February 26, 1972 Montreal Gazette The Game of Kings by D.M. LeDain

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The Game of Kings Sat, Feb 26, 1972 – 50 · The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) · Newspapers.com

Championship Match Set
With the two principals in the world championship match champion Boris Spassky, USSR, and challenger Bobby Fischer USA unable to reach mutual agreement as to the site, FIDE president, Dr. Max Euwe has succeeded in effecting a compromise by splitting the match between Iceland and Yugoslavia. These were the first preferences of each in their original lists.

Progress in Western Hemisphere
Organized chess is much further ahead in Europe than in the Americas, but there are signs of substantial progress on this side, particularly in holding important events. Three of the four matches in the 1971 Challengers tourney of the world series were held in Vancouver, Denver and Buenos Aires. Bobby Fischer's rise had a lot to do with that. Then the World Students Team Championship was staged in Puerto Rico, and the North American Intercollegiate was expanded into the Pan-American Intercollegiate at Toronto, in which two Caribbean countries sent entries, as well as Canada and the U.S.A.

Historic Occasion
Now comes news of a further development in the formation of the Pan-American Chess Association at San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina, where the first team tourney has been organized. Argentina easily placed first with 25½ pts., followed by Cuba, 17½; Brazil and Chile, 16 each; Paraguay, 11½; Uruguay 9½; Ecuador, 8½; Bolivia, 7½. This is at least a start. The intention is to challenge the winner of the European Cup tourney, now in progress, for the championship of the hemispheres.
An individual championship is also on the program for alternate years. San Antonio, Texas, will hold the first this year, with Cuba organizing the 2nd team championship in 1973. Canada will undertake the 2nd individual championship in 1974 and Chile the 3rd team event in 1975.
Two games from the Pan-American Team Championship, Tucuman, Argentina, 1971:

O. Panno, Argentina (White) vs. Chemin, Brazil (Black)
King's Indian Defense

Descriptive 1. P-QB4 N-KB3 2. N-QB3 P-KN3 3. P-K4 P-Q3 4. P-Q4 B-N2 5. P-B3 O-O 6. B-K3 P-K4 7. KN-K2 P-B3 8. P-Q5 N-K1 9. P-B5! P-B4 10. Q-N3 K-R1 11. R-Q1 KBPxKP 12. NxP BPxQP 13. QxQP N-QB3 14. PxP N-N5 15. Q-Q2 Q-R4 16. KN-B3 B-B4 17. P-QR3 N-QB3 18. B-QB4 N-Q5 19. O-O Q-Q1 20. P-B4 BxN 21. NxB NxQP 22. NxN QxN 23. PxP! RxRch 24. BxR 1-0

Algebraic 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. e4 d6 4. d4 Bg7 5. f3 0-0 6. Be3 e5 7. Ne2 c6 8. d5 Ne8 9. c5! f5 10. Qb3 Kh8 11. Rd1 fxe4 12. Nxe4 cxd5 13. Qxd5 Nc6 14. cxd6 Nb4 15. Qd2 Qa5 16. N2c3 Bf5 17. a3 Nc6 18. Bc4 Nd4 19. 0-0 Qd8 20. f4 Bxe4 21. Nxe4 Nxd6 22. Nxd6 Qxd6 23. fxe5! Rxf1+ 24. Bxf1 1-0