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Members of the held. There is also the new Rating Lists, the la0est news and mor€! All correspondence, subscription renewals, team are funding their own participation in the changes of address, advertising inquiries, nine-round tournament, at a basic cost ofabout articles and other copy should be addressod to $10fl) each. Contents N.Z. Chess, P.O.Box 31j0, Wellington. The team, listed in playing order, consists of Stephen Lukey (Canterbury), Anthony Love 4 The latest information from overseas suggests that there will be trvo Yt/orld Chess Opinions expressed in articles, letters and other (Dunedin, playing captain), Bruce Anderson Championship matches held in September. Ted Frost has been keeping an eye on contributions are those of the authors. Letters (Canterbury), Michael Freeman (New developments. to the editor on any chess topic are welcome; Plymouth) and John Sutherland (Dunedin). Mrs limit 150 words, and marked "for publication." Janet Anderson, Bruce's wife, is tesm menager. 5 fne N.Z. Junior and Under-16 Championships were held in Wellington at Easter. Ted Frost reports. North Island Championship 6 The Auckland Easter is reported on by Craig Blaxall. ANNUAL ST]BSCRIPTION R.ATES When Robert Smith drew with Jonathan Sarfati Surface mail in Round 8 of the NI Championship, hc assured 7 Tony Love reviews the Fqii Xerox Otago Easter Open. New Zealand $NZ18.OO himself of at least 4 tie for frrst placo, but also Other countries $US20.@ qualifred for the title of NZ National Master. 8 Civt Eas0er by Rowan Wood. Airmail Mark Noble ground out a win against Graeme Paul Spiller Australia and South Pacifrc $US20.00 Spain to tie with Smith on 6%, followcd by l0 and Ortvin Sarapu review the recent Howick-Pakuranga Latvian Gambit. Other countries $US25.00 Sarfati, IM Sarapu and Ortvin Anthony Kcr 6. 12 fa Frost reports on the four Regional Schmlpupil Championships held recently. Back issues are available - send for details. Other prizes: Grade 1, Alan Aldridge and Craig Blaxall; gtade 2, Philip Hair; grade 3, 13 fnree New Zealanders recently went to Canberra to contest the 3lst Doeberl Cup at Eas0er. George Trundle and Lawrence Farrington ; grade Bob Smith reports on the experience. N)VER.TISING RATES 4, Bdith Otene; under-16 pdze, David Guthrie Full page $N245.00 and Francis Hoffmann; upset prizes, Ben Giles 14 fne NZCF Standard Rating List. Half page or full column $N222.50 1st, Alf Jones 2nd. 17 ttre NZCF Rapid R.ating List. Half colqmn $N212.00 Club Notices or Classified, $N21.50 per Welling0on Queen's Birthday 20 ttre latest in News from around New Zealand. 15 words Russell Dive survived an early-round ovorsight and loss of a piece and the game to Jon Jacksoi-, 22 O*n Sarapu annotates an interesting game from the the recent Howick-Pakuranga Latvian to win the Wellington QB tournament with 4/5, Gambit, Jonathan Sarfati follows up with a whole lot more ... Wanganui's leading players COPY DEADLINE followed by Gavin Marner 3 and Hilton analyse a game from the recent Blackbum Cup match between them and New Plymouth .,. and A1l copy should reach NZ Chess by the second Bennett, Peter van Dijk and Jackson 2tA. Other as if that is not enough there are games from the NZ Junior, the lakarta Znnal, ... Saturday of the month before publication. results: B grade, Kent Wong 4%, Richard Glover and Mark Sinclair 4; C grade, Ricardc 26 International Nerrs by editor pro tempore Ralph Hart. The deadline for the August issue is Paino, Bruce Dellaca and Aaron Howatd 2tA; Saturday, July 17 under 12 prize, Teresa Sheehan. 29 Coming Events on the Local and International front. 30 Council Report by NZCF Secretary Ted Frost. Copy should include details of coming events Sixteen year old Auckland Schoolgirl Champion for the rest of the year. Joyce Ong of the Howick-Pakuranga Club will represent New Zealand at the Asian Under-20 Copy on MSDOS floppy disks (any size) are Junior Girls in Adelaide next month. ... And coming up in the August fssue more than welcome, they are preferred to paper! All disks will, of course, be returned. Cove r: Wor ld Chonpioruhip C ont enders Full reports on the North Island Championship and Queen's Birthday tournarhents...the Asian Apologies to contributors whose disks have yet Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Teams Tournament...and a special section by FM Anthony Ker on arguably the most important to be returned - they are "in the mail"! Really! Jan Tfuwnan and Nigel Short game from the 1fi)th NZ Chess Championship! 2 NZ Chess 3 Two World Title Matches NZ Junior and Under-16 Championships by Ted Frost by Ted Frost Black bishop developed at a6 helped The latest information from overseas suggests It is obvious that interest in the Short- A 1 E suAyNE Ac D8 V16 vt DZ rJtl u4 5 decide both titles at the Junior 2 tlB VIXCENT OT u6 ll13 u4 Dl u5 L3 4Yz that there will be two world chess ctlampionship Kasparov match will be high, stimulaied by N.Z. and Under-16 Championships held in 5 DU GUTHRIE oT L4 D5 u17 tl8 u10 u2 41h matches held in September, and between them high-profrle media competition, and with the Wellington at Easter. rvrark they will attract unprecedented international added spice of a rival "official" match at the vincen;,-6 J;';; I i' lYitillfi" IE BB i? i3 f;tr!! il, I junior event, lost this bishop Rc pT u18 u13 u16 912 4 media and public attention. same time. It promises to be the biggest to David 6 l,tETGE LZ L4 Guthrie in the last round. and subseouentlv 7 BJ GILES tls u15 u12 L1 lJ10 L4 D9 3k FIDE intends to run a FIDE frnal between Jan hternational attention-getter for chess since the rost the game. rhis enabre.d cuthrie Timman and Anatoly Karpov, who were both hey{ay of Bobby Fischer. to 3l- SUII- il Bl il'i:,o ii, iliBlt i overtake 12-year-old Russell Metge to pT g1l eliminated in the candidates' matches in which take 10 J TURNBULL Ll3 tll u16 Ll L3 3 the Under-16 title, while Edward Swayne 11 IR GRUBB IJE bye 110 lJ15 tl9 Ll L5 3 Nigel Short won the right to challenge champion ourmanoeuvredshamnikaRupasinghetohead Garry Kasparov. It has been reported that ]i EX 5ll3;1"- ffi Il3 il'i?o Il: if, i offVincent in the Junior. ii FIDE intends to remove Kasparov and 14 BK CLARK pE Ll6 r,15 L9 Lr13 LiZ bye j championships bye 2lz challenger Nigel Short from its rating list. Correspondence chess The were held in 15 L POTROZ NE Ll 114 111 D8 ll19 conjunction with the Civic Easter, with [EILsoN HA tl14 Ll 110 U19 L6 L8 2 NZCF Council considers that such a move could 10 ]q: entries in the lunior dnd nine in the do more harm than good for FIDE, and is to ;[ X, llPi-t ffi I]: i: |;" Il9 i?, ilg : Under-16. There were several unrated 1 point out the risks to FIDE. Hampl wins Championship 19 D GALEA UH 117 bye Liz 116 LIB 115 players, and among those with ratings there While details of the FIDE event have not been Sandy Maxwell reports that prizewinncrs from Guthrie's tough run of pairings started h the was a range of nearly 10oo rating points. announced as this issue of NZ Chess goes to NZCCA's 1992-93 tourneys are: first round' and he had to make a comeback Arbiter Tim Frost found that separate six-round press, it is not likely to match in either attention 59th NZCCA Championship, Michacl l{ampl, after this loss' Swiss events would have been almost impossible or money an unofhcial match between Kasparov (Wellington); Reserve Championship, Tony to run, so it was agreed that the two events and Short, which is due to start in London on Love (Dunedin); Trophy Tourney Gradc 2, be Guthrie, D - Rupasinghe, S conducted as a single Swiss.