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ids VC7 SUNDAY. DI'XTjVimili I'W B17 LOS ANGELES COUNTY By JACK PETERS INTERNATIONAL MASTER CHESS After the Fire: Sad Refrain Musicians: None of the businesses damaged in the Studio City blaze have elicited as much sympathy as the Valley Arts Guitar Center. 7 JljJW. 5 ii abedefgh 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 IWRC) 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 will also conduct a five-round tournament on Thursday evenings, beginning Jan. 3. Call (213) 634-8477 for more information.

TODAY'S GAMES Dec. 30, 1990 Position "5095: Blnck to piny and win. From the game Roy Ash, Now Hnmoshiro 1990. Solution to Position "5094: Blnck wins with I Rxb2. If 2 Bxb2, then 2 Bf53Ka1Bxb24Kxb2Qa35 Kal Qc3mato Or, if 2Kxb2.

then 2 Qo3 3 Kn 1 Rc 1 1 Rxc 1 BxcM mates In the game, Black plnyed 1 Bxd'W 2 Rxdl Rxb2 3 Kxb2 Qa3 A Kb 1 BI5 5 Re4, and only drew. HYUNGWON KANC 1.08 Angeles Time Al Carness, above, co-owner of Valley Arts Guitar Center, surveys fire damage at the Studio City store. Below, a picture taken about five years ago of the store INTERNATIONAL NEWS Gary Kasparov has defended his title of world champion. After a draw in Wednesday's 22nd game in Lyon, Kasparov leads Anatoly Karpov, 12-10, in their best-of-24-game world championship match. The match will continue because Kasparov needs 12W 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. The 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.

The final game of the KRO match in Holland between Yasser Seirawan of Se-. attle and Dutch star Jan Timman was drawn. Seirawan won the match, 4-2. LOCAL NEWS liy LESLIE I1ERGER ami GREG BRAXTON MMI-S STAFF Will III the good times, musicians famous and not so famous come to the Valley Arts Guitar Center to get their instruments repaired, catch up with old friends and occasionally break into jam sessions. Last Thursday was definitely not a good time for the Ventura Boulevard music store, but its patrons still faithfully stopped by this time to offer condolences to owners Al Carncss and Mike McGuire as they surveyed the wreckage of a fire that gutted two businesses on the block and heavily damaged theirs.

"I spend so much time here, it's like a home away from home," said guitarist Laurence Juber, who used to play with Paul McCartney and Wings. "It's more than a store it's like a social club." Juber left his Studio City residence for Valley Arts on Thursday after reading the morning newspapers. Guitarist Randy Meisner, formerly of the Eagles; Lee Sklar, a bass player for Phil Collins and James Taylor; and Stewart Levin, a composer-arranger for television's "thirtysomething" were among the other artists who cither dropped by or called. Guitarist Larry Carlton said he hopes to organize a benefit concert. "It's in everybody's hearts and I've started a list of contacts," said Carlton, formerly one of the city's top studio players and today a well-known solo artist.

"I'm sure I won't have trouble finding support for them. There's a lot of love for that store. I can't think of any other store that has such a relationship with the customers and artists." Of the businesses hurt by Wednesday's suspected arson-caused fires, none seem to have elicited such sympathy as Valley Arts, whose owners estimate they lost at least $600,000 in guitars, drums and keyboards, not to mention their boyhood dream. Pier 1 Imports and Strouels Linen Warehouse, the stores gutted by the fire in the 12100 block of Ventura Boulevard, are national chains. But the Valley Arts Guitar Center is a family owned operation that McGuire and Carncss bought with money they saved playing gigs and selling guitar strings.

The second floor of the music shop, which is just west of Pier 1 burned and the ground floor was ruined mainly by smoke and water from the firefighters' hoses. "I was on the phone all night," McGuire, who also makes guitars, said. "Duane Eddy called from Nashville and Larry Carlton called me from a session." McGuire and Carncss took guitar lessons at Valley Arts' original location on Laurel Canyon Boulevard when they were 10 years old. They became friends, and as young men decided to buy the store. They relocated to 12162 Ventura Blvd.

17 years ago, quickly becoming a fixture in the music industry. Autographed album covers, greasy with smoke, still covered the store's walls Thursday. Upstairs in the percussion room, GM Karpov (U.S.S.R.) GM Kasparov (U.S.S.R.) 021, World Championship, Lyon 1990: 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 Bg7 4 o4 d6 5 f3 Trailing by two poinls, Knrpov tries the aggressive Samisch Attnck against the King's Indian Defense 0-0 6 Bo3 a5 7 d5 Nh5 8 Qd2 5 9 0-0-0 6 10 Bd3 c5l? A now plan. Usually Blnck prefers Nb8-d-l(i. 11 dxc6 Else bf) counterattacks Nxc6 12 Nd5 Be6 13 Bb6 White has a slight edge, dun to his control ol the hole at d5.

Qd7 14 Ne2 Rac8 15 Kb1 Qf7 16 Rhe1 Kh8 17 Bc2 Eyeing the backward d-pnwn Nf6 18 Bd3 Changing plans, as the intended 18 No3 runs into 18 Nd7. Nd7 19 Bg1 Nc5 20 Nb6 Rcd8 21 Nc3 Nd4 Shielding his -pawn. 22 Ncd5 Bxd5 23 Nxd5 xe4 24 fxe4 b5 Characteristically, Kasparov fights back, nccepting a weak b-pawn 25 Rf1 If 25 cxbb nxbb" 26 Bxd'l oxd4 21 Bxbb. Blnck gnts sufficient countorplay with 2 28 Rxe4 Qxdb' 2 ED Bd3 Rb8 Qd7 26 cxb5 axb5 27 Rxf8 Rxf8 28 h3 Qd8 29 Bxd4 exd4 30 Qe2 Qh4 31 Rf1l Keeping a clear advantage. Instead.

3 1 Bxb5 Rf2 activates Black's pieces Ro8 32 Qg5 33 a3 Too dangerous is 33 BxbSX d3 34 Bxd3 Rb8 h5 34Ka2 b4l? In mutual time pressure, Blnck sncs the doomed pawn to expose White's King 35 axb4 Ra8 36 Kb1 Nb3 37 Kc2 After tho game, Karpov lamented that ho had missed a win hereabouts. Na1 38 Kbl Nb3 39 Qf2 Qd8 Threatening to mate with 40 Qc8. 40 Rf 7 Qe8 Now the threat is 4 I QcG White parries 40 Oc8 with 4 1 Rc. 41 b5 The sealed move Tempting is 4 I No! Rn1 42 Kc2, when 42 Qa4 43 Nxt6 Kg8 44 Rxg Kxg 46 Qf8! Khi 46 Qh8 Kxg6 47 Kf 48 8c4' favors White, but 42 Ncl! 43 Nxg(5 Kh loaves White groping for a defense lo, 44 Qn44bKd2Qxb4 Ra1 42Kc2' Nc5 Intending cither 43 Nxd3 44 Kxd3 Qxb5 or 43 RclI 44 Kd2 BhG 4b Ko2 Nxn4. 43 Rxg7 This and the following moves were played quickly, as both rivals, followed their overnight analysis Kxg7 44 Qxd4 Qe5 45 Qxe5 dxeS 46 b6 Rg1 47 Ne3 Rel 48 Nc4 Rg1 49 No3 Re1 50 Nc4 Rgl 51 b4 Needing a win, Karpov' disdains the draw by repetition.

Rxg2 52 Kc3 Na4l White has some hope ol winning after ii2 Nd b3 KIG 54 Nb6! Nb8 55 Bob" Ko 56 Nd KdG 5 Nxhtt Kc 58 NcG Kxb7 Nxo5. 53 Kb3 Nxb6 54 Nxb6 Rg3 55 Kc3 Rxh3 56 b5 h4 57 Nc4 Rxd3! Simplest 58 Kxd3 h3 59 b6 h2 60 b7 h1Q 61 b8Q Qf1 62 Kc3 Qc1 63 Kb3 Qd1 64 Ka2 As G4 Ka3 Qnl G5 Kb3 Qdl and (J4 Kb2 Od4 65 Kb3 Qd repent Qa4 65 Na3 Qxe4 The position is clearly drawn. Unless tho Knight can approach tho Blnck King, White cannot dronm of checkmate. 66 Qc7 Kh6 67 Nc4 Qd5 68 Kb2 e4 69 Qf4 Kg7 70 Kc3 Qd3 71 Kb4 Qd4 72 Qh4 Kf7 Nol fearing 3 Qh Qg 74 NdG Kffl or 74 No5 KfG 73 Kb5 Qd5 74 Kb4 Qd4 75 Qh7 Qg7 76 Qhl Qd4 77 Qh4 Kg8 78 Qf4 Kg7 79 Qc1 Kf6 80 Kb5 QdS 81 Kb4 Qd4 82 Kb5 Qd5 83 Kb6 Qd4 84 Kc6 K06 85 No3 Qa4 86 Kb6 Qb4, Drawn. 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 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 scared 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 Fa 1 1 brook 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-player event held at the Arcadia Chess Club. Mel Tyner and Eric Youngquist tied warped cymbals and charred conga drums lay under dangling pieces of water-swollen ceiling. Downstairs, guitars of all shapes and sizes appeared intact but some of their faces were blackened by smoke and McGuire said their sound still has to be tested.

"The sad part is, a lot of those guitars were custom-made to the musicians' own order," Carness' wife, Fern, said. "They may not be burned, but they won't have the same tonality and feel. "It's like a woman you just can't replace them exactly." McGuire and Carness said they have insurance, although they are not certain it will cover all their losses. They plan to reopen as soon as possible. On Thursday, with employees' help, they began taking inventory.

"This is our life, and not just ours, but our employees," Fern Carncss said. They have yet to determine which instruments, if any, were damaged beyond repair. Juber said he had some amplification equipment in the store "but nothing irreplaceable." Professional rocker Jon Walmsley believes he lost a rare and valuable Gretsch country guitar, but said, "No one was hurt and that's all that really matters." Fern Carness, who watched her husband stay up all night making lists of fire cleanup tasks, said she took down the Christmas tree at their Chatsworth residence first thing Thursday morning. She worries too much now about fire, she said. Neighbors on the Lookout for Hospital's Next Role Movies: Vacant buildings in Lake View Terrace will be used for filming 'Terminator But residents are worried about what will happen in the long term.

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