Chess
Goulash
David Levy
Por the first time in the history of the Chess o 1YruPiad the Soviet Union has finished be low first place. After one of the most _exciting conclusions on record, Hungary .100k the gold medals by a one point margin, Deating Yugoslavia 3-1 in the last round, 2wIlde the USSR could do no better than against Holland. The Dutch team , ere playing without Hans Ree, who had 13_19ken his leg by falling out of bed after uelng told a Finnish joke. England finished Si points behind Hungary after losing to Romania 2i-1i in the last round. Although the English team produced number of sparkling games they were bevel' in contention during the later rounds. ay Keene never fully recovered from his aguio experiences and became ill only a rfew days after he arrived. Happily he is now Gecovering and will be playing in a strong Aires, Tournament here in Buenos 'Ires, which begins in a few day's time. ,_Although conditions here remained very Kier throughout the event the Olympiad did have its brighter moments. Senor Zanlungo, the chief organiser, who had been kidnapped a few days before the start of the Olympiad, turned up unharmed about a week ago. He claimed to have escaped from the boot of a car without being seen by the occupants of the car right behind him. In another incident one of the players from a Middle Eastern team tried to buy one of the girls working for the organising committee. The offer made was one million dollars, but it seems the organisers either did not wish to sell that particular girl or had doubts about receiving proper payment for her, as the offer was not taken up. Perhaps the most important development for world chess to have taken place here was the election of a new FIDE president to replace Dr Euwe who has retired after eight years in office. There were three candidates — Rabell Mendez (Puerto Rico) reputedly spent £125,000 on his campaign, in addition to which a group of his supporters squandered £500,000 to ensure that many poorer countries would be able to attend the Olympiad and the election. Gligoric (Yugoslavia) had the whole of his country's foreign service at his disposal but lost two vital votes on the morning of the election when two of his supporters were playing adjourned games instead of voting. Olafsson (Iceland) ran his campaign on a four-figure shoestring yet he emerged triumphant on the second ballot. Rabell polled 31 votes on the first ballot, Olafsson 30 and Gligoric 29, but almost all of Gligoric's followers supported Olafsson when Gligoric dropped out and Rabell was soundly beaten by 57 votes to 34.
As promised last week, here is Miles's fine win over Spassky.
Miles-Spassky: Buenos Aires 1978, Queen's Indian Defence.
1 P-Q4 N-K/13 2 N•KB3 1P-QN3 3 P-B4 P-K3 4 B-B4 Miles has been quite successful with this variation in recent months. 4. . . B-N2 5 P-K3 B-K2 6 P-KR3 0-07 N-B3 P-Q4 8PxP NP 9 B-Q3 P-B4 10 0-0 N-B3 11 N-K5 P-QR3 In MilesSpassky (Montilla 1978) the ex-world champion played 11 . . .P-B5 12 B-B2 P-QR3 and lost after 13 P-KN4! P-QN4 14 P-N5 N-K1 15 0-N4 P-N3 16 QR-Q1 N-N2 17 P-KR4 B-N5 18 N-Q7! B-Bl 19 Nx0P K-R1 20 N(Q5)-B6 R-R2 21 P-05 N-K2 22 B-K5 RxN 23 P-R5 RxP 24 Q-B4 RxR 25 RxR Q-R4 26 N-K8 P-B3 27 PxP K-Ni 28 NxN Black resigns. 12 Q-B3 R-K1 13 QR-Ql PxP 14 NxN BiN 15PxP P•QN4 16 P-R3 N-K5 17 B-N1 Q-N3 18 KR-K! MEN 19 QYA P-NS 20 Q4(N3 PxP 21 PxP B-QR5 22 R-QB1 The critical position. Spassky now allows the temporary win of a pawn, failing to realise that after he regains the pawn he will be subjected to a dangerous attack. 22. . . Q-N7? 23 BxPch KxB 24 RxB RxR 25 Q-R4ch K-N1 26 QicR QxQP 27 B-K5 Q-N3 28 Q-N5 Q-R3. If 28 .. P-B3 29 BxP QxB 30 Qx0Pch and 31 QxR and Spassky is forced into a very bad ending. 29 QxQ NQ 30 R-B3 K-B! 31 R-B5 R-Ql 32 B-B6 R-Q3 33 R-B8ch B-K1 34 B-Q4 R-K3 35 R-08 K-N1 36 ItxP R-K8ch 37 K-R2 R-Q8 38 R-Q8 K-R2 39 P-N4 R-Q6 40 P-B4 P-QR4 41 P-B5 ajdoumed. Black resigned without resuming.
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