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AUGUST 1951 EASTER ISLAND CHESS SET (50::e Pllg es 226.233 ) 50 CENTS Subscription Rote ONE YEAR $4.75 This can become dangerous! 19., .. Q-KB1! 22 K_Bl QRxN 20 N_ R7 PxB!! 23 P- B3 Nj2-K4 21 NxQ PxNt 24 QxP NxP! Diac1, bl'eaks open the position f Ol· the powerful doubled Hooks! 25 PxN RxPt 26 K-N2 What's left! If 26 K-Kl, B-N5 pins the Queen; or, If 26 K-Nl, B-BH wins the Queen 01" 26 . R-N6t, followed by 27 . _ . B-Q3, leaves White helpless. N the past few years, Death has taken having met in tournament and match· from us some of the most illustt'ious play sllch stal's as Anderssen. Ste initz, 26 . B-N5! I 27 Q-Bl names in the history of Chess. Blackbur ne, Zukertort, Tanasch and Fit'st, there was Tanasch in 1934, the countless others. Bird had eve n been a ,"Vhlte st!1l hopes to get 28 P-H6 in. man whose games f.ascinate(! the world contestant in the first tournament of 27 .... R-B7t with their classic, clear-cut, logical, po modern chess history, far back in 1851! 28 K-N1 sitional planning. Tarrasch formulated Hastings, 1895 No better Is 28 K-R3, R/l-B6t 29 K- a science out of a rude art, and his teach· N4, N-K4t 30 K-N5, B-K2 mate. ings made masters out of amateurs. FRENCH DEFENSE 28 N_Q5 Then followed his arch-rival, NirnzQ H. E. Bird G. Maroczy 29 B-Q3 B_Q7 vieb, in 1935, whose original over-the 1 P-K4 P-K3 board strategy thoroughly bewildet'ed his 30 Q-B5 B-K6 2 N-KB3 P- Q4 Resigns opponents, and whose hypermodern Ideas 3 B_Q3 revolutionized chess theory. Why waste good moves on an un In 1941 Lasker die!t Lasker had held known? the title of Wor ld's Champion for 27 SO ~'AR AS I KNOW, MOHPHY NEYEn years, and his exp]olls and trinnl))hs had 3 .... N-KB3 6 B-B2 N-QB3 gave lhe odds of a Queen.· He di(1 play been legendary. 4 P_K5 KN_Q2 7 P_ Q4 B-K2 some beauties at the more u sual odds of One year later came the shocking news 5 P-QB3 P_QB4 8 P_ KR3 a Rook 0 1" a K night and once g;\\-e hi 8 of CapabJanca's sudden death from a Steinitz would shudder at this. White opponent both pieces. The result was cerebral hemO!'rhage. In his passing, prepares to attack when there is not the this l!yely game. we lost the greatest chess genius that slightest poss ible justification for doing GAME AT ODDS ever lived, so; Dlack has no weaknesses in his posi· New Orleans. 1856 tion to attack! Just as two of the game's pre-eminent (Remove \Vhite Qneen nook an(] Kn ig ht) teachers, TalTasch and Nirnzovich, died & •••• P_QR3 11 QN_Q2 p,p within a year of each other, and just 9 B-K3 P_QN4 12 PxP 0 - 0 P. Morphy T. Kni9ht as two of the World's gl'eatest m asters, 10 P-QN3 B-N2 13 P-KR4 1 P-K4 P_ K4 7 BxPt QxB 2 P-KB4 PxP 8 N-K5 Q_B:! Lasker and Capablanca, left this life a White hopes to win by 1-1 BxPt, KxB 3 N_B3 P-I<N4 9 Q- R5t K_K2 year apart (co-incidentally at the same 15 N-N5t ill bang-bang style. hospital) so too did we lose two of our 4 B_B4 Q-K2 10 P-KR4 PxP 13 . P_ B3 most celebrated exponents of attack at 5 P-Q4 P_Q4 11 0-0 B-R3 almost the same tIme, These two were 14 Q-N1 6 BxQP P-QB3 12 P-QN3 N-Q2 Spielmann in 1943 and Marshall in 194<1, To induce a weakening Pawn move. 13 B-R3t P- B4 We could ill spare all these, but the 14 PxP! worst was yet to come, 15 BxPt K-Rl In 1946, news flashed from Spain that 16 N-N5 the greatest chess master of all t ime had Never underestimate the power of an died of a heart attack. The brllliant attack! White threatens 17 NxP as well A'lekhine had been snatched away at a as 17 B-N8. most dramatic moment- on the eve or a 16 . R-B3 match with Botvinnik for the World's Championship, Now 17 B-N8 fails afte r the simple 17 .And now it is Grandmaster Maroczy ... QxB . who joins these giants of the chessboard, 17 Q-Q1 Geza Maroczy was a fine position play Trying to get in by 18 Q-R5. er when knowledge of such strategy was 17 . Q_ K1 the property of just a handful of masters. 18 P-R5 PxP! It was a pleasure to see Maroczy beating Nimzoyich says that a wing attack is 14 R-Q1! back a premature Kin g-side attack, He best met by play in the center. But here A subtle move, as we shall see. sat back coolly, quietly stl'engthened h is is liIa roc7.y playing what Nimzovich had center, patiently defended hIs King 14 . NxN 16 Q- K8t N- K2 against any wild onslaught and methodi· not Yet discovered! 15 BxPt K-K3 17 P-Q5 mate cally turned back the iuvading forces, 19 B-N6 A pretty use of the pin on the Knight. T he whole process was completely de· lightful-it seemed so quiet and painless. I n answer to rCHdcr ·q "e~tion~ on Ih e Off·hand, I can think of only five other Queen·odds J;umes ill Chernev's Ch en Cor . ner, J uly Issue, 'rhis is gl'eale)' od d~ here masters who excelled at this style of un· lhan in " hnr.o \"lc h · ~ I:;""C. at Qu een f Ol' rutfled defense, Schlechter, Tarrasch, KnighL-Ed. Rubinstein, Lasller and Capablanca. Here is how Maroczy parried Bird's attacks when they first crossed s words. T HOUGH T FOR TH E MONTH At the time when thIs game was played, I"or sure ly, of all the dru g~ in t ht Maroczy had not yet won his spurs, world, Chess must be the most perma· while Bird had been recognized as a mas· nently pleasurable. --Assiac tel' for almost a half·century before. Bird had all the experience in the world, i :::; check; ~ _ dbl. ~h eck; ~ = di s. ~ h . CHESS REVIEW 'H( ~IUUU (HISS IIIAOAZINf Volume 19 Number 8 AUllust, 1951 EDITED &. PUBLISH ED BY I. A. Horowlt:>: Readers are invited to use these columns for their comments on matters of interest to chessplayers. INDEX FEATURES Easter Island Chess Set _____ ___ __ __ 233 GREAT GAMES DEPT. OF ELUCIDATION The Mind is Quicker than the Eye _ 244 In reply to Mr. Chernev's request (in Mr. A. G. K eniston (April CHESS RE Wertheim Memorial Tournament __ _ 234 Readers' Forum . April issue). how about VIEW, page 98) will find the latest word World Championship Match ____ ____ 236 taking 11 poll among all players with on the famous fo.-Iorphy set in Alex Ham DEPARTMENTS ratings of master or above for opinons mond's Thl! Book of Chessmen (publ. Chess Caviar _______ ____ __ __ ___ ____ 231 on the greatest games evn played? Wm. Morrow. New York, 1951), pp. 81· Ch ess Qu iz __ __ ____ ___ ______ _______ 246 Each could turn in a list of ten, with 83. Alfred C. Kl ahre, in his 1934 llam Games from Recent Events ___ __ ___ 239 14 points for first choice, nine for second, phlet, described the board and men fully. Postal Chess _____ ____ ____ ___ ______ 247 eight for third and so on down to one Hammond repeats the d escription and Spotlight on Openings 242 point for tenth. This is the system used prints (Plate LIX. figure 1) an illustra_ to determine the most valuable player in tion of an "exactly similar" set. The set Tournament Calendar ________ __ __ _ 226 the National League in baseball. Experi· was supposed to be in Germany in 1935, World of Chess __ ______ __ __ _______ _ 227 en ee proved it to be faifer to give extra but I'Iammond doubts the possibility. He credit for fi rst choices instead of giving beJieves, however, that t he board and E DITOR just ten points. pieces may still be in existence. Perhaps 1. A. Horowitz To put in my two cents worth, I would some New Orleans correspondent will choose Pillshury's win over Gunsberg at EXECUTIVE EDITOR cheek Mor phy's wills, deeds and papers Jack Straley Battell Hastings, 1895 as the greatest game ever and dig up other evidence. played. It was in the final round, and KESTER SV ENDSF:N CONTRIBUTI NG E D ITORS Pillsbury had to win in order to main· Univ. of Oklahoma I. Cherney. J . W . Coll!ns, T. A. Dunst. H a.ns Kmoch, l?red Reln!eld tain a half.point lead over Tchigorin. The Norman, Okla. latter was having a hard game with CORRESPONDENTS Schlechter which he eventually won. ANYBODY GAME? California Herbert Betker, J. B. Gee, L~roy Pillsbury's game looked very dr awish, Dear Fellow Chess·Fiends: Johnson. Dr. H. Ralston, M. J. Royer. Connecticut Edmund E. Hand. but he forced a win by su perb end-game Would like nothing better t han to get Olst.