The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Sunday, October 28, 1962 - Page 85
Chess by Isaac Kashdan 28 Oct 1962, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
Report On Olympics
The cross-table of the Chess Olympics shows the consistency of the Soviet Union team. They were the only ones not to lose a match. More than half their victories were by the minimum but sufficient margin of 2½-1½.
Although the United States lost to the two leaders, we performed reasonably well against the teams in the upper division. Our biggest weakness was the relatively poor showing against the bottom five in the event.
Against this group the Soviets scored 15½ points. Yugoslavia had 14, Argentina 13½ and the U.S. 11½. We were the only team to drop two points to last place Austria.
In the 1960 Chess Olympics, with a team that was rated considerably below the current one, the U.S. finished in second place with 29 points, while the Soviets amassed 34. That was our best showing in 25 years, or since we won the Olympics four times in succession in the 1930's.
One difference is that our star Bobby Fischer scored 5½-5½ this year, as against 8-3 in 1960. Captain Eliot Hearst informed us that the team was almost out of funds in Varna, a chronic complaint in American chess, unfortunately. For the record, it might be worth mentioning that your editor was captain in the 1960 team, and perhaps our experience might have been of value.
In addition to the championship finals, the teams that did not qualify in the preliminaries competed in two additional sections. In Section B the winners were England and Spain with 26½. Israel took third with 25. Norway won Section C with 32½. The Bulgaria B team was second with 29½ and Albania and Tunis with 28½.
Following are games from the Olympics.
