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New Zealand Chess Supplies P.O NEW ZEALAND CHESS SUPPLIES P.O. Box 42-O9O Wainuiomata Phone(04)564-8578 Fax(04)564-8578 New Zealand Mail order and wholesale stockists of the widest selection of modern chess literature in Australasia. Chess Chess sets, boards, clocks, stationery and all playing equipment. Distributors of all leading brands of chess computers and software Send S.A.E. for brochure and catalogue (state your interest). The official nragazine of llre Nw Zealmd Chess Federation D- PLASTIC CHESSMEN (STAUNTON STYLE) 67mm King (boxed) solid and felt-based $13.50 95mm King (in plastic bag) solid, weighted, felt-based $17.50 95mm King (in plastic box with lid), as above S24.OO Volume 20 Number 1 February 1994 $3.00 (inc GST) FOLDING CHESSBOARDS - CLUBiTOURNAMENT STANDARD 36Ommx36Omm thick cardboard (black and white squares) $5.OO 425mmx425mm Corflute plastic.(dark brown and white) $5.OO 48Ommx48Omm thick cardboard (green and lemon) $6.00 VINYL CHESSBOARDS . 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NEW ZEALAND CHESS STOP PRESS journal New Zealand Chess is the official of the New Zealand Chess Next Congress in Wanganui Federation published bimonthly (February, NZCF has conhrmed that the t994-95 April, June, August, October, December). Congress will be held in Wanganui, with rhe NZ Rapid to follow. All correspondence, subscription renewals, This issue unashamedly concentrates on the 101st New Zealand Chess Congress...but not to the changes of address, advertising inquiries, Otago CC Officers exclusion of plenty of news from around New Zealand and the World! articles and other copy should be addressed to Tony Love advises that he has been elected N.Z. Chess, P.O.'Box 3130, Wellington. secrelary of Otago CC, and Paul Vecovsky has been elected president. Opinions expressed in articles, letters and other Would other clubs holding annual meetings at Contents contributions are those of the authors. Letters this time please notify NZCF of any changes in . to the editor on any chess topic are welcome; officers urgently. limit 150 words, and marked "for publication." 4 Th. l0lst New Zealand Chess Congress official organisers' report. Youngest grandrnaster Peter Leko (Hungary) frnished third in the 5 Detailed Round-by-Round report on the Charnpionship by R Mackway-Jones. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Wijk aan Zee GM tournament in Holland and 10 fne Reserve Championship may not have been the strongest on paper but that was little New Zealand NZ$18.00 this gave him the last norm required to qualify consolation to the competitors! Other countries US$ only Airmail Economy as a CM. He is reported to be 14 (must have Australia, South Pacifrc U$12.00 had his birthday recently), and so is the 12 lt may have been a small field by recent standards but the Major Open was not shy of some East North Asia, America U$15.00 youngest player ever to become a GM, Bobby good play and a little controversy. R Mackway-Jonescontinues with hie our magazine... Europe U$17.50 U$12.50 Fischer and Judith Polgar both became GMs at Rest of the world U$20.00 U$15.00 15. 14 ttre Sir Robert Jones Trophy was up for grabs in The Second NZ Rapid Championship as titleholder Russel Dive was not there to defend it. Back issues are available - send for details. FIDE knockout A profrle of New Zealands latest National Master, Bob Smith In the hrst knockout round in the FIDE World l6 ADYERTISING RATES Championship series Kamsky beat van Sterren, 20 fn" latest in News from around New Zealand. Who needs the Women's Weekly. Full page NZ$45.00 Anand beat Yusupov, Timman beat Lautier, Half page or full column NZ$22.5O Salov beat Yudasin, Kramnik beat Khalifman, 22 pI.Ig Top 20 Men, Top 10 Women plus a whole lot of Coming Events Half column NZ$12.00 Gelfand beat Adams. In the next round Anand pas-de-deux! Club Notices or Classified, NZ$1.50 per plays Kamsky, Kramnik plays Gelfand and 23 Tightrope or Tango? Emil Melnichenko presents a peerlessly perfbrmed perpetual 15 words Timman plays Salov, with the winners joining 24 fne 1993 World Junior was held at Calicut, India. Great hotels, NOT says Edward Swayne. Karpov in the semi-hnals. COPY DEADLINE 25 International News collected by Peter Stuart. All copy should reach NZ Chess by the second Congress Ratings Saturday of the month before publication. Rumour has it that 6 players will see their 28 Neea a selection of autumn reading? See the Book Reviews. ratings change by more than 100 points as a 29 A must-read Council Report by NZCF Secretary Ted Frost. The deadline for the April issue is result of their play at Congress, one of them by Satrrrday, March 26, 1994 175 points. Unfortunately for two of them it is but only because February slipped a little and a change for the worse... excepting Easter tournament reports! Junior Player of the Year Copy should include details of coming events It was announced at Congress that Edward ... And coming up in the April Issue for the rest of the year. Swayne and David Guthrie would share the title. The ofhcial "Best Games of Congress " .. .a report on the Junior Player of the Year that just couldn't squeeze hto this issue...Tournament reports will include the various Easter tournaments (one issue Copy on MSDOS floppy disks (any size) are earlier this year) plus the NZ Women's, Junior and Under-16 Championships... more than welcome, they are preferred to paper! All disks will, of course, be returned. COVER: Newest ltlZ Master Bob Smith and his Thank you for your past submissions. wife Vivian, lhe current ltlZ Women's Champion. 2 NZ Chess Sir Robert Jones 101st N.Z. Chess Congress New Zealand Championship By Robert Mackway-Jones By Robert Mackway-Jones Smith. In other games Lukey beat Haase with a The Invercargill Chess Club hosted the 1993- Organisers'Note The championship field was headed by current Champion Anthony Ker and Joint North attack, beat Boyd and 94 Sir Robert Jones NZ Chess Cringress for the The congress on a whole was successful and NZ swift Ker Champion Robert Smith. Following Love/Abrahamson drew. first time. .The.venue, the Ascot Park Hotel enjoyableto play in and organise. One incident, Island closely behind were L992NZ Champion Martin complex on the outskirts of lnvercargill, however, deserves some comment from the Pomeroy,A-Smith,RW Dreyer and SI Champion Stephen Lukey. Tony provided excellent playing conditions with many organisers. After round 8 the draw for the l.e4 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.f4 Nf6 5.NR 0-0 Love, Bruce Anderson, Kendall Boyd, Philip 96 competitors staying at the venue and putting the Major Open round 9 was completed. Before the 6.8e3 c6 7.Qd2 b5 8.e5 b4 9.Ndl Nds 10.8f2 Abrahamson and Peter McKenzie were the other facilities to fulI use. start of play, however, a player withdrew for Bg4 11.8e2 Bh6 12.93 NbdT 13.Ne3 Nxe3 entrants with Arthur Pomeroy, Graham Haase The weather caused great concern - it was too health reasons. l4.Bxe3 a5 15.h3 Be6 16.h4 c5 17.h5 cxd4 and John Sutherland being promoted from the hot! However, later in the tournament some This was conveyed to the DOP - IM Ortvin l8.Nxd4 Bds fg.NA BxB 20.8xf3. Bg7 Reserve. thunderstorms and rain seemed to balance it out. Sarapu - the previous night verbally and in 2l.hxg6hxg622.Qh2 Re8 23.Qh7+ KfB 24.0 The playing area was in one of the many written form one and a- quarter hours before the 0-0 Rc8 25.Rd2 Qc7 26.f5 1-0 Round 1: The top seeds stuck trouble, with conference rooms at the hotel and a nearby bar staft of play. In our view a new draw should Robert Smith losing to Kendall Boyd in the acted as the analysis room and lounge. Another have been completed at this stage. It wasn't and Round 3: Ker and Lukey went to the lead on biggest upset of the round. Ker was held to a bar was also put to good use by the players and resulted in a player protesting about the draw. 2th with wins over Pomeroy and Dreyer draw with Dreyer, while Lukey drew from a a pleasing feature of the tournament was that The disputes committee met and decided that respectively.
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