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The ten leading masters of the United States played the ten leading masters of the Soviet Union (except for Paul Keres) for chess supremacy. The match was played by radio and was a two-game head-to-head match between the teams. The time control was 40 moves in 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours and 16 moves per hour after that.
A ten player, 10-round Scheveningen system format, with a 25-minute (+10 second increment) time limit. This could be compressed into just four days with two or three rounds played each day. In terms of team selection, the intervening break up of the Soviet Union had precipitated some significant changes.
The participants of the fourth USSR Chess Championship in 1925. Sitting (left to right): Vilner, Levenfish, Rokhlin (organizer), Gotthilf, I. Rabinovich, Bogolyubov ...
The match was played during the Cold War, albeit during a period of increasing détente.The Soviet Chess School had a 24-year monopoly on the world championship title, with Spassky the latest in an uninterrupted chain of Soviet world chess champions, stretching back to the 1948 championship. [3]
The Soviet Union entered its first Winter Olympics tournament in 1956, and was successful from the start, much due to the players having an earlier experience of bandy, also called "Russian hockey". The Soviet Union would dominate the hockey world championship and Olympic tournaments from the 1950s to 1980s.
In 1952, the Soviet Union decided to join the Olympic movement, and international Spartakiads ceased, but the term continued to exist for internal sports events in the Soviet Union of different levels, from local up to the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR (Russian: Спартакиада народов СССР, Spartakiada narodov SSSR [6]).
It was not until 1950s when the Football Federation of the Soviet Union was finally admitted to FIFA (1946) and later UEFA (1954). The Soviet Union played its first official international against Turkey on 16 November 1924 at the imeni Vorovskogo sports field in Moscow, winning the match 3–0. [1] [2] In 1925 the football team toured Turkey.
The 1979 Challenge Cup was a series of international ice hockey games between the Soviet Union national ice hockey team and a team of All-Stars from the National Hockey League. [1] The games were played on February 8, 10, and 11 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It replaced the NHL's all-star festivities for the 1978–79 NHL season ...