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Index of all Zonals • C10 Clippings
Player GMG data Zt VA notes IZ Ulf Andersson Zonal z01-03D 1I Lian Ann Tan East Zonal z10 2I Yuri Balashov Zonal z04 2I Peter Biyiasas Canadian ch./Zonal z06 2I Walter Browne U.S. ch./Zonal z05 2I Robert Byrne Seeded Candidate 1I Jaoquin C. Diaz ? z07 1I Istvan Csom Zonal z01-03D 1I Efim Geller Selected by FIDE no.7 1I Florian Gheorghiu Zonal z01-03C 2I Boris Gulko Zonal z04 1I Khosrow Harandi West z09 2I Vlastimil Hort Selected by FIDE no.5 2I Robert Huebner Selected by FIDE no.3 1I Oscar Humberto Castro Rojas ? z07 1I Lubomir Kavalek Selected as 1st reserve by FIDE Yes 2I Gennadi Kuzmin Selected by FIDE; no.6 Bent Larsen Selected by FIDE no.2 1I Vladimir Liberzon Zonal z01-03A 1I Ljubomir Ljubojevic Selected by FIDE no.4 2I Andre Lombard Host 1I Sergio Mariotti Zonal z11 2I Alexander Matanovic Zonal z01-03C 1I Henrique Mecking Seeded Candidate 2I Ludek Pachman Zonal z01-03B 2I Oscar Panno Selected as reserve by FIDE z08 2I Tigran Petrosian Seeded Candidate 1I Lev Polugaevsky Seeded Candidate 2I Lajos Portisch Seeded Candidate 1I Miguel Quinteros South Zonal z08 2I Zoltan Ribli Zonal z01-03A 2I Kenneth Rogoff U.S. ch./Zonal z05 1I Raul Sanguinetti South Zonal z08 1I Jan Smejkal Selected as 2nd reserve by FIDE From z01-03X 1I Vassily Smyslov Selected as 3rd reserve by FIDE Replaced Kuzmin 1I Gennadi Sosonko Zonal z01-03B 1I Boris Spassky Seeded Candidate 2I Mikhail Tal Selected by FIDE no.1 1I Eugenio Torre East Zonal z10 2I Vitaly Tseshkovsky Zonal z04 2I Wolfgang Uhlmann Zonal z01-03X 2I
Interzonal (IZ) legend:- GMG notes:-
- Euwe, Averbakh, Matanovic, Elo and Golombek served on the selection committee. (Thanks to James Pratt).
- The FIDE selection committee chose Kavalek to be 1st reserve, and he was apparently brought in when the Soviet player Gennadi Kuzmin pulled out.
- Panno was chosen as first reserve by the FIDE selection committee and when Leonid Stein passed away, was invited to play in his place.
- The FIDE selection committee also invited Gennadi Kuzmin to play but he seems to have withdrawn. Smyslov seems to have been brought in to balance the number of players.
- The highly rated Rafael Vaganian came 11th at Vilnius, was selected as eighth reserve, and thus failed to qualify.
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)'VA notes' column [Ref OE052131]:-
Originally there was 2 x 18 = 36 players. At the beginning of 1975, the FIDE commission (Averbakh, Golombek, Matanovic, and Elo) voted to make the list in the order of vote points: Tal, Larsen, Huebner, Ljjubojevic, Hort, Kuzmin, and Geller.During March 1976, FIDE decide to extend the number [from 36] to 40, one player for Switzerland (as host), one place for Kavalek (the 1st reserve from the FIDE list mentioned above). The other two places [were] for Arandjelovac.
Diez del Corral was qualified for interzonals from Barcelona, since he was on the original list. In fact FIDE put him for Biel, but then Euwe switched him with Csom (they both had the same rating) to prevent three Hungarians at Manila (better rated from Arandjelovac was predicted to Biel). Corral declined to play during May 1976, because of his job, but some Soviet sources said that he tried to play in Biel but [Euwe] rejected, and he was replaced by Pachman. At that point Kuzmin was on the list for Biel. It seems that Kuzmin suddenly got ill and somehow he was replaced by Smyslov.