THE XXXlst SOVIET CHAMPIONSHIP

This year's Soviet championship was played in Leningrad and came to an end on December 26, Grandmasters Boris Spassky of Leningrad, Ratmir Kholmov of Sochi, and Leonid Stein of Lvov tied Ior the first three places with 12 points out of a possible 19. Spassky was un. defeated, while Kholmov and Stein lost one game each.

Following the tournJrnent, a playoct W.lS held and Stein was the surprise winner-and the new Soviet Champion. He scored 2\h-l * to Spassky's 2-2 and Kholmov's H7! -2 1h .

Leonid Stein is 29 years old and is a journalism studen t at Lvov University. He became a USSR Master in 1959 lor his resul ts in the Ukrainian Champion-sh ip_ At the Stockholm Interzonal in 1962 he won his International Grand-!Ulster title by coming in siKth. His other successes include a firs t prize at Bucharcst (1961 ) and the Emanuel Las. ker Memorial in Berlin (1962) in which he shared second and third with Udovcic.

Fourth, fifth, and sixth places were also sh"red; Grandmasters David Bron-stein and Yefim Geller and Master Alexei Suetin scored l1lh-7lh. The top six players in the tournament, plus Kor. chnoi and former World Champion Vas. sHy Smyslov will play in the FIDE Zonal Tournament which will be held shortly in Moscow.

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Tal Wins At Hastings As wc go to press. we lack details

on the traditional Hastings Tournament but can report that the event ended in victory for ex-world champion Mikhail Tal (7-2) ahead of Gligoric (6lh), Khasin and Lengyel (6).

In the Challengers Section, the World Women's Champion, Nona Gaprin

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CATALAN Benko_ O Ev.n_1

U. S. CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES , . N·KB3 N-KB3 29. QxQch ... ,. P·KN3 P-KN3 30. R·RI R·Q81

In our J anuary number we presented all the games fr om the first live rounds with the exception of the two by Benko which are given below.

The R. Byrne-Benko marathon was the longest game of the tournament . It pro-vides qui te a contrast to the Fischer-Steinmeyer encounter from Round Six!

Fischer's record-smashing victory in the '64 Championship is r eceiving exten-sive- if not always accurate--.coverage in the mass circulation magazines. Sports JUllStrater!, Life, T he Saturday Eve· ning Post and other s have suddenly dis-covered that chess can be news.

In addition to the games given in the round·by-round record that follows, Grandmaster Benko has annotated his prize-winning victory over Bisguier on p. 42. In our March issue, some of the other players will analyze games from the Championship which h ave already been given in unannotated form.~Ed.

NEO·GRUENFELD

•• Byrne-O P . Benko-I L P·Q4 N ·KB3 52. PxP P>P ,. P·QB4 P-KN3 53. K·N2 P·N5 ,. N-QB3 B·N2 54. P·B3 PxPeh •• P·KN3 P.Q4 55. KxP R·N2 •• P>P N,P 56. B·Q4 R·N6ch •• B·N2 N,N 57. K-B2 K·N3 ,. P

ENCLISH OPENING R.eshevsky-I Addis.on_O ,. P·QH4 P·K4 30. Q-R5eh K-N2 ,. N-QBl N·KBS 31. Q·B7eh K·R3 3. P.KN3 P·Q4 32. RxR ." •• , .. ... 33. N·B5eh " . •• B·N2 N·N3 34. QxR B-N3 •• N-B3 N·B3 35. Q-K3ch .,. ,. 0·0 B-K2 3(,. NxQ '" •• P-QR3 P·B4 37. R·B6ch K-N4 •• P·Q3 B·B3 38. RxP K-BS 10. N·Q2 P-KR4 ". . .. K,. II. P-B4 P·RS ". . .. N·B5 12. NPxP , .. ". P·N4 B·K5 13. N·B3 B_B3 42. P·QR4 N·K4 14. P·K4 KPxP 43. P·N5 N-B6ch 15. PxP ,,' 44. K·N2 N·Q7ch 16. R·Klch K-BI 45. K-Nl N-B8ch 17. BxP P-N4 46. KxP NxPch 18. B-NS P·NS 47. K·NS N-B6ch 19. N·Q2 Q·QSeh 48. K-B6 K·Q5 20. B·B2 Q·KB5 49. P-N6 N·Q1 21. N·BI B·Qs 50. P-N7 ,,' 22. R-Klt K·N2 51. RxB N-KSch 23. 8xN '" 52. K·K7 N-B4 24. N-K4 Q·K4 53. P_Rs ." 25. N/4-N3 Bx8eh 54. P·R6 N·R4 26. RxB , .. " 55. K·Q6 N-B5ch 27. Q-Q2 QR·KI 56. K·B6 N-K4eh 28. QR·KI .... 57. K-B7 Resigns 2 •. Q·N5ch K·R2

ROUND SEVEN

'UY LOPEZ Addis.on-O Fiseher_I

'- P·K4 p·K4 21. P·R4 Q-QBl ,. N·KBl N·QBl 22. Q-K4 0·0·0 3. B-Ns P-QR3 23. QxQch ". •• B-R4 P·QN4 24. P-QB4 K·Q2 •• B-N3 N·R4 25. R·Rl R-RI •• , ... , .. 26. N-K4 ". ,. ... N·K2 27. RxB N·N2 • P·B3 ." 21. N-Q2 N·B4 •• " . B·N2 29. R-B4 K·K3 10. B-B4 P·Q4 30. N·K4 ,,' II. P-KS P·QB4 31. PxP KR·QNl 12. Q·Q3 N·Nl 32. R·R2 R·N5 13. B·N3 B-K2 33. N·Q2 ... 14. QN-Q2 N·BI 34. BxN '" IS. 0·0 N·K3 35. R·K4 B·N4 16. QR-QI P-N4 36. P·B4 PxP e.p. 17. P-R3 P·KR4 37. NxP B· K6ch 18. KR·Kl Q·N3 38. K_R2 RxBP 19. N·BI p·Qs 39. Resigns 20. N/3·Q2 P·KN5

ENGLISH OPENING D. Byrn_Ih Reshevsky_v> ,. P-KN3 P·KNl 22. R/2.B2 P·QR4 ,. B·N2 B_N2 23. N·NT , .. 3. P·QB4 P-QB4 24. RxP P·N4 •• N·QB3 N-QB3 25. R/4·B2 P·B4 •• P·Q3 P·K4 26. BxB "" •• P·Kl KN-K2 27. N·B3 N·N3 ,. KN·K2 P-QR3 28. Q·Rch K·Nl •• 0·0 0·0 29. N·Q2 P· KB5 •• poNS ' .. ' 30. N·B4 QR-Kl 10. B·N2 R·NI 31. Q-Ql K-R2 II. N·Q5 .,. 32. P-KR3 Q-K2 12. PxN N·K2 33. Q-N4 N-K4 13. P· K4 P·QN4 34. NxN ". 14. R-BI P·N5 35. PxP NPxP IS. P.B4 Q·N3 36. K·R2 Q.B2 16. K-Rl ' .. , 37. R.K;NI R·KNI 17. N-NI P-B3 38. Q.B3 ... II. B-KR3 Q· N2 39. KxR P-RS 19. R·QB2 '" 40. PxP R-QRI 20. NxB Q·Q2 41. Q-QI R·NTch 21. K·Nl P·R3 Drawn

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KING'S INDIAN Saidy_v> 1. P-QB4 2. N-QBl 3. P·Q4 4. P·K4 5. P·B3 6. B-K3 7. Q·Q2 8. B·Q3 9. KN-K2 10. 0 ·0 II. KR·QI 12. NxQP 13. PxP 14. P·QR3 IS. B-BI 16. B·R6 17. BxB 18. Q·N5 19. P·B4 20. R·KI 21. QR·QI 22. N·B3 23. Q·R4 24. B·Q3 25. B·NI 26. Q-N3 27. B·R2 28. N·Q4 29. N·BS 30. PxB 31. K·RI 32. B·NI 33. P-N4 34. N·K2 35. N·Q4 36. QxQch 37. NxBP 38. RxR 39. B·Q3 40. BxP 41. N·Q4 42. R·QNT 43. N·K2 44. PxP 45. R·QI 46. RxP 47. K-N2 48. K·N3

P·KN3 B·N2

N· KB] P-Q3

P-QR3 P·B3

P·QN4 QN·Q2

0·0 P-K4

PxQP N-K4

RPxP B·Nlt Q·K2

KR·QI K" K·Rl

N/4·Q2 R-KI N-R4 P·B3

N·N2 N-K3

QR·Ql N/3.Bl

B·BI N·NI ...

Q·R2ch P·Q4

Q_KN2 N/N·Q2

P-N4

'" ... RxRch

R·Rl ." N-K4 R_R7 K· B2 P·B6 ." K·K2 R· N7

N·R5ch ."

A SPECIAL

R. Byrne-1/1

N·Q2 ... N·K4

49. B'Q3 50. Ro04 51. NxR 51. B·B2 53. PxN 54. K·B4 55. B·N3ch 56. N-K6eh 57. B-QI 58. K-K3 59. K·K4 60. K·B4 61. B·B2 62. N·Bl 63. K-N3 64. N·Q5 65. B_Qlch 66. B_B3 67. B-K2 68. B·Q3 69. N·B4 70. K·B2 71. N·Q5ch 72. N·K7 73. K·K3 14. N·B6 75. N·Q4 76. B·K2 17. N·B3ch 78. N'Q4 79. N·B6ch 80. 8·QI 8T. N-N4 82. B·N3 83. B·B2 84. B·Q3 85. 8·K2 86. N-Q3eh 87. K-Q4 88. B·QI 89. K-K3 90. K· B2 91. N·K5 92. B·B2 93. B·QI 94. K·K3 95. B·B2

Drawn

N/5·N3 , .. K·B2 K·N2 K·R3

N·Q6ch N·K4 N-B2 N·Q3 N-B2 K·R4 N·Q3 P·B4 K·N4 N-82 N·Q3 N_B2 K_B3 P·N4 K·K4 N·Q3 K·B3 N·B2 N·R3 K·K4 K·B3 K-K4 K·B3 N·B2 N·Q3 N·KS N·Q3 N·B2 K·K4 K·B3 N·QI

N·K3ch P·N5 K·N4 K·R5 N·Q5 K·R6 N·K3 N·N2

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Evans-I 1. P·QB4 2. N-QBl 3. P·Q4 4. P·K4 S. P·B] 6. KN·K2 7. B·K3 8. Q·Q2 9. 0·0·0 10. K·NI II. N·BI 12. P-Q5 13. P-QR4 14. Px!> 15. N·Q3 16. N-B4 17. P-KN4 18. P·NS

KING'S INDIAN

N-KB3 P-KN3

B·N2 P.Q3 0·0

19. B·K2 20. N/4·Q5 21. P·R4 22. P·KRS 23. BPxB 24. P·B4 25. PxP 26. P·BS 27. 1"·86 28. PxN 29. B-KN5 30. BxB

Mednis--O N·K4 Q·B3 B·K3 ... Q·B1 N·Q2

RPxP B·N2

N/2xP

'" Q. K2

QN·Q2 p.B4 Q.R4 R_KI

PoORl Q·B1 R·Nl P· Kl

." R-KI B·BI ... , N·KI

31. QR·KBI ." Q-N2 32. R·R3 33. R/I _RI 34. PxP 35. Q-B4 36. N·QI

K1NG'S INDIAN

N·B2 P-QN4

'" P· NS Resigns

Steinmeyer-ti Weinsteln_l 1. P·Q4 2. P·QB4 3. N·QB3 4. P·KN3 5. B_N2 6. P.K3 7. KN-K2 8. 0 ·0 9. P'QNl 10. B-N2 11. BPxP 12. PxKP 13. N·Q5 14. BxN IS. Q·82 16. KR·QI 17. P-K4 18. B-B4 19. P·QRl 20. PxN 21. QxP

N· KBl P-B3 P-Q3

QN·Q2 P·K4 '.K> 0·0

R-KT R·NT

P·QN4 BPxP

'" .," P' NS Q·R4 R·N4 N·Nl R-B4 ." P-N6 B-N5

22. P-B3 23. B·B3 24. B· N4 25. Q·B2 26. Q·Q2 27. QxB 28. KR.QBI 29. Q·K3 30. RxR 31. QR·QBI 32. Q·B5 33. R·QI 34. R·Q6 35. Q.QB2 36. Q·B5 37. R·Q2 38. B. R5 39. B-B7 40. B·R5 41. Resigns

B·K3 Q·B2

'" R·B3 B·KN4 ... '" '" , ..

P-KR3 R·K3 Q·N2 B·R8 B·KS R-KI Q·R3 K·R2 Q·N2

Q·N8ch

(The game Bisguier·Benko from this round is annotated by Benko on p. 42)

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FI$Ch,r-l 1. P·K4 2. N·KBl 1. B·NS 4. B· R4 S. 0·0 6. 11. ·1(1 T. B·N3 S. P·B3 , . P·KR3 10. a ' B2 11. P004 12. p,.p U . P.QS 14. ON.Q2 15. P·ON4 '6. P·OR4 11. p"p II. IbR 19. A·K]

ROUND EIGHT RUY LOPEZ

P·K4 N.QB] P·QR]

N·B3 8·K2

P.QN4 , .. , 0-0

N.QR4 P·84

BP"P B·N2 B· III P·Nl N·N2 ... , '" ." Q.III

Welnstein-O 10. 11.· 11.3 O·Bl 21. N·N3 N· KA4 22. B-Q3 A· lll 23. O·BI N·B3 24. B·N5 A·NI 25. R·A7 Q-QI 16. Q·AI Q· KI 21. Q·A6 Q.QBl 21. N"P PKN 29. B"N BKB 30. Q"B Q-B6 31. N·BS NJIN 32. P"N B·KI 33. B-BI QxllP 34. A·K7 P· NS 35. P·Q6 Q·N] 3'. B·B4 BIllick overstepped

the time limit.

CENTEA 'COUNTER GAME Benko-Y2 Steinmeyer_v. 1. P· K4 P.Q4 12. BxPch NxB 2. p,.p QxP 13. BxB QxP 3. N·QB3 Q·QR4 14. P·Q5 0·0·0 4. P-Q4 N·K.3 15. P·QN] p"p 5. B·QB4 P·B3 '6. KR·Kl A·Q3 6. N·B3 .·N5 17. P·KN4 B·N3 7. B·Q2 P·K] 18. N·Q4 NxN 8. P·KR] B·A4 '9. RxN A·K3 9. Q·K2 B·QN5 111. R·A4 Oxll: 10. 0 ·0·0 N·Q4 11. PxQ RxQ '1 . 8xN BxQN :12. RxR Drllwn

""', dnJs- l I . P·K. 2. N·KBl 3. B·N5 4. B·A4 5. 0 ·0 6. P·Ql 7. B·N3 •• P·83 , . B·82 10. A· I(1 11. QN·Q2 12. N·81 13. N·Kl 14. N·Q5 1$. P"N 1'. P·Q4 11. PxKP tao N· R4 1'. P·Q6 20. NxN 21. 8x8 21. Q·B3 23. P·QA4 l4. R·QI 2$. Q·Q5ch 26. QxBP 21. QlINP 28. 0 ·K4 29. R· KI 30. Q·K2 31. 8xP S2. B·N3 33. 0 ·N5

RUY LOPEZ

P·1(4 N-QB3 P·Qlltl

N·B3 II ·K2

P·QN4 ' .. ,

N·QA4 P·B4 0-0

N·81 A·KI 8 ·111

••• N·K2 P·1I3

QPlIP P·N3 N·B4

••• , .. P·K8S

P·NS A·A'1 K·Al ... , ." 8·B4 Q.N3 O·N'

A/ l·K2 P·QA4

Q·04

34. P·N4 35. PlIP :U. QXQ 37. QR·NI 31. P·NS

Bisgui'r. 0

'" B·Q5

19. R/ K-QBI 44. K·81 41 . II: ·B6 41. PlIA 43. A.N8ch 44. A.QBI 45. K·K2 46. K·Q3 47. K·Q1 41. A·Q8ch 4'. AlIB SO. IItP"R 51. K·Q3 52. K"P 53. K·K4 54. P·N4 55. K·B5 56. P· N5 51. KxP 58. K·A6 59. P·B4 60. P·B5 iI. P·N4 62. P·B6 63. P·NS 64. P·N6 65. P·B7ch

... R·ltl ... , .. , R·N 3 ... A·B5 K· N2 K·B2 K·K3

A·B6ch K·Ql K· B2 ... ". ." K·Ql K·Kl K·82 K·N2 ,., K·82 K·NI K·Rl K·Nl K·Al K·Nl K·Al K·NI

Resigns

HAOMADKA SYSTEM

•• ayrn_'1 • Ev,ns-V. .. P·Q4 N·KB3 l4. N·B6ch ••• ,. P.QB. P·B4 lS. 8xN K·B2 ,. , .. , P· K3 '6. 8·K5 N·K3 •• N-QB] '" 17. QA-QI ... , S. '" , .. , lB. K· N2 ... ,

TIME ON HIS HANDS. Former U.S. Champion Larry Evans arrived early for one of the rounds of the tournament and joined the one sp'ectator already on hand.

HROMAOKA SYSTEM ROUND NINE Reshevsky_ 1 Saldy~

,. P·QB4 N·KB3 22. N·K3 Q-B3 KING'S FIANCHETTO ,. P-Q4 P·K3 23. N·N4 N,N ,. N· KB] P·B4 24. BxN QR_KI D. Byrne-ll Fischer_I •• P_Q5 '" 25. B·Q1 R·QI •• ,,' p.Q] 26. B·B6 R·B2 •• N·QB3 P·KN3 21. P-R3 B·B4 ,. N·Q2 B_N2 2a. R·K2 R·K2 •• P-K4 0·0 2'. R/I·KI .,. •• B-K2 QN·Q2 30. QxR KB·BI 10. 0·0 N·KI 31. N·K4 "N 11. P-QR4 Q. K2 32. QxB Q·N3 12. R·KI N·B2 33. Q·K3 P_N4 13. N·B4 P·N3 34. P·R! P·NS 14. B·B4 N·K4 35. P·R4 '" IS. N·R3 P·QR3 36. BxRP R·N! '6. B·N3 P·KN4 31. Q-KR3 Q·N2 17. Q·Q2 B·Q2 38. R·K3 K·RI 11. QR·NI QR-NI 39. Q·BS Q-N3 19. N·B2 P-B4 40. B· B6ch B·N2 20. PxP BxBP 41. QXQ ". 21. R·Rl B·N3 42. BxBch Resigns

L P-KN3 P·QB4 25. QxB B·RI ,. B·N2 N·QB3 26. R_RI P·K4 ,. P-Q' P·KN3 27. Q·Q2 .,. •• P· K4 B-N2 21. RxR '" •• P·KB4 P·K3 29. P·Nl N·Bl •• N·KB3 KN·K2 30. QxBP N-QS ,. 0·0 QR·NI 31. Q·K3 N·B7 •• QN-Q2 P-Q3 32. Q·R7 .,. •• P·QR4 0·0 33. RxQ N", ". P·B3 P-QRl 34. R-Q7 N" n. P·KN4 P·QN4 35. RxQP N-B4 n. '" '" 36. R·N' P·N6 ". N·R4 P·N5 37. K-NI '" ". P·B4 N·Q~ 38. N·B3 R·RI ". P'N5 B.Q2 39. R·NS P·N7 ". N/2_B3 Q-B2 40. RxP R·R8ch U. N,N 8xNch 41. K-B2 N·Q6ch U. K·RI B·N2 42. K-K3 N,. 19. R·QNI R·RI 43. KxB N,' 20. B·K3 R·R7 44. K-B" R·R7

KING'S INDIAN ,,. Q·Q2 R·KI 45. K·N3 N", 22. Q-KB2 B·QB3 4'. B· II:3 ........

Addlson_1 o. Byrn~ 23. P·Q4 '" White resigns 24. BxP ." L P-Q4 N·KB3 2S. Q.R2 P-N3 ,. P·KN3 26. PxP ." ,. P·B4 21. KR·QRI Q·N2 •• , .. , 28. RxP .,. •• B·N2 29. QxR QxNP •• B·N2 P-QR3 30. Q-R3 Q·NI ,. P-QR4 0·0 31. R·QNI Q·QI FRENCH DEFENSE •• P-K4 P·K4 32. R·N! Q·K2 Bisguier_1!2 •• Byrn_1h •• P·KR4 QN-Q2 33. Q·R7 R·BI 10. B·R3 R·NI 34. R·N7 Q·QI 11. N·B3 N-Nl 35. Q-R6 K·NI

L P·K4 P·K3 ". 0·0·0 B·Q3 ,. P·Q4 P.Q4 U. ." '" 12. BxB .,' 36. N· NS B·NI ,. QN·Q2 N-QB3 18. KR·KI KR·KI 13. P·N3 N·RI 37. Q·N6 .'. •• KN·B3 N·B3 19. N·R4 P·B4 14. B·NS P·R3 38. RxQ R·QI ,. P-K! N·Q2 20. Q·K3 N·Bl 15. BxN .,. 39. P·B3 K·BI •• P-KN3 P·B3 21. P·KB3 B·N4 i6. P·KRS P-KN4 40. R·N7 K·NI ,. Q·K2 N·NS 22. K-N! P-QR4 17. N-KR2 B·QI 41. K·Q3 K·BI •• N·N3 P·QN3 23. N·BI N·R4 18. P·RS N·B:1 4:1. K· B2 K·NI •• B·R3 B-R3 24. N·R2 P·BS 19. N·N4 K·R2 43. K·N3 K·BI 10. Q·QI Q·K2 2S. Q·B2 B·R3 :10. N·K3 N·KI «. K.R4 K·NI 11. P·QR3 N·B3 26. N·Bl N·N2 21. P· KN4 8 ·B?: 45. K·RS K·BI 12. B·B4 0-0-0 27. B·Bl ." n. R·QR3 Q·QI 46. K.R6 K·Kl 13. Q'Q2 Q.B2 28. QXB '" 23. Q·RI N·N2 Resigns 14. Q·B3 K-N2 29. PxP N·R4 24. K-K2 Q.Bt IS. Pxp '" Drawn 34

ENGLISH OPENING Saldy-I Addlson~ L P·QB4 P· K4 26. P-B4 N-B2 ,. N-QB3 N·QB3 21. B·K4 p.Q" ,. P-KN3 P·KN3 28. B·B2 N·Q3 •• B·N2 B-N2 29. B·N4 R·B2 •• p·K3 , .. , 30. K·N2 B·B3 •• KN·K2 B_K3 31. R·KRI K·Rl ,. P·Q4 '" 32. R·R3 R-KNI o. N,' KN·K2 33. R/I·KRI R/I·N2 •• N,. "N 34. BxN .,. 10. 0·0 0.0 35. QxP P·B3 II. B·Q2 R·NI 36. Q-R6 B·Ql 12. R·N! P-QR3 37. Q·Q3 Q·Q2 13. Q_K2 Q·Q2 35. P-QN4 B·B2 14. KR·QI N·QI 39. Q·Q4 K·NI

". B·KI P·QN4 40. P· R4 P-K4 ". P·KR4 N-B2 41. PxP R·K2 U. N·K4 N·K4 42. R·R5 Q·KI 18. PxP '" 43. Q-R4 Q.82 19. P·R5 '" 44. 8xPch ". 2~. QxRP N·Q4 45. RxR .,. 21. N·NS N-KB3 46. Q·N4ch Q. N2 22. Q·K2 N·B2 41. Q·B8ch B·QI 23. N_K4 N," 48. QxBch K-B2 24. 8xN N·N4 49. R-Blch Resigns 25. B·N2 0·K2

NIMZO-tNDIAN EVilnS---h Reshevsky_'12 L P-Q" N·KB3 26. Q·K3 N/4·Q2 ,. P·QB4 P·K3 27. Q-Q3 Q·N3 ,. N·QB3 B· NS 28. B·Bl P·R3 •• P'K3 P·B4 29. B·K3 Q· N2 •• B·Q3 0·0 30. P-B3 N·NI •• N-Bl P·Q4 31. R·R2 R·Q2 ,. 0 ·0 PxBP 32. Q· R3 K·R2 o. BxBP QN·Q2 ~3. K·!t2 Q·B2 •• Q·K2 P·QR3 34. B·03 N-R4 10. P·QR3 '" 35. R·QB2 ... , 11. PxB "N 36. B-KBI .... U. '" Q-B2 37. R-BI R·Q3 U. P· K4 P·K4 38. Q·R2 Q·Bl 14. B·N2 N·N' 39. R·B7 N·Q2 15. B·N3 B·NS 40, R· R7 N·BS 16. R·RS QR-Bl 41. Q·QB2 P·KR4 17. P-B4 QN·Q2 42. Q-BS R·Q8 lB. P·R3 .,N 43. BxP Q·N4 19. QxB KR·Kl 44. P·N3 ". 20. R·Q1 R·Rl 45. RXN R·K8 21. P·BS QR·QI 46. RxP ". 22. B·R4 R-K2 47. P·R" R·K7ch 2'. R·Q' P-QN4 ... K·RI QxNP ",. B·82 NxBP ... Q·Nach ". ". RxRch . " " . RxPch Drawn

CATALAN Sleinmeyer_'12 Mednls-1h ,. N_KB3 N·KBl n. B·K2 N·Q2 ,. P·B4 P·KN3 13. B-Q2 N·B4 ,. P-KN3 B·N2 14. Q_B~ P·QR4 •• B,'i2 0·0 IS. N-QS N·K2 •• 00 P·Q3 16. N·B4 Q·Q2 •• , ... N-Bl 17. 8·QB3 Q·B4 ,. N·83 8·N! 18. QxQ N,. •• P-KR3 .,N ". ... N .. •• .,. N", '". N·Q5 Nj2. K3 10. P·K3 P_K4 ". K·Hl Drawn 11. PxP Nj2xP

'UY LOPEZ Welnstaln~ Btnko-I , . P·K4 P_K4 27. Q·N2 QxQch ,. N·KB3 N-Q83 28. KxQ R·B2 ,. B·NS P·QR3 19. P_KR3 K-BI •• B-R4 N_B3 30. P_KR4 P·83 •• .,N QPxB 11. N-Kl K·K2 •• p.Q) N·Q2 32. N·B5ch K·K3 ,. 0.0 P·QB4 33. K·N3 R-B3 0 N·Bl ... ' 34. K·N4 R-N3ch •• B·NS P·KB3 35. K·B4 R·N7 10. B-K3 0·0 36. N·K3 R-R7 11. N·Q2 N·N3 37. K·N4 R·R8 12. P·B4 '" 38. P·N3 P·N4 13. BxKBP B·K3 39. K·NS R·KS 14. N·K2 B·NS 40. K-84 R·QRI IS. N·KB3 .,. 41. K·NS h' 16. NxB Q.Q3 42. K· R6 R·R8 17. Q·Q2 .,N 43. KxP R·R8 18. PxB P·B4 44. N·BS P·R" 19. K·RI Q·R3 45. P·Q4 P·R5 20. R·B2 QR.KI 46. PxRP PxRP 21. R·KNI R·B2 47. PxP P·Ri 22. Q·K3 ,,' 48. N-Q4ch K-B2 23. BPxP N·Q4 49. K·R6 RxPch 14. RxPch ." SO. K·N5 ." 2S. NxN ", 51. N-BS R·K4 26. QxR R·K81 While overstepped.

CHESS LIFE

ROUND TEN

(The Fischlr-Benko g3me from this round w~s annotated by Fischer in our last issue.)

Mednis--l 1. P· K4 2. H·KB) 3. P·Q4 4. NxP s. N·Qe3 6. B·K3 7. P·B3 8. Q-Q2 9. 0-0·0 10. K·HI II. Nx8 12. B·QB. 13. B_Nl 14. P·KR4 IS. Q-g3 16. N·Kl 17. B-Q4 18. B-B3 19. BPxN 20. R.QSI 21. B-Q2 22. B·RS 23. KR·QI 24. B· Kl

SICILIAN DEFENSE

P.QB4 P·Q3 ,,'

H·KB3 P_KN3

B-N2 N·Bl B-Kl

R·QBI 0 ·0 "N

g·Ql K·Rl

H·QR4 N·R4

P·QN4 P· K4 N ..

P-KR3 Q·N2

QR·gI R·Ql B·Bl P·K3

Weinstein--{J

25. Q·B2 B·K::1 26. Q·B6 N·N': 27. QxQ RxQ 28. P·R3 K·HI 29. R·B' K.B2 30. R·R6 R·QRI 31. P··B4 PxP 32. NxP R·gBI 33. P· N3 P·N4 34. PxP PxP 35. N·Q3 R·KRI 36. P-KN4 R_R6 37. B·B2 R.R7 38. RxP RxR 39. BxR R.N7 40. N· B2 N·Kl 41. P·R4 PxP 42. PX"P B·QT 43. P·KS B.B2 44. PxP BxP 45. P· RS B·K2 46. B-N6 N·Q3 47. P-R6 Resigns

GRUENFELD DEFENSE

R. Byrn_l

1. P-Q4 2. P·QB4 3. N·gB3 4. P·K3 5. N·B3 6. B·Q3 7. 0-0 8. BxB 9. PxP 10. Q-NS 11. R·KT 12. P·K4 13. NxP 14. B·B4 15. B-N] U. N·B3 11. R·K2 n. QR.Kl 19. N-KR4 10. P' QR3

N-KB3 P·B3 P_Q4

P·KNl B·N2 0·0

B·B4

". N.e Q·Q2 N·R3 '.e P-B3 R·B2 8·R3 P·K3 R-Kl B·Bl B·NS B-R4

Stelnmeyer--O 21. N·B5 22. N·Q6 23. N·S4 24. PxB 25. N·Q2 26. P·QB4 27. QX"P 28. N-K4 29. Q·BI 30. N·BS 31. Q-R6 32. NxP 33. NxN 34. R_K7 35. RxRP 36. QxQ 37. R·R6 38. R-QBI 39. P·KR3

R/1·Bl R-Kl ',N P-N4 K·RI

'" N/3·B2 N· N3 N·N4 Q·Q4

R/ 2.KB2 NxQP Q,N Q·Q4

Q-KN4 "Q N·BS R-KI

ResIgns

QUEEN' S GAMBIT DECLINED Reshevsky-'12 Bisguler_'12 I. P·QB4 N·KB3 19. Px P PxP 2. P·Q4 P·K3 2'. Q·B2 Q·R4 3. N·KB3 P·Q4 21. KR_Bl N·K3 4. PxP PxP 22. R· N3 RX" R 5. N B3 P·B; H . QxR R·RI 6. B· NS 8 . K2 24. R·NI K·N2 7. Q-B2 N·R3 25. P_R3 R.QI S. P·QR3 N·B2 26. N·K2 P·B4 9. P. K3 N_K3 27. PX"P QxP 10. B·R4 P·QR4 28. R·QBI Q .R4 11. B·Q3 P·KN3 29. R·QI P_U 12. 0_0 0.0 30. P· N3 N·B4 13. QR·NI N·N2 31. Q·B2 N·K3 14. P·QN4 PxP 32. Q·B6 P-Q5 15. PxP B.KB4 33. PX"P NxP 16. DX"N B!2xB 34. N/2X"N BX"N 17. P·NS BxB Drawn IS. QX"B R_R6

U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP

PHOTOS BY

HENRY STOCKHOLD

Addlson-O 1. N·KB3 2. P·B4 3. P_KN3 4. B· N2 5. N·B3 6. P·Q3 7. B-Q2 6. Q-BT 9. 0 _0 10. P_KR3 ll. PxP 12. B·R6 13. P·N3 14. R·QI IS. P·K4 16. K-R2 17. BxB 18. P·R3 19. Q· B2 20. N-Q2 21. QR·N I 22. N·B 1 23. N·K3 24. N/ B·QS 25. Q·Q2 26. BPxB 27. QxP

ENGLISH OPENING

P·QB4 P·KN]

B·N2 N·QB] P·QR3

R·NI P·QN4

P.Q3 B·Q2

'" N·B3 0·0

P·R4 N·QNS

Q ·BI B·B3 , .. N·R] Q.N2 P·K3

KR·QI N·B2 P·K4 N·K3 .. N

N ·QS R·QR I

28. Q·Q2 29. P.QN4 30. Rx P 31. R/ I·QNI 32. R-N7 ]3. RxR 34. N·BSch 35. PxN 36. PxP 37. R· N5 38. Q·K3 3' . R· N6 40. QxR 41. Q·R2 42. K_NI 43. Q·R3 44. Q·QD3 45. B·BI 46. Q·KS 47. P·N4 48. B·N2 49. P·R4 SO. K·R2 51. Qx-Q S2. P·NS 53. K_NI 54. Resigns

, .

Evans_ l ,,' '" Q·K2

R_QBI R· B2 Q" N,N

R·QB6 RPxP R·B7 R_R7 R·R6 Q" Q.QS P·KS Q.e

Q.Q8ch P·Q4 Q·Q7 P·N4 p ·QS

Q·88ch Q·85ch

"Q N-NSch

P·B6

THE CHAMPION PONDERS. Robert J. Fischer thinking some daep thoughts on the way to another championship victory.

FEBRUARY, 1964

D. Byrne--o 1. P-KN3 2. B·N2 3. P.Q3 4. P·K84 S. N·K83 6. QN·Q2 7. P. K3 8. 0·0 9. R·KT 10. N_BI 11. NxP 12. RxN 13. N-KS 14. PxN 15. QxP 16. K-RI 17. Q-K2 18. P·D3 19. R·K4 20. R-QN4

S~ldy-O

1. P·QB4 2. N-K83 3. P-Q4 4. N" P 5. N.QB3 6. N/ 4·NS 7. P-QRl B. NxB 9. P·Kl 10. PxP 11. 8·K2 12. N ·NS 13. 0 ·0 14. N·Q4 IS. QxN 16. PxQ 17. 8·QT lB. 8·K3 19. KRX"B 20. R·Q2 21. RX"R 22. R-QBI 23. BxR 24. K-Bl 25. K·K2 26. K·Q3 27. 8·K3 28. P·Bl 29. P-QR4

8enkO---I L ,. ,. ,. a · N2 •• 0·0 ,. P·84 ,. Q-B2 8. B·B4

•• B-Q2 10. R·BI II. B·B4 12. B_Kl 13. B·Q2 1 •• B·KI IS. N·B3 16. P·K3 17. Q·K2 18. P·KR4 19. NxRP 20. N_B3 21. Q·Q3 22. N·K2 23. N·B4 24. NxN 25. K-81 26. K·K2 F. K·Ql 28. K·82 29. P·BS

KING'S FIANCHETTO

P·QB4 N·QB3

P·Q4 N·KB3 P·KN3

B·N2 0·0

N·KN5 ,..,. PxKP N,N P_BS N,N

'" Q.N3 R·QI B·K3 R·Q2 B·Q4

BX"Bch

21. KxB 22. K·NI 23. 8·K3 24. Q·K82 25. P·QR4 26. P·KN4 27. P_KR4 28. P_KRS 29. PxP 30. RX"R 31. K_R2 32. BX"P 33. R·N6 34. K·N2 35. Q·B5 36. K·BI 37. Q. 84ch 38. Q-K6 39. Q. K7

hldy-l Q·1I3ch Q·B4ch QxKP Q.QR4

P· K4 P·B3 Q_R3

QR.QI R·QSch RX"Rch

'" S·R3 B-S5ch

Q,' R·Q7th

,.." K·Rl

R_KBI

White Overstepped

ROUND ELEVEN

ENGLISH OPENING

P.QB4 N·QR3

'" N·83 P.K3 R·NS

BxNch ,.." 0.0

'" 8·B4 Q·N3

P-QR3 N,N Q,Q

QR·BI S·B7 ... R·B7

KR·BI

'" RxRch N..,' N·BI N·K3

P.KR4 K-R2 K· N3 K-B4

30. K-K2 31. K·B2 32. B·Q2 33. K·K3 34. K-Q3 35. B·K3 36, K·K2 37. K·Q3 38. K·K2 39. B·82 40. P·R3 41. K-Q3 42. RPxP 43. PxP 44. B·KI 45. B·Q2 46. B·KI 47. B.R4 48. S·KI 49. K· K2 50. K·Q3 51. B·a2 52. P·RS 53. K·83 54. B·NI 55. B·R2

FIscher-I

P·KN4 N..,' K·N3 N·K3 K·B4 P·83

K·N3 P·B4 P·85 N·Nl N·B4 P·N5

'" N·R3 N" K·B4 N·B3 N·K5 K·N5

N·N6ch N·B4 N-R5 N" K·86 K·K7 P·B' N·K' 56. B·N]

ResIgns

CATALAN

Mednls-O N·K83 30. Q.K2 P·K4

P_K3 31. PxP ." P·Q4 H. N·Ql B·83 B-K2 33. QR-NI P·R5 0·0 34. S · N4 QR-KI

QN.Q2 35. N·B4 8·K4 P_B3 36. N_R5 Q.N5 N-R4 37. B-KB3 Q·N4

N/ 4.B3 38. R·QI 8 ·K3 P·QR4 39. N-84 B-KB2

N· R4 40. QR·81 R·QI P·KB4 41. K· NI KR· KI

K-RI 42. 8XN QPX"B S.Q3 43. B·B3 ...

P-KN4 44. RXB Q·NI Q.B3 45. R.R3 B·S5 Q·R3 46. Q· KI RXRch ,,'

CHESS •

KALEIDOSCOPE •

by U. S. Senior Master ELIOT HEARST

Fischer the Invincible After every great feat , chessk or otherwise, there are

always those who delight in finding fault with the p

One can search for the secret of Bobby's development by examining his chess history for the past year or so. De· spite his status as a world championsh ip contender, Fischer has not played in a single international individual tournament since the Challengers Tourney at Curacao in the summer of 1962, where he finished fourth behind thl'ee Russian grand-masters. While Petrosian. Tal, Korchnoi, GeHer, Keres. and even feHow·American Benko were competing in numerous international events. Bobby was content to stay at home in Brooklyn and play in two U.S. Championships and a few weekend Swiss Systems. This is hardly the sort of rigorous competition that would be expected to produce a significant increment in a grandmaster'S play. But the important ques-tion to ask is: Exactly what did Bobby do while he was "staying at home," hibernating in Brooklyn?

We all recall the story of the youthful Akiba Rubinstein, who, beaten by the village champion. shut himself up alone for weeks and then returned to humiliate his conqueror. But Rubinstein's chess hibernation occurrcd early in his career. At Bobby's s tage of chess mastery it is difficult to imagi ne what he could have been doing at home to improve his game.

Somewhat surprisingly, Bobby spent much of this time analyzing games played by chess cha mpions of the 19th cen-tury, particularly those o( Steinitz. As a result of th is study he has recently begun to adopt openings that he never would have played one or two years ago. lie remarked in New York that he is " just waiting for a chance to play the Evans Gambit against a grandmaster"; and he actually played a Steinitz·recommended line against the Two Knights ' Defense that Bisguier set up in a recent game. The ancient variation of the K~g's Gambit with which he routed Evans in the

36 "-

U.S. Championship is but another absorption in the Steinilz model.

Experimentation with a variety of openings is completely unlike the Bobby of the past. In addi tion to these new open-ings as white, he is now willing to play other defenses than the Sicilian and the King's Indian, which were his trademarks as black three or four years ago. He has adopted the black side of the Ruy Lopez, Grunfeld Defense, QUeen's Gambit De-clined and Nimzoindian with increasing regularity, It was not the "old" Bobby who would have written about his favo· rite Ruy lopez (in a recent issue of the American Chen Quar-terly): "I have a line (and this is no joke) that absolutely cquallzes against the Ruy Lopez . , . and in the name of progress I feel honor·bound to play it even though it will force a complete reorganization of my opening strategy." in· cidentally, we wonder if Bobby is referring to the immediate 4 .......... P·QN4 and 5 . ........ , N·R4 that he played against Addi-son in the Championship, This is a pet line of the Russian gra ndmaster Taimanov. It may be significant that Bobby's first query for a Manhattan Chess Club visitor. who entered the club with some very recent Russian Championship games, was : " Have you got any of Taimanov'S games there? "

This expansion of Bobby's opening rep~toire now makes it very diIricult for prospective opponents to prepare for their games with him. In the past. some of the world's greatest players and commentators have criticized Bobby for his s tub· born attachment to certain pet Jines and his avoidance of all other lines of play. Bobby would vehemently deny thai he has been influenced by any of these criticisms (he is never overtly willing to accept advice from anyone), but the fact remains that he has altered his style in such a way as to cor· rect this defect. The psychological impact of this change will probably be very great. Now. not only docs a player have to cope with the fears that normally oceur when faCing Fischer across the chessboard, but he also has to worry about what novel gambit Bobby might play against him. Previously, a well·prepared opening in response to Bobby's favorite lines rou ld provide a measure of comfort and confidence, with wihch it is always good to stal't a game. Fischer seems to be very pleased with this new weapon, for he noted in a recent Chen Life that he now swi tches openings "to keep my oppo· nents guessing and to avoid prepared analysis."

Arthur Bisguier expounded on this theme in a conversa· tion during the recent U. S. Championship, soon after he lost to Bobby. "For the first time I was really in doubt as to what Bobby would play against me as white. He had just beaten Larry (Evans) with a King's Gambit and in our recent game in the New York Open he aimed for a Giuoco Piano with 3. 8·64 instead of his formerly 'guaranteed' Ruy Lopez. I was hoping to play the black side of the King's Gambit or the Two Knights' Defense when I answered 1. P·K4 with 1. ........ , P·K4. but he 'surprised' me with the Ruy Lopez. Should I play the Berlin Defense, which worked out well in my game with him last year? Because of my relatively poor standing in the current tourney I decided to playa more aggressive variation than the Berlin, but since I was taken by surprise I was not so prepared or comfortable as I would like to have been. Now that Bobby has added psychology to his arsenal of weapons he is a much more dangerous opponent than ever before."

U. S. Senior Master Hans Berliner. a visitor to the tour· ncy. also commented on Bobby's increasing flexibility in his chioce of openings, Hans jested, howe\'er, that Bobby won't really reach his peak until he plays 1. P·Q4! for the first time

CHESS LIFE

as white. Hans later admitted some bias on the question be-cause he never plays anything but 1. P-Q4 himseU. (Maybe Hans won't reach his peak until he plays 1. P-K4! for the first time .)

Besides the new psychological r efinements in Bobby's play that have already been mentioned, we ought to note how unusual it is for a present.day grandmaster to have such an unflagging will·to-win. After winning six or seven consecu-tive games, most grandmaster s in Bobby's position would have been content to take it easy and to draw most of their r emain-ing games- which no one could r eally have blamed them for doing. But Bobby (as he reiterates constantly in everyday conversation) really plays hard to win in every game, no mat-the what the importance of the contest; ther e are only a few past and present champions who have his fierce pride and competi tiveness. Even Tal, Korchnoi, and Spassky, the most aggressive of the Russian grandmasters, would almost surely t ave been satisfied with a 10·1 score in the U. S. Champion. shop, and permitted one or two draws in the last few rounds. Incidentally, Bobby'S new "style"- if it can be called a style-seems similar to that of Spassky and i t may be no coincidence that Bobby has often expressed great respect for that youth-ful Soviet master (who, by the way, has been known to play 1. P·Q4).

What docs the immediate future hold for Robert J ames Fischer? As recently as during the U. S. Championship, Bobby insisted that that he will not play in the Interzonal Tourney for world championship qualification in Amsterdam next summer. Only by qualifying from this event would Bobby be clis-ible to play in the next Challengers' Tournament to de-termine Petrosian's official challenger in 1966. Therefore, if Bobby does not play at Amsterdam it will be four or five years before he will have the oppor tunity to play for the world title. His reasons for not eompeting at Amsterdam are

essentially honorable but, in this writer's opllllOn, unrealistic. First prize at an interzonal tourney is usually less than $200 and Bobby, as a chess profes sional, says he is not willing t o devote more than a month of his time to playing for such small r emuneration. Most grandmasters, inclUding the Rus-sians, feel exactly the same way about the small purse. In fact, there is one foreign gr andmaster who confes~ed recently that he deliberately avoids qu alifying for the Interzonal so that he can compete in more profitable tourneys that are scheduled simultaneously (of course this grandmaster has long since given up any ideas of becoming world champion). However, almost all other grandmaster s parUcipate in the Interzonal because it presents them with their sole opportunity to qualify for the world title. Bobby is corr ect that FIDE should make the prizes in th e Interzonal commensurate with the importance of the event, instead of "economizing" in the expectation that no top players will find the small pri.r:es a sufficient r eason not t o play. But Bobby cannot win the world title by being "correct" on this point; we hope he alter s his decision not to play. Wh at will probabJy happen, as has hap· pened in the past, is that a group of U.S. ehess patrons will for m their own financial committee and put up a large purse fo r Bobby in order to ensure his competition.

Bobby Fischer deserves a shot at the world title. He has no superior in the world today.

Addenda In the December, 1963 issue of Chess Life the authorB

of "A Memorial to Frank J . Aggressive'" have revealed them· selves as Andy Sacks and Erik Tarloff of Los Angeles.

Please send all material and comments for this column to: Eliot Hearst, 401 N. Armistead St. , Apt. 412, Alexandria 12, Va.

U. S. CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES-(Continued from. page 35)

GRUENFELD DEFENSE

EVlIns-1 I. P-04 1. P-QB4 3. P· B3 4. PxP S. P-K4 6. N·B3 7. B_K3 B. 0 -02 9. 0 .0-0 1':1. P·KR4 11. P_RS 12. P·KN4 13. P-N3 14. PxP IS . 0 ·R2 16. P· B4 17. N·B3 18. K·Bl 19. P· KS 20 . N-KNS 21. Nj3·K4 22. N-B6ch 23. NxN

GRUENFELD

24. NxRPth

N·N3 B·N1 0·0

N·B3 P.QR4

P-Kl P· RS P ·R6 0·K2

BPxP B_RI R·B1 Q. NS R·R4 Q-K2 R·N1 N_Q4 K·Bl .. N .. N

DEFENSE D.

25. OxR 16. RxO 21. B·N2 28. K· NI 29. BxR 30. R·R3 31 . K-B2 32. KxN 33. B·02 34. P· N4 3S. RxP 36. K· K2 37. R·R7 38. P·RJ 39. B·K! 40. K.K3 41. B·R4 42 . B·B6 43. K·B2 44. K-N3 45. R·OB7 46. K·R4 47. P·BS

Byrne-ll 0.0 B· N2

N_NS t h K·NT N ••

N·B6th N .. B·BI B·Q1

P·QN4 B·B3 B·Q4 P-B3 B·N2 B_R3 B-NS B·Q4 B·BI B·R3 B·Bl B·K5 B·Q4

Resigns

Blsguier_ 1 I. P·OB4

Addison-O ENGLISH OPENING

P-K4 19. B· N2 OR-OI 2. N-QB3 3. N·B3 4. P_KN 3 5. Pxp 6. B·N2 7. 0 ·0 8. P·OR4 9. P-Q3 10. B·1(3 11 . Q-BI 12. B·NS 13. N· NS 14. Q-B3 1S. Bj5xB 16. Bx B 17. Q·B4ch lB. QR·BI

N·KB3 N_B3 ....

NxQP N-N3 B·K1

P·OR4 8-K3 P · B4 N·Q4

N/4.N5 B·Q4 .. N 0" .. 0

K-RI kR-KI

FEBRUARY, 1964

20. KR·QT R-Q1 11 . B·R3 P_KN3 22. B·N2 R/ 1·01 23 . R·KI P·R4 24. 0 · B5 0 ·B2 25. 0 ·K3 K·R1 26. 0·N5 R·QNI 17. R·BS Q-N6 28. B-B3 R-KBI 29. R/ I·QBl R/I _B2 30. R/ I-B4 N-QS 31. NxN PxN 3~. I/' ·K5 R-Q3 33. R_K7 R/3-Q1 ~4. R·K6 R·N2 3S . BxRP Resigns

Stelnmeyer_ O I. P·Q4 2. P·QB4 3. N·OB3 4. P·KN3 S. PxP 6. B·N1 7. P·K3 B. KN _K2 9. 0 ·0 10. p ·OS 11. P·QR3 12. 0·B1 13. R·QI 14. N·Q4 1S. R·Kl 16. P· N3 17. B·N1 18. PxP 19. N·R4 20. PxN 21. N· NS 22. QxB 23. KR·QBT 24. B-BI 25. RxP

Weins t e in_ I I. P-Q4 2. P·OB4 3. N·OB3 4. P-K4 5. B·K2 6. N.B3 7. 0 ·0 8. p ·QS 9. N·KI 10. P·B3 II . P·KN4 12. p oNS 13. N·03 14. K·RI 15. B-Q1 16. R·KNI 17. P' ON4 18. P-B5 19. R-QBT 20. NxBP 21 . BxP

N·K83 P·KN3

B· N2 P_Q4 N ••

N·N3 O.()

P·QR4 N·B3 N· NS N·R3 B.Q2 Q_BI B· NS Q·Q2

QR-BI P-QB3 ...

N.N P·QB4 ...

P·85 KR'01

B·B6 ...

Re shevsky- I 16. BxR B· N2 27. 0 -04 O·BI 18. Q-B4 P-Kl 19. Q-B6 R·Q7 30. B·BI 0 ·B3 31. P_83 N_NI 32. Q·B4 N·Q2 33. R·Kl P-K4 34. Q.K4 Q-N3 35. Q·QB4 BxP 36. Q-B3 R·R7 37. Q . N3 R-Q7 38. 0 ·B3 R.Q4 39. B·B4 R_B4 40. Q_N) O·KBl 41. P-K4 P·N4 41. Q-Q3 N-N3 43. B· N3 R-BI 44. Q-06 R·B3 45. O·Nach K·N1 46 . Q·N7 N·B5 47. N_B7 Q .QI 48. N·05 R'ON3

Resigns

KING'S INDIAN

N·KB3 P·KN3

B·N2 P·Q3 0·0

P· K4 N·Bl N·k1

KN·02 P-KB4 P-KR4

P-R5 P-BS K·B2 R·RI N-NI Rd4 N.BI B·Q2 .. N

Q·K2

•• 12. Q ·01 23. B.K3 14. B·03 2S. N·K2 16. R· N3 17. Pxp 28. R· B7 29 . RxNP 30. P·B4 31. RxQRP 32. BxR 33. P· NS 34. B·NS 35. BxP 36. BxN 37. R·B3 38. N-Q4 39. 0 ·B3 40. N-K6 41 . P· N6

Byrne- O N-R1 P_R6 K· B1 Q_B2 N_K2 ... K_KI B·K4 B· N2 ...

N·KBI B·QBI

B-N1 N·B4 ... N", B·BI

B-QN2 •. " ReSigns

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HENRY DAVIS WINS INTERCOLLEGIATE TITLE

Michael Valyo places second; Texas and California tie for trophy.

College Clleu i$ IIwoing: west! Tbis is the real meaning of the 1963 National intercollegiate Championship. Held out of the Northeast lor the first time, this event at :-lotre Dame University attracted 103 players from 31 colle"es in every USCF region. The tournament was Ius. (twice the previous record for an individual event), strong (four masters and four-teen experts attended), and truly national in scope, in a way unprecedented in conoge chess history_

Region Vll had never before sent a team to the national event. This year, it sent three, from Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico, while gaining top laurels in the event. Sixth-ranked Henry Davis of the University DC Texas topped the favorite, Mike Valvo of Columbia, by one secondary tie-break-ing point, to take the li tle. Both scored 6-1, in a field whicb made mincemeat of established ratings. Davis played solid chess throughout, yielding draws to newcomer Charles Hoey of MarieUa Collcge, and to expert Don Sutherland o[ Cali-fornia. Valvo, who competed in the national event in all four college years, and was a member of Columbia's 1960 National Champions, drew Jim Horvath of Toledo and George Berry of Dartmouth.

In third place with an impressive performance was Norris Weaver of the University of California (Be rkeley), who lost to Valvo and drew Berry for a :!Y.i ·1lh score. He was followed in the tie-breaking by walt Cunningham (L.A. State), John Meyer (Yale), Max Burkett (N.lt. Slate), Steve Jones (Texas), and U. S. Junior Champ Pete Irwin (Bard College).

Valiant performances were turned in by Jim Horvath of Toledo (pre·tournament rating: 1999), who scored Ph -lib. against three masters, and by many players like Steve Tarin of Columbia, Paul Joss o[ Cornell, and Charles Hoey of Mari· etta, whose results were quite inconsistent with their class B ratings I

In 1961, a trophy was awarded to the team from the Uni· versity of Florida, whose four players totaUed 16lh points . This year, competition for the many team prizes was intense, with the two powerfuJ teams from Texas and California tying at 20-8 lor the trophies_ The perennially strong Columbia team wu relegated to thirc, with 19 points, followed by Los Angeles State and Toledo with 17, and Puerto Rico with 16Jh . Tbe secret of winning the team championship : bave an average team rating over 2000!

Perhaps the most agonizing struggle of the tournament came in the last round, in a gruelling six·hour contest be-tween Paul Joss and Jon Cooper of Columbia, whieh was

adjudicated a win for Joss alter 76 moves. Though neither player was fighting for a trophy, the game decided fi rst place tie.breaking, and also Columbia's hopes of tying for the team award.

A word of appreciation is due Joe MeCarly of the host team, who worked long and hard to complete preparations for the event, and then managed to finish 31st! Notre Dame players Jack Hirsehfclder and Bill Nicholls programmed the IBM 1620 computer at the school to compute pairings, ratings, standings and tie-breaking. Though me

NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIP

December 26-30, 1963 Notre Dome University Rd. l Rd.2 Rd. 3 Rd . •

1. D.vll, Henry. T •• .s ........ __ .... __ .... _ .......................... _ ......... _._ ..... . wtt WH WOO ,m 2. Vl lvo, Mk .... ' . Columbi. _ .... __ ... _. __ ._ .... _ .............. _ ..... ......... _ ... _. WH w .. on w .. 3. W ...... r. Norris. Cilifornil ._ ...... __ . __ ......................................... . W .. W2' wn '" 4. Cunnlnghlm, Wilt, Los Ang~lel St . ....................................... . w" W" WH " S. M.yer, J ohn C., Ya ll ........ .... ............. ... , ....... ,." ........ "" ..... .............. . wn wn w" 0" 6. Burk.tt, MIX, New Mexico St . ..... ...... .. ....................... .. ... ..... .. w .. w" w" w. 7. Jonn, Ste ph.nl, Texas .. ........ ...... ........ . , .......... " ......... ...... ....... .. . '" wn wn 0" 9. Ir win, Pl t .r, Bard .. .. .......... ... .. .. ....... ...... .. .. .. .. ...... .. ........ ........ .... .. .. .. wn w" ". w" 9. B.rry, Glorg., ca rtmouth .. ..... ...... .... ............ "" ... .. ... .... .... .. . wn w .. w", " 10. Sutherland, Don, California .. .. .. .. ... ..... .... .... .. ... .. ..... " ...... .. .. .. .. ... . w .. woo w", " 11. SU'rll, Lull , Pu.rto Ric o ... ..... .. .... ... ..................... ... .. ....... .. ... ... . w" w" " w" 12. M. rlz, WIIII.m, W I.con. ln ..... .. .................... .................... ... ...... .. . . w" w" DO' ".

13. Hlgglnbolh.m, J ., Columbia .. .. ......... ....... .................................... .. .. w" w" " woo 14. Collin., K. nneth, Brooklyn Poly . .... ....................................... ... .. ,n w., ". w

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CLINK, CLANK, THINK By Milt Garber

U.S. Senior Master Eliot Hearst said in his column in the November issue of CHESS LIFE, tell a chess player "that a machinc has been built which can defeat him in chess and he will most likely smile n superior smile and offer the machine 10-1 odds at 25 cents a game." That could easily prove to be a bad bet.

Mr. Hearst speaks of the early and crude attempts at chess-playing by the Los Alamos computer MANIAC I. Since then many improvemenls have been made-both in machines and in the pro-grams that guide them.

About two years ago, a group of stu-dents.. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the buidance of Dr. John McGarthy prepared a chess playing computer program that performed sur-prisingly well. Unfortunately a number of obvious improvements and additions to the program were never made, but even as it was it gave a very creditable showing for itself.

Before presenting two games played by the computer against myself, I will give a very general outline of how the program worked.

Realizing that it would be impossible to simply store aU of MCO or PCO in the computer, it was necessary to give the machine a set of basic principles from which it could derive its move in any given situation.

The computer also had to have a means of discarding trivial lines in a

HG1!drlcs Neissen, Alan Kotak, and Mike Lieberman. The aut1wr, also a student then, acted as part-time chess cOMul· tant.

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hurry so it would have more time to concentrate on detailed analysis of plausible variations.

The first set of inforation given to the machine was a complete list of the rulcs of the game. The legal moves of all the pieces were included, even the rarely used movc of an en passant pawn capture.

As Cor the machinc's playing prin' ciples, they included:

material value mobility value devclopment center control checks pins pawn structure The computer used these principles

to assign values to the various moves it considered. After considering in detail several key moves and the ensuing varia· tions, the machine would play the move which showed the highest point value.

Any chess player will note, though, that some important concepts and prin-ciples are not included in the above list. The reason is that there just wasn't time to write them all into the program.

The most important omission was probably that of king safety. The machine did not know specifically that it was in general a wise practice to keep its king out of the thick of a middlc game fight. This lack of knowl-edge, however, was somewhat alleviated by two other parts of the program.

First, the machine assigned point values to each piece, a pawn was 50 points, and the others proceeded in a 1:3:3:5:9 ratio. But the value of the king

Will 01 machine ever be inv ited to pilY in the U. S. Chess Championship? To judge by the examples of computer play given In this article, we now have machines that could score a USCF rating of about 1200 _ IS good as some people. Bobby Fischer bewarel

was said to be infini ty. Thus the machine would go to any lengths to avoid losing its king. Still, though, the machine tended to put its king in places where it was exceedingly difficult to avoid losing it.

This was corrected to some extent by assigning large bonus points to the moves 0·0 and 0·0-0 early in the game. If all other factors were approximately equal the machine would prefer 0-0 over 0-0-0.

Other omitted principles or concepts included: blockading, restraint, outposts, overprotection, center occupation as dis-tinct from center control, and any in-structions as to end game play. This last omission" had a rather curious result. In end games the machine was still try_ ing for center control to the extent that it posted its rook in the center; i.e., on the fourth, fifth or sixth ranks rather than on the seventh or eighth ranks.

Briefly, the playing prinCiples that the machine used were evaluated as fol-lows:

MATERIAL VALUE - Pawn = 50, Knight = 150, Bishop = 150, Rook = 250, Queen = 450, and King = infinity.

MOBILITY VALUE - This was pro-portional to the total number of legal moves available to each side.

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DEVELOPMENT _ This was propor-tional to t be number of pieces that luIt1 been moved from their original squares. was awarded a specif.ied Dumber of points in addi tion to other evaluation points it might have aocumulated. See the diagram for the exact points award-ed. Remember, a pawn is worth 50 points.

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WHITE (Compute r)

CHECKS - If a chock left the op-ponent with only one legal move it was worth 24 points. If the opponent was left with two legal moves the checking move was worth s ix points. And no points were given fo r a check leaving the opponent with more than two legal moves. It was in assigning such point values as these that the advice of a grandmaster caliber player would have been extremely helpful.

PINS _ This principle was not fully developed. The machine watched only for pins against kings and queens. Check ing fo r pins is a time·consuming process and the programmers wanted the machine to play at a reasonable rate.

PAWN STRUCTURE - This was a fairly complex section assigning values, either plus or minus, to backward, isolated, doubled, and passed pawns.

CENTRAL CONTROL - A move at· tacking any of the 16 center squares Open files were also taken into account. For instance, a backward, doubled or isolated pawn on an open file was con· sidered to be worse than one not on an open fil e. The values of the various pawn structures were also varied with r espect to their horizontal and vertical position on the board. For instance, the back-ward rook pawn a(ter a fi nanchet to was not considered nearly so bad as a backward king or queen pawn.

Now, with these principles in hand the machine proceeded to make its moves by first considering every legal move available to it. The resulting position after "mentally" making each of these legal moves was evaluated and on the basis of this hasty evaluation, the four most promising first moves were select-ed for more detailed analysis.

Each of these four moves was COD-sidered against each of the four most plausible replies for the opponent, then its (the computer's) best lour second moves to each of the opponent 's fOUf replies were generated and so forth. Each variation was carried about four moves (eight plies) deep or unti l a posi-tion was r eached which met certain

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stability requirements. The machine car-ried out all mater ial exchanges regard· less of how many moves they took.

In this manner a rapidly growing move tree was developed . A special see· tion, designated as the alpha-beta heuris-tic program, was developed to lop oil trivial branches of the move t ree in a hurry without wasting time on their detailed analysis.

In the games below the machine took an average of 2.1 minutes for each move. Some moves, however , caused it to pon· dcr as long as eight minutes. On other moves, such as obvious recaptures, the machine would reply almost instantane-ously.

The human player, though, had to move at a 10 second per move clip in order to avoid wasUng valuable machinc time. The computcr stood idle when it was not on the move.

Both games had to be ended when the alloled computer time was used up. These games were played by an IBM 7090 computer at the Massachusetts In-stitute of Technology.

GAME No. 1 Compute r

1. P-K4 Gerber

The computer always opens P-K4 un-less specifically told to do otherwise. It has decided that P-K4 is the best opening move on the basis of its play-Ing principles.

1. ...... .. 2. N·Q63 3. N·63 4. P-04

P·K4 N·K63

N·B3 ........

The computer wasts no time in going after control of the center.

4_ ....... . PxP S. NxP B-B4 6. NxN NPxN 7. P-KS Q-K2

Note that the computer recognizes Ihis pin .

8. B·KB4 9. Q-K2 10_ PxP

p.o' N·NS ........

The computer saw the check coming but decided that it bad to hang on to its pawn.

10. ........ BxPch 11. K-Q2 Qxo

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first: 22, ....... . , B·R3; 23. RxN, RxR; 24. NxR, B·N4, trapping the Knight; 25. P·K5, B·N2; 26. P·B4, P·N4; 27. P·KN3, PXP; 28. PxP, B·KR3, etc. The second: 22 . ........ , NxN; 23. RxR, B·QR3 and White must sacrifice material with , 24. P·K5 otherwise, B·N2; 25. R·K8, P·B3 threaten· ing to trap the rook.

22. N·K3 B·QR3 23. R·Qa P·K3

Black is able to prevent White from playing N·Q5 just at the right moment.

24. N·N4 K·N2 25. P·K5 B·K2 26. R·Ka B·KN4

Thc combination is over. Black pro· tects any possible counter chances just in time; and, now, at long last, he thrcat· ens to bring out his extra piece with 27. ........ , B-QN4; 28 . R·BS, B·Q2, etc., chasing away the rook and un.pinning his own.

21. P·KR4 ...... .. White tries his last trick.

21. ........ BxP 2a. P·KN3 B·QN4 29. N·KB6 ....... .

If White plays 29. RxN he has a hopeless game for he would be an ex· change and a pawn down. Should Black play 29 . .. ....... BxN the battle would be prolonged , for the rook would ('main pinned for a long time, SI)-

29, .. ...... BxR 30. NxBch K·B 1 31. N·B7 B·QI

and White resigned.

ENGLISH OPENING Benko Brll$ket

1. P·QB4 P·K4 2. N·QB3 N·QB3 3. P·KN3 P·KN3 4. B·N2 B·N2 s. P·K3 P·Q3

White is playing the closed variation of the Sicilian 'reversed'. He builds up the advantage which he maintains throughout. As the game proceeds you will note that there are actually three phases to the game and each one is marked by White's steady and recur· ring assaults on Black's fortress and aU are directed to the same end, name· ly, that of first weakening then pene· trating and finally dispersing the Black forces.

With S. P·K3, White's plan is to de· velop his Knight on K2 in order to play in the center rather than alternative plan of N·KB3, R·Nl preparing for a Queenside attack.

6. KN·K2 7. 0·0 8. p.Q4 9. PxP 10. p·QS

N·R3 0·0 PxP

N·B4 N(3)·QS

In a game Botvinnik.Reshevsky, Avro 1938, Black played N·K4 instead of N.QS. The only difference in the opening to this point was that Black's Knight reach· ed B4 via K2. Brasket's 6 . ........ , N·R3 is a more modern and a more flexible move. At any rate, the same position was reached and Reshevsky's N·K4 led to an infcrior position for Black. The Brasket move (N'Q5) looks more natural

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and at first glance seems to lead the equality; however, he does not success· fully prove this to be the case.

11. NxN NxN 12. N·K41 ....... .

Thus White 's move K ·K4 points out the weakne~ses of Black's Knight move. (This is probably why Reshevsky didn't play this move against Bolvinnik.) White is now menacing B·N5. The White Knight can be driven away by 12 . ........ , P·B4, but this move takes away the only square left for the Black Knight. Black can not defend the threat of B·N5 with p . KR3 because of the obvious 13. BxP.

Now the dominating theme in Black's play is to find a good square for his misplaced Knight.

12. . ... ... . 13. B·N5 14. B-Q2 15. Q·N3 16. B·QB3

N·B4 p.B3 N·R3 N·B2 N·K4

Aller 16 . .. .. , N·K4 I wasn' t sure where the Knight was heading so I analyzed the following possible line: 16. . ...... . , N·N4; 17. N·Q2, N·R6eh; 18. K·RI, R·K: 19. N.KB3, R·K7 ; 20. N·Q4! leading to an advantage for White. The bishop pawn is "poisoned," for it leads to the loss of a piece, i.e., RxP, Bx1\'"; and, if the Knight takes the Pawn then K·N1.

17. P·K84 N·Q2 18. B·Q4 P·N3 19. Q·QB3 N·B4 20. N·Q2! P·QR4 21. P·N3 Q·Q2

Black finally posts his Knight on a good square, and, white has already prepared to drive it away with 21. P·N3. An immediate P·QR3 is too early because of 21. ........ , P·R5. Now, as the position stands, Black need only to play P·KB4 to attain equality and thus solve his opening problems. The reader may won, der bow it is possible for Black to be on the verge of attaining equality after

having lost so many tempi with his Knight. The answer is quite simple, for the position is closed and it is also symetrical.

Now White must "tread softly aDd carry a big stick," for, he must maintain the pressure and he must prevent Black rrom playing P·B4; therefore, he now al· ways must play the "best" move. And so, Black's next thru~t accomplishes his purpose for now he restricts the Black forces.

22. P·BSt ...... .. White hlocks in thc Black Bishop,

in return [or which, he relinquishes th ~ square K5; but, as in all things, on~ must give in order to receive. This i;. a psucdo·sacrifice of a pawn, for, 011 22 .. ....... , PxP there follows 23. B·R3 r ('· gaining the pawn plus an additional r

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Fischer Talks Chess

PIRC DEFENSE N. Y. STATE OPEN

1963 R. Fischer W. Belich

I. P·K4 ........ Before this game began, when I asked

Mr. Beach how to spell his name, he remarked that we had mel over the board on a previous occasion some years ago and that I had beaten him on the white side of a Pire Defense. I had ab-solutely no recollection of that game.

1. ........ P·KN3 ... but this is it: the Pire or "Rat"

Defense, as I have heard people call it in some of the chess clubs.

2. P·Q4 B·N2 3. N-QB3 P·Q3 4. P-B4 ....... .

Another interesting possibility is 4. p. KR4, which I have p layed in some skit· tles games. f'or example, Fischer-N.N. went: 4. P·KR4, P-KR4? 5. N-KR3! BxN? (a common mistake in this line) 6. RxB, P·QB4? 7. PxP, PxPj 8. B·N5ch, N·B3; 9. R-Q3, Q-R4; 10. B·Q2 with a won game for white. If black answers 4. P-KR4 with 4 ......... , N·KB3, then 5. B·K2, P-84; 6. PxP, Q·R4; 7. K-BI! Qx BP; 8. P-KRS, 0-0 with a double.edged game. I beat Tal in a S.minute game with

4. ........ P·QB3 I this line. Too · passive. Black must reserve the advance of this pawn until it can be played to B4 at the right moment. 4 ......... , P-QB4 at once is bad; e.g., S. PxP, Q·R4; 6. PXP, BxNch; 7. PxB, QxPch ; 8. B·Q2, Q-QS; 9. S.Q3, QxQP; 10. ~-KB3-with an overwhelming game for white. (Bisguier-Somebody·or.Qther , U.S. Open, Chicago 1963).

Best in this position is 4 ......... , N· KB3; .5. N·B3, 0 ·0; 6. B.Q3t P·84 and now white has two continuations:

(1) 7. P-QS, P-K3; 8. PxP, BxP (just exactly what is wrong with 8. ........ , PxP is not clear); 9. P-85, PxP; 10. PXP, B·Q2; 11. 0-0, P·Q4 ; 12. B·KN5 and now not 12 ... ...... , P-B51 as in Bisguier-J. Meyer in this tournament because of 13. B·K2, Q-N3ch; 14. K-R1! (and not 14. Q-Q4 as Bisguier played) 14 ......... , QxP ; 15. NxP with a mating aUack in the offing. 12. . ....... , P-BS is a serious pOSitional mistake, leaving Black's backward . Correct is 12 . ........ , B-B3, lowed by QN-Q2, etc. White's chance is Q-Q2 or BI followed by trying to work up an on the side. The position is but I instinctively ';;f~; game, since all he has to is find a few right defensive moves and the attack will pass out of whi te's hands.

(2) 7. PxP! PxP; 8. P-KS, N-Q4:; 9. NxN, QxN ; 10. Q·K2, N-B3; 11. B-K4, Q-Q2; 12. B·K3-as in Tan·Pirc, Bever· wick 1963. White should win.

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by Robert J. Fischer S. N·B3 B-NS

Once again bad policy. Up until now white's only advantage was one of space but by this move black prepares to giv~ up the minor exchange. S ......... , P-QN4 would have been consistent but bad. White would answer with 6. B-Q3. Best for black seems .5 ......... , N·KB3 although strategically he already has a lost game.

6. B-K3 N·Q2 If 6 ....... .. , Q-N3 j 7. Q·Q2.

7. P·K R3 8xN 8. Qx8 P·K3

Black. is forced into a hedgehog de-fense slDce the normal developing move, 8 . .. .... .. , N-K83, IS now answered by 9. P-K5.

9. 0 ·0 ·0 N·K2 10. P-KN4 . .......

The rest is just more or less tech-nique. Ali white need do is force a breakthrough somewhere - almost any-where-and tllen his superior develop· ment and dynamic bishops will do the rest.

10. .. ..... . 11 . K·Nl

Q·R4 R.QNI

Apparently black is dreaming about an attack on the QN.filc. He should have easUed-either on the King- or Queen· side.

12. P-KS ........ Of course: the breakthrough. As Sam-

my would say, "Black has little choice." 12. . ....... , P·Q4 is strongly answered by 13. B-Q3 and P·B5. Of course, black's next move has the disadvantage of al-lowing wrute's knight to enter the game via K4.

12. ... _... PxP 13. QPxP N·Q4 14. N·K4 B·Bl

Black should have castled her e. Then I had a number of good continuations, e.g., 14 ......... , 0-0; IS. B-Q2, Q-B2 and now P·KR4-RS or p oNS, followed by sink-ing the Knight in at B6 and then open-ing the Rook file.

15. B-BI ........ 1:;. B-Q2 followed by P-B4 was the

" positional" way to do it. I purposely allowed black his little eounter-demon-

stration on the Q.sidc since by doing this he would be 100 occupied to con-sider the safety of his own King.

1 S. ........ P.QN4 Black could have held out a little

longer with 15 ......... , N·B4. 16. P·85 ........

This move actually needed very little calculation since with Black's king in such an exposed pOSition he can hardly get away with pawn-grabbing; e.g., 16. .. ...... , NxKP; 17. Q-KN3, Q-B2 (if 17. .. ...... , N-Q2; 18. PxKP, PXP; 19. N-Q6cb, BxN-foreed-; 20. QxB and white wins easily) 18. pxKP, PxP; 19. N-N5, N·B2; 20. QxQ, NxQ ; 21 . NxN wins a piece.

16. ........ P·NS Black continues his "attack."

17. PxK P PxP 18. B·QB4 ...... ..

White has various threats, e.g., 19. BxN, BPxB; 20. N-B6Ch, K-Ql ; 21. NxQP, PxN; 22. RxP, etc. Also 19. N-N:; could be unpleasant for black.

lB. ........ NxP 19. Q-KN3 B-N2

Failing. into a little trap, but there was nothing to be done. If 19 ......... , Q-82; 20. BxN, SP or KP x B; 21. 8·B4, B·N2; 22. N-NS winning at least a piece.

Also, 19 . ... ..... , N-Q2 loses to 20. BxN followed by N.B6Ch, picking up the Rook on N l.

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20. BxN BPxB 21. B·R6 ........

Just. when black thought he was out of the woods-the end comes.

21 . ........ Q.B2 On 21 ......... , 0 ·0; 22. BxB and if 21.

......... BxB; 22. N.B6c.h, K moves; 23. QxN and maUls in a few moves.

22. N.Q6ch K.Q1 The end. If 22 . .. .. .. .. , K·Bl; 23. QxN.

23. BxS 24. QxN

Q,N Re51g" 5

Brandts Sweeps Atlantic Open

Paul Brandts, former champion o[ the Manhattan Chess Club, scored a straight 6-0 to take a clear first place in the 2nd Annual Atlantic Open in New York City on February 14·16. A half point behind the winner were James Sherwin. Bernard Zuckerman-the current Manhattan C. C. champ-and Larry Gilden. Joseph Ta· margo, Walter Browne, James Gore. and Asa HoUmann posted scores of 5-1 and shared the prize for fifth.

Top Expert was Jose Sercnyi, Top J unior (undcr 18) Sal Matera, and Top Woman was Miss Zenaida Huber. The class winners: "A"- Ralph Bew; "B"-Oliver Leeds; Unrated- F'red Wilson.

A total 01 164 players--53 more than last year--competed in the event which was directed by USCF Business Manager J . F. Reinhardt, assisted by Robert E-Braine and Joseph Pandolfini .

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BENKO-(Conlinw.d Jrom pllga 43)

Black's Queen Bishop diagonal and 1 also wanted to tempt my opponent into playing B-Q5.

White's threatening to occupy the rook file with R-H6 and then doubling. Inter-esting lines could hlve developed if Black tried to oppose Rooks on the file. Fo.r instance: 36 ........ . , K·N2; 37. R·R5. (gaining a tempo by threatening 38. RxPch), B·K6; 38. QR·Rl , R·Rl; 39. Q.B3, B·:-i5ch; 40. K·B2, RxR; 41. RxR, R·Rl; 42. Q·R3. RxR ; 43. QxR, Q·B2; 44. QxQch, KxQ; 45. P·Q6! , p .B4; 46. P·Q7, K·K2i 47. NxP and White wins. Black can com· plicate matters with 41. ........ , Q·R6; 42. Q.R3, QxPChi 43. K-NI, R·KNl; 44, R· R7ch, K·BI ; 45. Q·R6ch, K·Kl; 46. QxP; but, Black doesn't have perpetual check. Now my opponent loses patience and makes my life simple by allowing me to play the easiest line r.vailable to me.

35. ........ B·Q5 36. Rdl ........

After this nice, but not too dilficult to see sacrifice, Black's game disinte· II'ra tes completely.

36 . ........ P,R 37, QxP ........

Now 37. ......... R·KBI doesn't help Black out of his plight, lor there would tollow, 38. R·R6.

37 ........ . 38. QxQ 39. NxP 40. R·R7 41. PxP 42. P·B6 43. K-R4 44. P·B7ch 45. RxR 46. P-06

Black resigns, for will cost him a piece.

Q·K4eh P,Q P·R5 p,p

R·R6 RxPch R.KB1

bP P·N4

Resigns

the Queen Pawn

Weldon Takes Glass City For the third consecutive year Charles

Weldon and Ron ald F inegold met in the f inal round of the Glass City Open in Toledo to determi ne the tournament winner. This year Wcldon repeated his 1983 victory and finished a clear first, with 15-0.

Finegold, Alnis Mengelis, Edgar Mc· Cormick, and Richard Ling finished with 4·1 and plnced in the order lis ted. A total of 80 players competed in the event, played on January 25-26 and d irected by James. Grau . It was the seventh yeat that the event has been held.

CLINK, CLANK-(Continued from page 41 ) 4. ........ P..Q3 5. 8 ·84 QN.Q2 6. N·KB3 p.B-4 7. B-03 0.0 8. 0-0 PXP 9. N.QN5 ........

It is easily spotted. NxP? P-K4. 9. ........ N·B4?

Black should have played P·K4. 10. P·K5 N·R4

The computer had not expected this. Il was counting on 10 ......... , PxP j 11 . BxP, B·B4{?); 12. BxB, PxB j 13. KNxP, P·R3, and White has an excellent game.

11. P·KN3 ........ It is going to great lengths to hold the

pawn. 11 . ........ a..KN5 12. KR·KI KNx8 13. PxN PXP 14. PXP N..Q2 IS. QNxQP NxP 16. RxN? ........

Apparently the computer failed to see the defense B·K2.

16 ........ . ad 17. B·K4 ........

And there was no more computer time available. The machine was expecting the continuation

17. ........ Q.B2 18. R·B' BxN 19. Qx8 BxN 20. Bx8 P·K4

The trades here indlcate that perhaps the computer should be told the facts of life; namely, that bishops are often slightly better than k night.$ and hence shouldn' t be exchanged too freely. And when one is as poor at end games as the computer is, exchanges of any kind should be avoldedl

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Fred Zarse, a 31-year-old electrical en-gineer, won the Milwaukee City Ch,m-pionship by taking eight out of nine games-losing in an upset to seventh-place Norbert Key. A clear second was taken by Arpad E. Elo (7·2) who has won the title on many previous occa-sions. Former t:SCF President Fred Cra-mer, who led for six rounds, finished third (6ih.) and USCF Secretary Mar-shall Rohland led the six-pointers to finish fourth. The tournament was spon-sored by Milwaukee's Department of Mu-nicipal Recreation and is for the first time 100% USCl

Tournament Director Pete Berlow doubled as photographer during the Inter-collegiate Championship at Notre Dame to record these glimpses of the .ction at the I.rgest college event ever held in the U.S. Story and cront. ble on pp. 38-39; three games from the tourn.l ment on p. 48.

In a tournament played at the Si e rra Vista Chen Club (Ariz.) Don Troyer rang up ten wins as against only two losses to edge out Robert J. Vint by half a point. The tournament was a double round robin with seven players.

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COLUMBIA COUNTY INTERNATIONAL Bloomsburg Chess Club

Bloomsburg, Penna. January 15

Capitol City Chess Club Sacromento, Calif.

(to be announced)

CORNELL INTERNATIONAL OPEN Cornell University Open

April 17-19

GEORGE STURGIS INTERNATIONAL "Chess Horizon" and

Boylston YMCU March 13-15

LANGMAN INTERNATIONAL Clo rkson College

Potsdom, N.Y. March 14-15

MONTEREY INTERNATIONAL Monterey Chess Club

Monterey, Calif. March 14-1S

INDIANA INTERNATIONAL Indiona Chess Association

Indionapolis, Ind. March 21-22

London Terrace Chess Club New York, N.Y.

Ito be announced)

Marshall Chess Club New York, N.Y.

(to be onnounced)

DAVIS INTERNATIONAL TEAM SPEED TOURNAMENT

April 5

1964 KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL YMCA Chess Club Kansas City" Mo.

April 18-19

QUEEN CITY OPEN Parkway Chess Club

Glendale, Ohio April 25-26

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(to be onnounced)

TWIN CITY INTERNATIONAL Twin City Chess League Minneapolis, Minnesota

April 25-26

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TOURNAMENT LIFE March 7-S

ALAMO OPEN 5-Round Swiss, to be played at the

Bluebonnet lIotel, San Antonio, Texas (registrations till noon, Sat.) Entry: $5.00 plus TCA & USCF memberships. Tro-phics for first and second, unrated, and Class B & C. This tournament will qual-ify three players for Texas Candidates Tournament, leading to the State Cham-pionship, 1965. For additional informa-lion, write W. N. Wells, 2711 Briarfield, San Antonio, Texas.

March I, 22, Apr , S, May 17 1964 CONN. STATE CHAMPIONSHIP First two rounds on Sunday, March 8

will be played in the English Room of the Bond Hotel at 338 Asylum Ave., Hart-ford, Conn. Registration 9 A.M. For fur-ther information on the schedule write Gottfried Kessler, 799 Stafford Ave., Forestville, Conn. 06011.

Open to all Conn. residents and those who are members of Connecticut chess clubs, guaranteed 1st prize is $25; other prizes depend on entries. Entry fee; $5 seniors; $2.50 under 21. The event is sponsored by the Conn. State Chess As· soc.

M.rch 13·14-15 SOUTH CENTRAL VALLEY OPEN Co-sponsored by the Fresno, Visalia

and The College o( the Sequoias Chess Clubs a 6-Round Swiss, 40 moves!2 hours. $50.00 guaranteed for 1st prize. Other prizes as income permits. First round starts at 8:00 p.m., Friday night, March 13th. At the Student Union of The Col-lege of the Sequoias, Visalia, Caliiornia. Entry fec $2.50 plus USCF membership. Players having boards, sets and clocks are requested to bring them for tourna-ment use. Send entries in advance and inquiries to: Tom Stamper, 1334 South Conyer, Visalia, California.

GEORGE STURGIS INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT

Two dollars of the entry fee will be earmarked for the USCF's In-ternational Affairs Fund. Sponsored by Chess Horizon and the Boylston YMCU Chess Club, it wilI be a 6-rd. Swiss, 50 moves in 2 bours, played at the Boylston YMCU in Boston, Mass. There will be trophy and cash prizes according to the number of entries. Entry fcc: $7 if sent before March 1, $8 thereafter. First round starts at 7:30 p.m. on March 13. The tourna-ment is open to all who arc or be· come USCF members; aU Mass. resi· dents must become or be members of the MSCA. Registration deadline, 7:00 p.m., March 13. For entries &: further details: Robert Goodspeed, 981 Plymouth St., Bridgewater, Mass. 02324.

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March 14-15

LANGMAN INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT

5-rd. Swiss tournament to be held at the Lewis House, Clarkson College, Potsdam, N.Y. Registration between 8 and 9 A.M. on Mar. 14. 5100 guaran· teed 1st prize with prizes for 2nd, 3rd, class A, B, C and unraied. Entry fee 57 ($5 for juniors under 18) plus USCF dues. 50 moves/2 hrs. Direct inquiries and early entries to William A. Farone, 134 Market St., Potsdam, N.Y. 13676.

Much 14-15

MONTEREY INTERNATIONAL OPEN

Two dollars of each entry fee will be earmarked for the USCF's inter-national Affairs Fund. 5-Round Swiss, open to all who are or who become members of USCF. 50/ 2 first three rounds; then 40/2. The tournament will be played at the San Carlos Ho· tel, Franklin and Calle Principal, Monterey, Calif. It will be directed by International Master George Kol· tanowski. Prizes based on 50 entries: 1st, $150; 2nd, $75; 3rd, 535; Expert, A, B, C & unrated cash awards as entries permit. Minimum Guaranteed 1st 5100. Entry fees: Expert &: Mas· ter, 512; Class A, $11; all others, $10. Registration closes 10:30 A.M. March 14. Please bring clocks, sets and boards. Address entries and in-quiries to Lt. G. S. Wren, Box 1978 U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Mon-terey, Calif. 9394

M.rch 20-22 FRANKLIN MERCANTILE OPEN

5-round Swiss, 4012, will be held at the Franklin Mercantile Chess Club, 133 S. 13th St., Phila., Pa. (Starting hr. 8 P.M.). Entry fee to USCF members-$7 seniors; $5 juniors under 18 and to stu· dents. Guaranteed 1st $75; 2nd, 3rd, A, B, C, & Upset as money allows. Address inquiries to WaHer Fraser, 5630 N. 11th St., Phila., Pa.

Much 20-21-22 1964 NEW YORK STATE JUNIOR

CHAMPIONSHIP Open to all players under 21 who are

or who become USCF ($5) and NYSCA ($2) members. Playing site - Jamaica Chess Club, 155-lO Jamaica Ave., Jamia· ca, N.Y. Address inquiries to: Bill Fred· ericks, 88-73 192 St., Hollis, N.Y. This will be a 5·Round Swiss. Registration closes 7:45 P.M. Mar. 20. Prizes-lst, Life membership in USCF; 2nd, l ().yr. memo bership in USCF; 3N1, 5·yr. membership in USCF.

Much 21·22

INDIANA INTERNATIONAL OPEN

Two Dollars of the entry fee will be eannarked for the uscrs Interna· tional Affairs Fund. 5·round Swiss, 5012, will be held at the Central YMCA, 3lO N. Illinois, Indianapolis, Indiana. Registration 8-9 A.M. Mar. 21. Entry fees: $6. Seniors; $4 Jrs. under 18. USCF membership required. Maximum first prize - $75. Book prizeS for top A, B, C & Jr. All cash prizes depend on number of entries. Please bring sets, boards and clocks. This tournament is being held to help sponsor thc U.S. chess team in the Olympiad. Address inquiries to USCF V.P. Norb Matthews, 238 N. 15th Avenue, Beech Grove, Ind. 46107 (phone sr 7 2136)

Marctt H , 2t FALLS CITY OPEN

6·round Swiss, sponsored by the Louis· ville Chess Club , will be held at The Mall, Shelbyville Road at Watterson Ex· pressway, Louisville, Kentucky. Entry fee : $5 plus USCF membership. Prizes-lst, $50.; 2nd, $20.; other , by number of entries. Address inquiries to Samuel Fulkerson, Route #2, Jef(ersontown, Ken· tucky.

March 2', 2. HORNELL OPEN

4·round Swiss will be held at the Hornell Public Library, Genesee St., Hor· nell , N.Y. Entry fee : $5 plus USCF membership. Prizes depending on entries. Starting time-l P.M. Mar. 28. Please bring clocks, boards and men. For ad· ditional inronnation contact Frederick Harris, ~ Pearl St. , Hornell, N.Y.

March 20, 31 , Apr. 1 SECOND JUNIOR EASTERN OPEN 6-round Swiss, 5012 adjudicated, will

be h eld at the B:!thesda Youth Center, 4506 Walsh St., Chevy Chase, Md. (sub-urb of Wash. D.C.). 1st round- IO A.M.

FEBRUARY. 1964

Entry fee-$3 plus USCF membership. Age limit-20lh years. Trophy prizes. Address inquir ies to Stuart Dring, tour· nament director, Bethesda Youth Cen· ter. (See ad p. 39)

April :).S MARYLAND OPEN

6-round Swiss to be played at Dun· dalk YMCA Dunmanway, Baltimore 22, Md. $6 entry fee ($5 if received before March 27). 1st prize, $50; 2nd, $40; 3N1, $30; 4th, $20 ; 5th, SIO; 6th, $5 plus trophies. Trophies for A, B, C, Women, Junior, Unrated. ,,'or details: Lewis A. Hucks, 2972 Cornwall Rd., Baltimore 22, Md.

April 3, of. S PHOENIX OPEN

Sponsored by the Phoenix Chess Club, a 6-round Swiss, 45/ 2, will be held in the Adult Center, 1101 W. Washington St. , Phoen ix, Arizona. Entry fee: $10 plus USCF membership. Guaranteed lst, SI()() plus trophy; cash prizes for 2nd, 3rd, top A, B, C. Unrated, Woman and Jr. Address adVance entries and inquiries to Col. Paul Webb, 1631 W. Mulberry Dr., Phoenix Arizona, 85015.

April S

DAVIS INTERNATIONAL TEAM SPEED TOURNAMENT

Each team will cons ist of lour players only and play will be in ac· cordance with FIDE and USCF rules for Speed Tournaments. Each team is required to bring two clocks (drop-flag type only), two sets and two boards.

The deadline for entries is 1:30 P.M. April 5 at the Auditorium of Freeborn Hall, Davis Campus, Unl· versity of California. Play will start at 2 P.M. and end at 6 P.M. Time limit -5 minutes per player per game. Entry fee : $6. per player ($S. each for advance entries received before April 1st). Codirected by Ed Edmond· son and Dave Olmstead, two dollars of each entry fee will be ear marked for the USCF International Affairs Fund, the remainder of the entry fees will be given as cash prizes.

Send entry fees and write for ad· ditional information to : Serge von Oettingen, 621 East 8th St., Davis, Calif. 95616 (phone 7~3·4293)

Apr il of. S HURON VALLEY OPEN

5-round Swiss, 5012, will be held at the Huron Motor Inn, Washington &: Pearl Sts., Ypsilanti, Mich. 4a197. Entry fee : $6. seniors; $4. jrs. under 16. Trophies. For further information write to Albert S. Baptist, 930 S. Grove Rd., Ypsilanti, Mich.

April of, S 7th ANNUAL LAKE ONTARIO OPEN 5·round Swiss will be held at the Cen·

tral YMCA, 100 Gibbs Sl, Rochester, N.Y. on Sat. and at the University Club

on Sun. Entry: $6. plus USCF member· ship. Guaranteed 1st , $100.00. For fur· ther information contact Erich March· and, 192 Seville Dr., Roches ter 17, N.Y. Players are requested to bring clocks and sets.

April 4, S FRANKLIN MERCANTILE 30.30

7·round Swiss, 30/ 80, sponsored by the Franklin Mercantile Chess Club for the titlc of Philadelphia 30/30 Champion, will be held at the Franklin Club, 133 S. 13th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Entry fe~e>$2.50 with a guaranteed 1st prire of $25 and additional prizes for the other class-es. Write Walter Fraser, 5630 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

April II, 12

FOURTH ANNUAL FOREST CITY OPEN Sponsored by the Cleveland Chess As·

sociation, a 5-round Swiss will be held at the Central YMCA , E. 22 &. Prospect Ave., Cleveland , Ohio. Entry fee: $5. plus uscr membership. Guaranteed 1st , $100.; other cash prizes. Please bring clocks, sets and boards. Registration closes 8:30 A.M. April 11. Send advance entries and inquiries to Joe Uher, 1579 Holmden, S. Euclid. Ohio 44121.

April tI , 12

MISSISSIPPI·LOUISIANA OPEN 5·round Swiss, 50/ 2, will be held at

the Eola Hotel, Natchez, Miss. on April 11 and 12 with an optional round on April 10. Entry: $5. plus USCF member· ship. Trophies lor Classes A, B, C. For further information contact W. W. Crews, Shrevesport, La. or Neville Marshall, Natchez, Miss. Please bring clocks, sets and boards.

April 11, 12

1964 PENNSYLVANIA INTERCOLLEGI· ATE TEAM TOURNAMENT

Open to all colleges and univcrs ities in Pennsylvania (team members must be members of USCF) a 5-round Swiss, 501 2, will be held at the Penn. State Uni· versity, Univers ity Park, Penn. Teams may consist of 5 players and 2 alter· nates. Entry is $5. per team. Prizes : Pcnn. Chess Federation rotating trophy and permanent trophy for first place. Trophy for second place. Plaque awards to top player on each of 5 boards. Book awards for best played games and brilli· ancy aWard. Schedule of rounds: Sat.-9 A.M., 2 P.M., 7 P.M.; Sun.-9 A.M., 2 P.M. Please bring clocks, sets and boards. International Master Donald Byrne directs. For further information and housing reservations, write William F. Fullcr, 202 Hetzel Union Bldg., Uni· versity Park, Penn.

April 11, 12

FOURTH ANNUAL GOLDEN TRIANGLE OPEN

5-round Swiss, 5012, to be held at the Golden Triangle YMCA, 304 Wood St., Pittsburgh 22, Pa. Entry fees: $6. seniors; $4, jrs. under 18. First prize guarantee--$100. Other cash prizes according to entries. For additional information con· tact the tournament director, Dr. F . A. Sorensen, 814 East End Ave., Pittsburgh 21, Pa.

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Ap ril 11 , 12, I', 19 GREATER CHICAGO OPEN

Sponsored by the Greater Chicago Chess League and the Chicago Chess Found :: tion, an 8·round Swiss will be played at the Gompers Park Field House, 4224 W. Fo~ter, Chicago, Ill. Entries close at 11 A.M. April 11. Entry fees; $12. seniors; $8. J rs. Tournament di· rector- Mr. F rank Skoff.

This t raditionl l tournament has a l· ways been a record selter for Chicago. This ye:r there is a guaranteed prize fund of $1,000.00. F'irst three pr izes-$200., 5125., $100. (15 top prizes in a ll !) :\i uUiple prizes in all classes including t rophies. Class A; $40. , $25., $15. Class B: $3(1" 520. , $10. Class C: $25., $15. In addition there are th2 woman's, J unior and unrated prizes. Address all inquir ies to Peter Wolf, 6435 N. Damen, Chicago 45, Ill.

April 17, 1', 19 APRIL IN PARIS

(Sth USCF Rating Tournament, France) 7-round Swiss at Pershing Hall, Paris

Post 1, American Legion, Paris, France. Opcn to all USCF members. $5. entry fee of which 53. will be applied to cash prizcs. For information, write (air-mail) to the tourn~ment director, Capt. Tad Gorczyca, Box 4046, APO 10, N.Y., N.Y. or to Mr. David H. Rogers , 8th MIDet., APO 11 1, ~ .Y . , ~ .Y .

CORNELL INTERNATIONAL OPEN

Two dollars of the entry fee will be earmarked for the USCF's Inter· national Affairs Fund. 5-round Swiss, 50/2, will b e played at Willard Stra ight Hall, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, ~.Y. An optional first round may be phyed Fr iday evening- registra· tion at 7 P .M. or Sat. morning- regis-t ra t ion 9 A.M. $6. entry fee . $75. first prize; other prizes as entries permit. For full details: Peter Berlow, Chem-lstry Dept., Cornell Cniversity, Ithaca, N.Y.

April 17-19 5TH ANNUAL NEW ENGLAND

AMATEUR 6·rd. Swiss, 5012, to be played at Boyls-

ton YMCU , Boston, Mass. Entry fees ac-cording to USCF rating: Class A or bet· ter-S9.00; Class B-$7.00; Class C or lower-$5.00. A $1 discount on any en-try r eceived before April 10. Tourna-ment open to any USCF member whose l a~ t published rating is 2199 or lower. Prizes: trophies for 1st, Class A, B, C, Top Woman, Top Junior. Merchandise prizes according to entries. Tournament winner and top woman to have entries paid into U.S. Amateur. Door prize. Regis tr