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Chess 03 Jul 1960, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
Chess Notebook
By LYMAN BURGESS
Along about early May the Argentine Chess Federation announced a super international chess tournament in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Argentine independence. The tournament is now in progress and, although many of the most important of the original invitees failed to accept, the entry list is quite distinguished and the tourney should be one of the most memorable events of the year.
Tal, Botvinnik, Smyslov, and Petrosian, all Russians, are regretfully absent. U.S.S.R. is represented quite ably by Mark Taimanov and Victor Korchnoi. Larry Evans, Samuel Reshevsky, and Bobby Fischer, Americans all, are competing as is Pal Benko, a resident of New York though stateless. Stars from Iceland, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, East and West Germany, and, of course, Argentina round out the list of 20.
William Lombardy, Boston, rejected an invitation to the Buenos Aires master meeting apparently to lead the U.S. team in the World Student Team championship tournament at Leningrad beginning July 12. Charles Kalme, U. of Penn.; Edmar Mednis, N.Y.U.; Raymond Weinstein, Brooklyn College; and Anthony Saidy, Cornell Medical, complete the American batting order. Mr. Lombardy is a student at St. Philip Neri Seminary.
The New York Times says U.S. hopes are bright to capture the student team championship. Bulgaria won last year and this untoward happenstance caused merry hob-raising in certain Soviet circles with crash programs for fostering 24 karat geniuses espoused in all seriousness. An American victory might be a sort of sputnik in reverse.
The 15th U.S. Junior championship will be held at the Log Cabin Chess Club, West Orange, N.J., July 29 to Aug. 5.
Some time ago a Reshevsky-Benko match was announced. Both players, as noted above are busily engaged in Argentina, but the sponsoring group, the Manhattan Chess Club, still insists the games will be played. Significantly no dates have been announced.
Incidentally, Benko is the new champion of the Manhattan Club.
Bobby Fischer lost one game a Mar del Plata early in the tournament, then spent the rest of the schedule chasing the man who beat him and finally catching him, Spassky, at the wire. Here is Bobby loss, a gambit yet.
#291. King's Gambit.
Boris Spassky vs Robert James Fischer
Mar del Plata (1960), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 2, Mar-30
King's Gambit: Accepted. Kieseritsky Gambit Rubinstein Variation (C39) 1-0
Pfc. Arthur Feuerstein, New York, odds-on favorite, and Capt. John Hudson each scored 10-1 in the Armed Forces chess championship at Washington last month. Hudson was the 1956 U.S. amateur champion. A measure of the co-champions qualifications: they finished four points ahead of the field.
