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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-03-27, Page 16CHESSPOD TS Robert Byrne tops rating list y ROSS WILLIAMS The U.S. Chess Feder- ation's (USCF) Annual Rat- ing. List for 1975, published in the December, 1974, issue of Chess Life and Review, con- tains the ratings of more than 40,000 U.S. players active in 1974. Players are considered amateurs with ratings below 1,800. Masters are players with ratings between 2,200 and 2,399. Senior masters have ratings at 2,400 and above. The 1975 list contained 205 ' masters and 34 senior mas- ters - 239 in total, about six - tenths of one per cent of the players rated. The average player on the USCF list would have a rating between 1,300 and 1,400. World Champion Robert Fischer, whose rating is 2,810, would normally be at the top of the list, but he was inactive during the rating pe- riod. The No. 1 player on the list, therefore, is Grandmas- ' ter Robert Byrne with a rat- ing of 2,618. Mona Karff is the highest-rated woman player with 2,011. Michael Rhode and Ken- ' neth Regan, both from New Jersey, topped the list of the 25 highest-rated players un- der 16 years of age. They also appear high on: :the _hit Of the 'top 25 under 21 years of age. Michael Rhode was 15 at the date the list was established, and has a rating of 2,299. Ken Regan was 14 with a rating of 2,289. In an article in the July, 1974, Chess Life and Review, Professor Arpad E. Elo, chairman of the USCF Stand- ing committee on ratings, said that the critical period in the development of a chess master is between the ages of '13 and 19. For .a player to de- velop the strength of a grand- master he must be playing at master level (2;200) by age - 18,. or 19 at the latest The USCF rating list shows 1"'`that' the UnitedSt es 4 u °fir" i 'tn 15 �, . '�' yeics'who we might'expect to go on to become interna- tional grandmasters. Fifteen or 20 out of 40,000 is a small number, but to achieve a rat- ing of 2,200 by age 18 is a stern task. The average rating of all .the official state chain - pions is less than 2,100. . The strength of the younger players in the United States has been increasing steadily. In 1968 the average rating of the top 25 players under age 16 was 1,734. In 1973 it was 1,926. In the 1975 list, the av- erage of the under 16 group is 1,953. Game of the Week. At the time of the U.S. Open in New York, Aug. 11-23, 1974, Ken- neth Regan was 14 years old. He finished 27th in the event, playing against some of the best players in the world. One of his notable games was against Edwardo Celorio, who earlier that year in the National Open in Las Vegas finished third behind Grand- master Arthur Busguier and Norman Weinstein. This game from the New York tournament was played in round six. Ken Regan has the white pieces. U.S. Open New York, 1974 K. Regan 1. P-QN3 2. B -N2 3. P -N3 4. B -N2 5. P -Q4 6. N-KB3 7.0-0 8. PiP 9. P -B4 10. NxN 11. N -B3 12. WA 13. BoP 14. B -N2 15, P -B3 16. P -B4 17. P -K4 18. B -B3 19. KR -K1 20. N -Q5 21. BPxB 22. P -K5 23. B -N4 24. PzKP 25. P -K6 . 26. RxP 27. RxR 28. BxB 29. R K1 30. B -K6 31. RxN 32. PxP 33. Q-Q4ch 34. P -Q6 35. K -N2 36. R -B6 37. K R3 38. RxQP 39. R -Q7 40. R. Q8 41. Q-QSch E. Celorio N-KB3 P-KN3 B -N2 P -Q3 O -O QN-Q2 P -K4 N -N5 N(2)xP NiN B -Q2 R -K1 R -N1 B -N5 B -K3 N -N5 P-QR4 N -B3 Q -B1 BiN P -R5 N -Q2 PXKP Q -Q1 PxKP N -B1 QzR KxB Q -Q1 NxB PiP RxP K Nl R-N8ch Q-KB1 Q-Rlch PRP Q -Bich R-N1B1 R - Resigns Giant turtles taken off mu PARIS - Three rare giant sea turtles were snatched from the mouths of French gourmets by World Wildlife Fund officials here who found that at least 12 of the turtles had been shipped from Dji- bouti, in the Indian Ocean. Four of the turtles, weigh- ing up to 300 -bunds each, died of exhaustion, a fifth was killed and cut up for sale by a Paris fishmonger and the three survivors will be taken out to sea and set free this spring. -- CNS Agricultural Tidbits with Adrian Vos Minister Otto Lang of the Canadian WhearBoard has-been urging the Western farmer to grow all the wheat he can. His American counterpart has been saying the same thing. Some farmers haven't forgotten les- sons from the past when overpro- duction caused prices to slump to such an extend that the farmer was stuck with a loss for every bushel he grew. This resulted in cheap food for the Canadian con- sumer and the consumer in the buying countries, while the coun- tries that needed the food still went hungry because they couldn't even pay for the trans- portation of the grain, let alone the grain itself. Nothing has changed. Food aid is given in dollars, not in bushels, soation tilde poor get less. Oneper crop in North America' nd we will have trouble storing the wheat while the • Indians and Bangladeshians still d AIRING-Despite.the snow, Mr..Fischer of Harriston leaves a barn door open at his home farm for the cattle to wander outdoors while he contentedly watches his crossbred herd. Different pedigrees have different colors. H. GORDON GREEN This is the story of a man who became an addict of sorts, and maybe after you've read this you'll be able to find the moral of it. I've tried several times but all I can do is to shake my head and wonder if it could ever happen again. The man I have in mind is so very well known in eastern Cana- da that I don't dare give him his right name. I'll call hits John Jones. John was a moderately successful businessman but he had about as many debts and troubles as the rest of us. He also had a couple of daughters who *gave him a few debts and troub- les. And one day about twelve or fifteen years ago one of these daughters came into his den as John was reading the evening paper and 'announced that she would like to have a saddle horse. "All the people around here who really amount to anything are iitthig ha rtba fldw,' ky she said. `t =a :;a gopd rit4iifg ' horse wo�'t have to cost you too much. A couple of hundred may- be, John was used to fencing him- self away from the never-ending requests of his daughters, but this time he wasn't so successful. • Perhaps his daughter was learn- ing by now how to handle a suc- cessful man successfully. Any- how she got the horse and she placed it out at a boarding farm just outside the city limits. But when John got the first board bill he nearly blew his top. "Twenty bucks a month to feed a horse!" he said. "I could feed myself on that!" But he did like his daughter's horse so well that he decided to take up the sport of riding too, and in a month or so he had bought another horse -a king - starve. Everyone agrees that a buffer of grain should be created but no- body is willing to pay for it. As a result the North American farm- er will have to pay for the storage and at the same time his storage will be used against him to de- press his price. And if there is a market, the docks will be idle for two months every year because of strikes, not to mention the slow work actions in between. The Western long- shoremin want an increase in annual wages from $17,200 to $22,000 by the end of 1976, and this for mainly unskilled tabor. How long are we going to stand for this? It is, in my atiew, an essen- tial industry to feed the world. Strikes should be banned and any unlawful strike prosecuted, with the army moving in if necessary to keep the grain moving. No skills needed except for mainten- ance. Most sit on their backsides watching the augers and suc- tion -hoses anyway. Crossroadsl Published every Wednesday as the big, action cross-country section in The Listowel Banner, The Wipgham Advance -Times and The Mount Forest Confederate. Wenger Bros. Limited, publishers, Box 390, Wingham. Barry Wenger, Pres. Robert O. Wenger, Sec. -Tread` Display and Classified ad deadline - Tuesday, week prior to publication date. REPRESENTATIVES Canadian Community Newspapers Association, Suite 51, 2 Bloor St., West, Toronto 962-4000 Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc.,, 127 George St., Oakville 884-0184 sized jumper -for himself. But he swore that he wasn't going to be. sucked into one of these big board bills any longer - than he could help and one day he went to his banker and told him he wanted to get a loan to buy a farm. "A farm? You, a farm? What for, John?" John said he wanted a placeto put his horses. It didn't have to be anything fancy. Just had to have enough pasture and hayland on it to feed two horses. And it had to be near the town. The banker wasn't sure. "I've lent many a farmer the money to buy horses in years gone by," he said, "But never before have I lent a horseman money to buy a farm." But John bought the farm, a 100 -acre bit of swampland that his farmer friends laughed at. when they saw it. "You'll be rais-` ing_bullfrogs instead of horses," they told him. A Ahd•lthew'may a o tater. a' real estate 'f' amus along and asked John if he would like to get rid of that land. If he didn't want too mtich for it they might make him a cash offer that would let him get most of his money back from his bad deal. "No," John said. "I couldn't part with my horses. As a matter of fact I'm an incurable addict to horses now. So I need this land." Five years' later several real estate firms came to John and each seemed to make a better offer than the one before. One of- fered him a flat half million for that hundred acres of bullfrog pasture. Cash. "Maybe," John said. "If I ever get tired of my horses I'll let you know." Last year John sold for $770,000 and moved his horses 'a little further out into the fresh air. The distance doesn't matter now be- cause John doesn't have to work in a city office anymore. Now what's the moral here? Well I'm no moralist, but who says that there's no money in horses? BETTER ENGLISH By D. C. Williams . s What is wrong with each of these sentences? 1. The theater was filled to ca parity, and we were com- pelled to sit down in very poor seats. 2. We shall have, to combine together to stop this condi- tion from spreading around. 3. The three first men to arrive will be chosen as our repre- sentatives. 4. We decided to continue on for about fifteen minutes more. 5. He L able to sit in a draft CROSSWORD + + By A. C. 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