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FEATURES
3 GARRY SPEAKS
Jules Welling reports on Kasparov's Linares
conference. As usual, Garry wasn't boring.
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Garry Speaks
"The public will always
know who the real champion is, because he plays
for the biggest money."
by Jules Welling
4 The match for the world championship is the key event in chess and
therefore, it should be run by professionals and not by amateurs. That is the
only reason that Nigel Short and I have
founded the Professional Chess Association (PCA). We might have different motivations, but for me, it is clear that both
FIDE and the GMA don't have the knowhow to organize such a match properly. It
is not for the benefit of the two of us that
we have taken this step, it is for the benefit
of chess in general."
It is Monday, March 15. The location
is the town hall in Linares, Spain. World
Champion Garry Kasparov, who has just
won the Category 18 tournament a convincing 1.5 points ahead of Anatoly Karpov and Viswanathan Anand, is giving a
press conference.
Kasparov: "Winning here in Linares
was very important to me. In the beginning I was tortured by the flu, but during
the tournament I recovered and my play
became better and better. Step-by-step,
Linares has become the most important
tournament in the world. It used to be the
Interpolis tournament in Holland, but
now it surely is Linares, definitely since
Tilburg switched to the so-called knockout system. Linares still is a classical
round-robin and the one who wins here is
entitled to call himself the world champion
in tournament play. I can guarantee you
that winning this tournament can only be
compared to becoming World Champion.
I had not played for quite some time, but
here I regained my old self-confidence."
Are you now concentrating on the
next match for the title against
Englishman Nigel Short?
Kasparov: "That is correct, but we
need a whole new setup for that. During
the last matches mistakes have been made
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Return to Diktat?
A March 30 (Reuters) story from
Moscow reports that Anatoly Karpov accused Kasparov of starting a row that
could plunge the chess world into anarchy. Karpov said in an interview that
Kasparov, like champions of the past
such a$ Emanuel Lasker and Jose Raul
Capablanca, was bent on dictating his
own terms for the title match.
"We are now threatened with a return
to the times of complete anarchy and
boundless diktat by the current champion," Karpov told the Russian
newspaper Trad.
"Only he intends to decide when and
whom he wants to p l a y - a n d on conditions chosen by him. As far as I understand, most leading world Grandmasters
do not support this initiative," Karpov
said.
Karpov said chaos and conflict were
afflicting Russia, the strongest chess nation, as well as affecting the international
running of the game. "A real wave of
anarchy is building up. A struggle is
going on for power over people, for the
right to take decisions and control of
An Embattled
FIDE Strikes
Back
23 March 1993
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A Return to World
Champion's
Dictatorship?
FIDE has received overwhelming expressions of support from federations
and grandmasters the world over for the
maintenance of an orderly structure for
the world championship cycle and chess
in general. There is no support for a
breakaway body that, to date, has no
legal status, and [for] any attempt to run
a world championship on pre-1948
lines, wherein effectively, the champion
could determine his opponent and the
terms upon which he is prepared to
play.
FIDE had similar problems in the previous cycle where FIDE arranged for
Lyon, France, to organize the 1990 match.
Kasparov originally said he would not
play and then brought New York to agree
with Lyon with a small increase in the
prize fund. The original Lyon bid was
close to the final prize fund of SFr
4,100,000.
To avoid these problems, F I D E
reached an A g r e e m e n t with the
Grandmasters Association (GMA) to
provide a proper framework for channeling proposals from grandmasters.
At the time the A g r e e m e n t was
negotiated, Kasparov was the GMA
president. He subsequently resigned as
GMA p r e s i d e n t and then f o r m e d
another organization, the Chess Union
International in Moscow, which he forgot as he dallied with the Professional
Chess Association.
Kasparov's Meddling Has
Damaged Bidding
When it came to the 1993 match,
there were two bidders in October
1991: from Rabat, Morocco, for SFr
5,818,000 and from Intermark Group
for SFr 5,600,000 for a match in Los
Angeles. However, a f t e r the bids
were o p e n e d and
announced,
Kasparov publicly said he would not
play in Morocco, thereby damaging
that bid, which was then withdrawn.
The only bid remaining was a bid from
Intermark u n s u p p o r t e d by a bank
guarantee. Intermark was involved
with Kasparov who strongly pressed
FIDE to proceed with that bid rather
than start again.
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Baguio
SFr 1,054,350
Merano
800,000
Moscow
1,000,000
1,600,000
Moscow
1,800,000
London/Leningrad
2,854,286
Sevilla
4,100,000
New York/Lyon
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Issue 7
Nana Ioseliani
37...R2c3?
Since White wasn't threatening to capture on c2, keeping the tension in the
position with 37...Kg7 would have been
better. Note that 37...Rxd2 38.Rxd2 Rc2
fails to 39.Bxc2 dxc2 40.Rd8 + Kg7
41.Rc8. After 37...Kg7 White has no easy
way out of her difficulties: (1) 38. Kf3
Rxb2 39.Rxb2 Bh5 + ; (2) 38.Kf4 Rxb2
39.Rxb2 Rc2 and the f-pawn falls; (3)
38.BE3 Rxd2 39.Rxd2 Rc2 40.Rdl Ra2
and the a-pawn falls.
38.a4 Rg5+ 39.Kf4 Rcc5 40.Ra2 Rce5
41.BD h5 42.h4 Ref5+ 43.Ke3 Rgl
44.Bb7 Rbl 45.Bg2 Rb4 46.f4 Ra5 47.Bc6
Ra6 48.Bd7 Re4+ 49.KD Rd4 50.f5 Bh7
51.Bc8 Ra5 52.Ra3 Rc5 53.Ke3 Rxh4?
Missing a simple win by 53...Rd8
54.Rg2 + Kf8 55.Bb7 Re5 + 56.Kd2 Rb8
or 54.Bb7 R e 5 + 55.Kf4 Rxf5+ 56.Ke3
Ra5.
54.Bd7 Re5+ 55.Kxd3 Rd5+ 56.Kc2
Rxd7 57.Rxd7 Bxf5+ S8.Rdd3 Bxd3 +
59.Rxd3 Rxa4
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NEXT MONTH:
SOMETHING QUITE DIFFERENT
Hlnt:The truly brave refuse them in
front of a firing squad.
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Issue 7
J
Reuben Fine
(1914-1993)
by IM John Donaldson
Paid Dues as a
Houseman
In the early 1930s he was a houseman
at chess parlors in Manhattan and Coney
Island taking on all comers for small
stakes. Later, having made his mark in
Europe, Fine established himself as an
excellent writer on the game. Such classics as Basic Chess Endings, Ideas Behind
the Chess Openings, Practical Chess
Openings and the best-selling introductory primer Chess the Easy Way are still
read today.
Fine relates that after his debut in the
bigtime at Pasadena 1932, where he
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40.Kg2!!
Not an easy move to have foreseen
when playing 29.Rxd5!
40...Qxe3 41.h4 + Kxh4 42.Qhl +
1-0
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Inside News
Short Reports from Around the World
Baltimore, Maryland
Visalia, California
Unares,Spain
IM Jack Peters, in his weekly column
in the Los Angeles Times, quoted Garry
Kasparov, who had just won in Linares,
"I will play five games in the French national league, and maybe a training
match, but I do not want to play too much
before my match with Short."
Needham, Massachusetts
Austin, Texas
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Books
Chess Informant has recently expanded its list of titles. Starting with
Chess Informator in 1966, the Yugoslav
company, now doing business out of Hungary and Cyprus, added books on the
opening (ECOs), middlegame (Encyclopedia of Chess Middlegames/Combinations), and endings (Encyclopedia of
Chess Endings). The newest venture is
devoted to the opening, but in a much
more specific way than the ECO's. Currently available are monographs on the
Marshall Attack (C89) by GM Anand
($19.90), the Advance Caro-Kann (B12)
byGMSeirawan ($11.90) and the English
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A28
GM Alexander Chernin
GM Zsuzsa Polgar
Budapest 1993
l.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.ND Nc6 4.e3 Bb4
5.Qc2 Bxc3 6.Qxc3 Qe7 7.d3 d5 8.cxd5
Nxd5 9.Qc2 O-O 10.a3 a5 ll.b3 Bg4
12.Be2 Rad813.0-0 f514.h3 Bh5 15.Bb2
e416.dxe4 fxe417.Ne5 Bxe218.Nxc6 bxc6
19.Qxe2 Rd6 20.Racl Rg6 21.Bd4
Budapest, Hungary
The Central and Eastern European
Zonal (for Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary,
Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic), held March 3-14 in the Hungarian
capital, was divided into two 12-player
round-robins of approximately equal
strength the first three in each group
qualified for the Interzonal.
In group one, pre-event favorite Bulgarian GM Kiril Georgiev (2660) was an
easy winner, scoring 8 from 11. A bitter
fight over second and third led to a fourway tie at 6.5 among GMs Judit Polgar,
Alex Wojtkiewicz and Lubomir Ftacnik
and IM Jacek Gdanski. A playoff will be
held to see which two players advance. If
Judit goes forward, she will be the first
women ever to play in an Interzonal.
Other scores: 6. GM Adorjan (HUN)
6; 7-8. FM Rasik (CZR) and GM Suba
(ROM) 5; 9-10. GM Ermenkov (BUL)
and IM Kolev (BUL) 4.5; 11. GM Sax
(HUN) 4; 10. IM Cosma (ROM) 3.
The second group was again dominated by Bulgaria, a traditional chess
power, which exceeded normal expectations in Budapest. Bulgarians Veselin
Topalov and Vasil Spasov tied for first at
7.5-3.5 to earn tickets to Biel, Switzer-
The Chess Palace February Championship, held February 6-7, was won by
IM John Watson. The 41-year-old
authority on the English opening, who has
just returned to tournament play, showed
no ill-effects from his long layoff, scoring
3.5 from 4 against good opposition. Tying
for second at 3-1 were SM Mark Duckworth and NMs Javier T o r r e s and
Thomas Wolski.
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NOTES
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Issue 7
ANNOTATED GAMES
Three From
Linares
by IM Zoran Uic
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19...b4 20.Rd3
When Ivanchuk played 19.e5, he
probably relied on this possibility, but the
idea is convincingly refuted. However,
the alternatives don't look so promising
either, e.g., 20.Ne4 Nxe4 21.Rxe4 d5 or
20.exf6 bxc3 21.fxg7 cxb2+ 22.Kbl Bxg7
23.f5 e5 and Black has the advantage in
both cases.
20...dxe5 21.fxe5 bxc3 22.Rxc3
White probably expected the line:
22...Qb8 23.Rxc8 + Bxc8 24.Rfl! (after
24.exf6 Qxh2 there is no compensation)
24...Nd5 25.Qxf7+ Kd8 26.Nd4 Qb6
27.Bgl and White's active pieces outweigh the material deficit.
22...Qxc3!!
An excellent positional Queen
sacrifice.
23.bxc3 Ba3 + 24.Kd2
Heading for the corner by 24.Kbl is
still met by 24...Nd5.
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24...Nd5
This Knight can't be dislodged and it
will frustrate White's heavy pieces until
the end of the game. A comparison of the
dispostion and potential of the opposing
forces leads to the inescapable conclusion that Black is much better. Especially
striking is the sad h2-Bishop. Of course,
Black still has precise work ahead. One
misstep could spoil everything.
25.Re4
White seeks salvation in active play,
but it's difficult to find a weak spot in
Black's camp. In order to create a concrete object of attack White needs lots of
time. On the other hand, his own house
will soon be in flames. Another active try,
25.Qa7, collapses after the simple
25...Rxc3 with the idea 26.Qxa6? Rxc2 +
27.Kdl (27.Kxc2 Nb4 + ) 27...Rxa2
28.Qa8 -l- Ke7 29.Qxh8 Nc3 mate.
25...Rxc3
Black's winning plan is clear: double
the Rooks along the c-file and attack the
c2-pawn. White seems helpless to
prevent this.
26.Rg4
A desperate attempt to create
counterplay. Also hopeless is 26.Rxh4
O-O 27.Qe2 (intending 28.Qh5) 27...Be7
28.Re4 Bg5 + . The straightforward
27...Rfc8 also wins.
26...0-0 27.Qxh4 Rfc8 28.Nd4
28.Rxg7+ doesn't lead to salvation:
28...Kxg7 29.Qg5+ Kf8 30.Qh6+ Ke8
31.Qh8+ Bf8.
28...Bb4! 29.Ke2
If 29.Kel, then 29...Ne3.
29...Bb5 + !
30.Nxb5
Or 30.Kf2 Rxc2 + ! 31.Nxc2 Rxc2 +
32.Kf3 (32.Kgl R c l + 33.Kf2 Bel + )
32...Be2 + 33.Ke4 Rc4 mate.
30...Rxc2 + 31.KD axb5 32.Rxb4 Nxb4
33.Qxb4 R8c3+ 0-1
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21.Nc4!
Here it is! This novelty is an improvement on the game Novikov-Stempin, Polanica Zdroj 1989, where White
played 21.Ne4, got no advantage and
agreed to a draw on the 28th move. The
main point is that 21.Nc4 closes the file
for the Black Rook, Ne4 closes the
White Rook's file. Of course, this difference favors White.
21...Nc5?
Faced with an unpleasant surprise,
Beliavsky immediately makes a mistake. His idea is sensible: reduce the
material on the board as fast as possible. But this won't go so smoothly as
might appear at first sight. Whether
21.Nc4 is only a microscopic improvement or a theoretical novelty that will
change the general assessment of the
line will be shown by testing the line
21...Bxc3 22.Rxd7 Qf6 23.Re3 with the
idea Qd5, R f 3 . O n e shouldn't ask
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a couple of checks.
32.hxg5 Nxg5
The position after the exchange of one
pair of Rooks with 32...Rhl+ is also
hopeless.
33.Rld5!
Another Karpovian move. Now Black
is unable to parry White's concrete
threats.
33...Ne4
Or 33...Ne6 34.Rf5 Nd8 35.b5 R h l +
36.Kg2 R b l 37.Re5, winning for White.
34.Rd8 +
The beginning of an elegant finish.
34...Rxd8 35.Rxd8+ Kg7
35...Ke7 loses to 36.Re8+ Kd7
37.Rxe4Kxc7 38.Re7 + .
36.Ne8 + Kg6 37.Kg2!fl>
37...Rh5 38.f3! Nc3 (if 38...Nf6, then
39.Rd6 wins) 39.Rd6+ Kg5 40.f4 + Kg4
41.Nf6 + .
38.Rd7 Rh5 39.Rg7 + Kh6 40.Re7! f5
Or 40...Re5
41.Nxf6!
Rxe7
42.Ng8 + .
41.Re6 + Kg5 1-0
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TACTICS FROM
OUR MAIL
by IM Nikolay Minev
Giuoco Piano
C53
Paul Weaver
Dean Rom meo
Portland (G/15) 1993
l.e4 e5 2.N13 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 f5
I don't remember a game in the last
twenty years with this old continuation.
5.d4
ECO offers only 5.d3, leading to
April 19, 1993
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C18
Canoba
GM Erich Eliskases
San Nicolas (8) 1957
l.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3
Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Qg4 cxd4 8.Qxg7
Rg8 9.Qxh7 Qc7 10.Ne2 dxc3 ll.f4 b6!?
A forgotten continuation, not found in
ECO, perhaps worthy of more attention.
12.Nd4 Ba6 13.Be3
After 13.Bxa6 Nxa6 14.Nb5 Qc5
15.Nd6 + Kd7 16.Qxf7 Raf8 17.Qh7 (or
17.Qh5) 17...Rxg2 Black's counterattack
looks more dangerous.
13...Bxfl 14.Kxfl Nd7 15.Nb5? Qc4 +
16.Qd3 Nf5! 17.BC2
Impossible is 17.Qxc4 because of
17...Nxe3+ and 18...Nxc4. Now Eliskases sacrifices the first Rook for a promising attack with all his other pieces.
17...Qxf4! 18.Nc7 + Ke7 19.Nxa8 Nxe5
20.Qxc3 d4! 21.Qc7+ KI6 22.Rgl Rc8!!
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26...Qxfl + ! 0-1
For if 27.Kxfl Bd3 + 28.Kgl R f l mate.
This would also have worked after
24.Qxe7 Qxfl + !
Issue 7
1960. Combinations
What constitutes a combination?
Many books claim that a sacrifice is essential, but Cecil Purdy used the following position to dispute that:
T h e A m e r i c a n ' s move 40.Kxel is
criticized as inferior to 40.Rxel, which, it
is claimed, would have drawn. Then Beheim comments:
"The consequences of a tiny slip like
this may have affected the whole of
modern chess history. For Fine tied with
Keres in this great AVRO tournament,
but the application of the tie-breaking
system gave Keres the official right to
challenge for the world championship.
Had Fine been the winner, it is quite
possible that his American compatriots
would have found the backing for a title
match with Alekhine and Fine would
have had excellent chances against an
Alekhine who was, in 1938, well past his
peak. It is scarcely exaggerating to suggest that Reuben Fine came within one
move of becoming the first world champion from the United States.
What actually happened was that Fine,
disappointed by not winning the AVRO
tournament and in his inability to dislodge Reshevsky from the United States
championship, gradually withdrew from
international chess."