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1962 USSR Chess Championship

soviet chess tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4510875 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1962 Soviet Chess Championship was the 30th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 21 November to 20 December 1962 in Yerevan. The tournament was won by Viktor Korchnoi. It was preceded by six semifinals events at Dnipropetrovsk, Novosibirsk, Riga and three of which were simultaneously the finals of the

championships of the sports societies Spartak, Trud and Burevestnik.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1962 USSR Chess Championship” is soviet chess tournament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through USSR, Chess and Championship, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, USSR, Chess and Championship is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1962 USSR Chess Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.