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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
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. of Columbia N. p . Wigginton. play. in on some of those postal tournaments Florida Major J . B. Holt, B. Klein, Ernest I quite agree with 2'.Ir. Chernev that his G. ·Werber. but, with only weekly mail service by boat Georgia Grady N . Coker, J r. three selections are ver~' near the top. in summer and weekly plane service in illinois Howard J . Bell. The finest game. illustrating hypermodern win ter- weather permitting- it would take Indiana D. C. Hills, D. E. Rheud, W. Roberts. play, was probably Reti- Bogolyubov, a dog's age-maybe two-ever to finish Io wa 'V. G. Vaoderburg. Kentucky J. 'V. Mayer. New York, 1924. A [inc Rook and Pawn a game. Kansas K. R. IIIacDonald. ending was Capablanca- Tartakover in Never played in a tournament, but Maryla nd Charle~ Barasch. Massachusetts Frank!!n J . S(lnborn. Waldo the same tournament. And the same prob. would think "B" class about right. So, L . WatHS. ably produced the most exciting, drawn if anyone would like a game, perhaps by Minnesota Charles M. Hardlnge. game, Marshall-Alekhine. sending a couple of "if" moves on each Michigan R. Buskager, J. R. 'Vatson. Nebraska B. E. Ellsworth, A. C. Ludwig, Fine games ending with long forced card, we could finish in ten years or so. Jack Spence, n. E. \Veare. mates include: Breyer-Dr. Esser, Buda· Perhaps some of "vets" at the Great New Hampslli re Alec Sadowsky. New York ,Valter Froeh!!ch, Edward Lasker, pest, 1917; Alekhine-Yates, Carlsbad, Lakes Naval Hospital (Readers' Forum. H. 1If. Phll1lps, Dr. M. Relsa. 1923; and Spielmann-Colle, Dortmund. December, 1950) would like to take on North Caroli na Sam Agnello. 1928. The oddest move probably occurred an Army vet- 6th Field Regiment, RCA, North Dakota D. C. Macdonald. Ohio Lawrence C. Jackson, Jr., Edward F . in the game. Lewitsky- Marshall. Breslau, 2d Div. Johnson. 1912. One could go on and on. JACK O. WHITFORD Oklahoma Dr. J. Kester Svendsen. Penn sylvania Thomas B. Eckenrode, Thomas C. M. BURTO N Fork Selkirk Gutekunst. Lee B. Hoover. C. H. L. St. Louis, ~Io. Yukon Territory, Canada Schuette, 2d. South Carolina Prot R. F. Brand. South Dakota M. F. Anderson. Tenn essee Mrs. Martha Hardt, J . G. Sulil van, Jr. Texas James A. Creighton, Frank R. 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Charleston, West Virgi ni a. 226 CHESS REVIEW, AUGUST, 1951 CHESS Vol. 19, No. 8 REVIEW AUGUST. 1951 *~I.NTERNATIONAL A Hundred Years After Exactly a century after Howard Staun ton organized IIHJ first international chess tournament in London, that historic event was commemorated by the Staunton Cen tenary International Tournament, which opened at Cheltenham, England, continued there for six rounds, moved on to Leam ington for three rounds, and finally wound UJl at Binningham for the remaining six rounds of the ~c h edu l e. Svetozar Gligorich of Yugoslavia em bclli~hed hi s tournament record, after a bad start that involved II draw in the first round and II loss to Alexander in the sec ond. It wa~ not until the eighth rOllnd that he succeeded in pulling up with the leaders; but, once in the clear, he main tained hi s grip to the end, finishing with a winning score of 10·5. Half a point be· hind with equal scores of 91/2.5% were his compatriots, Vasya Pire and Dr. Petar Trifunovich, and Sweden's Gideon Stahl· berg. Next, in a ti c for fifth, came C. H. Gligorich (right) attempts to win against a fellow.Yugoslavia n, Matanovich, in the O'D. Alexander of England, Aleksandar Staunton Centenary Tournament. He drew here but won the tournament. Matanovich of Yugoslavia, Nicolas Ros· solimo of France and Wolfgang Unzickcr by the small margins t.hat separated the masters Buenos Aires by that war "d of Germany, each 8Y2·6Y2. first eight contestants. playing strength who now"' represents Israel. Other prize. Alexander and Matanovich led the field wa~ remarkably well balanccd, and even winners were Erik Lundin of Sweden, lip to the midpoint of the tourney, when the tail·enders were dangerous at times. Ernst Gruenfeld and H. Kinzel both of the former began to fall away. Matano· (Other pictures, page 228.) Austria. vich stumbled in the eighth round against The final standing : Ewfim Bogo]yubov of Germany, who had Wienner Schnitzel Players w 0 L Totals just started to earn a few points. Having A tasty success was earned by Miguel Czerniak . .... • 7 , , , ., Lur.din ...... 4 , , 6 ! . 4~ tasted blood, Dogolyubov then proceeded Czerniak in the Vi enna Tournament com· Gru enfeld •.• 2 , , 6 ., to demolish Trifunovich in the penulti. pleted in Jill)". Czerniak is a former Pole Kinze l ...... 4 , , , ., who located in P alestine before the last Benl ...... 3 , , 5! . 5~ mate round, thus paving the way for Michel ...... 1 , , 5~ . 5~ final victory by Gli gorich. As evidenced war, who was stranded with other foreign Stein er, H. . ., , , 51 · 5J Mueller ...... 1 6 , , ., Vidmar, 'c...... 2 , , , ., ...... 3 , , STAUNTON CENTENARY TOURNAMENT, En gland, 1951 Lasker 41·61 Nestler ...... 1 , , 411·61 , , , , , , , 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 , , • , Tolals Hoenl lng er ...... 1 6 , ., 1 Gligorich (Y ul>oslavJ a) 0 I , , , , , , 10 • 5 • 2 Plre (Yugoslavia) . . .. 0- •0 , •0 ,• ,• , , • • ,•I 9k · 5k 3 Stahlberg (Sweden) .. . 0 • I • • ,• , ; , ,I , 9k· 5k 4 Trlfunovlch (Yu goslavia) ., -,- I l • • • , 0 ; • 9 11 · 5 11 UNITED STATES 5 Alexand ~r (Great Sritain) ,• ; 0 ,- I ,• • • 0 , •I ; , , 811 · 611 R&f. 6 Matanovieh (Yugoslavia) , 1- 0 •I ,• I 0 • , , , Sll · 61 7 Rossollmo (Prance) • 0 • •I , ,- I 0 , • ~ , SI· 6J 0 1 - 0 , , , , Sll· NATIONAL EVENTS 8 Un zicker (Germany) I •, • • • • . 6. 9 Donne r (Holland) • ,• • I ,- , 0 ~ • 0• 0 , , . , 10 Klei n (Great Britain) ...... •0 • •0 •0 , • , 0 0- , •, , 0 , , Coli Me Tops! 11 Bogo ly ubov (Germany) . . 0 ! 0 , 0 •, 0 0 , 0- ,• 0 , • , 6J. 811 2 Golombek (Great nritain) 0 0 , , , 0 - 0 , ,• 6 . , The USCF "Open" Championship was 13 Broadbent (Great BritaIn) 0 0 ~ • , •0 , ,• •0 , 1 - ~ ! 5 J . 9J 14 Tarta kover (France) , 0 •0 •0 , , 0 0 0 , - ,• 0 51· 9J won this year by the J\larsh,dl Chess Club 15 Van Scheltlnga (Holland) I 0 • 0 •0 0 •0 0 , j 0 - , 5 ·10 16 Wade (1\ew :O:: ealand) ...... I 0• 0 0 0 0 ,• •0 i , , 0 5 · 10 flash and College of the City of New '1'les were unresolved: thu s Pirc. Stahtoorg.• T,·ifullovlc•h. for •c"ample, tied ,,, second. York star, Larry Evans. Alone of 98 can· CHESS REVIEW, AUC UST , 19 5"1 227 The Swedish grandmaster Stahlberg finished in a triple tie The veteran Ewfim D. Bogolyubov of Germany, who played for 2nd in the Staunton Ce ntenary Tournament (see p. 227) World Championship matches vs. Alekhine, started poorly. testanls. Larry was undefeated in th e 12 Cuila was represented hy Dr. Gonzalez RI-;I'l!-:w. Ihe Castle Chess Cl ub of Berkeley, round Swiss S)'stem tournamen t. He drew and JoS\! It. noridu; Canada. hr Howard champions of the San Francisco Bar four. won ten, to finish ahead of former Hideout ; allli 21 states and the District Area Chess League, gained a s(: nsal iOIHLl "Open" Champion Albert Sand rin. Jr., of Columhia sent contcstants. 6·0 upset to win the state cluh IiI Ie. 01 Chicago. minois, and New York State The 1.:(1<1;,,;.:- 8cOr (: ~: rn 'Iecomplishing this feat, Caslle play· Champion Elliot S. Hearst (a lso 01 the , Lar .. )" I':"atl~ .. 10 II; R , [;ricJ;'e l' ... n ers on the first three boards. 1-1 . Gross, , Sandl'in E )fednl~ Marshall Chess Club) and former U. S. ", . . .. 71 N. Falconer and W. G. McClain, defeated, 3 E , HN"'S! 9 "IS -, T ::;h(:I'wi" .n Co-Champion Isaac I. Kashdan, formerly , , I("shd"n -- "9 R -, -'lal'lill .. ,n respectively, H. i\lartin, state champion; of New York but now of Los Angeles, -, CI"OSS .. 20" T A .J(:"ki"s _'l A. Spiller, ;;ta l(: open C!l ampi on: .Hld W, ~l L -,- 7~ " -, I" DonO"an 8! Isaacs ... H. Steckel, Los Angeles county cll 228 CHESS REV IEW, AUC;;UST , t9~ 1 also of Albuquerque, was second with 5,1, while Jack Shaw of Santa Fe came in third on S.·B. points. although fou r other I)la)"ers eq ualed his 4.2 ga me >;eon;. Five towns were represented in the co mpetit ion. NORTH CAROLINA Follow ing up his win in the North Carolina Open Tournament, Kit Cri t· tend en of Raleigh eapture{1 the North Carolina State ChampiOllship. a 32·mall, 5·round Swiss e,·enl. wi th a perfect score of 5·0. H.. \1. Woods of mack Mountain, tallying 'I.-I. fin i .~hetl second on S.· B. poin ts. ahead of W. J. Peters of Durham and Davi(1 S. Evans of Hakigh, bot h of whom al~o had 4·1 game scores but fewer S.·B. point~ and ti ed for third and fourth . PENNSYLVANIA In a meet at Harrisburg, Peabody High School and West Philadelphia High School tied for the state scholasti c cham· pionship. At Cotumbia, South Carotina ( teft to right); George Iwankiw, Ben Rudich, Dr. George SOUTH CAROLINA Smith, Capt. E. E. Brown (Co lumbia), P rof. Virgi l Smith ( Hartsville), B. L. Ilsley, Paul L. Cromelin of Columbia, finish· Prof. L. L. Foster, Richard Zimmerman (Cotumbia) lind the new state champion, Paut L. Crome lin. ing a term as President of the South Carolina Chess Association in grand style, wo n the State Championship in a five Indiana. fn a successful defense of hi s third with 3Y2.1l;t2. One of the competitors round Swiss System tournament at the Indianapolis title, Leopold Binder repeat· was 91·year.old Frank Lay. Wade I'!ampton Hotel, Columbia. He cd his "ictory of last Ycar, making a per· The ncw champion of the Gary Chess sco red 4Y2.Y2, drawing with B. L IIsle)' fec t 5-0 scme in a 14-l1\an. 5- round Swiss. Club is George O. Dunkel, who reg istered of Rock Hill. H. O. Peterson, 4·l. was runner·up, and 4·1 in a 15·m'lIl. 5·rollnd Swiss. \Vith less Second place went to Ben Hudich, " .1 , Alfred D. Gruen. current state titleholder the new Charleston City Champion, who S.·B. IlO ints. Wa llace Kosiba and Dale E. lost on ly to Cromelin. Ii sley took th ird , and former Ind ia na polis cham Ili on. took Hhead fin ished 2d and 3d respectively. and Lanncau Foster of Columbia, newly electcd Prcsident of the SCCA, fou rth, with the next places going to George Iwankill' of Hartsvil le and Dr. Georgc Smit h of Co lumbia. i\"irs. W. B. Compton of Columhia retai ned her tit le of Women's State Champion. LOCAL EVENTS Calijomia. The Los Angeles Count y Team Tournamcnt was wo n by Hollywood and Santa i\ lonica with equal scorcs of 4;12'%' Although und efeated, th e Los Angeles CIl(.:sS Club was relcgated to third place hy reason of its three ticd matches wit h Hollywood. Santa l\Ionica and Cosmo. Dr. H. Kallman, 1O l;t2.2 Y:) . convin cingly too k the annual round robi n for the clLam· pionship of the Fresno Chess Cluh. A triple tic for second occurred among Dr. C. Bird, l\'\uurice Worden and Leo Le gler, each 9·4. Idaho. An even ly contested double· round match Oll 6 boards was pia red between Twin Falls and Boise. the result being a 6·6 draw. Lloyd Kim'pton won twice for Twin Falls, while his teammates Laverl Kimpton and Glen Buckendorf tall icd 1% points each. Donald Murphy of Twin Falls At Huntington, W est Virginia, the Marshall College team ( teft to r ight) ; Wm. Cape_ hart, Jack Allison, Be n W. Hope and (seated) Cha rles T . Morgan, with the hetp of broke even with A. L. Harle. Dual vic· Dr. Asa W . Ad kins (at radio), engage in the fi rst radio match in the state, against tories for Boise werc registered by .M. the state tnstitute of Technology. The ontookers picture·like in the mirror were Wright and i\1 I. Brown. not identified. (See page 231.) CHESS REVI EW. A UCUST , 195t 229 Premier honors in the Lake County In· crown by a score of 32%·1%. Second when he dropped a hard hattie \0 Henrv terscholastic Tournament were gathered place in the 18 man, double round robin !'IIeifert, a hi gh scorer in last year's state b y Barry Gold of Wirt High School wcnt to Preston Averill, 26.8, and third tourney. A match last year betwee n the (Gary) with. a perfect 4·0 score. Seven to Al Huntington, 25-9. same cl ubs also ended in a deadloc k. teen boys representing eight schools took The rust championship tourney of Deer· Min nesota. A 3-2 victory was registered part in this inaugural tourney for Lake field High School, a double round robin, by the Piccadilly Chess Club of Willernie Country high school students. Sponsor of was won by Conrad Va l e~ki with a score over the i\Iinneapolis Chess Club. U. S. the event was the Gary Chess Club. of 14V!J·21f2. Second was Joe Va lcski, Smith, J. Delehanty and A. L. Johnson A lO·board, double· round match be· l21f2.4Y2 . delivered for Piccadilly, while William tween Indianapolis and Decatur, played A smaller event for the South Deerfield Kaiser and Herb Allers tallied for l'IIin· in the picnic area of Turkey Run State title was captured by Ray Wolfram, 7·1, neapolis. Park where many non-chessplaying on· with Allan Keniston, 6-2, in second place. lookers were attracted by the unusual Michigan. Playing on its home grounds, Missouri. A St. Louis line-up, headed by spectacle, went to Indianapolis by 14·6. the Lansing Chess Club repulsed an in R. H. Steimneyer, 1. W. Haller, E. J. Leopold Binder 01 Indianapolis on Board vading team from the Battle Creek Chess Roe sch and H. A. Lew, carricd too many 1 and his tea mmate, John Van Benton, on Cl ub by a score of 9_6 and so reversed guns for visitors from Decatur, Illinois, Board 2 notched two victories apiece over the result earlier in the year, when Battle and notched an 8Y2·Jlh triumph. The Hugh ?Ifyers and David Mitchell respec· Creek broke Lansing's two·yt.: ar record of only winner for Decatur was G. Latter on tively. no defeats. tenth board. The occasion was turned into Overmatched but game, Hanover Col Smartin g under a succession of three a general holiday when many of the De lege at ~Iad iso n tangled with a "isiting defcats at the hands of the Lansin g Chess catur players were accompanicd by their team fro m the Louisville Chess Cl ub of Club, Grand RalJids finally turned the wives and children, who enjoyed the Zoo, Kentucky Hnd lost by 3·9 after plucky tables with a 61f2.5'lS ~ uc cess. Victors fo r a ball game and a movie while the men· resistence. Hanover men , Backemeyer and Grand Rapids were J. Wasscrman. A. folks were more grimly cngaged over the Al Kamradt, performed splendidly on the Medendorp, O. J ungwirth, O. Anda and checkered squares. Mrs. T urner Nearing, top boards (the first drawing with former R Modica. For Lansing, the winners were Secretary of the Decatur Club, brought Kentucky champion R. W. Shields and his D. Rey nolds, Barwick, Johnson and Van· her fam ous collection of chess stamps for sidekick disposing of chess editor Merrill denlJUrg. examination by the St. Louis players, Dowden), but elsewhere the might of the Another encounter in which Lansin g some of whom afterward expressed thcir Louisville group was too strong. took part ended in a 6·6 tie with the Kal intention of starting chess stamp collec Massachuseus. In the largest annual amazoo Va lley Chess Clu h. On top board, tions of their own. tournament of the Martha's Vineyard Ed No rtham of Lansin g. member of the New Jersey. The 1951 championship Chess Association, Ralph DeGolier, de Michigan State Collt.:ge faculty, suffered to urnament of the Log Cabin Chess Club, fending champion, easily retained his his _fi rst match game defeat of the year an II·man round robill, WClit to former U. S. open titleholder Weal'er W. Adams with a score of 7-3. Close hchind with. A GREAT BOOK by a GREAT TEACHER 6 V:l-3% was Eliot Hearst, New York Slate champion. A tie for third between Edgar T. McCormick and Dr. Ariel "Ien~arini, each 6·4, was resolved ill lal'or of Men· CHESS SECRETS garini by means of the S.·B . tie· breaking system. by EDWARD LASKER Oklahoma. The Tulsll Chess Club cham· pionship, an ll·man round robin, went to Dr. Bela Rozsa with a score of 81f2.Ph J ohn Blair, 7Y2-2%, took second. INthi s mellow volume of memoirs, Lasker In the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Chess describes his seven distinct and distinguish Tournament, Elin Trike of A. & ~I. was ed chess careers in Berlin, Paris, London, fi rst with 61f2-%. Bob Virgin of Tulsa University and Ben Hernandez of Okla· Chicago and New York and in European and homa University tied for second wi th 5·2 American international tournaments. There i ~ cacho T he tourney hlld a strong in terna· tional flavor, insofar as Arikc hails from a wealth of fascinating detail about Emanuel Estonia, while Bolivia, Co lombia and Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Nimzovich and many other great players Czechoslovakia were represented respec of past and present. Interspersed among the anecdotes and recollections tively by R. E. P cna, B. Hernandez and J. Gallus. are 75 instructive games annotated with La sker's customary penetration Jerry Virgin is champion of Tulsa Uni and clarity. Delightfully illustrated with more than 20 drawings of versity for the second strllight year, thanks to a perfect 5-0 score in a 20·man famous masters_ Swiss. B. Virgin and C. I. Blanchard fol· 464 pages, 216 diagrams $5.00 lowed with 4·1 each. Pennsylvania. As reported in CHESS RE · ~or Fall Publication: \'lE W for June, 1950, the University of A TREASURY OF CHESS LORE-by Fred Reinfeld Pennsylvania retained its Philadelphia ART OF SACRIFICE IN CHESS-by R. Spielmann Ci ty Chess League title with a perfect match score. The final standing is now DAVID McKAY COMPANY, Inc .• 225 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y. available: 230 CHESS REVIEW, AUCUST, 1'lS1 Team Matches Games Univ. of Penn ...... 14 -0 69 -lu Korlh Cily 81shops .. 1 1~_2~ 60 -24 Franklin 8 -6 '17~ - 3G~ North City Knights G!-H 38~-45~ Temple Univ. . . 5 - 9 ~2 -<12 Ge,·manlown Y 5 -9 36 · ·18 Cenlral Y ...... • . 5 - 9 3~ ·50 Drexel' 1 - 6 7~-3 ·1~ 'Pla yed only in soc·ond half, replaoing the Stetson Hat Co. whkh withdrew after the first half. MANILA, 1950 NEW YORK, 1951 W. A. Ruth and H. Morris divided NE ot' the most original players in APID transit is the tempo; br!lliancy, premier honors with 4%-% each in the the Phflippines is Sian Melliza, an the mood- at the Marshall C. C. title tourney of the Franklin Chess Club O R attorney who rarely haS time to take BISHOP'S OPENING of Philadelphia. S. T. Sharp, 4-2, wa~ part in regular tournaments. third, and C. F. Bauder, 3-3, placed fourth. Dr_ A_ A. Mengarini A. Weissman TWO KNIGHTS' DEFENSE The Downtown "Y" Chess Club cham White Black Jose Carlos Sian Melli:l!a pionship event in Pitt~burgh also resulted 1 P_K4 P_K4 6 B_N3 P-KB4 in a tie fo r fi rst, wilh Fred Sorenson and \Vhite Black 2 B_B4 N-KB3 7 Q-B3 BPxP Paul Dietz each scoring 8-1. Third was 1 P-K4 P_K4 4 N_ N5 B_B4 3 P-Q3 P-B3 8 p,p B-K3 Dave Spiro, 6Ih·2lh, and fourth went to 2 N_KB3 N-QB3 5 NxBP!? BxPt 4 B-KN5 P-Q4 9 N-K2 Q-R4t Bill Byland, .W2 -3Y:J. 3 B_B4 N-B3 6 KxB NxPt 5 BxN NPxB 10 QN-B3 R-N1 Q-K2 p,p B_ KN5 Results of recent matches: in Philadel 7 K-K3? 11 phia, the Ukraine Chess Club and North Against the wild ·Wilkes-Barre Varia tion, White is out to gobble material. At City tied at 5V2-S%; in Pittshurgh, a the end. h e must regret disdaining the Downtown "Y" team trimmed the Ukrain sa(el' 4 P·-Q4! and even 7 K -Nl. ians by 6-1 ; in Harrisburg, Penn State defeated Geneva by 3·2. South Carolina. A demonstration of clear superiority in the 6 man, double round robin for the championship of Charleston was given hy Ben Rudich with a 10·10 sweep. Three and a half points behind him was runner-up, W. L. Weston, while William I. Holt, 6-4, came in third. 12 QxPt!! KxQ 14 PxP B-N5 Trashington. A 19-man, 6-round Swiss 13 PxP§ K-N3 15 PxR(Q) Q-R3 for the 1951 Puget Sound Open Cham 16 Q-K4t Resigns pionship was pocketed by Alex Suchoheck, Clearly a case of the Queen is dead: recent arrival from the Ukraine, who made 8 KxN Q- R5 t 11 Q-B1 B-B6t! ! long live the Queen! 12 QxB a 6·0 sweep. Runner.up was Carl Enz, 9 P-KN4 P-Q4t Q-Q5t 10 KxQP BxP 13 K-K6 Q_Q2 5-1. Cheevers and Turner, each 4·2, tied mate for third. MATCH,1951 Jerry Schain, losing only one to urna HERE are pins, and pins. White's pin BUXTON, 1950 ment game, is still king-pin of the Uni· T is futile here; Black's deadly. HITE won a brilliancy from British versity of Washington Chess Club. Second FOU R KIGH TS' GAM E Champion Golombek the day before! place went to J ames Amidon, former W G. van Gelder A.G.O!!and Puget Sound Open Champion. CATALAN SYSTEM White Black The Pierce County title was taken by W. J. Veitch Penrose 1 P-K4 P-K4 7 B-KN5? P-B3 Vernon Holmes with a convincing 9-0 White Black 2 N_KB3 N-QB3 8 NxP? P- Q3 tally. Runner-up was Schuyler .Ferris_ 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 4 P-KN3 p,p 3 N_B3 N-B3 9 N- B3 B- KN5 2 P-QB4 QN - Q2 4 B_N5 N_Q5 10 B-K3 N_Q2! West Virginia. Piling up an invincible P-K3 5 P-B4 3 N_KB3 P-Q4 6 p,p B,P 5 B-R4 B_B4 11 B,N B,B H. score of 11.0, Allcn DuVall once more 7 B_N2?? 6 P-Q3 0-0 12 Q_Q2 gaiued the annual Carbide championship. Black threatened 12 _ Q- R4! Two points hehind ill second position was 12 _ .. _ BxKN 14 K-K2 Q-B3 Harold Liggett, former state champion. 13 P,B N-K4 15 P-B4 Q-R5! The veteran William Hartling took third with 8-3. The first radio match to be eondueted in this stale ended in a 2-2 deadlock he tween Marshall College at Huntington and West Virginia Tech. at i\Iontgomery. The play consumed seven hours. Marshall WVT Charles Morgan. I Boll Shaw . . U Jack Allison ... . 0 Edwin Faust ... 1 ..,Vm. Smith ..... O Ben Hope . , ••..• 1 7 .. . • BxPt!! 9 K-K1 N-K6 Wm. Capehart .. O Oliver Haynes . _1 8 KxB N-N5t ; Resigns 2 White's Queen is lost after 10 Q- R4t. Marshall College, White on t he odd boards. B-Q2! 16 QR_KBl Q-N5f 18 Q-Q1 Q'-N7 t The World of Chess con tinues, next page. t ::: check: * ::: db1. check; J ::: dis. ch. 17 P-B3 NxBP 19 R-B2 QxR mate CHESS REVIEW, AUCUST, I'Hl 231 representative in the European Zonal 4i';>.CANADA Tournament (Un7.icker is the first ), E. D. Do!;olyubov is apparently fa r from washed British Columbia up. As further evidence of his resurgence. M. Desser, 10.1, captured top honors in he recently took a match from Niephaus. the round robin for the Win nipeg City 5_1. Chess Championship. C. Noyes, 9-2, fini shed second. Holland Donner slaughtered Prins, 412·1Y2, win New Brunswick ni ng three games and drawing three. Winner of the St. J oh n City Champion. Donner did it again when he took a ship was ,Maurice Elman, New Brunswick match from van Scheltinga by 4·2 with_ tillist, wilh a 5-0 record. Second was out losing a game. shared by 10hn Lederer und George Doyle, BOlUS IVKo\' each 4%-1h- rVinner oj the first rfl orid Junior Cham· Israel pionship. at Covenlry and Birmingham, With a score of 9.4, Dr. Oren Chvoinik Ontario England, jllne 1951 , is Yugoslavia's Boris annexed the Israel championship, ahead The Toronto championship went to F. Ivkov. Olher cO llntries represented were of Kniager, 8%.4%, and Glass, 8·5. The R. Anderson, 4-1, with P. Avery, N. A rgen/in!!, Australia, A uslria, Belgium, experienced master Czerniak could collect Kuttis and I. Suk tied for second with Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, only 5 points to fini sh near the bottom of 2%-2Yz each. Prancc, (lVest ) Germany, Iceland, ire the list. land, Norway, Scot/and, Sweden., Switzer Saskatchewan land- bllt not the United States! Russia CHESS REVIEW correspondent R . B. Leaving the Woman World Champion Hayes, defending South Saskatchewan Rudenko far behind, Zvorykina, 11%-5%, Great Britain champion, easily retained his title in a 4- made off with the Soviet Women's Cham man, double round robin when he won a D. V. Hooper, 4%-%, outscored a field pionship. Second was Ignateva, IOYz·6%, pair of games against each of his rivals of 96 in a Swiss Premier event at the sec and third place was shared by Bdova and to score 6·0. In a play-off for second, J. ond Iiford Whitsun Congress. S. Fazekas, Vol pe rt, each 10-7. Rudcnko scored on ly Eadie emerged on top. 3·2. was second. 8Y2·8Y2. G. A. Fielding is the new Saskatoon Upsetting i\Iiddlesex in the final of the The Lithuanian title was won by Khol· city champion. Southern Counties Chess Union Cham· mol', lOlh-3Y2. Next came Lilienthal, pionship, Devon acquired the Southern Petrosjan and Simagin, each 9Y2-4 Yz . title. Pasman, 14Y2.4 Y2, gained the Lat"ian 'fr FOR EIGN France , championship, one poin t ahead of Koblen?. According to the British Chess Mas· Scotland Australia azille, Andre Gide, in the manner of Rous· A new record was set by C. J. S. Purdy seau, Di derot and other famous literary P. B. Anderson and A. A. Thomson tied when Jl e won the national title for the prcdecesso r ~, was an ardent lover of chess. for first place in the Scottish champion. fourth time. His winning score of 12_ 3 ship. The Scott ish women's title was won topped Lajos Steiner's 11 -4, which in Germany by i'l'lrs. Steedman. turn bettered the 10-5 tally of L. End Piling up an jmpres~ive 2% point lead A club, the membership of which is zelins, K. Ozols and J. Hanks. over G. Kieninger, his closest rival in a composeu exclusively of university profes. A play-off between David Crossley and tonrnament to decide Germany's second so rs, is the "Glasgow College Chess Club." K. Flatow for the City of Sydney cham In win ning the Spens cup, the educators pionship was won by the former with a have taught some lessons to other Glas· score of 2-0. guw grou ps, and appear to have their eyes on the Richardson cup, play for Denmark which is confined to the eight strongest Pedersen annexed the Danish title by clubs in Scotland. winning a play-off against Enevoldsen and Poulsen. Sweden A short match at Stockholm between Eire Eero llook of Finland and Bjorn Haggqvist For the third straight year, University of Sweden resulted in Book's favor by College, Dublin, won the team champion 4%.}lh. ship of the Inter-College Chess Union Sven Ask of Malmo won the Junior Congress_ J_ Casey of Cork University championship in a tourney held in Stock captured the individual title_ holm. The Connacht and the Ulster champion_ ships were won by P. Diskin and W. D. Yuqoslavia Kerr respectively. A. Bourke retained the Gligorieh again won the national title, Civil Service Senior cro)v n. but fo und hi s work cut out for him in The Leinster Senior Championship was {lealing wi th a powerful field. Six wins won by Austin Bourke. and 11 draws enablcd him to finish % point of Malanovich and 1 poin t ahead Finland of Puc. Other good scores were: Milich, Oj anen, 9%-1%, was once more suc ?o.hLCODl N . BARKER 10-7; Trifunovich and Udovich , each 9V2- cessful in winning the national title. Fred England Boys' Champion was 2d in the i%; and Nedeljkovich, Rabar and Vid and KaiJa, 9-2 each, tied for second. /irst World Junior Championship event. mar, Jr., each 9·8. CHESS REVIEW, AUCUST, 1951 legendary protector of the islanders. Sym. EASTER ISLAND bolically, he continues to be their pro tector today. His fignre is fonnd carved in the caverns of the sacred city on top CHESS SET of the volcano, Rano·Kao. by Gorden H. Mac Doug 011 and Orlando Arancibia THE CHESS SET illustrated here is probably one of the widest varia- tions from the classical design in existence. It was made by natives of Easter Island, a tiny spot on the Pacific with scarcely two thousand in hahitants and a remarkable history in curious statuary. The pieces all represent some figure of their religion or their legendary past. Three such sets exist today. One is here in the United States, another belongs to a Chilean naval officer and the third was recently presented to the President 0/ Chile by the chief 0/ the island. (Photos by Gorden H. MacDougall. ) THE HORSE is the hird·man again but this time in an eating position, which gives the impression that he is about to spring and so conveys the function of that piece perhaps better than docs the Knight itself in the standard chess set. THE PAWN symbolizes the gigantic stone statues 011 Easter Island, carved by the first inhabitants. It gives the feeling of slow, plodding strength inherent in the Pawn. The statues represented the chiefs of tribes and were placed on platforms over the collective tombs where the memo bers of the tribe were buried. It is be· lieved that the statues served as eternal THE KING is a realistic representation guardians of the dead. of Hotu ]l.Iatua, who was not a god but who taught the islanders agriculture and weaving. In his capacity of "father of his people," he is best represented by the Black King whose face reflects vigor and determination. As a ehe s ~ piece, his funda· mental weakness is niedy conveyed by the receding chin of the White King. THE QUEEN is the wifc of Hotu Matua which makes her a person of much less importance than her position 011 the ehess board would indicate. The island artisans THE ROOK symbolizes the first chief, wcre not intcrested in perpetuating their Hotu Matua, who had control over the women in statuary. Only one such figure past and the future and who therefore is knuwn to hav,:: LC'::1l made by them. It had a face looking in each direction. As is now in the London Jl.I useum. such, the piece representing him is prob· ably more in keeping with the function of Easter Island monoliths har;e made Ihe the Rook than the Rook itself. Legend THE BISHOP represents the bird·man, place famous . The WQodf1n statue on the has it that Rotu :r.."latua reached the island one of the priests that take part in the cover is a wooden replica, called a Moais, about eight hundred years ago. There pagan rites of the island. He, in turn, made by the natives. For the location of are still direct descendants of his there. represents the albatross which was the Easter lslalld, see map, p . 226.-Eo. CHESS REVIEW, AUGU ST, 1951 233 WERTHEIM MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT -1951 by HANS KMOCH WITH the distribution of the prizes 011 Wednesday, J une 20th, the Wertheim Memorial Tournament closed on a jovial note, There were beer and sandwiches and, of course, closing speeches. The Manhattan Chess Club staged also a Rapid Transit tournament (unforlullately, most of the masters in the tournament did nol participate: out Najdorf won brilliantly by 6·0). CANN ING the individual performances Two of the youngsters 234 CHESS REVIEW. AUCUST, 195'1 70 of the 88 moves. Bisguier agrees to a Meanwhile Evans loses to Guimard, and 14 .... Q-N5 draw with Horowitz, who had previously Horowitz to Fine, each failing to redeem The only move. If H. . NxN? 15 Nx blundered but had outplayed his opponent a Pawn sacrifice. Byrne defeats Kramer Q! or 14 .. Q-B2? 15 B-KB4! 01' 14 in the end-game. Kramer's positions prove in a difficult g1!.me,. and Euwe wins 'from ... Q-n2? 15 N-N5, Q- Nl 16 B-KB4! untenable versus both Horowitz and Gui· . S:hainswit when the latter misses a per· "'hite wins at once. mard. At night, Reshevsky wins his post petual check. Bisguier and O'Kelly draw 15 P-QR3 poned game with Shain.swit-from Round in routine and rapid 30 moyes. Again forced. H 15 Q-Q3, White 6--when a blunder saves the management wins the Queen Pawn, at least: 16 N-N5, the worry of an adjournment for which no SELECTED GAMES Q- K4 17 B-KB4, Q-B4 18 B-Q3, Q-R4 18 provision could be made. Neat as his Hand-writing N- N6, R-R3 19 B-B7, R- Bl 20 N-B3, R R2 21 (either) NxP, etc. Of the five games which Dr. Max l~uwe Round 9, Thursday, June 14. won in this tournament, those versus 16 RxN Q-Q3 18 R-B1 B-Q2 The results here are shocking: Reshev Byrne and Kramer wel'e good pel·form· 17 B-KB4 Q-B3 19 QxQ a,Q sky defeated; Horowitz defeated; Najdorf ances· The latter, howeyer, is most char· 19. . PxQ loses a Pawn: 20 N-N6, R just able to draw! In a good position acterlstlc of his style and personality. n2 21 NxB, followed by 22 RxBP. against Euwe, Reshevsky loses a Queen nIack weakens his position by an UII 20 N-N6 R-R2 22 P-QR4 B-Q1 for a Rook. Never before in to urnament motivated Pawn move ill the opening, 21 B_B7 R_K1 23 BxB RxB play did he make so gross a blunder, he and Euwe takes advantage of that. He does so in a way as unassuming and claims. Horowitz misplays a winning posi neat as his handWriting-giving a I)i e' tion against Evans, losing his advantage, lure or his sympathetic ego. then' an exchange. Najdorf, who knows something about end.games himself, man N I MZOI N DIAN DEFENSE ages only to hold his own in a long one PCO: page 244, column 34 against that dread end-game specialist, (Notes by Hans Kmoch) Robert Byrne. Shainswit resigns in dis Dr'. Max Euwe Qeorge Kramer gust after losing a Pawn 10 Fine, though White Black his position is still playable. O'Kelly and 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 5 p,p N-B3 Kramer draw after a grim positional 2 P-QB4 P- K3 6 N-B3 0-0 tussle. Guimard-Bisguier is adjourned. 3 N_QB3 8-N5 7 B_N5 a,p 4 Q-B2 P_B4 8 P_K3 P_QR4 24 B-N5! Adjourned games, Friday, June 15. This is the weak move. Instead, Hlack Guimard, as expected, wins from Bis has a number of playable alternatives; This move ties Black lip completely. guier. Very happy, he tells everybody S . .. I3 - K2, 8 ... P-QN3 or 8 ... p 24 .... P-R3 even in Spanish, he is understood-no Rn3. With the text move, mack weakens If 24 .. BxB 25 PxB, White can cap' ultimo; he is no longer the last! The his QN3 and QN4 and also loses a tempo. ture the Queen Pawn when he wishes. Reshevsky- Byrne game is played in ad It is interesting to note the similar ef 25 P-QN3 vance for Round 10. Byrne, despite his fect of. . P-QR4 in the game, Alexander - Gligorich (page 239). 25 BxB, PxB 26 RxBP, R-N2 offers predilection for end-games, prefers such B_K2 Black counter-chances. The text move Is enterprising openings as the King's Gam 9 B-K2 far stronge!·. 10 0-0 P-Q4 bit and the Dutch Defense. He plays the 25 .... N-K5 latter, gains a dangerous-looking King This move leads to the isolatIon o[ Black's Queen Pawn. mack must, how Desperation. Black has no reasonable side attack; but Reshevsky proves it un ever, move this Pawn sooner or later, moves, anymore. sound and wins, and he cannot hope to maintain it on 26 P-B3! N- B3 29 PxRP R-R4 his Q3 since V,rllite can attack it con 27 P-K4 BxB 30 P_K5! N-K1 Round 10, Saturday, June 16. veniently by a Knight anchol'ed on his 28 PxB P-R5 31 R_B5 Resigns In the most spectacular game of the N5. The evil consequences of. . P-QIH day, Evans wins a Pawn from O'Kelly, all'eady show. QUEEN'S INDIAN DEFENSE gains a winning position, makes the sup 11 QR-Q1 Q-N3 M. Euwe L. Evans posedly winning move---and O'Kelly sac 12 PxP p,p White Black rifices a Rook to get a perpetual check. 13 N-Q4 1 P-Q4 N_KB3 21 Q-B2 Q-BS Gnimard has a very strong attack against Not 13 NxP, NxN 14 HxN, N-N5. 2 P-QB4 P_K3 22 QxQ PxQ Fine, but, striving too ingeniously, loses a 13 R-Ql 3 N-KB3 P-QN3 23 P-B4 PxNP Rook. Shainswit loses to Najdorf. Horo 4 P_KN3 8-N2 24 PxP RxRt witz and Euwe draw in a difficult game: 5 B-N2 B_K2 25 KxR P-N4 White looked belter, proved worse only 6 0-0 0-0 26 K_N2 N_N3 in postmortem! Kramer and Bisguier per· 7 N_B3 N-K5 27 K-N3 P-N5 form an honest 30 move draw but in in· 8 Q-B2 N,N 28 KxP P-N6 credible speed. 9 QxN P-KB4 29 P-Q5 NxP 10 N-Kl a,a 30 B-Q4 PxP Round 11, Sunday, J .... ne 17. 11 NxB B_B3 31 N-B6t BxN 12 B_K3 P-Q3 32 PxB N-N5 First prize is a private affair between 13 Q-B2 Q-Bl 33 K-B4 K-B2 Reshevsky and Najdorf unless the latter 14 N-B4 P-B3 34 B-K5 N-B7 loses. Beforehand, Najdorf asked experts 15 Q-N3 P_KN4 35 R-QI P_R8(Q) what Reshevsky would play. If they said 16 N_R5 B-K2 36 R-Q7t K-K1 "Indian," he smiled and shook his head. 17 P-B5 P-Q4 37 R-K7t K-B1 As he expected, Reshevsky gets into the 14 N-R4! 18 PxP p,p 38 RxRP Q- KB8t Queen's Gambit, bnt he neutralizes The weaknesses on mack's Queen·slde 19 P-B3 N-Q2 39 K-N3 Q_B4 Wh..ite's King.side action by' co untering are becoming disastrolls. Black can es 20 P-N4 Q-R3 Resigns cape Immediate defeat only by a hah"s on the Queen-side and draws in 31 moves. breadth. "exl month. wc shall gh'c the N"aJdorf The crowd gives sincere applause for one Eu,,"e game. with special Rnnotations by of Reshevsky's finest tournaments. t = check; * dbl. cheek: § _ dis. ch. Euwe.-Ed. CHESS REVIEW, AUGUST, 1951 235 GAMES FROM THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Champion Annotations by Hans Kmoch Challenger GAME 13 t: B-Q3 B illek does t he best he can in his slightly lnfet'i ol' position. The more he Shorter than it Seems ~. BxP ? 9 R- K NI. D- N2 10 P-K~ gives W hite powerf ul attack i ng chllnces. exchanges the greater his difficulties: This game of 56 moves is In teresting e.g., 12, ,NxN 13 3xN, DxB 14 QxD, P_ B4 on ly for t he fi rst t hird of its course. c .. .. Q- DZ and then both 15 QxR, N- B3 16 Bronstein combi nes l he Nlm7:o-lndian 8. . P-Q~ offers rell!!onable chances QxRt and 15 R-QI , H-QI 16 D-QZ, Q- D3 and tile Queen's Indian IX!fenses as he for II dl"aw; but B ronstein, as usual. 17 13- B3 distinctly favol' W hite. did in Gallle 5, and Botvinnlk changes seek s complications, hIe system of attack this time. He de 9 P-QS! velops his King KnIght on K2 and A t once more entcI"lll'\slng 236 CH ESS REV IEW , AUCUST, 1951 22 B-B3 Q-R5 29 R_Q4 Q-K3 8 P-K 5 29 B_B1! Q_B4 23 Q-B3 R-B2 30 Q- Q5 P-R3 White aims to lock In Black's finn· 29 , .. DxD offers no advantage as 24 B-Q4 N-B1 31 P-R3 R-R1 chettoed Bishop or to obtain pl'eRSlll'e Dlaek's Queen Knight Pawa remains too 25 R-R5 N_K3 32 KR- Q1 Q,Q on t he King file after ,P-B3 and weak, 29 .. , Q- 82 Is ineffective, too: 26 B-K5 R_B3 33 RlIQ N-K5! PxP. As this is a. defensive measure, It 30 BxB, PxE 31 R-N6. 27 B-N3 Q_QB5 34 RlIP N,B rednces U'h:te's chances. slight anyway, 28 R-Q5 N_B4 35 PlIN 30 B_QN5 ! QlIQBP for attack. He h as small ('hance for There Is no time for fUrther prepara· White's exu 'a P ItWII I, 0' value Pawn excha nges on the King·slde, /l iid w batsoe\'er. '" tlon. \Vhi te threatens to gain the ad van· the potential weaknesses of KBS and lag(: wlth ::I KR-QBI. 35 .... R_R1 46 P-N3 R-QR1 Klt6 mean little. 36 KR_Q2 R,R 47 P-R4 K_R2 Black has more chance for counler· 31 QlIQ 31 RlIR K-BI 48 R_Q1 K_N2 play on t he Queen·side where his PAwns 32 Bx B 38 P-N4 K-K2 49 P_K4 K_N3 have more mobility. N onet beless t he 33 A-N6 39 K-B2 R-B3f 50 P- A5f K-B3 game must be considered as a bout even, mack threatens to win two pieces for 40 K-K2 R-R3 51 R-Q6t K-N2 Neither side can do much soon. hlro Uool<: 3~ . , , P-N4 35 N-K3, PxB. R_Q5 41 R-R1f 52 P- K5 R-A8 B • Q_B2 12 R-N1 N_B4 34 N-R2 N_K2! 42 K_B3 P-N4 53 P- K6 p,p 9 R_K \ P- KR3 13 N-B2 R_QB1 BlItcl< Is engel' to get more pieces i nto 43 R_KB5 K-B1 54 RxP R- B8t 1(1 P-B3 B-Q2 14 P-KR4 Q_R4 tletlon, Not 34. R-Rl 35 R-N7, viI'- 44 R-B6 K-N2 55 K- K4 R-K8t 11 N_R3 P_R3 15 P_R3 Q_Qt lnally rOl'cing 35 . R-KBI. And 34 .. 45 R_Q6 R_QB1 56 K- Q5 R-Q8t A 8 White's P-QR3 is hardly a weaken· RxP Hx!{P, N-K2 36 R- Nl prevents Drawn 35 36 ing move, Black virtually lost a tempo . ,N- B3 liS In t he game, GAME 14 with his Queen. 35 RxRP N_B3 16 B_84 0 - 0 K_R2 Struggle in Slow Motion 18 QxN Bluck thr eaten!!, firl!t of all, 36 , , . p 17 N-K3 NxN 19 N-R2 This Is a ga me or slow muneuverlng. :-.'4 37 PxP, PxP 38 BxP, NxKP with good QxP, NxP favors Black, With the Hostilities start llttel' than they stopped 19 mobilitY nnd HdeQuate support [or his in Game 13 ; the fil'st exchange o<:curs text move, White threatens to gain II pal!Ke!i Quecn Pnwn. considerable advantagf': 20 N- N 4, P at move 17 ; the fil'St Pawn goes at move 36 N-B3 N-N5! N-B6t, BxN PxB, QxP 23 B :l2. I t is the type of pluy that BOlvlnnlk KIH 21 22 KR-Kl BxBP. Wuek goe!! for hi8 secondary threat. likes, and, after fortlrylng h is K lng·sl(\e, Q6, 24 37 R- N6 N-Q6 ! 39 PxN RxBP he prepares for action on the Qu een·si de, 19 .. , , N- K2! 21 Q-Q2 B-QB3 38 R-R1 NxB 40 K- N2 Given time, he may I'lIle the board. But 20 N-N4 N-Nl! 22 P-Q4 p,p Bronstein Is too aler t. He suddenly 23 QlIP B_N4 'Vhlle's doubled Pawns prevent sup· strikes where lelll>l expe<: ted, on the The situation on the Queen'slde seems POI'I of either by both his Rooks; so his Queen·side, ruins h is Pllwn formation to favor Black; for, if 'Vhite moves his 1):)Sition I~ not good. Yet, if he finds there bU l gains acth'lty (or h is pieces. Queen KI)ight Pawn, his Queen Bishop time tor, SllY, P- R6, P-Qfl5 and R-QBI ·6, The Champ!on is k ept busy, emerges Pawn becomes backward. the situntion may change. Black must therefore act quick I )'. finally with an eX ira Pawn but ca n not 24 P- N3 P-QR4 avoid a draw In the sim plified position. m ack threatens to create seriOU S weak· And the opening! It is remarkable ncsses i n 'White's position w ith 25 only for l i S hypermodern detours In lO the P-R:; 26 PxP, R-U5 2. Q-K3, B- R3. classic Tchlgor ln system. 25 P- R4 B_R3 TCH IGORIN SYSTE M 26 Q_Q2 Q-K2 (by transposit ion) D. Bronstein M. Botvlnnl k White Black 1 N-KB3 P-K3 4 0- 0 N_QB3 , P_K N3 P_Q4 5 P- Q3 P-KN3 3 8-N2 P_QB4 6 P- K4 B_N2 7 Q_K2 KN_ K2 40 . , . . P-N4! Black nlm~ at eliminating While's King Pawn after which t he Bishop becomes Vel')' str ong. 41 PxP 42 NxPt 27 P_N4 ! White doesn't wait t ill forced to make H K-N3, K -N3 43 P-R6, R- K5, t hreat· f ur ther concessions on the Queen'slde, ening H . RxKP, favors Black. H e weakens his Pa wns thel'e volunt arliy 42 . . . . K_N3 to secnre open l ines. The act ion Is eltec· 43 N-B3 R-KN I!! live, t han ks to proper t im ing-an ellSen· The threa t is H ... UxP! ~5 NxB t, lial pa rt of Bl ack's ar my Is tied up on K- BH:. Black 's ad\'antage then would be tbe K i ng·side. very li k ely enough 10 w in. The opening has led a varlaUon of 10 27 ..• , B-B5 T chigorin's system: 1 P- K 4, P-K3 2 Q 44 R- R3! ! K2 (PCO: page 9 1, column 58) or I P The only chan ce to keep a positional A sharp repl y! H . . BxP now K4, P-QB4 2 Q- K 2. As reached here, It advantage. 27. P xP 2g PxP rather loses: 45 NxBt, K -BH 46 R-KN3, RxRt' r~\' OI'S White, So does P- N3 proves that it Is better lI ~te('\ ns an In· 27 . 28 -11 Px H. us Black's Rook is attacked, P-N5, B-N 2, though Black threatens 29 depemlent s}'stem than merely IlS a varl· 44 . , , . 8-B1!! ation of the F rench Defense, . Q-Rfi: the threat Is easliy met Ilnd A fine counter! White's Rook must Black's devcl op::nen t is basically the Dlack's Queen Knight Pawn rcmalns vu l· remain on the third rank, abandoning same as Dotvinnllt adopted In Games 1 nerable: e.g., 29 KR-QD1, R-B5 30 R- RI, the Hook Pawn, or else 45 . . K-B4§! and 9. KR- Bl 31 N-R2, Q-B2 32 N-B3, RlIBP 33 RxR, QxR 34 QxQ, RxQ 35 D- K3! 45 R-Q3 R, P t _ check: t - db!. chock: dis, ch, 28 Px P ! 8-R3 46 K-B1 CHESS REVIEW, AUCUST, 1951 237 White plays for It draw, His choice Is FRENCH DEF E NS E sarer tban 46 P-R6, K - B41 47 K - Bl, R PCO: page 89, column 52 R81' 48 K- K 2, B-B4 49 R- B6, R-R71' 50 M. Botvinnik N-Q2! B-N5 51 R- B7! though that s hould 0 , Bronstein also be sufficient, White Is eager to lleep W hite Black his Klng ,Pawn and Bisbop Pawn, 1 P_Q4 P-K3 4 KPI( P KPxP 2 P_K4 4& , , " R- RB 1' 48 R-Q2 RxP P- Q4 5 KN-B3 N-KB3 47 K-K2 R-R7t 49 R_N8! 3 N-Q2 P-QB4 6 B-N5t B-Q2 7 BxBt The threat Is R-D2-BS: Black hns to get out of the pin, 7 Q- K2t, D-K28 PxP tt'a ll!!pos~S into Game 3, 49 , , " R-KR1 51 FhR BI(R <50 N-Q4 B-N2 52 P- B4 7 . QNxB 9 P.P N.P 80-0 B_ K2 10 N..Q4 Q- Q2 Black 10H es ti me, a s will be seen, in 2tl P- KB4 ulln ece8~:l l'i l y pl'e\'en tlng- 11 N- n 5, 10 , This move is premltture, Instead, 28 0-011 N- D5, H- Kl I~ good, BxN! PxD 29 P - KB4! IH14 30 1'- Q84 of 11 QN_B3 0 - 0 14 N-Q3 N.N fers White a winning adVantage, (29 12 N_KS! Q-BI 15 QxN Q-N5 R- K5 is now inetfec UI'e a nd me t by 30 13 B_N5 R-Kl 16 B-K3 P- N3,) 16 BxN is inerrectll'c, Afte l' 16 ,, 8x After 30 P- QB4, the Immediate threat B, White can not avoid the e xchange of Is 3t P- NSt because of 31 , , , K- B'I 32 h is K nlght and he must keell one m illCl l' P-N4, RxP 33 RxPt , RxR 34 RxR mate, p iece at least-[)referahly h i!! Knight_ And m ack can only sta ll u navailingly with 30 , , , P-R3, as 31 K-N1 !! threat 16 . B- B4 ens 32 K-R2 and 33 P - N4 and, if 31 ' , 17 P-KR3 Q- N3 B- R3 to meet that tlll'en,t, White has 32 Anothe r doubtful move. To pre vent N- With his fo l'ces well centralized, P- N3!! (32, RxP? ? 33 K-N2, ete, ) 8 5, BI ,1 c k concedes 11 doublell Pi\ w n tbat B lac k's King cut off and the cons tant 28 , , , , R_K<5! reduces his resources in the e nsuing possibility of furt her simplltl cation by P end'game, 17 , Q- I';: 5 IS Q,H- Q I, BxN! Blac k prevents 29 8xN', as 29 , Rx BS, Wblte Is safe, Pt rather favors him, Besides , he has 19 8xll, QxQ 20 nxQ, It-IG ~ h' el\ surn· 52 R- R3 59 NI(P R_R3 cient ('h alll'eS (or a draw. the threat of 29 "Qn- EI!! 30 NxP, 53 R-Q1 R- R7t 60 R_N5 B- R3 NxN 31 JtxN, P- 83! 32 U- 1t4, Hx Pt with 54 K-B3 R-R6t 61 R_N3 R-K3 a good game ror Black-o r a ImperioI' 55 K-N4 B_N2 62 R_ KB3 R,P one If 32 P- NSt, K- B2 33 H-Qit, 1(- 81 56 K-R4 B_B1 63 NxB K,N 34 ll- IH, RxP1' 35 D- 02, 8-B·1. <57 P-B5t! PxP 64 Rx P K_N3 Even 29 P- N3 falls to pI'event 29 58 R- N11' K- R2 65 R_ B4 R_ B4 QR-Kl which then leads to a dl'a\\' l1fter 66 K_N4! Drawn 30 NxP, NxN :n RxN, R- K81' 32 RxR R.xRt P-QN4: B lack cannot bot h bring his own K ing 33 KxR, KxR 34 D- QS, as White's extra P awn III useless, In this up to hIs Pawn and a lso keep White's KIng away from It, llne, 34 K - Q2, P- B3 3S 8 - H..1, B- QS! is good for Dlack, So, re1ll!z!ng that his nrlvantage 11\ gone, GAME 15 Doh 'inn lk decides to settle (OJ' a repe ti, Twin of t he Third tlon of moves, This game Is amazingly similar to the 18 QI(Q RPxQ 29 P- B5 R_K4! 31 B-N5 R- K4 30 B-84 R-K5 32 B_B4 R_K5 third: colors and opening are the same; IS ,DPxQ Is better; COl' It helps in 33 B_N5 so Is the vatte rn of the m iddle game ; two ways to plU(ect t he Queen Pawn: Drawn so Is Its deceptive simplicity; s o is the tlrst by mobilizing the King (K- B2! ) ; Thl. a rticle con t inue. from Game 16 next chance which Botvinnlk misses ; and so second by pro viding cover fO l' the Kn ight month, Is the result, a draw, (P- KI!3!) , Bronstein seems to think tbat h e Is 19 QR- Q1 R_K5 safe Ir he retains his King Bishov and MORE BLACK8URNIA Black plaos to have his King proceed heads ror the end-ga me: bu t the oppo Or Nlml:ovich wa.n't t he only one to Qua behind tbe cover of h is Hook on site Is true, \ n the end·ga me, the poten, with a system tial weakness of his isolated Pawn be· the King ti le, The lII aneUHll' does not comes tangible, work OUt satisfactol'i ly, but Il lack has BRIJCE HArDEN (sec pllgc 106 in the At the momen t, howevel', when the ftl ll an illfel'iol' game, anyway, HI!! best try April issue) , liking oll r leasers on the or this Pawn Is Imm inent, Botvinn ik o\'er is N-Q2- N3 : e ,g" 19 (!It- Ol 20 P En glish master, Bl ack bume. sends us . looks a technical li nesse anll has to take Qll3, N- Q2 21 N- B2, ~ -N3 , followed pos· an" t he r and suggesls the tl bove tille for it, sibly by P - D3, K- B2-K 3 an (I , :It the right a draw, "Whcn Rluckburne was giving simul, moment, N-D5 or N- fl5. a t!incou~ at Brighton, onc of t he players, 20 P_QB3 P- N3 whom I knew in his old age, reached a T he ideal gift for your friends who 20 . ,Ox:\' 21 R xll! Hxll 22 Dx ll, R 10o't position which sen t him dce!, into Kl 23 O- K31 ( 23 BxP, H- HI!J a lso fa· don't play c hess and should ! thought. Each lime Blockburne reoched Yors White: e,g" 23 K - B l 24 BxP, LET'S PLAY CHESS R-Rl 25 U- B5 t 01' 23, 1'- N3 24 P- his board, the motionless one made no QRI, K- D t 25 R- R1 or Z3 P- R3 24 movc, By the Editors of CHf.SS REVIEW R-Ql, 1'- QN4 25 K- 81. "At last. the Club Secrelary, shamed at 4S pages in CH ESS R EVIE W s ize rormat, 21 N_B2 R_Ql 24 K-Bl SU ell beha vior, went over 10 the board and, lavish ly illustrated with mOl'e than 250 22 R-Q3 K_B1 25 8-N5 liS Blackhurne camc a round a ga in, h issed dlagl'llms, car toons and photographs 23 K R- Q1 K-K2 26 P-QN4 B_B1 fo r all to hear: 'You must make a move and the price? only $1 ,00 27 N_ K3 R- K4 move!' Bill the playcr didn't, C HESS REV IEW Thls Is t he crucia l position, The Queen "Said Biockburne, soothingly, to the 250 West 57th Sireet New Yor k, N. y, Pawn Is weaker tha n e\'er owing to the pla yer: 'You a re quite righI, sir. If you bad position of Black's King Hook, don't move, you can't lose.'''' 238 CHESS R!V I!W, AUC UST, In' Entertaining and instructive games by HANS KMOCH annotated by a famous expert. 10 P-QR4! Q-N3 25 B- K4 K-N1 .~~ INTERNA TlONAL 11 Q-K3! Q- N5 26 B-R7t K-Bl llecau>:le of Black's weaknesses on hiij Once again, Black makes this move, but GREAT BRITAIN, 1951 QN4 Hnd Q3. the end·game Is bad for him now White finds the retutntlon. aHer I I . , , QxQt 12 DxQ. Staunton Centenory Tournament 12 P-B3 P_R3 The Vietor Vanqui shed 13 P-R4 ! The first !ntenlaUonal W\lrnament o[ Alexander never misses a move l ike IN5 l stnr!.ed with Britain's OWn Staunton \.h ls, It Is fairly clear tbat, after 13 1IS prime flll'ol'ite: but Gel'many's Ander, PxI3 ].I PxP, Blac!, Cll llnot sU ITive the ~en 1I'0n it. In the 1951 Centenary of that allack on his King's 1101l1tlon. event. there was no BrlUsb favorite: 13 , . , , P-Q4 but C, H, 0'1). Alexander almo!!t won it. I3 h,ck'ij onl y ch anre to obtain some H i!! brillian t start W;t S m,II'ked by th e rounter-play. 13 . P-K ·I loses because folloll"lug fine game. of 14 8xN, BxB 15 N-Q5. QxRP 16 NxBt, As for Sl'etozal' Gligorleh, he won the PxN Ii QxP, Q- N5 IS H- H3 ! B xR 19 Px t Olll'n ~ lm ent ultimately- losing only this D. 1'- H5 20 B- D'\, Q- N3 21 Q- N6t, K - HI one game, His performan ce In this tOllr· 22 QxPt, K - R2 23 Q- B5t, K-Rl 2·' Q-lt5t, 27 N_B5! nament parallels his com'se in the 7.onal K - N2 25 Q- N5t, follower\ by 26 RxP. 'l'oumnment at Dad PYl'!nont which h e Conclusive, lor WhIte retains his fOl'e· 1 ~ PxP N)( P won after l o~ing a Sicilian Defense to most King Bishop PILwn . while the Black LOt1 ewljk Prins ~ It the beginning. one must fall, B Ul, e\'en more, thet'e Is tbe threat o[ 28 N-Q7t RxN 29 B-B5! S ICi liAN DEFENSE 27 R_Kl peo: page 425, column 47 28 N-Q7t R)( N C. H, 0 '0 . A lexander S, Gl igorich 29 B_B5 Grea t Britain Yugoslavia Hecovering the exchange, White now White Black \\"ins easily on his 1'nwn pillS. N_Q2 1 P_K4 P-QB4 4 N)(P N_B3 29. R- Kat 35 R.P 2 N- K 83 N-QB3 S N_QB3 P_Q3 3. R.R R- Q3 36 P-KN4 R. P 3 P_Q4 6 B_KN5 P_K3 31 R_K4 N-QS 37 R. R N.R N_Q2 7 Q-Q2 B_K2 32 B_B8 P- N3 38 K-Q2 33 B-R6 N- K 3 39 K-K3 N- K4 For 7, P- l{R3, see Bronstein- Bo t· 34 B- 84 N_B4 40 B_K 2 K- K2 vlnnlk, [I, lH, June issue. 41 K-K4 Resi gns S 0 - 0-0 15 RxN! This move i s stronger thall 8 BxN, While sacr'ifices the exchange to I{eep BxB 9 N/4-N5 as i ll. Fuderer-Gligorlch, his nltack goIng. HiH action is strong, UNITED STATES. 1951 p , 180, JIlUU Is!we, t hough not necess.nrlly decisive. The Werth eim Memorlol Tournament mOre modest con tinuation: 15 NxN, PxN 8 .. ,. 0-0 16 DxD, NxB 17 B-"5 Is not bad either. A Fi ghting Draw B laek's choice is rlsk~.. to say the 15 , , , , PxB For a Pawn and later a piece, W b lt e least. The norllla] thing to do in this fractures Black's K lng·slde in a game val"iatloll is to castle Queen-side. To With this moye, B111ck yIelds an Ollen l'lre with compUcatlons. The outcome, allll fOl' that, Black ought to play 8 King Hook fil e. H e hll~ better chances however, is n per petual check. P- Qll3- not S . . . p - KRa because of 9 with 15 ' .. PxH 16 NxQP. BxB! 17 PxB. BxN, followed by 10 N/4- N5, Q- Q3 18 PxP. P- IG,3 (not l~ . QxN SICILIA N DEFENSE 9 N_N3! 19 PxP and White wins.) I. A, Horowitz S, Re shevsky 16 R )( NP Bx R 19 B-Q3 B-B4 B lack 1ll(1), hll\'e expected only 9 N/ 4- White B lack 17 P )( B R-Ql 20 N-B6t P.N N5 aftel' which 9 .. Q-IH offers fine 1 P-K4 P-QB4 13 Q-K3 N_Q2 18 N_K 4 P-K4 21 B)(B Q_KBS cou ntel',chances. Now he has a serious 2 N-KB3 P- Q3 14 P-KS P. P problem of how to obtain any, D l ~ ' ck can bope to hold hili OWI\ only 3 P_Q4 P.P 15 p,p P- K3 9 . ' , , P_QR4 in the enrl·game: e,g" 21 .. Q-Q3 22 4 NxP N_KB3 16 B- 83 B, B P-KD4, threatening 23 Q- R3, 01' 21 17 RxB R- BS This move creat.e s II Pawn-bole at QN4 5 N_QB3 P- KN3 Q- 1\2 22 P-N6! Q_ R4 [or Black which kills his chance of mak· 6 B-K2 B-N2 18 R-Q1 22 Q)(Q P.Q 19 N-K4 B.P ing headway on the Queen·side to counter 7 0-0 N- 83 23 p)(p R_Q3 B,B N," White's excellent King·slde chances. 8 B- K3 0 - 0 20 K _B1 21 N-BSt K- N2 Mueh beuer, t hough probably stlll in· 24 B-R7t 9 Q-Q2 B-Q2 10 P_B4 R-BI 22 N-R5t P,N slgnlfleant, Is 9 .. P-QR3, followed Strange as it may seem, 24 , .. K-Rl P_KR3 23 Q-N5t K_Rl possibly by 10 .. Q- DZ and 11. R III better. At least, it Pl'events White N.N 24 Q-B6t K-N 1 QI. See note aner move 8 In Euwe from operating with the threat of R- R8 "12 B)(N B- 8 3 Drawn Kramer game, p. 23 5. mate. 239 CHESS REVIEW, AUCUST, 1951 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Black has a bad game; yet 17 . . p - Forced, as the Queen cannot sust a in KN3, followed by . . K - Rl offers I! bet- simultaneous protection of the QUeen Western Europe Zonal Tournament ter defense. K night and the King Pawn. Bad Pyrmont, Germany, 1951 18 PxB 13 . . . . Px N 14 Q-N3 The Trap that Failed White now has a winning position. As, W h it e's last is questionable. Best Black's handl ing of t he opening in the first of all, he can operate with the following game may be open to question. threat of P - BS-·since now hill King seems J.1 P-N5 t o gain control of the Important sqllares: Q4 and K5; e.g., 14 The reason for his defeat, however , is an P·awn is well prote ct ed. N-R4 15 B- K5, QxQ 16 QRxQ, P - B7 ill-calculated trap. True, Black puts on 18 ... • P_ B4 17 R-Bl, BxP 18 N- R4. the brakes before falling into the abyss; 19 P- BS must be prevented, and 1,8 but his position Is r uined by that time. . . P - KN3 is fu tile (19 P- KN4) . None· 14 ...• B_ B3 Tournament winner Gligol'ich obtains a t heless White opens a file on the King· 15 QR.Ql m ur derou s attack and wins rather easily. side and obtains an irresistible attack. White misses 15 B- Q6! which Is de[· initely stronger. S IC ILIAN DEFEN SE 19 P_ KN4! 23 Q-R5 QR-K1 peo : page 431 P-KN3 24 Q-R6 N- Q1 20 P xP NPx P 25 B- KB2! N_ B1 S. Gligorich V. P irc 21 K- R1 K- R1 26 B_ R4 R_N3 White Black 22 R- KN1 R- KN1 27 B- B6t K- N1 1 P-K4 P-QB4 4 Nx P N-K B3 2 N- KB3 P- Q3 5 N_QB3 P-QRS 3 P-Q4 p,p 6 P-B4 Both s:des avoid the common lines. 6 • ... Q-B2 7 B-Q3 B-N5 Neither of these Bishop moves fit very well into this opening, but they are play able. 8 N_ B3 N_ B3 11 0-0 B-K2 15 .. , . Q_ K2!! 9 P- KR3 B, N 12 a-K3 0-0 16 6-Q6 10 QxB P_K3 13 N-K2 Now t his move is faulty. After 16 P K3, WhIte's game Is difficult but not 28 P- KR4 ! Resigns h opeless. T he threat of 29 P - H5 is killing. Note 16 . . . . Qx P that 28 ... K- B2 and 28 N-B2 fail 17 Bx R B- B7! against 29 Q- N 7i!! 18 Q-R3 B, R Black h" emerged with material e qnality "d a decisive psoltional ad· '·i· UNITED STATES vantage. His passed Pawn is too st r ong. 19 B-Q6 P-B7 28 B- B5 P-KN3 20 R-K1 Q_B5 29 B_ K4 R_K1! CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 21 N-'Q2 QxN P 30 B- Q2 N_Q5 Durham. North Carolina, 1950·51 22 QxQ N,Q 31 N,N B,N 23 N- N3 N-B3 32 K-B1 BxQBP Defendin9 the Tarrasch 24 B- B4 R-Q1 33 BxQNP R)( Rt 13 .... N- Q2 There are several gambit llnes in t he 25 B_87 R-Q B1 3. K,R B- Q N5! Black has a slightly inferior game, Tarrasch Defense. Black adopts the most 26 B_R3 R_R1 35 B,B P- B8(Q) mainly because of White's two Bishops. important one in this game. It may favor 27 B-B4 R- Q1 Res ig ns Hence Black would do better to elimi White, as generall y considered, but t hat nate White's King Bishop by 13 . .. N h as to be proved. Black's 12th move QN5. Pire must believe he has something calls for further Investigation. Although U. S. " OPEN" CHAMPIONSHIP better. He obviously expects 14 P- B3 it is known to be strong in Similar varia Fort Worth. 1951 and thinks he can r efut e it. B ut his trap t ions, in this , the crucial variation, it has The Cumbersome Pawn fails. been ignored, so fa r , by leading analysts. "I did n ot feel comfortable until I 14 P-B3! QR-Ql '" TAR RAS CH DEFE NS E lost my isolated Queen Pawn," Hearst Black now realizes the enticing refu PCO ; page 191, column 93 stated after the following game was tation of 14 P-B3-which he obviously w. Chapma n Kit Crittenden finished. That remark has point for many similar cases. Such a Pawn may cause had In mind- leads to disaster: 14 White Black N/ 2- K4 15 PxN, NxP 16 Q- N3, NxB 17 Inconvenien ce by the touch of immobility B- R6, and White wins. Consequently, 1 P-Q4 P-Q4 7 B- N2 B- K2 which it gives a position. Its ear ly loss, Black's chance to hol d t he balance in 2 P- QB4 P- K3 8 0-0 0-0 moreover, may easily be compensated p, p p,p t h e game has gone. 3 9 PxP P-Q5 for by superior development, as in this N_KB3 P- QB4 10 N- QR4 8 - 84 P_Q4 game. 15 QR- Q1 •5 N- B3 N-QB3 11 8- B4 N- K5 Black's last move makes matters worse 6 P- KN 3 N-83 12 P-QN4 FREN CH DEFE NS E - as does 15 .. . P-K4 16 P- B5 . The best So far (except for exac t seqnence of PCO : page 80, colu mn 26 Black can do is to adopt a waiting atti mOI'es) , this is the standard game : Fine E. Hearst R. H ar rell tude, starting with 15 .. . K- Rl. - Horowitz, New York, 1939. Horowit z White Black 16 P_ K5 continued with 12 B- B3. The only 1 P_ K4 P_K3 3 N_QB3 N_KB3 On 16 PxP, PxP 17 QxP, N-B4, Whit e alternative offered in PCO is 12 . QN 2 P- Q4 P_Q4 4 B_ KN5 PxP xP. loses a piece: e.g., 18 Q- B4, P- QN 4 or This variation, u sually call ed the Ru· 12 . ... N- B6 18 BxP t , K :xB 19 Q- R5t, K- Nl 20 BxN, binst ein Variation Deferred, is act ually P - K N3! This is the move which requires fu r the Burn Va riation. The essential diffe r 16 B-B4 ther investigation. ence from the Rubinstein Varia tion is 17 N-Q4 B,N 13 NxN that, after 4 B-KN5, White can no longe!' 240 CHESS REVIEW , AUCUST , 195 \ fianchetto his Queen Bishop. Hence \Vhite wins the exchange as Black can EVANS GAMBIT Black has better chances fo!' equality not meet the follnwing double attack . p eo: page 51, column 2 (e) than In the Rubinstein with 3 . PxP. 23 Q-K2 25 QxR Q-R5 De Wolf A. O' Kell y de Galwa y 5 Nx P QN-Q2 7 N-N3 P-B4 24 Q-K N3! Qx N 26 B-BS Resigns White 6 N_ K B3 B_K2 8 P- B3 Black 1 P- K4 P_K4 <- P- QN4 BxNP White aims to keep a Pnwn on Q~, 2 N_K BS N_Q BS S P-BS B-R4 even though it Is isolated. This unusual " ... FOR E I G N 3 B_B4 B-B4 6 P-Q4 P-Q3 system has been tl'ied by A . LilIenthal. 8 0 -0 11 B_Q2 B-N5 This Is Emanuel Lasker's line. 9 B- QS P xP 12 0_0 BxB GREAT BRITAIN 10 PxP Q- R4t 13 Nx B R-Q1 Southsea, 1951 13 P- QN3 is more urgent. Black Confused Customer seems anxious about the line Ql- QR4 No trap is so old that it doesn't find for his Queen; but that is needless. His an occasional c ustomel·. The situation is Queen can escape via QN5 01" KN~. aggravated for Blapk in the following 14 Q_K2 N_B1 game in that he appare ntly confuses a 15 N_B4 Q-Q4 variation of the Reti System with one By attacking the Queen Pawn. Black of the Queen's Indian Defense. hopes to win the tem po (16 R-Ql) fOJ' . P-QN3. RETIOPENING PCC; page S23, col umn 47 Boxall II Ii ngworth White Black 7 B_KN 5 1 N_KBS N-KBS 4 B-N2 B- N2 Ami this is the !ine in which, rumor 2 P_B4 P_ KS 5 0 -0 B- K2 "ays. the Russians have found im prove· S P- K NS P- Q NS , R_ K1 0-0 ments for White. White's best chance is 7 N_B3 N_K5 "j Q- N3. PCO, page 51 column l(b) As neither side has played P- Q-I, t his quotes an analysis on a similar line in variation belongs to the Reti System. which Levenfish concludes that Black Black acts, howevc[·. as if this were t he wins. normal variation of the Queen's Indian 7 P- BS 11 B-KS Q-K2 (with 6 P- Q4 instea!l of the text move). 8 Q_N3 K N_K2 120- 0 B_N3 Here the move is dubious, to say the 9 B- B7t K_B1 lS QN-Q2 B_KS 16 N- K4! least. 7. . P - Q4 is correct. 10 B- R5 N-NS 14 P_QS ""hite prevents 16 P- QN3: e.g .• J7 8 Q-B2 When playing a gambit, one is sadly NxNt, PxN 18 B- K4. Black must play )ot • P-KB4 or S . ofi' if he has to close the center; but 16 .... N,N P--Q4 (the latter leads to difficult com· White Ja cks any strong continuation. 17 Bx N Q,P plications after 9 PxP). The text is a 14 N_ R4 17 Bx N Px B White has good compensation for this tactical error- particularly bad here. 15 Q_N4 B-Q2 18 N-R4 Q- K4 Pawn; but the altel"Jlatives: 17. Q 16 P- B4 N-B5 19 B-N6 QN4 18 B- Q3 and Ii . Q- KN4 18 QR \Vhite threatens 20 BxP : all artificial Ql also give White a good game. combination. but \-Vbite has to depend 18 QR- Q1 Q-BS on rope dancing. 19 Rx R Q, R 20 R-Q1 Q-B2 Dlack is going to retain his extra Pawn; bllt he ought rather to strive energetically to bring Oll t his pieces. 20 . Q- K2 21 N- Q6, P - K4 22 B-Q5, B- K3 offers fair chances: e.g., 23 QxP, N- N3 2-l N- B5! NxQ 25 NxQt, K- Bl. (23 BxP fails: 23 . . R- Ql 24 QxP, QxB.) 21 N-Q6 R-N1 9 N_NS! 22 Q-KS P- Q N3 This old tll"ist has a devastating effect Black now loses by force. Instead. he in this position. In the I'egular Queen's must try 22. P- B4, followed possibly Indian. Black would have 9. NxPt by 23 . . Q- K4. 10 K- fU, BxI3t. 19 . . . . BxPt!! 9 . N-KS 12 Qx R Q_ K2 A fine, decisive counter·combination in 10 Bx N B,B 13 QxP Q- B4 which Black loses a piece but emerges 11 QxB B, N 14 P-Q4 Resigns with a winning attack. White's reply is forced. BELGIUM, 1951 20 KxB Q-Q5t 22 Nj4-BS 21 K-K2 B-N5t 2S QxN National Championship White takes the piece, but he now Reputed Refutations meet s disaster. It has been I'umored fo r some time 23 . . . . RxP 25 Qx BP Q- K6t that Emanllel Lasker's Defense to the 24 A- KN1 P- KB4 26 K- B1 Evans Gambit lI"as shaken by a sug· 26 K- Ql is met by 26 .. . QxRt. gestion from Russia. The following game reminds liS tbat such rumors have to be 26 . . . Px P 28 NxP Q-Q6t 2S N_ K8! taken with great cantion. White gets 27 QxQPt K_N1 Resigns nothing out of the opening, and Black If 29 K-Kl, QxNt or 29 . .. R- Kl wins . check; t dbl. check; dis. ch . wins by a surprise counter·stroke. And, if 29 K- B2. QxNt wins. CHESS REVIEW, AUCUST , 195" 1 241 Up.to·date opening analysis by FRED REINFELD by an outstanding authority DUTCH DEfENSE, STAUNTON ATTACK 11 B_KR6 12 6xS Second of two parts "'hite plunges into doubtfUl compli· cations; but, 011 12 PxN, Black's defense is considenlbly eased, THIS article concludes Fred Reinfeld's presentation of ideas for the 12 , NxN! Black side of the dreaded Staunton Gambit. These representative games together with those in the J uly issue should be helpfu l for those who wish to try the Dutch Defense yet do not care to undertake a Freneh Dc· fense after th e more cautious 1 P.Q4, P·K3 and White's 2 P·K4. These games show ample means for repulsing the Staunton Attack, in spite of its reputation. As models for play, they may suggest further ideas and constitute a good " library" on this secti on of the Dutch Defense. The student can select the variation which bests su its him.-En. Game S* 13 RxB! ? P,R 15 N_N5 Q-N3! Hague, 1921 14 Q,P Q-Q3 16 Q-Q3 N-K5! 17 N-Q7 Q-R4! Dr. M. Euwe Dr. S. Tartakover 13 PxN A subtle defense with Borne clever Here White goes astray, Teichmann White Black points, 'Vhite must resort to a second later recommended 13 DxH, N-D5! 14 p,p P_Q4 P_KB4 5 P-B3 sacrifice of the exchange, which almost UxP! QxD! 15 Q- N51 K - N2 16 Qn- Kl, P_Q4 2 P_K4 PxP 6 NxP looks good. D-K3 (forced: on Queen moves, Whitc 3 N_QB3 N_KB3 7 B_Q3 N-63! 18 RxN!1 P,R plays 11 HxN! QxR 18 It- K7t, winning 4 6-KN5 P_K N3 8 0 - 0 20 P-QN4 BxPt!! 19 Q-B4t R-62 21 NxB the Queen) 17 NxP, NxN 18 QxN! I1 - Kl There is nothing in 8 D-N5: for. aUer If 21 K-Rl, QxNP ! and, if 21 QxB, QxN 19 QxP; but then, after 19 Q- Q2, 8 . , , B-N2, 9 N-K5, Blac]! simply plnys Black's prospects are better. 9, ,D- Q2, threatening 10 NxN, wins on the spot! 24 K_N1 R_Q1 13 ' KxB 15 QxP QxQ 8 , , . , B-N2 21 QxB 22 P_K R3 Q-BSt 14 PxNt PxP 16 NxQ B_B4 9 Q-Q2 0 - 0 25 Q-QS P-K3! And JlOW Black blunders. Correct is 10 QR_K1 23 K_R2 Q-SSt 26 QxPj6 Q-K6t Resigns 16 , ,P- D3 maintaining the extt'a Pawn On 10 D-KR6, DxB! 11 QxB, N-KN5 A hard game, Black must watch his at the cost of some tel)l]lorary discom 12 Q- RI, Tal'takover inten(led 12 , .. P fort. K4! and, if 13 N - KN5, P-KR3! with ad· step, and cannot afford to play the open· ing moves hy rote. 17 NxQSP QR_B1 19 R_B2 R_Ql vantage to Black, 18 RxB! RxN 2Q R_K1 K_B2 10 .. N_QN5! Drawn 11 N-K5 N,B Game 9 Hel'e again Black hnd to play with 12 QxN Match, 1921 great care, The impl'ession gains that" 12 NxD gives more hope of maintaIn- R, Teichmann Dr, S, Tartakover , , . P-KN3 means hard work for Black, ing the pressure. White Black 12 . , , B-64! 1 P-Q4 P_KB4 5 P-B3 PxP Provoking the following sacrifice of 2 P_ K4 p,p 6 NxP P-Q4 Game 10 the exchange; fOl' other continuntious 3 N-QB3 N-K63 7 6-Q3 N-B3 Yugoslav Championship, 1949 allow Bluck to consolidate quietl y, 4 B-KN5 P-KN3 8 0-0 A, Bo:a: ich S, Vukovich 'Vhite can pIny for nn even more White Black hard·boiled game : S Q- Q2 and 9 0 - 0 - 0, 1 P-Q4 P_KB4 3 N-QB3 N-KB3 8 , S_N2 2 P-K4 4 B-KNS P-KN3 9 N_K5 0-0 5 P- KR4!? Safety first! If 9 . NxP, 10 NxNP! Alekhine's suggestion-very difficult to can be played; or, if 9 , , . KxN ]0 PxN, meet, but not yet sufficiently tested in N- N5, 11 NxP! favors White. actual play, 10 Q_Q2 N_QNS! 5 , , .. B-N2 On 10 NxN, Teichmann gives 11 On 5 , .. P- Q3, PCO gives 6 P- H5, D PxN, N- N5 12 HxRt, KxR 13 Q- D4t, K NS 7 B- K2, PxP 8 DxN, PxB 9 DxD, PxB Nl 14 R-K1, P- KR3 15 OxNP! with a 10 QxP, Q-Q2 11 Q-R5t with a strong at· strong attack, tack. 242 CHESS REVIEW, AUCUST, 1951 Or If 5 .. P - KR3? 6 BxN, PxB 7 B 1"01', if 40 K- N l , QxR 41 N-N7, Q-K5t Game 12* B4! with a strong attack. .t2 K- R2, B- K4 43 QxP, Q-B7 forces Liege, 1930 mate. 6 P-R5 P-Q4 F. J. Marshall Dr. S. Tarbkover Despite Black's s uccess in this game, Against 6 .. NxP? Alekhine suggest· White Blacl, ed the wInning line: 7 RxN! PxR 8 QxPt , we must conclude t hat Alekhine's move, 1 P-Q4 3 N-QB3 P-KN3 K-B1 9 N-Q5, N-B3 10 B-QB4 etc. 5 P-KR4! gives Black too difficult a P-KB4 game, and hence 4 .•• P-KN3 must be 2 P-K4 p,p ., NxP P-Q4 7 P-R6!? ruled out for' practical play. 5 N_ N3 WhIte renounces any immedia te at· With a Black Pawn on its KN3, this taciting possibIlities for a long·term bind Game 11 Knight has no futUre here. 5 N-N5 is on mack's somewhat jumbled position. Postal Game, 1950 therefore logical. 7. . . . 8_81 5 B_N2 Or. M. G. Sturm F. Bogatirchuk 7 B-QNS Q-Q3 8 P- B3 Q-Q3 6 P-KR4 N-QB3 S BxNt Black threatens to win a piece via White Black 9 P_R5 Q-N~t. White's best course is seen 1 P-Q4 P_ KB4 3 N_QB3 N-KB3 If 9 P-J CHESS REVIEW, AUGUST , 1951 243 THE MIND IS QUICKER THAN THE EYE! by FRED REINFELD stead of that chessboard wit h its nnmcrouS ~ Some aspects of chess which seem pieces jumbled "hallhazardly" in cvery (lStQrwdillt; to rhe laynum. are oJten pooh. PQohed by the I'xpert. Not so ill the case ~ec i or. $0 YO ll can see th ut it is qui te a chore oj blin d/old chess. No matter how o/Ien to play a game of blindfold chess. lln! blindfold chess is explained "/Jery simply" what do you th ink of a man who can pia)' in faliQllrll terms, it still retains an /'/ 11 ((/ IWO or morc g (lnlC$ blilldjoid, simult(lII c, 0/ fh e fantastic. Alld so the loJ/owillg is ol/sly? That is surely one of the most Ilhe. an allempt /0 hi;;ldighl. rather than "ex nomenlll mental feats in the hi stury of plain," some 0/ th e 1II0st remarkable fea mank ind ; in fa ct, when the great P hilidor tllrt~s of thi.~ type oj chess. l1Ianaged to play three ga mes simn l t a n eo u ~ly in 1782, the news papers raved, HARRY NEL SON P I LLSBURY o YOll know how many ways there affLl lavits were prepared, cllcss players and Little &hort 01 miraclllou& Dare to play the firs t four mov es in a laymen marveled. Yet the modern chess "game of chess? Each player has 16 un its masters have steadily increased the nu m· at his di!; IIOSII I. Off hand, you might say ber of games played blindfold simultane exhibit ion on len boards only two years there arc 100 or 200 diHerC Il l ways to ously until the record now stands at fo ri)" aft er he had lclltned the moves. He won play these IlII il S (l uring the first four five ! five games, lost two and drew three. moves. Yet the mathematicians tCUIlS that Let's he clear about j ust what is in · (This was in ] 862, when ten games was the numher of possi ble ways is no less volv ed in the performance of such a stu· ti m un su rpassed limit for blindfold plar.) than 318,979,654,000 ! But tha t's nothing. pcndous fea t. Assume that a player is Blackburne pl ayed 292 moves in hi s ten By the time you get to the problem of co nducling a single game blindfold. If he games, which lasted six hours. Assuming how many different wa ys there are to ;'!Ces" all the board and chess men as one thal B1 aekburne and his opponents played play the first ten moves, the number has composite image at any gi,'cn point, and at the same ratc of speed, and making risen to the sl1lggering figure of 169,5 18, the game goes 35 moves, that means that no allowance for time consulIled in an· 829,IOO ,544,OOO ,OOO,OOO ,OOO ,OOO! E\'en if wh ile the game is in progress, he must noimcing the moves, we can make a the experts have droppoo a logarithm or "see"- and remember pcrlcctly-70 such rough estimate of the ti me spent per two and arc out by a lew billion possi images ! No w, if he plays 30 games si· mo ve: 36 seco nds fo r each move ! So we bilities or so, they have succeeded iu mak multaneously, and we again assume 35 sce that the speed with which the master ing their poin t : chess clln be II mighty moves as the average length, we fi nd that makes his moves is perhal)S the mos t reo comll\icate<1 game. he has to deal 2100 such illlages during UUlr kable feature of his phenomenal skill . Ye t, fo r at least BOO ycars, there have the c~h i bi t ion. And, at an)' gi"en moment, Some m a~t c l'll have Sl)ecialized in fasci been experts who could pl3Y chess blind he /lUl st keep 30 images in mind at the nating b)' ways of bl indfold chess. Pills fold! Thi s doesn't mean, of course, that same time. Of course, a~ the numl.Jc r of bu r)', the noted American master ",ho they were lIctnally blind fold ed when play games gradually tapers off. he has I c~s livcd about the turn of th e centur)" is ing. Each sat with his hack to the games, to think abont; vut, on the ot her hand , co nsid ered by so me the greatest player calling ont his moves, which were made his fa tig ue begins to tell on him. who ever lived. He did a great deal to for him on each board; thell his oppo So expert are the blindfold geniuses adl'ance the art of blindfold chess, and nents made their replies, each calling out thlll at the end of a performance, they the feat wllich particularly delighted his a move in turn. This process is of course are able to raule oH 11 11 the IIlOVes of audiences was to play 12 games of chess, made possible by the chess notation, every game, in thei r exact order, with the six games of checkers and a game of which gives every square on the board mosl astonishing glibness! It sometimes ,I uplicate whist at the same li me! a distinctive name. happens during an exhibition, that there An on looker ",as to recall in later Eve n u non. chcssplayer can realize that is a disput e as to the co rrect position. In years that "Whi le conducting the ca rd blindfold chess requires a combination of such cases, the blind fold plarer wi ll settle game with all the I)recisio n of a fairly ~evera l remarkable qualities. The most the matter eonclu~ivd r by calli ng Oul all good player, he would keep the ever obvious is a vivid imaginatio n : right at the previous moves; it wi ll he found Ihal changing ch es~ and checker positions at the start, a 1)layer must he able to visual he is right and that his opponenl, mov ing his back elearly in hilS mind's eye and ize the 32 me n as they are Illaced on the the men on the board, is wrong! call of( hi s moves at each board ",ith an M· squares. From then Oil he must keep One fealure of blindfold play that accliracy and promptness thai looked lit track of the changes, some of them Iar· arouses our curiosity i.~ thi s: at what rate tle sho rt of miraculous, He could break reachi ng, th ut occur from move to mov e. of speed does the expert play? Docs he off a seance for an i l1t t: t'mis _~ in n and upon Thc blindfold pl ay er must have a ~ t e \V over his moves, averaging say fi ve resum ption readily call UII the posi ti ons tenacious. in fallible memory. If one little or ten minutes per movc'! Or- and this on every board at wil l. lind, when reo detail is "blacked out," the whole mental is inconceivable, considering hi s bu rdens quested. wou ld alllwuncc the mm'es in Jlicture of the game is spoiled. He must - docs he play ve ry rapidly? any particular game from the beginning." have the abi lity to concentrate: let his at· Well, suppose we consider a co ncrete P ill sbury's most remarkable blindfold tention wa nder fo r a while, and God example. The wonderfu lly gifted British performance was at Hano\'er, 1902, knows wh at llIay come into his mi nd in· master, Bl aekburne, gave a simultaneous aga inst 21 minQr masters-natu rally a far 244 CHUS REVIEW. AUGUST. t9 51 mo re impressive feat than a contest with It is a matter of common observation TWO IDEAL BOOKS BY 21 carefully selected wooden soldiers. that skillful blindfold players have aston CHERNEV AND RE INFELD An even more astonishing aspect of this ishing memorics. It is said of Blackburne exhibition is that Pillsbury gave it on his that, when he was shown games in 1899 bye day in an international tournament, that he had played in 1862 and had not playing his regular tournament games the seen in the intervening 37 years, he readi· day before, ami the day after the exhibi· ly remembered all the details and effort_ tion! lessly pointed out mistakes and better In more recent times, Newell D. Banks, lines of play. P illsbury regularly per· noted American checker master, has formed evcn more remarkable feats of played ten games of chess, ten games memory. Irving Cherney tells of an oc of checkers and a game of billiards. Even casion on which two professors gave Pills more astounding in some ways was the bury a grueling memory test. Pillsbury feat of the nineteenth-century organist, offered to memorize any 30 wo rds read Sir Walter Parratt, who made a habit of to him once. The words selected were : playing Beethoven sonatas on the organ Antiphlogistine, pcriosteum, takadias while conducting two games blindfold. tasc, plasmon, Threlkeld, streptococcus, Authorities and onlookers alike are stapheloccus, miroeoceus, plasmodium, baffled by one feature which is common Mississippi, Freiheit, Philadelphia, Cincin to all these prodigious feats: the apparent, nati, athlctics, no war, Etchenerg, Ameri· or relative, absence of strain. This is can, Hussian, philosophy, Piet Potgleter's WINNI NG CHESS by Irving Chernev and horne out by the steady rise in the num_ Rost, Salamagundi, Oomisillecootsi, Bang. Fred Rei nfeld. The secret of winning ber of games played simultaneously. mamvate, Schlechter's Nek, Manzinyama, chess lies In proper use of combinative play-ami here Is a book which tells you Morphy and Blackburne played ten games theosophy, catechism, Madjesoomalops. "Pillsbury repeated them in the order how to recognize the distinctive, basle at a time in the '60s. B1 ackburne soon pattern for every type ot combination. raised his total to 16, a figure also at given and then in reverse order and then You learn when, where and how to com· tained by Zukertort. At ?o.Ioscow, in 1902, had no difficu lty repeating them the next bine on the ehessboard. Getting to the P illsbury hit 22. For a while there was a day!" very bedrock of winning chess, the lull in record-breaking. The second quality is vivid imagination. authors illustt'ate their discussion with Then at Haarlem, in 1919, Reti played Btackburne had an image of every single simple, decisive positions trom actual 24; Breyer went on to 25 in 1921; and piece on every single hoard. A friend said play. More than 600 diagrams ma ke It easy for yOU to fol low the explanatIons Alekhine played 26 games in New York of him that "he thinks in pictures." The third quality is almost superhu without using a board and men. The re in 1924. The follow ing year, Alekhine sult is a chess book which is easy to read, man concentration . When Blackburne went on to 28 games in Paris, but to no eallY to understand, and one which actu· avail, as Heti played 29 the same year at played blindfold chess, he concentrated ally improves your game. 213 pages. $2.75 Sao Paulo. The succeeding ChallgeS have so profoundly that he lost the senses of been : Koltanowski 30 (1930); Alekhine touch, taste and smell. 32 (Chicago, 1932); Koltanowski 34 The fo urth quality, and perhaps most (Edinburgh, 1937); Najdorf 40 (Rosario, important of all, is "simultaneous alterna 1943); Najdorf 45 (Sao P aulo, 1947)! tion." The same friend of Blackburne Incidentally, an achievement which com· described this as the power "to remcmber pares with the best that has been accom· every detail and then to forgel it, to con· plished in this field is Reuben Fine's per· centrate all one's energy on one point fo rmance of playing four games bli ndfold, and then shift it like a searchlight to another." simultaneously at the rate of ten seconds per /nove! So there are the four necessary quali ties for blindfold play. A fifth quality, How do they do it? So far no one has which is not necessary bUl generally ac· given a fully satisfactory explanation. companies them, is a fan t a~ t ic degree of Geniuses are notoriously better at doing abs~ n t · m i l\dedness in everything else but wonderful things than at describing them chess ! clearly. Another explanation of the mys Some day our greatest psychologists tery is doubtless that no master likes to will devote exhaustive studies to blind· give away his "trade secrets." There has fold chess. Meanwhile, if yo u want a been no dearth of sensational revelations unique kind of entertainment and a thril_ - Damiano tried that as far back as 1512. ling insight into the unplumbed eapacities But the explanations have been l'idic· THE FIR ES IDE BOO K OF CHESS by of the human brain, pay a visi t to an ex ulously inadequatc. One expert, for ex· Irving Cherney a nd Fred Rei nfeld. This hibition of blindfold chess, Yes indeed, the handsome 400 page book features stories, ample, claimed that he had painted a milJd b quicker than the eye! articles and cartoons; 180 brightly an chessboard on the ceiling over his bed, The above artic le was writte n by Re in · notated games; 50 brllliant combina and that every morning, when he awoke, feld for his anthology, "A Treasu ry of Chess tions; 47 end·game compositions; 31 he wou ld school his blindfold /skill by Lore," to be published by Oavld McKay t h is problems; a quiz; 121 "curious chess alternately looking up at the board and fall. facts"; some 350 diagrams. $3.50 The anthology, d ea ling with chess In a then closing his eyes to train his visual purely non- technical way and in tended for memory. pure reading- enjoyment, will Inc lude articles by or about Fred M. Wren. Franklin K. Send for complete cata log of books. We all know, however, that most of us Youn g, Labourdonnals. Paul H . Little, Cap ordinary mortals would make no appreci. tain EVans , Paul Morphy, Lord Dunsany , able progress with such "training." Ap. Ha ns Kmoch. Slegbert Tarrasch, Frank Marsha ll, Aron Nlmzovich, Dr. Tart akover , MAIL YOUR ORDER TO parently the faculties needed for blind I. A. Horowitz. Edward Lasker, H. Golom_ fold play on a large scale are innate. bek, Dr. Euwe, Alexander Alekhine, Eman_ uel Lasker, S a mmy Reshevsky a nd many cmss REVIEW What are they? other famous c hess personalities. 250 West 57th Street, New York 19, N. Y. CHESS REVIEW. AUCUST. 195'1 24$ lliTE TO MOVE LACK TO MOVE 21 WThis and the next 22 BWhite's pieces are example are from Chernev huddled together rather inef PINS: Safety pins and otherwise and Re infeld'~ great work on fect ually and his Pawn bul· tactics : Winning Chess. Your Quiz No.3 Part of the practice of usin g pin~ !ie~ in setting wark protecting the castled problem is easy. The Black them lip. If there is no pin apparent in any of th e following King has been shattered. In Knight is pinlH~ d and utterly consequence, Black is in a positions, look to see if one can be ~tt up. A~ before, tacll helpless. Here is your chance position to create a winning problem involves a pin- it should really be easy for YOll now to exploit the pin in the man· pin. Like No.1, this one is with that clue on which to work. Rate yourself excellent for ner of the great Paul easy_ What do you do to en· ten correct solutions; good, for dght; fair for six. l\·forphy. But do it blitz! sure a win? lUn: TO MOVE l!lTE TO MOVE 24 Wrttn: TO ~IOVE Ill r E TO MOVE 23 WThe most strik As in example 25 WWhite already 26 WIt is obvious Ihat ing feature in this position is 22, the defender's King-side has his pin on the diagonal. White has an overwhelming that Black's forces are posted has been split open. You In addition, the favorable po· position. He clln win in a very inharmoniously, partic have a double IIttack on his sition of his Hooks on the variety of ways: for example, ularly his Knights, and his King Bishop Pawn, which is King Rook and the King 1 Q- R5t , K- Ql 2 Q- R4t, K center has weaknesses. How guarded by his Queen. A Knight fi les creatc~ more pin· Kl 3 B- Rst . Instead, he hits do you take advantage of all master set this situation up, ning possibilities. How wo uld on a fine move (nol a Queen these points by setting up a With your clue to pin, you you demonstrate a win for move!) which applies the winning pin? Don't rush should find the brilliant White? The li me is ripe fo r pinning technique. Can yo u your answer. stroke whereby to will. the grand combination! find that mov e? HITE TO MOVE 28 B I.A CK TO >'>lOVE HITF. TO MOVE LA CK TO MOl'f: 27 WBlack's game is Black's Queen is 29 WThe attacking 30 B Although the ex· pretty much shot, but he has pinned, and the obvious but power of two cooperating change to the good , White is managed to slave ofI-InU mistaken course is to ex Bishops is proverbial but obviously lost : hi s Hook must mentarily-the loss of his change Queens-relying on rarely ever shown to better protect the King Knight Queen Rook. By use of the the pin: I. . QxQt 2 Nx advantage than here. Bear in Pawn. But our question i ~: pinning motif, White can win Q, RxP? 3 P- K6! Black mind that one Bishop is al· how do you proceed? Just that Queen Rook, after all. can, howel'er, avoid all this ready pinning. The signifi. garner Paw ns'~ Or set out Put yourself in White's shoes by pinning in somewhat dif· cant question is now: how actually to force the mate? and see how you fit fOlf size. erent fashion. How would does the ot her Bishop get For solutions to these What is your move? you proceed? into action? How say you? problems, see page 249. 246 CHHS REVIEW, AUCUST, 1951 Activities of CHESS REVIEW Postal Chess players: !lame reports &, ratin!ls, names of JACK STRALEY BATTELL new players, prlze,wlnners, se lected !lames, tourney instructions & editorial comment. Postal Chess Editor POSTAL SCRIPTS While he deserves some credit for ponent loses 50 (if they draw, of course, even a forfeit win, that credit registers there is no change). But, if his oppo· Purpose of Postal RatinCJs in the form of his Iloint in the touma· nent's rating was higher, then he earns Primarily, ratings are assigned and ment involved. He scores one point ill a larger increase and his opponent merits maintained that we may match players the tonrnament standing- towanl win· a greater decrease. These changes are according to their abilities in our Class ning a pl'lze or a Victory Certificate in made upon t heIr ratings current when and our Prize Tourneys. Prize or Class Tourneys-towanl quali· the game result is scored. eying to the next round in the GOlden The Golden Knights is made an "open" Knights Championships. tournament to offer a true championship that any may enter.. In the more sociable As for the loser, he is penalized suf· RATING CHART cor. Class Tourneys, however, and even in frciently by fo rfeiting his entry fee and Col. 2 COl. 3 Col. 4 , ;0 ;0 , t he Prize ones-where the stake is mere· the rights that go with it, as well as the tournament point. , ly such as to whet competition- a Class "<0 '" " A player looks [or keen competition to And, of course. when a rating is ac· • tually deserved, it can be gained by a .." " make games interesting. And the lOWe!' "58 •8 class players deserve their chances rating adjudication. " "" " 10 among equals to win a "Class" victory '"' or even the small prize in the Prize " " 1-10"" '" " "H Tourneys. RatinCJ Adjudications 3<" " The postal ratings enable us to make Only games actually finished in play "" "G8 " such matchings. Blunders and other mis· deserve rating credit. Hut, if anyone can '""20' 30" "20 haps may throw a player's rating off for prove definitely that he had a cleal' win m '" 22 a time, but in the long run even blunders when an opponent dropped ont, we award " " .. average in. So each persevering player him rating credit by adjudication. "" " " .. can count on a fait· chance at meeting As this takes time which we can ill '"' " "78 28 his peers. afl'ord, we I'eqnest that players who so '00'"' 30" 20 30 apply give an absolutely clear and cor· There are othe)' values in t he ratings. 3<, Some players may justly he prowl of rect game score and a clear diagram of "" '" .."' " ,GO H 3S theirs as results gained in organized the final position reached. I"urther, to " .." 38' competition. All may gage their improve· merit )'ating, such players must state .. cOlTectly how they can win. <0, "10 " ment, by watching their own ratings and m '" '" those of present and former opponents. The clear win of a piece-if there are .. , " " " And such interest helps make each game no drawing resources for the opponent • .. " count for something, even t hough the is sufficient, without further analysis. Or • .. CHESS REVIEW, AUCUST, 1951 247 Homun; Connally. Howard hit Kasten. 116 p""kal'd. llck>< L. La.psley. 31 Le Slarge tops POSTAL MORTEMS Ornstein ~lOpS "liller. Il, Schulze whips Allen. 32 Rahey tops Fryel·. (n) GOI·tier. ties Game reports received 'Vlttmann. 118 Doherty downs Hamblen. 120 Schreiber. 33 Slela/'( bests Speyer. $4 Hen during June, 1951. Koffman slOPS Stafford; Hussey halts Volln derson tOIlS ::\lat2. tip.~ Heres. 35 Campbell hofer. 121 !latset bests ) [yers; 'Vinston loses bests Lapsley; Far\)(ll' blast~ Billmer. 36 To !'ep(wl your results "II YOU need J:lve Is to Gary. withdn\w5. 122 Hankin halts Fried_ Heising halts Howell. 40 Dykes downs section lllu"ber, full names of playcr.'J a nd man. 12 4 Gold tops Reynolds. Cowan. 125 Mowry. H Br!dges bests Knopf. H GtIliss the outcome of the f:"ume. M,u·tin tops (a) Hall. (f) Carter. 121 Kauf smites Smith. ~5 Emke tops Ziet en. 4'1 Elli Follow the pattern ot these examples: man conks Mead. 128 Pearson rips Powell. son wins fI'om Nunnally. Zeller. 18 Freed 51·e 466 Paul Morphy 1 A. B. Meek O. Howe. 129 Stix lies -'lead. tops Kalbach. man. Schl'adcr tic. ~9 Hobson. Schocnborn 51·e 466 A. Halprin ~ H. M. PIII~bury I. TOllrneys 130,149: 131 Cunningham besu tie. 51 Lockwood wins from all; Talle)' tops Only the winner rtlpol'ts (or only White If L ackey, bow s to Spear; Lackey tops Hopper, Shievitz. Kcrsey. 52 Wilke whips S\'endsen. the game Is drawn) but report at once! lIows to Spe,lI'. Bass. 134 Kothe, Popper. H Raug be~ts \Vright. 56 AstaPOII conks Name w in ner (or "'hite for draw) first and Robert, Goldman mob \ViII!ams. 135 Morgan Koffman. 57 Hoffman bow ~ to Nearing. bests use a s lip of paper free from other corres downs Zaas; Huliett fells Frebourg. 136 )Iatzke; Gustafson, M"lzke tie. 59 M!les de feats Si lvo;,r. ties Lig!;'ctt. Ott; Liggett licks pondence. A postcard Is ideal for 81~e . easy Johnson bests Bancroft. BloomqUist. bows to send. to Antram. Gurton; Pomper blasts Bloom Silver. Nelson. Game reports sent In tim" tor receipt by (Iuisl; Gur~on beills Bancroft. 137 Fnber. TOllrneys 60_79: GO )!l1ler. Gilliss Jolt Jor a bo\'c dates should be printed below. To spot Kupla n, Kimbrough. H illlard fell Przebeszv dan; BUcl 248 CHESS REVIEW. AUCUST, 1951 FINALS (Key: 47-NfJ inger. 5 JUngwirth tops Turpin, Hogan, La Sections 1_31: 11 'Vehde masters )[orris; Vclle; TUrpin bows to Mal!. bests Lapsley. McAuley halts Heim. 13 Henderson defeats 7 Bruce bcat~ Heim, Lowe, Arrington; PLAY CHESS \Vea',er. 1.'; Benedicl be~ts HanMn, Smith. Brcilenfeld halts Heim; Lowe licks Arring loses to Long; Heckman hulL'< A/l\llno\'ieh. ton. 8 BQndcr bows to Yarmak, best~ Feld 18 Ricard downs Stevenson, bows to Bene man. 9 Hnzli tt. Stafford, Rabinowitz defeat dict. 20 Hodurski tops :lfcClurc. 22 Gardner )-[athews; Hnnnold halts Rabinowitz. 10 bests Bischoff. 23 Ye)'hoff halts Gardner. Barber bows to Michalski, bests Talla. 11 BY MAIL! M Gillespie top~ Zoudl:k. Copping. Kortman lOPS )lartin. Thordsen; COM sinks Silver; Porlah thumps 'l'hordsen. 12 Aston tops Belz; Palmieri, Putsche tie. 13 Ilyin One of the best ways to improve your 4th Annual Championship-1949 cracks Bleakley. CromQiln. H Adams downs chess skill-and to have a fine time SEMI_FINALS (Key: 49_N I) Diedrich; Diedrich. Glass whip '''atson. doing it-is to play chess by mail. If you Sectiens 1,47: 9 Merritt. Staffer lIe. H Sections 15 · 29: 15 Norton bests Koffman, laMS to Bryan. 16 Hedgcock defeats have not yet taken part in our Postal Kellne)' tops Skelton. 17 Buckendorf best~ Tournaments you are m issing a lot of Peterson, Cunningham. 24 Talla, \\'ood tie. Carmean, Corda. loses to Schwartz; Fonner 25 Hansen. Kuchinsky tie. 27 'te)'hoff besls lells Ya~colt; Schwartz tops Carmean. 17 fun and valuable e)Cperience. There are Prosscr. .n lIIagerkurt.h tops Healey. 32 \VBdt whips Namson, Hofer; Vegullla, \Vildt hundreds of CHESS REVIEW readers \\'ood downs Spade. 34 Lovato licks Schooler. top Zieten; Veguilla bows to Jacob~, tops eager to meet you by mail, willing to 35 \Valton whips 'Vayne; Cotham, Stetzer \VBdl. 19 Condon tollS (a) \Vinchester; Mc match their skill at chess with yours. Neese downs Long; 'rerfiinger withdrawn. tie. 37 Stmhan stops Becker; Morris be s t~ No matter your playing strength-weak 20 BariJer bests Eisenberg ; Gunthorp with B\oomneld. McManus. 39 Heckman. Simpson or strong-there are CHESS REVIEW tie. 40 Heisig whips \Veissman. ~2 Fuglie drawn. 21 CUShman. D uchesne best Eade. 23 Elrsten bests Faber; Greenberg tops Hayes, players who will oppose you on even tells )[cllIanus. 43 Jaccod jolts Tremear, terms and give you a good game. Sehwerdtman. Zimmerman, Faber. 24 Terf1lng~r withdrawn. 25 Holme3 tops Thomas; Hallbach bests You need no e)Cperience to play postal FINALS (Key: 49-Nf) Proper. 26 Bullockus. Raiguel top Peter~on; chess. There is nothing myste rious or Sections 1-8: 1 Muir bests lluckendO)'f; Poff, Bullockus down Bleakley. 27 Noyes difficult about it. It is played the same nips Christensen. 28 Eash downs Mandigo; Sig mond tops Muir, Kozma; Daly, l<'arber way as over-the-board chelis-except that lIIaclean tops lIIandig-o, ties Norin. 29 Gon tie. S Solltrey boWs to :;"'oderer, defeats \Val you send your moves on post cards. Com_ lace. 4 Suchobeck bests Meekis, Heim; zales bests Hei!, Oeder; Hankin halt ~ Oeder, Johnson halts Heim. 5 Sollfroy overcomes ties Gonzalez. plete rules and instructions are mailed to Lo?ano. Sections 30·61: 31 Jackson. Zufelt down eaeh new player. Draug-hon; Mc)[anus tops Schultze. 32 Daly, Postal chess players are issued num_ Wright tie. 36 Ruys rips Cleavelnnd. 39 Leg bered ratings. Eventually, this rating will 5th Annual Championship-1950 g-erwood bests Barber. 44 Oakes, Glaesser down Spade. 47 'Vatson bests Gingold. depict your chess ability, compared with PREL.IMINARY ROUND (Key: 5t).N) other players'. We keep track of your Seetlon8 1·74: 3 "larren. lIIartin down NO T ICE: QualHlcation 1.0 Semi-ftna(~ fol wins, draws and losses, adjusting your Pi law~ki. 11 T immer tOPB Stanilofl; Ya~ lows publication at YOl))O fourth point in the rating accorojingly. Rating changes are ~ilako~ ties Newman. bows to Pict·ce. 15 preliminary round (four wins or equivalent published e ach quarter_year. ClaJ"k clips Hankin. IG P!lawskl tiel Dunn, in wins and draws). Check to see if each Allen. 18 Dunn. Pila ,,"ski be~t Haath. 20 result is "published, using date line under Hemphill licks Lewis. 23 Hayes besl~ Hecker. "Postal Mortems." 25 Tate tops Hardman. 31 Ludwig CliPR PRIZE TOURNEY OPEN Clark. Kni!>ht: Haines halts Clark. 35 )'fu.ll bests Hyde. 49 YOUng llcks Ley. 51 Polak Start playing chess by mail NOW! tops (f) Ross . .12 Schroeder withdraws . .13 SOLUTIONS Enter one of the 7_man groups of our Lapham. Zan ~HESS REVIEW. AUCUST, 1951 249 TOURNAMEN T NOTES POSTALMIGHTIES! 2nd Annual Championship-1946 Prize Winners Abou t ten Finals sections have yet to The foliowing po3tl\ll1e$ hI"'" won prize... fin ish. The current leaders, CUlled from [11 19H. 19~t1 and 1~51 P r i ~e T our ney" Il ~ II. rt~8ult of gam e8 rcpo rled [11 Cllrrent Pallal completed sections only, a re : Mor tem • . PRESENT LEADE RS Tourney Pla yer. Place Score H L ,\lkln •.. . 45.7 A L McAuley .36.3 4~-P]O 0, D , ...... 1-2 Konkel ... 45.7 lielledeUi . . . 36. 1 '\"no'" 50 · I n. 0 0 lit Zirker ...... 1-2 C N Fuglle ..• . 45. ~ 13 Ross . ..•.. 3u.1 'I' I S )[addd ...... 45.2 Dr 0 Wheeler .36.1 · 1~ · P33 G W C has" ...... lst , ., R B Hayea .2nd 41-11 o Zaharakls .. H.G l-' E Johnstone. 35.75 4~·1'15 , H Horne ...... 1st n Ii: Marl[n .. A 3. 95 P Traum •. . .. 35.1 , ., L C Fra nz ... 2nd ~ l- Il C F' Rehberg .. ~3.9 5 A G Pebbles .. 35.25 r VERYTHING YOU NEED to play E ...... 1st , Al Snndrln .J r .. U.95 W H Lacey ... 35.2 49- 1'81 , Carotherll ., C chea. by mall Is Inc luded In the com 49- 1"98 R H Potter ...... l st P L Dietz .•.•. ~3.0 L LocdSerwood.35.15 'I' I plete Poatid Chess Kit produced by 1 B FleIscher •. U.S:> Rov J Mundt . . 35.0 P Mulo .... 2nd H -lt 49.PI 09 N Norberg ..•. 2nd ~H& CHESS REVIEW for the convenience of S Hill ...... 41.85 B I ~ Haendiges 34.55 ...... 50-1'5 R Schweitzer ... 131 pOltal player•. The kit contains equip n P Smith •.•. 41.85 H \V Jones ... . 34.55 51· I M DoclJing .. 2-3 (~-a ment and atation.r), eapeclally designed Dr J P latz . • .• 40.S l' Peisach . . . . 34 .5" , E Howarlh ...... 2-3 4/1-111 8 J Beckel' . . •. 40.6 C 1" Thomas ... 34.5 ... for the purpose. These ald. to Postal 50- pn R Rahey ...•. lst 4i-111 W H Miller ... 40.1 \V H Watts . . 34.5 Chell will keep your recorda atralght, 50-PH G E McHugh .• Ist 5&- L H Ho[way .. 3~.75 C I' Perry .34.(5 I help you to avoid mistakel, give you the D A Brand reth . . 2nd , E E Und erwood39.75 \V J Baron . ... 34.05 ., fullest enjoyment and benefit from your ~ 0-P35 Ree H S Campbell .. 131 'I' I .J P l~arber .... 39.55 V Oa.ble ...... 34.05 H els[nS- .... Ist games by mall. R H Olin ..... 39. :>5 A H Clark .... 34.0 60· 1'36 W P .... , ., E D ykes .... l s t , L C Olmn ed .. 39.55 R H Clarvoe .. :U .O 5 0· P~0 ...... , SO-PH D W Br[dges .. ..• 1-2 , ., Co.tents of Kit It K uJoth •.... 39.5 R B Hayes . .. . 33.95 Ca()(!l1 ...... 1_2 , ., P S Leinweber 38.95 0 Oberon • ... . 33.85 50-1>45 R Emile . .. . • 131 , ., On. of the mOlt Important Items In N Nel~on • .... 38.5 Dr .\[Oreenspan33.55 " ...... the kit I, the Poatal Cheal Recorder AI. 50-p,n L -"'eaks ...... 1st 5~· , B HlImm(ll ... . 38.' \V G l.eonard .. 33.4 .;O -P.'I , J.. ockwood" ...... 1st , ·0 bum _ t he gre-atest aid to pOltal chess H A ROllucau .38.35 E I) Wallace •. 33.4 !;O-P5~ D, R W Liggett ...... 1st ever Invented. The aix miniature cheSI 1)1' B Rozsa . .. 3S .35 A H I)\lVall ... 33.05 5~ · I seta In thla album enable you to keep H Vrotney .... 38.0 L Gladsto ne .. . 33.0 track of tho position" move by move, S Lc,, ~ .. 37.9 .J C ;\lonk .. .. 33.0 Certificate Winners In all six games of your I.ctlon. On the 'r H Banks .. 31.85 D r M Wicklllan3Z.85 o A Battle . . 37.85 0 BOtiorf .... 3%.1 5 T he (ollowing IlOlItalites have quali fied for Icore-<:ards, supplied with the album, you A G Clark .... 31.45 J:I F'/lja ns .. 32.75 Victor y Certifical es In I9H. 1950 and 1951 ~cord the moves of the gamel. The up L H Aye rs .... 37.35 I ~ II P otIer ... 3%.15 ClruJl Tournc)'s a s to. res ult of lPll1lell reo to-date score of each game face. the cur l ~ W )lar<)hand37.35 R.J Zoudlik . • 32. 75 ported in c urr ~ n t Po.tal Mort e m •• CerllfJ rent position. Score_cards are removabie. .J A Bowen .37.3 C Ku"e lmass .• 32.1 CR Ies are !ent whll" 10urney flnish e~ a~ ther When a game is finished, remove the old C H~:md erso n .. 37.25 .I S Laffer .•. 32.7 contaIn a lourn(""cni .., rou·tab[e. card and insert a new one. 12 extra score W G LeolHl "(j . . 37 .25 C B Onkcs •. 32.3 T o u rney Player, Place Score card. are included in the kit. M C .Jackson . . 36.7 L .J oel ...... 31.8 H Overeem ... 31. 8 "9·CS1 El Vano .2nd H-I~ d-C31 R G McKee ..... Ist The kit ai.o contains 100 Move_Mailing ....[ -2 3rd Annual Championship- 1947-8 R H Ma r tin ...... 2nd Post Ca rdl for sending moves to your 49·C91 N S Sweeney ..... lsl opponent.. a Che .. T ype Stamping Outfit As a result of current Postal Mortems, A M iller ...... 2-3 ,'"' ., fo r printing position. on the mailing the rollowlng now qunllry for assignment T D Laubne r .. . 2-3 4 -2 card., a Game Score Pad of 100 sheets to the Finals: M. Semb. ~ 9-C 124. J S McBraye r •...... 1st 5~- 1 for s ubmitting Icores of games to be ad. (D-C150 Rev A 0 Caldwell . ... 1st H Judicated or published, complete Instruc 49 -ClSl B 1 Diamond . 1-3 ·1 -2 4th Annual Champions hip_ 1949 S J Hankin .. . 1-3 .j _2 tion. on how to play chelSl by mall and B P i· e[s~...... 1·3 4 · 2 the Official Rules of Poltal Chess. AS a result of current Pcstal Mortems, the following now quallly for assignment ,[9-C158 i\J Black ...... lst 5/1- II G Tu ft~ ...... 2nd ,; - I to tbe F inals : J . F. Heckman, W. L. Saves You Money ~O ·C l64 L P Edmundllon .. 1-2 5 -I Prosser, J. T. Sher win. J, T. Lynch, G. W B Long ..... l - ~ 5 - 1 Bought separately, the content. would Buckendorf, A. H. T..eO ll a rd and L . E. ~O-CI )Irs 0 Piallgors k)' .. 2nd 5 - I amount to $6.00. The complete kit costs ~O - C 17 F Cherr y ...... lst 51- i Wood. on ly $5,00. To order, Just ma ll the coupon 50-CZ9 J B T angeman .2nd below. 50 - C30 C Gregory J,...... 1-2 '"'H 5th Annual Champlonship- 1950 G 0 Yell ...... 1- 2 H As n result oC currem Postal Mortems, 50- C31 Dr A H L\lv[nc ...... 2-3 G 0 Xearlng ...... 2- 3 '"' tile fo llowing now qualify for assignment 50-CH J C HaileU . • ...... 1- 2 ...H to the Semi·finals: A. H. Clark. H. Har· G C \Ventworth J ,' . .. 1- 2 5 - I rison, R. :Manchester. W . W. Young. J. ~0 - C56 R C Cooke...... 1st B. Wright, J . R. Downing, Dr. H . Rose, B M orrlron ... 2nd H'"' 50-CGO R C Cooke ...... ls1 .., H . H yde, E. A. Capillon, V. Krug]oH, R. L :1J SchneIder ...... ~nd 41-16 Hayes. Dr. J . E. Hemphill, H. As ton, Dr. 50·C80 J Mam:e . . ~nd 4I-a H. M. Coss. J . Harpe l', C. K. Thomas, H. 50· C82 \V J Cout ure .••. 2-{ T H I'carson .2-{ ...{ -2 Zander. C. Morgan, P. 1\1. Lozano and C. o H Phillips .•.. ' .. 2-4 ·1 -2 H. C. Hogaboom. W. H. Watts quaIHles for the Finals. ADDRESSES 6th Annual Champlonshlp-1951 Addresses are absohltely vi lal In As a res ult of current P osta l Morte ms, Ilostal play. So be s \1I'e to give you rll 1------, t he Collowing now qualify for assignment CHESS RItVIeW TO ente r Po. t,,1 I with each move and to call attention to PO ltal Cheal Dept, Chell TOUrnament, to t he Semi·fi nals: Dr. H. M. Coss, V. any change In you r address. And dou't I 250 Wett 57th St. s!)e other side of Wildt, R. D. Bruce. O. Jungwirth. J . New York 18, N. V, this coupon. I abbreviate ! Md. can be easily mis take n I McNeese. R F. Jolly am] G. E. Barber. fOI' Mo. Or ]00 S. 57 S1. for 1005 57 St. I enclose $5. Ple ..e lend me a Complete It's well worth a few seconds to write It PO l tal Chen Kit by return man. Note: Qualifiers are checked in as we score the qual!fylng poinls; but we out in full. And It takes I!terally only a cannot have the assignments ready to matter of seconds. NAME .,,"" "." ... ,,"" " .. '"'' " ... send usual!y until tbe complete list of Note that, per Hule 12, we shall dis· Q.ualitlers has been drawn u p. So assign· count any forfeit cla im on the time limit ADD RESS ., ."".",.",,,,, .. ,,.,,, ,, ,. ments go out a bout the time of the issue wben c laimant has failed to give his in which qualification is published-un· address on cards Just previously sent to L CITY______"" .• " ."",,,,,.8TATIt .• ,,.,,,, less we do not have a full seven for II the defendant. And Rule 2 requires clear J tournament sectlon by that time. and exact addresses. 250 CHESS REV I!W, AUCUST , USI POSTAL CHESS RATINGS s publlshed quarterly, these numer! EFon.E you post an application tor EE page 247 for explanation of how A_ cal ratings, for all active players in Ba tO'urnament entry, please state yO'ur )..S ratings are computed. As described Postal Chess, govern placement of en· rating as publlshed here and alsO' yO'ur there. players are rated from those fig· tries Into Class and Prize Tourneys. This "class." \Ve list these ratings alphabetic· ures at which they start play in each list of ratings is based on game results ally by the names of the players as they tournament section. Consequently they reported to and received at CHESS RE· are much eas ier for you to locate this are generally weB·matched with all op· VIEW from Aprll 1 to June 30. way. The Class A ratings are given in ponents there as O'f the date on which play begins for that section- within 300 These ratings also set the tourney rat boldface type. ings (as typed onto tournament assign The "classes" for old·tlmers range: PO'ints for each class-except A which bas nO' upper limits. ments) for all tournament sections begin Class A. 1300 and up; Class B, 1000 to ning play in August and up until the 1298; Class C, 700 to 998: Class D, 400 to TO' estimate their starting "class," new· comers are advised that Class A is for next rating list (which is to be publlshed 698; and Class E. below ~ OO . in the Novembe!' issue of CHESS RE exceptionally s trong players; Class B fO'r Newcomers to' Postal Chess are begun strong club player; I.e., above average; VIEW) will govern. (according to the class at which they Class C for abO'ut average; and Class D The ratings In the current list were enter), as follows: Class A at 1300 (they for below average. B obtained by melding into the ratings in must earn any higher ratings); Class \Vhen one player wins from anO'ther. the May isslle an changes due from the at 1200; Class C at 900; and Class D at he gains 50 points in rating. as a basic games reportel\ since that Issue-pub 600. Class E is O'pen only to old·tim· premise. When the Olle who wins is much lished in the June, July and current ers with ratings which have been estab· higher rated already. he wins correspond· Postal Mortems-and also by adding the lished jn actual play. ingly less; and. when the winner is a names and starting ratings of all new· Thus, if newcomers win decisively. IO'wer rated player. he gains more, by comers and old members returned who t hey move well up into the next class by way of cO'rrecting the discrepancy appar· started play in tourneys since the first the time their Initial tourney Is com· ent frO'm this result. Thus, In time, the of June of this year. pleted. ratings shO'uld reflect actual abtlity. A Atlas L ....•.• 6H Bnylo,' W Ion Blagg Or J S. 1050 I:rower S 1006 Carl C E 6~2 Abel F 1122 Aubuchon Mi~s 71~ Beach L \V 10~2 Blair J I 1300 Brown A. ll3. Carl '\Irs C E 452 Abele H F 1090 Audubon R 4.';6 Beard G H 1298 Blanchard D F. 940 Brown B A 908 Carl H 0 . .... 1106 Ackley D A . .. 880 Austin H . . . H~ Beauli<)u H L 840 Blasius R E '00 B"own C H 1074 Carlton GA .. 1022 Adam~ J) J . . GIS Austin N W 598 Beck P B .' ;>6~ Blattner J P. ~1j·1 B"own H \V 600 Carlyle R A .. 1300 Adams G 750 AvUla L 1I3S Becker E J 1426 Bleakley R E. 768 Brown J H 700 C"rmean II ... 398 Adams G H •.• MO Ayala F 906 B()el CHESS REVIEW, AUCUST, 1951 251 Coggeshall H H 552 David F 368 Einstein J . . 570 Fotias C A 960 Glusman S 1196 Hansen C A 490 Coghill ].UM V. 510 Davies S J Jr. 876 Eisen 0 .. 1540 Fouquet P 428 Goble E 726 Hansen E E 1428 Cohen A .. 1488 Davies S J Sr. 1124 Eiaenberg l\I 1292 Fowler J F Jr ll20 Goble W W 672 Hansen J J .Ir 682 Cohen E 750 Davis A H .. 900 Ekstrom F 1146 FOl< Mr ~ 111 722 Godbold E 896 Han ~ on J E 1110 Cohen E P 1162 Davis C N .... 900 E lefson L . 578 l"oy E "\V .. 752 Godfrey J 1332 Hanson L 1252 Cohen J N 1104 Davis Cmdr I E 1000 E II~son 0 W 1468 Foyle W R 974 Godin L L 714 Hantley .J • . 900 Cohn M ~00 Davis .f 100 Ellenherger K 626 France J H 826 Hantman M 1484 Coker G N 1436 Davis J H 1002 Elliott "\V N 1128 l"rancke P E 1148 gggb~~rt" j..j··W 1~M Harding C C C 1088 Cole man FT . . 1398 Davis T .•.. 530 Ellis N ..• . 600 Frank B 1460 Gol'l' A L 1058 Ha"dman G \V 11n Coll!er :Miss L. 366 Dawkins G 938 Ellis T S .•.. 736 Frank Mrs E I1S2 Gold A 1148 Harkins J L 105·1 Collins A P •. 1106 Day .f UH Ellison K E . . 952 Frank G L 1236 Golden A G . . 958 Harmon E B fi 9S Col1in~ Mrs P 382 Day R . .•. . .. 874 ElyJA .•... 844 Frankel T 1354 Golden W J 538 Harmon M 840 CoUins SA . . . 1148 Dayton E ... 1242 Emery B C •. . 600 Franklin n .. 646 Goldman A J 1114 Harmon "\V 1120 Colvin L 444 Deacon R 1222 Emke R Jr .. 1196 ~'ranz L r; .. 898 Goldman F 846 Harness C L 1136 Comire A G ... 432 Deal J G 432 Engelhardt G 460 l~ras!er S 111 • 1070 Goldstone M 1194 Harper J 1286 Conant Mrs H 696 De Baca N C 482 Engstrom S 918 ~'razler 0 E ... 990 Golub III A 850 Harrah J 900 Condon AS ... 1342 De Blanc W T. 884 Enoch I, R 836 ~"'reedm"n Dr L 900 Gomba.. L . 842 Harris C /II 1280 Condon FE.. 1559 De Cordova U.. 608 Enochso n A L. 758 Freed man M 1496 Gonzales ]\[ •. 10~8 Harris H C 1060 Condon Mary . • 704 De Cracker R. 992 Epstein S •... 1106 l"reema n R E. 604 Gonzalez .r P . . 488 Harris J E 1328 Connally G K • 1108 De Dobay Rev R 1090 Erckert H ... 600 l"reiman S .••• lOGO Gonzal ez L N 1028 Harris M 1318 Connell :Miss H 448 Define D 1796 Erdos A 1300 Frcimer lIf .... 1036 Gonzalez M x 1368 Harris W 10H Connell P 886 Degman E S .. 794 Erickson D ••. 900 Freitag Dr H L 1498 Good J D 1228 Harris \V B . . 716 Connell W W .. 450 DeGraw ~' E .. J048 Erickson R 450 French C E 1296 Goodale G R 1022 Harris W J 1656 ConnOl" F "\V . . 822 Dehlinger K R. 788 Frlbourg Mrs J 608 Goodwin H D 420 Harrison G A 970 Connor J A . . . 900 Del Bourgo J J 1100 ~~k~r:t1a~ b'H l~~g F'r!edm~n N 340 Gorder \V 742 Harrison H 1262 Connors T L •. G86 Delehanty J S. 808 Erlich H .. 642 Friedman R 1342 Gordon F T 840 Harshaw R i\f 946 Conway M T 946 De Leve J ..•. 70' Ermidis N 1214 Frierson J D 850 Gordon H 1390 Hart J 798 Cook A 784 Demitrack D A 600 Ems GoldIe 1200 Frilling F 1398 Gordon H R 952 Hart .r F Jr 1202 Cook J W 1370 Demmie G J . . 900 Etnoyer A A 1200 Froemke R L 1390 Gordon I G 117Z Hart R A 846 Cooke R C 1504 Denham J •. 588 Etnoyer ~'H 1036 Fry G • .•.. 786 Gorfy L 756 Hartigan J 1138 Cooley GA. 628 Dennen W D 772 Euche r M 1656 Fry H .. .•.• •. 511j Goss B 828 Hartle b G E 1668 Coolidge "... . . 438 De Planque 1.. 1386 Evans G ::..' 924 I-"'ry R H 900 Co~ser J R 900 Ha,·tline R W 554 Coon M L 688 De Romana J . 718 Evans H D 1H8 F ryer J . .. •.•. 648 Gossett E T 362 Hartman J K . 1136 Cooney F 310 Dial E H 852 EVans J B 800 Fuchs W W ". 1566 Gotham R E •. . 1282 Harvey J W Jr 1380 Cope D A .•.•. 600 Diamond B I 1294 E:vans J E 1292 Fuchsman C H 1156 Gottfried S .• . 631 Hasker H. W •. 508 Coppage W H 7ll Dickerson E A. 850 Eva~s J S 1312 Fuglle C N 1860 Gould B 1344 Hatcher C 900 Coppens C E .• 780 Dickson C L .. 782 Evans R M 932 Fuller L J 1504 Gould Mrs M L 866 Hathway C v..' 60 0 Corcoran B •.. 762 Dickson H H JUS Everett J K 1028 Fullum P ... 1200 Gould P H 602 Hatton "" F 1062 Corda R .... 936 Diedrich E 884 Everitt E R 1026 Fulton F( G 906 Gouled W S 1228 Haudek W 1146 Cordray R E 890 Dietz P 1. 1636 E verts G W 900 l"urg:atch 1I 500 Graet" L ... 800 Haug E .•...•. 1154 Corey W F •. (50 DI Miceli A G . 1018 Eves W C 398 Furnall D E 524 Graf 1. 544 Hauptmann G. 446 Corson E R 950 Dimond \V •... 1160 Grafa J B ... 1498 Hausling H J. 766 Cortes R •... 1178 Dishaw 0 W 930 F G Graff L E 1200 Haussmann F\V 1216 Corthell 0 L .• 308 Dittmann H A 1244 Gray C P 1355 Fabe r F L 1378 Hawes '1' W Jr 606 Coryell 0 ... 804 Dobbins A A 1176 Gades F H 626 Gray E E . . . 126 Hawkins P E 990 Con E .•.•..•• 1498 Dobesh C L ... 710 Faber K J 820 Gage C V • . 812 Graybael S E 596 Hayes Dr J C 560 Coss Dr H M 774 Dodkewltz H 1194 Faber R E 1224 Gagne F ..•.. 1070 Green CA.. 1222 Hayes R B .•.• 1152 Cotter J N •. •. 13&8 Dodson DC.. 1250 Fahl E E ... 878 Gallag her .T D 970 Green T 14()4 Hayes R C .•.. 1308 Cotton E ... •• 600 DoeR EA .. 1336 Faircloth G A 646 Gallag her N A 518 Greenbank R K 698 Hayes R 0 ... 836 Coubrough L . . 1466 Doekes A . •• 1050 Fake H E 942 Galligos L 900 H ayward Dt· V S 578 Falcon A .•... 738 Greenberg Dr S 1554 Coulombe F B. 70. Doelling :lr( . • 1200 Galluccio S .. 1092 Greenberg S L 1098 Hazlltt Mrs F . 1486 Coulton S D .•. 1106 Doherty C R 936 Fancher '" H. 164 Galvin l~ 600 Healey J Farber Dr 1 1968 Greenburg R •. 650 E 840 Coupal GA... 614 Domash L .. 498 Gant ?Irs .r D 670 Greene S .• • . • . 1200 Hearn J N 600 Couture ...." J .. 1184 Dommie J D . . 962 Farber S.. 1102 Gant.J T .Tr. 900 Greengard R 1348 Heath A R Sr . 1018 Coven H J . .. . SOO Donn J T .. 1074 l"ardon ST.. 776 Gant R P 800 Farewell L. A 1392 Greenman F Jr 792 Heberling J R 10 04 Coveyou R R 1536 Donnelly R n 862 Gardinier V E 370 Greenough B R 982 Hebert J A ... 1146 Cowan E L 736 Farmer F 714 Gardner C 1498 Doof A A .. 902 Parnell G .. . .. 1212 Greensite A L 930 Hecht D C 1190 Cowan I N 1228 Doray R L 1070 Gardner "\V F 760 Greenwald Dr N 1044 Heckert F •.•. 50 ~ Cowan S W 850 Dotterer R H 916 Farnham E . . '. • "00" Gardner 'V H 666 Gregory C Jr 782 Heckman J F Jr 1694 Cowan W W .. 978 Doub A A 900 Farra M Jr " Gargean A 1076 Parrell E 656 Gregory H E 826 Hedborg G S •. 586 CoxGB . •.••. 900 Douglass G 1192 Garland L E 594 Gregory i\f C 644 Hedgcock Dr R 60l Cox JR ..... 1068 1250 Farrell H J 1200 Garland R E 590 Dowd C E Fast E .. •.. 540 Grelfer B 13M Heeney L .... 1200 Coyne G .....• 1028 Dowell IT. 100 Garland Sylvia 400 Grieder J R 1168 Heffron D 700 Craig J D •.... 268 Fauche r J A 1640 Garner N III . • . 1256 Dowllng J L 940 F ayCL .•. 440 Grieves E R .• 982 Heffron H 1212 Craig L G ...• 916 Downing J .... 1138 Garriga S 608 Griggs Pfc J B 600 Heflin H W 600 Cralle R E •.. 850 Feerst El •... 900 Garrison C V>l 975 DrMhman H C 926 Peinson S 1I 900 Grodesky R S 938 Heighway \y 682 Crane H L .... 1862 Draeger IF. . 656 Garver 0 H 1546 Groesbeck K 600 Heim R B 1158 Craumer Mn S 482 Drago A .• • ••. 978 Feldman D 1200 Gn,'y J S E . .. 1090 Gross G C Jr 1678 Heino A F 730 Cravener C E 912 Draughon \V l"il 100 Feldman M 9S4 Gate~ Dr N A 130 Feldman S 790 Gross .J . . 1080 Heinrich H 760 Crawford D .• 976 Driscoll R N .. 144 Gate~ P 852 Gross J ].I 494 Heinrich 111 894 Crittenden K . 1172 Driver P B • . • 778 F enn E F 1688 Cattis .\1 C 598 H elsig G W 1366 Fenner "\" Cru!)!) Rev W J 900 Cromelln P L 1390 Drozt H .....• 1198 W 1280 G~ult E M 1388 Guhin J C .... 368 H e lslilg C R 1586 Crook LT.... 846 Drozvnski N .• 600 Fenton E 530 Ga~' L 1114 Helslng W P 1570 Ferber G ..•• 1398 Quinano N L .1306 Crow A J ...• 878 Druet M A . ' ~98 Gavlor \Y 900 Hcit D 784 Ferguson Col H 862 Gulanick E .r •. 1122 Crowder B 900 Duchesne J . . . 1026 Gee H 736 Gunter Dr J U 828 Heller L 566 CryFB ..••.. 600 Dudley R...... 548 ~'erguson Sgt Y 812 Geiger E •. 686 Gureff M U 1696 Hem))hill Dr J . 1028 Cummings R . • 856 Dudley S A 580 F ernsler E B 1386 Gelge" \V 900 Gurton A • . 1372 H enderson C • . 1140 Cunningham B. 600 Duffy J A 600 Ferrand i~ F B. 786 Gelbard M 1094 Gurton R .. 844 Henderson Chas 1296 Cunningham G. 127( Duignan F S 858 Ferrick J 600 Georgee H E 400 Gustafson S 940 Henderson H C 796 Cunningham \V 12H Dulical F 0 .. 1360 Ferris Dr L 900 Georgi H J ". 1644 Guttman W J 1036 Henninges E :\of 822 Curran W F 938 Duncom!)e C G. 900 Fidlow D 1566 Gerber D A • . . 784 Gyving R 1056 H enril 252 CHESS REVIEW, AUCUST, 1951 llOG Jacl, SOIl J J 1012 Kelly Mrs .M 704 Lashua R H 900 M McLaughlin W 900 ~I~ Jackson T T .. 376 K ~ lly Cupt V F 1I56 L"sk~I' J J .. 8 ~ O illacCarty S ... 690 McLellan R .•. 900 10~1! Jacoh! A ...... 69~ Kelly W P 810 Lutelner I . . 11 71 jI,.lacDana ld W T 194 :111cLeod Dr A J 836 85. Heo ~1 R ... ' 1300 Kelsey /II E 794 L·utimer J B 1188 MacDonough J . 1182 i\{c).lanama J . . 600 118~ Jacobs S ...... 1300 Kennedy R •.. 900 !-4( nik S . .. . 80~ Macek A. 108& McManus F W 100 320 J a~ohs W 0 ••• 5U8 Kennedy R A GOO Laubner T D 552 M ac Or~dy 0 1432 l'IIcSamee R 'V 730 Jacob>lon E N 1200 Kenny G E 1216 La Velle £(hlll . 706 .\futKenx!e C 560 McNe(; ~e J .. 1268 Jl\co1.>~on 0 H . 1200 Kent E J 1030 L'nvrence 0 \V 844 Maclasn H . . 1328 lo lc"-"eil R .••. 134 .""" Jam r.s H R .... 800 Kent Praneyne &86 Layton W 0 792 ~I aclea n J G 23 0 McQ uade J A 382 Jl\ m o~ T 'j) •••• 5U K errick A H . . 1200 L;u ~r u . S 0 1528 Macleo.n J 0 . . 8G2 McRae S ... •. 696 i!!i~:i~J~~ . 112300?S J ,.. n clIOn W ... 1M K el'$ey D r G 'f 100 Leu 'V J. ... 842 MacLean P G . 1018 McVay W R •. 9 ~ O ~ C '"tUO J a n lson i"< 1444 Kilborn H " . G~8 ' ...cather R B 1042 MacLeen n .... 6H McVicar A B. 432 Janko L ...... 808 K ilbourne G J 900 LeClerc R 1&8 Macormnc H .. 11$0 McYoy E J . • . 1298 Jnnkowlkl J \' 1 0 ~0 K11Iincer J J .. {.~G Ledllerwogd L 1332 Ma dison H 0 1338 McWh illey E. 158 114'"6 Jtlnkow"kl S 600 K lm 1.> rell A 458 LeeDF ...... 798 Madison L .... 1120 Mead CpI L J • 1160 ""1012 J tlllo"'iIS C .. 1400 K im brough R Jr 900 Lefk e D 600 Ma&,ee W J .•.• 900 Meador R P ... 900 J on ~ k l 0 J . 836 Kimpt o;, L E 1378 Lei&'h A J .... 92 ~ l\(agerkurth C W 1178 Meadors Mrs V G 556 Jeffre)' J W .•. 198 Kind.&, H llO!! Lei&' h ton W L , 794 Ma&, nu3 R A .. 900 Mea.dors V G . . 478 ... A M 104%'" J enkins Dr 1276 Kin&' A B 7fi.1 Lelnin&'er E T l 2(lt) Maguire E S .. 1350 MeaTS E L .... 1178 " 00 Jen kins C J., 12 ~ K ing C H 616 Lelwekll f' J 192 Mahaffey El L 102 MedniCk L .... 882 >0, Jen nlnp J M. 68$ King 0 ..... ' 670 Le k ow~ k t J A 12 ~8 Maher P J 988 .Meeha n W .... 1296 '00 Jensell H K •. 388 Kin g G ....•. 1334 Lenard H A •. 1090 Melch ler J ., 1>10 Meeker J Af ••• 12014 .,. J lln5 CHESS REV IEW, AUC:UST, 111 51 253 Mouser Dr H K 602 Ollker F B .. . 129( Plat z Or J 1694 Rice S ...... 1081 SflJ(ton J H ... ~5f sm G . 1074 Mowry \'l I 02~ Oli n E ...... Plotz M . . 1022 Rlchard8 sa. 638 Sayles 'I' ~' ..• 736 Si ll er Jot 1380 Moy." J •.•. 1310 Olin R 1-1 •• . Plotz P . . ... 654 Richard.on J W 1390 &:acciaterro S. 282 !:;;t"er H 1238 Muegge R . . . 1060 Oliver J .... "'"'" P lum(1.l1 G .J 600 Richa rdton R L 1472 Scaravell a C 1302 Simers .r F iSS Mueller M F .. 1208 Olmore A B Podol. ky S 1300 Richmond F H 1226 Schaoorum W 0 ?as Simmons W CO 1836 Muggenthaler C 748 Olm,ted L C '''''" Poir W B ...... 804 R ic hter R. 698 SchaCk J:or 602 Simms L R 918 Mull' W 1798 Olsen 0 ...... Poffenber ger R 830 Richte r R F 1636 Schuffer G 17!8 Simpson H N . 1~ 3 ~ Mu!ll&"an ;] 1:1 1162 Ol!en S •...... '"".., Pohle R E . • . . 1648 Rlckleu N .. 1316 S impson R C 1544 SchaeHer R •• GOO Mulligan P J (32 Olaon G :M . '"802 Poillon :Un A. 80 6 Rideout III W 990 Schneiter R C. 732 Sinda ir R V B 970 Mullins T Y 1(ISS OppKE ...•. ,,,. Polak P ...... U4 R ider C W .. nSG Schaldler A L .. (14 Singe r I A .. 1220 Multer W L J r . 938 Orav.. a CO •. • .• 1474 Polnows ki G R 1200 Rldli'e R J .. 114 & Schartr N 77 2 Siratzke C E 800 M uno~ Dr J EGO: '52 Polomsk i A 396 Ridlon H 900 Schau R ...•.. &.'i0 Sirota H .•••.. 93& M un roe G 1l. 5$0 g~~uk' .J.. ~.:: 1412 Pomper J L 1526 R ieh le L J 12,10 Seherr C W .. 1174 Sirota .I 300 Munson A E .. 1480 Orlando R E .• 1456 Poole R .•. 1346 Riemann A E 854 &:hlck Rev W F 918 SIWMlIan G 630 Murase Y ..... 70( Orlando R J .. Popper E ..... 1400 R iley L D •.•• 1200 &:h lndel 0 ... 1200 S karsten ~l 0 1%0 ::'Io lurphy J .... 1250 Or11dge Dr A E '" Portala N 796 Ringler D H 6 0 ~ SCh lnKer S .... 110 Sk"lton S E .. 1016 ).1urray D ..... 900 Orn,"ln P •.•. ,...'" Porter E L ... 1216 Rillier S 105 ~ S chrni 254 CHESS REVIEW , AUGUST, 195"1 Stevens D M 848 Trabert L 974 'Weaverling ,E R 548 'Vinaor H B 730 Stevens L C 766 Tra~k F .. 1694 Weber J H . , . 650 Winston B •. 938 Stevens R S 742 Traney L F 1300 Weberll CA .. 1484 \\'inston R 6901 Stevens W L 1200 Trallln l' ... 1252 Weherg K 666 \Vlnstou W 0 1014 THE CRAFTSMAN Stevens W S 1395 T rebour A ••. 670 W ebster N B 1678 Wi~" H ...... 870 St.evenson D " S96 T"emea,' \V C 100 W ehde C 1354 Wisellarver B 8 1366 Stevenson Dr H 1418 '1'rentadue R 900 Weidler E J048 \Vishneff L S .. 744 A Superb Chess Set Stevenson M 556 Trinks W R 1044 Weight C S 612 Wisnom R F 556 Stewart P E 100 Trull E V 1312 \\'eil L 730 Wittenberg L 101( Stinson D 602 Trumbull S L. 990 Wei I W 1408 Witters R R 900 Tschudy B A .. 272 Weimar R .. 9()(l 'Wittman P 506 ji~~ kELR 1m Tudor W B 862 \Veinberg M. 346 Witsel P ... 230 Stockwell A J 110D Tufts G •.•.• 2166 W eIninger Dr'j 1354 \Volverlon A 794 Stokes Jane 81i2 TU>lgJe J 1356 'Veinstein A 600 \VOng B ...... , 50{; Stoltie C 6% Tupper C '" 522 \Veiser P 550 \'long E •. .•.• . 740 Stoltie J" 8~0 TUl"etsl CHESS REVIEW, AUCUST, 19S1 255 11 B_R3! N-B4 A mistalte, but not an obvious o:le. POSTAL GAMES Probably best is 11. . 0-0- 0. from CHESS REVIEW tourneys 12 BxN annotated by JACK W. COLLINS Twins The following two games have a great deal in common. They are both played by Americans of Polish ancestry, they both feature Knight pirouettes, they are Blacl!: :prepares, , . P-Q4. which should both close to being miniatures, they are not be played! Something needs to be both Danish Gambits and they were both done about White's dominating King played In the 1951 Golden Knights Knight and presSlll'e on K6. Hence the Championship. book line (10. . D- K2! 11 0 - 0, Dx); 13 N_QN5!! L2 PxD, N-K2) is best for Dlacle DANISH GAMBIT A very surprising. cie\'er sacrifice! 11 0-0 P-Q4 PCO: page 31, column 10 (m) The threat is H N- Q6t, winning. Aga!n, 11 ... B- K2! Stanley Wysowski D. Rozman 13 . . . . R-Ql 12 P-B5! B-B4t White Black 13 K_ R1 KPxP If 13 ... PxN? ].I QxPt. K - DZ 15 R 1 P-K4 P-K4 Q7, \Vhlte wins the Queen for Hooi{ and Dlack is in a vc ry bad way, but 13 2 P-Q4 Knight, .. P-Q5, followed by 14 . . P - K4, pnts First, the Center Game. 14 RxRt K,R I1p a better fight. 2 .... p,p 15 N-Q6! P-QN3 14 PxQP 3 P-QB3! If 15 .. QxN? 16 R-Ql again wins And now, as faJ' as \Vhite Ls eon· The Danish Gambit, which offers a the Queen for Rook and Knight. cerned, the rest is a pleasure. Pawn for rapid development. Frank J. 16 N-K5! ,. p,p Marshall 1!ked tile ftreworks which it 15 NxQP Q-B3 Threatening 17 NxPt, K any IS NxQ, produces. 3 QxP continues the Center 16 B-B4 Game proper. as well as 17 Nj&--B7 t, K any 18 NxR. 16.,.. K-B2 White threatens 17 N-B7t. The con 3 • • • • PxP 17 Nj6-B7 N_R3 trast ill the development of the opposing A good alternative is 3 . .. P-Q4. 18 Q-R4 forces is striking. 4 B-QB4 16 R_B1 Dy menacing 19 QxDPt and 19 QxRPt. In the spirit of the thing. Alekhine \Vhite find!; the stl'ongest way to con 17 KR-K1t K-Bl recommends ·1 NxP. Hodurski :plays that tinue the attack. 18 NxR? Q- N4t 19 Q If 17. ,N- K2, 18 QR-Bl wIns. in the next game. K3, QxN Is much weaker for White. 18 QR-Q1 P_KR3 4 . . . • PxP 18 , . . . NxN Black takes everything that is not Nothing hel:ps. nailed down. Safer. but less ambitious, 19 QxRPt K_B1 are 4 .. P-Q3 and ·1 N-QB3. 20 Q-R8t K-B2 BxP 5 21 QxPt K-Nl Or 21 , .. K-Ql 22 R- Qlt. N- Q3 23 Hx Nt. QxR 24 N-B7t, K-K2 25 NxQ and White wins. 22 N-Q7t Resigns If 22 . . K-R2, (22 QxN 23 QxQ and \Vhite's win is elementary) 23 QxPt, K-RI 24 Q-N8 mate. Every so often Stanley pops up with such a i\Iorphy-like (or should it be 19 N_K7!! Wysows]{j·lIke ?) brilliancy. Let them A very pretty problem·like move which l(eep coming! forces the win of the Queen 01' mates. 19 ... , Q-B3 DANISH GAMBIT 5 • . . . P-Q3 If 19 ... 8xN 01' NxN, 20 RxNt, RxR PCO: page 32, column 11 21 Q-D7 mate. And, if 19. Q-Kl, If 5 ... P-Q4 (Schlechter) 6 KBxP. Richard Hodurski H. G. Ruckert \Vhite has the same clincher whic h he N-KB37 BxPt, KxB 8 QxQ, B- N5t 9 Q Wh:te Black has after the text. QZ, 8xQt 10 NxB, P-84 11 KN- B3! (Hodursld), While's chances are hetter 1 P-K4 P-K4 3 P_QB3! PxP 2{) N-R7t! p,p than the books indicate. 2 P-Q4 4 NxP Another :problem move. One look is EditOI' Horowitz suggests the defen As noted in the above game, enough to see that White's Knights are sive plan 5 .' P-QB3! 6 N-QB3, P--Q3 4 .. ,. P-Q3 6N-B3 B_K3! Golden! 7 N-B3. N- Q2 S 0 - 0, N- B4! 5 B_QB4 N_QB3 7 BxB Resigns 6 Q-N3 Q-K2 Or 7 8-Q5, N-B3 8 0 - 0. D-K2 and If 20, . K-Kl, 21 NxN§ and 22 Nj8x 7 N-QB3 P-QB3! Black has a good game. Q(t). And, if 20 ' RxN 21 QxN mate. 8 O-O-O! B-K3 The text move transposes Into the A bright game-in the style HodufSki Black ought to swing Into Horowitz's Scotch Gambit: Goering Gambit, PCO: (and most everybody eLse) \ikes so much, plan with 8 . N- Q2 and 9 ... N-B,l. page ·105, column 20. 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