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CHESS OLYMPICS Final Standings, Premier Section Soviet Union OUR MEN IN HAVANA Evans, Addison, Be nko, Fischer, Ros$olimo, R. Byrne, and Team Captain D. Byrne U.S. TEAM FINISHES AHEAD OF FIFTY COUNTRIES IN XVII CHESS OLYMPICS Final Standings, Premier Section Soviet Union .................... ..39 % Rumania .............. ................26 % United States ......... ............. 34% EillS t Germany ...... .............. 25% Hungary .............................. 33 '/2 Denmark .............................. 20 Yugoslavi a ................. ......... 33 leehlnd ................................ 18% Argentina ............................ 30 Sp"in .................................... 18 Czechosl ovaki. ... ... .............. 29% Norway ................................ 14 Bulga ria .............................. 281h Cuba .................................... 12 Special in our next issue: Detailed re port by Larry Evans Cover photo ftlTll ished by Nicolas RO$$olimo 1:< UNITED STATES ~ Volume- XXI :"' umber I I November, 1966 EDITORS: Lt. Colonel E. B. EdmondS() n and Wm. Go lchberg CHESS FEDERATION PRESIDENT Marshall Rohland VICE·PRESIDENT CONTENTS lsue Kashdan REGIONAL VICE·PRESIDENTS NEW ENGLAND Jamel Bolton Harold Dondla " Get Smart" Extended ." .. , .......... , .. , ................ , ... .. ... .... .............. .. , ..... 260 Ell Bourdon EASTERN Robert LaBene Lew\. E. Wood. Pawn Mass or Pawn Mess?, by Robert Byrne ... ... ... ...... .. ... .. ..... .. ... .... 261 Ml~h. e l Raimo MID.ATLANTIC Earl Clary Twenty Spring Events Regi stered in NTCP .. ... .. .. .. ..... .. .......................... 263 Steve CarrUlhcrt Robert Erkel SOUTHERN PhUlp LImb Chess Ufe, Here a nd There ............................................ 263·287-291-294 P<lle r Lilld. Canoll M. Crull GREAT LAK•• Could W. IIUdl ... Defending My Title, by Pol Benko .................................. .. .................. 2~ Dr. Harvel. MeClellan V . E. V an ..bur l' NORTH CI!NTItAL Dr. oeorl. Tie,. Zap! Zowie! 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