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The competitors in the 87th Ner^r Zea1.ar:d Championship. The moreyou fly Standing (left to right): E.M.Green, V.A.Smal1, A.L. ,Gturthansa Carpinter, R.I.Nokes, R.W.Srnith, D.H.Beach, P.B.lJeir cERirAil ATRL|NES and M.Evans. Seated: J.N.Metge, O.Sarapu, L.Aptekar - Royal lnsurance BIdg. and P.W. Stuart. 1m-113 Ouoon St., Auckland, N.Z. Tel.: 31529 P.O. Box l{27

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It was around the middle of 1977 that Editorial we received the IBM Selectric which has EDIT0R: Peter Sruarr, 24 Seacliffe Avenue, Takapuna, Auckland, 9. While no secret, the fact that I am been used ever since. The use of letra- retiring as Editor of New zeaTand for headings from February 1978 also ASS0CIATE EDIT0RS: Tony Douden (.tago), ,rtvin improved the appearance. (Canterbury) Sarapu TM, Vernon Smalt after this issue has not been well and Tim Spiller (WeIlington). publicised. Perhaps the mjor reason While I have enjoyed producing a for this was the doubt over a successor, mgazine very much, the task 1s very A11 contributions should be sent to the Editor's address. time consuming and I feel a certain will unused manuscripts this being occasioned by the doubt not be returned unless stamped, addressed envelope is enclosed. which has existed for the last three staleness is creeping in. I uould like months regarding the location and to think that the released tine will officers of the 1980 NZCA Council (see Iead to a renaissance in ny chess DEADLINES: The deadline AGM Notes in this issue). pTaqing but this may be too much to for both copy and advertising is the 6th of the month - preceding the month of issue. This issue brings up exactly four hope for! years for me as EdiEor of the magazine I would like to thank all those who (r{rithout - although my name appears on the have contributed remuneration inside front cover of the February 1976 except for a complimentary copy of the ADVERTISING g3O RATES: per fuI1 page, gl5 per column or half page, g7.50 magazite, that issue was actually pro- mgazine) articles, annotations and so half column. per duced under the edirorship of Peter on and I hope you will contlnue to do Goffin, so under the new Editor. One regret is Certainly the mgazine posed a great the lack of real reader particiPation SUBSCRIPTION 1975 of during those four years, although there RATES: ttrese are annual and are in New zealand dolrars. challenge 1n - by the end that year we were six months behind our has been some slight imProvement over the last few issues let us pray that New Zealand $4.50. Overseas (surface mail) publication dates, the June issue - $6.00. coming out a day or two before Christ- it continues! also to those unheralded Airmail: & South pacific Asia & mas, due to circumstances which were My thanks $7.00, North America $g.50, devoEees of the party." This South America, Europe & Africa $10.00. beyond ny control. Ian Mitchell had "folding typed the April 1976 issue but i11- will need sone explanation for most of Note: our readers. TtJenty-four issues A11 enquiries regarding advertising or subscriptions should be health prevented him fron typing the Page The sent to These were up by are usually produced eight pages to a Administration officer, New Zeiland.chess Association, p.o. Box gg02, next two issues. set Slmonds Street, Auckland. an agency using IBM cold type which sheet and these sheets (as well as the had a very good "prinEed" appearance- covers) have to be folded (with the The main drawback, however, was the pages in the correct orderl) and col- very poor layout of the magazine, this lated before the stapling and final ACKN0WLEDGMENT: rhanks are due to rBM for rheir donarion of the rBM sefectric being due mainly to the fact that the Eriming by the printer. Not too many Typewriter used to produce this magazine. manuscripE was alnost wholly hand- printers om one of the expensive written. As it became apparent that I machines designed for this purPose so would have to type the manuscript for the the job is frequently done manua1ly. agency anyway, we decided to sidestep The folding parties are therefore a the middlemn. Appearance suffered as cost-saving exercise and they usually I used a manual portable typewrlter for last for three or four hours - depend- ing on the number of "workers" compared the next three issues. About a year tttalkers.t' earlier we had been hopeful of the to the number of Some of the donation of a Selectric typewriter by really keen "parEy-goerst' have been IBM but, as this seemed to have fa11en doing the job for even longer than I through, I bought an Olympia electric have been Editorl At the risk of unin- model which was used for the April and tentionally omitting someone I mke June 1977 issues. By this time, with speciaT mention of David Gollogly, six issues produced in about four Peter Mataga, SEephen Moratti, Michael months we were backonschedule. Steadman and Don Storey. My successor as Editor will be Paul junction with the Annual (lrrr1,,rr.rrr Spiller and, in wishing him every (2) That Part 1, Ru1<' 1r, :rr,r tl,,rr Burroughs Computers Gentennial Gongress success, I express he (h), subsection (iii) be :rrnt,rrrllrl lry rlr.- the hope that TRIPLE TIE IN 87th N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIP will receive the same support I have leting '31 Ocfober' and sul)..;t itrrt irr1l'15 had. November . ' Report: Peter Stuart Peter Stuart (3) That Part 1, RuIe 5, rrr r I i,,rr (c), Zealand Chess Associa- field for 87th New Zealand Champiorr EDITOR. subsection (i) be amended by rlll,.t irr1l The 87th New the '10 November' and substitutinli ' ll tion Congress uras held at the Civic ship was not as strong as might have AAA October. I Ha1I, Upper I{utt from 27 December to 7 been expected. There was not only the have come to exPect' prize money to consider, but also The first remit is self-exp l;rrr;r I ory. January. As we a very successful Congress possible olympiad selection later in NEW EDITOR,S ADDRESS The other two are simply a tidyinli rr|) following in 1975176 and a number of 40-40 the year. operation on the Constitution. Nunrlrcr 2 there Paul Spiller's address, to uhich all will mean that the Council will in tournaments, the Upper Hutt was, of course, an under the guiding hand of obvious favourite and indeed, this being correspondence and copy should be sent, future send out all the documents - organisation, l)('r (Anton was superb. The centennial year, he reaIly wanted to is 59 Uxbridge Road, IIO'r^IICK. taining to the AGM at the one time "the boss" Reid) the A Note that enqnries regarding adver- uhile nrrmber 3 means that clubs must members of the Tournament ComitEee nail the title dom once again. very make Sm11 was also taking tising or subscriptions should still forward nominations for officers and really uent out of their way to abstemious Vernon and Ewen be sent to the Adoinistration Officer, notjces of motion by the same daLe, viz the evenE as enjoyable as possible for things very seriously this time poor (for l\tr.2. Chess Association, P.O. Box 8802, 31 October- all competitors. Green, another relatively his Congress reputaEion) performer last year, was Symonds Streot, AUCKLAND. A feature of the Centennial was the comencement of sponsorship by also showing signs of optimism. ,h A ,h Burroughs Ltd, for an initial three- David Beach was actually second seed tr a tr year term, of the main NZCA tournaments. and Lev Aptekar, a fomer champion, also This permitted a dramatic increase in had a high rating; there lrere, however, CANOIDATES PAIRINGS the total prize fund offered compared doubts about the latterrs form during A.G.M. NOTES with any previous Congress. Strangely, the year in Wellington tournaments. Lev On 17 Novenber lots were drawn For the expected deluge of entries from the himself feels that a return to the The main item of intercst at the the quarter-finals and semi-finals of countryrs top players, with a $1000 stronger competition available in Auck- New ZeaLand Chess Associatlonrs Annual thc 1980 Men's and Womenrs Candidates' first prize as bait, failed to material- land would benefit his play consiflerably. General Meeting, held at Upper Huttrs Matches. ise. Maybe money isn't everythingl Thus The next two on rating were Roger Civic Hall on 2 January 1980, was the Mark Evans, with a pre-tournament rating Nokes who scored 50% last year at his of only 2010 gained selection for the first atterpt but who had been quite election of the new Counc:i1 - or rather Men's Quarter-finals: the decision as to where the admini- Championship event. inactive during the resE of 1979 and 1. GM Korchnoi Sr[ GM PetroslanUssR stration would be located in 1980, - The organiserst qualms about the Peter Stuart, usually a solid if not 2. GM Spassky USSR CM Portisch fiUil L/eI'l ingt on or Auck [and. - Centennial dinner proved unfounded as spectacular scorer and one of the most 3. GM Tal UssR CM Polugaevsky There was a long and wide-ranging - ninety people attended a very success- experienced of N.Z. Championship players debate before a po11 was finally taken, vssR fu1 function at which Upper Hutt resi- present in the field. 4. GM HiJbNET BRD GM AdOriAN I/Uil rBrain Auckland being favoured by 40 votes to - dent Patrick Bowles, a former of Judging by past results at this Leveal Britainr and New Zeal'and rMastermindr, Tony Carpinter, Robert Snith, Peter Weiq 19. hlhile the margin was certainly l,len's Semi-finals: surprising 1t was clear from delegates' was the guest speaker. Affer the Nigel Metge and Mark Evans were not on the rest day, Bruce really favoured for the major plaees speeches that they were not opposed, in Winner of 1 - tr^linner of 3 dinner, held - of the players, although Metge threw out a warning wiEh principle, to a transfer of the Associ- Winner of 2 - Winner of 4 Marsick, on behalf ation headquarters to tiellington and presented a handsome silver tray to a picket fence ln the Ian Mitchell champion Ortvin Sarapu. The Memorial Tournament held just three there is clearly a strong possibility [^lomen' s Quarter-fina1 s : perennial tray was inscribed with a representa- weeks before Christmas, that such a change could take place at 1. Gaprindashvili the 1981 AGM with better preparation. tion of the Silver with Sarapu's Before launching into the story of US.sR Gurieli US.9I games Councillors elected for 1980 were: - vicEory years engraved on the bricks; the event a word about adjourned 2. Kushnir fSR BUL President: P.[,l.Stuart; Vice ?resident: - Lematchko the wording was (as close as I can is in order. The schedule allowed for 3. AkhnilovskayaUSSR USSR rChampion M.G.Whaley; Secretary: D.J.H.Storey; - Aleksandri.l remember it) of Ehe Century - rounds between 1:00 and 6:00 pm with 4. Ioseliani Us;^9R - Veriici HUIV games even- Treasurer: R.A.Feasey; Councillors: lnl. Ortvin Sarapu - From the chessplayers adjourned continued in the I-eonhardt, R.tl.Smith and P.S.Spiller; of New Zealand. I ings from 8:00 to 10:00. On some days Women's Semi-finals: Canterbury Regional Councillor: V.A. !{hile the total entry of about 120 there were also adjourned gane sessions Con- 11:00 am. Two hour adjourr> Small ; ',iellington Regional Council- Winner of 1 - Winner of 4 was down on the last Upper Hutt from 9:00 to game prac- lors: W.K.Ho11is aDd c.T.Stal1knecht. [^/inner of 2 - hlinncr oF ]l gress, the organisers were very happy ed sessions have been normal raTith the numbers in view of the present tice in the past so this is not a criti- Notice had been given of four The first two matches of Lht. Menrs day cost of travel and accomodation - cism of the organisers of this particu- motions, three of uhich were passed. Candidates are repeats of the last not to mention the petrol restrictions' lar event. They did, however, cause These were: series. It is perhaps a pjty th.rt a Tal notice of the relaxation of which was problems this time, particularly for (1) That a Neu Zealand Women's - Korchnoi final is precluderl. not publicised until late in the year. this writer who, after eight rounds, Championship be held annually in con- AAO As already mentioned above' the had three games adjourned. Despite play- ..lit

I In the ending CarPinterrs central Passed Pams proved far too quick for Smithts ing morning, afternoon and evening, I sessions in the evenings worrlrl lrl rrr stil1 had two adjourned games (from improvement. This would elinrir;rtr,rlr rounds 6 and 8) after round 10 and need for mornirg sessions inrrnorn.rl'l these were finally wrapped up at 2:30 circuostances as few gamcs wlri, Ir 1,,, am on the morning of the last round: beyonci five hours continue irrt(),r rrirrLlr Admittedly this was an extreme case buf hour. In other words the srhr'

Round 27 December 1979 1 46 a4 e31 47 Kf3 Rc8, 0 : 1. Beach - Stuart Slcilian, 2 c3 t-5 r (25) Evans - Weir Two Knightsr Defence 'l :', ", (40) Sarapu - Smith Sicilian, 2 c3 'l : 1,, (61) Carpinter - Nokes English, 1. . . e5 \ , )i (4r1 Green - Snall Grtinfeld, 5 Bg5 '.1 , l; (24) Iretge - Aptekar Czech Benoni 1:0 (4:l) In the only decisjve game of the round Metge gained a stranglehold after geLting in with the two key breaks b2-b4 and f2-f4 before Aptekar played the corresponding b7-b5 or f7-f5. Probably Lev's mistake lay in rrying ro complete prepararions for Green gained the upper hand but, in the mutual time scramble, missed two oPPor- Doti breaks at the same time, Eunlties io win a which Nokes left en pris. The was agreed during the J.N.METGE L.APTEKAR, Czech Benoni: I d4 c5 2 d5 e5 Nc3 - I c4 d6 4 Be7 5 Nf3 adj ournment. Nf6 6 e4 0-0 7 Be2 Ne8 8 0-0 Na6 9 a3 RbS 10 b4 96 11 Be3 h6 12 b-5 NacT 13 Nel Bg5 14 Qd2 Bxe3 15 Qxe3 Ng7 16 f4 Nce8 17 Nd3 f6 18 Rf2 Rb7 19 RafI exf4 Round3 - 29December 20 Qxf4 RbfT 2L h4 Qel 22 a4 Nc7 23 a5 bxa5 24 Nxc5 dxc5 25 d6 Qd8 26 dxcl 27 Nd5 (11) (l%) Alekhine Defence l:0 RxcT RcfT 28 h5 95 29 Qb8 Ne8 30 Bg4 f5 3I Bxf5 Nd6 32 Bxc8 Nxc8 33 Sarapu reach \,.1- (L) Defence '2.'2 RxfT RxfT 34 RxfT KxfT 35 Qb7+ Ke6 36 QxhT Nd6 37 Qg6+ Ke5 38 h6 94 39 Qh5+ Carpinter (I%) weir Queents Indian Kxe4 40 h7 Qh8 41 Qg6+ Kd4 42 Qg8 Nf7 43 Qxf7, I : 0. Green (I) Smith (L) Kingrs Indian, Saemisch 0:1 uetge (IL) Nokes (l) Nimzoindian,4 Bg5 0:1 Carpinter tried to improve on hjs play against same the opponent last year in the Aptekar (1) Snall (1) Closed Sicllian 0:1 variation 1 c4 e5 2 Nc3 Nf6 3 Nf3 Nc6 4 ell Bb4 5 0-0 6 Nd5 BeTl? by con- Qc2 Evans (15) Stuart (%) Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack 0:l tinuing 7 a3 (instead of 7 Be2 Nxd5 8 cxd5 Nb4) 7...d6 8 BeZ h6 9 b4 but Nokes gained the edge after 9...e4 l0 NxeT* QxeT i1 Nd4 Nxd4 12 exd4 d5 and Carpinter sarapu took the lead with his second win but again lt was not convincing. The had to defend well for the draw. diagram at lett shous the posirion after Whiters 33rd move' Sarapu uon a pam shortly before the adjorrrnment but was unable to prevent sim- Beach now blunderetl with 33...Qd5? allowing a nice finish: 34 plification to a dram N + P vs B endirrg in the second session. The other three Rxe3! Rxe3 35 Qxg6+ Kf8 36 Qh6+ (the Point; White regalns Ehe games t%%% ending) 36...Kf7 37 Qxe3 Qxg2+ 38 Kxg2 were quieter with nobody gaining any meaningful advantage. Smal1 did offer a %z %zr*.%,t, rook with a winning pam in an attempt to break the run of (often quick) draws with Green; the latter dxe3 39 Kf3 (Necessary' as 39 Rd7+ Ke8 40 RxbT Rxc5 4l declined the offer and play fr"/& % % RxaT?? loses to 41...Re5) 39...Rxc5 40 Rd7+ Ke6 41 RxbT Rh5 had to accrrrately to maintain eqrtality. , % lfta% 42 Kxe3 l(xh} (42...Rh3i was a better try although che final Round 2 28 December % lft.H% result would not be in doubt) 43 RxaT Kd6 44 b6 Kc6 45 a5 Rh8, 1 : 0. Beach (L) Evans (%) (31) 7Z#Vlz %ft - , Sreinirz i o The showplece of the round was Smlth's for tJeir (%) Sarapu (%) French, 2 Nf3 0 (5?) - r two bishops Possibly not completely sound but difflcult to Snith (%) Carpinrer (!) pirc, Ausrrian Artack 0 (41) - - | handle over the board. Green was eventually overlrhelmed by Smlthrs material prePon- Nokes (%) Green (12) Trompovsky Attack ,-a (42) - \ derence (see annotated games). Sna1l (%) (1) (3.-.Nc6) 11 - Metge French Tarrasch )1 Qz) Small forced a neat ;implification into a winnlng endgame from a somewhat un- Stuart (%) Aptekar (0) (44) - Symetric.il English 0 r clear mi-ddle-game to record his first win (see annotated games) ' A 1itt1e won Beach a brace of pams and the win was routine after Metge drifted in an equal posiEion and soon gave up the for a ; that. althou;h all the remaining paurns (4 vs 3) were on one side he was unable to set up a Small gained the advantage, as Wtrite afmost invariably does, against Metge's 3... firm defence. Nc6 but wasnrt ever able to increase it to decjsive proporljons iu the face of accrrrate defence. V.A.SMALL - J.N.METGE, French Tarrasch: 1 e4 e6 Z d4 d,5 3 Nd2 Nc6 4 Ngt3 Nf6 5 e5 Nd7 6 BeZ Bel 7 Nfl f6 8 exf6 Bxf6 9 Ne3 0-0 10 0-C Ne7 lt Ng4 c5 12 c3 cxd4 13 cxd4 Qb6 14 b3 Nf5 15 Bb2 Nb8 16 Bd3 Nc6 17 Nxf6 Rxf6 18 Rcl Bd7 19 Bbl Be8 20 h3 896 21 Ne5 Nxe5 22 dxe5 Rfl 23 Bxf5 Bxf5 24 Qd2 Qd8 25 p,d4 b6 26 Rc6 Rcu 27 Rfcl RfcT 28 R6c3 Qd7 29 t3 896 30 Kh2 Rxc3 31 Rxc3 Rxc3 32 Qxc3 Be8, 12 : l. Rxe4 47 Nf3 Kc5 48 Kg3 Ne7 49 Kf2 Nf5 50 h5 95 5I Ncel Ng7 52 Nd3+ Kd6 53 Nh2 Nxh5 54 Kf3, 0 : 1. Against Weirrs enterprr'sing openitg p1ay, Sarapu's F'rench Defence seemed to be headed for the rocks but the defending champion brought the game round; further The other decisive game was one of fluctuating fortunes, Stuart making Ehe early errors in an equal position brought about l,treir's downfall. 5 4

T rLrnning but alloving Evans to recover and even gain the edge. During tlre t,rrsrrirrp, Ro11d! 1J91qa1Y198.0 complications Evans lost a piece in somewhat surprising fastrion but, with orrly;r fcw (14) (see Bcirch (2r,) - Plotgc (21,) lrrcnt:lt, I't.r('(lut( lr('()n 0 I pams remaining the win was st-ill a little difficult annotated gamcs) - (35) l,lvans (l) (jrt't'n (2r,) (l losctl Sic i Iiatr 0 r ( 1 o (28) Round 4 30 December Sarapu (4ri) - Cirrpintcr ]) I'irc:, 4 lll4 Weir (lr,) - lrptckirr (l',) Sicilirrn' Wir)g (;irmbit t, (49) (lL)* (2) (51) (45) Stuart - Small English 0 ; I Snirh (2) - Snral I ( lr?) Si< i lirrrr, Scltt'vt'nitrgt'tr 0 I (2) ( Nokes - Aptekar (1) Sicilian, 2 c3 1 : 0 (')2) sruart (l'i) - Nokt's (-|r1) linglislr, l-".t'5 I 0 l06) Smirh (1%) - Metge (1rz) Bird's OpeninB 0 : I (-14) (:irrl)intcr's r;tr it kly tleir (t) - Green (I) Symetrical English 0 : I (36) l)('spit(' a cgnsid..raltlt' rrrrmlrt.r r>f t,xctranllr'r;, 1r;twn u('ilknt'sses ()v('r Snrll I wlto wtttl wt'l I from Beach (1%) - Carpinter (2) Pirc, Austrian Attack ! !. (23) pr6vlc1 fat;rl lrn 2') lt4 l\xg| 2) t)xg4 tr5 24 ()t'2 Nr'6 21 {)t'4 l{d7 Thus Sarapu maintained his half-point lead over Snrall and Nokes with Carpinter 26 ttx<17 r)xd7 27 Rcl t Ncl4 2U Rd',) {)g4 29 g} ltot} }0 Kg2 Nxt 2 )l Kl2 NdL- J2 ltt'3 llc6 and Metge leading the rest. ]l Nc2 lif6+ 14 Kol til3 i)5 t{xll} {)xt} }6 Nxcl4 tlxg)+ }7 Ktl2 t'x<14 3lt {)xd4 iJxtr4 l9 ()c4 ()t2+ 40 Kr ) (li, l+ 4l Kb2 t'> 4') Kc2 lt| 4) {)d5 tr} 44 r)d{t+ Kg7 4i) ()lr1r (lt'2+, Round5 - 3lDecember 0: l.

1 Green (2) - Beach (2) Queen's Ganbit, Exchange % (rr) somewirirI srrrt)risirry,ly, ttP Iwtt dif lt'rcnr w;]ysl Io sltcrif itt'lt smlt]1- 1, Nokcs. P:t:;sc'r-l Carpinter (2t) - Evans (%) , Ilyin-Zhenevsky 1 \ (zt) amount ()l mtrcrial for irt!:il(kinll clrirnr t,s ind Stuilrt g;titrt'tl a slight iniriiltivo whi(ll (2b) (L) Bg5 (37) Metge - Weir Nimzoindian, 4 0 r bocanc an t'xch:tngt, soorr rr lLcr. liy tlro rd]otrrnmc'nt tlt(' win lool

, much success for Sma11 improved on Blackts play in a line which has brought Sna1l took quick advantage of this when Weir allowed a simple comblnatlon wlnning r with the white pieces' In the Present game Sma1l managed to equalise his queen for rook and minor piece as early as move twelve. ee annotated games) ' former I-letge and Nokes also kept up their challenges, the former acceptlng the Benko nd Green indulged in a quietly played Synrnetrical English' the Gamblt and then adopting the sinple expedLent of holdlng the pawn on b5; Evans never ...'" r"r"i sei-up with-"t t"ity 91-96 ay playing 2 b3' Aptekarrs win rea11y got to grips with the position at all, Nokes played one of his best games of into tontention for a share of the prize money for Ehe brought him to the tournament lnvolving a positional piece sacrifice. Towards the end Smith had ah. aot.rr*a.t, but Nokests chances were not improved by his loss Nokests queen latterrs extra pardns carrled the to the two rooks and a blshop versus but the Weir who, in a mjor pie." eoding, switched hls pieces from the kingside day. queenside verY effectivelY. R.I.NoKES - R.W.SMITH, Trompovsky Attack: I d4 Nf6 2 Bg5 d5 3 Bxf6 gxf6 4 e3 Bf5 p.B.llllEIR R.I.N0KES, siiitian Defence: 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 Bb5+ Bd7 4 BxdT+ QxdT 10 Ng3 cxd5 12 Bd3 - l1 dxc5 d5 12 5 c4 c6 5 Nc3 e6 7 Nge2 Qb6 I Qd2 h5 t h4 Nd7 896 l1 cxd5 5 0-0 Nc6 6 c3 Nf6 7 Re1 e6 8 d4 Be7 9 Bg5 0-0 t0 Bxf6 Bxf6 Bxd3 13 Qxd3 f5 14 0-0 Bd6 (DTAGRAM) Nbd2Rfd813e5Be7tl,-NbsQ"z15Qe2Nb816Nfd4a617RadlNd718Rd3Nxc5 24 Rc3 25 Recl 15 Nxf5 exf5 15 Nxd5 I7 e4 fxe4 18 Kf8 19 Rfel 19 Nxc5 Bxc5 20 Qh5 h; ii ngg Bxd4 22 cxd4 Kh7 23 Qg4 Rg8 Qd7 Qd8 Qxe4+ 30 a4 31 Re1 Qg4 32 Kg2 Nf6 20 Nxf6 Qxf6 21 Re3 Qf4 22 Qd5 RcB 23 93 Qt6 24 Rael RacS 26 Qf3 Rxc3 zz [*.- n"5 28 b3 Kg8 29 93 Qb5 Qe2 37 Kh2 b5 38 Rf4 Qez 39 Qc6 Rf8- Kg7 25 Rf3 Qg6 26 Rf5 f6 27 Re5 Rc6 28 ng5 fxg5 29 Rxg6+ h5 33 h3 Qg5 34 h4 Qi5 35 Re3 Qg4 S6 nr: Q"+ 44 f5 45 exf6 exf6 46 b7 Qc7 Kxg6 30 Qe6+ Kg7 31 hxg5 Bc7 32 Qe7+ Kg6 33 d5 Rcl+ 34 KgZ 40 Qxa6 Qd3 4I axb5 Qxb3 42 b6 Q;2 43 Kgz dc6 Qa7 Bd8 35 Qe6+ Kg7 36 f4 h4 37 Qd7+ Kg6 38 f5+ Kh5 39 f6 h3+ 47 Rxf6 Rb8 48 Qa6, 1 : 0. pauns the 40 Qxh3+ Kxg5 4l QxhS Bxf6 42 Qh4+ Kg6 43 Qg4+ Kf7 44 Qe6+ Stuart adjourned his fourth in as mny games with a piece for two - Kg6 45 Qe4+ Kf7 46 94, I : 0. pieces as in his game against Evans, i'e' B * N vs B (opP' colour)' Eventually same Like his gane Aptekar maintained a slight edge through to a rook and pawn Stuart sacrificed both his pl"c.= brt the win eluded him by one . sma11s" before the ending and then turned the screws; the ending with R + RP + BP with Nokes this one ti""iiv'ground to a conclusion in the "wee vs R, often a theoretical draw, turned out to be winning by the final round. end of the second session and only a few moves rrere necessary in the third sesslon. t.' 5 January L.APTEKAR - D.H.BEACH, Dutch Defence: I d4 f5 2 Bg5 Nf6 3 Bxf6 exf6 4 e3 d5 5 B9!-nd-9 Bd3 Be6 6 Ne2 Bd6 7 Nd2 0-0 8 c4 e6 9 Nd7 10 Nf4 Bxf4 11 gxf4 dxc4 l?Bxc{ 0 (31) 93 t'tokes (4%) Bxc4 13 Nxc4 Nb6 14 Nxb6 15 16 17 bxc3 18 Kd2 cxd4 (53) Qxb6 Qc2 Qa5+ Qc3 Qxc3* c5 Snall (6) , 19 exd4 RfeS 20 f3 Kf7 21 Rhel 22 c4 23 RxeS Rxe8 24 Rel Rg8 25 Rgl h5 (ta) 95 94 a.ptek-ar (4) 4 26 Kd3 27 fxg4 28 29 hxg3 30 Rg2 Ke4 Rg4+ 32 Kd5 Ke7 (s7) h4 fxg4 t5 E3 hxg3 b6 3I ( o 33 c5 bxc5 34 dxc5 Rg5 35 Kc6 Kd8 36 Kd6 Rxf5 37 Rxg3 Rg5 38 Rh3 Rg8 39 Rh7 f5 Merge 4l-2) 0 (36) Snri th (2!) (23) 40 RxaT Rg6+ 41 Kd5 f4 42 Rf7 Kc8 43 a4 f3 44 KcA f2 45 Kb5 Rg7 46 Rxf2 Rb7+ (5) o 47 Kc4 48 Rf6 49 Kb5 50 a5 Rb6+ 52 Rd6 53 Rd5 Rgl Green Rg7 Kb7 Rh7 Rg7 5I Ka7 Kb7 knight versus 54 Rd7+ 55 Rf7 56 Kc6 57 Rf8+ 58 Kd6 59 0. had another rest day. Smal1 reached a winning ending with Kc8 Rbl+ Kb8 Ka7 Ral c6, I : Sarapu for Sma1l but inadverterrtfy triple repetition of position-' A win gain was over-extended; r^rhen the bad bishop "ffot"a the Stuart looked to the but really well have forced Sarapu's hand in the following round when he had proved unfavourable pah,n. pawn made the a close here night tactics he lost a Many exchanges win pieces against Smalt. Interesting:? cut thlng. The diagraur shows the positlon after Blackrs 35th nove. white without the A bad mlstake in tne op".i.g allowed Green to play a Staunton on the two 35 Nb3 f4: 37 gxf{ gxf4 38 Kd3l fxe3 39 fxe3 h5 40 h3 gambit. Green wound up thl game in fine style, thus gaining ground I Ke5 41 Nd4 Bc7 42 Nf3+ Kf5 43 Nh4+ Kf5 44 Ng2 Bd8 45 e4 leaders. e4 Be7 5 Nc3 Bb6 46 Ne3 Bd8 47 Nc4+ Kf4 48 e5 h4!? (the best trg; the il E.M.GREEN P.W.STUART, Dutch Defence: 1 d4 e6 2 93 f5 3 Bg2 Nf6 .4 1 7 1. fxe4 game Kd,4? (After the game hre spent c move of the xournamenx; s"'as was necessatg) 5 e4! zmrvzft. iTTustrates the idea) 49 I O-O? (perhaps mg worst sofie considerabl,e time trging to find better for Whixe in the Nxe4Nxe48Bxe4Bb4*s'xrrg"z10Ne2Bf611Be3d612Nf4Qe813Qc29614 t9 Be4 Bg5 20 Bxg6 Bxe3 t""N%"rN- subseguent pfag but without success,. suddenTg Lindsag Cornford h4 Nc6 15 h5 e5 16 Bd5+ Kg7 17 hxg6 hxg6 18 Nxg6! Qxg6 said, "I woufdntt be surprised if (49) Nxa5 wins." Sure enough 21 Rh7+ Kf6 22 fxe3 Kg5+ 23 Kg2, I t O' ivN it does, e.g. 49...8xa5 50 e5 BdB 57 a5 Ke5 52 a6. Finis) long after winning the advanced tr7hite e-paml Nokes sacrificed a 49...Kg3 50 e6 (The afternative, and quite diffetent, idea is Beach castled to the pam and his pieces gained freat activity evenlually breaking through aTso insufficient to win: 50 Ke3 Kxh3 57 Kf3 Kh2 52 e6 h3 53 second black king's positlon (see annotated ganes) ' Kf2 Bh4+! 54 Kfl Kg3 55 Kql- Kf4 56 Nxa5 Kf5 drawing) 50...Kxh3 5l Nxa5 Kg3 52 eventually net- Metge achieved a long-lasting initiative against carpinter which Nc4! (worv it is White who nust tush back to save xhe draw; 52 Nc,? would Tose after in the endgame' La. ted a a hyper-active king did the.rest 52...8f6+ 53 Ke3 h3) 52...h3 53 Ne3 Kf3l 54 NfL Ke2, \ z !awn; Nf6 3 c4 e6 4 J.N.MET.E A.L.CARprNiiR; A;;.;;-eamUit, Exchange: 1 e4 d5 2.Nf3 - 10 h4 NbdT 11 Nc3 Be7 5 cxd5 exd5 o n[s'co 7 e3 Bf5 8 Bd3 B;'13 9 Qxd3 0-0 RoundS 4January -ts-a.i 16 Nxe4 Ncb6 17 Ne5 Nf8 - 0_0_0 Re8 12 Kbl Ne4 Nao 14 Bf4 Nc4 15 e4 dxe4 24 Rg3 Bd6 25 Beach (2t) - Snall (5L) Sicitian, 2 c3 : Q6) 18 h5 Nd5 19 BcI io rro eo 21 Rh3 RadS 22 g4 f6 23 Nf3 Qd7- rcounter 'z 'z Qc7 Rggl Kf8 31 b3 Qe4 32 Evans (1) - Aptekar (3) Sicilian Attack' (MCo) 0 : 1 (39) Nxd6 Qxd6 26 95 15 27 Ne5 N;7 28 Nc4 Qe6 29 N;5 RbB 30 NxbT Ne6 37 Be5 Re7 38 Nd6 Sarapu (5b) - Metge (4L) Dutch Defence, Ilyin-Zhenevsky 1 : 0 (22) Ba3+ Kg8 33 Qxe4 Rxe4 34 Kc2 NfB 35 Bd6 RbeS 36 Carpinter (3t) - Green (4%) Syrnmetrical English 'e :'< (17) Re2+39Rd2Nb4+40KdlRxd2+41Kxd2Nxa242RalNb443Nc8Rd744Rxa7Rxa7 Weir (2) Nokes (4t) Sicilian, 3 Bb5+ 1 : 0 (48) - 45Nxa7Nxg546Ke3Nd5+47Kc4Ne448Nxc6Nb6+49Kb5Nd550f3Ndz51Kc557 Kc7' I : 0' Stuart (3) - Srnith (2) Kingrs Indian, Averbakh 4 , ra (L05) Ne3 52 b4 95 53 b5 Nb3+ 54 Kd6 94 55 fxg4 fxg| 56 b6 Nc4+ Metgets Classical Dutch disintegrated before move 20 (see annotated games) and Scores: Sarapu 71 Sna1l 6%; Green 6; Nokes & Metge 5%' Sarapu once again took the lead by a half point frorn Sma11. 9 8

a ZEAIAND CHAMPIONSITIP 23456 8 9I01112Tr1 8ryra-_t! 6 !e!-L131.y 87Ih NEW I Green E.M. Howick'Pakuranga x lrllil101I'aL,IB$750 2 Smal1 V.A. Canxerburtl li x|n'n1111L".\85750 3 Sarapu O. North Shore 0 \ x \t l t;'-;, I 1 1 t I 8 5750 4 Nokes R. I. canterburt) \i tr\xlIl00rrlll$250 5 lletge .1.N. Auckland Centre 0 r, O 0 x I I O li I I | 6 $125 6 Aptekar L. UPPer Hutt 0 O\00xL,Lrl1Il5l-t 7 Smith R.W. Waitemata 1 Orr00lzx1,\10L15 ti Lt la 8 l^leir P. B. North Share 0 O 0 l i O x 'a \ 4't 9 Stuart P.tr^J. lvorth shorc 0 00ltiQlr\x\i'-tl4'-1 10 Carpinter A.L. Norti s,hore ''1 001;00llr|ixrl\4 t1 Beach D.H. North Shote 'i \oooo\'-,'1\xr4 L2 Evans M. Civic 0 lrO0000LrO'aAxl\ Grcen - Metge had, after 7 movcs, Lransposed into creen - sarapu of round seven. with title number 17 safely glimpses of the form which took him to lvletge Ortvin, varied on his ninth move buL a.lso failed ro equalise. First one pawn dropped, under his be1t, admits that he played a share of Lhe title four years ago in then another and Green had caught up with sm,1l, just a half point behind saraprr. the Centennial the same hall and suffered, judging by E.M.GREEN rather "safely" in this J.N.i'4ETGE, Queen's Ganrbit, Tarrasch: i a4.o 2 93 Nf6 3 Bgz cJ5 4 Nf3 course, having built uP a his studious avoidance of any lines of c5 5 c4 year. 0f Nc6 6 Nc3 Be7 7 cxd5 exd5 8 0-0 0-0 9 b3 Ne4 t0 Bb2 Bf6 11 Na4 b5 t2 handy lead, he could afford to take acknowledged theoretical repute, from a Nxc5 Nxc5 13 Rcl Nxbl 14 axb3 Ne7 t5 Ne5 Be6 16 B:r.l Rc8 17 Qd3 a6 ig Bc5 ReB a little easier in the second lack of preparation in the openings. 19 h4 things 96 20 0a3 Ra8 21 e-) NcS 22 eb3 Bg7 23 Rfdl Br8 24 Nri3 a5 25 bxa-5 Rxa5 of the tournament and leave the Smith played his usual tenacious brand 26 Bxt8 RxfS 27 half Rc5 Qb6 28 Bxd5 Bxd5 29 Rxd5 Ne7 30 Rc5 Rfa8 3I Ne5 Qf6 32 risk-takinB to his rivals. Certainly, of chess to achieve a much betEer result Rxb5 Ra2 33 Rb8+ Kg7 34 Ng4 Rxb8 35 QxbS ilf3 36 ()e5+ Kf8 37 Rbt Qxg4 38 Rb8+ Evans in round nine, than at his first try Ewo ago. NcS if Sma11 had beaten Years 39 Rxc8+ QxcS 40 QhB+, I : 0. as he should have, more pressure would Weir, a curious mixture of good and bad last improved on his last attempt with Nokes built a cage of pams around the square 96 - where his qrrcen's bishop had have been placed on Sarapu in the also taken refuge. Playing virtually a piece dom for som(. two rounds. his collection of unusual lines in Ehe tim€- he nevertheless managed prize to securc the vln against Evans and assure himself of at least equal fourth. Vernon Sma11 vas alwaYs bandilY KP openingsl he collected the $50 pla:ed to take advantage of any lapse for the best score by a non-prizewinner Aptckar concluded beautifulJy against Carpinter fron ttre by Sarapu and his play was better than against the prizewinners. Stuart had position diagramed at left (after hhitets 36th move): oPPonents by '//ZH,7lzt",& 36... in any previous ChamPionshiP. met most of his strongest ' RxaTl 17 RxaT Ndll 38 f4 (the onJg trq as 38 ee2 atfows 38. Ewen Green had his usual bad start round six but was unable to take anY % '',ft % Rcl+, while J8 Qa2 is m€t brj 38...Rb5! 39 Rbf Qe3! 40 Rb7 with onty one point in his first three advantage in the latter rounds when the &.trfl *, RxbT and B)ack wins) 38...exf4 39 Qd2 Ne5 40 RTal Nc4 4l games but recovery was swift as he going should have been easier. Carpin- ' Qe2 Ne3+ 42 Rxe3 fxe3 43 Rerl Rc3 (B)ack is now clc:ar)q w|n- scored 7 points in the remainlng eight ter seemed beaded for a better result : vk 7%t7z ning) 44 Qf3 t6 45 Re2 Kh6 46 Rel Kg6 41 Re2 f5l 48 exf5+ rounds including the vital wln over as he played very solldly in the firsE '%z '#!,fr', Qxf5 49 Rxel?l Rxe3, 0 : 1. Sarapu which made the tie a possibility. half, scorine 316, but his form fe1l 72, after this. Beach was also StuarE wasn't very interested jn ptaylng with Lwo games to Both these players had a comparatively away badly finistr ln the evening. lean time last year - equally' both disappointing afxer last yearrs fine have shown the necessary form on other result. a marked Round. I I L occasions so the final result is really Mark Evans was doubtless not such a great surprise. Sma11, inci- man (no pun intended) in nany players' I,e ir (4) Beach (31;) I- Alekhine Defence 7 (23) dentally, scored the best result with minds and found the Soing tough in his snith (4) Evans ( 1J-r) F rench Def ence, 2 Qe2 I 0 (52) the black pieces, 4\16, this success first Chanpionship. Nokes ([l;) SarapLr (7!) Bistrop's Opening (ro) Smal1 (7) (4) 5 earning him a 950 special Prize. Carpinter I 0 (21) and Nigel Metge took the Annotated games .... Vernon Small Aptekar (5t) Green (7) Roger Nokes Sicil iao, Scheveningen 0 t (32) remalning prizes. Generally their play starts the ball rolling: Metge ( 5lr) Stuirl (4) DuLch Defence, Blackhurne 'r- (34) although 't was the most "interestingr', Generally I was pleased with ny Play not necessarily the soundest - it is in the Centennial Congress. My prepara- very hard to mix the two anyway: Nokes tion, on the whole, turned out to be in particular played two very nice relevant and I managed to play in the attacking games with sacrifices; tactics way I do when I am playing gained easy, simple are clearly hls strong point. I we1l. In the following game, holrever, I that Metge had prepared the impression lapsed into "Vernon vintage 1972" - a sources' however, and e'ventuarry attacked on the kinElside hinrself see annotated fairly well for this tournament or at games. style which involves vague strategic least that what PreParation he did judgments supported by endless tactical A half-asleep was Stuart overlooked a one-mover whir:tr cosr a pam but an over confi- turned out to be relevant' Nigel As result Lev built uP dent I'letge calculations. a sau his apparently overwherming pos:ition degenerate into a dead drawn probably helped too by being underesti- a strong position but a conbination of opposite colour bishop oPPonents. ending; fortunatc,ly for Metge, the crraw turned ouL to be mated by some of his the tactical spade work I was doing and sufficiernt for an unshared little between the fifth p1ace. Evans self-destru(.ted in a difficult posi- There was very Levrs lack of recent Practical play ler tion allowing Smith to ecige ahead of the others on 4 points before the l-asjt roLrnd- next six players. Aptekar showed only 1t IO

, pawns queen misEakes but ls qulte interesting in me an interesting So anti-positional but Black nust firo bishops and two for the turn the tables in agalnst all three stages opening, middle-gane way. complicate the game before his king as well as attacking chances - The ls and endgame. gets flattened and lt does have a Whiters displaced king. Posltion L. APTEKAR V.A. SMLL - dash of poison. unclear. M. EVANS P.W. STUART Cl osed Si ci I i an 25 Bxd5 15 b3 Na3 16 Kg2 Na6 17 Qg5?! Nimzowi tsch-Larsen Attack e4 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 Nge2 e6 4 I c5 25 Nf4 Bc4 26 b3 axb3 27 axb3 An interestlng but rather artificial 1 b3 e5 2 Bb2 Nc6 3 e3 Nf5 4 Bb5 Ng3?! a6 5 Be2 Nf6 6 0-0 Be7 95 and Black is skating on very thin ice. idea; bettet was 17 Nge2. d6 sd4 Lev has some interestlng lines to Bxb5 . . d5?? 17 ... Bd7 18 Qc1 Nb5 19 Nxb5 glance through Keeners deoonstrate after 6...d5. 25 . NfBl 26 Bf3 Ne6 27 A cursory 20 a4?l Bd7 21 h4 f5! book and the last eight lnformants re- He must try 27 RxcS+ Rxc8 28 Bel 7 d3 0-0 I f4 d6 9 Bf3 Rb8 I,Ihite's pleces are dlsorganised so vealed no mention of this move - it but 28...Bc4 is winning. has been Black solid but unambitious now is the time for Black to attack. also revealed that 3...d5 has a 27 28 poPular choice during the A would ... Bc5 Qel The defence is already very difficult. Black's most set-up. klngslde years. have been nore fun. Equally hopeless was 28 Nf6.l gxf6 '29 last few 22 fxe4 23 Qh6 fxe5 30 dxe6 Qxe6; or 28 Rxc5 Nxc5 QcZ 5 ... exd4 6 Qxd4 Bd7 7 Qf4 Be7 8 l0 Khl fxe4 Rf4 29 d6 Nd3 30 Qxb6 Rxb6 31 Be3 RbbS h4?! Avolding the first significant out- and White has insufficient compensatioL idea With the Thls seems to waste Eime as Black 1s put of the calculating nachine. If 10 of . ,.Nc5, ...Raf8 ?B .. . BfZ 29 RxcB+ RxcS 30 Be3 tt not comritEed to klngside . e5 dxe5 11 Bxe6 bxc6 12 fxe5 13 Ne2, Qd4+ 31 Bxe3 32 dxe6 fxe6 33 A and, if Nh3 or should have been given tc Khl Nd5 and Whlte ls in trouble, e.g. Qxe3 Qxe3 93 Preference Rc1 34 Nf4? Rxdl+? + .. ,Rg4t saving developing, as by 8 Nf3. 14 Nce2 Qxe5 15 c4 Ne3. i & time for the 34...Bb7: black- Ne5!? 9 BeZ l0 ... Nd7 11 Nce2 Nd4 12 c3 Nxe2! attack; the 8 ... square bishop can 35 Bxdl Bb7+ 36 Ng2 Bd4 37 Bxa4 Black's last offered a Pawn bur lt After 12...Nxf3 13 Rxf3 White would be brought Bxb2 38 Kg1 Bxe5 39 Bb3 Kf7 40 KtZ also was dangerous to accePt, e.g. 9 Bxe5 galn attacking chances on the kingside. via h6. Kf6 41 Ne1 Bd4+ 42 KeZ e5 43 Bc4 g5 lnto the action Bxb5 10 Bxf6 Bxf6 tI Qe4+ Qe7 12 13 Qxe2 b5 14 Bd2 a5 44 Nc2 Bc5 45 Ne3 Bxe3 46 Kxe3 f4+ 47 24 Rhz QxbT 0-0, or 9 BxdT+ QxdT!? l0 Bxe5? KfZ e4 48 gxf4 gxf4 49 h4 Ke5, 0 : 1. dxe5 11 Ng4 followed by ...0-0-0 I was convinced that I was on top the king into safety Qxe5 * Trylng to sneak with a strong initlative. Probably beat now but that assessment seems a little on hI, but White ls not given the Nf3 a roughly dubious wlth hindsight. The big problem was 9 BxdT+ QxdT I0 with E.M. R.I"I, SIVIITH chance . ls how to advance on the queenside GREEN equal positlon. Rxe4! without letting White blockade and then King's Indian, Saenrisch 24 ... Nc5 25 Rel 9 ... Nds l0 Qg3 Bf6 tear through the centre and kingside. 1d4Nf6 2c496 3Nc3Bg7 4e4 I Also possible was 25...Nxe4 26 Rxe4 The threat of I1...Nd3* forces the 15 Rael Bh4? d6 5f30-0 6Be3e5 7d5 Bf5 27 Raf4 BxcZ 28 Rb4 b6 with a ugly reply. probably winning endlng for Black but Tempting but wrong. 15...c4! 16 d,4 The Saemisch is Creen's favourite the text r"Ias more consistent with 11 c3 Qe7 Ba6 would keep Black game. I4Thite in the line against the King's Indian. Blackrs attacking P1ans. White re- follows the main line; the only real il Ternptlng was ll...Nb4 but 16 Rdl a4? 17 d4? js 26 Rxe4 Bf5 27 Qc4 Bxe4+ 28 Kg3 plies 12 Kd2 (of course, not 12 cxb4? alternatlve here 7 Nge2. E Black wins mate- As Lev polnted out after the game, Bd3 29 Qcl Rf8 30 Nh3 Rf1 31 Qe3 Rbl! Nd3+ 13 Bxd3 Dxb2 and Nh5 :i, 13 and 17 a3 would give l{hite the edge but not 7 ... 32 Rf2 Rxb3 33 Khz rlal) and if !2...8f5'then Qf4! i Perhaps 1l a complete Black has t^Iith two possibilities mind: the Black has less Ehan nothing. shut-out; sti11 in If 33 Rf3 Be4 34 Qxb3 Nxb3 35 Rxb3 White nay stl11 Nb6 preparlng d5 or Nc4 should White imediate f7-f5 or game con- .. .Bf5 ls better vrhen thrust the Bxd5 wlth an easy endgame wln. 12 Kd2. After advance d4. tinuation in which Black offers his have nothlng better than 33 ... Bf5 34 Qg5 Rxh3+ 35 Kg2 Ne4 the text Black starts lack pedalllng as 17 ... cxdL 18 cxd4 b4 19 Rcl opponent the chance to accept Eron- Qb6 stein's quee,n sacrifr"ce line. 36 Qd8+ Bf8 37 Rxf5 White re-energes. 20 Rfdl Ba6 21 Qe3 RfcS 22 e5 d5 In a lost Positlon and 12 Nd2 Nc6 13 e4 Nb6 I had intended 22...86, but thought B Qd2 Qh4+ 9 BfZ Qf4 10 Be3 white tries a last desperate 13...iie51? White can gain 23 d5 was a strong reply. On reflectlon Interesting ls l0 exf4 11 Nb5 After Qxf4 but Black has an importaat ' queen by 14 exd5 1t may just be p1ayable. Na6 12 0-0-0 (suggested by Vernon three pieces for his nets trro SmaII) which looks better for [nlhite. 37 ... Rg3+ 38 Kh2 gxf5 39 QxcT f4 Bxg3 15 dxc6 althouBh Black 23 Be7 17 f5 40 Qd7 Nc5 41 QfS Rg7 42 h5 h6 43 a5 pams with 15...8xc6 16 fxg3 Bxg2 10 trJ Nxg3 72 17 Ngf3 f8 With the ldea 24...b3 25 a3 F.c2 26 ... Qh4+ 93 Qf? RS5 44 Qf6 Rxh5+ 45 Kg2 Rg5+ 46 Khz Rh2 Bc6 or 16...Qe5 Qxg3+ Kh4 and both positlons are unclear Bc3 Qd8l and ...3g5. Not 12 Bf2? Nxfl and Black has won a Rg7 47 Kh3 b6 48 axb6 axb6 49 Kfl Paen. b5? 50 Kh5 Be7, 0 : 1. 14 f4 0-0-0 15 Ngf3 RdeS? 24 Nh5? Notes bY Robert Smith With 24 fxe6 White could have kept 12 . . . Nxfl 13 Qxh4 Nxe3 14 Kfz A sloppy move occasioned bY mY use Nxc4 * an edge by ettacklng the weak e-pam. of conslderable tlrne over the Prevlous Time to take stock; Black has the The following game is not free of moves. Much better was the irmediate 15 24 .., exf5r.? L2 13

a 2d4Nf6 3Nc396 4Bf4 E.M. GREEN O. SAMPU ...h6 saving a tempo over the game. Rd4 Rxf4 winning. 1e4d6 The Pirc Defence has the advantage Queen's Gambit, Tarrasch 16 0-0-0 h6 17 Bd3 39 Kdz NbB (3e...Nf81) 40 b5 axb5 that you can play it against almost any 4cxdS 41 cxb5 Nd7 42 Rb4 (the 1d4d5 2c4e6 3Nc3c5 17. . . s5!? I^Ihite first move. What they theo- exds 5 Nf3 Nc6 6 93 Nf5 7 Bg2 Be7 8 probably say is that as White t Affi,T Offering a pam The sealed move, not best reticlans) do not 0-0 0-0 9 b3 Bf5?! ',,x .,ru,,N but certainly not expected. Blackrs you can play almost anything against it' to gain use of e5 attempts to maintaln the status quo Ortvin was understandably playing % for his pieces 4 ... Bg7 5 Qd2 for a quick draw, having had a two-hour presently until the failed as White tl which position one game I session in the morning and lack squares in has considerably improved his GM Kholmov has PlaYed ifr a and accurate play will be required to know in this tine. Also Dr tr'airhurst still having a comfortable 5\/5. The -4" the centre. me fe11 'rin Itl win - the opposite colour blshops do has played it against me in the Kingrs move played was new to -'it 18 hxgS hx95 not make life easier. . CarPinter sPent a lot between" Be6 and Bg4. In this same 19 RxhS RxhB 20 After the game Evans claimed that of Eime here, not liking Bh6 exchanging position Metge trled 9...Ne4 against me e5!? Black had two fairly easy wlnnlng lines the Bg7, Black's pride. After 5...h6 6 in round 10. After 20 fxg5 Be5 21 Nxe5 Nxe5 22 after 42 Rb4. one possibility 7s 42... f3 Black cannot castle for some tlme. 10 Bb2 Rc8 11 Rc1 Re8? Nf3 Rh5 Black has adequate Nf8 but I wished to be able to play Nb6 6 Nf3 b5 7 a3 0-0 B Bh6 for the pawn. after the advance of a-param whi-ch 5 ... c6 SurprisinglY, Black now loses at the 10 Bd3 ny 42nd aims to force. Bb7 9 BxgT KxgT least a pawn. 20 ... dxe5 fxgl Bg7 22 Nh4? 2l was 10 h4l? with the 1 Very temPting 12 dxc5 Bxc5 13 Nxd5 Bxf2+ 14 Rxf2 Evans overestimated his chances here. 42 ...R92+ 43 Kc3 Ra2 44 b6 as in idea of attacking on the h-file Nxd5 Instead, the quiet 22 c4 night well I expected 44 a6+ KcSl followed by the slcilian Dragon. give White the beEter chances. ...Nb6. AfEer the text the a-parnm fal-ls 12 e5 Nd5 13 15 Nh4! and Black , 10 ... a6 11 h4! h5 22 ... Rh5! 23 Ndf3 can neatly forestall Whiters intended 46 96 whlle forcing the rook Nxd5? ! Most of the 40 Failing to appreclate just how much exchange. Not bad, but nuch stronger is 13 Ne4 minutes I sPent on counterplay Black has. White should attack on the black king' threat- this and the Pre- 44 . .. c6! 45 Re4 with admit his prevlous error and return by I ening 94 and after...hxg , h5! After ceding two moves 23 Nhf3 when Black can continue with 23 the text White will miss one extra were an attemPt to ...Nd5 wlth the idea ...Nf4. 45 ... Rc2+!! the attack. make the continua- 46 Kd4 piece in I^lhiters orlginal idea of 23 Nf5 il tlon 15 Ne5 work. 13 . . cxd5 14 0-0-0 Bc8 falls to 23...Qxg5 24 Qxg5 Rxg5 and Naturally 46 . If Black had plaY- Black can consolidate hls extra pam. Kxc2 is met by 46 Carpinter defends his endangered ed his bishop to Kd3 on move 9, then it would work verY 23 ... e4l 24 Re1 Be5! | %F:/N ...Bf5 47 king very accuratelY. 94 Nc5* whtle 46 Kb4 nicely according to a game I knew; but 15 Ng5 f6 16 exf6+ exf6 17 Nh3 (I5 Ne5) Now it becomes clear that Black is W%, tuns into 46. . . c5+ here Black has a neat defence: v%, 18 Rxh3 f5 wlnning a plece - the knight on h4 will % 47 Kb5 Rb2+ 48Ka4 Bxh3 Ne3l 16 Qxd8 NxdSl 17 Rxc8 Bxc8 and be left hanging ot, if 25 Nf5, then 25 Ka6 49 Bcl Ra2+ The black king is now almost out of to guard against 18...Ndl Whlte must ...Bxg3 26 NxeTa Kxe7. 50 Ba3 Bf5! il danger. A11 he has to do now is PlaY play 18 Bd4 when 18...Nxg2 gives Black f ,..Nd7 and ...Nf6. a better endgame. 25 Nxe5 Qxe5 26 Qxe5 Nxe5 27 Bxe4 46 ... Rc4+ 47 Ke3 Rxe4+ 48 Kxe4 r* Rxh4 28 BxbT+ KxbT 29 Rxe5 Rg4 30 c4 c5 49 Bd2 Kc6 50 Bcl Ba2 51 Bd2 Bbl+ 19 Re1 ! 15... Be6 16 Bxd5! Be6 31 Bc3 Rxg2 32 Bd2 aG 33 Be3 Nd7 52 Ke3 Ne5 53 Kf4 54 Ke3 55 Nd7 896 is now in the oPen Ortvln's draw offer came too late. 34 Re4 Nb6? Bc3 Kb7 56 Kd2 Nf8 I^lhiters advantage file and the endgame. 16 .. . Both players were runnlng very short The second ti-me control. Qxd5 of time so there is no doubt scope for 19 . .. Nc6 20 c3 Qf6 21 Qf4 RaeB Black can hold material 1eve1 bY Re8 crlticism of a few moves hereabouts. 57 Bf6? 22 Rhe3 Rxe3 23 Rxe3 Kf7 24 93 playing 16...Bxd5 but 17 Nf5 gives lltrite (77 Black must avold ...Rxa2 while 95-96 is Instead, 57 Ke2 Ne6 58 Bd2 would Now the is challenged but a ferocious attack after 17..,96 - - - possible, but there is a clear win by have permitted a more protracted resis- the endgame is lost for Black as White f6? 73 NxgT!) 18 Nh6+ Kf8 and Blackrs to 34...Rg4 forcing the exchange of rooks tance. has the better bishop and better Pawn king faces a long and dangerous walk as 35 Bf4 loses even more quickly to formatlon. the queenside after 19 Qd2, for example. 35..,Nc5 36 Rd4 Rxf4l 57 ... Ne6 58 Kc3 Be4 59 Kc4 Kc6 60Be7,1:0. 25 Kc2 Nd8 26 Qf3! Rxe3 27 fxe3 17 Qxd5 Bxd5 18 NfS RedS 35 a4 Kc6 36 a5 Nd7 37 b4 Rg4 0. White aetually sealed his 60th bur Ke6 28 a4!, I : Giving up the exchange by 18...f6 19 Now the penny drops - but too late resigned before the resumptlon in view "why?", some would ask here, but Nd6 was better but ilhite stlll wins. as tr{hite norrr controls c5. of 60...Bd5+ 6l Kc3 Kb5. Black is real1y he1p1ess. After 28... Black's trouble after the text is a not the loss of his g-pawn but the fact 38 Bf4t Kb7? Notes by Peter Stuart bxa4 29 Bxa6 White threarens to win * pam with 30 Bb5 and there is nothing that hls h-pam is also lost! Missing 38...Nf81 inrendlng 39...Ng6 Black can do about it. NxgT Nb4 20 RxcS RxcS 21 Nh5! again forcing the rook exchange. 19 White O. SARAPU A.L. CARPINTER Notes bY 0rtvin SaraPu Be6 22 Nf6+ KfB 23 Ba3 now avoids (38...Kb7) 39 b5? Nc5 40 Pirc Defence * t4

a 1I'..Nxd3 loses to l2 report, t had possibly thrown away my The end of Blackts hopes for the plan of play for Black. Unfortunately 13 Nc7* and 14 Hovever, 11 chance of first Place h'ith a "quick white queenslde pawns, Nb5, Qxd3' informed news- L7 g4 Qf7 18 d5 19 dxe4 ..,Nbd5 may well be an improvement, e'9" draw.tt But the Poorly 95! 9xf6! was the only drawback ln 23 ... a5 24 Bxb4+ axb4 25 NxhT+ 20 Ne5 Qxf6 21 Bg5! 12 Bb5+ Bd7 13 Nxd5 Nxd5 14 BxdT+ paper coverage Kg7 26 NgS with an excellent an otherwise marvellously run touroa- The in-between move I"Ietge missed in QxdT 15 Ne5 Qb5l game. ment . There was sti11 tlme to go rrrong; his calculations. Notes bY Vernon Smal I after 25 Nf6? Bh3! Black wins. 21 ... Qf5 22 Nxd7, I : 0. 12 Bb1 * 26 ... Rcl+ 27 K92 BdS+ 28 e4 Bc6 Or 12 Nb5 QdS 13 Nc7 Nxd3 14 Qxd3 Lfter 22,..Rf7 23 Ne5 Rff8 24 h4l D.H. BEACH 29 Kf3 Rel 30 Re2 Rdl 31 Ke3 Bb5 32 (74 NxaS Nxcf 75 QxcT lvd5l) 14" 'Rb8 R.I. NOKES threat 25 Bxe4 26 Re3 Rf2! Kg6 33 Nf3 f6 34 Kf4 wlth the of Qh3 winning the queen. 15 d5 b6l Alekhine Defence Now Blackrs counterplay ls complete- This was my l64th win (out of 243 12 ... Bd7 1e4Nf6 2e5Nd5 3d4d6 4Nf3 1y stopped since he can neither ganes) in New Zealand Championships so has worked out reasor Bg4 5 Be2 c6 6 0-0 nor attack the e-pawn. farl I intend to reach I.K,Ke1lingrs So the rovelty well in anticiPating 11 a3 but if givlng White a 186 (out of 408) and R.J,Barnesrs 173 ably 6 Ng5 is given as 34 ... Bc6 35 Kf7 36 h4 Bd7 37 driving the bishop back to 94 (out of 291) very soon. the plan of smatl plus ln ECO. The text allowsBlack Rd2, 1 : 0. the Ral is to be f3 and My three games ended quick bl to lock in Pursued, to exehange bishop for knight on Notes by Ewen Green last in could be tried' drawsl I did not 1i.ke the ldea of then perhaps 7...Nb4??l bring pressure to bear on e5 ' I think Itl1 wait for someone else to * taklng any chances, perhaps missing out 8 dxe5 e6 9 try it first. 6 ... Bxf3 7 Bxf3 dxe5 by a half point in the Centennlal b3!? O. SARAPU N. METGE Qe2 Nd7 10 c4 Ne7 11 Championship because of one bad move. 13 RacS 14 Bg5 Bc6 15 a3 Nbd5 Qe2 theory. An alternative Dutch Defence In future championships I do not intend 16 Ne4 Not given by to play super safe again! plan is to PlaY Bg4 and f4 to Protect 1 Nf3 e6 2 f5 3 Bg2 Nf6 4 0-0 medicine knock out the known 93 Notes by 0rtvin Sarapu The usual - tn" p"rtt on e5. Ilowever, thls is Be7 5 c4 0-0 6 d4 d6 on f6- * defenders to give Black good PlaY. The Sconewall variation 6...d5 could 16 .. . Nf4!! 11 ... Ng6 12 BbZ Qc7 13 Be4!? be met wlth 7 b3 and 8 Ba3 exchanging D.H. BEACH V.A. SMALL Ngxe5 Black's good blshop. on 6...b6, 7 d5! I,li thout this is also unpleasant for Black. Sicilian, 2 c3 factical stroke Black has no choice as otherwise f4 central griP' 1 e4 c5 2 c3 d5 3 exd5 Qxd5 4 d4 Black would have and Nd2 give White a firm 7 Nc3 QeB 8 Rel Qh5?! e6 5 Nf3 Nc6 6 Bd3 cxd4 to withstand a 14 f4 Ng6 15 f5 Nf4 On Winterrs move 8 Rel Panov recom- very dangerous This exchange ls usually made as mends for Black 8...d5 preventlng e2-e4. attack on his kirg. If 15.'.Nge5 then 16 fxe6 fxe6 l7 soon as c3-c4 cannot be answered by Nxg6 79 After 8.,.Qg6 9 e4! fxe4 l0 Nxe4 Nxe4 Iatrite must PIaY Qh5+ Kd8 (not 77 - - -96 78 Bxg6+ Now will not be able to go 11 Rxe4 Nc5 (1.-t ...Qxe4? 72 Nh4! wins Qe4+, White very accuratelY in BxhB Bcs+ 20 Rhf O-O-0 2L Bci and for the 3 v 2 queenside ending 1f his good the queen) 12 Bf.6 13 Bd2 e5 14 reply or he will white is winning) and White has QeZ kingside attack or a knight on e5 have minus' dxe5 Nxe5 15 Nxe5 Bxe5 16 Bc3 White face a lost IQP ending or an attack on compensation for the Pawn advantage. not already brought Black to his knees. has the the long diagonal. 16 Qf3 e5 7 cxd4 Nf6 B Nc3 Qd6 9 e4 fxe4 10 Nxe4 Nc5 1l Bf4 Nxe4 17 Qe3! B1ack has retained the sacriflced Rxe4 13 12 Bf6 Qe2?! A few rounds earller Peter Stuart is 17 Nxf6+ pam and solidified the Pam structure had played the 8...Qd8 and only The chief alternative Better was 13 savlng a tempo as "safer" when Black is on top' but tr{hite has some comPensation' The Qd2 drew after much pain and cunnlng. gxf6 18 Bxf4 threat Whlte soon plays Qd2 an)May. knlght on f4 is under continual 9 Be7 10 Be3 Nb4?l 17 .. . Bxe4 of capture by 93 once the ithite klng 13 ... Bd7 0-0 18 Bxf4 19 Rxc6l goes to hl. The Pawn on e5 needs con- tr{hen was preparing Congress Noc 17...Nxe4 Qd5 After this slow play Black is unable I for I stant defence and Black nust decide kept coming games to free his posltlon. 13.,.g5 would across recent where, 18 Bxf6 which flank will be safest for hls king' after the normal 10.,.0-0, I,Ihite would lead to great complications: 14 Bd2 Bxe4 Nxe4 19 BxeT bolt 1n with elther 11 Rcl and Bbl wlth Bad would be tB 17 Nc3 0-0-0 18 Racl Kb8 g4?i 15 Ne5! wlth the idea of winning knight he takes' the an automtic massacre somewhere around QxeT and whichever Blackrs queen after 15...Nxe5 16 dxe5 on d5' Black lessens the effeetiveness of move 25 on g8, or 11 a3 (to prevent the other uill blockade Bxe5? 17 Rxg4t Kh8 18 Rg8+ etc. Nc15 or Nb5 by moving hts klng but lt is black knights linking on d5) and a 18 .. . Bxbl 19 BxeT QxeT 20 Qxf4 now on the same diagonal as the pawn at 14 Rael Rae8 15 Qd2 Ne7 similarly directed attack. So I had Ba? 21 RxcB RxcB 22 Rcl Rxcl+ ?3 e5. If 18...Nc5 19 Nd5 cxd5 20 cxd5 26 Ne5, Perhaps better was 15...Qa5 playing invented this questionable little Qxcl QdB 24 Qc5 b6 25 Qc3 Bd5 Kbg 2l b4 b6 (not 27.. 'Qb6 22 Bxes+) 1 , 1- for an endgame, but White has the novelty to see if I could bluff anyone -2 . -2. 22 bxc5 Bxc5l 23 Khl and White has into 1l BbI no luckl two advantage in any case. - Any advantage Black has is nominal' strong Pressure for his Pawns' Rcl ! such intense 16 h3 b6? li After playlng a game of 19 Kh1 Be7 competltive interest' whlte could also 11 Bb5+ Bd7 12 thcoretical and This loses material, but lt Is try of a disappointment to With 19 Khl White threatened 20 83 Ne5 with threats of Ne4 in the alr. it came as a bit knight' already hard to find a satisfactory read that, according to the nevsPaPer antl Qg4 winning the unfortunate 1l ... 0-0 L7 I6

I Blackrs reply has prepared an escape position is sti11 criEical. confident that l^rhiters coming attack N.Z. WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP square on 95 but also speeds up Whiters was nothing to worry about. queenside initiatlve. 28 .. . Rd7 23 Nh5 e5 20 b4! Bf6 On 28. ..Nxc5 29 Nxc5 the threats of 18 Rb7 and Na6 are too much for de- the 0n1y now did I 27' Imposslble is 20...Bxb4 due to 21 93 fence. White is essentially a piece up see my troubles 3 5r4 and Qg4 so Black protects his e5 pawn as the black-square bishop is only a once more. spectator. ," looming - I thought 45\ I could be lost as 5a5 21 Ba3!? 29 Rb3 RhdS 30 Rfbl a5? a result of two 65 it tteasyt' Thls threatens b4-b5 but, as David moves. 14 A but 30...Nxc5 31 Nxc5 Rd2 %% 8lt pointed out, c4-c5 is probably a more 32 Na6 | wins for Whlte and any other 24 Nf6+! gxf6 g rr4 natural move as White can afford to re- move allows 3l Bxa7. 25 gxf6 Bc6!? move one of his defenders of d5 to pre- 10 t, pare b4-b5. 31 Bb6, 1 : 0. Notes by Roger Nokes. Gettlng ready * to counter-attack the e4 pam and clear- As with the men, so r4rith the women - 2l ... Nb6 22 b5! Nxc4 ing a path to g8 so that my rooks could there was a dearth of entrlesl even L, APTEKAR E.M. GREEN particlpate in the defence. Tine check: Katrine McCarthyrs late entry only 23 bxc6! bxc6!? White I hr 15 rnin, Black 2 hrs 7 ruin, boosted the number to ten which meant Sici l Scheveningen ian, there were Ehree rest days lnstead of tt'lt Black has seve- J 26 Rgl Kh8 27 Qel?l %r% ral alternatives: 1e4 the planned one. This surprised me; I felt there had Six of the twelve who competed the ,ft'%t, I) 23...Nxa3 24 Lev was playing { in for a win too. to be somethtng quicker, Possibly the last Woments Championship held tvo years 93 Nh3 fthe Iva3 I %a% 1 Nf3 d4 obvious 27 giving Black a choj-ce ago were ln the field agaln thls ,t cannot move on ... c5 2 e6 3 Nc3 Nc6 4 Qg4 tlme , : between 28 27 account of Nbs and cxd4 5 Nxd4 a6 6 93 d6 7 Bg2 Bd7 I 27...8116 Qh5 Bxf4 atd ... and they included the top three - Nde2 Be7 Nxe4. Winsome %z% wins) 25 Nd5 Rxd5 tr'enella Eoster, Stretch and Mc Carthy. 26 Bxd5 with com- If 8...Nf6, Bg5 27 ... Bh6 28 Nxb4 then 9 weakens the StreLch started very badly indeed, plicated play; an- black kingslde panms by forcing ...h6 . Stlrrlng up troubles on the queen- losing to newcomer Anne Elower in lhe other interesting possibillty exists or doubling of the f-parms. for llhite after 23...Nxa3, 24 Rbl:? side, but now Black has time to counter- first round and sister Darrell BrighE- Nxbl 25 Rxbl and Black must handle the 9 0-0 Nf6 10 b3 0-0 11 a4 attack on the kingside. well in round three, and the leeway proved to be too much to make good, threats of RxbT+ and Nb5, e.g. 25...Kc8 A bold p1an, down 28 .. . RgB 29 Nd5 Bxd5 30 cxdS Nd3 trying to slou Meanwhile Foster, McCarthy and 26 Nb5 Qa5 27 c7 and ltrhlte appears to Blackrs queenside counterplay while be better; Ti.me check: White I hr 38 min, Black Brightwell had started wlth rhree wins attacklng on the kingside and reserving 2 hrs 24 min and sweating. aplece. 2) 23...Nd2 24 Qf2 Nxfl 25 Nb5 and options for the Bcl. Foster took sole possession of the wl-ns . 31 Qh4 Bxf4 32 Bf3 By playing 23...bxc6 Black has 11 ... Qc7 12 h3 RfdB 13 94 Be8 14 lead after the fourth round when she left The threat was suddenly 32,..8g3 both the threat of Nxa3 and Nd2 in the 95 Nd7 15 f4 b5!? 16 Kh1 b4 17 Na2 beat Brightwell while Mccarthy was held winnlng White's queen. to a dra!r' by Stretch. In the following air and prevented Nb5. Lev thought 17 Nbl better after the round, however, Mccarthy defeated game 32 ... 0 : l. t'oster 24 Bc5 but White has st11l lost time. Qc?\, to take the lead by half a point from Notes by Ewen Green. and 24 Bxc6 may also be good, e.g. 24... 17 ... Nc5 18 c3? Foster Brightwell. *** Brightwell dropped off the pace after Nd2 25 Nb5! Nxf3 26 NxcT KxcT 27 Trying to gain useful space on the I this, managing only point, Bxf3* and Black has a miserable tine queenside, STATISTICS: one nore but but tactically the weakness Mccarthy and Foster each won next defending against the two bishops and thelr of the b-pam prevents this. White won 2I games to Blackrs 19 and three ganes the rook pair. 1 and were assured of the top 18 ... RabB 26 wexe drawn, an overall 53% for White. two prizes going into the last round. 24 ... NdZ 25 Qf2 Nxe4 Unlike last year the Slcilian was The r.ound nine pairings promised an 18...bxc3? 19 b4 is good for White. clearly the most popular opening The only nove. Black the with interesting finish. The top two seeds is alert to Black scoring +5 Generally Bfack Foster and Stretch problems arising from 25...Nxfl. There 19 c4 Na5! 20 Rbl Ncxb3 -2 =6. were to meet while fared well against 1 e4, scoring +10 -10 Mccarthy had the white pieces against follows 26 BxaT* Kc8 (26. ..Kag a77ows So that if 2I Rxb3 Bxa4 22 Nd.4 e5 =12. Queen pam openi.ngs were a diffe- fifth placed Elizabeth A11en. Everything Xhe crushing 27 ttb, whiTe 26..-Qxa7 hlhite loses queenside panms. all his rent story, however, as White scored went well for Eoster who won her game -loses the queen after 27 Rbl-+ KaA 28 hrhite still stands to lose all three +10 -4 =11, the Durch Defence (+4 =3) while Katrine fel1 victim to an early Bxc6+) 27 Nb5 cxb5 28 RxcT* KxcT 29 queenside palons so he unleashes a terri- being malnly responsible for this White mting attack or at least failed to Kd7 (29...KcA 30 mate) 30 - Qb6+ Qc6 fic sacrificial attack on Blackrs king. supremacy. Flank openings favoured recovet from the effects of lt. Allenrs Qc6* Ke7 31 Bc5+ and wins. 21 Bb2 Nc5 22 Ng3 BfB B1ack5-lwith3draws. win brought her into a tie r^rith Stretch 26 Nxe4 Nd3 27 Rbl+ Ka8 ?B QcZ Hardest workers were StuarE (597 for third place. Lyn Carline defeated I nearly p\ayed,22,..Nxc4? when 23 moves, average 54 per game) and Snith Brightwell Although Black has been able to to tie her in fifth place. BxgT mkes queenside weaknesses irrele- (538, 49). Laziest(?) was Beach Katrine Mccarthy won prlze t'chop woodtt and remain two pams up his @2O,29). the for vant. I played these last two trloves AAA the best result with the black pieces I8 I9

I scorer C-grade CHAMPIONSHIP while A.Donselaar was best Burroughs Premier Reserve BY DAVID GOLLOGLY of non-prizewinners against Prizewin- The Burroughs New Zealand C-grade ners, Each won $25. R.1 R.2 R.3 R.4 R.5 R.6 R.7 R.8 R.9 RlO RlI T1 SOS Championshi.p looked like being a run- Sicilian Closed: K.McCARTHY - F.FOSTER, away victory for top seed J.Phillips 1 Green P.R. A r^/48 1,t2t r,6 1,10 r^r1l l,I38 I^17 D8 U3 W2 ws 84 77 1e4c5 2Nc3Nc6 3f4e6 4Nf3d5 who won his first six ganes to be one 2 Cordue P.L. Civ w56 W37 w21 116 D3 W9 D19 N23 D10 Ll r,rr8 8\ 75k 5 Bb5 Be7 5 exd5 exd5 7 Ne5 Qd6 8 full point ahead of P.Chen with the 11 3 Sarfati J. W w28 rr40 !i10 I,J35 DZ D8 D25 W19 Ll DLz W14 I 7414 Qf3 Nf6 9 Bxc6* bxc6 10 0-0 0-0 bunch lying another polnt further back' 4 Bennett H.P. Han w69 w60 L8 rizg D14 D5 DlZ Dt5 W2?, Wl1 w9869 b3 Re8 12'Ba3 Qc7 13 Rael Ba6 14 d3 A draw with K.Chandler in round seven 17 Ng4 Bd6 15 Re2 Bb5 16 Rfel Re6 and a loss to eventual winner J'Ilartley 5 Dowden R.A. O w43 \,129 D35 DI8 D6 D4 W36 D2l w37 I,I10 Lr h72 20 Nxg4 18 Rxe6 fxe6 19 Qxg4 Bxf4 (unrated) in the following round, how- 6 Roberts M.I1. Cjv w71 in14 Wl L2 D.5 L25 Llo w43 W35 W37 r{19 74 69 0- Qxe6* Kh8 21 Qe8+' 1 : ever, opened up the race again' At this l Frankel Z. UH w12 r,8 1166 \,i21 W13 L36 LI \t44 w15 D19 w20 7, 65 leaders M.W0NG, Caro-Kann: I e4 c6 stage, after eight rounds' the F.FOSTER - & M' 8 Steadman M.\'.R, e r^r57 wl lr4 D44 D9 D3 D10 Dl Dl6 W30 L2 1 17 4 Nxe4 Bf5 5 Ng3 were: J.PhilLiPs 6\; J.Hartley 2 d4 d5 3 Ncl dxe4 & K'Chand- 9 Collogly D-4. Ns w49 wI6 W36 U24 D8 L2 W?3 L30 D19 WI8 L4 I 13 8 Bd3 Bxd3 9 Staples 6; P.Chen, A.Boughen 8g6 6 Nf3 Nd7 7 h4 h6 10 Lloyd A. C 1{59 W67 T.,3 rrl W18 D31 D8 W25 D2 L5 Dl? 1 12tn 11 Ne4 Bc7 12 Bb4 ]-er 5t<; T.Hughes 5. qxaf eO 10 Bdz Bd6 11 Fleming M. C l^115 D17 D12 D31 Ll w5I 1121 D20 W25 L4 w26 1 12La 15 Nc5 Nxh4 Hartleyr who had scored onlY one r,ito 13 c4 Ne7 14 o-o Nf5 t2 Cooper D.J- PN \i46 D26 Dll t^I61 DZO DZ3 D4 tI36 D18 D3 DIo 1 7O 18 point from his first three games' won 16 NxbT Qf6 17 Ne5 Bxe5 dxe5 Qxe5 l3 Cook N. Pen w31 D30 D26 U38 L] li20 D44 Ll8 I,r53 w23 D16 7 61 Ne4+ Nd5 again in the ninth rouud while Phillips 19 RadI Qg5 20 Nd6+ Kd7 21 A W13 W52 D4 D18 D26 I\I35 D30 Ir21 L3 1 65 was held to a draa, bY Hughes so the t4 Mataga P.A. W38 L6 22 Nxg5 hxg5 23 cxd5 exd5 24 Qa6 Rhc8 L7 vt46 t{30 1 63t4 were tied. 15 Wigbout M. Twa L11 Ir59 I^r53 W54 D31 [i45 D35 D4 25 Rf;l Nf5 26 Qb7+ Rc7 27 QxaS d'4 scores D20 D13 1 63 Hartley continued on his winning way 16 Noble M. Pen r,I58 r,9 r31 r,t13 W6l D17 W24 W22 D8 28 QeS mate, 1 : 0. r,170 I^133 L18 D46 tt5? w45 t'I28 I 61, right to the end but Phillips was uPset l7 SpiIler T.W.L. Civ Dll. L,ZO D35 D16 K.McCARTHY E.ALLEN' Pirc: I e4 2 - 96 by Potini in the Penultlmate round 18 Mclaren L. Civ Wl9 DZO W2't D5 L10 D14 rii17 In13 D12 L9 DzI 6\z 73 d4 tl6 3 f4 Nf6 4 Nc3 e5 5 dxe5 Ng4 6 ,iriI" Ch"., who had moved uP to second 19 P.W. A r,i8 I,70 wl9 ti31 w24 w26 D2 I3 D9 D] L6 6'n 1l\ 7 Ke2 8 Kd3 b6 9 Nce2 Power h3? Qh4+ QfZ+ with one round to go' crashed in the 20 Marshall C.J, Inv r"166 Dl8 Wl7 \r36 Dl2 Ll3 D37 DlI Ir45 DI6 L7 6\ 6814 Ba6+ 10 c4 Bxc4* 11 Kc3 Qc5 12 Qd4 with last round and had to be satlsfied 2I Arbuthnott J. UH [,J55 Lr 1,6I W50 [,/67 D2] t 40 D5 W34 L14 Di8 6% 64 13 Kxd4 Nf2 t4 Rh2 Bb5 15 Ng3 Bxfl Qxrl4+ rhird prize. 22 Evans ll.J. Ns D33 w41 L24 L28 t^I60 I'i39 W52 LI6 L4 w38 Ir41 6ta 63% i6 uxfl dxe5+ 17 fxe5 Nc6+ 18 Kc3 Nxe4* Staples, up with the leaders after C W71 bJ45 L9 r'2 W42 r,l3 W3 9 6t-5 6l\ 20 Kd3 Nc5+ 21 Kxd4 0-0-0+ 23 Bates G. L60 U62 Ir40 Dlz 19 Kc2 Nd4+ rounds, lost Ewo of his last three D4l W5I Ii37 6tt 59 24 Kc2 Bg7 25 eight 24 Knightbright W. UIJ \^t74 D25 \^t22 L9 L19 WZ8 LI6 D5Z 22 Kc3 Rdl 23 Nd2 Rxgl games and finished in fourth place, just Bg5 RfZ+ 28 Kc3 DZ9 6 68 Nf3 Rfl 26 Rbl Rd8 27 half a point ahead of a six-uay tie for 25 hrtreeler B, AII r{11 D24 r,18 id65 rn46 W6 D3 L10 LII D26 Kb4 Na5+ 31 Ka4 1'37 \,t21 D25 6 67 Rd3+ 29 Kc4 Rc2f 30 the fifth prize. 26 Cairns D. C u63 D12 D13 W32 W44 Lt9 Dr4 LlI nate' 0 : 1 65 Rc4+ 32 Kb5 Rc5+ 33 Ka4 Ra5 ' In addition to his first Prize of 27 Carter G. UH tr6l In50 L2 L] \t'57 D2I L]1 u41 L26 D33 w46 6 28 Capper D. Civ t,3 D65 \t4,- vr22 L37 1,24 W50 D29 W44 Wl4 Lll 6 63 t,l.STRETCH F.FOSTER' Modern Defence: $100, Hartley also won the special prize - 29 o r/J39 rn60 L4 D52- D31 D43 D28 D48 W50 D2.5 6 63 1e4d6 2Nf396 3d4Bg7 4c4Nf6 5 of $25 for the best result with the Sims I.M. L5 8 Be3 pleces. M.Dunwoody scored the 30 Gloistein B. C lil(r5 Dll L41+ L46 i^170 1161 W6 t 9 D14 L8 L15 6 621'1 Nc3 0-0 6 Be2 NbdT 7 0-0 c6 Qc7 black 6ll'a 12 agalnst 31 Price A. UH L13 W58 Ul6 L19 D15 D29 Li+J L51 W62 W49 W48 6 9 Qal2 Ng4 10 Racl Nxe3 11 Qxe3 e5 best result by a non-prlzewinner 3Z Marsick B.H.P" z t153 LZ W54 L26 I^149 L35 i!41 L45 L46 W56 w41 6 57\a dxe5 Nxe5 13 Nxe5 Bxe5 14 f4 Bg7 15 Khl the prizewinners. 33 Mazur J.J. Pol D22 L44 1^150 Ll,7 W65 L42 D62 t,156 D36 D27 W45 6 51\ Re8 16 Qf3 f5 17 exf5 Bxf5 18 Bd3 Qd7 Stores: 1 J.Eartley uE 9; 2 J.Phll- 34 Taylor R, HP D54 D73 w55 L45 ] 33 LI63 vt42 I,148 Lzl L28 t'I36 6 53 19 Re3 20 Bxf5 Qxf5 21 Qd2 Rae8 lips Pen 8; 3 ?.Chen ulr 7L; 4 M'Sta- Qdl K'Chand- 22 Rcel Qxf4? 23 g1? (23 NdtJ +-) Bxc3 plls ciu 7; 5-10 A,Boughen uli, 35 Spiller P.S. HP w6? 1i52 D5 r,3 D17 W32 D15 Ll| L6 L4l W':7 51a 68% UH, bxc3 0 : 1. 1er Pen , R.Hampton Pap, B.Jennings 36 a W64 'vJ41 L9 LZO 1,i48 N7 L5 Llz Dl3 I^157 L34 5t 66\ 24 Qe4+, 6\; 1I J' Gibbons R,E. *** G.Potini UH & T.Hughes civ JI Borren A. HV L4t Lr64 \il'2 D1L W?8 D10 t\ZO W26 L5 L6 L24 5\ 66 Blalkie uE 6; 12-15 D.Bell UH, J.Bowler 38 Severinsm M. otu Ll4 1163 W57 L13 [,I34 LI L45 D49 1,J55 LZZ W53 5r-r 62ta ABBREVIATIONS wpa 5t'5i UH, J.K.Boyd Ns & M'Dunwoody 39 cribberr I'. c LZg W4g L19 D51 W41 L22 W61 L42 W40 W44 L23 5, 60, & A.Kutt uH 5; 18-19 Abbteviations used in the Congress 16-17 D.Caneron o 40 Ioord M.R. O r^168 r,3 U67 L23 W63 D44 Lzl L53 L39 I^155 W54 51 56 UH 4%; 20 T' tables a'te as foTTows: P.MacMillan UH & B.Scott 4t Bell C. UH r,r37 1,36 L45 L63 I,173 W-57 L32 U62 D24 W35 L22 5t4 54 score Civ & I'P' A = AuckTand cenf,te; Au : Auckland Frost vrl I%; 2l-22 R.Evetn.den 42 Usmar J. Twa D13 L54 L52'!i53 1166 W33 L34 W39 L23 D48 D43 51 52\ universitg; c = canterbutgi Civ = Stinson Pen 1. 43 Wa1sh B.G. Ham L5 L12 L53 W74 W7i W67 D29 L6 D49 W4? D60 5, 49' Ham Hamifton; HP = Howick- Gambit: Civic; = R.HAMPT0N - A.BOUGHEN, Queen's 44 Johnston A. uH D41 rr33 w30 D8 L26 D40 Dl3 I'?9 l'2-8 L39 1160 5 651'' Pakutanga; Hv = Hutt Val-7eg; Inv = 4 Bg5 NbdT 1 tl4 d5 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Nf6 45 Weegenaar D,P. O L50 In69 U41 1^1-14 L23 L15 Wl8 w3Z LzO LIl L33 5 64 InvercargiTLi NS : North Shore, o = Bd3 8 c5 Nh5 5 Nf3 Be7 6 e3 0-0 7 c6 46 Ker A, Pac 1,12 D5-l r,"r59 l"ilo 1-25 r.52 W55 Drl Vt32. L15 L21 5 63 Oxago; OtD = Otumoetai Extension; Pac 1I b4 e5 12 9 BxeT QxeT 10'Qc2 Nhf6 47 Waterson M.f'. Civ ll44 L2Z L28 tt67 L39 i^165 W31 LZl D60 I^152 1,32 5 51 Pacific; PaP : PaPatoetoei Pen = 14 Nxe4 Nxe4 15 -v,i58 = e4 exd4 13 Nxd4 dxe4 48 Grkorv A. Civ LI L6l w68 L?'6 t 70 I^156 I'34 D29 D42 L31 5 56!1 Pencartow; PN = Palmerston Notthi Po7 17 0-0 Rh5 18 Bxe4 f5 16 Nxf5 Rxf5 49 Terguson R. IIH 7,9 Ll9 W69 hr55 L,fz 1,56 W7l D38 D43 L31 W62 5 54 PoTonia; SC = Southetn Cross; SCc = Re8* Kf7 2l = Rfel Qh4 19 BxhT+ RxhT 20 50 Middleton J. ,H Ir45 1,21 L33 LlL D55 L60 lr70 W67 1.159 LZ9 D51 5 53\ Six Citg Clubs; alwa = Tawa; UH = h3 Rh8 24 Qf5+ Kxe8 22 ReI+ Kd8 23 51 Haworth G.M.R. Iran L25 t-7r ul4 D39 l,].54 LIl L53 L55 ti66 L{63 D50 5 41 Upper Hutti W = welfingtoni Wai = Qf7Rf8,0:I. Waixematai Wpa = Wailn- *** 52 Aldridge G. Twa Wl6* L35 u42 L14 D?9 1146 L22 D24 Lll L41 D58 4\ 58\ 2'1

1 R.1 R.2 R.3 R.4 R.5 R.6 R.7 R.8 R'9 R10 Rll T1 SOS resourceful rook sacriflce for three Cordue on 8r4 after winning the exchange secured W4O Ll3 L24 L38 4\ 56',4 dangerous pams eventually against Dowden. Green's superlor tj-e- N. UE L32 D46 L15 L42 w74 W66 W51 53 Rlchardson L57 t,ls8 L40 4\ s6 Steadman a draw. Wayne Power slipped break score entitles him to an autonatlc Bennett ?. UH ;ri i,rz L32 Lrs Ls1 Lss l,t6s 54 ',164 L40 w66 4t4 56 into second place with Sarfati by beat- place in n€xt yearrs nain Championship. Haak D. Pen lzt t,l56 L34 L4g D5o t,t54 L46 w51 L38 55 -iz L32 D59 4' 54 1ng David Cairns - his flfth win in a Sarfati-FlaEaga was perhaps a foregone PN L55 L58 1168 w72 1i49 L48 L33 t,l61 56 Lindsay C. L36 L35 4t4 s2k row. concluslon. Exactly as in the last round Kay J.B. civ ia il+ L38 ttTz L27 L4L Ds8 r,l31 w54 D70 w67 L54 D52 414 49 Round seven featured numerous swin- ot the 1978179 Premier Reserve, Mataga 58 Mitchell R. Twa L16 L31 I^156 L48 I'[59 L62 D57 L46 L70 L62 D68 W64 W71 L50 W51 D56 4L' 4h dles. Cordue mintained a half-point defended the black sirie of a Closed 59 Watson M.J. SC Llo D15 lead by forcing a draw by repetition on Sicilian. Despite leaving a pam en pris L28 W63 D47 L43 L44 4 61 Power hopeless 60 Fisher G. UH 1il23 L4 Lzg D66 L22 W5o Wayne in an otherwise on move slx, which was recovered only at L39 w69 L56 Ls9 t^l65 4 58\ 6L Preston J. w iit I^I48 tizt Ltz L16 L30 posttion afEer Power had blundered/sac- great positional cost, Mataga obtained L31 w55 L49 4 54, a 62 Ramsay W. Hv iis Lz3 D7o L47 w59 [I58 D33 L4r rificed a piece for Ewo pams and an imposing position in the middle-game. D67 L60 w5e Lsl D64 4 53r4 drew 63 Clowes C. Ufi ire isa w43 I^l41 L4o L34 strong initiative. Sarfati wilh Feeling the weight of precedenE, however, w72 L54 L66 w57 D63 4 4l\ second place with 64 tr'lower G.C. Civ izo L3i L65 L69 D68 ',l70 Wheeler to maintain he abandoned two further pawns and soon L61 3h 52'4 Power. On the lower boards Go11og1y, an resigned, J. UH L30 D28 W64 L25 L33 L47 W66 L54 W68 L62 65 Ilofsteede L65 tt64 L51 w71 L55 3\ 5l exchange and two pams dom, robbed a Gollogly-Bennett was one of the first 66 Wong J. Civ L2O wZs L7 D60 L42 L53 L50 L58 L64 N72 lh 47 tired Giles Bates of a point while Paul games to finlsh; Bennett played his 67 Bennett D. Pen W75+ iio L40 w71 L2L L43 D63 314 4l Spil1er, in his usual time trouble, favourite Centre Counter which helped L40 ie i+a 156 D64 D59 L69 w72 L65 D7o w71 68 Corbett P.D. scc blundered into an unavoidable mate in hirD to the prize for best score with the L72 I'170 3 69 Hill S. Pen L4 L45 L4g I.164 L58 Lll W68 L61 L63 one against Mataga in a won posj-tion" black pieces. Gollogly transposed to a D58 L64 D68 L69 2r4 53 Cordue and Sarfatl cleared out in Panov-Botvinnik Attack and secured an 70 Drake A. UH L17 L19 D62 !i59 L3o L48 L50 L59 Dlz L66 L68 2\ 50 round eight by beating Bates and Power overwhelmJ-ng game. He sacrlflced prema- 71 Brightwell E. FPa L6 W51 L23 L67 L43 1169 L49 respectively while Bruce Gloistein L64 L59 L68 D71 W69 L61 ZLz 4gta turely, however, spurned 72 Woodford R.G. W L7 W43 L37 L57 L56 smashed Go1log1y's defences with I and eventually lost after mlshandling 73 Leese M. c D42 D34 Ll4 Lr6 L4l attractive if unsound sacrifices. the attack in time trouble, BenneEt thus 0 Cordue (7 points) and Sarfati (6L) jolned place 8 L24 L57 L51 L43 L53 Sarfati in second with 74 Neuman B. uH 0 seemed set to contest first plaee by points, ahead of Dowden, Roberts and Zig B. L67x 75 Carpinter Civ 0 .themselves at this stage. Each in turn Frankel on 71. L52* 76 Love A.J. o was defeated, however, by Peter Green Peter Green fu1ly deserved his suc- in rounds nine and ten Green had come hospitalised following a motor accident and - cess - his victories, after early set- Bernard CarPinter withdrew after being * through the field after his two early the numbers after Leese's wi thdrawal . indicates forfeit. backs, against then leaders Sarfatl and i.i"r.a Newman to equalise losses. Sarfati was outplayed on the Cordue in successive rounds attest to Sicilian Re- , and Jonathan Sarfatl who placed black side of a Closed fine fighting spirit and stamina. A slightly larger than average field versed. Green, r,7ith the white pieces, late withdrawals, highly last Year. Unlike Green, Cordue 1ed from start to of 75, r-duced by two the presenEed Cordue wlth four extra teopi finish. finish 1979/80 Centennlal Delplte the dePleted top boards, An inability to off contested the overall than defending against Blackrs classical attacks in a few games probably cost him Reserve Chanpionship. The top field was probably stronger Premier the toP seeds were kingside attack in the Kingrs Indlan flrst place alone. Much of Corduers seeds were arguablY weaker than in usual. JuEt below forty players who always looked Defence. Miraculously Green survived success was based on an expert handl1ng, recent years; no doubt one or two some queen of taking off their more and went on to wln a difficult and experience, with a limited openlng otherwise leadlng contenders were capable Points pam trlghly rated oPPonents and frequently and ending. repertoire - Patriek, I think, flanchet- siphoned off into the weaker than ex- players had a did. After round ten eight toed his kingts bishop in ten of his Dected ChanPLonshiP. the rule and chance of first prlze, or at least a eleven games. The favourites included Peter Green Ilard fought Eiames were unprecedentedly share of it. Cordue and Green, wlth 74 Jonathan Sarfatlrs opening prepara- had imPressed 1n manY Auckland this resulted in an who adjourned games' polnts, shared the lead with National tion uas probably the best in the Pre- tournaments wlth his determined fight- large number of After five rounds ?atrick Cordue, Schoolpupil co-Chanpion Tony Dowden who mler Reserve. After rattling off the ing style, an lnvaluable asset 1n lonB prominence over Jonathan Sarfati and Davld Go1logly 1ed had come into with wins first ten or so moves in seconds he to;rnaments; Patrick Cordue the 1979 Borren and Lloyd after a lethargic ahead of Lev with 4L Points. Cordue and Sarfati had would frequently emerge with an advan- All-Wellington Champion after middle round drawing streak. They were tage in any of tine, material and/or and Peter l'lataga' a somewhat drarnn their round five encounter Aptekar; a slight followed by Sarfati, Mataga, Go11og1y, position. Some first equal in the 1978/79 Sarfati was unable to realise inexperi-ence in the unlucky Notable Steadman and Ililton Bennett (who had middle-garne games had also shom some edge in a rook and pawn endgame. was evldent as in his Premier Reserve, included unspectacularly accumulated points against Mataga and Green. Nevertheless, form. eaily vlctirns of the "rabbits" recent (losses Mike Roberts and lylng just behind the pace) on 7 polnts. at 14 years of age, Jonathan ls one of David CooPer, twice winner of the Petei Green to (1oss to Last round pairings were: Dowden- prospects New Zea- Reserve, had the abilitY to Adrian Lloyd), Peter ]"lataga the best current in Premier (Ioss to Leo- creen, Steadman-Cordue, Sarfati-llataga land chess. a third title but had to overcone a Roberts) and Wayne Power win and Go11og1y-Bennett. Cordue blundered Hilton Bennettrs third placing was absence from tournament chess and nard Mclaren). long take the sole the exchange and a pawn agalnst Stead- the mjor surprise of the tournament, an evident weakness ln opening PrePara- Round six saw Cordue lead by tlefeating Gollog1y after almost man but the latter carelessly lost a but represented just reward for a deter- tion, s]-ip' piece later on, after which Cotduers interest centred on the Perfor- letting a huge opening advantage mined affort, albelt against a rather Much gained a winning advantage advantage was sufficient for a win and weak fie1d. mance of Michael Steadman, the New Zea- Sarfatl also Steadman but a a share of first p1ace, Green joined Dave in a for eighth, land representative in the 1979 World from the opening against Cooper, Eie 23

--- 25 26 gxf6+ Kh8 27 Bh3 Qf7 Be6 Nf5 19 Bxf5 gxf5 20 Nc5?1. (20 he was the onlY exf5 16 Ng7+ KdS 17 Nxg5 Bxg5 18 e5 ext5 deserves mention - 28 exf5 Qh5 29 Rxd4 exd4 30 Qxd4 Rf7 BxgT+ NxgT 2f Nc5 +-) 20...Bxh6 21 Qxh6 three wins Bxg5+ Kc7 19 Qd2 Ne6 20 Bf6 NxgT 2L undefeated player, scoring 31 Re7 Rg8+ 32 Bg2 33 Re2 Qxf5 22 QdZ 23 Qd4+ 24 Rxd4 BxgT RgB 22 Bf6 Qg5 Qa5+ Qxc5 Qxd4 and eight draws. 34 h3 Ne6 35 Ng5 36 Kh2 Rgf8 37 Nd5 25 f3 Re8+ 26 Kdl Nc4 27 KcI Re2 promise, includ- Qe3 Many juniors showed 22. . .Pxg2i? 23 Ne72? (37 h4!) Qxf6 38 Nd5 Qe5+ 39 28 RgI Kg7 29 b3 Ne3 30 Rd2 Rxd2 31 Mark Noble (both ing Mark Flening and %t% Qxg2 Qxc3+ 24 Qdz Qxe5 dxe5 40 Rxe5 Nf3+ 41 Bxf3 Rxf3 Kxd2 d4 32 c4 c5 33 a3 Kf6 34 Kd3 Ke5 7), Leonard Mclaren :rnd Giles Bates t&, Qxd4 25 Qxd4 Nxd4 42 Re7 R8f7 43 Re6 Rf2+ 44 Kg3 Rxa2 35 h6 36 Rel Bb7 37 Ke2 Ba6 38 Kd3 (6)' The 7.2,6% ', 93 (both 6%) and David Cairns N 26 Ba4 Be6 27 Rd1 45 Nf4 Rd2 46 c5 Rd8 47 Nh5 RdfS 48 Bb7 39 Ke2 a5 40 h4 h5 4L a4 f4 42 year o1d youngest compet:itor, twelve 7Ztl.tui.% Nc6 28 Rgl Rb8 29 c6 b5 49 Kh4 Rc7 50 Kg5 RfcS 51 Nf6 Rgl 43 Rxg3 Kf4 44 Rg7 Bxf3+ 45 fighting fxg3 Anthony Ker, played many long /z\.'N 7/' Bxc6 bxc6 30 Ke2 Rxc6 52 Re7 R6c7 53 Re6 Rg7+ 54 Kf5 Kd2 Nfl+ 46 Kd3 Be4+ 47 Ke2 Ng3+ 48 games included in his five points a 32 and /l( lz '//1, c5 31 Rbl Rb4 Ra7 55 Rb6 Rc5+ 56 Ke6 Re8 57 h4 Kdl Nf5 49 Rc7 Ke3 50 Rxc5 d3 51 Re5 agairst Bruce Marsick, as well as Ke3 win 7/;A.W, 71ifr. Rxb4 cxb4 33 RacT 58 Kd6 Ra7 59 h5 Kg7 60 Ng4 Rc3 Kd4 52 Re8 Ne3+ 53 Kd2 Nfl+, 0 : I. missing a probable draw against Cooper Kc6 34 Kd4 Kb5 35 61 Kd5 Rxb3 62 h6+ KfB 63 Ne5 Ra8 64 R.A.DOWDEN P.R.GREEN, Sicilian 2 f4: in the first round. Rbt Ka4 36 Be7 a5 Rb7 Kg8? 65 Rg7+ Kf8 66 RxhT Rg3? 67 - 4Nc3d6 5 Prize djstribution: Cordue & Green, a3 Kxa3 38 Ral+ Kb2 39 Rxa5 b3 40 Nd7+, 1 : 0. 1f4c5 2e4e6 3Nf3Nc6 37 tt tt Be7 6 Bg2 Nf6 7 0-0 0-0 8 d3 each $425; Sarfati & Bennett, each Bb4 Kc2 4t Bc3 f4 42 Ral Bh3, : 93 Qe7 each P.lll.P0WER P.L.C0RDUE, King's Indian h3 a6 10 Bd7 11 Be3 RacS 12 $f75; Dowden, Roberts & Irankel, (43 Ra6 Be6 44 Ral Bh3 repeats the EDSi- - t 94 95 Best result with Black, Hilton Attack: L e4 d6 2 d3 96 3 93 Bg7 4 Ne8 13 Nh2 b5 14 Qg4 b4 15 Ne2 Nd4 $33.34; tion - r)eiLher pLaget has bettet) ' Bennert, $25; Best rcsult of a non- Bg2 e5 5 Nf3 Ne7 6 Nc3 c6 7 Be3 d5 16 Racl Nxe24 17 Qxe2 d5 18 exd5 exd5 prizewinner against the prlzewinni:rs' P.L.CORDUE'- D.A.GOLLOGLY, Closed Sici- 8 d4 c5 9 exd5 cxd4 I0 Nxd4 exd4 11 19 f5 d4 20 Bd2 Qd8 2r Qh5 Bxf5 22 4 Bg2 llichael Steadman, $501 1700-f899' 'l' ljan: I e4 c5 2 d3 Nc6 ) 93 96 Bxd4 f6 12 Qe2 0-0 13 0-0-0 Nf5 14 Rxf5 96 23 Qg4 gxf5 24 Qxf5 Ng7 25 Sarfati & H.P.B€rnnett, each $25; f550- Bgl 5 f4 e6 6 Nc3 d6 7 Be3 NgeT 8 Bc5 Re8 15 Qc4 Na6 16 Ba3 Bd7 l7 d6+ Qg4 Bd6 26 Be4 f5 27 Bd5+ Khg 28 Qg2 1699, M.Flening & M.Noble, each $25; Q;2 o-0 9 Nf3 Nd4 10 o-0 Nec6 11 Ndl Be6 18 Qb5 Rb8 19 BxbT RxbT 20 QxbT Qc7 29 Rfl RceS 30 Bf3 Bf4 31 Bel Re6 1400-1549, A.Price, J-Mazur & D'CapPer' b6 12 Nh4 BalT 13 c3 Nb5 14 f5 Nc7 15 Nb8 2I Rhel Bh6+ 22 KbI Nd7 23 Qc7 32 h4 RfeS 33 Bf2 Be3 34 KhI Bxf2 35 18 d4 each under 1400, P'Cribbett Nf2 Ne5 16 b3 cxf5 17 exf5 Bxf5 Bf7 24 Ne4 Bg7 25 QxaT Re5 26 f4 F.a5 Qxf2 Qe7 36 Kg2 Rel 37 Bdl Qe3 38 Nf3 $16.67; 21 RI5 $30 & J.Middleton $20- Ng4 19 Nxf5 gxf5 20 Nxg4 fxg4 27 Qe7 QaS 28 QxdT Rxa3 29 bxa3 Qxa3 Rxfl 39 Qxfl Nh5 40 Qf2 Nf4+ 41 Kg3 22 RafI Rae8 23 dxc5 Qe6 24 Bd4 30 Qc8+ Bf8 31 Qc3? Bxa2+ 32 Kal Bb}- Nd5 42 a3 a5 43 axb4 axb4 44 Qd2 Re7 a.i7 t-,t- P.A.MATAGA ['l.H'R0BERTS, Modern Def: <1xc5 25 BxgT KxgT 26 Khl Qe3 71 Qdl '2 . '2. 45 Qf2 Qf4+ 46 Kh3 Ne3 47 Qe2, 0 : I. 4Bg5h6 28 Ne6 29 Qxg4+ Kh8 30 Rf6 1e496 zd4Bgl 3Nc3d6 Qe7 Qa4 a.eLOrSrrtN D.A.GOLLOGLY, S'icil ian J.SARFATI P.A.MATAGA, Closed Sicil ian: Nab B Rg8 31 Rg7 32 Bd5 Ng5 33 Qf4 Qe3 - - 5 Be3 Nf5 6 Qd2 NtdT 7 0-0-0 Qtr4 Najdorf: I e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 I e4 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 4 Bg2 Bg7 11 exf5 34 c4 35 Rlxf4 !.eZ (35"'Re7!) 36 c5 93 96 f4 e6 9 Nf3 f5 10 Bd3 Nh6 Qxf4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Bc4 e6 6 Nc3 a6 7 Bd3 5 d3 e6 6 Be3 NgeT 7 Bxc5 Bxc3* I 13 Bfz Bf6 14 a4 Rf2 Rxf2 31 RxfZ Ne6? (37 - - -Kq8 ! ) 38 exf5 12 Rhel 0-O Be7 I 0-0 0-0 9 Be3 Nc6 10 Nxc6 bxc6 bxc3 9 Be3 10 Bdz 11 17 Nb5 Bxb5 Bxe6 fxe6 39 RfS+ Rg8 40 Rxg8+ Kxg8 Qa5 Qxc3+ Qg7 Nb4 15 Bfl a5 16 b3 Bd7 11 f4 e5 L2 h3 exf4 13 Rxf4 Nd7 14 Ne2 d5 12 exd5 Nxd5 13 Rbl 0-0 14 0-0 19 Bfl 20 c3 N4d5 2L 4l I{:g2. Kg7 42 Kf} Kf6 43 g4 Ke5 44 18 Bxb5 c6 Qd7 Qd2 Ne5 15 Be2 Be6 16 b3 Kh8 17 Rdt Rd8 15 c4 Nb6 16 Bc3 e5 17 Qc2 Bf5 g3 Kh7 22 P,gZ Bg7 23 c4 Nf6 24 cl5 c5 Ke3 a6 45 a4 h6 46 h3 Kf6 47 h4 Ke5 18 Rffl RfdS 19 Qe1 Nd7 20 Qg3 18 Rfdl Rd7 19 BaI RadS 20 c5 Nd5 2l 26 Re6 Ne4 2J Bxe4 fxe4 48 Kf3 Kd4 49 95 hxg5 50 hxg5 Ke5 5r Qc7 25 Ngl Rfe8 Bf6 21 Na4 Be5 22 Q}:,4 a5 23 Bh5 Rf8 a3 f6 22 NdeT 23 Be4 24 Nc3 (After Lhis White" Kg4 Kd6 52 96 Ke7 53 Kg5, 1 : 0' Qa4 Qf7 28 Rxe8 RxeS 29 Qxa5? 24 Bg5 Nb6 25 Rf6 Nxa4? (25...8xf6! 25 Bxf5 Nxf5 26 Ne4 Rxd3 27 Rxd3 and horLor, qets a6 to Maxaga's surpase P.R.GREEN J.SARFATI, English: wins) 26 Rh6 27 RxhT+ Kg8 28 Bxg6 Rxd3 28 Nxf6+ Kg7 29 Ng4 30 xhe fong dlagonal) 29-..Qd8: - 96 Qe7 Qe4 kil7ed on lc4e5 2Nc3Nc6 3d396 4glBg7 5 29 Khl fxg6 30 Qh6 Bf7 31 Rfl Rxa3 31 Bxe5l- Nxe5 32 33 32 Bxc3 Qb6+ Qxe5+ Qxe5 30 Bel Qf6 31 Bc3 Qxc3* Qxc3 Bg2 d6 6 Nf3 f5 7 0-0 NgeT 8 Bg5 h6 Ra7 32 Bf6 Be8 33 Rg7+, 1 : 0. Nxe5 Kf6 34 Nc4 Rc3 35 Nd2 Ke5 36 Nd7 35 Ng3 Nf6 36 33 Ne2 Bg7 34 94 9 BdZ 0-0 10 Rbl 95 11 b4 Ng6 12 b5 RxbT Rxc5 37 RxhT a5 38 Ra7 Nd6? 39 38 Nt5 Bf8 39 KdZ D.A.G0LL0GLY H.P"BENNETT, Scandinavi- h3 95 37 fxg5 hxg5 NceT 13 NeI f4 14 Nd5 c6 15 NxeT* - Nb3 Rb5 40 Rxa5 Rxa5 41 Nxa5 Ke4 42 Ne5 42 Ng3 Nf3 an Defence: 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Nf6 3 c4 Kg6 40 Rbl Nd7 41 I(e3 NxeT 16 bxc6 bxc6 17 Bc3 d5 18 cxd5 Kg2 Kf5 43 Nc6, 1 : 0. Nxe4 Rxe4, 0 : 1. c6 4 Nc3 cxd5 5 cxd5 Nxd5 6 Qb3 e6 43 b4 Bg7 44 cxd5 19 Qb3 Be6 20 Nc2 Rb8 21 Qa3 Qc7 7 Nf3 8 d4 Nb6 9 Be3 Be7 10 Bd3 M.H.R0BERTS P.t,l.P0WER, Slav: Petroff Def: 22 Rxb8 Rxb8 23 RcI Qd7 24 Bb4 Nc6 25 Nc6 - P.L.C0RDUE - M.H.ROBERTS, Nb4 11 Be4 N4d5 12 Rcl 0-0 13 0-0 1 d4 d5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 c4 c6 4 Nc3 dxc4 e5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 Nxe5 d6 4 Nf3 Bc5 Bh3 26 Nb4 Nxb4 27 Bxb4 Bxg2 28 I e4 Nf6 14 Bbl Bd7 15 Ne5 h6 16 Qc2 Rc8 5 e6 6 Bg2 Bb4 7 Qc2 NbdT 8 0-0 Bd3 Be7 7 0-0 0-0 8 Kxg2 BfS 29 Bxf8 Rxf8 30 Qa6 fj+ 31 93 Nxe4 5 d4 d5 6 17 Bc6 18 Ng4 NbdT 19 Nxh6+ gxh6 0-0 9 e4 h6 10 Bf4 b5 11 a4 12 10 cxd5 Nb4 11 Bc4 exf3 32 f.4 Kg7 33 Qd6 Qf6 34 RcTr Qd3 Qb6 c4 Nf6 9 Ne5 Nc6 Qf7 20 Bxh6 Kh8 21 Re8 22 Bf4+ KgB Ne5 Bb7 13 Be3 a6 14 Radl Rfd8 15 d5 RaZ Nb4 \4 axb4 Kg6 35 fxe5 qxa6 36 exd6 Rd8 31 d7 a6 Qh3 Bf5 12 a3 Nc2 i3 23 Kh8 24 Kg8 25 Khg c5 16 NxdT RxdT 17 dxe6 fxe6 18 e5 Be4 16 Rg3 Bxd5 17 Bh6 :g xtl xtl 39 Ke3 94 40 f4 gxf3 4r Qg3+ Qh4+ Qg5+ BxbI 15 Ra3 26 Rfel Nh7 27 Nf8 28 Re3 f5 29 Rxdl 19 Rxdl Bxc3 20 bxc3 Bxg2 21 19 (The Bu]tetjn Kxf3 h5 42 Ra7 Ke5 43 Ke3 d4+ 44 Kf3 Qh5 Ne8 18 Bd3 f5 Qh5 Qc8 30 31 Bxd4 32 22 F.a7 23 f7+ 24 intetesxing Tine: Kf5 45 h3 Ke6 46 Ke4 Ke7 47 Kxd4 Rg8 Rh3 Bf6 94 Qe7 95 96 exf6 Bh3 &d7 KfB gives the foTlcwing Nxg6 33 Bd6 34 Rg3 Rg8 35 Ne2 RxdT 25 Ke7 26 f8q nate, Bc4+ Bd5 2f RxeS 22 48d8Q+,1:0. Qg7 Qh7 Qg8+ 19 - - .Be4 20 QxeB Be5 36 Bxe5 Qxe5 37 Rcc3 Nf4 38 Re3 1 : 0, Bxd5+ 23 RxgT+ K|t8 24 Nf7+ QxfT 25 Qxd5 D.A.GOLLOGLY - G.BATES, Sici.lian Def: Nxe2* 39 Rxe2 Rxg3+ 40 hxg3 Qd5, 0 : 1. *** RxfT) 20 ReI Kh8 21 Ng6+ hxg6 22 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Qxd4 a6 I : 0- M.STEADMAN P.L.CORDUE, Pirc Defence: CONGRESS BUILETINS over 200 games BxgT+ Kg8 23 Qxg6, 5 c4 Nc6 6 Qd2 96 7 b3 Nf6 8 Nc3 Bg4 - - 72 I d,4 2 e4 Bg7 3 Nf3 d6 4 Nc3 Nf6 including all 66 games of the 87th New - M.STEADMAN, French Tarrasch: 9 Be2 Bxf3 l0 Bxf3 Bg7 11 0-0 Ne5 96 J.SARFATI 5 Be2 0-0 6 Bf4 Nc6 7 d5 e5 8 Bg5 Zealand Championship, 2 d4 d5 3 Nd2 Nf5 4 e5 NfdT Be2 NedT 13 Bb2 Nc5 14 Bf3 0-0 15 1 e4 e6 Ne7 9 e5 10 dxc6 bxc6 11 Rdl Ne8 Send $4.00 to Mr P.K.Lamb, Avro 5 f4 c5 6 c3 Nc6 7 Ndf3 Be7 8 Bd3 RfeI Nt.d7 16 Radl Rb8 17 Be2 Ne5 18 Qd2 21 BxgT 12 Bh6 f5 13 Bc4+ Kh8 14 Nxe5 fxe4 15 Road, Whitemans Valley, UPPer Hutt' 9 BdZ 10 NeZ 11 Rbl Qa3 Bfl Qd7 19 Nd5 Rbd8 20 f4 Nc6 Qa5 Qb6 Qxb2 Nf7+ RxfT 16 BxfT d5 17 Nxe4 Ba6 18 *** 12 f5 Nf8 13 Nf4 c4 14 BcZ 95 15 Nh5 KxgT 22 t)c3+ e5 Z3 f5 f6 24 94 Nd4 25

I Four times champion of Australia, fl.itch. Cecil PurdYt New Zealand chanpion, co-champion of Australasia (I952), champion of Austra- C.J.S. PURDY O. SARAPU chess. This obituarg articTe is i, three aspects of lasia & South-east Asia (1960) and French Oefence, l,linawer parts- The fitst is btl Afan f'lexcher It nust be underslood that the large World Champion jn Correspondence Clress. ob- whose fr:Lendshj-p (and working teLatiort' volume of quality chess books now lnternational M:ister over-the-board 1e4e6 tricklc well and ship) wlth Cecif Purdq goes back mang, talnable b.rgan as a modest lnternational CraudmasLer at Correspon- 'fhe choice II as Europe gradually of oporing must have manq gears indccd - The second and xhi rd after World War dence Chess just to mention a few uorrie.d both pJayers, but got back into workin8 order. Purdy's Purdy was pro- parts are bg fel1ow Internationaf highlights of his career- bably very pleased when Sarapu adopted was an essential link between Masters Ortvin sarapu and Dr William writjng Cecil Purdy was a fuIly profcssional rhjs Ccfenr:e as it usually leads to I he very sparse I i LcraLure of prewnr Fairharst. chess player, coach, author of boc-rks complicated positions. own first meeting with C-J.S-P' days and the comjng tine of plenty: that and magazines. Mq lrar to was a sonewhat traamatic one: - it was is to say from well before the I always found Cecil fair, friend of 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 Bb4 1960, or whenever it is considered "over the boatd" in the first roaod of about all players and always ready ro hr:1p Not a good variittion of plenty began. Only those who to play when ng first New Zeafand Championship and I the Lime others" \^Je became good friends after only played chess before and during a draw was necderl by B1ack, 3... fost an entettaining (for hin!) encoun- have our match for the Australasiao fiLle in dxc4 leads Io simplL]r positions llorlcl War 1I will have a very clear idea with the xer in 67 moves. Editor - 1952. possibility of exchanges and gives of the marked Lncrease in the pubLic Cecil * since liked the play oF Dr Emanur:l h€rttcr chanc€rs of a draw. awareness which chess has gained l,asker games in- and his had I-askcrrs ideas death of Cecil John Seddon Purdy then, to say nothing of the large 4 e5 c5 5 a3 Bxc3+ 6 bxc3 Qc7 7 The players' implanted in them. A great fighLer, he in on 6 November 1979 makes one crease in the nunber oI strong always played Qs4 (;orr('sPOnJence oI to wir1. Our ganres in thc consider how best to dcscribe his in- Thr' Cllcss League match had only two draus orlt ol' ten, In Iritti (CCLA) in which Cecil Purdy attack and counter-attack in fluence orr chess. In a very active Austra,lia , later tournaments we did draw any part throughout, not prospect, an exciting struggle is 1ikely. life at chess extending over almost six had played a le:iding, games; either he won or I won. decades, he won four Australian Cham- was wcll aware oI his uorth. RePeated CeciI's stronBer points were excel- 1 . . . f5 I Qg3 cxd4 9 cxd4 Ne7 10 qu;rrterly CCLA pionships, won many other Australian tributes appeared in the lent understantJing of the openings, C3 R.jcord and, early in 1979" the CCLA tournaments, won the New Zealand Cham- deep analysis of thc position and g,reat Purdy chooses an ambitious plan which New l:runched a correspondence Lourney bear- pionship as a teenager, visiterd fighting spirit righL through the game. Ioses tjme but compels Bleck Prrrcly' s nafle. to attack Zealand several times, and in the 1950s ing A greal loss for Australian and New New Zealand aL once or submi t Lo a sLranglehold when became the first Corresllondence Chess Before this, in 1969/1O, Zealand Chess tlim but also a credit fo hhiters bishops become active. Champion of the \'lorld. This is a meaty had honoured C.J.S.Purdy by inviting the game of Chess. lisr indeed, yet it can be held to be to p1a), in the Congress at Auckland that 10 .. . 0-0 1l a4 Nbc6 year and him with what he * the lesser part of his total achieve- Presenting In his notes to the game, published later named his "Red Book", which was a ment. Finally, a tribute from Dr I,J.A-Fair, irr the llcw Zeafand Chessp-lager, contribution to c,oLlection of 460 signatures of New Zea- Sarapu Cecil Purdy's chief hurst .. .. poiDted out that I1. . 12 prin- land players and suPporters affixed in .b6 followed by chess was in his writing and that ..-Ba{r exc}ranging off one of Whiters monthly mag;rzine begun a handsome volume uith printed citation' cipally in his !.!-_s=jugqr -. ur IglllIE lq_A_rrl!! 114! blshops would have been a better drawing Chess Thus tilo beneficiaries trom in 1929 as The Australasian Princjpa] (icr line. continued as Check.l and finally the authorts work h:rd their tributes to i I l)Lrrdy for more than _[orty Review, not appearing under its best knom nane him in good time which is generally years was an outstandiDg figure in 12 l,lh3 Ng6 13 Be? f 4 a the experience of the eminent- Australasian chess, winninB tlre Austra- Chess World. The magazine contained Ihis move prelude FinaIly, the Australian Covernment lian and New Zealantj Champ:ionstrips and as a to a vigorous wealth of technical advice and elucicla- counter-attack was got honoured Cecil Purdy by ther award ot also the Correspondeocc- Chess Chanpion- logical and good, but tion, speciallY when lts Editor Dtherwise it weakens Blackrs kingside II' Member o[ the Order of Austra]ja (A"M') ship oI the tJorld. He was a prolific really wound up after t"lorld War defence. was correct in refusing were orrtstanding for for his services to chess. uritcr on th| game and, in my |pirrion, ',{hite Many articles the pamr, as 14 Nxf4 Nxf4 15 Bxf4 Nxd4 of The latc Crandmastcr (of Correspon- his books on the two Alekhiner vs F,rrwe clarity and insight into the needs 76 cxd4 Rxfl+ is in Black's favour. majority of readers addressed. dence Chess) is survived by his wife matches for the World Championshlp were the Cra- At Ehe saue time no-one knew better Anne (daughter of the late SPencer amongst the best ever uritten, 14 Qd3 Bd7 15 0-0 RacB 16 Ba3 NceT than Cecil Purdy that chess writing l

1 at the very doubtful' Better for Having learnt to PlaY chess MORE GAMES Nf6 5 llc3 96 6 Be3 Bg7 1 f3 0-O 8 survival 14, Purdy's flrst success was his White in this is 1,7 gxf3 and after 17 age of Qd2 Nc6 9 Bc4 Bd7 10 h4 Rc8 [1 Bb3 19 Nxf4 win of the New Zealand Championshlp at h5 12 0-0-0 Ne5 13 Kbl Nc4 14 Bxc4 . -.Rf5 l8 f4 (essential) Nxf4 lioliday' kjng posi- Nelson 1924/25 while on a school A further selection of games from Rxc4 15 Nb3 16 Bd4 Bc6 17 Qe2 b5 Rxf4 Black has a defensible gradua- Qc7 weakened queen- Educated in Australia, Purdy Riga (the first seven) and Rio de .Ia- tion and White a badly jt was ted Bachel.or of Arts (Sydney) and ne1ro. 18 e5 Nd5 19 side. (1929) in his final year at unrversity exd5 20 Nxd5 of his Qxd6 17 Bh5 Rf7 that he commenced publication TAL - TSESHK0VSKY, Sicilian Pelikan: Bxd5 2! BxgT l

I Nxd5 5 Qa4+ Nc6 6 Ne5 Ndb4 7 a3 Bg7 number of unrated and unknom players tJd Rlr 19 llac| 20 21 Kfl ltd2 22 Ndl NaS 23 Be3 Rd7 24 ) Qxlr2 l8 I Qeir Nd4 8 axb4 Bxe5 9 b5 NbB l0 e3 Bg7 11 d4 whereas more than 752 of tt.e 60 players Rdl cI lJd6 )\ l\t2 22 lll8 2l ()(i') a6 Kf8 25 Nc3 95 26 Na4 Bd4 27 1t6 Qx;r6 0-0 L2 BeZ c6 13 0-0 cxb5 14 Qxb5 in the B-grade lacked ratings. No fair Rxd8+ 24 IJbI liir 1 2'.) Nc2 IlaaS 26 Nd4 e5 28 Nc5 Rd8 29 Nb3 Bb6 30 ll.x:t2 Nc6 15 Bf3 a6 16 Qb3 Qd7 17 Rdl Rb8 ranking of rhe majority of players was 28 {lt:2 t}f5 29 Nd4 Bxd8 31 a7 Bb6 32 Bxb6 Nxb6 33 Na5 Ql'6 27 Nf I Ral 18 Bdz b6 19 Rdcl Bb7 thus posslble so it was decided to Ke7 34 Nxc6+ Kd6 35 Nb4 Nc'6 36 Nd5 -I equalise colours as far as possible and Na8 37 Nf6 h6 38 Bd5 NecT 39 Ne8+' 20 Nd5 Qd8 2L othervrise pair randomly apart from ?Zt%t :a%z,E'"d4tN - I : 0. % 29. . .ltxbl* 30 ,%tt Qa3 Kh8 22 Nb4 the Een highest raced players uho were 'intx git QxbI Nxcl Jl Nxl5 Nxb4 23 BxbT a5 seeded and who, in the maln, finished BALASH0V SAX, Pirc Defence: "/N,A% - t;l't/lizA%z Nxbl 12 Nh6+ Kl8 "/.%, 2-4 Rf3 e5 25 Bxb4 in high places. In the last round a 3 Bg5 Bg7 4 Nbd2 I d4 Nf5 2 Nf3 g6 ].1 Kxb I Rb8 )4 % % axb4 26 Qxb4 exd4 different procedure was adopted - in 1 Be2 h6 8 ,/.ti 61A%t 0-0 5 c3 rt5 6 e4 NbdT l.{d2 llflr '15 llhl %z"ffi%:'7ru9% 27 Rdl Qh4 28 Ra7 each score-group players were ranked in Bh4 e5 9 dxe5 dxe5 l0 0-0 Qe7 11 ReI frJU%. '16 g.gll/t ,ft llxc I Rxe3 Kg7 18"ffi Be5 29 h3 Qf6 30 order of their sums of opponentsl Rd8 12 QcZ b6 13 Bfl Bb7 14 Nc4 Qe6 ft j7 R13 {)x13,0 : l. "r,&, "N Vrufr exd4 Qf4 31 Rd7 scores. Thus players who had met a rela- 15 Nfd2 Qg4 t6 Bxf6 Bxf6 17 Ne3 Qe5 Bc7 32 Kfl RbeS tively strong field were ranked higher Nf3 2l 18 Bc4 Qd6 19 RadI c5 20 Qe7 33 Rel Qh2 34 Re4 and met opponents who had thus far met Bb3 24 Ng4 Bg7 22 Qdz b5 23 Kh7 Qd6 IVK0V KAGAN, Modern Defence: Qhl+ 35 Ke2 Qb1 36 RdeT Rc8 37 Rxc7, a weaker field. This idea is noE new Rxd6 26 RxdS Rxd8 27 - Qxd6 25 Nc5 1d4d6 2c496 3Nc3Bg7 4e4e5 5 I : 0. and is being considered by I'IDE for the 29 Bb3 Nxb2 30 BxfT Na4 28 Ngxe5 95 dxe5 dxe5 6 KxdS 7 f4 Nd7 8 Olympiad. 33 Bxc4 Qxd8+ -CI" A A Nf7 Rd7 3l e5 Re7 32 Nd4 Nc4 Nf3 c5 9 Be2 f6 10 0-0 Nh6 I1 fxc5 Obvlously there are other ways in 35 N8xc6 Bxc6 36 bxc4 34 Nd8 Ba8 Nxe5 12 Nxe5 fxe5 13 Bg5+ KeS 14 which the pairing of players could have Bxe5 38 Kg5 39 Nxc6 Re6 37 NxaT 93 Radl Nf7 15 Be3 Bf8 16 c5 Be7 17 Nb5 Letter been organised and we do not clain that Re4 Kf6 40 Rxc4 Ra6 41 Nc6, I : 0. cxb5 18 Bxb5+ KfS 19 Bh6+' 1 : 0. Dear Sir, ours was necessarily the best posslble. Ponziani: We do, however, contend that Ehe NZCA VELIMIROVIC - SMEJKAL, P0RTISCH -- SUNYE, English 0Pening: I e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 c3 Nf6 4 d4 Nxe4 In the December L979 issue, p.135, a Swiss Rules are not a sufficient basis I c4 Nl6 22. Nc3 c(r 3 Nll c5 4 g3 b6 Nxe5 7 8 Qxe4 Ietter from Vernon Snall raises a number to cope with the conditions that can be 5 d5 Ne7 5 Ng6 Qd4 Qf5 5 r:4 tlbT 6 d3 Bc7 7 BP,Z O-O I 0-t) Nc4 of issues, including that of smoking at experienced in weekend tournamenEs, and Qxe5 9 Qxe5* Nxe5 10 Nd2 d6 Il Nc6 9 d4 cxd4 I0 Nxd4 ()c7 I I b3 a6 13 14 Rel tournaments and the unwillingness of that therefore the facE that the NZCA Nxc4 12 Bxc4 Be7 0-0 0-0 12 ub2 Rai:U Il Nc:2 ()b8 I4 (lc'2 d6 I5 l{ae8 organisers to hold a democratic vote Rules are deparred from is Bf6 15 a4 a6 L6 a5 Bd7 17 Be3 Rfdl ltft.8 16 Rd2 Ra8 17 R;rdl Rl8 l8 not in 20 Ba7 Be5 Zl without notice having been given. He iEself a valid criticism of tournament 18 f3 Re7 19 Kf2 RfeS F4 h6 l9 Nel| Nb4 20 Nl't c5 2[ aJ Nt6 t'...aIthough, 24 Bd3 goes on to observe, as organisation. C3 S5 22 ReZ f5 23 Rael Kf7 22 Nd5 Nxd5 2l cxd5 Na5 24 {)d'} b5 25 Bxb5 25 Be3 Bf6 Robert Smith accurately pointed out aE Yours sincerely, Bb5 25 axb5 Kh1 b4 26 Rbl bxrrl 27 llxa 3 {.1b6 ?-8 tless 'J0 the l.linstones, other importantt D. Ha1l Ncl Nb7 29 Nc 4 tJil Nc5 3I Ql') 27 Ii14 1le5 28 Qb5 issues such as a change in Ehe Swiss Secretary, ()b8 32 Bh l ''tfr, Kf{i 29 t4 gxt4 rules used, can be altered without any NorEh Shore Chess Club t ,,N N bl gxf4 Bxd4+ 31 notice. " N 30 32.,.exf4 33 EH ,4/rfr% cxd4 Rxr,'2 12 Rxc2 Members of the North Shore C.C, are -6E .//.///,: Bxc8 Nxe4 34 Bh3 t Rxe4 txc4 t'*, as strongly divided over the issue of Itc4 3l Nxd2 35 Nxd2 Rc5 LOCAL NEWS contd from p.28 % % 34 Ke3 Kf5 35 b4 vlz "fr, ar,, smoklng at tournaments as chess players /i,ft, t .rrra,. 16 Bg2 fxg3 37 "/Ae h5 36 b4 Kg4 31 lll apparently are elsewhete and the Com- Fina1 score after 614 hours play was + At Rhs 38 h3 Qb5 Kxo4 38 Kfl, ',;/kD/r'2 + Qd3 mittee of N.S.C.C. does not wish to +14 %H e Kxh4 J] n 39 axb5 40 =1 -3. My losses were to Len White- //lz 0. 4.t. Qxb5 comment on this. We do, however, regard and m I : \.1 Rcl Bxd5 4l Rc8 house, Bill Crombie Luis Mafletto Sr ,r/,r) 'JY it as unfortunate that any question of draw was Wa1sh. lfi t/1, Rxh3l- (sealed), while the with Brad the organisation of the draw of a tour- My play was not up to previous stan- Si c i I i an Scheveni ngen : 0 : 1. TORRE HUBNER, nament should be coupled with this con- dard and I pieces on several Nt3 d6 I d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 "misplaced" I e4 c5 2 Eentious issue, as there is no relation- occasions, even falling into the trRuy Nt6 5 Ncl e6 6 h6 7 h4 Bc7 8 Rh3 94 HUBNER SUNYE, : ship between the two. In particular, we Sicilian" trap (1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5+ Kf 8 l0 e5 Nf dT l1 Bl'4 Qt 6 - d5 9 Ic4Nf6 2Nc3c5 3Nflc6 493b6 defend the right of the organisers of Bb5 a6 4 Ba4? b5 etc). 12 Nbl Nc6 13 a6 14 llxt:6 hxc6 15 Qc2 5 Bg2 Bb7 6 0-0 Be7 7 d4 Ne4 B Nxe4 any weekend tournament to adopt Swiss Hilton Bennett was organiser and an c5 t6 KbI a4 17 Nc1 Rb8 18 Nd3 0-0-0 Bxe4 9 d5 0-0 10 Qb3 Qc7 Il RdI exd5 pairing rules appropriate to the cir- excellent ca11er; his patience (and 19 Brrl c5 20 d4 2l Nt4 Qc6 Ba6 Qel 12 cxd5 d6 13 Nd2 Bxg2 l4 Kxg2 Re8 15 cumstances prevailing. feet) were tried to Ehe llmit by the 22 Nce2 (le4 23 24 Ret ltb5 25 Qa5 Qc6 Nc4 Bf8 16 Rel Nd7 17 a4 NE6 fB Qf3 In the clrcumstances prevailing in rather noisy conditions and my poorish Ngl Nc4 27 e5 28 Ntr5 Qd2 Nxc5 26 Qdl 19 RdI Re4 20 Ne3 Rae8 2l b3 a6 the Winstone B-grade it I,ras quite im- hearing. 29 Ng3 Nxh2 30 Bxb2 ir3 11 Ne4 Qb7 96 22 Ra2 Nd7 23 Nc4 Qc7 24 Bt4 b5 25 possible meaningfully to fo11ow the Lost games apart, my best games were I{xb2+ 32 Kal c4, 0 : 1 . axb5 axb5 26 Ne3 c4 27 bxc4 bxc4 28 NZCA Swiss Rules which provlde, under probably versus Eddie Brightwell and SAX : PETR0SIAN, French Tarrasch: RdaI Nc5 29 Ra7 Qb6 30 Nf5 Nb7 3I Ranking of Players, that 'rlf no infor- Ces Pickering, I e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nd2 r:5 1+ exd5 exd5 R1a6 Qb5 32 Bxd6 Qxd5 33 BxfS Kxf8 mation is known regarding a player's The previous Australasian record was 5 Bb5+ Nc6 6 Qe2,+ Be7 7 dxc5 Nf6 8 34Nd6,1:0. abllity the player shall be ranked at 17 games by John Kellner in Melbourne Nfl Re8 l0 Bc'3 a5 ll Ba4 the bottom of the list,r' ft seems clear (I Nb3 0-0 9 TIMMAN " SAX, English 0Pening: Ehink) 1972 in eighr hours play. Bxc5 il Nfd4 Bd7 14 that this rule envisages a minimal Ne4 12 0-0-0 1 Nf3 Nf6 2 c4 96 3 Nc3 d5 4 cxd5 I give the Ewo games mentioned above: Nxc6 bxc6 15 RherI Bb4 I6 Rft Oc7 17 31 l0

a White: E.lvl.GREEN (Bl indfold) By teatioe the situation had clari- Buijovcie (YLic) & Bojkovic (yUG) 3r; go Nigel Bl ack: E. BRIGHTI^1ELt. fied and uith on€' round to Overseas Nerius 14 I1'1 Deze (YUG) Zti. at least first equal' Metge h.ad secured (Asian *** I e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 Bb5+ Bd7 4 BxdT+ A combination of steady play and luck BRISBANE Circuit, 3rd leg), 6 c3 Nf6 7 Re1 e6 8 Sept/oct: American GM Anatol)u Lein, the QxdT 5 0-0 Nc6 had seen him Lhrough to 7/7 while the SYDNEY, Oriri\}e,: 1979 (played after cxd4 Be7 l0 Bg5 0-0 rl d5 favourlte, led all the way in Austra- d4 cxd4 9 other leaders cut themselves to pieces. the Brisbane tourrrment): l-2 GM Keene i3 Nc3 b6? l4 a3 liars first international tournament. exd5 12 exd5 Nb4 Sarapu had dropped out of conteotion (ENG) & Rogers (Aus) 7!/10; 3-4 Fu1ler 16 Nd4 Rfe8 17 b4 Na6 Ian Rogers made an IM ln the Cate- Na6 15 Qd2 Nc5 with furLher losses to Metge and Belton (eys) & IM l'lascarjnr.:: (i.HI) 5t,; 5-8 18 Nc6 BilS 19 Nxd8 Rxela 20 Rxel Qxd8 gory 7 event. Scores: I GytLein 7ra/lO; (an anrusing fingerslip occurred in Morris (AUS) Shaw [;{t,'s,l Laird (NZ) & gxt6 23 Kh8 2 GM Keene (ENG) 64i 3 Rogers (AUs) 6; , 21 QeZ Nc7 22 Rx-f6 Qg4+ Sarapu-Mctge: in a dram K & P ending Hay (AUS) 4\; 9-10 Kerr (AUS) & Manin- 26 h3 Z1 4-5 GM Robatsch (e) & Maninang (PHI) 5; 24 Re3 Qg8 25 Qd7 Rc8 Qf8 Ortvin forSot to queen his pam' moved aag (PHr) 4; 11 IM Purdy (AUS) 3. Kh8 29 RxfT 30 6-8 IM Jamiesoa (AUS), IM Mascarinas Re7 Kg8 28 Qg4+ QxfT hls king iostead, and lost imediatelyl)' This was late Purdy's last 32 : 0' (PHI) & IM Ardiansyah (RI) 4r; 9-10 the Cecil QxcS+ Kg7 31 Qg4+ Qg6?l Qd7+,1 Power lurked no longer after three completed tournament, losses and meanwhile Smith Frller (AUs) & GM Suradirad.ja (RI) 4; consecuti'/e (AUS) *** l,Jhite: E.M.GREEN lost to Steadman who lost to Vermeer 11 Shaw 314. Black: Ces PICKERING who lost to Mctge. Gollogly and Corn- *** The Interzonal play-off for the Can- 1e4d6 2d496 3Nc3Bg7 4{4Nf6 ford lost to Green who lost to Metge. didate place between the two Hungarian opening So as:t gorged group of players went in WOMEN'S : - (Ces had beaten me with this Rio de Janeiro: 1 Ioseliar.i (USSR) I4\; GMs was dram 3:3 Andras Adorian thus good ofd dags earlg for the final round, tbe scores were: qualified by virtue of his beEter tie- mnq times irt the - 2 Veroci (HUN) l2i 3 Aleksandria (USSR) Bd3 Bg4 7 e5 dxc5 I'letge 71 Creen 6i Snith, Cornford, break What a grea[ dis- -sixties) 5 Nf3 0-0 6 11; 4-5 Fischdick (BRD) & ?olihroniade score at Riga. BdZ 10 h3 Bxf3 1I Steadman, Collogly & Belron 5; Vermeer appointment for Ribli bis com- 8 dxe5 Nd5 9 c6 (RUM) IOl; 6-7 Lazarevic (YUG) & Koz- who 1ed 13 h4 14 4\. patriot Qxf3 e6?l 12 Ne4 Nd7 Qb6 lovskaya (ussR) 9r; 8-9 Zatulovskaya at the Interzonal tournament 16 h5 Nb4 ll Smith went afl out for a win against until very end and into a 0-0-0 Nc5 15 Nxc5 Qxc5 (US9R) & Eretova (cz) 9' 10 Borisova near the went 19 a3 ZO Mei:ge and lost. Green lost to Steadman, match: Bxb4 Qxb4 18 93 Rac8 Qa5 (sWE) 8; 11 Mil-es (ENG) 74; l2-!3 2%:\ Iead in the hxg6 2l RxhTll? (r coufdn't work Cornford beat Belton and Gollogly drew fxg6?l CTol.to (USA) & Khadilkar (IND) 6\; 14 ADORIAN 00IIt-53 it afl out bat felt I had at least a with Vermecrr. Thus Green, Steadnan and K Hund (BRD, 6; 15 Soppe (ARG) 4; 16 11 00\ 3 with the bfack rook on cB being Cornford shared second, 2 points behind RIBLI draw Cardoso (BRz) th; 17 DeCarjaval (CItB) h. '2 verg useful for regaining nater)al) 2l Me Lge . *** .,.Qb6?t 27 Bxg6 Bxe5 (ces throws ir Or the grade prize front Golloglyrs Alicante: 1-2 Akhmilovskaya (US.SR] & rhe final of the EUROPEAN CLUB CUP evergthing to trq to confuse ne) 23 c3 5l-i gave him the $25 grade one Prize, Lemchko (BUL) l3ri 3 Gurieli (USSR) 12; (4L) grade was played at Bad Lauterberg between Rc7 24 Qg4 Bxf4+ 25 gxf4 Qe3+ 26 Kbl Louis Ramsley claimed the 4 Litinskaya (USSR) lILa1' 5-6 Savereide HaY- Burevestnik (Moscow) and Volmac (Rotter- Rg7 27 RxgT+ KxgT 28 Re4+ Kfl 29 two prize, and Bartocci, Umbers, (UsA) & Fatalibekova (U9SR) lOla; 7 dam). Volmac won the first leg 311 z 24 Rd7+, I : 0. dock and Borovskis each got a massive Ivanka (HUN)IO1' 8 Ranniku (USSR) 9; but Burevestnik Eook lhe second by the RePort: Ewen Creen $6.25 share of the grade three prize. 9-10 Garcia (SP) & vall. der Mije (NL) &1i same margin, thus necessitating a third D.O.P. Mara83 had c couPIe of gre3t 11-12 de Arnas (CUB) & Baunstark (RUM) *** free ncals (special mention for Bruce's 7'l; 13-14 Ptokopovic (WG) & Shteren- match to decide. The Moscow team won this by 4 z 2 for a flnal score of l0 : dessertl) and actually managed to draw (CAN) 15 (YUG) 16 TOURNAIV1ENT: berr 6\; Markovic 6| IAN REX MITCHELL ME[4ORIAL some of the rounds correctlY. Carrasco (ctr) 5; 17 Watai (JAP) 24, 8. Balashov and Korchnoi drew all their three games at top board while Timan, SaturdaY lst December 1979 the The $300 prize fund uas very substm- 18 Kellner (AUS) 2. On drew once Chess Centre held an 8-round tia1ly supported by personal contribu- on board t$/o, with Georgadze Auckland *** and Smyslov who tournament to honour the tions from club members Peter Downey then twice with only half-hour played the second and third matches. nenory of the late Ian Mitchell. and Clive Green. ft is hoped to hold a NEt.l Y0RK (Heraldica Imports Tourna- Profits were to be split between the tournament of similar (hectic but en- ment): I GM Dzhindzhikhashviti (ISR) 7r4; *** Centre and the N.Z. Chess Foundation. -joyablc) format in 1980. 2-4 GM Bisguier (uSA), GM Shamkovich rhe annual BBC TELEVISI0N T0URNAMENT A large nunber oI entries on the SjlIgq, l J.N.Metge 8/8; 2-4 P.R- (UsA) & IM Soltls (USA) 7i 5-6 IM Fedo- $as year r^7on by West German GM morning saw a field of 39 PlaYers Creln, U.V.n.Steadman & L.H.Cornford 6; Tovicz (USA) & IM Zaltsman (USA) 6; 7-9 this Lothar Schmid who beat Korchnoi in win- t^lith many dangerous and 5 D.A.Go11ogly 5!; 6-12 O.Sarapu, R.ll. GM Biyiasas (UsA) I\l GiLd. Garcia (COL) assembled, , ning his prelininary grotp wittl 2k/3. erratic players jn the draw' it pro- Smith, B.Wheeler, B.H.P.Marsick, I^l.J- & II4 Zapara (COL) 5i l0 La FLota (COL) He was followed in by Korchnol 2, Byrne to be an entertaining tournament Vermeer & Il.Severinsen 5; 13-15 P.l'1. 4ri I1 Valvo (usA) 3r) 12 IM Ostos mised I and Stean The other preliminary and the top seeds dld not fare welli Power, S.Van Dao & L.Ravnsley 4re; L6-24 (wN) 2]4. !. - group GM The entry fee included a middaY and P.S. Spiller, D.J.H.Storey, D.M.Brunton' lras won by American Walter *** Broume, also 24/3, and an evening meal, provided by tesident I.Hutton, D.Field, K.Bartoccl, G.Umbers, with xt:er. Nunn Hort I!, Pfleger Schmld then beat chef Bruce lJinslade, ably assisted A.Haydock & J.Borovskis 4; 25-28 C. N0VI SAD, october 1979, Category 11 %. Browne in the one game fina1. (supervised?) bY Je-anette- Sidnam, A.J.Henderson, S.Hart & P.Cauk- (2503): I GM Gheorghiu (RUM) lO/13; 2-3 Lunch found Smith, (Peter) Green' wdL 3\; 29-35 A.N.Hignett, J.Wieboldt' GM Sveshnikov (ussR),Gvl Ge11er (USSR) 9; *** Metge and Steadman on 3/3 with Power P.D.Corbett, J.K.Boyd, H'Hoffmann, J. 4 GM Gligorlc (tUG) 8t 5-6 GM Kurajica P.Downey & TILBERG (Interpolis Tournament), 1- hrrking just beliind on 2%. The surprise Bojtor & S.Walker 3; 36-37 (YUc) & GM Beljavsky (UssR) 7ta; 7 GM & L. 16 November 1979: The second Category resull of this sessicn was Sarapu's Il.Hamptor 2!; 38-39 D.C.Ramsley Kaaak (DDR) 7 8 IM Popovic (vUC) 6t4i | 15 tournament of the year had an aver- loss Gollogly after an overwheitting Rudkirs 2. Report by Peter l4ataga 9-10 GM Browne & Gl4 tr'arago (EUlv) to fusA) age participantsr rating of 2605 which kingside attack. A 6; 11 GM Rajkovic (YUc) 5; 12-13 IM A A was not quite as high as that for the 32 33 tWorld Montreal Cupr Tournament. This time the Bf4 bxa4 37 Be5* Bxe5 38 Kf3 QhI+ 29 Kg3 Nf6+ (29"..Ne3+ woufd queen) 25. . .BxgI I lJorld Champion was chased all the way by Rrm- Qxe5* RggT 39 Rg5 axb3?? 40 be quicker) 30 Kxf2 Qh4+ 3l Ke2 Qe4+ (Perhaps Whixe lshin in the all- field' In the last Qb8+, I : 0. 32 Qe3 Qxe3+ 33 Kxe3 i{93+ 34 Kd2 exd5 I A should have taken 772 previously undefeated 35 Nf5 Kb8 36 RxfT dxc4* Kc2 Rf3 ///.././i round Romanishin beat SAX LARSEN, Caro-Kann: 37 that rook on nove play for the - 38 Ng3 Rf2+ 39 Be2 RgS, 1. Spassky thus forclng Karpov to also 1 e4 c6 2 d.4 d.5 3 Nd2 dxe4 0 : % 14! He certainfg a result he achieved to now because lrin against Snyslov, 4 Nxe4 Nf6 5 Ng3 96 6 Nf3 *** % can't take clear first. //////l of 26 Kxa4 Qc3 ! Be7 7 BeZ O-O I 0-0 Qb5 9 7.//lt M. G. CHANDLER NZ 01rt2% wiXh the kilTing TILBERG I979 1234561E9At7 b3 a5 10 a4 Na6 11 h3 Nb4 v.///, H"J.PLASKETT ENG 101-01\ ../////r. thrcat of ..-b5) 12 Rel Qc7 13 Bb2 b6 14 Qdz I Karpov uSsR x^-i|nI ILzr1 lr,i 26 Rxgl b5 2l t:) '.,|'aI Bb7 15 c3 Nbd5 16 c4 Nb4 17 IM l,trurray Chandler reports: 2 Romanishin USSR \xtt'lOL1I'tt\L-l Rc8 28 Rcl Nc4 Z9 RfI Na,5+, 0 : 1" l.i ra ra Bc3 RadS 18 Radl e6 19 Qb2 3 Portisch ITUN t-" x t1t2 L O I I 6r; A 0ost interesting 4-game matctr, \ Nd7 20 Ne4 RfeS 21 c5 Nd5 *** Sax HUN 6 aimed at giving 19-year old Jim Plas- 4 |z'-axraOtiL,\'.iL 22 cxb5 Qxb6 23 Nd6 Nxc3 24 5 Sosonko NL O l \\ x 1 ! 0 l O tr'-1 5\z kett some late trajning for the forth- BRIGHTON, Dec 1979: report by llurray Qxc3 Rf8 25 NxbT QxbT 26 6 Larsen DEN 0!r01Ox\1, %1f0 5tt coming European Junior Ch'p, was held Chand l er: t4 Qxa5 Qxb3 27 Rbl Qa3 28 Ral 7 Spassky u,gsR O n'n t1 x li l'l \ r, 5'a in December. The contestr sponsored by In her speec-h opening the 1st Brigh- 'a 29 RedI Ra8 30 Qd2 c5 8 Tlman M L2 0 I 0 I 0r, x','rt., | 5', Qd6 Lhe' London Chess Assn, Lloyds Bank arrd ton International tournament, Miss Treke t'il 3l Ra2 cxd4 32 Nxd4 Nc5 33 9 Hubner BRD \\'4'aO>,o\x11 5 the Slater Foundation, was also intend- Bakker, FIDE General Secretary, said Qb4 Qd5 34 Ra3 Qe5 35 Bf3 I0 Hort cz OO\r2lO11'al1.xtal 5 , rl t o hopefrrlly begin rn inlreasing she often is aske'd btz countries al1 over rn r-a r-z Rab8 36 Qa5 RfdS 37 Re3 Qg5 USA Lr'!-, O !1 O rl . 4, trend towards 11 Kavalek \ \ 38 Nb3 Rxdl+ 39 Bxdl Bf8 40 this typc of corpetition the wor'ld, "Ilow do we get strong 12 ussR 0ooo,rl'r0oo12x 2" (rifter all, good practice for the Can- urlrors r Smyslov Nd2Qd8,0:1. I didatesl). "Th,,obvious answcr," she said, "is, MRP0V - S0S0NK0, Sicilian Dragon: 1 e4 c5 2 ** .Iim started out uith a win with of course, to make Lheu study chess and Nxd4 5 Nc3 6 Be3 b1ack, but I pulled back have Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nf6 96 BUEN0S AIRES (Clarin), nov/ with an excit- Lhe youngsters exposed to chess. Be7 7 f3 Nc6 8 Qd2 0-0 9 Bc4 Bd7 10 h4 h5 11 Dec 1979: A return to the ing attacking game. Tht third was a Now hou you do that, you had better ask 13 Bg5 14 RheI 15 0-0-0 Ne5 12 Bb3 Rc8 Rc5 b5 Larsen of old after some dis- tense struggle in whjch Jim could ex- England because they seem to know the 18 Bg7 19 f4 Nc4 16 Bxc4 bxc4 17 Bxf6 Bxf6 e5 appointing results over the tract no more than perpetual check from secret there are so many strong young e6 20 exfT+ RxfT 21 Ne6 Bxe6 22 Rxe6 Qa5 a nice attack over the whole board. players there l Bc8 Iast year or two - he conceded " 23 Qe3 Bxc3 24 bxc3 Qxa2 25 Rxg6+ Kf8 26 Qe4 just four draws in the cate- Iritb the psychological advantage of The Brighton touroauent, organised Rxh5 30 having proceeded Qa6 27 Rd5 Rf6 28 Rxc5 Rxg6 29 d5 gory 11 (average rating 2512) dram with white(l) I by CM Keene and sponsored by 1ocal busi- Rxd5, I : 0. event. Also a fine result for to take the final game and the match. oessmau Michael Dawes, was a perfect The venue at Phillips & Ijrew, the example of what she meant. Although ex- S0S0NK0 HUBNER, Catalan: I d4 Nr6 2 c4 e6 3 Najdorf (+3 =10) just a - -0 London stockbroking firm who are to Speelman stormed off w:ith first d5 4 Bg2 dxc4 5 Nf3 a6 6 0-0 b5 7 Ne5 Nd5 few months before he enters -junior 93 sponsor a grandmaster tournament in prize with 8'-o/9, oae young player gain- 8 Nc3 c6 9 Nxd5 exd5 l0 e4 Be6 ll a4 b4 lZ his eighth decade! And how London in 1980, was ideal. ed an IM norm and two others gained exd5 Bxd5 13 h5 14 Bxd5l cxd5 15 Ra7 long since Petrosian made a Qg4 Qf5 Came two: valuable experience amidst a field of 16 Rel Re7 17 Bg5 96 18 Bxe7, 1 : 0. minus score in a tournament? PLASKETT CHANDLER, Pi Tc : IMs and seasoned national players. Scores: I GM Larsen (DEN,) HUBNER SMYSL0V, Slav: 1 d4 ds 2 c4 c6 3 Nc3 1e4d6 2d4Nf6 3Nc396 4f4Bg7 My result uas th.: pooresr of 1979, - 11; 2-5 GM Miles (ENc), GM Nf6 4 Nf3 dxc4 5 a4 Na6 6 e4 Bg4 7 Bxc4 e6 8 5 Nf3 0-0 6 Be3l? b6 1 Bd,3?i (7 e5 perhaps partly due some Najdorf (ARG), Glq Spassky to over-ambitious Be3 Bb4 9 Bxf3 10 gxf3 0-0 11 0-0 c5 12 Ng4 B Bgf c5 l-eads to uncfear compTica- play in chasing tbe points needed Qc2 (usSR) & GM Andersson (SWE) 8i l-lt-a I d5 Bxc3 13 bxc3 exd5 14 Rfdl 15 exd5 Qh3 tions) 7.-.c5t- 8 e5 Ng4 9 Bgl cxd4 10 to win the E2,000 Cutty Sark crand Prix. Qc8 6-7 GM Gheorghiu (RUlu) & GM t6 Rabl 17 Be2 18 RxbT c4 19 BfI Qh5 Nxd4 dxe5 11 fxe5 Nxe5l 12 Be4 Bg4 13 Nevertheless, play was most Qxf3 Qh3 Ivkov (YUG) lrt 8 GM Quinte- interesting 20 21 Bg2 RacS 22 d6 Nc5 23 Bxc5 Rxc5 Nce2 NbdT 14 h3 (rt white accepts the my games ground Qe2 Qg6+ ros (ARc) 64; 9-10 GM Perro- and two of broke new 24 d7 Rd5 25 Rxd5 Nxd5 26 Nxc3 27 Qxg6 exchange sacrifice wixh f4 BxaB well into Qe4 sian (ussR) & GM Panno (eRG) QxaB, the beaten track of theory. hxg6 28 Rc7 Ne2* 29 Kfl Nf4 3O Bd5, I : 0. Black has exceffent compensation in his Scores: 1 IM Speelnan (ENG) 8tz| 2 6; 11-12 Tranco (PeR) & GM superior deveToryent and more active Goodman (ENG) 6ri 3 Whiteley (ENC) 5\.t; KARPOV LARSEN, Caro-Kann: 1 e4 c6 2 d4 d,5 3 Lombardy (usA) 5; 13 Tempone - pieces. Pfaskett prefers to be a pawL (NZ) Nd2 dxe4 4 Nxe4 Nf6 5 Ng3 6 Nf3 Bg7 7 Be2 (ARG) 1) 14 IM Rubinetti 4 IM Chandler 5; 5 Blacksrock 96 down, bux with the bishop pair and (SCO) 4%; 6-8 lllel1s (ENG) (SCo) 0-0 8 0-0 Qb6 9 b3 Bg4 I0 Bb2 a5 1l a4 NbdT (ARG) I,. , Deanat pressure down the d-fi7e) 14...Bxe2 15 & Cumings (ENG) 3\1; 9 IM f'edorowicz 12 h3 Bxf3 13 Bxf3 RadS 14 Qe2 RfeS 15 Rfel SPASSKY LARSEN, Caro-Kann: Qxe2 Rc8 16 0-0-0 e6 17 Nb5 Nc4 (for- (USA) 3; l0 Macdonald-Ross fsco) 1%. Nf8 16 Qc4 Ne6 - 1 e4 c6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 dxe4 cing White's next because of the XhTeat David Goodmao achieved an JM norm. I 4 Nxe4 Nf6 5 Nxf6* gxf6 6 of f8. -.Q95+ and - - -Qxb5) 18 NxaT Bxb2* ,/'1fi, CHANDLER SPEELMAN, Nimzoindian Def: 17 Rxe6 fxe6 18 Qxe6* Be2 Bf5 7 Nf3 Qc7 8 0-0 e6 19 Kbl (Threat 20...Na3 nate!) 20 'Nt Qf6 - 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 e3 0-0 | Kh8 19 Rel Qb4 20 h4 Qd6 9 c4 Nd7 I0 d5 0-0-0 11 Be3 a4l Rc7 21 Nb5 Na3+ 22 KaZ (DIAGRAM, 5 Bd3 d5 6 Nf3 c5 7 0-0 Nc6 8 a3 Bxc3 %a r% 21 e6 22 h5 gxh5 23 c5 12 b4 RgS 13 bxc5 Bxc5 NEX.r C)LUMN) 22.. .Rc4!i 23 Fixdl (rf 23 ,%% Qh3 9 bxc3 dxc4 10 Bxc4 (a rare af- t Re5 Re7 24 Qh4 Rf8 25 14 Nd4 Bh3 15 93 Bxfl 16 Nxa3 then 23...Bxai) 23...Rxa4 24 Nd4 Qel'.? .rN Xernative Xo f0. , .Qc7 which SpeeLman had l%, Nxh5 Nxh5 26 Rxh5 Bf6 27 Bxfl Ne5 17 Rbl Ng4 18 Bcl (The point is that 24 Ra7 Nxb5+ 25 fooked at with GM Ionq I"lifes durj.nq the Qe4 Rd8 28 Rxa5 Bxd4 29 h5 19 Rb3 h4 20 Ba3 hxg3 2I Rxa4 Nc3+ wins xhe queen) 24. . .Bxd4 25 t t latter's preparation) 1I Ne5i? Bcl Rf7 30 Rh5 Bf6 31 Be3 hxg3 f5 22 Bxc5 23 Rb5 Kb3 (Or 25 Bxd4 Nb5+, whife again 25 Interzonal, "bl Qxc5 Nxe5 12 dxe5 Nd7 13 f4 Nb6: (Better % Bd4 32 Bg5 Rg8 33 Kfl c5 24 Qb3 f4 25 RxbT fxg3 Rxd4 Nb5+ 26 Rxa4 Nc3+ forks king and Qd6 than ECO,s entire contribution to tlris 34 Bcl Qa6+ 35 Kgl b5 16 26 RxaT gxf}* 27 KgZ QhZ+ 28 35 34 Tine which runs 73.. .Rdg 74 Qc2 Nb6 L5 B l94i 1I Malaysia 19!; 12 UnitedArab Bd3 with a biq pTus to white, oziecio- Enirates 18L; 13 Japan 12; 14 Brunei Towski - veresov 1956) 14 Bd3 Bd7 15 a4 Llr1' 15 Papua-New Guinea 81 16 Kuwair CLUB DIRECTORY (Oxherwise cont6t- 75. -.8.a4 stops whixe t. The annual fee (six *** listings) for this column is $5 payabre with order to the New ing the d-file Tatet on wixh his rooks) Zealand p.O.Box gg02, 15...Rad81 16 (rnitiating an ex- Chess Association, Symonds Streei, Auckland. Qcz 3rd ASIAN JUNIOR CH'P, Sivakasi (IND) change sactifice as 76 a5 Bb5! 77 axb6 1 tlong Meng Kong (srd) 8; 2 K.Jhunjhnu- AUCKLAND CENTRE meets Bxd3 l8 bxaT Bxfl, 79 RaO and Black Mondays & Thursdays at clubrooms, I7 Cromwell Street, Mt Eden, Qxfl uala (HK) 8; 3-4 Yap (PHI) & Barva (IND) phone 602 042. wins back the a-paw eventualTg) Bxa4 Contact: Nigel Metge, phone 601 175. Schoolpupil coaching Frlday 6'<; 5-7 Gunawan (Rr), Kerr fAUs) & Ra- evenings. Fu11 Rxa4 19 Rf3 recreational facilities TV, poolroom, library. 17 BxhT+ Kh8 18 Nxa4 96 nesh (IvD) 6; 8-9 Murshed (Beil) & Atu- - ( the MiTes analgsis Incrediblg /sPeelmn rupane (SI,) 5; l0 Cheah (rtAL) 4%; 11 meets Tuesdays 7:30 pm (children 6:30 _ 7:30) at HowickBridge 20 Bxg6 had gone this far, ending in (rRN) 12 Sidnan (NZ) l\- y Complex, Howick. Contact: peter Mccarthy, phone Miles Pira 3; pakuranga, 565 055, fxg6 27 Qxg6 Qh7 22 Rh3 Qxh3 - Grant Sidnam was quite rive, Auckland. inxuitivefg felt this Unfortunately app.renxlg EDsi- ill during Ehe tournament and turned in be defensibTe for Black and meets wednesdavs 7:30 pm (rournament and casual play) in st JosepNs xion should a very disappointing result. churchl98I$!Et-!.!' Hall' xhis game bears out this vjew) 20 Rh3 cnr Anzac St & Taharoto Rd, Takapuna. postar address: p.o.Box 335g7, Takapuna. ConEact: peter Ke7 2l f5i? (21 e4 Qd7 22 f5 QdL+ 23 *** Stuart, phone 456 377 (evenings). RxdT+ 24 Kf2 RfdS! and if 25 Bh6+? PARNELL C.C. oxdl 47th USSR CHAMPI0NSHIP, Minsk, Dec. meets 7:30 pm ["lednesdays in Social HaJ1, Eoundation for the B1ind, Bg5+ 27 Bf5 R8d2+ and 28... KxhT 26 Kgq 1979: unforpunately we do not have the 545 Parnell Road, Auckland. Contact: Terry Free, 23 pasadena Ave, pt Chevalier, rooks and winning) 2I... Rdi+ swapping fu11 scores yet buE we do know that the Auckland, phone 868 103. 22 e4 23 Bh6+ Kf6 (I IEd exf5 Qxe5 GM Effim Geller this ln deci- new Soviet Champion is wtonglg assessed tDsition previously won the tiEle in 1955 24 gave White the edge who CIVIC C.C. meers 8:00 pm Fridays on 2nd Floor, yWCA Building, I,rlillis Street, ding that Qxa4 - came from behind this time to 24-.-Qxe4! and if 25 and who l"le1lington. Contact: Tim Spiller, phone 759 756, or p.O.Box 2702, Wellington. not noticinq Qxe4 head off the e4r1y pace mkers over the 25 BxfB RxfA when white's useless UPPER HUTT C fxe4 final rounds. Gel1er scored, llre/17 wlth - C. meets 7:45 pm Thursdays in Supper Room, Civic HaI1, Fergusson Drive, extra bishop is no heTp aqainst the ex- Upper Hutt. Yusupov second on 101, Kasparov and Contact: Anton Reid, 16 Hildreth Street, Upper Hutt, phone 2gg 756. pawns. I tried to com- tra ConsequentTg Balashov equal third on 10. pTicate but speeTman accurateTg fiqui- The Soviet Womenrs Championship also 0TAG0 C.C. meets dated to an endgame) 24 Re3! Nxc3! 25 7:30 pm tlednesdays & Saturdays at 7 Maitland Street, Dunedin, provided a surprise winner in Levitina phone (clubrooms) 116 exf5 Rdl+ 26 KfZ Qd.4 (Now whixe is 919- Contact: Malcolm Foord, 39 park Street, Dunedln, phone and the who finished a point ahead of Chiburdar 776 2L3. obTiged to captute the knighx idze, Gaprindashvili and Aleksandria. ending is Tost) 27 Qxc3 Qxc3 28 Rxc3 fxg6 30 Rf3+ Ke6 31 Re3+ Rh8 29 fxg6 N.Z. CORRESPONDENCE CHESS AISN: Secretary-Treasurer: J.tI. MaruelI, g2 Tireti Kd7: 32 Bxg6 P.xh6 33 Bf5+ Kd8 34 h3 Titahi Road, HASTINGS 7979/B0t 1-2 cM Andersson Bay, I"lel1lngton. Rf6 35 Ke2 Rd5 36 Be4 Rd7 37 Re7 94 (sWE) & GM Nunn (ENG) lo/l'i 3 GM Ma- 38 Rfe6 39 Kf3 c4 40 Rxe4 4l 95 96 karichev (USSR) 9i 4-6 GM Georgadze CORRESPONDENCE Rxe4 Rxe4 42 Kxe[ Ke7 43 h4 Kf5 44 RESULTS (US9R), GM Lein (UsA) & IM Speelman h5b5,0:1. Following (ENG) 8r4t 7-10 GM Christlansen fusA), are Trophy Tournament results from the N.Z. correspondence chess Association's 1919 *** GM Liberzon (rSR), Short (ENG) & g{. / 80 events. Stean (EilG) 8; II IM Seirawan (UsA) 74i 6 - TRENCIANSKE TEPLICE, Nov/Dec 1979: _A !t _-l!.2 \tp. t Smith l- Beach; Heasman I Lueg, f Beach; Freemantsnith. 12 GM Raicevic (YUG) 7; 13 GM Biyiasas -C!e.L! "" " 1 GI.I Snejkal (cz) lOlL4; 2 IM Ftacnic (usA) 6ta; 14 ILI }lestel (ENG) 5; 15 lgsg aqtp"=lpi Ffetcher f De Groot; Steadman 7 Lovelock; Brinble l (cz) 9r' 3 G}I llort (cz) 9i 4-5 IM Do- ztlber (rsF] 5; 16 rM Bellin (ENG) zta. FfeXcher; nice \ De Groot, 2 Taltfor. bosz (POL) & GM Kholnov (USSR) 8; 6 Class The sensation here was Nigel Shortrs 2: Bishop 7 Rogers; Hull l Hignett, f Rogers, 1 Wilcock; Jones I Hignett, [nbroz (cz) lrt 7-8 GI'I Uhlmnn (DDR) & final IM nom he had achiewed the 1 Bishop, f Gibson; Mazur I Roqers, f Johnstone; Gibson L Mazur; wifcock cM (DDR) 7; 9-11 IM Rogulj (YUG) - f Vogt necessary 7Z points with two rounds to Bishop; Johnstone I Wijcock- IM Prandstetter (cz) & W Barczay (IIUN)' spare and becomes the third l4-year o1d 9f_gSr-..-.? &4: Bennett f Burndted, L Fenwick; ron 1 Burndred, I WatX; Burndred f 6'e; 12 GII Jansa (cz) 6; 13 GM Plachet- Fenwick, Lz Heremaia; (after Fischer and Mecking) to gain the BrightweiT f watt; Heremaia f Fraser - ka (cz) 5\; 14 Sikora (cz) 4b; 15 Class I Bluei Scott 7 Bruntbg, 7 (2457). tit1e. lctckwood; BowfeL 4 fisher, f passmore; salter Yokac (cz) 3tt. Category 9 *** 4 BowleI; Fisher $ SaTxer; Jones f Sa_lter- *** veldhuizen 7 Me1vi71e; cribbett f Maxweff, f FIDE RATINGS, 1 Jan.1980: rhe top o'connort I ETse; Haa , 7 Newe71; MaxweJ-l f Efse, J O,Connor; Stringer 7 3rd ASIAN TEAM CH'P, Singapore (Dec.) players are: 1 Karpov 2725; 2 Tal 2705; Brinkleg. ainxg 7 Turner; Moonlight f Dainxg, f Bogden; Mccormick 1 Philippines 22128; 2 Ct,ina l9\; 3 3 Korchnoi 2695; 4 Portisch 2655i 5 leg I Hart_ sx, f Cox; Cfover I Biflingburst; Hartle,J , Cox, I Clover; Indonesia 18; 4 Australia 14; 5 Sin- ?olugaevsky 2635; 6-8 Mecking, Petrosi- Bil gden. gapore 11; 6 Hong Kong 10; 7 Thailand rn & Spassky 2615; 9 Ribli 2610; 10 glass 4 Greeni Dunwoodq I preston, I Afexander; No-an f Ferguson; preston f 9; 8 Sri Lanka 6!. Gheorghiu 26O5; Il-14 Balashov, Hiibner, Ansieg, f NoTan; Ferguson f AnsTeg. There were four preliminary grouPs Kavalek & Timn 260O; 15-17 llort' Kas- parker Class 5 Red: f Brohn, T GaJu,7 Jennings; cafu f Sxgnman; Brolm of four teaDs. The Consolation final parov & Tseshkowsky 2595. son . f AtkiH scores: 9 BangJ.ad'esh 2214; 10 Singapore Class 5-llreen: .Irafford *** _ Addie f Trafford, l Kingilon; f Muir; Turnbuff I King_ f6 don; Morris f TurnbuTT; Wifson j Muir-