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Chess Open - Rule book saves one, trips two Wed, Sep 1, 1971 – 25 · The Province (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) · Newspapers.com
Chess Open -- Rule book saves one, trips two by Paul Raugust
Has Ree of Holland, an international master, drew on the assistance of the rule book in continuing to hang on to a piece of first place in the Canadian Open Chess Championship here Tuesday night.
The eighth round of the 11-game tournament proved another difficult one for the grandmasters in the competition. The rule book worked against two of them.
Ree, who held a half-point lead going into the eighth round, insisted that his game against world champion Boris Spassky of Moscow be drawn as the champion repeated a position three times, contrary to international chess rules. The draw was the second in a row for Spassky and the third of the tournament.
The Dutch master now shares first place with Canadian champion Duncan Suttles of Vancouver, who is also an international master, and George Kuprejanov of Toronto, an untitled player.
The second grandmaster to be tripped up by the rule book Tuesday was Lubomir Kavalek of the United States. Kavalek had a drawn game on board against Ed Formanek of Ottawa, but couldn't claim it as he had not completed his score sheet by the time his time limit ran out. The game counted as a win for Formanek.
Formanek now shares second place with Spassky and Australian grandmaster Walter Browne, the current U.S. Open champion, who knocked E. Bone of the U.S. out of second-place contention Tuesday. All have 6½ points.
Tied for third place in the $4,200 competition with six points are former B.C. champion Bob Zuk, who lost to Suttles; international master Zvonsko Vranesic of Toronto, who was defeated by Kuprejanov, R. Ervin of the U.S., Ian Hambleton of Toronto, and John MacPhail of Ottawa.
The only other grandmaster in the competition, Pal Benko of the U.S., shares fourth place with fellow grandmaster Kavalek and six other players, all with 5½ points.
On another front, it was announced that the chess federations of the United States and the Soviet Union have run into a stalemate in negotiations here to pick the site for the finals of the world chess championship challengers' series.
The two federations have been meeting in Vancouver for the past week and had set a Tuesday morning deadline for settling the issue. By Tuesday night the two groups had not only failed to reach agreement, but had became involved in a dispute over just who has the right to settle the issue.
The final challengers' match is to be held in late September between Grandmasters Bobby Fischer of New York and the Soviet Union's Tigran Petrosian.
