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i I i MadeinGermany. I Notabadthing NEW ZE.ALAND CHESS Registered at Post Office Headquarters, Wellington as a magazine. I tohavestamped Vol. 7 No.3 June 1981 80 cents onyour next fliglrt. I Look Ior this sign when you shop lor travel. The moreyou fly QlurthansaGERTAN AIRLINES Royal tntltrrncr Bldg. 109-113 Ouoen Sl" Auckland, N.Z. TC.: 31529 P.O. Box 1427 Charles Patri ck Bel ton R. I . P. .. NEl,l ZEALAND CHESS is published bi-monrhly by the New Zealand Chess Asriot lirl ion, P.O. Box 8802, Symonds Street, Auckland. Months of issue are Fcbrua ry, n r i I June, August, october and December. l) , Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed my not necessarily be Llroso the Association. ol a tribute to a man who remined an enthus- EDIT0R: Robert W.Smith,:IO Lendic Ave,, E D ITlIR IAt iastic supporter of the game for over 50 Henderson, Auckland B. years' First of all, many thank-s for all the ASS0CIATE perer.SEuarr, rn memory of charles r am organising a EDITORS: Orrvin Sarapu IM, Tony Dowden (Otago), contrlbutions received for this issue.- Vernon Sma11 (Canterbury) spec ial tournamenL nexL monLh(see coming and Mark Evans (Weitington) r nave Deen unaDte ro use some 01.-.,' Ltrem , cvents) whit.h J. hopc al I wi II s'rpport. Decause 01 pressure or L lme and spdce, A11 contributions should be sent to the Editorrs ad.dress. Unused manuscripts but I have several which will be handy Bob smith' will not be returned unless stamped, addressed envelope is enclosed. and wonrt date saved for future r"", i-.- cluding fol1ow-ups to "Brain-Rot and Other Forms of the Game"(April 1981 NZ Chess)" Ilowever, more contributions are always DEADLINES: CQNTENTS The de.dline for both copy and advertising is the 6th of the month welcome. preceding the oonth of issue. Thls issue is a 1itt1e later than I 0bituary - C.P. Belton pgs 58-59 would have liked because of several pg ex- BOok ReVieW - The Vienna 0pening- 59 cuses: a/ some tournament organisers seem The Australian Junior ChampS. pgs 60-62 a 1itL1e tardy in foruarding reporrs of The NZ pgs ADVERTISING g3O Junior Champs. 62-65 RATES: per fu11 page, gt5 per column or half page, g7.50 per tournarents; Coming Events pg half columr. 65 b,/ I took some time off to acrually North Island Championships pgs 66-69 play chess by travelling to the North Panel POsers pg 70 Island Championships and therehy delayed Overseas News pgs 71-73 publication to include my reporr on rhar Easter Round the Country Pgs 74-16 suBscRIPTI0N RATES: rhese are annual and are in New zeaLand dolrars. tournament(see page 66); Spassky Draws with Chandler Pg 76 cf I tnve been busy moving house. Games Section Pgs 7Z-E1 New Zealand $5-00 overseas (Surface mail) $6.50 As you will note from the inside front Local News pg A1 cover, the Edltorrs address is now l0 Grading List Pgs 82-84 Airmil: Australia & south pacific $9" r0 Asia & North america Lendic Ave, I{enderson, to which all ma- South $10.00 America, Europe & Africa $11._50 terial should be sent. On the question of contributions, I am Note: A11 enquirles regarding advertising or subscriptlons should be sent to personally amazed at the lack of response The Adninistration offlcer, New Zearand. chess Association, p.o. Box gg02, to Vernon Smallrs excellent suggestions Symonds Street, Auckland. on restructuring selection procedures ("Vernon Sma11 - A Profilerr, April 1981 NZ Chess). Perhaps everyone is happy with the way ACKN0WLEDGMENT: Thanks are due to rBM for rheir donation of the rBM selecEric things are done at the moment, or is it Typewriter used to produce this magazlne. just the rapathetic New Zealand attitude' prevailing? This issue includes the new column I annomced in April: "Panel Posers". Thanks to those who sent in queries; it is essential to have audience part- icipation for this feature to get off the ground and be of value to chess players around the country. On a sadder note, we record the pass- ing of one of the pioneers of organised chess in this country - Charles Belton. Ortvin Sarapu says it for us all with ta OBITUARY- and from Ner^r Zealand, as well as helping established fact in every New ZeaLand financlally other clubs and the natiotal championship(there has been some im- BOOk ReVie17y- C.P. association. BELTON Unfortunately the nembers of the club i;:";::::"i",,i3i"'l3ll.xiiiT"::i 11,",.. Thg opening comittee at the time disagreed with Charles was a fighter all his life, By Bobvienna Gibbons A part of chess history ended on April Charles' idea and the deal fe11 through. not only in the chess arena. The Vienna is characterised by the moves 9, 198I, when Charles patrick Belton Some even mistakenly accused him of IIe was just on the way to winning an 1 e4 e5 2 Nc3 and this hundted-page mono- died at the age of 76, trying to get conmission on the sale: argment with the government over his graph by Tim llarding is packed with a Charles was a hundred percenE chess- An article in rhe August 1952 issue of 1Ife insurance company when he died so wealth of analysis and variations arising player throughout his life and actively "The New Zealand Chesspl-ayer"(editor: A. suddenly " chiefly frorn the moves 3 f4, 3 Bc4 and the participated in many tournaments for well L. Fletcher) helps to fill in a 1itt1e In L9l5 as the President of NZCA, he quieter 3 g3. over 50 years. rnore of Charlesr chess background. found himself involved in a fight with The book has been readlly ava11able for IIis last toUrnament was the llowick- In the article it states that C.p. Be1- another group within the NZCA council. some time, havlng been published in 1976, Pakuranga tourney in February this year ton began playing chess in Jerusalem in This took a lot out of him and his and forms part of a series written by the in which he won a grade prize. 1923 at the age of 18 when stationed health suffered badly, as did the health author on the less fashionable openings, The first time I met Charles was in there in a seri-military positlon under of his chief oppotrent. There is some degree of overlapping with Napier at the New Zea1.and. Championships the British colonial office. For 30 years I have played chess with Hardingrs tBishop's Openingr but although ot l95l/2, where he scored a respe.tabl. About 1928 he joined the Auckland Chess Charles in clubs and at home. the themes are the same, many of the qx- six points out. of eleven in the champion- Club and a few years later was nainly Itre was one, of my best friends during amples are new. shlp proper. responsible for rd-establishing the club that long perio<i. The Vienna Opening ceased to be f,ashion- In 1954 and 1957 he won the North Island in its present(then Queen St) fine rooms Charles Beltou lived an interesting able in the early part of the century, and Championship ahead of the then New Zealand by giving a personal- guarantee for ex- and fu1l life and those who knew him is frequently dismlssed as being passive. champion, Rodney Phil1ips. pens es . well will always remember him. Bu! is an excellent weapon for enter- In 1959 Charles had his last real chance Ee supported opening prislng club players, concealing as it does the of suburban O. Sarapu to win the New Zealand Chanpionship in chess clubs in Auckland(at the time there mny sharp a4d aggressive variat|ons. Hamilton. was great opposltion to that; some had The most faniliar is the Frankenstein- After leading for most of the tournament the idea that chessplayers would be split Dracula variation in which black gives up he fe11 il1 and the medici.ne he took had a into snall groups. It is clear norr that his queenrs rook for counter-attacking bad effect on his play; he lost the last ctless actually gained far more players.), chances against the whlte king. Then there three games. Charles helped to introduce chess into is the notorious Steinitz gambit, yet to Besldes playing good chess even in his Gisborne schools it !937, as part of his be proved unsound, in whlch white centr4- later years(he beaE Vernon Suall in the general policy of encouraging young play.- llses his klng as a provocative targe! in- 1980 Waitemata weekend tournament and in ers. the opening. the same year beat me in the Auckland In 1936 he was Hamilton champion and in There are however quieter channels for Chess Centrers lightni.ng teams tournament) 1950 won the championship of the Auckland players unaccustomed to earl-y violent Charles was also a generous financial Chess C1ub, after many near misses. surges of adrenalin in their systems. sponsor of chess activities. During World War II, he played chess ih The book uses English descrlptive notat: Most younger players would be unaware Cairo with other New Zealanders C.B. New- ion lnstead of the farniliar figurine not- that Charles formed a building fund for ick and D.I" Lynch(from the "NZ Chessplay- ation, and al-though lt 1s generally well I the Auckland Chess Club and donated a er't 1952). set out lt could have been improved by large sum of money. Charles Belton has been the President using bold type for the principal variat- When evenrually ihe Auckland Chess Club of the Auckland Chess C1ub, Seeretary of ions.