Events in chess in 1971;

Top players

FIDE top 10 by Elo rating - January 1971

  1. Bobby Fischer  United States 2740
  2. Boris Spassky  Soviet Union 2690
  3. Viktor Korchnoi  Soviet Union 2660
  4. Bent Larsen  Denmark 2660
  5. Tigran Petrosian  Soviet Union 2640
  6. Lajos Portisch  Hungary 2630
  7. Mikhail Botvinnik  Soviet Union 2630
  8. Efim Geller  Soviet Union 2630
  9. Lev Polugaevsky  Soviet Union 2630
  10. Mikhail Tal  Soviet Union 2620

Chess news in brief

Births

  • Michael Adams, English GM, world elite player, former World Championship finalist - November 17
  • Vladimir Akopian, Armenian GM, former World Junior Champion and highly rated - December 7
  • Victor Bologan, Moldovan GM, a winner of the strong Dortmund Sparkassen event - December 14
  • Vasil Spasov, Bulgarian GM, former World Junior Champion with multiple national titles - February 17
  • Alexander Delchev, Bulgarian GM, former European Junior Champion and national champion - July 15
  • Christopher Lutz, German GM, renowned theoretician and former national champion - February 24
  • Konstantin Lerner, Soviet-Ukrainian GM, former national champion of the Ukraine - February 28
  • Vitali Golod, Ukrainian-Israeli GM, former champion of Ukraine before his move to Israel - June 23
  • Martin Mrva, Slovakian GM, former national champion - December 12
  • Vasik Rajlich, Czech-American IM, author of the powerful playing program Rybka - ?

Deaths

  • Olaf Barda, Norwegian IM, six times the national champion and a correspondence grandmaster - May 2
  • Alexander Zaitsev, Soviet GM, tied first for the 1968/69 USSR Championship, died at thirty-six - November 8
  • Hans Müller, Austrian IM, divided career between chess, skiing, fencing etc. Also a chess writer - February 28
  • Victor Kahn, Russian-born master, later settled in France and won the national championship - October 6
  • José Araiza, Mexico's best player prior to the arrival of Carlos Torre - September 27
  • Iosif Pogrebyssky, Ukrainian master, active as a tournament player in the 1920s and 1930s - May 20
  • Luis Palau, Argentinian master, represented his country at three Olympiads in the 1920s - February 8

Notes

  1. CHESS magazine - Vol 37, November 1971, pp 53-62
  2. CHESS magazine - Vol 37, February 1972, p 139
  3. CHESS magazine - Vol 37, February 1972, pp 129-134
  4. The Soviet Championships (Cafferty & Taimanov, 1998) - p 154
  5. CHESS magazine - Vol 37, February 1972, pp 140-143
  6. CHESS magazine - Vol 37, November 1971, pp 46-49
  7. CHESS magazine - Vol 37, October 1971, pp 16-30
  8. Dennis Ritchie (June 2001). "Ken, Unix and Games". ICGA Journal. 24 (2).

References

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