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THE WEEKLY KNIGHT
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(for July 25, 1992)
Only now is the world becoming aware of just how much chess
talent resided in the former Soviet Union. Previously,
landing a spot on the Soviet Olympic Team was a far-fetched
dream at best, unless one happened to possess World
Championship ability. But with the dissolution of the mother
country into independent states, many hitherto unknown
masters were suddenly afforded the opportunity to participate
in an Olympiad for the first time.
Those players were hardly mere "representatives" of their
respective nations, however. In fact, six of the top ten
teams in the final standings of the recent Men's Olympiad
held in Manila were from former Soviet Republics. The team
from Uzbekistan (located in south central Asia near Turkey)
consisted of players barely known outside its own borders and
had no Grandmasters, but finished second in the competition.
Despite the emigration of some marquee names and the refusal
to play by several others (Karpov, Yusupov and Bareev), the
Russians proved that they were still the team to beat, having
led the event from start to finish. Although Kasparov played
top board (and won the gold medal with his 8.5/10 performance
on that board), the team composition wasn't the usual
collection of former and future World Champions. Incredibly,
the Russian lineup even included one untitled player--17 year
old Vladimir Kramnik--who promptly showed the world why he
was selected, by posting the best individual score in the
entire Olympiad (8.5/9.0).
A review of the final standings leads one to the conclusion
that some things in life never seem to change. As usual, the
number one ranked Russian team handily won the gold medals,
this time over the second place Uzbeks, 39 to 35 total
points. Armenia, with Vaganian, Akopian and Lputian, finished
third with 34.5, while the US squad, consisting of Kamsky,
Yermolinsky, Seirawan, Christiansen, Gulko and Benjamin,
wound up in 4th place, equivalent to their pre-tourney
ranking. Latvia (with Alexey Shirov), Iceland and Croatia all
finished one-half point behind the Americans at 33.5 each.
The top ten was rounded out by Georgia, Ukraine (Ivanchuk,
Beliavsky, Romanishin and Eingorn) and England, who tied with
33 points.
For the record, individual scores for the US team were as
follows: Gata Kamsky, playing for the first time, finished 7-
5 on board one, losing only to Kasparov and Shirov;
Yermolinsky was 6-4 on second board; Seirawan, 2-5-4.5;
Christiansen, 5.5-3.5; Boris Gulko, an undefeated 7-2; and
Benjamin, 5.5-2.5. In the head-to-head match, Russia beat the
US by the score of 3.5-0.5 (Christiansen drew). The Americans
also lost to two of the Baltic countries, Latvia and
Lithuania, but beat Hungary, Iceland, Uzbekistan and Germany.
A total of 102 men's teams competed.
Australian GM Ian Rogers was awarded the Second Brilliancy
Prize for his display of tactical fireworks against Brazil's
Gilberto Milos.
White: I.Rogers Black: G.Milos Queen's Pawn
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Bg4 4.e4 e6 5.h3 Bh5 6.Qe2 c6 7.g4
Bg6 8.Bg5 Be7 9.Bxf6 Bxf6 10.h4 h6 11.0-0-0 Nd7 12.Kb1 Qc7
13.Rg1 h5 14.g5 Be7 15.d5 e5 16.Bh3 0-0-0 17.Nd2 Kb8 18.Nc4
Nb6 19.Nxb6 Qxb6 20.Rd3 Ka8 21.a3 Rdf8 22.Bf5 Bh7 23.Rgd1 g6
24.dxc6 bxc6 25.Bd7 Qc7 26.Bxc6+ Qxc6 27.Nd5 Bd8 28.Rc3 Qb7
29.Rb3 Qc6 30.Rdd3 Ba5 31.Rdc3 Bxc3 32.Qa6!! 1-0
Glenn Budzinski
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