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CHESS REVIEW ,,., AUGUST 1953 FROM FACT TO FIASCO 50 CENTS Subscription Rate \.. YEAR $4.75 While releases lli~ <lueen Bishop, lhu~ )Jl"Bvenling 17 .. NxN; for :I g B-N5t then WillS Elilcl,'s Queen. 17 • • • • N-KB3 Black canllot frightell the Knight away by 17 ... K-B3, as 18 B-N5t, Kxil 19 N- B7t removes his Queen. 18 B- KNS Q-B2 19 B-B4 Q-N3 Alelthine refutes 19 . Q-N2 by 2u Q-K3. NxP 21 B-N5t. NxB 22 QxNt, K­ Q3 23 R-Q1t, K-B2 24 Q- QS mate­ and 20 . K·-Q1 21 Q-Q3t, K-B1 22 WHICH is the most brilliant of all chess masterpieces? What is "the It-N1, QxP 23 N-I37! QxQ 24 R-N8 mate. 1110st famous game of all time"'? \1/hich game i" the best example of 20 R_Ql furious sustained attack? What is the finest specimen of defensive play? White holds the King fast and threat· Who played "the immortal game"? Who thrilled the spectators (and ens 21 B-KN5, followed by 22 Q-n5 and many future generations) with "the evergreen gHme"? Who astonished lIlale at TI7 or KS. the world with '"the immortal zltgzwang game'''? What is "perhaps the 20 .... P-N3 Not only to llrevent that line but to most extra~rdinary game ever played"? What W,)S Lasker's greatest fight. get his Bishop and King Rool, into play ing game? Which of Morphy's brilliants is the Ilonpareil? Which game as his Queen·sidf) is almest paralyzed. did Nimzovich reg<lrd as "t]le Pride of the Family"? \Vhich combinatiol! 21 B-KN5 B-N2 did Steillitz say was "one of the most charming poetical ~hess composi· tions that has ever been devised ill practical play"? Which did Capa­ blanc1) himself choose as his "rno.<;t finished and artistic game"? From his treHsury of breath.taking beauties, what did Alekhine select as the creme de La. creme? What marvellol! 3 inspiration impelled the cognoscenti to agree unanimously that a certain move was "the most beautiful move ever played"? Critics and connoisseurs have come lip ,dth ~omc answers in the past and are still trying to do so now. I want to give you some of their opinions as well as some of my own. To the~e, I will add g<lmeti that the masters themselves considered their outstanding creative and imaginative 22 N_Q7! eHorLs. If there is time enough and space and the intere,:;,t of my reader" Striking lit the Queen and the pinned does not wane, I will include further miscellanea which belongs in the Knight simultaneously. He also (as if Umt were not ("nongh) dears the way categol'Y of all·time greats: such affairs as wondrous Queen endings, [or the Pawn ~tab by P- K5. art.istic (and instructive) performances by the Hooh, tour..; de force of 22 .... R,N the Knights, King wanderings and Pawn peripatetics. J plan to include 23 RxRt K-Bl 24 BxN B,B some of the strangest games ever played, the mo~l ::'llrpri;;ing moves ever 25 P-KS! Resigns made and some of the most quiet, subtle moves ever to gladden the heart If 25 ••. B- N2, 26 Q - B3~ <l11(! Illale at of the aficionado-and terrorize the opponent. These, and mallY, many B7; and, if 25 TI-K2. WhitE' win;; more things. wilh 26 Q- TI3" K- Nl ~7 HxB. Q- :'->S+ 25 D-Q1, Q-TI~ 29 Q-HSt, Q-Bl 30 H-K ~ . LET US BEGIN with a game of whieh Now wilti·h (his: Reuben l~ine has said, "The combination, I'H~HB is an ea~y bUI prC!lY 1,,·o·mO\·E"· 01' rathel' serie~ of combinations, is in by Gilberg: my opinion the most remnrkable tactkal conception in chess hi~tory," Margate, 1938 QUEEN'S GAMBIT Alekhine Book ''''hite Bl,wl, 1 P-Q4 P-Q4 6 0-0 N-B3 2 P_QB4 p,p 7 Q_ K2 P-QR3 3 N_KB3 N-KB3 8 N-B3 P-QN4 4 P-K3 P-K3 9 B-N3 P-N5 5 B,P P_ B4 10 P-Q5! N_QR4 16 PxP! If 10 PxP 11 NxP, :-';xN 12 R-Ql. "This," says Alexander. "il' played B-K3 13 P- K4, N/3-K2 1-1 PxN, B-N~. 15 P-Q6, White wins a piere. \\"itll extraordinary coolness: A llook be· to hind, White calmly stops recapture n The solution i~ 1 Q-TI l. Kx.:q 2 Q-D5 11 B-R4t B-Q2 Pawll. 16 Q- H5t would llOl. haYe been 12 PxP! PxP mate! A beautiful SE't o[ pins. good heea\1~e of 16 P- N3 17 :-';xP, 13 R-Q1! PxN PxN 1S QxR, K-B2. and l3l,\('k should N,R 14 RxB! win." T HOU GH T FOR TH E MONT H 15 N-K5 R_R2 A masterpien' i.< " ma ~ ,el"j)iece though 16 .... K-K2 :t million peoplE' ~iiY ~o . ·-{.)uiller- Couch t = cheek; :!: _ ubI. ehcck; § _ dis. ell. 17 P_K4! CHESS REVIEW ,,., "crva, CHISS ....O AIINI Volume 21 Number 8 August 1953 EDITED &. PUBL I S IH~O BY I. A. HOC O \N I I~ INDEX FEATUAES Game of the Month _______ ____ ______233 From Fact to Fiasc:o Najdorf-Reahevsky Match ___ ______ 244 TN OUIt JULY ISSUf:, we mentioned as a The re is ill arrllnl,;ing any intermllional Views on News of the U. S. Championship _____ __ __ ____ 232 fa ct thai the match with the Hussian lealll client ,\ real need for willingness to CUIII' was to lake place, b e~ itln i n g on July 15 promisc. In arrang in g Ihe Radio Mutch DEPARTMENTS or 16. of 1945 and IlIllt at i\loscow in 1946. the Chen Cil viar __ __ ___ ________ ________235 J US I after we had gone to press., how. editors of C H ESS RE\'U;W found Ihat I)oinl Games from Recent Eve nt. __ _____ __ 239 ever, tht: faci turned suddenly to fiasco. a ft er IlOint Il ad 10 he lought out. The How to Win in the Middle G<lme ___ 236 The 1)layinl,; dales had uecn II g reed upun; Hussia liS SC I thdr te rms pereml)tnrily. On the Cover ____ _______ _________ __ 227 the tea m line.ups exchanged ; playing ar· blulIll)' rrjecled o ff ers al compromise. POltal Chess _____ ______ ___ _________ 247 ranGe ments in the Hnlel Hoosevelt (in· Wil h ol he rs, they have been equally harsh, Solit .. ire Chess ___ ___________ _____ __ 243 Tournament Calendar ________ _____ __ 231 cluding such Hems a ~ Ih e purchase of even holding back l'epresenlatives to in· World of Chess __ ____ __.. __ ___ ______ 226 chess w llllh ourd ~ ) and th,: living quarters ternatiollal tournamenlS who had been ft.r Ihe visilvrs there ha.i been paid for: I)wmi!ed right ilp to the dale of play. visas fur Ihe visitOf$ had been a pproved Tn lhis case, they took up a n invitalion hr s pecial aCliun on Ihe I)art of the U. S. standing since 1946 and s pecifi cally re· EDITOR Al1o rney.(;eneral : and Ihe Russian leam ne wed b)' Al Hisno whe n the American I. A. Horowitz was aClually on its way- when suddenly team met the R ussians ut Helsinki. And. EXECUTIVE EDITOR Ihe re was a blow·up. lhough they chllrncleri slieally set us n Jack Straley Bette ll On the vcry eve of th ~ malch, the Hus· dale with a bare three weeks notice, they CONTRIBUTING EDITORS silins Hated Ihat th ~y wanled their team compr<JIn ised on July 15 with very lillie I. Ch erney, J. W. Collins, T . A. Duns t. to be jlul III) al lheir u tale al Glen Cove, fuss. They really wa nlL-d the match . dlen. Dr. l l. £ U\\'II. Hans Kmoc h. }-'red Reinreid. Dr. S. O. Ta rtakover. Barnle F. 'VJnkehnan Lollg Island. T he U. S. Slate De pa rtmen t T he major point of the break, ho"·e\'cr. replied Ihat Ihe visas, all applied for CORRESPONDENTS and is Ill is. The U. S. llIa lch commillee had Ai ;obama E. M. Cockrell. a pproved. wcre for ~e w York City only. told lhe Russians that. as host, it was Call'orni;o Herbert U" tker, J . U. Gee. Leroy The Hussian learn was stopped at Paris. planning to prov id e hotel accommodations Johnson. Dr. H. Hulston, .\1 . J , Uo)'er. Then assurance was !Se lH that the team for the ' Russian tealll but also asked if Color;o do M , W, R~c~". Conn.etleut Edn"",J E. Hand, evuld I'isit Glen Cove thollgh il could nnl Ihey"d prefer to lodgc the team at Glen Delawll r, n. D. 1>on"lll ""n. Ji ve Ihere. And, indeed, as WHS later pub. Cove. The committee IIs ked this long be· Di at. of COlumbl;o W. J . Nucker, Florida MlUor J , B. HOlt. U. lilel". Ernest lished, the Slate De part lllellt had said fore Ihe visas were a!lplied for, yet it \0, Werber. Ihat, wh ile Ihe \' isas covered New York never rL'Ceived II ny rel)ly on that Iloini. Georglll Grady X. Coker. Jr.. A. I", Dow ney. II lInol l Ho"'.rd J. lieU, J. O. Wllrren. " Il ly, Ihe whole mailer of Glen Cove cou ld Nor did the aPI)licalion for \' i ~ a s men· Indl;on" D.
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