Kasparov beats Savereide, February 1988

Thanks again, Batgirl. I always enjoy these little historical vignettes.

Did you ever post the Einstein - Oppenheimer game?

I'm sort of with Mr. Pandolfini on this:

She played really well!

Diane Savereide was rated about 2300 at the time, which was then the highest rating ever for an American woman. She was, is, a WIM . She was also the inspiration for girls and women who followed her.

In 1975 when she won the US Women's Championship, Diane Savereide had only been playing chess 3 years.

In 1977 she and Ruth Orton (Haring) were given the WIM title, retroactively applied to 1975.

I remember reading about her...possibly in Chess Life and Review!......I was active in chess from 1972 to 1978....and was subscribed to that magazine.

And, like her, I also started playing chess in 1972, during the Spassky-Fischer fever.....

Here's Diane Savereide:

She could play!

Cool...Thanks BG

Undoubtedly. 

Kamal, the first game you posted is from the 1979 Interzonal at Alicante, Spain.  Although her rating was just over 2000 going into the tournament, she produced a 2500 performance rating.  She had a shaky beginning but ended up coming in fifth place with a 11-6 score (she won 7 of her last 8 games,  3 of which were consecutive wins against strong Russian players.  

It helps to understand what she was playing against and what she accomplished in that tournament. 

John Gref was supposed to have been her second, but then the interzonal was supposed to have been held in Rio de Janeiro.  Rio bowed out and it was moved to Spain. Savereide ended up going unaccompanied.   Each of the Russian players had a personal trainer and the delegation (11 persons, 5 of which were players) had a captain.  The American "delegation" was Diane Savereide.

According to Jack Peters, her sometimes coach:

Diane won her first two games, but slumped later. After ten rounds, she had 4.5 pts. and still had to play the highest rated competitors in the Soviet "mill." Under FIDE rules, players from the same country must play each other early in the tournament. This eliminates any suspicion that would be attached to a late-round win by a contender for a top prize over her less successful compatriot. In Alicante this rule had the additional effect of creating a "mill" of strong Soviet players. All of the non-Soviet players had to go through the mill, facing four of the toughest players in consecutive rounds. Only Diane came through with a plus score.
Diane defeated Elena Ahmilovskaya, Nino Gurieli and Marta Litinskaya, and drew Elena Fatalibekova. With three more wins, she surged to 11-6 and 5th place. This left her a point short of qualifying for the Candidates' matches and becoming a WGM.  Her performance was by far the best ever by an American woman in international chess. Previously, no American [woman] had ever achieved a plus score in an Interzonal or a Candidates' tournament.

Good point. I-'d probably have as good a chance beating them as spelling their names. 

Batgirl, can you please locate any Chess Life & Review articles about her?

I have a few such articles.... a couple about her specifically, some in which she's an integral part.