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L ib r a r y o f C o n g re s s C a ta lo g in g in P u b lic a tio n D a ta
Evans, Larry.
The chess beat.
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B r itis h L ib r a r y C a ta lo g u in g in P u b lic a tio n D a ta

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Introduction

These 300 essays first appeared in my syndicated newspaper column from 1973-1981 (see
Sunday Washington Post or Chicago Tribune).
They cover a tumultuous period that saw Fischer's abdication, Korchnoi's defection, the rise
of Karpov and Kasparov in Russia—Christiansen and Seirawan in the USA, a British chess
explosion, the emergence of Red China, the domination of women's chess by Soviet Georgia
and the inexorable advance of computers.
W e also witnessed a political polarization, reminiscent of the Cold War, which divided East
from West and undermined the very existence of FIDE (the world chess body).
While chess bureaucrats made new regulations and each nation fought for more titles and a
larger share of the pie, players advanced the art of the game and created pockets of beauty in a
noisy world.
Somehow, amidst the strife, chess survived.
October 1981
Larry Evans
Box 1182
Reno, Nevada 89504
USA

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Contents

Chess Notation 1 38 Title Match Set 17

The Fall of Fischer 39 Korchnoi Talks 18
40 Unlucky 13
1 In Morphy's Shadow 5
41 Sudden Death
2 Bobby's Dilemma
42 Fair Or Foul
3 Was Fischer Right?
43 Karpovomania 19
4 Pride Goeth
44 Karpov On Karpov
5 Heat Of Battle 6
45 Karpov Mated
6 Boris Is Back
7 Holding On To The Title Books and Reviews
8 Chasing Bobby Fischer 46 Last Lectures 23
9 Draws Are Winning 7 47 Two Books In One
10 W hat Is Bobby's Next Move? 48 Underhanded Ploys
11 Showdown 49 The Yankee Spirit
12 Waiting For Bobby 50 Curious Chess Facts 24
13 Paper Champion 8 51 Five Easy Pieces
14 Selfmate 52 The Masters Speak
15 Bobby Who? 53 Ten Landmarks
16 Fischer Fallout 54 Small World 25
17 The Summer Of '72 9 55 The Great Dane
18 Warts And All 56 For Openers
19 Living Legend 57 A Shortcut
20 Fischer's Biography 58 Hidden Beauty 26
21 The Greatest 10 59 Take The Pawn!
22 The Lost Leader 60 A Long Road
23 How Good Is Bobby 61 The Last Romantic
24 Comeback 62 A Unique Chess Quiz 27
25 W orthy Opponent 11 63 Hoax
26 Where's Bobby? 64 The Middle Road
65 Booking Winners
The Rise Of Karpov
66 Tal Tells 28
27 K Is For Karpov 15 67 No Copyright
28 First Outing 68 Maverick
29 Kudos For Karpov 69 Poor Dad, Dear Mom
30 W inning Ways 70 Little Murders 29
31 Active Champion 16 71 Instant Books
32 Karpov In Spain
The Endgame
33 Mixed Blessing
72 Sure Thing 33
34 Karpov's Mettle
Down But Not Out 17 73 Another World
35
K Strikes Again 74 Help Mates!
36
Invincible 75 A rt And Chess
37

VII
76 Pure Art 34 121 In All Modesty
77 Nearing The End 122 The Hypermodern Revolt
78 Post-Mortems 123 Sultan Khan
79 Trust Yourself 124 Chess Blindness
80 Ending Opposition 35 125 Look Again
81 Moving Can Be Costly 126 Buried Treasure
82 Ending It All 127 Playing The Man
83 By Hook Or Crook 128 Nice Guys Also Win
84 Stranger Than Fiction 36 129 Night Moves
85 Mating Themes 130 The Chess Drug
86 What's Cooking? 131 Starting Young
87 Pawn Power 132 Youth Cult
133 Youth Vs. Age
Chess Computers
134 Fatal Passion
88 The Chess Computer 39
135 Scaling The Top
89 Premature Burial
136 More Means Less
90 Slow Progress
137 Numbers Game
91 Man Vs. Machine
138 Frontier Justice
92 Think Again 40
139 Political Pawns
93 Ten Year Bet
140 Politics in Sport
94 Are We Obsolete?
141 Chess And Chekas
95 Black Box Blues
142 Mental Gambits
96 Friend Or Foe 41
143 Pause To Think
97 Computers Moving
144 Progress Report
98 Belle Stars
145 Lost Cause
Chesscellaneous 146 First Step
99 On Your Own 45 147 USCF In Trouble
100 Where MCO Ends 148 The Reform Slate
101 First Loves 149 Power Struggles
102 Last Words 150 Hungarian Flock
103 Borderline Cases 46 151 Globetrotter
104 Trade-Marks 152 Olympic Issues
105 Hands Off 153 Odd Man Out
106 Z Is For Zukertort Games and Events
107 Harry Pillsbury 47
154 Did Spassky Forget?
108 Sherlock
155 A Costly Fluke
109 Frank Marshall
156 David Bronstein
110 Don't Be Surprised
157 The Craziest Game
111 The Good Old Days 48
158 Losing Moves
112 Beauty Contest
159 Brazil's Mecking
113 The Way It Was
160 More On Mecking
114 Out Of Sight
161 Sacrificial Orgies
115 200 Years Ago 49
162 Making Their Mark
116 King High
163 Winning W ith Black
117 The Rice Gambit
164 1974 USA Championship
118 Lasker-Schlechter 1910 165 M idnight Oil
119 A Minority Of One 50 166 Good Grief
120 Colossal Egos 167 No Applause
168 Tomorrow's Champions 64 216 Double Jeopardy 76
169 Russia For Choice 217 College Chess
170 Mother Russia 65 218 Dashed Hopes 77
171 Out Of The Book 219 Different Rules
172 The Spanish Torture 220 Wine Festival
173 Prime Time 221 3-Time Winner
174 Off-Days 66 222 First And Last 78
175 Changing Theory 223 Marshall Club
176 End Of The Line 224 Slim Pickings
177 Double Trouble 225 Young Lion
178 The British Are Coming 67 226 A Lein Win 79
179 Who Killed Round Robin? 227 Crystal Ball
180 Breaks 228 Marathon Man
181 A rt Of Waiting 229 Sole Survivors
182 1975 USA Championship 68 230 Stormy Match 80
183 W hat's New? 231 Never Say Die
184 A New Move 232 Grey Areas
185 Talent Isn't All 233 Nearing The Top
186 Gladiators 69 234 Near Miss 81
187 The Short End 235 Innovation
188 Fair Warning 236 Brazil
189 Portugal 237 Friendly Rivals
190 American Sweep 70 238 A King Is Dead 82
191 Fair Trade 239 Only The Best
192 Giant Killer 240 Turning Point
193 Staying Power 241 1978 USA Championship
194 Hubner Hits Houston 71 242 Swallow The Leader 83
195 Out Of Dutch 243 Was It Sound?
196 Nana Vs. Nona 244 Dutch Treats
197 Catch-22 245 Talent To Burn
198 W ho Goes To Hoogoven? 72 246 England Gaining 84
199 Getting Younger 247 Big Guns Go West
200 Junior Division 248 Sixth World Open
201 Miles Ahead 249 Roots
202 The Russians Came 73 250 Homework 85
203 Long Distance 251 Viva Maya
204 Born Again 252 Olympic Upsets
205 Last Round 253 Coming Out
206 Male Stronghold 74 254 A Tie In Tiflis 86
207 Rules Of The Game 255 Still On Top
208 Once Is Enough 256 Xmas Tradition
209 Test Of Time 257 9th Lone Pine
210 A Check In Time 75 258 Charmed Circle 87
211 Rising Sun 259 Brazil Nyet
212 Best In The West 260 Montreal
213 Color Blind 261 Masters' Open
214 Pawn Snatchers 76 262 Munich Dropouts 88
215 Tarjan's Trance 263 Fallen Idol

IX
264 Exploding Star 88 284 Sunday Punch 93
265 Duel In Bogota 285 Brain Drain
266 7th Paul Masson 89 286 24th Olympiad 94
267 Higher Titles 287 Bright Spot
268 Winning Streak 288 Sarajevo
269 Room At The Top 289 Popes Play Too
270 Our Man In Cuba 90 290 To Kill A King 95
271 Best USA Junior 291 Iran Ban
272 High Point 292 Pretty Poison
273 Karpov Of Course 293 Hot Prospect
274 Short Take 91 294 April in Moscow 96
275 Firebrand 295 High Tension
276 Still Best 296 11th Lone Pine
111 Busy Summer 297 Pratfall
278 Breeding Ground 92 298 2 Share USA Crown 97
279 London 299 South Africa
280 Over There 300 Clouded Title
281 Boycott Index of Games 99
282 Europa Cup 93 Index of Openings 103
283 Three-Co-Champs Index of Books 105

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Chess Notation

Many of us can't enjoy the treasures of master play simply because we can't decipher the
moves. So keep this for future reference.

QRQNQBQ KKBKNKR BLACK

1
2
▼
3 Key to Abbreviations
4 R = Rook x = takes
N = Knight ch = check
5
B = Bishop 0-0 = castles K-side
6 Q = Queen 0-0-0 = castles Q-side
K = King ! = star move
7 P = Pawn ? = mistake
8 (QR means Queen Rook. KB means King Bishop).

This diagram shows how the position looks after each side has made its initial move: 1 P-K4,
P-K4. Read as "Pawn to King Four." The numeral " 1 " indicates the move number. Note that
each square has tw o names depending upon whether it's viewed from W hite's or Black's side
of the board. W hite always counts forward from 1 to 8, and so does Black. Thus his K5 square
corresponds to Black's K4 square.

Let's continue the game to illustrate one of the quickest kills in chess: the scholar's mate. 1
P-K4, P-K4 2 B-QB4, B-QB4 3 Q-KR5, N-QB3? (Read as "K night to Queen Bishop Three, a
mistake") 4 QxBP checkmate. The game's over!

Black is Checkmated
If you've been making every move correctly on your own board, this is how the final position
should look. It's illegal for Black's King to capture the Queen because it would in turn expose
itself to capture by W hite's Bishop. Nor can the King escape from the Queen's range to get out
of check, because there's no safe flight square.
It's a good idea to practice keeping score in your own games. Not only will it provide a per­
manent record of your progress, but it will enable you to study at your leisure to find
weaknesses in the play.

1
The Fall of Fischer
1 2
In M orphy's Shadow
"His only devotion to the game
lay in his ambition to meet and
defeat the best players. This one
ambition satisfied, he appeared to
have lost all interest in the game."
Obituary: Paul Morphy, 47, New
Orleans, 1884.
We have become so accus­
tomed to an endless procession of
beaten champions trying to make
comebacks that we stand in awe
of someone who rejects success
at its peak. In 1859, at 22, Morphy
offered odds of pawn and move to
any player in the world. When he
received no response, he quit
chess and turned to law.
Yet he could not escape his
fame. He failed as a lawyer be­
cause people recalled him only as
that, chessplayer. The society girl
he coveted spu rned marriage to "a
mere chessplayer." He never
played another recorded game
after 32 and grew irritated at the
mention of chess.
Then Morphy became ob­
sessed with the notion that his
brother-in-law was swindling him
out of an inheritance. He spent
years concocting a baseless case
which was thrown out of court.
Delusions haunted him after the
war between the states. Fearful of
being poisoned, he accepted food
only from his mother and sister.
Paranoia is the state with the
prettiest name. A century later
Fischer was fearful the Russians
might poison him before his title
match. However, a member of
Spassky's team accused the Am­
erican of winning with “ unknown
chemical substances.”
When Fischer saw a life cast of
Morphy’s hand, he instinctively
stretched his palm over it. Fisch­
er's hand, practically twice the
size, completely engulfed it.
In Bobby F is c h e r ’ s
C o n q u e s t o f t h e W o r ld
C h a m p io n s h ip (1973) Reuben
F in e , g r and m ast e r-c u m-
psychologist, marvelled at Bob­
by's "incredible ability to snap out
of his paranoid states and handle
the reality of the chess board with
such remarkable skill.’’
Brad Darrach’s B o b b y F is c h ­
e r Vs. T h e R e s t o f th e W o rld
(1974) depicted Bobby as a sullen,
sulking brute without human
warmth or contact—a loner, who
never was ■ friend to anyone,
without any real friends.
In 76 Bobby rejected a match
with Mecking despite another
fabulous offer in the millions from
Manila. "I’m too busy with my
lawsuits to concentrate on chess,"
he said. He is not only suing
Darrach, the publisher Stein &
Day, but also the USCF for selling
the book. And he is still defending
a damage suit forthrow ing out the
cameras in Iceland.
VSn ‘uiooun Qog h xD
6u!ue}eajqt iZN-0 t W O lin T O S
Bobby's Dilemma
Bobby Fischer’s modern clas­
sic My SO Memorable Games
(Simon & Schuster $2.95) al­
most never got published. Bobby
withdrew the manuscript before
it went to press. No reason was
given. He just bought his way
out of the contract, and in those
days Bobby needed the money.
Two years later the publisher
asked him whether they should
destroy the plates. Bobby said
no, whereupon he was informed
that they would have to start
charging him storage.
Well why not just ship the
plates to his apartment in
Brooklyn? I pointed out, tact­
fully, that they weighed several
tons and all that lead might
come crashing through the floor.
Images of impending disaster
flashed through his head. "Wow!
I didn't think of that! Maybe I
should publish the book. The
world's coming to an end any-,
way," he exclaimed.
Since I had collaborated on
the book, that cryptic remark
told me what the trouble was.
Bobby was worried about reveal­
ing his opening strategy be­
cause it might put him at a
competitive disadvantage. His
notes were unstintingly honest
and his attitude understandable.
Most grandmasters feel the
same way about their cherished
analysis. "I like my secrets to
be secrets until I play them,"
said Denmark's Bent Larsen.
Bobby was too much of a
perfectionist to om it the best
lines, and too much of a com­
petitor to publish them. So he
did the next best thing and
suppressed the manuscript for
almost 5 years, until 1969.
By this time, however, the
book had to be updated. That's
how My 50 Memorable Games
became My 60 Memorable
Games.
VSfl ‘pA<n uies
'sa-N 2 20-a ■ '' i 11 dNxo z
eo-n ■ ■ i n s x -d 2 2x-a
■ I II 'SO-O Z ED-8 I II
TM-D 2 1780-8 ' ' ' I II 'Suiijew
iisa-D i :Noumos i/tmaoad
3 4
White mates in 2 moves
Was Fischer Right?
During their epic encounter at
the 1962 Olympics, Bobby Fischer
scarcely said two words to world
champion Mikhail Botvinnik:
"Fischer" (when they shook
hands) and "Draw" (when it was
over). The resourceful Russian
saved the game after the 19-year-
old American fell into a diabolical
trap.
Botvinnik later published leng­
thy analysis proving he could have
drawn anyway, even against best
play. Bobby disputed this vigor­
ously in his book My 60 Memor­
able Games creating a raging
controversy which is still one of
the unsolved mysteries of chess.
Who is right?
In his recent book The Chess of
Bobby Fischer Robert Burger
stated: "Fischer's winning line has
never been wholeheartedly ac­
cepted as fact. Larry Evans pre­
faces this game by saying Fischer
threw away the win he maintains
was still there.”
W h ite m o ve s
W hite: BOTVINNIK Black: FISCHER
“White’s King will be without
shelter from the coming aval­
anche of checks," concluded
Fischer, without bothering to
work out a forced win. Then
someone pointed out 1 Q-B7ch!
R-N6ch 2 K-K4! which seems to
hold a draw.
Taking up the gauntlet, Burger
offers this analysis to prove Fisch­
er right: “2...Q-Q6ch 3 K-K5 K-N7!
4 R-K4 Q-B6ch! 5 K-B5 (or 5 R-Q4
R-N4ch 6 K-K4 Q-B7ch 7 K-K3 R-
K4ch wins) Q-B6ch 6 R-B4 R-
N4ch 7 K-N6 Q-R4ch 8 K-N7 R-
N4ch 9 K-B8 Q-R1ch 10 K-K7
R-N2 wins."
Clever but superficial. Obvious­
ly White must find something
better than the faulty 4 R-K4. He
has many other defenses: 4 R-Q4
is one, 4 Q-B6 another.
Burger's analysis raises more
questions than it answers. If there
is a forced win, why hasn't Bobby
published it? I have been urging
him to do so for years. A while ago
he said that he was still "working
on it." Yet his silence can only be
interpreted as an admission that
Botvinnik was right.
■Aje6unj-i 'noziy ~i
EN-2/N Z Z 8 - d " l II EX-N Z
Nxd " 1 II ifrU-SL iN O lin iO S
5
White mates in 2 moves
Pride Goeth
“ Even good players make mis­
takes. Any player, no matter how
strong he is, can overlook quite
simple moves in the course of a
game. The point is that pub­
lished analysis should be free
from such errors. I pride myself
on the fact that I have never
made a mistake in analysis.”
Shortly after penning these
words Bobby Fischer had a
chastening experience.
Robert Byrne vs. Fischer
USA Championship 1963/4
White moves
Byrne made a natural move
14 KR-Q1 and lost brilliantly
after N-Q6. In his original notes
Bobby gave this faulty analysis
to refute the alternative “14
QR-Q1 N-K5 15 NxN PxN 16
BxP QxQ 17 RxQ N-B5 18 BxR
NxR 19 R-Q1 N-B5 20 PxN
(best) RxB winning back the
Pawn with great advantage in
the endgame.”
Soviet grandmaster Yuri Aver­
bakh was quick to point out a
fly in the ointment: “ Correct is
20 B-B6! NxB 21 BxR BxN (no
better is 21 . . . K -B l 22 B-B6
and on BxN 23 R-Q8+ K-K2 24
R-Q7+ K-K3 25 RxRP with sharp
play in which White’s chances
are none the worse) 22 R-Q7!
Black has to work hard to draw.
“ On 20 B-B6! NxP 21 PxN
BxN 22 R-Q7! threatens 23 R-Q5
or RxRP. Of course Black can
vary with 19 . . . NxNP immedi­
ately winning back the Pawn,
but after 20 B-B3 Black's ad­
vantage could be seen only
through a magnifying glass.
“ The reason for Byrne’s de­
feat was not witchcraft, but his
weak 14 KR-Q1," Yuri concludes.
In My 60 Memorable Games
(# 4 8 ) Bobby sought ■ better
reply to 14 QR-Q1. "I tried
everything, unwilling to let my
brilliancy go down the drain,"
he admits. “ Finally I found 14
. . . Q-Bl! — the only move to
keep the pressure."
Having worked on the manu­
script I can testify at first hand
that he brooded over this prob­
lem for weeks. After this Bobby
stopped publishing analysis.
VSfl ‘sqqoa yaq ||9 Zd D Z
98-d ' ' ' I II E8-N Z (18-0 J°)
8XQ ' ’ ’ I 11 90-8 Suiuajeajqj
i98-y X •NQii.niOS WaiBOMd
5 6 7 8

White mates in 2 moves

White mates in 2 moves White mates in 2 moves

H ea t Of B attle Boris Is Back Holding On To The Title Chasing Bobby Fischer

Lonely, stormy, tortured are After Boris Spassky made a Traditionally the champion The search is narrowing to de­
words describing Bobby Fis­ smashing comeback by winning could impose any conditions for termine a challenger for Bobby
cher, but nothing reveals his the Soviet championship last a title shot. Alekhine not only Fischer who, it is rumored, s till
inner frenzy so keenly as his October, Bobby Fischer declared: refused to grant Capablanca a exists. Four grandmasters fe ll in
own scoresheet. He is clearly "I want to put a stop to all talk return match, for example, but the firs t playoff and only a
engulfed by strong emotions in that I’m resigning, i want to boycotted subsequent tourna­ Soviet quartet survives in the
the throes of his art. challenge Spassky. The Russians ments if his rival was invited. sem ifinals starting shortly.
Here is the start of a historic have been saying I’m afraid of "Even the ethical Lasker Interest has focused on two
12-game winning streak against him. And so I’m challenging him offered unfair terms to all his key matches: Anatoly Karpov,
Mark Taimanov and Bent Lar­ to a rematch, although I'm the close rivals," says David Hooper, 22, vs. Boris Spassky, 37; and
sen in 1971, a miracle unlikely world champion.” a noted British chess historian. Viktor Korchnoi, 43, vs. Tigran
ever to be duplicated. A bare Bobby is rusty and sincerely “ Lasker explained that he could Petrosian, 44. The two winners
dozen moves are legible before wants to defend his title annual­ afford easy terms if his title w ill meet in the fall.
the turbulent com plications of ly instead of each third year as were not at stake, but that the
the mid-game; as the battle To the surprise of nobody,
called for by the rules. "It's title was a property and that he young Karpov romped over his
gets more exciting, his scrawl good for me and good for chess,” could not risk this property
becomes more twisted! countryman Lev Polugaievsky
he says. But his conditions are against i strong rival unless he 5Vi-2*4>. in 1973 Karpov was
“ I am the best player in the stiff; despite the rhetoric, a got very good terms. voted player of the year.
world, and I am here to prove title match this year is unlikely. “ On th is basis I say that The closest match was won
it,” said Fischer. The trail led Indeed, will the unpredictable Lasker would not have risked his by Petrosian over Lajos Portisch
to Tigran Petrosian in Buenos Bobby even defend his title in title in a short 10-game match 7-6. Prior to this, Petrosian had
Aires and Boris Spassky in 1975? Trouble already is brew­ against Schlechter in 1910 never beaten the Hungarian.
Reykjavik. Even if Bobby never ing. In a telegram to FIDE without substantial safeguards. Korchnoi trounced Henrique
plays again, he has transform­ Fischer proposed that the world The original terms stated that Mecking 7 ^ - 5 ^ , j setback for
ed the image of the game and championship match be decided Schlechter needed to win by two the young Brazilian who had
made chess a household word. when one side has won ten points to get the title. If you such high hopes after winning
games. He is seeking insurance. believe the current myth that an Interzonal tournament.
Historically six wins was suffi­ Schlechter rejected a draw in
cient, and a longer match with their last game because it would The sole USA representative
many draws could become a not be sporting — refused to Robert Byrne was outclassed by
four-month marathon. Who grasp the title within his reach a resolute Spassky 4 ^ - 1 ^ . The
wants that? — you w ill believe anything.” turning point was game 3, after
Meanwhile the quarter finals two fighting draws, when Boris
An irate critic recently pro­ made an astonishing Queen
proceed. Spassky faces Robert tested: ‘That claim is com­
Byrne of the U.S. in San Juan “ sack” on move 19.
pletely inane and a gross insult
while three other matches nar­ to Lasker, who was the most Spassky recently played 41
row the field to four contenders. ethical player in history.” boards simultaneously in New
My guess is that either Boris or York, losing 1, drawing 8, and
his young compatriot Anatoly But the idea that the cham­ winning the rest. “ Bobby is king
Karpov w ill emerge as the next pion should have an edge origin­ now. I am the minister,” said
challenger. ated with Lasker’s predecessor, Boris. “The prime minister.”
Wilhelm Steinitz, who imposed
the same match conditions that
Bobby Fischer demanded in his
W hite: SPASSKY B la ck: KORENSKY famous cablegram to FIDE: W hite: B YRNE Black: SPASSKY
S ic ilia n Defense "Urge adoption of 10 wins to Ruy Lopez
Sochi 1973 decide 1975 match, draws not
counting, champion to retain 1 P-K4 P-K4 29 K -B l N-R7~r
1 P-K4 P-QB4 15 Q-B4 N-Q4 2 N-KB3 N-OB3 30 K-N1 N -B 6 +
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 16 BxN BxB title if 9 wins to 9.” In effect 3 B-N5 P-QR3 31 K-B1 B-N3
3 P-Q4 PxP 17 B-B6! KR-B1(b) this places the challenger under 4 B-R4 N-B3 32 R-B2 N-R7 +
4 NxP N-KB3 18 BxP! KxB 5 0-0 B-K2 33 K-N1 N-B6 +
White: TAIMANOV - Black: FISCHER 5 N-QB3 P-Q3 19 Q-B6ch K-B1 (c) the burden of having to win by S R-K1 P-QN4 34 K-B1 K-B1
1st match game, Vancouver 6 B-KN5 P-K3 20 KR-B1 R-B2 at least 2 points (10-8). 7 B-N3 P-Q3 35 N-K2 N-R7 +
7 Q-Q2 B-K2 21 NxB PxN 8 P-B3 0-0
King’s Indian Defense
8 0 -0 -0 NxN 22 P-K6 QxP
Upon Alekhine's death in 36 K-N1 N -B 6 +
1946, FIDE, a democratic world 9 P-KR3 N -N t 37 K-B1 B-K5
1 P-Q4 N-KB3 22 B-B4 P-Q4 9 GxN 0 -0 23 P-K7ch K-N1 10P-Q4 QN =02 38 R-R2 N-R7-i-
2 P-QB4 P-KN3 23 PxP PxP 10 P-B4 Q-R4 24 QxPch K-R1 chess federation, became the 11 QN-Q2 B-N2 39 K-N1 N-B6 +
3 N-QB3 B-N2 24 N-N5 N-N3 11 B-B4 B-Q2 25 P-K8/Q RxQ guardian of the title. It com­ 12 B-B2 R-K1 40 K-B1 N-R5
4 P-K4 P-Q3 25 N-Q4[b) Q-Q2 12 P-K5 PxP 26 QxRch K-N2 13N-B1 B-KB1 41 N-B4 BBS
5 N-B3 0 -0 26 Q-K3 K-R2 13 PxP B-B3 27 Q-K5ch K -N l pelled the champion to defend
14 N-N3 P-N3 42 R-Q3 P-N4
6 B-K2 P-K4 27 P-KR3 R-KB1 14 P-KR4 B-B4(a) 28 Q-N5chResigns the title every third year, or­ 15 P-N3 B-N2 43 N-K2 B-N7 +
7 0 -0 N-B3 28 B-R6 R-N3 ganized tournaments to select 16P-QR4(a) P-04! 44 K-K1 N-B6 +
8 P-Q5 N-K2i 29 R-B7 Q-R5 a challenger, and fixed the 17 PxKP(b) KNxP 45 K-Q1 N-K4
9 B-Q2 N-K1 30 RxB + KxR 18 BxN PxB 46 R-QB3 B-Q4
10 R-B1 P-KB4 31 BxP + IWB2
ground rules. 19B -N5 PxN! 47 R-Q2 B-B5
11 PxP[a] PxP 32 B-K2 R/1-QN1
(a) Necessary is 14 . . . QR-Q1 In protest against these con­ 20 BxQ ORxB 48 R-QR3 R-R1
12 N-KN5 P-KR3 33 NxP R-N8 15 Q-B4, N-R4 16 Q-N4, BxBch ditions Bobby "resigned" his 21 PxNP(c) NxP 49 P-B4 PxP
13 N-K6 BxN 34 RxR RxR + 17 QxB, P-KN3. title, which could be a bargain­ 22 PxRP RxO 50 NxP RxP
14 PxB Q-B1 35 K-R2 Q-Q2 23 KRxR B-QR1 51 RxR BxR
15 Q-N3 P-B3 36 N-Q4
(b) Also futile is 17 . . . PxB 18 ing maneuver. If FIDE capitu­ 24 PxP N xP + 52 N-Q5 B-B5
Q-Q3 +
16 B-R5 QxP 37 P-N3 Q-N5 R-R3! Q-Ql 19 NxB, PxN 20 lates, it may plunge the chess 25 K-B1 BxP 53 NxB PxN
17 QxP N-B3 RxP I Q-K2 (or 20 . . . QxR 21 26 QR-B1 N -0 7 + 54 R-Q6 P-N4
38 N-B6 Q-N3 world into the tyranny of the 27 K-N1 B-R4 55 K-Q2 N-N3
16 B-K2 KR-N1 39 NxP QxQ R-N3ch, K-Rl 22 QxP mate) 21
19 Q-R6 RxP 40 BxQ
past when the champion laid 28 P-N4 N -B 6 + 56 K-K3 P-R4
R-K8! PxP, etc.
20 KR-Q1 P-K5 41 B-N4 and White down the law to his challenger. W h ite Resigns
21 Q-R3 R-N2 Resigns [c] (c) Or 19 . . . K -N l 20 R-R3, The pairings for the quarter
Q-Ql 21 R-N3ch, K-Bl 22 finals of the world championship
(a) In game 3 Taimanov improv- Q-R6ch, K-K2 23 R-N7! Q-Bl 24
ed w ith 11 Q-N3 P-N3 12 PxP. elimination series are: Mecking
Q-B6ch, K-Kl 25 NxB. PxN 26 (Brazil) vs. Korchnoi (USSR); (a) 16 B-N2 is more consistent.
(b) Better is 25 Q-KN3! Unclear P-K6, R-B2 27 RxRP, B-K2 28 (b) Safer is 17 NxP.
is 25 N-B7 Q-B2 26 NxR NxB 27 Petrosian (USSR) vs. Portisch
PxPch, K-Q2 29 RxPch, B-Q3 (Hungary); Karpov (USSR) vs. (cj A better defense is 21 Q-B2,
B-R6 R-K2 28 B-B1. (if 29 . . . K-Bl 30 R-R8! wins)
(c) 41 . . . N-K4! is the clincher. Polugaievsky (USSR); Byrne NxP 22 N -B l! PxNP 23 N-R2,
30 RxBch, QxR 31 P-B8/Qch (USA) vs. Spassky (USSR). P-N4 24 Q-B5.
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Draws A re Winning
The danger to master chess,
clearly foreseen by Lasker and
Capablanca, is a steady rise in
playing strength which tends to
produce more and more draws.
Nobody today can offer the
world Pawn and move, as Paul
Morphy did last century. Even
draw odds is an insuperable
handicap.
If neither side makes any
serious mistakes, a draw is the
logical outcome. Fischer and
Spassky drew 55% of their
m atch gam es, K arpov and
Korchnoi 79%.
“ I did not follow this path,”
wrote Lasker 50 years ago.
“ Only I could see that in the
final account it was inevitable,
just as death is . . . The cause
of this evil lies not in any weak­
ness amongst the contempo­
rary exponents of the game (on
the contrary, it lies rather in
their strength), nor in the rules
of the ancient game, but in the
radical reform that was carried
out in the 16th century. Owing
to the introduction of castling,
attacks on the King became
extremely d iffic u lt."
Fischer’s proposal in a title
match is to ignore draws. If
only wins count, then the
leader cannot protect his lead
by drawing. But this also
means that there can be no
lim it to the number of games.
Under Fischer’s rules it might
take six months for either
player to score ten victories;
the match could become a
battle of brawn.
The editor of Chess Life
agrees that th is prospect is
intolerable, but he finds it far­
fetched: “ The players would be
compelled to fight harder to
win the required games in the
shortest time, since playing for
draws in an open-ended match
contributes nothing toward ul­
tim ate victory.”
A draw is a draw, whether it
results from correct play or
mutual respect. The players are
in no hurry, so why should the
absence of a deadline make
them “ figh t harder” ? It only
removes the pressure. W ithout
a fixed lim it why should either
Karpov or Fischer take any
more risks that were required in
previous 24-game matches?
The only reason fo r yielding
to Fischer’s demands is be­
cause he wants it that way. But
whether this w ill produce better
and more exciting chess, or a
marathon, is som ething else.
Just for the record my own
position is that the title should go
to the first player who wins six
games— no ifs, ands or buts.
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W h at Is Bobby's N ex t Move?
Bobby Fischer's “ resigna­
tion" of his title last summer
may have been psychological
warfare against his next chal­
lenger, rage against FIDE (the
world chess federation), or
simply a desire to give up
chess. Nobody knows what he
w ill do next.
Bobby petitioned the world
body for a change in the rules
governing the 1975 title match
— the same rules, incidentally,
adopted at his suggestion 3
years ago when he was a chal­
lenger. FIDE again gave Bobby
most of what he wanted, but
not all.
Since 1950 every title match
called for the best-of-24 games,
the champion retaining his title
in case of a tie. Bobby argued
this was unfair; it encouraged
the champion to play for draws
and hurt fighting chess.
So the rules were changed
and draws didn't count; the first
player to win 6 games was to
be declared champion. Now
Bobby says this is too short.
He urges a return to Wilhelm
Steinitz’s 19th century match
conditions: the firs t player to
win 10 games, the champion to
keep the title if tied at 9-9.
These conditions obviously
give the champion an edge, be­
cause he only has to win 9
games. The challenger really
has to win by at least 2 points
(10-S) to overcome the sticky
tie provision. Moreover, numer-
out draws could prolong the
match indefinitely.
At its last congress in Nice,
FIDE voted for 10 wins, against
the 9-9 tie rule, and restricted
the number of games to 36.
This is s till favorable to Bobby
since he keeps the title if the
match is tied after 36 games —
the very thing he objected to
when Spassky was champion.
FIDE is now fearful that
Bobby w ill play a match outside
of their auspices, destroying
the harmony of world chess.
They asked him to reconsider
his resignation. Will he?
Privately many Russian play­
ers are in favor of giving Bobby
what he wants, even though an
unrestricted match could drag
on for months and become a
test of stamina rather than skill.
Does Bobbv plan on using the
match itself to get into form
instead of tournaments?
When he was the challenger
Bobbv did not believe the cham-
Dion should have any edge. Ap­
parently he changed his mind.
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Showdown
In Moscow Anatoly Karpov,
23, trounced Viktor Korchnoi,
43, in the final candidates'
match which might well be for
the title. It all depends on the
brooding champion in Pasadena.
Unless Fischer rescinds his
resignation and abides by FIDE
rules, Karpov will be crowned
on the April 1 deadline. "If
Bobby wants to play under the
board, they should let him," says
grandmaster Gligoric. But Rus­
sia does not see it that way.
Soviet chessmaster Salo Flohr
writes: "Is Fischer quite sane?
Requiring the challenger to win
by a two-game margin is not
sportsmanlike . . . If Fischer is
ill, we sympathize and wish him
a speedy recovery. But if he is
well and behaving like an of­
fended prima donna, expecting
his challenger to capitulate to
him unconditionally and accept
all his terms, he is deluded.”
Even Robert Byrne in the NY
Times calls Fischer’s proposals:
"Absolutely stark-naked cheat­
ing . . . I think Bobby would
rather retire undefeated than
risk the possibility of losing.”
Karpov adds, "To play until 10
victories is awful. The match can
last 3 or 4 months . . . cease
being art and turn into forced
labor . . . Fischer's terms are
ungentlemanly and unfeasible.”
“ If Fischer will play me in
Europe," declared Korchnoi, “ I
will play under his match con­
ditions." But his loss nullified
this brave concession.
Bobby nurses a grudge for
Russians dating to 1962 when
they colluded against him at
Curacao, setting back his title
hopes ten years. Yet he would
sooner forfeit the title than play
under ground rules he dislikes.
“ Everyone knows I’m best, so
why bother to play?" he once
said. Now Karpov claims “ Fisch­
er is unsure of himself."
Bobby told friends he was
surprised that Karpov beat Polu-
gaievsky in the first round, and
astonished when he crushed
Spassky next. Russia patiently
has groomed young Karpov for
this ineluctable clash with
the temperamental Fischer.
I think Bobby w ill win — if syndicated columnist Sydney
some way can be found to get
him to the chessboard, where he
belongs. Years ago Hans Kmoch
sighed, “ Finally America pro­
duces its greatest chess genius,
and he turns out to be just a
stubborn boy!"
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W aiting For Bobby
What a pity if Bobby Fischer
fails to defend his title ! Yet
neither FIDE nor his Soviet
challenger, Anatoly Karpov, has
yielded to his harsh terms. De­
spite $5m illion at Manila and
last-minute compromises the
match won’t be official until
Bobby actually shows up.
In a letter to my column in
Chess Life Bobby defended his
proposal that the challenger
win by a two-game margin: “ The
champion must also win by at
least 2. When the champion gets
9 points the match isn't auto­
matically over, although at that
stage his title is secure. It con­
tinues until he wins 10 games
unless the challenger wins 9
first to tie him . . . Then the
money would be split equally
and the match declared z draw."
Bobby seems to forget that
the title is more important than
the purse. In 1951, when the
best-of-24 games took effect,
Mikhail Botvinnik retained fiis
crown by drawing with David
Bronstein. He did the same
against Vassily Smyslov in 1954.
Despite Soviet objections
Bobby persuaded FIDE to return
to the old system with no fixed
limit. The first player to win 6
games, draws not counting, was
to be declared the victor.
Finally, for the firs t time in
history, conditions were abso­
lutely equal and the champion
had no edge whatsoever. Perfect.
After two years of inactivity,
Bobby again had the rules
changed to 10 wins just in case
he got off to a bad start. But
FIDE refused to approve his 9-9
tie clause and set a 36-game
lim it (this means draws count).
Even though Bobby now enjoys
the same edge as every Soviet
titlis t before him, he balks.
An unlim ited match might
become a battle of endurance.
Karpov won only 3 out of 24
against Korchnoi; the same ratio
would require 80 games to get
10 wins — at least 26 weeks
(3 games per week) plus post­
ponements, etc.
“ No champion is interested
in the good of the game; only in
the good of himself,” observes
Harris. “As a contender, each
player has always clamored for
■ chance to play the champion,
accusing him of delay, tim idity,
and downright cowardice. Then
upon attaining the title the new
champion engaged in precisely
the same stalling tactics.”
Although Bobby promised to
be a fighting champion, he
hasn't faced anvone since Spas­
sky. Indeed, w ill the enigmatic
American show up now?
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Paper Champion
For the first time in history a
champion was crowned without
pushing a single pawn. When no
word passed from Bobby Fischer
by the deadline, FIDE had no
choice but to give the title to his
challenger Anatoly Karpov.
“Next to the genius of Fischer,
Karpov is a dull, plodding stu­
dent." said Ed Edmondson of the
USCF. “What we are getting now
is Russian propaganda designed
to convince the world that he
really is a worthy champion; but in
his heart Karpov knows he is not
champion because he never met
Fischer and defeated him."
“ Paper champion?” replied the
24-year-old Russian. "I think that
term more adequately describes
Fischer, who has not played a
game of chess in 3 years. I still
don’t understand why he refused
to defend his title. It is hard for me
to tell how strong he is, but I am
not convinced that he is capable
of playing chess at this time.
“ Besides splendid chess perfor­
mances, Fischer introduced into
our creative world such fuss and
confusion that chess masters
suddenly were in urgent need of
diplomats, spokesmen and law­
yers. Earlier we could reach an
understanding in our own lan­
guage, and now this has become
almost impossible."
Karpov made it clear he is
willing to play Fischer a match,
but not for the title. Moreover,
there would have to be a 24 or 30
game limit instead of Fischer's
demand for 10 wins and no limit.
"That would be a marathon which
would risk my health and sanity,”
said Karpov, also calling into
question the sanity of Fischer who
turned down $5 million—the sec­
ond largest purse in the history of
sport.
In my opinion the Fischer who
beat Spassky in 1972 would
slaughter the Karpov who
squeaked past Korchnoi in 1974.
But seclusion has made him an
unknown quantity now.
Bobby backed himself into a
corner by demanding that his
challenger win by a two-point
margin. When this was denied, he
quit as "a matter of principle.”
Since everyone told Bobby that
this demand was unfair, the ques­
tion arises whether he was looking
for a “graceful” way out of the
match by sticking to it. Perhaps in
his own mind Bobby considers
himself world champion until he is
beaten. If he doesn't play, he can
never lose the title!
Chess patron Louis D. Statham,
whose yearly tournament at Lone
Pine is world famous, summed up
his frustration with Fischer: "I
think it’s unworthy fora champion
of anything to ask for a handicap,”
Most fans feel the same way.
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Selfmate
Genius is a starry attribute.
Future generations often find a
genius easier to bear than his
harried contemporaries.
Now that Bobby Fischer has
defaulted the title toa Russian, his
defenders are crying foul. A
diehard spokesman implies that
the king was rooked by a Commie
plot. A playwright in the NY Times
depicts our hero as “ a persecuted
poet who defends human dignity."
A psychiatrist asserts: “ One
paramount theme emerges in
Fischer’s behavior: his refusal to
compromise his principles." A
vexed fan writes: "He’s not princi­
pled. He's just crazy."
A mathematician offers "proof”
that Fischer’s keeping the title on
a 9-9 tie gives the challenger a
better break than a 24-game
match. Alas, the computer didn’t
say whether this proposal was fair.
FIDE gave Bobby everything he
wanted—10 wins and an unlimited
match—before balking at his
infamous tie clause. Because the
champ always had an edge,
should that tradition prevail? Why
settle for a tie? In the unlikely
event of a 9-9 deadlock, why not
continue until a player gets 2
games ahead instead of halting
the match at its climax?
Fischer refused to consider any
such sensible solutions, accord­
ing to a published report by his
representative Ed Edmondson.
Bobby vowed to behave and not
seek any edge in future matches if
he got his way just this once. He
also promised to be a “fighting
champion" and never played a
public game during his 3-year
reign.
His only visible move was a $20
million invasion of privacy suit
against the writer Brad Darrach.
He did not a jot to promote the
game he professes to love.
It makes no difference whether
Fischer obeyed his conscience or
was afraid of losing: he shirked his
duty by not defending his title
under fair conditions. He refused
to negotiate or compromise and
his obstinacy killed the m a tc h -
nothing or nobody else.
Back in 1964 Eliot Hearst wrote
in Chess Life: "Apparently it is
more important for Fischer to
show his independence than to try
for the world title ..One doesn't
want to accuse Bobby of collusion
with the Russians, but the practi­
cal effect of his selfmate is exactly
that."
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Bobby Who?
A spirited attack on Bobby
Fischer was launched by Jude
Acers in the magazine CITY OF
SAN FRANCISCO. Much of it was
justified, but the rest was distorted
and reckless.
"Karpov is iust getting started.
Fischer is all but finished.
"Fischer knew that defeat was
certain, being, easily, one of the
greatest players of all time and a
professional who knows exactly
what is what.
"The people that Karpov defeat­
ed in unbelievable fashion
( Korchnoi, Polugaievsky and
Spassky) are a hundred times
more formidable than the field so
magnificently blown to smither­
eens by Fischer (Larsen, Taima-
nov and Petrosian). Only now is
Karpov becoming a quiet hero
while Fischer remains hopelessly,
helplessly idle."
While I roundly condemn Bob­
by for forfeiting his title, he is the
highest rated player ever and most
grandmasters felt he would have
shellacked Karpov in a match.
"If a master is in a class by
himself, he never attains to his
maturity," observed Emanuel
Lasker. "Unless he meets an
opponent of his own rank his style
deteriorates just as a cultivated
plant which is not tended reverts
to its wild state. He has to encoun­
ter Infinite resistance, to be cap­
able of Infinite power.”
Unless Bobby pulls his head out
of the sand, Karpov must be
ranked as the best player in the
world. In fact, It Is doubtful If
Russian authorities will even per­
mit Karpov to piay him a match.
The combined Elo rating of
Karpov’s 3 opponents Is 7935
(now) vs. 7900 (then) for Fischer-
hardly "a hundred times more
formidable.” Moreover, Fischer
scored 88% vs. Karpov's 58%.
Bobby wasn't afraid of losing
any more than he was afraid of not
qualifying In the 1967 Interzonal
when he was way In the lead and
dropped out. If he decides that an
Injustice Is being done to him, his
characteristic reaction Is to with­
draw even If It costs millions. Even
if he’s wrong.
Bobby didn’t play because he
was denied the edge that every
world champion enjoyedj
"When you were the challenger
you didn't believe the champion
should have any edge," I rem­
inded him. "That’s besides the
point!" snapped Bobby.
Karpov deserves credit as a
fighting champion, and the burd­
en is now on Fischer to prove he is
better. Unfortunately Bobby
seems more interested in justify­
ing himself than in playing chess.
Karpov at 24 is a great player
with a bright future. But let’s cut
out all the nonsense.
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Fischer Fallout
"Right now, as has long been
the lamentable case, selling chess
in the U.S. is like trying to peddle
New York City bonds." S p o rts
Illu s tr a te d .
The pros and cons resulting
from Fischer's refusal to defend
his title have grown so acrimoni­
ous that C hess L ife & R e v ie w
has declared a moratorium on the
topic. In the longest article ever
published a mathematician of­
fered statistical justification for
Bobby's notorious 9-9 tie clause.
Dr. Kalme's major thesis was:
"Once the match stands even after
a long struggle, the outcome of a
single game is irrelevant to deter­
mining who is the better player."
Andrew Soltis, chess columnist
for the New York Post, compared
this to saying that the seventh
game of the World Series is irrele­
vant.
Robert Byrne, resident grand­
master of the New York Times,
wrote me: “ If I had the time, I
would write a formal critique of
Kalme's claptrap...For those fool­
ish enough to believe that Fischer
was an innocent lamb led to
slaughter by FIDE, so be it."
While most readers agree that
Bobby should have defended his
title under the fair conditions set
down by FIDE, some have taken
me to task for not supporting him
because he is my friend and a
fellow American.
Don Smith, Ca., writes: "Your
formula for a title match requiring
the first player to win six games,
continuing until one player gets
two games ahead, is a shocker!
You rejected Fischer's proposal
because the challenger had to win
by at least two points, and be­
cause the match might turn into a
marathon. Under your formula
one can well imagine this scenar­
io: Champion 15 wins, Challenger
15 wins, 22 draws, and the match
sailing onto eternity!"
That's not "my" formula. I
called it a “sensible solution"
which at least was fair to both
players. My position is very sim­
ple: the first player to win six
games—no ifs, ands or buts.
Robert McCrary, Ga., writes: "I
have always opposed the old
system as well as Fischer's sug­
gested change. Like you, I looked
forward to Fischer setting a prece­
dent for fairness in future
matches. I, too, used to rationalize
his behavior until his Reykjavik
performance overtaxed my ability
to do so. I know enough math to
follow Dr. Kalme, but I also know
enough psychology to recognize
rationalization. If Fischer chooses
not to play, why try to construct
novel arguments to justify him?”
It’s obvious that if Bobby want­
ed to play chess, he would.
Enough already!
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The Summer O f '7 2
Before Reykjavik, chess oc­
cupied a niche roughly between
marble shooting and butterfly
collecting. Fischer put the game
on the front page for two solid
months; taxi drivers talked
chess to their fares, hard hats
bet on each move of the match.
It’s hard to imagine a more
madcap plot or outlandish cast
than what history dropped in
Brad Darrach's lap for his bril­
liant Bobby Fischer vs. the Rest
of the World. Rumor has it as a
forthcoming Mel Brooks movie.
The world wanted to save the
match more than Bobby did, yet
he stood to gain the most. No
concession was enough, Bobby
always had just one more de­
mand. It literally took a miracle
— a call from Kissinger and an
English patron doubling the
purse to a quarter m illion — to
get Bobby to Iceland. Then the
fun with the Russians began.
"A man who is ready to com­
m it suicide has the initiative,"
quipped Spassky, who defied
the beaurocracy by staying in
Iceland when ordered back to
Moscow. After Bobby failed to
show for the firs t game it was
clear that he dreaded the match.
He had lost 3 and drawn 2 with
Spassky previously. A tragic
hero, Boris had to be sure he
was really the best. Ironically
his sportsmanship cost Russia
the title it prizes so dearly.
An editorial in my local paper
expressed the prevailing mood:
“The 29-year-old American has
demanded more money, shown
up late for each game, carped
about the sound of cameras re­
cording the play and generally
made himself obnoxious. Most
Americans hope that patient Mr.
Spassky w ill beat the pie out of
their self-indulgent country­
man." Remember when?
It soon became apparent that
Bobby didn’t create all this
ruckus and forfeit game two to
focus world interest on the
match He was tortured, whip­
ping himself into a fury to
play his best chess.
If Bobby is really money-mad,
why did he turn down millions
in offers? Why not a single
game since winning the match?
Darrach implies that his hero
is now lost in a dreamland.
Bobby's resignation of the title
and his “ non-negotiable" de­
mands calling for total control
over the news media, and a tie
match going to the champion
are grim reminders of what
happened before.
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W arts And All
No chess ability is needed
to savor Bobby Fischer vs. the
Rest of the World by Brad Dar­
rach. This hilarious portrait of
a genuine loner reads like ■
novel as it recreates the in­
glorious saga of the title match
in Iceland. Bobby is revealed as
an idiot-savant who can neither
cope with nor fathom the forces
driving him. A moody genius.
In bullying evei^body in sight
he was working himself up to a
pitch of frenzy that would over­
come his dread of the match
and hurl him like a wild beast
at Spassky's throat says Dar­
rach, who is fond of jungle
metaphors in describing Bobby.
His eyes are like tiger’s with
the same yellow-green serenity
and frightening emptiness. Most
of his facial expressions are
rudimentary displays of fear,
hunger, anger, pleasure, pain,
suspicion . . . all the emotions
a man or animal can have with­
out feeling close to any other
man or animal. I have rarely
seen him register sympathy . . .
tenderness . . . And never love.
Bobby wears a business suit
about as naturally as a python
wears a necktie. He stands six
one, weighs close to 190 . . .
walks the way a hen runs.
His voice is flat, monotonous,
the color of asphalt . . . a man
pretending to be a machine so
people won’t be able to hurt
him . . . Energy again and
again escapes in a binge of
anger. Every night, all night, it
escapes into chess . . . All the
life in his body flows and he
looks wild and beautiful.
Sprawled with lazy power, eyes
half closed, he listens to the
imaginary rustle of moving
pieces as a tiger lies and listens
to the murmur of moving reeds.
Darrach’s anecdotes are choice
and indiscreet. Little escapes
his keen eye, and he was the
only reporter allowed to shadow
Bobby after promising not to
write a book about him.
Bobby did all this in a coun­
try almost totally without a
chess culture. It was as if an
Eskimo had cleared i tennis
court in the snow and gone on
to win the championship says
his sister proudly.
But does Bobby love chess
enough to defend his title? All
my life I knew what I wanted,
Darrach quotes Bobby as saying
after he won. To be champion,
right? Well I made it. NOW what
do I do?
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Living Legend
Bobby Fischer is treated with an
awe usually reserved forthedead.
And the legend grows.
"He is disturbing in the same
way as a poet crying out in
solitude," notes Fernando Arra-
bal, a Spanish playwright.
PROFILE OF A PRODIGY by
Frank Brady is a worshipful but
unauthorized biography.
BOBBY FISCHER VS. THE
REST OF THE WORLD by Brad
Darrach examines how such a
great chessplayer can be such a
total boor.
THE GAMES OF ROBERT J.
FISCHER by Wade & O’Connell
contains every known serious
game since he was 12,
THE CHESS OF BOBBY
FISCHER by Robert Burger seeks
the secret of his winning ways
HOW TO BEAT BOBBY FISCH­
ER by Edmar Mednis morbidly
dissects 61 losses to probe the
cause of his failures: outplayed
(38), carelessness (16), trying too
hard.to win (7).
Mednis has done some original
analysis, and each one features a
diagram of the losing moment.
Statistics reveal that Ewfim Gel-
ler shares the distinction (with
Spassky) of a record 5 wins.
W h ite m oves
This arises from a possible
varia tion of Fischer-G eller,
Skopje 1967. Bobby claimed that
he missed a win, but Mednis
disputes this on page 207: "After
21...N-B3M (not considered by
Fischer), I see no winning oppor­
tunities for White."
The decisive thrust is 22 R-R6!
(threatening 23 RxN! BxR 24 OxB!
PxQ 25 BxP mate) N-K5 (no better
is 22..,QxQB 23 QxQ PxR 24 R-K1!
R-Q2 25 RxB! RxR 26 QxN mate;
or 22...P-Q4 23 RxN wins) 23 Q-B5
N-N4 24 P-KR4 B-K5 25 Q-N4 P-
Q4 26 PxN RxP 27 P-N6! wins.
Even in retrospect Fischer is
right. In the years to come his
biggest, toughest opponent may
be Bobby Fischer himself.
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Fischer's Biography
Profile of a Prodigy: The Life
and Games of Bobby Fischer by
Frank Brady (David McKay, 435
pages, $10) has now been up­
dated from 1965 to include the
title match in ’72.
The first 268 pages constitute
the most extensive biography of
a chess player ever written.
Brady grapples diligently with an
enigmatic and elusive subject.
One may quarrel with some of
the author's conclusions and his
reliance on hearsay. "Fischer's
I.Q. was in the 180s,” recalls one
of his teachers. C an't this fact
be checked out?
When Fischer declined GelI-
er’S offer of a draw at Palma
1970, all Bobby said was: "Too
early." Unfortunately this is not
glamorous enough for his Bos­
well. "Fischer may well have
countered with a much more
caustic snipe, probably return­
ing to his theme about short
draws being only the property of
the Soviet state."
Brady should know better
than to attribute to Bobby any
conversation with an opponent
during a game, especially one
who doesn’t speak English.
What about Bobby’s antics
during his title shot? "Improb­
able that Fischer was attempting
to disturb Spassky in any way."
Was Bobby so naive or self-
absorbed as to be unaware that
he was shaking up Spassky?
Brady’s interpretation of game
13 — the one that gave Bobby
a commanding lead — may raise
some eyebrows: "On his 69th
move, obviously exhausted,
Spassky blundered . . , Fischer
sat back in his chair grimly,
staring at Spassky — studying
him. For a long, long moment,
he did not take his eyes off the
Russian. There was just a b it of
compassion in Fischer's eyes
. . ." Others have ascribed these
moments to sadistic glee,
psychic murder on chessboard.
The section of 90 games
is frosting on the cake. For
penetrating analysis the serious
student had best look elsewhere,
because some notes are down­
right misleading. Brady's forte is
writing, not chess analysis. In
game 45, for example (Evans-
Fischer) 1 P-Q4, N-KB3 2 P-QB4,
P-K3 3 N-QB3, B-N5 4 P-K3,
P-QN3 5 N-K2, B-R3 6 P-QR3,
BxNch 7 NxB, P-Q4 8 P-QN3
comes the blithe, insupportable
comment: "Here White can ob­
tain a winning Kingside attack
with 8 Q-B3.”
Despite its flaws, this is the
only complete record of Bobby
Fischer’s career.
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B o b b y F is c h e r—T h e G re a ­
te s t? is a book whose title poses
an impossible question for read­
ers to resolve- The author, Dr. Max
Euwe, a former world champion
himself, mainly contrasts Fisch­
er's play with three legendary
Titleholders: Capablanca, Ale­
khine, Lasker.
An: all-too-brief chapter also
compares Fischer to six living ex­
champs, including the author.
Reigning champ Karpov is omit­
ted. Also left out is Paul Morphy,
conceded by Euwe to be “the
greatest star of all time who lived
and played before the establish­
ment of the world championship."
Statistically Fischer is the high­
est rated player ever on the Elo
scale, which has been projected
back 100 years. Only Botvinnik is
considered a real rival among the
living and they played only once in
1962. Euwe dismisses the rest:
“Any comparisons of Fischer with
present-day grandmasters he has
frequently played would certainly
be in his favor, not only by reason
of the results but also because of
the quality of these games.”
In all, Euwe studies 74 fine
games plus extracts. He is careful
and scrupulously fair, although I
find myself wishing he had taken
more risks.
Typical of his reserve is his
verdict on Capablanca vs. Fischer:
"It is impossible to decide...In
general, Capablanca's way of
playing is clearer and he pos­
sessed the power of winning
almost even, and apparently dull,
positions. Fischer for his part has
a fine positional judgment, unli­
mited energy and great fighting
spirit."
In many ways Fischer resem­
bled Alekhine. Both put the stress
on getting opening advantages.
Both were weaker in passive
position which held no prospects
for a win.
Lasker often took great risks to
give the game character. He
deliverately sought the unbal­
anced murky setting that Fischer
preferred to avoid.
Perhaps the question should be
who was the greatest for the
longest time? Fischer might still
return to the arena, but his active
career lasted only 17 years before
he retired in 1972 at the age of 29.
Lasker spanned 53 years, Capa
and Alekhine 35 apiece.
These three giants all did the
best they could for as long as they
could. Fischer quit at the peak of
his powers, which is always useful
in inspiring a legend.
Who was the g reatest? The fi nal
chapter is yet to be written. If you
believe the computer experts,
then Karpov may be the last flesh
and blood champion before ma­
chines take over.
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Blot out his name, then, The elusive Bobby Fisher still
Record one lost soul more, has not played a serious game
One task more declined, since his match with Spassky in
One more footpath untrod. 1972. He may never emerge from
(Robert Browning) his self-imposed exile in the
Chessmasters all have the same California sun.
opinion of Bobby Fischer. "He let A reader writes: 7 don’t hold to
us down. He let chess down." the theory that a great master
His colleagues are bitter be­ must piay regular tournament
cause Bobby did nothing to prom­ chess to keep in practice. For
ote the game. He could have example, Emanuel Lasker had not
rendered a great service merely by played for 9 years when he was 66
doing what he does best—playing and had to face Euwe (a year away
chess. Instead he is a recluse from the world title) in the first
depriving the world of his art. round at Zurich 1934. Play the
Fischer still nurses a grudge game over—it is a masterpiece. If
against FIDE, the world body that there is any parallel between
stripped him of the title. Yet he Fischer and Lasker (and there is)
spurned many lucrative offers to then it won't be necessary to offer
compete outside of their jurisdic­ alibis for Bobby. He can beat
tion. Karpov or anyone else."
It's characteristic of him to pout I also believe that Fischer's rustwho
when he doesn’t get his way. In a would wear off very quickly if he
rare public appearance in court returned to the arena. Shortly
Bobby lost a match against the before Russia vs. World in 1970
author of an unauthorized biogra­ Bobby told me, after an 18 month
phy Bobby Fischer 17s. The Rest layoff: “ I’m an unknown quantity,
Of The World. even to myself." He then pro­
The presiding judge was W illi­ ceeded to trounce Petrosian.
am Byrne who refused Nixon's Bobby is probably as good as
offer during the Ellsberg trial to ever, but the question now is
head the FBI. Bobby told the whether he really wants to play
judge: “ I'm not going to take this chess again.
lying down! I'll not pay a penny of Although Bobby refuses to take
federal income taxes until I get on human opponents, apparently
justice in this case." he is willing to play against
This is an idle threat since his machines which pose no real
income is almost nonexistent. threat to him. Recently he slaugh­
Bobby is still living off his shareof tered the Greenblatt computer
the purse in the Spassky match program in 3 games which he
and hasn't played a serious game submitted for publication to the
since 1972. Computer Chess Newsletter. It is
It's difficult to make a comeback hard to judge strength against
against primed and hungry oppo­ such weak opposition, but they
nents. Only dire need of funds shed the only light on how good
may lure him out of seclusion. He Bobby is today.
might break his self-imposed exile W h ite : F IS C H E R B la c k : G R E E N B L A T T
with n worldwide exhibition tour, K in g ’s G a m b it
1 P -K 4 P -K 4
as other champions have done, 2 P -K B 4
1 2 R -B 2
P xP 1 3 P xB
but there is no guarantee that his
3 B -Q B 4 P -Q 4 1 4 B xP
offhand losses won’t be pu­ 4 B xP N -K B 3
1 5 N -B 6 c h K -R 1
blished. 5 N -Q B 3 B -Q N 5
1 6 Q -R 5
His niche in history is secure 6 N -B 3 0 - 0 1 7 Q xB
7 0 -0 N xB 1 8 R - B 3
and he has nothing to prove 8 N xN B -Q 3 1 9 R -Q B 1
anymore. Apparently he would 9 P -Q 4 P -K N 4 2 0 R -K N 3 R -K R 1
rather endure penury than risk his 1 0 N xN P GxN 21 Q -R 6 m a te
reputation in the arena. Perhaps 11 P -K 5 B -K R 6
he knows he has lost the old magic W h ite : G R E E N B L A T T B la c k : F IS C H E R ing to be signed the temperamen­
and is reluctant to expose himself S ic ilia n D e fe n s e
to possible defeat. 1 P -K 4 P -Q B 4
2 5 B xR
Bobby sacrificed his youth for 2 N -K B 3 P -K N 3
2 6 R -K B 1 B -K B 4
the game. Now he seems to be 3 P -Q 4 B -N 2
2 7 R -B 2
discovering all the things he
4 N -B 3 P xP
2B R -K 2
5 N xP N -Q B 3
missed, How many parents will 2 9 R -K 3
6 B -K 3 H -B 3
3 0 R -K B 3
encourage their kids to do the 7 NxN NPxN
3 1 P -B 3
same? 8 P -K 5 N -N 1
9 P -B 4 P -B 3
3 2 R -K 3
In the long run Bobby may have 1 0 PxP N xP
3 3 P xP
harmed chess more than he 11 B -B 4 P -Q 4
3 4 R -K 1
helped it. The pity is he fanned the 3 5 P -K R 4
1 2 B -K 2 RQN1
3 6 R -Q 1
myth that all great players are 1 3 P -Q N 3 N -N 5
3 7 K -B 2
1 4 B -Q 4 P -K 4
kooks 1 5 P xP
3 8 R -K R 1 B -Q 5 c h
0 -0
1 6 BxN Q -R 5 c h
3 9 K -N 2
4 0 P -R 3
1 7 P -N 3 QxB
4 1 R -K B 1
18 QxQ BxQ
4 2 K -R 2
19 R -K B 1 ? R xR c h
4 3 K -N 2
20 K xR P -B 4
21 B -B 2 BxP
4 4 K xB
22 B -K 1 R -B 1 c h
4 5 P -N 4
4 6 K -R 2
23 K -N 2 R -B 6
24 P -K R 3 R xN 4 7 K -R 3
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After 7 years of inactivity
Bobby Fischer announced his
return to the arena. But will he
really play d warmup match
against Yugoslav grandmaster
Svetozar Gligoric in 1979?
“We hope it is a great day for
world chess, and I am glad that
television will broadcast our
match," said Fischer before leav­
ing Belgrade with a guarantee of
$1 million if he shows up again to
play.
Bobby said the same thing
before his match with Spassky in
1972. Then he threw out the cam­
eras.
An intriguing question is why
Bobby chose Gligoric ahead of
such comers as Miles of England,
Timman of Holland, or Mecking of
Brazil? True, Gligo is an old friend
is highly respected in the
chess community. But beyond
that chess is a popular sport in
Yugoslavia, they have always
received Bobby warmly and rais­
ing his fee is no problem.
During the fifties “Gligo" was
considered the strongest non-
Soviet player, along with Ameri­
ca's Reshevsky and Argentina’s
Najdorf. Now at the age of 56
Gligo is still ■ formidable oppo­
nent who can providecompetition
without posing a serious threat. In
16 previous encounters Bobby
has won 6, lost 4, drawn 6.
After sitting by idly while Kar­
pov and Korchnoi gathered all
that publicity, Fischer was itching
to get back in the limelight. He was
also running out of money after
tithing nearly $100,000 to the
Church of God.
Hopefully Bobby intends to take
on world champion Anatoly Kar­
pov next. Over the last few years
they met secretly at least six times
without reaching an agreement.
According to a Karpov aide they
BxKP
first met at Tokyo in July 1976. A
PQB3
Q -N 2 year later they met twice in Spain,
at Cordoba and Madrid. Finally
R-Q1 they met again in Washington at
N -R 3 the end of 1977, once at a Chinese
G -N 3 restaurant and several times at the
K -N 2
Philippine Embassy so they could
talk “on neutral ground."
With a $5 million contract wait­
tal Bobby suddenly demanded a
new condition. Karpov walked
B xB out, angrily accusing the Ameri­
P -K R 4
can of raising unnecessary ob­
K -B 2 stacles.
“ It is Fischer who is supposed to
f B -Q 5
K -K 3 decide if he will play. Karpov is
B -K 4 ready," said his spokesman.
P -Q 5 It looks like Fischer has been
PxP ducking Karpov, not the other way
P -Q 6
around. A resounding victory
P -Q 7
B -B 6 against Gligoric might give Bobby
B -K N 5 the boost he needs.
Meanwhile Karpov again of­
K -Q 4 fered to put his title on the line. As
K -K 5
K -Q 6
usual, it's Bobby's move.
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B -R 6 c h
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Yugoslav grandmasterSvetozar ft is ironic that Bobby Fischer

Gligoric at 56 is slowing down never took advantage of the vast
after a long and distinguished increase in prize money that he
career that started in 1945. A brief spawned. The quarter million
foray in chess politics ended dollar purse with Spassky in 1972
recently when he lost out for the exceeded the sum total of awards
post of FIDE President to Icelan­ presented for all the previous 27
dic grandmaster Fridrik Olafsson. title matches held since 1886.
"Gligo" used to be a regular on Bobby's sanity was called into
the tournament circut. Although question when he turned down a
he plays less frequently, his active $5 million offer from Manila in
days are far from over and Bobby 1975 because he didn’t get every
Fischer chose him as an opponent last one of his match conditions.
in a training match. More recently, no further word
After placing last in an all­ was heard on his announced $1
grandmaster event at Bugjno, million match with Yugoslav
Yugoslavia, Gligo bounded back grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric,
at Osijek to take first on tiebreak who is still going strong at 57,
over Hungary's Andras Adorian. Gligo's career took a new turn
Each scored 5 wins and 8 draws in when he served as arbiter for the
the field of 14 which included 9 $110,000 Man and his World
grandmasters. America’s repres­ tournament in Montreal shortly
entative Mark Diesen, former after he shared first prize at Lone
world junior champ, finished 11th Pine. Gligo reportedly came to
with 5 points. California to persuade Bobby to
Gligo's book S e le c te d C hess play chess again.
M a s te rp ie c e s treats us to 45 To get himself into shape Gligo
games from his popular"Game Of played a friendly ten game match
The Month" column in Chess Life for a purse of $13,000 with his
magazine. David Levy's The compatriot Lubomir Luboyevic.
C hess O f G lig o r ic features 63 The games were unusually hard
of Gligo's own best games, which fought, with only three draws, won
are second to none. by Luboyevic by the slim margin
Gligo met Fischer in Belgrade of 4-3.
prior to the Portoroz Interzonal in None of the games was quiet.
1958. One day they were on the This was selected by Yugoslav
beach and Bobby challenged him fans as "best of match" in a
to a swimming race. Gligo de­ nationwide poll.
clined to compete with the 15-
W hite: LU B O YE VIC Blaek: GLIGO
year-old so Bobby proceeded to Nlm zo Indian Dafanaa
quiz him about various lines. Th ird Match Gama 1979
“ I didn't remember them. 1 P-QB4 P-0B4
Probably he thought I was hiding 2 N-KB3 N-KB3
the lines but I didn't do that. He 3 N-B3 P-K 3
asked me about a certain variation 4 P-04 PxP
9 NxP B-N9
that I didn't remember and was 6 Q-M3 B-B4
surprised when he used it against 7 B -K 3 P-QN3
me in the Interzonal. On the board 8 N-B2 N-R3
I couldn't find the best continua­ 8 R-01 0-0
tion and I had some difficulties in 10 8 -04 B-N2
11 P-K3 B -K2
that game," said Gligo. 12 P-QR3 N-B4
W h ite : G L IG O R IC B la c k : F IS C H E R 13 Q-R2 P-QR4
S ic ilia n D e fe n s e P o rto ro z 1 9 5 8 14 P-B3 Q-N11
19 P-K4 N-R4
1 P-K4 P -0 B 4 17 Q x P c h K -R I 16 B-K 2 N-B9
2 N -K B 3 P -0 3 1B B xN N xB 17 0-0 P-B4
3 P-Q4 PxP 19 0 - 0 - 0 N -K 4 18 P-K 9 P-Q3
4 N lP N -K B 3 20 0 -0 5 B -N 5 19 PxP BxQP
5 N-0B3 P -O R 3 21 O R -B B x P c h 20 K-R1 P-K 4
6 B-KN5 P -K 3 22 B xB Q x B c h 21 B-N1 P-K 9
7 P-B4 P -R 3 23 K -N 1 Q -K 2 22 PxP NxB
8 B-R4 B -K 2 24 0 - 0 2 B -K 3 23 NxN B xKP
9 0 -B 3 P -K N 4 25 P -K N 3 R -0 1 24 N /B -04 R-B3
10 P*P K N -Q 2 26 R -B 4 0 - N 4 29 N-KB3 R-KR3
11 N lP P xN 27 Q -B 2 K -N 1 28 P-R3 Q-N2
12 Q -R 5 c h K -B 1 28 R -0 1 R -K B 2 27 N / K -Q 4 P-KN4
13 B -N S K R -R 2 I 29 P -N 3 0 - K 2 28 B -K 3 P-B9
14 Q -N 6 R -B 2 30 0 -0 4 N -N 3 29 N-NS B-B1
15 O zP ch K -N 1 31 R xR QxR 30 BxN BxB
1 6 0 -N e c h R -N 2 32 Q -K 3 D ra w 31 P-QN4 P-N9
32 PxB PxN
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chance with 21...R-B1! 34 Q -K B 2 PxNP
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K Is For Karpov First Outing Kudos For Karpov Winning Ways

At 23 frail Anatoly Karpov is Unlike his predecessor, Anatoly Despite the burden of the title World champion Anatoly Kar­
at the peak of his career. He Karpov is proving to be a worthy which he inherited from Fischer, pov wins everything in sight. He
will be the youngest world and fighting champion. His first Karpov likes to play chess! His celebrated his 25th birthday with
champ ever, by default, if appearance since gaining the title readiness to compete in strong another victory in Skopje, scoring
Fischer fails to defend his title. by forfeit was at the Vidmar events, to risk failure, is admirable 12.5 points (10 wins, 5 draws) in a
Karpov's style is quiet, but Memorial Tournament in Portor- and refreshing. field of 16. His rating has now
he showed attacking prowess oz, Yugoslavia. Fischer was keenly aware of the soared to 2705, rapidly approach­
early in his recent match. True to form, Karpov took first pressure on the champion, and ing Fischer's record 2785 in 1972.
Karpov's result was 3 wins, 2 effortessly with 11 points (7 wins, simply stopped playing. This Wolfgang Uhlmann of E. Ger­
losses, 19 draws. In his first victory 8 draws) in a field of 16. Svetozar peculiar American obsession with many was runner-up, followed by
he tamed the Dragon. To breathe Gligoric of Yugoslavia came in success paralyzes many of our Jan Timman of Holland. Tied for
new life into it, Black might have to second, followed by a 3-way tie artists. 4th with 9 points was our own
try the sacrifice 17...B-R1I? be tw een S em yon Furm an Only winning seems to count. A James Tarjan whose result
(USSR), Vlastimil Hort (Czech) fickle public often devours its clinched his grandmaster title.
and Zoltan Ribli (Hungary). gods as they topple. Each slip is Karpov, victor in every event
W h ite : KARPOV B la ck: KORCHNOI since he was declared world
2nd m a tch gam e 1974
When asked about a match with interpreted as defeat rather than
Fischer, Karpov replied: "What I as a necessary process of growth. champion in '75, ran away with a
S ic ilia n Defense quadrangular tourney in Holland.
would like is to have him come and Karpov dropped his first game
1 P-K4 P-QB4 15 P-KN4 N-B3 say in person that he wants a Runner-up was Walter Browne
2 N-KB3 P -03 16 N /4 -K 2 ! Q-R4 since assuming the crown to (USA) while Fridrik Olafsson
3 P-Q4 PxP 17 B-R6 BxB match, just as I am saying it. It Sweden's Ulf Andersson at Milan,
4 NxP N-KB3 18 QxB KR-B1 would be the match of a lifetime (Iceland) and Jan Timman (Hol­
the richest tournament in history land) tied for the cellar.
S N-QB3 P-KN3 19 R-Q3(a) for both of us, and it is of no
6 B-K3 B-N2 R/5-B4? with $32,000 in prizes. Karpov
7 P-B3 N-B3 20 P-N5! RxP significance whether the title only tied for second with Luboye- Karpov's style is not flashy and
8 Q-Q2 0 -0 21 R-Q5! RxR would be at stake or not." vic and Petrosian, a half point he relies on solid positional play to
9 B.QB4 B-Q2 22 NxR R-K1 (b)
Most chess fans feel the same troll for points. Against Yugoslav­
10 P-KR4 R-B1 23 N /2 -B 4 B-B3(c) behind Hungary's Lajos Portisch. ia's Bojan Kurajica, who tied with
11 B-N3 N-K4 24 P-K5! B xN (d) way. As always, however, the Then the top four fought a
12 0 -0 -0 N-B5 25 PxN PxP stumbling block is Fischer. If he Tarjan, Karpov squeezed a win out
13 BxN RxB 26 Q xR P -f K -B l
unique playoff. Dr. Paoli, an of a drawish ending. It is hard to
14 P-R5 NxRP 27 Q -R8+ would not defend his title for an Italian official, stated: “ The main see how Black makes headway
Resigns (e) unheard of purse of $5 million in difference in the matches is that against 37 P-N4, for example.
Manila, what would it take to Luboyevic and Portisch repea­ Kurajica must have been lulled
induce him to play chess again? tedly risked losing in playing to into a false sense of security; he
(a) A new move to set Korchnoi Karpov was on the ropes win, while Karpov and Petrosian resigned because of zugzwang
thinking 36 minutes! against Vojko Musil, a tail-ender apparently planned their 4 draws." since 58 B-N2 K-N5 59 K-B2 K-B5
(b ) If 22 . . . Q-Ql 23 NxN+ whose Knight sacrifice on move The other 8 players received is decisive.
PxN 24 N-B4 B-K3 (or 24 . . . 18 smashed the champion's $1,000 apiece: and all expenses.
B-B3 25 N-R5! PxN 26 R-N1J cramped setup. But Musil started The final six-game matches
W h ite : K U R A J IC A B la c k : K A R P O V
25 QxRP+ K-Bl 26 NxB+ PxN Ruy L o p * ] S k o p je 1 9 7 6
27 Q-R8+ K-K2 28 R-R7 mate. to drift after missing the sharp 23 were all for blood. Karpov pocket­ 1 P -K 4 P -K 4 3 0 RxR ch QxR
(C) If 23 . . . B-K3 24 NxB PxN
P-B5! PxP 24 B-N5 N-B6 25 BxR ed $12,000 eking out a win and 5 2 N -K B 3 N -Q B 3 31 K -B 2 Q -N 3

25 NxN+ PxN 26 QxRP+ K-Bl NxR 26 RxN QxB 27 BxP mobiliz­ draws against Portisch, whose 3 B -N 5 P -Q R 3 3 2 0 -Q 3 QxQ
4 B -R 4 N -B 3 3 3 PxQ P -R 5
27 QxQNP! Q-N4+ 28 K-Nl ing two passed Pawns on the consolation prize was $6,000. 5 BxN QPxB 3 4 P -N 3 K -B 2
R-K2 29 Q-N8+ wins, Oueenside. Karpov gradually Luboyevic and Petrosian beat 6 N -B 3 B-Q3 3 5 K -K 3 P -B 4
(d ) If 24 . . . PxP 25 NxN+ PxN consolidated, assuming the initia­ each other once and drew four, 7 P -Q 4 B -Q N 5! 3 6 K -B 4 K -N 3
tive before offering ■ Knight of his sharing $6,000. 8 NxP NxP 3 7 K -K 3 K -R 4
26 N-R5! PxN 27 R N1 mates. 9 0 -0 BxN 3 8 B -N 4 P -N 4
(e) "That's farewell to the vari­ own on move 39 Shortly before Milan, Karpov 1 0 PxB 0 - 0 3 9 K -B 2 B -R 7
ation” said Korchnoi. If 27 . . . Whi te : MUSIL Black: KARPOV sparkled in the Soviet team cham­ 11 B -R 3 N-Q 3 4 0 B -R 3 B -N 8
K-K2 28 NxB+ QxN 29 R-K1+ Sicilian Defense pionships against Spassky, 1 2 P -Q B 4 P -B 3 4 1 K -K 2 B -R 7
1 P-K4 P-QB4 23 P-QR3? B-S3 1 3 N -N 4 R-K1 4 2 B-B1 B -K 3
Since the terms required 2 N-KB3 P-K3 24 R-B1 Q-B2 1 4 N -K 3 N -B 4 4 3 K -B 2 B -B 1
either 5 wins or the best-of-24 3 P-Q4 PxP 25 Q-K1 R-B1 1 5 NxN BxN 4 4 P -Q 5? PxP
4 NxP P-QR3 26 0 -0 1 B-K1 1 6 Q -Q 2 B -K 3 4 5 P -0 4 P -B 5 !
games, this early lead became P-R3 W hlteiKARROV B la c k tS P A M K Y 1 7 Q -B 3 0 -Q 2 4 6 PxP P -N 5 !
5 B-Q3 N-KB3 27 0 -N 3
enormous. Karpov only had to 6 0-0 P -03 28 R/I-Q1 P-KN4 1 8 K R -K 1 Q -B 2 4 7 K -N 2 B -B 4
draw the rest while Korchnoi O u H ii t Indian Oafanaa 1 9 0 -N 2 P -Q N 3 4 8 K -B 2 P xP
7 Q-K2 P-KN3 29 B-B2 N-B5
was forced to take huge risks. 8 P-QB4 B-N2 30 B-N3 B-N2 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 23 R-B1! R-N1 2 0 P -B 5 P -Q N 4 4 9 K xP B -K 5 c h
Had Korchnoi pulled even by the 9 N-QB3 0-0 31 Q-K3 R-R1 2 P-QB4 P-K3 24 Q-N4 III 21 B -N 4 P -Q R 4 5 0 K -B 2 K -N 5
3 N-KB3 P-QN3 28 KxB NxPeh 2 2 B-Q 2 B-Q 4 51 B -N 2 KxP
last game, a coin toss would 10 B-K3 0 -B 2 32 R-B1 B-K4
4 P-KN3 B-N2 26 K-N1 R-K3 2 3 P -K B 3 RxR ch 5 2 B - B lc h K -N 5
11 OR-B1 QN-Q2 33 B-B2 N-N3
have decided the winner! P-N3 34 P-N3 Q-K2 3 B-N-2 B -K2 27 Q-KB4 R-01 2 4 RxR P -N 5 5 3 B -N 2 P -B 3
12 P-B3
Fame for Karpov came in 13 Q-KB2 B-N2 35 Q-N3 0 -B 3 6 N-B3 0-0 26 Q-Q4 R/1.K1 2 5 P -Q R 4 P xP sp 5 4 B-B1 K -R 6
7 0*32 P-Q4 29 Q-Q7 N-NS 2 6 Q xP P -R 5 5 5 K -N 1 B -N 3
1 9 6 9 'at the world junior tour­ 14 KR-Q1 N-R4 36 K-N2 P-R4
2 7 B -N 4 Q -N 3 5 6 K -R1 B -R 4
8 PxP NxP 30 R-B8 M-B3
ney. He was almost eliminated 15 B-B1 OR-B1 37 R-Q3 P-R5
• 0-0 N - Q2 31 RxRch RxR 2 8 0 -B 3 P -R 4 5 7 K -N 1 B-Q 8
in the prelims, but Hug of 16 R-B 2 KR-K1 38 B-K2 B-B3
10 NxN PxN 32 Q-N7 R-K3 2 9 B -R 3 R -K1 W h ite R esigns
17 R/2-Q2 B-B1 39 K-N1 N-B5!
Switzerland missed a mate-in-2 N-B6 11 R-Q1 N-B3 33 Q -NSch N-K1
and Torre of the Philippines 18 KN-N5 PxN 40 R-Q2
12 N-K8 P-B4 34 P-OR4 P-N3 For future title match the FIDE
19 NxP Q-N1 41 PxN QxP
botched an easy adjournment. N-B4 42 RxN QxPch 13 PxP BxP 38 P-ON4 K-N2 Central Bureau recommended
20 NxP
Russia, with a wealth of young 21 NxKR RxN 43 K-B1 Q-R8ch 14 N-03 B-Q3 38 Q-N7 P-R4 that the winner of six games be
B-R7 18 B-B4 R-K1 37 P-R3 K-B3 declared champion. Karpov coun­
talent, might not have sent Kar­ 22 P-QN4 N-R5 44 B-N1
1 6 P -K 3 N -K 5 38 K-N2 R-Q3
pov abroad again had he lost White Resigns
PxP
tered by demanding a return to the
17 BxB QxB 39 P-RS
both these games. 18 N-B4 QR-B1 40 PxP R-K3 24-game limit, with the champion
Instead Karpov won 8 straight 19 0-R4 Q -K 2 41 P-R6 N-B2 keeping his title in the event of a
in the finals to become the first 20 QxP NxB P42 P-R7! R-K2 tie. Since his terms are non-
21 NxP BxN43 Q -B 6ch K -K 4 negotiable, we may be treated to
Russian to take the world junior 22 QxQ N x R T 4 4 .K -«3 Redan*
since Boris Spassky in 1955 the spectacle of Karpov forfeiting
Since then he tied or took first his crown in 78. Perhaps then a
outright in five grandmaster match with Fischer might be ripe!
events, and achieved the second
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A ctive Champion Karpov In Spain M ixed Blessing Karpov's M e ttle

If Karpov continues to compete Las Palmas was the sunny A reputation is a mixed bless­ Some players nurse their high
at his present pace, he will certain­ setting of another resounding ing. While some opponents work rating—often achieved in one
ly be the most active champion triumph for world champion Anat­ twice as hard to beat you, others lucky showing—by carefully com­
ever. Yet his losses are infrequent. oly Karpov, who makes it all look collapse in sheer awe. peting as seldom as possible. This
A quadrangular tourney in Ma­ so easy He was the only undefeat­ Anatoly Karpov collects points cannot be said of world champion
nila was the first event he failed to ed player in a field of 16 with 12 simply because he is world cham­ Anatoly Karpov.
win since gaining the title by wins and 3 draws for b fabulous pion. His adversaries commit Call- him dull, routine, or even
default in 75. The American 90°'o. well ahead of his nearest childish errors and seem trans­ colorless. Yet he does not hesitate
representative Walter Browne, rival. Denmark's Bent Larsen. fixed when facing him to take on the best opposition.
who came in last, said that Karpov Karpovs 12 game winning Yet most of his rivals are out for Against the best Karpov tries to
was ill and plagued by the heat. streak was snapped by a draw with blood. Karpov loses only about 5% follow the sensible policy of
The victor was Eugenio Torre, Holland's Jan Timman, who fin­ of his games and a chance for winning with White and drawing
24, the Philippines, the first Asian ished third America's representa­ glory doesn't come very often. with Black. What happens when
grandmaster ever. Chess is tive Walter Browne tied for fourth, U.S. grandm aster W alter this game plan goes awry was
awakening from a long slumber in posting 5 wins, 8 draws, and 2 Browne missed a chance to scalp illustrated in the 44th Soviet
that vast continent where It was losses —including a setback Karpov in the diagram. Browne Championship.
born 1500 years ago. against Karpov. probably would have seen the win After a poor start—two draws
Undaunted by this setback, As a rule Karpov is prepared for had he not been severely short of and a loss—Karpov shed his
Karpov fearlessly took on all long games, patiently nursing time. But was it luck alone that customary caution and played
comers at the annual WineTourn- small advantages in the ending. saved Karpov or his charisma? sharply to overtake the leaders.
ament in Montilla, Spain, which he His style engenders no seething White: BROWNE Black: KAR POV He got his hands bloody but
won easily with 5 wins and 4 draws or turbulence: he prefers posi­ O'a Indian Datenaa managed to win the tournament.
in afield of 10, While there he met tions which seem drab, stodgy Las Palmaa 1977 Karpov is a true pro. He con­
1 N-KB3 N-KB3 21 N-N2 N-N5 serves energy and puts out just
again secretly with the celebrated and drawish. 2 P-B4 P -K 3 22 R/2-Q2 N-B3
recluse Bobby Fischer to discuss This melee is atypical. It could 3 P-Q4 P-QN3 23 N-R4 B-B3
enough to win—but no more.
an exhibition match. serve as a textbook illustration on 4 P-KN3 B-N2 24 BxNP PxB Comparing himself to Fiscner,
the dangers of pawn snatching 5 B-N2 B-K2 25 NxP N-N57! Karpov said: "Fischer looks for
There are persistent rumors that 0 -0 26 NxR chessboard stunts. Simply to win
while neglecting development. 6 0-0 B-B6
Fischer's various legal actions 7 N-B3 P-Q4 27 P-QR3 BxR isn’t enough for him. Hestrivesfor
have eaten heavily into his fi­ Italy's Stefano Tatai snares a 8 N-KS N-R3 28 RxB P-K6
pawn but violates principle by some kind of surprise conclusion.
nances and that he is finally 9 B-B4 P-B4 29 R-Q4 PxPch
I’m satisfied just to win. At Montil­
willing to emerge from his self- moving his Queen 5 times within 10 R-B1 N-K5 30 KxP RxN
dug chess grave. President Mar­ the first 15 moves. Still, he might 11 PxQP KPxP 31 RxN BxB la, for example, I drew the last
cos of the Philippines Is still have sucvived with 18 P-K3. Tatai 12 B-K3 Q-Q3 32 KxB QxPch three games to clinch first prize.
13 N-B4 Q -K3 33 K-R3 R-B7 They didn’t interest me any more.
offering a mammoth purse of $5 rightly resisted 21 BxP? RxB' 22 14 NxN PxQN 34 Q-KR1 R-Q77
million to stage the match. QxR B-B4 23 QxP N-B7ch. But he 15 PxP NxP 35 R-N8ch? K-B2 But I'm quite sure that in my place
should have tried 21 0-0 NxPch 22 16 Q-B2 QR-B1 36 R-N4 K-N3 Fischer would have made every
Will Soviet authorities risk such 17 Q-N1 KR-01 37 Q-B6ch K-N4 effort to win the remaining games
a confrontation even if Karpov K-R1 returning the pawn to bring P-B4 38 Q-R1 Q-N5ch
his King to safety.
18 P-N3 as well."
desires it? 19 R-B2 N-R3 White Resigns In this exciting game Karpov
Karpov's Queen sacrifice on 20 R-Q1 B-Q4
Torre's aggressive brand of move 23 was stunning. If 24 Q-Q2 exerts himself in his drive for the
chess paid off handsomely after QxQch 25 KxQ QR-Q1ch 26 K-K1 Here is an example of Karpov's tough Soviet title. On move 14 he
he sacrificed a pawn to confine R-QB1 (or B-KB6) is very strong. bad luck to prove he is human. In a embarks on an unclear, intuitive
Karpov's King to a corner. After superior position he forfeited piece sacrifice which he prepared
Black resigned because 31 N-K3
missing 12 Q-Q2! B-B3 13 BxN B-QB4 threatens R-R1 mate. Or31 White: KARPOV Black: B E L IA V S K Y ■ move earlier. The tame retreat 14
PxB 14 B-K2 P-KR415 K-N1 in the K-N6 RxB costs a piece.
Ruy Lopav Leningrad 1977 N-N1? is refuted by P-K4
opening, Karpov was forced to 1 P-K4 P-K* 21 QR-Q1 Q -K2
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 22 B -K3 KR-Q1
yield the Initiative. 3 B-NS P-QR3 23 P-B4 P-N3
Karpov abstained from the 4 B-R4 N-B3 24 P-BS PxP
pawn snatch 18 BxP Q-R4! 19 K- W hite: T A T A I Black: KA R POV 5 0 -0 N x P 25 QxKBP Q-B1 W hite: KA R POV Black: DORFMAN
Las Palmas 1977 6 P-Q4 P-QN4 26 B-N5 RxR Sicilian Defense
N1 (if 19 BxN QxP! threatens Q-R8 USSR 1976
E nglish Opening 7 B-N3 P-Q4 27 RxR Q-N2
mate) BxB 20 BxN BxPch 21 RxB 8 PxP B -K3 28 0 -B 3 R-N1
BxB with advantage to Black. 1 N-KB3 P-QB4 16 N-B3 P-K 5 25 P-Q6 R-K 5
2 P-B4 N-KB3 17 P-Q3 P-QN4 9 P-B3 B-QB4 29 B-B6 Q-M3 1 P-K 4 P-QB4 26 R/R-K3 RxR
3 N-B3 P-Q4 18 B-K3 P-N5 10Q N -Q 2 0-0 30 R-K1 P-R3 2 N-KB3 P-Q3 27 RxR QxRP
White: KAR POV Black: TORRE 1 1B -B 2 B-B4 3 1 R -K 4 N-N4
Sicilian Dafanaa Manila 1976 4 PxP NxP 19 N-G1 R-K1 3 P-Q4 PxP 28 Q-B3 QxP
5 P-KN3 P-KN3 20 PxP PxP 12N-N 3 B-KN5 32 BxN PxB 4 NxP N-KB3 29 R -K 1 Q -N 7
1 P-K4 P-OB4
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 26 NxP B-N4 6 B-N2 B-N2 21 BxN QxB 13NxB NxN 33 R-KN4 K-R2 5 N-QB3 P-K3 3 0 Q -B 5 R-N3
PxP 27 R-QB2 RxR 7 Q-R4ch N-B3 22 P-QR3 B-N5 14R -K1 R-K1 34 P-KR4 R-N1 6 P-KN4 B -K 2 31 R-KB1 Q-Q4
3 P-Q4 1 5 B -B 4 P-05 35 P-N4 Q -K 3
4 NxP N-K B3 28 KxR P-R5 8 N-KN5 P-K 3 23 Q-B2 Q-Q6! 7 P-N5 KN-Q2 32 PxB KxP
p o fl 29 P-R3 P-N6ch 1 6 P -K R 3 B-R4 36 PxP R-K1 8 P-KR4 N-QB3 33 Q-B4 P-QR4
9 N-Q B3 9 KN-K4 N-N3! 24 PxQ PxPch 17 PxP BxN 37 P-R3 K-N3
6 B-KN5 P-K3 30 K ’ N1 P-Q4 1 0 Q -N 5 P-B5 25 K-Q2 R-K7ch 9 B-K 3 P-QR3 34 Q-R4ch K -K 1
QxP/4 18 QxB N xQ P 38 R-K4 R-KR1 10 Q-K2! Q-B2 35 QxRP Q -B 6
7 Q-Q2 P-OR3 31 PxP 11 N-R4 0-0 26 KxP R-Q1 ch 1 9 Q -B 3 N xB 39 Q-Q3 0 -N3ch
6 0 -0-0 B-Q2 32 N-B2 OxNP 12 NxN PxN 27 K-B4 RxQch 11 0 -0 -0 P-N4 36 Q-R8ch K -K 2
B-K6 20 QxN/2 N-K 3 White forfaits! 12 NxN QxN 37 Q-R4ch K-K1
9 P-B4 P-N4 33 N-K4 13 QxBP P-K4 28 KxP R/7-Q7
10 Q-K1 NxN 34 N-B3 Q-B3 14 Q-B2 N-Q5 29 P-B3 B-B1ch Strangely, Karpov moves quick­ 13 B-Q4 P-N5 38 Q-QB4 Q -N2
11 RxN 0-N3 3S P' Q4 Q-B5 15 Q-N1 P-B4 30 K-R5 B-Q2 ly and is almost never in time- 14 N-Q5! PxN 39 P-N3 R-K 3
12 R-Q2 B-K2 3« p -0 * P-K4 W hit* Resigns pressure. Perhap he forgot about 15 BxP R-KN1 40 R-N1 RxP
13 B-Q3 P-N5 37 Q-R1 Q-Q6ch 16 PxP Q-B2 41 R-N8ch K -K 2
B-Q5
the clock or disregarded the 17 B-B6 N-K 4 42 Q-R4ch K -Q 2
14 N-Q1 B-N4 38 K-R1
15 N-B2 p . R 3 39 Q-R6ch K-Q2 danger because he was not accus­ 18 BxN PxB 43 Q-B6! R -K 2
16 B-R4 p.N4 40 Q-R8 Q-B8ch tomed to keeping one eye on his 19 P-K B 4 B -KB 4 44 Q -B 5ch K-Q 3
17 PxP PxP 41 N-N1 Q-QB5 flag. Calmly, imperturbably, he 20 B-R3 BxB 45 QxRP R -K 4
N-R4 42 Q-N7ch K-Q3 21 RxB R-QB1 46 Q-Q8ch K -K 3
18 B-N3 played 40 R-K3 and punched his 22 PxP Q-B5
19 N-N4 NxB 43 Q-N8ch KxP 47 K-N2 P-B3
RxR 44 Q-Q8ch K-K3
clock. Ragged applause broke out 2 3Q R-03Q -B5ch 48 R-KB8 Q-N2
20 PxN
21 QxR R _B1 45 Q-K8ch K-B 4 from the audience who thought 24 K-N1 R-B5 49 Q -B 8 Resigns
22 K-N1 BxB 4fi Q-Q7ch K-N3 his opponent had resigned. But
23 PxB Q .Q 5 47 Q-N4ch K-B3 "Black won" appeared on the wall-
24 Q-Q1 p .R 4 48 N-B3 Q-B8ch board and the hall gave way to a
25 N-R2 P-N5I White Resigns
low moan. With great effort Kar­
pov suppressed his vexation and
congratulated Beliavsky.
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Down But Not Out K Strikes Again Invincible Title Match Set

Leningrad 1977 was the year’s Anatoly Karpov's recent results Nobody seems capable of After interminable haggling and
strongest intenational tourna­ have zoomed off the far end of the wresting the title from Anatoly political infighting, the World
ment, won by Oleg Romanishin rating scale and compare favora­ Karpov. The frail 26-year-old Chess Federation has set condi­
and Mikhail Tal in a field of 18. bly with Fischer in his heyday. wonder boy keeps getting better tions for the 1978 title tilt. Essen­
Third was former world champion Each new triumph adds luster and each time out. tially the first player to win six
Vassily Smyslov, at 56 the oldest demonstrates afresh that he de­ Previous champions were fre- games (draws not counting) will
yet only undefeated competitor serves the crown Fischer yielded quntly criticized by Soviet author­ be crowned.
The current titleholder Anatoly without ■ fight. ities for inactivity, especially for Although these conditions are
Karpov "only" tied for 4th with 10 The frail 26-year-old Soviet ace, not taking part in the national eminently fair, Fischer loyalists
points, comprised of 5 Wins, 2 who must defend his title in 78, is championship. Karpov is the first are raising a hue and cry about a
losses. 10 draws—1.5 points be­ not making the mistake of resting titleholder to win that strong event sellout to the Russians. Chess
hind the victors. This is the second on his laurels. He has participated since the days of Botvinnik, and N ew s letter states: "If Karpov
event Karpov failed to win since in a string of major tourneys for he recently led Russia to victory in loses by 6-5 he can challenge the
acquiring the title by default, but it the last three years and convin­ the European team cup in a field champion in one year for another
in no way detracts from his cingly proved his superiority. which included Yugoslavia, Hun­ World Championship match. How
stature. He is the most active Anatoly again showed his met­ gary, Bulgaria, East Germany and different it is when a Russian is
champion in memory; his eager­ tle at the Interpolis Tournament in Czechoslovakia— who all boycot­ world champion!"
ness to risk defeat against all Tilburg, Holland, in n powerhouse ted the Israel olympiad. The clear implication is that
comers is more significant than field of 12 grandmasters from 9 Karpov's smashing . perfor­ Karpov got ■ concession which
any minor setbacks. nations. He was undefeated with a mance rating in this event was the had been denied to Fischer. The
The clearest proof that Karpov score of 8-3 comprising 5 wins highest in history and compares simple truth is that Fischer could
is in a class by himself is the and 6 draws, a full point ahead of favorably with Fischer at his best. have gotten a return match clause
quality of his games and the Tony Miles of England. It's the stuff of which legends if he had asked for it.
apparent ease with which he A traffic jam developed in third. are made. Grandmasters Smejkal, Instead Bobby demanded that
disposes of his leading conten­ Vlastimil Hort (Czech), Robert Gheorghiu, Luboyevich and Por- the first player to win ten games
ders Earlier at Las Palmas he Huebner (W. Germany), Lubomir tisch succumbed to his skill. outright be crowned—in itself not
virtually asphyxiated British Kavalek (USA) and Jan Timman When asked about his chances too bad, except it might have
grandmaster Anthony Miles, who (Holland) each posted 6-5. against Fischer in a match produced a marathon match.
went on to win the presitigious A further indication of the torrid Karpov replied: “ If you don't What stuck in everybody's craw
IBM tourney in Amsterdam. competition can be gleaned from was his "non-negotiable" clause
believe in victory you have no to end the match in the event of a
W h ite : KARPOV Black: MILES
the results of the two oldest business sitting down at a chess­
veterans. Svetozar Gligoric, 54, 9-9 tie with the purse evenly
Ow*n Defense board." While Fischer hibernates, divided but the champion keeping
1 P-GB4 P-QN3 10 N-Q2 P-Q3 fresh from a victory in Cordoba, Karpov improves.
B-N2 19 N-B4 Spain, mustered only an even In a career that started at the his title. Clearly this gave Fischer a
2 P-Q4 R-Q1
P-K3 20 P-K4 N-B2 score. Former world champion big edge over his challenger.
3 P-Q5 age of 7 Karpov has already
4 P-QR3! N-KB3 21 P-QN4 N-R3 Vassily Smyslov, 56, suffered the played nearly 800 tournament In Chess L ife, a house organ
5 N-QB3 B-Q3 22 P-N5 N-B2
worst setback of his career by games—which exceeds Fischer's of the U.S. Chess Federation
6 N-B3 PxP 23 P-OR4 Q-Q2 which has whitewashed Fischer
7 PUP 0 -0 24 P-B4 R-K1 finishing tenth. lifetime total. His crop of challeng­
The interesting part of Karpov's for lo these many years, grand­
0 B-N5 R-K1 25 QR-K1 QR-01 ers has narrowed to Spassky master Lubomir Kavalek writes:
9 P-K3 B -K2 26 P-R3 Q -K 2 game against his countryman Yuri vs. Portisch and Korchnoi vs.
10 B-QB4 P-KR3 27 P-K5 PxP Balashov is that White got abso­ "Many people are trying to prove
N-R4 28 P-Q6 0-B1 Polugaievsky. Whoever survives that Karpov is a real world cham­
11 B-B4 lutely nothing out of the opening.
12 B -K5 B -KB 3 20 PxP N-R2 these elimination matches, how­ pion. Nobody says anymore that
13 B-Q4 B-R3 30 Q-B3 N-K3 If anything, Karpov was outplayed ever, stands a slim chance against
R-R1 for 30 moves and forced to re­ Anatoly is a coward: that it was he
14 BxQB NxB 31 Q-N7 Karpov in 1978.
P-B4 32 N-Q5 P-N3 who avoided the match with
15 0-0 group to defend his weak Queen's Fischer and did not even accept
16 BxB NxB 33 N -K 7ch K-N2 Pawn. Instead of pushing ahead, Whit*: PORTISCH Black: KAR POV
17 Q-Q3 Q-B1 34 N-B6 Resigns
Balashov u n a c c o u n ta b ly Q ueen’s Indian Defense conditions fair to both players
In this next game from Lening- 1 N-KB3 N-K B3 13 R-QB1 P-B4 ...Fischer was the first champion
launched a full-scale retreat.
rad pawn-snatching and careful 2 P-KN3 P-QN3 14 N-B5 N-B1 of the world who was denied the
Black abstained from 8...QxP? 9 right to play under his terms."
3 B-N2 B -N 2 15 P-Q47 N-K 5
defense netted Karpov the point. KN-83 Q-Q4 10 N-K5 QxNP 11 R- 4 0-0 NxB
P-K 3 16 PxP? This is historical distortion.
His risky play with Black shows B1 P-KR3 12 N/KxKBP! R-KN1 13 5 P-O 3 P-Q4 17 NxN Q-N4! Soviet world champ Mikhail Bot­
a supreme confidence in his NxKP KxN 14 N-Q8 mate! 6 QN-Q2 QN-Q2 18 N-Q6 BxN
vinnik dropped out after he was
defensive ability. The turning point came when 7 R-K1 B-B4! 19 NxB BxKR
0 P-B4 0-0 20 QxB RxP denied the right of a return match
W h it * : G A R C I A Black: KA R POV Black failed to win a piece with 9 PxP PxP 21 QxR QxRch in 1963 against Petrosian. Fur­
V*r*sov Opening 30...P-N4 31 NxP PxN 32 BxP NxP 10 N-N3 B -N5 22 Q-B1 Q-Q7! thermore, it was Fischer who
1 P-Q4 N-K B3 22 KR-K1 B-R3 33 Q-K5 QxPch! 34 NxQ N-B6ch 11 B-Q2 P-QR 4 23 PxP R-B1 forfeited his title by refusing to
2 N-KB3 P -K 3 23 0 -K R 3 P-R5 35K-B1 NxQ 36K-B1 NxQ37BxN 12 O N -04 R -K 1 W hite Resigns
P-B4 24 R-K2 B-B1 accept fair conditions against
3 B-N5 (not 37 RxRch RxR 38 BxN R-Q7!) Karpov—not the other way
4 P-K3 Q -N3 25 0-R 4 B K3 RxR with at least an eaual end-
5 BxN PxB 26 N-B3 B-B4 around.
6 QN-Q 2I? QxP27PxP PxP W hite: KA R POV Black: B A LA S H O V Perhaps a champion should not
7 B -K2 PxP 28 QR-K1 B -K5 Caro-Kann Defense
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8 NxP P-QR3 20 P-B5
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Korchnoi Talks
At 46 Soviet ace Viktor Korchnoi
is at the peak of his career. After
winning a match against former
world champion Petrosian only
two more obstacles stand in the
way of his title tilt with Anatoly
Karpov, 26, in 1978.
When Korchnoi defected to
Holland in 1976 one of his few
contacts with the outside world
was a cable to Police Headquar­
ters in Amsterdam: "Congratula­
tions on your correct decision.
Good luck in your new life. Best
regards." Signed Bobby Fischer.
In an interview in Chess Life
Korchnoi explained: "If you con­
form, you have a great life. Many
privileges. A salary far above the
average. Cars. Trips abroad. Cer­
tificates to buy goods in special
shops that are closed to the
ordinary Soviet citizen. We could
put part of the money we won
abroad in a bank account in the
West. We even have the unparal­
leled right of uncensored speech
on radio and TV. Yes, only about
chess, but even so it is unique.
“But you have to watch your
step. For instance, it is unpardon­
able to say that Fischer is a great
player. You are not supposed to
lose your world title to him as
Spassky discovered who was
harassed in so many ways after
Reykjavik.
“ From the start of my 1974
match with Karpov I was alone.
And it was meant to be that way. I
said I was going to win, that I
would accept any condition by
Fischer, and that he would beat
me. This is bad behavior for ■
Soviet grandmaster. Russians do
not lose, you know.
“ I had ■ difficult time getting a
second. Nobody wanted that job.
Take, for instance, what hap­
pened to a well-known grandmas­
ter when I invited him to my
training camp. He said he would
like to help me but that he could
notdosoofficially because he had
an assignment to cover the match
for a big newspaper. When the
Chess Federation learned of his
visit, they arranged for him to lose
the job. Only in the last quarter of
the match, when I seemed com­
pletely lost, trailing by 3 points,
did he come back. I won 2 games
with his help.
“ The atmosphere of the match
became weird, menacing. I all but
started to lose games on purpose.
That is exaggerated, but I had the
feeling that if it looked as though I
would win something would hap­
pen to me, like an accident in the
street. That may sound paranoid,
but there is no clear difference
between paranoia and real fear in
Russia.
"Now they cannot force me to
lose anymore."
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Unlucky 13
"I don't believe in psychology I
believe in good moves." stated
Bobby Fischer. In the Karpov-
Korchnoi title match at Baguio
City the challenger should have
heeded this sage advice.
Alibis for losing are nothing
new, but Korchnoi had a whopper.
He accused the champion of
puting a hex on him.
Korchnoi’s distress seemed
genuine. Perhaps the power of
black magic resides wih those
who believe in it.
Accompanying Karpov's huge
Soviet delegation was a parapsy­
chologist Dr. Zoukhar. Korchnoi
claimed the function of this
mysterious doctor was to hypno­
tize and spook him, reminiscent of
Spassky's charge that Fischer was
harming his play with "unknown
chemical substances."
Dr. Zoukhar surfaced in the
front row during game five which
featured a boner by the challenger
throwing away an easy win. He
was shunted to the rear seats
when Korchnoi protested, but
starting in game 13 he moved
forward to unnerve Korchnoi.
Korchnoi's aides heckled the
good doctor who sat there impas­
sively focusing his gaze on the
stage. There may have been some
merit in Korchnoi's contention
that he had the right to eject any
spectator whose mere presence
distracted him, but the referee
refused to remove a quiet onloo­
ker. After all, there's no law
a g a in s t s e n d in g o u t bad
vibrations—if you can.
After sparring with 7 straight
draws, Karpov drew first blood in
game 8. After more draws Korch­
noi evened the score in game 11.
Game 13 must be considered
the turning point in an eventful
contest. Karpov won the next and
in short order posted six wins
needed to defend his title.
Whit*: KORCHNOI Black: KAR POV
Gam* 1 3 English Opening
1 P-QB4 N-KB3 32 Q-R4 P-KB4
2 N-QB3 P-K3 33 PxP
3 N-B3 P -Q 4 3 4 QxRP
4 P-Q4 B -K2 35 R-R2
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10 P-KN3 P-B3 41 R-R7 R/3-B3
1 1 B-M 2 B-B4 42 RxR
1 2 0-0 Q-Q3 43 P-05
13 P-K3 N-Q2 44 PxP
14 N -K 1 KR-K1 45 B-K4 0 -N4ch
15 N-Q3 P-N3 46 K-B1
16 N-B4 B-N2 47 B-Q5
17 P-KN4 B -K3 48 B-B3
18 P-KR3 N-B1 49 B-Q1 0 -K B 4
19 NxB NxN 50 K -K 2 R-K 5
20 0 -0 3 QR-Q1 51 Q -B 3ch Q-B3
21 R-B2 N-B2 52 Q-N3
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Sudden Death
In 1866 Steinitz lost four games
in a row to Zukertort but went on
to win the world title.
Challenger Viktor Korchnoi
nearly duplicated this amazing
feat against Anatoly Karpov after
three stormy months in Baguio
City. Korchnoi was trailing by
three games yet managed to even
the score.
Korchnoi seemed to be gaining
momentum and even looked like
the favorite for an instant. In this
sudden death situation of 5-5
whoever won the next game
would be crowned and take home
the lion's share of the $600,000
purse
Despite his valiant comeback.
Korchnoi faltered in game 32. At
47, and still at the peak of his
career, probably he will never get
another shot at the title.
In a way it is a pity because he
intended to challenge Bobby
Fischer.
The Karpov-Korchnoi match
shows up the absurdity of the
conditions that Fischer tried to
impose on Karpov in 1975 Bobby
refused to play because FIDE
denied him his tie clause.
If Fischer had gotten his way,
Korchnoi could have kissed his
chances goodbye after game 27
when behind 5 to 2. Under Fisch­
er’s terms the best the challenger
could do was tie the match at 5-5.
Then the contest would stop (!)
while the champion would divide
the purse and walk away with his
crown intact.
Such an inconclusive result
would have satisrfied nobody. All
the drama, color, and excitement
resulted precisely when the criti­
cal 5-5 stage was reached
In the longest article that ever
appeared in Ch**s L ift, a house
organ of the U.S. Chess Federa­
tion. a mathematician tried to
justify Fischer's conditions by
arguing “after a long struggle the
outcome of a single game is
irrelevant in determining the bet­
ter player." Someone pointed out
this was like arguing that the
seventh game of the World Series
was irrelevant.
It is true, however, that Karpov
got an even bigger edge than
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Fischer asked for. This was con­
firmed by Dr Max Euwe. president
of FIDE, in reference to the
R-N2
rematch clause that was stricken
in 1963. Karpov, backed by the
PxR
Soviet Chess Federation, ma­
B-N2 naged to ram this clause through
again prior to his match with
RxR Korchnoi.
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K -N 2 obligated to grant him a return
B-Q3 match. The chess world and both
R-K2 players would have had to go
through this agony all over again
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Fair Or Foul
American chessplayers on the
whole are upset because world
champion Karpov got more favor­
able title match conditions than
Bobby Fischer ever asked for.
Even Dr. Euwe, ex-president of
FIDE, the world body that controls
the title, conceded that all of
Bobby's demands put together
did not equal the advantage that
the rematch clause gave the
champion. This clause had been
stricken as long ago as 1963.
Russia did everything it could to
stop Korchnoi, fair or foul, includ­
ing holding his family hostage. His
two British seconds covered the
match for C h *s s L it* which
printed a letter criticizing their
extreme pro-Korchnoi stance:
“We were repeatedly given a
bomboardment of 'Good Guy’
Korchnoi and 'Bad Guy' Russians
theme when in fact Mr. Korchnoi
behaved like a child with his
weeping and moaning about a
spectator in the audience."
Despite Korchnoi s many legiti­
mate grievances, he has a lot to
answer for himself. His charges
and countercharges grew so pre­
posterous that midway during
their match the champion refused
to shake his hand any more.
In the preceding semi-final
match to determine a challenger,
Boris Spassky found Korchnoi’s
“glowering" and demeanor so
repugnant that he could not face
him across the board. Boris went
there only to make his move
before repairing to a spot where
he could ponder his next move on
a wall board. Korchnoi com­
plained about that too, and their
match almost blew up.
America's newest grandmaster
Ken Rogoff in an outspoken
interview with C h * * * H orizons
blasted the challenger’s sporting
tactics:
"Well, I don't want to come
down too hard on Korchnoi but in
general I found his conduct outra­
geous. I wish him well, he's a great
player, he’s been under a lot of
pressure.
■"But there's just no question in
my mind who the creep is. And I
find it outrageous that Chess Life
has Keene and Stean reporting on
the matches. You've got this
incredibly colored view.
“I know what Korchnoi did, yet
they try to make it sound like it was
Spassky. Here Korchnoi defects
,...every grandmaster in Russia
signs a letter condemning him—
except Botvinnik, Bronstein, and
Spassky. Spassky really sticks out
his neck. I think it really takes a lot
of guts to do what he did."
"The first day of the match,
Korchnoi comes out with his press
statement saying that Spassky is a
one-legged dissident, a chicken.
‘The only reason the match with
Fischer went through is because
Spassky agreed to play. He could
have walked out. And the soviet
Chess Federation is still mad at
him for not walking out.”
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Karpovomania
Chess scribes who turned a
penny on Fischer are now churn­
ing out books on Karpov, the new
cult of a flourishing British mini­
industry. Publishers are stum­
bling all over each other to prove
Oscar Wilde's maxim "nothing
succeeds like excess."
The market is glutted with titles
covering similar ground. Oxford
University Press weighs in with
two, both in algebraic notation.
K arpo v-K orch no i 1974
($3 .95) by Hartston & Keene is the
story of a fateful match unexpec­
tedly for the title. Considering the
breakneck speed at which this
neat paperback was produced,
the notes to all 24 games reflect
accurate analysis by many grand­
masters who were also with the
authors in Moscow.
The Best Of K arpov ($8 95)
boasts 75 hand-picked games by
Karpov. The notes by Peter Mar-
kland ooze with hero-worship,
and he describes the experience
of playing Karpov "like facing a
boxer whose reach is far greater
than yours, and who spends the
whole fight keeping you at arm's
length and wins on points by
scoring punch after punch with­
out possible retaliation.'' Mar-
kland could also be describing
that other high priest of tech­
nique, Tigran Petrosian, who was
Karpov's mentor.
Two splendid anthologies are in
descriptive notation, which may
be here to stay after all. Pitman's
The Gam es O f A n a to ly K a r­
pov ($12.95) by O'Connell &
Adams is ■ handsome mounting
of 347 games all well-annotated,
many in depth, plus photos.
RHM’s K arp o v’s C ollected
Gam es ($8.95 or $4.95 paper­
back) by the prolific David Levy is
a recent sweepstake entry. It
contains 530 games. 60annotated
by Karpov, 144 by others. What
sets this book apart is that it was
done with the full cooperation of
Karpov himself who contributed
early games and photos going
bqck to the age of 8.
Karpov is only 25, his place
in chess history is still nebulous. A
product of the Soviet chess ma­
chine, he is the second citizen
ever to be honored in his own
lifetime with a commemorative
medal. The first, also a chessplay­
er, was Lenin.
According to the curious logic
prevailing in the world today, that
nation which can run faster, jump
higher, or play chess better, also
has a superior culture. No matter
that Karpov never defeated Fisch­
er. He got his medal from a
grateful nation.
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BEST GAMES by Anatoly world champion's game.
Karpov contains 58 of the world Shortly after getting married in
champion's modern master­
pieces. His notes are lucid, thor­ Leningrad, 28-year-old Anatoly
ough and instructive; it is a Karpov took part in a quadrangu­
pleasure to share his ideas in his lar event in Holland, winning4 and
own words. drawing 2 to clinch first after only
Karpov holds nothing back, four rounds. In fact, nobody else
does not hesitate to expose his even won a game until the last
own inaccuracies. This collection round.
includes several fighting draws Each of the four grandmasters
and a loss, emulating ■ tradition played all the others twice. Lu-
started by Fischer in his MY 60 bomir Kavalek (USA) was runner-
Memorable Gamas which in­
cluded 3 losses. up with 4 draws, 1 win, 1 loss.
One cannot help but be im­ Third was Vlastimil Hort (Czech)
pressed by Karpov’s candor and with five draws and a loss to
modesty, especially in his 17-page Karpov. Last was Gennadi Soson-
foreword which brings us from his ko (Holland) with 3 draws and 3
first exposure to the wooden losses.
pieces at 3 to the title at 24. Karpov's games are not always
Yet of particular interest are exciting for the spectators be­
his comments on how it felt to cause he does not indulge in
earn the title from Fischer by
default in 1975: theatrics of wild sacrificial orgies.
"it is a pity, of course, that the Somehow he makes winning look
match never took place. However, easy Often he wears down his
I feel no guilt and inwardly I am at opponents in the endgame until
peace about the entire affair. they just run out of good moves.
"Virtually all of his demands had Sosonko, a native Russian who
been met. Who knows what others now resides in Holland, is a
would have been proposed if specialist in this Catalan Opening.
every last one of his early dem­ His innovation on move ten was an
ands had been accepted? attempt to improve on 10 B B4 N-
“Careful analysis showed that
his great victories by such impres­ B3 11 R-Q1 N-QN5 12 Q-B1 R-Bl
sive scores had been achieved not 13 N- B3 N/5-Q4 14 NxN, draw
only on the board, but also by (Sosonko-Evans, Sao Paulo
psychological means. Little by 1978).
little he created tremendously Karpov's reaction was provoca­
tense situations before and during tive and risky. 11 ...P-N5 weakened
play with his protests-, his Queenside to deny access to
“His exceptional chess ability White's Knight on QB3. Then he
aside, Fischer- injected into the
creative aspect such vanity and lured the enemy center pawns
confusion that chessplayers were forward while preserving his two
soon transformed into diplomats, Bishops
orators, jurists, seeking to prove Sosonko might have tried 19 P-
simple truths. Formerly chess­ Q5 to wrest an initiative. Instead
players had been able to concern he simplified to a drawn ending,
themselves with their discipline, but botched it by failing tocentral-
but this was no longer possible ize his King. Yet he still could have
with Fischer on the scene." held on with 38 K-B3 or 39 B-N6.
Karpov confesses that he stud­ Sosonko resigned at adjourn­
ies chess about three hours a day:
"But this is three hours of creative ment without waiting to see Kar­
work, deep and tense Try it pov's sealed move—the inevitable
sometime! Each year there are 43...B-Q6 44 N-K3 B-N8 mopping
some five to six thousand tourna­ up White s Queenside pawns.
ment games played by grandmas- W h ite :S O S O N K O B la c k : K A R P O V
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2 P -Q B 4 P -K 3 2 4 N -Q 4 Q xP
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numerous diagrams at critical 4 B -N 2 B -K 2 2 6 N -N 3 B -N 3
points. RHM Press, a leading 5 N -K B 3 0 -0 2 7 P -K 5 R xR ch
chess publisher, has taken the 6 0 -0 PxP 2 8 NxR B - B 1!
lead by introducing algebraic 7 Q -B 2 P -Q R 3 2 9 B -K 4 B -Q 5
notation in America. This nota­ 8 QxP P -0 N 4 3 0 N -Q 3 P -Q R 4
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other languages. 1 2 B -N 5 P -K R 3 3 4 P -N 3 K -K 2
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Lost Lectures
Many readers have written to
me about the flaws in Capa-
blanca's Last Lectures (Simon
6 Schuster $4.50). Some won­
der if this book was even penned
by a world champion. How was
it possible for such a great
player to make so many mis­
takes in analysis?
Part of the answer lies in the
foreword by his wife Olga: “ He
never groped for words and sel­
dom came back to correct the
original." Unfortunately Capa
never revised the manuscript
which was published posthu­
mously in 1966.
The book consists of 12 ele­
mentary radio lectures delivered
shortly before Capa’s death in
1942. I suspect that he often
worked "blindfold" without
checking all variations over the
board. Indeed, his wife says:
“ We had no chess set in the
house . . . He bought it when
he had to prepare his lectures."
A glaring error of analysis in
the Ruy Lopez appears on page
95: 1 P-K4, P-K4 2 N-KB3,
N-QB3 3 B-N5, P-QR3 4 B-R4,
N-B3 5 0-0, NxP 6 P-Q4, P-QN4
7 B-N3, P-Q4 8 PxP, B-K3 9
P-B3, B-K2 10 QN-Q2, N-B4 11
B-B2, P-Q5 12 N-K4, PxP 13
NxN, BxN 14 B-K4, Q-Q2 15
PxP, R-Q1 1G QxQch, RxQ 17
R-Q1. A note says: “ Preventing
Black from Castling, for if 17
. . . 0-0? 18 RxB, RxR 19 BxN
with advantage." Overlooking
mate-in-two by 19 . . . R-Q8ch!
But why dwell on errors? We
all know that Capablanca was
the most gifted natural player
who ever lived. “ Others think. I
know,” he declared.
“There are few things in this
world which serve so well as
chess to give us relaxation and
enable us to forget momentarily
the worries of our daily lives,”
observes the Cuban.
The book is fille d with anec­
dotes, wisdom and instruction.
“ Ninety percent of the book
variations have no great value,
because either they contain mis­
takes or they are based on fal­
lacious assumptions; just forget
about the openings and spend
all that time on the endings. In
the long run you w ill get much
better results that way.”
Capa relied too strongly on a
generous endowment of chess
instinct. In the end it was his
reluctance to work harder, es­
pecially on the openings, which
cost him the title .
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Two Books In One
Tournament books are for real
players. They don't sell brisky and
any publisher who issues them
deserves encouragement.
Those wonderful folks at David
McKay have given us a tourna­
ment book in mufti. U.S. C ham ­
pionship Chess by Lombardy
& Daniels purports to be “ a history
of the American chess title.”
However, a separate volume is still
needed to do justice to that
important topic.
This "history” does not start
from Morphy's victory in 1857. nor
does it contain indispensable
crosstables of each event. Instead
Daniels picks up the thread in
modern times with Samuel Resh-
evsky's reign in 1936.
A serious challenge emerged
from a wave of New Yorkers in the
late forties. In 1951, at 19, Larry
Evans became the youngest title-
holder ever. Bobby Fischer at 14
broke the barrieragain in 1957. He
won the title eight times-
Daniels’ colorful and fast-
moving summary occupies less
than a quarter of the book and has
some thrilling games. “ From his
agile pen, his search through
dusty tomes, his clear insight into
events, and his personal acquaint­
ance with many of the partici­
pants, we have an account unsur­
passed in quality of style and
accuracy of fact," says his co­
author, grandmaster Lombardy.
Lo and behold, we then discover
a tournament book featuring
Lombardy's masterful notes to all
78 games of the 1973 USA Cham­
pionship in El Paso, Texas, the
first held away from the big apple.
Lombardy has the good sense
to let the players speak for them­
selves whenever possible. As an
added attraction, he weaves tales
of chess lore into his notes.
"The analysis of a single game
often consumed long hours, and
still mistakes crept in,” writes
Lombardy, who undertook this
thankless task because: “The
existence of so many earlier
volumes by lesser-ranking au­
thors represented to me a chal­
lenge to produce b superior work
as far as effective teaching is
concerned. Analysis of first-class
games must at the very least be
supervised at the grandmaster
level.”
If you never studied a tourna­
ment book, you don't know what
you're missing. As Lombardy
explains: “ It has no equal as a
teacher of the latest openings. All
the participants will have spent
long hours in preparing newlines
,and improving upon old ones
before daring to appear at the
chess board."
Reverend Lombardy has taken a
sabbatical to return to his first
love. Welcome back, Bill.
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Underhanded Ploys
“ I don’t believe in psycho­
logy," said Bobby Fischer. “ I
believe in good moves.” Be that
as it may, his antics clearly un­
nerved poor Spassky in Iceland.
Good players don't need dirty
tricks. Poker has its marked
cards and backgammon its
crooked dice, but chess skull­
duggery is in a class by itself.
Underhanded Chess by Jerry
Sohl, an ardent woodpusher, is
a compendium of artful ruses.
He probes such vital topics as
how to talk a good gambit,
playing against weirdos, when
to lose, befuddling rule fana­
tics, advanced duplicity, and
desperate last resorts.
A recommended coffeehouse
stratagem is to buy the first
drink. Naturally your opponent
w ill offer to buy the next. This
drink you m ust decline. In a
short while buy the second
drink. Don’t ask if he wants it,
just buy it! If you are not deal­
ing with a total clod, he w ill ab­
solutely insist on buying the
third round despite your pro­
tests that you are not thirsty.
Ignore it, don’t drink it! The
truth is, he'll probably drink it
him self to get his money’s
worth. W ith tour drinks under
his belt he won’t be playing as
well as you are.
The author om its the Meck-
ing Countergambit, named in
honor of an ill-mannered Brazil­
ian Wunderkind: clasp hands
tigh tly over ears to shut out all
distractions and shoo your
opponent away when he leans
forward to inspect the position.
Henrique Macking introduced
this ploy against Tigran Petro­
sian at San A ntonio; but it
backfired and he lost their epic
encounter after refusing two
draws and offering four.
When he got back to Brazil,
Mecking had the brass to tell
the press that the Armenian
had psyched him out. He ac­
cused the ex-world champion
of kicking the table, elbowing
the board to make it shake,
stirring coffee with varying
rhythms, and rolling a coin.
“ He was only quiet on his
move,” complained Mecking.
He protested twice to the
referee who refused to tell Pet­
ro sia n to s to p b re a th in g .
"F inally I got so mad that I
gave the table a m ighty kick!"
admitted Mecking.
Petrosian responded to this
fre sh p ro v o c a tio n w ith his
usual defensive skill. He pro­
mptly lodged protest of his
own, shrugged, and turned
down his hearing aid.
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The Yankee Spirit
“ I never thought I'd see the
day when chess would be all
over the front pages here, but
confined only to one paragraph
in Pravda. I guess that’s my
fault,” quipped Bobby Fischer
at a reception in New York’s
City Hall after he beat Spassky
American Chess Masters From
Morphy to Fischer (Macmillan)
by Bisguier and Soltis is the
first survey of U. S. chess from
Ben Franklin. In addition to
biographies of our leading
masters with 90 of their games,
plus a list of major national
events, the authors explore
whether there is a unique
American style.
Reuben Fine, a grandmaster
turned psychologist, argued
that Soviet chess stressed
counterattack, reflecting a so­
ciety where individual initiative
is held to a minimum. But the
search for the best move tran­
scends national boundaries.
In my own experience, Rus­
sian chess is dynamic, European
solid, American practical. "Amer­
icanism is penetrating into the
realms of art . . . a type of
charm we marvel at rather than
feel the glow of . . . We have a
worldwide chess art of e ffic i­
ency and practicability," fretted
Richard Reti fifty years ago.
“Americans have no respect
for anybody and always expect
a blunder from their opponent,"
I once wrote. "No matter how
bad your position, if it’s not
totally lost, you w ill arrive at a
point during the game where
you will be presented with an
opportunity to win or draw if
you take advantage of it."
The essence of chess is
struggle, the w ill to win is
universal. " If you sit down at
the board thinking your oppon­
ent is better than you, what’s
the point of playing?" says
Fischer who is out for blood.
When Hort's game with him
was adjourned at the 1970
Olympiad, the Czech grand­
master said: "I don’t know who
is better, Bobby, but I offer a
draw.” Fischer replied, "I don't
know who is better either, but
I have an extra Pawn.” Bobby
conceded a draw 20 moves later.
The authors conclude that
there is no American School,
only ■ mastery of technique:
“ The age of schools is dead.
Chess knowledge is so widely
distributed today that ail
masters are to some degree
electics. We can only point to
slight regional characteristics
of style.”
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Curious Chess Facts
"I submit my discoveries tor
your delectation and astonish­
ment" exults Irving Chernev, the
Ripley of chess, in Wonders and
Curiosities of Chess (Dover).
Dedicated with love to a chess
widow (his wife) this work spark­
les with over 160 games and
357 delightful tidbits.
Don’t stop Chernev even if
you heard it before! He dusts
off hoary chestnuts with aplomb,
conveying his boundless joy in
"the small fla t world of chess."
This tight kingdom of 64
squares absorbs the happy few
who spend their lives cornering
a king on a wooden board.
There is Franz Gutmayer who
wrote a book on how to become
a chessmaster although never
able to become one himself!
There is Wilhelm Steinitz
once arrested as a spy because
the authorities feared that his
moves in a postal game with
Tchigorin were part of a code
transm itting vital war secrets!
There is the chess critic in
1935 who said over the radio
that Alekhine's style was “ not
convincing.” At that time Alek­
hine had won 28 tournaments
— 16 without a single loss —
and held the title 8 years!
There is Jose Capablanca
whose 35 tournament losses
during 41 years occupied a
book l/6 4 th of an inch thick!
There is Paul Keres who de­
feated 9 world champions w ith­
out ever winning the title !
There is absent-minded Akiba
Rubinstein who fell into the
same trap twice, against Euwe
in 1928 and Alekhine in 1930!
Queen’s Gambit Declined
White Black
1 P-Q4 P-Q4
2 N-KB3 N-KB3
3 P-B4 P-K3
4 B-N5 QN-Q2
5 P-K3 B-K2
6 N-B3 0-0
7 R-B1 R-K1
8 Q-B2 P-QR3
9 PxP PxP
10 B-Q3 P-B3
11 0-0 N-K5
12 B-KB4 P-KB4
13 NxP!
Black is busted since 13 . . .
PxN 14 B-B7! wins the Queen.
(In 1955 Reshevsky fell for a
sim ilar trap against me but
somehow managed to draw!)
The firs t newspaper column
on chess appeared in the Liver­
pool Mercury, July 9, 1813!
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Five Easy Pieces The Masters Speak Ten Landmarks
The 1000 Best Short Games Chess Quotations From The "The player who plays best in a
of Chess by Irving Chernev Masters compiled by Henry Hun- tournament never wins first,” said
(Simon & Schuster $2.95) is an vald (Peter Pauper $1.50) is a Tartakower. "He wins second and
entertaining anthology spanning slim volume of fam iliar sayings finishes behind the player with the
5 centuries: 16 categories range which makes one hunger for an most luck." THE GREAT CHESS
from “ quick knockouts of great extensive, better organized an­ TOURNAMENTS AND THEIR
masters" to “ miracles of blind­ thology along these lines. STORIES by Andy Soltis is a
fold play." The notes are sparse Gligoric: Englishmen have knowl­ colorful blend of anecdotes and
yet edifying. Here are 5 samples. edge and they have intelligence. games.
Courtiers often threw games But they do not have endurance. 1. London 1851. A series of
to appease Napoleon's vanity: You must have endurance in knockout matches among 16
W h ite : REMUSAT B la ck: NAPOLEON chess. leading amateurs at the Crystal
Paris 1802 Larsen: Chess is my profession. Palace established German math
I am my own boss; I am free. teacher Adolf Anderssen as the
1 P-K4 N-KB3 8 N-R3?? N -B 6 + unofficial world champion.
£ P-Q3 N-B3 9 K-K2 N xO P + Horowitz: Chess is a great game.
3 P-KB4 P-K4 1 0K -Q 3 N -K 4 + No matter how good one is, there 2. London 1883. Chess clocks
4 PxP QNxP 11 KxN B-I54 + is always somebody better. No introduced a new element of
5 N -Q B 3 KN-N5? 12 KxB Q -N 3 +
6 P -0 4 Q -R 5 + 13K -Q 5 ? 0-Q3 matter how bad one is, there is drama. The victor Johannes Zu-
7 P-KN3 Q-B3 W h ite is m ated always somebody worse. kertort lost the first official title
Spielmann: In the opening a match 3 years later to his runner-
Paris editorials criticized the master should play like a book, up Wilhelm Steinitz.
Duke of Brunswick for being so in the mid-game he should play 3. Hastings 1895. Harry Pillsbu-
sacrilegious as to play chess at like a magician, in the ending ry< 22, an American dark horse,
the opera. Legend has it that the he should play like a machine. startled the world by finishing
Duke sued — and lost. ahead of Tchigorin, Lasker, Tar­
Tarrasch: As Rousseau could not
W h ite : PAUL MORPHY B la c k : DUKE compose without his cat beside rasch and Steinitz in a field of 22.
OF BRUNSW ICK 8< COUNT ISOUARD him, so I without my King's Before his untimely death in 1906
P aris 1858 Bishop cannot play chess. Pillsbury set a blindfold record of
Fischer: There isn't a woman 21 games simultaneously.
1 P-K4 P-K4 9 B-KN5 P-N4
2 N-KB3 P-Q3 10 NxP! PxN player in the world I can’t give 4. St. Petersburg 1914. Czar
3 P-Q4 B-NS? 11 B x N P + QN-Q2 Knight-odds to and still beat. Nicholas organized this to pit
4 PxP 3xN 12 0 -0 -0 R-Q1 Emanuel Lasker against two rivals
5 QxB PxP 13 RxN! RxR Koltanowski: If I win, it was a
6 B -Q B 4 N-KB3? 14 R-Q1 Q-K3 sacrifice. If I lose, then it was a he had been dodging —— Capa
7 Q-QN3 Q-K2 15 BxR-f- NxB and Rubinstein. Lasker’s triumph
8 N-B3- P-B3 16Q -N 8 + ! NxO mistake.
did not deter his competitors from
17 R-Q8 m ate Korchnoi: I like to coax my op­ describing with glee how this
ponents into attacking, to let
Won by a prodigy at 8: them taste the joy of the initia­ “gentleman farmer” tried for
months to mate two pigeons so
W h ite : RESHEVSKY B la ck: DOERY tive, so that they may get car­
ried away, become careless, and their offspring would take a top
B e rlin 1920
sacrifice material. prize at the Berlin poultry show.
1 P-K4 P-K4 9 BxN PxB Both pigeons, however, were male
2 P-KB4 PxP 10 N-K5 B-B3 Alekhine: Chess is a matter of
3 B-B4 B-K2 11 Q-R5 R-B1 vanity. 5. New York 1924. Even at the
4 N-KB3 B-R5 + 12 NxBP QxP-j- ripe old age of 56 Lasker won this
5 P-KN3 PxP 13 KxP Q xB P + Lasker: If anybody claims he is gruelling double round robin
6 0 -0 P xP+ 14 K-N3 B -R 5 + better than I, I can checkmate
7 K-R1 N-KR3? 15 QxB QxB him. 6. New York 1927. Capablanca
S P -04 Q-K2? 16 a-Q 8m ate! dominated chess and was sofarin
Boden: In a gambit you give up the lead that he offered his last
Short games are possible only a Pawn for the sake of getting
a lost game. four opponents each a draw in
because of great inequality of advance! The Cuban even scrib­
strength. But here a famous Napier: In the laboratory the bled a note to Nimzovich during
grandmaster is on the short end gambits all test unfavorably, their game: "Please make better
of a Pawn vs. Knight duel: but the old rule wears well, that moves. I don’t know how to avoid a
all gambits are sound over the win.'1
W h ite : BOROCHOW B la ck: FINE board.
7. Nottingham 1936. The cross­
Pasadena 1932
Steinitz; A Pawn ahead is worth roads of the old and the new
1 P-K4 N-KB3 5 P -0 5! NxKP a lot of trouble.
2 P-K5 N -04 6 P-R5 N/3-B5
7 P-B4 P -K 3 Keres: The older I grow, the
featuring 3 past world champs, the
incumbent, and a rising Soviet
3 P-QB4 N-N3
4 P-Q4 B lac k won
N-B3? more I value Pawns. star Mikhail Botvinnik (who tied
But Chernev says Black resigned!
Gapablanca: The winning of a for first with Capa).
Pawn among good players of 8. Hague-Moscow 1948. De­
I won this at 15 in the second even strength often means the
USA Junior Championship: signed to fill the title left vacant by
W h ite : WARNER B la ck: EVANS
winning of the game. the death of Alekhine, this con­
Cleveland 1947 Tarrasch: If one piece is badly firmed postwar Soviet supremacy.
posted, the whole game is bad. 9. Bled 1961. Mikhail Tal’s
1 P-K4 P -K * 12 Q-N3 B-Q3
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 13 R-K1 Q-R5 Najdorf (after losing): Look at runner-up was 18-year-old Bobby
3 B-N5 P-QR3 14 P-N3 Q-R4 me, I’m laughing, I'm making Fischer who scored 3 wins and a
4 B-R4 N-B3 15 P-QB4? PxP pleasantries, and I’m not going draw against the redoubtable
5 0 -0 B-K2 16 QxBP B-KR6
1 P-B3 NxP 17 Q-N3 KR-K1
to be able to sleep tonight. Soviet contingent, the first crack
7 R-K1 N-B4 18 R-Q1 R-K6!! Anon: Every chess player should in the wall.
8 NxP NxN 19 PxR Q-K7 have a hobby. 10. San Antonio 1972. Spon­
9 RxN NXB 20 QxNP QxR-f-
10 QxN 0 -0 21 K-B2 Q-B8 sored by Church’s fried chicken, a
11 P-Q4 P-Q4 W h ite is m ated fast-food chain, this witnessed the
American debut of Anatoly Kar­
pov in what may become known
as the post-Fischer era.
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Small World The Great Dane
During the Reykjavik madness in essence there are two
in 1972 publishers scheduled styles of chess: attack or de­
chess books to hit the market fense. While a Larsen strives to
when Fischer defended his title. augment his dynamic potential,
The match collapsed, but an ■ Petrosian snuffs out his op­
unusually large number of new ponents' counterplay. Yet they
books appeared recently. are both clear disciples of Aron
CHESS PANORAMA by two Nimzowitsch (1886-1935) the
insiders, Lombardy and Daniels, father of hypermodernism.
is an entertaining potpourri of Nimzowitsch’s theories en­
personalities, blunders and scan­ riched the game and changed
dals. The small world of master its course. A deep and original
chess springs to life in its pages. thinker, his book My System in­
I was even reminded of a fluenced every generation since
nightmarish game in a preliminary its publication in 1925.
match against South Africa at the In a new work Aron Nim­
Munich Olympiad in 1958. My zowitsch: A Reappraisal Ray­
position was so hopeless that Tal, mond Keene discerns his hero's
who contributed a chess column “ powerful awareness of the
to a Latvian magazine, asked presence of the opponent as
someone who must be re­
Grivainis for an interview as soon strained or provoked rather than
as he finished mopping me up. the preoccupation with one's
When facing someone they
own positive plans which one
consider much stronger than associates with other great
themselves, some players risk masters, such as Alekhine , . .
wild openings rather than peris Tal or Fischer.”
with more conventional lines. My Keene’s book covers fam iliar
opponent, a Latvian, had made a ground from a modern view­
careful study of the dubious point. It contains complete
Latvian Gambit. Not out of any crosstables and some fascinat­
sentimental attachment to the ing material never before trans­
country of his birth, but because lated into English. This frag­
he hoped to catch some grand­ ment throws light on the Dane's
master napping- splenetic revolt against classic­
When the worst of my misery ism in 1904:
was over on move 21, I offered a Tarrasch granted me the honor
draw. Grivainis, however, had of playing a serious game with
developed delusions of grandeur him. My opening play, as usual,
and refused. It was truly the worst was most bizarre. After the
position I ever managed to win, tenth move, folding his arms
across his chest, he suddenly
made the following pronounce­
W hit*: E VA N S Black: G RIVAINIS
Latvian Gambit
ment: “Never in my life have I
1 P -K 4 P-K4 had such a won game after ten
2 N-K B3 P-KB4171B Q -N4 N-B4 moves! . . . " The game, in­
3 PxP P -K 5 19 0 -0 0 -0 -0 cidentally, ended in a draw. But
4 N -0 4 Q -B 3 2 0 N -N 3 K-N1 for a long time I could not for­
3 Q -R 9 c h P-KN321 P-QR4 B-Q3
give Tarrasch for the ‘insult’ he
6 PxP PxP22 N-R3 R-R1
T O -03 N-K 2 2 3 N -N 5 R-R5
inflicted on me in front of all
5 Q xKP ? R-RS 24 Q-B3 N/2-R3 those onlookers.
9 P -K N 4 P -04 2S NxB PxN Had it not been for this feel­
10 0 -0 3 RxNP 26 B-Q2 N-NS ing of animosity, I should never
11 P-QB3 Q N -B 32 7 KR -K1! NxRP
have learned to play chess prop­
1 2 B -K 2 N-K 4 28 Q xP RxRch erly. To play better than Tar­
1 3 Q -K 3 R -K 5 (a) 20 RxR R-R1(c)
1 4 Q -N 3 B-N5 30 NxN PxN rasch — that was the formula of
1 S P -K B 4 B xB (b)31 R-K2 Q-R37 all my yearnings . . . To achieve
18 NxB N -B 2 7 3 2 R -K 7 ! Q-N3ch results select a born enemy and
1 7 P -G 3 R-K3 3 3 K -B 2 Racism* attempt to ‘chastise’ him by
toppling him from his pedestal.
(a) 13...P-B4! 14 N-N5 N-B4 wins
It is true that he was a very
strong player, but all his views,
(b ) Deadly is 15...N-B4! 16 PxN Q- his sympathies and antipathies,
N4! 17 P-KR4 Q-R4 18 Q-N2 NxN
and above all his inability to
19 PxN Rx Bch 20 QxR BxQ. conceive any new ides — all
this clearly attested to the full
( c ) lf 29...NxN 30 R-K8ch K-B2 31 mediocrity of his cast of mind.
Q-B4ch mates next. I myself, who paid homage to
genius, could in no way be
reconciled to the fact that medi­
ocrity should stand as the
leader of the dominant school!
This fact, for me, was a veritable
outrage!
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For Openers
Is there a way through the
maze of opening theory? How do
professionals treat this phase of
the game? Let’s ask them.
“ Try to memorize as few
variations as possible. Posi­
tional sense ought to liberate
you from enslavement to vari­
ations” (Nimzovich). “ Your only
task in the opening is to reach
a playable middle game” says
Hungarian star Lajos Portisch.
Nobody can argue with that.
But the fact remains that book
players vanquish natural play­
ers with depressing regularity.
In a unique new book How
To Open A Chess Game seven
prominent grandmasters offer a
glimpse into the world of the
professional and their methods
of preparation. An eye opener!
All seven agree that you
should develop a repertoire, if
only to save time on the clock.
“The trouble with chess is the
opponent: if you know only
‘the ideas behind the opening,’
and he knows the ideas and a
lot of variations, he is likely to
beat you” (Larsen).
My contribution to this mod­
ern classic is a glossary and a
short course in basic opening
strategy. Gligoric shows how
these principles work in action
by taking apart 8 master games
move-by-move.
Hort recommends specializ­
ing in a few openings and
argues that “ memorization of
variations could be even worse
than playing in a tournament
without looking in the books
at all." Do you agree?
Portisch recommends a sim­
ple repertoire for players who
don't have much time to study.
He shows how the major well-
analyzed variations can be
profitably avoided.
Petrosian cites some amusing
disasters from his own career
and reveals how he prepared
for his match against Fischer
“ as carefully as a field engineer
with a mine detector.”
Larsen brashly advises the
taking of calculated risks. "I
don't often play a move I know
how to refute. Twice a year
maybe . . .” He suggests a
repertoire for a reasonably
aggressive competitor.
Keres lets us peer into his
secret kitchen and shows how
this home cooking fares in the
real world. He demonstrates
"how b well-known variation is
taken apart, subjected to a
thorough examination of its
Drinciples, and, as far as pos­
sible, enriched with new ideas.”
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A Shortcut
Wending our way through the
maze of opening theory can be
awesome and depressing. Each
new book only seems to add to the
confusion. Who has the time or
desire to study dreary columns
and endless footnotes? Chess is
supposed to be fun.
Unfortunately opening analysis
has reached ■ saturation point.
The problem of a player with
limited time for study is how to
avoid the major book lines without
incurring a serious disadvantage.
Is the search for a shortcut as
futile as the alchemists’ desire to
change base metal into gold?
My latest work TH E CHESS
OPENING FOR YOU (RHM
Publications) is an attempt to
simplify the student's task. I offera
complete system for white and
black no matter what your oppo­
nent does.
For example, how do you floun­
der against 1 P-K4? Defending the
Lopez means submitting to Span­
ish torture for dozens of moves,
holding out the cheerless pro­
spect of drab equality. The Sicil­
ian offers Black winning chances-
provided you are willing to tread
the razor’s edge— the sound­
ness of a particular line often
depends on who won the latest
master game.
One forcing defense has been
virtually neglected: the Center
Counter I P-K4 P-Q4! Black an­
nounces that he intends to fight
for the initiative from the very first
move. White must abandon all set
strategies, all prepared analysis,
and enter unfamiliar terrain.
This defense can be played with
complete confidence throughout
your entire career, and you don’t
have to learn anything else. It
combines simplicity, soundness,
and variety.
Similarly you need a defense
against 1 P-Q4 or any other first
move. I advocate the King’s Indian
formation involving I...N-KB3 fol­
lowed by P-KN3 for black.
Finally you need a strategy as
white. An all-purpose setup has
great appeal because you can
close your eyes and ignore the
other side of the chessboard. Start
with these first four moves: 1 N-
KB3, 2 P-KN3, 3 B-N2, 4 0-0. This
used to be Fischer's favorite and
still packs a powerful punch.
My book stresses an under­
standing of the ideas behind these
openings, not memorization. If
you are sick and tired of trying to
keep up with each new wrinkle
and want a safe shortcut to the
middle game, this may be the
system for you.
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Hidden Beauty Take The Pawn! A Long Road The Last Romantic

It seems there are two basic A player heard that his oppo­ The first step for Anatoly David Bronstein’s 200 Open
laws of chess publishing: (1) No nent had sneaked off to consult an Karpov was a tourney at Lenin­ Games (Macmillan) is a splen­
subject is so small or obscure as to opening manual during their grad. Then came his electrifying did account of his career, and
be deemed unworthy of its own game. "Oh good!” he rejoiced. match victories over Poiugaiev- the first of his books translated
book: (2) No matter what the "The author got that line all sky, Spassky and Korchnoi. into English. The play’s the
subject, someone will buy it if it's wrong." After 60 games with the world's thing — not the result — as the
in Russian or algebraic. Books are riddled with error best — winning 20, losing 3, modest Soviet grandmaster in­
Happily, there are exceptions to because authorities seldom admit drawing 37 — he earned the cludes nearly a hundred draws
this rule. It is a pleasure to they don't have all the answers. right to face Bobby Fischer. and some two dozen losses.
celebrate The A rt of Chess Rare is the refreshing honesty World Championship Inter- “ Open game” is a term ap­
A nalysis (RHM Press) by Hol­ displayed by Bent Larsen in the zonals: Leningrad - Petropolis plied when both sides start
land's top player Jan Timman. tournament book San A ntonia 1973 by Wade, Blackstock and w ith Pawn to King Four. This
This refreshing collection of 24 Kotov is ■ beautifully produced runs the gamut from the staid
1 9 7 2 . "I don't understand it! But Ruy Lopez to the w ild King’s
games by the world’s best is I have promised to annotate this no-nonsense account of these
two major events. This new Gambit, Bronstein’s first love.
deeply annotated. Timman strips game, so here goes..." “ I cannot say what feelings
these games of their mystery to book contains numerous photos,
W h ite : E V A N S B la c k : P O R T IS C H crosstables, and all 318 games artists experience in front of an
come as close as possible to the S ic ilia n D e fe n s e empty canvas ... But whenever
truth. He constantly finds hidden annotated mostly by the con­
1 P -K 4 P -Q -B 4 2 2 BxN PxB
testants so that we may eaves­ I have to start a game I cannot
possibilities missed by the contes­ 2 N -K B 3 P -Q 3 2 3 R -R 3 K -N 1 stop thinking that today, right
tants in the heat of battle. PxP 2 4 P -R 5 drop on their thoughts.
3 P -0 4 R -R 3 now, I have the very fortunate
Timman does not set out to 4 N xP N -K B 3 2 5 B -K 2 B -K N 4 Russia’s Mark Taimanov, Den­ possibility of playing the most
teach us how to analyze. He 5 N -Q B 3 P -Q R 3 2 6 P -R 3 R -B 1 mark's Bent Larsen and 13 other beautiful, the most fighting,
6 B -K N 5 P -K 3 2 7 R /3 - Q 3 R -B 3 hopefuls were eliminated at
analyzes, and in the process we 7 PB4 B -K 2 2 8 Q -N 2 B -R 3 and the most profound game . .
learn what chess is all about. 8 Q -B 3 Q -B 2 2 9 R -N 3 R -B 5
Leningrad, narrowing the Candi­ “ It is now over 30 years that I
dates' matches to 8 grand­ have been coming regularly to
Kavalek points out in his intro­ 9 0 -0 -0 O N -Q 2 3 0 R -N 8 K -R 2
masters. Chess blindness af­
duction: "Only books of such 1 0 B -Q 3 P -R 3 31 0 - N 1 c h P -N 3 the Sacred Hall of Chess Crea­
11 B -R 4 P -K N 4 3 2 B -Q 3 R -R 5 flicted Taimanov at the end of tiveness and have reverently
magnitude and depth can explain 1 2 P xP N -K 4 3 3 R xR Q xR this game. Before his last move
to the chess historian of the 21st sent the W hite King's Pawn for­
1 3 Q -K 2 N / 3 - N 5 3 4 0 - B 2 R -B 5 Larsen cannily offered a draw. ward w ith a prayer to heroic
centruy what we in our time were 1 4 N -B 3 NxN 3 5 Q -N 3 O -Q N I "Make your move and I’ll think
trying to prove in our wonderful 1 5 P xN P xP 3 6 R -N 1 B -Q N 2 feats . . . I am tormented, given
1 6 B -N 3 N -K 4 3 7 K -R 2 R -B 3
about it,” replied Taimanov. He no rest, and am cut to pieces
world of chess." thought about it for a half hour
Timman considers this the best
1 7 P -B 4 P xP 3 8 Q -R 4 Q -K R 1 by that eternal sword of Damo­
1 8 B xB P B -Q 2 3 9 R -N 8 Q xR — and accepted — thereby cles known to generations of
game of the last 20 years and 1 9 K -N 1 0 - 0 - 0 4 0 Q xR Q -N 2 missing two ways to force e win! chessplayers: the question of
adds: “Seldom have I analyzed a 2 0 Q -B 2 Q R-B1 41 OxQ BxQ
how to begin the attack . .
game with so much pleasure and 2 1 P -K R 4 B -Q B 3 D ra w W h ite : TAIMANO V B la ck: LARSEN
Queen’s In d ia n Defense Bronstein recalls the day he
devotion." White's pawn sacrifice One question is why I abstained was invited to play against the
on move 12 unleashes a storm of from the fashionable Pawn sacri­ 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 25 P-K5 PxN “ M-20” com puter and gave it
complications. Andersson de­ 2 P-QB4 P-K3 26 PxN NxP
fice “ 19 P-KR4!" The latest wis­ 3 N-KB3 P-QN3 27 R-QB2 P-B6 Queen odds. As the robot mer­
fends beautifully to weather the dom then was that the variation 4 P-KN3 B -N 5 + 28 N-Q1 N-Q4 cilessly swapped pieces, the
attack. favored White, and that Black ■ B-Q2 BxB + 29 NxP K-N2 oung programmers mocked
A lovely draw might result from 6 QxB B-R3 30 K-B2 P-KR4
couldn’t take the Pawn. 7 N-R3 B-N2 31 R-B1 P-N5
im : “ Your efforts are in vain.
21 ...NxB 22 BxPch KxB 23 QxPch! A few months later at Palma, 8 B-N2 P-Q3 32 P-B4 K-N3 He w on't blunder anything
KxQ 24 R-N3ch and R-R3ch with Robatsch-Gheorghiu continued: 9 0 -0 QN-Q2 33 N-K2 R-KR1 away to you, he never blund­
perpetual check. But both sides 10 N-R4 BxB 34 N-B3 R-QN1 ers; there’s nothing human
19 P-KR4 BxP 20 Q-B2 BxQ 21 11 NxB 0 -0 35 P-N3 R-QB1
were playing to win. RxRch K-K2 22 RxR Q-B4 with 12 QR-Q1 P-B3 36 N-K2 RxR about him ! Look out, Grand­
Timman points out that Black's advantage to Black, confirming 13 P-B3 P-Q4 37 NxR K-B4 master, you’re in check . . .”
last chance to hold the draw is 14 R-B1 P-B4 38 N-Q3 K-K5
my original suspicion that the 15 PxQP NxP 39 N-K5 P-B3 "A return match! i demand a
30,..QxP! 31 Q-R7ch (if 31 QxR P- Pawn 'sac' was unsound. 16 KR-Q1 Q-K2 40 N-B6 P-R3
N4! 32 R-N4 N-Q3! 33 Q-B3 Q- 17 P-K4 N /4 -B 3 41 N-N8 N-N5? return m atch!” stormed Bron­
Still later that year, at Hastings, 18 PxP NxBP 42 P-QR3 N -Q 6 + stein as they started to turn out
N8ch 34 K-B2 Q-B8ch 35 K-N3 N- Westerinen-Browne went: 19 P- 19 Q-Q6 QxQ 43 K-B1
B4ch 36 K-R3 K-B2! wins) K-B2 32
P-R5 the lights and lock up. “ And
KR 4 0-0-0. • 20 P-R5 QR-N1 21 K- 20 RxQ KR-B1 44 PxP NxP
Q-R5ch, etc. 21 R-Q2 P-KN4 45 NxP K-B6 give me my Queen back!"
N1 B-QB3proving Black got equal 22 N-K3 N/4-Q 2 46 N-N4! P-K4
chances by declining the Pawn. 23 RxR RxR 47 N-B2! P-K5
W h ile : BRONSTEIN - B lack: ROBOT
Had something new and devastat­ 24 N /R -B 4 P-N4 D raw !(a)
Moscow 1963 - King’s Gambit
While: LUBOMIR LUBOYEVIC ing been found against the grubby
Black: ULF ANDERSSON (a) After being on the defensive 1 P-K4 P-K4 13 Q-B4 P-N4
W ijk a a n Z e e 1976 19 BxP? for so long, White grabbed the 2 P-KB4 PxP 14 NxNP + QxN
i P-K4 P-QB4 18 R-QB3 N-QB3 Seeking further enlightenment. draw. The easiest win is 48 3 N-KB3 N-KB3 15 N xQ 8P+ K-K2
I just looked up this line in the 4 P-K5 N-N5 16 N-Q5 + K-K3
2 N-KB3 P-K3 19 BxB NxN P-N4 P-K6 49 NxP KxN 50 5 P-Q4 P-KN4 17 NxP + K-K2
3 P-Q4 PxP 20 B Q3 Q-R2 long-awaited Volume 2(B) of P-N5 N-Q4 51 P-R5 and one of 6 N-B3 N-K6 18 N-Q5 + K-K1
4 NxP N-QB3 21 N-B5 B-N4?! E ncyclopedia of Chess Op­ the Pawns must queen. 7 Q-K2 NxB 19 QxB + Q-Q1
5 N-QB3 Q-B2 22 B-K5 N-QB3 enings, the last word on opening Taimanov said he analyzed 8 N-K4 N-K6 20 N-B7 + K-K2
theory. Lo and behold, on page 9 N-B6 + K-K2 21 B-N4 + P-Q3
6 B-K2 P-QR3 23 BxPch! KxB only 48 P-R4 P-K6 49 N-K1+! 10 B-Q2 NxBP + 22 BxP + QxB
7 0 -0 N-B3 24 R-KB4 P-B3 389 (note 82) the antidote is given: (best) K-K5 50 P-QR5 K-Q4 11 K-B2 NxR 23 Q-K8 mate!
8 B-K3 B-K2 25 R-R4ch K-Nl 19 P-KR4 BxP 20 BxN! PxB 21 Q- but overlooked 51 N-B2! P-K7+ 12 N-Q5 + K-K3
9 P-B4 P-Q3 26 Q-R3 N-Ql N4 Q-Q1 22 QR-N1 and White 52 K-B2 K-B4 53 P-N4+ K-N4
wins — just like that — presto! “ Whatever you might say, a
10 Q-Kl 0 -0 27 B-Q4 P-QN3 54 N-Q4+ K-R3 (or 54 . . . machine which can play chess
11 Q-N3 B-Q2 28 NxKP NxN It just so happens I also anal­ KxP 55 P-R6 N-Q4 56 P-R7
yzed all this before playing Por- with people is one of the most
12 P-K5!7 PxP 29 QxNch Q-B2 N-B2 57 P-R5 is decisive) 55 marvelous wonders of our 20th
13 PxP NxP 30 Q-K4 P-N4? tisch and decided the reverse was NxP and wins. century!” sighed Bronstein af­
14 B-KB4 B-Q3 31 R R6 R-R2 true after 22...B-N4ch! 23K-Q1 ter achieving revenge on the
15 QR-Q1 Q-Nl! 32 R/3-KR3 Q-KN2 RxR 24 RxR Q-B3 25 R-R5 B-R3 26 mechanical monster.
16 R-Q3! N-Kl 33 R-N6 R/I-B2 Q-N8ch B-B1.
17 N-K4 B-B2 34 P-B4 Resigns Such is the persistence of error
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A Unique Chess Quiz
You can’t overcome a disad­
vantage in the opening unless
your opponent makes a mistake.
That’s why it's so important to
start the game out right.
Most amateurs drift, flounder
or try to remember something
they saw. They simply don’t have
the time to study openings prop­
erly or memorize lengthy varia­
tions. Besides, that’s no fun.
What’s The Best Move? (Simon
& Schuster $6.95) by this author
is a chess quiz that teaches you
openings with no memorizing of
moves. 180 positions are cov­
ered in 16 different openings,
and you may score yourself to
determine your approximate
USCF rating.
The book was designed to
study while traveling or where
no chess set is available. The
diagrams are enough.
You are taken through each
opening by a series of clearly
diagramed positions, making a
choice from 3 moves. The an­
swers analyze the pros and cons
of each choice so you may com­
pare your thinking with mine.
Without memorizing any moves
or variations you will improve
because you w ill understand the
ideas behind the openings. This
sample is in the Sicilian De­
fense (# 1 2 6 ) 1 P-K4, P-QB4 2
P-Q4, PxP 3 N-KB3, P-K4.
White moves
(a) NxKP (b) P-B3 (c) B-QB4
(a) Not 4NxKP? Q-R4ch! Black
wins a piece.
(b) 4 P-B3! immediately breaks
up the center. On 4 . . . PxP 5
GNxP, N-QB3 6 B-QB4 White
has compensation for his Pawn.
(c) 4 B-QB4 is too slow and
gives Black time to counter­
attack with 4 . . . N-KB3 5 0-0
(not 5 N-N5? P-Q4) N-B3 6
P-B3, NxP! 7 PxP, P-Q4 8
B-QN5, PxP 9 NxP, B-Q2 and
Black gets an active game in
addition to keeping his Pawn.
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Hoax
Are you a born kibitzer? Do you
feel a certain irritation when
someone makes an inferior move,
an urge to grab his wristand make
the strongest move instead?
Even the mighty Alekhine was
not above editing his game scores
to conform with what he deemed a
more appropriate finish. After
perpetrating one of the weirdest
hoaxes in chess literature, he
wrote: "I would like to create alone
without the necessity, as in
games, of adjusting my plans to
those of my opponent, in order to
create something worthwhile. Oh!
this opponent, this unwilling col­
laborator, whose notion of beauty
is always different from yours...."
■ In his book My Best Games
of Chess 1 9 0 8 - 1 9 2 3 (p. 69)
the world champion published n
surreal five-queen game "played
by the author in Moscow 1915."
The first 11 moves did take place
but the rest was a total fabrication.
White: A LE K H IN E Black: GRIGORIEV
French Defense
1 P -K 4 P-K3 1 3 P-R 6 PxP
2 P-04 P -Q 4 1 4 R -N 1 Q-R4ch
3 N-QB3 N-K B3 1S K -K 2 QxP
4 B -N 5 B-N5 1 6P -R 7 QxR
5 P-KS P-KR3 17 PxR/Q K-Q2
6 PxN PxB 18 QxBP QxPch
7 PxP R -N 1 1 9 K -B 3 N-B3
8 P-KR4 PxP 20 Q/7xP K-B2
S Q-N4 B -K2 21 Q-B4 K-N3
10 P-KN3 P-QB4 22 Q /6-K 3 B-B4
11 PxRP PxP 23 P -N 8 /Q P-NS/Q
12 P-RS PxN 24 R-R 6 ? Resigns
Alekhine was so enamored with
his quiet Rook move that he
looked no further. Since it wasn’t a
real game anyway, why bother?
Black was supposed to have
expired on the spot because if
24...QxB (if 24...BxQ 25 Q-Q8ch
K-B4 26 QxPch KxQ 27 Q-Q6
mate: or 24...P-R3 25 RxNch! PxR
26 Q-Q8ch K-R2 27 Q/8-K7ch
wins) 25 Q-N4ch Q-N4 26 Q-Q8ch
K-R3 27 Q/3-R3ch forces mate.
"This position is certainly unique
of its kind!" wrote Alekhine.
The fly in the ointment is 24...B-
N5ch! 25 Q/8xB BxQ 26 Q-N4ch
(or 26 QxBch Q-B4) QxQ 27
QxQch K-B2 28 Q-Q6ch K-N3 29
Q-N4ch and White has no more
than ■ draw by perpetual check.
Tim Krabbe, a Dutchman,
writes: "Alekhine was not the only
one who overlooked the R-R6
fallacy: so did the entire chess
world for 60 years. Amazing, isn’t
it? No, said Jan Timman, when I
showed him these variations. Why
not? Because you need five
Queens to analyze it properly, he
said, and who has so many
Queens at home?"
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The Middle Road
The most important principle in
chess may be stated in a single
word: Centralization. Aim your
forces towards the middle.
This principle is reflected in
most master games that begin by
advancing center pawns to re­
lease pieces locked behind them
on the back rank. Yet at a tourney
in New York 1880 Ware experi­
mented with 1 P-QR4 in 11 games,
losing 6 and winning 5.
Pushing this pawn doesn't make
sense because Rooks are more
effective on central files that have
been blasted open. Heavy artillery
should not roll into action via the
flank.
Danish grandmaster Bent Lars­
en is famous for advancing a
rook’s pawn during a lull. In
Lars en ’s S elected Gam es he
writes:
"Gligoric has stated there are
more flank attacks in my games
than in those of other contempor­
ary masters. There is probably
some truth in this. One charming
characteristic of many flank at­
tacks is that they do not very often
lead to simplification: if the attack
is parried, there usually are still
opportunities left for initiating
action in another sector.
I do not deliberately play open­
ings that are obviously bad. I
emphasize the surprise element.
Over the board I suddenly got
this idea and couldn't resist it!
White hopes to exploit the weak­
ness of the black squares after
14.. .BxP 15 B-KR6 R-K1 16 NxB
QxN 17 Q-Q2 but it is doubtful
whether he gets enough for the
pawn by correct play. The book
move 14 B-KR6 must still be
considered best.
Unzicker thought for a few
minutes; then he declined the kind
offer."
On the next move it was too late
for 15...BXP? 16 Q-R6 B-B3 17 N-
N5 BxN 18 BxB P-B3 19 RxP PxB?
20 RxPch.
Larsen recommends 16...N-K2
as ■ better defense. Later he gives
25.. .Q-R5 26 Q-K3 Q-N5 27 P-Q5!
Q-B4 28 R-N5 P-R3 29 R-B5.
W hite: LA R SEN Black: UNZICKER
Lugano Olympl&a 1988
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1 P-0B 4 N-K B3 19 BxN
2 N -0B 3 P-K 3 20 Q-Q3
3 N -B 3 P-Q4 21 RxR
4 P-Q4 P-B4 22 PxNP BPxNP
5 PxQP NxP 23 B -R 6
8 P-K 3 N-QB3 24 R-N1
7 B-B4 PxP 25 PxP
8 PxP B -K2 2 6 Q -K N 3
9 0-0 0 -0 27 R-N5! R-B 8 ch
1 0 R -K 1 NxN 28 BxR
11 PxN P-QN3 29 Q -N 8 ch
1 2 Q -B 2 B-N2 3 0 B -R 3
1 3 B -Q 3 P-N3 31 Q -Q 6
14 P-KR4I7R-B1 32 PxP
1 5 Q -Q 2 B-B3 33 P -K 6 ch
16 P-RS N-R4? 34 P-K7ch
1 7 N -K 5 BxN 35 P-B3
18 RxB N-BS 36 Q -K 5 ch Resign?
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Booking Winners
Most major American publish­
ers dabble in chess books as a
departure from their usual fare.
Those with a continuing commit­
ment to the game can be counted
on the fingers of one hand
David McKay is the oldest, and
Dover specializes in reprints. But
in the period since 1974 when
How To Open A Chess Game
appeared, RHM has rapidly esta­
blished itself as a leader.
RHM. already has over two
dozen titles ranging from esoteric
opening analysis to tournament
collections, which are traditional­
ly slow sellers. The guiding spirit
behind this unique and notalways
profitable venture is Sidney Fried,
who subsidizes his folly with stock
market publications.
A recent title translated from
Russian is The Life and Gam es
of M ik h a il Tal, a remarkable
autobiography In I960, at the age
of 24, Tai became the youngest
titleholder in history. Unlike many
technical works of this sort, his
witty notes to 100 masterpieces
are lucid and entertaining. Tal has
hit upon an amusing format wher­
ein he interviews himself under
the guise of a journalist: his
comments about career and col­
leagues are quite candid.
I also learned to my surprise
how I made grandmaster in 1957,
in the midst of the cold war. "The
Soviet chess federation proposed
me for the title, but the formal
grounds were clearly inade­
quate." writes Tal. "So I was
'exchanged' for L. Evans and A.
Bisguier, who had failed to make
the norm by something like half a
point, and we all three were raised
to the rank of Grandmaster."
W hite: T A L Black: P A D EVS K V
Moscow 1963 Fronch Dofansa
1 P-K4 P-K3 15 QxP RxP
2 P-04 P-04 16 Q-K3 K -N 1
3 N-QB3 B-N5 1 7 B-B1 R -N 1
4 P-K5 P-QN3 18 B-R3
P-B4
5 Q-N4 B-B1 19 Q-03 B-B1
6 B-KN5 Q -Q 2 2 0 P-R5 Q -K 1
7 N-B3 N-QB3 2 1 B-B4 QxP
8 P-QR3 B-N2 2 2 N-ON5 R-Q2
9 B-Q3 P-KR3 23 0-B3 B-QN2
0 B-Q2 0 - 0 - 0 24 N-K5 NxN
11 P-KR4 KN-K2 25 PxN P-Q5
12 0 - 0 - 0 P-B4 26 P -K 6 ! PxQ
13 P xP«p PxP 27 PxR B-N2
RxB 14 0R-K1 R-N1 28 NxBP Resigns?
R-B4?
PxR
Tal wri tes: " In addition to
Black's other misfortunes. he had
R-B2 only a minute remaining on his
PxP clock. Therefore he was unable to
Q-Q4
R-B2
exploit his last chance 28 . Q-B6'
If 29 B-Q6 PxPch 30K-N1 B-K531
QxR N-K8ch K-N2 32 P-Q8/Q? BxPch
K-B2 33 KxB Q-B6ch 34 K-N1 Q-Q6ch
P-K4
35 K-R2 P-N8/Qch! White ne­
P-N4
Q-B3 vertheless wins by 29 N-Q5ch K-
K-N 3 R1 30 B-N2' QxB/N7 31 N-B7ch K-
K-R4 N1 32 N-K8ch followed by
P-N5 P-Q8/Q.”
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Tal Tells No Copyright Maverick Poor Dad, Dear Mom

At the ripe old age of24 Mikhail Composers can protect their Viktor Korchnoi, 47, has played Freudian sym bolism depicts
Tal became world champion. A melodies and songwriters can sensational chess since defecting the King and Queen as parent
year later, however, Mikhail Bot- protect their lyrics. But chessmas- from the USSR in 1976. This act of figures. Naturally the desire to
vinrtik at 50 won the return match ters cannot copyright their games. conscience seemed to free his checkmate is a deep-seated
and Tal never again scaled the creative energy as he won Oedipal wish to bump o ff poor
Chess is one of the few arts dad and run o ff w ith dear mom.
heights. where composition and perfor­ matches against former compatri­
T a l-B o tv in n ik , M atch for ots Polugaievsky, Petrosian and Like S haw ’s c r itic , th is
mance take place simultaneously. theory leaves no turn unstoned.
th e W orld Chess C ham p ion­ Under the law a player cannot Spassky to earn a title shot against
ship 1 9 6 0 (RHM Press) is Tal's world champion Karpov, whom he How it applies to female play­
protect his creation, only his ers is unclear, but it’s sup­
vivid account of their first con­ written comments on it. calls “a symbol of Soviet reaction "
posed to explain why there are
frontation. Each game is prefaced World champion Emanuel Lask­ Korchnoi’s mere presence gen­ so few good ones around.
with Tal's thoughts at the time of er struggled in vain to better the erates electricity. He is more The Psychology of the Chess
the match and interspersed with lot of chess professionals by famous inside Russia than anyone Player by Reuben Fine glitters
Tal's notes are his "personal urging a small royalty whenever else who ever defected, and it is w ith half-truths: “ The uncon­
feelings, thoughts, agitation, and games appeared in print. But he impossible for the regime not to scious motive actuating the
disappointments." was unable to remedy the legal report his results in the press. players is not the mere love of
Reading a chess book by Tal is situation or enlist the support of Two of his recent books go a pugnacity characteristic of all
like meeting an old friend. He his colleagues, who stood the long way towards slaking our com petitive games, but the
reveals his technical, physical, most to gain. curiosity. Viktor Korchnoi’s Best grim mer one of father murder
and human preparations for the Bobby Fischer also tried to Games (McKay) has 60 well- . . . Pawns symbolize children,
match. Tal decided he could not protect the fruits of his labor. In annotated struggles plus 12 wins particularly little boys. They
surpass Botvinnik in the realm of 1972 The Games Of Robert J. in less than 25moves. Also can grow up (promote), but it is
chess technique or strategy and Fischer (Batsford) containec included is a detailed tournament again significant that they may
that he had to rely on his youthful every game the authors could lay and match record spanning over not become ‘King’ . . . Put to­
vigor to strive for sharp tactical their hands on. Bobby was no) 30 years, proving again that age is gether, the chess board as a
play Ironically tnis game plan entitled to a red cent because his no barrier to a successful career. whole may readily symbolize
boomeranged in the return match. annotations were not used. More lively is his autobiography the fam ily situation. This would
Tal observes: ' Botvinnik's loss In 1977 Viktor Korchnoi's Best Chess Is My Life (Arco) with 72 explain the fascination of the
in the first game immediately put Games (McKay) was rushed out m ostly unannotated games. game. Lost in thought, the
both opponents on new terms. If player can work out in fantasy
and attributed on the jacket to Korchnoi reveals his reasons for what he has never been able to
Botvinnik could have been satisfi­ "Viktor Korchnoi and others.” But defecting and corroborates Fisch­
ed with 24 draws to retain his title do in reality.”
he disavowed this opus: "I wish to er’s charge that Russians cheat. How this extends to other
(such i percentage of draws is make it clear that the ‘Collection “ In the professional chess world
possible, of course, only on pap­ lang uag es and c u ltu re s is
of Games' of which I appear to be inside the Soviet Union, the top fuzzy. Some places the Queen
er) then now he had to play to win the author is a reprint of previous­ places lead to colossal privileges, is not even fem inine. In Persia
to eliminate the gap...We were ly annotated games that has been and the battle for these places is it is called a tiger, in Russia
very interested in how Botvinnik published without my permission. bound to involve means not asso­ and Korea a counselor. In
would try to even the score: would The appearance of this book is ciated purely with chess," he ex­ Tibet the King is a lion, hardly
he go in for complications or particularly damaging to me as I plains. a father-figure. In Germany and
prefer slow, positional squeezing- have in preparation a genuine Some of Korchnoi's complaints Holland the Bishop is known as
tactics keepinq a sure draw in collection of my best games." cannot be serious. He admits to a runner, in Russia a ship, in
hand9" A reader noted: "One can see the ploy of purposely arriving late France a fool.
The next 4 games were drawn the results of this clever but for some of his games with Kar­ Freud’s biographer, Dr. Ern­
and then Tal won 2 straight for a 3- misleading promotional maneu­ pov, yet he formally accused his est Jones, called chess “ a play
point lead before Botvinnik vering. Nowhere in the text is it opponent of doing the same thing. substitute fo r the art of w ar!”
scored his first victory in game 8. ever actually said who authored or Dr. Karl Menninger said: “ it
But the defending champion was Korchnoi explains he couldn’t seems to be necessary for
even edited the book. I mean, I trust his helpers in his 1974 match
never able to overcome his bad originally bought the book think­ some of us to have a hobby irt
start and Tal won in 21 games with against Karpov, which he lost by which aggressiveness and des­
ing that Korchnoi would benefit the narrow margin of one point
6 wins, 2 losses, 13 draws. from royalties. Clearly, his name tructiveness are given the op­
after 22 games. He attributes portunity for expression, and
There is no need to repeat the and reputation are being abused
score of the match. ..I would like to some of his failure to a feeling of since I long ago gave up hunt­
and exploited. This is precisely isolation and reserves his highest
dwell on the course of the match, the sort of injustice the Profes­ ing (because it is too destruc­
and share my impressions and scorn for former world champion tive), I have found myself re­
sional Chess Association might Petrosian “A destroyer of values."
experiences during the match," wish to investigate in order to turning more and more to the
Tal states modestly in an ep­ protect chessplayers. I sent my He recounts how Petrosian's most ancient of games.”
ilogue. The only flaw in this wife slapped her husband's sec­ A non-Freudian, Dr. Kurt A l­
book back to the publisher dem­ fred Adler, calls chess “ a game
edition is a lack of statistical data. anding b full refund." ond for poor adjournment analy­
sis of the sixth match game of training for problem solving
A reader searches in vain for the i would put little emphasis on
final score. against Fischer at Buenos Aires in
1971. In the same year Taimanov the elements of h o stility and
W h ite : T A L B la c k : B O T V IN N IK was persecuted when he returned aggression, and dism iss com­
F re n c h D e fe n s e home after losing 6-0 to Fischer in pletely the sexual sym bolism .”
m a tc h gam* 1
Vancouver. “This story is charac­ Adler holds that the amount
1 P-K4 P -K * 17 P-Q4 Q-B2 teristic of Soviet life—if we’re of raw competitiveness de­
2 P-Q4 P-Q4 18 P-R4 P-K4
going to kick a man, let's all do it pends on the culture. In col­
3 N-QB3 B-N5 19 R-R3 Q-B2 lective societies such as Russia
4 P-K 5 P-QB4 20 PxP QNxP together!” writes Korchnoi. it is relatively subdued, be­
5 P-QR3 BxNch 21 R-K3 K-Q2 He touches briefly on his new coming more pronounced in
6 PxB 0 -B 2 22 R-N1 P-N3 life and the role of chess in the free
7 Q-N4 P-B4 23 N-B4 Q R -K 1 Western Europe and rampant in
8 Q-N3 B-B3
world. "The life of a chess profes­ the USA.
N-K 2 24 R-N4
9 QxP R-N1 25 Q -Q 1! NxN sional in the West is a difficult one.
10 QxP PxP 26 QRxN N-N3 Their skills are not regarded
11 K -Q 1 !? B-Q2 27 R-Q4 RxRch seriously. The time will probably
1 2 Q -R 5 chN -N 3 28 PxR K-B 2 come when chess will attract the
13 N-K2 P -Q 6 ! 29 P-B4 PxP attention of sociologists:in the
14 PxP B-R5ch 30 BxP 0 -N 2
15 K -K 1 QxKP 31 BxR OxB fight against a rising crime rate we
16 B-N5! N-B3 32 P-R5 Resigns should be replacing television
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Little Murders
Just because Van Gogh cut off
his ear, are all artists mad? What
makes chess different from other
competitive activities? The an­
swer, of course, is nothing. But
myths die hard.
Dr. Ernest Jones, an associate
of Freud, suggested in 1930 that
there was a connection between
chess, the supreme activity of
Morphy's life, and his "tragic
neurosis." Jones wrote: "It is plain
that the unconscious motive acti­
vating the players is not the mere
love of pugnacity characteristic of
all competitive games, but the
grimmer one of father murder."
Alexander Cockburn rode this
hobby horse in Id le Passion:
Chess and th e D ance of
D eath (1974). He called both
Morphy and Fischer “walking
advertisements for the Freudian
interpretation of chess.”
Freudian theory equates check­
mate with castration and parri­
cide. Players are silently plotting
father-murder, symbolized by the
enemy King. That the King is not
even masculine in some lan­
guages is a slight blemish on the
theory.
In 1858, at 21, Morphy journey­
ed from New Orleans to London
for a match with Howard Staun­
ton, who eluded him with excuses.
So Morphy went to Paris and
trounced Adolf Anderssen, who
was acknowledged as the world’s
best player. After Morphy set a
new blindfold record of 8 games at
once, a throng of admirers par­
aded him through the streets on
their shoulders.
Staunton accused the American
of seeking financial gain. This
unjust rebuke from a supreme
father-figure eventually caused
poor Morphy to give up chess,
according to Dr. Jones. The game,
no longer innocent, was now
unmasked as Morphy's "uncon­
scious impulse to commit a sexual
assault on the father...to maim "
A serious flaw in thisyarn is that
Morphy emerged a hero while
Staunton was disgraced. Since
Morphy was now considered the
world champion, why should he
have been so disturbed by Staun­
ton's refusal to play him?
Morphy suffered from melan­
cholia — today it would be diag­
nosed as paranoia. He died at 47,
probably from an accident in his
tub. Cockburn informs us—in
hushed tones—that he was "sur­
rounded by women’s shoes." In
view of the fact that Morphy lived
with his mother and sister, was it
so surprising that their slippers
were in the bathroom?.
I seem to have misplaced Cock-
burn’s book. As Freud might say,
there are no accidents.
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White mates in 2 moves
Instant Books
No less than two paperbacks
appeared immediately after the
Karpov-Korchnoi match, both
written by Korchnoi's seconds.
Raymond Keene and Michael
Stean must have been busy
The W orld Chess C h a m p i­
onship 1 9 7 8 (published by
David McKay) contains all 32
games fully reported, described
and annotated by Danish grand­
master Bent Larsen, with an assist
from Michael Stean.
Considering its speed, it is hard
to fault this little book which has
copious diagrams, a complete
summary of title matches since
1886. and all 36 previous games
(Karpov won 7, lost 6, drew 23).
Game 10 was the fifth straight in
which Korchnoi defended with the
Open Defense of the Ruy Lopez.
Larsen writes: “ Karpov got a small
endgame advantage—and found
himself struggling for a draw! But
the game will mainly be remem­
bered for White's 11th move. A
bomb! An improvement on open­
ing theory which has been valid
(or at least copied from book to
book) since 1914."
W hite: KAR POV Black: KORCHNOI
1 P-K4 P-K4 6 P-Q4 P-ON4
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 7 B-N3 P-Q4
3 B-N5 P -Q R 3 8 PxP B-K3
4 B-R4 N-B3 9 QN-Q2 N-B4
5 0-0 N x P10 P-B3 P-Q5
11 N-N5
Larsen writes: "I don’t say sorry!
But I confess, I am one of many
authors who have written about
this opening without seeing this
move.
"Is it typical Tal? Oh no! Be­
cause it is not an unclear piece
sacrifice. After 11...QxN 12 Q-B3
K-Q2 13 B-Q5! White just wins
back the piece with advantage.
“This is Karpov's first important
innovation in the match. But why
did he not try to get it in before, in
game 2, 4 or 6? ”
Keene’s comment on move 11:
"As soon as this was played the
Soviet delegation exchanged
knowing winks and made a move
for the bar. Korchnoi was left on
the burning deck to work out
whether the move was brilliance
or bluff. Understandably, after 45
minutes thought, he decided to
decline the Russian g ift."
The game continued: 11 ...PxP
1 2 NxB KBPxN 1 3 P xP Q -Q 6!
1 4 N -B 3 QxQ 1 5 BxQ B -K 2
1 6 B -K 3 N-Q6 1 7 B -N 3 K -B 2
1 8 QR-Q1 N /'x K P 1 9 NxNch
NxN 2 0 B -K B 4 N -B 5 21 BxN
PxB 2 2 R-Q 4 B-Q3! and was
eventually drawn. Larsen sug­
gests either 22 BxP or R-Q7 as a
better winning try.
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White mate* in 2 moves
Sure Thing
There are two problems in
chess. The first is getting a won
game. The second is winning it.
Technique may be regarded as
the ability to win a won game
quickly and painlessly. But often
the surest way is the longest way,
and this requires flawless end­
game skill.
At Carlsbad 1929 Rubinstein
extracted a win from such a
"hopelessly drawn" Rook and
Pawn ending that the editors of
the tournament book united in the
assertion that had it happened 300
years ago he would have been
burned at the stake for being in
league with evil spirits.
Reti remarked that Rubinstein's
games “ create the impression of a
great structure from which not
one stone dare be shifted.”
World champion Karpov wrote:
"If I did nothing else well in my
youth, I did play the endgame
well. Current opening variations
come and go and the evaluations
of certain positions change. But
the value of knowing how to play
endgames remains constant and
has been responsible for a large
part of mv tournament success."
Capablanca was the apotheosis
of endgame artistry. After losing
the title to him in 1921, Lasker
said: “ Never had I met a player
who could preserve for so long the
delicate balance of a position and
continue very gradually and by
almost imperceptible degrees to
increase a trifling advantage until
it became real and eventually
decisive."
Ironically Alekhine won the title
from Capablanca in 1927 by doing
exactly the same thing. Capa was
too lazy to apply himself, day in
and day out, to the study of
openings, the five-finger exer­
cises of the chessplayer. Alekhine
secured tiny opening advantages
and settled down to the long task
of exploiting them by positional
means. Capa, the endgame artist,
was ground down in his own
territory.
During his decline Alekhine
admitted: “At another time I would
have gone into the ending and
would have easily won the game.
But during this period I was
unsure of my endgame techni­
que.”
The modern attitude is summed
up by Karpov: "Irrational p la y -
going in for beautiful complica­
tions when you have an overwhel­
ming advantage—can cost a
point, even if only one out of ten.
But I would rather win every one of
the ten games with my technique."
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White mates in 2 moves
Another World
The art of composing chess
problems is a world in itself.
Competition in this arcane field is
just as fierce as that which takes
place over the board, and various
international contests are held
each year by mail.
Composers compete not only
against each other, but against
tradition and a general standard of
excellence. Their works are
judged on beauty and originality.
In conjunction with the 22nd
Olympiad 310 entries were sub­
mitted to the Israel Chess Federa­
tion from 125 authors in 23 na­
tions. The above problem by T.H.
Bwee of West Germany won first
prize in the two-move section
even though the key move was not
as surprising as one expects.
Unfortunately the two-mover is
virtually exhausted after all these
centuries. The judge wrote: “ It
was rather sad that the standard of
the 84 entries was not satisfactory
and certainly not up to expecta­
tions in a distinguished Olympiad
event. There is but one comfort: it
would appear that the orthodox
two-mover has had its time and
only once in a while the opportu­
nity to display refreshing con­
tents. The quest for an absolute
originality was given up long ago.”
W hite to p lay and draw
1 P -R 7 (not 1 K-Q3? BxP! 2
BxB K-N6! 3 B-K3 K-N7 4 K-Q4 P-
B5! wins; or 1 K-Q2? K-N6! 2 K-K1
K-N7 3 P-R7 B-N2 4 B-B5 B-B6ch
5 K-Q1 P-B7 wins) B -N 2 2 K -
Q3! (not 2 B-B1? P-B7 3 B-N2 P-
B8/Q 4 BxB Q-N7ch 5 K-Q3 Q-
R6ch followed by QxP; or 2 B-B2?
K-R6 3 K-Q3 K-N7 4 B-Q4 P-B7 5
BxB P-B8/Q 6 K-Q2 Q-KB5ch! 7
K-Q3 Q-N6ch followed by QxB)
K -N 6 3 B-Q4! P -B 7! (3...BxB4
KxB P-B7 5 P-R8/Q P-B8/Q only
draws) 4 BxB P -B 8 /Q c h 5 K -
B 2 Q -N 7 ch 6 K -Q 3! (not 6 K-
B3? Q-B3ch 7 K-Q3 Q-Q2ch wins)
Q -K 5 c h 7 K -Q 2 Q -Q 4ch 8 K -
B 2! Q -B 3ch 9 B -B 3 Q -K 5 c h
1 0 K -Q 2 Q -N 7 ch 11 K -Q 3
An undefended pawn on the
threshold of promotion against a
queen, where it is beyond her
capacity to capture it. The final
position is instructive.
Out of 52 entries in the endgame
section, 30 were disqualified due
to various faults. I am happy to
report that one of the winners was
my first effort inspired by a game I
once played where my opponent
missed the difficult draw.
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Help Mates!
If you failed to solve this puzzle,
you’re in good company. Bobby
Fischer didn't solve it either.
It was composed by grandmas­
ter Pal Benko who showed it to
Bobby many years ago. Bobby,
cocky as ever, promptly bet he
could solve it in a half hour.
After paying up Bobby bet that
there had to be a second solution,
a cook, if he could study it
overnight. He lost again. There is
one and only one key move.
Since then Benko has become
so engrossed with composing
problems that he is losing interest
in practical play. I'm convinced
that when he sits at a board he is
looking not only for the quickest
way to win, but the shortest wayto
lose as well. Pal is a specialist in
"helpmates," settings where both
sides collaborate to find the
theoretically shortest way to mate.
In other words, Black helps
White to mate the Black King!
These unusual problems can be
ingenious and infuriating. In solv­
ing them it helps to think back­
wards, to envisage a mating
picture and then explore the
various ways it can be reached.
Benko writes: “ The helpmate
does not conflict with existing
rules of play. The solver must find
the only variation leading to
mate—which should be cleverly
hidden by the composer!—and do
this with the cooperation of both
sides. Black, who always moves
first, does not try to defend
against the mate but cooperates
with White in finding the only
sequence of moves producing the
mate.
This Is a simple example. The
solution Is 1 P-N7 (remember
Black moves first) K-N3 2 P-N8/B
(under-promotion, perfectly le­
gal) B-B3 mate. Okay. Now
substitute a White Knight for the
Bishop on QN4I Now the solution
Is 1 P-N7 K-N3 2 P-N8/N! N-B2
mate. Got the idea?
Finally substitute a White Rook
for the Bishop on QN4I The new
solution Is 1 P-N7 K-B3 2 P-N8/RI
R-R4 mate.
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Art And Chess
Opinions differ whetherchess is
art, science, sport, game or
hobby. Nevertheless there has
always been an affinity between
chess and art.
Man Ray, Dali and Max Ernst
designed chess sets. At the height
of his fame Marcel Duchamp gave
up painting and transferred his
affection and energy to chess.
Hans Richter made two chess
m o v ie s (8 x 8 and T h e
Passionate Pastim e) and the
art dealer Kahnweiler reminisced:
In those days my freedom was
complete. In the morning I would
visit painters, and in the afternoon
I would play chess with Braque,
Derain and Vlaminck.
Duchamp denied that chess
was an art. If it is anything, it is a
struggle, he said. Duchamp went
on to explain:
An artist knows that maybe
someday there'll be recognition
and monetary reward, but for the
chessmaster there is little public
recogntion and absolutely no
hope of supporting himself by
his own endeavors. If Bobby
Fischer came to me for advice I
certainly would not try to
discourage him—as if anyone
could—but I would try to make it
positively clear that he will never
have any money from chess, will
live a monk-like existence and
will know more rejection than
any artist ever has, struggling to
be known and accepted.
Events were to disprove this
prophecy. Paul Marshall, who was
Fischer's lawyer during the hectic
Reykjavik days, tallied all the
offers Bobby refused after
winning the title in 72. Almost $5
million!
Chess Life recently unearthed
a devilish problem formulated by
Duchamp and appealed to
readers for n solution. John
Speights of North Carolina
submitted detailed analysis to
support the claim that White wins.
Is there n hole in it?
A false try is the straightforward
I K-K4? P-R5 2 K-Q5 P-R6 3 K-B6
P-R7 4 R-N7ch K-B7 5 R-R7 K-N7
6 K-B7 R-N11 7 P-N8/Q RxQ 8 KxR
P-R8/Q 9 RxQ KxR 10 K-B7 P-B4
I I P-N6 P-B5 12 P-N7 P-B6\13 P-
N8/Q P-B7. White queens first but
it's a book draw.
Also inaccurate is 1 R-N7ch K-
B7! Mr. Speights gives: 1 K -K 3!!
P -R 5 2 R -N 7ch K -B 8 3 K -B 3!
K - K 8 (if 3...P-R6 4 R-R7 K-N8 5
R-QB7! K-R7 6 R-B2ch K-N8 7 R-
B1ch K-R7 8 R-QN1I! RxP9 P-N6
P-B4 10 K-B2 P-B5 11 K-B3 R-Q2
12 P-N7 R-Q6ch 13 KxP R-Q1 14
P-N8/Q RxQ 15 RxR K-N7 16 R-
N2ch wins) 4 P -N 6 ! P -R 6 (if
4.. .K-Q7 5 K-K4) 5 R -R 7 K -Q 7 (if
5.. .P-R7 6 RxP RxP 7 K-K3!) 6 K -
K 4 P -R 7 7 R xPch K -B 6
8 K -Q 5! RxP 9 K -B 6 R -K B 2
1 0 P -H 7 and White should win.
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Pure A rt
"Chess is purer than painting,
for you can't make money at it.
Chess has, no social purpose.
That, above all, is important,"
declared Marcel Duchamp.
His lifelong passion for chess
prompted a biographer to note:
"Duchamp spent most of the one
week they lived together studying
chess problems and his bride, in
desperate retaliation, got up one
night when he was asleep and
glued the pieces to the board.”
A m e ric a n C hess A r t 250
portraits of endgame study by
Walter Korn won't shatter any
marriages, but it may add some
romance to your game.
Endgame studies are often
confused with problems. Both
are composed, not taken from
actual games. Both must be
sound, neat and unique.
There the resemblance ends.
The solution to a problem ends
with checkmate in a stated num­
ber of moves. In studies, however,
the broader task is “White to play
and win" or “draw.” Contrasted to
the artificial setting of problems,
studies are natural. Their solu­
tions are often simple, astonishing
and beautiful.
Because it resembles a real
game, the study has immense
practical value. It tests knowledge
of endgame theory and expands
positional judgment. The solver is
told what the result should be and
must be able to justify that result
against any possible defense.
"Chess composition stands for
leisure at its relaxed and singular
best,” explains Korn, who throws
open the door of a composer’s
workshop. He illuminates such
esoteric themes as corkscrews,
star- flights, steeplechases,
echoes, cross-pins.
it's a world all it's own, yet with
vital links to practical play. Famil­
iarity with certain themes may
even help us to score points.
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Nearing The End
Many master games don’t reach
the ending because once the
result is obvious the players agree
to a draw or one of them resigns. If
there is one domain which has
been analyzed to exhaustion,
surely it is the final phase. Yet
there is still unexplored terrain.
When Reuben Fine’s classic
Basic Chess Endings appeared in
1941, Queen plus QNP vs. Queen
was considered a dead draw.
Three years later, at the USSR
Championship, Botvinnik won it
against Ravinsky in 126 moves.
This was considered a freak since
Black erred on move 102. But at
the Olympiad in 1954 Botvinnik
won it again against Minev. Now
theory holds that this ending is
usually won, a complete about
face.
Practical Chess Endings by
Paul Keres reminds us that chess
is not an exact science. The famed
Russian grandmaster, who died
recently at 59, tackles knotty
problems that have baffled anal­
ysts for centuries. In several cases
long accepted evaluations have
been overturned. He even un­
earths an example of premature
resignation from Capablanca-
Janowski, New York 1916.
1 .... K -B 5 !
If 2 P-N5 K-K6 3 B-K5 K-Q6 4 K-
B6 K-B5 draws (5 P-N6 BxP).
2 B Q4 K-B6!
3 P-N5 K-K7!
4 K-B6 K-Q6
5 B-N6 B-N4
6 K-N7 K-B5
7 K-R6 K-N6!
8 B-B2 B-Q1
9 B-K1 K-R5!
The long journey of the Black
King is crowned with success.
White can make no progress and
must agree to a draw. Overlooking
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P ost-M ortem s Trust Yourself
When a tournament game is What makes chess so appeal­
over both contestants usually ing is that only moves count, not
rush to an adjoining room to ex­ opinions. Cold-blooded analysis
amine improvements and assort­ has the power to demolish un­
ed flights of fancy. Often the just claims. Nothing ever has to
loser “wins the analysis.” Bobby be accepted on faith.
Fischer guards his ideas so "On the chessboard lies and
fiercely that he bars kibitzers hypocrisy do not survive long.
from these free-for-all sessions. The creative combination lays
The book of the 2nd Piati- bare the presumption of a lie;
gorsky Cup, won by Spassky the merciless fact, culminating
ahead of Fischer in Santa Mon­ in b checkmate, contradicts the
ica 1966, contains many games hypocrite” (Emanuel Lasker).
annotated separately by both A good way of studying master
players, showing what each was games is to conceal the next
thinking. It’s instructive — and
move and figure out what it w ill
sometimes hilarious — to com­ be. Then compare it with yours
pare notes.
— was it better or worse? Im­
Larsen vs. Danner merse yourself in the notes,
challenge whatever puzzles you.
You w ill be amazed at how
quickly your game improves.
In A Passion for Chess Reu­
ben Fine writes: “ I had picked
up a tournament book of St.
Petersburg 1914, but the notes
contained many errors. When I
found these errors, I thought
that I must be wrong, and that
I was not really good enough to
play over such games yet; only
later did I discover how sloppy
many chess authors can be."
Alas, Fine himself is not
wholly exempt from that charge.
His monumental Basic Chess
Since the game was adjourned Endings is riddled with errors.
overnight, it’s unlikely Larsen
would miss a winning line with
the benefit of m idnight oil.
1 K-K5, K-N3 2 K-Q6, K-N4 3
K-K7, P-K4 4 KxP, P-K5 5
K-N6, P-K6 6 P-B7, P-K7 7
P-B8/Q, P-K8/Q and the game
was soon drawn. Both grand­
masters agree that White missed
nothing. They remain silent.
Recently, however, Curtis Carl­
son of Denver inquired if Larsen
could have won with 1 K-N5!
K-N3 2 KxP, K-B2 3 P-N4, K-Q2
4 P-N5, K-K1 (not 4 . . . P-K4? 5
P-N6, PxP-r 6 KxP, K-Kl 7 K-N7! White moves
wins). In this key position White
has two elegant ways to win. On page 465 (diagram 467)
Fine claims a draw, giving only
The simplest is 5 P-N6 (5 “t R-QR1 K-Q1 2 K-Q6 K-K1=”
K-R6! K -B l 6 P-N6 also works) which he credits to Maestre
PxP- 6 KxP, K-B1 7 P-B3! (not (1939) and presents as gospel.
7 P-B7? P-K4! 8 K-B5, KxP 9
Yet the win is childishly easy:
KxP, K-K2 holds; or 7 P-B4?
P-B4! 8 P-B7, P-K4 9 K-B5, KxP R-QN11 K-Q6+! K-Q1 (Or 1 . . . K-N2 2
10 KxP, K-K2 11 K-Q5, K-Q2 12 anyway) 2 R-QN1! and
Black gets mated if he tries to
KxP, K-B2 with a book draw) save
putting Black in zugzwang. Now the Bishop.
7 . . . P-B4 8 P-B4, K-N1 9 The essential problem is that
P-B7+ K-B1 10 K-B6, P-K4 11 opinions are often copied un­
KxP. KxP 12 K-Q6, K-K1 13 critically and perpetuated in the
KxP, K-Q2 14 K-N6! wins. textbooks. Error is passed from
But active defense draws; 1 hand to hand, like h torch.
K-N5 K-N4 2 KxP P-K4! 3 K-N5
K-B5 4 K-B5 K-Q4 5 P-N4 P-K5
6 K-B4 K-K3 7 P-N5 P-K6 8
KxP K-B4, etc.
Strange how chess games
haunt us, even when they are
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Ending Opposition
The "opposition" is a funda­
mental principle governing many
King and Pawn endings. The
player who has the "opposition"
usually wins.
When Kings are directly op­
posed — facing each other on
the same line — separated by
an even number of squares, the
player on move is said to “ have
the opposition."
The critical point is that the
side with the opposition can
penetrate by force inside enemy
territory. The other King must
give ground as in the diagram.
This mirror image looks so
even that inexperienced players
might abandon it as drawn.
The simple fact is that whoever
moves wins! Note that an even
number of squares (2) separates
the Kings. And White moves!
WHITE BLACK
t K-K4! _____
No other first move wins.
1 ____ K-B3
Unfortunately Black can’t say
“ pass.” Also hopeless is 1 . . .
K-Q3 2 K-Q4! K-B3 3 K-K5!
K-B2 4 K-Q5, K-N3 5 K-Q6,
K-N2 6 K-B5, K-R3 7 K-B6!
winning a Pawn and the game.
2 K-B4! -----
Hastv is 2 K-Q5? K-B4 3 K-B5,
K-N5 4 KxP, KxP 5 K-B5, K-N6
6 P-N5, P-R5 7 P-N6, P-R6 8
P-N7, P-R7 9 P-N8/Q, P-R8/Q
with a book draw.
These endings can be calcu­
lated , with mathematical pre­
cision; there is no guesswork.
2 ____ K-N3
2 . . . K-K3 loses to 3 K-N5.
3 K-K5! K-N2
4 K-B5 K-R3
5 K-B6! K-R2
Zugzwang! Caught in a squeeze,
Black must yield his KN4.
6 K-N5 K-N2
7 KxP K-R2
8 K-N5 -----
White wins by crossing to the
Queenside, capturing the last
Pawn and queening his QNP.
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Moving Can Bo Costly
The precious right to move
can be a sore burden. Zugzwang
(forced to move) is a paradox
that arises because a player may
not pass. This basic ending il­
lustrates the suicidal principle.
White to move draws!
White wins if he can destroy
the blockade and queen the
Pawn. Black loses if he must re­
linquish his stronghold: 1 . . .
K-K1 2 P-K7, K-B2 3 K-Q7, any
4 P-K8/Q with an elementary
book win. (See Basic Chess End­
ings by Reuben Fine.)
A delicate balance is altered
when White moves first: 1
P-K7ch, K-K1 2 K-K6 stalemate.
Also inadequate is 1 K-K5, K-K2
2 K-0.5, K-K1! (not 2 . . . K-Ql?
3 K-Q6 putting Black in Zug­
zwang) 3 K-B6 (3 K-Q6, K-Ql!
reepats the diagram with White
to move) K-B1! and Black holds
fast on the other side.
A complex example is "The
Immortal Zugzwang Game” fea­
turing the quietest winning
move on record.
W hite: SAEMISCH
B la ck: NIMZOVICH
Copenhagen 1923
Q ueen's In d ia n Defensa
1 P-Q4 N-KB3 14 P-KR3
2 P-QB4 P-K3 15 K-R2
3 N-KB3 P-QN3 16 B-Q2
4 P-KN3 B-N2 17 Q-G1
5 B-N2 B-K2 10 N-N1
6 N-B3 0 -0 19 R-N1
7 0 -0 P-Q4 20 P-K4(b)
B N-K5 P-B3 21 QxN
9 PxP(a) B PxP 22 Q-N5 QR-KB1
10 B-B4 P-QR3 23 K-R1
11 R-B1 P-QN4 24 Q-K3
12 Q-N3 N-B3 25 QR-K1
13 NxN BxN W hite resigns (c)
(a) Stronger is 9 P-K4.
(b) More prudent is 20 P-K3.
(c) Noblesse oblige! With nearly
all his forces still on the board,
White has no good move and
must return his extra piece. He
has some Pawn pushes (26
P-K3, P-QR4 27 PxP, PxP 28
P-R4, K-R2) but Black just
moves his King until they are
exhausted.
if 26 K-R2, R/4-B6; or if 26
R-Ql, R-K7 bags the Queen. II
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Ending It All
Most players are weak in the
ending, because they seldom
reach it. I once watched a tour­
nament game in which a red­
faced master couldn't mate in
50 moves with Bishop and
Knight against a lone King.
The middle game is fu ll of
sound and fury. During the tide
of battle be alert for transitions
to a favorable ending. When be­
hind, complicate; when ahead,
simplify—as i rule of thumb.
Mastery of the final phase re­
quires solid technique. Pros
know how to patiently nurse
small advantages to fruition in
the endgame. Mikhail Botvinriik
prepared for his title matches
by brushing up on Rook & Pawn
finales, although there was no
assurance he would get there.
A painless way to learn the
ending is by perusing 1234 Mod­
ern Endgame Studies Suther­
land & Lommer (Dover $2.50).
One of my favorites is this de­
ceptively simple study (# 4 6 )
composed by Kovalenko in 1927.
Looks impossible! Black is a
Pawn up and closer to queening.
Yet a good puzzle is a work of
art with all the connotations of
beauty, surprise, ingenuity and
technique that the term implies.
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P-B4 WHITE BLACK
P-N5 1 K-B6 K-N5
B-QN4 2 K-Q5 K-B6
B-Q3
BPxP
3 K-K5 P-K6!
RxP
3 . . . K-Q7 4 KxP/4, KxP 5
R /1-B 4 KxP, KxP 6 KxP leaves a puff
B-Q6 of smoke!
P-R3!!
4 KxP/4!
Hopeless is 4 PxP? PxP 5 K-B4,
K-Q7 6 K-B3, P-B5! htc.
4 .... PxP
Black queens. Now what?
5 K-K3H P-B8/Q
Stalemate on an open board
— a stunning resource. On 5
. . . P-B8/B (or 5 . . . P-B8/N +
6 K-B4) 6 K-B4, B-R6 7 P-K4!
dissolves the last Pawn just in
tim e to force ■ draw.
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By Hook Or Crook
It’s impolite to prolong hope­
less positions to the bitter end;
yet you can’t win by resigning.
One way out of this dilemna is
known to the trade as a
"cheapo” or “ swindle” and re­
quires keen cooperation from
your opponent. An ingenious
example from an amateur game
deserves to be dubbed The
An old friend Manfred Zitz-
man of Pa., writes: “ It was only
a skittles game and somewhere
along the way I had dropped a
Rook. Resignation was defin­
itely in order; but my Pawn was
attacked, so hoping for an earth­
quake, I pushed it.”
White: KNEEREAM
Black: ZITZMAN
P-K4
2 B-Q3+?
Virtually any other move wins
for White! This only draws.
2... P-K5+!
3 BxP+
There's no way out of the trap.
If 3 RxP B-N2 4 R-KR1 (the
best try) BxR+ 5 RxB RxB 6
R-R5+ K-N3 draws.
3 __ RxB!
4 RxR B-N2
DRAWN ! !
The pin is mightier than the
sword. Zitzman continues:
“The pin is unbreakable.
White, in order to continue,
must abandon the pinned Rook
for nothing, allowing Black to
reach a book draw of Rook vs.
Bishop where the defending
King can reach ■ dark corner.
“ Before this game if anyone
had told me that a lone Bishop
could draw against two Rooks in
the center of the board, I
wouldn’t have believed it. Tech­
nically in the final position
Black is not threatening to
’win’ anything: he must wait
until White chooses to ‘sacri­
fice’ the Rook.
“A diligent search of end­
games and studies has failed to
reveal this particular theme.
It’s the most unusual ending
I’ve played in 38 years."
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Stranger Than Fiction M ating Themes W h at's Cooking? Pawn Power

I never subscribed to the notion
that truth is stranger than fiction.
Yet it is hard to see how an
endgame com poser could
improve on the purity and
simplicity of these two positions
from recent tournament games.
Pape-Roth. West Germany 1974.
White s plight looks hopless. He is
a piece behind and 1 P-R5 BxP 2
P-R6 B-N1 seals his fate.
1 P -Q 6 !
2 K -G 3 !
Again not 2 P-R5? P-Q6! 3 P-R6
B-N8 and the Bishop interdicts the
advance of the Pawn.
2 ....
3 P-R 5
4 P-R 6
5 P-R 7 !
D raw n by stalem ate!
1.... P -N 8 (Q )!
2 BxQ
3 K -N 4
4 K -R 4
White is in a predicament
known as zugzwang. He would
like to pass, but this is forbidden.
5 P -R 8 (Q )
6 K -N 4
7 K -R 4
Calvo-Hamann, Menorca 1974.
If we did not know that this
actually arose in a game, we
would praise it as a pretty
endgame study. In fact, Black
missed the hidden point and
offered a draw. It was accepted
with great relief.
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6u!U9te0JM>it>a-o w o u m o s
Chess problems requiring mate
in a fixed number of moves are
often criticized because they bear
little relation to real games. Many
practical players scorn these
time-consuming, devilish, clut­
tered exercises.
Composed endgame studies,
however, can actually help us
improve.' They incorporate vital
themes in seemingly abstract
settings—themes that have enor­
mous practical application.
This study by the Soviet com­
poser Sergei Kaminer, who died at
the age of 29 in 1937, looks both to
the past and the future. It illus­
trates thendexterity of the Bishop
which can at times outmaneuver
the all-powerful Queen.
PxP
BxP
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A puzzle is flawed if there is
more than one way to solve it,
a composer's nightmare called a
“ cook.”
The word "cook” probably
originates from 19th century
slang meaning to ruin or spoil,
as in “ to cook his goose.” Its use
in chess may coincide with the
name of Eugene B. Cook (1830-
1915) a problem composer.
Some months ago we ex­
amined a fine endgame study by
Ladislav Prokes. In this critical
position it was erroneously
claimed that Black can draw.
White to play and win
White Black
1 K-Q7 K-B2
If 1 . . . K-N4 2 N-Q8, K-N5 3
N-K6, N-R4 4 K-Q8! N-B3 5
N-B8, K-B4 6 N-Q7 is decisive..
2 N-Q8+ K-B3
3 N-K6 wins.
If 3 . . . NxN 4 P-K8/Q is easy.
"So it looks like Mr. Prokes
may be able to breathe easier
again,” writes K. Schroeder, Va.
C. Diesen, Md., says “ Prokes
proved all this over 30 years
ago. This composition is in fact
sound and not cooked, so 1 hope
you w ill set the record straight.”
In another assault on the
citadel, R. Parnacott, Kansas
City, submitted a cook to this
study by Kubbel on page 79 of
Chernev’s Chessboard Magic.
Black to move
The tail end of the solution is
1 . . . RxR 2 P-N5 mate. It’s
suggested that 1 . . . R-B7+ 2
RxR, BxP leads to a draw. But
White still wins with 3 R-R2+
B-R4 4 R-R3, P-K4 5 R-R4! P-K5
6 RxP, B-N3 7 R-R4+ B-R4 8
K-B5! K-N2 9 RxB, etc. This
pretty point should have been
mentioned by Chernev since it
was anticipated by Kubbel.
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-«aa H z n -n Z (ix-x J°) 9 xd
■' ' I II 29M-0 2 NXd • ' ■I II
idxN 1 :N O Iim O S WaiBOHd
A checker is crowned upon
reaching the King row; a Pawn
is queened. Simple.
Yet confusion arises in chess,
because ■ player has an option
of underpromotion: that is, pro­
moting a Pawn to less than a
Queen (Rook, Bishop or Knight).
This rare tactic has value when
a new Queen would allow the
opponent to draw by stalemate.
Of course ■ Pawn cannot re­
main a Pawn nor become ■ King
when it reaches the last rank.
If the original Queen is s till on
the board, a second one is in­
dicated by replacing the Pawn
with an upside-down Rook.
During a master game in Hol­
land, Hans Ree queened a Pawn,
recorded the move, punched his
clock — but neglected to ex­
change his Pawn for anything.
He expected his opponent Mig­
uel Najdorf to resign.
But tricky Najdorf promptly
protested that now he had the
right to designate which piece
Ree could select! Since it was
obvious that Ree intended to
queen his Pawn, the referee re­
jected Najdorf’s claim.
A FIDE commission upheld
the referee. Although technically
Ree did not complete his move
— and Najdorf’s clock was tic k ­
ing — what real penalty could
be exacted?
This curious problem re­
quires no less than 3 underpro­
motions. Count them!
WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN
W HITE BLACK W HITE BLACK
1 P-R7(a) P-N5 9 N -B 8 PxN
2 P-R 8 /N P -N 6 10P-N7 P-B4
3 N -N 6 I PxN 11 P-N 8 /Q P-BS
4 P-B7 P-N4 12 QxP P-B 6
5 P-B 8 /N P-N5 13 QxQP P-N 6
6 N -Q 6 PxN 14 QxNP P-Q 6
7 P-K7 P-Q4 1 5 Q X R P + KXQ
8 P-K 8 /N P-Q5 16 P-N4(b)
(a) Not 1 P-B4? P-N5 2 P-B5,
P-N6 3 P-B6, KPxP 4 P-K7, P-B4
5 P-K8/Q and White can't avert
stalemate.
(b) Now this Pawn queens.
"Every soldier carries in his
haversack a marshal’s baton."
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The Chess Computer Premature Burial Slow Progress Man V s. Machine

Eventually man w ill be pitted At Stockholm the first com­ Computers have been playing Computers are now competing
against machine. The only puter world championship at­ chess over twenty years, yet they in chess tournaments. A U.S.
question is when. tracted 13 entries and was won may not achieve grandmaster machine won the Minnesota Open
David Levy, a British inter­ by Russia. The next one, set for strength until next century. Their and the World Computer Champi­
national master and an authority Toronto in 1977, should be con­ potential is awesome: their play is onship in Toronto 1977 ahead of
on computers, has made a fam­ siderably more sophisticated. awful. 15 other entries including one
ous $2500 wager that no Computers are getting better Still, the wonder is that they play from Russia.
machine w ill beat him in a each year and the big question at all. One is reminded of the old "Chess 4.6" developed by David
match by August 1978. His bet is when they w ill surpass man. saw about a man who owned a Slate and Larry Atkin of North­
looks good. Dr. Nathan Divinsky predicts chessplaying dog. “ But he's not western University then placed
At present a human master that chess is on its death-bed: very good," he explained-"I beat 26th in a field of 320 in London.
can give Queen odds to most One hears talk in these rela­ him two out of three." There is no doubt that computers
computers. Yet strangely enough tively early days of automation, The main function of computers are improving rapidly.
grandmaster knowledge rarely is of machines that will completely right now is for Swiss system Should they be allowed to
utilized in chess programs. solve the mysteries of chess. pairings. At one Canadian Open compete in human events? Paul
Bobby Fischer believes com­ This is certainly possible. But there were eight married couples Shannon, editor of North Star
puter people want all the glory as soon as this happens the and the tactful computer did not Chess thinks not: "There is noway
for themselves. game will vanish. It will become pair any husband against his wife. computer capabilities can be
The Russian program is su­ another mathematical theorem These reflections are prompted compared with human players
perior because former world locked away in a cold book. In by David Levy's book 1 9 7 5 U.S. except perhaps with a human of
champion Mikhail Botvinnik is fact, few will look at the body C o m p u te r Chocs total recall, no fatigue, inter­
working on it. The chessmaster as it is buried. Few will know C h a m p io n s h ip (C om puter changeable brain cells and no
copes regularly with many intu i­ the details of the inhuman cal­ Science Press) which explains all emotions. It is not the mechanical
tive problems which are beyond culation. They will only know 24 games from that event. Levy moves which make chess great; it
the scope of i computer; the that a good and warm friend has also provides a lucid account of is the sport of mental battle with
task is transferring this informa­ perished. another human. The human spirit
tion. How can a machine meas­ how chess programs work and a
This is debatable. Chess has brief history of their development. and sporting values are intangi­
ure numerically the precise ex­ survived 1500 years; even if our bles which no machine may ever
tent to which a pawn structure is Rules of play were similar to
egos are bruised the game will regular tournaments with the comprehend."
good or bad. for example? still be fun to play. The speed exception that a team had up to 30 Despite the striking progress of
Levy contends that even if of a car does not discourage minutes to restore their system if computers, some experts in the
computers were a thousand track events; the agility of a field do not believe machines will
times faster, they would be able technical d iffic u ltie s were
fish does not stop us from encountered during a game. The ever reach world championship
to look ahead only about 3 extra swimming. Probably there will strenth. Dr. Edward Lasker, a
half-moves. While eliminating machines would only be told the
be two world championships: time remaining on either clock if computer specialist and still a
certain tactical errors, this for people and for machines.
would do little to improve strate­ they asked for it. Some games strong chessmaster at the age of
Two teams from the USA tied were lost on time! 92, writes: "From the game the
gical planning for second; their game features A unique feature was a program played against me, I
Levy also contends that "the the first positional piece sacri­ must frankly say that I fear its lack
number of possible games simultaneous exhibition given by
fice ever made by a computer. Levy against all 12 programs. He of a master’s most important
(10120) far exceeds the number The first 9 moves are identical
of atoms in the universe.” He won 10 and drew 2 games, characteristic, his ability to prop­
to an earlier contest between erly evaluate the positional result
concludes that a computer will these same opponents. Black explaining: i expected to win
not gain the international mast­ without much difficulty, but I had of a combination, will never en­
won, but this time "CHAOS"
er title before the turn of the learned from its mistakes. b e e n g iv in g a r u n n in g able it to play master chess, no
century, and that the idea of an commentary on the first two matter how many improvements
electronic world champion still W h ite : CHAOS B la ck: CHESS 4.0 rounds non-stop for ten hours. I in technique will still continue to
belongs in science fiction. Q ueen's G am bit Accepted had also been unable to reach the be made. For even the most
1 P-Q4 P-Q4 24 Q xB + N-K2 USA until 48 hours before. ingenious programmer, aided by
We shall see. The firs t world 2 P-QB4 PxP 25 N-B5 B-B4
computer championship is set 3 N-KB3 N-KB3 26 P-N4 Q-K1 So much for excuses...The the greatest chessmaster, cannot
for Stockholm this August. Last 4 P-K3 P -K 327 B-R4 P-N6 game that I won against CHESS translate into a computer's lan­
5 BxP P-B4 28 PxB PxP guage any thoughts which are not
year in Atlanta, Northwestern 6 Q-K2 P-QR3 29 BxN P-R8/Q 4.4 gave me a greeat deal of
University won a tournament 7 0 -0 P-QN4i30 RxQ R-R3 pleasure—it could well have been in the dictionary."
among 12 American computers. 8 B-N3 B-N2i31 NxR Q-Q1 p la y e d a g a in s t a hu m an However the machine defeated
9 R-Q1 QN-Q2 32 K-B2(c) K.B2 Dr. Lasker. It also wiped out an
The crucial game contained 10 N-B3 B-Q3 33 Q -K6+ K-B1 opponent. I was particularly
some childishly weak moves. 11 P-K4 PxP 34 Q xN + QxQ amused when my opponent English grandmaster in a speed
12 NxQP Q-N1 35 RxQ KxR pointed out after the game that I game, a grim portent of things to
W h ite : CHAOS B la ck: CHESS 4.0 13 P-N3 P-N5I36 N-B5 R-QN1 come.
Q ueen's G am bit D eclined 14 N-R4 BxKP 37 RxP R x P4- could have mated It one move
15 P-B3 B -N 3 (a )3 8 K-N3 P-N3 earlier. 22...R-KB1ch! White: CHESS 4.6 Black: S TEA N
1 P-Q4 P-Q4I16 QR-Q1 Q-QN5 16 NxP! P xN 3 9 PxP PxP
Queen s Fianchetto Defense
2 P-QB4 PxP 17 P-KN3? QxP 17 QxP-f- B-K2 40 R-R6 R-QB7
N-KB3 18 R-K2 Q-R6 18 R-K1 Q-Q1 41 R *K6+ K-B1 W h it*: C H C S S 4 . B la c k : L E V Y 1 P-K4 P -Q N 3 2 1 N-KNS PxP
3 N-KB3 2 P-Q4
4 P-K3 P-K3 19 Q-B6 B-N5? 19 B-KB4 K-B1 42 R-K5 R-B8 B ird ’s Opening B -N 2 2 2 QN x P RxKBP?
5 BxP P-B4 20 RxN?? QR-B1 20 QR-Q1 R-R2 43 R-N5 K-B2 1 P -K B 4 P - 0 4 1 3 PxNT B -R 7ch 3 N-QB3 P -Q B 4 23 R x P QxR
6 0 -0 P-QR3 21 R-B7 RxR 21 R-QB1(b) 44 B -K 6+ K-B3 2 N-KB3 N -K B 3 1 4 K-fM PxP 4 PxP p *p 24 NxQ RxKNP
7 Q-K2 P-QN4 22 QxR QxN N-KN1 45 P-R4 RxN 9 P -K 3 B - H S 1 9 BxP B-N 8ch 5 B-K3 p .0 3 2 5 N / 5 . K4 R. N5
6 B-N3 B-N2 23 Q-N7 Q-B5 22 QR-Q1 P.QR4?]46 RxR Resigns 4 P-QN3 6 B-N5ch N -0 2 26 P-B4 N-B4
P -B 3-I6 K x B Q -R 7ch
9 N-B3 QN-Q2 24 B-Q1 R-Q1 23 B-Q6 BxB 8 8-N2 7 N-B3 P-K3-J7 p .R 3 N-N6ch
RxBch Q N -Q 217 K -B 2 Q -R Sch
10 B-Q2? B-Q3 25 R-K5?
« B -K2 8 0-0 P-QR3 28 K-R2 RxN
Q-B8ch BxN 1 8 K -B3 NxB
11 KR-K1 PxP 26 K-N2 (a) Necessary is P-K4. 7 BxB Q -B2 19 R.R 1 Q -B7ch 9 BxNch Q x B -a Q -KB 2 ! P-R3
12 PxP 0 -0 27 K-B3 G-R8ch
K-K2 R-K8ch (b) Stronger is 21 B-Q6! N-KN1 8 0-0 P -K 4 2 0 KxN P-B 4 ch 1 0 Q -Q 3 N -K 2 3 0 NxR NxN
13 B-N5 Q-N3 28
14 B-B2? BxN 29 K-Q3 Q-B8ch 22 N-B5 NxN 23 BxB+ QxB 24 B PxP Nx P 2 1 K-NS 0 -N 6ch 11 QR-Q1 R-Q1 3 1 Q-B3 R-N1
K-Q4 Q- BSmate 10 B -K2 O-Och 12 Q-B4 N -N 3 3 2 R x N R-KB1
15 QxB QxP 30 Q-B8+ winning immediately. B-Q3 2 2 K x P
13 KR-K1 B -K 2 3 3 Q.N4
11 N-B3 P -K R 4 2 3 K -K 6 R -B 3ch BxR
(c) Peculiar. 32 N-B5 is crush­ 12 P -K R 3 N /4 -N S !2 4 K -K 7 Q -Q 3 m *« * 14 Q-N3? Q -B 3 3 4 Q xKPch K-R1
ing, but Black is paralyzed any- 15 K -R 1 ° -°3S QxB R-B3
wpy. The rest is slaughter. 16 B-N5 B -R 1 36 Q -K 5 R-QN3
17 BxB N xB 37 QxP RxP
18 P-QR4 H-N1 3 8 Q-QB&ch K-R2
19 Q-R2 K -N 5 3 9 0 x p Resigns
20 P-QN3 P-B4
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White mates in 2 moves

W hit* mates in 2 m o m

Think Again Ten Year Bet Are We Obsolete? Black Box Blues

"/ think, therefore I am," said In 1968 a British master David The endgame is the only phase Was it our mission to create a
Pascal. Levy made a $2500 bet with that can be analyzed with mathe­ superior race—the Computer?
If we have to think too hard several computer friends that no matical precision. The absence of It may still take awhile before a
about what we do, we probably machine would be able to defeat clutter on the board reduces com­ computer wins the world title, but
are not doing it all that well. But if him within the next decade. "I feel plications. those little black boxes in the
sorry for your money," former game stores already are big busi­
you think you are thinking when world champion Mikhail Botvinnik To penalize lack of skill when
you play chess, think again. told Levy. one side has a winning advantage ness. Here is "an opponent who
David Slate is the chief designer At Toronto in 1978 the long- but isn't making progress fast will give you a halfway decent
of Chess 4.6 the current computer awaited match took place be­ enough, the 50-move rule can be game any time of the day or night,
champion of the world. When told tween Levy and Chess 4.7 the invoked. If 50 moves pass without that never throws a tantrum when
that his achievement forces us to world's best machine developed a piece being taken or a pawn you beat it, and never shows your
reevaluate the whole question of by Northwestern University. Dav­ being pushed the underdog may friends the game when it beats
whether or not machines can id Slate, one of its inventors, even claim n draw—provided he has you."
think, Slate replied: "That’s the went to part-time work so that he counted 50 moves aloud or kept a This same principle does not
could devote six months to per­ scoresheet as proof. seem to apply when these units
wrong question. The real question fecting his program.
is whether playing chess involves "The significance of this event This limit can only be increased meet each other. A skirmish broke
thinking." extends far beyond the world of for certain rare positions esta­ out between manufacturers of two
Those little computer chess chess because of its symbolic blished by theory long ago. The leading brands when one claimed
games at the store can beat the embodiment of a technological common basic wins that can be to beat the other 7-0 in a match.
vast majority of the human race. revolution that is coming full done in less than 50 moves must This dispute was reported in
But just like people these games blown upon mankind. Artificial be memorized by anyone aspiring Personal C o m p u tin g which
can play for years without improv­ intelligence is a revolution with to mastery. stated: "Regardless of what posi­
ing. No doubt more sophisticated greater social implications than The toughest of these, which tion readers may take one fact
models will learn from their own atomic energy or space travel," remains undisputed: both Chess
stated ■ press release. should require no more than 33
mistakes. "I would not, for one moment, moves from any starting position, Challenger and Boris are doing
Unlike humans who look only at wish to set myself up as a bench­ is King, Bishop, Knight vs. lone more to popularize the game than
relevant moves, computers exam­ mark for human intelligence. But King. Another jawbreaker is even publicized chess matches by
ine trillions of positions at high if machines can beat us at chess Queen and King vs. Rook and international grandmasters for
speed. Slate's program now per­ why can't they beat us in every King (see diagram). The basic purses in six figures."
forms at a rating level of about other field? My only qualm is that winning theme is to force Black to Chess Challenger-10 circulated
2000 on the Elo scale, a full class perhaps it is wrong to regard the b position where he must separate game five of its alleged match
below master strength. Yet the prospect with awe. Maybe fear his Rook from his King, thus which made Boris look like a
field is still in its infancy and would be more appropriate," allowing the Queen to pick up the palooka. Outraged, the Boris
further progress is inevitable. wrote Levy. “The strategy I will people said the test was a hoax
adopt is to do nothing. But to do it stranded Rook by a variety of
Experts disagree whether com­ very carefully. Sooner or later the checks. "This game was never played!
puters will ever win a human program will dig its own grave." The defense is just as demand­ The pivotal move #8 leads to
championship: some say it is just a Levy drew the first game, won ing as the attack and grandmaster eventual loss of the Queen. But
matter of time and effort. At any the second and third, lost the Walter Browne, 3-time U.S. cham­ Boris will not make this move with
rate such a contest might restore fourth and won the fifth. Until now pion, lost a wager to a computer his timer set on 3 minutes. We are
chess to prime time TV. no computer had ever scored named Belle that he could win this truly saddened to think that any­
The world computer champion­ against an International Master ending in 50 moves or less. Walter one would find it necessary to
ship at Toronto in 1977 attracted under normal tournament condi­ distribute false information."
tions. then demanded a rematch and
16 entries: 6 from USA, 3 from Levy won his wager but said he made it just under the wire. “See, I Chess Challenger stuck to its
Canada, 2 from England, one each wouldn’t risk betting for another told you it wasn't easy,” he said. guns: "The Boris unit was pur­
from Holland, Switzerland, Swed­ ten years. “I am forced to admit Remarkably, Belle not only chased at retail. We accept the
en, USSR, West Germany. This is that in 1968 I would never have determined that mate is possible fact that one Boris may be differ­
from the last round between two believed possible the advances in just 31 moves but also calculat­ ent from another. However, the
Am erican programs which that have been made in computer ed the number of moves needed to game we used did in fact lose
fought for the title. After move 21 chess," he concluded. mate with best play as each new seven out of seven and we invite
former world champion Botvinnik White: CHESS 4.7 Black: LEVY position arose. Apparently this any member of your staff at our
thought Black had the advantage Game 4 Latvian Oamblt
elegant feat is performed by expense to come to Chicago and
while International master David 1 P-K 4 P-K 4 2 0 K -B2 R /1 -H S
2 N-KB3 P-K B 4 3 0 R -K3 B-R3 working backwards from the mat­ examine the unit and replay the
Levy gave the nod to White. The 3 P iP P -K 5 31 N -K 2 B iN ing positions, which involves games.''
game itself is ludicrous by profes­ 4 N -K5 N-KB3 3 2 R / l x B P-B4
keeping track of nearly two million Game 5 itself does scant justice
sional standards inasmuch as 5 H-N4 P -0 4 3 3 P-B 4 RxR
S NxNch OxN 3 4 RxR R-RS possibilities. And it all takes less to the strength of either unit.
14...P-QN3 followed by N-B1 7 O-RSch 0 -B 2 3 5 K -N 3 R-RS than three minutes on the Control Progress in this field is so swift
would have won a piece for Black. S QxOch K i Q 3 6 B -B2 R-OS
Data Cyber 176! that both models will be outdated
And certain moves like 31 K-R1 e N -B3 P-B3 3 7 R -R3 PxP
1 0 P -0 3 PxP 3 6 RxPch K-B1 After a dumb opening by both
are beneath contempt. 11 BxP N -0 2 3 S R -0 7 R-OSch Boris missed the win of a piece by
Whit*: B I L L ! Black: CHESS 4.S 1 2 B -K S 4 N -B4 4 0 K - N 2 B-B4
1 3 P -K N 4 HxBch 41 RxP R -0 7 8 ..QxQch 9 QNxQ PxB Black
French Defense resigned in view of 15,..KxN 16 B-
1 4 PxB B-B4 4 2 P -N 4 BxP
1 P -K 4 N -O B 3 1 9 B -O e N -B 8
1 5 0 -0 P -K R 4 4 3 R-Qech K -B2 Q8 mate. This game obviously
2 N -K B 3 P -K 3 1 9 Q -R 1 N -B 3 1 S N -R 4 B-Q5 4 4 R-Q7ch K-B1
3 P -0 4 P -0 4 2 0 Q x Q N /9 *0 17 B -K 3 B -K 4 7 I4 5 RxP R-N7 was not played by masters.
4 N -B 3 B - N 6 2 1 R -R 1 1 8 P -0 4 B -Q 3 4 S K -B 3 B-B4
B P-KS K N -K 2 2 2 P -B 3 N*B3 1 S P -K R 3 P -Q M 347 R-OSch K -K 2?
5 P -O R 3 B xN ck 23 R -R 4 T N xB 2 0 K R -K 1 B -0 2 4 8 B -R4ch K -B2 White: C H A LLEN GER Black: BORIS
21 N-B3 P x P 4 9 P-N 5 P-N3 F N -X M 3 Z X -0 9 1 (Tim e met at 3 m inutes per m ove)
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S B -N S c h B -0 2 2 S R -K H 4 P -K M 4
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2 5 R -K 2 B-B1 S3 K -N 4 R -RSch *a -X M 3 Z 0 -0 Z 1
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Friend Or Foe Computers Moving Belle Stars

Ever since Copernicus dis­ Chess computers, like the rest Machines seem as eager as
covered that the earth was not the of the breed, are moving inexora­ humans to prove their mettle. This
center of the universe, man has bly towards mastery over the was again demonstrated at the
never been the same. The final human race. But the going is third world computer champion­
blow to our self-esteem may be tough because chess has been a ship in Linz, Austria, which at­
delivered by computers. classic problem in the field of tracted a field of 18 from 6 nations.
Games are a testing ground for artificial intelligence ever since The USA dominated with 8
bigger things to come and are Claude Shannon of Bell Laborato­ entries and swept the top three
chosen to measure computer ries first taught machines to play prizes, ahead of Canada, Russia,
performance because the goal— in the early 1950's. England, West Germany and
to win—is clearcut. Smart ma­ A $100,000 prize has been Sweden. Belle, developed by the
chines have launched an assault announced for the first computer New Jersey phone company, tied
on chess, checkers, bridge, go, that wins a match against the for first at 3 wins and a draw with
and other bastions of leisure. world champion. Smaller annual Chaos from the University of Mi­
At backgammon a world cham­ prizes for human vs. computer chigan.
pion, tor the first time ever, lost to contests will be provided by the Belle defeated Chaos in an
a program that displayed an Fredkin Foundation and adminis­ exciting playoff game. Its perfor­
understanding of the position and tered by Carnegie-Melion Univer­ mance rating was 2189 on the
not just an ability to find the right sity in Pittsburgh where Dr. Hans standard Elo scale, a shade below
move, "The machine was lucky Berliner, once one of America's master strength (2200) yet far
and the dice were not rolling for leading players, teaches compu­ behind world champion Karpov
me tonight," lamented Luigi Villa. ter science. (over 2700).
In an article entitled "Computer Berl iner, who developed a back­ These exercises take on added
Chess: Can the Machine Beat Man gammon program that beat the significance in the light of a
at His Own Game?" in The world champion in 1979, feels that $100,000 prize offered to the first
F u tu r is t Lane Jennings notes: a computer will be able to make a machine that beats a human world
" The idyllic picture of a man- seripus challenge for the U.S. champ for the title. Some experts
machine partnership can only championship in five years “with­ say this will never happen, others
become a reality if humans are out disgracing itself." The best predict it by the year 2000.
able to overcome their fear and program has reached a rating of Until the day when computers
envy of machine intelligence. This 2200—master level on the stand­ solve the game and reduce it to the
is far from certain, however, for ard Elo scale—whereas world level of tic-tac-toe, Professor Elo
human egos are notoriously sen­ champ Anatoly Karpov is rated has suggested using programs
sitive. How the world's chessplay­ over 2700. with known ratings to stabilize the
ers react to the growing impact of Good chessplayers rely on rating pool. The strength would
computers on the theory and memory patterns that enable them thus remain constant, so any
traditions of their Royal Game to narrow the choices to three or apparent change in their ratings
may provide a glimpse to the four in any given position. Most would indicate a general drift in
future of mankind's relationship computers use “ brute force" to the whole system (which could
with the machine." exhaust all possibilities before then be adjusted).
selecting a move. This is a virtual Chaos got into trouble early by
Jennings outlines three areas impossibility under practical not retreating 7...N-N3. Yet mate­
where computers enjoy distinct rial loss could have been averted
tournament conditions that aver­
advantages under present rules age three minutes per move. by 9...Q-Q3! 10 B-KB4 Q-N5ch.
First, they have been fed opening
and endgame manuals whereas In West Germany Karpov play­ Belle avoided the trap 13 PxN?
humans must rely on their frail ed 25 boards simultaneously BxNch 14 PxB Q-Q8 mate. Chaos
memory. Second, computers can against a microcomputer called might have tried for a draw by
rearrange the board many times Chess Champion Super System 3. 13...N-Q5I? 14 QxRch K-Q2 but
while thinking ahead whereas we He won all despite a near miss this is refuted by 15 B-R3ch!
may neither touch the pieces nor when he got bored and blundered White weathered the attack and
tinker with a second set for a Rook. started one of his own. Instead of
analysis. Third, the computer is Karpov refrained from 23 QxN resigning like a gentleman, how­
not subject to fatigue or distrac­ BxBP or 23 RxN B-Q5. The ever, Chaos fought to the bitter
tions from noise, climate, crow­ machine could have won quickly end. The final moves were gibber­
ding or poor lighting. with 19...Q-R7 or, at the very end, ish and delayed the inevitable.
I eagerly await the day when by 32...Q-N1! 33 N-K7ch K-R2 34 Whit*: B ELLE Black: C HA O S
B-K4ch P-B4 instead of carelessly A l« k h in « D * f«n s « 1080
computers are good enough to be overlooking mate-in-one. 1 P-K4 N-KB3 21 P-N3 B-N2
used to predict the next move so 2 P-K5 N-Q4 22 B-QN2 B-Q5
spectators can compare it with the Whit*: KA R POV Slack: COM PUTER 3 P-Q4 P-Q3 23 P-N4 R-N3
one grandmasters actually make E nglish Opening 1980
4 N-KB3 PxP 24 Q-Q7 R-Q3
while a game is in progress. If we i P-QB4 P-K4
emphasize the sporting aspects of 18 N-R4 B-K3 5 NxP P-KN3 25 Q-R4 Q-N3
2 N-QB3 N-QB3
chess—speeding things up and 19 B-K4ch K-N2 6 P-KN3 B-B4 26 B-R3 BxNch
3 P-KN3 B-B4
finishing all games in a single 20 P-N4 N-Q5 7 P-QB4 N-N5?! 27 KxB R /3-Q 1
4 B-N2 N-B3
session —I see little reason for 21 K-R2? N-N6 8 Q- R4ch N /5 -B 3 28 QR-Q1 Q-B7
5 N-B3 0-0
22 Q-N2 NxR 9 P-Q5 B-B7 29 PxP Q-B7ch
hostility to break out between man 6 0-0 P-Q3
and machine. On the contrary, 23 P-K3 P-B3 10 Q-N5 Q -Q 3 30 K-Q4 PxP
7 PQ3 B-K3
24 N-QB3 "P-Q4 11 NxN NxN 31 Q-B6 Q-B7ch
these new developments should 3 P-QR3 P-QR4
25 PxP PxP
enhance the popularity of our 9 P-R3 Q-K2 12 N-B3 B-N2 32 K-K5 K -N l
26 B-N2 P-Q5
ancient pastime. 10 R -N l B-B4? 13 QxP 0-0 33 R -N lch K -R l
27 N-N5 Q-N3
"Enough, there are still prob­ 11 B-N5 K -R l
QxN
14 QxN Q-N5 34 BxKP Q-N7
28 NxB
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15 K-Q2 B-K5 35 Q B6ch K -N l
29 P-B4
in chess is not by any means 13 P-QN4 PxP PxP 16 R-KN1 KR-N1 36 BxQ RxPch
30 PxP
known yet—fortunately," noted 14 PxP B-R2 31 QxPch K -N l 17 B-R3 B-R3ch 37 K-K6 P-KR3
Emanuel Lasker 50 years ago. 15 R -R l P-R3 32 N-N6 KR-Q1?? 18 P-B4 Q-R4 38 QxRP R-K4ch
16 BxN PxB 33 Q-R8 m ate 19 R -K l P-B4 39 PxR R-KB1
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On Your Own
Chess openings have been so
exhaustively analyzed that if
tournaments were like open-
book tests the players wouldn't
be thrown on their own re­
sources until around move 20.
But the laws are rather explicit.
A rticle 18, 1 (a) states: Dur­
ing play the players are for­
bidden to make use of notes,
manuscripts, or printed matter,
or la analyze the game on an
other chessboard; they are like­
wise forbidden to receive the
advice or opinion of a third
party, whether solicited or not.
Bobby Fischer is such a
stickler that he refuses to talk
even to his opponent. At one
tournament he barred the Rus­
sians from talking not only to
each other but to their wives
as well.
A reader just inquired if it
was legal for his opponent to
write analysis on the back of
the scoresheet before making a
move. Since the rules can be
interpreted as forbidding the
use of notes as memory-aids
the prudent competitor should
not write down anything during
a game other than the moves.
Take the curious case of
Bernard Zuckerman, a New York
master, who is so famous for
his opening knowledge that
friends call him “ Zuckerbook."
Robert Byrne chose him as a
second in his ill-fated match
against Boris Spassky.
Success in practical play con­
tinues to elude Zuckerman de­
spite his phenomenal memory.
“ Erudition without a burning
desire to win is insufficient to
take top prizes,” explains Byrne.
I remember Zuckerman mut­
tering, after a painful loss, that
he had “ crisscrossed columns."
In translation this means that
he misplayed the opening.
But even if one could con­
sult an opening manual while
a game was in progress, it might
do no good. Consider this analy­
sis by grandmaster Isaac Bole-
slavsky in his book on the
Gruenfeld Defense (p. 246):
1 P-Q4, N-KB3 2 P-QB4, P-KN3 3
N-QB3, P-Q4 4 PxP, NxP 5 P-K4,
NxN 6 PxN, P-QB4 7 B-QB4,
B-N2 8 N-K2, PxP 9 PxP, N-B3
10 B K3, 0-0 11 0-0, N-R4 12
B-Q3, P-N3 13 R-B1, P-K3 14
Q-Q2, B-N2 15 B-KR6, Q-Q2 16
BxB, KxB 17 Q-B4, QR-B1 18
P-KR4, N-B3 19 P-R5, P-K4
(??) "with good counterplay,"
overlooking 20 P-R6+ K-N1 21
Q-B6 forcing mate!
Beware the m isprint! Prob­
ably 15 . . . Q-K2 was intended.
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Where MCO Ends
Modern Chess Openings by
Korn is so famous that the middle
game has been redefined as that
phase of chess which begins
where MCO ends. When I revised
the previous edition, I felt entrust­
ed with the keys to the kingdom.
Now in Its eleventh edition,
MCO is considered the chessplay­
er’s Bible. MCO compresses in a
single volume a century of open­
ing experience and a compend­
ium of current master practice.
Only a voracious computer
would attempt to swallow its
contents. Practical players use
MCO to prepare for an important
contest or to see where they went
wrong afterwards. Endless co­
lumns and footnotes are intended
mainly for reference.
Older lines are pruned or ex­
cised. There is simply no room to
document every possible twist
and turn and we are often left in
the lurch at a critical point with a
cryptic evaluation that leaves the
rest to guesswork. The reader
must also consult specialized
monographs devoted to a particu­
lar opening, and even then the
answer is not always forthcoming.
Outwitting MCO is a sport in
itself and readers submit a con­
stant stream of corrections. For
example:
Queen’s Gambit Accepted
MCO P ag * 2 1 7 Note (I)
1 0 4 P-Q 4 7 P-KS BxP
2 P -O B 4 PxP 8 BxPch K -K 2
3 P - K 4 P -0 B 4 9 0 -N 2 N-OB3
4 P -0 8 P -K 3 1 0 N -K B 3 P-QB3
e BxP PxP n o - 0 N-oe
8 BxP B -0 3 1 2 NxN SxN
MCO gives 13 N-B3 "with the
somewhat better game. Veresov-
Neishtadt, Moscow 1965." Even
stronger is 13 R-K1chl K-B1 (if
13...K-B3 14 R-K6chl) 14 R-K8ch
QxR 15 BxQ KxB 16 N-B3, etc.
MCO is exasperating when it
stops cold in a complicated line.
S ic ilia n Dafansa
MCO Page 1 8 8 Nola (g)
1 F -K 4 P -0 8 4 10 K-N1 P-QN4
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 13 P-K0 P-M8
3 P -0 4 PxP 14 P*N PxR
4 NaP N-B3 10 P mNP PxQ
0 N-QB3 P -0 3 16 P xR /Q N-N8
6 B-KNS P -K 3 17 P-QR3 NxP
7 0 -Q 2 P -0 R 3 10 NxP NxPoh
0 0 -0 -0 B-Q2 10 PxN
P -K 4
0 P-B4 P-R3 2 0 N-B4 R-N1ch
10 B-R4 R-B1 21 K-R2 B -K 3
11 N-B3 0 -R 4 22 RxP 777
The only clue given is that
“White stands slightly better."
Fascinating, but what happens
after 22...Q-B6 threatening mate-
in-2? Another source continues
23 RxBch PxR 24 N-Q6ch (not 24
QxKP Q-Ndch 25 K-N1 Q-N8
mate) K-Q2 25 Q-R7ch K-B3 (it
25...KxN 26 Q-Q3ch is strong) 26
Q-K4ch K-Q2. Now 27 B-N5ch Is
supposed to win, but this Is not
apparent after PxB. However 27
Q-R7ch K-B3 28 Q-K4ch draw® by
repetition since 28...KB2? 29 Q-
B4ch QxQ 30 NxQ would win for
White.
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First Loves
On the whole chessplayers are
loyal to their first loves. They cling
to favorite opening variations
through thick and thin.
When a player sours on his pet
line it usually reflects a bad
experience in an important game.
Sometimes just a desire for
change. Thus stubborn Bobby
Fischer gave up the King's Indian
Reversed and embraced 1 P-K4
instead. His results justified the
switch and the rest is history.
Most beginners are attracted to
wild lines and volatile gambits.
Slugfests are fun. But these sharp
tactics don't work so well as
opposition improves. We must
broaden our repertoire.
World champion Lasker ob­
served: “The delight in gambits is
a sign of chess youth. We with
maturing experience leave off
gambit playing and become inter­
ested in the less vivacious but
withal more forceful maneuvers of
the position player."
In my youth I favored risky,
dynamic defenses to catch my
opponent napping. I was out to
win the point — not the analysis.
But against topnotch competition
soundness is a primary considera­
tion. We don’t get away with a
dubious line twice.
A pet line that I reluctantly
scrapped is the tricky Noteboom
Variation—even though no refuta­
tion has ever been published. The
key moves are: 1 P-Q 4 P -Q 4 2
P -Q B 4 P -Q B 3 3 N -Q B 3 P -K 3
4 N -B 3 PxP 5 P -K 3 P -Q N 4 3
P -Q R 4 B -N 5 7 B -Q 2 P -Q R 4 8
PxP BxN S BxB PxP 1 0 P -
Q N 3 B -N 2 (not 10...P-N5? 11
BxNP! PxB 12 RxR wins).
Now 11 PxP P-N5 12 B-N2 N-
KB3 gives Black decent pro­
spects but I gave the whole thing
up. 11 P-Q5! N -K B 3 (if 11...P-
B3 12 PxBP P-N5 13 BxNP! PxB 14
RxR BxR 15 Q-R4ch N-Q2 16 PxP
regains material advantageous­
ly) 1 2 PxBP P -N 5 1 3 BxN!
QxB 1 4 Q -R 4ch! K-B 1 1 5 N-
Q4! PxP (ECO gives"15...P-K4!"
and stops cold, but 16 N-N3 is
clearly in White's favor) 1 6 Q-
N5! B -B 3 1 7 Q -B 5ch Q -K 2
1 8 RxP QxQ 1 9 RxQ K -K 2 is
evaluated by MCO as.unclear.
However I decided that the
ending after 20 NxBch K-Q3 21
RxPch KxN 22 P-N4! R-R8ch 23 K-
K2 is just too strong for White. Can
you find an improvement for
Black?
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Last Words
There are better ways to resign
than tossing d king across the
room and shouting "How could I
lose to this idiot!”
In Sweden they say Upgivvet, in
Holland Geef Het Op, in Italy
abbandona. In German Aufge-
geben seems to carry just the right
ring of disgust.
Few linguistic crises arise be­
cause these dreaded words are
rarely uttered in international
events. Players usually concede
defeat by tapping their king,
stopping the clock and signing the
scoresheet, or simply handshake.
Spassky resigned the final
game of his match against Fischer
by phone. The American was
reluctant to accept and, fearing a
trick, showed up at the board
anyway just to make sure.
At Hastings 1895 Kurt von
Bardeleben endeared himself by
refusing to resign or play out lost
positions. He simply walked away
at the moment of truth and forfeit­
ed on time.
Having to resign is bad enough,
but every so often someone gives
up a game that might still be
saved. Sometimes this is not
discovered until much later.
This debacle occurred at the
Nice Olympiad in 1974.
White: M ITFORD (Faeroe Islands)
Black: SHARIF (Monaco)
Hungarian Defense
1 P-K4 P-K4
2 N-KB3 N-QB3
3 B-B4 B -K2
4 P-Q4 PxP
5 P-B3 PxP
6 Q-Q5 Resigns??
Black didn't see a way to stop
QxBP mate without losing a piece.
But 6...N-R3 7 BxN 0-0! saves the
day. If 8 B-B1 (better is 8 BxP KxB
9 NxP) N-N5! 9 Q-KR5 (or 9Q-Q1
P-B7) P-Q4 10 BxP (or 10 PxP N-
B7ch) N-Q6ch! 11 K-K2 NxBch 12
RxN PxP wins!
To make matters worse, this
identical game was played twice
before in Germany. Including
6...Resigns!
Of course there is a sure cure for
premature resignation: never lose.
But dragging out hopeless games
to the bitter end is considered
poor sportsmanship.
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Borderline Cases
Some years ago in an obscure
London Boys’ Championship a
situation arose that had never
happened before and was not
covered by the rules. Rumens
mated Mabbs on the last move of
the time control, but his flag fell
before he could press his clock.
Since the rules state that a move
is not completed until b player
punches the clock, the judges
were in a quandary. Did Rumens
win or lose?
The matter was submitted to
FIDE, the world chess body,
located in Amsterdam. FIDE ruled
that Rumens won. As a result of
that incident the rules now
provide that a mating move ends
the game even if the player's flag
falls afterward.
The procedure for claiming a
draw by 3-move repetition is
confusing even to veterans.
Tigran Petrosian lost to Oscar
Castro at the Biel Interzonal
because he failed to summon the
director b e fo re he moved.
Castro received a telegram of
congratulation from Amsterdam
accompanied by $100. The
sender? Viktor Korchnoi!
The rule states: The game is
drawn upon demand by one o f the
players when the same position
appears three times, the same
player having the move each
time...The right to claim the draw
belongs exclusively to the player
(a) who is in a position to play a
move leading to such a repetition
of the position, if he first declares
his intention of making this move,
or (b) whose turn it is to reply to a
move that has produced the
repeated position.
In practice a playershort of time
may refrain from summoning the
director for fear that should his
claim prove erroneous he may
forfeit on the clock. A change in
the wording of the rule would
make life easier for everybody: If
the same position appears three
times e ith e r player may claim a
draw.
Despite every effort to simplify
and clarify the rules, constant
interpretation is required. Even
the rule that the game is won by
the player whose opponent
declares he resigns was recently
amended. If a player mistakenly
throws in the towel without
noticing that he is in stalemate, his
resignation is voided and the
game declared a draw. What
happens if the stalemate is not
discovered until the pairings for
the next round are posted will be
tackled if and when it ever arises
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Trade-Marks
"Oh, those exclamation points!”
laments Petrosian. "How they
erode the innocent soul of the
amateur, removing all hope of
allowing him to examine another
player's ideas critically.”
Space is limited and editors
often tell chess writers not
to get technical. Thus punctua­
tion is a vital clue to under­
standing games in the absence
of lengthy notes. We are sup­
posed to stop and think, not
stop thinking.
! star move ! ? risky
!! brilliant ? ! dubious
? mistake + check
?? losing ep “en passant”
Bear in mind that today’s ”!"
may become tomorrow’s “?”
When this Two Knights’ De­
fense was played at a simul­
taneous display in San Fran­
cisco, 1963, the variation was
assessed as good for White. Yet
Bobby Fischer got slaughtered.
Fischer Burger
W h ite B la c k
1 P-K4 P-K4
2 N-KB3 N-QB3
3 B-B4
N-B3
4 -N5 P-Q4
5 PXP N-Q5!?
6 P-QB3 P-N4
7 B-B1 NxP
8 PxN(a) QxN
9 BxP+ K-Q1
10 Q-B3 B-N2
11 0-0 P-K5!?
12 QxKP B-Q3
13 P-Q3?? BxP+!
14 KxB M-B5!
White resigns
If 15 QxB Q-R5+ 16 K-Nl
N-K7 mate. "Gee, terrific!" said
Bobby, later pointing out 13
R-Kl! (threatening Q-K8) P-QB3
14 B-Bl repulses the attack.
This puts the onus on Black to
find an improvement.
(a) Estrin-Berliner a famous
postal 1968, continued: 8 N-K4
Q-R5 9 N-N3 B-KN5 10 P-B3
P-K5 11 PxN B-Q3 12 BxP+
K-Q1 13 0-0 PxP. Now White
lost after 14RxP“!” (Berliner)
R-QN1 15 B-K2 (better is P-R4!)
BxR. But Estrin-Nielsen, postal
1973, went: 14 Q-N3! N-B5 (if
14 . . . PxP 15 R-B2 B-K3 16
Q-KB3 keeps the advantage) 15
RxP R-QN1 16 RxN RxB 17
QxR BxR 18 Q-Q5+ B-Q2 19
N-B1 and White should win.
The original verdict that White
stands better is vindicated. But
has the last word been spoken?
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White mates in 2 moves
Hands Off
The laws of chess specify
that when you touch a piece you
must move it. If you merely
want to adjust one of the men
without intending to play it, you
must first say J'adoube or “I ad­
just.” A famous master collided
with a stranger on the street,
hastily muttered J’adoube and
apologized profusely. The stran­
ger replied, somewhat icily:
"You are supposed to say
J'adoube before making your
move — not after!"
In Alekhine-Flohr, Nottingham
1936, Black thought he was facing
a prepared line in the French
Defense: 1 P -K 4 P -K 3 2 P-Q 4
P -Q 4 3 N -G B 3 B -N 5 4 B -Q27!
PxP. Alekhine later confessed he
inadvertently touched his Bishop
and didn't intend to sacrifice a
Pawn. This slip of the hand was
promptly dubbed the “ lapsus
manus" variation and actually
became fashionable for a while.
Bobby Fischer had no such
luck against Wolfgang Unzicker
at Buenos Aires 1960. Touch­
ing a piece cost him the game.
White: UNZICKER Black: FISCHER
S ic ilia n Defense
1 P-K4 P-QB4 7 P-B4
2 N-KB3 P-Q3 8 Q-B3
3 P-Q4 PxP 9 0 -0 -0
4 NxP N-KB3 10 B-Q3
5 N-QB3 P-QR3 11 NxN
6 B-KN5 P-K3 12 Q-N3
Correct now is 12 . . . P-K4
13 PxP PxP 14 B-QB4 N-R4 and
Black is safe.
Position after 12 Q-N3
According to Chernev: “Fis­
cher, absorbed in his thoughts,
touched his KRP, toying with it
— and found to his horror that
having touched the Pawn he had
to move it." In fact, Bobby
started to play 12 . . . P-R3 be­
fore noticing 13 BxKRP! But it
was too late, so —
1 2 ___ P-KR4? 18 N -B 6 +
13 P-K5 PxP 19 Q-N5
14 PxP N-N5 20 RxN
15 BxB QxB 21 QxRP-f-
16 N-K4 Q-B2 22 Q -N 4 +
17 P-KR3 NxP
If 22 . . . K-Rl 23 R-KN3
QxR 24 QxQ wins easily.
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Johannes Zukertort (1842-
1888) was b remarkable man. He
lost two title matches against
Wilhelm Steinitz, yet a critic
ascribed these setbacks to the
fact that Zukertort "was not yet
Zukertort in 1872” (the first
time) and “was no longer Zuker­
tort in 1886" (the second time).
Zukertort won a curious match
in 1880 against Rosenthal, To
prevent analysis during the mid­
day adjournment, a clause re<
quired them to have lunch and
remain together until the after­
noon session resumed! Another
clause stipulated that Rosenthal
could postpone the match if the
temperature exceeded 67 °!
Zukertort wrote several chess
books and broke the world rec­
ord for blindfold play with 16
games simultaneously. He con­
tested over 6,000 games (start­
ing as a Rook-odds player) with
his teacher Adolf Anderssen,
whom he later thrashed in a
match. Zukertort lost his last 3
games in the London tourna­
ment of 1883 — and yet he still
won by 3 full points ahead of
world champion Steinitz!
Zukertort's talents were not
confined to chess. He knew 11
B-K2
Q-B2 languages and learned Sanskrit
0-0 to trace the origin of the game.
N-B3 He served on Bismarck's staff,
PxN edited ■ leading political jour­
nal, was a music critic and a
medical doctor. He also was the
best domino player in Berlin, an
expert at whist, a fine swords­
man, and reputed to be so good
with a pistol that he could hit
the Ace of Hearts at 15 paces!
As a doctor in the Prussian
army during the Danish, Austrian
and French campaigns, he
earned nine medals for bravery,
was severely wounded twice and
once left for dead on the battle­
field! Only 400 survived from
his regiment of 1800.
White: ZUKERTORT
Black: ANDERSSEN
Berlin 1865 Ruy Lopez
1 P-K4 P-K4
2 N-KB3 N-QB3
3 B-N5 KN-K2
4 P-B3 P-Q3
5 P-Q4 B-Q2
E 0-0 N-N3
7 N-N5!? P-KR3
8 NxP KxN
9 B-B4+ K-K2?
10 Q-R5 Q-K1
K-R1 11 Q-N5+
N xB+
PxQ
PxN 12 BxP mate!
K-N2
B lack
Resigns
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W h ite to m ove and w in
H arry Pillsbury
Hastings 1895 ended British
domination of chess, and was the
strongest tournament of the 19th
century. The star-studded field of
22 included the new world cham­
pion Lasker and the man he had
just dethroned, Steinitz.
"Why don't you retire. You had
enough glory,” said one of Stein-
itz’s fans. “The glory I can spare.
But I need the prize money,"
snapped the old lion, who died
penniless five years later at 64.
Harry Nelson Pillsbury, an un­
heralded American lucky to be
invited in the first place, amazed
the world with his victory. A hero’s
welcome awaited him and, for the
first time since Morphy, chess
made front page news.
Reti later praised his refreshing
execution of bold plans, although
he saw Pillsbury as the harbinger
of a disturbing trend: “American­
ism in chess...free from all plod­
ding depth of thought...simple.”
The handsome New Englander
who chain-smoked big black
cigars always placed high, and
beat Lasker seven times in the
course of his career, yet never
won another event outright. In
1902 he posted a new record of 21
simultaneous games blindfold. To
test his phenomenal memory
some professors devised this
random list of words:
Antiphlogistine, periosteum, ta-
kadiastase, plasmon, ambrosia,
Threlkeld, streptococcus, sta­
ph ylo coccus, m icrococcus,
Plasmodium, Mississippi, Frei-
heit, Philadelphia, Cincinnati,
athletics, no war, Etchenberg,
American, Russian, philosophy,
Piet Potgelter’s Rost, Salama-
gundi, Oomisellecootsi, Bang-
manvate, Schlechter’s Nek,
Manzinyama, theosophy, ca­
techism, Madjesoomalops.
Pillsbury glanced at the list for a
few minutes and rattled off the
words in the right order, then
backwards. He died in 1906, at 33,
his brain ravaged by syphillis.
This proved to be the last
flickering of Pillsbury's genius,
and his final encounter with
Lasker who had defeated him 8
years earlier with this same varia­
tion. Instead of 7 Q-R4 Pillsbury
sprang an improvement he had
saved all this time for the revenge
that was now his.
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1 2 QxBP 0 -N 3 2 7 R -K B 1 OxRch
1 3 B -K 2 I QxHPT 2 8 KxQ B-Q2
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Where was W hits’s Queen taken?
Sherlock
Every so often a new piece of
chess fiction features the powers
of deduction of Sherlock Holmes
at the chessboard. In point of fact,
the only clue that the great sleuth
played the game at all was his
observation about a suspect:
"Amberley excelled at chess—one
mark Watson, of a scheming
mind.”
Despite this dim view of the
game, chess buffs continue to
claim Holmes as our own. In an
article “The Hoax of His Career" in
The Chess Atlas Thomas Hailey
maintains that the master of
disguise assumed the alias Harry
Nelson Pillsbury, an unknown 22-
year-old American genius who
clobbered the world's best in his
debut at Hastings 1895.
After all, didn't Pillsbury have a
prodigious memory, a prominent
nose, hollowed cheek bones and
piercing eyes? "Finally, he weari­
ed as an active chessplayer and so
he killed off Pillsbury in a fake
death in 1906 and eventually
retired from the detection arena to
bee raising in Sussex," theorizes
Mr. Hailey.
Another side of the famed
detective is revealed in Raymond
Smullyan's unusual book The
Chess M ysteries of S herlock
Holm es. Along with the violin
and cocaine, it seems the resident
of 221B Baker Street harbored a
secret passion for chess problems
in retrograde analysis.
Any why not? In The Sign of
Four the master declared: “Give
me problems!"
Unlike conventional chess puz­
zles that demand the shortest
number of moves in which White
can mate, retrograde problems
deal with the past history of a
game. They require us to work
backwards.
"These problems are intriguing
studies in pure deductive reason­
ing. They might be said to lie on
the borderline between logic and
chess," explains Mr. Smullyan.
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W h ite m a te s in 2 m o v es
Frank M arshall
D on't Be Surprised
"There was nothing else I
wanted to do. Chess began to The great Capablanca was
absorb my whole life. My head asked how many moves he
was full of it, from mornin' to looked ahead. "Only one," he re­
night—and In my dreams as well. plied. "The best!" Deadly sim­
Gradually, it crowded out every plicity.
other interest. I knew that I was The stronger the player, the
going to devote my life to chess," greater his power of visualiza­
wrote Frank Marshall in M y F ifty tion. But only in forced situa­
Y e a rs o f C hess. tions is it possible to foresee
Born in Montreal in 1877, Mar­ many moves; often one w ill do.
shall boasted that he played every The most electrifying move
day since he was ten: " / have ever made was by Frank Mar­
always liked a wide open game shall, U. S. champion 1906-
and tried to knock out my oppo­ 1936. His stunned opponent
nent with a checkmate as quickly gave up and the spectators
as possible. I subscribe to the old showered the board with gold
belief that offense is the best pieces!
defense. However, I always had W hite: LEVITSKY B la ck: MARSHALL
great difficulty with defensive B reslau 1912
players. Sometimes they made me French Defense
look bad—but I still prefer my own 1 P-Q4 P-K3 1 3 B -R 3 QR-K1
style of chess!" 2 P-K4 P-Q4 14Q -Q 2 B-N5
3 N-QB3 P-QB4 1 5 BxN RxB
Marshall refused to change his 4 N-B3 N-QB3 16 QR-Q1 (b) Q-B4
brand just to take advantage of an 5 KPxP KPxP 1 7Q -K 2 BxN
opponent. He was a slugger 6 B-K2 N-B3 18 PxB QxP
7 0-0 B-K2 19 RxP N-Q5
whose results were erratic be­ B B-KN5 0-0 20 Q-R5(c) QR-KB1
cause he loved the game for its 9 PxP B-K3 21 R-K5 R-R3(d)
own sake rather than the sterile 10 N-Q4(a) BxP 22 Q-N5 RxB
11 NxB PxN 23 R-QB5(e)
accumulation of points. 12 B-N4 Q-Q3 Q-KN6!
His greatest victory was Cam­ W h ite Resigns
bridge Springs 1904. His one bid
for the title against Lasker in 1908
was a total disaster—8 losses and
7 draws.
He held the U S. title for 27
years before resigning in 1936 to
devote himself to promoting the
game and encouraging young­
sters. His grand gesture set in
motion the series of tournaments
that are still in force today.
Marshall was outgoing and
friendly, ready to hobnob with the
lowliest woodpusher. With the
help of wealthy patrons he esta­
blished the Marshall Chess Club
at 23 West 10 Street in New York Black threatens QxRP. If 24
City, still a thriving institution.
RPxQ (or BPxQ) N-K7 mates. Or
When I joined this mecca in 24 QxQ, N-K7ch 25 K-Rl, NxQch
1944, the year he died, I glimpsed
26 K-Nl, NxR 27 PxR, N-Q7
a gent with a Windsor tie who wins.
looked like a Shakespearen actor. (a) Worth considering is 10 BxN,
He liked strong cigars, straight BxB 12 Q-Q2 holding the Pawn.
liquor, and sharp middlegames. (b) Better is 16 P-R3.
In one European tournament he (c) Loses. Right is 20 Q-K5!
was scheduled to play Marco the QxB! 21 RxN with equal
next day. The night before, Marco chances.
came to see him and said, "Frank, I (d) Ironically this game would
don’t feel well." Marshall asked be forgotten after the deadlier
what the problem was and Marco 21 . . . RxP! 22 RxR, Q-R8ch!
pointed to his stomach. Marco (e) Not 23 PxR? N-B6ch forking
was given ■ drink, which Frank White's Queen.
shared. But Marco was still sick, The prosaic 23 . . . Q-N7 now
so they had a few more. "The next wins, for if 24 R-B7, N-K7ch 25
day he beat me like a child,” Frank K-Rl,R-R3 26 P-QB3, R-N3
woefully concluded. holds the piece. But Marshall
White: NIM ZOVICH Blsck: M AR SHA LL finds an elegant finish.
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Queen Indian Defense
1 P-Q4 N -K B 3 14 P-QR3? NxP!
2 P-QB4 P-QN3 1 5 RxN QxR
3 N-QB3 B-N2 18 PxN QxKBP
4 B-N5 P-K3 17Q -Q 1 KR-Q1
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The Good Old Days
Despite centuries of chess, the
basic principles of strategy were
invented about the same time as
the electric light. In olden times
players felt cheated when good
defense frustrated a brilliancy; the
object was to win with a beautiful
sacrifice.
“I did not play with the object of
winning directly, but to sacrifice a
piece," declared the youthful
Wilhelm Steinitz who rejoiced in
the fiery excitement of combina­
tions. As world champion he was
reviled for insisting that an attack
requires painstaking preparation.
Today his theories are common.
The American Paul Morphy was
the father of positional play. In
1858 he said, "Help your pieces so
that they can help you." He
brought out all his pieces as
rapidly as possible towards the
center and bowled over his con­
temporaries because he knew not
only how to attack, but when.
Premature attacks were the
rule. The same piece might be
moved several times, neglecting
the harmonious development of
the other men. But the art of
defense was in such a backward
state that these inferior tactics
often prevailed,
A close scrutiny of Morphy's
400 recorded games reveals that
many of his combinations were
flawed. Yet his opponents suc­
cumbed anyway. In this renowned
example Morphy was a Pawn
ahead with a routine win in sight
when he embarked on a specula­
tive sacrifice on move 17. Bird
missed several chances to draw.
Morphy's opening is now
suspect. 6 NxP! PxN 7 Q-R5ch P-
N3 8 NxP N-KB3 (if 8...PxN 9
QxPch K-Q2 10 Q-B5ch K-K1 11
Q-K5ch and QxR next) 9 Q-K5ch
K-B2 10 B-B4ch! K-N2 11 B-R6ch!
KxB 12 NxR B-N5ch 13 P-B3 QxN
14 PxB should win.
W hite: BIRD Black: MORPHY
London 1858
P h ilido r* Dofonso
1 P -K 4 P-K4 1 8 B -K 3 R-N1
2 N-KB3 P-Q3 17 0 -0 -0 RxBP!?
3 P-Q4 P-KB4?! 18 BxR Q-R8I
4 N-B3 PxKP 1 9 P -B 3 QxRP
5 QNxP P-Q4 2 0 P -N 4 Q-R8ch
6 N-N3? P-K5 21 K-B2 Q-R5ch
7 N-K 5 N-KB3 22 K -N 2 (c) BxNP
8 B-KN5 B-Q3 23 PxB RxPch
9 N -R 5(a) 0-0 24 QxR QxQch
1 0 Q -Q 2 Q-K1 25 K -B 2 (d ) P-K 6
11 P-K N 4 (b ) NxP 26 BxP B-B4ch
12 NxN QxN 27 R-Q3 Q -B 5ch
13 N-K5 N-B3 28 K-Q 2 Q-R7ch
14 B -K2 Q-R6 29 K-Q1 Q-N8ch
15 NxN PxN W hite Rosigna
(a ) Better is 9 P-KB3!
(b ) Correct is 11 NxNch PxN 12
BxP! RxB 13 Q-N5ch R-N314 NxR
PxN 15 QxQPch.
(c ) 22 K-B1! forces a draw since
22.. BxNP? 23 PxB RxP 24 Q-N5!
Q-R6ch 25 K-Q2 R-N7ch 26 K-K1
RxBch 27 KxR Q-B6ch 28 K-K1
QxKRch 29 Q-N1 wins for White.
(d ) 25 K-R2! probably still draws.
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Beauty Contest The W ay It Was O ut O f Sight
“The beauty of a chess game is Our puzzle was composed by “A phenomenon in the history
usually assessed by the sacrifices the poet Alfred de Musset, a of man...His performance should
it contains," wrote Spielmann, and habitue of the famous Cafe de be hoarded among the best sam­
that pretty well expresses the la Regence in Paris. Nowadays ples of human memory, till memo­
feeling of the ages. the chess tables have vanished, ry shall be no more," gushed the
but they were once frequented World of London when Philidor
The brilliancy prize is a tradition by Voltaire, Diderot, Rosseau, played 3 games simultaneously
dating back 100 years that re­
Philidor and Benjamin Franklin. without sight of the board in 1783.
wards beauty instead of just A beautiful girl disguised as In Paris 1858 Paul Morphy
technical skill. To earn it a game
a man is said to have come played 8, winning 6 and drawing 2,
must possess an intentional sacri­ there, checkmated Robespierre, against strong opposition at the
fice which is striking, original, and
then revealed her identity to Cafe de la Regence. "Morphy
correct in all variations. plead for the life of her con­ stepped from the armchair in
The first game that ever got the demned lover. She left the board which he had been almost immov­
prize at New York 1876 posed the with h written order for his im­ able for ten hours without having
judges a dilemma not resolved to mediate release. Corporal Na­ tasted a morsel of anything, even
this day: what if the combination poleon spent most of his leisure water," relates his biographer,-
worked but contains a flaw? In there at his favorite pastime. “yet as fresh, apparently, as when
other words, is it necessary to
Voltaire played a postal chess he sat down.
prove that the winner was not lost match from there with Freder­ “The waiters had formed a
at any point during the game?
ick the Great, dispatching his conspiracy to carry Morphy in
An obvious problem is that the moves to a waiting courier. The triumph on their shoulders, but
judges themselves must be strong
atmosphere was so congenial the multitude was so compact
enough to find a better defense that a man came regularly to they could not get nearhim. Great
than the victim. This challenge is watch the games without ever bearded fellows grasped his
so great that the brilliancy prize
saying a word. A dispute arose; hands, and almost shook his arms
may become an endangered spe­ he was asked to settle it. Why, out of the sockets, and it was
cies because some tournaments
he didn’t have the slightest nearly half an hour before we
now award a prize for the most notion of how to play! He was could get out.
interesting game instead, thus married, said he, and preferred “The multitude was greater out
relieving the judges of any re­ not to spend evenings at home.
of doors and the shouting, if
sponsibility. George Walker, an English possible, more deafening...The
For example, the flaw in this master, described it in 1840: crowd still followed us and soldi­
game was not discovered until 95
Stove-heated to oppression ers came running out to see if it
years after it was played! In . . . gas-lighted . . . mirrors in was a new revolution..."
retrospect it's a comedy of errors.
abundance, and slabs of marble A blindfold record of 16 was
The experts at the time thought to top its tables . . . On Sunday
White's Queen sacrifice on move then posted by Johannes Zuker-
all keep their hats on, to save tort. He visualized each board
31 was sound, and that Black was space, and an empty chair is
lost after missing a draw by numbered side by side in separate
worth a ransom. cupboards.each behind a closed
35 . NxN 36 RxRch QxR 37 RxN
The din of voices shakes the door Having made his move on
K-B2 (37...K-R2 is unclear) 38 N- roof as we enter . . . like a
K5ch, etc. They did not realize board 1 , he explained, the door
beast-show at feeding time! Can closed and board 2 opened.
Black's fatal error occurred on this be chess, the recreation of
move 42, when he missed a win In 1902 Pillsbury extended the
solitude? We sigh for cotton to record to 21. During his exhibi­
with 42...N-K5! 43 NxPch K-N2 44 stuff our ears and fight our
N-B5ch KxR 45 NxQ NxR. progress to a faraway corner. tions he often threw in some
Curiously, White's preliminary Mocha is brought. We sip . . . blindfold checker games while
combination was also dubious. Manners are to be noted, chess­ nonchalantly playing whist.
Black overlooked 29...BxQP! 30 men to be sketched. During World War 11 Miguel
PxB NxP 31 Q-B4 RxN! 32 K-R3 (if Najdorf got stranded in South
The English are the best
32 RxR QxR! 33 QxQ N-B6ch lookers-on in the world, the America with the Polish Olympic
followed by NxQ) N-B7 33 RxR R- French the very worst. They do team. He wanted to get word to his
KB1! (Benko). not hesitate to whisper their family that he was in good health,
so he played 40 games blindfold,
White: BIRD Black; MASON opinions freely; to point -with
Haw York 1878 French Balance their hands over the board, to confident that somehow the news
1 P-K4 P-K3 28 K-R2 N-B9 foretell the probable future, to would reach them. In 1947heseta
2 P-04 P-04 27 0 -83 N-K3 vituperate the past . . . I have new record of 45 in Brazil, which
3 N-OB3 N-KB3 28 N-N2 0-B2 stood until 1960. In Budapest
4 PxP PxP 28 P-RST BxRP? all but vowed that when next I
5 N-B3 B-Q3 30 RxB R-KB1 play chess in Paris, it shall be Janos Flesch took on 52, winning
6 B-Q3 0-0 31 R-R6 RxQ in a barricaded room . . . 31, losing 3, drawing 18 in a 12-
7 0-0 P-KR3 32 PxR N-Q1 The players are thinning; the hour session.
8 R -K 1 N-B3 33 N-B4 0-B1 One game without sight of the
9 N-0N5 B-QN6 34 N /4-N8 R-K1 drums have beaten the round —
1 0 P -B 3 B-R4 39 NxP 0-B2ch and the good wives of Paris are board is well within the capacity of
1 1 N -R 3 B-KN8 38 N /B -KS QxP airing their husbands’ night­ most strong players, and it en­
12 N-B2 Q-Q2 37 R-K3 0 -0 7 caps. The garcons yawn . . . I ables them to carry on other
1 3 P -N 4 B-N3 38 K-N2 QxP am alone in the field of battle. activities as they call out their
1 4 P -K R 3 B-KR4 39 P-B8 PxP moves. This is a far cry from the
1 9 N -K 3 KR-K1 40 RxBP N-K3 Midnight has struck its long
1 8 P -H 9 N-K2 4 1 R -K N 3 N-N4 long bell, and I reluctantly pre­ days of Philidor whose friends
1 7 P -N 4 B-N3 4 2 N -N 4 K-N27pare to face the cold. Farewell urged him to give up his danger­
ous pastime before the strain
18 N-K5 Q-B1 43 N-B4! Q -K S ch at least for a season, to the
1 9 P -O R 4 P-B3 4 4 K -R 2 N-R2 Caf6 de la Regence. drove him to a madhouse.
20 PxP PxP 49 N-RSch K-R1
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2 0 0 Years Ago
At various times in history dice
and cards along with chess were
banned by the Church. Although
some of the best players were
clergymen, chess was often
viewed as the devil's handiwork
diverting the masses from work
and worship.
It was frequently urged that
chess required time and attention
which could be employed profita­
bly elsewhere. To counter this
objection Benjamin Franklin
penned The M orals of Chess in
I779 dedicated “To Ellie, the most
tolerant of chess widows."
Franklin regarded chess as an
innocent character builder, brain
food, not just "idle amusement.” It
developed such qualities of mind
as foresight, circumspection, cau­
tion, and “the habit of not being
discouraged by present bad ap­
pearances...of hoping for a favor­
able change...of persevering in
the search for resources.”
Cheating was so rife that his
contemporaries rejected inlaid
boards because it was too easy for
an opponent to slide a captured
piece back on the board. Franklin
laid down the law: "No false move
should ever be made to extricate
yourself out of difficulty ...If you
touch a piece, you must move it
somewhere; if you set it down, you
must let it stand."
At least one chess book ■ year
has been published in America
since 1844. Still timely is Richard
Penn's M axim s and H ints fo r
Chess P layers (1839):
Do not be ala rm e d about
th e sta te o f your op p o n en t’s
h e a lth w h en a fte r losing tw o
or th re e gam es, he com ­
p lain s of havin g a bad he ad ­
ache or of fe e lin g u n w e ll. If
he should w in th e next gam e
you w ill p rob ab ly hear no
m ore of th is.
Som e players have by
study a c q u ired m e c h a n ic a l­
ly th e a rt o f op en ing th e ir
g am e in a s ty le m uch above
th e ir real s tren g th . But
w h en th ey have exhausted
th e ir store of book k n o w ­
led ge, th ey soon fa ll a ll to
pieces an d becom e easy
p rey to those w ho have g e ­
n u in e ta le n t...it is only ta le n t
fo r th e g am e co m b ined w ith
m uch study an d g re a t p rac­
tic e th a t can m a k e a tru ly
good p layer.
B etw een even and to le ra ­
bly good players a m ere
tr ifle fre q u e n tly decid es th e
ou tco m e of a gam e. But
w h e n you have ga in e d a
s m a ll ad v a n ta g e you m ust
be s a tis fie d w ith It fo r th e
tim e b eing . Do not, by a t­
te m p tin g too m uch, lose th a t
w h ic h you have g a in e d .
Y o u r o b je c t should be to
w in , and th e d u lle s t w a y of
w in n in g is b e tte r fo r you
th an th e m ost b r illia n t w ay
o f losing.
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King High
"My King likes to go for a
stroll!” declared Wilhelm Stein-
itz, violating a sacred taboo by
exposing his monarch early. A
favorite ploy as White was 1
P-K4 P-K4 2 P-KB4 PxP 3 P-Q4
Q-R5+ 4 K-K2 relying on his
strong center. As Black, he em­
barked on a risky Pawn snatch:
1 P-K4 P-K4 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
3 P-Q4 PxP 4 NxP Q-R5 5 N-N5
QxKP + G B-K3 K-Q1. A superb
defender, he often dared fate.
To the envy and dismay of
the critics, Steinitz held the
title from 1866 until 1894. In
an age where dry accuracy was
not appreciated, his doctrines
received a scornful reception
and he was reviled as “ the man
who destroyed brilliancy." !n
reality his success was due to
his passionate love of chess,
his faith, his tenacity — not to
his bizarre system.
Steinitz was so anxious to
vanquish his detractors that his
style became provocative. He in­
vited premature attacks, tempt­
ing his adversaries into over­
reaching themselves when their
position did not really justify
such an attempt.
Steinitz never trusted to luck
by making flimsy sacrifices; his
attacks were launched from i
solid base."A win by an unsound
combination, however showy,
fills me with artistic horror,”
he sneered, setting a new stand­
ard of excellence.
The finale of Miroslav Filip
vs. Klaus Darga is reminiscent
of a famous maxim: "The King
is a fighting piece — use it.”
White punished the enemy King
mercilessly, prodding his ma­
jesty clear across the board.
Then — White resigned
If 1 RxB K-R6 ! and Q-N7
next. Or 1 Q-N8+ K-R6 2 QxPch
P-B4! One of the most amazing
mating attacks on record, a
tribute to the Steinitzian King.
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The Rice Gam bit
A forgotten sideline of the In those days the world
King's Gambit once flourished champion was not required to
thanks to Isaac Leopold Rice, the defend his title every 3 years,
patron saint of American chess yet Emanuel Lasker faced 7
until his death at the age of 65 in challengers during his record
1915. Rice made his fortune in 27-year reign. He dodged his
corporate law and spent it freely toughest contender, Poland’s
on any master who was willing to Akiba Rubinstein, before suc­
analvze his brainchild arising cumbing to Cuba's Jose Capa­
from: 1 P -K 4 2 P -K B 4 PxP 3 blanca in Havana 1921.
N -K B 3 P -K N 4 4 P -K R 4 P -N 5 Lasker narrowly tied this
5 N -K 5 N -K B 3 6 B -B 4 P -Q 4 7 match by winning the 10th and
PxP B-Q3 8 0 - 0 (instead of 8 P- last game. Carl Schlechter’s
Q 4 rsl-R4! good for Black). weakness was lack of ambition.
Rice sponsored international He agreed readily to draws; but
tournaments, and countless post­ contemporary masters consid­
al events, in which each game ered it a minor miracle when
began with these first eight they beat him.
moves. He also financed a six- This 10th game can be un­
game match in 1903 with Lasker derstood only by realizing that
taking White against Tchigorin to Schiechter was playing to win.
test the continuation 8...BxN 9 R- A draw would have given him the
K1 Q-K2 10 P-B3 (not 10 P-Q4? match but not the title !
BxPch) P-B6 11 P-Q4 N-K5!? 12
RxN B-R7ch 13 KxB QxR 14 P- W hite: LASKER B la ck: SCHLECHTER
KN3 0-0 15 B-B4 S lav-G ruenfeltl Defense
Although Black won the match. 1 P-Q4 P-Q4 37 R-B8ch B-B1
Rice was not discouraged and 2 P-QB4 P-QB3 38 K-B2 Q-R7ch(e)
interest abounded as long as his 3 N-KB3 N-B3 39 K-K1 Q-R8ch(f)
4 P-K3 P-KN3 40 R-B1 Q-RSch
checkbook was open. His ad hoc 5 N-B3 B-N2 41 K -02 RxR
team always found a way to 6 B-Q3 0 -0 42 QxR QxPch
bolster White's resources before 7 Q-B2 N-R3 43 Q-Q3 Q-B7ch
8 P-QR3 PxP 44 K-Q1 N-Q3
the next great test. 9 BxBP P-QN4 45 R-B5 B-R3
Over thirty players were hon­ 10 B-Q3 P-N5 46 R-QS K-N1
ored by variations named after 11 N-QR4 PxP 47 N-BS Q-N8ch
12 PxP B-N2 48 K-B2 Q-B7ch
them in the course of this vast 13 R-QN1 Q-B2 49 K-N3 B-N2
analytical odyssey. But they were 14 N-K5! N-R4 5 0 N -K 6 Q-N7ch
15 P-N4 BxN S1-K-R4 K-B2
all stumped by the obscure Josno- 16 PxN B-N2 52 NxB QxN
grodsky Defense by the time the 17 PxP RPxP 53 Q-QN3 K-K1
Rice Gambit was out of fashion 18 Q-B4 B-B1 54 Q-N8eh K-B2
19 R-N1 (a)Q-R4ch 55 QxP Q-N5ch
after World War I. 20 B-Q2 Q-Q4 56 Q-Q4 Q-Q2ch
In 1904 Napier showed that 21 R-QB1 B-N2 57 K-N3 Q-N2ch
22 Q-B2 Q-KR4 58 K-R2 Q-B3
8...BXN 9 R -K 1 Q -K 2 1 0 P- 23 BxP QxP 59 Q-Q3 K-K3
B3 N -R 4! 11 P-Q 4 N-Q 2 1 2 24 R-B1 PxB 60 R-KN5 K-02
PxB NxP 1 3 P-QN3 0 - 0 1 4 B- 25 Q-N3 Ch R-82 61 R-K5 Q-N7ch
26 QxB lQR-KB1 62 R-K2 Q-N5
R3 once thought to be good for 27 Q-N3 (b) K-R1 63 R-02 Q-QR5
White, could be met by N -B 6ch 28 P-B4 P-N4 64 Q-B5ch K-B2
1 5 PxN QxP with at least a draw 29 Q-Q3 (C) PxP 65 Q-B2ch QxQch
30 PxP Q-R5ch 66 RxQch K-N2
by perpetual check. 31 K-K2 Q-R7ch 67 R-K2 N-B1
The gambit was indeed dubious 32 R-B2 Q-R4ch 68 K-N3 K-B3
if Black could draw at will. This 33 R-KB3 N-B2 69 R-B2Ch K-N2
34 RxP N-N4 70 K-N4 K-N1
became the critical line and now 35 R-B4 RxP(d) 71 K-B5 Resigns
the question was whether White 36 BxR RxB
could even survive at all.
Perhaps the final verdict was (a) Inferior is 19 BxP, B-K3 20
delivered some time after Rice's QxN, PxB threatening . . . B-Q4.
death by the combined analysis of (b) Not 27 QxN? RxP 28 RxR,
Capablanca, Burn, and Lasker, RxR wins Best is 27 P-B4, N-Nl
who looked at 1 6 R -K 5 B-B4! 28 Q-N3 with advantage.
(c) 29 RxP, N -N l is unclear.
(stronger than 16...Q-N6ch 17 K- (d) Better is 35 . . . R-Ql 36
R1 Q-R6 ch which only draws) 1 7 B-K3, P-K4 37 R-B5. P-R3.
N -Q 2 (not 17 RxB? N-N 6 ) Q- (e) Not 38 . . Q-R5ch 37 K-N2,
N 6ch 1 8 K-B1 Q -R 7 1 9 BxR Q-N5ch 40 R-N3, QxR 41 Q-N6 !
P -N 6 2 0 B -B 5 P -N 7ch 21 K- wins.
K1 0 -R 5 c h (not 22...P-N8/Qch
(f) A losing gamble. 39 . . .
23 BxQ QxBch 24 N-B1J22 K-K2 Q-R5ch 40 K-Q2 (or 40 K-Bl,
N-N6ch 23 K-B2 N-K5ch.
Q-R6ch) Q-R7ch 41 K-K3, RxRch
This wild line draws since on 24 42 KxR, QxR 43 QxN draws,
K xPfnof K-K2?? NxP mate) B- rejected by Black.
R6ch 25K-R1 Black has no better
than a perpetual check.
Although volumes have been
devoted to what may be the most
heavily analyzed opening in histo­
ry, how many players today can
even define the Rice Gambit?
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A M in o rity O f One Colossal Egos In All M odesty The H yperm odern Revolt

In a celebrated 19th century “ Chess is vanity,” said Alek­ “ There have been times in my W orld W ar I showed the
trial the painter Whistler sued hine. Indeed, hum ility is a rare life when I came very near think­ bankruptcy of values handed
the critic Ruskin for accusing affliction among experts. ing that I could not lose even a down by the old society but chess
him of “flinging a pot of paint Ewfim Bogoljubov was a born single game. Then I would be was enriched by the upheaval.
in the public’s face." Dr. Sieg- optim ist unperturbed by losses, beaten, and the lost game would
bert Tarrasch, the chief spokes­ bring me back from dreamland to Like their contemporaries in music
and Alekhine used him as a
man for the classical school in punching bag in two title earth,” confessed Jose Capablan- and painting, Stravinsky and
chess, heaped similar ridicule matches — denying a return ca, world champion 1921-27. He Duchamp, the hypermoderns bla­
on i young maverick. match to his arch rival Capa- lost only 35 tournament games in zed bizarre new contours in the
In his notes to this decisive blanca. (He refused to pose with his entire career. opening. A cardinal tenet was that
last-round encounter, Tarrasch a film star, saying, “ Why should Lesser mortals can learn to talk the center need not be controlled
wrote: “ Nimzovich has a pro­ I give her publicity?” ) a good game. The power of through occupation.
nounced liking for ugly opening Bogoljubov claimed Alekhine positive thinking was extolled by
moves. It is fortunate that he is Richard Fauber in M ic h ig a n ‘'W ith this game," reveals Rich­
hypnotized him. He blithely ex­
thoroughly refuted here by plained away his steady losses C hess: "I had the misfortune to ard Reti in Modem Ideas In Chess,
Rubinstein, whose play is always to the new generation: "The be born into a good family of high "began a revolution in my convic­
in good taste, for it wouid have young demons have read my social status and this crippled my tion as to the wisdom o f the old
been an absolute scandal if book. Now I have no chance.” early game. In polite society you principles, according to which in
such unaesthetic play had been In his heyday he boasted, “ When are always saying things like I ’m
crowned with firs t prize!” the opening every move should
I am white, I win because I not very good.' This class of self- develop another piece."
One is inclined to agree with am White. When I am Black, I win abnegating statement is all right in
Tarrasch after examining Black’s because I am Bogoljubov. polite society because they are all
firs t dozen moves. Nimzovich liars and everybody knows it. I was
totally ignored the good doctor’s Ignatz Kolisch, penniless, very young and had not learned
precept that "cramped positions abandoned chess for banking, this valuable lesson yet.
bear the germs of defeat.” made his fortune and became "The first principle of chess
Nevertheless, Nimzovich, who a great patron of the game. He is...to develop an acute awareness
neded only a draw to secure missed a chance for a match of how truly marvelous a player
first, missed one after surviving with Morphy because the Ameri­ you are. My rating shot up a whole
his own bizarre opening. Ten­ can refused to play for a stake
sion ran so high that both play­ and Kolisch, as a professional, class the day a player came up to
ers overlooked ■ mate-in-two on would not play without one. me and asked how good I was.
move 26 in a tim e scramble! Instead of saying the perfunctory
Steinitz and Zukertort were ‘Oh, I play at it’—which had kept
once at ■ dinner where a toast
White: RUBINSTEIN was proposed to the World me a B player for years, I replied
Black: NIM ZOVICH Champion. They both rose! 'I’m a killer.' The power of love (of
San Sebastian 1912 self) in chess should never be
Prickly Wilhelm Steinitz died underestimated.” Black to move
Old Indian Defense poor despite the title . One of
N -K B 3 How can anyone get a swelled From a consultation game
1 P -Q 4 21 P -B 4 Q -N 3 !
his “ customers" was a wealthy Fahndrich & Kaufman vs. Reti &
2 P -Q B 4 P -Q 3 22 PxN p x K P (e )
banker named Epstein who head? A glance at the names
3 N -K B 3 Q N -Q 2
4 N -B 3 P -K 4
23
24
QxN
R -B 2
R -K 7 +
Q -K 5 + lingered over each move. When ahead of us on the rating list Capablanca, Vienna 1914.
5 P -K 4 B -K 2 (a ) 25 K -N 1 B -B 4 {f) Steinitz tried to rush him, Ep­ brings reality into focus. And don't " 14...R-K1 was in accordance
6 B -K 2 0 -0 26 B -Q 4 ? B xB
stein barked, "Just who do you look back—someone may be
7 0 -0 R -K 1 27 QxB R -K 8 +
gaining. with the principles prevailing when
8 Q -B 2 B -B 1 28 R -B 1 R xR 4 - think you are?” Steinitz s tif­ / grew up," continues Reti. "To
9 P -Q N 3 (b ) P -B 3 23 KxR Q -R 8 -I fened: “ On the Bourse you are In a moment of rare humility
10 B -N 2 N -R 4 {c ) 30 K -B 2 Q x P -f
Epstein and I am Steinitz. Over Alexander Alekhine admitted: "I my great astonishm ent Capa­
11 P - N 3 N -N 1 ? 31 K -B 3 P -B 3
12 Q R -Q 1 Q -B 3 32 Q -Q 2 Q -R 6 the board I am Epstein and have worked long and hard to blanca would not even consider
13 N -N 1 B -R 6 33 Q -Q 7 P -K B 4 you are Steinitz!” eradicate a curious psychological the move at all. "
1 4 K R -K 1 N -B 5 34 N -B 3 Q -R 4 4 -
Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch clicked weakness —the impression that I Instead Capa found a bold
15 P xP PxP 35 K -N 2 QxP
16 N x P R xN 36 Q -K 6 K -P 1 his heels and bowed curtly be­ could always, or nearly always, maneuver which left a profound
17 B -K B 1 (d ) N -Q 2 37 N -K 2 Q -R 4 fore a title match with Emanuel when in a bad position, conjure
18 Q -Q 2 B xB 38 R -Q 7 R -K 1 up some unexpected combination impression on Reti: 14...B-Q5 15
19 R x B N -R 6 + 39 N -B 4 R xQ
Lasker in 1908: "To you, Herr Q-Q3, BxQN 16 QxB, N-K5 17
2 0 K -N 2 N -N 4 40 N xQ R e s ig n s Lasker, I have only three words: to extricate me from my difficult­
check and mate.” ies. A dangerous delusion." Q-Q4, P-KN4 18 N-K5, B-B4 and
(a) Now P-KN3 is preferred. Tarrasch blamed his defeat Bobby Fischer stated: "Confi­ now correct is 19 B-N3! (not 19
(b) More cramping is 9 P-Q5. on the fact that he was sensitive dence in yourself should be based P-KB3? PxB 20 PxN, BxP as in
(c) Better is 10 . . . PxP 11 NxP, to the sea, even though Ger­ on fact. I know people who have the game! NxB (if 19...P-KR4 20
N-B4 12 P-B3, P-Q4 (or P-QR4). many was his homeland and all the will in the world but can’t
(d) Stronger is 17 BxR (not 17 N-Q3, P-R5 21 B-K5, P-B3 22
Dusseldorf was some 170 miles play good chess. You must have B-B71 QxB 23 QxPch and 24 QxB
PxN? Q-N3+ 18 K-Rl. Q-N7) from the coast. talent.”
NxB+ 18 QxN, QxB 19 R-Q8! My own philosophy is very next) 20 RPxN, BxP 21 N-N4, P-B4
(e) Inferior is 22 . . . R-K2 (or Amos Burn, a veteran B rit­ 22 N-K3! (not 22 NxPch? K-R2)
isher, observed at the end of simple: make the best move each
22 . . . QxP+ 23 K-R3! R-K2 time and let the chips fall where B-K5 24 P-B3, P-B5 25 PxP, PxP
24 QR-K1 winning a piece) 23 his long career that he had
never had the satisfaction of they may. You can't force your 26 N-N4, Q-N4! equal.
B-R3. P-QB4 (or 23 . . . QxP+
24 K-N l. P-QB4 25 KR-K1) 24 beating a perfectly healthy man. opponent to blunder, so relax and Reti, Breyer and Nimzovitch
N-B3 with a bind. Bobby Fischer, sick and try to avoid making one yourself. were the great ringleaders of the
ff) Overlooking 26 QxPch. K-Rl tired of hearing excuses, said, Accumulate small advantages and hypermodern movement thus in­
27 QxP mate — which Rubin­ "People have been playing keep piling on the pressure.
Play the board, not the player. spired by Capablanca. The Cuban,
stein doesn’t see either! Cor­ against me below strength for
rect is 25 . . RxR! 26 KxR. 15 years.” On a TV talk show There’s no substitute for good however, ignored their theories
0-B7+ 27 Q-Q2, B-B4+ 28 he confessed that his greatest moves. and went on to become world
K-N2. Q-K5+ 29 K-R3. Q-B4+ th rill came from "crushing the champion.
with a draw (30 K-R4, P-KR3! is opponent’s ego" — an ambitious
perilous for White). but impossible undertaking.

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White mates in 2 moves B lack to play and draw

Sultan Khan Chess Blindness Look Again Buried Treasure

One of the sensations of the “ Do grandmasters ever be­ Sometimes it seems that even "Heard melodies are sweet,"
early 1930s was the appearance come so engrossed in grand champions are the last to know wrote Keats. "But those unheard
of an Indian on the tournament strategy that they make simple what's happening in their are sweeter.”
circuit. Sultan (a first name, not errors a beginner would be games. So quite naturally a Discoveries seldom await me as
a title) was a serf on the estate ashamed of?” asks a reader. student turns to the notes for I sift throuah questions for my
of a Maharajah who was im­ Alas, chess blindness is a instruction. At least it works column in Chess Life & re­
pressed by his phenomenal malady which strikes us all that way in theory. v ie w . An occasional gem, how­
chess ability. He accompanied without warning, even without No less an authority than ex­ ever. makes my day.
his master to England where he prodding from the clock. Some world champion Mikhail Tal Richard Sulzmann of Colum­
had to learn the international acute cases are examined in my annotated this game. Yet he bus. Ohio, a class C player,
rules which differed from those book Chess Catechism, including overlooks the same coup as submitted a stunning resource
in India. Despite this handicap several grandmasters resigning Stein in the diagram. When which two masters overlooked
Sultan Khan promptly won the in winning positions. grandmasters abstain from an years ago. If not for him, this
British championship. One of' the most amazing apparent quick kill, look again. treasure might still be buried in
The Maharajah arranged a vic­ double errors of modern times the Carpathians.
tory banquet; no expense was occurred in Emma vs. Stein, Mar W h itt: STEIN B la ck: MOISEIEV
K in g ’s In d ia n Reversed Dragoljub Velimirovic, a leading
spared to herald the arrival of a del Plata 1966. Yugoslav grandmaster, probably
great new star in the chess firm ­ USSR 1 t7 0
ament: Sultan Khan. Grand­ will be astounded when he sees
P-KN31 P-04 13 P-B3 P-QN4
masters and local celebrities B-N2 2 N-KB3 14 N-K3 N-B2 this forgotten game again. Judg­
were invited. And who waited P-Q3 3 P-KN3 15 Q-K2 0 -0 2 ing from his post-game analysis,
N-Q2 4 B-N2 16 R-Q1 R-R1 he thought he was winning in a
on the table? Why, Sultan Khan, KN-B35 0 -0 17 RxR RxR
of course! 0 -0 6 P-B4 18 N-N5! P-K3 breeze. His annotations for
When the Maharajah returned P-K4 7 U-B3 19 N-K4 0-K 2 Chess In fo rm a n t # 1 4 (game
to India, his retinue went with
e PxP NxP 20 N-N4 P-B3 407) give no indication that any­
9 N-B4 P-N3 21 B-K3 N-R3
him. Sultan Kahn has not been 10 P-QR4 B-N2 22 P -04 P-B5? thing was amiss.
heard from since. 11 P-R5 R-N1 23 P-Q5! PxP Velimirovic must have been
This game illustrates his pe­ 12 PxP PxP 24 RxP N-B2 pleased with his neat Rook sacri­
culiar style. While his opponent fice on move 25 Yet it was
flounders aimlessly and weak­ precisely this flim-flam that put a
ens himself on the dark squares, hard-earned victory in jeopardy.
Khan strengthens his grip — Eager to wrap up the point.
ignoring a tricky Knight “ sac” Velimirovic carelessly transposed
on move 17. When a game is moves and stumbled with the win
positionally won, avoid tactics! The late Soviet champion in his grasp. But his opponent
Leonid Stein pondered more missed a fabulous chance to draw
than 20 minutes on his next and perished ignominiously two
W h ite : SOU LTAINBEIEFF lemon 34 . . . Q-QB7? putting moves later. Curiously, nobody
B la ck: SULTAN KHAN Black’s Queen en prise to the
Liege 1930 Knight (B-QB1! was the crusher). noticed the flaw until Mr. Sulz­
Q ueen's In d ia n Defense White replied 35 R-Q7? Fittingly, mann took the trouble to exercise
1 P -Q 4 N -K B 3 15 Q -B 3 P -Q R 4 the game was drawn on move 48. his brain and his eyes.
2 N -K B 3
P -B 4
P -Q N 3
P -K 3
16
17
N -R 4
Q -K 3
P -N 4
0 -0 1 (b )
A recent victim of chess blind­
3
4 P -K N 3 B -N 2 18 N / 4 -B 3 Q -K 2 ness was Reshevsky vs. Savon, Position after 24 . . . N-B2 B a lk a n s 1 9 7 2
5 B -N 2 B -N 5 c h 19 P -R 3 ? Q R -N 1 Brazil Interzonal 1973. W hite: VELIM IROVIC Black: PEKJU N
6 B -Q 2 B x B ch 20 P -N 3 B -R 1 Dennis Hill of California Sicilian Defense
7 Q N x B (a ) 0 -0 21 N -N 1 N / 2 -K 4 asked: "Now doesn't 25 R-Q7! 1 P -K 4 P -Q 8 4 1 5 P -N 5 R xN
8 0 -0 P -B 4
N -B 3
22
23
P -Q R 4
BxN
N xN ch
N -Q 5
win out of hand? If 25 . . . QxR 2 N -K B 3 P -0 3 1 6 PxN RxO B
9 Q -B 2
10 PxP PxP 24 B -Q 1 P -B 4 !
26 NxP-T BxN 27 NxB+ and 3 P -0 4 P x P 1 7 Q xR B xP
R xB P NxQ next. Since Tal doesn't 4 N xP N -K B 3 1 8 K -N 1 0 -0
11 P -K 4 ? Q -B 2 25 PxP
5 N -0 B 3 N - B 3 1 9 P - K 5 ! B -K 2 (a )
12 K R -K 1 P -Q 3 26 R -B 3 R / 1 -K B 1 mention the move and Stein 6 B -Q B 4 P -K 3 2 0 K R - N 1 - N3
R -B 6 !
13
14
Q R -B 1
P -Q R 3
P -K R 3
N -Q 2
27
28
R -K B 1
BxR R xB
didn't play it I’m wondering if 7 B -K 3 B -K 2 2 1 P -B S ! P x K P (b )
R e s ig n s (c ) Black has a saving continua­ 8 0 -K 2 B -Q 2 2 2 N x P B xN
tion." Apparently not. 9 0 -0 -0 P -Q R 3 2 3 P xB P iP
My first reaction was that 25 1 0 B -N 3 Q -R 4 2 4 B x P c d K -R 1
(a) More usual is 7 QxB. 11 P -B 4 P - 0 N 4 2 5 R x P (c ) Q -B 2 ? ?
R-Q7, R-R8+ forces White to 1 2 P -Q R 3 P -N 5 2 6 P -B 3 B -B 4
(b ) Rejecting 17 . . . PxN 18 lose time by 26 R-Ql, but on 1 3 PxP N x N P 2 7 Q -R 6 R e s ig n s
QxRP,Q-Ql 19 P-K5! with attack. second thought 26 B-KB1! is 1 4 P -N 4 R -O B 1 ?
(c) If 29 Q-Q2, RxR 30 QxR (or crushing. If 26 . . . QxN 27
30 NxR, N-B6ch) N-K7ch 31 RxB-H! KxR (on 27 . . K-Bl
K-R2,' NxQ snares the Queen. 28 B-B5+ N-K2 29 QxQ, BxQ (a) 19 . PxP 20 PxP Qxt- 21 QxQ
White mates in 3 moves
30 RxN wins; or 27 . . . K-Rl BxQ 22 N-B3 wins a piece.
In severe time-pressure Resh­ 28 RxP-H KxR 29 NxP+ forks (b ) If 21 ...KPxP 22 P-K6! Or
evsky played 40 QxP? "mate" the Queen) 28 B-R6+ K-B2 29 21 ...QxP 22 QxQ PxQ 23 PxKP
overlooking Black's Bishop lurk­ QxQ is curtains. So is 26 . . .
ing innocently at the other edge N-Q5 27 BxN, QxN 28 QxQ, (c ) Hasty. See diagram. 25 P-B3!
of the board. His youthful Rus­ BxQ 29 RxN, B-Q6 30 N-K3. wins. White only counted on
sian opponent grabbed the The game continued: ...PxR? 26 Q-R6 mate.
Queen. Of course you see the
W h ite B la ck W hite B la ck
mate, don't you? 40 P-N5ch! 2 5 R-Q1? N-K1 33 Q xP + K-N1
KxP (if 40 . . . BxP 41 R-KR8) 28 N-BS P-R4 34 Q-Q1 3.-K2
41 P-R4ch! KxP 42 Q-B4 mate. 27 NxB QxN 35 Q -Q 5+ K-R2
28 N-RBch K-R2 36 R-K6 Q-Q1
29 N-BS! R-B1 37 RxN! RxR
3 0 B -K 4 Q-KB2 38 Q-K6 R-B2
31 N-Q6 NxN 39 B-N6 Q-Q8
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Nice Guys Also Win Night M oves The Chess Drug

Playing The M an

We are told to play the U. S. champion Walter Browne Films often use chess to show Ron Ginzler's vision of the
board, not the player. Yet world ran off with the newly estab­ that the hero or villain has brains. future is abridged from M ic h i­
champion Emanuel Lasker pre­ lished Pan American title in a Half the time the board is set up gan Chess.
ferred moves that annoyed his field of 16 at Winnipeg. But wrong without a white square in
opponent. "It is no easy mat­ earlier he lost his National Open the lower right hand corner and By the summer of 1985 it was
ter," despaired a contemporary, title to genial Arthur Bisguier the script calls for the actors to clear that the prohibition of chess
“to reply to Lasker’s bad moves.” in a field of 246 in Nevada. mutter something profound like was having no success. The law
A superb fighter, Lasker was “ Checkmate in Vegas" appeared “check.” was being openly flouted and
quick to perceive that equal in The Atlantic (Oct. ’74) by N ig h t Moves featuring Gene even “squares” (those who did not
players create dull draws unless Tevis, author of “The Hustler.” Hackman as a chessplaying pri­ play) admitted that it was doing
they take risks. What separates I used to think the profes­ vate eye is one of the few movies more harm than good.
the top masters is not only sional chess-playing scene would that treats chess as more than a Fortunes could be m ade
knowledge and ability, but guts be one of tweed jackets and prop. The diagram is integrated “ b o a rd -ru n n in g ” onyx sets
and stamina. And character. briar pipes . . . Then I saw into the plot when he explains how
Bobby Fischer . . . that moody, from M exico , w h e re the
Wilhelm Steinitz was once someone once missed a brilliant g am e w as s till le g a l. Rumor
asked whether he ever played long-legged overwhelmingly bril­
liant killer shark, and I thought, win, and must have regretted it had it th e M a fia had gained
the man. "Certainly not!” he every day of his life. In a way control o f th e b la c k m a rk e t
sneered. “I am fully and entirely in fifteen ydars of following pool
hustlers, I've never seen a Hackman is talking about himself, in chess books, w h ic h w o uld
concentrated on the board. I his own wasted possibilities. e x p la in w h y ev ery o n e w as
never even consider my oppon­ clearer case of the killer in­
ent’s personality. So far as I am stinct written on a young man’s The opening chapter of the p la y in g th e S ic ilia n again.
concerned he might as well be face . . . I've seen the Nash­ novel N igh t M oves by Alan
ville Bear shoot pool; I’ve Sharp identifies the game: "The Students dropped out to live in
an abstraction or an automaton.” “chess pads” where half a dozen
watched Wimpy Lassiter, Willie rest of his attention he gave to a
Most modern masters feel the Mosconi, Rags Ragland. Hell, I games could be found in progress
same way. They try to make the point in history long past, but
invented Minnesota Fats . . . crystallized on his traveling set, a day or night. Addiction could
best move and anticipate the I’ve watched the Ufala Kid occur in many forms and therapy
best reply, unless their plight is remote, trivial moment of truth
shoot nine-ball for twenty that had once engaged two men invariably met with disaster as the
desperate. Certain ploys are straight hours in Lexington, Ken­ chess addict corrupted the anal­
standard, such as consuming tucky. Those men are all killers he had never met just as intensely
as it now did him. Emmerich and yst into indulging in this depraved
time in the opening to conceal — born winners — and I've tried pastime.
a prepared variation. Or getting a few of them on a table. But I Moritz had, it appeared, played
into time pressure as a last re­ ahess together in 1922 at a place There were “speed freaks” who
wouldn't play croquet with played 5-minute chess exclusive­
sort, if all else is hopeless, to Bobby Fischer. called Bad Oeynhausen...Moritz
rattle the adversary. had had that most flamboyant of ly, often for days on end before
And I wouldn't play Monop­ collapsing at the chessboard.
When you don't like your oly or Chinese checkers with possibilities for a chessplayer.
game, you might as well gamble Back to the wall, in danger of Endgame addicts hooked for
Walter Browne . . . five years hours on a single position. Proble­
with a poker face. Having a younger than Fischer in a game defeat, he had a Queen sacrifice
reputation helps, as I discovered leading to an exquisite mate by mists spent days looking for a
that turns out to be as much a "key," only to find they had been
in this game after spending a young man’s game as pro foot­ means of three little knight moves,
half hour on my risky 14th prancing in interlocking checks, “ burned" by a "cook." Most horri­
ball . . . He looks like a rock fying of all were blindfold players
move. Instead of assuming the singer, with a Fu Manchu and driving the King into the pit.
defensive I decided to mix i.t a floral shirt, and a hyper, gang- Moritz, in the heat of something or "heads" who dispensed with
up by sacrificing b piece. My busters manner . . . there was the need for actual pieces.
now cold, had missed it, played
opponent instantly declined the a look there that I've seen be­ defensively and lost. ” A tte m p ts to co n ta in th e
offer; later I asked him why. “I fore — on the faces of some The game is real enough, only ad d ic tio n by s u b s titu tin g
believed you — you thought pool hustlers . . . not exactly Moritz did not lose. Although c h eck ers and backg am m o n
about it long enough!” said he. triumph or contempt . . . a pre­ Emmerich was winning the final fa ile d . Th e a d d ic t o ften in ­
White: BRANDTS Black: EVANS
occupied. inward look. Narcis­ position, he agreed to a draw due du lged in a ll th re e gam es
K’s Indian Defense Reno, 1968
sistic and almost infantile. to severe time-pressure. The sim u ltan eo u sly.
Arthur Bisguier is a decent, diagram is after 26 R-K1 where Another fiasco was the reduc­
1 P-Q4 N-KB3 23 P-KN4 P-KN4 civilized man . . . slightly
2 P-QB4 P-KN3 24 N-B5 Q-B3 Black missed a Queen sacrifice as tion cure. Players were restricted
3 N-QB3 B-N2 25 R-Q4 BxN chubby, harmless. No killer at a preface to the “ night moves." to two, and then one game a day,
4 P-K4 P-Q3 26 PxB QxP all . . . The man who hangs in finally a mate-in-two. Unfortu­
5 N-B3 0-0 27 P-B4 QxN! there and does it right deserved
6 B-K2 QN-Q2 28 PxN Q-B4 that big gold trophy in the nately instead of progressing to
7 0-0 P-K4 29 Q-K3 KR-K1 total abstinence they became
8 R-K1 P-B3 30 R-K1 P-B3 capital city of games.
9 B-B1 P-QR4 31 Q-Q2 PxP “ problem addicts.”
10 Q-B2 32 R-Q6 K-N2
At Chicago in 1963, going Until scientists find a vaccine
PxP
11 NxP Q-B2 33 Q-K3 P-K5 into the final game tied for against chessfever, parents are
12 B-B4 N-N5 34 R/1-Q1 R-K2 first, Fischer's clock was run­ urged to look for these three
13 QR-Q1 B-K4 35 Q-B 3+ Q-K4 ning a long time against Bis­
14 Q*Q2 P-Q4(a) 36 Q-KR3 R-R1 guier. Arthur looked up from warning signals in the incipient
25 B-N3 BxB 37 Q-R5 R-K3 chess abuser in the family.
16 RPxB PxKP 38 R/6-Q4 R-KB1 the board and there was Bobby,
17 NxKP Q-K4?! 39 B-K2 R/3-B3 slumped in his chair, sound ( D Does your child spend long
18 N-KN5 Q-B3 40 P-QN3 R/1-B2 asleep . . . In a half hour he periods away from home locked in
19 P-B3 N/5-K4 41 R-Q8 N-K3 a closet with b companion?
20 R-K4? P-R3 42 R/8-Q7 N-BS would lose the game on time. UMVua lb- x ez d »U CN-N » L
21 N-R3 N-B4 43 Q-N4 P-R4 And what did Arthur do, with a M30U-N 8 xd LZ IX -B X V U -O G L ( 2 ) Does he find normal activities
22 R-B4 Q-N2 White Resigns chance to get even with the A VO -a , LX -H 93 d xfl S U 'd Z l like eating, sleeping, and sex
SB-N S N -0 S3 SN-B VM O'd > l boring and pointless ?
brash kid who had rendered C N -S / N Z S B -0 * Z CN-N C N -0 01
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N-B4. Unclear now is 15 BxB * H -0 6 N -0 C3 Z X -N X 0 -0 6
“ I made a bad move,” shrug­ ■<N MXB ZZ 0 -0 -0 ZN-B 9 ing phrases like "take, take, check,
N/2xB 16 P-KR3 NxQBP 17 C N -0 VB -B LZ S N X -fl C N X -d L check"?
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Starting Young
Is there a common bond among
experts, apart from their lifelong
fascination with chess? What
attracted them to the game, and at
what age?
In my case, I picked up the
moves at 5 by watching my father
and brothers play My interest
lagged until, at 12, I suddenly
found the game utterly thrilling
and couldn't get enough*
Chess kept me off the streets, it
was my home. What counted was
not who you knew, but what you
knew. Chess was the way life was
supposed to be. but wasn’t.
FRANK BRADY, referee and
writer. I learned at 9 from my
brother and competed in tourna­
ments at 15. But I gave it up for
long periods because the game
was time-consuming.
Chess is a harmless outlet for
hostile impulses. Disliking my
opponent helps me play better
Chess is a supreme struggle
between two egos and intellects.
There is great pleasure in creating
a beautiful game.
MILUNKA LAZAREVIC. Yugos­
lav lady champion. I learned at 14
from my father but disliked the
game because I had to be quiet
when his cronies came to play at
our house At 171became serious­
ly interested when the Olympiad
was held in Yugoslavia in 1950. My
trainers told me I could become
lady champion of the world, and I
nealected everything else.
What attracts me is the mystery.
I love chess. It's in my blood like a
narcotic.
DAVID LEVY, British master
and writer I learned at 8 from an
uncle and got seriously interested
at 11. What attracts me is the fight.
It’s exciting to struggle when it
doesn’t really matter if you w in.
I’ve reached the peak of my
ability and will never play well
enough not to get fun out of the
game. I like to play against grand­
masters and watch them quake
when I make risky sacrifices.
WILLIAM LOMBARDY, grand­
master. I learned at 9 from a friend
who wanted a punching bag, and I
moved the Knight wrong for the
first year. Chess offered few
financial rewards and I realized
that I’d have to curtail my tourna­
ment play when I entered the
priesthood. I like to play as much
as possible.
What attracts me is the world­
wide fraternity, the travel, and the
spirit of competition. Chess is
probably the most frustrating of
all sports* In other sports there's a
relief in sheer physical exertion,
win or lose Chess offers no such
release, but little can compare
with the satisfaction of a well
played game.
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132
Youth Cult
It seems that every youngster
who achieves a minor success is
touted as another Bobby Fischer.
But don’t hold your breath.
Chess prodigies are rare. About
a dozen came along in the last
century, and half of them fell by
the wayside
Reshevsky at age 8 toured the
world, yet never scaled the
heights. Only Capablanca and
Fischer went on to the title.
It takes peculiar dedication to
stick with chess. Money is meager
and glory uncertain.
Grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek
observed in C hess L ife : “ Lately
we hear more and more about the
young American players. Many
pages of this magazine are devot­
ed to them. The idea is to encou­
rage youngsters and to interest
them in the game, which sounds
all right. However, these articles
go far beyond that. Some make
statistical comparisons and then
draw conclusions which simply
lack objectivity.
“This assumes that players in
their twenties, thirties, forties, and
fifties are unable to shake the
world the way Bobby did. But
there are different statistics. For
example, Viktor Korchnoi was 32
when he reached the candidates
matches for the first time. Yefim
Geller became a master in his late
twenties. Smyslov, who is close to
60, just came in third ahead of
Karpov in a strong Leningrad
tournament. The fact that a player
can develop his strength later in
life is not mentioned. These arti­
cles can discourage players. As
one junior put it: lam only Wand it
looks like I am finished.
Joel Benjamin at 13 rated a
cover story because he got his
master rating two months before
Fischer did. However at 13 Bobby
had already won the 1963 USA
Championship and created "the
game of the century"
Joel is extremely practical. He
said:
"Of course I'd like to be world
champion, but I’m not going to
throw everything aside. I'm just
going to see how far I can get."
W hits: B YRNE Black: FISCHER
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2 P -B 4 P -K N 3 2 3 K -N 1
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5 B -B 4 P -Q 4 2 6 P -K R 3
6 Q -N 3 P xP 2 7 K -R 2
7 QxBP
P -B 3 2 S R -K 1
6 P -K 4 O N -Q 2 2 9 O -O B ch B -B 1
9 R-Q1 N -N 3 3 0 N xR
1 0 Q -B 5 B -N 5 31 N -B 3
1 1 B -K N 5 ? N -R 5 ! 3 2 Q -N 6
1 2 Q -R 3 N x N 3 3 P -R 4
1 3 PxN N xP 3 4 N - K 5
1 4 B xP 0 - N 3 ! 3 5 K -N 1 B -B 4 c h
1 5 B -B 4 N xQ B P 3 6 K -B 1 N -N 6 c h
1 6 B -B 5 K R -K 1 ch 3 7 K - K 1 B -N 5 c h
1 7 K -B 1 B - K 3! 3 8 K -Q 1 B -N 6 c h
1 8 B xQ B x B c h 3 9 K -B 1 N -K 7ch
1 9 K -N 1 N -K 7 c h 4 0 K -N 1 N -B 6 c h
2 0 K -B 1 N x P c h 4 1 K -B 1 R -Q B 7
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Youth V s. Age
Should invitations to important
events be issued strictly on merit?
Or should talented juniors with
lower ratings be given a break?
This controversy erupted over
the method of selecting the field
for the 76 Manhattan Chess Club
International Tournament which
ended in a dead heat between
Norman Weinstein and two Soviet
grandmasters who emigrated to
America, Lein and Shamkovich.
Two youngsters, Michael Wilder,
13, and Joel Benjamin, 12,
finished last, respectively.
Bill Goichberg justified h ii
selection: One would think there
would be little objection to
setting aside 2 places out of 16 for
players who may have world
championship potential, even if
their current strength is slightly
below most other invitees. Their
vast potential requires frequent
play against top players to be fully
developed, and the opportunity to
invite them rather than older and
stranger players was the major
reason I volunteered to organize
and direct the tournament.
But a Grandmaster member of
the Club denounced the invitation
of the two youngsters whom he
said were "non ready, 1900
strength, being used, exploited,
manipulated"...All the furor put
u n f a i r p r e s s u r e on t he
youngsters—instead of playing
for experience without worrying
about results, they now felt
obliged to prove "too weak"
claims wrong.
G ra n d m a s te r W illia m
Lombardy disagreed: The number
of such international tournaments
is in fact sadly meager. Players
should be invited solely on their
merits and qualifications.
I never predicted that the
youngsters would "lose all their
games." I said that they might, and
such a result could be detrimental
to their future play. A premature
experience and concomitant
disastrous result against top-
notch masters can have a
p sych ologica lly devastating
effect. Talented young juniors
should be helped to develop
gradually.
No chessplayer plays "without
worrying about results, " however
P xB
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R xP was quite discouraged night after
N xP
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youngster to win every game
B -Q 4 when he is constantly told what a
N -K 5 genius or how greatly talented he
P -Q N 4 is.
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Fatal Passion
H.G Wells may not have meant
it literally when he wrote "the
passion for playing chess annihi­
lates a man," but statistics bear
him out. Top chessmasters tend to
have shorter life spans than celeb­
rities in other fields, according to a
University of Pittsburgh study by
Dr. Herbert Barry,
The life expectancy for 24 other
occupations varies from 71 years
for presidential advisers to 64 for
British authors. There's a moral
somewhere.
But a group of 32 great chess­
players from Philidor to Alekhine
(1726 to 1946) averaged only 60
years. Nine world champions
weigh in at 58.6. A further division
was made between 13 whose
passion for chess was all consum­
ing (average 56) and 19 with
outside interests (average 66), a
striking gap of 10 years.
A second sample of 23 lesser
masters averaged 68 years. A third
group of 26 problem composers,
who were scarcely exposed to the
rigors of the arena, fared best of all
at 69.
Although one might quibble
about what constitutes great and
lesser, the emotional tension and
physical strain of tournament
competition clearly took its toll.
The crucial point, apparently, is
that longevity is enhanced by a
wide diversity of interests.
Dr. Barry thinks that the early
mortality of top players is related
to the fact that they tend to peak at
about age 45. "The player whose
whole life is chess may find his
morale more shattered as he sees
his performance declining. An
old man or woman has the skill,
the experience and the memory,
but not the stamina to take long,
grueling hours of tournament
chess," he explains.
In a single game the veteran
may shine, but endurance is likely
to give out in the final hour of play
or against the rest of the field. Dr.
Barry concludes that “outstand­
ing chess achievement alone is
not a good predictorof shorter life
span...Outside interests help us all
to resist the stresses of declining
ability and failing health associat­
ed with old age."
In other words it’s not how you
play, but how much winning
means.
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Sealing The Top
Elo is to chess what Nielsen is to
TV. The rating system perfected
by Arpad Elo, a physics professor
at Marquette and former Wiscon­
sin chess champion, is unbiased
and accurate.
Unlike other intellectual games,
chessplayers can be compared
over long periods by a running
average of past performances.
The basic concept is simple: do
well against those above you, your
rating goes up: do poorly against
those below, it goes down.
The rating system is largely
responsible for the growth of the
USCF, because you must join
before you can be rated. Anyone
can obtain a rating simply by
taking part in the various tourna­
ments announced each month in
Chess Life & Review
The numerical rating scale used
in America varies from senior
master (over 2400), master (over
2200 ), expert (over 2000 ) des­
cending in stages from Class A to
E (under 1200). Our Olympic team
is chosen directly from this list, as
are competitors in the USA Cham­
pionship. International titles are
awarded by FIDE on the basis of
rated performances.
"Ratings are, of course, relative.
Only differences in ratings are
significant," writes Elo. “ But I can
say with reasonable confidence
that a 2700 rating now is equiva­
lent to a 2700 rating a century ago.
The modern masters do know
more about openings and strate­
gy, but properly masters should
be compared within their own
milieu and not with those of a
different period. What really
makes it possible to compare
masters of different epochs is the
duration of chess careers, which
are very long compared to careers
in other sports.”
An interesting piece of detective
work involves computing ratings
of players long since dead. Peak
ratings and peak ages can also be
extrapolated from this data. Here
are the top five in the chess hall of
fame.
P layer R ating Peak A ge
1 Fischer 2785 28?
(1943)
2. Capablanca 2765 26-32
(1888-1942)
3. Lasker 2750 27-32
(1868-1941)
4 Alekhine 2735 35-39
(1892-1946)
5 Botvinnik 2730 30-37
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In 1973 there were 105 grand­
masters in the world. By 1978 this
exclusive fraternity increased 50%
because standards were lowered.
When the grandmaster title
loses its status, a new category
may be necessary for superstars
like Fischer, Gligoric, Karpov,
Korchnoi, Larsen, Petrosian, Por-
tisch, Smyslov, Spassky and Tal.
Or would this create another
bastion to be stormed by sheer
numbers?
Despite the explosion in chess
interest and more title opportuni­
ties, there has been no marked
improvement in the quality of
games. A new grandmaster labors
for hours to find the best post for a
piece: an old one tosses that piece
in the air and it lands on the best
square.
The World Chess Federation,
consisting of over 90 member
nations, first awarded titles in
1950 based on strict mathematical
norms. Now each nation is eager
for more titled players and these
norms have been relaxed.
Recently the floodgates were
opened when a bill was defeated
by a close vote. This would have
coupled minimum ratings to title
norms (2500 for grandmaster,
2400 for international master).
“A vigorous support of the
rating requirements could have
reversed the vote. Regrettably the
U.S. Chess Federation chose to
give comfort to the merchants of
titles." wrote Prof. Arpad Elo,
founder of the rating system, who
fought a losing battle to restore
dignity to titles.
In a letter to the British maga­
zine C H E S S Prof. Elo stated:
"The use and exploitation of
young players is in itself deplor­
able; however, more disquieting is
the rigging of tournaments (for
easy titles).
“The buying and selling of
points to achieve norms for titles
has been reported frequently-
...Now perhaps this whole busi­
ness could be viewed as just a
good example of private enterpri­
se. As a leader America should be
above any questionable practice
and should instead try to set
ethical standards which can serve
as a model for the entire chess
world. Devious practices are har­
dly necessary as we have enough
strong masters who can earn titles
through legitimate performances
if only given the opportunity to
play in more tournaments.
"Holding more international
tournaments, of course, means
putting out some high level pro­
motional effort, such as selling
chess to business and industry...If
other countries can do it, why
can t we?"
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Numbers Game
Today's weekend Swisses offer
lavish class prizes to attract the
largest number of entries. Quanti­
ty is the name of the game.
Entry fees are relatively low
(under $50) and organizers have
found that the best way to assure
huge turnouts is to give weaker
players a chance at the big money
by segregating them within their
own rating group. In theory this is
fine, but taking too large a
percentage from the top prizes
also keeps the strong players
away.
A case in point was the third
World Open in New York City with
a record prize fund of $20,000.
Only $7200 was allocated to the
top section; the rest was scattered
among 8 other categories. Despite
a record turnout of 8I5, it was a
weak field with only 3 grandmas­
ters.
Alan Trefler, 19, a Dartmouth
student who was rated 115, posted
an astonishing upset by sharing
first and $4500 with Pal Benko, 47.
Grandmaster Nicolos Rossolimo,
65, returning to serious play after
5 years, received $1000 for third.
U.S. champion Walter Browne
was unluckier; tying for 4th netted
him a meager $170. Two players
tying for 23rd received $750
apiece for the “ A" prize. In all, 22
players who finished behind
Browne earned considerably
more than he did!
This lopsided division of the
purse is popular with the lower
rated players, but it clearly penal­
izes excellence. Moreover, it en­
courages some experts to sand­
bag and deliberately keep their
ratings low so as to be eligible for
lucrative class prizes that they
would not win if restricted to their
true group.
A more equitable division of the
prize fund was tried at the Western
Open in Milwaukee. The idea is to
reward entrants who play well but
do not really have a shot at top
prizes by giving them point money
for exceeding their rated norm:
$25 per half point. Thus a Class E
player who won all 11 games
would get $500 for first plus $325
as a bonus for performing 6.5
points over his head.
Perhaps chess has retained its
innocence because of the ab­
sence of big money. Butthe rating
system combined with the wee­
kend Swiss, which have contribut­
ed mightily to its growth, has
created a new game: the numbers
game.
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Frontier Justice
The weekend Swiss is the only
way to accommodate a huge field
in a short time. Losers are weeded
out relentlessly round by round,
yet the system is a poor test of skill
because the element of chance is
such a strong factor.
Everyone knows that you are
bound to get a raw deal no matter
who you are — bum pairingsor
more blacks than whites in an
even number of rounds. Often
someone gets a break and sneaks
off with ■ top prize while the
leaders are bashing each other,
and this can add spice to an event.
Martin Morrison's O ffic ia l
R ules of Chess (David McKay
Co.) culminates years of effort to
standardize conditions and mini­
mize inequities. Pairings are now
cut and dry and may soon be
made by computer, which would
be a blessing.
The USCF initiated a program
which has already certified thou­
sands of tournament directors. A
good director is a tyrant who
enforces all the rules impartially.
In a local Swiss where the
director was also a contestant, he
inadvertently sealed an illegal
move. The penalty for this is an
automatic forfeit, but he claimed
"special privilege" and changed
his sealed move when play was
resumed after adjournment
His opponent insisted on his
rights and refused to continue.
The director then forfeited him
and made it stick! Now the USCF
strongly urges directors not to
play in their own events.
Finally the USCF issued a ruling
on the illegal last round pairing at
Lone Pine 1975, the scandal of the
year The 4-page document was a
masterpiece of beaurocratic jar­
gon designed to offend nobody;
but for the first time it recognized
the crying need for more central
control and emergency machin­
ery to overrule a bad decision
before the damage is irrevocable.
Often less than an hour exists
before the next round. Time is
short, so are tempers, everyone
can't wait for the outcome of a
dispute which affects only ■
handful of pairings. Planes have to
be caught and schedules met.
Clearly, as ■ last resort, an
ombudsman is needed far from
the scene of the crime whose
decision is binding.
At present the USCF takes no
punitive action against unruly
directors. The only punishment is
e tarnished reputation among
players and organizers, who may
avoid them in the future as capri­
cious and unreliable. But it is
important to safeguard players’
rights during an event.
Reluctantly the USCF will now
dispense frontier justice by
phone. This may cause some
directors to think twice before
shooting from the hip, and that in
itself is progress
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Political Pawns
"Gens Una Sumus" — we are
all brothers — is the motto of
FIDE, the world chess body. Yet
the tradition that chess should
be above politics has been erod­
ing since the Cold War.
In France at the last 76-
nation chess Olympiad each
team signed a pledge to play
against any country. Then Rho­
desia and South Africa were
expelled for purely political
reasons. FIDE has started down
a very dangerous road.
FIDE also voted not to ac­
credit an international tourna­
ment if a chessmaster plays
against the wishes of his na­
tional chess federation. In
effect, this destroys a standard
of excellence and reduces play­
ers to mere political pawns.
Grandmaster Ludek Pachman
in an open letter recalls his im­
prisonment in Czechoslovakia
“ with a broken skull and back­
bone, hovering between life and
death after a six-week hunger
strike.” His crime? Openly pro­
testing Soviet occupation of his
land in 1968.
Upon his release Pachman
settled in Solingen, West Ger­
many, where his club organized
an international tournament in
1974. But at the last moment
Pachman was excluded when
Russia and East Germany threat­
ened to withdraw. (Since that
shameful incident, however,
Pachman was admitted to the
West German chess team and
has moved to West Berlin.)
I co n sid e r m y s e lf fo rce d to leave
the clu b and the tow n and to se ttle
down elsew here . . . Chessplayers
w a n t to devote the m se lve s to th e ir
b e a u tifu l gam e and are e n title d to
th e ir desire to have no in te rfe re n ce
fro m th e uproa r of th is w o rld . . .
I was no lo n g e r in v ite d to the big
m a tche s . . . O thers are n o t pre­
pared to separate chess fro m
p o litic s . . .
In m y in itia l d is illu s io n m e n t I
w a nte d to give up chess a lto g e th e r
and lo ok fo r a d iffe re n t vo catio n.
B u t I have decided a ga in st th is . It
is n ot so easy to w rite o ff 30 years
o f one's life and I am convin ce d
th a t I am s t ill able to p lay chess.
F u rth e rm o re , i t w o uld o n ly prove
th a t even in chess b oyco tt and
b la c k m a il, a rro ga n t desp otism and
pow er p o litic s w o uld emerge the
w in n e r . . .
The day a fte r to m o rro w dem ands
m ig h t be m ade to the e ffe c t th a t
a ll g ra n d m a ste rs sh ou ld a ckn o w l­
edge o n ly one id eo lo g y or one re­
lig io n . Freedom and ju s tic e are
u s u a lly d estroyed in s m a ll steps . . .
I hope f ir m ly th a t you w ill care
. . . For th is reason I tu rn to chess
frie n d s w ith a request: w ith the
req ue st to p re ve n t s itu a tio n s like
the one in S oling e n in the fu tu re
and to give me the o p p o rtu n ity to
be d efeated a t the chessboard in ­
stead o f b e in g boyco tte d .
Pachm an’s C h e c k m a te In
P ra g u e is a vivid chronicle of his
Kafkaesque encounter with bu­
reaucracy, his arrests and “trial.’'
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Politics in Sport
Whatever happened to the
Olympic spirit or the notion that
sport should be free from politics?
Russia takes chess seriously,
not only as a game but also as a
political tool After World War II
her chessmasters were the first to
make goodwill tours to ravaged
nations where Russia planned to
increase her sphere of influence.
Where chess went, tanks fol­
lowed.
Grandmaster Ludek Pachman
was allowed to leave Czechoslo­
vakia after serving a jail term tor
dissent. Russia boycotted events
where he competed, and he was
prohibited from representing his
country.
Russia was the guiding force
behind the expulsion of South
Africa from FIDE, the world chess
body of 107 member nations.
FIDE is expected to become part
of the United Nations.
Now defector Viktor Korchnoi is
the target of Soviet wrath First
they tried to disqualify him from a
title shot but FIDE had the cou­
rage to declare that challengers
represented themselves as Indi­
viduals, not their nations. Then
Russia refused to release his
family and objected to stateless
Korchnoi playing under the Swiss
flag. During the title match the
Soviet press did not mention
Korchnoi by name, referring to
him only as "the challenger" or
"Karpov's opponent."
After losing game 32 Korchnoi
squawked that the deck was
stacked against him even in a
neutral country like the Philip­
pines. His formal request that this
last game be annulled was turned
down by FIDE which went on to
condemn him for not conforming
to "the sporting ethics of chess
and general social obligations....
he also damaged the dignity and
prestige of FIDE. The FIDE bureau
regrets the challengers attitude
and severely admonishes Mr.
Korchnoi to conduct himself in a
correct manner in all future
matches."
Russia managed to ram this
resolution through the FIDE bu­
reau unanimously. But the matter
did not stop there
Russia suddenly pulled out two
of her players from the 9th Lone
Pine Open in America after learn­
ing that Korchnoi was taking part.
Other organizers were notified
that if Korchnoi is invited, no
Russians will come.
Korchnois name was conspicu­
ously absent from the list of ten
grandmasters in the first S1 10.000
super tourney in Montreal
Pachman too played at Lone
Pine. Russia is no longer con­
cerned with him.
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Chess And Chekas
Chess is very popular in cold
climates, for obvious reasons,
but long winter nights hardly
account for Soviet supremacy.
It was the first modern state to
organize sport, and chess flour­
ished as a result.
Czar Nicholas II coined the
title of “ Grandmaster" when he
sponsored the great St. Peters­
burg tournament in 1914. The
revolutionary leaders were keen
on chess and used it to divert
and educate the masses.
During his Siberian exile
Lenin played postal chess and
solved problems. Today’s puzzle
was composed by his brother,
Dimitri Ilyich Ulyanov. (Vladi­
mir Ulyanov later changed his
name to V. I. Lenin and gave
up chess for politics.)
When Trotzky was amazing
the world with his exploits as
commander-in-chief of the Red
army during the Russian Revo­
lution, a chessplayer who knew
him by his real name of Bron-
stein and who had played him
at a chess club on New York's
lower East side, snorted con­
temptuously: “ Hmmfi ! could
give him Knight odds!” To a true
fanatic, oniy chess ability
is impressive.
World Champion Alexander
Alekhine was born in Moscow
1892. When World War I broke
out he was interned while com­
peting in a tournament at Mann­
heim, Germany. His fam ily got
him home, and in 1920 he won
the firs t Soviet championship.
As a member of the nobility,
however, he was suspect. The
story goes that two Cheka
agents came to arrest him at a
coffee-house in Odessa. Alek­
hine asked to finish the game
and the secret policemen
obliged. Trotzky spared his life;
Alekhine fled Russia for good,
became a French citizen and
won the title in 1927.
At Bled in 1961 Bobby
Fischer crushed Tal and Geller,
then boasted he would beat ajl
four Russians in the field
“ But Bobby, that’s impossible,”
teased Paul Keres. "To date you
have beaten a Latvian and a
Ukrainian. That leaves me, an
Estonian, and Petrosian, an
Armenian.”
"Never mind what states you
come from," Bobby glowered.
“You’re all Russians to me!”
Only Keres escaped with a draw.
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M e n ta l Gambits
Viktor Korchnoi snatched
headlines by claiming that a
mysterious doctor with Karpov's
Soviet delegation tried to hypno­
tize him from the audience and
somehow control his mind. The
Wall Street Journal promptly
dubbed this bold stroke the "Par­
apsychologist Gambit.”
Korchnoi, who defected from
Russia, also announced he carri­
ed an electronic gadget to detect
any possible radiation his former
friends might beam at his brain.
Some wags speculated that in
view of the size of his brain the
Soviets would need an exception­
ally accurate ray gun. Others
feared Karpov might scatter
broad-spectrum radiation by
chewing garlic cloves.
Perhaps this all reflects a mild
form of future shock. We live in an
age where the boundaries be­
tween reality and science fiction
are blurring.
Everyone got in on the act
including Amazing Kreskin, a
showbiz mentalist who was ap­
pearing at Harrah's Casino in
Reno, my home town. "I am
absolutely convinced that it is not
possible to control someone
eise's mind. But the Russians have
been doing research on parapsy­
chology and ESP since as early as
1942 and are able to use their
natural abilities in the area of
psychological warfare to gain
oneupmanship," he told the press.
Despite being a novice who has
played less than a dozen games In
his lifetime. Kreskin challenged
Karpov, Korchnoi or Fischer by
offering to take them on blind­
folded. Moreover, he said it would
not be necessary for his opponent
to announce his move!
"When have they had to be
cautious about showing their next
move mentally? The way I feel I
can win is to turn the tables on
them psychologically." But Kres­
kin hedged by saying he would be
satisfied with a draw to prove his
point.
The purpose of the challenge,
he said, was to goad freethinking
societies to re-examine the rami­
fications of these techniques and
to begin preparing forthe massive
psychological warfare that will
take place at the Moscow Olym­
pics in 1980. He disclosed that
Soviet athletes are trained to use
their mental powers to psyche the
competition into becoming their
own worst enemies.
Naturally I took up the gauntlet.
“ I'll play him right now in Harrah's
showroom before TV cameras if
he wants. I intend to call Kreskin's
bluff because I know I can crush
him. Any ground rules he wants to
set up are fine with me."
Kreskin pleaded a “ hectic busi­
ness schedule," declining this
opportunity to display his powers.
However he said that if the three
champions he wants to play are
unavailable, he will simultaneous­
ly take on four top players.
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Pause To Think
The rules state chess is played
between two opponents. Except
when a game is adjourned.
Players are forbidden to receive
the advice or opinion of a third
party, whether solicited or not.
This sounds simple but, like the
Constitution, is subject to endless
interpretation
Chess obviously needs reform
Larry Christiansen, runner-up at
the '75 World Junior, criticized
“the absurd rule which requires
continuation of an adjourned
game on the next day...Many
games werg lost after adjourn­
ment by players not fortunate
enough to have seconds."
The best way to prevent consul­
tation is to finish in one session
But no break after five gruelling
hours makes chess a test of
stamina rather than skill
It's necessary to tamper with
tradition to speed things up
Russia experimented with giving
each side a half hour (after 40
moves) for the whole rest of the
game. Botvinnik promptly con­
demned this as “a lightweight
approach, a cheap pragmatism
erasing the line between serious
chess and blitz "
Why syddenly escalate the
time-limit and make the endgame
a stepchild7 Each phase of the
game is equally important
A USCF decision to rate tourna­
ments played at a fast clip may
profoundly alter the shape of
things to come. 40/40 — forty
moves in forty minutes— does
away with the need to adjourn.
This is too crude for master
play, but two minutes per move is
adequate.
Sure, this puts more pressure
on the players. The clock forces
errors. But time scrambles are
exciting and may even solve the
problem of excessive draws.
If chess is to become a specta­
tor sport, instead of an arcane
pursuit, it must be modernized. In
the long run quality probably
won't be affected. Under Parkin­
son's Law work expands (or
contracts) to fill the time allotted
to it
Fritz Saemisch, the great Ger­
man master who died recently at
79, was notorious for moving at a
snail's pace. He once forfeited
fifteen games straight!
Saemisch was in the habit of
dawdling for an hour as early as
move four.A colleague asked him
what he was thinking about and
Saemisch explained he was ana­
lyzing a sacrifice on move 23 of
another game. Yes, but what did
that have to do with his fourth
move? "Oh, I always think about
what interests me at the moment,”
replied Saemisch.
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Progress Report
According to a recent survey in
U.S. News & World Report ten
million Americans—many of them
youngsters—regularly play chess.
Millions more know the moves but
their chess sets gather dust.
Bobby Fischer once explained
why chess was more popular
elsewhere: “America airi't no
intellectual country." He promptly
demonstrated chess was hardly a
sport restricted to intellectuals.
When Fischer hibernated, pu­
blic interest waned. From a high of
60,000 membership in the USCF
dipped by 20%. This non-profit
outfit sharply curtailed many
activities, such as sending top
players abroad to compete.
Larry Christiansen, 21, who just
got his grandmaster title, had to
refuse an invitation to Europe
because he couldn't raisethefare.
Disillusioned, he told the Wall
Street Journal: “ I think our current
crop of players are just going to
filter out of chess and go into
other things. You just can’t make a
living at chess, and the players
recognize th a t"
Indeed, the outlook for pros is
bleak despite a bumper crop of
young masters. Yet chess is
wending its way into public
schools via federal funding. A
booklet explaining Title 7 law is
available for $1 from USCF, 186
Rt. 9W, Newburgh, NY 12550.
Bill McGrath, a teacher in Ver­
mont, warns that the social
aspects of the game should be
stressed, not winning. Some of his
students drop out because they
simply can't cope with fosses:
“ Since chess prowess is equated
with high intelligence, a defeat is a
blow to a player's cherished hopes
that he is a cut above the rest of
the human race. The athlete can
blame nature for not making him
strong enough or tall enough: the
team player can share the blame
with his teammates; the card
player can blame a bad deal.
Those who stick with chess year
after year have learned to love it as
an art, as friendly rival ry."
The government has finally
recognized that chess develops
qualities of mind useful through­
out life. Statistics show that very
few inmates who learn the game in
prison are repeat offenders.
A last piece of good news is that
the American Legion has em­
barked on a program to bring
chess instruction and competition
to its 17,000 posts worldwide.
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Lost Cause
A mutiny of top players is
brewing within the USCF, the
governing body of American
chess. Beset by mismanagement
and operating losses, its tax-
exempt status is being challenged
by an IRS audit.
A number of leading players
boycotted the 77 national cham­
pionship They were given less
than a week’s notice, their cus­
tomary honorarium was with­
drawn, and they had no voice.
Grandmaster William Lombar­
dy, 40, a mainstay of the world
champion Olympic team who
recently left the priesthood, ran
for the 9-member policy board.
Frustrated, Lombardy said: “ I
love the game but I’m disgusted
and see no hope for change. The
USCF doesn't really do anything
for top level chess anymore.
They’re losing money but the
administrators keep getting raises
while pros starve.
“There's a desperate need for a
professional masters'association.
The USCF could do much more to
promote the game. Regular
matches with Russia, for example.
Or Red China. They no longer
send players overseas to com­
pete. Rules enforcement is a joke,
bad pairings are an open scandal.
Even our chess magazine was
censored and politically abused.
“Now the USCF wants to attract
more youngsters. But how can
young stars get anywhere if esta­
blished stars are nowhere?"
Jeffrey Kastner, chairman of the
Masters A ffa irs Com m ittee
(whose recommendations are
largely ignored) writes: “ By the
very fact that amateurs outnum­
ber masters by over a thousand to
one there will always be a far
greater proportion of entry fee
money available for the prize pool
of the lower rated players. Should
the stronger players have to suffer
because of this?
“A serious and growing threat to
Master chess is the notorious
class prize. These prizes, which
are basically incentive awards for
lower rated players, run contrary
to one of the most fundamental
goals of the USCF, namely to
create a broad base of Masters
from which emerge our future
titleholders. Instead of motivating
U.S. players to improve their
ratings, tournaments that offer
outrageous class prizes to attract
entrants are actually rewarding
weakness and encouraging ama­
teurs to stay amateurs.”
Over fifty years ago world
champion Emanuel Lasker noted:
“ If mediocrity is favored, the
organizers are at fault. Mediocre
works cannot arouse enthusiasm
and are doomed to be forgot-
ten...The future belongs to the
creative master and to an organi­
zation which works in unison with
him." . ,
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First Step
Unlike America, which hasn’t
had a great international tourney
since San Antonio 1972, the
European circuit sparkles with
quality events. Many are spon­
sored by corporations or cities
that have a fertile chess culture.
The problem is international
invitations are restricted to play­
ers who al ready have international
titles. There are very few opportu­
nities to achieve titles at home
ana masters face a dead end now
that the U.S. Chess Federation
has withdrawn aid from those
seeking titles abroad.
It takes money to organize
quality tourneys on a regular basis
such as a Masters Open that
players can rely on forexperience.
Until chess becomes a self-
sustaining sport that can be
enjoyed on TV, the game must
depend on patronage.
The only event open in Ameri­
ca is Lone Pine, which isn't even
sponsored by the USCF. And
masters at the lower end of the
rating scale aren’t eligible.
Since it is next to impossible to
earn a living by competing for
prize money, which is pitifully
small compared to other sports,
chess must become more popular
before it can be a career.
Every weekend there is a chess
tournament somewhere in Ameri­
ca. These Swiss systems, which
accommodate many competitors
in a short period of time, are
invaluable as a breeding ground
for new talent. They could be­
come the basis of a pro tour, but
right now organizers are more
interested in quantity than in
quality. Many amateurs resent
their entry fees going to top
players, who are in a small minori­
ty, and as a consequence up to
90% of prize money now goes to
the lower levels.
A natural schism has developed
between amateurs and pros who
nevertheless have one thing in
common: a love of chess. Pro
groups in golf and tennis immeas­
urably helped the popularity of
those games and can probably
bring chess from a minor pastime
to a major sport.
As a first step masters are
banding together in a Profession­
al Chess Association whose goal
is to develop talent and encourage
excellence while at the same time
improving the living conditions of
established pros. This is the only
way America can maintain its
eminence in the world arena.
If chess thrives at the top, it will
surely thrive at the bottom. The
Fischer-Spassky match proved
that the public can be aroused by
colorful personalities and keen
competition.
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USCF In Trouble
The annual business meeting of
the U.S. Chess Federation was
held in conjunction with the Open
Championship. A slate of insur­
gents was elected overwhelming­
ly to the Policy Board, a mandate
for change in this deficit-plagued
outfit.
The USCF frittered away the
greatest opportunity ever present­
ed to any chess organization.
They were totally unprepared for
the Fischer boom when member­
ship soared to 70,000. It has now
dwindled to around 50,000 and is
stagnant.
An emergency arose as soon as
the new officers stepped in. Presi­
dent Gary Sperling, a lawyer who
also heads a large consumer
group in New York City, reported
that rosy figures showing a profit
for the last fiscal year concealed a
substantial loss. The budget in­
herited from the outgoing officers
was also "found to be far awry.”
On top of all that five senior staff
officers resigned. They cited their
“ increasing concern with a grow­
ing tendency in the Federation
toward divisiveness and hostility.”
“The USCF will take its cue from
the city in which we last met —
Phoenix—and rise from current
difficulties to far greater success,"
predicted Sperling.
The Open was won by an
unknown, Joseph Bradford, 28,
with 10.5 out of a possible 12
points. In addition to his meager
prize of $2,000 he got a free berth
in the next U.S. Closed Champi­
onship.
Sharing second were Grand­
master Leonard Shamkovich, who
emigrated from Russia, and Perry
Youngworth, who is only 17.
Trailing in the field of 498 were
grandmasters and Jack Peters,
president of the Professional
Chess Association.
Peters went wrong early against
Bradford by moving his King
instead of 11...QN-R3 to stop the
threat of N-B7ch. He missed his
last defensive try with 29...P-QR4.
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7 N -N 8 0 -B 3 26 R -0 1
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13 0 N -R 3 B - 0 2 3 2 N -N 5 c k
1 4 P -B 4 P -O N 333 N -Q 4ch K -B 2
1B PxP N -O B ch 34 B -B 4ch K - 0 2
1 8 K -K 2 Nx K P s i n i B
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The Reform Slate
The truth and beauty and justice
that exist on the chessboard, alas,
are seldom reflected in the organi­
zations that govern the game.
The new Policy Board of the
near-bankrupt U.S. Chess Feder­
ation was swept in with the hope
they could set matters right.
Despite their good intentions, one
of the early acts was to uphold a
ban on an ad for a new magazine
called W h a t’s Going On In U.S.
Chess? (10 Bermuda Rd., We­
thersfield, Ct. 06109).
Who should know better than its
editor, Fred Townsend, a former
board member recently defeated
in his bid for the presidency? His
obscure journal might have died a
natural death were it not for the
publicity surrounding thiscensor-
ship controversy.
His ad was suspended after
running for two issues in Chess
L ife & R eview the only nation­
ally distributed major chess mag­
azine (186 Rt. 9W, New Windsor,
NY 12550). The reason given at
first was “the ad seems to imply
that members have to pay $10 in
addition to their dues in order to
know what is going on."
I wrote to president Gary Sperl­
ing: “This reflects precisely the
kind of petty censorship mentality
that I complained of in vain to the
last Policy Board. It is ironic that a
former member should become
the first victim.”
Mr. Sperling replied: " The
decision was not based on cen­
sorship considerations, but in­
stead on legal factors. USCF's ad
for a publication containing mate­
rial facts which we know to be
wrong could involve liability that
we hardly need at the present
juncture."
This argument received a sting­
ing rebuke from John Larkins,
head of the Association of U.S.
Chess Journalists, who wrote:
The notion that the USCF could
be successfully sued for what
might be written in the pages of
another magazine, merely adver­
tised in Chess Life seems far­
fetched.
Chess Life occupies a special
P-Q R3
monopoly position... There simply
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thin-skinned themselves to take
the heat now that they are in the
Rx P kitchen. Whether or not such an
K -K 1 impression is accurate, in the long
run this negative public image is
surely more dangerous to the
Federation than any critical com­
mentary in a minor magazine."
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Power Struggles
A dm inistrators everywhere
have certain things in common,
and those who guide the fortunes
of chess are no exception. It
seems to be the plight of pros who
fight for better conditions to run
afoul of the chess establishment.
In Argentina the Chess Federa­
tion decreed that no player is
eligible for their Olympic team
who doesn't compete in the na­
tional championship, it didn't
matter whether conditions were
poor, prizes low. or how these
dates conflicted with the players
other commitments. Naturally
these regulations were made by
officials who are not noted for
their prowess at chess.
As a result Argentina suffered
because their 3 leading players—
Najdorf, Panno, Quinteros—were
disqualified from the Olympic
team. These grandmasters have
already proved themselves amply
in the world arena, but they were
punished for not kowtowing to
local officials.
In America the embryonic Pro­
fessional Chess Association pro­
tects top players to some extent.
It's an uphill struggle because
many USCF officials regard the
PCA as a threat to their power.
As a founding member of the
PCA, I would very much like to see
it succeed and assure talented
youngsters a future in chess. The
PCA welcomes input from those
who are animated by a love of
chess, amateur or pro.
James Schroeder, the crusty
editor of M in i-M ig h t observed:
"The Professional Tennis Asso­
ciation is a success because they
sold their product. They didn t get
any help from the amateur tennis
association and they did compete
against them. The PCA should
compete against the USCF by
offering tournaments, matches,
lessons, exhibitions, etc. If the
PCA can't beat the heck out of the
USCF then they don't deserve to
exist. They couldn't ask for more
inept competition.
"It is impossible to be a success
by depending upon 40,000 USCF
members, who will never give
enough money, instead of reach­
ing the ten million chess players
who play at least once a week.
Evans wants to milk the USCF
cow, but that cow is d ry ."
Perhaps Mr. Schroeder has ■
point. But most pros want to
cooperate rather than compete
with the ailing USCF.
Good players prefer playing to
organizing. That's probably why
administrators take over in almost
every field.
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Hungarian Flock
Socrates observed that a she­
pherd may be judged by the state
of his flock. He was promptly
warned to stop this subversive talk
about shepherds and flocks.
Judging by its latest chess
flock, Hungarian shepherds must
be doing something right. Not
since 1927 and 1928—the first two'
chess Olympiads—has Hungary
been victorious. Her stunning
upset at the 23rd Olympiad in
1978, ahead of mighty Russia and
65 other teams, seems to defy
explanation.
Edmar Mednis, an American
master who competed recently in
Budapest, provided the answer in
an article called Where Profes­
sionals Are Kings. Although Med­
nis is a noted author whose books
include How To Beat Bobby
Fischer his report was rejected in
our only national chess magazine.
Indirectly Mednis blasts the
shepherds of the U.S. Chess
Federation who have virtually
suspended support of top level
chess in America. In the Illinois
Chess Bulletin Mednis writes:
“ For a country to succeed in a
given field, there must be support
for this either by public or private
means. That both routes can lead
to success is shown by the prog­
ress of chess in Hungary and
Great Britain since the advent of
the Fischer era in 1972.
"The head man in Hungary,
Janos Kadar, is an avid chess
enthusiast and he has arranged
that a cadre of chess profession­
als can devote their efforts to
chess on a full-time basis. Each of
them gets a direct monthly sti­
pend from the state consistent
with what engineers, lawyers,
doctors, earn.
"I must admit that I was envious
to see that throughout the course
of the tournament the Hungarian
players kept receiving ■ continu­
ous stream of chess publications
from the world over. And equally
important to the actual help given
is the attitude associated with the
help. The Hungarian Chess Fed­
eration doesn’t feel it is doing a
great favor to its masters by
helping them to compete effec­
tively; instead it realizes that such
assistance is a natural part of its
existence.
"Hungary and Great Britain
support the actual playing of
chess. It is exactly this area where
the U.S. professional has the
greatest of difficulties in making a
living."
Mednis does not advocate state
subsidies, and he stresses that
England is doing just fine with
corporate and private support.
Money alone won't do the trick,
but it certainly helps.
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G lobetrotter
James Tarjan is a young Ameri­
can grandmaster who won his
spurs by going to Europe to
secure tournament invitations.
Without his gold medal in the 23rd
Olympiad the American team
would have placed far lower than
third behind Hungary and the
USSR in a field of 66 nations.
Upon his return from Buenos
Aires Jim competed in the 14th
American Open. After sweeping
his first six games, he disdained to
play it safe and coast to victory by
drawing with two lower rated
opponents. A victim of his own
fighting spirit, he lost consecu­
tively to Vincent McCambridge
and Paul Whitehead, both 18.
Whitehead shared first with
David Strauss (who lost only to
Tarjan) in a field of 472. Tarjan,
barely in the prize money in a
multiple tie for fifth, immediately
embarked for another internation­
al event in Yugoslavia.
Jim knows better than anyone
the kind of struggle the pro faces
even in the chess community. He
spearheaded a drive to assess all
players in USCF tourneys an extra
dollar to go into a chess develop­
ment fund.
This painless, practical plan
sponsored by the Professional
Chess Association, would take the
place of government subsidies
that support Eastern European
stars. Yet this first attempt to put
chess on a sound financial footing
in America met with tremendous
opposition and delegates of the
50,000 member USCF voted it
down 49-3.
Writing in the PC A N e w s le t­
te r (1009 Macarthur Blvd., Oak­
land, Ca. 94610) Tarjan observed:
"I hope the chess community does
not take the following position
with the top master and aspiring
junior: We would like to see you do
well and bring honor to the U.S.
and we enjoy playing over your
games and sharing in the glory of
your accomplishments, but we
don't want to support you except
verbally. Find someone out in the
real world who knows nothing of
chess and let him help you.
"I would like to see a method
found within the framework of the
USCF to support master chess. I
feel that if properly done the
majority of members would sup­
port such a program ...We need
top competition, training pro­
grams for young players, school
exhibitions, etc. The establish­
ment of a fund directly out of
tournament revenues is clearly a
controversial idea, but perhaps an
idea whose time may come."
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Olympic Issues
America, which won the world
team championship in 1976, did
not send its best team to the Malta
Olympiad in 1980 and finished
fourth. Chess L ife, the official
journal of the USCF, reported:
"Grandmasters Lubomir Kavalek
and Walter Browne were invited to
join the team. Neither one accept­
ed his invitation,”
However, this letter to the editor
from Kavalek was never pu­
blished. These excerpts shed light
on the underlying issues:
It is not true that I declined the
invitation...The truth is that I
agreed to participate in Malta on
the strongest team and under fair
conditions for all players. With the
agreement of the majority of the
invited players, I asked lor modifi­
cation in payment and of the
selection criteria. With both issues
unsettled, I received a letter stat­
ing that since I could not find my
way to accept the invitation it had
been extended to another player.
After I was removed from the
team in this manner, a modifica­
tion in payment for the team
members was approved as n result
of my initiative, but I was not given
an opportunity to decide if I would
like to participate under the new
circumstances.
The strict application of USCF
ratings for selecting the players
and determining the board order
had been questioned by many
players...Participation in Swiss
open tournaments in this country
is rewarded much higher than
successes in international events,
and the factor of international
experience is unduly neglected
when the team is selected.
The honorarium for participa­
tion in the Malta Olympiad was, in
fact, $1500...Since 1970 U.S. team
members have been accustomed
to receiving $2000 minimum and
in the last two years top players
have been subjected to severe
cuts for all kinds of events.
If I continue to accept these
policies silently while the cost of
living and salaries in other profes­
sions are rising continuously, I
will not only endanger the finan­
cial basis of my own life, but will
also jeopardize the economic
security of all top players and the
existence of top chess in this
country. The consequences of
their disappearance would be
disastrous for the popularity and
the expansion of chess...interest
in the game would dwindle to
nothing and amateur chess would
suffer as well.
Burt Hochberg, former editor of
Chess L ife, points out: "How
can we make progress while we
are alienating our best players and
discouraging the development of
master chess? Do you think there
is no connection between the way
we treat our strong players and
the fact that our membership is
still declining? There is enough
money—it's simply being spent on
other things."
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Odd M on Out
FIDE, the world chess body,
compels the world champ to defend
his title every 3 years. In 1975 Bobby
Fischer forfeited his crown because
FIDE would not grant all his condi­
tions:-he accused FIDE of being a
tool of the Soviets and quit the game
in disgust.
Outgoing FIDE President Max
Euwe of Holland, himself an ex-title-
holder, admitted that world champ
Anatoly Karpov wrested more con­
cessions from FIDE than Fischer had
ever sought. Euwe referred to a
rematch clause, stricken in 1963,
that the Russians reinstated against
challenger Viktor Korchnoi, a Soviet
defector, in 1978.
Previously the USSR rammed
through a resolution that no interna­
tional tourney would be accredited
unless all contestants had the
blessing of their national federation.
This was an attempt to blacklist
players like Ludek Pachman who left
Czechoslovakia after serving time in
jail for protesting the Soviet invasion
On the basis of this resolution
Russia tried to bar Korchnoi from the
title shot he had earned. FIDE,
however, had the courage to uphold
Korchnoi's right to play.
Syndicated columnist Sidney Har­
ris observed: "Not many decades
after it began as a simple form of
lawn entertainment on a lazy sum­
mer afternoon, tennis assumed an
official structure. Within a relatively
few years the structure began to
dominate the game and control the
players."
The same thing seems to be
happening in chess. The U.S. Chess
Federation just revised its guidelines
for inviting players to the Olympic
team and the national champion­
ship, which is the first step towards
qualifying for the world title.
The policy board, dominated by
chess amateurs, ignored interna­
tional titles and seeded players with
lower ratings who win minor USCF
sponsored events. The new rules, a
triumph of provincialism, also require
established grandmasters to com­
pete in 10 games annually in at least
two domestic events. This discrimi­
nates against less active players as
well as those who spend the year on
the prestigious foreign circuit.
Instead of promoting excellence,
this policy weakens America in
international competition. Moreover,
the USCF exposes itself to a conflict
of interest by both organizing tourna­
ments and rewarding only contes­
tants from their domestic events.
Jack Peters, past president of the
Professional Chess Association,
echoed the sentiments of many pros:
"I do not like the antagonistic big
stick approach of the USCF."
Since Fischer didn't play in a
domestic event for over five years
before he won the title, he would be
ineligible under these new guide­
lines. The Russians wouldn't have
had to face him because local
regulations would have stopped him
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Did Spassky Forget? A Costly Fluke David Bronstein The Craziest Game

The shock waves from the Alekhine's death in 1946 de­ As a youngster, I cranked out Soviet grandmaster David
Fischer-Spassky match are still prived the world of a titleholder. a limited edition of Bronstein’s Bronstein failed to qualify at
being felt on opening theory. The World Chess Federation took 39 best games on ■ mimeograph the Brazil Interzonal, but he had
In game 6 — his most beautiful advantage of this interregnum to machine. Although he had won the satisfaction of creating the
win of the match — Bobby sur­ organize a tournament among five the Soviet championship, he was craziest game of 1973.
prised Boris with an innovation grandmasters at the Hague and virtually unknown in the USA. A chess editor asked Bron­
on move 14 in Spassky’s pet Moscow in 1948. Two years later in 1951, after stein to annotate the game.
Tartakower variation. The winner was Mikhail Botvin- holding the lead until the 23rd "B ut it’s impossible!" exclaimed
Later it was discovered the nik whose reign spanned 15 years game, he only tied Botvinnik in David." Neither of us knew what
"new" move was not new; it was until he was deposed by Petrosian a world championship match. the next move was going to be.
played two years earlier by Fur­ in 1963. In all he defended his title The champion retained the title I can’t even tell you if I was
man against Geller (Spassky’s 7 times against Soviet challengers and Bronstein never again winning. Such a game is played
second in Reykjavik). Geller lost in Moscow. scaled the heights. A pity. in the air.”
with same reply Spassky made! These matches were all set at Years later, balding pixieish Rushing in where angels
Was Spassky unfamiliar with 24 games. The first player to Bronstein said: “ I just wanted fear to tread, all I can say for
that game? Was his match pre­ exceed 12 points was crowned. to prove Botvinnik was no god. sure is that Bronstein missed a
paration so superficial? The drawback became obvious Winning was not so important — forced win on move 71 and that
This recent game and the fol­ in the very first match between but rather, it was important to Panno could have defended bet­
lowing interviews shed some Bronstein and Botvinnik in 1951. show that his was not the only ter afterwards. Have fun.
light on these questions. Two games before the end Bron­ way to play chess.”
White: BRONSTEIN Black: PANNO
Timman-Geller, Hilversum 1973: stein was a point ahead and In search of fresh paths,
Ruy Lopez
1 P-Q4, P-Q4 2 P-QB4, P-K3 3 coasting to glory. But Botvinnik Bronstein regards each contest
N-QB3, B-K2 4 N-B3, N-KB3 5 held the title on a tie at 5-5 with 14 as a creative challenge. In an 1 P-K4 P-K4 55 R-B6 K-R3
B-N5,. 0-0 5 P-K3, P-KR3 7 ancient variation he produced a 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 56 RxP R-B7
draws. 3 B-N5 N-B3 57 R-B6 R-R7ch
B-R4, P-QN3 8 PxP, NxP 9 BxB, In 1954 Botvinnik again kept his bombshell against Rojahn at 4 Q-K2 8-K2 58 K-N3 QxQch
QxB 10 NxN, PxN 11 R-B1, B-K3 title against Smyslov in a 7-7 tie Moscow 1956: 1 P-K4, P-K4 2 5 P-B3 P-Q3 59 KxQ NxKP
12 Q-R4, P-QB4 13 Q-R3, R-B1 N-KB3, N-QB3 3 B-B4, N-B3 4 6 P-Q4 B-Q2 60 R-KN1 N-N4
14 B-N5!? Q-N2! (Spassky lost with 10 draws. Clearly this state of N-N5, P-Q4 5 PxP, N-QR4 6 7 P-Q5 N-QN1 61 R-B7 R-Q1
affairs was unsatisfactory, but it P-Q3, P-KR3 7 N-KB3, P-K5 8 8 B-Q3 P*B3 62 R-Q1 B-K7
with 14 . . . P-R3I? 15 PxP, PxP 9 P-B4 N-R3 63 R-QN1 RxP
15 0-0, R-R2 17 B-K2, N-Q2 18 was not until 1978thatthesystem PxP!? No one ever thought of 10 N-B3 0-0 64 N-B5 N-K3!
N-Q4! Q-Bl? 19 NxB, PxN 20 was changed to require either sacrificing this Bishop for 2 11 P-KR3 N-B4 65 P-N7! R/7xN
P-K4! P-Q5? 21 P-B4.) player to win six games outright to Pawns! After 8 . . . NxB 9 Q-Q4, 12 B-B2 PxP 66 KxR NxR
ascend to the title. 13 BPxP Q-B2 67 P-N8/QRxNch
The question is: was Geller’s N-N3 10 P-B4, P-B4? (correct is 14 B-Q2 P-KN3 68 K-N6 N-K3
The 1951 match was heart­ B-N5ch) Bronstein's wild attack 15 P-QN4 N-R3 Dfl Q-K8 B-N5
new 14th move discovered be­
fore or after the world cham­ breaking for Bronstein who never prevailed against weak defense. 16 P-R3 N-R4 70 R-N1 R-Q4
got another crack at the title. He 17 P-N3 QR-B1 71 P-K4(b)
pionship match? Geller (after But these unorthodox tactics 11 B-N3 K-R1 R-Q3ch
the Timman game): “ After my mishandled several easy end­ would backfire, his results suf­ 19 0-0-0!? P-QN4 72 K-R5 R-R3ch
defeat against Furman I an­ games. He started with 4 draws fered from excessive experimen­ 20 K-N2 Q-N2 73 K-N4(c)
and a win, and it was this fluke 21 B-R6 KR-Q1 R-N3ch
alyzed this opening thoroughly tation. He pursued beauty, not 22 Q-Q2 N-N1 74 K-B3 K-N4
and came to the conclusion that which almost broke his spirit. just the point. How many chess- 23 P-N4 N-KB3 75 Q-K7ch K-B5
instead of my faulty move 14 Bronstein missed 50 PxP KxP masters do you know who are 24 B-N5 B-K1 76 Q-B6ch KxP
disappointed when winning a 25 Q-K2 QN-Q2? 77 R-K1ch K-Q4
. . . P-R3? the move Q-N2! with 51 P-K7 B-B3 52 N-B6 P-R5 53 P- 28 QxP Q-B2 78 RxPch K-Q3
the idea of a Pawn sacrifice K8/Q BxQ 54 NxB P-R6ch 55 KxP game in a major tournament be­ 27 R-QB1 N-N3 79 R-R5 R-B3ch
solves Black’s opening prob­ K-B6 draw. Or later even 57 N- cause their opponent fails to 28 Q-R6 Q-Q2 60 K-Q2 B-B4
lems. During the preparations put up the best defense? 29 KR-K1 K-N2 81 Q-K5ch K-Q2
K6ch K-B6 58 P-B5 P-K7 59 N- 30 B-K3 R-N1 82 R-Q5ch K-K2
for the title match I naturally Q4ch K-B7 60 NxP KxN 61 K-R4 In 1954, I met Bronstein 31 N-Q2 P-R4 83 R-R5 R-Q3ch
revealed it to Spassky. It is a during the USA-USSR match in 32 P-N5 N-R2 84 K-K1 R-Q1
K-Q6 draws. 33 P-KR4 P-B3 85 K-K2 B-Q6ch
puzzle to me why he neverthe­ Recently Bronstein explained New York. We both shared a 34 PxPch BXP 86 K-K3 B-B4
less did not accept this line." his final blunder on move 57 as a passion for Marilyn Monroe mov­ 35 R-R1 Q-K2 87 R-R3 R-Q2
Spassky: "Why? Simply because ies and saw them together. 36 N-B3 R-Q2 88 Q-R8 K-B2
in my opinion 14 . . . Q-N2 is slip of the hand: “ Time trouble was 37 N-QN5? R/2-N2 89 R-R8 R-B2
over and I started thinking about In 1955 the American team 38 N-B3 B-Q2 90 K-B2 K-K2
not better than many other fought a return match in Mos­ 39 K-R2 B-N5 91 Q-K5 K-B2
moves in this position. 14 . . . the opening, immersing myself in B-Q2 92 R-R8 R-B7ch
all the details of Black's 8 th move cow. My opponent was Bronstein 40 N-R2
P-R3 was not the cause of my in 4 games. In awe, I lost 1 and 41 N-B3 B-N5 93 K-K3 N-B1
defeat. I blundered later.” for a full 45 minutes. Then I 42 N-Q27! BxP 94 Q-QSch(d)
drew 3. Before resuming one of 43 B-B2 B-N4 N-K3
accidentally touched my King and our adjourned games he stood BxB 95 Q-K5 N-B1
Now return to Timman-Geller: 44 N-N3
15 PxP, PxP 16 RxP, RxR 17 had to move it." on his head in a corner doing 45 PxB R-B2 96 K-B4 R-B1 (e)
W hite: BRONSTEIN Black: B OTVINNIK 46 8-Q3 B-B1* 97 K-N3 R-Q1
QxR, N-R3! 18 BxN, QxB 19 Came 6 S icilian Defenee 1S51
Yoga exercises. 47 Q-R5 P-R3!? 98 Q-B7ch R-Q2
Q-R3, Q-B5 20 K-Q2?! (20 Q-B3! 1 P-K 4 P-QB4 30 R/K -Q 2 K-B2 The last time I saw Bronstein 48 BxP R-R2 99 Q-B4CH B-K3
R-N l! is interesting) Q-KN5! 21 2 N-KB3 N-QB 3 31 N-K2 B-B7 he was fu ll of excited plans for 49 P-N5 N-B5 100 Q-QN4 R-K2
50 Q-N4 NxRP! 101 K-R4 R-K1
R-KN1, P-Q5! 22 NxP, Q-R5! 23 3 P-Q4 PxP 32 R-Q1 B-B 4 a mixed media chess show — 51 KxN(a) BxB 102 K-N5 B-N5
R-K1, QxPch 24 R-K2, Q-B8 25 4 NxP N-B3 33 N-N3 QR-KN1 flashing great chess combina­ R1 P-N6I R/2-R1 103 K-R6 R-K2
5 N-QB3 P-Q3 34 N-K2 R-R2 53 N-R4 N-B3 104 Q-N3ctl R-K3
NxB, PxN 26 Q-Q6, K-R1 27 P-K4 6 B-KN5 P-K 3 35 P-B5 P -K 4 tions to the accompaniment of
(better is Q-Q7!) R-QB1! 28 54 N-R5 R-QB1 105 Q-N2 Resigns
7 Q -Q 2 P-K R 3 36 N-B3 B-Q5 music and ballet.
K-K3, R BI 29 R-Q2? P-K4 30 8 BxN PxB 37 RxB PxR "Everybody thinks I’m crazy,” (a) Why not 51 QxN, BxB 52
QxP? Q-K8ch 31 R-K2, Q-N8ch 9 0 -0 -0 P-R3 38 RxP R/2 -N 2 he said with ■ twinkle. "Crazy PxB, R-N3 53 K -N l, R/2xP 54
32 K-Q3, R-Qlch 33 K-B3, 10 P-B4 B-Q2 39 N-K2 RxP
11 K-N1 B -K2 40 BxR RxB like a fox," added a competitor. Q-N2, Q-N2 55 K-B2?
Q-Q8! 34 Q-QN5, Q-Q5ch 35 "No, crazy like a Crazy man," (b) Correct is 71 RxB! R-Q3ch
12 B-K2 NxN 41 N-B4 R-N6ch
K-B2, P-R3! 36 QxP, Q-B4ch 13 QxN Q -R4 42 K-N2 R-N5 chimed another. 72 K-N7! N-B4ch (72 . . , PxR?
White Resigns. If 37 K-N3 (or 14 KR-B1 P-R4 43 NxP RxRP 73 Q-R8ch) 73 K-B7, R-Q2ch 74
37 K-N l, R-Q8 mate) R-Nlch 15 R-B3 Q-QB 4 44 NxP K-N3 K-B6, PxR 75 KxN White wins.
38 K-R4, Q-N5 mate. 16 Q-Q2 B-B3 45 RxP K-B 4 (c) Not 73 KxR? N-B2ch and
17 R -K 3 Q -R 4 46 P-K5 R-Q5
18 B-B3 0 -0 -0 47 RxR KxR
NxQ next. It’s tricky.
19 Q-Q3 R -Q 2 48 N-N4 BxP (d) If 94 RxP, R-K7ch! 95 KxR,
20 P-KR4 K-N1 49 P-K6 PxP B-N5ch 96 K-K3, PxR draws!
21 P-R3 B-Q1 50 P-B6? B-K1 (e) Stronger is 96 . . . N-K3ch.
22 K-R2 Q -Q B 4 51 K-N3 P -K 4
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Losing Moves Brazil's Mecking M ore On Mecking Sacrificial Orgies

It’s a chess axiom that one Now that Fischer has shown Brazil’s stormy prodigy Hen­ The Sicilian, known as a
side must make a bad move that Russia can be beaten, other rique Mecking, still feuding with fighting defense, has fallen on
before losing. The annotator’s nations are eyeing his throne. his own chess federation, is b hard times. Even the sacred
job is to find it. These two ex­ Brazil's president Medici said: bright threat to Soviet supremacy. Najdorf Variation is succumb­
citing games from the Brazil In­ "Brazil won the world soccer Mecking has a reputation as a ing to damning sacrifices by
terzonal feature a bad move. championship with the feet. Now thorn in the flesh of organizers White — continents apart.
Yugoslavia’s Lubomir Luboy- we must win with the head too.” and a nasty opponent. During a In the firs t game Black is
evic, 23, takes more risks than Henrique Mecking, 22, faces game he remains immobile with punished, for a careless order
any grandmaster alive. He set a Soviet star Viktor Korchnoi, in his fingers plugged in his ears or of opening moves, in a stunning
scorching pace but faltered in the first round of the current his hands fanned out from his King hunt. In the second Black
the stretch, surpassed by B Candidates' matches. In ■ recent forehead. He wears bright orange succeeds only in, earning his
players in a field of 18 includ­ interview Mecking spoke frankly. sport shirts emblazoned with the opponent a $ 1,000 brilliancy
ing the surprise victor, Henrique Q. What do you think of yourself? motto of hissponsor, the Brazilian prize. But was the “ sac” sound?
Mecking, 21, Brazil’s superstar. A. In time, the future world Coffee Institute. W h ite : TA L B la ck: STEAN
champion in person! After Fischer was stripped of his H a stin g s 1 9 7 3 /4
W hite: LUBOYEViC B la ck: SMYSLOV
C aro-Kann Defense Q. Do you think a Russian will title, they met in Venezuela to
become the next challenger? 1 P-K4 P-QB4 18 R-Q1 4- B-Q5
1 P-K4 P-QB3 24 N-N5ch BxN discuss a match. Although the two 2 N-KB3 P -03 19 PxP PxP
2 P-Q4 P-Q4 25 PxB N-N3 A. If that happens, it will only prima donnas agreed in principle, 3 P -04 PxP 20 NxB PxN
3 PxP PxP 26 P-B4 Q-N3ch prolong Fischer’s rule. Only the nothing more was heard, 4 NxP N-KB3 21 Q xQ P-f K-K2(c)
4 P-QB4 N-KB3 27 K-R2 K -N l young generation of fearless 5 N-QB3 P-QR3 22 Q -B 5 + K-B3
5 N-QB3 P-K3 28 Q-N3ch K-R1 “ It has been said of Mecking 6 B-KN5 P-K3 23 R-B1 + K-N3
6 N-B3 B-K2 29 R-K6 Q-B7 fighters can destroy the Fischer 7 P-B4 Q N-02 24 Q-K7 P-B4
7 B-B4 PxP ao Q-N3 QxQch myth. To cope with him you that he has no personal style, 8 0-B 3 0-B 2 25 Q XK P + K-N2
8 BxP 0 -0 31 KxQ R-Q1 must renounce fam iliar patterns. which may be true. But he seems 9 0 -0 -0 P-N4? 26 Q -K 7 + K-N3
9 0 -0 N-B3 32 B-B5 B-B1 to be getting stronger all the time, 10 BxP! PxB 27 P-KR4 R-R4
10 R-B1 P-QR3 33 R-QB6 B-B4
You must not let him impose 11 N/4XP 0 -N K a ) 28 P -R 5 + KxP
11 P-QR3 P-QN4 34 RxP K-N1 upon you his style, which is like and he obviously prepares his 12 P-K5 B-N2 29 Q -B 7 + K-R5
12 B-R2 B-N2 35 B-Q6 K-B2 snake poison. The old-fashioned openings very well,’’ writes Danish II Q-K2 PxP 30 Q-BS + K-N6
13 P-Q5 PxP 36 R-N6 B-Q6 way, heavy with security devices, grandmaster Bent Larsen. 14 B -B4! B-B4(b) 31 Q-N5 + K-R7
14 NXQP NxN 37 R-N7ch K-K3 15 BxN PxB 32 Q-R4 + KxP
IS BxN R-B1 38 B-N4 R-Q2 incessant tiptoeing on shallow Now 24, Mecking recently 16 RxN! B -K 6 + 33 R-B2 + K-N8
16 R-K1 B-B3 39 R-N6ch K-B4 waters of draws, offers no hope emerged as runner-up to Yugos­ 17 K-N1 KxR 34 N-K2 m a te.
17 B-Q6! R-K1 10 B-Q6 N-K2 against Fischer. lavia's giant killer Lubomir Lu-
IS BxPch KxB 41 B-K5 K-K5 (a) No better is 11 . . . Q-B3 12
19 Q-QSch K-N3 42 P-N3 K-K6 Q. Does Brazil subsidize you? boyevic at the 4th Las Palmas
20 RxR(a) QxR 43 P-R4 N-B4ch A. That’s right. I get about P-K5, N-Q4 13 NxN, PxN 14
Tournam ent. A fte r getting QxP, QxQ 15 N-B7 mate.
21 Q-Q3ch K-B2 44 K-R2 B-K5 $1,300 ■ month. Simultaneous
22 R-K1 N-K2! 45 RxP R-Q7 smeared in this opening, Mecking (b) The only chance is 14 . . .
23 P-KR4(b) 0 -0 1 ! and B lack won displays double that. Materially was sensationally lucky against a
secure, I have time to devote B-K2 15 BxN, NxB 16 N-B7+
tail-ender from Peru. K -B l 17 PxP, N-Q4 18 N/3xN,
(a) White should take a draw: myself completely to chess. Rodriguez resorted to the risky
20 Q-Q3ch, K-B2 (not 20 . . . Q. How much do you study BxN 19 NxB, PxN 20 QxP with
Schliemann Defense and followed a strong attack.
K-R3 21 RxR, QxR 22 Q-B5! chess? theory until he uncorked 9...Q-Q3!
menacing B-B4ch) 21 Q-Q5ch. A. Eight hours daily. (c) Or 21 . . . B-Q4 22 NxB, PxN
But dreams of glory crumbled at 23 QxP+ K-K2 24 R-K1+ K -B l
(b) White's lost. If 23 BxN, BxB GL And you expect? the climax of his scintillating
24 Q-B5ch, K-Nl 25 Q-K6ch, A. To sit down opposite Fischer! 25 Q-B5 + K-N2 26 Q-N5+ K-Bl
attack. Two mistakes in a row cost 27 Q-R6+ K-N l 28 R-K3! P-B3
K-Bl 26 N-K5, R-Ql! Q, Do you have a secret system him a win, then a draw.
in these preparations? 29 R-K7, Q-KB1 30 Q-K3!
The NY Times informs us that Perhaps White should vary with threatening Q-K6 + or Q-KN3+.
A. I think the best way to pre­ 9 P-Q3, or even earlier with 5 PxP
the next is “ one of the best posi­ pare myself for the Russian W h ite : LOMBARDY
tional performances of the grandmasters is to concentrate W h ite : MECKING B la c k : RODRIGUEZ
event.” Reshevsky is wrongly R uy Lop ax B la ck: QUINTEROS
criticized for his 1 1 th move, but on their games against Fischer. 1 P-K 4 P-K4 M a n ila 1973
not for his real error on move 32. I hope to kill two birds with one 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 14 P-KN3 NxRP!
stone that way. 3 B-NS P-B4!? 15 KxN Q-R3ch 1 P-K4 P-QB4 13 KR-B1 F►-QN4(a)
4 N-B3 N-Q5 18 K -N 1 (b ) B-N5 2 N-KB3 P-Q3 14 NxKP!? PxN
W hite: HORT B la ck: RESHEVSKY 3 P-Q4 PxP 15 Q -N 6 + K-Q1(b)
W hite: SMYSLOV B la ck: MECKING 5 B-R4 N-KB3 1 7 Q -K 1 Q-R6 4 NxP N-KB3 16 P-K5 PxP
K in g ’s In d ia n Defense 6 PxP B-B4 18 B-01 QR-KB1
E ng lish O pening 5 N-QB3 P-QR3 17 P-B5! PxP
1 P-QB4 P-KN3 22 R-N1 P-B4 7 NxP 0 -0 1 # P-03 P-KR4(C)
2 P-Q4 B-N2 23 R-N7 PxP B ra zil In te rzo n a l 1973 6 B-KN5 P-K3 18 BxN BxB
N-B5
8 0-0 P-Q4 20 B-NS RxBP(d) 7 P-B4 P-KR3 19 N-Q5 Q-B3
3 N-QB3 P-Q3 24 R-R1
4 P-K4 N-KB3 25 NxP B-B4 1 P-QB4 P-K4 24 BxR NxB 9 N -K 2 0 -0 3 ! 21 QxR RxO 8 B-R4 B-K2 20 RxP R-B1
0 -0 26 Q-B4 2 N-QB3 N-KB3 25 R-K1 B-B5 I O N xN BxN 22 RxR OxPch 9 Q-B3 QN-Q2 21 BN4! R*N3(c)
5 B-K2 KR-N1
6 N-B3 P-K4 27 R/1-N1 RxR 3 N-B3 N-B3 26 B-K4 N-Q4 1 1 N -B 3 N-NS! 23 R-N2 O-KB ch 10 0 -0 -0 Q-B2 22 RxB! PxR
7 0 -0 QN-Q2 28 RxR B-QB1 4 P-KN3 B-N5 27 P-QR3 PxP 12 P-B3(a) RxP 24 K-R2 BxB 11 B-K2 R-QN1 23 Q-N7 R-N2(d)
a R-K1 P-B3 29 R-N1 'B-QR3 5 B-N2 0 -0 28 PxP N-B6 13 PxB RxN 25 R-02 Raalgna 12 Q-N3 R-N1 24 Q-K7 M ate.
6 N-Q5 P-K5 29 B-B3 P-B3
9 B-B1 Q-N3 30 Q-B2 BxB
10 P-Q5 N-B4 31 KxB Q-R4 7 N-R4 B-B4 30 R-QB1 RxP (a ) If 12 P-KN3 BxPch 13 RxB (a) Trying to improve on Grefe-
8 0 -0 R-K1 31 K-N2 R-QB4
1 1 R-N1 PxP 32 K -N l B-B1(b)
9 P-Q3 PxP 32 RxN B-B8c h NxR 14 KxN BxP 15 P-Q3 B-N5 Browne, 1973 USA Champion­
1 2 BPxP P-QR4 33 R-N7 R-R2
10 QXP N-K4 33 KxB RxR wins. Or 12 P-KR3 BxBP! 13 PxN ship: 13 . . . P-KN4 14 PxP,
13 P-KR3 B -02 34 RxR QxR
14 B-K3 P-R5(a) 35 P-N3 N-R4 11 Q-B2 P-B3 34 B-Q5ch K-B1 BxKNP 14 P-B3 (on 14 NxB BxQ N-K4 15 N-B3! with an edge.
12 N-QB3? NxP 35 K-K2 RxQRP (b) If 15 . . . K-Bl 16 P-K5, PxP
15 N-Q2 0-B 2 36 Q-B4 N-N2
13 N-R4 B-B1 36 K-Q2 P-QN4 15 RxB Q-N5 gains material) BxN
16 R-B1 KR-B1 37 P-N4 N-K1 14 QxN P-QN4 37 N-B5 P-N5 15 NPxB Q-N6ch 16 K-R1 Q-R6ch 17 P-B5, P-K5 18 BxN, PxB (or
17 P-QN4 PxPe.p. 38 Q-N5 Q-R1 38 N-K3 18 . . . BxB 19 B-R5! wins) 19
15 Q-Q4 PxN P-N6 17 K-N1 R-B3 forces mate.
18 NxP P-N3 39 Q-Q7! QxQP 16 P-K4 B-R3 39 K-B3 R-R7
19 P-QR4 Q-Q1 40 QxN QxN (b ) Not 16 K-N2 B-R6ch! 17 KxR QxRP+ R-N2 20 PxP followed
17 R-K1 Q-N3 40 K-N4 RxP
20 NxN NPxN 41 B-RG Q-K8ch 18 B-K3 B-N5 41 KxP P-N7 Q-K3! 18 P-Q3 R-B1ch 19 B-B4 P- by N-Q5 wins.
21 Q-B2 N-R4 and B la ck Resigns 19 QxQ PxQ 42 B-R2 RxP (c) Not 21 . . . B-N4+? 22 RxB!
KN4 threatening P-N5.
(a) Sharper is 14 . . . KR-B1 15
20 KR-Q1 B-K7 43 K-N3 R-R6
(c ) Missing 19...P-KR3! (threaten­ But the strongest defense is 21
21 R-Q4 P-B4 44 N-B1 R-R8 . . . Q-K3! (intending Q-B2) and
N-Q2, Q-Ql 16 N-B4, N-Kl. 22 RxB PXR 45 N-Q2 R-KN8 ing R/1-B4 and R-R4) 20 B-B4 if 22 RxB, RxR 23 QxNP, R-KN3.
(b) 32 . . . QxP? 33 R-N8ch, 23 P-K5 N-N5 W hite Resigns R/1xB! 21 PxR B-R4! 22 Q-K3
B-Bl 34 QxQ, RxQ 35 NxQP,
(d) Also hopeless is 23 . . .
(forced) RxO 23 PxR QxPch 24 K- R-Kl 24 B-R5.
NxQP 36 B-R6 wins. N2 B-N3 with a winning endgame.
32 . . . NxQP is always refuted ( d ) 20...R/1-B4! 21 B-R4 P-KN4 22
by Q-B4. Correct is 32 . . .Q-R3! Q-K8ch K-N2 23 Q-K7ch K-N3
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M aking Their M ark Winning W ith Black 1 9 7 4 USA Championship M idnight Oil

Young Americans are making Black is on the defensive Recently in Chicago grand­ A tournament game is ad­
their mark in the world arena. from the start. The better player master Walter Browne, 25, won journed if it is not completed
International master titles have w ill win with either color, but it the nation’s most important in the first session. In the in­
just been awarded by FIDE to takes longer with Black. title on his second try. As white terim both players study it
James Tarjan and Edmar Med- A century ago only 15% of or black Browne left them black fiercely, and often with others.
nis; Norman Weinstein and John tournament games were drawn , and blue — romping to victory At the 1974 USA Champion­
Grefe are waiting in the wings. White won almost half and with 6 wins and 7 draws. ship, Norman Weinstein spent
Another hot prospect is Mark Black 35%. Now more than half The average age of the com­ 40 minutes sealing his 41st
Diesen, 17, of Potomac, Md. At are drawn, White wins around petitors was 27, yet veterans move, leaving himself scarcely
his debut in the challengers sec­ 30%. It has become harder to dominated the top standings. 20 minutes for his next 15
tion at Hastings, England, Mark win with Black, easier to draw. Last year's co-champion John moves until the second control.
scored 6 wins and 4 draws. In Black's perennial problem is Grefe, 26, and Ken Rogoff, 21, I should have known he
addition to $480 for firs t prize, to infuse life into a passive were the only other members of sealed a lemon: the longer one
he earned an invitation to the opening when White is clearly the "youth group" who achieved takes on b move, the worse it
elite premier section next content to draw. Double-edged plus scores. usually is. But after analyzing
Christmas, a star-studded field defenses like the Sicilian, how­ for two days, I sadly concluded
since 1896. Final Standings he could draw with best play.
ever, are getting battered. 1. Browne ....................... 9'/2
In San Francisco Mark took White's grip is so deadly that 2. Benko ...................... 8 His sealed move took me by
2nd behind Larry Christiansen when Black tries to wrest the 3. Evans ......................... 8 such surprise that I suddenly
at the 1973 USA Junior Cham­ initiative, it usually backfires. 4. Saidy ........................... lV i
found myself with a won game.
pionship. Then he tied for 15th So Black must seek to outplay 5. Bisguier ...................... 7 The problem was how to win it.
at the mammoth Open in his opponent gradually and wait 6. Grefe ........................... 7
Chicago with a score of 9-3, W hite: EVANS B lack: W EINSTEIN
for a mistake. 7. Reshevsky .................. 7
only a point out of first. This E ng lish O pening
W h ite : OENKER B la ck: EVANS 8. Rogoff ......................... 7 1 P-QB4 P-QB4 35 R-N3 R-N7
January he tied for 3rd at the 9. W einstein.................... 6 2 N-QB3
Lone Pine 1974 P-KN j 36 R/N-Q3 R/N-Q7
First Jr. Tournament of the 10. Soltis ........................... 5Vi 3 P-KN3 B-N2 37 R-Q6! RxR
Americas in San Juan. K in g 's In d ia n Defense N-QB3 38 KxR R-B3
11. Zuckerman .................. 5Vi 4 B-N2
Mark fared poorly at Lone 5 N-B3 P-K3 39 R-B3 K-B1
1 N-KB3 N-KB3 36 N-R3 N-K5 12. Commons .................... 5 6 P-Q3 KN-K2 40 K-Q3 K-K2
Pine in March, the strongest 2 P-QB4 P-KN3 37 N-B4 R-Q1 13. Karklins ...................... 4Vi
B-N2 38 P-R4 N-Q3 7 0 -0 0 -0 41 K-B4 P-KR4{a)
3 P-KN3
open ever held in the USA. But 4 B-N2 0 -0 39 R-Q2 P-K5 14. Gilden ......................... 3Vi 8 B-Q2 P-Q4 42 K-N5 K-Q2
Mark is aware that improvement P-Q3 40 R-Q1 R-Q2 9 Q-B1 P-N3 43 R-B3(b) P-R3 +
5 0 -0 B-N2 44 K-B4 K-K2
10 B-R6
comes from losing to better 6 N-83 P-B4 41 N-Q2 P-B3! When this position was first 11 BxB KxB 45 R-N3 R-B2
7 P-Q4 N-B3 42 R-QB1 K-B4 reached in Yates-Kashdan,
players, not beating weakies. 8 PxP PxP 43 R-Q1 N-N2 12 R-Q1 R-B1 46 P-B4(C) P-B3
"Old man” Walter Browne, 25, 9 B-K3 Q-R4 4 4 N-B4? RxR Hastings 1931/32, White could 13 P-N3 Q-Q2 47 R-N6 R-Q2
QxQ 45 KxR P-N4 make nothing more of his in iti­ 14 Q-N2 K-N1 48 RxRP R-Q7
captured $2,000 at Lone Pine, 10 Q-R4(a)
P-N3! 46 PxP PXP 15 PxP NxP 49 R-R7 + K-K1 (d)
11 NxQ ative than the tame 14 B-Q2,
where entry was restricted to 12 N-B3(b) B-QR3 47 K-K2 K-K3! 16 NxN QxN 50 P-B6 RxP
masters rated 2250 or higher. 13 P-KR3 QR-Q1 48 N-Q2 N-Q3 B-K3 allowing Black to consoli­ 17 N-Q2 Q-Q1 51 K-B5(e) K-Q1!
R-Q2 49 N-N1 K-Q4 date. But because of Browne’s 18 P-QR3 R-B2 52 K-Q6 R-Q7 +
Pal Benko and Grefe tied for 14 P-N3 19 P-QN4 Q-QE 53 KxP R-Q6
15 QR-Q1 KR-Q1 50 N-B3 + K-K4 new move it appears that Black
2nd, pursued by this writer, Kim 16 RxR RxR 51 N-N1 N-B4 20 QxQ NxQ 54 KxP(f) RxP
Commons and Julio Kaplan. N-K1 52 N-Q2 K-Q4 must consent to the time-con­ 21 BxB PxB 55 P-R4 R-KB6
17 R-B1
Grandmasters Florin Gheorghiu 18 N-Q2 N-Q5 53 N-N1 K-K4 suming retreat 8 . . . N-B3 22 P-K3 N-N4 56 K-K5 R-K6 +
N-Q3 54 N-Q2 N-Q3 (instead of N-QN5). "I feel like 23 PxP N-B6 57 K-Q4 R-K8
(Rumania) and Levente Lengyel 19 N/2-N1 24 R-K1 PxP 58 R-KN7 R-KB8
20 K-B1 K-B1 55 N-N1 N-N2 an innocent victim ," said Bis­
(Hungary) lagged far behind B-N2 56 N-Q2 N-R4 25 QR-B1 R-N7 59 K-K5 R-K84-
21 K-K1 guier afterwards. “The moral is 26 RxN RxN 60 K-B6 R-KB8
their American competitors. 22 BxB NxB 57 P-B3! PxP
NxN 58 N x P + K-B4 not to trust the books.” 27 R-N1 KR-Q1 61 R-Q7 + K-B1
Earlier Browne posted a sizzling 23 N-N5 28 R /1-N 3 R-Q4 62 R-Q4 P-R5
24 PxN K-K1 59 P -K 4 + (d ) KxP
first at Beverwijk, Holland, in b 25 N-Q2 N-Q3 60 N x P -f K-B4 W hite: BROWNE B la ck: BISGUIER 29 P-K4 R-Q5 63 P-R5 P-R6
field of 16 (9 grandmasters). B-N7 61 N-B7 NxP 30 K-B1 P-B5 64 P-R6 P-R7
26 P-QR4 P e tro v's Defense 31 PxP RxKP 65 P-R7 R-QR8
27 R-B2 B-R6 62 N-Q6 + K-N5
B -N 5 + 63 N-K4 N-Q5 + P-K4 21 PxQ PxB 32 P-B5 R/5-K7 66 R-Q1 RxP
W h ite : DIESEN B la ck: NUNN 28 N-N1 1 P-K4
B-Q2 BxB + 64 K-Q3 K-B4 2 N-KB3 N-KB3 22 R-N1 R-N4 33 R-B3 R-N7 67 KxP R-R7
P irc-R ob a tsch Defense 29 34 R/N-Q3 R/N-Q7 68 R-KR1 K-B2
30 NxB P-KR4 65 N-Q6 K-K3 3 NxP P-Q3(a) 23 P-KR4 R-N4
H a sting s 1 97 3/4 P-K4 66 N-B8 K-Q2 4 N-KB3 NXP 24 RxR PxR DRAW
31 P-K3
32 K-K2 K-K2 67 NxRP K-B2 5 P-Q4 P-Q4 25 RxRP R-Q8 +
1 P-K4 P-KN3 21 B-Q4 KR-N1 33 N-N1 N-K5 68 P-R5 PxP 6 B-Q3 B-K2 26 K-R2 R-Q7 (a) The sealed move. Stronger
2 P-Q4 B-N2 22 R-R7 R-N1 34 N-Q2 N-Q3 69 K-B4 P-QR5 7 0 -0 N-B3 27 RxRP RxRP is 41 . . . R-B2! or 41 . . .
3 N-KB3 P-Q3 23 PxNP NxNP 35 N-N1(c) K-K3 70 KxP P-R6 8 P-B4 N-QN57 28 P-R5 RxP
4 B-K2 N-Q2 24 BxB RxB W hite Resigns 9 PxP K-B2
K-Q2 42 R-Q3+ K-Bl 43 K-N5,
NxB 29 R-R8
5 N-B3 P-QB3 25 PxP N -B 5 + 10 QxN QxP 30 P-R6 K-N3 R-B2 44 P-B6, P-K4! 45 K-B5,
6 P-QR4 N-R3!? 26 K-K3 NxP (a) Stronger is 10 B-Q2. 11 R-K1 B-KB4 31 K-R3 P-R4 R-K2! holding by a thread.
7 P-R4 P-QB4(a) 27 K-K4 P-K3
(b) White offered a draw. Not 12 12 N-B3 NxN 32 P-N4 P-N5 (b) Stronger than 43 R-Q3+
8 P-KR5 PxQP 28 P-B4 P-Q4 + 13 QxN P-QB3 33 PxP PxP
9 NxP N-QB4 29 P-B6 P -Q 4+ N-K5? NxN 13 BxR, B-Q2! 14 B-R6!! 34 R-K8 R-B8 K-B2 44 R-KB3, P-B4 45 R-K3,
10 B-N5 + B-Q2 30 K-K5 P-R4 (c) Hope springs eternal. An R -K N l(b ) 35 K-N2 R-B5 P-N4! 46 P-B4! P-N5!
11 B-K3 Q-R4 31 N-R4 K-K1 easy draw is 35 N-B4, NxN 36 15 R-K5 Q-Q2 36 P-N5 R-B4 (c) Correct is 46 R-N8! R-Q2
12 K -B 1!? R-QB1 32 RxRP N-K8 16 QR-K1 B-K3 37 P-R7 R xP -f- 47 P-B6, R-Q7 48 K-B5, R-B7+
13 N-N3 NxN 33 R-R8 + R-B1 RxN but the former U.S. cham­ 17 N-N5! O-O-O(C) 38 K-B3 R-KR4
14 PxN B-QB3 34 RxR-f- KxR pion hoped I’d overreach myself 18 NxBP! BxN 39 P-R8/Q RxQ 49 K-N6, R-N7+ 50 K-B7! RxP
15 Q.Q5 Q xB-j-(b) 35 KxP NxP after refusing his draw. 19 RxB QxP 40 RxR Resigns 51 R-N7! RxP 52 K-N8 + K-Q3
16 QxQ BxQ 36 N-N6 N -Q 5 + 20 RxB QxQ 52 P-B7 winning.
17 PxB N-N5 37 KxP R-Q1 + (d) A better try is 59 N-Q2!
38 K-B4 N-B4 P-R5 60 PxP, PxP 61 K-B3, (d) Necessary is 49 . . . K-Ql!
18 BxP K-Q2 (a) A well-known trap is 3 . . . 50 R-KN7, P-N4.
19 P-B3 N-K4 39 R-R8 N-K6 +
P-R6 62 K-N3, NxP! 63 NxN, NxP? 4 Q-K2! N-KB3 5 N-B6+
20 K-K2 P-B4 40 K-B5 Resigns
P-B5! 64 N-Bl, K-K5 65 KxP, (e) Missing 51 R-R8+ ! K-K2 52
(b) Not 14 . . . PxB 15 R-K5, K-B5 as in “ c” above.
(a) More consistent is P-KB4! KxP 66 K-N4, K-Q7 67 N-R2, Q-Q2 16 QR-K1, B-K3 17 P-Q5! (f) Also drawn is 54 R-Q7+ RxR
(b) 15 . . . BxB+ 16 QxB+ QxQ K-B7! (67 . . . P-B6 68 K-B4, PxP 18 RxB, PxR 19 QxR + 55 PxR, P-N4! 56 PxP (not 56
17 PxQ leads to the same bad P-B7 69 K-K4, P-B8/Q 70 NxQ, B-Bl 20 Q-B6.
KxN 71 K-Q4, K-N7 72 K-B4, K-B5?? P-N5I! 57 KxP, P-R5
endgame for Black. (c) If 17 . . . BxN 18 BxB, P-KR3 wins) PxP 57 K-B5, P-R5, etc.
K-R6 73 P-R5I! draws) 68 K-B4, 19 B-R4 P-KN4 20 B-N3, 0-0-0
K-N6 69 N-B1+, KxP 70 K-K3, 21 P-Q5! BxP 22 R-K7 also wins.
KxP 71 K-Q4! with drawing
chances for White.

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Good G rief No Applause Tom orrow 's Champions Russia For Choice

Some players can’t sleep after At Santa Monica 468 com­ Russia has long gone unchal­ Russia has won the chess
losing a game; others can’t sleep peted in the 10th American lenged in the battle for chess Olympiad every two years since
until they do: Chess is one long Open won by Peter Biyiasis and supremacy. The state subsidizes entering a team in 1952. And
regret, as we soon discover. Kim Commons ahead of John the game and gives free training there is every reason to believe
“ I have been for hours with Grefe, Dennis Waterman, Ross to promising youngsters. Russia w ill win the next one in
my eyes staring wide open burn­ Stoutenborough and Grand­ In America chess flourishes Nice this June.
ing like fire and nothing would master Walter Browne. from benign neglect — Bobby Each team consists of 4
bring sleep. At the close of a Danish grandmaster Bent Fischer was a happy accident. boards and 2 alternates. While
contest, I am wrought to such a Larsen said: “ One should stay Tough competition at home several nations can muster 4
nervous tension that for weeks away from weekend Swisses, aided his victories overseas. grandmasters for the top 4
afterwards I am in an almost but then what else is there here? The U. S. Chess Federation boards, few have reserve
uncontrollable state,” confessed You don’t learn 8 thing from last summer sent six players to strength. It must be remembered
Wilhelm Steinitz. beating patzers — except beat­ the 23rd world student team that of the top 50 players in the
After a crucial loss, Miguel ing patzers. In effect, the Swiss tournament in Teeside, England, world, half are Russian.
Najdorf hurried to a party. In prizes are to pay the better to provide some international On just two occasions in mod­
the midst of festivities he said players for giving lessons to the experience. The team was rated ern history was the USA able to
to the host, ‘‘Look at me. I’m weaker ones." lucky even to make the finals come in second; each time Bob­
laughing, I’m making jokes, and Huge turnouts would fade if of the 28-nation event. by Fischer was on firs t board.
I won’t be able to sleep tonight!" prizes were distributed accord­ But the magnificent six — Whether he w ill compete this
When Fischer lost his second ing to strength. A half point Cne! istorp, Matera, Stouten­ year is, as always, uncertain.
match game to Petrosian at often makes all the difference borough, Meyer, Ervin, Jacobs 86 nations participated at the
Buenos Aires in 1971, snapping to masters gouging each other —- actually led at the halfway Skopje Olympiad in 1972. Rus­
his 20-game winning streak, he to finish in the money while mark and finished second with sia scored 42 points, Hungary
said: “ I’m glad that’s over with! lavish class prizes are shared 22Vi points, edging out Hungary 401/2, Yugoslavia 38. Hampered
Now I can relax and start play­ by players behind them. Victory (22), England (2 IV2) and Den­ by a second-string team, the
ing chess again." is crucial and luck it vital. mark (19). USA made its worst showing
Usually our sins are amply Gamblers like Larsen and op­ Russia won as expected with ever — tied for 8th with Holland.
punished during ■ game. How tim ists like Browne fare well in 26V2 out of a possible 36 points. Chess boasts no distinction
could we be so dumb? Somehow these short knockout events. But they did not dominate the between professional and ama­
we manage to shrug it off before Their styles are geared for cal­ event, as in the past, and the teur. The best players always
the next round; but that knowl­ culated risks anyway. unknown Americans gave them compete freely without restric­
edge often haunts us and spoils "I played what had to be the some anxious moments. Their tion in the biennial chess
our tournament result. most b rillian t game, starting lineup featured two grandmast­ Olympiad.
If ignorance is bliss, we are with i Rook sacrifice," writes ers — Rafael Vaganian and Yuri A Soviet juggernaut recently
fortunate in being spared‘ such U. S. champion Browne, but fails Balashov — along with world overwhelmed the Yugoslav team
knowledge until iong after the to add that he was busted after junior champion Alexander Bel­ in an historic match held since
event is over. Recently while a dozen moves. “ Not one person yavsky and three others of inter­ 1956. And Russia did not even
studying my game with John applauded," he laments. “ Prob­ national repute. use most of her top players!
Grefe in the 1974 USA Cham­ ably this gives some clue as to An odd team from Hong Kong W h ite : VELIM IRO VIC (Y ugoslavia)
pionship, it dawned on me that why grandmasters don’t play in consisted of five brothers named B la ck: VASIUKOV (USSR)
I need not have accepted a Swisses very often.” Junjunwala, aged 8 to 18. They S ic ilia n Defense
draw. But so much tim e has finished near the cellar, just
W hite: SNYDER B la ck: BROWNE
elapsed that I feel only regret ahead of Japan and Iraq in 1 P-K4 P-QB4 12 P-QR4! P-N5(c)
S ic ilia n Defense 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 13 N-Q5 PxB
instead of pain. Group C. But who knows what
3 P-Q4 PxP 14 P-B3! P-N6(d)
1 P-K4 P-QB4 21 N-K2 B-K2 the future w ill bring? 4 NxP P-K3 15 P-K5 0 -0 -0
W h ite : EVANS B la ck: GREFE 2 P-QN3 N-QB3 22 B-K4 R-B1
3 B-N2 P-K3 23 G-N2 N-N5 Meanwhile at Manila Russia E N-QB3 P-QR3 16 QxP K-N1
K in g ’s In d ia n Defense lost its hold on the individual E B-K2 Q-B2 17 N-N4! Q-Q2(e)
4 N-KB3 KN-K2 24 PxP NXBP! 7 0-0 P-QN4 18 BxB KxB(f)
1 P-Q4 N-KB3 16 R-KN1 K-R2 5 N-BS P-QR3 25 BxN(C) R x B + ! world junior title . The new 8 NxN QxN 19 N-Q5ch K-R1
2 P-QB4 P-KN3 17 P-QR3 P-B5 a p -Q4 PxP 26 KxR B -B 4 + champion is Anthony Miles of 9 B-B3 B-N2 20 N-N6ch K-R2
3 N-QB3 B-N2 18 P-N4 P-N3 7 NxP NxN(a) 27 R-Q3 a-B2+ 10 B-B4 (a) P-Q3 21 NxQ
4 P-K4 P-Q3 19 PxP NPxP 8 QxN N-B3 28 K-Q1 BxR England. The highly touted RxN
11 R-K1 P-K4 (b) 22 QR-Q1 Resigns
5 N-B3 0 -0 20 R-N1 N-R4 9 Q-K3 B-K2 29 Q -Q 5+ K-R1 Soviet representative Sasha Ko-
6 B-K2 P-K4 21 B-K1 N-N3 10 Q-N3 B-B3 30 NxP ■-a chiev placed 6th and our own (a) An innovation. Usual is 10
7 0 -0 N-B3 22 Q-Q2 R-KN1 11 0 -0 -0 0-0 31 G-N2 B-KN4 Peter Winston was 8th.
8 P-Q5 N-K2 23 B-Q1 R-N1 12 P-B4 P-Q4 32 P-K6 K-N1 P-K5.Q-B2 11 BxB QxB 12 Q-Q3,
9 N-K1 N-Q2 24 R-QN2 B-KB3? 13 P-K5(b) B-R5 33 Q-KB2 B-B4 N-K2 13 P-QR4 with advantage.
14 Q-R3 P=B4 34 K-K1 W hite: MATERA B la ck: BALASHOV
10 P-B3 P-KB4 25 N-N5! BxN Q -R4+
11 P-KN4 N-KB3 26 RxB RxR 15 PxPep BxP 35 K-B1 R-KB1 (USA) 1974 (USSR) (b) More prudent is 11 . . . Q-B2.
12 N-Q3 P-B4 27 PxR B-R5 16 B-Q3 P-KN3 36 K-N1 B-R6 E nglish O pening (cl White gets a crushing attack
13 B-Q2 B-Q2 28 P-R4 BxB 17 Q-N3 B-R5 37 P-K7 BxP 1 P-QB4 P-K4 15 Q-B2! Q-Q2 on 12 . . . PxB 13 P-K5, Q-Q2
14 K-R1 P-KR3 29 QXB Q-QB1 16 Q-R3 P-K4 38 Q-K2 Q-Q4 2 N-QB3 N-QB3
19 Q-B3 P-Q5 39 P-QN4 B-N4
16 KR-B1 PxP 14 PxPch, K-Ql 15 PxP.
15 NPxP PxP Draw (a) 3 P-KN3 P-KN3 17 QxP QxQ
20 P-N3 B-K3 W hite Resigns 4 B-N2 B-N2 18 RxQ RxP
(d) Trying to close lines. Unclear
(a) After the game we analyzed 5 P-Q3 P-Q3 19 B-N4 R-K1 is 14 . . . PxP! 15 R-QB1, Q Q2
a draw: I intended 30 Q-KB1! (to (a) Better is 7 . . . P-Q3. 6 R-N1 B-K3 20 BxP B-B1 16 N-N6, Q-Ql 17 NxR, QxN.
7 N-B3 KN-K2 21 BxP RxP
stop N-N6+) P-B5 (else White (b) Browne gives 13 PxP N-N5! 8 0 -0 0 -0 22 R-Q7 P-N5
(e) If 17 . . . Q-N3 18 P-R5 (or
gets a bind with N-N2-B4) 31 but 14 K -N l! (not 14 PxP? 9 P-QN4 Q-B1 23 K-B1 R-B7 N-B6ch) is decisive.
N-N4 Q-B4 32 N-B6 P-B6 33 NxP+! 15 NxN BxB+ 16 KxB 10 P-N5 N-Q1 24 B-B7 R-K2 (f) If 18 . . . QxB 19 N-B6ch,
QxR) NxQP 15 NxN PxN (not 11 B-Q2 B-R6 25 RxR BxR K-B2 20 QxQch, KxQ 21 NxRch
Q-R3 N-N2 34 Q-N4 N-K1 35 12 N-Q5 NxN 26 P-Q6 B-B3
Q-B5! P-B7 36 BxP QxB 37 15 . . . BxB? 16 N-B3!) 16 BxB 13 PxN P-QR3(a) 27 RxP R-B3 wins material.
N-K7 Q-B7 38 RxN QxBP+ 39 QxB 17 RxP wins a Pawn. 14 BxB! QxB 28 R-KB4 Resigns
R-N2+ K-R1. Now 40 NxR (c) The only chance is 25 K-Nl
Q-B8+ leads to perpetual check, N-K6 26 Q-Nl NxR 27 QxN. (a) A grave error. Correct is 13
but much later I found 40 . . . BxB 14 KxB, P-QR3 15
N-N6+! RxN 41 QxR Q-B8+ 42 P-QR4, PxP 16 PxP, P-QB3.
R-N1 QxBP-F 43 Q-N2 wins for
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M o th er Russia Out O f The Book The Spanish Torture Prime Time

While Russia was expanding Chess is truly inexhaustible. Openings are often named in Mikhail Tal is alive and well,
her sphere of influence in Eastern Despite thorough analysis of honor of players who popular­ judging by his tie for first in the
Europe, her chessmasters made openings, reams of dreary foot­ ized them or places where they 42nd USSR Championship at
goodwill tours of satellite nations. notes, few players have con­ were introduced. In 1561 a Leningrad. People seem to forget
A famous Prague vs. Moscow quered all the intricacies of Spanish priest analyzed the that his meteoric rise to the title in
chess match in 1946 begat the even one variation. moves bearing his name: 1 P-K4 1960 took place at age 23.
takeover of Czechoslovakia. Memorizing book openings P-K4 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 3 B-N5. Born in Riga, the son of a
Mother Russia expects loyalty still won’t help us find the best It languished for 300 years. doctor, Mischa at 7 already was
from her subjects. Alla Kushnir, move in an unfamiliar position. Romantics preferred rollicking playing chess with patients in his
34, the world’s second best wom­ Chess is a game of understand­ gambits arising from 3 B-B4 or father’s waiting room. The youth­
an player,reportedly got an exit ing, not memory. 3 P-Q4. Even in 1859 Morphy’s ful firebrand once caught a plane
visa to Israel only after agreeing At the Folkestone Team Tour­ biographer Frederick Edge wrote to Moscow just to play in a speed
not to take part in future events for nament in 1933, Arthur Dake, a of, “That disgusting arrange­ tournament, only to discover that
the women's title. brash young American, crushed ment, the Ruy Lopez." it was closed to outsiders.
Hans Muller, the author of a re­ Morphy’s Defense 3 . . . Lean, pale, intense, Tal is con­
At the 6th Women’s Olympiad, spected treatise on the English P-QR3 now is considered best. sidered the greatest attacking
Russia's first place tie with Roma­ Opening, in 21 moves. The The main point is the 4 B-R4 genius of modern times. His fiery
nia was marred by a strange opening was an English! drives the Bishop to an inferior style has been tempered by cool
incident. Bulgaria tried to field its Similarly David Levy, a B rit­ post, while if 4 BxN QPxB 5 positional judgment since he
top team against Russia, includ­ ish master, wrote a book ex­ NxP? Q-Q5 6 N-KB3 QxKP+ re­ rarely gets a chance for fireworks
ing Mrs. Lematscho who emigrat­ tolling the Black side of the gains the Pawn favorably. against vigilant opponents.
ed there from the USSR after Sicilian Dragon. He called it White’s theme is simple: After holding the title only a
marrying a Bulgarian. When Rus­ “without doubt one of the most constant pressure on the enemy year, Tal lost a return match with
sia objected the Bulgarian captain interesting, complex, double- King Pawn, a deadly squeeze. the indestructible Botvinnik (who
changed his lineup. Although this edged and d iffic u lt openings ..." "When you play the Ruy, it’s like had just turned 50). Poor health
was against the rules, the chief Yet Levy succumbed with his milking a cow” (Bronstein). prevented Tal from making a
referee went along with it. pet line in a mere 19 moves His painful loss to Alexander comeback, but he is always ready
Seven other teams lodged a against Boris Spassky at the Belyavsky in the penultimate to delight his countless fans by
formal protest when they got wind Nice Olympiad in 1974 (cap­ round cost Tal outright victory. A
tured for the 12th straight time engaging in combat.
of it. The referee defended his draw would have clinched the White's grip often extends
d e c is io n on h u m a n ita ria n by a powerful Soviet team). Levy Soviet title, but Tal tried too hard
went astray on the very first well into mid-game; many major
grounds: the poor girl, said he. move out of his book! Does this to win and misjudged the ensuing variations have been deeply
was suffering from such pressure prove that his line is bad, or complications. Belyavsky, who is analyzed beyond 20 moves.
and conflicting loyalty that she simply that Spassky is the bet­ 21, must have reminded Mischa of White can attack on either wing
obviously was unable to play ter player? his own prime. and Black must be poised to
normally. W hite: T A L Black: B E L Y A V S K Y neutralize these threats. Often
Despite a wary friendship, Yu­ W h ite : SPASSKY B la ck: L E W the reward for prolonged, patient
Q u e e n ’s G a m b it D e c lin e d
goslavia just celebrated its 30th S ic ilia n Defense 1 P-QB4 P-QB4 21 P-N4 B-B1 defense is only a draw.
annual chess match with the 1 P-K4 P-QB4 11 P-KR4 2 N -K B 3 N-K B3 22 N-R4 RxR-f
2 N-KB3 P-Q3 P-QR4{b) Defending the Lopez requires
USSR in Belgrade. Russia won, as 3 N -B 3 N -B 3 23 RxR N -K 3 (c) a special skill; even an author­
3 P-Q4 PxP 1 2 B -R 6 NxP(c)
4 P -K 3 P -K 3 2 4 R -Q 1 (d) P-QR4
usual, but narrowly by 3 points. 4 NxP N-KB3 13 QNxN BxN
5 P-Q4 P -0 4 2 5 PxP PxP
ity like Svetozar Gligoric suc­
5 N-QB3 P-KN3 14 P-RS! P-Q4 cumbs to the Spanish torture.
Hardy Svetozar Gligoric, 52, 6 B-K3 B-N2 15 BxP Q-K4 6 P-QR3 P-OR3 26 H -K 2T 0-R 4
nearly led his team to its first upset 7 P-B3 N-B3 16 BXR QxB 7 P -Q N 3 B-Q3 27 N-KB3 BxN Against Lubomir Kavalek he
when a young Odessa master 8 Q-Q2 0 -0 17 Q-R6! N-N5(d) 8 B -Q 3 0 -0 2 8 PxB N-N4 drifts into a cramped position
9 B-GB4 B-Q2 18 RxB OxR 0 0 -0 P-Q N 32 0 N -N 3(d) Nx P without making any serious
ventured the tricky Benko Gambit 10 0 -0 -0 Q-N1(a) 19 BxP Resigns 1 0 B -N 2 ' PxQP 30 K-N2 N-R5I errors. Pressed for space, Gli­
against him. This weapon was IIK P x P B-N231 K-R3 0 -R 3
honed by grandmaster Pal Benko (a) More usual is Q-R4 or R-Bl. 1 2 R -K I R -B 1 3 2 Q -K 4 N-N3I
goric vainly tries to break free
who defected to America shortly (b) In his book Levy considers 13 PxP P X P 3 3 K -N 2 P-Q6 by sacrificing a piece.
after the Hungarian uprising. either 11 . . . R-Bl 12 B-N3, 1 4 N -K 5 IT NxP 34 B-Q4 R-B5 White: KAVALEK Black: GLIGORIC
P-QR4; or 11 . . . P-QN4!? 12 15 B xP+ N xB S S B x P IT i Q-B5 (USA) Olympiad 1974 (Yugoslavia)
Whit*: G LIGORIC Black: PA LA TN IK 16 QxN B-B4 3 6 Q -R 8 Q-N3I
«P -Q 4 N-KB3 25 N-Q2 R5-R1 N/4xP, N-K4 with tricky play. 17 0 -0 3 P-Q5 37 P-R3 OxR 1 P-K4 P-K4 21 P-N4 K-R1
2 P-QB4 P-B4 26 P-B4 N-R5 (c) Loses. Better is 12 . . . 18 N -K 2 (a) R-K1 38 BxB NxB(f) 2 N.KB3 N-QB3 22 N-N3 R-N1
3 P-Q5 P-QN41727 R-K3 R-R2 NxN! 13 BxB, KxB (unclear is 10 N -N 3 (b ) 0 -0 4 3 0 0 -0 5 R-B8 3 B—NS P-QR3 23 K-N2 Q-KB1
4 PxP P-QR3 28 N-B3 R2-N2 13 . . . NxKBP 14 PxN, KxB 15 2 0 N -B 3 N-N4 White Raslgna 4 B-R4 N-B3 24 R-R1 R-K1(a)
5 PxP BxP 29 P*K5 R-N6 P-R5, R-Rl) 14 QxN, P-QN4 5 0 -0 B-K2 25 B-K3 NxQP?!
6 N-QB3 P-KN3 30 P-K6 RxR (a ) Prudent is 18 N-K4 N-N4 19 6 R-K1 P-QN4 26 PxN N-B3
7 N-B3 P-Q3 31 BxR N2-N3 with a fight. NxN QxN 20 N-B3 BxN 21 QxB. 7 B-N3 P-Q3 27 P-N5 NxP
8 P-K4 B xB 32 B-B1 N-R1 (d ) If 17 . . . RxB 18 PxP wins. 8 P-B3 0 -0 28 B-K4 N x B -f
Or if 17 . . . P-KN4 18 N-B6ch! ( b ) Better is 19 NxQP Q-Q4 20 N5- 9 P-KR3 N-N1 29 PxN P-Q4
9 KxB B-M2 33 N-Q2 P-R4
10 P-KN3 0-0 34 P-N4 PxP PxN (18 . . . BxN 19 RxQ) 19 83 N-N4 21 P-KR4. 10 P-Q4 QN-Q2 30 BxQP P-K5
N-B2 ( c ) Less effective is 23...QxP24 11 GN-Q2 B-N2 31 BxB PxN-f-
11 K-N2 0 -N 3 35 PxP Q-N7 mate. 12 B-B2 P-B4 32 BxP R-K4
12 P-KR3 N-R3 36 P-B5 P-N4 NxQ N-R625 K-B1 BxN26 KrK2 N- 13 P-QN3 R-K1 33 P-R4 Q-K2
13 Q -K 2 N-B2 37 K-B1 K-N2 B527 K-Q2 NxQ 28 KxN. 14 P-Q5 P-N3 34 QR-Q1 RxKP
14 R-Q1 Q-R3 38 K-N2 R-KR1 ( d ) Necessary is 24 N-B3. 15 P-QR4 R-N1 35 KR-K1 RxR
15 QxQ RxQ 39 N-B3 R-QN1 16 P-QN4 P-B5 36 RxR Q-B2
16 B-B4 R-N1 40 B-Q2 R-N6 (e ) Or 29 NxP N-R630 K-B1 N-B5 17 N-B1 B-KB1 37 Q-K3 P-B4
17 R-Q2 K-Q2 41 R-B1 N-R3? ( f ) Time-pressure. Stronger is H B-N5 B-N2 38 N-K2 B-K4
18 R-0B1 BxN?42 NxP! PxN 19 G-Q2 N-N3 39 N-Q4 B-B5
38...N-R539 K-R2 Q-B6! 20 P-R5 QN-Q2 40 NxNP
19 PxB P-B3 43 BxP R-N7
R-R5 44 K-N3 R-N6I R esigns (b)
20 P*B4
21 R-B3 N-R3 45 K*R4 K-B1
22 P-R3 N-B2 46 B-R6I K-N1 (a) More tenacious is 24 . . .
23 R2-B2 N-R1 47 R-KB1 N-B2 P- R3 25 B-K3 N- K1 26 P-R4
24 B-B1 NI-N3 48 P-N5 Raalgns P-B3 forcing White to strive for
P-KB4 to open lines— if 27
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O ff-D a ys Changing Theory End O f The Line Double Trouble

Sometimes world champion­ Opening theory is a body of It is no longer possible for a An international tourney at
ship contenders are beaten k n o w le d g e based on an master just to sit down and play a Sombor, Yugoslavia, boasted the
with astonishing ease. They assessment of recorded games, tournament game. To achieve worst playing conditions of 1974.
just have off-days. serving a similar function as good results, preparation is half The organizers were long on
Even as consistent a grand­ precedent in law. It is a cold­ the battle. enthusiasm, short on money.
master as Hungary's Lajos Porti- blooded attempt to find the best Alekhine used to spend a lot of One contestant failed to show
sch can succumb to the strain moves for both sides, forever time kibitzing casual games by up, but two intrepid Americans
of tournament chess. Prior to his being tested and perfected. If ordinary players, perhaps in were not that lucky. Arthur Bisgui-
match against Tigran Petrosian, White wins consistently with a search of inspiration. Strictly er tied for 8th, sharing all of $30,
he tuned up at an international certain line, it stands to reason speaking he did not invent while EdmarMednisfinished 11th,
tournament in Madrid. But he Black must either strengthen that Alekhine's Defense (1 P-K4 N- out of the money.
unwisely snatched a pawn in line or abandon it. Experience KB3). But his adoption of an Electricity and heating were
round 4 and was lost in only forges its own verdict. eccentric move in serious play sporadic that winter. Lights flick­
13 moves. When an innovation works for a made it respectable. ered in the playing hall and the 15
W hite: HORT B la ck: PORTISCH grandmaster many players copy Experts often ransack obscure players huddled for warmth in
Queen’s G am bit D eclined regardless of its merits. Thus chess periodicals for opening overcoats during their games.
open ings go in and out of style the novelties whose true worth has "Diplomacy or no diplomacy,
1 P-Q4 N-KB3 17 Q-N4ch K-R1 been overlooked. Fischer once we were ready to explode!" fumed
2 P-QB4 P-K3 18 Q-R4 P-B4 way hemlines go up or down.
3 N-KB3 P-Q4 19 Q-B6ch K-N1 No sooner is a book written, a snared Reshevsky’s Queen in a Mednis. “We were told in no
4 N-B3 B-K2 20 Q-N5ch K-R1
game played, a move introduced, dozen moves, then stated he had uncertain terms that we would
5 B-N5 0 -0 21 Q-B6ch K-N1 seen the same trap between two have to share a room for 3
E P-K3 QN-Q2 22 PxB B-B3 than is it discussed and analyzed
7 R-B1 P-QR3 23 Q-N5ch K-R1 in the leading chess centers of the unknowns published several weeks.,.After much further dis­
8 P-B5 P-B3 24 Q-B6ch K-N1
world. Hungary's Lajos Portisch is months earlier in a Russian cussion it was explained that there
9 B-Q3 P-QN3 25 R-Nl Q-B2 magazine. was b misunderstanding, and we
10 PxP (a) QxP 26 R-N4 R-R2 a trend-setter who often spends
11 0 -0 QxNP 27 Q-N5ch K -R l his days subjecting master games W hite: FISCHER Black: R E S H E VS K Y lived happily ever after in cold,
12 N-QR4 Q-N2 28 Q-B6ch K-N1
to critical scrutiny. He rarely U S A Cham pionship 1938-9 drab — but single— rooms.”
13 N-K5 P-B4 (b) 29 KR-N1 B-N4
14 NxN BxN 30 R-N4ch PxR publishes his findings, preferring 1 P -K 4 F -G B 4 7 B-QB4 0-0 The winner, 22-year-old Jan
15 NxP BxN 31 Q-N5ch K-R1 to reveal them in his games and 2 N-K B3 N-QB3 8 B-N3 N-Q R 4T Timman of Holland, may have
16 BXN PxB 32 Q-R6 Resigns
score precious points. 3 P-Q4 PxP 9 P -K S N-K1 owed his success to sharing a
4 NxP P-KN3 10 BxPchl KxB room with his countryman Rob
Romania's Florin Gheorghiu 3 N-QB3 B-N2 11 N -K 8I PxN(a)
(a) Book is 10 P-QN4, P-QR4 11 also knows a lot of theory, and that 3 B -K3 N-B3 12 0 x 0 w ins Hartoch, 28 They worked togeth­
P-QR3, PxNP 12 PxNP, PxP 13 is precisely what caused his er and pooled their secret analy­
NPxP, R-R6 ! 14 0-0, Q-R4 15 downfall in the good old Smyslov (a )lf 11...KxN 12 Q-Q5ch K-B4 13 sis. Two heads can be better than
Q-B2, B-R3 with equality. V ariation of the Gruenfeld P-N4ch KxP I4 R-N1 ch K-R5 15 B- one, and they hatched a surprise
(b ) Black's in grave trouble. If Defense. Against Portisch's novel N5ch K-R4 16 Q-Q1 mates for Bisguier in his pet line of the
13 . . . NxN 14 PxN, N -Kl 15 maneuver 14 R-KN1 he blindly Two Knights' Defense.
During his match with Petrosian
R-N l! Q-B2 16 BxB, QxB 17 follows a game cited by theory in 1974, Portisch brooded over his Whit*: TIMM AN Black: BISGUIER
N-N6, R-Nl 18 NxP! (18 . . . 1 P-K 4 P -K 4 23 BxN BxBI
(Berg— Bozic, Belgrade 1949) failure to get any advantage in this 2 N-K B3 N-QB3 24 K-N1 N-Q3
BPxN 19 RxR) is shattering. where White played the plausible well known line. Portisch got 3 B -B 4 N-B3 23 B-N4 B-N3
Only a palooka loses rapidly 16 P-QR4 instead of 16 PxP! A nothing a fte rll B-Q30-012 0-0P- 4 N -N S P-Q4 26 KR -K1 B-N4
with white. Yet in this same close inspection reveals that 3 PxP N -0 R 4 27 N -K 2 P-KR4
QR4! 13 B-N1 B-Q2 14 P-B4 B- 6 B-N5 P-B3 28 NxN RxN
round that happened to Yugo­ Black is lost by move 24, for if QB3 15 Q-K2 P-N3 16P-KB5 N-B4 7 PxP PxP 29 B-B3 R-OB1
slavia's new star Albin Planinc, 24...P-KR3 25 N-K6 PxN 26 RxPch 17 Q-KB2 N-Q2! Then Portisch 8 B -K2 P-K R 3 30 R-K3 P-B3
fresh from his victory at the wins, while if 24... N-N3 25 Q-K5! noticed a 1967 postal game 9 N-K B3 P -K S 3 1 R.QS RxR
great IBM event in Amsterdam. (threatening RxB) nets a piece. In 1 0 N -K 3 B -03 32 BxR K-R2
How can you explain his incredi­ between two amateurs which 11 P-KB 4 PxPap 33 P-QN4 B -K6
due course theory will determine continued 11 B-K2 B-Q2 12 0-0 B-
ble blunder? I can’t. whether Black can achieve equali­ 12 NxP3 0 -0 34 P-B4 K-R3
QB3 13 Q-Q2 0-0 14 P-QN4! 1 3 P -Q 4 P-B4 35 K-N 2 P-B4
W hite: PLANINC B la ck: CALVO ty by varying on move 14 or 15. depriving Black's Knight of QB4. 14 PxP BxBP 36 N-K 3 P-B3
Reverse K in g 's Ind ia n W hita:PORTISCH Black:GHEORGHIU Recognizing this idea as the IS Q x Q RxQ 37 P-B3 B-B4
1 6 B -Q 2 N-B3 38 N-B7 K-N3
1 P-KN3 P-KN3 10 N-K1 Q-B2 Manila 1974 answer to his prayers, he 17 N-B3 N-QN57 39 N -Q 6 R-B2
2 B-N2 B-N2 11 N-Q2 QR-Q1 1 P-Q4 N-K B3 18 R-Q8I K-R1 improved w ith 11 P-QN4! 18 0 -0 -0 B-B4 40 NxB KxN
3 N-KB3 P-QB4 12 R-N1 B-B1 2 P-QB4 P-KN3 19 R-QB8I Q-B3 immediately. Unless Black finds a 1 9 N -K 1 N-NS 41 B-B3 P-N3
4 0 -0 N-QB3 13 Q-K2 P-Q4 3 N-QB3 P-Q4 20 B-Q4 Q-R5 20 P-OR3 N-QB3 42 R-QS K-B3
5 P-B3 P-K4 14 PxB P NPxP 4 N-B3 B-N2 21 BxBch KxB vital improvement, this innovation
6 P-K4 KN-K2 15 N-N3 P-B5 may spell the end of the line. 21 N-Q3 B-QN3 43 K-B 3 R-K2
5 Q-N3 PxP 2 2 Q -B 3ch K-N1 22 P-R3 N -K 6 44 P-QR4 Resigns
7 P-QR3 0-0 16 PxBP PxKP 6 QxBP 0-0 23 N-B7 R-N1
8 P-QN4 P-N3 17 QxP?? B-B4 W hile: PORTISCH Black: PFLBGER
9 P-Q3 B-QR3
7 P-K4 B -N 8 24 R5-KN5 P-B3 Manila 1974 S icilian Dafanaa Timman's 16 B-Q2 was a vital
W hite Resigns
8 B-K3 KN-Q 2 25 N-K 6 R-K1 1 N-KB3 N -K B 3 1 8 B-NS Q -Q 2
9 Q-N3 N-N3 28 P-B41 BxB improvement over 16 P-B3R-K117
2 P-B4 P -B 4 1 9 P-B4 P-B4
10 R-Q1 N-B3 27 R-R3 QxR4 3 N-B3 N-B3 20 PxP
K-B1 RxB! 18 KxR B-R319 K-Q1
PxP
11 P-Q3 N -K 4 28 NxQ PxN 4 P-Q4 PxP 21 B-B3 KR-R1 N-N5 with advantage (Mednis-
12 B -K2 NxNch 29 KxB PxP 5 NxP P-KN3 22 QR-K1 R-R8 Bisguier, New York 1958). Two
13 PxN B-R4 30 Q -B 4ch K-N2 6 P-K4 B-N2 23 P-NS BxN rounds later Hartoch ventured the
14 R-KN1! Q-Q2 31 RxPcHt KxR 7 B-K3 N-K N 6 24 QxBl N-Q1
19 R-N3 P-QB 3T 32 Q -B 7ch K-R3 same move, to his regret. Bisguier,
8 QxN N x N 23 RxR RxR
16 PxPt QxP 33 QxR Hsslgn* 9 Q-Q1 N-K3I7 23 RxR BxR
working alone, did his homework
17 N*N5! N-B1 10 R-B1 P-Q3 27 P-B3I P-K 3 and got revenge.
11 P-QN4I 0 -0 28 P-B6 PxP W hite: HARTO C H Black: BISGUIER
"In my opinion this game 12 B -K2 P-QR4 29 PxP PxQ (first 16 m oves as above!)
deserved the brilliancy prize even 13 P-QR3 PxP 30 PxQ B-B3 1 7 N -B 3 N -K N 3 I2 8 K -0 2 N-04
though it did not contain the 14 PxP B-Q2 31 BxP K-N 2 1 8 N -K 4 B-N3 2 9 N -0 1 BxR
traditional sacrifice essential to 15 0-0 B-OB3 32 B-B4 B -K2 1 9 P -K R 3 N-K 6 30 NxB N-BS
win such a prize. It is beautiful, but 1 6 Q -Q 2 IR-R6(a) 33 K-B2 Raslgna 20 BxN B x B 31 P-N3 NxB
17 N-Q5 K-R1 21 B-Q3 R-QN1 32 PxN R-K3
not 'brilliant'. Something is wrong
( a ) Not 16.. BxN? 17 QxB BxP 18 22 P-QN3 N-NS 33 N-QB 3 R-Q1
here, " commented Bent Larsen. 23 K -K 2 B-N3 34 N3 -K 2 B-R3
B-R6 R-K1 19 KR-K1! wins.
24 K R -0 1 T B N 2 3 3 P -Q 4 QR-K1
23 N-B2 N-Q41 36 N-B 4 R-K6
26 R-K1 N -K 6 37 P -K N 4 R6 -K3
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The British A re Coming Who Killed Round Robin? Breoks A rt O f W aiting

Hastings, England, is the first The 5th annual Statham Mas­ Safe, solid, sound chess is no Some players seem to just sit
major tournament each year and ters' Tournament in Lone Pine, guarantee of victory or success. back and wait for mistakes. They
the 50th edition of this classic was California, was the strongest open With all the skill in the world, you take few risks and find good
won by Vlastimil Hort, 31. The in chess history. Half of the 44 need breaks to win a tournament. moves. World champion Anatoly
Czech grandmaster was a half contestants were grandmasters, Quality is not always measured Karpov typifies the breed "Style?
point ahead of Russia’s Rafael the largest gathering for a single by results. Lajos Portisch did I have no style," he once said.
Vaganian, 23, and Iceland's Gud- event outside of the Olympiad. poorly at Manila 1974, yet his Position play is the art of
mundur Sigurjonsson, 27, in a The winner was Vladimir Liber- colleagues conceded he played accumulating small advantages
youthful field of 16 players. zon, 38. who recently emigrated the best chess there. Sometimes a until they add up to a big bang.
Never before has world chess from Russia to Israel. This writer good showing just means that a Since the modern master makes
been dominated by players barely trailed by a half point. A cluster of player got away with some des­ almost no attempt to win rapidly
out of their teens. Alexander six shared third: Walter Browne perate risks. against a strong opponent, quiet
Belyavsky, 21, the new Soviet co­ and Norman Weinstein (USA), Vladimir Liberzon's victory at moves are a vital part of his
champion, shared 4th with Swed­ Florin Gheorghiu (Romania), Lone Pine 1975 was fully de­ arsenal.
en's Ulf Anderssen, 24. Svetozar Gligoric (Yugoslavia), served, He was never in trouble Lasker and Petrosian both ex­
Spurred by a reward of 5,000 Oscar Panno and Miguel Quinter­ and played steady, smooth chess. celled in subtle tactics to tempt
pounds by financier James Slater, os (Argentina). Still, he didn't obtain a clear lead their opponents to overreach
Britain is racing to produce its first Unfortunately the crucial last untii the penultimate round. themselves. Lasker preached that
grandmaster. A prime candidate is round was marred by an illegal My path to second place was "the threat is stronger than its
world junior champ Anthony pairing which top officials of the rockier. After making a reluctant execution," and Petrosian re­
Miles who finished miles ahead of U S. Chess Federation were pow­ contribution to women's lib by frained from making threats at all.
his 5 compatriots and defeated erless to prevent. Instead of pair­ losing to Alla Kushnir of Israel in Like. Karpov, he is a boa-
both Russians. In 13 games with ing the six leaders together, as the first round, I rallied with 7 constrictor.
Soviet masters he has compiled a required by the rules, the tourna­ points from the next 9 games. This game sheds light on the
remarkable record of 6 wins and 7 ment director arbitrarily matched My wins against Suttles, Benko problem of when to do nothing.
two of them with opponents in a and Browne were especially sweet Black selects a variation fashion­
draws. because they all beat me the last
The current British champ lower group. able 25 years ago, stumbles early
Unlike a round robin where time around. What really started (14... KN-Q2 is correct) and suf­
George Botterill was the only one the streak, however, was a break
to beat Hort, yet he tied for 9th everyone plays everyone else, fers forever after. 15 B-B4! leaves
winners meet winners and losers in round 3. After goading Herman him horribly cramped.
with U S. grandmaster Pal Benko, Pilnik of Argentina into sacrificing
47, the oldest competitor. The meet losers in a Swiss tourna­ White completes his buildup but
ment. Players with the same a piece, I suddenly was on the finds no weak points to invade.
other American Mark Diesen, 17, brink of defeat. On move 20,
found the going rough and fin­ scores must be matched, unless Instead of the obvious 22 P-B4, a
they have already met. Theoreti­ confronted with two ways to threat which is easy to answer, he
ished next to last. His only victory prosecute his attack, Pilnik went
was against Botterill. cally a victor will emerge after 10 strengthens his position with ■
rounds by a process of elimina­ astray. The move he chose looked quiet waiting move (22 K-R2!).
tion. terrific; luckily for me it contained This gives Black plenty of rope
White: V A G A N IA N (U S S R )
Black: B OTTER ILL (England) At present, incredibly, no me­ a tiny but fatal flaw. and eliminates a back rank check.
1P-Q4 N-KB3 10 N-B3 B -KR 3? chanism exists for overruling a W hite: EVA N S Black: PILNIK Losing patience, Black seeks
2 B-N3 P-KN3 11 B xP! KxB Nim zo-lndian Defense counterplay by plunging his
willful pairing by the director. The
3 BxN PxB 12 Q-N3 K-K1 Queen into a bog; if 24...N/K4-Q2
4 P-K3 B-N2 13 NxNP Q-Q2 only way ■ player can protest is to 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 19 Q-B5 R-R8ch
5 N-K2 P-N3 14 NxR Q-N2 forfeit the game and withdraw 2 P-QB4 P-K3 20 N-Q1 B -N5(b) 25 N-R2! Q-K8 26 B-B2 Q-R8 27 R-
3 N-QB3 B-N5 21 B -K2 QxQ (c) Q1 seals the tomb. Extricating the
6 N-B4 P-Q4 15 Q -K 6 K-B1 from the event. 4 P-K3 P-B4 22 BxQ BxB
7 P-KR4 P-KR4 16 N-Q5 N-Q2 This appears to be part of a R-B1
Queen costs a piece and, ulti •
5 N-K2 P-Q4 23 KxB
8 P -B 4 PxP 17 N-K7 R M lg n « larger struggle between chess 6 P-QR3 PxOP 24 B-06! P-R4 mately, the game. Of no avail is
9 BxP B-N2 R-B7ch 33...PXP 34 NxB! PxN 35 N-Q6! R-
masters and chess beaurocrats. 7 KPxP B-K2 25 BxP
What can be done to prevent 8 P-B5 0-0 2 6 K -Q 3 R/8-R7 K3 36 NxP! PxB 37 NxB and wins.
9 P-QN4 P-QN3 27 B-N2 R-B3 W hite: EVA N S Black: BROWNE
White: VA G A N IA N Black: PLA NINC similar incidents in the future and 10 P-N3 P-QR4 28 N-B3 N-N5 King'a Indian Defenaa
1 P-04 N-KB3 13 Q-B3 Q-QN3 how can a player's rights be safe­ 11 R-QN1 RPxP 29 NxR NxPch
2 P-QB4 P-B4 14 R-01 RxRJ guarded? 12 RPxP PxP 30 K-Q2 NxR 1 N-KB3 N-KB3 23 RxR QxR
3 N-KB3 PxP 15 NxR N-B3 13 QPxP N-R3 31 B-Q4 R-QR3 2 P-KN3 P-KN3 24 P-B4 Q-R6
4 NxP P-K 3 1 6 G -K 3 T N-Q5 W hite: E VA N S Black: BENKO 14 N-Q4?! NxNP! 32 N-B3 R-R8 3 B-N2 B-N2 25 PxN PxP
5 N-QB3 B-N5 17 Q-K8I K-R2 Q uaan’s Gam bit Dacllnad 15 RxN BxP 33 R-N1 RxR 4 0-0 0-0 26 N-B3 NxNP
B N-N5 0 -0 18 P-K 3 N-B7I 1 P-04 P-Q41 9RxQ 16 R-N5 Q-B2 34 NxR P-N4 5 P-B4 P-03 27 R-Q3 N-B4
B-K3 6 P-04 Q N -02 28 BxN QxB
7 P-QR3 BxM 19 K-Q 2 B-B4! 2P-QB4 P-K 3 20 N -R 4 K-Q2 17 B -K3 BxN(a) 35 K -K 2 P-B4
8 NxB P-Q4 20 QxR Q-Q3I 3N-QB3 B-K221 KR-K1 18 QxB P-K4 36 K-B3 Resigns 7 N-B3 P-K4 29 N-QR4 Q-N5
K-Q3 6 P-KR3 R-K1 30 Q-N3 P-B4
9 B-N5 P-KR3 21 K-B1 N-R8 4PxP PxP22N-QB5 R-R3
10 BxN QxB 22 QxNP Q-B2 1 5B-B4 P-QB3 23P-B4! 9 P-K4 PxP 31 OxQ BxQ
R-B3 (a ) Also strong is 17...P-K4 18 N- 10 NxP N-B4 32 R-N3 B-R4
11 .PxP PxP 23 QxQ N-N8 6P-K3 B -K B 424P -B 5! NxP
12 QxP R-Q1 W h it* R e s ig n s B -K325RxB ch K6 BxN 19 RxB Q-K2. But not 11 R-K1 P-QR4 33 N-N6! BxN
7P-KN4 PxR K-N2
8B-Q3 B*Q326RxPch 17...B-N5? 18 RxB QxNch 19 B- 12 Q-B2 P-B3 34 RxB
RxR 13 B -K3 P-R5 35 P-B5 R-K2
9Q-B3! BxB27NxNch K-B2 Q2 holding by a thread. 14 QR-Q1 0 -R 4 ? 36 K-N1 K-B3
10PxB P-KR 428NxR ch K-Q2 ( b ) Correct is 20 . Q-Q2! 21 B-N2
B-Q2 29N/6xP R-QB1 15 B-B4! B-B1 37 K-B2 B-K3
1 1P-B5
12PxP Q -B 33 0P -R 6 P-R4 Q-N5! 22 P-B3 Q-QR5 with a 16 R-Q2 KN-Q2 38 K -K 3 R-Q2
N-K 2 3 1K-Q2 powerful attack. 17 R/1-Q1 NT-K4 39 R-N1 P-R3
130-0-0 P-R5 18 P-N3 PxP 40 B-B1 B-R7
14R-K1 N-R3 32P-R4 P-R4 ( c ) Now the attack is over. Black 19 PxP Q-N3 41 R-N2 B -K3
1 5BxN PxB 33K-K3 R-QN1 intended 21...Q-Q2 but saw the 20 B -K3 R-R6 42 R-Q2 R-KB2
16KN-K2 BxP? 34K-B4 RxP saving clause: 22 QxRch! KxQ 23 Q-R3 43 R-Q6
21 R-N1 R-K2
1 7N-N3 Q -R 3 ch 35P-R7 R-N1
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1 9 7 5 USA Championship W h at's New? A New M ove T a le n t Is n 't All

Walter Browne. 26, won the title We often forget that "the book” It’s no accident that White wins What’s more important — natu­
for the second year in a row in a is merely accumulated wisdom the majority of master games. The ral talent or constant study?
field of 14 at Oberlin College, from master games of the last two first move in chess is like the serve “ I want to teach my pufiil howto
Ohio. The youngest competitor, centuries. Many players are sp in tennis. Black's obligation is to become primarily a natural player
Ken Rogoff, 22, led most of the busy studying new wrinkles that blunt this initiative, break the who burdens his. memory very
way until he was defeated in round they neglect ancient openings. serve. little; for the natural player is a
11 by Bill Lombardy. Early in his career Bobby Fischer In theory Black should be better type of man than the book
Several surprises were in store demonstrated the potency of satisfied to draw. It's even a moral player,” affirmed Emanuel Lasker.
for the veteran grandmasters. forgotten lines. victory if that can be achieved Nowadays preparing for a
Arthur Bisguier could muster no Yugoslavia's Lubomir Luboye- quickly. Then the onus is on White tournament is like cramming for
better than an even score, drawing vic, the winner of the 1975 IBM to find an improvement or aban­ an exam and those addicts who
all his 13 games. Pal Benko, who tourney in Amsterdam, was the don the variation. live, breathe, and eat chess are
tied for second last time, wound victim of an innovation by his In I973 Lubomir Kavalek real­ usually rewarded by victory. How
up in the cellar; but he (jounced runner-up, Russia's hot young ized his ambition by sacrificing a can gifted amateurs cope with
back to win the 3rd World Open prospect Serge Makarichev. Pawn in the rarely used Schliem- dedicated professionals who
over the Fourth of July weekend. White was in dire straits after only ann Defense. By drawing with steep themselves in study?
One of the favorites, Lubomir 11 moves! Black, he inched closer to the title I can't think of anyone with
Kavalek, the 1973 co-champion, Whit*: LU B O YE VIC of USA champion. more raw talent than the late
posted a dismal minus score. alack: M ak arich ev White: BROWNE Black: K A V A L E K Nicolas Rossolimo, but he never
Although he was victorious in 7 of Patrov Defense Ruy Lopez
1 P-K4 1 P-K4 P-K4 11 N -K 5(b) P-B3 rose to the top. He was more
his last 13 international tourna­ „ Pj K 4 1B K-N1 PxPch interested in beauty than results.
2 M-KB3 n-fU3 17 KxR Q-Q3ch 2 N -K B 3 N-QB3 12 B -B 4(c) B-QB4
ments, he failed to win a game 3 NxP 3 B-NS P-B41? 13 P-B3 B-B4 "I will not become a hunter of
here. p - Q 3 1B K-R1 BxR
4 N-KB3 N* p 1a QxPch QxQ 4 N-B3 PxP 14 P-04 PxPep points at any price, I will not
Since tnis was also one of 10 5 P-Q4 p"2 * 2 0 BxQch K-R1 SONxP P -04 1 5 NxQPch B-K2 become a monster," he once said
zonal events held around the 6 B-Q3 B-N6 6 NxP! PxN 16 N-B2 0-N7
7 0-0 “ ’ i f 21 N-B3 7 NxN Q-N4 17 0-B1 Q-B6 Sour grapes? At the 1975 IBM
world, the first two places were N-QB3 2 2 N-N1 8-88
hotly contested Both Browneand
6 R-K1
0 P-83
B -K H S jaM.Q2 QR-K1 8 0 -K 2 N-B3 1 S O -K 2
B P-KB 4 Q-RS(a| 19 Q-B1
Ok7
Draw
tourney in Amsterdam, Lubomir
Rogoff qualified for the Interzon­ 10 Q-N3
P ®4 24 N-K4 RxN! Kavalek demonstrated that talent
° -° 23 BxR R-B7 1 0 P -N 3 Q-R8
al. the next stage in eliminating 11 KN-Q2 MxKBP! 2e alone is no match for talent plus
B-N7ch (a ) 9...QxBP was discarded be­
contenders for the title. They will 12 KxN B-RSch 2 7 K-N1 BxN
knowledge. He won this game
join Robert Byrne, seeded from 13 P-N3 P B» 28 BxB RxB
cause of 10 NxPch! B-Q2 (if 10... easily with a well-known trap.
the last cycle, and 33 others in
14 K-N2 PxP K-Q1 11 NxB KxN 12 P-04 is also W hite: K A V A L E K Black: R A JC E VIC
1S B-K4 B-R6ch! Resigns in White's favor) 11 BxBch KxB 12
playoffs leading to an eventual Catalan Opening
challenger for Anatoly Karpov in An interesting fact about this N-N5 with advantage. 1 N-KB3 P -04 9 P-K4 QN-Q 2??
1978. "new" variation is that it was all (b) 11 NxPch B-Q2 12 BxBch 2 P-B4 P-K 3 10 NxQBP! BxN
QxB 13 N-N5 P-B3 14 N-B3 0-0-0 3 P-KN3 N-K B3 11 KPxP PxP
White; BYRNE Black: BROWNE analyzed by Vienna’s Carl 4 B-N2 B -K2 12 PxP B-N2
Sicilian Defense Schlechter in 1902! He showed gives Black good counterplay, 5 0-0 0-0 13 P-Q6 BxB
1 P-K4 P-OB4 16 PxP N-K5 then that Black also wins after 15 ( C ) 12 NxP? P-QR3 13 B-R4 B-Q2 a p -0 4 P-QN3 14 PxB QxP
2 N-KB3 P-Q3 17 0-Q4? QxQ 7 N-B3 B-N2 15 KxP KR-K1
3 P-Q4 PxP 18 NxQ P-N4! PxP Q-Q3! 16 PxB R-B7ch! 17 KxR Thus matters stood for several
8 N-K S P-B3 16 Q-B3
4 NxP N-KB3 19 B-QB1 B-KN2 Q-R7ch 18 K-K3 Q-N 6ch 19 N-B3 years until Japanese analysts
5 N-QB3 P-OR3 20 N-B6 N-N6 R-K1ch 20 K-02 RxR! 21 QxPch "unscrew ed the inscru table White's extra Pawn is decisive.
6 B-K3 P-K3 21 R-KN1 NxB B-K3 22 NxR BxQ. In the game Schliemann" by demolishing this Careful preparation netted Ka­
7 B-K2 QN-Q2 22 RxP N-Q5! main line with 13 P-Q3! followed valek another point against Dutch
8 P-KN4 P-R3 23 RxB NxPch
Luboyevic could not save himself
9 P-B4 P-ON4 24 K-Q1 NxR with 16 KxB Q-Q2ch 17 K-N2 (or by the new 14 N-B7!! in place of grandmaster Jan Timman, who
10 P-N5 PxP 25 R-N8ch K-Q2 17 KxB R-B5ch mates) R-B7ch 18 the known 14 P-Q4 NxN! or 14 beat Walter Browne several
11 PxP R-R6! 26 R-B8 R-Q6ch K-N1 Q-R6 19 QxPch K-R1 20 N- QxP N-B7 with unclear complica­ months earlier with thiq identical
12 B-KB4 P-N5 27 B-Q2 RxP B1 RxNch! 21 RxR QxP mate. tions. Black can try 12...B-K3 line* Timman published ana­
13 N-Q5 PxN 28 NxP R-KB4 Unfortunately for Luboyevic, lysisciting 19...Q-B4 20 P-QN4! as
14 PxN NxP 29 B-B3 P-R4 The first ten moves were identi­
15 N-B6 Q-N3 W h ite R e s ig n s cal to Karpov-Korchnoi, 6th the winner of the 1975 IBM tourna­ a win for White; but he was burned
match game 1974, which continu­ ment in Amsterdam, he was unfa­ by home cooking.
ed: 11 QN-Q2 K-R1 12 P-KR3! miliar with this fresh breeze from Discouraged, Timman later
F I N A L S T A N D IN G S (Improving on 12 N-B1? BxN 13 the Orient. Kavalek, this time on varied against Hamann 12 P-B5 P-
Won Lost Drawn Points
Browne ............. ........ 4 0 9 SVl PxB NxKBPi 14 KxN B-R5ch 15 N- the other side of the board, K4 13 N-N3 B-Q2 14 B-K3,
Rogoff............... .... 4 1 8 8 N3 P-B5 with a strong attack, as in demonstrated the refutation "The life of a chessmaster does
Vukcevlch — .... 4 2 7 /Vi
Byrne .......... .... .... 2 1 10 7 Capablanca-Kostich, match 1919. Browne failed to find against him. not stop when he signs his scoie
Reshevsky . .. 2 1 10 7 Also dangerous is 12 OxNP R-B3 -sheet; it continues in sleepless
Commons . - 3 3 7 6Vg Whit*: K A V A L E K Black: LU B O YE VIC
Bisouier . .. 0 0 13 6V? 13 Q-N3 R-N3 with initiative for (first 12 m oves as above) nights and wonderful daydreams.
Lombardy 3 3 7 6'/3 The magnetic game owns us all,"
Tarian .. 3 3 7 k'h Black) B-R4? 13 QxNP R-B314 Q- 13 P-03! N-N37I21 BxB QxBch
kavalek 0 2 11 b'A N3 R-N3 15 B-K2! B-R5?! 16R-B1! 1 4 N -B 7 ! B -B 7ch2 2 K-B 3 P-KN3 said Kavalek
Grefe ............. 3 5 5 w
and Black, unable to reinforce his 1 SK -Q 1 P-K 8 23 RxN QxR Whit*: TIM ANN Black: K A V A L E K
Mednis ............ ........ 2 4 7 v/i 1 8 Q -B 3 ! N xP (a )2 4 0 -0 4 ! K -K 2 S icilian Defense
Peters ............... 3 5 5 y/i attack, succumbed in 31 moves. 17 Q -K 4 ch K-B1 25 NxB 0 -K 7 1 P-K4 P-QB4 18 N/7-Q S NxN
Beoko - • 0 3 10 5
Incidentally, the first master 18 BxP B-N5ch 26 N-K5 KR-B1 2 N-KB3 P-Q3 19 NxN Q-R4!
game with this line also ended in 19 K-02 R-K1 27 Q-Q7ctl K-B3 3 P-Q4 PxP 20 BxBch KxB
disaster for White, Lasker- 20 N-K S OxP 28 N -N 4cW asigns 4 NxP N-K B3 21 P-QR4 Q-B4
Pillsbury, St. Petersburg 1895, 5 N-QB3 P-QR3 22 P-QN4 Q-B3
(a ) Also hopeless is 16...R-B1 17 6 B-NS P-K3 23 P-R5 PxP!
went: 11 B-B4? BxN 12 PxB N-N4 Q-K4ch K-Q2 18 Q-Q4ch K-B2 19 7 P-B4 B -K2 24 PxP R-KN1
13 K-N2 Q-Q2 14 Q-B2 N-K315 B- Q-Q6ch K-N3 20 Q-N4ch K-B2 21 6 Q-B3 Q -B 2 2S N-N 6ch K -K 1 !
QB1 B-Q3 16 N-Q2 QR-K1 17 N- QxR P-QN4 22 Q-Q8ch K-N2 23 9 0 -0 -0 QN-Q 2 26 P-N3 R-N5!
B1? N/KxP snaring a Pawn. 10 B-Q3 P-R3 27 KR-K1 R-Qn1
N-Q6ch ‘K-R3 24 NxP! 11 Q-R3 N-N3 28 BxP PxB
What's new under the sun? 12 B-R4 P -K 4 29 RxPch K-B1
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Gladiators The Short End Fair Warning Portugal

To some players a draw is
gaining a half point. To others it is
losing a half point.
No matter how you look at it
about ■ third of all masters games
split the point. Indeed, the logical
outcome of a well-played game is
a draw.
Yet amateurs and tournament
organizers bemoan this state of
affairs, especially short draws
where both players are unwilling
to take risks. The rise of profes­
sionalism has created the fre­
quent strategy of drawing with
one's peers while trying togainby
slaughtering the also-rans.
“There are creative masters but
the organization of the chess
world does not produce competi­
tion between them. The master is
discouraged by the prevailing
system” noted Emanuel Lasker.
What can be done about it? "If
two players don’t want to do battle
with each other, a brigade of
flame-throwers won't help,” said
Tal. World champion Tigran
Petrosian was yanked out of the
lineup rather than risk meeting
Fischer on board 1 at the Havani
olympiad. Spassky was substitut­
ed and held Bobby to a draw.
In the early sixties FIDE tried to
enforce a peculiar rule requiring
players to seek the approval of the
tournament director if they
wished to draw in less than 30
moves. Fischer promptly broke it.
"That rule was made for the
Communist cheaterSl'tie barked.
Grandmaster draws reflect mut­
ual respect, fear, and frustration.
The trouble at the upper echelons
Is that draws are all but Inevitable
unless someone makes mistakes
or tries too hard to win.
Various remedies have been
suggested, such as altering the
scoring system so that draws
count only 1/3 instead of 1/2. It is
feared that this will produce great
distortions, a cure proving worse
than the disease. Offering mone­
tary incentives for wins also
wouldn't hurt.
In this game two young, ambi­
tious rivals meet to decide first
The only thing more painful Grandmasters stand accused of
than a loss is a short loss. In being less than candid when
international play a loss in less annotating games. Even if they
than 20 moves is rare. have no secrets, they are invaria­
Alas, that appalling fate befell bly suspected of the worst.
US. grandmaster Pal Benko One editor, referring to notes by
against Iceland's Gudmundur an inactive master, wrote:“We are
Sigurjonsson in the second round extremely fortunate that he
of Costa Brava, Spain 1975. Shed­ should give us his honest
ding his normal caution, Benko analysis—and he can do this
snatched a dangerous central because he is no longer a profes­
Pawn with his Queen on move 11. sional." The craft has its hazards.
After Benko’s risky 9th move, The nature of competitive play
his best chance was 11...KN-Q2 does discourage candor. It's a
although White stays on top with good idea to keep our eyes upon
12 B-B3 (if 12 BxP 0-0! holds) B- the moves masters make, not the
N2 13 BxB QxB 14 Q-N4 P-N3 15 ones they recommend.
NxKP! PxN 16 QxKP. Benko
Svetozar Gligoric disdains to
never recovered from his fatal hide his weapons. The first 15
error of judgment.
moves of his game with Norman
Benko could not save himself Weinstein at Los Angeles 1974
with 13...R-R2 14 BxN R-Q2 be­
were identical to this. In his notes
cause of the jarring pin 15 B-B6! Gligoric pointed out 15...BxB 16
Nor could he back out with 15...Q-
QxB QxB 17 N-B4 PxP would be
N3 16 BxP B-N2 due to the met by 18 R-Q3!
surprising riposte 17 BxPch! KxB
Sure enough, Czech grandmas­
18 B-B7ch snaring a Queen. ter Jan Smejkal plunged into that
Benko managed to extricate his
footnote against Gligoric at Milan
Queen by returning a Pawn, but 1975. By accident or design?
his King remained hostage in the
Quite possibly he overlooked the
center. He resigned because stunning 21 N-K6ch! in his pre­
19...N-B3 20 Q-K3! B-B3 21 NxN
game analysis. He probably tried
BxN 22 Q-B5ch! mops up. to im prove on W einstein's
W hite:SIGURJONSSON BlackrBENKO 15.. .QxB 16 BxB KxB, after which
Sicilian Dafansa 17 P-Q5 gave a clear advantage.
1 P-K4 P-QB411 PxP QxP? Meanwhile, at Vilna, Vladimir
2 N-KB3 P-K31 2 B-KB4 Q-QB4 Tukmakov stumbled into this
3 P-Q4 PxP13 B-B3 N-Q4
PxN variation and lost even faster after
4 NxP N-KB314 NxN
5 N-QB3 P-Q315 P-QN4! Q-B5 18.. .Q-R6 19 N-R5! The only
K-B1
6 B-K 2 P-QR316 R -K 1 defensive stab is 18...K-R1 to meet
7 P-B4 Q-B 217 P-B3! B-Q2 19 R-Q3 with R-KN1 20 R-R3 R-
8 0-0 B -K218 Q-Q2 Q-B1
P-QN419 BxP Resigns N2; but this whole line looks
9 B-K3
10 P-K5! PxP unhealthy for Black.
No one can accuse Gligoric of
In round five, eager to demon­ not giving his opponents fair
strate he is just as adept on the warning. Perhaps they will believe
other side of the board, Sigurjons­ him next time.
son slaughtered Spain’s Jose
Pares exactly on move 19! White W hite: G LIGORIC Black: S M E JK A L
resigned since he could not parry G ruenfeld Defense
the savage attack. If 20 KxR Q- 1 P-Q4 N-KB3
R5ch 21 K-N1 QxRch 22 K-R2 Q-
2 P-QB4 P-KN314 B-KR6 B-R3
R5ch 23 K-N1 B-B4ch! 24 QxB Q- 3 N-QB3 P-Q415 BxQB BxB?
4 PxP NxP16 QxB QxB
K8ch 25 K-R2 R-R1 mate.
5 P-K4 NxN17 N-B4 PxP?
6 PxN B-N218 R-Q3! Q-N4
W hite: PAR ES Black: SIGURJONSSON 7 B-QB4 P-QB419 R-R3 0 -K 4
8 N-K2 0-020 QxRPch K-B1
Sicilian Dafensa 9 0-0 N-B321 N-KCch! PxN
Apart from ■ map, it's hard to
trust what we read. Lurid press
reports made it seem as if people
were dodging bullets in the streets
of Portugal. Despite the specter of
civil war the atmosphere was
serene and the steets far safer
than America.
Along the fabled Algarve coast
luxury hotels were fully staffed but
tourists stayed away in droves.
Vacationers could still tan orswim
in the ocean, yet mile upon mile of
gleaming white beaches lay de­
serted in the November sun.
What better way to persuade
tourists Portugal is safe than an
international tournament in a
plush spot like Portimao? The
$25,000 event was sponsored by
the local gaming casino, which
must support cultural activities
each year.
Never was a revolution more
civilized. It was being fought with
words—sweet reason—posters
and political slogans scrawled on
whitewashed walls. True, banks
closed and newspapers were
suspended briefly. The govern­
ment itself even went on strike.
But the crisis always passed in a
day or two and the army seemed
to consist of chocolate soldiers in
a comic opera.
T h e r e was a l m o s t no
bloodshed. They don’t even kill
the bull in Portugese bullfights.
The absence of spectators was
eerie but silence has never harmed
chess. The field of 12 included
grandmasters—Yuri Averbach,
head of the Soviet Chess Federa­
tion, Jaim Donner (Holland) and
me. Valery Checkhov, 20. a new
Russian star who holds the '75
world junior crown, made his
debut. He bears an uncanny
resemblance to Bobby Fischer.
The event was s FI DE category
8. meaning an average Elo rating
of 2425 to 2450. To make the
grandmaster norm a player had to
score 7.5 points. Only one did, and
I'm glad to say it was me.
FINAL STANDING
Won Lost Drawn Point*

prize at Las Palmas 1975. Mecking 10 B-K3 Q-B222 QxNP Q-B3 Evans ... 4 0 7 IVt
1 P-K4 P-QB4 11 K-R1 P-KR4! W einstein........ ... 5 2 4 7
rejects a draw by repetition with 2 N-KB3 P-Q3 12 P-K5? N-N5 11 R-B1 R-Q123 R-B3 QxR
Keene ........ ... 3 1 7
PxP 13 BxN PxB 12 Q-Q2 Q-R424 PxR P-Q6
his brave I8th move. Going all out 3 P-Q4
13 KR -Q 1 ! P-N325 K-R1 Resigns Chekhov ........ ... 3 1 7 Wt
to win costs him even the precious 4 NxP N-KB3 14 QxP P*P Donner ........ ... 3 1 7 tVf
5 N-QB3 P-QR3 15 NxKP?! PxN Caivo ........ . 4 2 5 6Va
half point. 6 B-K2 P-K 3 16 QxPch Q -K2
WMte: LU B O YE VIC Black: M ECKING ... 2 1 8 6
7 0-0 QN-Q2 17 Q-N6ch K-Q2 . . . . 3 3 5
Sicilian Defense
P-QB4 18 N-Q2 Q -Q3?
8 P-B4 P-QN4 18 QxN RxPch!
Silva
Averbach
----
.... 1 2 8 P
1 P-K4 9 B-B3 B-N2 1 9K -N 1 R-R8ch! 3 6
2 N-KB3 P-Q3 19 Q-B3 Q-B3 Rodriquez........ . . . 2
10 R-K1 N -N 3 W h ite R e s ig n s Durao ••••' .. .. .. o 6 5 TA
3 P-Q4 PxP 20 N/2-K4 P-N5 0 t 3 IVi
N-K B3 21 Q-B2 R-Q2 Santos
4 NxP
S N-QB3 P-QR3 22 RxR NxR
• B-N5 P-K3 23 OxPch K-Q1
7 P-B4 P-N4 24 N-KN5 K-B2
8 P-K5 PxP 25 B -B 3 Q-Q3
9 PxP Q-B2 26 NxPch K-N3
10 PxN Q -K 4 ch 27 R-Q1 PxN
11 B -K2 QxB 28 RxQch BxR
1 2 Q-Q3 QxBP 29 QxP B -K4
13 R-KB1 Q -K 4 30 Q -K 7 PxPch
14 0 -0 -0 R-R2 31 K-N1 P-QR4
15 N-B3 Q -B 5ch 32 N-B5 NxN YS/eq.W W >9-N Z M 39»-O T
0 -K 4 33 QxB Resigns
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American Sweep Fair Trade Giant Killer Staying Power

Forthe firsttim ein memory two Each piece has a price on its Former world champion Tigran Unlike athletes, who bum out
Americans swept the top prizes in head, and a fundamental principle Petrosian may not win many fast, chess masters enjoy long
an international tournament. At is never to fall behind in material. tourneys anymore, but he is still careers. Fifty years in the arena is
Portimao, Portugal, I emerged The first duty of a good player is to one of the hardest players in the not unusual.
the only undefeated player with conserve manpower and look world to beat. The canny Armeni­ All world champions started
7.5 points in a field of 12. My after the general well- being of his an, 47, is always dangerous. young and reached their prime
stalwart runner-up with 7 was forces. Petrosian added to his laurels around 30. Morphy, Capablanca
Norman Weinstein of Boston. Always try to get your money’s by capturing the 43rd USSR and Fischer were child prodigies.
A massive tie for third deve­ worth. Avoid making sacrifices Championship, the strongest na­ Steinitz, Lasker and Botvinnik
loped among Ricardo Calvo unless you have a clearcut goal in tional tournament anywhere. In a were still going strong in their
(Spain). Jaim Donner (Holland). mind. “The winning of a Pawn field of 16, including 9 grandmas­ sixties.
Raymond Keene (England) and among good players of even ters, he scored 10-5 consisting of You’re not finished until you
Valery Chekhov (USSR). Veteran strength often means the winning 6 wins, 8 draws and a loss. think you are. Nobody knows this
Soviet grandmaster Yuri Aver­ of the game" (Capablanca). Trailing by a mere half point better than Efim Geller, 51, the
bach. fresh from a victory in The Pawn is the basic unit for were Mikhail Tal, Rafael Vagani- victor and oldest competitor at the
Poland, mustered a minus score establishing the market price of an, Boris Gulyko and Oleg Romin- third Alekhine Memorial in Mos­
after refusing a draw in the last the other men. Obviously a Pawn ishin. Further down the list with co w —dropping his chief rivalsTal,
round against Weinstein only to which cannot be stopped from 8.5 points were such illustrious Spassky. Korchnoi and Belyavs­
lose on time in an even position. queening is worth infinitely more names as Yuri Balashov, Efim ky. For an encore he won the
I started slowly, gaining my first than a lowly Pawn at the starting Geller and Lev Polugaievsky. Alexander Memorial in England
win in round 5 at the expense of gate, but this table of relative Alexander Belyavsky (last year's where his runner-up was former
Portugal's Luis Santos. Beating values is a reliable guide most of co-champ) and David Bronstein world champion Vassily Smyslov
Weinstein in round 7 gave me the the time. made even scores. (55!) followed by David Bronstein
lead, but Calvo kept the pace. The Pawn is 1 unit, Bishop or Knight Romanishin's victory over Pe­ (52!).
tie was broken round 10 when he 3 units, Rook 5 units, Queen 9 trosian featured a sharp innova­ Geller's future looks bright. He
lost to Fernando Silva of Portugal units. Roughly 3 Pawns are worth tion on move 5 and a startling even has an outside chance to be
while I defeated Orestes Rodri­ a minor piece (Bishop or Knight), K night’sac’ on move 16. Truly, the challenger when Karpov
guez of Peru. In the final round I 2 Rooks are ample compensation fortune favors the brave. makes his first title defense in
clinched first by conceding a draw for a Queen, etc. Gaining a Rook After 15 R-B3 Petrosian knew he 1978
to Silva, who became a national for a minor piece is known as was in for trouble; his cramped After helping others for the last
hero by beating both Russians. “ winning the Exchange.” pieces on the other wing could not few years, Geller decided to help
Weinstein and I hardly treated Certain positions are difficult to aid in the defense of his King. himself. He was Spassky's second
each other like old friends. Our evaluate. On the face of it a Rook Although not his style to go for against Fischer in 1972 then
clash followed an obscure the­ plus two Pawns (7 units) is worth broke, he could have tried smash­ switched over to Karpov's team in
oretical line until White varied with more than two pieces (6). But in ing open the center with 15...P- 1974. This did notendearGellerto
13 B-B4 (instead of K-N1). The practice the two pieces are prefer­ Q4. Then if 16 BPxP PxP 17 PxP N- Spassky, who was eliminated by
idea is to provoke 13...Q-R4 14 K- able, especially in the fiery QN5! holds. Karpov in the Candidates'
N1 R-QB1 15 B-N3 after which mid-game where they can create Even 17...N-QN5 was a better matches.
White threatens P-K5 without defense. White's attack soon grew Although Karpov is only 25 and
tactical threats. In the halcyon youngsters are making headlines,
having to fear P-QR4. A mistake endgame, however, the Rook irresistible with Queen sacrifices
is the hasty 13 P-K5? Q-R4 14 K- in the air. Forexample20...N-R4 is 1975 was a vintage yearfortheold
often becomes a voracious forag­ guard. Miguel Najdorf, 65— El
N1 N-K5! 15 NxN Q-R7ch and er roaming open lines at will. zonked by 21 QxN! PxQ 22 R-N3.
mate next. This duel was well illustrated at W hite: ROMANISHIN Viejo— shared the Argentine
After a long think Weinstein Portimao 1975 when world junior Black: P E TR O S IA N Championship Hungary's Laszlo
came up with 13...Q-B1 but was champ Valery Chekhov (USSR) Q uean's Indian Dafansa Szabo. 59, tied for first at Costa
surprised by my reply. He had rushed into a variation con­ 1 P-QB4 N-K B 3 16 N-Q5!? PxN Brava. Yuri Averbach, 54, was the
expected 14 B-N3 PQR4 with a demned by theory. But his oppo­ 2 N-QB3 P-K 3 17 K PxP NxN? hero of Polanica Zdroj and, at 43,
savage counterattack. 3 N-B3 P-QN3 18 QxN QR-K1 senile by modern standards, I won
nent missed 12...B-Q3! Arulaid- 4 P -K 4 B-N2 1 S P -K B 5 B-Q1
Weinstein made the mistake of Heuer, Tartu 1970, continued: 13 5 B-Q3! P-Q3 20 Q -R 4 R-K4
Portimao Paul Keres took two
trying to attack before safeguard­ 0-0 (if 13 B-N5 B-N2) B-N214 N/8- 6 B-B2 P-B4 21 Q -R6 Q-B2 tourneys before his death at 59.
ing his own King. He should have B7 BxN 15 NxB QxN with advan­ 7 P-Q4 PxP 22 R-N3 8-B1 Before the start of Manila 1974
tried 14...B-B3 15 KR-K1 0-0. B NxP B -K 2 23 BxR PxB Lubomir Kavalek predicted that
tage for Black. 9 C -0 0 -0 24 PxP BPxP
Perhaps Weinstein had relied Perhaps Chekhov had some neither of the two Russian entries
1 0 P -Q N 3 N-B3 25 BxP N-N5
on 15...Q-R4. But to his horror he improvement in mind, possibly 13 11 B-N2 P-QR3 26 B-R5 R-B3 would win. But Yevgeny Vasiukov,
saw, too late, that White’s King P-QR4. Unfortunately Portugal’s 1 2 K -R 1 Q -B 2 2 7 Q -Q 2 R-B5 4T, and Tigran Petrosian, 45,
dances to safety after 16 K-N2! Joaquim Ourao failed to put him 1 3 P -B 4 QR-Q1 28 P-Q6 Q -K N 2 blitzed the top prizes. When a
(not 16 PxN? Q-R8ch 17 N-N1 N- 1 4R -B 1 Q-N1 29 P-Q7 B-N2 reporter from P ra v d a asked
to the test. Instead Ourao walked 1 5 R -B 3 ! P-N3 30 QxR Resigns
R7 mate) N-K5 17 NxN Q-R7ch 18 into a lost ending no matter how Romanishin also threw caution Kavalek to explain his prediction,
K-B3. he twisted and turned. He saw that to the winds against Geller. The Petrosian interrupted: "It's very
White: EVANS Black: W EINSTEIN 15...B-N2 fails against 16 0-0-0 R- game followed Yates-Rubinstein, simple. I'm too old and Vasiukov's
S ic ilia n D e fe n s e B117RxB!RxR18N-B7,butitwas too young."
1 P-K4 P-0 B4 14 P-ON3! Q-B4?
Hastings 1922, until Black varied
2 N-KB3 P-04
imperative that he trap White's from 15 ..R-B1. Romanishin sim­ W hite: B E L Y A V S K Y Black: G ELLER
P-03 15 P-K5
3 P-04 P x P 16 PxN PxP wayward Knight. This maneuver ply gave up his QP rather than Enqlish Opening
4 NxP N -K B 3 1 7 N -K 4 ! 0-R4 cost Durao precious time, and by stop for 16 B-N3. White’s compen­ 1 P-QB4 P-t>B4 16 PxP PxP
5 N -Q B 3 N-B3 18 NxPch K-Q1 then Chekhov was storming the 2 N-K B3 N-QB3 17 BxPch K-R1
sation is dubious 3 N-B3 N-B3 1 8 Q -K 3 QxQ
6 B-KN5 P-K3 1 9 0 -0 4 N-B3 other wing with his extra Pawns. W hits: ROM ANISHIN Black: G ELLE R
7 0-02 P-QR3 20 Q -K3 K-B1 4 P-Q4 P x P lB B x Q B-NS
Ruy Lopez 5 NxP P-K3 20 QR-B1 P-R5
8 0-0-0 B-02 21 NxB B-N5 W hite: CHEKH OV Black: DURAO 1 P-K4 P-K4 21 B~K3 N-N4 6 P-KN3 Q-N3 21 N-R1 P-R6
9 P-B4 P-N4 22 N-N6ch K-B2 Phllidor Defense 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 22 B-B2 R-B1
10 P-OR3 B-K2 23 B-B6 P-05 1 P-K4 P-K4 19 P-KN3 B-KB3 7 N-N3 N-K 4 22 B-N3 N-QR4
P-N5 24 NxRch RxN 3 B-N5 P-QR3 23 RxP RxP 6 P-K 4 B-NS 23 N-B 2? NxSch
11 N-B3 2 N-KB3 P-Q3 20 P-KR4J BxN 4 B-R4 N-B3 24 R-R8 0 -B 2
12 PxP NxNP 25 BxQP NxB 3 P-Q4 N-KB3 21 P-KN4 P-N4 9 Q -K 2 0 -0 24 PxN P-R7
13 B-B4 5 0-0 B -K2 25 Q-Q5 N-B3 1 0 P -B 4 N-B3 25 N-R1 QR-B1
Q-B1 26 QxN Resigns 4 N-B3 QN-Q2 22 B -K3 B-K2 6 R -K 1 P-QN4 26 RxRch BxR 11 P-K5 N-K1 26 B-Q4 KR-Q1
5 B-QB4 B-K2 23 R-Q7 NxP 7 B-N3 0-0 27 BxPch KxB
6 PxP PxP 24 PxN PxP 1 2 B -Q 2 ?! P-B3 27 BxN PxB
8 P-Q4 P-Q3 28 QxN K -N 1? 13 PxP NxP 28 P-R3 RxNch!
7 N-KN5 0-0 25 RxP BxP 9 P-B3 B-N5 29 R-R1 P-Q4
8 BxPch RxB 26 R-R2 R-B8ch 1 4 B -N 2 P-Q4 W hite Resigns
1 0 P -Q 5 N-QR4 30 R-R7 Q-B5 15 0 -0 -0 P-QR4!
9 N-K6 Q-K1 27 K-Q2 B-N5ch 11 B-B2 P-B3 3 1 Q -N 8 P-Q5
10 NxBP Q-Q1 28 K-K2 R-K8ch 1 2 P -K R 3 BxN 32 B-N5 N-R2 If 29 PxR B-R6ch 30 K-B2 B-KB4
11 NxR P-QN4 29 K-B2 BxP 13 QxB PxP 33 B -K7 P-Q6
12 N-Q5 NxN? 30 P-R3 B-Q6 14 PxP N-B5 34 BxB NxB
13 QxN N-B3 31 PxB R-K7ch 1 5 N -Q 2 N-N3 3 5 R -R 8 P-Q7
14 QxQch BxQ 32 K-N1 RxB 16N-B 1 QNxP 36 QxNch K -R 2
15 B -K3 N-NC 33 RxP4 R-K7 1 7 N -N 3 N-B2 37 Q-R8ch K-N3
16 0 -0 -0 B-R5 34 R-KR3 B-N3 18 P-QR4 PxP 38 Q-R5ch K-B3
17 B-B5 B-N2 35 R-QB3 R-QB7 19 BxQRP R-N1 39 Q-B5ch
16 P-B3 N-R3 36 P-N5 Resigns 20 P-N4 KN-K1 Resigns
VSn 'u/oou/7 qog dNxQ ’VSD 'sBunoA eor >0-N VSD 'sqqoQ }J9 quQ V S n V S! X J s p u e x a i V > g -Q
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Hubner Hits Houston Out Of Dutch Nona Vs. Nona C atch-22

Grandmasters almost swept Hungary's Lajos Portisch, 38. Bobby Fischer probably regrets "Catch-22 of chess: internation­
the top prizes at Houston. Rob­ rarely has a bad result. Then he ever saying: “ They're all weak, all al titles are won by playing in
ert Hubner, 26, of West Germany dropped a match to Petrosian and women. They're stupid compared major international tournaments,
coasted to victory followed by made an atrocious minus score at to men. They shouldn't play which are almost exclusively
Alexander Matanovic (Yugo­ Manila. But he redeemed himself chess, you know. They’re like restricted to players with interna­
slavia) Edmar Mednis (USA) and by winning the 37th Wijk Aan Zee beginners. They lose every single tional titles." Sports Illu s tra ­
Vlastimil Jansa (Czech) in a tournament in Holland, a half game against a man. There isn't a ted.
field of 12 in Texas. point ahead of Czech grandmas­ woman player in the world I can't Of the roughly 100 grandmas­
The avowed purpose of this ter Vlastimil Hort, in a field of 16. give Knight-odds to and still ters in the world, 11 are Americans
elite event was to give young Sponsored byafurnacefactory, beat...To Nona even, a Knight!" (8 active). We haven’t produced
American masters a chance for this annual event was hard fought one since Walter Browne in 1970,
international titles. John Grefe He was referring to Nona Ga-
and abounded in theoretical no­ prindashvili, 34, who just won the but the drought may be ending.
and W illiam Martz both ob­ velties. Portisch's smooth victory America's next grandmaster
tained the coveted IM title women's world title for the fifth
against Hans Ree is typical of his time by the lopsided score of 8.5 to should be James Tarjan, 24, of
while Edmar Mednis made the quiet style He improved on 13 0-0 Berkeley who won a gold medal as
grandmaster norm and needs 3.5 against Nana Aleksandria, 26.
B-K2 14 P-QR3 B-R3 15 R-K1 B- Their 12-game struggle in the our high-scorer at the Nice Olym­
one more similar result to enter piad in 1974. Returning to Ameri­
that exclusive club. N4 which gave Black easy equality USSR contained only one draw!
in Benko-Olafsson, Portoroz ca, Jim went through the mill of
This was Hubner's debut in I was delighted that Nona trashy hotels in an endless stream
America. He refused an invita­ 1958 Ree sought refuge in an rehabilitated the Center Counter 4
early trade of Queens but should of Swiss tourneys that lead no­
tion to San Antonio in 1972 on times during the match. This is the where and mean nothing.
the grounds that a tournament have tried 17 RxN or 19...P-K4': unfashionable defense for Black
instead of getting squeezed "With a tenth of the energy I
with both Browne and Mecking recommended in my latest book could make ten times the money
would be an intolerable strain Whit*: PORTISCH Black: REE The Chess O pening For You. doing something else,” said Jim.
on his nerves. Hubner achieved Slav D«f*ns* Perhaps players are now ready to "Why don’t I? Well, I'm crazy." In
fame by tying for 2nd behind 1 P-Q4 P-Q4 21 P-GN3 K-Q2 take it seriously. 1975 he settled in Yugoslavia
Fischer at the Palma Interzonal 2 P-QB4 P-QB3 22 K-K2 R-QB1 I don't think White should try to hoping for invitations to elite
in 1970. With over an hour on 3 N-QB3 N-B3 23 KR-R1 R1-B2 hold the Pawn. Probably the
4 P-K3 P-K3 24 K-Q3 N-B1 events, and his persistence bore
the clock, Bobby blundered on strongest line is simply 3 P-Q4
move 32 but held a draw. 5 N-B3 QN-Q2 25 B-N4 P-B4 fruit. At the end of the year he
6 B-G3 PxP 26 P-B3 R-B3 aiming for a positional edge. scored a sensational victory at
7 BxBP P-QN4 27 B-B5 P-K4 Nona's 7...P-B3 improves on Subotica, ahead of 3 grandmas­
W h ite : FISCHER B la ck: HUBNER 8 B-Q3 P-N5 28 R3-R2 R2-B2 7.. .P-QR3 8 P-N5! P-N4 9 B-N3 ters in a field of 12.
C aro-Kann Defense 9 N-K4 NxN 29 R-R5 R-KN3 KN-Q2 10 PQ4 as in their 8th
1 P-K4 P-QB3 23 Q-Q2 NxQR 10 BxN B-N2 30 R1-R2 PxP
match game. White should have It s the old story of the American
2 P-Q3 P-Q4 24 RxN K-N2 11 0-R4 Q-N3 31 PxP R-K3 who had to conquer Europe
3 N-Q2 P-KN3 25 R-K1 N-N1 12 N-Q2 R-B1 32 RxNP R>K8 tried 13 B-K3 N-R4 14 B-N3
4 KN-B3 B-N2 26 B-Q5 QxP intending to castle long. before receiving recognition.
1 3 P-QR3! PxP 33 R5-R5 R-Q8
5 P-KN3 P-K4 27 QxP R-K1 14 N-B4 Q-R3 34 K-K2 R-QN8 “ Our grandmasters are not dis­
6 B-N2 N-K2 28 RxR QxR Black missed a quicker win with posed to help a promising young
0-0 29 BxP 1 5 Q-N3 0-N4 35 P-QN4 R-B3
7 0-0 N-B3 25.. .R-Q6! 26 RxB RxP! 27 QxQ R-
8 R-K1 P-05 30 Q-Q6 Q-Q2 16 QxQ PxQ 36 P-Q5 R-KN3 player because they feel he'll steal
9 P-QR4 P-QB4 31 Q-R6 Q-KB2 17 BxB R-B2 37 K-K3 R-Q8 B8mate. White misseu the last the bread out of their mouths,"
10 N-B4 QN-B3 32 QxP? N-K5! 18 NxP RxB 38 BxP N-K2 defensive stab 26 P-N4 and suc­ said Ed Edmondson of the USCF.
11 P-B3 B-K3 33 P-B3 N-Q3 19 B-Q2 BxN? 39 B-Q4 N-B1 cumbed rapidly to Black's inva­ A young master added,"They like
12 PxP BxN 34 QxP NxB 20 RxB N-N3 40 P-B4 Resigns
13 PxB KPxP 35 Q-Q44- K-N1 sion on the Queen-file. to teach you, all right, but only by
14 P-K5 Q-Q2 36 K-B2 Q-K2 On down the line U S. grand­ beating you.”
15 P-KR4 P-Q6 37 Q-Q54- K-B1 master Lubomir Kavalek took 4th Whit*: NA NA Black: NONA Bob Long in his magazine The
16 B-Q2 QR-Q1 38 P-R5 PxP
17 B-B3 N-N5 39 QxP N-B4 while Walter Browne tied for 8-10 12th match gama 1075 Chess A rts ($1, 1506 Harrison
18 N-Q4 KR-K1 40 Q-Q5 K-N2 with Holland's Jan Timman and C sntsr Countar Dafansa St..Davenport, la 52803) argues:
19 P-K6 PxP 41 Q-Q4-L K-B2 Russia's Ewfim Geller. In this 1 P-K4 P-Q4 18 Q-B2 K-R1
20 NxP BxB 42 Q-Q5-1- K-N2 2 PxP N-KB3 19 R-Q1 RxRch "You won’t get a Russian grand­
21 PxB N-B7 43 Q-Q4-)- K-B2 exciting slugfest Browne didn't 3 B-N5cH B-Q2 20 KxR Q-Q2ch master at age 15 like you might an
22 NxR RxN 44 Q-Q54- Draw like the looks of 17 PxR Q-K11 18 4 B-B4 B-N5 21 K-B1 Q-B4 American because they have too
PxB P-R5 and he rejected 18 PxB 5 P-KB3 B-B4 22 N-Q2 B-R6ch many grandmasters to play
Former world junior champ N-K5! 19 PxR NxQ20 RxN RxB 6 P-KN4 B-B1 23 K-N1 R-Q1
Julio Kaplan, 24, upset Jansa 7 N-B3 P-B3 24 N-N3 NxN against who are more than willing
which nets Black two pieces for a to drill a young man to show him
when Black omitted P-QR3. Rook. The final position is intrigu­ 8 PxP NxBP 25 RxN P-QN3
9 P-Q3 P-K4 26 R-N1? B-B4! who is boss. I am more impressed
W h ite : KAPLAN B la ck: JANSA ing and may favor Black even 10 P-N5 N-K R4 27 BxB RxN with the results of a young Karpov
S ic ilia n Defense though he is a Queen down A 11 N-K4 B-K2 28 QxQ BxQch or Spassky than with Fischer.
possible continuation is 21 Q-b i 12 N-K2 0-0 29 K-B1 R-B7ch
1 P-K4 P-QB4 21 BxP N-K4 13 P-B37 N-R4 30 K-Q1 PxB ...Russian grandmasters have
2 N-KB3 P-K3 22 N-Q4 NxB — 14 B-K3 NxB 31 R-K1 P-B3 more draws because they so often
3 P-Q4 PxP 23 QxN P-KN3
4 NxP N-KB3 24 P-R4 R-B4 W hita:BROW NE Black: SOSONKO 1 SPxN Q-B2 32 P-B4 RxQRP play each other, whereas Fischer
5 N-QB3 P-Q3 25 R-B2 R-K4 S icilian D*f*ns* 16 P-N3 B-KR6 33 PxBP NPxP won many games against much
6 B-K2 N-B3 26 P-N3 Q-R6 1 P-K4 P-QB4 11 B-N3 P-QR4 17 R-KN1 QR-Q1 Whit* Resigns weaker opposition throughout."
7 B-K3 B-K2 27 P-B4 B-Q1 2 N-K 83 P-Q3 12 P-QR4 R-B1
8 0-0 0-0 28 BxR PxB 3 P-Q4 PxP 13 N4-N5 N-QN5 Whit*: T A R JA N Black: M ASIC
9 P-B4 B -02 29 N-N5 Q-K2 4 NxP N-K B3 14 K-N1 P-Q4!? King'* Indian D*f*n*«
10 N-N3 Q-B2 30 N-B3 B-B3 5 N-QB3 P-KN3 15 PxP BxN 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 22 B -K3 B -K2
11 B-B3 KR-Q1 31 P-N4 P-B4 6 B-K3 B-N2 16 B-KB4 RxN 2 P-QB4 P-KN3 23 R/1-Q1 K-B2
12 P-N4 B-K1 32 PxPcp QxNP 3 N-QB3 B-N2 24 P-B4
N-Q2 33 P -B 7 + K-B1 7 P-B3 N-B3 17 BxQ RxKB P-N3
13 P-N5 0-0 18 B -K5 B-Q6! 4 P-K4 P-Q3 25 B-B3 P-K 4
14 Q-K2 N-N3? 34 Q-K3 P-KN4 8 Q-Q2
Q-N1 35 R-N1 QxP 9 B -0B4 B-02 19 PxB KNxP 5 B-K2 0-0 26 P-N3 QR-N1
15 N-N5
16 NxRP! QxN 36 PxP B-K2 10 0 -0 -0 Q-N1 20 BxB KxB 6 B-N5 P-B4 27 P-KR4 R-N2
17 Q-B2 KR-B1 37 P-N6 K-N2 D raw! 7 PxP Q-R4 2 8 B -N 4 R/1-N1
18 BxN Q-R5 38 PxP B-B4 8 B-Q2! QxBP 29 P-R5 P-QR3
19 B-K3 P-K4 39 Q-N54- KxP 9 N-B3 B-N5 30 N-B3 N-N2
20 P-B3 PxP 40 Q-R5-L Resigns 10 B -K3 Q-B1 31 PxPch PxP
11 R-QB1 N-B3 32 N-Q5 B-B1
On 40 . . . K-N2 41 Q-N4+ 12 P-KR3 BxN 33 R-KB1! B -K2
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Who Goes To Hoogoven? Getting Younger Junior Division M iles Ahead

Wijk-aan-Zee is a small Dutch America is surfeited with spec­ Music, math and chess are the Britain's current reputation as
town reached from Amsterdam in tator sports. To enjoy chess only fields that produce prodigies. the country with the most promis­
an hour by train. People go there keenly requires participation; After 1957, when Bobby Fischer ing young players in Europe was
to swim in the summer, but youngsters are flocking to the captured the USA Championship enhanced by Tony Miles, 20, their
nothing special happens until game because its fun. at 14, the floodgates were open. first grandmaster. He is in line for
January when the Hoogoven steel Old movies fostered the myth of In the good old days anyone a $10,000 prize offered by indus­
factory hosts the largest chess an intellectual game for grey­ under 21 was considered a junior. trialist Jim Slater, the man who
festival in the world. beards. But anyone can excel— A junior was a junior was a junior. doubled the Fischer-Spassky
This 38th edition was weaker even five-year-olds. Chess devel­ Now there is such a profusion of purse in 1972.
than usual. To save money the ops logical thinking whether one junior events that you need a His father taught him to play at
grandmaster section was cut from is black or white, rich or poor, and 5, but he was 10 before the chess
scorecard to tell them apart. bug really bit. In 1974 Miles won
16 players to 12. Personally I there is a push to teach it in public There’s a student team olympiad the world junior championship in
prefer a shorter tournament, and school. under 27, a world junior under 20, Manila, then entered Sheffield
most professionals feel the same In 1957 Bobby Fischer won the a world cadet under 16, and University to major in math. "I’ve
Yugoslavia’s fiery Lubomir Lu- U.S. Championship at 14. If Joel various national schoolboy titles no idea whether there's any con­
boyevic got off to * whirlwind start Benjamin ,11, retains his current under 13. nection between math and chess,
with 3 straight wins, but he ran out interest, he might brqak that The 76 USA Junior title was and I’m not prepared to speculate
of steam and was caught by the record. At 8 he entered his first shared by Mark Diesen and on things like that," he said.
cool Icelander Fridrik Olafsson, Greater New York Elementary Michael Rohde. A measure of the Exasperated by the media razz­
the only undefeated competitor. School Championship, achieving tournament's strength was that matazz, Miles declined to be
Former world champion Mikhail a rating of 706. Today at 2100 Joel Nick DeFIrmian, who finished last, photographed with a chess set at
Tal placed third, proving that is 100 points below master rebounded to tie for the Canad­ home. "It would be phony,"he
Soviet representatives no longer strength, probably the only player ian Open title. Juniors often said. "I only have a small, tatty
routinely win international events. under 12 who has defeated improve so fast their ratings are pocket magnetic board which I
Luboyevic is rapidly establish­ masters since Fischer. obsolete in a matter of weeks. occasionally use. I really do itall in
ing himself as a contender for the In the famed Manhattan Chess Teenage competition Is so my head."
title. Last year he contested 122 C lu b C h a m p io n s h ip Jo e l fierce the USCF publishes ratings Miles objects to the popular
games in eight major tourneys, trounced Arthur Feuerstein, a for the top 50 under 21, under 16 image of the chessmaster as
winning three and finishing sec­ senior master rated 2395! During and under 13. "academic, weedy and intense"
ond twice. The average grand­ their game Feuerstein, strolling and doesn’t much like the implica­
master plays fewer than 50 games between moves, was warned by a Michael Rohde was invited to tion that chess is an intellectual
a year (I played 21 in 75). club member “Watch out for that Schilde, Belgium for the annual pursuit. A British expert said that
What distinguishes Lubomir is little kid, he’s pretty strong." under-17 tourney where he Miles is "determined and not
his fighting spirit and tactical skill. Feuerstein's position already was topped the field of 20. His gamble afraid of opponents and has the
He demonstrated his doggedness hopeless. “ It’s too late," he said. of a pawn in the opening paid off kind of arrogance that some
by squeezing a win out of a against the Soviet entry Boris players have to have. But it's the
W hite: BENJAM IN Hew York 1878 Taborov, who succumbed after a next couple of years that will
marathon ending against U S. Black: FEUERSTEIN Dutch Defense
Champion Walter Browne, who nip and tuck struggle. count. That will show whether he
finished with an indifferent even 1 N-KB3 P-KB4 14 N-Q4 B-Q2 can stay at the top."
2 P-KN3 N-KB3 19 NxN PxN
Miles tied for first in the National
score. After the first adjournment 3 B-N2 P-KN3 16 Q-Q4ch K-N1 W hite: TA B O R O V Black: ROHDE
nobody suspected that Luboye- 4 P-N3 B-N2 1 7 P-K 4 0-N4 Catalan Opening Open at Las Vegas before going to
vic's tiny edge was sufficient to 9 B-N2 0-0 18 P-KB 4 Q-QR4 Lone Pine where he tied for
6 0 -0 P-Q3 1 8 K R -K 1 R-K1 1 N-KB3 N-KB3 25 Q-B3 Q-N4 second, knocking American
win. Finally Browne, in time- P-K 4 2 0 B -B 1 R/2-K2 2 P-KN3 P-Q4 26 R-B4 P-K4
pressure all six playing sessions,
7 P-Q3
3 B-N2 P-K3 27 R-B3
grandmaster Arthur Bisguier out
8 QN-Q2 P-KS? 21 P-K 9 PxP? B-NS
erred and resigned on move 133. 4 0-0 B-K2 28 N-K4 NxN of the running both times. At Lone
8 PxP PxP 22 B-B4ch K-B1 Pine Bisguier had a decent posi­
Browne refused to play a new 10 NxP! NxN 23 RxP RxR 5 P-B4 PxP 29 QxN BxR
11 Q-QSctl R-B2 24 PxR 0-N3 6 Q-R4ch QN-Q2 30 BxB N-B4 tion but went downhill after miss­
opponent next day, claiming 7 QxBP P-B4 31 Q-B3 P-KB ing 30...Q-K5.
1 2 BxB KxB 29 R-B1ch
exhaustion, but Luboyevic was 13 QxN N-B3 Black Resigns 8 P-Q3 0-0 32 B -K2 R-Q1
ready to go. Victory is always 9 N-B3 P-QR3 33 R-Q1 N-Q6I
At the Atlantic Open U.S. R-R2 34 Q-Q2 White: MILES Black: BISGUIER
refreshing. 10 Q-N3 P-KR4 Q’s Gambit Declined
Champion Walter Browne was 11 R-Q1 P-QN4 35 K-N 2 N-B9ch 1 P-0B4 N-KB3 23 N-K2 R-KR3
White: OLAFFSON Black: SOSONKO slaughtered in round 2 by Ken 11 P-QR4 P-B57 36 KPxN RxQ 2 N-QB3 P-K3 24 N-B4 R-KN1
W ijk-aan-Zaa 1876 13 PxBP P-N5 37 PxQ RxBch 3 N-B3 P-Q4 25 K-R2 N-B3
Regan, 15. Here's the upset that 14 B-K3 Q-B2 38 K-R3 RxNP
Nlm zo-lndlan Datensa 4 P-04 P-B3 26 B-B3 N/Q -KS
1 N-KB3 P-Q4 14 Q-B2 B-N5
sent Browne, 26, reeling back to 15 BxR QxB 39 R-K1 R-QB7 9 PxP KPxP 27 R-QN1 N-N4
2 P-04 N-KB3 1 5K R -K 1 B-R4 California. 16 N-N1 N-B4 40 RxP P-N T 6 B-N9 B-K2 28 B -O I N-NSch
Browne's undoing was his fai­ 17 Q-B2 P-N6 41 R-K8ch K-R2 7 P-K3 B-KB4 28 BxN PxB
3 P-B4 P-K3 16 P-K4 PxP 18 Q-B1 Q N-K 5 42 R-QN8 K-N3 8 B -K2 QN-Q2 30 R-K2 N-K37
4 N-B3 B-N3 17 NxP N-Q47 lure to launch a rapid attack with 8 0-0 N-K9 31 P-N4 PxP
19 P-K3 N-N5 43 P-B5 KxP
5 P-K3 0-0 18 Q -B f N-B5 11 P-QN4. When the center col­ 20 N-Q4 KNxBP 44 P-B6 P-B3 10 BxB QxB 32 PxP N-B2T
6 P-QR3 BxNcH 19 B-B4 P-QN3 lapsed Regan crashed through on 21 N-B6 Q-B4 45 P-B7 RxP 11 R-B1 0-0 33 P-K4 PxP
7 PxB P-B4 20 Q -KN 5 B-N3 the Kingside. 22 NxBch QxN 46 RxP R-B5 1 2P-GR 3 P-QR4 34 RxP Q-B2
23 N-Q2? N-B4147 R-R2 K-B 4 13Q -N 3 N-Q3 3 5Q R-K 1 N-G47
8 B -N2 Q-R47 21 P-Q5 N-05 W hite: BROWNE Black: RECAN 14N -O R 4 B-N9 36 R-K8I RxR
9 N-Q2 Q-B2 22 BxN QxB Naw York 1879 24 R-B1 KN-Q6 Black won
1 9KR -K1 BxN 37 RxR R-N4
10 BPxP BPxP 23 N-B6ch! PxN Quaan’a Fianchatto Dafanaa 16 BxB P-KB4 3 8 Q -K 4 R-B4
11 BPxP PxP 24 QxN P-B4 1 P-Q4 P-QN3 19 Q -K2 PxKP 1 7P -N 3 K-R1 38 R-K8ch K-N2
12 B-Q3 R-K1 2 5 Q -R 4 Resigns 2 P-K4 B-N2 20 BPxP N-N5! 1 8Q -B 2 P-KN4 4 0N-K 6ch K-R3
N-B3 3 B-Q3 P-K3 21 K-R1 NxB 1B B -K 2 P-N5 41 R-R8ch K-N3
13 0-0 20 N-B3 P-R4 42 R-KB8 N-B3
4 N-KB3 P-QB4 22 QxN KR-N1
5 P-B3 N-KB3 23 Q-R371 K-N1 21 P-KR4 PxPap 43 N-B4ch K-R3
F I N A L S T A N D IN G S 6 QN-Q2 N-B3 24 PxBP? BxBP 22 BxP R-B3 44 QxR Resign*
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The Russians Came Long Distance Bom Again Last Round

For the first time since 1972 A cherished fantasy of chess At the ripe old age of 42 Danish The last round at the fifth annual
Soviet grandmasters visited these promoters is that the game will be grandmaster Bent Larsen is reck­ Las Palmas tourney in the Canary
shores. Former world champions recognized as a major sport here, less as ever. He scorns fashion­ Islands provided the kind of
Tigran Petrosian and Vassily as it is in Russia. This fantasy able openings and revives mu­ drama that is often absent in
Smyslov were attracted to the 6th includes a league of chessmasters seum variations in important chess. It also demonstrated that
Lone Pine Open and its record who travel on teams representing games. "It bores me to play the what separates the top players is
$22,700 prize fund offered by leading cities. same defense all the time," he not only knowledge and ability,
retired inventor Louis Statham. In The National Telephone Chess says. but nerves and stamina.
a field of 56 Petrosian scored 4 League sponsored by the USCF is Although Larsen was eliminated Bent Larsen of Denmark, lead­
wins and 3 draws and went home a step in this direction. Nine as a contender in a preliminary ing by a half point, needed only a
$8,000 richer for a week's work. teams, each with six players, draw to assure at least a tie for
match against Hungary's Lajos first. Yet he seemed bent on
At the closing ceremony Petro- competed for a $4800 prize fund. Portisch, he bounced back to win
sion modesty conceded the Swiss The games were unrated and destruction when a hasty move in
the 1st Geneva International the opening caused his downfall
is a faulty system and that he had played at a fast clip of 40 moves an Tourney inafie ldof 14. Inaddition
faced only 2 out of the top 10. Nine hour per side. against Robert Hubner of W.
An opening match between to $3,000 Larsen won a Swiss Germany. Meanwhile Efim Geller
players tied for second, trailing by watch for the best-played-game
a half point: Smyslov, Browne New York and Miami illustrated of the USSR landed in first.
(USA). Quinteros, Panno, Najdorf some of the growing pains of the The defense Larsen employed Larsen moved into second while
(Argentina), Miles (England), Ro- new league. Plagued by delays was introduced in the mid 19th Hubner tied for third with Robert
and transmission errors, a dispute century by a Britisher, John Byrne of the USA, the only unde­
goff. Christiansen (USA), Forintos arose on the top board where
(Hungary) each rewarded with Owen, who used it to defeat the feated competitor. Earlier in '76
Robert Byrne was pitted against great Paul Morphy. By the turn of Byrne blazed to victory at Torrem-
$1511. Miami's Arnold Denker. Byrne’s the century, however, this defense olinas, Spain while his compatriot
Most of the games were hard- flag fell as he made his 38th move Larry Christiansen. 19, the
languished. The verdict that it
fought, only 20% were drawn. As even though 20 seconds remained gave White too much leeway in the runner-up, earned his first leg on
usual, upsets abounded. Mark on his clock. The referee ruled center has not been challenged the GM title. Christiansen, who
Diesen, 18, smashed Walter that the clock was defective and until very recently. doesn't even hold an IM title,
Browne in round 2, but Browne that the game be continued. needs one more similar result to
rallied with 4.5 out of his next 5. Someone posted a win for Whit*: W ESTERINEN Black: LAR SEN become a grandmaster directly.
England's first official grandmas­ Denker on the scoreboard in 1 P-K 4 P -Q N 3 18 R-Q3 P-B4! Larsen must still be kicking
ter Anthony Miles succumbed to Miami and he went home. All 2 P-04 B -N 2 19 R-N1 OR-B1
3 B -0 3 P-K 3 20 P-QR3 0-N1 himself for not playing 9 .P-Q3. In
William Martz of Milwaukee in games were stopped while Miami 4 N-KB3 P-0B 4 21 QxQBP BxP the game he overlooked that 11 Q-
round 4. Miles played too aggres­ insisted on a forfeit and appealed 5 0-0 PxP 22 Q -K 7 B-B3 B4 forces him to weaken his pawn
sively in the opening then missed to USCF headquarters. When New 6 NxP N-QB3 23 R-K1 Q-B3 structure by ..P-Q4. To avoid an
a chance to hold with 22...BxN 23 York finally got through again on 7 NxN B x N 24 R-N3 0-R 3 isolated QBP Larsen might have
PxB RxP. the phone, a janitor said that 8 N-B3 B-B4 2 5 P -N 4 P-B5 tried 15 . BxB 16 KxB NxP
everyone had left, including 130 9 G -K 2 N-K 2 2 6 R -N 4 R-B3
M AR TZ
W h it * : Black: MILES spectators. 1 0 B -K 3 0 -0 2 7 R-K5 R-N3
1 1Q R-Q 1 0 -B 2 2 8 RxR QxRch Whit*: HUBNER Black: LARSEN
English Opening Ironically this walkout was just Q's Indian 0*1*nm*
1 P-04 N-KB3 1 8 B-K3 Q-Q3 12 BxB PxB 29 R-KN5 0-R3
2 P-0B4 P-B4 1g B-B4 Q-Q1
what the league needed to get 1 S O -K 3 Q -R 4 30 P-KR4 B-B6! IP -0 4 N-KB3 32 0-N7 0-N3
3 N-KB3 PxP 20 Q-Q4 R-K1 publicity! An AP dispatch made 1 4 P -K S N-N3 31 R-0B5 RxR 2 P-0B4 P-K3 33 OxQ PxO
4 NxP P-QR3 2 1 0-0 B-B3 front page news in several cities. 15 B -K4 NxP 32 PxR Q -N3ch 3 N-K83 P-ON3 34 P-B4! P-B4
5 P-KN3 P.Q4 22 Q-B5 B-R6? Weeks later Byrne's game was 16 BxPch K x B 33 Q-N5 QxP 4 P-KN3 B-NSch35 K-B2 K-B3
6 B-N2 P-K4 23 B-B7 Q -Q 2 1 7 QxN 0 -N 5 W h it* R esigns 3 B-02 0-K2 36 N-KS N-B4
7 N-KB3
declared drawn and the match 6 B-N 2 B-N2 37 K-K1 P-KN4
P-K5 24 RxB! PxR In a iater round Filipino grand­
8 KN02 P-K6?! 25 P-Q6 R-K4 adjudicated 5-1 in favor of New 7 0-0 BxB 38 P-ON4 N-R5
9 PxP N-H5? 26 Q-Q4 R-QB1 York. master Eugenio Torre showed the 8 OxB 0-0 39 K-Q2 PxP
10 P iP NxKP 27 R-Q1 B-K3 Such disputes could be avoided right plan. His 3 N-Q2 looks 9 N-B3 N -K 5 ? 40 PxP K-K2
11 Q-R4ch N-Q2 2 8 Q -K R 4 R-KB4 passive but is superior to 3 N-QB3 10 NxN B xN 41 K-Q3 N-B6
by the simple expedient of giving 1 10 -B 4 ! P-Q4 42 N-B6ch K-B3
12 Q-K4ch Q-K2 29 R-Q4 RxB each player two minutes extra at P-K3 4 N-B3 B-N5 5 B-Q3 N-KB3 6
13 N-N3 NxBch30 R-N4ch R N4 12 0R-B1 N-R3 43 NxP N-04
14 OxN N-B431 RxRch PxR the start of each game, a standard Q-K2 P-Q4 which equalizes easily. 1 3 PxP BxP 4 4 P -K 3 K -K 2
15 NxN QxN32 QxNPch K-B1 precaution in most tournaments. Unable to assail the center or find 1 4 N -K 3 P -0 B 4 4 5 N -N 5 N -B 3
16 Q-K4ch B-K2 33 Q-R6ch K-K1 Then if a flag falls prematurely, the counterplay Larsen was squeezed 15 PxP P x p 46 N-B3 K-02
17 N-B3 0-0 34 N-K4! Resigns 16 0-QR4 BxB 47 P-R3 K-03
player is forfeited anyway. into a corner. It's now a question 17 KxB 0 -N 2 c h 4 8 K -0 4 N-02
Talent-laden New York, a heavy of whether he or anyone else will 18K-N1 KR-Q1 49 P-QR4 N-B1
White: DIESEN Black: BROWNE
King's Indian Defense favorite, was almost always rated try the Owen Defense again. 1 9N -0 3 R-05 50 N-N5ch K-02
B-B4 higher than its opposition on each 20R-B4 RxR 51 P-R5 PxP
1 N-KB3 N-KB3 24 R-Q4 Whit*: TORR E Black: LAR SEN 21 OxR P-N3 52 PxP K-B3
2 P-B4 P-KN3 25 Q-B1 N-K5 board. Yet unheralded Washing­ Ow*n D*f*ns* 22 R-B1 R-01 S3 K-B4 N-02
3 P-KN3 B-N2 26 P-KN4 P-B4 ton D C., led by grandmaster 1 P-K4 P-QN3 26 QR-K1 KR-B1 23 Q-QR4 P-R4 54 N-04ch K-03
4 B-N2 0-0 27 R/4-Q3 B-K3 Lubomir Kavalek, pulled off a 2 P -04 B-N2 27 B-N4 N-K 3 24 R-B4 R-Q4 55 K-NS N-B4
6 0 -0 P-Q3 28 Q-B4 N-B3 3 N -Q 2 P-K3 28 N-B5 R-Q1
6 P-Q4 QN-Q2 29 N-N5 R-R3 stunning upset. 25 P-B3 0-N3 5 6 N -K 2 N-02
In 1977 more cities may form 4 KN-B3 P-OB4 29 N-OB N-N4 26 K-N2 N-B2 57 P-R6 K-B2
7 N-B3 P-K4 30 R-KB3 B-B1 5 P-B3 N-K B3 30 P-K R 4 RxN 27 Q-B2 N-R3 58 N-04 P-K4
8 P-K4 PxP 31 R-06 RxR another league with the two 6 B-Q3 N-B3 31 PxR N-K S 28 0-B3 R -0 5 59 NxP PxP
9 NxP R-K1 32 OxR Q-Q1 winners meeting in a World Series 7 0-0 B -K 2 32 B -K6I P-B3 29 P-0R3 Q-Q3 60 PxP N-B3
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R-R8 6 R -K 1 Q-B2 33 P-Q7 R-Q1
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13 B-K3 P-R5 36 RxO RxP the expenses to be met by admis­ 1 0 P -K 5 N-Q2 33 B-B9 B-B3
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Male Stronghold Rules Of The Game Once Is Enough Test Of Time

Although the 76 USA Champi­ "Law should be clear, concise, It’s dangerous to repeat a risky The French Defense (1 P-K4 P-
onship was cancelled due to lack consistent. To interpret it is to line twice. If at first you succeed, K3) which got its name from a
of funds, a women's event was corrupt it,” said Napoleon, who don't try again. postal game between Paris and
held at Teton Village, Wyoming. was an avid chessplayer. London in 1834 has fallen upon
Diane Savereide, 21, a student at U.S. grandm aster W alter hard times lately. Wolfgang
UCLA, easily defended her title in Checkmate has been defined as Browne often displays a stubborn Uhlmann of E. Germany, its
a field of eleven. a self-inflicted torture by novices courage. But he tempted fate once leading exponent, lost three
who don't know the word too often at the Interzonal in critical games with his beloved
Unlike other sports, chesS is a "resigns." The law, in its ultimate
game of brain and not brawn. Manila by adopting the same line defense at the 7 6 M anila
wisdom, states: "The game is won which worked so well for him Interzonal. His disaster produced
There is no reason why women by the player whose opponent
should not be the equal of men. against Robert Byrne in the 75 shock waves.
declares he resigns." Could USA Championship. In the very first round Boris
Yet no female has ever attained anything be more plain?
the rank of grandmaster and few Byrne as White lost after 12 B- Spassky unveiled a new idea
Another article states: “The against the Winawer Variation: 5
are capable of competing in game is drawn when the King of KB4? P-N5. Browne's 11th move
master events. was heralded around the world Q-N4 instead of the time-honored
the player whose turn it is to move 5 P-QR3. Gligoric writes: “The
A separate tournament for is not in check and the player and the variation was considered
women is redundant since they good for Black. early excursion of the White
cannot make any legal move. The Queen was combined with other
are eligible for any event if their King is then stalemated." It was only to be expected that
rating is high enough. Even developing moves so that White
Suppose a player is so Tseshkovsky would seek an maintained his threats on the
women themselves are divided on overwhelmed by his opponent's improvement. But Browne felt
the issue of separate women's Klngside and even gained a
last move that he fails to notice he supremely confident in Black’s tempo, for he did not spend time
trophies. But is it any more is stalemated and resigns? What position and did not fear any
demeaning than a junior prizeora on the advance of the QRP to
takes priority —the position on sudden surprise. protect the exposed pawn
senior prize9 the board or a declaration of
“ Chess has long been a Browne was duped. Had he center—the ‘indispensable’
resignation? looked a little deeper, he might m e th o d a lm o s t re g u la rly
stronghold of the antiquated David Levy of England writes:
attitude of male domination. have avoided this line altogether practiced before.”
"It seems to me that once a player (with 8...N-B4) and saved himself Had White, at long last, refuted
Incentives must be offered to has been stalemated the game is
encourage women,” writes a man. a precious point against his well- the Winawer? The answer came a
over. The fact that the stalemated armed Soviet antagonist. month later at Budapest when
A woman master disagrees: p la y e r then te n d e rs his
"Women should not receive Edmar Mednls of the USA found a
resignation cannot affect the counter to Spassky's novelty,
special trophies. We are able to result."
T S E S H K O V S K Y Black: BROW NE
compete on equal terms.” Sicilian Defense
This sounds fine, except it Manila 1976 Although Spassky won in fine
A female organizer states: "We violates another clause which
are without doubt retarded in 1 P-K 4 P-QB4 1 6 PxP BxP style, I think the French Defense
prohibits the advice or opinion of 2 N-KB3 P-Q3 17 QxP R-R3 will continue to stand the test of
chess sophistication because a third party whether solicited or 18 R-KN1 B-B1
3 P-Q4 PxP time. Perhaps the chief value of
there were too many barbi-dolls not. If a player resigns without 4 NxP N-KB3 19 R -N 8 Q-Q1
and plastic dishes at age 6 5 N -Q B 3 P-QR3 20 0 -0 -0 Q -K2 this game is to remind the puzzled
noticing that he's stalemated this chess world who Boris really was.
defining our roles, while our male can only be called to his attention 6 B -K3 P-K3 21 Q -B 6 R-N1
counterparts learned that 7 B -K2 QN-Q2 22 B-R7! K-B2 W hite: SPA SS K Y B lack: UHLMANN
when the game is over a fte r he 8 P-KN4 P-R3 23 R-N2 R-N2 Franck Datenaa
submissiveness is not a prime has resigned. 9 P-B4 P-QN4 24 QxB RxB
American virtue.” 1 P -K 4 P -K 3 2 6 N -B «ch 0 -0 6
A simple solution istoplayeach 1 0 P -N 5 PxP 25 R-B1 ch N-B3 2 P-Q 4 P -Q 4 2 7 NxQ PxN
A budding female master writes: and every game to the bitter end. 11 PxP R-R 6 !? 26 P -K 5 Q-N2 3 N-OB3 B -N 5 2 8 RxPch K -K 2
"To give a person a trophy Another case of premature
1 2 B -B 2 ! RxN 27 RxNch R xR 4 P-KS N -K 2 2 6 R-QN3 KR-R1
because she is a woman is wrong. 1 3 PxN R -K R 6 28 B-R5ch R-N3 5 0 -N 4 P-QB 4 s o OR-N1 RxR
resignation occurred in the 14 NxKP! Q-R4ch 29 BxRch K-K2 6 N -B3
However, I do think people realize M a n h a tta n C hess Club 1 5 P -B 3 PxN 30 Q-B5 Resigns
PxP (a) 31 RxR R-OB1
that chess is not popular among 7 NxP Q -B 2 3 2 R -N 7ch K -B 3
Championship. Andrew Soltis, B B-N9ch! Q N-B3 3 3 P-N3 P -R 4
women. Few parents permit their international master and chess 6 0 -0 BxN 3 4 R -N5 P-RS
daughters to travel long distances columnist for the New York Post, In Chess L ife a reader of my IO P xB B-Q 2 3 5 R - N 4 P -R 6
to compete. Many woman do not mistakenly thought he faced column suggested 12 B-B2! as an 11 BxN PxB 3 6 R -N 3 R-QR1
begin tournment play until they checkmate and threw in the towel! improvement and I agreed. 1 2 B -R 3I QxP 3 7 K -N 2 K -K 4
are well into their teens or older, Browne took issue with this 1 3 K R -K 1 P -K R 4 3 6 R -K 3c tll K-QS
1 4 Q -B 3 0 -B 2 3 9 P -R 4 P -K 4
and their best learning years are W hite: S O LTIS Black: TA M A R C O conclusion and wrote that “ 12 B- 1 S P -B 4 R-QN1 4 0 P -N 4 K -Q 4
behind them.” Ruy Lopez New Yo rk 1 #7# B2? RxN! 13 PxN R-KR6! 14 NxKP 1 6 PxP BPxP 4 1 K -N 3 P-B3
1 P-K4 P-K4 26 Q-R4 N-B3 Q-R4ch wins since the Q1 square 1 7 BxN KxB 4 2 P-RS R-RS
White: SIMMONS Black: S A VER EID E 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 27 RxP Q-Q2 is vacated for the Black King." 1 8 N-SS ch K -Q 1 4 3 R - K B 3 K -K 3
K in g ’s Indian Defense 3 B-N5 P-QR3 28 P-R3 N-R4 1 9 NxP K -K 2 4 4 P - R 6 K -B 2
4 B-R4 N-B3 29 R -K 6 QR-K1 2 0 NxRP R -R3 4 3 P-NS K -N 3
1 P-Q4 N-KB3 18 B-B3 Q-K2 5 0-0 B-K2 30 RxP PxR Browne took into account only 21 N -B4 B -B 3 4 6 PxP R-R1
2 N-KB3 P-KN3 19 R-K1 B-N1 6 R-K1 P-QN4 31 BxP R -K 8 ch 16 B-R5ch? K-Q1 which wins for 2 2 Q -K N 3 K -Q 2 4 7 P-B7 R-KB1
3 B-B4 B-N2 20 Q-B2 R-K1 7 B-N3 0 - 0 32 K-N2 B-Q5 Black. But he underestimated 16 2 3 P -B 4 PxP 4 8 K -N 4 KxP
4 P-K3 P-B4 21 PxP Q-K4 8 P-Q4 P-Q3 33 B-R7ch QxB PxP! The plausible defensive try 2 4 K R -Q lc h B-Q 4 4 9 R-BGch K -N 2
5 P-B3 P-N3 22 P-QN4 0-R7ch 9 P-B3 B-N5 34 NxQ RxPch 28 NxB QxQ SO K-BS Resigns
6 P-KR3 B-N2 23 K-B1 N -N 6 ch 10 P-QR4 PxQP 35 QxR BxQ 19...K-B2 is smashed by 20
7 QN-02 0 -0 24 PxN BxB 11 BPxP BxN 36 KxB R-Q 8 RxBch! NxR 21 Q-B4ch R-B3 22 (a ) A sh o rt postal game
8 B-K2 P-Q3 25 Q-B2 Q -R 8 ch 12 PxB N-QR4 37 N-N5 N-B3 B-R5ch N-N3 23 Q-R-6! threaten­ continued: 6...0-0? 7 B-Q3 N-B4 8
9 0-0 QN-Q2 26 Q-N1 BxPch 13 B-B2 P-B4 38 N -K 6 P-B5 ing Q-R7ch and BxN. B-N5 Q-R4 9 B-B6 P-KN3 10 BxN
10 B-R2 Q-K1 27 K -K 2 QxP 14 N-B3 P-N5 39 N-B7 P-R4
PxP 15 N-K2 Q-N3 40 K-K2 R-R 8 PxP 11 Q-R4! R-K1 12 N-N5 P-
11 N-B4 R-B1 28 PxP
12 NxQP? PxN 29 KR-Q1 BxP 16 N-N3 P-N3 41 K -K 3 K-B2 Perhaps Browne can be faulted KR4 13 B-N4 N-Q2 14 BxRP NxB
13 BxP N-K5 30 K-Q2 B -B 6 17 P-Q5 N-Q2 42 K-Q4 N-Q2 for bad judgment. But who can 15 BxP BxNch 16 K-Q1 Black
14 BxR BxB 31 R-KB1 R-Q1 ch 18 P-B4 B-B3 43 N-N5 R-08ch Resigns.
B-K7 19 Q-N4 Q-B2 44 K-K3 N-B4ch say that he lacks the courage of
15 N-Q2 QN-B3 32 K-B1 Correct is 6...QN-B37 B-Q2 0-0
16 NxN NxN 33 Q-R1 QxRch 20 P-K5 PxP 45 K-K2 R-R 8 his convictions?
White Resigns 21 N-K4 B-N2 46 R-N1 N-K4 8 B-Q3 P-B4! 9 PxPep RxP 10 Q-
17 P-QR4 B-Q3
22 P-B5 P -N 6 47 N-R3 R-R7ch R5 P-KR3 wiih equal chances
23 B-N1 N-B5 48 K-Q1 N -B 6 (Sax-Mednis).
24 PxP RPxP 49 B-B4 R-KB7
25 N-N5 N-Q3 W hite Resigns?!
White misses 50 NxP! N4-Q5
51 N-Q2! staving off mate.
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Whits mates in 2 moves

Rising Sun
A Check In Time Despite a last-minute bid by Best In The West Color Blind
Libya to sponsor the chess olym­
Novices are taught the maxim: piad, and an expected Arab boy­ For the first time since 1937 a The advantage of the first move
"Always check — it might be cott, the event is set for Haifa, six-man USA squad wrested the is a fixed article of faith and,
mate!" But experienced players Israel, in October. As a prospec­ world chess olympiad in a field of indeed, White wins the majority of
never check unless it’s effective. tive member of the U.S. squad, I 48 nations. Unfortunately this lost master games. Yet shed no tears
This reluctance to give mea­ received a warning from the USCF some of its luster due to a boycott for Black.
ningless checks may explain why that terrorism is possible in that from Russsia and the Communist At the 22nd Olympiad in Israel
West Germany's Robert Huebner hot spot where Russia will proba­ bloc because Israel was the host. the luck of the draw gave me Black
made the costliest mistake of his bly defend its world title. Although Russia won the last in no less than 6 of my 9 games—I
career against Armenia's Tigran Tight security will not be the twelve of these biennial events, won 5, drew4—and would willing­
Petrosian at the Swiss Interzonal. only first. China may also enter their victory was not a foregone ly settle for Black every time if I
A momentary lapse, after outplay­ the lists, joining Japan which first c o n c lu s io n . T h e S o v ie t could maintain that 77.8%!
ing Petrosian all the way, eliminat­ sent a team in 1970. juggernaut has been weakened by White can virtually force a draw
ed Huebner as a contender. In 1958 touring Soviet grand­ the defection of Korchnoi and the against an equal opponent, if
With the luxury of five minutes masters were asked how long it absence of Spassky who Is desired, but it’s incumbent on him
left on his clock, Huebner froze would take China to become a residing in France. A number of to "do something." There’s the
and overlooked an obvious series leading chess nation. The answer their top players have also rub. If White can’t exploit his
of checks leading to mate. Bad was at least twenty years. emigrated to the west. initiative, if he stumbles or is
nerves or bad luck? Forget it. When China split with Nevertheless their boycott was merely listless, then Black springs
Petrosian's position was so Russia, chess was one of the first a blow to the spl rit of the Olympics to life.
atrocious it is reasonable to as­ things to be denounced as a and a throwback to the Cold War. The second player must have
sume that he saw the mate but bourgeois pastime. The Red If harmony cannot prevail at the patience and tenacity, adhere to a
gambled Huebner would miss it Guards, on a cultural rampage, chessboard, what chance is there policy of alert containment. This
with the clock ticking. Huebner burned chessboards as symbols elsewhere? cheerless prospect of long de­
of foreign influence. Never before has chess been so fense contains a kernel of hope
never dreamed that a former world
The hardy game which was engulfed by politics. Libya staged that White will get rambunctious
champion would permit anything born in Asia is thriving there once
so simple. an unofficial olympiad for Third an d! overreach himself.
more, it's hard to explain this World nations. To guard against Bobby Fischer once told me
Huebner saw the right check a sudden upsurge, but the reason that he sought to win with Black
move too late. This gave Petrosian terrorism at the Dan Carmel Hotel
may be as simple as Walter in Haifa pink-shlrted police armed from the start. The revelation that
time to surprise him with a Knight Browne's quote in Sports Illustrat­ Black has dynamic chances and
sacrifice on move 37. with carbines and metal detectors
ed: "I feel sorry for people who enforced the tightest security. need not be satisfied with mere
By some miracle Huebner mis­ don't play chess. They're missing equality was the turning point in
sed 37 Q-K8ch K-N238 R-K7ch K- Holland led all the way and
something." seemed to be coasting to victory his career, he said. Indeed, his
R3 (QxR only prolongs the agony) Lenin called chess "the gymna­ victory with Black against Spass­
39 Q-B8ch K-R4 40 RxP mate. A until the last round when the USA
sium of the mind," and Russia scrambled to the top by the ky in their third match game
move later he could have tried 38 promoted the game vigorously. narrow margin of a half point. psychologically turned the tide in
PxN QxPch 39 N-N3. Despite the fact that th is effort was his favor.
Huebner's last chance to draw sneered at by a New Deal Ameri­ Each match consisted of four My game with Argentine grand­
was 39 Q-K7ch QxQ 40 RxQch K- can as “the biggest waste of boards while two players rested. master Oscar Panno shows how
B3 41 R-B7ch K-K4 42 PxNch KxB human intelligence you can find In 13 matches the USA scored 37 White can get demoralized when
43 RxP. The sad part is that he outside of an advertising agency," out of a possible 52 points. he is frustrated and held at bay.lf
needed only a draw to qualify. chess is an ideal recreation for the 1 . Robert Byrne 7 from 10
2 . Luboml r Kavalsk 4 .3 from 6
White is going to play P-K5 he
masses. 3 . Larry Bvana 7 from B should do it right away on move 5
W hite: HUEBNER Black: PETROSIAN China recently hosted a 60- 4 . Jamaa Tarfan 4 from 7 before Black's Knight has access
PI re Detenee game warmup match on 10 boards 3 . William Lombardy 7 from • to Q4. Next Panno lost time by
1 N-KB3 P -K N 3 2 2 BxBP NxB with the Philippines, the strongest 3 . Kim Commons 7 .3 from 8 moving his Rook to K1 and again
2 P -K 4 B-N2 2 3 RxN Q -K 2 chess power in the Far East. Evans and Commons were the to Q1 two moves later.
3 P -0 4 P-Q3 2 4 Q-B1 QR-B1 Although China lost, as expected, only undefeated members of the Panno’s indecision manifested
4 B-QB4 P-K371 2 3 N-B3ch K-R1 the margin was only 35-25.
3 B-N3 N -K2 2 6 NxQP Q-B1 team. In addition, Commons was itself when he rejected 17 P-R5 P-
3 0 -0 0 -0 2 7 Q -K3 NxP Chinas national champion the overall Olympic high-scorer N4 18 N-N3 or simply 17 B-K3 with
7 P-B3 P-N3 2 8 RxR RxR Chih Ching-Hsuang wasthehigh- with better than 83%. positional pressure against QB5.
5 ON-Q2 Q N-B3 2 8 GxP SxN scorer with 5 out of 6 points. My most exciting game was Short of time, Panno lost the
9 R-K1 N-R4 3 0 BxB Q-NS Chih Ching lost in round one
1 0 B -B 2 P-Q B4 31 R -K2 P -8 4 against Max Fuller of Australia thread and succumbed to a relent­
11 N-B1 N /4 -B 3 3 2 Q-N7 R-BSch
to Eugenio Torre but rebounded when I submitted to a strong less counterattack against his
12 B -K 3 Q-B2 3 3 K -R 2 0 -3 1 to scalp his first grandmaster. attack to gain a piece. The main weak KP after he missed his last
1 3 R-B1 P -K 4 3 4 P-B4 N-OS Chih played the opening mod­ point is that 23 BxN N-B6ch! chance with 31 PxP.
1 4 P -K R 3 N-Q1 35 Q .N 3 B -0 5 estly but obtained a grip on the
1 5 N / 3 -R 2 B-N2 3 6 N -R 1 0 -0 3
snares the Oueen; or if 23 Q-N5
open Oueen-file. His smashing NxB 24 PxPch K-R1 25 OxN N- White: PANNO Black: EVANS
1 6 N -N 3 KPxP 37 P -K N 37 NxBP! hire M u m
1 7 PxP N -K 3 3S Q -K 8ch K-N2 offer of a Knight on move 32 K7ch wins a full Rook. Finally on
should have been refused by 1 N-KB3 P-KN3 22 BxBP P-RB
1 S B -N 3 P -0 4 7 ! 3 9 R -K 7ch7 K-R3 31 Q-K5ch K-Q1 32 QxPch K-B1 2 P-0 4 B-N2 23 N-K4 0 -N3
1 9 P -K 3 N-B3 4 0 N -B2 BxN 32...0-N6! 33 OxO BxO 34 R-03 33 R-Q1 N-N6ch! 34 PxN R-R1 3 P-K4 P-0 3 2 4 Q-K2 B-QB3
2 0 N -N4 KR-Q 17 41 RxPch K -N4 B-B7 35 R-C2 PxN 36 RxB R-Q1 mate. 4 B-0 B4 N-KS3 23 R-N1 0 -N2 I
21 PxP PxP W hite Resigne W hite: CHIH Black: TORRE Q-K2 0 -0 2 8 N-B3 N-OSt
Pirc Bafansa White: PULLER Black: EVANS 6 0-0 . P-1 3 27 KNxN PxN
1 P-K4 King’s Indian Ootenoo 7 P-K3 N-0 4 28 NxN SxN
N -K B 3 27 P-B5 QR-N1 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 1 8 B-N4 P-K3 § P-KR3 P-QR4 2 8 BxB OxB
P -K N 3 28 Q-B3 Q-QB2 2 P-OB4 P-KN3 1 9 P-N4 Q -R 2 8 R-K1 PxP 3 0 P-B4 P-B3
4 B-K2 B-N2 29 N-R2 QR-Q1 3 N-QB3 B-N2 2 0 Q-Q2T P-B41 10 PxP N-R3 J 1 R-K1 T PxP
3 N-B3 0 -0 30 N-N4 RxR 4 P-K4 P-Q3 21 PxP PxN 11 R-Q1 N / 3 -B 2 32 PxP QR-B1
8 0 -0 P-B3 31 PxR Q-N3 6 B*K2 0-0 2 2 PxNP N-K4! 12 P-QR3 P-QN4 33 0 -0 3 R-B3
P-QR4 32 NxKP PxN? 6 B-N5 P -B 4 2 3 Q-R 6 R-B2 IS B-R2 ■-R3 34 QR-S1 R-K3
N -R3 33 P-Q7 R-Q1 7 PxP Q-R4 2 4 PxPch RxP 14 QN-0 2 N-K3 38 R.R4 0 -N4
N-ON5 34 QxPch K -B2 8 B-Q2 QxBP 2 6 QxP NxB IS N-K4 P-R3 33 S-N4 P-R4
Q-B2 35 R-Q 6 Q -N 6 • N-B3 B-N5 2 6 Q-N 6 ch K-B1 1 SP-KR 4 K-R 1 37 p.QN3 PxP
P -K 4 36 Q-B4ch K -N2 10 0-0 BxN 2 7 QxR N-K7ch 17 Q-K1 T 0 -1 2 3 8 QxQHP . RxP
KxB 37 P-K5 B-B4 11 BxB N-B3 2 8 K-R1 NxPch 18 1-02 B-N2 3 8 R-0 1 R-KS
N -R4 38 Q-N5 RxP 1 2 B -K2 N-Q2 2 9 RxNch QxR 18 N-N3 KR-0 1 4 0 R-B7 0 -K 7
Q -K2 39 Q-B 6 ch K-R3 1 3 R-B1 P-QR3 3 0 Q-R 8ch K -K2 2 0 QR-B1 P-0 B4 41 R-KN81t P-Q8
15 B-B1 Q -B3 40 Q -B 8ch K-R4 1 4 P-Q N3 QR-B1 31 Q-N7ch K-Q1 21 P-B4 PxP 4 2 B-K1 QxBoh
16 R-K3 N-B5 41 P-N4ch K-N4 1 6 B-K3 B-Q 6 3 2 R-Q1 N-B5 White Resign*
17 N-K 2 R-K1 42 Q -B 6 ch K -R3 1 6 BxB NxB 3 3 Q-N3 QxQ
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To be a Pawn ahead is good. To "There are many time-pressure A fork—or double attack—is an Football players aren't the only
be two Pawns ahead is better. specialists in the USA, but appar­ old but potent tactic. When two ones getting a free ride nowadays.
Practical players are frequently ently there is no one who knows a units are attacked at once, only Some colleges offer chess scho­
confronted with the question of cure,” observed Danish grand­ one can be saved. The execution larships.
whether it’s worth the risk to master Bent Larsen. of the remaining threat wins mate­ The University of South Florida
snatch a Pawn. It all depends on Everyone gets short of time rial. in Tampa, which never before
how badly one needs to win. occasionally. But what about A simple example is 1 P -K 4 P- entered a team, captured the Pan
Safety first. If you see a forcing habitual offenders? Are they dar­ K 4 2 N -K B 3 P -Q 3 3 N -B 3 N- American Championship in afield
line that gives your opponent ing fate or engaging in a form of Q B 3 4 P -Q 4 B -K 3? 5 P-Q5! of 108 colleges from America and
clear advantage, it’s foolhardy to self-destruction? Whatever the skewering the Bishop and Knight, Canada. Their secret was two
gobble material. reason, they all have one thing in which are both worth more than a hired guns—Larry Christiansen of
B u t If h is p o s it io n a l common: perfectionism! lowly pawn. This is called a pawn California and Ron Henley of
compensation for the Pawn is Whereas practical players are fork. Texas who headed the four-man
nebulous, accept the challenge. satisfied with finding agood move Soviet star Oleg Romanishin, squad. They both receive full
As a charter member of Pawn when short of time, perfectionists who won Hastings 1977, used chess scholarships.
Snatchers Anonymous my advice always seek the best move. Sud­ some subtle aspects of this man­ An enthusiastic college organ­
is to always grab Pawns—if you denly they glance at the clock and euver to outplay America’s Jim izer writes: "America has never
can do it and live! find seconds remain for a gaggle Tarjan, who came in third. Tar- had such a large group of strong
Taking the Pawn puts pressure of moves to reach the time control. jan’s game was healthy until he young players. The Fischer boom,
on your opponent. He must either Move fast or forfeit! failed to activate his Bishop with although short-lived, has left its
get it back or crash through with Each side is allotted 150 min­ 22.. .B-R3 to solve his problems mark. We may now expect to see
an attack before you trade down utes for 40 moves in international with B-QN4. bidding wars and high-priced
and nurse your lowly Pawn to play. Time pressure usually is in After 24 N-Q6! which set up a 2200-rated freshmen: the age of
victory in the endgame. tne fifth hour . Speed obviously double attack against the Bishop recruitment in collegiate chess
My game with A. Williams of affects the quality of play. and the KBP Tarjan was forced to appears to be at hand."
Wales in the last round of the 22nd Two prominent "specialists" are capture the pesky intruder with Christiansen, 20. is America’s
Olympiad illustrates some of Pal Benko and Walter Browne 2 4 .. BxN but the recapture 25 PxB newest grandmaster. He earned
these problems. America was fn a whose contortions are a sight to gave White a dangerous passed his spurs in two international
photo finish with Holland and I behold. America's newest grand­ pawn. Black's overburdened tournaments at Torremolinas,
had to win at any cost. But how? master JamesTarjan is joining Queen had to retreat since Spain. In 76 he was second
My position was comfortable but their ranks. Jim plays extremely 25.. QxP? 26 QxB wins a piece. behind his compatriot Robert
equal. well when pressed, and even As usual, one bad move led to Byrne. In 77 they reversed roles
As I was pondering my drawish seems to be stimulated by the another. Tarjan dearly would have and Larry took first with 9 out of 13
prospects Williams handed me a clock. Curiously his opponents — loved to play 27...B-N4 but he saw points.
Pawn on a silver platter. I didn’t who usually have more time — an elegant refutation—a Knight A daring Knight sacrifice
leap at the opportunity. Snatching often blunder first. But then good fo rk —28 N-Q 7! QxP (n o t against Rumanian grandmaster
It meant surrendering to hair- players are always lucky. 28.. .NxN? 29 Q-R7ch K-B1 30 Q- Florin Gheorghiu was largely
raising complications that Jim's luck failed him against R8 mate) 29 N-N6! snaring an responsible for Christiansen's
endangered my very survival. But Colombia's Garcia in the penulti­ Exchange. Even so this or even triumph. Black should have tried
refusing it meant an almost mate round of the 22nd Olympiad. 28.. .B-N4was by farthelesserevil. to repulse the attack with 19...P-
certain draw. Hobson’s choice. His disaster almost cost the USA Tarjan’s defense contained ■ B3. His last chance to defend was
Defending Black’s position after the world team title. fatal flaw. Perhaps, short of time, 24...Q-KR1. But not 24. KxN? 25
31 Q-Q2 (threatening Q-R6 and By move 30 Jim had a clear win, he overlooked that his intended N-N4ch K-B4 (if 25...K-N4 25 P-
Q-N7mate) was like walking an extra pawn, and 15 minutes left 30.. .NxP runs smack into 31 B- B4ch; or 25...K-N2 26 Q-R6ch K-
through a minefield. There was on his clock. His position was so R7ch! KxB 32 RxR. He resigned N1 27 N-B6 RxRch 28 RxR QxN 29
only one way out. White abstained good all he had to do was move his because 36...K-K2 37 NxBP KxN R-K8 mate) 26 R-K5ch! RxR 27
from 33 R-Q6 QxP 34 Q-R6 G- King back and forth! But he 38 RxNch leads to a hopeless NxRch K-B3 28 Q-R4ch P-N4 29
N8ch and he gets mated on his thought, and tho ugh t, and endgame. Q-R6ch K-K2 30 R-K1 Q-KN1 31
back rank. In time pressure, faced thought. His agonized team­ NxPch! KxN 32 Q-K6ch K-N2 33
with the loss of a third Pawn, mates watched his precious min­ W hite: ROMANISHIN Black: TARJAN Q-K5ch followed by QxR
Williams blundered away a piece. utes slip away. The captain want­ Queen's G am bit Declined
1 N -K B 3 P -Q 4 19 R PxP P xP W hite: CHRIST!ANSKN
ed to tell him to offer a draw, but 2 P -Q 4 N -K B 3 20 N P x P K R -R 1 B lack: O H IO R O H IU
Whttac W ILLIA M S S lack: IV A N S
he dared not interfere and Jim 3 P -B 4 P -K 3 21 N -K 4 B -K 2 Sem l-Tarrasch D t f t n N
W re Defence never looked up. 4 B -N 5 B -K 2 22 N -K 5 R -R 6 1 P -0 B 4 P-QB4 21 BxB KRxB
1 N-KB3 P -K N 3 1 8 NxN P-B3 “ I simply went into a trance,” 5 N -B 3 0 -0 23 Q -N 2 R / 6 - R 5 2 N-KB3 N-KB3 2 2 BxN PxB
2 P-K4 1 -N 2 1 S r -O N I B-B2 Jim shrugged. “ I still don’t know 6 Q -B 2 P -K R 3 24 N -Q 6! BxN 3 N-B3 P -K 3 23 N-BOch K-M2
3 P-Q4 P -4 3 3 0 R-41 B -4 3 7 BxN B xB 25 P xB Q -N 1 4 P-K3 P-Q4 2 4 Q -R 3 ! P-R4T
how it was possible for me to flush 8 R-Q1 P -B 3 j -.8 R -K 3 3 PxP NxP 2 5 NxPch! PxN
4 N-B3 N -K B 3 21 4 -N 2 T BxN B -R 3
6 B-K2 P -B 3 2 2 BxB BxPt
that position down the drain!" 9 P -K 4 P -Q N 3 27 Q -B 2 R -R 8 6 P-Q4 PxP 2 6 R -0 3 Q-KR1
6 P-QR4 Q -B 2 2 3 B -K7 RxRoh W hit*: TARJAN Black: G ARCIA 1 0 B -Q 3 PxK P 28 P -Q 7 Q -B 2 7 PxP N-QB3 2 7 R -N 3eh K-B1
7 0 -0 P -K 4 2 4 RxR K -N2 S ic ilia n D e fe n s e 11 B xP B -N 2 29 Q xP QxQ 6 B-Q3 B -K2 2 8 R-N5 R-K3
6 PxP PxP 2 6 P-KB4T1 R-K1 1 P -Q 4 N -K B 3 2 2 B -N1 Q-Q1 12 0 -0 N -Q 2 30 NxQ R xB 9 0 -0 0-0 2 6 QxR! PxQ
9 B-K3 0 - 0 2 6 P -4 N 4 4 -N 4 2 P -Q B 4 P -B 4 2 3 R -R 3 P -Q R 3 1 3 P -Q N 4 Q -B 2 31 RxR N xP 1 0 R-K1 N-B3 3 0 N-N 6 oh K -N2
1 0 N-Q2 R -41 2 7 PxP PxP 3 N -K B 3 P x P 2 4 R-Q1 R -K 3 1 4 K R -K 1 K R -Q 1 32 R -Q R 3 B -N 2 11 P-QR3 P -0 N 3 31 NxQch KxN
11 Q-B1 N -N 8 2 6 R -4 7 K-N1 4 N xP P - K N 3 2 5 N -K 4 R -N 3 1 5 P -Q R 3 P -Q R 4 33 R xR ch B xR 12 B-B2 B-N2 3 2 RxPeh K-N2
5 N -Q B 3 B -N 2 2 6 B-B2 B -R 3 1 6 Q -N 3 R -R 2 34 N -Q 8 B -Q 4
13 Q.Q3 P-N3 33 P-K R 4 N-B3
12 BxN BxB 2 9 P-B471 BxP
1 3 P-R 8 6 P -K 4 0 - 0 2 7 Q-B3 N-K2 1 7 B -N 1 14 B-R 6 R-K1 3 4 RxKP NxP
N - 4 2 3 0 B-B 6 B-B2 N -B 1 35 R -Q B 1 K -B 1
1 4 N-N3 B-B1 31 4 - 4 2 4 -N 3 c hi 7 B -K 2 N -B 3 2 9 R-R4 Q-B2 1 8 P -B 5 RPxP 36 R -B 7 R e s ig n s 16 QR-Q1 R-QB1 3 5 R-Q 6 R-B2
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1 6 N-R4 B -K 7 3 2 K-R1
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Dashed Hopes D iffe re n t Rules Wine Festival 3 -Time W inner

Lone Pine is now the most International rules and national Good chess mixes with fine The day after Walter Browne
prestigious annual tournament in rules are almost identical, but this wine. Each July, overlooking their turned 28 he captured the nation’s
the USA. Founded in 1971 by small difference can cause havoc. spectacular vineyards in Sarato­ highest title at Mentor, Ohio for
chess patron Louis Statham. The outcome of Lone Pine 1977 ga,California, Paul Masson spon­ the third time running. His score
whose steadfast support has was affected by a conflict of rules sors the largest atl-class rated of 9-4 (6 wins, 6 draws, 1 loss) was
made it possible, it pits rising in an exciting game between outdoor tournament in the world. only a half-point higher than
youngsters against the old guard. America's up-and-coming John They can barely accommodate Robert Byrne, chess columnist for
The seventh edition offered ■ Peters and Soviet grandmaster the crowd. In addition to the the New York Times.
record prize fund of $30,000. It Yuri Balashov. Under FIDE (inter­ largest prize fund and smallest Browne smashed his chief rival
also featured the best perfor­ national) rules Balashov was entry fee of any weekend open, in the very first round but he and
mance ever by a woman: Nona entitled to a time-forfeit which Paul Masson also offers unlimited Byrne were neck and neck going
Gaprindashvili of the USSR tied might have given him clear first quantities of wine between into the last round. Byrne drew
for first with her countryman Yuri prize instead of a four-way tie. rounds. Their hospitality does not quickly with Zuckerman while
Balashov, along with Panno of The time control called for each seem to deter the quality of play. Browne brilliantly defeated Chris­
Argentina and Sahovic of Yugos­ player to make 45 moves in 2 The fifth annual American Class tiansen for his slim victory.
lavia in a star-studded field of 48. hours and 30 minutes. Peters used Championships attracted 714 par­ The event would have been
Although American hopes for a up all his time and his flag fell on ticipants who competed for a stronger except for a boycott by
piece of the top prize were move 41. The Russian duly $15,000 prize fund in 8 divisions. several top players who have
dashed, the youngsters bared claimed a forfeit but the tourna­ 30 masters vied in the top become dissatisfied with the U.S.
their fangs. Teenagers mangled section which ended in a four-way Chess Federation, which spon­
veterans with alarming regularity ment directordisallowed hisclaim
because Balashov, in extreme tie among Larry Christiansen, sored it on very short notice.
and established ratings toppled. Dennis Fritzinger, John Grefeand
time pressure himself, had James Tarjan, who are all in their 2 5 th USA C ham pionship
stopped writing down the last half twenties. The winners each drewa Final S tan din gs
Early on Nona showed her
dozen moves. game and won three, and were
mettle with a fine victory against Under FIDE rules that doesn’t
1. Browne 9 3. C hristiansen 6
JimTarjan who had experiment­ awarded equal prizes of $937.50. 2. B yrn e 8.5 « . Matera S
matter; but under American rules 3. G re ta 7.5 10. G hixdavu 5.5
ed with this same opening at a player must present a complete In such a short four-round event 4. Reshevsky7.5 11. Peters 5.5
Hastings. Tarjan’s pre-game ana­ scorosheet to claim a forfeit. So pairings are critical as grandmas­ 5. Lein 7 12. Sham koyichs.5
lysis indicated that Black was the game continued and the ter Walter Browne discovered in 6 . Zuckerm an 7 13. Soltis 5
okay, but Nona found a stunning players agreed to a draw. the last rou nd wh ile trai li ng by half 7. Tarjan 6.5 14. Fedorowicz 4.5
riposte on move 20. This event was FIDE-rated even point. Once again the issue sur­
Nona's deep pawn sacrifice led faced about whether players need Walter owed his victory against
though it was played under Ameri­ John Grefe largely to prepared
to an opposite colored Bishop protection against arbitrary acts
ending, usually considered draw- can rules. Peters obtained his analysis. The first 19 moves were
international master norm despite of officials.
ish, but she forced a lethal pene­ Browne needed a win at all identical to Polugaevsky - Meck-
tration with her Rook in enemy violating an international rule. ing, 9th match game 1977, which
Balashov invited complications costs to overtake the leaders. He
terrain. To ease the pressure vainly protested his pairing to the petered out into a draw after 20 R-
Tarjan returned the pawn, yet by rejecting 14 NxN PxN 15 NxP. K1 N-B2 21 Q-R6B-B4 22N-N5Q-
At first Peters intended 17. KxB directors who did not follow a
Nona nursed her advantage with binding rule in the book O ffic ia l N2 23 QxQch KxQ 24 R-K7 P-KR3
unerring accuracy in a beautiful 18 Q-Q3ch B-K5 19 N-N5oh QxN 25 N-K6ch NxN 26 PxN K-B3 and
but at the last minute saw that 20 R ules,of Chess.
Rook and pawn finale. After two whites and a black in White couldn’t squeeze anything
Q-R3ch wins for White. Safer for three previous rounds, both out of his superior endgame.
W hit*: NONA Black: T A R JA N
Ruy Lopaz Black was 22...P-N3.White missed Browne and his opponent Grefe Grefe’s game was healthy if he
1 P -K 4 P -K 4 34 R xPch K-R4 a clear win by 31 R-R3 R-K1 32 were due for black. Swiss pairing could defend with 23...B-B7. Bqt
2 N-K B3 N-O B3 3S K-B1 P-R4 RxP R-K8ch 33 K-B2 R-K7ch 34 K- rule 21 states: "if both players are 24 QxQch KxQ 25 N-R7ch K-N2
3 B-N5 P-QR3 36 R -B 6 K-N5 B3 R-R7 35 B-K6 B-B3ch 36 K-K3. 26 NxR BxR 27 N-K6ch! PxN 28
4 B-R4 N-B3 37 RxRP R-Q4 due for the same color, the higher-
5 P-Q 4 PxP 38 K -K 2 R-K4ch
He blundered again on move 32, ranked player has priority in PxP R-K1 29 RxB RxP 30 P-N5
6 0 -0 B -K 2 3 9 K -0 2 R-Q4ch overlooking 32 BxN BxB 33 N-Q5 getting his due color, whether PxP 31 PxP with the threat of B-R3
7 R-K1 0 -0 40 K -B 2 R-K4 K-N2 34 N-K7 R/1-KB1 with D white or black." Article 10 states: followed by RxP gives White a
6 P -K 5 N-K1 41 R -N 6 ch KxP likely draw. Peters missed his "Individual ‘rank’ is determined won ending.
9 B-B 4 P-B3 42 K -Q 2 P-NS chance to turn the tables with W hita: BROW NE Black: GREFE
10 BxN OPxB 43 R -Q B 6 PxPch first by score, then by rating."
11 Ox QxQ 44 PxP R-QN4 33...RxP 34 P-R3 R-B5. Finally Although Browne was higher­ Q ueen’s Indian Defense
12 NxQ P-KB 4 45 RxP R-N7ch either 38...B-N2 or R-N2 should rated, Grefe was higher-ranked
1 P -04 N-K B 3 1 8 KPxP 6-81
1 3 N -K B 3 P-K R 3 46 K-K1 K -N 4 win for Black. 2 P -0 B 4 P-K 3 1 9 P -Q R 3 N-R3
1 4 P -K R 4 B -K 3 4 7 P -R 4 K -B 4
because of his score, and there­ 3 N-K B3 P-QN3 20 N-N5! B-B4
1 5 H -B 3 P-B4 46 K-B1 R-R7 W hite: B A LA S H O V Black: PETERS fore due fb r black. Nevertheless 4 P-KN3 B-N2 21 Q-B4 K-N 2
1 6 Q R -Q 1 P-B3 49 P-B3 R -R 8 ch Q uaan's Gam bit Dacllnad Browne got black, a severe blow 5 B-N2 B -K2 22 P-KN4 P-R3
1 P -04 N-K B3 22 0 -K 3 ! Q-R37 6 0-0 0 -0 23 P-KR4 BxP
17.N-R4 P-QN 4 50 K -B 2 K-N 4 to his winning chances, and had to 7 N-B3 N -K 5 24 QxB PxN
1 8 N -N 6 R-Q1 51 R-Q4 R-QBB 2 N-KB3 P -K 3 .23 QxQch •xO
3 P-B4 P-QN3 24 B-B5 B-N4 settle for a draw which dropped 8 Q -B 2 NxN 25 PxP Q -B 4
19 RxR BxR 52 R-B4 T-Q Rt:
20 N-071 SxN 53 K -K 2 I-K N 8 4 N-B3 B-N2 25 N-K 5 KR-K1 him to a tie for fifth and $33. 9 QxN P-QB 4 26 Q-N3 R-R1
21 P -K 6 B-B1 54 K -Q 3 R-OSch 5 P-0R3 P -04 26 P-B4 R-K2 1 0 R -Q 1 P-Q3 27 R-K1 QR-K1
22 P -K 7 BxP 59 K -B 2 R -K N 8 6 PxP PxP 27 P-05 K-N1 R-K4
23 RxB N-B 3 56 R-B5ch K -R 8 7 B-N5 B -K2 28 R-B3 P-B3 Q iN t n ’i Indian Dafansa 12 B-N2 Q -K 2 K-R2
8 R-B1 0-0 29 P -Q 6 R-N2 1 P-Q4 N-K B 3 2 0 Q -Q 1 QN-Q 4 13 Q-B2 N-B3 PxR
24 R-R7 R -K 1 S 7 K -0 3 K -N 6
25 B -K 3 P -O B 8 58 R -N 6 ch K-B 7 9 P-K 3 Q N -0 2 30 N-N4 K-B1 2 P-QB4 P-K 3 21 NxM BxN 14 P-K4 P-N3 R-K1
26 B -Q 4 P-B5 59 K -K 4 R-QBB 10 B-Q3 N-K 5 31 NxBP? R-B2 3 N-KB3 P-QN3 22 B-R3 R-R1 15 P-Q5 N-N5 K-N1
27 P-B3 K-B1 60 KxP RxP 11 B -KB 4 P-QB4 32 N-R7ctl K-N2 4 P-KN3 B-R3 23 N-K5 B -R 6 16 BxB QxB
12 0 -0 R-B1 33 B-B2 K-R1 5 P-N3 P -04 24 R-R1 P-N5 1 7 Q -Q 2 PxP
28 R-B7 N -N S 61 R-N4I R-B1
1 3B -N 1 PxP 34 P-QR4 B-R3 « B-N2 B -N5ch 23 Q -B 2 P -N 6
29 BxPch K-N1 62 K -K 4 R -K1ch
30 N -K 5 NxN 63 K -Q 4 R -Q lo h14 PxP?! BxP! 35 P-N3 RxN 7 B-Q2 B -K 2 26 PxP PxP
8 PxP PxP 27 Q-Q3 B-M5
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First And Last Marshall Club Slim Pickings Young Lion

Two exciting games in the first The Marshall Chess Club at 23 You have to love chess to stick A player to watch is Mark
and last rounds contributed to West 10 Street in New York City is with it in America. Because you Diesen, 19, of Potomac, Maryland.
Walter Browne's victory in the 77 an institution that no chessplayer can't make a Iivi ng from the game. By winning the 77 World Junior in
USA Championship. His margin should fail to visit. The atmos­ A poll of 70 chessmasters Holland he became the first Amer­
of victory, a mere half point, was phere is quiet and dignified, as indicated only a handful earning ican to accomplish this feat since
due chiefly to the fact that both of much out of character with the over $5,000 a year from Bill Lombardy in 1957. Others who
his opponents tried too hard to rest of the city as its tree-lined competition. The rest have jobs. went on to the world title include
beat him. street in Greenwich Village. The USCF regularly sponsors Boris Spassky and Anatoly Kar­
In a relatively even position As a boy I cut my teeth in their events designed to get Americans pov.
Byrne suddenly plunged his Tuesday night speed event and international titles. This policy Mark's victory is a good omen
Queen deep into enemy territory won the club title three times gives strong players a chance to for American chess, and a blow to
to snatch a pawn on move 10. before heading for greener pas­ get stronger and it should be Soviet prestige. It proves once
"I couldn't believe my eyes tures. Reuben Fine also deve­ maintained. The development of again that sheer talent can over­
when Byrne played ICL.OxNP. loped there and practically every young talent always requires an come the massive subsidies
Instead 10...PxP 11 PxP B-B2 great player has passed through investment in the future. poured into the Russian chess
doesn't give White very much,” its portals. In 1965 it was the scene But the USCF is losing money machine.
said Browne. of Bobby Fischer's participation in and might have to cutback on this The World Junior was initiated
Byrne expected 15 B-R6 BxN 16 the Havana International by radio a m b itio u s p ro g ra m . Ed in 1951 and is open to players
Q-N3 N-K4! but overlooked the when the State Department re­ Edmondson, the outgoing under 20. The winner is automati­
crushing sacrifice 15 RxB! Byrne fused him permission to go. director, warned his colleagues: cally awarded the title of Interna­
could not defend with 23...Q-B3 Since men outnumber women "Only if the pro is adequately tional Master, one step below
24 RxNch K-B2 25 R-N7ch K-Q3 players by about 200 to 1, a compensated will the young Grandmaster.
26 P-K5 mates. He resigned be­ newspaper once: interviewed player see that the game amounts Mark's style is astonishingly
cause if 25...QxR 26 QxNch K-N1 to something.” He noted that mature; he is content to accumu­
someone who met her husband
17 QxQ mate. there. The next day the club was some organizers begrudge the late positional pressure without
White: BROWNE Black: BYRNE deluged with inquiries from wom­ meager income that our few chess striving for ■ quick knockout, as
Dutch Defense demonstrated against veteran
1 P-Q4 P-KB 41 4 0-0 0 -0-0 en who wanted to join. pros make today.
2 N-QB3 N-KB315 RxB QxR Chess is probably unopular The USCF is controlled by grandmaster Arthur Bisguier.
3 B-N5 P-04 16 B-R6ch K-B2 with the distaff side because girls amateurs. Not one grandmaster When Bisguier forfeited on time—
4 BxN KPxB 1 7 R-N1 Q.Q3 learn very early that boys have has ever sat on the policy board as ending his misery—he said
5 P-K3 B -K318 R-N7ch K-B1 spokesman for the pros. Yet, “ Thank God.”
6 B-Q3 P-KN 3 19 R-N3ch K-B2 fragile egos and do not like to lose
7 Q-B3 P-B320 R-N7ch K-B1 at anything, especially a game ironically, by virtue of its Olympic Bisguier's fatal error in the
8 KN-K2 N-0221 P-K4 N-N1 that reflects on their mental abili­ victory, America has leaped to the opening was not preventing
9 P-KR3 Q -N322 N-N5 PxN ty. Yet a dramatic change in this fore of chess nations. White's pawns from storming the
10 P-KN4 0xNP?23 Q-B3ch N-B3 attitude should come about when "For the first time in over 30 center with 13...N-N3! 14 B-K3 B-
11 R-QN1 Q-R624 P-K5 Q-B2 B5! With both sides short of time
12 PxP B-B225 P-K6 Resigns America produces its first strong years it seems possible we may
13 RxP B-N5 woman master actually have better young talent Diesen overlooked 39 P-KN4
A likely candidate is Diane than the Soviets!" writes Bill snaring a Rook, but his move was
Going into the 13th and last good enough to win.
round Browne and Byrne were Savereide. 22, who defended her Goichberg, who organized the
tied with 8-4. Byrne drew quickly U S. Women's title in a field of 28 Manhattan Club International W hite: DIESEN Black: BISGUIER
in 15 moves hoping that Browne's at the Marshall Club, with 4 wins Tourney for $3400- N.Y. 1977 Slav Defense
and a draw. Also noteworthy was In a field of 15 Andy Soltis, 29, a 1 N-KB3 P-Q4 21 N-Q4 R-Q1
opponent would at least bold a 2 P-B4 P-K3 2 2 Q -K 4 P-KB 4
draw. But Larry Christiansen was the performance of Crystal Robin­ columnist for the N e w Y ork P o s t 3 P-Q4 N-KB3 23 Q -B 3
son, 9, who drew two difficult shared top honors with P-B4
not in ■ peaceful mood and 4 N-B3 P-B3 24 N-B6 BxN
refused a draw early on, only to endgames and impressed every grandmaster Leonid Shamkovich, 5 P-K3 O N -02 25 QxB N-B3
fall prey to a brilliant sacrifice of body with her natural talent. 53, a Soviet emigre. Three 6 B-03 B-N5 26 B-B4ch K-R1
teenagers also made news. 7 0-0 0-0 2 7 Q -K 6 N-K1
Rook, Bishop, and Knight. W hite: S A VER EID E Black: CONLON 8 Q-B2 B-Q3 28 QxQ NxQ
The turning point came when Caro Kann Defense 1977 Michael Rohde, 17, became the 9 P-K 4 PxBP 2 9 N-N5 N-OB3
Christiansen missed 14...BxB 15 1 P-K4 P-QB3 25 QxRPch KK2
world’s youngest international 10 BxP P-K4 30 RxR BxR
QxB N-KB3 16 N/2-N3 NxN 17 2 P-Q4 P-Q4 26 Q-K3 R-R1 master and Ken Regan, 17 (he 11 P-KR3 31 R-Q1 B-R5
PxP 27 P-B4 beat both leaders!) got his first leg 12 NxP N -K 4 3 2 K -R 2 N-R4
NxN N-B3 returning his extra 3 PxP BN4
13 B-K2 B-QB4? 3 3 B -K2 P-QR3
pawn with a safe draw in hand. He 4 B-Q3 N-0B3 28 P-N3 QR-KN1 on that title along with Mark
5 P-QB3 N-B3 29 P-B5 B-Q2 14 N-N3 B-N3 N -Q 6 N-B2
was lost by move 20. His last hope Diesen, 19, who tied for 4th a point 15 N-R4 B-B2
6 B-KB4 P-K3 30 PxP PxP P-KN3 B -K2
was for 26 KxB? Q-Q3ch 27 K-R1 7 N-B3 B-Q3 31 R-K2 K-Q1
ahead of them. 16 B-K3 P-QN3 NxP! RxN
Q-Q6! He played on only to make 8 BxB QxB 32 B-Q3 P-B4 W hite: RBQAN Stock: SHAM KOVICH 17 P-B4 N-N3 R-Q7 B-B1
certain that Browne was not going 9 0-0 P-KR3 33 R-KB1 R-R2 Caro Kann Dofonaa N .Y . 1977 18 N-B3 Q-K2 30 RxN P-QN4
10 QN-Q2 PR3 34 R-QN2 KR-N2 1 P -K 4 P-QB3 26 P -K 6 B-B3 19 P-K5 B-Q2 3 9 R -B 8 forfait
to overstep the time limit. 11 R-K1 B-Q2 35 QB4 RxPch 2 N-QB3 P-Q4 27 NxBPch K -B3 2 0Q R-Q 1 N-K1
0 -0 3 6 PxR 3 Q -B 3 N-B3 28 NxR KxN
12 N-KS RxPch
4 P-K8 KN-Q2 29 R-KS K-B3
In the next game Mark uses his
White: BROWNE Black: CHRISTIAN 13 QN-B3 P-QN4 37 K-R2 QxQ pawns to storm the Kingside. After
14 B-B2 P-N5 38 RxQ RxB 5 P-Q4 P-K3 3 0 RxRP R-KN1
Queen’s Fianchetto Defense 6 Q -N 3 missing 15...P-N3 Black drops a
15 Q-Q3 N-K5 39 R-R4 K-B2 P-QB4 31 NxPch KxP
1 P-Q4 P-K3 20 R-Q6! BxR
2 P-QB4 P-QN3 21 NxNch K-R1 16 NxN BxN 40 R-N2 1 N- 7 N-B3 N-QB3 32 N-B4ch K-B3 piece and then manages to get his
17 N-K5 P x P 4 1 R-R7ch K-B3 8 B-K3 PxP33 R-QB5 B-K5 Queen trapped on an open board.
3 P-Q5 B-R3 22 B-N7ch! KxB 9 BxP NxB34 P-N3 P-N3
4 P-K 4 PxP 2 3 N / 3 -R 5 ch ! PxN 18 PxP ■-N4742 R/2-N7RQ7ch
19 P-QB4 B-B343 K-N1 R-Q8ch 1 0 NxN P-QR3 35 R-B3 K -B4 White: DIESEN Black: M ATERA
5 KPxP N-KB3 24 Q -N 5 ch K-R1 11 0-0-0 P-KN3 36 K-Q2 K -K 4
6 N -Q B 3 B-NS 25 Q -R6 BxPch 20 P-B3 N-B344 K-B2 RQ7ch N.Y. 1977 Sicilian Defense
21 P-B5 Q-B 245 K-K1 R-K7ch 12 P-B4 B -N 27
37 N-K2 B-B4 1 P-K4 P-QB4
7 Q -K 2 ch B.K2 2 6 K -R 1 ! QxN
36 R-B 6
8 Q-B2 P-B3 27 QxQch K-N1 22 N-N4 KR-K1 46 K-Q1 BQ6 13 P-K R 4 P-KR4 R-N1 2 N-KB3 P-K3 12 Q-B3 B-N2
9 B-Q3 P-0N4!? 28 0 -N S ch K-R1 23 NxNch PxN47 R-N7 RxP 14 B-Q3 N-B47 39 P-B3 R-Q1ch 3 P-Q4 PxP 13 QR-Q1 Q-B2
I O P x NP PxNP 29 Q -B 6ch K-N1 24 Q-R7ch K-B 1 48 R/R-QB7 mate 18 BxNPt PxB4 0 N-Q4 R-KN1 4 NxP P-QR3 14 Q-R3 B-KB1
11 K N -K 2 P-N5 30 Q -N 5 ch K-R1
16 QxPch K-B1 41 NxB KxN 5 B-Q3 N-K B3 15 P-N4 P-Q47
Diane missed a quicker win by 17 P-QN4 R-R3 4 2 RxP RxP 6 0 -0 P-Q3 16 BPxP N-B4
1 2 N -K 4 NxP 31 KxB R-K3
13 0-0 0-0 3 2R -Q 1 R-KN1
31 B-B5! Q-B1 32QR-N1 18 Q-N5 Q-N3 4 3 RxP K -K 5 7 P-OB4 B -K2 17 P -Q 6 ! BxQP
14R -Q1 Q-R4? 33 Q -B 4 R/3 -KN 3
19 PxN QxP 4 4 R-R4ch K-Q4 8 N-QB3 0-0 18 P-K 5 NxB
15 N/2-N3 P-N3 34 P-KN3
20 R-R3 Q-K2 4 5 K -B2 R-R 6 9 B -K3 R-K1 19 RxN BxP
P-B3 21 R-N3 R-KR2 4 6 K -N3 20 PxB QxP?
K -B4 10 N-N3 QN-Q2
1 6 B -R 6 R-K1 35 RxP N-B4
1 7 Q -Q 2 N-KB3 36 R-Q6 P-R5
22 R-K1 B-Q2 47 R-KN4 R-R7 11 P-B4 P-QN3 21 B-B4 Resigns
23 QxQch KxQ 4 8 R-N5ch K-N3
1 8 Q -B 4 Q-N3 37 OxRP P-QR4 24 P-BS PxP 4 9 R-R5 R-KB7
1 9B xB NxB 38 Q -Q 4 Resigns 25 RxBch RxRtsO R-RS Resigns

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A Lein Win Crystal Ball Marathon Man Sole Survivors

There's nothing like a round Now that the field has narrowed The Guiness Book of Records, By a strange quirk of fate both
robin tournament to really deter­ to 8, who will be Karpov's official that compendium of human folly, survivors of the elimination series
mine the best player. Chance challenger in 1978? lists both Jude Acers and Gideon are Russian expatriates who are
plays a small role when every The favorite is Viktor Korchnoi, Stahlberg as holders of simultane­ anathema in their own land. The
competitor faces all the others; 45, who defected to Holland. ous exhibition records. In 1976 winner of the match between
but such events may last a month Other Russians in the running are Acers took on 179 opponents at Boris Spassky, 40, and Viktor
and are a time-consuming luxury Petrosian, Polugaievsky and Tal. once, winning 160 in 20 hours. In Korchnoi, 46, will get a crack at
in the modern age. They will join Hort (Czech), 1937 Stahlberg faced 460 on a the title held by Soviet superstar
The largest round robin interna­ Larsen (Denm ark), Portisch rotation basis, winning 379 in 36 Anatoly Karpov, 26, who beat
tional tourney in America since (Hungary) and Mecking (Brazil) in hours. them both before.
1889 was held at the end of 1977 in a series of elimination matches. Both records were shattered by Spassky was harassed after
New York City. Unfortunately the Czech grandmaster Vlastimil Hort returning home from his match
prize fund was not up to snuff and Henrique Mecking at 25 is more in Iceland, which probably has the with Fischer. Soviet authorities
failed to attract topnotch players. than a dark horse. He swept the highest proportion of chessplay­ never forgave him for losing.
Yet it is obviously better to have Manila Interzonal, losing only ers to population. % of 1% of the
once to Boris Spassky, who did Spassky cited the Helsinki
some action than none at all. and nation participated in this mara­ agreement and mustered world
full credit must go to organizer Bill poorly. Perhaps a sojourn in Paris thon!
with his French bride will refresh opinion in his favor to marry a
Goichberg who is the only USCF Hort took on 201 youngsters in French girl. He was allowed to live
official doing anything to promote Spassky’s chess while he sits this the first sitting, increased to a
cycle out. in France for a year if he didn’t
master chess in America. total of 550 in batches of 50.1n just play chess, butthis restriction was
In a field of 18 Soviet expatriate The chemistry is right for a over 24 hours he won 477, drew promptly waived when Russia
Anatoly Lein, 42, who finished 5th Mecking-Karpov match. They are 63, lost 10. Besides using a lot of discovered his place in the candi­
in the U.S. Championship, took the same age and Mecking is shoe leather during his 20-mile dates' matches would be taken
first with 12.5 points comprising hungry to wrest the title from the trek, Hort set another record for instead by an American, Byrne.
10 wins, 2 losses, 5 draws. His Russians. My fearless prediction the shortest time per game: 2
nearest rival Edmar Mednis post­ is thateither he or Korchnoi will be minutes and 14 seconds on the Korchnoi defected in 1976 after
ed 11.5, narrowly missing his the next contender. average. winning the IBM tourney in Am­
grandmaster title by a half point. In 74 Korchnoi trounced Hort was in a mood to demon­ sterdam. The Soviet chess federa­
All eyes were focused on Joel Mecking by two points in their 13- strate what he could do after his tion failed in a bid to disqualify
Benjamin, 13, who has frequently game match, yet Korchnoi was on narrow, heartbreaking defeat him, and Korchnoi rejoiced at
been compared to Fischer at his the ropes much of the time. “At against Boris Spassky in a their predicament when they are
age. Benjamin started briskly with difficult moments I saved bad quarter-final match to determinea forced to report his results to
2 wins and had a respectable even positions by means of stubborn challenger for the world champi­ millions of Soviet chess fans. Both
score after 9 rounds. But he faded defense unforeseen by my on. Hort called his time-forfeit he and Spassky have become
in the stretch and tied for 15th with opponent. I played quietly and "the blackest day of my life." symbols of dissent.
6 points and the distinction of confidently, as though all was With less than a minute on his In preliminary matches Korch­
breaking even against all three well. As I later learned, this clock for 5 moves, Hort stared at noi narrowly defeated ex-world
grandmasters. manner of play drove Mecking the board as though hypnotized. champ Tigran Petrosian, who was
A critical position arose on mad!” wrote Korchnoi. He saw a forced win and became subsequently ousted as editor of
move 23 of his game with Finnish At Manila Mecking displayed a so excited at the sudden change in the prestigious chess weekly "64.”
grandmaster Heikki Westerinen, firm grasp of the openings. This his fortune that he completely His next victim was an old friend of
who was looking for the kill. The game was identical to a previous forgot about his clock. When his more than 20 years, Lev Poluga­
tempting 23 NxQP is refuted by N- one by his opponent against flag fell he said to Spassky: "This ievsky, who had to phone Moscow
R4. The simple retreat 23 N-QB3 Matulovic at Wijk aan Zee 1974. is horrible, but what can I do? Of for permission to shake hands.
would have strengthened White's Mecking improved upon the course I was winning with 35...Q- Spassky had a tougher time in
grip. Instead he blundered two inferior 20 RN-B1? B-N2 21 Q-N2 N5." his two matches against Vlastimil
moves later and lost a pawn. N-B5 which yielded Black the Indeed he was. On 35...Q-N5 36 Hort (Czech) and Lajos Portisch
This is Joel's first victory over a initiative. Quinteros should have P-N3 (or 36 R-B2 RxR 37 KxR BxB (Hungary). He was trailing by a
grandmaster. We hope there will braved the pawn snatch 23...BxP 38 QxB Q-B5ch and QxR next) Q- point before this game, then went
be many more to come. 24 R-R1 B-N4 leading to the kind R6 37 R-B2 R-Q8ch is decisive. on to defeat Portisch by 2 points
W h ite : W E S T E R IN B la c k : B E N J A M IN of position Korchnoi successfully Who says there's no luck in chess?
1 P -K 4 P -Q B 4 3 9 B xB Q xB defended against Mecking. WMtac S PA SSKY B lack: PORTISCH
2 N -K B 3 P - K 3 4 0 Q -B 4 R -K 5
W hita: SPASSKY Black: HORT Ruy L o p t i
3 P -Q N 3 P -Q N 3 4 1 Q x R P QxBP
lealand 1 9 7 7 m atch g a m * 15 Oth m atch g a m * 1 0 7 7
4 B -Q 3 N -Q B 3 4 2 Q -Q 3 P -R 4
W h it*: MECKING B lack: QUINTEROS Quaan's Indian Dafanaa 1 P -K 4 P-K4 2 1 R-KB1 P-KR4
5 0 -0 B -N 2 4 3 Q -K B 3 QxQ
S ic ilia n O afana* 1 P -0 4 N-KB3 1 0 N-KS Q-B2 2 N -K B 3 N-QB3 2 2 P-B3 Q-K2
6 R -K 1 P -Q 3 4 4 RxQ K -N 2
2 P-QB4 P-K3 2 0 P-B3 N-B3 3 B-N5 P-QR3 2 3 B-N5 Q -B 1
7 B -N 2 N -B 3 4 5 R -B 2 R -Q 5
B - K 2 4 6 P -Q R 4 PxPep 1 P -K 4 P-QB4 21 BxP R-K1 3 N-KB3 P-QN3 21 N-Q3 P-B5 4 B -R 4 N-B3 2 4 P-B4 PxBP
8 N -R 3
0 - 0 4 7 R -R 2 R xP 2 N-KB3 P-Q3 2 2 BxB RxB 4 P-K3 B-N2 2 2 N /3 -B 5 IB -B 3 9 0 -0 B-K2 2 5 RxP KN-Q2
9 P -B 3
R -Q 6 3 P-Q4 PxP 2 3 P -K R 4 N -B 57 6 B-Q3 P-Q4 2 3 B-Q4 B-N4 6 R~K1 P-QN4 2 6 QR-KB1 N -K4
1 0 R -Q B 1 R -K 1 4 8 R x P
11 B -N 1 Q -B 2 4 9 R -R 6 K -B 3 4 NxP N-KB3 2 4 P-R9 BxN 6 0-0 QN-Q2 2 4 Q -KB 2 N-Q2 7 B-N3 P-Q3 2 7 NxP! PxN
R -Q 5 5 N-OB3 P-QR3 2 5 RxB PxP 7 P-QN3 B-K2 2 5 NxN B x N /2 8 P-B3 0-0 2 8 Q -K 2 Q -R 1
1 2 P -Q 4 Q R -Q 1 5 0 R -N 6
1 3 P -Q 5 P x P 51 K -N 3 K -K 4 6 B-N5 P-K3 2 6 OxP R-KN1 6 B-N2 0-0 2 6 N-B3 B-KB4 0 P-K R 3 N-N1 2 0 R-R4 K-N 3
1 4 P xP N -N 1 5 2 R -N 7 K -K 3 7 P-B4 B-K2 2 7 R4-Q1 Q-K1 0 N-B3 P-B4 2 7 P -K 4T QPxP 1 0 P -Q 4 QN-Q2 3 0 B-Q1! P-B4
Q N -Q 2 5 3 R -N 8 K -B 4 8 Q-B3 Q-B2 2 8 RxRch QxR 1 0 Q-K2 R-B1 2 8 NxP BxN 11 QN-Q2 B-N2 31 RxBP R-KB1
9 0 - 0-0 QN-Q2 2 0 P -N 3 N-R 6ch
1 5 P -B 4 1 2 B -6 2 R-K1 3 2 QxPch QxQ
1 6 P -R 3 B -K B 1 5 4 R -N 6 P -B 3 11 KR-Q1 Q-B2 2 9 PxB P-B 6 !
1 7 Q -G 3 P - N 3 5 5 K -B 3 K -K 4 10 P-KN4 P-N4 3 0 K -N 2 NxP 12 QR-B1 KR-K1 3 0 R-B1 B-N5 1 3 N-B1 B-KB1 3 3 BxQch K -R2
B -N 2 5 6 R -N 8 R -Q N 5 11 BxN NxB 31 Q-R 6 Q-N2ch 13 BPxP KPxP 31 BxRP R -0 7 1 4 N-N3 P-N3 3 4 B-B7ch B-R3
1 8 N -K N 5
Q -N 1 5 7 R -K 8 c h K -B 4 12 P-N5 N-Q2 3 2 QxQch KxQ 1 4 B-B5 P-N3 3 2 Q -K 3 R-R1 I S P-Q R4 P-B4 3 5 RxBch K -N2
1 9 N -N 5 P-B5 3 6 B-B 6c h
2 0 Q -N 3 N -R 4 5 8 R -K 3 R -B 5 c h 1 3 P -B 5 BxPch 3 3 R-QB1 P-K R 4 16 B-KR3 OR-Q1 3 3 B-N 6 Q-Q2 1 6 P-QS KxB
K N -B 3 5 9 K -N 3 P -R 5ch 1 4 K -N 1 N -K4 3 4 RxN RxRch 1 6 N-QR4 N-K5 3 4 P-QR4 P-B7 17 B-NS P-R3 3 7 BxNch K-K1
21 0 -K B 3 1 8 8 4 (3 N-B4 3 8 RxRch KxR
2 2 Q -B 4 N - K 4 6 0 K -R 2 R -K 5 1 5 Q .R 5 Q-Q1 3 5 KxR P-R5 1 7 PxP PxP 3 5 B-B5 fo rfa it
K -K 4 1 6 R .N 1 B-B3 3 6 N-B4 K-B3 1 6 BxN QxB Black fo rfe it* 1 0 Q -Q 2 K -R2 3 0 BxPch K-N 2
2 3 Q -R 4 P -K R 3 61 R -0 3
P -N 4 1 7 PxP 0-0 3 7 K -0 3 K -N 4 20 N -R2 B-N2 4 0 H-N 4 Raaigna
2 4 N -K 4 NxN 6 2 K -N 1
2 5 Q xN ? N x P ! 6 3 K -B 2 P -Q 4 18 b -R3 P-N3 3 8 K -K 3 K -N5
B x B 6 4 R -Q B 3 K -Q 3 1® Q-K2 K-R1 3 9 N -K 2 P -R 6
2 6 Q xN
P -R 3 6 5 R -B 1 P -Q 5 '2 0 N-Q5 PxP 4 0 K -B 2 Resigns
2 7 Q R -Q 1
2 8 N -B 3 P -Q N 4 6 6 R -Q R 1 R -K 6
2 9 Q -Q 3 R x R c h 6 7 R -R 6 c h K -K 4
3 0 RxR B xN 6 8 R -R 5 RxP
31 Q xB R -K 1 6 9 R x P c h K -K 5
3 2 B -K 4 Q -Q 1 7 0 R -B 2 R -Q B 6
3 3 R -K 3 P - N 5 71 R -R 2 R -B 4
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N ear Miss Innovation Brazil Friendly Rivals

The agony of chess is that one Players seldom expect to find Brazil conjures up images of In a move that reflects a growing
thoughtless move can ruin our hidden treasure in ground that has lush, untamed jungleand piranha- corporate patronage of master
whole game. Good moves are been mined to exhaustion. They infested rivers. It is the fifth largest chess here, Volvo of Washington
forgotten in a trice and only errors sift through gravel looking for nation, vaster than the continental D.C. put up $5,000 for a ten game
stalk our dreams. small nuggets. United States. match between current U.S.
“ It is comforting for us that even To find something new in Described by the guidebooks as champion Lubomir Kavalek and
the immortals committed errors. the opening, we must be familiar "the fastest growing in the world," Sweden’s U lf Anderssen, both
The trouble with being immortal is with the past. While preparing for Sao Paulo is a concrete jungle of active grandmasters. Although
that one's errors become immortal Chicago's Ed Formanek at the 8th ten million people. The city fa­ Anderssen was a guest at Kaval-
too," observed grandmaster Pal Lone Pine Open I noticed he is thers sponsor an annual chess ek's home, it hardly dimmed the
Benko. fond of meeting the Sicilian with tournament as part of their com­ ferocity of their struggle.
A thwarted brilliancy was the an offbeat but fashionable “safe" mitment to culture, a civic senti­ The Swede had previously dem­
most exciting last round game at line that doesn’t occupy much ment yet to be emulated by Nor- olished Denmark's Bent Larsen in
Lone Pine 1978. Grandmaster space in the opening manuals. teamericanos. a similar contest, an upset since
William Lombardy, out to avenge To chess buffs Sao Paulo is Larsen is one of the world’s most
two previous losses to his nemesis It was a good bet he would try it best known as the spot where the successful tournament players.
Jack Peters, threw caution (and again since he had already demol­ colorful Miguel Najdorf set a But matches are more of a waiting
two pieces) to the wind. Peters ished two grandmasters in previ­ simultaneous record after World game and it's not necessary
hung on grimly and shored up the ous rounds. Rumania's Florin War 11 in the hope that word he always to force the issue. Con­
fortress of his beleaguered King. Gheorghiu lost after 1 P-K.4 P- was alive somehow would reach stant probing and patient maneu­
QB4 2 N-KB3 P-K3 3 P-B3 P-Q4. his surviving relatives in Poland. vering are the order of the day.
Lombardy's first sacrifice was Argentina's Oscar Panno tried Above all, it is imperative never to
overly ambitious. Simply 15 B-Q2 "I played 45 without sight of the
3.. .N-KB3 4 P-K5 N-Q4 5 boardP-Q4 before 50,000 spectators," lose with White.
maintains a comfortable advan­ PxP 6 PxP P-Q3 7 N-QB3 N-QB3 8 Anderssen is known as a close-
tage. Peters indicated he was recalls the ebullient Najdorf who
PxP QxP 9 B-03 B-K2 with equal at 68 returned to the scene of his to-the-vest drawing master who
ready to take a draw after 17 N- chances, although White won. likes to squeeze in long, drawn out
B6ch K-N2 18 N-R5ch (18 NxRch glory.
The books did not provide much The 2nd Sao Paulo Internation­ endings. But the first six games
QxN only helps Black consoli­ help when I sought an improve­ were quickly drawn, averaging
date) K-R2 (if 18...K-N3 19 P-B4! al pitted 8 grandmasters against 6
ment over Panno's defense. But it locals, and the visitors ungra­ only 28 moves apiece.
KxN 20 P-B5), etc. seemed that his 7th move was Obviously Anderssen and Ka­
Lombardy's inspired second ciously stole the top prizes.
premature. Delaying the develop­ Stalled at the halfway mark were valek were evenly matched. But
sacrifice at move 18 should have ment of this Knight allows Black to there usually comes a point where
been good enough to draw, but he Najdorf and this writer, while all
utilize the open QB-file by six Brazilians were firmly en­ the chemistry between the oppo­
only had ten minutes remaining to 7...NxN! 8 PxN 0-82/ hitting the trenched inthecellarvowing todo nents causes one to crack, and the
make 27 moves to reach the time shaky center pawns immediately. final result is often out of line with
control. Peters spurned a draw by better next year.
Black also has the option of The victor was former world their true playing strength.
repetition with 28...R/1-K1 29 R- posting his Knight on Q2, later champion Vassily Smyslov with 5
N7 and Lombardy immediately Anderssen's crisis came in
transferring it to KB3 to defend his wins and 8 draws. Trailing by a game 7 when Kavalek quickly
made his first and last mistake, King. half point was the current Soviet
missing 29 RxR! QxR 30 B-K2! whipped up a strong attack
W h ite , u n d e r p re s s u re , champion Joseph Dorfman, also against his stodgy Caro-Kann
BxP 31 R-R4 NxP 32 RxB regain­ struggled to a draw. Afterwards
ing material with even chances. undefeated. Defense, Suddenly the games got
Formanek said he was giving up At 57 Smyslov's style is solid as longer as Anderssen tried to make
That's life. Lombardy dropped the line, the ultimate tribute to my ever, yet he has a tendency to wilt up the deficit. He pressed his
out of sight to a tie for 17-30 while opening innovation. in the fifth hour, Here he made
Peters rose to a tie for third. advantage hard in game 8, but
However by a subtle difference many "grandmaster draws" to Kavalek held the draw with Black
More than half the field of 68 in move order White can thwart conserve energy. In Russia this
consisted of foreigners. Den­ after 56 moves.
my plan. Simply 7 B-QB4! or 7 B- strategy is frowned on and he In game 9 Anderssen overcame
mark's Bent Larsen won $12,000 Q3 instead of the inferior 7 N-B3 does worse when he must fight a bad opening only to toss away a
for first and Russia's Lev Poluga- maintains the initiative. It's amaz­ each and every game to a hard draw later on. With the match
ievsky took home $7500. What can ing how a small thing like this can finish against a hungry new gen­ alreadylost, he tried to salvage
be done to protect local industry? make such a big difference. eration. what he could in the final game.
W hite: LO M B ARDY Black: PETER S A good example of the old But once more he was outplayed
Black could win a pawn by warrior's fatigue occurred in and got crushed 6.5 to 3.5
Nimzo Indian Defense 14...BxN 15 QxB BxPch 16 K-R1 round 10. Smyslov held the initia­
B-Q3 17 Q-N4K-B1 giving Whitea The first dozen moves are all
1 P-04 N-KB3 24 R-N3 B-02 tive from the start yet got in a time book. Black should have eased
2 P-QB4 P-K3 25 P-R3 Q-R3 lasting initiative. On the next move scramble and was lucky his oppo­
3 N-QB3 B-N5 26 Q -K B 2 QR-K1 unsound was 15 BxPch? KxB 16 the pressure by 12...Q-K2! 13 0-0-
BxNch
nent missed 40...RxB! 41 RxB 0 B-B4! 14 BxN BxB 15 BxQ BxQ
4 P-QR3 27 R-N7 R-KB1 N-N5ch K-R1 17 Q-R5 N-B3
5 PxB P-B4 2 8 R -N 3 R-N4 RxPch 42 KxR PxR with ] win. 16 BxB RxN (Spassky vs. Barcza,
N-B 3 2 9 B -K 2 ? RxR
revealing the defensive power of
6 P-K3 W hile: SM YSLOV Black: S E G A L 1960)
7 B -Q 3 P-Q3 30 QxR NxP this knight. A lekhine Defense
8 N-K 2 P-K 4 31 R-R4 R-KN1 1 P-K4 N-KB3 29 P-KR4 Q-R4 Whit*: K A VA LB K Black: ANDERSSEN
W h iU : FORMANEK Black: EVA N S Caro Kann Dafanaa
9 0-0 0 -0 32 Q -B 2 R-N3 2 P-K5 N-Q4 30 Q-N2 KR-Q1
10 P-K4 R-K1 33 K-R1 K-N2 S icilian Defanaa 1978 3 P-04 P-Q3 31 PxP PxP Match Gama 7 1976
11 P-Q5 N-K2 34 R-B4 Q-N4 1 P-K 4 P-QB4 . B-N2 4 N-KB3 P-KN3 32 R-Q4 N-Q2 P-QB3
2 N-K B3 P-K 3 25 ; B-R6 1 P-K4 B-B2
12 B-N5 N-Q2 35 B-B1 P-N3 RxR 5 B-QB4 N-N3 33 R-0N4 P-N3 P-04 17 N-B4
13 N-N3 N-B1 36 R-B3 Q -K 4 3 P-B3 N-K B 3 ‘26 RxR QxB 6 B-N3 P-Q4 34 R-K1 NxP
2 P-04
PxP 18 B-B4 R-Q4
4 P-K 5 N-Q4 ) 27 BxB 3 N-Q2
14 N-R5 P-KR3 37 R-B4 QxBP 28 N-N4 P-KR4 7 B-KB4 B-N2 35 R-QR4 QxP 4 NxP N-KB3 19 0R-K1 KR-Q1
15 BxP?! PxB 38 P-QR 4 Q -K 4 5 P -Q 4 PxP ; 8 Q-B1 P-KR3 36 RxPch N-Q2 KPxN 20 BxR PxB
6 PxP
,
P-Q3 : 29 N-B6ch BxN 5 NxNch
16 Q-Q2 K-R2 39 P-R5 PxP 30 BxB R-Q3 9 P-B3 N-R3 37 QxQ RxQ 6 P.QB3 B-Q3 21 R-K3 R-Q2
17 P-B4 N-Q2 40 R-B3 P-R5 7 N-B3 NxN31 I B-R1 R-K3 *0 0-0 B-Nft 38 B -K4 B-Q5 7 B-Q3 0-0 22 KR-K1 P-KN4
1 8 N-B6ch! NxN 41 Q-K1 NxKP 8 PxN Q-B2I ) Q-Q2 RxRch 1 1 QN-Q2 P-QB4 39 R-01 P-K4 R-K1 23 BxN BxB
; 32 8 N-K2
19 PxP N/2-N1 4 2 Q -R 5 N -N 6 ch 9 B-Q2 N-Q2!; 33 I QxR N-K3 12 B-B2 Q-B2 40 B-B5? K -K 1 ? 9 Q-B2 P-KN3 24 R-R1 P-KR3
20 PxN R-K4 43 K-N1 Q-Q5 10 PxP B x P. :34 Q -K 5 K-B1 13 P-KR3 BxN 41 RxN RxR N-Q2 25 N-N8 BxP?!
1 0 P -K R 4
21 R-B4 P-KR4 44 K-R2 NxBch 11 B-Q3 P-QN3\ !35 Q-R8ch K -K 2 14 NxB P-K3 42 BxRch K-K2 11 P-R8 N-B1 28 R-QB3 B-Q3
22 QR-KB1 Q-B1 45 RxN Q -K 4 ch 12 0-0 B -N 2' !36 Q -B 6ch K-K1 15 PxP NxP 43 B-B5 K-B3 0-B2 27 RxP K-N2
12 B-KR6
23 R/1-B3 K-R1 White Resigns 1 3 R -K 1 R-QB1 37 Q -RSch K-Q 2 16 R-K1 N/4-Q2 44 B-Q3 P-N5 13 0-0-0 B-K3 28 N-B8 KxN
K-K2
14 P-B4 0-03: 8 Q -B 6 N-Q1 17 N-Q4 P-N4 45 B-R4ch K-K3 14 P-QB4 QR-Q1? 29 R-R8ch B-K3
1 5 P -K R 3 B -B 5 :39 Q-Q 4ch K-B1 18 N-N5 Q-B3 46 K-B1 P-B4 18 PxP BPxP 30 Q -K2ch
1 6 B -N 4 KR-Q1 40 Q-R8 Q -0 4 19 N-Q6ch K-B1 47 P-B3 PxP 1 8 P -B 6 I B-K2 31 R-R7chRaalgna
1 7 Q -K 2 N-B1 41 B-B6 K-B2 20 B-N3 N-B5 48 PxP K -0 4
18Q R -Q 1 P -N 3 ;42 BxNch QxB 21 NxN QxN 49 B-KB2 R-R6
1 9 B -B 3 B-QR3 43 . Q -B 3ch K-N1 22 Q-Q2 R-B1 50 BxB PxB
20 P-N3 B-R3| 44 Q -K 5 ch K-B1 23 B-N3 Q-B2 51 R-Q2 K -K 4
21 N-K 5 B-KN2I 45 Q -K 4 Q-B2 24 Q -K3 Q-N3 52 K-B2 K-B5
Y S n 'pjeddBLis sapepo 'gyx-O 22 P-Q5 PxP, 46 Q -K 8 ch K-N2 25 Q-B1 N-B4 53 B-K2 K -K 4 VSn '6jnqzjnM o ;io
6uiueiE8.au iWD-d l fN O lim O S 23 PxP B-N2; 47 Q -K 4 ch Draw 26 B-B2 P-Q5 54 B-N5 R-B6 •6 uu !BM yo -N t tN O lim O S
24 B-N2 BxP 27 R-Q1 PxP 55 P-R4 R-R6
VSn ‘sjsag w e u m >B-U 28 PxP K -K 2 56 K-N3 R esign-
6 u!U0)eeji|l jgy-N t W O lim O S VSn ‘JepeiiOH jeBpg
•Bu ijib m i89-N l t N O lim o S
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Whits mates in 2 moves White mates in 2 moves

White metei in 2 move*
A King l i Dead Only The Best Turning Point 1 9 7 8 USA Championship

Morphy and Fischer retired at Most countries sponsor interna­ In the good old days Russians 26th USA Championship got
the peak of their powers. So did tional tournaments primarily for won everything in sight. Now they off to a flying start after a threat­
Carlos Torre, the best player the sporting interest, but also to are no longer shoo-ins. ened boycott of the top players
Mexico ever produced, whose provide local experts with a This state of affairs can be who demanded that the prize be
fame rests chiefly on a loss. chance to achieve titles. The traced back to 1970 when ten increased from $15,000 to
Torre died recently at the age of foreign contingent is invited on Russian stars barely held their $25,000. This is the first time that
74 and achieved his greatest and the basis of their contribution to own against the rest of the world masters ever united and repres­
last success at Moscow 1925. In a the rating pool—the higher the in a famous match in Belgrade. ents the first major victory of the
powerhouse field of 21 hefinished better because it means the locals Two years later Fischer wrested newly formed Professional Chess
behind Bogoljubow, Lasker, Cap- can earn a title with a lower score, the title, marking the first time in a Association.
ablanca and Marshall, an aston­ On rare occasions all the con­ quarter of a century that a Russian Lubomir Kavalek, 35, captured
ishing performance for a new­ testants are already grandmas­ did not sit on the throne. the title with 7 wins, 6 draws, and a
comer. ters, a truer test of skill. The Consider the plight of two loss to his runner-up James
His fall was as meteoric as his quality of chess is better, although Soviet grandmasters, Polugaievs- Tarjan,26. Kavalek cameto Amer­
rise. A year later Torre suffered i perhaps less flashy, and draws are ky and Kuzmin, who finished ica shortly after the USSR invaded
nervous breakdown and was more frequent due to fewer mis­ halfway in a field of 14 at the 8th his native Czechoslovakia in 1968.
never heard from again. "He might takes. Reykjavik International Tourna­ He was a co-titleholder in 1973
have become world champion had Bugojno, Yugoslavia, featured ment. To add insult to injury, an and a member of the U.S. world
his health held out,’1wrote Reuben 16 grandmasters in an astronomi­ American won and his compatriot champion Olympic team in 1976.
Fine, who in 1934 arranged two cal "Category 14": the average also outdistanced them. Lately Kavalek had been in a
exhibition games with Torre at rating was 2588 which exceeds The victor was Walter Browne slump. However he recovered
Monterey, Mexico. “ He was still any top-ranked U.S. grandmaster. with 9 points consisting of 7 wins, from a disastrous next-to-last
very nervous and withdrawn... Indeed the American representa­ 4 draws and 2 losses. Trailing by a finish at the 40th Hoogoven tourn­
generally rather disinterested...no tive Robert Byrne finished near half point was England's Anthony ament in Holland with a match
longer the old Torre,” recalls Fine the cellar while Svetozar Gligoric Miles. A tie for third developed victory (3 wins, 7 draws) over
in his book The World's Great came in dead last. among Hort, Olafsson, Larsen and Sweden's Ulf Andersson, spon­
Chess Games. Laurels went to world champi­ America's Bill Lombardy, who sored by Volvo in their Washing­
Torre's masterpiece featured a on Anatoly Karpov and former defeated both Browne and Miles. ton D C. showroom.
Queen sacrifice against Emanuel titleholder Boris Spassky, who To encourage fighting chess Both Kavalek and Tarjan along
Lasker, a game played on Torre's each scored 10 out of a possible point money was awarded in with the winner of a playoff match
twenty-first birthday. Ironically 15 points. Holland's youthful Jan addition to the prize fund. Each between Mednis and Shamkovich,
Torre is best remembered for his Timman was third with 9 points. player received $50 per win, $15 will advance to the Interzonal, the
fantastic loss against a total Out of 120 games there was a per loss, and only $10 per draw. next stage of the World Champi­
unknown at New Orleans that high percentage of decisive re­ This novelty cut down the number onship qualifying cycle. Unfortu­
same year. White offered a Queen sults (40.8%). Of these 49 wins, 30 of short draws and attracted nately defending champ Walter
for six consecutive moves but it were scored with White. Former hundreds of spectators each Browne is ineligible because he
can never be captured, a combi­ world champion Mikhail Tal, once round. withdrew the first day in a dispute
nation unique in the annals. famous for his aggressiveness, A nother experim ent also over bad lighting.
White: ADAM S Black: TORRE posted the most draws (13) and heightened interest by minimizing
Philidor Defense 1925 tied for 4-5 with Luboyevlc. F in al S tan d in g s
adjourned games. Instead of one
1 P-K4 P -K 4 -I3 p xp R-K1
2 N-KB3 P-03 14 K R -K 1 P-QR4?
time control at the end of a 5-hour 1 Kavalak 10 Banko 6.6
3 P-Q4 Whit*: S P A S S K Y Black: LARSEN session at 40 moves, there were 2 Tar|nn 9 Lom bardy 6.6
P »P 1 5 R-K2 R-QB1 3 Madnla e Solti*
4 QxP! N-OB3 1 6 QR-K1 Q-Q2 Caro Kann Dafanaa two: the first came after 3 hours at 6
4 Sham kovich a Zuckarm an 6
5 B-QN5 0 -0 2 1 7 B x N! BxB 1 P-K4 P-QB3 1 2 P-KN3 P-QB4 30 moves, and the next after 5 6 Byrn* 7.6 Chrlatlanaan
6 BxN BxB 1 8 0 -K N 4 ! Q-N4 2 P-Q4
6.5
7 N-B3
P-04 1 3 b -64 0-B3 hours at move 50. Chess will have 6 Lain 7.6 common* 8
N-B3 1 9 Q.QB4! Q-Q2 3 N-QB3 PxP 14 o-O-O 7 Walnataln 7 .a R (0 an
8 0 -0 B -K2 2 0 Q-B7! Q-N4
P-B 8 greater spectator appeal if all 6
4 NxP ■•■4 16 N-B3 N-R3 8 Rogoff 7
9 N-Q5 BxN 2 1 p-QR4< QxRP 0 N-N3 games are finished in one session
B-N3 16 P-06 PxP
10 PxB 0-0 22 R-K4! 0 -N 4 6 N-B3 N-Q2 17 RxP B-B4 by speeding up play. This also W hlta: REQAN Black: K A V A L B K
11 B-N5 P-B3? 2 3 QxNP! Resigns 7 B-Q3 Q-R4ch?l 1 8 KR-Q1 prevents players from consulting S icilian Dafanaa
12 P-B4 PxP P-B3
8 B-Q2 0-B2 1 9 R.Q 6 | BxR with others or looking at endgame 1 P-K4 P-QB4 18 K N x P T PxN
Lasker played for a win. After 9 BxB RPxB 20 RxB Q-B4 2 N-KB3 P-Q3 19 BxP Q-B2
1 0 0 -K 2
books during adjournments. 3 B-N5ch B-Q2 20 BxR BxB
21,..QxP22R-N1 Q-R423 N-B4Q- P-K3 B 1 R-QS Rexlgnx
11 NK4 0 - 0 -0 Noteworthy was the ease with 4 P-QR4 N-QB3 21 N-K3 N-B3
R3 24 RxB QxR 25 NxP Q-N8ch 26 which Browne disposed of a 5 P-Q3 P-KN3 22 N-Q5 NxN
R-Q1 Q-N3 a draw is likely. Later leading contender. Hort should 6 QN-Q2 B-N2 23 PxN B -KB 4
W hlta: KAR POV Black: HORT 7 N-B4 N-B3 24 R-N3 P-R4
he missed 23...PxB 24 NxP Q-N3 Caro Kann Dafanaa have tried the more active 11...N- 8 0-0 0-0 29 KR-N1 P-K8
25 QxQ NxQ 26 NxB KR-N1 with B3 12 P-N5 N-K2. Or later 16...P- 9 R-K1 N-K1 26 R-N7 Q -K 4
1 P-K4 PQB3 QN4 with the idea of N-N3 fol- 10 B-Q2 P-K4 27 PxP BxP
R-R3
good drawing chances. 2 P-Q4 P-04 14 B-QB4 N-K2
11 BxN PxB 28 R-Q1 B-Q3
3 N-02 PxP 19 R-B3 N-B4 owed by N-B5.
White: TORR E Black: LA S K E R 10 Q-Q2 12 P-QN4 PxP 29 P-N3 Q-B4
Queen’s Pawn Game 1925 4 NxP N-02 W h it.: BROWNE Black: HORT 13 BxP B -K3 30 Q-B3 R-QB1
17 RxNch! PxR
S N -K B 3 N-KB3 Queen's Gambit Dacllnad 14 Q-Q2 P-KR3 31 Q -K3 RxP
1 P-04 N-K B3 23 N-B4 Q-Q4? S N xN c h NxN 18 QxPch K -K 2
18 QR-N1 P-QB4 32 R-Q4 B-B4
2 N-KB3 P-K3 2 4 N-K3 Q-N4 19 Q-K4 R-K1 1 P-G4 P-Q4
T NK6 B-S4TI 2 0 B-B4
3 B-N5 P-B4 2 5 B-B6! QxQ 5 P-OB3 P-K3 K-01 2 P-QB4 P-K3 1 7R-N1 B-KB1 16 B-R3 B-Q2 33 R-N8ch K-R2
4 P-K3 P*P 26 RxPch K-R1 • P-KN4 B-N3 22 21
Q-K5 R-N1 3 N-QB3 N-KB3 1 S N -K 1 ! R-R2 17 P-R8 B-B1 W hlta Raalgna
5 PxP B -K2 2 7 RxPch K-N1 1 0 P -K R 4 P-KR4
0 - 0 -0 P-KN3 4 B-NS B -K2 1 9 N -Q 3 KR-R1
R-K1 0-0 20 B-B3 PxP
6 QN-Q2 P-03 28 R-N7ch K-R1 11 P-N5 N-Q4 23 B-N2 9 N-B3
7 B-Q3 Q N -02 2 9 RxBch K-N1 12 NxB PxN
24 Q-NBch K -K 2 6 P-K3 P-KR3 21 PxP R-R 6
8 P-B3 P-0N 3 30 r . N7cH K-R1 1 3 Q -B 2 K-B2 28 RXPch Raalgna 7 B-R4 P-QN3 22 Q-N2 N-B3
9 N-B4 B-N2 31 R. N5ch K-R2 e R -B 1 B-N2 23 P-N5 P-N4
1 0 Q -K 2 0 -B 2 3 2 RxO K-N3
(It 28...QxR 26 O-B Tch O- 5 BxN BxB 24 PxP BxP
Q2 27 B -Q 6 mat*) PxP 23 N-K S N-K97
1 1 0 -0 0-° 33 R-R3 KxB 10 PxP
12 KR-K1 KR-K1 3 4 Rxpch K-N4 11 P-QN4 P-B3 26 BxN PxB
13QR-Q1 N-B1 3 5 R . R3 KR-N1 12 B -K2 Q-Q3 27 N-B4 Q-B3
14 B-B1 N-04 3 6 R.N3ch K-B3 13 Q-N3 N-Q2 28 NxR RxN
15 N-N5 P-N4 3 7 R .B3ch K-N3 14 0-0 P-QR4 29 QR-QB1 R-R3
30 Q -K 2 B-N2
1 6 N -R 3 P-N5 3 8 p .Q R 3 P-R4 15 P-QR3 KR-K1
31 NxP Raalgna
17 PxP NxP 39 PxP RxP 16 KR-Q1 B-K2
18 Q-R5 BxN 4 0 N-B4 R-Q4
19 BxB N «B 4 i R-B4 N-Q2
20 RxN Q -R4 4 2 RxPch K-N4
21 P-QN4 0 -K B 4 4 3 p . N 3 Resigns
22 R-KN3 P-KR3 ‘PUBI
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White matei in 2 moves White metes in 2 moves
Swallow The Leader Was It Sound?
The 26th USA Championship at Sacrifices are the most appeal­
Ambassador College in Pasadena ing part of the game, but just
was marred by ■ bad incident at because they work doesn't mean
the outset. Defending champ
they're sound, The opportunity for
Walter Browne, who won the a successful sacrifice doesn't
event three times straight, walked arise that often.
out in a protest over bad lighting. Some players look to enliven
Shades of Fischer! the game by giving up material at
Browne expected fluorescent
the drop of a hat; others are loathe
fixtures which cast light without to part with a pawn unless assured
harsh shadows instead of the of compensation down the road.
chandeliers and spotlights which
But sacrifices are often based on
illuminated the playing area of the judgment and can't always be
Fine Arts Building. calculated to the end. Some are
On the morning of the first fraught with hazard.
round electricians made adjust­ Najdorf explained: "When I play
ments as Browne kibitzed. Isaac chess I hardly ever calculate the
Kashdan, the chief referee, as­ play in detail. I rely very much on
sured mm that everything would an intuitive sense which tells me
be worked out to his satisfaction. the right moves to look for. ••
Grandmaster Leonid Shamko-
Kashdan chafed at placating a
temperamental star, yet he al­ vich, a Russian emigre who settled
in New York, is a brave tactician
lowed Browne to move his table
into an aisle and agreed to reserve who is willing to take risks that
other masters shun, and more
that spot for Browne. When
Browne arrived for his game a often than not his speculations
pay off against topnotch oppo­
couple of hours later Kashdan had
a change of mind- nents. This game from the 1978
U.S. Championship is typical of
"What did you do, moving my
his style. Rather than retreat his
table?" spluttered Browne, too Knight he boldly plunges ahead
upset to speak coherently. Kash­
dan explained that it was blocking with 13 N-K6I? It is not clear why
Benko rejected 14...K-K2 15 PxP
the aisle and he had to move it
back. "This is impossible. I can't KxP 16 B-R3ch K-K2. In the
play under these conditions," defense Benko chose he never
protested Browne. Kashdan untangled his forces and white
obtained two dangerous passed
shrugged. "You don't care about
me!" raged Browne as he stormed pawns.
The next game from Lone Pine
off the stage.
1978 also features a similar sacri­
Browne’s clock was' started
against Larry Christiansen and an fice 17...N-K6 by Rumanian
grandmaster Florin Gheorghlu,
hour later Browne duly forfeited,
as specified in the rules. His who Is not known for tossing
pieces Into the fray willy nllly. But
opponent was not anxious to
accept the point and agreed to this time it Is totally unsound as
White hastens to demonstrate.
play the game on a free day,
although he felt that some penalty
W hltei SHAMKOVICH Black: BENKO
should be imposed. S ic ilia n Oafanaa
Browne agreed to give up a half 1 p .K 4 P-QB4 1 B P -N 0 N-B3T
2 N -K B 3 P -K 3 1 0 0 x P l
hour on his clock if the matter was 3 P -Q 4 PxP20R xP
resolved in his favor by an appeals 4 NxP N -K B 3 21 B-BS 0 R -0 1
committee composed of three SNOBS P-Q3 2 2 B-R3 B-QB1
fellow competitors. They went B P-K N 4 P-QR3 2 3 BxOch
along with Browne on the position 7 P-NS K N -0 2 2 4 0-N S
8 B-K3 P-N4 28 OxPch
of the table but, incredibly, re­ B P -O R 3 N-N3 2 6 BxB
fused to reverse the forfeit. In 1 0 R-KN1 N /1 -Q 2 27 Q-BBch K-K1
effect’ their decision forced 11 P-B4 B-N2 2 S Q -B 6
P -K 4 2 0 R-01 N /B - 0 2
Browne out even though it cost 1 2 P-BB
him his only chance to qualify for 13 N -K 8 PxN 3 0 N-QB
1 4 Q-RSch P-N3 31 OxN
the next world championship.
va pxnp K -K 2 32 Q-BB
IB PxP B-N2 3 3 R-OS
Browne was disappointed that
17 0-0-0 Q-K1 3 4 Q -R 8ch Raalgna
his colleagues did not support
him, especially since they are all
engaged in a bitter struggle with W hltei FORMANBK Black: QHBORQHIU
S ic ilia n Oafanaa
the U.S. Chess Federation pre­
cisely over the issue of players' 1 P -K 4 P-QB4 1 2 N -R 3 N -R4
2 N-KB3 P -K 3
rights and playing conditions. 3 P-B3
1 3 P -R S
P -0 4
N-K2
Browne told me over the phone: 1 4 B -K 4 N-Q4
4 P-KB P-QB 1 B N -B 2 N-NB
"Kashdan has a history of doing B B -03 N-OB3 1B R -N 1 0 -0 2
stupid things. This is bad for me, 6 0-0 K N -K 2
1 7 P -B 4 N -K 07
bad for chess, bad for everbody. 7 R-K1 N-N3 I S BxB P-OS
Many of the other players are .8 P-K N 3 P-QR3 10 OxN PxN
0 P-QR4 P-N3 2 0 R -R 1 I NxB
envious of me and this was their 1 0 P -R 4 0-B2 21 BxR Raal0na
way of showing it. They’re happy 11 Q-K2 B-N2
I'm out . It gives them all a better
chance to win a paper title."
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SulllBM itrN-9 i. :NOIXn* 1 0 S B uiuejeeJM l |Z N -0 I- ‘ N O l i n i O S
244
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Dutch Treats
Holland seems to specialize in
strong international tournaments,
often back to back. Chess has
been popular there ever since Dr,
Max Euwe upset Alexander Ale­
khine for the world title in 1935.
Jan Timman is the best local
player since Euwe, confirmed
when he topped a field of 14 at the
18th annual IBM series in Amster­
dam. The last time a Dutchman
succeeded on home ground was
Jan Donner in 1965.
Representatives from ten na­
tions competed. The last place
showing of Walter Browne was
incredible. He won 1, drew 5, lost
7! Probably he was still troubled
by the lighting dispute that caused
him to withdraw from the U.S.
Championship in Pasadena where
he was favored to retain his title
for the fourth consecutive year.
A month later, undaunted, Wal­
ter returned to Holland foran even
stronger 12-grandmaster event at
Tilburg. Lajos Portisch of Hun­
gary was the victor, closely fol­
lowed by Jan Timman who was
the only undefeated entrant.
This time Browne made an
even score: 3 wins, 3 losses, 5
draws. But he played some spec­
tacularly brilliant games to tie with
such stars as Vlastimil Hort and
Boris Spassky.
Browne’s Rook sacrifice against
England's Anthony Miles should
make the anthologies.
Miles’ sharp 4th move launched
early complications. More pru­
dent was 4...N-QB3 5N-KB3 N-
N5 6 NxBch.
Browne’s 9th added fuel to his
attack. He points out that 9
PxN/Qch KxQ 10 Q-N4 BxR 11 B-
N5 Q-K1 favors Black. Later he
suggests 12...P-K4 13 N-N6ch K-
B2 14 PxP R-K1 15 P-B4 P-Q3 16
N-B3 PxP 17 0-0-0 as unclear, with
White probably on top.
0 -B 3
QxR W hite: BROW NE Black: MILES
Eneliah Defence
1P-QB4 P -0 N 3 1 5 N -0 2
RxB
2 P -0 4 P -K 3 1 0 0 -0 -0
P -K 4
B-K3 3 P -K 4 B -N2 1 7 RxB
RxB 4 0 -0 3 P -K B 4 I7 1 0 P -B 4I
5 PxP B x P 1 0 N -K 4
R-K2 0 0-R S ch P -N 3 2 0 OxN
7 PxNP B -N 2 2 1 Q -R 4
8 PxP ch K -01 2 2 PxP
NxN
B -K4 O N - * 21 BxR 2 3 R -B 1
K-01 10B-NS1 N - K B 3 2 4 N /4 x N e h BxN
R-B1 11 Q -R4 N -S3 2 5 NxBch K -01
1 2 N-B4 K -8 2 7 2 0 B -K 4
1 3 B-NSch K -K 2 2 7 Q -R 3ch K -N 2
1 4 N -R 3 Q -KB1 2 8 BxPch Reei 0n
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Talent To Burn
Soviet supremacy has always
rested on more than those long
winters. Lenin was an avid player
and the state actively promoted
chess after the 1917 Revolution,
nurtured young talent and subsid­
ized stars. They regard chess as
one of their crowning achieve­
ments. a triumph of Socialist cul­
ture.
But the rest of the world is
catching up and Russia no longer
wins international events routine­
ly. At the World JuniorChampion-
ship in Mexico, for example, they
placed an unheard-of-second
behind England.
Former world champion Mikhail
Botvinnik, a white-haired patri­
arch, hinted in an AP interview
that Soviet dominance may be
nearing a close. He said that their
large base of players was eroding
because other fields are luring
youngsters away from chess. He
also suggested that training was
getting shoddier now that older
theorists are fading.
“We no longer have the special
benefits we used to be able to offer
young players.” he lamented.
Although the gap may be nar­
rowing, Russia should remain the
dominant chess power until at
least the end of this century.
Russia boasts around 65 grand­
masters as opposed to 12 in
America. We believe in benign
neglect and talented youngsters
one day must choose between
chess or earning a living.
Russia still has an enormous
reserve. The rest of the world
might be able to put up a fight on
10 or 20 boards, but not on 50 or
100 boards.
Soviet control was again dem­
onstrated at Graz. Austria. Sergei
Dolmatov of the USSR captured
the World Junior Title while his
compatriot Artur Yusupov, the
defending champion, was runner
up in a field of 47, The American
representative Yasser Seirawan
finished far behind in tenth.
W hite: RIST1CH Black: DOLMATOV
S icilian Dafanaa
1 P-K 4 P-QB4 1 5 N-B4 0 -0
2 N-KB3 P-K3 1 6 Q -Q 3 P-KS!
P -K 4
NxP
3 P-Q4 PxP 1 7 Q*Q2 P-QM4
4 NxP N-KB3 1 8 N -K S B-N2
N -K 3 3 N -Q B3 N-B3 1 0 N-B6 BxN
P -0 3 6 S-KB4 P-Q3 2 0 PxB Q-N3
NxB 7 B-N3 S-K 2 21 Q-Q7 QR-Q1I
B -0 3 8 N /4 -N 3 P-K4 2 2 Q-R3 QxP
B -N2 0 N-Q5 NxN 2 3 P -6 3 0 -0 4
PxP 1 0 PxN N-N1 2 4 Q-K3 B-N4
11 P-K S 4 P-QR3 2 5 Q-K2 6 -0 7 c h
K-Q 2
1 2 N-R3 N-Q2 2 6 K -B 2Q -Q B 4ch
1 3 PxP NxP 2 7 K -N 3 R-Qech
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England Gaining Big Guns Go West Sixth World Open Roots

The1976 Olympiad in Israel was 68 of the world's top players At a symposium on Chess and It has been said that except for
considered weak due to a political including 23 grandmasters con­ the Humanities, sponsored by the foot-racing and wife-beating,
boycott by the Iron Curtain na­ verged on a tiny California town to University of Nebraska, one of the chess is the oldest known sport.
tions. England was never noted as vie for a $36,000 prize fund donat­ papers dealt with the prospects
a chess power and it was some­ Chess probably originated in
thing of aflukewhenthey finished ed by chess patron Louis Statham. for popular acceptance of chess in India around 1500 years ago. Dice
third behind the USA and Holland. A Brazilian master even caught a America. Troy Armstrong sug­ were used to determine which
Since then the British have been cab from Los Angeles for $200 to gested that chess suffers from piece was to move, but it was
gaining steadily, and they now arrive in time for this 8th annual being "elite and serious,” two discovered the element of skill in
boast nearly half a dozen grand­ Lone Pine Open, values that cut against the Ameri­ deciding this was itself a chal­
masters. A short while ago they The field was staggering and can grain and are foreign to our lenge and dice disappeared.
had none. For this England can surpassed all records. Present notion of recreation. Other changes occurred when
thank David Slater (the financier were most members of the Icelan­ Despite this image problem,
who doubled the Fischer-Spassky the game crossed from Persia to
dic, Dutch, USA and English weekend tournaments are attract­ Europe. The Queen, originally
purse) for substantial incentives ing record turnouts. A case in
to the players who made this Olympic teams as well as former male with circumscribed power,
breakthrough. world champion Tigran Petrosian. point was the 6th World Open in changed sex and became all-
Young talent is also encouraged Russia's Lev Polugaievsky and Philadelphia whose $40,000 prize powerful. In the 13th century the
by corporate sponsorship. Lloyds Denmark's Bent Larsen battled for fund lured 1063 entries. board was checkered and the
of London holds an annual Mas­ the lead. Larsen lost his first game No less than 8 players posted pieces became replicas of the
ters' event. Cutty Sark sponsors a and put on a spurt of 7.5 out of his 7.5 out of a possible 10 points in royal court.
Grand Prixchesscircuit.similarto remaining 8 to win $12,000. the top section, which featured 6 Only recently has the game
the one being introduced in Amer­ Although Polugaievsky was unde­ grandmasters. Peter Biyiasis (Ca­
ica by Church Fried Chicken. caught on in the Orient. Japan
feated, he was held to 4 draws and nada) was first on tiebreak, fol­ first sent a team to the biennial
All these efforts paid off be­ went home with $7500 for second. lowed in order by Florin Gheorgh-
cause for the first time in history Olympiad in 1970 and China
Anatoly Lein, Jack Peters and iu (Rumania), Bernard competed for the first time in 1978,
England won a major title in Zuckerman (New York), Heikki
Mexico: The World Youth Team Lajos Portisch tied for third. Next in a respectable tie for 18th among
Championship. A quartet of Mes- with 6 points were Evans, Petro­ Westerinen (Finland), Yasser 65 nations. India also enters from
tel, Speelman, Taulbaut and sian, Ree, Rogoff and Zaltsman. Seirawan (Seattle), Javier Sanz time to time, but the birthplace of
Goodman edged out Russia's Only a handful of Americans (Spain), Inguar Asmundsson (Ice­ chess has never produced a great
defending champs by a point and finished in the money, yet several land) and Jean Hebert (Montreal). player.
trounced them 3-1 in their individ­ like 18-year-old Yasser Seirawan As is customary nowadays,
ual match. Cuba was third and the
Perhaps all this will change. At
of Seattle earned titles. each person competes in his own the end of 1978 India sponsored
USA fourth in a field of 18 category. Even newcomers have a
In the very first round Seirawan its first international tournament.
In 1977 the first four were the chance to pick up a prize. For
same, but the order was different. upset Holland’s Jan Timman with In a field of 13 Soviet grandmas­
a weird defense popularized by information on next year's event ter Evgeny Vasiukov posted 10-2.
Russia won, followed by Cuba, contact the Continental Chess
England, and the USA. world champion Karpov. His re­ A half point behind was Eugenio
treat on move 6 averts 6...N-K2 7 Association, 450 Prospect Ave., Torre of the Philippines, who
To sharpen their skills all mem­ Mt. Vernon, NY. 10553.
bers of the British squad journey­ N-K2! BxBch 8 QxB B-R3 10 N-B4 once beat world champion Kar­
with strong Kingside pressure. In Top rated grandmaster Anatoly
ed all the way to Lone Pine earlier
Lein (2553) was upset in an early pov. In third with 9 was Anatoly
in 1978. None fared particularly round 7 I tried a sharper approach Lein, a Soviet grandmaster who
well, although Speelman handed and black succumbed after he round by Robert Burns (2205). emigrated to Israel and the USA.
the victor his only defeat in the missed the cautious 16...P-QR3. Lein missed the defensive try
20...P-B4, overlooking the Queen Black’s original sin was neglect­
firstround. Denmark’s Bent Lars­ W hite: TIMM AN Black: SEIR AW AN
en missed 19...P-N3 sealing the sacrifice 21 QxN! which cannot be ing the safety of his King. 7...N-B3
French D t f t n t t was better than wasting time
Queen side and permitted an ugly 1 P-K 4 P-K 3 24 OR-K1 K-B2 accepted in view of 21 ..PxN 22 N-
pin instead after 19...KR-QB1? 20 2 P-Q4 P-04 2S K -K 2 KR-KN1 moving the same piece twice.
N-B4
B6ch K-N2 23 N-Q7ch followed by It was risky to accept the Knight
B-N4! Larsen resigned in view of 3 N-QB3 B -N S 26 K-Q1
NxQ with decisive material.
36...BXR 37 PxB RxP 38 P-R5, 4 P-K 9 0 - 0 2 27 R-N1 N-N3 sacrifice on move 10. If 10...PxN
9 B-Q2 P-ON3 28 P-N3 P-R5 Two moves later Lein was 11 PxP B-K2 (or 11...B-Q2 12 KR-
6 N-B3 B -B 1 29 N/3xP PxP hoping for 23 Q-B6? BxPch! 24 K1ch B-K2 13 BxN PxB 14 QxP R-
7 B -K2 B-R3 30 PxP NxNP KxB RxPch 25 K-R1 Q-B3ch
Whit*: SPEELMAN Black: LARSEN 8 0 -0 N-K 2 31 RxN RxR KN1 15 QxP K-B1 16 Q-R6ch with
Old Indian Dafansa followed by Q-N7 mate, turning
1P-K4 P-QB 3 1 0 BPxNKR-QB1 T 0 BxB NxB32 NxR BxN 3 pawns for the piece plus a strong
10 Q -K 2 N-O N133 P-BS PxP the tables. But the simple 23 PxR attack) 12 PxB PxP.
2 P-OB4 P-K4 20 B-N41 R-B1 squelched any counterplay.
3 N-KB3 P-Q3 2 1 Q-B1 N-B4 11 N-Q1 P-QB 434 NxBP P -Q 6
12 PxP PxPSS B-B3 R-R 6
Black might try 13...P-QN4 14
4 P-Q4 B-N5 2 2 BxN PxB
5 B-K2 N-Q2 23 P-N6 Q-Q 1 13 P-B4 P-08 36 K - 0 2 RxP Q-N3 B-K2 15 P-QR4 R-QN1
6 N-B3 B-K2 24 N-B4 BxP 14 N-K1 P-KR4 37 B -Q R 1 B-N9 White: BURNS Black: LEIN instead of moving his King. Finally
7 0-0 KN-B3 25 RxB P-B4 19 N-Q3 N-B4 38 R-R7ch K-N3 Sicilian Dafanaa 1978 he also loses after the plausible
8 R-N1 0-0 28 BxP RxB 1 6 P-B4 Q-N2 39 N-K7ch K-N4 1 P-K4 P-0B 4
0 R-K1 R-K1 27 P-Q8 B-B3 2 N-KB3 P-Q3 19 BxKP Q-N3 26...Q-R3 27 Q-N8ch R-B1 28
1 7 N-B2 N -0 2 4 0 B x B NxPch p Kp 20 N-K4 KR-Q1 ?
10 B-K3 B-R4 28 0-01 0-Q2 18 0-K4 0 x 0 4 1 K -K 1 RxB 3 P-Q4 QxPch K-K1 29 Q-K6ch K-Q1 30
1 1 N-Q 2 B-N3 20 Q-N4 R-Q1 4 NxP N-KB3*1 BxN Q-N6ch K-Q2 31 P-KR4!
12 P-QS P-QR3 30 R-Nfl Q-B1 10 NxQ P -r 442 R-07 R-NSch RxB
20 P-KN3 5 N-QB3 N-B3 22 Q-N5
13 P-QN4 P-KR4 31 RxRP R-B5 B -K243 K-B2 R-N7ch P-B3 W hite: VA S IU K O V
21 K-B2 N-R 344 K-N1 P-O T S B-K3 P -K 3 2 3 PxR
14 P-QR4 P-R5 32 QxQ RxQ 7 B-K2 B K 2 24 B x P B-Q4 Black: M ESKERINAS
18 P-R3 Q-B 2 33 RxR PxR 22 P-KR3 P -B 4 w h l« a R a a lg n a 0 . 0 2 S B -B 3 P-NS S icilian Dafanaa
16 R-N3 P-R4 34 R-R7 R-K1 23 PxPap PxP 8 0 -0
9 P-B4 P-OR3 2 ® PxP BxP 1P-K 4 P -O B 4 15 N-B4 P-B5
17 P-N5 PxQP 35 RxP K-R2 W hite: EVA N S Black: SEIR AW AN BxB
18 NxP NxN 36 R-K7 Resigns 10 Q -K1 NxN 27 P-BS 2 N-KB3 P-Q3 16 Q -RSch R-B2
Franc h Dafanaa 11 BxN P -Q N 4 2 ? PxB KPxP 3 B-N5ch N-Q2 1 7 N-K3 P-B4
1 P-K4 P-K 3 20 QN-Q4 NxN 12 P-QR3 B-N2 2 9 RxP B-N2 4 0-0 P-QR3 18 QR-Q1 P-KM3
2 P-Q4 P-Q4 21 NxN Q-Q2 13 Q-N3 p K 1 3 0 Q R -K B 1 Q -B 3 9 BxNch BxB 10 R-Q3 P-R4
3 M-QB3 B-N5 22 R-R9 BxP 14 B-Q3 QR-B1 3 1 R B « « xBP 6 P-04 P xP2 0 R-N3 K-B1
4 P-K 5 0-Q 2 23 RxP B _B 1 32 Q -R 6 O-NS 7 Q xP B-B 3 21 R-N4 P -K S
NxP 13 K-R1
9 B-Q2 P-QN3 24 R-R1I BxP 16 OR-Q1 p N 3 33 R-B7 BxPch 8 N-B3 N-B3 2 2 Q -N 6 P-R3
6 N-B3 B-B1 29 BxB RxB 17 P-KS n . R 4 34Ki B Q-Q 7ch 9 B -N 9 P-K 3 23 Q -R7 B-N2
7 P-QR4! B-R3 26 R/1-N1 R-B5 1 B 0-R3 p xp 35 Q t Q Resigns 10M -O3 BxN 24 N-B4 K-Q1
8 BxB NxB 27 RxN 0 -0 11 PxB P-K 4 29 P -K N 3 PxP
0 0 -0 P-QB4 28 Q -K 3 KR-B1 12 BxN QxB 26 BPxP RxNT
10 P-R9 P-QN4 20 P-R3 P-R3 13 Q -R4ch K-Q1 27 Q -N 6 ch K -K 2
11 PxP BxP 30 R/l-R R/1-B2 1 4 N -Q 2 R-B1 28 RxQ Raalgna
1 2 0 -K 2 R-N1 31 N-B3 R-B 6
13 N-R2 R-B1 32 0 -0 4 R / 8 -BS
14 P-B3 N-N1 33 Q-N2 R-N2
19 P-QN4 B-B1 34 RxP RxQ
16 N-B1 R-BST 38 RxQ R/8-B7
17 P-R 6 ! N-K 2 36 R-RBch K-R2
18 N-N3 KN -B 3 37 RxP K-N3
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Hom ework Vivo M aya Olympic Upsets Coming Out

Marshall waited years before During the Karpov-Korchnoi The chief organizer of the 23rd The chess fraternity is united by
springing his famous gambit on match the press ignored another Olympiad in Buenos Aires was a common bond and it's always s
Capablanca in 1918. The startled world championship between two abducted by terrorists who want­ letdown when tournaments end.
Cuban refuted it on the spot. Russian women. The crown ed the games suspended, and Red Players go their separate way,
After 1 P-K4 P-K4 2 N-KB3 N- changed hands as Maya Chibura- China entered a team for the first often never to see each other
QB3 3 B-N5 P-QR3 4 B-R4 N-B3 5 nidze at 17 became the youngest time in history. But the biggest
titleholder in history. Every two years the Olympiad
0-0 B-K2 6R-K1 P-QN47B-N30-0 surprise was the failure of Russia renews this bond and brings many
8 P-B3 P-Q4!? 9 PxP NxP 10 NxP She defeated Nona Gaprin- to regain a world title they previ­
dashvili who has held this title 16 nations together. Afterwards local
NxN 11 RxN pundits have not yet ously won whenever they compet­ organizers hastily assemble inter­
years, ever since 1962 when her ed, 12 times in all from 1952
decided if Black’s attack is worth a challenger was still in diapers. national events to save travel
pawn. Maya gained an early lead and through 1974. expenses and take advantage of
Paul Keres observed: "In our held it ail way. Despite an early lead the highly the presence of so many foreign
time almost every master makes a After three straight draws the favored Soviet ensemble lost to grandmasters.
thorough study of opening turning point came when Maya West Germany while Hungary At Clarine. in the wake of the
schemes that are popular and won two in a row, which provided surged ahead to achieve their first 23rd Olympiad at Buenos Aires,
often used in modern tourna­ her final two-point margin of victory since 1928 with 37 out of a Swedens Ulf Anderson topped a
ments. These variations are often victory (8.5 to 6.5) in 15 games. possible 56 points. Their per­ field of 14 with 9 points compris­
prolonged deep into the middle In 4 Nona should have tried 23 formers were Lajos Portisch 10-4, ing 5 wins, 8 draws. Trailing by a
game, with almost every possibili­ QxP N-B4 24 Q-R3! (not 24 R-K3 Zoltan Ribli 9-4, Gyula Sax 8-4, half point were Argentina's Oscar
ty already analyzed at home. This NxQP 25 R/3xN RxR 26 QxPch 27 and Istvan Csom 6-4. Panno plus Soviet stars Rafael
way players have little to create R-B3 RxN) grimly holding the Each team had six members, of Vaganian and Vassily Smyslov.
over the board, they just repeat extra pawn. whom four compete in each America's Walter Browne and
home analysis...It would be a pity Nona's major error in game 5 match. The Soviets boasted 2 ex­
was advancing pawns on her Romania's Florin Gheorghiu at 8
if, in modern tournments, the world champions, headed by The debut of Chi-Ching-Hsuan
game of chess actually began with weakened Kingside. Safer was Boris Spassky, Tigran Petrosian
16...N-N1 instead of P-R4. Maya was closely watched since it gives
the middle game!” could have improved with 29B-R4 Russia trailed by a point with 36 an indication of the state of the art
Players like Portisch and Fisch­ and Nona later missed drawing while the USA defending champs in China. He scored only 5 points:
er were notorious for studying chances by 31...QxP! 32 NxR Q- finished third when Korchnoi 6 draws, 5 losses, but 2 wins
chess up to 8 hours a day. World K7 regaining the piece. handed U.S. champion Lubomir against grandmasters Vaganian
champion Karpov confesses to 3. Kavalek his only loss at first board. and Quinteros.
It is often hard to tell whether Korchnoi played 11 games in e Some 20 years ago, while still on
inspiration or perspiration is at W hite: NONA Bleck: M AYA row once he arrived, winning 7
Reti Opening Gem* 4 friendly footing, Soviet chess-
work over the board. and drawing 4 for an overall total masters toured China. The Chin­
1 N-K B3 N-K B3 1 8 P -K 4 Q -K 3 of 9-2 with Switzerland .
Karpov writes: "I enjoy many of 2 P-KN3 P-G4 2 0 N -R 4 N-ON5 ese seemed to lose interest when
the aspects of preparation. There 3 P-B4 P-B3 21 BxN The American star was James told it would take at least a
PxB
are generally no tournaments in 4 B-N2 PxP 2 2 K R -K 1 N-02 Tarjan who earned a gold medal generation to develop their own
which one can experiment. I used 5 P -O R 4 P-KN3 23 Q -B 2T N-B4 with 9 wins, a loss and a draw. grandmasters. But for the first
to rely on certain specific varia­ 6 N-R3 Q -Q 4 24 P-N3 Other individual results were
7 0 -0 N-R3 25 N -S 3 P-0N4
P-R3 time in history China entered a
tions, but theory progressed and it BH-K1 Q -K R 4 26 PxP Kavalek 7-4, Walter Browne 4.5- team in the 1978 Olympiad.
was no longer so simple to employ PxP 4.5. Anatoly Lein 6-4, Robert
9 NxP B-R6 27 N-K 3 N-R5 It remains to be seen whether
my favorite systems.” I O N -6 3 BxB 2 8 Q -R 2 N-B 6 Byrne 4-4, and William Lombardy China will give chess the same
At Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, Ewfim 11 KxB B-N2 28 Q -R3 NxR 4-3. priority as Cuba and other emerg­
Geller of the USSR took first with 12P-OS 0-0 30 RxN QxNP The Women’s Olympiad was a ing powers. To defeat the USSRat
1 3 P -K R 3 0 -0 4 31 Q xP/S R-B6
11-4, aided by an opening idea he 14 6 4 2 K R -O I 32 0 -N 7 R/6xP different story. The Soviet Union chess is a symbolic overthrow of
discovered while training with 1 1 0 -6 2 QR-B1 33 RxR RxR
completely dominated and all four its culture, and a goal devoutly to
Karpov in 1974. He admits that 1 6 6 -6 3 P-B4 34 N-Q 5T RxN/6 players won medals for best score be wished.
move 20 was the end of his 1 7Q R-Q 1 P-R3 on their boards. The American
1 8 Q -N 3 P-N3
Whit* Resigns "China? There lies ■ sleeping
prepared variation. women finished 14 in a field of 32 giant. Let him sleep, for when he
More prudent was 14 Q-B2 as in nations. wakes he will move the world"
R. Byrne-Geller, USSR 1976. W hite: M A Y A Bleck: NONA (Napoleon).
P irc Defense QemeS
Black could also win by 24...B-N5! W hite: M ILES Bleck: S P A S S K Y Black sacrificed a pawn on
1 P-K4 P-Q3 21 PxP PxP Eng lend USSR move 16 to break White's grip.
25 PxB Q-R8! In the game if 25 2 P -Q 4 N -K B 3 2 2 B -K2 P-K B 4
NPxP (or 25 KPxP Q-N3ch 26 Q- 3 N-QB3 P-KN3 23 PxP BxBP
Q ueen’s Indlen Defense 18 . NxPwasgoodenough.but
B -N 2 2 4 P-QB3 N-Q4 1 P-Q4 N -K B 3 22 R-081 Q -N 7 T Quinteros wanted more. His fatal
K3 N-Q6ch 27 K-K2 B-B8ch!) Q- 4 N-B3 2 N-KB3 P-QN3 23 BxPcti KxB
5 B -K2 P-B 3 25 B-Q3 BxB 3 P-B4 final error was 32 R-Q7? instead of
KN3 is decisive. P -K 3 2 4 RxB RxR
8 P -Q R 4 P-QR 426 QxBch K-N1 4 B -B 4 B -N2 2 5 Q -R 4 c h K -N 1
32 RxRch.
7 0-0 0 -02 7 Q-B9 N-B3 S P -K 3
Black: G ELLER N -R 32 8 Q-B4 Q -N2 B -K 2 2 6 Q x R QxQP White: QUINTEROS
Whit*: SPIRIDINOV 6 P -R 3 6 P-KR3
Catalan Opening 1878 0 R -K 1 Q -B 22B QxQP N-K S 0-<>27 B -K5 0-N3 Black: CHIN-HSUAN
7 N-B3 P-Q4 2 g Q_N 3 Q-R3
1 N-KB3 N-K B3 1 0 B -K N 5 P-R 33 0 RxN RxR 8 PxP Catalan Opening C larine 1978
1 5R -K 1 0 -0 4 PxP 2 8 QxQ PxQ
2 P-B4
3 P-KN3
P-K3
P-Q4
1 6 P -B 3 N-NS! 11 B -K3
12 Q-Q2
K-R231 N-B5
N -Q N532 NxR
Q -K 2 T
QxN
9 B-Q3
10 0-0
P-84 30
N-B3 31 R-B5
R.B3 K-B1
1 P-0B4
2 N-QB3
N-KB3 22 Q-N4ch *-R1
P-K3 23 Q-R4
17 N-B3 Q -B 4ch R-Q1 R-K3
4 B-N2 B -K2 1 8 P -K 3 N-K4 13 QR-Q1 B -Q 23 3 R-R1 P-R8 11 N-K 5 P-QR3 3 N-B3 P-B4 24 R-B3 P-B4
5 0-0 0-0 1 9 Q -K 2 QR-Q1 14 N-R2 P-QN 434 P-N3 B-B1 12 0-83 R-K1 32 B-BS R-Q3 4 P-KN3 N-B3 25 R-R3 P-R3
6 P -Q 4 PxP 20R -Q1 P-R3 18 B-B3 P x P 3 5 Q -0 4 Q -N3 13 0R-Q1 PxP 33 R-B8ch B-K1 5 B-N2 B-K2 26 R-K1 R-N3
7 N-K5 N-B 3! 1 6 N -N 4 P-R436 PxP RxP 34 B-Q4 R-K3
21 B-Q2 P-B4 14 NxN BxN 6 0-0 0-0 27 R-N3 R/I-N1
8 BxN PxB 22 B-K1 Q-B3 17 NxNch PxN 37 RxR Q -N 8 ch 15 PxP P-QN4 38 R-Q8 K-N1 7 P-Q4 PxP 26 R-Q1 N-K2
Q-K1 K R -K 1 3 8 K-R2 Q-R2ch 36 RxP R -K8ch 8 NxP Q-R4 29 BxB
8 NxQBP 23 RxR R »R 18 B-B4 1 S P -R 3 N-K S QxB
37 K-R2 R -Q 8
10 NxBch QxN 24 K-B 2 P-B5 19 NxP P-N 4T3 9 B R4 Q xB ch 17 B-N1 Q-N3 38 R-QS K-R2
9 N-B2 P-0R3 30 K-B2 0 -K 5
11 Q -R4 P-K4 ! 25 B-Q2 NxP 2 0 B -N 3 P -N 5 4 0 K-N1 Resigns 1 8 K R -K 1 NxN 38 P-N4 1 0 B -O 2 Q-B2 31 N-K3 R-K3
QxP R-Q6 1 1 P-K4 P-Q3 32 R-Q7? R-N5!
12 PxP 26 R-Q1 N-Q5 18 QxN P-N5
B -K3 40 P-B4 P-GR4 1 2 P -N 3 R-N1 33 Q-R5
13 QxBP 20 Q -K N 3 RxR
14 Q-R6? B-R6 White Resign* 21 PxP B -R S 41 P‘ BS Re*'9n* 1 3 P -O R 4 P-QN3 34 PxR QxNch
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1 5R-N1 B-N2 36 K-R2 Q -K 0
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1 8 P -N S P-05 39 Q-N5ch K-B1
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Still On Top Xmas Tradition 9 th Lone Pine

A Tie In Tiflis
Even though Russia finished The Christmas chess congress Chess is on its way to becoming
second behind Hungary at the that began at Hastings 1895 is as a major sport if prizes keep going
No national championship can 23rd Olympiad, it is still the much an English tradition as plum up. Patron Louis Statham’s
compare with the star-studded strongest chess power in the sauce or Yorkshire pudding. $45,000 lured some high powered
USSR where even famous grand­ world and few nations could offer Nearly every great player compet­ talent to n small town located
masters are eliminated in the much resistance in a team match. ed there at some point. midway between Los Angeles and
prelims. The 46th annual event in Some might be able to put up a The 54th tournament in the Reno. Despite tougher entrance
Tiflis featured another strong 18- fight on the top boards but would series was won by Sweden’s Ulf standards his 9th Lone Pine Open
man field: the top 9 are seeded get clobbered down the line. Andersson with 9.5 points in a drew a record field of 73 including
next year, 6 are relegated to the At New York in 1954 and again field of 15, Not once did he slip 27 grandmasters, the largest such
semi-finals, and the last 3 have to at Moscow in 1955 the USSR beat into an inferior position as solid gathering except for the biennial
start from scratch, the USA by lopsided scores. Our positional play netted him 5 wins Chess Olympiad.
Former world champion Mikhail only consolation was that other and 9 draws. The favorite was Viktor Korch­
Tal, 43, tied for the title with Vitaly teams usually did much worse. Four players trailed by a point: noi, a Soviet defector awarded the
Tsheshkovsky, 35, whose best Almost every year since 1956 Evgeny Vasiukov and Alexander Chess Oscar as player of the year
previous result was a tie for fourth Russia has played friendly team Kochiev, both of the USSR, along in 1978. He took an early lead after
in 1968. Each posted 11-6 a point matches with Yugoslavia, its near­ with Istvan Csom (Hungary) and 4 rounds but consecutive losses to
ahead of Lev Polugaievsky. est rival in chess strength and Jonathan Speelman (England). Vladimir Liberzon of Israel, anoth­
Tal won 5 and drew 12 without a depth. The exact format has Next in line at 8 points were er ex-Russian, and William Lom­
loss, taking the undisputed lead varied—sometimes each member Jonathan Mestal (England) and bardy of the USA killed his hopes.
after round 8. In the last round he faced everyone on the opposite two American grandmasters Four grandmasters tied for first
was held to a draw by 15-year-old team, once the players had to be Anatoly Lein and Larry Christian­ with 6.5 out of a possible 9 points:
Gary Kasparov, the only junior in under 30—but Russia won all 21 in sen, who at 23 produced an Liberzon, Florin Gheorghiu (Ro­
the field, who acquitted himself the series, often by a large margin. attractive booklet about the tour­ mania), SvetozarGligoric (Yugos­
with an even score. Tsheshkovsky In 1979 the format consisted of 7 ney that marks his debut as author lavia) and Vlastimil Hort (Czech).
came from behind with victories men, 1 junior, and 2 women and publisher. Six players were bunched in the
against Kasparov and defending against their counterparts in 4 Hastings 1 9 7 8 / 9 Com ­ next group at 6-3 including last
champ Josef Dorfman. games apiece. Out of 40 games p le te G randm aster Results is year’s winner Bent Larsen of
It was close al I the way down the the USSR won 25-15. a labor of love that presents Denmark. The best American
list with rarely more than a half This is not so bad as it looks. current games in a format a few showing was Lombardy, unde­
point separating the pack. This is Eliminating the women on the steps beyond the typical mimeo- feated with 3 wins and 6 draws.
usually the sign of a well-balanced bottom two boards where Russia grahed bulletin. Christiansen Korchnoi trailed by a half point
field with few “ fish'’ for the leaders made a clean sweep of 8 games briefly reviews each of the 105 to tie with 11 others for a minor
to feed on. would have reduced their victory games and annotates 15. prize. To protest his presence,
Tal, playing in his 18th champi­ to 17-15. Russia boycotted the event.
onship, displayed some flashes of An index contains the usual
In a similar match—Russia vs. crosstables plus a breakdown of This new Soviet boycott could
his old self, but he rarely gets the World at Belgrade 1970—the
chance for brilliancies anymore. each game by opening which place another serious strain on
Soviets won by a bare point. reveals that the two most popular FIDE, the world chess body.
His success now rests on solid Unfortunately they never con­ defenses were the Sicilian (24) Somehow chess always seems to
positional chess. sented to a return match, possibly
All the same Tal was lucky in and the King’s Indian (12). reflect the tensions in the real
because it was too close for com­ world.
round 5 against Adrian Mikhail- fort on only ten boards. (This 78 page paperback in
ishin, a 25-year-old grandmaster What would happen today in a algebraic notation with 26 dia­ W hite: KORCHNOI Black: LOM BARDY
making his debut. Tal fought back ten game match consisting of 40 grams can be ordered for $5.50
from Larry Christiansen, 3829 Dutch Defense
from an inferior position and even games between the USSR and the 1 P-QB4 P-KB4 29 BxPch N-K3
gave up a piece, but his game USA? Nobody seems to have the Marigold Lane, Modesto, Ca. 2 P-04 N-KB3 30 B-N4 N-N2
continued to deteriorate. Only the imagination or desire to arrange 95350.) 3 N-OB3 P-KN3 31 P-B5 P-KR4
clock saved him. In the midst of a such a contest, but my guess is The notes are scant and make 4 P-B3 P-Q3 32 PxN B-N3ch
wild time scramble Black commit­ Russia would win 22-18. for easy reading. In this game both 5 P-K4 B-N2 33 K-B3 PxB
players and the annotator missed 8 P-K5 PxP 34 PxP NxP
ted an incredible blunder and his Tal’s bold Knight sacrifice on 7 PxP QxQch 35 N-B4 NxN
King fell in agony. He missed ■ win 35 P-QR4! P-N5 (not 35...NxRP?
move 15 game him a strong attack. 36 BxN 37 R-R2 traps the Queen)
8 KxQ N-R4 36 BxN B-K5
by 32...PxP! (32...R-Q7? 33 Q- Velimirovich missed his best S P-B4 B -K3 37 K-Q 4 BxBP
R4ch K-Q1 34 P-K7ch K-B2 35 B- 36 RxP RxR 37 QxR. 10 N-B3 N-QB3 38 P -K 6 B -B 6
chance to defend with 25...P-B5! 1 1 K-B2 0 -0 -0 39 P-N5 B-N5
B4ch! draws) 33 RxB Q-KN5, etc. W hite: CSOM Black: M ESTEL
12 B -K3 P-KR3 40 K-Q5 B-R4
Black could improve with Sicilian Dafanaa (b y tranapoaition)
■1 3 P-OR3 P-KN4 41 K -K 4 B-N3ch
22...BxB 23 RxB B-B4. White White; T A L Black: Velim irovich 25 B-N4 ' NxNP 14 P-KN3 B-B2 42 K-QS K-N2
2 N-QB3 26 R-N1 N-B 4
could also have done better with English Opening 1979 3 P-KN3 I
15 B-K2 P-K3 43 K -K S P-B4
24 BxB RxB 25 N-B2. 27 Q-Q2 P-K 4 1 6 P-QN4 PxP 4 4 PxP K-B3
4 B-N2 28 N-B1 Q -R 2 17 PxP B-B1 45 B-Q2 B-R2
1 P-QB4 P-QB416 P-B3 N/2xP 5 P-K4
W hite: T A L Black: M IKHAILISHIN 2 P-QN3 N-QB317 PxP NxN 29 B-KB3 Q -R3 18 KR-KN1 B -K2 46 B -K3 B-Q1
Slav Defense 3 B-N2 P -K 4 18 BxN QxP
6 KN-K2 30 B-Q1 P-R4 19 P-B5 P-R3 47 B-Q2 B-KN3
1 N-KB3 P-Q4 18 Q-R4 P-N5 4 P-N3 7 P-Q3 31 M/2-N2 K-R2 20 B-B4 KR-N1 48 B -K3 P-R4
P-Q319 Q-R5ch K-K3
2 P-B4 P-K3 19 N-Q1 Q-N4 5 B-N2 B -K 3 20 Q-R3ch K-Q3
B 0 -0 32 Q -K2 B-R3 21 N-K2 R-NS 49 B-Q2 KxP
3 P-04 N-KB3 20 P-B4 0-Q 4 6 N-QB3
B B-K3 33 B-Q2 BxB 22 P-R3 BxP
Q-Q221 P-QN4! K-B2 RxR 50 P-K7
4 N-B3 P-B3 21 B-B3 QxPch 7 N-B3 10 N-QS 34 QxB P-QN4 23 RxR R-N1 51 K -K 6 B-Q3
B-R622 OR-B1 R-B1 11 QN-B3
5 B-N5 PxP 22 K-R1 N-B4 8 BxB QxB23 R-B5! Q-N5 35 PxP? RxP 24 RxRch BxR 52 BxP K-B3
6 P-K4 P-N4 23 Q-R7 R-K81 9 N-Q 5 12 Q-Q2 3 6 R -N 4 R/1-QN1 25 N/3-Q4 B -K5
Q -Q224 B-K5ch K-Q2 N-Q1 53 K -B 6
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QN-K 225 Q-B1 Q -K5?
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Q-B3 13 P-N3
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12 BxNP QN-Q2 29 PxP BxN 15 NxBP! KxN30 RxQBPch 18 N-K2 0 - R « 4 2 Q -N S K -N 2
13 Q-B3 R-QN1 30 R-K1 R-N4 Resigns 19 R-B2 P -Q R 4 4 3 K . M2 R-N7 ( isuno Aq pasoduioo)
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Joel Benjamin and Bobby If Viktor Korchnoi is invited, no Montreal miraculously raised When you get to the top in
Fischer both became rated mas­ Russians will come. That’s the $110,000 for an international tour­ chess, there is often no place to
ters at the age of 13. Only Joel was message being driven home to ney that didn’t contain a single go. Major annual events in Ameri­
two months younger when he organizers of international events. Canadian player. Apart from the ca are few and far between.
entered that charmed circle in Brazil apparently chose to ig­ purse for the last two world title The most important is the U S.
1977. nore this boycott at the 3rd annual matches, this was the largest prize Championship, by invitation only
In 1978 Joel achieved another tournament sponsored by the city fund in the history of the game. and limited to 14, which also
goal by winning the Manhattan of Sao Paulo. In 1978 two Rus­ Ten of the world’s best stars serves as a qualifier for the world
Club Championship. "It was like sians, Smyslov and Dorfman, won competed in a strong double title elimination series. The other
bringing one of my fantasies to the top two prizes. No Soviet stars round robin, a true test of skill that event restricted to top players is
life,” he said. came in 1979. lasted over a month. Each faced Lone Pine which attracts about 70
Joel is slight, almost frail, and As a result Korchnoi and Yugos­ the other twice—once as white, of the world’s finest. Louis Sta-
likes all sports. Like Fischer, he is lavia’s Lubomir Luboyevic outdis­ once as black. tham donates a prize fund of
also from Brooklyn. tanced the field of 14. Both were The final result again confirmed $50,000, but it’s open only to
in an interview Joel described undefeated with scores of 10-3 the supremacy of world champion players rated above 2400—less
his practical approach to the comprising 7 wins and 6 draws Anatoly Karpov whose score of 12 than 40 out of an estimated 40
game: “ I do have a very safe style The closest competitors were out of 18 was equalled only by million American chessplayers.
and I don’t really get a chance to two full points behind at 8: Swed­ former titleholder Mikhail Tal. There are slightly more than 200
play that many brilliant games. I en’s Ulf Andersson, Romania's They divided $43,000. Americans ranked between 2200
just win them. I like to grind my Florin Gheorghiu and Anatoly Hungary’s Lajos Portisch, after and 2400, which constitutes the
opponents down. Lein of the USA. Six Brazilians leading for the first 7 rounds, took master category. Most of them
“ If I can get a draw with grand­ were bunched in the cellar behind third prize of $15,000 with 10.5 don’t get much of a chance to
masters, that’s fine. If they're the visiting grandmasters, but points. Yugoslavia's Lubomir Lu­ compete against higher-rated
masters just like I am, I guess I can they are determined to try again boyevic was a surprise fourth with opponents, nor are they eligible
go for the win because you’ve got next year. an even score of 9-9. for international invitations.
to beat them sometime. You can’t In the last round Korchnoi was The other six all had minus To fill this gap the PCA advocat­
become a grandmaster by draw­ held to a draw by Gheorghiu while scores, some for the first time in ed a quality event open to anyone
ing with masters. Luboyevic caught him by beating their long careers. Boris Spassky rated above 2200. The call was
“Of course I'd like to be world Robert Byrne, chess columnist for tied at 8.5 points with Holland's heeded by Richard Fauber, chess
champion, but I'm not going to the New York Times. Jan Timman. Spassky, represen­ editor of the Sacramento Bee,
throw everthing else aside to be The critical game between the ting Russia although he now who donated $5300 in prizes for
that because its not easy and there leaders took place as early as resides in France, lost all 4 games the first Masters’ Open in Califor­
really isn’t too much money in it. round 4. Korchnoi resorted to his against his compatriots Karpov nia. It is hoped that this small
I’m just going to see just how far I solid French Defense while Lu­ and Tal. beginning will grow into a presti­
can get.” boyevic countered with his favor­ Next in a tie at 8-10 were West gious yearly event.
Early in 1979 Joel entered his ite King’s Indian Reversed forma­ Germany's Robert Huebner, Walter Browne, the highest
strongest tournament ever, end­ tion. A classic battle developed Czech Vlastimil Hort, and U.S. rated entrant and sole grandmas­
ing 59 in a field of 73 at the 9th with both sides attacking on champion Lubomir Kavalek who ter, took first prize with 4 wins and
Lone Pine Open. In the very first opposite wings. made a comeback in the second 3 draws. Four players were
round Joel was paired with the half. Out of his first 9 games bunched in second with scores of
oldest contestant, 67-year-old Korchnoi could have saved time
Kavalek drew 3 and !ost6.Then he 5-2: Leonid Stalyarov, Paul Cor­
Sammy Reshevsky. Their game with 8...P-QN4 immediately and posted 6.5 out of his last 9, the best
had trouble finding counterplay. nelius, Jay Whitehead and Vin­
was an exciting, titanic struggle performance in the stretch. cent McCambridge. Others with
He managed to repluse the attack
Joel is improving rapidly. A few In last place at 5.5 points was plus scores were David Strauss
against his King, however, plan­ Denmark's Bent Larsen. He re­
months later he took another leap ning to meet 26 N-N4 by P-B4! and Victor Pupols, followed by
forward by topping a field of 155, deemed himself somewhat with a Yasser Seirawan, Lawrence Kauf­
Korchnoi missed his best victory over Karpov. man and Paul Whitehead. From
including 21 masters, at the 13th chance with45...Q-B5!46Q-N1 R-
annual Continental Open in New Only two top players were this group may well emerge the
QB8 47 R-Q1 RxR 48 QxR QxR. missing. Bobby Fischer declined future stars of American chess.
York City. Analysts claimed he still could
W hite: R E S H E VS K Y Black: BENJAM IN
an invitation. Viktor Korchnoi, Strauss got into trouble early
have won by 47...G-B5 but not who defected in 1976, is the victim
K ing ’s Indian Dafansa after 48 RxPch K-N1 49 R-KB5! when he failed to play 7...PxP.
of a Soviet boycott. But 11...NxNP would have
1 P-QB 4 N-K B3 3 7 p .BS R. Q 8 Black’s last try was 49...R/8-B7
2 N-QB 3 P -K N 3 3 8 p x p R „B 50 RxRch KxR but again 51 R- W hite: KA R POV Black: LAR SEN been refuted by 12 B-Q2. For
3 P -K 4 P -0 3 39 pxR Rxp Canter C ounter Dafonaa better or worse 16...0-0 was essen­
4 P -04 B -N2 4 0 „ . K 2 P-R4 B5ch holds everything. 1 P-K4 P-Q4 29 N -8 3 R-KB 2 tial to bring his King to safety out
5 B -K 2 0 -0 4 1 p . R 3 KxP W hite: LU B O YE VIC Black: KORCHNOI 2 PxP QxP 30 Q-Q2 PxP of the perilous center.
6 N-B 3 P -K 4 4 2 B . K 7 BxB French Dafansa B razil 197 9 3 N-QB3 Q-QR4 31 NxP R-B4
7 B -K 3 Q -K 2 4 3 RXB PxP 4 P-04 N-K B 3 32 R-R3 N-N3 W hite: BROW NE Black: STR A U S S
8 PxP PxP
------- 44 PxP K-B 3 1 P-K4 P-K 3 2 6 N / 5 -B 3 N-R4 5 B-Q2 B-N5 33 N B3 R/1-B1 Qrusnffsld Dsfsnss
NxN 45 R-K4 K-B 4 2 P-Q3 P-Q4 27 Q-N4 N-B5 6 B-K2 BxB 34 KN-K5 NxN
R-Q1 46 R-B4ch K-N 3 3 N-Q2 P-QB4 28 B-B1 R-B3 7 QNxB Q-N3 35 RxN R-B 6 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 14 P-B7 Q-Q2
P-QB3 47 K-N2 R-Q7ch 4 KN-B3 N-QB3 29 B-Q3 N-Q7 8 N-KB3 QN-Q2 36 R-R1? BxP! 2 P-QB4 P-KN3 15 BxB QxB
\ P-QN4 48 K-B3 R -Q 6 ch 5 P-KN3 N-B3 30 BxB RxB 9 0-0 P-K 3 37 Q -K2 BxB 3 N-QB3 P-Q4 16 R-B1 R-QB1
B-N2 49 K-B2 R-Q7ch 6 B-N2 B -K2 31 NxN PxN 10 P-B4 B -X 2 38 PxB Q-Q2 4 N-B3 B-N2 17 Q-R4ch Q-Q2
P-QB4 50 K -K 3 R-KN7 7 0-0 0-0 32 KR-Q1 R-R5 11 P-QN4 0 -0 39 QxR RxQ 5 B-N5 PxP 18 QxQch KxQ
RxP 51 K-B3 R-Q7 8 R-K1 P-GN3 33 Q-B4 P-B3 12 P-QR4 P-B3 40 KxR NxP! 6 P-K4 P-B4 19 KR-Q1 NxKP
i K-R1 52 P-N4 PxPch 9 P-K5 N-Q2 34 PxP NxP 13 Q-B2 Q-B2 41 R-Q1 QxP 7 BxP Q -R4? 20 NxP K-K1
R-KB3 53 RxPch K-B3 10 N-B1 B-R3 35 P-B3 N-K5 14 KR-K1 P-QN3 42 R-K4 Q-Q4 8 P-K5 N-N5 21 P-B4 P-KR3
P-KR3 54 K -K 4 R -Q 8 11 P-KR4 R-B1 3 6 Q -N 4 P-KR4 15 P-R5 KR-N1 43 N-B2 Q-R4ch 9 0-0 PxP 22 B-R4 P-KN4
N-B3 55 R-N5 R -K R 8 12 N/1-R2 P-QN4 37 Q-R3 N-B 6 16 P-R 6 P-QN4 44 K-N2 N-Q4 10 N-Q5 N-QB3 23 N-B5 R-KN1
B-QB1 56 R-R5 K-N3 13 B-N5 P-N5 38 RxP RxQPl 17 P-B5 N-Q4 45 RxP P-R3 11 P-N4 Q-Q1 24 PxN PxB
BxQ 57 RxP RxPch 14 Q-Q2 P-B5 39 Q-N2 R-QB5 18 N-B1 R-K1 46 R-Q3 K-R2 12 P-NS B -K3 25 R-Q 8 ch RxR
R-QB1 58 K-Q5 K-B3 15 P-Q4 P -B 6 40 R -K 1 Q -K2 19 N-Q3 QR-Q1 47 R-KB3 P-N5 13 PxN BxN 26 P-B 8 /Q Resigns
QRxR 59 R -N 8 R -R 8 16 PxP PxP 41 R-Q3 QxQRP 20 P-N3 B-B3 48 P-N4 Q-N4
B-Q2 60 P-N5 R -Q 8 ch 17 Q-B4 N-N5 42 RxKP Q -B 4ch 21 R-K4 N-B1 49 K-N3 Q -B 8
h K-R2 61 K -B 6 R -B 8 ch 18 KR-QB1 B -K7 43 K-R1 N-K5! 22 P-R4 R-Q2 50 N-R3 Q-B5
R-QB2 62 K -N 6 K -K 3 19 P-QR3 N-QB3 44 PxN RxBP 23 K-N2 R/1-Q1 51 P-N5 P-R4
RxN 63 R -K R 8 K -0 3 2 0 R -K 1 B-R3 45 RxP R -Q B 8 ch 24 P-N4 R-K1 52 R -K 8 P-R5ch
R-R3 64 K-N7 R -Q N 8 21 Q-N4 K-R1 46 N-B R / 8 xNch 25 P-N5 B-Q1 53 K-N2 P -N 6
R -R 6 65 P -N 6 R-N7 22 Q-R5 Q-K1 47 K-R2 Q -K 6 26 K N -K 5 R / 2 -K 2 54 R-QNB Q -K7ch
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The show must go on. It's quite Boris Spassky went through a Not since 1911 when the un­ Bogota, the capital of Colum­
unusual for masters to withdraw crisis aftel-losing his title to Bobby known Capablanca made his bia, played host to an internation­
onoe events are underway. Fischer in 1972. No longer a hero European debut by winning at San al tournament for the fourth time.
Munich was an exception. upon his return to Russia, he was Sebastian has another player Two grandmasters—an American
Planned as one of the year's major castigated by officials who had made such an initial splash as 16- and a Russian—clearly out­
international tournaments, with a urged him to quit when he was year-old Gary Kasparov of the classed a field of 15 in their battle
field of 16 including 11 grandmas­ leading 2-0after the upstart Amer­ USSR. In his first showing away for the lead.
ters, it was plagued from the start. ican failed to appear for the from home at Banja Luka, Yugos­ "Just think about it," marvelled
Soon after arriving U.S. champi­ second game. lavia, the young Russian over­ Soviet star Alexander Beliavsky,
on Lubomir Kavalek took ill and Spassky’s good sportsmanship whelmed a field of 16. 27. “ I had 8 out of 9 and it was only
was replaced by Iceland's Fridrik cost Russia a crown it had held for He led his nearest rivals—the good for a second place!"
Olafsson, newly elected FIDE a quarter of a century. They never Swede Andersson and the Czech America's James Tarjan, 27,
president who had come only for forgave him anc(evendenied him Smejkal—by two full points. Ex­ was setting a blistering pace with
the opening ceremonies. Then permission to play outside Russia world champion Tigran Petrosian nine straight wins after Beliavsky
after five rounds world champion for awhile. could do no better than fourth lost in the first round. But then
Karpov, with a fine score of 2 wins Soviet authorities were shocked while Walter Browne of the USA Tarjan stumbled in 75 moves
and 3 draws, left to attend his when Spassky divorced his wife, languished in a tie for 7-8. against Columbian master Hildar-
father's funeral. Hungary's Andras imported a bright red sports car Kasparov achieved a g randmas- do Garcia as his arch rival caught
Adorian took ill and also withdrew and let his hair grow long. Citing ter result after setting a searing up with him.
after 2 losses and 3 draws. the Helsinki agreement, he pace for the first 11 rounds, then This set the stage for a tense
Under international rules their caused an international outcry drew his last 4 games like a and decisive struggle between the
scores were cancelled because that forced his government to let seasoned trooper. leaders in round 11. A victory by
they failed to complete half the him marry a French girl Many chess fans came just to the Russian put him out of reach
schedule. This helped Russia's He is often described as a “one- watch Kasparov, whom the Yu­ since he only gave up one draw in
Yuri Balashov, who had beaten legged dissident"—one foot at goslav press compared to Bobby the next three rounds.
Adorian and lost to Karpov, to home, one foot abroad. Yet he Fischer. Kasparov told reporters: Disheartened, Tarjan drew and
become the only undefeated play­ played first board for his native "Of course I was hoping for a lost again. Beliavsky widened his
er with 4 wins-and 9 draws in the country at the 1978 Olympiad and rather high result, but I thought lead to two full points as he blazed
reduced field of 14. He tied for first was voted fifth best player of the that the struggle for first place to first with 12.5 out of 14 games.
at 8.5 points out of a possible 13 year by world chess journalists. would be more difficult." Tarjan rightly rejected the offer
with Boris Spassky, West Ger­ Now 42, his results are still For the last six years Kasparov of a pawn by 13...NxKP? 14 P-B3
many's Robert Huebner, and superb even though he never studied with former world cham­ N-KB3 15 R-K1 B-Q3 16 P-KB4
Sweden's Ulf Andersson who has quite recovered his golden form. pion Botvinnik, whose other fam­ snaring ■ piece-
had a recent string of successes. At an international event in Mu­ ous pupil was Anatoly Karpov. The theoretical duel lasted for
Icelandic grandmaster Gud- nich, for example, he had a clear Botvinnik declared that Kasparov the first 18 moves when White
mundur Sigurjonsson defended lead after ten rounds and was has exhibited even more talent at varied from Shamkovich-Suetin,
fairly well to neutralize Spassky's winning easily against a tail-ender this stage of development. USSR 1962, which went: 19 BxN
opening initiative. His undoing before an oversight cost him the When asked if he plans on BxB 20 P-KB4 B-K221 K-R1 22 Q-
started with 18...N-QR4 which was game. He ended in a four-way tie becoming world champion, Kas­ K2 P-QB5 23 P-KN4! a theme that
well-motivated to increase the for first prize. parov smiles: “Who doesn't dream reappeared here.
pressure on White’s center pawns, Among top players short wins of that?’ Encouraged by a nation Later another pawn offer had to
but he left this Knight on the rim are rare. Yet Spassky threw in the that cherishes chess talent, Kas­ be refused in view of 24...BxP? 25
too long. towel in a mere ten moves parov is already being touted as a B-B3 R-Q2 26 KR-Q1 27 R-R5!
Spassky was forced to simplify contender in 1984. regaining the QPadvantageously.
but ingeniously kept his waning Instead of B N-B3 White left the This strange opening started
“ book'' with 6 N-R4? decentraliz­ Perhaps Tarjan’s best chance
attack alive with 23 B-R3! inviting out as a Queen's Indian but lay in 25...P-N5 hoping to contain
BxB?? 24 N-B6ch with a family ing this Knight and violating a transposed to a Benoni Defense.
fundamental principle by moving the scope of White’s pieces.
fork. Yet Sigurjonsson managed The 3-time U.S. champion failed 30.. .P-R4 was a desperate attempt
to hold his own. the same piece twice in the to free his game with 20...P-QN4!
opening. Spassky promptly refut­ to create a blockade since
Instead of 26...R-B6 which 21 PxP PxP 22 NxP BxP 23 NxP B- 30.. .PxP 31 P-B5 with an irresis-
yielded control of the open QB- ed this maneuver by launching an N6 24 Q-Q2 BxN 25 QxB NxP-
attack against White's King. At the table steamroller.
file, Black should have tried to Browne found himself cramped Tarjan failed to set up n suc­
dislodge White's Knight from its critical moment, however, he and eschewed the prudent 22...P-
missed 9...N/5-K4! to be followed cessful defense as Beliavsky
dominating post by 26...N-B3, for N3 in favor of P-KN4. He missed picked up one pawn after another
if 27 NxN RxN 28 P-Q5 R-B6! 29 Q- by ...B-N5 and ...N-B6ch winning his last chance to defend with and infiltrated on the weak
K5 B-B3! 30 QxB QxR holds. Instead Spassky gobbled a 36...Q-KB1! and fell prey to an
poison pawn by 9...NxP? overloo­ Squares. A beautiful game that
Black, failing to sense the original attacking setup after 37 B- seems to thwart Black's chances
danger, missed his last chance to ting the reply 10 Q-R5! K4 followed by B-R7ch. in this variation.
defend with 28...B-B3. He had to W h it*: U B B B lack: SPASSKY W h it*: KASPAROV—B l*c k: BROWNE
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7 th Foul Masson Higher Titles Winning Streak Room A t The Top

The future of big money chess Each nation routinely seeks
in America may well rest with more international titles for its
corporate sponsorship. Two com­ players. These lifetime titles are
panies that deserve credit for bestowed by FIDE, the world
consistent support of the game chess body, on the basis of
are Church's Fried Chicken and performance or "norms" in ac­
Paul Masson, which stages the credited tournaments.
world's largest outdoor event The highest title is Grandmaster
annually at its winery in Saratoga, (GM) of whom there are fewer
California. than 200 in the world. Some
Six hundred enthusiasts from advocate an elite new category
20 states and 4 countries flocked restricted to a dozen or so super-
there to compete for $15,000 in Grandmasters.
prize money, divided among 56 Next in line is International
winners in 9 separate classes Master (IM). Finally there is a
arranged according to strength. newly minted category called
The games were played on eight FIDE Master.
foot tables shaded by redwood Some skeptics question the
trees and umbrellas with a breath­ wisdom of creating more title-
taking view of the Bay area. holders on the grounds that the
On hand to enliven the proceed­ USA can’t support even the hand­
ings was veteran George Kolta- ful of Grandmasters it has now.
nowski who specializes in his Nevertheless, on the assump­
famous Knights Tour, a feat only tion that quantity leads to quality,
computers can duplicate. After most nations sponsor events
studying a wallboard for five designed to get more titles for
minutes he moves a knight to each local experts. In America the
squareof the board—nevertouch- guiding force is Bill Goichberg,
ing the same square twice—and captain of the 76 world champion
announces the names placed on Olympic team, who realized he
each square without glancing would never go to the top in chess
back at the board. and decided instead to do the
Despite the wine flowing freely impossible—make a living out of
between rounds, players ma­ organizing chess tourneys.
naged to concentrate. The top Single-handed Goichberg has
section was won by Paul White- built his World Open into a yearly
head and Nick deFermian, both event that guarantees $50,000 in
juniors from San Francisco, ahead prizes raised from entry fees
of grandmasters Larry Christian­ alorje. Aided by small grants from
sen and Peter Biyiasis. the American Chess Foundation,
This unorthodox opening fea­ he also promotes prestige events
tures bizarre knight maneuvers by to give budding masters a shot at
both sides. Instead of the overly FIDE titles, such as the second
ambitious 10 P-R4? White should Marshall Club Invitational held in
have continued 10 P-K4 followed New York City.
by KN-K2. Another gaping weak­ Michael Ronde, a 19-year-old
ness was created by 15 P-KB4. Yale student, bested the field of 40
When White lost the privilege of with 8-2. Trailing by a half point
castling on move 17 it was the and also undefeated was Grand­
beginning of the end. master Leonid Shamkovich. Eu­
gene Meyer and Larry Kaufman
W hite: Fritzinger Black: W H ITEH EA D tied for third at 7 points. In all, 4
players achieved IM norms while
King's Indian Reversed 197g
1 P-KH3 P-KH3 18 PxP PxP 11 others scored FIDE Master
2 B-N2 B-N2 1 9 P-Q4 PxP norms.
3 N-QB3 P-QB4 20 PxP H/1-B3 Correct was 16 P-B4. Adam
4 P-03 N-QB3 21 H-KS 0-0 counted only on 17...KxB 18 Q-
5 B-Q2 P-03 22 N-K B4 N-NSch Q3ch regaining the piece, over­
B-02 23 NxN PxH
6 P-QR3
looking 17...K-R1!
7 R -N t R-H1 24 B-OSch B-K3
W hits: ADAM
8 P-QH4 PxP 25 BxBch OxB B lack: ROHDE
9 PxP P-0N4 26 R-K1 BxPch English Opening
1 B P -0 4 7
1 0 P -R 4 ? Q-B1! 27 K-H2 Q-B3ch 1 P-QB4 P-K4
11 N-K 4 P-B4 28 K-R2 B-B7 2 N-OB3 N -K B 3 1 7 BxPch
1 2 N -N 5 P-KR3 29 HxN BxPch! 3 N-B3 N -B3 1 6 B-KB2
1 3N/5-R 3 P-K4 30 KxB R -B 6 ch 4 P-K N 3 B-KS 1 9 BxR
1 4 P -K 3 N-B3 31 KxP PxNch 3 6 -N 2 0-0 2 0 BxP
1 5 P -K B 4 N-K2 32 KxP Q-Q 4ch 8 0 -0 P -K 5 21 P-N4
1 6 N -B 3 ? N-R4! 33 B-N5 Q-B2ch 7 N-KNB BxN 22 Q -K2
N-N1 34 K-N4 P KR4
1 7 K -B 2 • NPxB R-K1 2 3 B-B2
White is Mated 9 P-Q3 PxP 2 4 P -0 8
1 0 PxP P-Q 3 2 6 B-Q4ch
11 N -K 4 NxN 2 6 BxNch
1 2 BxN N -K 4 2 7 QxPch
1 3 B -K3 B-NS 2 8 0 -K 7 c h
1 4 P-B3 B -R9 2 6 Q -R4ch
1 5 R-K1 P-Q B3 W h ite Resigns
As far as Romanian grandmas­ A chess buff with a group of
ter Florin Gheorghiu is con­ touring Americans on u chess
cerned. the streets of America are vacation in Russia played some
stiil paved with gold. He won or games at the Pioneer Palace with
tied for first in six U S. events, three young girls. He observed:
without losing once in 61 games. "They were all aggressive, tacti­
Gheorghiu, who once beat cal, good, solid players who
Bobby Fischer in the Olympics, slammed the pieces down in
shared first in two World Opens strong positions and displayed all
and Lone Pine and won some the nasty habits of young male
other minor tourneys before cap­ players here. Being aggressive on
ping his visit to the states with a a chessboard is what their moth­
clear victory in a field of 563 at the ers do and so do they.
40th U.S. Open Championship in "I used to wonder if there wasn't
Chicago. His tally of 9 wins and 3 some biological reason for wom­
draws was good for $3,000. en not playing well, but was left
Former U.S. champion Arthur with the strong feeling that the
Bisguier was second with 10-2, a only reason women don’t play in
score that is normally enough for Western culture is that it is not
first. A multiple tie for third considered feminine.
developed among Canadian "God help us all if they ever
grandmaster Peter Biyiasis, An­ decide that ladies should play. I'm
drew Soltis, Lev Alburt, a Soviet kind of glad I'm living in what may
grandmaster in his American be the end of the totally male
debut, and six others. dominated scene in the USA. I
The slight 35-year-old Romani­ hate being beaten by females!"
an plays cautious, positional This may be the reason more
chess and takes few risks. He likes women haven’t discovered the joy
quiet positions and. in many ways, of chess. Do they shy away from
resembles world champion Anat­ the game when they learn that too
oly Karpov in style and looks. many males have such frail egos?
This game demonstrates the The U.S. Chess Federation,
way Gheorghiu piles up small lacking funds for its annual na­
advantages. The opening was tional championship (forwhich no
rather dull but he emerged with woman has everqualified) instead
the Bishop pair. sponsored an event strictly for
Biyiasis could have sought females at a fraction of the cost.
more complications with 7...P-Q4 The new titleholder, Rachel Crot-
8 P-QR3 B-K2 instead of simplify­ to of New York City, yielded only a
ing so readily with 1...BxN. He also single draw to a field of 12.
might have tried 10...N-K5 fol­ Ruth Haring, who is married to
lowed by P-KB4. Canadian grandmaster Peter Biy­
Biyiasis wisely rejected 14...PxP iasis, was two full points behind.
15 PxP NxP 16 P-K4 N/4-B3 17 Defending co-champ Diane Sav-
RxP and preferred to keep the ereide, the early favorite, was third
game closed to limit the scope of with 7.5 points.
Whites two Bishops. But his The mystery in this game is why
dubious I5...P-K5 (instead of the Alison Bert, after being forced on
indicated N-B4) created a weak the defensive, failed to win the
center pawn. His last chance to Queen by 31 ...N-N3! 32 QxN (or 32
offer staunch resistance was by Q-R3 B-N5) PxQ 33 RxR RxR 34
25 G-K3. Short of time, he al­ RxR N-K4 with all the winning
lowed White's Queen to penetrate chances. Instead she weakened
the Queenside and then blun­ the Kingside and walked into a
dered away a piece. mating net.
White: GHEORCHIU Black: B IYIA S IS W hite: C R O TTO Black: BERT
French Defense 1979
Queen's Indian Defense 1979 1 P-K 4 P-K3 20 0 -N 5 P-R3
1 P-Q4 H-KB3
2 P-04 P-04 21 Q-H4 Q-B2
2 P-0B4 P-K3 1 5 N -0 2 P-K5
3 N -0 2 P-QB4 2 2B -B 1 K-R2
1 6 B -0 4 N-B4
3 N-KB3 B-H5ch 17 0-B2 P-B3 4 KN-B3 N-QB3 2 3 Q -R 4 N-KN1
4 QN-Q2 P-QN3 SKP xP KP xP24 P-KN3 N-B3
B-H2 18 PxP BxP
1979
NxBP 5 P-KN3 19 N-B1 N-N5 6 B-N5 B-Q3 2 5 B -R 3 N-K5
6 B-N2 0-0 20
K -R 1I N-K3 NxH 7 PxP BxBP 26 R-K2 R-K1
RxRch 7 0 -0 KBxN 21 BxH P-Q4 8 N-N3 B -03 2 7 N -B 5 QR-Q1
8 BxB P-03 9 P-B3 K N -K 2 28 N /3-Q 4 N-K4
P-KM3 22 KR-Q1 PxP
9 RB1 QH-Q2 23 OxBP 10 0-0 0-0 29 B-N2 N-KB3
PxB
10 B-B3 0-K2
P-R3
Q-H4
1 1 P-N3
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KR-K1 25 RxR
1 1 Q N -Q 4 B -KN5 30 QR-K1 B-R4
R-KB1
12 R -K 1 0R-01
B-H2? 1 2 B -K 2 B-R4 31 R-K3 P-KN4?
Q-BS 1 3 B -K N 5 B-N3 3 2 Q -R 3 P-N5
13 B-H2 P-QR4 26 0-H5 H-K3
14 0 -Q 2 Q-N3 33 0-R 4 K-N3
OxBP 27 R-Q7 Resigns
14 P-OS P-K4 1 5 B -K 3 0 -0 1 3 4 NxP N-K5
N -K4
PxB 1 6Q R-Q 1 P-QR3 35 RxN PxR
K*R2 1 7 B -K B 4 0 -B 2 36 BxPch KxN
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White mates in 2 moves White mates in 2 moves
Short Take Firebrand Still Best Busy Summer

Efim Geller, 55, is a Soviet Gary Kasparov, 17, has cap­ Don't ever accuse world champ In a poem Brecht once observed
grandmaster who has been on top tured the fancy of the chess world. Anatoly Karpov of shrinking from that he changed countries as
for 30 years while watching others Many consider the young Soviet tough competition. Once again he often as shoes. One grandmaster
surpass him for the world title. He grandmaster the next contender took first at the powerful 12- who barely changed planes last
qualified for six Candidates’ in 1984, the heir to Karpov. grandmaster Interpolis tourney in summer was Romania’s Florin
matches, but was always eliminat­ His results have been pheno­ Tilburg, Holland, with 7.5-3.5, a Gheorghiu, whose annual pilgri­
ed even though he is one of the menal ever since his international half point ahead of Hungary's mage to America again brought
rare few with a plus score against debut in 1979 at Banja Luka, Lajos Portisch. him top honors at the Paul Masson
Bobby Fischer (4 wins, 2 losses, 5 Yugoslavia, where he led a strong This was Karpov's last event Classic in California, the World
draws). field of 16, including ex-world prior to top board for Russia at the Open in Philadelphia and the U.S.
In 1979, after competing in champ Tigran Petrosian, by two Malta Olympiad. In 1981 he is Open in Atlanta.
some 20 Soviet national champi­ full points. His apparent ease and scheduled to defend his title Upon his return to Europe he
onships, Geller regained the confidence are reminiscent of against the winner of the Korchnoi tied for first at the 4th annual
crown that he first won in 1955. As Bobby Fischer in his heyday. vs. Huebner match. Lloyds Bank Open in London, his
Boris Spassky's second in the Kasparov added new laurels at Holland's own Jan Timman was score of 7-2 equalled by Murray
1972 title match, he was skewered the world junior championships in third followed by Gennadi Soson- Chandler of New Zealand and
in Darrach’s book Bobby Fischer Dortmund, West Germany. In a ko and Boris Spassky. Mikhail Tal Gert Ligterink of Holland. The
vs. the Flest of the World: "A runty field of 58 from 54 nations he was at the halfway mark while field of 100 from 26 countries
Ukrainian with a chest like a chalked up 10.5 points in 13 Bent Larsen, minus one, had the included 3 grandmasters, 14 inter­
gorilla, a big lolling kewpie-doll games, far ahead of England’s 15- sole distinction of downing Kar­ national masters and 30 boys and
head, and a jaw that shot in and year-old Nigel Short with 9. U.S. pov in round three. In this august girls seeded by the sponsoring
out like a trundle bed when he was Junior champ Joel Benjamin did company it was no disgrace for bank so they could gain experi­
nervous." not finish in the top 20. Lubomir Kavalek of the USA to ence.
Geller is a stolid chain-smoker This game is typical of Kaspar­ occupy last with 8 draws and 3 Gheorghiu had trouble in the
who is famous for his encycloped­ ov’s energetic style. He keeps losses. early rounds, losing twice to these
ic opening knowledge and unwav­ advancing while his opponent Robert Huebner's minus two pesky teenagers. The other two
ering aggressiveness. He has a retreats. Cuypers got cramped showing here does not augur well grandmasters also had theirshare
tendency to start a tournament after he failed to untangle his for his prospects. The only top of woe. Leonid Shamkovich of the
strongly, only to fade in the Queenside by 10...N-R3! followed star missing was Soviet defector USA lost to John Cox, 18, of Eton
stretch. At Lone Pine in 1980, for by N-B2. Viktor Korchnoi, whom the organ­ while Michael Pagden, 20, of
example, he dropped a crucial Kasparov exploited his advan­ izers dared not invite for fear of Cambridge downed Gyula Sax of
last-round game to Britain’s Tony tage by means of two pawn provoking a boycott (which the Hungary, who was also held to a
Miles and fell from the lead to a sacrifices, at moves 14 and 17. Soviets officially deny). draw by Peter Wells. 15.
five-way tie for third. Black’s only chance to defend was So far Karpov’s only failures 1 he first 18 moves of this game
At the Soviet Championship in by 17...RxP 18 B-KN5 RxB 19 NxR have been in team matches: the were all played before in Forintos
Minsk, Geller wisely conserved B-Q5ch! 20 K-R1 QxN 21 P-K7ch Europa Cup in Sweden and the vs. Kirov, 1975. To avoid disaster
energy by starting slowly with 7 K-N2 22 R-B7ch K-R3. Finally USSR Team C ham pionship, Black must try 18...P-QR3 giving
straight draws. Then the old fox Cuypers succumbed to a murder­ where he scored only 3 out of 7. up a pawn to strive for a drawn
raked in 7 out of 8 which allowed ous pin along the King-file. This only proves he is not a team opposite colored Bishop end­
him the luxury of clinching first player since he has still won each game. Earlier a better path is
prize with two quiet draws at the W hite: K A S P A R O V Black: CUYPERS tourney in which he took part 13...B-K3 14 QR-B1 Q-Q215Q-R3
end. Benoni Defense 1980 since whipping Korchnoi for the P-QR3 as in Forintos vs. Polgar,
Later, playing for his team in the title at Baguio in 1978. Hungarian Championship 1972.
USSR Cup, Geller committed a 1 P-Q4 N-KB3
This surprising win against Stebbings resigned because he
grave mistake in the first round 2 P-QB4 P-K3 Timman, who pressed hard with must lose a piece. After 21...BxB
and had to resign in 15 moves, 3 N-QB3 P-B4 an endgame edge, illustrates 22 RxR RxR 23 RxB R-R8ch 24 N-
possibly the shortest loss of his 4 P-Q5 PxP Karpov’s languid style and peer­ K1 stops mate and threatens R-
career. We all have bad games in 5 PxP P-Q3 less defensive skill. They could B8ch.
our system. 6 P-K4 P-KN3 have agreed to a draw until
Geller should have tried 13...R- 7 P-B4 B-N2 Timman, lulled into a false sense W hite: GHEORGHIU
B1 instead of snatching a poi­ 8 B -N 5ch KN-Q2 of security, missed 27 B-K1 and Black: STEBBINGS
soned pawn. He resigned in view blundered a pawn instead, over­ Gruenfeld Defense 1980
9 P-QR4 0-0
of 15.,.KxR16Q-N4ch K-R1 17 Q- 10 N-B3 P-QR3 looking 28 NxB R-Q7ch 29 K-R3 1 P-Q4 N-KB3
B5 followed by QxRP mate. 1 1 B-K2 N-KB3 RxB, etc. 2 P-QB4 P-KN3
W hite: P A L A TN IK Black: G ELLE R 12 0-0 Q-B2 3 N-QB3 P-Q4
Queen's Gam bit Declined 19B0 W hits: TIMMAN Black: KAR POV
13 P-K5 N -K l 4 N-B3 B-N2
1 P-Q4 N-KB3 14 P-K 6 ! PxP Petrov Defense 1980 5 B-N5 N-K5
2 B-N5 P-Q4 15 B-B4 Q-K2 1 P-K4 P -K 4 20 PxP N -N l 6 B-R4 NxN
3 BxN KPxB 16 PxP N-B2 2 N-KB3 N - K B3 2 1 N-B3 P-B3 7 PxN P-QB4
4 P-K3 B-K3 17 P-B5! N-B3 3 NxP P-Q3 22 B-R4 B-Q3 8 PxQP QxP
5 N-Q2 N-Q2 18 B-KN5 B-B3 4 N-BK3 NxP 23 RxRch 9 P-K3 PxP
KxR
6 P-QB4 8-Q N 5 N-K4 BxB 5 Q-K2 Q-K2 24 N-K2 10 BPxP N-B3
19 B-K3
7 PxP BxP 6 P-Q3 N-KB3 25 P-QN3 B-KB4 1 1 B-K2 0-0
20 KNxB PxP
8 N-K2 0-0 7 B-N5 QxQch 26 K-N2
12 0-0 P-N3
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N-N3 13 Q-N3 QxQ
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BxN 14 PxQ P-K3
10 P-QR3 23 QR-K1 R-B3 9 N-B3 P -B 3 2 g P-KN4 B-K4ch 15 P-QN4 B-N2
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1 2 B-Q3 PxP 25 NxB NxN 1 1 N-Q4 N-B2 30 BxRP R -R l 17 B-K7 KR-B1
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Breeding Ground London O ver There Boycott

On almost any weekend, some­ One of the many crazy new Traditionally American artists It would be a pity if power
where in the country, pros try to ideas on display at the Crystal have had to gain acceptance politics spelled the death of the
pick up pocket money and rating Palace in London 1851 was a abroad before being recognized Olympics. But nothing seems
points in "Swisses." Prize funds contest among 16 international at home. Chess is no exception. immune—not even chess—from
are derived from entry fees and chessmasters. Nobody knew if Seattle’s Yasser Seirawan, 19, the strife of this sorry old world.
players are segregated by skill, this sport would attract any gained prestige by snaring the The Soviets were the first to use
paired against others with the spectators or be of interest to world junior title in Norway. This sport as an instrument of state
same score in a process of elimi­ anyone besides the players— led to an invitation to the annual policy, but it soon caught on
nation. simply because it had never been Hoogoven tournament at Wijk aan everywhere. Taiwan could no
Usually hundreds are packed in done before. Zee in Holland. longer compete under its old flag
for two or three clock games per Until then matches between two Seirawan set a blazing pace on and anthem while various African
day in a marathon lottery where players were common, but this his path to first prize, including a nations spurned those who had
endurance and luck are rampant. event marked the birth of modern victory over world championship dealings with South Africa.
There are only a few top prizes in tournament competition. Adolf challenger Viktor Korchnoi. Es­ Nations sought in the arena
each section—pros are some­ Anderssen, a German math teach­ chewing the routine swap 11 B-Q2 what could not be won on the
times barred—and a mere half er, established himself as the best BxBch 12 QxB the young Ameri­ battlefield, and running faster or
point often makes the difference player in the world. can sought an initiative by moving jumping higher became a symbol
between taking money home or Not until recently, however, has his King to get out of check. of superior ideology. After Fischer
returning empty-handed on Mon­ England produced its own cadre Primers condemn this maneuver defeated Petrosian at Buenos
day morning. of grandmasters. In recognition of because it relinquishes the privi­ Aires in 1971 a Soviet grandmas­
These events stress quantity this new stature the Greater lege of castling. ter told me: “ At home they don’t
over quality and encourage a London Council and the broker­ Korchnoi rightly abstained from understand. They think it means
risky, superficial style of play. age firm Phillips & Drew jointly 11.. .B-B6 12 R-QN1 BxP 13 NxB there’s something wrong with our
They are not an ideal breeding sponsored this 14-man event to QxN 14 B-N2 regaining the pawn culture.”
ground in which to nurture world restore the foggy city as a center advantageously. Instead he con­ In 1976 the USSR boycotted the
class players. of world chess. centrated his fire on White’s shaky chess olympiad, which it had won
The only real test of skill is a Nobody escaped without defeat pawn center 12 times straight, simply because
round robin where all-play-all, as in ■ hard-fought event with n low Later Korchnoi failed to bolster it was hosted by Israel. Despite
in the Philidor International at percentage of draws (46%), In his own King with 15...P-KN3 16 official denials Russia is still
New York City. The field of 14 tying for first at 8.5 points with Ulf Q-K3 B-B1 17 B-R1 threatening boycotting events in which defec­
lacked grandmasters, yet pro­ Andersson and Viktor Korchnoi, mayhem with P-Q5. In the long tor Viktor Korchnoi takes part; in
vided precisely the kind of test Anthony Miles made the greatest run Korchnoi could not stop this addition his wife was refused
rising masters need. Nobody was achievement ever by a British break anyway, and on move 22 it permission to join him in Switzer­
undefeated. player. But 14-year-old Nigel unleashed the full force of White’s land and his son was arrested for
Iceland s Jon Arnason took top Short, who finished last with 2 attack. draft evasion.
honors with 10.5-2.5 followed by points (4 draws, 9 losses) was the Seirawan sacrificed a second The organizers of the Hoogoven
Mark Zlotnikov (10), Bernard darling of the local press and drew pawn to deploy his Rook by 25 R- tournament in Wijk aan Zee,
Zuckerman and Sergei Kudrin (9). a full house for his second-round R4! Later the defense with Holland, invited Korchnoi even
This Muzio Gambit, a 19th encounter with a Soviet defector. 28.. .QR-K1 would have been dem­ though it meant Russia sent no
century throwback, earned Arna­ Instead of moving his Queen olished by 29 BxP! KxB 30 R-N6ch representatives. As a result the 14-
son the best-game prize against again, Short might have created K-B2 31 RxB. On the next move man field contained three Ameri­
Walter Shipman, who decided to more problems with 10 N-Q5. likewise 29...QR-Q1 is smashed cans, two of whom turned in the
make law his career instead of Later he could have improved by by 30 Q-Q3. best performance of their careers.
chess 30 years ago. Shipman tried 15 Q-Q1 Q-Q2 16 N-Q4 P-KN3 17 Korchnoi’s last move was a World junior champ Yasser
an offbeat new move instead of P-QB3 K-N2 18 B-K3. His fate was time-pressure blunder, but his Seirawan, 19, led all the way and
5,..PxN 6QxPQ-B3 which leads to sealed when Korchnoi launched a uncoordinated pieces were al­ earned the coveted grandmaster
unfathomable complications. mighty counterattack. ready no match for White’s domi­ title by sharing first at 10-3 with 3-
Arnason sacrificed his Knight nating Queen. If 38...R-B6 39 QxP time USA champ Walter Browne,
anyway for a strong center and a RxP 40 NxN BxN 41 Q-R2 wins 31, coming from behind by beat­
huge lead in development. 9...N- W hite: S HOR T Black: KORCHNOI
Ruy Lopez 1980 Whit*: SEIR A W AN Black: KORCHNOI ing Korchnoi (who finished third)
QB3 was better (if 10 N-Q5 K-Q1) E nglish Opening 1980 in the last round.
but Shipman’s defense also 1 P-K4 P-K4
2 N-KB3 20 R-Kl 0-Q4 1 P-Q84 N-KB3 21 Q-K4 W hite: BROW NE Black: KORCHNOI
looked tenable—until it was dem­ N-QB3 B-R3
3 B-N5 21 N-B3 Q-B3 2 N-QB3 P-K3 22 P-Q5!
Benoni Defense 1980
olished. P-QR3 PxP 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 29 P-K5! BPxP
4 B-R4 22 N-Nl P-N5 3 P-K4 P-Q4 23 Q-R7
Whites ARNASON Black: SHIPMAN N-B3 P-B3 2 N-KB3 P-B4 30 PxP RxP
K in g ’s Gambit 1980 5 P-Q4 23 B-B4 P-R6 4 P-K5 P-Q5 24 K-Nl
NxQP BxP 3 P-Q5 P-QN4 31 RxR BxB
24 P-B3 R-KN1 5 PxN PxN 25 R-R4!
1 P-K4 P-K4 6 NxN PxN BxB 4 B-N5 B-N2 32 QxB
2 P-KB4 PxP 25 P-N3 PxP PxR
7 P-K5 N-K5 6 NPxP QxP 26 PxB K-B2 5 BxN KPxB 33 Qx BP
3 N-KB3 P-KN4 26 K-B2 R-N5! N-Kl
8 QxP N-B4 7 P-Q4 P-B4 27 R-KN4 R-KN1 6 P-K4
4 B-B4 P-N5 27 R-Nl RxB! P-QR3 34 N-B4 N-B3
9N-B3 B-K2 8 N-B3 P-KR3 28 R-Kl P-Q5 7 B-K2 B-Q3 35 P-Q6
5 0-0 Q-K2 28 PxR B-R5ch P-K5
10 Q-KN4 K-Bl 9 B-Q3 PxP 29 RxP B-K4 8 P-QR4 Q-N3 36 N-K5
6 N-K5 QxN 29 R-N3 BxRch Q-Kl
11 0 - 0 P-Q4 10 PxP •B-N5ch 30 R-Q7 QxRch 9 PxP PxP 37 Q-Q4
7 P-Q4 Q-KR4 30 PxR Q-K5 K-Rl
12 Q-Q4 P-QB3 11 K-Bl N-B3 31 NxQ BxB 10 RxR BxR 38 PQ77
8 BxP P-Q3 31 QxBP Q-B7ch NxP
13 B-N3 P-KR4 12 B-N2 B-B4 32 N-Q3 B-R6 11 N-B3 P-N5 39 NxN
9 N-B3 P-QB3 32 Q-K2 P-Q6 P-K6
14 N-K2 B-B4 13 B-B2 0-0 33 N-B4 KR-Q1 12 N-QN5 0-0 40 N-K5
10 Q-Q3 N-Q2 33 Q-Q2 K-K2 P-K7
11 QR-K1 15 B-K37 NxB 14 Q-Q3 R-Ql 34 Q-N6ch K-Nl 13 0-0 B-N2 4 1 Q-K4
N-N3 34 K-Nl P-R7ch P-B3
12 P-Q5 NxB 16 BPxN P-B4 15 R-Ql K-Bl 35 Q-Q3 RxR 14 NxB QxN 42 N-N6ch QxN
35 KxP R-Rlch 16 Q-K4
13 QxN B-Q2 17 Q-Ql P-Q5 B-Q3 36 QxR R-QB1 15 B-B4 R-Kt 43 QxKP P-R4
36 K-Nl B-K5 17 P-KR4
14 P-K5 0-0-0 18 B-B4 P-KN4 Q-B4 37 K-R2 K-B2 16 Q-Q3 N-R3 44 Q-B4 K-R2
White Resigns 18 Q-K2
15 P-K6 PxP 19 B-Bl P-R5 Q-QR4 38 N-N6 ' R-QR1 17 N-Q2 N-B2 45 K-R2 Q-B4
16 PxP B-N2 19 B-N3 N-K2 39 NxN Resigns 18 P-B4 Q-N3 46 QxP QxP
17 PxBch RxP 20 P-R5 P-QN3 19 K-Rl P-Q3 47 Q-N5 P-B4
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19 Q-B5 N-K2 21 N-B3 P-R3 49 P-N4
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22 R-Kl B-R3 50 P-N5 P-N3
21 Q-N8ch N-Bl
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23 BxR B-Q5ch 24 N-B3 B-R3 52 Q-K8ch K-R2
24 K-Nl B-N3 25 N-Q2 B-Bl 53 Q-K7ch K-N17
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Europe Cup Three-Co-Cham ps Sunday Punch Brain Drain

Eight nations competed in the The 27th USA Championship at Gertrude Stein might agree that Whenever someone defects
7th European Team Champion­ Thiel College probably was the a loss is a ioss is a loss. Chessplay­ from Russia, it is a blow to the
ship at Skara, Sweden. Each strongest ever held. Nobody was ers know better. regime. After permitting numer­
match consisted of 8 boards with undefeated and a mere 3 points Some losses are more painful ous grandmasters to emigrate in
victory going to the country separated first from last in a field than others and can have a the 1970s the USSR is shoring up
accumulating the most points. of 13 with 10 grandmasters. devastating effect on our its heavy investment in global
Mindful of its second-place Going into the last round four performance. A bad start is chess supremacy by stopping this
showing behind Hungary at the were tied for the lead, but none especially demoralizing because brain drain.
1979 Olympiad, Russia took no could win outright. Sharing the it’s almost impossible to recover The two most famous grand­
chances. Their powerful lineup title at 7.5 points were Walter from an early loss in a short event. masters now living in the West are
included titleholder Anatoly Kar­ Browne, 31, Larry Christiansen, The worst kind of game to lose Viktor Korchnoi and Boris Spass­
pov and two ex-world champs 24, and Larry Evans, 48. is one where you were winning all ky. Yet Korchnoi’s wife and son,
(Tal, Petrosian) on the first three This writer was invited as a last- the way and then spoiled every­ whose cause was adopted by
boards. However neither of them minute replacementfordefending thing with a hasty move. Boxers Amnesty International, still have
was able to win a game out of five champ Lubomir Kavalek. After a must experience the same thing not been released.
tries each! two year layoff I was curious to when they win each round on Two other champions began
The bottom boards saved the see how I would fare against the points and get felled by a Sunday hunger strikes in Moscow to
day for Russia, another indication young lions. punch in the last few seconds. protest denial of their exit visas.
that their strength in depth is Browne and Evans are now This happened to Robert Byrne, Boris Gulko, ’77 Soviet chess king
unmatched elsewhere. The star four-time victors, trailing a record chess columnist for the New York and his wife Anna, 76 women's
was second reserve Gary Kaspar­ Of seven set by Fischer and Times, against Joe Bradford in the queen, decided on this step after
ov, 16, who won 5 and drew 1. Reshevsky. 29 years elapsed since first round of the 27th USA waiting for 18 months. Soon after
The major surprise was Eng­ Evans first won the title in 1951, Championship at Thiel College. In applying they were barred even
land. In fact, if the matches had which may be a world record over b mere dozen moves Byrne from domestic chess events, thus
been conducted on only four such a time span. Ewfim Geller at achieved an overwhelming posi­ being sentenced to "creative
boards, as in the biennial Olympi­ 54 recently regained the Soviet tion with black, then elegantly death.”
ad, they would have won with 18 national title that he held 25 years piled up small advantages until Even the privileged few who are
points as opposed to Russia’s 15. ago. victory was within his grasp. Had allowed to travel cannot be trust­
Upsets abounded in the very Trailing by a half point at 7 were he won—as he should have—he ed. Igor Ivanov, bound for the
first round when Hungary lost to the youngest and oldest: Yasser would have been a real threat to Capablanca Memorial Tourney in
Sweden and England held Russia Seirawan, 20, the world junior regain the title that he held in Cuba, got political asylum in
to a tie. On first board Anthony champ and early favorite, tied with 1972. Canada after his Aeroflot flight
Miles beat the world champion Leonid Shamkovich, 54, a Soviet White’s first mistake was to made an unscheduled stop there.
with an irregular defense almost emigre. strive for complications instead of In his first outing on this side of
never seen in master play. Due to a lack of funds the U.S. settling for equality by 10 NxN the Atlantic he took the ’80 Cana­
Final Standing* Chess Federation has scheduled BxN 11 P-Q4. Byrne quietly im­ dian Open with a 7-1 score in a
USSR...36.5 Bulgaria...27.3 no playoff. Christiansen ex­ proved his position and provoked field of 415, a half point ahead of
Hungary ...20 Czech...26 pressed regret: "I think I could do pawn weaknesses that could have Kevin Spraggett and Samuel
E ngland...28.5 Israel...25 okay,” he said. "All major players been exploited more quickly by Reshevsky, who is still going
Yu g o slavia ..28 Sweden...23.5
have big egos. Bobby Fischer was 27...NxP! 28 NxN QxP. strong at 70.
Karpov could not win a pawn by right. We like to see 'em squirm. The moment of truth came later Ivanov was virtually unknown
7 PxNP PxNP 8 RxR BxR 9 P-K5 Cracking the other guy’s ego is when Byrne missed a forced win outside of Russia. His name
BxN! 10 QxB N-Q4 11 BxNP? great." by 30...Q-Q3! inviting 31 RxQ R- appeared as the victim of this
because of Q-R4ch snaring the Browne, who dropped out of the B8 mate. The move he chose also brilliancy in C hess In fo rm a to r.
Bishop. But 7 P-K5! P-B5 8 PxN previous championship after a looked terrific, but Bradford im­ Ivanov got into trouble by
PxB 9 PxNP! BxP 10 QxP was in lighting dispute, once said: "I mediately countered with a Queen missing the retreat 9 N-B3.Then 11
order. understand chess as well as sacrifice of his own, a thunderbolt Q-B4 was necessary and 12 P-K4
Later 19 KR-Q1 hitting the Fischer does...You can take apart that won on the spot. was his last chance to avert
backward queen’s pawn was bet­ any position and there’s nothing I “ I had you crushed like a disaster. If 17 QxR B-Q3! 18R-Q1
ter than the misguided attack don’t understand about it." chicken!" said Byrne after the PxP 19 BPxP RxP! is decisive.
against Black’s King. A final error In round 7 Robert Byrne, who postmortem session. Whit*: IVA NOV Black: RUDERFER
costing a pawn was 23 Q-Q3, but won a 3-way playoff for the title in "Yup,” readily agreed big Joe, Q ueen’•Indian Defense 1979
his game was already inferior. 1972, should have tried 23...NPxP. from Austin, Texas, the only
He overlooked that his intended player i n the 13-man field who was 1 N-KB3 N-KB3 17 R-Ql N-K5!
W hit*: KA R PO V Black: MILES 2 P-B4
Irregular Defana* 1900 25...RxP is refuted by 26 B-K2. not a chess pro. P-K3 18 Q-B8ch K-K2
P-QR3 25 R-Kl Later his center collapsed. “ Let’s play tennis," shrugged 3 P Q4 P-QN3 19 P-Q6ch NxP
i P-K4 QxP
P-QN4 26 QxP Byrne, who subsequently failed to 4 P-KN3 B-R3 20 RxN P-R6
2 P-Q4 B-N5 W hite: E VA N S Black: B YRNE
5 Q-R4 P-B3 21 K-Bl KxR
3 N-KB3 B-N2 27 R-K3 King's Indian Defense 1080 win a game in the chess tourney (2
Q-Q4 losses, 10 draws). 6 N-B3 P-QN4 22 P-N3 K-K2
4 B-Q3 N-KB3 28 QxQ BxQ 1 P-QB4 P-KN3
5 Q-K2 P-K3 29 N-B3 R-Bl 2 P-Q4 N-KB3 23 P-B5 QPxP?B-R5
W hite: BRADFORD Black: B YRNE 7 PxP PxP 23 B-R3ch K-B3
24 PxP Q ueen’s Indian Defense 1980 8 NxP Q-N3 24 BxB Q-R8ch
6 P-QR4 P-B4 30 N-K2 P-N4 3 N-QB3 B-N2
25 Q-Q2 N-B5 1 N-KB3 N-KB3 18 P-B3 N-B3 9 P-K3? B-N2! 25 K-K2 QxR
7 PxBP BxBP 31 P-R4 K-N2 4 P-K4 P-Q3 PxP 26 Q-B5 RxB
26 PxP 2 P-KN3 P-QN3 19 Q-N5 Q-K3 10 B-K2 B-B3
8 N-Q2 P-N5 32 PxP PxP 5 N-B3 0-0 N-B4 1 1 Q-N3?! Q-N2 27 N-K4ch K-N3
27 P Q6 3 B-N2 B-N2 20 Q-R4 N-Q5
9 P-K5 N-Q4 33 B-Q3 P-R4 6 B-K2 P-K4 12 0-0? P-QR3 28 Q-N5ch K-R2
28 Q-N2 N-Q5 4 0-0 P-K3 21 P-K3 N-B7
10 N-K4 B-K2 34 R-N3 K-B3 7 0-0 N-B3 N-Q4 13 N-B3 BxN 29 Q-R5ch K-Nl
29 N-N4! 5 P-B4 B-K2 22 B-Bl N-QN5
11 0-0 N-QB3 35 R-N4 B-Q3 8 P-Q5 N-K2 NxB 14 BxB QxB 30 N-N5 Q-N7ch
12 B-Q2 Q-B2 36 K-Bl B-K4 9 N-Kl N-Q2 30 NxKP 6 P-N3 0-0 23 P-Q4 P-K5
15 P-Q5 P-KR4! White Resigns
K-R2
13 P-B4 PxPep 37 K-Kl R-KR1 10 N-Q3 P-KB4 31 N-N6ch 7 B-N2 P-B4 24 PxBP RxR
16 Q-N7 P-R5
Q xN
14 NxP NxN 38 P-B4 11 B-Q2 PxP 32 NxRch 8 N-B3 P-Q4 25 RxR PxP
PxP B-QB3
15 BxN N-N5 39 NxP 12 QNxP N-KB4 33 RxN 9 N-K5 N-B3 26 PxP PxP
B-B3 BxN
16 BxN BxB 13 P-B3 N-B3 34 QxP 10 PxP? NxN,.27 B-R3 Q-K4
40 N-K2 R-R8ch N-K7ch BxB 28 N-R4
17 QR-B1 1 Q-N3 41 K-Q2 14 QN-B2 P-KR3 35 RxB 11 P-Q6 KN-Q4
R-R7 BxR QxKP 29 NxP
18 B-K4 0-0 42 P-N3 15 R-Kl P-KN4 36 RxN 12 PxB NxKP
B-B6 37 P-Q7 B-N5 13 KxB QR-Ql 30 N-Q7 Q-Q5?
19 N-N5 P-R3 43 R-N8 16 R-Bl K-Rl B-Q3
R-N7 38 R-K5 14 K-Nl N-B3 31 QxPch! KxQ
20 B-R7ch , K-Rl 44 K-Kl 17 B-Bl P-QR4
BxN R-Ql
21 B-Nl B-K2 45 BxB 18 P-QN3 P-N3 39 Q-N7 15 P-Q3 N-KN5! 32 NxRch K-Nl
RxP K-N2 P-B4 33 RxQ
22 N-K4 QR-B1 46 R-QR8 B-B2 19 P-QR3 B-Q2 40 Q-K4ch 16 Q-Q2 N/5-B7
B-B4ch
23 Q-Q37 RxR White Resigns 20 B-B3 N-R5 41 B-Q3 17 QR-Ql P-K4 34 RxP Resigns

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2 4 th Olympiad Bright Spot Sarajevo Popes Play Too

A record 82 teams competed in America’s newest grandmaster Names like Polanica Zdroj, Pope John Paul II is an avid
Malta at the biennial chess Olym­ is Yasser Seirawan, 21, who hails Bled, Reggio Emilia, Lone Pine or chessplayer who even composed
piad. Hungary, the defending from Seattle. His silver medal on Beverwijk will be identified by problems in his youth (see above).
champs, and the USSR, 12-time board two at the Malta Olympiad chess buffs as places where His predecessor also was strong,
victors, posted 39 out of n possible was the bright spot in America’s famous tournaments are held. but the Vatican did not always
56 points in 14 matches. fourth place showing behind Sarajevo, however, is remem­ approve of this pastime.
Russia was awarded a trophy on Russia, Hungary and Yugoslavia bered chiefly as the city where Many games were regarded as
a tie-breaking system based on in a field of 82 teams. Archduke Ferdinand was assassi­ the handmaiden of the devil and at
the average strength of the teams Seirawan not only made the nated in 1914, leading to the various times in history chess was
they faced. Yugoslavia was third best score on the American outbreak of the First World War. banned, along with dice and
(35) followed by the USA (34) squard (8 out of 11) but also Sarajevo—like Yugoslavia in cards. Several ecclesiastical
which lost all its matches against covered himself with glory by general—is b hotbed of chess edicts dating back to the eleventh
the leaders. Other high scores beating ex-world champ Mikhail activity, and the city often spon­ century forbid the clergy and the
were Czechoslovakia (33) Eng­ Tal. The USSR whipped the USA sors international events. Lev monastic orders from yielding to
land, Poland (32.5) Canada, Israel 2.5 -1.5 when Karpov and Kaspar­ Psachis, 22, the new Soviet co­ the demonic appeal of chess.
(32). ov defeated two ex-Russians champ, swept a field of 16 with 11 Apparently the Church had
A theoretical duel in the Dragon (Alburt and Shamkovich) while points (7 wins, 8draws) to earn his reversed itself by the time Ruy
Sicilian emerged between Yugos­ James Tarjan held Yuri Balashov grandmaster title. East Germany's Lopez, a Spanish priest, published
lavia's Lubomir Luboyevic and to a draw. Wolfgang Uhlmann, who has not h book on chess in 1561. In
England's Anthony Miles. Before A former world junior champ, been heard of for some time, was addition to the opening that bears
coming to Malta, Miles won a Seirawan recently decided to also undefeated but trailed by a his name, he is noted for his
tourney at Vrbas, Yugoslavia, in become a chess professional. point. advice to seat your opponent so
which he employed this identical After he beat the redoubtable Psachis has a knack of winning that the sun shines in his eyes.
variation against Ivanovic. Miles Viktor Korchnoi at a Dutch tour­ with black because he espouses The fifth chapter of the Koran
as black won after 16 P-B5? N-K4 ney in 1980, Korchnoi selected double-edged lines that are con­ lists chess among the abomina­
17 Q-K3 P-QR4 18 PxP NxKNP 19 him as one of his seconds. Yasser sidered inferior. Instead of the tions to be shunned by the Faith­
P-QR3 P-N5 20 BxN BxB 21 N-R4 probably will serve in that capaci­ customary 9...0-0 he tried a line ful. Mohammed did not object to
BxN 22 BxB Q-N3 23 R-R3 PxP 24 ty during the Korchnoi vs. Karpov theory frowns on. Hartston’s book the game itself, but to the carved
QxP BxN 25 RxB RxPch 26 BxR title match. T h e B e n o n i states: “ 9...Q-R5ch figures which smacked of idolatry.
QxR 27 K-N1 R-B1 28 R-R1 Q-Q7 Seirawan got nothing out of his is insufficient here, for after 10 P- Later chess was permitted so long
29Q-N3 N-K4, etc. favorite English Opening against N3 Q-K2 11 N-B3 0-0 12 0-0 it is as it did not interfere with religious
This so-called Yugoslav Attack Tal, but he could have avoided a difficult for Black to complete his observance or lead to gambling
was once considered the scourge disadvantage by 22 N-B4. Tal development.” and swearing.
of the Dragon Variation, which outplayed him, then missed A previous game cited is Sliwa- In this game, which is replete
Miles has been rehabilitating. 24...P-N6! 25 NxP QxP creating a Gromek, Polish Championship with error, the wife of the ambas­
Noteworthy is his 11...P-KR4 (to dangerous outside passed pawn 1960, which continued: 12...N-N3 sador of the Malta Knights, who
prevent P-R5) and 13...R-B4 (to combined with two powerful Bish­ 13R-K1 B-N5 14 B-B1! N-R3 15 P- was visiting Poland in 1946, play­
reinforce P-QN4). Miles knew that ops. Instead Tal lost a vital pawn KR3 BxN 16 QxB N-N5 17 Q-Q1 ed white. Black is Karol Wojtyla,
the Yugoslavs had hatched an without any compensation and with advantage. The continuation better known as Pope John Paul
improvement, and sure enough it never recovered. chosen by Hungary’s Peter Lu- After White's speculative pawn
came on move 16. W hite: SEIR A W AN Black: T A L kacs alsoseemsplausible, though sacrifice in the opening, Black
Unshaken, Miles defended with E nglish Opanlng 1g80 he m ight try 16 B-Q2. Later 23 PxP should have continued with 11 ...
aplomb. Now it remains to be seen was necessary instead of allowing BxNP. White could have picked up
whether Luboyevic could have 1 P-QB4 P-K4 30 NxRP B-K3 Black's Knight to penetrate. Lu- the stranded Knight with 27 R-Q3
improved. His attack fizzled out 2 N-QB3 N-KB3 3 1 N -B 6 B-QB4 kacs overlooked that after 23...N- or won with 29 Q-K5ch followed
and he resigned in view of 32 QxR 3 N -B 3 N-B3 32 NxNP PxP K4! 24 PxN BPxP 25 Q-Q1 PxR by R-R3. Black should have been
P-N8/Q. 4 P -K N 3 P-Q4 33 N-Q5 BxN wins material. He resigned in view satisfied with a draw by perpetual
White: LU BO YEVIC Black: MILES 5 PxP NxP 3 4 BxBch of 32 KPxP R-K6 check (30,..N-R7ch) or later by
Sicilian Defense 1980 K-N2
6 P-Q3 B-K2 3 5 Q-N7ch B-K2 White: LU KACS Black: PSACHIS 34,..QxQ, White in turn blundered,
Benoni Defense 1981
1 P-K4 P-QB4 17 N-K4 R -B l 7 B -N 2 B-K3 36 B-K4 K -B l missing 35 K-B2! R-Q5 36 K-B3 R-
2 N-KB3 P-Q3 18 PxP P-B3 3 0 -0 0 -0 37 Q-BSch K-N2 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 B5 37 RxP R-B4 38 Q-R4ch R-R4
3 P-Q4 PxP 19 KR-K1 PxP 9 P-QR3 Q-Q2 33 Q-N4ch K -B l 2 P-QB4 P-B4 (if 38...K-N3 39 B-B5ch RxB 40
4 NxP N-K 83 20 NxQP K-R2 10 B-Q2 P-B3 3 9 BxP B-Q3 3 P-Q5 P-K3 QxQ) 39 RxBch PxR 40 QxP mate.
5 N-QB3 P-KN3 2 1 P-B5 NxN 11 R -B l KR-Q1 4 0 PxP 4 N-QB3 PxP
BxP
6 B-K3 B-N2 22 PxPch K -R l 12 P-QN4 NxN 4 1 K-N2 5 PxP P-Q3 W hite: W A NDA ZA R TO B LIW Y
B-Q3 Black: POPE JO H N PAU L n
7 P-B3 0-0 23 B-KB4 N-K4 13 BxN B-Q4 4 2 B-K4 6 P-K4 P-KN3
Q-Q7 French Defense (by transposition)
8 Q-Q2 N-B3 24 BxN PxB 14 Q-B2 P-QR4 4 3 P-R4 7 P-B4 B-N2
B-K4
8 B -N 5ch KN-Q2 1 P-Q4 P-Q4 19 Q-K5 P-B3
9 B-QB4 B-Q2 25 N-B3 P-K5 15 P-N5 N-Q5 4 4 P-KR5 K-K2 2 N-QB3N-KB3 20 Q-R5ch K-Q2
10 P-KR4 R -B l 26 QxN PxN 9 B-Q3 Q-R5ch
16 BxN PxB 4 5 B-B3 K-Q3 3 B-N5 QN-Q2 21 B-R3 K-B2
1 1 B-N3 P-KR4 27 R-K7 B-N5 10 P-N3 Q-K2
17 Q-N2 P-B3 4 6 Q-N 6 Q-B5 11 N-B3 0-0 4 N-B3 P-K3 22 Q-B7ch B-Q2
12 0 - 0-0 N-K4 28 Q-K5 QxRch 18 PxP PxP 4 7 P-R 6 5 P-K4 P-KR3I 23 0-0-0 QR-Q1
Q-R7ch 1 2 0-0 N-N3
13 B-N5 R-B4! 29 KxQ PxPch 6 B-R4 P-KN4 24 P-QB4 N-N5
19 P-QR4 P-QB4 4 8 K -B l Q-R 6 ch 13 K-N2 B-N5
14 P-B4 N-B5 30 K-Q2 K R -Q lch 7 B-N3 NxP 25 QxBP NxPch
2 0 Q -B 2 QR-N1 4 9 B-N2 Q -B l 14 P-KR3 BxNch
15 Q-Q3 P-N4 31 B-Q5 RxBch 8 NxN PxN 26 K-N1 Q-N6
21 N-Q2 B-K3 50 K-B2 Q-B 8 15 QxB QN-Q2
16 P-K5 N-N5 W h ite Resigns 9 N-Q2 B-N2 27 B-K2 B-B3
22 R -N l R-N5 51 B-B3 Q-K 6 ch 16 P-QR4 P-B5
23 RxR BPxR 52 K-N2 Q-B5
10 P-KR4! BxP 28 RxR RxR
17 B-B2 N-B4 11 NxP! B-B3 29 QxKPN-B6ch
24 R -B l Q-Q3 53 P-R7 Q-R7ch 18 B-K3 N /3 -Q 2
25 Q-N2 R-QB17 5 4 K -B l
12 PxP BxKNP 30 K-B1 NxBch?
Q-R 6 ch 19 QR-Q1 P-QR3 13 NxB QxN 31 QxN R-Q6
26 RxRch BxR 5 5 B-N2 Q -B l 20 B-Q4 BxB 14 BxP Q-QB4 32 Q-K7ch K-N3
27 N -N 3 Q-K4 56 K-B2 Q-B 8 21 RxB P-QN4
15 B-Q6 Q-R4ch 33 Q-B5ch K-R3
28 P-B4 Q-K 6 ch 57 B-B3 Resigns 22 R -K l P-B3
16P-B3 Q-N3 34 Q-N4 Q-R7?
29 K -B l P-N4 23 N-R27 N -K4!
17 Q-Q2 N-B3 35 RxP? Q-R8ch
2 4 Q -R 3 N /K -Q 6
18Q-B4 N-Q4 36 K-B2 Q-Q8
25 R-K3 P-N 4!
26 BxN NxB
27 N-N4 PxP
28 N -B 6 Q-KN2
29 R /K xN PxR
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To Kill A King Iron Ban P re tty Poison H ot Prospect

Why do boys excel at chess? Is Chess was one of the few hob­ In San Miguel, Argentina, an Although no American current­
it biology or culture? bies considered safe in ail regions unknown named Gustavo Mahio ly is rated even in the world’s top
Why women have not penetra­ and all regimes. "Chess, like love, demolished grandmaster Miguel 15, change is in the air. The world
ted the ranks of top-level chess is like music, has the power to make Quinteros in a brilliancy destined chess body recently awarded 25
a riddle. Even in Russia, which men happy," observed Dr. Sieg- forthe anthologies. Some journal­ new international titles to Ameri­
avidly encourages women in this bert Tarrasch, a perennial con­ ists dubbed it the best game of cans and it is just a matter of time
field, very few can compete on tender for the title. 1980. before a few of them break the
even terms with grandmasters. Now it appears that chess, like The opening featured the “poi­ European monopoly.
Freudians claim that since the music, is an endangered species son pawn" variation of the Sicilian If he keeps tearing up the rhu­
aim of the game is to kill the king in Iran. Ayatollah Khomeini ban­ Defense that made headlines dur­ barb patch grandmaster Larry
(father) chess holds little appeal ned the game because “ it hurts ing the Fischer vs. Spassky title Christiansen, 25, is America’s best
for women. This theory fails to memory and may cause brain dam­ match in 1972. Fischer won the bet to break into the ranks of the
account for the fact that the king is age." He also said chess con­ first time but lost when he tried it elite. In 1980 he won almost every­
not a male figure in all languages. tributes to a war-mongering men­ again; as a result his 7...Q-N3 fell thing in sight, from the Southwest
Bobby Fischer once boasted tality. into desuetude despite the lack of Open to s tie for the U.S. crown
that he could give any woman in Until the 17th century chess was aclearcut refutation. The general with Walter Browne and this writer.
the world Knight odds. That might at various times banned by feeling is that Black can’t afford to The new year may be even
have been possible 20 years ago, Muslims, Catholics, Anglicans neglect development while forag­ kinder to him. In a field of 12
but certainly nottoday when more and Jews. Mohammed listed ing with his Queen in enemy terri­ grandmasters at Linares, Spain,
females are invading this male chess among the abomidations to tory for a puny pawn. Larry tied world champion Ana­
bastion. be eschewed bythe Faithful inthe At the 1966 USA Championship toly Karpov at 8-3, losing their
Maya Chiburdanidze, 20, the Koran, objecting to the carved I was the victim of a similar brilli­ individual game but smashing Bel-
women's titleholder, has already figures that smacked of idolatry. ancy by Robert Byrne (except lon, Garcia, Gligoric, Spassky, Por-
demonstrated girls can go far Finally chess was accepted as White varied with 12 B-QB4 in­ tisch, Quinteros and drawing
once the burden of tradition is re­ long as it was not played for stakes, stead of B-K2). His 15 B-B6! was a Kavalek, Larsen, Lubooyevic, Ribli.
moved. Now Pia Cramling, 17, of did not hinder religious observ­ shot heard around the world, al­ Quite a feat!
Sweden is doing her bit to de­ ances or lead to profanity. Most though subsequent games showed The apparent ease with which
m o l i s h t he my t h of mal e orthodox Arab tribes used plain Black can survive by 15...NxB! 16 he beat ex-world champ Boris
supremacy. blocks of ivory or wood, which did PxN R-Q1 17 RxB QxR 18 Q-N5 Spassky bears the hallmark of art­
At an open tourney in Skien, not resemble any living creature, P-KN3, etc. istry. The Exchange Variation on
Norway, Pia easily sailed to first to avoid offending the deity. Quinteros could have avoided move 4 is tame, yet Larry incurred
with 6 straight wins and 3 draws. Iran, under the Shah, was the danger by 17...B-B4 (or Q-QB4). jeopardy by castling queenside.
Since her brother is also a strong only Arab team at the 22nd And he rightly eschewed 18...BxN This proved a good choice since
player, it will be interesting to com­ Olympiad in Israel (boycotted by 19 RxP! KxR 20 QxP followed by Spassky seemed confused over
pare their progress. the Soviet bloc). That year Libya P-N8/Q. whether to attack or defend.
After White's weak opening 14 hosted a “counter-olympiad" atten­ Quinteros might have tried one Spassky’s move 16 was ris k y -
P-QB3 was necessary instead of ded by the Arab bloc. last trick; 23...B-B7! inviting 24 opening lines that could be used
neglecting the safety of his king to In the very first round the USA RxB? Q-K8 mate. Or 23 R-KB3? against his own King. But he had
snatch material. By move 20 it was defeated Iran 3-1, ultim ately P-B4! 24 R/3xB RxP. White would to follow up by 18...P-B4! to achieve
already oversince if 20 R-B1 (or20 nosing out Holland by a half point have to find the stunning re­ counterplay. A move later it was
Q-N7ch K-B3 21 R-B1 QxP) Q- for the world championship. This futation 24 Q-B6! Mahio’s fan­ already too late. Larry’s 23 N-K4!
Q4ch! 21 K-K2 Q-Q6 mate. save may have provided our tastic Bishop sacrifice on move 24 ended all effective opposition.
team's margin of victory.' was a prettier finish. Whlta: CHRISTIANSEN
Whit*: L O T V E IT Black: CRAM LING
S icilian D*f*n«* 1081
My opponent, Kamran Shirazi Whlta: MAHIO Black: QUINTEROS Black: S P A S S K Y
of Iran, aftera brouhaha with immi­ S icilian Dafanaa 1880 Quaan’a Gambit Dacllnad 1881
i P-K4 P-QB4 gration officials, now resides in 1 P-Q4 P-Q4
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 1 P-K4 P-QB4
California. He missed a win by 25 2 N-KB3 P-Q3 2 P-QB4 P-K3
3 P-Q4 PxP Q-R2! PxN 26 R-R7 Q-B1 27 RxB! 3 N-QB3 N-KB3
4 NxP P-K3 3 P-Q4 PxP
(if 22...QxR 23 B-N8ch!) 4 NxP N-KB3 4 PxP PxP
5 N-N5 P-Q3 5 B-N5 B-K2
6 B-KB4 P-K4 Whit*: SHIRAZI Black: EVANS 5 N-QB3 P-QR3
King's Indian Dafansa 1876 6 B-KN5 P-K3 6 P-K3 QN-Q2
7 B-K3 N-B3 7 B-Q3 0-0
8 BN5 P-QR3 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 26 Q-R2 RxR 7 P-B4 Q-N3
2 N -K B 3 P-KN 3 27 QxR R-QN1 8Q-Q2 QxP 8 KN-K2 P-B3
9 BxN PxB 9 Q-B2 R -K l
10 KN-R3 P-B4 3 B -N 5 B-N2 28 B-B7 B-QB3 9 R-QN1 Q-R6
4 QN-Q2 P-Q3 29 Q-R3 Q-N3 10 P-K5 PxP
10 P-KR3 N -B l
11 PxP BxP 11 P-KN 4 B-Q2
12 N-B3 P-N4 5 P -K 3 QN-Q2 30 Q-N3 P-QB5 11 PxP KN-Q2
6 P-QR4 P-KR3 31 Q -Q l Q-B4 12 B-K2 B-N5 12 0-0 -0 R -B l
13 N-Q5 8-N 2 13 K -N l P-N4
14 Q-B3? N-Q5 7 BxH NxB 32 P-R4 P-R4 13 R-N3 Q-R4
14 N-B4 P-QR4
15 N -B 7ch QxN 8 P -R 5 0-0 33 B-K6 R-KB1 14 0-0 0-0
15 B-B5 P-R5
16 QxRch K-K2 9 B-B4 P-B3 34 N-B7 B-B3 15 B-B6 NxB
16 N-Q3 BxB
17 QxP P-N5 10 P-B3 Q-B2 35 N-Q8 BxN 16 PxN R -Q l
17 PxB N /8 -Q 7
18 N-N5 NxPch 1 1 Q -N 3 P-K4 36 RxB Q— K2 17 PxP RxN
18 KR-N1 B -B l?
19 K -Q l Q-B4 12 PxP PxP 37 R-Q6 R-B3 18 Q-R6 Q-K4
19 R-N2 P-B4
20 QxPch QxQ
13 0 -0 P-K5 38 RxB RxB 19 N-K4! QxN
1 4 N -Q 4 N -N 5 39 Q-Q5 RxR 20 B-R5 R-Q2 20 PxP NxP
21 NxQ R -Q l 21 NxN RxN
22 K - K 2 RxN 1 5 P -N 3 P-QB47 40 QxR ■' Q-K4 21 R-Q3 B-B4ch
16 N-K2 N-B3 41 K -B l Q -N l 22 K-Rl B-Q5
22 Q-Q3 K -R l
23 R -Q l N-Q 5ch 23 N-K4! RxN
24 K -K l B-N5 1 7 N -B 4 K-R2 42 Q-Q7ch K-R3 23 R-KN3 N-B3
24 QxR Q -B l
P-K5
18 N-Q5 NxN 43 Q-KB7 Q -Q l 24 B-N6M QxB
25 R-Q3 25 Q-Q3 N-K5
W h ite R esigns
19 BxN P-B4 44 K-N2 Q-QN1 25 RxQ N-K2
26 P-B3 NxB
2 0 N -B 4 R-QN1 45 Q-Q5 K-N2 26 RxBP! KxR
27 RxN B-K2
, 21 KR-Q1 B-Q2 46 K -B i K-B3 27 P-N8/Qch NxQ
28 P-B6 BxP
22 R-Q2 P-QN4 47 K-K2 Q-K4 28 QxPch K -K l
29 RxQP P-R3
23 PxPep PxP 48 Q-Q4 K-K3 29 RxN mate
24 R-R6 P-QN4 49 K-Q2 Q-Q3 30 RxR QxR
31 R-QB1 Resigns
25 N-Q6? R-N3 Draw

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White mates in 2 moves

A pril in Moscow High Tension 1 1th Lone Pine P ra tfa ll

At Moscow in April, as the Boxing fans were stunned when Contender Viktor Korchnoi, in top IBM has sadly discontinued its
linden trees bloomed again, the Duran walked out during a title form, swept the 11 th Lone Pine Open prestigious international tourna­
first really strong international bout with Leonard. The tensions with a score of 7-2 in an elite field of ment that was a fixture in Amster­
tourney of the year was held in of high level chess also claimed a 61. including 27 grandmasters. This dam for over 20 years. The last in
conjunction with the 26th con­ victim when West Germany's was his second try—in 1979 he this famous series was a kind of
gress of the Communist Party. A Robert Huebner quit against So­ finished 15th but, for the first time in memorial restricted to 12 past
field of 14 stars included 8 Soviet viet defector Viktor Korchnoi many years, the Soviets sent no victors—a tough field indeed.
and 6 foreign grandmasters. during a scheduled 16-game representatives as part of their World champ Anatoly Karpov,
It was perhaps to be expected match to determine a challenger ''unofficial" boycott against this the favorite suffered h pratfall in
that in an event of this caliber for the world crown. famous Soviet defector. the very first round against Vlasti-
(category 15 on a scale of 16) over Huebner gave two reasons: Korchnoi created a sensation at mil Hort (Czech), who made it all
70% of the games would be drawn. physical exhaustion and pressure the last moment, arriving by Grey­ look easy with a sensational 26-
Despite an evenly matched field of the constant publicity. History hound bus on the last lap of a trip move win. Undaunted, Karpov
world champ Anatoly Karpov repeats itself. In the seventh game from Stockholm. The purpose of this recovered to win 4 and draw 6,
outclassed with 9 points (5 wins, 8 of a tied match with Tigran Petro­ ploy, he explained, was to be sure tying for second at 7 points with
draws), an excellent omen for his sian in 1971, Huebner made a that two Soviet grandmasters would Hungary’s Lajos Portisch.
upcoming title defense in Merano, mistake, withdrew and caught a already be there. Despite a fabulous start Hort
Italy, against Viktor Korchnoi. plane home. He was bothered by The Soviet stars, placed in an won only once more and peace­
Trailing by 1.5 points were Lev street noises that failed to disturb awkward position, phoned their fully drew his other 9 games to
Polugaievsky, ex-world champ Petrosian, who merely turned embassy for instructions,After some equal Lubomir Kavalek (USA) and
Vassily Smyslov (still strong at 60) down his hearing aid. delay, they were told to play. ex-world champ Vassily Smyslov
and Gary Kasparov, 18, who Korchnoi held a slim one-point Korchnoi led all the way to take of the USSR (now 60) at 6.5 points.
confirmed his status as ■ world edge after eight games when play first prize of $15,000 with 5 wins and The hero was Dutch champ Jan
class player. Tied at 7 points were was terminated in Merano, Italy, 4 draws. He was held in the early Timman, who delighted local fans
two outsiders, Florin Gheorghiu for a $64,000 purse. Huebner rounds by Denmark's Bent Larsen by turning in the best result of his
(Rumania) and Lajos Portisch actually led when he won the first and U.S. co-champ Larry Christian­ career at 7.5 (4 wins, 7 draws). He
(Hungary). and fourth, but Korchnoi shot sen. In the last two rounds he drew led all the way and drew with
Karpov is probably not both­ ahead with wins in the second, his closest rivals: Yasser Seirawan Karpov and Hort in the last two
ered by the fact that all his 5 wins seventh and eighth. (USA) and Gennady Sosonko (Hol­ rounds.
were with white. The knack of Two games were adjourned land) who tied at 6.5 with Yugoslav­ As noted here before, Karpov
winning with black, a Bobby when Huebner threw in the towel. ia's Svetozar Gligoric. has trouble winning with black: 3
Fischer tradmark, continues to Game 9 was headed for a draw In round 7 came Korchnoi's long - of his 4 wins were with white.
elude him. while Korchnoi probably could awaited contest with one of the Where did he go wrong against
Yet this weakness does not take game 10. This would have Russians—ex-world junior champ Hort in this opening?
seem to harm Karpov's results. given him a 6-4 lead, an almost Artur Yusopov, who succumbed to a Theory recommends the free­
Hard to beat, he generally loses insurmountable margin with only sudden mating attack. The second ing maneuver 11...N-K5 12 BxB
fewer games in an active year than six gmes to go. Russian. Oleg Romanishin, was out QxB 13 Q-R4 P-QB3. Karpov was
most players drop in a single Game 7 is probably the one that of the money at plus two. Most not anxious to simplify so soon
tournament. broke Huebner’s spirit. He stood disappointed was 1980 winner Ro­ and sought action on the Queen-
In the 1978 Karpov-Korchnoi better at adjournment but, press­ man Dzindzihashvili, who wound up side with the dubious 13...P-B5I?
title match, their second time ing hard to win, overlooked a near the bottom at minus two. only to be stymied by 14 P-QR4! to
around, Karpov won 6, lost 5, drew simple move and lost. Demoral­ Despite a slight initiative in the break up the mass of pawns by P-
21. But it must be remembered ized, he offered scant resistance opening, Korchnoi did not seem to QN3.
that 4 of Karpov’s 5 losses were in the next. make much headway against Yuso­ Karpov had to try 14...R-B1
with black! Huebner’s problems began pov until near the time-control at since it was too late for 14...N-K5
Karpov dem onstrates his when he weakened his kingside move 40. Black might have tried to 15 BxB QxB 16 NxN PxN 17 N-Q2
smooth power with white against unnecessarily instead of 14...QR- P-QN4 18 PxP PxP 19 P-QN3 with
improve by 20...N-R3 21 BxN PxB. white on top. By move 17 Karpov
Smyslov, who lost only this one B1. Korchnoi hastened to swap Later it would be hard to beat 32...Q-
game. A more active defense was Queens, infiltrated on an open file was in dire straits. On 17...Q-K318
B3. Korchnoi’s sacrifice on move 37 NxP! NxN 19 BxN QxB 20 BxB
16...Q-N3 and later 19...B-N2 was and tied Huebner up in knots was decisive and Yusopov resigned
indicated instead of opening lines Whit*: KORCHNOI Black: HUEBNER snares a pawn.
in view of 40...K-R4 41 P-N4ch K-R5 Karpov resigned in view of
for White’s two Bishops. With Q u M n 'i Gam bit Accepted 42 P-N5ch KxP (or 42...K-R4 43 Q-
seeming ease, and no risk, Karpov Match Gam a 8 1881 26...RxQ (or 26...Q-K7 27 Q-N3)
N4) 43 Q-N3 mate.
mounted an irresistible 1 P-Q4 White: KORCHNOI Black: YUSOPOV
27 BxQ PxB 28 R-N1, etc.
p-Q4 23 N-B5 B-Bl W hile HORT Black: KA R POV
2 PQB4 Slav Defense 1981
White: KAR POV Black: SM YSLOV Pxp 24 B-Q3 R-Q5 Q 's Gam bit Declined 1881
3 N-KB3 P-QR3 25 B-Bl K-B2 P-Q4
i P-Q4 21 NxN PxN
Gruenffeid Defense 1981
2 P-QB4 1 P-Q4 N-KB3
4 P-K3 N-KB3 26 RXR PxR P-QB3 22 QxQP RxR
1 N-KB3 P-Q4 17 KR-Q1 Q-B2 3 N-KB3 2 N-KB3 P-K3
5 BxP PK3 27 P-QN4 N-B3 N-B3 23 RxR R-QB1
3 P-B4 P-Q4
2 P-B4 P-QB3 18 Q-R3 B-Bl 4 P-K3 B-N5 24 R-Ql N-B3
3 P-Q4 N-B3 19 Q-N2 P-QB4 6 Q-K2 PB4 28 N-Q3 N-K2 4 N-B3 B-K2
7 PxP 5 P-KR3 BxN 25 B-B4 Q-B2
4 P-K3 P-KN3 20 B-Q5 B-N2 BxP 29 R-B7 R-Ql 6 QxB 5 B-N5 P-KR3
8 0-0 P-QN4 30 p_B4 P-K3 26 Q-K4 N-K4
6 B-R4 0-0
5 N-B3 B-N2 21 PxP BxB R-Q3 7 B-Q3 QN-Q2 27 B-N3 P-QN4
6 B-K2 0-0 22 RxB NxP 9 B-Q3 N-B3 31 K_B2 K-Kl 7 P-K3 P-QN3
10 N-B3 8 N-B3 P-KN3 28 Q-Q5 P-QR3
7 0-0 B-N5 23 R-B3 R-K2 BN2 32 N-K5 K-Ql 8 R-Bl B-N2
11 P-K4 9 0-0 B-N2 29 P-QR4 B-B3
8 P-N3 QN-Q2 24 P-KR4 R-KB1 N Q2 33 R-B4 K-Kl 10 R-Ql 9 PxP PxP
0-0 30 Q-K4 N-B5
10 B-K2 QN-Q2
9 B-N2 R-Kl 25 Q-B6 N-K5 12 R-Ql Q B2 34 B-Q3 B-Q2 11 Q-K2 Q-B2 31 PxP PxP
10 R-Bl N-K5 26 Q-Q4 N-B4 13 B-N5 0-0 35 R-B7 B-N4 12 B-Q2 11 0-0 P-B4
QR-Q1 32 R-Q5 R-Rl
12 Q-B2 P-QR3
11 P-KR3 NxN 27 P-R5 N-Q2 14 QR-B1 PB3 36 BxBch PxB 13 QR-B1 Q-N1 33 K-Bl! R-R8
12 BxN BxN 28 PxP RPxP 15 B-K3 14 B-Kl 13 KR-Q1 P-B57!
BxB 37 R-R7 N-N3 QR-K1 34 K-K2 K-N2 14 P-QR4 B-B3?
13 BxB PxP 29 R-N3 Q-K4 16 QxB QR' K1 38 NxN PxN 15 Q-B2 QR-B1 35 B-N4 N-N37
14 PxP P-K4 30 RxPch K-R2 17 P-QR4 15 N-K5 Q-B2
PxP 39 P-K5 R-B3 16 P-QN4 P-K4 36 R-Q6 R-QB8
15 Q-N3 PxP 31 R-N3 N-B3 18 NxP 16 NxB QxN
Q-R4 40 RxP R-B5 17 PxKP NxP 37 RxB! KxR 17 B-B3
16 PxP R-Nl 32 Q-R4ch Resigns 19 B-B2 KN-K4 41 RxP 18 PxP K-N4 B-N5
K-B2 NxP 38 Q-Q4ch 18 NxP! NxN
20 NxN P*N 42 R-N3 RxP 19 B-K2 NxNP 39 B-K7ch! QxB
19 Q-B5 QxP
21 Q-B5! R Q1 43 R-Q3 Resigns 20 Q-N3 N-Q4 40 Q-B4ch Resigns 20 BxN QR-B1
22 QxQ NxQ 21 P-QN3 PxP
22 RxR RxR
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2 Share USA Crown South A frica Clouded Title
The 28th annual US Champion­ “Any nation that has a lion Anatoly Karpov, 30, easily de­
ship in South Bend, Indiana, named Korchnoi can’t be all bad," fended his crown against Viktor
attracted a strong field of 15 I quipped at the final banquet of Korchnoi, 50, in Merano, Italy. The
including 10 grandmasters and 5 the Oude Meester Grand Prix, purse was $280,000 for the winner
Soviet emigres. Also at stake this after serving as commentator in and $170,000 for the loser after
year were three coveted spots in Johannesburg. This was Soviet seven weeks of gruelling play.
the next Interzonal, from which a defector Viktor Korchnoi's last
new challenger for the world title training test before his title match But this was no contest. After
will emerge in 1984. with Anatoly Karpov. taking an early 3-point lead, Kar­
Defending co-champ Walter The Grand Prix was the world’s pov never looked back. By game
Browne, 32, and Yasser Seirawan, first Category 16—the highest 18 he clinched the shortest title
21, landed on top of the heap with level rated by FIDE—but will not match of modern times with 6
9 points. A playoff is required for be rated because South Africa wins, 2 losses, 10 draws.
the third berth in the Interzonal was tossed out by the world body Yet these figures hide a human
between 3 grandmasters who in 1977, South Africa is especially drama that casts a cloud over
scored 8.5 points: Larry Christian­ bitter because it could not get its Karpov’s victory. Had Korchnoi
sen, Lubomir Kavalek and Sammy proposal for readmission on slipped that far, or was his creative
Reshevsky, a former child prodigy FIDE's agenda this year while the energy sapped by a 5-vear
and still a force to be reckoned Palestine Liberation Organiza­ struggle to liberate his family?
with at the age of 70. tion, whose application was sub­ Korchnoi's complaint—before,
Browne had a minus score mitted by the USSR, was accepted during, after the match—it was
going into round 8 where he as a provisional member of FIDE. hard to concentrate with his fam­
began a comeback with this This fine event consisted of four ily held hostage in Russia. Per­
victory over 1980 co-champ players contesting four games haps competing under these con­
Christiansen. Browne put on a apiece against each other. Swed­ ditions was his fatal mistake.
spurt to score 6 out of his last 7. en’s Ulf Andersson (#12 in the However, he announced that he
White pushed his center pawn world) captured first with 7 out of had "no intention of giving the
too far, too fast. Browne rightly a possible 12 points after a last- Soviets joy by refusing to play.”
rejected 8...Q-N3? 9 P-K4 NxQP round victory over West German­ In 1976 Korchnoi defected from
10 P-K5 forking a Knight and y’s Robert Huebner (#3) who tied Russia to improve his career, clai­
instead offered a flank pawn for with Korchnoi (#2) with 6.5 points. ming he was practically forced to
rapid development. Later 14 P- Trailing at 4 was British champion throw a semi-final match to Kar­
QR4 was necessary to avoid John Nunn (#22), the only grand­ pov in 1974. The winner was slated
material loss. master to defeat Korchnoi (2.5 to to face Bobby Fischer for the title
Christiansen saw that Black 1.5) in their individual 4-game set. and Soviet authorities clearly pre­
comes out on top after 17 R-N1 B- The deciding game, when An­ ferred Karpov, then 23.
K5 18 RxN QxR 19 QxB NxQ 20 dersson entered the last round In 1978 Korchnoi got another
PxQ NxQBP. Browne’s smashing trailing by a half point, indicates shot at Karpov, losing after hard
pseudo-sacrifice on move 35 was why many of his peers consider games by the slim margin of 6-5
decisive since, on any capture, his him the best endgame player (21 draws). This time it wasn't
pawn queens. After Browne won a around today. Surprisingly, he close, chiefly because Korchnoi
piece, the rest was easy. swapped Queens instead of the had no reliable defense to Kar­
W hite: C HR ISTIANSEN sharper 15 P-K4 P-N5 16 P-Q5 Q- pov’s habitual opening move 1 e4.
Black: BROWNE Q2. Hubner, needing only a draw,
Nim zo Indian Defense 1981 missed 16...R-B5! 17 P-K3 P-B4 to They both plainly loathe each
22 B-Q6 N/B-Q4 equalize fully. Later he should try other. Korchnoi said simply: "Kar­
1 P-Q4 N-KB3 23 QR-B1 B-Q6 21...P-KR4 before dropping what pov starts every game with two
2 P-QB4 P-K3 24 BxB PxB looks like a dead drawn Rook and extra pieces, my wife and son."
3 N-QB3 B-N5 25 P-B4 N-K5 pawn ending. Unfortunately we will never
4 N-B3 P-B4 26 B-K5 P-B3 know if Karpov really is the better
5 P-K3 N-B3 27 PxN RxR W hite: ANDERSSON Black: HUBNER player—again he accepted this
Catalan Opening 1981 unfair advantage. Why was he
6 P-Q5 N-K2 28 RxR PxB
7 P-Q6?! N-B4 29 PxP PxP 1 N-KB3 P-Q4 unwilling to meet Korchnoi on
8 Q-Q3 P-QN4! 30 NxP P-Q7 2 P-Q4 N-KB3 27 P-R5 P-B3? even terms? To dispel all doubt,
K-B2 K-B2
9 PxP B-N2 31 R-KB1 Q-Q4 3 P-B4 PxP 28 considering the narrow margin of
10 B-K2 R-QB1 32 QxQ PxQ QN-Q2 29 P-K3 K-N3 his last two victories, he might
4 Q-R4ch
11 0-0 P-B5 33 N-B3 R-QB1 P-K3 30 K-K2 R-QB1 have prevailed upon his govern­
5 P-KN3
12 Q-B2 NxQP 34 P-N3 R-B7 6 B-N2 P-QR3 31 R-B5 R-Kl ment to free its hostages.
13 R-Ql 0-0 35 K-N2 NxBP! 7 N-B3 B-K2 32 K-Q3 R-K2 Instead Karpov and the USSR
14 P-QR3 BxN 36 NxP N-K5 R-QN1 33 P-K4 R-Q2 indulged in a rank exercise of
8 N-K5
15 PxB NxP 37 R-QN1 RxNch 9 NxN QxN 34 P-R3 R-QI raw power. They ignored a plea
16 P-QR4 Q-R4 38 K-B3 R-B7ch P-QN4 35 R-Bl R-Q2 from the head of the world chess
10 QxBP R-B2 federation to release Korchnoi's
17 B-N2 B-K5 39 K-N4 N-B3ch B-N2 36 R-Ql
11 Q-Q3 R-Q2 family before the first pawn was
18 Q-Q2 N-B2 40 K-N5 N-K5ch 12 BxB RxB 37 R-B3 pushed. Then a rumor surfaced
19 B-R3 KR-K1 41 K-N4 RxP 38 R-B2 R-Ql
13 Q-B3 R-N3 that Korchnoi's son, jailed for
20 B-N4 Q-Q4 42 R-N8ch K-B2 39 R-Bl R-Q2
14 0-0 Q-B3 40 R-B5 R-Ql “draft evasion," was beaten.
21 Q-R2 Q-Rl White Resigns 15 QxQch RxQ 41 P-N4! PxNP This match was a farce. The pity
16 B-N5 N-Q4 42 RPxP R-Q2
17 NxN PxN 43 PxP is Karpov might have proven him­
RxP self a true champion.
18 BxB KxB 44 K-K4 R-Ql
19 KR-B1; RxRch 45 P-Q5 R-Klch
20 RxR K-Q3 46 K-B5 PxP
21 P-B3! P-QB3 47 RxP
R-K6
22 K-62 R-Kl
P-QR4 48 KxP RxPch
23 P-KN4! 49 K-N7 R-B5
24 P-KR4 P-N3
50 R-Q6ch! K-B2
25 R-B2 P-R3
51 RxP Resigns
26 K-N3 P-N4

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A D A M -R o h d e 267 CHESS CHALLENGER-Boris 95

A D A M S —Torre, Lasker 238 CHESS 4 . 0 - Chaos 88, 89
A LEK H IN E-G rigoriev 64 Flohr 105 CHESS 4 . 4 - Levy 90
A LEKSA NDR IA— Gaprindashvili 196 CHESS 4 .6 —Stean 91 Belle 92
ANDERSSEN A -Z u k e rto rt 106 CHESS 4 . 7 - Levy 93
ANDERSSON U — Luboyevic 58 Kavalek 237 Hubner 299 CHIBURANIDZE-Gaprindashvili 251
ARNASO N —Shipman 278 C H IH —Torre 211 Quinteros 253
C H R ISTIA N SEN -G heorghiu 217 Browne 222, 298
Guttierez 270 Spassky 293
B A L A S H O V -K arp o v 36 Matera 168 Peters 219
COMPUTER— Karpov 97
BELLE-C hess 4.6 92 Belle 94 Chaos 98
C O N LO N -Savereide 223
BELYAVSKY—Tal 173 Geller 193 Tarjan 265
CRAMLING — Lotveit 290
BENJAMIN — Feuerstein 199 Westerinen 226
C R O T T O -B e rt 269
Reshevsky 258
CSOM —Mestel 256
BENKO—Tal 140 Evans 179, 204 Sigurjonsson 187
CUIPERS — Kasparov 275
Shamkovich 243
BER LINER -Estrin 104
BERT—Crotto 269
D A R G A -F ilip 116
B IR D -M o rp h y 111 Mason 112
DEBANOT—Geller 39
BISGUIER— Browne 164 Timman, Hartoch 177
D EN KER-Evans 163
Miies 201 Diesen 225
DIESEN —Nunn 162 Browne 202 Bisguier, Matera 225
B IY IA S IS — Gheorghiu 268
DO ERY-Reshevsky 51
BORIS—Chess Challenger 95
D O L M A T O V -R istich 245
B O R O C H O W -F in e 51
DONNER — Larsen 78
B O TTER ILL-Vaganian 178
D O R F M A N -K arp o v 34
BO TVIN N IK — Fischer 3 Tal 66 Keres 148 Bronstein 155
D U R A O -C h ek h o v 191 Roth 262
B R A D F O R D -B yrn e 284
B R A N D T S -E v a n s 127
BRONSTEIN —"Robot" 61 Rojahn 156 Panno 157 E M M A -S te in 124
Botvinnik 155 Uhlmann 267
E M M E R IC H -M o rtiz 129
BROW NE— Karpov 33 Bisguier 164 Snyder 167
ESTRIN — Berliner, Nielson 104
Byrne 182 Kavalek 184 Regan 199 Diesen 202
Tsheshkovsky 208 Peters 220, 233 Byrne, EU W E-R ubinstein 50
Christiansen 222,298 Hort 240 Miles 244 Strauss 261 EVANS — Fischer 20 Warner 51 Grivainis 54 Portisch 59
Kasparov 264 Korchnoi 281 Brandts 127 Denker 163 Weinstein 165, 190
B R U N S W IC K -M o rp h y 51 Grefe 166 Fuller 212 Panno 213 Williams 214
Formanek 235 Seirawan 247 Benko 179, 204
B U R G ER -Fischer 51
Pilnik 180 Browne 181 Byrne 283 Shirazi 291
B U R N S -L e in 248
BYRNE D -F is c h e r 132
BYRNE R — Fischer 4 Spassky 8 Browne 182, 222, FAHNRICH —Capablanca & Reti 122
Evans 283 Bradford 284
F E U E R S T E IN - Benjamin 199
FILIP — Darga 116
FINE— Borochow 51
CALVO — Hamann 84 Planinc 174
FISCHER —Botvinnik 3 Byrne 4 Taimanov 5 Geller 19
CAPABLANCA—Janowski 77 Fahndrich & Kaufman 122
Evans 20 "Greenblatt" 23 Gligoric 25 Burger 104
C H A O S -C hess 4.0 88, 89 Belle 98 Unzicker 105 Byrne D. 132 Reshevsky 176
CHEKHO V— Durao 191 H u b n e r194

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FLO H R -A lekh ine 105 KNEERM AN—Zitzman 3
FORMANEK— Evans 235 Gheorghiu 243 KO M A R O V— Roganov 21
FR ITZIN G ER -W hitehead 266 KORCHNOI — Karpov 27, 40, 41, 44, 71 Spassky 230, 231
FULLER -Evans 212 Lombardy 257 Luboyevic 259 Short 279
Seirawan 280 Browne 281 Hubner 295 Yusopov 296
KO R EN SK Y-Spassky 6
G APRIND ASHVILI—Aleksandria 196 Tarjan 218 K U RAJIC A— Karpov 30
Chiburanidze 251
G ARC IA— Karpov 35 Tarjan 215
GELLER — Fischer 19 Denabot 39 Timman 154 LARSEN—Taimanov 60 Matanovic, Unzicker 64
Romanishin 192 Belyavsky 193 Spiridinov 250 Donner 78 Torre, Westerinen 204, Hubner 205
Palatnik 274 Spassky 239, 272 Speelman 246 Karpov 260,
Seirawan 271
G IB B S -S ch m id 259
LASKER — Pillsbury 107, 183 Schlechter 118
GHEORGHIU —Portisch 175 Christiansen 217
Formanek 243 Biyiasis 268 Stebbings 277 LIE B -S passky 263
GLIGORIC — Fischer 25 Luboyevic 26 Weinstein 122 L E IN -B u rn s 248
Palatnik 170 Kavalek 172 Smejkal 188 LEV IT S K Y -M arshall 110
"G R EEN B LA TT"-Fischer 23 L E V Y -"C h e s s 4.4" 90 "Chess 4.7" 93 Spassky 171
GREFE— Browne 221 Evans 166 LO M B ARD Y—Quinteros 161 Peters 234 Korchnoi 257
GRIGORIEV—Alekhine 63 LOTVEIT—Cramling 290
G R IV A IN IS -E va n s 54 LUBOYEVIC— Gligoric 26 Andersson 58, Smyslov 158
GULKO —Polugaievsky 101 Makarichev 183 Kavalek 184 Mecking 186
Korchnoi 259 Miles 286
GUNSBERG — Pillsbury 107
LU K A C S-Psachis 288
GUTTIEREZ—Christiansen 270

HAM ANN —Calvo 84 M AHIO —Quinteros 292

H A R TO C H -B isguier 177 M A K A R IC H E V -Luboyevic 183
HO RT— Reshevsky 158 Portisch 174 Spassky 228 M AN NHEIM — Regensburg 150
Karpov 239, 297 Browne 240 M A R SH A LL—Yates 76 Nimzovich, Rubinstein 109
HUBNER — Fischer 194 Larsen 205 Petrosian 210 Levitsky 110
Portisch 244 Suss 263 Korchnoi 295 Andersson 299 M ARTINO ViC —Kavalek 256
M A R T Z -M ile s 202
M A S IC —Tarjan 197
IS O U A R D -M o rp h y 51
M A S O N -B ird 112
IV A N O V -R u d erfe r 285
M A TER A — Balashov 169 Diesen 225
IVANOVIC —Miles 286
M A T A N O V IC -L arsen 64
MECKING —Smyslov 159 Rodriguez 160 Luboyevic 186
Quinteros 227
JANO W SKI — Capablanca 77
MEITNER —Schlecter 85
J A N S A — Kaplan 194
M E S K E R IN A S -V asiukov 249
JO RG ENSEN-Sorensen 25
M E S T E L -C so m 256
M IK H A IL IS H IN —Tal 254
K A P L A N -Ja n s a 194 MILES — Karpov 35, 282 Bisguier 201 Martz 202
K A R PO V-K orchnoi 27, 40, 41, 44, 71 Musil 28 Browne 244 Spassky 252
Spassky 29 Kurajica 30 Torre 31 Tatai 32 M ITFO R D — Sharif 102, Ivanovic, Luboyevic 286
Belyavsky, Browne 33 Dorfman 34 Garcia, M O ISEIEV—Stein 125
Miles 35, 289 Balashov 36 Portisch, Taimanov 37
M O R ITZ— Emmerich 129
Sosonko 45 ''Computer” : 97 Hort 239, 297
Larsen 260, 273 Timman 276 Smyslov 294 M O R P H Y — Brunswick & Isouard 51, 70 Bird 111

KA SPARO V— Browne 264 Cuipers 275 M U S IL -K a rp o v 28

KAUFMAN —Capablanca & Reti 122

KAVALEK—Gligoric 172 Browne 184 Luboyevic 184
Rajcevic, Timman 185 Anderssen 237 Regan 241 NAPOLEON — Remusat 51
Martinovic 256 N IE L S O N -E strin 104
K ER ES-Botvinnik 148 NIMZOVICH —Saemisch 81 Marshall 109 Rubinstein 119
K IN N M A R K —Oliveira 260 N U N N -D ie s e n 162

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O'KELLY —Ramirez 265 SCHOLAR'S M A T E -1
O LA FF S O N -S o so nko 198 SEIRAW AN —Evans, Timman 247 Larsen 271
O LIV E IR A -K innm ark 260 Korchnoi 280 Tal 287
S E G A L -S m yslov 237
S H A M K O V IC H -R e g a n 224 Benko 243
PAD EVSKY—Tal 65
S H A R IF -M itfo rd 102
PA LA TN IK —Gligoric 170 Geller 274 S H IP M A N -A rn as o n 278
PANNO — Bronstein 157 Evans 213
S H IR A Z I-E va n s 291
P A P E -R o th 84
S H O R T -K o rchn o i 279
PARES —Sigurjonsson 187
S IG U R JO N S S O N -B en ko , Pares 187 Spassky 262
PEJKUN—Velimirovic 126
SIM M O N S —Savereide 206
PETERS-Balashov 219 Browne 220, 233 Grefe 221
SM EJK AL—Gligoric 188
Lombardy 234
S M Y S L O V — Luboyevic 158 Mecking 159 Segal 236
PETROSIAN — Romanishin 192 Flubner 210
S N Y D E R -B ro w n e 167
PFLEGER —Portisch 176
SO LTIS—Tamargo 207
PIETZSCH — Espig 42
SORENSEN—Jorgensen 25
P ILLSB U R Y-G unsberg 107 Lasker 107, 183
SOSONKO — Karpov 46 Browne 195 Olaffson 198
PILNIK — Evans 190
PLANINC —Calvo 174 Vaganian 178 SOULTAINBEIFF—Sultan Khan 123
S PA SS K Y—Korensky 6 Byrne 8 Karpov 29 Levy 171
POLUGAIEVSKY— Gulko 101
Uhlmann 209 Hort 228 Portisch 229 Korchnoi 230,
POPE JO HN PAUL II—Zartobliwy 289
231 Larsen 239, 272 Miles 252 Sigurjonsson 263
PORTISCH — Karpov 37 Evans 59 Hort 174 Gheorghiu 175 Lieb 263 Christiansen 293
Pfleger 176 Ree 195 Spassky 229 Hubner 244
SPEELM A N -Larsen 246
PSACHIS — Lukacs 288 SPIRIDINO V—Geller 250
STEA N —Tal 61 Chess 4.6 91

Q U IN T E R O S -Lo m b ardy 161 Mecking 227 Chih 253 STEBBING S-G heorghiu 277
Mahio 292 STEIN — Emma 124 Moiseiev 125
S T R A U S S -B ro w n e 261
SULTAN KHAN — Soultainbeiff 123
RACJEVIC — Kavalek 185
S U S S -H u b n e r 263
R A D U L O V -S ap u ro v 264
RA M IR EZ—O'Kelly 265
REGAN — Browne 199 Shamkovich 224 Kavalek 241
T A B O R O V -R o h d e 200
R EG EN SB U R G -M annheim 150
T A IM A N O V — Fischer 5 Karpov 37 Larsen 60
REM U SA L— Napoleon 51
T A L — Padevsky 65 Botvinnik 66 Benko 140
R E S H E V S K Y -D o e ry 51 Savon 124 Hort 158
Belyavsky 173 Mikhailishin 254 Velimirovic 255
Fischer 176 Benjamin 258 Seirawan 287
RETI — Fahnrich & Kaufman 122 TAM ARGO —Soltis 207
R IS T IC H -D o lm a to v 245 T A T A I-K a rp o v 32
"RO BO T" — Bronstein 61 TARJAN —Masic 197 Garcia 215 Romanishin 216
ROGANOV — Komarov 21 Gaprindashvili 218 Belyavsky 265
R O D R IG U E Z -M ecking 160 T IM M A N —Geller 154 Bisguier 177 Kavalek 185
RO HDE—Taborov 200 Weinstein 218 Adam 267 Seirawan 247 Karpov 276
RO J AH N — Bronstein 156 TORRE C. —Adams, Lasker 238
R O M A N ISH IN — Geller, Petrosian 192 Tarjan 216 TORRE E. — Karpov 31 Larsen 204 Chih 211
R O T H -P a p e 84 Durao 262 T S H E S H K O V S K Y -B ro w n e 208
RUBINSTEIN — Euwe 50 Marshall 109 Nimzovich 119
R U D E R F E R -Ivano v 285
UHLM A NN —Spassky 209 Bronstein 267
U N ZIC K ER -Larsen 64 Fischer 105
S A E M IS C H -N im zo vich 81
SA PU R O V— Radulov 264
S AVER El DE —Simmons 206 Conlon 223
SAVO N — Reshevsky 124 V A G A N IA N -B o tte rill, Planinc 178
S C H L E C H T E R -M eitn er 85 Lasker 118 V AS IU K O V—Velimirovic 169 Meskerinas 249
S C H M ID -G ib b s 259 V E L IM IR O V IC -P ejku n 126 Vasiukov 169 Tal 255

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 Z A R T O B L IW Y -P o p e John Paul II 289
W A R N E R -E va n s 51
W ILLIA M S — Evans 214 ZITZM A N — Kneeram 46
ZUKERTO RT—Anderssen 106
W EINSTEIN — Gligoric 122 Evans 165, 190 Rohde 218
WESTERINEN — Larsen 204 Benjamin 226
W H ITE H E A D -F ritzing er 266

Y A T E S -M arsh all 76
Y U S O P O V -K o rchn oi 296

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Aibin Counter Gambit— 139 Nimzo Indian Defense—20, 26, 180, 198, 234, 298
Alekhine's Defense—51, 98, 236

Old Indian Defense—119, 246

Bird's Opening—90
Benko Gambit— 170
Petrov Defense — 164, 183, 276
Benoni Defense—275, 281, 288
Philidor D e fe n s e -5 1 , 111, 191, 238
Pirc D efen se -162 , 210, 211, 213, 214, 251
Catalan Opening—45, 185, 200, 250, 253, 299
Caro-Kann D e fe n s e -3 6 , 158, 194, 223, 224, 237, 239,
272, 273 Queen's Gambit Accepted—89, 100
Center Counter Defense—57, 196, 260 Queen's Gambit Declined—50, 64, 88, 107, 154, 173,
174,179,201, 21 6,21 7,21 9,24 0, 274, 293, 295, 297
Queen's Fianchetto Defense—35, 91, 123, 199, 204,
Dutch Defense— 199, 222, 230, 257 222, 244
Queen's Indian Defense—29, 33, 37, 60, 109, 192, 205,
220, 221, 228, 252, 262, 264, 268, 284, 285
English Opening—32, 40, 97, 159, 165, 168, 178, 193, Queen's Pawn Counter Gambit—95
202, 247, 255, 267, 271, 280, 287
Queen's Pawn Game— 178, 238, 243

French D e fe n s e -6 3 , 65, 66, 92, 105,110, 112, 209, 231,

Reti Opening—251
259, 269, 289
Ruy Lopez- 9 8 , 30, 33, 46, 51, 71, 106, 157, 160, 172,
184, 192, 207, 218, 229, 265, 279
Gruenfeld Defense—99, 132, 175, 188, 206, 261, 277, 294

Sicilian D e fe n s e -6 , 23,25, 27, 28, 31, 34, 58, 59, 62,

100, 105, 126, 155,161, 167, 169, 171, 176, 182,
Hungarian Defense— 102
185, 186, 187, 190,194, 195, 208, 215, 225, 226,
227, 233, 235, 241,245, 248, 249,256, 270, 286,
290, 292
Irregular Defense—282
Slav D e fe n s e -101, 118, 195, 225, 254, 296

King's Gambit—23, 51, 61, 116, 117, 263, 278

Two Knights' Defense— 104, 156, 177
King's Indian Defense—56, 127, 158, 163, 181, 197, 202,
212, 258, 283, 291
King's Indian Reversed—57, 125, 174, 266
Veresov Opening—35

Latvian Gambit—54, 93

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 Index of Books
Numbers refer to columns and not to page references

American Chess Art 76 Life and Games of Mikhail Tal 65

American Chess Masters from Morphy to Fischer 49 Larsen's Selected Games 64
Aaron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal 55 Last Lectures 46
A rt of Chess Analysis 58

Maxims and Hints for Chess Players 115

Basic Chess Endings 77, 79, 81 Modern Chess Openings 58, 100, 101
Benoni 288 Modern Ideas in Chess 122
Best of Karpov, The 43 Morals of Chess, The 115
Bobby Fischer—The Greatest? 21 My Best Games by Karpov 44
Bobby Fischer's Conquest of The World Championship 1 My Best Games of Chess by Alekhine 63
Bobby Fischer vs. The Rest of the World 1, 17, 18, My Fifty Years of Chess 109
19, 22, 274 My Sixty Memorable Games 2, 3, 4, 44
M y System 55

Checkmate In Prague 139

Chess Catechism 124 Night Moves 129
Chess Informant 126, 285
Chess Is M y Life 68
Official Rules of Chess, The 138, 220
Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, The 108
Chess of Bobby Fischer, The 3, 19
Passion for Chess, A 79
Chess of Gligoric, The 25
Piatigorsky Cup 1966 78
Chess Opening for You, The 57, 196
Practical Chess Endings 77
Chess Panorama 54
Profile of a Prodigy 19, 20
Chess Quotations from The Masters 52
Psychology of the Chess Player 69
Chessboard Magic 86

San Antonio 1972 59

Encyclopedia of Chess Openings 58, 59
Selected Chess Masterpieces 25

Games of Anatoly Karpov, The 43 1000 Best Short Games of Chess 51

Games of Robert J. Fischer, The 19, 67 1975 U.S. Computer Chess Championship 90
Great Chess Tournaments and Their Stories, The 53 1234 Modern Endgame Studies 82
Guiness Book of Records 228 200 Open Games 61
Tal-Botvinnik 1960 World Championship Match 66

Hastings 1978/9 256

How to Beat Bobby Fischer 19 Underhanded Chess 48
How to Open a Chess Game 56, 65 U .S. Championship Chess 47

Viktor Korchnoi's Best Games 67, 68

Ideas Behind the Chess Openings 98
Idle Passion: Chess and the Dance of Death 70
W hat's The Best Move? 62
Wonders and Curiosities of Chess 50
Karpov's Collected Games 43
World Championship Interzonals 1973 60
Karpov-Korchnoi 1974 43
World Chess Championship 1978 71

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 PERGAMON CHESS SERIES

Larry Evans is an International Grandmaster and was

three times winner of the USA championship. He has
represented his country in eight olympiads and was
Bobby Fischer’s tutor.

This collection of essays is taken from a decade of his

syndicated chess columns. They cover a tumultuous
period that saw Fischer’s abdication of the title
crown, Korchnoi’s defection, the rise of Karpov and
Kasparov in Russia and Christiansen and Seirawan in
the USA, a British chess explosion, the emergence of
Red China, the domination of women’s chess by
Soviet players and the inexorable advance of
computers. The book is both informative and
entertaining and will provide hours of pleasure to
both novices and masters alike.