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MadeinGermany. Notabadthing I NEW ZE.ALAND CHESS Registered at Post Office Headquarters, Wellington as a magazine. tohavestamped Vol.7 No.1 February 1981 80 cents onyour next flight. Look for this sign when you shop for travel Themoneyou fly New Zealand Men's Chess Team departing for Ma1ta. From left: P.Stuart (Captain), O.Sarapu, L.Aptekar, B.Anderson and V.Small. Olympiad reports inside. @lurthansaGERMAN AIBLlNES Royal lnsurance Bldg. 109-113 Oueen Sl., Auckland, N.Z. Tel,: 31529 P.O. Bor 1427 NEl^l ZEALAND CHESS is published bi-nonrhly by the New Zealand chess Associatlon, NEW ZE.ALAND CHESS P.O. Box 8802, Synonds Street, Auckland. Months of issue are I'ebruary, Aprl1, June, August, October and December. unless otherwise stated, the vielrs expressed may not necessarily be those of the Association. Vol.7 No.1 February 1 981 Editorial Wlth this lssue I will have completed 3 P.Sinton. one year as edi.tor of New Zealand Chess. Swiss (Cle11and Trophy): I G.Haase 6\18, It has been an enjoyable year for me but 2-3 J.Sievey & M.Ioord 6, 4 D,Cameron 5. rather a hectic one. The most difficult A gare from the Swlss: task of the edilor is getting an lssue G.HMSE - D.WEEGENMR, Bird's 0pening: out on time r^rith the maxlmum amount of 1 f4 Nf5 2 Nf3 3 b3 Bg7 4 Bb2 o-0 Overseas the 96 \ up-to-date news. news is 5 93 b6 6 Bg2 Bb7 7 0-O d6 8 d3 NbdT trlckiest because it invariably arrives 9 Nbd2 e5 10 Nh4 Bxg2 11 Nxg2 Qe7 the day before you had planned taking 12 e4 Nh5? 13 f5 d5 14 Ktrl dxe4 inEo prl-ntersl the copy the 15 Nxe4 RadB 16 Qe2 Nhf6 17 Ne3 c5 The new editor of New Zealand Chess 18 a4 Nb8 19 Qf3 Nc6 20 Nxf6+ Qxf6 (as April 1981 issue) will be fron the 21 Qe4 Qd6 22 Rf2 Nd4 23 Rafl gxf5 Robert Smith and all contributions 24 Nxf5 Nxf5 25 Rxf5 f6 26 Kg2 Qe5 should now be sent to his address at: 27 Qg4 IcrB 28 Qe4 Qe8 29 Qf3 Qs5 9 James Laurle Road, 30 Rf2 RfeS 31 h4 Kg8 32 h5 Qh6 Ilenders on, 33 Bc3l Bh8 34 Bdz Qg7 35 Be3 Rd6 Auckland 9. 36 Ktr3 Rde6 37 Qe4 Qf7 38 Qg4+ Kf8 Robert has already had considerable 39 40 a5 R6e7 41 Kh2 Rf7 journalistic Qe4 Qd7 experience and is well 42 Bh6+ Ke7 43 Qxe5* fxe5 44 RxfT+ Ke5 known in Auckland for hls T,V. 45 RxdT KxdT 45 Rf7+ Re7 47 Rxe74 KxeT appearancesl I wish hin the best of luck 48 axb6 axb6 49 KgZ l<e6 50 Kf3 Kd5 and hope he w111 get the continued 51 Be3 Ke6 52 Ke4, 1 - 0. support of the chessplayers of Nernr Zeal- and. *** In concluslon I would l-ike to extend The flnaI of Ihe BLACKBIIRN CI]P foT my thanks to the sub-editors; Peter 1980 was played between PaPatoetoe Chess StuarL for the Overseas News, Tony Club and Tawa Chess Club on 1 November' Dowden and Michael Freeman for their At the conclusion of the flnal game reports from the South.Island and Ortvin the match score was 6 - 6, however Tawa Sarapu for the annotated games, as well won on countback with victories on as to all those chessplayers who have boards 2,3,4,5 and 9 with draws on contrlbuted during the year.The success boards 6 & 7. of the magazine w111 contioue to depend Eu1l results nith PaPatoetoe playing on such contributions I whlte on odd numbered boards were: Paul Spilfer. TAWA PAPATOETOE RESULT 1 K.llollis D.StoreY 0 - 1 2 G.Aldridge S.IlarE I - 0 L ocal News 3 C.Fraser D,Brunton 1 - 0 Dunedin: Tony Dowdenrreports from P.Luten 1 0 1980: 4 J.Usnar - Final Otago Chess Club results for 5 R.Dive A,Haddock 1 - 0 Otago Senior Champtonship: 1 T'Dowden' 6 R.I{ood T.Wong - , 2 D.Watts, 3 A.Kwok. '4 7 R,MltcheIL R"IlamPlon \ - '4 otago Irtermediate cn_*:fStgt:p, 8 M.Small L.Petty 0 - I I P.Cu1len & A.I(nowles 3 R.Gonin 9 A.Aldridge J.Bates 1 - 0 Otago Junior Chanpionship: 1 T.Stiles' 10 T.Powell T.McRae 0 - I D'.Camero4. 2 J.cibb, 3 11 P.Skurr C.GoldworthY 0 - 1 I 2 J.Gibb Perpetual Eandlcap: J.Sievey, 12 R.Carter T.GallowaY 0 - 1 CanYou See the Combina,tions? Burroughs Computers New Zea,Land j-oLrs Solut on page 32. Championship 1980 - 81 Report by p.stuart The 88th New Zealand Congress, spon- capped by the fact that the World sored by Burroughs Ltd, hTas organised by Veteran Games were on in Chrlstchurch ;E% %.&' the Canterbury Chess Club and played in at the same time and suitable playlng ,ru Lincoln Collegers Memorial IIa11. sites incorporaEing accomodation it "%avza'#,,%tt %-.% Vlsitlng players were also accomnodated nearer to central Christchurch were l\c:r.. at the College with fine recreational just not available, % t %% facllities available (ever heard of A neraT event at Congress this year q) + %t% % 8 table-tennis elbow? I hadnrt until now) was a North Island v South Island %%1ft, in pleasant surroundings - the only real soccer match organised by Tony Dowden tilt% i % Tftg%n' drawback t'/as that Chrlstehurch was nost rarho turned out to be the most accom- + definitely not part J'L of those surround- plished pi.ayer on the fteld - although, %7ru% %t% % ings; in fact, I heard several 1ocal considering the rest of us, this is ,N, players snivelling about not getting any saying very little! The North Island vru,fr, 1 % % advantage from a rhomer Congress,! Never- nevertheless ran out an easy 4:0 theless I think the thirty-odd visitors winner wlth tlro goals each to Er^ren staying at the College had a very enjoy- Green and Bruce Watson. able Congress. There was also a bridge match $'ith No. I White to move No, 2 Black to move The playlng room r4ras rather too sma1l five or slx hours play virtually every for the number competing but Ehe open night between Premier Reserve ranalysls an{ air roomr worked out okay ln Chanplonshlp players - I do not wlsh to the almost total absence of raln during dwe11 on the results except to observe ,,,ffi. the tournament, at least in dayti-me, that the Chanpionship pai.r held rather It rnust be mentioned, however, that poor cards and that none of the four tt %% ,,,,,ru-_ the Canterbury Chess Club organlsers who usually played bridge had especiaF t%% 7ru.6%i were aware of the shortcomlngs of the 1y good chess results! Llncofn set-up but were severely handi- , %%t %t% 88th BURROUGHS COMPUTERS NE}/ ZEALAND CHAMPIONSHIP, 28 DEC, 19BO - 9 JAN. 1981 A7,ru, )fr, t "ffi.^, % '%M, It % %',g : "//rrMfr%. g 1 2 3 \ 5 5 7 B 9 l0 11 12 T I 1 Nokes R. l. Canterburg x)z+)+L+11t1+ 7 fr7ru. i %7ru %%it: 2 Sa rapu 0 . North Shore }x+1i+l00lll 7 I Smal I V.A. canterburg + + x 0 + I + + + 111 7 4 Dekker K. North shore +0lx+0111iI0 6 5 Green E.l'1. Howick-Pakuranqa ++++ x 10+ +I+1 6 6 Levene M, North Shore 6 No . 3 [,,lhi te to mo ve No. 4 Black to move ++010x101+ii 7 Aptekar L. pacific +01+10x!+Ll+ 5+ 8 \y'atson B. R. North Shore 0l+0+1tx,r0+1 5+ 9 Smi th R.W. waitenata 01] 0 + 0 + + x j l1 5* ,H:".ru, E % 10 Stuart P.W. NorLh Shore :1 00!+*i1]xL+ p, 1l Jackson J.R- ,veTson 0 0 0 0 n * 0 i 0 i x 1 3 %'x %%% 12 Anderson B. R. Canterburg l00l00iol+0x 2+ : ".//% t % %%it % % The number of entries for the 1980/1 recen! arrival from the Netherlands), 7ru /",ru ,t% %A% Burroughs Computers New Zealand Champi- Mark Levene and rBurglarr Bruce .fr"'%,t",%fr.|: onshlp was again disappointing just Watson. /,fr, ,:, - A% /& : twelve, the actual number required. The tournament turned out Eo be the "%H% Paradoxically, recent history suggests strangest New Zealand Champlonshlp ln E]w%% that higher prize funds actrrally dis- which Irve played. No player Lras able courage per:p1e from errtering! to really break away from the rest of ft%% % ,ru,. , lru. Therr: were five forner c-hampions the fleld. After five rounds a single (lncl-rrding the three defending cham- polnt covered eleven players and at the plons) competing as velf as three play- end only two polnts separated first and ing ln the Champiouship for the first tenth - had I won my last round game No. 5 White to move No. 6 Black to nnve time, these latter being Kees Dekker (a (instead of losing) I would have been in round one wad not as safe as he There was also a triple tle for equal third instead of tenth! This Re5 41 Ne3 Rf8 42 93 95 43 hxg5 apparently thought but thls crushing fourth place among Dekker, Green and was to be his only one. His Levene. Kees Dekker served notice that illustrates the intensity of the compe- Rxg5 44 Rh2 Bh6 45 Rel Qe5 46 Qd5 defeat rounds was he was not going to be I tournament tition with ten of the twelve competi- Qe7 47 Qd.