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CLARIN INTERNATIONAL, BUENOS AIRES 9 I lOl 11112113114 Fullboard& and lodgings 1 ANDERSSON (Sw 11 9 2 VAGANIAN (USSR) ½ THE ORGANISERS of the pocket money! Argentine Oscar Panno and "Clarin" Grandmasters tour• 3 PANNO (Arc) 8½ Maybe they were a bit too former world champion Vas• 4 SMYSLOV (USSR) narnent in Buenos Aires well fed as far as the games sily Smyslov both played seemed determined to more wen; concerned, looking at solidly, the former confirming 5 BROWNE (USA} than compensate for any the high number of draws, himself as probably the best 6 GHEORGHIU (Rum) lapses in playing conditions but the event was watched player in Argentina today, 7 NAJDORF (Arc) that might have occurred dur• with interest by a capacity and the experienced latter 8 DZINDZICHASHVIU (lsr) ing the Chess Olympiad that - crowd each day in the audito• finding it difficult to lose'tor 9 SZMETAN (Arc) had just finished. The 14 rium of the Banco de Cuidad, even draw in some cases - players in the event were, which provided the premises. 10 CHI (China} Torre declined a draw against taken on outings and to cock• Sweden's Ulf Andersson him and next move blundered 11 KEENE ffnt) tail parties, and received ex• came in tops by dint of hard horribly and trapped his, own penses which some of them work and the fact that Soviet queen on the side of the enthusiastically described as Champion Rafael Vaganian board. · the best they had ever had - got taken apart by Chi Aside from playing, Panno $100 a day for food and Ching-hsuan near the end. also occupied himself giving interviews saying he did not but at least he won a game! kidnap Zanlungo, the chief Next came Argentine player organiser or the Olympiad, Garcia Palermo and in last who vanished while Panno place was Eugene Torre, who was in Baguio helping had a disastrous tourney. Korchnoi. (Zanlungo, whose mysterious "disappearance" MURRAY CHANDLER just before the Olympiad began caused a sensation and Right: Clarin tournament various rumours, later mater• participants at the prizegiving - ialised and accused Panno from left, Najdort, Keene, and others of being involved Torre, Browne, Andersson, - possibly because Panno, as Palermo, Panno, Chi, Gheotghiu, Quinteros, _ well as Najdorf and Quin• tournament director Carlos teros, had not been allowed Guimard, Vaganian, two Clarin to play for Argentina in the officials, Szmetan, Smyslov Olympiad.) and Dzindzichashvili. On eight points was the temperamental American Walter Browne, ranting at organisers and players on the way (curiously, he only caused disturbances when he won his games). Level with him was Rumanian Florin Gheorghiu, who appeared to overcome his rather dubious reputation of selling points to the needy. The grand old maestro of chess, Miguel Najdorf, fin• ished halfway together with __ Soviet emigre Roman Dzindzichashvili, who now lives in Israel. Strangely the Chinese player, Chi, did not turn up for his last-round match with Dzindzichashvili, presumably for political reasons. We couldn't quite fathom this - Chi played both Russians in the event but defaulted against a Soviet emigre who is now an Israeli! In ninth position came Ar• gentine International Master ·1 · Jorge · Szmetan, followed by Chi and English Grandmaster Raymond Keene, who drew his first eight or nine games in a row. ; - Equal with Keene on five points Was Miguel Quinteros, who after playing so well in New Zealand and several other tourriaments - earlier -in the year· had an off event - :.IN ROUND seven of the Olympiad, Rumania met Israel. On top board Gheorghiu (Rumania) won a pawn against Dzindzichash• vili but had . difficulty ex• ploiting it until he gave it back - in the form of a queen sacrifice! November 1978: Buenos Aires DZINDZICHASl'IVILI •, •• -i!iIJ,,;!,l,!,WIJ!AI!,!" " ~ GHEORGHIU J.d7 ch! QXc5 2.d8=Q ch KP 3.Bd5 ch Resigns. After "3· •••• Kg6 · 4.Qg5 ch Kh7, a check with- · the bishap_ wins ·: Black's queen. .

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