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New Zealand Chess NEW ZEATAND CHESS SIJPPI.ES PO BOX 42Og) WATNUIOHATA NEW ZEALAND PHOilE (O4) s64s-578 FAX (O,rl s648-578 STOCKISTS OF THE WIDEST SELECTION OF MODERN CHESS UTERATURE IN AUSTRAISSIA" CHESS SETS, BOAFDS, CLOCKS, STATIONEBY AND ALL PLAYING EOUIPMEi.IT. ELECTBONIC CHESS AM) DATABASE - CHESS COMPUTERS A SPECIA- CHESS L[IY, DISTR|BUTORS OF ltlOVAe and MEPtttSTO WORLD CHAMPTON MOOELS. SEND S.A.E FOB BROCHUBE AND CATALOGUE (STATE YOUR INTEREST) Registered at Post Office HO, Wellington as a magazine F $3.00 AUCKI-AND IU OBTVIT{ SARARJ - 8 BABBNNGTON BOAD, AlrcruAiD 2, VOL 18 No 3 1992 STOCKISTS ALL PLAYING EQI.JIPMEiIT AND CHESS SIATIONERY, June scHooL suppuEs A spEctAltTv. pHoNE (0s) 783-083 PBIITE TITIE GAIIES LTD STBAND ARCADE, CIt EEN ST, AUCKT_AHD NEW ZEAI.AND'S ONLY COMPLETE CHESS RETAIL STOCKIST PHONE (oe) 358 0?82 CHRISTCHUBCH SGORPIO BOOKS LTD STOEKlST CNR HEREFORD STREET, OXFORD TERRACE, CHBIST- CHUBCH. BOOKS, SETS, CLOCKS ETC. 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At the April meeting, Bsrnard Carpinter tendered his rasignation Lhrloes ott rlisc statcd, luwevor, tho whtch accepted with rograt. vhrys mrcsscd horcin rt not nccos- was sanltholse of the Fsdcrdion. ln contrast, Arthur PomeroY was ADDBESSES "...secondad to the Council..." for All articles and letters shdld be affiesecd the rsmaindsr of the current term. to fic 6dtor, 11 Arizona Groa, Korvtui Park, The affiliation business is still a Wbfiirgtbn. poinr of discussion. A few clubs Corresoondenca to lhe fodsdion shotld be addrc*od to tto SocrEtary, IECF, PO Bq intimated they will not be affiliating Weflington. this y6ar. Usually the club is too BABSI 31S, just Subscriotiurs. chanoes of ad*ess and small to incorporate (or As Ben t'lartin's Auckland effort was exc€ptional and this is our usual adnrtising lnqulrl"" dfror.iA Oo ddesscd to doesn't want to). The answer for method of doing progress scores, we us€i it here. We could have called it the Secrctary. some individuals has been mem- a Graphic Optimiser but, instead, opted for the acronym BABSI (Bill And pricos hrclde GST, r*rorc bership with another club to ensure AII +pEcable. Ben Score lndicator). SUBSCRIPTION RATES their affiliation so lhey can partici- has Rates ae lor ono year's subscrptirn. otter- pate in tournaments. Ted Frost s6as r&s are in US do[ars. set up th6 Gambit Chess Club lnc purpose. Subs are Surface mail for this $12. 2 314 sl6 N6s Zcdand $MZl8.00 At the May meeting (7th), the Otrer countics $US20.00 tr€asurer said there were only 12 T IflLES paid affiliation Airmail clubs who had their fees since thoy became due (31 I FOGEBS Austdia and Soulh Pacific $US20.@ March). He expects fees Io come Otrer counties $US25.00 from at least another five, making seventeen in all. As there are 28 Y SIIALL ADVEBTISING BATES listed in the magazine, it would Fr.dlpage $N245.00 appoar we havs lost a few! O SABAPT' Hdf page or tull cohrmn $N222.50 A suggestion that the associa- J-P Wtr-tJtCE Hdf column $NZ1'1,25 tion charge a flat $50 per club and that many more clubs would then the DEAT'LII{E FOR COFf join up is not supportod by B IIABTIT edtor's hands evidence as I see it. Since offering of thc monlh free listings in the magazine, there XT f,OBLE has not been one "unknown" club coming forward; tho only addition E LEUI being akeady incorporated Printod b', Northland ftinlirg Company Ltd Someone asked what the fede- J SAtrATI 22-24 Gdtct Street, Wellirgton ration did with its photocoPier. Nothing, becaus€ of oPerating for the !,leyv Zealand Chess Fsderation Pro- P GAHBETT blems and toner cost ($275 for PO Box 3130 Wallington 2-30@ copies). "Sell it, for what you can get," he said. "l'll buy it," II I'REYER Hadrvae: Atai computer and Epson printer. said the editor. "You can have it; Sofirmre: Tims,orks tlesk Top RlUisher all agreed say aye". r TETGE Continued page72 15 Round one Nigel Metge played well to hold a slight advantage against Tony Mil€s but, as time touble approached for Metge, his position went rapidly i downhill. Ortvin Sarapu, who was billeting Oll, no doubt upset by the Ni* grandmasteds unwillingness to play, allowed Ben Martin to overrun his By Paul $Piller position. It was after discussion with Ortvin Sarapu that I thought it would be a BHartin v OSarapu good kCea to stage a cetegory stsngth tournament. The main purposs I d4ilf6 2c4 c5 3tF96 41fc3ffi 5e4Bg7 6tf3O-O 7Be,2 was to make lM "norms" achievabls for Nsw Zealanders' IlaG 8 0-O Nc7 I Bf4 a6 lO a4 Rb8 ll h3 Bd7 12 e5 HfeS 13 The tournam€nt committee comprised Ortuin Sarapu, Ewen Grsen' Bob BdS bS 14 arb5 axbS 15 OeZ bxc{ 16 Bxc4 dre5 17 ]txe5 flffi Gibbons, Martin Dreyer, Nigsl Metge and Paul spiller. The Finance Phza, 18 Ha7 Bb4 l9 b3 Ro8 2O ola3 ltldb5 2l Nxb5 Bxb5 ?2 Qxei in conjunction with the Auckland Chess Association had run a succossful Bxc4 23 bxc1ilxdS 21frd1 ltlrf4 25 Hr# Rrd 26 Gxb4 BxeS knockout competition at the Plaza during the musical, Chess, using their 27 Oa5 l*O- giant chBss set and were happy to provide a suitable vGlnue for the international tournsy. Rouod tso potential Financing the event was not so easy. Various approaches to Miles played impressively to crush Mark Noble but Vernon Small erred wa6 through a contact that Ewen sponsors proved unsuccessful and it 1n a winning position to give Martin 2/2 against the two NZ international Green had with the managing director of tet*ay Comrrunications mastors. Metge held sn well against lan Hogers and was probably that a generous sponsorship deal was negotiatod. This seems a suitable unlucky not to get a draw. Martin Dreyer w6nt a rook up against time to extend our thanks to Malcolm Dick and his team at Netway. 1$-year-old John-PaulWallace but could not avoid perpetual check. lnvitations were sent to two strong grandmasters, Lembit Oll, Estonia, T lliles v ll f,oblo which, ln coniunction with the othar players, and Tony Miles, England I d4[{f6 2 ltfg eG 3 c4 6 4 f,c3 Bs7 5 OcZ c5 6 drcS cl.t 7 five tournament including eight New Zealanders. gave us a category tbS BxcS I Bf4 I{aG 9 a3 rg4 lO OdZ O-O I I b4 BbG 12 BdG Netway Comrnunications used their own PR consultants to set up OfG 13 cS Bd7 14 tbrd4 BfdS 15 h3 e5 15 hxgt exd4 17 Es5 media opportuniti€s with the press and to produce a professional OeG 18 cxb6 Bc6 19 Brd4 axb6 20 s3 ilc7 27 Qc2h6. 2. Bc4 party followed by tournament programme. lt kickad off with a cocktail OeB 23 il95 hrg5 21olh7+ KfB 25 CDrgT+ KeT fr Bf6+ KG 27 the players' meeting and a reception at ths Auckland Chess Centre. R16 t-O_ It was at ths meeting that the organisers were presonted with a major was too unwell to compete. Apparently he dilemma. Lembit Oll said he Bound three was prescribed a course of antibiotics which he said might affect his Martin look th6 overall lead with an impressive win over Jonathan play. He calculated rhat he needed 9.5/11 to maintain his rating which he Sarfati while the two GMs battl€d to a draw. A good round for New obviously considered too tall a task. This attitud6 was roundly criticised Zealand against Australia with Paul Garbett and Small picking up wins by several players. After fairly heated discussion a vote was taken and against Eddy Levi and Wallace respectivsly. it was ctecicled to fly in a replacement player, namely one lan Bogers. Soma quick calculations on the basis of the substitutbn showed thar we still had a category five tournament but only just. The averago was Bllartin v JSarfati 2350.8, which rounded up gave us 2351, the minimum required' Notes by B Martin lan Bogers flew in th€ following day and began his second round game 1 d4 ilfG 2 f,f3 Played to avoid Jonathan's favourite Benko Gambit just two hours after landing in Auckland- His first round game was 2---6 3 c4 e6 4 ilc3 Be7 5 e3 5 BgE is more enterprising. 5---O-0 6 postponed till tho first rest daY. Bd3 This allows Black to transpose to a Queen's Gambit Accepted where White has lost a tempo with Bd3xc4. ,+6 47 6---dxc4 7 B,rcl cS I O-0 a6 I Oo2 b5 lO B@ Bb7 I I Rdl cxd4 Bound four 12 e*11b4 An annoying move.
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