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BY I. A . HOROWITZ in collaboration with Former World Champion, Dr. Max Euwe. Ernest Gruenfeld, Hans Kmoch. and many other noted authorities This latest Hild immense work, the most exhaustive of its kind, ex· plains in encyclopedic detail the fine points of all openings. It carries the reader well into the middle game, evaluates the prospects there and often gives complete exemplary games so that he is not left hanging in mid.position with the query: What happens now? A logical sequence binds the continuity in each opening. First come the moves with footnotes leading to the key positi on. Then fol· BIBLIOPHILES! low pertinent observations, illustrated by " Idea Variations." Finally, Glossy paper, handsome print, Practical and Supplementary Va riations, well annotated, exemplify the spaciolls paging and all the effective po::isibilities. Each line is appraised: +. - or =. The hi rge format- 71f2 x 9 inches-is designed for ease of read· other appurtenances of exqllis ing and playing. It eliminates much tiresome shuIIling of pages ite book-making combine to between the principal Jines and the respective comments. Clear, make this the handsomest of legible type, a wide margin for inserting notes and variation-identify. ing diagrams are olher plus features. chess books! In addition to all else. this book contains 439 complete games-a golden treasury in itself! 1------1 I Please !:lend llIe CheJs OpeningJ: Theory and Practice at $12.50 I
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Book of the Month ...... 351 Chess Club Directory .. , ...... 352 Massachusetts _ Novemb er 18 to 19 Chen Quiz ...... , . .... 322 CO MtNG EVENTS IN THE U. S. American InJeflialioliai College Open at AND CANADA Finishing T ouch ...... , ...... 344 lite American International College, State Game of the Month . . " ...... _ ... 329 A1)hro\'i" lions----SS: Swlu System Tournll St., S pringfield, i\·rass. 01109: 5 Rd SS; 'lie UI ( i" 1st round en lrles paired by lot or 50 movesj 2 hours; entries close 8:30 AM , Grand master Tournament ( Moscow) 336 llelcello,,; in su1)5e 3 B lack to mov~ and w in 4 Blac k to move a nd win 5 BI;J;c k to move and w in 6 Black to move and w in Sometimes in It game, rOil S lmila l'ly, in a tOllrna mellt In a game, too, the 011110' SO, a ll i n a ll, the odds are may suffer from fatigue or game, you may inad\'el,tent ly lI ent lUar ju!\t hallilen to II I) wi th you in these Quiz 1105i' illness, the wh ich Induce 0 1' j u st hastily set tingel' to wilh a line which Is )'0111' l ions. 0\, a l least they are those s o-ca l l ed melltal a I)iece and so be compelled bete noire or one which Is not aga inst you, It is yours blocks, or oversight", or mls· to move it. Here you ca n h is own predilection, unbe to pick and choose, to try calculations. Here you can ~huttle wood to YO\lr heart''S knownst to you, Hat'dly Is t his sudd en ambUS('Mle or pick YOU!' lime to the best content ph ysically to try Ollt that the dlanc:e hel'e, fOl' that slIbl le ruse, In yOllr effect for yonI' efforts. So the po'Ssibi1ities, III ShOI't, you have a, Winning IlOsltloll, qulel study t hen, wilh tran, tal,(: yotlr limealld Ilnn011lH:e YOll tan analyze, So a na lyze A small win, it mllY be: bIlL quil fra me of mint! . work OU( th e win. a wi n! go ah ead and find It, th e win, 7 Black t o m ove and win 8 BlaCk to move and win 9 Black to move ;J; nd win 10 Black to move a nd w in I.e\'elheadedness t hen Is Un li kel)' a s it may s ee m, Ca n you call it Iud.: if you Kindl)' Ilote, (00, (hal, i f rours, and those t win illl' t hollgh, rou just might see do fall to recheck? ;';0 lIIore we'\'e tllurfed and (here is post el'll, tl'illlnl'h Rnd dis, "gho;;ts," I n time trouble or than you can if )'OU dlsco\'el' no win In the I IO~i (i o n, luck astel', cannot lead YOII to the t he hate or excitement in a the PI'Ope l' "';1), to wln ~ So will not d iS(:o ,'er (ile fan fol' ]lIlsonndness of ovel'O j)tlmlsm tournament game, they come check lind recheck anti then yOIl, Thel'e, toO, YOli earn or the stodglness of d espRil' up more often, If allY do ch eck ag-MII, lind let no YOUl' way by pl'oper applica - \lnless YO\l yoursel f Jet hel'e, you must simply )'e ghosts di SCourage yOll, T h e tion of skill and insight, Or the m, So, with all due dc· check and recheck, A nd, it will is there fOr you to flnd miSS the win by la(,k of the liberation. de1ivel' the win· rOll don't-well, just find wi t h r ea sonable pCl'Se \'er, same! So piaI\' ahead, and n ing line, the right win ! ance, win ! 322 CH ESS REVJfW, NOV£M 8 £R , 1961 CHESS Vol.35,No.ll REVIEW NOVEMBER 1967 led with 41jz points each. Aleksandftl" ?fatanovich of Yugo." lavia scored four. Canada's own grandmaster, Dan Yanof· sky, playing host (as Dr. Pet-al' Tl'ifuno· deh might put it ) defeated only Szabo and lost to Darga. KereE, and Spassky to end with 31h points. Shimen Kagan of Israel bmught up the rear with one dmw. Data from Dundee Dundee, Scotland, was the scene of a round robin won by Svetozar Gligorich of Yugoslavia, 61/z-1%. Ben! Larsen of Den mark and Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland shared second and third places with .'i%. 2% each. Albion Takes All I n the Glorney Cup International Junior Team Tournament, held at Brecon, Walb, SVETOZA R G LtGORtC H England drubbed all its rivals by wide H e w on a braw, b ri c ht ba ttte! margins and posted at 14Y2·31jz game score. Far behind were Scotl-and with 8%. 9%, Ireland with 8-10 and Wales with COLORADO 5-13. In the Colorado Open, tiebreaks of a 5·1 score gave Iirst, second ·and third reo spectively to Victor Traibush, Dr. Harlan BENT L A RSEN UNITED STATES Graves and William Abbot. Sponsored by INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL and INTERSTATE the Colorado State Chess Association, the event drew 43 contestants. On the 'Cover King of the East Coast Bent Lanen, our doughty Dane who At Newark, New J ersey, the eighty HAWAII scored 50 well in the Intermnal at Amster eight.player East Coast Championship With a perfect 5-0 tally, Michael J . dam in 1964, is hitting the high spob was won by the seasoned veteran Edgar Gonsalves took the Hawaii crown, ahead again- pussil>ly in anticipation of this T. l\IcCormick with a fine 71;2-Y2 record. of All an Kuwahara, 4·1. Tied for third at year's interzonal (being held in Sou8ie, Other leading scores: Dr. A. Stern, 7-1: 3·2 in the twelve-man competition we re Tunisia) . Walter S. Browne, 6Yz-Ilh; George Meyer ·Curtis Shinsato, Daniel Hoffman and Bob Larsen won a fine first in the Capa. and Joseph Hanlon, 6·2 each. Wehb. blanca Memorial at Havana ahead of Sweep for 'Nedved IOWA Marc Taimanov of the Soviet Union, de K. Nedved hm·dled a ·thirty-man field The ·thirteenth annual Iowa Open at feating Taimanov in the process (see page at the Delaware Valley Open, held in 328) . tl·acted a total of 75 entrants to Cedar P hiladel phia, and posted a 5-0 shutout. He also turned in another fine perform. Rapids, Iowa, where William Martz swept Scoring 4-1 each, It Pariseau, C. Kalenian fjve rounds in the thirty. four-player Open ance at Win ni peg, but Klaus Darga of and B. Grossman placed second, third and West Germany equaled it. The two tied Division. Tied for second at 4-1 were Dan fourth respectively on median tiebreah. for first, ahead of an all-grandmaster Hcynolds, David Tykwinski and James A. Davies. The Middle Class Division went field, a t 6·3. Bul Darga deserves credit for Curdo-Keyes Combine a mo ral victory, perhaps, as he defeated The Merrimack Open Tournament at to Doug urtch, 5-0, and the Junor Division Larsen and went undefeated himself. Merrimack College in Andover, .l\-Iassa 10 Peter Thayer, 4%.lj~ . Paul Keres and Boris Spassky of th(l chuselts, was won jointly by John A. SoviN Un ion had to seule for a tie for Curdo and Alexander Keyes, each 41;2 .1j::: . BRIT ISH CH ESS MAGAZ IN E (1 965 An nua l) 368 pages + xvi pages Index. Red cloth third and fou r as they scored 5¥z each. Third was Bert Germalm, 3%.1%. In bind ing. Gold-blocked sp ine. 296 g ames. Pal Benko of t'he United States placed the Am'ateur Section, Rod Macdonald was Covers all the major events. An abSOlute fift h with an even five points- really one a clear fi rst with 4Yz-1;2, followed by a bargain!! S end S3 (b!lls) + 10e (sta m p~) to up on even. quartet witl] 4·1: Douglas Locke, Roger The BritiSh Chess Magazine Ltd. In the lower half, Florin Gheorghiu of J. Morin, Marrin Duhms and Norman H. 9 Market Street. ST. LEONAROS ON SEA, Rotunania and Laszlo Szabo of Hungary Casas. There was a total attendance of 56. Sussex. England. CHESS REVI EW , NOVEMBER, 1967 323 INTERZONAL TOURNAMENT MAINE PENNSYLVANIA After tlu'ee rOlllllls In the Interzonal Top honors in Maine were retained by An army of 105 hopefuls descended TO\l rnament at Sousse (90 miles from defending champion Sl anley J. Elowitch, upon Philadelphia to vie for top honors in Tunis), Tunisia, t he seO l'es are: while the runner-up position was crediled the Annu!!} Pennsylvania State Tou rnl! 10 Roben Perkins on a liebreak over John ment, which was won hy a A. Chertkof Ajvar Gi pllil, Soviet Union 2!/i- V, Morrill. There were 14 players. with a score o f 6-1. K. Nedved and S. Robert J. F llch er, US A 2Vz ' V, Goregliad equaled his tally, but were rele· Borillav Ivkov, Yugoslavia 2Vz' VI NEW YORK Bent Larsen, Oenmark gated to second and third respectively on 2Yz' V, Cl;l nand aigua, New York, 8'3 ....' Dr, Erich Robert Byrne, USA 2 -, median totals. Yefim Geller, Soviet Union 2 _, W, l'Ifa rchl;lnd, 8%-lh, conquer a twenty Milan Matulovleh, Yugoslavi a 2 _, nine-player field in the H arold J. Phillips LOCAL EVENTS Sa muel Reahev,ky, USA 2 _, ~ f emorial Tournament for the New York Viktor Korchnoy, Soviet Union ~ 1Vz' Vz :;tate Cltampionship. Dr, A. A, Mengarini California. III the Southern California Aleksandar Matanovich, Yugo.t 1Vz' V2 L\nd Kenneth Rogoff, each 611'2.21'2, came Open, featu red b y an outpouring of 122 Svetozar Gllgorieh, Yugo.-t Yz' Vz in second a nd third res pectively on a tie· players, the re latively unfamiliar name of o Leonid Stein, Soviet Uliion , -, hreak. Laszlo T . Binet headed the list wilh a Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovakia Wz'1V, In the New York Slate Open. hdd a l clear first or 6-0. It turns out that Binet Lajos Parti,eh, H ungary 1V,r1V z Lockport, four competitors registered 5--1 is a master who hails from H ungary and Laszlo Barczay, Hungary , ~ Istvan Bilek, H ungary , -2 cadI to divide first pri7.e: San ford Green!:, played fi rst board fo r Vene'lucla at t he Miguel Cuellar, Colombia , _2 Kenneth Rogoff, Paul J oss and Robert Olympiad in Havana last year. Carl P il · Lubomil Kava lllk, Yugoslavia , _2 Simpson. Fifty.five playt: rs llarticipated. nick was undisputed second with 5%-%. Slim Soualls, Tuniaia Vz ,2Yz while the following quintet scon.·J 5-}; Enrique Mecklng, Brazil Vz,2Yz OREGON R ohert J acobs, Frank Thornall)" J erry Lhamsuren Myagmasuren, M ong'la Vz,2Vz Clark R. Harmon was a c1eolr fi rst at H anken, Charles Hellin and Jow T ossas. Duncan Suttles, Canadat o -, 6%.% in the sixty-four.player Oregon Norman Lessing dominated the Santa Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand o -3 Open held a t Portland. Terry Nelson and Monica Chess Club Championship wit h a • Bye. lUI J uliO Bolbochlln, ArgentinA. did Bi ll Kiplinger scored 6- 1 each, with the 7.() swee p, followed by P aul Quillen and nQt app STATEMENT OF OWNERSHI P, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION (Act or COIlnecticul. For the fifteenth str aight October 23, 1962: Section 4369, Title 39, United States Code): year, Arkadijs Slraz.c:iins romped away I Date of flUng , Oc t. 1, 1967; with New Britain supremacy, this time 2 Tltl. of publication: CHESS REVIEW; with a crushing 23%-%. Quite outdis· 3 Frequency of Issue: monthly; tanced in the round robin were Peter 4 Location of known office of publication: 134 West 72nd St.. New York, N. Y. ]002 .1 ; Kl oskowsk i, 17.7, and J an Cendrowak i, 5 1.oc.tlon of the headquarters or general bu,ln ... office. of the pu blisher" 134 \Vnt 72nd St.. New York. N. y, 10023 ; 16-8. 6 Names and add relies of publisher , edit or and managing editor: P.ubll. her: I. A, Horo- Florida. Allowing !tary a d raw, Bob Easl· ;:;~~' ~!!k':" R t i ~~~o~~·'Il ~e';a!~r~t~~:-a!.~!k ~:~ t~~~~ t\:';d ~~~';J~ ¥~r~~·~.t i~n:o o~i; wood captured the Homestead cit)' cham. Mallag,ng Edno. : I ..... Horowitz. 134 Wut 7Znd St.. New York. N. Y. 10023: 7 Owner ( If owned by a cQrp<>ration. Its name alld address mU!lt be state4 and Immedi _ pionsh ip wilh an invulnerable picket ately thereunder the nameS and add ~sses or .toekholders. own' ng or hOldlni I percellt or fence, one Iloin! beller than Llo)'d F icld. I more or tota1 amount of IItock, It 1I0l owned by II. corporat ion. the names and addresses of It was Easlwood's eleventh consecutive the individual owners must be given. If owno 10 Extent and N ~ture of circulatio n dealers and carrier., and counter that the SUitements made by me above "Looks as though Vl5sHy's mind ·reading are oorroct and compl" te. I. A. HotowlU cum hy pnotlam II a fl op this t imer" 324 CHES S REV tEW, NOV£MBUt, 1967 at Indianapolis, half a point in front of P umiljens, Joseph McElroy a nd John William Kennedy, 4lh·1-'2. Tied for -third Faucette, 4YZ'72 each. MASSIVE CHESS at 4-1 were Bernard Pa rham and Eric In Ihe Brooklyn Polytechnic Chess Club Isaacson. tit le tourney, Irving P~u s swept fh'e SET n leodore Pchnec, 5·0, annexed the rounds. Runnerup in the ten·man competi Perry Eash Memorial Tournament in Elk. lion was Jay Yellen, 4--1. hart willi 1l 5-0 g rand slam, followed by Ray L. May, 4-1. T hirteen players a t· Oklahoma. At the thirty-e ight.J)layer Okla· tended. homa City Open, Robert B. Polle r took first and Ronald Larsen seoond. Kentucky. In the eighteen·man Louisvill e Chess Club Ch'a1ll'pionship, N. O'Neal wa s Oregon. The Rogue Rooks dou ble round successful with a score of 4l/z·?t2, ahead robin in Medford gravit'aled t'O Martin of Edwin Cohen, 4·L Zwitzer, lOlh·l¥Z. well ahead of the 8¥:l.31),t score made by Richard Cavin a nd MUlllcsota. The Twin City Chess League Dana Sudborough. was won by the University of Minnesota when it downed the Park Av enue Chess Pennsylvaaia. 10hn Yehl made a n Ollt Club in a playorf. ~ t anding 5"() tally in the twenty-six'lllayer P'rice Postpaid. Teunl add 2% Philildelphia Amateur Championshi ll at MILLER IMPORTS NeOr(l.Ska. The Lincoln title tourney went the Franklin-Mercantile Chess Club. Dap" fI, nOT We>' Woodla wn A .... to Mohammad Masoom, 7%.1112. Other Scores of 3Yz·I% were handed in by Wil_ SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78228 leading scores: Robert Naneson and liam J . Atkinson, Rafael Cintron, Ji . CHESS and CHECKERS Supplies Anton Sildmeu, each 7.2, and Richard Anthony Buczko, Anthony Koppany and Moere, 6Y2.2ljz. Ma rk Schwartz. Hlll h Q uality CUail n a nd P lu t h; Checker. P la in or Gr colled • . All SIz:e. N ew Jersey. In the Jersey City " Y" Open, Co-champions in the Pittsburgh Chess C H ESS Set•.•• Woad • . Cualln •• Plutlc M. L. Sills became kingpin by virtue of a Chib's Invitational Tournament were Dave All Slut • • All Prices perfect 5·0. Runnerup in the forty-six. Brummer and Paul Dupuis. 11le Club's CHESS and CHECKER Boards O I)Cn Chnmpionshil) playorf result ed a:; F old ing, Non. Fold,ng, Regula tio n o r player melee was E. Allen, 4.1. Numbered follows: Marcel Weiner, 2lh·1h; Early C HESS·CHI!.C K ER T iming Clocka New York. Joseph Tamargo, 6 ¥.! .1¥..!, won Clary and Jerrold Forbes, each IIh·Phi the i\farsllall a'eM Club Open in New Ed Dolla rd, %.2%. All M. rch ;ond ln Rauon ably Priced York City, followed by a 6·2 tie for sec· SEND FO R FREE CAT AL OG ond by Orest POllovych and Asa HoH· Texas. At Houston, t]le Space City Ol~n , STARR SPECIALTY COMPANY featuring II field of 52, was won by Bill 1529 S outh Noble Ro;od, mann. There were 26 Illayers. Clavelllnd H eIghts, Ohio 44121 A ('olal of 62 players flocked 10 th..: Jones, 4-lh·ljz. Ray Schutt matched Jones's Nassau Open, which was gained by seven· teen-yea r.old Ant hony Deutsch, 5·L Third A book the chess world has been waiting for through fifth respectively were John Myths of Chess P OF Moe Moss' column in the Montreal Star contributes a freshness a nd variety to chess presentation. In September, he had the following from Europe Ecitecs, a PRODIGY: French publication (we condense) : Anderssen, vi ctor of London 1851, hu· The Life and Games of morously acccl)led an offer of chess in. structi on, thcn accepted Queen odds, and lost repootedly. His tutor expressed as· BOBBY FISCH tonishment that A nderssen did not show ,~~, ji im provement. But Anderssen explained by FRANK BRADY that it was easier to play without a Queen Editor, Che$$world Magal'ille --" so he had to lose. And, with roles reo versed, Anderssen won every game. Another version by ldieses has it th p.! Bobby Fischer bunt on the chess world before. And in his close-up portrait, And erssen, having won repeatedly despite before he was twelve, snd in his short Brady refutes, or at least explains, giving Queen odds, was challenged with life he hilS become one of the most elec sOllle of the aspects of Bobby Fischer's being the Anderssen of London 1851. "Oil. trifying, well-known, and controversial personality that have been publicly cri. players of all time. Now, in ticized. In addition to the biography, no," said Anderssen. "I have a friend Profile 0/ a Prodigy, Frank Brady (who has Mr. Brady has annotaled, wit h dia· who always beats me despite Queen odds, known Bobby Fischer since he was grams, 75 of Fischer's most important and he loses 10 the Anderssen of whom eleven years old) prellents the first au· games, ranging hom his first tourna· you s peak, likewise despite those odd~. thoritative account of Fischer's life and ment wins at the age of eleven to his So Andersscn's opponent ..... as left to won· chess career. games with Botvinnik. Reshevsky, Tal, der how many Queens the veritable Many of the facts, observations_ a nd Smyslov, Petrosian. a nd ot hers. Anderssen could spot him. quotations have never a ppeared in' print 250 pages. 75 dia9rams $6.50 We have heard the first story related as inyolving Emanuel Lasker. But, no The World's fo remost publish~ r of books on CH ESS matter, Ander&Sen probably had been told the s-ame story with Philidor, or perhaps DAVID McKAY COMPANY, INC., 750 Third Ave __ New York 10017 Legal, as Ihe protagonist. CHESS REV IEW. NOVEM BER . 1967 325 score, but was relegated to second on a Scotland Second prize was taken also by a tiebreak. The Scottish Championship was won by Iwenty-five-year·old, Borge Jansson of Master Ken Smith, the mightiest all G. Bonner, 6-1. Tied for second and third Stockholm. So the Swedish veterans 50 round representative of Ihe Lon e Stnr were W. Ballantyne and K. St ewart, each long 'ascendant virtually wenl to the wall. State, added to his innumerable titles 5-2. Defending Champion .!\-fa rtin Johansson when he captured the Denton Open with came in third, and Za ndor Nilsson fourth, a 4%-1;2 score. Jerry Milburn, who drew Singapore while Erik Lundin tied for tenth IliaCI! with Smith and ma tched his game score, (out of sixteen finalists ). At 63, Lundin In the match for the MacDonald Cup. became runnerup on a ti cbreak. The event may find chess rather trying. annually contested by City and Universitv, drew a record allendance of 56 pla yers. The finals standings were : 1 R. Mar the former won again with 22Y2. 14%. 0 '1 In the Houston Cit}· Championship, it tens ll Y2 ·3% ; 2 8. Ja nsson lO Y2 3 M. first board, however, Captain Lim Kok nineteen-player fi eld was won by C. Bill Johansson 10 ; 4 Z. Nilsson 9%; 5 H. Ek Alln of Unive rf'ity downed Captain Giam Jones willt a 5·0 S"'eep, ahead of Eric fl Y2 : and 6 K. Skold 8. Choo Kwee of Cit y. Bone, 4-1. More lhan 700 took part in the various classes and groups of this, the 50th Anni Utah. Dick Heilbut. Gaston Olappuis and Sweden I'ersary Cham]li on ~ hip of th e Swedish Eugene Kucera scored 4·2 each in the Rolf J\"fartens of Malmo has won the Chess Federation. In the Junior Cham round robin for the Salt Lake City YMCA Swedish Championf'hip. is twenty-five, pionship, fift een .year.old Axel Ornslein Chess Club Championship, where upon a He of Norwegian descent and a student (If three-cornered playoff gave Heilbut the emerged from the Jl rcJ iminarics of lOS Mat"h ematics and Cyberneti cs (another title with a decisiv e 3lh-lh showing. contende rs a nd placed first a head of five computer chess man?) at the University other group win ners. Ornstein is of Malm Virgillia. A tourney at the Arlington Ol e~~ of Lund. Also. th is was h i~ first tourna · be rget, a mining tO ll"n far above the Arctic Club won by Lev Zaitzel' afte r the 4Y2 .% ment in Ihis cla s ~. Circle. score he had shared with Earl Schara was resolved hy a tiebreak. There were TOURNAMENT ~ oun: 5 Rd SS, 4;; IllOves/l% hours: EF 43 players. (Continued from page 321) $6 + USCF d ues : register latest 9 Bl, West Virginia. Win ner of the seventeen· Delaware _ November 25 and 26 Dec. 2 : trol)hi es to 1st, 2d and tops of A, player Kana wh a Valley O pen was H. Delmarva Open at Central YMCA, 11th 13. C, Unnll cd & Junior ( under 21) ; Landis Marks, 4Y2·lf:!, foll owed by Dr. & Washington, Wilmington, Delaware: ,) Adv E Fs & inquiries 10 D. W. Edwa r d.~ , A. Darbes, 4-1. Rd SS, 50 mo\'es/ 2 hours: EF S5 ( under .')7.')3 Delur SI., SI. Louis, Mo. 63109. 18, 82.50 ) : trophies for winners and top Pennsylvania _ December 2 and 3 CANADA j uniors : register latest by 9 Alit, Nov. 2.5 : INA Open lit IN A World Headqua rtef3, Adv EFs and inquiries ·to M. R. Paul, 16th & Areh 51., Philadelphia, Pennsyl_ " Few chess clubs in Canada can he 1422 Athens Rd., Wilmington, Del. 19803. vania: ;) Rd SS, 50 movcs/ 2 hours: lalest considered thriving." So says prominent registration 8 ..1.)1 , Dec. 2: EF S8 (under towa _ November 25 and 26 Canadian chess columnist Moe Moss, 21. 85) + USCF dues (SIO & 86 if post Thanksgh ing 30-30 Oprm at Ceda r Val· who suggests a revolutionary remedy : ma rked after Nov. 25) : 5S 1st, trophy & ley CC, 154 W. 4, Waterloo, Iowa: 6 R tl pay a clless club executh'e! " He would 8125 ; 2d, tl"uphy & S100; 3d, trophy and SS: register by 2 PM, Nov. 25 : EF S.'} (re. ha\'e the responsibility t·o carry out his B- 7.'} guara nt eed; also trophies for lOps A. duties, and members would know thai par! funds : adults SI, students S2 ): 88 bt n, C. 0, Unra ted. Junior & Women +- $$ 524, 2d SI8, 3d SI2, 4th S6 more or l e ~~ of his fee is set aside fo r this purpose. per E Fs & awards fo r 2d & 3d in each pe r EFs : ends 6 PM, No\,. 26: inqlliri e ~ There would be more interest, the groull class: Ael v EFs & inquiries to E. Hohtla, to J . !'IT. 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Whatever one does, the opposition is still very which puts new standards into grandmasters' practice. capable and, if Wh ite, will reta in his initial advan A vast knowledge of openings wh ich reaches deep tage or at least the balance. Next as a necessity is a stages of the middlegame, a well specialized individ· colossal measure of endurutlce, the ab il ity to find the ual repertory and high technics of defense are very right replies throughout all the five hours of play, commonly met today even among players of lesser while maintaining the tension right to the lime control. reputations. Gradually, the strongest grandmasters There is a possibil ity then that the opponent may be are becoming accustomed to having to wear down exhausted and fail to do his best when the crisis of the every day a stubborn resistance wh ich defies their game attains its peak, and the flag th rea tens to fa lL powers and fo rces them to find ever keener weapon.s In brief, such is the history of the game which is whereby to achieve victory. presented here. Some commentators have accused That perennial burden of having to win the ga me La rsen of bei ng lucky; but, as a ma tter of fact, the in the next round is especially hard when grandmaster game req uired prodigies of the winner along the lines meets grandmaster. In systems known profoundly by desc ribed above. In la ter rounds, Larsen played so the opponent, one has to invent some little move w·hich convincingly that, even without his " luck" at the stal1, will make the opponent devote more time than usual he wo uld have been first, as he was in fact in th e fifth on the opening and also spend extra time and energy Capahlanca Memorial. Havana 1967 This is Larsen's finesse. brought to the center) 10 nxPt! KxB 11 QxP. N-N3 NI M ZO·IN D I AN D E F ENSE light for the first. time in a previous 12 QxQ, RxQ 13 P- K4. mack had a very Mark T aima nov Bent Larsen tournament in Dundee. which mal;:es the difficult emlgame ill the game cited and standard Ilosition look like new. B lack lost after a long fight. As a matter of Sov iet Union Denma rk can "more safely" produce this trade or fact, the whole variation is set forth in White Blad, PaWllS on move seven; but Larsen con· TaiInanov·s book. 1 P_Q4 N-KB3 siders that his King Bishop has moro Here. however. the alternative 9 PxB, 2 P_QB4 P- K3 possibilities o[ exercising different kinds PxQP 10 BxDP [with mack's bettel· POST.· 3 N_Q B3 B-N~ of pressnre from QU4 and so ],e provok es ed Queen Knight, 10 BxPt does not sen·e Taimanov has twice written the bool, White's P- R3 first. t.he pm'pose any more], PxN 11 QxQ. on t he Nimzo·Indian Defense, and Black Olafssoll- O'Kelly (Dundee 1967) may RxQ 12 PxP leads to a playable endgame. has to have something l'9ry special ill serve as a basis for this opinion. In thnt but H Is not clear enough if ·White can mind if he wants to surprise his ex· game. after 7 ... PxBP 8 ExEP, Q- K2 safepHlrd his advantage. The point is tremely experienceu opponent. [Blacl,'s Queen comes to this squar" well worth further investigation. usuallv whenever Black tries to keep the 4 P-K3 0 - 0 6 N-B3 P-Q4 9 " " B-R4 5 B- Q3 P_B4 7 0-0 N-B3 tension on his diagonal, QRI- KS, and I'e tains his King Bi shop a s is the case ill While 9 ... ExN JO PxB. Q- B2 leads the actuaL game here]. ·White let Blach's to 11 weI! knowil POSiUOll, the text is King Bishop be and continued: 9 B- Q3, mOI ·e ambitious. It attempts. by retaining N" - B3 10 N-K!, PxP [lhe Un'eat was It presul'e on While's Queen Pawn and tllOJ P-QR3] 11 PxP, P-KR3 12 Q- K2, R- Ql diagonal. to make it difficult fOI· White 13 D-K3. P - K·I 14 PxP, NxP 15 N/3xN. to finish developing his Qlleenside and QxN 16 NxNt. QxN 17 B-K! with some bringing his Queen Bishop into play. As advantage for White. a mattei' of fad. this I·etreat of the Bis!I' 9 BxBP . . . . op has been more frequently combin"d with n ... QN-Q2 In which the Knight The psychologica l fight has started al· supports the Queen Bishop Pawn and ready. and White took some time for his I(eeps the Queen Bishop file open. T h us. reply. With the Black Queen Knight Oil he re White has a lI ew ~et of prar'lical Q2. as it was in Taimanol'- - Barcza in a problems to soh-e now. sOlllething Oil later rou nd at Hal'ana, ·White can easily 8 P-QR3 Px BP continue: 9 PxB, PxQP [the point of whIch Larsen has counted. t = check; * = dbl. check; I = dis. ch. the previous maintenance of tension in 10 Q-Q3 • • • • 328 CH ESS REV IEW . NOV EMBER, 1967 This Is the on ly way to mak e good pI'ogress while developing, 10 B- Q3 is playabl e, with the idea of 11 N- K'j to ma ke the position of Black's Queen Bish op futile, Bm that maneU\-er costs valu· able time, whlie mack ma y organize strong pressure on the Queen Pawn. 10 . , , , P- QR3 Black is ensU!-ing active employmen t of his Queen Bishop and poses a difficult dilemma ror While as to choice of plans to th wart Black's intention. 11 PxP , , , , Taimanov (lecid es wHh too easy a heart on the example of Furma n- Tro Larsen bent in t hought (left) and T aimanov doesn't ha ve time enough, at move 36. janescu (Bucharest 1967). Black did not tion is very sensitive (l nd may abruptly ing the Queen Bishop me which is defend well there, and it is obvio u ~ that swing 1O Black if he su('ceeds in organiz· Bia(;k's best counter chance. Larsen has <,hedled the playability of h iH ing effective pres~ure 011 the Queen endgame deeply and very carefully. 17 B- Q2 BxN Bishop file. O f course, there is good poi nt in sim· On 17 ... KH- Ql 18 BxPt and 19 BxN, plifying: Black's tenth move is now a Ulack has to fight for a draw a Pawn loss of tempo, and his Pawns and black down. The text gives Blacll's Knight on Queen·side squares are weak. But the H·I a retreat. position is richer in possibilities than 1G Px B N-B3 just these considerations, a nd it is not Again, not 18 , . . KR~ QI 19 BxP t! easy to decide which continuation is 19 B-B3 . . . White's best. . In GJigorich- Larsen (Dundee 1967) , Her e 19 RxP is met, however, by 19 Wllite chose to continue normally \'!ith . . KR-Ql. development, disregarding B lack's con· Now White has some advantage in con· trol of Queen·side space in view or the trol of space a nd Black's ]'estricted to de· strong white (;ouuter chances in the (;en· fending for some moves to come. tel': 11 R- QI, P--QN4 12 B- R2, B- N2 [in· 19 . , . . QR_Nl teresting is 12 . .. P~B5 to seize contl'oJ 14 R-N 1 • • • 20 KR- Q1 KR-Bl oC white squares, but White hel'e also Well played. White meets the threat Here is seen Larsen's ability to hold has mOl'e freedom of action in the (;en of J.I . .. 1'\-1'\6 (lnd IJ!'esses on the open a difficult positioll. He does not oppose tel'] 13 PxP, nxN [what Black has count· Knight rile befot'e Black can on the on the Queen file yet as he first needs ed on] 14 Q- B2! Q-K2 [on 14 . . _ Q-Rl neighbol'ing Bishop file. In Gligorich his King in the center : e.g. 20 . _ . 15 PxB, Black bt'eaks- as he wished- ele O'Kelly (Dundee 1967), White played KR- Ql 21 P-B4. K- Bl [not 21 . . _ chain of White Pawns, but his Queen is less effectil'ely: 1·1 B- B2, B ~Q2 15 P- KI, R- Q2? 22 BxN, PxB 27 BxPt] 22 P- KB5, badly pla(;ed and W hite gets the adval; B- 133 lij R-K1. KR- Bl 17 B -B~, B- N4 P-K4 23 B- B2, R.l:Rt 24 BxH, K- K2 25 tage by 16 P- B.j) 15 QxB, KR- Ql 16 18 I3- Q6, N-Q2, and a. draw wa~ soon B-B3, N-Q2 26 BxN, PxB 27 fixR, NxH B- Q2, N- K5 17 Q ~n2, NxQBP 18 B- Kl. agreed upon. 28 BxP, and \Vh ite wins a Pawn. By t h en, White had a clear advantage 14 , , , . B-Q2 21 P_B4 K- B 1 with the Two Bishops ; and, after an ambitious move for some (;o nnterplay, i"irst development, late]' re(;aptm'e of 18 ... P - K4? he gained a strong attaci{ the Pawn: on 14 . . . N- Q2 15 P- QR4, with 19 Q- B5, Q- B3 20 Q- H5! fOl' ma' Black is immediately In trouble. terial gain and a wi n. 15 P_B4 B-R5! An alternative worth study is 11 N - K~. El'erything in time. On 16 B- Q2, I3iack It has not been tried as yet. has the colossal reply, 16 ... N-N6 and 11 , • • • the Knight produces wonders. The text is necessary in order to 16 P-B6! . . . double White's Pawns but it h elps White A single inexactitude (;an be tragic. som e to have Ilis Bishop removed from Here White gains a vital tempo so as to its exposed place, bring Ilis Queen Bishop into play and 12 BxQ a,N assume control over squares from which 13 PxB N- QR4! Black's Knights other'wise could operate 22 K-N2 , , , . -White has the su perior endgame after very dangerously. 16 , , . . BxP 22 P- KB5, P- K4 23 B-I32, K-K2 24 13 , . , N- Q2 14 P - QR4 (Furma n- Tro· O- R!, N-Q2 brings no gain now as tlte janescu as cited (lbove). From now on, The Bishop must retreat: 16 .. , NxP Queen Knight is protected by a ROOk. Taimanov Is forced to lengthy thinking leaves a Pawn en pri se, and J6 .. , PxP to find the conect moves. For the posi· shuts off the Bishop's ['etreat while cJos· (Co ncl uded on page 350) CHESS REVIEW, NOVEMBER, 1967 329 Up-to-date opening OJUllysis By H. BOUWMEESTER by (In outstanding authority. P- D4 also pI'oved unsa.tisfactory in Didier THE BERLIN DEFENSE AGAINST THE RUY LOPEZ - Pillsbury (Paris 1900) J 11 P- B4, N- Q2 In the 1900's, the defense with 3 ... N-B3, the Berlin Defense, 12 P- BS. D-Q4 13 N-QD3. In Vasyukov --Schamkovic (Moscow 1962), 13 ... was customary and was considered one of the best systems against the P-QD3 [13 ... N-N3 Mems strongerJ Ruy Lopez. Nowadays, this method of play is J'arely llsed, although 14 NxD, PxN 15 R- R3! 0-0 16 R-R3! no clear-cut refulation is known. allowed White a strong attaCk. In many variations, Black obtains a reasonabJe game. But he 9 P)(N N_K2 10 N-N5 • • • • must be thoroughly familiar with the numerous nuances and finicky It Is not clear, according to Pachman. finesses, which certainly cannot be discovered easily over the board. If White has enough compensation f01" Smyslov and Trifunovich are among the grandmasters who have his Pawn after 10 N-D3, N - D4! The text is from Vasyukov- Bichovski used this method regularly and mostly successfully. In the past, Lasker (Moscow 1961). There followed 10 . .. and Tarrasch examined it extensively and played it. Many phases de N- N3 (should 10 ... N- .B4 be considereu serve further analysis and experimentation in practical play. here, too?] 11 Q- R5, Q- B3 whel·eupon 12 R- R3 III best rOI· W hite a.ccol·ding to \\' hi te Black This continuation i s considered an ade· Barden. 1 P_ K4 P-K4 Quate drawing weapon for Ulack. If 2 N_KB3 N-QB3 White is ready, however. to take risks. SuD-variation B 3 8-N5 N-B3 he can make the game very complicated. (Continue from first diagr am) 4 0-0 • • • • 6 B)(N QP)( B After 4 N- B3 arises the rather well SuD-variation A 7 p)(p N_B4 known Spanish Four Knights Game. 4 6 p)(P!? P- Q4 leads to little for White after ,j The start of great complications . . . PxP 5 0 -0, p-QHa (Keres) . 6 . . . . N)(B 4 . . . . 7 P- QR4 P- Q3 Hel·e .\ ... B-D4 transposes Into the In Spassky- Sangulnetti (Students Cordei Variation, and 4 ... P-Q3 Into Team Championship, Varna 1958), Black the so·called Stelnitz VariatIon. In his tl·!ed: 7 .. . N/4- Q5 8 NxN, NxN 9 QxN, monograph on the TI uy Lopez, Dardeu P-Q'\ 10 PxP e.!!. [probably, 10 N-D3, considers the latter and offers, after 5 P- QB3 11 B- K3, D- KB-I 12 P- D·l i s bet· P-Q4, B- Q2 6 N- D3, PxP 7 NxP, B- K2. ter), QxP 11 Q- B3, B-K3 12 N - R3, the developing 8 B- KB4 as giving While P-QB3 13 D- K3. Q- N5 14 Q-K5, and here the better chanceS. he ought to have tried 1·1 ... 8 - Q3 [1.'5 5 P- Q4 • • • • Q.~NP, O-O-OJ. 'J'he text Is the indicated re·aCUOll. S Q)(Qt . . . . Arter 5 Q- K2, Black has .. . N-Q3 i On 5 The text i s White's best chance. 3 R-Kl, N-Q3 6 NxP, D- K2! 7 D-Q3, 0 - 0 Q- K2, N - Q5! 9 NxN, Qx1\' 10 N- B::, 8 N-QB3, B- Da 9 N- N4, B-Q5 10 N - K2, B- KN5 11 Q- K3, QxQ 12 BxQ, B- N5 13 B -N3, Black has a comilletely satisfac· N-K4, B-KB4 14 P-QB3 oCCUlTed in lOry game (Stein- Smyslov, USSR Cha.m· fo'ischer-Neikirch (POI·tOJ"07. 1958) and pionsh ip 1961). Taubenhaus- Tan·asch (M 0 n t e e a rio 1903). W i th 14 ... BxN 15 PxB, P-QR·1. Variation I. Nel kln;ll aimed at a draw. A Uer 14 ... 5 . . . . N-Q3 B- K2 15 N-~a, B- Q6 16 KIt- Ql, 0-0- 0, Tarrasch obtained the ad\'anlage and won the game wi th bl'llliallt position play. 8 P-K6! . . . . S . . . . K,Q This Is the point of White's s)'stem. 9 N-B3 K-K1 8 PxK, NxP 9 R-Kl. D- K2 10 NxN, PxN The text is considered Black 's best. 11 Q)(Q t, KxQ gives Black an easy game. The celebrated Tarrasch- Lasker game (Hastings 1895) gave White a slight ad· 8 . . . . vantage aHer 9 ... P- KR3 11) :&-Q2, White has a game with good chances B-K3 11 N- K2. P-B'l 12 B-B3. after 8 ... ExP 9 PxN, N- K4 10 N- Q4, 10 N- K2 B-K3 12 NxS P,N 8 - K2 [10 . .. B- Q2 11 N - QD3, B - K2 12 11 N- B4 B_Q4 13 P- KN4! N-K2 t = chcck; l ::: db!. check; i ::: dis. ell. 14 B- S4 . . . . 330 CHUS REVIEW, NOVE MBER, 1967 11 R- Q1 . , . . The text Is loglcnl. Other move): a mount to liltle : 11 N- B5, P-Q'I 12 Q- N4. BxN 13 QxB. R- Kl gl\'es Dlack 1\ good ga me ( Wlnawe r- I.asker, Nem'enberg 1896); IUlt! 11 N- :\'3, 0-:-;3 12 B- K3, P-Q1 13 Dxll, HPxB 14 P- B'I, P- K04 gives Black a l\ 8(l na l game (Hecht Bouwmeester, Lenzerhelde 196·1). Thb posltloll hns occur red sevel'al P Olit ion ~ft .. r 10 ... N · Q5 Umes In recent tournamen t praclice, T he e ndgame Is fJ lIghtly better for White; NxN, BxB gives B lack goot! c hances In but, with good derelllle, Black p robably lhe endgam e], II , .. NxNt 12 PxN, KxB has s urflcient counter chances. Fischer 13 N-B3, B-B4 14 N- K'I, K- K2, a nd Black Blsguler (New York 1962) continued : 14 has a slightly beUer game. ... P-QD3! 15 KR- Kt, N- N3 16 B-N3, B- B4 17 P-B3, N- Bl 18 P- N4, B- N3 19 Sub'Vlril tion B K- N2, N- K3 20 N- R4, P-KR4 21 P- KR3, (ContinUe from next t o lalt diagram) PxP 22 PxP, P - KN3 23 R- Rl. Here 23 6 Q- K2 ! N-Ql .. , K-Q2 III necesfJary; bu t, arLer 23 ... Here Trlfullovlch has ex perimen ted For llilpralsal or this var[atlon. the B-Ql ? White oblalned It decis ive advan, II' Uh S . .. P- Q4. Aftel' 1 NxP, B-Q2 S position In thlll uiagram Is or lhe utmost tage with 24 N- B5! NxB, the surprising 8 ... NxP a ppear:; ImIlOl·tance. It has nOl yel been dotel" to be sutficlent. So 8 DxN Is better, mined wh i('h Hne oHel'l1 Blllck tho best liS has been naCO lll mellt!ed by lhe Dutch chance fOl' defense. Variation II. a na lyst Van den Bel'g: S.,. BxB (8 , . , H el'e is a. short l'el'lew of lhe most ~ . . . , B- K2 PxB 9 R-Kl] 9 It- KI. B- Q2 10 N-Q2! Im pOrtant experience: N-Q3 11 NxB, QxN 12 N- B3. 1) 11 ... DxX 12 ItxD, P_Q'I [or 12 ... R- Kl 13 Q- HS !] 13 PxP e.p. (1 3 P- Q:-;4 offel's good chances. according to Keres ]. Px P 14 P-QN.I, R- Kl ( in Schlechter- Rell (Vienna 1914 ), White obtained Ihe a{]I'lI n tlige aftel' 14 ., . Q-D3 15 B- K3, D-D·l Hi QR- Ql, P-QR3 11 P - KN4!] 15 8-K3, B- K3 16 Q- D3 (Keres- Un zickel', 2d match game, Ham· burg 1956 ). lJ la<: k ought nOli' to continue wi th 16 ... P- Q4! accol"t.ling lO Keres , who oHers : a) 11 P - N5, P- QD·I ! 18 R/ 4- Ql, P - Q5 Sub-variation A 19 QxN, Q-RI with eounlerplay for Black; 6 A-Kl · . . . 7 BxN NPxB Thb conUnuatloli is not well calculated The lext Is Ilretty well forced, Arter b) 11 B-D·I! N-Q3 18 Bx::-i, QxD 19 R/I-Ql with a somewhat beUer endgame to make matlers diffIcult for Black. Nor 7 ... QPxB 8 PxP, N-D~ 9 R-Ql, D- Q2 for While. does Black have much to fear on either 10 P- K6 1 White has It clea r at!vantage. 6 P- Q5, N-Q3 ! or 6 PxP, 0-0. 8 PxP N- N2 Z) 11 .. , R- Kl 12 Q- R5 ! [s recom' 6 . • • , N- Ql mended by Kel'es [Black gets a good 01' 8 , .. :"\- D4 9 Q- K4 ! P- NS 10 N-Q4, game on 12 NxP, Q-R5 13 P- KNS, Q- RG 7 BxN . · . . NxN 11 Qx:-<. 0-0 12 B- fiS, R-Kl 13 14 N- Q·I, P- QS). Jutlovicl\- :i\lasseyev (cor Here the Continuation 7 PxP, NxB ~ N- DS. Here. In 'I'alTl'lsch- 'l'aubenhaus j'espondence 1066) continued: 12 . P-QHA (coml,lare with the previous val'i· (Monte Carlo 1903). the aeq,uel 13 , , , Q-K2 13 8 - 8 ,1, nxN 14 Rx13, P - Q4 15 alion) Is leu appHcable. For Black ha~ B- :"\~ 14 BxB, QxB 15 N- K4! QxKP 16 N- KZ, N-D,J 16 n/4-QI, and While re a good game 011 8 , . . P - Q3 9 P-K6, DxP :-; - D6t, K- Bl I i Q- KR4 I'lppeared to be tained the bettel' chance>! after 16 .. , 10 PxN, N-K4 11 N-Q4, B-Na. very favorable for White, And. In Oli· N-K3 11 D- K3, N-Ul 18 P- KD4 : bnt 7 , . . . QPxB gorlcll- Trtfunovlch (B u d ape II t 1 9·( 9), ?Iasseyev conllid el'lI 16 . , . P- Qlt4 Ii 8 PxP N-B4 Black could barely hold hill olVn with 13 N-Q4, B- Q2 as s tronger. , . P-QB4 14 Q-Q2, P- Q3. 9 QxQt .... 3) 11 ... Q- Kl 12 O- D4 [Black obtain· 9 N_Bl Here, too, Black's chanCe!! are even bel· 0-0 ed a snllsfac tol'Y game o n 12 B-KN5, ter on 9 Q-K2, N- Q5 ! 10 NxN, QxN 11 While has good chances after 9 . . . BxN 13 RxB, P- Q4 H R- K l , O- D'I N-Q83, D-KNS than In the comparable :-; - 84 10 N-Q4 ! B- R3 11 Q- N4, (UJt\lmen- Bouwmeester, Tel A"lv 1961)] , line In tIle prevlou!! varIation. 10N_Q4 .• " N-Ql (l2 ... DxN 13 RxD, N- D·j al~o 9 . , , , BxQ The text makes nmtlel'S mot'e difficult deserves l: onaiderationl 13 13- :-<3, R- Nt 10 B_N5 · . . . rO l' Blael! than does Plllsbul"Y'~ 10 R- Kl ].I QR- Nl, 1\""- 1\:3 15 N- D5'! P- D3 16 PxP, 'Vhlte seem!! to be gaining the advan· agaInst which Black gets a neat'ly eq,ual RxP 17 N- K3, H- Dl 18 H.- I"J, Q- N3 ]9 tage, The Black advantage or the Two game with 10 , .. N-QD,I 11 N-Q4, N- Ka Q-Q2, p - Qa 20 N-K2, D- Q2 21 )i- QIll, Bishops wilt be eliminated, and White 12 B- K3, NxN 13 DxN, P- QD4! 14 B-KS, B- N5! Hes lgn!! (KOlltl'o-Smyslo\" Leip retains that of his mobile Klng·slde P-Q~, zig 1960). majority, 10 . . . . B- B4 10 . , . N-Q5! Van den Berg- Lelmulnn (Beverwijk Conclusion Thanks to this finesse, Black retalnll 1966) conUnued: 10 ... N- B4 11 R-Kl While's play Iflsubjeel to improvements at least even chances. (11 R- Ql, Q-Kl 12 N- B5, P- D3 13 D-R6 a.t various polna In lhe lines given here. (s .. d la"ram, tClP Clf nut column) Is strong also]. N- K3 12 N- D5, P-D3 13 Therefore, It Is cienr that the variation Donner-DoulI' mees ter (Championshl p NxBt. QxN 14 P-QN3, P-KB~ 15 D-N2, offers an intel'esllng aren for further of HOlland ]952) continued: 11 BxB (11 wIth the better chances for White, analysis, CHfSS REVIEW , NOVIMIER, 1967 331 WORLD STUDENT ONSHIP at Harrachov~ Czechoslovakia The St udent Team of th e Soviet Union, quite as expected, carried 9 P- B4 P- Q3 11 0 - 0 B- K2 10 Q- B3 B_N2 12 QR-K1 0 - 0 off Iirst prize in the World Championship Tournament, by 24.12, at 13 Q-R3 ! . . . . Harrachov, Czechoslovakia, this summer. But the United Stutes Team White hlls a rl ne atta ck ing position : (pictured 0 11 page 228, August issue), though thrown togethe r just in both P-K5 and P-B5 a re extr e mely dan time for this event. came in a very cred itable second at 22·14. The US gerous for Black. 13 . . . . P-N5 tea m tied the Russians and had the benefit of a 3-1 victory by England 14 N_ R4 • • • • over Russia and a 2 Y2-1 %: win by the Czechs oveL' the Soviets, not to men· Here. however. H P- K 5, P xP 15 P xP tion a 2·2 lic by Denmark aga inst the Sov iet Union . Th e Un ited States falls against 15 .. . NxP 16 H xN or lost to Denmllrk 1-3 and Czechoslova kia 1 Y2-2% and tied wil h Sweden B-Q4, NxD 01' 16 D- K84, Q- N3t e tc. 14 . . . . N_Q2 16 Pl(P e ,p as well as with the Soviet Uni on. The Russia ns big scores were ma de 15 P-K5 P-N3 17 N(4-B5 N,N at th e expense of Sweden 4·0, East German)" Yu goslavia il il d Bu lgaria 18 NxN B-81 3%-% , il nd Roumuni a 3·1. The Uni ted States had two 3Y2· Y::! scores, So we s ee: this l3Ishop "should have aga inst Bul ga ria and ROll mania, and a fighti ng 3·1 aga inst England and stood In bed": And repentance comes too late. On 18 ... DxN 1S DxD, B lack. Yugoslavia. s nffers fl'om severe weakness on bla ck England came in a close th ird at 21 poi nts; Czeehoslova kia, 5qua res. ROll ma nia and East Germany ti ed at 19%; and the last four in the Finals 19 N- K4 B_K2 22 P- N4 ! K-N2 20 N- N5 P_KR4 23 P- B5 ! KPl(P were Yugoslavia l S I,4, Bul ga ria 1. 5, Denmark 14 and Sweden 1.0. These 21 Q_ R4 B-B3 24 Px BP R- KNl ten teams 332 CH E ~S REVIEW, NOV£MBER, 1967 T ukmakov, Soviet Un ion 8asmann, England The text II; TlIi manov's ill ea. By threat At last, Black lakes; bU l other replies True Mod el of .. . N- 1\'5, Jllack alms for time for hl!i alloll' a conllnuation s!mllnt' to the l ex; , White's attack Is o( a comlllon trlle Queen·slde del'elopmenl by , , , P-Q N~ 19 P-R3 Q-N3 but rarely oecllL's In so d ean·cllt a form lind ' , . B- 1\'2 and a n eventual , 20 N-R4 Q_Ql as III this true mode l. N- QD5, Another pO Ss ibl e line is 8 , . , Black's move is for<:ed. NxN 9 ExN, B- 04, 21 QxQt N,Q SICi liAN DEF EN SE 9 P_K R3 B-84 22 R)C8 1< - 1< 2 Annola.lell by Han ~ KlIIoch und Dr, M, Filip Black 's last mOl'e, howe\'er. is nol in 23 N_N6 Resigns Bernard Zuckermiln Spau ov harmony with h is tmtte rn of del'elol)' United Stat es Bulgaria me nt, A s will be seen, 9 ... P- Q :X ~ is The Tw o KniCilh ts 1 P- K4 P- QB4 4 N,P N_B3 5 N_QB3 P-Q3 i lllpel1lth'e. In this gam e. Ulack seemll 10 ha\'e re' 2 N-K B3 N- Q83 3 P- Q4 p,p , B_Q B4 , , , 10 N- R4 B-R2 lied o n the IlO wer o f the '1'11'0 Bi~ hop l< , . I I P- QB4 but It is l he K nighn. with Freer, l'culr,, 1 This seemi ugly in nOI;uous system can W hite orrel's a Pawn for an ol'e rwhelm· Illay, which prevail. f'rom Ihe 11lagrame,1 be dangerous as demonstrated by Rober t Ing position, 1I01;I1 io l1, While mllst win II l'awII , !Ind J , Fischer lime lind aga in- MF. 1 1 , , , ' NxBP 110 ultimately the gam f.', 6 , .. , P- K3 e 8 - K3 0-0 T his accelltanre leads to certaln loss, F RE NCH DEFEN SE 7 8 - N3 8- 1< 2 9 0 - 0 . . . , 11 , , , P- Q3 to contain the fOL'ward V, Jansa K. Sorri Here th e Yugoslav mastel'S have play prepaL'lng Queen,slde march of 'Vlllle's center Pa w ns Is n ee' Cz ec hoslova k ia F i nland ed 9 Q- K2, rO L' eastli ng. T a h! played ~o, \00, in h lil b ril· ess al')'. Q_R4 1 P- K4 P-K3 11 0 - 0 - 0 lian t ga me against Bolhochan i n Havana 12 B)C N Q,B 2 P_Q4 P_Q4 I 12 B-Q3 NxB r> 1966,-M F. 13 R_8 1 Q_NS 3 N_Q 8 3 N_K 8 3 13 BxN Q, B B-Q2 11 B )C N 8-B3 4 B_N5 B_N5 14 P-B5 N-N5 9 , . . , 10 P_B4 N,N 12 Q-K2 , , , , , P- I< S P- KR3 15 N_Q4 N)C 8 t , 8 _K3 KN_Q2 16 R)CN P_K R4 The play has been I)e rfect br both 7 Q_N4 B_B1 17 Q- B3 B- Q2 sides so fa r.-H K, P-B4 P- R3 13 PxP p,p 12 , , . , Q-R4 •9 N-B3 P-QB4 19 N/3-K2 Q- R4 T heory ca lls for' 12 , .. P- QN,1. The 10 p,p N-Q 83 20 K_N l 0-0_0 posi tion can hll L'dly af fol'd tIle t ext.- MF. 21 Q_87! , , , , T his weak move , however, " auses tll [ ' fi enlty, 12 , .. P_Q:\.J is concet: one point Is UPIh1i'ent In t:{ P- K5, P x P 14 Px P , QxBt,- HK. 13 P- 8 5! P- K4 14 B-B2 QR_Bl The texl causes more d ifficult y. H . , , , , , P-QN ~ Is s l llI co rrect or rather ts Here Is \\'hite's shaL'p combina Lion, T o lhe lesser C\·t!. Then White's best most a\'oid 15 1\'- Ui t. llhH:k l11u st accept the IiI, el y is 15 N- Q5, - H K. Knight, and a witty con tinuation ensu e s, 15 P- N4 ! . . . 14 , . , ' QP )C N White's OllM III Ug ht will sueceed. The 15 8 xB N_Q2 leisurely 15 B- I\ IH, fol lo wed by llxN While's Bishop 1M immune: 15, , , RxU and occup;l llon or Q5, is also good,- MF, 16 HxUt, And 15 , , ' 0-0 fails agalllsl I G 21 , ' , . R-R3 31 N_B4 R_K81 T his all;l"k Is I L'L'eMi sti ble, rij'!h t from I3-B5. 22 N_B4 Q-N3 32 Q-R6 Q_R S the staL'l.- H K, 16 N_85 N-K4 23 R/ l -Ql B-N5 33 N)CK P Q_ K NS 15 , ' , . N_Q2 24 Q)C NP R/3-R1 34 Nx R/ B Q)C Ri 16 .. . IlxU now falls against 17 N- Q3 16 P_K R4 P-KR3 25 N- N6 KR-N l 35 K- R2 B-N4 a nd I S RxDt, 17 K-N2! . , . . 2(i Q- B6 KR- K l 36 Q_K B6 R_Kl Black can ma k e no IJfogress cen ter 17 Q- Q6 N_B3 in 27 P_QR3 8 -B4 37 Q- Q6t K_Rl nOl' QueciH;ide wh ile W hite presses Anti now Ii , , . Ih B nlllS into 1~ 28 N_N3 K_Nl 38 N_ K6 R-KNI fOl'(' e fnlly on the othe.- \\'Ing,- M F, Q- N8 01' IS Qx1\' threateni ng 19 QxNP N,B Q,N 39 N- 8 7t K_R2 17 . , . ' Q_Q 1 a s well RS 19 Q- l\'~. "30 R_Q83 Q-R4 40 Nd t P,N 18 KR_Ql R)C B 41 Q- Bst Resigns t = chcc k; ~ = db!. chc\: k; i = dIs. ch, CHESS REVIEW, NOVEMBER, 1967 333 PORTABLE ROLL UP DEMONSTRATION BOARD I WITH TRIPOD and BASE New heavy_d uty Conl'enlent tab leg design with closes Jegs in " lI ll 11 1) lab a j iffy - DO juggling no fo lding T w o f rom t he USA : Richard V er ber and, In convolut ions, Bernard Z uckerman It ll gged. s table leg COil . . II t ruc[lon, stays when set 18 A- R1 N-B4 PIRC DE. F ENS E Ligh tweigh t. compac t, w it h nOIl_wal"\l T h ere is no defense to 19 P-N5.-MF. D. L evy M. Miken Oi ing metal l·ol1er. Co nven ien t carryi ng Black seeks relief f rom .. . N xB.- H K . Scotland Pol OI nd case. H eight adj ust able. No club can af. 19 a xN PxS 22 a -Q5 P-N5 I P-K4 P-Q3 11 N_N3 Q_Q l ford 10 be without one. The screen is of 20 QR- Ql Q- K l 23 a xa RxB 2 P- Q4 N-KB3 12 P_K R3 N- R3 durable ,'Iny!. wi t h bomlet! backing 21 P- N5 P- N 4 24 N- Q5 . . . 3 N- QB3 P-K N3 13 P-N4 P- B4 (O l'cr'.nll size 40" x 40" ). Gr ey a nd wh ite W hite's st rat egy is t ri umphant; the 4 P- B4 B- N2 14 KPxP p , p squaL'es, 4 Inches. Visible rr'om distance. Black resistance crumbles.- M F. N_B3 0 - 0 15 P- N5 N- B2 No Instlll1lng. Just set It up nnd use. 24 . . . . P-N3 •6 B_K2 P- B4 16 P- KR4 P_ K4 7 B_K 3 Q- R4 17 0-0 _0 p ,p On 24 ... P xP 25 PxP, fixP, W hite g Q_Q2 N-NS 18 N-Q5 N / 3-K4 w i ns by 26 P- fi6 : e.g. 26 . .. P- ::\'3 21 9 B-N l p,p 19 NxP B-Q2. Q- D3 ! Q- K3 28 N- K7t. QxN 29 Q- R3 ! Special Features 10 NxP N-QB3 20 B-Q4 P-QR4 - HK. Si lhouetted chessmen, I'lgl(\ 25 P_B6 B-Q1 [.lasUc, red and black - 26 P_ R5 ! RPxP 27 QR_KBl Q- K3 read!h' v l~lb l e - ,111(\ with stew s which secure easily in [lockets Modern r ound case wit h metal 21 BxN B, B 23 B-B4t K- Rl end caps 22 P- N6 N_R3 24 N- K 6 Resigns 28 K- N3! • • • • Threat of a Pawn Fork Height W111te makes way for the Queen on the adj Ustable Rook me.- MF. Zuckenuan sn!ps a. P a wn, as ·W hlte handle A cute fini shing touch- H K. overlook s t h e threat of It Pawn fork (21 N-N7? PxQBP), and then faultless!y 28 , , .. A- Q3 - makes his male rlal decisiv e. 29 Q-R2 • • • • Im lll'oved molded White grants no tim e for a sacri{1ce SICI LlA.N DEFENSE Ilanger w ith or t he Exchange.- MF. s. Garcia B. Z uckerman SC I'een level er 29 . . . . R- Q2 Cuba Unit ed State3 • p,p 30 PxP 1 P-K4 P- QB4 11 P_B4 Q-62 31 P- B7t Resigns 2 N- K B3 P-Q3 12 P- BS B- 6 5 Easy close , P-Q4 p,p 13 B, B Q,B pull_up tab 4 N,P N-K6 3 14 N- R5 Q-N. Pi ercinq the Pir c: 5 N-QB3 P-QR3 15 N- Q5 N,N Whil e's tactical cou p hi t his game 15 6 B_K2 P- K4 16 P,N Q, Q No. 999 ...... fOl'eshadowed by a steady build up of a 7 N- N3 B-K2 17 B,Q N- B3 Klng·slde a ttack from 12 P- K R3 on. At 80- 0 0·0 18 P_B4 B-Q' Order from CHESS REVIEW the end , Black resigns In view of 24 . . . 9 B- K3 a -K3 19 KR- B1 P_QN4 134 W elt 72d St ., New York, N. y , 10023 BxN 25 Ql:N . Q-K2 26 DxB! 10 Q_Q2 QN- Q2 20 P- QN3 P- N3 334 CH ESS REVIEW,' NOVEMBER, 19t1l 21 N_ N7 • • • • S.4:NS POSITION, SANS END Former World Champion Dr. Max Euwe and near.champion Sa lo Flohr were pos itional players of the firsl order. Here, however, pos ition goes by th e waysid e and tactical forays reign supreme. In the Bogolyubov 21 . . . . PxQBP! 31 P-N3 R_ N2 Va ria tion of the Queen Pawn in their match, Amsterdam 1938, a quiet 22 NxB PxNP 32 R_R3 P-R4 23 A PxP KRxN 33 P-R4 R-N4 beginning tUl'llS to a sharp and crucial middle game whi ch rules out the 24 B_N5 K - N2 34 R- R7 RxPt ending. The open ing is 1 P-Q4, N- KB3 2 P- QB4, P- K3 3 N- KB3, 25 R- B6 p,p 35 K_ B2 R- B6t B·-NSt 4 B- Q2 , Q- K2 5 P- KN3. 26 Q Rx P R,R 36 K_N2 P_B5 27 A x R R-Q2 37 R,P AxPt Cover scoring table at line ind icated. Set up position, make Black's 28 BxNt K,B 38 K -B2 R-N5 next move (exposing table just enough to read it) . Now guess White's 29 K- B2 P-K5 39 R-KA7 R,P 6th move, then expose it. Score par, if move agrees ; zero, if not. Make Resigns 30 K-K3 K-K4 move actually given, Black's reply. Th en guess \'(ihite's next, and so on. COVER WHITE MOVES IN TABLE BELOW. EXPOSE ONE LINE A T A T I ME Strangulation TI y the position in the d iagra m, the White p" Black Your Selection Your natu re of t his game becomes cieal·. I n Played Score Played I" Whi te's move Score spile of Black's extra and passed Paw n 5 N-83 · · • · · · • • · · · • · • · · - 0 1' . who knows? perhaps because of (t 6 B-N2 ...... ___ ...... 2 6 BxBt · · · · · · · · · · • • • • · · ...... - m a ck's forces s trangle in their 0\\,11 7 QN x B ...... _...... 2 7 P- Q3 · · · · · · · · · · · · · • · · ...... coils. Exchanges which might help t 11<) 80- 0 ... , ...... 2 8 0-0 • • • · · · • · · · · • · · • · ...... congestion don't ; and. wh en Bla ck's last 9 P- K4 ...... _ . . .. . _. . 3 9 P- K4 · · · · · · • · · • · · · · · · ...... active piece, his Queen. goes, the a ctive 10 P- Q5 ...... _ ...... 3 10 N_Nt · · • • • • • · · · · · · · · · Wh ite pi eces ca n fm'ce the win: n 11 P- N4 ...... 4 11 B-NS • • · · · · • • · · · • · · · · ...... NxQ 42 NxQP, PxN 43 P - K6, etc. 12 Q_82 2 12 P_ 83 • • · · · • • · • · · • • • · · p,p 13 N_ R4 4 13 · • · · • • • • • · • • · • · · DEFENSE FRENCH 14 KPxP (a) ...... 4 14 P_QR4 · • · · · · • · · · · · · · • • ...... Vlastimil Hort N. K erius 15 P-QR3 ...... 3 15 N-R3 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ...... Czechoslovakia Ireland 16 Q-N3 ...... 3 16 Q-Q2 • • • • · · · · · • · · · · · · 17 KR-K1 ...... 3 17 B- R6 ...... 1 P_K4 P- K3 13 P- 84 QN- K2 • · • • · · · • • • · · · · · · · . 18 B- R 1 ( b) ...... 4 18 p,p · , ...... 2 P_Q4 P_Q4 14 P_ N4 0-0- 0 · · • • · • · · · · · • · · · 19PxP .. _...... 3 19 N-B2 ...... 3 N_Q83 B_ N5 15 P_ R4 K - N1 • · • · · · · · . · · · • · · · · . 20 N- N2 ...... 4 20 B,N ...... 4 P-K5 N_ K2 16 Q- K1 K- R1 (0' • • • • · · • • · · · • • · · · 21BxB ...... 3 21 P_ R3 5 P-QR3 BxNt 17 B- 81 P-N4 (d' • • • • · · · • · · · · • · · 22 N-81 ...... 4 22 KR-81 • • · • • • ...... 6 P,B P_QB4 18 B_ R3 p,p · · · · · · · · · 23N- K3 ...... ,_ ...... 3 23 N_R3 , · ...... 7 N-B3 QN_ 83 19 N_82 N- Q81 · · · · · · • • · · • • · · · · 24 P- 85! .. _ .. _.. .. _... .. 7 24 p,p 8 8 _ K2 Q-R4 20 N_Q1 N / 3- K2 · · • · · · · • · · · · • · · • · ...... 25 N_ B4 ...... 6 25 Q-Qt ...... 9 8 _Q2 B-Q2 21 N-K3 P-N3 (<, · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 26NxP ...... 4 26 NxNP 10 0 - 0 P-B5 22 8 - N4 Q-R3 • · • · · · · • · · · · · · · · 27 P-Q6 ...... 4 R,R . . . . , . . 11 N_ N5 P- KR3 23 Q- R4 N-83 27 • • • · · · · • · · · · • · · · · 4 28 K - R2 • • ...... 12 N_ R3 N-N3 24 8-85 QR-Nl 28QxPt····· · · ·· ····· · ·· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 29 RxR ...... 3 29 Q,P ...... 25 Q-86 , . . . · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 30 8-K4t .. . .. __ ...... 6 30 K- R1 II, · · · · · · · • · · · · • · · · · . . . . . , . 31 N- N6t ...... ::; 31 K - R2 · · • · · · · • · · · · · · · · · . . . . , . - 32 N-K7§ ...... 5 32 Resigns · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ...... Total Score ...... 100 Your Pe rcentage ...... SCALE: 75-100--Exceilent; 55-74-Superior; 4O-S4--Good; 25-39- Fair N OTES TO T il E GAM E ~ Position after 23 . .. N-R3 a) Whit e's pruspect s grind to a halt after I·} BPxP. b ) White'$ "bad" Bishup is spoken fu r in his pl an~ . He is e<>nsidering the eventual P- ll5 and ~ u bse · quen! usc of the B idlOl) on Ihe Queenside. 25 • • • • B- K1 33 R/2-R1 N-Q2 c) 20 . . . P-QN4 is better, relal ive1 y speaking ; 26 K-R1 Q- R4 34 Q-K7 Q-Q1 btlt then 21 N- K3 acti'.'ates the Knight from N2. 27 P-B5 NPxP 35 P-B6 Q-81 23 p,p N-Q1 36 R-N1 Q-B3 d ) Now 21 . .. P- QN4 is poor in view of 22 Hx R, 29 R-R3 P-R4 37 R,R R,R RxH 23 P- B5, PxP 24 P- Q6! 30 R-QN 1 Q-B2 38 R-KN1 RxR t e) Black ailll s to ;;10 ]126 N- N6 among other thin gs. 31 R-R2 N-N2 39 K,R N- N3 32 B-R3 N-N3 40 BxAP Q_Q2 f) Or 30 . . . NxB 31 Q-Bst is deci sive. 4t QxQ Resi gns t - ch""'k; f = double ch"",k; I = dill. check CHESS REVIEW, NOVEMBER, 1967 335 DMASTER TOUR Moscow. June 1967 (Port 2) Recounted by Dr. PETAR TRIFUNOVICH The Most Dramatic Game This game won two special prizes: from " Llteraturnaja gazeta" as the most dramatic ba me: rrom "Kom somolskaja pravda" as t he game with t he most beau· lilu] win. The game can be tak en as dramatic, but to take It simultaneously as the most beau tif ul win Is very dif· fl cult. The nnal beauty was anticipated by some mistakes, and they spoil the im pression. KING'S I N DIAN REV ERSED l. Bilek M. Tahl 16 Q-B5! · . . . Hungary Soviet Union Thill surprisingly tine move obliges W hite Black Ula cl< to abandon his Queen Pawn. 1 N_KB3 N_KB3 16 . . . . RxRt 2 P- KN3 P_QN4 17 NxR R-Kl Thus played Spassky also, In h is match 18 N- BS , .. . with Petrosyan. But It seems. nonethe The lext Ino\'c is gOO IS , ' • , P-Q4 20 R-K1! • • • • 6 QN_Q2 B-K2 Xo\\" Dlack has no good answer. 7 P_K4 0 - 0 20 . . . . N-K2 Anel' 7 ' , ' PxP 8 N-NS, 0 - 0 9 QNxP, Gligorich ( left) a nd Spassky in remark. NOI" do other' anllwel"S salisfy: 1) 20 White has some possibility or wOl'k ing ably cheerful mood: we'd guess the photo , . P-N3 21 fixN!! PxQ 22 RxRt. K - N2 on Black's weak Qi\'-1. was taken early in the tournament when 23 N-IH: with a typical Tall l attack ; a ll prospects were s till cheerful, 8 Q- K2 P_B4 2) 20 ... B- QB1 21 RxN: DxQ 22 RxRt, 9 R-Kl N- B3 B- 11 1 23 KNxP, B-Q2 ( 0 1" 23 . .. NxN 24 10 P-B3 , ' , , NxN, D-Q2 25 R- QS and 26 D- K7) 2·1 wins too much malerlal or, after 26 ... Many Rutllorities recommend seizing fixN. DxB 25 8-Q8! Q- R3 [or 25 . .. P- R3, he can become elegant with 27 space by 10 P- K5 to prepare fOl' a King· Q- N2 26 NxRP, Q-Q2 27 HxDt and 28 NxB! PxB 28 N- N6= and 29 R- H8 mate, side attack, N/5xD, etc.] 26 N-QB5, Q- Rl 27 NxD, 21 . . • • P_NS ! 10 , .. , P-QR4 QxN, a nd behold! Black wins. Hence. This important Zwis chenzug r evives 2 , , , P- QN4 is j us llrlcd, Black COil' the Queen sacrifice cannot work in th is Black_ The White Queen is obliged to duc ts the Queen·sitle Pawn a tla ck with line. On 20 ... B- QBI 21 Q-Q5. hOI\"· take a bad, passive place. a tempo Vlus, ever, White has the SU I)erior position and Cltn at least win a P a.wn. 22 Q-R3 PxP ! 11 PxP , , , . 2S RxN • • • • White allempts to COIl\'ert the Black \\'hite cannot well embark upon 23 Pawn advance to his own favoI', On 11 DxD, QxPt 24 K- Hl, QxRt ! 25 NxQ, . , . Nx P 12 P - QR4, White secures QUo! N- D7t 26 K -Nl, NxQt 27 K -Dl, BxBt 28 for his Knight. NxD, PxP 29 N-Q2, R-Q I etc. 11 . . , . p,p 12 P-Q4 Q_NS Black's last move sets up bad pos i· tlonal consequences. 12 . . , P- N5 Col· lowed by .. , R- Kl is correct, with an elastic position and enough counterplay. 13 pxr BxP 14 N- N3 KR_K1 15 Q-B2 P-Q5 21 BxN · . . . Black employs his only, but s UIl poor, He re White misses h is win: 21 luN!! chalice. 15 ... B- Q3 16 B- K 3 gives h im a NxQ 22 IhRt, B- KBI 23 N-K5! [threat· positionally Inferior game not (0 Tahl's enlng 24 N-Q7 a nd a lso 24 RxDr and 25 taste. N-Q7t) , Q-D2 24 DxD, QxB 25 N-B5, t = cheek; ~ =:: db!. check; I = dis, ch. Q-Q·I 26 QN- Qi, fOr here either White 23 . . . . PxP! ! 336 CHlSS REVIEW, NOVEMBER, 19t7 Though White ha s two pieces more, it is on ly momentarily. H is pieces a re both attacked and badly placed, a nd B lack's adva n ced Pawn is too strong. So 'White is compelled to r etu rn the materia l. 24 R-Kl , . . . For a moment, White counted on a fata·morgana (wi!1·o·the·whigp) contInua tion: 24 Q- H6, P- N8(Q)t 25 B- Bl, QxR 26 N-N5. But he saw that he's the fi rst to be ma t e(! On 26 . . . Q- R8. Al so, 24 N/N- Q2, BxR 25 N- N5, P- R4 26 QBxB, B- B4 ! 27 Q- R4, QxB etc. is bad for White. 24 . ,' R.B 25 R-N l P-R5 26 N/N_Q4 • • • • Now White loses promptly ; but even the better 26 RxP, PxN 27 PxP, Q- 83! 28 R- Nl ought a lso to lose a fter 28 . . . Q- B7. 26 . .. , B.N 27 NxB R- K7 28 R-KBl · .. White is no better of( a fter 28 Q- B8t, K- N2 29 Q- D3t , I3- K4! etc. At Mo scow, Vassi/y Smyslov was agai n in top form, Here h e is engaged in post. mortem, analyzing a long w ith Mi khail Tahl ( left) and F lo ri n Gh eo rghiu ( right). 28 .. , , RxP SO Q-B3t P-BS 29 Q-B8t K- N2 Re s igns White aims at shatte ring the Black Not 23 . . . BxB 24 BxP; but now the j(ingside with BxHP. Black Bishop is inactive. An Ambition Cu rbe d 15 . . . . Q-Bl 24 N- K2 N- K5 ! That PortiSch's ambilion in t his tou r· 16 N- K5 . , , . 25 N- B4 · . , na m ent was higher tha n his placement . No\\' White intends to r e- inforce his at· m ay be seen from this game. BlIt Not 25 NxP ? Nx P 26 KxN, Q-B3 etc. l(lck with R- K3-N3. Improving his Queen Smyslov stages a goal·stopper. 25 .. .. R-BS position, which is bad, by Q- QI- K2 is to 26 P- KNS · . . , be considered. NIMZO· INDIAN DEF ENSE !l's sUlI bad to take the Pawn: 26 N_BS L Portisch V. Smyslov 16 . . . . BxN, P xD 27 RxP, Q-K 8~ 28 QR-Kl, Hungary Soviet Un ion Black hasn't time to pr eserve h is Bish· Qx R! 29 RxQ, R- B8t. 1 P-Q4 N_ KBS 5 N- BS 0 - 0 op as 16 .. . B- K l 17 R- K3 m akes 18 26 .. .. Q- B2 R- l\"S really da ngerO'IS. 2 P_ QB4 P-KS 6 B-QS P- Q4 Black must return the Pawn: 26 3 N-QBS B_N5 7 0 - 0 QPxP 17 NxB H.- Kl loses an Excha nge to 27 D- N5 a s 4 P- KS P- B4 8 BxP Q_ K2 18 R- K4 , , , . does 26 . . . N- Q3 to 27 N-N6 and 28 Smyslo\"S system: he d efends h is According to Smysloy, \Vhile reckoned N- K7t. Queen Bish op Pawn s o he can r eply 9 only on 18 . . . N- B3 19 R- R4 with 1) P- QR3. B- R4 withont hadng to t rade 19 . . . P-KN4 20 R-R3, NxP 21 DxP! off his Bishop. H is next importan t idea N- N6 22 BxN! and White wins; or 2) is to preSS\ll'e the Queen Pawn by ... 19 . . . D-Ql 20 RxPI NxP [ 20 .. . PxR? N- QD3. 21 DxP costs B lack's Queen ] 21 R- RS, 9 P- QR3 B-R4 N- K6 22 D- R7t! NxB 23 Q- B2, N- B3 24 QxN with adva ntage for W hite. 10 Q-B2 · ' . . 'White pl'ematurely posts his Queen. 10 B- Q2 is better here. 10 , . . . B- Q2! BIad, immedialely works on the Queen pOSition with th reat of . . . R- Bl. 11 B-QS . ... White threatens 12 N- K4, or P xP first. 27 B- N1 · . , . T he r ound befor e, Gligor ich tried 11 P sychologically, this is t he most inter· N- K4, bu t Gheorghiu (Black ) attained esting moment i n the game as it clearly equality with 11 .. . P xP 12 PxP, R- BI demonstrates h ow har d and danger ous an 13 NxNt, QxN 14 D- KN5, Q- N3 15 Qx Q, opponent P Ol·tisch is. He ought h er e to RPxQ 16 QR- TIl , N- n3 17 P - Q5, PxP 18 pla y 27 BxN, PxB 28 Rx P with a n equal BxP, B- Ql! position; bu t he tries Instead fOl' a win 18 . . . . P-B4! 11 . . . . R- B1 though h e is a Pawn down and t he posi It is this goal-stopper which P ortlsch tlon gives him no reaSon to take this Now White is denied h is intended 12 has over looked. Now h e must concede a risk. P xP, QxP ]S P-QN4?? becau se of . . P awll but h as some counter chances in QxN. 27 . .. . K-R1 the weakened Kin g Pawn. 28 B_ R2 Q-BS 12 B- Q2 P.P 19 R- K1 N. P 29 B- Q5 P-Q6 ! 13 PxP P-KRS 20 Q_Ql N- KBS E lse, 14 B- KN5 is un pleasant. Smyslov makes excellent lise of this 21 B- KS P-K4 chance to score a goal h imself. For a n 14 KR-K1 Q- Q1 On 21 . .. N- B3, 22 B- QB1 is s trong. Excha nge, he'll have a strong passed Not now H ... N- BS 15 P - Q5! 22 Q-R4 B-NS P a wn a nd a \'e!'y active Bishop. 15 Q_ Bl .. . 2S BxN SO Bx R . , . C HESS REV IEW , NOVE M BER , 1967 337 30 NxP fails aga inst 30 , , , NxP! 31 Stein Started Poorly NxN, QxP 32 Q- KB4, R- B7 33 R- K13 I, In the fIfth r ound, Stein set out to R x N after which mack wins, win It \\"ho le point from Gheorghlu, took 30 , . . , BxPt some risli in the opening, and tllat was 31 K - R1 . . . . just enough. H e never exll'lcated h im, 31 K- N2 allows 31 , . Dxit \\"ith th reat self from his troubles, of . , . QxPt to follow. K I N G'S I N D IA N DEFENSE.' 31 , . . . Qx B ! 32 QxQ P, Q F. Gheor gh iu l . Stein 33 KR-Q1 , ' , . Rou mania Soviet U n ion 33 1\"xP. 13xR 3·1 HxB, R- Ql is 1110 1'6 1 P-Q4 N_KB3 4 P- K 4 P- Q3 stllbbor'n bilL a lso hopeless. 2 P-QB4 P- KN 3 5 P- B3 0 - 0 33 ' , . . P- Q7 36 N_K2 B,P 3 N-QB3 B_N 2 6 B- K3 P-N3 34 K-N2 B- Q5 37 K-B3 R- N 6t T hiS syStem is d ubious, and to use it 35 QR_N1 R-QN1 31 K_B4 N_Q3 against Gheorghiu who is known to be 39 RxP an a11thority against the King's Indian is A fi na l over sight: but, aftel' 39 P- KRL 100 dangel'ons, :\"- 135' the ou tcome of the game is the 7 8-Q3 B- N2 same, T he t ext is cons idered necessary be, 39 , , . . P- N4 fore the i ntemle(1 , . , P - B4 . For .. .. . m ate 1'- 8·1 8 1'- K5: sets up 8 - K4! for White. S KN_ K2 P-B4 9 P_QS P-K3 The Portisch Path Now there H.ppears a Benoni position In this game. perhaps, t.h~ Por Us<;h but with Blacl{'s Q ueen Bishop poor ly path to winning becomes most a pllurent. placed as cOllllJal'ed to nor mal variations H e builds his plans su btly on h is op, Portisch takes h is coun t r y man Pac hman of that defense. pone nt's wealO1esses, not neglecting to under an appraisa l f r om the rear. 10 0-0 Q N_ Q2 switch to new wealmesses as they arise. 11 6-NS . . , ' of Black's Ki ngside . and White a lso then GRU E NFELD DEF E NSE The text is beller than t he usual 11 has a Bishop a ga inst an int erior Knight Q- Q2, White Is prepa ri ng an attack with L. Port isch L, Pac hrnan 25 , , , , KPxP 23 R/ lxP Q- B6 1'- 84 and N- N3 . Hungar y H ungary 26 8xB KxB 29 K-N2 P-N 3 1 1 , , , . B- QR3 1 N- KB3 N_KB 3 7 0-0 B- B4 27 P xP PxP 30 R/ R_ BS! .. , , Bla ck introduces an unsound Idea . 11 2 P_KN3 P-KN3 , P- N 3 N-K5 W hi te is intent on organizi ng an at, . , Pxl' is COITect in order t o determine 3 B-N2 B-N2 9 B_ N2 N-Q2 tael, 011 th e Ki ng Bish op Pawn. the position of White's center PawllS a nd 4 P_ .QB4 P- QB3 10 N_ R4 N,N 30 , , , , N_ N3 32 B-Q5 R- K2 to limit their possibili ties. 5 P-Q4 P- Q4 11 QxN B_ K3 31 RxR RxR 33 Q- N4 - . , . 6 QN- Q2 0-0 12 P- K4 PxKP 12 Q- R4! Q- B1 White is pl'epal'ing for Q- R3 and R-R5, 13 BxP B_ R6 0 1" I{- R5 wi th an e\'entual Q- N5. Snch obligations mainly ought to be Black does beller lI"ith 13 ' , . 1\"-133 1·1 avoided. FOr Bluck's Queen and Bishop 33 , .. , P- B3 8 - 1\"2, Q- N3 followed by ... QR- Ql. arc nOli" tied down in mmual defense. No\\' note how the position of Black's 14 KR-K1 P_K3 13 N_N3 Knight is weak ened, and Por tis('\l goes Q- N 2 14 P_ B4 Black insists on preventing P-Q5; bu t to work on it. QR-K1 [lOW he must guard against his Queen 34 R- R5 Q- B2 Some commentators think 14 , . , N- N5 Blshop being trapped. Consequently, h e promising for Black. 13m it is clear that, settles for swapping it COl' a K night. after 15 P- K5! Px K P 16 QP xP! with the 15 B-R1 B_ B3 19 B x B KR_Q1 tln 'cat of 17 B - K-I. Black is still inferior. 16 N- B3 B_N5 20 Q-K2 N_ Bl The texi a lso is bad. P l'oba bly, the only 17 QR_Q1 Q- B2 21 P_KR4 B_ N2 possible {'O llli IHHllion here is U . . . P xP 18 R-K 4 Bx N 22 P- RS PxP 15 Kl'xP, 1'- H3 16 BxN, KxB 17 N/O- K .J., It Is difficl1lt to understand why Black l"xN IS Nx:-i. QH- Q1 after which 'W hite's off ers this ready-made wealiening of 11 is advantage is not decisive, as it becomes Kingslde, 22 . . . R- Q2 a nd ... R/I- Ql, in Ih e game. instead, produces pressure on the Queen P awn. 23 R-R4 R_Q2 24 RxP QR_Q 1 35 B-K4 ! Q_Q2 On 35 .. . Q- Q3, W hi le wins with 36 Q- H3! HxD 37 llx Pt, K- N1 38 Q- R6! 36 RxP t ! KxR 3S Qx P t K - N 1 37 QxNt K - R1 39 Q-NSt K-B1 T h is is a day out of Pachmau's life. No\\" he loses immediately. 39 K- R1 of· fers mor e re~ i st an ce, 40 B- QS Resigns 15 P-K5! • • • ·10 . .. R- N2 01" . .. R- K7 is met by .[l Q- 06t, K- K1 ·1213- 06, T hiS is the decisive brealnhrough in the center. It is motivated by the fact I T 'S YOU R MOVE ! that Alack cannot protect his Q3. 2S P_QS! , . , , Remember! Give us six w eeks notice 01 15 , . . . PxKP ch ange 01 addreu. Co pies do not gct f or_ N/N_K4 N,N The logl<;al solution. Trading black warded and also can take w ee k ~ en rou t e, 16 bound Bishops accentuates the weakness So w e ",.. st have notice early! 17 B,N . . , , 338 CHESS REV IEW, NOVEMBER, 1961 T his variation worked up by Smyslov lately became suspect. CHESS LITERATURE 10 P-Q4 R-K1 New and antiquarian _ Many languages 11 QN- Q2 8-B1 Lists for new books and for tournaments 12 N-B1 B- N2 Offer sheets for antiquarian eopies and new arrivals Theory has recommended 12 ... B- Q2 as better as then the Bishop doesn't re P lease specify yonr wants Correspondence by air mail linquish control 011 Black's KB4. As • practice reveals, however, in Fischer UNO LINDE Spassky (Havana 1966): 12 ... B- Q2 Box 14002. Goeteborg 14. Sweden 13 N-N3, N- QR4 14 B- B2, P- B4 15 P - N3! ,"Vhite gets a positiona l a dvantage. 16 . , . , N 17 NxN is also strong. 17 , . . . Q-B1 Here are the miserable consequences of the dependency between Black's Queen and Bishop. 17 . . , P-B4 is met by 18 QPxP, PxB 19 PxN which wins the Ex· change. 18 QPxP PxP 18 B- N5! , , , . Or 18 ... RxP 19 B- Q5, R j3-K l 20 Black can take the Bishop two ways, but both lead to mate: 18 ... PxB 19 N-K4 and again Black faces loss of the 14 PxP ! Exchange on N- Q6. N- N6 a nd 20 Q- R8; and 18 ... QxB 19 T h e usual . .. NxP in such positions QxPt find 20 Q-N8. 19 B_QB6 P_QN4 leads here to the very unpleasant 15 18 . . . . Q-Q2 Black's move is for ced as 19 . .. It- B2 NxN, PxN 16 Q-B3! with threat of 17 19 QR- Q1 B_Q3 is met by 20 QR-Ql. ilxUP! 20 BxRP PxB 20 PxP B_ N2 15 N-R5! Q-K2 Or 20 ... NxB 21 BxP! etc. 21 N- K4 . . . . Black ought to accept the somewhat In 21 Q- N6 t K_B1 Still the same old refra in! feriol' ending with 15 .. . QxQ 16 NxNt , 22 Q_B6! 21 . . . . N-N3 PxN 17 BxQ as he then has a d efendable The th z'eat is mate afler 23 N- N6t. position. 22 QxP B,B 22 ... . K_ Nl 23 N_Q6 Q-R1 16 N-R4! . ' . . 23 R- K3 Resigns 23 ... Q-Q2 also is bad: 24 QxN, QxN or course, the threat is 17 N- B5. A real catastrophe! 25 QR-Ql, Q-Nl 26 QxB, PxP 27 ExP! 24 QxN BxKNP 26 QxPt K_ Rl 21; NxR B,R 27 RxB R,N 28 Q- QB6 p,p 28 . . P - K5 offers the de fense mOl"e chances. 29 BxP P- B5 30 R_ Q1 Q- R2 t Or 31. . BxP 32 QxQ, RxQ 33 P -N6. 31 P- N6 Q- K2 33 K- Rl 8-R2 32 P- N7 B-Q5t 34 B_NI;] Resigns After 34 ... Q-KB2 35 QxRt, QxQ 36 R- Q8, there's nothing more to be said. Weak Point P ortisch remains troubled for an an· swe l' to 1 P - K4. In round four against Gei!er, h e underwent a tl"ue catast rophe in the Ruy Lopez. RUY LOPEZ Y. Geller L. Portisch Soviet Union Hungary 1 P_ K4 P- K4 50- 0 B_ K2 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 6 R- K1 P- QN4 3 B- N5 P- QR3 7 B_N3 P- Q3 Geller was at the tournament, too, and with his fam il y as may be guessed fr om th is 4 8-R4 N-83 8 P- B3 0_0 photo. He played well at first, as may be judged from his game on this page. But, 9 P-KR3 P_ R3 after a good start, he fell off ve ry uncharacteristically. CHESS REVIEW, NOVEMBER, 1967 3 3~ Activities of CHESS REVI EW P ostal Chel$ JACK STRALEY BATTELL pl ayer" g3me reports &. ratings. n3mes of new p l ~ye r l . p r i~ e . w i nn er s. selected games . Postal Chess Editor to\lrney Instructions &. ed itori" l comment . TOURNAMENT NOTES T h e following conlende l's . mOl"eove l' . Class Tournaments have Qualified fO I' the SemH inals: 0 n T hese Pos tn lllU "'on or l ied lor II r8t In Progress Reports for M W B E Golden Knights Tournaments Sadls. De rgel··O lsen, Wh itney . 1%5. UG G •.on d 19G7 CL " ~H 'rourrmments. I ~ Sdlarer. D Blanchard. K D Goebel, G Tourney P layers P I,", ce Score 13t h Annual Championship F Mo re y. T A WIllis. G Sim ons, n 6~ - C 13 1 It SidT)'s ..... _...... I ~t , ., Ka )·S ~.lI" . J. \'o n S a leski, R Sidrys, M .r 137 D I''rankn" ...... _. ... I~ t & -1 In the 1959-60 Go lden K nights . P a u l ••• ,. ·Yoder ...... I~ t Kane,·. \\. D '\lcGe hee, \\' J Gieselma n. .2"SG t Ml · ., She rr h a~ won eighth plat:e In the P la y· H ),[ Pope ...... S imhan. H H Hyde . R C Evans . P ... ofrl'l. Daniel F idlo w pr eViOIl!!I)' won se v· o \\. !S7 T 1) 1'~ l rnB\\" o"'h ...... I ~ l ./ -t T Smith. J I·' E lwell . C llirc hel" I·' H 2~1 o I" De Paul . • .. .. _. _.. I.~l H enth ; bil l a ll pla ces from first to s ixth ., ., CIII I'I<, A C larl{. n Jll )"lmgin. E Lund· 292 1" .8 Hall s!el]} ...... 1M! '. still remain to be s e t tled. 293 Loren PI:\II, . . . . _...... l~t $\1'0111 a nd J n \\' eave l·. H 29·/ (; V Downs ...•...... L~l ·1 -2 14th Annual Championship ~n II L Seedorf .... __. _.. . . ht 1~ ~ H A SC heper ...... __... I ~ l ... 20th Annual Championship 31-21 In t he 1960-1 Go ld e n K nlgh Wl, no new ;102 o It IM"I ...... __...... I~t In the stili cur rent 1967 Go lden ., results In the P la yoffs have co m e in. 3()..1 J Slell\ ...... I~t · K nIg h ts. t he Co llowlng cOlile nd e rs have 30':; It ),!(t.C Dol\nld ... . _..... r.! 3l - 2~ 15th Annual Championship q ua lifi ed ro r a ssignm ent to t he SemI· H Simon ...... _...... 1-2 ~H~ fi nals : G K atz. G A Doschek . R L I·' A UiY810ne ...... _.... I~l ~ H ! In the 1961·2 Golden K nights , no new J Limnnl ...... ht Sam ple. H R Bass. I S Hosenreld. !\ '"32 1 J:: )1 B"'He r ...... IH ·., F inul!l !lectio n has comnleted pla y . and '" .., ., I~l ... t he pr os pective cash prize winners r e ilt·e ll·er. H Brant. E <1 1 B eesley. J A No)"· '>-' E P .l ohn$on .. _... _.. .. ~ H~ mnn. G Moltchanoff. D A Littre ll. C CO l" 12 5 It W COl'e ...... _. . ... I ~ t 5!· b main as Il sted page 30S. Oc to be r . 6G .C 57 0 A COOlcW ...... I · ~ S • I lese, G Douche I' . S Gree ne. P L S ul k y. l.ynn HR"pel' ...... __. . , · 2 H E Good ma n. J L Ma r ti n, 0 S Den· I~t ... 16th Annual Championship P \V I lOng ...... , .. In lhe 1963 Golde n Knights. no new Ingoso a nd A Georg e. " OW ClbHOn ...... _ .... . lst ... '" G 0 P"ge ...... I~t F inals sec Uo n has COIII I)leled 1)l a y eithe r . AS or Odobe r l , 147 Iwelimi nal'Y s ec· ... " ,\ I'hlllilenko ...... I~l u-! a nd th e pl'o!l peclil'e callh prize wi n ne r ~ tio ns 01' 1029 co nte nders w e re compe t ln l!:. C Ii 13K }' ...... 1_ 1 H remain lUI l! s ted page 308, Oc tobe r . ltnd 1ll01'e w ill ha\'e bee n assigned t o \\' E H .. \\' k~ l (ly ...... 1.<1 5 • I :'< Ging r"6 ...... l ~ t 61- ~ W e ~ tl l1 have pros pective qualifiers sec t io ns by the ti m e thes e Hn es are In D Heehilinger ...... ) ~ t H I to the F ina ls . too; bllt no one ha s qual· pt'l nt. But t he t o urn THE RETURN OF NEO.CLASSICISM So there fo llowed an era of revolt against th e formali sts, and new topics emerged, Such themes as It would strike the reader as a banality if we those of " perpetual motion," "perpetual attack," " pos· should still try to explain to hi m the d ifferences be itional draws" (e,g. of two Hooks vs. two minor tween the positional and the tactical player, the de pieces), and maximum or minor promotions had their fensive and the aggressive mind, the rational Capa day. And they opened new fields of mobil ity and blanca machine and the Romantic Pillsbury assault. power in which the Soviet School especi ally excelled It is not so widely realized, however, that not only with some top-flight productions. Inevi tably, thou gh, similar differences of personalities and even of com this movement has been growi ng increasingl y prec ip plete schools, trends and periods exist in the composi itous, repetitious and eccentric. So its studies tend to tion and appraisal of End-game Studies. Some favor become too artificial.looking, too carelessly flam "Classica l" themes and settings; some, "Natural"; boyant. and some, highly " Rom antic" and even fan tastic. Now, thet'efore, the wheel seems to be turning back Up to the thirties, the ra tiona lists held the hege again towa rd greater solidity, Such a judgment may mony. Their ma in concern is for strict economy, be postulated on participation in End·game Study com· purity of the final position and ga me likeli hood. Ther petitions in which the impact of the various waves and maintain that even the most difficult ideas can be t'X· schools Ca n be duly weighed. pressed under strict adherence to " harmonious" form The editor of this department , having been closeJy and any fa ilure must arise merely from insufficient in volved the la st two times with the allnual tourney of care and perseverance. Consequently, however, their the New Statesman, is about to enguge in sllch partici view limited composition output. More fluid, fresh pation again. And he ca n state already that the "counterpoints" were discouraged by the rationalists' toumey offers two interesting and encouraging aspects. focus on certain definite end positions. And their in· One is the new emphasis on the "Neo-Class ical" trend ; sistence on how the compositions ough t to look, techni the other, the good proportion of submi ssions, ranging cally and esthetically, prevented experts from seeing from high-class to at least competent, from Western and developin g other dynam ic vistas. composers. I n the 1966·7 contest. first prize was llOser J. E , Peckover , and the jury found st ructed, Imaginative elabora tion of II. won by Vladimir A, Bron (Sverdlovsk) it fl awless. previous bllt rudimentary concept of for a faultless, hIghly classical OPIlS, tel" Space does not hel'e permit a ll the Bondarenko'~ , minating with added contempol'ary fl av. 1'lI,mlri ~a ti ons of the solution- interesting Fourth pl'lze was gained by A. C. Mil· or in a mobile perpetll a l attack forcing though they ar e. The main Hne run s : leI' (England) , H Ili IItudy was a bomb· a draw. 1 N-Q3t ! K_Q5 5 K_ N1 KxN shell In its elemental shape. T he them(! A. H , B r anton (San Francisco) 2 BxP B- B6t 6 8 _B1 K- B6 itself, a Rook fLnd Bishop vs. Rook bat· 2d Prl2e, New Statesman 1966·7 3 K-Q2 N-BSt 7 BxP ! NxBt ter y, had been experimented u pon by V. 4 K- B2 B-Q8t! 8 K_Bl Drawn Nestorescu a nd simultaneously by H. M . Third prize was clinch ed by J . Selman Lamm er. Bu t ?>fl l1er's certa inly independ J r, (Holland) for a very logically ca n· e ntly original presentation has tbe lapi· dary touch or lhe J acobs 01' Saa\'edra or Reli grip on Rn or iginal matrix. A. C. Mi ller ( England) 1 R- Q2 t K_B8 Hh Prize, New Statesman 19&&- 7 2 B- N6 RxP 3 B- K3 R-B6 0 1' 3 , . , R - K~ " BxP [or 4 B - B41, R- K S 5 K - R2 (also 5 B- N5 01' 5 B- B4J. and Black has run out of saving t empi and shel ler. 4 B"P R_B6 W h ite to move and draw Else, 5 n~ will!~, A relative novice, A, H . Branton of S B_N5 R any Sa n Francisco, secured second pr ize • R§ with a n elegant. s urpris ing a nd- ill its many original Bubvar lations-very subtle E.g, 5 , . , R-R6t 6 R-QR2§. a nd versatile achievement. Appar ently, Black Is In a !lnal sQueeze and I;Rn before the submission of the study, It had not prevent White from winning by dis· been rechecked by the veteran U. S. com· Wh jte to move and win covered check. There a re various s ub· 344 CHESS REVIEW , NOVEMBER , 1967 variations, comprising dominations of was subject to some doubts. (One at h is Reducing the final maneuver to its about 36 different squares, and it is amazing exploits will appear next Issue.) essence, your edito!· Is remindQd of his merely because of the dual possibilities It the cooks had been found earlier own earlier effort, based on pure Pawn of 4 BxP and 4 B- B4 aftd of 5 K- R2, 5 by the jury, and discarded, some other play but with a more exhaustive utiliz~ B- N5 and 5 8 - 84 that this study was choices could have been placed, some of lion of the same theme In one of the relegated to fourth place. which also might have been Anglo· "tries" in tke following drawing exercise. It Is curious how co·incidental arl"ange· Saxon: for instance, Robert Brieger, Walte r Korn ments turn up at divergent places, at Oscar \Veinberger, etc. London, Valencia and Bucharest. Thus: Chess !9~3 To add to the gallery of native com· Harold M. Lommer (Valencia) posel·s, here are two recent successes: 1st HOll. "fentlon, Bas ler Nationalztg 1966-7 Robert Brieger (Houston) Spec. Prize. American Chess Qly 1962-5 White to move and draw 1 K-Q3 P_N4 White to move and w in Or draws by 1 ... P- N3 2 P- N5! K-B·l [or 2 . . . P-K4 3 PxP, KxP 4 K-K3, 1 R-K2t K-N8 4 B-8S R-B2t White to move and win K-Q4 5 K-Q3, K-B4 6 K- B3, KxP 7 K-N3 2 K-NS! K-B8 5 K-N2! R-N7t White must meet the drawing threat or 2 ... P-K3 3 K-K3, P- K4 4 P- B5] 3 K- BS K_Q8 6 K_ R2! . . . . ot 1 ... B- K4 or 1 ... B-Q5 and 2 3 K - K4, KxP 4 K-QS, etc. Black escape~ 6 K- Rl? R- N6! ", ... D-NS with the resulting King and 2 K~ K3 K_ B5 5 K-K6 K- Q5 R- K3§, K- B7 8 B-Qlt, K,E 9 RxR, '" Bishop vs. King and Rook situation. 3 K_ K4 KxP 6 KxP ! K- K5 K- K7. Here is the main line: 4 K_ Q5 !! K- B6 7 K-K6! 6 • • . • R- R7t 1 R_Q1 B-K8 There is an important " false lead," 7 K_N1 R- N7t however, in the study. If White tries to B R-N2§ Here 1 . .. B-K4 falls against 2 R- Q2t, K-..:N 3 K-B3 with mate to follow. draw by the innocent alternative 4 K- J(5, And hel·e Is the earlier piece: 2 A-B 1 B-A4 B N_ R5 K-N7 he then loses. This deception may be Virgil Nestorescu (Roumania) S N_NS B-NS 9 R- B2t K-N8 more vividly Illustrated by analyzing the outcome, with reversed colors- whereby Tidskrift for Schack 1965 4 A-B2t K-N8 10 N_NS B-R4 5 N-K2t K- B8 11 K-RS P-R8(Q)t White (in the preceding diagram or 6 N-B4 B_ B7 12 NxQ KxN course he was Black) wins. 7 R-B1t B_KB 13 A-B1t The allpellded sample of another American rellresentath·e's OUtput is a comeback, in modern verSion, of the orthodo).: Pawn tempo play. It Is provid· ed with an economicai, concise overture and an advanced Bishop Pawn vs. Queen twist, all executed in classical fashion. Oscar Weinberger (New York) Problem, Belgra.de, Sept. 1962 White to move and win 1 N_K3 P-Q8(Q) White to move and win White wins on 1 ... RxP 2 B- N4, 1 K_ B4 K-Q6 3 P_N6 K,P R-Q6 3 N- Ql, KxN 4 RxKP§, K- B7 5 2 P_ N5 P-B5 4 P_N7 P- B6 R-B4t, R- B6 6 D- B5t. 5 P_N8(Q) P-B7 2 NxQ KxN 5 RxP§ K-Q7 Hel·e is one of those exceptional posi 3 8-N4 RxP 6 R-K2t K-Q8 tions in which Bladt's Bishop Pawn au 4 K-N2 R-Q6 7 K-N1 the seventh cannot secure a dl·aw. Com· The next awards in the New States pare with the final moves under tll .. man tourney went to Badaj (USSR), Weinberger study. Here, however, the Sarychev (USSR), C. M. Bent (E ngl~nd) Queen now operates on the opposite wing, with the same fe;J,tures but with a and, jointly to Bondarenko and Kuznet· White to move and win sov (USSR) a nd to Afanasiev and Dvjzov more protracted and InSistent pressure. 1 K-B4 (USSR). • • • 6 Q-R2! K-Q8 9 K-B2 K_ Q7 Unfortunately. all the USSR submis· 1 K-N6, K- Q3! 2 RxRt, KxR 3 KxP, 7 K-B3! K-Q7 10 Q-Q4t K-B8 sions, except doyen Sarychev's, were K-Q5 4 P - R4, K-K6 draws. 8 Q-N2 K- Q8 11 Q-QN4 K-Q8 later to be discovered as cooked. 1 • • • • RxRt 7 P-R5 K,P 12 Q-K1 mate Afanasiev and Dvizov later- too late 2 KxR P-NSt! 8 P~ R6 K-K7 succeeded in l·epairing the damage, sub· S K-B4 P-N4t 9 P_ A7 P-B6 Solutions to PROBLEMART mitting a correction to the excellent 4 K-B5 P-N5 10 P-R8(Q) P-B7 No.1: Key Is 1 Q-Nl \\'hh lhr():l.l or 2 "A CRUSHING POSITION!" "It is a crushing position!" were the words of Robert 1. Fischer as he started an immed iate post· mortem analysis of his lost game aga inst Geller in MOllte Carlo. One co uld not guess if the conclusion arose from the mood of a man who, already wi nn er of the to urnament, suffered all unexpected loss in the very last rOllnd or if it was just that extra.ordinary "feel" of a great player for the true nature of all kinds of positions, born of the presentiment that th e exposed Black King, even with the mass of central Pawns in fron t of it, possessed no sufficient means of defense aga inst enemy penetration from both fla nks, Position after 9 , •• Q . R6 Geller himself admitted to pessimistic thoughts as to the outcome. H-N3, Q- B4 1. Q;\:Q, Fl>Q 18 RxE, PxP Your commentntor, likewise, joi ned the general opinion with the thought 19 H;\:P, B- Q2. tha t Black hlld opened too many doors and th ere was too great a draught Later, I\'ko\' against Saharol· (Yugo· slav- Soviet Union Match, Suhumi 1966) nbout his K ing, Analysis in the toul'llament room, however, lasted about !I'ied to stop 12 , , . P- E4 by 12 P- E5; an hour still without havin g ind icated how the by th en triumphant Geller's but, aflel· 12 . .. R- H3: the complications King was to be mated. J!a\'e mack even chances and a draw was agreed on after 13 Q- Q3, Q- E4 H A new light on the who le line appeared severa l months later in the I'l>P, PxP I;"; 13 - :-;: ·1, H-N.t: 16 ExP, RxP match hetween the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The courageous de· 17 fil>l3, H-Q7 18 Q- H3, Q;\:N/ 5 19 N- K2, fender of the Black side was the international master Bogdanovich. H~ Ql>P 20 Q- lt5t , Q- N3 21 Q;\:Qt, P l>Q 22 ExP, R- R2 23 E- K4. is noted as gifted fo r choosing th e most critical va riations and also the 10 P- ll5 seems to be White's last word wrong opponents for his theoretical d isputes. And he certainly d id the on this line. Fol' the other plan of pene latter here; for, on the other side of lhe board in sunny Budva, sat no one tration: 10 P-K5, Pl>P 11 PxP, KN-Q2 12 E-QB'I probably fails against Fischer's else but Tahl! improvement, 12 . .. Q- H4! which pro· The result of the encOllnter is exposed below. lects Blaclt's Ql in the King field while pinning Wh ite's Queen Knight and 11th USS R-Yugoslavia Match after trying the normal deve loping move thl'eatening to gain more material. i B - K2, Budva 1967 Also, ,,~ seen in Dr. Mazzoni-Fischer SICILIAN DEF ENSE 8 Q-Q2 Q, P (Mona('o .1%;). 13 N;\:P procures no com· Mikh ail Ta hl Raj ko Bogdanov ich SO fal' as this commentator knows, pensatioll for the lSat:rHiced piece. And lilt" other possibility: 13 BxKP, PxB II Soviet Union Yugoslavia there is but one endgame (with Keres as While) on record after 8 . . . I\'-B3 !I ;'·hP, N;\:P [J.! . . . QxPt 15 Q-K3! B- K2! White Elacl, 0 - 0- 0, NxN. But that example seems is unclear, too] 15 B- Q8 seems t o give 1 P- K4 P-QB4 S P-Q4 p , p sufficient motive for Black to prefer lhe mack Sufficient counle!'play. He can by 2 N-KB3 P- QS 4 N xP N- KBS risk of taIling the Pawn as has been dono ... N- Q6t or B6t free sQuares for the 5 N- QBS P-QRS ill all th e other tOUl'llament games. escape of his Queen \\'ith gain of tempo: The Bosnians at"e known as stubbonl; Dlack is awal'e of h is backwal'(!ness ill for Instance, 15 ... N- B6t! 16 PxN, and Bogdanovlch of Sarajevo, the C~t1l· development but puts Jlis hopes in the Q- KH followed by Ii . . . llxN. ital of Bosnia, cannot be discO\ll'ageu absence of weak points in his position. Yet, of com·se, there :ll·e still possi· from his Pl'efel'ence for the Najdorf H White fails to crash thr ougll with his bilities !O be eXlllore(l. Variation (which has lasted so many pieces, he h a s many positional weal!· 10 . . . . N- BS years) eithel' by his previous defeats or nesses, and the P awn sacrtficed, wllich Even aflel' the e;\:perie nce of this by the most combinatively dangerous op· may repay Black for his r iskS. game. it is not (:ertain iF this is the best ponent of our tlllle. 9 R_QN1 Q_R6 chance of sun'ival for Black. He has no time to tiT the "safe line" 10 ... E - K2 6 B-KN5 , , , . (See di agra m, top o f next colum n ) as. after 'II I'xP, P;\:P 12 I3 -QB4 , he can· The most crnclal branch of the line. 10 P- B5! . , , . not mainta In cOllu'ol over the wh ite 6 . . . . P-K3 It is better to r etain the Queen Bishop sqllal·es. than to try 10 BxN, PxB 11 B- K2, B- N2 7 P_B4 Q_NS There seems to be, howel'el". a play· as 12 ... P- E4 may open the Ilower rul Bogdanovich liltes to try the most up· able line in 10 . .. P- QN4 which secures long d iagona l for Black. Pal·ma- Fischer to·date moves and here follows the Queen·side SllaCe. For instance. aiming (Havana 196:;;) for instance led to a draw. lmoll·n example at I"ischel'- Geller ill to weaken B lack's King position by 11 ish ending after 12 0 - 0, P-B4 13 Klt-Ql! :\l onaco this year, He has added reason PxP, P;\:P 12 BxN, PxD 13 E-K2 allows N- B3 1-1 Nx!\', Ex!\' 15 Q- K3 , PxN Hi her e In that he loH badly against Parma 13 . . , E-H3! Then, In comparison WHll in the previous Yugoslav championship t ::;;:: check; t _ dbl. check; I = dis. ch. Ivlwv-Saharov (cited above), Black even 346 CHESS REVIEW, NOVEMBER, 1967 • has a useful tempo in P- N 4 i n a ddition except to !"tlsh his King in panic to the to already satisfactory COlln terplay. This other wing. Hn e may appear in fu ture tournament 22 . . . . 0-0 -0 praxis as a critical on e for the whole 22 . . . BxB allows the winning line 23 variation. Q- B7t, K- Ql 24 QxB. 11 Px P Px P Blacll h as 110 olller good r eply, a nd what follows Is more or less fo r ced. 12 Nx N PxN 13 P-K5 .... 20 Q_B2! • • • • Talll took eight minutes to decide on thiS move. As sometimes happens in chess. Fischer was lured down a wrong path by the obvious m ove 20 B- N4? and, after 20 . . . PxP 21 BxP , Q-Q6 22 Q- Kl, B- K5!: it was suddenly White who was 23 B- B4 1 • • • • ex posed 1.0 a disastrous attack. Taill T his very fine move Cllts off the fllght kn ew that game but, accol'dlng to his of t he Black King. own statemen t, noth ing more t h an that 23 . . . . B-Q3 20 Q- B2 was recommended as a bette)" 24 BxPt K-N1 SOlUtion. 'Whlte cannot make use of his bettel' On 2·1 . . '. K- D2, White has 25 H-QNl Fischer mentioned this move, several del'elopment without opening files ClI'eatening 26 Q- NBt. Urnes, too: but the hasty postmortem toward the enemy King. Th is new sac· 25 Q-N6! a,a rlfice of a Pawn serves best for that was stopped by the reply 20 . .. P- K5. 26 QxRt K-R2 purpose. Nonetheless, the U. S. Champion's in· 27 R- QN1 ! Q- Q3 13 . . . . N-Q4 stlnct was still right! It is interesting that T ahl did not H ere Black has to meet 28 Q- N6t. Aftel' the short game, Gipslis- Kol·ch· know of anot her discovery, by grand· 28 BxP !! . . . . noy (31st USSIt Championship) , the text master Lilienthal, the su btle 20 D- Ql1 is regarded as a better (\efense. Korchnoy Tahl's typical touch in a winning po~i It carries the m enace of 21 R- B3 chasing lion: 28 .. . QxQ 29 RxBt! etc. faltered witl, 13 . . . P xP a n(\, aftel' ]I Black's Queen while posin g a potential 28 . . . . BxN, PxB 15 N- KI, found hi mself in a mate tln'eat of B- R4t. a, B 29 QxQ hopeless position : 15 ... B- K2 16 D-K2, Then, on 20 .. . B- N5, any or five B,Q 0-0 17 R- N3, Q- H5 18 P- B4! and Black'~ moves by White's Queen can win: 21 30 PxB Resigns Queen is cut off from play and Black Q- N2, 21 Q- Q3. 21 Q- QB2, 21 Q-K3 and ca nnot defend against the intrusion of 21 Q- KB2: White's Queen Hool, via t he third rank Lilienthal states other possibilities as MASTER to the weal,ened Kingside: 18 ... K- Rl well : 19 0-0. R- H2 20 Q- R6, P- KB4 21 R- N3. 1) 20 . . . P-K5 21 Q- B3! CHESS BOARDS B- N5 22 N- B6. Resigns. 2) 20 . . . P- Q5? 21 Q- KB2, B- K2 22 Ha nd in. la id h igh qua li ty boards 14 Nx N . . . . U- Rlt, QxB 23 Q-B7t, K- Q2 24 QxBt: polished t o a hig h finish. Here White is following the simple 3) 20 ... R- 81 or B-B3 21 Q-K2 ! with principle of saving tim e in order to de· threats of 22 QxP and 22 Q- R5t : RegU lation 2 inc h squa r es on sol id velop nell' forces q uickly. The Knigh t ~) 20 . .. PxP 21 Q- QB2 with threat of one.piece wood base. 22 QxRP or of mate in thl'ee (Q- R4tl : must move or be additionally guarded. Exceptiona lly suitable for gifts, 5) 20 . .. K-Q2 21 R- B7t, K- R3 [01" But, on 13 H- N3, Q-R4, B lack ca n con· prese ntations and persona l use. sOlidate by further exehanges : and 14 21 .. . K-81 22 B- N4!J 22 PxPt, PxP N-K 4. PxP threatens 15 . . B-N5 a nd 23 D- N3, B-Q5 24 Q- B2t, Q- B4 25 DxPj", also the consolidating 15 . .. B- K2. KxD 26 Q- N3t; 14 . . . . BPx N 6) 20 ... B- K2 2] BxB, QxB [on 2] 15 B-K2 Px P ... KxB, then 22 Q- N5t or 22 Q- KD2 ought to suffice] 22 B-R~t, K-Ql 23 Black has to expend a nother preciOUS Q-H5t, K- Bl 24 P - B5! with exeellent tempo to tal,e this Pawn as it has been prosllects of reach ing the decision. a bone in his throat. Actually, more detailed a nalysis may 16 0-0 B- B4t be required; but, if thfJI'e are so many 17 K- R1 R- B1 ways to win, then it is really a crushing Clas sic b lack and white squa res. Blac\{ Is proceeding as best he can to position ! Mode l A. Straight boar d $ 9.00 ma ke up fO I' his belated development. His 20 . . . P-K5 Model B. Fold ing board $11.00 last move is fOI' relief by swapping. 21 B- N4 ! . . . . Beautiful simulated ma rble squares . 18 P- B4 .. . . Here the hasty analysis from Monte Model C. Stra ig ht board $ 9.00 Wh ite starts to undermine, as is nec· Carlo Is being prolonged under Tahl's Model D. Fo lding board $11.00 essary, lhe eenlral Black Pawn mass. direction for a few moves- and with what effect! Ali boards a r e hand.crafted a nd 18 . . . . RxRt are a ches sma n's d e ligh t. Bases are 21 . . . . 19 RxR 8-N2 B-K2 felted. Having exchanged Oll e Rook, Black A major difficulty for Black here is that he cannot limit the activity oC Im media te Delivery can now develop his Queen Bishop. Here Add $1.00 for mail cha rge. we hal'e the same position as in Fischer White's Queen by 21 . . . Q-Q6 beCause Geller cited above, in fact, the "crush· ot 22 Q-Il4t. Russell and Russell Ing position" which Fischer had in mind. 22 Q_ KB2! .... Co. Has Black suHicient r esotll'ces? [mmedlately, \Yhite uses the new op· 47 South Street cr. June, page 168, and September, pOI'tunity to pen etrate the enemy camp page 269. with his Queen. Bla ck hasn't much choice Quincy. Moss. 02169 CHESS REVIEW, NOVEMBER, 1967 347 UNZICKER WINS T MARIBOR Recounted by Dr. PET AR TRIFUNOVICH T he Tournament was organized by th e Maribol' Chess Club in the city of Mariool', Slovenia. The city has a lengthy chess tradition and a large number of chessplayers, all active, many young and certainly some both talented and eager for tournament competition. II is the bil1h· place of Grandmaster Vasya Pife, also. But i\1a ribor has long neglected its chess tradition and the desires of its players. For its latest great chess events, the tournamen ts in Roga shka Slatina, were thirty or more years ago and nearly forgotten today. Now, however, a few there were who were found ready to realize those asp ira tions and assume the heavy burden, and thankless, of organ· izing a chess tOll rna menl. The president of the Maribor Chess Club, 10zhe Fischer, especia lly is a name 10 he remembered. Fo r he and hi:;; club-mates set up the greatest tournamen t ever for Ma ribol". Ten inter· national grand masters were the backbone, th ree Yugoslav masters gave local flavor, and so did three candidates for th e master class from the Maribo l" Club. With all that, the to urnament was strong. For the organizers sought to make it attractive for a good nu mber of chess friends from the neighboring countries, Austria, Hungary and Italy, as well as to popularize and propagate chess loca lly. W OLFGANG UNZI C KER An AC)reeable Surprise ment practice. Reshevsky had had a db· Yugoslavs ",Jatulovlch, 11'1101' and Matall' Among th e rirst fruits of the tourna· appointing experience In the Amsterdam ovl(!h Is nothing easy nor simple. It Is ment was the agreeable surprise a nd en· Interzonal 196 4 and was seeking to pre to be noted that the Marlbol' trio, Unzlck· pare a convincing comebll.(!k, Addi son, hanced In terest in the \llleX I)ected com· er, lleshev~ky and J\'kov, placed in that ing of the American grandmaster Samuel too, had such practice In Intent as he sequence In the latest Platlgorsky Tour· Reshevsky and the master William Addi· was next in li ne In the Amerh:an COil ' namenl and so were (!(I nsistent here at son. American masters a.re very rare tlngent at the Tunis Interzonal if Robert "Iarlbor. This la t4H' arfl rlllation Indicates J, birds In Eu ropean tournaments: it is F lscber or Robert Byrne or Reshevsky theh' tournament strengths are fi n n and ,'ery dlrricult to prevail on them to cross s hould not attend. enduring. Somewha t cOIH'ersely stood th e the Atlantic. nut, this lime to heighten record for Yugoslav Champion Matulo· the miracle, they came on their' own ami Unzicker - the Winner vkh. He is accustomed to fig ure In the at thell" own expense. Grandmaster Wolfgang Unzicker of ranllings with the best playet's of the Especially great was the Interest in West Germa ny won the tournament in world and regards this standing as real Reshevsky wh o had not beerl seen in good style (see tournament table). The and objective. But now that ranking loses Yugoslavia since the time of the Olynl' German Champion, though he has been a part at least of Its authority. For hI! plad In Dll brovnik 1950. He had his OWI\ a rather ral'e participant in tournaments, had llOt foreseen the fi ne performance particular reason for coming at th;s achieves sllrprisingly good results and of Unzickel', probably Ollt of the natural lime: the Impo rtant Interzonal was near· sho\\'s consistently high form. And he disregard for amateurs. n ll t Unzicker Is Ing and he sought to embody his theory did so, Indeed, at Mal·l bol·. To surpass a real miracle and exception, the only and tm lnlng with International tOUi·nn· Heshevsky a nd the grandmaster trio of Rmatellr wh o can, In Europe at least, righ t off professionals so successfull y. Reshevsky's Achievement As stated. Reshevsky came to Marlbor Ilrhlla rilr [or training and pre(m rallon For the coming Tunis Interzona l- to put to the proof his possibllltles be1"ore the big battle. Bill It seems doubtfU l that he succeed ed in that r'esp fl cL For he paid much more attention to the results of his games than to his training. As proof for that estimate Is the great Ilumber of sa-ca lled "salon draws" after a scaut number of moves. Reshevsky scored wf'oll in the tournament; but that was 1I 0t his pmported objective, He fa iled to prove, hnn!!y tried to prove, hOIl" he can bear up In a long and hard fight of five hours of piay, day after day. Nor did there a p· pear many of those po! 348 CHESS REVIEW, NOVHdSER, 1967 of fighting. H may be, indeed, the effe('t The Winner's Best 6 I3 - KN5 or D- K3 are normal, better of his nrsl game: there, at the very This was Unzicker's best game. and known contlllllations here, White is start, he RuHered his only defeat, wllh already tak\ug the opening lightly and, g l'll ndmafltel' JRllose"lch. In consequence, SCOTCH GAME Insing time, he loses also h is norma l a d· he began to play more cautiously a nd for Musil Unzick er vantage a s While. gOI his Il'\le reason fOi' coming to the Yugoslavia West Germany 6 . . . . N,N 8 P_ KA3 P_ KA3 tournament. "~o r h im, t his tournamen t White Black 7 8xN Q_B3 9 B- K3 N_ K2! was of secondar y Impol'lance, a-so to , his Knight heads tor KDS to l)rovokp 1 P-K4 P- K4 17 B-Q3 B- K 3 s peak-I)elwe-Ume army maneuver. Hill a further King·slde weakening, training wns much more important thllll 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 18 N_B4 N,N hi s seo!'e. 3 P- Q4 p,p 19 QBxN Q- R5 10 8-N3 N_N3 4 NxP B_B4 20 Q- Q2 B_Q4 11 P- N 3 .. , , Other Placements 5 N_N3 B_N 3 21 P- KB3 QR_ K1 White cnnnot a llow . . . N-D5. Grandmasters l\Iatanovich and Ivkov 6 P-QR4 P-QR3 22 P- B4 B_B3 11 . , . . 0-0 shared lhlrd to fifth places with the East 7 N_B3 KN-K2 23 N- R5 N-K6 12 Q_ K2 P-QR4! 8 B_ KN5 P-B3 24 BxN B,n German master Zintl. ThiS de"el' move succeeds in weak· 9 B_ R4 For Mata no\'ich, that result amounted 0-0 25 Q- QB2 B- Q2 ening White's Queenside and so pre 26 B_K4 P-QN3 to a failure as, during the whole tourna' 10 B-B4t K-Rl cludes White's in tended 13 0-0-0. ment, he was a serious candidate ror rll1> t 11 0-0 P- Q3 27 P_ KN3 Q-R4 13 P-QA4 .... place. By the t welfth l'Oun d, he was a lone 12 K - R l N - K4 28 N _N3 B-R6 a l the tOil, Dut, In the penultimate round, 13 8 - K2 N/ 4-N3 29 P_N4 Q- R3 13 P- H3 is more prudent, exposing this he lost to Zlnn arter an incomprehensible 14 B_N3 P_ KB4 30 R_ KN1 B,R P awn to a lesser degree. mistake lind weak play. So he fell back, 15 PxP N,P 31 AxB Q-K6 13 , , , . B,B Ivkov played much too solidly !Inri 16 N- Q5 B_R2 32 N- Q2 . . . . carefully. So, Indeed, he went undefeated like the tournament winner; b\lt he lln ~ lett the impression that he did not do his best. For Zinn, the occasion was a great success. He 1)l uyed "ery combut\\'ely and scored l he highest number of victol'les ill t he tou r nament. T he real surprise of the tou rnament was the catastrophe of Yugoslav Cham· pion Matulovlch. He wound u p u nU!!\18l1y low, sharing ninth to twelfth places, Actually, his pal'ticlpation coll!ded with his qualiflcat!on match with Wolfgang • • • • R,N Uh lmann in I3utlapest. So he had to play 32 . . . , R,B 36 Q- N3 White faces difficulties in ca stling but some games in advance and also during 33 PxR R_ B7 37 Q_B4 Q-K1 can manage. For his real danger comes 34 Q- N3 Q- R3 38 P-N6 R-K7 fl'ee days. 'fhe normal course Of the lour· from ... P- KD 4 fot1owed by j)ressur~ 35 P- N5 Aeslgns nament was affected: his results w ~ rc Q-R4 on the King Bishop file, Dut 14 PxD known too eal'ly, And it was bud tOl' A Draw Must Be Earned e ffectively prevents that: 14 ... B- K3 Malu[ol'lch hllusel', too. He beca me more 15 Dxl3, QxB 16 P- KN4! Out of respect for his opponent, grand· and more nervous as his encounter with 14 . . . . B-K3 Uhlmann neared. He los t his "cool" com· muster RObatsch adopts as Wh ile whtlt is known as a drawtsh variation, He for· 15 BxB QxB! pletely a nd s tarted. In t he late l' games, 16 N_R4 , , , , to fOl-ee h is play Rlld so, of course, h('. gets that the draw will not come about Now Wh ite cannot castle and has no began to collect potatoes. It Is dlffi cu ll, automatically but o uly by exact a nd good other efrec Uve conllnuation; but the text however, to expluin his failure, especially pia}'. Havjug already ta.ken the opening worsens the situation with the disrupted as he was ISO s uccessful afterward in the !lghlly, he finds himself In troubles with match wllh Uhlmann and also in the which he cannot cope. King·slde as a new target. 16 N-Q2 Is better. LO\u'namenl at Skopje. He le rt Marlbor GIUOCO P I ANISSIMO three days before the end of pluy and, 16 . , , N,N iu Budupeat, inquiSitively followed the A obatsch Reshevsky 17 PxN P-B4 Marlbor results by radio to see how Austr ia United States 18 R_N 1 • • • • this, fo r h im, i nglorious tournament 1 P_K4 P-K4 4 P-Q3 N-B3 While's on ly hope lies in countering on would end. For his pains, t he news W!lS 2 N_ KB3 N_QB3 5 N -B3 P- Q3 the opened file. But Black eliminates t hat a lways worse than he expected. 3 B_B4 B-B4 6 N-Q5 . . easily, III '~I . Municipal President Mirko Zhlender opens th e tournament Grandmaster Robatsch, Addison v, Udovchich and Vojko Musil CHESS REVI EW, NOVEM BER, 1961 349 1 e , , , , A-B3 24 , , , , Q-ASt White's moves have all been logical 19 0 - 0-0 A/l-KB1 Resigns per theol'etical principals. The variatlO!l 20 A- N2 R_N3! 25 K- Q2, RxPt is decisive. call1lot be bad: something must be wrong It is important to dissipate the White with the theoretical evaluation. attael" 20 ' . . PxP 21 R/I- Nl is mOl'e 9 .. " N-QN5 convenient for White. Simagin's Variation in Peril Theory grants this mOl'e an exclalllu, 21 A/l_Nl This game is one of the best. perhaps tion ll111.ri{, but the move must be bad as 22 AxR the best played in Maribor. Reshevsky's the Knight deserts the center and COll· 23 QxP , . . . unexpected 13 P- KN4!! makes Simagin's trol of Black's Q5. 9 ... PxP 10 NxP. 011 23 P xP, R- B5 with threat of 24 . . . Variation in the Dutch Defense suspect. P -K4! 11 PxP, PxP 12 B- K3, N- QN5 13 NxNt, BxN 11 Q- K'J! is correct thongh Q- 134, While ml1st lose a Pawn. DUTCH D E F E N SE 23 . , . , Qx P White stands a bIt better, Reshevsky Udovchich 24 QxNP . . . . 10 Q- K2 p,p United States Yugoslavia 11 NxP N,N Only 24 Q- N6 continues resistance. 1 P- Q4 P_ KB4 12 Qx N P-K4 Mijo Udovchich, former Yugoslal' Here theory concludes that Black Champion, forgets perhaps who Hesh· stands very well. 13ut first see how evs]{y is and starts at once to hunt the Reshevsky operates, then decide! better hUllter. 2 P_ KN3 N- KB3 5 0-0 0-0 3 B_N2 P-K3 6 P_ B4 P-Q3 4 N-KB3 B- K2 7 N_B3 P_QR4 TillS is Simagin's popular varia1.ion. The intent is to secure Black's Queen Knight on QN5, 8 Q- B2 N-B3 9 P- K4 · , , . GAME Of THE MONTH PxP, PxP 33 R- Nl with the threat 01" (Concluded from page 329) Rooll and King penetrating the King-sid". The text makes life easy for Black. K- K2 13 P- KN4!! · , . . 22 .... 29 , . . . RPx P 23 P_ KB5 One may exclaim at first sight: "What P-K4 30 P- R5 p, p a bad mo,'e! Reshevsky is a big choco· Black acquiesces to a sensitive cen· 31 R- KRI · . . . tral Pawn which cuts a Bishop diagonal latero' ! .. But thi~ profound move posi· White llas succeeded in opening lines; rather than open the game fOl' the Two tionally I1psets the whole val'iaUon. but. while he recaptures his Pawn, Black Bishops. WhIte not only prevents .. . B- B4 but gets time for couutel' attack. also hold both Black Queen·side pieces 24 B-B2 R- B2 31 . . . , P-K5 t out of playas long as possible. The idea ThIs Rook serves a duel purpose : de 32 K_B4 · . . , succeeds completely, Perhaps. Black falls fense on the rank and potential pressure Not 32 KxP?? N-B4t, to understand the true idea of this on the file. 32 . . , , N- K2 mysterious move, 25 K- B3 R- Q1 33 B-R5 , . , , 13 . . . , P-B3 26 RxR K,R Black loses time. He ought to aim im· 27 B- R4 N- Q2 Here White played the correct move and proposed a dl'aw. But Black, count· media tely for counterplay by 13 . .. PxP Black is still restricted to a passive ing fOllr minutes left for White's seven 14 NxP. B- D3 15 B- K3, R- Kl ! role and this is his only good way of de· moves and seeing no risk 111 fighting on. 01' 13 .. . P - KR·I 14 P - KR3 and only fending his King Pawn, refused. then 1 ~ ' . P- D3 is good. 28 P-A4 P-KN3 33 . . . . P- N3 35 8-R4 N-N3t 14 P_ KR3 · . , . Blacl{ d oes not let his we~k Knight 34 Bx N PxB 36 K_ B5 . . . . :\' eed it be said 14 PxP is bad'! Study Pawll be pinned on its initial aqual'e. Once mOI'e, 36 KxP?? RxPt. 14 . .. P-Q~! 15 PxP, PxP 16 Q-Q·I, 36 ... , R- B4t :\'- Di. 37 K_B6 N_ K4 14 , . . . PxP Hel'e, as suggested before, 14 . , . P-R4 is better : 15 P - H3, P-Q4! 16 Qx KP, RP:.:P 17 RPxP , N- Q6 18 Q- R5, PxP. 15 P-R3 · . , . 01' 15 NxP, P-Q~! 15 . . , N-R3 Or 15 .. . P- Q·I 16 Q- Nl ! N- R3 [the sacrIfice 16 . . . I'xP 17 PxN, BxP 18 N-K5, B- K3 19 Q- R2 is unsound] 17 PxP, PxP (17 .. . QxP 18 N- N5!) 18 29 PxP . . . . NxP, and White has a clear posItional Exhausted by long efforts to constanUy advantage. find the best moves and already falling 38 B_N3 , , . , 16 Nx P N_B4 18 B- K3 P- R5 into time trouble, White fails, at last, to Here is the decisive mistake, with the 17 Q-B2 B_B3 19 QR- Q 1 Q- K2 do his best: 29 B- B2! N- B3 30 13- K4 time-control flag hanging. 38 B- Ql saves Black can only walt passively to see [here the move Is just in time as Black's a draw, King Is one square too far from the what White wlIl do. He still has not 38 .. " K-Kl 41 K_R8 N-B3 solved the problem of h is Qu een·side de· Kingside], NxB 31 KxB on which Blacl, 39 K-N7? N-N5 42 B-R4t K-K2 is in difficulties: e,g. in. . P-B3 32 velopment. Here lle aims to provoke KR 40 R_Q1 R- N4t R esigns Kl to prevent P- B4; but, in the long r un, t == Check; * = db!. check; I == dis. eh. White's King cannot escape mate, P- B4 cannot be prevented. 350 CHESS REVIEW, NOVEM BER, 1967 20 K A_ Kl Q-Q B2 31 A-K BI Aesigns IN A WOODEN 21 Q_Q2 Q-A4 On 31 . . . N- Q1. there can rollow 32 22 Q_B2 B-K4 It- Kit. K- 1t3 33 RxQ, NxQ 3-1 P- R~. Now Black Is los t : he does better to R- IU 35 It/ t - B' with ma le III two. CHESS SET revert to lhe o ld pOs ition with 22 .. . Q- 8 2. Setback YOU WILL FIND It is not pleasa n t to begin a tourna· ment wIth a defea t. Reshevsky did very NO BETTER BUY wen to I'ebound arteL' tllis game. Than V IEN N A GA ME J anosevich Reshevsky THE GRANDMASTER Yugoslavia United States 1 P-K4 P-K4 21 R_R 3 R/ l - Bl CRAFTSMAN 2 N-QB3 N- KB3 22 P- QN3 Q-N5 3 P_ B4 P-Q4 23 P- K6 R,P A Superb Chess Set 4 PxKP N,p 24 P- K 7 R-K l 5 N _B 3 B- K 2 25 Ax A Q,R 6 Q-K2 N,N 26 Q.,P Q-N 4 7 QP., N N-B3 27 Q.,Q P ,Q 23 N_B3 ! • • • • 8 B- B4 B_ K3 23 R_K5 P-B3 Suddenly, Black's ])O sition is hOI ,eless. 9 0_0_0 Q- Q2 29 P_B4 p ,p He mllst concede his good Bishop. He 10 Q_ K 3 P- QA3 30 PxP K_Q2 loses on 23 ... Q- ll2 24 NxB, PxN 25 11 B_ KN5 0-0- 0 31 K- Q2 R,P BxN. 12 N_Q4 N, N 32 R, P K_ K3 23 . . . . N-N6 13 P, N P-R3 33 P_ R4 K_B3 24 P-B 5! Q_ B2 B,B Q, B 34 R_ N 3 P_ K N4 25 PxP • • • • "15 P- KR4 QR- B1 35 P_R5 R-K5 Positionally, White can win by 25 Nxn. ,. R_K1 P-K B4 36 K-Q3 A- K 8 PxN 26 I1- Q6, etc. bllt he looks fo r a de· 17 P- A5 P-B5 37 A- B3t K _N 3 RE you looking for a wooden chen cislon b)' attacking. 18 Q-Q2 Q-N4 39 A- K 3 A-QAS Aset of distinguished design, exacting 19 B _Q3 B_B4 R,P 2"5 , • • • B xQP 39 A- K 7 wo rkmanship and long. lasting durabilil Y 26 N _N5 P_ KN3 20 BxBt R,B 40 AxP -at a reasonable price? If you are, the n 27 Q-B4t K_N2 TUE CRU'TSMAN is the set for YOLl. Or 27 ... K-R I ?~ 28 B - QH, Nx B 29 Its pieces nre shaped in the graceful QxNt a nd 30 QxB. lines of the famous Staunton pattern, in 28 K- Al • • • • a smoothly fin ished wood, called TSllg e A sim]lle tempo move. one of the finest and most ex pensive in 28 .. .. B_K4 Japan-and a re perfectly weighted for 29 B_N6 Q,B balance at the hase, which is felted with 30 AxB Q,P billiard cloth. The King is four inches Another mistake, In a lost Ilosltlon. 30 high, wit h II 1% inch base; and the othel . , . Q- B2 is m et by 31 R/ I - Kl . men are in the true Staunton proportions. TIle Ili eees, which come in deep black and sk'Ck ye llolf, are beautifully turned BOOK OF THE MONTH Black lost by contumacy. out and carved. A particularly lovell' de· -D RUZH 1 SOl'F:HNIK I ("The Friemis lind Solutions for CHESS QUIZ tail is the wonderful carving done on tiLe Opponents") b)' }lI. dovich all d Kazirh Knighls- in the besl tradition of fam ed No.1 Bl"ck ,,"i,, ~ Iw 1 ..• Ox!'t: 2 ""Q. (RlI5sian edition ) CUll be Qrdered throllgh "xpt : 3 "x,,". " · ,,C mIlLO::. oriental workmanship. SAIIOVSK,\ NA KlADA, Zrinj5ki, Irl! 3/ 11 , No.2 lJ l""k )" i n~ b y 1 . .. jl.I'I;t : and 2 T his out standingly good·loo king sct it Zagreb, YlIgo.~ /a via, S4. BxH. QxQ 0 " 2 P XB . Q · Q7f 3 K - "I. Q~n t etc. or 2 1..:.,,1. X·ltGt ! .."tI J ... q·:..;S boxed attractively in sturdy Nara wo od, The lalest Yugoslav edition, Jlublished "'Me. favored for fu rniture and flooring becau.e Nc. 3 Hln.. : k wins by L ... Ox:--: 2 p"O. in Russiun for the Soviet Un ion, e1abor. PXP: 3 K.llZ. P ' 118(:-;")1 : n nd 1 •.. rt· " S of its durable qualities. ate.:; 'ali ten Iraditional matcilcs between "'Me. Striking to look at and perfect for chen NO. 4 Ul,-.ek wins by t .. . R"" : rtx ll. BxR t he reprl,.'5cn tatives of the S<)\'iet Union 3 HxB. H:dt ~ Ox.R. Q·QSf and ~ ... 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Thursdays Meets every Wednesday evening Streets, Philadelphia, Pennaylvania Wlnten • Sutnmer~ Mon. 7.11 PM Open dally. LOCKPORT CHESS CLUB HAMMOND CHESS CLUB V. F. W. Hall. 112 Caledonia Sl, GE·MSD CHESS CLUB Hammond YMCA Lockport, New York : phone HF 3-8621 General Electric Company 5719 Hohman Avenue. Hammond. Open Fridays from 7 :00 PM S pace Te<:hnology Center lodlana. 7 PM Thursdays Valley Forge, Pennsylvania INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB BRADY'S CHESS CLUB Manger Motor Inn, 1530 N. Medldlan St. George Brady, DIrector RHODE ISLAND ADULT CHESS CLUB lnd [ a.napoll~ , Indla.a - play from Friday 109 West 42nd Street, New YOI'k , No. 111 Empire Street 7 PM to Sunday midnight New York 10036: LO·5·8601 Providence, Rhode Island 352 eMUS REVIEW, NOVEMBER, 1967 CHESS REVIEW', (1967) Ninth United State, Open POSTAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP The Twentieth Annual Golden Knights T HE current edition of the Golden Knights tournament is now under way. and entries are acceptable until November 30, ]967. It is con ducted ullder CHESS Hb:VIEW's Rule .~ fwd RegullltionJ JOT Posu1l Chp_~.~. .- VERVTH I NG YOU NEED to play as mailed with a"signments. and with the special rules ~iven I,elow . t= chess by mail i. included in the com· P er Rule 1, aU play must b e 'rom w ithin the eontinental USA il"d Canada. pletc Post,.. Che.. Kit produced by CHESS REVIEW for the convenience of To 3P~ play lor the fiNt rou nd. we group all [iIe entries received postal player.. The kit cOMbin. equip geographically so far as possiL lc. Utherwi !>e. entries II.re matched off ment and Itationer)' especially d e.igned for the purpon. These a ida to POlt.1 into 7 man groups strictly in the order of ollr receipt 01 their applira Che.. w ill keep your records Itraight, lions. Qualifiers to the later rou nds are groupf'O likewi.:e In orner 01 hel p you to avoid mi.takea, f or the fullest enjoyment In your gamel by qualification (except multiple elltrants), hut without regard to geography. mal I. In effect, the Golden Knights is an "open" tournament, without re Contents of Kit gard to our rating classes so far as the entry goes_ The ralings are calculat· One of the mo.t important It ems in ed, however, quite as usual. We "rate" all game3 in CHESS I{EVIEW tour· the kit is the Potta' Chell Recorder AI· bum _ the greateH aid to pOltal chess neys. It is an "open" tournament bt>caUM! we cannot pretend to ··seed·· ever invented. The six mi niature thets cand idates for a championship and uecau~e it gjves tile weaker players a sets in this album enable you t o keep track of the positionl, move by move, chance to gain by experience against stronger ones. in all six "limes of your l eetio:1. On the score-cards, lupplied with the album, you Special Rules for the 1967 Golden KnicJhts Tournaments. record the moves of the games. T he up Consult lhe following r u les wh enever 7 Fur eomputlnK the tOla! ~~of e ~ lO de- to-date score 01 eaeh game fil ees the eur any Question arises as to your ehances h:rmino the d ln rlbu tion ot prl~u. eueh game r e nt position. Seo re-earda are removable. won III the firs t round will be scond as I When a game ia fin ished, remove the o ld ror Qualifying to Semi·Unals or Finals or poin t; each game won In the ¥e~ond round eard and insert a new one. 12 extra seore· lor weighted point score, elC. lUI t .2 polnl.!!; each game won In the tinal eards ilre ineluded in the k i t.. Priee I C HBSS REVIEW·s 2Uth Anuu;o l Gold· round II ~ .5 points. A dn,wn same wlli be ..,n Knl;- ht¥ P Q.!!t&i Che,.. Champlonahip Tour. scored aa half o f these N!!lpec;tlve an,ounts. alone; $5.00. nl;.. m"'L\ ~ III open to all persona IIvlnv In the 8 In the ca.se o ( lies. I( ~wo or mote The kit also eontalns 100 Move·Mailing QO,ulnental United Slates or Amer;ea ."d In tlnall,ts lie ro r (inl place. a~hievJ"g the PO$t Cards for sending m oves to your Canuda. exeept CHESS REVIEW'a e on· ""me total secre. as oomputed In Rule 1. plOYlta. oontrlbutlng editors and me m bers the n the (Irs, :! or more I>rl~es will 1M! re- opponents, a Chess Type Stamping Outfit or their lamilieL &en 'ed tor IhOJie linalisUi and the p ri ~es will lor printing positions on the mailing 2 Any contestant who ente rs th iS tOU"':o.· 1M! awarded In (l~cord;onee With Ihe &cores eards. a Game Seore Pad of 100 sheea m"m unde r a p seudon) m Or in Ihe m U lLIIl ot a chieved by them in a tle·breakinb match or for submitting seores of games to be ad ,u ,olhe r person will be d isqualltled. AU un· "DllL ,d·robin eonlen In whiCh each eonte&la nl judieated or published, eomplete instrue· fjnllhed bames of the d isquali fi ed com.. !· w ill pia)' nO t less Ihan 2 bames with every tions on how to play ehell by mail, an ae· 'Int will be IICOred all wins for :,I.s OPpolle nlll. olh el' tied oollteslant, Ties for other eR. h eount of the Postal C hell rating system 3 Two quali!y inl\" rounds a nd one IIn l1 1 prl7-es will be I"..lken In the same m3nn~ r . and the Official Rulea of P ostal Chell. roulld will be played. In &!i three .-0,,"0.1.. .In)· ties which may develop In Ihe lie . br~ak. co" t e. tant ~ will compe te in Ie<: tlonl 01 If(:V. I"K c::onlesUl will be pi&)'ed oct In a dditional Saves You Money ell players. k:ach contestant In s Se<: t lon wil l matches or tournRmentl. play one "Rme VS. each of , Ix OPPO IL <)nt.. t The entry fee II $5.00 and entitles LI,,~ Bought sepilrately, the eontents would I"orrelt winll count a 6 game POlntt, coule"t.ant to com pete In one section of the amount to $1 0.15. The eomplete kit eoata 4 All cont~ta n ts who " COrti 4 or mOl'" I/r(ll iminnry round. No nddWonal fee Is only $8.00. T o order, just mail the coupon !,."lIlIIe points in Ihe preHmlnary round "'Ill dmn;-ed ~o nt es t nnt s who qualify tor the sec- below. (Add 20% for handling and pOlltage "ull.llty tor the semi-tinal round. Simll",·ly. oud or third rounda. A conte"wut may e n ter outs ide lhe r..: .S.A.) a ll qull.llrled semi. finnlist. wllo "coro 4 or uny number of sections Of the pr PRIZE .. $2.50.00 Second Prize S100 Sixth Prize $40 Third Prize S80 Seventh Prize S30 Fourth Prize S65 Eighth Prize S15 Fifth Prize S50 Ninth Prize SlO Tenth Prize S15 65 Prizes - Eleventh to Seventy-fifth S5.00 each AND THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS EMBLEMS! To befit the Championship, there are added prizes for the winners of the first five places in this national in the fO I·m of handsome plaques, suitably inscri bed event, as well as the Golden Kn ights emblems. SEVENT y-FIVE CASH PRIZES, amounting OPEN TO ALL ~LASSES OF PLAYERS to a total of $1000.00 , will be awarded Even if you 've never played in a competitive event to the seventy-five players who fin ish before, you may turn out to be Golden Knight s cham· with highest scores in the Twentieth pion or