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Chess 07 Aug 1960, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
Chess Notebook
By LYMAN BURGESS
The U.S. team has won the 1960 world student team championship tournament in Leningrad. The American team was headed by William Lombardy, St. Philip Neri Seminary, Boston. The team was co-sponsored by U.S.C.F. and the American Chess Foundation with the financial assistance of the Bureau of International Cultural Relations of the U.S. State Department. Details next week.
Bart Gould, Newburyport, tells us there will be a 30-30 tournament held in Danvers on Saturday, Aug. 13, on the Public Library grounds. The 30-30 comes from the time limit: 30 moves in 30 minutes. This schedule has proved very popular the past few years in the production of semi-serious, one-day tournaments.
Under the heading “Ars Longa Est” David Ames offers two marathon- endings. First: White: K at KR8, N at QR7, at QB5; K at Q1; P at Q5; the stipulation: Mate in 88. Second: White: K at KN8, R at K1, P at QB5; Black K at Q1; P at Q5; the stipulation: Mate in 88. Second: White: K at KN8, R at K1, P at QR2; Black: K at QN4; B at KB3, P at QR6; the stipulation: White wins when he captures the Pawn on his 78th move. Ames adds: “Feel like taking a stand on the 50-move rule?
Way back on Memorial Day week-end the 1960 U.S. Amateur championship worked its' way into history and for some reason we failed to report the winner. For the record: Raoul L. Benedicto, Elmhurst, N.Y., won six straight games in a field of 157 players to take the 1960 Amateur title. Leslie Ault, Cranford, N.J., was close behind at 5½-½. Ault is the current national intercollegiate champion. Erich Marchand, Rochester, former amateur champion, was ineligible because he has entered the ranks of the masters.
The U.S. Open championship begins tomorrow at the Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel, St. Louis.
A few notes on the Buenos Aires tournament: Of the twenty masters competing thirteen were grandmasters and eight were national champions. I know that adds up to 21 but some were both and some were neither … Bobby Fischer won three, lost five and drew eleven … Carlos Guimard and Hector Rossetto, Argentineans, non-champions and non-grandmasters, managed to make the prize list (tied for four, 11-8).
However, Rossetto, could not hold out against co-winner Reshevsky.
296. Benoni Counter Gambit
Samuel Reshevsky vs Hector Rossetto
Buenos Aires (1960), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 17, Jul-18
Benoni Defense: Classical Variation. General (A70) 1-0
