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I OS N( ,1 I I I Ml VC I'M) B1 1 LOS ANGELES COUNTY GREETERS: Bum's Rush Welcomes Tourists By JACK PETERS INTERNATIONAL MASTER CHESS V'7 I 4 Black, Almond, or While 4 Alinl move. "I spent today looking ui'oiintl for any place that has the space wc need," Rnzo Orlando, the company's area general manager, said last week. Orlando said Greyhound needs at least an acre for a new terminal. lie said he would prefer to stay close to the downtown area because of its central location. "My druthers would be to cozy tip to the Amtrak facilities over by Union Station," he said.

"With Metro Rail coming in, that will be a transportation center. We're talking with them about it." The strike by tmion bus drivers, which began March 2, has had little effect on the street scene outside the terminal. But bus riders all over the country are talking with Greyhound about the problems at the Los Angeles depot. Terminal manager Bonds said he often heard from worried passengers in Eugene, where he was assigned until March 6. "They'd say, 'If you have lo route me through L.A., 1 won't you safely to your car!" Such an exhortation "borders on extortion" in tho view of Los Angeles Police Capt.

Jerry W. Conner, commander of the city's Central Area police division. Conner's office is in a bunker-like, brick police station located a few hundred yards from the entrance to the bus terminal. Conner acknowledged that visitors "are totally vulnerable" when they step from the Greyhound depot. Although specific figures arc unavailable, incidents of theft, assault and robbery in the area are common, he said.

"The bus sTation is the port of entry for a lot of people, and for them to be confronted by what you see out there just drives me up the wall," Conner said. "It embarrasses me because you're right across the street from the Police Department." Police are prevented from clearing the bus station sidewalk because Greyhound does not own the walkway area next to the terminal, Conner said. Greyhound built the two-story depot in 1967, but sold the building four years ago to an investment firm. The bus company leases the second floor as a passenger lounge and ticketing and boarding area. The first floor is rented as a mini-mall to shopkeepers who sell souvenirs and other tourist items.

Off-duty policemen hired as security guards by Greyhound are posted at two places on the second floor to keep street people put of passenger areas. But access to the first-floor mall used by all passengersis not restricted. When police patrol the public sidewalk outside the terminal, transients and beggars simply step back a few feet onto private property, Conner said. Greyhound officials say they arc ready to pack up their buses and I Continued from B8 Ho said he is trying to chase away drug addicts who hang around the depot and pester travelers for cash to spend on rock cocaine from Skid Row dealers. lie is urging those who want to work outside the bus station to wear clean clothes and to take turns approaching travelers.

Results have been mixed. Lafayette said he has recruited six former addicts to work in such a semi-organized manner. But dozens of other homeless men ignore the blunt-spoken Lafayette's harangues and continue to loiter at the depot entrance. Two visitors from Sonora, Mexico, Elizabeth Siller and Maria Gonzales, seemed dazed by the scene as strangers moved in on them from all sides near the bus station doorway last week. Several offered to help the women with their luggage.

One pcrsis -tcntly tried to persuade them to take an unlicensed "bandit van" to their destination. Another peddled phony gold jewelry, waving a necklace in their faces. "Your first impression of L.A. when you get off the bus here is, 'Oh my God what have I come said Harold Patton, 39, who said he is a recovering cocaine addict who has joined in the self-policing effort. The bus terminal's rough neighborhood works to the hustlers' advantage, Lafayette admitted.

But sometimes it is hard to distinguish the self-appointed crew trying to police the depot from the street hustlers who are frightening visitors. Turning toward travelers leaving the station, Lafayette shouted: "Welcome to L.A! You are in the heart of Skid Row! You go one block this way or one block that way, anything can happen! I will be your personal security! I will escort CALICOS 44 OFF REG. 4.98 TROPICAL 40 OFF REG. 4.98 Win a 7-day Princess cruise for two to the Mexican Riviera! Don't miss this exciting reader contest in the super summer Midyear lidition. 1)1 ID YE A Cos Attgelee SKmee CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SAN DIEGO New Hotel Close lo Sea World, Pool NltGclub Ilcsl Western AIRPORT INN 1-S0O-3SZ-I22Z 2901 NlmllzBlvd.

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6-23 TO RALPHS AT LOUISE SAT. SUN. plishments. LOCAL NEWS The Victorville Summer Swiss, originally scheduled next weekend, has been canceled. The Oxnard Chess Festival, four separate one-day tournaments for players of various ratings, takes place June 23 and 24 at the Financial Plaza Hilton in Oxnard.

Call Parker Montgomery Jr. at (805) 962-0364 or at (805) 969-6177 for more information. John Skratulia swept the 38-player Spring Swiss at the Arcadia Chess Club, scoring 5-0. Class prizes went to Richard Hwang and Mike Zachary, best over 2000; Dennis Hokama and Tim Staggers, Dan Manahan and Roy Ka-men, Harry Gaul and Lyle Wiede-man, and Wendell Salveron, best unrated. The Summer Warmup, a five-round tournament on Monday evenings, begins June 18 at the Arcadia Chess Club, 405 S.

Santa Anita Ave. in Arcadia. For information, call Fred Brock at (818) 331-1638. A six-board match between teams representing the Santa Monica Boy Chess Club and Gym for the Mind is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. June 24 at Gym for the Mind, 4907 Topanga Canyon Blvd.

in Woodland Hills. There is a $2 charge for spectators. Call (818) 710-8042 for more information. Rick Long, Ron Hermansen and Harold Deutscher topped their sections in quad tournaments run by the Hughes Chess Club. The club meets Thursday evenings in the Hughes Missile Group cafeteria, 8433 Fallbrook Ave.

in Cano-ga Park. For information, call Herman Hess at (818) 346-5959 or John G. Price at (818) 363-1379. TODAY'S GAMES IM G. Garcia (Colombia) GM Walter Browne, National Open, Las Vegas 1990: 1 o4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 Bg5 The shaipest system Ihe Naidorf Sicilian e6 7 14 Bel 8 Qf3 Qc7 9 0-0-0 Nbd7 10 Be-2 Briefly fashinn.ible 3(1 years ago Morn popular now Uh4.

10Bd3.nnd I00g3 b5 Almost inicurl. as 10 Rb8 I I Qn3 favors White 11 Bxf6 Some piefer I I eh Bti 2 Ot3 dxoft 13 lb Nxf6 12 eS Bb7 13 exf6 Black welcomes 13 Og3i lo! 14 fxnb Nd Qxg Gxeb. although Hronslnin suqqnstion of lb Bxbb' nxbb Hi Ndxhb 1 Qxy 00 0 18 Qxf Ujb gives about even chances Bxf3 14 Bxf3 All theory so far, vol White had used )li ol his allotted 1 20 minutesi Bxf6l Aflei I4 Rett fxe, Black's King is not safe 15 Bxa8 d5 Threatening both Hi 0 0 and Ri 0x14 White must return a pieci! 16 Bc6? Knres Fischer, Bled continued I Li BxriSi' Bxd'P 1 Rxdl exdh 18 Nxrtb" Ocb, with an edge to Black Theory i.onsirlers IHRelKlH IS) oG 20 Nxdh critical Ke7? Correct is 1(3 KfH 17 Rhe1 Qxf4 As I BxrM" IH Nxdb 18 Kb1 Kd6 19Bxd5 exd5? Losing Only Bxd4 resists 20 Nxd5 Qg5 Not 20 Kxdb 2 Ne2. 20 Oxh2'2l 20 2 1 NxlG 21 Nxf6! The rarelnss21 Nf.V favors Black Qxf6 22 Nxb5 Kc5 White should win the ending after 22 Kcfi 23 Bdii 23 Rd6 Qf5 24 g4l Seeing 2' 0xg4 2b Re5 Kc4 2(5 b3 KM 21 a3 Kah 28 Nc3 mate Qf4 25 Redll Relentless Now the idea is 2b axbb 2C ld! Kc4 2 1)3 Kc3 28 WA KM Hfid4i-, reaching a pawn up endgame Ge4 No belter is 2b On!) 26 Oxdli 21 Nc4 26 Nc3 Qf4 27 R1d5 Kc4 28 Rc6, Black Resigns. Calderon Booth, Memorial Day Classic, Santa Monica 1990: 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 Bc4 06 7 Bb3 Bo7 8 Be3 Tians posing to a solid but overly passive lorm.ition afiainst tlic Vi.limimvu.l i Attack The mom aggmssive bb kntips the game a N.ijdur Sicilian 9 Qe2 Nc6 10 0-0-0 11 f4 0-0 12 Rhg1 Lxpect ing '12 Gab 13 b5 Black never manages to st.irt a counterallack However.

12 Nxd'l 13 Ilxd4 eh 14 Ixeb Bg4 lb 012 dxeh (lb I3xd l( exfti costs in.iieii.il) Hi' Bbli OnH 1 Hd.1 will not ritliei 13 e5l Ne8 Opening the (I file by 13 ilxn!) 14 NxcG Flxcli lb fxeb does not help Black 14 Qh5 d5? Black must keep the pressure on White's i pawn by 14 Or: 15 g4 Willi the umler closed, nothing distracts White Irom male Bc5 If lb Hi, one way is Hi fb. undermining dh 16 Rg3 g6 17 Qh6 f6 18 f5! Also strong is 18 Nxdb'. when IH extlb losris to Bxdb Khfl 20 Nell Bxeli 2 1 Fixed Ge 22 BxcB Bxd4 Black center collapses alter 18 fxeb lii Nxeii 19 Bxd4 Nxd4 20 Rxd4 fxe5 21 Rxd5! As 21 exdb 22 I3xdh Rf 23 fxgfisonn mates Nc7 22 Rdl Qe8 23 fxg6 hxg6 24 Rh3 Rf4 25 Qh8, Black Resigns. WAYS Diisiihsss Our closet and garage syslems are lop of Ihe line European design and styling. They include complete adjustability for easy moving ol shelves and pole for your euerchanging lifestyle and storage problems.

i. Sinli) '5 Call lui a Fii't) Esltmnti) a June 17, 1990 Position 5067: While in pl.iy win I Lm I ApjuM. S.Hll.l Mimic.) I'i'ti i Solution to Position "5066: Dl.u Auh i i nc i nd i H' MM'i -I 1 HtlH. nr QM Hhn INTERNATIONAL NEWS The World Cup Qualifier in Moscow in a five-way tie for first place. Jonathnn Spool man of England and Azmaiparashvili, Evgeny Bareev, Al-oxaiulfir Khalifman and Mikhail Gurevich of the Soviet Union all scored 7-4 in the strong 42-player tournament.

Each qualifies for the 1991-1992 World Cup, the lucrative series of tournaments run by the Grandmasters Assn. (GMA). Next at 6l''i-4i were Alexander Be-lyavsky, Boris Gelfand and Vassily Ivan-chuk of the Soviet Union, Murray Chandler of England, Lajos Portisch of Hungary and Nick de Firmian of Berkeley. All but Gelfand and Ivanchuk qualify. The GMA had allotted 12 spots in the World Cup to top scorers in the tournament, but another rule prevented more than five Soviet players from qualifying.

On tiebreak, Belyavsky became the lucky fifth Soviet representative, while Gelfand and Ivanchuk, two youngsters who may bo the world's third- and fourth-best players, missed out. The final three qualifying spots went to Kirill Georgiev of Bulgaria, Predrag Ni-kolich of Yugoslavia and Yasser Seira-wan of Seattle, who finished in a tie with many Soviets at 6-5. Thus, two of the four U.S. players competing in Moscow qualified. Boris Gulko of Massachusetts finished with 5 -5 and Tony Miles, nominally of Seattle, had 4V2-6W.

There will he 24 players in the next World Cup. Gary Kasparov, Anatoly Kar-pov. Valery Salov and Jan Ehlvest, all of the Soviet Union, Ljubomir Ljubojevich of Yugoslavia, and John Nunn of England, the top six finishers in the 1988-1989 World Cup, have already qualified for the next cycle. Six more will be chosen by rating. In a GMA meeting in Spain, world champion Kasparov, the founder of the GMA, was reelected president by a vote (if 1 15-10.

Shortly afterward, he resigned in protest over the decision by the GMA's previous officers to work more closely with the World Chess Federation 1FIDE). Kasparov has feuded with FIDE president Florencio Campomanes for years. NATIONAL OPEN The National Open, held last weekend in Las Vegas, drew 1.115 players, making it the largest open tournament of the year, and one of the largest of all time. The 3 72 -player Championship section featured 113 masters, including nine GM's and 13 IM's. Seven players split 10.000 in prize money by tying for first place at 51.1-1.': GM Dmitry Gurevich of Chicago.

'M Alexander Ivanov of Massachusetts, IM Igor Ivanov of Dominguez Hills. GM Grigory Kaidanov of the Soviet Union. 1 5-year-old Gata Kamsky of New York City, GM Sergey Kudrin of Connecticut and IM Jeremy Silman of Beverly Hills. Under the leadership of Fred Gruen-herg of Chicago, who organizes the tournament in cooperation with the U.S. Chess Federation, the National Open has grown to become the most successful of the USCF's "Triple Crown" events.

Only the privately run World Open and New York Open have attracted greater crowds, and they have the advantage of drawing on larger local player pools in Philadelphia and New York City. Grunnberg succeeds with enthusiastic promotion. He bills the National Open as "'the affordable event," and emphasizes all the free extras for players. He has the most spacious playing hall, and lie hires a large crew of capable directors to minimize disputes. Gruenberg will turn over the tournament to someone else next year, and it will be interesting to see if the new organizer can match his accom WE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE 7 1 Un r.isit'sl Accommodation In Tho Ousinoss Hn' HnHt'st Qu.ilily W.Honals Hardwarn in Ihe i Wnli'M Varioiy ol Colors and Stylus I rin- Wosl Options I hi' oniji'St (liiilranli'i' tvi" ILilotimi'l i Unst ol All.

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