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On Sunday, the Booster Open attracted 35 players, mostly newcomers to tournament chess. Rick Johnson and Franklin Sax both registered perfect 4-0 scores. LOCAL NEWS The top-heavy field of 19 players competing in the Greater Los Angeles Chess Club Championship, held two weekends ago, featured four Senior Masters (rated over 2400) and four masters (over 2200). Three SM's, Mark Duckworth, Alan Pollard and Larry Rem-linger, and master Mihaly Szlovak tied for first prize at 4-1. The Greater Los Angeles Chess Club is open daily at 1710 Sijverlake Blvd.

in Los Angeles. The club will conduct Action chess tournaments every Friday evening. Call (213) 665-2551 for details. Robert Goldberg scored 5V5-W to win the 37-player Oak Tree Open, which finished Monday at the Arcadia Chess Club. Class prizes went to David Argall (top expert); Antonio Martin Alex Bautista James Galloway, Reilly Moss, Richard Williams, and Frank Wos-czyna Raymond Montalvo and Bob Boghosian (best unrated).

The club, which meets 1 p.m. Mondays in the Senior Citizens Building, 405 S. Santa Anita Ave. in Arcadia, will host a six-round Action chess tournament on the next three Mondays, beginning Dec. 3.

Call Fred Brock at (818) 331-1638 for information. TODAY'S GAMES GM Kasparov (U.S.S.R.) GM Karpov (U.S.S.R.) "14, World Championship. Lyon 1990: 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 A shock. The ancient Scotch Game in 1990? Karpov's defenses to the Ruy Lopez must have withstood the home analysis of Kasparov's team. oxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nxc6 Played repeatedly by Jacques Mioses at the turn of (he century.

The even older idea of 5 Nc3 Bb4 6 Nxc6 bxc6 7 Bd3 d5 is toothless. bxc6 6 e5 Qe7 7 Qe2 Nd5 8 c4 Ba6 9 b3 The books concentrate on 9 Nd2, because 9 b3 10 Bb2 Bb4 supposedly favors Black. Maybe Kasparov intended 10 a3 Rb8 11 g3. 0-0-0 10 g3 Re811 Bb2f6Not ll 12 Qg4, but 1 1 g6 makes sense. 12 Bg2 fxe5 13 0-0 h5 If Black tries to retain the pawn with 13 NI6, White gets good compensation with 14 Re1 e4 15 Qe3.

14 Qd2 Nf6 15 Qa5 Bb7 Not falling for 15 Kb? 16 Re1 d6? 17 Bxc6 Kxc6 18 Qxa6. 16 Ba3 Qo6 17 Bxf8 Rhxf8 18 Qxa7 Qg4 1 9 Na3 h4 Black must counterattack to save his shaky King. 20 Nc2 h3 21 Bh1 Ne4l Inviting 22 Nxg3i 23 fxg4? Ne2 mate. 22 a4 White gets little from 22 Qe3 Ng5 23 (3 Qf5. Nc3 23 Rae1 One answer to 23 f3 is 23 Nd4 25 Nxd4 Qxd4.

Ne2 24 Rxe2 Qxo2 25 Nb4 Menacing 26 Na6. dBI 26 cxd5 cxd5 27 Bxd5 BxdS 28 Nxd5 Qc2 29 Qa6 Hoping for 29. Kd7 30 Ne3 Qe4 Karpov, though short of time, fends off White's attack. 31 Rc1 Rb8 32 Qfl Rxb3 33 Qxh3 Kd8 34 Qh5 Setting the trap 34 35 Qd1. Kc8 35 Qd1 Rxo3 Assuring the draw.

The winning attempts 35 Rd3 36 Qc2 Rf7 37 Nc4 and 35 Qd3 36 Qg4 Qd7 37 Qe4 get Black in trouble. 36 fxo3 Qxe3 37 Khl Qe4 38 Kg1 Qe3 39 Kh1 Qe4 40 Kg1 Rd8 41 Qc2, Drawn. IM Schroer Gold, American Open, Los Angelas 1990: 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nf3 Bb4 The Bogo-lndian Defense. 4 Bd2 Qe7 5 g3 Nc6 6 Bg2 Bxd2 7 Nbxd2 Avoiding 7 Qxd2 Ne4 8 Qc2 Qb4. d6 8 0-0 a5 Usual is 8 0-0 9 e4 e5 10 d5, with an -edge to White.

9 e4e57! 10 d5 Nb8 11 c5l Exploiting Black's inaccurate order ol moves. Now 1 1 dxc5 12 Nc4 Nbd7 permits 13 d6 cxd6 14 Nxd6 Kd8 (worse is 14. Kf8 15 Ng5) 15 NI5, when White has a fierce attack. 0-0 12 cxd6 cxd6 13 Nh4 b5 14 a4I The light squares c4 and 15 beckon White's Knights. b4 15 Nc4 g6 16 f4 oxf4 17 Rxf4 Nbd7 18 Nf3 Heading for c6.

Black has too many weaknesses. Nxe4 19 Nd4 NecB 20 Nc6 Qe8 Also hopeless is 20. 21Nxd6. 21 Qd4l The hasty 21 Nxd6? Qe3 22 Kh1 Nd3 lets Black fight back. Nb3 22 Qf2 As 22.

23 Nxd6 wins Black's Queen. Ndc5 23 Re1, Black Resigns. ifmfmfl abcdefgh Dec. 2, 1990 Position "5091 White to play and win. From the gamo Pilnick Labrador, American Open, Los Angeles 1990.

Solution to Position W6090: 1 Rxh5 gxh5 2 Rxg Kxg 3 Bh6 Kh (or 3 Kg8 4 Qg5 A Bxf8 soon mates. INTERNATIONAL MEWS The world championship match resumed last weekend in Lyon, France. Champion Gary Kasparov and former champion Anatoly Karpov drew three more games, extending their latest string to eight straight draws. The score is tied, 7 VS-7 Vi, in the 24-game series. If the match ends in a 12-12 tie, Kasparov will remain champion for three more years.

The match continues Saturdays, Mondays, and Wednesdays. Look for a report in Section A of The Times on the day after play. The Chess Olympiad, the world's foremost team tournament, nears a finish in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. After 10 of 14 rounds, the Soviet Union leads the Men's Olympiad with a score of 28-12. England has 26W-12W, plus an adjourned game.

Next are Yugoslavia, 25Vi-14; Bulgaria, 25-15: and the United States, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia (the hosts have three teams, 24W-15V. The U.S. led after six rounds, lost three successive matches by 1 scores to the U.S.S.R., Yugo slavia, and England, then drew Iceland, 2-2. In the Women's Olympiad, the Soviet team has 24V5-4V4, plus an adjourned game, while top-seeded Hungary has 24V4-5V4. The showdown between the U.S.S.R.

and Hungary's Polgar sisters ended in a 2-1 triumph for the Soviets. World champion Maya Chiburdanidze lost to Zsuzsa Polgar, but former champion Nona Gaprindashvili defeated 13-year-old Judit Polgar, and Alisa Gallia-mova beat Zsofia Polgar. The third-seeded U.S. women, despite 0-3 losses to both favorites, still have a chance for bronze medals. They are fifth with 18VS-1 1 Vi, one point behind Bulgaria and two points behind China.

AMERICAN OPEN Walter Browne and Igor Ivanov shared first place in the 26th American Open last weekend at the LAX Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles. Each scored 7-1, drawing their sixth-round meeting and one other game. Both winners defeated British GM Tony Miles, the tournament's highest-rated player. Maxim Dlugy, the new president-of the U.S. Chess Federation, and Jack Peters tied for third at 6VS-1 V4.

At 6-2 were GM Sergey Kudrin, IM Jonathan Schroer (who had a fine tournament until losing to Browne in the last round), and masters Renard Anderson, Gregg Small and Isaak Margulies. Steve Stubenrauch was best expert. There were 1 14 entrants in the Open section, including six grandmasters. In Section Two (under 2100), Jamie Schloss, R.C. Rice and Howard Vihon split the first three prizes with 6W-1J4 scores.

Best under 2000 was Paul Clift. Jorge Roman Lopez finished clear first in Section Three (under 1900), scoring an impressive Mark McKee was sec ond with 7-1 Jay Abellanosa, rated only 1319, and unrateds Nune Abrahamyan and Steven Lender topped Section Four (under 1600) with 7-1 scores. Organizer Jerry Hanken and the Santa Monica Bay Chess Club were disappointed by the turnout of 369 players for the four-day event. The tournament Jost an estimated $2,000. a Lawyer? Beverly Hills Woodland Hills 1 Thinkinq About.

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