Lawrence Day vs Raymond Keene (1967)

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Lawrence Day vs Raymond Keene
Wch U20 fin-A (1967), Jerusalem, rd 4, Aug-??
King's Indian Attack: Wahls Defense (A05) · 0-1

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Jul-02-04		jaime gallegos: so this game was the first between Keene and Day! any comment?

Jul-02-04		IMlday: Actually that is our second game. We met in the last round of the 1967 world Junior preliminaries with qualification to the final at stake. But a draw meant I won the group and Ray advanced to the finals. So the 1st Day-Keene game went 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 and I offered a draw which he accepted. But the arbiter wouldn't allow such a short game and was insisting on more moves. While the dispute was going on, Robert Hubner agreed a draw in his own game, guaranteeing a spot in the finals circa move 9, to come over and kibbitz the argument. Anyway, Ray and I were forced to play on and we played about 150 moves, exchanged all the pieces and locking the pawns and then moved our Kings randomly until the 50-move rule was invoked. The tournament bulletin left out the final 40 moves. I started the finals by losing to Hubner and Jan Timman. Since I wasn't going to win the event, I sort of lost interest in the tournament. Check out the later game, Day-Keene, Haifa Olympiad, 1976 where the tepid Nf3 is replaced by the active f2-f4 with a much more complex positional struggle. It was drawn, as was Day-Keene, Buenos Aires, 1978 where I impishly played the Miles Bf4 variation against the QID. I came close to winning that but he was/is a great defender. At the 1981 NY Edward Lasker Memorial a quiet draw; at Chicago Invitational, 1984 I suicided again, ridiculously unsound in the opening. Weirdly, I had White in all 6 games, (-2=4), but was quite inconsistent in 'paying attention'. In Chicago the new James Clavel novel came out and I forgot all about chess, losing my last 3 games while engrossed in the book.

Jul-02-04		jaime gallegos: so at 1967 you were rebels fighting against the system !!! I readed in a chess book about the Hubner's draw and how the arbiter punished him ( and many people too )for not to play ... but you were the original ones ! At those days did you play with all the hippies parafernalia ? It's a joke ...

Jul-03-04		acirce: <Anyway, Ray and I were forced to play on and we played about 150 moves, exchanged all the pieces and locking the pawns and then moved our Kings randomly until the 50-move rule was invoked.> lol, that's funny.

Jul-03-04		IMlday: Jan Timman had the 'hippie paraphenalia'-- a coat of many colours. As I recall, he was third. Ray probably remembers more details. Mike Woodhams, barefoot, couldn't make it into the fancy hotel breakfast with inedible 1-minute eggs. FIDE was nuts holding the event in Jerusalem. The war was just barely over.

Jul-04-04		ray keene: i recall that timman had hair so long and comprehensively entwined around his upper half that it was very difficult to tell whether you were speaking to his front end or his back end. lawrence was actually very conservative at that time and refused even to drink alcoholic beverages such as beer!i also recall on a trip when the guide turned out to be very anti british that lawrence claimed to be french canadian when queried.

Jul-04-04		jaime gallegos: when I was a medical student many of my attendings were students at the end of the 60´s and earlies 70´s... Dressed now with labcoats and neckties it was very hard to recognize them on their psychedelic pictures ! ( what are gonna say on the future my students ? )

Jul-04-04		IMlday: I remember a fly catching championship in a 'restaurant' in old Jerusalem. And a little kid coming up to us wearing about four watches and babbling incomprehendibly to which you replied "[expletive deleted]off, you revolting urchin." Oh and the transatlantic blitz session with alternating moves where Kaplan and Day took on Keene and Hubner with alternating moves. Hubner played 1.e4 I played e5 You played 2.Nf3 and Kaplan played Qe7!?. We won that one. You'll certainly never see that defence in the World Championship eh. :-\| Timman's career in hippiedom went on to include a period as a draft dodger from the Dutch army. He had a big fur coat and slept under bridges and stuff so they couldn't find him to arrest until he played in the Dutch Championship and eventually they noticed and picked him up after the prize ceremony.

Jul-10-04		jaime gallegos: I´m thinking that you were playing at those days with a T-shirt with Ché Guevara in front ! By the way I got two T-shirts of El Ché Guevara ... good amateur chess player and also present in 1966 La Habana Chess Olympiad

Jul-10-04		IMlday: No, actually I was apolitical in those days; not paying attention at all. I didn't become political until 1984 by which time I had a giant sword of logic.

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