October 30, 1960 Boston Globe, Chess Notebook by Lyman Burgess

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Chess 30 Oct 1960, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Chess Notebook
By Lyman Burgess
The last-minute concerted effort of the chess fraternity succeeded in gathering, transporting, and financing a United States chess team in the current chess Olympics at Leipzig. Credit must go in large measure to Mrs. Regina Fischer, mother of Bobby Fischer and an organization called Peoples to Peoples Sports Committee. They prodded and pushed the somewhat somnolent American Chess Foundation and the strangely inert U.S.C.F. into a semblance of action, but in the last analysis it was the donations of rank and file chess players that made the trip possible.
Personnel comprising the team and expected members unaccounted for have created a state of nescience in your reporter. Bobby Fischer is playing top board and Arthur Bisguier, former national and open champion, is at fourth board; these two present no problems. But William Lombardy holds down second board—Lombardy “retired” less than a month ago to enter a seminary. Robert Byrne, incumbent open champion, is No. 8; but Byrne is an instructor at a university in Indiana and has thus always been advertised as unable to compete in international events during the academic year. Nicholas Rossolimo, who was reported as ready to defect to France, is the first reserve. Raymond Weinstein, 19-year-old Brooklyn College student and member of the successful United States students' team, is the other alternate.
Samuel Reshevsky, always a terror in team tournaments, is among the missing. Larry Evans, another former United States champion who recently came up with a fine performance in the Buenos Aires tournament, is unlisted. He was thought to be available. Charles Kalme, a student, to be sure, but no more of a student than Weinstein, turned in a stunning record at Leningrad yet graces not our roster. A puzzlement.
Before the team tournament began William Lombardy was elevated to the exalted rank of grand master, the than whomest possible. Certainly this is richly deserved, though belated, recognition for a great record.

Mikhail Tal, world chess champion, suffered a slight brain concussion in an automobile accident while en route to Leipzig. The accident, which happened in the Soviet Union will probably prevent Tal from playing in the tournament. Doctors said he was in good condition to travel to Leipzig but advised him against competing.
Here is David Ames' last round game from the 1960 United States junior championship. Ames scored 7-3 to tie for third (in a field of 63) and in the process he faced no fewer than six experts including this Ed Rosenthal, Rochester.

Ed Rosenthal (white) vs. David Ames (black)
Ruy Lopez: Open, Richter Variation

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. N-KB3 N-QB3 3. B-N5 P-QR3 4. B-R4 N-B3 5. O-O NxP 6. P-Q4 P-QN4 7. P-Q5 PxB 8. PxN P-Q3 9. Q-K2 B-B4 10. R-Q Q-B 11. QN-Q2 NxN 12. BxN B-K2 13. P-B4 O-O 14. B-B3 B-N5 15. P-B5 P-B4 16. R-K Q-Q 17. P-KR3 BxN 18. QxB P-K5 19. Q-Q P-R6 20. BPxP QxQP 21. Q-N3ch K-R 22. Q-B4 PxP 23. QR-Q Q-N3 24. BxP B-Q3 25. R-K3 QR-K 26. R-K R-K3 27. P-KR4 B-B5 28. R-QB3 B-K4 29. P-R5 Q-K 30. P-R6 RxRP 31. Q-N8ch KxQ 32. Resigns

Algebraic 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. 0-0 Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. d5 bxa4 8. dxc6 d6 9. Qe2 Bf5 10. Rd1 Qc8 11. Nd2 Nxd2 12. Bxd2 Be7 13. c4 0-0 14. Bc3 Bg4 15. c5 f5 16. Re1 Qd8 17. h3 Bxf3 18. Qxf3 e4 19. Qd1 a3 20. cxd6 Qxd6 21. Qb3+ Kh8 22. Qc4 axb2 23. Rd1 Qg6 24. Bxb2 Bd6 25. Re3 Re8 26. Re1 Re6 27. h4 Bf4 28. Rc3 Be5 29. h5 Qe8 30. h6 Rxh6 31. Qg8+ Kxg8 0-1

Next M.S.C.A. meeting will be at Cambridge Y.M.C.A. on Thursday, Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m.
Don't forget the Greater Boston Open chess tournament at the Cambridge Y beginning Nov. 10.