MI C H A E L M A S

1971

THE B U L L E T IN O F T H E

C A M B R ID G E U N IV E R S IT Y

CHESS CLUB
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DRAGON
THE BULLETIN OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CHESS CLUB
Volume 13 October 1971 No. 37

Editorial
The President ,in his message makes it sufficiently
clear that new members are entering the strongest chess club
in the country.All that remains is to extend our pre-eminence
at the game to wider fields;magazine production,for example.
If the rival firms at Sutton Coldfield and elsewhere are to
be overwhelmed on all fronts,we must develop a vigorous body
of contributors,whose vanity can be relied upon to outweigh
their apathy whenever there is a question of sending in
games f or publication.The Club's ideology has recently been
polluted by the tortuous conceptions of' dubious foreigners,
promoted by crypto-Krautopphiles in our midst,and it is now
time to recall that the good old British maxim 'Individual
selfishness leads to the Common Good' has a particular
significance for chessplayers.
Rory O'Kelly.

Presidential Message
I would like to welcome all new members,
and to wish them both success and enjoyment in. their chess.
W e aim to cater for those interested in competitive
chess,and also those for whom the game is simply for
amusement.We have a weekly club night,regular social meetings,
and matches against the strongest teams in the country
(last year we won the National Club Championship,the Counties'
Championship and the Universities' Championship,as well as
the Varsity Match),as well as friendly matches for players
of all strengths.With the Club's tournaments and library
too,w e hope that there is something for everyone.

Roger Webb
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CONTENTS

Editorial........... R.O’Kelly.......page 1.
Presidential Message...........R.Web b ..........page 1.
Match Reports..........A.H.Williams.... ..page 3.
British Championship.......R.O’Kelly.............page 4.
'A Contrast'in A n n o t a t i o n s . J . N . S u g d e n . .......page 8.
Miscellaneous Games..... .page 10.
Paignton............J.N.Sugden..........page 11.
British Universities Championship..... ..R.G.Eales....page 13
Th e R.G.Eales Northern Providential Benefit Tcurn a m e n
t .....
... ...R.G.Eales.... ....page 14.
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Next Season'sMatches
The President would b e grateful if players would be sure
to turn up on time for matches. Under the N.J.Holloway Fares ’Equal­
isation’ Scheme, all matches, home and away, will cost 60p.

We would like to congratulate R.D.Keene, the present British

Champion, on gaining the International Master title in a grandmaster
tournament in Berlin.
We should also congratulate R.Bailey who has come third in the
Danish Open Junior Championship.
N.J. Patterson must also be congratulated on his marriage.
The editor would like to thank all those who assisted in the
production of ’Dragon’, particularly A.H.WILLIAMS, who
almost enabled him to restrict himself to his proper supervisory
functions.
R.G.Eales was also tireless in his proffering of helpful advice.
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Match Reports A . H .Williams ,retiring President.
English Counties' F inal '
Cambridge Universityshire v. Essex,played at Ilford, July 4th.
l) R.D.Keene ½ J.Penrose ½ 2) N.J.Patterson 0, K.D.Sales 1
3 ) R.G.Eal e s 1 J.B.Howson 0 4 )A.H.Williams ½ D.G.Wells ½
5) J.N.Sugden 1 K.M.Oliff 0 6) T.W. Robbins 0 J.R.Cooke 1
7) N.J.Holloway 0 M.W.Wills 1 8)A.Kanamori 1 P .W. Hempson 0
9 ) B.M.Rothbart 0 P.Hershman 1 10)J.Kirk-O 'Grady 1 L.Burnett 0
ll) A.G.Trangmar 1 I.Smith 0 12)R.O’Kelly 1 B.Smith 0
1 3 ) J.P.Rudge ½ R.E.Spurgeon ½ 14) R.Webb ½ S.M. Kalinsky ½
15) M.J.Y eo 0 A.T.Marshall 1 16) C.J.Shaw 1 P.C.Doye 0

The early part of the match went badly for Cambridge and,
notwithstanding the arrival of Jerry Rudge half a minute
before he was due to lose his game by default,with less than
an hour to adjudication w e found ourselves 6-2 down.Howev er ,
the great fight back then occurred, and all was well.I would
like to thank all the team who participated in this famous
victory,many of whom travelled great distances in order to
take part.

National Club Championship Final.

Cambridge University v. Oxford University, played at London,
October 2nd.
1) W.R. Hartston ½ P .R .Markland ½
2) A .H.Williams ½ A .S.Hollis ½
3 ) .R.G.Eales ½ J.L.Moles ½
4
)
N.J.Patterson 0 M .J. Corden 1
5
)
J.N.Sugden ½
R.W.L.Mober l y ½
6
)
N.J.Holloway 1 J.D.M.Nunn 0
"Base F ortune ,now I see,that in thy wheel
There is a point,to which when men aspire
They tumble headlong down:that point I touched,
And,seeing there was not place to mount up higher,
Why should I grieve at my declining fall?"
(Marlowe: Edward I I )

Thus,at last,it was the Opposition's turn to win on

Board Count.The decisive factor was the failure of the
Cambridge;top boards to turn their extra pawns into points.
Meanwhile,on the lower boards,a characteristic N.J.Holloway
win was cancelled out by a characteristic N .J. Patterson loss.
 British Championship, Blackpool 1971.

Rumour has it that this years championships were ori­

ginally intended for Belfast, but moved, for reasons not to
be considered prejudicial to the lawful claims of H.M.G.,
to a more reliably distasteful area. Possibly it was felt
that the natural alternative to a town which should b e in
Britain but is not would be one that is but should not.
Be that as it may, it came about that an intrepid hand of
Cambridge crusaders eventually found themselves deposited
among the forests and marshes of the heathen frontier,
with no apparent escape save through victory or death. App­
earances, in this case, were scarcely deceptive.
It was, of course, R.D.K eene who penetrated the sanc­
tuary and snatched the golden prize, aided at a crucial mom­
ent by his trusty squire A .H.Williams, and generally support­
ed on a supernatural plane by some friendly goodwitches. W.
R.Hartston, meanwhile, continued to lurk in the background,
while Mrs. Hartston continued to be British Ladies' Champion,
demonstrating conclusively that, whatever its theoretical
status, being female has real practical advantages. Spare a
thought, finally, for J.N.Sugden and A.G.Trangmar, who, des­
pite their youth, courage and idealism, left their b ones to
b e bleached by the hot Blackpool sun. Reports that A.G.Trang­
mar lost interest were entirely unfounded; if that, too, had
gone, what would have been left to him?
On the British Junior Championship Cambridge made less
impression, though the suspicion, appearing somewhere around
Round 5, that they would succeed only in raising the average
age of the competitors, proved exaggerated. As it turned out,
R.M.R. O'Kelly displayed a little success, C.F.Moore a lot of
determination, and R.Webb an unbelievable degree of imaginat­
ion, verging on fantasy. Between them, in fact, they had all
the qualities of a good player, except talent. Our President
was particularly handicapped by the tendency of his queens to
slip through his fingers like greased ballbearings.
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Wo should also mention our former members, who were, if
not actually in evidence, at least demonstrably there.
In the universal conflict of the British, Nigel Kalton
played the part of Switzerland, emerging with some profit
and honour. H.T.Jones, on the other hand, appeared not to
score any points in the Major Open, but was comforted by the
thought that 'when that one great grader comes, to mark
against his name...'
. Though quite unlike his own official
approach, this must be accepted as the only possible explan­
ation of his present grade.
Last year a game was published in which R.Webb beat I.
Sinclair in 15 moves. A measure of atonement follows.
R.Webb v. I.Sinclair.
1 d4 d5 2 c4 Bf5?! 3 Qb 3 c5?! 4 Qxb7 Nd7 5 Nf3 ("Book" is
c d : ) 5 ...Rb8 6 Q d 5 ?! ( Holloway, of course, recommends the
a pawn. ) 6...Bb4+ ( Sinclair and the vast crowd now exp­
ected White to lose his queen; alas, they had all missed
7- Nfd2.) 7 Bd 2 (Our popular president could never disapp­
oint the public.) 7 ...Ne7 and the rest need not detain us.
J. Hutcheson v. R.O'Kelly ( from the same tournam­
ent ).
1 c4 c5 2 Nf 3 Nc 6 3 Bc4 Bc5 4 c3 Bb 6 5 d4 Q c7 6 .0-0 Nf 6 7
R el d 6 8 h3 0-0 9 a4 a 6 10 d5 Nd 8 11 Bg5 h 6 12 Bh4 g5 13
Nxg5?! h g : 14 Bg5 Bxf 2+ 15 Kxf 2 Nxc4+ 16 Rxc4 Qxg5 17:Nd 2
f 5 18 Rel Rf7 19 Nf3 Qg 6 (a) 20 Rgl Rg 7 21 K e2 Nf7 22 Kd 2
Ng5 23 Nxg5 Qxg5+ 24 Kc 2 f4 25 Bd3 Bf5 26 Qf3 R e 8 27 B c4
Qg 6 28 Racl Bxe4+ 29 Qxc4 Qxe4+ 30 Rxc4 Rg3 31 Kd 2 Kf7 32
Ke2 Kf 6 33 a5 Kf5 (b) 34 Rb4 e4 35 Rxb7 c3 36 Rxc7 f3+ 37
Kf 1 (c) f 2 38 Rhl Rc5! 39 c4 Kc4 40 Rf7 Kd3 41 Rf4 Re4
42 Rxe4 Kxe4 43 h4 Kd3 44 h5 Rg 8 45 Resigns.
(a) If 19...Qf4, 20 Qd 2 !
(b) Thinks " Rb4 e4, Rxb7 e3 , Rxc7 f3+, Kfl e2+, Kf 2 Rxg 2+ !
and if K el, well, Rxg 2 is just as forcing."
(c) Have you spotted the deliberate mistake? Fortunately
most plans win, except the one I had intended.
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J.N.Sugden v. R.D.Keene ( from the British Champ­
ionship, Round 2 . )
1 P-Q4 P-KN3 2 P-QB4 B-N 2 3 P-K 4 N-QB3!? 4 N-K B3 P-K4 5 B-N5
( More in the spirit of Jack Sugden v. Bill Hartston, Cuppers
1971, was 5 PxP.) 5...P-B3 6.B-K 3 P-Q3 7 P-Q5 QN-K2 8 N-R4
(8 P-B5! - R .D . K . ) 8 ...N-R3 9 Q-Q2 N-N5 10 B-K 2 NxB 11
QxN P-QB4 12 N-QB3 P-QR3 13 P-QR 3 B-Q 2 14 P-KN3 Q-R4? 15
0-0 0-0 16 P-QN4 Q-B 2 17 PxP PxP 18 K-R1 P-B4 19 PxP PxP
20 KR-Ql Q-Q3 (+=) 21 QR-Nl P-N3 22 R-N3 ( Perhaps you can
find an improvement here. White rejected 22 P-N4 in view of
22...P-K 5 ! and if 23 PxP Q-K B3 clunk! - or if 24 NxBP BxN
-+) 22...N-N3 23 NxN PxN 24 P-N4?! P-K 5! 25 PxP BxP! 26
N-R 4? ( Or 26 NxP BxN 27 QxB QR-Kl and White sinks with
man and mouse - to use a krautophile idiom.) 26...QR-Nl 27
B-B 1 (?) B-Q2 - + 28 N-B 3 R-B 6 29 Q-Bl Q-K4, Spludge! 0-1.
S.J.Hutchings v. A.G.Trangmar ( Round 10.)
1 P-K 4 P-QB4 2 N-KB 3 N-QB3 3 P-Q4 PxP 4 NxP P-KN3 5 P-QB4
N-B 3 6 N-QB 3 NxN 7 QxN P-Q3 8 B-K 3 B-N2 9 P-B3 0-0 10 Q-Q2
Q-R4 11 R-Bl P-QR3 12 P-QN 3 B-Q2 13 B-Q 3 KR-B1 14 0-0 P-QN4
15 R-B 2 P-N5(!) ( An improvement on Portisch - Gheorghiu ,
Siegen 1970, which went 15...PxP with advantage to White.)
16 N-K2 B-K 3 17 B-Q 4 N-Q2 18 BxB KxB 19 P-B4 Q-B4+ 20 K-R1
P-B 3 21 N-N 3 P-QR4 22 P-K5!? QPxP 23 P-B5 B-B 2 24 PxP PxP
25 R - B 3 R-Rl 26 B-B5 QR-Ql ( Simpler seems 26...N-B1.) 27
BxN B-K 3 28 R-Q3 (Palling into a profound combination. Bett­
er is 28 BxB RxQ 29 RxR and White should win.* ) 28...P-K 5
29 R-Q4 ( If 29 NxP, Q-B 2 etc. ) 29 ...BxB 30 RxB RxP+ 31
( Forced.) 31 KxR R-R1+ 32 N-R5+ RxN+ 33 K-N3 Q-K4+ 34 K-B2
P-K6+ 35 QxP Q-B4+ 36 K -N1 QxR(Q2) 37 R-Q2 Q-B2 38 P-N3 R-K 4
39 Q-B4 Q-B4+ 40 K-N2 R-B4 41 Q-K4 R-K4 42 Q-B4 R-K8 43 Q-B2
Q-B 3+ 44 R-Q5 R-K 4 ( 44 .. .Q-K 3 wins more quickly but the text
also proves sufficient.) 45 Q-B3 RxR 46 PxR Q-B7+ 47 K-N1 QxRP
48 Q-K 3 Q-R 8+ 49 K-R 2 Q-K 4 50 Q-B5 K-B2 51 K-R3 Q-B6 52 QxRP
QxQNP 53 Q-N6 QxQP 54 QxNP Q-R8+ 55 K-N4 P-B4+ 56 K-B 4 Q-Q5+
57 QxQ PxQ 58 KxP K -K3 59 P-N4 K-B3 60 Resigns. At last.
(*N o. 29...P-K5 gives B lack good chances. Note by A.G.T.)
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A.H.Williams v. P.N. Lee ( Round 4 )
1 P-K4 P-QB4 2 N-KB3 P-Q 3 3 P-Q 4 PxP 4 NxP N-KB3 5 N-QB3 P-KN3
6 B-K3 B-N2 7 P-B3 N-B3 8 Q-Q2 0-0 9 0-0-0 NxN 10 BxN B-K3 11
K-Nl Q-B2 ( If immediatel y 11...Q-R4 then 12 N-Q 5 QxQ 13 NxP+
etc. ) 12 P-KR4 KR-B1 13 P-R5 Q-R4(!) 14 P-R6?! B-Rl 15 P-R3
(When I prepared this move three years ago I had originally
intended 15 N-Q 5,but now I noticed 15...RxN! 16 QxR QxP+
17 K-Bl BxB 18 4-R3 B-N4+.) 15...QR-N1? ( Better is 15...N-K1.
In order to avert this possibility White would have done, better
to play 14 P-R3 and only if 14...QR-N1 15 P-R6.) 16 BxN PxB
(The point of P-R6 is revealed in the variation 16...BxB
17 N-Q 5 QxQ 18 NxB+ and now K-N2, which would be possible if
the pawn were still on R5 is illegal.) 17 N-Q 5 Q-Q1 18 P-KN4
P-QN4 19 R-Nl R-B4 20 N-K3! R-N3 21 P-KB4 P-N5?! (Black must
act quickly before his KB is submerged for ever.) 22 PxP
P-B4 23 P-K5 (Not 23 PxR R x P + 24 K-Bl R-N8+ 25 KxR Q-N1+
26 K-Bl Q-N7 mate.)23...Q-N1 24 P-B3 R-Bl 25 NPxP
B-N6 26 PxNP RPxP (If 26...BPxP 27 B-B4+! etc. ) 27 P-K6!
BxR 28 PxP+ K -R2 29 QxB P-Q4 30 P-B5 KxP 31 R-R1+ K-N2 32
Q-Q4+ R-B3 33 NxP R-B3 34 NxR RxN 35 R-Nl KxP 36. P x P +
RxP 37 Q-Q7+ K-B3 38 Q-B6+ Resigns. Note the role of White's
KB during this game.
Back to the U.21's.
R. O'Kelly v. I. Sinclair. 1 N f3 (to prevent the dread
...Bf5) d5 2 c4 c6 3d4! Nf6 4 Nc3 c6 5 e3 Bd6 6 Bd3 Nd7
7 0-0 0-0) 8e4 de: 9 Ne4 : Ne4 : 10 B e4 f5 (c5 weakens h7) 11 Bc2
c5 12 c5 Bb8 12 Bb3+ Kh8 13 Ng5 Qe8 (h7 is again at risk)
14 Rcl c4 15 Nc6 Rf6 16 Nf4 g5? 17 Qh5! Qh 5 : 18 Nh5: Rh6
(Thinks:if Rg6,h4 gh: ,Bf7 R g 4 , f3! (a) 19 g4(a) f g : 20 Ng3(a)
Bg3: 21 fg: Rg6 22 Rc4: Nf6 23 Rc5 h6 24 Bd2 Bd7 24 Bc3 R e8
25 Bf7(b) Rc5• 26dc: Rg7,and now White consummated his play
by missing 27 c6, but could still not avoid winning after 27
27 Bb3 No4 28 c6 N c 3 : 29 cd:, etc.
(a) Sinclair thought; Bf7 was better;he was right.
(b) Sinclair had overlooked this move.
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A Contrast in Annotations

Readers may recall that in last term's 'Dragon' Mr. Keene off­
ered 'a small prize' for the best set of notes to his game against
the (then) British champion in the semi-final of the counties' champ­
ionship. I am glad to say that the challenge has been taken up. Rec­
ently I showed the magazine to a certain gentleman who, out of modesty,
wishes to remain anonymous. We played over the. game together, and he
gave me his fluent and authoritative commentary.
Here is the game;
White: R.G.Wade Black: R .D.Keene
English Opening.
1 c4 g6 2 Nc3 Bg7. 3 e4 (a) c5 4 g3 5 Bg2 Nf6 6 Nge2 0-0 7 0-0
d6 8 d3 N e8 9 Be3 Nc7 10 Qd2 a6 11 f4 N d4 12 Rael f5 13 Nd5 Nce6 (b)
14 exf5 gxf5 15 Bf2 Rf7 16 Ncl Rb8 17 Re3 Ndc6 (c) 18 Rfel Ned4 19
Ne2 e6 20 Nxd4 Nxd4 21 Qdl (d) b5 22 b3 b4 23 Qh5 Qd7 24 g4 (e) Bb7
25 Bh4 fxg4 26 Be4 h6 27 Bg6 Rbf8 (f) 28 Bxf7+ Qxf7 29 Qxg4 Kh7 30
Rxe6 Nxe6 31 Qxe6 Bd4+ 32 Khl Qxf4 33 Qe4+ Qxe4+ 34 dxe4 Be5 35 Kg2
Rg8+ (g). Draw.
And here are the notes:
a) Rather carelessly played, since it gravely weakens the black
squares. I would prefer to play 3 g3. But in any case, it is a
dubious policy to employ flank openings against one who has written
a book on them!
b) Deep and sure in the positional sphere, Keene furnishes a text­
book example of play against the weakened 'd4' square. His knight
outpost looms over White's position rather like the cross at the
summit of the Corcovado mountains in Brazil.
c) If you will forgive an old man for indulging in a little flight
of fancy, Black's play calls to mind the machinations of Talleyrand
behind the diplomatic scenes at Erfurt. He manoeuvres with imperturbable
sangfroid, and wisely resists the temptation to compromise himself. It
is precisely this kind of strategy which so baffles weaker players.
d) White now plunges headlong into complications, and succeeds in
fighting back. An intriguing feature of this game is the clash bet­
ween two diametrically opposed - sit venia verbo - ;philosophies of
chess. Black's play has been governed by time-honoured positional
principles, White's by a protean opportunism; he might say in the
words of the sage,
'Why go plun
d ering the fixed rules of a bigoted,worn-out
epoch.'
e) Both players are now producing chess of a style more pertaining
to the nineteenth century than this. Such, play partakes of the strik­
ing vigour, but also, alas, the inherent crudity, of Goya's first
engravings.
f) Hopes springs eternal in Black's valiant breast, as I imagine
Pope might have put it in one of his more whimsical moments. On a
superficial view his position might seem critical, but there is a
saving clause in this resourceful exchange sacrifice.
g) The game was now agreed drawn - prematurely, to my mind. Black
could very well play on; he has the advantage of two bishops which,
in such an open position, is practically a winning one.
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 The other day, by an odd coincidence, I came across a newspaper
article, headed
The Champion's Enthralling Performance
from our chess correspondent,
which, I had read some months ago and then forgotten; it contained
notes to this same game Wade - Keene! Readers may like to compare
them with those given above. Clearly, the complexities of chess afford
ample scope for differences of opinion between annotators.

Reproduced by kind permission of 'The Times' from their edition of

June 31st:
a) A frequent theme in master practice is the psychological ascend­
ancy you gain over your opponent by making him defend against his
own favourite opening. This explains Wade's clever choice of system
against the author of 'Flank Openings'.
b) Clearly Black has fallen victim to the mysterious charisma of
the knight. He has been performing contorted gyrations with two pieces,
whilst neglecting the hoary maxim which says that a player should
develop his position. Countless games have been lost through this
perennial sin. In the words of the bard:
' But old laws operate, yet; and phase on phase
Of men's dynastic and imperial broils
Shape on accustomed lines.'
c) Black seems to adopt a hedgehog attitude that can come to
no good. He had to attempt to free himself by 13...b5. Whatever the
risks involved, this would at least have given him prospects of coun­
terplay.
&) Black cannot play 21...exd on account of 22 Re 8+ winning his
queen. Decisive and brilliant in the combinational field, Wade dem­
onstrates such sure mastery of the tactical intricacies of the pos­
ition that I find it an exhilarating mental exercise trying to keep
pace with him.
e) A beautifully incisive stroke, typical of the British champion,
I cannot help associating White's' quite classical mastery of strategy
with the delicate strains of a Pushkin sonnet.
fi) In desperation Black counter-sacrifices, but, as nearly always
happens in such positions, the attempt at freeing himself merely prec­
ipitates disaster. Still he is lost in the long run, whatever he does.
g) White has an easily won ending, owing to the superb placing of
his pieces (especially the knight) and the baleful weakness of Black's
pawns. The game was adjudicated here and White was awarded a well-earned
victory.
( It appears from* the last note,that, through some strange error,
the writer was misinformed about the result. Fortunately, his score of
the game is correct up to the final position, so the rest of his notes
are unaffected by the anomaly. )

I leave it to Mr, Keene to judge wh ich of these commentaries is

nearer the truth. As for that small prize, our friend did have hopes
that the qualification 'small' might not be intended literally. (You
see, his shares are not doing too well at present.) Needless to say,
I have undeceived him; but I will gladly .pass on to him any modest
recompense which may be forthcoming. J . N . Sugden.
 Miscellaneous Games
( This section which appears in all 'Dragons’ is in fact not
an afterthought but an integral part of the magazine.)
Paignton Premier, Rd. 7 . T.K.Hemingway v. N.J. Holloway.
1 Nf3 Nf6 2 b3 g6 3 Bb2 Bg7 4 e3 0-0 5 Be2 c5 6 c4 b6 7 0-0 Bb7
8 Nc3 Nc6 9 Qbl d5 10 Nxd5 Nxd5 11 cd Qxd5 12 Bxg7 Kxg7 13
Qb2+ Kg8 14 Rad1 Rfd8 15 d4 cd 16 ed e6 17 Qd2 Kg7 18 Qf4 Ne7 19
Bd3 Rac8 20 Rfel Qd6 21 Ne5 f6 22 Qh4
Q d 4 23 N g4 h5 24 Be4 Qxe4 25
Qf6+ Kg8 26 f3 Rxdl 27 Nh6+ Kh7 28. Qe7+ Kh6 29 fe Rxel+ 30 Kf2 Rxe4
31 Qxb7 Rf8+ 32 Kg3 Re3+ 33 Resigns.
British Ladies Champ. Rd.7.
Miss J. Pickles - Mrs. J . Hartston
1 e4 c5 2 f4 N c6 3 Nf3 e6 4 d4 cxd 5 Nxd4 d6 6 Nc3 Qc7 7 B e3 N f6
8 Be2 a6 9 0-0 Be7 10 g4 (a) 0-0 11 Nb3 (b) b5 12 Bd2 (b) b4 13 Na4
(b) Qa7+ 14 Khl Nxe4 15 Bel Qc7 16 Bf3 d5 17 Bg2 Na5 18 a3 Nc4 19
Bxe4 dxe4 20 Qcl bxa3 21 bxa3 Qc6 22 N c 3 e3+ 23 Kgl Bb7 24 Resigns.
a) Appears aggressive but weakening, though White's further play sugg­
ests that only the weakness was intentional.
b) g5 would have been more consistent.
Marlow Rd. 1.
Mrs. J. Hartston v. M. Singleton.
1 e4 c5 2 N f3 d6 3 d4 cd 4 N d4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 Bc4 e6 7 Bb3 b5 8 0-0
Be7 9 f4 Bb7 10 e5 de 11 fe Bc5 12 Be3 Nc6 13 exf6 Bxd4 14 fxg7 Bxe3+
15 Khl Rg8 16 Qf3 Rxg7 17 Bxe6 Qe7 18 Bd5 Nd4 19 Qh3 Bc8 20 Qh5 Bg4
21 Bxf7+ Rxf7 22 Qxg4 Rg7 23 Qh5+ R g6 24 Nd5 Qg5 25 Qxg5 Rxg5 26 Nc7+
Kd7 27 Nxa8 Nxc2 28 Radl+ Kc8 29 Rf8+ Kb7 30 Rd7+ Resigns.

British Champ. Rd. 3. F.Parr v. W.R. Hartston.

1 P-QB4 P-KN3 2 P-K4 B-N2 3 P-Q 4 P-QB4 4 P-Q5 P-Q3 5 B-K2 N -KB3 6
N-QB3 0-0 7 N-B3 P-K4 8 PxPe.p. PxP 9 0-0 N-B3 10 B-N 5 P-KR3 11 BxN
BxB 12 Q-Q2 K-R2 13 N-QN5 P-QR3 14 NxQP N-Q5 15 NxN BxN 16 P-K5 BxKP
17 QR-Q1 B-Q5 18 N-K4 P-N3 19 B-Q3 R-R2 20 K-Rl QR-KB2 21 Q-K2 P-K4 22
P-B3 B-K3 23 P-QN 3 R-B5 24 N-B2 Q-N4 25 B-K4 R-R5 26 P-KN4 P-KR4 27 R-KN1
PxP 28 R-N2 P-N6 29 N -N4 RxN 30 PxR BxP 31 Q-Q 3 BxR 32 QxB Q-N5 33 R-K2
R-B7 34 Resigns.
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Paignton 1971

When a player suffers a set-hack as ignominious as mine at

Blackpool, it is normal for him to state his intention of giving
the game up, even though this i
usually a lie, For the sake of orig­
s
inality, then, let me announce that in spite of everything I have
not the slightest intention of retiring from chess. My participat­
ion in the Paignton Premier, only a fortnight after the ’British',
will serve to make this clear.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

If any British player had expectations of easy loot in the

new enlarged prize list, his confidence was shaken by the red­
oubtable Hans Wurst of West Germany, who led until the last two
rounds and whose victims included two of the Cambridge contingent.
In round six, however, J. Century struck a blow for Britain's bal­
ance of payments by vanquishing the foreign marauder, and honours
were finally shared between England and the Celtic Fringe.
Premier results; l) A. H.Williams and J.Century 5½ .
2) Jack Sausage (R.Franke) 5
4-7) N .J.Holloway, K.J.Wicker, P . N .Wallis
and G.H.Bigfatbennett 4½
In the Robert Silk young masters' tournament, W.R. Hartston shared
first place with R.Littlethinbellin and we all wish them success
in their coming visit to Siberia.
I scored 4 out of 7 . H m m . If you're interested in an explanation
here it is. Two of my games with Black opened as follows: 1 Nf3 c5
2 c4 g 6 3 g3 Bg7 4 Bg2 Nc 6 5 Nc3 e 6 6 e3 ( You have to hate chess
passionately to play a move like that. Observe how White, after his
non-committal first move, has simply mimicked all Black's ideas.)
6...Nge7 7 d4 cxd 8 Nxd4 ( If I had now played the standard drawing
move 8 ..,d5! the tournament controller, a well-known expert, would
have castigated both players for their spinelessness - unjustly,
for the blame lies mainly with White.) 8 ...Nxd4? 9 exd d 6? 10 0-0
Nf5. This position has occurred in a game Johannes - Sugden, National
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Club Championship 1970. Johannes, concerned to preserve his bishop

pair and consolidate his space advantage, played 11 d5? = but 0-1, 21.
My Paignton opponents, too uncouth to understand such refined pos­
itional concepts, played. 11 B e 3 ! +- 1-0, 36 and. 1-0, 49.
Now for the game that all the fans are waiting for. Notes are
by the winner.
Round 5 . A.H.Williams v. N.J. Holloway
Neo-Grunfeld.
1 d4 d5 2 Nf3 (It is as well White played this move, for Black
was planning to meet 2c 4 with 2 ...dxc! and had no intention of ret­
urning the pawn.) 2...Nf6 3 g3 g 6 4 c4 Bg7 ( More in my opponent's
style was 4...dxc.) 5 cxd5 Nxd5 6 Bg2 0-0 7 0-0 Nb6 8 Nc3 Nc 6 9 d5
Na5 10 Bf4 Nac4 11 Qcl Nxb 2 (Black finds it impossible to resist
the chance of gaining TWO PAWNS( and a queen ) for three minor pieces.)
12 Qxb2 Na4 13 Nxa4 Bxb2 14 Nxb2 Qxd5 15 Rfdl ( Bxc7, while regaining
a pawn, gives Black time to develop.) 15...Qb5 16 Nd3 c 6 17 a4 Qa5
18 Bd2 Qc7 19 Bf4 Qa5 20 Nd4 Qc3 21 Be5 Qa5? ( Inconsistent; Black
must play 21...f 6 with an obscure situation, e.g. 22Racl Qa5 23
Bf4 e5 24 Bd2 Qxa4 25 Nxc 6 ; or 22...Qa3 23 Bc7 e5 24 Nc2 Qxa4 25
Ne3.) 22 Nb3 Qb6 23 Nbc5 (In order to meet ...Bg4 with f3.) 23...
f6 24 a5! Qb5 25 Bc7 Qc4 (Directed against 26 Rdcl and 27 Rab1.)
26 Racl Qf7 27 Nb4? (a6!) e 6 28 B d 6 Rd 8 29 a 6 b 6 30 Ne 4 !? ( 3 0 Nb7
wins material but relieves Black of his Q B .) 30...c5 31 Nc 6 Bxa 6
32 Be7 ( White refuses to be led astray by mere material gain. )
32...Rxdl+ 33 Rxdl Rc8(?) ( A blunder, but 33...f5 34 Ng5 and Nxe6
allows the fourth minor piece to become active.) 34 Nd6 ( " For
they (the locusts) covered the face of the whole earth, so that
the land was darkened and they did eat every herb of the land..."
- Exodus 10, 15.) 34...Rxc 6 35 Nxf7 Rc7 36 Bxf 6(?) (This is suff­
icient but 36 Nh 6+ Kg7 37 Bd 8 Rc 8 38 Ng4 Bxe2 39 Rd7+ is more con­
vincing.) 36...Kxf7 37 Be5 Re7 38 e3 Bb7 39 Bxb 7 Rxb7 40 Rd 8 g5
41 g4! Ke7 42 Rh8 Resigns.

J.N.Sugden.
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B.U.C.A. Leeds, 5th - 7th July.

The 19 70 - 7 1 B.U.C.A. team tournament could be described as a

walk over for the Cambridge team, largely owing to the amazing incom­
petence of the pseudo-organiser L.S.Tate (without whose timely rep­
lacement by T. Gluckman nothing would have happened at all), which
drastically reduced the size and scope of the opposition whose recumb­
ent bodies eventually were walked over.
Cambridge leapt into a giant lead from the first round (out of
4) and virtually won with a round to spare. Several half points were
sacrificed in favour of early trains in the last round but the final
result still bears witness to this superiority. It can be summarised:
Cambridge 25½ (out of 32 ), London 21, rest nowhere. I would prefer
to suppress the individual scores, but the truth must prevail. They
were: Bd.l R.G. Eales 2, B d .2 A.H. Williams 3½, Bd.3 J.B.Sugden 3½,
Bd.4 N.J. Holloway 3½, B d .5 B.M.Rothbart 4 , B d .6 J.F.T.Kirk O ’Grady
3, Bd.7 A.G.Trangmar 3, B d.8 R. Webb 3 . ( Editor's note: R.G. Eales
thus wins, for the second time in three years, the W.R.Hartston prize,
for the worst score by a Cambridge player in this event. )
By way of apologetics I would like to point out that my much
publicised loss to the eponymous C. Cubitt occurred after travelling
all night from London following the Counties Final on Ju ly 4th (see
report elsewhere) . The rest of the team were confronted with oppos­
ition to which odds of a night's sleep could safely be given.
( Editor’s note: Thus R.G. Eales also becomes the first holder of the
newly instituted R .O ’Kelly award for the most elaborate excus sub­
mitted to any one edition of ’Dragon’.)
Lower down there were few problems and J.Sugden was revenged
for many past indignities at the hands of J.Rabbit and the inevitable
comparison with myxomatosis did not fail to spring to mind. Bernard
Rothbart and Julian Kirk O'Grady brought their distinguished careers
in Cambridge chess to an end, appropriately, by helping to recover
the B.U.C.A. championship in this event, having already played their
part in retaining the Counties Championship. T h e y w i l l be much missed
from future Cambridge teams.
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A Country . Diary by R. G .Eales
Chester,Sept. 24th - 26th.
This report is included to show that Cambridge players do not
disdain to win small tournaments as well as large ones. Well away from the
large prizes, poker schools and North London con me n which. character­
ise more prestigious events it is almost possible to enjoy playing chess,
and even harbour the illusion that chessplayers are gentlemen. Unsuccess­
ful ones often are.
Final Scores J-J. Rousseau, 4½ (out of 5), V.W.Knox and J.Povall
4 and others less. The following last round game brought about this
idyllic conclusion. J-J. Rousseau v. W. Ainsworth.
1 d4 e6 2 c4 Nf6 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 e3 c5 5 Bd3 0-0 6 a3 Bxc3+ 7 b c d5 8 cd
ed 9 Ne2 c4 10 Bbl Nc6 11 a4 Na5 12 B a3 Re8 13 0-0 Nb3 14 Ra2 Bd7 15
Bd 6 ! ( The only organic move. If now 15...Bxa4 16 Be5 (not 16 R a 4 Qd6
17 Bc2 Ne4!) l6...b5 17Nf4 with a sturdy attack, e.g. 17...Nd7 18 Qh5
g6 19 Qh6 Nxe5 20 Nh5 gh 21 Bh7+ Kh8 22 de Qc7 (forced) 23 Bf5+ Kg8
24 Qh7+ Kf8 25 Qh8+ Ke7 26 Qf6+ Kf8 27 e6 Kg8 28 Qg5+ Kf8 29 e7+ and
mate in three.) 1 5 ...Bc6 16 Be5 Nd7 17 Bf4 b6 18 Ng3 g6 19. f3 Qh4
( A vain attempt to delay the harvest.) 20 Bc2 Na5 21 Qcl Nf8 22
e4 Ne6 23 Be3 Qe7 24 e5 f5 25 ef Qf6 26 f4 Nb 3 27 Bxb3 cb 28 Raf2
( And now at last the sickle is at his roots.) 28...Ng7 29 f5 gf 30 Nxf5
Nxf5 31 Rxf5 Qe6 32 Bh6 b2 33 Rg5+ Kh8 34 Bg7+ Kg8 35 Be5+ and Black is
driven off the land, 1-0.
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Finally some inspirational chess from the British Championship.
Eley - De Veauce
1 e4 e5 2 f4 ef 3 Nf3 Ne7 (The game develops along predictable lines.)
4 d4 d5 5 Nc3 de 6 Nxe4 Nd5 (It is rash to move the same
piece twice in the opening against so accomplished a tactician as
Mr. Eley.) 7 c4! Bb4+ (A desperate attempt at diversion.) 8 K f 2 ! (Leav­
ing the bishop stranded.) 8...N e3 (What else? ) 9 Qa 4+ Nc6 10 d5 ( See
note to move 8.) 10...Qe7 11 dc N g4+ (Rabbit bites man.) 12 Ke2 Qxe4+
13 Be3 (Development at all costs.) 13...Qxe3+ and now White, clearly
frightened by the incisive tactical possibilities in the position, felt
obliged to cede the point. What is ominous in such an attitude, for the
future of British chess, is that one such game is worth as much as two draws
.