The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Sunday, January 21, 1962 - Page 68
Chess Notebook 21 Jan 1962, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
Raymond Weinstein, America's fifth ranking player, will make his first professional appearance in Greater Boston during the M.S.C.A. annual meeting on Feb. 22. Weinstein is one of this country's three qualifiers for the 1962 interzonal tournament, but he decided to reject the interzonal.
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The interzonal begins at Stockholm Jan. 26 and will continue through Mar. 8. Twenty-two players have qualified. For the purpose of finding the best challenger FIDE has divided the world into nine zones and, according to the general strength of chess play in each area, a stipulated number of post positions in the interzonal tournament is allotted to each. For instance, the USA is entitled to three participants and the USSR has four, while all Asia is given just one.
Our three qualifiers, were Bobby Fischer, Weinstein, and William Lombardy. Of these only Fischer will compete. Lombardy and Weinstein have been replaced by Arthur Bisguier and James Sherwin. One would think that Larry Evans, who recently recaptured the U.S. championship, would have been given a place. But FIDE rules are strict and perhaps no one may be appointed who had not played in the official “zonal”.
The first six players from the Stockholm tournament will join Mikhail Tal, former world champion, and Paul Keres, both of USSR, at Curacao in May and June for the challenger's tournament. The winner of the Curacao meet will be then allowed to meet Botvinnik in 1963 for the world championship. And while the world title match is on, the whole cycle of preliminary, zonal, interzonal, and challenger's tournament will begin again.
Reinfeld has produced two new books and revised an old one of a publisher new to chess: Collier Books. All three are paper bound. The oldy is “Chess Mastery by Question and Answer,” the new ones are game collections, one on short games of the masters and the other consisting of 50 annotated brilliancy prize games. Neatly produced with clear diagrams these examples of Reinfeldiana are worth looking into at these prices.
