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Chess 04 Jun 1961, Sun Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
Top Players In Yugoslavia Tournament
Entries Include Current and Three Past Champions
By T. M. Cherington, Chess Editor
During the month of September the Yugoslavian Chess Federation will sponsor a tournament at the Zagreb Casino that will oppose players of the very highest caliber. The ambitious project has a prize fund of more than $6000.
The local contingent will consist of seven Yugoslavian Grand Masters, Fridrik Olafsson of Ultima Thule, Ludek Pachmann of Czechoslovakia, former World champion Dr. Max Euwe of Holland, Laszlo Szabo of Hungary, Wolfgang Unzicker of West Germany, Oscar Panno of the Argentine are among the invitees. The Russians are sending Mikhaels, Botvinnik, Tahl and Vassily Smyslov.
America is to be represented by Robert Fischer and Sam Reshevsky.
Thus the current as well as three former World champions are entered.
For the U.S.A. the match offers opportunity to compare two of its best players with the leading Russians in a round robin tourney. The Interzonal matches are over the horizon and the challengers round just beyond with another chance for a more mature though still teenaged International Grand Master Robert Fischer to make his bid for the World crown.
The International Kibitzers League is at work diminishing the stature of Mikhail Tahl and fortifying Botvinnik's reputation for invincibility. It proves most convincingly that champions are superior to kibitzers even though the “experts” have the advantage of making their predictions after the fact.
Now the statisticians are joining the ranks; undiscouraged by the recent debacle of Dr. Rubin whose studies proved that 40 was the age when Master Chess talent declined. Botvinnik is 50.
Number 383
FEN 4BB2/7K/R6p/3PpN2/1Pk4r/2q2NR1/P2Q4/b3n3 w - - 0 1
White to play and checkmate in two moves.
In 1928, Zadatschy and Estudyjy published a two-mover by L. A. Issaiev. It is 383, 11x7. The key is a contiguous move.
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Solution to Number 382 is Bishop to Knight four.
