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New Zealand Chess STOP PRESS Oflicial journal of the New Zealand Chess Olympiad results Federation (krc.), published in February, The New T,ealatd Open team at the 1998 New Zealand Chess April, June, August, October, December. Olympiad scored 26t/, points, just over 50 per Vol 24 Number 5 October 1998 Editorial correspondence, copy and advertis- cent, and won 7 of its 13 matches and drew Contents ing inquiries should be sent to one. The team placed 53rd equal after being seeded 69th in the held of I 10. New Zealand Chess 4 Ashburton CC hosted another successful NZCF event, with David Guthrie adding the The women's team was seeded 55th of 72 c/- 103 Koromiko Road South Istand title to his junior record. teams, and scored l5/. points to place 66th. Gonville (see These results are comparable with those of 8 Paul Garbett has been in impressive form, helped by top competition in Hawaii ll/anganui Open. recent Olympiads. below), and was never in real danger in winning the North Shore Opinions expressed in articles, letter and judging games at the North Island Bjelobrk takes junior title 14 First impressions have been confrmed in of the best other contributions are those of the authors. juniors. Following on from his hne performance in Championship - both prizes were won by Letters on chess topics are welcome; limit 150 the North Island Championship, Igor Bjelobrk in the Waitakere words and marked "for publication." 16 Peter Stuart throws fresh light on his game against Russell Dive Junior won his first six games to win the NZ Trust Open. EDITORIAL title at the tournament in Auckland, with a Editor, Ted Frost. roturd to go. He also took the Under-l8, 18 Not a very wide selection of New Zealand news. news editor, Peter Stuart. and Schoolpupil titles. Overseas Under-16 NZ 18 Bruce Barnard in contention for the current correspondence championship, after winning Junior titleholder Ryan Trass had an early SI'BSCRIPTIONS the 1997-98 title. draw and loss to Michael McNabb, of Canter- Subscription pa).ments should be sent to bury, so although he beat Bjelobrk in the frnal 19 Some New Zealand games - we hope to have room for more in next issue. second. Chris Jardine round, he finished 19 Love and Bunidge share the South Island Rapid title. Treasurer, NZCF Wang Puchen, of Auckland, who turned 8 in just 6 Sudan Avenue January, was one of 5 players to finish 3= in 20 Paul Garbett reports on his play against several GMs in Hawaii - but an M norm has Milfurd, Auckland the overall event on 5 points and took the eluded him again. Under-14, Under-12 and Under-l0 titles. 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Howard Rest of IN TIIE NEXT ISSIIE: Full reports and games from the 1998 olympiad and NZ Junior and was still playing chess this year and his record economy Age Group.Championships, tributes to Howard Whitlock and Paul Tuffery, end-of-year available - send for details over the board and in correspondence ex- Back issues ratings, and a selection of New Zealand games. tended over 7l years. RATES ADYERTISING Tributes to Howard Whitlock and Paul Full page, $NZ$45.00 Tuffery will be paid in the next issue of NZ Half-page or full column, $N222.50 Chess. Half column, NZ $12.00 ON THE COWR: David Guthie, who was the strongest jltnior player in New Zealand, is COPY DEADLINE now making his mark on the open scene bv December issue, Saturday, November 28. winning the 1998 South Island Championship. received the trophy Roy Keeling, H on epage : http://ourworld.compuserve.com/ He from president ofthe host chb, Ashburton. homepages/nzchess

Email to ed itor : [email protected] NZ Chess South Island Championship By Quentin Johnson The 1998 South Island Championship was and frnding himself with a lead of I % points hosted by the Ashburton Chess Club, and as goping into the last round. With the exception usual their organisation of the event was of van Ginkel, who drew, many of his oppo- excellent. Major sponsor, the Hotel Ashbur- nents up to this point had put paid to their ton, provided a venue tlat was spacious and own chances with inexplicably weak opening quiet, as well as accommodation at reduced play - it only remained for David to finish price. Ex-member Stephen Taylor directed the them off. Perhaps his reputation for being well tournament with a sure and steady hand. prepared in the opening scared his weaker Despite these advantages and the attractive opponents out of their normal game - with entry form detailing the history of the Ashbur- unsurprising results ton Chess Club there was a relatively low h the last round Guthrie prevented his entry of 22. Without the new time control opponent from erring by offering an early format of 40 moves in one hour 45 minutes draw, to finish on 7/8 arrd take the title a full plus a 30-minute guillotine finish this figure point clear of van Ginkel and Johnson. Van might have been even lower, as a number of Ginkel was rurbeaten, but four draws were too players were able to commute each day from many to concede and hope to stay in touch Christchurch. with Guthrie. In contrast to the recent North Island event, Johnson finished with 3% in the last four Round 2 e6 6.Qg5 Qe7 7.Qd3 AbdT 8.(H) c5 9.Wel this included only two juniors: Matthew Mc- rounds to make up for an indifferent start and cxd4 10.6e2 Eb6 ll.ohl acs 12.9c4 (H) Nabb for whom this was his hnal year as a grab a share of second. A point further back McNabb allowed Guthrie to sac a Bishop on l3.Oexd4 6ce4 l4.Qxf6 Oxf6 l5.Wh4 Od5 junior, and young Andrea Richardson from and 4= on 5/8 were McNabb and Dole.1s, f7 in a Pirc for a quick victory. Joining l6.Ue4 f5 l7.Wel Qf6 l8.Oxf5 Qxb2 19.Qxd5 Ashburton, who competed bravely despite the ahead of the "peloton" wltich started at 4% Guthrie on 2 were van Ginkel and Haase, Qxol 20.4e7+ 6h8 age discrepancy between her and the rest of overcoming Dolejs and Arie Nijman respec- Grade prizes fiercely contested the held. tively. In the game Coates-Gladkikh, Black Competition tbr the grade prtzes was un- Top seed and clear favourite to take the weakened his kingside, after which White derstandably fierce, with the lower half of the title was David Guthrie from Otago - the only found a move (Ng5) that guaranteed at least a field being far more compact in its range of player rated over 2000. The player most likely perpetual check, overlooking another move ratings. Strong finishes with 3 points in the to challenge him was John van Ginkel of (Ne5) that threatened mate in three different second half of the tournament enabled Nigel game was with Nelson, as Hilton Bennett, last year's winner, ways. The drawn. Meanwhile, Richardson of Ashbtrrton and Bruce Gloistein withdrew at a late stage owing to illness. a win over Nigel Richardson, Trevor Rowell of Canterbury to emerge clear of the rest and staked an early claim for the upset prize. Hopefuls and a dark horse split lst and 2nd prizes on 4'/J8. Below these carne a group ofhopefuls that Meanwhile, the leader in the grade for most Guthrie,D - McNabb,M included Stephen Coates, Quentin Johnson of the tournament, Roy Keeling of Ashburton, R 2 [806] and Matthew McNabb of Canterbury, Graham Iost his last two games to finish on 4, but his 1.d4 d6 2.e4 96 3.6c3 Qg7 4.Qc4 Od7 5.4{3 Haase of Otago, and Dan Dolejs of Nelson. win from Stephen Coates in round 6 easily e5 6.Qxf7+ 6xf7 7.695+ 6e8 8.Oe6 Ue7 Dark horse of the tournament was Alexei took the upset prize. 9.oxc7+ 6d8 l0.o3d5 wfl rl.axa8 adf6 2t.AgS Gladkikh, a recent addition to the Canterbury l2.Aac7 exd4 l3.H) 6c7 l4.Qg5 Ofg8 2l.Oe5! Threatcns sevclal dillcrcnt matcs. club, whose 3= placing in the South lsland Round 1 f5.Ob5 9e6 l6.6xd4 Wxe4 l?.Oxe7 OxeT Exf8 Rapid on the day before the championship 18.Eel Wxd4 l9.Exe7 Wxdl+ 2O.Exdl l-0 21...Q.d1 22.A96+ 6gE 23.Exf8+ The top halfgenerally beat the bottom half, 24.fu7+ t-Ot started indicated that his provisional rating of with two exceptions - Johnson and Rex Scarf Coates,S - Gladkikh,A Round 3 1600 was well on the conservative side. were held to draws respectively by Peter Boag R 2 [D001 In the event play went largely to form, and Trevor Rowell. Van Ginkel took a safety-hrst approach as 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Oc3 Of6 4.R exf3 5.OxR Guthrie swiftly despatching all contenders White in a KID against Guthrie and was NZ Chess NZ Chess 7

rewarded with a draw Coates eventually Scores: Guthrie 4'A, var Ginkel 4; Johnson, Johnson beat Haase to catch up with van prevailed over Haase in the second session to McNabb & Ntjman 3%. Ginkel, while Coats'challenge was effectively ended when he Ieft a bishop en prise with WANTED TO BUY join them in the lead, as did Johnson with a Coates,S - Guthrie,D McNabb and Gladkikh check against Keeling. Dolejs moved up at the win over Rowell. R 5 [Bl2] drew. expense of Gladkikh when the latter resigned Chess books, Scores: Guthrie, van Ginkel, Coates & r.d4 d5 2.e4 c6 3.R 96 4.Qe3 Qg7 5.c3 Od7 a little prematurely - thinking he was losing a Periodicals Johnson 2Y,; Haase, Dolejs, Gladkikh, Gold 6.e5 f6 7.f4 0h6 8.Qd3 UU0 C.bS fxe5 l0.fxcs rook. & other chess literature Johnson and Keeling 2. Oxe5 ll.Qxh6 Oxd3+ l2.Wxd3 Qxh6 l3.Ot3 Scores: Guthrie 5%; var, Ginkel & 9f5 14.9e2 (H) 15.(H) c5 l6.6hr Qg7 4%; McNabb, Dolejs & Keeling 4. van Ginkel,J Guthrie,D prices paid, travel - l7.Abd2 cxd4 l8.cxd4 Qxd4 l9.Oxd4 Wxd4 Good will R 3 Gladkikh,A - Dolejs,D [Ee2] 20.Of3 Wg7 2l.Eael e6 22.Ag5 We7 23.94 R 6 l.of3 of6 2.d4 963.c4 9g7 4.Oc3 (H) 5.e4 d6 Uxg5 24.gxf5 exf5 25.Ue6+ Ef7 26.Uxd5 Ed8 [B0l] Please send details to: 6.Qe2 e5 ?.dxeS dxe5 8.Uxd8 ExdS 9.Qg5 Ef8 27.g1c4 f4 28.Ee4 t3 29.Eg1 gf5 3O.Ee7 f2 l.e4 d5 2.exd5 Of6 3.d4 e6 4.dxe6 Qxe6 10.(H) obdT lr.Efdl h6 12.Qh4 0c5 13.Qxf6 0-l 5.Qe2 Oc6 6.Of3 Qb4+ 7.c3 Qd6 8.Qg5 Qf5 Jacob Feenstra, Bookseller t4.Od5 Qd8 ls.Oxes c6 r6.Oc3 Qf6 9.Oh4 Qe4 10.f3 Qg6 1l.Oxg6 hxg6l2.f4 Ve7 9xf6 Johnson,Q - Dolejs,D 10 Ree St., Waitati 9060 17.f4 Ee8 1E.Ed2 Qxe5 19.fxe5 Qe6 20.Eadl 13.9d3 0--(H 14.od2 Ede8 r5.oc4 0b8 R 5 [E0l] (Dunedin) a5 21.b3 6f8 22.h3 6e7 B.bfZ ad7 24.^a4 16.Oxd6 cxd6 17.Qxf6 Uxf6 18.g3 95 l9.fxg5 Oxes 25.0b6 Ead8 26.6e3 hS 27.ExdB %-% r.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.g3 Af6 4.992 c6 5.6f3 dxc4 Uxg5 20.o4 Ee3 21.8f5 Uh6 22.8h5 gxhs Ph. (03) 4821457 6.0-0 Qe7 7.0e5 (H) s.Oc3 ObdT 9.Oxcl gtr6 23.Uxe3 gtxh2+ 0_l Round 4 (03) 4821838 t0.Ae5 Afds ll.e4 f6 l2.exd5 fxe5 l3.dxc6 Fax Round 7 Johnson chose to play the Slav Defence bxc6 l4.dxe5 Uc7 l5.Ue2 a5 l6.Eel Qc5 Dolejs' 1.M did not overly trouble Guthrie, (about which he knows little) against Guthrie, l7.Qe3 Qa6 18.9c2 9xe5 l9.Qxc5 Uxc5 who by winning captured the South island and soon left the main line of the Botvirnik 20.Exe6 EacS 2l.Ecl Qc4 22.Eeel Ecd8 l0.Qe2 a6 ll.0{ fu7 l2.Ecl c6 I3.Qd3 Qfs title. This was because van Ginkel-.Iohrson variation with a blunder. As Coates drew with 23.Qe4 h6 24.b3 gfi 14.e4 dxe4 l5.6xe4 Oxc4 l6.Qxe4 Qxc4 eventually drawn after both players van Ginkel, this left Guthrie out in front. was l7.E(xe4 6d5 l8.Exc8+ WxeS l9'Eb3 Ec7 missed a relatively simple zugzwang that won Gladkikh beat Haase and Dolejs beat Keeling 20.Eel 9c7 21.g3 h6 22.bg2Bd&23.ah4Qe7 a pawn for Black in a good N v bad B ending to stay in touch with the lead. ,r%, ,%, 24.44 Qf6 25.8e4 Wc8 26.fu5 Eet] 27.t4 Qdu ,; White could still have drawn with accurate Scores: Guthrie 3/r;van Ginkel, Coates aud 28.WR Qlr6 29.*.4Exe4 30.Uxc4 Ud8 3l.Qca play, but the guillotine hnish would have Dolejs 3. Of6 32.8e5 Ed5+ 33.Exd5 Oxd5 34.Oxb6 t'% % offered good practical chances for the win. 6xb6 35.b3 0d5 36.6d2 fs 37.6R h5 38.h3 JohnsonrQ join Guthrie,D - %.i, McNabb beat Nijman to these two l% bn O.gl 40.gxh5 gxh5 41.6e2 6e6 R4 w 96 [Dl4] points adrift of Guthrie. Nigel Richardson 42.6d3 b5 43.a4 6d6 44.axb5 axb5 45.b4 %A% went to the lead in the grade with a win over 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Of3 Of6 4.Oc3 e6 5.Qg5 ,,t%: tu1 46.bct bds 47.Qdz? Keeling, ahead of Keeling and Boag, who beat dxc4 6.e4 b5 7.e5 h6 S.Qh4 95 9.6xg5 hxg5 /tffi Haase. lO.Qxgs Obd? 1l.exf6 Qb7 12.93 c5 13.d5 b4 W% Bruce Gloistein continued l4.Qxc4 bxc3 15.dxe6 Oe5 l6.exf7+ 6xf7 Meanwhile, Coates' wretched second half the tournament 17.Qbs+ 1{) :",.x'"ry. % by saccing a piece to draw and stay in Round 5 2s.ods tu4 26.*7+ 6h8 27.0g6+ 698 contention. %i%%, 28.0xf8 ExfS 29.bxc4 Eb6 30.c5 Wd8 van Johnson & Coates was soon in difficulty in the opening Scores: Guthrie 6%, Ginkel, :i%,9%t'% 31.Qxc6 Od3 32.8b2 6h8 33.Qg2 a4 34.a3 McNabb 5; N Richardson 4%: Dolejs, Glad- /,ru, against Guthrie, losing two pawns and eventu- 9c? 35.c6 Qa6 36.8e6 698 37.Qd5 0h7 7ffi. /ffi, : ally the game. Van Ginkel showed that an kikh, Boag and Keeling 4. 33.9s!+ 96 t{) i%@%% isolated d-pawn is not always a weakness in van Ginkel,J - Johnson,Q %7W%, the ending by beating Gladkikh to move into Round 6 R 7 [A15] second by himself. Johnson, McNabb and Guthrie held the pawn and won against Notes by Quentin Johnson Nijman formed the chasing pack by beating Nijman's Benko to iucrease his lead as Mc- l.c4 Af6 2.ilf3 e6 3.d4 d5 4.Ad Ob4 5.e3 G{) Dolejs, Scarf and Hamish Gold respectively. Nabb drew with van Ginkel 6.0d2 Oc6 7.Ecl Ee8 8.a3 Qd6 9.cxd5 exd5 47.Qe3 *6 48.h4:

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47...tu&? Van Ginkel overcanle Nigel Richardson to 47...*6 48.Qe3 h4 49.9d2 Oxd4'50.Qe3 claim second along with whoever won from (50.Qcl OR 5l.Qe3 ,el+ 52.be2 be4 fi.9f2 McNabb-Johnson. McNabb followed up a NE\N Z EALAND Off-+;50...Oe6 51.Qcl c5 52.bxc5 0xc5 promising pawn sac in a Grand Prix Attack by (52...0xc5+ 53.6c3 Oe6 54.Qe3 6e4 55.Qf2 exchanging queens to regain his material. He Oxfll 56.Qxh4 Oxh3 57.Qg3:) 53.6c3 M+ then lost a pawn and allowed Johnson to MASTERS GAMES s4.bb2 0d4 55.Qe3 6ds s6.Qf2 0R s7.6b3 convert it in a drawish rook ending. 6ea Sg.6xU+ 6xf4 59.6c3 6g5 60.6d3 6h5 Dolejs beat Boag to join McNabb on 5 WANGANUI 61.6e3 695 62.Qxh4 6xh4 63.6f4:. points. Keeling's hopes for winning the grade 6th - 14th February 1999 48.Qc1 Of6 49.Qe3 Oe4 50.Qgl Od6 51.Qf2 prize were ended by Nijman, while Gloistein Oc4 52.Qgl 6e6 53.Qf2 6d6 s4.Qg1 Ob6 beat Allan Mulligan to catch Richardson on 55.Qe3 ods 56.Qd2 0r0 SZ.Q* Ods s8.Qd2 4/. along with Nijman, Gladkikh, Coates and be6 59.bc2%-% Gold. I CHESS I Dolejs,D - Guthrie,D McNabb,M - Johnson,Q Saturday 13th February 1999 R 8 R 7 [A00] [823] All grades six round 30/30 1.b4 d5 2.9b2 Qg4 3.OA Od7 4.a3 Ogf6 5.e3 1.e4 c5 2.fu3 e6 3.f.{ fu6 4.Qb5 OgeT 5.AR e5 6.h3 Qxf3 7.WxB gd6 8.Qb5 c6 9.Qa4 0{) a6 6.Qxc6 Axc6 7.r4 d5 8.exd5 exdS 9.d4 10.d3 Ee8 11.Od2 We7 l2.We2 s5 13.c3 b5 Qe6 10.Qe3 b6 11.0{ Qe7 12.f5 Qxf5 \ryith 56 other sports to choose from 14.Qc2 c5 15.bxc5 Oxc5 16.0-{ EabS 17.6R l3.dxc5 Qxc5 l,l.Qxc5 bxc5 15.Wxd5 Uxd5 l6.0xd5 0-{ l7.Ae5 Oxe5 l8.Exf5 f6 19.a5 AEROBICS SOFTBALL h5 18.d4 OcdT 19.Oh4 96 20.93 e4 EQUESTRIAN PETANQUE Ead8 20.Edr bn 21.fu3 Exdr+ 22.Oxdl Ed8 ATHLETICS FLYING POOL 8&9 BALL SPEEDWAY 25.6f2 Exas 23.Oe3 Ebs 24.b3 Eb5 26.*4 BADMINTON COLF {OADRUNS/WALK SQUASH Axc4 27.bxc{ 6e6 28.Ed5 Ea2 29.Exc5 6d6 BASKETBALL HOCKEY ROCK'N'ROLL SWIMMING 30.8c8 Exc2+ 3r.693 32.Ed8+ 6e5 96 BRIDGE I\1)(x)rt BOWLS TABLETENNIS 33.Ee8+ 6d,l 34.8c6 a5 35.Ext6 Exc4 36.Ea6 ROWING-Outdoor a4 37.694 6c3+ 38.695 6b3 39.93 a3 40.6h6 CANOEING \I)OOR CRICKET ROWING-Indoor TENPIN BOWLS DI TADV 1N a2 O-l CHESS \l)()()r? NtrTRA I 'O Ttr,NNIS 'I'OUCH JUDO SHOOTINC. Richardson,N - van Ginkel,J CRICKET LAWN BOWLS Clar'?rrgct/ Pistol TRIATHLON R 8 [806] CROQUET CYCLING LINEDANCING Smallborc TWILIGHT 4OO 1.e4 2.fu3 Qg7 3.Qc4 e6 4.14 fu1 s.Of3 ds 96 CYCLING 3-Da1 MOTOCROSS SKATING-Artistic VOLLEYBALL 6.Qb3 c5 7.9a4+ Qd7 8.Qxd7+ WxdT 9.e5 IOLNTAIN BIKING SKATINC-Spccd WATERSKIING Obc6 10.d4 cxd4 11.Ob5 Oxes l2.Obxd4 DANCESPORT NETBALL WOODCHOPPING Oxf3+ l3.6xf3 6c6 l4.ca d4 l5.Eb3 (H) DARTS SNOOKER 21.f4 exf3 22.Exf3 zl.WgZ Ags za.EA NPTENTTEEDTNTA Qr)/-r-ED \/A *l 16.h4 h5 17.Egl Efe8 r8.Qd2 dxc3 l9.Qxc3 Of6 25.Qb3 Ofe4 26.Qxd5 27.Efi 'IJTTNIE fun Qxc3+ 20.Uxc3 e5 21.Edl exl4+ 22.&f2Wg4 Oexhf+ 28.6h2 Uxh4 29.QxI7+ 6xfl 30.8R+ 23.Eds Ee3 24.Wd2 gg3+ 25.6f1 ExR+ ENTER 697 31.692 Wxg3+ 32.Bxg3 Qxg3 33.6xg3 NOW! 26.gx8 Wxf3+ 27.Wf2 Wxd5 28.Wxf4 Ee8 Exe3+ 34.692 EfS 0-1 29.flg3 Udr+ 30.692 Ee2+ 0-l Phone, Fax or write to us: New Zealand Masters Games Round 8 1998 NZ Chess games file NAME: Gladkikh-Guthrie lasted long enough to be T\e NZ Chess l;Je of all games published i STREET: identifred as a Queen's Gambit Declined, 1998, including annotations, will be availabl leaving the battle for the minor placints to disk after publication of the Decem SUBURB: take centre stage. ssue. It will be available in .cbf, .cbh or Inquities to the editor. CITY: NZ Chess Tel: 06 345 4555 Fax:06 345 0015 l0 il

North Shore Open The hard luck stories belonged to Watson 23.*5 , or even 23.Qe5, was better when By NM Peter Stuart and Wheeler, both of whom met strong helds White should be able to consolidate his but stumbled in the last round. material advantage. It was perhaps unfortunate that FIDE sched- clear, position gave Garbett the full point. Contrariwise Mclaren and Jarina met com- 23...ExBt 24.Exd6 uled an Olympiad at the same time as the 25th Hart essayed an injudicious exchange ofrooks paratively weak helds after their second round The only move as 24...Qxh2+ was threat- North Shore Open as several top players who against Watson whose resulting initiative net- losses and played the Swiss gambit to the hilt, have entered apparently pre- ted two pawns and one point. Mclaren contin- ened. would normally winning all their remaining games. Leonard ferred to play in Elista. The result was that the ued his recovery when Macdonald blundered a 24...4xd6? did this convincingly while Mario bore a field of 48 was rather light in 2000+ players pawn in an equal position and dark horse 24...Vxd6 25.Wxd6 Axd6 26.gxR exB gives charmed life! but, even so, the top two seeds met only in the Mario Jarina won an interesting game against better chances of holding. Many games were marred by serious mis- sixth and hnal round. Bjetobrk after the latter had had much the takes but even some of these were very 25.gxf3 Ec8 26.Exe4t Wxe4 27.9xc8+ 6xc8 Paul Garbett had to be the red-hot favowite better of it. Another game of fluctuating interesting. A selection follows. 28.fxe4 Od6 29.f3 017 30.h3 Ob5 3l.Qb2 6e6 as he has been in very good form since his fortunes was that between Mark Henderson 32.&n ad6 33.693 c4 34.&94 Ofl 35.bxc4 return from two tournaments in Hawaii. That and Prashant Mistry in which the former East,S - Hart,R Ad6 36.Qd4 6xc4 37.Qxa7 Oe5+ 38.6g3 h5 form continued as he conceded only half a obtained a winning position after Mistry sacri- R 3 [Al2] 39.0d4 *a 40.a4 6d6 41.f4 l-0. point to the half point bye! The consistent ficed a pawn unsoundly. Henderson, however, - r.OA d5 2.e3 il16 3.c4 c6 4.b3 Qfs 5.Qb2 e6 Leonard Mclaren, the not so consistent Bruce later went badly astray, allowing Mistry a Sinclair - Wheeler 6.0e2 ObdT 7.(H) Qd6 8.d3 e5 9.abd2 We7 ldark Sinclair winning attack but the latter, after winning his French [Cl5] Watsorq the under-estimated 10.Ecl o-0 ll.Eel EfeS l2.Qfi e4 l3.Ad4 and the unpredictable Ralph Hart looked most opponents queen, blundered into a mating l.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Ad Qb4 4.a3 Qxc3+ 5.bxc3 likely to test Paul. sequence dxe4 6.f3? The hrst two rounds were rapid chess, 30 I-eaders fought to the end 6.994 is normal. minutes per player, and there were no upsets Garbett and Watson trow sharcd the lead on 6...Qd7 7.0h3 in the first. Ln round 2, however, Mclaren lost 4% points while Mclaren, Wheeler, .larina 7.fxe4? Uh4+ --+. to Igor Bjelobrk while Watson drew Mtlt and Henderson all had 4 OnN' il' the tbttr Geoffrey Gill. Garbett, Hart and Bruce 7...Qc6 T 8.fxe4 Qxe4 9.Of2 Qg6 l0'Ebl b6 players on 4 drew in the tinal round could Wheeler remained unscathed alter round ll.Qe2 Od7 l2.O-O fu1 13.QR Ec8 l4.Oe4 those on 3%, Sinclair and Hart among others, three, the first with a standard time control 0-0 ls.wel ofs l6.Qf4 h6 17.94 *t l&.ct harbour hopes ofsharing in the prize money. (40 moves in 90 minutes + 20 minute guillo- Oc6 f9.Bdf We7 20.Uc3 e5 2l.dxe5 Odxe5 The game between the leaders was a credit tine). 22.992 f6 23.h3 Ecds 2a.Ag3 9n 25.Qds to both players; they could easily have assured Ec5+ 26.Qe3 9a5 27.9b3 6"7 23.Qxf7+ flxf7 Half-point bye popular themselves of at least $200 by agreeing a 29.c5 946 30.Oe4 Ue2 3l.Edel Ua6 32.9e6 No fewer than seven players had opted for a draw. Garbett looked to gain some advantage Od5 33.Exf6? half-point bye in round 4 and these included in the middle-game when Watson offered a l3...Qxh2+l l4.6xh2 694+ l5.69l Black is probably winning anyway but this Garbett and Hart. This meant that Sinclair and pawn in an attempt to muddy the waters. Paul 15.693 9d6+ 16.f4 exR+ l7.6xR Ode5+ hastens the end. Wheeler met on top board with the former ignored the bait and both sides then got leads to mate. 33...4xf6 34.Oxf6+ gxf6 35.Qxh6 Ede8 0-1. the opposing king- playing a probably unsound gambit; Bruce attacking chances against 15...8h4 16.O4R exB 17.OxR uxf2+ lE.6hl playing more accurately in the Lim - Watson was well on top when Mark conrmitted hara side, Garbett Ee6 0-l kiri on f6. Thus Wheeler finished the Saturday ensuing complications to [ake clear t-rrst place. Sicilian [B83] in the lead with a perfect score; Garbett, Mclaren got on top of Henderson quite Kesseler Emett l.e4 c5 2.Of3 e6 3.d4 cxd,l .1.Axd4 Of6 5.fu3 Watson and Hart were the closest pursuers on quickly to reach 5 points and it looked certain - Three Knights[C58] d6 6.Qe2 Qe7 7.0-0 0-0 8.Qe3 a6 9.a4 b6 3% points. that Wheeler would join him as he obtained a 10.f4 Qb7 rl.Qd3 0bd7 l2.Ob3 9c7 l3.We2 Sunday morning in round 5 Garbett huge kingside attack against Jarina. Bruce, On l.e4 e5 2.Of3 Oc6 3.Qc4 Of6 4.Og5 d5 5.exd5 Oc5 l4.axc5 bxcS 15.b3 Uc6 16.e5 Od5 gained slight middle-game advantage however, passed up numerous clearly Mnning a Oa5 6.Qb5+ c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Qa4 h6 9.Of3 l7.6xd5 exd5 l8.Qd2 f5 l9.exd6 Qxd6 against Wheeler and later won a pawn. Reso- lines and eventually saw his attack peter out c5l3.Uel Qd6 r0.d3 0-0 rl.Qd2 EbS 12.0-0 20.Ehs 96 2l.Wg5 Qc7 22.Qe2 Qd8 23.8g3 lute defence by Bruce eventually brought and with it a couple of pawns. Oxe4 Ob7 14.0c3 Qd7 15.Qxd7 WxdT l6.Oe4 Qtb 24.Eadl EaeS 25.Q13 Ee4'? about a basic ending of versus but a There was no doubt that Garbett deserved to i+f. l+l 17.dxe4 f5 l8.Edl Ue6 19.b3 95 20.Qc3 fxe4 The position was about equal but this loses blunder in a probably lost, but not completely win'; he was never in real danger 2l.Wxe4 Ef4 22.Wc6 e4 23.Efel? the exchange. NZ Chess NZ Chess t2 l3 26.Qxe4 txe4 27.b4 30.Ef2 Uxc3 and the extra pawn combined 38.Uxe3 Ue8 39.Ub3+ 6f6 40.Qd4+ 27.f5! exposes a chink in the black king's with White's exposed king should be enough. draw but that appears to be all. Exe3 mates) 37.Wxe3 UeS 38.Ue5 White has some armour, e.g. 27...Qg7 (27...d4 28.fxg6 e3 26.Qb4? 27.bgt advantage but I feel Black should be able to 29.gxh7+ bhS 30.8f4 exd2 3LExd2!) 28.fxg6 26.Qxd4 Wh3+ 27.bgt 9d5 28.R (28.4fi 27...9xc5+ 28.6fl WxfT+ (28...WcS 29.897+ hold the position. Exfl+ 29.8xfl hxg6 30.Qf++. 9xJ3 29.WxJ3 Exd4) 28...Wxg3+ 29.6h1 and and mate next move) 29.6xfl Ef5+ 30.8f4+-. 27...d4 Black can, and probably should, take a draw 1-0. 32.bxg2 Qc6+ 33.8e4 Already Black's compensation is sufficient. by repetition. King moves allorv a skcwer ol6 and Eel Garbett,P - Watson,B 33...8e8?l 28.bxc5 26...Wh3+ 21.691 fu3 -+ 28.fxe3 Uxg3+ 6 B80l R g0-. 28.b5 axb5 29.9b1+ c4 30.Wxb5 e3 3l.Uxc6 29.6h1 Uh3+ 30.691 dxe3 33...cxM 34.8b3+ 618 35.UxM 9xc6 32.Qb4 e2 33.Qxf8 6xf8 34.a5 d3 30...6h8! 1.e4 c5 2.Aa e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Oxd4 Of6 5.Oc3 4.Wc4+ 696 35.693 d6 6.93 9e7 7.992 (H) 8.(H) a6 9.Qe3 Oc6 35.cxd3 cxd3 36.Exd3 Qb5-+; 28.f5 e3 3r.Ea ug4+ 32.@h2 Exdl 33.Exd1 Eh4+ 35.bxcs? 6f5!-+. 10.9e2 Wc7 ll.Eadl Oxd4 12.Qxd4 e5 13.Qe3 29.fxg6 e2 3o.gx\7+ 6h8 3l.Qh6 is probably 34.bg2 6trt ls.Qe+ f6 36.893 Wxf4 37.Efi 35...Qh4+? Qg4 la.f3 Qe6 15.Od5 Oxd5 l6.exd5 Qd7 the best chance though Black is still much Ue4+ 38.691 QdS 39.Qf3 Uc4 40.Qal Uxc5 Time trouble presumably as Black has no 17.c4 fS r8.f4 Qf6 19.Ecl Efe8 20.8f2 EBc8 better. 41.Qe2 gd6 42.894 h5 a3.Eg6 6h7 44.Qd3 perpetual check. He had to try 35...Qxe4 2t.Ob6 gb8 22.b4 e4 23.Efel 6n zt.gltt 28...e3 29.Ebl exd2 30.8b3+ Ef7 3l.Ef2 Qnzz 36.Exe4 cxb4 37.d7 and White has very Uxc5 32.Exd2 697 33.6hr 9e4 34.Ue6 Qxc2 44...Wxa3 45.Qc2 (45.Egxf6+ Wxdj 46.ExJB compensation for the two pawns. 35.EbS Qfs 36.8b3 Wcl+ 37.Edl Uxf4 Wg6+) 45...f5 46.8s7+ 6b0 --+. 36.6xh4 Exe4 37.Exe4 Uh8+ 38.6xg4 Wh5+ 38.Eb7 ExbT 39.Uxb7+ 6h6 40.Uxa6 Qe5 45.Efxf6 +- Hxd3 46.Eh6r- 698 47.Eh8+ iii 39.693 Eh8 40.f5+ l-4 0-1. 6xh8 48.8h6+ 698 49.8h8++ l-0. Gill-Sinclair Mclaren - East Jarina - Bjelobrk il The game Gill-Sinclair reached the follow- Sicilian [B22] Modent [806] ing position, from which White gave Black an opportunity, and Black combined eflectively 1.e4 c5 z.AR *.6 3.c3 d5 4.exd5 Sxd5 5.d4 r.e4 96 2.Oa Qg7 3.d4 Af6 4.e5 Oe4 5.Qd3 Qg4 6.Qe2 e6 7.0-0 Of6 E.Qe3 cxd4 9.cxd4 d5 6.0-0 c5 7.c3 Ac6 8.Eel Qfs q.6uoz 6xfz gb4 10.a3 Qa5 11.h3 h5 I2.Oc3 Qxc3 l0.6xf2 Qxd3 I l.dxc5 0-0 I2.Ob3 Qe4 13.bxc3 Qf5 r4.c4 Ed7 r5.Eb3 Qe4 l6.Efdl l3.Of4 Ec7 l4.Obd2 EadS l5.Ua4 Qxe5 fu1 l7.Esct o{ 18.Qg5 Of5 r9.gb2 fo8 f6.Qh6 9xh2 l7.Oxe4 dxe4 l8.Exe4 Qg3+ 20.0e5 Wc7 21.9f4 Wc8 22.Qxh5 Af6 23.QR l9.0gl Efes 20.EfI Eds 2r.Ub3 Eh5 22.Og5 t 24...e3 25.Wc2?l -{.i Qxa 24.6x8 Oe4 25.d5 Hc5 26.Od4 Qnz+ 2az 95 25.Exe3 Exe3 26.Uxe3 fxg4 27.Wd3 bg8 lai 27.fufs exf5 28.Qe3 We7 29.Eel Oc5 30.Qxc5 22...8xh6? 23.Wxf7+ 6h8 24.Wxe8+ and 28.94 h6 (28...961 29.Qxg6l hxg6 30.Uxg6+ Uxc5 3l.Uf6 Ead8 32.Sxg5+ 6h8 33.8f6+ mate next move. .r{ | Qg7 3t.9dl+-) 29.Qf5 Qxf5 30.Wxf5 looks '!, I 698 34.Ec3 f4 35.Ee5 EfeS 36.Eh5 l-0. \' % 23.6h1 9e5+ better for White. The idea behind the texl t%: Ifart - Watson 23...9d6+? 24.4h3 is no good for Black but move allows Black strong counterplay down ,ruw lIr was 24.Exf7 (24.^xJ7? Qg3+ Trompovsky [A45] better 23...N81 the h-fiIe. 25.bgl Wxc5+;1 24...Q,e5+ 25.bgl Wxc5+ 25...fxg4 26.Exh7 Eh8 27.8d3 Eh6 28.Exe3 1.d4 of6 2.Qg5 oea 3.Qf4 cs 4.f3 of6 5.d5 96 26.6f1 e6 winning. 6.e4 Qg7 7.Oc3 d6 8.Wd2 Oa6 9.Qh6 Qxh6 EchS 29.EceI Exh2 30.c5 dxc5 3I.d6 Exg2+ 29.tu4? 24.691 Qh2+ 25.0h1 10.Hxh6 *7 ll.a4 9d7 12.94 b5 l3.Axb5 Black gives up the excbange to expose the Allows a winning combination; better were 25.6f2 Wg3+ 26.6e2 is too risky. 0xb5 l4.axb5 Eb8 r5.Ea5 gc7 l6.wd2 0-0 white king, safe in the knowledge that he can 29.93 or; 29.bh1. was wrong with 17.95 Ohs 18.0e2 f6 19.8a3 Qxb5 20.093 25...c6?t regain the material. But what 29...4xh3+ 30.6h1 axl2+! 3r.69l by winning the exchange? turns out Oxg3 21.hxg3 Qxfl 22.Exfl EabE 23.b3 f5 Black can, of course, take a draw 31...Qd4 It 3l.Uxf2 Ehs+ 32.bgl Wh2#. repetition but decides, rashly, to play lor that after 32.Qxc5 Qxe3+ Black has to return 24.8a4 Eb4 25.Exb4?t 31...oh3+ 32.6h1 gg3 33.Ec3 of2+ 34.691 more. the exchange on 92 whichevel way White 25.8a3 fxeA 26.cf Eb5 27.fxe4 Exfl+ od3 35.d6 0g4 36.Qxd3 Eh2+ 37.0f1 Ehl+ recaptures on e3: 33.Exe3l (33.Uxe3 Exg?+l 28.6xfl should be tenable for White. 26.Exf7 QO6+Z? quicker. 14.bxg2 Qc6+ 35.6f1 Ehl+ 36.6e2 Exel+ 37...8f5+ is 25...cxb4 26.We2 26...9e5+ 27.691 UcS 28.Exe5 Oxe5 ge8=) 33...8xg2+! 34.6xg2 Qc6+ 38.6e2 Uxg2+ 39.6e1 Ug3+ 0-l 29.8g7+ 6h8 30.Exh7+ 698 3l.Eg7+ forces a 37.6xel 35.693 Eh3+ 36.6xg4 Exe3 (36...WcS+? 37.f5 NZ Chess NZ Chess l4 l5

North Island Championship best games 43.o[r3 Eh4 44.ogl e4 45.Ecl Ehl 46.8d1+ It's a clever idea, but it looks too early. 46.6f2 looks more pu4)oseful. 46...6e6 White's Es would be good on the c-fiIe, Favourable reactions about the quality of This illustrates the importance of A struc- 47.ExcA 6f5 48.Ecl bf4 49.8c4. because then Black would be tied down to play juniors at the 1998 North Island ture. White's pieces have temporary activity, preventing an invasion. by 46...r0e6 47.Ec1 6f5 48.6f2 Eh4t 49.8c3 Championships have been confrrmed by the but no permanent outposts. Black is some- 49.Exc/ e3+. 21...4xb6 best games from the tourna- passive now, but bas good Black squares selection of the what 2l...Oxb6 22.9a5 and White penetrates down There were 17 entries, from nearly that the taking in tbe long run. 49...6e5 50.6e3 Ef4 51.8c2 c3t ment. for the b-frle;; 21...a6 would keep the game close players, and identities were dis- Zlugantang. number of r3.Oe3 6c7 14.4fl Ocs l5.Od2 Qe6 for a little while. guised as far as possible in submitting them to This is too mechanical. 15...a5 to secure the s2.oh3 22.R *f6 23.Eft the adjudicator, ICM Michael Freeman. gc5 was superior. And even if ...a5 was 52.8a2 Ef7 53.8c2 EE 54.8a2 EdS pen- 23.Qb5 First prize went to topjunior, Igor Bjelobrk, omitted, it was s shame to cut off the ideal etrating dowu to d-fiIe. the 23...f4 24.Qb5 25.tUa3 25...94 for his win from Mark Sinclair, and retreat square for the O, where it eyes d4. 52...n $.fuf4 fig s4.Oxg2 ga# o-1 95 ruruler-up was Patrick Savage for his win from Black's best chanoe, but it's rather late. But 16.b4 Oa4 Quent Johnson. as will be seen, White can't afford to underes- Now the O is out of play for a long time . Johnson,Q - Savage,P Mchael Freeman reports that there was timate this move. a5 18.a3 f5 19.c5 R s considerable variation in the quality of the 17.bc2 [Ee4] 26.Qxd7 ExdT 27.abi gxf3 28.gxB good idea, aiming for d6, as well as Notes by FM Jonathan Sadati games, but there was no doubt in his mind A 28.ExR would be safer, not opening the exploiting the c4 square. about the wirmer. 1.d4 Of6 2.c4 96 3.Oca Og7 4.e4 d6 5.9e2 g-fiIe. It would be hard for Black to crack the For an indpendent assessment ofthe games, l9...axb4 20.axb4 b5 2l.f3 H) 6.0A obdT Ag2, while White can attack the dA as well as NZ Chess asked FM Jonathau Sarfati to 2l.cxb6+ Axb6 22.Eal with W]rite's It's not necessary to prepare ...e5, and it's pile up on the c-fiIe. annotate the two prize-winning ganles. pieces looking more coordinated. more active to play it immediately. 28...9h5 29.oxd6 2l...Efd8 22.Ab3 an 23.Exd8 Exd8 7.G{ e5 8.d5 Ue7 29.8g2 was better, anticipating attacks down Sinclair,M - Bjelobrk,I 24.exfS?l early to know whether the U belongs g-hle. Note that White welcomes major P.2lA42) It's too the This gives Black a better centre and the here, but it's usually good to play ...a5 and piece exchanges. Notes by FM Jonathan Sadati g-fi1e. ...0c5, so it would be better to play ...a5 now. 29...8*+ 30.6h1? l.e4 96 2.d4 9g7 3.c4 d6 4.0c3 e5 5.dxe5 24...sxfS 25.Edr Eg8 26.94 f4 27.4fl hs 9.od2 6h8 3O.Eg2 Exg2+ 31.6xg2 EgS+ 32.6h1 Eh3 5.oR 2s.h3 695 29.h4 OxRt There's no need for this. A tempo loss is might still be o.k. for White, thanks to the 5...dxe5 6.9xd8+ 6xd8 This is forced to prevent 95, but Black serious in an opening where it's a race reduced material. W three connected passed As for the The loss of castling isn't so bad aftrer the obtains between attacks on opposite wings. 30...9]r3 prece. exchange, but it still disrupts development. 10.Ebl c6 Now Black turns the tables suddenly, with a As compensation, Black hopes to exploit the 30.QxfJ hxg4 3l.Qe4 93 32.Ald2 Qds 33.Act Black should be playirg on the 6-side, few brutal strokes. weak d4 square. 35.Egl Qxc4 36.Oxc4 R Eg4 34.Od3 92 while White should be striving to open lines 31.Edf2 7.Qg5+ 37.adn on the U-ide with a timely c5. Thus tbis 3l.Efr2 Efg8 32.9c1 Oh5; 3l.Egl Exgl+ Good blockading moves. For winning pur- 7.f4 would mean that the diagonal h2-b8 is move is a serious strategic error, playing into 32.6xgl Eg8+ winning. more likely to be opened, making the 6Q less poses, Black is handicapped by having his O White's hands. 3r...Oh5 32.Of5 Exf5t 33.exf5 693+ 34.69r comfortable on c7. It also helps White keep out of play. 11.b4 cxd5 12.cxd5 OeS fg.Qag oxft+ 35.6h1 ag3+ his dark-squared Q, which guards the crucial 38.Ebl 37...Exh4 It would have been more efficient to play Black mates in 2. White' pieces on the d4 square. White might have tried Edl to cut off the a4 first. 6c4 also looks good. W-side turned out to be mere spectators. 0-l 6Q. The game move might have intended to 7...f6 E.o-{H)+ od7 9.Qe3 oh6t l0.Qxh6 13...f5 prevent the Black O from emerging, but this Oxh6 That's the right idea. This is out of play temporarily, but is for is an illusion. r4.gb3 ouo ts.Ercr Qh6 16.Ec2 un tz.us the good of the cause of removing that 38...6d7 39.6d3 0b2+ 40.6e3 Ef4 41.Od2 Qxd2 dark-squared Q. But Black later forgets to Oc4+ 42.Oxc4 bxc4 This would be necessary soon, as White bring the O into play again, to aim for d4' A lot of passed As for a single O to cope prepared to drive back the Ob6 and play *A. rr.ods Ef8 12.Qe2 c6 with. 18.Exd2 Qd7 19.Qb4 Ed8 20.a4 Ac8 2r.b6 NZ Chess NZ Chess 16 t'l

To the editor also looks slightly better for Wbite.) 4S.bdl Ee7 46.bc1 Eel+ 47.M1 (47.bb2 Ee8 Waitakere Open game 3O...Oxd7 and now 31.f4! denying the black 48.bcl Eet+ 49.bb2:) 47...8e2 48.8b2 knight quick access to any decent square (45.fu3 Ec2+ 49.bdl Exh2 50.&cl Ec2+ Peter Stuart writes: Dive,R - Stuart,P looks better than 3l.Ed3?! 0e5 e.g. 32.8d6 51.bdl Ed2+ 52.bcl Ec2+ 53.bd1:) 48...d2+ 2lst Waitakere Trust Open R 4 Re Bob Smith's report on the Waitakere [E2l] (32.Eci ss=+) 32...Nca 33.Qd3 6xa3 34.Exb6 49.bc2 Ee8 50.b7 Eb8 51.6c3 Oe5 52.8b5 by NM Peter Stuart Trust Open, I don't know about the likelihood Notes Qd5 35.Oe3 cA 36.Qg6. Axc4 53.Exc5 Od6 54.Exa5 ExbT:; renaissance but do have a 43...d2+? 44.bxd2 6b3+ 45.6e2 Eh3 of any chess I l.d4 0f6 2.of3 e6 3.c4 Qb4+ 4.oc3 b6 5.Elr3 28...8ae8 29.0e3 ee4 B) couple of comments. A kind of Nimzo-indian hybrid once I was suspicious of 2e...Uxa3 but tempted My draw offer to Alexei was made some tr;Y tr*i *Yr'o!{;rr";ry:; l::T; thought to be quitc good for White. For all I t by 29...8xe3 30.fxe3 Exe3 3l.6hl Exa3 moves after the players ceased recording when |L.OOt be7 53.6d4 6dA-+1 47...8xc3 know it still is! 32.Exa3 Uxa3 33.Eel d5E. I had less than two minutes and Alexei less \ os.usW* 6h7 49.8b1+ OhS 50.ge4 and I than one minute. I felt the position with 5...c5 6.Qg5 h6 30.a4 d5 31.9xe4 Exe4 32,8h5 d4 suspect that White is winning though I don't R+N+P vs R+4P should be drawn with best 6...9b7 is an E12 Queen's Indian. 32...Exe3 is now simply unsound: 33.fxe3 quite see how; play, best play was highly unlikely from (j4.Wxd5?? 34...8xg3 C) 43...Ob3? 44.8b1 d2+ 45.be2 0d4+ that 7.Qh4 Oc6 8.e3 G{ 9.Qd3 Qb7 10.G{ cxd4 Exe3 34.6h1 Eel#) either of us in the little time remaining, and 35.hxg3 9e3 36.Wd1 dxc4 37.Bxc4 Wxg3 (45...8xcj 46.b7 Ecl 47.b6N+ bh7 48.Wxb3+- 11.exd4 Qe7 gxh2 that therefore a draw was a reasonable result. 38.8c8 and the white king's airy palace might ) 46.bxd2 Er2+ 47.bd3 (47.bet 4s.b7 Involving some expenditure of time, but the It never occurred to me that the olfer would be save Black but that is all. Eht+ 49.hJ2 Exbl s1.Axbl fu6 51.M2 bg8 was. white queen will also have to be redeployed. 6/7 54..bJ3 be6 55.be4 refusedl luckily for me it 33.Uxc5 bxc5 34.Ofl s2.Ab3 Aba ss.*as Bob's comments on my game with Russell 12.a3 d6 r3.Ed1 OlrS l4.We2 AbdT 15.b4 a6 bd6 56.-bl5 bc7 57.bg6 bb6 sS.aB M7 gc7 34.fu20d7 A OM +. are simply wrong. The alert reader might have 16.Eacl Ee8 rT.Efdl r8.6d2 59.bxg7 bxbT 60.bxh6 Ab6:) 47...fu6 noticed that my game notes do not rnention I'm not sule wheLe this knight was going. 34...Oe6? (r.,E.J3+ 48.be4t Exc3 49.&d5 El3 s0.b7 any draw offers. This is because there weren't Paradoxically its extra weigbt on e4 allows Time trouble was biting for both players by EfS+ 5t.&e4+-) 48.b7 abS g8...Exh2 any. Russell never refused a draw offer for the Black to put his own steed there leading to now. The text allows White some unexpected 49.b8W+ fubS s1.ExbA+ bh7 51.8b5+-) simple reason that I never made one. From exchanges which belp uncramp the black (to me) counterplay which should ltave been 49.8b5 BR+ (49...Yxh2 50.Exc5+-) 50.6d2 Black's 28th move I felt that I stood better and position. sufficient to at least draw. Instead 34...0d7 L Bf7 5r.*4+-. had no thoughts of a draw. Given the Ob6 is obviously strong. I 18...0e41? l9.Qxe7t? 43...d2 toumament situation I irnagine Russell didn't 35.f3t? Winning the knigbt. It is true that Wlrite either. Nevertheless, had Russell found 43 19.Odxe4 9xh4 2O.Wg4 Qe7 is about equal. 35.ad21 Ee2 36.Edl 37.6f1 is not easy regains the piece but he loses all his queen- Kel I am not at all sure that I would have The text swaps an extra pair of pieces but for Black; the Af4 looks^f4 pretty but is really side pawns. found the forced reply 43...Rf7 so the result allows White to aim his remaining pieces at just out of play and the passed bA is an might easily have been different. the black king. 44.Ebr Exc3 45.b7 fu6 46.b8W+ OxbS ever?resent danger. The garbling of some of the notes to this l9...Oxc3 20.Exc3 ExeT 2t,Obl Of8 22.Eg3 47.Exb8+ 6h7 48.Eds Exc4 49.Exd2 Exa4-+ game was caused by converting between cbh 6h8 23..9g4 f6 24.8c1 a5 25.b5 e5 26.Arl 35...Ee2 36.Ega f5 50.8d6 Ed4 and cbf formats in ChessBase The game was 26.d5? Qxd5; nor is 26.dxe5 Exe5 very Attempts to keep tbe Eg4 out of play but This looked the simplest way to win; the annotated in the former (new format) which inviting. White has a cunning idea. Perhaps the greedy rook defends all the pawns from h4 and the allows for text notes to be placed before a 36...8a2 was better. king can then saunter in. Instead, Fritz prefers 26.,.exd4 27.Uxd4 Wc5 move. The old cbf fonnat doesn't so text notes 37.og3t fxg4 38.oxe2 gxf3 39.gxf3 d3t? tbe surprising 50...EM 51.8d5 Eb5 when The first clitical moment. Neither player originally entered before a move got shifted to 40.Oc3 Od4 4f .6n EfB 42.b6 Black seems to be able to keep both passed alter the move. The notes should become was well off for time so a queen swap and an pawns and advance them at will: 52'Ed8 a4 Simpler was 42.E(d1 ExR+ 43.6g2 Ee3 comprehensible if you bear this in mind! endgame had its attractions for me although I 53.Ea8 EM 54.8a5 c4 55.0R ca 56.be2flc4 thought it probably favoured White. Russell 44.6D=. Iile regret errors aising lr 6f6 60 8a6+ Editorts nole: perhaps felt the middle-game would offer 42...8xf3+ 43.&92?? translation of notes between systems. #,'fi;i,i.T;1".i,,ffi"J?;1li from him more chances in any time scramble. The final crisis. White must play 43.6e1 NZ Chess uses ChessBase 6.0 (with .cbh 5l.Ea6 c4 52.Exa5 Ed2+ 53.6g3 95 54.8c5 28.wh4 l when Black, to survive, mus and llindows 98. Games scores Og7 56.h3 Eh4-51.b{2 &f7 format) attractive looking replies d2+ and notes are welcome on disk or by 28.Wxc5! dxc5 29.8d1 EdTt? 30.Exd7 .Cae 6aZ60.Ef6c3 eLin1cq j2.Ege3 favour of the passive Ef7. Thus email, but preferably in .pgn format. (30.Eet EadS 3l.9J5Ec7 96 i3.Qc2 3.6f2 6c5 64.6e3 6b4 65.Ecl A) 43...8f7! 44.Ebt aR+ (44. 67.Ehr 6b2 o_r NZ Chess Ab4 46.fu4 Eb7 47.Axc5 Ex l8 l9 New Zealand, news New Zealand games South Island Rapid Championship Wanganui Broom; Under 400 grade, I Bruce Donaldson, By Quentin Johnson Lukey,S - Beach,P Dave Cooper has won the Wanganui CC 2 David Wood. This year's South Island Rapid Champion- Waitakere Trust Open, R 5 championship, with 4W5 and conceding only 2lst [A5l] ship was held on the Sunday before the main Notes by FM Bob Smith half a point to Prince Vetharaniam, who was Correspondence chess championship, ratler than on the following runner-up on 3. The four grades of champion- Bruce Bamard is well on his way to retain- 1.d4 Of6 2.c4 eS 3.dxe5 Oe4 4.a3 Oc6 5.Oa Saturday as in the past. The tournament ship were played as double round robins, with ing the NZ correspondence chess champion- d6 6.exd6 Qxd6 7.e3 Qf5 8.Qe2 Ue7 9.G{) attracted 24 entries, including Dave Capper (HH) four players in the top grade. ship which he won last year. h the 1997-98 10.Od4 Oxd4 11.exd4 Ehe8 12.Qg4 who made the trip down from Wellington. Gordon Hoskyn ran away with the 5-player championship he scored 9/l l, with two draws Tony Love OT was top seed, followed by A reserve, scoring 7W8 and conceding only and a loss to T J Doyle, who finished John van Ginkel NN, John Sutherland OT and one draw, to John Wilson, who was runner-up runner-up on 8%, phead of M R HeasmatT%, David Burridge AS. on 5, ahead ofPascal llarris and David Bell, M L Dunwoody and G A Hoskyn 6%, andR J Sutherland started strongly vith 414, leading each on 3yr. BlIl Maddren won the B grade Dive 6.. frorn Love who dropped half a point to with 5/7, from Kelly Forrest 4 and Dilbagh This year Barnard has finished seven games, Hamish Gold in the hrst round. Sutherland Sangha and Shaun Street each on 3. with four wins and three draws to give him a and Love drew in round 5, allowing Burridge Kevin Yorston convincingly won the C gradb score of 5%/7. Michael Hampl has scored 5/6 (who had lost to Scott Nicholson CA in round with a 10/10 picket fence, well clear of Chris and M Dunwoody and Jack Frost have 5/7. 2) to catch up to Love on 4, half a point Crosbie 7, Dan Hurley 5, and Deruris Haxton In last year's championship T J Jack Frost behind Sutherland. 4. won last year's double-round reserve champi- In the hnal round Burridge beat Sutherland Canterbury onship, with l0/l l, well clear of J C Rapp and and Love beat van Ginkel for them to share and Alexei The l5th and hnal leg of Canterbury CC's P J Voss on1%.E N Roberts won TT 2 with 7 lst on 5/6. Then came Sutherland 4. 1998 Lion Foundation Grand Prix series of points, ahead of A Wilson 6. E A Gidman 12...Qxh2+t 13.6xh2 Uh4+ 14.Qh3 Qxh3 Gladkikh QA on 4%, followed by Nicl'rolson tournaments was held on Friday, September won TT 3 wrthTYz ahead of A LFletcher 6% 15.gxh3 OxI2 16.U8 Ee2 17.692 l7...Ede8? Master Games in Wanganui 18. At this stage only four players were in and J H Eide 6. TT 4 was won by M D l7...Ed6l 18.9f5+ (l8.Exf2 Eg6+ 19.6f1 Wanganui CC's organising team, led by contention for overall honours: Quentin Stevenson wlJ.h 6%, ahead of L R Cotton and Exf2+ 20.tgxf2 Wxh3+ 21.6e1 Wht+ 22.6e2 Gordon Hoskyn, were aiming to get as mally Johnson and Craig Hall who shared the lead, R R Trevis 5%. Eg2-+) 18...6b8 19.fu3 (19.8xf2 Eg6+ as possible for the 1999 Master Games and Thor Russell and Matthew McNabb who Kent Wong won the 1997-98 handicap tour- 2o.6fl Exf2+, see l8.Exf2) 19...Eg6+ 20.6R entries chess toumament at the lowest level of registr- could catch them by winning this tournament. ney wiflr a score of 8/9, which gave him 51.5 (20.Hxg6 9xh3+ 2l.69l Uhl#; 2o.bh2 Ws3#) which were due by October 3l The end result was the tournament was won points and an average of 5.72. Mario Antony 20..8f6 21.uxf6 Ehs+ 22.bf4 (22.693 wxh3+ ration fees, was nrnner-up with8/,/10, with 53 points and There will be a maximum entry of 32 players by Alexei Gladkikh and Chris Benson on 4/5, 23.bt4 w s4#) 22...gxf6-+. an average of 5.3, while Zoe Kingston was (hrst in get the places), with players graded and none of the leading group improved their Ee6 lE.Exf2 Exf2+ 19.Uxf2 Ee4+ 20r6h2 age and abilities, and four sets of score. So lit prize and the title ofjoint Grand third with ll/13, earning 65 points and an according to 21.0c3 Eg6 22.9f4 Ef6 23.Ads Ee6 24.fle1 gold silver and bronze medals to be won. Prix Champion went to Johnson and Hall. average of 5. 1-{ Grade prizes were won as follows: Non- NZCCA's publication EPJ8 records the Chess players become eligible at age 35. held each member, I Hans van den Hoven, 2 ColinGil- deaths in the past year of Walter Wiederkehr Lukey,S - Gibbons,R The arurual Master Games, popularity bert; Schoolpupil, I Martin Jeffreys, 2 Ken and Mario Antony. 2lst Waitakere Trust Open, R 1 [Dl5] February, have increased in each year wide range of iuterests is catered 1.d4 af6 2.of3 d5 3.c4 c6 4.oc3 dxc4 5.e4 b5 and a of 57 sports. The organis- 6.e5 Od5 7.Ogs Axca E.bxc3 h6 9.Ehs Ed5 for in the schedule 10,000 competitors in t0.Of3 Ue4+ 1r.Qe3 Qg4 l2.gh4 Qxf3 r3.Eg3 ers expect close to February. Details ofeach event are availablefrom the organising club Qhs 14.f4 0d7 1s.6d2 0b6 16.h3 ods 17.8f2 Wanganui next Otago Summer Rapid,Rapir Otago CC, Sat, December 5 e6 lE.Egl Qg6 O-{) 0e7 r3.Ob5 Eb8 14.Ecl a6 l5.Ua3+ Ocb4 All-Canterbury Char Canterburyrterbury CC, Cluistchurch, Fri, I I Dec - Sun, I13 Dec Kulashko,A - Wastney,S l6.Od6 Wc7 17.c4 Oxd3+ l8.Uxd3 Ob4 NZ Championship & Otago CC, Dunedin, Mon, Dec 28 - Sat, Jan 9. 2lst Waitakere Trust Open, R 4 [840] r9.gd2 a5 20.04 Ea6 21.Efel Ed8 22.exf6+ NZ Rapid ChampionChampionship, Otago Dunedin, Sun-Mon, Jan l0-l l, 1999 1.e4 c5 2.ilfJ e6 3.b4 cxb4 4.d4 Of6 5.Qd3 gxf6 23.of5+ 6e8 24.wh6 d5 25.wxf6 od3 Clubs are asked to supply details of 1999 er)ents os soon as dates Qe7 6.a3 Wc7 7.axb4 Qxb4+ 8.Qd2 Qxd2+ 26.8h8+ &d7 27.g,xh7+ 6c6 28.0e7+ bb6 NZ Chess 9.Obxd2 Oc6 10.e5Ods 11.Oc4 f6 12.Od6+ 29.Oxc8+ UxcS 30.c5+ 5*"5 31.6ag!+ 1{ NZ Chess 20 2r

U.S. Masters and U.S. Open Hodgson,J - Garbett,P 29...f4t By FM Paul Garbett lA00I Civing back the A to create a dangerous Notes by F t[ Paul Garbett "runner" with the e-A. 29...Qd7 30.Oxd7 In late July I played in the U.S. Masters in Garbett,P - Ippolito,D looked uninviting. r.b3 WxdT 31.Ub6 Honolulu, followed by the U.S. Open in Kona U S Masters, 1998 A relief I didn't really fancy either a 30.Oxc8 ExcS 31.Uxb7 Ee8 32.Ub0 Ue5 on the Big Island of Hawaii. Notes by FM Paul Garbett - Dutch or Hodgson's patent l.d4 Of6 2.Qg5. Welcoming 33.Wxc5 e3. My aim was to get the type of experieuce 34.Wc2 We5 35.Edl e3 36.We2 that I would otherwise have got from playing 1...e5 2.Qb2 d6 33.8b2 Efs 94 37.Wxg4 exf2+ 38.6xf2 at the Olynpiad and also to have someflting An old Italian set-up seems a reasonable Inviting 37.fxe3 winning (if aO.UxR Ef8). resembling a holiday. In the first respect these response when Wtite has fianchettoed his UQ. Ue3+ 39.6fl R! events exceeded rny expectations - by consis- 3.e3 Of6 4.Of3 c6 5.c4 Qe7 6.fu3 ObdT ?.Uc2 37...fxe3 38.d6 Ed8 39.Uxg4 e2 40.Eel We3+ tently beating the players rated belorv nle I got (H) E.d4 Ee8 9.Qe2 Qf8 10.0-{ a6 11.dxe5 41.6h1 Exd6 grandmasters ft.%7fl White appears to be in difficulty. He can't pairings against hve and some Trying to exploit Black's backward devel- very valuable experience. caphrre the e-A because of the back-tank %a%n%'/N ,%,,fr,: opment before Black gains space with ...b5. The first tournament, the U.S. Masters, was mate and if 42.h3, Ee6 and Black holds all the % ll...dxes 12.Efdl e4t by far the more significant of the two tourna- t7ffi. % trumps. ments for me. It had a comparatively small % Correctly seeing that the following compli- 42.uc8+ 0h7 43.wf5+ held (about 60 or 70 players), nunerous cations are OK for Black. grandrnasters, and was FIDE-rated, presenting 13.Og5 Ue7 r4.Ed4 Ocs r5.b4 the opportunity of an norm. The second In this position my opponent was relying on M l5.Qa3 Qf5 16.b4 *6 is fine for Black. tournament, the U.S. Open, had over 300 me playing 22.Qh4, wben ...f5 gives him 18.Qa3 ;-%-'% players and was not FIDE-rated. some initiative. If Qf6 lre thougbt he could 15...h61 15.bxc5 hxg5 17.8d6 Od7 '%, tAl I ,//,.r/t ;a:. I In the first rorurd of the U S Masters I was trap tlre Q, but had not seen far enough. Ue5 r9.Ed4 f5 Not l9...Qxc5 ZO.Exe winning. ',% paired against GM Joel Benjamin (2595), the 22.Qf6t 95 23.h,1 h6 24.hxg5 hxg5 25.6f2 i 7fl, currelt U.S. champion. He outfoxed me in the bh7 26.tu3 20.6a4 Oxc5 21.Qh5l | %fr%T '.',#t opening and I was never really in the game, Here my opponent sank into a long thought Very Hodgson-esque. , losing in 30 moves. as it dawned on hirn tbat his planned 26...K96 21.,fu622.Qxe8 6xd,t 23.exd4 Wxe8 24.9xf8 ''%t' '+l In the following flree rounds I beat Orton 27.Aga af4 28.8h1 Oh5 loses ro 29.Exh5 wxfs 25.4b6 Eb8 26.d5 %. (2235), Kaugars (2175) and Shahade (2185). then played 6xh5 30.Elr1 696 3l.Eh6#. He Black has emerged a A up, but White has a In rourd 5 my reward was to play GM his only saving line: dangerous passed d-A and an annoying bind Antonio of the Philippines (2540). As against 26...b96 21.Aga Ag7 28.Ehl Eh8 29.Qxg7 on the B-side. Probably the position is Benjarnin I was badly outplayed in the open- Here I settled down to a long think. If 6xg7 30.fu3 Exhl 31.6f5+ 698 32.Exhl Qc8 slightly better for White. than ing, although in a losiug position I found a a3...6g8 then W}ite has nothing better 33,fu7+ 697 34.Oxc8 ExcS 35.c4 draw tactical resource which almost saved me. 26...8d8 27.Wb3 c5 28.Wb2 take the perpetual with Wc8t as Hodgson agreed. lr-Yz In round 6 I dug rnyself out of a very Threatening Ue5. confirmed after the game. But I thought that unprornising o1>ening to gradr-mlly intprove nty 28...wd6 29.Ebr if I played 43...6h6 there are no checks and norm in sight chances agirrst Shtem (2165) He blundered in IM Edl is a deadly threat. While an IM norm the final rour.rd arrivccl llrrd rvas tinre trouble in a conrl>lex posil.ion In I to I would be nice, perhaps it would be even nicer In round 7 I moved up a notch by drawing paired as Black against GM .lulian Hodgson to beat Hodgson and win somb prize money a draw would sullicient gain ar.t with black aginst GM Gufeld (2465). For once and that be to vft, also? Therefore... IM nornr. The last tirne I was in this situatiorl ,i% % my opening preparation \\as up to scratch I 43...@h6?? 44.94 was against Sermek at Howick in 1997 - tltis equalised easily and he offered a &aw after 27 "ffi,"N%| Absolute honor', aftel doing so rvcll, horv time I was determined to put up a better fight. moves. i 7fl,ft%i7f4 could I overlook this simplc but deadly I am proud of this game, even though I ln round 8 I had an ittriguing little tussle %ts2.!*:7,,ru, move? White not only givcs his 6 an escape committed the insanity of not forcing a draw with Dean Ippolito (2430). After 21 moves ti'om the back-rank mate, he also threatens when I had the opportuniorty. I mistakenly we reached the following position: mate in one and rvorst of all if 44...96 or thought I was rvinning and went lbr it. /M.n: #, % 44...g5,45.U8+ wins the E. NZ Chess NZ Chess 22 23 4a...Wg5 45.8R Edl 46.Exdl exdlH+ 3.Oc3 e5 4.4f3 e4?l Prevents Od4. Overseas games ge3 Eel+? Deliberately choosing a murky line as I 47.Uxd1 48.Wd5 33.Oxh5 a4 still seems to bave seen how well Culko does in standard Yuen,F - Goffin,P And here in retrospect 48...95! Black should have avoided exchanging Es, 1998 Asian Teams, R7 provide excellent prospects for a draw. openrngs. which would have left him equal or sligbtly [D85] Notes by FM Jonathan Sadati 49.&g2 We2+ 50.693 5.695 Qf5 6.f3 better. This ending is slightly worse for Black played this instanta- Not surprisingly the remainder of my play The fact that Gulko because of the poor Q, but shouldn't be t.d4 ilf6 2.Af3 96 3.c4 $gJ 4.Oc3 d5 5.cxd5 was dispirited and the rest of the game is neously did not fil1 me with confidence. Sadly difficult to draw. Oxds 6.e4 gxc3 7.bxc3 0-0 8.0e3 c5 9.Qc4?l this was not a move I'd looked at in preparing given without notes. 34.Ohf4 axb3 35.axb3 Qoz f.6gr Oxgr If Wbite wants the Q here in the Gruenfeld, for this game. 50...Ue1+ 51.6f4 Wn+ 52.6e4 Wg2+ 53.6f5 37.hxg3 9c6 38.6d3 b5 39'cxb5 Qxb5+ he should play it first, then develop the O to g6+ 54.6f6 Uxg4 55.Uxc5 Ef4+ 56.6e6 gxh2 6...ex8 7.gx8 h6 8.6h3 e2 where it can't be pinned. Unfortunately, this was not possible with the move order 57.Ue3+ 95 58.c5 Exa2+ 59.6d7 Wc2 60.8e6+ 6tr5 et.co 94 62.We5+ 6nl 6l.cz Urz+ chosen, so he should have played Qez.9...Qga 64.6d6 Ed3+ 6s.6c6 Ef3+ 66.6d7 Wb7? - 10.h3?! White already has problerns, but As most readers will know, never put your %:-i""/,ft forcing the opponent to do what he intends is 'rN nos way to solve thern. U on the short side of the A when defending l such endings. "%A% l0...QxR 11.gxf3 Oc6 12.Qd5 cxd4 13.Qxc6? ,,%' l3.cxd4 9a5+ 14.Qd2 Ua6 with irresistable 67.Wf6+ otrl ot.Uno+ 693 69.8d6+ 6h3 : 70.6dS 93 7l.c8Q+ WxcS+ 72'6xc8 92 pressure in the centre. But the move played 73.wd4 r{ "%:K"'%,' loses even more quickly. 13...dxe3 l4.Wxd8 EaxdS 15.Qxb7 Qxc3+ won by former Soviet The toumament was 16.6e2 Qxal l7.Exal exf2 18.6xI2 Ed2+ Boris Gulko with and former U.S. champion 19.693 Eb8 20.Qds Ebb2 2r.Eg1 697 22.a4 Boris played convincingly throughout 7W9 40.6e3 a5 23.Qc6 6f6 24.0b5 95 25.Qc6 6e5 26.0b5 trouble. Ian Rogers per- and was never in 8...ohsr Here I planned ...Qn wbich draws (e.g.. e6 0-1 points. formed well to come second with 7 I decided White was going to take over the 41.Od3, 6e6 or 41.6h5, c4). However, glanc- on 6y2 werc GMs Antonio (Phil- Third equal centre, so the only hope rvas to try and irg at the new-fangled clock it said "5". 5 Sarfati,JD - Allan,A ippines), Shaked (USA), Benjamin (USA), dominate tlte potentially vulnerable fzl square. minutes or 5 seconds? - I'm still not sure. In Queensland Champs R4 Blatny (CZE) and IM AshleY (USA). plaY. This explains my lollowing some confusion I played the alternative, los- Notes by FM JD Sarfati toumaments of this type are Strong Swiss 9.af2 Eh4 10.e4 9d7 ll.Qe3 Qe7 12.f4 c6 ing move. in most years (although one is 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.NfJ 5.cxb5 a6 held in Hawaii f3.Wf3 f5 l4.Qe2 15.e5 tlxes l6.dxe5 r.d4 Nf6 96 them 96 40...9d7 4l.Od3 Qb5 42.O5c5 696 a3.6fa not plamed next year) and I recommend my 6.Nc3 axb5 7.d6 Qa5 8.e3 Ba6 9.a4 exd6 A pleasant surprise - I didu't really like Oc6 44.0e6 1-{ to anyolre seeking high-quality opposition r0.Nd2 b4 1l.NbS Bxb5 12.Bxb5 d5 r3.QR chances in the complications after 16.fxe5. In round 6 I recovered to a share of4th after Bg7 14.e4 Nc6 15.Nb3 U.S. Open 16...6a6 17.0{}-0 Qe6 18.Ehgl 6fl l9.Eg3 a favourable pairing. In round 7 I lost a kr the U.S. OPen I had a strong start, Now Black looks in real strife from the diflicult struggle to top American junior Fele- l5.exd5 wiruring my hrst four games against players threat Eh3, but I was finally happy as the can (USCF 2588). The last two games were 15...Ne5 USCF-rated at 1998, 2039, 2172 and 2267. In weakness on f4 is felt after my next move. tired affairs where I blew superior positions. l5...dxe4 round 5 I got to the top board to play GM The tournament ended in a tie for hrst 19...QcSt 20.8h3 16.Qd1 17.f4 Nc4 18.e51 0-0 19.exf6 Boris Gulko (FIDE 2565, USCF 2691). Again between Judit Polgar and Boris Gulko, with Qc1 2O.Qd2 is no good after 20...Uxh2. If RfeS+ 20.Kf2 Bxf6 21.Qxd5 Nxb2 22.Be3 c4 I was pleased with my effort, but a blunder on Gulko playing the more consistent chess. 20.Qxc5 Oxc5 and White loses material. 23.Racl Bc3 24.Nc5 RacS 25.Qxd7 Rxe3 the move before the tine control cost the Wojkiewicz, Shaked and Rogers were in a tie 20...Qxe3+ 21.Uxe3 Wxf4 22.Qxh5 Wxe3+ 26.Qxc7 RxcT 27.Kxe3 Rxc5 28'Rc2 Rc7 game. for 3rd. 23.Exe3 gxhs 24.Oh3 EadS 25.b3 Exdl+ 29.Rbl Re7+ 30.K8 Nd3 31.Re2 Rc7 I had some minor grumbles about the orS,ani- Gulko,B - Garbett,P 26.0xdl ocs 27.of4 Ed8+ 32.Ke4 Nc5+ 33.Kd5 Nb7 34.Re8+?l Kg7 sation of both tournaments and the American tA45l 27 ...8g8 is probably sliglttly better. 35.Bc6 Na5 36.8b5 Nb7 37.Bc6 Na5 38.Bb5 Notes by FM Paul Garbett tendency to try and make money from the 28.6e1 Ed.l 29.fue2 Ee4 30.6d2 a5 3l.Exe4 players (e.g., having to pay for bulletins), but 38...8d2--+.%-% r.d4 0f6 2.c4 d6 Oxe4+ 32.6e3 c5 overall a great chess experience. Second time lucky? NZ Chess NZ Chess 24 25

Overseas news program on this Italian island. At 5 min + 5 Tony Miles with Jonathan Speelman and By NM Peter Stuart sec per move the computer won the first tJree Christopher Ward next on 7% points games before Anand won the fourth while in Ef6 26.ad4 Ag1 27.c5 Arkell,K - Short,N Bad Homburg 24.893 Qxg5 25.Oxg5 two l5-minute rapid games Anand lost the tourn- 29.Qc4 OeS 30.Eh3 h6?t R 2 [D58] Victor Korchnoi scored yet another 6h8 28.c6 Qc8 hrst and drew the second. Only in two games July ment victory in this category 14 event in 3O...Axc4 3l.Exh7+ bg8 32.Wxc/ Qa6 is at a standard tournament time control did the l.d4 af6 2.OR d5 3.c4 e6 4.4c3 Qe7 5.Qg5 h6 which explored the possibilities ofan alterna- refuted by 33.Exg7+! 6xg7 34.Oge6+ 696 human taste success, drawing the hrst and 6.Qh4 (H 7.e3 b6 S.Qe2 Qb7 9.Qxf6 Qxf6 worth 3 points tive scoring system. A win was 35.9xa6 Exa6 36.Oxd8; 30...h5 3l.Oge6 Qxe6 winning the second. lO.cxd5 exd5 11.b4 c6 12.0--0 a5 13.a3 Od? point, a system that would and a draw I 32.Axe6 was a better try but likely still f 4.Eb3 Ee8 15.Qd3 axb4 l6.axb4 Of8 to a Rebell0 - Anand normally be expected to be advantageous insufhcient to hold. lT.Efdl Ae6 t8:Qfl Wd6 l9.6er h5 20.93? frghter like Korchnoi. The finishing order Queen's Indian [El2] A mistake allowing Black a fine combina- was, however, virtually unchanged. 5.Oc3 d5 1.d4 0f6 2.c4 e6 3.of3 b6 4.a3 Qb7 tion netting two pawns. Scores (normal but with tlre "new" scores in 6.cxd5 Oxd5 7.Wc2 Oxc3 S.bxc3 Ad7 9.e4 c5 parentheses): I GM Korchnoi (SWI) 7 (19); 2 10.Qf4 UcS 11.Qb5 a6 12.Qxd7+ WxdT l3.Oe5 20...Exal 21.Exal GM Svidler (RUS) 6 (15); 3 GM YusuPov uc8 14.ud3 b5 ls.Ef3 Qd6 r6.Oxfl 9xf4 (GER) 5% (13); a GM Torre (PHI) 5 (13); r7.fuhS gc7 18.9h5+ 96 r9.6xg6 hxg6 5-6 GM Gabriel (GER) & GM Larsen (DEN) 20.Uxg6+ gfl 21.Wxfl+ bxfT 22.93 th6 23.f3 a% Q2); 7-8 GM Dautov (GER) & GM Hort cxd4 24.cxd4 Ec8 (GER) 3% (9); 9 GM Lobron (GER) 3 (8); The dust has settled and the computer has a WGM Zhu Chen (CHN) 2% (7). l0 clear material advantage but the two bishops Gabriel,C - Zhu Chen are utterly dominant; White is almost in R 6 [Dl3] zlgzvtangl 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.OA Of6 4.Oca e6 5.Qg5 h6 25.h4 Ec2 26.94 Qe3 27.h5 bg1 28.Edl a5 6.Qh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Qg3 b5 9.Wc2 94 31.ixe4t fxe4 32.Exf6 Qxh3 29.d5 exd5 30.Eh3 b4 3l.axb4 txb4 32.14 h5 13.O96 10.Oe5 Wxd4 lr.Edl Wb6 12.9e2 32...Wxf6 33.Exh6+ is, of course, hopeless. on+ 33.6fi Qc5 34.6e1 d4 35.e5 Ec3 36.Eh2 Ixg6l4.e5 bfl b3 37.h6+ 6h7 33.Exh6+ 698 34.d6+ l-O and Not 14...Od5 l5.Uxg6+ 6d7 l6.gf6 38.95 Qe4 39.e6 Ee3+ 4o.bfr (40.&d2 b2 2l...Qxd4t 22.exd4 Oxd4 23'Wa3 while the White regains most of his material Roskilde --+; 4O.Be2 E(xe2+ 4l.6xe2 b2 -+) 40...ER+ victory in this 23.udl Exel ! black king is not yet safe. Jonathan Speelman shared 4l.EDExf2+ 42.bxf2 b2 -+. 0-1. with Sweden's GM 15.exf6 e5 16.Oe4 Qb4+ r7.6fl Ee8 18.a3 Danish open tournament 23...Exel 24.Exel Af3+ 25.Ohl Axel 26wfl '7h 9 garnes Russian championship of8 19.8d6 eh6 20.h3 gxh3 2r.Qxhs! Qf5 Jorury Hector, both scoring lrorn We7. In a tie tbr third place on 6% points were Of the 60 players in'this I l-round Swiss at 22.bxg2 changes nothing; 26...we7 27.wxb6 d4 28.adl c5+ 29.6g1 2l...hxg2+ Engtish prodigy IM Luke McShane, Russian St Petersburg over 40 were grandmasters! 2l...gxh5 22.4g5+t and mate soon follows. AR+ 30.692 cxM is clear enough. 0-l GM Evgeny Sveshnikov and another Swede, Peter Svidler continued his great run in Rus- 22.$g5+l Qxg5 23.Uxf5t l{ Rolf Bergstr6m. sian championships in sharing hrst place with Zurich Alexander Morozevich, Konstantin Sakaev The Alois Nagler Memorial toumament LarsenrB - Gabriel'C Recklinghausen and Sergei Shipov with 7% points The took the tbrm of a Scheveningett tournament R 5 in July-August [E97] A category 12 tournarnent 2l-year old Morozevich, however, took the with a team of veterans meeting a team of Jozsef Pinter with l.c4 96 2.AB Qgt 3.d4 Of6 4.Ad 04 5.e4 d6 was won by Hungarian GM title on tie-break. Swiss players. The veterans considerably out- GMs 6.Qe2 e5 7.(}-{) fu6 8.d5 oe7 9.a4 an undefeated 7/9 Sharing second were rated their opponents and won 31-19 with (ISR) Alexander Nena- British championship A rypically unorrbodox approach by rhe Boris Alterman and Viktor Korchnoi leading the way with 8/10, shev (UZB) on 6% while GM Kiril Georgiev Nigel Short made a triumphant return to Danish former super-{M. conceding just four draws. Bent Larsen and was next on 5%. the Championship, held this year in Torquay, (BUL) Svetozar Gligoric contributed 6 points apiece 9...a5 10.OeI Od7 f l.Od3 f5 l2.exf5 sxf5 winning a two-game tie-break match against Ischia while Vassily Suryslov and Wolfgang Un- t3.Ea3 O96 14.6hr Efl 15.f4 b6 l6.ob5-of6 Matthew Sadler lYz-%. Earlier these two Vishv Anand played eight games with zicker each scored 5%. 17.fxe5 dxes 18.Of2 Qf8 19.8b3 9d7 20.Qg5 scored 87211 1, finishing half a point ahead of time controls against the Rebell0 For the Swiss players IMs Richard Forster Qc5 2r.Ubt e4 22.Ah3 O"i ZS-E"r $)r*lr^ous NZ Chess 26 27 and Wemer Hug top scored with 5 points. The Lippstadt with three draws but Gelfand - Shirov German grandmaster, however, suffers a English l4-year old Luke McShane gained Boris Getfand started points from his next five games saw him Griinfeld [D85] small setback in the fotlowing game which has his hrst GM norm in this category 9 tourna- 4% place to a one-point lead with a round to go and this a nice hnish ment in August when he tied for first r.d4 Of6 2.*f3 96 3.c4 991 4.Oc3 d5 5.cxd5 witlr Georgian GM Giorgi Giorgadze or,Tlll. he maintained with a last round draw as his Oxd5 6.e4 Axc3 7.bxc3 c5 8.8b1 0-0 9.Qe2 - Forster,R Unzicker,W The only other possibly noteworthy point was closest pursuer, Sergei Rublevsky, lost to cxd4 10.cxd4 Wa5+ 11.Qd2 Wxa2 12.0-0 Qg4 R s [c26] the shared third place of the "Zugzwang" Alexei Shirov'who thus took over second 13.Qg5 h6 14.0h4 a5 l5'Exb7 95 16.Qg3 a4 indi- place. Anatoly Karpov continued a miser- 1.e4 e5 2.Oc3 Of6 3.g3 d5 4.exd5 Axd5 5.Q92 progam which beat McShane in their 17.h4 a3 18.hxg5 hxg5 19.8c7 Aa6 2O.Exe7 able run of poor form,wiruring only against a oxc3 6.bxc3 Qd6 7.aR H) 8.(H) oc6 9.8b1 vidual encounter. Ub2 21.Qc4 Ub4? local M but losing twice, including in the first Eb8 10.d4 Qg4 11.h3 Qd7 12.8d3 h6 13.Ee1 21...a2. Harplinge round to Mikhail Krasenkov. Vassily Ivan- Ee8 14.d5 Oe7 fs.Oxes O96 16'OA Exel+ wasjointly won by This category 12 event chuk, on the other hand, had his chances but 22.Qxfl+t 6h8 l?.Oxel Oe5 fg.UeZ b5 19.9e3 a6 20.0d4 GMs Curt Hansel (DEN) and Joel Lautier his loss with the white pieces to Krasenkov in (23...6xf7 Oc4 21.Od3 Wg5 22.ha 996 23.Eer Qg4 (FRA) with 6%/9. Next were GM Sutovskij 22...8xf1 23.Hxt1 9xd4 the penultimate round was followed by a draw +-) and now 24.Ef6 24.04 Qd7 25.ocs Ee8? (ISR) 6, then GMs Emrns (ENG) and Wed- 24.Axg5+ 6e7 25.Wxg4 , with Karpov. 24.8f5 or 24.Q,eS are all winning lbr White. berg (SWE) 5, GM Hodgson (ENG) 4 Markowski - Shirov 23.Ed7l QxdT 24.Oxg5 Wb6 zs.Qe6t Uxe6 Villarrobledo Reti [Ao7] Visl-ry Artand colvincingly won a 9-routtd 25...Qe8 26.Wg4 Ef6 27.Qe5 and Black gga rapid Swiss (25 nutiutcs per player) rn this 1.48 d5 2.$ 3.9$, ad7 4.c4 e6 5.cxd5 again has to give up his queen to avoid being Spanish town wilh 8 points The success of exd5 6.0--0 Ogf6 7.d3 c6 8.Uc2 Qc5 9.e4 0-0 mated. hinged on the participation ofAnand 10.h3 CIhs 11.Obd2 dxe4 12.dxe4 Ee8 13.b3 the event 26!2xe6 Qxe6 27.Qe5 Ef7 and current world number three Vladimir Ue7 14.Qb2 6xe4 15.Eae1 Qg6 r6.Oh4 Qxn+ 27...Qxe5 28.Ehs+ 698 29.Wg6+! Qg7 Kmmnik but the latter managed only third 16...6xg3 17.Axg6 (l7.Exe7 Qxc2 l8.Exd7 30.Hxe6+ Ef7 31.e5 *7 32.Wb3 is no better equal behind surprise packet Javier Moreno, Oxfl 19.6xfl Ead8 20.Exd8 Exd8 2l.6hR is an untitled 2430-rated Argentine, who scored much better for Black) 17...8d6 l8.Oe5!? for Black. 7%. T\e Broup on 7 also included GMs leads into interesting complications, probably 28.8h5+ 698 29.996 Qd7 30.Qxg7 ExgT Campora (ARG), Chernin (HUN), Ljubojevic in Black's favour. 3l.Ed6 6h7 32.Uxa3 Oc7 33.Ue3 fu6 34.ds 26.Qxc5 EeS. (YUG) and Smirin (ISR). og5 35.f4 oh3+ 36.6hr Ea2 37.t5 og5 38.f6 25...Qxc5 l7.Exf2 Oxf2 lE.Exe? Qxc2 l9.Exd7 Ead8 Eg6 39.f7 r-0. 26.Wxe8+t QxeS 27.Exe8+ 6h7 28.h5 Eg5 Polanica Zdroj 20.Exd8 ExOS Zr.Ocl 29.6e4 Wcl+ Although lacking the top three on the July 2l.bxf2 Bxd2+ 22.be7 was preferable. Gelfand - Markowski 29...Wf5 30.Of6+ gxf6 3l.Qe4+-. world rankings the Rubinstein Memorial tour- King's Indian [E9l] 22.Q,a3 b5 23.Oa5? nament, which has a long tradition with a 21...Od3 3O.bA fs 31.0f6+ gb1 1.d4 d6 2.Of3 Of6 3.c4 4'6c3 Qg7 5.e4 notable increase in strength over the last few Better was 23.Oe3 24.9e7 Ee8 25.$hfs 96 0-0 6.Qe2 6a6 7.0-0 e5 8.Eel c6 9.Qfl exd4 3l.Of6+ gxf6 32.Qxf6 and mate is inevi- editions, reached category 17 this year. 0e5 (25...96 26.Ag4'! +-) 26.Qc5 Qxa2 27.b4 12.hxg4 Wxd4 table. l{ and White has counterplaY. 10.6xd4 Og4 11.h3 Eb6 13.Wf3 We5 14.g5 Be7 l5.Ug3 Ocs l6.Qf4 Qe5 23...b4t 24.6xc6 bxa3 25.Oxd8 Ab4 26.4R |7.Eadl f6 18.gxf6 Exf6 l9.Qxe5 Wxe5 20.b4 ,0,. ' :i 26.*,6 fua2 27.AR (27.Axa7 AIA +) Uxg3 21.fxg3 Ad7 22.e5!,dxe5 ile:::sniroV::::Al:,,,...,.ESi.s iiiO' i, , ,O '%,: 1: y, y, 1 1 5y, 28.afd4 fu2+t 29.bf2 (29.4xe2 a2) poU, g ::'265s::::r; :i::r,,, il :0 1 5 27...fu| 22...Axe' 23.*A En 24.0jxd6 Ee7 25.Ee3 la,ixiit"h*b::M, :i0:, :1: 'rlr: 'l/r' '/t --+. :urn,C y, y, y, y" 'l 5 29...Axd4 30.Oxd4 Qdt 697 26.Edel bf6 2'7.*A+ with the initiativc. ,:,:+::qvinchur,.,v. zii,io,u i 0, x % tA y: y:' 1 5 :t:::5l::ileiiA,:.;l.P.,;,,l:'r r::HuN:g:'2665: % ,|A, 'iA,' x '/' Y' 26...Axa2 21.*6 Qe4 28.Ofd4 Qxc6 29.Oxc6 8.fu4 fln 24.c5 bg7 25,Qc4 Ee7 26.a4 EeB 1A y,, 'l 5 .::6::,Rublevtky::S, RUS-,g ,ZOSST 0 i0. l/, x 1 % 1 a5! 30.b4 axb4 27.Eft fle7 2E.Ed2 b5 29.axb5 cxb5 30.Qd5 :ii.xarpa-U RUS g 2ii,25;, t/, gt, r, y, 0 x 1 y, y, 4 .A, 'h, 3l.gd5 *1 32.Qc4 a2 33.Qxa2 *a2 30.Qds Eb8 3l.Edf2 0h6 32.8fl7 Exfl ,::.P0l,rmr2490i 0 % y:'h 0 0 \ '/n 1 4 ,,:,:8:;lUalieia'l..gir: l 34.N4 0c1 3s.6fl2 b3 36.ob5 b2 37.*3 f5 33.Bxf7 a6 34.94 and White dominates the :,gioti ,EST o ,2s59, tA ,0, 0 tA 'k, |L y, y, x % 3y, L, --+. Another piece of endgame wizardry from board. l-0. ,io;,,,;,, x 1% 1,6:,iuirtoilskii r, :ieot-,ili,,i5-Zi ,o ,,,Y,;;';,'f.,, '0,, a % ,0 % Shirov! 0-1. NZ Chess NZ Chess 28 29 9.9xc4 b5 r0.Qe2 Qb7 ll.Edl wc7 12.b3 a6 Kasparov v Timman Portisch - Chiburdanidze Not unexpectedly Gary Kasparov came out 13.6e4 Oxe4 l4.Uxe4 c5 l5.Eh4 Of6 l6.dxc5 More players gain FIDE ratings Queen's Indian [El5] on top in this six-game match played in Qxc5 17.Qb2 Ue7 l8.b4t Qxb4 The mid-year FIDE rating list does not include any Prague, though Jan Timman actually scored 18.,.Qd6 l9.Qxf6 gxf6 looks risky at r.d4 af6 2.c4 e6 3.af3 b6 4.g3 Qa6 major changes for New Zealand players, but there are alittle better than expected when ratings are firstsight but Black bas the two bishops and it 5.b3 Qb4+ 6.Qd2 Qe7 7.Qg2 Qh7 some additions to the list following the last New l0'Oc3 0-0 gains a rating of taken into account. Prior to the match Timman will not be easy ['crl WbiLe to develop a 8.0-0 d5 9.cxd5 exd5 Zealand Championship Tim Hare Ed8 had beaten Kasparov only three tirnes while kingside attack. 11.9c2 Oa6 l2.Eadl Wc8 l3.Qcl 2180 and Hilton Bennett 2100. suffering defeat on numerous occasions. The r4.9b2 h6 1s.Wbr c5 16.e3 Another addition to the list is Alistair Compton, was split l9.Qd3 e5 Ac717.Ecl Ud7 l8.dxc5 bxc5 prize fund of 100,000 US dollars b:ut NZ Cfress does FIDE ratings games while the 20.Qxe4 Wxh4 21.Oxh4 Qxe4 lg.Efdl Oe6 20.9f5 Ue8 21.Oe1 96 65:35. Kasparov won 2 and3 19...*A not have any infor- 1998 Jul Jan EabS 23.6e2 fu4 24.4d3 rest were drawn. 22.8d4 9c7 23.Exe4 f5 is not good for Black 22.W es mation about the Russell J Dive 2440 2440 because of 24,Oxf5,Exf5 25.Exe6 +. 25.Wal Ebc8 26.*3 f5 27.4e5 h5 Timman - KasParov 28.8 Oxc3 29.Qxc3 d4 30.Qa5 Ed5l 2l.Wf4 fS 22.Qc2 Qc3 23.Qb3+ Game 2, Queen's Gambit Accepted [Dl5] 20.Oxe5t fu4 31.f4 Exe5 32.Qxb7 6hs 24.Ed7 Uf6 2s.Qxc3? 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.4fl Of6 4.0c3 dxc4 5.e3 b5 32.fxe5 9xg2 T.bxg} Eb5 34.exd4 25.af7+ 698 26.Qxc3 Axc3 27.We5l ileA 6.a4 b4 7.Obr Qa6 8.Uc2 b3 g.Edl e6 10.0e2 (34.9d2 9e2+ 35.6g1 94 36.exd4 30.Exd5! is deci- c5 11.0-0 Oc6 f2'Oe5 Ec8 l3.Oa3 cxd4 28.Uxf6 gxf6 29.695+ Qds Oxd4 37.Uxd4 cxd4 38.Exc8+ 6f7 gds Exc6 --+) 34...We2+ l4.Oaxc4 rs.QR 6e4 t6.Oxc6 39.Elccl d3 4O.U OdS but small changes Marlin Dreyer 2275 2275 t7.ad2 f5 l8.Eel d3 l9.6xb3 es 20.Qd2 Eb6 25...Oxc3 26.Eel Qc8? (34...Uxa5? 35.d5) 35.691 Ssl+ and are recorded for Ewen M Green 2265 2265 2l.9xe4 fxe4 22.*l Exb2 23.Qc3 d2l 24.Ell Black draws by perpetual check. 2255 2255 26...QeA is still a game. some on the list. ftvin Sarapu 124.9xb2 dxelU+ 25.Wxel Qb4t -+l 32...8xe3 33.Qd2 24...Qxfl 25.Qxb2 Qc4t 27.E.d6 9e7 28.Eh6! 33.Qxc8 9xc8 leaves Black with a 27.Wa8+ &f7 29.A96+ 697 30.8d4+ Wf6 3l.Oxf8 25...dxclW 26.Uxd5 Uxb2 28...95 strong initiative. 28.Exfl and Wlrite has counterplay even if it +- or 28...gxh6 29.A96+ hxg6 30.Wxh6+ Uh7 33...gxf4 34.gxI4 Ee2 35.Ebr Ed7 is insufficient. After the text move he has 31.Uxf8+ and mate next move. l-0. 36.0R d3 37.Qc3 Ee3 3E.6f2 DOne. Roquebrune David Cooper R Anthony Dowden 22Io 22lo 28.6xd5 Qb3 The French Riviera town ol'Roquebrune 26.qh:2 Qb3 27.Oc3 Qxdl (each 20). Michael Freeman 2205 2205 o-o was the venue for this year's Scheveningen 29.Oc3 Qb4 3o.adl Peter McKenzie, Tim Hare 2180 match betweell teallrs of ladies and veteratls It is not often that castling induces resigna- Bruce Anderson Arthur J PomeroY 2180 2180 The veteraus led b1' tluee pourts going into the Peter Hawkes 2l7O 2195 tion. . . 0-l and Graham Haase l-rnal round but this evettl ttsed the classtcal Graeme Spain 2170 2215 moved off the ac- Samara version ol'the Schevcrlingett rvherc cach teat-tr Antonio Krstev 2165 2160 tive list, but with Zvjagiusev and Alexander in tum has whitc oll all boards - attd the J Nigel Metge 2160 2160 Vadim mrmber of other Matthew J Barlow 2155 2l7O place the t-rnal wotnen had this advantage irt the last rotrnd Morozevich shared hrst in players remain on Scott Wastney 2155 2135 with The ladies duly won the last ntaLcb.A'/z-lt/, so event of the "Russian Cup" series 7/ll, the inactive list. David Guthrie 2l4O 2125 the overall result was a tie, 36-36 the former winning the tournament on tie- Their ratings can Mark van der Hoom 2ll5 2ll5 For the oldies it was that man Viktor 2100 break while Morozevich was the overall series be revived by play- Hilton Bennett to Korchnoi top scoring again, with an unde- Michael LR Steadmafl winner. Third place in the tournament went ing in a FIDE-rated feated 9112. Boris Spassky contributed 7%, 2090 2090 Valery Filippov, Iike the two winners in his 38...Ex8+! 39.6xf3 WdS+ 40.693 event. Vlastirnil Hort7, Vassily Smyslov and Lajos David Cooper 20'10 2055 early twenties. Alexander Khalifman and Oxf4t 41.Egr The end-of-year Portisch 5 each, and Mark Taimanov 2/r. Rajko Mastilovich 2055 2055 Yury Balashov were next on 6 Points. rating list will take Former world women's champion Maya 4l.6xtit W1./+ 42.bg3 Qh4+ 43.6h3 John Sutherland 2055 2055 in Olympiad re- Teresa Sheehan 2050 2050 Zvjaginsev - FilipPov Chiburdanidze was the ladies' top scorer with Ug4 mate. sults, plus any Alastair Compton 2015 Queen's Gambit [Dt6] 7'/. Zhtr Chen scored 7, Pia Cramling 6Vz, 41...6f7 42.Ecel Eg8+ 43.6xf4 Qd6+ other overseas plaY Peter D McKenzie 2265r Nana loseliar-ri and Xie Jun 5/2, attd Ketevan 44.Qe5 Qxe5+ l.c4 e6 2.Oc3 d5 3.d4 c6 4.e3 Of6 5'Af3 by New Zealand Bruce Anderson 2215* Arakhan.ria 4. 45.Exe5 Wd4+ 46.0R Exgl --+. 0-l 2155r mbdT 6.Wc2 Qd6 7.Qd3 0-0 8.0-0 dxc4 players. Graham G Hme *moved NZ Chess 1o inactive list NZ Chess 30 It NZCF Council report AffiIiated Clubs By NZCF President Peter Stuart Ashburton PO Box 204, Ashburton. Meels Mon- Upper Hutt Monday 7.30pnL Hapai Club, 879 day 7.30pm (FetrOct), Room I (upstairs), Public Fergusson Drive. 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Handbook Stneed, 140 Grcat South Road, Huntly a replacement after an earlier Hamilton: Thurs, 7.15, Methodist Centre, 56 capt, John The loose-leaf Federation Handbook is (07)828-748 r This left a Women's team ofjust three players Landon Street. lnquiries Pres, Hilton Bennett, 65 Te again in stock after updating and the addition who will therefore all have to play all rotutds: Aroha St (07)839-6406 or (O25)964-773. Napier Sec , NaPier. of two sections previously omitted. Sections Vivian Smith, Teresa Sheehan and Edith North P.O. Box 184, Hastings. NZ Correspondence Chess Assn, P.O. Box 3278, include the Federation's rules, supplementary Hastlngs-Havelock Otene. Wednesday TpnL Library, Havelock N High School' Wellington. Sec, J W (Sandy) Max'well, (04)237-4'75 regulations, tournament rules and regulations, To recap, the Open team, in board order, is Te Mata Rd. Sec, Chris Smith (06)87'7-4583. 3. rules for team matches, rating regulations, Alexei Kulashko, Bob Smith, Peter Green, Howlck-Palmranga Tuesday 7.30pr4 St John Am- Palrnenton North Tuesday,7.30pnr, Palrn Nth title rules and the FIDE Laws of Chess. The Scott Wastney, Antonio Krstev and Michael bulance Hall, Howick-Pakumnga Highway, Highland Intermediate School, Ferguson St. Toumamenl Direc- price been kept at $15.00 which means Freeman. While John Sheehan, father of Ter- has Park. Pres, Paul Spiller (09)535-4962; sec, Kees van tor, Tony Dowden (06)353-1354' Federation barely breaking even; an esa, will help with team management in the is den Bosch (09)521-5828. Papatoetoe Wednesday 7.30pm, St George's Angli- price next year is therefore likely Elista, Michael Freeman will captain both increase in Invercargill Wednesday 8pnr, staff roonl South can Church Hall, l.andscape Rd, Papatoetoe. Con- Robert Mackway Jones, 5 Pine rac'ts, John McRae (09)278'452O ot Katrine Metge teams but will not play except in emergency. Palmerston North Rejoins School, Ness St. Sec, Cres, Invercargill (03)2 17 - | I 5 4. (sec) 278-7173. In the fortnight before their departure the The Palmerston North club has applied tbr 7.30prn, Salvation Army Hall, Petone Gambit Thursday 7.30pm Central Bowling Open team (except Scott who left New associate rnembership and been provisionally Kapld Wednesday, Bluegum Rd. Paraparaumu Beach. Sec, Rosemary Club, Roxburgh St, Petone. Pres, Mark Noble, 97 Zealard a couple of months earlier) played Cottncil accepted by the (04)292-8157. Seddon St, Naenae, Lower Hutt (04)567-0467. four training matches at Auckland clubs, KingstorL 51 Ames St, Paekakariki Januara 1999 New Ptymouth ll Gilbert St, New Plymouth. Garnbit Thursday 7prn, Whangarei meeting selections of top Auckland players Annual General Mecting, Whangarei that the dead- Tuesdays, 7.30pm. Pres, R P Bowler, l7a Hori St YWCA Contact, Geofirey Gill (09)438-3035. On Friday llth September we received Club otlicers are rerninded of the (06)753-6282. Contac! Bob Bowler. advice that the Minister of Immigration had line tbr nominations of 1999 ollicers North Shore P.O. Box 33-587, Takapun4 Auck- for Federation and notices of motion is 3lst District Associations approved Alexei Kulashko's application 7.30prnt Northcote Com- October in the hands of the Secretary. Venues land 9. Meets Wednesday Auckland Chess Assn, Pres, Paul Frost, 13/15 citizenship. Unfortunately this did not leave cnr College Rd/Emie Mays St, North- 1999 will also munity Centre, Esplanade Road Mt Eden (09fi23-2499. Sec, Kees obtain a New Zealand passport as for Federation tournaments in him time to cote. Club capt, Peter Stuart, 24 Seacliffe Ave, Bosch, 61,{ S1 Johns Road, Auckland 1005 be decided at this meeting. There has been no van den he departed on Sunday l3th, though this was Belmont (09)445-6377. (09)52 l-5828. interest expressed in the organisation of the not a problem travelwise as Alexei holds a Otrgo 7 Maitland St, Dunedin. Wednesday and lnc, annual Congress other than that Wellington Dlstrict Chess Assn Russian pasport. The Council also supported 199912000 Saturday, 7.30pm. Tel (O1)a77'6919 clubroom' Sec, Howick-Pakuranga Edith Otene's citizenship application which reported earlier from the Dennis McCaughati (03)478-0 I 60' was also approved and she did have time club.

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