In 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon. That is if you believe the stories, but a lot of people still think the whole things was faked. Pontiac introduced the epitome of the American muscle car, the Firebird Trans Am.
The music world that year saw the Beatles' last public performance and despite residents’ opposition to a “hippy” music festival, more than 350,000 fans attended a three day long event in Woodstock, New York.
A demon possessed unemployed ex-convict who had spent more than half of his life in prison encouraged his followers to commit murders in the Los Angeles area and make the killings appear to be racially motivated. They murdered actress Sharon Tate who was 8-1/2 months pregnant and four others in her home on August 8 and 9, 1969 and they followed up with the murder of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca the next day. Manson died in California State Prison at Corcoran on November 19, 2017; he should have died 83 years sooner.
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| Senator Kennedy's victim |
Senator Edward Kennedy, thanks to his money and connections, got away clean after the drowning of his 28-year old passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, who was trapped inside of his car when it ran off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts after they had been at a party. Kennedy left the scene and did not report the accident to police until several hours later. The Grand Jury determined there was not enough evidence to indict him on charges of manslaughter, perjury, or driving to endanger. Actually, he didn’t get away completely clean... his driver's license was suspended for a total of 16 months. He also got a suspended sentence of two months in jail for leaving the scene of an accident.
In aviation the first Concorde test flight was conducted in France and the Boeing 747 jumbo jet made its debut. Aviation had a tragedy that year when Prinair Flight 27, a regular passenger flight by Puerto Rican airline Prinair, between Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, crashed into a mountain near Fajardo, a suburb of San Juan, killing all 19 occupants on board. The approach controller, a trainee, was mistaken about the plane’s location and issued them incorrect instructions.
San Juan was the site of a major international tournament that year. The final standings were:
1) Spassky 11.5
2-4) Parma, Bisguier and Browne 10.0
5) Schmid 9.5
6-7) Donner and Larsen 9.0
8-9) Damjanovic and Kaplan 8.5
10) Kavalek 8.0
11-12) R. Byrne and O'Kelly 7.5
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3) Berrios 5.0
14) A. Colon 2.5
15) M. Colon 2.0
16) Martinez 1.5
Naturally with that many strong players and a bottom half that was relatively weak, there were a lot of good games played as well as a lot of crushes. Today’s game features another Bisguier game. This one is his round 5 game against Anger Berrios Pagan.
CJS Purdy was always quick to point out that a positional evaluation is reliable only if a winning tactic can be ruled out. In this game Barrios was allowed to keep black’s King in the center, establish a strong outpost for his N on e4, placed his Q on the strong square d4 and control the e-file with his Rs. Certainly enough positional pluses to score the win, but it didn’t work out that way because in the end, Bisguier’s tactical possibilities turned out to be more dangerous.
[Event "San Juan"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1969.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Angel Barrios Pagan"]
[Black "Arthur Bisguier"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "?"]
[BlackELO "?"]
%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
{Ruy Lopez: Archangel Defense} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5.
O-O b5 6. Bb3 Bb7 {Archangel or Arkhangelsk Defense often leads to sharp
positions in which black hopes his Bs influence on the center and K-side will
offset his delay in castling. White has several options, including attempting
to build an ideal P-center with c3 and d4, defending the e-Pawn with Re1 or
simply developing.} 7. d4 Nxd4 {Interesting is 8.Bxf7+ Kxf7 9.Nxe5+ Kg8
10.Qxd4 c5 and most Masters prefer black.} 8. Nxd4 exd4 9. e5 Ne4 {White falls
into the Noah's Ark Trap with 10.Qxd4? c5 11.Q-any c5 winning the B.} 10. c3
d3 11. Qxd3 Nc5 12. Qg3 Nxb3 13. axb3 h5 {This aggressive move is typical
Bisguier, but two years later at Vrsac 1971 in Lujubojevic-Planinc black found
the better 13. ..Qe7 and Bisguier's move was forgotten.} 14. Rd1 {After this
black has the advantage. Necessary was 14.h4} 14... h4 15. Qg4 {White's
strategy is two-fold: hinder the development of the B on f8 and ...O-O-O.}
15... Qe7 16. Bg5 Qe6 17. Qd4 { Once again, in annotating this game Bisguier
ignores this move which saddles white with a distinct disadvantage. He could
have made is life easier by tradings Qs and then black's advantage would not
eb so great.} 17... h3 18. Nd2 Rh5 19. Ne4 {This well placed N defends the B,
blocks the long white diagonal and hinders the development of black's N to c5
where it belongs in the Archangel. Nevertheless, black is better because of
his tactical chances against white's K. Black's next move is a little
tactical trick: he threatens ...Rxg5 and the R can't be taken because of mate
on g2. Stronger was 19...f5, but the situation is tricky and unclear after
20.exf6?! Bxe4 21.fxg7 Rxg5 22.gxf8Q+ kxf8 23.g3.} 19... Qc6 20. f4 {This move
is doubled-edged. Perhaps he should have played the safer 20.Be3.} 20... d5
{Bisguier wants to get his B to c5 so begins trying to for the N to move, but
in doing so he allows white to regain equality. It's hard to fault him for not
playing Stockfish's way: 20...f6 21. exf6 O-O-O 22.fxg7 Bxg7 23.Qxg7 Qxe4
after which black is supposed to have a significant advantage, but for a
hum,an to evaluate it as such OTB seems like a difficult task! For humans,
unclear is probably the best evaluation,.} 21. exd6 Bxd6 22. Re1 {Capturing
the B would put white in the difficult position of having to be on guard
against mate on g2.} 22... Kf8 23. Re2 {Defends g2 and controls the e-file.}
23... Re8 24. Rae1 {Bisguier now plays an exchange sacrifice to remove the
annoying N. After Stockfish's preferred 24...f6 25.Bxf6 and now 25...Rxe4
26.Bxg7+ Kf7 and then after multiple exchanges on e4 and ...Kxg7 black has a B
vs two Ps with each side having a R...a very difficult ending.} 24... Rxe4
25. Rxe4 f6 {Barrios now makes a fatal mistake in at long last permitting
black to get his B to c5. Much better was 26.b4. In his book Bisguier stated
that he still preferred black, but engines think the position offers chances
for both sides equally.} 26. Bxf6 {Fatal. It's possible Barrios was hoping
for 26...gxf6 27.Qxf6+ when he could have forced mate.} 26... Bc5 {White could
try breaking the pin on his Q and K with 27.Be7+ Bxe7 28.b4, but after
28...Qg6 his position also proves impossible to defend.} 27. Re8+ Qxe8 28.
Bxg7+ Kf7 29. Rxe8 Kxe8 30. g3 Bxd4+ 31. Bxd4 c5 32. Be5 Kd7 33. g4 Rh4 {It's
futile to try and hold this position against a GM and so white resigned.
After 34.g5 Rg4+ black plays his R to g2 and it's all over.} 0-1
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