sentences:  Alatortsev played the 1945 Latvian Championship at Riga, and won the tournament (but not the title; he was playing "hors concours").He scored 8.5/15 in the 1946 Moscow Championship to tie 4th-5th places, as Bronstein won again.He was below 50 per cent for the next two Soviet finals as well; in URS-ch15 at Leningrad 1947, he made 7.5/19, as Paul Keres won, and then in URS-ch16 at Moscow 1948, he finished well down with 7.5/18, as Bronstein and Alexander Kotov won.