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Chess 24 Jan 1960, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
Chess Notebook by Lyman Burgess
Writing in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, Max Frankel reported from Moscow on the debate now boiling between Vasily Panov (inventor of the Panov variation in the Caro-Kann) and the Union of Sports Societies and Organizations. Panov protests the Union's order for the immediate recruitment of 1000 boys and girls for new chess training schools. Mr. P. even invoked the shade of Lenin in defense of his position. These attempts to “manufacture” prodigies are, according to Panov, “sheer nonsense.” He asked whether the Russians really want their future physicians, engineers, architects, economists and philosophers “to have to cram and pass exams on chess opening variations or rook endings, with other subjects.”
Chess is very important in the Soviet Union and the government there worked hard and gave many a subsidy to support chess promotions and bring the world title to Russia. The world title has rested in the capable hands of M. M. Botvinnik since 1948, except for a brief period when the championship was “on loan” to V. Smyslov. Now a cloud no bigger than a seventeen-year-old Brooklyn schoolboy named Bobby Fischer looks to the Union of S.S.O. in the Union of S.S.R. like a chess tornado.
If Anthony Santasiere has his way socialized chess may be on the way. A committee headed by the former Open champion is drawing up a petition to seek Congressional aid in an effort to obtain funds to further the career of Bobby Fischer. Santasiere said his committee hoped to raise money to defray “tournament expenses for Bobby, a goodwill ambassador of his country and a young man with phenomenal talent.”
The Golden Kings, Conn. Amateur Chess Championship, co-sponsored by the USCF, Conn. State C.A., Bristol Chess Club and Courier Post Chess Club will be held at the Cambridge Park Recreation Center, Bristol, Conn, over the weekend of Feb. 5-7. The tournament is open to all chessplayers except rated masters. It will be a six-round Swiss and the entry fee is five dollars.
Petrosian, Soviet champion and number three man in the recent challengers' tournament won two and drew two with Fischer. Here's one of the wins.
Tigran Petrosian vs Robert James Fischer
Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates (1959), Bled, Zagreb & Belgrade YUG, rd 9, Sep-21
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Normal Line (E40) 1-0
Met League results for Jan. 15;
Class A—
Cambridge 5, Harvard 0;
Sylvania 2½, Northeastern 1½ with 1 game adjourned;
Boylston 2½, Lithuanian 2½ (anticipated Jan. 2).
Class B—
Johnson Club 3, Winthrop 2;
Boylston 3, C. T. Main 2;
Harvard B I 3½, Cambridge 1½;
Harvard B II 4½, Brattle ½;
Quincy 3, Mt. Bowdoin 2;
Checkmate Club 2½, Lithuanian 2½.
Class C—
Arlington 3½, Harvard 1½;
Boylston 5, Checkmate 0.
