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New Zealand Chess STOP PRESS Official journal of the New Zealand Chess Obituaries New Zealand Chess (Inc.), We regret to rccord two deaths in llrc , 1,, .; Federation published in February, Vol 26 Nunber 4 August 2000 April, June, August, October, December. communty. Editorial correspondence, copy and Nigel Hopewell,34. a highly rrsprtr,rl advertising inquiries should be sent to competitor in Auckland chcss. hrr:, ,1,,,1 Contents New Zealand Chess tragically ir a traffic aocidcrrt 4 Fresh from his success in achieving the IM title at the zonal tournament,. Anthony Ker c/- 103 Koromiko Road Conrad Newick, 87, wlrrr plirvetl rrr llre enjoyed another success in the North Island Championship in Wellington. IM Rus- Gonville New Zealand Championship ur llr( l',.Itt., sell Dive could do no better than draw each of his last four games, letting Anthony Wanganui and has bcen living i11 rctrrcrrrcrrt rr snatch a clear lead and the title in the last round. Opinions expressed in articles, letter and Whangarci, has died in Auckland NZCF names the playing other contributions are those of the authors. Thcir contribution to chess will be rccordcd 7 Olympiad teams and order, also launches the usual appeal Letters on chess topics are welcome; Iimit in thc next issue of NZ (.lhess. for funds to assist the NZ representatives. 150 words and marked publication." "for 12 Anthony Ker has joined our select band of IMs, so we chart his chess progress EDITORTAL Olympiad donations through the years. Editor, Ted Frost. The Olympiad {und (scc pagc ) has bccn bolstered by sorne b_"- salc Overseas news editor, Peter Stuart. X1200 thc of old. I 15 Warts and all from the zonal tournament, we are running all the games. surptus books by NZCF 23 Kulashko wins the Waikato Rapid, and Bob Smith (ustifiably) chides NZ Chess for SUBSCRIPTIONS errors in some of our tournament reports. Subscription payments should be sent to Waikato Open The Waikato Open has bccn uorr bv I)irr r,l Treasurer, NZCF 24 The field for the NZ Women's Championship was small again this year, and Vivian Guthrie with 5/6, Sccond cquirl wcrc ll,,l, P O Box 216 Smith's domination continued. Shortland Street Smith, Leonard McLarcn, [;rralur liu;rlirr rrrll' Auckland 4 516, and Brucc Watsorr. Stcpht:rr I rrL, r 2l GM Ian Rogers spots a flaw in his own Congress analysis, and Mark Sinclair heads Ralph Hart and Hilton Bcnnctt on 4/(r the Kapiti 30-30 field. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES 23 Gordon Hoskyn reports results of the latest NZCCA handicap tournament. NewZealand, $20.00. Australia, South PaciIic, $US12.00 airmail. 25 Peter Stuart's reports that Kasparov stayed on top in Sarajevo, but oniyjust, and East Asiq N Americ4 $US15.00 airmail there's a new European Championship event. Europe, $USl17.50 ainnail, $12.50 economy. The next issue: Mait features will be the report on the 2000 South Island Championship Rest of world, $US20.00 airmail, $US15.00 and the Waikato Open, plus the last games in the zonal tournament and usual over- oconomy. seas news and correspondence chess features. Back issues available - send for details.

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NZ Chess NZ Chess North Island Championship, 2000 ll1' l',ttrl I tnrt11 1,,,2 3:'',4:,,5,:6r,l ''7'': ::8 I Ker, Anthony It has been sweral years since the Wellington 23781W17 Wr3 D6 W2i U3 D2 Wlo W7 6.5 1 2 I)ive. Itussell Chess Club (formerly has WE ll70lw22 w8 wt5 w3 D6 Dt D7 D4 62 Cwic) hosted a major Ker"{ (2378) - Wllllnrrrs.lt ( t 6,)7 y -t Wastney, Scott GA. 21?81W19,WlI wg::r:,t-2:r, Dtr ,u/6 rw13, '1,5 5.5 3J toumament, so this year's North Island Champi- R I Tronrpou,skr \,'rrr [A45] 4 Wojnar, Jar:ek 19:10lD24ir:Dl4:W26 ill3i,V/lsr ,D7: ::lif,6r D2 5,5, 3-5 onship, held from Julyl0-14, was a rare opportu- 1.d4 Af6 2.@g5 eG 3.ed2 dS .t.r:t rrrr 5 r,rrr.l-1 } Guthne, David OT 2illlw32 D2l Dl6 L6 W23 D8 W22 L3 5.5 3:5 for those living () Kor, Charles nif in the lower part of the abd7 6.14 h6 7.e[4 c5 8.c3 0c7 rr.\rr/r,2 (fh6 2r3elw25 W7 Dr W5 D2 Ll L4 Wtl 5 ' 6,12 island to participate in such an evont at or close 10.Hbl 7 McNab. Matlherv CA 1S84lW3r L6 Wrr W9 Wt6 D4 D2 Ll 5 6-12 c4 1l.Qc2 Ua5 12.a3 b5 l.l.rrgt.t ,,jglt ,6-12 to home. I Duntr, Paul WE 19r51W28 L2 Dl7 Drs W26 Ds W2l De 5 14.e4 4h615.0{ QdZ l6.Qxe7 AxcT t 7.,i)cs [6 9 Pomeroy, Arthur WE 20441W30 W23 L3 L7 W19 D22 W.t4 D8 5 G12 Thirty-three players duly arrived at St. 18.Ebel Eh7 i9.f5 0 Mamer, Gavin i953lLls W30 w2s DI4 D22 Wt6 Ll w18 5 5.12 Patrick's College, Kilbirnie, including seven I Croad, Nic WE r7801w33 L3 L7 D}e w24 Wls W27 W2t 5 6-12 from out-of-tolm. It is regrettable but unsurpris- 2 Van der I{oom, M 20211 - V,t20 L21 L27 W31 W29 $i 19 W16 5 5i,.12 116 ing, that only three Aucklanders attended, and _t Daraes^,Roben lEr7rlw2g !,Ll :W33,:D4 :W17 Wla r'L3:: 4.5 t 3.14, none oftheir top playors. 4 Koia, Astrley r555lDl8 t)4 W28 DIo W21 Ll3 t.9 W:2 4.5 13-1,4 5 llarris, Pascal liT6Jwro wl8 t.2 DB r.4 r-16 wzl 15-1,7 The field was headed by IMs Anthony Ker and Du 4 6 Sims, Martin: t85rlD20 W24 D5 W2r t.7 t.lo Wls t.t2 4 1s-t'7 Russell Dive, who were expected to dominate, Williams, l3arry t6e7l t.l w29 D8 Wt8 l.l3 L2l I)2.1 W24 4 15-17 but with possible competition coming from Scott 8, Wintield. Alan r914lD14 Ll5 W24 .t7 D27 L23 t.20 t_r0 4 18-20 Wastney, David Guthrie, Arthw Pomeroy and 9 N-vberg, Miohael 164]f L] W27 t.Z3 Wl 1 r.e t,28 t t2 W2(, 4 18-20 Mark van der Hoorn, with interest also in the 0 Wright, Caleb l39rl1116 Ltz L22 D2r{ W2s 1.30 Ll8 W29 4 18.20 1 Jackssr. Ross 1e5olw26 D5 W12 114 r.11 3 21"25 retum to serious play of Charles Ker after a t.l W17 L8 5 Wood, Ilavid t6471 L2 D28 W20 Wt2 Dto D9 L5 L14 3.5 ?1-25 break of five years. With only four players rated Grrdhue, Nathan iet0lw27 L9 wl9 Lr6 L5 Ll8 Dt7 W3o 3.5 2r-2s below 1500, there prospect was also the offierce Wojnar. Maciej l5t7l D4 r.t6 Ll8 L32 t.il 1.:ll u,29 Lt7 3 s 21-25 competition for grade prizes. (iold, I{amish 16321 L6 W3 I LlO 1,26 L2O bye Wlll D32 3.5 2t-2s ln the event it was indeed the highly competi- 19...0-0-0 20.cxd5 Anxds Z l.i\xrt7 ,,t,,rrt7 Barlow. Aaron l602ll.2r w32 L4 W25 1.8 127 W28 t.le 3 26-28 Khytko, Andrew 15501L2.1 tive nature of the chess played that was perhaps 22.Ixe6'+ fxe6 23.Uxe6+ Sc7 Ear:tt 2 t .Iths t|cs Lr9 W32 D30 Dt8 W26 1,ti l.l5 3 26.28 Farrington, L WE 15571 L8 t>22 Lt4 D20 W33 Lte i26 hl* 26-28 the most pleasing leature of the toumament. 22.Habl f5 23.Uc2 El'c8 24.93 {Y(15 25.I1't I l((ttl 3 Gillespie, John WE l425lLl3 I.l7 bye Dll W30 Ll2 1.24 l.2i) 2.5 29..12 With one exception (unmentioned hereafter) 26.Hbbl Wn 27.AbS a6 28.I(xrl8 I rJrrm Frackel, Z-ygmund I'IVE 161 5 I Le L l0 w3 t t>21 Lze L20 b.ve L2l 2"5 29-32 there were 29.N6 Ee6 Uc4 3l.Ua2+ rlrt8 no meaningless short draws and nu- -10"4h7 -r2:trc5 Krngston, Zoo KP. 148 I L7 L25 L30 bye r .24 Ili: \['.r l 2.5 29-32 bxc5 I !J2 merous upsets. 33.8b8 0e7 34.rllgtt Qn5 .t5.Ik.rt r rii,6 Kay. Brtrce WE 1627l L5 1.26 1.27 L24 hve Dl3 lJ3 I l)25 2.5 29-32 36.Exe4 fxe4 37.EfE+ l--l) KP Round I 6xg4 r7.Hxg4 Uxb2 18.fu2 b6 19.EIb1 UeS r0.4r43 b5 rr.Ads f5 12.Qd3 Qe6 13.8h5 Eg8 Wood,D (1647) Divc,R (237{t) Mark van der Hoom phoned shortly before the - 20.N4 HacS 21.Hb5 Ec5 22.Eabl f5 23.Se2 14.93 N4 15.c3 fxe4 16.Qxe4 Qg4 17.Sxh7 R I IB02] Alekhine Dcf,2 Pawns Aft. round to say he would not be there, having EfcS 24.93 Eds 2s.Ed1 Ed8 25.Ebb1 Sfl Eg7 1s.Eh6 Af3+ t9.Qxf3 t1e.6f1l le...Qx8 stayed up the previous night to watch Sampras l.e4 A16 2.4c3 d5 3.exd5 Axd5 4.Qc4 Ah6 27.N5 a6 28.HxdE+ QxdS 29.Ad6 He6 30.4b7 2O.AtA+ 6e7 21.Hh4 6eG 22.o4 Uxf6 z3.Ub4 win Wimbledon, so was not paired. Of the other 5.Qb3 6c6 6.Hf3 e6 7.foe2 Qe7 8.d4 Axd4 Ue4 31.Ua2+ 6fB 32.Axc5 bxc5 33.8b8 6e7 d5 24.9b3 Qc5 25.Eae1 Exg3+ 0-l 9.Axd4 top seeds, some found the going harder than Uxd4 10.Qe3 Ue5 tt.0-0{) 0-0 34.Ug8 Qe5 35.Ee8+ 0f6 36-Exe4 fxe4 37.Wf8+ l2.Ehel others: Dive survived a risky pawn-grab from Qg5 13.Ae4 Qxe3+ l4.Exe3 Qd7 1{ Dlve,R (2370) - Dunn,P (1915) rs.ag3 Ebs English, Sicilian David Wood, but the post-mortem indicated 16.4h 8.Uh3 Round 2 Att. [A26] Qxg2 19.894 Qxh3 z Qg6 some difficulties for him. Charles Ker, surely Most of the top seeds won comfortably enough, r.AR Af6 2.c4 96 3.6c3 Qg7 4.g3 0{ s.Qg2 d6 22.4h5 EadS 23 t.xr.6 rusty, had to work hard to win in the endgame but David Gutlrie was held to a draw by Ross 6.0{ Ac6 7.d3 e5 8.8b1 a5 9.a3 h6 10.h4 25.Exe6 6h8 26.c3 fldf4 27.Eie7 Exf2 28.lIxt7 against Hamish Gold. Three half-upsets oc- Jackson, while Koia had another J. axb4 ll.axb4 Qe6 12.b5 Ae7 13.Qd2 Ud7 Exh2 29.Hxb7 Efl+ 30.Qdl Ec2+ 0-l draw, with curred: Alan Winfield in a messy game with Wojnm, and Harris caused his second upset, this 14.uc1 6h7 15.Hd1 Qh3 16.Qh1 6ga 17.Qel f5 l8.Uc2 f4 19.d4 fxg3 20.hxg3 exd4 Ashley Koia, Jacek Wojnar quickly reaching a ()5.I tirne over Winfreld, The early indications of 2l.dxd4 Harris,P (1576) - Marner,G ( I ; blocked position with his son QeS 22.de4 6f5 2s.Aa Qf6 24.cs d5 25.0xf6+ Maciej and Martin R I [E47] Nimzo-Indian Def Norrrrrrl Vnr. form seemed at this stage to point to a pre- forced axt6 26.e4 de7 27.Ah4 c6 28.bxc6 bxc6 Sims to take a perpetual against Caleb l.d4 6f6 2.c4 3.Ad Qb4 4.e3 0-{) S.grt-'r dictable result. 6 c5 29.exd5 afxas So.Qca EabS 31.Exb8 ExbS Wright. However the real upset of the round was 6.Age2 Ac6 7.Qd2 d5 8.a3 cxd4 r).,i\rrt,l ylc5 Croad,N (1780) - Wastney,S (2178) 32.Qe5 Hb5 33.0d6 Qfs 34.AxfS tsxf5 35.Qe4 Gavin Mamer's loss to Pascal Hanis, the latter 10.Ue2 dxc4 ll.Qxc4 t2.\rhr'.t Sicilian, Lasker-Pelikan-Sveschnikov Var. 0xc4 Qc7 Ue6 36.Qxe7 AxeT 37.8d6 Uf/ 3S.Ed7 698 handling the time pressure phase much better. 13.0-0 e5 la.0fJ Qga 15.Axe5 [Ixrl2 t(r i)rg4 lB33l 39.Qxc6 Eb8 40.Qe4 Ef8 r-{) 1.e4 c5 2.6f3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.6xd4 ffO S.6cr NZ Chess 6c6 5.Adb5 d6 7.Qf4 e5 8.Q95 a6 9.Oxf6 gxf6 6 Pomeroy,A (2044) - Goodhue,N (1910) mpiad team and appea Caro-Kann, Advance Vm, [B12] A fourth player has become available for the women's team for the Olympiad whichrwill l.e4 c6 2.d4 dS 3.e5 Qfs 4.h4 hS 5.c4 dxc4 be held in Istanbul from 28 october to 12 November, so both open and wornen's teams 6.Qxc4 e6 7.N3 Ni B.ige2 Ab6 9.Qd3 Qxd3 have been approved by Council. The two teams, in playng order, are: 10.Hxd3 Uc7 11.Qg5 f6 12.exf6 gxf6 13.Qf4 Open: IM Russell Dive, wh7 14.uh3 Ed7 15.0{ 0-0{ 16,Eac1 f5 I 2 IM Ben Martin, 3 IM Anthony Ker, 4 FM Bob Smith, 5 NM 17.Ob5 Efl 1s.Axa7+ 6d7 t9.Ub3 Ad5 Peter Green, 6 FM Stephen Lukey. Scott Wastney is non-travelling reserve. 20.Sxb7+ 6e8 21.Hxf7+ 6xf/ 22.0xc6 Ea8 Women: I Vivian Smith, 2 Eleanora Mikhailih 3 Edith Otene, 4 Helen Courtney. 23.Qe5 Agf6 24.a3 Qh6 25.8c5 Ehgs 26.Qxf6 Michael Freeman has been appointed manager and captain ofboth teams, 6xf6 27.0e5 f4 2S.fu3 focs Zs.Exca Ea7 30.a Olympiad appeal Eb7 31.8fl1 Egbs 32.Efc2 QI8 33.8c7 Qd6 As usual NZCF is organising fund-raising to support the Olympiad teams and Council is 34.Exb7 ExbT 35.0d3 ObB 36.Oc5 Ec7 37.0fI appealing to players and clubs to support this worthy cause. Council points out e5 38.dxe5+ 6xe5 39.4d3+ 6fti 40.Exc7 Oxc? that this is players 41.6e2 Qd8 42.a4 Qxh[ 43.a5 0d8 44.b4 Qc7 the only time it asks to dip into their pockets to support their national representa- 31.Axh6+ Sf8 32.0g4 6xe6 33.Exe6 Exe6 45.0c5 6e5 46.6d3 0d5 47.fu4 Sc6 48.6c4 tives. With no govemment or quasi-goveflrment funding available to chess these days, 34.Qxe6 Exe6 35.9xd4 Ee2+ 36.Ef2 Wc6+ QeS 49.b5+ 6b7 50.6c5 Qb2 51.a6+ Sa7 players representing New Zealand must bear the brunt of the financial costs themselves. 37.9d5 Hxd5+ 38.cxd5 Exf,!+ 39.Axf2 6eT 52.6c6 Qd4 53.4d6 h4 54.Ac8+ 6b8 55.a7+ Donations received so far are: Bob Gibbons Graham Haase 14 40.4e4 f5 41.fu3 6d6 42.6R Qe5 43.94 fxg4+ $100, $100, Peter Stuart 44.hxg4 b5 45.6e4 $ 46.95 Qh8 47.6f5 a5 $100; total, $300. 4E.&e4 b4 49.axb4 axb4 50.ObS+ 6c5 51.d6 Round 3 0c6 52.b3 1{) Ker,A (2378) - Ker,C (2139) Pomeroyy'. (2044) - McNabbJVI (rE84)' The top seeds now started to pair off against QP, Trompowski Var. [A45] Grunfeld Def., main line [886] each other. The meeting between the Ker broth- van derHoorn,M QO23)- Jackson,R (1960) 1.d4 af6 2.Qg5 d6 3.fuf6 exf6 4.e3 f5 5.g3 l.e4 cS 2.X3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Axd4 af6 5.Aca ers signalled that Charles would be a serious 96 Centre Counter [B0l ] 6.Qgz @g7 1.tu2 04 8.c4 Ad7 9.Abca af6 a6 6.Qc4 e6 7.Qb3 abdT S.0-{ Uc7 9.f4 fu5 contender for the top places: After equalizing l0.UR Qe7 11.94 b5 lz.gs AtdT 13.f5 fus 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 uxds 3.0a3 Ed6 4.d4 0t6 s.Qd3 10.0{ Ee8 11.Wd3 c6l2.AI4 We7 l3.Eaet Ae4 rather easily against Anthony's favourite 14.um ac4 15.g6 0f6 16.Qe3 axb3 17.axb3 a6 6.Age2 Qg4 7.R Qhs 8.Qf4 Edtt 9.t)-{ e6 14.6d1 Ec7 15.A Ag5 16.d5 h5 t7.He2 Qd7 Trompowski he gained an advantage and offered Axe3 lE.Uxe3 9c5 19.gxl?+ 6e7 20.Eadl e5 10.fu4 Ads 1f.Qg5 Qe7 t2.Qxc't UxtrT t3.c4 18.h4 Ah7 19.dxc6 bxc6 20.8d2 Q{8 21.c5 d5 a draw from a position of sfiength. Dive stopped 21.4d5+ bxIT 22.Axf6 exd4 23.Ug5 gxf6 Ae3 14.tsa4+ b5 l5.cxh5 Axfl t6.hxa6+ c6 22.E/cj Qg7 23.8a3 Afr 24.Af2 Qe6 25.02h3 Hams, 24.wh5+ 6e7 25.8d3 CIb7 0-1 while Wastney converted a clear opening l7.Exfl 0{ 18.4f4 Qg6 t9.Axg6 hxg6 20.fu5 EabS 26.8b1 Eb5 27.b3 N7 28.Hc2WeS 29.b4 advantage over Pomeroy. Jackson boat van der a5 30.Ebc1 axb4%-% Ed8 21.Edl Sc7 22.Sb3 Exd4 23.Axc(r fxc6 van der Hoorn,M (2023) Wood,D (1647) Hoorn in a knight v,several pawns ending. - 24.Hxe6+ Sf8 25.Uxg6 Axa6 26.Uts+ Wfl Sicilian Round 4 Def., closed systcm[B23] 27,Wxf7+ 6xf7 28.Qg6+ 6xg6 29.Exrt4 Ef8 Wastney,S (2178) - Pomeroy"{ (2044) 30.8d6+ Hf6 31.Exf6+ 6xf6 Dive had few problems with Wasbrey's Grun- l.e4 c5 2.4c3 d6 3.t4 96 a.1Y3 Qg7 5.Qc4 Ac6 King's Indian Def. [E62] feld to take the lead. A. Ker beat Jackson in the 6.0-{ if6 7.d3 0-0 8.f5 gxf5 9.Ue1 fxe4 ending, while Guthrie won a pawn after an open- 10.dxe4 Ed7 lf.h3 Ae5 l2.Axe5 dxe5 13.QeJ 1.fu3 ff6 2.c4 3.4c3 Qg7 4.g3 5.Qg2 d6 96 04 Sc6 14.Hh4 Qe6 15.Qxe6 Bxe6 16.Hf5 HadS 6.d4 c6 7.04 UaS 8.e4Qg4 9.h3 QxA ing error by C. Ker, but misplaced a bishop, r0.Oxt3 l7.Hafl Hd6 18.Qh6 Ae8 19.Qg5 Af6 20.Oxf6 6fd7 11.8b1 c5 12.d5 Aa6 13.095 EfeS 14.a3 allowing his opponent strong, eventually deci- Qxf6 21.Wg3+ &hS 22.Ads Hg8 23.Wf3 Eg6 h6 15.0e3 ud8 16.8d2 6h7 17.Qe2 sive play. Matthew McNabb completed a bad fui tt.tt 24.Wa3 Exd5 25.exd5 Bxd5 26.UR Ud4+ b6 19.692 e6 20.dxe6 Axee Zt.otS Oal day at the office for Pomeroy. van der Hoom was 27.Wf2, Exb2 28.tuxc5 tsxa2 29.Ed1 Ue6 22.Qxd4 cxd4 23.Axd6 He6 24.e5 also having a *retched time, losing from the t6 25.9ga I 30.8d8+ 697 31.ScS tsc5 32.&h2 e4 33.Hg8+ Ee7 26.e6 Ac5 27.N7 Ec7 28.f5 gxf5 exchange up against Wood. 29.Qxf5+ 6h6 34.8t8+ Qg7 35.Uxf/ Uc3 36.8f2 rgg3+ 0g8 30.Ebe1 EaeS 37.6h1 e3 38.9f4+ Uxf4 39.Exf4 Ee6 40.Eh4+ Dtve,R (2370) lVastney,S (2178) - 695 41.93 A 42.Exg1+ *f5 43.Eb6+ 6e5 0-1 Grunfeld Def., 3.g3 lD'l 9) t.d4Af62.AB 963.93 9g7 4.99204 s.04 ds Round 5 6.c4 c6 7.cxd5 cxd5 S.Aes 694 9.f4 Ac6 10.0c3 C.Ker continued his good shorving, neutralizing gb6 32.&12 Ab4 33.a4 Ad3+ 34.rbr-t i)xh2 ls.6 6gxe5 11.fxe5 12.0e3 Uxb2 13.Axd5 Qg4 Dive's Alekhine A.Ker reached a winning posi- ,lc4+ 6c4+ 36.6d4 6xa5 37.&c5 St'-s -1lt.rrrh6 l4.Eb1 Uxe2 15.Bxe2 Qxe2 16.EO Qx6 17.fu1 tion two pawns up against Wastney, but with 18.Exb7 39,6xc6 AeJ 40.93 Ofl al.g.r+ d/t4 42.h.t Ad2 Qd3 Aa5 19.6xa8 AxbT 20.Qxb7 1-{) both players having only seconds remaining to 43.6d6 g.6eO Axn g5 45.St6 drg-1 46.h4 gxh4 the time control, the game ended in a draw by 47.95 Axg5 0-l repetition. McNabb beat Sims to move up to

NZ Chess NZ Chess 8 I 9 second with the Kers. Koia aiso continued to do In other games, C. Ker mct lris nlrtclr in Wast- 22.QR HadS 23.4d5 Wa7 24.Hbt ab6 25.axb6 *5,/*Y, well, beating Jackson in the game that won the ney w.ho positionally outplaycd his opponent Etxb6 26.Qc6 Ef8 upset prize. after an unfortunate opening choicc McNabb Pomeroy,A (2054) - Kola,A (1555) drew with J. Wojnar and Guthric wirh Paul Centre Counter [B0l] Ker/. (2378) - Wastney,S (2178) Dunn, while Mamer had a good win ovcr Sims in 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Uxd5 3.fu3 Ua5 4.d4 c6 5.4f3 Dutch Def., Leningrad system [A87] a Sveshnikov. Robert Davies moved up to equal Qg4 6.Qc4 e6 7.h3 Qh5 8.ga 0g6 9.6e5 Qe4 10.Eg1 l.d4 fs 2.g3 Af6 3.Qg2 96 4.Mt Qg7 s.0-0 0-0 second with a win over Koia. QdS 11.9xd5 exd5 12.HR f6 r3.Ad3 6.c4 d6 7.d5 He8 8.Qe3 h6 9.Ac3 0a6 10.8d2 N7 14.Qf4 (HH) 15.044 Ab6 r6.Qg3 Qd6 95 1f.h4 14 l2.gxf4 grh4 13.4h2 c5 14.dxc6 Dive,R (2370) - Ker"{ (2378) l7.Ef5+ 6us tt.Qxa6+ Exd6 19.8f4 Acs bxc6 15.Qd4 Oc7 16"0h1 Ae6 U.Oxf6 Exf6 King's Indian Def. lE72l 20.Egel Ud8 2r.Ee3 foe7 Z2.Hdel b6 23.Ug3 18.e3 Eb8 19.Hgl 6h8 20.Q4 Od7 2t.Eg4 bbz 24.N4 95 25.6e6 Ug8 4s 1.c4 96 2.4c3 Qg7 3.g3 Af6 4.Qg2 c6 5.e4 d6 22.ft95 ExR 23.Exh4 Eh3 24.Exh3 Qxh3 6.d4 e5 7.ige2 0-0 8.h3 Qe6 9.d5 cxdS 25.gxh6 Qf0 z6.Ugr Wns Zl.et EgB 28.Ae2 l0.cxd5 Qd7 ll.Qe3 a5 12.0--0 b5 13.a3 Oaf + Exgl+ 29.Axgr OfI 30.b3 Qes 3t.OgR Of6 14.b4 axb415.axb4 Axb4 16.Ub3 0s6 U.Efb1 32.Hel Qh3 33.9e3 34.N2 Qfr Qh3 3s.5d8 b4 18.0a4 Eb8 r9.6c1 Qxa4 20.Bxa4 0c5 OfI 36.8f4 Qe2 37.Ue3 gh3 Qn lt.Uer 39.8e3 2l.Wc2 Nd7 22.Hc415 23.Exb4 27.8 M4 28.Qxd4 cxd{ 29.Hxe7 Etc5 30.Qd5 Qfl'/r-y, Axe4 24.Qxe4 Ixe4 25.Ha7 Af6 26.9b3 Uc8 27.ExbE UxbS Qf6 31.Ebe1 Ha3 32.Sh6 QreT 33.fxg6 hxg6 34.ruxg6+ 6h8 35.8h6+ 698 36.Qe4 f5 Ker,C (2139) - Dlve,R (2370) 37.0d5+ Efl 38.Hxe7 Hcl+ 39.Hxc1 1{l Alekhin'es Def., 2 pawns att. [B02] Sims,M (1851) (1953) 1.e4 ff6 2.0ca d5 3.exd5 0xd5 4.CIc4 db6 - Marner,G Sicilian, Lasker-Pelikan-Sveschnikov 5.Qb3 Ac6 6.6f3 Or5 7.d4 e6 8.04 9e7 9.d5 42.Ehl Uh3 43.4e4 Qh6 44.Qxh6 9xh6+ Vm. exds 10.Axd5 fuds lr.Uxds Uxd5 t2.Qxd5 45.6e2 ShS+ 46.6e1 tsh4+ 47.dn g5 45.&fl lB33l AM tl.Qxrz Hbs 14.N4 y,-% Sc4+ 49.092 Hxd5+ 50.6xh2 Sxhl+ 51.6xh1 l.e4 c5 2.4f3 Ac6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Axd4 Af6 S.Acl e5 6.adb5 d6 7.Qg5 s6 8.oxf6 gxf6 9.6a3 b5 Kola,A (1555) Jackson,R (1960) 10.4d5 Qe6 11.c3 f5 12.R fxe4 13.fxe4 Eh4+ - 26.4c5+ 6a8 27.Exe7 bxc5 28.dxc5 AxeT Sicilian, closed system 14.6d2 eh6+ r5.6d3 f5 16.HeI fxe4+ 17.Uxe4 [B23] 29.Uxd6 1{ %% HgS 18.4c7+ 602 tg.Uxc6+ 6xc6 20.Axe6 ud2+ 0-1 Ker,C (2139) - Wojnar,J (1910) .,tu%it' Lafvian Gambit [Ca0] Round 7 1.e4 e5 2.4f3 f5 3.Qc4 fxe4 4.Axe5 d5 5.8h5+ 6b8 18.Qe3 exf4 19.Qxf4 Qes 20.4m f6 Half a point ahead of the field with the most .rrn%,ry. 96 6.Axg6 0f0 Z.UeS+ Oe7 8.foh8 dxc4 9.Hg5 21.Ead1 Ba5 z2.tuf,! tgxa2 23.Qe3 E 24.d4 Qg7 diffrcult opposition behind him, Dive must have Ac6 10.0g6 hxg6 l1.Uxg6+ 6d7 12.d3 We8 25.exf5 EhfB 26.Qxc6 bxc6 27.Hg2 cxd4 been favourite at this stage to take the title, but 13.Ug5 exd3 14.0{ Ad4 15.cxd3 fu]zl6.dxc4 28.Bxc6 dxe3 29.Eal tUtxal 30.Hxd6+ iil, 1 he made no progress against McNabb. With A. 6a8 axal 17.b3 tshs 18.Hg7 utZ rl.HgS 6et 3l.Exal Qe5 32.Ua6 6b8 33.Exa7+ 6c8 Ker and Wasfrey winning over Mamer and 20.He1 6f8 2t.Qb2 Qe6 22.We3 Sxh2+ 23.6xh2 34.8a4 Ab6 35.Exb6 Edl+ 36.692 Ed2+ Davies respectively, three the top were tied for Ag4+ 24.&gl Axe3 25.Exe3 ac2 26.E4+ 69S 37.6f3 Hxf5+ 38.6xe3 Ed6 39.EaB+ 6d7 going 51...617 52.6e4 6e6 53.ixg5+ 6f5 54.AR 6e4 the lead into the last round. J. Wojnar 27.Ele3 &f7 28.8f,t+ 6e8 29.Ee3 6d7 30.a3 Qf5 40.8b7+ de6 41.8e8+ 1-{) ss.Ogs+ 6fs 56.4R &H 51.692 6e3 58.495 d5 ended the chanc€s ofthe unfortunate Charles Ker 31.N2 blackwon on time 0-1 59.0f1 d4 60.6e1 d3 61.0d1 d2 62.iy6 e4 (who had the toughest freld), taking his opponent Round 6 63.fu5 6d4 64.Axe4&xe4 65.&xd2 %-% by surprise in his specialty, the Latvian Crambit. The two I.M.s met this round, with Dive Jackson allowed Dunn a mate in three, while having white. He essayed 1.c4, as is his wont Pomeroy smoothly beat Koia's Scandinavian. Round 8 against Ker, but the game Wastney,S this time transposed Ql78) - Ker,C (2139) The standings going into the final round were: into a King's Indian. Dive broke prematurely King's lndian Def. on [E6l ] Dive,R (2370\ - McNabb,M (1884) A.Ker, Dve, Wastney: 5.5, J. Wojnar, McNabb: the queenside, and the later disappearance ofhis l.AR af6 2.c4 96 3.0a3 d6 4.d4 Qga 5.h3 QxR King's Indian Def. [A48] 5, Guthrie, Pomeroy, Dunn, Davies: 4.5. light squared bishop left him weak on the king- 6.exB Qg7 7.Qe2 c6 8.(H) 0{t e.Qg5 EeE l.d4 N6 2.4f3 3.b4 Qg7 4.Qb2 c6 5.Abd2 A. Ker won an interesting, sharp game from side. Ker sacrificed pawns 96 a kniCht for tJuee and 10.Ee1 6bd7 l1.Ed2 tsc7 l2.Earil Aflt 13.b4 d5 6.c4 0-0 7.e3 a5 8.a3 6a0 q.UUl axtl McNabb, with a nice final combination.This looked to have winning chances, but eventually a6l4.a4 fu6 is.Qes Qh8 16.d5 AE7 fi.s4 10.axb4 Qe6 11.Qa3 dxc4 l2.Qxc4 A0S ff.US gave him the title whe,n Dive only drew with the game came down to a dravvn ending. l8.dxc6 bxc6 19.f4 Ae6 20.Ecl a5 2t.h5^d7 c5

NZ Chess NZ Chess T 10 11 Wojnar after getting into a tenible mess in the Davies,R (1857) - Ker,C (2139) Grade prizes opuring, and arrived in the ending two pa$,ns Wolga/Benko Cambit [A59] The B Grade prizes were shared by McNabb down. He won back and managed to liquidate to l.dA A16 2.c4 c5 3.d5 bS 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 and Nic Croad, who beat Jackson, while Koia a rook ending, where Tartakower's aphorism Qxa6 6.4c3 d67.e4 QxfI 8.0xfi AbdT 9.g3 wrapped up the C Grade, with Harris and Wright prevailed. For Wojnar this draw meant a share of 96 r0.&g2Qg7 rr.a8 0-{ 12.8e1 6b6 13.h3 AfdT equal second, with Harris beating his only oppo- third when Guthrie outplayed Wastney with a l4.Ee2 tr4 l5.Hc2 Ua5 16.8e2 6db6 17.adl nent from the lower half of the field Andrew tpical King's Indian sacrifice, These tlree were Ub4 r8.Qd2 Axd2 t9.Axd2 Ha7 20.a3 ExA Khytko. The latter also deserves a mention, he notjoined by Dunn, who let slip a big advantage 21.b3 Ed7 22.Haa2 Efa8 23.a4 Hb7 24.dc3 e6 was the only player in the freld under 16, so won over Pomeroy, or Davies, who lost to C.Ker. 25.dxe6 fxc6 26.a5 Ac8 27.Sd3 HbA 2S-fu2 a prize for that, with his win over Aaron Barlow gc7 29.fu4 Eabs 30.Ha3 0f8 31.4f4 Ef7 32.h4 receivhg a special mention at the prize-giving. Ker,A (237E) - McNabb,M (18S4) Ue7 33.Hca2 Aa7 34.a6 Ed8 35.Ea4 EbbS Congrahrlations to Anthony Ker, then, who King's Indian Def., Samisch Var. [E81] 36.WR Ebs 37.8e2 EdbS 38.He3 Ac6 39.Ug4 never really looked in trouble. The other note- 1.d4 d6.2.e4 3,c4 Ad4 40.s7 Ea8 4t.Ad2 Eb7 42.if3 EaxaT 96 Af6 4.Aca Qg7 5.A 0-0 worthy feature ofthe result was the good perfo- 6.Qg5 AbdT 7.9d2 c6 33.Qxf5 6xf5 34.8c2 0xf4 35.Ed3 Qd4+ 43.Exa7 HxaT 44.495 Qh6 45.8d3 Qxg5 8.Qd3 e5 9.d5 cxds manc€ of some youngff players, notably McN- 10.4xd5 fos 11.6e2 Qe6 t2.foca a5 13.0{ 36.6g2 f5 37.ER+ 0g5 38.6fI f4 39.8e2 CIe3 46.hxg5 Hb7 47.0f1 Eb4 4E.6e1 017 49.8h3 abb and Harris, and some other new names on QxdS l4.AxdS Ee8 l5.Efdl Ee6 r6.0fl UbB 40.692 Ee5 0-1 698 s0.Sg4 697 51.Uh3 6gs s2.Sg4 6hs the prize list in Wojnar and Koia. 17.Qxf6 gxff 18.g3 Qg7 t9.Ad f5 20.Qh3 Ef6 53.8h4 On the whole this was an enjoyable went zl.NS W 22.exf5 gxf5 23.Qxf5 &hB 24.Ug5 Croad,N (1780) - Jackson,R (1960) gf8 played in good spirit. D.O.P. Chris Bell, ably 25.94 Qh6 25...e4 26.fxe4 Ee8 27.H[5 Sicilian Def., Modern Dragon Var. [B77] Qxb2 aided by Dave Capper, did a most admirable job, 28.Eabr Qa3 29.4f6 EeeT 30.95 Eg7 1.e4 c5 2.Af3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nd4 Af6 S.fu3 31"6h1 Ae5 32.Qxe6 Exe6 33.8b3 but there were no disputes and the only proble.ms QcS fl.Enf 96 6.Qe3 @g7 7.R 04 8.8d2 Acr S.Qcl Axal Ue7 35.Efi EeS were caused by the brilliantly surmy Wellington 10.Qxrl4 Uc7 11.Qb3 Qd7 12.04-{ b5 13-Qxf6 weather for all five days, which necessitated 35.,Qd4 36.Axh7 ExhT 37.Hffi+ 6e7 cxf6 frequent shifts oftables to avoid the glare ofthe 38.uxh7+ 6xf8 39.8f,t+ Qf6 40.996 Wfl. 13...Qxf6. sun. 36.6xh7 and Black reesigned. 14.9xd6 tsxd6 15.Exd6 b4 16.0d5 t-{) It has been several years since the Wellington 36,.8xh7 :Z;Hfa+ 6g7 38.Hxh7+ 6xf8 Wojnary' (1910) Dive,R (2370) Chess Club (formerly Civic) has hosted a major 39.8h8+ 6f7 40.Hh7+ 696 41.tsg8+ Sg7 - Alekhine's tournament, so this year's North Island Champi- 42.Wxg7#14 Def.,2 pawns att. [B02] onship, held from Julyl0-14, was a rare opportu- 7.e4 N6 2.fu3 d5 3.e5 f,e4 4.Qe2 cS s.gb$f nity for those living in the lower part of the \ilastneynS (4000) - Guthrlep (2113) Qd7 6.6xe,{ Qxb5 ?.6xc5 Eb6 s.d4 Hg6 9.ffj 53...8b7 54.8h6 island to participate in such an event at or close King's Indian Def., Fianchetto Var. [E68] b6 10.a4 Qc4 11.b3 bxc5 12.bxc4 Ee4+ 13.Qe3 Uxe4+ 55.8e3 Ebl+ 56.6d2 t$c2+ to home. l:Af3 Of6 2.c4 96 3.fu3 Qg7 4.s3 (H a.eg, e6 14.Wd3 Ac6 15.cxd5 exdS 16.0-0 Qe7 0-1 d6 6.d4 abdT 7.0{ e5 8.h3 Ee8 9.e4 exd4 17.dxc5 0-0 18.Sxe4 dxe4 l9.Ad2 Axe5 10.dxd4 a6 11.Qe3 Eb8 12.Ebl c5 13.6de2 20.Axe4 f5 21.4d6 f4 22.9d4 fur zs.cr Axal Open tournaments scheduled for 20()0 and 2ml ae5 14.b3 b5 15.f4 fud7 I 24.cxd4 Qxd6 25.cxd6 EfdS 26.Efdl Exd6 : 18.6d5 Axd5 19.cxd5 Af6 27.Ea2 EadS 28.Ead2 Hs6 29.Eal Had6 Details ofeach event ale available from the organising club Qd7 22,exI6 Wxe3+ 23.Hxe 30.Htdl Yz-Yz Waikato Round-robin rapid, Hamilton CC, l0 Sept, graded groups of 6,30/30, Entry fees $25 25.6xg3 Qxf6 26.Qe4 Qb5 (un $15). Enquiries William Lynn. Qca 29.6f2 0g7 30.Ebc1 Dunn,P (1915) Pomeroy,A (2044) 6f6 31.a4 0d7 32.Qg4 - South Island Championship,25-30 Sept, Otago CC. Ofs Sicilian Del'., closed system [B23] Birkenhead Licensing Trust Open, North Shore CC, 7-8 Oct, 6r Swiss, rl-2,30/30,13-6 1.e4 c Ad4 45190+20. Enquiries North Shore CC, PO Box 33587, Takapun4 North Shore City. 6.0-0 0.d4 cxd4 N7 Mid-Canterbury 30-30, Ashburton CC, 15 Oct,61 30/30 ope,n Swiss,2 grades. Entry $15 (iun 14.Qe3 Uc7 15.Qb6 Ac6 t6.BcS grtT l7.Ed1 $10). Enquiries Ken Pow, 148 Williarn St, Ashburton. Qa 18.8n Qe7 19,fo4 Ec8 20.6h1 AAnZt.Act All-Canterbury Champ, Canterbury CC, 9-10 Dec, 5r open Swiss, entry $20. Enquiries Gavin O4 22.a3 Ac6 23.4e4 f6 24.4c5 Qxc5 2S.QxcS Dawes PO Box25-242, Christchurch. EI7 26.exf6 HxI6 27.c4 Efl 28.cxd5 exds NZ Championship & Major Open,2000-2001, Waiternata CC, Auckland, Dec 28 - Jan 9. 29.Ee1 Hd8 30.0b6 Ed7 3t,9d4t/r--% NZ Rapid Championship,200l, WaitemataCC, Jan l0-11, 2001. Clubs are asked to supp\t details of 2000 events as soon as dates are finalised NZ Chess NZ Chess I 13

Sarfati (JD) and he ate only fish and chips and The early nineties were a vely successful time ice cream and avoided the dreaded Delhibelly for Anthony chesswise. He shared the NZ which laid low the rest of the tearn. Mark Noble Championship with Paul Garbett in 1989-90 in demonstrated his talents as an adjournment ana- Dunediq then won it four more times in the next lyst and helped me to a silver medal. six years. As a result he got !o go to the Asian Anthony played in the Australian Junior twice zonal tournaments in Jakarta 1993 and Malaysia (4= and 3'd1 and the World Junior twice 1995 (Sharjah, UAE and Gausdal, Norway). He He finished well down in Jakarta but in scored 7/13 both times and had a fantastic time - Malaysia gained a second IM norm and beat a "the World Junior is my favourite toumament!" grandmaster for the frst time. He says he has He taught lvanchuk how to play transfer chess! had more houble getting the silver rook in rocent After Gausdal in 1986 Anthony went to Lon- years with strong competion from Russell Dive, ? don to watch Kasparov-Karpov. He decided to Alexei Kulashko and Paul Garbett plus the odd play in Lloyds Bank Maslers, a massive nine- invitee grandmaster or two. round Swiss with 200+ players. He stayed with h 1997 Anthony and brother Charles, playlng Stuart Conquest and Alex Wohl, played the tour- with diffsrent parhrers, made it onto the New nament of a lifetime, beat 2 IMS, drew with van Zealand, national bridge team to Hong Kong and der Sterreq and played and lost to his first two Tunisia. GMs, de Firmian and Kudrin. Anthony's present NZ chess rating is 2378, and A bridegroor4 a besl man, and wo IMs - Anthony Ker (right) Then 19, Anthony scored 51/z/9 and got an IM his FIDE ELO about 2333 on his wedding day last year, with best man norm and a rating of 2410! His comment: Russell Dive *Giddy heights which I have been struggling to regain wer since... " Ker,A - Btn AIi,A Anthony Ker, IM Next came thePlaza toumament in Wellington [B07] PAc Def, Asian Team Chp, New Deihi, in 1988. He lost his first six games in a row 1983 Anthony Ker supplied biographical details for 15 players. Bob Teece visited and invited him to "(never before or since, thank goodness!"), then l.e4 d6 2.d4 Af6 3.fu3 96 4.Qg5 Qg7 5.9d2 c6 this article, which has been edited and games play in some other toumaments. He won the a draw with Russell, then a DRAW WITH 6.f4b5 7.Qd3 Sa5 S.Af3 Qa6 9.0{ c5 10.Axb5 selected by the editor. Wellington 'C' grade championship at age I l. SPASSKYI My best game of all, I had Spassky tsb6 11.a4 0--0 12.e5 dxes l3.fxes Afd? on the ropes and the experts were all crowding l4.Oxe7 Ee8 15.a5 Uc6 16.d5 Uxd5 17.Ac7 Anthony Ker was bom 1967, and leamt to play 21 consecutive congresses around eager to show how I could have won Ub7 18.Axe8 Axe5 19.Qf6 ixf3+ 20.ExR 1-O chess at age 7. He was taught to play by his Dad. Anthony entered the Premier Reserve (now When Anthony afterwards...I was pleased as punch simply to was 8 the family moved frorn Major Open) section of the national chess Ker,A - Marsick,B Eastboume, have drarur!" Wellington to Bandung, Java, In- Congress (the fust of 2l eonsecutive appear- [D35] Queen's Gambit, Exchange Var. donesia. There he played "friendlies" with next- ances), again with the support ofJohn Preston, NZ Premier Reserve, North Shore, 1982 Three Olympiads door neighbour and caretaker Oking. A favourite chauffeur and fellow competitor. He lost a heart- Anthony has played for New Z.ealand in three 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.ic3 Qe7 4.ff3 if6 5.cxd5 Indonesian saying was 'Mo chatur?' which breaker to third seed Dave Cooper in the first exds 6.Qg5 0-{ 7.Sc2 h6 8.CIh4 fo6 g.el a6 means 'Like game Olympiads - Thessaloniki in 1988 (7.5112, a of chess?' round when he blundered after reaching a drawn 10.a3 bomd 5), Novi Sad in 1990 (5/9, board 4) and Qe6 11.0d3 Ec8 12.0-0 Ab8 13.0s4 The family retumed to New Zealand 15 months position at adjournment. He recovered to reach AbdT 14.b4b515.4c5 6xc5 l6.dxc5 Moscow 1994 (slll,board l). Lev Aptekar was c6t7.N4 later and Anthony entered his first chess tourna- 5i9, including a win against the affable Bruce 6nS rg.an 19.Qg3 Qd7 20.axb5 axb5 the captain and coach for the first two 95 ment two days before his tenth birthday, at the Marsick, then lost the last two games. 2l.Ea7 Ea8 22.Hfal HxsT 23.Hxa7 AhS 24,0f5 Olympiads and he spurred the team on to their suggestion of family Iiiend John Preston. He Anthony continued to compete in lots of tour- Qxfs 25.0xf5 5xg3 26.dxe7 fu4 27.Wb2+ &h1 best performances in recent years. scored 2/5 in the C2 grade of the Upper Hutt naments and a breakthrough came in the 1982-3 28.R Wb8 29.6xc6 tsc8 30.fu5 Axc5 31.6xf7 "I remember Lev explaining to the immigration 40-40 tournament (must have eaten too many congress in Dunedin, sharing 1= in the premier Aas sz.Ans+ 698 33.Ug7# 1{ people in Yugoslavia (as it was then) that I really scones and cakesl). Reserve with Ben Alexander and quali$ing for was the beardless youth my passport announced Anthony went back in the next year and scored theNZ Championship. Ker,A - Purt,V (2330) - il took a couple ofhours but he convinced them 4/5 in the same grade and won a prize! (about International experience [E70] King's Indian Def. in the end. Hint: make sue photo up-to-date to World Junior Chp, Gausdal, 1986 $6.25, he thinks). The first international tournament for Anthony joined avoid similar calamity." Moscow was freezing He the Eastbourne chess club, a primary was the Asian teams in New Delhi, 1983, when 1.d4 Af6 2.c4 96 3.0c3 Qg7 4.e4 0-0 5.ige2 d6 cold outside ternperatures -8 degrees but indoors school club run by Marilyn Moonen with about he was 16. He played on board five, Jonathan 6.093 e5 7.d5 Ae8 8.h4 f5 9.exf5 gxf5 10.Qg5 it was well heated- Ed7 11.4h5 OhS r2.Ed2 Ar0 rr.Ags Qgz

NZ Chess NZ Chess 74 l5 14.Qd3 f4 15.0f5 0g4 16.Ue2 Exf5 l7.Exg4 Ker,A - Handokop Oceania Zonal games continued Er 18.Ehs Qh8 le.a 6a6 20.04{ E8 21.93 [Dl3] Queen's Gambit, Slav Def. By NlilPeter Sruart (Chief Arbiter and NZCF President) Hn zz.Wxn+ ExfT 23.gxf4 exf4 Malaysia Zonal, 1995 Round 4 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxdS 4.6ca ff6 5.0f4 Final scores Scores after R 3: Kulashko 3, Wohl 2t/2, Gar- Ac6 6.0ffl Ac4 7.8b3 0xc3 t.bxc3 96 Le3 Qg7 A Wohl 7.5,ZZhao 6.5, A Ker 6, P Garbett 5, B bett 2, Ker 2, Watson l%, Dive lyr, Smtth lyz, 10.Qd3 (H) 11.h4 h5 12.0{} 0a5 l3.Wc2 Qd7 Watson 5, R J Dive 5, B Tindall 5, A Kulashko l%, Zhaa l-evi 14.fu5 Ec8 l5.Eabl b6 16.A bc4 l7.Qxc4 Ttndall l%, L*q l%, l, Guthrie 4.5, E Levi 4.5, S Lukey 4.5, D Guthrie 3.5, R W 1/2, t/r. dxc4 18.6xd7 WxdT 19.e4 e5 20.Qxe5 Qxe5 %, Saksena llic Smith 3.5, K Saksena 1.5, I Ilic 3. 21.dxe5 Ue7 22.Bfdl Hxe5 23.8d7 EcdS Kulashko-Wohl 0-l A second loss for Paul Garbett after such a 24.Ebd1 Ker-Garbett l-0 bright start, with wins in the fust two rounds, 24.Hxs7 Ed3 25.8c1 (25.Yxb6 Hc5+ 26.8/2 Tindall-Dive 1-0 was very disappointing. Garbett blundered a HdI+) 25...Elfd8 (Fritz 5).. Zhao-Smith l-0 pawn and, in the ending, a piece; Garbett had at O least some compensation for the pawn with a 24,,.Wf6 25.e5 Hxh4 26.Ue2 HxdT 27.Exd7 Ee8 Watson-Lukey Yr-V, and 28.Ed4 Ue7 Ilic-Levi 0-l well centralised king the more active rook. Guthrie-Saksena %-'/, 28...Ug3. Ker,A - Garbettf 24.Ehg1 Qxc3 25.bxc3 6hS 26.Edel QfS 29.e6 Hxe6 30.8e4 b5 31.Exe6 Exe6 32.tUd2 Wohl's bishop pair ended up exerting too much Zonal,R4 [DlO] Queen's Gambil, Slav Def. 27.Qxf5 Exf5 28.8e6 EafB 29.9h6 Eg8 a6 33.6f2 6A 34.Urd8+ 697 35.Wd4+ 6f8 36.a4 pressure for Kulashko's pair ofknights. 30.Qg7+ 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.fu3 Af6 5.0f4 1-0 698 37.axb5 axbS 38.Uc5 1--0 Kulashko"{ - Wohl,A Ac6 6.e3 s6 7.Qd3 Qg4 8,Age2 Qxe2 9.Hxe2 e6 l0.Ec1 Qd6 11.0g5 Ec8 12.0--0 h6 r3.Qh4 Wc7 Ker,A (2410) - Spassky,B (256Q Zonal,R4 [B30] Sicilian Def., Rossolimo Var. King's Indian Def., Samisch Var. 14.Qxf6 gxf6 15.8h5 Ue7 16.e4 dxe4 1?.Qxe4 [E84] l.AR c5 2.e4 bc6 3.Qb5 Af6 4.8e2 Wc1 5.4c3 Plaza Intemational, Wellington, 1988 f5 18.Qxl5 Sgs 19.Qga fudA 20.fu4 England and Australia e6 6.Qxc6 Hxc6 7.d4 cxd4 8.Axd4 Eb6 9.4b3 r.d4 ff6 2.c4 d6 3.0c3 4-e4 Qg7 5.R 10.Qd2 11.a3 Qe7 12.Qe3 Wc713.f4 a6 96 6c6 name Olympiad teams Qb4 0{) 6.Age2 O4 7.Qe3 a6 8.8d2 EbS 9.Qh6 b5 14.0-{ d6 l5.Eadl b5 16.f5 Qb7 17.Qf4 exfs England and Austalia have announced their 10.h4 e5 11.Qxg7 6xg7 12.h5 Axd4 13.Axd4 18.exf5 EfeS 19.4d4 QfB 20.8d3 EacS 21.893 teams for the Olympiad in Istanbul liom October exd4 14.4d5 c5 l5.hxg6 fxg6 16.Wh6+ Ofl bhs 22.W84 0xf4 23"Exf4 He5 24.4f3 Etcs+ l7.Axf6 t$xfS 18.Bxh7+ Ug7 19.cxb5 axbS 27 to November 13. They are: 25.6h1 Ee3 26.dg5 h6 27.&e4 Se5 28.493 20.a4 bxa4 2l.Hxd4 SxhT 22.Exh?+ 6f6 23.b4 England, Open team: I Michael Adams, 2 He8 29.Edfl Eel 30.h3 Exfl+ 3l.Exfl d5 Exb4 24.Exb4 cxb4 25.Qc4 0e6 26.Qxe6 6xe6 Nigel Short, 3 Julian Hodgson,4 Jon Speelman 32.8d1 9d6 33.Ofl Qxa3 34.fods Qf8 27.Hb7 95 28.Exb4 g4 29.&e2 gxf3+ 30.gx8 5, Tony Miles, 6 John d5 3l.Hxd4Yz-% Emms; captain, Adam Raoof. Women's team: I Harriet Hunt, 2 Susan Lalic, 3 Jovanka Houska, Mas,II - Ker,A 4 Heather Richards; captain, Peter Wells. [B07] Pirc Def. Australia, Open team: I I.Rogers, 2 Zonal, Genting Highlands, 1995 D.Johansen, 3 A.Wohl, 4 M.Gluzman, 5 20...uxh5 21.axd6+ &d7 22.Qxh5 Excl l,e4 d6 2.d4 X6 3.4c3 96 4.R c6 5.Qc3 Qg7 G.West, 6 J-P.Wallace; captain, A.Allen. 23.Exc1 6xd6 24.8d1 e5 25.QxI7 Hc8 26.Qg6 6.wd2 abdT 7.4h3 ]Ec7 8.4f2 bs 9.Qe2 Qb7 Women: I I.Berezina-Feldman, 2 N.Phan- bS 27.8 6e6 28.Qe4 a5 29.bf2 a4 30.94 b4 10.0-4 0{ 11.Eadl Ab6 12.8c1 a5 13.Qh6 b4 Koshnitsky, 3 B.Dekic, . L.Moylan; captain, 14.4b1 c5 15.c3 EfcB 16.d5 c4 17.Ug5 6a4 J.Lyons. 3l.Exd4l-{) 18.8d2 Qa6 19.8c1 Ua7 20.94 EabB 21.692 bxc3 22.bxc3 Eb7 23.Adl 0xh6 24.Uxh6 tsc5 If confirmation was needed that Dive was out of form, it came in this game". He got done in in 25.Edc2 N7 26.\4Bcb827.N2 fus 2S.Ae3 f6 World Championship in India 29.9f4 ab2 30.Eh1 obd3 3r.Qxd3 cxd3 his favourite Alekfiine's Defence when Tindall's The venue for the 2000 FIDE World Chess 35.4c3 32.Ecc1 Eb2 33.6efl Ec2 34.Ed1 Uxc3 35.693 queenside pawn majority, backed up by the Championships has 35.c4. Exa2 36.8h2 Eal 37.6e3 Exdl 38.Axdl tUc2 been confirmed - it is the bishop pair, proved to be unstoppable. Hyatt Regency, New Delhi, India. The events 35...b4 36.d^4 We2 37.Ec1 Sxg4 38.hxg4 Ee2 39.4e3 Hcl 0-1 gxfl starts November 25 - just 12 days after comple- 3e.6h2 Qd6+ 40.6h3 Qxg2+ 41.&h4 o-l Tlndall,B - Ilive,R tion of the Ollmpiad in Istanbul. Zonal,R4 [B02] Alekhine's Def.,2P Att. l.e4 616 2.e5 OdS 3.c4 0b6 4.d4 d6 5.exd6

NZ Chess NZ Chess 16 t7 cxd6 6.Ac3 96 7.Qe3 Qg7 8.Ecl 0-{ 9.b3 e5 Levi obtained a more or less winning position Round 5 equilibrium in which neither player was willing 10.dxe5 dxeS ll.Uxd8 ExdS 12.c5 A6d7 against llic right out of the opening. Scores after R 4: Wohl 3%, Kulashko 3,Ker 3, to risk the half point. Both retained reasonable r3.ff3 fu6 14.4e4 N4 15.Qc4 Af8 16.4d6 Zhao 2%, Watson 2Yz, Tindall 2Yz, Garbett 2, chances ofthe IM title. 18.6e2 Ee7 AxR+ l7.gxf;l Ed7 h6 19.b4 Ilic,I - Levi,E L*ey2, Levi 2, Dive 1%, Smith l%, Guthrie l, 20.0xc8 ExcS 21.Ehd1 Ed7 22,b5 g5 23.Exd7 Zonal, R 4 [D00] Queen's Pau.n Game Saksena l,IlicYz KerrA - Kulashko,A AxdT 24.Qd5 b6 25.cxb6 Axb6 26.Exc8+ AxcB r.d4 af6 2.6c3 d5 3.Qf4 or5 4.ud2 e6 5.e3 c5 Zonal, R 5 [A45] QP, Trompowski Var. 27.a4 QfB 28.a5 Qb4 29.b6 axb6 30.axb6 fu7 Wohl-Tindall l-0 6.R oc6 7.g4 Qg6 8.h4 hs 9.gs ad7 10.4h3 1.d4 ff6 z.QgS f]e{ 3.Qh4 4.f,t gxh4 5.fxe4 31.b7 Qd6 32.Qc5 1-0 Ker-Kulashko l/r-y, 95 Ec8 ll.dxcS 6xc5 12.Qb5 Sb6 13.Qe5 Ad7 d5 6.exd5 Hxd5 7.4c3 Ua5 8.e4 Qg7 9.8d2 As6 14.Qd4 0xd4 15.exd4 Qb4 t6.AI4 UaS Levi-Zhao 0-l Against Zhao, Smith's pawn wealoresses on the 10.4d5 uxd2+ 11.6xd2 6d8 12.c3 e5 l3.dxe5 17.Qxd7+ 6xd7 18.Afe2 Ec4 19.6f2 EhcS Garbett-Watson 0-l 0xe5 14.4f3 h3 15.0xe5 queenside became exploitable in the endgame Qxes 16.93 h5 17.Qe2 20.a3 od5 21.614 Qxr[ 22.Vxf4 Eb6 23.8e5 Smith-Lukey 0-1 h4 18.94 c6 19.6e3 6c7 20.EafI Qe6 21.Qc4 and Bob's IM title aspirations were effectively at Hxb2 24.ile2 Exc2 25.Eae1 Qd3 26.Uxg7 Saksena-Dive 0-l EadS+ 22.6e2 Ed7 23.Qxe6 fxe6 24.fu4 Qg7 an end. Exe2+ 27.Hxe2 Uxe2+ 23.693 Qg6 29.Eh2 ,} Guthrie-Ilic l-0 25.N2 CIh6 26.a4 Egs 27.Hhgl EdgT 28.fus Uel+ 30.6f4 Hc4 0-1 a Ed8 29.d[3 EdgS 30.4e5 EdS3t.Af3lA-y, Zhro,Z- Smlth,R Tindill sacrificed a parvn and the exchange, but Zonalk\f[B06] Modern Def. got nothing for the material except a lost posi- Saksena unnecessarily lost a pawn but the ) has been the big mover in the last two tion. -Zhao l.e4 96 2.d4 Qg7 3.4c3 d6 4.Qe3 c6 5.8d2 Ad7 bishop ending was drawn anftray, though rounds. One rash attacking move by Levi saw 6.Af3 h6 Z.Qal UcZ S.H) Agf6 9.h3 a6 10.a4 Guthrie trie.d for a long time to get more than the ZJ.rao wn material, soon with a crushing posi- a5 11.4h2 e5 12.Hae1 ahs 13.d5 95 14.dxc6 halfpoint. Wohl,A- Tindall,B fion bxc6 15.9e2 0df6 16.Hd1 QI8 17.694 Axg4 Zonal, R 5 [A37] English, Symmekical Var. l8.Qxg4 Af4 19.Qxf4 gxf4 20.Qxc8 UxcS Guthricp - Saksena,K 1.ff3 c5 2.g3 fu6 3.c4 e5 4.fu3 96 5.Qg2 Qg7 Levlg-Zhtofi 21.Ue2 Ue6 22.Hd3 Eb8 23.b3 EgS 24.Aul Uge (}-0 Zonal, R 4 [Dl5] Queen's Gambit, Anti- 6.0-{ AgeT 7.Ael 8.4c2 d6 9.a3 Qe6 I0.d3 Zonal, R 5 [Cl5] French Def., Winawer Var. 25.Uf3 Ec8 26.He1 28.0c4 Qe7 27.N2 QdE Qc7 Meran Var. d5 11.cxd5 Axds 12.4d Axc3 13.bxc3 Bd7 1.e4 e6 2.d4 dS 3.4c3 Qb4 4.Wd3 dxe4 5.Bxe4 29.Eedl Ed8 30.6f1 6e7 31.93 fxg3 32.fxg3 14.Ebr EadS 15.c4 b6 16.Eer 6e7 17.9b3 t5 1.d4 Af6 2.c4 e6 3.OR d5 4.Ac3 c6 5.e3 Qb4 af6 6.uh4 0{ 7.Qd3 c5 8.dxc5 ua5 9.age2 Ue6 33.692 d5 34.4e3 dxe4 35.Wxe4 Exd3 18.Ebs Ua6 tg.al 14 20.4fl 36.Exd3 Eg5 37.94 h5 38.ff5+ OfS 39.0fJ 6.Qd3 0--0 7.04 Ee8 8.a3 QaS 9.b4 Qc7 auaz ro.o+ 6xc5 11.Qc4 fod7 12.Qg5 h6 hxg4+ 40.hxg4 698 41.Ec3 Hdl tZ.beZ HgA 10.Qb2 AbdT 11.e4 0il8 12.e5 13.8e1 f6 13.Qe3 AeS 14.Qb3 696 15.Ug3 b6 l6.Efe1 43.Exc6 Exc6 44.Hxc6 tsxc6 45.fu7+ 697 14.8b3 f5 15.Hac1 Ab6 16.cxd5'f/d7 fuds 17.b5 6m n.as Qe7 1B.Ad4 Qb7 lg.Eadt Eact 46.0xc6 fS 47.gxfl5 6f6 48.b4 axb4 49.a5 6xf5 Qd7 18.Axd5 cxd5 19.a4 Ec8 20.Qa3 696 20.6cb5?! fut Zt.Wgt a6 22.Ac3 50.a6 Qb6 51.a7 QxaT 52.Axa7 b3 53.cxb3 6e4 2r.Hc2 AhA 22.Qfl6xf3.+ 23.tsxrJ Uh4 24.Qc5 22.M7 (Fntz). s4.abs 6ds ss.as3 14 b6 25.93 Uh6 26.Qa3 Hg6 27.Hec1 Qb8 28.Hxc8 ExcS 29.Exc8+ QxcS 30.Wc3 Ue8 22...N6 23.8h3 Efds 24.f4?r 31.Qe2 Hd7 32.h4 Watson-Lukey: petered out into a roughly equal 9c1 33.6g2 Qd8 34.Sb4 Ue8 24.*e2. 35.Ud6 617 36.h5 Qe7 37.8c7 Ud7 38.Uc3 rook ending which was soon drawn by repetition. 24...Qc5 25.f5 Af4 26.Qxt4 Exd4 27.Exd4 Qxa3 39.Uxa3 Ue7 40.UcJ Ed8 4r.Ud2 Ee7 gxd4+ 28.6h1 29.bxc3 Oe4 42.wf4 gs 43.hxg6+ hxg6 44.uh6 Er8 45.8h4 Qxc3 Exc3 30.Qg3 Watson,B - LukeyrS ) 31.fxe6 AtZ+ SZ.Qxn Exh3 UgS Ue7 46.Sh7+ 6e8 47.Uxg6+ 6d? 48.Qh5 6c7 33.exf7 Zonal,R4 [A.26] English Op"ning, Sicilian 34.Eg1 Uf4 3s.f8*+ UUr r6.Qg: Efs 0-l Att. 49.wf7 Hxf/ so.Qxfi 6d7 51.6h3 a6 52.6h4 axb5 53.axb5 6e7 54.Qh5 Qd7 55.Qe2 Sf7 ) 1.r[3 Af6 26 3.Qg2 Qg7 4.04 s.c4 d6 Garbett,P - Watson,B e6 0{ 56.6gs 697 57.CId3 Qe8 58.f4 Qd7 59.Qe2 Qe8 20...R?t 21.Qxf3 ExfJ 22.exB if5 23.Qe3 Qd7 6.fo3 e5 7.d3 Ac6 8.Ebl 9.b4 Qe6 10.b5 Zonal, R 5lB47) Sicilian Def., Paulsen Var. h6 50.94 fxg4 6r.Qxg4 Qd7 62.Qe2 Qcs 63.Qfl 24.Wa6 Qc6 25.Sxa7 Qxf3 26.9xb6 tUxd3 Ae7 gd7 12.Qa3 Qxg2 ll.t4 Qh3 13.c5 Qd7 64.0d3 0f7 6s.6h6 Qc8 66.Qe2 Qd7 27.Hb3 Ud7 2S.Qg5 Ad4 29.Uxd8+ Bxd8 1.e4 c5 2.ff3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Axd4 Oc6 S.icS 14.0xg2 Oed5 15.Axd5 Axds 16.8b3 dxcs gc7 61.&h7 Qc8 68.Qhlr 6e7 69.696 Qd7 7o.Qe2 30.Qxd8 Axbs 3l.as Qa8 32.h4 N4 33.i\2 6.Adb5 Uus z.al a6 8.Aa3 0f6 9.Qd3 Qcs 17.Qxc5 Efe8 e4 l9.dxe4 Exe4 lS.Ebcl Qe8+ 71.697 9d7 72.Qd3 QcS 73.696 Qd7 ae6 34.Qg5 ad4 35.Ebr fu6 36.Qe3 Qf8 37.4e4 10.fu4 ds 1t.ad2 d4 12.fu2 es 13.04 0-0 20.Ecdl Ed8 21.e3 9e6 22.Ed3 6h7 23.Qd4 74.695 6fl 75.Qfl be7 76.Qe2 6fl 77.9d3 Se7 Axa5 38.4f6+ 697 39.Ea1 6xf6 40.Hxa5 Qe4 14.h3 Qd7 1s.Ab3 Qd6 16.Qg5 Qe7 17.Og3 h6 X4+ 24.exf4 Uxb3 25.Hxb3 Qxd4 26.Edl Qf6 78"f5 exf5 79.696 f4 80.695 R 81.0f4 f2 4l.Qxc5 Qxc5 42.Exc5 &e6 43.8c7 h6 44.c5 18.Qd2 Uc7 19.Uf3 Ah7 20.46 QgS 21.ha 27.Exd8 QxdS 28.8d3 Qf6 29.Hd7 Ee7 30.8d8 82.693 Qfs 83.Qe2 6f7 84.6xf2 &96 85.093 6ds 4s.0fl Qd3+ 46.6e1 Qb5 47.Sd2 Qc6 Qxd2 22,Axd2 Qe6 23.Wg4 9xf5 24.Hxf5 EadS a6 31.bxa6 bxa6 32.Ea8 Ee6 33.Ea7 Ec6 695 86.Qf1 Qd7 87.Qg2 Qe6 ss.Qh3 Qfl 48.Hg7 9e8 49.Ee7 Qc6 50.6e3 6xc5 51.He6 25.fu4lgd7 26.8R af6 27.Hht a5 28.Ea3 Uc7 34.fu5 Qxe5 35.fxe5 gS 36.94 bg7 37.f4 gxf4 89.Qd7 Qg6 90.Qc8 Qe4 91.e6 6f6 92.6f4 Qg2 6ds 52.Exg6 h5 53.Hgs 1{ 29.9f5 0d7 30.h5 acs 31.8f1 Ed7 32.sxd7 38.6R 618 39.h4 6e7 40.8a8 6e6 41.Ee8+ 6d7 93.e7 6xe7 94'2e$e5 Ofl 95.0a6 Qc4 96.0f5 ExdT 33.4b6 Edds 34.A 6b4 35.8c1 EfeS 42.Ea8 6e6 43.EeE+ dd7 yr-y2 y,-y, dd6 97.6f6 Ker-Kulashko reached a position of dynamic 36.&fi 618 31.6e2 be7 3S.6d2 f6 39.Qc4 Ed6

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42,b3 25.Qxe5 40.0ds+ fods 41.Qxd5 Eb6 6d6 43.Efl Axes 25.Hc3 in+ zz.69z Au+ Lukey-Wohl 0-l quiet defensive king withdrawal from c I to b I . A 44.Eaa1 45.94 Ee7 E lxg4 46.k94 M7 47.9fi 28.6h1 Ue4+ 29.RWe2 30.8d2 Exd2 31.axd2 Kulashko-Zhao 0-l little later Alexei missed a chance for an unclear, Af6 48.Q96 Qe3 0-1 Watson-Ker Yr-% likely drawn continuation. Whether Black could Dive-Guthrie yr-% have improved before the stunning 26.Kbl is got Saksena a badly misplaced rook in the Tindall-Levi 0-l another point for investigalion. middle game, alter which too many of Dive's Ilic-Garbett 0-l pieces were able to infiltate with sfrong t}reats Saksena-Smith 0-l Kulashko,A -Zhtofi against the king's position. white Zonal, R 6 [A49] King's Indian Def. Wohl held on to the gambit pawn in a Catalan, r.ff3 Af6 2,b3 3.Qb2 Saksena,K - Dlve,R 96 Qg7 4.g3 04 5.Qg2 gradually steering into a won rook ending. d6 6.d4 e5 7.dxe5 0fd7 8.aca Zonal,R5 Alekhine's Def, Two Pawns dxes 9.8d2 Ee7 [B02] 10.0--0"4 Att. a51l.Ad5 Sc512.Uc3 Uxf2 l3.Ehft Lukey,S - Wohl,A Hxg2 14.de7+ 6h8 1.e4 N6 2.e5 6d5 3.c4 Ab6 4.d4 d6 5.exd6 Zonal, R 6 [E04] Catalan Systern cxd6 6.fu3 7.0e3 Qg7 8.Ec1 04 9.6fl3 Qg4 96 l.d4 A16 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Qg2 dxcl 5.6fiJ a6 10.b3 dS ll.cxd5 0xd5 12.Axd5 Uxd5 13.Qc4 6.04 ac6 7.4c3 Eb8 8.a4 Qb4 9.e3 0{) 10.Ue2 Ehs 14.04 Ac6 tS.QeZ Ua5 16.h3 Qfs 17.a4 b5 1 1.8d1 We7 1.2.e4 e5 13.Axe5 Axd4 l4.Hxd4 48...8c6 a9.95 50.gxh6 gxh6 51.HI8 EecT EadS 18.Qb5 Oe4 19.Qxc6 Qxc6 20.Ec5 Ha6 foa Hxe5 15.8d1 EeB 16.Qf4 Uc5 17.Qe3 Ue7 52.8c1 Ec3 53.8d8+ 6e7 54.8d5 Eg3 55.Qfs 21.d5 e6 22.d6 9d5 23.0f4 Eb6 24.8b5 tsc6 18.axb5 axbS 19.Qg5 Oxc3 20.bxca h6 2l.Qt4 Eg2+ 56.6e1 Ae3 57.Exe5+ 6ft 58.Hd5 Axc2+ 25.tsc1 b6 26.9e3 Ec8 27.6h1 Efds 28.Egl tsc3 Qb7 22.R Ads 23.Qd2 f5 24.Ue1 fxe4 25.fxe4 59.Hxc2 Ecxc2 60.6f1 Ecf,2+ 61.6e1 Ea2 29.Eb1 Uc2 30.Ue1 Wf5 31.Qg3 Ec3 32.4h4 Af6 26.e5 27.Qr4 WcS+ 2B.Ed4 Qxg2 62.6f1 Egb2 0-1 Uxh3+ 33.6g1 Uga 3a.AR He4 35.Uxe4 Qxe4 fu4 29.frxg2 Axe5 30.Qxe5 Exe5 31.Hd1 EbeS 36.4d2 37.Qh4 Exd6 38.4c4 Edl+ Qxbl 32.Hn2 Uc6+ 33.0h3 Ere6+ 34.692 Ee2+ Lukey sacrificed the exchange pawn, 3e.6h2 Ed4 40.Qg3 Eds 0-1 for a 35.Exe2 Wxe2+ 36.Uxe2 Hxe2+ 37.6h3 Ec2 probably with good compensatioq but Smith's 38.8d5 c6 0-1 piece sacrifice in response was simply unsound, Guthrie gained a strong advanced passed pawn which eventually cost Ilic his rook. leaving Lukey with two minor pieces for a rook Watson-Ker was closely fought, though Wat- 15.Axe5 f6 16.65xg6+ hxg6 l7.Axg6+ 698 with equal pawns. son reached what looked a marginally better Guthrle,D - Ilicrl 18.Oxf8 6xf8 19.Qa3+ 6g8 20.Wc4+ 0h7 ending only to watch Ker swap offalmost all the 21.Ef5 SmlthrR - Lukey,S Zonal, R 5lE73l King's Ind. Def., Averbakh Ae5 22.8h5+ 696 23.Sg8 6xh5 24.Uxg7 pawru leaving a dead draw. abc6 25.Exf6 Qg4 Zonal,R 5 [C02] French Def., Advance Var. Var. 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 6c6 5.AR Qd7 1.d4 Af6 2.c4 d6 S.6cS gO 4.e4 Qg7 5.Qe2 Ac6 WatsonrB - KerrA 6.d5 8.4f3 9.(H) 6.Qe2 16 7.0-0 cxd4 8.cxd4 fxe5 9.dxe5 Qc5 0e5 7.f4fud7 c6 0{ 10.6h1 Zonal, R 6 [B08] Pirc Def. 10.abd2 ageT 11.4b3 Qb6 12.0d3 0-0 13.He2 cxdS ll.cxd5 6cS tZ.eS Afe4 13.fue4 Axe4 1.ffi3 d6 2.d4qg4 3.e4 96 4.Qe2N6 5.AcJ Qg7 Afs 14.Qd2 Ue7 15.a3 CIe8 16.Qg5 Wd7 17.94 14.ud4 ac5 15.b4 486 16.Qb2 Eb6 17.Bxb6 6.(H) 0{ 7.Qe3 Ac6 S.ds Oxf,l 9.0x8 6e5 Ah61B.h3 axb6 18.a3 Qfs l9.Od4 Qe4 20.Qxb6 Qxds 10.Qe2 c6 fud7 12.dxc6 bxc6 13.Qt3 21.Ead1 Qb3 22.Ebl 0e6 23.exd6 exd6 24.M4 ll.I4 Uc7 14.tsd3 EabB l5.Eabl EfdS od7 2s.QR ab8 26.CIxb7 Exa3 27.b5 Ea4 l6.Efd1 Ae817.g4 e6 18.b3 19.4e2 gxI{ 2O.Axf4 21.tse2 28.dc6 0Nc6 29.bxc6 Qe6 30.Qc7 Ed4 31.Ebdl 95 6e5 d5 22.4h5 AxtS+ Zr.Hxn dxe 24.Bxe4 Af6 Exdl 32.Exd1 d5 33.691 He8 34.Qe5 Qxe5 35.fxe5 Ee7 36.Of,1Ec7 37.6e3 Of8 38.0d4 0e7 25.8f4 Uxf4 26.Qxf4 Hxdl+ 27.Exd1 He8 28.fug7 29.Qe5 39.6c5 g5 40.Ea1 6f8 41.6d6 Ee7 42.c7 Eei 6xg7 696 30.h3 h5 31"EfI Ad7 32.Qd4 43.Qxd5 Qxd5 44.6xd5 6e7 45.6c6 6e6 hxg4 33.hxg4 e5 34.Qe3 ff6 35.8f5 46.Ed1 Ec8 47.Ed8 ExcT+ 48.6xc7 6xe5 Ad5 36.Qxa7 dU SZ.9cS Axc2 38.6f2 Ea8 39.a4 Eb8 40.a5 Eb5 4l.Ob6 Exb3 49.E,d7 f5 50.Exh7 1--0 26.h4 42.Hxe5 0b4 43.8e3 Hh2+ 44.He2 Hxe2+ 45.0xe2 fS 46.gxfl5F' t/2-% 26.6b1 Eg8 27.Qcl Qc8 28.Uh6+ 6g4 29.8f:t+ Round 6 Sh5 30.Efl Uxfl 3l.Uxfl. Scores after R 5: Wohl 4%, Kulashko 3%,Ker Kulashko embmked on a violent sacrificial at- 3%, Zhao 3%, Watson 3, Lukey 3, Dlrve 2%, 26...Eg8 27.QfB Qc8 28.Qg7 694 29.8f4+ 6h3 tack, the soundness of which is not easy to Tindall 2/2, Garbett 2,Levi 2, Gutkie 2, Smith 30.h5 Qg4 31.h6 Uxe2 32.8h1+ 692 33.h7 ib4 18...8xl3 19.9xf3 Axe5 20.Qxh7+ SxhT 21.Ue2 establish. He did miss a win but the winning 34.8fl+ tgxfl+ l%, Saksena l,Ilic% 35.8xfl Ed8 36.Ef6 fis ahfl 22.Qf4 ubs 23.8c2+ Bd3 24.Eac1 Qa4 move was very hard to spot - Fritz found it, a 37.8h6 afl 3s.h8g AxhS 39.Oxh8 Sxg3

NZ Chess NZ Chess 20 2t 40.Qe5+ 6f3 lr.cl 6e4 42.9h2 Af4 43.Qxf4 exchange. Round 7 45.Uxe8+ HxeS 46.Ec3 96 47.Ec8 1-O Sxf4 44.Eh7 Hd7 45.8h8 b6 46.c5 b5 47.8a8 Scores after R 6: Wolrl 5%, Zhao 4%, Ker 4, Illc,I Garbett,P Ed5 48.Exa5 Exc5+ 49.6b2 6e5 50.a4 Qd7 - Kulashko 3%, Watson 3%, L*ey 3, Dive 3, Watson continued his run of wins and set back Eh5 Zonal, R 6 [D00] Queen's Pawn Game 51.axb5 Exb5 52.Ha7 6d6 53.6c3 Levi 3, Garbett 3, Tindall 2%, Gutfuie 2Yz, Alexei's IM tifle aspirations for the moment. He 54.Ea6+ c6 Qe6 57.b4 1/z 55.Sb4 56.6a4 Eh3 t.d4 AfG 2.0c3 ds 3.g3 Qfs 4.0[J e6 s.Ah4 Qs4 Smith zYr, Saksena l, llic won a pawn, followed by immediate liquidation Ob3+ o-l 6.R OhS 7.492 c5 8.Of4 cxd4 9.Uxd4 0c6 which led to an easily won rook ending 10.ua4 rt4 11.4d1 od6 12.oxh5 fotS rS.QgZ Wohl-Dve l-0 yr-% 04 14.ff2 Qb4+ r5.6fl Hc8 16.a3 Qe7 17.t4 Zhao-Ker Watson,B - Kulashko,A Very little happenedbetween Dive and Gutlrie, of6 1S.Ad3 ods 19.Qf3 20.6f2 A,l5 2t.Qd2 Watson-Kulashko l-0 96 Zonal R 7 [A04] Dutch Systern other than the exchange of two pairs of minor *4 22.9b4 h6 23.0xe7 uxeT 24.Eac1 ud6 Garbett-Levi l-0 pieces in this 26-move draw. 25.ub3 M2 26.Hfl AxR 27,exf3 b5 28.Ehe1 Lukey-Saksena l-0 1.4f3 c5 2.g3 96 s.Qg2 Qg7 4.0--0 fu6 5.d3 eS Ae3 29.8b1 EfdS 30.8e2 Hc7 31.94 Smith-Guthrie %-% 6.e4 AgeT 1.fft,d2 0{ B.a4 f5 9.c3 hG 10.b4 Dlve,R - Guthrie,D Ilic-Tindall 0-l cxb4 11.cxb4 d5 12.b5 dxe4 13.dxe4 0d4 14.Qa3 f4 15.Axd4 exd4 16.e5 Qxe5 17.ic4 Zonal, R 6 [A48] King's Indian Def. The game Zhao-Ker, annotated by Anthony Qf6 1S.5d6 QeS 19.Axb7 QxbT 20.Qxb7 Eb8 t.d4 N6 2.At3 96 3.b4 Qg7 4.Qb2 0--0 s.0bd2 2l.Qea 6{7 22.Hcl HI6 23.8e1 fxg3 24.hxg3 t4c7 Ker, will be published in the next issue of NZ d6 6.e3 ild7 7.fu4 Ee8 8.Qe2 c6 9.o4 Afs 2s.Oc5 Ed? 10.0-0 b6 t1.Ed ads n.Hb3 Qb7 13.Ua1 a6 Chess. 14.Edl EacS 15.Qfl b5 l6.Acd2 AltA n.aS aal t8.c4 fub2 19.Hxb2 ff6 20.9b1 d5 21.c5 Wohl sacrificed a pawn against Dive and grad- Ecd8 22.4e5 Qc8 23.Qd3 N7 24.4\d7 QxdT ually built up a kingside attack. Dive blundered 25.h3 e5 26.dxe5 ExeSYz-% in tirne trouble.

Tindall &opped a pawn at the time confiol and Wohl,A-Dive,R conceded several hours later. Zonal R 7 [806] Modem Def. Tlndall,B - Levi,E l.e4 96 2.d4 Qg7 3.Ad d6 4.Af3 c6 5.Qe3 b5 31...95 32.693 gxf4+ 33.Axf4 f5 34.Hxe3 dxe3 6.Qd3 6f6 7.Wd2 Hc7 8.h3 AbdT 9.0-{ 0-o Zonal, R 6 [C42] Pehoffs Def. 35.c4 36.cxb5 He5 Excl 37.Wxc1 fxg4 38.Uc4 10.Efel QnZ tt.as a6 12.e5 dxes t3.dxe5 axbS 39.Etc3 Ed4 0-1 1.e4 e5 z.AR N6 3.Axe5 d6 4.AB ixe4 5.d4 6xe5 14.Axe5 Uxe5 15.Qf4 Uc5 16.b4 Hd4 d5 6.Qd3 0g4 7.0{) Qe7 8.8e1 Ac6 9.Qxe4 17.Qe3 Ud7 18.Qc5 EfeB l9.Eadl Wc7 2O.Ae4 pawn dxe4 10.Hxe4 QxA 11.tsxf3 0xd4 12.Wd3 Ae6 Smith won a in the middle game and Ad7 2l.Qe3 EadS 22.4c5 Qc8 23.Axd7 QxdT 13.9e2 G4 14.Qe3 Eds 15.fu3 UaS 16.Ebs technique did the rest. 24.Qc5 Qe6 25.We3 Ed7 26.h4 Ods 27.h5 e5 26.Qxf5 Uxf5 27.Qxd4 Qxd4 28.Uxd4 Eh7 tsxbS U.AxbS Qf6 18.c3 a6 19.4a3 b5 20.f4 96 28.hxg6 hxg6 29.Hh3 Edd8 30.8h4 Ea8 3t.R 29.Hc6 EbfT 30.Exf6 Uxf6 31.Ed1 tsxd4 21.Hfl dg7 22.94Hfe8 23.Exe8+ HxeS 24.Ac2 Saksena,K - Smlth,R wds 32.8h2 Ef6 33.6fl1 Qf8 34.Qe3 tsg7 3s.Ehr 32.Exd4 Ee7 33.8d6 h5 34.f4 Ee2 35.8d7+ Sf6 Qe7 25.f5 gxl5 26.gxf5 QtA Zl .&gZ EdS 2S.Qh6 Zonal, R 6 [842] Sicilian Def., Paulsen Var. Qe7 36.Qh6 Uf6 37.Hdet 9d6 38.Qg5 Eg7 Hd6 29.Qf4 Ed7 30.Qh6 Ed6 31.Qf4 Ed7 36.Exa7 Hh2 37.8c7 6f5 38.Eca 6e4 39.Ea3 1.e4 c5 2.d[l e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Ard4 a6 5.Qd3 39.uh4 Qf8 40.0f6 1-0 32.Qc1 c5 33.4€3 hS 34.6f3 b4 35.c4 Qd4 6aa lo.as Exh5 41.a6 HbB 42.ai Ea8 43.692 Af6 6.0-{ Wc7 7.4d2 Qe7 S.A2A d6 9.h3 AbdT 36.6f4 Ee7 37.Eg1 6f8 38.882 f6 39.8g6 6fl 6e4 44.6h3 6f5 4s.6h4 6f6 46.8a5 &fl 47.6ss 10.Eel 0-,0 11.b3 b6 12.c4 9b7 13.Qb2 HfdS GarbetlP - Lcvi,E 40.0ds Eel 41.9d2 Efl+ 42.6M Axfs 43.Hg2 697 48.Ha41--0 14.Qc2 Qf8 15.Ec1 EacS 16.Od2 t7.d4f3 Zonal,RT [D02] Queen's Pawn Game Ad6+ 44.0d3 a5 45.b3 fs 46.Qe3 fue3 47.Axe3 96 Qg7 18.Qal b5 19.cxb5 axbS 20.Qd3 Ua5 Eal 48.He2 &96 49.Hg2+ 6f6 5o.Aa5+ 6e5 l.dri d5 2.gp cs 3.Qg2 Ac6 4.d4e]r6 5.04 eg4 Garbett-Levi: reached a boring synmetrical po- 2l,Ve2 Vxa2 22.Qxb5 Excl 23.Hxcl Oxe4 6.4e5 cxd4 7.Axg4 5l.Hg7 *4 52.8c7 Sd6 53.Ef7 Hxa2 54.Exf5 Axg4 8,e3 Af6 9.exd4 e6 sition where Garbett's bishop pair conferred a 24.Qxg7 6xg7 25.Ue3 Oxd2 26.0xd2 Ha5 l0.cA Qe7 0n+ SS.6el Ag4+ 56.6e4 Ee2+ 57.6d3 Exh2 11.4d 0-{ 12.cxd5 AxOS rf.6xoS stight edge; but Levi blundered a piece. 27.4fl N6 2S.ac4 Eb4 29.Edl Qds 30.8d4 exds 14.Qe3 58.Eg5 HhS+ 59.6c2 Eh2+ 60.6d3 Eh3+ Qf6 15.Ud2 Eb6 16.Efd1 EfdS Against Saksena, Lukey was winning by move gcs 31.8d2 Ae4 32.9b2 e5 33.Edl Af6 34.fu3 61.6c2 0e5 62.4f6 AR 63.4e4+ 6e7 64.Exc5 17.Eac1 Qe7 18.h4 EacS 19.Qh3 Hc7 2L.bg2 20. Qe6 35.b4 Eb6 36.b5 Eb8 37.tsc3 Ec8 38.Ub4 ad4+ 65.6b2 Eh2+ 66.6b1 0xb3 67.8b5 h4 Qd6 2r.h5 h6 22.Qfs Qf8 23.Qf4 Ee7 24.Qbt d5 3e.ua4 d4 40.N2 aAS lr.Eer Ud6 42.M3 EdeS 25.Qe3 Ee6 26.a3 Qd6 27.9d3 He4 68.c5 0d2+ 69.Axd2 Exd2 70.c6 h3 71.8b7+ Lukey,S Saksenaff Ab6 43.Udl Uxa3 44.Exe5 Eca 45.h4 Ea8 28.sc3 E4e6 29.0f5 Ef6 30.Qg4 Ud8 31.8b3 - 6ds 72.Hh7 h2 73.6c1 Eg2 0-1 Zonal, R 7 Pirc Def. 46.Ue2 d3 47.We4 Ea4 48.8b7 Uxe5 49.Hxb6 ub8 32.Eel 0e7 33.QOZ Qc7 34.Qd7 Hd8 [B07] Ilic played a strange opening as white and d2 s0.ud8 Ed4 0-1 35,Exe7 Qd6 36.Se3 QxeT 37.Exe7 6h7 3S.Qf4 1.e4 d6 2.d4 96 3.4c3 Qg7 4.@e3 ff6 S.fJ c6 Garbett chased the white pieces home except for Hxf4 39.gxf4 Sxf4 40.Ee1 EgS 41.Ue3 Sh4 6.8d2 bs 7.Qh6 04 s.h4 Wb6 9.Qxg7 6xg7 a knight which he pinned, forcing the win of the 42.Ehl Uds 43.Qf5+ 6h8 44.Hh3 Ee8 10.h5 Eh8 1l.hxg6 hxg6 12.Exh8 6xh8

NZ Chess NZ Chess 22 23 13.8h6+ 698 14.e5 dxe5 15.dxe5 Ad5 r6.6xds 28.4e3 Hc7 29.95 Qg7 30.h4 Ed8 3l.Exd8+ Tournament points Waikato open rapid cxdS 17.6e2 Ac6 fs.o-{-o Axes 19.fu3 d4 uxdS 32.692 Ed7 33.8h2 UdZ :l.Sg1 Uxa2 (To the editor) By William Lynn (toumament director) 20.4d5 udt zt.Exdl uf8 22.uxf8+ 6xf8 35.Hdr Uxb3 36.8d8+ Qf8 37.693 Ua3 3s.Af1 Sir, - While I appreciate there will inevitably be As expected, the Waikato open rapid touma- 23.Qxb5 Qb7 24.N3 a6 25.Q,e2 EcB 26.b3 6c6 e4 39.N2 Ed6+ 40.Exd6 Qrd6+ 0-1 errors in NZ Chess from time to time, and I ment held on June 18 was won by Alexei Ku- 2t.HaA e5 2E.Qxa6 Qxa6 29.Exa6 dtul lo.Eas usually just note them in passing and forget it I lashko with 4.5l5,half a point ahead of Antonio f5 31.a3 Ad3+ 32.bd2 Ac5 33.b4 N7 34.Ads feel obliged to rernark on a string of mistakes Krstev 4, with Leonard Mclaren and F Fuatai a &f7 35.8fi 6e6 36.Exd7 6xd? :7.Abo+ &c? that - co-incidentally - involve me. point back on 3. A critical third round game saw 38.AxcB 6xc8 39.94 0c7 40.gxf5 gxf5 41.c4 Firstly in the Ociober issue Peter Stuart's re- Bob Smith trying to avoid a series of checks 6b6 42.a4 1-{) port on the Birkenhead Licensing Trust Open (while in a promising position). Alas, Bob listed the leading scores after round 4. Those moved his king into a checlonate position. Guthrie blundered a pawn, but only when FIDE exhibition at the on 3 were Watson and Gll, with another 9 piayers The only other game to stretch Kulashko was in Smith won a second one was he close to winning. Sydney Olympiad mentioned who were on 2.5. I could have swom round four, which was a hard-fought draw with However, Guthrie's initiative regained one pawn FIDE have got their chess exhibition during the I had 3 points at that stage: 2 wins and 2 draws. Hilton Bennett. and Smith was unable to win the ending. Sydney Olyrnpic Garnes. After agreeing to meet At the time I just dismissed the omission as yet Krstw was the find of the toumament. He beat the costs and a lot of lobbying there will be a another oversight. the second and third seeds, losing only to top see Smith,R - GuthrleP couple of exhibition events. Viswanathan Anand Then came the April issue - and the report on Kulashko. Zonal,R 7 [B51] Sicilian Def., Rossolimo Var, will play - but Ian Rogers has indicated that he the New Trualand Championship. Apparently af- The two juniors, Puchen Wang and Harry 1.e4 c5 2.aR d6 3.Qb5+ 4.d4 Ogf6 5.6c3 will not be available. N7 ter round l0 leading scores included Dve and Cheng gained valuable experience ard fumed in a6 6.Qxd7+ axdT 7.0-0 e6 8.dxc5 Arc5 9.Qf4 The organisers intend Anand to play an exhibi- Wastney on 4.5. My name was not mentioned, 'r.vorthwhile performances. b5 10.a3 QUZ tt.Eet Wc7 t2.Wd4 Ed8 13.Qg3 tion rapid match against Shirov on September 25 but I could have sworn I had 5 points at the time Other scores in the field of 12: Puchen Wang e5 14.Hd2 Qe7 15.Ead1 Qc6 16.0d5 Ub7 17.h3 and a simultaneous exhibition immediately after- My recollection is firther backed up by the fact 2.5, Hilton Bennett 2.5, Robert Smith 2.5, Harry 0-0 18.4h2 ial tp.tsct f5 20.Axe7+ UxeT wards against some of the athletes in the that after round ll I did have 5 points, despite Chery2, Grahaur Pocock 2, Alan Durm 1.5, Don 21.exf5 BxfS 22.fo4 EiIS 23.c4 Eb7 24.cxb5 Olympics (as Kasparov 1992 in did in losing to IM Van Riemsdijk. So either someoile Eade 1.5, Vivian Smith l. axb5 25.Ae3 AcS 26.Qxe5 fua zl.Qgl Hc* Barcelona). generously gave There were 23 playen in the Under 1600 grade, 28.Hb1 Axg3 29.fxg3 9e4 30.812+ 6h8 3r.Eb3 very me a point for the loss, or I The next day an exhibition game between gave Eb6 32.8n Efes 33.0h2 QaS 34.4d5 Uc6 already had 5. which many local school pupils the oppor- Anand and Darryl Johansen is planned for the 35.8f2 EeS 36.4b4 We8 37.Exd6 h6 38.Ed1 Again I just decided to forget it. tunity to play in a rated toumament. The event cente of Sydney, with living pieces and a space Ee3 39.8d3 Hel 40.Edl Ee2 4l.Edfl Ue4 But then came tle June issue and the report on was won impressively by the highest-rated age theme. It is reported that at least half a dozen 42.tsf3 UxR 43.gxB QxR 44.Exe2 Qxe2 45.E,12 the Oceania Zonal, I must admit, this time the player, Mark Kimbeiley, on 4.5/5. Local Gary FIDE and FIDE Commerce officials are intend- Qc4 46.8d2 HeB 47.4c2 698 48.692 gS 49.94 cross table gives my score correctly. However, Judkins turned in a solid performance to finish in rng to fly over to watch, including the FIDE Ee5 50.St2 Ee4 51.fu3 Qe6 52.Ads 697 53.6R adding an extra point to two other players cer- a three-way tie for second with Ray Utai and President Kirsan Iljrumzhinov. Hel 54.fu3 Qczl 55.8d7+ 096 56.Ed6+ 697 tainly helps to make my somewhat forgettable Malo Alafa'apae, half a point behind the winner. Ian Rogers was invited to take part via a s7.Hb6 Ehr 58.092 Ecl 59.Axb5 Ec2+ 60.691 performance look even worse. Despite what the Ian McKay and Jonathon Gurr, local school letter to the Australian Chess Federation (no Hxb2 61.Eb7+ 696 62.6d6 ExbT 63.Axb7 h5 cross table says, David Guthrie did not furish a pupils at St Paul's Collegrate School (tutored by direct contact was made to the player himself). 64.6f2 hxg4 65.hxg4 Of6 66.0d6 Qb3 67.4e4+ point ahead of me on 4.5; he finished on the Gary Judkins) shared the runner-lrp prize in the 6ca He pre-empted this by declining to play in ad- 6e5 68.4d2 Qdl 69.693 6d4 70.4R+ same score - 3.5. And Stephen Lukey did not junior group. 71.Axg5 Qxg4 72.6xg4 6b3 73.a4 bxa4l/rtA vance in an emailed letter to Graeme Gardiner, finish two points ahead of me on 5.5; he actually Other scores: Chun Jeong 3.5, Wayne President ofACF. Ian said: "Although I have yet scored 4.5 - just a point in front. Alafa'apae 3, Thomas Gothorp 3, Roland Against Tindall, Ilic shed pawns at regular to receive an official invitation from FIDE, I am I would ask the authors of tournament reports Stierand 3, Andrew l\4ayne 3, Jonathon Guu 3, intervals. writrng to declare my unavailability to play in to take more care in future; I don't mind my Ian McKay 3, Neil Hackshall 2.5, Jordan Ward l'IDE's at the Olympic Athletes' chess exhibition bad/indifferent results being reported correctly, 2.5, Helen Courtney 2, Paul Tairua 2, John Ilic,I - Tindall,B Village. Norrnally I am very proud to represent but I do take issue when the facts me - uninten- McRae 2, David Priest 2, Blair Robertson 2, Zonal, R 7 [B54] Sicilian Defence, Rauser Var. Aushalia at major chess events the but circum- tionally or otherwise - misrepresented. Christopher Phillips 2, Jason Cho 2, Tim Jud- stances 1.e4 c5 2.a[3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.0xd4 af6 5.Qd3 of this event and the likelihood that I Yours sincerely, kins l, Navin Singh t, Brendan FishEr l. (H g.tl would 'Ambassador 96 6.c3 Qg7 7.04 s.A83 Auaz a0 be regarded as an of FIDE' FM Bob Smith l0.Qe3 d5 ll.exds Axd5 12.Qo AI4 13.9.c2 have led me to decline." $1614.fuA Uc7 15.4e3 Ed8 16.Uel eS l7.fu2 Ian Rogers has been a long time critic of FIDE Qe6 18.b3 6xe2+ 19.Hxe2 Sxc3 20.Efd1 Ed4 President Kirsan If umzhinov. 21.AfI Exdl 2z.Exdt Ec8 23.Qe4 Axe4 24.Hxe4 Sc6 25.Hh4 Ofs 20.91Qf6 27.Ug3 Qe6

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Correspondence chess f "d4 af6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ag4 4.Af3 Qc5 5.e3 lins somehow got into the system giving all the By Gordon HoslEn fu6 6.fu3 04 1.fu4 Qb4+ LQd2 Ue7 9.6cs players grossly inllated ratings, putting them in Qxc3 10.Qxc3 flgxeS tl.Axe5 6xe5 12.0e2 d6 The winner of NZCCA's 1999-2000 handicap nent gives you a conditional move that is not grandmaster stat.ts. Qhe editor's mistake, not 13.0-{ b6 14.t4 Ac6 ls.Ef3 Qd7 16.893 f6 Michael Whaley (Auckland). forced or lnown theory! After Bb4+ White can Gordon's). competition is 17.Qd3 El718.Qe4 Ue8 Other prize-winners were 2 Tim Doyle drive the B away with ternpo, making it diffi- Alas, just a pipedream. The following ratings (Wellington), 3 Ted Frost (Wanganui), 4 Muray cult for Black to gain conhol over the impor are the ones that should have appeared, with.the Dunwoody (Te Awamutu), and 5 Julian Larsen tant a7-gl diagonal. players listed in tournament finishing order: (Auckland). 12.6e2 Hb613.a3! Qe7 T J Doyle 2215,L B Frost 1895, G A Hoslg.n At the time of writing, individual statistics were 1845, M L Dunwoody 2150, R J Dive 2285,P A Had I played 11...Qb6 I would have been able games R Vetharaniam 2020,P B Goffrn 2165, B W tmavailable. The following t}ree are by to put the B on c5. Now 13...Bc5 would cost Millar 1965, P J Voss 1815, H P Bennett 2030, the major placegetters. another tempo after 14.b4. D J Cooper 2040. Michael Whaley wrote the following introduc- 14.b4 rsds tron: Vacating b6 so that I can complete my devel- The Fosters, of Chess Supplies, Although I have played or malntained an inter- opment with Nb6, Bd7, Rc8. est in chess for almost 40 years, apart from take a break r5.Bfl playrng over the odd game the last eight yems Brian and Colleen Foster, of NZ Chess Supplies, have been fairly inactive. I was more concemed about a plan that in- have advise.d that their o{fice will be closed from This changed last year. During a visit to Mel- volved Bb2, Rcl, Bbl and Qd3. r9.Ed5+ 6h8 20.Exg7 6xg7 21.Ug5+ 1{) 3 I August, reopening on 16 October. boume I bought Stephen Gerzadowicz's book rl...af, As they take a break, it will be the first closure tr'roet,E Hoslryn,G the "Joumal of a Chess Original" (also available - of the office in 16 years. In the hope of exchanging Rs whilst at the Reti Opening from New Zealard Chess Supplies). Not only [A09] However, they say mai-l will be cleared as usual same time trying to prevent White's Qside Ps NZCCA Handicap, I 999-2000 was it firn to read, it encouraged me to start and the answerphone and fax machine will oper- advancing that would teskict my develop- Notes by Ted - Frost ate in their abssnce. playrng by correspondence, something I unsuc- ment plan. cessfully tried for a short period 30 years ago. 1.4fi d5 2.c4 d4 3.d3 96 a.$ Qe7 5.Qg2 c5 16.Qd2 axb4 17.axb4 Exal lE.Bxal 0-0 7 I must say that the chance to play again wrthout 5.0d2 0c6 .a3 aS 8.b3 f5 9.8a2 Web page for juniors 19.6d4 Ab6 20.94,r.4 21.Qc3 tgb6 22.Wa2 having to leam all those opening variations and White's development looks clumsy, but there's The editor of NZ Chess has started a new White's plan is too slow. open sh-uggling under time pressuro has been most He needs to the nothing useful for the QN to do, and this gives venture, a web page which is designed to encour- position before Black's pieces become better enjoyable. the R an early opportunity to get into play. And age junior chess in New Zealand. It is a modest positioned The following game has more than its share of it gets Gordon right away from book lines. venture, in the MSN web communities set-up. mistakes, however it taught me a couple of 22...9d7 23.95 9...e510.Qg5 Ed611.O{ h612.Qcl ArO tg.el The page can be opened at "correspondence" lessons. If 23.Bxc4, Rc8. 0-{ 14.exd4 cxd4 15.Eel Qe6 16.Hae2 Ad7 http ; //www. communities. msn. com/ches splus page Four defenders for the P on e5 only Not surprisingly the has encountered Wllliams,B Whaley,M 22...He8 and three - attackers, but... some teething problems and it will take time to French Def., Tarrasch [C05] Var. Plan completed and Black is still breathing. get up to speed. In the meantime, viewers are NZCCAHandicap, 1999 17.6xe5 fuxe5 18.f4 tScT l9.fxe5 f4 20.Qxf4 g5 24.*2?? asked to be patient. Notes by Michael Whaley 21.Qcl Qg4 22.Qd5+ 6rn Zl.eO fu5 24.Qb2 Should lose immediately. Schools, clubs and players are invited to join gb6 25.8c2 Qxe2 26.Exe2 HacB 27.Ad2 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.4d2 0f6 4.e5 afd? 5.f4 c5 the chessplus community, and if they do they can 24...96?? 6.c3 6c6 7.0df3 Eb6 S.CId3 At last the QN comes into play. communicate through the message board which Seeing things on the back rank that aren't Although I've played the French for over 20 27...4c6 2E.A€4 Ael ZS.cS Ua6 30.Qe4 b5 is paft ofthe page set-up. there. Lesson Two: Irr correspondence use a yems, I have never seen this move before. This 31.cxb6 Uxb6 32.Efl Exf,l 33.Uxf,l HfB 34.9e2 Direct communication to the editor can be made couple of extra days to find ther best move! type of gambit is usually played in the Tarrasch tsb8 35.4c5 Efs 36.4d7 tsb7 37.Qc1 Uf3 through his existing email address without the inclusion of 5.f4. 25.h4?? ae3 38.gxf3 Hxf,t 39.692 94 40.b4 axb4 41.axb4 [email protected]. White resigns. 26.Qd4, 26...Exc2 or 26.Ne3 Ars 42.b5 1-{ 8.,.cxd4 lf Exc3.0-l Why not? Ratings *blue" 9.cxd4 6xd4 10.Axd4 Uxd4 11.4R Qb4+ Doyle,T - Bennettfl Hands up all the readers who noticed the totally [A52] Budapest Def., rnain line unrealistic ratings in the championship Lesson one: Be cautious when your oppone- 64th NZCCA Championship , 1997 crosstable in the last issue of -ly'Z Chess. Crrem-

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Overseas news Shirov - Bareev 14.b4 cxd4 l5.cxd4 0c6 16.8b3 Wc7 t7.d5fu7 By NM Peter Saart [Bl2] Caro-Kann 18.Qbl bxa4 19.Uxa4 EebS 20.8a5 A€8 21.Hxc7 l.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Qf5 4.c3 e6 5.Qe3 Hb6 *c7 22.fu4 Ed8 23.Qe3 bbs 24.Nd2 Sarajevo resigned. In fact there is nothing he can do Eab8 25.0d3 6.8b3 hs 7.4d2 Ah6 8.Qe2 h4 9.h3 Qe7 f5 26.R fxe4 27.Ixe4 M4 The Bosna 2000 toumament the Bosnian against the threat of 27-.N,c3 when Black wins 28.Qxd in 10.AgR AoZ rr.o-o Qg6 12.Qg5 ff5 I3.Oxe7 played material or mates. 0-1. capital was back in May and, at category AxeT l4.Ua3 df5 15.Eac1 a5 16.Hfel 0e7 Qc8 32 dg6 19, must surely rank as one of the two or three 17.Qd1 Ea7 18.Qc2 df8 19.695 Qxc2 20.Exc2 36 Shirov Topalov strongest toumaments of the year. The average - N5 21.c4 6xd4 22.Hcc1 EhS 23.8e3 fu2+ Qb7 40.894 EfB 41.ExI8+ 1-0. French FIDE ratingwas2T02l . [Cl1] 24.Hxe2 Exgs 25.ff3 Eh5 26.cxd5 exd5 27.e6 Frankfurt Gary Kasparov won but it was hardly a cake- l,eA e6 2d,4 dS 3.fo3 0f6 4.995 dxe4 5.0xe4 fxe6 28.4d4 Eh6 29.4f5 Ef6 30"0xg7+ 6d7 The main event in the Frankfurt Chess Classic walk as it was nip and tuck all the way. Alexei Qe7 6.Oxf6 gxf6 1.Nt a6 8.c4 f5 9.Oc3 Qf6 31.8c3 Etb4 32.We3 b6 was the six-player double round rapid touma- ment, the "Fujitsu Sismens Giants". It wouid Shirov shared the lead with Kasparov until round 10.8d2 c5 11.d5 0-0 12.0{{ e5 13.h4 b5 32...d4? 33.8d1 c5 34.Ue5 and breaks White have been category 2l were it a standard time 6 and then went ahead by half a point in round 6, 14.d6 fu]61s.d7 Qb? 16.8d6 e4 17.ads Qg7 through. conhol FlDlated event. Vishy Anand's special a lead he held for two more rounds. In round l0 18.495 0d4 19.fu7+ 6h8 20.8h3 f42t.6btb4 33.a3 He7 prowess at the faster time conhol was amply Shirov over-pressed against Sergei Movsesian in 33...Uxb2 34.Hb3 d4 35.Edl 6c8 36.Hxd4 demonshated as he powered away from the his desire to finish clear frsq allowing Kasparov Ual+ 37.&h2 HxgT 38.Exb6 and again White's freld to win with lWll,no less than l% points to take over the lead. Both players won their attack is winning. clear of Gary Kasparov. The half point margin frnal games. Michael Adams scored 4Yz potnts which Anand enjoyed over Kasparov through 34.Uxb6 Ec7 35.Eec1 e5 36.4h5? from his last five games to catch up with Shirov rounds 4 to 6 hipled when Kaspmov lost to in a second place tie, probably the English GM's 36.4f5! ue6 (36...8xf5 37.Exc6) 37.axh4 is Peter Leko in round 7. finest result yet, The best of the rest were a full stronger. Final scores: I V.Anand (IND) 7%, 2 two points behind. 36...8h6 37.b4 axb4 38.axb4 9g5 39.b5 c5 G.Kaspmov (RUS) 6,3 V.Kramnik (RUS) 5,4 40.8a5 ae6? A.Shirov (ESP) 4%, 5-6 P.Leko (HUN) & A.Morosevich (RUS) Bacrot - Adams 40...896! 4l.g4hxg3 42.N,g3 *6 43.b6flb7 3%. Indian The second group was category 17! [El3] Queen's would have given Black hopes of survival. "only" This went, of 8 players, was won by Michael 1.d4 Af6 2.c4 e6 3.0c3 Qb4 4.Af3 b6 s.Qgs Qb7 4r.b6 Eb7 42.W$ Ad8 43.Exc5 Ehxb6 6.e3 h6 7.Qh4 Qxc3+ 8.bxc3 d6 9,N2 g5 Adams with l0wl4, Next was Vassily 22,Qe2lfJ 44.Exd5+ 6e7 45.8a3+ 6fl 46.8R+ 6g6 Ivanchuk (UKR) on and then 10.Qg3 0c6 11.h4 Eg8 12.hxg5 hxgS 13.8h6 9% came: Bareev 22...N,e2 23.Uxc5 with the killing threat 41.Hc4l-O. (RUS) 8, Rublevsky (RUS) tSeT 14.UR Eg6 15.Exg6 fxg6 16.Qd3 0-0-0 of & Topalov (BLIL) gf5. 6/z,Yan Wely (NLD) Yusupov 17.He2 Eh8 18.0-0-0 Eh619.fJ 6b8 20.Qf2 e5 & (cER) 5%, 23.gxB fue2 24.Hxc5 af4 25.9f5 26.h5 Ltvlv and Rabiega (GER) 4. 21,94 dS 22.&b2 Eh2 23.8n dxc4 24.Qxg6 46 VxeT 27.hxg6 The Leonid Stein Memorial featured fwo The earlier Ordix Open, Ad5 25.CIg1 exd4 26.exd4 Ee2 a l5-ound rapid 27...f6 28.Exh7+ 698 29.Wh3 ftg5 30.8h1 strong double round-obins in this Ukrainian Swiss, was won by GMs Sergei Rublevsky and and White, surprisingly perhaps at first sight, with a mating attack. 1-0. city in May. Stein (1934-1973) won three Mikhail Gurevich wiah 12% points. GM Peter USSR championships in four years during the Svidler (RUS) was next on 11% while GMs mid-sixties and was recognised as one of the Gofshtein (ISR) and Milov (SWI) shared fourth very shongest players that decade despite of place on 1 L There were 292 playerc in total. the fact that his results outside the Soviet Union perhaps did not quite match those in his coun- Kasparov - Leko fy's championships. [D97] Griinfeld Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) won the all-GM 'A' tournament (category 17) with 7/10 ahead of 1.d4 ff6 L*3 96 3.c4 997 4.fo3 ds s.Eb3 Krasenkov (POL) 6, Belyavsky (SLO) 5, dxc4 6.Uxc4 0{ 7.e4 a6 8.Sb3 c5 9.dxc5 UaS Gelfand (ISR) & Korchnoi (SWD 4%, and Ro- 10.ub6 wxb6 l1.cxb6 5bd7 12.Qe2 fub6 manishin (UKR) 3. r3.Qd AbdT 14.N4 0c5 15.R e5 16.4c6 bxc6 17.Qxc5 Ed818.Of2 Qe6 19.Ehd1 602 ZO.Qer Ivanchuk - Bellavsky Qf8 2t.Ed2 f5 22.Eadt 9e7 23.93 6r zl.us as 25.8c2N6 26.Exd8 ExdS 27.ed5 gxfs 28.084 [C92] Ruy Lopez Ods 29.0b6 Ea8 30.Qc5 Ad7 3l.Qxe7 Ore? 1.e4 e5 2.4ffi fu6 3.Qbs &6 4.Qa4 af6 5.0-0 32.6e3 6d6 33.Qd3 f4+t 34.gxf4 exf4+ 35.6xf4 Qe7 6.Hel b5 7.Qb3 d6 8.c3 0--0 9.h3 Ec8 Ef8+ 36.695 0€5 37.Oxh7 AxR+ 3S.6h6 Ef4 10.d4 Qb7 11.Obd2 QIU tZ.al AaS tl.QaZ cS

NZ Chess NZ Chess 28 29 39.8e2 Eh4+ 40.697 Axh2 41.4d ffi qz.fut+ 6.b4 cxd4 1.894 de7 8"bxa5 dxc3 9.tsxg7 Eg8 been namod after dances, this year being the with it a new Fiat Punto worth 10,000 Euros - 6c7 43.bf6 6al Al.dxas+ cxds 45.8d2 6d6 10.uxh7 0bc6 11.f4 Etxa5 12.68 Qd7 13.Ebr Schuhplattler. as well as aharing in the divided 60,000 cash 46.Qd3 0PJ6+ 47.&t6 Ef4+ 0-1. 0-0-0 14.8d3 ad ls.Ags Exg5 16.fxg5 dfS The Ladies'team of Nana Ioseliani, Xie Jun, prizes. 17.Qf4 Bxa3 18.8b3 Ua4 19.93 d4 20.Qe2 AaS Alisa Galliamova,Zhl Chen and Zsofia Polgar Shrart Conquest, a visitor to New ZeaTand irr Almosl-Bacrot 21.8b1 obs 22.Exb5 axbs 23,0-0 Ac4 24,94 won three of the first five rounds and lost only 1999, scored the following fine win: The world's second youngest grandmaster, Ae7 25.Q93 dbz 26.Wh7 d3 27.cxd3 Axd3 one in taking a fourpoint lead. This had France's Etienne Bacrot, found himself down 28.uxf,7 ud4+ 29.6h1 uds+ 30.0R Hd7 31.96 stretched to six points fwo rounds later but the Conquest - Yakovlch %-2% btt pulled one back in game 5 to lose foer vets added a little respectability to their score [B80]Sicilian narrowly 2%-3% to Hungarian GM Zoltan Ai- by taking the last fwo rounds. The hnal score 3 1...c2 is clearly better for Black. 1.e4 c5 2.Oc3 e6 3.ff3 a6 4.d4 cxd4 S.Axd4 d6 masi in Szeged. was 2723 to the Ladies whose top scorers 6.9e3 df6 7.R bs 8.Ud2 AbdT 9.g4 0b6 10.Uf2 32.Qe4 Oc5 33.Qh4 Axe5 34.Hxd7+ ExdT were Ioseliani and Xie Jun with 6% ponts" AfdT 1r.Od3 Qb7 12.0-0-0 EcB 13.Ace2 ee7 Dortmund 3s"Qg3 Axg6 For the Veterans Vikfor Korchnoi scored.7/z 14.0b1 0{ 15.95 d5 16.96 hxg6 17,h4 fuA Madimir Kramnik scored a come-from- be- 36.Qxe5 37.g7 38.Qb2 and but it was a bit of a one-man band as Vassily 35...4xe4 c2 Ed8 18.Qxc4 Exc4 19.h5 95 20.b3 Ec8 21.f4 dxe4 hind shared victory Vishy Anand a Smyslov (5), Vlastirnil Hort (4Yz), Mark with in Ef8 decides. 22.fxgi Qxg5 23.Ehgl Qxe3 24.Uxe3 6h7 category 16 toumamont held in July. The In- Taimanov (3%) alnd. Hans Bouwmeester (2%) 36.Qxg6 Eg7 37.Qe8 Ad7 38.Oxd7+ 6xd7 2iN4Vc7 dian GM led for most of the distance with Peter were only modest contributors. 39.Qe5 Exg4 40.Qxc3 b4 41.Qf6 b3 42.Qb2 Ee4 Leko and later Kramnik keeping him company Both sides have won four of the nine matches, 43.ER Eb4 44.8e3 HbS 45.692 6d6 46.h4 e5 at times, Michael Adams upset the toumament with the remaining one (1998) drawn, but the 47.h5 1{). favourite in round 4 when the Russian blun- Veterans have a lead in game points of eight. ,,Alg,^%-t'/rue dered a piece on move 46. Nobody was to go Kramnik Hiibner through undefeated, however, as Kramnik won - Beljlng against Anand in the penultimate round to [D27] Queen's Gambit Accepted The category 16 Tan Chin Nam Cup touma- K,ffi,}2,,,X overtake Anand by half a point. Anand had not 1.d4 d5 2.6f3 6f6 3.c4 dxc4 4.e3 e6 5.9xc4 c5 ment in the Chinese capilal in July saw four of looked to be in any trouble but blundered the 6.0-0 a6 7.Qb3 cxd4 8.exd4 5c6 9.fu3 Qe7 the five visitors tie for first place with 5W9: % 1ili".il % exchange a couple of moves before the fime 10.Ee1 0{) 11.h4 Aa5 12.Qc2 b5 13.8d3 Qb7 Alexei Dreev (RUS), Viktor Bologan (MDA), ft%w% control. In the final round Anand beat the oub- 14.h5 Qxf3 15.ExR Uxd4 16.Qf4 b4 17.Ead1 Alexander Onischuk (LIKR) and Nigel Short of-form German GM Robert Hiibner while Uc4 18.0d3 Uc6 19.4e4 Ad5 20.0e5 f5 2l.Ug3 (ENG). Then carne; 5 Ye Jiangchuan (CHN) 5; Kramnik was satisfied with a lS--rnove draw Hn 22.N2 Ab? 23.4f3 fus24.{d,4gb6? 6-7 Petg Xiaomin (CH$ & Zhatg Zhong the pieces against (CH$ a%; 8 Xu Jun (CHN) 3%; gWangZlli with black Alexander Khal- Overlooking a deadly blow. Else Black would (CHN) 3; l0 Adianto (RtN) 2%. A1l are GMs. ifinan. Leko couldhave made it a three-way tie lrave played 24.,Wb7. 26.Afxe6t fxe6 27.Hxg7+l 6xg7 28.0xe6+ 6h7 for first place if he had beaten the computer, 29.Axc7 ExcT 30.Wg5 fu5 Junior 6, but instead he lost, giving the machine 25.Axf5! exf5 26.Qc4 df6 27.Qc7 l-0. Esbierg Though Black has ample material comperrsa- a creditable 50olo score. The l5th North Sea Cup tournament in Danish tion for his queen, his pieces are quite uncoor- Ladles v veterans Esbjerg (category l4), also in luly, was won by dinated and White is winning. No better than Anand Khallfman This yesr's event was held in Munich and Belgian GM Mikhail Gurevich and Russian - the text was 30...4f6 3l.Ed8! Exd8 32.Hg6+ French followed the usual format of teams of frve GM Peter Svidler, who scored 6/z ftom ntrte [Cl7] 6h8 33.Exf6+ 6h7 34.Exd8 r-3t.Uxe5 EcIT playing a double--round Scheveningen match. games. Third equal were GM Curt Hansen 1-e4 e6 2.d4 dS s.Aca Qb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 QaS 32.Ue6 Ef6 33.8d7+ 6h6 34.Ue5 E8f7 35.Exf7 All nine matches (the fitst was in 1992) have (DEN) antl IM Alexander Grischuk (RUS) 5. ExIT 36.Ue6+ 697 37.h6+ of8 38.8d6+ 1-0. Then followed: 5-6 GM Gulko (USA) & GM Dortmund 2000 l,,?,..,,,.3li,,,,i, ,,,',.:$,,,:,.l.i6,.l.;,,,,?,,t:ttll8.tt,..9,:,.i,ii0i ,t,t j':r Nielsen (DEg a%; 7-8 cM De Firmian : :ir ,:i ::':i .l l: nik ..V..,. .'...,,.,B,US. I 10:85.1..,..,. (USA) & GM L.B.Hansen (DEN) 4; 9 cM Philadelphla I.,.t.,,.Kr ... :i..;,6jii'..l,r. ,1f.2x1,,,,',.,i,r,t; Emms (ENG) 3; 10 IM De Vreugt (M-D) 2. The World Open, a l821layer 9-ound $:,:;,:: r,,:r.1. rlr:% j;.,,r,r,,,,1y,:;',',Vll:, j;llitl,.,'.irX, 2,,,,,,fi ;,i fri ,, itzf,l,-S: ,. .i..i6'ii..:,.i Swiss ended in an eight-way tie place, ',;.V,',i:,t,ii,lliri'i..lil$l&',: for first s..Mt , },,, .,..31..,. $$ ;.....,...,...,,BNtli??s.x..., .... lrl,,::rl:lillilr::l European Champiorship necessitating a blitz tie breaker under the tour v, 8 This new individual event was held the nament rules. The eight winners (all GMs) ..,+.,.r,,.ffiFian., ..,..'...'.ffiri2? li;i; i.,'i$,.,.i.',.... in Leko HLJN 2702 . :!, ::. . Italian alpine town of Saint-Vincent with a were: Benjamin (USA), Blatny (CZE), Ehlvest 5 P. l: Llr:r;lr ,l: I ::: freld of 120 players, including more than (EST), Fedorowicz (USA), Goldin (ISR), 6 Deep Junior 6 , 27Og 40 .i1+lz1.. GMs. The ll-ound Swiss saw a fourway tie A.Ivanov (USA), Kudrin (USA) and Serper 7 Khalifman A. RUS 2637 ,1A,':-'1/l (USA). Joel Benjamin 1..1*...i..,l...'.i between GMs Alexandrov (BLA), Kharlov won the tie-break tour

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Queensland shared first place in the Gold Coast Open with The presence of European grandmasters Pre- 6W7,the two Australian GMs coming in third Affiliated Clubs drag Nikolic (BIH) and Lubomir Ftacnik equal on 6. Clubs are requested to advise NZ Chess of any changes in details given below (SVK) gave added interest to this year's Surfers The locals came into their own in the frnal Paradise, Gold Coast and Suncoast Noosa event where Rogers and Wohl shmedfirst prize Opens. Ftacnik won at Surfers wrth 7%19, fol- with 6/7 while Ftacnik and Nikolic were joined Ashburton PO Box 204, Ashburton. Meets Waitemata Thursday 7.30pm, Kelston Comm lowed by Nikolic and Armenian IM Galdunts on 5/z by Aushalian IM Stephen Solomon as Monday 7.30pm The Admin Building Cenhe, cnr Great Nort} Rd and Awaroa Rd, Johansen Zealand's Jonathan Sarfati and on 61/2. The Australian GMs Darryl well as New Ashburton Hospital, Elisabeth Street Kelston; jun 6-7.30pm Thursdays, schooldays. and Ian Rogers were next on 5% together with Australia's Myeis. Contact, Ken Pow (03) 352-485 I Contact Bruce Pollard (09)818-23 42. IM Aleksandar Wohl. The two European GMs Auckland Chess Centre Meets Monday 7.30 & Wanganui Mondays 7pm, lst floor, NZCF Council reDort Thursday (social) 7.30pm, 17 Cromwell St, Mt Commercial Club, St Hill St. Pres, Gordon ' By NZCF President Peter Stuart Eden, Auckland i003. Tel (09)630-2042 Hoskyn, 7 Pehi St (06)343-6101, sec, K clubroom. Yorston, 5 Mitchell st (06)343-7166. (0) Council oppointment Invercargill O 12 Contact, BrucWheeler (09) 623-0109 Wellington Tues 7.30pm, Museum Room, (2) Paul Beach has besn co-opted to the NZCF Kapiti rZ (2) t7 Canterbury, PO Box 25-242, Christchurch. Tunrbull House, Bowen Steet, Wellington l. (2) Council as an Auckland councillor, to fi1l a New Plyrnouth 3 14 Meets Wednesday, 7.30pm., 227 Bealey Contact, Alan Aldridge (04) 477-4874. North 54 (8) long-standing vacancy. Shore 35 (7) Avenue; tel (03)366-3935 clubroom. Pres, Drugs and the IOC Otago 0 ? Gavin Dawes (03)352-485 I Associate members The Council has received information on drug Papatoetoe 5 ? Gambit Sec, Ted Frost, 103 Koromiko Road, Gisborne, 4/26Huis St, Gsbome. M.P.Grieve testing, includlng guidelines on what drugs are Upper (l) 25 (5) Hutt 18 Gonville, Wanganui. Tel (06)347-6098. (06)863-0101. okay and which are not. There will be testing at waitemata 27 (4) 28 (6) Hamilton: Wed, 7.30pnr, St Pauls Collegiate NZ Correspondence Chess Assn, P.O. Box the Olympiad and team members will be firlly Wanganui 28 (ll) 32 (6) School. Inquiries Gary Judkins (07)855-5392. 3278, Wellington. Sec, J W (Sandy) Maxwell, briefed. Any player intending to compete in (4) 30 (2) Welhngton 39 Hastings-Havelock North P.O. Box 184, (04)237-4753. familiar the No (5) events overseas should become with club 2I Hastings. We{ 7.30 prq Library, Havelock N regulations - contact the secretary. Manawatu open schoolpupils' High School, Te Mata Rd. Sec, Chris Smith District Associations At this stage dope testing will not be a feature (06)877-4583. rapid championship Sec, Kees van den of New Zealand events, but it is likely to become Auckland Chess Assn, Tony Dowden and Martin Sims invited players Ilowick-Pakuranga Tuesday 7.45pm (uniors Road,Auckland 1005 so in the not too distant future. Bosch, 6lA St Johns from a wider area to take part in this year's 6.30-7.30), St John Ambulance Hall, Howick- (0e)521-5828. Federation annual meeting Manawatu open school pupils' rapid champi- Pakuranga Highway, Highland Park. Sec, Kees Chess Clubs are reminded that the deadline for remits Wellington District Assn Inc, onship, and the 2l entries included 7 players van den Bosch (09) 52 1-5828. and 2001 Council nominations is 31 October. from three Wanganui schools. Invercargill Wednesday 8pm, staff room, The meeting will be held in January during the The event was held in the Palmerston North South School, Ness St. national Congress being organised by the Wait- Boys' High School library, with an entry fee of Contact, John Preston (03) 216-4920 emata club. o/r4 and the introduction ofcash prizes ($50, $30 Kapiti Wednesday, 7.30pm, Salvation Army Membership of NZCF and $20). Hall, Bluegum Rd. Paraparaumu Beach. At mid-year there were 337 registered players, Pascal Harris (Wanganui Collegiate) scored a Contact, Guy Bums (04) 904-2002 including 87 jrmiors. The position in the clubs picket fence to win the tournament, a point clear New Plymouth 1l Glbert St, New Plymouth. follows (questionmarks indicate clubs which are of Thomas Lissington and Vinod Chinni, both Tuesdays, 7.30pm. Pres, R P Bowler, lTaHoi not financial this year and have not properly PNBHS, on 4. Thomas won a 5-minute playoff St (06)753-6282. Contact, Bob Bowler. completed the affiliation form.) Juniors in brack- for second. Daniel Martin (lVanganui Colle- North Shore P.O. Box 33-587, Takapuna, ets. giate) (PNBHS) Auckland 9. Wednesday 7.30pm, Northcote 2000 t2-99 and Pubudu Senanayake were 4= 3.5, Daniel 5-minute playoff. Community Centre, cm College Rd/Ernie Mays Ashburton 2l (5) 20 (6) on and won a Other scores: Jeremy Smith 3, Jing-men Chin St. Club capt, Peter Stttafi(09)445-6377. Auckland 40 (4) ? 3, Audrew Kuhn 3, David Yoon 3, Waata Otago 7 Maitland St, Dunedin. Wednesday and Canterbury 26 (3) 42 (13) Gambit 8 (1) 12 (l) Hipango 3, Thomas Kuhn 3, Derek Everson 2.5, Saturday, 7.30pm. Tel (03)477-6919 clubroom. Gsbome 3l (29) 12 (l) Asanga Senaviratna 2.5, Jevon Wright 2, Chris Pres, Trevor Rowell, (03)455-14l. Parker 2, Baden Marino 2, Simon Muryhy 2, Upper llutt Monday 7.30pm, Hapai Club, 879 Hamilton 12 (10) ? Ahmen Al-Hindawi 2, Paddy Trainor l, Fergusson Drive. Sec, Roger Smith (04)528- Howick-Pakuranga 15 ? Prashant Prakash 0. 2721.

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