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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-12-18, Page 18Page 2--Cressread.3 December 118, l� cSi-- CHESS P.Nps Book depicts tournament life By ROSS WILLIAMS A chess game after diauaer between two friends may be sting to the players, but it is a different sort of excite- ment from that experienced between two players in a nap tional or international tour- nament. Stakes are high in tourna- ments. It's impodrtantto win, and every gable is important. Many established masters and grand Masters earn their living at chess. They fight hardfor the money prizes in tournaments. But they must also score high to maintain their ratings. If they don't, they won't receive invitations to future tournaments. . The younger players also Want the money prizes, and they want to win a place among the grand masters. Titres and glory cone to you when you can beat grand masters. And then there are the blunders. In a game of 40 moves, it's so easy to make one little mistake. And each little mistake has the almost magical ability to transform a winning position into a los- ing position. A wrong move in an after- dinner game may cause mo- mentary chagrin for the per- petrator and delight for the receiver, but the emotions normally are not intense. That same mistake in tour- nament chess can . easily move youfrom first to third position, and not inconceiv- ably nconceivably from first to tenth. Where it t elicit a wry mile after .1* er, in a 16 player, . category 10 round- robin, it makes you want to curt Off your .hand: Tournament play is highly competitive. It's tough and it's grim. Each game is a tense, stressful event. Players competing in im- portant tournaments will be locked in this tense atmos- phore. for many days. Being heir .actions during 'fb dePart frosn'hor*nal. "Chess Panorama," by William Lombardy and David Daniels, is a book about those different from normal actions. Published by Chilton Book Co. at $6.95,' the book is full of stories fromd, important tournaments In the near past. William Lombardy has lived in the tournament word on a parttime basis for many years. He received the inter- national master award after winning the World Junior Ti- tle itle with the phenomenal score of 11 out of 11 in 1957. He earned the grand master award in 1960. One of the joys of this book is its clarity and easy read- ing. The co-author, David Daniels, is probably respon- sible for this. Daniels has shared in the writing of set- eral books on chess, and he is the former managing editor of Chess Review. Game of the Week: Chess clocks have made tournament chess fair, pre- cise and measurable. They've also caused enough trouble to make scene players ponder about the benefits de- rived from them. When both players have plenty of time on their clocks, it's a game of chess, but when they're both in time trouble, it's a different game. What does one player do to while away the time while the other player takes nearly two hours to make a move? East German grand master Wolf- gang Uhlmann took an hour and 50 minutes to make a de- cision in this game against Mikhail Tal of the USSR taken from the book. Moscow 1971 Tal White 1. P -K4 2. P -Q4 3. N -Q2 4. KNB3 5. B -N5 6. NxP 7, B -N5 8. N -B3 9. NxP 10.o-0 12. N -B5 13. R-K1ch 14. QQQ6 15. BAP 16. B -N4 17. Q-B8ch 18. KR-Qlch 19. QxR Uhlmann Black P+K3 P44 RQB4 N-QB3 QPzP l Q-R4ch ' PIP B -N5 B;�zBBp B -K3 P-QR3 QaP PxB K -Q2 K -B2 Resigns YOUR HANDWRITING TELLS Her horrible past still haunts her By DOROTHY ST. JOHN JACKSON Certified Muter Graphoanalyst Dear Dorothy: I am married to a success- ful and socially . respected business man, and a devoted husband, who loves me very much and wants to make me happy. We have two lovely children. But, I've had a hor- rible past, consisting of di- vorced parents and a ne- glected childhood. I have trouble making friends. Seems that as soon as a friendship starts, it scares me and I break it off. What hope can you give me for this miserable feeling? J. J. Dear J. J.: There was not enough "you" in growing up. You lost out on one of your most basic needs, that sense of belong- - Your small writing causes you to focus in on your past, and you're wasting a lot of energy which could now be used in enjoying the present. You break off friendships because you're afraid to nur- ture them. You look and listen for dis- approval of any kind, as you fear criticism, seen in the t and d loops. Anything you can interpret as rejection opens up the sores of your past, and it makes you hurt all over. You're watchful, too, for any ridicule, seen in the last part of the in and n, higher than the first. You let very few people get close to you be- cause you don't trust them, seen inthe cut-off lower loop. Besides that, you don't even give them a try. True, your years of grow- ing up were turbulent, but, no matter how hard you try, there's nothing you can do to change than. One thing you can do is to learn some im- portant lessons in providing basic emotional needs for your own children. Other- wise, let go, and let happiness feel free to corn and sit down beside you, your deserving children, and your hopeful husband. 1Crossroads1 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, Wingham. Barry Wenger, Pres. Roberto. Wenger, Sec.-Treas. 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 to ma the hand. wil CRAFTY DISGUISE—Decorations transform common household objects into attractive and useful gifts, great for giving. CHILD'S PLAY Recycled Christmas gifts have that personal touch By BUROKER & HUNTSINGER Look around the kitchen for common objects which can cleverly be disguised or com- pletely changed so they be-' come perfect Christmas gifts. Aside from today's empha- sis on recycling, and quite apart from spiraling costs making "inexpensive little presents" harder and harder to find in stores, homemade gifts have real value. They provide that personalized and distinctive touch which adds so much to the spirit of giv- ing - So don'tthrow away those empty frozenfruit juice cans. Use white glue to fasten a de- sign made from shell, bow or other odd -shaped pieces of macaroni. Ordinary split peas become decorative. Spray such attached "foods" with gold, silver or other fes- tive colors: Now the can be- comes a pencil or pen holder, all ready for wrapping as a gift to someone special. Is there a baby at your house or one nearby? Usually empty food jars are thrown away. But you can turn them into small pretty presents. Paint or spray the screw top lids from the baby food jars, then paste small decals of flowers or pictures cut from magazines which will look appropriate. Narrow strips of colored rickrack or bits of ribbon trim add vari- ations of all sorts. And it's surprising how many small articles such -as hair clips, pins, paper clips or rubber bands can be stored easity in a set of such gift containers. 'the containers used for margarine or dips and other foods from the supermarket will also transform into use- ful and pretty objects. Spray or paint the lids and, once dried, decorate them with small pine cones, tiny ornament balls or artificial ' flowers and beads. The re- sults become a handy jewelry or whatnot box. A crayon with a Christmas bow will tell at first glance what a small child can store in such a box; and tap washers or screw nuts used on thelid design will make a fine use sugges- tion for fathers and mothers who will find such a gift handy among work tools. Use your imagination with other small containers found about the house. Time and ef- fort soon turn out the type of gift that proves pleasing for both the gifted person and the giving one. By ROBERT D. ROSENBLUM Bridge is a bidder's game. The tendency toward lighter openings and increasingly aggressive competitive bid- ding seems to grow more pro- nounced with each successive tournament. Aggressive action keeps the opposition under constant pressure. However, it is .not without risk. ` The venture- some do suffer a large penal- ty once in a while. Since suc- cess ett match point pairs is a measure of how often, and not how much, the rewards are worth the gamble. Today's hand illustrates this point well. North opened the bidding and found two further bids holding a hand containing but twelve high card points. Once North bid four diamonds East-West were headed for a poor score. At most tables the hand was played at a part score in spades and nine tricks usual- ly were made. West, as de- clarer, would ruff the third round of dubs, draw frumps and take the right view in the red suits. The typical result was 140 points to East-West. When the bidding. went as diagrammed South became declarer and West led the king of spades. At trick two he shifted to the eight of hearts drawing dummy's nine and East's ten. Declarer played low permitting East to hold the trick. East could not continue hearts without giving up a trick. He returned a spade which was ruffed in dummy. The dosed hand was entered with the queen of clubs and a low diamond led toward the queen. West took his king of trumps and led a second heart. Declarer won the ace, drew trumps with the queen arid ace, and discarded his two remaining losers, a heart and a spade, on dummy's long clubs to make the con- tract. Note the trump plays. Once dummy has been forced to ruff a spade, declarer cannot lead a trump to the ace and another toward the queen. West will win the king and force dummy again in spades. Declarer will have to trump with dummy's queen establishing East's jack , as the setting trick. By making the initial trump lead toward the queen South, in effect, saved a low trump in dummy to ruff a spade. Note also South's play to the second trick. It is essen- tial to cover the eight of hearts butnot win the trick. Otherwise, West will win the trump kingd lead a second heart throu�h dummy's queen -nine, enabling East to win two heart tricks. South's Vutteru�.AMPSEU. i $Ave c USE ELECTRICAL OR FRIG - T101.1 TAPE TO HOLD A SCREW OR STOVE SW SECURISLV TO TI4E END OF A SCREW- DRIVER. THIS SAVES YOU PATI ENCS AND TIME , At3P MAKES STARTHJs THE SCREW It1 p► QivviCUL.T SP.oT MUCH OASISR. ciwy Wits e.ae* Nip edge duck gains a tempo. In retrospect, West chose the wrong heart to lead at trick two..Had he chosen the jack declarer would have had to guess the location of the ten North S 10 H Q93 D Q862 C AKJ62 West East S AK952 S QJ74 H J84 H K1075 D K9 D J 10 3 C 974 C 105 South S 863 H A62 D A754 C Q83 North was the dealer. Nei- ther side vulnerable. West North 1C -1S 2D 3S '4 D Pass East South Pass 1 D 2S 3D Pass Pass West led the king of spades. tt,T Will SONO a sec only wn the leeation of the tan Is got �d node a d ehis rtu pre ure ''dat" to 1192. tite auction. West, however, preha Y declarer d the Pla Real self not found • �n mirrcr By TRU1�T W. LEE Our teen-age daughter cavae home and announced one of those earlliaking discoveries peculiar to the . Aftdxiol, shhad goneyoungwith er somse' friendse and they had taken her to an ice cream parlor which hap- pened to be lined with mir- rors at strange angles. "It was the spookiest thing," she said. "Dad, I saw this girl's profile in the glass and I couldn't help but keep' staring at; her! She looked so familiar! Then. I realized it was me I was staring at." All of us have had this kind of experience at some time, and if Becky had waited, I would have toldher that if by some magic she could Watch mit won$ es the thyself. It wins, the ,eu,'to d l, Atter lilt whom do we fiend more -time with than ou r.'selves? We have inti mate, thoughts and intimate mom, But it isn't as easy as alt° that, and as we grow old- er,theMore we realize lt, our real identity, our innermost self, eludes us and leaves us with the frustration and the resigned certainty that if we really knew who. we were, the complex business of life would be simpler. How often we ask our- selves: Why did do this or that may? Why did f lose my tempo'? Or take. `that eta drink? Or say those hurtful 011ie, Chanee re rnar\ friend or a W160 book. 0 fle toy thotightbtringacrisis of 4ftep feeling or deeper medi- tation. Itisby these tilts and pieces that p seIf ,4 But It does not COMe e,y and Perhaps this very awe nem of the l ty° keepls ua P "on for that elusive, goals The seitknowledgi that we seek beyond our social vanities, prides, and the face wegivetoear friends n time, life -time job and the only real job worth a lifetime. For FARM, TOWN and FOI,INTRY$ HOME OWNERSI Can'YouUse $1,Ii0Q, to: $20,000:? - . . 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