e TeKTs Canada Echees EET ISSN 0225-7351 #55 $3Coming Events Players: When you enter by mail, include your name, address, CFC number, expiry date, rating and date published, and birthdate if you are a junior ~ all with your entry fee. CFC Membership is required in all tournaments except where indicated. CFC Membership may be paid with entry. Provincial memberships are sometimes required as well. Unless otherwise indicated, bring your chess pieces, boards, and clocks. Chess Vacation? If you're going abroad and would like to know if you can get a chance to practice your favourite sport, just drop us a card or phone (613) 741-4242. We often receive foreign tournament ads. Organizers: You can advertise your CFC rated event (up to 1/6 page) free in this column. Tournaments with a non-rated section may also be advertised if at least half of the prize fund in the non-rated section is in CFC memberships. Ask for a rate sheet for larger advertisements. Club events may be announced once a year. Announcements must be submitted by the 25th of each even numbered month (Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec) and are generally in the mail by the 20th of the following month. Plan ahead! LTIP means ~— Local. = Tournament Incentive Program. If you are in a small town, your weekend Swiss may qualify for a $50 LTIP grant. Details are given elsewhere in this issue. Abbreviations: EF: Entry fee; ENT Where to send advance entries; SS Swiss System (or variation thereon); TC Time control; $$ Prize fund; —$$G Guaranteed Prize fund; UR: Unrated; Jr: Junior. Bye nA half-point bye is available in round(s) n if requested in advance with entry. Sec In a multi-section event, the requirements to enter a particular section. under 1900 means rated (by the CFC or any other body the TD chooses to accept) under 1900. Ottaws nday O: August.1, 1982 Ottawa R.A. Gentre, 245! Riverside Dr. 3 Rd. SS. Rds. 9:30, 2:00, 7:00. TC 50/2, 20/.5. Divided into sections, avg. 8 players each. $$ each section (based on 8 players): 1st $25, 2nd $15. EF $7, less $1 R.A. Club members, less $1 juniors (under 18), less $1 received by July 30. ENT David Cohen, 949 Hare Ave., Ottawa K2A 3J6; or at site 8:30 - 9:15 a.m. No Smoking. Aug. 13-15, 1982 ‘Toronto Banquet Hall, Earl Bayles Community Centre, in the large park (formerly golf) East side of Bathurst, just south of Sheppard. 5 Rds. SS Accel. TG 40/2, 20/1. Bye 1-3. Rds. 7, 10, 4/ 10, 4. One Section. $$ 80% of entries, including class prizes & trophies. EF $25 ($12.50 under 20 or turned 65). ENT at site until 6:30 or prepay to TD Howard Ridout, 77 Beachview Crescent, Toronto M4E 2L7. Tel.691-8070. Refreshments, books, equipment sold at site. Plaza nearby. Toronto Thanksgiving Open Oct.9-11 Scarborough, Ont. W.A. Porter C.l. (cafeteria), 40 Fairfax Cres., Scarborough. 6 Rd SS. Rds. 10, 4:30 / 10, 4:30 / 10, 4:30. TC 40/2, 25/1. Bye 1-5. Secs.: Open, Intermediate (under 1900}, Novice (under 1500). $$ approx. 80% of entry and late fees; Class & Peer Group prizes. EF Open $25. ($20. Sunior), Intermediate $20 ($15 Junior), Novice $16 ($13 Junior, $10 Bantam under 14); $5 extra at site, Oct. 9th after 9 a.m. (no late fee for entries before 9 a.m.). ENT to Al MacDonald, 506 Danforth Rd., Apt? 103, Scarborough, Ont. MIK 1C6. Phone (416) 261-6077. Sets and clocks can be rented at the site; books, equipment and refreshments will be on sale. Enquiries about Accommodations to Al MacDonald. Kitimat Open LTIP Oct.9-11 Kitimat, B.C. Riverlodge Recreation Centre. 5-rd SS. Rds. 12,5 /9, 2/9. TC 40/1.5, 20/1. Schedule of times and rounds subject to change depending on turn-out. $§G $500, already deposited in the bank; also silver tray; $$ may be increased, but not reduced; Ist $150 + silver tray; 2nd $100; 3rd $50; Top "B & C" $50, 2nd "B & G" $25; Top D $40, 2nd D $20; Top Unrated $25, 2nd Unr. $15; Top Woman $25; Top Jr. $25. EF $15 ($10 seniors & juniors); CFC and BCCF (or NBCCA for residents of NBGCA reaion) memberships required, may be purchased at site. ENT M. Bateman, #5 - 185 Konigus, Kitimat, B.C. VBC 2K4; phone (604) 632-3623. eee Oct-29-31 Kitchener, Ont. Cameron Heights C.1., 301 Charles St. 5 Rd. SS. Rds. 7 p.m./ 10, 4/10, 4. TC 40/2, 25/1, $$G$500, guaranteed by Concordia CC of Kitchener. Secs. Open, $$ Ist, 2nd, 3rd, Top A, B, Junior. Reserve (under 1600), $$ Ist, Top C, Top D-or-unrated. EF Open $17 (Junior $12), rated over 2200 - FREE: Reserve $15 (Junior $10), late fee $3 for entries after Oct. 19. Organizer: Fd Thompson. TD's: Gord Morrell, Grant Brown. ENT Ed Thompson, 700 Frederick St., Kitchener, Ont. N28 282; tel. 744-7918; or at site Oct. 29 until 6:45. 1982-1983 Calendar of Events Starting Dates of Thursday Events Fall Swiss Sept.9 Fall Round Robin Nov. 4 Winter Swiss Jan. 27 Spring Round Robin Mar. 24 Spring Swiss May 19 Summer Round Robin July 7 Starting Dates of Sunday 2 p.m. Events Fall Swiss Sep. 12 Fall Round Robin Oct. 31 Winter Swiss Jan.2 Winter Round Robin Feb. 27 Spring Swiss May 8 Summer Round Robin July 3 Every Sunday at 7 pm ~ 15 minute events. Mondays - Swiss tournaments with entry fee required. All events at W.A. Porter G.I. Cafeteria, 40 Fairfax Cres., Scarborough. Contact! Al MacDonald, S06 Danforth Rd., Apt. 103, Scarborough, Ont. MIK 16; tel. (416) 261-6077. Niagara Chess Weekend Oct.23, 24, .1982 Niagara. Falls, Ont Treat your Family to a vacation, yourself to easy points and special prizes. For detailed information and Early Sird (sorry, Knight) specials, mail SASE to: Joe Istok, 4051 Pettit Ave, Niagara Falls L2E 6K4 60 MacyaR posta 3% 80 Macyar posts LOGAL __ TOURNAME! PROGRAM The CEC Board of Governors has approved a progran to encourage tournaments in small centres. These centres (less than 75,000 population as of 1976 census and more than 25 miles from a centre with more than 75,000 population) could receive $50 for a weekend open swiss tournament with the following conditions a) application for assistance be received by the CFC Business Office three months before the start of the event b) the event be advertised’ in Chess Ganada Echecs [as result of (a)l; c) all participants in the event must be CFC members; 4) it the population of the small centre is above 50,000, it has not had an Open CFC-rated ‘weekend Swiss tournament during the last 12 months. All tournaments supported under this program will be signified LTIP in the Coming Events section of Chess. Canada Echecs. To apply or_~— obtain. further information, write CFC, Box 7339, Ottawa, Ont. KIL BE4 t z abe. stats at E HF PROGRAMME D'INCITEMENT AUX TOURNOIS LOCAOX (LTIE Llassemble des gouverneurs de la FCE a approuvé un programme pour encourager les tournois dans les petits centres. Les petits centres [de moins de 75,000 de population selon le rencensement de 1976 et a plus de 25 milles (ou 40 kilometres) d'un centre ayant plus de 75,000 population] peuvent recevoir $50 pour un tournoi ouvert de fin de semaine, systéme suisse, si les conditions suivantes sont remplies a) la demande d'aide doit Stre recue par le bureau d! affaires de la FCE trois mois avant le début de l'6vénement; b) Nevénement doit @tre annoncé dans Chess Canada Echecs; cc) tous les participants de lévénement doivent tre membres de la FCE; 4) si la population du petit centre est au-dessus de 50,000 il ne doit pas y avoir cu de tournoi de fin de semaine, systdme suisse, dans les deraiers douze mois. Tous les tournois bénéficiant de Taide sous ce programme seront identifiés par LTIP dans la section “Evénements a venir" de Chess Ganada Echecs. Pour faire une demande ou pour obtenir de plus amples informations écrivez a: FCE, G.P. 7339, Ottawa (Ontario) KIL 8E4Eastern Ontario Chess Association EOGA Open Chess Calendar Ottawa Summer Sunday (see GE) August *Eastern Ontario (see Ad) August 27-29 *Bay of Quinte Fall (see Ad) Oct 1-3 RA. Fall October 29-31 *R.A. Winter January 15-16, 1983 *Bay of Quinte Spring early March 1983 *Ottawa late March 1983 Plus more in Kingston, Petawawa, and other exotic locales. * - BOCA Grand Prix Event Calendar ” Grand Prix — Tournaments Jd ti August 27 - 29, 1982 A Grand Prix Event Site: R.A. Gentre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa. Format: 6 Round Accelerated Swiss Prize fund: $1,000 based on about 60 adult equivalent entries. First $250 Second $150 Third $100 A $100, 50 B $109, 50 © & Unrated $100 D6 £ $100 Schedule: Rounds Friday Saturday 9am, 2pm, 7pm; 9:30am, 2:30pm. One {-pont bye may be taken in the first 4 rounds. ‘Time control: Rounds 1-4 50/2 then 15/4; Rounds 5-6 40/2 then 12/3. All games played to completion. Registration: Mail entries to: T. Fleming 2 Qualicum St, Nepean, Ont K2H 7G8. Adults $20; Under 18 $15; Under 13 $10 = all less $2 to 1982-83 R.A, Chess Club members. Include CFC number, expiry date, & birthdate if under 18. Late entries: at R.A.Chess Club, Thursday Aug 26 8-9 pm, Friday Aug 27 6:30 - 7pm. Add $3 to above amounts. TD & Organizer: T. Fleming; NO SMOKING in the tournament room 7:30pm; Sunday E.0.C.A, Grand Prix Ist: $300 2nd: $200 If more than $400 is collected from participating tournaments (see below) the prize fund will be increased. From August 1982 until July 1983 certain events in Eastern Ontario will be designated Grand Prix events. ‘The two players who achieve the highest cumulative scores in these events will be awarded the above prizes. All events will be pro-rated to 6 points (e.g, 4/5 becomes 4.8/6). If there are 7 or fewer GP events, players nay drop one result (or not play in one event). If there are 8 or more GP events, two results may be dropped. ‘To organizers to qualify your tournamanet as a Grand Prix event, you must: 1) contact the EOCA, c/o T.Fleming, 2 Qualicum St, Nepean Ont, K2H 7GB for approval (as to format, dates, prize fund, ete). 2) Advertise it in CCE as a GP event; 3) Agree to pay the EOCA $1 per player in your tournament. Being designated a GP event will give you an EOCA sponsored ad in CCE as well as increase your turn-out. This will easily justify the $1/ player expense. Anyone wishing to organize a GP event should make their arrangements before Jan of 1983, so that the Jan-Feb CCE may contain the complete listing of remaining events BELLEVILLE FALL 1982. Oct.1-3, 1982 Four Seasons Hotel, 11 Bay Bridge Road. 5 Rad SS, Rds 7/10, 4/ 10, 4. TC 40/2, then 20/1, One Section. $$ Ist $175, 2nd $125, 3rd $100, 4th $75, Sth $60, 6th $40, Under-2200 $40 & 20, Under-2000 $40 & 20, Under-1800 $40 & 20, Under-1600 $40 & 20, Top Junior $25. EF $20, Juniors $10, Confirmed members of the Canadian ‘Olympic Team for Switzerland nave free entry. ENT Peter Stockhausen (1.D), Four Seasons Hotel, ll Bay Bridge Road, Belleville, Ontario K8N 423, Tel. (613) 968-3411. A PREPARATION FOR CANADA'S 1982 OLYMPIC ‘TEAM. CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS IN THE TOURNAMENT INCLUDE K. SPRAGGETT, L. DAY, J. HEBERT, R. PELTS, D. ALLAN, J. BERRY, & D. HERGOTT. Belleville eR aE Cover Kevin Spraggett recently won three important events. He defeated Jean Hebert 34 - j in a match that decided the title of Canadian vice-Champion. See page 72. He also ted for place in the Ontario Open. page 24. Aad most recently he won the Québec Closed, far ahead of the competition. We will have a report on that next issue. on Annual Ratings start on page 59. Included are all rated players whose CEC memberships expired 1 March 1982 or later or who played in a rated event since the last annual list. Olympic Chess Weekend players are grouped together at the end of the listings, followed by the events rated and rating distribution statistics. The Olympic Chess Weekend was a moderate success. For the dope on the Chess Olympic fund raising, see pp 33-34. Participating Members of the CFC will receive this issue of GCE. If you like what you see, why not become full Junior members and receive it all year round? Ft Le a ae 3 seems cer Ee CHESS COLUMNS Our survey of Canadian chess & journalists resultes in a small number of columns reported: Saskatoon = Star-Phoenix by Harry — Mather _ Wednesdays in Section B; Winnipeg © Free Press by Cecil Rosner, alternate 4g Sslurdays, In Saturday Plus; Globe © and Mail by Jonathan Berry Saturdays. ie Unreported columns that we are certain still exist are: Vancouver Province by Bruce Harper; Toronto Star by Lawrence Day, Saturdays; Ottawa Gitizen by Les Bunning, Saturdays; Montreal Gazette by Larry Bevand, Saturdays; Montréal La Presse by Jean Hébert, Saturdays. oi 4 Other columns reported to us in the not-too-distant past Kitchener-Waterloo Record by George Koltanowski, Saturdays; Kanada Kurier (in German) by Hans Schmidt. RN) If you write a chess column, send us a copy and we will put you on our mailing list for The News. [f you're looking for a column, your best bet is to phone the local paper(s). pa % s i L Fide SD eh » 2S a ms Cs Chess Canada 82° 758 Echecs 55 Published six times a year by Chesscan Publishing 289 Olmstead St, Vanier Ont KIL 7J9 Editor Associate Editor Jonathan Berry R.V. Mohan All articles not otherwise credited are written by the Editors. Opinions expressed are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Chesscan Publishing. Subscriptions: $15.00 per year by mail. Mailed under Third Class Permit 923 at Ottaway Second Class registration applied for. Copy deadline: 25th ofeach even-numbered month. Advertising rate card available on request. CONTENTS === MATIERES Coming Events IFC rie 1 Toronto Labour Day Open 2 British Columbia Open 3 Eastern Ontario Chess Association 4 Masters' Forum 6 Les Echecs Pas 8 Pas N.Juravlieff 11 Cavaleade 1 CCE by First Class ‘tail Lg Southfield Chowder Dave Ross 21 insburg - Buchholz 21 Across Canada 22 Olympic Chess 33 CFC Affiliation 35, Chess Associations 38 Chess Clubs 40 TD Certification 39 CFC Life Membership 43 What to do at Tournaments 4a Algebraic Notation 45, CFC Rating System 46 Le Systeme de cote canadien 48 Correspondence Chess 51 Make the Government Pay 52 Grosstables from CFC 52 Top Canadians 53 Ratings 1982 Annual List 35 Problems & Quiz Solutions n Spraggett 31 - Hébert | 72 Quiz 18C LLL LLP IB 2 RAR ea EO ORs ne seasMasters’ Our Masters have been given just the moves of the game. We asked them to speculate on the strengths of the players and the conditions of the game. Masters! Forum has run games of players from rating 1600 all the way up to World Champion. We have had ordinary tournament games, speed chess games, postal games. Sometimes the games nave been recent, sometimes from the 19th century. Though our Masters have often guessed the strengths of the players correctly, they have always disagreed about what the good and bad moves were. If two people disagree, at least one of them must be wrong. After reading Masters! Forum, you'll take all annotations with a grain of salt. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to play out the following game and guess the strengths of the players and the conditions of play. Then check yourself against our panel of masters. led 5 2.NE3 d6 3.d4 exdd 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.f4 Nc6 7.Be3 Be? 8.Qf3 0-0 9.0-0-0 Qc7 10.Rgl a6 11.94 ReB 12.95 Na? 13.n4 Nxd4 14.Rxd4 5 15.n5. Rb8 16.f5 Ne5 17.Q£2 b4 18.Ndl exf5 19.exf5 Bb7 20.6 BIB 21.Rxb4_ BE3 22.8 RxbB 23.Nc3 Qb7 24.b3 BxnS 25.Bd4 Bg6 26.Rq3 RcB 27.Bh3 Re? 28.865 Qhi+ 29.Kb2 Ne4* 30.bxc4 RD7+ S1.NbS axb5S 32.05 dxcS 33.fxg7 Be? 34.Bxg6_nxg6 35-816 Qh4 36.Ra3 Qo4+ 37.Rb3 Qg4 38.Qh2 1-0 Ray Stone and Bruce Harper square off again in a battle of lawyers. Who was right? You be the judge. New members of our panel of masters are Robert South of Calgary, and lan Findlay of Unionville (aka Toronto). lan is known for his clean-cut classical style, while Robert finds himself most at home in sticky, difficult postions. Do they disagree about our game? Read on. E85c Sicilian Led South: I don't like $...e6. 5...Ne6, +296, or even ...a6 seem more active. Stone: ‘The Scheveningen variation is quite popular these days. Black aims for a solid position with no weaknesses. 6.14 South: White can play just about Forum anything here, 2.9. 6.93, 6-94, 6.Be2, 6.8¢3, or 6.845. Stone: A good, flexible move. White preserves the option of attacking, as in the game, or playing positionally with Bez, transposing into the Classical variation. 6.2 .Nc6_ South: 1 used to have a real dislike of playing positions like this because of the feeling of being part of a large herd. How many games and analyses have been over this ground! Stone: Most players prefer to meet 6.f4 or 6.Be3 with 6...a6, aiming for counterplay with ...b5 as quickly as possible. 7.Be3 Be7 8.Qf3 Findlay: If 8.Bd3, then ...e5! 9.Nde2 is Spassky-Andersson, Tilburg 1980, and now instead of 9...a6, 944-45 would have led to an interesting struggle. a ‘Oo South: 8...e5 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.fxe5 dxeS =/+ or 10...Ng4?! with an unclear position. Stone: For a long time, 8...e5 was considered superior to the text. The attacking scheme with 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.f5 followed by 0-0-0, Bed, g4, g5, etc., however, has cast doubt ‘upon that valuation. In my opinion, White already stands better. Harper: How to assess this sort of position? That tumultuous tome, the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Vol-Il, suggests 8...05 as leading to equality. By castling immediately, Black sets the stage for a race between his attack on White's King and White's K-side pawn storm. 9.0-0-0 Qe7_ Findlay. On 9,..Nxd4?! 10.Rxd4 Qc7 1i.Re4 Qb8 12.94 d5 13.Rd4 Nxg4?! 14.Qxa4 eS 15.15 exd 16.8xd4, White had a crushing attack in Findlay-Schleifer, 15-minute game. Diagramme 10-Rgl South This looks like the logical way to Support g4. But g4 can be played right away too: 10.c4_Nxd4 11.Bxd4 eS 12.fxe25 dxeS (12...Bxg4? 13.993 +/-) 13.Qg3 Bd6 with advantage to White. Stone: This move, attributed to Shamkovich, is the most — logical continuation, preparing g4 and gS. Harper: !?. ECO gives 10.Rd2 as the "main line", the point being that an immediate g4 is met by 10...Nxd4 1L-Rxd4 (11,3xd4_ eS followed by 12...8xg4 and 13...Bxdl) M1-..e5 12.Re4 Bxg4! 13.Qg3 Qb8 with an unclear position, After 10.Rd2 a6 1l.g4 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 eS 13,Be3 Bxg4 14,Qg3, there is no Rook to be captured on dl and it is clear that Black may soon wish he had not won the White g-pawn. All this having been said, 10.Ral, a suggestion of Tal's, looks more logical, as the Rook is unlikely to find a better square than gh Findlay: ?. Now was the right time to liquidate in the centre. Alter 10...Nxd4 LL. Rxdd (11. Bxd4 e5) eS 12.Red (12.Rd2 exfd 13.Qxid a6 14.94 Bebé 15.95 Nd? =) 12.+-Qd8 13.15 bS! 14,.NxbS, 14.,.Bb7 would have given Black a good game in Liberzon-Wirthensonn, Biel 1980. Stone: Stone-Vano, U.S, Open, Chicago 1979, is an example of the kind of trouble Black can get into in this variation if he is not careful: 10...Bd7 ll.g4 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 3c6 13.95 Nd7 14.QhS Rfc8 15.Bd3 e5 16.Be3 exfd 17.Bxf4 Nes 1B. BxeS dxeS 19.Be4 (+-) BL8 20.96 hxad 21.Qxq6 R48 22.Rdfl Rd7 23.RES Rd6 24,Bxi7+ 1-0. Harper: The alternative is 10...Bd7. In either case, the speed of Black's attack would seem to be about the same. L.g4 Res Findlay: It is sad when you have to make this kind of a move when the Kings are castied on opposite wings, but now 1l...Nxd4 12.Rxd4 eS leads to a bad position for Black after 13.fxeS dxe5 14.951 Nd7 15.Nd5. The move Black plays allows his Bishop to the defensive post {8 after White plays g5, {5, f6. South: This vacates the square {8 for the B or the N, It seems a good defensive measure, but just where is the counter-attack going to come from? Black needs to get a Rook on an open file (probably the c-file) to get his attack going. This means that the light-square Bishop has to be put on d? or b7. But after 11...8d7 12.45 Ne@, Biack's minor pieces would be unco-ordinated and ieffectively posted. 1 think that 11...b5! should be considered carefully. There does not seem to be a tactical refutation, Black should be able to take advantage of tne position of the White Q on {3, e.g. 11...b5! 12.95 Nd7 13.h4 bd 14,Nce2 Bb7 and Black seems to have a fair game. Or 11...b5! 12.0512 Nxd@ (12...Bb7? 13.exf6 Nxd4 14.912 +/-) 13.Qxa8_ (13.8 or Rxd4 Bb? -/+) 13...Bb7 14.Qa7 (14.Qxf8+ Bxf8 15.exf6 NE3 or 15...Nxe2; or 15.Bxd4 Nd7, and Black is okay) 14...Nc6_ _15.Qb6 (15.0xi6?! Nxa? 16.{xe7 Re8 17.Bxa7 b4 18.Ne2 Bed -/+) 15...Qxb6 16.Bxb6 dxeS, and Black has good compensation. Of course, White may choose a lot of different attacking plans: a quick h4, then gS and hS to pry open a K-side file, or Qh5 followed by Rg3, Rh3. But 11...b5 looks correct to me, Back to the game. Stone: Black clears {8 for the B and places the R on a file that often gets opened in this line. Harper: 1?. A new move, perhaps. One might even say @ new idea, if such things are possible in the’ Sicilian defence. Black clears {8 for either a Bishop or a Knight, depending upon the circumstances, and also brings his Rook to a file which is likely to become open in the future. I have my doubts as to whether this position is amenable to such subtle handling, but in an out-and-out race, White's attack would appear to arrive first and with greater impact. W2.g5_Nd7_ Diag Stone: !. White is is no hurry to play {5 and surrender control of eS. After 13.f5 Nde5 14.Qh3 BIB, it is not clear how White can continue his attack. Harper: A moment of decision. With this move White renounces the possibility of R-g3-n3 and QnS. Black has already prepared to meet this manoeuvre, however, by clearing {8 for his Knight, so there is something to be said for the straightforward idea of advancing the K-side pawns. 1 4 Findlay: Black may have been worried about 13...b5 14.96 hxg6 15.5, with strong attacking chances. South: This exchange should not be made so quickly, as it will be difficult to drive White's B from d4. 14.Rxd4 Findlay South: ?!. Why this way? There reallydoesn't seem to me to be any gain from pressure on the d-file, After 14,Bxd4, consider 14...b5 15.15 BE8 16.n5, and White's B supports the ominous (omnivorous) pawn mass, while ...05 would give the White Knight a chance to hop into d5. Perhaps White was considering the variation 14.Bxd4 5, when it seems that the K-side pawn mass will be broken up, but after 15.Nd5 Qd8 (15...Qa5 16.8¢3'Qxa2? 17.Nc7) 16.3c3 ex{4? 17.Nf6+ (+/-) gxi6 18.gxf6+ White should win quickly. Stone: !. In this type of position, 1 generally prefer to recapture on d4 with the B, which aims at g7 and is able to snip a N/eS. Black cannot play e5 as. long as White has an N ready to go into d5 with tempo. In this position, however, it seems better to recapture with the R. Black apparently has sufficient resources after 14.Bxd4 b5 15.f5 NeS 16.Bxe5 dxe5! 17.96 fxg6 18.txg6 BE. As the course of the game demonstrates, the R is quite actively placed on the 4th rank. Harper: An interesting choice. 14.Bxd4 looks more natural, but White has shifted to a central strategy, and likes the idea of centralising his Rook, especially with a view to controlling b4. 14.,2b5 15-h5_RbB Findla b4 immediately was worth considering, since after 16.Rxb4 dS Black's pieces pieces start "jumping with life". South: ?!. 15...Bb7! to cover dS and preventing £5. Harper: As one of the most famous Soviet chess players once asked, "What is to be done?" 15...8b7 and 16...Rac8 look very slow. With a great white cloud gathering over his K-side, Black's choices are limited. Ideally, he should strike back in the centre, but White's pieces are better posted for control of this crucial area. It follows that the only logical plan is to dislodge White's N/e3, and then follow up by trying to create play in the centre. 16.£5 Harper: Giving up control of eS, but in chess you cannot get something for nothing, uniess your opponent makes a serious mistake. 16.--NeS_17.Qf2 b4 18.NdI_ Stone: 18.Ne2 seoms to be a legitimate alternative, intending to use the Nin the attack from {4. After 18.Ne2 Ned 19.£6 Nxe3 20,Qxe3 Bf8 21.96 the position is unclear. 18. £5, Harper: !?. In my opinion, this move indicates that Black is dissatisfied with the outcome of the opening. The "normal" continuation would presumably be. 18...a5, but after 19.96 things are definitely beginning to happen on the K-side. £5 Bb7 Findlay: !. ‘Trying to con White into taking the b-pawn, and it works! South: 1?. Stone: Alternatives seem weaker. 19...Bd7? 20.86! BEB 21.96 ixg6 22.hxa6 23.Rxq6! +/-; OR 19...Bf8 20.96 fxa6 @l.hxg6 h6 22.f6 +/- Harper: Completing his development, but at the cost of surrendering the P/b4. While Black has in mind a continuation which restores material equality, he still has a problem with his B/e7. 20.g6 is adequately met by Bf6. Weaker is 20...fxg6 21.hxa6 h6 22.Bxh6!? gxh6 23.6 REB 24.Rf4 and Black must return the piece, with White retaining the edge. Not 24...Nf3? 25.Bedt dS 26.Rxf3 dxcd 27.17+ or 26.44Be5 27.Qh4. Harper: !. 7 zx Ene Rw Et tot # & a &R South: = 1 am surprised at how strong a position Black has. a 4 Findlay: ?, Missing the crushing 21.g6!. For example, 21...fxg6 (best) 22.hxg6 and now: 22...Nxg6 23.Rxg6! hxg6 24,Be4+ dS 25.Rxd5 Qxcd 26,f7+ and Qh2+ followed by mate, OR 22...hxg6 23.BE4! and Black's K-side falls apart. South: Might as well, because the K-side attack has no obvious follow-ups. 21.g6 just doesn't do anything - the N/eS and the B/b7 are covering too many squares. 12, 21.g6! seems very strong. hxg6 22.hxg6 Nxg6 23.Rxg6! ixg6 24.Bc4* d5 25.Rxd5 Qxcd 26.17+ Kh? 27.Qh2+; OR 22...fxg6 23.Rxg6 Nxq6 24.Be4+ dS 25.2x%d5 Qxcd 26.174 Kn? 27.Ra5#. The move played, 21.Rxb4, involves a very interesting plan: White hopes to "cement" the Q-side with his pieces and pawns and only then to turn his attention back to the K-side. The course of the game shows this to be an effective plan - it is not easy to defend Black's position. Findlay: !, Black nearly succeeds in taxing the initiative from White. But his position was already beyond repair. South: Anyone for a fantasy variation? 21,..892 22.Rxb8 Bxfi 23.Rxe8 Nd3+ 24,Kb] Nxf2 25.Nxf2 BbS with an unclear position, but after 23.Qxfl, it looks like White is just a pawn up. 22.Rxb8_Rxb8_23.Nc3_ Stone: 23.Be2 is met by 23...Bxh5!. 23.4.Qb7 24.b3_ E Re | Diagramme. ¥ ait 24.4.Bxn5_ South The position is very double-edged, and on general principles, 1 would probably play ...d5 liberating the B/{8 rather than regaining the pawn. For example, 24...45 25.Bi4 Ba3+ 26.Kb1 Re8, and if 27.BxeS RxoS 28.Qxt3 Rel+ 29.Ndl a4! 30.Qg4 Qd7! 31.Qf3 Qo6! 32.Qg4 Qc3 -+. Stone: 24..,Ng4 25.Qd2 Nxe3 26.Qxe3 Bxh5 27.Bc4 is no improvement. 25.Ba4 Findlay: !. White's advantage lies primarily in the fact that his dark-square Bishop is much superior to Black! White's plan is simple: swap off Black's best defensive piece, L.e., his. light-square Bishop. South: Thematic. The White Knight is holding White's position on the Q-side and he supports it while also reserving the possibility of removing Black's key defensive Knight. Harper: ‘This position must be assessed in White's favour, His pieces are harmoniously deployed, while Black's are scattered and restricted in scope. Even the Knight on eS is fulfilling an essentially defensive function - that of blocking the al-h8 diagonal. White's King is also the more secure of the two. (1 won't even talk about pawn structures.) 25.2396. South: White is clearly better now. The counter-attack by Black is just a bit too slow. 26-Rg3. South Activating the Rook and supporting the Knight again. Stone: {. In my opinion White has a clear edge, notwithstanding that it is not obvious how to break through. White's King position is secure and his pieces are ready to take up strong central, squares. Also most endgames will be good for White because of the weakn of Black's a-pawn, Rg3 is a nice move, helping to secure the 3rd rank. 26.44 RcB South: There was no future on the befile. Harper: Tying down tne Kaight on ¢3, but White promptly takes steps to shake this pressure. 27.8) South: Making Black choose between the e-file and protecting the back rank. 27 .2+Re7 28.BES_ Findlay + Mission accomplished (see note to 25th move). South: Both the Black minor pieces on the K-side are slated for removal. Stone: Trading the light-square 8's will loosen up Black's defences. 28. Diagr South: lt 29.Rel, then 29...Qf3 might be messy. 29. Black's best try, especially if there was time pressure. !. A good idea, but Black's ust a bit too compromised. Sout! position is Stone: Although this sacrifice accomplishes nothing, it is not the decisive mistake. Black has a difficult Position in any event. Harper: !?. An interesting attempt, but one which can hardly hope to be successful. Black has been forced to attack without his 8 on {8 30-bxe4 Rb7+ 31.NbS_ Findlay 1, After the greedy 31.Ka3, d5+ 32.05 Qcl+ 33.Ka4 Qb2 34.43 aS!, followed by Rb4+, South: Forced. After 31.Ka3_ Qelt 32.Kad Qb2, White would be in a bad way. Stone: 31.Ka3 refutes Black's sacrifice: 31...Qclt 32.Kad Qb2 33.23 d5 34.c5, OR 31...0c5 32.Bxg6 ixyé 33.17+ Khe? 34.8xq7* +. 1 would guess that both sides were in time-troubl SLs22axb5 $2.08 South: !. A pleasing move, at a single stroke again deactivating the Black Rook. 32. Harper: Black could keep his K~-side intact with 32...BxfS 33.Qxi5 96, but then comes 34.Qc8.33.fxg7 Diagramme ae a tit South: !. If £ 33.Bxc5, — then neeQd5!) would ary aa force off a pair of Bishops. g ROL ww 3. Be7 4 Findlay ?!. 33...Bxg7 looks like a better try, but after 34.Bxg7 Kxg7 35.Qxc5!, it is very difficult for Black to defend. E.g., 35...Bxf5 36.Qe5+! Kag8_ 37.Qxf5 Qc6 38.Rh3; OR 35...Qh2 36.Qc3+ KgB 37.Bxg6 hxg6 38.Rh3. If 33...cxd4, 34.gxf8+ Kxf8 35.8xg6 hxg6 37.Qxd4, and Black faces the same problems after QeS+ and Rd3. South: ?. Why not 33...cxd4. After 34.9xi8 Kxf8 35.Qxd4, if 35...Bxf5, 36.Qh8+ Ke7 37.Qf6+ Kf8 38.Qxf5, and White is well on top, e.g. 38...Kg8 39.Rh3 +-, but still, after 35...Qc6 Black's defensive prospects do not look too bad. Stone: After this Black is lost. It was essential to play 33...Bxa7. White is still better, but 1 cannot find a clear win, E.g., 34.Bxq7 Kxg7 35.Qxc5 Bxf5, 36 .Qe5+! Ka8 37.Qxf5 Re? (not 37...Qc6? 38.Rh3!) 38.Rd3 ReB (not 38...Qed? 39.Rd8* +-) 39.RA7 RIB 40.Qxb5 +/-. Harper: If 33...8x07 34.8x9g7 Kxg7 35.Bxg6 hxg6 36.Qf6+ wins, as do most other continuations. 34.Bx96 hxg6 35.816 Qh4 South: With White's P/g7 firmly supported, Black faces mating threats on the file and the rank. His Queen is stuck on the h-file while his other pieces must defend the back rank. So it's over = finally! If .,.8xf6 (to free the Black Rook from defence), then after gxfé White could trade Queens and still force mate. Harper: Crude, but effective. 36...Qb4r_ Stone: White now finishes the game in precise fashion. 37.Rb3_Qg4 South: Striving to cover the h-file by QhS, but... Harper: Black can't avoid mate even by an exchange of Queens. 38.Qh2_ 1-0 South: ...after ...Qh5, 39.Rh3 is finis. Stone: 38...Qh5 39.Rn3 Bxf6+ 10 40.gxf6 and Black hasn't got any moves. Findlay: I would guess that White was rated between 2400 and 2500 and Black between 2200 and 2300. The game was played in the last 2 years with a time-control of 40 in 2 1/2. White conducted the last phase of the game very accurately but seemed too much in a hurry to grad a pawn on move 21. Since this is an open Sicilian, I doubt it was played by Canadians, but possibly between two Yugoslavs. Sout! This seemed to be a good struggle. Black did not give up when he got a bad position, Apart trom a few errors (and what game is ever free from those?) the play was consistent. White displayed a lot of will power to bring home the point after Black activated his pieces. One game is really not much to guess a player's strength on (remember some of your recent losses), but I would say that both players in this game were at least experts. Black was not aGM. White: 2300-2500; Black: 2200-2400. 1 would guess the players to be roughly equal. [ think this was a serious tournament game. White is quite a strong player, I liked the way he handled the middlegame, Black is probably a master also. He had the misfortune to select an opening which is difficult, The inaccuracies in the later stages can probably be attributed to time pressure. Stone: at least master. Harper: ‘This game left me uninspired. It might be of interest to theoreticians and to White himself, but otherwise there didn't seem to be much to it. Everything seemed to untold towards a predetermined end. The players are unlikely to have been exceptionally strong. Would a King's Indian Defence leave such an impression? How about a game between Fischer and Spassky where one side wins by a single tempo? Would an observer think the game was simple and boring? Of course he would. Aren't all chess games annotated so that the winner always appears to have been winning? Of course they are. Would White have played so effortlessly in this game if he hadn't, by chance, spent years in perfecting his technique? Of course not. So what I said before must have been wrong. This game might have been played between players anywhere between 2100 and 2700. My guess: White was a) Karpov; b) Kasparov; or ¢} Psahis; Black was a lower GM or an IM who got caught in the opening. Editor: White was Kevin Spraggett and Black was Jean Hebert, and it was the second game of their May 1982 match to determine 2nd place in the Canadian Closed. Les Echecs Pas G Pas par N. Jouravlieff Traduit du russe Legon 49 L'Echec double (2e partie) Compte tenu de la force immense de Véchec double, on _~— comprendra pourquoi personne nlexpose volontairement son roi aux feux croisés de deux pices adverses. Done, en regle générale, de tels cas ne se produisent que quand un des antagonistes y contraint ladversaire au moyen de mesures violentes, tels lattaque, la ménace, Véchange, le sacrifice, et surtout les divers artifices tactiques. Parmi ces derniers, on rencontre le plus souvent: a) attraction du roi adverse sur une case o0 il sera exposé a un échec double (cela. s'accomplit au moyen d'un sacrifice) ; b) la déviation des défenseurs du roi adverse; cc) la démolition de la grille défensive devant le roi adverse. En analysant les exemples qui vont suivre, faites attention surtout au mécanisme de '6chec double. Tchez de retenir ses traits caractéristiques. Cela vous aidera 8 créer de oareilles situations dans vos propres parties. Commiengons par une partie jouée il y a cent ans. Défense Philidor Koupfer - Silski Valka, 1881 lief eS 2.013 d6 3.Fc4 f67. Un affatblissement dangereux des diagonales blanches a2-g8 et hS-e8, qui se sont ainsi transformées en "souffleries aérodynamiques". Maintenant, les Noirs éprouveront beaucoup plus de difficulté a roquer sur Maile-roi et a effectuer un développement harmonieux de ses forces. 4.44 Cf6 5.Ch4!?. Les Blancs se dépéchent de profiter de la faute de Jadversaire mais leur dessein ne réussit que grace & une nouvelle erreur des Noirs. Etait & considérer 5.c3, menagant 6.Db3, et si 6...Ca5?, 7,Dad+ c6 8.Fxa8 Txg8 9.b4 et le Cavalier a5 doit périr. (Note du traducteur: Cette variante niest pas tout a fait correcte, car les Noirs pourraient interposer le coup 8...b5). 5...Fd7?. Les Noirs envisageaient sans doute la suite 6...De7 Le tour de la Tour... On continue notre tour de la Tour de Babel que représente la __ presse 6chiquéenne mondiale. Cette rubrique a pour but de vous présenter des traductions des articles traitant de divers sujets, de la théorie des débuts jusqu'a la gérontologie échiquéenne. Liarticle qui va suivre est tiré de "Chakhmaty Riga" (1981, #8), un mensuel publié en Lettonie sous la rédaction du grand-maitre Aivar Gipslis. Outre Vedition en langue russe ("Chakhmaty Riga") il y a une édition en leton qui paraft sous le titre "Sahs". La revue publie des articles traitant de tous les aspects du jeu d'échecs. On peut s'y abonner en écrivant a Troyka Ltd., 799 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M6G 1C7. YW suivie du grand roque, mais ils avaient oublié la menace des Blancs sur la diagonale n-e8. 1) était impératif ou. d'obstruer la diagonale sans tarder_ par +++96, ou de jouer S...Cge7. 6.Dh5+ g6 7.Cxg6. Si_maintenant 7...hxq6, 8.Dxg6+ et les Noirs seront mat. Au méme temps, le Cavalier g6 menace dun 6chec a la découverte non moins catastrophique pour les Noirs. 7...Fa4. En attaquant la Dame, les Noirs se prémunissent contre échec a la découverte et espérent éviter un mat rapide si les Blancs s'engagent dans la variante 8.Dxg4 hxg6 9.Dxu6+ Rd7. Mais...8.Ff7+!. A Vaide de ce sacrifice d'attraction, les Blancs arrivent a créer une position od peut opérer le mécanisme de I'échec double (C+D). Comme on le sait, les piéces donnant un échec double peuvent remplir admirablement leur fonctions méme stils sont sous attaque. 8...Rxf7 9.Cxe5++ Reb 10.Di7#. Gambit de la Dame Tchoudova - Kogan XI Championnat féminin de 'U.R.S.S. Kiev, 1951 1.d4 C6 2.c4 e6 3.Cc3 dS 4.Fg5 Fe? 5.e3 O-O 6.Cf3 Cbd? 7.Dc2 h6 8.n4!?. Un procédé standard: les Blancs sacrifient leur Fou afin d'ouvrir la colonne h pour leur Tour. Si 8...hxg5, S.hxg5, et les Noirs doivent rendre 13 pice. Si non, les menaces sur la colonne h deviendraient trop graves: 9...Ced 10.Cxed dxed 11.Dxed Fh4* (11...96 12.Dn4) 12.Re2 TeB 13.Dn7+ RIB 14.a3 Fa5 15.b4 Fbs 16.c5, et llavantage est aux Blancs. 8...¢5. La décisioncorrecte. La meilleure réponse a une attaque sur une aile, clest une contre-offensive au centre. 9.0-0-0 DaS 10.94 hxgS?. Ses nerfs ont trahi la meneuse de larmée noire. — Les. conséquences de cette capture sont toujours aussi catastrophiques quiavant. IL convenait de poursuivre le jeu au centre et Allaile dame: 10...dxcd 11.Pxcd Gb6 12.Fe2 Fd7 13.Fxf6 gxf6 14.95 cxd4, avec une position pleine de tension. Ll.hxgS Ged 12.Cxe4. Un autre coup fort était 12.cxd5. 12...dxe4_13.Dxe4 @6. Sil3...f5, alors 14,Dxe6+ TI7 15.96 etc. 14.Ge5.— Menagant Ra7. Ou _14...Cxed 15.Dxe5 6 16.Dh2! RE7 17.Dh7+ Re’ 18.Dxg6+ R48 19.dxc5+ (échec a la découverte) Fd7 20.axt6 Fxt6 21.Th7 Pxb2+ (21...Fe7 22.Dxe6) 22.Rb1! et les Blanes doivent gagner. 15.Fd3 cxd4. Une opération centrale un peu tardive. 16.Cxg6 CcS. Ici les Blancs aurait pu gagner par 17.DeS+, mais la suite choisie par eux dans la partie est a la fois plus belle et plus efficace. 17.Th7+!. A llaide de ce sacrifice, le Roi noir est attiré sous un échec double (C+D). 17.44Rxh7 18.Cxf8++, et mat en deux coups. Les cas ne sont pas tellement rares od, pour attirer le Roi adverse sous un échec double, on sacrifie méme sa pidce la plus puissante - la Dame, Lexemple le plus souvent cité dans les manuels d'échecs est, sans aucun doute, la partie suivante: Défense Caro-Kann Réw - Tartakover Vienne, 1910 l.e4 c6 2.d4 dS 3.Cce3 dxed 4.Cxed Cf6 5.Dd3 eS?. Mieux 5...Cxed, suivi de Cb8-d7-t6. 6.dxeS DaSt 7.Fd2 Dxe5 8.0-0-O! Cxe4?. Llerreur décisive. La bonne suite était 8...Pe7. 9.Dd8+I! Rxd8 10.Fg5++. La batterie Fe! en action! 10..-Re7. Ou 10...Re8 11.7484. LL. Fast. Et maintenant un exemple od un sacrifice de Dame attire le Roi sous le feu dlune batterie C+T. Défense russe Bontch-Osmolovski - Baranov Moscou, 1953 led 05 2.Cf3 Cf6 3.d4 exdd 4.e5 Cod S.Dxd4 dS 6.exd6 Cxd6 7-Fd3 De7+. Li vaut mieux de jouer 7,..Cce6, développant une pice avec gain du temps, 8.Fe3 CfS?. Un cavalier impétueux. Il faut sloccuper du destin de lautre C. 9.Fxi5. FxfS 10.Cc3! Db4. 10..,Fxc2 ne va pas, A cause de 1l.Tcl Ff5 12.Cd5 meilleur coup est 10...Ce8, bien que le Noirs aient toujours des problemes difficiles 8 surmonter, 11.DeS* Fe6 12 12.0-0-0, Il est clair que les Noirs ont perdu la lutte de Mouvertur: Leur position accuse un sérieux retard de développement. 12.4.Ce6 13.Dxe7 TB. 14.Df4 DaS. Ayant perdu un pion, les Noirs ne veulent plus échanger les Dames. Effectivement, ils ont besoin de leur Dame pour tenter d'organiser une attaque contre le Roi adverse. 15.Dq5 Da6 16.Thel Gb4 17.Cd4!. $i maintenant 17.+.Cxa2+, alors 18,Cxa2 DxaZ 19.Db5+ Re? 20.Cf5+! etc. 17...Txc3. En jouant ce coup, les Noirs pensaient sans doute quiils avaient réglé leurs problames, car si 18.bxc3, alors 18...Cxa2+19.Rd2 Cxc3 20.Rxc3_ Fb4+! 21.Rxb4 Dc4+ 22.Ra3 (22,RaS bb#) Da2+ 23.Rb4 Ded+, et ils forcent la nullité grace a Véchec perpétuel, Mais le coup 17...Txc3 affaiblit la 8e rangée, et les Blancs en profitent tout de suite. 18-Dd8+!! Rxd8. Le Roi a été attiré sur la ligne dlaction de la batterie C+T. 19,Cxe6++ Re7. Ou 19..-Re8 (19..RcB8 20.Td8#) 20.Cxg7+ Fxg7 21.F95+ et 22.Td8#, 20.Fg5+ £6 21.Cd8+ et les Noirs abondonnent. Les deux exemples suivants illustrent la maniére de dévier les défenseurs du Roi a Vaide dlun sacrifice. 363. 1.Dd7#!!, Pour éloigner le Fou de la colonne e et préparer ainsi un échec A la découverte (C+). Le.Pxd7 2.Cd6++ Rd8 3.Cf7+ Re8 4.Te8t! Encore une fois pour éloigner le Fou, mais cette fois de la colonne d. 4...Fxe8 5.Td8#. 1.Dh6+ Re8 2.Gg7+ RIB 3.Cxe6++. une batterie de diagonale C+D qui opdre ici. 3...Re8. Echec perpétuel? 4.DIBHI! Fxf8. A aide de la premidre batterie et du sacrifice de la Dame, ies Blancs en ont créé une autre, une batterie verticale C+T qui s'avere mortelte pour les Noirs, 5.Cg7#. Un mat par échee double. Une jolie conclusion! La démolition de la grille défensive devant le Roi adverse est une autre tactique quion emploic assez souvent pour créer un échec double. 365. 1-hS! Fxdl. Ou 1...PxhS 2.Dxh7+! Rxh7 3.TxhS+ Rg8 4.Th8#, 2.Dxh7e!t Rxh7 3.hxg6++ (une batterie P+T) RaB 4.The#, Afin de olaccorder aucun répit a Vadversaire, on sacrifie parfois une des. pitces de choc d'un échec double. Normalement, une telle mesure devient nécessaire quand la pidce en question et le Rot adverse se trouvent sur des cases avoisinantes. 366. Un simple échec a la découverte ne mnerait qu'a I'6change des Dames. Mais "échec double, bien qu'entrainant le sacrifice d'une des pidces de choc, permet aux Noirs de marquer: L...THH+! (1..,Tg2++ était également possible), et les Blanes ont abandonné. Zagorovski - Thiele Corres 1971 - '75 wa ne Pollock - Consultants Feldman - Amman Buffalo, 1893 1956 x we @ Ban ao 8 ae 363 ere aux Blancs 364 Trait aux Blancs 365 Trait aux Blancs Matanovi¢-JanoSevié Doubinine - Pétroff Steinitz - Pilhal ee 1953 Rostov-sur-le-Don, 1936 Vienne, 1862 Va, Wh, Va, YG ZA Y wy’ ol [ates tata aD: nn 366 Trait aux Noirs 367 Trait aux Blancs 368 Trait aux Blancs Consultants-Pillsbury Steinitz - Schlesser Kirilloff - Choulté = = Londres, 1863 Riga, 1961 ae ZS Z (YEW We Wa SYR las Vad BaD. 369 Trait aux Blancs 370 Trait aux Blancs Tarrasch - N.N. Aleksandroff - Zaitseff Eydelman - Mazel 1931 1974 aoa 1928 371 Trait aux Noirs 372 Trait aux Blancs 373 Trait aux Blancs 374 Trait aux Blancs 13Rxg7 2.Dg5+ RfB. Ou : Rh8 3.Dxf6+) 3.3. 3.Dxf6 Td7 4.Cg6+ ReB 5.Dh8F. La partie suivante illustre un déblaiement de ligne effectué avec succds par les Blancs. Défense des deux cavaliers Ergle - Auzinia Riga, 1963 L.e4 05 2.Cf3 Cc6 3.Fed Cf6 4.Gg5 45 sexd5 CaS. Sur limmédiat 5 le Roi noir serait exposé A une violente. Les Blancs auraient le choix de deux continuations 6nergiques: 6.4 et 6.Cxi7. 6.FbS+ Fd7 7.De2 Bd6 8.d4? Mieux vaut jouer 8.Cc3. 8...Cxd5?. +0-0 est plus fort, et si 9.dxe, alors ss+PxeS, Pouverture de la colonne e Stant dans ce cas plutét favorable aux Noirs. 9.dxeS Fe7 10.e6!. Maintenant, au contraire, Youverture de la "grande route" sleffectue d'une maniare wes profitable aux Blancs. _10...Fx9S. Ou 10...fxe6 11.Dxe6 FxbS 12.Di7+ Ra7 13.Dxd5+ Re8 14.Dxb5, avec une pidce de plus. Ll.exd7++ (batterie P+) REB 12.Fxg5 {6 13.De8+ Dxe8+ 14.dxe8=D+ Txe8+ 15.Fxe8, et les Noirs ont abandonné. Comme on ¥a d6ja remarqué, de divers éléments tactiques peuvent venir a Haide du joueur qui veut construire une situation d'échec double. 368. 1.Cxd7!. Attaque la Dame noire, grace au clouage du Ce? sur la colonne e et au clouage du Fd7 sur la diagonale a4-e8 (si les Noirs jouent Pxd?). DxeS5 2.Cf6t+ —REB 3.Fxe7#. On voit que la batterie G+F peut Stre tres elficace. Défense russe I.Zaitsev - Karpov Leningrad, 1966 L.e4 eS 2.Cf3 Cf6 3.d4 Cxea 4.Fd3 d5, 5.CxeS Cd7 6.Cxf71? Dey. Les Noirs créent une batterie dangereuse sur la colonne e. 7.Cxh8 Cc3+ 8.Rd2! Cxdl 9.Tel. Il devient clair que les Blanes nfont prété leur Dame aux Noirs que temporairement. 9...Cxf210.Fxh7. Mais ne faut pas regagner la Dame ici: 10.T'xe7+? Fxe7 11.Fxh7 FgSt et les Noirs doivent gagner. 10...Ge4+ 11.Txe4 dxe4 12.Fg6+ RdB8 13.Cf7+ ReB 14.Cd6++ RaB 15.Cf7+. Nulle. —Liéchee double au service de l'échec perpétuel! exemple suivant (voir le diagranme 369) illustre un type rare d'échec double: 1.Dd5+ Rxf6 2.048! Tg8. Apparemment, les Blanes ont fait une erreur dans leurs. calculations, car si 3.e8-D+ (échec a la découverte), alors 3. fais apras le coup inattendu 3.et 14 niavaient rien de mieux = que, d'abandonner. exemple suivant (voir le diagramme 370) a, lui aussi, une belle conclusion. 1.DE5!1, La Dame se sacrifie. 1... TxfS 2.Te8+ Rd7 3.FbS#. Les Noirs ont réussi a liquider une batterie (T+D), mais ont 6té vaincus par l'autre (f+). En guise de conclusion, voici une curiosité. 371. Les Noirs ont joué 1...Cg4+, et les Blancs (de toute évidence, par la force dlinertie)...ont abandonné, sans. slapercevoir que ce n'était pas un échec double, mais un simple 6chec & la découverte, et quiils pouvaient gagner assez prosaiquement en jouant 2.Txb6. La menace d'un échec double s'est avéré plus terrible que la réalité. Bien sir, les Noirs, quant 8 eux, auraient dG forcer la nullité au moyen de 1...Ch3+r 2.Rh1 Ci2+ 3.Rgl etc. Défence Caro-Kann Tarrasch - N.N. 1931 lee4 6 2.d4 d5 3.Cc3 dxe4 4.Cxe4 Cf6 5.Fd3 Dxd4. Il est toujours un peu risqué d'accepter de tels sacrifices, car Vadversaire obtient une avance de développement. 5...Cxed 6.Fxed FfS! est un moyen plus simple d'égaliser le jeu. (Exercice 1: Trouvez le meilleur plan pour les Noirs apres 7.Fxf5 et apres 7.Ff3). 6-Cf3 Dd8 7.De2 FIS 8.Cxf6+ gxf6 9.Fxf5 Da5+ 10.Fd2 Dxf5 11.0-0-0 De6?. On dirait que les Noirs ont oublié qu'outre la Dame, ils possedent d'autres pidces, et quiil faut les développer+ Pendant que la Dame noire saute par ici et par la, les Blanes ach&vent le développement de leurs pitces et se préparent au combat. Avec le coup 1.--De6, les Noirs attaquent le pion a2 et esp@rent ainsi forcer Méchange des Dames. 12.Dd3!_ Dxa2?. (Voir le diagramme 372). Exercice Il: Comment les Blancs peuvent-iis punir l'avarice des Noirs? 373. 1.Dxc7+! defensive. 1 No.1) 2 Demolit la barritre c7 2.Cb5++ (1a batterie Rb8 3.Td8+! (Exercice III Pourquol ce coup est-il nécessaire?) 3...Txd8 4.FE4¥ Ra8 5.Cc7+ RbB 6.Gxa6++ [la batterie No.2) 6...RaB 7.Ce7+ Rb& (Exercice IV: Est-ce que les Blancs peuvent gagner ici, ou bien doivent-ils se contenter_ dela nullité?). 374, Ici les Blanes ont décidé de "mourir dune belle @pée" en jouant l.fxg4. (Exercice V. Comment les Noirs peuvent-ils mettre fin a la lutte? Les. Blanes avaient-ils un meilleur coup que Lefxad?). EXERCICES SUPPLEMENTAIRES: Entrainez-vous en essayant de résoudre les exercices 375-383. Les solutions de ces exercices, ainsi que des exercices I-V, seront publiées dans un des prochains numéros de Chakhmaty Riga. (Note de la rédaction de CCE: Nos lecteurs trouveront les solutions dans le prochain numéro de CCE, c.-a-dire, le numéro 56). Matchouski-Kolisch Vukovié - Deutsch Langeweg - Kaza Paris Zagreb, 1920 1968 BR 7 87 ; Aa A oh i, Vip UA oP ole az a a: a es A “s TBE Sat (87, Bi 375 Trait aux Blancs 376 Trait aux Blancs 377 Trait aux Noirs Suni - Alivirta Kajaste - Nielson Helsinki, 1957 1957 Elinch - Ségal = 1978 Bg” ns a Gy, a8 ‘Bam Wh fata ULG | a Ze a RG, SERA GZ_WEg _& 380 Trait aux Blancs Ge B27, AAA Y, 379 Trait aux Noirs 378 Trait aux Noirs Rutka - Vesyoli Prague, 1950 Dake - Cranston Mueller - Diemer 6e Olympiade, 1935 RFA, 1958 errr ugg Uk as Am | Y, | 381 Trait aux Blancs 382 Trait aux Noirs 383 Trait aux Noirs 15CAVALCADE x fi tia at 2) twe oer t zg a Y Ri & SQ z Braga - ‘Timman White to play 26.7 Korchnoi's Family Released: July 4, 1982. Victor Korchnoi's wife, son, and mother-in-law arrived in Vienna today. They had been denied permission to leave the Soviet Union since Korchnoi defected in the summer of 1976. The final of the 3rd European Cup was played 18-20 March in Budapest between defending champions "Burevestnik" of the USSR and "Spartacus" of Budapest. Although Spartacus was outrated on every board except Board 4, they won the double-round match 64 - Sf to become the new champions. Curiously enough, it was 2nd round Board 4 game which was the last to finish, with Pintér (Spartacus) having to defend for 138 moves against Razuvayev before caining the draw which gave his team the victory. The members of the teams, in board order, were: Spartacus - Istvan Csom, Pal Benkd, [van Farag6, Joszef Pintér, Petér Lukacs, and Attila Schneider; Burevestnix - Yuri Balashov, Aleksandr Kochiyev, Mark Taimanov, Yuri Razuvayev, Artur Yusupov, and Sergei Doimatov. All the games were drawn. except on Board 5, where Lukacs won, the first game and Yusupov the second, and on Board 6, where Schneider won the second game after drawing the first. All three decisive games were won by Black! Spartacus had reached the final by defeating "Merkur" of Graz (Austria) 94 - 23, "King's Head" of London (England) 64 - 5}, "SSK" of Helsinki (Finland) 7 - 44, and "Tel-Aviv University" (Israel) 7} - 44. Here are two games from the final. Yus D34b Queen's Indian B1S/4 1.44 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.NE3 b6 4.93 Bab 5.Nbd2 Bb7 6.Bg2 Be7 7.0-0 0-0 8.Qc2 dS 9.b3 Na6 10.Bb2 cS 11.Racl dxct 12.dxc5 bxb3 13.Nxb3 16 Diagramme 13...Nb4 14.Qc4 aS 15.03 Bd5 16.QbS Naz A7.cxb6— Nxch 18.Rxcl Rb8 19.804 Na7 20.NxasS Nxb6 21.Nc6 Bxc6 22-Rxc6 Nd5 23.Qd3 Ra8 24.Bb2 Bf6 25.Nd4 Rad 26.¢3 Ne7 27.Rel NES 28.Qb3 Nxd4 29.Bxd4 Qad 30.Bc5 Rc8 31.Bb7 Rc? 32.Rc2 g6 33-Bb4 Rxb4 34,axb4 Qal+ 35.Kg2 Rxb7 0-1 Dolmatov ~ Attila Schneider £83b Sicilian Dragon 76/9 l.e4 cS 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 NG 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.£3 O-O 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.0-O-0 d5 10.exd5 Nxd5 11.Nxc6 bxc6 12.Bd4 eS 13.BcS Be 14.Ne4 Diagramme 14...Rb8 15.94 {5 16.gxfS gxtS 17.Rgh fed 18.Qh6 Qt6 19.Rxg7+ Qxg7 20.Qxe6+ = Kh8. 21.Bxf8 Qg5+ 22.Kbl Rxf8 23.Qxc6 Ne3 24-Rel Nxfl 25.Rxfl exf3 26.Qe4 {2 27.c4 Ria 28.Qd3 e4 29.Qc3+ REG 30.Kc2 e3 31-Kdl Qf4 32.b3 Kq7 0-1 David Bronstein has won the Moscow Championship for the sixth time (the first time was in 19461). This year, he tied for first with Naum Rashkovsky, both scoring 11} - 54. Tied for third with 10-7 were Yuri Balashov, Boris Gul'Ko, Sergei Makarychev, and A. Sokolov. The average rating of the tournament was 2436, and ll of the 18 participants were GM's. Here is a miniature from the tournament. Aseev - Bronstein R9Sa Caro-Kann B16/1 l.e4 c6 2.d4 dS 3.Nc3_dxe4 4.Nxe4 Ni6 5.Nxf6+ gxf6 6.Bc4 BfS 7.Ne2 Nd? 8.Ng3 Bg6 9.0-0 e6 10.n4 owe RPE F Qnéi2.q0 bas |B ERAT Uaokel begs oot | RHRG BE A diy Be A category 10 tournament (average rating 2480) in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, was Aleksandr Belyavsky of the US an undefeated 124 - 24. The surprising result, though, was that of Yugoslav grandmaster Vladimir Kovatevi¢, who finished second only half a point behind, although he lost his individual encounter with Belyavsky. 3rd with 101 was Yugoslav I.M. Predrag —_Nikoli¢, another surprise. Other players scoring over 508 = were = Jan Smejkal, (Czechoslovakia), Gyula Sax (Hungary) and Bojan Kurajica (Yugoslavia), all with 9, Sergei Makarychev (USSR) with 84, and Andras Adorjan (Hungary) with 8. Here is Kovatevi¢'s win over Adorjan. V. Kovai ié - A. Adorjan 02b French-Tarrasch cos/12 lied 06 2.d4 dS 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.05 Nfd7 5.c3 c5 6.4 Nc6 7.Ndf3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Nb6 9.Bd3 Bd7 10.No2 Nb4 11.8bl Bad 12.b3 Bd7 13.0-O hS 14.f5 exfS 15.Nf4 Be? 16.Qel_ Be6 17.Qg3 Kd? 18.a3 Nc6 19.Qxq7 Rg8 20.Qh6 Rh8 21.Nxe6 fxe6 22.Qe3 RgB 23.Bd3 Qf8 24.Rf2 Rod 25.Bb2 Qg7 26-Rcl Rg8 27.Rec? h4 28.3 Rg3_29.Kfl a6 30.Qcl BgS 31.Qel Qhé 32.Qc3 Diagramme 32...Be3 33.Bxa6 Bxd4 34.Qd3 Bxb2 35.8xb7 — NxeS, 36.NxeS+ BxeS 37.Qb5+ Ke? 38.Qxb6 —Qe3 39.Qxe3 Rxe3 40.Rfe2 Rxe2 41.Rxe2 Kd6 42.b4 Rg3 “43.Ra2_ Rb3 44.BcB and White resigned. 0-1 Another category 10 tournament was held in April in Dortmund. The winner here was Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia) with an undefeated 84 - 24. Oleg Romanishin (USSR), half a point behind in second place, had more victories (7) than anyone else, but lost two games, to Lev Psahis (USSR), who was third with 71, and to the only untitled player in the tournament, Vincent McCambridge. (USA). Psahis made his final GM norm and will now officially be awarded the title. We present two games from the tournament. £37a 87/5, l.e4 eS 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.BbS a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-O Be? 6.Rel d6 7.c3 Bg4 8.43 0-0 9.h3 Bd? 10.Nbd2 Re8 11.Nfl Bf8 12.Ng3 g6 13.d4 Bg7 14.8c2 Qe7 15.Be3 Rad’ 16.d5 Nb8 17.c4 cS 18.a3 Rc8 19.Rbl bS 20.Nd2 REB 21.f4 exf4 22.Bxf4 NeB 23.NE3 Ruy Lopez 7 {6 24.Bd3 Nc? Diagramme. 25.b4 bxc4 26.Bxc4 NbS- 27.Qd3 Nd4 28.Nxd4 exd4 29.Qxd4 gs 30.Bd2 £5 31.Qd3 Qed 32.Rbcl Qd4* 33.Qxd4 Bxd4+ 34.Kh2 Bb2 35.Re2 BeS 36.Bxg5 fxe4 37.Bb3 B{5 38.RxcB RxcB 39.RFL Re3 40.Bf4 Bxf4 41.Rxf4 Bg6 42.Bdl e3 43.Rf6 Nd7 44.Rxd6 NeS. 45.Re6 NI7 46.Rxa6 K{8 47.D5 Bd3 48.Ra8+ 1-0 Lobron - Hort 35a Ruy Lopez ceasil L.e4 eS 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.BbS a6 4.Bad NIG $.0-O bS 6.Bb3 Be7 7.d4 d6 8.c3 Ba4 9.3 Bxf3 10.Qxf3 exd4 11.Rdl NeS. 12.Qg3 NhS 13.Qh2 3 14.£4 Diagramme. (ae nee 14...Bh4 Fe 3 Isetxes aga RIE 16-QhL qna [te 17.Rxd3— Qxe4 @ 18:Rdl nea |G 19.Bxt7* Kxi? |e 20.8xi4 — Bxfd | 21.03 Qe3+ 22.KEl BxeS 0-1 The 1982 Lugano Open, a 9-round Swiss played in the Swiss city in March, attracted a strong field including Korchnoi, Spassky, Nunn, ete. Viktor Korchnoi defeated Spassky and went on to finish first with an undeteated 8-1. Incidentally, Korchnoi's wife Bella and their son Igor have been granted exit visas and should have left the Soviet Union by the time you read this. John Nunn (England) was second with 7, and Spassky tied for third with 64. Canadian Champion Igor Ivanov was undefeated with 3 wins and 6 draws, but finished out of the prize money. Ivanov later tied for first with Spanish grandmaster Bellon in a tournament in Benidorm, Spain. He was again undefeated, this time with 6 wins and 3 draws. Here is his win over Sellon. Bellon - Igor Ivanov El6a Scotch carla L.e4 eS 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 NEG 4.d4 exdd 5.NdS Be7 6.Bf4 d6 7.Nxd4 O-O 8.NbS Nxd5 9.exd5 NeS 10.Qd2 c6 11.Nc3 BfS 12.Be2 Bf6 13.0-O cS 14.Rfel a6 15.a4 Re8 16.Bfl Qb6 17.Nd] Ng6= Diagramme. bad 8.RxeB* (In the Bulletin’ diintor= aa mation de la ‘f & Ligue — d'echecs de Montreal, AAW RRR Ivanov R ARA® recommends 2 DO ey — 18.Ne3!) 18...Rxe8 19.8g3 hS 20.a5 Qd8 21.Ne3 BgS 22.Qc3 Bxe3 23.fxe3 h4 24.B{2 Red 25.Ra3 Qg5 26.Kh1 h3 27.83 (Here, writes Ivanov, a player at a neighboring board had a heart-attack and Ivanov's game was adjourned for half an hour, until the man had been carried off to hospital and everybody had settled down.) 27...Nh4 28.Qd2 Rg4 29.8xh4 Qxh4 30.Kgl Be4 31.Ra4 hxg2 32.Bxq2 Qg5 0-1 Here is a remarkable game that was played in the Mar del Plata tournament that was reported on in CCE #54. Braga - Timman_ R92D Caro-Kann B28 l.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3-e5 BIS 4.Nc3 26 5.04 Bg6 6.Nge2 cS 7.Be3 Nc6 8.dxcS NxeS 9.Nad NEG K Wes &] Diagramme at a2t 10.f4 Nexad 7 hee 11.Bb5+ Ke7 12.Bgh Qc7 a g 13.06 b6 14.Qe2 aA sa Qxid 15.c7 Nel RR R * bie | (KB PB Qg3* 18.Kfl Qf4+ 19.Kel Qt 20.KEL x ff & ne t het 7 t 3 . 1 Our eta ean ole Ae 25.Bh2r _KeS a, wt 26.Nb8. Qxh4 RAR w 27 .c8=Q+ B Sh8 Kb4 28.Rbl+ Ka3 29.Ral+ Kb4 30.RbI+ Kags i-} The strongest recent tournament was the Phillips & Drew Kings tournament held April 15-30 in London, England. It was category 14 (average rating: 2585). The results were as follows: 1-2 Karpov & Andersson, 8)-4}; 3. Seirawan, 8-5; 4-7 Speelman, Timman, Portisch, & Ljubojevié, 7-6; 8-9 Spassky & Miles, 64 > 64; 10. Geller, 6-7; ll. Nunn, 5} - 74; 12-13 Christiansen & Mestel, 5-8; 14. Short, 3} - 91, There were some spectacular happenings inthe. tournament. Portisch got 6 points in his first 7 games, but then managed only 18 one more point in his last 6 games. Seirawan, on the other hand, had anly 4 out of 3, but then won his last four games against Ljubojevié, Karpov, Nunn, and Miles. Andersson's only loss was to the spurting Portisch near the start of e tournament, while Karpov's only loss was to the spurting Seirawan near the end of the tournament! The latter game featured a sensational piece sacrifice by Karpov. Timman - Portisch 36a Queen's Indian 17/6 1.d4 NE6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.93 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.0-O O-O 7.d5 exdS 8.Nh4 c6 9.cxd5 Nxd5 10.Nf5 BE6 11.Rel Bab 12.64 Ne7 13.Ne3 BeS 14.Ng4 Bc7 15.e5 dS. Gags ech ew ee Diagramme, t £# Attt 17.NE6* ao te © Ray Keene wrote 5 in the bulletins # that if 17...0xf6 18.Bxt5. aa RGR followed by a2 RD WR BS or Qh5 and Qhé. However, after the thematic 18...Qd7, there is no obvious way for White towin. For example 19.Qd2 Qg4 (the threat was 20.Qg5+ Ng6 21.Qh6. mating) 20.8xe7 Re® 21.Bi6 (21.Bh3 Qg6) Nd? Slack has a much better position than in the game. 17...Kh8 18.Nc3 Naé 19.NExdS cxdS 20.NxdS Be6 21.Bxe7 Qd7 22.Nxc? Qxc7 23.Bd6 Qed 24.Bfl 1-0 Queen's Gambit Disd DS3/L 1.Nf3 NEG 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.d4 Be7 5.BgS h6 6.Bh4 O-O 7.Rcl b6 B.cxd5 Nxd5 9.Nxd5 exd5 10.8xe7 Qxe7 11.q3 ReB 12.Rc3 Nab 13.Qa4 He ED Diagramme t t wit! 13...c5 14.Re3 BE t Beb 15.Qxa6_ t cxd4 16.Rb3 BES YY 17.Bg2 Boz # a Dt 18.Nxd4 Bxb3 RR RR 19.Nxb3 Rac8 20.813 8. 8 Re2 21.0-O Rxb2 22.Rdl Rd8 23.Nd4 Rd? 24.Nc6 Qe8 25.Nxa7 Rc7 26.a4 Qa’ 27.Rxd5 Qxa7 28.Rd8+ Kh7 29.Qd3+ {5 30.Qxf5+ g6 31.Qe6 1-0 A tournament in Chicago saw Robert Hiibner of West Germany achieve one of the best results of his career. He scored 8-2 in the double round-robin event to finish 24 points ahead of second-place Walter Browne (U.S.A.). Viktor Korchnoi finished a disappointing ard with 5-5, Roman Jinjihashvili (Israel) was 4th with 4} ~ 54, Anatoly Lein (U.S.A.) was Sth with 4-6, and William Martz (U.S.A.), the only non-G.M. in the event, was last, with 3-7. Hiibner scored 2-0 against Lein, and defeated everyone else by a li - } score. This was the first major tournament Hiibner has ever won. More Canadians: The Memorial Day Classic in Los Angeles was won by Igor Ivanov 6-0 with a last round victory over Walter Browne. Rob Hawkes S-1 tied for fifth with Browne and 9 others. His only loss came at the hands of - Igor! There were 52 masters and only the two. Canadians among the over 400 players. Next weekend Ivanov defeated Kamran Shirazi in the last round to win 5-0. The average rating of the top 10 players was 2440. Rob Hawkes went on to tie for first in the Rose Festival tournament in Portland, OR. His 44-} score was equalled by John Donaldson and John Braley. The first Women's World Junior Championship saw Agnieszka Brutsman of Poland take the title with 8! points, half a point ahead of Tatiana Rubtsova of the USSR. The ratings of the players scoring 50% or more ranged from 1800 to 2180. In the World Junior Championship, the corresponding ratings range from 2200 to 2550. You still have a long way to come, lassies! Igor Ivanov's Interzonal tournament has been the subject of international billiards. First it was to be played in Mexico City. The the peso was devalued and the government couldn't meet the financial requirements - which are always stated in Swiss Francs. So the tournament was rescheduled —_ for September in Iceland. Howls of protest from the top players, who had already accepted invitations to other events in September. Then the Mexicans came up with a new sponsor, so the tournament will be held in August in Toluca, not far from Mexico City. Pravda gave the list of all the players In Igor's interzonal. Except Igor. ead of mentioning him, they put ete. In 64 the players were all mentioned by name again, except Igor, who was the representative of Zone 6. It only took them eight weeks to recognize that Korchnoi was gone, but Igor has been in Canada for two years nov Mr. Smith Department: In last issue's Cavalcade, we seemed to imply that the members of the Yugoslav team that finished 2nd in the World Solving Championship were the well-known, 19 Grandmasters Dra8ko Velimirovié and Vladimir Kovatevié. Vojin VujoSevi¢ of ‘Toronto has pointed out that we had the surnames right but the identities wrong. Both names are common in Yugoslavia, Kovatevi¢ being the equivalent of Smith. ‘The Pope, John Paul II, is an avid chess. player and in his younger days composed chess problems. he problem in the Diagramme. is White to play and mate in two moves. — Karal Wojtyla composed it in 1946, but it was not published dedicated it to Echecs. 1979, the magazine The Pope made up the diagram in his own hand and added his blessings. until when he Europe The intended solution is 1.44, but Clifford Hoskin of Hamilton points out an alternate solution: 1.Nxf7, discovered by his computer. Problems are supposed to have only one solution, so the Pope's is refuted. ‘This should not cause Roman Gatholics to lapse, because their doctrine of papal infalibility applics only to questions of faith and morals. FIRST CLASS MAIL Chess Canada Echecs is normally sent by Third Class Mail. 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Chess Federation of Canada Box 7339, Ottawa, Ont KIL 8E4Southfield Chowder by DAVE ROSS What better way to forget a dark dreary Ottawa evening than to give in to the urge of a chess tournament. No matter that the only tournament within 500 miles was the Great Lakes Open in Southfield, a suburb of Detroit. By a combination of hitchhiking and Greyhound 1 arrived in Detroit at 7 Saturday morning. ‘That left me two hours to find Southfield and the tournament site. T approached a stranger and asked: "Could you please tell me how to get to Southfield? “Never heard of a Southfield in these parts" came the painful reply. It was going to be a long day. Fortunately, the next person I asked was driving out that way and gave me a ride directly to the site. I thought I would be paired down, being in the top half of the crosstable. This would help as I had had only two hours of sleep. No such luck! The director decided to use an old USCF rating and I found myself on board two against Jeremy Barth (2392). D.ROSS - J-BARTH E34a Spanish Arkhangelsk cea led e5 2.NE3 Nc6 3-BbS a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5-0-0 bS 6.Bb3 Bb? This was the first time I had encountered the arch-angel. 7.43 One of the ideas of 6...Bb? is to put pressure on the P/ed. 7.43 is a sensible positional continuation. Some other tries with Nc3 have worked out badly for White, e.g.: 1) _7.Nc3 Be? $.d3 O-O 9.842 dé S8.Garcia - A.Mikhalchishin Baku 80; 2) 7.d3 Be? 8.Nc3 d6 9.24 b4 10.Nd5 Q-O 11.a5 NxdS 12.Bxd5 Nxas! =/+ Christiansen - Larsen Mar del Plata 81. 7...Be7 8.c3 O-O 9.Rel h6?! (d6) 10.Nbd2 Re8 11.Nfl Bf8 12.Ng3 g6 13.a3! Because of 9...h6 White's light-square B will be allowed the luxury of remaining on the a2-g8 diagonal. 13...Bg7 14.h4 To attack the Black's K. 14,..n5 If Black doesn't play it, White will. 15.Bg5 Qe7?! light squares around 20 15..+d6 16.44 Qc8 is safer. 16.44 d6 17.Rcl Kh8 This isn't necessary yet. Black hopes to eventually play £5. The immediate 17...Qf8 seems better, e.g. 18.c4?! bxcd 19.Rxc4 exd4 or 19.Bxc4 Nxd4 gives Black a playable position in either case. White can improve on 18.c4 with 18. Baz with advantage. 18.Ba2 Qf£8 19.d5 Na7 20.c4 bxc4 21.Nd2 I felt there was no need to have so many pieces on the K-side as an attempted breakthrough for either side would be impractical in the forseeable future. 21...c5 Black must liquidate his weak P/c7. Untortunately, the move gives more scope to the B/a2. 22.dxc6 ep Nxc6 23.Nxc4 Nd4 Diagramme a¥ 24.ND6! t The N/b6 plays |B a decisive role. é It exerts lye influence over | ope dS and, more |# importantly, a dominates the B/b7. Its nice to see the N get the upper hand for a change. The N/d4 looks impressive, but the rest of Black's pieces are passively placed. 24...Rad8 25.Bd5? Re7 1 was planning 26.Bxb? Rxb7 27.Na5 winning the Exchange. The only problem is that after 27...Nxd5 28.Bxd8 Qxd8 29.exd5 Rxb2 White would be lucky to draw. Far better were 25.b4 or 25.Nd5 with a large advantage. 26.Ba2_Ne6 27.b4 Nxg5 28.hxg5 Nh7 29.NxhS Inspired by so many Tal sacrifices and my opponent's mild time pressure, I went for the jugular. If I had foreseen my opponent's 30th move, I would probably have played something else. Which would have been a shame. 29...gxh5 Accepting the challenge. 29.Nxa5 was also playable: 30.Ng3 Bh6 31.Re3 and White is a littie better. 30.Qxh5 £6! What a shock! I had thought this was self mate. Doesn't 31.46 mash? No! If 31.96 Bh6 32.qxh7 Bxcl 33.Rxcl Bxed and White is dead. The next few moves are forced. 31.Re3 fxgS 32.Rh3 Diagramme 33.Be6! Without this shot White would be down a piece for nothing. Now Black must detend very accurately for a long time. As so often is the case in a time pressure situation, the shock of an unforeseen resource is too much to handle and the defence crumbles. 33.--Bo6?? To bring the B to e8 and defend the K-side. A good concept, but it loses. Let's look at_— some _ interesting alternatives. 1) 33..+Qe8? 34.Qh6 Qf8 35.BE5! Qxhé 36.Rxh6 R18 37.Rcl and no matter how Black squirms he loses the piece back. 2) 33...Rg7 34.B15 Qf? 35.Qg4 (also good is 35.Rel Qxh5 36.RxhS Rdg8! 37.04! Bd8 38.Nd5 Bxd5 39.exd5 and White wins by queening a pawn or possibly Kg2 & Rhl!) 35...ReB 36.Ree3 a) 36...Bd8 37.Bxh7? Rxh7 38.Rxh7+ Kxh7 (Qxh7 39-Rh3 +-) 39.883! Qg8! 40.Qf5+ Kg? 41.Qd7+ Re7 42.Qxd6 Reé 43.Qd7+ Re7 44.Q£5 Re6 45.Nd7! +-; b) 36...Kg8 37.Nd7 Bd8 (37....NE8 38.Qh5) 38.Rh6 intending Reh3 +-. Not 38.Bxh7+ Rxh? 39.Rxh? Qxh7! and with the K/g8, Rh3 is harmless. 3) 33...Qg? 34.Qq4! intending Ree3 and Black's lights will soon be dim, The variations show that the sacrifice 29.NxhS might be sound. Little matter. The- rich tactical possibilities justify it. With the clock ticking the defence, if there is one, is not obvious. 34.BfS QgB My opponent said after the game that he had overlooked 34...Be8 35.Qhé6! 35-Rel! +- BaB 35...Be8 36.Qh6 +-. The N/o6 will return to d5 with deadly effect. 36.Qh6 RE8 37.Nxa8 g4 38.RhS BgS 39.Qxd6 REf7 In extreme time trouble Black hangs his Q. He was lost anyway: 39...Rxa8 40.Bxh7 Rxh7 41.Qxe5+ Qg7 42.Rxh7+ Kxh7 43.Rc7. 40.RcB QxcB 41.Bxc8 g3 42.BfS 1-0 In the last round I needed a win to take third prize. The game lasted nine hours. We were thrown out of the site at midnight. The director said we'd have to play it out at the Howard Johnson's. I had visions of finishing the game in the restaurant over a bowl of clam chowder, 2 but the TD rented a room! At Zam L won the R ending. This gave me 4-2, a performance rating of 2395, $180, and no chowder. The winner was Eugene Martinovsky with 5-1. I would especially like to thank the Byers and the Finegolds for putting me up and helping make my trip a success. —— JOURNEY THROUGH THE PAGES IM Mark Ginsburg, one of the co-winners of the 1982 Toronto Open, has annotated some of his games from that event. M. Ginsburg - M. Buchholz, R7TD Ben-Oni AI5/10 L.c4 g6 2.Nc3 Ba? 3.d4 cS 4.d5 d6 S.e4 NG 6.NE3 O-O 7.Be2 06 8.0-0 exdS 8...Re8 9.dxe6 hasn't been standing up theoretically. Q.exdS S.exd5 }-} 9.2.86 10.a4 Bg4 A popular line. 11.Bf4 Re8 12.Nd2! A strong idea. White preserves both Knights for defence of the Q-side and later central expansion. 12...Bxe2 13.Qxe2 NhS 14,Be3 Nd7 15.Rael!? A novelty. (Ed. ~ ECO gives this move in Armaudov - Hulak, Varna 1974). I've also tried 15.94!?, but normal is 15.a5, when Black should reply 15...Bd4! as in Korchnoi - Nunn, London 1980. 15...Rb8? Black isn't alert. Better is 15...Bd4!, ensuring that the B will have an active role. The ...b?-bS break is not playable without tortuous preparation. 16.94! Gaining space where Black doesn't have too many defensive resources. (Ed. This seems to be the real novelty, as the above-mentioned game continued with 16.14). 16..-Nhf6 17.43! An important stabilizing move leaving White free to monitor both wings; +/-. 17...h6?1 Another K-side target helping White to open lines after the inevitable g4-95. 18.Kg2 Qc7 Black's main problem is that 18...b5? fails to 19.axbS axb5 20.NxbS Qb6. 21.Na3! Qxb2 22.Nac4 winning the P/d6. So he can only wait. 19.n4! Nh7 Continued page 32Canada Newfoundland per He came, he saw, he conquered - without ever really being tested. J. Frank Sexton of St. John's breezed through this year's event scoring 5-0, thus extending to 23 his consecutive winning streak in CFC tournament play. Second was Mike Byrne of Stephenville with 4-1. A loss to Jim Duffett in Round 3 prevented Mike from getting a chance to stop Sexton, Alton & Morley Payne, both of Daniel's Harbour, ted for Top Junior. Tony Metcalfe expressed a desire to have his name Gorner Brook mentioned in this report, but I couldn't think of anything to say about him. TD & Report: David Purdy ‘The second annual Daniel's Harbour Open attracted 10 players from the Daniel's Harbour area. The tournament was won by provincial high school champion Alton Payne with a perfect score of 4-0. Second place went to Baxter Payne on tie-break over novice Floyd House. Both players lost only to the tournament winner. TD & Report: Jim Duffett Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Championship_ Howard Streit of Montreal took time out from visiting the local points of interest to score 54 points and take the $50 first prize in the 19-player A section. Brian Beed came second with 4} points and was awarded th annual championship cup as the top Nova Scotian The B section, restricted to players rated under 1500, was won by Terry, Dorey with 54 points, ahead of Anil Goel in second with 5 and Stephen LeBlanc in third with 44, Tne combined attendance of 46 players was a new record. 22-24 May 123 4 5 6 7T UStreit H +14 48 45 47 44 2Beed Brian +3 -4 +11 +9 47 B.Felderho! G -2 +16 +6 +13 ‘Kenney D419 42. =7 “1 S.Hake Paul +18 +17 -1 "2 SMathers | -8 +14 -3 7.Charlton G +12 +9 +4 B.wWauvergne P46 -1 13 Peters M 413-7 419 10.Williams }=11 +18 +17 i1BealsG +10 +15 -2 V2.Naugler Rex -7 ~13 +14 13.Pentz Brian -9 +12 =8 14.Diggins Bo -1 “12 15.0rmston Ron=0 -16 16.Drummond F -17 -3 #15 -8 #17 -9 V7eldridge Mo +16 -5 -10 -6 =0 -0 8Boutilier L -5 10 =0 -12 +19 -15 19.Diggins Po -4 0-9 =15 -18 -14 0 TD, Rep: Glenn Charlton; Q Cay The Classic, played May 8 & 9, featured seven unrated players, including five new GFG members, among its fourteen entrants. Top-rated Larry Boutilier took first with 31 - 4, while tied for second were Cameron Paul and Terry Dorey of Baddeck, both with 3. John MacLean with 2} was top under-1400, and Walter MacNeil, also with 2), was top unrated. TD & Report: Larry Boutilier Sunday Rating Round Robin Brian Hubley was first with 2-0. TD & Report: Larry Boutilier New Brunswick G American Jay Whitehead (U.S.C.F. rating 2492) was on his way to Israel, and asked Robert Hamilton if there was any good tournament in Canada that he could play in, "en passant", Robert assured him that there was this excellent tournament in Moncton... and the rest you can see from the cross-table. The 16-player 8 section was won by Jacques Brun with 5-1, ahead of Terry Richardson with 41. Ape 9-11 12 3 4 5 6 1s Whitehead | +21 +B +3 +5 92 +6 2. Gibson Tom #17 =10 +9 +4 -1 +8 3. Robichaud L +18 #22 -1 47-6 +10 4. Bogle Bill 423 +13 +7 -2 =8 5. Stewart Rick=9 #12 +10 -1 #11 6. Hamilton R #24 -7 +19 +13 43 7. McKim Fred +14 +6 -4 =3) 415 +16 8. Basque R +25 -1 +17 % Mills Ken =5 #20 -2 10. Hicks Bob #27 =2. -5 11. Farrow Tony =20 -19 +15 12. Hopkins D +16 -3 +22 13. Robidoux P +15 -4 +24 14, Gallant Mel =? 416 +21 15, Keunecke Ed-13 #24 -11 +21 -7 #22 16. Vocelle | -12 -14 425 +23 422 -7 17, Seems Daniel -2 718 +24 426 18. Ykelenstam -3 417 19-9 19, Beaumont F =O +11 -6 -20 -18 +27 20, Duivenvoorde=11 -9 +26 #19 -10 -14 21, D'Souza Mike-1 618 =14 -19 #25 -12 22. Callaway | +26 -3_ -12 +24 -16 -15, 23, Beauregard }-4 -15 +27 -16 = 24. Bouchard R -6 +27 -13 -22 -17 =0 25. Griffin Mike -8 -17 =16 #26 -21 26, Cross Dana 20-25 #27 -17 27. Sherren D=40 24 -23 20-26 -19 TD & Report: Rod Hébert Co-sponsored by the City of Moncton T 6 4= 4 4 4 4 4 * UNB Spring Open Robert Hamilton won this S-player round-robin with 4-0, one-and-a-half points ahead of Fred McKim in second, TD & Report: Fred Mc GC Spring Shirley Olsen topped the l6-player field with 4}- 4. Philip Massey was second with 4, while top-rated Ken Duff could only tle for third with 31. TD & Report Fred McKim ampionship. The championship this year was a 12-player swiss held April 23-25. Top-rated Fred McKim won with 4} - |, ahead of Corey Stephen in second with 4 and Ken Duif in third with 34. TD & Report: Fred McKim NB High Robert DiDiodato became the champion by scoring 3} - } in the 5-player round-robin held April 29 ~ May 2. Werner DeJong was second with 24, and Louis Robichaud third with 2. TD & Report: Fred McKim NB Open. Perennial 2nd-place finisher Robert DiDiodato has mended his ways and his victory here was his fifth straight Ist or st finish in NB or Atlantic tournaments. TD & Report: Fred McKim 22-24 May 123 45 6 + 1.DiDiodato R =O +7 #2 43 2McKim Fred +13 +8 -1 +6 3.Bogle Bill +9 =6 +4 -1 A.Gogan Ron +12 25-3. +10 S.vocelle | #10 24-6 +11 6.Robidoux P +15 =3 45-2 TaMills Kea -17 12 14 B.Craft Ken 914-2 +11 +9 9.Fyffe Larry -3 115 +10 -8 AosFinley GB -5 12-9 -4 VWijackson | +7 =0 -8 +5 12.Green John -4 -10 =7 +15 1B0lsen S$ -2 #14 -0. -0 14.Geeen N -B ~13 415-7 ~12 -10 1S.Green Ro -6 -9 =14 -12 -10 -7 1D, Rep: F. McKim; Org: Quebec ‘Tournoi Mémorial Le Dain Clest Jose-Luis Alvarez qui a remporté c: tournci avec 5 sur 6. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pierre Jodoin et Jean Delva suivaient de pres avec 4}. Rapport: La Ligue d'échecs de Montréal r Te Ge tournol slest soldé par la victoire de Daniel Rousseau avec 5} sur 6, suivi de Michel Gagnon, Sylvain Barbeau et Jose-Luis Alvarez avec 4}, Rousseau a battu Alvarez en cinquitme ronde et annulé avec Barbeau en dernitre. Barbeau, quant & lui, avait d8)a concédé des nulles A René Carrier et a Grant Guavrement. Rapport: La Ligue d'échecs de Montréal Laval MW Ouvert 2-4 Ape 123 4 5 7 1. Hebert Jean “9 2. Spraggett Kevin 1 3. Regnier Alain 423 +10 4. Barbeau Sylvain +813, 5. williams Leo "2 6. Picard Claude 4 7, Yves Ber 11 a4 8. Jodoin Pierre 49 9, Bolduc Steve 8 10. Roy Guy 425-3 11, Gagnon Michel +740 12, Hemmeles Bill “17 40 13, Girard Robin 1B 4 14. Moshopoulos A 315-7 15. Kurtz Murray 514 417 16. Wilkin Alain +27 #22 17. Lafortune N 12-15 18. Trepanier C 13-0 19, Pommainville R -23 +20 -22 +25 20. Girard Jeannot -1 =19 +30 +26 21. Gareau Edmond -8 -17 =0 +27 22, Alain Benoit -13 +19 -16 23 Ignas Zalys a remporté ce tournoi avec 24 ~ te Rapport: La Ligue d'échecs de Montréal Sylvain Barbeau et Kevin Spraqgett ont terminé ex aequo en tte avec 4) sur 5. Spraqgett a défait le MI Laszlo Witt en dernitre ronde, mais avait déja annulé avec Anthony Ibrahim en deuxitme, tandis la nulle de Barbeau est venu contre Witt en quatridme. Rapport La Ligue d'échecs de Montréal Ontario Kingston Chess Club_ David Jiles has scored a double by first winning the 2l-player — Whig-Standard tournament with a perfect 6-0, and then winning the 18-player club championship. In the latter, he won his preliminary section with 7-1, and then defeated the winner of the other preliminary section, Gerald Aspler, in a play-off match. TD & Report: Santo D'Agostino Belleville Closed Defending champion Martin Devenport, outrating his opposition by more than 300 points, defended his title succesfully with, 4} out of 5. Two juniors, 13-year-old Paul Williams, who held Devenport to a draw in round 4, and l6-year-old Richard Mallon, tied for second, bali a point behind the winner. TO: Jim Mallon Report: Peter StockhausenOntario 22-24 May Perf 1. Spraggett Kevin 2515 Ivanov Igor 2479 Hebert Jean 2401 Allan Denis C 2310 Pelts Roman 2295 Hamilton Robert 2250 Berry jonathan 2237 Doubleday William G 2181 Ross David 2148 Maheux Pierre 2144 + Sellars Carl 2137 Smith Charles R 2110 Ross Paul 2032 Pauric Ivan 2189 Boileau Doug 2133 Pineault Denis 2130 Kuznecov Alex 2125 Hartman Brian 2062 Yurick Don 2051 Hergott Deen 1902 Maisonneuve jude 2059 Sarkar Prosanto 1957 - Kovac Ken 1953 Brodie Hugh 1906 Veltmann Martia 1888 Pacey Kevin 1854 Jagla Frank 1851 Kurtz Murray 1847 Kosic Dusan 1819 Edwards Geoffrey 1655 Gordon Dave 1835 Northover Philip. 1820 Riley Kelly 4740 Laurin Marcel 1837 Daku Zoltan 1818 Webb V.L 1746 Petrunka Robert 1687 Limninski Nick 1679 Basque Roland 1676 Horvat Miro 1812 Dunphy Ron 1682 Latreille Pierre 1659 Lemieux Richard 1569 Seguin Hubert 1555 Chyurlia Jerome 1541 Julien Bradtey 1453 Huband Ken 1553, Smith Eric 1550 The seven top rated players took the top seven places, in order if you ignore tiebreaks. ‘The trio of Montreal IMs, Igor Ivanov, Kevin Spraggett, and Jean Hébert tied for first, splitting $1,000. Their main competition came from the two players who tied for fourth. Denis Allan, singing the praises of bus travel, took Ivanov down to a drawn R ending before choosing the wrong simplifying continuation. Roman Pelts, playing his first game ever against former compatriot Ivanov, overestimated his position. That left ivanov alone in the lead going into the crucial fifth round game Kevin Spraggett - Igor Ivanov. D4aza Nimzo-Indian 32/9 1.d4 NI6 2.04 26 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0-0 5.3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 b6 7.Nt3 Bb7 8.b4 d6 9.8b2 Nbd7 10.e3 Ned 11.Qc2 {5 12.Be2 Qe? 13.0-0 a Newon 1 2 3 4 2536 +25 48 +18 =3 2541 +28 +11 +4 2439 +40 +6 2306 #22 -2 2414 10 +15 2133 235-3 2245 14 +16 2104 1437 2206 12 213 1747 5 2052 2 1994 = 2007 2080 =7 na 2029 2200 2221 1904 2017 1866 1986 1864 1928 1877 2007 1816923 1882 1695 1713 1763 1921°22 1862 1722 1770 1825 1816 1846 1794 1989 1043°9 1942°14 1425 1623 1568 1741810. 1599 1805 NaS Diagramme 14.Nd2 {4 15.exf4 Rxf4 16.13 Raf8 17.Rael _Q£7 18.05 NEG 19.06 Bc8 20.93 Nn3+ 21.Kg2 Nd5 22.BcA RES 23.Qb3 Qh5 24.Kh1 RSf6 25.b5 QE7 26.14 G5 27.Ned RES 28.94 Rxf4 29.Qxh3 Qs & ze Diagramme. . t 30.Ng3 a: tow 30-843!) 3064.Qc2 a | 31-Bxds exd5, g 32.Rxf4 axf4 OE 33.Nn5 3? 4 33...Qxb2] 34.Bel £2 35.REL Be Qe4+ 36.Qg2 REZ 37.Ng3_Qd3 38.NIS Bxts 39.gxf5+ KI7 40.Bh6 QxfS 41.Qg7+ Kea 42.Qq8* 1-0 Comments from Spragqett's score sheet. Hebert salvaged a draw against Pelts so Spraagett held a half point lead going into the last round. Allan - Spraggett was a spirited battle, with both sides anxfous to have an isolated d-pawn. Spraggett said later that it's easier to play for a win if you have the isolated pawn. The game was drawn, Ivanov and Hébert pulled level with fairly easy victories. The Under-1800 section was won by Stephen Wright 5, followed by Teddy Hsu 5. Top-rated Herb Langer took the under 1400 with 54, a point ahead of G.Howe and -Wellsbury. To be a successful chess player, you must be physically fit. If you're not fit, you pay the consequences in the second game of the day. Inefficient body chemistry allow toxins to build up. How else to explain the hallucinogenic ending to the following game? Diagramme. LPAURIG - J-BERRY. Black to play The logical continuation is 59...Bb2, keeping an eye on the qucening squares. abedefagh If 60.Rxc4 Ndse. Otherwise Black's P/c4 waltzes in and B+N defeat the lone pawn. 59.4842? Just as I played this I saw 60.n6 Bxné 41.Rxc4=. However - 60.Ra2? 3 61.Kq6 Ke4? 61,,.Be3! is the right idea. Then 62-n6 Bd4 63.h7 Nd6 64.Ra5+ Ke6 65.Rad Bhs 86-Ra2 Kd5, followed by Kd4-d3, winning R for P, and coming back tor White's last hope on'h7. White's K is cut off; Black's K could be on the moon and still win! 62.n6 Kb3 White's correct course is now 63.h7 Kxa2 64.hBQ NcS 65.Qe9 with a draw. However, it is easy to be unsure about such a draw and to seek something clearer. 63. Ras? Also insufficient is 63.Ral? ¢2 64.h7 Bcd 65.REl Kb2 66.KE7 clQ 67-Rxcl Kxcl 68.Kg8 NE3+ 69.Kg7 Ngd+ 70.Kg8 Nh6+ and it's moon lander all over. 63... Bxeh6? 1 made this move and could hardly believe my eyes. | had planned 63...c2, winning. Really. 64.Kxn6 2 65-Ral! I hoped he might try 65-Rb8+? Kea 66.Rc8r Nes. 65...Kb2 66.Rel Nc3 Unnecessary excitement was added here as a Pauric had miscounted the moves to the tine control on move 65 and thought he still had nine moves to make. However, he had worked it out perfectly. 67.Rhl Ne2 68.Rel Kc3 69.Kg7 Kd2 70.Ral Nc3 71-Rhl Ke2 72.Rh2* $ - + If you think that's bad shape, be happy I didn't show the rest of the game or my afternoon game the next day against Kuznecov! TD & Org: Les Bunning & Terry Fleming Toronto Victoria Day Open ‘The Victoria Day Open, held May 22-24 at Wetmore Hall, New College, was organised by the Toronto Chess Club for those who couldn't make the long trip to Ottawa for the Ontario Open but who wanted to play a little chess. The 3l-player top section was won by Lawrence Day & lan Findlay, both with 5-1. Findlay played very aggressively throughout and defeated Bryon Nickoloff in a miniature in the last game. In the fifth round against Day, however, he let slip an endgame where he was up three connected passed pawns. Here are some games from the tournament. ‘The first two have been annotated by Day. Bryon Nickoloff - Lawrence Day Dada Nimao-Indian 20/3 1.d4 NIG 2.c4 6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.93 Romanishin's variation. 4..-0-0 5.Bg2 d5 6.NE3 dxcd 7.0-O0 Neb 8.Qa4 As far as 1 know, an innovation. 8.Rel is normal. 8...Bd7 Also interesting is 8...Qe8. 9.NeS I had expected 9.Qe2. 9...a5, Forced. 10.Bxc6 Bxc6 11.Nxc6 bxc6 12.Qxc6 Bxc3 13.bxc3 Qd5! 14.Qa4!? 14.Qxd5 leads to an ending with about equal chances. 14,..Ned Diagt 15.Ba3? On 18.Qc2, 19...Q6 16,Bai nxg3 17.Qxt5 Nxe2+, but 15.BbZ!? with the idea of 16.Qc2, e.g. 15...Rb8 16.Qc2 QIS 17.Racl, may give White a slight edge. 15..-Nxe3!_ 16.Qc2 Nb5! ‘The move he overlooked.17.Bx18 Nxd4 18.Qd1 Rxf8 19.Rel 96 Black has time for this safety move, as White cannot improve his position. 20.Rel Rb8 21.Qa4 c3! 22.Qd1 Not 22.Rxc3? Nxe2+ 23.Rxe2 Rbl+ mating. 22.44Rb2 23-Qd3 c2 24.h4 NS 25.Qc3 Rxad 26.Qxc? Qe4 27.Kh2 eS 28-Qc3 a4 and White overstepped the time limit. 0-1 [DAY] Lawrence Day - Robert Morrison D33a Queen's Indian ELa/s 1.d4 06 2.NE3 NE6 3.c4 b6 4.e3 Bb7 5.Bd3 d5 6.b3 Bd6 7.0-O O-O 8.Nbd2 Ned 9.Qc2 £5 10.NeS Nbd7 Not 10...Bxe5 1l.dxeS No6 12.Ba3. 1.4 Diagramme Lleeg5!? 1 had expected +++c5, but Morrison wanted to attack and so he gambitted his K-side pawns Daia King's Indian EB1/19 1.4 NIG 2.04 d6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.NE3 96 5.Bg5 Bg7 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 g5 8.Bg3 NhS 9.Bd3 a6 10.Rel cS 11.QeZ b6 12.45 Ra7 13.a3 Ndf6 14.Nd2 6 15.dxe6 Bxe6 16.N2e4 Rd7 17.Nxf6+ Nxf6 18.0-O O-O 19.Ridl Qe7 20.d4 cxb4 2leaxbd dS 22.05 bxcd 24. 7 = 23.bxeS Qxe5 24 ea ee (ee ee ak, iS Le F 25.BeS | We ot Bes se wal 2.Ral Qha 28.BbS fs gy wy | R7d8_ 29.Rad "Qe? et” eect Rt 30.Be6 NhS 31.Bx97 |. UR Ba Nxg7 32.Bxd5 N50 [2 REL 33.94 Nh4 34.Rad4 ReB 35.Ne4 Qa7 36.NI6+ Kg7_37.NhSt Kg8 38.Bet Qa3 39.Rd6 Qb3 40.Rb1 Qa3 41.Qd2 Qe3 42.Qxc3 re i Diagramme Fae bed Jan Findlay - Bryon _*Nickololt to produce an unclear position. 12.cxd5 exdS 13.Nxd7 Qxd7 14.fxg5 Qg7 15.Nf3 h6 16.qxh6 Qxh6 17.NeS! Black cannot exchange this Knight without opening a dangerous diagonal against his own King. 17..-Raes He wants to take it with the Rook. 1B-RE4! Kn7!? On 18.,.Rxe5, 19.dxe5 BxeS 20.Rb1 Bxf4 21.exf4 c5 22.b4 is dangerous for Black, so he sacrifices his Queen. 19.g3 Re? z Diagramme tkt 2 20.802? .t iow Can White play tot 20. Rha Gent RAS 2llaxn4 Rad Rak ft 22.Khl Reg? 23.Bb2 ft WY R BxeS 24.8xe4 dxet [RA & 25.dxe5 £4 26.e6 and win right away? Looks like it. Or if 24...fxed 25.dxeS Be8 26.06. 20...RG7 21.Bxed fxed 22.Rafl Rég8 23.R1{2 Bc8 24.Qe2 Bh3 25.Ri7 Here also 25.17 is faster. 25...Rxf7 26.Rxf7+ Rg7 27.RE4 Be7 28.Kh1 Kh8 29.Qb5 Beé On 29...895 30.Qe3+ Kh? 32.Qh8> Kab 33.NeS#. 30.Qe8+ Kh7 31.823 Bd6? 31...c5 would have lasted longer, but his flag was hanging anyway. 32.Rh4 Qxh4 33.gxh4 Bh3 34.Bxd6 cxd6 as-nse Kg8 36.Nq6 BEl 37.Qxd5+ 1-0 (Day 31.NE7 Qhs 26 E98 Sicilian 898/1 leet cS 2.Ni3° d6 3.44 exd4 4.Nxd4 NEG 5.Nc3 a6 6.BgS e6 7.Qd2 Be? 8.4 h6 9.Bh4 eS 10.NES Bxf5 L.exfS Nbd7 12.0-0-0 Qe? 13.94 exf4 a o> H a PWARTE iagramme Kf 1s.en rc [tf t & & 16.Rxcf4 dS 17.Bxd5 RS Bd6 18.Rc4_NeS rig 19.Bxb7 Nfoa by ’ 20.Nxed Bea ut gat lacey ol 22.Rxd2 Qxb7 23.RxcBt QxcB 24.Rd8+ Qxd8 25.Bxd8 KeB 26.Ba5 1-0 Organisers: Directors: GC § David Lavin David Lavin & Stephen Boyd Toronto Spring Open Brian Hartman scored 4-1 to top the 27-player Open section of the Spring Open, played April 30 - May 2. Hartman drew in the last two rounds with Roman Pelts and lias Kourkounakis, who tied for second with lan Findlay and Fima Rakhinshteyn, all four, with 34. All of the above except Rakhinshteyn were undefeated, as were two of tne players with 3 points, Frank Korostenski and Arthur Ching. | Ching, rated only 1661, drew with two experts and two A-class players to tle for Ist & 2nd under-1950 with Ivan Pauric. The 31-player Intermediate section (under 1800) was. won by Anthony Gheron with 4J - }, ahead of Mark Leliever and Gordon Blackman with 4. Denis Mathieu took the 33-player Novice section with 44 - f. Here are two games from the tournament. Brian Hartman > Roman Pelts. £72b Sicilian Velimirovic B89/7 Lied cS 2.NE3 d6 3.4 cxd4 4.Nxd4_ NEG 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Be3 Qc7 8.Bb3 a6 9.Qe2 Be7 10.0-0-0 NaS li.g4 Nxb3+ 12.axb3 bS 13.95 Nd7 14.NfS extS 15.Nd5 QdB 16.exf5 Bb7 17.16 BxdS 18.Rxd5 gxt6 xz We el Diagramme ASE t 19.844 RgB 20.qxt6 (| t tte Nxf6 21.Bxf6 Rg6 t 8 t 22.RgS KB, 23.Bxe7* Qxe7 & 24.Qxe7+ Kxe7 a. & 25.Rel+ Kf8 25.Rh5 ha Wa ho. 27.Kd2 g . # REG 28.14 ReB 29.Re4 Rgb 30.c4 RDB 31.Ke3 Kg? 32.Rh3 bxct 33.bxc4 aS_34.Rg3_ a4 35-Rxg6+ Kxg6 36-Rd4 Rb6 37.Rd5 Rb3+ 38.Kc2 Rh3 39.Rxd6+ KE5 40.c5 Kxf4 41.RI6+ KeS 42.Rxf7 Kd5 43.Ri5+ Keb 44.Rf4 KbS 45.c6 Rxh2+ 46.Kc3 Rh3+ 47.Kd2 Rh2+ 48-Kc3 Rh3+ 49.Kd2 | - | Roman Pelts - lan Findlay 0%» ‘Tareasch 34s. 1.NE3 d5 2.43 NEG 3.Bg2 e6 4.0-0 cS 5.c4 Nc6 6.cxdS exdS 7.4 Be7 B.dxcS Bxc5 9.Bg5 Be? 10.Nc3 Be6 11.Qa4 O-O 12.Radl Qb6 13.Rd2 RadB 14.Be3 Qb4 15.Nd4 Eee Diagramme tt RTtt NaS 16.Nxe6 fxe6 hm am 17.Qxb4 Bxb4 t 18.Bxa7 Ne4 19.Rc2 yw 2) Bxc3 20.Rxc3 RaB bo 8 21.BeS RicB 22.Bb4 Nxb2 23.8n3 Kk? |2% ARRAS 24.RxcB EG Rxc8 25.Rb1 Ned 26..Bc3 b6 27-a4 Ned 28.804 RaB29.Bxb6 Rb8 30.a5 NxaS 31.Ral Rxb6 32.Rxab Kg6 (Black offered a draw here) 33.Ral Kf6 34.894 g6 35-n4 nS 36.Bf3 Nd2 37-Ra3 Rb3 38.Rxb3 Nxb3 39.e3 Nd2 40.Bg2 gS 4l-hxg5+ Kxg5 42.Bh3 Ki6 43.{4 d4 44sexd4 NE3+ 45.Ki2 Nxd4 4 - i TD & Report: Al MacDonald York Regional CC Championship. ‘This year, the championship was run in two divisions. The Premier Division was a round-robin for the top eight rated players in the club and the B division was a 7-round swiss for the other members, of whom nineteen took part. In the Premier Division, newcomer Doug Boileau, ranked Ist in the club, had no problems as he swept the field with'a perfect score of 7-0, and in the 8 Division, Rick Martin was victorious with 5h = 1b. TD § Report: Rick Martin hip, Stan Greening topped the 16-player field with 44 - |, half a point ahead of Bill Ersil and Arnold Legard. ‘fop-rated Ed Ersil could only score 2$ points. TD § Report: Albin Schumacher Oshawa Champioy 27 Barrie Spring Round Robin, Len Myers emerged victorious with a 5-0 sweep in this event held March 30 - April 20. Report: Tom Shular Barrle March & April Rating To Ron Siesling & Lex Krans topped the 6-player field with 4-1 each. Seisling and Krans later again tied for first in another tournament that qualified the top five finishers to join Ed Allenby in the preliminaries of the Barrie Championship. TD & Report: Ed Allenby Willowdale CC Spring Swiss Contrasting to the Fall, when everyone was dragged by the hair to play it through, this time only 25 of the 37 originals contested all seven rounds. Delays, gaps, withdrawals and switched pairings caused by weather, fu, car breakdowns, urgent shift work, "forgot", Florida, hockey, summer onset and cottage aged me @ century. Yet 1 agreed, on President Andy Pressburger's flattery ("a__ magnificent tournament") to do it agaia, realizing nobody pouted or quit on losing a game ot chess. And some came miles - with good effect. Don Heeney (Nobleton, Ont) conceding nothing until the final round - was caught at 6-1 in a "must win" by Dave Fahner (Richmond Hill), forcing a playoff. Heeney won the match and the trophy, 3-L. At the other end, young Henry Preisman finally beat stronger opponents like four-pins for 44 - 2b. TD & Report: Howard Ridout Le Championnat fermé de West Richard Buchan, président du club d'échecs de West Hill, a’ gagné ce tournoi avec un pointage de 4} sur 5. Zbynek Skubnik et Geoffrey Tierney suivaient avec 3 points. Le tournoi a attiré dix particioants. Le club sera fermé pendant I've et ouvrira ses portes de nouveau le ler septembre. Diici 1a, ily aura une campagne de publicite pour attirer plus de membres au club ainsi qu'a la FCE. La diffusion de la brochure "Un passeport pour les échecs" jouera un réle important dans la campagne. Pour tout renseignement concernant notre club, composez le 282-0945 (indicatif régional 416} et demandez Richard Buchan. DT et Rapport: J. W. Puusa Hamilton City Chess Club, Roger Patterson won section A of the 2nd Cycle with a score of 5-1, ahead of Brian Hartman, Richard Sans, and John Hammond with 4. Tom Plant won section © with ¢ = 14, Dave Wilson & Tony Capuccinello tied for first in section D with 3f - 11, and Andrew Curie swept section F with 8-0. Sections B and E are aot yet finished. TD's: Roger Patterson (A), Tom Plant (C), Phil Brown (D), Russ Reid (F} Report: Bob TothAshbury Gollege, team champions. Michael Seropian, Evan Hale, Chris Heard, David Fox (coach), Andrew Clyde, Frederik Graver, Maher Saleh. Sixth-rated Kevin Waghorn swept to @ 6-0 victory in this 118-player tournament held May 14-16 in Waterloo. Waghorn's task was facilitated by the fact that the top § rated players all succumbed to upsets and could no longer stand in his way. Round 4 was particularly hard on the top players: top-rated Alex Kuznecov was held to a draw by Ben Walker, 2nd-rated Jay Bidal drew with Vinny Purl, and 3rd-rated Glyn Hotz lost to Brian Pederson. Kuznecov defeated Bidal in the last round to finish clear second with 51-4. Ben Walker took third on tiebreak with 5 points. Winners of the Grade prizes were Todd Southam (7:8, 5), Vinny Puri (9, 44), David McTavisn (10, 5), Chris Heard (11, 5), Jay Bidal (12, 44), and Peter Hum (43, 5). Paul Abela also had §. Top unrated, was shared by Harold Atkinson, Dennis Vlahovic, Alan Gray, Kenneth Quan and Anthony Tennant, all with 4. Also with 4 were the winners of the under-1600 prize, Brian Pederson and Robert Laszlo. First in the team standings with 12} points was Ashbury College of Ottawa. Their team was Chris Heard (5-1), Andrew Clyde (4-2), and Maher Saleh (3) - 21). Tied for 2nd with Ll points were Lisgar C.i. of Ottawa and St. Basil's College, St. Michael's College, and York Mills C.[., all of Metro Toronto. ROSS £00a Closed French coo/9 Lied e6 2.d3 cS 3.Nf3 dS 4.Nbd2 Nob -93 Nf6 6.Bq2 Be7 7.0-O 0-O 8.05 Nd7 9.Rel Qc7 10.Qe2 RbB 11.NE1 bS 12.63 c4 13.d4 b4 14.hd Nb6 15.Bg5 Na4 16.Recl bxe3 17.bxc3 Qad 18.Bd2 Ba3 19.Rc2 Bd7 20.Qe3 Rb7 21.N1h2 Ne7 Ng4 NES 23.Qf4 Ribs x e | £RoR ttt Diagram eof 24... NE6+ 24.qxt6 |W | 2 teh ae PEE Bot Wi ac7O8 (Sot 29.hxg5 NeB 30.Bcl Bd6 31.Bf4 Ba3 ty 2B 32.96 ixa6 33.f7 Ng7 34.BeS Bf8 35.Qxg7+ Bxg7 36.£8Q++ 1-0 2B Thanks to those who participated. Next year's event is tentatively set for May 6-8. We hope to see even more faces, both new and old, next year. TD's: E, Thompson, C. Field, & D. Cohen Report: £. Thompson & D. Conen Forty players took part in this event held May 8 at Zion Heights J.H.S, Top-rated Todd Southam of the University of Toronto Schools won the championship with 5-0. Henry Preisman of Pisherville J.H.3., Marc Simmons of Toronto French School, Richard Lam of Queen Alexandra P.S., and Jona Carter of Annunciation all had 4-1. TD's: Wayne Kirton & Anton Pasman Organiser § Report: Christopher Field Peterborough YMCA CC_ William © Welbourne — defeated David Rook-Green 2) - 14 to become the club champion after the two had tied for first in the championship tournament. TD & Report: Wayne Vandervoort Sarnia April Rating Tournament, Andy Bruziewicz swept to a 4-0 victory In this counderobin and confirmed that he is still Sarnia's finest player. TD & Report: J. Paul Millman oncordia Chess Chub The club championship, a 9-player round-robin was won by William Klarner with an undefeated 61 - 1}. John Czernuscka was second with 6. TD & Report: Gord Morrell Bu Chess Marc Rasquin and Steve Skolik tied for firt in the Bobby Tischer Memorial Tournament, with Rasquin getting the nod on tie-break. TD, Organizer, Report: Roman Bandi, assisted by Marc Rasquin North Bay Quads_ Joe Dumontelle won Section 1 with 2h - £ ahead of Gary Tenhunen with 2-1, John Fletcher & Hugh Morrison tied in Section 2 with 2} - 4, and Max Kennedy was clear first in Section 3, also with 24 - 4. Joe Dumontelle TD & Report Th day The team of Don Yurick, Mike Sykora, Dave Nock, & Lee Beadle scored 19} out of 24 points to win this year's team championsnip. ‘The winning team posted impressive results on Boards 2-4, with Sykora scoring 54 - | while Nock and Beadle both scored 6-0. On first board, the best result was achieved by Jim Monaghan, who won his last three games and finished with 4! - 11, thus apparently winning his one-and-a-half year battle to get his rating over 2000. Report: Ed Rohanchuk Manitoba Manitoba Open 82-591 22-24 May 1,23 45 7 APrystenski Art +15 #6 +11 304s 2sJohnstone Glenn +10 +8 15 de 3.Evans Rick +7 2 3s 4waissbluth Bo +17 =8 +10 3s 5.Czypinski J +12 6.Kapica Steve +18 T.Oliver Kent D -3 B.Clemens Dave +13 9.cHamish Scott +0 10.Penner Wesley -2 +18 =15 +12 -4 11.Campbell john R +16 #9 -1 -3 -6 12.Piper Ron “5-3 613-10 415 13.Schmidtke Ewen -8 -16 V4marinelli Carl +0. -0 15.knight Eugene -1 +17 16,Ve Groot Broer -11 #13 -7 -0 -0 1 I7Miebert Dwight -4 -15 +18 -9 -0 1 18.Onyshko Brian ~6 -10 -17 -13 +0 1 416 415 28 44 <4 = This was tournament open to players with no previous an experiment in running a experience in rated competition. Three players with published ratings were included for rating comparisons. Mario Cruz topped the 13-player field with 5-0. The event was held April 27 - May 25 and sponsored by the New Horizons CC. TD & Report: Harry Mather For the second consecutive year, the match ended in a tied score, 104 - 104 (an extra game was played in round 2). On the top board, Magdy Assem of the North defeated Neil Abramson 2-0. The double-round event was played at the Senior Citizen Centre in Regina and hosted by the Regina Chess Club. Report: Joe Lozinski The tournament was well attended, and 7 of the 19 players were rated over 1800! Rod Brown & John Parrott tied for first in section 1 with 5-2, Mohan Srivastava was the clear winner in section 2 with 6-2, and Rick Perry won section 3 with 6-4. Section 1 was a single round-robin, and the other two were double round-robins. The playing schedule consisted of one game every Monday night, and because of its success, we plan on continuing tournament play one night a week. TD & Report: Curtis Patchin South Saskatchewan Championship. This 26-player swiss held May 22-24 in Regina was won by Gilbert Sommerfeld with 5-0. Tied for 2nd with 4-1 were foe Lozinski, Jon Firor, and Honorio Magtiza. TD & Report: Waldemar Friesen 2 Look Back Here is an instructive game from the Central Saskatchewan Open, reported last issue. Notes are expanded from those given by Joe Loziaski in Prince Albert Chess Bulletin. T.BISHOP - H.ANDRES Dobe Catalan £07 1.Nf3 NE6 2.c4 e6 3-93 Be7 4.Bg2 0-0 5.0-0 dS 6.cxd5 The Catalan Opening is a Queen's Gambit where White fianchettoes his B/{1. White rarely builds up a crushing position from the opening, but he counts on the pressure exerted along hi-a8 to give him a small but lasting initiative. If Black stands firm with c6-d5-e6, White protects his centre with b3 and aims for e4 with a space advantage. If Black simplifies with ...dxc4 and cS, White's B/g2 cuts a terrible swath through Black's camp. Which brings us to the text move §.cxdS. White denies Black the chance to clear out the centre, but at the same time dilutes his own most natural plan. Now e4 will not only be more difficult to achieve (open e-file), but it will leave an isolated P/dd after ...dxed. The exchange in the centre is more suited to the Queen's Gambit, where White's B on the fl-a6 diagonal supports the minority attack b2-b4-bS. Here White's B/g2 is merely a spectator in such an attack. You will find a couple of examples in ECO IV £07, note 12. Better was 6.d4. No need to worry about the P/ed - it can be regained by Qa4*. Later on it might need protection, typically either by Qe? or b3. 6...exdS 7-d4 c6 8.Nc3 bS Confident that his centre is secure, Black grabs space on the Q-side. In the last note we mentioned the minority attack, b2-b4-bS, in the QGD. ‘The purpose of that attack is to weaken the P/c6 by removing its support, i.e. by bxc6 bxed. The new P/cé would then be subject to attack along the open c-file. In one move Black has given White what he would gladly spend four moves to achieve on his own. Black gets a little extra here, but not enough. Better was 8...Re8. 9.Qc2 a5 10.a4 b4 11.Nb1 Qb6 More to the point is 11...Ba6, compelling White to protect his P/e2 (say by Rel) before playing Nbl-d2-b3. Then a later cS might land with more force due to the lack of protection of £2. 12.Nbd2 Nbd7 13.Nb3 Bab 14.895 Ries 15.Rfel Better is 15.Ridl. 15.4-h6 MOVING? Don't forget to send us your change of address before you move. Our friendly Post Office does aot re-route Chess Canada Echecs.| prefer 15...Bf8, intending 16...Ne4. The P/n6 may even become a weakne: 16.8xf6 Bxf6 Di x x @ Diagramme Rott 17.e4 fwro # fi True, weed [FE 1 extends the scopeot |R 2%. ff the B/g2, but it 5 Dt does much more for AW £kGR Black, openin lines Hee E_® for both Bs. in general, you should not open the position when your opponent has more Bs than you. The correct move was 17.e3. The B/g2 is not dead. From /n3 it has a nice diagonal and inhibits cé-c5. If Black lapses into passive defence of c6 White can whip up a better flank attack with h2-h4 and 93-g4-g5. Now White must fight hard to stay even. 17...dxed 18.Rxe4 Rxed 19.Qxe4 Bot 1 suspect that White overlooked this. Whatever the merits of 17.e4, this move bears out the truth of the old’ saying that you should develop both Rs (i.e., 17.Racl) before launching an attack (i.e., 17.24). 20.Nid2 Bd5 21.Qa4 Bxa2 The N/d2 swiftly re-enters the battle. Better was 21...Nf8. Now I prefer White again. 22.Kxg2 NEB 23.Ne4 QdB 24.Qf3 Ne6 25.NeS BxoS, It 25...Nxd4 26.Nxd4 Qxdd 27.Nxc6 Qxb2 28.Ne7+ Kn7 29.QxaB threatens mate at g8. 26.dxe5 5 27.Rdl Qe8 28-RdG Res 29.Nxas Qxat 30.Nc4 Qc? x e at After 31.Qd5, Black » Ba o?8 is best advised to fe gf seek the draw with 7 31...Q96 » £ we (threatening ees NE4+) iw ROR 32.Khl Qblt etc. 31...Qxcd 32.Qx17+ Kh8 33.Re7 Qed+ 34.Kgl 35-Kq2 Qeat 36-Kal he had played Kh7, then Rab would have been immediately decisive. 37.Qxe6 Ra8 38.Rxg7+ Kxg7 39.Q{6+ Kq8 40.Qe6+ K&B 41.Qxh6+ Both players overlooked that this gives the Black K an escape route. Now 4l...Ka3 42.Qe6+ Kh? 43.Qf7+ Kho 44.Q86* Qo6 45.Qhnd+ Kg7 46.Qe7* Kh8 47.QxcS Qed 48.Qel Qxe5 should win for Black. Correct 30 was 41.Qf6+ KeS 42.Qe6+ Kd8 43.Qd6+ Ke8 44.Qxc5* Kb? 45.Qd5* Ke7 46. Qc5* Qc6 47.Qe7*, with perpetual check. 4..-KeB 42.Qe6+ Kd8 43.Qd6+ 44.QxcS+ Kb7 45.14? Ivs hard to imagine why White stopped checking here. After 45.QbS¢ there is only one way to avoid the perpetual check - by moving the K to h6. See note after 41.Qxh6+, Follow the note to where White plays 47.QxcS. Here the P/cS has already been taken, so White can go one step further: Qxb4. White would have 5 Ps for the R and Black would have no pawns left. White could then afford to trade Qs. Look in Basic Chess Endings and you will see that three connected passed pawns often draw or even defeat a K. The P/b2 would fall, but White would’ still have four connected passed pawns. That would be enough to draw even if Black got his K/es. 1 (JB) was surprised that pawns could be so effective against the mighty Rook. 45...Qel+ 46.Kg2 Qe2+ 0-1 A good game. The players strove for perfection. When you do that, you're bound to make a few mistakes along the way. Alberta Galgary Junior CC Easter Tournaments Kea? Raanan Yaacobi swept to a 4-0 victory in the 7-player Senior High section, ahead of lan Olthof with 3-1. In the 4-player Juntor High double round-robin, it was. newcomer Maziar Badii who emerged on top with 5£ = $, ahead of Chris Demers in second with 3-3. Finally, in the elementary section, a 6-player triple round-robin, Brett Ryder scored 11} ~ 34 to edge out Graeme Fricke by half a point. FO: Jam O'Neil Report: Sylvia Huber ¥ Slave Lake Michener High Playoff Clayton Crawford was tops with 3-0 in this round-robin played during March and April. Report: Bruce Thomas Slave Lake Spectacular Thanks to a donation of over $140 trom Scope Newspaper of Slave Lake, the 26 participants of a three-section tournament organized by the Slave Lake CC on May 1 were able to compete for a spectacular prize fund of $300, including draws for chess books. In the elementary school section, Karen Mah finally lost a local tournament to a local player, but the top prize money still stayed in her family as sister Nancy Mah took first with a total of 8/9. Karen was second and Karina Pillay was third. In the elementary school beginners’ section, Manisha Raja was first, in the junior & senior high section Charlie Wood clobbered his competition, and in the senior section, Bruce Thomas dominated, while Jim McAulay of Grimshaw was the top beginner. TD & Report: Bruce Thomas Black Knight Spring Round-Robin Paul Usselman, with a rating advantage of some 300 points over his nearest competitor, wes the clear winner with 5-0. It wasn't as easy for him as it looks, however, as he had to survive inferior or losing positions in rounds 465, The lowest-rated player, Ken Salmon, scored 3-2 and finished second on tie-break ahead of Verne Taerum, TD & Report Ken Salmon This event was played during April and May in three 8-player round-robin divisions. Top-rated expert Phil Gasper romped to a 7-0 victory in Division 1, ahead of Wilf Lahrkamp with 5-2. Fred McFaul & Urmila Das tied for Ist with 5-2 in Division 2, and in Division 3, Steve Brown was the clear winner with S$ ~ 1h TD & Report: J. Schleinich 2 April 1 Small town versus big city in chess usuaily means a lop-sided victory for the metro side, but that was not the case in the Edmonton Junior Chess Club's April tournament. Elementary school chess, players from Stave Lave (population 5,000) clobbered the city slickers so badly’ that there was muttering that Slave Lake might not be invited to Edmonton's elementary school team tournament in May. Slave Lake players took the top three places, with Karen Mah edging out Mark Edgell on tie-break after both had scored 5/6, and Karina Pillay finishing third with 41.’ Half of the twenty participants were experiencing their first CFC-rated event. In the 10-player junior & senior high section, there were no Slave Lake players entered, and local. players Sean Breckenridge and Ted Allen cruised to a first-place tie with 3} te ‘The Slave Lake delegation was coached by Len Fedorus. The Alberta Chess Association provided books as prizes and paid the room rental at the Edmonton public library. TD's: Carol Miyagawa & Bruce Thomas Report: Bruce Thomas Edmonton May Special, lan Loadman & George Kosinski_ scored 4-1 each to tie for first in the 15-player field. Kosinski beat Nigel Fullbrook in the last round, but had lost to Loadman in Edmonton Victoria Day Open. After drawing with Ted Wilson in the first round, Richard Douziech racked up four wins in a row to top the 18-player with, 4} - 4. Second with 4-1 was George Kosinsxi. TD & Report: D. Johansen So You Want to Run a Chess Tournament? is a free pamphlet you can get from the CFC, Just write, 3 British Columbia UBC Chess Club Round-robin #2 resulted in a te for first between Greg Smith & Robert Hamm. TO & Report: Francisco Cabanas Prince This l6-player Swiss held April 24 was won by Scott Quickfall. Report: Victor Steblin Vernon Chess Club David Moore topped the 8-player club championship with 31 - 11, ahead o} top-rated Janos Barta with 5-2. Report: Ronald Kuiper AL Kalamalka Spring 0 Graham Swett 5 Janos Barta tied for first with 4-1 in this 19-player tournament held Maren 20-21. Report: Ronald Kuiper Vancouver Island Open The Vancouver Island Open in Nanaimo held on May Ist and 2nd was very successful for Victoria players. Jeff Reeve won the st Prize of $120 in the Premier section, while Len Molden won $60 by finishing Ist in the Opea Section with 5-0. TD & Report: Lynn Stringer Gomox Valley Double RR Dave Fenneman with 6-2 edged out Bruce Helander wath 5}. TD & Report: Ric Vanthournout Piayed over the Victoria Day long week-end, this event attracted 35 players to the Open section, 54 to the Amateur section, and 53 to the Booster section. In the Open section, it was two visitors from the U.S., John Donaldson (2436) and Eric Tangborn (2370), who tied for first with 5-1. The Amateur section resulted in a 4-way tie for first, with Roy Yearwood, Simon Lee, Roy Larsen, & Bruce McConachy all scoring 5-1. The Booster section was captured by unrated Earl Zimmer with a perfect 6-0. TD's: M. Fairley § X. Morton Here are two games Irom the Keres. Thanks to B.C. Chess Reports. _Tangborn R9c B10/17 1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.NI3 dxe4 4.Nxed Nd7 5.Bc4 e6 6.0-0 Nafé 7.Nxi6+ Nxi6 8.44 Be7 9.c3 O-O 10.Bg5 cS 11.Qe2 cxd4 12.RadL Qc? 13.Rxd4 +/= a6 14.Rel bS 15.Bd3 Bb7 16.a4!? bxad 17.Rxad a5 18.NeS Rad8 Caro-KannKeres Memorial 22-24 May Tangborn Eric Donaldson john Harper Bruce Zuk Bob South Robert Greben Jan Campbell Brett Harmon Clark Reeve Jeff Forbes Gerry Brown Harold - Taylor Gordon Nelson Robert Braley john Johnson Tyler Szabo Jr Alexander Chang john Skuisky tan Sontag Paul Losch Eric Phipps gill Nishida HA, O'Donnel! Tom = Farges Yves Lee Marvin Tomkins Ken Kort Wayne Montchalin Mike Bortucene Bayezid Cabanas Francisco Pupols Viktors Burke Paul Berrocoso Tony Seid Hee Stoddard Ed Rep: M. Fairley; Open 19.Rh4 g6 20.Bh6 Nd5 21,Re4 Qd6 22.8xt8 Bxf8 +- 23.Qf3 Qe7 24.Nc6 Bucé 25.Rxc6 Qb7 26.Ra6 Qxb2 27.Ra7 Ne7 28.Bfl RaS 29.g4127 Qb6 30-RaB gS 31-Be4 RAB 32.Bd3 Kg7 33-Rbl 33.Bxh7!? ~ Taylor 33...Rxd3 34.Qxd3 Qc6 35.Qd4+ £6 36-RbDE Ng6 37.Qa7+ @ Kh6 38-RxfB Qf3! Diagramme le 5 t 39.Qd4 eS 40.Qa7 £5 £ it ae 40...Nn4 4b. Rxfor ft Qxf6 42.Ra7 Qa6 tk ow 43.Qb7! += £ @ Al.gxf5 Qader 42.KE1 @ Qc4t 43.Kel Qxc3+ 44.Qd2 Qalt 45.Qd1 Qo3+ 46.Ki1 Qo6 47.fx96? @; 47.131 + 47...Qhi* 48.Ke2 Qea+ 49.Kd2 Qd4+ 50.Kel Qos 51.Qe2 Qbl1+ 52.Kd2 Qb2+ 53.Ke3 Qc3+ 54.Qd3 Qel+ S5.Kf3 e4+! 56.Qxed Qhi+ 57.Ke3 Qelt } - } [Harper] RS ampbell_ R82b Alekhine's Defence B02/11 led NE6 2.e5 NdS 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nxd5 exd5 Newon 1 2373428 2351 +16 2355 #25, 2295 #21 2281 +19 2291 2161 2140811 2298 2143 2164 2322 1911 1906 2017 2017 1898 2031 1922 1890 1347 1827 1990 1969 1953 1792 1766 2096 1813, 1735 2253 1766 1989 1918 1649*20 32 rort S.d4 c5 6.NE3 d6 7.Bb5*+ Nc6 8.0-O dxeS 9.Nxe5 Qb6 10-Rel Be7 11.Qh5 Boé 12.Bxc6+ bxc6 13.dxcS BxcS Diagramme, t 7 tt i lanctoxtze weg 15:Kh 3 | f | 16.Rxe6+ x08 £15 8 Bigxess Ras | | 19.895" ker RRR RRA 20.Qe7* kes [AR 8 R & 21.Bf6 dxc4 22.Bxd4 Bxd4 23.Qd6+ 1-0 Getting out of the way of 20.45 hxgS 2l.nxgS NhS 22.f4, when Rfl-nl and {3-f4-£5 are both strong plans. 20.95 hS 21.£4 With a strong attack. 21. .-Rec8?! This has to be too slow. 22.RdL! Preparing the e5-e5 standard sacrifice, which is exceptionally strong here. 22...c4 23.e5 dxeS 24.15 bS 25.axbS axbS 26.Nde4 Complete control. ontinued page $1 Olympic awa 7 Niagara Falls (17 + 17) 34 Kingston 32 Montréal (20 + 9) 29 West Vancouver (16 + 12) 28 Galgary (14 + B + 6) 28 Scarborough a Prince George 22 Kitchener 22 Regina a1 Charlottetown 20 Victoria 20 Toronto 20 Sudbury 19 Courtenay 18 Dartmouth 18 Sydney 15 Winnipeg 4 Thunder Bay 14 Gatineau 14 Saint John 12 Kitimat 12 Sussex (NB) n Whitehorse 10 Sicamous (BC) 10 Shawinigan 10 Barrie 10 Slave Lake 9 Belleville 9 Québec 6 Moncton 3 For the first time in a decade, the Chess Federation of Canada (CFC) has sponsored a rated event where it is not necessary to be a CFG member to compete. The Olympic Chess Weekend brought together 554 players from all ten provinces and the Yukon territories. There were 37 separate events in 32 cities, The list gives the number of players per event. The breakdown by province is Ontario 224, BC 110, Québec 59, Alberta 37, Nova Scotia 33, New Brunswick 26, Saskatchewan 21, PEI 20, Manitoba 14, Yukon 10, Newfoundland 10. A total of $2877.30 was raised through entry fees, plus $216 from those who donated and received an OCW pin. Further money was donated and tax receipts issued. The main purpose of the Olympic Chess Weekend, held June 12 - 13 1982, was to raise money to held send Canada's teams to the Chess Olympics in Switzerland in November of 1982. A subsidiary purpose was to allow newcomers to test a chess tournament without having to fork over $13 to become a CFG member. The entry fee of $6 was also low. About 165 of the players had never been CFC members. 33 Chess Did the Olympic Chess Weekend succeed? Yes and no. The turnout in the big cities was abysmal. With lots of chess events available on a regular basis, the city slickers were simply not excited by altruism, a handsome pin, or three rounds in one day. Not to mention the lack of a prize fund. In many places CCE did not arrive until after the tournament (Post Office to blame), while the posters printed by the CFC did not arrive until 1-2 weeks before (CFC Business Manager to blame). The turnout of new players was small when you consider that the CFC signs up over 1000 new members every year anyway. But let's jook at the bright side. June is a bad month for tournaments anyway. The event did raise money for the Olympic Teams. It was wildly successful in a few places. It spurred chess organization in new places. It gave good publicity to chess. Not bad for a first time out, One milestone was what appears to be the first rated tournament in the Yukon. TD and organizer Steve Ricketts also played. He made the mistake of having two long games, and after 7 hours continuous play sat down and committed the following, ah, gem: Nardi - Ricketts l.ed_c6 2.44 dS 3.Nc3 dxed 4.Nxed BES 5.Bd3 Qxd4 6.Nf3 QdB 7.0-O Nd? B.Rel B94??? 9.Nd6++. As Steve said: "Arghhhh!" Here are the players who scored a perfect three points out of three: Randy White, 2.Birgelis, Mike Dougherty (twice!), Mike Petras, James Woodley, Victor Steblin, Gerald Beauregard, Tye Somer, John Fletcher, Ken Sellen, Mark Spear, Carlos Jauregui Jr., Peter Dauvergne, Gecil Hyslop, Bruce Thomas, Philip Chiu, Ralph Pollock, Christopher Demers, Louis Robichaud, Jan Gallaway, Henk Ykelenstam, Tom O'Donnell, Tombert Chen, Deen Hergott, William Klarner, Daniel Arsenault, Gordon Howe, Cary Scott, Daniel Vernet, Larry Krolyk, Doug Burgess, Mackenzie Hardie, Robert Laszlo, Chris Jones, David Hunter, Tom Bond, Jude Maisonneuve, Gilles Jobin, Pierre Tourigny, David Lavin, Zarko Petkevi¢, Harry Petti, Milan Takach, Abe. Bood, Russ King, Fred McKim, Tony Medvidovié, Michel Siliard, Tom Shular, Allan Lane, Dave Fenneman, Darret Hunt, and Jim Winberg. Whew! Glad I didn't try to list the 24s. ‘There were also a lot of people to thank for the success of the event. First, Martin Jaeger, whose idea it was. Thenthe CFC Executive, who approved it. And, last but not least, the local organizers: Joe Istok, Al MacDonald, Wayne Kirton, Larry Jacobsen, Renaud Gélinas, Joe Dumontelle, Larry Boutilier, Barry Diggins, Fred McKim, Bruce Thomas, Gaétan Lapierre, Darse Billings, Roy Yearwood, — Rodrigue Hébert, Jean-Louis Beauregard, Yves Farges, Ed Thompson, Marie~Therese Williams, Kalev Pugi, Ted Hsu, David Moore, Don Gampbell, Keith Gzarny, Kent Oliver, Richard Lingo, Terry Fleming, Mike Bateman, Sherry Lockyer, Wane Inkpen, Peter Stockhausen, Mare: Laurin, Stephen Boyd, Waldemar Friesen, John Schleinich, Bruce Finley, Ed Rohanchuk, Tom Shuler, Ric Vanthournout, Lynn Stringer, and Steve Ricketts. There were others who hide themselves when it comes time to be thanked. Well, thanks anyway! When it was all over, it was the most widespread and second largest (first was the 1974 Ganadian Open in Montréal) open chess tournament ever held in Canada. If you would like to support the Olympic Fund, there are two ways to do it. For a $5 donation, you will receive our handsome Olympte pin. [t's 20mm (4 inch) in diameter with a red maple leaf on a white cross (to symbolize Switzerland, site of the Olympics), on a red and white chess board design. Trim is in gold. Or, you can make a donation of any size and receive a tax receipt. If you are in a 308 tax bracket and donate $50, the Government of Canada may give you back $15 at tax time. In either case, you may send the money tor Chess Federation of Canada Box 7339, Ottawa, Ont KIL 8E4 OLYMPIC FUND Donations in the Olympic Fund doubled in May and June, while the fund total more than quintupled because of the Olympic Chess Weekend. The $1,497.93 in donations, plus $2,877.30 in OCW entries, plus $216 in OGW pin donations, makes $4,591.23. The total amount that must be ralsed is about $11,000. We're almost half way there, and, traditionally, contributions increase as the start of the Olympics draws near. Let's keep up the good work. One of our donations is for 10 cents. A member took seriously our suggestion that each CFC member should donate .02% (that's two ten-thousandths) of his income to the Olympic Fund. Even if you make $50,000 a year, you'll find that 34 .02% isn't much. The rub is to get some three thousand members to donate. Send your donation, large or small, to: Chess Federation of Canada Box 7339, Ottawa Ont KIL BE4 A tax receipt will be issued promptly. Thank you. Acknowledged to 27 April 1982 728.43 Dominion Day Simul (Ottawa) 125.00 Fédération Québécoise des échecs 100.00 Terry Fleming (Ottawa) 100.00 Marie Scarabelli (Ottawa) 50.00 Biuenose Chess Club (Halifax) 50.00 Irving Goodman (Willowdale, Ont) 35.00 Peter Stockhausen (Selleville) 35.00 Bay of Quinte Chess Club 25.00 Leif Riesach (Melfort SK) 25.00 Waldemar Friesen (Regina) 25.00 Alan Aycock (Magrath Alta) 25.00 H.D,.Berry (Ajijic Mexico) 25.00 Robert South (Calgary) 20.00 Nell Charness (Waterloo) 20.00 Jerome Bibuid (New York) 12.00 Randolph Slaby (White Bear SK) 10.00 G.Elliot (Victoria) 10.00 Harold Brown (Nanaimo, 8C) 10.00 Mike Petras (Toronto) 10.00 1. Car (Ottawa) 10.00 Peter Van der Wel (Hamilton) 9.80 William Leonard (Kingston) 6.00 Bruno Corazza (Edmonton) 5-60 Joe Pochmursky {St Catharines) 5.00 Milenko Talajic (Ottawa) 5.00 Sam Newman (Ottawa) 5.00 Abe Feiner (Montreal) 5.00 Marion Nolkes (Victoria) 2.00 Anonymous (Toronto) 2.00 Elke Ramm (White City SK} 1.00 Anonymous (Winnipeg) 1.00 Mark Jensen (Saskatoon) 0.10 Total to 2 July 82 1,497.93 OLYMPIC PINS Did you miss the Olympic Chess Weekend? Too bad, but you can still support our Olympic Teams by donating $5 to the Olympic Fund. We will send you the handsome Olympic Pin. This 20mm (-inch) diameter pin is suitable to be worn with your shirt or jacket. The colours are red, white, and gold. Chess Federation of Canada Box 7339, Ottawa, Ont KIL 8E4 AFFILIATION WHAT, Affiliation (not to be confused with Provincial Affiliation, where a certain organization in each province is recognized by the GFC as the representative group of chess in that province) is a program to both increase communication with and give incentive to local chess organizations. The core of the program is "Rebates", a system where the organization (or individual) receives money back from the C&C for prompt submission of memberships collected. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS? Each affiliate recieves a 10% rebate on all CFC (not provincial) dues collected, provided that the memberships are remitted to the CFC properly (free forms are available upon request) and postmarked within 7 days of collection. This is not a discount, to be taken off at source, but will be remitted quarterly from the CFC to the Affiliate, together with an accounting of the individual amounts. You can check our accounting by jnoting the identification number that appears on the back of your cancelled cheque and in your quarterly statement. Statements are sent around the Ist day of February, May, August, and October. Amounts under $10 will be held back to the next statement, except that all accounts will be paid out with the May statement. The affiliate may purchase any books or chess equipment offered by the CFC at a 10% discount from members! prices, minimum order $25. The affiliate receives a subscription to Chess Canada Echecs. The affiliate receives a subscription to The News, a newssheat published from time to time as a channel of communication with Canada's chess journalists. Phe affiliate receives a 40% discount from the full rate for advertising of a CFC rated event in Chess Canada Echecs. Rate sheet available on request. Short notices of CFC-rated events will continue to be published free of charge in "Coming Events". Each affiliate will receive free samples of tournament supplies sold by the CFG and will also receive a free supply of the tournament report form for Swiss events of six rounds or less and a free supply of membership report forms. Any chess individual organizers} may affiliate with the CFC fee of $25 per year. Application organization _ [including 35 is best made on a form available free of charge for that purpose. Payment of dues eligible for rebate must be made on a cheque or money order signed by one (or more) of the (up to 5) "designated officers" of the affiliate, as specified on the application form. The designated officers may be changed upon request of the affiliate. The membership sheet must state the date the meverships were collected and contain the words: "Rebate to Affiliate A-xy" where xy is the affiliate number that will pe issued to you. An affiliate far-flung geographically can designate "officers" in different cities to maximize its return on rebates--but remember all rebates are remitted to the affiliate itself. WHAT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITIES? Any affiliate that remits memberships or tournament reports more than a month after they happen risks suspension of their affiliate status. L Alfitiat {2 ne pas confondre avec Uaffiliation Paffiliation provinciale ob une certaine organisation dans chaque province est reconnue par la F.C.E. comme le groupe 6chiquéen représentatif dans cette province) est un programme pour, d'une part, augmenter la communication avec les | organisations (et__individuels) échiquéennes locales et, dlautre part, pour donner un stimulant a Yorganisation des échecs. Le coeur du programme consiste en des remises, un systene 00 I’ organisation regoit une commission de la PCE pour une soumission rapide des cotisations (de membres de la FCE) recueillies. QUELS SOI Chaque affilis recoit une ristourne de 108 sur toutes les cotisations F.C.E. (et pas provinciales) recueillies-~pourvu que les cotisations soient remises 8 la F.C.E. en bonne et due forme (des formules gratuites sont disponibles sur simple demande) et postées, selon le sceau postal, dans les sept jours de la date de la collection. Ceci n'est pas un escompte A€tre déduit ala source mais une remise qui sera remboursée a chaque trimestre a Vaffilié par la F.C.E. et laquelle remise sera aussi accompagnée dune liste comptable des montants individuels. Vous pouvez vérifier notre comptabilité en notant le numéro ddentification qui apparattra sur le dos de votre cheque annulé et dans votre relevé trimestriel. Des relevés vous seront envoyés le le des mois de février, mat, aodt, et octobre. Les montants de moins de $10 seront retenus jusqu'auprochain relevé; tous les comptes seront payés avec le relevé de mal. Laffilié peut acheter des livres ou du matériel d'échecs vendu par la F.C.E. et ce avec un escompte de 10% sur les prix aux membres si la commande est d'un montant dau moins $25. Liaffilié regoit un abonnement (par courrier de premiare classe!) & Chess Canada Echecs. Liaffilié regoit un abonnement aux Nouvelles, une feuille de nouvelles publiée de temps & autre comme canal de commu- nication avec les journa- listes 6chiquéens du Canada. Uaffilié reéoit un escompte de 40% sur le plein prix pour la publicité d'un tournoi coté ala FCE. Un feuille — indi- quant les prix est disponible sur demande. Les courtes notes au sujet événements cotés par la F.C.E. conti- nueront aétre publiées gratuitement dans la section de Chess Ganada Echecs intitulée "Evénements & venir" (Coming Events). Chaque affilié recevra un exemplaire / chantillon des fournitures de tournol vendues par la F.C.E. et de plus il recevra gratuitement des formules de rapport de tournoi du type systeme suisse de six rondes ou moins et, aussi gratuitement, il recevra des formules de compte-rendu des cotisations COMMENT. S'AFFILIER?. Tout groupe ou individuel 6chiquéen peut siaffilier 8 la F.C.E. pour la somme de $25 par année. Le paiement convenable des cotisations éliglibles pour la remise doit 8tre fait par chéque ou par mandat, postal et doit étre signé par un (ou plus d'un) des (jusqu'a cing) _officiers désignés par laffili¢ tel que spécifi¢ sur la formule (disponible gratuitement). Les officiers désignés peuvent @tre changés sur la demande de Vaffilié. Sur les feuilles de compte-rendu des. cotisations la date ot les cotisations ont €t6 collectées doit @tre indiquée de méme que les mots: "Rabattre a Vaffilié A-xx" 0d A-xx est le numéro de Vaffilié et ce numéro est indiqué sur votre carte de membre affilié de la F.C.E. RESPONSABILITES. Tout affilié qui remet les cotisations ou les rapports de tournoi apres plus d'un mois risque la suspension de son statut daffilie. 36 Brain Tran SENSORY CHALLENGER 9 Preliminary tests show that the new Sensory Challenger 9 is at least as strong as the Champion Sensory Challenger, the Mark V, and the Great Game Machine. The SC9 comes housed in a case identical to the old Sensory Challenger 8, bit plays about 400 rating _ points stronger. That's roughly between 1600 and 1700 on the CFC scale. Now several other models are obsolete. But the big attraction is the price - far less than any of the machines mentioned above. Price to CFC Members: $300 If you desire postal Special Delivery, add $5. Ontario residents please remember 7% Sales Tax. Great Game Machine has a tough time competing with the new Challenger, but they're trying. Coming soon is a mainframe with twice the speed of the old GGM. A new module, the Stetnitz, is the next step up on the ladder of evolution that started with Boris 2.5 and Morphy. Write for our free computer catalogue and price list. Chess Federation of Canada Box 7339, Ottawa Ont KIL 8E4 Author newinv.dat Schachmeister Steinitz 1-2 Bachmann L Schachmeister Steinitr 3-4 Bachmann L Shturm Korolevskoj Kreposti —_Baranov BF 15 Games and Their Stories Botvinnik M Toronto Closed 1982 Boyd et al Capablanca’s Best Endings Chernev | Handbuch der Endspiel IV Cheron a U.S.Championship 1981 Manuel de ia FIDE FIDE FIDE Handbook FIDE Queen's Indian Defence Geller & World Championship 1948 Golombek H The Chess Computer Book Harding Sicilian Lines with ..e5 Christiansen | Harding Markind bo! Kapitaniak T Nimzovitch Defence Domination in 2545 Studies Massacre in Merano = K-K 81 Modern Chess Theory 1980-81 How to Play the Nimzo-Indian Keene R Modern Chess Openings 12 Korn W B.Larsen's Good Move Guide Larsen Bent Tactical Ideas in Chess Love } The Annotated (US 31) Open Marfia | King Power in Chess Mednis E London 1980 Miles Aj Six Hundred Endings English: Four Knights Perekhod v Endshpil Povah N Chess Endgame Study Roycroft A] Pawn Structure Chess Soltis A Spanisch: Klassisches bis Of Suetin A Spanisch - Rubinstein && Suetin A Die Moderne Schachpartie Tarrasch S Queen's Gambit: Chigorin's watson J Books Our book catalogue of March-April 1982 is still in effect. The books above - listed in alphabetical order by author - represent all the additions to that Catalogue as of 5 July 1982. On the. other hand, some of the books listed in that Catalogue have gone out of print and are no longer available. Those books. are: LA6 Alekhine's Best Games 1924-37: BAS Alekhine's Defence; 8524 Benko Counter-Gambit; ZE3 Endings in Modern Theory and Practice; VG4 GO for Beginners; S23 Sicilian 6. Among the new books, we like the look of MK4 King Power in Chess. Two re-issues, MP3 Pawn Structure Chess. and DE3 Chess Endgame Study (formerly Test Tube Chess) are also bound to be popular. in the world of opening theory, the most significant book is Geller's BQ15 Queen's Indian Defence. The two books by Suetin in German are the start of the largest opening series yet - 24 volumes! The whole series will end up costing only a bit more than the five volumes of ECO. Kapitaniak T Karparyan GM Keene R (ed) keene Taulbut Portisch Sarkos Razuvaev et al 37 _Mem$ Cat# bn Lists Year g dp. 30.90 GS9_h a 34.30 1980 538 342 683 30.90 GS10_h a 34.30 1980 431 360 863 1.80 YS2 5 a 1.90 1981 0 103 63 5.90 HF5 sa 6.50 1982 15 45 76 3.00 115 sa 3.00 1982 120 0 48 6.10 DCI s a 6.70 1978 60 157 288 12.60 GHB ha 13.90 1970 0 281 328 5.90 HUBTs a 6.50 1982 107 $9 126 19.00 FMI s - 21.15 1981 0 0 221 19.00 AFI s - 21.15 1981 0 0 216 22.40 BQIS s f 24.80 1982 14 273 247 15.10 QWS s d 16.70 1949 50 94 228 13.20 UCI1s f 14.60 1982 81 122 215 15.60 BS18 5 f 17.30 1981 35 100 128 5.30 PUG 5 f 5,80 1982 228 40 64 6.20 PN6 s f 6.80 1982 207 49 77 16.70 ZD8 5 a 18,50 1980 02587 542 9.00 BM1 sf 9,90 1981 20 67 122 20.70 PMO s f 22.90 1981 194 575 384 13.40 BHO 5 f 14.80 1982 78 188 134 22.00 MMS h d 24.40 1982 0 30 457 15.20 OBS s a 16,80 1982 60 219 136 10.20 111 sf 11.30 1981 10 236 150 5.90 HAS sa 6.50 1981 137 51 90 18.60 MK4 h d 20.60 1982 51 144 357 6.80 PLe sf 7.50 1980 91 BY 72 USS hd 24.70 1987 0 600 198 BETO s f 19.80 1982 70 195 184 YPS5 sa 2.90 1981 0 86 79 DES sa 8.20 1981 0 433 370 MP3s d 10.90 1976 166 238 307 8.10 GS4 hf 9.00 1981 14 220 249 8.10 G55 hf 9.00 1981 16 234 249 23.20 GDS fh a 25.70 1916 224 221 455 13.40 BQ6 s f 14.80 1981 30 85 105 Used and Collectors! We have a fair selection of single books and complete years of magazines. Among them you will find The Canadian Chessner @ magazine from the 1930s, a cheap Ideas Behind the Chess Openings, and other odds and ends. Send $1 (refundable on purchase) for a complete list. Chess Canada Echecs 50% sale of back issues, which concluded June 30, was excellent, We still have a large stock of certain numbers. Number of complete games is given in parentheses: #18 (9*), #23 (15), #25 (15), #43 (41%), #46 (29%), #47 (12*), #50 (14), #51 (21). A * indicates that the number of games includes a Masters' Forum. These are on sale until the end of 1982 for 50 cents each. Orders of 10 or more of one number - great practice for students - 30 cents each. Chess Federation of Canada Box 7339, Ottawa, Ont KIL 8E4 Response to ourCFI.C. Rated Tournaments PLAYER'S RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Each player should bring his own chess pieces, board, and clock, unless they are provided by the organizer. It is not mandatory to bring a clock if you don't have one. 2. If you register at the site, bring enough money to cover your entry fee. The organizer is not obliged to take a personal cheque. 3. Bring your membership card (or receipt if you have paid your membership to an organizer recently and not yet received your card), or enough money to pay for a year's membership. If you have lost your card, the address label (with expiry date) on the back cover of your CCE Bulletin will do. The burden of proof of CFC membership lies with the player. 4. Follow the laws of chess and be considerate of the organizers and other players. If you intend to withdraw from the tournament, inform the T.D., preferably before he has made the pairings for the next round. 5. If you don't receive your card within a month of paying your dues to an organizer, contact him to check to see that the dues were sent on time. If you are not satisfied, write to the CFC Business Office. ORGANIZER'S RESPONSIBILITIES 1, The site should be well lit, well ventilated, spacious, and quiet. 2. The tournament should be advertised. One of the easiest and best ways is a free announcement in the Coming Events. section of the CCE Bulletin. The deadline RECEIVED FROM: (Please Print) surname Address City Province Section: Ratine Age, date of birth if Junior, (apt #) Postai Code™” | Total Please submit my address as a new address to the CFC. Twas once @ CFC menber, but don't renenber my nunber is the 25th of even-numbered months (Feb., Apr., etc.) for the issue mailed the 15th of the next month. 3. In general, a game cannot be rated by the CFC if the required rate of play between any pair of time checks is, or could be forced to be, greater than 50 moves an hour. However, there are various exceptions and special cases, for which see the Rating Rules. 4, Required CFG and Provincial membership fees must be collected, and receipts given out. We recommend the registration form at the bottom of the page. By using carbon paper, the registration form can double as a receipt. Most of the information can be filled in by the players themselves, thereby speeding registration. 5. SUBMITTING CFC MEMBERSHIPS Membership-report forms are available free from the CFC Business Office. When you submit memberships, please include: a) CFC membership number. If the player has been a member before, but his number is not available, put an M. b) Surname and complete given name (initials are insufficient). ¢) Complete address, including Postal Code, if possible, even if the address is not a new one. 4) Birthdate if junior. e) Changes of address, if any. f) Your name and address and the dates of collection. g) A cheque or money order payable to the CFC. i Send it all to: CFC, Box 7339, Ottawa, Ont. KIL 8E4. CFC #. Date: Entry fee $ CFC Dues $ Signature of Tournament Official a) ‘Include the name of the tournament, dates of play (first and last), names of TO and organizer. b) All players must be CFC members for the inclusive dates of the tournament. c) Identify each player by either: name and CFC number, or: name and complete address. Mark the province of players not from the province where the event was held. 4d) Include payment of rating fee of 50 cents per player and send within 7 days of the end of the tournament to: CFC, Box 7339, Ottawa, Ont. KIL 8E4. 7. You should keep a copy of the membership and rating reports for your records. 8. Uphold the rules of chess. Playing and pairing rules can be found in the CFG Handbook, available from the CFC at $7.00. 9. Meet all advertised prize funds. 10. Make scoresheets available. — Each square is identified by a letter and a number (e4). To indicate a move, put the initial of the piece (but N for Knight) and then the square which it moves to (Bh7). If two pieces of the same kind can go to a square, insert a co-ordinate of the departure square (Nie2, R8d7). For Pawn moves, just write the Square the Pawn is going to (c4), preceded, for captures only, by an x and the file of departure (cxd4). The initial of a promoted piece goes at the end (gxf8Q). The moves are numbered in pairs, with White's move first. E23b Schliemann 63/12, 1 ef eS 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 BbS £5 4 Nc3 NEG 5 exiS BcS 6 O-O 0-0 7 Rel?! d6 8 Nad?! -/+ e& 9 Nxc5 dxcS 10 Bxc6 bxc6 11 Nh4 g5! 12 fxg6 ep Ng4 13 gxh7* Kg7 14 93 Qd4 15 Qe2 Rxf2 16 Qxe4 Rfl+ 0-1 Ghaque case est identifi¢e par la lettre de sa colonne et le numéro de sa rangée. Pour indiquer un coup, on note Minitiale de la piece suivie de la case de destination (ex. Fa2), mais pour les pions, on note uniquement la case dlarrivée (ex. e4), précédée (pour une capture) d'un x et de la colonne de départ (ex. dxe4). Si 2 0 pidces identiques peuvent se rendre om 3S O vo — & sur une case, on indique alors une des coordonnées de la case de départ (ex. Cfd2, T8d7). 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Sartbury Olye vic St ous Sudbury Oly n 70Studies This issue's studies are all taken from the book Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies, by Ghenrikh Kasparyan, available from the CFG at the members! price of $16.25. 9. By L. Kubbel. 1.Bfl dlQ 2.BE6+ KhS 3.Bb5 Qel 4.Bd3! Qe8 5.BES c4 6.c3! g3 7.n3! +-. 10. By L. Proke8. 1.c7 g2 2.c8Q gl1Q 3.Qc4+ Ke5 4.Qc5+ Kfd 5.Qe3+ Kad 6.£3+ +=; 5.0eKeS 6.f44 +-; 1...gxf2 2-c8Q £1Q 3.Qo4t Ke5 Add +. ll. By H. Rinck. 1.Qb5+ Kh4 2.95 Bxg5 3.Rxg5 QxgS 4.Qb4+ Qg4 5.Qe7+ Qg5 6.Qed+ Qa4 7.Qe3 +-. 12. By A. Troitzky. 1.Qa6! Qf8 (e5) 2.NEG+ Ke5 (e5) 3.Nd7* +-; 1...Qc2 2.Ni4* Ke5 (e4) 3.QcB (g6)+ t-. C-FAX CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP The annual Vancouver Island Elementary School Championships continue to thrive under the watchful eye of Cyril Large. The 11th year of competition just concluded, and once again thousands of youngsters took part. The Grade Championships were held March 27 at Cilaire Elementary School in Nanaimo. The winners were Brian Callender (Grade 1), Mark Johnson (2), Jason DeLange G), Lance Anderson (4), Christopher Johnson (5), Tony Wong (6), and Andrew Chow (7). A record was set by Duncan Elementary - 236 registrations, the most from any one school in the championship's history. In 1981-82 there were 6,741 students from 161 schools on Vancouver Island. For more information, contact: Cyril Large, Chess Partners, Box 5205, Stn B, Victoria BC VER 6N4. Spraggett 3'2- Hébert 2 Kevin Spraggett and Jean Hébert both scored 10! points out of 15 at the 1981 Canadian Championship. Chess Federation of Canada rules required that a playoff match be held to decide second place. The match was held early in May at Le Spécialiste in Montréal. The result was a surprisingly easy victory for Kevin Spraggett. Aside from the modest $250 prize fund ($150 from the CFC, $100 from Le Spéclaliste), little was at stake. Both players easily qualify for the Olympic Team and the next Canadian Championship by virtue of their ratings. Only honour and the chance to replace Igor Ivanov should he be unable to compete in the Interzonal remained. Here are three of the four games of the match: 1 S.HEBERT - K.SPRAGGETT D6lb Griinfela D76/14 1.NE3 NE£6 2.c4 g6 3.d4 Bg7 4.g3 0-0 5.Bg2 dS 6.cxdS Nxd5 7.0-O Nb6 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.d5 NaS 10.e4 c6 11-Rel Re8 12.dxc6, Nxc6 13.Nd5 Bg4 14, Bf4 Rc8 15.Rbl Nd4 16.Be3 Diagramme_ 16...Nc2 17.Bxb6 —_axb6 18.Re2 -Bxf3 19.Bxf3 Nd4 20.Re3 6 21.Nc3 Qc7 22.Bg2 —- RedB 23.Qf1> QcS 24.Kh1l bS 25.a3 Nc? 26.Rf3 b4 27 .axb4 Qxb4 28.h4 Rd2 29.94 Nd4 30.Re3 Rxb2 31.Rxb2 Qxb2 32.Ne2 Re2 O-L rR 3 J,HEBERT - K.SPRAGGETT. ESlb Sicilian B23/2 l.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Bc4 Be7 $.d3 Nf6 6.h3 Nc6 7.0-O O-O 8.a4 h6 9.Nd5 Nxd5 10.Bxd5 Be6 11.c3 Bxd5 12.exd5 Nb8 13.Nh2 Nd7 14.f4 RcB8 15.Qe2 exf4 16.Bxf4 Nf6 17.Rael Re? 18.Qf3 Nh7 19.Nq4 Bg5 20.Ne3 g6 21.Nc4 Rd7 22.Bh2 NE6 23.Re2 Kg7 Diagramme 24.04 Rhs 25.Rg2 hs 26.Nd2 hxa4 27.hxg4 Rnd 28.Nc4 b6 29.Rel Qas 30.Bxd6 Qxd5 31.Qxd5 Nxd5 32.ReS Be3+ 33.Nxe3 Nxe3 34.Rxe3 Rxd6 35-Rgg3 Kf8 36.Kg2 -5-.5 4 K.SPRAGGETT - EBERT E85b Sicilian 3882/7 lied cS 2.Nf3 d6 3.44 cxd4 4.Nxd4 NE6 5.Nc3 e6 6.f4 Nc6 7.Be3 Be7 8.Q13 0-0 9,0-0-0 Qe7 10.Rgl Nxd4 11.Bxd4 6 12.94 Nd7 13.95 Re8 14.Rg3 b5 15.Qh5, ba Diagramme 16.Bxg7 Kxg7 17.f5, Rh8 18.fxe6 —fixe6 19.Qh6+ Ki7 20.46+ KeB 21.97 RgB 22.Qhs+ — Kd8 23.Qf7 1-0 Quiz When I began to play chess everything seemed simple. I moved the pieces myself, blithely unaware of Hans Kmoch or Fred Reinfeld, let alone Wilhelm Steinitz and Mikhail Botvinnik. When I began to read chess books everything became confused. GM Andrew Soltis Pawn Structure Chess ao ‘. a an 7 ey BOTs la eee a7 we a a & CVS B : 7 ms 2 0 8 8 WARE 1 Mate in 2 N.Easter 3 Mate in 3 O.Wurzburg fat Mate in 3 H.Grasemann 5 Black mine ssakh - Pelts BAT Se Bs 7 Black wins Kennedy-Staunton White wins L.Kubbel 8 White wins 222 \ a" . Quinteros-Salazar "2 @@ bis agi a 2 8 fe omwRd Oa oo a a 10 White wins L.ProkeS 12. White wins A.Troitsky 11. White wins Henri Rinck