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4 Part VIII April 20, 1975 loi 3ngelea Zimti It is by no means clear sailing for the GMs. The Stath-3 am tournaments are known internationally for the num- BY ISAAC KASHDAN INTERNATIONAL GRANDMASTER TIWKSCHKss KIHTOH CHESS BLACK 5 MEN Der or upsets oi tne stars Dy tne energetic younger players. This year is no exception. In the first round Norman Weinstein of Allston, defeated Shamkovich. In' the second round it was Roy Ervin of Los Molinos over Istvan Bilek of Hungary, and David Parr of Australia over another Hungarian, Gyoso Forintos.

Attracting at least as much attention as the GMs is Alia Kushnir of Israel, the first woman ever to compete in Lone Pine. In women's chess she is second only to world champion Nona Gaprindashvili of the Soviet Union. April 20, 1975 TIMES PROBLEM 4278 By P. Boogaard While Mates in Two With two flight squares, the black king seems able to hold for two moves, but the aggressive keymove decides. Solution to Problem 4277: R-R8 Threat, 2 RxRch; if R-R4, Q-B5; if R-R5, 2 Q-B4; if R-R6, 2 Q-B3; if N-B3, 2 QxN.

a 1. Kushnir caused an upset of her own in the opening round when she downed former U.S. champion Larry Evans by a powerful mating attack. Against other American GMs she drew with Samuel Reshevsky but lost to Pal Benko. Following are games from the first round: KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE FISCHER-KARPOV MATCH DISCUSSIONS The world championship match between Bobby Fischer of Pasadena and Anatoly Karpov of the Soviet Union is still taking newspaper space and TV and radio time, even if no games are scheduled as yet Here are late (one hesitates to say latest) developments in the continuing drama.

Karpov declared that he hoped to meet Fischer over the board and validate the title he gained by default. Karpov would like to discuss match conditions with Fischer and come to agreement with him. The new champion specified that the U.S. Chess Federation should not be involved. Florencio Campomanes, president of the Philippine Chess Federation, stated that he had been in touch with Fischer, and would like to assist in the negotiations.

The offer of a $5,000,000 purse by the Philippine government is still valid, with the site to be in Manila. U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT The annual tournament for the U.S. Championship will be held from June 7 to 26 at Oberlin College, Ohio. It will be a round-robin among 14 of the highest rated players in the country.

Invitations were sent by the US. Chess Federation to all active American grandmasters and to others in the top bracket of the current rating list. Walter Browne of Berkeley will undoubtedly be on hand to defend the title he won last year. The other grandmasters invited are former US. champions Arthur Bisguier, Robert Byrne, Larry Evans, Lubomir Kavalek and Samuel Reshevsky, along with Pal Benko and William Lombardy.

Others in the first 14 are John Grefe and James Tarjan of Berkeley, and Greg DeFotis, Edmar Mednis, Kenneth Rogoff and Milan Vukcevich. If any of the above fail to accept, six alternates have been asked to stand by. In order of rating they are: John Peters, Kim Commons, Bernard Zuckerman, Julio Kaplan, Richard Verber and Andrew Soltis. The championship is of special importance this year as it is also the zonal tournament, the first step in the cycle to determine a world championship contender for 1978. The first two players will qualify for the interzonal tournament to be held some time next year.

The total prize fund is $10,000. The champion will receive $2,300, with $1,700 for second and $1,250 for third. Amounts are scaled down for the other players, with $200 for last place. GRANDMASTER EXHIBITIONS US. champion Walter Browne will be at the Reseda Chess Club, 18411 Victory Reseda, from 7:30 p.m.

Friday. He will lecture on the "Game of the Decade" and then play simultaneously against a group. The charge for playing is $7.50, and $1 for spectators. For information call Betty Roberts at 996-0392. Eugene Torre of the Philippines will give his only exhibition in the Los Angeles area when he faces a number of opponents at the Chess Set in West Hollywood starting at 1 p.m.

Saturday. The charge for a board is $5. Call Lina Grumette at 876-8106 for information. Astronomers' Job Market Tight TUCSON, Ariz, iffl Aspiring professional astronomers beware the universe may be infinite but the job market isn't. That's the message of the National Academy of Sciences, which has drafted a form letter for the University of Arizona to use in warning applicants for graduate studies in astronomy to reconsider their plans for the future.

"You should now seriously consider whether your interest in the field is so great that you wish to devote five more years of hard study to astronomy," the letter says in part. The Academy estimates that over the next five years there will be at least 600 new astronomers with doctorates competing for only 50 to 100 jobs. WHITE 10 MEN Commons Gligoric 9-P-QN4 N-R4 20-QR-N1 P-N5 U.S.A. Yugoslavia 10-N-Q2 N-B5 21-0-KB2 PxP White Black 11-P-B5 P-B4 22-PxP N-R5 1- N-KB3 N-KB3 12-P-B3 NxBch 23-K-R1 R-N3 2- P-B4 P-KN3 13-QxN P-B5 24-R-N1 B-R6 3- N-B3 B-N2 14-N-B4 P-KN4 25-QxP 0x0 4- P-K4 P-Q3 15-B-R3 R-B3 26-RxRch PxR 5- P-04 0-0 16-P-N5 N-N3 27-RxQ R-B1 6- B-K2 P-K4 17-KR-K1 B-B1 28-R-N4 B-B8 7- 0-0 N-B3 18-P-N6 RPxP Resigns 8- P-Q5 N-K2 19-PxNP PxP PIRC-ROBATSCH DEFENSE Kushnir Evans 11-B-K2 B-R3 24-P-K5 RxP Israel U.S.A. 12-P-QR4 0-K2 25-BxR PxB White Black 13-0-0 BxB 26-P-B6 0-02 1- P-Q4 N-KB3 14-QxB QN-Q2 27-N-B5 K-R1 2- P-Q-B4 P-B4 15-P-B4 KR-K1 28-NxP R-K1 3- P-Q5 P-K3 16-QR-K1 N-B1 29-Q-R5 P-K5 4- N-QB3 PxP 17-P-K4 Q-Q2 30-N-B7ch K-N1 5- PxP P-Q3 18-Q-B3 N(3)-R2 31-N-R6ch K-R1 6- N-B3 P-KN3 19-N-B4 BxN 32-P-B4 P-K6 7- B-N5 B-N2 20-PxB P-B3 33-N-B5 P-R3 8- P-K3 P-KR3 21-P-B5 P-N4 34-N-K7 P-N4 9- B-R4 0-0 22-B-N3 QxRP 35-RxP PxP 10-N-Q2 P-N3 23-NxQP R-K2 36-Q-B7 Resigns GRANDMASTERS UPSET IN LONE PINE The fifth annual Louis D.

Statham Tournament, now going on in Lone Pine, is in the same form as its predecessors, but well up in the stratosphere as far as the general strength of the participants. Of the 44 players, 22 are grandmasters, the highest title awarded by the International Chess Federation other than the world championship. There are less than 100 active GMs in the world, so the number attending is a significant record. The other players include 10 international masters, who are the next category after the GMs, and 12 national masters, among them five of the leading American players. Four continents are represented, and 14 countries.

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