Editing Mikhail Tal (section)

==Tournament and match wins (or equal first)==

===1950–1965===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!|Year
!|Tournament / Championship
!|Match / Team competition
|-
||1950
|[[Riga]] – Latvia Junior championship,<ref>Alexander Khalifman et al, "Mikhail Tal – 8th World Champion" (PC-CD); "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936–1959", p. 5</ref> 1st
|-
||1953
|Riga – 10th Latvian championship, 1st (14½/19)
|Leningrad, Soviet Team Championship final, board 2, 1st–2nd (4½/7)
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|1954
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|Match with Vladimir Saigin for the title of Soviet Master (+4−2=8)
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||1955
|Riga – 23rd Soviet Championship Semifinal, 1st (12½/18)
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||1956
|
|[[Uppsala]] – World students team championship, board 3 (6/7)
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||1957
| [[1957 USSR Chess Championship|Moscow – 24th URS-ch]], 1st (14/21)
|[[Reykjavík]] – Wch-team students, board 1 (8½/10)<br />[[Baden bei Wien|Baden, Austria]] – European Team Championship, board 4, 1st–2nd (3/5)
|-
||1958
|[[1958 USSR Chess Championship|Riga – 25th URS-ch]], 1st (12/19) <br />[[Portorož Interzonal 1958|Portorož Interzonal]], 1st (13½/20)
|[[Varna, Bulgaria|Varna]] – Wch-team students, board 1 (8½/10)<br />[[13th Chess Olympiad|Munich 1958]] Olympiad, board 5 (13½/15)
|-
||1959
|Riga – Latvian Olympiad, 1st (7/7)<br /> [[Zürich]] tournament, 1st (11½/15)<br />[[Bled]]–[[Zagreb]]–[[Belgrade]] – Candidates tournament, 1st (20/28)
|-
||1960
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|Moscow – Match for the World title with [[Mikhail Botvinnik]] (+6−2=13)<br />[[Hamburg]] – Match West Germany vs. USSR, 1st (7½/8)<br />[[14th Chess Olympiad|Leipzig 1960]] Olympiad, board 1, silver medal (11/15)
|-
||1960/61
|[[Stockholm]] tournament, 1st (9½/11)
|-

||1961
|[[Bled]] tournament, 1st (14½/19)
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||1962
|
|[[15th Chess Olympiad|Varna 1962]] Olympiad, board 6 (10/13)
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||1963
|[[Miskolc]] tournament, 1st (12½/15)
|Moscow, USSR Spartakiad, board 1, 1st (6/9)
|-
||1963/64
|[[Hastings International Chess Congress|Hastings]] Premier tournament, 1st (7/9)
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||1964
|[[Reykjavík]] tournament, 1st (12½/13)<br /> [[Amsterdam]] Interzonal, 1st–4th (17/23) <br />[[Kislovodsk]] tournament, 1st (7½/10)
|Moscow, USSR Club Team Championship, board 1, 1st (4½/6) 
|-
||1965
|Riga, Latvian championship, 1st (10/13)
|Bled –  Quarter-final Candidates Match with [[Lajos Portisch]]: (+4−1=3) <br />Bled – Semi-final Candidates Match with [[Bent Larsen]] (+3−2=5)
|}

===1966–1977===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!|Year
!|Tournament / Championship
!|Match / Team competition
|-
||1966
|[[Sarajevo]] tournament, 1st–2nd (11/15)<br />[[Palma de Mallorca]] tournament, 1st (12/15)
|[[17th Chess Olympiad|Havana 1966]] Olympiad, board 3 (12/13)
|-
||1967
|[[Kharkiv]] – 35th URS-ch, =1st (12/15)
|Moscow, USSR Spartakiad, final B, 1st (6/9)
|-
||1968
|[[Gori, Georgia|Gori]] tournament, 1st (7½/10)
|Belgrade – Quarter-final Candidates Match with [[Svetozar Gligorić]] (+3−1=5)
|-
||1969/70
|[[Tbilisi]] – Goglidze memorial tournament, 1st–2nd (10½/15)
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||1970
|[[Poti]] – Georgian Open championship, 1st (11/14) <br />[[Sochi]] – Grandmasters vs. Young Masters, 1st (10½/14)
|Belgrade – World vs. USSR, board 9 Match with [[Miguel Najdorf]] (+1−1=2)<br /> [[Kapfenberg]], European Team Championship, board 6 (5/6)
|-
||1971
|[[Tallinn]] tournament, 1st–2nd (11½/15)
|Rostov-on-Don, USSR Club Team Championship, board 1, 1st (4½/6)
|-
||1972
|[[Sukhumi]] tournament, 1st (11/15)<br /> [[Baku]] – 40th URS-ch, 1st (15/21)
| [[20th Chess Olympiad|Skopje 1972]] Olympiad, board 4 (14/16)
|-
||1973
|[[Wijk aan Zee]] tournament, 1st (10½/15) <br /> Tallinn tournament, 1st (12/15) <br /> [[Sochi]] – [[Mikhail Chigorin]] memorial, 1st (11/15) <br /> [[Dubna]] tournament, 1st–2nd (10/15)
|[[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], European Team Championship, board 6, silver medal (4/6)
|-
||1973/74
|Hastings tournament, 1st–4th (10/15)
|-
||1974
|[[Lublin]] tournament, 1st (12½/15) <br /> [[Halle, Saxony-Anhalt|Halle]] tournament, 1st (11½/15)<br />[[Novi Sad]] tournament, 1st (11½/15) <br /> Leningrad – 42nd URS-ch, =1st (9½/15)
|[[21st Chess Olympiad|Nice 1974]] Olympiad, board 5 (11½/15)<br />Moscow, USSR Club Team Championship, board 1, 1st (6½/9)
|-
|1976
|
|Stockholm, Match with [[Ulf Andersson]] (+1=7)
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||1977
|Tallinn – [[Paul Keres|Keres]] memorial, 1st (11½/17) <br /> [[Leningrad]] 60th October Rev., 1st–2nd (11½/17) <br /> Sochi – Chigorin memorial, 1st (11/15)
|Moscow, European Team Championship, board 4 (4½/6)
|}

===1978–1991===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Tournament / Championship
|-
||1978
| [[Tbilisi]] – 46th URS-ch, 1st (11/17)
|-
||1979
|[[Montreal]] tournament, 1st–2nd (12/18)<br />Riga Interzonal, 1st (14/17)
|-
||1981
|Tallinn – Keres memorial, 1st (12½/15) <br /> [[Málaga]] tournament, 1st (7/11)<br />Moscow, Soviet Team Championship, board 1, 1st (7/9)  <br /> Riga tournament, 1st (11/15) <br /> [[Lviv]] tournament, 1st–2nd (9/13)
|-
|1981/82
| [[Porz]] tournament, 1st (9/11)
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||1982
|Moscow tournament, 1st (9/13) <br />[[Erevan]] tournament, 1st (10/15) <br /> Sochi – Chigorin memorial, 1st (10/15) <br /> [[Pforzheim]] tournament, 1st (9/11)
|-
||1983
|Tallinn – Keres memorial, 1st (10/15)
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||1984
|[[Albena]] tournament, 1st–2nd (7/11)
|-
||1985
|[[Jūrmala]] tournament, 1st (9/13)
|-
||1986
|[[West Berlin]] open, 1st–2nd (7½/9)<br /> Tbilisi – Goglidze memorial, 1st–2nd (9/13)
|-
||1987
|[[Termas de Río Hondo]] (Argentina), 1st (8/11) <br /> Jūrmala tournament, 1st–4th (7½/13)
|-
||1988
|[[Chicago]] – National Open, 1st–6th (5½/6) <br /> [[Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]] – [[World Blitz Chess Championship|World blitz Championship]]: 1st
|-
||1991
|[[Buenos Aires]] – [[Miguel Najdorf|Najdorf]] memorial, 1st–3rd (8½/13)
|}