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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-04-17, Page 28CHE S POINTS Reds develop women players By ROSS WILLIAMS If you are a woman and want to play chess and play it well, your best bet is tor emi- grate to an Eastern European country or° to the Aoviet Union. Using the four most widely recognized standards of chess excellence, facts reveal that Communist nations do a better job' than the United States in developing women chess players. On an international level, chess strength for women player an be measured first by indlivtiidual ratings on the World Chess Federation (FIDE) rating list; second, by attainment of the FIDE International Woman Master title; third, by performance -in-the teen's World- Chess Championship tournaments and matches. Fourth, a measure of national strength in women players is evi- denced in the biennial Chess Olympiads for women. A recent FIDE rating list shows that the United States does not have an active wom- an player with a rating of 2,200 or above. The four na tions vith the highest nutinber of suchplayers are the Soviet Union,' Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. The only na- tion outside the Eastern bloc with a woman player above 2,200 owes the distinction to an Eastern European nation and the rites of marriage. The former Jana Malipetrova from Czechoslovakia mar- ried England's International Master, William Hartston, and now plays for England as Jana Hartston. The Soviet Union, Yugo- slavia, Romania; Hungary and Bulgaria are the nations with the largest number of active international woman masters. England, Poland and the United States are next. At the most recent FIDE Congress, five interna- tional woman master titles were awarded. Pepita Ferrer from Spain received one. The other four went to women from Russia and Eastern Europe. The Women's World Chess Championship since World War 11 has been dominated by Soviet women. Nona Gaprindashvili from the U.S.S. R. is the present world champion and has held that title since 1962. In 1974, the Candidates Matches for the World Championship were held in the Soviet Union be- cause all the candidates were Soviets. Olympiads are team events where each nation selects its best players to represent it in the tournaments, There have been six Olympiads and the Soviet Union has won all of them. Romania has been sec- ond four tithes. The United States showing has been modest. Pal Benko, commenting on the Sixth Women's Olym- piad in - the- January, 1975, Chess Life and Review, says that programs of regular training from experts are necessary to develop young chess talent. "American girls have talent and would de- velop better and faster if they played more against men in open "i awnamenta," he says. In our moot recent open tournaments, the number of women entrants was 3 to 5 per cent of the total. In the Na- tional High School Champion- ship in 1974 the nowroher sof girls entered was less than 2 per cent of the total entrants. Game of the Week: At a re- cent tournament in Dort- mund, West Germany Iona Gaprindashvili was the only female participant. She went undefeated in 11 games and beat five of her opponents. There were two grandmas- ters and three international misters in the event. The fol- lowing game is annotated by Hungarian Grandmaster Laszlo Szabo in the October, 1974, Chess Life and Review. Sicilian Defense Gaprindashvili Servaty White Black 1. P -K4 2. N-KB3 3. P -Q4 4. NxP 5. P-QB4 6. B -K3 7. N-QB3 8. QxN — 9 Q -Q' 10. N -N5 11. B -K2 12. NxN 13.BxP 14. BxB 15. Q -Q4 16. K -Q2 17. Q -B6 P-QB4 N-QB3' PiP P-KN3 B -N2 N -B3 N-KN5 NAN P=K4 O-0 Q -R5 PzN QtKP QxNP QxRch Resigns H. GORDON GREEN In my study there is an Edison gramophone whose voice is still as sure and as lovely as it was back in 1915 when Tom Edison and company put it together. It has a spring . motor and crank, and the- diamond needle in the playing arm has never been re- placed. The needle, like the ma- chine and the cylinder records that it plays, was made to last a lifetime. But our Edison gramophone is something more than a rebuke to the "planned obsolescence" of our own time, and it is more than a curiosity. It is still good fun. Those old blue cylinder records twkle you back to the days of jigs 1 CROSSWORD + + + By A. C. Gordon 1 t EN �y 0 t ill� E a R 0 p h uo Ra■ i IN 'r 1' ®®!n'' as OER i 1't! ■ T r N o ly IS li 16 ill EMI OER k • a '' ■ill■'' r f TNR u ■ i9 E n 0 s E t iII o • ill 21 il o ill o s N s ■ 61 " �■ t T 1 28 s ■■WIII 1 TORN ea ®•s ■ 1 ill I r TR n v 32. 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REPRESENTATIVES Canadian Community Newspapers Association, Suite 51, 2 Bloor St., West, Toronto 962-4000 Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc., 127 George St., Oakville 884-0184 and reels, of banjos and ukuleles, of Harry Lauder and Uncle Josh. They take us back to the days when a song had something about it that would keep it bubbling around in your head for months. They remind us of how easy we were to please before sophistica- tion and too .muchness began to harden our arteries. But among the 300 -odd records I have collected over the years for this old machine, there is at least one which was never in- tended to entertain This is a scripture reading followed by a hymn:. The scripture: is -read one of the most distinguished clergymen of the day, the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, and is taken from the 21st chapter of Revela- tion ... "and the street of that city was pure gold ... and the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to ,shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it ... and there shall be no night there ..." And by the time the unctuous voice of the clergyman gives way to a hymn about the gates of pearl that never shut it suddenly dawns on you that this sounds like a funeral' service. Which indeed it is. This record, so I am told, was designed expressly for an occa- sion when some mortal would have to be returned to the dust from which he came without benefit of clergy. A home may have been struck with the deadly terror of diphtheria, perhaps, or typhoid or smallpox, and since there was no defence against con- tagion then there could be no formal funeral. Or the deceased may have departed this life some place too remote for even a preacherman to follow—in the lumber woods, in a mining camp or perhaps in a little sod shanty out on the far rim of the west. I cannot listen to that venerable record without shuddering a little at how utterly lonely life mitist have been for many of our foe - bears in the frontier days. In the days before cars and 60 mile an hour highways and inoculations and doctors who could snip out an appendix. And now that the wonders of science have reached the farthest outpost and put an end to isolation it would be com- forting if we could say that they have put an end to loneliness as well. The tragedy of our time is that it is thanks to this monster called Progress that we have more lonely people than ever before. Only they're no longer- pining away on the edge of civilization. They're in the -heart of the city now. Elderly man burns clothes for warmth NOTTINGHAM, England — Walter Dilks, 82 years old, was so cold when government Social Services failed to de- liver coal supplies to his apartment that he burned his clothing in the fireplace in an effort to keep warm. 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Few camera -toting tourists can resist stopping there to take in the view and snap a few pictures. Effort aimed at assessing losses of .prime farmland Every time the population of Canada increases by 1,000, hun- dreds of acres of agricultural land are lost to urban develop - iii Tt. • .,Apatiment buildings, residdn-., tial subdivisions, schools, hospi- tals, shopping centres, roads and recreational areas are fast con- suming farmland, especially along the urbanized corridor of Canada bordering the United States. It's a popular belief that Cana= da has more land than will ever. be needed, and that land con- sumed by urbanization in popu- lated areas can be replaced with more distant property. But the prime problem lies deeper than the actual loss of the land. Many of the farms now being lost to de- velopment are located on some of the best land in the country for producing food. Soil scientists classify it . as Class 1 soil. In essence, this means that most crops will grow on it, since the soil is fertile and the growing ,season is long. The Niagara Peninsula is an example of an area where excellent 'farm- land is rapidly being lost to non- agricultural purposes. Agriculture Canada is involved in a federal -provincial effort aimed at accurately assessing the losses of prime farmland,, and evaluating these losses in terms of food production. Working with the federal de- partments of Environment and Urban Affairs and the provincial governments, Agriculture Cana- da soil experts are trying to in- corporate the agricultural as- epects of ,the- land 'kiss into pro- grams aimed at preserving Canada's prime farmland. From farm statistics and fore- casts, Dr. Ron Halstead, Agri- culture Canada research .co-ordi- nator for land resources, says Canadians have reason to be con- cerned about losses, of agricul- tural land. Conservative esti- mates are that if Canada's growth pattern remains con- stant—toward a predicted popu- lation of 35 million by the year X2,000 -only 17.5 million acres of the 24 million acres of Class 1 soil now cultivated will then be under the plow. • The result of the loss of prime land w.ould ultimately mean higher food costs, since it takes more Class 4 land to produce yields equal to those that farmers now obtain from Class 1 land. As urbanization pushes agriculture onto marginal land, difficulties and costs increase while the yields, and variety of crops grown, decrease. Over the years, Agriculture Canada has been developing a comprehensive inventory of all the soil in Canada. Now a comple- mentary program involving the' development of procedures for Yl/U can nave tun figuring aur your message from tiro Orient by use of this pleasant atm tetter puzzle. It the number of letters In your first name Is 3 or less, subtract from 7. • It mon than S letters In your first name,subtract from 13. New tale this result and And your key letter lit the word ORIENT at the top of this puzzle. Then. starting at the upper left corner, check each one of your large key letters as It appear. from left to right. Below the key letters Is a code message for you TR c or EN v 0 t I m E a R 0 p h I o TN a i IN 'r g OER i d p T r N o E 0 i n IR e o T e OER k a _r INT p r f TNR u o t I r E n 0 s E t 01 p o R u TNOTREI 1 u o p 11 o s N s R e EE u t T 1 10 p s N 1 1 TORN ea 1 e 1 N v I r TR n v 0 t E 1 OTNR i n. i e E o I i T e P 0 v E o INR t n• n R t T I r y ONE ,e g k evaluating the actual food pro- duction capability of the soil, is necessary in order to make meaningful land use decisions. Programs being developed will identify , the regions, of Canada where farming is possible, where certain crops can be grown, and where farming will not be feasible on an economical basis. "Without the complete in- ventory of our soil resources and a means of evaluating their pro- ductive capacities, it is impos- sible to plan with any degree of accuracy for long-term food pro- duction," says Dr. Halstead. Work to prepare the inventory is continuing ',with department soil scientists working with their counterparts in provincial gov- ernments and universities.) "The land evaluation program has been in progress, but more work is needed to put it all together," says the research co-ordinator. The programs, which are ex- pected to be completed 'within a decade, will also result in the compilation of detailed statistics of Canada's entire land resources for food production. All soil areas will be clearly identified and de- tails provided on the best crops to be grown in relation to tempera- ture, rainfall and other natural limitations. "When the Agriculture Canada information is combined with more land use data gathered by the other agencies involved in the program, it will provide a sound basis for governmental decisions on land use," Dr. Halstead says. Palmerston, Ont. 0 HELP WANTED LICENSED BODY MECHANIC OR ADVANCED APPRENTICE BODY MECHANIC CONTACT LISTOWEL CHRYSLER DODGE R91-4950 JIM PORTER