1972 in chess

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Events in chess in 1972;

Top players

FIDE top 10 by Elo rating - July 1972

  1. Bobby Fischer  United States 2785
  2. Boris Spassky  Soviet Union 2660
  3. Tigran Petrosian  Soviet Union 2645
  4. Lev Polugaevsky  Soviet Union 2645
  5. Viktor Korchnoi  Soviet Union 2640
  6. Lajos Portisch  Hungary 2640
  7. Anatoly Karpov  Soviet Union 2630
  8. Mikhail Botvinnik  Soviet Union 2630
  9. Mikhail Tal  Soviet Union 2625
  10. Bent Larsen  Denmark 2625

Chess news in brief

Births

Deaths

Notes

  1. Fischer v Spassky, The Chess Match of the Century (1972, Gligoric, Fontana) - p 16
  2. BCCF Bulletin #133
  3. CHESS magazine - Vol 37, July 1972, pp 298-299
  4. CHESS magazine - Vol 37, June 1972, pp 250-253
  5. The Penguin Encyclopedia of Chess (1981, Golombek, Penguin) - p 204
  6. CHESS magazine - Vol 37, April 1972, pp 199-202
  7. CHESS magazine - Vol 37, May 1972, pp 234-240
  8. CHESS magazine - Vol 37, July 1972, pp 294-298
  9. CHESS magazine - Vol 37, July 1972, pp 282-283
  10. Chessville Trivia
  11. CHESS magazine - Vol 39, October 1973, p. 25

References

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