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Date: 11 Jun 2005 14:02:32
From: Tim_Gluckman
Subject: BACHMANN winner 1969 Whitby (UK) Open. Info please?!
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A player who is / was unknown to me otherwise won the 1969 Whitby Open, and played some beautiful hypermodern chess e.g. with opening as Black (a type of Caro-Kann with fianchetto), c6, d5 g6 and if e4-e5 then, h5 bh6 bf5 etc. Does anyone have a copy of the article on that tourney that was written in Barry Wood's CHESS (Sutton Coldfield) magazine, or have any info on him pls? I would happily pay for a copy of the article. Ciao Tim Jake Gluckman
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Date: 19 Jun 2005 01:21:20
From: Tim_Gluckman
Subject: Re: BACHMANN winner 1969 Whitby (UK) Open. Info please?!
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Thanks for the replies in particular Dr Walker. I am finding this process interesting because of the imperfections in my memory that it revealed. I knew Max Fuller vaguely from participation in tourneys. In the BCF site that archives British tourneys http://bcmchess.co.uk/britbase/brit60.htm (this one is for the period 1960-1959) there are some games from Bognor Regis in 1968. But otherwise nothing on the target events. Dr Walker, perhaps you could send some of the games to that archive? I think they have a scanner so if you sent some photocopies of scoresheets, they could easily digitise them. Does anybody have the relevant 'Chess' or 'BCM'. The articles that I would like to have are a) the one covering Bachmann (and Dr Walker's [!] ) victories presumably at Eastbourne, and maybe a Whitby tourney -----peraps in 1967 or 1968; b) Michael Basman's article on his participation in an Armenian tourney ; this would be either 1968, 1969 or 1970. In it he describes a game in which he played Caro-Kann with a Bg7 fianchetto, and managed to get his C pawn to a1 and obtained a second Queen in the first 20 moves but still lost. He ironises the responses of the crowd to the fluctuations in fortune. I would be happy to pay a small fee for the time involved of say 5 pounds (Sterling) of either / both at PF 10 15 09 D - 50455 Cologne. I imagine that the bound copies of the BCM and Chess have become quite expensive. Thanks again and I would be happy to read any other responses / memories about those events and perceptions of them. Regards, Tim Jake Gluckman
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Date: 20 Jun 2005 18:45:29
From: Dr A. N. Walker
Subject: Re: BACHMANN winner 1969 Whitby (UK) Open. Info please?!
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In article <[email protected] >, Tim_Gluckman <[email protected] > wrote: >In the BCF site that archives British tourneys >http://bcmchess.co.uk/britbase/brit60.htm >(this one is for the period 1960-1959) there are some games from Bognor >Regis in 1968. But otherwise nothing on the target events. Yes; the BCM was notoriously bad at reporting events organised by its rival .... As there were German/Dutch/French competitors at the "CHESS" Festivals, it's at least possible that there are reports in the chess mags of those countries. I did note that Nick Patterson, who drew with me in the last round at Eastbourne '67 [to finish also 2nd=], went on to tie for first with Bob Wade at Paignton the following week -- obviously, we had just given him "eleven chess lessons" [to use Karpov's phrase]! > Dr Walker, perhaps you could send some of the games to that archive? I could probably find my scorebook from that event, but it would have only my own games; and I assure you that they are not worth preserving or studying. ISTR that "CHESS" published a couple with light [and no doubt wrong] comments. -- Andy Walker, School of MathSci., Univ. of Nott'm, UK. [email protected]
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Date: 14 Jun 2005 14:11:58
From: Dr A. N. Walker
Subject: Re: BACHMANN winner 1969 Whitby (UK) Open. Info please?!
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In article <[email protected] >, Tim_Gluckman <[email protected] > wrote: >A player who is / was unknown to me otherwise won the 1969 Whitby Open, [...] >Does anyone have [...] any info on >him pls? Hmm. Well, that has stirred a few memories. I don't know about 1969 and Whitby, but K. H. Bachmann won the 1967 Eastbourne Chess Festival. I played him in the first round; it was a scrappy game, with the advantage going one way then the other, but towards the time control [always a good time to stir ...], I sacrificed a piece [unsoundly], and he gave it back to simplify things. I had the better ending, but made several messes of it; just as I should have had an easy draw, I blundered and lost. These days we would call that a "Swiss Gambit". Going into the last round, I was paired with ... Bachmann. We pointed out to B. H. Wood that we had already played, and he had to re-do the pairings. KHB won; I could only draw; so he took first prize alone. IIRC, it was #200, then a huge prize, and probably the equivalent of #3K [call it $5K] or more today. Naive students that we were, it never occurred to me and my opponent to "arrange" a result .... You will probably find a report in "CHESS" for Sept/Oct 1967. You won't find one in "BCM", which studiously ignored BHW's events. The only other things I know about Bachmann are that he had had a longish layoff before that event, following a promising career as a junior; that he played the English against me as a sort-of sop to playing here; and that, following my debacle, he had a very low opinion of UK endgame play, which was possibly deserved but which rather went against what I fondly imagined was my expertise in that phase of the game. -- Andy Walker, School of MathSci., Univ. of Nott'm, UK. [email protected]
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Date: 11 Jun 2005 20:22:08
From: Chris F.A. Johnson
Subject: Re: BACHMANN winner 1969 Whitby (UK) Open. Info please?!
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On 2005-06-11, Tim_Gluckman wrote: > A player who is / was unknown to me otherwise won the 1969 Whitby Open, > and played some beautiful hypermodern chess e.g. with opening as Black > (a type of Caro-Kann with fianchetto), c6, d5 g6 and if e4-e5 then, h5 > bh6 bf5 etc. > Does anyone have a copy of the article on that tourney that was written > in Barry Wood's CHESS (Sutton Coldfield) magazine, or have any info on > him pls? > I would happily pay for a copy of the article. Won by M. Fuller of Australia. I have the article in the 1969-70 bound volume of the magazine. -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org > ================================================================== Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, 2005, Apress <http://www.torfree.net/~chris/books/cfaj/ssr.html >
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