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Chess 14 Jan 1961, Sat Winsford Chronicle (Winsford, Cheshire, England) Newspapers.com
Chess For All By G. Chesters
Hastings has been won once against by the Yugoslavian master, Gligoric, who in five visits has won four times and has yet to be beaten in some forty-odd games. Out of nine games, he won seven.
The Russian master, Bondarevsky, won six and finished second, ahead of Hungary's Szabo. Szabo did not find his best form, being inconsistent. Against Clarke in the opening, Szabo came out with an excellent game. He dominated the middle-game, but then committed two horrible blunders, the first losing a whole Rook, the second his Queen!
Sharing third place (five games won) with Szabo was England's rising star, Ken Lloyd, student at Durham University. Lloyd was under heavy pressure from Szabo in the last round, but found an ingenious resource by which he sacrificed his Queen for two Knights. Lloyd then took the initiative and won, thus being the first Englishman for many years to get into the Hastings prize-list.
Sharing the fifth place (4½ games each) were L. Barden, P. Clarke (who beat Szabo) and J. Littlewood. S. Sliwa (Poland) won 4. A. Y. Green 2½, and B. Cafferty 2 (including a draw with Bondarevsky).
Under-15 Champion
Victor Knox, the present British under-15 Champion, from Wallasey, who plays on the top boards of the Cheshire Junior team, scored nine points from nine games in Premier Reserves “G”.
M. Tal (U.S.S.R.) vs. R. Fischer (U.S.A.)
Bobby Fischer, that amazing 17-year-old American has won the U.S. Championship for the fourth time.
Here is a position from one of his games with the World Champion, Mikhail Tal (U.S.S.R.) It is very complicated, and you will find great interest in analyzing it. Play continued (Fischer is White):—
