Volume 40, Number 2 April 2013 / $3.00 Colorado State Chess Association COLORADO CHESS INFORMANT Tournaments Up & Down the Front Range www.ColoradoChess.com Volume 40, Number 2 Colorado Chess Informant April 2013 From the Editor Communication - vital for any public organization like ours to function properly and with the best interest of its members at heart. The Colorado State Chess Send address changes and I bring this up to remind everyone with an interest in chess in Association, Inc., is a Section memberships to Joe Haines. Colorado to let your voice be heard and talk with one another to 501(C)(3) tax exempt, non- Send pay renewals to Richard improve every aspect of the game we love and how it is played in this state. profit educational corporation Buchanan. See back cover for formed to promote chess in EZ renewal form! If you are not aware of it, the CSCA has a page on Facebook Colorado. 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Currently the listing is private so off the regular dues. only those members of the group will see and have the ability to membership. post, and respond to postings. So request to join and start voicing what interests you about chess in our great state. CSCA Board of Directors CSCA Appointees May Caissa be with you. President: USCF Delegate: Fred Eric Spell Obi Ikeako Richard “Buck” Buchanan [email protected] [email protected] k Vice President: CCI Editor: Brad Lundstrom Fred Eric Spell [email protected] [email protected] In This Issue Secretary: Colorado Chess Tour: Joe Haines Randy Reynolds 3. Victor Traibush NM Todd Bardwick [email protected] [email protected] 4. Fort Collins All Girls Chess Tournament Treasurer: Correspondence Chess: Brad Lundstrom Richard “Buck” Buchanan Klaus Johnson [email protected] [email protected] 5. Open Letter Paul Covington Junior Representative: Prison Chess: 6. 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Upcoming Colorado Tournaments October Issue - September 1 © 2013 Page 2 www.ColoradoChess.com Volume 40, Number 2 Colorado Chess Informant April 2013 Victor Traibush Victor was the official scorekeeper of the Bent Larsen (Denmark) Fischer-Larsen match in Denver in 1971. by NM Todd Bardwick He told me that Fischer was very much a gentleman on the chessboard. When he Eugene Victor Traibush passed away on moved his pieces against Larsen, Fischer December 26, 2011 from kidney failure at very carefully and politely slid them to the age of 85. Victor was the Colorado the center of the square. During the fa- State Champion in 1955, 1967, and 1970. mous Game 1 of the match, Victor no- He lived in Boulder. In his youth, he ticed that when Fischer played the famous played at the New York City Chess Club breakthrough move, 19.f5!, Fischer tilted where he became friends with some of the pawn ever so slightly toward Larsen. the great chess players of that era. In the car on the way back to Victor's home in Boulder, he asked Fischer if he He was also very good at the ancient knew he tilted the pawn when playing game of Go, and was a member of the 19.f5. Victor said Fischer was very em- local Go Club for decades. barrassed and said, “That was very bad I remember his son Tom, who played in form of me”. Bobby Fischer (USA) CSCA tournaments back in the 1973- 1974 time frame. Fischer demonstrates the power of the Victor pursued his passion for the guitar bishop pair in this game that set the stage in his early twenties and was proud of the for his 6-0 victory over Larsen. This fact that he could “hang” with some of his match was a stepping stone for Fischer blues and folk music mentors, such as who took the world chess title from Boris Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Lead- Spassky in 1972. The game continued: belly. 19.f5! ef5 20.Qd5+ Kf6 21.Bf3 Ne5 22.Qd4 Kg6 23.Re5 Qe5 24.Qd7 Rad8 One of his longtime chess friends was 25.Qb7 Qe3+ 26.Kf1 Rd2 27.Qc6+ Re6 GM Larry Evans. A few years back Vic- 28.Bc5 Rf2+ 29.Kg1 Rg2+ 30.Kg2 tor told me that Evans told him that Qd2+ 31.Kh1 Rc6 32.Bc6 Qc3 33.Rg1+ Fischer's famous book, “My 60 Memora- Kf6 34.Ba7 g5 35.Bb6 Qc2 36.a5 Qb2 ble Games” originally contained 50 37.Bd8+ Ke6 38.a6 Qa3 39.Bb7 Qc5 games (although looking it up today 40.Rb1 c3 41.Bb6 Resigns online, there appears to be some internet controversy whether it was 50 or 52 k games - and I don't clearly recall the exact number Victor told me). Fischer was very careful not to publish something that was Here is Fischer's autograph (along with incorrect. His problem in writing the Larsen's autograph from their 1971 book was that he didn't want to give some match) given to me by the late John How- of his pet opening lines to the Russians by ell. Apparently Fischer didn't give many publishing them before he had a chance autographs... first he had to trust you and to play them (according to Victor per his then he had to be in the right mood... ac- discussions with Evans). Fischer stalled cording to Howell. Apparently there are the publishing of the book for several quite a few forgeries of Fischer's auto- years because of this dilemma. When the graph for sale out there - so be careful book was finally published, Fischer added before you purchase one! Ray Alexis more games to bring the total to 60. published an article in Chesstamp Review #120 (Volume 27 Number 4; Oct-Dec 2005) entitled, "Bobby Fischer Forgeries" by Lawrence Totaro. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any of Vic- tor's games to publish... perhaps someone else will have better luck finding some of his games. The following diagrammed position is from Game 1 of the 1971 Fischer-Larsen Victor Traibush World Championship Quarter Final Match in Denver (referenced above). www.ColoradoChess.com Page 3 Volume 40, Number 2 Colorado Chess Informant April 2013 Fort Collins All Girls Chess Tournament by CSCA Vice President Brad Lundstrom Fort Collins hosted an all-girls scholastic event “The Queens Gambit Tournament” at Kinard Middle School on Saturday, February 2, 2013. A nicely attended event that included 46 female students; bright, ambitious and very competitive! Each of the four sections saw the top five finish- ers awarded trophies and it is clear that there are an amazing contingent of young female chess players in the Fort Collins and in nearby Cheyenne areas on the rise! Fort Collins Scholastic Chess has been booming with strong leadership from chess expert Zach Bekkedahl and an ef- Hannah Skalicky, 7, left, and Cassidy Miller, 6; the girls' game ended in a draw. fective supporting cast. The previous two scholastic tournaments in Fort Collins were also held at Kinard Middle School and were sponsored by the Poudre School District over the past three months and have averaged over 150 students! Our continued efforts to get chess more mainstream media attention were reward- ed with the Fort Collins Coloradoan newspaper providing coverage and an article with pictures featured in the fol- lowing day’s Sunday news. Pictures from Grades 7-12, Top 5, with Zach & Brad. the tournament were posted on the Colo- radoan website and are courtesy of Dawn this game from the Queens Gambit Tour- Madura. nament features the opening known as the Queen’s Gambit. Janiah Wright, a second-grader from Poder Academy in Cheyenne, Elizabeth Thilmany / Kinard School stares down her opponent. Gillianne Jordan / Lesher School The Champions of the tournament were: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nd7 4.Nc3 Ndf6 Grades K-1: Prisitne Cyril / TR Paul 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Bg5 e6 7.Bxf6 Nxf6 8.e3 Academy School, Grades 2-3: Dharini Bd6 9.Bb5+ Bd7 10.O-O O-O 11.Bxd7 Sriram / Liberty School, Grades 4-6: Qxd7 12.Ne5 Qd8 13.Nb5 Bb8 14.Qa4 a6 Lilly Wilson / Liberty School and Grades 15.Nc3 Ne4 16.Nxe4 dxe4 17.Rac1 f6 7-12: Lesley-Ann Knee / Kinard School.