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THE WEEKLY KNIGHT
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(for July 3, 1993)
For many years, an old maxim often heard about chess was that
the game was played almost exclusively by elderly gentlemen
(as well as the infirmed) since they were the only ones who
had alot of spare time on their hands without any other more
meaningful activity to pursue. (Why would a vibrant, young
person WANT to idle away precious time sitting in front of a
chess board?)
Today, however, the royal game is dominated by youth. With
most of the world's best players under 30 years of age--and
some not even out of their teens--nowadays we wonder if older
players are capable of competing at all.
But age is no barrier to achieving chess excellence. In fact,
many prodigies have continued to excel at the game throughout
their lives. The late Sammy Reshevsky was dazzling the crowds
at age 6 and still winning tournaments in his 70s.
Along with Sammy's accomplishments, the decades have
witnessed other prodigious performances by seniors, including
63 year old Vasily Smyslov's progression to the Candidates'
Match Finals against Kasparov in 1983 and Emanuel Lasker's
third place finish at the great Moscow tournament of 1935 at
age 66. International Master and well-known writer Edward
Lasker had one of the longest chess careers of all-time: he
was still actively competing in his 90s.
To that list can be added the name of Viktor Korchnoi, nearly
World Champion in his 50s when he narrowly lost to Karpov and
consistent 2600-rated player now in his 60s.
Recently, Korchnoi played a training match against Holland's
second highest rated player, 24 year old Jeroen Piket. With
both players holding similar ratings, the key issue seemed to
be the almost 40 year difference in ages which, in this
instance, meant that Korchnoi had 40 years' more experience.
He summarily crushed Piket by the score of 6-2 (4 wins and 4
draws).
Although Viktor's accomplishments as a senior player have yet
to rival those of Reshevsky, Smyslov and the Laskers, give
him time. After all, he is only 62.
The third game of his match against Piket follows.
White: V.Korchnoi Black: J.Piket Tarrasch Def.
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.g3 Nc6 6.Bg2 Nf6 7.0-0
Be7 8.Nc3 0-0 9.Bg5 Be6 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.Rc1 Bb6 12.b3 d4
13.Ne4 Qe7 14.Nh4 Kh8 15.Bxf6 gxf6 16.Qd2 Ne5 17.Qh6 Ng6
18.Qh5 Rad8 19.Nf5 Bxf5 20.Qxf5 Kg7 21.a4 Qe5 22.Qf3 Rfe8
23.b4 f5 24.Ng5 Rd7 25.Qh5 h6 26.Nf3 Qe6 27.a5 Bd8 28.Rc2 Bf6
29.Ne1 Rde7 30.Nd3 b6 31.Bh3 Qb3 32.Rfc1 Qd5 33.Rc7 Bg5 34.f4
Rxc7 35.Rxc7 Bd8 36.Rxa7 bxa5 37.Bxf5 Ne7 38.Qg4+ Kh8 39.Bd7
Rg8 40.Qh3 Kh7 41.bxa5 Qe4 42.Qh5 Qe3+ 43.Kf1 1-0
Glenn Budzinski
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