Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.life From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Kamsky in semifinals of Interpolis Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 19:23:58 EST Message-ID: \SE B;LIFE;COMICS;CHESS \HD Kamsky in semifinals of Interpolis \BY Ed Albaugh U.S. champion Gata Kamsky, 18, has advanced to the semifinals of the Tilburg, Holland, Interpolis by defeating top-seeded Vassily Ivanchuk of the Ukraine, FIDE's second-ranked grandmaster, 3 1/2-2 1/2. The rest of the semifinalists were Boris Gelfand of Belarus, who downed ageless Viktor Korchnoi of Switzerland, 4-2, Russian emigre Ilia Smirin of Israel, who beat Predrag Nikolic of Croatia, 4-2, and Michael Adams of Britain, who promptly dispatched Evgeny Sveshnikov of Russia, 1 1/2- 1/2. The Kamsky-Ivanchuk duel went to four tiebreakers before Kamsky, seeded eighth, prevailed. Gata, a Crimean Tatar living in Brooklyn, N.Y., will face fifth-ceded Gelfand, and the unseeded Smirin will meet 15th-seeded Adams in the penultimate phase of the 16th Interpolis, which this year features a series of elimination matches. Jorge Zamora of Providence, R.I., 13 years old, has been awarded the 13th Laura E. Aspis prize for achievement in American chess. The eighth-grader, who came to this country from Honduras, has a 2400, or senior master, U.S. Chess Federation rating and has upset Kamsky, Roman Dzindzhihashvili and Patrick Wolff, to name his three most illustrious victims. Away from the chessboard, he plays soccer and lifts weights. The $1,500 prize, administered by the American Chess Foundation and funded by Dr. Samuel Aspis of Cleveland in memory of his late wife, Laura, is considered the most significant award that a player of this age can receive. Among the 12 previous winners have been former U.S. junior champion John Litvinchuk, 1989 U.S. co-champion Stuart Rachels, John Viloira, world under-10 champion and Ilya Gurevich, 1990 world junior champion. Kamsky will defend his American title in Durango, Colo., starting Dec. 1 with more than $30,000 and interzonal berths at stake. The rest of the field consists of Alex Yermolinsky, 1991 Grand Prix champion Alexander Ivanov, Joel Benjamin, Boris Gulko, Sergei Kudrin, Patrick Wolff, "Dzhindzhi," Yasser Seirawan, John Fedorowicz, '91 U.S. Open champion Mike Rohde, Rachels (replacing Larry Christiansen), Walter Browne, Igor Ivanov, Nick de Firmian and '91 U.S. junior champion Alex Sherzer of College Park. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM