First loss for Larsen

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33665, 15 October 1974, Page 38

First loss for Larsen

(N.Z.P.A.-ReuteT —Copyright) MANILA. E. Vashiukov of the Soviet Union beat B. Larsen of Denmark in the SUSIS,OOO Marlboro chess tournament of grandmasters in Manila yesterday. The 41-year-old Vashiukov, playing black, scored a full point on the forty-ninth move of a Sicilian defence, with a brilliant sacrifice of a knight midway in the adjourned game to open Larsen’s king’s file and expose his queen and other major pieces. It was Larsen’s first defeat in the tournament. The 39-year-oid Danish grandmaster, however, still leads the 15-tnan field after seven rounds with 5.5 points — a full point ahead of Vashiukov and Lubomir Kavalek of the United States.

Rugby.— T. G. R. Davies will captain the Welsh Rugby XV against Tonga in Cardiff next Saturday. The team is: W. R. Blyth (Swansea), Davies (Cardiff), S. Fenwick (Bridgent), R. Gravelie (Llanelli), A. Finlayson (Cardiff), ». Bevan (Aberavon), R. C. Shell (Aberavon), G. Wallace (Cardiff), R. Thomas (Llanelli), D. B. Llewellyn (Llanelli), M. G. Roberts (London Welsh), A. J. Martin (Aberavon), T. Evans (Swansea), D. Quinnell (Llanelli), T. Cobner (Pontypool). Tennis.— F. Sedgman, of Australia, beat R. A. Gonzales, 6-3, 6-2, to win the Almaden Pebble Beach seniors tennis tournament, at Pebble Beach, California