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Chess Life, Here and There, Compiled by Wm , Hall du Centenaire, Monaco March 24-April 4, 1967 FINAL CROSSTABLE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 S 9 10 W L D Total 1. FISCHER, USA • • x Y2 1 0 y, 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 2 7-2 2. SMYSLOV, USSR • y, x y, Y2 1 y, y, 1 1 1 4 0 5 6Y,-2Y2 3.' LARSEN, Denmark. 0 y, x 1 0 1 1 Y2 1 1 5 2 2 6-3 4. ' GELLER, USSR • • 1 Y, 0 x Y, 1 Y, Y, 1 IF 4 1 4 6-3 5. MATANOVIC, Yugo Y, 0 1 Y, X Y, Y, Y, Y, 1 2 1 6 5-4 6. ' LOMBARDY, USA . 0 Y, 0 0 Y, x Y, 1 1 IF 3 3 3 4Y2 -4 Y, 7. ' GLIGORIC, Yugo • 0 y, 0 Y, Y, Y, X Y, 1 IF 2 2 5 4y,-4Y, S. FORINTOS, Hungary 0 0 Y, Y2 Y, 0 Y, x 1 IF 2 3 4 4-5 9. MAZZONI, France. 0 0 0 0 Y, 0 0 0 x y, 0 2 7 l-S 10. BERGRASER, France 0 0 0 OF 0 OF OF OF Y, x 0 1 S Y,-SY, *Tied; player wi th most wins listed higher. COMING IN JUNE GRANDMASTER LOMBARDY'S FULL REPORT ON THIS EVENT Volume XXII Number 4 April, 1967 EDITOR: Burt Hochberg CONTENTS Leonid Stein's 3rd Gold Medal, by A. Lilienthal. ..................... .. ............ 75 PRESIDENT Marshall Rohland Observation Point, by Mira Radojeic ...................................................... 78 VICI·PRESIDENT The College Column, by Mark L. Schwarc2 ............................................ 79 Isaac Kashdan REGIONAL VICE·PRI!SIDI!NTS Puerto Rico Open ................................................................................ 80, 81 NEW ENGLAND J.mes Bolton H.rold Dondla Chess Life, Here and There, compiled by Wm. Goichberg .... 81, 88, 89, 98 Ell Bourdon EASTERN Rooert LIBelle Lewl. E. Wood Larry Evans on Chess ........................................................................... 82 Michael R.lmo MI D·A TLANTIC E.r1 CI.ry Steve Carruthers Chess Tactics for Beginners, by Dr. E. W. Marchand ........................... 83 Robert Erkel SOUTHERN Phllip wmb I'et.r (.ahd. Games by USCF Members, by Jahn W. Collins ................................... 84 C.rroll M. Crull OREAT LAk•• Don.ld W. HlIdlni' Benko's Bafflers, by Pal Benka ............................................................... Dr. Harv.y McClellln 86 V. E. V.ndenburi' NORTH CENTRAL Dr. Gaori'e Tiers Martinowsky Sweeps Chicago Chess Club Open, by L. S. Smith ........... 88 Robert Lerner Ken Rylthn . J . I .OUTHWESTERN W. W. Crew A ttentlon unlors .................................................................................... 89 John A. Howell P.rk Blthop PACIFIC BUIT.rd Eddy From the Editor's File ........................................................................... 92 Kenneth Jonn Col. P.ul L. Webb Women's Chess, by Kathryn Slater..... .................................................. 93 SECRETARY Dr. Leroy Dubeck U. S. Amateur Championship .................................................................. 94 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR E. B. Edmondson USC F Rating Supplement, Spring 1967..................... .. ......................... 95 NATIONAL CHAIRMEN and OFFiceRS ARMED FORCES CHESS ................ Robert Karch Tournament Life, compiled by Wm. Goichberg ........................................ l 05 COLLEGE CHESS ................................ P.ul C. JOII INDUSTRIAL CHESS ............ St.nl.y W. D. IOn, INTIRNATIONAL AJlFAIRS ............ Jerry Sp.nn Women'. Intern.Uon.L........... K.thryn SI.ter JUNIOR CHI:SS ........ MMM" .......... M_ .. Robert Erltu JOIN THE UNITED STATES CHESS FEDERATION MASTERS AFFAIRS.......................... Robert Byrne USCF is a non.proflt democraUc or,anlutlon. the Official i'overnini' body and FIDE (World NATIONAL OPEN .. " .................... lIerm.n Estrad. Che" Federation) unit for chell In the USA. Anyone Interested In .dvanclni' Amerlc.n chell NOMINATIONS _" __._ .............. MM.M.Franlt Skoll ill ell,lble for membership. with benefits which Include. 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Addre$s all communlc.Uons. and m.ke .n checks p.ysble to: ------- UNITED STATES CHESS FlD.RATION, 10 E." 11th Street, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10003 CHESS LIFE by International Grandmaster Andrei Lilienthal (Text and photo supplied by Novosti Press Agency--APN) For more than a month the epicentre chess title (Stei n and Korchnoi even of chess turbulations in the Soviet Union several times!) The youngest of them, was one of the most beautiful southern 29·year-{)ld Ajvar Gipslis has already cities located at the foot of the fast­ won the Latvian title six times and has flowing mountain river Kura. The 34th long been justly considered Tal's deputy chess championship of the Soviet Union in this Baltic republic. As for chess was taking place in Tbillsl, capital of theory, here Gipslis is unquestionably a Georgia, which is, by the way, the home professor and can boldly lay claim to town of tne world's Chess Queen Nona the role of chief specialist even on the Gaprindashvili. national scale. Quite recently he won The battles between the nation's lead­ another championship title, that of the ing Knights of the Chess Arena started trade unions. But Ajvar's real pro· off in the pre-New Year's days in De­ fession is journalism. He is assistant cember. Twelve Grandmasters and nine editor-in·chief of the chess magazine masters who successfully negotiated the published in Latvia. crucibles of the numerous preliminary But let us now return to the main selective tournaments contended for, in hero of the Tbl1isi battles, Leonid Stein. addition to national honors, one of the No greater stability in the last {our four berths for the Interzonal Tourna· USSR Champion Stein USSR title meets has been shown by ment, which is to take place this coming anyo ne else. He is receiving the high. autumn in Tunis. irrespective of the opponent's chess est award for the third time-the go ld The zonal character of the Soviet fame. It was only an extremely unfor· medal (only once has he been fourth). championship excluded from the entry tunate finish that dragged him down Stein is well known not only to Soviet list those already possessing the cher· to sixth place (lUi) points). It is true, chess players. Recently he appeared in ished key to the gates of the chess though, that this result enabled him Havana as a member of the Soviet Olym· paradise or, in any case, to the closest to become a "seml.grandmaster." Ac· pic team. Many remember, of course, his approaches to them. I am referring cording to the chess classification sys· successes in the Interzonal Tournaments, here, of course, to world champion Ti· tern used in the Soviet Union, he reo and diverse other international meets. gran Petrosian, his recent rival Boris ceives one grandmaster point (the high· And yet it was only seven years ago Spassky and the finalist of the Chal· est title is given for two such successes). (at the 1959 championship of the lengers Matches - ex·champion of the By the way, there has now appeared in Ukraine) that Stein got his master's title. world Mikhail Tal. This time the vet· the Soviet Union a rival for the USA And the grandmaster's-less than five erans Mikhail Botvinnik and Paul Keres, ladies' champion Lisa Lane-Anatoli years back. HIs talent is simply astound· "oversated with chess glo ry," decided Lein's wife, Marina Lein, who is quite ing. The originality and depth of Stein's not to tempt the Fates. With the ex­ a noted chess player in Moscow. (EclitorJ chess schemes organically combine with ception of these five whales, the entire Note: Miss Lone is CO-ChOl(ll'ion with Gisela the remarkable ease in waging a tense cream of modern Soviet chess thought Gre$Ser.) battle, with some kind of special ability graced the championship's score table. Grandmaster Nikolai Krogius, a psy· inherent only in him, for elegantly tak­ I would say that this is the first time chology teacher at the Saratov Teach­ ing adVantage of the opponent's barely in the history of the USSR's national ers Training School, a1so played suc· noticeable slips.
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