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Event table notes
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| Event data |  | 
   | Place: Leningrad |  
   | Start date: May 1940 |  
   | End date:   May 1940 |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1936-1940, page 328 |  
   | Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 69 |  
   | Soltis, Mikhail Botvinnik, page 122 |  
   | Soltis, Soviet Chess, page 130 |  |  |