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Now on to more important stuff...like the 1989 US Championship in Long Beach, California.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s a lot of Grandmasters were trying to wrestle control of their destiny from FIDE through the Grandmasters Association and later the Professional Chess Association, but they were running into the same problem as FIDE and the USCF...it was hard to find sponsors willing to put us cash.
Gone were the days of men like Lessing J. Rosenwald (February 10, 1891 – June 24, 1979), a millionaire businessman, rare book collector, art collector, philanthropist and chess patron. And, by this time Louis D. Statham (1907–1983), the millionaire engineer and inventor of medical instruments who had sponsored the Lone Pine tournaments was gone. So, the question was, who was going to sponsor this year’s championship? It was Les Crane.
Les Crane (December 3, 1933 – July 13, 2008) was born Lesley Stein and was in his own right quite an interesting fellow. He was a radio announcer and television talk show host and a pioneer in interactive broadcasting. Later he was to become the first network television personality to compete with Johnny Carson after Carson became a fixture of late-night television.
Crane was born in New York and graduated from Tulane University where he was an English major. He spent four years in the Air Force as a jet pilot and helicopter flight instructor.
He began his radio career in 1958 in San Antonio and later worked in Philadelphia. In 1961, he became a popular and controversial host for a major radio station in San Francisco.
In 1963, Crane returned to New York City to host Night Line, a 1:00 am TV talk show. The first American TV appearance of The Rolling Stones was on Crane's program in June 1964 when only New Yorkers could see it. The program debuted nationwide in August 1964 where it competed with The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
In late June 1965, following Crane's three-month absence from television, The Les Crane Show was re-titled Nightlife. Emphasizing light entertainment, network executives wouldn’t allow guests to discuss controversial topics. In the Fall of 1965 the show relocated to Los Angeles, but it was canceled in early November 1965 as it was never able to overtake Johnny Carson in the ratings.
After his show was canceled Crane unsuccessfully tried acting. He was also known as an advocate for civil rights and was praised by black journalists for his respectful interviews with Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. He was also one of the first interviewers to have an openly gay guests. However, back when the show aired locally in New York City when he tried to invite members of a lesbian advocacy group to be guests officials ordered him to cancel the booking.
In 1968, Crane was back hosting a radio talk show in Los Angeles. He also did some local TV talk, but left radio when the station switched to a country music.
In the 1980s, Crane got involved in the software industry and became chairman of The Software Toolworks, creators of Chessmaster and the educational series Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. The company was also responsible for such games as The Original Adventure and the PC version of Pong. The company was sold and renamed Mindscape in the early 1990s.
How that came about was Crane, who was an avid chessplayer, had been managing a music distributorship and they reached an agreement with a software company to market a chess game developed by Toolworks. They brought in a chess programming expert named Mike Duffy and Chessmaster 2000 was born. It was released in 1986.
Building from this success, the two companies merged under the Toolworks name in October 1986. Following the merger, Crane conceived a typing application in which the user would be guided by Mavis Beacon, a fictional typing instructor who would correct the user's mistakes. And that’s how Les Crane got involved in sponsoring the 1989 US Championship.
This one had a couple more Russian emigres, Alexander Ivanov and and Igor Ivanov (no relation) added to the mix. Both of them were already established in the US and were familiar figures at all the big open tournaments in the US.
One of the players was 20-year-old Stuart Rachels who was a student of Alabama’s legendary Boris Kogan. Rachels earned his invitation by virtue of his being the new US Junior Champion, but not much was expected of him.
English GM Anthony Miles was living in the US after having had a feud with the British Chess Federation and some of his peers. He didn’t have a permanent US address so exactly how he got into a couple of US Championships is a mystery. He had also played in the 1988 championship in Cambridge Springs, PA where he finished dead last.
That was one of the US Championships I visited and its surprising winner was Michael Wilder. I was the only spectator at the post mortem between Wilder and Miles (a draw). It was interesting as Wilder seemed intimidated by Miles. The other interesting thing was that after the round was over several of the players headed straight for the hotel bar.
Rachels was a surprise; he held his own against the GMs and ground down Dimitry Gurevich in a 100 moves. Another surprise was Walter Browne...he lost his first four games!
This was a zonal tournament and four tickets to the 1990 Interzonal in Manila were up for grabs. That meant that starting about the middle of the tournament the leaders began to play carefully with a lot of draws being the result. For example, Dzindzichashvili and Dlugy hardly played their game at all and agreed to a draw in nine moves.
There was an odd occurrence after 11 rounds. Over the Thanksgiving weekend the American Open, also sponsored by Crane's Software Toolworks, was being held in Long Beach so the Championship was suspended for four days! Ten of the players in the Championship took part and Browne, deFirmian and Dlugy, shared first place with Larry Christiansen who had declined his invitation to the Championship. Also tied was the country’s newest star, 15-year-old Gata Kamsky.
When the championship resumed Dzindzichashvili and Rachels both beat Igor Ivanov in successive rounds and took a half point lead ahead of Boris Gulko, their nearest rival.
Going into the final round Rachels and Dzindzichashvili were in the lead with 9 points. They were followed by Seirawan and Gulko with a gaggle of others in contention for the Interzonal spots because Seirawan and Gulko were already seeded into it.
In the last round Rachels and Rohde agreed to a draw in 11 moves. Meanwhile, Dzindzichashvili, who the Los Angeles Times described as a “baggy-eyed 45-year-old Russian gambler" tried for 31 moves to beat down Alexander Ivanov, but couldn’t do it and had to agree to a draw.
The remaining key games were Seirawan vs. Dlugy and Fedorowicz vs. Gulko. The latter had the most at stake because Gulko could finish first and Fedorowicz could get a trip to the Interzonal in Manila. But, the game fizzled out to a draw in 69 moves.
The remaining critical game was won by Seirawan tying him for first place and knocking Dlugy way down in the standings.
He has two BAs in philosophy and a PhD. His FIDE rating is 2485 and his USCF rating a lofty 2605. He’s not very well known because he quit chess.
In 1981, at the age of 11 years and 10 months he became the youngest master in US history and won the US Junior Invitational Championship in 1988.
After his success in the 1988 Championship which qualified him for the 1990 Manila Interzonal he achieved a respectable score of 6.0-7.0. He had two GM norms, one short of being awarded the title.
In 1999, he became an assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Alabama and in 2004, he was promoted to associate professor. He has released later editions of some of his father's books, notably The Elements of Moral Philosophy and Problems from Philosophy.
Amazon has listed a book by Rachels, The Best I saw In Chess, that you can preorder. Should be interesting!
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