27 JULY 1985, Page 39

CHESS

Secondhand officials

Raymond Keene

Further details have emerged on the vexed question of officials for the Septem- ber world championship rematch. Fide has reappointed Kinzel as jury chairman and Gligoric as chief arbiter, although both were heavily implicated in the termination of the previous match and are, consequent- ly, in open and flagrant dispute with Kasparov. In a sharp retort, Kasparov has announced that he will not play the next match at all if Gligoric accepts the arbiter Post and, indeed, according to regulations, the eventual arbiter should be on the list of Preferences submitted by both players. The only person to fit this bill is the highly respected German Grandmaster, Lothar Schmid who officiated a ,t the Fischer- Spassky match of 1972 and Korchnoi- Karpov in 1978. Yet Kaov in Amsterdam has told rpJan Timman, quite candidly, that Schmid cannot in fact be appointed since 'Clue' (another German) 'must' be jury chairman and these two functions cannot be held by people of the same nationality. I have been sent Kinzel's defence to kasparov's Der Spiegel allegations which I reported in my article of 15 June. It is a !Ong, rambling document in German, dur- ing the course of which Kinzel admits that he refused to be interviewed himself by Der Spiegel. The crux of his defence is as follows: 'On 1 February' (when the score was 5-2 to Karpov) 'the Fide President proposed limiting the match to a further eight games. To the surprise of all concerned, Kasparov only wanted to accept this proposal if the match was halted immediately. This sug- gestion of Kasparov was absolutely identic- al with the Fide President's decision of 15 February. If you take this into account, on 15 February Kasparov received from Cam- pomanes everything he had demanded at the start of February.' This is, of course, nonsense and reveals colossal stupidity on Kinzel's part, since on 15 February the score had altered to 5-3 and Kasparov had won two games in a row. In New in Chess, Timman provided the most elegant demolition of Kinzel's falla- cious argument: 'Campomanes agreed to Kasparov's proposal after the situation in the match had clearly changed, as the score was no longer 5-2, but 5-3. This can be compared to a person who first rejects an offered draw, and then, a few moves later, when his position has deteriorated con- siderably, wants to accept it after all.' Karpov is currently playing in the OHRA tournament at Amsterdam. He badly needs an outstanding result to de- monstrate his stamina and match Kaspar- ov's impressive wins against Hubner and Andersson. So far he is doing well. After six rounds the scores are: Karpov 5, Timman 31/2, Miles 3, Nunn 21/2, Sunye Neto and Martinovic 11/2 and 1 adj. White, Karpov : Black, Miles.

Position after Black's 47th move

48 f4 g6 49 hxg6 fxg6 50 Kd4 h5 51 Ke4 Kf7 52 Rb3 b6? Safer is . . . Rb8. 53 Rd3 Ke7 54 Rd6 bxc5? Better . . . Rc8. 55 Rxc6 Rb8 56 Rxc5 Rxb2 57 Rc7+ Kf8 58 Rxa7 Rc2 59 Kf3 Kg8 60 a4 Ra2 61 a5 Kf8 62 a6 Kg8 63 Ra8+ Kg7 64 a7 Ra3+ 65 Ke4 and Black resigns. White brings his king to the queen's side and then heads for e6.