CHESS
The English team's result in the inaugu- ral world team championship at Lucerne proves that we are now definitely in the medal club and will, I hope, stay there. The record has been a consistent one: bronze in the European team cham- pionship at Skara 1980; silver in the 1984 Olympics at Thessaloniki and now bronze again in the 1985 world team cham- pionship. Yet it would be hard to say that the team members were all on form Short had been exhausted by his exertions In the Montpellier Candidates, while Nunn and Speelman seemed almost equally fati- gued, having functioned as seconds in the same tournament. Tony Miles certainly shone, though, and with 5/7 picked up the silver medal (ahead of Karpov) for his performance on board one.
. It is a sign of the English team's strength HI depth that none of them scored less than 50 per cent, and bronze handsomely justi- fies Duncan Lawrie's continued and gener- ous support of our team's international World Team Championship, Lucerne, 16-26 November
I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
I USSR x 21/2 4 413x/ 4 5 41/2 31/2 6 371/2
2 Hungary 31/2 x 31/2 41/2 41/2 31/2 21/2 31/2 4 5 341/2 3 England 2 21/2 x 4 21/2 2 4 31/2 4 6 301/2
4 Frame (11MP) 11/2 11/2 2 x 3 41/2 31/2 4 31/2 5 281/2
5 Romania (10MP) 21/2 113x/ 3 x 21/2 31/2 3 4 5 281/2 6 Switzerland 2 21/2 4 11/2 31/2 x 21/2 31/2 3 5 271/2 7 China 1 31/2 2 21/2 21/2 31/2 x 31/2 3 51/2 27 8 Argentina 11/2 21/2 21/2 2 3 21/2 21/2 x 4 5 251/2
9 West Germany 21/2 2 2 21/2 2 3 3 2 x 41/2 231/2
HI Aka 0 1 0 1 1 1 1/2 1 11/2 x 7
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Raymond Keene
forays. Thanks are also due to the ever- supportive Duncan Lawrie for the recent purchase of a substantial chess library which will help to form the basis of a comprehensive reference system, if ever we succeed in establishing a National Chess Centre.
The real hero of the championship was Viktor Korchnoi, who convincingly cap- tured the individual gold medal for board one with the score of 71/2/9. Significantly, Karpov ducked out of the USSR- Switzerland match, preferring to save his energy for the vitally important match against Africa next day.
Here are three of Korchnoi's games: Korchnoi-Qi (China): King's Indian Defence.
i NO Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 d4 Bg7 4 g3 d6 5 fIg2 0-0 6 0-0 Nbd7 7 Qc2 e5 8 Rdl Qe7 9 Nc3 c6 10 b3 Re8 11 e4 exd4 12 Nxd4 Nc5 13 f3 Nfd7 14 Bbl a515 Rd2 Ne5 16 Radl f617 h3 Nf7 18 Kh2 Qc7 19 Ba3 Bh6 20 f4 Bfil 21 Bb2 Bg7 22 a3 Qb6 23 Nce2 Bd7 24 Bc3 Na6 25 NB Rad8 26 Bd4 Qc7 27 Nc3 b6 28 Qbl Nc5 29 b4 axb4 30 axb4 Ne6 31 b5 Nxd4 32 Nxd4 cxb5 33 Nd5 Qxc4 34 Bfl Qc8 35 Rd Qb8 36 BxbS BxbS 37 QxbS Rc8 38 Nc6 Qa8 39 Nce7+ Kh8 40 Nxc8 Rxc8 41 Nxb6 Black resigns.
Yusupov (USSR)-Korchnoi: Griinfeld Defence. 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 d5 4 cxd5 Nxd5 5 e4 Nxc3 6 bxc3 c5 7 Bc4 Bg7 8 Ne2 0-0 9 0-0 cxd4 10 cxd4 Nc6 11 Be3 Bg4 12 f3 Na5 13 Bd5 Bd7 14 Rbl a6 15 Bxb7 Raj 16 Bd5 Bb5 17 a4 Bxe2 18 Qxe2 e6 19 Bc4 Bxd4 20 Rfdl Bxe3+ 21 Qxe3 Rd7 22 Bet Rxdl+ 23 Rxdl Qc7 24 Bxa6 Qc2 25 Qd4 e5 26 Qa 1 Rb8 27 Bfl Rb2 28 Qcl Qf2+ 29 Khl Nb3 30 Qc8+ Kg7 31 Qb8 16 32 a5 Nd4 33 Qc7+ Kh6 34 Qc3 Rat 35 a6 Nc2 Draw agreed. (36 Qd2+ Qxd2 37 Rxd2 Ral 38 Kgl Ne3 39 Rf2 Nxfl and
. . Rxa6.)
Nunn (England)-Korchnoi: French Defence.
1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Ne3 Nf6 4 e5 Nfd7 5 f4 c5 6 Nf3 Nc6 7 Be3 cxd4 8 Nxd4 Bc5 9 Qd2 Nxd4 10 Bxd4 Bxd4 11 Qxd4 Qb6 12 Qxb6 Nxb6 13 0-0-0 Bd7 14 Bd3 h5 15 Ne2 Ke7 16 Nd4 g6 17 g3 Bc6 18 Rdel Nd7 19 c3 RagS 20 Rhfl g5 21 f5 g4 22 Reg h4 23 b4 hxg3 24 hxg3 Ba4 25 Kb2 Rh3 26 Rgl
Position after 27 . . . Rc8 Rgh8 27 Kai Rc8 (Diagram) 28 Kb2 a6 29 Rgg2 Bdl 30 Re3 Nb6 31 Rf2 Rhl 32 fxe6 fxe6 33 Rfl Na4+ 34 Kcl Rxc3+ White resigns. The brilliant point of Korchnoi's conduct of the counterattack is that 28 Kxa4 allows 28 . . Rxc3 29 Bc2 Nb6+ 30 Kb5 Ra3 when the White king is in a mating net.
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