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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-02-27, Page 18Page 2- Smadks Fehiruary 27, 1813 --- CHESS POINTS Who was first world shame? By ROSS WILLIAMS Some commentators pick the Frenchman, Francois Pftiiador, as the first world champion based on his per- formance in an important in- ternational chess match in 1747. Other commentators searching for the first cham- pion go back to the second half of the 16th Century when the Spanish ecclesiastic, Ruy Lopez, defeated the best Ital- ian players of his day. P. W. Sargeant, in his book Championship Chess, takes us ahead in time to 1843 be- fore he will crown the first world champion. In that year the Englishman, Howard Staunton, defeated the Frenchman, Pierre de Saint- Amant, in a match that had rules similar to champion- ship match rules used today. If we can call Staunton the first world champion, what about Saint-Amant, the play- er he beat? To Sargeant, the quality of the procedures governing the match was as important as the players in determining world cham- pions. Staunton and Saint-Amant were generally recognized as the two strongest players of their day, but their match, cited by Sargeant, was never claimed by either contestant to be for the World Cham- pionship. The first player to call himself World Champion was Wilhelm Steinitz of Aus- tria after he defeated Adolph Anderssen of Germany in a match in 1866. Starting with Steinitz in 1866, for the next 80 years we had five world champions and 20 World Championship matches. After Steinitz came Dr. Emanuel Lasker of Ger- many, Jose Raul Capablanca of Cuba, Dr. Max Euwe of Holland, and Dr. Alexander Alekhine of France. Were these men really world champions? Who con- ferred their titles? Following the lead of Steinitz, each con- ferred the title on himself. Who chose their challengers? The champion chose his chal- lenger. To resolve some of these is- sues, international rules were drawn up in 1922, and the World Chess Federation was founded in 1924. Until Alek- hine's death inn' 1948, however, all real power over cham- pionship match play re- mained with the champion. Alekhine's death left the world without a champion. FIDE stepped in, established a new champion, and made provision for periodically de - challengers. Under this highly structured pro- cess, there have been 11 title matches i8 26 years, and there has never been a sub- stantiated charge that the challengers" chosen were not the best chess players. Some of the greatest names in chess history appeared during the 80 years` ending in 1946, but was their champion- ship status entirely valid? The passing of time has made us. more sophisticated than Sargeant in our search for a means to establish world champions. Future historians with •their added sophistica- tion may look back and pick Mikhail Botvinnik, Alek- hine's successor, as the first world champion - not be- cause of his playing ability, but because -of the process by which he was chosen. Game of the Week - The ninth game of the 1974 Candi- dates Matches between Spassky and Karpov, which we published last week, was analyzed by Paul Keres in Chess Life and Review, Sep- tember, 1974. Keres suggests that we look at 18, with Q -K3 as an alternative for Spassky. Keres, however, believes this game was Karpov's best per- formance in the match. Mikhail Botvinnik broke all precedent by winning the World Championship on three separate occasions. On the Guelph conference to examine Canada's Victorian heritage Our Victorian heritage will be closely examined this summer during a five-day symposium at the University, of Guelph. Symposium 1975 -Canada in the Victorian Image, will be held from June 3 to 7 at the university to provide an in-depth explora- tion of this important pa -t of Canada's cultural history. The architecture and the fine and decorative arts of England and their influence on Canada during the Victorian years of 1837 to 1887 will be examined by 10 distin- guished Canadian and British speakers. Besides lectures and discus- sions on many aspects of the period, from the aesthetic move- ment to the "ghastly good taste" of the era, the participants will also be given opportunities to broaden their understanding of the age through trips to Victori4n landmarks in Southwestern On- tario and even a Victorian -style picnic. About 125 people from across Canada are expected to attend the symposium which is a follow- up to one held in Toronto in 1973 on the Golden Age of France and England and its influence on early Canada. This year's sym- posium is being sponsored by the University of Guelph and the Canadian Antique Collector un- der the patronage of the Mac- donald Stewart Foundation. Participants will be represen- tatives from federal and provin- cial governments, historic sites boards, historical societies, heri- tage foundations, museums, art galleries, universities, libraries, architectural groups, antique dealers and collectors and in- terested citizens. The fee for at- tending the symposium is $125. third Casoni, he defeated Ml➢daaill Tal In Moscow, April, 1961. This week let's look at the seventh game in that match. How could Tel have salvaged this game? Botvimlk 1. P-QB4 2. N-QB3 3. P -Q4 4. P-QR3 5. PxB 6. P -B3 7. P -K4 8. BPzP 9. KxB 10. B -N5 11. Q-R4cb 12. B -R4 13. R -K1 14. B -B2 15. N -K2 16. Q -B2 17. P -R4 18. BxP 19. NN3 20. NxP 21. K -B2 22. PxN 23. R-Rl 24.RxP 25. QxQ 26. R-RBch 27. B -N3 28. KR -R1 20. R-(R8)-R7ch 30. BEN 31. B -Q6 32. B-B5ch 33. R(R1)-R4 Tal N-KB3 P -K3 B -N5 BxNch P-QN3 B -R3 P -Q4 BxB PxP P-KR3 P -B3 PEP P-KN4 Q -K2 P -N4 QgP NPxP QN4/2 O -O-0 KR -K1 NENch P -B3 EtxQ N -N1 K -N2 R -Q131 K -N3 P -N5 PEP K -N4 Resigns LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 915 Davidson Ave. N. Listowel, Ontario. 15 February, 1975 Miss Marion Duke, Editor, The Listowel Banner. Dear Miss Duke, I wish to take this opportunity to thank you 'for your continuing efforts on behalf of No. 446 Lis- towel Combined Division, St. John Ambulance. Please convey our thanks also to Miss • Lee Bartley. for an article both `tho- roughly researched and well- written. I must admit, however, that I owe an apology to both Lie and Stewart Gilkinson, our transport officer. During our discussions, I kept saying we had seven mem- -bers, but only gave Lee the names for six; Stewart's omis- sion was quite accidental. Apolo- gies to both. v' Thank -you once again for your support, and I ati Yours in service, Stuart T. Parker, A -Div. Supt., No. 446 Listowel Combined Div., St. John Ambulance. The chairman of the sympo- sium will be author John Julius, the Viscount of Norwich, of London, England. The keynote address, on 19th century techno- logy and its affects on Arts and Social History, will be delivered by Professor Asa Briggs, a social historian and Vice -Chancellor of the University of Sussex, Eng- land, on June 3. On June 4, the firstull working day of the symposium, the emphasis will be on architecture, furniture and decorative arts, and "Victoriana" in general. The' speakers will be Sir John Betje- man, Poet Laureate and an authority on English architec- ture, Sir Hugh Casson, an English architect, Professor Douglas Richardson, of' the University of Toronto, and Professor Jack Jamieson, of McMaster Univer- sity, a syndicated columnist on Victoriana. Victorian silver, silverplate, pottery, porcelain, and Victorian painting in Canada will take up most of June 5. Speakers will in- clude John Langdon of Toronto, an expert on Canadian silver, ElizabethCollard of Montreal, an authority on 19th century pottery and porcelain, and Joan Murray, director of the Robert McLaugh- lin Gallery in Oshawa. Architect Peter Stokes of Nia- gara -on -the -Lake, will talk on . preserving Victorian Canada on June 5, while the textiles and fashions of the age will be dis- cussed by Katherine B. Brett, of a the textile department of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. The . final day of the symposium will be taken up with a walking tour of Guelph and bus tours to places of interest in the area. Crossroads1 Published every Wednesday as the big, action cross-country section in The Listowel Banner, The Wingham Advance -Times and The Mount Forest Confederate. Wenger Bros. Limited, publishers, 'Box 390, Winghani. Barry Wenger, Pres. Robert O. Wenger, Sec.-Treas. Display and Classified ad deadline - Tuesday, week prior to publication date. REPRESENTATIVES Canadian Community Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association, Newspaper Assoc., Suite 51, 127 George St., 2 Bloor St., West, Oakville 884-0184 Toronto 962-4000 Not many stay down on farms In the United States, only 4.4 million people work on farms, out of a total popula- tion of 208 million, according to the Council of California Growers. The energy supplied from petroleum fuels has been largely responsible for keep- ing this ratio lower than any- where else in the world. HURON GETS READY FOR PLOWING MATCH - Plans are already well underway for the 1978 International Plowing Match, to be held in Huron County. Members of the local committee attended the 65th annual meeting of the Ontario Plowmen's Association in Toronto recently. Included in the Huron delegation 'were (front row, left to right) Marilyn Robertson, Wingham, 1972 County Queen of the Furrow; Roy Pattison, RR 3, Wingham, vice-chairman of the local committee; Allan Campbell, RR 1, Seaforth, vice-chairman, local committee; Russell Bolton, RR 1, Seaforth, secretary -treasurer, Huron Plowmen's Association. In the back row are (left to right) Anson McKinley, RR 1, Zurich, Huron County warden; Howard Datras, RR 1, Dashwood, local committee chairman; Jack Riddell, M.P.P., Huron; Jim Armstrong, RR 4, Wingham, host farmer; Colleen Cardiff, RR 5, Brussels, 1973 County Queen of the Furrow; and Don Pullen, Huron County agri- cultural representative. Ontario programs will share proceeds of provincial lottery Physical fitness, sports, rec- reational and cultural programs in Ontario will share the proceeds of a provincial lottery which will be established this year. Robert Welch, . who heads the new Ministry of Culture and Rec- reation, told the Legislature a lottery corporation will be estab- lished as a Crown agency to rug the lottery. "The net proceeds," he said, "will be used by. the government to support programs for physical fitness, sports, recreation and culture in Ontario. The corpora- tion will determine the price of tickets, sales arrangements, size of the prizes and frequency of the draws." Mr: Welch said, "The estab- lishment of the new Ministry of Culture and Recreation reflects the high priority this government assigns to the promotion of physical fitness, sports, recrea- tion and cultural activities of all kinds. The lottery revenues will be used to further stimulate these programs above and beyond the considerable expenditure that the government is already making in this field. LCROSSWORD • + + By A. C. 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After the return of about 40 per cent of that in prizes and the payment of operational expenses and sales commissions of about 20 per cent, we expect between $40 million and $50 million to be available for physical fitness, sports, recrea- tion and cultural programs. yourstlf "Ta achieve these financial ob- jectives and to,ensure that we re- tain as much as possible of the proceeds for public use, we in- tend, among other things, to keep the corporation small in order to hold down overhead costs, and we anticipate a distribution and sales operation similar to that employed by the Olympic . Lot- tery," the minister continued. "We would not want our lottery to adversely affect the sales' of Olympic Lottery tickets it On, Carlo. We have had extensive dis- cussions about thiwwith Olympic Lottery officials and we have been encouraged). by them to move ahead with our plans for the Ontario Lottery." Mr- Welch said, "The question of provincial lotteries 'has at- tracted widespread interest in Ontario Glace fcdcral legislation was amended in 1970 to permit thein. A provincial lottery was the subject of a thorough debate by Members of the Legislature in December. "It was clear from the support of participants in that debate -and from statistics compiled by the Ministry of Consumer and Com- mercial Relations that there is wide public support for lotteries in Ontario," the minister con- tinued. Residents of Ontario have al- ready bought more than $40 million worth of tickets 'for the Olympic Lottery and there are estimates that another $40 mil- lion is spent annually on the Irish Sweepstakes and other large pro- vincial and state-run lotteries. Many social, cultural, religious arid Oaritablet:orpniotiens, Qnt ria hsve also mad* Iottcrieo a aour4eofhfends fortheir iMpor* tans work, These will continue under the supervision ofthe Ministry of Cotommer .sad Oona- mel'ciai Relation* and WA Welch said the goverment is satisfied that the provincial tottery will not interfere with their efforts. Research based on experience in other jurisdictions bas shown that local lotteries are identified with local activities and have their own special attraction and participation. "A province -wide lottery, therefore, will not compete di- rectly with them. In fact," he continued, "I think the Ontario Lottery could provide a new source of funds for many non- profit groups who may wish to become sales agents and sell tickets directly to the public on a commission basis. 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