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| Peter Dely |
In a NY Times article Al Horowitz complained that the IM and GM titles “must sound to the uninitiated much like those accorded the officers in secret fraternal organizations."
Horowitz added that it used to be easier to become an international GM, but in recent years FIDE had changed its criteria so often that the awarding of the title had "taken on something of the nature of secret rite."
GM titles were awarded based on performance where a player had to make a certain score in a tournament with so many GMs playing in order to achieve what FIDE called a grandmaster result (now referred to as a norm). After making two such results one became a GM although not officially until the next federation congress confirmed the title by vote.
To achieve a GM result at Luxembourg, one needed to score 7.0 points which Dely did. The only problem was that after the tournament he was informed that the rules had been changed. The new rules had the proviso that a grandmaster result could be made only in a tournament in which at least three GMs were playing. Since Matanovich and Bruno Parma were the only GMs in the tournament Dely was not credited with a grandmaster result.
Peter Dely (July 5, 1934 - December 29, 2012, 78 years old) was one of the strongest Hungarian players in the 1960s and 1970s and won the Hungarian National Championship in 1969.
Oddly, in spite of several fine international results he did not receive the IM title until 1982 and it was not until 1999 that he was awarded the GM title, and then it was the Honorary Grandmaster title.
In the following game Dely pulled off some thrilling tactical play against West German IM Mathias Gerusel. His imprecise followup could have lead to some uncommonly difficult endings.
Mathias Gerusel–Peter Dely0–1E60LuxembourgLuxembourg1971Stockfish 15
King's Indian 1.d4 f6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 g7 4.g2 0-0 5.e4 d6 6.e2 c5
More popular is 6...e5 7.d5 e6 7...b5 The Benko Gambit 8.cxb5 a6 9.bxa6 xa6 10.0-0 bd7 11.c2 b6 12.d1 fb8 Agdestein,S (2600)-Polgar,J (2630)
Isle of Lewis 1995 8.h3 This move seems unnecessary. Gerusel was familiar
with this position and in the furure was to try a couple of different moves
here. 8.0-0 exd5 9.cxd5 a6 10.a4 bd7 11.bc3 equals. Slipak,S (2521)
-Giaccio,A (2505) Buenos Aires 1999 8.bc3 exd5 9.exd5 bd7 9...a6
was played in Gerusel,M (2390)-Schuh,H (2300) Germany 1985 10.0-0 f5 11.h3 h5 12.f4 d7 13.h2 b4 Here, too, black is better and went on to win. 10.f4 b6 11.b3 g4 Black us better and went on to win. Gerusel,M (2425)
-Ghinda,M (2455) Dortmund 1979 8...exd5 9.exd5 9.cxd5 White would love
to have c4 available with Nd2-c4, but it's not possible. b5 10.a4 b4 11.d2 e8 12.0-0 a5 and his N is needed on d2 to guard the e-Pawn and his pieces
are uncoordinated. Black is clearly better. 9...b5 As in the Benko Gambit,
but as far as I know, in the Benko black does not play ...e6. After 9...Nbd7
it's a Benoni-type setup. 10.cxb5 10.b3 Declining to capture is not
possible. e8 11.bc3 b4 wins material. 10...a6 11.bxa6 xa6 In Fritz'
auto-annotation the opening was classified as a K-Indian, but it has
transposed (I think) into a Benko Gambit. Black has sacrificed a P and for it
he has two open files and the a- and b-Pawns are targets, plus his dark
squared B is very strong. 12.0-0 bd7 Black has more than
enough compensation for his sacrificed P. 13.c2 e8 14.bc3 e5 15.d1 a7 Intending to double Rs on the e-file. Another good plan was ...Bc8-f5 16.b3 Getting the B into play with 16.Bf4 was better. ae7 17.e3 Again, 17.Bf4
was better. 17.f4 eg4 In this position this only results in equality. 18.hxg4 xe2 19.xe2 xe2 20.c4 xg4 21.f3 xa1 22.xe2 e5 23.c2 d4 with an unclear position. 17...eg4 A nifty tactical shot! 18.hxg4 Threatens to win with Bf3. xg4 Dely suggested that he missed a quick
victory here and correctly said he ought to have played 18...Rxe3 18...xe3 19.fxe3 xg4 20.f3 This is a much better defense than Dely's 20.e4? whis
loses rather quickly. xc3 21.xc3 xe3 22.f1 22.xg4 loses outright. xg3+ 22...f6 23.e4 d4 Black has a decisive advantage. 19.g5
After this blak's advantage is minimal. xe2 20.xe2 xe2 21.xd8 xc3 22.c7 White has managed to completely equalize. e5 22...xd1 23.xd1 d4 24.d2 This position is especially difficult for black to defend,
but he does have drawing chances. In five Shootouts white scored +3 -0 =3, but
the endgames were long and at 17 plies white had a R+ light squared B vs a
dark squared B...a difficult theoretical win. 23.h3 f5 A error that hands
over the advantage! 23...xd1 24.xd1 f5 25.xg4 fxg4 Again, a very
difficult ending in which black would be on the defensive...a difficult task. 23...c8 is his best choice, but a draw, apparently not an agreeable
outcome to Dely, is likely after 24.xd6 xd6 25.d2 f3 26.d3 e2 27.d2 27.c3 e5 wins 27...f3 28.d3 e2 29.d2 Draw. 23...e7
also draws. 24.d8 e8 25.c7 e7 26.d8 with a repetition because after xd1 27.xd1 e8 28.xg4 xd8 with a draw owing to opposite color Bs. That
was, in fact, the result of 5 Shooutouts. 24.e1 xa1 To avoid a
disadvantage white must now play 25.Rxa1 25.xg4 25.xa1 c4 26.xd6 cxb3 27.axb3 d8 28.f4 xd5 white is only slightly better. 25...fxg4 26.xa1 f3 Superficially it may appear that white has the advantage in
the ending, but, in fact, black is slightly better because of the compromised
position of white's K. Watch! 27.xd6 d8 28.e7 28.e5
is the only correct defense. xd5 29.e1 White's R is curiously confined to
the first rank. f7 30.f1 c4 31.bxc4 c5 32.a4 a5 33.g1 33.f4 h5
wins 33...xa4 34.c1 h5 35.c5 e6 36.b8 c6 and a draw would be a
reasonable outcome. 28...xd5 Black is clearly winning. Note that he can
generate mate threats and defending against them renders white helpless to
undertake anything else. 29.e1 f7 30.f1 h5 31.h4 g5 32.e5 g6 33.xc5 gxh4 34.xh5 xh5 35.gxh4 xh4 36.b4 The Ps are easily stopped by the
B. c6 37.e2 g5 38.e3 h5 White resigned 38...h5 39.e2 b5+
This is the quickest way because it stops white's K from hindering the advance
of the h-Pawn. 40.e3 h4 41.f3 g3 etc. 0–1
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