The match was played from November 15 to 23 at the Gellerup Centre, with Gellerup Chess Club chairman Torben Thomsen as the driving force and with significant support from the centre association and the residents' association. Victor Juul Hansen was chief arbiter, and Thorbjorn Rosenlund was active in the analysis room. Apart from a sour attitude on the part of Jyllands-Posten, apparently prompted by local political controversies, the press coverage was quite good. There is always something or other that can be criticized. Novrup has expressed the hope that future organizers will talk to the people in Gellerup instead of having to learn everything by experience themselves.

A few words about Ib Larsen's electronic chess clock. It makes no noise, and the final minute is shown with precision to the second. But under the present rules it is probably right to switch off the move counter. The rules can of course be changed, but it is quite clear that the player in time trouble, who is already allowed to stop recording the moves, would otherwise be rewarded with certainty about the number of moves played. With the original model there was the problem that the time would "disappear" in the event of a power failure, but that has been solved. If the clock can be manufactured at a price not too far above that of ordinary clocks, there should certainly be a market for it in many places. It made its debut in the sixth match game.

Ib Larsen of Slagelse has developed and patented an electronic chess clock, which had its world premiere in the sixth match game. The clock will be marketed in the very near future.

I was very pleased that, despite a severe cold, I managed to concentrate. But the winning score of 5½-½ was probably too large; the reader can judge the games for himself.