EPTEMBER 1956

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liiipf ~ 1! i ate. lE YEAR S5.S0 From the "Amenities and Background of -play" by William Ewart Napier

DR. TARRASCH AT ZENITH

In a review of IJj~ malch game ~ with Steinitz. Dr. Lasker dis~o\'er(ld. in the "grand old man,'" a peculiar gcnius for developing jll~t e llollg-h to withsta n d an attack, bUl baekward slInidenUy to ]Jre­ serve. from &x(;ha nge. enough piP!"es to insure cOlll111it:ations ' It is my hc! ir·f that Dr. Lasker venetrate!; the ~'ene l of Stcinil7,' SU( ' ce~se5 in thal oose r nlti o!! - and perhaps his (aill1"':l~ . ,,-hkh \".-err' unme rous in tournamenl play. Steini tz <,ould \l" flU hanl { ·O l1n ~f' l p,l. 22 P- N4 P_K N3 31 P- R4 QR_R t " 00 as J say, but not as I do.'" 23 R_B4 8-Q2 32 Rj4-B1 R_N 2 It is iuteresUng that. eai'lier, :;le i l\it~. 24 R_ KN1 K _ R1 33 R_ N2 QR_I{ N 1 had adopted it defi nition of til() diHcr c lI (-e 25 Q_ KN2 P- QR4 34 R-R2 Q-02 between his and the ~l ol'[Jhy SdlOol : til l' 2G B_N1 PxQNP 3~ 8 -Q3 R- Rt older Hystc m was "det'ensi'"c aUa" j;" a;1<1 2;' RPxP R_R5 36 Q_N3 Q-K 2 the nc"". er~ ua(lc!l from IOllg n:o ading of gnmes. notes and opin ions genel'all)' that. until the early ·· :\ineties." tIl(> Ill ::"I­ ern school rer!e<:ted notably mOIC' of On . Sn:GB tJIT T.-I.!uu" II h u kertort than Sleinitz. Then came Dt, Tnrrasch. QUEE N 'S GAMB IT DECLINED \'agnlill tell e l~ or ]l lai' g-o t togelher a ~ Tarrasch W~ l b ro t! t an orderly b\l~ill{,~~. for. a long- ,,-i t il Ill<' ,,'11i le IlL,, ·I, a d ve n t of TaJ"'a~, ·h. ,·" me inexo l' aillp di~­ 1 P_Q4 P- Q4 6 P-K3 QN-Q2 dpline: and I "Ill i ndin ed to .'ai' oj' 2 P- QB4 P- K3 7 P-K 1U : "'_Bl rhis sll perb a]lo~tle of S t. einitzian , ' h C'~~ 3 N_QB3 N_KB3 8 P-B5 N_N3 t.hat he " found it a gibberish ami Jefl .t N_B3 B_ K2 9 B_R2 Q_ R.) it a science." The ~tam]l of a pl'e·e m i­ 5 B_B4 P-B3 10 P-R3 "'-K5 nent sanity is on both his inS lrU l"!i o J] nnd his play. -l1 K - R2! B-K3 44 K_B4 ! B-02 I knew 1)r. '['annsl'h plea5ami} ill -l 2 R_N5! 8 _02 45 P- R5 B-K t -l3 K_N3 ! B_Kl 46 PxP B,P .\lonte Crtl'lo, 1902. One dn)' the I "< never great.er, it. .'ee lll ~ to me. tlllln on t he last (Jay of th e Yienna (louble·round tournament or J 898_ Pi1l~· bury's score and his were e"en. Pi ll sbury B-03 N,N 0 - 0 0 - 02 faced Baird. an eas)" "icLOry. :,\' 01 ~ o ('a~y "12 Q- 02 N - KR5 "17 Q- 82 P_B.t ,,-a s it for Tan ' a~ch to o"en:o lll c \\'al' 13 N,N B,N 18 K -Rt 8-01 brodt - always dangerOll ~. 14 P_ON4 Q_Ql 8- K 5 8 _82 The game goes like c lock,work: and. 15 Q,N 0-0 20" P_8-l 8,8 47 8-K2! O- Ql 50 R,R R,R at moye 41, White's King trearls lIP to 21 8Px8 0 - K2 48 B_R5 8,8 51 Q.R O-KBt win his OWI1 vir-tory , check: Q.8 R.R 52 P-K6 , - , = dbL ~h eck : 'J" c'h. 49 Res ignl CHESS REVIEW 'HI ",crUll eNUS MAOAZIH' Volumn 24 Number 9 September, EDITED &. P UBLISHED BY "" I. A. Horow itz Readers are invited to use these columns for their INDEX comments on ma tters of interest to chessplayers. FEAT U RE S

East Yaphank U n ivers ity Incident __ 272 Ga me of t he Mont h ______264 Ost e nd International ______266 Short H ist o ry of Chess ______270 Why You L ose at C h ess ______276

DEP ARTMEN T S

Announce the Mate! 258 Chess C lub Di rect ory ______263 Chessboard Magic! ______277 Ga mes from Rece nt Events ______278 H ow t o Win I n t he E n d in g ______274 P ost a l Chess ______284 Sol ita ire C hess ______273 Spot light on Openings ______268 Tour nament Calendar ______262 Wor ld of Ch ess 259

E DITOR I . A. HOM,,'ltz E XECU TIVE EDITOR J(L(:K Straley B a.tte ll CON T RIB UT ING E DIT ORS l. Cherney. J. W. COll ins. T. A. Dun$t, Dt·. M. l!:uWIl , Hana Kmoch. \V. Korn. The 06t end Cilslno (ilt left ) . S ee story, p. 266. l~red Relnleld, P. L. Rothenberg. COR RESPO ND ENTS OSTEND TO U R NAME NTS 1906 and 1956 gani~e lht! tournament. Among the Kib· AI~b a m~ E. M. Cockrell. What a n ice chap O 'Kellr is ~' n u can see itzers, there wa" the porl ier of the Casino, C~lIfornla J. B. G ~, Leroy j oh nson. Dr. H. Ralston. M. J. Hoyer. from Ihe fo llowing: when we met after the 72 years old, " 'ho $11 '" me at 1906, being Colorad o AI. 'V. R~e. OSlcnd T ournament in I3 ru;;sds 01\ Ill y way a t that time a bellbo y in the Casino. I am Connec ticut Edmund e. Hand. 10 lIIe: O e l~w a re i\1. R. Paul. hack . he add ressed "Bern· afraid he is alm ost the o nly survivor of DIst. of Columblll M. V. Chur<:hlll. stein, I got the first pri",-e becau<'e you the whole chess crowil al Ostcnd, 1906. F l o rid ~ AlaJor J. B. Holt. P. C. Knolt. Ernest D0l111e r al end of lourna· G. Werber. lieke.-l the tlte ( Hem Dr. Bern.kin lists the principal Geergla It. L. Froemke. ment, I would like to givc you sollie ~ou · participants uf O"lenll. 1906, and states illinois Howa rd J. Ilell. J. O. ' Varren. I'enir. Whal wuuld "i<: .. ~e ~' O \l ?" In d l an ~ D. C. HUls. D. E . Rhead. t hat on ly he, 01l1'a5 a nd Rubinslein have Iowa 'V. O. Vanderburg. "Cive me a f{ ussian book:' Dy the way, survived.- ElJ.] Ken t ucky J. W. Mayer. O' Kell y studies R ussian alld ,< pea ks it KansH5 K. n. J\laoDonald. 011. O. B t;n j,\STt:IN Maryla nd Ch&.rle. Barasch. fl uenlly. Paris, France M a S5~c h useU' I'ranklln J. Sanborn O'Kdly g;Jve me the works "f Ihe g runt! Michigan R Buskager, J. R. \Va tson. MIn n eso t ~ n. C. Gove. Russian poet Len nonlof( (\\'hv i;. ;0 fu r REMI NDED Nebras k ~ 11. E. Ellsworth. 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Y., impre>I' ion from the wrapper of a recent Al berta Percy Connell. unde r thc Act of ~ Ia rc h 3, 1879. issue. Addreu ehanlres eannot be made with. Man itoba Dr. N. OJvln6ky. General Offices' 2~ O We$t 57th Str<:et. New out the old address" well all the new one. Qu ebec Oalas Baln. York 19. N. 1'. S",lcs Department (Fioam Unsoli cited man Ulcrlpts and phot Qgraph. Suka t chewln Frank YerhOtl'. 1329) open daily 9 to & p. m.-Saturday~ will net be retu rned unless accompanle cl by CUBA: E . Bernt. from 2 to 0 P. m. Telephone: Circle 6-8258. return POtU;e a nd self. addressed envelope. CHESS REV IEW, SEP TEM BER , 1956 257 White to move and mate 2 Black to move and mate OUTMORPHY MORPHY! So here "Uf hytmthetical He who mates hest mate~ in '·;\Im·phy·· has sacked his the shortest number of mOI 'e~ EVER SINC E annotators picked on ;\Ioq)hr (as in problelll Queo: n. He mu st hal'e had a - for one roll gh rille of the 6 below), we've fcl t that anrone-hlll any"" ,:-c,," ld knock sure·fire follow,ul' in mind thu mb. But ou r major rule j ~ oH a snapl)), Ill ate. given seclusio n and tim c clllmgh. Well, whell he did. YOll r job i~ to con found tlttl critics. Let try it here. Y"II should score a clean 100,%-lIut no '"a libis"! ~ i mp l e: just carry oul Ihe no UIIC poin t filii after that Or IJick )'lHlf ke)' shot in 3 minut e~. confirm afterwards, fo r Illan to a fl awless fin ish. there was a better, ~h or t er the usual exce ll ent fur 10, good inr 8 and fai r fpr 6 correct Instructions suy to male. wa y to mate. Reckun in all solutions. Here and elsewhere he sun: possihle muvcs - and, "I So lutions on page 288 yo u mllte best. course, he su rc to mate.

3 White to move and mate 4 Black to move and mate 5 White to move and mate 6 Black to move and mate The "seeing eye" llIay he Here i~ II cri"p and tasty This, too, is neal and Here is one of Ihe sharp the essential that thot'e '\for· problem, ind, : I,.~1. White is crisp; and, we think you'll points madc by Morphy com· I,hy crilics lack. TllO ~c who nOi cl ca rl ~' $<' nHich UI' in agree, no future critics will mentators. Morphy, it secm ~. pick Jl icayundr at Mori'hr'!; material as in ""lIle other be aMe to I, ..int " ut a one· did not play it best. We " flawj" - ret Jlerhaj's would I l r oh l em~ ull th.,. p .. ge. Ye t move ilhorter f i ll i~ h or other doubt thc crit ics cou ld Il aq' never have SI,:en tllc main the .;ccnc ill manifest ly one artistic c mhd l i~lll n c n l. With 1,Iayed it UI' to here. 8m idea themselvcs. But there uf combinatio nal sacrifice. tltis sort "f l'''slli"n. it is now, taking one deel) breath will be 110 such Ill>stmortcms The sac is I)allt; Ihe combo whole hIll; or naught. How and wha t time you need. H'I here if yOl11' "jccing eye" begins to rcbound; anri the d<) you win - which is to forth to co nfound all p o ~ , ~ Il ot~ the muill chance. fin ish is clean. Go to it! say - how do Y"lI mate? sihle critics. How?

7 White to move and mate 8 Black to move and mate 9 White to move and mate 10 Black to mo ve and mate Let's leal'e criticism be· The cril ics'll never get at Here's une "n wh ich those As 8 finis and quietus, we ]'ilid, sha n we? and go for this. It's from a game, yes; crilics may gct u~ . We offer stick in a standard quiz po. our own creath'c artistry. bUI it's a sirict ir might. III' II mate ; !Jul Black has II sition. Don't stol' liS if The problem here is to mate. hal·e·been position. But, number of diffcrent defenses. you've hea rd it before. JII.t It's not reall y hard. Just gh'en the chance, tl,e critics Be su re to accuunt fo r a ll : go ahead and mate. But, a. compound Ihree parts of the mi ght hal'e made hay. For and, .... ho kn,,"·';? ~-o u In a)' a IlOint of art, enjoy the obdous wit h, pe rhaps, two the finish is lI ot obvious and set us up fur a cook. Sure, posi ti on first: Black is so of ingClluity - or i~ it one is subject to quite some reo it's a fine broth of a prob­ utterly busted - e:o; cc pt that and a half'~ hashing. Try to work out lem. But takc it with a grain he is on the move. Okay now: Solutlont, pllg e 288 a sure mate. of salt , nlllle! work Out the mute.

258 CHESS REVtEW, SEPTEMBER, t 9~6 CHESS Vol. 24, No.9 REVIEW SEPTEMBER, 1956

Chess Dynamo O'Kelly de G,dwuy of Belgium, pcr­ haps Ihe world's most active player, chalked up another triumph at OstenJ whe n he emerged undefeated from a round robin with five win s and I \Vo draws. Runner.up was Holland's J. H. Donner, 5%.1%. whose Joss to Dr. Ossip Bern­ stein of France in the last round cost him at least a lie for first. Coupled in third and fourth places were Dr. Leh· mann of Germany a nd H. Golombek of England, 4%.212 euch, with Lehman n standing beucr on tic·breaking points. (See story on page 266.) Laurels to Italian In a chess festival at Cardone, Italy, the Italian, Napolitano, and the Yugoslav, Bozich, took fi rst and second respectively on S.-B. totals after each had scored .J.1 in games. Canal (Peru) and Obson Reshevsky (left) in Game 2 vs. Lombardy. The game was played in a hot spell such that hardy kibitzer H en ry E. Eckstrom had to rest at times. See games, page 260. (Sweden) tallied 3%.1V:! each. Yugoslav Communique UNITED STATES New York ; in the tent h, hc (kkated Rob· A tourney at Palanka, Yugoslavia, went crt H. Steinmcycr of St. Louis ; and, in the joint ly to Dr. Bel)' of Hungary and Karak. NATIONAL elel'enth, he took a dnm· with J alllt:s T. lajieh of Yugoslavia, each lO~.21h. Dr. Older but still Tough Sherwin of New '( ork on Ihe cllll sideration P. Trifunovich of Yugoslavia, 8V:!.4Yz, that he then stood to win the tunrnament. In April. 19·19, we run the coyer picture finished third. The story of that consideration and of of Arlhur Bi ;: guier with th e story that he the twelfth rou nd adds to the li st of con· Palm to Pilnik "mar be yuuug hut he certain))· is tough. troversial USCF last rounds. The pairings After a bad start in the Manl'attan Che .~3 At the Edgar Colle Club in Erusseb, throughout 11 rounds had been made on H. Pilnik, Jleripatetic Argentine grand. Club Championship, the teen·agcd U. S. lhe so·ealled Median ~y s tem on which Bis· master, won a small tOll mel' with 2V:!.%. Juniur titlelwlder showed amaziug: stamina guitr could predict hi s la ~ t ruund oppo­ in recoverin g to retain his Cl!dl title with nent. He states he agreed to the draw Moral Victory 8·2." with Sherwin on that expectation; hut, Despite the presence in the line.up of Today, "lder and much thinner. Bi ~ gu i er when the pairings wel·e posted .) minutes h kol', T rifunovich. .Matanovich and is still t"u~h. In the uscr ··Open" at hefure play in the 121h round, he found Karaklajieh, a Belgrade team could do no Oklahoma Cil)". he started wcll with two the i\Iedian system had not been followed. better than tie a nl(lteh with Sofia, Bul· win s (one agaiust the redouhtablc, oft· His protest rejected, Bi ~ gui e r considered garia. The result of the double round en· times Ok lahoma Champion, Dr. Bela act uallr withdrawing but finally, rather co unter was 10.10, an excel lent result for Roz ~ a ) . But he lost jnglori O I1 ~ J) ' to Daniel than sacrifice e,'erl'thin g, he offered his th e underdog Bulgarians. A. Fisehhcimer of Chicago in the third opponent, Edmar .Mednis of New York, round. And, as it goes in Swi ss Sl's tems a draw on the first move by way of further Drop in English Stock with ]urge numbers of contestants. he was protest. They did draw in ten moves. The twenticth annual mateh between promptly plungcd into the ruck. And we Bourse and the others took the lead. and the headlines. Curiously, even with th"l draw, Bisguier Stock Exchange wa s bagged by the Displayin g some of that Bisgllier slam ina, won first place, with a elear ma rgin in Dutchmen with 10Y::·5V::. however, he fought back wilh a steady tie·breaking points over Sherwin who made sllccession 'I f d ean wins (only Attilio Di an equal 91h·2Yz game points by defeating Camillo of Philadelphia succeeded in Edgar T. l\IcCormick in the last round. So drawing a gam e with him) till he finally Bisguier is today both the regular USCF engaged those leaders again. In the ninth Champion and the uscr "Open" Cham· round, he defeated Anthony F. Said)' of pion. :HESS REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 1 9~6 259 Trainin9 Match Mr. A. Bisno reports that the Ru ss ia n ~ ha\'e definitely accepted terms of match betwcen Samuel Reshc\'$k)' and . It is to be in December, and the Bussians express irott'rest in having Re­ tihevskr compete in the Alekhine TOll1'll1l' ment. in Moscow, between the Inte rna· tional Team Tournament and the Match. In a sharpening session, the American Chess Foundation pitted young Bill Lom­ bardy again st Reshcysky. and they have had five draws, as we go to I)ress.

Game 1 was conceded 10 be 11 draw by Reshevsky aUer adjoUl·nment. though he was II Pawn ahead. Played August 9th and called drawn Au ~"st 15th. it was the !I\OH e);;clUng by far of the first three gllmes of the set of si);;. SICI LIAN DEFENSE W illi am Lombardy Sam ue l Reshevsky White Dlacl. P-K4 P- QB4 22 P-N5 PxKP DR. H. SLUTZ 2 N_KBS P-QS 23 PxKP Q_K6 HAAAY F AJANS Champion of the 1st Silverstar cruise S P_Q4 PxP 24 PxN OxP The "Chess Aho i" Ch ampion of c ruise 2 and President of Cincinnati Chess Club 4 NxP N_KBS 25 KR_ R4 B-N5 a nd ex-star of the NYU Chess T ea m S N-QBS P-KNS 26 0-0- 0 A- KS 6 B-KS 8_N2 27 N-NS Q-BSt The three S's who hUll struggled so long 7 P- BS 0-0 28 R_Q2 OxO RUY LOP EZ in tht: lead dispersed somewhat by the end: 8 Q-Q2 N_BS 29 RxO R_RS Lomba rdy Reshevsky Sherwin placed second on the tie·hreak; 9 B_QB4 N_QR4 30 Rj2-A2 R_Ql 'Vhile Blatk Steinmeyer secured a clear third at 9·3, 10 B-NS B-Q2 31 R-Q2 R-R8t P-K4 P-K4 21 R- Q4 QR _Bl defeating J. Theodorovitch of Toronto in 11 B-R6 R_B1 32 K-B2 B-Q8t 2 N- KB 3 N_QB3 22 QR-Ql A-B3 the last round; but Saidy slipped into the 12 P-K R4 BxB 33 RxB R/1 x R S B- N5 P-QRS 23 Q- QS R- Ql first of the large tie· b rackets so common 1S QxB P-K4 34 N-K2 P-K5 4 B_ R4 N-BS 24 P-QB4 Q-B2 14 Nj4-K2 P-QN4 R- Ba in a Swiss system a t 8l/2.3'i2 along with Di 35 R-R3 5 P_Q4 PxP 25 P-B4 P-B3 15 P-R5 NxB 36 R-KS RxP Camillo, Mednis, S. Popel (of Detroit ) 6 0 _ 0 B-K2 26 P_QN3 B-B2 16 RPxN P-N5 37 RxP PxP A_K 1 and Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn- who sets 7 P-K5 N-K5 27 P-KA3 17 N-Q5 N xN 38 PxP KxP 8 Nl

.~ u pre maey Hosen],lool\l Irollhr Jor tire Philadelphia _\,·If· j a .lry. Co.champions of the Wood· Joun,l Dr. H"dney Bai ne rC jJ ca till;! as :'Il is· area ehanlpi"n; hip j,y orR' match I'"inl bury Cltf'ss Club are \'\·illiam E. Archer ~ L." i pjJ i champion. Hi ~ ~c " rc wai; an out· " I'e r Ila'·erf"rd. with ~ w~rll,nl"r e a nd ami Stanley !'o J. Fra .• ie r. F.ach ;; cored . ~ : ~ :' Ianding 6 ~'2 .1~. wcll a head of L. 1'. Vi llal",,·a ai , ,, e"ll!p"tin~. Cro u-der. Z. T. :'I 1.· Kili ney an.1 T ed C"x. points out o f 6. ahead of (;,·"rlle Cake in B"h ~ rt I.. C. B"rnholz rdained his each 5·2. who fini~hcd in the order men · thinl plaee wit h 4·2. dlUll!l'i"Il_ Salt Lake Laboratories emerged first wi th .17 game station. will be a Ij minute "Chess for City rapid tran,. it chall!l' i"n; hil' with a po int s, fu lluwed by the Pacific Gas & F un" progrulll aimed a t youth groups. 5·0 ~hHn . Second in tllO" I · ~ man Swiss was Electric Co. with 35 and the CalHorniu ~ h u t .ills, hospital pati e nt ~ and the like. Dick H t~ ilbul. ·1.1. Dr. Er win Underwood will ,,!fer chess in· Research Corporati"n with 33%. Indil·i,l­ V,'rllloril. Sundry ma tche" in thi _ slate strudion for heginne rs. ual honors went t" E. Hoffer and S. I'oul· yielded tl,,· following data: llurlingtun 9%. ~ e n. J r., 7% each. Qualifying from the Ea ~ tern Division Hut land 4V2: Hut!and 12%. Castleton The annual Lu~ Angeles I' luygruund of the Cleveland Che."s l.f'ague fo r the Teach..,rs Coll ege .:;!/~; Williams Colle g~ ChI'S .'; Totlrnarlle nl yielded 31 fin:!l i ~ t s champion~hip finals Wf re tir e Cleveland 7Y2. Benninl!t"l1 Area 6 \12 ; R. P. I. re pre,enting 21 pl aygrounds. In the stmior Chess Club und the Ca ~e Chess Club. In 7 Y~. Bel1ni ni't"l1 Area 4%. The hest in· dil·ision. lim it ed to ages between 15 and the W e~ t e rn Didsion th .. qualifying team~ divid ual ~ h"win ;! in t h e;; ~ encounters was 17. Stephen Shn l "m ~ " 1t and Hobcrt Lorher we re the Cle\-eland Lat,·ian._ and the At· made h)· G""r;!l: Wil liams with a score of made equal :l~~· ~S game ~co r e~ . the nod la nt ic fnternaliunak ;) Jl ni nt ~ oUI "f 6. fnr fir~t going tn S llO lolll~ "n Oil Swi ss to ta b . Kenneth Hense. 14 years old. ;I:ured a clear fir~t with -1,·0 in the junior d i\· i~ i,on . Adventures of a LOll i~ialia . Wilh a n 8·0 s weep. A. Buck. CHESS MASTER land convincingly G:qltu n~ d the \ ew Orl f' ans Chess Cluh crown . C.,un ~ lie· by George Koltanowski breaking J! o i nt~ ga'·e second t<> Irene rines. t hird 10 A. L. :'IlcA uley and f"urth THIS 10 Frank Cha'-cz. Each <>f t hese t hree BOOK is really a chess tour of the world. ,cored 6·2 in games. Forly.seven play. George Koltanowski has played exh ihition matches H~ took parI. in more cou ntries than the average man, chess TIlt' New Orleans ~ pe ed event was wo n player or no, sees in a lifet ime: England, France, bv A. L. .\lcAuley, 14·\. Runner.up was Swilzerland, Spain, Germany, all of Latin America, :'I I. Blumcnthal. une p"inl llt'hind. At Baton H"uge. H. 1'. T:lylor and Ca nada and the Un ited States. And his ill ustrati ve Frank Gladney both lallied 7· 1 in a round games are richly interwoven with sparkling com­ rohin {or the city title. wi th thc ti c brok. ments on these places, on the great names of chess t"n in favor of 'I'u,.l"r. in recent years and on the mysteries of exhi bition St'lHl/ska. Alcx;lnder Lic pn ieks and Ri ch. performances, especially bli ndfold play at which a rd Hervert, each 4 \12. 1 V:; . ~h ar e d prclilier he is unofficial champion. h o nor ~ in a four·man. double round robin An international chess ma ster, fo rmerly Belgian at the Li nculn Yi\ JCA Chess Clull. Vladi· master, George Koltanow:; ki conduc ts a lively chess mir Rajnoha wa s third with .~ · 3. The eighth annual match hetween Lin. col ullln in the San F rGlI cisco Chronicle and the (oln and Omaha wound up in a .'i ..'i ~ tand· Miami Herald. He is well equipped to relate his off . \Vinners for Lineol n were 1.. i\lagee. odyssey of chess, in tottrntl ments a,; well as exhibi­ D. Ackerman, .I . S pence amI D. Osmond : lions. His short history of blindfold play is reveal· fo r Omaha. t lr ey were V. Raj noha. B. ing with due mention of such great;; as :Morphy, Lewis. R. Cutt~ and J. Danenfeids. Two j! ames were drawn. Blackburne and Alekhine. The account includes his own early blindfold traini ng . .\ -elt! Hampshire. :\ t ri" of B year old boys dominate.1 Grollp :\ of the Concord Many. many gam~s - lavish diagrams _ price : $4.00 l unior Championship. DUI·id Fessette was DAVID McKAY COMPANY, Inc., fi rs t wilh 4% .% . while Ge rald nohinson 55 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York

CH ESS R[V t ~W , 5EPTE MB ER, 1956 261 Virginia. The Charlottesl'ille Raling Tour­ IT·isconsin. The biggest :\merican chess nament finished with Terence Y. Mullins meet on record is under way in Milwau· as city champion. He scored 4%.%, draw­ kee. sponsored by the Milwaukee JouTnal ing with Prof. S. V. :\IcCasland, wh u and the city's Department of Municipal placed sccond with 3~~. 1 Y; . Dr. Frank Recreation. It is the 17th Annual AIl.City Daniel came th ird at 3·2. Junior Chess Tournamen t, in which ahout The annual city championship of Rich· 3.000 boys and girls up to 18 are entered mond City was won by Rohert Feeney, 6·0, in the preliminaries. According to the but not the title. as he Jives 40 mil es .lJilwallkee jOllfnal. it has been estimated away (at Chilesburg). So Daniel Fidlow Ihat ovcr 40.000 young peoille have play. retaincd title and tr"phy. winning on ed in this unique event during the pasl S.-B. points over William Wirth who had 16 \"(~ a rs. the same 4·2 in game points. :\Iiss Berlie Lec Wicker (18 years) won Ihc "Wood­ pusher's" class tournel' wilh 5·1 and su­ CANADA [Icrior S.-B. points ol'er Carl Sloan who Alberta COMING EVENT5 IN THE U. 5. m(ui e an identical game score. AND CANADA L. Moser. on the staff oi the Uni\·ersit)· Hubert Bonwell of Roanoke won the Abbreviations-55 Tmt: S .... lss System Tour­ of Alberta, is the new provincial cham· nament (In 1st round entries paired by lot V.P.I. chess tournament, ahead of Arthur pion. or ~electlon; In subsequent rounda players Old of Tidewater, in an eliminati on af· with similar scores paired). RR Tmt: Round Robin ToornRment (each man playa every fair of nearly 150 players. British Columbia other man). KO Tmt: Knock-out Tourna­ For the third straight time, Walter ment (loBers or low scoren eliminated). IT' asil;ngton. The championship of Sea ttle n: Cas h prizes. EF: Entry tee. CC: Chen as wd l as that of the Inland Empire and Jursevkis won the British Columbia tit It'. Clob. CF: Cheu Federation. CA: Cheu As­ Easlern Washington Open came int o Ih e His current winning score was 6%-Y2. sociation. CL: CheBa League. p" s~ess i on of Viktors Pupols with scores A retired Burnaby watchmaker ha, of ·1Y; .1 1/2 and 5·1 respectively. In each lJU iit a rapid transit chess clock out of Indiana-Oetober 13-4 casco Pupols' victory was obtained through assorted odds lind ends. It is a precision 3d Annual Fort Wayne Open Tourna· tic.brea king points against riva ls who timepiece whicb can be set to chime for ment at YMCA, Ft. Wayne: 5 rd 55 Tmt equaicil hi s game score. In Seattle, the periods from five seconds to sel'eral min· (3 rd, Oct. 13, 2 Oct. 14) at 45 mOI'es runner·up was Dr. A. A. Murray of Ray. utes. The craftsman is Joshua Heath per 11.6 hours: EF S5: SS 50%, 30% and mond. Washington; and, in Spokane. he !\fayer, 88, who has been playing che;;;; 20% of fund of 60% total EFs, plus a was Cornelius Gordon. sincc he was 14 years old and still pushes brilliancy prize. Bring chess equipment. At Tacoma, Vernon Holmes was succe~s ­ a wicked Pawn. For details, write to D. C. Jones, 3424 ful in the club round robin with the con· The .Hail Bag, a publication of the N. Washington Rd., Ft. Wayne 6, Indiana. vincing score of 12112.1/2. Outstrip[lerl wcre postal workers of various cities in British For hotel reservations, Mr. Hal'el, Y:\ICA , Hultman and Carlson in II tie for sec"nd Columbia, features a regular chess column 226 E. Washington Road. aI9%-3%. de\'oted to chess problems. The Walla Walla Chess Club took a Ontario New York-Oetober 20-21 double· round contest from the Spokane In the final for the Hamilton Chess "Lake Eric 'Ollen' Championship" at the Chess Club b)' 6.4, as Ray Kronl]uist starred for Walla Walla with a double Club title, Myer Harris, the club's pre::· Hotel Buffalo, Washington and Swan 5t, iden!. was successiul with 4-1. J. Plewe::. Buffalo, N. Y.: 5 rd S5 Tmt: 50 mOI"es in victory. All his teammates split their points. 31/3-1112, was runner·up. 2 hr: EF 87 (S5 for Juniors): 88 ht $75, 2d 825 & trophies. incl. one for high, The Highline High School was no match Quebec ior the West Seattle Chess Club in a set·to est ranking Junior: for details, write tn The Premier Reservcs of the .Montreal that saw the students blanked by 0·10. William Ru ~c h. 482 Lisbon Avenue, Chess League went to Karl Kristemen. The high.riding West Seatlle team mem· Buffalo, New York. recently from Denmark, with a 4·1 talk bers were Ben Weischer, Max r-.lage. Kil· :"Ieil McEachern was second, and qual i. lian Seekamp, Fred M. Howard and Gene British Columbia_October 26_7 fies, along with Kristensen, fo r next years Vukonich. city championship. The Premier Resen'e ~ British Columbia High School Cham. If/cst. Virginia. In a match hetwee n are fed by the Major Reserves and the pionship at Qualicum Beach: 6 rd 55 Charleston and Huntington, featuring the laller in turn by the Minor Reserve s. Re­ Tmt: EF SI: trophies for 1st and 2d: participation of West Virginia's fi ve co· ce nt :\Jajor victor was G. Van Dom p­ for details, write to Paul Smith, Parh­ champions, Charleston conquered by 6·4. ~ daar , a newcomer from Holland, whilt ville, B.C. thus taking the rival city's measure for the Minor event was won by Da\" id Ihe second consecutive time. William Hart· Aboody, only 13 years of age. Wisconsin-November 23.25 li ng, William Cuthbert, G. Hobday, Wal· At the Club du i'tIat for blind player" 3d Annual "Nnrth Central Open Tour­ ter Crede and Walter Privette won for 1. 1\1. Lehel, 5Y2.Y2, won the championship nament" at Schroeder Hotel. Milwaukee, Charleston, while Donald Burdick, Rudd far ahead of his closest rivals, J. Cimoll Wisconsi n: 7 rd 55 Tmt: 45 mov es in 2 T. Neel and Jack Abraham scored full and R. Fallot, each 2Y2.3%. Cimon is hours; 2S mph afterwards : EF 87 for points for Huntington. Two draws were quoted as saying that about a dozen chell user. members; 88 for non-members: SS recorded. books and a chess magazine are available total prize fund S500 guaranteed; lst in Braille. prize S200 guaranteed; for fu rlher de_ Final standings in the Class "A" tea lll tails, write to Arpad E. Elo. 3935 North championship of the Montreal Che:;.s Fiebrantz Drive, i\lilwaukee 10, Wisconsin. League saw the En Possant Chess Cl ub. represented hy i\L Fox, M. Guzc, A. Gar ~ lick, J. Gersho, C. Podlone and M. Husi d. For benefit of our readers, these ttems are printed If reported by authorized offi_ in top position by a one· point margill cials at least two months in advance. over the second.place Royals.

~62 CHESS REVtEW, SEPHMBER, t9S' Ch essmaster r. A. H orowitz has made al. most an annual rit e of his simultaneous exhi bitions at Dee rfield Academy and is repeatedly re.invlted. F or his continental tour, see page 271 .

LATIN AMERICA Argent ina Tying for first in thc traditio nal Mar del Pla ia Tournamclll ,,'ere Julio Bol· bachan and Miguel Na;dorf wit h equal ;;cores of 12Y2.3V:!. Next, willi II·S each. we re E. Eliskascs and Sanguinetti. T hc galhering this year was attended ex· clusil'clr by South Americans. FOREIGN England A strong showin g was made hy C. Kottnauer, 4 %'Y2, in lhe Ilford Premier To urnament. Two poinl s behind in the ro und robin were A. Phillips, P. H. Cla rke and R. C. Wade. The Counties Champ ionship WIIS credit · ed to M i ddle~ex when the latter downed Warwickshi re in the fintll by 16·8. In the National Club Knockout Cham· pionship. Ilford was viC IOri OUS by 4-2 in WHERE TO PLAY CHESS tbe final against Manchester. Cam bridge University retained the California Ne w York British Un ivenities' Championship by PACI F I C PALISADES CHESS CLUB BROOK LYN C H ESS CLUB edging Queens University (Belfast) with 601 Latilnel' Hoad 80 Lafayette A "enue a 4Y2.3Y2 score. Pacific Palisades. Californl;l Brookl),n, ~ell' York Telephone: GL-·1·5161 Telephone: CJ·3·i687 Holland Two smaU three·round tourneys saw Florida MANH ATT AN CHESS CLUB Bruyn and Van den Tol successful, each 100 Central Park South with a 2%-% tally. MANATEE COUNT RY CHESS CLUB New York 19. New York ( Bradenton, Florida) Telephone: CO·5·8i38 Hong Kong P.O. Box ,6. Cortez. Flol·ida. c/ o of J~. M. Malcolm: BI·adenton 9·2·191 MARSHAL L CHESS CLUB A match in this British crown colony 23 West 10 Street between the R.A.F. an d th e Army WIIS Illinois New York, New '1'01'11 won by th e former with 6·4. Telephone: GH·7·3 716 IRV ING PARK YMCA CHESS CLUB Ireland 4251 Irving PaL'k Road T IM E S C H E SS CENT ER Easy victory by 4Yz·l% over the Cal· Chleago, Illinois HI West 42 Street New York. New York way Chess Club enabled Eoghan Huadh Mossachusetts Chess Club of Dublin 1.0 regain the All · W E ST CHESTER BRONX CHESS CLUB Ireland Club Cbampionshill Ihey held in HIXON CHESS CLUB 22401 Westchester Avenue 1954. Ho tel Hixon Dronx 62, New Yorl, North Attleboro Telephone: T A·3·06 07 Massachusetts Chess in Novel Vein VORKTOWN CHESS C LUB In Ihe June issue of Playboy magazine, New Jersey Yorktown Helght s .~. Y. Telephone: cbess is given the "plush Playboy treat· EI'enlng. Yorktown Heights 2-456 4, mellt" in a nine pagc spread which chess L OG CABI N C HESS CLUB DilY, Yorkto\I' n Heights 2-4153. ( F ounded 1934) col um ni st Walt Crede ca lls "alarmingly At the home of E. Forry Laucks different." In addit ion to uniq uely ar_ 30 Collamore Terrace Ohio tistic illustrations, the chess material in. West Orange. Xew Jerser eludes " Last Gambit" (a short story by CINCINNAT I CHESS CLUB Chamnions of the X. Y. ""let" League. 1209 Mel'cantile Lib. Bldg, 41-1 Walnut Lor ing D. Mandel ) and pertinent data by 19~8. Organi~ed and founded Xor lh Jer$e)' CheM League and Inter·chelU L eague. Stl·eet. Cinci nnati, Ohio: Phone N. Gabor, REVIEW'S A . First CHESS editor, 1. Horowitz. to help in large sca le inter's l nle m a tchcs. Woodburn 1-6480. First to fly ' air to Deep Rlvc r Ch eal T he Reshevsky Story Club. F ( r~t to promote hugest in tel'na tlonat match of IS and 19 boards. F'lnt 10 make Washingt on. D. C. Samuel Heshevsky recently was the sub· Iranscontillcntal and International ha rll ­ ject of a biographical sketch in the New storming tours. WASHINGTON CHESS DIVAN York Times which related some highlights 2445 Hi Street, N. W. of his colorful career beginning with the For Information on how your club Ciln be Washington, D. C. age of nine. lI . ted, write to CHESS REVIEW. Telephone· CO·5·9890 CHUS REV tEW, SEPTEMBER , t9Hi 263 An outstanding recent game, annotated by a famous international . by DR. MAX EUWE

RUSSIA vs YUGOSLAVIA that. on this occasion, the Russ ians achi eved their Team Match, Belgrade, 1956 victory in the «fifth hour." The apportionment of time is, besides a question of The two strongest chess count ries in the world routine, also a malleI' of insight into th e complicated have taken each other's measure in a co ntest which character of the chess gam e. One must realize that lasted abo ut two weeks. Twelve grandmaster;;- were of every position, however sim ple, can suddenly present the party, five from the Yugoslav side. Thc best rc­ problems which cannot lJ e solved within a short span sults were obtained by Smyslov and Geller (5 lh out of of tim e. If things are left to coast along to the la st 8) who ev idently continu e to carryon thei r rivalry minute, then gross blllnd ers hecome unavoidable. It from the Challengers Tournament. Gl igorich and Auer­ is true that certain players, especia ll y the younger, a l'f~ bach scored 5 out of 8: lVfatanovich, I301es la vsky and so mil itant that they often hit the nail on the head even Korchnoi 4V:! out of 8. Keres and Tnimanov, finally, und er the stress of ti me pressure. Hence, such play­ had to content themselvei;' with 4 ou t of 7, and Pel­ ers may 1I0t shrink from th e spectre of time trouble. rosyan and Karaklaj ich with 4 out of 8. But they also, on occasions, have to pay the piper, as The contest was spread o"er 8 rounds, with the ind eed in the Amsterdam Challengers Tou rnament. USSR drawing two Hnd win ning the resi. Three times The percentage of draws conformed to that of th e Yugoslavia lost by the dose margin of 3~ to 4Y2 and last Challengers Tonrnu lll en t: an ample 6070 . It is not th ree ti mes decisively with 2V:! to 5V:!. The tota l too hi gh for a congregation almost exclusively of score, 38 to 26, on the one hand, confirms the suprem­ grandmasters. Six players remained undefeated: Smys. acy of Russian chess, on lh e other, shows thal Yugo­ JOY, Gligorich, iVlatanovich, Auerbach, Boleslavsky and slavia is on th e right road. The Yugoslav team scored Sima gin (the la tter played on ly two games). Di sre· gard ing the games \rhieh incurred an untimely ending about 40% and performed better th an the Argentinian owing to gross blundering, th ere still rem ain a suhsta n. or the Un ited States teams. For all that, luck in general tial \lu mber of fine games. It must be stated that the favored the USSR. A nu mber of times, the Yugoslav majority of the drawn games exhibited the " pador. masters (and grandmasters) threw away a fuH point draw"* character, running to from 20 to 30 moves. on elementary blunders. Time press ure was the great But often the win was hard fought for and th en proved spoiler, an d it is definitely no exaggeration to say out of reH ch for either side. ONE of the best games. in r egard to T his position has a lready occurred a build up and development. is the follow· llumb~r of Urnes in t he 1953 Challenger ~ ing drawn game between KOl'chnoi and Tour nament at Zurich and. each time. .\[atanovh::h. It contains a beal1 ti Ful com· has re sulted in disadvantage to White bination which, though overlooked. a tas. It is surprising, therefore. that \Vhite nonethetess lends the game a t rue cachet. lets himself in for it again - and again NIMZO_tNDIAN DEFENSE without success. V. Korchnoi A. Matanovich 13 NxP White Black In Taimanoy-Euwe. Zurich, 1953, t he weak 13 P- Q5 gave Black an early, de· 1 P_Q4 N-KB3 4 P-K3 0_0 eisil'e adVantage with 13 . N- K2 1-1 2 P- QB4 P-K3 5 B-Q3 P_B4 P-B·J. DxN 15 PxB, Q- Q2! 3 N_QB3 B-N5 6 N-B3 P_Q4 7 0 _ 0 N_B3 13 A famitiar offshoot of the variation. The normal position of this opening 14 PxN 11 B-R2 which. In less than ten years of prac­ 15 B-N1 tical ptay. has already been examined White's Bishop avoids the indirect at· tack by the Queen; but the pr efer en ce The nature of this ··ma tch'· is somewhat uo ­ from every angle. !nm!lin r here, having s ome e lements of a S P-QR3 S,N nowadays is the more centralizing 11 ro'''''l- '-obin tOllrnCl,mcnt. "'ith S on " lcnm. 9 PxB QPxP B-Q3. ~"ch playrr meets all 8 011 the OP)Xlsin ~ H,nm. once each. It s eem.~ 10 be called a 10 BxP Q-B2 11 •• . P-K4 Sl\'e,li~h team match in Eu rope. 11 could he 12 Q-B2 B-N5 cnll~d a round-robin team match. graphi­ • Curious ly . the Dutch reverses Ou r term. cally bu t "ather cumbersomely. \Ve 5 Ugge~ : "grandmaster draw:· infO thi.~ ··parlor_ that. in this country at least. it be cnll0:l draw:' - Ed. t _ check: • _ dbl. check: i _ dis. ch. " Yil'l:inia Reel.-Ed.

~64 CHESS REVIEW. SEPTEMBER, 19~6 Again, the sharpest and strongest. 21 Black cannot avert the loss o[ a Pawn P:..:N is refuted by 21 . B:..:R 22 P:..:D, (29 ... P-QIH 30 Q-;\'5) and so advances /I-Kilt 23 K-N2 (or K- B2J, R/l- Q8! his passed Pawn [01" a try at liquidating 21 R_B1 B-K5 the entire Queen-side. 30 P-R3 Q-B4 32 Q-Q4 P-B7 Ju~t by mane\lI'et'ing, Black dis l' UI)(~ White's whole attaek. 31 QxP P-B6 33 R-B1 P-R4 34 Q-Q2 R-B1 22 Q-N3 All according to plan. White l"1\n now make heauway only by surrendering h is Queen Rook Pawn in e:..:ch~lIlge for Black's passed Pawn, 35 P-QR4 Q-K5 38 RxP Q-N3t 36 P-R5 Q-R5 39 K-R2 R,R Already, with his last move, White's 37 P-R6 QxRP 40 QxR build-up is virtually condemned, H e has It is only by e:..:ception that the Queen taken 3 moves to align Queen and e nd-game of four Pawns against three Bishop all one diagonal, and he could offers any winning chances. have taken 2_ It surely Is not worth a tempo to have the Queen in front, ;\101'1"­ 40 P-N3 P-N4 PxPt over (ami probably this is the most im­ 41 Q-K4 Q-B2 "54 K,P K_R3 portant objection to this system), 'W hite's 42 Q-RSt K_N2 55 K_R3 Q- QNS Queen Rook is no\\' completely out of play, 43 Q-R6 Q-B6 56 Q-K3 Q-BSt Black to Play and Win 44 Q-B6t K_N1 57 K_N3 K-N2 15 .. _ _ KR- K1 45 Q-N5 Q-K6 58 Q-B2 Q-QNS 16 P-K4 In lhl~ position, Blark has a beau­ 46 Q_N3 Q- K5 59 P_B5 Q-Q6t This center advance ought to produ-ce ti[u! and decisive continuation at his 47 Q- KB3 Q-KS 60 Q-B3 Q-Q5 good attacking chances fol' White, ex­ disposal: 22 B:..:P ! 23 K:..:I3 (23 Px:N, 48 Q- KN3 Q-K5 61 P-B6t K-R2 cept that Black has aU his pieces ready B:..:H 2·1 KxlJ, Q-B6t, etC',). Q-K7t! 49 P- R4 K_N2 62 Q-K2 Q-N8t a t hand, The sequels are : 1) ~4 K-N3, N-R4t 50 Q- KB3 Q-K8 63 K-B3 Q-R8t 25 K- I{·1, Q:..:Pi 26 K-N~ , Q-N6t 27 K:..:N, 16 . , .. QR-Q1 51 P-N3 K-N1 64 K-N4 Q-NBt 2) 17 P-B3 P - X3 ';' 28 K- R6, Q-R5 mate: 24 R-D2, 52 K-R3 K-N2 65 K-B4 Q-Q5t Q- N5t and 25 H-Q8t: 3) 2·\ K-Nl, Drawn 17 P-KB4 is also possible; but, after R-Q7!! (a I'el'y fiae illustratiOIl of ob­ 17 _, Q-R4, Black eventually Pl'OlitS structlon: note that, on 24 . N- N5 at from such possibilities as B-K7 ai' lHH:e. White has 25 Q- B2 al"ailable) 25 even, _ , D-Q8, 8:..:1{. ):i- X5 26 R- B3 (the only mOl'e to TRAVELING CHESS SET 17 .. __ B-K3 delay the mate), QxR 2, D-KI (27 In Geller-Kotol' (Zurich, 1953), 17 Q- B7"( and 28. ,Q:..:P mate was threat­ B-Q2 18 B-N2, 8 -B3 ]9 8-R2, N- R4 20 ened). N- K6, with an ullparriable mate QR-Ql, N-B5 gave Black the advantage. at 118 at' Ni. The text move is perhaps even stronger 22 , ... Q- N5? as Black can use his Bishop [01' attack­ Too bad [01' the game that ill::wk does ing pmposes via his B5. not avail himself of his brilliant oppor­ 18 P-KB4 tunity. Now White stands better just as White's course is dictated even though soon as I3lal"k's strong Bishop is to dis­ it leaus to nothing, appeal', 18 Q_R4 23 BxB 19 P-K5 24 QxP

This peg-in traveling set has a playing board aJl of S" square! Plastic men,-%" high, plug into plywood board which Is encased in a leatherette cover: The De Luxe model (also has compartments at each end for captured men). Standard model is in pasteboard cover (has no compartments). De Luxe In photo. Already, \\Ihlte's attack Ilas reached 25 B-K3! Order by catalogue number: its climax. A[tel' 25 QxP. Black still retains good No. 197-Standard model ______$1.25 19 .. , . B-B5! chalices, by 25 . _ . N-K7t 26 K-Rl, Q- R5, No. 199-De Luxe model ______$5.00 threatening 27 . , _ N-N6t. 'But t his tll'ist An exceptionally strong move, whereby has been rendered harmless as White has Black combines attack and defense in B- B2 at the critical moment. excellent fashion. Capturing on £6 is Send for complete not possible because of 20 .. BxR 21 25 . , , , N-Q4 catalogue of chess supplies KxB, R-Q8t 22 K- B2, Q-R5t 23 P-N3 26 QR-K1 (23 K-B3, R-BSt and mate next). Qx:RPt Not 26 IhP, NxP! 24 K- B3, R-BSt 25 K-N4, P-RH, etc. 26 .... N,B 2S R-B3 RxRt MAIL YOUR ORDER TO 20 R-B3 27 RxN R- QS 29 RxR CHESS REVIEW On 20 R-Kl, D-Q6 comes In strongiy. I3lack's attack has spent Hself, 250 West 57th Street, New York 19, N. Y. 20. . . . B-Q4! 29 . _ P_B5 CHESS REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 195"6 265 THE OSTEND INTERNATIONAL, 1956 A Fiftieth Anniversary for Dr. O. Bernstein By ALBERIC O'KELLY DE GALWAY

Of the 36 partici pants in the O$le nd T"urnament of 1906 only Ihree ilre ~1i11 '1Iive. Curiously enongh. a ll Ihrec were jUlrn in Ihe autumn of IBB2. T hey afC Bcrn~lein and Akiba RulJin ;;lcin (ill lint,;. ~ e l,,) and O. Duras (in Prague). Another ~torv which Bernslein IHlrrates fro llL 1906 - it shoK~ lite wilty tum of Illu ~I<'r5 in thc old day; - eon(;cl'llS his i!:lIlW ui!ainst '\mos Burn. a very g"ud frielld. Afler 8 Ill o\'e~. they had a simpl i. fied IH ,_-;i liun. and Bunl proposcd a druw. Jl e rrl.~ tcin refused and ;<)011 regretted il: f"r Bnrn hcgan to play ,eIT strungly. On Ih e 261h move. Bern~lt'in's posiliun W:lS c"mplclely desperalc. :'\:""" it was hi~ lurn I" pr " P" ~<': a draw ; hut. of cour."c. Burn rcfll .b \-6 and in Ostend. He woulJ not. however . .,-h·,· 8. Doerner ]-6. a finll commitmcnt to participate. But the most cxlraordinarr e~ent in this tournament was the participation uf Dr. ENGLISH OPENING Ossip Bernstein who had pla~ 'e d in Ihe H. Grob Dr. O. Be rnstein Ostend Tournament of 1906, all of 50 White I3lnc-J( years before. To accentuate the anniver· 1 P- QB4 N-KB3 sary there was the following purullel. In White is hoping. by plnying n molie rn 1906, a sorl of elimi nation system IOU l'llU­ opening. to draw his venerable OJlpone nt ment of 36 competitors was won by Carl :nto enor. As the sequel SJIOIV~. how. Schlechter ; but Ihe first prize was de· ~v~r. he miscalcIllates as Dlack handJe~ cided by Ihe game won by Bernslein "vcr the opening in a manuel' which model'u D1;ltk's last Is I'eminls(.:ent or Lasker Maroczy. In the 0 5tend lourn~menl of 11!;lyel's could envy. and \\ as )IJared i n s im[\ar positions in 1956, the same Bernstein decided fi rsl 2 N-QB3 P-QB4 the old cl ays. It seems (Iuite sonnd e ve n I)Tire by hi s victory m er J. H. Donner 3 P-Q3 loda y. which sct O'Kelly ahead by one h;\]f It is too much. of cOIII·se. to blame Ihe 10 B-Q2 poin t. loss 011 \Vhite's last mo\-e; but the IllO\'e Too mUch pl'epal'ation. While ought to does foreclose all possibility of getting an Bernstein narrales the foll owing concern· [,lay 10 P-QN~ di rectiy. opening advantage. \V hite's be!l'CS to the li me·limit. ( ',,~io ,(O (,01 ",,1:' wll h r e'\uC~1 lor pr"is e of it. 3 . . . . N_ B3 5 B-N2 B-N2 I 10" O.~ t ~ o<.l Chc~a Cl ul.> ,,,,

Disillu~ion! White dare not 16 QxP bee:i\llse of 16 . N-B4, thl'eatening R- IU which wins the Queen. The Queen retreats (~oon), having lost vll luable l ime. 16 P-R3 N-B4 17 Q-82 B-Q2 View of Casino (far left): see Be rnste in's remarks on page 257. 18 S-QS1 While provides more space for his 31 P-KS R_K7 34 PxP P.P Donner Queen. He has no time to develop in 32 R_KB1 P-Q7 35 P-QR4 N-K7t ,-iew of the threat, P-QN·I, followed 33 6-B3 R_K8 Resigns hr ., PxP and e,-entually B-H5. A ('lil;<;

O'Kelly

Bernstein The gaille was adjourne(l ill this posi· tion, with Dr. Bernstein sealing the move, '12 P- H5. He told me tl\(lt he 19 P-QN3 would will the game. I was rather skep· 20 QPxP tical, lind DOllller was e:onfident in his After 20 NPxP, B- R5 and 2l ... H-Nl , material adl'anlage. 42 P- R5 R-R3 While's game is also hO]leless. Grob 43 K_R4 N.P 20 Q-R4t! WhiW's Ian lllove was 35 Q- B:l . Here mill·k falls into a well hidden Dlael;: sets up a t empo gain for his next 35 NxB 37 QxQ R-Q7 trap. mOI-e: 21 P-QN4 only sets up more 36 R-Q8t RxR 38 P-R6 ..eaknesses after the reply, 21 . ' . Q-R5. Correct lIla" Ill:"lY be 13 . K- B4 44 "VlJit e ' ~ I'awn seems very dangerous; Il- Kl , K- n~ .][i N- K5, with the lhreat of 21 Q-Q2 Q-N3 but his I~ing iH in a. mating net. 46 N-Qi allil ·!7 N-N8, and pos"lbly win· 22 P-QN4 N-RS ning chances [or \Vhite. 38 N-Q5 White simply could not I(eep the 39 K_B3 It is peculiar thnt White was so Sllre Knight out. of winning the game: the future j ustified 23 N_K2 On 39 Jt - 131. mack ha~ 39 Jl.x:Nt his intuition. But, objeetil'ely speaking, 40 HxH, ltXI{7 H K-IU (not -II K- Nl, it is 100 lHu ch to say that White wins . and noll' he must give Ull something D- X 7.,. alul .1\ .•. N-?\6 nww), H-Rit (rom the diagTilmmeti position, to get his King into safety. 42 K-~l. H- Q7 ·13 K-lH, H- ilit ·1·1 K-Ql. 44 R-KN1 23 R.P 0-X6. and Black Wins. This i!lli et mo\e ,,-ins a tempo and 24 0-0 KR-B1 39 . , , P_QB4 25 N-B4 R-B7 hence the Queen Bishop Pawn. This win· Thi~ I()oli~ like a. problem move. On ning move e:ilme [0 Dr. Bernstein when What follows is only an execution. 40 Pxp, ['- X5t ·1 L KxP, l\- U3t! or -11 he awoke t hat morning. 26 N-Q5 XxI', X - N ·' mate. ,",or does ·10 Q-N8t 44 P-R3 Dlm'k noll' wins eomfortabl~' as there change llIiltt c r ~ . 45 N_Q4 K_B3 .-ill be nothing left to obstruct his 40 P-R7 46 R-QB1 Resigns passed Pawn. That dilngerolls Pawn goe~ on; but Indeed, aftel' ·17 NxP, followed by P­ 11 NxQ R.B 29 RxR N- B6 \Vhite is maled in fonr IllO\' ef< : ·1 0 :\r5, there is no defense. 28 NxB RxQR 30 R-Kl P_Q6 IlxN-, ·11 K- Q3, ll- B5t 42 K- K3, H.-B6t :Fol" this nice ending, a special prize Elacl;: threatens 31 D- Q5 . ·1 3 K-1l4, RxP mate. was awarded to the Willner. CHESS REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 1956 267 Up-to.date opemng analysis by WALTER KORN by an outstanding authority.

THE ANTI-SICILIAN PORCUPINE '\1~Curlllio:k of Log Cabin vs. llatlell of '\lal'~hall): S Q- Q2. B- K3 9 NxD, PxX THE YUGOSLAV VARIATION - Part One 10 B- QfJ.l. Q- Bl 11 0 - 0 (\-Vhite departs here from the I1 sual O~O-O apparentlr From the last issues of th is publication, OLlr readers will remember the better to altaek on the Queen·side if the deliberation concerning the "hedgehog" formation in the Saemisch DIad: e a~t les there while still having Variation against the King's Indian Defcnse, with P-KH3. The King's SOIll(: Pl'E'Sl\UI'e Oil the King·s ide despit ~ the text). N - K·l 12 B-X5t, N/3-Q2 13 Indian, we may note, has been a most popular defense against the Queen fl-Kft6, 0-0: (There is no better move: Pawn opening. In a curiolls parallel, the same strategy appears strong so the ' ·po~lp one menr· did not \\'oJ'k but and difficult to meet when used against the Sicilian, which is cnrrently :';till remains ,\- di~tinct a ttempt.) 8 Q-Q2 considered Black's most prOllllSl!lg defense against the King Pawn openmg. Since the last edition of Modern Chess Opc·nings, this line has heen widely investigated, und the ninth edition of MeO will bear witness to its increased import

Variation 2 (Resume from I ~.t diagn,m) 8 .. P-QR3

The "sub-I";lriant" illustrated by this Sub·variant A position has been so thoroughly jnl'es, 9 N_N3 P_QR4 ligated that a diagram i ~ a must. And. indeed. we break off he r e For fh'e sub· nlar-k ha~ (wo more ;,:ood weapons in (I) 9 B- Q2 ]0 0 - 0 - 0. P- QRA II sub , \'arialll~. P - Qll-l. N- Q:"<5 12 N- (} ·L H- BI amI (2) Sub·sub_variant 1 ~! . B- K3 10 N- Q5. P-QJ1·1 11 P- QR·!, 9 P- Q4! ? Ux:\' 12 P xB. N-QN5 13 P- qU·L N- Q2 10 NxN P,N (with equality - Pachmi\n). 11 PxP Sub·variant A 10 N-QR4 P-Q4!? 11 0-0-0 Here the push 11 P-K5 is not so in· 9 N/4-K2 QN-Q2 13 P-KR4 QR-B1 cisive a s on the 9th IIIOI'e in Variation 1. 10 N-64 P-QN4 14 P-N5 KN-Q2 An enlel'lu'bing attempl is 11 N- N6. 11 pxP 11 P-KN4 N-K4 15 P-R5 N-N3! H - N~ 12 PxP. N-QN5 13 p- Qn·l. JJ- B·\ J.I 12 NxP NxN 12 B-K2 8-N2 16 BxN/6 QxB! :\'- Q.;. :--; - !\5 ?! E~trill - Frietlstein. 13 QxN Q-B2! t;SSH. ID ·H. K i ri II O\'- j{ mla kOI'sky, KharkOI', 1936. It1(-olTect. yet deceitrul is 13 R-Nl As I1s\Hll in t his opening, Black has good 11 .... B_K3 whereupon While coulllel'S with H P­ 12 B_N6 prospects on the Queen·side, White on QN3 ! Q- D2 15 Q- B5. Q- :".'2 16 QxHP, the King·side. <1ud both players keep OIIC might argue for 12 ;\' / 3 - U~. Q-m 17 Qx\{, B-B4 18 QxHt, DxQ 19 B- ready to jump. 12 Q-Q3 1H with a winning advantage for White Sub.variant B 13 K- Nl Q-K4! (Havillsky- Trnpall. Kl'asnodal", 1952). It l'allo\' - I ~ ~1 ri would be Blac k's HII'll, howe\'el·. after 14 (Resume from last diagr~m) n, Zonal Toul·t1alllent. USSH. I~)'!~. P-fl3'? Q- B2 15 Q- 1l5. Q- N2 16 Q-R3, 9 0 - 0 - 0 P-QN4 B-B·j 1i B- QW;. Q- B2 18 P- KN·I, It:.;:P Too sloll' i~ 9 B- Q2 10 P- KN-l, 19 KxR. It- Nli 20 K- BI. ExP! Sub·variant B P-Q);·\ 11 P- N5. N- IH 12 N- Q5! (Bron· 14 Q-B5 He in). (Resume from la~t di~9ram) Also possible is 1-1 Qx\{, 8 - D·' 15 9 P_KN4 QxRt. KxQ Hi H-Q2 as White secures Tit(' :\"cbrasl,an Ludwig's move which, overwhelming compensation for his in our opinion. is ;net only. but quire Queen. satisfactorily. by , ' . . B-K3. 14 . Q-N2 Insunieiem b 9 :\" - K ~ 10 P-KIH. 15 Q-R3 B_B4 B- Q2 II I'- H5. J1 - Bl 12 l)-l\ltG. 11-:\"3 13 16 B-QR6! 0-0 -0. as in the parent game . Llidwig­ Shapiro. Colorado "Open." 1!! !', 2. Sub·SlIb·variant 2 In John W. Collins' opinion, not easy (Resume from last di~g r am) to el'aluat{) is t he {ollowing main line 9 B_Q2 13 B,N 8,B N,N Q,Q whicll l e al' e ~ Ulack with a ~trong Queen· 10 P-KN4 14 N- Q5 side aIU\l'k hilt While wilh the better 11 B,N Q- R4 15 NxSt P,N ending afte r s implification has taken 12 K-N1 R-K l 16 R,Q 10 B-R6 plaee. With a good game for White-Eeni­ Schneid .. ]'. Amstenlam. J95·1, Here another try is 10 P- QR3. U-N2 11 P-K:\,·I, "'- B3 12 P- KIH. P - KRI 13 PxP. Sub·sub·variant 3 S xRI' 1-1 R- :\,I , K- H2 15 K- Nl. Q- Bl 16 9 . . P-QR3 11 P-KN4 P_QN4 S -Q::; (Kmoch prefers 16 );xN). NxN Ii 10 P_K R4 N_K4 12 P-R5 Ib;;\'. Bx", I S BxB, B- R7t: ant! Black 8alaneJ- Hadules cu. Houm<1nia, 1955. flowJy gained the upper hand - L~lpiken ­ Black followed up wilh the unnece ssary Reshen; J,y. USC J·' "Open." 1955 (fOI' full sacrifice. 12 . . . Nxll1' 13 ;\'xN. BxP 14 p.me. ~ee paj!:e 311. CHESS REVIEW, B- K2. 1'- :\5 15 N - Q~ hilt did win after October. 1955) . an exciting game. \0 • • • . B-N2 15 Q-N5 N-QB3 1 BxB K,8 16 N-Q5 P- K3 Sub.sub·variants 4 and 5 (9 , :--"xN and J2 P_K5 N-Kl 17 N/Q-K7t N,N 9 B-K3 re~pectively) h<1ve bee n most 13 P-KR4 P-KR4 18 NxNt K- N2 widely used and warrant speciai inves· " N-B5t! K-N1 19 B-Q3 R-Rl tigation, which will be gi~'en in OUI' next 20 installment. 01[$$ REVIEW, SEPTE MBER, 1956 269 A SHORT HISTORY OF CHESS By Henry A. Davidson, M. D.

Chapter 8. Checkmate and II{' ""II Ihe gamc h'~e au sc Bl ack's nexl m"IC incI'itably re~u lt ell i" his losing hi. Del,ciopm cllt oj Cbeck (lml Checkmtll e. cenlurie.;;, slalemate n ... rt"ly C;UI"''i1 th~· king. When Ihc ki ng bcc~ lIl\ e immune from \'3 1l tu re (eighth or ninth eelllury), the ~ r Ul krn II la rer,; lCC m;mner. ;llJIe. a nd Ihe A rah ~ cuul tl not accepl il page 76. March iU li e-The Ki"g'J Immll­ Cnll~i , lcr the ~i t U;l l in li ill which \'( 'hile ,,'hen Iher hegan I' l a~ · ill g eht:l;s. They then nity ) and. if by ol'ersight yo u allow.·11 i ~ Ihe ··wi!tning·' plan'f in Ihll t he hll~ Went hack to the urig inal Sanskrit conct'pt your k ing to remain (1 !I(ler attack. your 1Il;1lI\" majnr pieces 31i ll nn th e lo"l!l"d. thnt lllack (in our example) mu~t 10;'(' opponent lifted him at the next mo,'c. ,..hil e Black has only hi ~ king pl us a fcw the j! amc. ,,"'hen the ~ame entered Eu· thus term inatinll th e game. The Per5i:1Il; hlocked pawns. Tn that .• it untioll. ~t;de · rope, it l!1lde rwent a lo ng pe riod of expni· started the pra(:tice "f calling lOu t "kin~ " mat,' has at one time " I" another h,:c l1: menl tlt ion (Sl,e Chapte r 1. pp. 12-14, J an· (shah, frotn wh ich " check") and evcntu. Il lIry i s ~ue), and m ed i ~\' al players tried ally declared it ill \:l,;ol I n rema in in n]" ,,1,\ ,.i,·lor.\" f01" \\'h il ~ - lhi ~ \\",,~ 11", ,",d e "a ["i"l1 ~ m e lh"d ~ of resolvin g the stalemak in 1""lh ,·,'H I"'·)· ,\1"" l d". f",. in ~ \Ut" · " . dilem ma. The French. wi lh their passion mOl'e into " check: ' Checkm ute thus ap­ hi A 11" lf',· i d,,~ .\" r",· \l'ilil e ".,, ~ ,h .. 1'1'1\\.­ pears 10 he the I"gical and indeed the (lil ly Ii,·,· ill "ilO·hl o;, .. "lh ~~" ' ''I' .\" '<;1'"1,, . for J"l'ali~ lll and lugic. ~ imp l y ~ aid tha1. if '·1 .\ ' ·;'-\01'.'" fo" HI,, ~ k. 'J"h! ~ 1'",·,,,lox\(-,,1 llI ack had Ill> legal move. he should sta)· cleci.., ive ga lllt ~ emlin g, 8ince in the chCl' k, ,·,,10 · h" .< )",,1 " Ion;: lif,· an" 1 )(' I' ~!' I l,) <1 1'1 wa~ mate po ~i lim1. no mlltt E' r wha t m Ol'!:, the I:,·i,,, in ".,,\1 into th,:, nino::t o::", "lh ,·cn t\l")". wllL're he anti let White move again. I , losing player made (a~su min g it were ",,~ ·,1>«> Ille llra('l",':' in "'·'·'·""'c"th :'>[eanwhilc. the ga me had been tra n ~ · ,·'·"1'''·.'· H,,".<;",, ",he ~ .' . mi lled TO HU~ $i a thruugh Asiatic channel ~. legal to I'emain in check), he would fM· ,I , ! 'i~" Il"w ...~1 entirety Th,,! i.< , the "'o,·c {eit the king at Ihe next move, Yet it is \\" h;" h ,.ff",",cd thc ~"' I, ·",a' e l~ It".-I f "" lin d thc parad oxical rule (I hat Black, the i1k"'''l "".>'·e. ",,,I \\·hi,,' ",; ' ,"""t~ It ",,Inlc"''''e ".n" oti""ltowed i" mo~ t or unnihilalwn. ,1]" I ';".~lern A s i ~ t ie rorm~ of l),,· ",,,,,.., with.lut affecling inl cr\"cni ng te r r i t or i e~. t ~I " "'lrt"nlly in Hm·",a. Indla . .J"I~'" "",I (T here was bris k direcl trade between tlu' :->l;o"l) unt il early In !he !",enth·\h . · . ·" 1"' ·~·. I",,, count ries in the sc\'cllleenth century. ) Robmlo. Annih ilation " I' robru{o i ~ c f. , .J 111, ... k (or {dl ~ " mo\'(', "",I \\' hlt,· lh"~ fecte<1 hy capturing all of yo ur " I' ])'" II"" ',,"0 con>'ee Ul ive 'T.o'·e~, du dlll!" lh,· ~ " ,._ :\ nd, although R u s~ i a ahandoned the old "",1 "r ",hl,·h he sin",ly " nllX"ks 11". ~'"I <·, rule whcn Welllt:rn cultural influence, nent's pieces exo::epl his ki ng, Until laIc T I ,i~ pr ....."" . differ>' froll) II",! ;n (" liO" to che~~, ,I". r" lc )0",·1 10): army, was hcl]Jless. Manad, Persian w, lrd 0\",'"(0),,,,1 first in (o, wleenlh ,.""",,.) I"oi)" ne"lI ~ l r through Spain li nd Italr, Und u ,to ,· for "help l es~," is the root of the word, "'HI Ihe" ",."dually 'H'·C'·, ",,\1 1 the uinel,·,,"lh ,· .., ,,t,,,· )". idea that it was somdlOw nohler to win hy u I'iclory for White, Then, in the se\·en· checkmate thun hI' annihilatio n ; so that. 1I i.~/()f)· vi Stalemate. The hi ;;!"I'Y " f ,l a b lecnlit eentury, recugnh:in g that this wa, in time, ,obm/o Ilcca me hnt a half.vi ctory. Illale then appears to have hecn as f" I I",\·~ : un~at i.~ fa c tory , they reached a vague com· In the l\blay ]l e n in~\l l a arose the c \ITiuu .~ Orilf inall y if \\ihire effected llu ~ ~ laJ.. JIlat l'. prnmi$e by c on ~ lruiJl g it as a half.victory. prac.tice of end owing thc iw laled king with the power of allY piece, Thus it be· came good jud::!llwnl 10 lea\'e YU ll r IlI'P'" nent with at least "ne /li tte in adcliti"n to th e king. d se it hecame excee

Stalcmate. The s ta l U ~ " f stalemale lI'a:< not stahilil.M unt il Ihe nineleenth cen· tury. Prior t" Ihat time, stalemate mi gln be anyth ing {nun u half.\,ictory for tI,c " ""inning" " layer to a h,]] \'iclory for tlw "losing" ])/ayer. J u ~ til i Cllt io n lor gi\'ing ViC lof\' to the " I o~ in~·· ])Iaycr was as fol· lows: it is illegal I" Illo"e inlo check. When r"u ]lUI your opponent into a po. 5itioll wlwre no legal mOI'c is 1 )V~$ib l c. yo u stall Ihe game, making it a Icgal nonen· tity. This is a ~ort of " foul," and yo ur Another unidentified set from C HER~ [{EVIEW files. Apparently Asiatic penalty is the forfei t of the gamc. In (note elephants, howdah), yet the set has cUl'ious "aJpen-men" \vruch France during the twelfth and thirteenth may perhaps be Nepalese. Cf. photos, July, p. 208-9, Aug. p. 237. 270 CHESS REVIEW, SE PTE MBER, 19S6 In italy, how ever, from the very begin ning, In cvery part 01 Enrope, IIlolemflte Im8 ishell" but uf "am hushed" - a nd 50 the !)(len considered n dr"w, AI Ihe che .. cl ub players could nut accept stalemate as a which met at P anloe'~, un nlu~."allo " h'" king is in "mate" when he is ambushed, victory for anyuoo.r. Ther argued Ihal, I"ken place :lnd he "-hOle ktng "'". st" IC­ at a 1055 or "abandoned" tu his fate. (T he nU" ed w,,~ dcel ...·,! ,h .. "i,'w.: on whn, n\l' since no legal mo"e was possi ble, Ihe Iho.;I,., It i" impo>,<;hlc to If!~ co\'(~ r, II Is word. " matc." meaning "companion" h il S game Sim l)l y slopped. Consequentl y, in ",ll"CI";\"{' of Ihe " fliTi' of c h \!J<~ Ih'" he who an entirely ,l iHerenl origin, coming fTom medic\'al Europe. fou r d ifferenl Sialemate """not litO" \! hilO kin" "ho",t! ){RI n "Ictory: the Anglo·Salon gemaka.) {h"t th(! 1')"H'r w;,ho", m",,"~ of ACOnl:' 10 rules were simultaneoLl sly in effecL and "n~' ''''IIl"er ;~ for~oo{h '0 I ~ l)ro"OtI .. rn and !Jeculiarly Sp lwi ~h ( vi ctory for White), Fl'enc11 (for. The heatl·d inten, it y Ilf Sa1'l' nll 's argu· EnglL.h onc, In lIU olher la nguaget does feiled move fo r Black), Briti sh (victory ments ill the second par(l:rrilpit indicntes lht j)hra!c for "~ tal cm ate" contain any for Black ) or Italian (orawn ga me) rules. that he \\'35 playin g Ihe rule " f a I'iguro\l s ;;y lla hles in CO lilinOn with that fo r "check. The Itlliian I)racticc event ually spread a{iI, tocate a nd that in his tillll: (1H28 I therc mate:' T he word pm or its equivalcnt is Ih roughout the Co ntinent , partly because mUSI han' bl.'CII many pl ay ... r~ clinging TO Ihe term for "~talema l e" in Croatian, of the Iremendons inflnence wh ich lt al~' the IlIl radO)xical rule ( "IIt,' r", i ~e, why ~u c h Czech, Dutch, French. Ge rman, H ungar. t"xcrcised on all [ urollcan culture, parti r Ii vili"wu;; I ) r ote,~I? I. )\urray ~( I y" pe r· ian. Tcelandic, Ita lian ( p(ltlare), P olish, hecause o f the wo rld fame of Ita lia n chcosa h 31 ) ~ the l a ~t "'f.rd ta lemale was a draw/l gam e. The Easl· Aspcrli n~ de Haroync refers I" Ii smoth. ern As iatic countries genera lly re fused to century." ered mate as pm, a 1I'0ro wh ich stems recoKn ize stalemate. and there the White from the salllC ori gin ~ ,. the French word. Elymology 0/ "C!u:d.:nw/t','· The wurd "f our exalll ple had 10 relract the pre· pate, OUT El1~li sh "pasle:' meaning ci lli t(lt inll lIJove, "checkmnte." is oh"iflusly composed of "stuck." FrolH France, the word. pat, ra· "check" pl us ';mate." Ch eck i ~ an Anglici. d iate,l thr(lu:! hout the rest of Eu rope. The The Paradoxical Brilish Rille. T he IJer· zation of the French t'chf.'c. whicll is de· Spanish nrig-lna ll)' called stalcmate (Ih oS' ril'ed frolll the Ita lian The prefix ~ i 5 t ence in Ilrilain of iti stalemate rule $I"htll;r:i, ado, tile ..\ ra bs !(lid and the Penians i~ one o f Ihe oddit ies of cheSS hi$tory,t e is a characteristic old French Ira iT. .shah'flllli. T hc mo~ t pollll ia r modern des­ It iR ha r(1 to determine exactly when Eng. Schaee; is a n adapta ti"n ( not a Ira nsla· ignation for "stalemate," aher pal, is the li;; h players accepted Ihe modern re gu la, tion) of the Arabic shllh. which in tu rn word. rem i$ . T his i5 an alternate designa. ti"n Ihat stalemate is a draw, Official clull i ~ a carhon eopr of Ihe I' e r~ia!l wo rd for tion in C7.cch, Dutch and Swedish, and is "ki ng:' " Check" thus come ~ frllm " ki ng," ru les conside red stalemate a draw liS early the regular term in Norwegian. It is anlll· as IfiOfl, yet am ong mosl plavefS the para· Since mill is the Arahic fo r "(lead:' the agoliS to the hackgammon term "sent It> dox ical rule wu s observed until the middle phnse, "checkmate" ajJJlCIU' ~ be an back." which, of coursc, i ~ the original of the ccntury. i\Iurrar writes that this anapl a ti llll of sh ah'lIl al e, mea ning " the Latin mcanin g of "remiss" and means that practice "was IIbandoned as a result of king is dead:' A ~ a m:atler "f fact, there Ihe game i~ a t all end, start o,'er again. Sarratt', infl uence in the London Chess arc at lea5t three objecti"n! 10 this pillusi. The English wort!. "stalemate" is dcrived CllllJ in 1808," Yel I ha\'e an anonymous ble thesis, First, the kin:; i~ 1I0t dud uitimMdy from the Latin Jlare (to stand ) Easy Introduc/ion to the Game of Chen, when thai IIh rase is uttered. In fael, he anti is akin In lI'on:1$ like "stale," "sla· i.s nOl even captured, ~l c is st ill on the published in 1813, in which the follo .... in !; tion" a nd "~ Ian ce" - 1111 of wh ich convey board , under :allaek. to he ! u rc, bill still appears: "If you place your piece.~ in the meaning of hdng fixed HT static. The alive. In the second pl ace, all t."or ly Arahic ~uch a si tuation as 10 Ilrevent yon r ad· word, "sta le," ai> aj)lllied to fuod has the chcss terms are borrowed from old Per· .. ers.ary's k ing movi ng without making it same uri!!'in: fOnd allowed to stand and a li able to be u kell , and he baving no uthcr sian, nevcr the rcver,~e; and the word mat ches~ gUllIe at a sundstill are both piece wh ich Il l" can pl ay, you Jose thc for " dt:nd" is :1n indigenous Arabic lerm, The Ihird and dis positive o l;j ~ct i')!l i8 thaI "staled. " The tag, "·mate," to the prefix, l ame, Since II book published in 1813 the P ersian II sed the ph ra""e ,tlllill mnt (or "stale." IHose from Ihe Ilersistent Britisll " "uld presumably be in usc for !lOme shah. mafld) udore an :\rah had c\'er practice "f enll sidering stalemate a vic· dl"Cadci:\ thereafter, il seems reasonable to heard of the i;ame, :a nd neither /JIm nor tory; hence il wa .~ neef'>-!lary to indicate infer thaI the rule p eTsi~ t ed until well m/mil m e a n~ ""dcad" in P er~ian. thaI. although play ~ t O I' I)Ctl. it was a legal into the middle of dIe century. Tltl! actual etYlnol"gy ,,( the wurd, ending. that i ~, a UHlle. In the 1828 edition of SarraU's !Vew " mate," tra(,ed by MIl;;:hadam. is that it ;renli.se on Chen appear (on pages 24 comes from the Persian /IIn/ll/ull (to reo t F.""",pt ",odern Oll,,\lC, In which the :E;"g­ and 53) the fo llowing IJa ragTll phs: main) , in the preterit f"nn of which Iisil-lal1l:-uH).:e ;"fltlco~(! [I! apparent, In G~elie, .... herkll1,.,\ c.. 18 mortsh.,ln lind (mUlIIl) it carried the "en",e ,)f "a ban­ "~'al"'''''I. ' '' I ~ le ~mh , h .l n , me",,;n"" NlSpe<:· A ,Inleluale hl\plle~ II", ~itu"li<)n in which doned:' I n fnl'mal tran s l al i on~ in P cuian (i\'el)' "r,, (,J,1 tJl'odlcan ,en l" and " s ill y pre· I~ I~ • plnrcI' I,Io,el'(l wh<.>"e kin;; not In cheuk, \l lcam. ·nl.' Th ~ WOl'le 10 "'O\'C unolhe,' I.iece. your kin"" .. ~n!d 10 he In "~I"le. 'i'he he;.l " "Ihorllie" ~f! tn conSider!"/:' " stalem RlC \0 be !'I lrawn g"'" O, ANNOUNCING • ThlR w,, ~ Ihe n..:e of ,,"ch Tt nU"n cheM Transcontinental Exhibition Tour nl8 as Sal\'lo. Rocco, 1'0'11< '''''0, Oel Rto. ~rer.. , Clanullo and Gre<:o.- H,A, O. by I. A. Horowitz

n t;6:;. l .... mhc Wrote; ""\\,h"n the king has Lectures and Simultaneous Performances mnn he can pin)'. I~ not in che<: k. yet I ~ hloc ked up Ihut hc C"" not mo\'e wl,hout For Jan uary a nd February 1956 For furt he r in formation, booking, in..: Into check, .h1 8 Is c''''ed a llale",,,le But write NOW for good write to I. A, Horowitz, 250 W. I)lH. In Ihl, c". e, Ihe king who I" 5t/llC' ~,cd wln5 Ihe lI"n'c."-H .A . D, and ti mely booking 57 $ t ., Ncw Yo rk 19, N. Y. GlESS REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 1956 271 EAST YAPHANK UNIVERSITY INCIDENT By GEORGE KOLTANOWSKI

I still don't understand it. It all hap­ "How about playing a game of chess Th ~ Colle proper! Let's see what it pened so last that I'm still wondering if with OUI' Betsy?" was what awoke me will do against my next move? it wasn't one of those "mirage" things. from my reverie. Dr. Yerdle had asked 3 .. , . P-QB4 To be beaten so qUickly - the Radiation me the qnestion cheel·fully. I jumped Bingo - that fast Bet;;y answered with must llave been responsible - well, almost a mile high. something uncanny must have been In­ "Wbat's that?" I shouted. "The rna· 4 P-QB3 volved - or why didn't I Illay 10 chine does play chess?" He,'k, I thought to myself, the person PxP? "Our Betsy plays anYthing we show who ~ ho\\'ed Betsy the best line of con· Before I ra\'e 011, let's start from the her!" was the answer. tinuation had not l'ead Ale:.:andel"s arti­ beginning. My friend, Dr. Mathews Rob­ "OK," I continued quick ly. "Let's start cle III BCM l'ecentIy, wherein he says that ertson, before leaving San Francisco, had a game right IIOW." P- Q n3 is the losing move for White. given me a standing Invitation to come I couldn't contain myself. I had to The game {'ontinued with to Yaphank University* for a chess s how. see Betsy in action. If these average 4 P-K3 6 QN-Q2 QN-Q2 so, when I went hack East recently, r players were the influence in the play­ 5 B-Q3 B-Q3 7 0-0 P-K4 notified Mathews that I would be down ing Hl'ength of Betsy, (lien the machine 8 P-K4 to see him. And an evening was arranged had no earthly chanCe to beat me at all. That lasL nlOVe jolted me a little, but at the nerve center of Peaceful Atomic But that was not Important. Could Betsy then I l'ecognlzed the pattern. The rna· Use - Yaphank University. ,Great minds actual!y play? - make decIsions for it­ chine was not actually doing anything In many diversj[jed fields were here self? - make combinations? I was burn· of its own. It was just making the Colle working for a better' and more useful ing vdth curiosity. Aftel' a few mimltes, moves. Wonder If it would have played world, which seemed an eternity to me, Mathews otherwise if I Iwd applied a King's Indian Dr, Robertson met me at the staUon came back with a set and board. Dr. Defense? and drove me to the Campns where he Yel'dlc pul!ed colors. 1 received the 011. well. let's rontil1lle naturally showed all that a visltor would Black pieces. He went to the machine 8 .. BPxP be allowed to see, Radiation is con­ and Jlressed some buttons, and voila - 9 BPxP 0 - 0 t rolled, and the machines involved in all mO\'e one was called out by Dr. Yenlle, 10 PxP the scientific research are just fantastic, who read from a small slip of tape He warned me that some people suf­ which Betsy produced magically. fered vague hallucinations after contact Betsy played Witll some of the machines, As I'm a 1 P- Q4 layman, I took in the sights with great I nodded aPllt'oval of the choice pleasure, but also with a cel'tain amount Ilroving that 1 P-Q·l [5 the best mO \'e for of reserve. The truth of the matter is White. I answered immediately with I don't understand much about It all. Last but not least, I was taken to see 1 . . . . P-Q4 Dr. Yerdle and found him to be in con­ which was relayed to Betsy - who start_ trol of the Integral Electronic Computor. ed flirting with me, by winking all O\'er (The Brain.) Quite sensational. Those the place. Then I heard Dr. Yerdle's electric bulbs, winking and twinkling at "Betsy plays you, right, left, top, right, bottom, left 2 N_KB3" - and click, out comes the answer. Betsy isn't going to play the Colle 10 .... NxP I gazed at It with awe and open mouth, Opening, is she? I thought to myself. As soon as I made my last move, I ('If only I had a machine like that, that Why not, isn't it what I play all the could play CHESS - no more wOl'k - felt l!\(e I(icking myself. 10 .. . PxP had time? And, if it's good for me - oh been intended. I now watched all of no more blindfold - no more losses - well, let's see. hire large halls in every city - play lletsy ' ~ little llghts, It took three sec· 2 . . N-KB3 one-play all - thousands of spectators OIlC!S to answel' my mistake with - money, money, mazuma - heck. it Betsy replied, quickly. 11 N_B4 just COUldn't be!) 3 P-K3 TInT - my Bishop must move.

The Swedish magazine Tidskl'ift for Schack of May·June, One is the Satul'dny EYening Po~t panel which we r an, p. 36, 1956, has an article on Chess Automata which, whether February, 1953. Another is this with the title; Matt i tre rerlous or humorour, is accompanied by humorous cartoons. drag (Mate in three moves). 272 eHUS REVIEW, SEPnMBER, 1956 11 . . . . B-B2 12 PxP So Betsy has a Pawn; so what? 12. . . . N-B4 13 N-N5 NxB 14 QxN

NO MERE AUTOMATONS THESE! Here Dr. IVlax Euwe (\\ihite) bUllles the mighty to a brilliant triumph at Mahri,,;ch-OstrClu, 1923, beginning \vith 1 N- KB3, P-Q4 2 P-Q4, N-KB3 3 P-K3, P- K3 1, B-Q3, P-B4 5 P-QN3, N-B3 60- 0, B- Q3 7 B- '<2, 0-0 8 P-QR3, Coyer scoring table a,,; indicated. Set up position, make Black's move (exposing tahle just enough to read it). Guess White's 7th moye, then expose it. Score par if your move agrees; zero, if not. Make moves ac­ 14 .... P-KN3 tuaJly given, opponent\ reply. Then guess 'White's next, and so on. Don't know if Betsy would have seen the mate with Q-R7, if I had played COVER WHITE MOVES IN TABLE BELOW . EXPOSE ONE LINE AT A TIME . " P-KR3; but couldn't take the chance. I wasn't too happy with my position by White p" Black Your Selection Your now - and cold sweat was running down Played Score Played for White's move Score my spine. 8 P-QN3 15 R-Ql 9 N_K5 ______2 9 B-N2 Detsy, Betsy, that's not ladylike, is 10 N-Q2 ___ • ______2 10 Q-K2 it now, wanting a piece of mine? 11 P-KB4 ______4 11 KR-Q1 12 R-B3 ______4 15 .. , . N-K2 12 N_ K5! 13 R-R3 (a) ______4 P-B4 15. . B-K3 was better, but I didn't 13 14 BxN ______4 14 QPxB want any weak Pawns. 15 Q-R5 ______4 15 BxN (b) 16 Q-KB3 16 QxPt ______3 16 K_ B2 Betsy, you're a devil. 17 BPxB (c) ______2 17 R_ Rl 18 QxR ______2 16 .... Q-K1 18 R,Q 17 N-K4 Q-B3 19 RxR ______2 19 S-R3 20 N_Bl ______2 20 Q-Q2? (d) ~Iust avoid N-B6t. 21 R_Q1! ______5 21 NxKP 18 B- R6 22 P-Q5! ______5 22 N_N5 Combination - and even I can see it. 23 PxPt ______4 23 Q,P If 1S QxN/B5, 19 N- B6, and I lose 24 R/S-Q8 ______4 24 B-N4 25 P-B4 ______2 ;, he Rook. So let·s first play 25 B-Kl 18 . , , R-Ql 26 R/1 - Q5 ______4 26 P-B5! 27 P-R3 ______4 19 N/B4-Q6 27 p,p 28 N-N3 ______4 Wish Betsy would blow a couple of 28 P-K7 29 NxP ______2 29 N-K6 gaskets and a few extra tubes. She 30 R-N5 ______4 threatens N-B6t and 'NxBP mate. 30 P- N3 31 N_ B4'! ______7 31 Q-K2 ~ 19 . . . . BxN 32 RxNP ______4 32 N-B4 (e) Right then It seemed to me that the 33 R-B6t ______4 33 , K-Nl "" hole machine which housed Betsy 34 RxBt ______4 34 Q,R seemed to Jlght up. The noise was ter· 35 RxN ______4 35 P-K6 ri fic; at least, It was to my nervous ears. 36 R- N5t ______2 36 K- R2 20 Q-KB6 37 R-R5t ______2 37 Resigns (f) And, no matter what, mate ill three mo\'es is unavoidable, Total Score ______100 Your Percentage ______I was stunned. But not for long, I could have gone over and kissed Betsy - but it all happened so fast tha't I am SCALE: 75-100-Excellent; 55_74--Superior; 40-54--Good; 25-39-Falr stilI wondering if it wasn't that darn Radiation that had something to do with my 10th move. And, as I write this, I'm l\ OTES TO TH.: GA)lE '~ PQsiaon ajrrr 31 . , , Q-K2 ..- onderlng if my mind isn't playing me a) On ]3 Ql\xi\', Px:N U BxP, NxN 15 BxPt, some trick. Did Betsy actually beat me K-BL Black takes the lead. or was I still dreaming about a game I h) Not 15 . , P- N3 16 l\xNP. Nor 15 . , ' had won the night before in my eight· P-KH3 16 1\ xN. BxN 17 P xP, with strong ga me, blindfold exhibition at the Man· pre s ~lIre against Black's KN2, hattan 'Chess Club in New York? c) :--.lo t 17 Q-R5t as White is out a piece T hat darned Radiation - ! afte r 17. 1'-.\'3. d) Better is 20 8xN, followed by 21 ·Brookhaven Laboratories on Long Is­ . Q-!\'4. land: nearest village. East Yaphank. So, e) If 32 . , . QxR. White has a (/uick mate! a mong scientists, Brookhaven is known f) For White easily forces a win after 37 as East Yaphank University. - G.K. , K- :Nl 38 R- R8t and 39 RxQ,

CHESS REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 1956 273 By I. A. HOROWITZ

ROOK versus BISHOP There is a va st difiercnce, according to the tahle of relutive va lues, between a Rook und n Bishop_ A Rook is the C! wit h :5 K- KS§ 01' (; K - K6~, winning of the board or can be d riven to that the Bishol'. !:!eetel', In a ll cases, the !Ju pe.'iot, King 5 R-N3 Resigns m us t be In oppos itio n to the other. or mllst be in position to take the oppo, For there is nothln", to be do ne against the menacing R-HS(f). sitioll at all Om)OI'tulle moment.

An illusion points a rule White Wins The rollowing position appears to he a win, It is. howel·el'. only a d raw, T he general plan is to force Ihe Olshop to a poor square, f!'Om whit'h ]Joint It can be a llacked with fatal reSUlts. 1 R_QB6 B-Ql A poor SQllare Is Blaclt's 85. Then 2 It-D·I, ll-K6 3 R- RH, ll- R3 ,I H t empos on the file, K- Rl 5 RxB mate. 2 R-Q6 B_82 White W ins 2 , , , 8-N-t will not do because 0( T h is I,osition is a set ti l). 3 R- QS, Black thell cannot defend llgnlnst the threat of R- RSf; for. aftel' 1 A- A2t B- R5 3 ,. K-R3, -t H- HSt wins, the Di~hol) 2 A-AI Resigns ~erving as a block. Nol' Is 2. lJ- H·j 0111(-]( the Bishop. must lIbandon gootl because of the r eply. 3 H- Q5. at· White draws ta~king the Bishop. follOWed by 4 H- H."t. A more practical test winning. Nor is 2 B-R:5 good be' Black Threate nS I B-8 St, which One of the s tandard winning positions enllse of 3 R-Q4. a ttacking the DiSholl, will keel' White from ma intailllng t he follow6, Here tbe Black King is in a I f t hen 3 ... B-N-t, 4 R-QS, as pl'evio\lll' OllllosiliolL For , if 2 K-BS, J{-R2. mating net. ~o matter how t he Bishop Iy. wi ns. Or, ir 3 . .. 8-N6,·1 R-QS. B- H5 lIelleE'. White checkll. squirms, mack will lose, S R-H6, and W hite w Ins. 1 R- R2t 8-R2 3 R_Q7 B-N S Draw t - ch eck: t dbl. Check: § dis. eh. 274 CHESS REVIEW, SEPTEM BER, 19S6 There is 110 way, with correct play, or 7 .. B-Q6 8 K-K5§ or 8 K-K3§, re­ of making progress. A Rook tempo spectively. Or 7. B-K7 8 R-N2, fol­ only produces a stalemate. lowed by 9 R- R2t. etc. Or 7 .. iB-BS The rule is that the game is a draw if 8 R-Nl, B-N7 9 R-:\8, K-R4 10 R-R8t, the inferior King is cornered where the K-N3 11 R- NSt and the Bishop falls. Bishop controls the double cornel' and It is to be noted tllRt, with 7 B-B8, the Bishop is able to interpose, or drive the position is nearly the same one as the opposing King away. in the diagram. The main difference is White's Rook on the Knight file and able to play to N8; 111lereas, ill tIle dia­ The real test grammed position, when Black's Bishop is forced to Black's N7, \"hire is unable Where the Kings are in secure oppo­ to continue with R-RS. for thal square sition, which rannot be distnrbed by a is controlled by the Bishop. Bishop check (as in the previous posi­ 1 K-B5 4 R-N3t tion), the result is almost always a win. Threatening mate. This brings the Kings baek into oppo­ Precision technique, however, is required. 1 ...• K-R3 sition or creates a po~ition similar to our second diagram. There is no Bishop check to break the opposition, and 1. K-R5 loses to 4 K-R7 2 R- B4t. If 4 .. K-·H5, 5 R-Nl, B-R6 6 R-KRl, 2 K-B6 etc. Taking the opposition and threatening 5 K- B3 B-K7t to win as in the first example. A spite checll, of no avail. 2 .. ' . K- R4 6 K_B2 Resigns Breaking the opposition. The sequel is as In example 2, P. 274. K_R3 No matter where the wicked Bishop may 3 R-B5t flee, the ,""hite Rook pUrslteth. Forced. for, after 3 K-R5, 4 R-B-H wins the BIshop. 4 R-B4 Resigns White wins Exception. aqain! The check at R4 is fatal. With Black to move, the game is a There is no rUle whirh will cover all draw. 1 " K-R4 or 1. . K..,R6 is good positions. Here, for example, the Kings enough. But White is on the move. are not in opposition. H 'White takes the Final test 1 R_R1 8-N7 opposition with 1 K-NG, Black breaks it Often, In a Rook and Bishop ending, with 1 K-Bl. Yet. because of the the win is there. But, as Tarrasch If 1 B- R6 2 R-Rl, Black must geometric limitations of the Bishop and has said. "You must see it." To see it, abandon his Bishop. the board. "'hite wins. of co,n'se, presupposes that you have a At N7, the Bishop creates a situation fundamental idea of what is involved. on which White must capitalize. 2 R-R5 An important move. This restrains the movement of the Black King. 'For if now 2 K-R6 3 R-R5 is mate, the Bishop serving as a block. Hence, the Bishop must move, and there is a way of eXDloiting each one of its moves, 2 .... B-88 The Bishop returns. On other tries, Black also loses: e.g., 2 ..• B-R8 3 R-R3 (preventing a King move), B...;N7 4 R­ 1 R-Q4! KN3, and the Bishop must fall in a few Black is in zugzwang. If he did not White wins moves. To continue: 4 ... B-Q4 5 R-N5, have to move, he could draw. But he 1 R-B3 B-B3 6 R-N6, B-Kl 7 R-R6t, B-R4 8 must move. Threatening mate. Rook tempos on the file, King moves 1 . . . B_B8 9 RxB, etc. 1 , ... B-Q2 White is able to trap the 'BishoD no Clearly 1 . . K-Bl allows mate on the 2 R- KN3! matter where it goes. For a good exer· move. 1 K-Rl or 1 K-R2 allows Th", star move. Observe th, various 2 R-R4t, winning the Bishop. Bishop to cise, try the alternate possibilities until moves at Blacl(s command. 1. . B-:~11 you have full command of wha't is in· any other sQuare allows an immediate loses the Bishop to a check. Other Yolved. capture of the Bishop or the gain of the Bishop moves leave the Bishop subj'ect Bishop in a move. 3 R-KN5! to capture, except 2 B-B4. 2 K-N6! This is a key Dlay. It permits Black 2 .. , . K-R2 momentarily to break the opposition. Threatening mate, and there is no If 2 .. B-B4 3 R-N8t, K-R2 4 R-N5, valid escape. 3 , . . K-R6 and \¥hite wins the Bishop. 2 .... Resigns Again, there are Bishop moves which 3 R_N5 After 2 K-Bl, 3 H-B4t WillS the create problems. There are, however, Threatening mate. Bishop. Since the Bishop cannot break soluiions to them. For instance, 3 .. 3 .. , , K-R3 B-R6 is met by 4. R-N8, and the check the opposition by a check, Black resigns. To break the opposition. at R8 is fatal. Or 3 ... B-Q6 .\ R-N3, B-B5 5 R-QB3, 4 K-B6 Resigns B-N'I (Black tries to keep off a poor And aqain! Tal;:ing the opposition and reaching the square which will permit a lateral attack The unhappy situation of the Black standard position. Black may not break and a later threat of mate) 6 R-N3, B-B5 Bishop here, too, is enough for Black's the opposition by 4 . K-R2 on account 7 R-N4. The Bishop is lost; 7. . B-Q4 downfall. of 5 R-N7t, winning the Bishop. CHESS REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 1956 275 WHY YOU LOSE AT CHESS By As the Publishers Put it: Our own Limited Impressions: This book is unlike any Chess book ever written. lL Yctlltlother book by Beinfeld? rmwy will say, And II makes no attempt to improve your technical skill. It negative tille, we said, in horror. Is Rei nfeld so simply points Ollt wh y, usi ng the skill YO li now pos­ wr iUen out as to come 10 th is? But, no, on an ad, sess, you lose games you need not lose. It sllggest3 mittedly hrief glimpse. we find the master hand at you play, not perfect Chess, but winning Chess. wri ting chess books hI! "; hecome even more masterful!

You elln lake the ]luhlisher$' word. if Ale khl ne Tlds is a real Alekhlne combination, you will (w()'ve nOl read enough of Ihe of the k ind that the chess world came book as yet), that this uook's uniqut: trtter to e xpect from him. approach is psychological a no hdps you Afler a lengthy Atudy of the jloaltion, Alapin beat ~ cI'est fa l1 en retreat with ana!yu yo ur attitude toward [he game. 3 Q- 8 1. lL may do that and all else to impw\'e Now let us see what would have hap· YOU T game as claimed in the publisher;;. ' I)ened if he had won a piece as planned. blurb. 3 QxN? NxBPt We can Sill'. though, [hat the chapter heads. lind sub· heads, giv e n fnirly tan· This is t he consequence of White's talizing scheme of a psycho-analytical weakening of his po~lt!on. lcst , and jluiOs ihle CU Te. "You lose be· 4 K-B2 QxQ cause" ... "you have no i{ic« whal ki nd of 5 RxQ N xR player you are" ... "yoll play open ings Alapin Now Kxt\' will nOl do, so \Vhite t r ies blindly" ... "llla y the board not the man" 10 trap the K night White to play _ Carlsbad, 1911 " you're easily bored" ,. " lazy" 6 R-Q2 P-N3 So White proceeds with a forced com· "~Iubborn. " 7 R-K2 RxB ! blnaflon that he is ~onflrlent will achieve But whul H'ally impresses IlS is t he his objective. If now 8 HxH, NxP, the Knight es· rcmlll'kable excellence d the chess sluff capes, leaving Dilte l, t ll'O Pawns ahead, 1 P-KN4?! in the book , Ihe illustrative gems that Thl!! }'awn thrust serious ly weakens 8 K x R R-K lt 10 K-B3 RxR back each Iloint. Judge fo r yo urself! White's castled position. It is there­ 9 K-Q2 N-B 6f 11 NxR P_QB4 An d we give from a ehurter which im· tore a move that no Illayel' of master And Black ,,-Ins the ending. presseJ us least: " You lose because you lIu'ength would make lightly. Neverthe· can'l see one muve ahead ." Part 2: less, Alapin does make It because lle eX pel'ts to gain a comllens~ ting ad\'an· The prevlOllS e.~a mple started from a Beware the forced move lage, middle-game pOeiUon. In practice, the What Is his reasoning? opening is an even I'leher source of ob, The more ingenious n comblllRtion is. He sees that, ![ Dlack's attacked Dishop 1' loU!; ami ror~ moves. Here Is a good the mOl'e pleaS\lre It g ives us. PerhRps l'et rents, h e can play KxB, t hus acll iev· ex;tnijlle, in ~ Ich White is in for a there Is a sense of power Involved in Ing his objecth'e (t\\'o Bishops against s hilUerlng sUI'llrise. co nstruct ing a. whole series of forced \\\'0 Kll!ghls). Capabla nca moves that our opponent Is powerless On the other hand, Ir Dlack tries to lo al ter. avoid this line by playing 1 Dx D, But-as you've seen- these forced I'al'i­ Ul en White replies 2 QxD, thereby WIn· ations can be dangerOIl S If you don't nlnJ\' a piece, constantly bear in milld that they can im!lgine Alapln's astonishment when easily topple Ol' e,·, You need a sense of young Alekhine plays the "impossible." pI'oportlon, a constant, watchrul aware· 1 __ • , Bx B !! ness that your opponent has something 2 QxB to say about these moves. The following example from Alekhine's How can Black possibly avoid the loss youthful pe l'iod is fascinating In a psy­ of It piece! chological sense. A yenr 01' two later Alekhlne was to be a world·ramous mas· tel', Dllt at the time this game was played he was only a promising youngster. T a rtakover In this game A lekh lne's opponent ap· parently approached h is task In a con· B lack t o play _ N ew York, 1924 descending frame of mind, E\'entually '''hlte t hreatens to win a piece with the llos hion of the rirsl diagram was 13~:>.'. lt~n 2 Q- IIH, reacher\. Diarl;: ran defend the threat easily \Vhite has two Bishops against Bishop 1'I101l gh by ('astllng, but he prefe"S what and Knight, which i~ generally consld· Cil])a "-a~ rond of calling une petit e er'ed a pos itional advantage, However, combinaison. (In plain American, a liWe be wRnls to force the excbange of his gln1ll1\('k,) remaInIng K night for Blac k's remain ing Bishop. T his, h e reasons I-ather a radem· But Alapin's astonis h ment turns to chao 1 P x P ! ican y, wm give h im two Bishops against gl-!n when his apparently green a d ver­ A subtle defense, t hough it looks like two Kn ights - a n over whelming advan· sary continues. a pure o l· e rsight. Tal'takover goes bllthe· tage, 2 , ' , . N-K4! ly ailea (l with h is "forced" win of a piece, 276 CHESS REVIEW, SEPTEMBER , 1956 2 BxN N- Q4! 1 R_QR3!!?

The sllrpri8e! And there are still more So that, if 1 QxQ'! ~ H-R6 mate. surprises as the full meaning of this A terrifying reali?atioll ill a ra(Jid·transit move dawns on Tanako"er. game: Looking tile ~ituation over calmly, Blaek should be able to realize what the POSilioll ealls for is 1 ::-;;-Q2! block­ ing tile eombined aetion of White's Hooks. InHead, 'Blaek ~hooses the obyious way of gual"(ling again~t R-Rtit 1 • K - N3?? Obvious? It loses by ro'·ce. \\ihite's winning method j ~ so unbe· liel'ably subtle that even a playel' with plenty of time at his disposal might SIlC' cumb to his brillianr trap. What is the warning that t he Jlo~ition shrieks to lllack's unexpected Knight move pro­ Rlack? It is \Vhit""~ exclusive control tects his exposed Bishop and in addition of the s eventh rank. (Hence the recom· thl'eatens . N-K6t, winning \-Vh ite's mendation of 1. X- Q2! to bloekade Queen. the rank). Thus \Vhite once more learns the age· old, hitter lesson: Don't emhark on an No.1 \Vhite wins By Gorgiev attack when yonr own King is vulnerable. There is still another finesse involved. Tanakoyer m~ly have thought that he could now play 3 B-8·j, so that, if 3 . XxB? 4 Q-IHt still leaves White with a piece to the good. But, 011 3 B-84, mack has 3 . Q-B3' ! threatening not only 4 QxBt but also ., N-K6t because of the pin on the \Vhite Bishop. So \Vhite's forced variation was not forcet! at all, and he has nothing bettel' than a crestfallen King move. 2 Q-Q6t!! 3 K-B2 R.S Unbelievable. but there it is. 4 BxP 0_0 H Z QxQ, 3 It/ i-Ri and Blaek Try for Zugzwang! Black has come out of the opening cannot defend him~elf against tile corn· with a far superior position. ing H/3-illi mate! No, 2 Vi'hite wins By Liburkin 2 . . R_ B3 Another obvious defense and It The flaw in tile previoUS, forced yari· won·t do. ation. though very pretty, was one that any first·elllss player s hould have fore­ 3 Q-B5t! ! R.Q 5 R-R6t Q-N3 K _ B3 seen. III t he following example, Black's 4 NPxRt 6 RxQ mate lapse seems alm ost excusable, even P erhaps as you play over these telling though he 108es with a piece ahead. But examples you're reminded of games in then the game was played in a rapid· which yon pursued the same will·o'·the· transit tOlll"llament, where anything can wisp. In the formation of far· reaching happen. plans, you overlook the simple one· move Petrosyan tactical llOssibilities that are l he very heart of Chess. By rnissing t hese rela· tively simple moves, you're condemning YO\ll'8elf to repeated disa[lpointment. This is a hard fault to eliminate. It Fas('inating imbroglio. would be dishonest of me to lell you that it's ea8Y to over~ome. No.3 White dl'aWS By Sachodjakin So. when you't'e on the [lOillt of play· ing an " obl'ious" or "'forced" move, make sure it's the best mOI'e. As Tarrasch \1se d to say, "' Yo u must see it !" The qneer, consol!ng [laradox is that, when you COlleentrate on finding the strongest mOI'e in any given position, you automatically develop the power to plan and Cllrry Ollt long·range combina· Schmid lions. Wh ite to play - Stockholm, 1952 rt's all very well t o walk with YOUI" \Vhite, II piece down, lias some vague head in t he clouds. Quite enjoyable, too. attacking possibilities, as Black's King But you won't enjoy it for long if in the looks sOl1le\\'hat inseeure. He has an process yO \\ trip ovel' a rock ant! break inspiration: leaving his Queen en prise, your neck. Insufficient rna terial! he works U{l a mating threat. Never forget this: The most important move in any game of Chess is always t check; :): db!. cheek; § dis. eh. the ve ry next move. Solutions on page 287, CHESS REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 1956 277 Entertaining and instructive games annotated by a famous expert. by HANS KMOCH

s ide and also greatly reduces W hite's 20 N- K5 t2J. INTERNATIONAL cl!arwes fol' a King-s ide attack. 21 R- Q7 12 R- B1 HOLLAND. 1956 NOli" Black threatens to win a Pawn. Challengers' Tournament 13 P-Q5 Two Masterpieces in One On 13 R-QBl. Bl atk jJroreelis as in the gam e. with 13 .. . Q-H~: Black performs a masterpiece in prov­ ing the weakness of 'White's indisso luble 13 ••.. Q- R5! doubled Pawn. Later , \Vhile gets a dan­ Another fine move: l1Iack is lH"epared gerOIlS attack at the expense of the Ex­ to llIeet 1-1 Q- R5 (1~ QxQ') and J -\ change. And then I3lack performs an· P- K5 (].I BxP ! ). Caution is neees- other' masterpiece in vlctorionsly repu ls· ~al'y . Observe how tlw apparently con­ ing the attack, sistent 13 N-Q3 permits White 11 U'enl€lHlons attack. 1-1 P-K5, KNxP 15 NIMZO. INDIA N D E FENSE Q- I1S, P- N3 16 C)- Ho, P- B-l (15 lIJost lil,ely, lhis last move is not an Yefim Geller Vassily Smyslov NxU'!': 17 N- H5!!) 17 B·-N5. enol' but the beginning of a ~ombina­ 14 0-0 N-Q3 Soviet Unio n li oll designed for attacking chanees at White Fllack Only nOlI' does it pay Black that he tile expense of the Ex~hange . l~or the 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 6 P- K3 P_QN3 has I'eserl'ed this square fo r the Knight. end·game artel' 21 NxN, PxN 22 QxQ 2 P-QB4 P-K3 7 N- K2 N_ B3 15 QR-Q1 o[['ers While bU1 little chance for a 3 N-QB3 B-N5 8 N-N3 0-0 I ndil'ed protection for the Queen Bish­ draw, panitlrlarly against Smyslov's 4 P_QR3 BxNt 9 B-Q3 B_R3 op Pawn in as much as Wbite's aUack­ fabulous dexterity at endings. Black has 5 p,s P- B4 10 P- K4 ing chances prevail after 15 DxP 16 tbis choice : 1) 22 nxQ 23 R-Q;, H-KDZ Klt-Ql . B-B3 with progress as­ A new twist in this inexha ll~ ti bl y ram· P- D·I (10 PxP 17 BxB!) as well as 2-1 ified system, Geller, characteristically, after 15 . KNxBP 16 D-B1 (Hi slll'ed as \~'hite musl evacuate the sel" rank : 2) R-Q7, R­ tries to make it 11 gambit. The sacrifice PxP 17 P-K5!l, eath 22 PxQ 23 KB2 24 KR-Q1. B- B3 with the same r e­ of the Queen Pawn, one way or another, 15 P- B4! has been tried before, but never ill ex· sult under improved circumstances as But thiH move brings \Vhite into a posi· actly this position. nlarl;;'s King has more freedom. tional predicament. Black threatens to 21 Q-83! win with either 16. . P-B5 or . P xKP. Will! more tln'eats than just 22 . . . QxH 16 PxKP (e.g.. 22 Kl1-Ql? NxQBP with thr'eat oC N,.itller 16 P- K 5, KNxP nor 16 P-B~, male at KN7). White's next l~ forced. PxKP 17 NxP, NxN 18 BxN, DxP offers 22 RxB QxR White ~llly chances; so he must perrorce 23 NxP exchange though it quickens the a('tivitr H e.'e Black's masterpiece of defense of B lark's pieces. begins. \Vhite has a Pawn [or the Ex· 16 QPxP ('hange, his Bishops get scope and Black ' ~ 17 PxP p,p King-s ide is weakened. So it takes pa r· 18 Q-83 ll\:ulal"ly fine play to pl'ove Black still All attempt to lure mack from his path ha~ tile advantage. of iron steadiness. 23 QR-Kl 18 , . B-N2 24 Q-N4 K - R1 10 N-K1 SpOiling that attempt. After 18 25 N- N3 'fhe IIsnal (and best) re·action '10 the P-D5? 19 Q- Q5t, N-B2 20 N- B5, Ula("k \Yhiw clears the diagonal of the King advance of White's King Pawn, After I II loses his King Bi~ho]l Pawn, or eyell hiH Uishop aud also Imrries the thl'eat of . , . PxP 11 PxP, NxQP 12 P -K5, N- Kl, Queen (20 Q-N-l 21 P- KR'I, Q- N5 22 25 , , . QNxP. White obtains a strong attack w ith 13 P- B3, Q-R-l 23 N- K7tl. 25 Q- N4 (not 13 BxPt, KxB 14 QxN a~ 1-\ 19 Q_ B4 Q-B3! 26 RPxN Q-KB2"," , R- Bl favors Black). Black abides his time fo r 11 l'avornbl f! 27 Q-R4 P- KR3 11 B_K3 N-R4! liquidation. Cashing the Pawn a t t hb From here on, Black must watch OU \ A remarkable move, mack does n't pro· moment is a phony ~nccess: 19 QxQ for n pos sible ilxHP 01' P- N,I-5. A Rook teet his threatened Pawll with 11 20 BxQ, NxP (either Knight) 21 Dx:\j', and two Bishops are stronger than two P-Q3, as invariably done in such cases, XxB 22 R- Q7 , and \Vhite ha s suiTIcient Hooks and a Knight, Tarrasch nsed w but resorts to counter·aUack, with CO ll­ connier·play (22 ,. H-KB2 23 HxH, Kx]{ claim. And here \Vhite has a n extra siderable advantages, as will be seen, 2-1 NxP). I'~l'\ - n, too. His Shat tered Q\leen-side is 12 Q_ K2 20 8 - N1 a gral'e handicap, t hough. After 12 PxP, I3lack obtains t he edge White hopes for Z{) .• , KNxP 21 B-I\2 28 B_Q3 Q-83 30 B-K2 Q-B4 with either 12 , , , NxP 01' 12 , . , BxP. H e or 21) • QNxP 21 NxP either of whieh 29 Q- R5 R_Q1 31 Q-R4 Q-B3 profits from the opening of the Queen· gives appropriate counter·play. 32 Q-R5 N-B3 ! 27B CHESS REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 1956 The Knight arrives just in time to stop HOLLAND. 1956 13 15 B_B3 N,B White's King,side activity, 14 NxN 16 QxB Q-N4! In ternational at Beverwijk 33 P- N4 Q-B2 170- 0 B- Q2 34 Q- R4 N_K2 Ro essel on an Open File Along with t he threat of 13 B-:-.'-1. 35 Q-R3 Trying !O get something ont or all un, this mo'-e brings the llisholJ (Iukkly and 35 P- N5 only helps Black : 35 , , , N-B~ PI 'Oll li ); in g" '"1niation. " ' hi le .~oo n f'lll s effe'---Uve ly into a(,tion. 36 (-,l - R3, :">x D 3, Px:">, Q-N3 - or 37 into trouble . His position is ;llrcady 18 P- B4 Q_B4 QxN, Q-D5, "I'ilj ('al when he mal, e~ t he decisive 19 R_ B2 6-B3 35 , , N_ N3 mistake or gntbbi ng- H Pawn. t hereby 20 BxP 36 Q_ R2 N_B5! opening: a i(Ook [ile ag-a inst hi ~ King. White's position is bad, and it is G)"al)(!nl<\~te)' :''1 atano,-kh pl'Obnbly "'as A new t urning point is reached, mack dubious whether he ('an hold hi~ own in un aware of' the fa n tha!. an open tile is definite!y out of dangel' and resnmes the lo ng run. Yet 20 rt-Kl or 20 N-N6 ~olllet im e~ "an be used \'ery we ll en! )) hi s own aLtack_ offer s scme ehan('es rOI' s\1n'ival. by a "Hoe s~elH ( in German. ·· Knight"). 37 B_B3 20 R- KN1 S ICILIAN DEFENSE 21 B-K5 B,B At long lasL , the moment ha s (:ome to 22 PxB Q_ R6! capture t hi~ Pawn without ('oneeding A. Matanovich F. Roessel \\ ' hih~ any compensat ion! Yugoslavia Ho lland Ob\'iously . \Vhite expeeterl only 22 QxP, The text move i8 det'i~iI'e , 38 P-N5 R- Q3! 40 PxP RxP White Black 23 Q- B2 39 R_ B1 R_N3! 41 Q-N3 1 P-K4 P-QB4 3 P-K5 N-Q4 T he aHad( with the Knight Pawn has 2 N_ KB3 N_KB3 4 P- Q4 Nor is 23 Q- KD 1 any better : e.g., 23 l{-Ql 2·1 N- D3. H- Q5 25 :"> - K2, R­ boomel·a llged. :">0,," l3laek. it seems. hB "'hite's i~ a steady ('olllinuation but chances on the King'side - and Smys, 'lanlly offering xlL " t 28 ]0" ],nows how to prove it. IHefel'able. R- l\2. QxH t 29 QxQ. BxQ 3f! KxQ. R- K5! and m aek wins . thanks mainly to his 4 p,p eonnette il. pa~sed Pa\\"n s , 5 QxP P-K3 Of tourse. 23 P- KN3 is oul of the 6 P- B4 qnestion bepause of 23 I(xl>t. With this attempt to get sotnething 23 R-Q1 tangible out of the opening. White only 24 N_B3 R-Q5! ('olll prOllli~ e ~ hi~ position. After 6 13-QB·l 25 R-Q1 (Sdl)ec hter<), :">- QDS 7 Q- K4. >,'-1\'3 8 There was no defense to Ihe threat, R- :">a. i>- Q .l 9 PxP e.p , BxP. the d mnces anyhow,

6 N_QB3 7 Q_ K4 KN_ K2!

Nnw B la ~ k threatens to alla ~ k White's Eing PawlJ with both KlJight~ and the 41 . , Q- K5!! Queen - lln eomfOI·table, to say the least, fOI' White. A beautiful decision, The Queen is immune (.1 2 BxQ, N- Kit 43 K- El. NxQt 8 B- Q2 H K-KI (else mate). H- H8t ·15 K-Q2, A nece~ ;; ary . emergency meas ure. The :-:xDtJ. nUL t he move is not merely vlay, seemingly natural S 1'-Q:-:3. N- N3 9 a ble. It is also very po\\"el'ful as lllaek D- N2 is bad becanse of ~ B- N5t! now threatens to win with ·12 .. Q- H2!! follO\r ed poss ibly by 10 (i- H·I. :-:ote. too, that after ·12 D- lU. Q- R2 ~3 8 .. N_ N3 P- D3, H.-ItSt. H K- n2 s till rails llgainst 9 N-B3 P-QR3 14 ,.\1-Q6t, Hence, \Vhlte Hlllst resort 25. BxP! Not 9 Q- D2 because of to ~-Q:">5 , to the e nsuing liquidation. though into a A powe rful finish. bopeless e nd,game . Q- Nl 11 IJ- n:::, P- QR3 12 N- Q6t. BxN 13 Pxl3. threatening both 1-1 BxP and 26 RxB RxR t 28 QxR QxQt 42 QxN 14 P- D5. 27 QxR R-KN5 Resigns 43 BxQ R,B 44 R_K1 R-QR5! 10 N-QR4 \-Vhite's 110sition is Qu ite hopeless as he loses his King Pawn and then has \Vhite i~ in :rouble. His cOllllla rnt i\'ely Black avoids 41 R-Bl 45 It-IO t o <:olll bat ('onneded, passed Pawns. after which he must use both his Hooks best ('llan<: e is 10 0 - 0 - 0 , Q-ll2 11 H-KI. c efeusi"ely, Precarious as this lille may be . the text move is ,,"Ol·se. ~5 R- KSt K-R2 47 P-N4 WES T GERMANY, 1956 -«i B- K4t P- N3 48 R_K6 10 , . P- Q4! 49 K_ N2 11 P xP e.p. Mot.:h ot Homburg Or ·19 ]'-N5. /l-1t5 50 ExPt. K- N2 51 11 UPx!'. PxP also favors Dla<:k sinee In Kere s' True Style it [oreel< 12 Q-K2 (12 Q- K3'! I'- QN·] 13 B-B~ (to pre vent 51 . H- N5t). H-KB5! Blae!;, h,ls a slightly inferiol' position "'-il3. P- Q5 1·1 Q- K4. il- :">2 1~ N- Nl, :a nd Blaek wi ns (52 H- D6. H./ti- KB6} . and seel(s relief by exehanging off Q- Q2 fan)r!; Black sUlI more), ':9 .. " P_Q N4 52 BxPt K-N2 \-Vhite 's Knight. He does it the wrong 30 P- B3 P- N5 53 K_ N3 R-Q5! 11 BxP WIlY. though. letting th e Knight eseape 51 P- N5 R_R5! 54 B_ K8 12 P- B5 at the expe llse 01' a Pawn. or so it seems. Or 5~ ll- Hi>. ]{-Q2! preventing filly Elllergcney l'ontinued. \Vh ite ereates For, when Dlack fails to realir.e t he im· perpetual, the I'os~ibility of X- N6. His Queen Knight munity of that Pawn. he s lle~ulllbs to a 54 P_ N6 is Oll!, of a ction, while, after 12 N- D3 , brilliant att;lck in the true Hyle of K ere~. P- D I. Dhl\' k's King,side majority ad, 55 P- N6 R-Q1! RUY LOPEZ 56 R-K7t ,'anees too quickly. Pau l Keres Wolfgang Unzicker And even while mailing this move, 12 B- B2 Soviet Union W est Germany Wh ite exceeded the time limit. He has 13 B-QB4 ::1 0 chance. thongh, as 56 1\: - 133 57 Or 13 B- 1l3, 0 - 0 14 B- D·I. P- D·i 15 Whit e mack P-N7, as a last try. fails against 57 . , . Q- K2, K- In also with a superior game 1 P_K4 P- K4 3 B_N5 N- B3 axil. for Black. 2 N_KB3 N-QB3 4 0 - 0 Nx P (HESS REV IEW, SEPTEMBER, 1956 279 Variations sometimes died simply of The King Bishop Pawn i~ IIndefellOl­ 14 P-K4 Q- B4 old age just as lleople do. This olle did able (21 R-KBI 22 B- Q·I, It- B2 23 15 N-N3 so about hair a century IIgo. It has Bxl': ). A fair move. UlIl 15 :"\ -~5! howel'er. a! aeyer been refuted. though, 22 RxP R_B2 ; J is just as hope- l"i Q- H3 is no longer satisfactory be- l e~ s. cause of 17. 1'<-:\5 (& XxRPt) . 34 R-Nlt Resigns 17 • • • Q- QB1 The perilOUS position of White's Queen a ppal ently lures Dla(;k on in attempt to ("a tdl it. At the moment. the threat is ~ UNITED STATES 18 N-K4! l~ . ft - N5. ~Iuch simpler a nd stronger is 17 .. Tlli~ eoulller-sacrifiee of [he EXl"hange N- N:;! 18 QxQt. HxQ as Black then re­ OKLAHOMA, 1956 tenllillales Black's illusioll ~. eover;; a Pawn. with winning chances USCF "Open" Championship , 8 Bx R 20 B_R3 B- B3 in tile end·game. 19 QxN P- N3 21 NxBt QxN Premature Attack 18 P_ KR 3 K_B 1 Black's premature attempt to attack 22 R-B2 Now Dlack thr eatens 19 P- R3 (18 transforms h is slightly inferior game White prepares fo r [he final stroke P-1(3 is met by 19 Q-N6). into a hopeless one. After an exchange whith must come eleal"ly on the long of sacrifices of the Exchange, White diagOllnl. 19 N-Q2 P- R3 emerges w ith deadly threats all the long 22 ••. B- N 2 24 Q-Q4 Q- B 3 Now macl, wins the Queen. to hIs sor­ diagonal o f his Queell B ishop. 23 B_N 2 Q-R5 25 Q- K4 Q_ B1 row. He ought to play 19 H- K2 or Or 25 Q- R5 26 Q-K5, Q- B3 27 19. R- l\l. with a s lightly inferior DU TCH DEFENSE QxQ3P, alld White \\"in~. game. Arthur B. Bisguier C. F. Tears 26 R_ N2! Resigns White Black T he thr eat is 27 l{xPt \\'hile 26 1 P- QB4 P_KB4 4 B_N2 8-N2 Q- Kl and 26 Q- R3 fail against 0 _0 2 N-K83 N- K B3 5 0 - 0 27 Q- K5. 3 P-KN3 P- K N3 6 N_B3 N_ B3 7 P_Q4 Herewith the opening definitely be­ OKLAHOMA, 1956 comes the Dutch Defense. Black is play· USCF "Open" Championship ing Alexander's pet variation. But his sequence of moves is queHionablc. He Singular Loss for Champion Is better of( with the elastic center of mack's winning the Exc·hauge fOI' tWO Pawns on Q3 and K3. Pawns in this game is a dubious sueeess. 7 .. P-Q3 Still it works insofar as he ("a ll soon after reeol'er one Pawn a nd obtain a Now Black thl"eatens to get a good 20 QxN! game with 8 . .. P- K4. promising ending. Str il-ing for better, howcver . he wins a Qucen - and loses! Force ll, but very strong. 8 P-Q5! It is u nfortunate for h im that, in the 20 P,Q Parrying the threat and securing a eurrent circumstances, two minor pieces 21 B xPt K_N l good game for \Vhite. over·com pensate for the QUeen. 22 NxR 8 N- K4 \\1hite deserves high eretlit for his With Bishop, Knight and three Pawns 9 NxN P,N tactir.al ale r t ness and skill which he for the Queen, In addition to strong a t­ 10 P_K4 P- B5 displays. tacking chnnceH, White has a winning Black's last is a n attempt to attack R UY LO P E Z advantage . ... bich callses a grave deterioration of D. Flsch helme r A rthur 8 . B isguier 22 .. .. Q-Q1 24 N-N3 B- B l Black's position. H is necessary to get White Black 23 R_K1 B_ K2 25 N- B5 B,B In .. P-K3 : e.g., 10 P-K3 11 P_Q N4 PxKP, BxP 12 PxP, PxP ]3 BxP, BxP P- K4 P-K4 5 Q-K2 The loss of at least one more Pawn is 2 N-K B3 N-QB3 6 B_N3 8_B4 inevitable, anyhow. gino,'; Black a playable game; still better 3 B-N5 P-QR3 7 P-B3 0-0 Illay be 11 ... P-B3 fi r st. 26 NxB t K - R2 29 R- R4t K - N3 4 B-R4 N- B3 8 0-0 P_Q4 27 N xP Q- K B1 30 R- N4t K- B4 11 PxP p,p Onc forIn of the :\la rsha ll Gambit of 28 R-K 4 R_ K 1 31 P_N3 12 P_ K 5 N-N5 which there are several settings. 13 P- K 6 Here White threatens 32 R- N8, Q-K2 9 PxP P_K 5 This Pawn bottles up Ihe bulk of the 33 N- R6t. K-K5 H K-K2, and mat e next. 10 Px N Black forces. 31 • • • . R- K 5 10 :-< - Kl loses against 10 B-KN5. 13 • • . N_K 4 There is no adequate defense. and 10 1\- :\5 is not much better because 14 P- N 3 R- B4 32 R-N8! QxR of 10 13- K:\5 11 Q- Kl. N- K!. SOl" does 1-1 P-B6 15 B- I-mS oITer Or 32 Q- K2 33 :\-H6 mate. 10 Black any attacking chances. 11 Qx P 33 N-R6t K-N3 15 B- K 4 Q-B1 34 NxQ 'White 10~e5 the Exchange. for rail' Black has reached the point of des· compensation. though. And White won. peralion I'ery early. He pans with the 11 B-K N5 E: xchange rather tha n acquiesce to a 12 Q-N3 B-K 7 hopeless ret reat. 13 P_Q4 OKLAHOMA, 1956 Q,B 16 B x R :-Jot 13 R-l{l because of 13 N- K5. USCF "Open" Championship 17 P-B3 N- Q6 13 . B-Q3 No Mere Reshevsky nor Rossolimo Here, indeed, it does seem that Black 14 Q-R4 bas obtained some counter-p lay. Drawing against Heshevsky and Rosso­ 14 Q- R3 offers a better defense. as Hmo in the 1955 " Open," as Dr. Lapiken f - check; :t _ dbl. check; § dIs. ch. \Vhite's Queen is not so exposer!. dId, is one thing; but challenging 13 CHESS REVIEW, SE PTE MBER , 1956 281 year old Junior Champion, Bobby Fisch­ 16 PxQP N-B4 better posted on KR4; and, as 15 N-Ri er, seems to be another. Black's pre­ 17 Q- B3 Q-Q3 is frustrated by 15 ... Q-K5 (16 R-KNI matm-e bid for complications is dealt Or 17 Q-N3 ]8 P- QX4. White re­ HxPJ, he initiates the maneUVer with 1, with by the tiny boy in a giant's style. eovers his piece and emerges with a n R-K:\"l, intending 16 N-R4 (16 ... Q-K, oyerwhelming adyantage in any event. 17 K- nIJ. NEW YORK SYSTEM 18 BxN QxB 15 Q-N1 Robert J. Fischer D,. P. Lapiken 19 QxN ResIgns 16 Q-N4 Whit.e Black \Vhile ought to leave KN4 for hIs N-KB3 N-KB3 13ishup. Correct is 16 Q- N2 (16 2 P-KN3 P-Q4 VIRGINIA, 1956 N-IH 17 Il-N4J. 3 B-N2 8-B4 Southern Intercollegiate 16 N-B4 Thi5 val'lation of the King's Indian 17 P-QR4 in reverse became famOIiS through the Team Matches Here White goes entirely wrong: at game, /leU- Lasker. New York 1924. Queen Circles Globe Hence, it is sometimes called the New cost of time and weakening of Queen The following game is particularly in­ Hook Pawn. he is going to lessen the Y Qrk System. teresting fo r Black's set-up. His Queen activity of his Queen Bishop. 4 0-0 P-K3 takes a trip around the world (Q-R4- 17 N-B3 19 B- R3 N-R4 5 P-Q3 P_B3 R5xB7-H2-NI-Kl) bringing home a de­ 6 QN-Q2 N_R3 18 QB- B1 B-Q2 20 B-Q1 0-0-0 cisive advantage. For slory and picture, 21 N-R3 Q-K1 Black's last is better than the old see page 165, June iSSllf'!. 6 .. QN-Q2, some piayers believe. We Aflllr its world tour, mack's Queen re­ regal'd it merely as also playabie. FRENCH DEFENSE tums to its Penates. and very effectively so. l.Ihll,k has obtained a supet'lor posi· 7 P-QR3 N-B4 Jones Daniel Fidlow tion in a remarkably shrewd way, remi· 8 P-B4 P-QN4 White Black niscent of Nimzovieh. Black's last is a grave positional P_K3 P-K4 6 P,B N-K2 220-0 N-QN6 25 KR-N1 B-B5 error. The natural continuation is 8 P_Q4 P_Q4 2 7 Q-N4 N-B4 23 8xN P,B 26 B-B5 K_N1 ... P-QR4, preventing 9 P-QN4 and 3 N_QB3 B-N5 8 B-Q3 P-KR4 24 P-R5 B-N4 27 N-B4 Q- N4 threatening 9. P-R5. 4 P-K5 P-QB4 9 Q-R3 Q-R4 "With nn unclear, sacrificial attack in 9 N_Q4! Q_Q2 5 P-QR3 BxNt 10 B-Q2 Q-R5 mind. Steadier would be 27. . Q-Q2. 10 NxB PxN Says Fldlow: "An idea which I have threatening 28. _ P-KN3 29 PxP, QR­ 11 N_N3 analyzed extensively and have not seen Nt," says Fidlow_ We agree: Black has White has a considerable advantage, in print before. The line is old, but gained a gl'eat advantage and ought to thanks to his two Bishops and his better the timing is new. Black now threatens win, but he takes chances, instead. Pawn formation. both 11 .. . PxP and 11 ... P-B5. So far as I am able to judge. Black's immediate 28 Q-Q1 P-KN3 11 . . . . P-KR3 29 PxP R-R5 QUeen maneuver takes the sting from Preventing 12 B-N5, Black wishes to 30 N-N2 p,p White's 9 Q-R3 and obtains at least an keep his King Knight so as to maintain equal game." A~ intended (30 R- K5? 31 PxP!). hIs Pawn on Q4. 11 P-N4 31 NxR 12 B-K3 N-K3 32 R-N2 13 N_Q4 P-N3 The main line of White's play. A rea­ After 32 Q- N4, It-HI 33 QxKP, Blaek Black's last causes a quick collapse, sonable aitemative, t hough hardly prom­ ising, is 11 PxP. intended 33 :\,-D6t 3·' K- N2, B-JC but there is no saving alternative: e.g., with obscure complications. 13 NxN H BxN, B-K2 15 PxNP, 11 .. _ . N_K2 32 _ _ . . Q-Q2 34 R-KB2 N-B4 PxNP 16 Q-N3, R-Ql 17 QR-BI, and 12 PxRP P-B5 33 P-B4 R-R1 35 Q-QB1 White has a winning advantage. Not 12. . PxP because of 13 Q--':-':-l 14 Q-N3! R-QN1 (FidlowJ. .\luch better than the text is 35 Q-K~ as then White holds his own and may Black has but a poor choice of moves. 13 B-K2 QxBP 14 N-B3 Q-R2 even win (Fidlow). After the text, the Any exchange clearly favors White. Biat"k attnd, becomes too strong. Thh; Strengthening of the King-side by t he Queen is tbe main point of Black's 35 . . . . R-R6 37 R-Q1 Q_R4 line, according to FidlolV. At this june­ 36 Q- N2 Q- R2 38 Rj1-Q2 tm-e. the chances are approximately in White firmly protects his second rank the balance. _ . by denuding his first. Also, his Queen i~ ont of play.

15 NxQBP! A beautiful, decisive breakthrough. 15 , ... Q,N

15 N-N5 The first of a series of wasteful moves 38 .... N_N6! which soon pul Black in the lead_ White A lI ent conclusion. Black recovers the ought to seek chances on the King Knight EX('han,::-e at least (with 39 .' N-KS) file and its environs (KB5 and KR6 are and with his attack undiminished. important squares: the first to be denied -White's reply leads only to mate. to Black; the latter for a some time 39 PxN R-R8t timely P - R6. So White's Knight is much 40 K-N2 R_K8! 282 CHESS REVIEW, SEPTEMBER, 1956 41 P- N4 QxPt 9 . P- R3 A l l' e aeh e rOll~ s hot. aimed at "'hite's 41 Q- HSt: and mate in two. An emergency measure. Lacking the nnproleded King Knight. Black wins 42 K- R2 R-K6 {'hall('e for acth'e counter· play in the two pieceR for a Hool;:. 43 K-R1 Q- R6t (' ente r. Black is gOing to depend 011 Resigns P-Q;\·!. which under {he circumstances is of Iii t ie promise, though. 10 B- Q3 Somewhat co·operath-e. ilUleed. 'White ~ FOREIGN obtains a strong attacl, in this way, but the immediate 10 P- K;j is s till stronger ISRAEL, 1956 as iJ forces the retreat of the Knight National Championship (with 01' without the intel'l)Qlation of PxP). \Vhite then has a lremendous Six Discoveries and No Hit attack with plenty of choke. He ought Hn.ving castled pl'ematul'ely. Black is 10 win. One possible continuation is 10 quickly exposed to an ilTesistible llttaclc N- KNI 11 P- KIU: P- Q.\"-I after But, when While fails to support his al· whkh at least four powerfu l lin e ~ al'e at tack by opening a fi le fOr his Hooi.s. thf! White's {lisposal : 12 O-Q3, 12 N- N5t. 20 NxR tables turn. DIack httndily launches it l~ P-K6 and 121-'- 1{5 . So as to obs('ure the situation as counter -attack, emerging with the win­ 10 , , P- QN4 m il ch as pORsible. The eOllsequences of ning advantage of tWO pieces for 11 Itook. 11 P- K5 P_N5! 20 ExBl', NxD ! 0 1' 20 B - K4, P- B6! are The turn is apparently caused by a more convenient to Blad\. Now Black has thi~ comparatively psyehological reason. \Vhite plHys for a good r e joinder that at least saves his 20 22 NxR P xR (Q)t pOSition in which he ('an give a dis­ N,B l{night from retreating_ nut he is not 21 NxN/ 7 23 RxQ covered check in six different ways. He happy yet. 24 QxN Q_ B2 must have thought that llt least olle of 12 N-K 2 The point of the liquidation. Th, t hem will be a hit. But they all be­ Knight is trappe d. trayed him. Also 12 N- J{4 Is strong. but not 12 p,p l'xN, l'x.\", which leads to a good game 25 P-Q5 YUGOS LAV DEFENSE for Dial'i;:. 26 Q-K2 P-K4! J . Dobkin Moshe Czer niak 12 , .. , N-Q4 l~ine play is still required to keep t h e White Dlad{ 13 P-K6! advantage. After 26 . , , QxN 27 QxKP, \Vhite has s t rong counter·chances. 1 P- K4 P-Q3 3 N- QB3 P-KN3 Exper!ly. White s hakes mack's King 2 P_Q4 N- KB3 4 N_B3 B_N2 position. The simple 13 P -KH4! serves 27 N xP Q-N3 5 B-KN5 jUst as well. though . Hetrapping the Knight. White's last move represents a non· 13 . PxP 28 NxP QxN commital and yet reasonably promising 14 N- R4? 29 A-Q3 way to handle this opening, But th is move is a grave aberration White is all right from the ma terial 5 , . , . P- K R3 from the right path. owing to which point of view, but Black's attacking 6 B-K3 0 - 0 White's attack lo ~es its impetus. chances are superior. The Bishops are A seriou s e r rorr after which Black Instead. the natural thing to do is to too powerful. Hence the text move; will be uJlable to mal,e an appropriate combine the attack on the King Knight White wants to bring h is Rook into ac· stand in the center with ... P- I\>l or P a wn with t he threat to open the King tion 0 1' lJlay the end·game. P- QB4. Rook file_ T hus 14 P - KR1! threatening 29 B- R3 :-,ror Is preparation wlth 6 . ,QN- Q2 15 P-R5, not to mention 15 X-N5t. Then 30 Q- Q2 Q,Q satIsfactory because of 7 Q-Q2, after Dia cl;:'s position is undefendable. 31 RxQ whleh Black has difficulty castling. 14 R-B3 Now 'White has reached the end-game, A line of some mer it, though hardly 15 NxP P- B4! but llis prospects are still gloomy. F or trustworthy, is 6 P - B4 7 PxP, Q- R4, his Ilook is out of action a gain, a nd the main point being that. after 8 N- Q2, At the most improbable mOment. Black starts to hit back. He right ly sees t ha t Black Quid!!y gets a n adl'anced passed Black can create obscure complications Pawn which , su pported by the Bishops, with S . .. N-N5. none of the discovered che cks can do him any harm. and he threatens 16 becomes too strong. Black's best is 6 . N - N5! which has 31 P_Q5 34 K_Bl a number of little poinnts: e ,g .. 7 B- Bl, P - B5. B- K4 32 P_ K B3 P_Q4 P-Kl 8 P-KR3, l'xP! 9 );xP. Q-B3! with Taking the Knight loses: 15 \{xN? 35 K- Q1 P-K6 H; P- KR4 : (16 ,P- KR4 Ii P-KN4!) . 33 K_ N1 P-K 5 36 P- KB4 a satisfa ctory game. BxP! 16 N-B4§ FOl" 37 7 P- KR3 QN-Q2 after RxP, the King Pawn As there is no cOllvincing way to pro· queens. After 36 . PxR 37 PxB, the The more desirable 7 P-B·J 8 PxP, win is more difficult. if at all possible. Q- R·l fans against 9 N-Q2! a s 9 ceed with the attack, 'White settles for winning the Exchange, but this plan 37 R- Q3 B x R 39 K- K 2 K-N2 :\ -~' 5 is no longer available while, after 38 PxB B-Q3 40 P-QR4 B- N5 9 .. ' PxP 10 N - N3. White just keeps his fails. too. Resigns extra P awn. 16. K -Rl 17 N- A5 8 Q-Q2 Q-R4 ! By this attad, on the Rook Pawn, Ob\'iously. mack cannot save h is Rook \\'hite gains the t empo for making his (17 \{-B2) with impunity. But re- center unassailable thus promoting it taliaH! he can. into a powerful asset. 18 K-Nl 8 . . K_ A2 Nor can White afford to abandon h is 9 0 _0 _0 Queen Rook PawJI (18 XxR. QxP 19 Establishing a camouflaged pin along Q- K1. Ex.\" 20 QBxP. P - B5). And this the Queen file. \Vhite prevents 9 i~ the end of his dl'ive to win the Ex· P-RI 01' 9 ' . P - K ·I, at the same time change. threatening 10 P- K5. White has a suo 18. R-Nl perior game. Threatening 19 . . , N-B6t. t check;:j: dbl. chock; § dIs. ch. 19 K-Rl P-65! CHESS REVIEW, SE PTEMBER, 1956 283 A(:tivltles ot CHESS REVI EW Postal Chess players: game report s &. ratings, names of JACK STRALEY BATTELL new players, prize-winners, selected games, Postal Chess Editor tourney Instructions &. editorial comment .

TOURNAMENT NOTES POSTALM IGHTIES! Progress Reports for The followin1' postalites won p)'ize ~ ]), 1!)~>-I nnet I!)~) ;) Prize TOllrnamenls a s a ,. ~ ­ Golden Kn ights Tournaments .' lI lt of "",.,.,·n! Postal Mortems. 6th Annual Championsh ip-l!151 Tourney P layers P lace Scort .'; ·1 .';:1 :'Hanley .1st ; - No Finals section has completed piny ." , " I'; LaiHC .2n<1 4~-1 1 recently. But hel'e is the list to date .'io S Bj" e ,,"~j" · .1- 2 ; -, of the prospective prize winners in the " " H P)"edif:"~l' .. 1_2 ; -, 1951 Golden Knights. As Finnls see­ T" F Burns ...... 1-S ; ., P Graham 1- 3 .; - tions complete play, we add the names " , ," H While .I-S .; - , and weighted, point seores* from each B Haimes ...... 1-2 ; -, till we have 75 listed, tllel'eafter insert " L Kro •.el .. .. . 1-2 ;; - , onl;' the higher Heores which make the C Plora .. .lst ,;~ - j ",j" B Ca.-ison · .2nd ; -, grade. CO G" \'an DeeHo .1st , -" 85 G Bnrl ...... 1st 5~- ; PRESE NT LEADERS D Krueger ...... 1st 5~- ; , H Slaffer · .~G.2 F ., Yerhoff .30.5 @ " A lIla.to.hies ...... 2nd H-li D,· G Katz .... 43.5 G E Hartleb ... . 30.-15 Gonzalez .... 13.5 D Thompson .. . 30.0 " ])O._talir.e .• ,,"Oil "B Owens .. ·13.45 )I.[ Ribowski . . .. 29.55 ' r h~ followi "l( 0> lied ,,' R Powelson . . .. ·12.35 , Yartnak ... . . 29 .5 8th Annual Championship-1954 fi"HI ., , Illnn rl,,~s 'rou""nment 19,',·; 19o,";'" c,u'renl 0' , A IIyin ...... 41.8 , I..Melner .... 29 .05 As a result of c11lTenl Postal Mort ems, m' as result ,,' Postal Mortem •. D, , Farber .. . . 41.75 L :-;aikowski 29 .05 the following qualify for assignment to Tourney Playe rs Place Score W H Mills ... 41.2 ,,' D Lrnch .... 28.4 ,'d-C 11;·1 rr A TIme · .1 s t -, P Full um L H Sarett the F inals: D. H. Potls, r. \V. Allen, J. .. 40.75 ... 28.·1 I Go Gold~iPin ...... I st -, G Aguilern .40.7 N HOI'nstein .27.8 Nordin, R. G. Wright, E. R. Leary, D. N. .... 172 "T H Ynt~8 ... 1~t -, R Kingman · .40.7 C J Gihhs ...... 27.S '\ldntlll"ff. T. \V. ClltRhaJl, H. T . Heeve, ,,, Dr G H PelTine ...... lst , S Greenberg rr L Smilh .27.3 · .40.15 \V. A. Scott and J. B. Tangeman. 201 'V C 'Vinh ...... 1~l , -" W J Bryan ... ns E Dayton .27.1 219 D Sherman · . Ist ; H M Also, A. Goldberg Qualifies for the 5.- "\Vallgren .3Vi 0 'l'homas .26.75 219 ., C TIagcweli ...... ht .I~ - q L Kimpton ... 39.0 D 111 Gault .26.1 Semi-finals; but we stilI lack enOllgh ~~1 n 10: Diener 1-2 -, M A Rauch . ... 38.5 P Eash ...... 21:.0.> to [ill a 7 man section there. El iz Fltnkha"ser ...... l-~ .; -, p Johnson .. 3G.75 F Parham ..... 25.1 0.'; - (' :JR H Hoeh l ...... 1st W G Harrison Arendl . . . . 35.3 .. .. 25.0 ~ ~ H" Schmill...... 1st , -, B Oakes KrHzschmar " G ... . . 34.5 "K 25.0 9t h An n uO ,> Scott .1sl , D Burdick ..... 32.7 A Leonards the following qualify for assign ment to '" " -" rr · .23.~ 172 , "Hnzleh"r. ~t ...... 1st n- ~ i D, F C P.uys ... 32.7 D D Holmes .23.8 the F inals: A. C. Hallam (we now ha"e 1!1:1 S Good"tel" ...... 1st J O'R,"illy . . . 31.9 Mrs F Hazlitt -" w · .23. ~ ;; fOUl" Qualified). ~ " 7 S ',. 1"n)'dO!l ...... 1- 2 " , F Heckman · .31.9 F D Levi ..... 22.85 H R \\'ilkHsor, ... 1-2 ; And th" following Qualify for assign· " -, H Maclean .... 31.3 A Zimmel'man . 22.3 ~-l7 ., Hn l(I)'iage · . 1st ; , Kramer ...... 30. G5 S Lenz · .21.70 ment to the Semi-finalS: P. T. Lllks, G. .'!- E A Smith ... . 30.65 ~I Scholtz ...... 18.4 I~ erkowitz, F . K. Brown, N . Hornstein. 0 Jungwirth .. 30.5 , Henriksen ... 18.3 C. T. Morgan, R. G. Wright, J. D. Stev­ NEW POSTAUTES J B Wholey .... 30.5 no~ik ...... 12.8 E Godbold ....." . 12.S ens. V. F airchild, :ill. Smoron , F . A. The Ioll"wing "ew po$1:t1 chess pla)'H ' Rudol p h , F . Antonelli, ,T. Pickering, T. "l"ned In .Jul,. wi lh in itial rlllings "t: 7th Annual Championsh ip_1!152.3 Noonan, D. Hothenbuecher , H. C. Ziel'ke, C I ~ss A at 1300 , DI". \V. ChornolJ,,)·. 1-:. As a result of curren t Postal Mor tems, Hi" (·rn. M. RoscnhlaU. J. UlJerli. T. l;. R. n. Potter, E . Ambllrn, v.'. E . StevellH. Whil e and G . ,\'. ;/'weel".<: Finals section, 52-Nf 3, has completed W. E . Shelley, B. \Visegarver, J . Le Cuer o CI~ss B at 1200: C. Dovel'. Curmille 1-: . p lay, and the contestants therein s~ore C. '\flllIer, F. J . Weibel, R. F . R ichler. Frietlal, }L Goddal·d. _\11".' . M . Go(](]urd. \\. the following weighted point totals : * J . E. Pangiochi, G. Nystrom, S . Hazle­ l..elll.<. "-. D . LuedeCke. D. A. Perker . .I. , . T. Archipoff 42.85; E. R. Ernst 38.4; I{~"lll. J . G. Rosenslein. R. Snn Geor!' ~ . hurst. T. E. Quast. J. C. Bagwell. D. L. Ratermanis 34.5; P. Kontautus 30.5: X . G. TW'''er "nd L . D. \\'are: Crowder. E . T. Scott, R. R. Bass. J . D. C. A. Van Brunt 26 .05; J . L. Northam Class C ~t 900: .J. Ahraham, '~' . E. Boyd. Ger lllain, A . E. Gates a n d C. F. Lester. R C. Ch" " ~hd, T. D. Doyle, K F. I~e )·"en,,· c l. 21.5: and K. Jakstas withdrew. D. FO"(~ . J Hawe~ . A. H. Kelly, R. r...,," ." With three Finals finished so far, we .\f,·.'< . J. ~kC,· e " . D . )[("Keever, E. L . .\1" , ' have the following weighted point totals RETU RN POSTS L . PeTHS. I" A. HonliJerl . D. N. Sher m,,, ,. in all as a prospective of the cash pl'ize \\-. Shore. D. Sn,l"e ~ I " I'-o .... e. 'ie. I ~l H o lt wll hdraw" . I:JG Ui,ze r l~'~ : . and the out come o f the game- but, for Cia .. I ~",· ,. ,wice 10 Phd Le l '''' '' ~'. I ~G It u,." 1010,;. \\'ooda ..1. 141 -ru rne r I<.>!'" \\'jJ killiOOLL , 11: TOUrDe)'. In • m"" .Klio n., stale . 150 If 11 110,, 11 lie .. :lle"k. I ~ , Hunl h" IU H,-.r n11"', 1 I ; :l1"rr:.), "':tu ls ~LL , ' Is nnt or &e<:ond came to have ~en nnished H, ~ OI[e~On jolls Jaco" ._"n. IGII S"OIl 101',. Ii,'"n. 1-11> L.~ n f,: " 101'." T o pk". 171/ ;;"' n d e,-, ",lth Ih"' l same opponent (not Game A or D). =--a llll",r n , AU!:$bu n;"r Iwl" e (:''':h. ~ i " k_. ~kC l nn l ~ , The follo"'lnj; eXMmples s how how \0 give TOttrneY5 161_250: 16 ~ >; h Cl> kl n d d c al ~ result .. wIth minimum etrort tor YOU lind Y" a .,le. 1m )I(})ltecill" Ik k3 l.," e ,,~ , 17u ma ximum c lurlly for proper r ecording: ~hlt",,,k (! I ' wilhdrawn. , . ~ H" ~IcI"" '~ 1 101' ~ PRIZE TOURNAMENTS 56_C 466: Pa ul Mor phy 1 A . B. Meek 0 (1sI ) Illr" " o , Il e ~ H einrich . 1. '-, .\1<' 1"'''" ""\ ~ t c r s 56_P 401: A. H a lp rin Y: H. N. Pillsbury V. ,\I[ut e l" l ~ l E, tlln )(c l' l )" s l~ 1 1~ I ''-' n ~ u IL . ":l Class Tourn e Y5 ro r Premi u ms 56.Nf 13: F. J . Mnlltall I H. E. Atkin. O. 1: '~ I\ " "L)fl Wllhd,.a\\' ~. In lk" 'I I" " 1I 10 J>" ~ Ic_ In thu e, the yenr (56), the type tourney J,;lIltlc)' tw[cc. 203 \\" _""0<1 Ic lI" L'o nllorl , 20 1 I .. ,,·,, ~ , HOlhma n l ie. Z O ~ T h a ye r l UI'" .\l"yc r Started in 1954 (Key: 54·P) (Clau . (' rlu, Gold~ n Knh'ht~ F'Ina la) and I",k.,. ~ O j Wil k erso" 101'~ i f) llJan e l", ,,I; the s.,.,tion numhen a ppea. In the Initia l NoUce: A! I h c~e ' Ol ... n o)y~ r u n o\'c r -d u 1" Y " r~ , II :1100..." ~~, "':ruc!;er rI p,. H eard" n , Iw ic.' "nal parenthea... Please J[ lve game reportl "aclL " "r c l)Or\ ~"~es 10 A<'kcrman. II c k ~ loJ u n t, 234 a s t hey mua. be nled 10, A post ca rd .. Id u l " " d 10," '0) ! ..", n l)ul,U, h e d resu lts fo r nll) Itcllo,,1 10,,~. Ih e n I lea .' I (" X n l\ ~' ; H" " ",l:on for s ize, e .. s y 10 . end, ~ u (' '' 1UU I·(} ,,.IIc u l se<:11,,,, .. of )'OUts com in~ lo~ " " 10 :lle -"ul1)'. I \\'kc 10 -"Ol a rln,:. 2:15 UI> 10 , h ... o,·cr·due d a le. 0,·, ;f In ,<11) Please n OI.: Winners (Ind t hose wit h the 1'"ul f" l1 ~ Pard on, 2H ~1:"hI Ll ); 8m lle" 1'; ,,,il h. doul", "e"ol'\ ~\l n "n :Lry of a ll )'OUI' ...,8u ll. \Vhil .. pieces In Cll,,, of d ra wa) muat reporl :L; 1:,",I,·id.:e, H ull 11 ". ~1 9 D u dleY ,10 wns now ,,~ a fiu,, 1 ~' h ec k , ... l oon ... rel u lt b connrmed uy Olll>Onenl, :l l ~l''' l' ro ll , 250 Leight"",,, \\'l lh dn'''' ~, Th" OI>POIH,mt mny r,,)Ort al80 10 en8ure hll H ellOl'15 On I O "l'II q'~ Ih l'O Il " h Gl ~rtl d dl· T ourneY$ 251_277: ~ .-" W cllm"" lo e~ l " record Ilnd ratlnl:' I:'oln& throusch bul m u SI nilel), 0" (!1· -,11l " " 'LLI ~ h onld h,we " eel> ! '~­ l:"k"",. ~:,:l "'eft lul'.' 1)"",, ), \wlcc. 2 :; ~ Coo le y Ihen alate c learly thul h e wus the loser (or I>Otl cli " Ir""d ),: IhtJ.. ~ "I< 10U" ll e)'$ f",,'1l l)O w" to '1'00>', b ~a l " H:d".; Iloknm not \\'llh· ph.yed Uh.c k III C "M ~ o f a dra wl, 1,1 to Ii" ~ I" r t c d In Sepl"",bc", 195-1, ar ~ 258 H~ u c herl h:Ll l~ H"rrl ~, ~ 5 ~ j ,I"n .. ~ Game reporta u nt In 11m" for receIpt uy "m"'". n o \\' ,h'e. Tour l< ~n' 6 ~ t" 77 "re due il) " c~13 \'0 .. H o IlZ, I>o w " Lw lco t o J~I .. in . 26 0 dale~ given " Uove s hOUld be prinled below, Oeloloo: ... H,,,><,O'O fl w it h draws. 262 Chn pUt"" h"l1~ And ployera who 10 reporled 8ho u ld check lIall; Bancroft wi l h d ra"'", U."l R lc h,,..,!"on E )(l c n ~ l o n of ,>1,,), \\' ill lo e !:r~!He d 0" t o see t h llt t he y are so p ublished, To s pot }'i r>~ I IiII. 1 ~ - 1 Brown axe" EI ~ ou a n . tG .-, Au): s _ ga",,,s ( nOI )'(:1 " '· ... r_d" e ) If )'010 r cul<1 n OI legit lmalely ha .. ~ T o urney begun In 1'56) and b y number 100 [<'>IM e:od. o nce. ~ GS H"rn.~rd l.c"" lI:L ldwin. tx....,,, h ell>Cu {!l u m e i'~ c tr i ~ ~i m"I )' l o n ~ (466) &' Iv e" In text be lo"' the key. ~~, 1i" .,la " co ,,1< ~ CLI-"I« .• ' I)creq I l<' k ~ ... ,,"- " lid ]110'· ... . w ... r e III" d c r .,,, .. o .,,,bl)' on limc". S y mbol f Indlca tu " win by forfeit with. 1:0", 1{J . e ~ ' 0 ~ ~ , ..I o n _ ~; I w tn,,<.> " lb e" L~ Tourney. 1· 100: ~ ! I.lro,z , :l l e K")'·C l em {'n1~ out r ating c r edi t; s . hows a rating c redit 1.1 ,,,11.,)'. ~' 3 .\Iar,i" (~ I, Pr le~' 101' :lldiaOl. d f. a~ '\Iu ~ nlln. Sl "' ~ df. ;; 1 He \'"" I, 'Yic k e,-' adjudicallo n : df marks I d ou b le - forfeit, 1j.-, H .... hha ller a n d Ch" rle ~ w or lh e:od. 101' ~ " " Ill df. ;9 J o h " ~ Q'" Sim l11 l ie . ( 'rail(' Iwice. ~77 .\Iull",· m :." I~ Jal >O I '~ k y I w I"", .\I'''· ... lOn once. CLASS TOURNAMENTS Started in 1955 (Key: 55-P) Tourney. If r~d e d by raling c lassu Notice: Games gol"!: Oil ufler o n e y~ar il) Started in 1956 (Key: 56-C) " Ia), are s IOW'::I' Ih"1< a\'CI'''I<-C. HLi s tie ' ~I< ' Started in 1954 (Key: 54...c) Tourneys 1_35: I R o~ ., .. ow r l jl ~ ,s 'n lth . ., LIP Iu fi nIs h In tlm ~ , a,"oid d OLI "Ie forfe lt~ . F I~ ~ h l i ,, ~, tlwn tops :r:: llni ~, 3 Hun: .. r , ~II "'­ " "port la nl)' opPOn,, " I~ PCI' Hule 13 or II. NotIce: As t he ~e tourneys rUn ov er·. I II~ , 1I ... .. r<.>Qk h:l lt Heuc htrl. 6 A d nm~o" " " ... ,," Tourn ey . \ ·10: I .lacob Joll ~ ~l c G,' ee n e t )' ; ()'OU hav" 2 ycn r. fro m m Olllh ill whk h C hr[~ lI a l ~"' " . ,\"Ion lOPS ~. 15 I-loll 1"'3ta U,u'ford. 3 I'r"d[j(cr "'I'" Bn,w e,·, pla y lJc)l'all ) , W... fo r fell bOlh p la)'ers In 12 Do"' .. I ..,.",:" ' OI'S (20 S hal>l ro. I S 8wlI .. t",o rlh w h l l '~ I H ufto na" ha l13 Dll y k H~. 16 .\lIddlebrool< each ullr eport (.~ 1 ",,"'.::. \\'I"rUtIl . " SlIwi" "kl bows 10 A ' I( I "r~0 1L , I>C~I" "':",,,pt. IS Whll " "' hi ll~ Co s l cr. 3: C h eck no'" t o be ~ u re )'0" h a,-e r eported I..,"I~ O r lo\\,s kJ ; H :o ~ lill ~" IIc n O r l"w~ki I::lIi~, :llallern l ie, ·13 " ot.ldi" ril'" Erkilel l" ... "nd h"" e ,,~ u I' u lorl~ h ed r"sult" fo r a n )' Iwke, 21 Kenl cOllk" Burs t el" , St." lIOU" -I I Smith s m heM :llerkl.'l. ~ S llorkc r " "~14 " u ch tou r m u"e n t ~e<: l io n o f ~'our~ cu,u in): " " ... I~ .\1ou"!: ,,r. ! ~ Pa"/Ii'I)Qrn 1.... ·~I" 0,,1.1 - <':01lin~, ~, 1'10r3 fill'" GU lhr;" , ~ I l.lic k"" li up 10 th(: o \'er.du(: d a 'e. O r . if iu " ,,,. ~ ", It h : Gold s mi,h, L.~"tlon ~ I 'li t IW... ~3 I",au Grou, Gil 1'1 """"', S ~ hW"rlZ l ie, ~I donu t. Nl I)O,'1 " Ul n l" "")' of ail y o nr r e~ " I,~ ]) ,,"k ~ d o wn ~ S "'a ,·I\\,o,·I II. 21 1';"''' ''''''UO'l '' .\Ie " r, k K 1.. .. ,\\')'. :ti icls. G! ~1" 31""'8 h ~IIB Jluffln,,"; Orlow ~k l R e pO r t" o n 10 UI'ne)" ,hrough ISI a r e d " rt­ I'h odk o w ~ ki 10 ~ "3 IW ic" 10 C:'rr, "'''' c' to \\';,l'; Iho ~e 0 11 lourne )'$ fro m I S2 ~ a k " :

  • I ' I1, "a" "a\l~n. Gi I:;mkt-, 10 20-1 Slnrle(1 In AUJ:ust , 1904 , " r e now due. :l ~ Cal'l' mauls .\lnl'tin , 31 D u)'ke r . lJ ~~ I ~ O· X "; I Ii,,: K I(:uc wllhdr ' ''\'~. G8 Bullocku ._ Tourneys 2U:; 10) 2~~, ~ tu!'ted in Se"l e m b~ t ' llul''''ow; I."n rwl,,>, c \\'ilhdl'aw8, 31 h: e ll 10 j>.< "cS l .• C " hre l', lJo w" lu \I'cruc l' ; (' , Ca ~l own. 48 L nr>:tll(:r e UILt! '1 1~ :';ley loe3111 e" rl ~on . 8J 'I'h<.>m pson w h h· ,mil ,,,o " es wen , m:o dc rea w nabl)' on tim"'), O~Le "'''' u ~ Wllhd,..t w, ~ 9 lAndert Ikk3 1.1<"1\ e r , ,h'""", ~ l K le l...., '· "'il lotlraw". S:; Barl. H all- T ourney. ( ·300: IG I Ue rKin, \\'h"el"'r4::h l lOl ~: rlswold bejlL~ I J..~I)'. loowjj I .. B "lIcr ; 1..:.,,, k Ilc: O lelllln)(. ~ 1 : Hlhew" Ii" , l>G Arm­ d e; ' ;"'111111. Q un" e d f. IG2 O ua"", You ng Z \'0111.'1 d o .... " s Da l)' t \\'lee. 5! R r o~ "" "a,, I (I (I~ ._Iro"", I I "'~ -"e l .. " r l <.>n , 1';te'·e" ,..-,,,. S1' He),­ u t . lU 0 ' -" ...11. Thu" <1(. IG.'i O l~o n " :':"'t'C I t Plr ko , wiee. I )O\\' ~ 10 Ic;,. r n e :" ,,1 I Wic" lu "olli. ",,[18 Ihl r lcr. SS "': r u ,, ~ e r c r a"k" ~1 11L' H le",e r ; [byn., beilU P lrk o, 53 l )uli.·" i <1(, 166 Ou",uc)', J " " nlt ll;~ ,Jr. 172 Ha","''', nid I. ~'j :I "'. l l h le~ ~IO I '~ G"I" ~ , e ; " . 'II I:. H azkhuut llf. lH l'c n'ine , Po\\'ell ! "' '' ~ Durkin. 5-1 I'rol>$1 ~oc k ~ S u lll ,·a" . .-,:, I:':""" n lies '''e r ner, A"al>l ~ ; J. lk""ctl 10" ,; :I(cDel'O"o l!. ""rke (1(, 179 Bishop. Wldc n U r~I'L'I'Y 1 0P ~ Sc hnclde r I wj ~ e. 1·lue,·ni n" T . 1; ~ III ".:ll; 1>:orllO n8 "OWIl ~ Donato. " l' oo l~ z df. I ~~ Sh e l'",I" 1101'" Sliffe. 203 Wirlh ull<' ... ; Lu rze lere w"h,I.,"'·8. ~~ 1)",11.,), 1<>! '. .- ls Lv"" .lLll'c-k to]>8 Hrooka, l ies Syre ll. 9·1 .\l cC"I, ~ 219 S h erllm" "); e~ ,\ul:'~lJll r g e r, 2~9 Uag ",e ll, Iwkc. '''aLl I~ ~l cCo "kJ c' l hL n S1111,,]. S mith. ~ , .-, Fi~ c h f e ll ~ P o ll a k , 100 :!IlcC h",!: clips Chap· K umroo tie, ~~I Die ner defeats Os lel'l>\h l ~o " wlll,oIl'''\\'''' 295 \Ve ndel down. C ro we. 71 AI )m \ ov lOPS 7.urlinde n. 72 Hwly d o wn " ''''''J. !)\lrk!)) . j.j Klre d efNL I ~ 1)oeke.. , l' h llHl '". Tou rneys 101- '21): 101 Correct ion: Harrl ~. Started In 1955 (Key: 55·C) ; ,; \\'ooo.lhnr )' h" h~ HllI. 78 Gre!:o,'r ni", ['".-ill 11 "' 01 . 1 0~ 1..-,wII" llc k ~ \\'a n:: ; H a wk8- Km"l~o ll; D II \')' t Ol'iI Cory twice. SO :l1 1. ·h a,·I_ WOI'l l> wh ll) LII "'or rl ~, \\'ol po ff. 103 \\'Illi"",. Notice: Qll m el 1;01 ",1: 001 " ftcr one year In ~"n, t:"II",rd Sl <.> p Hl anl"y, 82 l..:, rxf'l Cl'c haIlS Ho.well, 101 IIOI;,I""ot t, Howen bc~: 1)la), are I lower Ih"" ,,,,,,rage. H ustle 'em "'ilh dr,,"'''. 83 D llncOmbe d O .\L' Il ~ F ih " r, _\10"1,,,,': " " K.'" lkkH I ~,.t!o'rl;e r ; Ha " ~(> n wllh · up t o finis h In tI",e. a v oid double fo r fe ll". ~ l e<1ke r . S~ "-es l ... h i ps G rngll,,: Xmmm 1 01 ~~ tlr:"'''_ Ill:; 'I''''elke,' w hhdrn",n , 108 ~[a " Ct: Report 11I r<1 )' o V!>o ue n lii I.... r I{ule 13 or 11. u n ~ r n lo " e. 86 Seo"lIle be818 \ '''n Ilr:l,l:I. dl~· I~o ~ " . 110 Spiege l """IS llaylor . III T ourney' 1,160: I U"uc rofl w ithdr","'''. 9 ~ O K lre heMS BaM, 91 f'Awurdft uXe" E lda .... \\"III<1 (0 Blllu,,'er. duc \I"tc~ oclo..-. file a dJudicatlOll '""' llO,'IlI, LO a tolal o ( $1000.00, will """",.,113 IJeiil" B..,rkowltz; ,""II~, \'nrnno ~o",pl"le with diagra m of I ~lilon reached, be a warded to the 75 con­ , ie, 126 HOO k!n rlll>l ..\1" .... 1111)·. B y"".. ,.; '"(1 K nighu Pos ta l C h ess Cham pionship, n ow rea~on. onl)' if reques ted before due date opcn to all chessplayers in the contin ental Tourneys 1-15: I Carr to~ Nerr, lie" "nd ~oon nOl at "U thl~ round mun So=; Kug-lin conks Pa,·llt. Cnrr. 2 I)anle ll "s U n ited States a nd Canada. Sec I), 191, J une_ r;nl~h. e lil'"" Tho",v~on, ,\nl..,lI(r; Laine. J.,e....,h. Enter this LO u rnament and you can wi n _\ntc!i fr whlll We.ilIO!l; I.. a.jne lick• .oanlllil. Oa'OIes t.cx,,,, SCI,lemlJcr. I~~~ ure uo"­ up to $250.0 0 in cash- the a m Ount of the 3 "\Iok~ be~13 llreyer. i;mlth. ho .... to Dnn­ duo for fellOTling. ~ection~ ,~ to IH. See· : .,I~ ; Daniels down. Anlcllff. ~ Conn""''')' tio"~ I 15 to In are to be rellOrted in OctOber . Grand FirSl Pri%c. The runner-up will conks Gormly; Duncan I lnkJI Sc)'bold. .., Sections 1-133 : 103 GOld berg tops P .... I • . recei ve $IOQ,{)()! Third to te nth place O'Quin lops (f) Lowmnll\>r ; Poe Oll!Polnu 108 .\lcl"lurff t.ops (f) I·~elds. priws ran ge from $80.00 down to $ 15 .00. Ceorg-e. 1 Cunningham, Jonu be.t Egbert. SEM I_FINALS ( Key: 54- NI ) Joy bOWl to St"lnulI.chlll·, tie. NorIO"; Then com~ 65 prizes of $5.00 each for LodHO IIck.o Slocum. 10 Holt. Cnrr but Notice' "'atch >'Ollr two-y""r d"te! Check players who fini sh from 11th to 75th! C r~gory ; Holt I>ow~ to Doul:(lan. ti(!~ Curr. nOW 10 b" .• "re your reporls havc bec" But Iha t is n't all! Every player who I! Crowder tl,, ~ 1'''rber. 101" l'\ohl'nn,,; I·'eld_ ,·".,orded a~ s hown by p"lJlil"lIlon In the qualifies for Ihe final round, and com­ .:" "n, Pillman lie; Kalllh.. 1 ~0"1<.~ C"~llilo. PosUI Morte ms. Tf in ''''Y ,Ioub(. ~end ! ~ Giff"rd bow ~ 10 Hang"r. butt Smith; ~' '' , ,, ,,ar)' of "II result. • to "".1" "$ a. final ple tes h is schedule, will be awarded the Da l\i~ls dow ns 1·'I""e)'. KI"II". I~ nnymond ~hcck. emblem of the Golden Knight-a slerling r il'.' P ,,"g IXlr"; B ,'alz lo~e~ to Coed now, al button, reproduced above. Tourneys 16-75: 17 C:lr.-.U. Ku ehnl~ , 101' 1 yean Ig rathe,' e"treme fo .. II game-and And even if IOU fa il to qualify (or the Ste n~llson; Hu rllngam" ben. Gatrell; Lar­ Ihe ~ooner YOU finish. th e soon",· tlul prlu finals, you slu get a pri~ e! If you are wlnllers will collect! Players In ~~-N. 2 :ech,r" wilhdraws. IS Melneo-I muul. Velll;:~­ e liminated in Ihe preliminary or semi.final ..a.ar. I~ Ball hen.. Thub, b.ll. Sokoler tie, 28 Hayes hnLtl He n,,_ tes t achieve national recognition, H is Becht haiL!! :llatzke. ~9 Steinbacher beltl d lcto: Hodriqun rips La Pla<:a; Horne tOJ\ll will Cl.e~ man. 30 non"tO r ipS R a t.Io,oy,·lt.. 31 Orlega, 29 Reeve routs Ro'e"r, 30 S<:hroeder, picture will be published in the news S ebert withdrawn. 1000ei (a) to Sperling. 32 Underwood tie. Jl Barnhiser. uttr tie, S2 seclion o f CHESS REVIEW-and he'll get I'\oyd flip" Lelwek..,; Lancler. wllhdrnw .. PolU nil'" "litehell, Norton; .... oN.lln downl a big check for 8250,00, But you d on ' t *' Poneman fells Phllllll"; )Iuckln "mItt>! Potu. Dlek;n~on; '\'right riP3 .... orton. Dlck- ith. 34 O'Shaul;hnen)' down" Durkin. H In.oll; I)i("k'"son knodu; Korlon. 34 Lellry have l() be an expert to go a long way in Di;!any Ikk.o Sllenccr. 1000e~ 10 ill()rte"~<>,,. to"," (f) S• ."ott; Davil down. J ohnlon. 35 the Golden Knighu. Lots of less talent· H uffman h"lt.. Sill; D,~'·le.. Lor.elere S<:oll ~loP" Gerlh. SteVenson. 36 Tangeman ed players a r e going to have grand fun wilhdraw. ~I ~I .. c kln maulR De.ch. n Sliver tOI'" Hoe<.:ker. 3. McNutt)' t.e.st. Franklin. ftlllace~ H npanowle z., H J ulln,on Jolta )1.1 _ bow.. to Rhomherg. lS Kochl lOpS (0 Roche; and capture handsome prizes in thi5 mam­ ..,.a. 4"i _\lewnmn replacel Conwa),. 48 Or.. ,.;o Romnnow conks CordI.>;. m oth tournament. Even if you have n e ver feats Goo.bl.,ln. ~I Kont .... t". \\"llIHlr.. w~. Section s 40_49: 40 CllUhal\ lo~es \0 Green­ playcd in a competitive event before, you ~Iulli ... an c"I'I"..,cs Willer. 58 S<:IlWlI.rlz be'·11". Ikk8 ) Icinlurff; )lcln'lIdf (01)$ Hlln,_ may turn o ut to be Cold en Knights Cham­ 113 Pk,·scm. 68 Jo~"ph rt l 'lace~ Wl!~ton. litoll. CovlnRlon. 41 Capp Lows to Okolo., pion or a leading prize-winner when the "egl~ \V"'T"". H l ~r1,~en. C or D on thc coup on below, you are Rider. Shaw tie; Konke l Withdrawi . B, if a newcomer. Cive rtlting, if an old·timer. h Annual Championship-1952.3 9th Annual Championship-1955 MAIL YOUR ENTRY NOW PRELIMINARY ROUND ( Key: 55_N) SEMI_FINALS ( K,y, 52· Nil As a Golden Knighter, you'll enjoy the Notice' Game~ still going on ;Lfter onl! )·~ftr lice : G"me.o r .. ""lnj.; O\"O'r .. )'ellr ill ])I"y thrill of competing for b ig cash prizes. In pi,,), Dre definitel)' ~Io,,". Prompt op­ You'll meet new friends by mail, improve definitely .Iow. rcum"t ul"lO"e.. t~ · In ponents III oueh to Ki,"e sl>(!edl.,r repllf!l. It to gl"e ~Jl(!Cdlcr rel.1iu, repOrt If relKlrl II Ih..,y gO o"er--Iio"" on any mo,"e. your game, and have a grand lime. r go o"er-tlme 0" 011)' ",o" e. So get s tarted-enler now. Entries must Sec!!on, '·61, , )leUolO. "'"Ir dr. u Sections t ·74: ! Drrectlon: Slm"'l be from '\'url. ,,3 Wieeklu ... nlPol .... eel. S, "lInca. !u _\f"nn bol\'s 10 Dawell. belli OUn",o","". Z~ Dutton 1000ei to ,\rne>lOn. -;E';;;W- h:;; 17';0.0 "" ri(llJ Kierman". 5' Sothrotder Wlnl trom lid,. (f) lIest. !3 Frie ...... u sinkt Crcg>lOIl. rc H7ss DCh;; lIOn. 60 Sne belt Arnuw. 61 Ponal Chell Dept. areordering Pos tal !~ lliller 101 .... If) De ){ord"unt. n lla!IJI. I ",,,,,Is )Iore; Bo... belli I"ehuon. 250 W . 57th St., 'rourney on op"""ite De Loz'er ti". 2S F\onk fell. Y,,"uley. JZ I New York ", N. Y. ~ide of this coupon. Scott :lxe", E,'''''s. !. llcLcod "UPI Ant­ ! enclOle $ ....•.•... , Enter my n~me in FI NALS ( Key; 52-Nf) ell(f. 13 !ler-ner-o bea.,. Man)'I\k, :Hi St"venl I ...... {kow m~ny? ) sections of the ~c t lo rlS 1-23: 3 ErIOn 101" V;on 13rO(,,(. S $tOp.ll I'"'lnch. ~I Cales tOI"" To,nor-I; H"urd. - 10th Annual Golden Kn ights P ost~1 ;"k down~ f'rlllin!:"; ~f"t'le(lll tl.,. Ynul. I Chen C h~mp lonl h ip. The ~mou nt en_ 3 to Slrah .. n. 10 Shum. ao<:kM Orn~teln. cloled coverl t he e"try f ee of $3.50 per E;.,kSlrolll dowII~ Doel!!nK. 12 \\'rlght de_ These P0 8t ~\ "orterns ~re by w ~ y of co nfir_ I .. etlan. My "cl~ .." I, 10 Dor~.,,-; 7.. "l1)'~ jolt~ JOh"IOII. 13 Ha .... 11 mation 01 your game reports as received by ',s H ownrd. H ealy, J5 'Vlnltzltl whip. us du rinll month of Ju ly. POB\almlghtlel! NAME ... k; Bnc.k tlea !l e l"Zzarln~, tOI" ROil. IG a nd Tourname"t ,",DI es a r e IIkew lle conf!r_ ADDRESS ."rin s tlea Laird. 10PI H~! . lnh" . 11 HIII­ mallons. Check them to be s ure your reportl J ha lts )looae. )9 l" llh"l!e ro n. Noonnn. have been s cored correctly, calc ula t in g from I ...... I TJ"ucis trips Rabil1o.wII". date you sent report.

    lSS REVIEW, S EP TEMB~R, 1956 ------287 ley bMts Lavik. 52 Be",ler. SI[lg-man tie. Gr05S. Taylor. 134 Bowman lJests Hansen. CHESS BY MAIL 54 Podolsky nips .'\usl",UI1l. 55 DeVine Gloor: Gloor. Hansen Jolt Johnson. }35 If you have not played in our tourneys dow[ls Bonnell. 57 Lear;' licks Doyle. 58 ['otter conks Collin$: Hyde hitg Brand: F'O!'g,,~h mauls Meyer. 5~ \' a lvo nips Gamble. )l)-'er~ mauls Pratt. I3G Amburn halts Hayes : before, please specify in which class you 60 Howell top~ (f) Han3en. 6. Sorensen. BerlOlatthle ,. . Broll'n t ops (f) Lo"enz. lo"es [0 Gordon. 86 D'"l('an; Buck beats Duncan, 11 Knox nip __ CLASS TOURNAMENT Cmcia li cks Sigler, loses to Burlingnme. Hoe~k~r; i)asteel wilhdra\\·n. H Bow~ n Start playing chess by mai l NOW! 87 Hazlehunt tops Dine. ties He"pmann, heab :>OlcCllH'e. 15 Faber bests il\meh. bow .• Ente r one of the 4 man groups. LesTe,'. 88 Plckerin;; fell ~ Eickholt. Fox; to \\'ussller: Hron~on licks Leary. 17 'Ycstill" whips Parke,'. I S Shelley shades Stratton, You wi ll be assigned to a section with l~ogel'S rips EICkholt. 91 Ball. Tai;; tie. 92 l.->u1[ z licks Cusson. 94 J onah wlth(!r<,wn. 19 Joyne,' jolt ~ 'Verner; Jones ja,'s Brat. 3 other players about equal to yourse lf ~~ i31'"uchel' socks Sa"h~. '7 Bilton. I-toff­ Hartign" flips Phillips. in playing skill. You play both White "'an lie, 98 Leavens. Hawksworth jolt and Black against the other three. You Josel)h. tO O Fairchild halts Heller. 10th Annual Championship-1956 play all .,ix games simultaneously, two S ections 101· 129 : 101 \\',·ight. :>Ofoore nlaul PRELIMINARV ROUND (Key: 56·N) 13raml>ila; D. Smith how" to R ogers. best~ games on one set of postcards. \\'ri,,111. 102 :>O[organ r ips Iludolph, 103 Wildt Sections 1·69: 4 1~~rzelere withdraws. 5 COlllter Bmitcil Smith; ul)'zelere wllh(!ru.w.,. Your game resu ltlO will be record e d and \\'hlp~ Stolp. 104 Role. Smoron tie: Pajor. I{olc sni p Snyder. 105 .'\oonan licks Tack· 7 Lanelere withdraws. ~ Beckman I)l'~ !; published in CH ESS REVI EW as well as Petrnl"I,. Schneide,'; Schneider, Pelrul,,!; n",n. loses to John ~O Il . lOG Ayer. Guhse tie. your postal chelOlO rating. bea.t Benu(!'T. 10 Dawson downs Cunning. 1,,7 Powe,· downs Alden: Doyle dereal~ Coster. The entry fee is on ly $1.25. You may 108 Katz conks P loek. 110 Donato mauls ham. 12 Ste\,~Il~. Collison s top Straume. 12 Kandel halt ~ Heeke' .. 1-1 Aston tOllS 'Villiam, ~ltJIis: Taub tops \"on Kleist. III Stephens enter alO many sections as you please at (0. Jones. loses to Labonte. 17 'Vood. $1.25 each. Send coupon below. f ell~ Fox. 112 QUasI halts Hendrkks. 114 .'\)'~t'·om nips Ward. 115 lAird licks \Veinin· Birsten downs Delany. IS Tamargo beat.' ger; Krue;;er halts Laird. Hannold. 117 ~let· Bedard . 20 ~lease halts Hayward. 21 Crowd­ 1--- calf Withdraws, 118 Pritchard wlth(lraws, 119 er defeats Dubovik. Coombs. 22 Reithel rlp __ Hepp rips Henderson. 120 Gedl"alti~. Rap· Hi/odns. 2·1 Crow cracks Feyer. 2" EgI " I ;~S~:ISC~;s~I~::t. u ano t ie. 122 HuHman bests Bakel". 123 whil)S \V"lecka; I,'a rkas withdrawn. 20 I"",· I .\lci\eese n ips \\'inslo\\". 124 Sigmond s inks Cuer repl""es Pa~"aL 27 Zaikowskl mauL• 250 Wut 57th St., .\feyer; Kirc bests Beaudry. 31 Lala",le I New York 19. N. Y. SantOR; .Gu ,·dick beats Russell. Churchill. I 125 Nil",. :>Ofac:lfilla" nip Van Hise. 1 26 lick~ :\fee"opoL ~O Daniels replaces 'Vitter. Sherwin bows to Davlcl. bests Hinckley : ,12 " 'ilson whips Zurllnden. 47 Kontautu; I enclose $ •.•.•.•... • Ente r my name In I withdraws. 51 Fisch replaces Child. , .••• (how many7) section. of your Si'non nip~ Nickel. 127 P""glochi stops Har­ I Postal Chen CL.ASS Tournaments . The ri.on. Hal)inowitz. S(nllard. 128 Dowling amount enclosed covers the entry fee of I lick ~ Lyon. 129 Lekowskl sinks Ursillo. $1.2& per sectien. Kindly start/continue I ( .trlke out one) me In Class .••.•.. , s ections 130·142: 131 StaHe,· stops Sci­ Solutions to nnetta: Daylol' bests P eck. 1.2 HOlhen_ buechel' rips Simes. 133 Zerkowitz tops ANNOUNCE THE MATE! I NAME •.••.••••.••1IllRAU ... .. I from page 2Ei8 I ADDRESS .. ·KnMf ·lCliKfimH:S······· I Solutions to White mates: 1 N-K71! K-Rl 2 NxP. I~I::::.:.:.: ___ ~A~ . .:.:.:.: . .:.J 2 l3Iaek mates; 1 RxP! 2 KxR (els€' CHESSBOARD MAGIC! H-m mate). R- Rlt 3 Q- R6, RxQt 4 K­ from page 277 X l . R-RS. PRIZE TOURNAMENT No.1 White wins with 1 B-B6t. K-R2 2 3 White mates; 1 QxPt! QxQ 2 RxQt, R-N7t, K-R3 3 R- B7, K-N3 (01' A) 4: Start p laying chess by mail NOW! KxR 3 R- Rlt, B-R7 4 RxI3t. B- RS 5 R-BS. and Zugzwang (Black loses a Enter one of the 7 man groups. HxI3. piece). Or (A) 3 N- B3 4 BxB. NxB 4 Black mates: 1. N-K7t! 2 K- R l. Vou wil l be assigned to a s e ction with 5 R-Q7. N-B3 6 R-Q6t. six other p layers about equal to your_ HxI3t: 3 RxR, N-NS. s elf in playing skill. Vou play White No.2 White wins with 1 R-B7t, K - Nl Ei \-Vhite mates : 1 QxPt! NxQ 2 N-N6t. against three of your opponents, Black (01' A) 2 R- N7t, K-Rl 3 B-K8, NxP 4 K - Nl 3 B-Q5. RxP, N-N5 (01' B) 5 B-B7, B-Kl! S KxN, against the other three-and you play 6 Black mates: 1 .. R-N7! 2 Q-Q3' all six games simultaneously. BxB 'j ,R-KRG! B-Q4 (White was threat· enlng S H-RSt. followed by R- R7 . win· (else 2 QxB. RxRP & 3 . R- RS mate) . You stand a good chance of winning RxPt 3 K-Nl. R-N7:t §c 4 ... R-NS. a prize, too! Credits of $6.00 and $3.00 ning the I3ishop) S K-B5, B any 9 K-NS. 7 \Vhite mates: 1 Q-R6. R-KNI 2 R-QS' are awarded to 1st and 2d place winne rs Or (A) 1 K-Rl 2 K-B4. Or (B) -1 R/5-Kl (or 2. RxR 3 Q-N7 mate) 3 in each s ection. Credits may be used to . K-R2 5 R-N2. K-R3 6 R-QR2. HxR. any (except purely spite checks) purchase chess books or equipment. No.3 White dl'aws with 1 P- NS{N) t. RxN 4 (I-X7. The e ntry fee is only $2.50. You may 2 H-I36t. K-N2 (else 3 KxR) 3 R-B7t. enter as many sections as you p lease at NxRt 4 l'xN, Rjl-l{l (else 5 KxR, altd 8 Black mates: 1 Q-R7t! 2 KxN. P­ $2.50 each. S e nd coupon b e low. the Rook \'s. Bishop draws) 5 P-BS{Qlt. Il--lt 3 K-X5. Q-N6t 4 KxP, P- N3t 5 PxP. KxQ 6 B-B5. Draw (two Rooks cannot K-N2 Ii RxPt (else 6 BxP . R-Rl mate or 1------, prevail against this Bishop!). fi N- n5t. BxN & 7 . R-RI mate or 6 ~-K6t. ExN & 7 .. R-RI mate). RxR 7 CHESS REVIEW OCheck here j( YOU I I Postal Chess Dept. areorderinl( Postal PxR (else 7 N-B5t, RxN mate or 7 :1\­ 25() W. 57th St., Tourney on opwalte K6t. BxN & S . _ R- Rl mate), Q-R7t I New York 19, N. V.side of this coupon. I 8 K-N5. Q-R3. I enclose $ ...... • Ente r my name In I 9 White mates: 1 Q-R6! and (a) 1 •... ••.....• (how many?) sections of your I Postal Chess PRIZE Tourna m e nts. The Q-I33 or Q-Q5 2 ExQ. PxQ 3 NxP 01' (b) amount enClosed cOvers the entry fee of I 1 Q-Q8t 2 RxQ. PxQ 3 NxP or (e) $2.50 per s"'lItlon. Kindly start/centlnue Q-=" 4 2 QxQ. P - N3 3 N-R6 or (d) I (strike out .tne) me In Class .•.•.•. • P- N3 2 Q-N7 or (e) 1 . PxQ, 1 I NAME •.• _____• . •• . • . I NxP. I ADDRESS ...... I 10 Blacl;: mates: 1 • BxP t! 2 RxB. LCITV ______...... STATE -' Q-QSt 3 Q-Ql, QxQt 4 R-Bl, R-RSt : 5 KxH. QxR.

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