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Price: I - 9, $9.50 each; I0*, $8.50 ach TONY DOWDEN (otago), VERNON SMALL fcanterburg,) ADDRESSES EDITORIAL prospective organisers of the Candl- datesr fi-nal beEween Korchnol A11 articles, letters to the and Rlbli. Edltor, A new chess board in rigid plastic, Readers may be excused for wonderj-ng It ls even possible that such a match etc should be sent to The Editor, 5.3cm squares, brom & white, available about the frequent changes In the paper could decide the next World Champion P.l^I. Stuart, 24 Seacliffe Avenue, folding or non-fo1ding. Only from NZCA! on which this mgazine has been printed slnce it is rumoured that Karpov mighE Takapuna, Auckland Unpublished 9. Price: I -'9, $3.50 each; 10+, each over the last couple of issues. refuse to play the wlnner pre- manuscripts cannot be returned 93.00 in the We think the paper cover glves an lm- sent clrcumstances. This would be unless a stamped, addressed return proved appearance compared wlth the old ironlcal when we envelope is enclosed. consider that Karpov ffi$_ffiffi${s cardboard used for so many years, The gained the World title as a result of June cover was, however, Subscriptions, changes of address Swiss Looping metal a llttle f1lm- defeatlng Korchnoi. in the 1974 Candi- and - case - possibly sy and we got this rlght advertising enquiries should be still the best chess timer available. in August - datest flnal! addressed to the Administration but we dld not lntend to have the same Price: $89.00 each (quantity discount heavy paper Offlcer, New Zealand Chess Associa- on application). throughout the last issue. tion, P.O. Box 8802, Symonds Street, I'inally, wlth this issue werve got lt CONGRESS Auckland. right .... or so we hope! 0rders to: NEl^l ZEALAND CHESS ASS0CIATION The 1983/84 New Also with this issue we welcome cavln Zealand Congress is P.O. 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New Zealand $6.50 With one round sti1l to be played Assembly meets in },l.anila this month for Rounds are from 12:30 pm to 5:30 pm Other countries $S.00 Gary Kasparov and Bent Larsen were i{hat ls likely to be one of lts most each playlng day. assured of flrst turbulent Airmail and second places aesslons. The total prlze fund ia expected to - in the Cligoric Comemorative tourna- The Sovlet Chess Eederatlon has j.n Australia & South pacific be excess of $2500. 910.g0 ment at NIKSIC in yugoslavia. strongly attacked the FIDE leadershlp Entries for the New Zealand Champion- North America & Asia (excl. Kasparov has over its handllng Middle scored 10/13 while of the Candldatest shlp and New Zealand Womenrs Champlon- Easr) $II.8O Larsen, who has completed all seml-flnal match venues and the after- Europe, South America, four- ship elose with NZCA on 16 November. teen games, has 9 points. nath of two forfeitures by fhe Sovlet Entry forms which give mueh fuller Africa & Middle East Sl3.0O in- Other scores (all with one game !o players, obviously the natter r{r111 formtion will be aval1ab1e shortlv to play) in this alI-GM tournamenr are: overshadow the normal business of the all clubs. ADVERTISING RATES Portlsch 7!; Spassky 7; Andersson, meetlngs with some saylng a split ln Miles, Ta1 & Timmn 6!; cligorlc, FIDE could result. Ful1 page 940, half pd.ge or column Ljubojevic, Nikolic, half gt0. Petrosian & In recent developments the Hungarians SOUTH ISLAND CH'P $20, colum Seirawan 6; Sax 5; Ivanotic 4\. are seeklng to have the Ribli-Smyslov Club Directory listing (six issues) match played, very Ilkely as a result Aucklander Paul Garbett took first $6; change in copy g2. of pressure fron blg brother in Moscow. place in the 1983 South Island Champion- One thlng we can be reasonably sure of ship held at Nel-son during the August is that grandmaster Rib1l will have school holidaysl Paulrs 7/8 was a full AC KNOWLEDGEMENT little Thanks say in the malter. Also Ehe polnt clear of the runners-up. are due to lBM for their Soviets have apparently suggested donation of the IBM that The title of South Island Champlon Selectric Eype- the World Chanpionship might be organ- writer used to produce this mgazine. wenE to Vernon Small and Adrian Lloyd ised outside of FIDE - a far cry from who shared second place wlth Welling- their strong opposition to similar tonrs Anthony Ker. suggestions from one R.J.Eischer! We hope to have a report on this Meanwhile blds have been inviEed from evenE 1n our next issue. I01 Can You See the Combinations ? World Junior Report Solutions on page 124 BY JONATHAN SARFATI The ZZnd World Junior Championship three representatives. In a Benoni was held from August l2 to 27 ia Lhe position his queenside pawns never got ''ffi,H"% tom of Belfort in eastern France. going, but my central majority produced ,m There were originally 64 entries but a crushing passed pawn on d6 (see games). three withdrew, leaving 6l fron 56 At the same table Short looked Eo be ttffi ifr'Kz countries - nine more than last year. dolng even better in a similar position 7ru This time, however, there were only versus Franic (NM, Yugoslavia), but %% four IMs, but also five FMs and many reached an unclear position by adjourn- %tffi national msters. This latter title ment - which he managed to lose. : t has a variety of meanings, depending Leading at this stage were Salov and % 'ffit"m, on the country - New Zealand has Georgiev on 41, followed by Saeed, tt .%, % hlgher standards than most. Staniszewski and Pecorelli (Cuba) on 4. w tffi, Top seed, as usual, was former child Next round J. llorvath (Hungary, NM, +l prodigy Nigel Short (IM, 2475), who 2345) provided me with my fourth win 7Mr )\t %ru,t% had recently made a second GM norm. in a row by allowing a worse rook tl Other strong contenders for the title ending, where an outside passed pawn /t were Greenfeld (2460), Dlugy (IM, posed him insoluble problems. 2455), Georgiev (2420), Salov (FM, In iound seven I had a brief skir- No. 1 I{trite to move No. 2 Black to move 2415), Milos (FM, 2410), Staniszewski mish leading to a drawn ending against (NM, 2395), Saeed (IM, 2390), and Barbulescu (Rumanla, NM, 2375), while Stohl (NM, 2380). There were another Salov and Georgiev were stil1 only a dozen players rated over 2300. half point clear of the next two. %H% tA% % The playing hal1 was elaborately set Round eight saw the two leaders win ir%a 'ffi up in the Belfort Patinoire (ice rink) to reach 7, a full point clear of %w which meant that the playing conditions Greenfeld who won an interesting game "ffiD%tt'% ,T, % were satisfactory. I wish I could say from the writer when we were paired up 'm% the same about the food, accomo- on board four. The man expanded on ,%t dation and general organisationl the queenside early on, but won by a The draw for the first round was kingside attackl %T,,rura%: ,{ru-{'m entirely random, so some strong My ninth opponent, Granda (Peru, , players were paired together - notably 2365), a former World U-I4 champion, %H% %t%a Short and Greenfeld (first and second seemed to be blind to my threatened ,,"ffi, (see games) "%ft, seedsl), who played a fighting draw attack and lost quickly . , %a% (see games). I had white versus Losing his first two games by default Salov, a former World U-17 chanpion; I possibly sapped his motivation. %$"/,ru , blundered a pam as darly as move 12 The Ieaders were sorting themselves No.3 l{hite to move No. 4 Black to move and my subsequent desperate attack was out by now. Georgiev beat Greenfeld easily repulsed. while Salov-Barbulescu, Short-SEohI The secon<i tound was similarly dis- and Saeed-Milos were all dram, and astrous ; against Melao-Pereira Trindade (Brazil, IM, 2325) beat ,Et "%2, (Portugal) I was lost right from the Staniszewski.
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