Latin olympics • . EVEN ON the day we left whole event might be trans• Things seemed pretty the Philippines for the 23rd ferred - perhaps to Holland. chaotic in Buenos Aires when Chess Olympiad in Argen- Argentina last hosted the we arrived. Some teams had _ .. tina, nobody was really sure chess olympics in 1939 when to wait eight · hours before .if the event would go ahead World War II was declared, they could .get into a hotel or not. Argentina's success at which left many top-class room - and the Australian organising this international players stranded. The Argen• team ended up collapsing five tournament has been mixed, tine federation had never had to a-bed,_havingjust come off_ and nowadays it is an im• it so good - Miguel Najdorf, a long, exhausting plane mense event. Erich Eliskases, Mikhail flight. This year there were finan• Czerniak and Gideon Stal• The first round was de• cial problems, and after a cer• berg; were a few of those who layed for over an hour be• tain amount of friction settled permanently in the cause of a lengthy opening between FIDE and the country, which greatly im-. ceremony. New Zealand was Argentine federation ~ it proved the quality of their pitted against the formidable looked, at one stage, hke the local chess. West 'German team, and al- though. we lost by a dis• 21. Re2I aXb3 CHANDLER 26 ... Bg7! atmtng for 27. 32. cXdS Rd4 appointing 4-0 margin,.__ they 22. axb3 f5I ... Bh6 probably keeps the Time-trouble;' but 32. ~;- did., not nave i-t.., all their ow - balance Again with the idea of ... RXb3 · 33.R3Xe7 is still way. They may have been 27. Rcd3 cXd4 futile for Black . Ne4. 28. NXd4 8Xd4 playing cautiously if they re• 33. R3Xe7 Rd2 memberd our first round l ½ 23. exf8 ep exts I was itching to play 28. 34. Rg7 ch Kf8 to 2½ upset against England 24. BXb4 RXb4 ... Bg5 trying to win rook for 35. RXh7 Kea in the first round of the Haifa 25. RXc3 Rab8 bishop, but the crafty West 38. Ra7 Resigns. - Olympiad, 1976. For the pawn sacrifice German has the resource Black has pressure on the 29.Nc2! snatching the ex• "Hmmmm ... interesting; WEST GERMANY white queenside pawns, and a change back again. As things and you play well!" said Un-. ELO zicker. Yes, thank you, but IGM Robert Hubner 2595 bishop bearing down on the d- . stood, White's knight was too pawn - probably enough com• strong and had to be elimi• next time I would rather be; IGM Wolfgang Unzicker 2529 White, I think. , !GM Joaquin Hecht 2480 pensation for a draw. But I nated. Otakar Borlk 2400 was under slight time pressure 29. RXd4 Qa7 NEW ZEALAND and Unzicker thought my next 30. Rd7 . Qc5 MURRAY CHANDLER . ELO move was inaccurate. 31. Qd5 ch QXdS IM OMrutvrrlany S Cahraapnud ler 223590M - --=========;::;;::====---========;;;:;;;:::;::::;::::;::::;::::;::::;:====-====-~=c:-= Verrion Small 2385 Peter Stuart .23rd CHESS OLYMPIAD,• BUENOS AIRES ' 1st Round PIRC DEFENCE UNtlCKER CHANDLER (West Germany) (New Zealand) 1.- e4 d8 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. f4 Bg7 - 5. Nf3 0-0 6. e5I? The main line is 6.Bd3. 8. dXe5 7. fXe5. Nd5 8. Bc4 Be8 Unzicker is playing a varia• tion for White that is largely unexplored and has Jew prac• tical examples. Next move he could try 9. Qe2, but Black can counter 9 .... NXc3 JO.bXc3 BXc4 I l.QXc4 Nd7 planning 12 ... Nb6, with good play on the White squares. 9. NXd5 8Xd5 10. 8Xd5 QXdS 11 •. Qe2 b5I? Unzicker suggested the line, 11 .... c5 l 2.c4 Qd7 l 3.d5 e6 14.d6 Nc6 is "unclear", but White has Bf4, and 0-0-0 com• ing. 12. 0-0 Nd7 13. c3 Nb& 14: b3 as 15. Ba3 - Qd7 18. Bc5 - Nd5 17. Qd2 Rfb8 UNZICKER Perhaps 1 i .. c6 is stronger. I was scared of 18.c4 Nc7 15.Bb6, but after 15 ... :a4 16.BXc7 ·QXc7 l7.Qb4 Un• zicker thought White could probably not extract a· win from his advantage. 18. Rac"i b4I? 19. c4 Nc3 20. Rfe1I But not 20.Rcel to stop the threatened ... Ne4, as I could bust open. the queenside with advantage with 20 ... a4, 2i.BXb4 NXa2! 20. a4 .