JANUARY 1961
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cription lot• . YEAR $6.00 1 White to move and win 2 Olack to move and will This is precisely an in The main chance can ('bme ON·THE·SPOT TACTICS stance in point. Black, YOU1' in any of many ways, Some· YOIl may sit and build up patiently to a planned climax editor, was napping. \Vhite, times, it permits a simple. at it sacrificial finish. Or you may contl'ive traps of a Jack Pinneo, clinched his positional sort of win, -It fiendish natm'e into which yOll), opponent blunders, nut a grip on the Long ISland Am. certainly does not Ira ve to· ateu]' Championsllip with his OJ' Yery good part of your wins, tartLal wins, will fal! into involve u· 'sacrifice, .sham next move. He might have real. Second thongJlts on YOl1l' lap, by accident as it were --- that is, if you stay alert been hoping fOl' this posi· this example Jllay suggest and spot your opportunity. Call your shot on each or the tion; but the chances al'e that Black 'plotted it out. following positions. Score YOllrself excellent fol' ten con'eel "it just cnme lip." Win it. Not necessarily, though_ solutions: good for eight; fair for six. Solutions on page 25. Anyhow, how does· he win?
3 White to move and win 4 Black to move and win 5 White to m::>vc Qnd w in 6 Black to move and w in What may be called the Returning to a !"\!lIiliar Here again, oae Inay well It is often the cllse that executive moves - captures theme, "Black is a Pawll be, suspect that White had p!:e · a player ne~ds only H hint and checl!:s mainly and also, hind here! what can he do mapped his win. At least. t h~ that this is the moment to to be sure, stark threats of to redeem it?" Yon CHn. of combination Is neat; and, Oil look for the win. With his mate or of capture of major course, go into calClllntious the other hand, White is in tournllmeni clock tlcldng, pieces, are what we mean - of positional pros ami COilS, too much of a hole (without with his Queen under attacl, they must all be examined The payoff, ho\\"e\-er, as [01' his combinational resource) and with a feeling that he at each turn to play - or an any Quiz problem, is olle of for this all to have been for· ought to increase the ten· opportunity may be thrown tactical considerations. Can tuitous, Still, the win reo sion and so maybe regain his to the winds. White can se· you see how Black can at Quires tactical alertness. Pawn, Black may not l' e nli~e cure a win here, How? least redeem his material? LoOI;: a live there! now's the time. Is it '!
7 White to move and win 8 Black to move and win 9 White to m:>ve and win "10 81ack to move and win It may be sare, even ped Any fool can plainly see White might consider this Offhand, olle migilt say agogically, to abstain from here that Black is ill real something of a fnsc\n:ttinc: that White has the "better all preaching here on the danger. :Mate lUay impend in Pawn race if the ,-,itl1",tlO:1 King position" IW1·e. He lIeed to be alert. Anyone, several ways; two, anyway. wel'e not so overweighted fcr probab!r has at that [or the who lIeeds to be told that And yet mack dare not re Dlack, piecewise and threat, end·game - or if he gets to for a position with pieces move that Knight which has wise. Hold on a bit, though; ·an end·gnm8; So. as if you so strewn around, doesn't so great a part in the play. the proposition is for White di(\n't kno\\" , it is a (lU eS lion need to be told more on Desides, Olack is mntel'ially to move and win! Could we of the moment, tilis very mo· alel'tness, He just needs to behind. ] ... QxN 2 B- Q3 is have the color \Hong? No. ment, of how does Bla('k win be told, ".!'.loron!" Now cracl;: merely seconu best for It is White to win. This has instanter. How does he? om a win, White! Hopeless - or is it? to be tl1cky, See it?
• CH 55 WHAT IS CHESS? The editors of the newspaper Nelles Mikhail Tahl: Chess first of all is art. Deutschland posed the following question How else can its tremendous force of at· VIEW to World Chess Champion !lIikhail Tahl. traction be explained? Why is it that 'HI ,.,efURf eHUS AlAOAZ'H' as well as to the ex.champions Max Euwe, millions of people play chess, thousands Volume 29 Number 1 January. 1961 Mikhail Botvinnik and Vassily Smyslov, regularly attend tournaments, hundreds EDITED & PUBLISHED BY I, A. Horowitz who were at the chess olympiad in Leip. of thousands study chess theory and play zig: "What is chess - a sport, art or over the games of the strongest masters? TABLE OF CONTENTS science?"' We present here the answers The only explanation. as I see it, is the FEATURES of the four eminent grandmasters. colo~sal aesthetic influence that this game Page exerts. Game of the Month...... 8 Dr. Max Euwe: Emmanuel Lasker • • • North Central Open ...... 2 At the same time the editors of Neues The Real Story ...... 19 used to say that "Chess is a struggle." I fully agree with him. Lasker believed, Deutschland asked the fou r grandmasters DEPARTMENTS another question: "Do you intend to vie Chess Caviar ...... 16, 25 and I think he was right, that the strug· gle on the 64 squares, the sport over the for the world chess crown in the near Chess Club Directory ...... 12 future?" Chess Vignettes ...... •.. ...• •....•. 5 chess board. can be studied and ad· Finishing Touch ...... 17 vanced on a scientific basis. Dr. Max Euwe: No. Firstly, because Games from Recent Events ••...••.. 26 The aesthetic side, in my opinion, takes I do not play sufficiently strongly. Sec· Past Masterpieces ...... 25 place mostly in chess studies. Individual ondly, hecause r have nu free time. Postal Chess •...•.....••....•...••. 20 games played at tournaments may also Probiemart ...... 14 be considered from the point of view of Readers' Games ...... ••. . ••. . 13 Mikhail Bowillnik: In 1961, I will be aesthetics, but one gets such an oppor· Solitaire Chess ...... 7 able to give an exhaustive answer to this t unity not too often. I think that it is Spotlight on Openings ...... 10 question. Tournament Calendar ...... 4 impossible to consider every position from World of Chess ...... 3 the point of view of art. Vassily Smyslov: I am not goin g to The main object in the game of chess EDITOR give up the struggle for the world title. r. A. Horowitz remains the achievement of victory. This I will do the utmost to gain the right once EXECUTIVE EDITOR determines it as a sport. If any person JIi.(·k Straley Batten more in the qualifying tournaments for CONTRIBUTING EDITORS were to make a weak move with the sole a match with the world champion. A. n. Uil;guler, I. Chernev. J. '.V. Collins, object of setting up a beautiful position, T . A. Dunst. Dr. lI-f. Euwe. Hans Kmoch. anyone would tell you that this is a bad Mikhail Tahl: The return match with W. Korn, Fred Reinfeld. CORRESPONDENTS move. Botvinnik will take place in 1961, and Alabama E. M. Cockrell. I am certain that this will be a very tense AlaSKa S. H. O·Neill. dueL I don't want to say that it will be Callfornl~ Dr. H. Ralston. M. J. Royer. Mikhail Botvinnik: Recently my book Colorado J. J. Reid. The 1958 Botvinnik-Smyslov Return keener than this year, since there was Co.1necticut Edmund E. Hand. extreme tension in the struggle that took District of Columbia R. S. Cantwell. Match for the World Title came off the place in this match. But Botvinnik will Florida R. C. Eastwood. press. I dealt in detail on this question Georgia Braswell Deen. try to play better than in our first match, Ida ho R. S. Vandenbe'·g. at the end of it. My point of view boils while 1 in turn will do my best to improve Illinois J. G. Warren. down to the following: chess is first of Indi~na D. C. Hills, D. E. Rhead. my play. Iowa J . M. Osneas. all a game. But, if any succeeds in KentUcky J. W. Mayer. producing a game which keeps on living Kanus K. H. MacDonald. Louisiana A. L. McAuley. and is played over and over again for Maine L. I-;Idridge. many years, chess becomes an art. Maryland Charles Barasch. Massachusetts Franklin J. Sanborn. I do not consider chess a science. But Michi oan R. Buskager. it also has an element of science in it Minnesota R. C. Gove. Mississippi E. A. Durning. without which it is impossible to play Missouri E . A, Talley. chess really well. However, this element Nebraska E. E. Ellsworth, Jack Spence, plays after all, only a secondary role. R. E. Weare. Nevada R. L. Wheeler. New Hampshire Ralph lI-f. Gerth. New York Edward Lasker. H. M. Phillips. Vassily Smyslov: I consider chess an North CarOlina Dr. S. Noblin. art. My father was a musician and a North Dakota D. C. IHacdonald. strong chess player. He was extremely Ohio R. B . Hayes. J. R. Schroeder. Pennsylv"nia 'William R. Hamilton, Lee B. proud when he once managed to win a Hoover. game from Alekhine. He taught me to South Carolina Prof. L. L. I'·oster. South Dakota M. F. Anderson. play chess at the age of seven. I grew Tenne$See Mrs. Martha Hardt. J. G. flulli_ up in an atmosphere filled with music van. J r. Texas I"rank R. Graves, Homer H. Hyde. and chess. And to this very day my life Utah Hsrold Lundstrom. is dedicated to both of these forms of art. Virginia Leonard Morga.n. w est Virginia C. Pride. Wisconsin E. Olfe. monthly by Subscription Rates: One year $6.00, two Wyoming E. F. Rohlf(. 72<1 Street, years $11.00. three years $15.75, world-wide. Collegiate ;\1. D. Treblow. U. S. A. Re Change ot Address: Four weeks' notice re Quired. Please furnish an address stencil CANADA M ._.matter August . 7. Alberta Percy Connell. , at the Im pression from the wrapper of a recent Brltish . Columbia Dr. N. Dlvlnsky. :;;~'b" New York, N, Y., issue. Address changes cannot be made with· Man itoba M. Stover. the Act :" 3. 1879. out the old address as well as the new one. Ontario R. D. Ja.cques. General Offices: 134 West 7M Street, Ne$ unsolicited manuscrIpts and photogr~phs Quebec M. Moss. York 23, N. Y. Sales Department ODCn will not be returned unless accompanIed by Saskatchewan Frank Yerhoft, dally 9 to I> p. m. - Saturdays from return postage and .elt·addressed envelope. CUBA: E. Berger. 2 to S P. m. Telephone: Lyceum 5_1620. Distributed nationally by Eastern News. CHESS REVIEW, JANUARY, 1961 1 NORTH CENTRAL OPEN R a~' mon d ,'reinstein, 19 )'car old stu ard Verber of Chicago. dent of the College of the Cil Y of i\ew York. carried off the North Central Open The tie·hreak scoring ran: 1 Weinstein title for J960. Bul the t0UrllIlLll c n t. wa ~ 11. (Brookl yn, ~ . Y.) 6.0272; 2 Szedlecsek real "cliff-hunger" as the nUl come was nn· 6.0262 : 3 Faube r 6.02.'H ; 4 Be rliner gucssublc to the last and ended in II. 5.5237 ; 5 Brasket 5.5230; 6 Ott eson three.way lie. Wei nstein. La- jos Szedlec. 5.0215; 7 Chauvene t 5.0210; 8 Cohen scI.: of Cleveland, Ohio, and Richard Fau 5.0197; 9 Ki rby 5.0195: 10 Pov ilas Taut ber of Madison, Wiscons in, each tall ied vaisas (Chicago, Ill.) 5.0190; II Fred live victories and two d raws, a nd Wein Zarse (Milwaukee) 5.0185; 12 Michael stein won narrowly on the tie·break for Robinson (Chicago) 5.0182; Claudc HiI the title. (The prize muney was divided lin ger (Chicago) 5.0181; 14 Henry Mei. evenly among the three.) fert (Milwaukee) 5.0180; 15 Semb 5.01 70. 1 Ray Weinstein has been J unior Cham Portor-oz, 1958 pion of the United Slales, has played ill Hel."to r Rosse tto. It a ll pea rs. has neVel' the regular (sen ior ) U. S. Championship I'eeeived d ue recog nition ror his reat twice and, iiS a rated Senio r Master, IS I n the following game from the Inter. agai n to compete in the present U. S. zonal Tournllme nt. T he game meanders Championshi p (under way as we go to a bit In seeming but Is ca ll ped by II press ). He has represent ed the United notable sac rif!citll combina tion. States twice in the past year, on th e Champion Roy RETI O PE NING U. S. Student Team wh ich won th e world Hector Rossetto Rudotfo Ca rdoso title a nd also on the U. S. Team which 5ze(l1 acsek and with Brasket, the former Argent ina Philippines Illaced second in the Interna tional Team in the fourth round, the la tter in the 1 P-QB4 P- QB4 20 P-84 N / 4_Q2 Championship ("Chess Olymlliade"). final round with the title hanging in the 2 N-QB3 N_ K83 2 1 K R-K l P- RS Lajos Szedlaczek is a Hungarian emi. balance. So far as we can reconstruct the 3 P_ KN3 P- K N3 22 Q- 8 2 p )(p 4 B_N2 grant , now residing in Cleveland. He has scores fo r that round, Brasket had a B_ N 2 23 p)(p Q- N 2 5 P- Q3 N- B3 not played in the country long enou gh chanCi: for at least pa rt of the title if he 24 R- QNl R_ R l 6 B-N 5 P- 'QR3 25 B_QBl KR_ N l for us to know very much about him. B ut won, Ray could not be sure of winning 7 N_B3 QR_ Nl 26 N- Q5 B)(N he did win the "Lake E rie Open" a couple outright if he took that last game. Ac. 8 0 -0 P- N4 27 KP)(P N-B l of mo nths ago. cordi ng to the J\'lilwaukee JoumaJ, the 9 P- N 3 0 - 0 28 P- KN4 R_R2 Richard Fa uber, it says in our account gallIe was Il lared carefully a nd of course 10 R-B1 P- Q3 29 B- B3 R/ I_R l from ~ 'l i l wau kee, proved himself by all toa dra w. 11 Q-Q2 R_ K l 30 K _N3 R_ R7 odds the surprise player of the tou rna· S7.edlacsek's other dra w wa.s wi th Ber· 12 B-R6 B_R l 31 Q-Q3 R/ l - R2 ment. Hitherto, a Cla.ss A playe r, he liner. But we don't have the names of 13 P-K R3 B- 0 2 32 B_Q2 Q- B2 p,p carne in thi rd on the tie- break system, th ose wholll he defeated, nor any of Fau 14 N-KR4 33 B- B3 P- K 3 15 QP)(p P_ R4 34 p )(p p)(p fin ishing ahead of no less than SIX ber's opponents. But Berliner's other 15 K_R2 N- K4 35 R-K3 N_Kl mastel's! draws were with Sam Cohen a nd Angelo 17 B_N5 Q-Bl 36 R/ l _Kl B)(B Fourth Iliace went to Hans Berliner, an Sand rin. And Brusket, the defending 18 P_K4 8 - N 2 37 Q)(8 N_N2 other who as Senior MasH:r, is now play eluunpion, actually sta rted with a n upset B-K 3 8 -83 38 8-N2 P_ N4 ing in the U_ S. Olampioll sh ip. Hans is loss to Ha rry Mayer of Chicago but foughl " 39 p )( p N_Q2 fronl Colorado Springs, the M ilwllllkee re th rough with no other dents in his record port sa ys. We have his IIddress as Little· till that fi nal dra w ended hi s bid to re ton , but, in any case, it is Colorado. He tain the title. As the Milwaukee s),stem was the only out·of·stater to win the New is to give scores which refl ect the tie. York state ch ampionship (in 1953 when break as well as glillle·poi nt totals, it is he was a resident of Washington, D. C., li S well to say here that Be rliner a nd. but a Inember of the Marshall Chess Club Braskel scored 5¥l.1'h each. of New York) . T he tourn ament held in the Schroeder Curt Busket, a Maste r and the defend Hotel of Milwaukee ma rked the seventh ing North Central O pen champion, placed annual occasion of this event, a T hanks fifth. He is listed liS from St. Paul, giv in g weekend. feat ure in the extensive Minnesota. cli (."!!s program of that city. Ninety·two It is curious that all of Weinstein's pl ayers pa rticipated thi s time. Berliner, 40 S-QS !! . . . . victims we re Chicagoa ns ; Peter K neip, of course, cli me from as fa t west as Colo. This is a fl as hy sacrifice. to be sure. Donald Hallma n, Salll Cohen, Angelo Sa n rado, and players eame from a.s far soUl h n real c rowd-pleAser. It can be said in d rin and Robion K irby. Hc d rew willi as. Nort h Ca rolina a nd as far north as disparagemellt that. once the general h.1ea Is perceived. It is easy to check off T hule Ai r Base in G re en la nd ( that last the detail s and varia tions. But to per. ON THE COVER sounds like a record). celve the idea at all deserves encomium.s. \Ve have chosen the photo fo l' Oll l' Ten players, topped by .l\Iilton Otteson cover this month sin ce It seems aptly Who would think to llut the Bishop en of Minneapolis, Minnesot a and Hussell symbolic of a. new move fo r the New pri se - with objec tive of sacriflclng the Yea l·. Actually. it is a s hot taken Cor Chauve net of Silver Springs, Ma ryland, Queen? the ~liI waukee Sentinel during the NOI·th scored five points to gain shares of the 40 . . . . P,B 44 R)( N t K,P CenU'al Ol)en. It was recommended to $800 I) rize fund. Melvin 5emb of W inona, 41 Q)(N f! K, Q 45 R/ l_K6 R- N7t us as highly a pplauded itl Milwaukee Min nesota, took the Class A prize, and 42 N-BSt K-N 3 46 K )( R Q-Ql and a t the tournament a nd is run with j\{ichael Garner of Chicago, the Class O. 43 R-K6t N -B3 47 N_ K 7 Resigns llermi.ssion of the S entine l. T he j unior title and prize went to Rich· t = check : t = db!. check; § = d l ~ . ch. 2 CHESS REVIEW , JANUARY, \ 1161 CHESS Vol. 29, No.1 REVIEW JANUARY, 1961
INTERNATIONAL On the Comeback Trail Botvinnik has decided to ava il himself of his right to a return mutch with Tahl for the world championship. The en · counter will take place in Moscow next spnng. See photo at right.
Hard Fight After losing to England by 4%-5% in the first round of a double round match, the Dutch asserted themselves in the sec· ond session with 11 6·4 tally and thus emerged victorious with a thin LOlh·9% margin. It was Holland's fifth straight win in the seric.s, the overall score of which now siano;; at scven wins for Hoi· land, three for England, and two ties. J. H. Donner of Holland drew twice with J. Penrose, British champiun, on first board, wh ile J. T. Barendregt and C. B. ts This Tense Scene to be Repeated? Van Den Berg scored 2·0 each for Hoi· land. The best showing ror England wao UNITED STATES breaking points. Forty.eight players took made on last hoard hy 1. Littlewood, 2·0. part. Midwest Communiques A "First" for Para9uay Lieut. Colonel Edmund Czapski placed Utah Trounces Idaho Svctozar Gligorich Yugoslavia and of ahead of a 40 player field to win the an· In a match between Utah and Idaho, the Laszlo Szabo of Hungary tied at 10·2 for nual Midwest Open held at the Lincoln former chalked up an impressive 18·9 trio top honors in an international tournament Air Force Base in Nehraska. Tied at 5·1 um ph during the course of which Utah at Asuncion, Paraguay. H. Rossetto of with Czapski but relegated to second and swepl the first thirteen boards. Victors Argentina was third with and Le· 9·3 R. third positions by tie· breaking totals were for Utah were the following: Farrell telier of Chili was fourth with 8112.31,.:2 . Walter Grombacher and Mohammed Mil" Clark, Gaston Chappuis, Richard Heilbut, This was the first "major league" eontest soom. Czapski not only won the open Richard Owen, C. A. Williamson, David in Paraguay, whose capital and largest event hut also was declared Nebraska Eli ason, Jim Fisher, Stanley Hunt, Ben J. city, Asuneion, has population of more a titleholder. Peterson, Charles Metzelaar, L. J . Jacob· than 200,000. sen, George Van Komen, H. Snyder, Ar· The Midwest Open Women's champion. nold Lieberman, Honald Johnson, Mark ship was gained by Maria Cha])man, while Toward the Women's Title Pe1erson, Bruce Despain and Scolt Zim· the Midwest speed title went to Charle.~ A Western Zone meet for wumen'" merman. The somewhat informal arrange· Weldon. world championshi p aspi rants resulted in ments permitted a few Idaho players 10 a triple tie at 71,.:2.4Y2 by H. Ax! and F. In the Carolinas engage in more than one match game, 50 Rinder, both of West Germany, and M. lhat John Anderegg accollnted for two of The Two Carolinas Open Championship Lazarevich of Yugoslavia. This trio has Idaho's eigh1 wins and Edward Breiter now qualified for the interzonal women's was won by youthful Carl Dover, 5Y.:J·Vz. for three. The remaining four Idaho Runner.up with 5·1 was Glen E. Hartleb, tournament to be held next spring at Mat' points were scored hy Bill Hunter, Gary followed by five others each. del P lata, Argentin a. with 4Y.:J .P/z Lcavill, Don Walker an{l Glen Peck. Comin9 International Team Play Ra9an Repeats The next International Team Tourna· At Kansas City, i\Iissouri, the Heart of ment, scheduled for 1962, will be organ. America Open was captured again by ir.ed at Sofia by the Bulgarian Chess Fed· John V. Ragan with a 5l/z..lh seorc, fol· eration. The Israeli Chess Federation is lowed by John Allen, 5·1. Dan Allen, reported as hoping to hold this event W. Schaetzle and J. R. Beilling, each in 1964. 4Y2.Ph, finished third to fifth on tie· CHESS REVtEW, JANUARY" 1961 3 The Record-Maker Georgc Koltanowski brokc his ow n world rccord for successfully taking on the largest number of opponent s one at a 1ime under conditions in which the inter· national mastcr saw nonc of the boards and committed himself not to exceed a time limit of ten secHnds Iler mOl'e. Dur ing apllroximately eight hours of such play at the Fairmont Hotel in San Fran cisco, Koltanowski chopped down 50 ad· versaries a t an ave ragc rate of onc every seven. minutes, lost to none and dre"' with six. He tOI)ped off his marathon blind· fuld Ilcrformance with a mcmory feal as· sociated with a blindfold " Knight's Tour." S ponsor of lhc e xh ibition was thc San FrIIncisco Chronicle, for which Koltanow· ski writes a chess column. The news· pape r probably hroke another kind of record with it s s plendid coverage of the e" ent, reminiscent of Ihc treatment that nther journals Il sually reserve for a major Vice.Pres. W. N. Wells, T eA (left) hands T exas trophy to K. R. Smith (cf. p. 5) baseball or foothaJi game.
Washington _ January 14 to 15 ALASKA Washington " Open" at Seattle, \Vasil· Shane O' Ncill of Fairbanks ~ u c ce s sfully ington: 6 ltd SS Tlllt, 3 Rd per day, sta rt· defendcd his title against Robert Padd· ing at 9:00 AM Saturday: Ef 84 with 50c furd of Ladd Air Forec Ba~e when he d iscount to \VCF mcmbers ; 50 moves/ clinched a 10 game match ill thc cighth :2 hours : for infm'mation, Fred ;\f. How· session with a 5·3 tally. He has a new ard, 5940 36 Ave nue SW, Seatlle 6, Wash. title, however, now that Alaska is u state. ington. CALIFORNIA Following UI) his victory in the Califor· New York - J anuary 28 to 29 nia Open, Zoltan Kovacs of Los Angeles, " Hornell O pen·' at auditorium of Pub· international maste r who was formerly :I lic Library. Genesec Slrt:et, Hornell, New Hungarian national, added the statc cham. York; 4 Rd S5 Tmt, 50 moves/ 2 hours, pionship to his laurels with the fine score 20/ hour aft erwards to finish: EF $5 flat: of 7·2 represe nt ing five wins and four entries till 9 :50 A '\I , Jan. 28: 55, two or d raws. Runner·up in thc strong 10 man ':OMIN G EVENTS IN THE U . S. AND CANADA more dc pending on ( 100% of) EFs; field was Sven A lmgren, 6V2·2%. I. Ri· Abbrevlatlons-$$ Tmt: Sw1ss System Tour bring d ocks and scls: plar at 10 A~1 and vi se and W. Addison divided third and nament (In lBt round entrle$ pa Ired by lot 7 PM; for information, J vscph Ha rri s, 57 fourth wilh 6·3 each. Kovacs won 8100 or selection ; In subsequent rounds players Bemis Avcnue, Hurndl, New York. with sImilar scores paired). RR T mt: Round and custody of the perpetual trophy. RobIn Tournament (each man plays every other man). KO T mt: Knock·out Tourna DELAWARE ment (losers or low scorers eliminated). Minnesot a _ F ebruary 17 to 19 N: Cash prIzes. EF: Entry tee. CC: Che8ll With a scorc of 4V2-1;2, CHESS HHIEW Minnesota Stat e Chess Tournaments at Club. CF: Chess Federation. CA: Chess AS_ corrcspondcnt i\lilton H. Paul headed thc SOCiation. CI..: Chen Leacue. Rd: rounds. Coffman UniulI Bldg., Unil'. of "finn., li ~ t in a Swiss state title tourney. He was ~[jnneapo] is, .Minnesota: 7 nd SS Tmt: New Jersey - January 13 t o 15 followed by Edward A. Knighl, 4·1 , and Mujor tournamc nt "open", Ef 85 plus "Essex Open" Chess Tournament at th e George Hardman a nd Kenneth It. Sand· user membership: pri1.cS to 1st four, I nde pendent Chess Club, 102 North Ma· le r, each Y~. trollhies for Class A a ll1l B; .\-linor tour· 3%·1 pie Avcnuc. Easl Orange, New Jersey ; 6 nament, EF S2, rcstricted to Class C and IOWA Rd SS Tmt (one of series held 2d \\'I.'ck· unrated playcrs ; for information, Sheldon end each monlh by Independent CC; 1st ]\f. Rien, 690] South Cedar Lake Road, The third annual Thanksgiving 30-30 Bd 8 :15 I'M Friday, Oil Sal, 2 Sunday): 3 l\Iinneapolis 26, :Minnesota. Opcn Tournament, sponsored by thc Ce· EF 85 Illus USCF membership, accept· dar Valley Chess Club at Wate rl oo, was able till 8 I'M Friday; 48 moves/ 2 hours; eapturcd by Kenneth Gra nt of Cedar 12P/2 hnur afterwards; prizes arc me mo Ohio - F ebruary 25 t o 26 Rallids with a 6·0 shutout. Six Iliayers berships in CC from 6 months for Cham· Gem City Ollen at Central YMCA , Day. tied for sccond with a score of 4·2. in· pion, five for second to one month for lon, Ohio: 5 Hd SS Tmt ; 3 nd Sal., 2 c1uding last },cllr's winner, Roger Holler sixth and for each of 1st Expert, 1st A, Sunday; Regisler 8 :30 to 9:30 AM, Feb. of \Vaterloo, and former Iowa co·cham· B, C and unrated; winner has name en· 25 ; SS, 1st is S40 &- S$ for highest Class Iliou, Leo Raterman of Iowa City. There graved on plaquc : for further informa· A, 8, C, Junior and nnrated, &- others de· were 18 eontcstants. tion, Edgar T. .McCormick, addrcss at pendin g on tutal EFs ; EF, 85 plus uscr club. membership (83.50 if receil'o:.-d by Feb. MAINE 22) ; for information (and EF) John Carl Frecman of Newlon Highlllnds, For benefit of our readers, these Item. Jones, 5763 Tombcrg Stro:.-et , Dayton, Massaehusctts, took the second annual are printed 11 reported by authorized offl. clala at lean two months In advance. Ohio : Tel. 8 E·3·0608. Mainc OI)Cn with a 5%'Y2 showing, cdg. 4 CHESS REVIEW, JANUAR Y, 1961 ing defending champion Harlow Daly, 5-L Other cash prize winners in the 14 man CHESS VIGNETTES field were William Newberry, 4-2, fol lowed hy Larry Eldridge and Stuart Laughlin, each 3%-2%. Eldridge placed fou rth on a tie· breaking basis. NEW MEXICO Sixteen players vied at Los Alamos for the New Mexico championship, with Max Burkett emer~ing on top after winning four games, drawing one and losing one. His 41;2-1% record was matched by Lloyd Kile and Mark Wells, who fell behind, however, in Solkoff points. Kile was runner·up on a similar tie-breaking basis. The event was sponsored by the Los Alamos Chess Club. SOUTH C""ROLINA At the Sumter Yf..-JCA, play for the state title resulted in a three-way tie for first on the part of Alex Edelsburg, Prof. Lan_ neau L. Foster and Peter Grant, 4-1 each. In the absence of a tie-breaking system, all three became co-champiQns. TEXAS Kenneth R. Smith, C. Fred Tears and Marvin Sills, each 3%-11/2' tied for first in the Texas Candidates Tournament, "But first Q word from our sponsor . . . " ahead of a trio with 3·2 consisting of Eric Bone, Henry Davis and Morley Pastinsky. The four top players in the 14 man Field Conception; AI Gowan All rights reserved Photography: Mike Graznan have qualified for the Texas State Cham pionship to he played next summer. In the Texas Amateur Open, Cliff Jewell took first with 4%-%. A GREAT BOOK by a GREAT TEACHER UTAH Outwitting thirty-one players from five states who converged on Salt Lake City, CHESS SECRETS Daniel Fischheimer of Chicago was tour ney win ner with a perfect 7-0 tally, while by EDWARD LASKER the runner·up, Henry Snyder, gained the state title with 51;2-1% as highest ranking Utah resident. Tied for third and fourth with 5-2 each were Farrell L. Clark and N this mellow volume of memoirs, Lasker of£eJ1J Gaston Chappuis. I a wealth of fascinating detail about his name- sake Emanuel, Capablanca, Alekhine, Nimzovich and VIRGINIA other great players of past and present, from whom The Virginia Closed Championship was annexed by Owen i\IilIer, 6Y2-%. Second he learned the' fine points of chess by crossing swords was the veteran George Trefzer, 6-1, and with them. A member of the armed forces writes; third was John O. Matheson, 5-2. There " .... My heartiest congratulations on what I con were 35 players. sider a monumental piece of work, outstanding in a rare combination of instruction, entertainment and sheer reading pleasure. . . . New Liqht on Morphy? I was sorrv when I reached the end but found the second reading even more enjoy Chess players know Paul Morphy as able.... I have actuall y been tryi ng in va in to recall any book which has given me a chess genius par excellence, but how so much enjoyment a~ this one." Contains 75 games annot·ated with Lasker's cus· many think of him in the role of a pas· tomary penetratiOil and clarity. Delightfully illustrated by Kenneth Stubbs with sionate lover or as involved in the for more than 30 drawings of famous masters. tunes of the Southern Confederacy? Just such li ttle known aspects of Morphy's 464 p8ges, 216 diagrams 55.00 legendary career are dealt with in a new historical novel, The Chess Players, by F rances Parkinson Keyes. Farrar, Straus The world's foremost publisher of books on CHESS and Cudahy are the publishen. Send for free catalogue of chess publications to Still, it is news that a chessplayer is hero of a popular novel! DAVID McKAY COMPANY, Inc .. 119 West 40th St• • New Yorki8. 'N. Y. CHESS REV IEW , JANUARY, 19ti l 5 LOCAL EVENTS Jack Pinneo won fh'c games and drew Alaska. De:spile tough competition frOIl) one to ~c i zc fi rst place in the annual Long three prominent Fai rbanks players, Hob· Island Amateur Championsh ip. Runner· crt !\Ioore of Anchorage WOll the Anchor up wa s Jack St raley Battell, 5-1, follow· age Open wit h a 6·0 sweep. cd by Sanford Greene, 4Yz.l%. The Anchorage Chess Club was organ \Vinner of the Hornell Chess Cluh ized recently as the second Alaskan Open was R. Lavelle, 3%-'i2, ahead of chess-playing center. The first (the F. Harris, 3·1. Grealer Fairban ks Chess Club) has been Ohio. A 5-1 score enabled Richard Kause thriving for some year~ . Plans are reo to pick I1p the Forest City OP<:11 at ported under way 10 set up a state or Cleveland. Ross Sprague, 4ljz-l Yz, oc· ganization. cupicd second spot. C(llifornia. At the Palo Alto Open, Wil· liam Addison was first, followed by n m· ncr-up Saul \Vanet ick. FOREIGN
Florida. Youth took a shellacking in both Indonesia the North and SO llt h Florida Open Cham Soviet grandmasters V. Bagirov and pionships when \Villiam A. Rut h, septua· Yllrj Averbakh visited I ndonesia recently genarian master emeritus of Collingswood, and participated in two tournaments New Jersey, grabbed the pair of tit les there. Bagirov, playing in Group A, won wilh scores of 4-] und 4%-% respcctive. a round robin with 6%-%, the draw going tu nmner'llp :yr. H. S. Nainggolan, 5%. Iy. Alan H imber was second in thc Walter Korn .'Jorlh F lorida event, and Frank Rose 1%. [n Group 8, Averbakh, like his ha ~ been sojourning at Tel Aviv, Israel, copped second in the Southern. Running compatriot, succc<:(lcd in placing first hut for somo months now. He has senl most of concurrently with the ma·in conte ~ ts were not without a ~trngglc. He won six his ~cries, The Fillishing Touch, frolll games and lost one, to Lim H ong Gie, the North and Soulh Florida Amateur there. tournamcnts, won respcctively by Olive who fin ished close behind with 5:/z-Pk Kli nger and Lieu!. F". E. Torregrosa. each South Africa ney wound li p in a 2·1 triumph for the 4·1. K. Dreyer pocketed the Johannesburg 7 1 )'ear old "hiles. Muench, 1 The Tampa crown was won fi r J oel 12 k3Yz, titl e with a 7%-2% showin g. E. Price W1\;: third. Chalifoux as a result of his defeat of and J . Wolpert, 7·3 each, tied for second Richard Wilwn in a play.off after hoth \V,ll1cr Pleiss, Jr., 8%-Yz, convincingly and third. had scored 4·1 in the regular tourney for to"k the Oak Park Ch ess Cl ub champion_ I n the Durban Championship, J. C. T. the city title, ship, followed by Paul Adams, 7-2. The Blackburn and G. Boulic, each 71/'2_2%, laller was winner of an Oak Park speed [n the Orlando citv championship, divided top honors. Charles Stallings was successful with a tou rney. Another tie for fi rst was recorded in 4·1 s howing, in front of Robert Ludlow, Louisiana.. CHESS Rr,V1EW correspondent the Cape Town Championship when 3'12-1Yz. A. L. .i\JcAuley dom inated the New Or. Arnold Huhinstein and E. Turoff scored The University of Florida easily de· leans City Championsbip with an 8·0 7-3 each. feated the Orlando team by 13·7 in a 10 "picket fence." In second place was board, double round match. Kit Critten· Gary ErdaL who took the Class "A" title Store Window Chess den, Alan Himber and Bob Durrett each with 6Y2.1Y2. F ra nk Bert Moore won registered dual victories fo r UF", while junior honors. Perhaps for the first time in chess his E. A. Verrillo was the only Orlando play. tory, a running game is creating a stir er to win two games. Minnesota. At the St. Paul Open, whieh as the central feature in a store window. attracted 58 ent ries. Ed F orma nek and T he town is P rinceton, New Jersey; the Illinois. A play-off between R. i\htte~ Mark Schulman each scored 6-1, the nod store is La Vake.Reid's, a jewelry shop and Leitson to decide their 14Yz-l% tie fur first going to Formanek on Swiss to at 54 Nassau Street ; and the chess play in the Irving Park Chess Club open tou r· tals. T hird to fift h at 5~-2.1Y2 were Ger ers conducting the game are Gray Sid ald Ho nning, K. N. P ederson and Rohert well and the Rev. David H, McAlpin. And Hang the Expense! Chiwh, whose standings in the order men· who drop in regul arly to study the board tioned were determined by tie-breaking and decide on their moves for thc day. An item in a recent issue of the trade points. One o f two alternating signs, "White's journal Telebrie/s is hereby passed along !'I'love" or "Black's !'o love," is placed in in part : New Jersey. Exhibiting all his old wiz· front of the window to keep an intrigued ardry, Louis Levy piled up a winning score "A customer inquired the COSl of a erowd of passersby informed of develop. of 12-2 in the tough I ndependent Chess four·hour call to Buffalo, New Yor k. ments. The interest and even violent par· Club Championship at East Orange. " 'And if you don't hear any conver· tisanship ev in ced by the public· is not hing Other h igh scores we rc as follows: R . sations,' he cautioned, 'don't cut us off. short of phenomenal. Hurtt len, llYz.2Yz; S. Wachs, 10~.'2-3%; \Ve'll be playing a game of chess over "1 was just walking down the street," D. Kerr, 10·4; L. Dubeck, 9-5. the phone.' " says Sidwell , "and a woman - I didn't New York. The Marshall Chess Club even know her - came up· to me and The 4th (t959) CANDIDAT ES' TO UR N A . Championship preliminaries yielded a shouted, 'Beat him out, beat him out ! ' ME NT by H. Golomb,"k. All 112 gamell an not&ted. 56 diagrams. Full tables-Tndexes list of eight players who qualified for Amazing." Intr oduction. In Eng!l~h Algebrale notntion. the finals. These were August E. Rankis, Samuel ?It · Kind, store manager, in 128 pagel!. "Varityped" edition. Tal's tast victory before becoming 'Vortd Champion. Charles Henin, A. Zimmerman, Benjamin tends to put chess sets on sale, "if only Send 53 ( bills) to Greenwald, Hyman Schneid, George Sen in self·defense." He already sells chess The British Chess Magaz ine, Ltd. deckyj, :Michael Valvo and Donato boards, with which he 'has accommodated 20 Chestnut Road W ,"st Norwood J. London, S.E. 27 Great B r itain Rivera. his customers for about ·a year.
CHESS REVIEW, JANUARY, 19 61 YOU ARE IN ZUGZWANGl ... if you do not know the gil'e· and-take of chess strategy .... What, fur example, is the \'allle of center control ? Or how weak THE EXCEPTION TESTS THE RULE is an isolated Pawn .ft ' or a Exceptions to principles are the rule in chess. They are so many, il is necessary to draw a fine line between the principle and the excep doubled Pawn i ? H~w tion. To forfeit castling, for example, was pictured as a bogey to frighten st rong is an outpost Knight 2£J even the initiate. Yet, cnrrently, many masters accept this so-called lia hil ity as a ma tter of course. Here, at the Buenos Aires Team Tournament or a salient of 1939, Endzelins (Black) forfeits castling in a French Defense with reverse salient equanimity. Pleci, however, substantiates the basis of the ru le with cogency. The ga me begins with I P- K4., P-K3 2 P- Q4, P- Q4 3 N-Q2. Or the more than thirty char· aeteristic fe atures of Pawn and Cover scoring table at line indicated. Sel up position, make Black 's Piece structures? next move (exposing tabJe just enough to read it). Now guess White's . . . if YOll are constantly in a 4th move, then expose it. Score par, if move t1grees; zero, if not. Make muddle as to what to do, and move actually given, Black's reply. Then guess While's nexl, and so on. YOllr play is planless, pointie$5- plain shift less, CO V ER WH ITE MOVES I N TABL.E BELOW. EXPOSE ON E L.INE AT A T I M E Then you need POINT COUNT CHESS by I. A. Horowitz ·and White Par Bla ck Your Se lection Your Geo[frey Mott · Smith. These White', Played Score P layed f " move Scor e two champions have collaborated 3 • • P-QB4 • · • • · · • • • • · · • · • · • • • • • • • • to bring you an entirely new, 4 K N-B3 (a) ...... 5 4 PxKP · · · · • • • · • · · · · · · · • • · · · · • • simple approach to the ever·re· 5 NxP ...... 4 5 N- Q2 · · · · · · · · · • · · · · • · · · • · · · · • cu rri ng problems of chess strale· 6 PxP ...... •.. 4 6 • • N,P • • · · · · · · · · • · · · • · · · • · · · · · gy. They ha\;e defined, described 7QxQt(b) ...... • ... .. 4 7 • • K,Q • • • • · · · • · • · · · • • • · · • · · · · • IIIIlI appraised via a POINT COUNT all the effective, st ra· SB- NSt······ ···· · ·····S 8 P- B3 • · • · • • • · • · • • • · · · • • · · · · • • tegic ideas of the great masters. 9 O-O- Ot ...... 5 9 K-Kl · · · · • • • · · · • · · · · · • · · · · · • • K_B2 Whcn YOll hal'e read this hook, 10 B- NSt ...... 5 10 • • • · • • · · · · • · · · · • · · · · · · • · · you will no longer treat an iso· 11 R-QS! (c) . . . . .• ...... 7 11 • B- K2 (d) • • • · · • • • • · · • • • • · · · · · · · · · • lated Pawn t merely as an 12 N-KSt ...... 9 12 P,N • · • • • • • • · · • · · · · · · · · · · · · · unimportant detail or hanging 13 N- Q6t ...... 6 13 K-N3 • · • · • • • · · · • · • · · · • • · · • • · • Pawns with a bored 14 BxB' ...... 5 14 N,B · · · · • • • · · · • · · · · · • • • • · · • • it it lS RxR(e) ...... 4 15 P- QR3 • • · · · • · · · • · · · · • · • • · · • • • • " let 'em hang." You will see these us plans, plans 10 inflict 16B_ K2 ...... 4 16 • P- K5 · · · · · · · · · • · · · · • · · · • · · · · • weaknesses on your opponent 17 P-K B4 ...... 6 17 • P-N4 • • · · · · · · • • • · • • • • • · • · · · · • and to al'oid for yourself. Simi l SR- KS ...... 6 18 K-B3 • · · · • • · · · · • · · · · · • • • · • • • • K_ N3 larly, you will see all structures 19 R- BSt ...... 5 19 · · · · · • · · · · • · · · · · • • • · · · · · as plans, and )'OU., yourself, will 20 P-K R4 ...... 6 20 B- N2 ( f ) • • • · • · • · · • · · · · • · • • • • • • • • be able to evall1f1te them. You 21 P- RSt ...... 5 21 K- R3 · · · · · • · · · · · · · · · · • • • • · · · • will learn wilen to accept weak· 22 N-B7 mat e ...... 5 nesses. when not to. In short, by counting the 1,lu5 Tota l Score ______100 Your Percent age ______and mi nus points involl'ed in every move, you will become an SCAL E: 7S-1 00-Excel lent ; 55.74-Superior; 40.54-Good; 2S.39_Falr expert trader, an expert chess player. And you can sec how NOTES TO THE GAME the masters have done so in a) This is an idea of Alekhine, instead of " Position aft er 11 .. . B-K2 many, complete, illustrat iv e the more usual 4 KPxP. games. Your move is to get your b) This wide open position prompts the ex copy of Point Count Chess, change of Queens whereafter even the minor today. 340 pages ...... 84.95 pieces act poweriully. 1. ZU(lzwang (Gcrman. comput s ion to mO"e) the situation of a c) One tempo move follows another, and they ptayer whose mOveS are so re are still to come. stricted that any move he chooses will impa.ir his defense seriou sly d) If 11 ... PxB or 11 .. . NxN, White or fatally. 84 other usefnl chess terms. from has 12 N- KSt, etc. "advanced gronp" to "Zwischen. e) But now White's material superiority de zug" are defi ned and descrit>cd In this w01"I,. eides. ORDER FROM f) Now Black's game colla.pses at once; but CHESS REVIEW his position was hopeless. 134 West 72nd St., N.Y. 23, N.Y. t = cheek; : = double check; f dis. check • CHES$ REVIEW, JA NUARY, 1961 7 An outatandlng recent game, annotated by DR. MAX EUWE by a former World Champion.
THE CHESS OLYMPIADE As expected , the Russ ians won the Chess Olympiade at Leipzig (1960). Tahl, Botvinnik, Keres, Korchnoj, Smyslov and Petrosyan have demonst rated again their great chess ability. Tahl drew a lot of attention, of co urse, but was not in top form. There were rumors that he had heen involved in an a utomobile accident, hu t these rumors could not be confinned. The possiLility is that Tahl held back some new theoretical fi nd ings in reserve for hi s return match with Botvinnik. Botvinnik was at his best. Impressive was his win • I from the stra tegicall y accurate Eliska ses. But one of t Botvinnik's best games is lhe following, against the t Bulga ri an Neikirch. Botvinnik as Black played the same variation which he had used four yea rs ago in the Alekhine Memorial Tournament againsl the Bul· Dr. Max Euwe garian Padewski. The variation was extensively ana· lyzed in Holland at that time. It is a question if Bot· Botvinnik handled the middle game in a superior vinnik was acquainted with that analysis; but it seems ma nner and took skillful advantage of a somewhat that Neikirch was not acquainted with it; for he se careless Rook move by his opponent. Finally, Nei. lected a more modest cont inuation than his compatriot kireh had to resign after twenty·six moves becn nse of did four years ago. weak ness on his back rank.
Leipzig, 1960 sUIl con:sidel"ed the move with the best QR~ 10 P- B~. P- Ql'\3! White ought then SICILIAN DEFENSE chances. to have conthltled with 11 P-K5! :-/-Kl ]2 P- B5!! with a strong attack. ( King Bishop Variat ion) 9 . . . . N- QR4 O. Neikirch Or. M. M. Botvi nnlk Bu lgaria Soviet Un ion This method Incurs l es~ objections lIOW than in the line Just Quoted. There is White Black simpler, hOll'el'er: 9 ... NxN 10 QxN, 1 P- K4 P_Q B4 P-QN3 11 B- N5, B- 1\2 12 P- B·t, R- Bl l:l 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 P-B5, R- B ~ ! with a. s ood game as In AS second move for Black, the text Is Jezek- Bol esln vl\ kl. Vienna, 1951. seen less frequently these days than 2 10 P_B4 P-QN3 ... P- Q3 or 2 ... P-K3. But Botvlnnlk 11 P_ KS .... used to li ke it. White certainly obtains nothing with 3 P_Q4 PxP other moves. 4 NxP N-B3 11 . • • . N-K l 5 N-QB3 P-Q3 6 . . . . P- K3 \Vlth this move, Black "has trans· posed" to the line with 2 .. . P-Q3, that Not bad is 6 ... B- Q2, followed by 7 is to say. either second move can lead ... P-KN3 and 8 . .. 8 - N2. to this position. And Wbite has at hl8 7 B_N3 B-K2 disposal the Rau~er Attack. 6 B-KN5, In 7 ... P-QR3 for Immediate action on this position (which he does not on Z the Queen·side likewise deserves consid· .. P- QS and 5 . .. P-KN3). eration here. 6 B- QB4 .... 80-0 0-0 Interest In th is move has increased 9 K-R1 . . . . since Fischer has had some remarkable White definitely has more chances success wlth!t. 6 B-KN5, however, Is after 9 B-K3. In Padewskl- Botvlnnik, t = cho~k; * = dbl. eheeki § = dl&. ell. Moscow, 1956, there followed 9 ... N- 8 CHESS REVIEW, JANUARY, 1961 12 R_ B3 , . . , ThiS Is tile decisive el"l'or, W hite sim· Even no w White can play 12 P- ll5. and ply must protect his bac k rank with 20 A SUPERB PEG-IN a study of t he complex "ariutions sho ws Il- IU . The n mac k s e ts a s ligh tly better t he dangel' to which Black Is exposed but not a won game: e.g .. 20 .. . B-l':: in this type of posi tion. 21 N- Q6 ( not 21 N- BS ? BxPt nor 21 On 12 ... NxB? 13 N- B6. Q-Q2 14 N- N3? 1\'-RS) , i'\xN 22 RxK, Q-N3 23 l\""xBt. QxN 15 P- B6, Q- B2 16 PxNP, Q- K 2, QR-Ql 24 RxH (after 24 QxKPt, White has a strong attack, K- H 1. White is lost). RxR 25 B- K3, Q- K5. On 12 ... PxBP? White has 13 P- K6! 20 . . . , T hen 13 . .. NxB? 14 N- B6 ! Q- B2 15 N- B- N2 21 N-Q6 Q5! is SlI"OlI g fo r White. A nd White ge ts a decis ive advantage 111110 with 13 ... T here Is nol hing be u er. On othel' PxP 14 BxPt. K- R1 IS P- QN4. N-N2 16 K nlglll moves, th e re Is e it he r ... BxPt lV-Q5. or . , . N-R5 as indicated be rO/·e. Blacl(,s best is 12 . . , QPxP! 13 PxP, 21 . . . . NxN NxB. Here we may note that the absenee 22 RxN QR- Ql! THE MIKADO, the finest peg.ln set of the White Bishop 011 K3 (where it available, made of smoothly finish ed would be tr 'Whi te had played 9 B- K 3 T suge wood in a handsome S taunt on instea d of 9 K -Rl) Is impOl'lant; for c herry pattern ( King height 1"), is a s u· it would now per mit White to gain an pe rb g ift for a r eal chelil fri end. It is en· advantage wit h H 1\'-B6r Q- Q3 J5 N- Q5! hanced by a handmade tWG-tone leather board and an unfold ing case attractively A s It Is. howevel" the l'e fOllowlI 1-1 PxPt, RxP 15 NxN. B- KB4 wit h a good cover ed in rayon velvet. game for Dlack. When opened (see s mall photo), the hinges slide the top unde rneath to be. 12 . , . . NxB eome the supporting base (as in t op Now This dangerous Bishop is el1mi· phot o). Closed size is 7Ys" by 5YsH by Ilated wit hout tro\lble. 1 ~N. Playing board is 4Y2" square. 13 N- B6 Q- Q2 The size of board and men gives e IC 14 NxBt QICN celJent p laying vicibility. T he design of 15 RPxN P-B3! Black's last move Is s im ple bllt very me n is both finely artistic a nd, with theif e IC ceptional s ize, of top quality for play. Well played. The elimination ot the effective. He t hreatens to play n . .. ing purposes, advanced King Pawn neutralizes 'White's HxH 24 QxR, Q-Ql! aud also 23 . . . attack, Q- B3! In either line stl'lklng forcefully Order by .;.atalos-ue ut White's poorly guarded back rank. 16 p)(QP · . . . number : The Ml _ 23 Q-Q2 , On 16 N-K4. B - .N2, Black obtuins the . . . ~ado N o, 191 ad"antage : e.g ., I i PxQP, NxP! 18 QxN. Des peration . QR- Ql! a li d Black wills. White can ease 23 . • . . RxR 25 QxPt R- B2 Price Postpaid out with 17 PxBP , PxP 18 R- N3t, K-Rl 24 Q IC R Q-Q1 ! 2ti Q-K 1 R- K2 $15.00 19 N- D3; but Black gets good ch an ces Resigns for attack with 19 ... N- N2! 16 . . . . N,P 17 R-Q3 N_ B4 TRAVELING CHESS SET 18 R- R4 · . . .
W h ite sees that he III clearly los t. In onie l' to save his Q ueen, protect his Rook and guard again st , .. Q- Q8 mate, he has but little choice, 27 Q- Q2 holds temporarily, very temporarily in view or AS White's Bishop cannot easily be 27 ... R-Q2!! And 27 B- K3 may be all' developed, the Queen Rool( is mobilized swered, e,g., by 27 .. . Q- Q4! 28 Q- B2, via the Rook file. Also White prevents RxD! etc. T his peg.in traveli ng set has a playing t he de veloping 18 ... B-N2; for the board all of aN squa re! Plastic men, %" seem ingly s imple l'eSOIl I'ce l or Black 19 high, p lug into p lywood board w h ich Is R-Q7! QR- Ql! comes to nothing a t all e ncased in a leathe rette cover : The Oe alter 20 R/ 4- Q4 !! Luxe model (alco hilS com partmentc .It 1a , . . . Q-K1 ! each end for captured men) . Standard Blilc]t dodges the continuation just model is in past eboard cover (has no mentioned und p repares Instead for ac· compartments). De Lu)( e in photo. tlon on Ills QRI-KRS diagonal. Order by cata logue number: No. 900-Standard mode l , ..... $1.50 19 N-K4 • • Also unsatis ractor y Is 19 R- K4, B-N2 No, 900l-De Lu)(e model ...... $7.00 20 R- K 1. Q- B3 21 Q-N4, P- K.IU 22 Q-N6, ~-R 5 with a winning attack lor Black. MAIL YOUR ORDER TO 19 . . . . P-QN4 CHESS REVIEW 20 R_ RS , . . . 134 W est 72nd Street, New York 23, N. Y. CHESS RE'II£W, JANUARY , 1961 9 Up-to-date opening analysis by DR, MAX EUWE by an outstanding authority_ Former World Champion
NIMZO-INDIAN DEFENSE Normal Variation
The so-called "normal position" of this opening arises from these moves: 1 P-Q4, N-KB3 2 P- QB4., P- K3 3 N- QB3, B-N5 4 P-K3, P-B4 5 N-B3, 0-0 6 B-Q3, P-Q4 70- 0, N-B3, A well known continuation from that
normal position is 8 P- QR3, BxN 9 PxB, T his advance, a rel"ommemlation of PxBP 10 BxBP, Q-B2 which gives us the Donner·s, is much >;tronger than 15 P position in the first (adjacent) diagram_ B3 01· 15 H- Kl, though t hose mOl'es arc White has the advantage of the Two fl·equently seen employed. 15 . . . . Q-K2 Bishops and also of the majority of Pawns 1t seems important for Oinck to fight in the center. Yet it is far from certain that his position is preferable. to retilin eOlltl"Ol of his K5. Artel' 15 The point is that the position is closed and that Black will soon have ... Q-j{~ 16 P -D-l, for example. his prob· lems al·e 8tm more difficult ; for 16 .. . more space and also a number of tactical tricks (after ... P-K4). N- N5 17 P-H3 does not lead to any· Dr. Tarrasch stated : "'Zwei Lauler sind nllr stark wen'n sie laulen t hing. konnen" (two Bishops <.Ire strong only when they can run) . And such 16 P_B4 , , , . is not the case here, at least not yet. As soon as Wh ile can slicceed in Of COUI·se not 16 P- K4? now eithel·. giving his Queen Bishop sufficient employment, there will he no doubt because of the same sort of l"eSOUI·ce as before: i.e., 16 ... P- B5. but this about White's superiority. time to win a square (Black's K5) rather than a PRwn. 16 . . , . R-K1 'fhe position in the first diagram in· The text mOI'e preve nts t he advanee, volves a special finesse. 12 ... P- K5. In Bo.·ja-Euwe. Leipzig, Bhu;k ~tl ll tries, but in vain, to main· Some five year s ago. 11 B-Q3 was ·White played weakly: 12 PxKP. NxP 13 tain his pressure on his K5. usually played. In recent games, 11 NxN, QxN H P-KB·l, Q-K2 15 Q- K2! B 17 R- K1 • • • • B-N5 is often seen; and. in this case. N5 ]6 Q- QB2. QR-Ql 17 P- K-l? and This is White's final preparation for if mack plays 11 ... P-QR3, White still Black played 17 . .. P-B5! nnd won the B-N2; besides. he noll' threatens to push withdraws his Bishop to Q3. King Pawn (18 BxP?? Q-B4t). h is King PlIwn afte)· all. The indication is that . . . P- QR3 can In this position, B1acl;: has the choice 17 . . . . N- K5 be considered a weakening. But why? of mgny moves. \Ve shall consider the two mo~t important. This move is a useless t ry now, but mack has nothing better. PliRT I, 18 B-N2 , , . . Let us first consider what the conse Variation A quences ,u·e of the older line. 12 . . . . Q-K2 11 B-Q3 P-K4 This move loses a tempo, especially if W h ite plays 13 PxP. which is the best. 12 Q-B2 • • • • On the other hand, B1 acl, more or less fo r ces that exchange, and. ill some varia· tions, his Queen stands better on K2 than on Q82. In the past, the text move has led to a Humber or good victories for Black. Bnt, nowadays, a very strong method is known fo r White, which seems p racti· cally a refutation of B1acl,'s s ystem. 13 PxKP NxP 14 NxN QxN 15P- B4! .. " No"· mack SiDlI)ly has no defense against 1\1 IJ - K5. 18 ... P- B4 19 B-K5 t check; ~ :::: db!. check; § :::: dis. ch. and ]8 ... B- B4 19 B-K5 are too good
10 CHIS~ REVIEW, JANUARY, 1961 for White. And. perhaps more sUl'pris N/4- B5 2·1 B- Qr\'3, NxQP 25 ExK. NxB 26 as appeal's after J7 ... NxB 18 QxN. ingly, 18 . . . P-B3 19 B- K5! is also R-K7. N- K3 with a good ending for QxQ 19 KxQ: e.g .. 19 . , . NxP 20 N-l\'6. quite good 1'01' White, Blaclc R- R2 (not 20 . . , R- Nl? 21 B-B4) 2) R-Kl (21 . , , N- Q3 23 RxRt, NxR 2 1 KxB); or 19 , . . RxP 20 N- N6, R- ?','l 21 Variation B PART II. P - B3 , RxP 22 B- K3, etc. (22 . .. R-Q1 (Continue from sec ond diagram) 23 B- B4) . Now let lIS consider the newel' line. 12 . . . . R-Kl Filip tl'ie(1 ]7 . , . B-K3 against Bron· (Continue from first d iagram) stein but fai led to get his Pawn back This move has the reputation of lead 11 B-N5 . . , . aftel' 18 B- Q3, QxQ 19 BxQ, QR- Bl 2() ing to complete equality. This move prevents the immediate ad B- Q3. N- N6 21 R- Nl, NxQP 22 RxP (22 vance of B1aek's King Pawll. ". NxP is a nswered by 23 H- N4!). 11 . . . . P- QR3 Another possibility here is 11 . . . B- Q2. Then 12 R- Kl gives Black fine Variation B attacking chances after 12 . . . :-JxP! ( C onti nu e from next to last diagram) 13 NxN, PxN 14 BxB, PxKP! ]5 B-H4, So we turn to the alternative move. PxPt 16 KxP, QxHP (Ojanen- Ellwe, . . Q- K2. which was poor i n Part l, Munich, 1958) . And 12 P - QR4! K- QR-l and try its effect on the line under 13 E- R3, P- QN3 1-1 B- Q3. B- B3 15 N- Kf,. stUdy. B-K5 leads to equal chances (Donner 13 . . . Q-K2 15 NxN Q,N Van S~heltillga , Bevenvijl(, 1959). 14 PxKP 16 P_K B4 Q_K 2 17 P_B4 12 B- Q3 P- K 4 . . . . 13 Q_B2 . .. . As may be recalled from Part I, White 13 P_K 4 - . . . must prevent 17 P - B5, 17 , . . . Now the 13 PxKP of Variation A costs P- QN4! White a tempo. Nonetheless. Gligol'ich tried it against Euwe in Leipzig. 19()(I, After 13 . .. NxP 1 ~ NxN, Qx]\" 15 P- B3 (another system) . B- K3, Blaek's po~i tion Is satisfactory, as shown in the fol lowing lines : 1) 16 P- KE4? Q-B2 17 P- K4, P- B5 18 B-K2, r-ixP! 19 QxN, B- K5 20 QxRt, RxQ 21 BxB, Q- N3t 22 K- Rl, Q- B7! etc. 2) ]6 l{- Kl (the line in the actual game) , QR- Ql 17 R- l"'l, P - B5 18 B--B1. N- Q2 )9 P- K .. , N- E4 20 B-K3, Q-B2 (in the game, Black stepped into trouble Compare this position with that of the here with 20 , . , N- N6 21 P- B4. Q-B2 second diagl'am. T he one difference is But n ow Black obtains good chanees 22 P-B5, E- Bl 23 Q- B2) 21 P-B1, P- B3 that Black's Queen Rool;: Pawn is on with this Pawn sacrifice. Here are a with equal chances, QR3 here. It is, however, a peculiar co· few of t he possibilities: 13 . . . . P_ B5 incidence that, whereas, , . H- Kl is t he right move for the formel' position and 1) 18 PxP , PxP 19 BxNP, B-R3 20 Vukovich's continuation. which secures BxB, RxB 21 R- R l , N-K5 22 B- N2, P-B4 . . . . Q- K2 is wrong, here it is just t he a draw. 13 . .. KPxP 14 PxP, B- N5 White's Pawn plus ' does not seem other way around: 13 . . . H-Kl is bad, leads to unsUi'veyable compilcations. and 13 ... Q- K2 gives better chances. enough for a decision here. Also, Biack 14 BxP PxP 16 B- N3 QxQ can try 19 , .. N- K5 here (20 B- B6, 15 Px P N-R4 17 BxQ N x P B-N2 as in line 2 below). 18 R-K1 B- B4 2) 18 P- K4, PxP J9 QxP (or ]9 BxP, Variation A NxP 20 E- Q5, B- N2!), P- QR4! 20 Q- B2 13 . . . . R- K1 (or 20 P- K5. B-R3 21 PxN, QxP. etc,), 14 P- K4 P- B5 P- B5! 21 BxP, NxP 22 B- Q5, B- N2 with even chances, \\' e are pm'suing a line similar to Variation B of Part I. Chess remains impenetrable p,p 15 BxP ever! "' 16 PxP N- Q R4 17 N- K5! • • • •
In this position, \Yhite's Bishops com· pensate fOl' the weaknesses in his Pawn si!'ucture, but only Just. The following are some possible con tinuations : 1) 19 N-R4, N- Q3! a nd Black has nothing to fear ; 2) 19 B- B4, N-Q3 20 B-R4, P - QN4 21 BxN, PxB 22 R- K5, RxR 23 PxR, i\'- N6. Under the altered circumstances, i.e., and Black has sufficient counter·play with the Queen RooI;: Pawn advanced. (Donner- Larsen, The Hague, 1958) ; this move is a considerable improvement 3) (as in the last line) 20 .. . l{xRt for White. The difference lies ill the 21 RxR, N/3- B5! 22 P - Q5, N-N3 23 B- B7, hopelessly weakened square, Black's QN3
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cates developmen t over ma terial. Inso BLACK TO PLAY AND WIN far as it Introduces complex plublems for Among the elite of chessdom. it is generally the adversary, it Is not without po int. conceded that the player of the White forces enjoys 5 N"BP , ... Unsm,pecUng White chooses an unfa· a minimal advantage. The privilege of the first move, vorable ,'arlatIOll. Modern Chess Open. bestowed upon him by the Laws of Chess, grants an ings gives as best 5 P-Q4 . P~Q4, leading initiative sufficient to place the opponent on the de to an (l"e!ltual (lmw, whel'eas the HI)' parently natural I) DxPt, K-K2 actually fensive for the bener part (or is it the worse to him?) favors Dlack In the long run. He contin of the game, With precise play, the opening trend ues with .. , P- Q3, ... Q-Kl ~N3 and ., follows a pattern of pressure for the first player and an ... R- Dl a nd hllnds up las ting pressure against Wliite's hete rogeneous forces. attempt at conversion of the puny tempo to bigger game, AI Horowitz such as cont rol of the center, material superiority or even mating combi nations. The defe nder's role, hardly an appeti zing one, passive but yet persuasive, is to avoid any serious encroachments upon his dom ain. With perfect play, the pressure mounts and mounts, reaches a pitch, is contained and th en relaxes. Equality is reached. It is at th is point, and only here, that good sense dictates a more aggressive pol icy for Black. From here on, his greater ingenuity can be reflected. All this, however, is a matter of trained temperament. There are those players, who, because of circumstances, wiII not be denied. Even with the Black forces, they wi ll be the aggressors. Sometimes, they speculate on an unsound gambit psycholog ically to overwhel m the ad 5 . . • • BxPt Part a nd parcel or Blac k's tactic... 1 plan versary. Sometimes, by the choice of Whi te's opening, they will he to expose White's King to flailing blows. given an opportunity to choose a double.edged defense. 6 K"B NxPt Such is the case in the game below, White chooses to go after the 7 K- K3 , . . , vulnerable Black King Bishop Pawn in the Two Knights Defense. The No matter where the King goes. inse· line is as old as Methuselah; but, in fol low in g it, White loses time which curlty Is his lot. Out in the open, how he might deploy to better advantage in developing. But there is no ac· ever, he Is more or a target. 7 . . . , Q- R5 counting for tnste, particularly when material gain is the goal. Thii' i\Iate 15 In the otting. scribe feels so so rely 011 this point, he wouldn't go after that Bishop Pawn S P- K N3 . . , . even if it were good to do so. Be that as it ma y, White does so. And Black was threatening 8 . , . Q- Bit 9 then comes a surprise. Black makes no effort to defend the Pawn but, K xN, P~Q4t with an early mate. A s low instead, continues on his merry way blandly to bring out his forces. defense s uch as 8 P-D3 will not do; for. , . P- Qt opens the Queen Bishop's That Black's innocent rejoinder may pack a concealed wallop is hard ly d iagonal for rapid penetration by that White's concern. He takes the Pawn - and gets a little more than he worthy. • bargained for. In all c'asell, however, each side ought to keep the materIal count in mind. At TWO K N IGHT S DEFENS E two moves with his King Knight whlle the moment, White Is a piece ahead for Wesley Burgar Paul Berent his development lag!!, and he expects to a Pawn. The precIse inventory of the gain the target Pawn or some equivalent. position Is userul In determlnlng the W hite Black 4 . , . . 6_B4 proper course or action. By returning 1 P- K 4 P-K4 3 8-B' N- B3 m aterial, for example, White may obtain 2 N_KB3 N_Q B3 N_N5 . . , . Usual here Is 4 ... P- Q4 5 P"P. N freedom and security in the long nm. This line Is one of• the oldest ways QR4. Hu ndreds of varlaUons s temming Dy re<:a pturlDg material, Black may COD' of attempting to refute Black's previous from this line have been under observa· \'ert to a positional win, rather than a move. which leaves his King Bis hop Pawn tlon without any definitive conclusion. tactical one. vulnerable to Immediate attack. From a The text move, on the other hand, 8 . . . , NxN P theoreUcal point of view, White is trad· known as the Wilkes Barre Defense, is ing time for material. For he has spent thematic in the sense that Black advo· t _ cneck; t = dbl. check; § = dl!. ch,
CHE5S REVI EW , JANUARY, 1961 13 All this has been pre viously analyzed. 16 R-R8t K-Q2 White's K ing Bishop is now e n prise, 17 R,R B-K5t and his King is still in a net. 18 K-R3 B-B6 9 PxN Q-Q5t Even with correct 1)lay, there i, no Black (lims to retaiu his ROOk . 9 . . . adequate defense. QxB is likely good, too, though, after 19 Q- Q2 N-K7 10 KxR. Black must perforce mate - or An unnecessary finesse. 19 ... NxB 20 else. This way, the pressure on nlaek RPxN, Q- N8 wins by force. is lessened to a certain ext ent. 20 B-R4t · . . . 10 K- B3 · . . . White must step into the potential pin With a view to setting up a mating as 10 K - K2, QxDt. followed by . .. QxN, threat of Ilis own. But 20 Q- K3 is better. recovers Black's material and more. 20 . . . . P-B3 21 Q-N5 • • • • Even yet, 21 Q- K3. White is oblivious of all threats but his own. No.1 C. S. KIPPlng 21 . . . . N-N8t W h ite mates In t wo 22 K-R4 Q-Q5t 23 B-B4 • • • • 23 P-N4 is no better. 23 .. . Q-ll7t 2·1 K- R5, Q- R7t 25 Q- R4. BxPt 26 KxB, Q- K7t wins easily. 23 . . . . RxBt 26 PxP Q- Q5t 24 Px R Q-B7t 27 Q-N4 Q,Q 25 Q-N3 P-N4t mat e 10 . . . . R-B1 To analyze positions of this nature Short and Not So Sweet correctly often requires more time than is granted on the clock. Superficially By a twist of fate. Dlack finds himself und lillely cOlTect is the immediate 10 in a hypermodem line. That he intend· ... P- Q4 wit h the potent threat, among ed this requires a crystal ball. One thing Damed Interfel·ence. others, of . .. B- N5t. The text move is certain, he had not the faintest idea grants White a respite for a bit of con· or what it is all about. solidation. S ICILIA N DEF ENSE No.2 P . H. Williams 11 R-R4 Q-B4 D. Ka ufman L. W. Gardner 12 K- N2 • • • • White Black White mates in two Here '\'hite seelns to miss his oppor· tunity. 12 N-B3. IH"eVenting . .. P-Q·I, 1 P- K4 P- QB4 2 N- KB3 N-K B3 is in order. And. if 12 ... N- Q5t, White has 13 RxN, QxJl 14 Q- K2, P- Q4 ]5 K Nimzovich's Valiation. Black's idea Is N2. No matter how Black then plays, to enrOI'ce, H possible, an eal'h' ... p White can simplify, take the sting ont Q4 without resorting first to the usual of the attack and remain with material .. . P-Q3, in order to save a tempo. He plus. This is the very thing to which brings out his Knight first so that when. the note under ·White's eighth move as and if . . . P- Q4. PxP, he can rec(lp· alludes. lure with his Knight and avoid . . . QxP 12 • . . . P-Q4 which subjects his Queen to tempo loss 13 B-N3 Rx N by N-B3. The line. of course. has Its rnmifications, and Black is, or ought to Now White is still a piece ahead for be, prepared for them. two Pawns. but still subject to assault. 3 P- K5 • • • • All things Gome to him \\"ho waits. 14 P- Q4 • • • • White prevents 1-1 .. . Q- B7t. This is one possibility. Now the posi· tion assumes hypermodern aspects. N,P 14 . . . . Black's Knight can be dl'iven over the 15 RxP No.3 Percy Bowater · . . . board with apparent time·loss for the Placing Pawn·gJ"abblng ahead of secur· defense. But ·White's Pawn struct ure is White mates in three ity soon brings retribution. 15 B-K3 is weakened. strongly indicated. 3 . . . . N- Q4 15 . . . . 8 _ B4 4 P-B4 · . . . Now Black can aHord to be generous, ·1 N-B3 is another way. T hen 4 ... what with mate in view. Checkmate P- K3 5 NxN, PxN 6 P- Q4, N- B3 7 PxP, leaves no weakness in its wake. BxP 8 QxP. Q- N3 is a gambit which has been challenged by t he counter·gam bit 9 B-QB~. The last word on this sortie is not yet written, but White seems to enjoy th e initiative. On the other hand. 8 . . . P-Q3, instead of 8 . .. Q-N3, sets White real problems. 4 . . . . N-N3 .j • . • N- B2 is an alternative. The con· W
11 N-R4 • • • • The Biggest Bargain And White is not equal to it. COITect in Chess Literature! is 11 Q- IH. Then the immediate threai 9 B-KN5 , , ' . is 12 QxPt. In addition, White threatens CHESS REVIEW An unnecessary refinement. In this po· R-Ql, 01' first NxN, followed by R-Ql. sition, \\"e use the meat axe : 9 P- Q6, Blaek has no valid defense. ANNUAL N moves 10 N- QN5, ctlrtaim;. Whatever 11 . . . . 0 - 0 14 Q-B2 P- B3 Volume 27 - $7.00 happens now is anti·climactic. 12 P-QN3 Q-B2 15 P-QR3 R-N t LL twelve issues of CHESS REVII.W 13 B-N2 QR- Qt 16 KR_Ql 9 . . . . P-KR3 • • • • A published during 1959 have been White's position Is still superior, and If 9 . .. P-Q3, White has 10 N-K~, handsomely bound in cloth to make his last lllove is based Oll n tactical with the threat of 11 13-N5t. followed this jumbo.sized 384 plus page book, by NxP. finesse: ]6 ... N- K6 17 PxN, DxNP 18 B- Q5t, 13xO, ]9 RxB. Games from the most important events 10 N-K4 Q_B2 16 . . . . KR- QBl in 1959 have been picked by experts, 11 N-Q6t K-Q1 annotated by masters, along with in 12 BxNt 17 P-QN4 P-QR4 structive ones and rare old gems. To al'oid 13 NxBPt. The great events of 1959, also, are 13 N-R4 P-N3 well represented hy games, stories, 14 Q-B3 Resigns photos, Sarajevo, Mar del Plata, Santi· ago, Zurich and the Challen gers tourna ments, with Tahl on the rise toward the Sad Story world of chess, "Chess Movies," Fischer continuing to nash astounding The loser writes "On the 13th move. chess. And Bisguier wins the USeF I sawall the way to my 25th move t hat I would \\'In a piece. nut my opponent Open and Lombardy the Log Cabin. saw two moves more." Invitation Tournament. With all Ihis are quizzes, tales and QU EEN PAWN GA ME cartoons and a series on Morphy which 18 QR-61 . Caban Frederickl.i . . . adds io his stature. White Blad! I nstruction, entertainment from the 1 N- KB3 P_Q4 3 B_ N2 N_QB3 world championship and with Bobby 2 P- KN3 P_QB4 4 P_Q4 N_B3 "Chess Caviar" and the shrewd an 5 0 - 0 p,p notations of Postal Chess play by John The opening has transposed into a W. CoIlins and Kom's survey of open hypermodern one, a Gruenfeld revel'sed, ing in 1959 - all are yours in this with \Vhite having a move in hand. In great tome! essence. White is sacrltlclng the Pawn Volumes 20 t o 26 center. with 11 view to setting up Black'!> for 1952 to 1958 - $7.00 each center as a target. Because all experi· ence points to an easy game for Black Volume 28 ready in Ma rch in the GruenfeId, with a move in hand. Send for complete catalog of ch ess White's lot should he even easier. equipment and books Such being t he case, we rathel' favor 5 . .. P-K3. CHESS REVIEW 134 W, 12nd St., New York 23, N. Y. t = check; : :::: db!. cheek: i = dis. ch. CHESS REVIEW, JANUARY, 1961 15 IN A WOODEN CHESS SET YOU WILL FIND NO BETTER BUY Than Miniature gomes a re the hors d'oeuvres of chess. Postal Chess. '945 THE CRAFTSMAN We wel'e reminded of the Nonls Gam· bit recently (move 3 P- l{·1 below) but. A Supe-rb Chess Set tor long. could locate no Mpec lmen. N ORRIS GAMBIT J. E. Bischoff W . K . Estes W hite Black 1 P-Q4 P-Q4 4 N_QBS PxQP - 2 B-B4 P-QB4 5 PxP P,N 3 P-K4 N-QBS 6 PxN Q_R4 Black ens. specuillting on the dl scov el'ed check. But White's method of refutatlon Is Quite Ingenious. 6. . . 18 . . . . QxRt QxQt favors Dlack. The Queen has r un out of I'etreat sq\lal'es: e.g .. 18 .. Q-B4 19 NxQD. 19 BxQ P, N RE you loo king for a wooden chess 20 Q_R4 Resigns A sel of distinguished design, exacting workmanship and long-Iasling durability Mexico City. 1944-5 -at a reasonable price? If YOUf are, Ihen Black tak es over the Initiative. THE e RA M'SMAN is the set for you. It, pieces arc shaped in the graceful GRUEN FE LD DEFENSE lines of the famou s Staunton pattern, in Carlos H ieber Abel Perez a smoothly fi ni shed wood, called T,UKe White Black one of the fines! and most expensive in 1 P-Q4 N- KB3 4 N-B3 P- Q4 Japan-and aTC perfectly weighted for 2 N-KB3 P-KN3 5 P-K3 0 - 0 balance at the base, which is felted with 7 P-QN4! QxNP 3 P-84 8- N2 6 B-Q3 ... billiard cloth. The King is 3V:z inchu 8 Q-Q5! 8- K S An unhappy \'enture : thi s B ishop ~ high, with a 1% inch base; and the other Or 8 ... P-QN3 (else 9 Px P with 10 CQme5 a target ; so Black gets tempi mcn are in the true Staunton proportions. D- N5t If n eeded) 9 B-QN5! t wi ce. First because of 7 P -QR3, l est The pieces, which come in deep black 9 Q-83 0 - 0-01 7 . .. N- QN5. Second. on move 13. Hnd sleek yellow, are beautifully turned One pretty lill e of mnny he re Is 9 6 . . . . N_B3 10 BPxP out and carved. A particularly lovely de P-QN4 10 P-B7. H- Bl 11 Q- N 7, P- QR3 7 P- QR3 B- N5 11 PxN P,N tail is the wonderful carving done on the (or 12 BxPt. D-Q2 13 QxR male) 12 8 P-R3 BxN 12 PxNP R_N1 Knillhts-in the best tradition of fa med R- Ql ! wilh threat of 13 QxRt and 1·1 9 QxB P_K4! 13 B-84 N-Q2 oriental workmanship. H.- QS mate. Black is a PttWI! down - but very much thot Dishop Pawn "up." This outstandingly good-looking set is 10 PxPt Resigns boxed attractively in sturdy Nara wood, 01'10 ... QxP 11 D- Qn6! favored for furniture and flooring because of its durable qualities. Boston. 1938 Striking to look at and perfect for che" Some King h un ts a re justly celebrated. play, this set is a lifetime buy at an amaz We mai n tain a Queen hunt may be, too. ingly reasonable price! ENGLISH OpENING Catalogue No. 26 ______$35.00 D. Polland P. Rosenzweig White Black 1 P-QB4 N_KB3 7 P_K4 N_K83 2 N-KB3 P-Q4 8 N_B3 N_N5? 3 PxP N,P 9 B-N5t N-83 4 P- Q4 P-QB4 100- 0 B-Q2 14 P- QN 3 . . . . 5 PxP Q-R4t 11 R- 8 t Q-R4 Or 14 R- QNI. P - B7 15 R-RI, N- K4 16 15 B-Q2 QxBP 12 N- Q5 • • • • Q-K2. NxD 17 QxN, Q-Q8 mate. H avi ng conceded t he center. br ought 14 . . . . N_K4 16 PxN P-B7 his QUeen out e a rly and wasted time. 15 Q-K2 NxB 17 R-QR2 B-B6t Black soon finds h is Queen ha ras sed. Resigns 12 . . . • R_Bl 15 N_B4 ! Q-R3 13 P-KR3 N_B3 Hi N_K61 Q-N3 MAIL YOUR ORDER TO 14 R-B5! Q_N3 17 N- K5 ! ! QxP CHESS REVIEW 18 R_K1 .... 134 West 72d Street, New York 23, N. Y. t = cheek; : dbL check: t = dis. ch. 16 CH ESS REV IEW, JA NUARY. 1961 By WALTER KORN
COTILLION, SQUARE DANCE AND RONDEL The gifted and warmheal1ed American (and Scot twirls as merry·go·rounds, carousels and musical tish') master Max Pavey - whom an early tragic chairs. Our Kings may also he subjected to what an fate prevented from reaping the fruits of still wider ambivalent viewer may either call running the gantlet recognition - once told me that his favorite pastime (as for a deserter in the army of King Frederic the and recreation was square dancing. Once or twice a Great) or may consider a gay cotillion with changing week, Max and his wife would spend an evening on partners, this enjoyable exercise, and I wonder whether it ever Whichever way you look at it, pessimist or optimist occurred to him that in chess we also have our square (it all depends on your kind of Rorschach test!), this dances. theme of the vicious circle and unending treadmill is To give full reign to this ki nd of fanciful associa ever-recurring also in chess artistry. Recall the Aus tion and to complete a circle of artistic repertory, of trian writer Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen (the play parallels, that is, we can command in chess such other (Continued, top of next page)
The Peripatetic King White is required to win. Again. the This particular opus is partly a sequel King is the soloist, the Bishop here is to our Pawn·chain series (cf. the articles, the accompanist. page 212, July, and 296, October); partly, and In graphic appearance only as the idea has a subtle twist and touches off a symphony of a few more thus "the· matic" arrangements, full of joyful in· terludes. 'iVe commence with a motto by Otto Gallischek of Sprendllngen. It Is highly amusing: it is mack to move - and lose! Just remember that White does not want to let Black escape with a Black has a winning pull. For his Stalemate! Or a perpetual either! King can gobble up the Klng·side Pawns and support the advance of its own Pawns while the Bishop keeps watch fight for tempo. Bear over White's advanced Queen Bishop in mind that, Black's King moves, one Pawn. But 'White interjects some syn· of 'iVhite's advanced Pawns goes through copes into the smooth flow. to queen. But, conversely, if 1 K- Nl, 1 P-N4 PxP B- N7, White must then move one of his 2 P-B5 PxP advanced Pawns and loses them both for Black must tal{e those Pawns, else an ultimate draw. they go queening. 1 K-Q1 S K_B1 B- N7 8-B8 3 K- B5 B-R3 5 K- 87 B-K3 K- K 1 7 K_ K1 8-N7 2 B- BS 4 K_N6 8-B1 S K-QB 3 K-B1 8-Q7 8 K-Q1 8-R8 4 K_N1 B-KS 9 K-B1 B-N7t And White draws by "perpetual at· 5 K-N2 B-Q7 10 K_N1 tack." In March, 1918, the virtuoso composer 1 • • • • R-S6t 9 K- S1 R-KSt Now White wi ns; for, after the King's Henry Rinck published an extension of 2 P_K 3 RxPt 10 K-N2 R-NSt march or dance, 'iVhite has gained a this same melody In the Brit ish Chess 3 P-S3 Rx Pt 11 K_B3 RxPt tempo. The initial position was restored Mag az ine, but shortage of space prevents 4 K-R2 R-RSt 12 K_K2 R-KSt but with Black to move, and that makes 5 K- N1 R- RSt 13 K_Q1 R-KSt all the difference. us from recording It here. It is some· B K-82 R- BSt 14 K-B2 R- BSt what more paraphrased In its construc· 7 K -Q3 R-SSt 15 K_N3 R- BS t tion.' S K_K 2 R-KSt 16 K-R2 R- RBt 17 RxR mat e The Revolving Wheel The next renderings are very lllustra· Of more Importance for the practicing tive Intermezzi of seeding, fertilizing, "conductor" of games is the fruit which This truly hilarious square dance harvesting and reseeding - a tune with 1414 motif can be varied. Consider for in· a recurring refrain. stance this etude by Otto Blathy wherein The fi rst "bar" is by J . Moeller, Copen· hagen, published in the Rigaer Tage. 1 When studying at EdinbUr gh, Max Pavey won the Scottish Chess Charnpionship.- "" blatt, 1909. CHESS REV IEW, JANUA RY, 1961 17 filmed later under the title, La Ronde) and then com consists of words from the first line and is used in pare it with the revolving wheel in the game, F ri edl two places" and "rondel: A kind of rondeau, usually Haida_ wilh fourteen lines, two rhymes, and the f irst two lines Also, lyrics are well represented in th is month's u£ed as a refrain in the middle and at the end" - examples_ That is, compare these defi nitions from compare these definitions with the conu'ibutions by Webster's New 20th Century Dictidnarr: " rondeau: A Sakhodjakin, Birne\' and T roitski in th is al1icie and short lyrical poem of thirteen (or sometimes ten) lines notice the self-explanatory parallel : all the randel's with only two rhymes and an un rhymed refra in that requirements are exemplified in content and execution_ thIs Idea bore In practical play III the of SailhotiJakln's original (faulty) dia game, Fl'ledl- Halda in the Brll o gram with the Knight on Q4. That orlg· (Bruenn) CIty ChamDlonshlp In 1920. inal was subsequently amended by the author hlmllcit as shown in our diagram here. With the Knight on Q 1, White hAS a second wi nning s ol ution in ] R-QNj). followed by 2 N-B2t or 2 NxP t, etc. F OI' the present, correct diagram, though. the solution Is as follows. 1 N- K2 Px N On 1 . .. P-Q7, White mates with 2 B- K5t Rnd 3 R-N6 mate. But we shall leave sidelines to the reader. The main 1 . . . . Q- K8t ! point here Ie th at the Pawn fence is now Tha t third piece now goes ; but the up, and the gl'l l1 ,wol'k pursuit begi ns. White KIng becomes Sisyphus! 2 8-K5t K- N8 5 R-Q6t K_ K8 3 R-N6t K- B8 6 8-NSt K_B8 1 • • • . K_S5 3 8_8 1 K_S7 2 Kx R Q-R5t 4 8-84t K- Q8 7 R-S6t K- N8 28-Q3 K_K6 4 8-R3 K- N6 3 K-S5 .. . . 8 S-B2t K_ B8 AgaIn, with perpetual motion. Obviously. there Is 110 escape by 3 Of course, 8 . .. K- Hl or 8 .. K- R2 K - K 3, Q--K8t: and, a lmost as obvlousl:-. prodnces another short mate : but, again. there Is none by 3 K- I' 5. Q-B3 mate. the main point to note Is that now the 3 . . . . Q- R4t Kow, in I'egard to l·ese€ding. In the solution. mai n line, !'\Ins in to the sec 4 K-K6 • • • • same year, 1920. A. S. Selezniew com· ond, re vel1le movement of our dance. Again, retreat to B4 spell s draw. posed another "perpetuum mobi le," with 9 B_85§ K-K8 12 S- R3t K_N8 a cadenza added. 4 • • • • Q- K 1t 10 B- N4t K- Q8 13 R-NSt K- R1 Once more, an original Ub l'eUo. 11 R- Q6t K- S8 14 B- K 7! ... , Now the Idea Is mate by 15 B-B6 : e. g .. 14 . .. P-B8( Q) 15 B- Btit. Q--N7 16 RxQ. P-NS(Q)f 17 U- NS (discovered check Final Dance Steps and mate). 0 \11' concluding examples so one more Let us li nger awhile in admiration ; step Into square dance patterns. In and, aUer the ellthUsiasm has taken these. we fi nd a grill·lI ke network of propel' roots, let us tell a. little secret - Pawns through the loopholes of wh iCh namely, that. technically, this study has the I{lng is hunted rl"Om place to place a eUght and subtle flaw in the ead play. In II. fa ntastic Thlnl Man movie f!\Shio n. After 14 B- K7, the Black Pawns are left standj ag around rather loosely, They "'- have had a distinct fu nction - i.e., to serve as a fence, But, after th e 14th 1 K- N6 8- 85 move. the BIshop Pawn and the Knight 2 8 - 87 1 • • • • Pawn were allowed to kick around some An Important Interplay. The by now wha t aimlessly, and it is Ii matter of familiar mechanism, 2 K- B5, falls be· luck and coincidence that they are j ust cause of 2 ... P- B6. Arter White's inter· about kept in check. play, Black must first unpin. Now to ten.se his fellow competitor 2 . . • . K- N5 SakhodJakln, the eQuall y IlInstrious Rus 3 Bx P sian S. M. Birnow decided to sholV his 4 K- B5 . , . . colleague that the same job could be done, as he thought, a li ttle more neatly And now we attend to another organ by a more favora ble transfiguration. So grInd, foll owing the known score. (Or 4 Your editor fi rst found this position he produced the following. . . . B-K6 10lles to 5 K- K6, etc,) In the Yugoslav magazine Problem where It was referred to as having a ppeared, wIthout author, in The Temp, In 1931 . After 13 years had passed sinCe that It was surprising that the edltor!i\ of performance by Halda, tbere occul"l'ed Probl em wbo are excellently versed 111 another harvesting - or a re prise or all matters of composition and Its his tbe same windmill act. tory did not recognize the study as one of O. SakhodjaJdn's. which Wall th ird Against Goers en (Wbite) a t S preng pli t. .. In Shakhmatny Listok, 1931. !inge ll , 1938. Faust with three pieces down and l'8.re &ood luck drew I\S fol· The reason may be, however. that. In Tne Temps, the White Knl!;ht was placed lows. on QD3. And probably the positIon in t = check: ~ = db], ~h eck: § _ dIs. ch. The Temps was a cOl'l'ectlon by Cheron 18 CHESS REV IEW, JANUARY, 1'111 1 Af< the sol ution Is almost Identical with "qal,hodjllk l n's, we ru n t llt'ough It quickl y. The real sto 1 B-B5t K_B8 7 B- N2t K_N8 2 R-B8t K- K8 8 B- K5§ K- B8 3 B- N4t K- Q8 9 B-B4t K_Q8 4 R-Q8t K- B8 10 R-Qat K_K8 5 B- R3t K-N8 11 8-N3t K_ B8 K_ N8 You. .won't find this in 6 R-Nat K- R8 12 R-B8t . 13 K_R3 • • • • the h1etory books , And H B- R2 Is mate. but here's how Bi r no",'s study shows a clea r cu t fl· • nale. There ill no sldetrllckhlg by Queen· Benjanlin Franklin i ng B lack Paw ns. OII'now also omits t hl! W hite K n ight of Snkhodj ak l n's original discovered. electdcity setting. which seems added merely .. to make it more dl{f[cul t." On the oll1e l' hand, B lmow has to use a Black Bishop on KR8 as a self·block; but. al least, It Is essential to the study. I Thi s '"amended" position Is publish ed with some apprehension. and a word of ca ution to lhose neophltes who might now be encouraged to take Iln estab· lished s tudy. try an Imp)'ovemem and seHd it In all II piece of new composllion. pointing to B lrnow as an a libI. Let's say that Blrnow (a nd llelchhelm wh o dId som ething of t he sort lind various asso· ciates in t he iJrnctice) had plenty of (their own) o rlglnnls as suppOrt for t heir independent standing. So, please, n o submission of old copy - unless d\lly attri buted as " A tter So·and·So."
F inally, we have one mOI'e grlll,wOI'k theme, and so a s upel'r!ll lall y slmllal' pat· t ern. B ut t his one has a m Ol"€! dlftlcul t 2 3 execution. as m ight be expected of t hat la te doyen of composers. A. A. Troits);\. T he s tud y appeared i n t he Moscow edi tion of Le Soir , 1934.
White t o move a nd win 4 IS . Go fly • kit. 1 R-B4t K- Q8 8 R- N5t K_ R3 2 B- S6t K_K1 9 B- B1 Q-N8 3 R- K4t K- B1 10 R_N1 § K_R4 4 B-K7t K- N2 11 B-K3 Q- R7 5 R-N4t K-R3 12 R- N5t K_R3 6 B-N5t K_R4 13 K_R4 Q- R6 7 B-84 Q_N5 14 R-N3§ White will S as B lack must give up bls Queen [or t he Bishop. Solutions to PROBLEMART No. 1 The key Is 1 Q- K N2 with t h reat of 2 Q-N7 mate : U ] ... It- N7, 2 BxP : i f 1 ... P-K S or ... R- B 7, 2 N- :-<6. No.2 The k ey Is 1 Jt- RS w i th no act ual threat but to prevent ... Q- R6: If 1 _ . . P- Q7, 2 Q- D2; if 1 ... 1"1- N 4, 2 B-QS ; and, If 1 ... Q- B 2, 2 Q- K 4. No.3 W hite mates after 1 B-K5 and 1 ... K~B4 2 N-N 4 or 1 ... K-K5 2 Q- B4t. Reproduced by perm lu lon of :-'" e ...· l ·or ll. H &r ald Tribu ne from Th la W ee k MUil\ 7. lne Of Noven,ber Ii , 1%0. CHESS REVIEW, JANUARY , 1961 l' Activitl ... 01 CH E SS REVI E W Pos ta. Chess players: Oll n,c , e ll e rt. &. rll til\\Js, names of JACK STRALEY BATTELL new I'l~yer •. prlze· wi;'! ner•. se lect ed 03mn. Postal Chess Editor tourney h.. lr u<;: l lon , &. editod,,' com mer.t.
TOURNAMENT NOTES 10th Annual Championship 1956 filled out a se,'en for a Finals. and ProCjress Reports for As a result of current Posta l Mortems, M. E. Gibson and F. L. Seybold . who Finals section, 56·Nf 7. has com ()ie ted must walt till we have more qualifiers. Golden KniCjhts Tournaments play, and 56·Nt 8 s li pped by tis last mont h. The contestantll In these sections 12th Annual Championship 1958 8th Annual Championship--1954 $(:(\I'e t hese weighted point tota ls :· As a result of current Postal Mortems, One play·of! for 6th lind 7th place s 56·Nf 7: G. J. Van Deene. a perfect the follOWing have qualified for assign It ment to the Fina ls: J . A. Sli ter, J. P. has com e to QuI ck end: B. Rod rigue? ~6.2 for s traight wins : F. K. Ouchl 3(;.3; never !'e pll ed to n otice of tied pl'l?,es B. L. Phllli[ls 30.6: C. E. Gersch aO .15; Seibert, D. A. Drandr eth , L. D!'eibergs, or to assIgnment for !llay·off. So n. H. J. PeU 25.65; H. Carl' 17.3: and M. W. S. Simon, J . H. Kiff. S. R. Brown. A. Steinmeyer la.kes sixth Illace a nd - prize Luebbert withdrew: Capritta, W. A. 1'\)'1I1an. W. O'Reilly, A. money. 7th Is st!ll Mr. Rodriguez' if ever Richardson, J. G. Sullivan, T . E . Halse 56- Nf 8: R. T . Baco rn 40.85 (with only he reports tOl" It. and P . T . Sch leSinger. t wo draws); E. E. Hoenck 34.65; S. Kil ker 31.8; J . n. Gellllain 31.7 ; R. E. Dan· Likewise, a few Qua lified for assign· 9th Annual Championship 1955 iels 31.2: and T. Pelsach wit hdrew. ment to t he Seml·finals: K . Hart, L. R. As a result or current Postal Mortems, Simms and It n. Krle: we don't have ComplHng the totals o f all who ha"e one more F inals section. 55-Nr H. hall enough to fill !\ Seml·finals section as been li sted i n com pleted F inals o f the compleled piny. and the contestants ye t. 10th Annual Championship (bll t we muse t herein sco re these weighted polnts:- mention that A. K. Mense Is listed fo r 13th Annual Championship 1959·60 P . Rohlfing 36.9: S. Simon 32.25: only the h ighest of h is two (' ompleted J. N. Sc hmitt 31.75 ; '1'. Peisach 25.1; As a r esult of Cll rreat Postal Mo rtems, ~(,o 1" es ). we have t h is l1 at of prospenive P. G. Haley 23.9 ; C. P. Podlone 21.05: c!lsh !lrize winners. Walter Stepha u of Whippany, N ell' Jer and J. A. Lekowski 20.55. sey. is first to Qnllilfy fO I" the Finals! Melding these in to the p I'eviolls lI s t PRES ENT LEAD E R S" Qualifying for assignment to the Semi· of prospective ca~ h prize winners (we H Berliner . .. . AGo 1 A H Lclvjou . ... 31 .3 finals. meanwhile. at'e the following: add to t his lI sl liS eac h Finals section G J Von Deene .~6.2 It E Danl'l h~ •.• Sr. 2 F. I. Dllvls. H. D. Aten. E. F. Brunner. I. R J O)'ne r ..... ~5.7 E J l;:ent .•.... 30.8 fi nishes). we now h a ve Slgel"Son, Hildebrandt, S. M. n £ A Doe ..... ~3.95 C A Ke)'ae,· .. . l O.7ii W. C. P. C Kallmlan ..... H_ a R 1. Phl1ll ps ... 30.6 Horwitz. J . E. MacNeil. A. C. Mackin. PRESENT L EADER S" J A Cu.-do ...... 43.2a H G Brown .... 30.5 S. Valt kns, E. J . Mom. F r. D. Reddy, H Ber[J ner .... . 46.2 J D ).[oore ... .. 81.1 B R(L\ICnlhal ' .. U.Sii Q E Qe'-fleh ... 30.15 W. H . Dlessner. R. D. H ickey, W. P ress· I Sig-mond ..... 46.2 H Skema ...... 33.85 L Slo!zenberg . . H.iii F '" Connor .. . 2~.6 L Joyner ...... 45 .1 H L Shelley ... 33. 5 R T BAcorn ... . ~O.8ii \V A N)' mall . . . 2~ A nail , R. Gllbel·t, I.... . W. Hog lund, C. A. J N BUCk ...... H.6 D H lII or r l~ ... 33.45 A )'lIch" elsen .. 37.9 J n Wright .. . 28.95 Wyman. R. D. Fisch er , E. Pflumm, .T . ?t. A E Kahn ..... ~8 .4 5 J B Snethlage .*3. 45 , 'N, 'V,• Lease .... ---I.a" C .\1 Cren~ hnw .28.3 Ogni. M. Thayer, J . Petty, L . Drelbergs, I ~\'a Aronson ... 3i.S 1) G Walh.ca .. 28.3 D Burd ick ..... 42.95 L Collison ..... 33.25 C. L . Russell. M. C. Furze, A. C. S uy· G Fieldln!':" ..... 42.35 r Farber ...... 32. 25 R WI1~mund . . . 36 .75 ~r Aron ...... 27.7 E Buerger •... . (1.2 S Simon ...... 3~.2; G .r li'erber .. . . 36 .7 8 )1 r,):lw ll.rd~ .. 27 .3 l!:er. l~. E. S leep, H. M. Levy. G. J . Van R B Pott'lr .... 10.65 n a W,.;ght ... 31.75 I·' K Ouchi .... ]G.] V n U ndo", .. . 27.2.> Kamen, C. Tyner, L. Eldridge. J . Dlanl,· S L Mlli cr .... . 40.t. C Muller ...... 31.e~ H Lebel ...... 30 .2 W Well ...... 2C.7 stein, Eva Aronson, G. H. Agnew and F E Zuzmnll •.. a9. 75 F K Brown ... . 31.25 I j'.Il. ! y~ ...... 3~.2.j .J A Hamllton . . 26.1l J N Schmitt ... 3'.5 P D L ynch .... H.15 .r Bonavita ... . . 35 .1 J Pell ...... a5.65 E . E. Hansen. The last six stano u n· R SteInmeyer .. 39.5 L Streitreld ... 3U5 " ,\1:1"00 •...... • 35.05 W ~; Ste"on l! . . !.j.f) assigned Ull we get anot her quallfler. D W Eliason .•. 38.4 S PodOlSky .... 31.1 I~ "E Hoenck .... 3·1.65 L l~ Wood ..... ~3 . 95 L S tolzenoorg .. 38.55 F J Valvo ...... 3Ll I Kn'ldel ...... 34.~5 L E l'"i relltone .23A EJ Gavllondo . .. 38.35 \V E Ste,·enll .. 3().8 C ~l ll llKro"e ... 33.95 E ,\ Smith .... 12.3 POSTAL SCRIPTS J A W right .. .. 38.35 A \V Conl(er .. 31l.75 .I G Su1ll,·"" ... 33.a SCro" ' n ...... •.'. ~"-- C L Rl ~ ...... 37.5 H T Reeve .... 30.65 G W Daylor _ ... 33.05 H A Young ... 20.5 Happy New Year , Postalit es! And let's I G GoNl on .... 37.25 If S Zitzm an ... 30. 6 ~ I J I..awrence .. U.8 R ).{oCo u1)rey .. 19.55 get squared away for the new year by G KelinH ...... 37.2~ P l'lhelton ..... 30.5 R W Re ibel . .. . 32A r E .lohn!IQn .. 18.9 checking up on what games ar'e late, J Pajor ...... 37.%5 H HflHR ...... 3UI H Brunch .. ' .. 18.R S ", Rergreen . . 29.6 trylng "!'epellts" to see If the Xmas r K an~&l ...... 37.: J E B" "e .... . 29.5 S Kllker ...... 31.8 H ellrr ...... 17 .3 P Rohlr!ng ... . 3G .n ,v W Fuchs .. . 29 .5 .1 n Germ ain . .. 31.? R K Greenbnn k 17.3 mail-rush WitS to bl ame but reporting t o D L Schurr . • .. 36.9 fl P flum m ..... 29.4 F Cram e" ...... 12. S the Postal Chess Editor If the repeat J N Cotte,...... 3G.S M Blumentha! .28.9 brings no p!'ompt r esponse. W KorolJow .. . 36.7 L '" Beach . ... 28.4 J J Adams ...•. 36.25 \V A Nyman .. 28.35 11 th Annual Championship-1957 For those who seem misinformed : 'We L Ooldst&ln .... 36. 1 V Wilcox ...... 28.3 As It result of cu rrent P ostal Mort ems , do NOT recommend repeats as a usual G Xystrom .... 36.1 J G '''anen .. . 28. 0 Finals section, 57-N f 6, has completed R G BroWn .••. ~5 . 3 J F" Shaw .... . Z1 .' thing and we do not requi re t hem ex· E Amburn ..... 35.25 D K irnmelman n 21.75 play, a nd the contestants t herein have cept once yearly. The once is dur ing or G B Oakes .... 3:..1 D B ) fcLeod .. . n.3 scored these weigh ted pOi n t totals:- be tter after the Xmas ma il·rush when G Ze rkowltz . .. 35.1 L R Klar ..... 21.15 B. Forsberg 38.95; M. D. Blumenthal postcards do lend to become lost. \V Knox ....•. . 3 ~ .'~ ~ I \Vicksmnn .. 2G.n B Rosenblum .. 34.(,5 S 0 WRuner .. 26.6 36.75; R. W. Golla 31.8; W. A. Nyman OtherwIse. yo u can use a repeat If F E Sleep •.•... a4.55 V Sm it h ...... 26.3 29.35; V. Wildt 25.5: W. Well 22.75: opponent has never been late before. But H B Daly ...... 34.S B Petrofl . .... 16.2 a.nd A. C. Suyker 22.S. you can a lso re port, per either Rule 13 ' ,Velghted J)o.)i!n total~ ~re ov;ed on l11e l\Ieallwhlle Semi·[i nallsts are stm qual· or Rule H. and very certainly should fol:ow lnS" Bcale: 1.0 I'Ol nt~ per win In llle Ifying to the 11th Annual Flnnls: last w11en a regular move Is a week over·due p relim~; 2.2 In semi.nna!s; and ~.S in nn.11 ~. Draw, count half the~e values. to do so were A. J. Thompson, who 01" a repeat Is not promptly answered.
20 CH£S~ REVIEW , JANUARY, 1961 Tem pting but weak. One may go a ll the way back to Tch igorin- Teichman n. POSTAL GAMES London. 1899. for the continuatlon which from CHESS REVIEW tourneys secu res a winning position for 'Whlte: 12 PxP! R - KNI 13 P-KN4, Q-N3 14 Our Postal p layen NxB, P xN 15 B-N5! UxP 16 Q- B3! P- K4 a rc invited to sub. 17 N-B6t, K-D2 18 P- KR4, P- KRS 19 mit t heir BEST K- K4§ , K- K 3 20 P-TI5. games f or this de partment. The moves of each game must be oYrltten on a stand a rd score sheet, 20 Nx P ! • • • • or typed on a Watch that square! single sheet of 20 ... KxN paper, and mark. ed "fOr publica· On 20 . . . Q- K2, 21 Q- N6t is equally tion" _ _ effective. 21 Q- N6t K- Bl Annotated by JOHN W. COLLINS If 21 ... K- K2, 22 Q- N 7 mate. 22 A- B3 B-K2 12 . . . . A Nifty Knl9ht 23 B-K5 A-B1 But t his capture is very !'isky a nd Or 23 . .. B- K7 24 BxN! A K night sacrifice at KB7, BO often not the way to Jmndle White's offer. a vital spot, renders Black impotenL 24 Q- R7! Re s ig ns Co n~ct is 12 , .. O- O! 13 N/ 7-N5, OR K l 14 PxP , J{ xP 15 N-R3, N- J<4 16 N- B4, The re is no defense t o 26 D-N6 a ll d QU E EN'S GAMBIT ACCEPTED B- B2 with a dvall tage for Black. 26 Q-D7 mate. M e O 9: page 168, colu mn 15 13 N- N5t K- Kl J. Borchardt R. Colescott Not 13 ... KxP?? 14 RxDt. Wh ite Black 14 NxB K- Q2 1 P- Q4 \ P-Q4 Skatin9 on Thin Ice 15 NxNP Q- N3 2 P- QB4 PxP Dlack Is t ossed a Pawn, skates on very Not IS . . . QxP?? 16 Q- N4t! The Accepted vel'slon Is a feasible thin ice In the open in g and just man· 16 Q- K2 ages to reach shore and win the ending. • • • m ethod of obtaining a semi-open game T his m oye is a serious loss of time. against the Queen's Gambit. MAX LANGE ATT ACK 16 Q- R5! a t once makes all the diffe r· 3 N- KB3 N-KB3 M ea 9: page 19. column 2(' ence. 4 P- K3 • • • • H, N. Fi s her H. J ewett 16 . . . QR- KB1 Usual. The Mannh eim Variation, .] Q 17 Q- R5 White Dlack • • • • R4t, is a good alternative. Black esca(les on 17 Q-K6t, K-Ql 18 1 P- K4 P-K4 3 B-B4 B_ B4 4 . ..• P- K3 QxP, RxP 19 N- K6t , K- Bl. 2 N- KB3 N-QB3 40-0 • • • • 5 axp P- B4 17 • . . . RxP .0-0 PxP If 4. P - Q'I. BxP! T his move g oes a long way t oward 4 • • . • N_B3 M ost frequent i s 6 ... P- QR 3 7 Q- K2, solving Black's prob lems. 5 P-Q4 • • • • N - B3, or 7 ... P- QN1. 18 Q- R3t K- Q3 7 PxP B_ K2 9 R- Q1 P- QR3 A dubious way of trying to reach t he 19 S-B4t! K- B4 8 Q- K2 N_B3 10 N- B3 N- QN 5 Max Lange. \Vhite is constrained to 20 N-K6 t K-N4 11 B- KN5 .... a(\opting the mild line of the Gluoco PlnllO with 5 N- B3 or 5 P- Q3, A strange h aven for the K ing, but a Or 11 P-QR4, 0 - 0 12 N- K5, P - QN3 13 fair ly safe one. 5 . . • , Px P Q- B3, R-R2 14 P -Q5, Q-B2 with equal 21 BxP QxBP chances, 'fhe refutation of White's last moyO:) 22 BxB QxPt 11 . • • , 0 - 0 Is 5 .. . BxP! e.g., 6 NxB, NxN 7 P- B4. 23 K_ Rl KxB 12 N- K5 N/ 5- Q4 ! P-Q3 8 PxP, PxP 9 B-N5, Q-K2 10 1'.'-B3, Black has an extra Pawn, a powerful In conjunction wit h Black's 6th. 8th P-D3. After the text·move , the game w01'l(s in to t he i\ia.....:: Lange propel'. passed Queen P a wn and can cou r t lhe and 10th moves, a. Stein ltz' idea , The ending with confidence. isolation or Ule Queen Pa wn and the 6 P-K5 P-Q4 24 P-K N4 • • • • out-posting of the Queen Knight at Q-\ Is Or 6 . .. N-KN5! White's fh'st rau k is rather yulnerable an anticipation of Nimzov!ch 's theories 7 PxN · . . . on the "!solanl" In My Syst em. (e.g ., M N- N5, KR- KB1, th l ~alen i ng 25 II 7 B-QN5, Bla ck has 7 ... 1'\- 1\:5 3 ... QxRtl. Alld 24 Q- R5, threatening 13 QR_B1 R_ K1 15 B- R4 B-Q2 KxP. O-O! 9 Nx1'.', PxN 10 ExP, D-1l3! m ale In two, Is easily met with 2'1 .. . 14 B- Q3 P_ A3 16 B-N1 NxN 7 . . . . Px B Q- B 4. A serious tactical and strategic«i mis· 8 R-K1t B-K3 24 .... Q-B6t 28 A-K2 RxR t take a t a critical stage, Better is 16 9 N-N5 , , . . 25 QxQ RxQ 29 NxA K-B4 ... QR-Dl. Sharper Is 9 PxP, R-KNI 10 B- N5. 26 K_ N2 R-Q6 30 A- KB1 R-Q1 17 AxN B- N4 27 N- B4 R- Q7t 31 R- SSt K- N5 9.. .. Q- Q4 Again. 17 .. . R- QEl is indicated. 10 N-QB3 Q_ B4 A lia bility during the (il'st part of 18 Q- B2 ! . .. . t h e gam e, the Kin; becomes an asset Not 10 , . . P xN?? 11 QxQ ! T he attack begins wit h the threat of in the e nding. 11 QN-K4 B_N3 19 BxN, BxB 20 R-B7! 32 N- 84 P- N4 18 . • • • P-N4 Modern theory recommends 11 • • • Or 32. . P - B6 33 N-Q3t. K- B5. 0-0-0 . Also prefe rable to the text- 19 B-N3 B-N5 33 K- B2 P-QR3 37 R-B3 P-B6 moye is 11 ... B-K Dl . This m ove perm its the winning sacrl· 34 N- Q5t K-R4 38 PxPt PxP 12 NxBP fice. Rela tively speaking, 19 . , . R- K Dl • • • • 35 K_ K2 N-N5 39 R- B7 R-Q7t is best, t - check; t: = db!. check ; I = dis, ch, 36 NxN Kx N Res igns CHESS REVI EW, JANUARY, 1961 21 SoukU I). 359 Critu cro.ek " Cranlord. 167 lickS ~e l .wn. 22.'1 Dle l(eld t lops ( 21) Fe~u s . POSTAL MORTEMS Owens bea ts Barnes twice. 318 Bla nd hnlts 2%S ~ 'l!.vorl l e halts Hotrlnan. U8 Giko"· tOptl Game Report. Received H umphries . 379 A ngsten berger besu P a r ke r. ( 2{) Colle tte. !29 Majehrowicz bests Ba.lles, ~81 E w ing tops 0 .. & 10 Bryant. as8 TIger during November , 1960 tops Ol'$lda , tlea N uzum. 390 G nllde nips T ourneya 230 ·413: 230 Ken t tops H ili To report results, follow instructions :\[on),ek. 392 Hutchinson tops Ban k l twice. twice . U I Shaff, Pollier each lOp Ow en s 39 3 Dophelde downs T homas. 395 A ngsten t \Vl eO;'!. 242 Joseph tops ( a ) Burrougha. 2-17 on pages 4: & 5 of your booklet on Klein cllp* KOM. 2~ 9 Neumann m a Uls B ul· berl'el' top ~ (a ) Pal·ker. 398 C h a ~e tops lard. 2$6 :Mascarl conks Carroll. 2J5 WM t _ Postal Chess s trictly and exa(ltly. Other (Z!) Adair. wIse the report may be m.ierecorded, brook ha lts Hurd; Ashley hits H ildreth. Tourney. <00· 414 : ~ O l Wolle top!! S UnMln 278 C hnppell replaeell Gnllanter. 281 Has held Ull or even lost. Ollei!, Llnd inger tw lei!. t o! Gold s lOne l,JesU! b rouck, Stanley spli t two. !81 Co Jl[n ~. Pi.... note: W inne" (and those ,.."11 th e P erone t w ice. Vanc@ once. t06 Calver t with 81 11l0nea1l each top K ~Blerb aum twice; Col· Whi te ple<:ell In cue of dra.ws) m ust report d rawn. (07 T )'mnla k Jolts Jacques, (~ lins rl p ~ Re ifs nyder . Z g ~ D!3pa,. te tOPI ... ,oon q result Is conC!rmed by opponent. P riCe tops Somer. once. K otzker tw ice. Owens t w ice, 313 .!olles withdra Wll , U 5 The opponent may t eJ)Ort also to ensure hb 41 2 Luchl licks Fra.nK Leake replaces Earuch. Hl Stern repl!tees ~cord and rating .olnll' throue-h but must Saks. 3 16 Cacchlone to p ~ :\OIu nro tw ice. 347 then at&te clearly that he W&II the loser (or Started in 1960 (Key: 60-C) Floyd replaces D utlne. 3H BiI1in ICs l e~ re Played Blllck In cau ot " draw). pla ce. h tel. a..m e reports .ent In time tor r ecel!)l by Tourneys I · 79, 1 Bntche lor beats Grote. datu ..Iven above . h0 1l 14 be printed belo... t Mallz, Os le nnan n s pli l t wo, 6 McLean And the playeNl concerned should eheek licks Mt" Ulelie. 8 Cru!ey conks R[or
21 N/4-B5 · . , . 31 P- ]\'3!? is the line : e.g., 3] . ~/NTERNATIONAL \\·hite does right to al'oid 21 Bxl'\. Rx]\' 32 ltxR. NxPt 33 K-R2, QxH 34 PxB 22 ItxP , 8-83 23 R-K-J, KH- K 1 as H-QBI! after which may follow (a) 3~ Black ge ts superior (;ompen~ation for . . . R- Ql 35 PxB! (b) J.l . .. Il - KBl ARGENTINA. 1960 the Pawn. S5 8 - B5! ( c) 3·' .. . R-Kl 35 Q-Q7, ;\"-N4 36 R- B8! Santa Fe In te rnational 21 . . . , B>N 23 B- K3 Q-Q1 22 NxB B-B3 24 B- Q4 R- B1 30 , , . . Q-B4! The Fork Royal 31 NxP . ' . The c hances are in the balance. . The twist which deddes thi~ game is 25 P-QN3 Q_Q2 Can it be that Szabo, who is an ex, so common that it deserves a nnme of cei!ent tac tician, has simply overlooked 26 N-N3 , its own. We suggest "Fol"l, Royal." · . . this family check? Apparently, Whitp This tournament was the third inter· After 26 BxN, Black gets the edge thinks he did: but. in doing so, he national one held in Argentina i n 1960. with 26 . .. PxB. But 26 .. BxD?? fails plunges into a u'ap. against the Fork Roya[: 27 Rx!3! PxR The winner of this game tied for first It is necessary here to play 31 N-N3, 28 Q-N·t! with Taimanov. t hough Blac k then wins a Pawn: 31 ... 26 , , . . B-R5 RUY LOPEZ BxN 32 Px8, NxQP (White CHn H'y to 27 N_ K4 , , . , recoup, indeed. but Black prevails with Hector Rossetto Laszlo Szabo Not 27 DxN, PxB 28 HxP because of 33 BxP? RxRt 34 RxR, KxB 35 P-KN4, Argentina Hungary 28 ... 8 - 83. R- B7! 36 Q- Q·'t, Q-B3 37 QxN, Q-B7t White mack 27 , . . . KR-K1 38 K-R2, QxR 39 Q-N5t. K-Bl ~O Q-Q8t. 1 P- K4 P-K4 5 0-0 B_ K2 /, 28 Q-Q2 N-N3 Q- Kll. 2 N_KB3 N_QB3 6 R-K1 P_QN4 29 Q- N4 · . , . 31 , . , . Q- N4! 3 B_N5 P_QR3 7 B- N3 0 - 0 This attack on the Queen Pawn proves Resigns 4 B_R4 N_B3 8 P-KR3 . . . . to be ineffective and so leads to loss of Facing the FOl'k Royal, White loses This last move has been sl:ggested In time. 29 QR- BI is indicated here. his Queen unless, indeed. he prefers to this column as a plausible means for 29" .. N-B5! be mated. avoiding the Marshall Counter·Gambit A fine rejoinder, hinging on intricate ( 8 P- B3, P- Q4) , provided White has tactical possibilities. some personal reason for doing so. Hos s etto has: h is opponent is known for his EAST GERMANY. 1960 virtuosity in handling the ""lal"sha[I." International Team Championship 8 . . . . P-Q3 at Leipzig After 8 ... B- N2 9 P-83. I31a ck can still get in the aggressive 9 . . . P-Q4: Lovely Finale but 9 P- Q3 holds him to . .. P- Q3. SO Black indulges in a premature counter· Szabo turns to the regular li ne . action and wins a Pawn. But he exposes 9 P-B3 N_Q R4 12 QN-Q2 BPxP himself to a devastating attack, To be 10 B_B2 P- B4 13 PxP N-B
13 P_N4 • • • • able counter·chances: 20 PxQ. NxKP 21 Q-K3, NxPt 22 K- Bl, RxE - still this White is somewhat impatient. The line is hardly convincing. But Black more usual continuation is 13 NxN! so gets adequate compensation with 19 ... as to destroy the guard of t he enemy NxKP! Arter 20 BxQ, NxQt 21 NxN, RxP Queen and force it bac\!:. 22 BxB, KxO 23 PxP, RPxP, Black with For example, on 13 ... BxN or RxN, 15 BxQP! , . . . only two extra Pawns has adequate com White gains ground with 14 N-Q5, forc pensation for the piece in these extras: This neat sacrifice bloW8 Olack's posi· ing 14 , , . Q- Ql (14 .. , QxQI 15 NxPt!). his compact Pawn formation, the tion to pieces. On 13 . . , PxN 14 N-Q5, Q-Ql 15 strength of his Bishop and the wealmess 15 , . . , P,B B-N6. Q-Kl 16 N- B7. Q-Ql 17 Q-R5, of White's King Rook Pawn. 16 NxP ) Q-Q3 -White has a decisive advantage. 2) 17 BxB! KxB 18 P-N5, N-R4 19 After ]6 . , . Q- Ql 17 NxN. White al~o There remains 13 ... PxN 14 N-Q5, N~Q5! after which \Vhite has a slight wins easily. QxQ to be considered; for, after 15 KxPt, advantage. He threatens 20 KR- Kl and 17 NxN B,N K-Rl 16 RxQ, QR-Kl, the position seems 21 P- KB4 and can meet 19 ' . , KR-Bl 18 8-B5! Q,B c ritical for Wh ite. His Knight has no smoothly with 20 P - B3, threatening 21 19 QxN P-B3 retreat, and taking three Pa.wns fo r it N-N6, (17 NxPt, etc., or 17 NxP, etc.) is un Black's last is his only mOI'e. 19 .. . 17 . . . • KR_B1 ! satisfactory. 17 P-·K 5! however, affords R-KBI is met by 20 N- B6 mate. And White a favorable way out. 17 ... PxP Black now pins the Knight on QB3 and 19 . . . R- KNI 20 N- B6t, K- Dl Z1 NxPt. 18 B- B5 gives White a distinct advan· creates the possibility of 18 .. . BxP 19 K-Kl 22 QxQ, BxQ 23 KR-KIt, B- K2 tage. And 17 . . . R,,,N 18 PxN. BxP 19 BxB, KxB 20 PxB, RxN 21 PxR. NxKP. 24 P-B6 li kewise leads to mate, B-R6, R/I- Kl 20 B-QB4! P-R4 21 RxP, which certainly would be unpleasant for White to say the least. 20 NxPt K-B2 R-K8t 22 R- Ql gives him a decisive ad· On 20 . .. K-Bl, 21 N-Q7t wins. vantage, partly sin ce the Interpolation of 18 B-B4 . . . , 20 B-QB4 has ruled out 22 ,. RxR 23 21 ~K6t K-B1 White pal'l'ies the onslaught just men· 22 KR-K1 R-Q1 RxR. R-K7. • tiolled. He is also aiming consistently at 13 . . . . N_ K4 15 BxN RxB the eventual exchange of his King Rook For Black, one move Is as good a~ 14 B_ R6 N_ B5 16 N-N3 .. , . Pawn. On the other hand, Black now another now. retains his dangerolls King Bishop, 23 RxRt B,R Again, White dismisses the normal The steadiest continuation is 18 BxB. 24 -N-Q7t Resigns line. 16 N- Q5! clearly offers h im the edge in a fairly simple way: 16 . .. Q-Ql KxB 19 Q- R2, which forces the trade of _It is all over in view of 24 . , , BxN Queens (19 . . . Q-K3? 20 N-Q4!) and 25- QxB, B-K2 26 P- B6!: 1 :::;: check; * _ dbl. check; § :::;: The Better Genius Najdorf is a genius in subtle com bi nation play; but. in this game, he meets an even bette r one . The Wor ld Cham, pion performs a delig htful m astel'piece. SICILIAN DEFENSE Michael Tahl M iguel NaJd orf Soviet Union Argentina 19 . • . . PxP White Black The main alternative Is 19 . . . P - N 5 1 P-K4 3 P_Q4 20 QN- K4, NxN 21 NxN, PxP 22 P-B5! P-QB4 PxP 18 • • . . B-B4 2 N_KB3 P-Q3 4 NxP N-KB3 But then White obviously has a v ery This move Is no good; but n othing is 5 N_QB3 P-K3 p owerful attacl,: e.g., 22 ... R- Bl 23 good, a nyh ow. P - B6, B- Rl 24 Q- R4, QB-N2 25 N- N5 , Apparently, Black m akes this older 18 . .. KR-Kl is the only plausible P -R4 26 QxRP! NxP 27 Q- R 4, KR-Bl move (brought to fame by Euwe when alter native; but Wh ite then obtains a 28 RxN, BxR 29 Q-R7t, K- Bl 30 P -Q6, he was young) in order to minimize the clear winning advantage with 19 Q- N3! Q- Q2 31 R- KBl, and White wins. effect of 6 B-K N5 0 1" 6 B-QB4 which T here may follow: have become the regula r continuations 20 P_B5 ! • • • • 1) 19 .. , P-N3 20 R"B! RxR 21 D- Q4 , after 5 ... P - QR3. The characteristic switch from t he N-R4 22 Q- N5, followed possibly by 23 6 B_K3 King m e to the Bishop file has this vital . . . , N-R6t and 24 P - B5; point : Black's K4 is m omentarily sealed Now, llOwever, White has this effec· 2) 19 , , . B-Bl 20 B-Q4, N- R4 21 off. tlve continuation at his disposal. This N- R6t, K-Rl 22 RxR! R"R 23 Q- N5 ! 3) 19 . . . N- R4 20 Q-N4, P - N3 21 20." . B-N2 Bishop Is not so easily exposed to e'" change now as it is after 6 B-KN 5. RxB, RxR 22 B- Q4. If Black moves to con test the King 19 P- Q4 B-R2 Bishop file (in expectation of PxP by 6 • • . . P-QR3 7 P-B4 P_QN4 20 B- R4 N_K5 White), he lands in the variation cited The st rong position u nder 19 ... PxP above: e.g., 20 . . 7 , , , Q- B2 8 P- KN4 OCCUlTed in of this Kllight is Black's main hope. R-KBI 21 P-B6! B-Rl 22 QN- K4, etc. Keres-Bilek (see page 26 ). 21 21 QR-Q1 QB_R1 Najdorf hopes to do bettel· with the RxN ! ! • • • • But there goes Black's hope, N ow that White's Queen Pawn is pro· text move, threatening to win White's King Pawn. tected, Black's Queen Knight Pawn n eeds 21 , . . • PxR protection. Black must consider 22 NxP 8 Q-B3 B-N2 10 0-0 B- K2 22 B_B6! • • • • in conjunction with 23 P xP, 24 Q- B7t 9 B-Q3 QN-Q2 11 P-QR3 0-0 White has lots of threats; one is 23 and, possibly, 25 Q"N. An d, a fter 21 12 Q_R3 . . . - Q- R6! There is lIO defense now. .. . P - N5 22 QN- K4, Black la nds once A strong attack on Black's King is in 22 . . . . Q-N3 24 B-K5 Q_N3 again in that variation cited before, the making. At the moment, however, 23 BxP KR-K1 25 N-R6t K_B1 22 QN_K4 N_R5 the key P- K5 is not yet a threat: 13 26 P-B5 Resigns Now Black loses a piece; but other P-K5! PxP 14 PxP , NxP 15 R"N, NxD! After 26 ... Q-N3 or 26 .. . Q- QB3, moves a re just as bad. 12 • . . . Q-B2 White m ust watch out tor the possibility 23 BxN PxB 25 Q-B7t K_R1 This Is one defen sive move too many, of 27 , . , RxB. He wins, however, by 27 Q-R5! followed by 28 P - B6 or 28 24 PxP BPxP 26 N-QB5 ! , , . . And Black is subsequen tly unable to , B- Q6t with Q-N5 flgm·lng in ir J)eeded. Clinching victory. Black cannot save stem the tide, Wit h the correct 12 . .. his K night because of the additional N-B4, Black eliminates or neutralizes threat or 27 N-K6, the dangerOus White K ing Bishop: e.g., 13 P-K5, KN- K5! (not 13 . . . NxB11 (See d iagram , top of next colum n) 14 KP"N!), and the defense holds. 26 • • ' • Q-R2 13 QR-K1 N_B4 In despair, Black moves at least to 14 B-B2 P-Q4 prevent 27 N-K 6. But of course White Thel'e seems good reason to doubt wins easily nonetheless. that mack h as any adequate means of CHESS REVIEW , JANUARY, 1961 29 QB4 after which his Two Bishops may 1) 34 N- Q6, RxRt 35 QxR. Q-Ql. lIll{ .@. UNITED STATES become a l'eal asset. the defense holds. 18 P-B5! • • • • 2) 34 N- N5! P-R3 35 ?\-Rit. K-K2 howe ver, Is a winning line for White MISSOURI, 1960 'White, however, barricades the crlt· ical squ are, thus keeping t he edge. There The s equel is not 36 P -B4, RxR j 3: USCF "Open" at St. Louis is no drawback in the backwardness of QxRt, K- Ql as then White's strayinf Knig ht Is In danger. B\lt 36 R-HI:: Between Kitchen and Dining Rook h is Queen Pawn a s Black cannot aHack Ule P awn effectively nor pos t a piece on threatening 3'1 P- B4 , is decisive: {'.g. T his Is a game. not brilliant bllt SG ... K- Ql 3'1 H-R8t. B-QBl 38 P-B4 reo his own Q~. markable (or Its prolonged s tage Of s tra· R- K2 39 N- B6! a fter whic h Blac k has n< 18 . _ . . R_K2 tegic maneuvering which, thO\lgh White QR_K1 20 Q- B3 playable mO\'e. Also 36 R-QI: mosl has the edge, both sides handle very 19 R-K1 8-81 21 B-K4 P_QN4 likely wins. well. T he ens uing s tage or o pe n right· Black eliminates the tension in re 34 N-Q6 RxRt s pect to t he threats or ... QNPxP a nd inl;. however, ends as soon as It has 35 QxR • • • • begun. Proba bly s hort time, OIack o f PxQNP as the latter could wo r k ot Now there are three powel'ful t hreats : blund ers t wice In It row and loses, A a gains t h im at a ny moment wh ile t he 36 Q- K8 mate, 36 Q-RI and 36 NxB. P x;'; carefully pl'epa l-ed d ish c rashes on its for mer cannot help him. 37 Q- K6. way to the dining room. 22 P_R4 P-QRS 24 R- K2 R/ l _K 1 35 . . . . Q-Q2 SLAV DEFENSE 23 B-B2 R-Ql 25 PxP RPxP 26 QR-Kl K-B1 This Is a very weak move, most Iikeh flttl'lbutable to time pressure. On 3 ~ (Schlechter Variation) After 26 . . . P - K4? 27 PxP, PxP. Black ... 8- Q2! White has t he edge, no doubt Ja.mes T . Sherwin John W . Collins is seriously and dertnlteJy handle-apped btlt whether he can win remains to bf Black by his isolated Pawn. White seen. H e has several dangerous contin 3 N- KB3 N_B3 1 P- Q4 P- Q4 27 P- QN4 B- Q2 ua tlons at his disposal but none !;eem ~ 2 P_QB4 P-QB3 4 N_B3 P_KN3 28 B_N3 B-B1 rully convincing. 5 P- K3 8-N2 29 K- B1 B- Q2 On 36 Q- Rt, Black can go wrorw with The Schlechter Variation, a forerun· A kind of stalemate has been reached. 36 . .. 8 _Kl ?? S7 Q-RS, Q- K2 38 ~ B -m: ner of the Gl'uenfeld Defense (and ac· White has a fine position. exercIsing And 36 ... Q- Ql Is dubious, somewhat tually Introduced by Alapln) . strong pressure along the Ki ng file; but because or 37 Q- R5 or 37 Q- R7. But hi~ 6 B- Q3 ... . he faces a problem of how to make head, defense holds with 36 ... Q- Nl ! way. More u8\lal Is 6 Q-N3. 0 - 0 7 D- Q2 On S6 D-K6, threatening 37 BxB, Qxll after which 7 ... P- N3 Is dubious e ven 30 N-Q2! • • • • 38 Q- IH, Black counters adequately with tbough It worked satisfactorily In Bot So he turns from siege to attack. His 36 . .. P- B4! vlnnlk-Wlnter, Nottingha m, 19 36. threat is N- K4-Q6. In doing so. h oweve l", On 36 Q- I-i:3 , threatening 37 B-R2 a lld 6 . . . . 0-0 he lifts the ban on . .. P - K4. 38 Q- N3, Bla ck parries with 36 ... Q-R2: 70-0 P-N3 30 . . . . P- K41 And. o n 36 Q- Nt , Q-R2 37 B-R2. Q At this poin t, t he additional fianchetto This thematic move now compromises R6 ! Blac k may even get t he u pper hand has the drawbac k or conceding White a t he position of Blac k's King. But It 36 Q-R1 B-Q6t dangerous freedom of action In the cen offers good chances for equality Il one· T he second blunder: t be Bishop I"u n~ ter. A steady altelllative. o fte n adopted th eleas. The alternative SO P- B4 Is hope from t he scene ol action, leaving a by S myslov, Is 7 ... B-N5: e.g., !I P less because ot the Pawn hole It creates disast rous gap in Black's defenses. Sf KR3, BxN 9 QxB, PXP 10 Bx BP. QN-Q2 on Blac k's K4. ... Q-Ql is necessary. T hen B l a c k' ~ and 11 ... P-K~ (or 11 P- K4. N- N3!). 31 PxP R,P job. thongh han l. er than it was tW( 8 Q- NS P-KS 32 RxR R,R moves before, is still not hopeless (3; 9 R_Q1 B_N2 Q- R7, B- Q2! or S7 NxB, PxN! ). 10 P- K4! . ... Black correctly assumes that, arter 33 RxR, QxR 34 QxQ, PxQ when a U majol' 37 K-N1 . ... White obtains a etrong Initiative with pieces have gone, the iSOlation oC his Now there is no stopping the devastat this cente r thl·USt. He profits by the King Pawn has no real signifi cance. Ing penetratlon by White's Queen. TIH omission of B- Q2 which Is IIseless in threat Ie 38 Q- R8t_ K- K2 39 Q-KN8! this connection. 33 N-K4! • • • • 37 . . . . Q-Q1 PxKP But White plays for attack, a voiding 10 . . , . 38 Q-R7 Resigns 11 NxP N>N fur ther exchanges. His t hreat now Is 12 BxN N_Q2 34 P - B4, R-B4 (else 35 NxP) 35 Q-K3: e .g., 35 ... R-R4 36 K- B2. Q- Q1 37 N Black's last Is Illso a Questionable Q6, P-B4 38 B-R2 a nd 39 Q-N3 (or 38 Nothing New move. Obviously, he must s trive for .. , Q-B3 39 Q-K8t! ). Black ch ooses a bad variation, prob either .. . P- QB4 or ... P - K4 In order ably In an attempt to restore it, but I~ to free his game and. as ... Q- B2 is unable to prove anyth ing new. n eeded for t hat object. it seems most logical to play t hat move right now, QUEEN'S GAMBIT be (ore W hite can pre" ent It. But Dlack Arthur Bisguier D,. P. Poschel h as anothe r plan. which Is a lso plausible. White Blacli 13 B-B4 ... . 1 P- 04 P-04 60-0 P-QR ~ White prevents . . . Q-B2; bu t the 2 P- QB4 p,p 7 Q-K2 N-B ~ Bisho p becomes exposed to exchange. 3 N_KB3 N-KB3 8 N_B3 P-Q N ~ 13 . . . . N-BS 15 B-K5 P-BS 4 P_K3 P-K3 9 B-N3 B-Nt: 14 B_B2 N_R4 16 B-N3 NxB 5 BxP P-B4 10 R-Q1 Q_ N~ The exchange leaves t he s ituation In T his last move is supposed to b~ respect to the key moves, ... P -QD1 and critically weakel' than 10 , . . Q-32 .. . P- K4, essentlaUy unchanged as the Either Black has confused the tW( two pieces bore eQually on that situa 33 .... B-B4 ! moves or is Indnlglng in a futile a tteml)! tion. The only move. Black is delending his to rehabilita te the text move. 'W llkh 17 RPxN Q-B2 difficult position remarkably well. ever his reason, Ills cause is lost. Now Black h as won this good sQuare The seemingly more energetic 3S .. . 11 P- Q5 PxP fo r his Queen, t hreatening 18 .. . p- P- B4 offers these possibilities. 12 P- K4 0-0-0 30 CHESS REVIEW, JANUARY, 1961 After 12 ... PxP 13 NxKP, NxN 1-1 7 P-QR3 P-Q3 39 .... K,N QxNt, B- K2 15 B-Q5! White has a 8 QN- Q2 Q-K1 40 QxPt K-K3 winning attack as Reshevsky demon 9 B-N2 Q-R4 41 QxP strated In his famous game against Black's text is premature. Instead 9 And White ultimately won. Vidmar, Nottingham, 1936. , . QN- Q2 is indicated {10 N -KI, With Black's Qneen on QB2 where it P-K4~). guards the King Bishop Pawn and pre 10 N_ K1 P_KN4 StimUlating Errors vents 'Whlte's B- KB4, the text move is 11 P_K4! . , , . This is tournament winner Henin's sufficient. With the Queen where it Is most captivating game, although not no move suffices. With this move, White has obtained the edge no matter how Black re-acts. his best. Unusual errors sth' up lively 13 NxQP N,N 15 BxP RxRt complications, to the belle£it of Dlack 14 BxN N_N5 16 QxR B-K2 11 . . • , Q-N3 13 N-Q3 QN-Q2 12 Q-K2 R-B2 14 P-QB4 P-B3 and the bette]' enjoyment of the reader. After 16 .. BxP, which Black must The notes are according to Henin. originally have intended, White obtains A bit beltel' is 1-1 N- Bl, followed CENTER COUNTER GAME a winning advantage with 17 N-N5. But. by 15 , . . B-Q2. in leaving the King Pawn alone. Black 15 P-QS! • • • Orest Popovych C. C. Henin can hope for nothing better than to delay With this strong Pawn sacl'if!ee, White Black his de!eat. White turns to a ttack. 1 P-K4 P-Q4 3 P-QB4 P-B3 15 ... , QBPxP 18 Q-K3 QNxP 2 PxP N-KB3 4 P-Q4 p,p 16 BPxP PxQP 19 BxN N,a As is well known, these moves trans· 17 PxQP N-N3 20 Q- Q4! . . , , pose the opening into the Panov Attack Now White exercises strong pressure against the Caro-Kann Defense. on the long diagonal and can do so on S N-QB3 P-K3 the King file. Dlack's next move Is F ischer-Euwe, Leipzig, 1960, continued !ol·ced. [rom here with 5 . . . N- B3 6 N-B3, 20 ... N-B3 B-N5 7 PxP, KNxP 8 Q- N3. BxN 9 PxB, 21 K R-K 1 K_B1 P-K3 10 QxP, NxP 11 B- N5t, NxB 12 If 21 ... B-Bl, White has 22 R- K8. Q- B6t! and White, having the edge, 22 N_QB4 R-R3 went on to win, 6 N_B3 The altemative, 22 N- K5, is refuted B-K2 by 23 Q- RSt, Q-Nl 24 QxQt, KxQ 25 7 P- BS . . , , 17 N-K5! . . . , N- N6, R- Nl 26 QR- Bl, N-B4 (26 , .. A crucial line. White threatens both 18 Q-Q7t and R- Bl 27 P-B3!) 27 NxN, PxN 28 B-K5. 7 . . . • N_KS 18 Q-N4t. There is no adequate defense. 23 N_N6 B_Q2 Here Black tries a novelty. Fischer 17 . . .. Q_KB3 19 B-KB4 B-Q3 24 QR_B1 B-B3 Henin, Philadelphia, 1956, continued 7 18 Q-N4t K_B2 20 Q-Q7t K-N1 25 N_ B8! N_Q4 ... 0-0 8 P-QN4, P-QN3 9 B-KB4, 21 QxKBt .. ,' :Now Black seems to hold everything. P - QR4! 10 N-QHA! KN-Q2 11 R-Bl White launches a brisk liquidation. with a great adyantage for White For he wins very easily in the end (though Black ultimately won). game, thanks to his King·side super 8 B-KB4 0 - 0 majority. Not 8 ... P·-QN3 because of 9 BxN, 21 . . , , Q,Q 25 NxP K,a followed by 10 Q-Il4t and 11 QxP. 22 N-Q7t K-B2 26 NxB N,P 9 R- B1 P-QN3 23 BxQt K,a 27 R-Q7t K-B3 10 P- QN4 P-QR4! 24 R-Q1t K_K2 28 P_B4! . , . . 11 N-QR4 N-Q2 This last move is stronger than 28 While Black's tenth move was cor R- Q6t. White's Pawn majority advances rect, his eleventh is an eITOI'. 11 . , . irresistibly. HPxP gives these possibilities: 28 . , , . R-QN1 30 P_R4 N_ NS 1) 12 NxP, RxP 13 BxN, NxKBP 1-1 Q 29 P-KN4 P-R3 31 P- KSt K_ N3 N3, R-R6 15 QxNP. RxN! and Black 32 P-B5t Resigns 26 R-K6! • • • ought to win: White clearly wins all 32 . . K- R2 With this shot, White maintains his 2) 12 P-B6, QNxP! 13 RxN, B- Q2 14 33 P-B6, R- Nl 34 P-K6, etc. advantage. The point lies not so much N-K5, BxR 15 NxB, Q- Q2 16 NxBt, QxN in the obvious immunity of the Rook 17 NxP, RxP with edge to Black. as in the efficiency of the next few 12 B_QNS! .•.. moves, which had to be precalculated NEW JERSEY, 1960 Very strong. cal'erully. 12 .. __ NPxP Open Championship 26 • , • • B-B3 30 N,R a,a The Art of Being Patient 27 Q_QB4 P_ N4 31 N,R a,R A sad necessity. On 12 , . , RPxP, the 28 Q_B2 B_Q2 Nj7_K5 only desirable move, White wins with White patiently but artrully exploits 32 Q-Q3 29 RxP R,R 33 Q,a , . . , 13 P-B6 (13 ... QN- B3 14 P- B7 as the some rather slight inaccuracies of his Queen is trapped). opponent. An inconspicuous but fine The smoke has cleared, and material performance by the tournament winner. is all even, but White s till is in charge. 13 NPxBP , . . . He threatens 34 QxP. Now White's protected, passed Pawn DUTCH DEFENSE 33 , , • . P_R3 Is a great advantage. The threat of 14 c. C. Henin J. T. Westbrock 34 Q_ BS! K-K2 P-B6 also is still there. White Black Not 34 . . QxQ?? 35 NxBt, 13 • , . • B_R3! 1 P-Q4 P_K3 4 B-N2 B-K2 35 N-N6t K_K3 37 N-N6t K_K3 Under the circumstances, the best 2 N_KB3 P_KB4 50-0 0-0 36 N-B8t K_ K2 38 N-B8t K_K2 chance: Black sac's the Exchange. 3 P-KN3 N_KB3 6 P-N3 P-QR4 39 NxB • • • • 14 BxN?! , ..• Steadiest is 6 ., P-Q4, and likewise White repeated moves to gain some In accepting the sacrifice, White ex so on t he next move. The text here is time on the clock and now stl'ikes - poses himself to stl'ong counter·play. somewhat weakening. winning two Pawns. The simple 14 BxB, RxB 15 0 - 0 is m uch C<1ES$ REVIEW, JANUARY, 1961 31 stronger. By t hus r elying 011 his power 18 . . . . B,S ful passed Pawn. \ Vhit e main tains an o FOREIGN 19 NxB Q-RS advantage which Is p ract icall y decisive. 'fl Black's play h e re Is very r i ~ky . The 14 . . . . QxB Queen i s m oving too far f n)m the K ing· 15 N_ N6 Q_N4 GREAT BRITAIN. 1960 side. Instead. 19 . .. N- N3 is indicated: 16 NxR R,N British Championship e.g.. 20 NxN, PxN 21 R- B3, Q- Kl! 22 fine compensa- R- KR3, Q-B2 1 Obvioll sly. Black has Over-consistent tion for the Exchang e. 20 P- QNS N- N3 17 R-QN1 Q- BS Aiming at a Queen-sIde br eakthroug h. 21 N-N2 P-B4 which is truly indicated. Black pay>! too 18 R_NS • • • • 22 P-QR4 ! • • • • little attention to t he King·side and is White t hrea t en s 19 N-K 5 since he has eventu ally a t a loss for an adequate de· This Pawn is a fine ~toppel" for the moved to prevent 19 ... Q- B6t. fense there. B1acl, Queen·side nction . Aftel' 22 . .. 18 . . . . P-BS P-B5? 23 P-R5! White wins an impor A good performance by Alexander. who 19 B- K S .... tant Pawn . played well in this toul"llament, finIshIng The last mO\'e is too passive. 19 1'\-Q2 second to t he inl'incible Penrose who 22 . . . . N-B1 is necessary. instead : e.g .• 19 ... QxQP captured the title for th e third time in Still aiming for . . . P- B5, Black is 20 B-K3, Q- K4 21 P- B4. followed by 22 a r ow. too consistent here. It is vital that h e NxN and 23 K-D2, with a playable ga m e get his Queen back to t h e King·side: 22 for White. SICI LIAN DEFENSE . .. Q- Bl . etc. C. H. 0 ' 0. AJe xande r P. H. Clarke W hite holds a clear edge. h owever. Whit e Dlack t hanks to h is better Bishop. 1 P-K4 P- QB4 S P-Q4 p,p 2 N-KB3 P- K S 4 NxP N-KBS 5 B-QS • • • • T his is an un pretentiOllS. I'arely Il lnyed line. 5 . • . . N-B3 The immediat e 5 . . . P-Q4 is unfavor a hle fOJ" Black beca use of 6 P- K5; e.g., 6 . .. K N- Q2 7 NxP ! PxN 8 Q- R5t, K K2 9 B- N5t, N- KB3 10 PxNt, PxP 11 BxPt, KxB 12 Q- R4t, K- N2 13 Qx(-l, B 19 . . . . P-R5 ! N5t 14 P- QB3, BxPt 15 NxB, RxQ 16 Now Black v igor ously b rings his King P-B4 with a cleal' pOsitionai a dvantage Bishop Into play wit h decisive e ffect. for W hit e. 23 R- BS! 20 R_ N6 B_Q1 • • • • 6 B-K3 • • • • 21 RxP B-R4t A strong move, partly justified by a With this continuation, the li ne is 22 N-Q2 ... trap. even m ore of a r arity. But the non· 23 . • . . N-Q3 22 B- Q2 is a little better : bu t Black committal text is a ctuall y sa fer than the still wins easily t hen: e.g., 22 . .. R- Nl bette r known sequence : 6 NxN, QPxN After 23 . . . Q- K7? W hite is lleld up 23 DxB, R- NS! 24 RxB, RxQt 25 K xR. 7 N- Q2, P - K4. on t he King·side. but he 1)l ays 24 N- B4! QxR 26 B- K l . Q- B5, et c. a nd wins the Queen with R-Kl. 6 . . . . P- Q4 24 R- RS . . .. 22 . . . . R_ N1 7 N-Q2 B-K2 2S RxB Q,R Wagner- Bogolyubov, Br eslau , 1925, Now t h ere is no adequate defense 24 P- B4 . . . . continued (l'om here with 7 . . . B- Q3 against the threat of 26 Q-US. 24 P- B3?? inflicts a sure loss by 24 8 0-0 , 0 - 0 9 N/4- B3, N- KN5 10 B-KN5, 24 .. .. N_ B2 .. N- B6 (as it prevents 25 Q- B3). Q- B2 11 P - KR3, N/5- K4. Bogolyubov 25 Q- R5 • • • • 24 . • • . Q-Q6 got n ot h ing out of it and even lost in A good a lternative is 25 Q- N6, P - R3 Res ig ns the end (a great sensation a t t hat time) . (25 .. . N- R3 26 Q- R5 with a winning ad· Mate is inevitable. 8 0-0 P_K4 vantage) 26 R- N3, N-N4 27 BxN, RPxB 8 . . . 0 - 0 is steadieJ' a nd threaten s 28 H- R3t, K- Nl 29 R-R7, R- B2 30 Q-R5 to win a Pawn wit h 9 . .. NxN 10 BxN, and mate next. PxP 11 BxN, KPxB 12 ExB. PxP. 25 • . . . P- RS The immediate 8 ... NxN 9 BxN, PxP 26 R- NS N-N4 is ineffective b ecan~e of 10 NxP! (10 27 R- K 1! • • • • ... Qx..-B " 11 B - N-"")~, . . Once aga in, White has a strong move 9 NxN PxN 11 K-R1 B-K3 with a trap in volved. 10 P-KB3 0 - 0 12 N_N3 N_Q2 27 . • • . N,P 1S P_ KB4 P_Q5 And Black falls for t he 1mp t h is time. 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Y Chess Review's Third U. S. Open Postol Championship FIRST PRIZE .. $250.00 Second Prize $100 Sixth Prize $40 Third Prize $80 Seventh Prize $30 Fourth Prize $65 Eighth Prize $25 Fifth Prize $50 Ninth Prize $20 Tenth Prize $15 65 Prizes - Eleventh to Seventy-fifth $5.00 each AND THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS EMBLEMS! To befit the Championship, thel'e al'e added prizes for the winners of the fi rst f ive places in t his national in the form of handsome plaques, suitably inscribed event, as well as t he Golden Knights emblems. SEVENTY-FIVE CASH PRIZES, ttmotlt11ing OPEN TO ALL CLASSES OF PLAYERS to it totnl of $1000.00, will be aWlll'deli Even if you've never played in a competitive €\'ellt to the seventy-five players who finish before, you may turn out to be Golden Knights chan.l' with the hig'hest scores in the FOUl'teenth pion ot' a leading prize·winner-and, at least, ?ou II Annual Golden Knights Postal Cham have lots of fun. For all clas~es of postal playel's pionship, now running! 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