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The World Chess Championship Zonal Qualifiers 1957-1960 (C04)

Index of all Zonals • C04 Clippings

Player	GMG data	Zt	IZ
Yuri Averbakh	25th USSR ch./Zonal	z04	$I
Pal Benko	Zonal	z01	$I
David Bronstein	25th USSR ch./Zonal	z04	$I
Radolfo Tan Cardoso	Zonal	z09	$I
Boris De Greiff	Zonal	z07	$I
Miroslav Filip	Zonal	z03	$I
Bobby Fischer	10th U.S. ch./Zonal	z05	$I
Geza Fuster	Canadian ch./Zonal	z06	$I
Svetozar Gligoric	Zonal	z01	$I
Bent Larsen		z02	$I
Alexander Matanovic	Zonal	z03	$I
Oleg Neikirch	Zonal	z03	$I
Fridrik Olafsson	Zonal	z02	$I
Ludek Pachman	Zonal	z01	$I
Oscar Panno	South Zonal	z08	$I
Tigran Petrosian	25th USSR ch./Zonal	z04	$I
Hector Rossetto	South Zonal	z08	$I
Raul Sanguinetti	South Zonal	z08	$I
James Sherwin	10th U.S. ch./Zonal	z05	$I
Laszlo Szabo	Zonal	z02	$I
Mikhail Tal	25th USSR ch./Zonal	z04	$I

Interzonal (IZ) legend:-

$I : IZ Portoroz

GMG notes:-

• [z04] Spassky finished 5th, Korchnoi 9th and Taimanov 12th at Riga all failing to qualify.
• [z05] Reshevsky qualified but declined to play, and was replaced by 3rd place Sherwin.
• [z06] Paul Vaitonis won the 1957 Canadian ch., but was replaced by 2nd place Fuster.

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)