At least that's the name and date from my reference, but my reference also
quotes an illegal move. Can't find it on chesslab.

Subject: Looking for Gitescu - Purevzhav, Varna, 1962

On 15 January 2004 "Mr. Plow" wrote in
Message-id:

At least that's the name and date from my reference, but my reference also
quotes an illegal move. Can't find it on chesslab.



Check out the spelling of Ghitescu. That's how Romanian GM Teodor Ghitescu
spells his name. If he played the Mongolian player Purevzhav at the Varna
Olympiad, that's the same S. Purevzhav that Fischer played and defeated in 22
moves in the first round of the event on 17 September 1962. I also cannot find
the Ghitescu-Purevzhav game, which you correctly state is not found on
chesslab.com

George Mirijanian

Subject: Looking for Gitescu - Purevzhav, Varna, 1962

On 15 January 2004 (Miriling) wrote in
Message-id:

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If he [Ghitescu] played the Mongolian player Purevzhav at the Varna
Olympiad, that's the same S. Purevzhav that Fischer played and defeated in
22
moves in the first round of the event on 17 September 1962. I also cannot
find
the Ghitescu-Purevzhav game, which you correctly state is not found on
chesslab.com



Correction: The USA-Mongolia match was played on 16 September 1962 in the
first round of the preliminaries (Group B). I am beginning to wonder if
Ghitescu ever faced Purevzhav in the Romania-Mongolia match-up, since Ciocaltea
(as Black) played Purevzhav on top board in their preliminary match and the two
countries did not face each other in the finals since Romania played in Group A
and Mongolia competed in Group B.
Does anybody have any information about the Mongolian player Purevzhav?

George Mirijanian

Thanks for the correct spelling.

I have an old Chess Digest pamphlet that quotes part of a game Ghitescu -
Purevzhav, Varna, 1962.

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 ed 4.c3 d5 5.ed Qxd5 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 Nf6

But this may well be an error.

The pamphlet apparently the event and date wrong:

[Event "WchT U26 fin-B 05th"]
[Site "Varna"]
[Date "1958.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ghitescu, Theodor"]
[Black "Purevzhav, S."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C21"]
[PlyCount "130"]
[EventDate "1958.07.09"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2000.11.22"]

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. cxd4 Nf6 6. Nf3 Bb4+ 7. Nc3 O-O 8.
Be2 Ne4 9. Bd2 Bxc3 10. bxc3 Nxd2 11. Qxd2 Bg4 12. O-O Nc6 13. Qf4 Qd7 14. Rab1
Rab8 15. Rfd1 Bxf3 16. Bxf3 Qd6 17. Qxd6 cxd6 18. Re1 g6 19. Rb5 Rfc8 20. Kf1
Kf8 21. Reb1 b6 22. Ke2 Nd8 23. Kd3 Ne6 24. g3 Rc7 25. h4 Rbc8 26. R1b3 Rd7 27.
R5b4 Nc5+ 28. Kd2 Nxb3+ 29. axb3 d5 30. Ra4 Ke7 31. Rb4 Rd6 32. Bg2 f5 33. Rb5
Ke6 34. Kd3 Rc7 35. c4 dxc4+ 36. bxc4 Kf6 37. Rb1 Re7 38. d5 Rd8 39. Bf3 Rde8
40. Ra1 g5 41. hxg5+ Kxg5 42. Kd4 Rc8 43. Rh1 Rc5 44. Ra1 Rec7 45. Be2 Re7 46.
Bf3 h5 47. Rh1 Rh7 48. Rh4 a5 49. Bd1 Rc8 50. Ba4 Re7 51. d6 Re2 52. d7 Rh8 53.
Kd5 Kf6 54. Rxh5 Rd2+ 55. Kc6 Rxh5 56. Kxb6 Ke7 57. c5 Kd8 58. c6 Rb2+ 59. Bb5
Rxb5+ 60. Kxb5 Kc7 61. Kxa5 f4+ 62. Kb4 fxg3 63. fxg3 Rg5 64. Kc4 Rxg3 65. Kd5
Rg6 0-1

Source: CB's Chess MegaDatabase 2003

Ken

Subject: Looking for Gitescu - Purevzhav, Varna, 1962

On 16 January 2004 (KJ2350) replied in
Date: 1/16/04 6:20 PM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

The pamphlet apparently had the event and date wrong:

[Event "WchT U26 fin-B 05th"]
[Site "Varna"]
[Date "1958.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ghitescu, Theodor"]
[Black "Purevzhav, S."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C21"]
[PlyCount "130"]
[EventDate "1958.07.09"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2000.11.22"]

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. cxd4 Nf6 6. Nf3 Bb4+ 7. Nc3 O-O
8.
Be2 Ne4 9. Bd2 Bxc3 10. bxc3 Nxd2 11. Qxd2 Bg4 12. O-O Nc6 13. Qf4 Qd7 14.
Rab1
Rab8 15. Rfd1 Bxf3 16. Bxf3 Qd6 17. Qxd6 cxd6 18. Re1 g6 19. Rb5 Rfc8 20. Kf1
Kf8 21. Reb1 b6 22. Ke2 Nd8 23. Kd3 Ne6 24. g3 Rc7 25. h4 Rbc8 26. R1b3 Rd7
27.
R5b4 Nc5+ 28. Kd2 Nxb3+ 29. axb3 d5 30. Ra4 Ke7 31. Rb4 Rd6 32. Bg2 f5 33.
Rb5
Ke6 34. Kd3 Rc7 35. c4 dxc4+ 36. bxc4 Kf6 37. Rb1 Re7 38. d5 Rd8 39. Bf3 Rde8
40. Ra1 g5 41. hxg5+ Kxg5 42. Kd4 Rc8 43. Rh1 Rc5 44. Ra1 Rec7 45. Be2 Re7
46.
Bf3 h5 47. Rh1 Rh7 48. Rh4 a5 49. Bd1 Rc8 50. Ba4 Re7 51. d6 Re2 52. d7 Rh8
53.
Kd5 Kf6 54. Rxh5 Rd2+ 55. Kc6 Rxh5 56. Kxb6 Ke7 57. c5 Kd8 58. c6 Rb2+ 59.
Bb5
Rxb5+ 60. Kxb5 Kc7 61. Kxa5 f4+ 62. Kb4 fxg3 63. fxg3 Rg5 64. Kc4 Rxg3 65.
Kd5
Rg6 0-1

Source: CB's Chess MegaDatabase 2003

Ken


Thanks to Ken and ChessBase's MegaDatabase 2003, the mystery of the
Ghitescu-Purevzhav game is solved. It looks like the game was played in the
Romania-Mongolia match in the 5th World Student Team Championship, when
Ghitescu was 24 years old and three years away from being awarded the IM title
by FIDE. It took him another 25 years before he received the GM title. About
his Mongolian opponent, S. Purevzhav, in the 1958 student team tournament, I
have no information about him in the way of a biography - not even his first
name or his date of birth.

George Mirijanian