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)

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Hungarian Student Championship 1970

1-2.Gyula Sax

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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

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European Team Championship 1970 (Kapfenberg, Austria)

2.Hungary

Levente Lengyel (Hungary)

Istvan Bilek (Hungary)

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Istvan Csom (Hungary)

Gyozo Forintos (Hungary)

Andras Adorjan (Hungary)

(1.USSR, 3.East Germany)

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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)

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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))

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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))

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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))

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Candidates Quarterfinal Match 1971 (Vancouver)

Robert James Fischer (USA) - Mark Taimanov (USSR) 6:0

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Manhattan Blitz 1971 (New York City)

Andrew Soltis - Robert James Fischer 0:1

1.Robert James Fischer

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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)

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Candidates Final Match 1971 (Buenos Aires)

Game 2: Tigran Petrosian (USSR) - Bobby Fischer (USA) 1:0

Fischer - Petrosian 6½ : 2½

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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

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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)

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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))

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Women's Yugoslav Championship 1972

1.Katarina Jovanovic

(NOTE: the inscription says “1971”, but it’s a typo)

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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))

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Women's World Championship 1972 (Riga)

Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR) - Alla Kushnir (USSR) 8½ : 7½

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World Championship 1972 (Reykjavik)

Game 1: Boris Spassky (USSR) - Bobby Fischer (USA) 1:0

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Game 3: Spassky - Fischer 0:1

Game 5: Spassky - Fischer 0:1

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Game 21: Spassky - Fischer 0:1

Spassky - Fischer 8½ : 12½

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Bobby Fischer became the eleventh world champion.

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World Student Team Championship 1972 (Graz)

2.Hungary

Andras Adorjan (Hungary)

Gyula Sax (Hungary)

(1.USSR, 3.West Germany)

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Hungarian Championship 1972 (Budapest)

1.Istvan Csom

2.Andras Adorjan

3.Zoltan Ribli

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Olympiad 1972 (Skopje)

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(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

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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

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Women's Olympiad 1972 (Skopje)

3.Hungary (Maria Ivanka, Zsuzsa Veroci, Gyulane Krizsan)

10.Yugoslavia (Katarina Jovanovic)

(1.USSR, 2.Romania)

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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)

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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))

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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))

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Hungarian Championship 1973 (Budapest)

1.Zoltan Ribli

2.Andras Adorjan

3.Istvan Csom

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Soviet Schoolchildren's Championship 1973 (Kishinev)

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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

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Interzonal Tournanent 1973 (Leningrad)

(1-2.Viktor Korchnoi (USSR), Anatoly Karpov (USSR) (both qualified for Candidates Matches 1974), 3.Robert Byrne (USA))

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European Team Championship 1973 (Bath, England)

3.Hungary

Istvan Bilek (Hungary)

Zoltan Ribli (Hungary)

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Istvan Csom (Hungary)

Gyozo Forintos (Hungary)

Andras Adorjan (Hungary)

Gyula Sax (Hungary)

(1.USSR, 2.Yugoslavia)

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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)

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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

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Soviet Youth Championship 1974 (Chelyabinsk)

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Candidates Semifinal Match 1974 (Odessa)

Viktor Korchnoi (USSR) - Tigran Petrosian (USSR) 3½ : 1½ (Petrosian withdrew)

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Candidates Semifinal Match 1974 (Leningrad)

Anatoly Karpov (USSR) - Boris Spassky (USSR) 7:4

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Olympiad 1974 (Nice)

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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)

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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)

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World Student Team Championship 1974 (Teesside, England)

3.Hungary

Andras Adorjan (Hungary)

Gyula Sax (Hungary)

Jozsef Pinter (Hungary) (1.USSR, 2.USA)

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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)

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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

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Women's Yugoslav Championship 1974

1.Katarina Jovanovic

Central American and Caribbean Team Championship 1974 (San Salvador)

(1.Cuba, 2.Mexico, 3.El Salvador)

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Hungarian Championship 1974 (Budapest)

1.Zoltan Ribli

2.Gyula Sax

(3.Andras Adorjan)

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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))

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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.

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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))

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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))

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Soviet Championship Qualifying Tournament 1975 (Chelyabinsk)

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Zonal Tournament 1975 (Barcelona)

(Qualified for Interzonal Tournament 1976: 1.Gennady Sosonko (Netherlands), 2.Jesus Diez del Corral (Spain) (del Corral did not play in Interzonal, apparently replaced by 3.Ludek Pachman (Czechoslovakia)))

Hungarian Championship 1975 (Budapest)

1.Lajos Portisch

(2.Zoltan Ribli, 3-4.Andras Adorjan, Gyula Sax)

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Women's World Championship 1975 (Pitsunda - Tbilisi)

Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR) - Nana Alexandria (USSR) 8½ : 3½

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Zonal Tournament 1975 (Pula, Yugoslavia)

(1.Istvan Csom (Hungary), 2.Ulf Andersson (Sweden) (both qualified for Interzonal Tournament 1976), 3.Nikola Padevsky (Bulgaria))

Ecuadorian Sports Games 1975

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Women's Hungarian Championship 1975 (Budapest)

1.Eva Karakas

2.Zsuzsa Veroci

(3.Maria Porubszky)

Women’s Budapest International Tournament 1976

2.Maria Ivanka (Hungary)

(1.Nana Alexandria (USSR))

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Interzonal Tournament 1976 (Biel)

9.Istvan Csom (Hungary)

(Qualified for Candidates Matches 1977: 1.Bent Larsen (Denmark), 2.Tigran Petrosian (USSR), 3.Lajos Portisch (Hungary))

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Tungsram International Tournament 1976 (Budapest)

1-2.Laszlo Vadasz (Hungary), Ratmir Kholmov (USSR)

3-4.Gyula Sax (Hungary)

(3-4.Lothar Vogt (East Germany))

Against Olympiad 1976 (Tripoli)

1.El Salvador

(2.Tunisia, 3.Pakistan)

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Olympiad 1976 (Haifa)

(Men: 1.USA, 2.Netherlands, 3.England

Women: 1.Israel, 2.England, 3.Spain)

Hungarian Championship 1976 (Budapest)

1.Gyula Sax

(2.Istvan Csom, 3.Laszlo Vadasz)

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Women’s Interzonal Tournament 1976 (Roosendaal, Netherlands)

5.Zsuzsa Veroci (Hungary)

(Qualified for Women’s Candidates Matches 1977-78: 1-2.Yelena Akhmylovskaya (USSR), Alla Kushnir (Israel), 3.Tatjana Lematschko (Bulgaria))

Soviet Championship 1976 (Moscow)

1.Anatoly Karpov

(2.Yuri Balashov, 3-4.Tigran Petrosian, Lev Polugaevsky)

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Women’s Interzonal Tournament 1976 (Tbilisi)

4-5.Maria Ivanka (Hungary)

(Qualified for Women’s Candidates Matches 1977-78: 1.Yelena Fatalibekova (USSR), 2-3.Maia Chiburdanidze (USSR), Valentina Kozlovskaya (USSR))

Women's Hungarian Championship 1976 (Budapest)

1.Eva Karakas

(2.Rita Kas, 3.Brigitta Sinka)

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Paul Keres Memorial 1977 (Tallinn)

Mikhail Tal (USSR) - Laszlo Vadasz (Hungary) 0:1

1.Mikhail Tal (USSR)

7-10.Laszlo Vadasz (Hungary)

(2.Oleg Romanishin (USSR), 3.Aivars Gipslis (USSR))

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Candidates Quarterfinal Match 1977 (Reykjavik)

Boris Spassky (USSR) - Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia) 8½ : 7½

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European Team Championship 1977 (Moscow)

2.Hungary

Zoltan Ribli (Hungary)

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Gyula Sax (Hungary)

Istvan Csom (Hungary)

Andras Adorjan (Hungary)

(1.USSR, 3.Yugoslavia)

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Tungsram International Tournament 1977 (Budapest)

1.David Bronstein (USSR)

2-3.Gyula Sax (Hungary), Aivars Gipslis (USSR)

Women's Hungarian Championship 1977 (Budapest)

1.Zsuzsa Veroci

2.Maria Ivanka

(3.Zsuzsa Makai)

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Candidates Final Match 1977 (Belgrade)

Viktor Korchnoi - Boris Spassky (USSR) 10½ : 7½

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Hungarian Championship 1977 (Budapest)

1-2.Gyula Sax, Zoltan Ribli

(3.Ferenc Portisch)

Correspondence Olympiad 1977-82

2.Hungary (Ervin Haag, Andras Ozsvath, Tibor Florian, Janos Tompa, Csaba Meleghegyi, Sandor Brilla- Banfalvi)

(1.USSR, 3.Great Britain)

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1978

February 16, 1978. Max Euwe (Netherlands), the President of FIDE, lists seven potential host cities of World Championship 1978.

Yugoslav Championship 1978 (Belgrade)

1.Aleksandar Matanovic

(2.Borislav Ivkov, 3-6.Milan Matulovic, Vlatko Kovacevic, Milorad Knezevic, Juraj Nikolac)

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IBM International Tournament 1978 (Amsterdam)

(1.Jan Timman (Netherlands), 2.Zoltan Ribli (Hungary), 3-5.Roman Dzhindzhichasvhili (Israel), Helmut Pfleger (West Germany), Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia))

Women’s Belgrade International Tournament 1978

1-2.Maria Ivanka (Hungary)

(3-5.Hanna Erenska-Radzewska (Poland))

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World Championship 1978 (Baguio City, Philippines)

Game 32: Anatoly Karpov (USSR) - Viktor Korchnoi 1:0

Karpov - Korchnoi 16½ : 15½

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Women's World Championship 1978 (Pitsunda - Tbilisi)

Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR) - Maia Chiburdanidze (USSR) 6½ : 8½

Maia Chiburdanidze became the sixth women's world champion.

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Tungsram International Tournament 1978 (Budapest)

1.John Nunn (England)

2.Istvan Csom (Hungary)

(3-4.Gennady Kuzmin (USSR), Andras Adorjan (Hungary))

World Youth (Under-26) Team Championship 1978 (Mexico City)

(1.England, 2.USSR, 3.Cuba)

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Hungarian Championship 1978 (Budapest)

1.Jozsef Pinter

(2.Janos Rigo, 3.Pal Petran)

Women's Hungarian Championship 1978 (Budapest)

1.Maria Ivanka

(2.Maria Porubszky, 3.Maria Grosch)

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Olympiad 1978 (Buenos Aires)

Men: 37.Uruguay

Women: 29.Uruguay

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Men

1.Hungary (Lajos Portisch, Zoltan Ribli, Gyula Sax, Istvan Csom, Andras Adorjan, Laszlo Vadasz)

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32.Paraguay

(2.USSR, 3.USA)

Women

2.Hungary (Zsuzsa Veroci-Petronic, Maria Ivanka, Zsazsa Makai, Rita Kas)

(1.USSR, 3.West Germany)

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Women’s World Correspondence Championship 1978-84

13.Tunde Hargitay (Hungary)

(1.Ljuba Kristol (Israel), 2.Merike Rotova (USSR), 3-5.Lora Yakovleva (USSR), Svetlana Ignashenko (USSR), Olga Rubtsova (USSR))

Paul Keres Memorial 1979 (Tallinn)

(1.Tigran Petrosian (USSR), 2-3.Mikhail Tal (USSR), Rafael Vaganian (USSR))

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Rome International Tournament 1979

1.Jozsef Pinter (Hungary)

(2.Sergio Mariotti (Italy), 3.Istvan Csom (Hungary))

Women’s Hungarian U-11 Championship 1979

1.Ildiko Madl

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The Tournament of Stars 1979 (Montreal)

Mikhail Tal (USSR) - Robert Hubner (West Germany) 1:0

1-2.Mikhail Tal (USSR)

7-9.Robert Hubner (West Germany)

(1-2.Anatoly Karpov (USSR), 3.Lajos Portisch (Hungary))

Women's Hungarian Championship 1979 (Budapest)

1.Maria Porubszky

6.Zsuzsa Polgar

(2.Tunde Csonkics, 3.Maria Grosch)

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Interzonal Tournament 1979 (Riga)

3.Andras Adorjan (Hungary) (qualified for Candidates Matches 1980-81)

4.Zoltan Ribli (Hungary)

(Also qualified for Candidates Matches 1980-81: 1.Mikhail Tal (USSR), 2.Lev Polugaevsky (USSR))

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Women’s Interzonal Tournament 1979 (Rio de Janeiro)

2.Zsuzsa Veroci-Petronic (Hungary) (qualified for Women’s Candidates Matches 1980-81)

(Also qualified for Women’s Candidates Matches 1980-81: 1.Nana Ioseliani (USSR), 3.Nana Alexandria (USSR))

Women’s Interzonal Tournament 1979 (Alicante)

7.Maria Ivanka (Hungary)

(Qualified for Women’s Candidates Matches 1980-81: 1.Tatjana Lematschko (Bulgaria), 2.Yelena Akhmylovskaya (USSR), 3.Nino Gurieli (USSR), 4.Marta Litinskaya (USSR))

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Soviet Championship 1979 (Minsk)

(1.Efim Geller, 2.Artur Yusupov, 3-4.Yuri Balashov, Garry Kasparov)

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Hungarian Championship 1979 (Budapest)

1.Jozsef Pinter

(2-4.Ivan Farago, Laszlo Hazai, Peter Lukacs)

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CHESS HISTORY ON STAMPS

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