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The World Chess Championship Zonal Qualifiers 1963-1966 (C06)

Index of all Zonals • C06 Clippings

Player	GMG data	Zt	IZ
Pal Benko	beat Bisguier in a match	z05	$I
Bela Berger	South East Asian Zonal	z10	$I
Istvan Bilek	Zonal	z03	$I
David Bronstein	Zonal	z04	$I
Darga		z01	$I
Larry Evans	replacement for Fischer	z05	$I
A. Foguelman	South Zonal	z08	$I
Svetozar Gligoric	Zonal	z01	$I
Borislav Ivkov	Zonal	z02	$I
Bent Larsen	Zonal	z02	$I
Levente Lengyel	Zonal	z01	$I
Ludek Pachman	Zonal	z03	$I
Francisco Perez Perez	Zonal	z07	$I
Yosef Porath	West Asian Zonal	z09	$I
Lajos Portisch	Zonal	z02	$I
O. Quinones	South Zonal	z08	$I
Samuel Reshevsky	won playoff vs. Evans and Addison	z05	$I
Hector Rossetto	South Zonal	z08	$I
Vassily Smyslov	Seeded Candidate		$I
Boris Spassky	Zonal	z04	$I
Leonid Stein	Zonal	z04	$I
Mikhail Tal	Seeded Candidate		$I
Georgi Tringov	Zonal	z03	$I
Zvonko Vranesic	Canadian ch./Zonal	z06	$I

Interzonal (IZ) legend:-

$I : IZ Amsterdam

GMG notes:-

• [z04] At the 31st USSR ch. Leningrad 1963, Polugaevsky came =6th, Suetin =8th and Korchnoi 10th. Suetin and Korchnoi were allowed into the 1964 Moscow zonal, but Polugaevsky was left back. At the zonal, Korchnoi came 5th and Geller 7th, both failing to qualify for the interzonal.
• [z05] Fischer won the Dec. 1962/3 ch., but declined to play at Amsterdam.
• [z06] Yanofsky won the 1963 ch., but was replaced by 2nd place Vranesic.

For more about 'GMG data' and the other data in the table, see Zonal Qualifiers C01-C12 (August 2019). For more about 'GMG notes', see Zonal Qualifiers C01-C12 More++ (September 2019)