Chess Notebook 03 Jan 1960, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
Chess Notebook By Lyman Burgess
The tournament for the schoolboy championship of Massachusetts will be held at the Cambridge Y.M.C.A. Saturday, Jan. 9. Registration is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. There is no entry fee or charge of any kind levied against the boys who wish to play in this event.
George Nute, Cambridge, will, as usual, direct the tourney with the aid of Kazys Merkis and E. M. Reubens.
Nute has issued a reminder to forgetful friends of youth that the prizes are paid for through subscription; consequently all donations will be gratefully received and are anxiously awaited. M.S.C.A. foots part of the expense and waives membership fees, but the present state of the treasury does not allow of adequate awards to the victors. Write George Nute, 201 Hamilton st, Cambridge.
A certain Mr. Dewolfe of Hartford environs, has been entertaining groups for some time with a unique historical lecture on chess. He has been engaged by M.S.C.A. and Nute to give his illustrated talk for the members of the schoolboy tournament. Dewolfe will take the stage at 10 a.m. next Saturday morning before play begins.
Harry Goober, Malden, has taken over the late C.C. Jacobs' chess classes at the Boston Center for Adult Education. The new series starts Jan. 8 at 8 p.m.
The Botvinnik-Tal world championship match will begin Mar. 12 … Yuri Averbakh, topflight Soviet grandmaster, is slated to play at Hastings (Dec. 30-Jan. 9) and, of course, has been installed as favorite … Dr. Karl Burger, Brooklyn, will represent the U.S.A. at this famous international annual tournament. The more famous American chessmasters are tide up in the United States championship tournament … Tal has his problem opponents.
In the candidates' tournament he dropped three out of four to Keres; his life record against Spassky is 1 win, 4 losses, and 2 draws; against Korchnoi, Tal has 5 losses. Nevertheless, the Latvian whiz allowed the non-Russian four in the Yugoslavian tournament a paltry trio of draws, while he took their measure 13 times.
Penrose, Golombek and Haygarth were equal partners in a triple tie for the British championship last Fall. Penrose won the play-off and took sole possession of the title. Below is one quarter of how he did it.
Michael J Haygarth vs Jonathan Penrose
BCF-ch play-off (1959), London ENG, rd 2, Nov-14
King's Indian Defense: Saemisch. Closed Variation 7…c6 (E88) 0-1
A young man named Eric G. Makris has written for information about chess clubs or chess groups in his hometown area, Canton. Can any reader help out?
