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i i Sunday. .10, iwo B5 METRO NEWS CHESS By JACK PETERS INTERNATIONAL MASTER 8 1 H1H llli player event held at the Arcadia Chess Club. Mel Tyner and Eric Youngquist tied for second place. Reilly Moss and Jeff Schroeder split the under 1850 prize. Dennis Hokama won a concurrent unrated tournament with a perfect 5-0 score.

Winter Wars, a six-round tournament, begins Jan. 7 at the Arcadia Chess Club, which meets 1 p.m. Mondays in the Senior Citizens Building, 405 S. Santa Anita Ave. in Arcadia.

For details, call Fred Brock at (818) 331-1638 or, during club hours, at (818) 445-9081. The La Habra Chess Club, which meets Friday evenings in the Assembly Hall, Orange at Erna in La Habra, begins the Wary Janus, a six-round tournament, on Jan. 4. Call Jerry Schain at (213) 691-2393 or Bob Goulet at (213) 947-6739 for information. Gym for the Mind, 4907 Topanga Canyon Blvd.

in Woodland Hills, will hold its six-round club championship on Friday evenings, beginning Jan. 4. The club also plans a World Rapid Chess (WRC) rated 30-minute quad tournament at noon on Jan. 5, and World Blitz Chess Assn. (WBCA) rated speed tournaments at 7 p.m.

every Wednesday. For all of the details, call (818) 710-8042. The January Championship, a four-round tournament, takes place Jan. 5-6 at the Chess Palace, 3255 E. South St.

in Long Beach. The Chess Palace wilt also conduct a five-round tournament on Thursday evenings, beginning Jan. 3. Call (213) 634-8477 for more information. TODAY'S GAMES LA.

History 17728 1 John Foster, Metro Rail archeologist, holds a turn-of-the-century mug, which was found during construction at Union Station. Foster says nine artifacts were discovered, including cup, above, and medicine bottles. Photos by KEN l.UBAS Los Angeles Times BUGS: Collector Is Lord of the Flies and Ants abedefgh Dec. 30, 1990 Position "5095: Black to play and win. From the game Roy Ash, New Hampshire 1990.

Solution to Position 5094: Black wins with 1 Rxb2. If 2 Bxb2, then 2. Bf53Ka1Bxb24Kxb2Qa35 Kal Qc3mate. Or, if 2Kxb2, then 2 Qa3 3 Ka 1 Rc 1 4 Rxc 1 Bxd4 mates. In the game, Black played 1 Bxd4? 2 Rxd4 Rxb2 3 Kxb2 Qa3 4 Kbl BI5 5 Re4, and only drew.

INTERNATIONAL MEWS Gary Kasparov has defended his title of world champion. After a draw in Wednesday's 22nd game in Lyon, leads Anatoly Karpov, 12-10, in their best-of-24-game world championship match. The match will continue because Kasparov needs points to earn the winner's share of $1.7 million. If Karpov manages to tie the match by winning the final two games, Kasparov remains champion, and each player receives $1.5 million. Jhe match began in New York City in October, then shifted to France last month.

Strangely, the tenor of the match changed too. In New York, each player managed only one win. In game after game, Kasparov provoked wild complications but could not outplay Karpov, who normally prefers quiet positions. In fact, Karpov came close to winning in several of the games. The players seemed evenly matched.

In Lyon, though, Karpov's opening preparation fell apart. His team worked out a "defense" to the Scotch Game which cost him one point, then he dropped his next two games as Black to the Ruy Lopez. With White, he achieved fine positions, but scored the full point only once, when Kasparov equalized with the Grunfeld Defense, then played weakly. It's difficult to argue with Kasparov's own explanation of his victory. After Game 22, he said, "I play chess better than Karpov.

That's the most important reason. I'm a very good professional player now." The final game of the KRO match in Holland between Yasser Seirawan of Seattle and Dutch star Jan Timman was drawn. Seirawan won the match, 4-2. LOCAL NEWS Shanks Shankarananda won the 53-player November-December rating tournament at the Santa Monica Bay Chess Club, scoring 6-1. Ron Frasco, Steve Hughes and top expert Sid Rubin were next with 5VS-1'5 scores.

Elihue Hill and Doug Sefton shared the prize, Steve Spurgeon was top and Ben Shuldi-ners took honors. The Santa Monica Bay Chess Club, which meets Monday and Friday evenings in the Senior Citizens Recreation Center, 1450 Ocean Ave. in Santa Monica, begins a six-round New Year's tournament on Jan. 7. For information, call Randy Hough at (818) 282-7412 or Ben Nethercot at 213 455-1704.

The Hughes Chess Club, one of the area's largest and most active clubs, will host its seven-round club championship on Thursdays, beginning Jan. 3. First-round byes are available. For more information, call Herman Hess at (818) 346-5959 or John G. Price at (818) 363-1379.

The 35-player Hughes Holiday Swiss was won by Houshang Mehrkhodavani, who scored 6-1, Expert winner John Williams also scored 6-1. Other class prize winners were Thomas Keith, Arto Ter-Matevosyan, Arne Lier, Robert Hil-debrand and Rod Black. The Hughes Chess Club meets p.m. Thursdays in the Hughes Missile Group cafeteria, 8433 Fallbrook Ave. in Canoga Park.

Brian Zavodnik took half-point byes in the first two rounds, then won four straight games to claim first prize in the Arcadia Action chess tournament, a 21- (( THESE ADVfRTISERS ARE MEMBERS nucTionEEns mdci nmrnw HDELL GM Karpov (U.S.S.R.) GM Kasparov (U.S.S.R.) 21. World Championship, Lyon 1990: 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 e4 d6 5 f3 Trailing by two points, Karpov tries the aggressive Samisch Attack against the King's Indian Defense. 0-0 6 Be3 e5 7 d5 Nh5 8 Qd2 5 9 0-0-0 a6 10 Bd3 c5l? A new plan. Usually Black prefers. Nb8-d7-f6.

11 dxc6 Else b7-b5 counterattacks. Nxc6 12 Nd5 Be6 13 Bb6 White has a slight edge, due to his control of the hole at d5. Qd7 14 Ne2 Rac8 15 Kb1 Of 7 16 Rhe1 Kh8 17 Bc2 Eyeing the backward d-pawn. Nf6 18 Bd3 Changing plans, as the intended 18 Nc3" runs into 18 Nd7. Nd7 19 Bg1 Nc5 20 Nb6 Rcd8 21 Nc3 Nd4 Shielding his d-pawn.

22 Ncd5 Bxd5 23 Nxd5 fxe4 24 fxe4 b5 Characteristically, Kasparov fights back, accepting a weak b-pawn. 25 Rf1 If 25 cxb5 axb5 26 Bxd4 exd4 27 Bxb5, Black gets sufficient counterplay with 2 Nxe4 28 Rxe4 Qxd5 29 Bd3 Rb8. Qd7 26 cxb5 axb5 27 Rxf8 Rxf8 28 h3 Qd8 29 Bxd4 exd4 30 Qe2 Qh4 31 Rf1I Keeping a clear advantage. Instead, 31 8xb5? Rf2 activates Black's pieces. Re8 32 Rf4 Qg5 33 a3 Too dangerous is- 33 d3 34 Bxd3 Rb8.

h534Ka2 b4l? In mutual time pressure. Black sacs the doomed pawn to expose White's King. 35 axb4 Ra8 36 Kb1 Nb3 37 Kc2 After the game, Karpov lamented that he had missed a win hereabouts. Na138Kb1 Nb3 39 Qf2 Qd8 Threatening to mate with 40 Qc8.40Rf7Qe8Now the threat is 41 Qc6. White parries 40 Qc8 with 4 1 Rc7.

41 b5 The sealed move. Tempting is 41 Ra142 Kc2, when42 43 Nxg6 Kg8 44 Rxg7 Kxg7 45 Qf8! KhI 46 Qh8 Kxg6 47 e5 Kf7 48 Bc4 favors White, but 42 Ncl! 43 Nxg6 Kh7 leaves White groping for a defense to 44. Qa44bKd2Qxb4. Ra142Kc2 Nc5 Intending either 43 Nxd3 44 Kxd3 Qxb5 or 43 Rc1! 44 Kd2 Bh6 45 Ke2 Nxe4. 43 Rxg7 This and the following moves were played quickly, as both rivals followed their overnight analysis.

Kxg7 44 Qxd4 Qo5 45 Qxe5 dxe5 46 b6 Rg1 47 No3 Re1 48 Nc4 Rg1 49 Ne3 Re1 50 Nc4 Rg1 51 b4 Needing win, Karpov disdains the draw by repetition. Rxg2 52 Kc3 Na4I White has some hope of winning after 52 Nd? 53 KI6 54 NbG! Nb8 55 Bb5 Ke 56 Nd Kd6 57 Nxb8 Kc7 58 Nc6 Kxb7 59 Nxe5. 53 Kb3 Nxb6 54 Nxb6 Rg3 55 Kc3 Rxh3 56 b5 h4 57 Nc4 Rxd3! Simplest 58 Kxd3 h3 59 56 h2 60 b7 h1Q 61 b8Q Qf1 62 Kc3 Qc1 63 Kb3 Qd1 64 Ka2 As 64 Ka3 Qa1 65 Kb3 Qdl and 64 Kb2 Qd4 65 Kb3 Qd 1 repeat. Qa4 65 Na3 Qxe4 The position is clearly drawn. Unless the Knight can approach the Black King, White cannot dream of checkmate.

66 Qc7 Kh6 67 Nc4 Qd5 68 Kb2 e4 69 Qf4 Kg7 70 Kc3 Qd3 71 Kb4 Qd4 72 Qh4 Kf7 Not (earing 73 Qh7 Qg 4 Nd6 KI8 or 74 Ne5 Kf6 73 Kb5 Qd5 74 Kb4 Qd4 75 Qh7 Qg7 76 Qhl Qd4 77 Qh4 Kg8 78 0.14 Kg7 79 Qc1 Kf6 80 Kb5 Qd5 81 Kb4 Qd4 82 Kb5 Qd5 83 Kb6 Qd4 84 Kc6 Ke6 85 Ne3 Qa4 86 Kb6 Qb4, Drawn. OF THf SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA nssonnnon nn UUi Audhnttn Sinct l)l( HOLD THEIR TUESDAY SALE The only paying insect job he ever LOU MACK Los Angeles Times had was as inspector at the border. Continued from Bl entomologist Gordon Gordh, who visits him regularly to pick up specimens. "Science is improved considerably by his immense collecting talent." But, Gordh said, "he's probably never gained the notoriety he deserves." Crandall lives in a rambling Altadena home that also houses his enormous insect collection, which Gordh calls the biggest personal inventory he has ever seen. The collection fills 445 narrow, glass-covered wooden drawers and contains 500,000 mounted specimens.

Another half-million, Crandall said, are not yet processed. On a recent day in his laboratory, a tidy contrast to the rest of the dusty house, he showed off the collection drawer by drawer. Reds, yellows and gold popped into view from the backs of bugs. "A lot of tribal masks are patterned after insects," he said, looking at a tray of shining green beetles. A 1940 zoology, entomology and business graduate of the University of Arizona, he has no advanced degrees in entomology, and, aside from once working as a pest inspector on the Arizona border, he has never had a paying job in the field.

But he can fluently weave together insect facts with history and literature, sprinkling his discourses with references to the ancient poet Ovid and the Mediterranean fruit fly. Next to ice cubes in his old, yellow Admiral refrigerator, Crandall keeps tiny parasitic wasps he collects for Gordh, who is researching natural pest controls. As a nature cinematographer, "Bob was an absolute genius at getting insects to essentially perform according to script," said Taras Kiceniuk, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer and Caltech lecturer. In the 1950s Kiceniuk helped Crandall develop jury-rigged zoom lenses before they were commercially available. His living room was once dominated by movie sets that served as home to his Disney stars ground squirrels, scorpions, ants and spiders of nature films.

The tub in his spare bathroom was the lair of a Gila monster. A giant toad, living in the toilet, once caused a party guest to flee, screaming. For a political candidate who wanted a commercial to portray an opponent as destructive, Crandall filmed termites eating wood. For a 1964 New York World's Fair exhibit, he filmed a spider in his back yard. Nowadays Crandall is working on a new short film, "Adventures of Adam Ant," the story of one ant's life.

He is dedicating it to his only child, Robert, who committed suicide with cyanide from the lab, and to his wife, Fanny, who just after their son's death six years ago had a fatal fall while hiking alone in the San Gabriel Mountains. Those who know Crandall call him hardheaded, brilliant, yet often playful and childlike. "Crandall is amazing," Gordh said. "I wouldn't want to sanctify him. But the guy has talent that goes beyond mere mortals." In part, Crandall said, he was able to pursue his insect interests Robert H.

Crandall in his home lab. unfettered because he did well as an investor in the commodities market. Recently, at the house where he has lived for 40 years, the smell of killing solution enveloped the dining room. Ant farms in washtubs cluttered counters. Wire screens, featherweight tweezers, entomological journals and boxes of film filled a table.

He emptied out his day's catch, now dead or dying, and sifted vegetation and insects through finer and finer screens until he could pick out specks he knew to be highly complex insect forms. "Our senses," he said, "allow us to be aware of only the minute fraction of existence. Insects, especially, are too small for us to experience without our going to a lot of effort." Weather and season permitting, Crandall often goes with his two dogs to collect specimens in the mountains. In the foothills one recent day, Crandall made balletic moves, sweeping his net across flowers of wild oats, a good place to find insects in winter. "Now, you can see why I came up," he said.

He motioned to the abundant buckwheat, absent at lower elevations, and turned west, looking beyond Altadena rooftops, the towers of downtown Los Angeles, and out to the Pacific, sun-tinteda lush pink. "I've heard that according to actuarial tables entomologists live longer than any other group because, you see, they can find something new every day," he said. "Then there's always the excitement of whether you've snared a yellow jacket in your net." After Three Weeks Of We Are Ready To Start The New Year With An Important- AUCTION, THURSDAY JANUARY 3 AT 10 AM PREVIEW WED. 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M.

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