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Chess Review MARCH 1968 • MEDIEVAL MANIKINS • 65 CENTS vI . Subscription Rat. •• ONE YEAR $7.S0 • . II ~ ~ • , .. •, ~ .. -- e 789 PAGES: 7'/'1 by 9 inches. clothbound 221 diagrams 493 ideo variations 1704 practical variations 463 supplementary variations 3894 notes to all variations and 439 COMPLETE GAMES! BY I. A . HOROWITZ in collaboration with Former World Champion, Dr, Max Euwe, Ernest Gruenfeld, Hans Kmoch, and many other noted authorities This Jatest and immense work, the mo~t exhaustive of i!~ kind, e:x · 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 teft hanging in mid.position with the query : What bappens now? A logical sequence binds the continuity in each opening. Firsl come the moves with footnotes leading to the key position. Then fol· BIBLIOPHILES! low perlinenl observations, illustrated by "Idea Variations." Finally, Glossy paper, handsome print. Practical and Supplementary Variations, well annotated, exemplify the effective possibilities. Each line is appraised : or spacious poging and a ll the +, - = . The large format-71/2 x 9 inches- is designed for ease of rcad· other appurtenances of exquis· ing and playing. It eliminates much tiresome shuffling of pages ite book-making combine to between the principal lines and the respective comments. Clear, make this the handsomest of legible type, a wide margin for inserting notes and variation·identify· ing diagrams are other plus features. chess books! In addition to all else, fhi s book contains 439 complete ga mes- a golden trea.mry in itself! ORDER FROM CHESS REVIEW 1- --------- - - ------- --- - -- - --- -I I Please send me Chess Openings: Theory and Practice at $12.50 I I Narne • • • • • • • • • • . • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • . • • • • • • . • . • . • • . • . • • • . • • • . • . • . I I Address .. • . • .. .. .. • .. .. • • . .. .. •..... .... ... .. .... .... .. .. I I City & State . .... ... ... .. .. .. ..... ... -. .. ... •...... Zip Code No . ... ..... I I Check/Money order encloled I ,---------------------- - - ----- -, CHESS REVIEW 'HI ,.,crUIt, eMUS ,MAOAZIHf Volume 36 Number 3 March 1988 EDITED &. PUBLISHED BY I. A. Horowitz PRIDE AND SORROW ing UI) a personal clacque; in the final This is a leiter designed to let off ~!IIa[ysis he played according to the rules sleam. Should Y'lU wish to use any por· of his period and thrashed his ril'al over Table of Contents lion of it for publication, that is all right the board. With all dne respect 10 a scn· with me, although r think il hardly likely ~itive ego. Fischer. even more than i\"for­ Chess Caviar .................. .... 88 considering its contents. r would be more phy. seems destined to become Ihe pride Chess Club Directory ..... ... .. .. 96 than gratified shou ld you care to discuss and so rrow of Am!;'rican chess. Chess Quiz .. .. .. ..... .. ... 66 in your writings any puint that I raise. Ro"aw H. ROS ~:N Finishing Touch .......... ... .. .... 74 Like most chess players, I am upset by Ann Arbor, Mich. Game of the Month .. ..... " ....... 72 the latest incident in Bobby Fischer's • A great many queslions remain unan· Games from Reeent Events ... ... ... 76 career. r write to you because from my peripheral acquaintance with you-- as a swered even at this date (see Fehruary Interzonal at Sousse ... , .... ..... 89 issue, pages 40.45), and more have cume lnng lime reader of CHESS HEV1EW. from On the Cover .. ............ , .... .. 68 up. To mcntion just one, Col. Ed Ed· my hal'ing faced yo u in a simultaneou~ Postal Chess .. ..... .. ... .. .... 80 mondson states that Fischer's objeclion at exhibition III Cleveland and from my Problemart .. .... .. ....... .. ' .... 84 having analyzed with you and others a the time of tht Gipslis game was that he Solitaire Chess . .. .. .. ........... 95 game I lost to Ed Schwartz in the 1952 had been assigned a "holiday" which was Spartakiad IV .............. , . ...... 92 New York :vIetropolitan League when 1 not legitimate, wante.d a game, not post· Tournament Calendar ..... .• . ...... 70 played for Columbia University- I regard poned, but moved up, and incidentally World of Chess ................ .... 67 you as perhaps the most urbane and so 10 avoid a later string of consecutive COll_ judicious che5~ spokesman in this coun· games without rest days. Fischer's try. In your recent column in the New duct, extra-chessicallv bUI intra·organiza. EXECUTIVE EDITOR York Times discussing Fischer's appar­ tionally, i~ not commendable; bul it does Jack Straley Sattell cn t departure from the Interzonal Tour· seem there i~ an at least equal queslion as to thc legitimacy of actions against MANAGING EDITOR nament (I entertain the hope that he will Arthur B. B lsguler re-enter), you summarize the facls with him at Sousse. As 10 "sheer ahility," CONTRIBUTING EDITORS admirable objectivity. Nevertheless. cer. Fischer was demonslraling such over thc J. W. Collins. T. A. Dunst. tain questions remain unanswered. Re· board even · in the face of what he COll­ sider~ organizational harassment. We trust Svetozar GIIf;orich. Hans KmoCh. ~hevsky also faces difficulties in Ihis tour· Walter Korn and Dr. P. Trlfunovlch. nament due to his well known wish to Ihe answers will be fortheoming.- ED. CORRESPONDENTS avoid playing games on his Sabbath. How SCRIABINE AT SKOPJE Alabama E. M. Cockrell. California Dr. H. Ralston. M. J . Royer. is it that conditions accepted before Ihe In hi ~ colorful arliclc about the 1967 Colorado J. J. Reid. ~ tart of the tournament can he sur· "Tnurnalllcni of Solidaritv" in Skopje, District of Columbia R. S. Can twell. Florida R. C. Ea.stwood. nwunted by a veteran like Reshevskl' but Dr. Trifun"vich tells of the earthquake Georgia Braswell Deen. prove too onerous for a youth lib, whi ch leveled Ihat city in 1963. However, Idaho R . S. Vandenberg. Fischer? Illinois J. G. Warren. il is all]Hll"ently n"t known in the chess Indiana D. C. Rl11s. D. E. Rhead. A mystiquc has ~urrntlnded Fi scher world Ih at one of the victims of the earth­ Iowa J. M. Osnes-s. 10 Kansas K R. :>'laeDonald since his childlwod. Il robabl)" his de· quake wa~ a strong amateur player, Louisiana J. F. Accrs. A. L. :>.rcAule~' . triment. No douht we ~ ha ll read many well. George Scriahinc (Yuri Skryabin ) . Maine L. Eldridge. intentioned writings in months to come Maryland Charles BaraSCh. Dr. W. R. (Concluded on page 71) Bundick. concerning the difficulties Fischer has had Massachusetts S. Frymer. to face. It seems to me that such opin. Michigan R. Buskager. Minnesota G. Tiers. ions conveniently ignore the fact 1hal Mississippi "E. A. Dunning. tournament chess is a sport as much a~ Nebraska B. E. Ellsworth. Jack Spence. Nevada R. L. Wheeler. an art. What would we think if the Green New Hampshire Ralph M. Gerth. Bay Packers decided 10 withdraw frOI\1 New York P. Berlow. Edward Lasker. J. N. the National Football League temporarily Otl!. North Carolina Dr. S. Noblin. because dlt;y had suffered subst·antia! in. North Dakota D. C. Macdonald. juries? The position of Fischer seems al· Ohio R. 13. Hayes, J. R. Schroeder. Pennsylvania J. E. Armstrong. most as ludicrous. South Dakota il.I. F. Anderson. A com]letition has some meaning only Tennessee Mrs. Martha Hardt. J. G. SUlli- van. Jr. if all the contestants agree tu a fbled set Texas Homer R. Hyde. of rules heforehandand follow -them. I do Utah Harold Lundstrom. Wisconsin Pearle Mann. not think thai Fischer's admirers will Wyoming E. F. Rohlf!. ea~e the situat io n by pretending, as manr Collegiate: P. C. Joss. have in the past, that he deserves to be CANADA world champion on sheer ability. Let him Alberta L. Steele. enter the lists like everyone else and British Columbia Dr. N. Dlvlnsky. Manitoba :M. Stover. prove it , one way or another. Alekhine did Ontario R. D. Jacques. not dethrone Capablanca merely by oc­ Quebec M. Moss. "I.ike to make it a bit more interesting? Saskatchewan Frank Yerhott. casionally winning tournaments and build· Playa game for five or ten marbles?" CHESS REVIEW, MARCH. 1968 65 1 White to move and win 2 Black to move and win Having so much wOI'king E;-el'Y pOSition, howevel', A MAXIMUM OF CHANCE for YOll, you won't really has some little wrinkle - 01' Chess, we once said, is pl'e-eminently a game into which need any clues at all, now it wouldn't be any son of a chance, as opposed to the relative skills of the contenders. will yOIl! Good, with that "quiz" position, now would It? plays a minimum part. In this qui~, we could have said, it point clarified, we will an· We're offering no clue when Is all in all. Yon ha\'e a maximum chance as you have no nounce that you need only we say you'll do well to dis· opponent, 01" one who has already compromised his position. to win, not mate necessarily cern the wrinkle. then go to So you should come liP with ten correel solUlions for an ex­ - nOI" mate In any spec!ried work to iron It out. Hight? cellent score. shouldn't yon? H yon do fatter, score yourself number of moves. It's a \'er' So just do nothing else but good for eight or fair tor six solutions (given 011 page 85). itable cinch, Isn't It? So how go to wOl'k and "play" like do YOll clinch It? i1"ol\ : 3 White to move and win 4 Blaek to move and win 5 White to move and win 6 Blaek to move and win Say. we received a leUer So now you have your fair In 11 \\"a~· . a (·he!';:. quiz is a Sin g 0 u t : Is evel-ybody recently from some one who turn at finding !l win fOI" fun gallle.
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