AThe Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Tuesday, March 30, 1971 - Page 16
Spassky Visit Here Has Double Purpose
World chess champion Boris Spassky will be carrying out double duty this summer at the University of B.C.
By day, he will act as a Russian delegate to the congress of the international chess body, Federation Internationale des Échecs. By night, he will play in the Canadian Open championship.
The congress will run from Aug. 23 to Sept. 4 at Cecil Green Park. The tournament will be held at the Ponderosa cafeteria on the campus from Aug 24. to Sept. 4.
Chairman of the congress will be FIDE president Max Euwe of Holland, a former world champion. Leading the Canadian delegation will be Canadian Chess Federation president J.G. Prentice, while the American delegation will be led by E.B. Edmondson, U.S. Chess Federation executive director.
Besides Spassky, who won his title in 1970 over defending champion Tigran Petrosian of Russia, the biggest names in world chess are expected for the tournament.
Expected are grandmasters Bent Larsen of Denmark and Sammy Reshevsky of the U.S., among others. It is not yet known whether Bobby Fischer of the U.S., regarded by many as the premiere chess player in the world, will attend.
However, he is expected to play in the U.S. Open in Ventura, Calif., earlier in August. Canadian Open organizers hope to lure many of the participants in that tournament north to UBC.
B.C. players will be led by international master Duncan Suttles of Vancouver, 1970 B.C. champion Bob Zuk of Surry and highly ranked youngsters Peter Biyiasas and Jonathan Berry of Vancouver.
The Canadian Open will have a prize fund of $4,100 of which $1,500 is a contribution from the B.C. Centennial '71 committee.
