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THIS IS S l 'E or the Co rner w ill be Ii 20 K- R1 B-K4§ potpour ri , a gallim a ufry, a melange, a 21 QxRt B,Q chr es tomath y, In shon, a m ishm ash with 22 P - K7t Res igns these ingred ients: A;:. ma(' k '~ K ing will be dis po~~ es ~ ed A game saved by s talema te m a l,e way for ll l'W Quel'll. A m odern masterpiece '" " A m iniature tid bit S olution An ending Correspo nde nce. 1952 I P-K6 A game ~ o mb in at i o n BUDAPEST D EFENSE B-RS 2 P-K5 Q_NS A max imu lllm er 01' two Biegler P e perle R_ R6 An llllerliote o r t wo 3 P - K4 White BIn d, R_Q N2 A tho ught for the mo nth, 4 P-K3 I P_Q4 N-K B3 7 P_ K N3 Qx P t 5 P_K7 B_ N6 2 P-QB4 P-K4 , K,N P-B4 t 6 N_N4 mate E ND,GAJ\II ~ (:omposer Troitzky puHg t h i ~ 3 P_Q5 B_B4 9 K,P P - Q3§ Oll e o ut of t he tire. Vogl (BlllCk ) is 011 4 P - KR3 BxPt K_ K4 B- S4 t ! In t his o ne. t he terms at'e ' he ,~a lllt' . the move : 5 K,B N- K5 t " K, B Q_ N3 6 K-B3 Q-R5 " mate!

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Solu tion R- N3t 4 RxRt K,R I P _ N4 Q_QRS 2 N_ N3 Q_BS 5 Q_Q1 P Q, Q 2 P-K5 Q_R1 3 R- Q1 B-R6 3 B- R7 B- R3 4 P- N5 R- NS S o ho, 1949 5 B, R P _ B4 ALEKHINE'S DEFENSE Solution 6 P xP e.p. mat e N_B2 Go lo mbe k Brow n P x P t 5 R- B7P- R8 (Q Jt ": [:\CE 11](';' (' i ~ ~ ti ll it bit 0( ,' I" w e- ,j .' h"z:' :wtion" of what 5 P_ KB4 P_K3 12" P- N4 P_ KR4 Kakovin is this prell;' .'o m bi nHtio l] frolll IhE'Y " a m E' to "Pt' On" 0( th,·, (- lallE'r, 6 N_ B3 P-QB4 13 P- B5 ! RPxP a g;(1n e won a t K as('ha n . UI3 1. by O po· b(' in" ;( , 1\('01 b}' a f]i €' :ul. " 1:' I1' t it won, 7 P- Q4 P-QN3 14 PxKP! P,N ('E'llsky [ rom Hroma d ka. 1'11 1'01'1 It 1lal l,I:'. li t' rfu l. ,i(' a ] "" r (' pli('d . " Ob, it is all On 14 . P xl', J5 N - N5 is r o ug h on J ha ve 1I0t t he E' ttli re ~ (, O t 't' of t h ... ga ll ]! ' , ,'h" r m ing. hlt t - bu t w b" , does that o ld Dl a t k, \\'hite " -o u lHl it up thi~ way . 1lI" 1l in til{' .'onH' ] k'-t'i' ,hou ti ng for?" \\'itE'n Philid ol' wa~ l'itl' ~~ c hamp ion of 15 QxKBP l ht' \\'01'1 01 . It t' ¥a,-e 1E' ,'~ o n s in t he ga me S tronger t han 15 PxPt , K- Q2- a Cllse to Loui" X \'I of F rance. After r eeej,'ing w h ere the tht'ea t is s tro nger than the man y in~tnt,·ti01 t5 from the grelll m a s· e xec utio n. tel'. the K in?: w ished to kno w ho"- he 15 P_ B4 "- a~ pro,!:'re5sing. "Sire." said P hilido t' . 16 PxP e .p. B- Q3 " " he ss players m a y be d ivided int o th rE'e 17 B- N5 Q-B2 (,lasse s; the fi rst who Cll tl nOI pIa)' a t all : 0 1' 1I ... B xpt 18 K-~2. Q- B 2 19 P­ the secon d who pill Y badly : a nd t be Bit. K- Dl 20 P - K 7t. and White wins, third who play w ell. Your .\I a j e,ot r bas 18 P- B7t K_Bl a lrea dy reached the se.-.ond ,'b , ,, _" 19 Q-B6 Bx P t Ir .19 ,. H- H2 20 P- K it, Dx P 21 Ox THOUGHT F OR T H E MONT H B t , QxQ 22 B xQt, KxQ , the passed The grea t master l) la,"·:' " K :J. ig bt in 1 Rx Bt decides the issu e. K 5; fo llow.' b,' itself. 2 N- Q3 t - T a rta li:D'-e r . c h ~ c k; i d bl. : § 3 P- B4 mate 'HI f>ICtUllf CHISS MAGAZINE

Volume 21 Number 4 April, 1953 EDITED &. PUBLISHED B'I I. A. HorowiU Readers are invited to use these columns for their comments on matters of interest to chessplayers. INDEX FEATURES CALLING W3ABT? (193' ~·8 ;tlld 19411,52) : I.;tj,,~ Sieincr Consultation Game ______105 I am a c h e~~. plaYl' r with Ih .: facilili,·., ( 19']',}·48 and .53 ). Game of the Month ______110 ,,( an :tmalenr radio ~Ialioll. I klww Ihal. C. J, S. \'tJ]\lIY fWIll lime I" tinw. vou are contacted hI' GrN/llrich, NSiV. A,15. DEPARTMENTS "hams" I"" fo r' "ther~ I" play che.,~ A FIND Book(s) of the Month ______128 with them hy the air WHI·eti. Chess Caviar ______98 On my way hllm",. I Ilicked up a CIIIIY C"uld ,",HI write u ~ the names "f alll" Chess Qui:!! ______104 uf CUE SS R~; vt~: w "n tlil:' ~ uhway. I wuuld ~uch l'er ~; >Il ., Ihal \"(JU mi!l;hl know of~ W;: like n,,1 onl)' III thank you for printin~ Games from Recent Events ______116 al ",o would like tllt:ir ca ll1 C!ter~ . addn:~~(:~ Golden Age of Chess ______112 Ihis fine magazine bUI al~1I III Ihank nl\, and any "Ilu:r infllrllla(jon y"u Illi~ ~ ht ha\ ' ,~ . On the Cover ______98 benefacl"r who was guud ,,'wugh to lea\,;: Postal Chess ______123 W" have Ihc call lell er~. WABT, and his c"p), "n ill(; BI\'IT. "ur stali"ll j,. Ihal "f Ih e radio cluh "f Ihe Readers' Games ______114 .r. Sr:I!lIVU:B .';ACKMA:; Universily of Penn~) ' lvania, Illcakd in /irookfyn. N. Y. Solitaire Chess ______122 Philadelphia. Tournament Calendar ______103 [)A ,'! S,HI li ELS LOUDER THAN WORDS World of Chess ______99 .1.'127 Chestllill St. Encll).o;ed is lll~' check cllvering renewal l'hi!. 4, I'll. "f lll)' ~ u],scriptitln 10 Cln:ss Hn'IEw for Ih e IILrce ell~(ljng )' ear~. EDITOR NOMENCLATURE I Iwpe you will reaJizl' dml fOf a SC I'I~· r. A. Horow!!>; As timc ;tftcr tillH', CHESS Hf:nEII' man "f IllI' veal's III lak,' Ihi~ chance is makes the .~ an)l: e xclI~ahle e rr"r. all"w Ill': EXECUTIVE EDITOR v",ry unus\;al: "nl), ju~lifit:d ],)' a very un· I" I",inl "ul a lliffe rencc lwtll'cl'n 11K' Jack SO'ale)' Batt'll! ll~ual jlu],licat;on. US A Opcn Challlililln~hip and the Au.", CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Ira lian Opcn T"urnamenl. T1H':Y nre ~imi· In Ihc event that I hll\'e II) n : ~ign I,ef"re l. CI"~mev, J. 'V. Collins, T, A. Dunst, lar in Ihat thev "ccur in aiternale veiir.' the ",I\(1 of 195.5. pe rhaps ~ome lh j ng can Dr. ~1. Euwe, Hans Kmoeh, . he w"rked "ul with regard to a refund. D r. S. G, Tartakover, Bam!e F, 'Vinkelnwn [ nllt Ihe US Ollen) during whidt th;: na· liolllli challll.illnship b nol hdd. BUI I"llll' ~h i GIl MAd _ E.~;» CORRESPONDENTS I'V,:n1 carrie~ u tiile. Our carrie, nil iitle. Slllff!"on !J(/)'. Wise. California Herbel·t Betker, J . U. Gee. Leroy It wa,; formerly, afler ilg fUUZll!,:r called Johnson, V,', H. Ralston, ,\1 , J. Hoyer. COMMENT? Colorado ~l. W, Iteese. Ih e I'ietz<:ker ']'ournel· . then th l! i\1el· Connecticut Edmund £. Hanel, ],ourne Annnal To urne~'. Ihen, whclI il be· In rt' ply to Irving Chel'llt:v\ "TI,I,ughl Delaware H. D. DOllllldson. eaule biennial. I ,; ugge ~led Ih e name "An~· f,,,, the ;v["nlh" (FeiJrllarv), r I,,:g to Dist, of COlumbia W. J. Nuckcr. repl)' with th" folllJwin g : . Florida Major J. 13. Holl. ll. Klein, E,'nest Indian Open Tourney." It b c"nducted b)' G, \Verb'll', Ih c i\Iell",urnc Che ~,; Clull. It i ~ open I" In answering Ihe question. "Whith i~ Georgia Grady :-:, Cokel', J I'. an~' b",ly; hUI. H,; it carrie,; a prize li,;1 "f the greater gamc. cILes~ ' "' checker .~ : ' I IllinOIS Howard Bell, J. O. Warren. J. mu~t in ull rrankne .o;~, filmr neil her, Indiana V. C. Hills. D. E. Rhead. "nly 890, vi..ilor~ fr"m "I her Slate,; arc Iowa \Y. G. Vanderburg. few. TO~l WISWEl.L Kentucky J. W. ~I aye r. In "el'"n Ilecade~, "Illy J 1 player,; hal'" lJ"orld Go,(/s,.\'oll."I"IIS'· ell,'cker Kansas K. R. "'acDonald. UWlllllioll Maryland Chal'lcs Barasch. held Ihe Au~lralian liile. The fiN, F. K, Massachusetts l~rankl ill J. Sauborn. E~ling, horn J1I60. is amon g Ihe fi ve noll' Minnesota W, T. Cobb. livin g; he t. Ihe only li\'ing man. it is MichIgan R. 13uskager, J. R. Watson. TOURNAMENT CALENDAR Nebraska B. E, EllsWOI·th, A. C. LlI

THREE GREAT TOURNAMENTS (printed in Engl ish) Prague, 1946 ______$2.50 New Yor k, 1948.9 ______$2.50 15 PxB! NxP 18 NPxN B)lR 12. B- N5t 14 Q- R4t K- B1 Dubrovnik, 1950 ______$3.00 16 Q-R3 Bx N 19 P- B6 ! R-Kl 13 K_Bl P, B 15 QxBt N- K2 17 N)lP NxBP 20 B-R6! Resigns 0rder f rom CHESS REVIEW 16 Q)lN ! Resigns 250 W est 57 St., New York 19, N. Y. If 20 B- R4 21 ExP, Bla(;];: is Ilelp- If 16 .. QxQ, 17 N- Q,t l('i\ves White les8 aga inst K- N2 and R- Rl. a piece to the good.

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Fur the other plaee~. N ajdnrf' ~ score .,-:}. INTERNATIONAL was still impressil'e. He mb;;ed lst hI" h i~ lu ~~ 10 Gligorich pll! ~ a f"w 100 J;lallY A Chessie Triangle draws (not counting a 191h rd . one wit h Hector B os~el to - to ensurc 2d place ) . For il lnwst Ih e IlH.mwry of man - Ul" so J ulio Bnlhochan and Dr. l'etar Trifunu, it 5eeJll ~ - !\l igud Najdurf has held 11 I" ieh uf Yugoslavia foughl it "Ill for 58 IIlOllUpoly un t he Jl'lar d el Plata tourna­ 1ll0V"S lu a 191h rd . dr~w to ~e ttll" ;~ d alld ment whenever he <.:110';,-, to exert it. At 4th places. any rale. he ha ~ carri ed "rr r il ·~t prize i\"ii g-ue! Cuel lar of Colomliia and Rene fruill thb maj o," dn.: ~,; (;I'('nl of his adupted Leleli'-'l" ~eo r ed nOlably t() displace the count ry more linll~~ thun we can count. Argentian grandma st"r~ Herman Pilnik In vi ew. IlWI'C()\'Cr. of his outstanding and Erich Elisk luster of th e afon:lllcn· ich, for t he 20 man field was studded wit h tioncd I\ e~hevsk)' - -l\aj d orf nw.!(;h. international mast,:r., and at least 6 grand­ A ceu rdin~ 10 ,\1 Bisno, ti l! : te rlll ~ fo r !!lasters. Yet he l o~ t but O!lf~ game. to Najdorf's rCl u m match wilh It'~ s h c v ~ky Julio Bolbochu n of Arg:entilln. hilllself hav,~ ju ~t IJC{'Jl ~ e ttled , with the helpful undefeated throughout. c ' H ) p ~ ratiun of Enrique [!Ja nel, Pr e~id ent of the Club ArgcntiJlo de Ajed rcz ..·:hie h i ~ org:mi1.ing the <:I'cnt. Eightcl:n gilm,~~ art:: to he co n te~ted . p r obabl~' a ll in 13ucno~ A i rc~, b"ginning on Junc' 1.-\. This maleh will certainh- hold the in, terest "f the clIPS., world; hul it now ~<:ems that Gligorich. who lo~t on ly b ~ ' " n ~ point 10 Reshe\'., ).; )". deserves a relurn match, too.

F INAL S T ANDINGS Gligco,.i<-h . .. I G OJ,,,, ,, ,, ~ I ',~ _ 9 '. ~ :\"jri;"" 7'.,,-11\" I'iln;k ...... 11 \~- j '. \\' e~lcr ~\,,- 12 \" SA ~!UU. Hf:SI[HSKY EII~k" 8e ,_ .. . II S Jaurc!;"ui :t -IG i\lIGUf: L NA.J()ol~t" J{o s ,~e!lQ ... 1O'. ~ ' SI; nUn;alal 2', ~-16'h 1.00ks 011 Jrom UJUT. Cni"'''rd ... Iv , Cu!"\,,.lho 2',~ _ 16l,~ Solid Second 011 Home Grounds.

CHESS REV IEW, APR IL , 1953 99 Antipod es A 10 gam.., dud worthy of champions has been fought between O. Sarapu of I\"!\I' Zeala utl ,In ti C. .I. S. PUI'dy of Au~tra l ia. SaraI'll ;;tarkd off wi th a IJang a I" Rt~hev s ky . 11" W'''I the fi" sl and third gallltJs, drew the ~ec()n d and fuurth . Thus Purdy W;lS confronted with a 1·3 defi cit ci o.';(: to til(; midpuint of tht match. But thtn Pll rrly pulled him~elf tugether. Win· ning no less than 4 ,,[ the remaining 6 en· counters, he achiel-ed a tic that enable(1 him to ~hare with Sara]!!! the new]" created challl l,i "lbhip of Aust rulusia-a filling c"Jlcl u ~ i u ll tu a greal struggle.

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REG IONAL Canterbury Team (I. to. r.) Phi lip Faix, Pittsburgh, Pa., Edward H ammond, Grosse Jounting Je rse ym en Pointe F"rms, Mich., .lames Corridon, East Norwa lk, Conn., Ra ymond Marcotte, When the Cabin Chess Cluh of Nashua, N. H., Capt. Miguel Rovira, Guayama, Puerto Rico, and coach Lindman L"g (center) . West Oran~ e . N . .I.. g()e~ on a rampage. its do ings are likely tu make llJO re than ~e c"nd . tring: Kill ia m 111111 .\Jary ;mll !!1 two qualifying ~.:cti(J n ..; ti uhhctl ·''\llICl'i· a lncal impre~~i()n. The latest ex ploit of ~(:,tl'ing 3·1 ag"in."t the ,,1I1<"r two. for 9·7 can League" aud " Nati()nal Leaglle:' Thc the Cabineer~ was a 7 lO mile week·end t o t, d ~. Will iam and MalT. 7·9. l{ie!utldllli. t'H' winners in each gr,)uj> tl, ereUI'Otl ell · trip that took th em on sta bbing fo rays S. l l. ",ui il"ndoll'h._\lacon. ·I·t:!. f,']l ,,\\'· gaged in a SOl'! of lltill iatul'e " world into three New Engl;md states. ec! in that " rder. .~ eries·' tn determine the Di~tl" i et chum· Scalped hy l.og Cabin in the order For indil' irl un l h() n" r~ . Kit Crittendl"n pion ~ hi p. wh ich went t" Nal'com ,\ men tioned w,:re the Portland Checis Cluh tll(: ( NCI ;mti Pitil K"lv""rd {VI tied ;llld team with a mat ch .<~o r e of 2· 1 and a of i\laine. th .., Po rt slllou th Chess Club of Woll nU otlt e .. p oin t~ at top l,oard~: ~1Il( 1 New Han1pshire and the Newhuryport g,l llle ~c, 'r e "f 17·7. l - e l' rt;~c! ltil1 g a I'jet"ry D. Kolm (NC) and Leigh Hihh l" ( \' ) did percenlagc well a lltt"' ~ that of Iheir ril'a]". Chess Club of l\l u!'sH ch usett. s. john Curdu, likt;wi ..;e nt ~ e cond board. The Oil'1II1 A leam, 2·1 in mutches and Re id Ha!T i~ . Halph Houghton. Derwin 11·12 in games. wa~ ~~c{)nd. and the KelT, Forry Laueks and Viggo Madsen Preparatory School Champion s Lilnary ~ quad. l lh·lV:! ;Iud 1J ·12. was wer~ the succ(:~s fu l raiders. Th" Canterbur)' Sc1!0ul I!t :\..,w .\liiford. thi rd. Fourlh in thi s 1"1' quartet of qual i. New High in Attendance Conn ectil"llt. ha ~ tOJll wrl til(: Camhit I.e"· lier~ was Divan ll. lj~.2 Y~ "nd B·16. The 29th alllllwi Western !'I!a 5~ ac1lu se t h gue for the ~l' e o"d )-ear ill a rO""- the Ont~tanding ind i,'idnal l' ''rf' 'rn lallce~ and Connecticut Val ky . duration to (late of lhe Ll·"gue. II led were tllrncd in by Vin~~n l L. Eatun of hdd at th ~, Spriu gfidd YMC.A. attracted d,:.:i.-ivl"ly "vcr three " tl«'r C,'IlIH"ctiellt Library and Temp le H. H,,1icroft of i\"a'·· a reco "d ent ry li~t of 60 players, divided ;chooL_. S"uth Kent. .\lI!J],r""k and COl t] A. Ea t o !l' ~ p..,deet B.O ~l!< ",-ill g: and into three das.,es. W, ,,, ,;tl" I' Ithe lalter of Dallloul-y l a ll d 'uw Holleroft"" neal··perfect 6 V~· Y~ (the best Under 5.·B . scoring, a quadruple 4·1 tie New Y"rk. T I'i ll iIY' PlIwl in g I"f P'I ",]ill ;!.) ~C' H '" percentage·wi se after Ea ton' ~ s w~e l' ) for fir~t in C!a~ci t\ wa s broken in favor afkr ,\ dOllh!.:·l'IIImd team cOlllpd ili"n: enlitled the ~e tw o to p riz, :~ in the for llt of Nicholas Haymond of Hart ford, CUUll . , n L l,f ,me· ye ar .< l! h~criplio tl _. I" Cl l h.~ ;; HU'IEI\" followed by Tysvn Smith, Vernon Hume "''''I ,·,'I, ur;' .". C. .'«w , h I": ~n l " and Dr. j oseph Platz. ,lli lll.r,,"k , NORTH DAKOTA Gilbert Cllrp..,ult:r and Frank Va n Brunt . "1",' ;11 ; ,." -1'" ",1; ,,):' ...... , A 12 player Swiss fo r th " ~ talt" titl e wa ~ were fir st alld .oec"IHI respective ly in Class T he Canterbury cu ac11 and organlz<: r credited to Sl anle), S. J "hll ~ oll of Craml B, while winner;; in C1a ~s C were Car! "I th.., Canti,it l.englte. Edwin L Lindman Furb ..1 "V:! .1f:!. ah.., ad of .\lo..:1\'in j"h"~ot] 13uuHlann amI Jerry Scanlon. ( Head "f .\Ialh. Dept. I h"pl" ~ t" se l" pre p {no reiali" el of Nort hw ,-",d. ·1·1. j{ onu ld Southern Intercolleg iate .:)II,:\" ' 11I,,,d Cilr· L(Ju is. hus won slate c h ampi"u~h iI JS in " ..,d. 1';"1"0[>""" , ""ol"-~;h'C1" n"L,hcd ,""ptka. lJ lil i7.ing a pla"ing pa tt e rn somewhat LO\li~ia!!a and '\fi ~~i~ci ip pi! Tournament II"(>()(I. of "0""1 ~"!. C r"~,,d"rs. sle"d~. t",lies. similar 10 that of " rgauized basehalL 14 Director D. C. ,\!acdonuJd f"d." Ih;it Stan· I" t"i(l l,o"",t · loo~, $It",. \\",'it c : P,·ofe.'S'· ,·. 9:1,) ,'""!{,,',,, .\,', 're-.·"T"". :\" ~ W .J ~ '·~cr. kam .~ of Ihe Di ~ tricl Cheh l.'·;lg11t' I'la y,' d k y J,, !tn !" I11' ~ win s (individual ami Inl!ma.

100 CHESS REVtEW , APRt l . 1953 II lenl ) "vel' Pohle will enllanee Grand trawled di~tanee~ o[ 39 I" 115 miles to Forks c he~~ standing cons id er;ilily. be on hand f" r the evening's .:: nter!aill' Oiller high ~corer _< we re : Gordon An. ment. It ~holi i d be added Ilw t Ihe IIllflf· ders,.n ( li t: 41rew with S. .I" hn ~ ' . n ) . 1 ~ lh at fieia l ehampinll of Ihe \V e ~lern world :)·2 (Oil S.·B. ) : Dr. Bichanl C. We nh of ro u! in ciy quelled ,Ill r e ~i~ la ncc. Concordia Col icge. ~I""rh e ad . Mi nnes"ta. Dr. !'.Iax Seh lo ~ s er w"n th e eham pi"n. 51h al ;3 ·2 : K. \':r. BI'uw n "f Cr;rnk F"rks. ~ hip "f Ib e Deealur C hes_~ Cl ilb. 6th al 3·2: and former .ap e r ~ . radi" " tali"n~ and ,\ICA rn elllh<: rs. Prior I" the main (~I· ell!. ;[ elllnlwt itilln to fngicwo"d's 6 l )ll i nt ~ " III "f H pll~"il,]e All ,,111('r SI)ulhnn I>la~" 'r" ilre il)l'il <:d III W

C{'orgill. H<..h erl V . .I one_. W"1l first prize (Ihe 1952 CI!E SS Rj-:vrl':w (1lI 1l 1"1 1) . for H ~ e()re "f 17Ih ·ll~ inll 20 Uliln r"und·robin s ponsored loy the \ laeon (l'ess A~ s "cia· li on. Next were Robert K illiHllls. Jr .. t. A. H orowitz m eets an enthusiastic turnout at Deerfield Academy (Mass.).

CHESS REVIEW. APR IL . 1953 101 lat ed on (I pt.:n.:t.: nt a!;ll hasis. which yieltkd th e fo ll "wil1!; resullS: \Vea rt.:. 65 "10 : O. \1;1. Bitcher. 60 "/. ; L. B. Kalil'. 45 ~/. ; alLd Ben Peterson. 30 %. Hi gh ~c hotll suprl'maer "f OJIL (lha wa._ reg istcrcL I Ily Hi chMd Vincent. 9· 1. A I;""d "l'eUlul in thr 6 pl ayer. d"uhle T<\lLlHI rohin wa. Stt.:'·c .\Iil: knll. 8·2.

/Y('III ) ('r$(')". Unddcated in a tou rnamen t at Hackensack fM Bt.: rgl:n County schoo la~t i c honors. Claus Wolf of Teaneck l1 igh "'a" awartl ed the rille trollhy and n sct of c h e~s honks. Secoml ILl thire! respecti vely were Dal'id D"wning and J 01;c llh Uat."L/li. wh ... Ingdher with "Iller pri7.C w i nner .~. receivCII suhscriptiull s t" Ctu:.ss Ih :,·lt:w.

.\'('11' )'orA-. Once more Dr. Erich .\Iar· cham! is kingpin nf Bochestcr. th is timr ,,·ith (I 9·0 1;weel'. Considerahl )' outdis­ tancel! in R..,cl lcstcr tonrnament pIa)' wcrr Dr. J\ lax Her1.brrge r alii! Vin cenl \Veig. Photo bJ Marion I.. Bra,,, each 6Y::·Z Y::. lUl l! Dr. Walter Rud in. 6·3. Chest Club at Act on High ( Massachusetts): (sellt ed, left t o rig ht) William Kazokas, Richard Schou. Edw in Aoderson, James Kazoku, Alan Christoffe rson, PaU l Deane, The l1la~t cr l y IHIIH! of I'Cl crau Hn y Ch

36 diagrams printed e ndpapers $2.75 Tl!xns. Led br Texas Slate Champion John 13 . Payne. Sun l\ntonio trounced Houston by 10 Jh-Sy:! in a mat ch held at DAVID McKAY COMPANY, Inc" 225 Park Avenue New York 17 Schulenherg. 102 CHfSS REVIEW. APRI L, t9H Utah. Gaston Chappui~ rt"lained his Salt Checho-Slovakia Lake City title with a S-l showing in @. LATIN AMERICA In a tourney at Prague, Dr. Aister and an 8 man Swiss, ahead of Farrell L. Clark Brat divided first and second prizes. and Gleb Kashin. each 4%-1%, who fin_ Brazil ished second and third respcctively on A score of 11-2 sufficed fOf Flavio Car· Iceland S.-B. point.'!. valho tn win the national champiunship. Larus Johnsen has won the ehalllpiuu­ Virginia. A 7-7 tie was pla~·ed hetween Tied for second wne Gt"rmHIl and Belem, ~hip of Heykjavik, with eight wins, three Richmond and Tidewater, captained rc­ each 10-3. draws and no losses. Second at 7%.3% ~pective!y by Roy Elliott and James A. was Oli Valdimarsson; and 16 year old York, le On first board. CHESS REVIEW Ingi R. Johannssoll came third at 7-4. correspondent Dr. Rodney M. Baine ttl'- FOREIGN chalked up 2 points for Richmond. New Zealand Australia O. Sarapu, defending champion, easily Washington. Surmounting t.he difficul­ Lajos Steiner, who has not heen par­ retained his title with a scure of 8·1. ties presented by a tough 20 man Swiss ticlrlarl y active for .-ome time, reappeared tourney fo r the 1953 Puget Suund Open in the news when he regained t.he Au s­ Roumania Champiunship. Jim Schmitt of the Port­ tralian chess championship. His winnin g On completion of a tournament for the land Chess Club took first with a score score of 8%.% cnl irely eclipsed that of nalional championship, there was a play­ of SoL Next. was hars Dahlberg, also of ~uch gt rong rivals a ~ funner-up K. Owls. off to bro;ak a lie between Dr. TroianeSGll Portland, with 4%-11/2' followed by three 6%-2Y2' and thi rd prize winner G. and Ciocaltea. This resulted in a surprise Seattle' men, O. \V. Manney. Russ Vellias Koshnitsky, 6.3. Unfortunately, C. L S. victory for the latter, who is only 20 and Charles loachim, each 4-2. Purdy was not present to play the role of years old and has not been playing chess Prison teams in this state are playing defending champion. for more than two years. some remarkably good chess. In a 14 man, double round match at the Washington State Penitentiary at "\,\lalla \Valla, visitors (plus 85 for non-USCF members)­ from Pasco were outpointed by 2P/z-20Y2. Champ, highest under 18 in adult Tn another encounter of this type, tournt"y-·Speed Championship, 6 I'M. May Tacoma was unablc to do hetter than tie 16-write to V. E. Vandenhllrg, 505 West with McNeil Island Prison by 4%.4%. Lenawee SI., Lansing. IViseonQII. A heavy defeat was inflicted May 21.23: 1953 SOllth Dakota CA State Tournament at the Union Building of the Oll Beloit by Racine when the latter heaped up a 9-1 victory on its home University (2d floor) in Vermillion, S. D. grounds. Rudy Knnz, Art Domsky, R. E. 6 rd SS Tmt (lst 7:30 I'M, May 21), open Rigg. David Arganian, Erwin Poetschke, to all: EF ? (not stated); $8: write to 10hn Aroks, Frank ButtenhofL John Abt :\1. F. Anderson, Box 1466 Hapid City, and John Olsen won for Racine; O. K. South Dakota. Longmire saved his sidc from a shut·out. May 23 & 24: Delaware Open at YJ\fCA. Wilmington, Delaware: 5 rd SS Tmt: EF Wyoming. In a collision between the $3. trophies. open to all: writc to R. D. Douglas Chess Chlb and the University of COMING EVENTS IN THE U. S. AND CANADA Donaldson, 217 Concord Av., Wilmington, Wyoming, the outcome was a 2-2 tic. Vic Abbreviations_SS Tmt: Swiss System Tour­ May 29-31: ?'Iassadll!setls State Open Stalick and Ray Fetzer tal lied fur Douglas, nament (in 1st "ound entries paired by lot while Hohert .McGregor and Ernie Salter or selection: in sub"equent rounds players at Springfield: 6 rd SS Tml; EF :)5 to with similar scorCS paired). RR Tmt: Round lJSCF members. $7.50 10 non-members; retaliated for thc Univcrsity. Robin Tournament leach man plays eVery other man). KO Tmt: Knock-out Tourna­ truphies; start~ 9 1 >~ 1. 29th: write to Dick ment (losers or lo\\" $corer$ eliminated). Ch·ason. 935 Che~tTlul Street, Springfield, $$ : (,,,~h pt"i7, e ~, EF: 1,;11 1",.- fee. CC: ~he~~

CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1953 103 Trap 205 Queen's Trap 210 Queen's Gambit /Ilhilc 10 Play Btuck to PIa), Warm up on a on('·mo\"cr. The QlIt ~ l:n ' s Gamhil Ac, WINNING CHESS TRAPS (3. Closed Games) It ~Iemo; from B1ack's [ ry i n~ cCllled i" hardly II closed 10 ho M Ille gambit Pawn. gall ic I" he sure.., but then THE FOLLOWI NC POSITIO:\S frum II"·ill :;: Cherne\"" "--i". T raps arc num hered here ",I"" re ~ h "u ld we Il UI it'! So lIitl8 Chess TrailS iII u,,:lrale the "deetiun .. f d o;;cII gamc~. r " r I)o:r Che rnel" ~ book, which here it i~, AI any rate, here the usual even in Ihe d,, _"C : ~ 1 games Irap.':' a"uund - ~ lI d III:cd f" r alert· "fOe £ur ol,eni ng m O\'c~ and n"l c,," " II thcm. wilh per[incnt l'iCljlll, Black. scores a gain. n e~s is the gro;Mtcr beeall~e /lut .'" evident. Try )'''111' wi ls on ad\' i c~" The moves l e adjll ~ It s I Hl"' ~ it ean be done- hul these: 10 CO J'l'cct ~ oluli"ns an~ cxcellenl: 8, gn,,!! ; 6. fa ir. to Ihi~ nre instrtl clj\'(, he· how'! I.m,k for 11 stinger as ('allse t ~ ' pi ca L a {ollow.up.

Trap 213 Q's Ga mbit Decl, Trap 222 Q's Gambit Dec!. Trap 249 Q's Pawn Game Trap 255 Nimzo_lndian Dd, Blnck to Play IVhile to jJ/n r If"hilr lu Pla)" IJ/m;k 10 PI(/y Again, Black refu :;es tv Le A$ the Queen's' Gambit The Quccn' ~ P awn OI'CIl' Current ~ t atis[ic~ (Ion'[ the viclim- hut here in a lin. Declilll'ti is Ihe acme of all ins: i ~ another tn,ieil ll y "Ileak we ll fur Ihe Ninllo-In· sil iQII tha t is we ll known-or closed ga nu ~s , we ha'-e [0 d"H'd ganl{", .-\s illuslrath-c. ,Ii;u, Oclcnse for Rl ack. Bul should be ! givc onc "'ilh a Will ror we haw Sd Ci;Ic<1 a Iral' il;< ull h~ l a nccd Ilosil ions can Wh ite has j ust wnn a Whi le, wh id, I' a ~ a wee demenl

Trap 265 Q'I India n Dd. Trap 273 Grue nfeld Def. Trap 217 King's Indian Dd. Trap 293 Q's Def. Blltck /0 Play Blflck 10 Ploy Rlflek 10 Pln,. While /0 PIa), This Irap reverses a bettcr Ove r a reeen[ period, the Bu[ tile Gruen£e1d 's grand. Black innocently imagine;; know n l.m e (Sloe T rail 260 in Grncn fel{1 outst ripped 111 daddy, the King's lndiilll , i _~ [hal he will win a ­ thc book ) which Wll ile had I,vplllari[y, ils [larent. Ih l:" cuming: back now in llI aster hut d id 1'011 C\'er see the [houghl lu spring. I~i t h his King";, Ind ian, Black';; COlli" gamc ~ , From Ihc abo"C I100j· " F, .. , r ~ ~ I at e"'? For ollr prel'ious move, N-~5U), Hc ler·chancei' ran ked it high. tion, Ihe Jlla~' lake.; an un· Al,ril iS$ ue, Illis "'iII do fo r th r ea t en~, of C

104 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1953 Sammy : What's the difference, you f()(l l! A CONSULTATION GAME Sullivan: Corn e on, ladies. Mary (after pause): We don't need any Reported by HANS KMOCH caplain. Peggy: Why should we have a captain? ilI{W: It's usual, Ihough Per.ons Represent ed Tartakover: dean ot Rctlve inter· national grandmaslel's: Ft'eneh I' eggy (sli ghtly irritated) : Well, so -­ Mary : d~u'khaired; U. S. women's lI ubjecI of Aust!'o·Polish ·Hu8slall May (defiantly): What do yo u mean: so? chess cham\llon orl.lI'\ n; living In Paris (Enters waiter offering drinks.) May: blond; fozonler U. S. Women's Biano : sponsor of chess, preferably chess champion U. S. chess, particularly Sam­ May: No. thanks, not before tile game. Peggy: red-head; for iller U. S. my's chess iIInry: j ust vod ka, please_ And caviar. womell's chess champion AI : pu bll~he l ' of CH ESS REVIEW; You see, I j ust came back from Roasha Carrie: willow of organizer or consultation game where we had the tou rnament. Fl'llnk J. Marshall Hermann: olean of U. S. chess; as· p f,ggy : I'd like some coffee, hut without Mi ll Sullivan: reporter·ln·chlef of slstant to Mi ss Sullivan cream and sugar lind co ffee. t he American Che .. BUlletin; F irat kibiUer director of consultallon game Mnry: Are you so strict with your diet. Seeorld kibiUer Sammy: leading gran(lma.ster of dea r? Is it good for yo ur ches;;.? the nOIl·Communist world People (about 2000 in number) PellY (sentimentall y): Nothing ' is good M iguel (alias M endel) : GTandm as­ $eerie: The AlolOl·r·Wastorla Hotel for !II\' chess. it seems. I can't get over leI' li ving in Duenos Ai res; rival in New Yo rk City the g~me I had with you in the cham· to Sammy Date: April ! . 1953 pionship. Mnry (indignantly): Which you shouI'd R equired rearling (!! n : R eshevsky vs. Naidor/, IlIlernalional T ea m Champion. have lost. ship Fin/ll.!. HI.fsinki. 1952: CHESS REVIEW, Jlage 337. November, 1952. P ~ggy (perplexed): Lo-oJ;t??? ? SullilJan (impatiently) : P lease, ladies, ACT ONE name your captain. Scene One ilfigUf'i; - and gentlemen, I alwa )'s fill Mnry : Listen, dear: we only know how ( Large ball room converted 10 chess room hal)p)' ... (Carrie. Mary, May, Pegs)', to play chess. Am I ri ght, May ? wilh hundnxls of chess tables and Miss Sullivan, AI. Bisno, Hermann. Mar: I should say so. Not even I would many wn llhoards. About 2000 people. Sammy. Tartakover exeunt ) always know how to act as a captain although Sealed on a podium Carrie, Mary, May. vuirr IltlllPY when I hea r spick my old- [ won the U. S. chamllionship man), Pegg),. Miss Sullivan, AI, Bisno, (Curtain) times. Hermann, Mi guel, Samm)" Tartak(lver.) Scene Two l'i!8gy: Maybe somebody else could be AI: Ladies and gentlemen. One of the (The Ilodium. Carrie. Mary, May. P eggy. .)ur captain? What about Carrie? She mOSI important eVents in all chess his­ is very ex perienced in these things. tury is goi ng lu take place in this room Mi", Sullivan, AI. Bisno, Hermann, Mary : Oh yes, Carrie. What a brilliant tonight. The question wh ether chess is Miguel, Sammy, Tartakover. Cocktaih a game for males or for females or for being served.) idea! (kissing Carri e) Darling, please, Ai : Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Sullivan would you like 10 be our captain? You both will he settled once and (or alL can't say: no. My magaz ine has spent many thousands has been appointed Director of the Con­ of dollars to arrange a co nsultation sultation game. She will now make the Carrie: I bet I can. Please leave me out. game between the three most renowned arrangements. Why should 1 get myseH into trouble? women chess players of this country, Sullivnn: We ll, this table is fo r Ille ladies. PeGGr : Whal trouble? You are the most and Ihe th ree best clless ma) 1'!9 we were The lIlen will sit Mer there at Ihe olher won derful ca ptain in the world! E,'ery. able to get hold of, Sammy, Ihat is end of the room. Each side will Il ave body respects and admires you. a clock. (to Hermanu ) Did you bring (appl ause), and the two brilliant for· Mny: Right you are. J( she refuses, this the clocks? cigners, Tartakover and Mendel, or whole event j ~ ruined. rather Miguel whom -- Hermann: Yes, Milad),. Al (frightened): What do you mean: Miguel: (interrupting) Ladies and gentle­ SlIlliv{/II: Score sheets, too? ruined? (to Carrie) You arc not going men, t , uuu , I, I, I - and myoid friend Hum{mn; Yes Milady. Also pencils. to drive us into bankruptcy, are you? AI, of course · I saink you vairy melch. SullilJ(fll: "''f y magazine has spent thousands o( I alwavs like 10 comm to New Yo rk Okay, then, we can start. Peny: But who has While? dollars 10 make this night a success, whi ch has become my second hom m. and success we must have. We don't Bisno (to Tartakover): What was his Sullivnn: Oh, thaCs true. Lei us to ss a mind a (ew extra grand, i( you know fi rst? coin. what I mean. So don't hesi tate. Tarta/,:ovrr (evasively): Oh, is cosmo· H ermaflll (whispering to Sullivan): You he Carrie: (softened): Well, I have not the poleete. have til ca ll the captains of the teams for th at. slightest idea wh al you mean, I must Migu el (continuing): Last time when I say, but I'd sure hate YOIl to go broke, was in Ne w York pl ay match against Sullivan: Will the ca ptai ns of the teams S() all right, I'll take the job. But what myoId frien!1 Sammy (allplause) I step forward, please? is a captain supposed to do? played as idiot (applause ) but this Snmmy: We d idn'l decide on the caplain, lime I shall play vairy - - },fIUY: Oh, that's easy, darling. You josl yet. But that's easy. The oldest always sit there and do nothin g. At (interrupting) : Would you mind, is the captain; so our's is our distin­ Miguel, if I finished first ? (to audio guis hed teacher Doctor Tartakover. Any May: Absolutely nothi ng. ence) Well, ladies and gentlemen, I objections, Miguel? Carrie: So what do yo u need me for ? guess - - Miguel: Objections???? Hohohohoho! Pcggy: just to do nothing. We can't af- Migud, Ai (simultaneo usly): (M) How (backsla pping Tartakover) Ca pi ta n! ford that, you see, because we have to can I mind, myoid - (A) I mean I Heheheheeee! Illay ou r game. guess - (M) my va iry old fr iend AI - (A) I g Ul"SS that's all - (M) I Sullivan : And what about Ihe ladies? Did Carrie : I wish I could a:et thai. Bot all always fi ll happy - (A) I mean that's you decide? right ; once I said yes, I have to stick all I had to say, ladies -(M) ladies Miguel (to Sammy): Oioioi! Why did 10 it. (to Sullivan) So I'm Ihe captain. and gentlemen - (A) and gentlemen. yO ll say: oldest? Youngest, you full ! Sullivan: Carrie and Mister Tart·a-kover!

CHESS RtVUW. APRtl, 1<)5J 105 Will--:you step forward, please. We have paper cups which I took from our water lIfary: Yes, and I won a Pawn. to toss a coin. machine? We can conveniently use Peggy: Bllt I got a terrific auack winning Tartakover: So how mainy players has them as megaphones. hack two Pawns. ladies team, pliss? Sullivan: Oh that's wonderful. But now Mary: YOIl a terrific attack? I had a ter­ Sullivan: Three, sir. hurry lip. The hays have already ar· rific attack! But then I missed many rived at their table. Tartakovt:r: Three? Pardon: Mary, May, wins. Peggy and Carrie - CQmbien en fait? Scene Three Peggy: Not so many. Only two or three, Sullivan: Well, that would be four. Bul (The ladies' podium with chess tahle and perhaps. But that was after dinner, Carrie is only the captain; she doesn't clock. Carrie, reading " Chess in an owing t" my . Before dinner. know how 10 play. Hour" by Frank 1. Marshall; :Mary, I could have won very ea - - Tartakover (sarcastically): Not know polishing her nails; i\"iay, arranging her May: (fairly irate) What the heck is how play? Hahaha! Poor innocent hair; Peggy, brushing up her make-up; going on here? You are wasting our lamb. (emphalically) I can tell you: Miss Sullivan. hammering al a gong. time with private quarrels. captain or no captain, better half of Steadily increasing noise from the audi­ grandmaster Marshall plays belter than ence.) Mary: Pardon me; we were discussing an opening. Besides, she started it. we all. 1st tiger. Vairy fine lady, of Peggy: What is this noise? It makes me course, but in chess: tiger. No, no. I nervous. Sounds like a gong. Peggy (sighing): Oh dear! Let's forget protest. Timms must be even: three about it. I think you, too, May, like 1 Sullivan: I have been doing this since P- Q4 better than 1 P-K4, don't you? men, three women. C'est tout. I started your clock eleven minutes ago. (Follows heated debate whether or not Nobody pays any attention to me. May: I certainly do. the team,s must be even in number. Peggy (dismayed): Oh, you started our Peggy: So let's pluy it. Or bas Carrie any Situation seems hopeless.) clock. Why didn't you say so? objections? Hermann (to Sullivan): Uuuuuu, may I May (mildly reproachful ): Our captain Carrie: I don't" care. I only remember that make aaaa suggestion, Milady? should have told liS. Frank once told me he was going to Sullivan: Go ahead, Hermann. Carrie (defiantly positive I : What do YOll play P'-Q4 next day against a fellow Hermann: Uuuuuu, What if the gentle­ mean by told us? I'm supposed to do named Trash or so, a German Doctor. men also took a fourth member in their nothing. but wh ether he did pluy it or not, i don't remember, it was over there, in team? I see here, uuuuuu, Mr. Bisno, Peggy: But you have been reading. aaaaa very fine gentleman and excel· Russia probably, or in Germany or Carrie: That was before the game. if you Spain, a long time ago, Frankie was lent player, too. Remember, he recently don't mind. defeated even the President of the not yet there. Or was he? I really don't United Slates (blows his nose) Chess Mary: Darling, please, don't get excited. know. Federation in a brilliant game that has Peggy: So let's start. Mary: I see, darling you know a lot about been published. Carrie: Y uu left too milch powder on your the Queen's Pawn opening. So we play Sammy: That's the solution. Thank you, nose. No. !\Jore to the left. Right 1 P- Q4. Would you kindly advise Miss Hermann. I'm sure Mr. Bisno will ac­ (laughing heartily). She has an ad· Sullivan to announce the move? You cept. journed game. are the captain. Bisno: Well, if Sammy tells me that I (General laughter) Sullivan: Okay, I got it, (hammering at should accept, so I accept. However, IVlary: That is best joke I ever heard. the gong, shouting to the gentlemen) you know how I hate a wooden game. Darling, I never knew YOll had such a Pawn to Queen four! (sighing) I guess With me on the team there will be no fine sense of humor. they cun't hear me. Where are the megaphones? Oh, here. (using paper such monkey business as a grandmaster Peggy: Okay, now? draw. By the way: Miguel and Tartak· cup as a megaphone) Pawn to Queen Carrie: The nose, YOll mean? (continues four! (wondering) What is this? They over must vote on me. laughing) . Miguel (backslapping Bisno): Hohohoho, still don't hear me, it seems. Oh, I Peggy: I really think we now must start. see: Hermann just forgot to pierce the Meester Beesno, I volt for you. How much time did we lose so far? bottom. (Tears off bottom of paper cup) Tartakover: Bravo. I principally never ob­ Sullivan: Eighteen minutes. Pawn to Queen four! (slightly des­ ject to anything. But maybe we could perate) The dime thing doesn't work. give Mr. Bisno to ladies' teum and take Peggy: Eigh-teen mi-nutes! That's awful. What are we going to play? Maybe we should just show them our better half of Marshall for ourselves. move. Peggy! Hold up the score sheet, 1st only suggestion, nalurellemenl. Mary: But who is to keep score? please, so they can see what we played. CorTiI': You think you can push me Carrie: I should say you, Mary. You are (desperate) They obviously cannot read around like a Pawn? No. I stay with the champion. your handwriting. I don't know what the girls. Or I go home. Mary: But the champion has the greatest to do. Sullivan: So let's toss the coin, now. We responsibility, you see. I must concen­ Carrie: Why don't you ask the audience lost almost an hour. Head is White for trate on the game. to help you to call the moves? Let them the ladies. (Tosses coin while Carrie Peggy: Oh, I'll keep the score. have some fun. and Tartakover watch.) Head! The May: Wouldn't make any difference to SlIllivall (to the people next to the ladies play White. Will the gentlemen me. Keeping score is nothing. go to their table, please. podium): Would you be kind enough Peggy: I'm not bragging. to repeat what I'm saying so our oppo­ (AI, Bisno, Hermann, Miguel, Sammy, nents will get the mov e? Pawn to Tartakover exeunt) Sullivan: Nineteen minutes. Queen four. Slllli!lan: Gosh. I forgot to tell Hermann. !Jeggy: If this goes on, we lose the game without having made a move. The PeO/}/,' (making an increasingly unin­ Hermann! Heeeermaaann!!! telligible noise): Pawhohohohoh! Hermann (re-entering): Yes, i\lilady. Carrie: So let's Peggy keep the score. I'm the captain, hehehehe! SulJivall: Would you kindly listen to me Sullivan: So you take care of the boys, again? and I shall stay wilh the girls. But how Peggy: I play 1 P-K4, but you don't like do we communicate with each other? that move, I know. The People (with increasing force): Paw· They didn't install earphones, and I Mary: If you start with 1 P-K4, you get hohoh, hahahah, hohohoh! wonder whether we can outshout all the Sicilian. Sullivan: Would you kindly keep quiet these millions of people here. Peggy: So what? Didn't you play the for a moment! Hermann (smilingly): I anticipated that. Sicilian against me in the champion. The People (with still increasing force): Milady. May I provide you with these sh,ip? Pawhohoh, hahahahah, hohohoh!

106 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1953 Carrie: You don't know how to handle never played in my life. When I play Miguel: What can I do? them. (to the People) Shut up! (the now King's Indian and lose game, and Tartakover: One move i~ as good as the People instantly fall silent) You must come home to Argentina, President Per­ other. (to Hermann) Would you kindly do this (accompanies every word with ron will ask me: Miguel, arc you transmit our answcr. please? a handclap) Pawn- to--Queen-four! meshugge? Hermann (to people next to podium): The People (with enthusiasm): Pawn­ Sammy: You see, 1\Ir. Bisno, The King's May I ask your friendly co-operation in lo-Queen- four! Pawn-Io--Queen­ Indian is not good enough for a seri­ transmitting our move to the ladies? four! Pawn- to-Queen-four! ous game. I wouldn't play it for a mil· We playcil - - lion dollars. Scene Four The People (with a roar, accompanying Bisllo: Is that so? Didn't you play it in every wo rd with a handclap) Pawn­ (The men's podium. AI, Bisno, Hermann, Hel sinki for even less? Miguel, Sammy, Tartakover) to-Queen-four! Pawn-to- Queen­ Sammy: For less! Oh that's different. If four! Tartakover: So Ponn Quinn forr. You see. I play for less than a million, I'm not Sammy: rt'fy Gasch! They are repeating Ladies have made best move. 1st interested at all in the game. speerit of Marshall. I warned you be­ White's move, and the girls will think fore. We made decisive mistake before Tartakover: A propos million. How mainy we fell into the Michiganev Defense. game started. Why four ladies instead of minutes do you think we can take fur Hold it, Hermann! Hold it! three, I don't understand. 1st comical. our move. We so far used twenty. Henna/m: Well, the only thing I can do When I came here, Meester Al told me Gentlemen, wc must make move. is to rush to thc other side and tell 'Oh. Herr Doctor, everything is ar­ Miguel: I have very good idea. Absolutely the ladies. This system of transmission ranged' and now I see everything is dis· nell' Illuve: I ... P-KN4. secms to have its drawhacks. We must arranged. Bis/lo: This you call an idea? 2 BxP wins find something else. Bisno (to AI): What is he talking about? a Pawn. Scene Five Al: He is afraid of Carrie. She makes the Migm·l: Then I win vairy important II'm­ (Before a wall board. First Kibitzer; Sec. ladies' team too strong, he thinks. Of po with 2 ... P-KR3. ond Kibitzer; Throng.) course, there is something to it. Carrie Bisllo: What is so important about that? First K. (pointing at sign held up by has seen many big tournaments. Miguel: All right, Meester Beesno, we Miss SuUivan reading 2 P-QB4): Grace Bisno: Is tbat so? Well, I'm perfectly play three, or better five blitz games God, they now found a perfect method willing to increase his fee with a few to study my new defense. Hundred dol· to announce their moves. That jungle grands. (whispering something to Tar· lar a game. Your move, please. One, drum system they had used first seemed takover ) two. three-- to me - I don't know - maybe silly Tartakover: Oh no, ist not naycessary. Bisllo: Wait a second! is not the right word. The girls are (putting something in his pocket) I Miguel: I already waited three seconds. clever. I'm curious at to what the men only mean: i\'larshall ist Marshall. You Four, fivc - - will do_ (pointing at sign held up by see, I met Marshall in mainy tourna· Hermann reading 2 ... B-N2) The men ments, never lost a game to him. But Bisno: But I don't want to play. arc adopting the method of the ladies. juslement that is danger. In long run Miguel: So ninety dollar a game. Go Very good. Now we can redly follow everybody must lose a game. 1st like ahead. One, two -- the game. rouge et noir in roulette. And you think Bisno: I told you I'm not going to play. (Game proceeds: 3 P- K4, N- KB3 4 Marshall ist dead? Only Meester Mar· Migud: Eighty, no? seventy-five dollar. B-K2) shall is dead. Grandmaster Marshall One. two - - Second K.: And they arc moving fast, cQmfortably sits in chess Olymp watch­ Tartakover (to Miguel): Why do you now. ing tWs game, giving inspiration to molest Meester Beesno? Gentleman ladies by medium Carrie. 1st grave situ· First K.: May be too fast. White loses a must respect international courtoisie. If Pawn. ation for liS. Mais. Ilaillrellem elil. clicnt says no, ist no. All right, I play don't be afraid Meester Beesno, haha­ with yOIl instead of Meester Beesno. Second K.: I doubt it. These masters hate hah, we shall fight. (to Miguel) What Hundred dollar. UII, deux, trois -- to snatch Pawns in the opening_ (Game is your valuable opinion about the po­ proceeds: 4 .. _ 0 -0) You see, they Miguel (stunned): You play with me? saw it. sition, Miguel Miguelevitch? My new opening you mean? And you Miguel (downhearted ) : Very schwer. White? Hehchehe, hohohoh! First K.: I'd rather say they overlooked it. Nothing is wrong with 4 ... NxP, How so ladies found this strong move, TarWkover: -- qllalre, cinq - - Your I don't know. What can we do? it seems to me. But I admit I'm only a move, please. Sammy: Maybe we should try something duffer. new to get them out of the books. Miguel: Capitan! How can I play with Second K.: Glad to hear that. you? BiS/lo: Why not simpl)' 1 ... P-Q4? First K.: Not when I play with you, you Tartakovl~r: All right, then. Ninety dol­ Sammy: Well, that's an idea. But I think lar. Un, deux - - duffer. (Game proceeds: 5 N- QB3, R­ KI) What is this? Where does the it has been played before. Am I right, Jl1iguel: But Doctor! I said no. Where is Doctor? go after 6 P- K5? R4 is the yOllr international courtoisie? All right. only square. But then White wins a TartakQIJer: Oh yes, has been recently I play you fOil I' games, even. Ten dol­ Pawn with 7 BxN. Or wait a little: 7 played in Russia between Tchikagonov lar a game. Onc. 111'0 -- P-KN4 even wins a piece. 1£ I didn't and Michiganev. Hermal/II: UUlllllluh. uuu, may I uuu re­ see with my own eyes Sammy sitting at Sammy: And there is supposed to be a spectfully remind the gentlemen of the the board, I should say Black blundered. secret Russian analysis on that. They time? Almost half an hOllr has passed SecQlId K.: Don't you know that there are call it the Jl.Iichiganev Defense. We bet­ by now. openings where one side IlUshes Pawns ter stay away from it because Mary Sammy: I made up my mind. We play until he wins a Knight and then gets and May may know all about it. They 1 ... P- KN3. smashed? Ever heard of the Muzio recently played in that Russian tourna· Bisllo: So you do play the King's.Indian? Gambit? (Game proceeds: 6 N-B3) ment, you know. Sammy: Definitely not. My move is en· There you are. These girls know what Bisno: So let'~ play the King's Indian tirel)· new. It makes a great difference they are doing. Defense. whether a move is made on the first (Game proceeds: 6 ... P- B3 7 0-0, P­ Miguel, Sammy (horrified, simultaneous­ turn or, say, on the twentieth. QR4 B R-Kl, P- R5) ly): No, no, no! lJisl/o: Is that so? Oka}" then. Gentleman, First K.: Again one of those sacrifices. Miguel: I beg your Pardon, Meester I suggest we all admit tllat Sammy is Why can't White take the Pawn? J Beesno, but King's Indian Defense I right. Let's play I ... P-KN3. mean with thc Knight? If I sllOuld

CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 195'3 107 make thig nlClve against Sammy, I bel First K.: roo deep lor me. C(lrrie (after pause): Where tire Ihcy so Sammy would IlillY 9 Nx P and gel me Secolld K: Well, Ihe book I have says a long? T hese youngSlers, today, have into troubJe. that the opponent is not no sense of rt:sponsibility. We may lose Second K.: Sammy isn't playing alone. forc ed to accept has no value. on the clock. I guess I must make the If the Ih ree other men vote against him, First K.: I'd rather say White nnw threat­ move myself, although I know that, if lI'hat can he do? ens 16 QxP. we l u~e tilt: gamc, they will blame me fo r it. But what is th e he;;.t 11l"ve? First K.: But the ot hers are supposed 10 Sl:'colld K.: Norht:llse. beca use 16 ... UxN Are tlwrt: an y threats? be masters, too. roJ1"w ~. ami White gds a d'lubh:d Second K.: Well, they may he masters. Pawn. S ullivall: I hale to in terfere with that gamc; but wasn't there much talk aboul But compared with Sammy - you know (Game prut:ccd~: 15. . N-K3 16 i3- Q4) - Besides, you are wrong; after 9 a doublt:J Pawn which White must First K.: MayiJe you arc right. While is avoid'~ NxP, Black wins the King Pawn. afraid of the doubled Pawn. So they First K.: So I play 9 P- K5 fi rst. Currie: Arter Bx N, you mean ? I think first wa nt 10 t:xcilangc Ihe BishoJls and they did lalk aboul tha t. Okay, so I go then lakll the PlIwn. Bul wail 11 little: Second K.: I'm here 10 see what they away wi lil the Knighl. How many play, not what yo u play. There comes Isn't 16 .. NxB a strong m"vc'? m ack gets the two Bishops. squares has 11m Knighl got? I could White's llIove. pJay NxP ; but, if Ihat were a good (Game proceeds: 9 R- QNl ) Secolld K.: Oh no. That w"uld give White move, I guess they would hal'e made it First K: And these people are telling lIIe two Knights against on". Kni!;ht~ are ea rlier because I remember the Pawn that Rooks must he placed on open mo st dangerous; they can a l ll'ay~ do has been standing there fur quite a files. some UI\t:xpecleu Ill ist: hid. time. \Vhat if I attacked the Queen? Second K; Don't be silly. There are no (Gum(! pn,ct:eds : 16 .. [3 -K'J. ) (after pau~t:) Oh no, that's a trap. If open fi les in this position. The girls FirSI_ K.: Lo\,k at thaI! A great ~ urJlri se . I go there ( ]J ointing al Q5), then I lose know what Ihey are doing. BJuck is playing fo r 11 King.~ide at­ the Knight. The same with Ihal. other (Game proceeds: 9 ... P-K4 10 B-K3) tack. Ii ... Q- HS and mall:. Sce that ? sCluare (IJOints at QN5). So I must choose hetween Ihis square (pnin ts at First K. : I don't understand a single move It's !;eUing '-cry exciting. Thi .~ i ~ S:lIn­ my at II is lJe~t. Ql) and that onc ( points at K2 ). I'll of Ill is game. They are jusl throwing railier 1, lay this (N-QI) , hut I know away Pawns and pieces wilh every other (Game pr"ct:et! s: 17 B-B2, they'll be angry at me if I retreat the move, and nobody takes all Yt hing. Why Secolld K.: T her saw it. Tllo' girls are Knight Ihat far. So I play this (N- K2). lIot 10 Nx KP or 10 PxP ? rCtl lly !,!'KXI. If Black n(>I\' pn,eeed .~ wi lh Second K: You are blind for combin­ 17 .. Q- HS. then 18 BxQ f " lI "w ~ , and Suilillflll: All right, then. J shall signal your move. (Signals 18 N-K2) ations. 10 NxP is bad because of 10 ... White is ~a f .... But will Sammv ..;cc that. P-Q3. Then the Knight must go back. I wondt:r'? ' . (Enters Peggy ) and Black takes the King Pawn. Your FirSI K.: I'm q:ry curiuus 11,_ tn ",lwI wi ll Peggy: What happened? Oh dear! N-K2 other JIlOVC is *Iill worse bec uuse. after halJpen. loses a I'a\\'ll. You ~ho nld huvt: waitt:d 10 PxP, White rema ins with a doubled for us. Scene Six Pawn, moreover a doubled Pawn in the Carrie : limil after the gamc? Why did center. (The ladies' pudiUlll. CulTi.... ?'.Iary. May. you leave me alone? Where did yo n Peggy, i\liss Sullivan. (Game proceeds: 10 .. P-Q3) sta)' so long? I had to make iI move First K.: With 10 .. PxP 11 NxQP, NxP, Posili"n reached: bccHuse we arc ill tillle pressure. Black could have won the King Pawn. (Enter Ma), and Mary) Second K. : They'll get il Jater. Don'l Mary (ea l ml~'): It's only a Pawn. \\·orry. Ala., (0IJtirnislic311 y): And we get an (Game proceeds: 11 Q- Q2, PxP 12 NxQl" open liJle Jor il. QN-Q2) Scene Seven First K.: I really hegin to believe they just don't see that the King Pawn is (Tht: m e n'~ podium. Bisno, Hermann. loose. Well, with so many pieces on ~Tigucl , Sammy, Tartakover. the hoard, nobody can see everything. Position reached: (Game proceeds: 13 B-Bl, N- B4 14 N- B2) Second K.: Now watch out, now they'll take the Pawn. This is the ri ght mo· ment for il. Knight lakes, Knighl takes, Knight takes, and White's QUt.'Cll has ilIuy: Excu ~e me. (exil ) no good square. Black wins. Peggy: Excuse me. (exit) First K.: 1 doubt il. Bolh sides are afraid Mary: Excuse me. (exi t) of captures. Carrie : That's funny. The pusi li"l1 II(ls be­ (Game proceeds: 14 ... KN-Q2) come very difficult, as th"y say; (Jur S~cont1 K.: You are righI, I'm sorry to time i ~ ~Llnw~1 liP; and tll uy arc all say. They'd rather lose a Pawn than running .. way. What if llJat: k II"W win a Pawn. It doesn't make st:nse to makes a mOI'e? me. Why does Billck allow 15 QxP? Samlll),: So they finally blundered. Sulfirllll: There is Black's Ill"",,: 17 First K.: You just don't see the trap. Bisllo: Is that sO)'~ Yml thi nk \\'t: ca n safuh' Q- B3. (i\lakb mov u un tir e h"ard, play ... BxNP? . After 15 QxP, BxN 16 PxB, NxP, White pLl~ lw~ cluc k.) has a bud game with a doubled Pawn Carrie: Can 't we stop tilt: cluck f"r a SrwlIny: or COllrse. And we must do it fast, bd'"re they can rectify Iheir move. while his Queen is attacked, tu". while IIll lil th ey come haek ~ They uri: (Game proceeds: 15 P- B3) not analysing the game_ Bccilusc I'm o:; ure they actually made Ihe right move, which is 18 N-QI, bUI Seconil K.: So Whi te gives up all hOlle, S"fliV(lf/: I know Ih3t. Bul even so I can'l Miss Sulliva n erred ill tTlIll~m ill i n g il_ it seems 10 me_ stop Ihe clock ; it's .againSI the nile. 18 N-K2 is 100 ridiculous to be lrue. First K. : What do you mean? (;(/rril:: I'm wi lling 10 slop the cI"ck my· Migllel (very excited): No, no, no! Not Second K.: They protect their King P awn self. ladies' mOl'e is ridiculous; your move is Iwclluse Black wouldn't tuk.~ it, anyhow. SIIIfiIIIIll : rill afraid I can't all"\I' Ihat. ridiculous! Oioioi, what mOl'e is 18 ...

108 CHESS REVtEW, APRIL, t953 BxNP. I\fust stupid move on the board. Mary: Knighl here (point ~ at QBI ) or Sammy: Resign? That's out of question. On ly great duffer will make such mov e. Knight there (points at QB3 )? Let's play 21 .. .N/2·B4. The e:irls are I protes t. Carrie: Knighl there (points at QB3) I in time pressure. Bis/IO : WI/at do )'011 say, Doctor Tarta· sllOuM say. It's more. mfHe -- you Humun.: I gOI it. ko\'er? "now what I mean. Se ~ ne Ten TarlllhQl;er: Stlcri hcing Ponns ist sllceril Mary ( 10 Ma)' and Peggy): Ihink we of Marshall. yes. Hut - Ponn ist Poun. mu st pI a)' 20 N- G3. It's more what (The ladies' podium. Carrie, May, Mar),. Pegg)'. Miss Sulliva n) . l1figu ~l ( ilassionatel y): No, no. no ! Carrie means. Knight Pawn i ~ no Pawn, BxNP is nn J1IfI),: II 's )"aeticall y forced. Alary: They didn't move away the Queen. I don'l understand it. move. game is no chess, Sammy is no P egs),: All right. So lei's pIa)' it. master. t, Miguel, shall never agree to (Game proceeds: 20 N- B3, P-R6) May: It is obviously a coml)ination. If we 18 ... DxNP. May: Now we can get thc open fi le very take, then the)' Get a strong on the seventh. Bisno: So let's lake a vote on that. nus ily. All we hU l'e to do i! to drive Tartakovcr: 1st bri lliant idea. ?o.'lot ion, hack Black's Queen with 21 R- Nl. PegSy: Let us first take the Queen and please. Captain remains impartial. Mary: And we may win some tempi. too, . worr), about the Pawn Inter. Sammy: 18 ... (lxNP. hceause the Queen lias not many goon Carrie: Sure; who wou ldn't take the Bisno: I !'econd Sammy's motion. squares, .115 I see. Quccn? (Came procceds : 22 RxQ, PxR) M iglfel: Contra! Pt!"y: .'\11 right. It's Ollt IIC$I chance, an}'. Tartakover (absentminded): Rc-<:on tra! how. Peggy: Now we must tr)' to win the passed (Corn..'<:ting himself) Dass heis$t, I mean (Came Ilrocceds: 21 R- NI ) P awn. Can we allacic it, somehow? motion of Sammy is accepted with con· What about N-Ql - oh no, then Ihe Scene Nine Pawn queens. tra. \Ve play 18 ... BxNP. (to Her. mann) \'i'ill yo n kindly signal mOI'e, (Thc mcn's JlOllillm. Bi s./JU, Hermann. May: Why not N-N4 threatcuing QxNP? pl easc? Miguel. Sammy, Tartakover ). (Game proceeds: 23 N- N4, N-R5) H ermann: With pleasure, Doctor. A fin c 1'nsiliOIl reached: Peggy: Exchanging pieces? This is just move it is, ulllcit I have the feelin g of what we like. having seen it once before, somewhere. May: I don't sec anything wrong with Migud (in despair): Oioioi, my rC lmla· NxN. tiun, my reputation! Puhlicum wi ll Mury: Are Ihere no traps? Ih ink the grcat i\·Ji guel iS I palzer. Carrie: If the Pawn advances one square Seene Eight then tlley can take a new Queen_ can't the)'? i\b )" (Thc ladies' podium. Carrie, Mary, Mary: Oh, she is righ t. If we take the Peggy. i\ li ~ iI Sullivan). Knight thcn they get a Queen. Pt!ggy: Of cnur~e, they took thc Pawl1. May: And they arc c\'en threatening 24 How arc we goillg to utilize Ihe open ... NxN, followed II), Pawn queens. fil e now, Muy ? We must immediatel), stop the Pawn. Ma,.: We must fi rst dril'e back the Summ.y: So we go away with th e Quecn. Peggy: Well, then, N-Nl is the only Bi ~ hop. move. Mary: Ma yhe Carrie can recall what .she Miguel (triumphantly): Go away? Wherc do you go away, patzer? With )'our (Game proceeds: 24 N-Nl , B-Q2) had in mind when she $3criliecd the Alar), (excited) : I now see a wonderful Pawn'! The Bishol) is strong. move, BxN P, we lost Queen. Ou r Queen Itas 110 move. Oioioi. how was it pos­ move : N- Q3. We win the passed Pawn Currie : Well. if the is so stron;;. i'ihlc that I lost malell against this man? and arc oul of danger. I wOtiM take it wi th Ihe Rook. I)i .~ "o: Eas~', eas)' 1l0W. Sammy lila)' still Pegey: Wonderful. May: Gil'ing Ul) ? find a way Ollt. Lei him think for us. May: Wonderful. Pegg)': There is prohahly something tn it. SI/mmy: Well, to tell yon the truth, this Without this Hishop, Black rna}' have (Came proceeds: 25 N- Q3, P- QN4 26 is the last time I rlar a game in con· PxP, I'xP 27 NxP) Irouhlc in halt ing our allack on the sultation with this man Miguel. I can't King·side, [In)l'ided we can get any. .<; Iand his noisy wa)' of talking and Mar),: Noll' we are safe and can offer May: I dM't mind. laughin g. M), suggestion is we offer the them a draw. Mary: It's onl)' the exchange. Carrie is girls a draw, and do it quickly so the)' Peggy: We won the Queen. Tight. Lei liS take the Bishop. won't hal'e the time to realize what May: Gill we are left without Rooks. Sullivan: So Rook takcs Bishop. (Signals i.<; going on. Carrie: I wish they wou ld accept a draw 19 RxB. gel~ [!romptly the answer: 19 8isllo: A draw? WllO do you thin k [ am? so we could go h()me. Can YOIl signal ... Q,R) [ toln yuu in advance that with me on them thai we oHer a draw, Miss Sui· P eggy: How do we proceed now? Bluek the team there will be no wooden ·game. li van? thrcatcns QxP. I hatc draws. Sullivan: rm son)': You can offer a draw Mary: We co uld pia)' QxP fir ~t if thi$ SUIllIllY: But we might lose. only whil e it i! ~'()[ I r turn to move. Knighl (puinls at QB2) were pro· Bi$/lo: So what ? But I dOll't think we Mary: We don't need these formalities. tected. ~ hall lose. What is your opinion, Doc· P eggy: Why must YOII bc so strict? May : So let us prutect the Knight with lOr? Sullivan: I'm \'ery sorry, hut I llIust follow the Houk. Turwl,ot'cr: Scetllation ist ereeti cul, no the rules. Pt!EEY: Bul \\·hat ahout the Rook Pawn ? doubt. Taking Ponn, I admit, was Carrie: But some of these rules arc jllst blasphemy. Sp<'erit of Marshall got of· Mary (to Ca rrie): What was your idea. silly. You can &end our offer through fe nden, now we must lake punishment. any lime you wish. darling? l.adies played I'a iry fine chess. Now we Curr ie : I didn't in tend to give up the must make supreme effort. May: Or if you wa nt me to bring them the message, I'm will ing to do' it. Rook Pawn. Miguel: You want to conlin ue this game? Mary: Oh I see. And how would yo u pro· No! Playing Bx NP is great shame for Sullivan.: No, please ladies -- Wait a tect it? With the Rook or with the grandmaster, but playing on in this po. lillie, their move is coming. What ? Kn ight? section makes shame much grealer. I They resigned! Hurrah! We ..... in! Carrie: Well, let's say, with the Knight. resign. The End

CHfSS RIVIlW, APR It, 1953 109 An outstanding recent game, annotated by a famous international Grandmaster. by DR.

IN MOSCOW, Mrs. Fenny Heemskerk has . 2 P_KN3 P-KN3 3 B_N2 B_N2 contended mightily and represented Holland 4 P- Q4 P-Q3 in a most noble 1l1,lnner in th e ladies' tourna· Here ~ P-Q·l i~ a lso to be tOn· ment. In such a strong congregati on from all sideretl, aiming at maintaining the sym, mell'r NOli" a type of King's Indian parts of the world, including the host, Ru ss ia, emerges. her secona prize is such a rush to the f rollt* 5 0-0 0-0 that we may wonder whether she is not on 6 QN- Q2 her way to becoming the successor to Vera \Vhite plans to SUPPOl·t Ihe tenter with Menchik. P-B3 and thus curta il the function ings of 13iaek's King Bishop, traditional to the I do not refer here to Vera primari ly in King's Indian. A SOllnd COI\( ,ep'tion which , the quality of Women's World Champion, however, does not produce anything 'tan· but as a "man killer." tVe know that Vera gible in practice, because t he Knight at Dr~. ~IAx Euwt: Q2 con't inues to be in the way. included in her list of victims the names- of ,\ Ex·/Porld Ch(lmpion \Vith 6 P-D4 ami 7 N - B3, the main number of reputable masters forced, in one line of the King's Indian would e merge. contest or another, to bite the dust. 6 QN-Q2 7 P-K4 P-K4 It has more than once been suggested that Ihesc losers band them· 8 P-B3 R_Kl selves together 10 form a "Menchik" Club, pressing me, as it two·time 9 R_Kl loser ( Hastings 1930·31 and Hastings 1931·32) , 10 become its president. These plans have remained plans. But couldn't Fen ny take up the thread and, as a humhle start, found a "Draw" Cl ub? Thi s "Fenny" Association could even be initiated with the member:;hip of 1. H. Donner and H. Kramer who, in the July 1952 "Pilnik" quadrangular training Illatch, were unable to win from Fenn y-al~d otle never knows who else Illay join them, now that the first two sheep have hurdled the fence! With a su f· fic ient showing of interest, a second institution cou ld thell SOOI1 follow whose tl1emIJer ~ would comprise the losers. The miss ion of this association wou ld eOllsist in propagandizing memhership hy assisting P at r oJlc~,; Fenny in every way when she may be engaged in importa nt eonte:;!s. " ' hi to has completed Ihe desired After Fenn),'s successful showing in th e Women Challengers' Tour­ framework, but it now appears that she (;a n not follOW up convenie ntly, Her King nament, at any rate, there is no doubt that, ill all future ladies' competi· Pawl! requires additional protection tions, Fenny shalt be one of the favorites. For she continues to p rogress, si nee s he intends to all~wer an even tua l as is almost a rule with players whose principal shortcoming lies ill lack . PxP with PxP. of self·confidence. In the previolls Moscow to urnament, three years he· 9 N_Bl 10 P_Q5! fore, Fenny also played strongly, hut several timcs allowed a simple win White's manetn-el' is ~eeming l y a seri· 10 slip through hel' fingers. This.time, the ullcertainty factor operated less ous loss of time as it must be followed adversely, and so there is brighter prospect fo r her future- especially \lp with P- B·l, leaving the Queen Knight alit of place. Blac k stands no beticI', how, as Fenny is now going to study theory. She shalt remain true, of coursc, C"CI\ for, in this sort of structure, her to her combinative style, but it is of great importance that combinatioll:; King Hook belongs at J\Bl to support have a sound starting point. " . P - KB-L 10 Nj3-Q2 IN THE FOLLOWING GAi\IE against Moscow, 1952 mack (loes beller with Ii) Njl - Q2 11 R - B1 and 12 N - K1 so as to the tournament winner, Fenny brings of[ KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE ~~ a daring saCI'ifice of a piece, setting her continue with the stralegk:ally indicated (by ) acl\'ersary a problem which she is unable . . P-KB4 . to soh-e, in the long rUll. Mrs. F. Heemskerk Mrs, E, y, Bykova 11 Q-B21 Holland Soviet Union \Vhite squelches any idea of. . P-KB4. • ~J rs. Heemskerk e"me "e'T close t o ,,"in· " 'hite Black ning first, thou~h ill! See story, page SO ·1. U pCQ: p"ge. 278 . col. l·lO(IlI) 0,· MeQ, DcccmbH, ln2, CHESS REVIEW-Ed, N-KB3 N-KB3 p. 95, col. j ;, (!I)- Ed ,

110 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1953 11 .... Q_ K2 Not menacing the Queen Knight Pawn To protect the Queen Pawn befo re (25 QxP? KIt-NU) but aimed at playing TIle Biggesf Bargain pla ying . . P-QB3. 25 Q-N6 a nd thereby lifting the · in Chess Liferafure! 12 P-QN4 ade on the Queen Pawn. 24 . . . . R-K2 To prevent ... N-B4. CHESS REVIEW 12 ... . P-QB3 Black's only move is 2~ . KR~Ql, to answe r 25 Q-N6 by 25 . . D-Kl. 13 P- B4 P- QR4 25 Q-N6! ANNUAL Black·s last advance looks very good as White cannot reply with P- QR3. Breaking th, blockade. Volume 20 14 PxRP RxP 25 Q,Q 15 N-N3 26 P,Q R,R LL twelve issues of CHESS R I::VIEW 27 RxR Thus the otherwise badly posted Knight A published d uring 1952 have been comes into action, meanwhile deprlving Here Black's 2Hh move sbows an ,d· handsomely bound in cloth to make the hostile Knight of its QB4 square. ditional disadva ntage: the advance of this jumbo·sized 384- plus page book. 15 R-R1 the Queen Pawn threatens to take place In it are 331 games selected by experts 16 P-QR4 P-QB4 with a t~mpo gain. of which 246 are fully annotated by 17 B_ N2 N_B3 27 R-K1 masters-all profusely illustrated wi th 28 R- R7 B_ B1 In this type of position. things do not 724 diagrams. They are largely drawn 29 P- Q6! wor·k out well without . . P-B~; hence from the most important chess events Black plans now to play the Knight to Finally- the "killer." 30 BxP as well of the past year, notably the World as 30 B-Q5t are impending. 114, to carry out that indispensable rna' Team Championship, the U. S. "Open," neuver. Also to be considered is 17 outstanding international tournaments, N-Nl, to proceed with P-D4 at once national championships abroad and the or to maneuver the Knight to QN5. state championships and major tourna­ 18 P-R5 N_R4 19 Q_Q1 ! ments in the United States. In addition. the volume contains abo White indirectly prevents P-D·1. sorbing articles on historical and mod· 19 . . . . P- B4 ern chess subjects, with game annota· Regardless-but no\\" this Pawn push tions by Chernev. Collins, Euwe, Horo· has its drawbacks. will. Kmoch, :r..-rott-Smith, Reinfeld, 20 PxP BxP Tartakover and other masters. 20 PxP would be better strategy T here are rafts of special features: but fails tactically against 21 NxKP. chess quizzes, cartoons, anecdotes and 29 N_B3 photographs galore, in addition to in­ 30 BxP S,S structive lessons for improving your 31 RxB Nj3-Q2 chess play. White threatened 32 RxBt fo r a win­ Volumes on hand: ning finish. Meanwhile her threats of 32 Volume 15 - for 1947 - $5.00 P-Q7 and 32 R-QB7, fo llowed by P-N7, Volume 16 - for 1948 - $5.00 also become actualities. Volume 18 - for 1950 - $6.00 32 N)(N Volume 19 _ for 1951 _ $6.00 33 NxN Vol ume 20 _ fo r 1952 _ $6.00 Dlack brings her King as near to the passed Pawns as possible; but it is ai­ Order Your Copy How! l" eRdy too Jate beca use of the ineffective' CHESS REVIEW ness of her Bishop. 250 West 57th St. 21 NxBP! 34 P-Q7 R;-Q1 New York 19, N. Y. A thunderbolt fl·om a clear s ky. \-Vn ite 35 R_B7 K_K2 gives up a piece for two Pawns, with 36 P_N7! considerable enlargement of the potential Now \Vhlte l'ecoyers at least a Rook scope of her other pieces. for the pRssed Pawns, after which the ELECTRIC 21 . . PxN win is of course child's play. 22 NxP 36 R- QN1 \Vhite poses two tremendous threats : 37 R_B8 K,P 23 P- N4 , regfrining the pi ere and 23 P­ 38 RxR K-B2 Q6, fo llowed by capture of the QUeen Black gets the last pflssed Pawn but Knight Pawn. Notable is the fact that has 10 concede further material. @,@ \Vhite doe~ not threa:ten a ·'discovel·y" 39 R-KB8 KxP lI"ith the Knight because of the result­ 40 R- B7t K_ N3 ------ing liquidation on ller Kl square. 41 RxP 22 . . Q-Q3 And Blaek's position, besides, is hope­ Stnrdy and indispensable for match and mocking the Queen Pawn is of vital less. tournament chess, this clock set runs significance to Blaek's position. At the 41 . K-R4 on standard, sixtY'cycle, alternating cur· same 'time, the text move threatens the 42 R-QN7 Resigns rent, with sweep·second hands guarantee­ Knight and so White has no time [or ing split-second accuracy to obvIate dis· carrying OUt the threat of P-N4 (as she putes over time infraction. The baae Is would after 22 . BxN 23 HxB, ele.) 14" long, 3%" wide; the frame, 5%" blgh, 23 P-B4 B_Q2 13" long. Catalogue No. 999. $19.50 plus Also to be considered is 23 ... N-B3. Federal Tax: total $23.40. 24 Q-N3! CHESS REVIEW 250 West 57th Street, New York 19, N, y, t check: ~ dbl. <·h eck: ~ _ <1; 5. ch.

CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1953 III From the "Amenities and Background of Chess-play" by William Ewart Napier

UNIT ONE of Napier's Amenities proudly a chess master and a magnate in com· bore on its' red and bl ack covcr the melo­ merce. He settled In London, where he be­ dramatic position (al right) , with "Mr. came promotel· and patron of the game H. Helms administers check-maLe in two which h e had graced a~ a playel·. moves," Try it: for Black to mate in two. \"1/e hopc some time to give thc game in 1864 full in this scrial; but the position is well TWO KNIGHTS' DEFENSE worth noting now. For chessmastl'l' Hirsehfeld Kolisch Anthony E. Santasiere has commemora ted White Black it in an oil painting which hc preslmted tn 1 P-K4 P-K4 14 Q-R4 N-Q1 the IVIarshall Chess Club.-Eo. 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 15 P-QN4 B-N3 3 B-B4 N_B3 16 N_R3 B_K3 4 N_N5 P-Q4 17 N-3-B4 S,N B_K3 R,Q 11 . The Melodramatic Period 9 RPxN 21 PxP 5 PxP N-QR 18 a,s 0-0 10 N_QNS a,a 22 P_N8(Q) R,P WHAT I like to think of as the melo' 6 B-N5t P_B3 19 B-R3 N-Q4 11 PxB P-B3 23 RxR a,R dl'amatic period, when thunder was hail· 7 PxP p,p 20 P- N5 P_QB4 12 N-B3 Q- B2 24 N-NS! Q_K2 ed the god, and lightning the by-product, 8 B-K2 P-KR3 21 P-N3 K-R2 13 P-KN4 P_QR3 2S Q-R7 B_N5 supplied engaging batches of dashing 9 N-KB3 P-K5 22 0-0-0 P-B4 14 P_Q4 0-0-0 26 N-R7t K- N1 chess which had neither the deep, sober 10 N_KS Q_Q5 23 Q-N3 N-KB3 lS P-Q5 B-Q2 27 RxP ! N_B2 diapasons of Labourdonnals nor the 11 P-KB4 B-QB4 24 P-Q4 Q-B2 16 P-NS N_K1 28 R-RS Q-B3 chastising refinements of Morphy­ 12 R-Bl Q-Q3 25 B-K6 P-N3 17 N-Q2 P_QB4 29 Q-R l R_ Rl whose genius was not so much In find· 13 P-B3 N_N2 26 P-N4! N,a 18 N_B4 P-R3 30 Q-B1 B_B6 ing ways to win as in getting on wIth 27 QxN PxNP 19 Q- RS R-B1 31 N_N6 Q-RSt his own business while preventing his 20 PxP R-Rl 32 K-Q2 Q-NS competitor from setting up shop for him· self. We know i t familial·!y as r estraint of trade. It is related of Andel·ssen that his theory or losing to M01'phy was an inahility to gel started ! But chess, the hobby, saw only IIlor· phy's brilliancy and imitated in fire­ works what it h ad seen in the comet. Social chess must follow t hat model; for heavy thinking f lows too selflsllly for happy, social occasion s. And, when the millions play the royal game, I think popular humol' will turll away fl·om sophisticated subtleties 28 P-B5! P_N4 33 QxPt K_R2 toward the resounding and candid and 29 PxP QR_Kl 34 Q-R5t K-N2 33 QxB! QxQ commonl y intelligible heroics of melo· 30 R-Q7t N,R 3S QxPt K-B3 drama. Clock chess is another stOl'Y White mates in three: 34 :-.i - Q7t, K-Rl 31 Q-N6t K-R1 36 Q-N6t K,N which concerns the few and not the 35 N-B6§, N- R3 36 N- N6 ma te. 32 QxPt K-N1 37 Q- N7t R_S3 masses. White m ale~ in six moves: 38 Q-N3t , And, in this spirit, Sam Loyd, of mU ll' Master Hirschfeld K -Q·\ 39 P- B ~t, KxPIO Q- N3t. K-Q5 ·11 R- Q lt, K - K ·\ ·12 R- Q5t, K-B5 43 Q­ dane Brooklyn as a player, bu t ruler Philip Hirschfeld. chief among the in· otherwise of that celestial empire of the :\3 mate. vetel·ately unsung. is 1\0\\' fOI· the first problem art, samed forth to the IS6' lime i n out" anthology fel<'hed f!'Olll that Paris Congl·ess and let of( this jolly sky­ rich J( m oo which is the shame and hy­ Master Leonard rocket. product of reckless hero wor~hil ) . Among t he neglected master!; of this He was born ahout .1 8,10 , on the Baltic, (·ountl")" who ~ ho \l ld be ki nlUy remem, Sam Loyd Rosenthal in Prussia. bere(\ a~ exhibiting the premonitory WhIte Black Dr. Max Lange in 1859 se l ected this sign~ and urge of champions was 1 P-K4 P-K4 5 B-K3 B_N3 youth as co·edi tor of the Deutsche Leonal'd. In style, he was no doubt 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 6 N_B3 P-Q3 Schach_Zeitung. frankl y sa teillted to IIIorphy. whose ex· 3 B-B4 B_B4 7 P-KR3 N-QR4 It was Hirschfeld's great gOOd fortune ploits were ~till a fresh memory in 4 P-Q3 N-B3 8 B-N3 N,a to gain distinction as an academician, T.. eonard's day.

112 CHESS REVIEW, APRtL, t953 BODEN.KIESERITZKY GAMBIT PONZIAN1'S OPENING L eonard Per rin Bl ackburne Robey White Black White Black 1 P_K4 P-K4 7 P_Q4 0-0 1 P_K4 P- K4 18 a-R3 B,B 2 N_KB3 N-KB3 8 B_N 5 P_KR3 2 N_KB3 N-QB3 19 N,B P-N4 3 B_B4 N,P 9 B_KR4 B- K3 3 P-B3 P-B4 20 N_N3 N-QB5 4 N-B3 N_KB3 10 P_B4 P- B4 4 PxP P-K5 21 N_B5 Q- B3 5 N,P P-Q4 11 Q_Q2 P_B5 5 N_Nl N_B3 22 Q-K2 Q-N3 , B-N3 B-Q3 12 B-R4 P_R3 6 P- Q4 P-Q4 23 P-N3 N-R6 13 0 - 0-0 P_QN4 7 P_I

CHESS REVIEW, APR IL, 195) 113 Games played by readers, annotated by one of America'$ leading ma$ter$ . by I. A. HOROWITZ

ARGUMENT AD HOMINEM of play, currently in vogue and tempting here mainly because \Vhite did lose time THE PSYCHOLOGY of sacrifice is innate with on his pre vious turn, is initiated with 6 . P - K4. While it creates a backwarct chess-players. The tyro boots and fumbles the Queelt Pawn, it exploits tbe possibility lumber, playing as it were "give away." The or uUizing the extra center Pawn right dilettante enjoys an ail' of abandon becallse he away. And. mOI'eo\'er, the backward Queen Pawn is not chronic, since there has no true idea of intrinsic va lues. The master, are ways and means of either rlissoil'ing too, caters to his predilection for derring-do, it or covering it up. but exercises masterly restra int over undue temp­ After 6 • P-K4 7 N-N3, mack con- tinues with . B-K3 and enforces the tation. And every so often, he reverts to type libemting . P - Q4 . and lets go wi th a bang. For good, bad or in ­ If \Vhite prevents .. P- Q4 by a nchor· d ifferent, every sacrifi ce contains the element ing his own Knight at Q5, Black cap­ tures BxN. compelling White to reo of surprise, which in itself is a plus [actor in take with the P awn, which closes the 1. A. HOROWITZ its favo r. Queen file- the only avenue of npproa ch This is all well and good. For stolid, stodgy, to ihe . Then, of conrse, White has gained a Bishop for a Knight. rockbound and ironclad moves wil! score po int s, but drive the devotees Dui. in turn, Blaek's Pawn center domi· of the game away in droves. Nobody wil! gainsay the advantage of a point nates ihat vital terrain. And the adv~n · tage seems to rest with Black. over a goose egg, but everybody wil! admit that there IS beauty in sac­ rifice. 7 B-K3 As per plan. it 011 In the game below, speculative sacrifice occurs Y\ih ite's ] 1111 7 B-N2 turn. It is not a good gamble in th e sense that it would be no good if an 8 Q-Q2 Alekhine were defend ing. It is good only inso (ar as White is Bi,le La jlldge The foregoing moves make it possible against this particular Black. And, while White's sacrifice is lIll sollnd, for White to castle on the Queen-side, after ,,'hich he may throw caution to the the sa me cannot he said for his judgmen t. winds on the opposite wing. 8 .... D-D SICILIAN DEFENSE 6 P-KR3 9 P-KN4 peo: p. 428, col . 53(g); MeQ: p. 270, co l. 28 The lliOVC, P- R3. as a general !"\lIe, is Avanti! to bc shunned like a plague. particularly G. Ginsburg Dc. E. J. Gording when lhe [ol"(;es are not developed. Not 9 .... P-QR3 White Black only does it eonsume valuable time, bet· n P - Q-1 is the proper rejoinder. An attaek in the cenlel' is the fOI'ce[u) way P_K4 P-QB4 tel' spent 011 bl'ingillg Ollt the men, but or meeting a wing demonstration. 2 N-KB3 N_QB3 also it leaves an irreparable weakness ill 10 B_K2 3 P-Q4 p,p the Pawn phalanx. 4 N,P N-B3 Curiously enough, here , ihere are some Possibly with the idea of playing 11 extenllnting [actors in its behalf. P- N5, followed by P- KH4- 5. A typical Sicilian position, unbalance r1 In the type of pattern whkh i8 evolv­ 10 . . . . P-K4 [rom the st art. By virtue of hi s Pawn at ing. \~'hitc can reasonably anticipate K4. \\ihite cqmmands the center. But lhnt Blark will easUe on the K ing·side. Black enjoys long term prospects in his T herefore. h is plan is 1.0 poise his bat· open Queen Bishop file and in his cen­ teries in the general tliree lion of \\'here ter Pawn majol'ity (King and Queen the enemy K ing will be . In this connec· Pawn against \Vhite's King Pnwn). tion. the maneuver B-IO. followed by 5 N_QB3 Q- QZ. asserts itself. nUl D-IO will not do, becall8e Black can reply N-Ki\""5, 5 NxN, NPxN 6 P-K5 seems to give attacking the Bishop. So. \Vhite plays \Vhite a push. It results in the loss o[ P- R3 as a prophylactie. The 1ll01'e also a. Pawn, however, after 6 Q- IUt, serves as a prop [or a latcr King-side followed by .. . QxKPt. Pawn demons tration, SllppOl-Ung, as it 5 . P-Q3 were, P - KN4. Now, to avoid 6 NxN, followect by 7 6 . P-KN3 P - K5, si nce Dlac]. no longer has the Black, on the other ha nd. continues a~ The P- K4, discussed earlier, is nol "beck at H4. usual in the Dragon Variation. A lir,e so potent now. This time, it is difficult

114 C HE SS REVIEW, APR IL , 1953 to enforce the Iiberatlng , . , P-Q~ , as bit by s ome such move as 2 B- B,1. While has ample time to place his Rook And the last wa y js to counter-ga mbit. on Q1 and keep a pl'eponderanl force a ll Literally, tomes have been dedicated the critical sQ:uare (Black's QH, to the sluldry methods, Present opinion 11 N-B5! ?? Inclines towards acceptance of the Pawn Anil w hat Is this'? A whole piece s ac· with a view to its favorable return. PSy­ I'ificed! III it possible ? chologically, howel'er, there Is much merit in the countel'·ga m hi t. 11 • . •• P,N W he n a pla yel' essays a ga mhi t. he Almost always- take fi rs t and look k now!! he is t.1k ing a calculated ris k, He la ter. This is no exception, thinks, howe ver, tha t he wi ll enjoy 12 N PlC P in that his men will swee p the board and everything befor'e them. The idea. With the opening or the He Is keyed to the s pirit of sacrifice, Knight tile, White creates a definIte ap· In this atmosphere, the counter·gamhit 6 . , . . B-K2 pl'{lach to the enemy K ing, That this Is lands with a defl ating jolt, A llictllre of f'roba bJy as good as any, 6 . . . D-Q3 worth a piece, however, Is another s tory. one way aggl'ession suddenly changes to is 110 hetter than the text. s ince after 7 12 , , , , N-QR4?1 one of work a nd strai n. Easy a ttack he· 0-0, fo llowed by S P- Q4 and a double at· "Nero fiddles while Home bUl'ns," De­ comes tedious defens e, tack on Black's adv:lnced Dls hop Pawn, fe nse Is the or'der of the day, 12 , Intr'inslcally, too, the counler-gambit t. he Pa wn mus t fall. Any attempt to N- K I, 1,2 " K- Rl a nd 13 . , "R- KNI cannot be cast aside llghtly. As or the defend It fUI"lher by say , , , P- KN4 are but a lew of the moves. moment, no conclus ive rati ng on its wOlllel l'es ult in a fatal weakeni ng of Black's Ki ng pos ition. 13 R-KNl e ffi cacy Is a vailable. Strategically, Black's plan is to open lines rapidly­ 70-0 Threatening 15 B- R6. N-KB3 ready for a free·(or·all, 8 P_Q4 0-0 13 •• • , K_R1 3 PxQP Developme nt goes on apace, But W hite Here 1-1 , • • N-Kl Is the move. White neel! not fall jn line with sta rted fi nl! 14 Rx BI! K,R Black's plan, H e ma y play, for Insta nce, 9 Bx P N-B3 Black Is a Rook to the good, 3 N-QB3, whieh ma~' transpose Jnto the Black's Inst lead!; to immediate tr'ouhle, 15 B-K N5! , 0 1' he may play 3 N- KB3. A bette r plan Is 9 . B-KNS. with the Since Black's Pa wns are a lready on K4 Idea of chopping cl own by e).;changes, The or the Knight in conjuncllon. and tH. he is assured of easy develop· with the threat of 17 N-Q5 decides. which lessen the impRct ot a brewing ment in any case. assaU lt, or wi th a retreat in vlcw (, . . 0- 15 , • • • K_R1 Not 3 P).;K P, Q- R5 t. ctu'laln. KIU- KN3) which consolida tes the de· Blac k think!; he has time fOl' 17 . 3. , , . p )( p fense, R- KNl, ami 'he eX'pects to meet 17 N- Q5 An II ltorthodo).; turn. Usual Is 3 10 N-QN5 hy a counter-combina tion. P- K5. after \\"hieh W hile's developme nt Dou bly a ttacking the Queen Bishop 1 ~ ,N-Q5 N,' is diffic ult. Then W hite's alll'anced K ing Pawn. This is it. You take my Quee n and Bishol) Pawn juts Ollt like a sore thumb. 10 , . . • N_K1 But Black must contend with a Pawn I'll take yours. BUT -- For, if 10 ... B- Q3 11 NxB, P).;N 12 N,Q miuus, 17 BxQ The te).; t is reasonably prospec tfu!. D- K N5, Dl ack lIuHe r's from the Imln(u l 18 B-B6t K_Rl pin of his King Knight. 4 N-KB3 19 N-K7 mate. 11 N- K5 After this move, Black should have no trouble equa.l izing. T he only known THE ILLS OF LOST TE MPI (ollow In way of attempting to maintain an edge the lI' ake or this game, Itl shot't order Is the Nlmzovich Va ri atio n, A game and by straightforwanl play, White e).;· Reli- R ublnsten (Stockholm, 1919) on plo tts the gain of two moves In the this li ne Is as follows : 4 Q- B3, N- KB3 ope ning to the lull. 5 D- NSt B- Q2 6 N- B3, O-QN5 7 K N­ FALKBEER COUNTER GAMBIT K2, 0 - 0 S OxB, QNxB 9 0 - 0, N-N3 10 peo: p, 123, 0;01, l1(d ); Me o : p, H 2(not e b) NxP, with a minimal plus for White, It is Q:u estionahle. however. that Black can· W. T. Cobb P . Ga n t r iil$ not inlthtle a. lively gam'hit wi th (; P- B3 White Black (i ns tead of ,. B- Q2), aftel' which 1 P_K4 P_K4 Black's (I evelopment remains supreme. 2 P-K B4 4 , ' , , QxP ??? The classical King's Gambit, White of· Pulling the curse on the entire de· fers a Pawn for the dual purpose of de· The scene hil S shifted to an altack on fensive system. ~ .. . N- KB3 is the move, coying Black's King Pawn t rom the cen­ the King Bis hop Pawn. Then Black must pick off the center ter and opening the King's Bishop file, 11 • • . . N_QR4? Pawn with his Knght which plays a Both actions embody lo ng term consider· dominant 1'Ole, For, artel' 4, ,N-KB3, A fatal o\'el-slghl. in his zeal to amel· ations. Control of the centel' g rants 5 P-B ~ , P~B 3. Black steals the initiatil'e. lorate the pressllre on his Ki ng Bishop White freedom o( operation a nd the o pe n The te).;t move unnecessa rily presents Pa wn. S Uffer res is tance can be offered fil e e na:bles Whlte's King Rook (arter' W hite with s ome valuable t e mpi. by 11 ' .. NxN 12 D).;N, B-83. T he n, after 0-0) to press on Black's mos t vulne ra ble 13 Q- RS, Blac k s till has his proble ms, point-his KB2, 5 N_B3 Q_Q1 12 NxKBP ! 2 . . . . P-Q4 W hRe's lead in de\'elopment Is great. Black hasn't a single piece out, while The begi nning of the end, The Falkbeer-a viola tion of the pre­ both White Knights are in perfect pos i· 12 • . . . R, N cept "take firs t and look late r." tion. B1ack's e ).;tra Pawn is meaningless, 13 BxRt K_R1 T here a l'e, of course, many ways of s ince it ca ll1 lOl be retained, treating , the King's Gambit. One way 13 ' , , KxB 14 8).;Pt decides. is to take and hold the gambit Pawn. 6 B-B4 14 BlC N Resigns Another way is to take and give back From het'e In, White enjoys all the Mote material goes, the gambi t Pawn at a pl'Opltious mo· benefits of the King's Gambit without suf­ ment. A third way is to decllne the ga m· e rlng from any of its faults. t = cheek: : _ dh1. "h eck: , _ dis, eh,

CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1953 115 Enlertaining and instructive games by HANS KMOCH annotated by a famous expert.

15 B-Q3 B- K3 29 P-R3 -f;g.'NTERNAT'ONAL 16 P- QR4 '30 PxP RPxP " 'ith it vie\\' to eril1lliing Black's 31 R-R1 N-Q3 SWEDEN, 1952 QllCen·side. 32 R-KR6 R_K2 mack is reduced to feeble counter' Intenonal Tournament t hreats. Saltsjoebaden 33 N_ B3 Rj1-K1 Exploiting the Center This game ought to exemplify It sharp ('onflicl between a center majority and one on the wing, It doesn't because the wing nevel' gets started, Even so, taco tical finesses or it high order ate neces· sary (0 exploit the cen ter.

QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED PCO: page 176. col. 44; MCO: p. 1!;9, col. 29 Notes by 1. A. Horowih: 16 • , , , 0-0- 0 A. Kotov E. Eliskases 16 B-B5 is (rappy, II" then 17 p - Soviet Union Argentina lUi, Ux13 IS KxU, N-QZ, Black's Queen Knight Paw II is poison. Th\l ~; 19 l(xP, White Bladi: 34 P-K5! X- JJ·\t 20 PxN". a-a-at, and White's The lex I combines to establish a 1 P-Q4 P-Q4 3 N_QB3 N_KB3 !look goes by the wayside. pa~sed Pawn, without granting any coun· 2 P-QB4 P-K3 4 B- N5 QN-Q2 17 N_K2 N,P ter·play. 5 P-K3 P-B3 18 R-R1 N_N7 34 PxP ~I'itleiltly heading for the Cambridge 19 RxP K-N1 35 N-Q5t! P,N Springs, which follows after 6 N- B3, 19 . Nx13. followed by K- B2 and, 36 R-B5t K-N1 Q-R~. P resent opinion inclines to a vel" ir 1lC('essary, U-UI, hold~ JlrOl<]leets dict of equality on this, NOI' will 36 •• K- 112 do on llccount of for a reasonable defense. )Iore exchnnges 3, HxP. 6 Q-B2 al1l1 illl "~' e on the a(\vanee ot" his Quccn 37 RxN Less analyzed (han the Cambridge Knight Pawn is Black's correet ~tnt1egy. Springs and, consequently, posing more 20 KR-Rl 8-85 22 K-Q3 N_N3 3, . P-KGt, followed by , , 1(-112, problems. 21 8xB NxBt 23 P-N4 IIoH8ibly otTers bette l' ,'hances. 6 .. , Q_R4 White sets his King·side majol'i(y in 38 Rj5xP R-K6t motion. 39 K_B4 R-Blt Also tenable and, of late, more usual K_B2 40 KxP R-KN6 is 6 . , . B- Q3. 23 24 P-B4 R-Q2 4 1 P- B6 N,P 7 PxP The advanced Pawn decilles. S P_ K4! N,N Too llllHsive. Since the mad; nooks 9 B_Q2! P-K4 "annot mal,c any impression in the ('en· 41 • , •• RxPt 44 RIIRt K - B2 leI', a better plan is z·\ H- Hl, com· 42 K - K5 R-KB5 45 R_ KNS K_Q2 Black's la st bolsters \Vhite's cenlet·. pelling fnrther li quidation. Wilh Boob 43 R- Q8 R,R 46 R-N7t K-K1 9 Q-R5 10 QxN, P-QRI, followe(\ by of( the bOal·d. (hc chann.'s for a White 47 RIIQNP , . B-X5, is more promising. win are slim. although Iw '';In win a C\lrionsl~', Bhwk would now be better 10 PxN PxP Paw II aner 2" HxH, Hxl{ 26 HxH. ~xR on without his Pawn. The ('Iosed King The strong ]loint defense~main (ain ing 2, ~ - N3 . Knight file is the only reason hIs game is K'l~may be wiser. The text allows 25 Rj7-R5 KR-Q1 lost. for the exchange or more men; hence it 26 R-KN5 47 R-B7 lessens the pressure from one d irection. White IJl 'ol'okes a w ea knes~ in Hlaek'H 48 K-K6 R- K7t But it eoneedes the center, I'awn array. 49 K-B5 P_N5 11 PxP B-N5 26 P-B3 50 K _ N6 12 R-N1 BxBt 27 Rj5-QR5 N_Bl 50 P - B7t. K-Bl 51 J\: - D6, H- Bit 52 13 QxB QxQt 28 P_B5 K_~' 6 is another 1\·llY. Thereby l'eaching an early ending. White plans an eventual N- K6. 50 .... R_KB7 \Vhite's be ttel' King position and his 51 P-B7t K_B1 mobile center majol"iIY are in his favo!'. 2S , • • • P-KN4 Blaek eould hal'e resigned. 14 KxQ N-N3 One weakness leads to another. 29 P_ R4 52 R-N8t K-K2 The altemative, H .. N-B3, which 53 R-KSt Resigns exerts a minimal counter·pressure, is Thereby [ol'cing open liE-\\" lines with more tempting. whleh to penetrate. chuck: ~ dbl, c heck; § _ db, eh.

116 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 19S3 20 N-B5 Q-R4 5 N-K5 '-" UNITED STATES 21 P-Q4? P-K5 6 PxP N,B 22 N_K6 KR-K1 7 NxN P-K3 NEW YORK. 1953 White's Knight is swimming like a Black must now recover the Pawn. In Manhattan C. C. Championship crazy fish. a previous round, Kevitz-8eidman, the 23 N_B4 Q-R3 game continued 8 Q-R4t, P- B3 9 PxBP, Steinitz Turned Down 24 P-KR4 P_KN4 NxP. White SOOIl h'ad to relinquish his "Shtall, shtall und den shtall some Pawn plus ancl remained with an inferior Ami so, the impenetrable barrier is posi lion. more. Your opponent ist bound to get an penetrated. For the next several moves, idea, und del' Idea vill Behmen." Thus Black directs his attention to the White 8 Q-Q2 P-KR3 9 N_R3 p,p spake Steinitz. It doesn't work here­ Killg, Turkish master Baysan knows a thing 10 Q-K3t 01' two or three. 25 PxP QxP 29 Q-Q2 R-KN1 The point: Black must now move his 26 Q-B2 K-B2 30 N-B4 B,N King. It is double-edged, however, In that P_R5! RET! OPENING 27 Q-Ql P- KR4! 31 KPxB Black enjoys freedom of development 32 R_B3 N_R4 peo: p~ ge 318, COl. 34; Meo: p. 216, col. 19 28 N-KR3 Q-N3 al1d the two Bishops. Notes by I. A. Horowitz 10 K_ B1 A. S, Pinkus M. Boysa!') 11 N-B4 N-B3 Whito Black 12 0 - 0 - 0 N_K2 13 P-B3 1 N-KB3 P-Q4 5 B_QN2 N-B3 2 P- B;4 P-K3 6 B-N2 B- Q3 White aims at an eventual P-K4 alld 3 P-KN3 P-QB3 7 0-0 0 - 0 the of the center, 4 P-QNS P_KB4 8 Q-B2 QN_Q2 13 , . , , P-QB4 Each side is developing according to But Black reacts quickly, by striking a pattern. 'White's dOUble fianchetto gives first at the enemy mid-section. the game hypermoderll overtones, while 14 PxP P-Q5 Blael;: ta\{es refuge in the Stonewall. 15 Q- Q2 Q_B2 9 PxP BPxP Black must now recover the secont! To safeguard the King Bishop Pawn, Black has made considerable progress, Pawn. Black recaptures automatically with the while ,"Vhite, unfo\'(ullately, must bide 16 P- K3 Bishop Pawn. There is a great question his time. The King Knight Pawn is 'White, however, will not part wtth it, here, however, whether 9 KPxP is doomed. And when it goes, the King fOl­ it seems. not correct. For, if then 10 QxKBP, N­ lows in its wake. 16 . , _ , B-K4 K5 amI. White's Queen is indeed fishing 33 KR-B1 p,p in troubled waters. Of course not 16. PxN 17 Q-Q8t, 34 P- B3 10 N-Q4 curtain. The text move, however, not White locks the stable after the horse only ereates a loophole fot· the King but The beginning of an innocuous excur­ is gone. He has been outmaneuvered. also cleftly initiates some new threats, sion. Straightforward clevelopment is in Now it is a only Question of time. order. 34 , , . , Q- R3 36 QxN Q,Q N-K4 10 35 PxP NxP 37 R_B1 Q_Q7 B-Nl 11 N-N5 38 RxPt 12 QN- B3 P_QR3 13 N_Q4 B_Q3 The spite check. Thus, Black has emerged [l'om 38 K-K1 opening without any problems, 'h' Resigns 14 QR_Bl B_Q2 15 P-Q3 R-Bl NEW YORK. 1953 16 Q- Nl And White has to describe curlicues Manhattan C. C. Championship to get his men out. En Route to Championship 16". N-B3 In the following game, tournament win­ 17 N_K4 H An unnecessary rell·eat. anything, ner Pavey encounters a master with a This move loses outright. In any ca ~e, the Knight ought to head fOI" the King­ reputation for springing opelling innova, White's chances were 1I0t good. side. tions. It is no mean reput·ation, and the 17 PxP Q-Q8t 17 N_R4 P_K4 innovation is sprung. But it is an open­ ing innovation gang agley. What else? With White's Queen safely tuckecl 18 Q,Q away, this center advance, which nor­ GRUENFELD DEFENSE 19 RxQt K-N2 mally weakens the Pawns, is goo!!. The 20 RxR BxN! tal'get here is the White King, PCO: p, 287, COl. 164(k); MCO: P. 84, col. 24 Notes by I. A. Horowitz Black has the threat of 21. . P-K7§ 18 NxN in conjunction with the attack on the IS N- KB3 presses on the Black centel' A. Kevitz M. Pavey Rook. There is no defense. Pawns. Now the Pawns will be relatively White Black 21 RxB secure, while White's King will be com­ 1 N_KB3 N_KB3 White can safely resign without paratively weaker. 2 P_QB4 P-KN3 jeopardizing his prospects. 18 .. , , B,N 3 P-Q4 B-N2 21 , .. , P-K7§ 4 N_B3 19 P-K3 P-Q4 22 K-B2 PxB(Q) Another unnecessal'y weakening move. The opening in its tl'\le colorH at laHt Which nets BlaekR a cleat· piece, Tl1le, White has no ready targets; but proves to be a Gruenfeld. 23 RxQ RxR 27 K_N3 B_B6 he may still play 19 N-B5. 5 B-N5 24 P_KN3 B- K4 28 N_B4 BxP 19 . ' , , Q_ K1 White's last has beell cOlldemned by 25 P-QN4 P-B4 29 R-Q1 RxP With the Idea of transfelTing the analysts as theoretically insufficient. 26 N_Q2 N-Q4 30 RxN RxR Queen to the King-side, via R4. Kevitz has other ideas on the subject. So, he has gained a piece. So what?

CHESS IHVIEW, APRIL, 1953 117 31 KxB K~B3 34 PxP R,P (I) 22. . Q- B7 t 23 Q- Q2, QxNP 2·1 11 P-N5 N_Kl 32 P_QR4 P- KN4 35 P- B4 p,p Kit- B t, ilnd ·White's game, although dif· 12 P-B5 Q-Q1 33 K_B3 P- N4 36 PxP R_N8 fic ult, ough t to be te nable. 13 P- KR4 N,N Resigns (2) 22 . QR-Ql ! 23 QxKP. KR- Kl 14 QxN 24 Q- B4 (24 Q-B3! R-Q61), Q- B1 t. and Black has a vel'y strong attack (25 R- ILLINOIS. 1952 821 Q-B6!) Open Championship (3 ) (22 . QR-QI !) 23 Q- N4, P - K5! Penetration- or Straying? a lso with a very strong attaCk fo r Black. (~ ) (22. QR-Ql!) 23 Q- K6t, K- Rl W hite has It slf ghtly inferior game 24 P-B5!-this is the only defense which when he decides to penetrate with his orrel's reasonable chances for recovery. Queen- which is an illusion. For the White protects his Queell Knight Pawn, Qneen lacks support as well as goo(l tar­ opens QB4 fOI' h is Queen. tilll S maintain· gets and, in the end, just strays. As a Ing vlg!! against . . . P-K5, and can meet result, mOl'eOVel·, \Vhlte's own position 21. . N-Q4 sufficiently with 25 QxQ, Is penetrated by Black with deva stating NxDt 26 K- B2. effect. 22 . . . . Q-Q6! DUTCH DEFE NSE 14 . , , . P- K4 Dlnck wi ns n P awn while pressing a p c o : p_ 302, col. 209: MCO: p. 21, col. 20(1) stl'Ong attack a nd protecting hIs own Black's lUt Is hopeless; for it weak· C. W elgma" H. Cleveland Queen Pawn (a s 22 ... Q- D7t does not), e ns his Q4 without c learing his K4 for 23 B- N5 his pieces (as Jt would U leading to 't he White BlaCk exchange of White's K ing Bishop Pawn). 1 P-Q4 P- KB4 4 P_K N3 B_N5 White aims vainly to eliminate tb, The weakness of Q4 Is particnlarly serl· 2 P- QB4 N_KB3 5 B-Q2 0 -0 Knight. 23 8 - B2 is no be tiel' , ous In comblnntlon wIth the Pawn for­ 3 N-QB3 P_K3 6 P-QR3 23 QR _Bl mation on the King-side which does not White's last Ie unnecessary, He ought 24 Q- R4 R,P permit protection hy. . N- KB3 or to develop his K ing-side pieces wlthollt 25 R-B2 B-K3. delay. Now White loses the ExchHnge. His Black has It very hard game ; but 14 B-Q2, followed possihly by S- 6 B,N 8 B-N2 QN- Q2 game Is hopeless, anyhow: e.g., 25 QR- QB3. offers c hances fo r s urvival. 7 Bx B P- Q3 9 Q-B2 Q- Kl 81, R xR 26 DxR (26 RxR. Q- K10, R­ 10 P- N3 BI. t h reate ning 27 ... IhD. 15 Q_Q2 N_B2 25 . _ . . N- N5! If 15 ... P- N4, White can proceed Wh Ite plaus to I'eta!n h is Queen B1 s h· 26 R_Ql 01) as Is Impossible after 10 N-B3, N-K5_ leistll'ely with 16 N- Q5, ,t hreatening J7 Better, however, Is 10 N-R3 01' 10 P- K3, The a ttacke rl Rook dead)' canllot P - B6-o1' he can bring o ff the strong follo\\· e(l by II N-K2. move. Nor ('a n the Knight be LA-ken: 2ij Pawn sacrifice or II; P-B6, PxP 17 N-Q5, PxN, RxRt 27 KxR, Il- Dit (2 i , Q­ PxP 18 PxP, 10. R_N l 15 P-B3 P-B4 Q5t? 28 K-N2, QxIl! ? 29 Q- KS mllte) 2); 11 N-B3 P_QN3 16 P-K4 PxQP 16 B_N6! Q-Q2 K-Nl, Q-Q5t and Blacll mates In two. 12 0-0 B-N2 17 BxP P-K4 17 R-B2 B-Ql 13 N- Q2 BxB 18 B-K3 26 Q- B4 29 KilN QxPt 18 QR_KBI 14 Kx B Q_R4 19 NxP N,N 27 Q_N3 NxR ! 30 K- Nl QIIA t White has a winning IHlsition. 20 QxN N_B3 28 QxRt K-A1 31 K_N2 Q- B6t Resig ns 18 .. .. P-B3 Black has some Inlliative. due to 19 8-B4t K-Rl White·s d ilatory attitude in the opening. 20 P-N6! 21 Q- S6 W h ite's last enables Black to c lose T h is Is straying- not penetrating , liS " '" FO REIGN the Pawn forma.tlon on the K ing·side- White may have thought. With 21 Q-Q3, to no avail, howevel', White hRS !I. tenable game, ICELAND. 1953 20 . .. , P- R3 Championship of Reykjovik The situation on the KIng-side Is of Victorious Re-opening II well-known type, The attacker shOUld WhIte's attHck on the Klng·slde s teadl. nevel' e nter IIpon such n situation unless Iy gains momentum since Black fails to he sees he can keep his attack going by counter-act appropriately in the center. means of II sacrifi ce-as is

118 CHUS REVIEW, APRIL , 19S3 p,p 22 BxB 16 RxR Q_Q3 6 P- B3 23 R- N2 P- Q4 E ven now I ii . P- B3 seems to bold 7 BxP B-N2 80-0-0 0-0 23 . B-Q2, lendi ng protection to (17 BxPt, KxB IS QxB, Q-Q5t 19 K-Rl, Black's King Rook, would prevent the QxP-Or 17 BxBP? 8 - 85! ). So Black haB sw itched to II kind of Drugon Val"iMloll "lIl cking the counlel" following . Then, however, 17 BxN P R- K1 White plays 24 N-Q5, threateni ng 25 18 QxP B- B5 chances 1I0l'mally offered by it. The po"l· NxP: and, j( Black parries this tlirent tion of his Queen K night aCCOllnts main ly Black 's last looks very strong: ror the for that di frerence; it belongs 011 Q83. ,by 25. . B-Ql, Black's K i ng Rook III W hite Rook can go onl)" to Nl or Rl, no longer protected ami While wins IlS after which 19 Q-Q7 follows, 9 P_K R4 ! in the ac tnal gume. 19 Q_R4 This stalHllird attack Is far stl"onger 24 QxPt ! Resigns here than In similar positIons. It quick· This cou nter qul rkly tur ns the tables. In view of 24 .. PxQ 25 P-Nit. K- R2 ly becomes i l'l'eslstible. 19 , , . , Q-B4t 26 Pxrt(N)t ! (Attention: I r ving Chenlev , 0-B2 20 K-Rl B_N4 -"Give me a Knight! " ), K - IU 27 R-N~ 10 P_K N4 N- N3 21 Q- Nlt B_B5 mate, 11 P_ R5 BehInd In material. mack must re·act Whi te threatens to open the King with viol ent counter,tbl'eal!!. FRANCE, 1952 Rook file for effe('Uve action of hIs 22 Q-QB3 R- K6 pieces. Championship of Paris 23 B- Q5 t! ! Resigns 11 R- Q1 Profitable Novelty 23 •• , QxB 24 Qxn, nxR falls against 12 PxP BPxP \Vhlte's new move In the following 25 Q-KS mate. 13 P- K5 ! game Is hardlY nn im provement; but, White scores a powerful br£oak·through when B lack tries lo reru te ft, the novel ty YUGOSLAVIA lI'it h a point which B lack o\'erlooks, pays orf ni cely, 1952 Championship VIENNA GAME peo : P'lge 462, col. 11: MCO: p. 309, col, 1 An Impotent Dragon B lack misplays this new opening, land· Burstein Nora Ing In a DI"agon·\lke posit ion without the White Black coun ter·chances whi ~ h the Dragon llsual· 1 P_K4 P_K4 1 B- Q3 P- KB4 ly offel'S, l~ac i n g nn Irresistible nttR.ck, 2 N_QB3 N-KB3 8 PxP e.p, e,p he then b\uudel's, lOsing a pl£oce . 3 P_B4 P-Q4 , 0 - 0 N_B3 Y UGOSLAV OEFENSE 4 PxKP N,P N,N P, N peo : page 1()4, col. 5: Meo: p, 210, col. 50 , N-B3 B_ K2 "11 e, p N,P 6 P- Q4 0- 0 12 B_N5 A, Fu derer A. Mata novich This i , th, new move. Th, "book" While Black move i, 12 N- NS (Splelmann-Retl, 1 P-K4 P_Q3 Vienna, 1922). The Yugoslav (or Pi rc) Defense ",hi(,h Black loses a. piece now. Instead, 13 usually leads to po~lt!ons thlll ('nn al so , . KN--Q2 Is necesslIry, though White be reached via the King's Indian. This then malntnlns a. winning attack with system \\'as I'ecently introduced by Pirl'. 14 P- B4: e.g., 14 N- D1 15 BxN, PxB but It Is IIOt quite new. Long ago, It used 16 N-Q5. Q- 84 17 P-N4! (winning the to be played with some regulal'lty in Queen)--or H. PxP 15 BxN, PxB 16 German tournaments: e.g .. Nuremberg, N-B3, PxP 17 Q-Q5t, K - Rl 18 RxPt ! 1883, whel'e Black won fOUl" o-f six KxR 19 N- N5t, K-R3 20 N- B7t, K - R2 games: Schallopp--Wlnawel·. with 2 p ­ 21 B-B4, KB~ , P-K~; F rit z- W l nawer and Schott­ 14 BxN! R,. lander-Wlna\\'er. with 2 P-Q·I., P- KN3 3 15 SxQ Re signs P-QB3, B-N2; Welss-L. Paulsen, with 2 P-Q4. N- KB3 3 N- QB3, P- KN3 ~ p­ O~, B- N2 5 N- B3, 0 - 0 6 0-Q3, QN- Q2. RUSSIA, 1953 Black al so obtai ned :l winning advan· USSR Championship 12 , , , , tllge In J. Schwarz- L. Paul sen, with 2 A salia[aclOI'y con tinna.tlon. P-Q4, N- K B3 3 8-Q3, N-B 3 4 P-QB3, Twofold Failure Also 12 .. , BxB (unlike 12 N - NS. P-K~, bUl lost on u gross blun(l er. And White's Btock attaC!k on the Queen-side DxN? 13 RxRt!) leads to an even game: \-Vh lte won in Scha llopp-L. Paul sen, rolls forward smoothl y: Black's on the e.g., 13 NxE {l3 NxN? B- K6t>, RxHt 14 with 2 P-Q~, N - KIJ3 3 N-Q83, P-KN3 Klng-sille, tll oug h al so stock , comes to a KxR, 8-B4 15 DxB, NxB 16 Q-R5, N - R3 ·1 N-B3, B-N2 5 J>- KR3, QN-Q2 6 P-K 5. su dden standstill. The dlrrel'ence Ig dlle 17 P-B3, Q-B3t 18 K -Nl, R-KBl. For more on t h iS opening, see CH ESS to Black'S lwofold failure : he doesn't 12 ,. 8 - B 4, however (unlike 12 REVI EW. p. 16, Jalluary, 1952, and p. prevent White's P-QD5: nor doee he N- N5, B-B~!), favors ,,'lilte because of 3fH. December, 195 1. make an y effort to get In his OWII • 13 QBxB, RxB 14 BxP. 2 P_Q4 N_KB3 P- KN5. Thus. the adVan tage or CO:1' So there Is no differe nce In value be' trolling Ol)en lines goeg en tir ely to White, t ween t be .old move and the new, 2 . p-Kn~ lea ds to another sup· posed ly new opening claimed by J . as a result. 13 QxN B_K3 Balogh, Prior to Blll ogh, this line was KIN G'S I N DI AN OEFENSE 13 BxB loses R. Pawn, though, after 14 lmown IU' a way to decline t he Staun ton pco, p, 273, col. 122; MCO: p, e9 , note a B-Q5t, B-K3 15 BxBt, K - Rl 16 QxP, Gambit: I P--f,H. P- KD~ 2 P- K4, P-Q3. Q- Q3, the Bishops of opposite color M. Tai manov 0 , Bron, tein 3 N-QB3 P- KN3 leave drawi ng chances. Black 4 B_K3 QN- Q2 White 14 BxB R,B 1 P_Q4 N_KB3 4 N-B3 B_N2 5 N-N5 Is Inerfective because of 15 Q_K3 RxRt 2: P-QB4 P-Q3 5 P- K4 0 - 0 U B-KN5. B lack seems to believe that the new 3 N-KB3 P_KN3 6 B_K2 P_K4 5 Q-Q2 P- B4 move must be refuted, somehow. H e Is 7 0-0 N-B3 playing ror attack Instead of consolldat· B lack's last is weak. Better Is 5 ing his position wIth 15 , , , P- B3. P -K~. t _ check: : _ dill. c heek; I <11K, eh. 119 tHlSS REVIEW . APRIL , 19S3 lllfl.ck's last is 11 rare deviation from White opens anotlier line for attack. 8 , , , , B-Q3 the usual, . QN-Q2, He wishes to 20 . , . PxP 24 R_N4 Q-R4 9 0-0 use 'his Queen Knight on the King-side 21 RxP N-KB3 25 P- R3 Q-B2 9 Q-K2t ineffective instead of the Queen-side. His line Is because of 9 22 N_B2 B-Q2 26 N-R3 N-R4 B- KS (for White can most likely inferiQ!' to the standa!'d one_ " no longer pro- 23 B-R5 Q_ Kl 27 R-N7 B_QBl ceed wIth]O N-Qn, 8 P-Q5 N-K2 28 R- B7 N_N6 9 9 N-K1 N-Q2 0 - 0 Black's actil'ity on the King-side is en· 10 N-B3 N,N 10 B-K3 P-K84 ti rely f!'ui !less. H e lacks the necessal'Y 11 P,N B- KN5 Dlack's cou nter-action statts. open lines. Black's development is rapId_ 11 P-83 P-85 29 R- Kl R_ Nl 12 Q- QS N_Q2 12 8-82 P-KN4 30 N_B4 Q-K1 13 P-N3! But hel-e his move Is o[ far-reaching 31 N-N6 consequences; mack proceeds with his NOli" Black pan on ly attempt ·to !'e·con· W h ite's last is in the sphit of the action, without taking measures against solidate . King'$ Gambit. To make headway on the White's positional threat on the Queen­ 31 R-B3 King-shle, he must eliminate the gambit side; P-QB5, that is. 32 Q_ B2 R_ Bl Pawn,. by vIolent means if necessary. T aking such measures is the mo!'e con­ 33 R-QB1 13 • , , . N_N3 senath'e system hut offers White 11 but White clea!'ly 'has a winning position, Black, too, m ust resort to violent strong initia.tive: e.g" ] 2 .' P-QR4 13 measut'es. 13 , , , Pxp fails against 14 N-Q3, P-::-<3 14 P-QR3! (it is to be noted 33 .. , , B_B4 N- N5, PxPt ]5 K-Rl, P- N3 16 NxBP. that While can s){lp ,the usual P-QN3 Black evidently has no illusions aboul And he cannot hold the gambit Pawn. since 14.. . P-H5 is not I~laya ble), p­ the outcome. So he tries desperately to So he must play for counter-attack, in­ K N4 (H _ N- QB4 is probably a little create complications ata1\ costs. steal\. better) 15 P-QN4 , P.sP 16 P.sP, HxR ]7 34 B-Q3 QxR, P-R4 18 P- B5_ 14 B-N3 P-QB4 White can saFely take the Bishop; he The crucial juncture is reached. Jl l'efel's to win the game his own way. 34. , . , B-N3 35 N- Q7 NxQP 36 B_B4 R_ N4 Dlfl.'ck still t ries fOr pomplications. 37 Nx R B,N 38 BxNt RxKB 39 Q-B4 N-K7t 40 K_ R2 P-N5 A li ttle 100 late. After 40 . NxR H PxR, While wins the Knight, too. 13 N_Q3 R-S3 41 Nx P Resigns Black's last is no good. And no good 15 P-B4 eithet' is 13 ' P- N3 which leads to .the RUSSIA, 1953 This attempt to maintain the Initia· line in t he preceding note afler 14 p­ tive falls completely_ QN4, P- QH4 15 P- QHS. USSR Championship Instead, WhIte ought to capture the Chances for a counter-attack are of­ News from the King's Gambit gambit PUlI'n and play for defense: 15 fered only by the break-tIu'ough wilh ... QBxP, DxD 16 PxD, Then the issue is The following game is interes.[ing par­ P-KN5 and Black ought to strive [01' In the halance: WhIle's extra' Pawn ap­ ticularly for the opening. White adopts it with, e.g., ] 3 P-KH4 H P- H5, proximately compensates for h is weak­ N- KB3. a line of play which some experts on the ness in position, A draw Is most likely King's Gambit, Robert Byrne, for in­ 14 P-B5! R-R3 arter 16 .. ' B.sN 17 R.sB, R-Bl 18 PxP, p,p stance, consIder strong. But Black stiU RxP. 15 PxP obtains a promising game. The crucial 16 N-N5 point is reached when ·While can win a 15 , . , , Q_B3! From here on, ""'hile maltes swift Pawn, but in a shaky position. Bronstein 16 N_K5 progress on the Queen·side, while Black looks for bettel' but fails completely, be­ Already, WhIte is in despair. He Jacks has no counter-play ; he cannot make coming exposed to 'an attack which a suitable alternative: e,g., 16 BxP, BxB headway with piece!! alone, nOI' has he grows irresistible. 17 PxB (17 N- K5, BxN!) , B.sN 18 RxB, lime left to switch to the break-through QR- Ql! and Black reeovel's his Pawn with, .. P-KN5. KING'S GAMBIT in a SUperior positioll-or 16 P-D3, B-R6 16 . _ , . P_R3 peo: page 112. col. 4; MeQ: p. 138, co! , 8(c) 17 R-Kl, PxNP after wblch 18 N-N5 is 17 N_R3 D, Bronste in M. Botvinnik ineffective in view of 18 _ , , PxPt 19 17 N-R7 makes sense, inasmuch as the White Black K- Rl, B-B4. !;lI"lIpping off of Black '!; good Dlshop is 1 P-K4 P-K4 4 PxP N-KB3 16 •. , . desirable. It leads to trouble, however. 2 P_ KB4 p,p 5 B-N5t P-B3 17 PxB if not to actual defeat. becll use of 17 _ . 3 N_KB3 P_Q4 6 PxP p,p 18 BxP RxN! 18 DxR, P - N3 : e.g., 19 R-Bl, B -N ~ 7 B_B4 N-Q4! White hus ft'eed his Queen Bisbop, but 20 Q- N3, N-QBl _ A s ubstantial improvement 011 7 _ , , B­ h i!; King BIshop is buried alive audhis 17 N-B1 Q3 S Q- K2t, Q-K2 (see peO). King position Seriously \'-eakened_ He is 18 B-Kl 8 P_Q4 heliliess against Black's followi ng atta ck, White plans 19 N- B4, followed 'by 20 S Q-K2t is now met with 8 ... B- K2 18 Q_ R4 B- R5, Hence, Black's next 1lI0ve, which 9 P-Q4, 0 - 0: e.g., 10 BxN, PxB 11 BxP, 19 KA-K1 KR_K1 constitutes a further weakening of his U-R3 aner which Black has fi ne com­ 20 P_QR4 B-K7! Queen-side. pensati on fo r the Pawn-or 10 0 - 0 , R­ Black noll' effects a rapid deployment 18 P-N4 K l 11 Q- Q3 , B-Q3 aHet' which Black of h is potentially extra piece, the Kaight. 19 N-QB2 N-Q2 maintains the gambit Pawn with a fine

20 P-QR4! game. t _ check: f _ dLJI. check; ~ _ dis. ch.

120 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1953 21 Q_QB3 N-Q2! White handily renders the text-move 2. Q-B2 22 P-R5 N-B3 Ii loss of time amounting to about two 25 B_K4 N-K3 23 B-R4 A-K3 tempi. Better continuations, therefore, 26 Q_R4 P-KN3 White's King Dishop cannot wiggle are 11. P-QR4 and 11 . . N-K5- Black's King·side is nOlI' badly weal,­ out in time to be of any avail. though White still has the lead, at least cned. 26 . P- KH3, however, is even for the time being. 24 K-N2 N-K5 worse in view of 27 N-U5, R/2- Kl 28 25 Q-A3 P-N4! NxPt. PxN 29 QxP. Resigns 27 BxN! P,B 26 B- K3 loses to 26 , , , D- D6t 27 K­ 28 A_B1 Q-Q2 ~l, Q- R6, and 26 8 -131 fails against 26 29 A-QB3 R-KB1 ... R-KB3.

RUSSIA, 1953 USSR Championship A Change of Plan Keres is Botvinnik's cllstomer. He usually loses to or draws with him, rarely scores a hit. If there is any pUl'ely chess logic to this. it must be a matter 12 K-A1! N- N3 or style and psychology rather than Black proceeds with his plan, exped· strength and disposition. ing, it seems, only J3 P - QN4. In the following fine game, \Vhite is 13 P-B3!! about to start the usual minority atttick The refutation of Black's plan. White 30 N_B5! on the Queen-side when Black counters A neat linish. Black cannot take the with a somewhat impatient aetlon on the switches to a Pawn action in the center which is pnrticulal'ly eHective, thanl{s Knight bN:ause of mate in three; nor King-side. Then White swiftly c hanges to the position of Black's King Bishop. can he ~aYe his attacked Rook: 30 ... his plan, breaking through in the center. H/2-K1 3.1 N- nst, K- R1 32 Q- B6t. N-N2 Subsequently, he obtains an attack on 13 . . . . B-K2 33 Nxl't, and Black has the sorry cholco; the King-side himseJr and carries it out Q. E. D. The Bishop has to retreat ill of taking the Knight or being mated In with merciless vigor. vie\\" ot" the impending P-K4-K5. The three. QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED a ltel"llative 13 . P-KR3 14 BxN, QxD 15 P- K4 is at least as bad for Black. 30 .... R/1_ K1 pco: p. 179, col. 52; MCO: P. 160, COl. 35 31 N-R6t! 14 QR-K1! M. Botvinnik P. Keres Fal' stronger than 31 NxRt. Consistent in accordance with \Vhite's White Black plan, 1"01' P-K4 must lead to either the 31 .. K-B1 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 3 N_QB3 P_Q4 opening ot" the King Bisholl file or to Or 31. . K- ]{J 32 Q-B6t, N-N2 33 2 P-QB4 P-K3 4 PxP a PawJI slOrm with P- K5 and P-U~-5. In NxPt arter which 33 RxN is again This early exchange, a spec ialty with either ease, \"hite's King Hook. obtains rOl·ced. effective activity-an im[lOrtant consider. Botvinnik, is stronger than rOl"lnerly was 32 Q-B6 N-N2 thought. "'hite eliminates a great Ilum· ation which less eXlJe1"ienced Illayers 33 R/3-B3 bel' of defensive systems. often overlook. Threatening mate in three. 4 PxP 7 B-Q3 QN-Q2 N_Q2 A_B1 5 B-N5 B-K2 8 Q-B2 R-K1 15" BxB R,B 33. 6 P-K3 0-0 9 KN-K2 16 N-N3 N-B3 34 NxP R-K3 35 Q_N5 The advance of White's King Pawn N-B4 Thanks to that early exchange, \Vhite 36 N-A6 Q-N2 cannot be prevented fOr long. Pressure has preserved the choice 0[ N- B3 and 37 P-KN4 Resigns the text. Either move has its merits; but Ort White's Queen Pall'n would help if it the option carries a {lractical advantage eould be increased after 16. . N/2-Dl .17 Q-B2; but that is impossible. FOI' in having left Black in doubt meanwhile IN HIS GAME against Gottschall at 17 ... N-K3 is frustrated by J8 N-B5. as to where that Knight might go. Dl'eijden, l S92, Tarmsch with White As for 9 P-KN4, a move to be eonsid­ 17 Q- B2 B_K3 19 BxB Q- N3 played 12 Q-Q3, threatening mate on the ered in all YariatiOl\s like this one, it is 18 N_ B5 BxN 20 P_K4! move. Bla~l, defended by ]2 .. P-N3. most eHective as reacton to ... P- QD3 White has gained his first objective. Had he played, instead. 12 . N-Bl, and. P-QH3 as in the famous game, he would have been smothered by this 20 . . . . PxP Botvillnik-Alatortsev, Leningrad, 1934. pretty mnnellver: If Black has omitted those Pawn moves, Better than allowing P - K5, followed however, P-KN4 is dubiouij it" not bad. Ly P - B4- 5. Here, for instance, it lead!! to a good 21 PxP A_ Q1 game for Black aftel' 9 .' P-KH3 10 22 P-K5 N-Q4 BxN, NxB 11 P- KH3, P - B·' (12 PxP, 23 N-K4 N_B1 P-Q5!). If 23. . N- B5 (by either Knight), 9 N-B1 White pr0ceeds as in the game. III case 10 0 _0 P-B3 or 23 . N/3-B5. he may also play 2·! 11 QR-Nl DxPt , KxB 25 Q- R4t , K-Nl 26 N-N5, bUl The sign fOI' the USUal minority attack this combination is not quite clear be· on the Queen·side: P- QN·\-5. callse of 26 .. H- K3! 11 .... B-Q3 24 N-Q6 The sign that Black wishes to meet Threatening 25 NxBP! after which 25 the attack on the Queen-side with a COUll· '. HxN loses to 26 B-K6! and 25 . 12 Q-Q3 15 QxPt! NxQ ter·attack on the King·side. His im· KxN leads 10 mate arter 26 B-K6t K­ 13 PxP 16 NxPt NxN mediate threat is 12. . UxPj 13 KxB, N3 27 Q-N3t, K- H3 28 Q- R4t, K-N3 29 14 N-N5 17 N-N6 mate N- N5t and 14 . QxB. R- B3. -Il'ving Chemev

CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 19H 121 SOLUTIONS t o CHESS QU IZ on page 104 T ra p 205: White wins ",il h 6 Q- B3. T o llvoid greater lo !;~ . Black mll ~ 1 g h "e liP a Knight : 6 N- QU3 7 QxXt . B-Q2. 'V!i iw ha .~ a piece fol' a P awn. Trap 210 ; m ack win~ :111 im]lOrlallt Pawn: n IJx:\" 10 BxB, :\xQ I' ([01" 11 Q:.:1\. Ih:I't al1(] IJ lapk w ins the Q ueen) . T rap 21 3 : Black wins a p iece by 6 A VISION OF DELIGHT N x:-<: 7 IJxQ , B- N5t S Q-Q2, UxQr :) is a ll ack iug who m is the g reat question in th e fo ll owing gall iC frolll K xEl, J\xll. WHO Trap 222 : \Vhile wins a P awil by 13 lhe 1 90~ Vic un a GHml )i t Tourna ment. One.eyed Te ichman ( White) has :\xP: fOl', if 13 PxN (1 3 . NxB 14 !he read y a u:

CHESS REVIEW (d ) Black mu ~ \ lnsc a piece : if 33 . PxB. 250 West 57th Str eet, New York 19, N, y, 34 BxN and 35 H- H8t. de.

122 C HESS REV IEW, APR il, 1953 Activities of CHESS REVIEW P a.t~ 1 Che n player" game reporll &. r"lIng', name. 01 JACK STRALEY BATTELL new pla yer. , prilte,wlnn er., teleeted g~ mlS , tourney In struction s &. edi toria l co mment . Postal Chess Editor

h;l l'e (\ f1ti r allot mel. And when a player has six, the re. with ell ch of yom' move~ , yon (, an [our games yet t o fln lllh In ·J9-Nf Hi. t wel ve 01' I. wenty·[01lr gumlls going, Yf!t Al1!'e ly expf'rl as llIu t h frolll yonI' OlillO' Time Limits anSW('!I'!I ea (~ h c on s(' i entlot1~l y on time, nent. he has 11 right to e xpcct li ke p ro m ptneM~ The time IIml l.!! as atated III Rule 12 Ir yO\1 will bOlh ob!;crve l{ule :{, the from his opponents- like budge ting or c hance~ of delays w il l be (Iu ite material· of Ih e " Rule!; and Iteguintloull fOI" Post al other el1g ag em en t~ or like speedlnJl; lI ll Iy l e ~lIelled-as [lOSlil liteA who hal'£! used Ches!!" are l'ital to thll fa ll' I ~ on d \lct of o( ('onsideratlon (or replies In POll tit! Hllio 3 revorl. the games and 10 the lIe1lsonn ble conclu· C hess. And. ir an OPJl01lCII l neglects or :'e­ sion of the lournamentll. fu!\es to obsenc Hul~ 3. yon <,an repurt Three days li re a llowed 1\ player for lIe ,' Hu le S {SUbm itting his last t wo ca rus l'onsideralion of eaeh reply· move. 'fhis Need for Co-operation time is :IIII II)e. a nd he tl lso has free time for iI \'ery clear ])1"000. At any rnte. we need lime limits rt)r on Sundays tl nd legal holidays, 1)IUli 11 posta l Illay. W e tried 11 few t OU fn a m en t .~ provis ion fo r taking ··tlme out" of liP 10 NEW POSTALITES without time li mits: they j ust il e\'(~r did ~ wee ks pe r a nnU III . -"c,," <·olll ~ r.. " hould ~!;'11! thai" ··class·· (or W e have ke l) t the time a m ple beea U>le finish. And. having set time li mit!;. we ":>;II(' ,·h·l\ ... e \\" h erch~· " .... "'''Y jud)':"e their "'hl ~ "1 whcn " vpl)'inl:" for " nt r~' to PMI,, 1 it is onl)' norma l rOl' a player to have need--in 1111 ra irnesh'- to e n force the llI. Nol being c1ll ln "oyanl. however. we do ('h.' ><>< to u r"' uu e n( ~ . some ot her In te relltK li nd engagemen ts T ho [ollow(n" new Ill" )·e . · ~. ~ta " li ng P03U.t but. with anyone of three da ys in whiett II Ot know when a player Is late unle!l~ \ ·h c ,, ~ durIn" F.'I"·",, ... )" . cO ",mence wllh to s tudy h is mo\·e. he shollld eet·taloly be his o pponen L'I repon so. \vn h some quit"!; t h e~ e Inll ln i mtl,,/:">< : CI~IS A at 1300: T . ,\ '·... hil'o ff. D. C .·ow_ able t o obey t hlll tl me·Hm lt I· ule. (anll it is merely a quirk) of rea~on i ng. !lome feel it's nllspOI·ting t o report. They lhe,·.. r. T a"~hi~, ~ r . D. l; t te,· a nd K. \\" in­ The fac t i ~. a lso, Hutt l'e rY few oppo· le,·i. e,·It'; II' )' " re llea t " nlO \'e arter "repeat"-or nents are goi ng to ta lly tlm~ SO s trictly Clan B ~ I 1200: H. ,\ lc:>; :I1 Hle,·. G. Ch"l'­ lhey JUS t ignore Ih e issue ',I together. I 'u i~ . ,\. r·. C·h lck. 1.. Fa tlel. ~1. Go ldinge>'. as to file a tillle (' om plnlnt If n player Meanwhile Ihe tonl"n a mell t falte l's- alltl .II,·!'.. I. •. H ~" d er~o " . O. O. " m' t. B. Lc .• tar !{ ~. takes a fourth dll Y. And t he uncertainties .J. I'u ~ee k (· , ·. I~. K. Oll ph"nt. R. 1-:. !k o t!. el'enlually potential I)r ize·win ners of Oll e of pos tal se n'il'e .l]"(! IH t(·h thA t Slld l ti me ('01. T . C. W "n .. lnrr " " II J . \\"olf: eomplaints are impnu:llea l. SOI·t of another are he ld up perllltlM Clan C at 900: 'Y. ,lll H' )'t~. A. Allen. \\. " 1"l e r ~o n , H. An o'· ) w~. \). I'. Bohen. H. ·Wlthln t he!\e geJlet·oll s li m its, howel'er, while that game drags OtH it!'. weary Wil Y or !'innlly is double-forfeited . Hoh n, P. CI'U"k. D . 1/. J';"" 1"\'. n. C. ElII • . we must ami do 1l 1 ~ l st 1I\l1. I-f. \\". Phillip". G. Rabin. E. RO!lCnt hnl. W . C. S.:hrocder, L. R. Simms. oll tcome. As one ~Irle gains an a dvantage strictly t ha t it is nOl really a lateneu K S. S mith. 13 . T . Stradl"y. O. W . Suh ~ . G. (and a lso s ometime!! when the game h; bll t a millcarr iage i n the mail. Bll t YOII ·rrOI ... " k . C. "-11M' and I". H. " 'hile; still e ven). the mo\'es come In more !;Iow­ do be tte r el'en !l0 10 report per Rult! H . CIa .. 0 .. t 600: I". J. I'.cI~ky . J . L . Biron. Iy and more s IO"'ly-ancl fi na ll y OOt at And. if an oPl)On ent ball been late at O. C. Wad e. n. n . Clntter. .1 ..... Donn. L. R. Dule. I ~. Dycr. L. Fa l"rile,"". ,\. "'~ I den ­ all. In official tournament ga mt:s, U e n il frequently. r e port pe r Rule IS-mill kre l ~ . A. I·:. H .. " r. J . L". Hc ."·e ~. D . ~1. lime lim it Is t he best insu rance agil lnst get a c lear understanding e ffected on Holl Won. ('. Horrman. "-. E. Hous ton. E s uc b an II nsal!!fa ctol'Y outcome. the ma(ter. -" . .1 oll e~ . E. R. Kell)·. D. 1>. Kirschner. J. KOl"ldl. Y. L. L ll m berL .1. I.... La rsen. D. Ou r first concern In es tablish In g t he And r epon earl)': You needn' t cl"o\\ d P . Lu bin. S ...... \tacDon:dd. H . ).t(' Bridc. A . time limit Is tha t t he gam e!'j keep li p a the 72 hO ll r limit-bu t do n't walt weekl'. .I. ~fcCa l >e. A. ~lc K l nn on . I··. ~ I err lll. '1'. ~Iit­ pace which wllJ sU .'Jta ln the playerS' In­ After all. t ha t 3 day t ime limit Is amph~ le r. ~r. G. ~lontroJH'. R. 1'1:1111. H. Ruete,·. te rest and which will ensure a reason· ---and a longer wa it accomplis hes noth· 1.1. ' •• flehi l'(). M. C. Shen n"n. A. Shore"'.. ". (' ..r. >;" ,er(lo". M. So~a. \\'. H. Ste,,·art. K Ing co nst ruct ive. while a report may leAd ably e a rly condllslon of the tournament. II. Tn)·'o,'. R. Thorn. R \\· ei s~man .•\ . E. Another concern is to e)\lIu re tbat the to getting th e game going. 1n fact , !lome \\" e~t(lr"('tl ~nd ~1. " 'ol k. mailing contact between the players is long delays ha ve led to los~ of contacl not lost- lIS ba ppens when tbere fire long (arrangements fo r for warding mall stand RETURN POSTS delays and one pln>")I' ha s a cha nge Or up for only HO long :). OI(l-(\lIIer~ \\"ho resu",(>,! ]>I" y in F ebrua ry two or address. And don't fe el that reporting is Mome· with rnU" Ij" at ',-J,ich they lef' : .1. Belaul>e ,· 55ol . .I . \\". F1i el:e,' 5·12. A. And, finally. tbere Is or course tbe thing unethical. It defI n Itely wl11 l!Ot I.ubl" 1100. X. G. p ",.J;e ~ OG. O. R. Ta lley concern t hat the playe r s, ellch a nd nil . lead to a fm·feit. not eve n a wamin A" . lin· 916. It. Trlple t1 '2 1 a nd It. S . Sle"en~ 942.

CHlS5 REVIEW, APRIL, 1953 123 ,\ r";'l'e i~, I(lrsch)" ~ I " 91 .\layCl" mHster~ \'o(1e, I",,~io Lest '\I"r~hnll. 228 Bioo""tuist, Keifc" POSTAL MORTEMS n ;\'eido"f ,rilhdl':lWIl. !IS H"de he "ls Short~, "I'lit two; Keifer 1 0 1'~ 8 p() I'liug, 23 (1 Coolidlc,," 101>~ (f) Tourneys 236·300: 238 Omf (ops )Inecke, and the outcome of the game-but, for Class I'r"the)'. 112 Hull ,~ 2·11\ C>lrmea" conk~ O]'",,~w('i!>, 2-12 H elt lies and Prl~e Tourneys in 4-man sections. slate In'juA', 1 0]>~ (2) Glecson: Gleeso" withdl'aws. also if It Is first or seeond game to haveen finished With that ~l\me oppOnent. Schneider, l.n \'ano \\'hi,,~ Willey, 1,10 Selby draws, 2·1 9 K Gle~ll!" rips Reid, 2.';1 'Vood The following examples show how to give ~tops Steve nson, 2:; ,1 Oo)'f~' hest ~ Molsnn (2), results with minimum effort for you and I.Olls \\' yller; [)i~hu\\' d own~ Grcgo";" 150 FI~I1C'r, Johnson tie, I.';3 Et'n,idls, Fishbein l..eathm', lie" Lealher; Ruhinsteln (]es unth. ma .~i"",m dud1)" tOI' t>l'OI"'" recording: CI', lops Gol'f~', 255 l3urnek hea(s P"an>luen, 52.C 466: 1 A. B. Meek 0 (1st) l ie, Jr" lJokm" b est~ Thonl"en, 159 I{oth 26,1 Rubin !'ips H"s~. 26~ H"yward hlllt~ 52.P 401: A. Halprin I H. N. Pillsbury I (2) wlthd,',,,"n, IGl ~"; Shel'\\"in ( 1,,) 10 Heinrich, I,,,~igll" (1) 10 Gifford, 279 (Class, Pr;:>.c, Golden Knights Finals) and "Guks <-'''Gi ld!!,",.. 1(, ~ SdHtl:-;,· whip,' 'Wilde; Hm"me],Il1"" hnll~ (;I'egOI',', 2S() Clark Clips the section numbers appear in the initial \\'eil 10p ~ (f) Bo,."holz, 16G S(']meislrOn~ s lo ps Fe,.""I",.; GilJh~. Leoll,,,xls lie. Hamplon halts {.ult"ell, 2~O Lewis li cks tlnal parentheses, Please give game reports Hornbuckle, 291 nnln'" I'ips Indrieri twice, separale from any other eorrespondence, 297 .\lacGr"d)· dG\\'n~ navis: COUI",I ","slel'" as Ihey must be tlled s o. A postcard Is ideal Started in 1952 (Key: 52-C) for size, easy to send. ~!il!s. 298 Smith, \\'iIli,,,u:< ~l'llt two: ?I"e· Please note: 'Vinners (and Ihose with the Notice: ,\fIe" " r""l' In plar, mG~t g" ", e~ ,\Iill"n whips Willl"",~, (2) C hl'ist)'. 299 White pie(,'es In case of draws) must report in lhe,'< Porlala Iwiec. 310 played Billek In case or a draw). have "GI been llublished. I,'cinson fells Attie twice, 31 ·1 He,''';ck wlth_ Gnme reports sent In time f or receiPt by Tourneys 1·100: 3 Dudley down ,< 1'(>\.10", \I)'a\\'s, 317 Diedrich dGwns \Vest. ~22 1'anne" dntes gh'en above should be printed below. ,; "I"lil< lOp" FIT('. (, Sln'OI> h"ll:< H"wley, tOll'S ~ ren"et. 32·1 S c hncido l' whil)S LeWGl'thy, And players who so reported should cheek ,\[il1" ,', 1~ WGllenhe'x be"l" Sa,'nt")', 1:, f.: cd:<1 ,12n Cheme,'da, Shnpil'O, .\1",'lill cneh t GIl 33~ Hn!n~, 3~2 10 sce that they are so published. To spot )'ip~ J(o:<,<. IS 1)" \I ,d>c)'I ), wllh,II'II\\'''. 20 .\foye,· Iwi<:e. Call rips Hlkade 10P ~ (;]cc~on them, look under YGur lIection number, !lrst f.:tcven~ :<10 1',< 1-\' nuilel'. 2~ Olson, Gn'lI'" Ilip~ ;\'el~oll, ·11; Thol'llC adJudication; df marks a double·forfelt '01'" S":tll ~on, In CII lhhe"1 lX)sl~ Poff, 5S PRIZE TOURNAMENTS when both players fa Jled to submit round­ Dc Lev" dowl1~ LynH, ( ~fJ ..\1I~""GI1, G" Class TourneY$ for Premiums closing adjudication reports. Gra)' whiJ>~ \\'1'11"1', 61; Smith smil,,~ CI"rke, II, eherm~ id (' IGp~ Pockli1t~IOl\ twice , 71 Started in 1951 (Key: 51-P) CLASS TOURNAMENTS Col'l>ell f,'l1:< I,'ilo",; Schlage" wilhdr" wu, 7,; Notice: '\lo~t g"mC reports ~hGnld IX) in on ~fu ec kr d)'()I>~ 1\\'0 to Groal, take,< IWG from Ihese tonrneys nGW, Chcck YOU!' res u lt .•• Tourneys graded by ratIn g classes AbhGII, of, I,'alo,, )· fell~ :';"""1;0, ~I Ol"o: ( 'Iark, li('" .Iens(,,,, S~ \Vyller whip~ h"" e nol Iwen p"hlish ed; gh'c " fnll li~! F"y, S7 1-\milh 10jl~ Alh" (~), T' e de"~cll, S8 o f win", ,l)'(",',~ ",,(] IG"~e" ,,~ " fin a l !'ellO'·I. NotIce: Mo~t. game r e»GI' I~ shou ld b" In Gn Ad"m.', ('h:tpm,," ~plll . \WG . ':1 " e ll"r <'0111,. Gan>e~ ma)' he c Xlended be~' o nd no!'!!",1 IhC~<) lout"" e )' ~ UG,,". C hcc1{ )'G"" r eslilts, W,,;u',', 90 H u,'1 how:< 10 ])jl'lla), h"~I" <'losing II",,, If YGU" reqll e~1 fG" ~ltch Is mail­ l'ellOrt allY ;'0" n",y h,e"e [Grg-ol!,.>11 or Ilml .)"" ohsGI1, " ~,I ('a rli,' " Ihan Ill" two ,"""1' dnl c; <',::: .. h",'<) no! hcen publish,,\!: );,ive a ful! li~ ( Tourneys 101·2(10: I I I Hl"lrick ,)\'c·,'('oI1 ":. if ~'our ",'a",e Ij('glln ~J a)" , 19'=; 1, yOUI' re'l11est of wins, dr",,"'; ,u,,1 lo~~()l' as " !lnal rePOrl I,,,r~on, 120 \\'ilril. 1953. _if in "ny doubt. '\1i11.', ~;\Il~Gn lie. 126 Wh;l e (ell~ F i!'uholt, Otherwlsc, r('port your g;"ne~ (0" adju­ (;",ne~ IX) extended bcyGnd non"al "'"l' 13 0 HOHninl< h"ll~ I-'lrnhOll , I:,,, a"''!'i!!'on di("atiOll when IWO yenr~ of 1>];')' ha,'e been clo~in!:" Ilmc if yOIll" requ esl for su.;h i ~ lo ps '1'111':«)(,_ J:1G l)a",,,I<"1" l i('s Cull'C»IICI' ,'omplcled : e _I< _, I;""'CS ~ta"I(!d 111 ,\])1'11, 1951. "",llct! cm'li"r Ih"n Ih" IWG yell I' dale: e.);". "nce, (')'",'cne,' ,wice, 140 I{o~");,n'l. W"hm' mllst ~o lo" "ePGI' I",1 and in Ihe ",nil before if you r g"me l)()l;:on .\1,,)", 1' ,;1, your req"e~l ril' G";ody, 1\:1 Cle"euKer .01',", Ihe" l ies ,\lllY lsI. 19~3, nlUs t he mailed in ,\]>";1. 1953. ( ao:,,~on; n"d," wlthdrtlwn, 1 J.I I,illl,," < ; Gnk ~ 1"01' "dj"dicalio,,~ I< h 'e (I) filII record Gf Othe"wi.< () , l'ellOrt )'G"" games fo" adju· K ing~lon , 11~ PI'OfiSe!' 101',< ( 20 Ho,."hol~, Ihe mG"e~ ",ade IG dntt~ : (2) di"S'mm of t h" dlcatlGn wh,,,, two ye;u's of p l"y hal'c 1>",," );,] HIIt'''.<, \"in"mitinolf tOll' -raila, 1,,2 I>osition "cached: (3) ~latClll e nl . of how yon completed: e,g" gume~ ~tartcd in A1Wll, 1-\"'GI'GI1 1, .. ,!" Cla,'k, 16·1 H"""I" wilh· Udellt malnial ad""nl ag" fGr a clear win , before .\ia)' l~t , 1~ ~3 , draws, III, .\Iueek.:: IG]l~ \)i"m,,!1l010010" (2), JIIl't ~I al e lhlll in Ite'11 3), It you cannol 1,'GI' adJlldlcallons giv e (1) full rccOl'd o f Klcins<"1l1l) idt. III~ I~,'en e h, I::u ~kel · t tlc: hopc 10 will 0" d,·"w Gil adj"dlcntioll, Ihen lhe lllo" e~ 1Il",le 10 dlll~: (2) dl,,!;,)'''''' of the ltllrker'l, Sda,...elta I )<: :!l!lOll, Ih,,~ ~avl"g \Ii, nil :<0 11 1e )"GI' k, I)!'OllOse to will 0" d,'''w (if you hll"e suf· Hendel',~ ;\'chi)l, 6U S ~hwarl ~ tops (20 h011e 10 win or draw on ndjudicalion, Ihen Ihen tics \\';!\is, !~8 .\[ tlc('ke (2). H"r"'!en Oslern",,,,,, GG Holm{IUi~., HolG tic. 83 r':din­ kind I)' "Glify YOUI' ol)llOnel1l thut you reslKlI , halt Q""np , JS9 Ehy whip,,, \\'iIli,,,ns. 19-1 C. I;er dGwn~ De Luca, ~O ConnGr Jol(s Joh,,~o", Ihu~ savinI> u s (Ill so",,, work, K'll\I<" ~ IGl' ~ Goff lwice. 1% Sluppl"l' :llJle wjjh. Tourneys 1·27, ~(al'l(ld du "; "g Janua,'y, \\'"Ish. 19.: Thompson h"ll~ Hoffn>;,!), 197 d,." w ~ , !2~ Sieffen .lops ~leehan . 12S Lap· 1%1, lire hel'e"'ilh elo~e,< ~(eCurd,', Hiek(" ,looper, I~S 1:lock h"111 licks K"",in~k!. 130 S'ccnberg b"~ I S forfeils wl,,;re n eccs~,"'Y: .j l:outwell, '''hll­ ~ I O p~ *"pplel" loow" Iwi<"e IG 'r01l1cnfdlt; Allen. 1·10 Cl"rk >'III'" ;\'ol'(liu, LamlJ, HII eomb df. 5 Coolidge, Whitmo,'e & Xickel. Bucha""n withdrawn. l o~e s (2,,) to '1'01)) ' .hmg'wl r lh, Suykel' Jolt Gan'c r, H7 Sl1rkcr 'VhilmGl'C df. G Oiles ,.~, Be,lI'd, Chapman "ufdk, 200 Pralhcr withd,',,,,,s. nips Newman, A rdl~~one. & lJpholt M; Ch"pn",n, L'phGll df. , Linl:'. Tourneys 201..235, 201 Thord~cn ",asters '\ 'y~t mch dC , ~lille'". Plwter & .\[;llc", Hiec !-fenn', 2(12 Sheller losei' to ~(Otlllpsis Hltffm"fl, 20·1 Schl'o"der tops :lIncOraay, Slllel' (\f, 17 Heckerl, Rose dr, (2f) Leonard, 2nG \VinA':trd whtps '\lont'Oe, Notice: ,\fter " ~'e" t' itt Ilia)', mo~ 1 I;umes ~~ lies, 'Vh,sIGn & 8 1""er "S, f\ldlon df; 207 Poolu 10P~, Ih"n lle~ lJlacklc]', 20S Huff­ ]n thes", IOllrn"y.• oUj;ht 10 he finishe d , If Slaser, Wlnsloll df. 2G Dunle")" Hill df: man hO~I~ ~Joul'Oe, bo\\'~ to \\'illgnrd, 209 ,"Olll'S "I'e nol, Ill'ge opllOnenls (0 reply t G Dunlevy & Hill \'s, C"se df. Carl lops Ot'O$S , 21 (1 H"II h"lIs CI""k : "'o"es 1"'G111PII),. rellOl'l if ther do 1101, Tourneys 28·100: 36 COG ley con i,s W lsnom. Purlr!d!{o tOilS Hall, tie" Clu)'k, 211 Des Check YO\lI' resull,., 1''''1101't nllY which YOU 52 Baildon beS I ~ Schueffel". 77 Dommie wilh· C hump" ";l>~ R,""n, 213 Al;uilem, Ghelzlel' may )lltV" forgott en to se"d III Or which d,'"",s. sa Carson {ie~ Abington. lOIJ~ lie. 21" ,I"c k~o" lops .Ioh,,~on lwice. ~16 have 01he1"\1'I5" nOl been puhll~he<:l , SchUltze, '''''rren. 81 'rurelsk~' ril>S Ros~, C"rle hlllls Hi ll , 21S C"llagha" lies , IhcH Tourneys 1· 90: S Hazle d "f,,'IlS Dillman S2 Sehw''''I~ chops Ch"mberlain, 8~ Dulicai tOI'.~ )I",'~hall. 220 Aus li" mastel '~ .\HIIer, twice, 17 ('GI'I'eelio,,: HUleheldl. 223 Spatz, I~ Stere"l)Ueh tOI)~ (2f) LaidlGw, 29, t{"rtigan IOp~ (0 lhU"l'ilt. S8 Vollnhofer C"lh" " ,el' d O\\' l1~ Dll"i e l~, 22~ ,\Ihe,· lOPS H,,,','ey, '\lllrkoff tic, 31 Ha!("gell overt'o,nes downs D"hl. 89 P Cl'l')" Busic & Fra",l.~en ~f" r ek Iwl"e, 225 Prall hCSIS P""l1a"en, 226 1-\choel'nCI'. 31 I)"uiel ,Iowns Hugh,,~, 39 withdraw, 90 PO~1 withdmws, 92 .\kClnn~, I··owler, '\[iller fell Howard: .\(illcl' dcfeals Hollel'ts ril's Dllllcomlw. ,10 Fle", in): lOPS Shc,'witl dip 8 h"nOI'; TremNU' h ows w .\[.;. 1,'o\\'le ]' I,,"lee, 227 Heil, .\lar;;h"II, Fazio ~(acJntHe twice. ~5 Ll\leinel' licks .\bller. Clung, IX)~ts L,lIld". ~3 Xewman nips w in from Olee'lG" Iwie(' each: Reit. (2) ,16 Green whips \\'illl"'l'Ih. 51 Buttet'Wo,'lh

124 CHESS R!VIEW, APRIL, 1953 !Jests I-[[,· k .•. ;'2 Ha!;"efio)'n h " l! ~ S e hul!~: F INA LS (Key: 50·Nf) Arno\\". G .. o~ .• "pi ll [\\"0 . ,.3 n"i"'i ,.ip" Cox. Sections 1·14: 2 ;\IF"'. • "'''"t CI' ~ H ll" ~d\h"l")): A..,lO W. ( 2 ) ~ 1 "\lIo " ,,,,, : Cox co"k, ,\,.now. ;;:. l{o .• eHIo IIiUl. _\[y e l" ~ tw it H" 'Tison. :1 Kin): Gibbons " i p~ "j d lO l~ Iwl n). ;;, Owe,'" tops lops l{i<"lu," '; LYilCh (i o wn~ ~,," C hll· c. ,; S"y­ $1000.00 (20 C oll iH~ . 1;5 l{u!Jen~ lc i " do w" ~ DDI"I'­ I, ,, ,. O" '1 lO in l ~ 1'",,1. 6 Lc~- . \"")(u il l,, conk lino. Ii , l(uloc tl"l el" .. il'" \·" u): h,,,,. 6S Linl,> ('0"". 7 1:"ck" ,,,iOl'( \l"illidn\ \\" ~ . ~ (' o ~ ~ 10P.< 10 1'~ (2f) 1~ (!I l e ", . 71 .\I"yO n'a"!',,·" 'faylo,·. Th" ",;o .<: Thom " ~. [:",-kendOl' f "- ;I hd,·",,-. 9 IN CASH PRIZES .'; Ibnnon dow"" Hi,l<~ , · . (;h",·"hill. ~Iorr o w : United 5tates'and Canada. A,.""d t . \\'ill" ~ li cd . .~5 Ol': iI\' ie 10 1>~ (f) Hid.· ,· Ioc.o w.< 10 ~Ior r ow. 10 2 Y. ell~'·. Enter this tournament and you can win I-fol lo" ook t"l'" Sh""ha" lwl<;". 1(0.1 00\"",.,1 up· to $250.00 in cas It-the amo unt of the hall.. H,,,·n,,,,,. 10;; l; milh 1,,1'.<. lhc n l ic~ SE MI·FINALS ( Key: 51_Ns) Grand First Prize. The runner-up will K,.n ~ k c. l UI> ~ h ', a" "'ini 10"".< IWO to ],ekow­ Notice: \\"he" ~' O"l" " ""'C" I",,·c ,." " 10 ~ ki. b,,"I" 1.; ",.,,,,, n. l(I7 SI"" lo r 101''< Kuht· ~i l(hl c('" monlhs since da\c "celio" w,, ~ :l~­ rcceive $loo.00! Third to tenth place "Ii"'" ( fl . how. 10 F:II (-11hc ,.)(. 109 R olJ i n ~o n sig " ed. ki",II~' "ell{l )'l on I"·O): '-"." Hall­ Sections 1-32: 2 H t: ""ik ~e " h:lll >' ZiNC" : H.~ , ·_ hac h. 1]'-, Throo p lhump" GOII",,,,. IIG ~1" lIC " players who finish from llth to 75th! 1"1"0" Wilhll'·.1wn. :, H" I"l I<: I,. l l t ic,. I; l;,, '· .. Uut that all! Every player who "' '' .' 1<> ' '.~ .\1" .< 10"". 117 S " "a".~k ,," rt, ~h"' .< ""c Kinl1,tO Il tOll. • O"ehi: l,ynd , lick" 11 "1,,; ,,,·1. isn't 10 B'·ot~ . wilhdra ,,".<. li S \\" ~~ l lon)o k wilh­ 1:; F:,,'IJc,' fd l ~ .Ioh n.'o,, _ hll l1.. qualifies for the final round, and com· S pade. Si anley .<1' 1\1 t wo. 1:.0 1';" 10 .. ,·" ,,,,, I'e ~ t.< I ~ ,," s : ,\ " hl cy wil h­ FINALS (Ke y: 51.NI) into Our regular Class Tournament. d,." w.<. l !", ~ II ieh how ~ to U,,,·o". l> ~ Gifford. section of CUESS REVIEW- and he'll get ~ Io " c ,· ma81",'8 S""d l '~"I( : J:) " " r):"r. ~I,,_~ ~Ionl"<)c t \\" kc. 1"' .• 1 AIUI,·c w". 7 ~ kCo "br e y li e ~ \\·"lIaC(,. a big check for $250.00. But you don't ;':01 " ... 17 ~ Wil\in ms whip.< ~Ia t zk c. ]jl; n,,) (Oapillon: A810n 101>" ('"pill o". S \\"" i): hl lri p.< have to be an expert to go a long way in Goi",: .• w il hdr :\ \\" ~ . IS:l H a ll ~ n c!" (l own ~ Da r . 'l"1·ul l. ~ l ~e n e d lelO . F" II "", (<:11 ~Ialt c rn. 10 IS G .\ I~ I"' ,· , ,,,:\ wilh(l,·aw". 1~ 9 B .. ",· 1" ,.'1 .• the Golden Knights. Lots of less talent· 1·'"II "m hcs t ~ T",.Ile,·: C" tIi lo ps ( f) Ske m". Ikrnnl. Il 1·:kkhol1 . P"os"e,' hall HU"lb"l : P "o~~e l ' ed players are going to have grand fun downs EichhOl1. J3 Calln!; h"" hCal" T'-;as"i. alld capture handsome prizes in this mam­ GOLDEN KNIGHTS IJOw" to ~I o "el. ].I " 'alTe n wh i p ~ ,\"" o,,"ood; moth tournament. Even if you have never ~I dol .· " fcll" Fa be r. I.) F uC h" whip. • \\'il te ­ played in a competitive event before, you Progressive quali fication championships ,na n: ~''' chs. \\·il le'll an. G.-a( ";1' II "I,ino' ,,- it r. . Ii ~1 " 1"!' lcs lick., r.,,\" ; ; I.y,, <: h downs may turn out to be Golden Knights Cham­ 2d Annual Championship-1946 .·\Id e". 19 Homer hall._ l--o'·cjoy. I;a"no,,: pion or a leading prize.winner when the 7·9th P lace PI~y·off 1;" ,,,10 1\ wilhdra\\"s.22 Good n",n Ioc .• \ .• B,·ol7.. tourney is over. 50 don't hesitate 10 enter Hchl.oe ,·J: Wi l hd l"a ,," ~ . U;«·hhube,·. Huff"" ",. ""a8. 2 ~ J ohnson. Hide'" .\ Iay" ,· jolt Rllsel. 2 -1 SI" n" sinks because you feel you are not a strong .lolly. 2U Weisbccker. Koffm"n. 'r",,):'''' ~I " rl i " " z: SokolH downs O«(e nl)<: ,·): . 2S fine way to improve their chessplay. FINALS (Key; 47.Nf) .__ il\·,·,. "in k~ Sc~ wa l <1: T rull Iri»" )1: p SI e \"~ ns . Sections 31·94: 31 O'Dell \\" ;I h Section s 1·47! \\,c' l'e :tllow i" .<;" 0" " mOlllh·.< '__ I"" ,ldin): "e placcH Hee,l . As a Golden Knighter, you'll enjoy the .<;" '·a"o fo r fln a \ I 'croo r t~ (0 " Sum i-tl ll: lI.~ . will thrill of competing for big cash prizes. d o ~ e OU I. all "''''CllO ''lcd !!" n\ ~~ Wllh doublc­ [o ,'feits in ~l"y L. ~lle Postal Mortems. 30 You'll meet new friends by mail, improve \\'esl lH"o"k wilhol ,·",,"s. 32 ) I'l r .• h. Oli vc,' li c. Addresses your game, and have a grand time. ;~ S B"ewc,' to[1 .< ( 0 HOlhenhe,·)(. Wanted: A good m eans of lle r~ u a ding So get started-enter now. Entries must FINALS (Key' 49_Nf) [Jos t alite ~ or the importallce of kee llillg be mailed on o r before '\Iay 30, 1953. Sections 1· 17: ·1 DCll ne defcats IIcim. '; Knox th eiL' 'l ddres~es lip to date with t he P O~I' n i p ~ SokolC!'. H! She,·,,-in t O I )~ [-;"c he,·. I-l a l C h e R ~ ~ K"shin. 32 closed covers the entry fee of $3 per "'eslbrook wilhd'·'1\'-s. 108e" (a) 10 Colter . lhese Ce rtifi cates in t he [irs t ])Iaee. I section, My "clas." I•...... I l~ o"" halt" H",.,.i80". Luea" losc" 10 \Vhe n the y are returned, w Ith no known n :,7 NAME ...... •...... •.•...... f'iI,c w ~ ki. lic" \\·"lsdorf. :1 3 .Tohn.

CHESS R£VIEW, APRIL, 1953 125 TOURNAMENT NOTES 6th Annual Championship-1951 Proqress Reports for We hnve no ne ll' qualUiers to t he .-D / Golden Kn i9hts Tournaments Sem l·rlM ls Ibis mon t b : bill. as a I'es ult fOS/a of CUI'I'Qnt Po.t a l Mortems, t he following l rd Annual Championship-1947.S hn" e quulUieu tor ,u s ignment to the !-' Innlll >ledions. 47·Nr 17. ha ll now r.om· f ina ls : K . Kre tzsl·h lll tU·. l.. J . I'-aikoll'ski. tH£J:J'A77' Illeu!!1 111l,y. a nd the "ontestantll t herein I)]'. I. FUl'be l', Co l. Jo~. D. Lync h. J . N . H"ore lhe following . weig hted lIolntll: . He nrikse n. M. Sebo](z. H . Maclean . L. F.. II . E . A. Doe 37.5 ; F. J . Valvo 3ti:!:I; H . Kimpto n. H . Kaufman 1111d D,·. S. Green· n. Da ly 31.8 : E . M. Shant l: 29.!:I5; E . 1\1. berg. We stbrook 24.05; E . F . J ohn son 23.5; a nd V ERY TH ING YOU N EED to plil)' I. ~';. Davis U.S. 7th Annual Champianship-1952.1 Eehess by mall i, Included i n t he com· Cur rently. therefore, lhe III1)li pecth'e H. E. Goodman from Preliminary sec· plete Post.al Che.. KIt produced by IIlIt or t';,5h Ilrize "'inn l" rli (probably 11011 52·N ~Z is lhe fint to qualify for a s· CHESS REV I EW for t he convenience of post al p layer •. T he k it cont ains equi p­ Ih o~e well above 30 polna) uancl!l ;I!i: s ignme nt to the Sem l·rlnal!l In the 1952·3 ment and stationery e.peci al ly designed PRESENT LE A DERS. Gollien KnIghts. for t he purpose. These "Id, to Postill I. l'i i ol ~~ n l ""·,, . ~ ~ . t .\1 Alllu" odd, .3 ~ . 1~ eheSl will keep your records straight, IJr. l'i. I .. ·wi.•.. ~;:;.i J t' \\'i lf l,u,, ~ .• ~ ~.1 r. help you to avoid mr't.akcI, give you the It Or"" ...... ~~ . l E f': t:nd " rwood :I ~ . ~r, POSTALMIGHTIES! full est enjoyment li nd benefi t from your I;. I·',·""k ...... H .7 ~I U G " , ~ rr . . . l 4.~r. Prize Winners games by mall. 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126 e HU S RE VI EW, AP Ri l , 1955 And now a blunder. There is an Apt·n and of 18 . .. Q-Q3 19 RxRP! )-for now Fool theme in that these White Pawn IS PxN, PxP§ or I S PxP, BPxP leave POSTAL GAMES jabs do not compel retreat. Black with fair chances. from CHESS REVIEW tourney s 10 ••.• P,N (2) 14 . PxN 15 NI'xP. R-KBl! and 11 P)(B? P)(Nt Black can meet the threats of 16 PxP annotated by 12 K-Q1 N_K6 mate and Ii Q-R6, by 16 ... BPxP and 17 n-B2-or of 16 Q- H6. by 16 .. N-B~! Aftet· \\Ihite's 11 tho Black Illay periHlIIs JACK W. COLLINS be eXI,used his last hoidenish prank, 17 Q- N5, Q-Q3. \',i'hite has, indeed, a formidable look· lhough passing up mate on the move ing bind; but Black should have con· (11 . QxN mate) Heems too mtH"h even Our Postal players are invited to submit sidel"ed that "One can never win by reo for April l<~ ool. their BEST games for this department. s!gning!" To be considered, the moves of each game must be written on a standard score sheet, or typed on a single sheet of Askin9 For It Friday 13th? pape r', and marked "for pUblication," This is not a Help·Mate. But it has This game ended 011 November 20. lite ear·marks of one. Black f ot'gel~ the 1952. Bluck must hal'e relt as though it April Fool! fiancheUoed King Bishop is hi s aee in this variation. was Friday 13 th. Should it have been For some reason perhaps besl ex­ Apl"il lst'~ plained b}' psychologists. in chess mlher SICILIAN DEFENSE KING'S GAMBIT DECLINED tban by chess analysts. the other"wise PCO; P. 435, cnl. 75: MCO: p. 291 (a) dubious Budapest Defense seOl'es a high PCO: page 121 (a): MCO: p. 141 (a) H. C. Zierke Alan Atha proportion of "Quickies" in ,,'hat wins it L L Burack Mrs. T. Archibald White Bla(,k gets. And what wins it gets run to odd White Blacl, mates, li),e this. 1 P-K4 P-QB4 1 P-K4 P-K4 2 N_QB3 BUDAPEST DEFENSE 2 P- KB4 P-Q3 This line is sometimes called the peQ: p~g e 291( a) ; Meo: P. 205(1) Bad management pre~ages bad luck. Mi eses Variation and other times the Roland Palmedo, Jr. C. E. Haynes Bettel', because less eramping, are 2 Closerl System. "'A rose by . White Black PxP, 2 P-Q~ and 2 B-B~. The 2. . • • N_QB3 ~ta!Ulanl moves are not ne"essarily bad. 1 P_Q4 N_KB3 3 P-KN3 P-KN3 3 N-KB3 N_QB3 2 P-QB4 P-K4 4 B_N2 B_N2 3 N_KB3 4 P-Q4 A semi·symmetry prevails. As peo slops brierly to point Ol1t, PCO suggests the text; und MCO, .) Black gets easy equality after any other 5 KN-K2 P-K3 0-1\"5. 6 P_Q3 KN_K2 move than 3 PxP. 4 N,P 7 B-K3 3 . . . . N-NS 5 N)(N P,N All according to Hoyle and the Goorl 6 Q)(p Q-B3 But the equality tnrns on 3 PxP. Books. Here Black seem~ to aim for transposi· II' Knights should be developed before lion to a line favorable for White . .j 7 . . . . P-N3 Bishops, as Lasker said, t hen 'they ~hould P-KR3 i~ now a natural. Detter are 7 P-Q3, 7 . N-Q5 and before Queens, too. So 6 , N-B3. 4 B_NS B-NSt 7 ... Q- R4. 7 Q-B4 Yet more "originality" hy White 8 Q-Q2 0-0 drive~ Black to beUer [lUl'pOSe, 9 B-R6! B_ N2 10 P_KR4 5 N- B3 P-KB3 6 B_R4 P-Q4? This threat to Olu.wate on the King 7 N-Q2 Hook tile is no joke. There's no Ilrofit, to be sure. in 7 Q­ 10 •..• P-Q4 HAt, N-B3 ::; PxQl', QxP 9 QxB? NxQ 10 11 P-R5 .,N NxQ, NxK-but White misses a good deal The text only helps White. 11 in 7 PxKP . (Even 7 P-K3, defending I'- B3 h!nders. with a developing is preferable to 12 N)(B R-K1 the text.) 13 B-N5! P-Q5 7 . . . . PxBP 14 B_B6! Resigns 8 Q-R4t White's last is tempting but dubiolls. 7 B-K3 and his next is even more ~O. Best is 7. . P-US. Ulaek's itlea of 8 .... N_B3 sacrificing a Pawn for development quickly backfires. 8 Q)(p R_ B1

Taking t \\"o full teaspoons or the ~alt in the sugar· bowl. 9 B- N5t B-Q2 10 Q)(B mate A,pril Fool. Everybody:

Here !s an April Fool in reverse; sub· CORRESPONDE.NCE: COURSE title: the threat is greater than the ex· Xe\\" York State Champion " nd I~O"",e,' ec ution. Considel", along wIth the fnct CO "" es ]lond e n~e Cl"'IlIpion of t he U . S. A. offe"~ a lem'n · b Y_IlI"il co""~ e In whi~h yon that mack will be a piece ahead: PI"Y a ga"'e by ",ai l. receive c ("l lleal com· 9 P-B3 (1) 14 ... PxN 15 Q-R6? N-B,1! 16 ments on each move ,,~ YOII 1:"0 a long. and Q-N5 ( 16 PxN, QxB), PxNP 17 It-QNt, " tho"ollgh posl-!:ame :""ll.'·~I~ for $t O. 10 P-QR3 Q-Q3 (not 17 P-KR3 18 PxP! with W";to Jack W. COllins. 91 i..c nox I{ood. ------~~~~~~ Brookly n 26 . X. Y. t = chel'k; * = (Jill. c heck: § _ di~. eh . t breats or 18 .. PxQ?? 19 R-R8 mate

CHESS REVIEW, APRI"!., 19S3 127 PLASTIC CHESSMEN '

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128 CHESS RtvIEW . APRIL. 1953 PRACTICAL CHESS OPENINGS by

KA:-.'DJ\i l\ STJ::H BEUI3EN F IN E , a top player of the United Siales Gand one o f the world's greatest authorities on chessplay, has produced his oli n book on the chess openings! From the vast slore· IlOlI:.e of his o\,'n practical knowledge of the subject and the d istilled experience of olher chessmaslers in tournament and match play, Reuben Fine has presented us the book of books on the openings! IL contains the tried a nd tested variatiolls of the past, plus the latest, up·ro·t he·minut e openings of modern play. All openings are classified alphabetically. An introd ucti on to each opening explains the ma in lines in detail, with diagrams to ill ustrate the basic posi­ tions, and this is followed by pages of variations arranged in vertical wlumm. Footnotes give the sub·variations and diagrams show im· porlant positions. Altogether, there a re 1240 columns of main vari. ations a nd thousa nds of footnotes, all evaluated for your guidance by Reuben Fine. An essenti al work of refe rence for every chesspbn-er. Ca t. No. F-6 - 467 pages, 196 diagrams, clothbound 57 50 YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF' YES. you owe it to yourself to have a copy of THE FIR ESID E BOOK OF C HESS, wh ich has beeu specia ll y prepared for the delectation of all chessp layers! It is the one ehess book tlmt has everything: amusin g stories and sketches by Billy Hose a nd other ~ : 14 willy cartoons, more than a hundred cur ious chess facts and anecdotes ; 170-odd games care· fully chosen fo r their ent ertain ing qua lities; 50 superll examples of great co mbination play ; 47 Illa s tcrpiece ~ of endgame compositi on : 31 heautiful chess proulems; (l nd a quiz which is both cntcrtaining and easy to solve. The annotated games appear under the:e atlractive heatl ings: Quickies - Tbe Hand Is Quicker Ihon III(' Mind - Odds Cames - Blimljald (;flml!S - Simultaneous Exhibitions - S urpri.~ e Allaek - Uealiu p II Cf(tndmastef _ Tb e Brilliall ey Priu - Til,. Pala/$ IJ ecille - - /) I!eisil't' C{lfl!(" s - A I/lICk - The Two-R ookl Sacrifice - The Two-Bishops Sacri,fice - Slll!;!:;ng .I/a/Ches - E:'(ciling DraWl! Gam es - Correspondence Cb{·ss - Old Fmorites - Positional Ma sterpieces - rhe Perfect Gam e.

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