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Chess By Isaac Kashdan 20 Nov 1960, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
Chess Olympics Results
Following are the final standings of the 40 teams in the 14th Chess Olympics at Leipzig, for the benefit of those who missed the daily reports, which appeared regularly in the news pages of The Times:
CHAMPIONSHIP CLASS— U.S.S.R., 34; U.S.A., 29; Yugoslavia, 27; Hungary, 22½; Czechoslovakia, 21½; Bulgaria, 21; Argentina, 20½; West Germany, 19½; East Germany, 19; Holland, 17; England, 16½; Rumania, 16½.
CLASS B—Sweden, 27½; Israel, 26½; Austria, 24½; Denmark, 23½; Finland, 23½; Cuba, 23; Norway, 23; Spain, 22½; Poland, 22; Chile, 19½ Iceland, 16½; India, 12.
CLASS C—Philippines, 28½ Indonesia, 27½ Mongolia, 27½; Albania, 26½; Ecuador, 26; France, 25; Portugal, 25; Italy, 24; Belgium, 32½; Tunisia, 21½; Greece, 20½; Bolivia, 19½; Monaco, 17½; Malta, 14; Lebanon, 8½.
Each team played nine rounds in a preliminary round-robin and 11 rounds in the finals. The following table shows the performance of the American and Russian squads, giving the individual results in the preliminaries and finals, the total score and the percentage.
The Russians used every player about the same number of times, taking advantage of their almost uniform strength. We did not use the two reserves nearly as frequently as the regulars.
U.S. champion Bobby Fischer, who played every game in the finals did substantially as well as world champion Mikhail Tal. Robert Byrne made the best percentage for the Americans, almost equaling Paul Keres on the third board.
