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• • C"(u JJt C DECEMBER 1965 ..!)I 1".1 001 1/' (' oltf!! 65 CENTS C/' m ""ription Ra te IE YEAR $7.00 rflo",'Y ON THE COVER Those of om readers who have also read from th at fasc in ating chess raconteur Irving Chernev or simply from long-past issues of CH ESS REVlEW wi ll know of chess·fabled Stroebeck. Here th en is another item of Stroebeckiana. Th is, Professor M. S. Zit zman of West Ch ester, Pennsylva nia, tell s us, is the only "chess money" ever printed. The faces of the notes appear on the cover, th e reverse below. Those of you who ca n read German and have good magnifying glasses may follow the inscription s. OUI" interest lies in the chess desi gns of this unique cur· rency, which may not get you on even It blacked ·out subway train but does ca rry happy connotations fo r chess spielers, fa ns and ki bitzers. T he bills vary in color mainly on a scroll. like b a c k_ ground [best seen on the 50 pfennings (7) note below- it did not reprodUce w e ll in some colors No. 1 M. H. Kle iman Whit e t o move and draw in t hese lin e cut s]. The paper on each I!: near.white, the print in Jet_black, the s er ia l numbers in russet. br own. T h e " scroll" coloration for the 25 pfg note is a pale via. let. The design is the same as on t he 50 pfg To and f l·O. note in each instance. T he shade of NO.2 G. M. Kasparyan t he background White to move and w in on t he 50 pfg not e is a light orange _ brown [the r ed in _ h erent in t hat co l or does "take" fo r a li ne cut]. T he large note has a gr ee n t int. H or n s of a dilemma. No.3 J. Selman Wh ite to move and draw .. ., . ..- ., Zon 6111b.rjlabllm IlPlf~.n UIII> 6ar1 ,III> 6'0, lIIIl Ielner e~a~'arfI,..- -- , c · , . :0" Equine anUc. 0iiftfg "is 31..1'qem"er 1.9:11. Solutions on page 375. 354 CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1965 CHESS Vol. 33, No.11 REVIEW DECEMBER 1965 for t he complete match, see pages 362_7 Chesswomen in Action At an in ternational women's tourn ament in the Soviet Un iOIl, \Y. Ko slovskaia (USSR) pl aced first wit h 8V2.2 1h . closely pursued by her compatriot Rannikn, 8·3. Nicolau of Hum-nn ia, 7V2·31h, was third. Italian Interlude A fourfold tie for first was registered in a Swiss tourney at San Benedetto del Tranto, Italy, when Nestler, Palmiott o, Porreca and Pa,-lovich each scored 51;4· 2Y2. Sevcri was fifth with 5·3. Countries that were represented in addition to Italy were England, Fl'ance, Swit7.erland and Yugoslavia. Outclassed In a double· round student duel at WUtz· burg, West Germany, the Dutch visitors were no match for their hosts and suc· cumbed h)' 4%.15Yz. Visitors Edge Hosts A Swiss tournament at Eastbourne in England, dubbed the "Open Cham Ilion. Transactions in Thule INTERNATIONAL ship," was won by two foreigners, H. Oslo, Non,-ay, was the scenc of the Rcefschlaegcr of Germany and J. R. Roos Ascendant Star NOl1herll Championship, a round robin of Holland, each 8 ~'2 ·2%. English repre· International graudmaster Vietor Kor restricted to players from Den mark, Ice. scntatives K. B. Hannon, L. P. Burnett rhnoy, a three-time winner of the Suviet land, Norway and Sweden. F. Thorbergs· and P. N. Wallis tied for third through championshi p, is again in the news with son of Iceland and S. Johannessen of fifth with 8·3 each. two bi g triumphs- a 9Y2.3lh tally against No rway headcd the list with 9·2 each and a tough field at Yerevan, ]{u s~ia (which then tied again in a playoff, after wh ich included world champion Tigran Petro Thorbergssoll was granted top honors on From the Editors of C HESS R EVIEW sy an ), und an invincible I'Ph·l/z accumu· the basis vf a point e'·aluation. lation in the Asztalo$ Memorial Tourna TO ALL CHESSPLAYERS ment at Gyula, Hungary. In the latter A Top for Holland The Cdtex international tournament co ntest, Honri and Lengyel were far be FA R AND NEAR hind in a 9·6 lie for second. The Yerevan for teams of four went to Holland on a event saw I'et rosyan and Leonid Stein lie tiebre:lk basis. England equaled Holland's for second with 81/2·41A~ each. Indifferent 20·8 match score, and both countries left scores were turned in by s uch luminaries West Germany far behind in third place as Portisch of Hungary, i\latanovich of with 15·13. Yugoslavia, Filip of Czechoslovakia and Stah lberg of Sweden. The Return of Aben Rudy \Ve heard hom Ahen Rudy again reo Battle in Bulqaria cently. He was explaining the application L. Kavalek of Czechoslovakia scored an 'Jf the term, "Irrcducible Minimum" to outstanding 11 ·4 to take a strong interna· chess. It come8 lip for example when a tional event in Varna, Bulgaria. He was chess situation is so rare and peculiar followed by Kolarov of BlI lgariu with 9%. that it, at the vcry least, mllst cvoke a 5Y2, and a trio wh o were deadlocked at iIDll'rrl1 (]Ii) riutlll au "The deuce you say !" "You know," he 9·6: Bobozov of Bulgaria, !\htulovieh of concluded, " whcn a jlosition is positively Yugoslavia and Lengyel of Hungary. ."b • n.ppy N,w TIror! weird or eery:' CHESS REVlEW, DECEMBER , 1965 355 Spas sky Tied by Unzicker vincible 5·0. Second in the thirty.eight. At Sochi in the Soviet Union, the Tchi. player tourney was John R. Beilling, gorin Memoriul Tournament was won 4%.%. V. W. Harris, whose 4-1 tally was jointly by B. Spassky (Soviet Union) and shared by Robert Spies and Lee Magee, W. Unzicker (Germany), each 10Yz.4Y2. was declared stale champion as highest Neither incurred loss. Third was Chirich ranking Kansan. (Y ugosJavia), 10·5. LOUISIANA Still the Queen Of the 38 pla),ers who tried conclusions Non'a Gaprindashvili retained the worn· at the Louisiana Chess Aisociation Cham_ en's world championship by downing Alia pionship, A. L. McAuley predominated Kushnir in a title match. Both are Soviet in first place with 6·1, ahead of George citizens. Lecompte, 5·1. It was a gratifying victory for McAuley insofar as he has had the frustrating experience of winding up as UNITED STATES runnerup for the past five years. REGIONAL AND INTERSTATE M I NNESOTA Pittsburgh by One Point A playoff to resolve a quadruple tie for In a match between Pittsburgh and first in the Minnesota Junior Champion. Cleveland, the former gained a narrow ship was won by Brendan Godfrey, with victory by 7%.6Y2. F. Sorenson, L. Gard· Robert K. Johnson becoming runnerup, ner, W. Byland, G. Doschek, D. Lawrence and James A. Davies and Ray McRoberts and R. Kinney won for Pittsburgh, while bracketed for the next two places. Each R. Kause, E. Kossak, G. Kromp, L. Ihasz of the four scored 3%·Vz in the regular and L. Battes scored full points for Cleve· tweuty·six.player tOllrnament. land. The following three games were In the Minnesota Equalizer Tourna· drawn (with Pittsburgh players named ment, Ivan Kaszas collected the most ALLA KUSHNI R "equalizer" points and thus won the first· first): M. Lubell 'liS. J. Schroeder, D. She lost decisively to Nona Ga prindash. ]\JcClelian 'lis. H. Hintzer and J . Kolts 'lis. viii, but she stil! has something. place trophy plus a money prize. J. Hoffman. James H. Young and Laszlo Ficsor both scored 4·0 in the State Fair Chess Torna. vantage in tie· break points gave the offi· With New England Students do. Young had a slight advantage in Sol. cial trophy to Hudson. Players with An intercollegiate invitational team koff points. 5%.1 Y:i scores were Z. Kovacs, D. Blohm, tournament, arranged by Norwich Univer. P . Perillo, fit Wilkerson and N. Wood . sity of Vermont, resulted in a 5·0 sweep NEBRASKA for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. IOWA G. Ramirez of Omaha won the state Next was the University of Massachusetts, In the strongest group of the Eleven th title with a 4·1 showing in the combined followed by Norwich University and St. Annllal Iowa Open, played in three see· Nebraska State Championship and Mid· Anselm's College in New Hampshire. tions, the name of Gilbert Ramirez led west Open. l'tIidwest hOl:wrs went to C. all the rest with a 5·0 shutout. Scores of Gant of New York, 4 %'12. 22 played. ALABAMA 4·1 in this forty.six.player section were With a 6·0 sweep, G. C. Bates won the garnered by Melvin Matherly, Paul Hersh, OHIO Alabama Open, followed by Salvador Dan Reynolds. Glen F. ProecheJ, Ray The new state champion 1S Richard Martinez, Jr., 5·1. The seventeen·player Wenzel, John G. Warren and Laszlo Noel, J r., who piled up an unheatable event was sponsored by the Birmingham Ficsor. The " l'vTiddle Class" division was seven straight points. Edward Ernst ami Chess Club. won by Matthew R. Baird, 4· 1, and the Thomas Mazehukowski were second and J unior hy Lee DeWitt, 41f2.Yz .