American Chess Flashback chess trivia These were two of the top US players at one time. Neither one was born in the US. Can you name the countries where they were born? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Browne and Kavalek. Looks like early 70’s.
Not sure about Kavalek, but Browne is originally from Australia.
Walter Browne (Australia) and Lubo Kavalek (born in Prague)
kavalek born in prague – depending which year he was born, it could be czechoslovakia.
And here is one of the game scores.
Notice the chess clocks used, same as in the other 1982 picture!
[Event “Olympiad”]
[Site “Lucerne (Switzerland)”]
[Date “1982”]
[Round “”]
[White “Kavalek Lubomir (USA)”]
[Black “Day Lawrence A (CAN)”]
[Result “1/2-1/2”]
[Eco “C90”]
[Annotator “”]
[Source “”]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.c3 O-O 9.a4 Bg4 10.d3 Qd7 11.Nbd2 Rab8 12.h3 Be6 13.Bc2
g6 14.axb5 axb5 15.d4 exd4 16.cxd4 d5 17.e5 Nh5 18.Nb3 Ng7 19.Bg5
Bxg5 20.Nxg5 Qe7 21.Nf3 Bf5 22.Rc1 Nd8 23.Qd2 Bxc2 24.Rxc2 Nge6
25.Nh2 f5 26.exf6 Qxf6 27.Ng4 Qg7 28.Qh6 Ra8 29.Qxg7+ Kxg7 30.Ne5
Ra4 31.Nd7 Rf7 32.Ndc5 Nxc5 33.Nxc5 Rc4 34.Rxc4 bxc4 35.b3 cxb3
36.Nxb3 Kf6 37.Rc1 Ne6 38.h4 Ke7 39.Re1 Kd6 40.g3 Rf3 41.Re3
Rf8 1/2-1/2
Australia and (the then) Czechoslovakia.
Hey Susan, the name is on the table :).
Not the country names, they are not.
Walter Browne and Lubosh Kavalek! I got to play Walter in NYC in a blitz tournament and was crushed by him! He gave me a quarter if I would resign already, I still have that quarter!