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I0am-4pm, 5 Wallaringa Ave, Neutral Bay. Sydney Writers' Festival. Sessions from 1 1.30am, including the 1992 Poetry Cup, lpm-2pm. free or $2 for participants, Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of NSW, Macquarie St, Sydney. The NRMA Motorfest.

More than 600 pre-1962 cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles, plus jazz and rock 'n roll. I0am-4pm, Watson Rd to Observatory Hill, The Rocks. Bridge to Bridge. 400 swimmers expected to compete in 3km swim in Nepean River from 8am, the boat ramp. Tench Res, Penrith.

Ph (047) 74 1209. Little Toot. This 50-year-old steam locomotive to run from rear of Harbourside, Darling Harbour, at 11am, 12.30pm, 2pm and 3.30pm. Free. Powerhouse The Great Bowing Company takes the audience to the mythical past of the Pacific basin.

2pm-3pm, the Turbine Hall, Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris St, Ultimo. Free after entry. Herbs aad Spices. Learn about all things herbal. Adults S5.

children S3, 10am-4J0pm, Elizabeth Farm, 7 Alice St, Parramatta. For Biting this section contact Robyn Willis on 2S2 3068. Tuesday to Thursday 9 am-5 pm. FAX number 282 2151. Address: CFO Box 506.

Sydney 2001. Text for Today Heal the sick, bring the dead back to life, heal those who suffer you have received without paying, so give without being paid. Matthew Ca 10 8. FINE 32 HOBART I RAIN 25 Wind speed 10-15 knots morning, NE 15-20 knots afternoon Wave heights 1 2m Swell waves I 1.5m Tides: High: 8.28 am (2.0m) and 9.09 pm (1.4m) Low: 1.51 am (0.3m) and 3.11 pm (0.1m) Sunrise 6.03 am Snnset 8.08 pm Sunshine 8-10 hours CLOUDY patches at first near the coast and later in the afternoon westwards but otherwise mainly sunny. NE winds moderate to fresh later.

Top temperatures will be 26 degrees in the city and 27-29 degrees westwards. Probability of rain is around 10-15 per cent SYDNEY OUTLOOK TOMORROW is expected to be humid, mild to warm and mainly fine. Afternoon cloud may develop from the west with the chance of a shower. Top temperatures will be 27 degrees in the city and 28-30 degrees inland. Winds will remain north-easterly with seabreezes.

Similar conditions are expected on Tuesday, with the chance a late storm and cooler weather later in the week. YESTERDAY'S SYDNEY TEMPERATURES with some local showers. Winds NE becoming fresh in the afternoon. Similar weather is expected tomorrow. Ceetral Coast: Mild to warm and humid.

Partly cloudy with a few well-scattered showers near the ranges later. NE winds. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy but mainly dry with NE-N winds. South Coast: Broken cloud with sunny breaks increasing. Generally fine and mild.

Winds NE, freshening in the afternoon. Tomorrow partly cloudy and mild with NE winds. Northern Tablelands: A little cloud on the ranges but fine and mostly sunny westwards. Light to moderate E-NE winds. Tomorrow mainly fine and sunny, very high fire danger.

Central Tablelands: Fine and sunny with some scattered cloud patches. Mild to warm with light winds. Tomorrow mainly similar. High fire danger. Southern Tablelands: Early cloud areas but becoming fine and mostly sunny.

E-NE winds. Cloud developing from the west later tomorrow. North West SlopesPlains: Very warm to hot and mainly sunny. Chance of isolated late storms. Light NE winds.

Very high fire Today's Forecast THIS PAY IN HISTORY IN SYDNEY on January 19: Average maximum temperature 25.4 degrees, average minimum temperature 18.3 degrees, highest temperature 36.7 degrees in 1898, lowest temperature 12.9degreesin 1897, wettest day 113.8mm in 1950, strongest wind 81 knots from WNW in 1958. BEACH WATCH VARIABLE levels of stormwater pollution affected city and southern beaches yesterday and these problems are likely to persist today. There are also weed deposits. Again the cleanest are the northern beaches. NE winds will become moderate to fresh.

Waves will average I 2m. Water temperature is around 21 degrees. danger. Tomorrow N-Nh winds. Chance of late storm.

Central West SlopesPlains: Mainly fine and clear. Very warm with light E-NE winds. Very high fire danger. Tomorrow increasing cloud in the west but fine with NE winds. South West Slopes: Fine and mostly sunny with light E-NE breezes.

Warm to very warm. Cloud increasing tomorrow with winds turning NE to N. Very high fire danger. Riverina: Same as South West Slopes. Western Plains: Fine and very warm to hot Cloud increasing from west Winds E-NE light to moderate.

Very high fire danger. Tomorrow becoming cloudy and very warm to hot N-NW winds. OUTDOORS direction NE RAINFALL Northern Tablelands: Drake 2, Wattlegrove 0.2. Centrnl Tnblelnnds: Katooraba 0.6, Kurrajung Heights 0.4, Mt Boyce 0.2. Northern Rivers: Muilumbimby 2, Woodburn Yamba 5.

Mid North Coast: Bellbrook 0.2. Hunter: Carrowbrook 0.2, Upper Chichester 1, Wyong I. South Coast: Ulladulla 0.2. Metropolitan: Waverton 0.2. MAXIMUM: MINIMUM: 24 18 STATEWIDE North Coast: Warm and humid AMES Bridge Chess DICK CUMIUIINGS GARRY KOSHNITSKY native Hungary.

Sydney's Ry Curtis made a spectacular recovery in the second round of the Cepacol Australian Junior Championships in Adelaide. He overlooked a neat combination by his friend Brett Tindall which lost him a Queen for a Rook. Instead of immediate resignation he kept plugging away and eventually saved the day. I After five rounds leading scores were: Trevor Tao (SA), 4.5; Eu-Jin Teh, Timo Farber, Zen Davidson (all WA), Andrew Meldrum (Qld), Michael Salter (NSW) and Jeremy O'Carroll (Vic), Ry Curtis, Brett Marshall (NSW), Karim Slimani, Neil Steffensen (SA), 3.5. Girls Championship leading scores: Sulyn Teh (WA), Jennifer Harrington (SA), 4.5; Gabriella Grbovac (SA), Georgina Tarrant (NSW) and Clara Ryan 3.

Problem No 191 prizewinners: Andrew Kirk wood, Hazelbrook: Roberto Szanto, Allawah; Dr Weyland, Avalon. I PROBLEM No 194 Composed by Helfman i Black 5 pieces. heart. A spade was ducked to the eight and the jack of hearts came back, taken by the queen. This was the position: NORTH A6 85 WEST EAST J4 109 98 107 SOUTH Q9 3 With six tricks in the bag, South led the queen of spades, throwing a club from the table.

East, in trouble because of his partnership's earlier shortcomings, had to throw a heart Next came the jack of diamonds, followed by an exit with the three of hearts. East had to yield the last trick to dummy. Space did not permit discussion of a second way to make the 6S hand from last week's column: NORTH 108 J9832 108762 2 WEST EAST AK654 Q932 1076 AQ4 J54 AK93 98 A10 SOUTH J7 K5 KQJ76543 West is playing 6S against the opening lead of a club. After drawing trumps, he can throw a heart on the fourth diamond then get out with a dub. South has to lead around to the AQ of hearts or concede a ruff-and-discard.

Opening lead: ace of clubs. Having drawn trumps in four rounds. West switched to a heart. When it was all over, declarer had made only his two red aces. South's effort, by the way, in opening 1C and then not running from the double, was quite poor.

In the imperfect world of rubber bridge, though, such lapses are by no means uncommon. On today's second exhibit, from the same arena, it was the defenders who fell from grace. NS had a combined count of 29, normally more than enough for a game in no-trumps. The enemy cards were so positioned, however, that EW were favoured by the kibitzers to emerge with a plus score. Somehow, in that same imperfect world mentioned above they let declarer off the hook: Dealer East; all vulnerable.

NORTH K6 64 A643 A8532 WEST EAST J842 A105 AJ7 10985 10 98752 J10764 9 SOUTH Q973 KQ32 KQJ K.Q West North East Sooth Pass INT Pass 3 NT (All pass) Opening lead: the 6 of dubs. After winning the lead with the king of dubs, your intrepid reporter pulled a spade to the king and ace. East obliged by switching to a diamond, rather than a heart, at trick three. West came to the party, having followed to the king of diamonds, by throwing a heart on the queen of diamonds at trick four. Next came the queen of dubs, on which East elected to part with the 10 of spades.

The king of hearts then lost to the ace. West got out with the jack of dubs to theace. South discarding a PLAY! NG in a rubber game over the Christmas period, you pick up a fairly ordinary collection in the East seat: Q8643 KJ942 75 6 "With you. East, the dealer and NS Vulnerable, the auction starts: West North East Sooth Pass 1C Pass Pass What now? The main options are IS, 1 or pass. The fourth possibility, a reopening double, would be frowned upon by most good judges.

Their reasoning would be that partner must be a good chance to pass for penalties and this hand is virtually trickless in defence. Michael Courtney, a player unfettered by such concerns, decided to double anyhow. No need ask- Partner Raphy Stuart did in fact convert the double to penalties by passing. North passed also, leaving South as declarer in a contract of 1C doubled. The result was horrible to see but not, thank you very much, for EW.

Making a mockery of concepts of justice, the defenders collected 1 1 tricks plus 100 for honours, a penalty of 1500 points. This was the full deal: NORTH 10 QI073 10962 10843 WEST EAST AJ9 Q8643 86 KJ942 K83 75 AKQJ2 6 SOUTH K752 A5 AQJ4 THE national conference in Melbourne received the resignations of the president, Peter Wallman, the secretary, Philip Viner and the treasurer, John de Boer. This cleared the way for the seat of the Australian Chess Federation's move to Melbourne, where a new executive of IM Robert Jamieson, deputy president Gary Bekker, secretary IM Robert Shankley and treasurer Michael Hodgkinson have been elected. Jamieson served for two years as secretary before the ACF moved to Sydney and Canberra and back to Sydney. The draft for the new constitution did not receive the required two-thirds majority vote but a committee was appointed to examine it and to re-submit it at the next national conference.

An increased budget was adopted after some debate. One of the immediate problems before the new executive will be the fund-raising campaign for the travelling costs of the men's and women's teams to the 30th Olympiad scheduled for Manila in June, much earlier in the year than previous Olympiads. The selection of team members and officials is expected to be more difficult than usual. Melbourne has sent a strong team of IMs Darryl Johansen and Guy West, and FMs Chris Depasquale and Eddy Levi to the Asian Cities and Rapid Chess Championships at Dubai, United Arab Emirates, starting tomorrow and ending on February 7. A long-standing record for the youngest player to become a grandmaster, held by Bobby Fischer, has been broken by 15-year-old Judit Polgar who was close to it several times.

She finally made it in the international tournament in her 8 7 i a 6 fr.t 3 ti i feSj -Sa 1 abedefgh White 9 pieces. i White to play and mate in two moves. Solution should reach The Chess Editor, The Sun-Herald. Box 506, GPO Sydney 2001, by Friday, Solution to Problem 193 1. K-el.

Threat: 2. N-d4 mate. HI, TJ1E, SNJLjkUJan.BSft'.