tallinn International Tournament 1975 (1.Paul Keres (USSR), 2-3.Boris Spassky (USSR), Fridrik Olafsson (Iceland)) 52 1975 After Robert James Fischer (USA) refused to play in World Championship 1975, Anatoly Karpov (USSR) became the twelfth world champion on April 3, 1975. 53 Soviet Peoples’ Spartakiad 1975 (Riga) (1.Russian Federation, 2.Ukraine, 3.Leningrad) Tungsram International Tournament 1975 (Budapest) 1-2.Zoltan Ribli (Hungary), Lev Polugaevsky (USSR) (3.Jan Smejkal (Czechoslovakia)) 54 Milan International Tournament 1975 Anatoly Karpov (USSR) - Wolfgang Unzicker (West Germany) 1:0 1.Anatoly Karpov (USSR) 8-11.Wolfgang Unzicker (West Germany) (2.Lajos Portisch (Hungary), 3-4.Tigran Petrosian (USSR), Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Yugoslavia)) 55 Soviet Championship Qualifying Tournament 1975 (Chelyabinsk) 56 Zonal Tournament 1975 (Barcelona) (Qualified
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