Fischer also lost a lawsuit against Life magazine and writer Brad Darrach, for violation of a contract. After that Fischer stopped paying his income taxes. Darrach's book, Bobby Fischer Vs. the Rest of the World, was good reading.
We lost two players that year. Donald Byrne died at the age of 45 from lupus on April 8, 1976. Lupus is an ugly disease that occurs when the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs. It can affect joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart and lungs. There is no cure. Also, IM Jozsef Szily (1913-1976) dies in Hungary on April 26th.
The big news story took place on July 27, 1976. The world's number two ranked player, Viktor Korcnoi, defected from the Soviet Union and asked for political asylum in The Netherlands.
His wife, Bela, and their 17-year-old son, Igor, were at home in Leningrad and both claimed they had no idea that that he was going to defect.
In 1977, after becoming the challenger to Anatoly Karpov, he took the occasion to appeal
again to Russian authorities for the release of his family. It wasn't until 1982 that his wife, son and step-mother arrived in Vienna after being released by the Russians.
Igor had spent 2 years in a Siberian prison for refusing military service and had been served with another draft notice when word came the family could join Korchnoi in Switzerland. Igor claimed he had refused to be drafted for fear that contact with military secrets would mean an automatic denial of permission to emigrate for at least 10 years.
Back in April of this year I posted a game that was lost by Roberto Kaimo, and today's game features one he won. To reiterate, Roberto "Bobby" Espina Kaimo passed away at the age of 72 in South Plainfield, New Jersey on July 28, 2016 at the JFK Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey.
Born in Surigao City, Philippines he worked for Dyco Paints, but in 1974, he quit his job in order to play in the Philippine Championship and was among the leaders for much of the tournament, but ended up in 7th place with a score of 11-9. As a result, he was just a half a point short of making the country’s Olympic team.
Soon after this tournament he moved to the United States where he worked for Troy Chemical Company in Newark, New Jersey as an Inventory Manager; he retired from there in 2006.
Kaimo was a communicant, meaning he was entitled to partake of the Eucharist, of The Church of the Sacred Heart in South Plainfield. And, besides being an International Master, Kaimo also enjoyed bowling, singing, dancing and was known for his outgoing personality.
While I would hesitate to call the following game a four Rook ending, but like the previous game, four Rooks figure prominently.
Roberto Kaimo–Julio Kaplan1–0B83Manhattan CC InternationalNew York, NY USA07.1976Stockfish 15
Sicilian Scheveningen 1.e4 c5 2.f3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.xd4 f6 5.c3 e6 6.e2 e7 7.g4 White has delayed the Keres Attack (6.g4) by one move. Black
has a number of reasonable replies, but the best is probably 7...d5 a6
Inviting 7...g5. but the game would then have followed a path very similar to
what actually happens. 7...d5 8.e5 fd7 9.f4 c6 10.xc6 bxc6 Black is
better. Sampaolesi,N (2200)-Garcia,R (2455) Buenos Aires 1975 7...c6
is advantageous for white. 8.g5 d7 9.h4 0-0 10.g1 Ostojic,P (2385)
-Mainka,R (2355) Dortmund 1987. The position is equal, but white wpi;d have
stood well after 10.Be3 8.g1 fd7 He still should have played 8...d5 9.g5 b5 10.a3 b7 11.h4 c6 12.xc6 xc6 13.e3 b8 his is not an
especially good square for the Q. Either 13...Qc7 or 13...O-O would have been
better. 14.d4 0-0 15.h5 Announcing his intention to attack! c8 16.g6
White wastes no time, but he might have done better to first connect his Rs
with 16.O-O-O f6 The fact that black has his move available keeps the
chances even. 17.gxh7+ This is the wrong capture. Either 17.gxf7+ or 17.e5
were better. 17.gxf7+ xf7 18.d2 a5 19.g5 equals 17.e5 xe5 18.gxh7+ h8 18...xh7 19.0-0-0 d7 20.g4 e5 21.f4 White is better. 19.f4 d7 and white's attack is pretty much at a standstill. 17...xh7
here, too, it would have been better to place the K on h8 18.e5 A nice move
opening up the position for attack. xe5 19.f4 Again, 19.O-O-O would have
been even better. d5 20.d4 20.0-0-0 d7 results in unclear complications
after 21.xg7+ xg7 22.xf7 e5 23.xe6 20...h8 20...d7 gains a
slight advantage. 21.g4 xd4 22.d3+ h8 Strange how the K is safer here
than on g8 in these variations. 22...g8 23.xd4 e5+ 24.e2 xd4 25.xd4 23.xd4 e5+ with the advantage. 21.g3 This is a serious inaccuracy,
but Kaplan fails to take advantage of it. 21.e3 f3+ 22.xf3 xd4 23.0-0-0 a7 and now white must get really aggressive with 24.h6 g6 25.xd4 xd4 26.xf7 f8 27.xe6 f6 28.e7 f4+ 29.b1 g8 with unclear
complications. 21...f3+ Not really bad, but 21...Nc4 was much better. 21...c4 22.xf6 xg3 23.xg3 gxf6 24.xc4 bxc4 with a decisive endgame
advantage despite his bad B. 22.xf3 xd4 23.h6 g6 23...h2 looks
inviting, but runs into disaster after 24.hxg7+ g8 25.h1 24.0-0-0
24.xf7 f8 25.xg6 f4 26.f1 xf2+ 27.d1 f7 28.d3 g8
and white is doomed. 24...e5 25.xf7 As bad as things look for black he
can save himself with 25...Bxc3 a7 But after this unfortunate move he is
lost. Kaplan was in serious time pressure at this point and so with little
time to think, he protects the 7th rank. 25...xc3 26.bxc3 xc3 27.xg6 xa3+ draws. 26.xg6 xf2 26...xc3 is no longer sufficient. 27.bxc3 xc3 28.d3 a1+ 29.d2 and black cannot save the game. For example... e5 30.e3 f5 31.g3 d4 32.e5 h7 33.h5 and white has a forced mate! g2 34.e5+ g8 35.xe6+ f8 36.xc8+ f7 37.xg2 d3 38.xd3 f6 39.xh7 xh7 40.f5+ e7 41.xh7+ d6 42.g6# 27.g4 f5 28.d3 28.xf5 would be very bad because the position black equalizes after exf5 29.g7 29.g6 d4 30.a2 e4 is very good for black. 29...xg7 30.hxg7+ xg7 31.xd5 28...xg6 29.xg6 a5 30.f1 c5 Black lost on time. 30...c5 31.xb5 xb5 32.xb5 e5 33.b1 Theoretically white has a decisive advantage,
but black would certainly be justified in playing on! Here's the game
continuation by Stockfish. e4 34.g5 d4 35.ff5 ac7 36.d5 b6 37.ge5 c5 38.xc5 xc5 39.e8+ h7 40.e7+ h8 41.e2 d3 42.cxd3 c6 43.dxe4 xh6 44.b7 d4 45.d7 g7 46.d3 b6 47.d8+ h7 48.e5+ h6 49.d5 g5 50.xa5 f4 51.b4 xe5 White has a theoretical win. 52.a2 d6 53.c2 c6 54.b1 h6 55.b3 h3+ 56.c4 c3+ 57.b5 d6 58.a8 g3 59.c4 e5 60.e8+ f6 61.a4 e7 62.b8 g4+ 63.c3 e5 64.a5 h4 65.d3 d6 66.a6 f2 67.b3 g1 68.d8+ e7 69.h8 d1 70.c4 b1+ 71.a4 d6 72.f8 g1 73.b5 d4 74.d8+ e5 75.a4 a1+ 76.b3 c1 77.b5 b1+ 78.a3 b6 79.d7 c1 80.b4 b1+ 81.b3 a1 82.d5+ e4 83.d6 f2 84.e6+ f5 85.b6 g1 86.b7 h2 87.b5 b1 88.e3 g1 89.e8 xb3+ 90.c4 xb7 91.axb7 h2 92.h8 c7 93.d5 g6 94.c8 f4 95.c6 h2 96.c7 1–0
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