During 1975, Spassky played two events, the first being the annual tournament at Tallinn, where he finished equal second with Fridrik Olafsson, scoring 9½ / 15 (+ 5 − 1 = 9 ), one point behind Keres, the last international event won by the latter before his sudden death in June 1975.

In that year alone, he drew against Grandmaster Paul Keres at the Georgian Chess Championship, then moved to Yerevan where he won the Armenian Chess Championship and the USSR Junior Chess Championship.

Petrosian, representing the Soviet Union, won the tournament with a final score of 17½ points, followed by fellow Soviets Geller and Keres each with 17 points and the American Fischer with 14.

Bronstein is widely considered to be one of the greatest post-war players not to have won the World Championship ( an accolade he shares with the likes of Paul Keres and Viktor Korchnoi ).

In the next Soviet Championship ( URS-ch15, Leningrad 1947 ), he tied for 3rd – 4th places with 12 / 19, as Keres won.

At Pärnu 1947, Smyslov scored 8 / 13 for a tied 4th – 6th places, as Keres won again.

Keres won on tiebreak because he beat Fine 1½ – ½ in their individual two games.

Botvinnik won this super-strong tournament, one of the strongest ever organized, with 13. 5 / 20, and Keres placed second with 11 / 20, ahead of Vasily Smyslov, Isaac Boleslavsky, Andor Lilienthal, and Igor Bondarevsky.

Alekhine won at the Salzburg 1942 chess tournament ( Six Grandmasters ' Tournament ) in June 1942, at Munich ( European Individual Chess Championship ) in September 1942, and at Prague ( International Tournament ) in April 1943, always ahead of Keres, who placed second in all three of those tournaments.

Keres won a match with Folke Ekström at Stockholm in 1944 by 5 – 1 (+ 4

Keres won a match at Moscow 1962 against Geller, for an exempt place in the 1965 Candidates, by 4. 5 – 3. 5 (+ 2 = 5 − 1 ).

Keres won Mar del Plata 1957 ( 15 / 17, ahead of Miguel Najdorf ), and Santiago 1957 with 6 / 7, ahead of Alexander Kotov.

In the USSR Championship, Baku 1961 ( URS-ch29 ), Keres scored 11 / 20 for a shared 8 – 11th place, as Boris Spassky won.

Keres won top-class tournaments from the mid-1930s into the mid-1970s, a span of 40 years, and won major events in western Europe, eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, South America, and North America.

Keres won this tournament in 1971 and 1975.

At Zürich 1961, he tied for 6th – 7th places with 6 / 11, as Keres won ahead of Tigran Petrosian.

He tied for 5th – 7th places at Beverwijk 1964 on 9½ / 15 ; Keres and Nei won.

The game followed one between Samuel Reshevsky and Paul Keres from the 1948 World Championship Tournament until move 12 when Kasparov varied ( Black eventually won that game, though White seemed to be better out of the opening ).

After unsuccessful attempts to qualify from the Interzonals of Sousse 1967 and Palma de Mallorca 1970, he had his first major triumph in 1973, when he won at the Petrópolis Interzonal ( ahead of a very strong field that included such chess luminaries as Paul Keres, David Bronstein, et al .).

He won Kemeri 1939 with a wonderful score of 12 / 15, also captured the very strong 1939 Leningrad / Moscow tournament with 12 / 17, tied for second at Margate 1939 with 6. 5 / 9 behind only Paul Keres, and then tied for second at Bournemouth 1939 with 8. 5 / 11, behind only former World Champion Euwe.

In September / October 1945, he took 7th at Tallinn ( EST-ch, Paul Keres won ).

In 1955, he tied for 3rd-6th in Pärnu ( Keres won ).

In 1960, he took 10th in Pärnu ( Baltic Rep. ch, Keres won ), and shared 4th at Leningrad ( Mark Taimanov won ).

Beginning with the Pärnu 1947 tournament, Keres made some significant contributions as a chess organizer in Estonia ; this is an often overlooked aspect of his career.

Karel Opočenský applied the idea against, among others, Gideon Ståhlberg at Poděbrady 1936, Paul Keres at Pärnu 1937, and Erich Eliskases at Prague 1937.

At the 13th Championship in 1944, he placed second behind Botvinnik and in 1947, shared third with Bondarevsky, after Keres and Boleslavsky.

* Keres ( mythology ), death spirits unconnected with Ceres

In the 1965 cycle, he beat Paul Keres in the quarterfinal round at Riga 1965 with careful strategy, triumphing in the last game to win 6 – 4 (+ 4 − 2 = 4 ).

As goddesses of death they appeared together with the daemons of death Keres and the infernal Erinyes.

Clotho was worshiped in many places in Greece as one of the Three Fates and is sometimes associated with the Keres and Erinyes, which are other deity groups in Greek mythology.

According to a statement of Stesichorus noted by Eustathius, Stesichorus " called the Keres by the name Telchines ", whom Eustathius identified with the Kuretes of Crete, who could call up squalls of wind and would brew potions from herbs ( noted in Harrison, p 171 ).

He went on to win his first USSR Championship in 1959, and later that year in the Candidates Tournament he defeated Paul Keres with a display of his often-overlooked tactical abilities.

After playing in the 1962 Interzonal in Stockholm, Petrosian qualified for the Candidates Tournament in Curaçao along with Pal Benko, Miroslav Filip, Bobby Fischer, Yefim Geller, Paul Keres, Viktor Korchnoi, and Mikhail Tal.

Some of his late successes included victories at Lone Pine 1976 and in the 1979 Paul Keres Memorial tournament in Tallinn ( 12 / 16 without a loss, ahead of Tal, Bronstein and others ), shared first place ( with Portisch and Hübner ) in the Rio de Janeiro Interzonal the same year, and second place in Tilburg in 1981, half a point behind the winner Beliavsky.

The Keres Variation arises after 7 ... Nbd7 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Nh5 11. h4, and the Stein Variations begins an immediate queenside offensive with 7 ... a5.

Bronstein challenged throughout in Switzerland, and finished tied for second through fourth places, together with Keres and Samuel Reshevsky.

By this juncture, Smyslov had advanced into the group of the top three Soviet players, along with Botvinnik and Keres ( who was playing in Nazi-occupied Europe during the War ).

After winning the Candidates Tournament in Zürich 1953, with 18 / 28, two points ahead of Keres, Bronstein, and Samuel Reshevsky, Smyslov played a match with Botvinnik for the title the following year.

He shared third place with Botvinnik at Budapest ( The Maróczy Memorial ) in 1952, after Keres and Geller.

At the 1954 / 55 edition of the Hastings Congress, he shared first place with Keres.

Keres achieved a very good result at age 17 in a Master tournament at Tallinn 1933 with 5 / 7 (+ 5 = 0 − 2 ), tied 3rd – 4th, half a point behind joint winners Paul Felix Schmidt and V. Kappe.

Keres ' first major international success against top-level competition came at Bad Nauheim 1936, where he tied for first with Alexander Alekhine at 6. 5 / 9 (+ 4 = 5 − 0 ).

Keres recovered at Zandvoort 1936 with a shared 3rd – 4th place (+ 5 = 3 − 3 ).