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I I "',.. 1 NEW ZE.ALAND CHESS NEIJ ZEALAND CHESS is published bi-monthly by the New Zeal.and Chess Assoclatlon, P,0.Box 8802, Symonds Street, Auckland. Months of issue are February, Aprl1, June, August, October and December. Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed my not necessarily be those of the Association. Vol. 5 No.3 June 1979 0lafsson Slams Boycotts At a press conference in I'IDE head- paxing in xhe lpuis sxaxham Master-P-l.us quarters in Amsterdam on 26 April Frid- fouznilenx in Lone Pine, cafifomia, rik Olafsson,l the President of the receiwed an invixaxion for xhe inter- World Chess Federation, took a fim nationaT xournament of Banja Luka (Yugo- stand on possible boycotts of individu- slavia) and accepted the invitation to aI players by tournamert organisers or p7ag. Six weeks before xhe sxart of tbe federations. tournament he got a Tetter trom xhe "I would advise any chess organisation otganisers canceTling his particiPation. intending to launch a boycott to seri-- ?he Letter stated, "Mang foreign chess ously reconsi-der their stance", sald pTagers want to revoke their participa- Olafsson. t'Any such actions can only tion in the xournment because gou are damage the image of chess in the world taking pazt in it." rt is obvious that and have adverse effect uPon the autho- 'mang foreign plagers' refers to Soviet rity of FIDE." pTagers - Grandmasxer Petrosian and He was replying to allegations that Mastet Kaspatov, as welf as Grandmaster certain chess federations are Preventing SnejkaT (CSSR) and crandmaster sax (Hun- V.Korchnoi, fomer challenger for the garg) . World Championship, from participating We appeaT Xo gou as FlDE-Ptesident, as in major international events" Olafsson one of xhe feading Gtandwstets and as continued by drawing attention to a one of out coTTeagues in chess xo take peti.Eion signed by fifty players from setious and imediate action. We have the Lone Pine tournament' in which Ehe confidence xhat gou wiTL do gour uxrcsx alleged wlthdrawal of an invitation for to avoid future bogcotts in xhe inxet- Korchnoi to play in Banja Luka was national chess wor7d. heavily criticised. Olafsson agreed that It is not the first bogcott in the any such withdrawal of an invitation was chess worTd that is pTiticaTTg rcti- absoluLely contrary to the principles of vated. This xitue, rcr@ver, it concetns FIDE. IIe said Ehat it was his intention the second best pTager in xhe world- to issue stern rePrimands and possible This bogcott cTearlg indicates that the penalties agains! any tournament found Soviet Chess Fedetation wants to exclude guilty of thls. a pfager wln has proved recentTy in Olafsson then stunned the audience of Baguio citg to be of World Champion assembl-ed journalists by producing evi- Karpovts 7eve7 fTom tournamenx plag- dence of another similar boycott' We protest strongTg againsx this instituted by the Blel International depTorable mexhod of bogcotxing because Tournament. BieI had issued an invita- we see it as oar duxg to defend the tion to BriEish GM R.Keene and subse- ptincipTes of sprtsmanship, and of our quently withdram it. motto, 'cens una sumus'. To keep silent players freans to be as guiTxg as those respon- The withdrawal of two Soviet sible fot this bogcott. Lone Pine event is mentioned from the we trust that gou wiTl take the neces- elsewhere in Ehis lssue. The mjority signed the sarg steps to stop those who are trging of the Lone Pine compeEitors chess bg acxions letter Olafsson which folIows. ta rain international to Tike these- Grandnasxer oTafsson, Dear Yours sincereTg, As gou probabTg know, Grandmaster Vic- Plagers of Inne Pine tor Korcllunoi, wixh wlam we are Partici- a

53 LETTERS D. lJatts A.J. Lovc Can You See the Combinations ? NAI'iOUAL(?) JUNIOR CH'P W. petch S,G. Aimers Solutions on page 76 Dear Sir, a I cannot speak for a77 Xhe ArLc:kland We have a COMPLAIN'f. The Canterbury cfubs but at -Zeast two that I koow of Chcss Club received on lrlednesday 11th received entrg forms considerablq April a rumber of erltry forms for a New earfier. In fact, two Auckland juniors ''*JE Zealand Junior tournanent belng heLd in entered and finished in Xhe top two l^Ielliugton. Entries closed on Thursday places (7 M.Steadman, 2 P.Mataqa) -- 12th April one day later: The tourna- Editor - % nent started on the t'riday, t This extremely short notice meant ,M,L' $Lf ./ ..L(.t,/ % that Canterbury juniors uere denjed the opportunity to compete in this event. CORRESPONDENCE CHESS RESULTS t% Do the organisers of this tournament consider Canterburyrs juniors New Z,ealand Correspondence Cht,ss Assn % % so weak Trophy Tournament as not to warraDt intorming about the results for thc 1978/ q) 79 season rotified by 30 April. Our- A:,N % % tournaltrent [n time, or maybe thcy didnrt ,rry? ,rffirt standing games are for adjudication aod warlL us compeling for some resson .... the Iinal scores should or is it gross incompetence? be available for '/,t4i, -iust the ALrEIust issue. llichael R. Freeman NEt'I !E!!IUlllqlrIq I LLtnrl t sttith David J.A. l.li4!4N! ; No" 1 White to move No.2 move Cairns SXuart f Lgnn, Snith l, Staart. Mrite to I,Iarwick NorLon Neil Gunn CIIAI'IPI0NSHIP RESERV!i Knegt I t.'tcnch, Mark Eleming 7 Raundilf, 7 Barnard; lteasman \: Kneqt, (;.I^iill H " iamson L Kinchant, 7 Guptiil , 1 Lueg; ),u..!t i Adrian LIoyd Guptill, I RoundiTl; Kinchant I t;upti71, Gil es Bates I Barnard; Barnard 7 GupXiLl, I l.rc:nch; tA% :#, * Freeman I Barnard. ,ru %%%%"'%ft"E!, CLASS Dav j():; % Dear Sir, 2: Mi77ar 1 tlul7; I Lo'/e- )tx' % lock, I Coope-r t 7 SLeadman, I Jo)tnsLctne, ,z) The -juniors in Otago were pleas.intly l. tlignett, f Roqers; Ilrlll I fti (tnct I ; %ru%@ surprised the other day when some entry Dishop .1. Davies; Roqers I Millar; forms for the New Zealand .Junior l/lataga I Van OevereD. %fr% % %n%ts arrived. Houever, the short-lived ple:r- i'%A t%a q,4$ _3__l!"rD, Brumbg ); Billing, 1 tt;Ltt; ,r/N sure turned to dismay uhen they realised BfighXwell that they had I day in which to enter \ ETse; htatt I Brightwell.; )\: Billing I Hagan, I Frost- % %%% and 2 days to geL to Wellingtonl Of course, impossible these days - planes CLASS 3 BLUE: StrixErer 1 Brlqhtwell; and trains must be booked weeks in ad- Snith 7 Whitlock; Ior I Eowler; peter- No.3 htrite to move No - lr Bl;rck to move vance. san , Brinbfe, I Ion; Nthitlock * This is au inexcusable lapse nade by Stringer; BrighxweTT f r){hitlock. the Civic Chess C1ub. tlow can they CLASS 3 GBEEN_i De Groot f Fisher, claim that a tournament is National when f ti4ef vil7e . some of the best players are overlooked? Otago may not totally dominale New Zea- CLASS 4 RED: .'&t Brown N Morgan; Jones -I "ruA7ru land junior chess bur for its size has Ilrown, 7 % %E% - Gumer, f Cox, I Morgar); Cox ""'.ffi a better standard than any other centie lj l.laxwelf ; Secconbe I Biffinghurst; t%a% 7ru.%% with 3 players who have represented New Fraser 1 Maxweff. + Zeal-and in international junior tourna- A rNew CLASS 4 GttEEN: Iockwood f Afexander; \I ments. Perhaps the Zealand' Junior til

o'Connar l- Ansl-eq; Bogden 1 should really have been called fhe f Aoslcq; --Er- Cribbett 7 I 'NorLh Island' Junior or even the O'Connor; Afexander O'Connor; AnsTeq 1 'Lrellington' .Iunior (did Auckland I Anderson; Kincl %%ffit receive any entry forms?). O ' Connor - fr% t^lake up Civicll CLASS 5: Brolm, \ turnbul7.

to move No . [{hi move 54 6 te to 55 Karpov, with the white pleces, made KAVALEK - HUBNER, Caro-Kann Defence: some effort to beat Ta1 in their indivi- 1 e4 c6 2 d4 d.5 3 Nd2 dre4 4 Nxe4 M0llTREAt World Ehess Challenge Cup tgrg dual - clash but the latter equalised Bf5 5 Ng3 896 6 h4 h6 7 Nf3 Nd7 I h5 without too much difficulty. Ljubojevic The "Man and IILs World Chess Challenge Ljubojevic. He maintained his sr, t, I*.rd Bh7 9 Bd3 Bxd3 10 Qxd3 Ngf6 11 Bd2 e6 through tightened his hold on fourth place by 12 0-0-0 Cup", to give thc event its full name, round five r6sn he had 4 l,oints c5 13 Rhel Be7 14 d5!? Nxd5 was played in Montreal [ron 10 April winning his sixteenth round game versus to with Karpov, Ljubojevic and Tal on 3!:. Ilort (another rdoublet) 7 l4ay 1979. The tournament was conceived These while Spassky 15 RxeS!? ftrhite four all drew in round six but in inproved his position with a ful1 point hv Chess lournamenLs lnc., an organisa- the seventh round Ehe two Soviets had a t wouTd have exceT- tion formed by Lubomir Kavalek, lvan agalnst Iliibner. Scores: Td1 11, Karpov Tent compnsation quick draw while Ljubojevic bear llorr to 101, Portisch Passer (a Hollywood film director) and join 91, Ljubojevic 81, for the pawn aftet Portisch in the lead on -5 points. Tlrnnan 7L, HUbner, Kavalek & Spassky New York lavryer l'lichael Zivjan. The In 7, l-5 Nfs Kfg 76 NxeT the eighth round, however, t,jubo Hott 6ra, Larsen 5t. basic idea behind the formation of CTI lost to l(arpov, QxeT 77 c4 N5f6 78 Tal beat Kavalck and After round seventeen the lead was was to raise chess to the level it de- 'l'al Bf4) 15. . . fxe6 t6 Portisch drew with Timan so Karpov, again tied as Karpov serves with ttre emphasis on the rights beat LjuboJevic Qg6+ Kf8 17 Qxe6 and Portisch now shared the 1ead. The whlle Tal drero of the players, aud at least one anr:ual World with Kavalek. Spassky Nc7 18 Qf5+ Nf6 Champion then beat Kavalek wlrile made iE three in a row l,Jorf d Chess Challenge Cup. with hLs win 19 Ne5 Qc8 20 Ng6+ his closest rivals all drew. Thus, the against Larsen. (20 la'hile it may have been possible to scores at the half-way Qd3 foTTowed bg Ret would have given stage were: The last round was, on the whole, BLack problems hold this first \,ICCC in the United Karpov 6li, Portisch & Tal 6, Ljubojevic rcre - GTigoric) 20... peaceful with several games, notably Kf7 2l NxhS+ qd3 S tittes, the less comercially oriented 51r, H0bner 5, Timan 41-i, HorL 4, Spas.sky Qxh8 22 Rel Re8 23 those involving the leading bunch, over b5 24 Nf5 Qh7 25 a6 26 c4 BfB 27 Montreal was eventually chosen. Planrrlng l!;, Larsen 2!, Kawalek 11. The spreacl of very quickly. 94 oi the event took nine months. For The exception was the Rxe8 Kxe8 28 Qf3 Qg8! 29 ec6+ Kd8 30 the points in such an even field was rattrer Larsen-Hort where tirsL tiLne in history, Lhe players were clash the latter took Ba5 Qxc4* 31 Kbl Qe4+ 32 Qxe4 Nxe4, surprising. Only the three leaders were Ehe fuII point and an extra each guaranteed for their agree- still - $10001 0 : 1. $2000 unbeaten; only Kavalek lacked a If we consider a ilent even i F ihc fouinament failed to the second half as - wrn. separate tournament, the results are H0RT - LJUBOJEVIC, Sicilian Najdorf: c-one off. ln the event, this ber:ame thcr latren the second half got undcr way, rather startling first half wooden 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 Nf6 4 Nc3 cxd4 highest rated tournamenr (Category 15, Ta1 - immediately ried the lead by t)caring spooner Kavalek rwonr wiEh anead 5 Nxd4 a6 6 Be2 e5 7 Nb3 Be7 8 a4 tse6 average raLitr 262?) since the introduc- Spassky (making 64/9 rhe score 2:0 in thejr of Ta1 6 and Karpov 51. Spassky was 9 0-0 0-0 LO f4 exf4 11 Bxf4 Nc6 12 i:ion of the I'IDE rating lists an-d, nany Imini match'). Karpov, however, regainecl dhother finishing next on 5 Khl Rc8 13 Bf3 Ne5 14 Nd5 Bxd5 15 will argue, the strongost tournament his 'improver' sole lead in the next round with his and Ehen came Portisch 41, Hort & Timan exd5 NfdT (Black has an exceTTenx posi- ever . s econd win over Timan . 4, Ljubojevic 3L, Hiibner & Larsen 3. tion after severaL inaccuracies bg his The format was a double round-robin In the only decisive game of rorrnd 12, opponent) 15 c3 Bg5 17 BE4?! (atter (needless The scoring was somewhat closer than in with ten players to add, a1l Benf Larsen scored an important win over the first the exchanqe of dark-square bishops Grandmasters) and tournament -ras half, ttre Karpov with the black pieces and the Most of the brief connents Black is cTearlg better; 77 Bg3 was pre- directed by Cll Svetozar Gligoric" irr the scores now were: Karpov & Tal 8, Port- following games were taken from the ferabLe) 17 .. .Bxf4 18 Rxf4 Rc4 19 Rxc4 The ten players, with naticnaLiry and isch 7tz, Ljubojevic 7, tli.ibner 6!, Horr: excel-1ent tournamenE bulletin in which Nxc4 20 Qd4 Nde5 2l BeZ Qc7 22 a5 Rc8 current ratings, /+1.i, - were: !!, Timan 5, Larsen & Spassky Ka\ta- every game was annotated either by G1i- 23 Nd2 Nxd2 24 Qxd2 Re8 25 h3 96 26 1ek 3!:. Nd7 27 Bf3 Anatoly iLajos PORTISCH Hangarg 2640 the thirteenth round, all three better to play 29 Kgt fitst) Zg leading ...Nd3 30 c4 Boris SPASSKY UssR 2610 conrenders won their ganes, Tal TAL SPASSKY, King's Indian Defence: Nxb4 31 Rbl Nd3 32 RxbT beating lliibner, Karpov defeating - Nc5 33 Rc7 h5 34 Kgl Kf8 35 Kf2 Rb8 Jan TIMI4AN Netherl-ands 2625 Spassicli I Nf3 Nf6 2 c4 96 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d.6 (another 36 Rc6 Ke7 37 Rc7+ Ke3 Rb3+ 39 Bent LARSEN Denmark 2620 2:0) and Portisch accounting 5 d4 0-0 6 Be2 e5 7 0-0 exd4? ! (tuormal Kf6 38 tor (also Kd2 Rb7 40 RcB Kc3 l,likbai1 TAL ussR 2615 ]-arsen 2:0). By thjs time the is 7...Nc6 or 7...Nbd7) I Nxd4 Re8 9 f3 Ke5 4l Rb3+ 42 KcZ others Kd4 43 Rc6 Rc3+ 44 Kd2 KcZ VlastimilHORT CzechosTovakia 260A had been left behind although c6 10 KhI! (Thus white avoiils aLl his Ra3 45 Kavalek Ra2* 46 Kbl, actuaTTg Robert HI,BNER t{est Germang 2595 beat Ljubojevic and vas leading opEonentts tactical threats) 10...d5 11 0 : 1. Hott rsecond sealed his 46th move, Lubomir KAVAI-EK United States 2590 the half' with 3/4. cxd5 cxd5 12 Bg5! dxe4 13 fxe4 NbdT but resigned without resuming as he must give Z59O Apart from Kavalek winning again, all 14 Ndb5 Re5 (Bfac& sactifices for some up the ex- LjubonirLJUB0JEVIC YugasTavia change avoid Sames were drawn in round fourteen. The @unterpTag) 15 Bf4 Nxe4 16 Bxe5 Bxe5 to being nated after 46--- Rf2 47 The prizes were: scores: Karpov & "Ial 9\, Portisch 9, 17 Nxe4 18 h3 L9 (ctiqo- Rxd6 Kc3 48 Rb6 Nb3. lst 6th Qh4 Qxe4 Qb3 $25,000 $8,000 Ljubojevic 7L, llilbner & Timan 6!, Horr ric gives 79 Nd6 Bxd6 20 Qxd6 Qxe2 27 KAVALEK KARP0V, Ruy Lopez: Ztd 7rh 6, Kavalek - $18,000 $7,000 5!, Larsen & Spassky 5. Raei as winning me easiTg, e.g. 2l-.. I e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc5 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 3rd $ 15,000 8th $6,000 Portisch had jusl Karpov dram with Qxb2 22 Re9+ Kg7 23 RxfT with a mating 5 0-0 Nxe4 6 d,4 b5 7 Bb3 d5 8 dxe5 4rh $12,000 9rh $5,000 and now he met Taf - for his first and attack, ot 2L.-.Qc4 22 bi 2i Reg+ Be6 (as plaged 5th 10,000 l0th Qc5 9 Qe2 l(arpov in xhe l2th $ $4,000 only loss of the tournament. I,leanwhiie, Kg7 24 Qxc5 Nxc5 25 RcL winninq nateriaT) match game at Baguio) 10 In addition, there was a bri1li- 9...Be7 Rdl $1,000 Karpov could only draw against llort so I9...Nf6 20 Bc4 2l BxfT+ (h8 22 0-0 lI c4 12 ancy prize donated by Roger I-emelin, Qh4 bxc4 Bxc4 Bc5 13 Be3 TaI was in the lead with three rounds to Rf3 Bf5 23 Nc3! Ne4 24 Nxe4 Bxe4 25 Bxe3 14 President and Editor of the Montreal go. Qxe3 Qb8 15 Bb3 Na5 16 Nbd2 Ljubojevic lost to Spassky leaving Qc4 Rd8 26 RafI KE7 27 Be6 R.d,2? (ovet- (KarIDv plaged the sLower 76 Nel in xhe newspaper La Presse. PorEisch with pretty grip a firm of the Looking the duaT threat of White's next) quoted game) 16...Qa7 17 Nd4 Nxd2 18 third prize. Kavalek The Hungarian, Portisch, took the notched up his 28 Qc5 Bxf3 29 Qxe5+ Qf6 30 Qxf6+ Kxf6 Qxd2 Qb6 19 Bc2 c5 20 Nf5 Bxf5 2L lead as early as round three with wins third consecutive win at the expense of 31 Bg4 Rxb2 32 Rxf3+, 1 : 0. Bxf5 RadS 22 b3 (Later, against ?al, Larsen. over Hort and Hiibner and a draw with 57 56 Kavalek pfaqcd 22 Re7 and a draw was 17 c5 Nd5 18 Ncl. Re8 19 Nd3 t{ad8 2{) stifT has the initiaxive) 26...Nf5 27 Nd3 Bxd3 25 Kxd3 RbdS 26 Bfl 27 agteed afxer 22-..Nc6! in an unclear 93 Bf6 21 Re4 Nf8 22 h4 Rd,7 23 Kg2, Qe4+ Rg4 RdB 28 Be5 f6 29 Bc3 e5 30 b3 a6 Kc3 c5 28 Bxc5 Qc6 29 Kb3 Rb8+ 30 Ka3 IDsixian) 22...Rfe8 23 ReI c4 24 RedS 24 94 F.e8 25 95 Bd8 2(r Nfe5 RHungary, Sweden and Bulgaria. Qe2 h5 30 Nd2 h4 3l Bf4 Qg4 32 Nf3 = Biga & Rio de Janeiro, *** Rb8 33 Nc2 Bc6 34 Ne3 Qg6 35 Khl hxg3 LJUB0JEVIC - KORCHN0I, French Defence: Irep tember/October ),97 9) 36 fxg3 Rb7 37 Ng2 Qg4 38 Ne3 Qh3 39 L e4 e6 2 d3 d5 3 Nd2 c5 4 Ngf3 Nc6 are decided. Exceptions NgI 40 Nf3 Kd7 41 Ng2 b4 42 cxb4 Several blind players competed in a Qh5 5 93 Nf6 6 Bg2 Be7 7 0-0 0-0 8 Rel b6 are USA (play-off between tournanent at axb4 4l Ra7 RxaT 44 Rxal+ Bcl 45 Bcl BELGRADE (18 January-2 February) won by GIl Marjano- 9 e5 Nd7 I0 Nf1 Ba6 11 h4 Rc8 12 N1h2 Shamkovich & Mednis for Qg4 46 Nf4 Qxg3 47 Nd3 Rh3 48 Nc5+ b5 13 Bg5 b4 l4 cr+ 15 d4 c3l 16 vic (yuc) with 10%/13 ahead of GM Szabo (HUN) 8r, GM QdZ the third pJ.ace), Zone 2 Kc8 49 Ng1 Bb6 50 Nxh3 51 Ra5 bxcJ bxc3 17 18 19 Tringov (BUr,) & GI'l Marulovic (yUG) I, GM Rajkovic Qxh3 Qf4 Nb4 RecI Be2 (Zonal to be played at Lu- Kc7 52 Nd3 b3 53 Bb2 Nxb2, 0 : 1. a3 Nc5 20 Rel Ba6 (vUG) 7ti, IM Pribyl (CZ) & D\ Ciocaltea (RUt4) 7, ct4 21 Qg4 Kh8 22 Qh5 c,erne in May-June) and a 23 BxeT Raicevic (YUG) & IM Adamski (POL) 6|1, IM Todorcevic SPASSKY - SIGURJONSS0N, Queen's Indian Qe8 NxeT 24 Ng5 h6 25 Bh3 Nc6 place for an extra BraziLi- 26 Ngf3 Na5 27 Nc4 28 Bfl Rc6 29 (vUG) 6, Cabarkapa (YUG) 5, Baretic (YUG) & Dukano- Defence: 1 d4 Nf6 2 ct+ e6 3 Nf3 b6 4 Qg4 an ir the Rio event. Bd3 Ndz 30 Bxa6 Rxa6 ll Nxd2 cxd2 32 vLc (YUG) (!, D.Knezevic (yUG) ltl. e3 Bb7 5 Bd3 Be7 6 0-0 0-0 1 l>3 c15 The F'IDE Bureau decided RedI Ra4 33 f6 exf6 Nxf6 f3 8 Bb2 NbdT Nc3 c5 trO cxd4 11 Qf4 34 35 on the fo-l .[owing division *** 9 Qe2 exd4 Re8 12 Radl Bf8 t3 Ne5 14 f4 Ne4 36 Qg4 h5 37 Qh3 ri*c3 38 Rxd2 Rxd4 of players. Brazil: Port- 96 Rd3 R.c-B 15 Rf2 NbB L6 Nc6 17 Be2 Bb4 -19 Qg2 Rc4 40 Rel Qe7 41 Qxa3 42 isch, Timan, Mecking, The withdravals of CM's Karpow (dying father) and Qe3 Rxe6 18 Bf3 Na5 19 cxd5 Nxd5 20 Nxd5 Bxd5 Qc5+ 43 KhI Ne4 44 fxe4 Rxc2 45 Petrosian, Balashov, Sax, Adorian (il1ness) after five rounds weakened somewhat Rxd5 21 Bxd5 22 Ng4 Bel 23 Ba3 24 Rcl+ 46 Nfl Rcxfl+ 47 Kt'z Vaganian, Smejkal, lorre, ttre I,lUl(ICl1 tourrament, played 1n Eebruary-March. At Qxd5 Qh5 h3 Bh4 25 Re2 f5 26 Ne5 Rc3 27 Ivkov, Velimirovic, Guil. that stage [^lorld Champion Qxc3 rhe was Lied with Spassky 28 29 30 Khl 47. . .Qe3? Garcia, L.Bronstein, for the lead. Qxe2 Rcl RdS Qc7 Qf?+ Kh8 1 : 0. Harandi, H6bert, Sharnko- Qxf4 31 Qf7+ 32 Nf3, Instead, 47 . . -Qc4 ! 12345618501234 wans. vich/Mednis + 2 players ANDERSS0N - R0BATSCH, English: 1 Nf3 Nf6 from Zone 2 and 1 Brazilian. 2c4c5 3g3b6 4Bg2Bbl 50-096 6 48 Rxh5+ Kg8 49 USSR: Polugaevsky, I-arsenn Z ,xlti|a|a\'4 lrll8, I b3 Bg7 7 Bb2 0-0 8 Nc3 d5 9 Nxd5 Nxd5 ReBl RxeS 50 QxfI, t- - t, Tal, Hort, Rib1i, Kavalek, 3 \Ox'-t\!il\t L1rlr 81.1 10 BxgT KxgT 11 cxd5 Qxd5 12 d4 cxd4 '2 . '2. Ljubojevic, Kuzmln, Tsesh- 4 O\\x\%r\\arl7II 812 i 13 Qxd4+ Qxd4 14 Nxd4 Bxg2 15 Kxg2 a6 kovsky, Mi1es, Adorian, 5 * tn r ,2 7 16 Racl Ra7 17 Rc2 Rfd8 18 e3 e5 19 ,'l'l'lt.r'r'rrr'1*ti', ,'n'a l.,1-i r,l, \ I Tarjan, R.Hernandez, Gheor- 6 I 0 I Nf3 f6 20 g4 Rd5 2l Rfcl Nd7 72 Rc6 *** ghiu, van Riemsdyk, Bouaziz, 7 ,ttOOle\xL,%IrrlI l Rxc6 23 Rxc6 Kf7 24 Nd.2 Ke7 25 Ne4 ra la Trois, R.Rodriguez + one 8 ,, O ,'a't'-t x'-t I I O 6, Rb7 26 b4 Rb8 27 Nc3 f5 28 Nd5+ Kf7 Yugoslavia's top two players, GM's player from Zone 2- e \rrrr,<\,.;x\o\\t 6tt 29 Kg3 h5 30 gxf5 gxf5 3I Rd6 Rb7 32 Cligoric and Ljubojevic, recently (6-20 Larsen's dislike of hot 10 cE 0,nO%rrO%%x\'-2 1t 6 Kh4 Kg7 33 Kxh5, 1 : 0. March) played a 'friendlyr match - clinates has been pandered 11 0000'4'4'-1 lttxLl\ 6 ostensibly for training, but with a '4 SPASSKY - HUBNER, l',limzoindian Defence: to but no doubt there LZ 4,-5 purse - OL-irO0OrO\|aOxtt ld4Nf6 2c4e6 3Nc3Bb4 4e3b6 of US$13,000, of which 60% to the will be the usual squeals 13 1000rr00 4 winner. The match was fought %000x1 5 Nge2 Ba6 6 Ng3 0-0 7 e4 Nc6 8 Bd3 hard with about one tournamenL being 14 Oororool00!00x 21-, tew draws, as the results show: stronger than the other. 7 ++ , f e5 9 d5 Na5 10 QeZ Bxc3+ 11 bxc3 c6 0 0r, , 12 Nf5 NeS L3 f4 Qcl 14 fxe5 Qxe5 15 LJUB0JEVIC I I O t-, O I \a O l'4 5'. *** 0-0 f6 1.6 Bf4 Qxc3 17 Racl Qa3 18 d6 GLIG0RIC io Lrzto'to' 411 Category 10 (25C0) G = B, I = 6ta. Nb7 tr9 Ne7+ Kh8 20 e5 fxe5 21 Bxe5 The third game (won by Gligoric) and Spartacus Budapest beat Nf6 22 BxhT Nxd6 23 Qf2 Ng4 24 Qd.4 rBanco the sixth (von by Ljubojevic) were rec- the Italian di Roma? I^7ith two players resting each day it was always Qe3+ 25 Qxe3 Rxfl+ 26 RxfI Nxe3 21 64 65

I koned to be the best: dxe5 10 Radl Qc8 lt Qcl RdS 12 11xd8+ (DEN), Gyl Satrovic, GM Lombardy (USA), CM QxdS 13 Rd1 QI8 tr4 h3 Bxf3 15 Bxl3 Sosonko (NL), I\l Ree & IM Grunfeld LJUB0JEVIC-{LIGORIC, Engtish: I c4 c5 fIVI.) a5 16 r-bl Rd8 tr7 RxdS rlxd8 18 c3 (rsR) 6; 11-22 GM TarJan (usA), IM Kap- 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 Nc3 e6 4 d4 cxd4 5 Nxd4 Qd3 i9 Nd2 Bf8 20 21 Nd8 2.2 7ar (USA), GM Korchnoi, GM Shamkovich Bb4 6 Qb3 Bc5 7 Be3 b6 8 NcZ Na6 g Qb1 Qb5 Qc2 Qb3 Qd3 23 Qc4 Qc6 24 Qe2 25 Qd3 (USA), L'14 Dlesen fUSA), cM Bisguier Rdl 0-0 l0 Bd4 Bb7 tt e3 Be7 t2 a3 Qe6 I'lc6 26 a3 Qe7 27 b4 Ndll 28 Nc4 NciT (US.t\) Gl4 Lein fUsA) Morris (USA) Gt't Nc5 13 Qa2 a5 14 f3 15 e4 Nh5 , , , Qb8 29 Iig4 Ne6 30 Na5 b5 31 Nc6 ileS 32 Pachman (BRD), Seirawan, GM Reshevsky 16 Be2 Nf4 17 0-0 f5 l8 e5 d6 L9 exd.6 r:4 }if6 .13 cxb5 axb5 34 Cxh5 Nxe4 35 (uSA) & PeLers (USA) 5ta; 211-31 Bxd6 20 Kh1 e5 21 Bgl e4 22 fxe4 NxeZ chexka (Cz) & IM Gheorghiev (BuL) lrt: de Fir- t)c4 i{d6 36 Qd5 h5 17 Bxelr fxe6 nian fU.9A), GII Biyiasas (CAII), IM 0lafs- 23 Nxe2 Bxe4 24 Ned4 Rf6 25 Nf3 Rh6 GM Knezevjc (yuc) & IM lanLhenko -18 7-; fU.9sR.) {)c5 Nf5 39 Qc2 Bg7 40 b5 Nd4 41 t.lc4 sat (ICE), OdendahL fLrsa), cM Miles 26 h3 Qb7 27 Ned4 95 28 Be3 f4 29 Nb5 Kaidanov (USSR) 6i Lukacs (HUN) 5r; GM Qd7 1r2 a4 Nf5 43 Qe2, I : 0. (ENG) , Ii't Zsitsnan (USA) , Il4 Ligrerink Bf8 30 Bxc5 Bxc5 3L b4 g4i 32 bxc5 Farago (ilt.rN) 4!1; cusev 4 fL,.9^sR) " {Nr), GM Sigurjonsson GI'l Benko gxf3 33 Kh2 Qg7 34 fxg2 35 Rfel The tournarent was category 9 (2457), *** frcEl, ef2 (USA), GM Browne GM Qg4, 0 : 1. G = tor, r -- 7r. fUS.4.) & Rajkovic (YUG) 5t 34-44 Bradford iusA_), Iedoro- ThC 15th BELGRADE WOMEN'S iOURIIAMENT GLIG0RIC{JUB0JEVIC, Sl av Meran: RAZUVAEVJARAG0, Queen,s Gambit: 1 d4 e6 wicz (USA), van der Sterrerr GM Os- 1 d4 (Uarch) sau Nana Alelcsandria win- f,^/jl, , Nf6 2c4e6 3Nc3d5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 c4 d5 4 Nc3 c5 5 cxd5 fal.ssR) toiic (yuc), iM chandler cM 4Nf3c6 5e3 ring with lA'1,112, a fu1I point ahead of arzi, Quin- NbdT 6 Bd3 dxc4 7 Bxc4 8 Bd3 a6 Nxd5 6 e3 Nc6 I Bc4 cxd4 g exd4 Be7 teros rzRG), IM Soltis (usA), Cll. Janose- b5 Womenrs World Champion Maya Chiburdanid- 9 e4 c5 l0 d5 c4 11 9 0-0 0-0 10 Rel Nxci tl bxc3 vic (yUG), GM Christiansen dxe6 cxd3 lZ b6 t2 zc.. Both pleyers were undefeaied. 'Ihird lUsA), Il{ van exdT+ QxdT 13 Bg5 Bb7 L4 O-O 15 Riemsdyk (BRZ) [' I]1 Wejnstein 4r, Be7 was Veroczy-Petronic on and {OSA) Rel Rd8 16 e5 Ng4 17 fHur'l B Apart from foLlr Ne4 0-0 18 h3 equaL fourth were Star]ler (yLtG) atd vat the winners, Bxe4 19 Rxe4 only Seirawan made a GM norm der Mije (NL) oa 7 .... 13 players. - this com- pletes his IM qualification. De Eirmian, 19...Nxf2ll 20 *** van derr Sterren, Morris, Peters, Brad- % %s@tlfti Kxf 2 Bxg_5 2l Nxg5 ford and Odendahl achLeved IM norms, rhe Kf7 31 tlh5+, t ./. Qf5+ 22 Qf3 Qxg5 1 : 0. The annual Louis D. Sl"atham Masters- first tldo thus gaining the Lit1e. 23 Rd.7 d2 24 Qe3t ZAITSTV-+LACHETKA, []lus Tournament at L0NF- PINE was n nine .t t a Griinfel d Defence : SEIRAI/AN - LARSEN, EngI ish: 1 c4 f5 2 ,%E%.D,71, (24 of4) 25 1 round Swiss played 25 }larctr to 4 April. % Qf5+ d4 t{f6 2 c4 p_b I Nc3 d5 4 cxd5 Nxd5 Nc3 Nf6 3 93 e5 4 Bg2 Bel 5 Nf3 d6 6 Ke2 Rd5 26 Rxd2 Lhis year 27 {llls and 22 IMs competed 5 e4 Nxcl 6 bxc3 Bg7 7 Bc4 0_0 g Ne2 0-0 0-0 7 d3 KhB ll Rbl a5 9 alJ ll'xdz+ Z7 Kxd2 tor rhe $45,000 prize fund. Qe8 QfI c5 9 0-0 Nc6 trO Be3 Qc7 11 Rcl RdB l0 c5 al+ tr1 cxd6 tsxd6 12 NC2 Ra7 13 28 94? Rc8 29 12 The two Soviet GMs Tseshkovsky and Qel Qd2 b5 13 Bh6 Bbi 14 BxgT KxgT 15 Nc4 Bc5 14 b3 axbS tr5 Qxb3 lic6 16 e3 Rd8+ 30 Rcl Qd3 Ronanishin arrived ro play buL withdrew cxdl+ 16 cxd4 Qd6 f Z eS Qt+ tA qu:l Na5 i7 Qb5 Qe7 18 Nxa5 Bd7 19 Qb3 31 b3 Rc8-r 32 Kb2 _f4 when Korchnoi was allowed to compete - Na5 19 Bd3 RacB 20 f5 Rxcl 21 Qxci Rxa5 20 QxbT Qd6 2i Itdl Bxa3 22 d4 Qc2+ 33 Ka3 a5 34 e6 b4+ 35 Ka4 Qc6+ Nc6 22 ITSSIl players are bovcottirg events in a3 ea5 23 f6+ exf6 24 exf6t exd4 23 Rxd4 Qc5 24 BdZ Ra'l 25 Qb3 36 Kxa5 Qc5+, 0 : I. whir:lr the recent WorLd Championship Kf8 25 Qh6+ Ke8 26 QxhT Ne5 27 dxe5 Qe7 116 Nb5 Bxbir 27 28 , hallcnger part icipat(. i, Qxb5 Qe6 Qb8 *** Qc5+ 28 Khl l{xd3 29 Qg8+ 30 3c5 29 RdS Qg8 30 Rxf8 3l Qf8 Qg7 llarly lavourites were Korchncri and Qxf8 Qxf8+ Rd2 31 Nf4, I : 0. Ilxf8 32 Rb8 Kg8 33 Bb4 Ral+ 114 Bf 1 c5 l.arsen but the 1a[ter was beafen by the A very strong DUTCH CHAMpI0NSHIp 35 Bc3 Rdl 36 Kg2 Kf7 37 Bc4* Ke7 38 was *** Anerican junior Yasser Seirawan in round won by IM ligterink Bxf6* gxf6 39 Rb7-l- Rd7 40 Rb6 Rd6 47 wirh l0l13, ahead tuo uhile Korchnoi was leading wrt.h 3!tl4 of IM Ree and GM Timan on 9. Then GM Rb5 Rc6 42 Rb7+ Kd6 43 RxhT Rb6 44 Ex-Wor1d Champion Tigran petrosian won bei:ore losing in the fifth round to Donner & IM van der Wiel Baljon & Iidl Rb2 4-5 Rh4 Kd5 46 Rxf5 c4 47 Rd4+ 7l; the annual TALLINN tournament (March) Liberz-on . .. . and in round six to Lom- GM Sosonko 7; van der i(c5 43 Be5 Rb4 49 Kf3 c3 50 RdS Rb6 V1iet, IM Btihrn & with L2/16, a half-poinr ahead of Soviet bardyl In the last two rounds Korchnoi IM Langeweg 6; IM Hartoch 51 Bf5 Be7 Rd7 Bd6 53 h4 Rb2 54 5N; van Dop GMrs Vaganian ancl Ta1, petrosianrs vic_ drew with Diesen and Kaplan and finlshed -52 tla; llofland 4; van der Weide 2. Rd8 Kc6 55 Rc8+ Bc7 56 Rf8 c2 57 tory only came in the last round when he llrh: wirh 5! points. Rxf6+ Ed6 58 Bxc2 Rxc2 59 Kd7 60 *** beat Sax while the then leading Ta1 The first clear leader Sahovic who 94 lost was h5 Be7 61 Rf5 Bh4 62 Kg2 Ke6 63 h6 against Ivanovic; in fact, the yugoslav led rounds and after 6 with 5 points Bf6 64 e4 Btl4 65 Kg3 Re2 66 f3 Be5+ YUG0SLAV GM could be said rhe CHAMPI0NSHIP (10-25 Feb.) to have decided fhe unintaioed tris lead after round sevel. 67Rxe5+,1:0. was, this year, a l3-round Swiss with final placings as he lost to petrosian The Yugoslav GM lost to Liberzon the 42 players. New champion was GM Nemet but beat both runners-upl Other scores: text clay, however, and the Soviet emi- LIBERZ0N - K0RCHN0I, Caro-Kann Defence: CM rdith 10 points. Ile was followed by IM Bronstein (USSR) lO; Veingold fU.9SR) gre shared the Iead with Hort and Gligo- 1 e4 c6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 dxe4 4 Nxe4 Nf6 Nikoloc, IM Rogulj & GM Vukic 8%; IM Gl4 Sax (HUN) 9r; Zilbersrein fUsSR) r IM ric. trn the last round, Liberzon chose 5 Nxf6+ exf6 6 Bc4 Nd7 7 Ne2 Bd6 8 Messing, IM Todorcevic, IM Kelecevic, Harrsron (ENG), CM Knaak fDDR) 6, IM t-he Exchange variation against l{ort's Bf4 Nb6 9 Bb3 0-0 10 0-0 Bg4 li f3 C?l Raicevic, IM Karaklaic & IM Nikolac Lechtynski (CZ) 8) IM Nei rUS.SR) & cM French Defence for an early draw vhile Bxf4 12 Nxf4 Bf5 13 c3 Qc7 14 Nd3 8; Z.Nikolic, GM Janosevic, GM Velirui- Christiansen (USA) 1r. Vooremaa fUsSR) Larsen and Cligoric both played for the Rad8 15 Re1 96 16 Nc5 Nd5 17 Qd2 b6 rovic & INIPopovic 7141' GM Kovacevic, & IM Vr'1ela (CUB) 6; PiLov (USSR) 5ta; win .".. but drew after five hours. Of 18 Ne4 Kg7 19 Radl Nf4 20 93 Ne6 2l C}I Matulovic, GM Marjanovic, IM Antunac, GM Ivanovic (yUG) 5; IM Rantanen f.Frlv) the group behind, only Gheorghiu caught Nf2 c5 27 d5 c4 23 Ba4 Nc5 ,24 Bb5 Bd3 IM Bjelajac & Maksircvic 7; GM planinc 2r" Category 8 (243i,), c = t2, r = gr. up wi fh a win against Tarjan. 25 Bc6 Rd6 26 b4 Nd7 27 Nxd3 cxd3 28 & Sprecic 6! . .. PETROSIAN-SAX, Final scores: 1-4 GM Gligoric (YUG), Re7 Rxc6 29 dxc6 Qxc6 30 f4 b5 31 Pirc Defence: 1 Nf3 s6 2 GM [lort (CZ), GPI Gheorghiu (RUM) & Cl{- Qxd3 Nb6 32 Qd4 Na4 33 Rcl Rc8 31r Re3 * e4 Bg7 3 d4 d6 4 Nc3 Nf6 5 Be2 0-0 6 Liberzon (ISR) 6r; 5-10 GM Larsen a6 35 94 Qc7 36 95 Qb6 37 Qxb6 l{xb6 0-0 Bg4 7 Be3 Nc6 8 Qd2 e5 9 dxe5 67 66 38 Rd3 Rc6 39 Rel fxg5 40 fxg5 h6 4l mde a GM norm in scoring 8 points. GM played in llong Kong from 25 March to 1 Matanovic (YUG) & GM Browne (USA) h4 hxg5 42 hxg5 Na4 43 Ree3 Rc4 44 Shmkovich (USA) was clear second on 7! 71ai April. The seven round Swiss was won by 9 GM Bukic (YUG) 7; 10-13 cM Rd4 Rc7 45 Rdd3 Rc4 46 Kf2 Rg4 47 Rg3 while Meyer and Kaufman (bth USA) cafre Marovic Singapore vith 19128. Manila 18L and (YUG) GlI Vukic GM Rc4 48 Ke2 Rc7 49 Kd2 Nb2 50 Rd8 Nc4+ in equal third on 7. Then followed IM , fyrc), Marjanovic Peking & Jakarta 18 were very close be- (YUG) & GM G.Garcia (CUB) GM 51 Kd3 f6 52 Kd4 fxg5 53 Rxg5 Kh5 54 Fomanek 6%; GM Ostojlc, IM zuckeman, 6t4, 14-15 hind. Then came Canton 16!, Hong Kong A llernandez (CUB) & GM (wG) Rc5 Rf7 55 Rc6 Rf2 56 RgB Rf4+ 57 Kd5 Va1vo, Rlnd & Goodnan 6; IM Chandler, Kurajica 6; 16, Shangha:i 14!, Bangkok 11r, Tokyo 10, 16 Sibarevic (yUG) Ne3* 58 Ke5 Rg4 59 Rxa6 NdI 60 Rc6 Plaskett & Fabio La Rota 5'a ,... 4. Kuala Lumpur 9, Penang B!, Hong Kong B The tournament, played 13 2 Nb2 61 Kd5 Na4 62 Ra8 Rg2 63 Ra5 Rg3 April - 6. I,tost teams were not at fu11 sareogth. l'{ay, was Category 10 (average 64 c4 Nc34 65 Kc5 bxc4 66 Kxc4 Ne4 67 *** rating a4 Nd2+ 68 Kd5, I : 0. *** 2487). The GM nom was l0%, IM norn 7%. GM Mark Taimanov (U.9SR] won the tour- KASPAROV BR0WNE, Queen's indian Def.: GHEORGHIU - TARJAN, Queen's Indian Def: At DORTMUND (BRD) cM Tamas Georgadze namenr ar BUCHAREST ln March vith 9\/15. 1d4Nf6 Zc4e6 5 I d4 Nf6 2 c4 e5 3 Nf3 Bb4+ 4 Nbd2 b6 fussR) won with 8%/11 ahead of Juraj 3Nf3b6 4a3c5 other scores were: GM Suba (Ru[), GU d5 Ba6 6 exd5 7 cxd5 d6 8 Nc3 5 e3 Bb7 6 Bd3 c5 I a3 Bxd2* 8 Bxd2 Nikoj-ac. This was the secood and f inaf Qc2 Ci.ocaltea (RUM) & IM GhiEescu (RUM) 9i NbdT 9 Bf4 Bel 10 1 1 Bg2 Re8 0-0 9 Bc3 Ne4 I0 Bxe4 Bxe4 11 dxc5 GM nom for the 4l-year o1d Yugoslav, 93 0-0 C:I,l Bel1on (SP), GYI Uhlnann (DDR) & Biri- 12 0-0 I'[h5 13 Bd2 Nhf6 14 Rfel Bf8 15 bxc5 12 Qd6 Nc6 13 Qxc5 Rc8 14 Qd6 f6 Olher scores: Nunn (silG.) 7%; Ghinda escr (aUM) 8\; IM Stoica (RUM) 8, IM a4 Ng4 15 Nb5 Bb7 ll e4 a6 18 Na3 Rb8 15 Nd2 896 16 0-0 Qc7 17 QxcT RxcT 18 (RU,t) , Miles (ENG) & Jaasa (Cz) 6:, Bou- Haik (FRA) 7\; GM Barczay fHurv), I}I Ro- 19 h3 Ngf6 20 Bc3 21 Nd2 BcS 22 e4 RbB L9 b4 Bf7 20 b5 Ne5 21 Bxe5 azLz (TUN), Schiissler fsrdE) & Borik Qc7 gtli GUG), Bielczyk (POI) & Foisor BfI g5 23 Nf3 h6 24 Nc4 b5 ?5 axb5 fxe5 22 a4 Kf9 23 Rfcl RbcB 24 a5 d6 (BRD) 411' cerusel (BRD) 4; Perecz (RUM) 6t4i Negulescu (RUM) 6i IM Peev axb5 26 e5 Nxd5 27 Nxd6 Bxd6 28 exd6 25 b6 axb6 26 axb6 Rb7 27 c5 Be9 28 (HUN) 3\t Bijhnfeldr fBRD) 3. (BUL) 5\; IM Lanc (cz) 5. 29 Ne5 Nb4 30 Nxe5 31 Rxe5 f3 Rcb8 29 Nc4 dxc5 30 Ra5 Ke7 31 QdS Qd2 GEORGADZE MILES, Sic.ilian Dragon: Rxe5 32 Rxe5 Nc6 33 Nxe5 34 Rxc5 Bd7 32 Nxe5 Kd6 33 Ra5 Be8 34 - Qe3 Qxe5 *** 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 c4 35 Bg2 Be6 36 Ra7 b4 37 lle4 cl 38 Nc44 Kc5 35 Rdl Rf7 36 Rd6+ Kb7 37 5 Nc3 6 Be3 Bg7 7 f3 0-0 8 tsc4 Bd7 Bh7+ KxhT Ra7+ Kc8 38 Rxe6, I : 0. 96 39 Qxe6, 1 : 0. SARAJEV0, 11-27 March: 1-3 GM Knezevic 9 Qd2 Nc6 I0 h4 RcS tl Bb3 h5 l7 KASPAROV MARJAN0VIC, Indian Murray Chandlerrs 502 score included (YUG), C,M Earago (HuN) & GM Kurajica 0-0-0 Ne5 13 Bg5 Rc5 14 94 hxg4 15 - Queen's Defence: 1 d4 2 c4 3 Nf3 4 wins against GMrs Rajkovic and Nikolic (vue ) 9l

I Annotated Games White was desperately short of time 10 e5 NeB 11 d4 cxd4 12 cxd4 Bf5 fhe first three gares were played ln Eorced - the capture on b5 loses to but sti1l managed to win the endgame. the Eowick-Pakuranga Open Toumailent, The position is theoretically won for Garbett realises that 9 a4 has slight- . ..Rc1*. 1y weakened the white squares Played 1n February. Notes are by Richard White of course, but the rest of the and he en- Sutton. 14...Ba6 15 a3 Qa5 16 f3 game was iloE recorded. visages tactical use of that fact - he aims at both b3 and c2, and if 13 Nc3, How else can he untangle his pieces? gtsg then 13...Nb4 is troublesome for White" E.M.GREEN C.LAIRD And White now threatens 17 axb4 Qml 18 tsut Whiters next up plan Kf2 slows this con- Slav, Exchange wlth enough compensatlon for the ex- siderably so Black may have done change C.LAIRD P.A.GARBETT better possibly. to play 12.."Qb6 13 Nc3 Nc7 with flexi- I d4 Nf6 2 c4 3 Nc3 cxd5 c6 d5 4 16...Nc6!? Sicil ian Defence bLe play. Greenrs favourite response to the Slav Defence, Black wavers between the tactical 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 c3 Nf6 4 Be?!? 13 Qb3! Na5 14 Qb4 f6 and i-t poses a nice positional (using question for Black: should his time advantage) and the posi- A typical Laird opening slow, seem- BlackIs pieces he mintain tional (pressure - are not rrell placed to the symeEry and risk unfavourable tac- on the c-fi1e), but it ingly unanbitious, but with long tertr exploit Lhis break. Berter i.s 14.".Nc6 is difficult to see a more aggressive tics by ...Bf5, or should he submit Eo prospects which should not be under- 15 Qa3 (i5 Qb3 Na5; .1.5 Oxb/?? Na5 16 the slight positional disadvantage of continuatiofl though 16...Bc4, intending estimated. I,Jhat is more, it has been RbB and f7.".Nbi) 15.".Qb6, ...Bb3, 9b4 but keeping his llght-squared bishop behlnd may be nore togical. carefully culled from ECO for its Black is still intrigued by those white Itrappy' potential hi-s pawn structure with ...e6 and ... 17 Nxc6 Rxc6 18 Kf2 h5? r if Black is a tacti- squares .... Bd7? Laird chooses the latter option on ca1 player. One envisages the following 15 Bd2 16 Nc3 17 Nxe5 hls sixth move. This aggression, after his last posi- train of thought in Blackrs mind: "I b6 fxe5 tlonal rcve, does not appear justlfied. obviously cannot take on e4 because If 17

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