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Date: 11 Jun 2005 14:02:32
From: Tim_Gluckman
Subject: BACHMANN winner 1969 Whitby (UK) Open. Info please?!
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





 
Date: 19 Jun 2005 01:21:20
From: Tim_Gluckman
Subject: Re: BACHMANN winner 1969 Whitby (UK) Open. Info please?!
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



  
Date: 20 Jun 2005 18:45:29
From: Dr A. N. Walker
Subject: Re: BACHMANN winner 1969 Whitby (UK) Open. Info please?!
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]


 
Date: 14 Jun 2005 14:11:58
From: Dr A. N. Walker
Subject: Re: BACHMANN winner 1969 Whitby (UK) Open. Info please?!
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]


 
Date: 11 Jun 2005 20:22:08
From: Chris F.A. Johnson
Subject: Re: BACHMANN winner 1969 Whitby (UK) Open. Info please?!
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 >
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