KARAKLAIC IN PLAY AGAINST BRITISH CHESS CHAMPION PETER LEE, AND PRESENTATION TO WINNER AND RUNNERS-UP. (SOF).




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Background: NIKOLAI KARAKLAIC, WHO WORKS AS A DISC JOCKEY ON RADIO BELGRADE, WON THE CHUCHILL MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT AT THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL CHESS CONGRESS, WHICH ENDED YESTERDAY IN BOGNOR REGIS, THE SEASIDE RESORT ON THE SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND.

SECOND PLACE IN THE ELEVEN-DAY CONGRESS ALSO WENT TO A YUGOSLAV, ALEXANDER MATANOVIC. FOUR PLAYERS SHARED THIRD PLACE. THERE WERE: A. GULDBRANDSEN OF NORWAY, V. CIOCALTEA OF RUMANIA, H. BOUWMEESTER OF HOLLAND, AND THE TOP BRITISH PLAYER, MICHAEL BASEMAN, A 20-YEAR-OLD UNIVERSITY STUDENT.

THE SENSATION OF THE CONGRESS WAS, HOWEVER, TERANCE HART, A 16-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLBOY, WHOSE PLAY WAS DESCRIBED BY THE FOREIGN MASTERS AS "BRILLIANT".