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SITE OF 1967 U.S. OPEN No, Koltl, not th•• igMlltn million doll.r AU.nl. St.dium; but th' Atl,n" Am.dun Motor Mot.I, which I, ~rt of the mod.rn AU.nt. skyline It the top of the photo. How.vn, the Toum.m,n' Committee ,t.," the .bdl",m will 1M t ill.d the first thrn dlys of our .ourn.ment II the Bn .... " mut 'he Sen Fr.nc:iKo GI.nb. Hot,l 'Plce is It • premium whon,n, the Br ...... meet the GI.nlt, ~ PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW. Wrlto to tM hot.1 .t Sprln, St . • nd C.megl. W,.,. A,l.nb, G,. 30303. UNITED STATES Volume XXII Number 5 Ma y. 1967 EDITOR: Burt Hochberg ----------- - - ---- CONTENTS CHESS FEDERATION A Machine Announces Check and Mate ............... ...... ........................... 112 PRESIDENT Marshall Rohland A Bri lliant Game, by Bernard Zuckerman .............................................. 113 VICE·PRF.SIDENT Isaac Kashdan Games by USC F Members, annotated by John W. Collins .................... 114 REGIONAL VICE·PRESIDENTS Women's Chess, by Kathryn Slater ...................................................... .. 116 NEW I!NOlAND James Bolton Harold Dondlll Ell Bourdon Chess Life, Here and There, compiled by Wm. Gaichberg ...... 116, 132, J 35 EASTEItN Robert LaBelle Leora E. Wood Mlehael Ralmo Nomi na tions Wanted .............................................. .. .. .... ...... .. ... ........... 117 MID·ATLANTIC Earl Clary Steve Canuthen Robert Erku Observation POi nt, by Miro Rodojeic ...................................................... 1 18 PhWp Lamb Pate r Lahd8 Carron M. CnllI An Interview with Mikkhoil Tal .............. .. .... .. ................. .. .. .... ... .......... 120 Donald W. R Udln, Dr. Harvey McClellan V. E. Vandenbur& Their Man in Hovono, by Ro bert Byrne .......................................... ...... 122 Dr. Gearee Tier. Robert Lerner Ken Rykken La rry Evans on Chess ................... .. .................... ...... .. ...... .. ... ... .. ........... 126 W. W. Crew J ohn A. Howell Park Blshop Benko's Bofflers, by Pol Benko ....... .. ..................................................... 127 PACIFIC Sun ard Eddy Kennet h .Tonu Cot. Pau l L. Webb Upset of a Champion, by Edmo( Mednis ................................................ J 29 SECRETARY Dr. Leroy Dubeck Woodpushers' Scrapbook, by Fred M. Wren ........................... ................. 130 EXICUTIVE DIRECTOR E. B. Edmondson From the Editor's File ..... .. ...... .. ........................................................ .. J 34 NATIONAL CHAIRMEN and OFFIC!RS ARMED ,"Olteli5 CHESS ................ Robert lc.r ch Tou rnament life, campi led by Wm. Goichberg .................... .. ... ........... 137 COLLEGE CH ...................................P . ul C . .TO.. INDUSTRIAL CHI!SS.... __ .... St. nley W. O. JUn, INTIRNATIONAL A.fI... 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Sponsored by the New York City Chess Association, a non-profit organization. See TOURNAMENT LIFE lor additional detaUs. MAY, 1961 111 ac lne• nnounces an ate-, master ....... omments EDITOR'S NOTE: The loHowlng arti· 20th of November of last year, a discus defense against the check by the Queen cle appeared In the March 12 .dJfion sion is being carried on in the solution at KR4. of SOVIET SPORT, a weekly RussJan of which, mathematical principles are 10_ ........ N-B4 newspaper. It repotfs the outcome of the being employed. The Soviet program was "Up to this point the Black machine first qam. oj em unusual chess match- prepared by scientists of the Institute of has worked competently and here, with Theoretical and Experimental Physics, the move 10. ....... , P·Q4, could have between two computers. One of Ihese and the American program, by special· maintained an approximate balance. machines is in the So'Viet Union. the ists of Stanford University. The first re 11. 0·05 N·K3? other is fD the Uailed States. sults were made known on the tenth of "This leads to a difficult position. Cor· As you ""HI see, Ibe game ended in a March. In the third game (four games rect would have been 11 ......... , P-Q3. victory lor tbe Soviet computer. There are going on simultaneously), the Soviet 12. P·85 N-N4?? can be no doubt fhat the American machine had gained the upper hand, an "A typical 'patzer' move Black does machine pJayed badly; nevertheless. nouncing mate on the 19th movc. not see White's simple answer. It is the Soviet team of proqJ'Q'mmers are to The Editor of SOVIET SPORT has re· said that it is human for people to err. quested the Editor of the magazine Obviously the weakness that is innate be conqratulat.d. We are an,dous 10 in man is transferred to machines. With see the results of the remafnb::tq three CHESS IN THE USSR, International Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh, for com chessplayers one mistake often leads to games. mentary on the completed game. another. It would seem that machines Tbere is one dishzrbing note {in addi· are not subject to emotions. However, Let us see what he has to say: tion to tbe fact Ihat we Josl}: Ihe tone in this encounter the American machine I 01 Grandmaster Averllaib's comments.