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• I USCF National Chess Raiings Z VCKER TORT- T o 1lWY( As of May 31, 1·959 COIl(lllcted by Since Ken Harkness did not furnish his usual introduction to the rating Jist, your editor, without knowing anything about the technicali­ FRED M. WREN ties of rating statistics, will attempt to give you a few general fa.cts about Editor CHESS LIFE the list in this issue. The pcrformances of 2 grandmasters, 11 senior masters, 86 masters, and 1488 players ranging from expert to Class C, in US CF rated tour­ In the position at the right the naments have been rated up to and including May 31, 1959, on the basis great Zuckertort played L .... .... , of tournament reports submitted to Mr. Ha rkness. The list of tourna­ R-N!. He won a.fter thirty more ments thus reported is included. If, therefore, you have played in a moves, but IT WASN'T TIIE BEST USCF rated tournamcnt with results which make you believe that your rating should have changed, and if you find that it has not changed, or l'IIOVE. Think of the time and that your name has not been included in this list, please look first of agony he might have saved him­ aU at the list of tournaments which have bcen rated for the compila­ self had he seen the forced mate tion of this list. If thc tournament is listed, inquiry as to your individual in two. 1. ........ , Q-R8ch; 2. KxQ, rating may be made to USCF Rating Statistician, 80 East 11th St., New R-BS mate. York 3, N.Y. If the tournament is not listed, your inquiry should be addrcsscd to the sponsoring USCF chapter or affiliate which promoted the tournament in question. No inquiry concerning rating matters should be addressed to your editor, since such inquiries are simply sent for­ ward to the Rating Statistician in New York. 1000 This is probably not the place to comment on individual rating status = NEW changes, but sinCe Dr. Erich Marchand, 1958 U.s. Amateur Champion, Operation MEMBERS and L. R. Chauvenet, 1959 U.S. Amateur Champion, have been prominent contributors to CHESS LIFE for years, it may not be out of place to mention that they have lost their amateur status, and are now listed ARIZONA, T HE CINDERELLA STOR Y with the masters. And in a year when women's rhess was very ina~tiv~ in lhe United States, our congratulations to Lisa Lane who competed in To: Fred Cramer, General Membership Chairman several tournaments in which she was the only female entrant, and From: Special Confi denti,,! Arizona Correspondent competcd so successfully that she has graduated into the Expert Class, I am sending you this report as I think it's time they published the and has jumped from ninth to third place among the highest USCF-rated Arizona story. As you know, there are really only .two cities, Phoenix women players of the country. and Tucson. At Fort Huchuachua they come and go . Mesa had a chess (Continued on page 9) festival in the Valley of the Sun with 16 players, mostly from Phoenix. Tucson has a small club, mostly unorganized. But Phoenix has Mabel Burlingame, State Membership Chairman, ROB IN AULT WINS U . .S . JU N IOR TITLE-G IL RAMIREZ SECOND­ and a real worker. She got 42 members for our club since last June. Here L A RRY GILDEN THIRD. IN U_ S. OREN: ARTHUR BI SGUIER FIRST is the history-making! Phoenix soon will have at least 55 members, all W ITH 10·2, PAL BENKO SECOND WITH 9%-2%, RAYMOND W EIN­ due ,to her! STEIN THIRD, FOLLOWED BY HEARST, BERLINER, STEINM EY ER, Last May ,the Encanto Chess Club dared us to hold rated tourna­ BRA SKET, ULV ESTAD, SHERWIN, AND HENIN IN THAT ORDER_ ments, so Mrs. Burlingame invited about 15 good players to her house, (Details and cross·score in next issue) where we organized the Phoenix Chess Club. Things went slow at first, but we picked up members, l!-nd to date we have 43. To belong to the BENKO WINS WESTERN OPEN Phoenix Club you have to p"y $5.00 to join; that also makes you a mem­ (B y Sp~<i,,1 Corrup"tld c ~(C) ber of USCF, as we are 100%_ Mrs. BUrlingame is secretary of the club, also a director of CCLA, Milwaukee - International Grandmaster, Paul Benko, New York and she gives lessons at home every Monday night. She is Arizona state City, finished ahead of a strong field, 71h-Ih,as the Third Western women's champion, and was highest ranking woman at Mid-Continent Open Chess Championship drew to a close here over the July 4th week­ Open at Russell, Kansas. Sbe is eleventh ranking woman player in U.S. end. It was the former Hungarian emigrant's second straight win of She lives, eats, and sleeps chess. So I think Chess Life should give her the title. Robert Byrne and Martin Harrow, both of Indianapolis, with a rousing cheer, as she is headed for 300% or 400% of her quota and the latter turning in his best Milwaukee performance to date, finished still going strong; a challenge .to the rest of the country. With just one in a tie for second and third place with 6lh-l¥2. Both players shared city at that, only 250,000 population; other states should 'hang their equally in the prize money, but second place in the standings was heads in shame. awarded to Byrne, on the basis of a higher tie breaking count. Milwaukee continued to exert its almost magnetic spell over ,the P.S.: Besides this, at our last tournam~nt she picked up 1 for Nor­ man, Oklahoma, 1 for El Paso, 1 for Culver City, California, 1 for San country's tournament players as it drew a large field of 114 players, Diego, and 1 for Rockford, lllinois, and a renewal for San Diego. Now representing nearly aU major regions of the U.S., from New York to on the way back from Russell, Kansas she is going to El Paso, Texas the Western coast, and from Canada as well. America's "most widely where she will visit members there and try to get them to organize. traveled" tournament contender, Jerry Spann, President of ,the USCF, On some later date, Tucson is going to have her down and try to re­ gave an opening address in which he commented on recent gains made organize the Tucson club. From the Mesa Chess Festival we arc soon by organized chess in the U.S. and plans relating to the Federation's going to get a club organized, and we know about 5 that are going to rating system.· Fred Cramer welcomed the players in behalf of the Mil-' join. USCF. waukee Chess Foundation. The tournament director was Ernest OIfe We will be looking forward to .the Arizona Story, the Cinderella with Pearle Mann assisting. state of surprise. Benko ran into no great difficulty throughout, except for his second , round game with John Pamiljens, a New York City entrant, who for a • VIRGINIA WILL BE BETTER time had fine chances with the black side of an Alekhine's Defense before losing in the end-game. Playing nearly all of the top contenders, From: Colonel Jac:k Ma theson, Virginia Membership Chairman he also won from Edward Vano, New York City; Charles Henin, Chicago; To: Fred Cramer, General Membership Chairman Olaf Ulvestad, Seattle; and Byrne. His draw cam!;! in the final round Congratulations on tlie fine showing of OPERATION M. In Virginia against Harrow. Although playing exceedingly weU against a strong we did fairly well, but could have done better if I had extended myself field, it was evident that Byrne lacked some of his former sharpness due (Continued on page 2) to inactivity. (Continued on page 2, col. 1) OPERATION M- GREATER NEW YORK OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP (Continued [rom page 1) , JU NE 16p-28, 19$9 more. I am proud of Arlington Co unty, which now has 19 members out of a 135,000 population. Our club is affiliated, too. RANK PLAYER RDI R02 R03 RD4 ROS RD' SC PENNSY1,vANIA WON'T STOP NOW I . P . I 8 1nko (Nlw Yo rk, N.Y.' ................•.... W62 W71 W4S Wit D2 WlI 2. Wllilim Lo mb.rd ... (Ne w York, N.Y.' ...... W14 W32 wn W7 DI 02 , From: Mordecai Treblow, Pennsylvania Membership Chairman ] . R .... mond Wllnsl.ln (8rookl ... n, N.Y.,.. __ W11 WU W21) DI WIO D2 ," To: Fred Cramer, G.neral M.mbenhip Chairman 4. Arth ... r BlsSl ... I. r (Nl w York. N.Y.I ...... _ .. WS2 W4I D31 WI5 DI Wll , S. J . m U T. Shlrwln tNlw York, H.Y.J... _... D13 OSO W24 WI1 WU W13 , First, let me request permission to extend our drive in Pennsylvania 6. Eliol HUrit (A rllnSllon. V •. J...•.. _.....•... __ .W61 L16 WSS W47 W2t WU , beyond the June 5th closing; since exams are over for me DOW , I ha\'e 1. P .... I Bundts (Hlw York. H.Y.l ...........•. _WII W41 ·WI' 12 W44 WII ., more time lor correspondence and travelling. (PERMISSION GRANTED!) a. Brl.n E. Owens (Gr•• t Hi ck, N.Y.) ..... _.. W69 Will W59 03 D4 W26 , t . Wllilim G. Addllon {He w York, N.Y.J. __ D24 wn W44 110 WlS W36 ' 1 Secondly, I wish to report to you the appointment of the [ollowing 10. Derwin Kerr (Cr.nl o rd.

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