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Chess 04 Jun 1960, Sat The Montreal Star (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Newspapers.com
Let's Play Chess
Zonal Tourneys Under Way Leading to World Supremacy
By William Oaker
The four-year cycle for the chess championship of the world is under way once again.
Most countries have now completed their national championships, thus qualifying their players for the zonal events. The first of these began last week in Madrid, Spain, with 16 players representing as many countries.
Taking part are Capt. W. G. Attard, Malta; J. H. Donner, The Netherlands; J. Durao, Portugal; A. Giustolisi, Italy; S. Gligoric, Yugoslavia; W. Heidenfeld, South Africa; A. O'Kelly de Galway, Belgium; Dr. H. Lehmann, West Germany; O. Weykirch, Bulgaria; L. Pachman, Czechoslovakia; J. Penrose, England; W. Pietsch, East Germany; A. Pomar, Spain; L. Portisch, Hungary; B. Reilly, Ireland, and E. Walther, Switzerland.
Each of the above is the champion of his respective country, and has come a long way just to get into this event. When it is over, all but three will have been eliminated. These three will wait for the winners from the various other zones to qualify and then will engage in an interzonal tourney, which will result in future eliminations.
Bobby Fischer, the Brooklyn Grandmaster, who is already qualified for the inter-zonal by virtue of his winning the recent United States Championship, is in the news again.
Dropping into the Marshall Chess Club, in New York last week, he entered a 14-man round robin speed tourney and emerged the victor with a score of 11-2. In second place was former United States champ, Arthur Bisguier, with 10-3.
An interesting 10-game match is now under way at the Manhattan Chess Club, also in New York, between Grandmasters Sammy Reshevsky and Pal Benko. No results are on hand to date, although Reshevsky is odds-on favorite to merge the victor.
When we said this one was a teaser, we meant it. Two readers even went so far as to doubt that it was possible, both phoning the writer and asking if maybe there had not been a misprint.
How Good Are You?
FEN 7K/P1p1p1p1/2P1P1Pk/6pP/3p2P1/1P6/3P4/8 w - - 0 1
White to Mate in 10
The solution follows:
1. P-R8 (N)
White promotes the pawn, not to a queen, but to a knight. Now black has only one move on the board.
1. … P-Q6
Now, white has a problem namely how to avoid stalemating black, who is absolutely without moves.
2. N-N6 PxN (forced)
3. P-B" P-N4 (forced)
4. P-B8 (N) P-N5 (forced)
5. N-Q6 PxN (forced)
6. P-K" P-Q4 (forced)
7. P-K8 (N) P-Q5 (forced)
8. N-B6 PxN (forced)
9. P-N7 P-B4 (forced)
10. P-N8 (N) checkmate.
Algebraic
1. a8=N d3
2. Nb6 cxb6
3. c7 b5
4. c8=N b4
5. Nd6 exd6
6. e7 d5
7. e8=N d4
8. Nf6 gxf6
9. g7 f5
10. g8=N#
