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The World Chess Championship Zonal Qualifiers 1969-1972 (C08)

Index of all Zonals • C08 Clippings

Player	GMG data	Zt	IZ
William Addison	20th U.S. ch./Zonal	z05	$I
Miroslav Filip	Zonal	z01	$I
Bobby Fischer	Benko agreed to give Fischer his	z05*	$I
Efim Geller	37th USSR ch./Zonal	z04	$I
Svetozar Gligoric	Zonal	z01	$I
Vlastimil Hort	Zonal	z03	$I
Robert Huebner	Zonal	z03	$I
Borislav Ivkov	Zonal	z02	$I
Eleazar Jiminez Zerguera	Zonal	z07	$I
Bent Larsen	Seeded Candidate		$I
Milan Matulovic	Zonal	z03	$I
Henrique Mecking	South Zonal	z08	$I
Dragoljub Minic	Zonal	z01	$I
Renato Naranja	East	z10	$I
Oscar Panno	South Zonal	z08	$I
Lev Polugaevsky	37th USSR ch./Zonal	z04	$I
Lajos Portisch	Zonal	z02	$I
Samuel Reshevsky	20th U.S. ch./Zonal	z05	$I
Jorge Alberto Rubinetti	South Zonal	?	$I
Vassily Smyslov	37th USSR ch./Zonal	z04	$I
Duncan Suttles	Canadian ch./Zonal	z06	$I
Mark Taimanov	37th USSR ch./Zonal	z04	$I
Wolfgang Uhlmann	Zonal	z02	$I
Tudev Uitumen	West	z09	$I

Interzonal (IZ) legend:-

$I : IZ Palma de Mallorca

GMG notes:-

• [z04] Leonid Stein finished 6th at the USSR ch. Moscow 1969, just missing qualifying for the interzonal. Botvinnik retired from active play in 1970.

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)