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Evans On Chess. May 20, 1994.
Copyright by GM Larry Evans.
CHESS HAS NO BARRIERS
"On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long.
The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie;
the merciless fact, culminating in checkmate, contradicts
the hypocrite." -- Emanuel Lasker, world champion 1894-1921.
Chess has no barriers. Its doors are open to anyone. All you have to do to
reach the top is win. Pretty games are pretty and ugly games are ugly no
matter who you are, and bums rub elbows with milionaires.
Yet in some quarters it has become fashionable to speak of a mythical color
barrier because the game is played mostly by white males. A chess columnist
recently noted "there are no deliberate bars to blacks as such, but history,
poverty and other inequities have conspired to limit their participation."
Maybe -- just maybe -- minorities shied away because chess in America always
lacked status, prestige and money. Decades ago blacks were sometimes barred at
tournaments in the south; but it ended soon after New Orleans in 1954 where a
band of New York masters, led by me as reigning USA champion, walked out of
the national Open until it was truly open to all. The organizers caved, but
the single black entry never showed up.
There is no such animal as Aryan chess as Hitler boasted, or even proletarian
chess as Stalin boasted. There is just chess. The PCA ranks the best players
solely on merit, not race, gender or geography.
Yet FIDE, the world chess body, still rates women separately. And when FIDE
president Florencio Campomanes was shown that two Arab players cheated to get
a FIDE title, he shrugged, "Titles are good for chess in this part of the
world." Nor did he take punitive action when Chinese players blatantly threw
games to each other at an Asian Zonal.
In America, there is a rush to produce the first black grandmaster as a role
model for inner-city youths. In Manhattan the 1st Murphy-ACF International was
arranged largely to give Maurice Ashley another shot at the title, which he
only missed by a hair. But he may get it anyway for a good showing.
Poland's Alex Wojtkiewicz led at 7-2 pursued by Ashley (6.5) and Estonia's
Jaan Ehlvest (6) -- the only three undefeated in a field of ten. Joshua
Waitzkin, the boy portrayed in the movie "Searching For Bobby Fischer," broke
even at 4.5 points.
Ashley outplayed Jonathan Levitt of England, who made two straight errors.
Black should try 21...Bf6. He saw too late that 23 Bxf7! Kxf7 24 Bxc7 snares
his Queen by a tactic known as discovered check.
White: MAURICE ASHLEY
Black: JONATHAN LEVITT
French Defense 1994
1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 exd5 exd5 4 c4 Nf6 5 Nc3 Bb4 6 Bd3 0-0 7 Ne2 dxc4 8 Bxc4
Nbd7 9 0-0 Nb6 10 Bb3 c6 11 Qd3 Nfd5 12 Bc2 g6 13 Ne4 Be7 14 Bb3 Nc7 15 Bf4
Nbd5 16 Bh6 Re8 17 Qf3 Be6 18 Nc5 Rb8 19 Nf4 Bf5 20 Rfe1 b6 21 Ncd3 Nxf4? 22
Bxf4 Bxd3? 23 Bxf7! Kg7 24 Bxe8 Bd6 25 Bxc6 Bf5 26 Be4 Ne6 27 Bxd6 Qxd6 28 d5
Nd4 29 Qc3 Black Resigns