GIBRALTAR Comectlofu

By Reg Reynolds

60 riveting true stories with a Gibraltar Connection Available now from Gibraltar book shops would like a winter break at that time of year. are usually finished in a single ses sion.

Chess is often considered an older person's game but with the advent of powerful computers,able to analyse complex positions, to day's youth has a distinct advan tage as their preparation (or train ing) can be as good as the World Champion's, given the wealth of information available on the Internet.

It was not always thus. Before the introduction of timed sessions (around the end of the 19th cen tury),games could be interminable, and the few world-class players of that era had real stamina.

During the Gibraltar tourna ment, Stuart Conquest, a British Grandmaster and two of the organ isers visited local schools and I was encouraged to note thatsome chess sets had been donated for school children and, perhaps, we can look forward in the future to some stronger local challenge.

As it was, Manolo Matto, an ob sessive, participated in both The Masters and The Amateur, with varying degrees of success, but Joseph Mifsud, George White and I contented ourselves with just The Amateur, a more relaxed event.

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