www.britishchessmagazine.co.uk £4.20 November 2011 No. 11 Volume 131 Sadler returns in triumph! More 4th Final São Paulo & Bilbao Masters with Keith Arkell 562 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE THE BRITISH CHESS MEDIA NEWS MAGAZINE Founded 1881 Monthly Artistic Director of West London Theatre Workshop, Bruce H. Birchall, (26 iv 1946 - ? Chairman: Shaun Taulbut iii 2011) SCCU Junior Organiser in the Director: Stephen Lowe 1990s, controller, BCF Direct Members Editorial: Shaun Taulbut, Delegate, U-175 County Team Captain, has John Upham, James Pratt died. He was ‘Loki’ of The Independent, an expert on lateral thinking. H.J. Plaskett, 51, a former British Cham- www.britishchessmagazine.co.uk pion now based in Spain, reports playing in a European Gay Championship in Torremo- © The British Chess Magazine linos. It was a straightforward two-day Company Limited by Shares rapidplay. Jim finished fourth. 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Photo Credits UK £45.00/£85.00/£125.00 Cover: Matthew Sadler wins ROC Nova Col- Europe (air) £52.00/£99.00/£150.00 lege Weekend tournament, www.chess- RoW (air) £60.00/£115.00/£170.00 vista.com, pp. 563, 564, 566 and 568: BCM Archive, Stewart Reuben and Lloyds Bank, p Printed in the UK by THE MAGAZINE 580: JS Hilbert Collection USA, p 603: Chess- PRINTING COMPANY base GmbH, pp 611 and 612: www.exquisport.be and ynm.novtea.com THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 563 In this month’s splendid issue 566 Lloyds Bank Masters Part 3: Stewart Reuben continues the tale of the great Swiss 569 My Early Life Part 2: Keith Arkell remembers … 570 GAMES DEPARTMENT – Two gems from our own “Mr Chess” 574 Endings for Experts with Grandmaster Nick Pert 576 4th Final Masters Shaun Taulbut looks at a Carlsen blitz and an exciting finish 578 Spot the Continuation A bunch of tactical puzzlers handpicked by us 580 Past Practices by John S Hilbert 585 Quotes & Queries – Alan Smith and his time machine 586 Ask the Arbiter – Alex compares the pairings made in silicon heaven 588 Spot the Continuation Solutions 589 Problems with Christopher Jones. Our new problemist signs in! 590 Practical Play – a double helping of AJ Dommett 592 Endings for Learners – more help from Australia’s teacher turned preacher 593 Endgame Studies (IRW) 594 News from the British Isles – the Autumn Congresses 596 News from Abroad – ratings, Kasparov rears his head, dull draws .. 598 Correspondence Chess with Kenny Harman 599 Chess: A New Form? Why? A reply to Grandmaster Nigel Davies from Neville Twitchell 600 DVD Reviews – with more planned for the New Year from Messrs Bibby, Coates and Tart 601 Book Reviews 602 Endgame Study Solution (IRW) 604 Dearing’s Discoveries 609 Test Your Chess with IM Shaun Taulbut 614 Sam at the Back Miniatures of the Chessboard 564 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE Above: Boris Spassky playing an exhibition blitz game against twelve-year-old Michael Adams at the start of the Lloyds Bank Masters in November 1984. Adams’ results at the Masters qualified him for a 2405 Elo rating – this was then a world record for a twelve-year-old. Below: Viswanathan Anand, 17, accepts the trophy from Sir Jeremy Morse for victory in the 1987 Lloyds Bank Junior International. THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 565 Above: Above: David and Tatiana Bronstein at Lloyds Bank Masters 1989 prize-giving. Mrs. Bronstein, daughter of Isaac Boleslavsky, was presented with an inscribed copy of Jimmy Adam’s book Isaac Bole- slavsky – Selected Games , voted British Chess Federation Book of the Year for 1989. Below: Lloyds Bank 1980 winner, Romanian Florin Gheorghiu (centre) receives congratulations from Gyula Sax (left) and Leonid Shamkovich (USA). 566 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE Lloyds Bank Masters Stewart Reuben [email protected] lier – 13... d7? 14 xd7 – and later] Ì Î 17 Êe3 f5 18 Îhd1 Ìb4? 19 Îd7+ Êf6 20 c4! Ìxa2 21 Ìe5 W________W [rDWDWDW4] [0pDRDWDW] [WDpDpiW0] [DWDWHpDW] [WDPDbDWD] 9th LBM, 1985 1st A Belyavsky (USSR) [DPDWIW)W] 7.5/9; 2nd= MG Chandler, AJ Mestel, ML Hebden & JDM Nunn all 7. The Lady World [nDWDW)B)] Champion, Maia Chiburdanidze (USSR), [DWDRDWDW] came 6th=. And Vishy Anand scored 5.5! … W--------W 152 players. [21... xg2 prolongs it, and could 21...Êxe5 Í have tempted White into the spectacular 22 10th LBM, 1986 1st S Agdestein (NOR) Îf7+? (22...Êxe5 23 f4#) Êg5 23 f4+ Êh5 8/9; 2nd JM Hodgson (ENG) 7.5 … 188 ran. and White lacks a decisive blow at the im- mobile king. Instead, after 21...Íxg2 22 f4! guards the knight, threatens Îf7# and after JM Hodgson 22...Îac8 picks up the loose piece after 23 S Agdestein 1d2] LBM, 1986 Î 22 Îf7 Íd5 23 c5 f4+ 24 gxf4# 1-0 Reti A07 11th LBM, 1987 1st= M Wilder (USA) & [BCM Archive] MG Chandler both 8/10; 3rd= J Benjamin (USA), I Rogers (AUS) & JF Fedorowicz (USA) all 7.5 187 played. V Anand took the Junior 1 g3 d5 2 Ìf3 Ìf6 3 Íg2 c6 4 d3 h6 5 b3 Trophy ahead of M Adams. Íf5 6 Íb2 e6 7 Ìbd2 Íc5 8 e4! dxe4 9 dxe4 Ìxe4 10 Ìxe4 Ëxd1+ 11 Îxd1 Íxe4 12 In 1988 the bank told me they no longer Íxg7 Îh7 13 Íf6 Íe7 14 Íxe7 Êxe7 15 [16... d7 17 xd7+ wished to do the publicity in-house. They Îd2 Îh8 16 Êe2 Ìa6 Ì Î Êxd7 18 Ìe5+ winning the bishop, a dis- would pay, but we should hire somebody covered attack which is the theme both ear- from the chess community. I refused saying THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 567 I had no faith in the ability of any of the the name must have been visible 30 times. chessplayers, apart from Leonard Barden, to As Leonard Barden said: “Only the Lloyds do a good job. They should find a suitable Bank Masters was known everywhere by press officer and we would teach him what that name.” Think of the great Wijk aan Zee he needed to know about the chess world. event and you will see what he means. Thus Peter Rundle came into chess and proved to be immensely valuable. There 15th LBM, 1991 1st A Shirov (LAT) 8/10; were two good stories that year: Mihai Suba 2nd= M Adams, E Kengis & A Shabalov (both defected and Matthew Sadler became the Latvia) … 242 players, a record. youngest boy IM in the world. Only one journalist asked me the perceptive question, ‘What about girls?’ Judit Polgar was 12 at M Adams J Emms the time she became an IM. LBM, 1991 12th LBM, 1988 1st= GW Lane and M QGD, Semi-Tarrasch D41 Adams (both ENG) 7.5; 3rd= M Wilder (USA), JC Howell & ML Hebden (both ENG) & VV Smyslov (USSR) 7.5 … David Bronstein came 1 d4 d5 2 c4 e6 3 Ìc3 Ìf6 4 cxd5 Ìxd5 5 e4 9th= ... 110 ran. Ìxc3 6 bxc3 c5 7 Ìf3 cxd4 8 cxd4 Ìc6 9 Íd3 Íb4+ 10 Íd2 Íxd2+ 11 Ëxd2 0-0 12 13th LBM, 1989 1st Z Azmaiparashvili Íc2 Ëa5 13 Ëxa5 Ìxa5 14 Íd3 Íd7 15 (USSR) 8.5/10; 2nd I Rogers (AUS) 8; 3rd= MD Êd2 Îfc8 16 Ìe5 Ía4 17 Îhc1 Ìc6 18 Sadler (ENG), VV Smyslov (USSR) … 133 play- Ìxc6 Îxc6 19 Îcb1 Îc7 20 Îb4 Íc6 21 Êe3 ers. Îd8 22 Îc1 Îcc8 23 h4 Êf8 24 g4 h6 25 f4 b5 26 f5 Íe8 27 Îbb1 a6 28 e5 Êe7 29 g5 14th LBM, 1990 1st= SC Conquest, M hxg5 30 hxg5 exf5 31 Íxf5 Íd7 32 Íxd7 Adams (both ENG) & Z Sturua (GEO) all 8/10 Êxd7 33 Êe4 Îh8 34 Îxc8 Îxc8 35 g6! fxg6 … 220 played. 36 Îg1 Îc6 37 Êd5 b4 38 Îf1 Îc2 39 e6+ Êe7 40 Îf7+ Êe8 41 Êd6 1-0 But 1991 was Peter Rundle’s finest hour. Gorbachev had been overthrown in the 16th LBM, 1992 1st= JS Speelman & G USSR and then reinstated. Peter woke me up Timoshchenko (RUS) both 8/10; 3rd= WN and explained that he had contacted all the Watson, MD Sadler, JG Gallagher, DR Nor- TV stations with the idea that we had a wood, JC Howell all ENG 7.5 … 236 runners. number of Soviet citizens playing who could be interviewed about their reactions. News The tournament often included the At Ten would be coming along. We agreed Commonwealth Championships as part of they would never say Lloyds Bank Masters in the event, the title going to the highest the broadcast.