Chandler takes chess lead
PA Wellington A pawn was Vernon Small's downfall in his chess game with a rival New Zealander. Murray Chandler, in the seventh round of the Burroughs grandmasters’ tournament in Wellington yesterday. After eight moves. Small saw a chance to win the pawn. Thinking that Chandler had made an oversight, he grabbed the pawn after a brief pause for thought., but this allowed Chandler to mount a strong offensive and he j went on to win in only 18] moves. ‘T saw he could win the pawn.; but 1 didn’t think he would j take it,” said Chandler. “It. allowed me to get all mx pieces: into action, while he only had' his queen developed.” Small said afterwards that his| pawn snatch had been greedy and had exposed him to more: pressure than he expecteed. But he blamed his loss on a later | mistake. For Chandler, the win was a revenge for a defeat by Small in i the New Zealand championships' in January. Chandler now leads the tournament with five points from a possible seven, half a point ahead of the Filipino grandmaster. Eugene Torre. How-
ever. Torre has a fame in hand. Another grandmaster, .Miguel Quinteros (Argentina', can catch up with Torre if tie wins his adjourned game with Richard Sutton (Auckland). Quinteros bad an extra pawn at the end of yesterday’s play. The Auckland international master, Ortvin Sarapu. pla\ed well yesterday and adjourned with chances to beat the international master. Rodolfo Tan Cardoso (Philippines). The Indonesian Jacobus Sampouw, scored his first win of the tournament in an entertaining but rather fortunate fashion. He overlooked that the Iranian, Kamran Shirazi, could trap his queen, but then found that he could fight his way out of his predicament by threatening checkmate. After a complicated tactical skirmish. Sampouw was two pawns up and went on to mate. Ewen Green <Auckland, drew with the Iranian international master. Mehrshad Sharif, and good end-game play brought the Filipino. Rico Mascarinas, a win wer the international master, Herman Suradiradja (Indonesia,. The completion of adjourned games on Tuesday brought draws between Quinteros and Sarapu, Green and Sutton, and Sutton and Chandler.
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