Chess
Last leg
Raymond Keene
Gary Kasparov qualified easily from the third and final Interzonal, outdistanc- ing, by a point or more, the leading scores from Las Palmas and Toluca. A small drama, however, developed around the se- cond qualifying place. It had long seemed that this was destined for Beliaysky, but in the penultimate round he lost to Van der Weil, from a position where he had an extra R plus a strong attack, and onlookers had been expecting his opponent to resign by the minute. Beliaysky then succeeded in Moscow Interzonal, September 1982
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Prs 1 Kasparov
X 1/2 1/21/21/21/2 1 111111
1/2 10 2 Beliaysky 1/2X1/21110101 101/2 1 81/2 3 Andersson 1/2 1/2 X 1/2 1/2 0 1 1/2 1/2 1/2 I 1 1/2 18 Tal 1/201/2X1/21/21 1/21/211/211. i8 5 Garcia ½0½½X½ 1 0 I I 1/2 I 0 17'/ Geller 1/2 0 I 1/2 1/2 X 1/2 1 0 1 1/2 1/2 1 1/2 71/2 7 Murei 0 1 0 0 0 1/2 X 1/2 1 1/2 1/2 1/2 1 1 61/2
8 Christiansen
0 0 1/2 1/2 I 0 1/2 X 1/2 0 1/2 1/2 1 16 Sax 0 1 1/2 1/2 0 I 0 1/2 X 1/2 1/2 0 1/2 16 10 Velimirovic 0 0 1/2 0 0 0 1/2 1 1/2 X I 1/2 1 1/2,51/2 11 Gheorghiu 0 0 0 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 0 X' 1 1/2 5 Van der Wiel 0 1 0 0 0% 1/2 1/2 I 1/2 1/2 X 0 h5 13 Rodriguez 01/21/2010001/2001X 14'/ Quinteros 0 0 1/2 0 1/2 0 0 0 1/2 1/2 1/2 0 X3
saving a lost adjournment v. Andersson, after 14 hours play, but, exhausted, came close to losing a winning adjourned posi- tion v. Rodriguez. He finally squeezed through by defeating Gheorghiu in the last round, with his close rivals Andersson and Tal playing a short, colourless draw, while Geller and Garcia both faltered and lost. All in all, an exciting and ferociously con- tested tournament.
Kasparov — Gheorghiu: Round II; Queen's In- dian Defence.
1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nf3 b6 4 a3 Bb7 5 Nc3 d5 6 exd5 Nxd5 7 Qc2 c5 8 e4 Nxc3 9 bxc3 Bel Vary- ing from the Murei game, published two weeks ago, where Black lost after 9 ... Nc6 10 Bbl cxd4 11 cxd4 Rc8 12 Rdl ! 10 Bb5 + Bc6 11 Bd3 Nd7 12 0-0 h6 Or 12 ... 0-0 13 d5 exd5 14 exd5 BxdS 15 Bxh7 + removing an important compo- nent of the Black king's defences. The text, however, looks like a dangerous loss of time, just the sort of thing Kasparov is excellent at ex- ploiting. 13 Rdl Qc7 Still afraid to castle, but now d5 comes with even greater force as a sacrifice. 14 d5 exd5 15 exd5 BxdS 16 Bb5 a6 17 Bf4!! A beautiful shot which disrupts Black's co- ordination. The point is to drive Black's K into the open. 17 ... Qxf4 18 Bxd7 + Kxd7 19 Rxd5 + Kc7 After 19 ... Ke8 20 Rel comes with equal force, pinning the B. 20 Rel Bd6 If 20 ... Bf6 21 Re4 traps Black's Q in mid-board. 21 Rf5 Qc4 22 Re4 Qb5 23 Rxf7 + Kb8 24 Re6 Rd8 25 c4 Qc6 26 Ne5 Qc8 And just when we were all ex- pecting the powerful centralisation 27 Qe4, there came the even more deadly retreat 27 Qbl! Black resigns. No defence to Qxb6 + since 27 ... b5 28 cxb5 is patently hopeless. Three brochures put together by nob Wade and containing all games from thelf. terzonals are now available from the BO' Chess or chess stockists at £4.50 the set' A curious incident occurred on o'irt departure from Moscow. The disside!, Soviet GM, Boris Gulko, had entrusted the US representative, Larry Christiansen,'AIL a 12-page article in Russian about his dr. career to be published in the Los Ange'e'i based magazine, Players' Chess News': which Christiansen is editor. Gulko Fri' gave me a letter in English fof Frldno Olafsson, detailing his plight and his Plan,, go on hunger strike during the period of Pa Olympiad. Fearing that this would be target for confiscation, I destroyed the le.10 ter. but decided to memorise the le points, and I shall be putting them to t, Fide President during the Tilburg tarn°, ment next week. At Moscow Airport "1,` were duly met by security agents who t°.fe our luggage apart and on finding the by Gulko among Larry's effects, prolat l relieved him of it. I can testify first Oe'd , that Gulko's situation is now desperate and I hope this affair will not contribute
misery. The Soviet authorities eventu,i, ly relented over Korchnoi's family, so a°, Gulko and his wife should now be Prim candidates for their clemency.
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