'AGE 16, BERKELEY BARB, SEPT. 6-12, 1974 Jude Acers Miracle Whip
the a simple chess course designed to make you a It is the game of kings, the most honored, ofthe and sport in the world. chess fiend while enjoying every instant most played game fascinating world of the to play chess very well. Become a lessons. Enter the Learn game .... chess expert. A professional master presents royal
playing CHESS PROGRAM It is possible to win chess tournaments by BEGINNER TO EXPERT: A BLITZ while playing extremely (U.S. Chess Tour, 1970) poorly and lose tournaments well and learning a great deal! A paradox? Hardly. It THE ROAD match between two Part XIV is inevitable that in a long chess players, understanding is what guarantees the victory. by Jude Acers (US senior master) The loser might win a few games with trappy, unsound tactics, but the outcome of such a match is inevitable. nothing. So did It does not matter if you know nothing about the Because you get crushed at first means chessboard. Chess can be learned so Fischer. chessmen or the but a lesson easily that it is possible to teach and review all of the A loss should mean absolutely nothing session. Each year on my lecture tour learned. Don't worry about losing. When we get through rules in a single of those op many thousands of children learn how to play chess and with you, baby, you'll make cheddar cheese move they play! There is nothing ponents that laughed when you sat down to play! keep a record of every moving You can learn to play chess and very well. (C) Never, never touch a chess piece without to it but fun. mind to be creative, Begin by reading 'The First Book of Chess" by it. By this rule you will force your to Chess" by Irving calculate chess thinking that is complete before you Joseph Leeming or "Invitation tr»- Kenneth Harkness or "Chess the Easy move, or you will watch your chess army suffer Chernev and hesitate or Way" by Reuben Fine. You can spend a dollar on the gedy. Good. If you wantto let your opponent Chessplayer" by Fred change his mind, that's your decision in an offhand paperback book, "The Complete on your Reinfeld and look at the rules section at the front. game. But never play anything but touch-move also look up chess in the Encyclopedia Bri- side of the board. You'll never regret it. Your powers You can You will not tannica to find a complete history of chess and the of concentration will increase greatly. rules of the game. Any of these sources will tell you guess. You wild know. of chess istoattackthe opponent's chess (D) Never speak during a chess game or leave the that the object You will be king in such a manner that it cannot escape capture on chessboard, unless absolutely necessary. When the enemy king has nowhere to amazed at your results from this simple rule. You do your next move. is play run, nowhere to hide from your attack on him, then you not care in the least if theradioor the jukebox ing. You don't mind if people are chattering or many win or checkmate. training. After this beginning the student finds all the other distractions occur while playing. Consider.it become very interesting as well: their You'll get used to such noise. chess pieces three times world sole purpose is to attack the opponent's king in such a Remember that MikhaH Botvinnik, it cannot excape, while protecting their own champion, purposely trained with people blowing ciga manner that full blast. monarch. Naturally, it is the delightful way in which the rette smoke in his face and the radio playing the board in this attack and de But when you begin to make comments or move about chessmen flash all over with chess learn fense that insures the eternal durability of the royal during a game, you greatly interfere planning. Even if you only play once a week, you game -- 2,000 years, so far. Any public library has all ing and else plays technical jargon and tries to con Get can be a terrific player if you will only take yourself Everybody the beginner rules to get you started. Get going. fuse or impress the weak fish player. Develop your and use it. It's not hard -- carry your card! seriously. Don't move and don't talk! play by study a library card improvement is totally a own opinions and your own style of chess you are ready to play a game of chess in a (E) Keep in mind that chess another. Naturally, an When chess, not "talent."Geniuses like ing one master game after school, bar, chess club or tournament, there is one matter of interest in chess games are where you should get Bisguier, Koltanowski, R. Burger, Vukce- notated master thing to watch out for, always. This is the phony chess Reshevsky, your advice. example, most men teach women just vich, Tal, Najdorf are all rated below Bobby Fischer, im teacher. For the bril (H) Never tell anyone that you are on a chess so the ladies are able to lose. The ladies are simply because what does not come easily to that your next door enough does not come at all. provement course! The last thing supposed to be impressed by the fact that the gentle liant natural chess master often to know is specific details of a chess games around the clock. chess opponent needs men know the rules of chess. Nonsense. Chess is a Fischer works on master that took a pathetic chess beginner in Louisiana to is interested in chess at all times. plan very easy game to learn to play, and improvement He is a master's chess rating at 17, in addition to scoring teach their children to If you are very interested in chess as a hobby, you also rapidly possible. Parents a against grandmasters. Believe me*, your next door can easily become an expert (2,000), probably even pe beat them, etc., etc. won the world chess neighborhood chess champion will know something phony chess teacher wins game after game from master (2,200). If genius or talent when he starts losing The little hollow after the 14th straight vie culiar is going on at your house beginner -- you -- with only trivial explanation as to 'lucky" sounds a you-the-weakie! the world title and held it forever 20 in a row against what is happening: "See, you didn't watch out for that would have won is golden. Make sure you receive all thost bis Alekhine, Fischer and others. Interest wins! Silence dastardly knight ... Oops! ... Here comes my evil against gift points from opponents who expect you to lose as be ... Zoom! ..." The poor be (F) The only thing that a chess student sould study, hop to rip off your rook chess games, fore, you "fish." And remember that "I sure was lucky" such helpful advice as "You're dead until he is an expert, is complete master 14th straight victory ginner receives on the chess opening, chess sounds a little hollow after the now. Give up. But never mind, there was nothing you period. Never study books who called you a silly kid chess end-game. Only the study of com against Mr. Frank Chavez, could do anyway, after I won your queen, knight, rooks middle-game, to beat a monkey, much less a human plete master games are worth your very valuable time. with no possibility and both bishops." being. Wake up. Play as well as you possibly can and do you do? What you Feed your mind prime beef, not garbage! Master chess Oh. You are helpless. So what play say nothing. Become a dreamy hustler rather than Beginner to Expert miracle-whip games are the basis of all improvement. You can at you, even do is adopt the Acers for 50 years and a hustler's dream. Shhhh! I'm not laughing program, of course. Meanwhile, I will be making your local "strong chessplayer" crowd chess an advantage in material, if everyone else is. my living off your phony chess teacher, or someone never learn how to transfer single game that you play. Never the opening to the middle-game, (I) Record every like Ziad Baroudi will come along for a "few lessons" space or time from chess. If chess is important enough to be ex to checkmate with knight and bishop play speed from him, leaving the phony chess teacher rather up much less how plored, it is important enough to be explored carefully. set. I've seen it a hundred times. Don't be fooled by the against king. You must be able to see why game between two grand Mechanical thought is out. phony chess teacher. Thus, you go over a chess explore why you defeated the dastardly Robert J. Fischer and Samuel Reshev you lost or A simple chess program will make you a first-rate masters named knave, how he could have put up more resistance, etc. giving up your profession or fri sky in a US Championship. Yousayto yourself, "Well, played chess player without a To do this, you should record every single move can be mastered as a hobby. The follow here is Fischer winning a pawn from Reshevsky with system. Children ends. Chess advantage, but with the quick international algebraic point-by-point chess program was devised in a book opening trap. It looks like a great ing like crazy in the middle- learn it in 45 seconds flat. Greenville, Mississippi bus station by a teenager(me) here is Reshevsky fighting note what chess piece is moving and what and Fischer is carefully holding his pawn plus, You just to guarantee that I would improve and reach the strong game square it moves to! You'll work out your own abbrevi playing strength without 'starving to death winning at long last in the end-game," You "remind est possible transitional. You can ations to make every move clear as you go along. For tournaments. your mind" that all advantages are every square has one in US Chess Federation you like, but you still must the time being, just observe that I had just been crushed in a weekend chess tourna know all the opening traps Children learn it easily, instantly. Reshevsky in the middle-game and get your brains and only one name. ment and was crying. I organized my plan to make face Thus, the "X" is on the square g7, the "Y" is at b3, would stop picking on me at flattened if you do not understand what is going on. certain that the big guys but then, the "Z" is d8. Where is "A", "B", "C"? You figure Here is the program in its final form with You can study chess end-games for years, the beach. never get out ofthe chess it out. See? out the mistakes, the agony of learning the hard way. but then, of course, you will opening alive. See what I mean? Study only complete Black's side Chess Program master games. Ninety per cent of all chess learning is s Miracle-Whip would ever to Make You a Chess Expert subconscious and will occur faster than you believe, if you simply place one master game after collection of (A) Play every single chess^game until checkmate. another before your mind. The greatest a draw, etc. Playlmtil there is master chess games ever published for the student Never resign or offer by matter how horrible your position on chess player is "Logical Chess, Move by Move" no play left, no More about it the chessboard. This is because the mind absorbs Irving Chernev. The book is a miracle. vertical and diagonal motion ofthe chess later. horizontal, the advice of "strong" players who pieces and learns to work with the chess pieces in this (G) Ignore totally it happens we beating you! They want you to stay weak so that fashion. Visualizing every move just before play. is played, is precisely you'll lose again. Ignore opinions about your chess or being surprised as amove care of itself when picks up the mechanics ofthe Ignore your chess rating. It will take how the mind quickly You'll acquire that under men. Never surrender. I should mention that be you develop understanding. chess all the advice you'll ever need from the cause of this maxim I have saved hundreds of games standing and complete games ofthe great chess masters. Why take that I would have otherwise lost. when you can get the best at (B) Be prepared to lose a few chess games! If Bobby advice from the locals f g h rated player of all time, has been your local public library? Fischer, the highest who always give care White's side smashed, crushed, pulverized so many times The only strong chess masters beaten, the weaker player are Spassky, that he cannot recount the number of his losses, then ful, unbiased advice to (White's right-hand corner is always hi, his left-hand in Salt Lake City, Gligoric, Fischer, Robert Burger, Karl Burger, Keres, is alwaysa8, his you can afford to lose a few games Bisguier, corner al. Black's right-hand corner Iowa. It is not whether you win or Tal, Lombardy, Evans, Addison, Zucherman, Utah or Waterloo, Tal, Soltis and Hall. left-hand corner h8.) lose, but how much you understand about the game. Larsen Mednis, Grefe, Browne, SEPT. 6-12, 1974, BERKELEY BARB, PAGE 17 that we are better players with Black than Using this blitz notation, with which about 95 per down the board center and even when you go to the wa We both feel and ter cooler. White! cent of all chess games are recorded, I once wrote understand what is one minute and 20 seconds on the What are you going to do when you must play pre For beginners who do not quite played 40 moves in by "open" or "gambit" chess play: "Get all of chess clock. No other chess notation even approaches cisely to even draw against Bobby Fischer, while he is meant about your tie, your suit, your chess army out toward board center as quickly as it in brevity or accuracy. Make sure you use it to re simultaneously complaining Se a record of the way you keep score, the creaking chair you're pur possible without giving chessmen away for free!" cord all of your games quickly. You need that feature nothing but di they will be a precious keepsake some posely squeaking too loudly? Think about it. To be bet lect master chess games your games, and rect and rapid development to board center. The games day. ter tomorrow, you must strive for accuracy with every today. of Mikhail Tal, Robert Fischer, Paul Morphy and Henry One other tip, recommended by Soviet grandmaster game this ingredient. Be intended move on your you have a rook and king versus your opponent's Nelson Pillsbury are famous for Alexander Kotov. Write your If me, your next door neighbors are doomed. All scorepad before you play it on the chessboard. This lone king, don't insist that your "dumb bunny" opponent lieve moves or less. closed or "waiting" positional chess games become gives you more serious time to consider it before your give up. Try to checkmate him in 17 when more than likely find that it's you who is the in "open," and you must know what is happening king gets stabbed. Very helpful. You can always change You'll "gambit" play teaches you like. It drives Fis- efficient dumb bunny, and you'll find it out in the most things get hot. "Open" or your mind and erase the move if you about tactics. cher crazy when MikhailTal and Tigran Petrosian re pleasant way possible by winning a "won" game. everything cord and then change their minds. So it must be a good Now, really, if you have a king, knightand bishop and thing to do! Bobby Fischer has only a king, can you really check- (M) Never play in chess tournaments that feature No matter what means you use to keep a record of make the world champion in 34 moves or less? If Fis more than one game a day. They are a big waste of chess games, you will be able to go over all your games cher makes it so difficult(andhewill) that you blunder time; there must be many better things to do with your and reviewing them move-by-move later, you will dis for 50 moves, he will obtain a draw and you will then life. Here chess clubs are an enormous boon. Many cover that 90 per cent of all chess players that you jump out of a twenty storey window. Prepare today, to chess clubs hold tournaments with but one game a week meet, simply do not know what they are doing, even prevent jumping tomorrow. Try to play very accurately to be played! It is here that a professional person with though they are beating you! You will be learning while against every chess opponent. It really pays and every little spare time can develop tremendous playing they remain at the same mechanical playing level long game then becomes chess training. strength by playing only a few chess games a year, about after you've become a chess expert. (K) Play clocked chess games whenever possible. A 50 clocked games. A famous example was Dr. Walter R. For heaven's sake, do not tell your opponent that he clocked chess game is a two clocked affair. Each side Lovegrove of San Francisco, who defeated world cham does not know what he is doing or even what is going on. thinks with his clock running, makes his move and pion Emanuel Lasker by one win, one draw and no los- Chess is an ego game. The player might stab you or punches the clock, which stops his clock and starts his sess in a clocked exhibition match at the turn of the break the chess board over your head. At the very least, opponent's, automatically. Usually, each side has two century. this causes more thrown chessmen and broken pawns hours to make 40 moves. You may take all the time you Those weekly clocked playing sessions begin to add than any other action, save defeating a chess player. wish for one move, but then you must hurry to make up after a year or two of playing. Your play becomes When faced with certain checkmate or being forced to your remaining moves before two hours expires. Then solid as granite and nobody can deceive you, because resign, even a grandmaster can really lose control. the automatic flag drops, when you lose by time forfiet. you know just about how the battle is going. Clocked, Thus, world champion Alexander Alekhine could not After making the required moves you either continue one-game-a-day chess games are the razor's edge and resist hurling his king a city block across the amphi play with a new time control or you adjourn the game. the real thing. Play them and you will never be sorry. theater when faced with loss to Germany's Fritz Sae- Clocked chess encourages serious chess thinking and (A chess match against one player does the same thing. misch. The dazed and terrified Saemisch squeaked out a can be officially rated by the United States Chess Fed I played more than 40 such matches from 1961 to 1970.) nervous, "Does that mean you resign, Herr Alekhine?" eration. To become an expert, you must obtain 2,000 The very best one-round-per-day chess tournament No reply from the speedily exiting world chess cham rating units. Master is 2,200. An average rating is is the USCF's United States Open, which is usually held pion. The king was smashed to smithereens, accord about 1,700, but don't worry. You won't be there long. during August each year. It's a huge, exciting, crazy ing to the late Hans Kmoch. You are on the miracle-whip chess course! tournament that provides a large amount of chess edu Famous hypermodern chess theoretician and grand Chess clubs are the best places to play rated, clock cation and is a visual treat for chess buffs everywhere. master Aaron Nimzovich repreatedly threw the chess ed chess games. Clubs are absolutely everywhere in Highly recommended for both players and spectators. board over, hurled chess pieces into the airand leaped the world. Since Fischer won the world chess cham Just write the USCF (address above)for all the de atop the chess talble screaming deliriously, "My God, pionship in 1972, several thousand chess clubs have tails of how you too can watch the fun and bedlam. Many why must I lose to this idiot? Why? Why?" It created been opened worldwide. Hundreds are registered with of the world's strongest masters play in this tourna quite a sensation on the usually quiet international the United States Chess Federation, 479 Broadway, ment. The biggies to watch for are Browne, Larsen, tournament circuit. If you were a spectator, you posi Newburgh, New York 12550. Send them a postcard and Gligoric, Lambardy, Kavaiek, Reshevsky, Bisguier, Ro tively prayed that Nimzovich would lose. ask where to play chess in your state, city or town. bert Byrne, Pal Benko and Koltanowski. They are all The most famous American resignation routine is that They know everybody and will also send you a free sam killers and guys you would love to have along if you of Robert E. Burger, the San Francisco problemistand ple copy of "Chess Life & Review," the number one were holding up Fort Knox. A must for you on vacation. master player. It is legendary, but, unfortunately, I have selling chess magazine in the world. It is chock full of not been privileged to witness the act very often. When annotated master games, which is also what you are the end is absolutely certain, Mr. Burger clutches at looking for. (N) Read the four classic chess books for the student. his chair, slowly ... slowly rises and places his hand Incidentally, Fischer's world championship ga m e s They are little-known volumes which are easily avail above his heart. He begins to shake his head groggily, are played at 40 moves in two and one half hours. This able inpaperbackfor less than$10total. They are easy whispering with ever increasing volume, "I have been may seem like a long time for 40moves, but that's be to read and the profit your chess play will realize is stabbed with a spear. Yes, yes, I have been pierced cause you don't have to play Boris Spassky with the difficult to believe. They are all written by chess writ with a spear!" It is just classic. One opponent was con world title and the Hilton Hotel corporation's $1,400,- ers who really want to help you learn about chess. They sidering offering a draw and saw Burger begin the act. 000 cash-in-the-bank offer at stake! write with enthusiasm and much entertainment. "I kept quiet!" The US Chess Federation will supply you with infor Run, don't walk, to yournearestbooksellerorlibrary (J) You must try to play very accurately when it does mation on how to easily get a chess rating. Write them to obtain the powerhouse library of chess students. Mas not matter, so that you will be able to play very accu now! tery of this material will make you a chess expert. Take rately when it does matter. (L) Play only "open" and "gambit" chess as both apart the first three volumes three times before you are If you are winning by a queen and two rooks against a attacker and defender at the chessboard. This way you buried. The last one should be used for reference. long king, don't laugh at your chess opponent and call will learn quickly how to get each chess piece out like I should mention that I have received hundreds of him a dumb bunny. Now is not the time to relax or be a machine gun and where each man operates with great thank-you letters and phone calls as a result of my bored. Pretend the game is so close that you must real est power. It is very interesting and most enjoyable to publicizing these four chess works via my appearances. ly try to checkmate your opponent in the minimum defeat the local chess club king with the Smith Gambit, Many people have them on their bookshelves, but never number of moves possible, with elegant accuracy. It King's Bishop's Opening. It is even more enjoyable to open the covers to find out what is inside. Once you do, will be too late ten years from now when you are face- defend as Black with the Ruy Lopez or PetrofPs De you can't put them down! They are all you need to enjoy to-face with Sabu the slabber of India or when Bobby fense (Yea!!) and emerge unscathed. I've scored more and learn chess. The price is right and the must-read Fischer is attacking you on the king side, queen.side, times against grandmasters as Black. So has Browne. chess volumes are: book. In "New'York, Zuckerman the Book Two Fine in this classic o o by blade has used the oldest possible variations and dis Logical Chess The Complete Chessplayer the strongest players do not know the by Fred Reinfeld covered even classic master games. Many chess players read this (Crest, about $1, paperback) ^^Astx This wonderful manual gives a series of helpful rues book "blindfolded." Un^^Mr'chernev about the opening, middle-game, end-game and illu Book Four to ate strates them beautifully with numerous examples trom Chess Openings: Theory and Practice ; res master play. A small selection of master games in the I AS Horowitz and a team of chess analysts less student ner, weakieweaVXed "by world famous chess, m befor£ appendix is also truly outstanding. A notable work of headed by former world champion Max Euwe by and entertaining chess instruction from the (Simon and Schuster, about $4, paperback) blov concise eb '"""r that vou've reau ^-~ very prolific and erratic chess author, Reinfeld. You will want to use this book as reference for the -^^^-^"H^sr's;you discover thatjo^ what, s so By the way, all the chess rules, i.e., how the chess tew openings you choose to play as White and Black It pieces move, explanation of castling, the "en passant is an amazing encyclopedia of chess theory 1851-1964 pawn capture, etc., are given in the foreword. Unbe- and explains each opening before giving the praxis lines a com- i He*able bargain atabuck. You'll have to steal ,t soon, Mr Horowitz uses any excuse, every nook and cranny of space to jam ,n hundreds of immortal chess games so get it while you can. by masters It is the best game collection that I have Book Three ever seen If Horowitz could have gotten away with it Ideas Behind The Chess Openings bmdfng masterpieces sewn into the book- by grandmaster Rueben Fine (Tartan paperback, about $2) If you take the Jude Acers road tour chess librarv n Reuben Fine was one of the strongest masters in tShJ aS M-' 2, dufflebags Qf chess tx)oks in five languages the world's largest protable chess library) you win not chess history. A grandmaster killer in the 1930's, Fine . ' Hol co-won the strongest tournament ever held (AVRO, in land, 1938) with Paul Keres, ahead of such weakies as OOpenings: Theory and Practice." Here is a Alekhine, Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker, Reshevsky, or ' r ? 'T' ^ Chess masters lon^ ^ad! HliSii^'iil^K8^' Euwe and Flohr! £,ff rain);, day' and a Se