American readers have probably seen the television commercials from law firms wanting to take on cases of people sickened by the contaminated water on the base.
Water on the base was contaminated from 1953 to 1987. The water was contaminated only at a couple of dependent housing areas mostly due to the disposal practices of an off base dry cleaner. I received letters from the Marine Corps for about two years. When the letters stopped the television ads by civilian law firms flooded television. Over a half a million claims have been filed, but only a very few have been settled. Lawyers get 20%.
1967 was a year of a lot of cultural change, political questioning and personal “liberation”. There was psychedelic rock music, young people in San Francisco were showing an interest in Eastern religions and communal living.
Racial unrest resulted in the "Long Hot Summer" and saw racial unrest in cities such as Detroit, Newark and Cincinnati. And, of course, there were protests against the Vietnam War. On a lighter note, Elvis married Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas.
A leading German platyer of the 1930s, Ludwid Engels (1905-1967) died in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Former Irosh Champion James Creevey (1873-1967) died in Dublin at the age of 93. The 1956 French Champion French master Pierre Rolland (1926-1967) died in a car accident. IM Stefan Fazekas (1898-1967) died at the age of 69 in England; he was the British champion in 1957 at the age of 59. Sweden’s vteran GM Gideon Stahlberg (1908-1967) died of a liver ailment in Leningrad while there for a tournament. German IN and author Alfred Brinckmann (1891-1967) died in Kiel. Former Hungarian champ (1928) Arpad Vajda (1896-1967) died in Budapest of a gas leak from his oven.
Bobby Fischer took 1st place in the US Championship and at Monaco. Anatoly Karpov won the European Junior Championship in Groningen, Netherlands.
The 1967 Ohio Championship was held in Cincinnati. There were 56 players and Cleveland Master Tom Wozney scored 6.5 out of 7. He was followed by Experts om Mazuchowski of Toledo and Richard Noel of Cleveland. I have no idea what my score was, but I won the following rip snorter from a local player.
Tartajubow–Opponent1–0A83Ohio Championship, Cincinnati1967Stockfish 17
A83: Staunton Gambit 1.d4 f5 2.e4 Beiong a fan of Botvinnik I was fairly
familiar with the Dutch, but knew nothing about the Staunton Gambit. The idea
is to get quick development with the hopes of launching an attack against
black's King. Although it was once a feared weapon theory has shown how to
neutralize it. fxe4 Black can decline the gambit with 2...d6, transposing to
the Balogh Defense, but accepting P is considered stronger. 3.c3 f6 4.g5 g6 5.f3 exf3 5...d5 6.fxe4 dxe4 7.c4 c6 8.ge2 a5 9.b3 xb3 10.axb3 g7 11.d2 0-0 12.0-0 b6 13.ad1 a6 14.e3 d7 is equal. Straka,V (2341)
-Krnan,T (2430) Tatranske Zruby 2016 6.xf3 d5 7.d3 So far both players
have fiollowed known lines, but black's logical looking next move turns out to
be in white's favor because it results in the exchange of a B for a N amd
white gets pressure on the f-fi;e. g4 7...g7 8.e2 c6 9.0-0-0 0-0
is equal. Ramirez Alvarez,A (2547)-Stopa,J (2493) Dallas 2009 7...c6 8.0-0 g7 9.e5 0-0 is also about equal. Teichmann,R-Tartakower,S Berlin 1921 8.h3 xf3 9.xf3 c6 Defending the d-Pawn was not really necessary. 9...g7 10.xf6 xf6 11.xd5 regains the P, but after h4+ 12.e2 d6 13.hf1 c6 White's d-Pawn is attacked, but after 14.c3 0-0-0 15.e3 tjr chancesd
are equal. 10.0-0-0 g7 11.de1 bd7 12.hf1 0-0 13.e3 e8 14.h6 Exchanging off black's B looks logical, but it allows black to seize
the initiative with his next move. For that that reason 14.Qe6+ was correct.
Then the cances would have been equal. e5 Very good! 15.xg6 This spur of
the moment decision is completely unsound. 15.xg7 was worth a try. xg7 16.dxe5 xe5 17.f2 But here black is a solid P up. 15...hxg6 16.g5 xh6 17.xh6 Now all black has to do is defend the h-Pawn with 17...Nf8.
Instead... e4 18.xg6+ f8 Avoidung the draw and allowing white to gain the
upper hand. 18...h8 is a draw by repitition. 19.h6+ h7 loses to 20.f7 19.g4 e6 19...e7 20.g5 g8 21.f7# 20.g5 e7 21.gxf6+ xf6 22.g7+ d6 23.xb7 h8 Going after the h-Pawn is a poor decision; it never
gets captured. The Q was needed to defend the Q-side and so 23...Qb8 was
called for. 24.a4 b8 25.xa7 White's advantage is decisive. b5 26.c5 e7 27.a3 c7 28.a6+ d7 29.c5+ c7 30.xe4 Unablr to find a winning
conrinuation, I played this which on;y resilts allowing black back in the game.
30.g3+ b6 31.d6 Attacking both the R and N wraps it up. f7 32.xf6 xf6 33.xf6 g8 33...xf6 34.d7+ 34.e7 c8 35.a4 b4 36.e3 etc. 30...xe4 31.xe4 d7 Black dis not realize he had been bluffed.
31...xe4 32.f7+ c8 33.a8+ b8 34.xc6+ d8 35.d7# 31...dxe4
is a different story; it's still a fight. 32.a7+ d6 33.a4 h5 34.f7 h6+ 35.b1 d7 and the outcome is uncertain. 32.g3+ d8 33.h4+ xh4 34.xh4 c7 35.f7 b8 36.hh7 d8 37.h4 c8 38.xd7 xd7 39.xd7 xd7 40.a4 Black resigned. Accuracy: White = 59%, Black = 40%. 1–0
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