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Events with high posterior probability

Mikhail Tal	In the 1952 Latvian Championship Tal finished ahead of his trainer.
William Lombardy	In 1958, he played in the Mar del Plata tournament and went'' undefeated in second place'', scoring 11/15.
Robert Byrne (chess player)	Byrne shared 2nd -- 3rd places in the U. S. Championship 1965 -- 66 with 7 1/2 / 11 ; Fischer won again, but Byrne defeated Fischer in their individual game.
Bindi Cheng	In 2013, at the annual World Open chess tournament, he tied with Leonid Gerzhoy, scoring 5 1/2 out of 9 there.
Maurice Fox	In 1926, he took second in the Canadian Chess Championship held at Nationale.
Jan Foltys	In 1937, he tied for 3rd-4th in Prague ; the event was won by Paul Keres.
Ortvin Sarapu	FIDE awarded Sarapu the International Master title in 1966 after he won the Asian Zonal, making him the second New Zealand player to gain the IM title, the first being Robert G Wade.
David Bronstein	This superb result earned him a place on the Soviet team ; he won both his games played on board ten, helping the Soviet team to victory in the famous 1945 USSR vs. USA Radio Chess Match.
Lajos Portisch	At the 1987 Szirak Interzonal, Portisch scored 12/17 to tie for third/fourth places, along with John Nunn ; he then defeated John Nunn by 4-2 in a playoff match at Budapest to advance to the Candidates'.
Franz Pachl	While Pachl played correspondence chess in 1975, he subscribed to the magazine Schach-Echo.
Max Judd	He took 2nd place in the 4th American Chess Congress in Philadelphia in 1876 (James Mason won).
Alexander Alekhine	Alekhine's second for the 1935 match with Max Euwe was the master Salo Landau, a Dutch Jew.
Ludwig Engels	In 1934, he tied for 1st-2nd with Boeck in Bad Salzuflen Ostern.
Borislav Ivkov	Then at Zagreb 1955, he tied 2nd -- 3rd places with Matanovic on 12.
Lothar Schmid	In 1963, he tied for first place in Malaga.
Borislav Ivkov	He shared the title at Málaga 1968 with Dražen Marović on 7.
Fedir Bohatyrchuk	In 1951, he tied for 3rd-4th places at Vancouver (winner was Povilas Vaitonis), with 8.
Isidor Gunsberg	In the famous Hastings 1895 chess tournament, Gunsberg finished with a − 3 score of 9/21, good for a share of 15th -- 16th place out of 22 competitors.
Igor Bondarevsky	Bondarevsky joined the Soviet élite by placing sixth at the 11th USSR Championship, Leningrad 1939, with 10/17, a performance sufficient to automatically qualify him for the 12th final.
Viswanathan Anand	In 2007 he won the Grenkeleasing Rapid championship, which he won for the tenth time defeating Armenian GM Levon Aronian.
Reuben Fine	In the U. S. Championship, New York 1938, Fine placed 2nd with 12 1/2 / 16, with Reshevsky repeating as champion.
Salo Landau	Landau had one outstanding result at Rotterdam in 1931, where he finished 1st ahead of Edgard Colle, Savielly Tartakower, and Akiba Rubinstein, defeating all three in the process.
Boris Verlinsky	In 1926, he tied for 8th-9th in Moscow (7th Moscow Championship) -- Abram Rabinovich won.
Boris Gelfand	Gelfand was not one of the favourites for the World Chess Championship 2007, but he surprised most observers by finishing joint second with reigning World Champion Vladimir Kramnik (third after tie breaks) ; the World Championship was won by Viswanathan Anand.
Levon Aronian	In the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in January, Aronian finished second with +5 − 1 7, behind Carlsen.
Maxim Dlugy	He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1986 for his result at the World Chess Olympiad in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where he played on the U. S. team that was in first place going into the last round.
Semyon Furman	In the Leningrad Championship of 1948, he tied for 7th-10th places, with 9 1/2 / 17.
Peter Biyiasas	Biyiasas won the Zonal Closed Canadian Championship, Toronto 1972, with 12/17, half a point ahead of Lawrence Day and George Kuprejanov.
Robert Byrne (chess player)	Byrne achieved his career highlight of third place at the Leningrad Interzonal in 1973, with 12 1/2 / 17, which made him only the fourth American (after Samuel Reshevsky, Bobby Fischer, and Pál Benkő) to qualify for the Candidates Tournament (part of the world chess championship process).
Eug?nio German	Eugenio German played for Brazil in three Chess Olympiad s. Awarded the International Master title in 1952, he was first Brazilian to be made an IM by FIDE.
Bernard Zuckerman	Zuckerman has not played in a serious open chess tournament since 1990.
Bruno Parma	In an international tournament at San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1969 he was second together with two American grandmasters, Arthur Bisguier and Walter Browne, behind Boris Spassky.
Wang Yue	Wang Yue was to play on 1st Board at the World Team Chess Championship in January 2010, until China dropped out of the event at the last minute.
Akiba Rubinstein	In the St. Petersburg tournament in 1909, he had tied with Lasker and won his individual encounter with him.
Alexander Cherepkov	Another superb showing at age 70 came in the 1990 Leningrad International, where he finished clear 2nd with 9.
Movsas Feigins	In 1937, he tied for 15th -- 16th in the Kemeri 1937 chess tournament (Salo Flohr, Petrovs and Samuel Reshevsky won) ; took 2nd in Brussels (Quadrangular, Alberic O'Kelly de Galway won) ; took 3rd, behind Petrovs and Fricis Apšenieks, in Riga (7th LAT-ch, Triangular), and took 2nd in Riga (Quadrangular, Paul List won).
Fritz Riemann	In 1885, he tied for 8-9th in Hamburg (4th DSB -- Congress, Isidor Gunsberg won), and drew a match with Ernst Flechsig (+5 -- 5 0) in Breslau.
Kayden Troff	He earned his first International Master (IM) Norm at the 5th Metropolitan Chess FIDE Invitational tournament in Los Angeles in May, 2011, winning every game he played against titled IMs.
Efim Geller	He was awarded the International Master title in 1951, and the International Grandmaster title the following year.
Edward Lasker	His best result was his narrow 8 1/2 -- 9 1/2 loss in a match with Frank Marshall for the U. S. Championship in 1923 ; this result was achieved even after Lasker had to take a postponement while leading the match due to a severe kidney stone attack.
David Enoch	He took 2nd, behind Abram Blass, at Tel Aviv 1935 (the 2nd Maccabiah Games).
Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky	In 1938, he tied for 13 -- 17th in Kiev (URS-ch sf ; Vasily Panov won).
Gersz Salwe	In 1912, he tied for 9-11th at Bad Pistyan (Pieštany).
Bernhard Gregory	In December 1908, he lost a match to Frank James Marshall (1 : 4) in Berlin.
Jan Timman	One of his notable later successes was the 2nd Immopar Rapid Tournament in 1991, a weekend event which attracted a huge amount of prize money.
Lajos Steiner	He took 19th at the 1st Interzonal Tournament in Saltsjöbaden in 1948.
Reuben Fine	Fine continued playing chess casually throughout his life (including several friendly games played in 1963 against Bobby Fischer, one of which is included in Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games).
Ray Robson	In August 2009, Robson tied for first at the Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromsø, Norway, garnering his first GM norm in the process.
Carlos Guimard	In March 1954, he played at 8th board against Isaac Boleslavsky (+1 -- 1 2) in a match Argentina -- Soviet Union (11,5 : 20,5) in Buenos Aires.
Rub?n Felgaer	In October 2006 he played in a match Buenos Aires vs Warsaw, and drew with Bartosz Soćko (1 : 1) at first board in Buenos Aires (17th Najdorf Festival).
Aminishiki Ry?ji	In May 2008 he scored an impressive ten wins and was the only man to defeat Kotoōshū, the winner of the tournament, which secured him his third Outstanding Performance prize.
Max Marchand	After the war, he won the fourth Dutch Chess Championship at The Hague 1919.
Reuben Fine	Fine placed 2nd at Hastings 1936 -- 37 with 7 1/2 / 9, as Alekhine won.
Vitali Golod	In 2006, he won in Schaumburg (GM-B section), and shared 3rd at the Monarch Isle of Man International (behind Alexander Areshchenko and Segey Volkov).
Igor Bondarevsky	Bondarevsky shared the 1940 Soviet title, and later coached World Champion Boris Spassky.
Yakov Vilner	In September 1924, he tied for 6-8th in Moscow (3rd URS-ch ; Efim Bogoljubow won).
Michele Godena	A resident of Finale Ligure, he achieved the title of International Grandmaster in 1996, following a plus score on board one for Italy at the Yerevan Olympiad.
Efim Geller	He won in 1955 at Moscow (URS-ch22) when, despite losing five games, he finished equal first with 12/19, then defeated Smyslov in the playoff match by the score of +1 6.
Josef Lokvenc	In April 1943, he tied for 6-9th in Prague.
Alexander Kevitz	In the 16th Marshall Chess Club Championship 1932, Kevitz scored 9/13 for 2nd place, behind Reuben Fine.
Viktor Korchnoi	His final title was at Riga 1970, for URS-ch38, with 16/21.
Leon Schwartzmann	In 1927, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Henry Grob, behind Wilhelm Orbach, in Hyères.
Miguel Najdorf	At age 69, he tied for second place in a very strong field at Buenos Aires 1979, with 8/13, behind winner Bent Larsen (11/13), though ahead of former world champions Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky.
Ren? Letelier	In 1953, he tied for 6-7th in Mar del Plata (Svetozar Gligorić won).
Samuel Schweber	In 1976, he tied for 6-7th in Mar del Plata (Victor Brond won).
Bernhard Gregory	In 1904, he shared 1st in Reval, and tied for 7 -- 8th in Coburg (14th DSB -- Congress, Hauptturnier, Augustin Neumann and Milan Vidmar won).
Fedir Bohatyrchuk	In 1924, he took 2nd, behind Vilner, at Kiev (1st Ukrainian SSR Ch.)
Hans Frank	Six months later he announced the establishment of a chess school under Bogoljubow and the World Chess Champion, Dr. Alexander Alekhine, and he visited a chess tournament in October 1942 at the'' Literary Café'' in Krakow.
Jacob Murey	In 1979, he tied for 1st -- 2nd with Balshan in Ramat Hasharon.
Mikhail Kobalia	In 2010 he tied for 1st -- 2nd with Manuel Leon Hoyos in the Arctic Chess Challenge.
Miguel Najdorf	In January 1934, he finished second to Rudolf Spielmann, in Warsaw.
Victor Kahn	After World War I, he tied for 1st-2nd at Haarlem 1919.
Raaphi Persitz	Persitz, Raaphi - Hübner, Robert Hastings, 1968 1.
Kurt Richter	In 1937, he tied for 1st -- 2nd in Bad Saarow.
Ilya Rabinovich	In 1924 he took 5th in Moscow (3rd URS-ch ; Bogoljubow won).
Kazimierz Makarczyk	In July 1949, he lost 0:2 against László Szabó in a Poland -- Hungary match in Warsaw.
Josef Lokvenc	In November 1940, he took 4th in Kraków / Krynica/Warsaw (1st General Government chess tournament).
Boris Spassky	Spassky's failure to qualify for the Portoroz Interzonal came after a last-round defeat at the hands of Tal, in a nervy game in the 1958 Soviet championship, held at Riga.
Vladimir Alatortsev	Alatortsev played' hors concours' in the 1945 Latvian Championship at Riga, and won the tournament (but not the title).
Sergey Karjakin	In July 2008 Karjakin played a ten game rapid chess match against GM Nigel Short and won convincingly with a score of 7 1/2 -- 2 1/2.
Robert Jamieson (chess player)	He was awarded the IM title in 1975 after finishing 3rd in the 1975 Asian Zonal Chess Championship held in Melbourne.
Paul Keres	Keres drew an exhibition match at Stockholm 1938 with Gideon Ståhlberg on 4 -- 4 (+2 − 2 4).
Augustus Mongredien	In 1862 he played in chess's first international round-robin tournament (in which each participant plays every other) in London, finishing 11th of 14 with 3/13.
Sergey von Freymann	In 1911, he tied for 3rd-4th with Levenfish, behind Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky and Znosko-Borovsky, in St Petersburg.
Efim Bogoljubov	In 1949 he won in Bad Pyrmont (3rd West GER-ch), and tied for 1st -- 2nd with Elmārs Zemgalis in Oldenburg.
Walter John	In 1908, he took 4th in Düsseldorf (16th DSB -- Congress, Frank Marshall won).
Ern? Gereben	In 1930, he took 5th in Budapest and tied for 7 -- 8th in Györ.
Raymond Weinstein	His best tournament result came in the 1960 -- 61 U. S. Championship, where he finished third, after Fischer and Lombardy.
Jos? Ra?l Capablanca	Starting his comeback at the Hastings tournament of 1934 -- 35, Capablanca finished fourth, although coming ahead of Mikhail Botvinnik and Andor Lilienthal.
Isaac Lipnitsky	Lipnitsky had by far the best result of his career at Moscow in 1950 at the URS-ch18, where he scored a superb 11/17 (+8 − 3 6), to tie for 2nd -- 4th places, along with Lev Aronin and Alexander Tolush, only half a point behind champion Paul Keres.
Matthew Sadler	In August 2011 Sadler continued the strong play by winning the XIII Open Internacional D'Escacs de Sants scoring 8 1/2 / 10 ahead of several strong grandmasters including Jan Smeets.
William H.K. Pollock	In early 1895, he drew a match in Montreal against George H. D. Gossip, each player winning six games with five draws.
Ilya Rabinovich	In 1939 he tied for 11-12th in Leningrad (11th URS-ch ; Botvinnik won).
Karlis Ozols	In 1941, he took 8th in Riga (1st Latvian SSR-ch, Alexander Koblencs won).
Bruce Amos	At Reykjavík 1970, Amos narrowly missed a Grandmaster result when he placed 3rd with 11/15, ahead of several Grandmasters, with Guðmundur Sigurjónsson winning.
Jonathan Berry	Berry directed Vancouver 1975, an International tournament with 320 players, which was won by Paul Keres ; it was Keres' last victory before he died a few weeks later.
Reuben Fine	Fine had played a third match against Herman Steiner at Los Angeles 1947, winning 5 -- 1 ; this match was training for his potential world championship appearance.
Ratmir Kholmov	At Voskresensk 1990, Kholmov tied 3rd -- 6th on 6.
Naz? Paikidze	Since 2008, she was trained by Russian chess Grandmaster Vladimir Belov.
Mikhail Tal	He had not played in enough international tournaments to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, but FIDE decided at its 1957 Congress to waive the normal restrictions and award him the title because of his achievement in winning the Soviet Championship.