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AUGUST 1983

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NEW ZEALAND CHESS is published bi-nonthly (February, April, June, NEW ZEALAND CHESS Vol.9 No.4 AUGUST 1983 August, October & December) by the SETS New Zealand Chess Association. Back in stock are the popular plastic, Editori PETER STUART Unless otherwise stated, the views Staunton pattern chess sets - narrow Associate Editorsi T0NY DOITJDEN (otago), VERN0N SlvlALL 1canter.uurq), expressed may not necessarily be base variety, king height 9.5 cn, MICHAEL WHIfE (wettinqton), IM ORTVIN SARAPU those of the Association. Price: 1 -9, $S.50 each; 10+, $8.50 each CANDIDATES BROUHAHA competing successfully at a Los Angeles ADDRESSES BOARDS meet at about the same timel semifinal matches, Kasparov v In any event, one cannot have very A11 articles, letters to the Editor, A new chess board in rigid plastic, The two Korchnoi and Ribli v Smyslov, were much syupathy for the Soviet position etc should be sent to the Editor, 5.3cm squares, brorrm & white, available originally due to start by the end of in view of their delay in first pro- P.W, Stuart, 24 Seacliffe Avenue, folding or non-folding. 0n1y fron NZCA! July but, following strenuous objections testing the venues and then givlng Takapuna, Auckland 9. Unpublished Price: 1-9, $3.50 each; 10*, $3.00 each manuscripts cannot be returned to the playing venues by the USSR Chess their reasons; it is almost as thou8h unless a stamped, addressed return Federation, both mtches have been post- they wished to ensure that there would envelope is enclosed. cL0cr(s poned for one week and are now scheduled be insufficient time to solve the to comence on 6th August. tproblemst, Subscriptions, changes of address Swiss Looping - metal case - possibly As intimated in our June issue, there and advertislng enquiries should sti1l the best chess timer available. were, by the 15 May deadline, three be addressed to the Administration Price: $89.00 each (quantity discount offers to organise the Kasparov-Korctnoi CHANDLER EARNS GM TITLE! Officer, New Zealand Chess Associa- on application), match - from the United States (Pasa- Murray Chandler gained his third and tion, P,O. Box 8802, Symonds St, dena), Netherlands (Rotterdam) and Spain GM norm a 3Z-pLayer Auckland. final in strong 0rders to: NEt^l ZEALAND CHESS ASSOCIATION (Las Palnas). There were no bids for the Swiss tournament at Amsterdam during the P.O. BOX BBO2, SYMONDS ST, other mtch. Kasparovrs first choicewas Iatter half of July. Murray finished AUCKLAND 1. Palmas second DEADL I NES Las with Rotterdam while first equal with Hungarian GM Gyula Sax Korchnoirs only preference was for ahead of super-GMs Jan Timan (Nether- The deadline for boEh copy and Rotterdam. (Czechoslova- advertising is the lands) and VIastimil Hort 6th of the nonth In the case of K v K the FIDE ?resi- kia) who shared third place. Chandler's preceding the monEh oI issue. LATE NEWS denE, f'lorencio Campomanes, selected title should be confirmed during the the venue according to FIDE Statutes. FIDE Congress in Manila later in the SUBSCRIPTION RATES CANDIDATES SEMI-FINALS: Neirher of rhe In a compromise between the players' year; he thus becomes the first Austra- Soviet players, Kasparov and Smyslov, choices, Campomanes chose Pasadena which lasian player to earn the top title. These rates are annual and are in turned up for their semi-finals against had offered the best conditions. New Zealand dollars: Since leaving school at the age of 15, Korchnoi and Ribli. Tbus Korchnoi and Subsequently to Ehe 15 May deadline Chandler has devoted his life to chess - Chess Federa- Surface mail - Ribli were awarded vi.ctories and will now the United Arab Emirates always with the GM title as an objective. New Zealand $6.50 p)-ay ofl in the firral later in the year. tion offered to organise the Ribli v His first top-level result came at the Other countries $8.00 The Sovietrs ostensible reason was that Smyslov match and, as there were stj-Il age of 15 when he shared first place in tr'IDE President Campomanes had not taken no other bids, the UAE was awarded the New Zealand Championship Airmaif - t]ne L915116 - lnto account the playersr wlshes when match by FIDE on 1 June. the second youngest New Zealand champion Australia & Sth Pacific $10.80 deciding the match venues but there The venues decided upon by Ehe FIDE (exc1. ever, North America & Asia appears Eo be nore to lt than that with President were quickly accepted by the Middle East) Chandler represented New Zealand in $11.80 some even saying 1t was all a plot to Hungarian Chess Federation (on behalf (Penang) Europe, South America, the lsE Asian Team Champlonship ensure that Karpov reigns for at least of Ribli) and Korchnoi. ir 1974, the World Junior Championship Africa & I,liddle East 913.00 another three years! Only on 2J Jure did the USSR Chess of 1975 and the Haifa Olympiad in 1976. Federation protest at both venues a1- His next break-through, however, came ADVERTISING RATES AMSTERDAM: The leading scores: t-2 IM though Smyslov reportedly was agreeable when he won the Asian Junior Champion- Chandler & GM Sax 8/711' 3-4 GM Timn & to playing in Abu Dhabi as long as he at Baguio City in 1917, and wlth Eull page half-page or colum ship $40, GvI Hort 7\i 5-6 IM Short fENG) & IM van could add wife and personal doctor to ir the IM rirle. $20, half-colum $,I0, Club Directory der Sterren (NLD) li 7 Kuijf (NLD) his delegation - a condition imediately listing (6 (+ 6r; Murrayrs first GMnormcame in a New issues) $6 $2 for 8-12 G){ Henley (USA), GM vanderWlel agreed to by the UAE Chess Federation. change in copy). York tournament in April 1980 and he (NLD), Gl'lRee (NLD), GM Seirawan (USA) & It was not until mid-July Ehat the came close to gaining further norms on gave reason AC KNOWLEDGEMENT GM Lobron (BRD) 6; 13-20 IM Sunye (BRz) Soviet Chess Federation its a number of occasions over the next IM f'ranco (PAR), Borm (NLD), Ilq vanWij- for not agreeing to the Pasadena venue; couple of years. He had to wait three Thanks are due to IBM for their gerdea (NLD), IM Langeweg fM,D) , Boersma they were worried that, the Los Angeles years norm (achieved at donation of the IBM Selectric type- rclosed' for his second (NLD), Yo9el (NLD) & IM B6hm (NLD) 5\. area being a area, their diplo- Dortmund in April) but then his third writer used to produce this magazlne. mats and consular staff could not enter fol lowed in quick successjon. Pasadena except by giving 48 hours Congratulations Murray I notice. This does noE seem a big prob- lem as the Soviet swimmer Salnikov was AAA 11 Can You See the Combinations ? Wellington Queen's Birthday Weekender

Solutions on page 100 MIKE WHITE

Organised by the Irtellington Chess were f ollowed by: 3-4 C.I"l.Ker & J, Club and directed by John Preston, the Hemela 3; 5-6 M.A.Gordon & S.Aburn 2!; 1983 Queenrs Birthday Weekend Tourna- 7 G.McQuinlan 2; 8-9 J.R.Simons & D. ment aftracted a field of thirty-eight McDonaLd 1%; 10 P.D.t,lalk1in 0. iAvru{";ffi,i% to the comfortable l^Iellington Cultural Centre. SARFATI ttlcLAREN, French Tarrasch: vwa% , - vru The A-grade expectedly turned into I e4 e6 Z d4 d5 3 Nd2 Nf6 4 e5 Ng8?! another contest dominated by the youth 5 Bd3 b6 6 Ne2 Qd7 7 Nf3 Ba6 8 h4 ''%%% of Wellington chess, Perhaps the 36 Bxd3 9 Qxd3 h5 10 Bg5 c5 11 c4 Nc6 %%'/2, moves in 90 ninutes tlme control con- 12 cxd5 Nb4 13 Qd2 Nxd5 14 0-0 c4 15 tributed but generally the standard of Qc2 Rc8 16 a3 NgeT 17 Ng3 b5 18 Nd2 VY1,g, ,,E% play was a little disappointing even on Nc6 19 Be3 a5 20 Nde4 a4 2l Qe2 96 the top boards. 22 Nc5 Bxc5 23 dxc5 Nxe3 24 Qxe3 Qd4 Leonard Mclaren eventually triumphed 25 Qxd4 Nxd4 26 Radl Nf5 27 Ne4 Ke7 by a fu11 point wirh 4'

t8 79 A-grade R. I R.2 R.3 R.4 R.5 T'l e6 9 Bd2 Bb4 10 Rgl Kf8 11 Bd3 Ne7 after his hour was up. Lindsay Cornford Spi1ler, Hopewell, Gibbons & Spain 2. 12 Ke2 a6 13 Ra4 Bd6 14 f4 c5 15 was another who didntt make it in time Io the penultimate round decisive 1 McLaren L J w] wlz hr3 wz D4 4,4 Nb5 Bb8 16 Bc3 f6 (rt 16...Nb6 with for the first round - his flight back results were recorded on both the top 2 Sarfati J D w4 tn14 l,J5 L1 D3 3, the idea 77...axb\, xhen 77 dxc5 Nxa4 fron Wellington was delayed because the boards. Sarapu gained pressure and 3 Ker A I' t^I10 t8 L1 t6 D2 314 78 BxgT+) 17 Raal Nc6 18 dxc5 Nxc5 airport was closed. eventually won a pam, upon which 4 Foster Miss I' L2 t^I10 W7 t 9 D1 3'-1 L9 Bc2 Kfl 20 Nd4 Bc7 21 Ra2 RadS? Peter Weir gained a big advantage Watson promptly blundered the exchange 22 Nxc6 bxc6 23 Bd4 Nd7 24 Rxa6 Nb8 against Graeme Spain but unclearly sac- and resigned forthwith. Levene deter- 5 Feneridis A W13 D6 L2 W8 D9 3 25 Ra7 Rd7 26 Rgal 96 27 Rb7 RhdS 28 rificed an exchange and was unable to minedly set about weakening his om 6 Hawkes P D t^r15 D5 W14 L3 D] 3 RaaT Bd6 28 Raal Bd6 29 c5 RxbT 30 find a suitable follow-up; the I,laipa pam formation and Smith played active- 1 Dive R J Ll W15 L4 W11 D6 2\ RxbT+ Be7 31 b4 Nd7 32 b5 e5 33 bxc6 player was able to retain a winnLng ly to force the win. 8 Noble M F Dll L3 WtZ L5 W13 21., exd4 34 RxdT dxe3 35 RxdS BxdS 36 edge in material. The more fainr- The only player to keep in touch with 9 Ion GJ L12 W16 W13 L4 D5 2% fxe3 Ke6 31 b4 f5 38 Ba4 Ke7 39 Kd3 hearted Swiss gambiteers - Bruce Watson, the leaders was Peter Green who won a .1- l0 Grkow A L3 L4 D16 rn12 W15 z'2 Bcl 40 b5 Ba5 4l b6 Kd8 42 cll Kc8 Mark Levene and Peter Stuart - had to piece from Gibbons. Hopewell and Spain 11 Borren A 11 D8 L13 W15 L] Wl4 2% 43Bb5,1-0. be content with draws; in 2 of the 3 drew their game while Spiller got a cases this was to prove hopelessly in- nasty dom-float to reet Ewen Greenl t2 Capper D S w9 Ll L8 LIO W16 2 The following position arose after sufficient ! even so Spiller engineered his om t3 Frankel Z L5 Wll L9 DI4 I,8 I\ Whiters 50th move in the game I0N- The eight first-round winners were destruction when he needlessly went t4 Adams J M W16 L2 L6 D13 LlI lr-1 FOSTER: reduced to just two players with 100% into a sacrificial line which gave him a, after two rounds - top seeds Ortvin nothing for the lost material, 15 r,rhite M L6 L7 LI1 W16 LlO I 7z% 50...Rd4! after round remaining the leaders J& '%t@"'% Sarapu and Robert Smith. Sarapu, With one 16 Ramsay W L14 L9 D10 L15 LI2 \ Now 57 Nxd4 his earlier win by forfeit, defeated were: Sarapu & Snith 3%; P.Green 3; ,rut'% 7fr. % exd4 is fatal, Spain comfortably but Snith benefitted E,Green, Watson, I-evene, Weir' Hopewell '/,ft. '/&.fr% e.g. 52 f4 Qx.E4 from Bob Gibbons walk'ing his king into & Spait 21a; Stuart, Spiller, Ireeman, 9 Nh4 ReS 10 Nf5 Bf8 11 Qb3 b5 12 Be3 + ///,a. 53 Rg2 Qe3+ 54 a mate-in-one situation in a quite Cornford & Gibbons 2. Rb8 13 cxb5 axb5 14 a3 Nc5 15 Bxc5 fr%z %fr,fr '%a%e Kh4 QhG mate, ot dravm queen and pam ending. Ewen Sarapu and Smith, with the white dxc5 16 Rb7 17 Radl Rd7 18 Ne2 /////r 7l Qc2 Qb6 52 Qh2+ 53 Green and Stuart were further discom- pieces against P.Green and E.Green res- 19 Khl Red8 20 f4 21 fxe5 Ng4 22 h3 95 96 % Kq4 Qq2+ 54 Kxh4 forted when the former perforce agreed pectlvely, simplified rather qulckly to Nxe5 23 d4 Nc4 24 dxc5 Qxc5 25 RxdT fxg5+ 55-Kh5 Bf4 a draw in a lost position against approximately equal endings which were RxdT 26 Nfd4 Ne3 27 Bxc5 28 Nf3 Qxc5 & mate s, or 52 bottom ranked Jon Stephenson while the soon agreed dram. That ended the Nxfl 29 Bxfl Rdl 30 Kg2 Bxh3+ 31 Kxh3 Kg2 h3+ 53 Kg1 Qh2+ 54 Kf7 Qg2+ 55 latterrs position fell apart in time interest of anyone else in the major Ne5 Rf2 b4 Bd6 34 Nf4 Bxe5 Rxfl 32 33 Ke2 h2 56 Rdl hlQ winning. So .... trouble after Brad Walsh had blown a money. Levene beat Spain to join Peter 35 Nd3 Bd4 36 Nxf2 Bxf2 37 Kg4 Kf8 38 pam but gained a worthwhile compeDsa- Green in equal third place. They were Kf4 Bd4 39 e5, 0 - 1. 51 Qdl Rf4 52 Qe2 e4 53 Nxh4 Rf3+ tory initiative. also joined by Hopewell whose opponent, 54 Nxl3 exl3 55 Qe6+ Kg7, 0 - l. just McLAREN - DIVE, Sl av Defence: Round three saw Sarapu and Smith do Watson,jettisoned a piece after 13 1d4d5 2Nf3Bg4 3e3Nd7 4c4c6 5 Mate is unstoppabTe. Notes bg battle on the top boardl the advantage moves! The only other player with a Qb3 Bxf3 6 gxf3 Qb6 7 Nc3 Qxb3 8 axb3 FenefTa Foster- oscillated back and forth but neither chance for a share of third prize was player was able to make anything con- Weir but he never really looked like crete out of the opponentrs mistakes. equalising, let alone winning, against This drav allowed Watson and Levene to Stuart. 6th Waitakere Trust 0pen catch up. Watson had the initiative Generally speaking the quality of when Walsh blundered a piece while play was very disappointlng when com- PETER STUART Michael Freeman lost on time in a much pared with other Auckland weekenders better position against Levene. with the same time control. The three Following the lead of the Winstone of Ehe writer, most of our tournament Paul Spiller won a pavn but his Saturday rounds saw much scrappy play Tournament, Waitemata became the second entry fees could be higher! opponent, Peter Green, easily drew the while the final round scarcely produced club to lntroduce a B-grade in an Auck- Unlike the previous two years, the resultant opposite colour bishop end- anything memorable either. The only land weekender. Apart from providing tournament was not to be natlonally ing. Perhaps the most interesting game bright spot was round four which did lower rated players with a realistic rated but, as in previous years, the was that between Weir and Michael Hope provide several interesting games. chance of winning a main prlze the two- catering was of a high standard. well where Weir sacrlficed a piece for irith five rounds and only twenty-two grade format provides a much more close Bruce i,Jinslade a8ain directed the three pams. Although llopewell subse- players it would have been an enormous competently. fought and interesting competition for tournament quently regained two of those pams, surprise if the $50 special prize for the top players. Of course, the main As might be expected in a field the much sinplified position was very any player winning all five games had drawback is the necessity of providing such as this with only 22 players and dlfficult to win and he was unable to been won. After all, who in his right spread two prize funds (or splitting the avail- a relatively smll of ratings, find the right plan in the liEtle time mind would jeopardise $200' or maybe a produced few abLe funds between two tournaments) but the A-grade a upsets io remaining to him - eventually he had to half share of $320, for the possibility problem by the first round. Most notable of this was quite simply solved agree to split the point though sti1l of an extra $50 ? having considerably higher entry fees these was Ewen Creenrs loss to Bob with a winning pcisiEion on the board. The following club abbreviations are than in other similar events, i.e. a Gibbons - but this arose from Greenrs Scores of the leaders at the end of used in the score-table on the next basic entry fee of $15 compared to the oversleeping, his eventual appearance play on the Saturday were: Sarapu, page: A = Auckland Centre, AU = Auck- jusE few minutes usual $10-$12. Mind you, in ttre opinion at the board being a Smith, Watson & Levene 2la; P.Green, land University, Civ = Civic, Ham =

80 81 Hamilton, HP = Howick-Pakuranga, NS = Rb7 29 Bc4 Rdb8 30 Qa2 Qe7 North Shore, 0 = Otago, Wai = Waitemata, 31 Bb4 QeS 32 Bc3 Bxc3 33 Upper Hutt's DB 40-40 tJpa = Iraipa. Rxc3 h6 34 Rd3 Nc5 35 Ra3 Kh7 36 Nd4 Rb6 37 38 Rdl Rl R2 R3 R4 R5 TI1 Qe2 Qe5 PETER STUART Ne4 39 Nf3 Qe7 40 Rad3 Nd6 O NS I,rI9* D4 4 41 Rd5 Bxb5 1 Sarapu wlo D2 UL2 Bxb5 42 Rxb5 43 This yearrs Upper Hutt 40-40, spon- who turned up to play only to be told 2 Smith R W War I^]19 w15 W3 D8 4 Rxb5 Nxb5 44 h3? Nc3, 1. D1 0 - sored by Dominion Brewerles, sara 137 that his entry had not been receivedl 3 Levene M AU D16 W21 r^/6 L2 w10 3% SMITH - LEVENE, Nimzowitsch- players fighting out the three grades he was therefore unable to play. 4 Green P R A ,J22 D6 Dl4 w15 Dl 3, Larsen: 1 b3 d5 2 Bb2 Bg4 3 over five rounds on Saturday 18 June. The A-grade scores: 5 Hopewell M G A w20 Dt4 D10 W12 3" Nf3 NbdT e6 Although South Tslanders were conspicu- Dll 4 d3 Ngf6 5 Nbd2 R. 1 R.2 R. 3 R.4 R.5 T'1 6e3a5 7a4Bd6 8h3Bh5 9 ous by their absence this year, there 6 Freeman M R o w73 D4 L3 D7 W15 Be2 0-0 10 896 11 Nh4 c6 were mny North Island players from lKer AF w16 W13 W12 D2 N7 4, 7 Stuart P W rvs D17 L16 W13 D6 Wll 94 12 Nxg5 fxg6 13 Bf3 L4 outside of Wellington including a large 2 SarfaLi J D w24 ul7 w9 DI \r5 4% 8 Green E M HP L15*D13 W2O W14 D2 Qe7 e5 15 Bg2 Ne8 16 h4 Nc7 group of potential prJ-ze-wlnners from 9 Cornford L H A L1* D20 D71 W18 W14 Qe2 3Le Y w26 W4 W6 ],5 W10 4 17 95 Rf7 18 Qg4 Raf8 19 0-0 Auckland. .l- 4 Watson B R w30 L3 WI7 WI3 W1l 4 10 Spain c wpa Wll Ll Ir21 D5 L3 L'2 20 Bh3 21 Rael h5 I recollect bemoaning the Dunedin Ne6 Nec5 5 Carphter B A W33 tt 2.l \t28 W3 LZ 4 11 Weir P B Ns L10 W18 D5 WI6 Ll z'2 22 Be7 23 d4 Ne6 24 dxe5 weather during the last Congress but QgZ 6 Stuart P W hr35 I,23 L3 UzZ W9 4 12 l,latson B R Ns D21 W17 W16 Ll L5 z'2 Nxe5 25 f4 Nd7 26 c4 Nb6 27 the treacherously icy Dasert Road on 13 Stephenson J R NS L6 D8 Ll tt22 \,1L9 al- Qe2 Rfe8 28 Qd3 Nf8 29 Bc3 Friday 17 June gave us a mere fore- 7 Feneridis A w31 D10 W8 W14 L1 3ta dxc4 30 Nxc4 Nxc4 31 Bb6 taste of the Wellington weather - it 8 Clemance P A D18 W29 ],7 WL9 W16 3ra 14 Spiller P S HP W18 D5 D4 L8 L9 2 Qxc4 32 Bd4 Bxd4 33 Qxd4 Rd8 34 snowed!l Fortunately, however, the 15 Gibbons R E a W8* L2 W19 L4 L6 2 9 Chye M w21 r,Jl] L2 W28 L6 3 Qc3 35 Qxb4 axb4 36 Rdl games were played indoors so the bliz- 16 Walsh B G A D3 I'11 Ll2 Lll Dll 2 Qb4 L0 Metge J N D19 D] W20 \t25 L3 3 ReS 31 KfZ RfeT 38 Rd3 Ne6 zard had no effect on the play. 17 van Pelr J wai Dl LlZ D9 DI9 D16 2 11 Pomeroy A I/J32 L9 N24 \tt2 L4 3 39 Rcl Nc7 40 Bg2 Na6 4l e4 That this 1s true was demonsfrated 18 Spencer-Snith G Ars Ll4 Lll \122 L9 ll2l 2 L2 Spiller P S l^r34 W20 ],1 Ll1 W18 3 Rf8 42 Kg3 RetT 43 Rf3 Re7 by two Massey University students from 13 Comford 1- H I,{36 Lt \t 2l L4 tt26 3 19 t{hitehouse L E L2 W22 LL5 D17 44 Rf2 Rd8 45 Rc4 Rd3+ 46 Rf3 hot climes Michael Chye (Malaysia) Han L13 l, - L4 Aptekar I L27 1136 W18 L] W22 3 RedT 47 BfI Rd2 48 Rcl Nc7 and Yung Le (Vietnam) - who, being 20 Ion G J Civ L5 D9 L8 Dzl L22 I 15 Hurley A L23 tt34 L22 W33 tt25 3 49 Bc4+ Kt.7 50 f5 gxf5 51 without ratings, were seeded at the 21 Rarmsley L D A Dl? L3 L10 D20 L18 1 exf5 Nd5 52 Re1 Kg8 53 Re8+ bottom of the pack. In a series of 16 Stephenson J Ll Dzt W34 \t24 L8 22 Marsick B H P - L4 L19 LI8 L13 I^r20 I rupsetsr )\ Kfl 54 Rfe3 96 55 f6 b5 56 their victims included Watson, 17 Gordon I R w22 L2 L4 D30 \r27 axb5 cxb5 57 R8e7+ RxeT 58 Metge, Stuart, Pomeroy, Leonhardt and 18 Dive R J D8 W35 L14 w29 Lrz z'2 In the B-grade event Katrine Metge won her 0. Frankel. Also Sarfati was a trifle 19 Hart R D10 L28 W23 L8 r,J29 21.1 first four games but fell fxe7, I - at the last hurdle lucky when, in round three, he came 20 Reyn I W25 LT2 IIO D27 I'30 L'2 against Keith Okey who had dram his first gare CORNFORD SPILLER, Caro-Kann : - back from pawn and position dom to win 21 Wigbout M L9.Dt6 L29 w23 W28 Zra but won his last four to take sole first place. le4c6 2d4d.5 3f3e6 4 against Chye. 22 G J LI7 W33 r^115 L6 Lt4 2 Katrine had to be content with sharing second Bd3 dxe4 5 fxe4 Qxd4 6 Qe2 e5 Bernard Carpinter won his first four Aldridge 23 M L6 LL9 L2t W34 2 plaee with Winsome Stretch and Merv Morrison. 7 Nf3 Qd8 8 0-0 Bg4 9 QfZ games to enjoy the lead whlle Jonathan HalI w15 24 Vetharaniam P L2 W30 Lll L16 W33 2 Either Ralph Hart or David Notley could have Bxf3 10 Qxf3 Nf6 I1 Be3 NbdT Sarfati (who looked to me to be wiming) joined the others in second place but they 12 Qg3 Qa5 13 Nd2 Bc5 14 Nc4 and Anthony Ker drew their round four 25 Hawkes P D L20 W31 W26 LIO L75 2 26 I'rankel Z L3 W32 L25 W31 L13 2 drew their last round encounEer. Bxe3+ 15 Nxe3 Qc5 16 Kh1 96 clash to share second place (on 3!) B-grade scores: I K.M.Okey 4!; 2-4 K.Metge, 17 Rf3 0-0-0 18 RafI Nh5 19 with Arcadii Feneridis who defeated Lev 21 Yee S wI4 L5 Lt3 D?_O Ltl lr-, M.K.Morrison & W.R.Stretch R.Hart, D.c. 4; 5-7 Qel f6 20 b4 Qd4 2I b5 cxb5 Aptekar, the top seed, in the same 28 Leonhardt W D29 WL9 L5 L9 Lzl l,t, Notley & R.L.Poor 3!; 8-I5 I.E.AEkinson, J. 22 Nd5 Nf4 23 Ne7+ Kb8 24 round. 29lon GJ DZ8 L8 r^r2l L18 Li9 l\ Bojtor, A.J.Booth, A.Grace, J.McRae, H.Mueller, Bxb5 a6 In the final round Sarfati, in a must 30 Thompson A L4 L24 W36 Dl7 L20 tr J.A.OrConnor & G.Sareczky 3; 16-18 B.Martin- -!rin situation, beat Carpinter while 31 Ramsay W L7 L25 W35 L26 D32 lr., Buss, G.Thorne & P.Irrtribley 2!; 19-26 K.Bar- A ./// 25 Bxa6 Kerrs youth overcame Feneridists expe- 32 Capper D S Lll L26 L33 1136 D31 lr_, tocci, R.Beesley, C.Byford, D.C,Rams1ey, J. '% Qd6 z6 t a"t t BxbT KxbT rience. Thus Sarfati and Ker shared Shields, B.K.Steilart, A,Wearing & R.c.trJilliams 33 r'erguson R L5 L22 W32 Lf5 L24'I t % /*.t 27 Nd5 fitst prize while Carpinter was rele- 2; 27 D.llorse ltn1' 28-31 A.Malcouronne, S.C. ,r,r& 34 Kay J B LL2 Ll5 L16 W35 L23 I A % Nxd5 28 gated to a share of third prize to- Martin, R.Pengelly & M.Sorel 1; 32 C.Walker 0. 'H,fr''''fr 35 okey K M 16 118 L31 L34 w36 1 exd5 RhfS gether with Bruce Watson, Peter Stuart Some of the action from the Open: ,uH% 29 Rb3+ and Yung Le. 36 Henkel H LI3 L14 L30 L32 I35 0 Perhaps player was 7/,2. Nb6 30 a4 the unluckiest l,/ATS0N -SARAPU, Engl i sh : t t 72fr Chye who, apart from his round three The B-grade also saw a two-way tie 1c4e5 2Nc3Nc6 3Nf3d6 4e396 5BeZ #.H,2 Qxd5 3l a5 Rd6 32 loss toSarfati mentioned above, also for top money when Alan Drake and John Be7 6 0-0 f5 7 d4 e4 8 Nd2 Nf6 9 f3 exf3 lost in dublous fashion to the writer Billing scored 4rWolfgang Uhlmann and Rainer Knaak at the top since the P HUN 2525 Altogether ten countries (11 7ag compTetelg lnLer tied for first place in rhe 1933 EAST Ist January list - the Psakhls usR 2525 in January) have three or with his fast move. GERMAN CH'P heta in Januaryl they- , 7///Z top four retained their De Firmian* usA 2520 more players in the top I00. *"a tOlt: while third place-getter B7ack, however, rankings and of these, 2520 They (with has a stunning re- Lombardy usA are January figure IM Grtinberg had GM 9. Then came Vogt p7g which quicklg only Anderssonrs raEing Kuzmin USR 2520 in brackets): USA 15 (12), and IM B6nsch on 8. Under new rules x It ////, changed he gained 5 ! (7), 7 decides the issue. - Evans UsA 2515 Yugoslavia 10 Hungary the two winners will share the title. 7////zt The list gives the top Christiansen 2515 (8), England (7), West Cer- usA 7 27...Rg5! 28 Rg1 100 players, Djuric YUG 2515 nary 4 (4), Argentina 3 (3), *** 29 Rafl Z5l5 (3), Nether- Qxf4 Qh4 Karpov USR 27L0 Byrne usA Czechoslovakia 3 30 Rf3 Rh5 31 h3 Panno ARC Z5l5 lands 3 (4) & Sweden 3 (3). Kasparov USR 2690 IM Barua became, in Eebruary, the Qfzl 32 Qxe3 Bxf3!, 0 - I. Kurajica YUG 2515 An asterisk by a playerrs Ljubojevic yuc 2645 youngest-ever winner of the INDIAN CH'P Ivanov f.* cAN 2515 name indicates an Internatio- Andersson SWE 2640 when he took clear first place with 13 ** Vaiser* usR 2515 na1 Uasteri all others are Hribner BRD 2620 out of 18 points. Then came VlohanLy lzh, van der Wiel NL 25L5 GMs. Vaganian UsR 2620 Nasir A1i 12, Rafiq Khan II%, IM Thip- Bent Larsen finished on top of the Taimanov U^SR 2515 The 17 New Zealanders on Tal usR 2620 say & IM Ravi Sekhar 11. field in the Frydman Memorial tourna- Popovic P. YUG 2515 the list are: V.A.Smal1 2330, Polugaevsky USR 2620 ment 1n BUENOS AIRES during March - a Sveshnikov usR 2515 0,Sarapu 2320, P.A.carbett Ribli HUN 2615 *** welcome ret"rn to.form after the debacle usA 25lO E.M.Green 2310, C. Korchnoi SWr 2610 Gurevich* 2310, at Linares the prevlous month. Kudrin* usA 25lo Laird 2310, R.I.Nokes 2310. Seirawan USA 2605 The P0LISH CH'P, also held in Febru- Scores: I GM Larsen (DEN) 9/lI; 2 cM Makarichev UsR 25lO R.J.Sutton 2295, R.W.Snith Timan NL 2605 ary, was won by IM Szymczak with 10%/15. Panao (ARG) 8%; 3 Amado (ARG) 612; 4 Bagirov USR 2505 2210, B.R.Watsot 2260, J.D. Spassky USR 2605 The only grandmaster in the field, GM Hase (ARG) 6; 5-6 GM Najdorf (ARG) & Gligoric yuc 2505 Sarfati 2250, P.W.Stuart Smyslov usR 2600 Schmidt, managed only fifth equal IM Schweber (ARG) 5ra .... L2 players. Karl SWE 2505 2250, L.Apteka-r 2240, D.A. Portisch HUN 2600 sson behind three untitled players. Pfleger BRD 2505 Gollogly 2240, B.R.Anderson HorE cz 2595 *** 2505 2230, R.A.Dowden A.L. Nunn ENG 2590 Rogoff usA 2220, *** DDR 2505 2210 M.Levene Tukmakov U.SR 2590 Uhlmann Carplnter & An all-soviet event at TASHKENT in HUN 2500 2205. Miles ENc 2585 Cson Herceg Novi hosred the YUGoSLAV CH',P April was won by Sergei Dolmatov ahead PeEers* UsA 2500 Petrosian USR 2580 in February-March. GM Rajkovic and GM of Gennady Kuzmln. Although there were Mestel ENG 25OO The four-way tie at the toP Romanishin t/SR 2515 Ivanovic shared first place in a field only four GMs in the 16-man field, some Kindermann* BRD 2500 of the Wonenrs Lisl on lst Alburt USA 2510 which lncluded eight GMs and seven IMs. idea of the strength of the competition Inkiov BttL 2500 January has been resoLved in Torre PHI 2510 Leading scores: 1-2 GM Rajkovic & GM can be gained from GM Kochiev's 502 Stean ENG 25OO favour o[ Wor'ld Champion. Sax HUN 25lO the IvanovLc 12/17; 3 GM Kurajica 111; 4 score. Vladimirov* usR 2500 27 women Chibur- Belyavsky USR 2565 The top are: GM P.Nikolic 11; 5 IM Cebalo 10!; 6-8 Scores: 1 GM Dolmatov 11/15; 2 cM Ree NL 2500 (USR) Cramling Larsen DEN 2565 danidze 2390, GM lvkov, GM Velimirovic & GM Djuric 9; Kuzmin 10|; 3 Eingorn 9|; 4 Agzamov ARG 2500 (sWE) 2355, Aleksandria (USRJ Brome USA 2560 Quinteros 9 GM Marjanovic 81. 9; 5 GM Dorfman 8l; 6-7 IM Lerner & Franco* PAR 2495 Kushnir (ISR) 2330, Kavalek usA 2560 2355, IM Mageramov 8; 8-10 Galakhov, Kaumov 2495 (USR) snejkal cz 2560 Georgad,ze UsR Gaprindashvili 2325, *** & GM Kochiev 7!. Hebden* ENG 2495 Akhmllovskaya (USn) 2300, Dolmtov USR 2555 carcia c. CUB 2495 (USR) Yusupov USR 2555 Ioselianl 2290, Litin- rhe CUBAN CH'P, played in May, saw a *** Farago HUN 2495 (USR) 2280,PoLgar (HUN) Suba RUM 2555 skaya tie for first between GM Guillermo Olafsson 2495 (BRD) Geller USR 2550 ICE 2275, Hrtd 2270, Le- Garcia and IM Reynaldo Vera who scored GM Miguel Quinteros won a close- Najdorf ARG 2495 matchko (swr) t{lles Dorfman USR 2545 2270, 7\/ll. The pair will play a ren-game scoring tournament at NETANYA during Keene ENG 2495 (ENG) 2245, Veroci-Petronlc Balashov U.9R 2545 match for the title. The tournament May with 6/9, beatitg his three l,erner* 2495 (Hw) (usR) Kovacevic V. YUG 2540 USR 2240, Levitina was noteworthy chiefly for the large closest rivals but dropping two full Wedberg* SWE 2495 2240, Muresan (RUM) 2235, Agzamov G. * USR 2535 number of draws - exactly two thirds of points against players in the bottom Rashkovsky USR 2495 Klimova (cZ) 2230, Semenova I'tacnik cZ 2535 the games were dram. There were, how- half of the table. Ivanovic B, YUG 2490 (UsR) 2230, Vokralova (BRD) Adorian HUN 2535 ever, some interesting games, of which Scores: 1 GM Quinteros (ARG) 6; 2 M Parma yuc 2490 (usR) 2225, Tarjan USA 2535 2230, Gurieli thi-s is one: Ka9at (ISR) 5t-1i 3-4 IM Murey fr.SR) & Knaak DDR 2490 (DDR) caxcia Speelman ENG 2535 Burchardr 2225, IM Gutman (ISR) 5i 5 GM Griinfeld frsR) 2490 (SP) Terescenco-Nutu SIEIR0-VERA, Sicilian Sozin: Chekhovrr usR 2530 Sunye-NeEo* BRz 22L5, 4\1 6-8 IM Pavlov (RUM), Shvidler Radulov BUL 2490 (RUM) (PRc) I e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nikolic P,,t YUG 2530 2205, Liu SheLan f-rsR) & GM Ciocaltea (RUM) 4I 9-10 cM Spraggettx cAN 2490 2200, Skegina (usR) 2195, 25 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 Bc4 e6 7 Bb3 b5 8 Lputyan* USR 2530 Liberzon frSR) & GM Pachman (BRD) 3>2, Jackson (ENG) 2195, Ahsaru- 0-0 Bb7 9 Re1 NbdT 10 Bg5 h6 11 Bxf6 Hulak YUG 2530 The Soviet content of mova (USR) 2195, Zvorykiaa Qxf6 !2 a4 b4 13 Na2 Nc5 14 Nxb4 a5 Schmid L. BRD 2530 the list dropped again *** (usR) 2r95. 15 Na2 Nxe4 15 Qe2 0-0-0 17 c3 d5 18 Tseshkovsky usR 2525 from 39 last July to - Bc2 Bd6 19 Bxe4 dxe4 20 Qc4+ Bc7 2L The annual VARNA tournameot in early 86 81 May was a big success for East German rhe I^IEST BERLIN 0PEN (June/July) had IM Lutz Espig who won by two points and tt clts-a.d z0 rus arcng tine 2lO players. Two Might-Have-Beens gained his second GM norr. First place (and $2,000) went to Czech Scores: 1 IM Espig 9/12; 2-3 cM GM Vlastimil Hort who scored 81e/9. A by Peter Stuart KiTov (BUL) & IM Meduna (CZ) 1; 4-7 GM, polnt in arrears were lMAkessoa (SwE), Spiridonov (BUL), LM. Cabrilo (YUG), Gl[. IM Gutman f-rSR) & HerzoE (OST). Then, Notej in this articfe the sgnbols 3...h5 we have: (BUL) (BUL) -, Inkiov & K.Georgiev 6%, 8- on 7 points, were GM Suba (RU,rr), GM +- and indicate wjns' (l) 4 h4? (Now this does not work!) (HUN), -+ 'draw', 'White 11 IM Groszpeter GM Ermenkov Sigurjonsson (ICE), Gll Mednis (USe), IM I and tBTack wins' respecXivelg. 4. . .g4t (4, . .gxh4 does not lose but (BUL), Laley (BUL) & IM Lukov (BUL) 51a, Mrrey (ISR), IM Ghinda (RUM) & Trepp consolidating the enemy passed pam in 12 IM orteBa (CUB) 4\t 13 Atanasov (SW) . Among those on 6ta were GM Ghmr- I The two endgames which are examined exchange for a miserable extra rook (BUL) 21,1. ghir (RUM), GM Seirawan (USA) & GM Pach- here never actually occurred - but pawn cannot be right) 5 fxg4 (No better man (BRD). they could well have done so, hence is 5 Ke2 gxf3+! 6 Kxf3 since the king *** *** the heading. Both positions illustrate will be forced to unguard the e-pam the fact that even apparently simple after 6...a5! 1 a3 b5 8 b4 a4) 5...hxg4 (May) The first EEC Open in PARIS was king and pam endings can harbour some 6 h5 (I,Jith the white pams already on a trlumph for English IM Jim Plaskett The final of the EUROPEAN TEAM CH'P was held in Plovdiv (Bulgaria) during interesting tactics. Frequently the key the fifth rank - or the centre pam at whose 8/9 gave him a GM norm with a June/July. Despite the prior elimination to success in these positions is the d4 - hltrite would win but here the black point Eo spare. Lest the reader think calculation of (sometlmes long) varia- king can stop and win both pams) 6... that Australia has recently joined the of such strong countries as Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Israel, the tionsl obviously this is much easier Kf6! 7 h6 Kg6 8 e5 Kxh6 9 e6 Kg6 -+. EEC, it can be added that one or two than in the middle-game where there are (2) 4 reZ leads to a safe draw: 4... routsiders' were allowed to event was still exceedingly strong with ir1ay. more than 40 GMs among eight teams. usually many extraneous pieces floating 94 5 hxg4 hxg4 6 fxg4 Kxe4 I Kf2 ard Leading scores in the 26-player Swiss the As expected the Soviet Union, even around to obscure the analysis. now 7.. .f3, 7..,a5 or 7,,.Ke5 all draw. were: 1 IM Plaskett 8; 2 GM Lobron without Kasparov who was preparlng for The first position (Diagram I) comes The text gives Black more problems to (BRD) l; 3-4 GM Nunn (ENG) & PTie (FRA) his showdom with Korchnoi, proved con- from a game Pitts-M.Hopewell played in sol ve - 5r; 5-10 GM Ree GM Karlsson fNl), points a friendly lnterclub match recently. (SWE), Tl'lTlear (ENG), IM Johansen vincing winners, 52 clear of 3...h6 second placed Yugoslavia. Having observed this position I actually (AUS), lNl Skenbris (GRE) & IM Iskov left before the game finished but was Black can also get away with the ugly (DEN) 5. Scores: I U,S.S.R. 381, 2 Yugoslavia 33, 3 Hungary 3O%, 4 EtgTand 30, 5 Neth- informed later that hltrite had blundered 3. . , gxh4 since, with locked f -pams, *** erlands 7914, 6 Bulgaria 25, I Denmark and lost despite being aware of the main White has insufficient room to infil- 20, 8 West Germany 17!. ideas. trate on the kingside, e.g. 4 Ke2 Kf6 5 At AARHUS during May van der Wiel took Kf2 Kg5 6 Kg2 Kg6 7 Kh3 Kh5 =. SAX Scheveningen: first place in the Lux Time Cup event, - FEDDER, Sicil ian ,,ry I e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 1 t % % i 4 hxg5 hxg5 5 Ke2 the first international tournament in 7/////Z Nf6 5 Nc3 e6 6 a6 7 Nd7 8 Be3 this Danish city for some years, 94 95 t The white king heads towards 94. b5 9 a3 Bb7 10 h4 d5 1I exd5 Nb6 l2 ,r.ry, Scores: 1 GM van derWiet (NL) lr-i/IL; % % Bg2 Nxd5 13 Nxd5 Bxd5 14 Bxg? 15 ,r//, 5...s4!? 2-3 Berg (DEN) & GM Ftacnik (cz) ]i Qg4 Nd7 16 0-0-0 l1 h5 Bel 18 ;' 4-6 IM Helmers (NOR), IM Fries-Nielsen Qxg2 Qc8 ,/////, Alternatively Black may initiate the Bf6 19 gxf7l KxfT 20 Nxe6 Re8 2l vl,t (DEN) & GM Keene (ENc) 6i 7 GM Jansa 96 F,Z, tempo play on the queenside wlth 5... (cz) 5tt .... lZ players. NxgT BxgT 22 Qd5+ Re6 23 QxdT+ QxdT a5l? although there is nothing to gain 24 Rxdl+ Rel 25 Rhdl Rc8, 1 - 0. by doing so at this stage. Not, howryer, *** NUNN-RADUL0V, Sicil ian Rauzer: At first glance lartriters protected 5..,b5? when White can win with 6 b4 (preserving an important tempo, I e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 passed pam confers the advantage on 'spare' a2-a3) (or 6...g4 fxg4 8 The W0RLD OPEN, at New Yorkrs Statler Nf6 5 Nc3 d6 6 Bg5 e6 7 Qd2 a6 8 I the flrst player but we then observe 6...Kf6 7 Kxe4 Kf2 Kd5 Kf3 Ke5 10 a3 +-) KfZ Kg6 8 Hotel in early July, ended in a five- 0-0-0 h6 9 Bf4 Bdl 10 Nxc6 Bxc6 11 that, by g5-g4, Black can undermine 9 7 Kg2 Kh6 9 Kh3 Kh5 I0 a3 Kh6 1 1 Kg4 Kg6 way tie with GM Quinteros (ARG), M Qel Qc7 12 h4 0-0-0 13 Rh3 Be7 74 b4 that pamrs support, though probably at I 12 e5 Kh6 13 e6 Kg6 14 15 Kxg5 Shirazi (rRN,, IM Zaltsman (USA), lM Kb8 15 a4 Rc8 16 e5 d5 17 b5 axb5 the cost of allowing l4triEe a (potential) el Kfl spraggett (cAN) & IM Bass (usA) aL7 18 axb5 Bxb5 19 Qd2 Ba3+? 20 Kbl Bt'l outside passed pam. KxeT 16 Kxf4 *-. finishing on 1/8. These five shared 2I exf6 e5 22 Nxd5 Qd6 23 Rxa3 exf4 fxg4 Kxe4 7 KfZ 1. . Kd3 Ke5 6 some $17,000. Equal 6th through 12th 24 fxgT Rhd8 25 Qa5 Ba6 26 Ne3 Qe7 .95 2 (UsA), On 7 b4 Black has the simple 1...t3+ on 6! points, were IM Benjamin 27 Bxd8+ RxdS 28 Nd5 Qd6 29 Qxd8+! Qxd8 0n the surface this seems to be Ehe 8 Kfz Kf4 Kxg5 l0 Kxf3 Kf5 GIl Smejkal (CZ) , IM Fedorowicz (USA), 30 Nf6 QdI+ 31 Kb2 Qd4+ 32 Kc1 Qxf6 33 only logical continuation as, otherwise, 9 95 =. GM Lein (USA) , lll Wilder (USA), Yucht- g8Q+ Ka7 34 QcS Qxh4 35 Qc5+ Ka8 36 the white king can reach d4 but 2..,h5!? Ma (USA) & Brooks f USe) Those 6 . on Ra4 Qhl+ 37 Kb2 Qxg2 38 Rxf4 Qg7+ 39 3 Kd4? actually loses after 3-..g4 4 Simplest, although 7...a5 also draws. included GM Alburt fUSZ), GM Benko c3 Qg6 40 Rd4 Qf6 41 Rd6 Qs5 42 Qb6 fxg4 hxg4 as the reader will easily Not, however,7..,Kd4? 8 Kf3 Ke5 b4! (USA), ll{- Ivanov (CAN) & GM Henley (USZ, Qb5+ 43 Qxb5 Bxb5 44 Rxh6 Bc4 45 Ka3 verify, Instead 3 h3 Ke5 will transpose 9 while GM Tarjan (USA), GM Lombardy (USA) Kb8 46 Kb4 Be6 4l f4 Kcl 48 Kc5 Kd7 to the next note. when I{hite is assured of making the & GM Ftacnik (CZ) wete among those 49 Kd4 Kel 50 Ke5 Bg4 5l f5 BeZ 52 last move on the queenside and thus scoring 5% points. Rd6, 1 - 0. 3 h4!? wins Ehe black f-pam. Instead lrrtriEe may play 3 h3 and bfter 8 Kf5 9 Kxf3 Kxg5 10 Ke4 Kf6 f** a6a 95 88 89 Black can get back to defend his continue: 10 h5! for the first queen? queenside just in tlme thanks to the - (1) 5...b5? There is no time for 10 Kxg4 as Black white king having to detour around c6. (3) 5.. . Ke6! 6 Kf3 The imediate sacrifice of a pam to then queens half a nove before Lrhlte 11 Kd5 Ke7 12 Kc5 Kd7 13 Kb6 Kc8 =. realise a distant passed pam fails and his new queen will cover Blackrs 6 Kg5 is eqully hopeless for the same because his king is badly placed. queening square - a comon situation reason while 6 Ke3 Ke5 7 Kd3 is met by The second position (Diagram 2) arose with opposlng passed rook paums. 7...f4t 8 gxf4+ Kxf4 9 Kc4 Kg4 and Black 6 axb5 Kd6 after Blackrs 43rd uove in the game easily wlns the race to queen a pam. g1Q hBQ Spiller-Sarapu (North Island Chrp 1983). This tempo loss proves decisive but 10...93 11 h6 9? 12 h7 13 The ful1 game was given in June. the rthematict 6...c4 actually loses to 6...bs! 7 bxc4'f Kc5 8 Ke3 and the a-pawn will The current state of endgame theory The same idea we met in variation (1) be stopped, After 6...Kd6 we find that su8gests that, generally, White maq wit but now the black king is better placed 2 Black cannot win the pam on b5 so the with a RP on the seventh although this - Lrhite will not capture on c4 with ,fl - g position is dram has not been proved conclusively. check. 3/\ Obviously the drawing chances are even I,.H 7 Ke3 Kc7 8 Kd3 Kb7 = 7 axb5 c4 B bxc4 a4 9 b6 Kd6 "#,t greater with Lhe paum further back .. .. -+ But not 8...Kb6? 9 Kc4 and Whlte wins so we must look for a better try on The white pa\rns are easily stopped )\ the c-pam and the game. For similar move 5. By the way .,,. who picked g1 uhile the black a-pam is unstoppable. :: .trl reasons White cannot, after 8,..Kb7, play 9 Kc4? because 9...Kb6 wins for In the game Paul played 44 F.e2 atd, Black, Thus both kings must stay at a Blackrs extra pam proved decisive after respectful distance from the pams on COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS protracted manoeuvring. During the ad- b5 and c5 - but must not wander away! journment the move 44 Rxf3 required AJ-B Albania FAI Faroe Islands MAU Mauretania SAL El Salvador (2) bxc4+ AJ-G Algeria careful consideration and this is where 5...c4?! 6 Kxc4 7 Kxf5 FrJ l,iji MEX Mexico SCo Scotland our interest lies. (Dlagram 4) AND Andorra FIN Finland MLI Mali SEN Senegal An interesting symetrical position ANG Angola ERA France MLT Malta SEY Seychelles 1 Rxf3 Rxd5 (forced) 2 exd5 3 ANT Antigua & MNC 9xf3 has arisen. question on which Monaco SIN Singapore Kxf3 Ke5 4 Ke3 A - square, after best p1ay, will the first Barbuda GAM Ganbia MON Mongolia SPA Spaln ARG Argentina GCI Guernsey & MOR Morocco Lanka Nothing is achieved by 4 d.6, e.g. 4 new queen appear? SRI Sri AUS Australia .. .Kxd6 5 Ke3 Ke5! 6 Kd3 f4l -* or 6 Kf3 Jersey MRT Mauritius SUR Surinam b5! 7 axb5 c4! 8 bxc4 a4 -t. GHA Ghana SWE Sweden 4 BAH BahaTnas GRE Greece NIC Nicaragua SWI Switzerland 4...Kxd5 5 Kf4 (Diagram 3) BAN Bangladesh GUA Guatemala NIG Nigeria SYR Syria After some interesting introductory BAR Bahraln Gtry Guyana NLA Neth. Anti-lles play we have reached a king and pam t BEL Belgium NLD Netherlands TAI Thailand ending. Black has an extra pam which BER Bermuda HKG Hong Kong NOR Norway TTO Trinldad & Tobago BOL Bolivia HON should prove decisive but great care 1s Honduras NZD New ZeaLand. TUN Tunisia B0T Botswana HIIN Hungary needed as l,lhite has counterplay on Ehe TUR Turkey kingside where he can quickly establish BR-D West Germany OST Austria his om passed pam. BRU Brunei ICE Iceland UAE Utd Arab Emirates 7...bs BRZ BTaz7L IND Before proceeding further, 5 Kd3 India PAK Pakistan UGA Uganda BUL Bulgaria IRE lreland PAN Panama URU Uruguay needs to be examined, The most straight- The easiest way to calculate who foruard win involves forcing a passed queens first (or the quickest way to IRN Iran PAR Paraguay USA United StaEes IRQ Iraq PER Peru USR Union pam on the queenside: 5..,Kc6 6 Kc4 queen a pawn) in such positions is to CAN Canada Soviet ISR Israel PHI Philippines b5+! 7 axb5* Kb6 8 Kd3 Kxb5 9 Kc3 c4! 10 simply count the number of moves neces- CHI Chile ITA Italy CF bxc4* Kc5 11 Kd3 a4 and after the ex- sary for the respective pawns to reach COL Colombia PLO Palestine VEN Venezuela PNG Papua New VGB change of passed pams the black king the eighEh. This method quickly shows CRA Costa Rica - Brit. Virgin Is. JA.I'I Jamaica Guinea VUS US will win the race back to the kingside. that ...Kb4 and ...Kxa4 (or Kg5 and CUB Cuba Virgin Is. JAP Japan POL Poland Kxh5 for lrrtrite) is too s1ow. CYP Cyprus JOR Jordan PoR Portugal WAL Wales 2 CZE Czechoslovakia ) %%% B axb5 PRC Peoplers Rep. 7ft '%%% The imediate 8 is wrong because, KEN Kenya of China YAR Yemen Arab Rep. 94? DDR East Germany ,,fr&%t'%t after 8...b4! Black vlll queen with KIIW Kuwait PRO Puerto Rico YPR Peoplers Democrat check. After 8 axb5 Black must rwasEer DEN Denmrk Rep. of Yemen % D0tl Dominj-can Rep. t %w",ru a move with his king else White queens LEB Lebanon RIN Indonesia YUG Yugoslavia x %%7,& first. IIB Libya RUM Rumania 7z %%% ECU Ecuador LUX Luxembourg ZAI Zaire B...Kxb5 9 94 hxg4 EGY Egypt SAF South Africa ZAI{. Zambia ENG England MAL l"lalaysia ZIM Zlmbabwe After 5 Kf4 Black has several ways to Itrsa clear draw after 9...a4? 7O 95. 90 9l and Taranaki - Editor) as well as being both future New Zealand PrimeMinisters. Some Early New Zealand Chess History Lieutenant-Colonel of the 58th. His There is further indirect evidence elder brother Edward Buckley Wynyard through Johann Lriwenthal, that fabulous by Bob Meadley was Colonel of the 58th and was in player of last century, who gave the Australia from 1848 to 1853. I mighr following in his l-ondon Era chess Editor's Note: For some xifre now I -'Wyuward CB. be accused of drawing a long bow but column of 4th January 1857: "Who can have been corresponding with John van Edward was on St Helena during 1816- say that before the New Zealander, tl/ll/6 R.H.Wynward paid Manen and more recentl-g with Bob Mead- 1820 and could have played chess against spoken of by Macaulay, sits on a broken {2/2/- S. Sinctair paid leg who is the ProbTen Editor for Chess Napolean. arch of London Bridge to sketch the in Australia. These two, toqether with D. Bolton paid Further names on the list include ruins of St Pau1s, his forefathers, Ken Fraser (who helped greatTg wlth the tt/tt/6 paid Major Charles Lavallin Nugent and Lieu- composing the Heki Isrc] Club (so called foTTowing artlcTe) and Peter Wagg, have William H-----. paid tenant Henry Colin Balneavis of the after the celebrated New Zealand Chief been deTving into the earTg historg of C.l,,J.I4l. I-----' pald 58th, Lieutenant Balneavis was present of that name) will not come off victo- Austrafian Chess. Theg have published A. Kennedy paid at the assault on Chief Kawitirs pa at rious in a correspondence match with severaT vol-umes on Xhe subject and in tt/tLl6 J. E-"---'ard paid into bank Ohaeawai on lst July 1845. This was an the St Georgers? We are inclined to xhe course of their investigations have Wn S. S"----' paid attack 1ed by Colonel Despard against think that our supposition is quite as turned up some interesting materiaT !2/ 2/ - tr^l. Toms paid the advice of the loya1 Maori chief likely to be realised as that of the relating to New zeaTand - add some J.-.M. S------paid Tamati Waka Nene who fouglt wiLh the famous historian. " further research and we have the fofTow- 1.0 /6 James Buchanan paid British against Kawiti, The attack was St Georgers was a very great London ing article. t2/2/- Fred rk l^r. Merriman declined carried out in the best traditions of chess club. In I85L iE organised the paid the British Army but breaking through International Tourney with Howard It looks very much as if our nighty Captain Beckham paid the double row of stout palisades was Staunton. Morphy also played L6wenthal game goes back to April 1845 at 1east. Philip W--'---' paid an impossible task and more than forty there, The Heki (or Heke) Club was The Maori Wars of that year brought two -'.H, Bartley paid British soldiers lay dead after the named after the Maori chief who fought British regiments from Australia to G.P, H----'-res paid battle. with Kawiti against the British until help Colonel Despard and his forces, A. I. Thomson paid Balneavis was present at the destruc- he was wounded in the thigh at Okaihau These were the 58th (Rutlandshire) and D. Pollen paid tion of Aratua's pa on the 16th July in March 1845. Obviously Heke was held the 99th (Lanarkshire & tllltshire). F.E. Campbell paid and also at the storming of Kawitirs pa in high regard by meubers of the chess Chess was very popular in these regi- at Ruapekapeka on 1lth January 1846. club. L6wenthal may have been giving St ments with nany joining the AusEralian F. J. Travers paid The British forces for this latter George's a nild ribbing over their Chess Club in Sydney Byron Drury attack numbered about 1100 including correspondence game with the Heki Club dv1rng 1844/45. C.L. Nugent Captain Grant of the 58th and Messrs paid men of the Royal Navy and detachments who may well have been in a good posi- f2/21- C.-. Mayne pd Elliott, Leigh, Mends, Mair and Major Aug't 3 of the 58th and 99th regiments as well t ion. Paid F. Matthew Reeves of the 99th all joined this as Auckland volunteers under the com- Lciwenthal wrote, "Among the many Sydney chess club. It seems a reasonable Fredrk Lrlltaker paid mand of Despard. This time the British thousands who have swelled the streams S. S,-', conclusion that the detachments of these Campbell paid had heavy guns and, though the bombard- of emigration there are many chess f,2/2/- John regiments which went to New Zealand took Woodhouse declined ment began on the morning of 10th Janu- players and, parodying an old dogma, we J,-. chess with then if it had not exlsted Guiplian paid ary, it was not until the evening that may say once a chess player, always a there previously. f,2/21- Robert Guipliam pald the palisades were weakened. The next chess player." In the Era of 16th J.R. Cooper paid In the Mitchell Library in Sydney day, Sunday, the bombardment continued, October 1859 he wrote again, under the -', Davls there is a Document No.460 that con- S2/2/- M.D. pd into Bank During the morning some friendly Maori heading "Chess at the Antipodesrr, the sists of four pages relating to the H.C. Balneavis paid scouts crept up to the pa and, peering following: "A chess club has just been setting up of a chess & whist club in J. Hargremis paid between the palisades, found that it established at Patumahoe, a small Auckland during 1852. I have a photocopy A. Cooper paid was praetically empty. The Maoris, many settlement in the capital province of of this document which contains the D-" Knight paid of them missionary-taught, believed New Zealand, Auckland, forty miles in names of thirty-nine persons desirous of Thors Outhwaite paid that no assaulE would be made on the the bush and, although only five or six forming this club. The signatures are Augustus B. Or---'---. paid" Sunday and were outside the pa holding families at present form the population,' not easy to decipher and some names a religious service. The British Eook fifteen members were enrolled and a given may be wrongl others couldnrt be It is interesting to speculate how advantage of the situation and the pa tournament was decided on to comence mde legible. The list is in the order this early New Zealand document ended was quickly taken, The Kawiti war was with . " it appears in the document: up in Sydney but, putting that aside, virtually at an end. Chess must have been very popular is proposed to form an rAuckland It could be argued that as the Auck- then. At ?atumahoe there were but thirty "It there are some remarkable names in the rchess Chess and Whist C1ubr. Gentlemen de- list as well as further proof that land club being formed was a and people (say) and half of them belonged sirous of promoting the same will please chess was an enthusiastic pastime in whistr club, Messrs Wynyard, Nugent and to the chess club! to attach their names to this paper and Auckland. Balneavis may have been whist players. By 1866 Chess must have had quite a attend a meeting, if convenient, at the His Excellency Robert Henry Wynyard The presence, however, of members of following as the Neison Examiner of Masonic Hotel on Wednesday the 30th was the Lieutenant-Governor of the Pro- the 58th and 99th Regiments in that late May was copied by Be17's Life in June at 4pm to talk over the mtter. " vince of New Ulster (FoTTowing an 7846 Sydney Chess Club surely holds sway. Victoria in its lssue of 16th June 1866: Act of the British pro- Two other names on the list were "From Nelson Examiner - at the special "Under the Patronage of His Excellency Parfiament the vince of New uLster comprlsed Auckland Frederick Whitaker and Daniel Pollen - general meeting of the members of the 92 93 Chess Club held at the Bank Hotel on KgZ g5 20 hxg5 Bxg5 21 Nxg5 Qxg5 22 Tuesday evening 29th May, it was fimlly Nf3 Qs4 23 Rhl f5 24 Rh4 Qg6 25 exf5 What Happened to Bobby Fischer? arranged that the Nelson Chess Club Bxf5 26 Bxf5 Qxf5 27 Qe3 Kd.7 28 Rahl should challenge the Christchurch Chess RagS 29 b4 Na5 30 b5 Nc7 31 Nd2 Rg4 Jon Stephenson Club to play a consultation game at 32 Ne4 Ne8 33 Rxg4 34 Rh4 Qxg4 Qg6 EdiXor's note: prepared chess ttrrough the medium of the electric 35 94 Rg8 36 95 Kc7 31 f4 38 Kg3 this articTe was some time back but we stll-f feeT that Mr Qtl Fischer is an interesxing telegraph. The challenge is to be for- Nf6 39 Nxf6 Qxf6 40 Rxh5 Kd8 4l Kg4 subject! warded by Letter by the Phoebe this day, exf4 42 Qxf4 Qe7 43 Rh6? Qe2+ 44 Rtl4 It 1s now ten years since American ability of Fischer to comment on them, accompanied with suggestions of condi- Qel+ 45 Kg4 Qgl+ 46 Kf5 Qbl+ 47 Qe42 Bobby Fischer was cromed World Chess From his earliest days he has harboured tions of play which we withhold until Rxg5+, 0 - 1. Champion at Reykjavik, Iceland. Yet, a deep distrust of reporters, and has we hear of the challenge being acceptedl' * sadly, the world has seen or heard not been interviewed by a serious In the 21st July 1866 Bef7,s Life we very little of him during this period. rgoing $Iriter since 1962. Today, living in read that the match was onr. By Hopefully the above will inspire some The player once regarded by some as ralready self-imposed exj-1e, he makes very fel 1lth August there had been New Zealand chess lovers to dig out the the most brllIiant of all time now appearances; those peop,lc, he dces see rHeklr (20th July) three nighLs playr with 12 famous C1ub, the Patumahoe Chess leads a strange 1j-fe; some reporLs are minly old chess f rjends, moves being given. The 8th September Club and possibiy earlier correspondence even have him distributing anti- Around 1981 the German newspaper Die issue of Belfts Lite gave 35 moves and or telegraphic games from the New Zea- Semitlc literature, far from- the 64 Zeit tried to track him down for an the 29th September issue gave the land newspapers. There should also be a squares. interview but, after dozens of phonc dreaded news to all Nelson supporters mine of chess material around that 1852 0f course, Fisherrs "retirementr- cal1s and visits to former friends, in Australia that Christchurch had wou Auckland club. from active tournanent competition was gar/e up concluding it was a "hopeless the two games played. There is a wonderful fifteen and a not without precedent. In 1967 he task." Boris Spassky :r1so attenlted to The first gare was given in the 6th half page Chess History of New Zealand withdrew from the Sousse Interzcnai cont.ict I'ischer while in California October issue of BeTlts Life which com- by J.C,Andersen in H.B.Bignoldrs after disputes over his tournarent during 1980, but his efforts were in mented that "the game reflects great AusXraTian Chess AnnuaT of 1896. A copy schedule could not be resolved, and va1n, credit on the Christchurch players for of this and other rare chess oaterial from 1968-69 he took a break from According to cM Larry Evans, Bobby the manner in which advantage is taken is in the Alexander Turnbull Library in chess to ilplot my revenge." has now gt:owr a besrd and lives at of every oversight of their opponents. Wellington. Ilowever, this time tr'isherrs absence, present in a Lcs r\ng1e1es hotel. "He Whiters play throughout displays care- and his refusal to compete inter- has turned into a recluse who can not fu1 consideration and foresight. Nelson aA6 nationally, particularly in IfDE- be reached by phone or nai1. Itrs ar will have to improve greatly before organised events, seems to have an air open question whether herll ever they can equal, 1et alone rout, their of permanence attactled to it. Four rettlrn. I.Iry jeopardise his place ir Christchurch f riends. " TEACH CHESS BY VIDEO! years ago his name disappeared from chess history?" Yet althcugt/ there the press. have been no positive indications of CHRISTCHURCH-NELSON, King's Gambit: Now available from BRIAN WINSOR, 24 The last report dates back to Fischer returning to tournarent play, 1 e4 e5 2 f4 d5 3 exd5 Qxd5 4 Nc3 Walter Street, Takapuna, AUCKLAND 9, Qe6 5 Nf3 exf4* 6 Kf2 c6 I d4 Bd,6 I Belgrade. American Chess Life and it is almost certain that he sti11 LEARN CI1ESS THIS WAY on VIDEO (VCR B.eview says that in the fall of l9l8 follcus Bb5 Nf6 9 Re1 Ng4+ 10 Kgl Ne3 11 Qd3 - the latest developnents in 0-0 12 Bxe3 fxe3 13 Rxe3 Qh6 14 Bc4 only), approximtely 2 hours. The Fischer flew to Yugoslavia -in an chess. Be4 15 Ne5 Bxe5 16 Rxe5 Nd7 17 Re7 programe covers the basic moves, attempt to arrmge a match wlth his In April of this year he emerged Qd6 18 Rael Rad8 19 a3 Nc5 20 dxc5 castling, en passant captures, check old friend SveEozar cligoric, as briefly fron seclusion, turning up Qxc5+ 21 Qe3 Qd6? 22 Rxbi a5 23 Ne4 & checkmte, opening the game, knight "possible training for a duel with unannoun-ced at the Californian home of Qe5 24 Ng5 Qxe3+ 25 Rxe3 Be6 26 Nxe6 forks & simple tactics - plus an in- Karpov.rr But after all the details Anerican (;randmaster Peter Bi'/iasas, fxe6 27 Bxe6+ Kh8 28 Rf3 Rxf3 29 teresting game or two, snippets from were finalised Fischer refused to and asked his "hostt if herd like a gxf3 96 30 c4 Rd6 3l Bh3 Rd3 32 Kg2 Ewen Greenrs 2O-board Blindfold Simul compete under the control of PIDE, game. Naturally Biyiasas consented; Rd4 33 c5 a4 34 Bd7 Rc4 35 Bxc6 Rxc5 for Telethon '83 and a couple of inte- which he claimed is "riddled with the two played 17 games, and Fischer 36 Bxa4 Ra5 37 Bd,l Kgl 38 a4 Kh6 39 resting endgame positions. Soviet operatives.r' won the lot: l,Ihile Biyiasas is not in h3 Rg5+ 40 Bg4, 0 - 1. IDEAL FOR SCHOOLS or CLUBS which have Then irr March of this year, the I,lorld Chanpionship, class, he is a access to VCR facilities - saves hours Australian newsmagazine Bulletin strong grandmaster, sc it is probably game The second appeared in the 10th of time teaching the basics. claimed that, once again, Fischer was fair to assume that Fischerrs result November Bell's Life which comented, Contributions from ortvin Sarapu and poised for a comeback. This tine, irdicates perfect he has not J-ost his touch. "We are at a loss to account Ewen Green. accordlng to an IcelarCic chess Other exa.nples of Fischer retainirrg for Whiters move 43rd whlch now causes $50 to buy OR $10 per week rent (with official, he was negotiating to play a his enthusiasm for chess include his him to lose his queen and so abruptly option to buy for additional match against a prominent Icelandic visit to th.e 1978 ttS Championship at concludes game $40) - a which would have taken please add $1 for postage/packing. Player, in Iceland. Grandmaster Pasadena, numerous chess trips Black a deal of play to to the win.'l tr'rldrik 01afsson, President of I'IDE, Philippines, and his surprise appearance NELSON-CHRISTCHURCH, Ruy Lopez: 1,OI^I COST, CONFIDENTIAI COPYING SERVICE was mentioned as a possible opponent, at Djakarta during 1976, where New also available for your VIDEO I e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 Qf6 4 c3 Qg6 om but as yet nothing definite has Zealanders Ortvin Sarapu and Paui 5 0-0 d6 6 Rel Be7 1 d4 Bt,3 8 93 Bd7 filns (VCR only) - $15 per hour plus eventuated regarding these plans. GarbetL hacl a chance to ot'sen;e his 9 d5 Nbg i0 Qb3 c6 11 Bd3 b6 12 Be3 cost of blank tape, Part of the difficu.ty in eslab- genius at lightninp; cir:ss. c5 13 c4 h5 14 h4 Nf6 15 Bg5 Na6 16 Write as above or phone Auck.497273. lishing thr credibility of these "Wi11 Eischer returr,?r' The answer a3 Nc7 17 Bxf6 Bxf6 18 Nbd2 Qh6 19 stories is obviously the unavajl- remains anyone's guess. ! 94 95 For instance, to create quiet in a age do you still hold ambitions for a Interview with Bent Larsen playing hall, organisers and arbiters world title match? should begin by being quiet themselves. A: Yes, but it depends. Like by Mark Evans The second question is unclear. If you Htbner, I opt out if I donrt like the mean nerves, I am not normally nervous way things are done. at the start of a game. ,!*)tik 'rAbout the King's Cambit it is said innovation of three interzonals seems Q: History provides several examples that this opening is strong like a not very forLunate buE the uorst ParE of of players, such as yourself, whose Kerzappitysplat.... the sound of storm, nobody can tame it. In the it was that it was a hasty decision of match results never equalled their Larsen descending on a chessboard at authorrs (youthful) opinion modern a FIDE congress and they did not think achievements in tournaments, I{hat are 50 mph. Since berserkers don't do chess masters were cowards, because very much about the details, as became the special qualities of a match things by halves, one or other of the they had not the guts to play the evident in the question of the seeding player? Can you te1l us, for examPle, players will usually walk away with the King's Gamblt. Naturally I did not for the Candidates. FIDE is a very weak anythlng of your impressions during the ful I point . The toI-lowing pame, per- like to be a chicken and until about organisation. Its two trumps are its match against Fischer? Did you go to haps not so well known, is one which 1952 the favourite opening of the rom- number of member countries and its con- Denver with a particular approach in Larsen may regard as one of his poorer antic chess masters was also mine," trol of the World Chanpionship. It mind and, if so, did you change your efforts, replete with errors, a The writer is Bent Larsen, owner of should pay more attention to the latter tactics as the match progressed? None struggle of changing fortunes. But the Danish championship; winner of the or Lhere might suddenly be another of the four players beaten by Eischer "when do -vou find two chess players who GM title with top score on board one at "professional" championship of more in 1911/72 seems to have recovered his agree which games are best?" (Larsen) the 1956 Moscow Olympiad; four times prestlge. One problem is that FIDE is a fu11 strength. Did these reverses I didnrt ask him to nominate such a candidate for the world championship, federation of federations, and indivi- leave permanent psychological scars? game. Instead, Irve picked one I like with Gel1er, Portisch and Tal numbered dual voices are not heard. The national For instance, prior to meeting Fischer, a lot, a battle royal which shows two among his match victimsi 1967 recipient federations are either weak or terribly both Spassky and Petrosian had recorded characteristics of Larsents style - of the inaugural Chess Oscar, foLlowing bureaucratic, match wins over Korchnoi, yet both were his willingness to wade in, boots and a four-month orgy of destruction which Q: Judging by Fischer, Mecking and well beaten by the same opponent in all, regardless of colour or the oppo- saw consecutive first prizes pLucked Hiibner the leading cMs of the West are subsequent years. nentrs strength, and his approach to from strong opposition at a rate of one too temperamental to preseDt a sustained A: The match in Denver was organised the opening, "emphasising the surprise per month. challenge to Soviet supremacy in chess. for Fischer. There was no offer from element" to force the opponent onto the By the mid to late sixties Larsen was You seem to have been the exception in other countries. Very depressing. His back foot. If you prefer to play over widely regarded as the most likely that respect. Despite Korchnoi, evi- previous match against Taimanov had "good" games then try Larsen's selected prospect for a World Champion west of dence seems to favour the Soviet factory been arranged just north of the border Ganes 1948-69. the Iron Curtain. In 1970 he made a approach to talent. Are the strains at but USCF paid. Our match would Pro- Notes are based on those bY the plus score playing on board one, ahead the top too great for our individualists? bably have been played in Tijuana if I players, from the tournament book of Fischer on board two, for a compo- A: I donrt understand the "despite had not accepted. FIDE drew up some San Antonio '72. site team pitting the Rest-of-the-World Korchnoi"; he ls a typical product of stupid rules, giving in to a lot of At the time the game was played P and L in a ten-board match against the Soviet the Soviet school of chess. I donrt put Bobbyrs idiosyncracies. Tt was the were botLr on 8 points, a point behind Union. Hribner in the same basket with Eischer hottest July in 36 years in Denvero the tournament leader, with three Although Larsen's results have been and Mecking. Any sane person knows temperatures over 100, humidity often rounds to p1ay. erratic in recent years, he continues there are other things in life than under 10%; I could not sleeP. I knew to be one of the most competitive and chess and an independent person can opt from the beginning there was nothing to PETROS IAI'1 - LARSEN respected players on the circuit. And, an), twice, out at moment. Hiibner did so do, and the resuft of the match there- Dutch Defence as Murray Chandler has pointed out, that is his choicel equally, he chose fore made no impression on me; no Perm- Larsen ls the only chess plaYer to to try again. The strains at the top anent scars. Spassky was already tired 1 d4 e6 2 Nf3 f5 3 93 l\f6 4 BqZ warrant a mention in Chambers Twentieth are not too great but lousy organisers of chess before Reykjavik. tle had been b5:? Century Dictionary: sometimes make grandmaster want to _ a a professional since he \,r'as ten. His Fourteen years earlier at the ber-surkt (er), n., a - berserker, spend his time and energy on something case reminds one of that of Lasker, who Portoroz interzonal, Larsen, as \^lhite, Norse warrior whom the sight of the else. youth. probably hated chess since his had prepared the same opponent: fill wiLh a against fleld of battle would Q: Does a lifetime of professional The relations between Korchnoi and L f4 d5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 e3 (Petrosian frenzied and resistless furY. chess knock the fun out of playlng? Can so weird that one should 96 Petrosian are side-stepped wirh 3. . .Bg4) 4 b4',.? ,(*f* you still enjoy a game for its own sake try to explain rhem. Great friends not with rhe idea of axercising some hrtrat is your opinion of the Pre- rather than its influence on your But at least one can Q: for a long time. indirect control of the centre b1, hin- sent qualifying system for the world tournament standing? say that Petrosian had been World (or, championship? In particular, does the A: Partly answered (above). No, it dering c7-c5 here, cZ-c4). Champion and did not seriously try ALthough Larsen thinks the move is not innovation of three interzonals make is stil1 fun to play good chess. If again. There is a lot of healthy lazi- good is characteristic things better or worse? organisers want good chess, they must so with Black it ness in him. of his style, setting new problems when A: It would be more lnteresting to provide good playing conditions. Now- Q: Some years ago you wrote in an have a title match every second year. adays a lot of people know what good therers scarcelv been time for Petro- article, Drfmen on at bfive Verdens- sian to settle in his seat. If the Ollmpiads continue, it seems playing conditlons means. There is even mester I that in the absence of a real logical to have the individual title a little piece of paper from FIDE to chance of becoming world champion you 5 Ne5 c6 6 Nd2 0b6: match the years without Olympiads. The explain it. It is not at all costly. would take up bridgel? At 47 years of 96 91 A lovely shot. Larsm forces his Petrosian overlooked that 29 BE6: opponent onto the back foot psycho- Q"7 30 Qc2 wins quiekly. More Melnichenko Iogically by provoking him onto the Studies front foot game. 28...Ndl 29 Rxa4 c5?i in the Petrosian isn't Following our introduction of Emil Melnichenko to our readers in the June issue' a noted gambiteer of the openings and Larsen played this move knowing it his we Present some more studies by the same composer. I think the reader will probably post-mortem coments suggest that to be a "bit of a gamb1e." Many find this selection a little harder to solve particularly he wasn't entirely than those in June, the happy to be prodded players, having just been given a fourth one - but do have a go before reading the solutions! into his next move. The problem here second 1ife, would have looked aromd for White is that taking time out to for the nearest draw to crawl into. Olympic Tourney 1976 Tidskrift defend the d-pawn with c3 or e3 allows 3rd Comendation B.C.M, June 1979 f6r Schack 1980 30 cxdS Black to free his position with Bb7, Nb6 31 Ra5 Nxd5 32 Rb3i intending c6-c5, RdB ,/////, % 77///, 7rui i7M t./'t?, t'%''%,2,fr/,fua 32...Rb8 33 RxbTl RxbT 34 Bxd5 is + //2.. //////, 7 e4)? Qxd4 8 Nef3 Qc5 9 exf5 Qxf5 lN )\ ///// hopeless, so Larsen goes in for fur- % vruai% % %fr 7///t 10 0-0 Nd5: 11 Nd4 12 N2f3 Qh5: '#, :at Qf7 ther complications with both players t,1, rg | "/2. % fr'% Disrupting the even flow of hrhiters short on time, ?,W, % %%%%.,r%, % % development where obvious sortles such , 33 RxbTl Ne3 34 % % % %% as Ne5 now require preparation, The Qe2 Rd1+ 35 Qxdl fr%+ black queen has meandered along a path Nxdl 36 Rxa6 Ne3 37 RaaT Nf5 38 94 %%%% A % probably unique at this stage of a game: QdB 39 h3? % %%//////, d8-b6-d4-c5-f 5-f7 -ln5, a sof t-shoe 39 Bf3: would have short-circuited I. Draw 2, White wins 3. Lrhite wins shuffle with more of the same shortly to my drawing chances available through (Black to move) come. Larsenrs first 12 moves - 6 with queen checks. Bci6k Jub i I ce 1980, the queen, 4 with pawns, 2 with the 2nd Prizc The first study will be specially enjoyed by 39...Qd1+? (same) knight - al1 add up to an opening those who favour the underdog - I cannot say more strategy which Fred Reinfeld night find Later Larsen claimed at least a draw without spoiling the fun, but yourll soon see what difficult to classify. Despite its odd by 39. . .Qd2 I although Petrosian I mean! Number tuo has a long solution but once appearance, Blackrs position is sound, reckoned llrhite had good chances after %%,N you get the idea it should be childrs p1ay. In though undeveloped, and the onus remains the further 40 Nf3 Qc1+ 41 Ngl. % no. 3 the problem is clearly to stop Black sacri- on Petrosian to justify his pam ficing his two mobile pieces for a stalemate. The 40 Khz 41 Nq6 Ne3 42 RxgT+ % %@%r deficit. Qd4 Qxc)l fourth study is probably the hardest to solve but 43 RxgT+ 44 NxfB 45 Bf3 h5: %6% % ftg/ KxfB is of some theoretical importance. 13 Re1 Be7 14 Re5 Qf7 15 Re2 Melnichenko The only practical chance, to which %%% even suggests that it may eventually be shom that Larsen queried this move, saylng he 46 Kg3 is the only winning repty. R+B+N v R+B (opp. colour bishops) is a win from expected 15 Bg5l Bf6 16 Nf5 KdS, with 4 . I^/h i te wins most positions. an unclear position. 46 95? h4 47 Kg1 e5l 48 fxe5 Nc4 49 Kf? Solutions: 15...0-0 16 Ne5 17 f4 Bc5 18 Qh5 Larsen Kh1 Bb7 19 Ndf3 Bb6? analyses a pretty drawing 1. Paradoxically, Lhite underpromotes line leading to lrwrong" 3. An interesting struggle develops be- the rookts to win Blackrs bishop, not rook, to tween bishop and queen: 1..,Qb3 2 The bishop suffers from indecent pam: 49 e6 Nxb2 50 c4 51 Bd5 c3 Qe4 96 draw: t h7 Bg7 2 e7 Rxb6 (2...Ra8? 3 Rxe4 3 Bxe4 Bg2 exposure and is soon exchanged, leaving 52 Bb3 Nd3 53 e7* g7 Qd5 4 Qf3 5 e3 Qd5 KxeT 54 c2 BdB) 3 g4+ Kf6 4 e8N+! (4 ese? Re6+ 6 Bh3 Bg4 Black weak on the dark squares. Subse- 55 Bxc2 Kf7= Qf5 7 QxtT 8 BxdT winning. quently, Larsen suggested 19...Qe8, with -+) 4.,.Kfl 5 NxgT KxgT 6 cxd4 Re6* the 49...Nxe5 50 Be4 Kg7 51 b3 Nf7 7 Kd3 Rf6 8 Ke3 =, e.g. 8...Rc6 9 Kd3 4. 1 Ne5+ (7 Rd7+? Kf?) Ke6 (7...Ke7 2 idea Na6-c7 and then d7-d6. As ir (Kd2) happens, one error begets another... 52 o6 Ng5? Rh6 10 f3 (Ke3) Rh2 11 c3 =. Rd7+ Kf6 i Nxg4+ Ke6 4 Bf5 mate or 7... Kf6 2 Rd6+ Ke7 3 Rd7+ KfB 4 Ng6+) 2 After 52...Ne5 53 Ke3 Nxg6l the pam 20 a4i a6? 21 c4 Nf6 22 Ng5 bxa4 2. 7 Kf6 a2 2 F'hl (On1g thus; 2 Rc7? Bf5+ (2 Bqq+? Kf6 3 Rd6+ Ke7 4 Rd7+ Kf?) ending 1s dram, Throughout the game 23 Bf3 QeB 24 Be3l Bxe3 25 Rxe3 h6 26 Bd5 3 Re1 Be4 4 Ra7 Bb7 2...Bh3 3 (2...Kf6 Larsen has shom blindspot -+) Ke7 i Rd6+ Ke7 4 Rd7+ Kf? 5 Ne4 Nxe4 27 Bxe4 d5 a for 1lnes Ral Be6 4 Rel (Zugzwang so Bfack RUS| leading to the half-point. Ng6+ transposes) 3 Rd7+ (3 Nc6+? Kt6 4 ''fr '?zs,,E move a paw) 4.,.a6 5 Rhl Bh3 6 Ral Rd5+ Kf7 5 Ne5+ Kfq; 3 Rag? Kd6 4 Kd4 53 Bf5 Kf6 54 Ke3 Ne6 55 Bxe6 Kxe6 Be6 J Rel, (Zugzwang again; repetition Be3+) Kf8 (3...Kf6 4 Nxg4 mate) 4 Ng6+ 56 of this '%zt'"%,t?,A%%t7ru Ke4 Kf6 manouevre wiff evenXualfrJ see Kg8 5 Be6+ Kh7 6 Nf8+ Kh6 (6...Kh8 7 Black run out pawn t %7. Larsen plays of safe moves) 7. . . Rd7 Bh6 8 Rh7 Rg5 9 Bt5 93 10 Ne6 92 11 it out, no doubt furious a5 8 Rhl Bh3 Ra1 %zt'ti% that his 9 Be6 10 Rel a4 II Rxh6+ KgB 72 Nxg5 q1Q 1j Rq6+) I Bf7 ingenuity in the opening and Rhl Bh3 12 Ral t %t%zg7t7ruV resourcefufness in a lost position Be6 13 Rel a3 14 Rhl (7 Rd7? Re7) Bf6 (7...8c7 I Rd6+ Kg5 9 Bh3 15 Ral Be6 16 Re1 c6 17 Rh1 Bh3 (8 should finally come to nought on Ne6+) 8 Ne6 Kf5? 93 9 Kxf6 92 70 ,,tfu/A | l,ru the 18 Ral Be6 19 Re1 c5 20 Rhl Bh3 2t tournament tab1e. Rd5 RxfT+ 77 KxtT qlQ) RLL7 9 Kf5 Bc3 % %lt2 .//zd RaI Be6 22 Rel alQ (Or 22...c4 23 Rh7 l0 Kxg4 (10 Nf8? Rhq; 70 Ng5? Rh8 17 %w% 57 Kd5 Kxg6 58 Kxc5 Kf5 59 b4 Kf4 Bh3 24 Ra7) 23 Rxal a2 24 Ret c4(d5) Rd6+ Kg7 72 Rg6+ KfB 73 Ke6 Bq7) Bbz 60 b5 Kg3 61 b6, 1 - 0. 25 Ral c3(d4) 26 Rhl Bh3 27 Rxh3 any (70...8e5 71 Kf5 Bg3 72 Ra7 Bf2 73 Rb7 23 B_c12? ***** 28 Rh8 mate. Bg1 74 Re7 Bf2 75 Ng5 RhB 76 Re6+ Kg7 98 99 17 Rg6+ Kfg 78 Ke6 anq 79 Nh7+ RxhT 20 ERRATUM RgB nate) I1 Kf5 Bc3 (77...8a3 72 Rb7; CLUB DIRECTORY 17-..8c7 72 NfB RhB 73 Rd6+ Kg7 74 Ne6+ On page 62 (June issue) the game KxfT 75 Rd7+ KgB 76 Rg7 naXe) 12 Ng5 "Spiller-Smith'r should, of eourse, have The annuaT fee (six Tistings) for this colum is $6 pagable with order to the New (72 Nfq? RhB 13 Rd6+ Kg7 74 Ne6+ KxfT been "Smith-Spi11er" - as intimated in ZeaTand Chess Association, P.O.Box 8802, Sgmonds StTeet, AUCKLAND. 75 Rd7+ re8) Rh8 13 Bg8 (13 Rd6+? Kg7 the text of the article. Sorry Robert! 74 Rg6+ Kfq 75 Ke6 eq7) Kh5 14 Rd3 and AUCKLAND CHESS ASS0CIATI0N: contacts - Presidenr, Perer Stuart, phone 456-377; tr^lhite wins. ttt Secretary, Paul Spiller, 59 Uxbridge Road, Howick, phone 534-5519" NZCA MEMBERSHIP STATISTICS AUCKLAND CHESS CENTRE: meets Mondays & Thursdays at clubrooms, 17 Cromwell St, l'tt .AA-A Eden, phone 602-042. Contact: Niget Metge, phone 278-9807. Schoolpupil eoaching on Friday evenings. f'ull recreational facilities TV, pool room & library, COMBINATION SOLUTIONS New Zealand Chess Association member- - ship for the 1982/83 year (which ends H0WICK-PAKURANGA C.C. meets Tuesdays 7:30 pn (children 6:30-7:30) at Howick 1. Anderssen-Dufresne, Berlin 1852: on 31 August) stands at 1608 - a drop of Brldge Club, Howick Comunity Complex, Howick. Contact: Claude Stelco, 9 Tangeto 1 RxeT+! NxeT fl...KdB 2 RxdT+! Kcq 8.lZ on the prevlous yearrs total. Place, Bucklands Beach, Auckland, phone 534-1503. 3 Rd8+! NxdB 4 Qd7+! winninq as in h/hile the figures for most clubs were NORTH SH0RE C.C. meets Wednesdays pm (Eournament the gane) 2 KxdT 3 Bf5* Ke8 taken at 31 Decenber 1981, they are the 7:30 & casual play) in St Josephs QxdT+!! Church Hal1, cnr Anzac & Taharoto Rd, Takapuna. (3...Kc6 4 Bd7 nate) 4 Bd7+ Kd8 5 latest available, Counting school and St Postal address: P.O.Box 13-587, Takapuna. Contact: pt.ote fxeT mate - the 'Evergreen' game! businesshouse clubs there are 72 clubs Peter Stuart, 456-317 (hone). Visitors welcome. affiliated to the Association, REMUERA pn 2. Anderssen-Kieseritzky, London 1851: C.C. meets 7:30 on Wednesdays at the Auckland Bridge Club, 213 Remuera Adult membership totals 736 while Road, Remuera. Contact: K.Williams, phone 543-762 (evenings). I Bd6!! Bxgl (B7ack is aTso mated there are 872 schoolpupils affiliated. after 1...Qxa1+ 2 Ke2 QxqT 3 NxgT+ WAITEMATA C.C. meets 8:00 pm Thursdays at Kelston West Comunity Centre, cnr Great j Although the Auckland area suffered a Kdg 4 Bc7 or 7...8xd6 2 Nxd6+ Kdg drop in membership this year, the area North & Awaroa Roads. Postal address: P.0,Box 69-005, clendene, Auckland 8. NxfT+ KeB 4 Nd6+ KdB 5 QfB) 2 e5! covered by the Auckland Chess Associa- Contact: George Williams, phone 834-6618 or R.W.Snith, phone 836-8555. (Cuttlng gueen) off the black Qxal+ tion still accounts for 67% of the NZCA 3 Ke2 Na6 (To prevent 4 NxgT+ KdB 5 membership - with 7 clubs, I9 buslness- HASTINGS & HAVELOCK NORTH C.C. meets 7:00 pm I,Jednesdays ar rhe Library, Havelock Bc7 mate; if 3...8b7 4 NxgT+ KdB 5 houses and 22 schools affiliated, There North Hlgh School, Te I'lata Road, Havelock North, Hastings. Contact: Mike Earle, QxfT Nh6 5 Ne6+ KcB 7 Ne7 naxe) 4 are 265 affiliated members in Welling- phote 776-027. NxgT+ KdS 5 Nxf6 6 Be7 mate. Qf6+! ton, 179 in the rest of the North lsland PALMERSTON N0RTH C.C. meets 7:30 pm Tuesdays ar rhe IHC Workshop, Cook of caurse .-.. the game! Srreer, 'Imorxal' and 182 in the South Island, Pelmerston North. Contact: J.Blatchford, 64 Apol1o Parade, Palmerston North, 3. Gonsiorovsky-Alekhine, Odessa 1918: l{orth Shore, with 111 members, remains phone 69-575. l...Bbz+ 2 Kbl Nd5! 3 Rxe8* Qxe8 the biggest club. In fact, the composi- 4 Ne4 Qxe4! 5 Bd2 Qe3l (Of course tioL of the 'top sixr is unchanged from CMc C. C. meets 7:45 pm Tuesdays at St Peterts Church Hal1, Willis Street, Afekhine 1s alreadg piece & pawn up, the previous year although the order has Welllngton. Contact: Mike White, phone 730-356. but he wanXs the king as we7)-!) 6 changed. The 12 biggest clubs (with pre- HUTT VALLEY C.C. meets 7:30 pm Tuesdays at the Hutt Bridge Club, 17 Queens Road, ReI! Bf5 7 Rxe3 dxe3 8 exd2 9 vious yearrsmembership inbrackets) are: QfI Lotrer Hutt. Contact: Mrs Mary Boyack, phone 678-542. 10 any Nc3 mate. Bdl Ncb4 NorEh Shore 11f (115) PENCARR0W C.C. meets 7:30 pm Thursdays (for seniors) at Louise Bitderbeck Pillsbury-Wolf, Monte Carlo 1903: Howick-Pakuranga 89 (74) Hall, 4. Ilaln Road, Wainuiomata. Contact: phone 1 Bxg6! Rb6 2 Ne6!! (pilLsburg actu- Upper Hutt 81 (15) Brian Foster, 648-578. a1lg plaged 2 Qxb6! sti71 winning Otago 64 (68) UPPER HUTT C.C. meets 7245 pn Thursdays in the Supper Room, Civic Hal1, Fergusson but not as quicklg) Bxe6 (other cap- Canterbury 55 (5I) Drlve, Upper Hutt, Contact: Anton Reid, 16 Hildreth Street, Upper Hutt, phone tures on e6 are no better, e.g. 2... Auckland Centre 54 (60) 288-7 56 , Rbxe6 3 BxhT+ NxhT 4 Rg4+ Kfq 5 Qhg Wellington 48 (42) nate) 3 BxhT* NxhT 4 RxhT KxhT 5 Gisborne 45 CANTERBURY C,C. meets every Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 pm at the Clubrooms,227 Rh4+ Kg8 6 Rh8 mate. WaitemaEa 40 (28) Bealey Avenue. President Geoff Davies, phone 524-518. Correspondence to P.O.Box Wanganui 33 (35) 8014, Riccarton, Christchurch 4. 5. Vygodchikov-Alekhine, corres. 1908: Civic 32 (39) 1...Nf4! 2 Rxg6 Bg2+ 3 Rxg2 fxgZa CHRISTCHURCH CHESS CENTRE meets Tuesdays pm Tawa 30 (37) at'1t45 ar 314 Worcester Sr. Annual 4 Kgl Ne2+ 5 Kxg2 Nxd4, 0 - 1. subscription $5. Contacts: Vernon Sma11, phone 558-696 or Roger & Joanne Nokes, phoue 583-027. 6. Marshall-Burn, Paris I900: .AAA 1 Bxg6! fxg6 2 Qxg6 Nd7 (2...Qd7 3 NELSON C.C. meets 7:30 pm Thursdays at the Memorial Ha11, Stoke. Contact: Tom Ngs Kf8 4 Nh7+ Kg8 5 Nf6t wins; 2... NEW ZEALAND TEAM FOR INDIA van Dijk, phone Riehmond 8178 or 7I40. Visitors welcome. 3 Ng5 Kfq 4 Rhq+ BxhS 5 Nh7+ Qe7 The New Zealatd team for the Asian 0TAG0 C,C. meets 7:30 pm Wednesdays & Sarurdays ar 7 Mairland Streer, Dunedin. wins; 2...Re7 3 Ng5 Kfg 4 Nh7+ KgB 5 Team Championship in New Delhi (October) phone (clubrooms) 776-919. Contact: Tony Dowden, 21 Queen Street, Dunedin, phone Nf6+ Kfq 6 Rh8+ BxhB 7 Qgq nate) 3 is: Bernard Carpinter (Captain), Michael 7 4t-296 . Ng5 RhS+ mate. Qf6 4 Kxh8 5 Qh7 Freeman, Michael HopewelL, Anthony Ker, A rather moreEtrtr difficult set tban usual! Mark Nobleaaa and Jonathan Sarfati. i00