Lögberg-Heimskringla - 29.04.1994, Blaðsíða 3

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 29. apríl 1994 • 3
Þorrablót in Toronto
Pastor Ingthor I. Isfeld
1030 a.m. The Service
followed by Sunday School
& Coffee hour.
First Lutheran Church
580 Victor St.,
Winnipeg, MB
R3G 1R2 Ph. 772-7444
MESSUBOÐ
Fyrsta Lúterska
Kirkja
Anew location this year
provided an interest-
ing atmosphere for a
very 1 successful 1994
Þorrablót. The Enoch Turner
Schoolhouse in downtown
Toronto is an historic build-
ing now a popular venue for
banquets and receptions. The
interior is a cross between an
old school room and a
church, with gothic windows
and arches giving an unusual
background for the festivities.
There was a very active
organising committee led by
Steven Isliefson and Pat
Stephens. Volunteers, too
many to name, donated
hours of food preparation
time, running around and
setting up time, not to men-
tion serving and cleaning up
that evening. The menu con-
sisted of roast turkey with
stuffing, mashed potatoes
and turnip, cold steamed
salmon and a variety of sal-
ads, with the highlight being
‘New Iceland Bush Stew’.
The traditional hangikjöt,
rúllupylsa, and herring were
also beautifully served. Every-
one always saves room for
the vast array of desserts such
as vínarterta, kleinur, sæt
súpa, and pönnukökur. This
year we also had skyr made
in Regina and brought espe-
cially for this occasion from
Kenora by Imba Phinney.
There were several draws,
including a trip to Iceland
donated by Icelandair and
won fittingly by Imba
Phinney. A magnificent pine
and cedar handpainted
blanket box made by Ben
Einarson of Bracebridge was
won by Vern Austman from
Orono; a handmade pillow-
case doll made by Marg
Simmons, handknitted mitts
and hat, were among other
prizes.
A special addition this
year was the introduction of
our newly designed t-shirts
and sweatshirts. The well
known graphic artist Tom
Bjarnason designed a magnif-
icent falcon (our club symbol
and name of our newsletter)
that sits majestically against a
(L-R) Bill Hurst, Jack Norman, with friends, Marilyn White,
Peter Norman
and Karen Hurst.
Ben Einarson (left) and
Pat Stephens during the
draw.
Rosa Vernon
Hermanson (left)
enjoys a visit
with a friend
sunrise with ICCT incorpo-
rating a maple leaf across the
bottom. We are very proud to
wear Tom’s creation and
would welcome inquiries
from other clubs to purchase
these shirts. They will be
available at the INL conven-
tion in Selkirk.
As always the evening was
a wonderful multi-genera-
tional event. Several of our
founding members such as
Rosa (Hermansson) Vernon
and Birgitta (Guttormson)
Gillis were in attendance as
well as some babes-in-arms
and several toddlers. They
always add a special dimen-
sion to the celebrations.
The evening was rounded
out with many types of danc-
ing. All in all everyone went
home with a warm glow from
another successful evening
celebrating our Icelandic
roots.
Icelandic Open proved chaos theory
CHESS:
Lawrence Day
According to chaos the-
ory, every now and
then we can expect the
unexpected. A strange and
unpredictable recent tourna-
ment was the Icelandic Open
at Reykjavík. There were 26
Grandmasters in the chase
but most of them were tram-
pled by a herd of dark horses.
First on tiebreaks was 17-year
old Russian Vadim Svaginsev
who matched 7-2 scores with
Iceland’s Hannes Stefánsson
and Russian GM Evgeny
Pigusov. Stefánsson, 22,
becomes Iceland’s newest
Grandmaster. Sharing third
with 6.5-2.5 were Californian
GM Nick de Firmian and
another unheralded Icelandic
junior, Helgi Grétarsson
Rampaging juniors was
also the theme in the October
edition of the monthly GM
tournaments in Budapest,
England’s Matthew Sadler,
19, took first with 9-2 scoring
his final norm for the grand-
master title. Second went to
Thien Hai Dao, 15, an enor-
mously talented prodigy from
Vietnam who made 7.5
points. He edged ahead of
Hungary’s 14-year old GM
Peter Leko who finished at 7.
The favourite by ratings was
Russian GM V. Lorginov who
had won the September tour-
nament but this time he could
manage only an even score at
5.5-5.5.
The game this week is
another anomaly. Russian
phenom Vladimir Kramnik,
18, upsets PGA champ Gary
Kasparov in the Linares
supertoumament. If Kasparov
invited undue risk in the game
there was a logical reason for
it. FIDE champ Anatoly
Karpov had streaked into the
lead with 6 fast wins so
Kasparov needed a win to
compete for the tap pnze.
White: V. Kramnik Black
G. Kasparov
Kings Indian Defence
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4g6 3. Nc3
Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. d4 0-0 6
Be2e5 7. d5 Nbd7
Less congested is 7...a5 8.
Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 Na6 10 Nd2
Qe8 which produced an easy
equality in Petrosian-Stein,
Moscow, 1967 and led to the
disappearence of what had
been a main line. Kasparov
reverts to an older treatment.
8. Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 g5 10.
Bg3 Nh5 11. h4 g4 12. Nh2
Nxg3 13. fg-h5 14 0-0Í5!?
It is not clear whether this
is preparation or improvisa-
tion. Theory prefers 14...Bh6
but it allows the wild gambit
15. Bxg4 which is an ideal
variation for Linares as the
tournament features very large
brilliancy prizes. Instead
Kasparov gambits some
pawns.
15. ef Nc5 16. b4! e4 17.
Rcl Nd3 18. Bxd3 ed 19. f6!
Rxf6 20. Qxd3 Qf8 21. Nb5
Bf5 22. Rxf5
A thematic transaction to
control the e6 outpost
22. ...Rxf5 23. Nxc7 Rc8
24. Ne6 Qf6 25. Nfl Re5 26
Rdl Qf5
The middlegame after
26.... Bh6 27. Qd4b6 28. c5
is even worse.
27. Qxf5 Rxf5 28. c5 Bf8
29. Ne3 Rf6 30. Nc4 dc 31.
b5!
Blockading the queenside
eliminates the last shred of
counterplay.
31....Bh6 32. Rel Re8 33.
Re5 Re7 34. Rxh5 Ref7 35.
Kh2 Bcl 36. Re5Rfl 37. Re4
Rdl 38. Rxg4 Kh7 39. Ne5
Re7 40. Nf8 and Black
resigned.
(Toronto only) The City
Chess Club meets Sundays
and Tuesdays at the St.
Lawrence Community Centre
230 The Esplanade. Info:
JeAnna LaToc at (416) 961-
0908.
Chess problem #992
Black 10 pieces
White: 12 pieces
White to play and mate in
two moves.
This series of problems are
Canadian classics from the
Apprenti sorcier collection.
Maria Deering Rennie com-
posed this one in 1888.
Solution to 991; 1. Qe6 Bd6
2. Qg6X; Nxe3 2. d3X; Bxd8
2. Qe5X
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