Editing Mikhail Tal (section)

===1950–1965===
{| class="wikitable"
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!|Year
!|Tournament / Championship
!|Match / Team competition
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||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)
|-
|1954
|
|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
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|[[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)
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||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
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|[[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)
|}