M" 1959·1960 Ca.Mpaig" 70 Members, Giving It a July 5 Total Only 15 Short of Its Arch·Rival on the Other Coast
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• • A m l!rica ~ d ll~tJ nflW~pal"r Co pyr Ight l t60 by UnIted , t." 1 C h.n, "~""~~" ~"~'~" _______________--': ~-,;----:_ ~V~o~L~X~IV~,~N~o~,~2~3~ _ ___ __________~F~"=da=y~.~A=ug~u~'I~S~,~1~ 9 ~60~ _________ _ ______ _ ~lS~C~.~n~",- RESHEVSKY LEADS AFTER 13 OF 19 ROUNDS STUDENT TEAM LENINGRAD BOUND AT BUENOS AIRES - KORCHNOI AND UNZICKER NEXT In the invitational grandmast !;, r 10urn:lIll('nl in Bu c' nos Aires. wi th thirteen completed rounds (of ninelt'en) Samuel R(' s h evsk ~' of the USA has a slim half·point lead over Korchnoi of th e USSR and Unzicker of West Germany. In 4th place. at this stage. Larry Evans of the USA and Laruo Szabo of Hungary are lied. P;J\ Benko and Bobby Fischer, the other two USA players, have minus scores. Standing of the players aft er thirteen rounds: IV L IV L Res hcvsky ................. .... ... 9 4 ivkov ................... .. .... ...... .6 )~ 6% Korchnoi ................. ......... 8 Ih 4!f.1 Benko .................... _........ 6 7 Unzicker .......................... 8 1h 4 1h Gligol"ic .......... _.. _. _._ __ ._.... 6 7 Evans ................................8 5 Pachman ...... .................... 6 7 Szabo ................................ 8 5 Wexler ..... ___ ._.... __ . __ __.. __... 6 7 OIafsson ..........................7 1h 5* El iskases ............... ......... 5 Rossetto ..... ..................... 71h 51h Fischer ......... _................. 5 • Uhlmann ................. ..... .... 7Ih 5lh ~·os u e llllan .. __ ....... ... ,... ,.. 4 1~ •.% Guimard ... ..... ... ............... 7 6 Bazan ........................ ,. .. ....4 Taimanov ....... .................7 6 Wade ., ................... ...... .. ...2 % • • TOURNAMENT REMINDERS ~ Aug. 6-7-CINCINNATI OPEN, Parkway YMCA, Cincinnati, Ohio (CL- A strong stude nt t u m now Lonlngrlld, compet ing 71'160) Champ ionship Stud. nt T.lm Chl mplonshlp tourna m. nt. Shown in photo I bOv", Aug. B-19-U.S. OPEN, Hotel Sheraton-Je!lerson, St. Louis Mo. (Clr . ... J.rry Sp.nn, USCF .. Aft.... t , FIDE Vice P'Hld.... t . I nd ml nlg.r ')f tum, 5120/ 60) u"ppu left; Cenler, Raymond W.lnll.'n; Right, WIUlim Lomblrdy; leaving Aug. 27·2.9 PAN HANDLE OPEN, Lubbock, Texas (C L-12/ 20/ 59) New Yor k. Charr.s Kllme, Edma r Med nil , Anthony Saldy and Eliol Hurst will meat them In L. n lngr.d. Sept. 3·5-S0UTHWEST OPEN. AJbuquerque, New Mexico (CL-S/ 5/60) TOURNAMENT RESULTS CDrrection in Manhattan CC SCHROEDER COLUMBUS ANNUAL MINNESOTA.MANITOBA MATCH, at Detroit Lakes, Minn., Championship Standings CITY TITLIST June 19, 1960. Official drawn match, 121h ·121h on 25 hoards. Minnesota Reference is made to the neWf The Columbus, Ohio, C i I Y failed to fi eld a eompi'ete team, and forfeited four games. Curt Braskel item printed in the J une 20 issue Championship, played from March and D. A. (Ahe) Yanofsky dl·ew on BOlml 1. M. Otte~o n , G. Koelsche, of CHESS LIFE, Page 7, Co l. S, to May, saw J ames Schroeder score W. Kaiser, D. Smith, R. Gusydan, E. Taylor, L. Kite, E. Heisler, and pertaining to Benko's fine will. 972 of a possihle 10 points, and It Schelberg won for Minnesota, while J. Filkow, R. Bedard, E. Meyer, Unfortunately our report was re' emerge as winner, a full two points I. Hurwitz, and A. Tymkiv were victorious {or Ma nitoba, in addition to ceived and relayed to you before above his r unner·up Ervin Under· J . Promislau, A. Olin, B. Walk, and M. Setby who scored the tying all the adj ourned games had been wood, who scored 71h·21h to take points by forfeit. played oCr. and although none of second place. Third, with 61,2, was 1960 HERMAN STEINER CHESS CLUB MASTERS TOURNAME NT, them could affect the Cact that Tim Anderson. 4th, Tom Kuhn, 6; played Los Angeles J an. to April. 10 rounds, 20 players. l si, James Benko was ihe winner of the title. next came Harold Snyder and Barry, 7 ¥.!·2lh; 2nd, Ronald Gross, 7·3; Steven Mazner. 6'h ·3ifl ; Irvi ng the result of one of them changed Gregory Sheridan, each with 5lh· Levitan, 61h·31h; Morris Gordon (last ye3r's winner) 6-4. Di reeled by the complexion of Arthur Bis· 4ih, in an unbroken tie for 5th . Gene L. Rubin. e uier's reported undisputed 2nd pl ace. Attilio DiCa millo, the Phila· Also [rom Columbus came news RHODE ISLAND STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, played at Providence Chess delphia master who commuted to of the Third Annual Battelle Club, MarCh to May, 1960. 1st, Walter SUesman, 7·1 (undefeated): 2nd, and from New York to play in the Tournament, a 5 round Swiss, Peter Gould, 6·2; 3rd, Russel Ch urch, 5·3: 4th, Will iam Go uld, 5·3; event, won an adjourned game a played Feb. to April, with 14 play· 5th, James Di Domenico, 4 1h; -3'"h. Co ncurrent events produced Chess B. week latel", and by so doing pulled Champion, Ray March, and Class C Champi\)n. Robert Barry. Sp<iTIsored himself into an unbroken tie with ~~~-:-g:n eE ~~~n:~~1~r::3d3r~~B~~ by the R.I. State Chess Association, the events were directed by Andrew Arlhur Bisguier for the second Allen, 31h· l ifl. Arseneault. spot. Final standings of the ten NORTH CAROLINA CHAMPIONSHIP, played at Raleigh, N. C., June finalists (ollow: SMYSLOV AND HIS 18, 19, 1960. 1st. David Steele (6), 5·0; 2nd. Vernon Robinson, 4-1; 1. P. Benko, 7·1Yz; 2nd, 3rd (Tic) 120 BEST GAMES 3rd, Harry Bcyte, 31h·1'h; 4th Keywood Che\'es, 3·2; 5th, Peter Gamm, A. Bisguier. and A. DiCamillo, by J . Spence I nd A. L.ipnieks 3·2. Sponsored by the N.C.C.A., the l4·player event was dirccted by 6·3; 4th, 5th (Tie) Dr. K. Burger, A complete volu mo of the be$!. games Dr. A. M. J enkins. of the ex· ... orld champion. Complete and K. Farkas, 4lh -4 'h; 6th, 7th, annotatlons, photos, d llgrams and GREAT LAKES OPEN. played at LaGrange, Illinois, May 28·30, 1960. 8th , (Tie) H. Cohen, A. Kevilz, and cross·tables. Orlglnally listed at 'HID. Sponsored by the Great Lakcs Chess Associ3tion, Ih is event drew 99 W. Shipman; 9th, A. Kaminski, 187 p ages. entrants from 8 states. Stephan Popel o{ Detroit topped the field with 3·6; 10th, M. Siegel, I 1h·7 1h . Special prlU 10 USCF memb. rs...... ~2 . SO 6-1, having won 6 and losing one to 18th plnee Valdis Turns, Kazys Skerna was 2nd, also with 6·1, with 5 wins and 2 draws. James E. Warren, lll., Vasa Kostic, Ind., Lajos Szedlacsek. Ohio. and Angelo Sandrin, Ill., placed LAST CALL FOR U.S. OPEN 3rd to 6th in the ordcr listed aft er each had scored 51h -I %, Warren and Kostic gO ing undefeated. Head ing a group oC 8 masters and ex]X!rLs AUGUST 8-19 who seGTed 5-2 was the sensation of the tournamenf, Thomas Cusick. a Junior from JoLiet, Di., who started the event with a uscr rating of HOTEL SHERATON-JEFFERSON 1650, and whose loss to Popel in the last rou nd placed him in the 71h spot, rather than in the championship berth which would have been his ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI had he won the game. MIC HIGA N USCF NATIONAL RAT ING LIST Ypsilanti: Huron Valley Open and Huron Amateur- Apr . 1960 Supplement No. 4 Detroit: Motor City Invltational--Jan.·Apr. 1960 by Fr.nk Brady and Joseph Reinha rdt Lansing: Michigan Amateur- May 1960 The rati ng supplement appea ring in this issue contains rati ngs of Lansing: Class "A" Tournament-March·May 1960 2,000 players and their perfo rmances in 135 events, making this list the Match: L. Brady - R. Snuski largest supplementary list published to date. The names of 2 Grand· MINNESOTA - masters, 37 Masters, 9 Senior Masters and 236 Experts are contained 63d Mi nnesota Championship-Feb. 1960 herein and the rating results of fivc national title events are presented MISSISSIPPI here. Jackson Open-Dec. 1959 Every tournament played and submitted to us for r aling before Natchez: Louisia na and Mi ssiSS ippi June 30, 1960, has been rated with the exceptions of the Greater New Match: E. Edmondson· H. Giertych York Open Championship, the Marshali Amateur Champio nship and the MI SSOURI D.C. Chess League Team Championships-all of which were purposely Great Kansas City Open- Oct.·Dec. 1959 omitted to make the deadline of this issue. 1st Mid·Amer ica Tour nament- Apr. 1960 Inadve rtently omitted were IWO Maryland events- Ihe Maryl and Wesenberg·Latshaw Memor ial Tournament- Feb.·Apr. 1960 Open and the Ma ryland Chess League Team Championships which some· Mi ssou ri Open- May 1960 how slipped by us unnoticed. We si ncerely apologize to the Maryland NE BRASKA organizers and players for omitting these two events and Guar antee Lincoln City Chess Club Championship-Dct. 1959·Mar . 1960 their publication in the next rating supplement, whieb will appear In September. NEVADA By all ind ications, we shall now be able to publish up·to·date Reno Chess Club Tournament-No ... 1959-Mar . 1960 ratings every two mo nths and maintain a rating system that is e£[ecU ... e Nevada Open- RenO-March 1960 with ratings that are no t "ancient history," by the time they reach our NEW JERSEY members. (U.S. Amateur listed ti nder NATIONAL at top) Two new names appear in the ~la s lel' category- Capl. J oh n Hudson Independent Chess Club Summer Tou rnament, 1959 (reported late) Cor his outstanding perfor mance in the recent Armed Forces Champion · Independent Chess Club Christmas Open-Dec.