DECEMBER 1962

A CHESSY CHRISTMAS

60 CENTS

Iscrlptio" Rate IE YEAR $6.00 1 White to move and win 2 Black to move and win This first position may be .. 'Tis the season to be MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL a sample; indeed, it is no joll)· ... and lIOW Is the time May )'011 have many fine games during the coming great test. The main point to ensure that you can be. Yuletide, llnd the year to follow. And may you have Is to make the welkin ring A good, brisk solution to with yoU!' cries of de!lght this position (mind yon, It the gift to see to the heart of each and every chess and discovery, a1l(! hearty is Bhw k who wins!) ean do position. By the way, mayhe, you have it now? Here's cheers lit being proved (:01" that ulck for you. 'Taill·t 10 samples to try for size: score excellent for ten red, So now just eam your easy, but so much the better, mora! emolument. How does No\\" "deck t he halls with right; good for eight; fair for six. White win'! boughs of holly," Solutions on page 369.

3 White to move and win 4 Black to move and win 5 White to move and WLn 6 Black to move and win If we must have war these \Ve don't have the three "As with gladness men of The tidings in I hi ~ [l o ~ i· days, let it be war on the Kings of the Orient here, No old did the guiding stal' be· tlon ,\l'e gla(1 but 110 1 ('X llb· Checkered board, You can rhe~s boan\ does, But, if you hold:' you can attain to eranl. After all. you (it, have score a conclusive triumph take the Blark pieces and some (~hessic joy herewith. to cOlltribute some pl;lin, here j[ yOIl work at It. 'foss manipulate them with great :;-';-othing like the se\'en honest work toward ( 'h l'i~t· the yule log on the fIre and caL'e and finesse, YOU can joys of Mary, perhaps, but mas festivit ies. Anrl li ke· warm up to your task. See reduce the Kings by one 1~ good, rousing sort oC wise to many a ('h e ~~ io- ac­ a sure · winning program? (supposing White doesn't caissie satisfaction equal to complishment. Thi ~ lilli E' , I'a· Then let all the bells ring jl1~ t s ell out foL' loss of a bearing in the boar's hf'ad, tienre is your ('ue, C;III you out. Queen oj' sUl'h), See I10w? Go to it! reward it?

7 White to move and win 8 Black to move and win 9 White to move and win 10 Black to move and win Here is another chore to When good King \\'ences· Well. we can call this the It ~'ame upon a midnight perfo!'m before you can go las looked OUt on the feast night beCOl'e Chlistmas, But clem': ABCDEFGHIJKMN a·wa~sui1ing. It's a tight of Stephen, he was liot look­ be sure to do some stln-ing. OPQRSTUVWXYZ. Get it'! po~ition. and almost Ull open­ ing at chess feats, But you And you cannot be a mouse It's Noel! No\\" the solution ing one. So "come rouse ye can be, This hedgehog po­ and win in a po"lt!on like to thi~ quiz position Is no la.ds Rnd lasses, and hear the sition can give you a some­ this! l<'ind the right move, harder really. though it joyful strain," It's no strain what diffenmt sort of a men­ and you will see why, And runs to some detail. Gel it, really, though, Just a neat tal workout, So soil'e it, and Ihen you can let go with then enjoy a silent night and effer,tive win Do you then God rest you merry, your own \'ersIOIl of Jingle and, aftel' that, a merry see it? gentlemen, Dells, New Year! CHESS REVIEW 'If' "c,,,., eNUS ."OAZ'''' Volume 30 Number 12: December '962 EDITED &. PUBLISHED BY

I. A. Horowit~

Table of Contents And Now Vidmar ...... 367 Annual Index ...... 382 ATTENTION CHESS PLAYERS! Chessboard Magie! ...... •...... 365 Chess Club Directory ...... • ...... 354 Thomas Emery, well known for his "Besides," he said, "it is very danger­ Chess Vignettes ...... 358 many and irnllOrtant contributions to ous in strategic terms for three reasons: Fh·st. pokel' tends to make one think in Finishing Touch ...... 364 chess. has instituted and maintained an annual tournament for the U. S. armed tel"lllS of oddS. Second, it is not a game Game of the Month ...... 360 in which one can exercise rIexibility. services, the Thoma~ Emer\' Armcd Fnrce~ Games from Recent Even~s .... 372,384 Third. poker leads to circuitous think· Chess Awards Tournament (see pag e~ Postal Chess ...... 377 in g . ., 355 and 356 for the account vf the J9G2 Readers' Games ...... 370 Dr. Katzenbach pointed out how, on tournament). Tlwse tournaments hUI'c Solitaire Chess ...... 361 the othel' hand, it talles very little per· not only brought forward some outsland· ception to see the relevance or chess to Spotlight on Openings ...... 362 ing chess talents but have been particu. the strategic problems of the present Tournament Calendar ...... 359 larly commended by high officers who time. Tragedy at Chess Review ...... 356 have observed the tourn~menls and their '"'[he chess playel' understands, as we World of Chess ...... 355 eHecls on the services for promoting fine Ill! mnst understand, that there are many I"(ualities of mental discipline and initia· tactical adnlllwges to retreat in seeking EXECUTIVE EDITOR tive and concentration in thinking among victory. Jack SU'aley Bauell the rank and file of the armed services. "He undel'stands the most important CONTRIBUTING. E;DITORS The admiral in charge of the Polaris factor of all- Ihat a pawn Is not some· A. B. Bisguier, I. Cherne", J. W. Colllu~. thing to be taken lightly, for the least of 'r. A. Dunst, Dr. .\(. Euwe, H"n~ l(mo<:h. sen'ice is among those wllO have com· W. Korn. F'red Reln(eld. mended Ihe program and is encouraging the powers cannot only get in the way Staff Photographer R. Echeverria. but can actually bring about the down· an interest in chess in that service. CORRESPONDE.NTS fall of figures mote powerful." Alabama E. M. Cockrell. In addition to what we haveiust said, Aluka S. Ii. O'Neill. Ihe Thomas Emery Tournaments have had California Dr. H. Ralston, M. J. Royer. not a few other reperCUSSIOns. It goes wilhout saying that chessplay­ Colorado J. J. Reid. ers will highly approve of the attitude District of Columbia R. S. Cantwell. Florida R . C. Eastwood. The following account which seems of of Dr. Edward L. Kaltzenhach. We have Georgia BrMweli Deen. real interest to chessplayers appeared in had numerous appeals for the promulga. Idaho R. S. Vandenberg. the New York Times, Novemher 4th. illinois J. G. Wa.rren. lion of chess in the education systems of this country. And there has actually been Indl;ona D. C. Hills, D. E. Rhead. WASHINGTON-A high Government Iowa J. M. O~ness. some notable work to that end. The Mil· Kentucky J. W. Mayer. official believes poker should be out· Kanus K. R. MacDona.ld. lawed and that a chess board should be waukee municipal program managed by Louisian;o A. L. MeAuley. set up in each first·grade classroom. Ernest Olfe is the leading one, but CHESS M;olne L. Eldridge. Maryland Charles Barasch. TIle official, Dr. Edward L. Kaltzenbach Ih:V l~: W has had occasion to mention Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of De· Massachusetts R. l3. Goodspeed. others. Still and all, such effects are more Michigan R. Bus!tat:er. fense for Education and ManpolI'er Re· Minnesota R. C. Gove. sotll'ces, offered some analytical reason· notable for their rarity than otherwise, Miulsslppl E. A. Dumlng. and there is as yet nothing like a uni· Missouri E. A. Ta.lley. ing at the Armed Forces Chess TourJla· Nebr;oska B. E. ElI$worth, Ja.ck Spence. ment here to substantiate his belief. versal demand, lei alone application of R. E. Weare. Recognizing that Americans are and chess in ollr school systems. Nevada R. L. Whnler. lIa ve been a nation of poker players, Dr. New Hampshire Ralph M. Gerth. It seems to us that chessplayers could New York Ec\ward La.$ker, H. M. Phlilips. Katzenbach spoke facetiously of the North C;orollna Dr. S. Noblin. game as "front and bluff. with some odds put o,'er this idea, if only they will. North Dakota D. C. Macdonald. thrown in," the Armed F orces P!'ess Apply to whomever you know, city or Ohio R. B. Haye", J. R. Schroeder. Service reports. Oklahoma J. Haley. town or state or national educational Pennsylvania J. E. Armstrong. "For those of us for whom candor is authorities, grammar school or high school South Carolina Prot. L.. L. Foster. high In our system of values, and for South Dakota M. F. Anderson. whom the mathematics of pl'obability is or college level or to U. S. representa' Tennessee Mrs. Martha Hanlt, J. G. SUlli- low on the list of oUI' abilities, the game lives or senators, ciling Dr. Kaltzenbach van, Jr. Texas Homer H. Hyde. is little better than banditry." to supporl your plea. Utah Harold Lundstrom. Virginia Leonard Morgan. West Virginia C. Pride. CHESS REVIEW is publishBd monthly by SubscrIption Rates: One year $5.00, two Wisconsin E. Olre. CHESS :REVIEW, 134 West 72d Street. years $11.00. three years $15.75, world-wide. Wyoming E. F. Rohlf(. New York 23, N. Y. Printed in U. S. A. Re· Change of Address: Six weeks' notice re­ entered as second·class matter August 7. quIred. Please furnish an address stencil CANAOA impression rrom the wrapper of a recent Alberta Percy Connell. t9n, at the Post Office at New York. N .... , issue. Address changes cannot be made with­ British COlumbia Dr. N. 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INTERNATIONAL Asdalos Memorial At Kecskemet, Hungary, the Asztalos Memorial Tournament went to Kholmov of the Soviet Union with an 11-3 score, fol· lowed by the Hungarian Portisch and Szabo, each 10%.41,4. Two other Hun­ garians, Bilek and Honfi, tied at 10·5. Red Queen New holder of the women's world cham­ pionship is 21 year old Nona Gaprindas. viii, who crushed the defending champion, Elizabeth Bykova, witlt a startling display of power. Unable to win a single game of the title match, Mme. Bykova lost seven and drew fOUf. Apart from her gaping margin of victory, the new chess queen's play is described as daring, brilliant and profound. Both women are Soviet citizens. Chess at Festival In a tourney at the annual festival of San Benedetto de Tronto, Italy, Florian of Hungary and Todorcevich of Yugo. slavia shared first place at 9·2. Bozich of Yugoslavia was third with 81jz·2%. Junior International Armed Forces Chess Championship: General David M. Shoup, Marine Corps Com. J akobsen of Denmark was sllccessful in mandant and master chess player, makes the first move for Marine Gunnery Sergeant a junior international tournament at Zur· Walter W. Clark against Army Private Harry Mayer. Sidney Wallach of New York, ich, held in memory of Charles Perret. executive di rector of the American Chess Foundation loo ks on. For story, see page 356. The winner's 9·2 tally was followed b)' De/enJe Dept. Photo, PFC J. V. Martorano (Maline Corps) Bernhardt of West Germany, 8%.2%, and John Lawrence of England, 7-%.3%. his studies, nor Donald Byrne from his We do not have details on the prize UNITED STATES teaching duties. And Robert J. (Bobby) awards but understand they are approxi. Fischer also declined his invitation. mately doubled from what they were last United States Championship The tournament has the added signifi. year: at least the top prizes have been As we go to press, plans for the Lessing cance this year of being the United States doubled. J. Rosenwald Tournament for the U. S. Zonal Tournament in the World Cham· In the following schedule, play on Chess Championship -and the Frank J. pionship program. The three top scorers Sundays is at 2 PM; Saturdays 6:30 PM; Marshall Trophy are still in part to be qualify to the next Interzonal Tourna· and weekdays 6 PM; ;+ Adjourned ses­ formulated. We know, however, that play ment. Fischer had objected to the ar· sions. is to be at the Henry Hudson Hotel (57 rangement of the Candidates Tournament Round D.y Deo. Round D.y Deo. Street fif~ar 9th Avenue, New York city) (previous sequel to the Interzonal), but 1 Sunday 16 7 Wednesday 26 - see schedule below. that has already been cancelled in favor 2 Monday 17 8 Thursday 27 Twelve are to be invited, according to of an arrangement more in line with what Tuesday· 18 Friday· 2S their current ratings in the USCF, and Fischer might think fair. So the tourna· 3 Wedne8day 19 Saturday 29 nine so far have accepted: Pal Benko, ment committee has re·notified hi m with 4 Thm-sday 29 10" Sunday 30 Arthur B. Bisguier, Robert Byrne, Larry emphasis on the Zonal factor. We hope Friday· 21 Monday· 31 Evans, Edmar Mednis, Samuel Reshevsky, lle may yet aeecpt. , Saturday 22 J a n. Nicolas Rossolimo, James T. Sherwin and Qualifications to the Interzonal are , Sunday 2S Wednesday· 2 Mo nday· 24 11 Thursday 3 Robert H. Steinmeyer. Invitations are Ollt, firm. The three highest scorers qualify. hut unheard from as yet, to William Ad­ If any decide not to attend tne Inter· Tournament is sponsored by the u. S. dison, Hans Berliner and Anthony Saidy. zonal, then the next highest scorer(s) Chess Federation and the American Chess William Lombardy cannot take time from take the place(s) thus left open. Foundation. CHESS REVIEW, OECEMBER, 1962 ( 355 Armed Forces Championship Two-State Gathering INDIANA In the 1962 Thomas Emery Armed In the First Annual Shoreman Open, In the 44 man Indiana Open, Charles T. Forces Chess Awards Tournament (see held at Avon Lake, Ohio, R. Kause of Weldon was a clear first with 5·0 and photo, page 355), Pfc. Roy D. Mallett Cleveland and R. Owens of Avon Lake Reinhard Allen was a clear second witii of the Fourth Armored Division (stationed made equal scores of 4-1, with first going 4%_%. Then came a triple tie at 4-1 by in Europe) topped the field with a score to Kause on a tie-breaking basis. Third Wendell J. Lutes, David 1. Biggs and of 8-1. The tournament held at the La­ and fourth, respectively, were T. Wozney Richard Ling. The following fh"e scored fayette Square usa Cluh in Washington, and R. Wenzel when tie-breaking point~ 3%-1% each: Thomas Lajcik, L. W. D. C. involved ten finalists: Navy Com· resolved their 3%-Ph stand·off. Twenty Brand, William E. Martz, William H. mander Eugene Sobszyk, Navy Captain players from Ohio and Illinois took part_ Wright Jr. and John S. Tyl~r. • C. D. Mott, Navy Lieutenant G. C. Gross, Marine Corps Sergeant W_ W. Clark, Air­ INTERSTATE MASSACHUSETTS men lst Class, R. C_ Bailey and R. W. An experimental all-in·one event, wlJich Walker, Airman 2d Class R. F. Sprague, Allies Too Strong combined the Massachusetts State Cham­ Pfc Laszlo Incze and P/E2 Harry Meyer_ Banding together against the Portland pionship with the First Annual Northeast­ The tournament made a strong and fa­ (Maine) Chess Club, a number of New ern Open, featnred the use of the New vorable impression on attending high of­ Hampshire chess clubs formed a team Haven pairing sy~tem and a novel entrv ficers, notably Vice Admiral Robert B. which scored a handsome 4%.1% victory fee approach. according to which an en­ Pirie, USN, Brig.; General Walter A. at Rochester, New Hampshire. George trant was required to pay an amount com. Jensen, USA, and Brig. Gen. Henry C. Bart, Brad Bowker, Fred Eschrich and mensurate with .his USCF rating. The Huglin, USAF, with recommendation for Paul Dumont entered full points for the result was a quintuple tie for first by further encouragement of chcss among winning side, while Charles Sharp on Gosteli, Freeman, Scheffer, Deston and the armed services. See also the story on second board accounted for Portland's Bloom, who are playing a round robin page 353 which was an outgrowth of lone success. On top board, James Tuttle among themselves to determine the cham­ interest aroused by this tournament. of New Hampshire held the redoubtable pionship. Harlow Daly to a draw. MICHIGAN REGIONAL DELAWARE Leon Stolzenberg of Detroit captured the Former Delaware champion Milton R_ Michigan Open with five victories and WozneyWins Paul, Pennsylvania 30-30 champion Man­ two draws, placing himself ahead of the Half a hundred competitors converged fred Zitzman and former Intercollegiate 65 player list with a clean-cut tally. Sec­ on the Penn-Sheraton Hotel in Pilt~burgh, and Pennsylvania speed champion Sanford ond to sixth at 5%-1% were D. Reynolds, Pennsylvania, to do battle for top honors Greene each notched 4-1 in the Delaware W. Burgar, D. Napoli, 1. Dreibergs and and a $100 first prize in the Third Annual Open. Another trio - Martin Paris, John K. Skema, who finished in the order men­ Gateway Open. When the results of the Yehl snd Joseph Viggiano - tied for tioned on tie.breaking analyses. fifth. and final Swiss round became known, fourth, fifth and sixth at 3-2. three players emerged with identical 4Y2- NEBRASKA Y2 scores. Tie_breaking gave first place to ILLINOIS As a resident of Lincoln. Anton Sildmets Thomas Wozney of Parma, Ohio, while A grueling eight round Swiss for the won the Nebraska State title at the same second and third went respectively to 1 Illinois Open title went to Robion Kirby time that he picked up the concurrently Theodorovitch and James Harkins. Wil­ with the fine showing of 7%.%, includ­ played Midwest Open Championship. His liam Bickham and Roger Johnson, each ing a last round victory over Paul Taut­ 5-1 score was half a point better than that 4.1, placed fourth and fifth respectively vaisas. Runner-up was John Turns, 6%­ posted by three former state champions. on tie-breaking totals_ The event was lY2, who nosed out K. Firfaroff with the Alexander Liepnieks, Howard Ohman and sponsored by the Pittsburgh Chess Club. same score on S.-B. points. In the 6-2 Jack Spence. There were 24 competitors. bracket were Edward Vano, Angelo San­ drin and Ed Formanek, who finished in NORTH CAROLINA Olympiad 1962 in Warna tbe order mentioned on tie-breaking. Sev­ The annual North Carolina Closed aU the 264 games at the final $1.80 enty-two players participated in the event, Championship, a 28 player affair, was No_ 3 of the Chess Digest series 1962. which was sponsored by the Gompers bagged by Jerry Fink of Duke University yearly subscription for this collection or Park Chess Club, Chicago Park District with. a score of Oliver HUlaH, tournament books $4_50 5%-%_ was runner up. Order from the Swiss Chess Agency, and the Illinois Chess Association. 5-1, WllJter KUflhnle- ·Woods, Werdstrasse 56, Zurich 4, Switzerland. Tragedy at Chess Review Abe Turner put long hours Into chess October 25, Abe Turner, an employee study and practice. He was a weak play­ er when out of the U.s. Navy ill the CHESSPLAYERS of a few weeks, and Theodore W. Smith, employed sIx months, left CHESS RE· '40's, but by assiduous effort he be­ Bored with dull endings? Enjoy a. slash_ came a strong master. Two days before ing attack? Plav fabulous JAPANESE VIEW at 2:50 PM. At 3:30, the build­ CHESS, the gsme In which captured men ing superintendent, following a trail of his death, he said his best perform­ come back to life!! blood, found a body in a large safe in ance was tourth in the strong U. S_ Open at Long Beach in 1955. But he tied Complete set, wooden board, Instruc­ the basement. It was Turner's. Appre­ ttons, with JAPANESE CHECKERS, for first just after at San Diego with only $6.00. The Supreme Oriental Stra­ hended late that night when he returned Blll Lombardy and James T. Sherwin. tegic game ot GO (wooden board. glass home, Smith led police to a hunting And It is more than of note that he stones, Instructions)---l5.50. IS Game Set knite burled In Central Park. Asked why OncludesGO)---fl1.00. FREE LIST ot placed second In the Manhattan Chess Chess, GO. Puzzle Books. he killed Turner, he replied: "The Club no less than five times when the CLASSIC GAMES, Dept. CR Secret Service told me to do It." He is club was the strongest in the country. 2481 DAVIDSON AVE., N. Y. 68, N_ Y. now under observation in Bellevue Hos­ He was also invited to play in a number Mall Orders Only. No C.O.D. pital. More than two hundred attended of the Rosenwald Tournaments before , the funeral for Abe Turner. and after they were U. S. Championships. 356 CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 19152 OREGON J ames McCormick, 5%;1;2, won the Ore­ gon Open ahead of J ohn Bell and Ken­ neth Grover, each 5-1. Fourth in the 31 player race was Gary Feuerberg, 4%.1%. PENNSYlVANIA In the 30-30 Open state title tourney, Manfred S. Zilzman emerged with a 6·0 sweep. Second was Dr. Bernard Winkler, 5-1. TENNESSEE Surprise winner of the Tennes~ee Open was Emanuel Tsitseklis of Knoxville, 5-1. Scores of 4Y2 -1Y2 were registered by the veteran Norman Whitaker and Jerry Sul­ livan, who placed second and third respec­ tively on tie-breaking totals. Buddy Shol' collected 2% points - remarkable in view of his eight years of age. Thirty players attended. WEST VIRGINIA With a tally of 5.1, Dr. Alex J. Darbes took charge in the slate championship, fol­ lowed by runner-up 10hn Scherer. 80th qualify for the coming Tri-State Tourna­ ment. This photograph is from the Fi rst Annual Shareman Open (see mo re under Regional Events), held at Av on Lak e, Ohio: (left to right) Richard Kause of Cle vela nd, Ohio, first place winner, L. W il am; Thomas Wozney of Parma, Ohio, who won t he LOCAL EVENTS Third Annual Gateway Open at Pittsburgh recently a nd placed t hi rd here; R. Owens, who placed second; W. Owens; D. Gordo n ; and R. We nze l of Chicago who garnered California. Watts What. a monthly publi­ the fourth pri ze after t ie-break wi th Wozney. cation put out for and by the employees of the United Transformer Corporation, features a chess column written and illus· trated by Harvey Stein. We glean from An Original Approach to Chess Strategy him that the UTC Class "8" tourney reo sulted in victory for Tony Garcia, g.l , and that a handicap tourney conducted by the PAWN POWER UTC Chess Club was won by J im Migli­ ore, whose efforts were rewarded with a IN year's subscription to CHESS REVIEW. Undefeated in six Swiss rounds, Bob hy HANS KMOCH Bliss posted a 5Y2 ~ Yz score to gain the Westchester Chess Club title. Bullockus UNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS of Pawn play are and Mathews scored 41j2-11/2 each, the nod F keys to chess strategy, govern the game by re_ for second going to the former on a tie· mote control. Basic relationships between P awns breaking basis. and pieces illustrate how each. can show to best advantage. Georgia. 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CHESS OLYMPICS There were a large number of 4-0 results, and not only by the Russians. Participation of teams from The Chess Olympics have great value, particularly Cyprus, Greece, Luxemburg, Tunisia, Turkey, Ireland from the standpoint of chess promotion and propa­ and Iran of course is the main factor which contrib­ ganda. As a measure of playing strength these tour· uled to such results. naments have less significance. It is now generally In the preliminary rounds, Russia won generally accepted that Russia is the strongest chess country, in a convincing manner, that is, by never less than a and the team strength of other countries is so well solid 3-1. known that prediction as to the pal1icipants in the The following game is from one of the preliminary final round can be made with great accuracy. rounds.

SICILIAN DEFENSE Taimanov Variation Boris Spasski K. Oarga Soviet Union West Germany White Black 1 P-K4 P-QB4 3 P-Q4 P.P 2 N-KB3 N- QB3 4 NxP P-K3 5 N-Q63 Q-B2

Position after 7 ••• P_QN4 Position after 12 •.• N·B5

wins (11 ... PxB 12 Q-R5t). With 8 ... Now the storm breaks. The point is PxN. however. Black could have avoided that 13 .. ' PxP is refuted by 14 N/ 4xNP! a I I that (Gligorich-Darga. Serajevo PxN 15 NxP together wit h 16 BxB and 1962). 17 QxN. 8 _ ... B-N2 13 . • . NxB 9 P- B4 . . . . 14 QxN pxP It is often important for White to Here, too. the answer to 14 ••. N- Q2 delay castling in order to increase his t urns on 15 PxP, BxP 16 N/4xNP! The Taimanov Variation has several influence on the center first. 15 PxP N-Q2 objectives of limited s cope: Quick devel· 9 . . . . N_B3 15 ... N-Q4 16 NxN. BxN 17 BxB, PxB opmtnt of the Queenslde. retention of 18 P - K6! Is hardly worth Black's con· the open diagonal for the King Bishop Black aims. on 10 P - K5, at 10 . . . NxN followed by 11 ... N-Q4. slderlng. (to play ... B-QN5 in due time 01'. after a NxN, to play ... B- QD4) and finally 10 B- 83 .... 16 Bx6 QxB the possibility of a KlngsJde attack with Kow indeed 11 P- K5 is an unpleasant 17 Q-B4! N-N3 .. KN-N5 and . . . B- Q3. threat for Black to consider. 17 ... N- B4 is certainly no better. In 6 B-K3 10 . . . . P-Q3 fact. Black wants to reserve that square • • • • for his Bishop. In a game, Fischer- Tahl, Bled. 1951. 11 0-0 N-QR4 there occUl'l'ed 6 P- KN3. N- B3? 7 N/4- Black ought to have continued Quietly N5, Q- Nl 8 B-KB4! with a great advan· with his development. 11 ... B- K2 is In· , tage for 'Vhite. dicated. The text move is tempting. but 6 • . . . P-QR3 is refuted in a neat and convincing 7 P-QR3 P-QN4 manner. 12 Q-K2 N-B5 (See diagram, top of next column) Black plays consistently. But 12 ... 8 B-K2 • • • • B- K2 nonetheless is better. relatively Taimanov experienced an m:pleasant speaking. White then continues 13 QR­ surprise in his game with Bronstein Ql and. on a later ... N-B5. B-Bl. with (Moscow 1961): 8 NxN, QxN 9 D-K2. D­ the better game. B41 10 B-Q4 ! P-B3 11 BxNF! and White (See diagram, top Qf next column) i =: check; t = dbl. check: § = dis. ch. 13 P-K5! • • • • 18 QR-Q1 • • • • 360 CHES5 REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1962 This III a !tue. quiet move. It prac· tically preventll 18 ... B- B4. for there then follows 19 N- K4. BxNt 20 RxD. 0-0 21 N- B6t! Theil , on 21 .. . PxN. White does not continue 22 PxP 0 11 account of 22 ... K-Rl 23 Q-R6, R-KN1! wi th threat of mate. Indead, he plays 22 QxP!, KR-Ql 23 R- KNH, K-Bl 2-l Q­ R8t , K-K2 25 Rxpt !! etc. 18 .... N-R5 19 Nx N "Pursuit of an Unattainable P e rfection" 20 K-R1! , . . . What is so rare as the perfect game? Here ut Ventnor City 1941 is This is the final pl'ellaration betol'e the decis ive attack. one that reaches for the hOllor. A minimal opening initiative i5 enhanced 20 • ... B-B4 within the strategic concept of the debut and cullllinntes in the succe5sful 20 ... n - Ql 15 answered strongly lJy di scha rge of n combination - nil part and parcel of the original idea. 21 1'\"-83. Save for a slight improvement on White's 16th tUl'll, thi s game is perfect. Albert Pinkus, a fine player in his heyday, defeats Robert Durkin in thi s French Defense which begins with 1 P- K4, P-K3 2 P- Q4, P-Q43i\- QB3. Covel' scOl"in g table at line indicated. Set up position, make Blnck's next move (exposing table just enough to read it). Now guess Wh ite's 4th move, then expose it. Score par, if move agrees; zero, if not. :r\'Jake move actually given, Black's reply. Then guess White's nex t, and so on. COVER WHITE MOVES IN TABLE BELOW. EXPOSE ONE LINE AT A TIME White Par Black Your 8election Your Played SCOI'. Played for Whlte'e move Score 3 ..•. PxP ...... 4 NIIP ...... 4 4 . ... N-Q2 ...... 21 Nx P ! • • • • 5 KN-B3 ...... • 4 5 .... KN-B3 · ...... The logical COI\!~eq u e lic e or the preced· 6B-Q3 ...... • ...... 4 6 . .. . P-QN3 (a) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • · ...... ing moves. 7 B_KN5 ...... 4 7 .... B-N2 · ...... 21 . . . . P,N 8Q-K2 ...... •...... 4 8 .... B-K2 · ...... 22 QII Pt Q-N4 9 BxN ...... 4 9 .... NxB • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ...... An important altemILtlve here Is 22 100-0 ...... 4 10 .... 0-0 · ...... · ...... K-K2 23 Q-R4t. K-Kl 24 Q-KN4. 11 P-B4 ...... •...... 5 11 .... Q-B1 · ...... · ...... R-KBl (2·\ .. . Q- K2??' 25 Q-RH) 25 12 QR-Q1 ...... •...... 4 12 .... R-Q1 · ...... · ...... QxKPt, B-K2 26 RxRt, KxR 27 R- Q7. 13 N- N3 ...... 4 13 .... B-B1 (b) · ...... 23 Q_K N4 Q-B3 14 N-K5 ...... 4 14 .... P_B4 · ...... Or 23 ... It- KDl 24 QxPt, B-K2 25 15 N- R5 ...... 6 15 ...• N-K1 (c) · ...... 16 .. . . P-N3 RxRt. KxR 26 P- B4! and 26 . .. Q- N2 16 N-B4 (d) ...... 4 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ...... 27 R- Q7 etc. or 26 ... Q-B4 27 R- Btt. 17 PxP ...... 4 17 .... QxP (e) · ...... K-Kl 28 Q-N8t. B- Bl !9 Q-Bit elc. 18 Nx BP ...... 6 18 .... KilN- · ...... · ...... 19 BxPt ...... 7 19 ...• PxB · ...... · ...... 24 QxNP R-KB1 . . . 20 QIIPt ...... •...... 4 20 ...• K-N2 · ...... 25 B,R RxRt 21 QIIPt ...... •...... 4 21 ...• K-R1 · ...... 26 QxP . • • • • 22 Q- B7 ...... •...... 6 22 ... . B-K5 · . . . . . , ...... All very sedate. 23RxR ...... 4 23 .... RxR · ...... 26 . . . . R-B1 24 N-KS ...... 5 24 .... N-Q3 (f) · ...... 25 Q- B6t ...... 5 25 ... . Resigns · ......

Total Score ...... 100 YOUI' Percentage ......

SCALE: 75-100-Excellent; 55-74-Superlor; 40.54 GOOd ; 25-39_Fair

N OTES TO TH E C.u n: a) Better is 6 ... NxN 7 Bx N, N-B3 8 Potilion after 37 ... KilN B-Q3, P-B4 9 PxP, BxP 10 0-0, 0-0 Ii B- KN5, P-QN3 12 Q-K2, B-N2. Il) The Queen Pawn is safe: 13 ... BxN H QxB, RxP? 15 BxPt and 16 RxR. c) 15 ... NxN fails against 16 BxPt, KxB 27 Q- N6t Resigns 17 QxNt, K-Rl 18 QxPt, K- Rl 19 R- Q3 a~ 27 ... K- K2 Is met by 28 R-Qli. mate soon follows. d ) 16 BxPt, KxB 17 NxBP secures materiul advantage or a winning anack. e) Correet is 17 ... PxP, leaving White a minimal advantage. f) A blunder - but White wins anyway on 24 ... Q-K2 25 NxR. He has too many Pawns. t = check; , = double c heek; t = die. cheek CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER. 1962 361 Up-eo-date opening analysis by DR. MAX EUWE by an outstanding awhority_ Former World Champion

KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE stances, the apparently powerful center proved to be very vulnerable and, as SO often has happened in the Four Pawns Variation theory of the openings, the verdict went against this When tJl e King's Indian was first introduced into line, and the Four Pawns Variation nearly disappeared practical play ahout forty years ago, it was accepted from practical play. only with grea t hesitation. Most players did not trust In the last ten years, however, it seems that some this defense since White is able to build up a broad sort of equilibrium has been established. The Four center wall. For that reason, the Gruenfeld Indian Pawns Variation, it has been realized, can be danger. Defense, discovered one or two years later, rapidly ous for both sides : for White, if Black succeeds in became poplilar, for it prevented the huilding up of shooting holes in the White bulwark; for Black, if that Pawn center. Yet, indeed, practical play in the White succeeds in maintaining superiority in the cen­ following years disclosed that Lasker's dictum: " At ter. In recent days, the most fa vorable continuation least one Pawn in the center but preferably not more for White proves to be the foJlowing line. In it White than two" wa s applicable also to the Four Pawns Vari­ maintains the tension in the center-which in general ation of the King's Indian. Under certain circum· means good strategy in the opening.

It is remarkable that reaching the Neither S . . . P- B4 (on account of 6 For a long time, this sham sacrifice intended positlon Is a matter of chang· PxP) nor S ... P- K4 (on account of 6 was considered the simplest way to ing the usual orde)' or moves In the fi rst PxP, PxP 7 QxQt, KxQ 8 P- B4) looks equality. Recent analyses, however, shOw stage. a ttractive for Black. that things are not easy at all. White Black 6 P- B4! · . . . 10 BxN BxN 1 P _Q4 N-KB3 This advance ia now rull y justified 10 ... BxB loses in view of 11 NxN ! 2 P-QB4 P-KN3 as the continuation will show. (11 ... Q- Q2 12 Nxpt). 11 ... NxN 3 N- Q83 8-N2 6 . . . . P_B4 leads to Variation II. 11 QBxB BxB With 3 ... P-Q4 the Gruenfeld Indian 7 N-K83 • • • • arises, with its own problems as to the White is ahle to maintain the tension. 12 QxB ...• center, its typical pro's and con's. [\Ve p,p 12 Q-Q2 was the popular line un tIl 7 . . . . Uhlmann demonstrated that 12 ... NxB call this the Gruenfeld Defense, simpl y, 8 NxP N_B3 13 QxN. P-K4! 14 PxP, Q-RSt glve8 though of course aware it Is one or the 9 8-K3! • • • • Indian systems of defense.-Ed.]* Black full equality : e.g. 15 P-N3, PxP 16 QxKP, Q-R6 17 N- Q5, P-B3. 4 P_K4 P-Q3 To be considered still Is Hans Muel· ler's Improvement 14 Q- B2, instead or 14 PxP. 12 . . . . NxB

The difference here trom that position arrived at in the variation mentioned as 5 B-K2! . . . . the alternative at White's move 5 Is ob­ vi ous. White's KN4 Is under hili control. Only with this move is White able Black is not precluded rrom 9 . . . N­ s uccessrull y to maintain the tension in KN5: but tbls move occurs under dif­ tbe center. Arter 5 P- KB4, P-B4 6 N- B3, 13 Q-Q1! • . .. ferent circumstances. Black can obtai n a quite satisfactory po· 13 0-0-0 is less solid. Arter 13 .. . Black now has a. three·way choice. sitlon by 6 ... PxP 1 NxP, N- B3 8 P-K4 14 P-KR4, Q- Bl! Black gets B-K3, N-KN5 or 8 N-B2, N-Q2! counterebances. Variation I. The t ext, Fischer's idea, led to a com· 5 . . . . 0-0 plete success for White in the game. t :::: check ; : :::: d b!. check; ; :::: 41s. ch. 9 • • • . N-KN5 Pomar-Geller, Stockholm 1962. 362 CHUS IttVI!W, DECEM8ER , 19U 13 , , . . N_ B3 This move lead s to s imila r positions Variation III. 13 ... P-K ~ 14 0--0, followed by 15 as In Varia tion I if Wh ite choose s the right line, (CDn t inue from . e ~o n d d iag ra m ) N-Q5 ope ns very good attacking pros· 9 . . . N-Q2 pects for White. This Quiet mOl'e Is probably Black's 140-0 • • • • best cha nce. H e prepares . . . Q- N3 Now, beca\l Se of the a bsence of the w hic h ha s not m uch effe ct if played Black King Bishop, tbe move .. . P-KN3 Immediatel)': e.g. 9 ... Q- ::\3 10 N- 8 2, re pres ents a serious weakll esB. ' Vblte's Qx P?? 11 :-'-- R4 etc. or 10 ... Q- R4 11 a ttacking ch an ces are subs tantial n ot· 0 - 0, N- Q2 12 B- Q2 ! (l' h lmann contln· wltbs tandlng the reduced materia l, as ues : 12 .. . Q- K3t 13 K- Rl. N- B4 14 w11l be seen. P- QN4 ! N-K3 1;; P - K B5, :-'-JK3- Q5 16 14 . • . , Q-R4 N -Q5, Q-Ql 17 QB- B3. KxB 18 BlO B, 15 K-R1 Q- N5 KxB 19 QxN e t c'> , He re Kotov recomm ende 15 . . , QR- Ql and 16 , , , P - K3, E ven then, however, White's position 18 preferable, 16 Q-K2 N- R4 10 8 xB! . , , , 17 N-QS! ' ' .. Other con tinua tioDS do not otter much : I W hite won the game cited (Pomsr­ A) 10 NxN, BxB 11 NxQ, DlOQ and Gen e r) In a convincing ma nner, I) 12 NlONP, B-B7 (12 . , . B-NS 13 N-R5, 17 ••• , QxBP 20 P_BS! NxN OR- Nl a lso is s trong), and Black re­ 18 NxPt K_N2 21 P-B6t K- R1 gains his P awn with a good »Osltlon ; 19 Q-Q2 N_BS 22 Q_R6! R- KNI iI) 12 RxB, KR xN 13 K- K 2. KR- Bl 14 P­ 23 R_B3 ! , , . ' QN S, P - QN4! (a Quiet move s uch as 14 . . , K- Bl or 14 . . . P-QR3 may run Black In to trouble! ) 15 NxP, N xP 16 BxP , N­ B6t 17 NxN, BxN, and the ~ptu r e of 10 Q-Q.2 ! the sacrificed P a wn is guaranteed; Atter 10 0-0, the attack 10 Q- N3 B) 10 N- B3, P- K4! 11 PxP, PxP 12 Is very effective: 0-0, Q- R4 13 P- QRS, QR- Ql 14 N-Q5, I) 11 N-Q5, BlON! and Dlack g et! three NlON 15 B PxN (15 KP.xN, P- K 5!), BxN pieces for the Queen ; 16 BlOB , N~ Q5 with equality. Ii) 11 N-B ~, QxP 12 K-R4, Q- B3 and 10 • . . , NxB Black's Queen escapes safely; 11 QxN NxN iii) 11 P- K 5, PlOP 12 N-B5, Q- R4 13 11 ... BxN leads to Varia tion l NxB, K lON, and it Is doubtful It White 12 Q-Q1 ! , . . , has sufficient compensation for the Pawn Eveu with Blac k's K ing Bishop on t he s acrinced (14 P- KB5, N-B3). 23 .. .. P_KN4 26 P_KS p_Q4 board, this retreat Is very strong, 10 , • • • N_B4 24 Px N QR_K1 27 P_K6! PxP 11 0-0 Q-R4 25 Q- B6 t R_N2 28 Q_KS! Q_S1 12 QR-Q1 N-K3 29 R_B7 Re s igns I t Is dJftJcult (or Black ,. find a good plan. 13 N-N3 . xN Variation II. T he only cons equence ., Black's stra· (Continua from second diagram ) tegy. 9 . . , • B-NS 14 P x B Q-R61 Preferable here Is 1-1. • . . Q- D2 to employ tile Queen in deCense of the King· side later. • Openl ng Nom e n c l a t u~ Euwe's reference to "Oruenfeld India n" 15 P_KB5 N- B4 remind" U$ thlll the namea 01 openlnga 16 NxN PxN a re t ar from atllndardlzed and the main 12: . , • • N-B3 lints ot uiJ"- ie very tar from consistent.. After 12 , .. P - K 4, Wllite continue s 13 LIKe the En;;llsh language, the d e,pa l r of student, (e,II' , "though," " through," 0 - 0 and keeps a ll trumps in ha.nd (N­ "bough" and even "hiccough" ), the Idlo· Q5 and BlON ). s y ncra'lies of openllli\: nomencla.m re a re e:oc: · 13 R....QB1 Q-R4 luperatlng fo r thQ.Be who wan t to learn eaall y but Caseinn.tlng for thOlle who delig h t 140-0 QR_B1 In et)' mologlcal color. Black's possibilities a re considerably The India n . y,tems can b e keyed to the res tricted because White h as a firm hold hy permodern bren k a way from the cla. s~lca l ~ply to the Queen's Gamb l ~ (l p. Q~ , J>. on t he center. HIs Q4 especially rema ins Q4 Z P -QB4. P · K!). They looked fil"l!lt to out of Black's power. a. poop ible tlllnc heno (Ins tead of . . . p . 15 P-QR3! KR-K1 K3), but (1.1$0 to II. ratl lcal break In the centf! r. I n tho Gruenfeld •. , . P - Q~ comes Thes e m oves are from T an- La ngeweg In In the latter guise: In the Budapc8t from t he recent IBM Tourna ment In Am· . . . P.K ~ doe. , ILnd with no fianchetto! So. In the cnd, 1 . . . N- K B3 Is (he one hall­ ste rdam. White has a s t rong a ttack, and DJack's m.tt.rk left for t he India n .yatem!! (cf. the 16 R-KB2 N_N1? superio r Pawn structu re Is not a su f· Bogolyu bov Deteni!

CMUS REVIEW , DECEMBER , 1962 363 By WALTER KORN

THE FRUSTRATING DEADLOCK resemble the shrill cry of the Kiebitz). And such strange expressions as "Rapid Transit" and "Blitz" Chess terms and pieces have been a feltilizer for many a thought and design not directly connected with entered chess from outside associations. the game itself. Chessmen serve as frequent patterns There is, however, a word most widely understood in art, in both interior and exterior decoration. And and used by the chessplaying community and yet, pur­ many chess terms, that of our present subject, "stale· portedly of only recent origin. It is "Patzer," a some­ mate," and of course "checkmate" have become a palt what milder and more tolerant synonym for "duffer." of common usage. This writer could not find (or perhaps did not bother There are also colloquial terms, which originated to do enough research on) a possible etymological ori­ in or were propagated by chessplay but have found gin of the word. * Therefore, he is prepared - at wider acceptance - and even vice ver.~a. The plover, least for the sake of the anecdote! - to accept the nar­ called Kiebitz in German, has come into popular use rative in Richter's "Kombinationen" as to the occasion in chess (though reputedly first employed by bridge on which the word was invented. The reader will find players) as onlooking, well-meaning but often resented the anecdote as the first item below; he mayor may "Kibitzer" (his irritating, dissenting voice is thought to not go along with its authenticity. Pat Sir! - Patzer! trap is not pleasant, and it often creates During the tonl'llament at St. Peters­ a derisive effect in the onlooker. When burg (with the present emphasis on White played his last move, he is said etymology, it is just as well to point out to have remarked to Atkins with some this is now Leningrad) in 1902, the fol­ satisfaction: "Patt, sir," and this, con­ lowing position was reached between tracted into "Patzer," has since become Bal'tolich and the strong BE'iUsh master a hy-wol'd. Atkins, Tbe latter reached a won posi­ tion and then overlooked the gatheling A Corresponding Correspondence cloud of a stalemate swindle, By way of interplay of Knight and Rook or Knight and Queen, we may eas­ ily discover a few more surprises. The followiug position occlIlTed in a cOI"l"espondence game, Enigk (Axien)­ It seems that Iceland's freezing all" Elfel (Lamenz) in 1957. does not deaden but rather stimulates chesslc pel·ceptiveness (judging from the outstanding contributions to chess by that country's contingent of players). So Black here played 1 N-N6 and won. in­ stead ot making the mistake of pushing 1 ... P-B7. After the latter move, 2 RxPt, KxR Is stalemate.

To comprehend this tale, the reader The Right Giveaway is advised that one European word for draw is patt. In this POSitiOll, again, his own King's immobility is tlle giveaway. Black sees 1 . . . . P-A5? the point for a Knight giveaway. Black pushes to win the pinned Knight and inc\lrs the sorry seque!. Black's last move had been 1 ... R- B1, and that gave \Vhite his chance. 2 Q-B6t K-N1 3 Q- N7t! K,Q 2 R-AS RxA 4 P-A6t There's no escape: 2 ... R-B1 Ollly And of course White is stalemated. loses to 3 Q-R2t now. As so often in the previous article, here 3 Q-A2t AxQ again the Rook is the piece directly Stalemate responsible for the immobility of the White !{jng. Pawn for Queen \Vell, for one to have a win escape A stalemate with a single Pawn taking his grasp and to fall into a stalemate the place of the Queen could have oc­ • We do not consider Patzer milder than cmred in Johansson-Briem, Reykjavik duffer. and we recommend to the reader 1958. Dr. \"eissenstein's e t ~'mological study, page This position is from Karaksoni_Kor_ ll1. CHr~ss REVI!!:W, April 196I.-Ed, t = eh~k: : = db!. check; § = dis. eh. bely-, Oradea (Roumania) 1948. 364 CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1962 1 . . . . N-B5t King Sandwiches 2 PxN • • • • 'Ye now move forward to positions 01' 2 K-B3. Q-K7t 3 KxN. Q-B6t 4 in which the King Is sandwiched in KxQ Stalemate. between Pawns in such a manner that 2 . . . • QxBPt 4 K-N4 Q-R6t a stalemate is caused by the blockading 3 K-R3 QxPt 5 KxQ Stalemate Pawns.

The Saving Stall A more persistent ('hain re-action was required in the gUIDe. Ormos-Boltoczkl. BurlapeRt 1951,

The above constellation has made its way through many textbooks and maga­ zines. It is from Tchelebi (of Lebanon) vs Reilly (of Ireland) in t he Team Tour­ nament, Munich 1958. Confronted with No.1 Prokes fighting a losing battle against Reilly White to move and win Blad;: is not only Pawns down but also (the able editor of tile British Chess helpless against the threat of R-R7 mate Magazine), Tchelebi finds refuge in what (If 1 . . . R-KRI. 'Vhite has 2 Q-Q7). Hans Kmoch would call a stalemate Bnt he finds the saving "stall." twist. 1 . . . . R-NSt 3 KxR N- NSt 1 R-BSt K_N2 2 K-R2 R-Rat 4 PxN QxPt 2 R-NSt K,R 5 KxQ Stalemate 3 Q-BSt And stalemate is forced. The difficulty is that rather heavy armature, a Pawn, Spare Queens a Queen and a Rook and 'Vhite's Call· Another longish string of sacl"ifices strictive Pawn all contribute in a some­ was necessary to wind up the stalemate what topheavy way to stalemate the mechanism in Rovner-Guldin. Moscow lonely King on the border file. 1939. By now the reader has seen so Therefore it might be useful to add Checks must be respected. many facets of the stalling ploy that the llitherto unmentioned variants. he ought to sense the solution here at 1 R-B8t, K-N2 2 R-N8t, K-R3 and No.2 Kuznecov and Saharov once. the following: White to move and win a) 3 Q-B4i, P-N4t 4 QxPt, QxQt 5 RxQ whereupon follows the very neat and economical stalemate by 5 ... RxR or else the very complicated alternative: 5 ... R- Q8 6 RxP. RxP 7 R-Q6t, K-N2 8 R- Q7f etc. b) 3 Q-R5t, PxQ 4 RxQ and similarly there follows either -4 ••• RxR Stale­ mate 01' else the alternative -4 ... R-Q8 5 R- N5, RxP 6 RxPt, K-N3 7 RxP. It does seem that it was worthwhile for Black to try either of the complicated alternatives even allowing that in the enormous pressure of time limit and With the heavy weight of matelial on crowded rounds of the team tournament Azi Ganda Zag-he's in the bag. the board, it seems "immatelial" that such energy might be wasteful. White is an Exchange down. What Is No.3 V. Halberstadt truly relevant, however, is that he White to move and draw Tllel'e is a close relationship between faces the threat of 1 ... RxNt 2 PxR, the foregoing and this position brought Q-RS mate, and the alternative 1 QxQ about in Heinze-Kruschwitz, Gruenbach Is tabu because of 1 ... Q-B4t and 1951. mate next. Also, ' ...·hite's Queens are almost entirely out of action. That last iR White's clue: he proceeds to give up his Queens. 1 Q-N8t K,Q 2 Q-KSt K-R2 2 .. . K-N23 Q-RSi definitely forces the issue. 3 Q-NSt K-R3 4 Q-R7t K_N4 5 Q-R6t K,Q The pin is as mighty a s the piece. The Stalemate can clearly no longer be avoided. Solutions on page 366. CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1962 365 Black was allowed a spectacular end­ play after 1 P-N7! '(1 PxPt would have secured the win). YOU ARE IN 1 P-N7? P-N6t 2 QxP • • • • ZUGZWANG1 Of course this move is forced. 2 ... if you do not know the give. K-R1?? runs into mate. But what now? and·take of chess strategy.... 2 . . . • Q-NSt! What, for example, is the value This stalemate somehow takes the eye. of center control? Or how weak is an isolated Pawn 1i:. ' or a Somewhat different, yet of the same 1 specie and genre is the final curtain in doubled Pawn .t ? How Giertz-Guuther, correspoudence, Ger· The position is a losing one for Israil­ many 1943. ovich against Glnsberger (White) again strong is an outpost Knight 4J at Bucharest, this time in 1939. To avoid mate, Israilovich moved 1 ... Q-B4, and or a salient he lost the Queen after 2 Q- R7t, K-Bl iii.'" 3 P- N7t. Instead at this tragedy, he reverse salient ? could have secured the demi-triumph of 111 stalemate by 1 ... B-B3! '(pinning the Or the more than thirty char· Queen and so ducking tl1e possibility of acteristic features of Pawn and 2 Q-B7t and 3 Q-R7 mate) 2 QxB, Q­ Piece structures? Elt 3 K-K7, Q- Klt etc. • • • if you are constantly in a muddle as to what to do, and After viewing the foregoing, we need your play is planless, pointless­ no longer hold our breath as we see plain shiftless, Keres draw his critical game with Spass­ Then you need POINT COUNT ky during the 1951 USSR Championship. 1 • . . . K-R1 CHESS by I. A. Horowitz and In this happy position, Black needs Geoffrey Matt - Smith. These only to avoid the nuisance check of 1 two champions have collaborated ... K-Nl 2 QxQPt, he thinks. But his to bring you an entirely new, unsuspecting confideuce is rudely shaken. simple approach to the ever·re­ 2 R-B8f! RxR curring problems of chess strate­ 3 QxPt KxQ gy. They have defined, described Black cau junk all his material advan­ and appraised via a POINT tage includiug the new Queen never-now­ COUNT all the effective, stra­ to·be: White is stalemated. tegic ideas of the great masters. When you have read this book, Israilovich figured on the unhappy side you will no longer treat an iso­ ot stalemate in two different ways. The lated Pawn .t merely as ml first we offer is from the Roumanian Keres as Black does not risk a loss unimportant detail or hanging Championship at Bucharest 1953 with by playing 1 ... RxRP 2 QxPt, Q- N4o 3 Pawns 1111 with a bored Rusenescu as White. R-Q4t, K-N6 4 Q-Q3t, K-B7 5 Q- B3t, K ­ KS 6 R-Ql; or 1 ... Qx:P 2 QxPt, K-B5 "lot 'em hang." You will see 3 R-Q4t, K- K6 4 Q-Q3t, K-B7 5 R-B4t, these as plans, plans to inflict K-KS 6 R-Bl mate. Instead, he turns weaknesses on your opponent in a stalemate flnale. and to avoid for yourself. Simi· 1 • • • . R-R8 3 RxR QxRt larly, you will aee all structures 2 Qxpt K-R5 4 K_R2 Q-R8t as plans, and you, YQurself. will 5 KxQ Stalemate be able to evaluate them. You will learn when to accept weak· Sohdions to nesses, when not to. CHESSBOARD MAGIC! In short, by counting the plus No.1 The winning idea is best illus­ and minus points involved in trated by 1 P-K7, P- Q6 (this move is every move, you will become an slightly belter for Black as 1 ... P-B6 expert trader. an expert chess Black pressed on with 1 ... P-B6 as and similar play leaves White's King player. And you can see how he obviously had an overwhelming game. centralized) 2 hP, P-B6 3 K-BS! P-B7 the masters have done so in But White made the valiant response of 4 P- KS(Q), P-BS(Q)t 5 Q-B7t, QxQ 6 many, complete, illustrative 2 Q-B6 (threatening mate by 3 P- N5). KxQ, K-B3 7 K- Q6 etc. games. Your move is to get your To this, Black replied 2 ... Q-N5, pin­ No. 2 White will win if he keeps both copy of Point Count Chess, ning White's Pawn and protecting his minor pieces. Of many interesting vari­ today. 340 pages ...... $4.95 own with apparent security. And the ations this is the most illustrative: 1 bomb fell with 3 Q-B4t! At first sight, R-N5t, K-Q5 (1 ... K- B3? 2 B-N7t or this resembles the collegiate type of 1 ... K- Q3? 2 R-N6t & 3 RxP) 2 R­ swindle (3 ... K moves 4 QxQJ. But Q5t! K- K6 3 R-Q3t, K-B7 4 R-B3t, K­ here White actually eJ:pects 3 ... QxQ N8 5 R-Elt, K-R7 6 R- RSt, K- N6 7 RxP. for it is stalemate! tenns, from No.3 The draw is 1 P-R7, R- Bl 2 B­ "Zwischen· The tantalizing counterpart of Israilo­ &re descrIbed in vich's misfortune was that he had the Bl. N- B3t{else 3 B-N7t etc.) 3 K-N5. work. same sort of chance himself seven years NxP 4 K-N6, N-B3 5 B-R6. R-Nlt 6 K­ ORDER FROM later - and missed it. B7, R-QR1 7 B-N7, R- R6 S K- N6, and CHESS REVIEW Black can only shuttle his Rook or else 134 Weat 72nd St., N.Y. 23, N.Y. t = check; : = dhl. check; § = dis. ch. has Rook versus Bishop draw.

366 CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1962 ND NOW VIDMAR

By HANS KMOCH Weiss, an employee of Rothschild's hank. ing firm, better known as co·winner of the New York 1889 tournament. Maroc­ The bell has tolled for another prominent old-timer, actually the zy from Bndapest and Duras from Prague last survivor of those famous masters who were of Austro-Hungarian sometimes showed up, and frequently so origin and had started their careers before the monarchy had fallen did celebrities from abroad. Just before apart. Professor Dr. Milan Vidmar, aged 77, has died. Only a short the monarchy collapsed, two remarkable time ago he was reported to be in perfect shape, full of vigor. Apparently, hoys had been stirring attention, a certain Breyer and a leg invalid by the his smooth life has smoothly come to an end. name of Gruenfeld. Among such experts, and under the eyes of such famous spon· Chessrnaster Vidmar had two things in known in chess as composer of end· sors as Baron Albert von Rothschild and common with Morphy; one was his birth. games with solutions running into hun· Leopold Trebitsch, Vidmar proceeded to day of June 22nd; the other his playing dreds of moves. mastership in chess. chess only for pleasure. For the rest, the Scientist Vidmar acquired fame. Hav. two men were entirely different. He proceeded fast. Before long, he was ing settled in Laibach, he hecame profes· considered the coming man to break the Vidmar was born in 1885, a year after sor and at one time rector magnificus at reign of the Duras-Maroczy-Schlechter Morphy had died. He was horn in Lai­ the university there. In addition, big pro. triumvirate. In the tournament at Prague hach, then capital of the Austrian prov­ ducers of electrical equipment in several 1908, where Duras and Schlechter tied ince of Krain. Today, Laibach is the cap­ European countries became his customers for first and second, Vidmar finished ital of the Yugoslav state of Slovenia of often inviting him for consultation. third, well ahead of Maroczy. Still more which one of Vidmar's brothers is (or at His private life was a happy one, too. remarkable was his success in the San least was) President. The official, Slo· Married twice, Vidmar had two sets of Sebastian Tournament of 1911. Vidmar vene name of the place is Ljubljana - children distinguishable by a consider· doubted that he wonld have the time tl) such a hard one for English readers that able difference in their ages. When he participate, hut at the very last moment we prefer to use the German Laibach. became grandfather in the male line, his he put 200 Crowns in his pocket and went. Laibach is, next to Pittsburgh, Penn· father was in the nineties. They all were Europe required no passports in those sylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio, the largest Milan Vidmars, four generations of them. days, except for Russia. The tournament Slovene settlement in the world. It is a Good stock. Milan the professor could was won by Capablanca, but Vidmar tied charming place in wine·growing country, afford constant horizontal expansion for for second and third with Rubinstein. with wine.loving people; there is gemuet· the last thirty years of his life, feeling thereby obtaining the reputation of grand­ lichkeit, and there are beautiful alpine well in spite of monstrous proportions. master, which then was a new distinction, surroundings. As a specialty, the hill· He liked food and cigarettes hut cared not official. tops around Laibach are adorned with at little for drinks. But this is as high as Vidmar ever • least one Catholic church each. Vidmar managed to stay unshaken came 10 a great tournament. Vidmar studied in Vienna which be· when furious political waves were raging With the fall of the Austro.Hungarian came his second home - easily so be· around him. He was held in esteem in monarchy, Vienna's chess life died down, cause Vienna is just a large Laibach Imperial Austria and Royal Yugoslavia and Vidmar settled in Laibach_ From then while Laibach may be called a little Vi· alike. During World War Two, the in· on, he had much less regular contact with enna. The two places have much in com· vading Nazis as well as the Italian fas· top players and suffered increasingly mon, even as far as the language is con· cists who occupied Slovenia left him alone. from lack of both practice and news on cerned, in that broken German has always The Tito regime pampered him, and the openings. He still had some oubtanding been spoken a lot in Laibach, too. But more communist Dommunists had nothing successes; most remarkable are the third Vidmar's Gennan was perfect to the last against him. They all respected him for prizes he took in London 1922 (Capa. finesses; it had the Viennese flavor that his reputation in both science and chess. blanca first, Alekhine second ) and Sem· befits the thoroughly vindobonized man Vidmar loved chess very much, hut he mering 1926 (Spielmann first, Alekhine he became, although still remaining a never allowed it to interfere with his reg· second) . good Slovene. ular occupation; he played it for fun. On In 1927, Vidmar made his first and He was a good.looking man of medium the other hand, when invited to a tourna· only appearance in the United States height, blond. fair, extremely intelligent ment, he would never underbid profes. participating in the New York 5exlangu· and sharp·witted. with a merciless tongue sional masters. lar tournament of wbich these were the and a strong sense of humor, preferably The Austro-Hungarian monarchy has final scores: Capablanca 14-6, Al ekhine Jewish, although actually he was very produced many a great player; think only 11%.8%, Nimzovich 1 0% . 9~ , Vidmar definitely gentile. He was energetic and of Steinitz. There was a lot of chess ac· 10.10, Spielmann 8·12, :\[anhall 6-1<1. realistic, unexcitable as a rock and, for tivity in Budapest, Prague and other Vidmar won only three games- not much all his jovial appearance, emanating places, but Vienna naturally had the most for the very shrewd player he was. But strong authority every inch. of it. In Vidmar's time young talents like taken into consideration that he also was Unlike Morphy, Vidmar had to make a PerIis, Reti, Spielmann, Tartakower and one of the godfathers of the so·called living for himself, and he made it well as he himself met daily either at the famous grandmaster draw, which began to in­ a scientist, never hunting fortune but se· Wiener Schachklub or at the Cafe Central, vade tournaments around 1910, his per­ curing a comfortable life almost from the just two blocks away. Schlechter, Marco formance in :;\ew York was fair, particu­ start. He studied technology, more specifi. and Heinrich Wolf were also around, and larly if compared with the achievements cally electrical engineering, and became often such distinguished veterans as Albin, of Spielmann and :\[arshall who, for all an expert on transformers. One of his Professor Berger from Graz, the father of their more enterprising styles, had scored teachers was the Hungarian Blathy, all literature on end.games, and J\Iax only one win each-one out of twenty CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1961 367 The Trapper This game from Semmering 1926 gives idea of how dangerous Vidmar could '"b, when apparently outplayed. BOGOLYUBOV DEFENSE Vidmar Nimzovich White Black 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 17 K,B Q-N2t 2 P-QB4 P-K3 18 K-N1 R_B2 3 N- KB3 B- N5t 19 Q- Q3 QN- Q2 4 B-Q2 Q- K2 20 P- B4 P-N3 5 P_K3 BxBt 21 R.QB1 R/1.QB1 6 QNxB P-Q3 22 P_R3 P_ KR4 7 Q- B2 P- B4 23 R_B3 P_Q4 8 P-KN3 P- QN3 24 p,p R,R 9 B-N2 B_N2 25 P,R Q,P 0_0 N-B3 26 P_B4 Q- Q3 "11 P- QR3 0-0 27 Q-KB3 K-N2 12 QR-Q1 KR_Q1 28 K_N2 QxRP 13 KR_K1 QR-81 29 R_QR1 Q_N7 14 N-N3 p,p 30 R_QN1 Q-87 15 p,p N-N1 31 R_QB1 Q-B4 16 KN-Q2 B,B 32 R-K1 R- Q1 33 Q-B3 P-R5 Black has been aiming for this move for some time. At this point now that White's King Bishop Pawn is no longer protected by the Queen, the move seems to be properly effective. For it destroys In 1948, Vidmar as referee presided over the World Championship Tournament. \Vhite's Kingside. But Vidmar has a counter stroke in reserve; he now ob· tains a powerful attack. games! Something to think about when All the monarchic Allstrians played tao the question of measures against draws rock, and since this game with oversized comes up. cards is known only in Anstria, Austrian As time went on, grandmaster Milan masters used to be very careful to have Vidmar (not to be confused with master a package of such cards in their luggage. Milan Vidmar his son) found it increas· Elderly people in Laihach still know how ingly more difficult to maintain a place to play tarock, and Vidmar cherished in the upper ranks. At Karlsbad 1929, their company whenever he felt like reo he scored 12·9, tying for the fifth, sixth laxing from chess. and seventh prizes with Becker and Euwe. Vidmar had a strong personal liking At Bled (near Laihach) 1931, which was for Nimzovich, in later years for Najdorf. another great tournament, Vidmar scored With these two he used to be on terms 13Yz.12Yz sharing the fourth to ~eventh hetter than correct; he took great pleasure 34 P- Q5! RPxP 38 NxN N,N prizes wita Flohr, Kashdan and Stoltz. in playing skittles wita them, skittles with 35 N-Q4 QxBP 39 N_N5 Q-K2 Finally at Groningen 1946, then aged 61, wo rds as well as skittles with chessmen. 36 R_KB1 Q-Q3 40 P-Q6 Q_B1 Vidmar had to realize that a great tonr· In general, he liked people the more the 37 N_K4 Q-B2 41 QxNt . . . . nament was definitely too much of a better they were in the art of mutual, The attack has netted a piece. But strain for him. good.natllred heckling. For the rest he the win is still difficult in view of In skittles, however, Vidmar remained was a master of neutrality except that he Black's superiority in Pawns. Vidmar active until the end. He used to play never missed an opportunity to show dis· manages the rest handily. some almost every day, particularly while dain for hi s compatriot Kostich. The only 41 . . . . K-N1 46 N-B7 K-B3 42 R-B4 R_Q2 47 R-Q1 K_K4 living in Vienna. There, but some time reason he gave for that is to be found in 43 R-R4 Q-N2 48 N_K8 P_R4 after 1918, he once had a strange experi· Ihe tournament book of Karlsbad, 1911. 44 QxQt KxQ 49 KxP ence with a child from Poland; Vidmar P-R5 There author Vidmar blames Kostich time 45 R-Q4 P_R3 50 K- N4 P-R6 lost repeatedly, but, when he finally won and again for an urge to e"change pieces. 51 R- QRi K-Q5 a game the child, whose name was given Professor Dr. Milan Vidmar may not Or 51 ... R-Q1 52 P-Q7, and the Pawn as Samuel Reshevsky, started to cry (just have been the greatest of all chessmas· cannot be taken (52 .. . RxP 53 R-K1t, as in more recent years a famous child ters. But one of the greatest personalities K- Q5 54 R-Q1tl. from Brooklyn has been doing) . among them he unquestionably was. With 52 N-B6! RxP While livin g in Laibach, Vidmar often him, a fascinating stretch of chess history 53 R-Q1t KxP made business trips to or via Vienna, and has definitely come to an end. Or 53 ... K-K4 -54 N-Q7t! then he spent every free hour on skittles More about Vidmar and his experi· 54 RxR P- R7 59 N_Q3 K_N6 with as strong opponents as possible. In ences witll chess, many of them amus· 55 R-B6t! K-N4 60 N-B5t K_N7 Laibach itself, Vasja Pirc became his fa· ing, can be read in his memoirs that came 56 R_B1 K-R5 61 N-Q3t K- N6 vorite "enemy." out about a year ago, in Slovene and in 57 N_Q 7 P- QN4 62 N- B5t K_ R6 During tournaments, Vidmar's urge fo r German. 58 N-B5t K-R6 63 N-Q3 K_N6 recreation was divided between skittles Perhaps the prettiest point of the game, which Vidmar had to foresee from and two card games, namely tarock, in Let u.~ close with a few of Vidmar's monarchic days, and bridge thereafter. games. t = check; * = dbl. check: § = dis. ch. 368 CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1962 well back, Is involved here. The natural protected King. Still 20 N··QR,I seems and 5 BxNt: 01' 2 ... B-B2 3 RxN; or 63 . . . P-N5 is met as follows: 64 R-B8! to hold. With the text move. White ulti­ 1 . . • B-Bl 2 Q- B5 and 3 QxPt etc. 01' 2 and ·64 . . . P-N6 65 R- R8 mate or 64 mately loses two pieces fOI' a Rook. . .. 8 - K2 3 QBxN and 4 RxN. . . . P- R8(Q) 65 R- B8t 01' 64 . .-; K- N6 No.81 . .. Q- Q3 wins: 2 Q- N5 (or 2 R­ 65 N- B8t, and now Black wins the end· B5. Q- N5! 3 N- B3, QxNP etc. 01" 2 N-Q3, ing easily. 1'1 - Q2 and 3 . . . B- B3 etc. or 2 R- Kl. 64 K-B3 Resigns QxN 3 RxB, Q-BSt etc.), N- Q2, and Black wins the Exchange. No.9 1 R-K8! wins: 1 ... QxR 2 QxR! A Brilliancy Q- K2 (2 . .. P xQ 3 BxP mate) 3 QxPt! QxQ .\ P- DS. Q- Bl 5 P- B7§, N- K4 6 FOE' this game in the New York Tour· PxN. P- KR4 7 P- K6§. K- R2 S B-Q3t, R ­ nament of 1927 Vidmar received a bril­ R3 9 H- BSt, K-N4 10 R-N6t. K- R5 11 B­ liancy prize. D6 mate or ]0 ... K- B5 11 K-B2 and CATALAN OPENING male next. Vidmar Nimzovich No. 10 Black wins with 1 . .. RxNt 2 NxR, Hx!\t 3 KxR. Q- B7t and .J K- R3. B- B5! 1) White Black 20 .... BxN! 23 P-K6 N_B3 R- J\:>; } (OJ' 5 PxB. NxPt 6 K- N4, Q- N7t 1 P_Q4 N-KB3 10 N_KS! BxN? 21 PxB Q_B4! 24 N_Q7 RxN "j K-IH , P- :>; .J mate), N-N4 t 6 K- R4, 2 N-KB3 P-K3 11 PxB N_N5 22 Q-Q4 QxB 25 PxA QxQP NxPt etc. O J' 4 K- Hl, QxNP e. g. 5 Q-K2, 3 P-KN3 P_Q4 12 P-K4! N/ 5xKP Now Black has a decisive ad\'antage :\-85 6 Q- R2. QxPt "j K- ;\"I , N-R6t etc. 4 B_N2 QN-Q2 13 KPxP KPxP but has some trOUble subsequently In or 5 R- NI. Q- R6 mate or 5 R- K2, QxPt 5 0-0 B-Q3 14 PxQP PxP atlemptlng to use it. 6 K- Nl. ;\" - 85 and 7 . .. N-R6 mate 01" 6 P-NS P-BS 15 BxP A_N1 7 R- R2. QxR t e {(·. 7 QN-Q2 0-0 16 A-K1 Q-Q3 26 QA_B1 P-A3 34 K_K1 Q-A6 8 B-N2 Q-K2 17 N-B3! NxNt 27 P-BS A_K1 35 AxAP QxP 9 P_B4 P_QN4? 18 QxN K-R1 28 AxAt QxR 36 Q-B2 Q-R8t 19 QA_81 R_N3 29 K-B2 Q-N4 37 K-Q2 Q-QN8 Vidmal' has thoroughly refuted his 30 Q-K3 B-R3 38 Q-Q4 Q-KB8 Q_N2 opponent's experimental tine. Now he 31 P-QA4 39 QxQP Q-K7t Bargain N_A4 The Biggest elegantly delivers the finishing touch. 32 A-B5 40 K_BS B-N2 I" Chess LIterature S3 P-NS Q-Q2 41 QxB • • • • Hel"e White ought to try 41 QxN, BxP 42 Q-QB5! after which the situation is rather obscure. ANNUAL 41 • . . . Q- K8t 51 K_R4 N_Q5 42 K-B4 QxR 52 Q-Q5 P_B4 Volume 29 - $7.00 4S B-B3 Q-KB4 53 Q-B4 Q-Q8 LL twelve issues of CHESS REVIEW 44 Q-NSt K-A2 54 B_AS Q-QAS A published during 1961 have been 45 P-A5 QxBP 55 P-A6 N-B6t handsomely bound in cloth to make 46 Q-B7 NxP 56 K-N4 N-B7t this jumbo-sized book of more than 47 K-N4 N-B5 57 K-B5 QxBt 384 pages. Games from the important 48 K-A3 N_K3 58 K-N6 N-K6 1961 events, picked by experts, are an­ 49 Q-KS N-K5 59 Q-QR4 NxQ notated by masters. 50 B-N4 Q-Q' Resigns 20 AxB! RxR Real also in exciting detail of the 21 QxP Q-N3 World Championship Return Match 22 QxN Aesigns won by Botvinnik, of the exploits of Tahl and Fischer in the great tourna· Solutions to CHESS QUIZ ment at Bled and of the match between His Best Point No.1 1 P-N6 wins: 1 .. . PxP 2 N- N5 Fischer and Reshevsky which is still This game was also played at Sem­ etc. or 1 .. . QxP 2 BxN winning a piece subject of controversy. See Fischer on mering. Vidmar does to Alekhlne what as 2 . .. QxB is "efuted by 3 R-Nl. the way from winning his fourth straight he had done to Nimzovlch only a day No.2 Black mates in foUl': 1 . .. Q-BS "!" before. The game can hardly he called U, S. title to the eve of his tremen­ 2 QxQ. BxPt 3 B-K3, RxB! and mate dous victory in the Interzonal Tour· a very good one, but it constitutes the next. best point which Vidmar ever scored. nament at Stockholm. No.31 Q-KR2 wins : 1 ... K-Nl 2 NxN, It's the only win he ever achieved With all this are quizzes, tales and BxN 3 P-B6 and 3 .. . NxP 4 RxN and against Alekhine in a tournament game cartoons, a fascinating series on the mate follows or 3 . . . B-R3 4 R-K7, (as against many In skittles). Q-Ql 5 Q-R5 etc. or 3 " . P- N3 4 BxNP. Finishing Touch by Korn, instructions SLAV DEFENSE PxB 5 R- K7 and mate follows. on openings by Dr. Euwe, pictures of leading events and the shrewd anno· Alekhine Vidmar No.4 Black wins with 1 ... BxPt 2 KxB, tations of Postal Chess play by John White Black P- K6 t 3 K- Kl (or 3 K- Nl, P-K7), Q_ N5t 4 P- B3. QxNP 5 QxR, B-N5 and W. Collins. 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 11 A_K1 P-QN3 Black will mate. Also there's no such thing as an 2 N-KB3 P-Q4 12 P-QN3 B-N2 CHESS REVIEW for there is lively 3 P_B4 P-B3 13 B-N2 N_K2 No. 5 White mates with 1 RxPt, KxR 2 old 4 P-K3 P-KS 14 N_K5 N_N3 Q- Rlt. B-R6 3 QxBt. K- N2 4 B-R6t, K­ reading in Volumes 20 to 28 5 QN-Q2 P-B4 15 N/2-B3 N-K5 B3 5 Q-R.Jt, K-K4 (5 ... P- N4 6 QxP for 1952 to 1960 - still on 6 B-K2 N-BS 16 PxP PxP mate) 6 QxNt and 7 Q-B4 mate. hand for $7.00 each 7 0-0 B-Q3 17 B-N5 Q-K2 No.6 1 . .. R-Ql wins: 2 B-N2 (2 N-B3? 1S N_Q7 Q-B3t etc.), N-K2 3 P-KR4, NxN (if -I 8 P-QRS BPxP KA-Q1 Send for complete catalog of chess PxB, NxPt etc.) ·1 BxN (or .J QxN, R­ 9 KPxP P-QA4 19 NxP QA-N1 equipment and books 10 B-Q3 0-0 20 N-K5 • • • • BIt and 5 K-Nl. BxPt or 5 K- Kl, QxPt White has a won game, but he Is con· and 6 ... R-Ql), BxKP 5 R- B3. QxP etc. cerned apparently about his straying No.7 1 P-Q6 wins : 1 ... BxP 20-0 - 0: CHESS REVIEW 134 w. 72 St., New York 23, N, V. pieces on the QUeellslde and his weakly e.g. 2 ... Q- K2 3 Q- Q3, 8-82 .J QDx:"\ CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1962 369 Games played by readers, annotated by one 0/ America's leading masters. by I. A. HOROWITZ

PLAYING THE ODDS 10 P-B4 Px. , Now White probably wins by force. When the appraisal of an opening gives at least 10 ... NJ4-N5 11 B- B4, N- R3, instead, equality and at worst equality, that is the very opening gives Black a fighting chance. 11 PxN PxP which ought to he included in the repertoire of every 12 B-K3 P-QR3 aspiring chess player. Such is the evaluation of a sub· 13 R-Q1 Q-B2 variation of the Danish Gambit. Black seems to have suffered t.he worst. (Curiously, this is reminiscent of a certain varia· But Ilis troubles only begin now. tion of the Vienna Gambit. In one line, Black had five 14 B_N6 •. , . An astute move which keeps the at· different continuations. Four of them were bad. But tack rolling. one was good - very, very good. And, gambling on 14 , . . • Q-BS AI Horowitz the line, White had to guess whether his opponent was 15 QxQ PxQ versed in that one line.) 16 R-Qat • • • • The minor pieces are sufficient unto The winner of the game below writes: "The game herewith was themselves. played at an open.air tahle in Washington Square Park in Greenwich 16 • • . • K_K2 18 N-Q5t NxN Village. A 'go-as-you-please' game for small stakes. 17 0-0 P-KR3 19 RxP mate "I had played this very game always with the White pieces over two dozen times before, exactly move for move, and my various opponents A Piece is a Piece is a Piece had answered with the Black pieces move for move. The entire line is Good luck is only the substltute for based on a note pointed out by Alekhine in one of his games from his first bad judgment. Here Black suffered from collection My Best Games. the latter and did not enjoy the former. ·'It is always good for a meal ticket, provided your opponent answers Hence. the usual result. your first move of 1 P-K4 with 1 ... P-K4. Otherwise, call off all bets." KING FIANCHETTO Trenberth Oyler DANISH GAMBIT 4 . • • • N-QB3 White Black Arthur Feldman George Wile 5 N-B3 P-Q3 1 P-KN3 . , . . White Black 6 B-QB4 N-B3 Frowned upon by all theorists since 1 P-K4 P-K4 Better here Is 6 ... B-K3, leading to the days of Morphy, this move bas taken 2 P-Q4 • • • • equality. according to MCO and PCO. its place in stately splendor alongside The Center Game, one of the ideas of Any deviation from this path is decidedly the reliable, orthodox debuts. Once the which is to clear the Queen file for dangerous. first move was utilized for immediate eventual pressure there against the 7 Q-N3 Q-Q2 control ot the center. Now it marks time enemy Queen. White can accomplish 8 N-KN5 N_K4 as a flexible deployment, ready to en· gage any pattern that may come its way. this by posting a Rook on his Q1. 8 ... N-Ql Is better. Now the game 2 . . . . PxP takes an interesting turn. 1 . . • • P-K4 3 P-QB3 • • • • Black is at liberty to choose anyone of a number of patterns. Rnd he, too, H 3 QxP, N- QB3 gains a tempo whIch may temporize by say, 1 ... N-KB3. The offsets the open Queen file which ac· text move is probably as good as any. crues to White. 2 P-K3 •... 3 . • • , PxP Not the best. 2 B-NZ, as per plan, or 3 . . . P-Q4 declines the speculative 2 N-KB3 or 2 P-QB4 are a few of the material gain. But 4 KPxP, QxP 5 PxP is cOllsistent continuations. rich in chances for both sides. After the text move, there is an im· 4 NxP ••.. perceptible flaw in White's Kingside The thematic 4 B- QB4, PxP 5 BxP is Pawn skeleton. The Pawn at KN3 cre· a ga.mble. After ... P-QB3, Black may ates a hole at White's KN2; the Pawn at stave off the attack and remain with K3 leaves a hole at White's KB3. These material plus, provided he is capable of nebulous defects may never affect the 9 B-NS P-B3 a perlect delense. The text move is a tuture play. But they may. Why burden recommendation ot Alekhine. , cheek; * = dbl. che. S . . • . B-KNS ponent's Pawn and exploit t bls tenuous 13 8-KS · , . 9 P-K RS B- R4 . defect. In other woNls, to make some­ A blunder. 13 B- B2 keeps the Queen 10 N-Q2 P_KRS thing out o[ nearly notblng. But he Pawn under observation and prepares Black's last no doubt means to create a blunders away his King by a combination tor a number of posslblllties, such as retreat to r his Queen Bishop. But accent that he could easily anticipate. It wall Q-Q3 and B-KN5. on straight development Is more appeal­ obvious to everyone - but White. 18 B- KN5 at once Is not "ery effective ing. 10 ... Q-Q2. followed by ... QR­ atter ... N-K5 14 BxN, PxB 15 QxB, Kl, for example. FRENCH DEFENSE PxN. 11 P-QN4 • • • • A. Boczar C. Skl",d",1 13 . _ . _ RxB! White has run out of ideas and stabs White Black Now Black gains at least a Pawn. innocuouslY on the Queenslde. There 1 P-K4 P-KS 14 PxR QxPt are several ways of creating perplexing 2 P-Q4 P-Q4 1S K-R1 • • • • problems tor the advenloary. 11 P-KN4, S N-Q2 • • • • R- B2? B-N6. followed by 12 P-KB4 or 12 N-KB4, 15 This variation of the French leads to is one. 15 . . -. N-KR4 Interesting by-paths. 16 R-K1 11 • . • . R- K1 • • • • S . • • • P- QB4 White ougbt to return the exchange 11 ..• Q-Q2, clearing tbe first rank, Tbe sharpest, though Black may play immediately witb 16 P- N -I . is s uperior. 3 ... N- KB3 or even 3 ... N-QB3. 16 • _ . , N-N6t 12 P-N4 KNxP 4 P-QBS ..•• 17 K-R2 N-K5§ To part with a piece ror a couple of 4 KPxP is usually played. If 4 QPxP, 18 K-R1 N- B7t Pawns without further compensation re­ best for Black is ... N- QB3. The text Not to win material! veals an immaturity ot judgment. move, however, is weak. 19 K-N1 NxRP.f: 4 • . • • N-QBS 20 K-R1 Q-N8t Correct Is 4 ... PxQP, after which 21 NxQ N-B7 mate White Is saddled with a weak Queen Pawn - a setup target. 5 KN-BS , . , . Now 5 QPxP is correct, and, if ... BxP, 6 PxP, PxP 7 N- NS-Q4. Black's Queen Pawn is isolated, but Black en­ joys freedom for his pieces. S . • • _ Q-N3 Again Black omits 5 ... BPxB wblcb weakens White's center Pawns. 6 KPxP KPxP 13 N-KB4 • • • • 7 N-NS • • • • After 13 PxN. White ought to win. But then Black has a semblance ot counter­ This awkward move Is essential to pla.y. Now White emerges with material avoid the pressure after 7 PxP, BxP. plus and the attacking chances. 7 . • . . PxP 1S _ • . . N-K6 '7 •.. P-B5 8 N-Q2 la a possibility. 14 QxB Nx R It cramps White temporarily. But he 15 BxP . •. . ought to be able to break the bind by an 15 NxN leads to a reasonably easy win. eventual P-QN3. " Well, will you playa lIame if promiae The text move is even better. 8 QNxP N-BS to move my Knights l ike Pawns?" I;HE5S REVIEW, DEI;EM8ER, 196,l 371 Entertaining and instructive games by HANS KMOCH annotated by a famous analyst.

10 . . . . Blacl, protects his Pawn on KB3. but (,i'r-INTERNA TlONAl. Aecepting t he sact'ifice works Ol1t now White's advantage in del'elopment poorly. but there is no satisfactory al· has reached the boiling point. BULGARIA 1962 ternative. Consider: 22Q- N3! ., .. 1) 10 , .. P-K3 11 Q-R5! with a win­ The story is finished as the attacked International Team Tournament ning advantage: 11 ... K-K2 12 N-B5T! Pawn cannot be safely at Varna protected. 2) 10 ... N- B3 11 NxN. BxN 12 Q- R5! 22 .... Q_.B2 Stunning as Ever 3} 10 ... Q-R4t 11 B- Q2, Q- K4 is not After 22 ... R-B1. White wins with 23 Fischer did not do very well, for him easy to meet with proper effect but can N-N7t, K- K2 2·) Q-R3: And 22 ... Q- Nl that is, at Curacao and Varna. But his be met. To start, note that 12 Q- R l t fails against 23 BxPt, K - BJ (23 capability is as stUnning as ever. Here wOl'llS well in all variations but one: K-Ql?? 24 QxQ mate) 24 Q- K6 etc. he treats the famous grandmaster who a) 12 ... K- Ql?? 13 B- R5t : b) 12 ... N- D3?? ] 3 B-Q5; c) 12 ... B- B3? 13 23 BxPt K-Q1 only recently won the powerful tourna· 24 B-KG Resigns ment at Havana in Knight·odds style. A N)(8. QxPt 14 B-K3, QxN (14 . . . NxN?? 24 ... Q-Bl fails agaillf;i 25 Q- N6t. most impressive performance. 15 BxPt) 15 QxQt, NxQ 16 B-Q5, H- Bl 17 R- QB1. K- Q2 IS BxP with a distinct SICILIAN DEFENSE advantage for ·White: d) 12 ... ~-Q2! Robert J. Fischer Miguel Najdorf which is troublesome for White, mainly in view of 13 P - B3, P - Q4! Queenside Storm United States Argentina White meets the line in 3), however. White Black White pays too little attention to the with 12 Q-N3! QxPt 13 B-K3: e.g. 13 situation on the Queenside. And so 1 P-K4 P-QB4 4 NxP N-KB3 ... P-K3 14 P-B3, Q-K4 15 QxB, QxBt Black finds an opportunity to start an P-Q3 5 N-QB3 P- QR3 2 N-KB3 16 B-K2! QxN 17 R-QB1! attack there which quickly develops into 3 P-Q4 6 P-KR3 , . PxP . . 11 0-0 P_Q4 a raging storm. Fischer's latest preference. 12 R-K1 P-K4 6 .. , , P-QN4 NatUrally, Black is not eager to ex· SICILIAN DEFENSE For 6 . . . N- B3, see F ischer-Bolbo· change the only piece he has in action Gebauer Donald Byrne chan (Stockholm 1962), page 139, May. (12 .•. PxB 13 RxE). Switzerland United States 7 N-Q5 B-N2 13 Q-R4t N- Q2 White Black or course not 7 ... NxP because of S Not 13 ... Q-Q2? 14 B--QN5! 1 P_ K4 P_QB4 3 P-B4 P- KN3 Q- B3. But the move played is also 14 RxB! . ' , , 2 N-QB3 N_QB3 4 N-B3 B- N2 weak. Black ought to proceed with the White uses his great advantage very 5 B_N5 , . , . much more natural 7 ... P-K3. prettily. This is a move indigenous to some ex­ 8 NxNt NPxN 14 . . ' , lent to Switzerland In that its regular 9 P-QB4! . . , . Black accepts the sacrifice in order to adoption against the Sicilian was started A brilliant idea. White sacrifices his have some compensation for his fright­ by Walter Henneberger, long before Ros· King Pawn for the sake of superior piece· ening lack of development. But the com· sollmo. But those two played It in the development. Generally, a Pawn sacrifice pensation is meager. following sequences 2 N- KB3. N- QBS 3 for such a purpose is rather CO!l\'ell· 15 N-B5 B-B4 B-N5 and 2 ... P- Q3 3 B- N5t. Its adop· tiona!. In this specific case, however, it 16 N-N7t! K-K2 tlon in the closed version of lhe Sicilian is exceptional In that White abandons On 16 , .. K-Bl 17 B- R6, White 's at· as here is not commendable. the Pawn which Is very important for tack is murderous. 5 . , . , N-Q5 the basic task of preventing . . . P- Q4 17 N-B5t K-K1 G NxN pxN or .. . P- KB.j. 18 B-K31 . ' , , i'\'ow White must lose t ime. not only 9 , • • , Two moves earliel' this move would with the Knight, but also with his stray­ 10 BxP . . . ' have been less effective as then Black ing Bishop. At this point. White has at least three could still castle. 7 N-N1 N-B3 immediate threats: 11 Q- R5 and 11 BxPt, 18 ' . . . BxB 20 R-Q1 R-R2 8 Q-B3 . . ' , KxB 12 Q- Nst and 11 Q-N3. 19 PxB Q-N3 21 R-Q6 Q-Q1 The "more natural" 8 P- Q3 fails against 8. , . Q-R4t. 8 , . . . 0 -0 10 P-KR3 B-Q2 9 8_B4 P-Q3 11 P-Q3 Q_B2 12 0-0 • • • White ought to play 12 P-QR~ [i1'sL 12 ' .. , P-QN4! 13 B-N3 P-QR4 14 P- B3 , ' , . Now this last move is necessHry. A n"treat for the Bishop and protection for the Queen Bishop Pawn are needed. 14 .. , . P-R5

37Z CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER. 196Z 15 B-Q1 P-R6! KB5 is then a strong threat to which Blac k has q uickly obtained a power- . . . KP:xP is only an emergency meas· ful Queenside attack. lll·e. The best, or at least comparatively best, way to meet P-KB4 consists in ... 16 B-N3 • • • • P- KB4. So Black hel'e ought to play 16 NxP, PxP 17 PxP, QxP Is hardly S ... N-Kl to meet 9 P- B4 with P-B4 comfortable lOr White. 01' 9 P-KR3 with 9 ... N-K2 10 P-B4, 16 • • . • QPxP P- KB4. Perfect or not, this is Black's 17 NxBP • • • • best cllltnce. Aftel' 17 PxBP, Black also proceeds 9 P-B4 R-N1 with 17 ... P-N5. ::\"ow It is too late for 9 ... N- Kl 17 . • . • P-N5 because of 10 P- KB5! 18 N-Q1 B-N4 On the other hand, 10 P- KB5 is not 19 R-N1 · . , . This line is hicky in that Wbite wants yet a threat because ot 10 .. , N- K2! The Queen Knight Pawn needs extra to proceed with either P-Q3 01' P- Q4 afte l' which \Vhite lacks the necessary protection so the Knight can move (19 depending on Black's ... P-K4 01' ••• !)rotectlon fol' the King Bishop Pawn on N-B2, NxP! 20 B-Q5, NxN 21 BxR, P-QB4. B5 by means of P- KN4. NxQP). The center formation with P-Q3, 10 P-KR3! , . . , 19 . . • • N-Q2 which we call "British," is promising Now the tllt'eat of 11 P- KB5 is acute 20 N-B2 • • • • aftel' ... P-K4, but not commendable in view of 11 .. . ::\"-K2 12 P-KN4. Now White has a thl'eat: 21 PxP, PxP aetel' . . . P-QB4, In the latter case, 22 BxPt, RxB 23 RxB. White is better off by playing P- Q-I, which leads to the Sicilian brand of the 20 .... Q-R4 King's Indian and may offel' White 21 R-Q1 N-B4 slightly better chances than the regulal' Black has a gl'eat advantage. King's Indian (with P-Q4 and., . P- K4). or course, there is nothing decisive in all this reasoning. At stake are only slightly varying chances for initiative. 5., .. P-K4 Black lays his cards on the table right away. He may do better with 5 ... P- Q3 l'eserving his choice between ... P- K-I and .. , P-QB4. These possibilities then arise. 10 • . , • P-QN4 1) 6 N-B3 01' 6 P-Q4 do not fit into Thel'e is no good defense any more, lhe BI'itish System; they lead conse· The aUerllaUve 10 ... P:xP 11 PxP leads quently to a regular King's Indian aftel' to more open fighting but actually is 6 ... QN- Q2 or 6 ... P-K4. just as bad for Black. 2) 6 KN- K2 reserves White's choice 11 P-KB5! P-N5 22 PxP • • • • between the King's Indian and the Brit· Neither Is the more logical 11 . . After 22 D-D2, Black seCUl'es a passed ish system. Pawn on the seventh with 22 .. , P- N6! PxQBP essentially bettel" Black Is too a) 6 ... P- K4 call be answered with 7 cramped on the Killgside. 22 , . , • NxB P-Q3 (the British System) with more 12 N-N1 N-Q5 14 N-Q2 P-B4 23 RxN .••. promise than 7 P-Q4 (the King's Indian) 13 P-KN4 N-Q2 15 N·KB3 NxN/6t Now White loses the Exchange, but - see the actual game. 23 PxN, P:xP is even worse. b) 6 , .. QN- Q2 does not fit into This is an unmotivated exchange. The well·posted Black Knight ought to stay 23 .... 8-R5 Black's best deployment against both the where it Is. If White exchanges, he 24 B-Q2 · . , , Blitish System and the Sicilian type or the King's Indian: hence 7 0-0 and 7 affords Black some relier by . , . KP:xN. Arter 24 P:xP, Q-R2, White cannot ... P-K4 8 P-Q3! 01' 7 . .. P-B4 g P-Q4! But Black's game is tOO bad iii. any maintain two Pawns for the Exchange. C) 6 , .. P- B4 7 P-Q4! N- B3! ieads to event, even without the weak text mo\'e. But, in trying to avoid this line, he loses the main problem of the whole opening. 16 RxN Q-RS outright, Black seems to be all right: e.g. 8 B­ After 16 ... B- B3, White pl'en'nts 17 24 • , , . BxR 26 BxQ BxQ K31 N-KN5 01' 8 P-KR3? P:xP 9 NxP, . " B-N4 by means of 17 Q- Q2 ! a nd thus 25 BxP? BxR! Resigns NxP! or 8 P- Q5, N-QR4 9 Q-Q3, P-QR3 retains his very !mpol·tant black·bound or 8 PxP, PxP 9 B-K3, Q-B4, Bishop. 6 KN-K2 N-B3 17 B-K3 B-R3 Refined Problems 7 0-0 P-Q3 The story of the good amI bad Bis hops 8 P-Q3 , , ReCined problems, hardly visible to the . . is well known in :Mongolia. Here again is a very specific opening naked eye, so to speak, arise in the first 18 B-B2 , ' , . which is but vaguely described as Eng· few moves of this game, and Black is But it Is also known in the l':';A. lish, It certainly deserves an indepen­ actually otlll)\ayed long before a less 18 , • • , Q-K2 expelienced player could reaUze what is dent name, and we PI'efer to call it "British," after Staunton, for his pl·edi· 19 P-KR4! p,p going on. Subsequently, White uses his 20 RxP! initial advantage with great tactical lectlon tOI' the formation with Pawns at • • • • mastership. QB4, Q3 and K4. This last mOI'e is "ery Importa nt. After Like other openings, the British has 29 NPxP, K- RI. Bla("k ("an inH Ill) good ENGLISH OPENING many variants. resistance, thanks to (he ope n file. And, after 20 l{P:xP. P-D3 (20 ... P-K5? Donald Byrne Magilsl,Il'en It may be added here that 8 P-Q4 is weak because of 8 .. ,PxP 9 NxP, NxP! 21 P:xP. X- l{·j 22 P-::\"5 ! ). Black's Queen United States Mongolia 8 . , . . P-QR3 Bishop l'egains scope fol' (' ounterplay. White Black Black is aiming for counterplay on 20 ... , B_KN2 N-KB3 3 P-KN3 B-N2 1 P-QB4 the Queenside, but thel'e is a more Ul·· 21 N-N3! N-B3 4 B_N2 0_0 2 N-QB3 P-KN3 gent job to be done first on the King· The capture of the Pawn Is hopeless: 5 P_K4 , . . . side. In these positions. P- KB4 is al· 21 ... Qx P 22 R- R5 followed by 23 t = check; .j: = dbl. check; § - db. eh. ways very dangerous for Black since P- N-B5 etc. CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1962 373 22 P-N5 N_K1 Q-Ql) 42 B- N5, B-B3 {3 RxB, RxR 44 The lone Queen starts Its attack. 23 B-K3! . , . . Q- R4. 1S . • •• P_KNl 17 N-N4 N_Q5 ThilJ fine sacrHlce of the Exchange 40 B-Q5 • • • • HI Q-R4 Q-Q1 18 P-B4 P-B4! White naturally had envisioned before. Now the threat il! 41 B-B7 followed The openIng of lines on the Kingstde It increases the supremacy of his by (e.g.) 42 B-N7t. now lavors Black strongly. forces on the Klngslde. 40 • • • . R-KN1 19 KPxP • • • • 23 • • • • P-BS Black has no playable moyes any None 01 the possible captures is satls· 24 Q-K2 IlixR more. factory for White. Comparatively speak. Black realizes that he cannot do any 41 BxR K",B Inl, however, 19 PxP e.p. is besL better than take the Rook. 42 PxPt K-R1 19 • • " NxKBP 22 PxP BxP 25 PxB N-B2 27 P-N6 ..... , This move is forced (4% • • • QxP!! 43 20 Q-K1 N-B2 23 PxP QxP 26 Q-R5 KR-Q1 28 N_K4 . , , . Q- K8 mate). 21 B",B NxB 24 B",B "",B The threat Is %9 Nxpt. 43 R-N3 Q B2 After the foregoing general exchange. 28 •••. R-Q2 Again. 4a ..• QxP is fatal for Black. the game Is even, materially, but White's 29 R-KB1 N-K1 But so Is anything here. King Is exposed and his piece!! co-ordl· nate poorly. In fact. Black is threaten· 44 R-NBt! Rellgnl Ing to win outright with 25 . . . Q-B3t This last check serves to open the (26 K-Nl, N-RS mate). King Rook file. Of course, H •.. QxR Is out of the question. But the forced 44 ... KxP loses to 45 R- N6. It is only a little finesse but bal!ically remarkable tor it!! nature.

POLAND 1962 Team Match at Warsaw All Exemplary Victory 30 N-N5!! • • • • Another pretty sacrUlce delli\'ned to White's lone Queen makes an attack promote headway with the attackloe on the Klngside, but not for long. A Pawns. There are two main threats: 31 genuine counterattack rapidly gains mo· 25 Q-K5t • • • • B-Q5t. K-Rl 32 N-B7t and 31 N-B7, PxP mentum, and Black scores an exemplary Tbls switch to the endgame is the best 32 PxP, B-N2 33 Q-R7t, K-Bl 34 B-RS. victory. White has but olters no definite relief. So Black has to take. SICILIAN DEFENSE 25 • , . • Q",Q 30 . • • • PxN 32 B-Q5t K-R1 2f NxQ Filipowicz Dr. Eliot Mear8t • • • • 31 PxP Q-N2 33 8-K4 8-K2 The general exchange may here be Black intends to meet 34 P-B6 by 34 Poland United St.tel considered truly completed. But Black ... BxP. Wblte Black still has the edge and can win a. Pawn 34 Q-R4! N-B3 1 P_K4 P-QB4 5 NxP P-K4 by force. P_Ql The return ot the piece is unavold· 2 N-KB3 P-QR3 6 N-B5 2e •• , , N-K6 3 N-B3 N-QB3 7 N_K3 able. .... <, ZT N-Q7 • • • • 4P-Q4 p,p 8 ...... • • • • 35 PxN .,p 37 R-B3 R_KB1 Thl. may be a bid for complications, The backwardness of Bh'llck'llI Queen 36 Q-R5 Q-K2 38 R-RS P-R4 but It lose. much laster than 27 RxRt. 39 B_R6! Pa.wn Is a drawback of questionable Ilg· 27 , ••• NxR! • • • • nlficance. White may make besdway If 28 NxQR R-B7 White has a murderoul attack for the he gets in B-KS and possibly P-QB3. He Exchange, one might lay. That Impres· ougbt to start with QN- Q5 or KN- Q5. Here the main threat Is 29 ... N-B6 sian is right, but the win Itlll requires 8 KN- Q5 seems preferable: e.g. 8 ... and mate next. White ha.s no playable finesses. The text move Involves a win· N- B3 9 B-K3, BxN 10 NxB, NxN 11 PxN moves now. ning comblnaUon. (11 QxN leads to wild compl1cations 29 P-KR4 N-N6t after 11 ... N- N5 12 Q- N3, P-Q4). Real;ns 8 • . • . N-Bl Another mate tollows. 9 B-Q5 • • • • Here the Bishop only hampers tbe Wb!te Kn1ghts, and they In turn hinder Iclia the other White forces. 9 B-NS 18 Indl· This Is the echo to the Mednis-West· cated here. brock came given on page 350, November 9 • • ...... K2 11 P-QR3 Q_B2 Inue. 100-0 0-0 12 K-R1 QR-N1 13 P_KN4 RUY LOPEZ • • • • • White decides on a somewhat fancy Edmar Mednia Tarnowski way of starting Ringside acUon. Not a United St.tea Poland bad Idea under the circumslances. White Black 39 .... R/ 1-Q1 13 . • • • K-R1 1 P-K4 P-K4 6 Q-K2 P-QN4 Since White stili must rely heavily on 14 P-N5 · . . , 2 N_KB3 N-QB3 7 B-N3 P-Q' his black·bound Bishop, It II tempting to But this is a useless weakening of 3 B-N5 P-QR3 B P_B3 N-QR4 play 39 ... B-N2. But 40 P-B6!! then Wbite's position. The move may lerve 4 8-R4 N-B3 9 8-B2 P-B4 wins as tollows: decently If control of Q5 18 an issue. 5 0-0 .... <2 10 P-KR3 0-0 1) 40 .•. BxP 41 BxR. QxB 42 QxPt, But that square il! firmly controlled by 11 P_Q4 N-B3 RxQ 43 RxRt, K-Nl 44 B-Q5t; White, anyhow. 14 N-B5 il the move Black's last move is an Inaccuracy 2) 40 ... RxP 41 B-NI5, 9-91 42 Q-R4; Indlca.ted. of far-reaching consequences. It Is es­ a) 40 ... QxP 41 R-Oa, and 41 .. 14 • , .• N-K1 sential to pre-empt (Black's) Ql for the PxP 42 Q- Ra, or 41 •.. Q-K2 (or ... 15 Q-R5 • • • • Knight: e.g. 11 ... Q-B2 12 QN-Q2, 374 CHISS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1952 N-B3 13 P-Q5, N- Q1!; or 12 P- Q5, N­ This position Is known from Flscbel'­ 22 NlI:P§! • • • • N2!). If the Black Queen Knight can Reshevsky. 6th matcll game (page 318. This move is just as decisive as the reach the Klngslde quickly via Ql, the CHESS REVIEW, October, 1961). Black original main threat. attack with P-Q5 offers but mtle prom­ is all right, but the moment is highly 22 .. _ . K-N1 ise for White. critical. Now, on 22 ... KxN, White has 23 12 P-Q5! 12 QlI:B • • • • · , . . RxPt (23 R-R3t, B- R4!). Now this attack is strong as Black's A brilliant sacrifice of considerable 23 R-R3 best countermeasure is thwarted. promise, but hardly good enough against • • • • And now the main threat is 24 N-N5 12 • , ., N-QR4 16 P-NS N_NS the best defense. Fischer played 12 Q­ with mate to follow. 13 K-R2 N-B5 17 QN-Q2 P_NS N4 and, as B. Zuckerman recalls, later 14 R-N1 N_K1 18 N_B1 N_N2 mentioned the sacrifice as insufficient. 23 .... R-K4 15 P_K N4 B-Q2 19 N_NS P-BS 12 . • • . . N-K7t 24 P-B4! B,R 25 KxB R_B1 20 R-N2 R-B2 This move is best: it delays 'Vhlte's Black's Queen Knight belongs on this N-Q5. Atter 12 " . NxB? 13 RPxN, QxR, The attacked Rook has no playable KB2 square. Now Black's Klngside is WhIte wins a. Rook with 14 QxP! Q- R4 move. Black intends 26 ..• RxB. too weakly defended. ]5 B- R6, Q-QlI6 N-Q5. 26 B-Q4! ••• , 13 NlI:N P,Q This move is best. 26 PxR also pre­ 14 N-BS · . . - "ents 26 ... RxB in view of 27 N-B6t, The compensation for the Queen Is two but it entails unnecessary complications minor pieces and strong attacking because of 26 ... PxP. chances. 26 . . . . P-QN4 14 . . • • R_K1 27 N-N5 R-B2 28 BxPt! · . . , Black wants to put up resistance on This Is a neat liquidation giving White his critical diagonal Q5-KRI, but he two mino!" pieces against a Hook Instead cannot do so effectively. He ought to ot against a Queen. evacuate that diagonal, instead, and to 28 _ ... concede the Pawn on KB3: e.g. 14 .•• R,B 31 NlI:Q R,P P- Q3 15 N- Q5, B-K3! 16 NxPt, K-N2 17 29 R-Rat! K,R 32 N_BS RlI:Pt B- Q4. KR- Q1 18 N- Q7§ (on 18 N-Q5§, 30 NxRt K-R2 33 K_K2 Resigns 21 N-B5! , . . . K-Bl, Black ought to win), K-Nl (18 ... An old acquaintance bas arrived (cr. K-R3 19 N-B6 is another possibility but the Westbrock game cited above), and not so sure) 19 N-B6t, K-Bl (or 19 ... the usual party Collows. K-N2 20 N-QH etc. with a draw) 20 >~>. UNITED STATES 21 • , . _ P'N NxPt, K- Kl 22 N-B6t, K- K2, and Black 22 NPxP K-R1 has the edge, although bis material ad· vantage has become very small. 23 N-R4 NxBP ILLINOIS 1962 Black cannot be blamed for expressing 15 N-Q5 K-N2 ChicQj)o Open full confidence in the enemy sacrifice. 16 B-Q4 R-K3 But of course returning the piece offers 16 ... R-K4 furnishes relief for Black Beyond Praise no chance either. If the Rook is taken or if he can get Youngster Verber, who won the tour· 24 PXN B-KB1 27 B-R6 Q-KN1 in 17 ... RxN. But the attempt falls on nament on tie-breaking points. adver­ 25 Q-R5 R-N2 28 N-NSt! PxN 17 NxP followed by P-KB4. tises great talent with this game. His 26 RlI:R BlI:R 29 PxP Resigns 17 QR-Q1 · . . , handling of the attack is beyond praise. The threat is R-Q3-KB3. The fall or SICILIAN DEFENSE the vital Pawn on B3 is inevitable. Richard Verber M. Sweig SOVIET UNION Black Is unable to swap off the enemy White Black Local Team Match at Rostov Knight In time: 17 ... P-N3 IS N-B7! or 17 .. . P-QN4 18 B-B3. Q- Ql 19 NxP! 1 P-K4 P-QB4 S B-QB4 P_K3 Fascinatinj) Gamble RxN 20 R- Q6. 2 N-KB3 N_QB3 7 0-0 P-QR3 p,p White's sUrprising sacrifice works 17 , • • • P_Q3 19 R-KB3 8-N. 3 P-Q4 8 P-QR3 Q_B2 4 NxP P_QN4 very beautifully but is hardly sufficient 18 R-Q3 B-Q2 20 B-B3 Q-Q1 N-B3 9 B-R2 5 N-QB3 P-Q3 10 B_K3 N-QR4 against the best defense. It Is at any 21 NxP! • • • • rate a fascinating gamble. Black's last Is prematme. As the in­ Now the main threat is 22 N- N4§! 011 tended ... N-QB5 cannot be played with SICI L.IAN DEFENSE which the Black Rook falls with dis­ proper ef'tect, Black only loses time. 10 R. Nezhmedinov 0, Chernikov asterous ettect: 22 ... P-B3 23 BxR; ... B- N2 is Indicated here. 22 . .. K- Bl 23 BxR; or 22 ... K-Nl 23 1 P-K4 P-QB4 6 B-K3 N-BS N-R6t, K-Bl 24 RxPt etc. 11 Q-K2 B-Q2 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 7 B-QB4 0-0 21 •.• _ B-K7 Not 11 ... N-B5 12 N/·!xP! 3 P-Q4 p,p 8 B-N3 N_KN5 12 QR-Q1 R-B1 4 NlI:P P-KN3 9 QlI:N NlI:N The main threat is parried In "lew ot Now. 12 ... N-B5 can be played but 5 N_QB3 8-N2 10 Q_R4 Q-R4 22 N-N4§, K- Bl 23 B:xR, BxR/6. But 11 0-0 B_B3 White has a choice. lacks the point wbich it ought to have in that 13 B- B1, NxRP wOI'ks adversely because of 14 N-Q5!. 13 B-B1 N-B5 14 R-Q3 • • • • Now Black's Knight maneuver is frus­ trated. and White has substantially strengthened his position. 14 . • . . B-K2 15 R-N3 K-B1 Castling is very dangerous yet offers a better chance (15 ... 0-0 16 B-R6, N­ Kl after which neither 17 BxP nor 17 N- B5 works). CHESS REVIEW. DECEMBER, 196% 375 16 K-R1 P-R3 English or the Reti according to estab­ 24 Q-B2! B-R3 17 P-B4 Q-N3 lished custom. Act\Jally, neither designa­ 24 ... QxKP is met by 25 R- B2 (25 18 R-Q3 • • • • tion makes any sense. . .. Q-N4 26 QxP). Hence the text move: This is the best way to maintain the An opening ought not be called aftel' a Black intends 25 ... QxKP 26 R-B2, Knight on Q4 which in turn is important mOl'e or less neutral move, which may BxKP. appear in all kinds of settings, but after for the impending Pawn breakthrough. In playing tor attack, however, Black some definite mark of the position. 18 . . . . Q-B2 actually makes matters worse. He ought The "mark" in this case is a clear one: 19 BxN to proceed with 24 . .. QR-Bl consoli­ the Maroczy Bind, though here it is in Or 19 ... QxB 20 P-K5 etc. with simi. dating his position. White's extra Pawn, I'everse. Black has the bind, and White: lar consequences. Black 1Ii es vainly to doubled and isolated, has little signifi­ the hedgehog. A difficult struggle lies cance. win a tempo toward saving his King. ahead. 20 R-N3 K- N1 • 25 B-QB3! 13 N-K4 Q-NS • • • • The King walks from one treacherolls White, on the other hand, is best Black plays to protect the Queen vis·a·vis to another. served by playing lor the attack. ignor· Bishop Pawn and to counteract P-QN·' ing his extra Pawn. 21 P-K5 N_K1 also. 22 P-B5! KPxP The "simple" 13 ... P-N3 is anything 25 .... BxPt Or 22 ... QPxP 23 PxP, PxN 24 PxPt, but simple in its consequences: e.g. 14 26 K-R1 B-Q5 and White wins: e.g. 24 ... K-Bl 25 N-N5, B- 81 15 N-K3, NxN 16 QBxN So far so good. But there is an un­ PxN(Q)t, KxQ 26 RxP, PxN 27 R/I- B7. (16 PxN is also plausible), 8-N2 17 pleasant sllrprise in store for Black. p,p P-QN4, RPxP (17 .. . P-R3 18 P-N5!) 18 23 P-K6'• 24 NxKP .,N PxP with difficult complications, al­ 25 QxBt K-B1 though 18 ... P-R3 ought to hold. 14 B-Q2 After 25 ... K- R2 26 QxBPt, K-Nl 27 • • • • Q- B7t, White wins at will. Not 14 N- N5, N-B6! 26 RxPt B-B3 28 B-B4 R_ B3 14 •.. , KR_Q1 16 N-K3 27 N-Q5 Q_Q1 29 R- N6 . . . , 15 N-NS B-QB1 17 PxN , . .. White prevents the threatened ... Such a tl"emendous concentration of N-Q5 and opens some scope for a Rook. forces attacking the enemy King at close range Is a rarity. Needless to say 17 . . . . P-B3 19 N-B3 B-KS there Is no defense any more. 18 N-K4 P_ B4 20 N-R4 Q_N4 21 P-N3 ... Now White prevents 21 ... D-N6. Black has superiority in controlled 27 R-B6! · , . . space but lacks targets as well as an~' Is that all7 A stout attack on the clearly indicated breakthrough. Besides Bishop - why should that be a surprise? he is uncomfortably engaged on the The surprise is not in the move itself Queenside. His oddly placed Queen has but in its surprisingly strong etIect. no move, and the precarious protection WMte definitely obtains the llpper hand. of his QUeen BisllOP Pawn cannot be 27 . . . . l-emedied by 21 ... P-N3 because or 22 III a critical position, a slip comes N-B3 followed by 23 BxN. easily. This move makes matters worse. The chauces are in the balance. So does 27 ... B-Q2 28 R-N6 and 27 ... 21 . . . . P-K5 B-B2 28 R-N6 or 27 ... Q- Q2 28 BxB, This is an abortive action. Black PxB 29 N-B5. Q_B1 29 .... ought to proceed with 21 ... QR-Bl ot' Of Black's possibllities, best of the SO Rj5xBt P,R 21 ... N-K2 in order to get his house bad lot is 27 ... R- Kl. WhUe th en main­ 31 Q-K7 mate in proper shape. tains his advantage with 28 P-K3, BxB 22 PxP p,p 29 NxB, Q- Q2 30 R-Ql, Q- N2 31 RxB, 23 BxKP N-K4 RxR 32 B-Q5 and 32 .. ' QR-Kl 33 N-K4! Now, indeed, Black's positiou looks NEW YORK 1962 or 32 ... Q-KB2 33 Q- K4. promislug. But that impression quickly 28 RxB! B-Q5 Marshall Chess Club Championship wanes under 'White's energetic couuter­ strokes. Or 28 ... Q- Q2 29 NxP, Q-Q7 30 QxQ, Hedgeho9 versus Bind RxQ 31 BxQNP, R- Nl 32 N-K4, and To establish a bind is one thing, but White wins. to go tram there and overwllelm tlIe op· 29 P-K3! • • • • ponent's lledgehog position is another. Now 'White wins at least two minor Such positions, for all their modest ap· pieces for a Rook, also some Pawns. The pearance, have great resistive power, fight is over. though handling them properly requires 29 . . . . Q- Q2 33 QxP Q-N1 great skill. "'''hite shows a lot of such 30 PxB Q,R 34 B-Q5t K-N2 skill in this game, and that is why his 31 PxN QxKP 35 Q-Q4t K_R3 ultimate success won him a special prize. 32 BxQNP R-R2 36 N-B5 R-Q3 37 N_K6 ENGLISH OPENING • • • • With a little threat of mate. Sidney Bernstein Edmar Mednis 37 . . . . R,. White Black 38 QxR • • • • 1 N-KB3 P-QB4 7 R-QN1 P-QR4 That threat again! 2 P-B4 N-QBS 8 0-0 0-0 38 •..• Q-N2 3 P-KNS P_KNS 9 P-Q3 P-Q3 39 QxQ R,Q 4 B_N2 6-N2 10 N-K1 B-K3 Resigns 5 N-B3 P_K4 11 N-B2 P-Q4 40 K-N2 6 P-QRS KN-K2 12 PxP N,P Actually, Black played 40 . . . R-N3 This Is one or many widely varying "Run along to bed now, Dad. Ian and and resigned latel". openings which sail under the flag of the I want to play some blindfold chess." For addItional game, see page 3&4. 376 CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1962 Activities of C H ESS R E VI EW Po.ta l Chen JACK STRALEY BATTEll player,: g a me reports &. ra t ings , n a mes of new player •• prIJe-wlnners, selected gam es. Postal Chess Editor toumey Inat..... c tloll. &. ed ito r ia l comme nt.

MERRY CHRIST MAS, POSTAL ITES rent Postal Mo r tell1S : J . H . Marica.. R. C. Class Tou r naments l\'ow In \'Iew or Ill a il !'Ush a t Xmas Young. J . D. :\ Ioore. I. Girard . 1-'. J . .\" a r ... ~ull of ~" I'r"nl P ostal Mo r tem s. kindly f ile no t im e com plaints from O I";". 1";) ,,,,,I I'r. ~ C I "~", Tour­ lip. anyway. Send moves. reply to those 1-'. Peretti. D. Woodruff. R. R. Coveyoll. ,,,,m,,,,,,,, received : but. if you don·t get replies. E. L. Bergen . M. T. Sm ith . M. B. Keady. To urneys PI~yer S PIll lo" ook ...... ~t 4 ·1 'r 0 )IU!'I)h y ...... <\ ~4') ~ Golden Knights Tournaments A . Kltplan ( 2). L N. S ha ffe!. P. Va htn­ '" '" Ii ~ 1 "S'llIU't .. . . ____ . __ ... ·2 4 ·2 danl. C. K Gu ill e ll anti J. F. P a rrish. '" \\. H . I MHl~ .. __ ... . ____ -2 ~ .! 11th Annual Championship H elen Ii: H - 1 In the 1959·60 Golden Knights. no new R 1" F't'ee"'''" ...... 1-2 -I ·2 1" Cohen ...... l.-1 J.' H Beer ...... 2.5 3-3 V Vallce ...... ,,)-" .-,·1 In t he 1960-1 Golden Kn ights. the fo l· A H Dock ray ...... 2· 5 3 -3 '"'351 T A O ra ke ...... 1_2 5 -I lowing poslalltes have q ualified for a s­ M Pa.ln ...... %· 5 3 -3 P Krlllter ...... 1_2 ~ - J signment to the F ina ls: A. S tys, H. M. Mrs :'Ii G Stephens ...... %-5 3-3 P J Barn,,,," ...... I-~ I ~ - I I R H He r",,,,, ...... I·~ Avram. P. Kontautus. E. L. Bergen, GI . P H E L Bergen ...... Ist 4~- 1 ~ '" t-{ Derring ...... 2nd 5 - 2 3i4 E A Hur,l ...... I~. "-I~· I'I ~ J . Mayer. It. E. Glen. J . Christma n. H. 33 W P F'''''orlte ...... 1-2 5- 1 J C ISole" ...... l~l 5 • I Ro~e n ~welg. C. He mphill . J . H . Dunkle L S W a r<:! ...... 1·2 S - 1 '"377 E l3er lhoud ...... l~l 6 ·iI (2). H . Car r. W. L. Ea stman. M. L. Pel'1!8. 33 :I( Boysen ...... 1st 5 -1 J Boldl ...... 1~1 .; • I J It Bra ll" ...... I~t .> ·1 A. Donlns. J. E. BIschoff a nd G. Ban· R A G!l.rgall ...... 2. ~ ~- 2 '"'86 E B K"!I."'er ...... 2· ~ 4-2 398 ::"I( T '"1;""'" ...... _.. 1.•• ~ .(0 croft. .\( D LIS!l.nsk y ..• ...... 2.·1 j-2 .nO R II' .\lIe hl c ...... l~. 6 ·0 Also. the fo llowing qualify to t he Sem i· 3j 0 W Hall ...... 1-3 ~ - I 133 (} ,.' Lal'\lu"Q ...... 1~1 5 • I 5 • I finals : R. J . Blakemore , F . Ashley a nd J H Seewald ...... ) .3 5- 1 (} 1 - [ A ' 't'J~O'' ...... I~l C .\I Wal l~ ...... 1·3 5- 1 '"I~O .r C 'J'h) '~oC \1 ...... I~t 5 ·1 T . SlIur rell. Besides. K. Pra nsky a nd ·19 C A Green ...... 1$1 5 -1 · I~ 2 f' E Am~''''z ...... I.it , ., H . N. Falk should have been listed ear­ T .\Iassengale ...... 2.3 H -H 6~·C Hastings, C, Henry, Margaret Hyde, \V. R. Jackson. Started in 1961 ("Key: 61·C) Arthur. R. Atkinson, D. B. Audrain, B. J. Kleiman. E. Kovalik, Julia Larsen, J. R. Notice: All games in Sl-C 1 throu li\" h 61-e 40 Balley. G. Barker, G. P. Bates, '1'. Baugh­ Leach, B . Leek, J. Lemke. F. J. Liberman, (those started in January 1961) must be re­ man. H. E, Beatt~', N. Beckman, B. Belden. C, T, Llndenfelser. l'rf. Lutz, Gloria F. Man_ ported next month, or the unreported games C. S. Bennington, B. Brown, D. \V. Brown, wlll be double-forfeited. Check now and, M. F. Burns, B. Burstyn, J. E. Carr, G. L. ley. H. Marquez, R. D. 1IIcConnell, R. :\Ic­ if not really sure any of your games in Christey. R . Clarkson, D. Colman, S. J. Cormick, D. Menzies, R. Xester. E. Nicolini, these tourneys were reported, send us a list Conley, T. Connors, M. Cooper. :M. Coveyou. Mrs. L. Perry. L . F. Peters. D. Queen, .T. Vl. of your resnlts with names of opponents and L. ';I,'. Crompton. Helen Czerwinski, R. D ' An­ Raasoch, P. A. Rie.. T. Schaller, J. F . tourney number. If opponent Is not reply­ gelo, A. Dorin. D. K. Doren, W. A. Doug­ Serpico, L. Shapiro, J. Sills, L. Singer, V. ing report so! las. H. DUncanson, H. H. Dupler, D. Q. Stack, A . Taylor. T. Twaiten, J. Tygllm, S. Tourneys 1 .369: 74 Stewart stops Lawson. Eason, A. M. Ehrman. Marion C. Elling­ \Valsh, F. C. \Vatson. Mr~ . H. 'Weiser, E. '1' . wood, J . . I. E111ott, G. D . Erickson, R. Williams, l'rI. C. \Vilson, J. L. Woodard anel 127 ErtlCe bests Rene. 151 Friedman, Selove S. P. ""right. tie. 153 Donaldson downs Hibbs. 15~ Woest l","and, M. H. Freedman, R. H. Garner. C. tops Koeppen twice, lG5 Fairbank tops Garwood, H. Gazln, D. Gieber, R. E . Glass, Mezey twice. 178 Nardlno nips Winer. 181 J, H. Gonzalez, J. Goo, W. E. Gossett, K. R. Yoakum withdraws. 183 Gellert. Gleason tie. Graeff, L. D. Graham, C. Gray, J. Grefe, RETURN POSTS 211 Belman bests Slattery; Wilson tops Slat­ R. Gre(e, W. O. Hageman. R. Herbst, L. The following old- timers returned to tery twice. 215 Barnard bests Jackson. 232 HliUng, V. D. HoUmatl, J . S. Holden, D. K. Postal Chess during October at their former First. Jackson tie twice. 2S5 Oldenburg Holian, J. A. HOUston, Suzanne Hunter, B. ratings: E. F . Jansson 796 ; J. Lanigan 994: be~ts Keith. 241 Cowan jolts Jacob. 250 J ensen, D. Johnson, G. Johnson, G, Josen A. l\laeda 8G6; A. W. Richardson 1034; G. Rodemich bests Macormac. 262 Clark With­ A. Keiser, M. Kern, Mrs. F. B. Koblitz, J. Savary 930: S. J. Taylor 664; A. Van Gelder drawn. 267 Rodemich, Smith tie. 2G8 Arch- Kolar, H. Kolin, F. Kolton, S. Krause, E. R. 1126; and J. D. Young l140. 378 CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1962 find (a) Brflvennan. III Joseph stops Steel. Tourneys 1 - 109: 12 CO"eyou, NOl·th t ie. 31 115 Hannah bests Clark~on but bows to \\'erner bests Bergen. 33 Gargan ~tops Step­ CHESS BY MAIL O'Hearn. IIG Gordon withdrawn. Its Goss­ hens. 5(} Bailey wlthdra\\"~ . 5S COtl!:"hlin willer whips Sappenfield. 1]9 Westbrook. nips \'annater. G~ Jacob Jolt.'< Green!:"n .. d. If you have not played in our tourneys "'leNown split two. \21 Rilter tops (211.) 6~ !Jennett withdrnwn. 71 "'Iiller halts Herp­ before, please speeify in whieh elass you Rlehard. 123 Chosak beats Palermo ami mann. 72 Pla"cn" lies sehwntt~ "nd Ren­ would like to start. We recommend Burton. 12~ Harri30n top~ (2a) AgUs. U~ ham. 73 Cury withdrawn! .lamison. SehWllrl" Scha{f()1 downs Gottsegen. 127 Bancroft. tie. 76 Archer tops (0 Xelso,,: CHIl"n he~l~ Class A for unusually strong players, Butland beat Burnette. 128 Anders downs l\Ioser. 78 Russell. \Ve!\ Ue. 82 1'hom~ . Class B for above average players, Class KlImer. 132 Hynes halts .Tankowsky twice. Schwartl: tie. 85 \Valker whip~ Smith. 86 C for about average players and Class 133 Chester withdraws, drops (a) to Pit". Newkirk tops Erdman: Stal'k downs Alex­ 13 .. Ritter !.>(lsts Gifford: Salonen withdrawn. ander. S~ Chase tops (f) Arnold. 90 P"vitt D for below average. If you have played. 137 Blelfeldt beats Best. H(} Caceres halts stops P1scher; }'I~rica tops (a) Stonehurner. please state your probable rating. Halsey. HI Lovell loses to Needleman but n Spade, Joseph jolts Gonsnlves: Joseph Mail proper entry coupon below, or !.>(lstll Kearney. IH \\'ojtowle;;: tops (20 bests Chase. 93 Brandt beats Chen. 96 Dcv­ copy of it, to CHESS REVIEW, 134 West Adams; Faires tops (a) Moystner. H6 Alex­ e,·eaux. Smith tie. 97 Stark stops BOIl\·let. ander downs Harna()h. 141 Keleher halts 99 Thompson loses to Birsten but ties Zun­ 72d Street, New York 23, New York, Harris. ker. 100 Holt halts \\'heeler. 103 Gotham lopS (a) Kapp. \O~ SpItzer tops Wlna",~. l()~ Tourneys 150. 199: 15() )JcDowell dowlls )fau­ CLASS TOURNAMENT Bauer bests Greif. lOG Bellaire, Cha~e tie. tel. 152 Clark halts Hedrlek. 156 Ha)\'S bestll 109 Owens withdrawn. Start playing ehess by mail NOW! Burgeu. 158 Bullard bea.ts Berman. 159 Clark Enter one of the 4 man groups. downs Bruckbauer. l6~ Boynton tops Cas­ Tourneys 110 - 126; ll(} Aaroe. Johnson jolt tator twiCe. 165 "'Iala.!an stops Flanagan. Remer; Johnson whips 'V'llvers. III Stys You will be assigned to a section with 167 Page outpolntll Seymour. 169 Erdman loses to Grosky but tops '''ilsan and Ben­ 3 other players about eC!ual to yourself nett: \\'l1son halts Humphrey. 113 Lien beats bests Brand. 170 "'Iltchell, Haisley halt Ker­ in playinIJ skill. You play both White eUla: )!ltchen tops Rodemlch twice. 171 Bonforte. 11-1 Ramsey, l\lotlchkll. best l'.Iul­ Pnrker. Stern tie. 174 Hazard tops (20 lin. U5 "IeGulre tops Todd. tlG Waivers and Black a'Jainst the other three. You Gottschall. 1St Ostrower stops Hedrick whips Fleming. 119 Latino and "On l(lelst play all six Qames simultaneously, two twice. 185 O'Hearn halts \\'lIIls. ISG Dla· best 'Vheeler; Marples, von Kleist beat games on one set of postcards. "'IcKen"le. 120 Plus bows 10 Van Schoor but mond and Sloane each top Probst twice: Your game results will be recorded and Sloane bests Diamond and GUbert. IS7 Hol­ bests Sl~le. 121 MSlrShall Io..~es to Wa.slliew ocher halt6 Elmllnger. IS~ Schechter. Chiero and Joaska and ties Gelbard: ,\Habad bests published in CHESS REVIEW as well as top Th~'sell: Schechter bests Chlero. Ut Beuder. 12~ Appleton and Yanls nip Kalod­ your postal ehess rating. Kollmer tops Graham twice. 192 Cislo ner; Appleton outpoints Yanls; l~lng. Levy The entry fee is only $1.50. You may bests 'Velghtman once. Pantazl twice. 19G tie. 125 Norberg nips Wallace. 12G Seville Barnard tops Slyker, tie6 Brand. halts H!!Is; Koblit~, Hills down Dunkelberg; enter as many sections as you please at Hll1s tops Lee. $1.50 each. Gena coupon below. Tourneys 200·372: 201 Morrison defeats Rodemlch. 203 Healy tops ;\lcNown twice. 2(}5 Beekman bests Herwig. 206 Rels, Fox, Started In 1962 (Key: 62-P) r:------.., CHESS REVIEW D Chuk if " II"u;_ Gleason outpoint Pierce: Rels tops, then Tourneys 1· 19: 1 Lodato downs Delk. 2 134 W. 72d St.. COllln /() Post,,! Che"J I tIes Gleason. 211 Daniels downs Brand. 212 \Vard bests Seeley but bow~ to Secord. 3 Po­ I New York 23, N. Y. Pelegrl withdraws. 217 Pelegrl withdraws. li![O outpoints Bellamy: Sklarevsky tops 221 De Moraes downs Scarplnato. 222 Miller Sheet?. 5 Reeder bests Beer: Burke beat" replacu O·Rellly. 225 Beckham bests Rog­ Turgeon. 7 Farmer jolts Juha!! and King; I I enclose $ ...... Enter my name in I stad twice: Peterson withdraws. US ClatOl' Fi~cher tops King. 8 Cotter bows to Ap­ ...... (how many?) sections of your tops S8.$scer. 229 Lancour, Strom and pleton but bests Carr: Brat? beats Carr. I Postal Chess CLASS Tournaments. The KraUII$ best Van Schoor, 231 Herman re­ 9 Wll!Iams beats Thoms but bow" to Scott; amount enclosed COVers the entry fee of I placu Silverberg. 23·1 :'Iarklewlcz replaces Lamon downs Bnyes. 10 B\lrgM ~ stops Lei­ $1.50 per section. Kindly start/continue I Thomas. 239 Hough halts Ross. 246 Va.n weke. 11 Spohr be~ts Beer. Hnlt bllt bows I (strike out one) me in Class ...... Schoor tops Lee. 252 Canfield halts Hutch­ to Plemel; Wilson halts Hauptmann. 12 eson twice. 257 \Vestwlck whips Holdcroft. Sinclair stops Young. U Carr loses to INAME.·· .. ········ . . ···· ...... I 259 Angstenberger. Jackson tIe. 261 Trot­ l!~alc\lccl: Edwards bests Semenlw but bows tier trIps Caso. 271 Canfield replaces Tal_ to Hassler; Hlber halt" Sandlen. 14 Julson ADDRESS ...... I bot. 320 Champion replaces Gossett. 328 jolts Greenwalt and Chambers; Green~\'alt I Waraksa replaces Burlltyn. 346 Boynton re­ tOI"l Pronhelser: 'Vitte nips NiChols. 15 ...... ______STATE ...... :...1 places Roberlson. Reamer lOPS Merrm: Farmer downs Dot}'. 16 Helper. Gtkow tie; Arden tops Schwarz. ties Tockman. 17 Batson bests Lodato and Galssert: Friedman beats Gaissert tlnd Bat­ PRIZE TOURNAMENT son. IS Spohr ties Faires and tOI)S Eastman; PRIZE TOURNJiMENTS Start playing eheas by mail NOW! 7 man tourneys for p,,*miums Liu downs Smith. Tourney. 20·39: 20 Slavlch wins from Enter one of the 7 man groups. }'eather: Sabelskl bows to Slavich but bests You will be assigned to a section with Started in 1960 (Key: 60~P) Olson. 21 Pertschuk nips Nasca: Diamond a.ix other players about equal to your. Notice: To avoid having overdue. um'eported down~ Edwards. 22 Alexander, Carr defeat self in playing skill. You play White games double_forfeited. check 1I0W to be DaVis: Fll\'orite. Carr best }'Iartin. 23 Gel­ sure all your results accomplished so far !ish halls Hoagland. 24 Brown !.>(lalS Mul­ against three of your opponents, Black In 60-P Tourneys have been both reported ler; Klelnlch ulps Ch!lton, Agne w. 25 Mas­ against the other three_and you play and publlshed In postal Mortem.. If not. sic, Montgomery tie. 26 Boshen tops (0 all six games simultaneously. report them at once: If not sure, you can Goodman: Fichtner downs Cohen. 27 Keith send summary of all results In that tour­ nips Knight, B"bb: Boeth. Crh'y best Babb. You stand a good chance of winning nament. 2S l3elo"e.~ick, Schimel lie; Ehu!teln bests a prize, too! Credits of $6.00 and $3.00 Tourneys close after two years allowed Orba.nowski. 30 Aks trips Citron. 31 Barker are awarded to 1st and 2d plaee winners for plaY, and all results must be In this bests Pittman. 32 Harris tops Nasca and in each seetion. Credits may be used to month for all 1960 tourneys. ties Schofield, Goldwasser and Dean: Ber­ geu bests Schofield: Vorpagel outpoints purehase chess books or equipment. Tourneys 1 _ 122: U Christian d( wIth Nasca. 33 Hamilton beats Schwab but bows The entry fee is only $2.75. You may Devereaux and with Thomll. 94 Freeman to Boeth. 34 Griffen bests Bush. 36 Roselle enter al many sections as you please at downs Clodfelter: Capp, Miller df. 95 Sha­ tops Parry. 37 Simon bows to Gnllsln but piro, Wade dr. 9& Rusho. Van Dam dl. bests Abbotts. 38 Llmarzl wins from East­ $2.75 eaeh. Send eoupon below. 97 Gariepy ctr with DI Paolo and with man. and Thifault from Aks. Harper. ~S Dillon, Shosteck d(. ~9 Peck Tourneys 40· 69: ~O ;\lIehaels. Mott tie: r.------, CHESS REVIEW Cherk if a '/eU'- df with Adams and with Derr. 101 \Verner Terpening withdraws. 41 Langsdale downs 0 wins from Rufr. 10Z Padelrord, Wernicke Smidchens. 42 Caj'r bows to Thoms. Cole but I 134 W. 72d St.. collier 10 POJla! Cho s.< I d(. 103 Jef(rey dt with Collins, Haml1ton bests :Mersereau: Mersereau Wins from New York 23, N. Y. and Newltt: Collins, Newltt df. 10~ Beer PaVitt. Hall. Cole. 43 Hawkinson defests df with 1-"'8.ln, Schroeder and Stephens. 106 Harnach and Best: Harna.ck, HOglund tic. I I enclose $ ...... Enter my name in I HUnting. Norsel1 tie. H Plever !.>(lsts Lodato and Orbanowski; ...... (how many?) sections of your I Lodato lOPS :\:IattUl'!, 45 Sumner wins from Postal Chess PRIZE Tournaments. The Started in 1961 (Key: 61~P) Spohr. 16 Eldridge tops Fishman. 48 Baker I amount encloud covers the entry fee of Notice: AI! games in 61-P I throlll;h 61-P bests Morris but bows to Van Kamen. 49 $2.75 per section. Kindly start/continue I 11 (those started in January 1961) must be Ha.le beats Boehme Il.nd Po1!l1o: polmo whips I (strike out one) me i!1 Class ...... reported next month, or the unreported EntWistle. 50 O'Hearn halts COr" \Ves­ lett. 28 Blumenthal whips \\'alrath: Christ­ FINALS (Key: 5O.Nf) ley. 126 Grlbushin tops Gel1,.. 127 Schaffel man tops Richter. Sections 1 . 7: 2 Zalys nips Kellner. 3 iUnlr top~ Terry and Freeman but ties Becker. bests Kucera. 5 Rubis beats Gnade. 129 Carleton halts O·Hearn. 130 Stephan and 'Vood wbip Crandall; }'rank stops 12th Annual Championship-1958-9 Steward. 131 Burton be"t~ Bel]. 132 Less SEMI·FINALS (Key: 58.Ns) 15th Annual Championship-1961-2 loses to I3igler and ties Von Hagel; \ViI· Sections 1·74: 51 I3urdick. Schmitt tie. PRELIMINARY ROUND (Key: 61.N) IIams tops BancrOft. ties Jamison. 133 AI'O bests .\'\cAleer; Thornton beats Hauptmann. FINALS (Key: 58.Nt) Sections 1·49: 1 Meglis. Tremblay tie. 134 Schaeffer tops Tlmmln~ . 135 Ashley. 2 Davis. Kelly tie. { Butler tops Huber. .\-[orris top Martin; Virglel withdrawn. 131l Sections 1 ·29: 17 Thompson. \Valters tie. tie$ Ziegler. 6 Thomas tops }.... "ber. S Dest IS Linder downs Miller. 21 Agnew. \Vise· Herbst halts .Me~·ers. 137 Ihll)lnstein and beats Peck. 10 Von Saleskl ties Lynch but Feller withdrawn. 139 Belisle beats Schaf· garver, Kendall j01t Jameson; Kendal!. tops Dean. 11 Kamholtz withdrawn. 12 Wisegarver tie. 23 Mangels tops Crites. 25 fel. HO .\[oltch'l"of( tops Koffman. lit Peretti. .\rcAndre"· stop Stephens; Peretti Valandani bests Goodale. Ha.TI)eI· and Skla­ Gibbs halts Hardy. 26 Rawlins tops (f) bests Bellamy. 20 Von Saleski downs Van Percival. re\'ski; Goodale ties Rowen but loses to Skla­ Dragt. 21 Johnson. Kaufman tie. 23 Wood· revski. 142 Clark, Hubbard halt Roberts. ruff whip5 Miller. 24 COVe}'OIl halts Hedrick. t44 Pio::he. Crowley. Patterson hall Harrison; 13th Annual Championship 1959-60 2;; Al'Ialer downs Condon. 58 \\'estwick whips bests Ognl; Dnyton downs Ashley. H Pol· 178 Schmidt beats Bertram. 18·1 Bedwell Erlck~on. 61 Fehlandt. Herrick tie. 63 gar whips Walloch. J5 Fitllow stops Pavitt. bests Bender. t85 Little tops (f) Dunn. 190 Katzenstein. 16 Lawrence tops Tallmadge Le<:>nard withdrawn. 65 Thurman lo~es to \Vlght whips Brown. 191 Beck replaces Pe­ Asch but downs Van de Carr; Jamison and Brown; Brown ties Tallmadge but loses terson. 197 Edwards replaces Springer. 200 Jolts 'Wouters. 66 Davis. .\-[yer halt Hunt. Johnson replaces Facone. 205 Neff replaces to Daly. 17 Stormo stops Gordon. 18 Kneer· G7 Correction: Fuchs WOn from Stephens. earn tops (ll Niel~en; Johnson Jolts McLen· Da.rling. 218 Mueller replaces Plotz. 220 70 Burley bests Schmeckpeper. Pamphrey; Prattes replaces Kelley. nan. 19 Mayer oo~ts Marica. 23 Sherr reo i>lonson downs Daly. Burley alld Pamphrey. places Miller. 71 Derrlng tcps (a) Plotz. 72 Karten •.Tacob SEMI.FINALS (Key: 51·NI) beat Bowman. HAlberts. Myer b~sts Vult­ Sections 1· 18: 2 Bailey withdraws. 3 14th Annual Championship 1960-1 kus; Myel' tops (n) Montecillo. 75 Cashion. Gording withdraws; ".. ranson tops (a) Gord­ Stern tie. 77 CapiUon ties Ognl but loses to ing. 5 Clay withdraws. 8 Nllsser nip~ \\'ar­ PRELIMINARY ROUND (Key; GO·N) Lldral. 78 \Villiams bows to Rich but best!! aksa. JO Cra,,'ford. GOldstein tie. 1.,oughton. 79 Chase halts Howell; Anderson .~'.'.m bows to Chase but bests \Vhite. Sections 80·99: SO Kilmer. Ross win from Schiebel; Bournias bests Ross. 82 Leinweber 195 Townsend halts Hickler. 83 Dean downs Lee; Anderson bests Dillon tops Todd, ties Lense. 84 Post tops Pea· . 201 Buelow cock; Ramls downs Clark. 85 Hoggan halts Plummer. Orndoff. 81 Parson. Elliot outpOint Carr. SEMI·FINALS (Key: SO·Ns) 88 Slav!ch whips Warren. 89 Hawks halts Wilson; Stableford bows to Bender but bests Sections 1· 39: 1 Stauffer stops Crowder. Holdsworth. 90 Massengale withdraws. 91 5 Stys tops Kendall. 6 Hardman halts Miles, Tuttle tops Otis. Schwarz; Gordon, Otis Hoglund. 10 Eldridge. Harris tie. 11 Step· dO~"n Schwan. 92 MeLennan bests \VI1~on han downs Dav!s. 16 Lanam halts Hoglund. but bo.ws to Fontenrose; Vittes tops McLen· 17 Mayer tops Bergen. ties Kucera, Bergen. nan and Gross. 93 McGettigan, Robinson and Weiss tie. 18 Katzenstein. Williams tie. Kopley best Berthoud; Smith smites KOP­ 19 Kat? defeats Coveyou. 22 Glen, Stark ley; Robinson beats Voker; Lancaster with­ tie. 24 Everett. Hoench, Christman and drawn. 95 Angrlck stops Steward: Wood· Morris top Press. 27 Limarzl halts Hayes. house downs Deschaine: Slavlch bests Be$\. 28 Rosenzweig bests Baker. Congleton. 30 96 Dagenais withdrawn. 97 Bourke bests Walrath tops (a.) Burger. 31 Cove~'ou Bauman; Boynton beats McKenzie but bows downs Buckendor!. Asplund. 33 Carr beats to Sullinger; Aten tops Sullinger. !l8 Gesner Mann but bows to Pohl; Addleston downs wins (rom Michaels. Smith. U Custer lops Loring. 3ii Dunkle defeats Jablokow. 36 Dunkle bests Alberts; Sections 100· 124: tOl Fairbank, SteInbach Peretti. 37 Dunkle downs \Vright and Pohle; stop Thoma!!. 102 Met>: tops Algase. tie~ Chace bests SpMe but bows to Pohle. 38 Krllmhoi>:; Algase, Krumholz down Cal·r. 103 Goichberg halts HUbbard; Dubois downs Koblitz halts Hall. lOt Herman bows «) Hingst. ~Iatson but bests Miller. 105 Tamulinll$ top" 380 CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, \962 2S NxR N-N5 8 pxp KN-Q2 POSTAL GAMES This move threatens several things: s .. . N- N5 9 B-N5t secures a strong 24 . . . Q-R2, 24 ... R-KBl, 24 ... N-K6 advantage for \Yhite. from CHESS REVIEW tourneys and 24 . . . N-B7t. 9 P-K6 PxP 24 Q-NS N- B7t 9 . .. N-Kt 10 B- N5t, Q",-B3 11 Pxp"r. Our Postal players 25 K-R2 B- B8! l{xP 12 O-Ot, B-B3 is somewhat better. are Invited to sub. Th, threat ;, mate, ,nd 26 R,B 1, 10 NxP BxNt mit their BEST no defense either. 11 pxB Q-R4 games for this 26 N/2- N1 Q-R2t department. The Not 11 ... Q-",3 12 B-QB~, N-KB3 13 27 N-R4 N- N5t R-QN1!! QxR 14 K- B7t. K-B1 15 Q-Q8t, moves of each 28 K-Rl' game must bo • • • • N-K] ]6 QxN,. K- X2 1i Q-I37 mate. written on a stand­ 12 Q-Q4 N-KBS ard score sheet, 13 N-N7t .... or typed on a Now Black cannot castle,

CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1962 381 Annucr' 'n'dex to Where to Play Chess (Cbess Club Directory) .. 12, 34, &6. 98, 130, 162, 194, 226, 2&4, 313, 340, 354 World of Chess '(Chess news collattd by T. A. Dunst) 3, 35. CHESS REVIEW 67, 99. 131, 163, 195. 2%7, %59 , 291, :U3, 355 VOL 30, No.1 to 12 JANUARY to OECEMBER, 1962 PAGES 1 to 384* MEMORIALS Attitlo 01 Camillo ...... • .. .. •.. . •• .. . . •• . ..•...... 101 ARTICLES Beginning on V'Incent L'amus E aton ...... • ...... • .. ..• . ...•...... 190 Page Ernst Gruenfeld ...... •.. . .•....•...... 207 And Now Vidmar (Memorial) by Hans Kmoch ...... 367 A. TUrner ...... • . .. .•. . ..• . ...•... . •...... 856 Arizona's Dean of Chess ...... , ...... , ...... 270 MIlan Vidmar ...... •....•....•....•...•...... 367 By Way of Correction by Edward Lasker ...... 16 Farce VI Farce by Hans Kmoch •...... 328 Fischer Forge. Forward by Jack Stl'aley Ba.ttell ...... 104 SERIALS Fischer Speaks Out by Jack Straley Hattell ...... •• 296 CilIndldates Tournament at Curacao ...... 189, 217, %33. %75 From Riga. to Viadivostock by Vuslly Panov ...... _170 Interzonal Tournament at Stockholm ...... 104, 136 Ernst Gl"'Uenfeld (Memorial) by Hans Kmoeh ...... 207 Evans Wins Championship by Jack Straley Battel! _...... 55 Hastinga 1961_62 by Bruce Hayden ...... 72 STORIES The Initiative Exemplified by Daniel Fidlow ...... 302 International Team Tournament by Jack Straley BatteH .. 381 Brilliancy Prize! by Bruce Hayden ...... 82 Manhattan Chess Club Championship by Hana Kmoch .... 118 The Cale of the Dumb Cluek by Jack Straley BatteH .... 174 Mobility V8. Material by Edward Luker ...... 116 The Moriarty Gambit by Fritz Leiber ...... 45 Mosa_Covered Tourneys by M. Moss ...... 71 The MY8tery of the Senile Quadruplet. by Don Maron .... 241 My Eighth Game with Tahl by Borls Spanky ...... 148 The Old Pro by Robert Coveyou ...... , ...... 258 My First Victory against SmY810v by Mark Talm&. nov .... 50 A Quiet Game in Germantown In 1762 by John Harbeson .. 18 New World Ch8mpionship Program ...... 322 Oh, But It Did Happen There! by Fred M. Wren . . , ...... 176 PetrosYlln Top. Curacao by Jack Straley Battell ...... 233 INDEX OF PLAYERS Setlo at Senlac by Arthur B. Bis&:uler ...... 48 Stocktaking on Stockholm by Jack S traley BatteU ...... 136 Agnew v Ladackl 213. Bronar v Austin 27. They're "OfI " at Curacao by Jack Siraley Battell ...... • 189 Alekhine v Tenner 114, Gons· Byrne 0 v Smyslov 218. Ge­ They're Where at CuraCilO? by Jack Straley Ba tteli ...... 217 slorovsky 144, Feldt. Fisch· bauer 372, Magasuren 373. The Tragedy at Chell Review ...... 356 er 175, Vidmar 369. Byrne, R. v Sberwin 57, Evans USCF Open Won by Medina by Jack Straley Battell .. . .. 314 Angstenberger v Frankart 61. 85, Ragan 312, Sandrln 350. Vincent LaniU8 Eaton (Memol"ial) by P. L. Rothenberg ... 190 Anonymous (also Amateur, Beginner, N.N. etc.) v Hub· Calvo Y Langeweg 168. DEPARTMENTS bard 64, Najdor! 115, Krejclk Camara v Fiori 23. 144. Capablanca v Ret[ 103. Announee the Mate! (Quiz) ...... 1 Austin v Bronar 27. Carr v Master 258. Chess Caviar (Game Brevitles) ...... 321 Averkin v Vltollns 171. Chernlkov v Nezhmedlnov Chell Bisc:ults (by Blsgnlel·) ...... " ...... -is Avram v Keppler 29. 375. Cheucboard MaliJic! ...... 19, 81 , 154. 211 , %66. 330, 365 Cothr l' Kowalski 3%0. Che .. QuI:! ...... 33. 65. 129. 161. 193, 225. 251. 289. 321 , 353 B;!IlItlnov y Tatayev 17l. Cron8berg v Jacobson )(5. Che .. Vignettes ...... 38, 88, 159, 22~ . 241. 267, 358 Barua y Fischer 106. Cuellar v Geller llO. ~i~·'·' · .m Barden v Botvlnnik 97. Finishing Touch (by Walter Korn) ...... 8.52.78.113, 1H, Barstatls v TabJ 172. Dadlan v Bitcham 321. 173, 201, 244, 265. 297, 331, 36.( Bartram v Franklin 19. Darga v Spassky 360. Game of the MOnth (by Dr. M. Euwe) ...... -&0 , 74. 146, 168, Becker v Labrie 29. Davld80n v Walrath 252. 268, 300, 360 Benko v Mednis 86, Shapiro Denker v Pinkus 39, Siegal Games from Recent Events (annotated by Hans Kmoch) 20, 118. Geller 140. Blsguler 18!), 119. 84. 97, 150, 184, 236, 274. 306, 345. 372, 384 Filip, Flscber 218, Tahl 219, De Riviere v Journoux 173. How to Win In the Ending (by Dr. M. Euwe) ... 10, 20.(, 236 Petrosyan 223, FIlIp 277, Tabl Donner v Robatsch 153, Pet­ Miscellanea (more important of small, odd, out ot place 278, Fiecber 308, Keres 349. rosyan 31)0. Items .. 36, 37, 39, 69 , 100, 145, 166. 200, 314, 352, 356, 363 Berliner v Hearst 23. DUbal. v Weissman 160. On the Cover ...... 4. 55, 68, 104, 131, 163, 195, 233, Bern.teln v Hearst 154, Med­ Dueck.teln v Keller 307. 260, 292, 3%4 nls 376. Duff v Essen IH. Postal Chen (Cbess·by·Mall DepL) .... 28, 60. 89, Ul, 156, Bertok v Fischer 108, Pet· Dunn v Popov 76. 180, 212, 248, 281. 316, an, 377 rosyan 111. Durkin ,. Pinkus 361. Poatal Che .. Games (annotated by J . W . Colllns) .... 29, 61, Bialas v Joppen 24. 180, 213, 252, 320, 381 Bielicki v Parma 237. EII8kues v Rossetto 238. Postill Cheas Ratings .... 1961 : 89, 121; mld·year: 253, 281 Bilek v Fischer 107, Pomal' Engel. v Tsvetkov 78. ProbJemart (QUiz) ...... 53. 114, 172, 303 146. Engll.ch v Paulsen 321. Readers' Forum (Letters) .... 1. 33, 65. 129, 161, 193, 225, Br.guier v Robatsch 48, GlI­ Ephron v Preisinger 119. 257, 289 gorlch 109, Littlewood 151, E8sen v Duct 174. Readers' Game. '(annotated by I. A. Horowitz) ...... 26, 76, Robatsch 152, Benko 185. Euwe v Najdort 333. 269, 370 Bitcham v Dadlan 321. Evan8 v Hearst 58, R. Byrne Review. Point of View ...... 353 Blake v Hooke 114. 85, Lombardy 279,280,310,311. Solitaire Chen (Quire) ...... 11 , 39, 9&, 103. 149. 192, 206, Blumenthal v McGunnlgJe 252. %73 , 301, 333, 361 Boczar y Skladel 371. Feldman v Wile 370. Spotlight on Openings (by Dr_ M. Euwe) ..... 13. 42, 80, 142, Bolbochan v Fischer 139. Feldt Y Alekbine 175. 178, 210, 246, 271, 304, 334, 362 Book v Szabo 11. Fernandez v PIllsbury 114. Bornholz y Kause 26. Fldlow v Katz 302. Botv[nnlk y Barden 97, Ols· Fielding v Lipnowski 27 . • AU numb

CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1962 383 Spielmann v Nimzovich 145. rosyan. Benko 278, Fischer Tuttle v Grosky 320. Walrath v Davidson 252. Stahmann v Herberger 145. 308. Weinberger v Walden 120. Stein v Portisch 138, Yanof­ Taimanov v Smyslov 50. Uhlmann v Yanofsky 184. Weinstein v Kramer 59, Seid­ sky 186. Tan v Langeweg 363. Valvo v Weinstein 240. man 155, Turner 188, Valvo Steinitz v Sands 321. Tarnowski v Mednis 374. Van de Carr v Fuchs 381. 240. Suyker v Furze 61. Tarrasch v Holtzhausen 175, Van Scheltinga v Langeweg Weissman v Dnbois 160. Sweig v Verber 375. Ret1192. 266. 74. Westbrock v Mednls 350. Szabo v Book 11, Pachman Tatayev v Balitlnov 171. Verber v Sweig 375. Wile v Feldman 370. 239. Tenner v Alekhine 114. Vidmar v Nimzovich 368, 369, Winser v Hayden 82. Tholfson v Greenberg 120. Alekhine 369. Tahl v Parma 21, Oiafsson Thomas v von Hagel 160. Vltolins v Averkin 171. Yanofsky v Uhlmann 184, 84, Nezhmetdinov 88, Spassky Toran v Oiafsson 210. Von Hagel v Thomas 160. Stein 186. 128,148, Barstatis 172, Benko Trenberth v Oyle'r 370. 219, Keres 221, Fischer 223, Tsvetkov v Engels 78. Wagenen v Gamester 61. Znosko-Borovsky y Ret! 301. Keres 237, Fischer 274, Pet- Turner v 'Weinstein 188. WaJden v Weinberger 120. Zvorykime v Gladkov 115.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1962 7 P-Q5 • • • • 20 .... BxKNP This move discloses White's main idea. 21 BxB R.B Students World Team 22 R-KB1 R-Q1! Championship He is aiming at an essential improve­ ment in the first line given under White's Black is not interested in collecting Ruling Pawns sixth move: e.g. it 7 ... N-B3 now, he still more Pawns but 1n queening one. A remarkable opening leads to a fas­ has the refutation in 8 PxN, NPxP 9 His conduct of the endgame is instruc­ cinating endgame in which Black's Pawns BxP! PxB 10 QxQt, KxQ 11 N-B7t. tive. There is little point in playing for rule the waves. A very fine perform­ 7 . ... P-K6!! two or three Queens when one is enough. ance by the Czech representative. Black, however, has this new resource. 23 K-K2 RxNt!! RUY LOPEZ The sacrifice of the Queen Knight re­ Brilliant and effective. The passed Edward Gufeld Kovalek mains an important point. Pawns are more important than the Ex­ 8 N-K4 • • • • change. Black anticipates 24 N-B4. after' Soviet Union Czechoslovakia White has no good alternative. The which his advanced Pawn may fall. 3 B-N5 B_B4 1 P-K4 P-K4 King Pawn cannot be taken with im­ 24 KxR P-K5 26 P_N4 R_N4! 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 4 P-BS P-B4 punity: 8 PxP? QxN, or 8 BxP? BxB etc. 25 B-B8 P-B5 27 B-B5 .... This is a rarely played line, sharp Nor is 8 PxN any good; though Black White tries desperately to organize and risky, but not necessarily bad. Its can easily go wrong: some sort of resistance: 27 ... BxB ramified consequences are rather ob· 1) 8 ... QxN?? 9 PxPt; 2) 8 ... 28 PxB, RxP 29 K-K2. scure at any rate. NPxP!? 9 KBxP, QxN 10 BxP! (White S P-Q4 • • • • loses if he falls for Black's trap: 10 After 5 BxN, QPxB 6 NxP, Black has a BxR, PxPt 11 K- K2, B- R3t 12 K- B3, good continuation in 6 . • . Q-R5. Nor Q-B4t), BxB 11 BxR, and now White does 5 PxP, P-K5 6 BxN, QPxB 7 N- K5 ought to win; 3) 8 ... PxPt! 9 K-Bl, offer promise because of 7 . . . Q-B3 NPxP 10 B-K2, P-Q4, and Black has the (7 ... BxP? 8 Q- R5t, P-N3 9 NxNP!). edge, three Pawns being definitely 5 . , • . PxKP stronger than the piece here. 6 N-N5 • • • • 8 . , . . Q-R5! 10 NxNt The text Is a vain attempt to improve 9 Q-BS N- B3 11 PxN • • • • on the following two alternatives. In the absence of anything better to 1) 6 KN-Q2, B-N3 (not 6 ... PxP1? do, White finally takes the Knight. 7 Q-RSt etc.) and (a) 7 BxN, NPIB 8 Otherwise, he has only 11 BxP and re­ Q- R5t, K-B1 9 QxKP, N-B3 with a good mains a Pawn down without compensa­ tion. game for Black (Yates-Rabinovich, Ingenious and perfectly logical, and Baden-Baden 1925); and (b) 7 P-QS 11 • • • • PxPt also foreseen apparently at least when after which 7 ... QN-K2 8 NxP gives 12 K-Q1 • • • • 26 ... R-N4 was played. 'White a fine game, but the important After 12 K-Q2, QPxP 13 BxPt, PxB 14 28 PxR BxP sacrifice 7 . .. N-B3! it seems, can give QxPt, K-K2 14 QxR, R-Qlt, White still The point now is that Black has main­ Black good compensation for the piece has to expose his King to a fatal check tained his foremost Pawn in such way after 8 PxN, NPxP and he may even by Black's white-bound Bishop. as to be able to get in ... P - B6 which have the edge after 8 0-0, QN- K2 12 . . . . QPxP keeps his Pawn mass mobile. In this (Colle-Vidmar, Bled 1931). 13 B-K2 .... remarkable situation his Bishop and 2) 6 BxN Is usually given as the refu­ This is White's only move. three passed Pawns are superior to tation of this line, but it still leaves 13 . • . • B-K3 the two Rooks. White is helpless. questions open. Consider (a) 6 ... PxN 14 Q-R5t · , . . 29 QR-N 1 K-B4 7 BxBP, FxP 8 0 - 0 which does leave Again, the only thing White can do. 30 R-N4 P-B6 White with superior chances for attack, In view of such threats as 14 ... 0-0-0 31 R-Q4 . , .• and (b) 6 ... QPxB 7 NxP with which and 14 ... B-Q4. After 31 RxKP, KxR, the fight is soon White kept his extra Pawn and won over. with 7 ... B-Q3 8 Q-R5t, P-N3 9 Q-K2, 14 . . . . 31 . . . . BxN 10 QxP (Smyslov-Vidmar, Gronill­ 15 BxQt B.R 32 PxB K-B5 gen 1946), but also consider here 7 .. . Now, with three strong Pawns for a 33 RxP Q-Q4 which probably suffices for equal­ piece, Black has a distinct advantage. • • • • ity and at least deserves a closer inves· He uses it in a truly fasclnatlng way. Again, White has no other move; it tigation. 16 P-QN3 B-Q4 18 B-N4t P-KB4 may be said, indeed, he has no playable move at all. 6 . . . , B-N3 17 B-RSt K_K3 19 B-R3 KR_KN1 SS . • . . P-K6t After 6 ... PxP, White does not win a 20 N-Q2 .... 34 K-K1 PxRt piece (as he does on 6 KN-Q2, PxP 7 Q­ The fall of the fourth Pawn is in­ Resigns R5t), but he obtains superior chances evitable. So, too, is the subsequent ex­ for attack with 7 NxKP. change of Bishops. t ch$Ck; ~ :::: db!. check; f :::: dill. eh. 384 CHESS REVIEW. DECEMBER, 1962 CHESS REVI EW' '!! ( 1()6:-q Fifth U nilN I Stntes Open POSTAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP The Sixteenth Annual Golden Knights

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To befit the Championship, there are added prizes for the winners of the first five places in this national in the form of handsome plaques, suitably inscribed event, as well as the Golden Knights emblems. SEVENTY-FIVE CASH PRIZES, amounting OPEN TO ALL CLASSES OF PLAYERS to a total of $1000.00, will be awarded Even if you've never played in a competitive event to the seventy-five players who finish before you may turn out to be Golden Knights cham­ with the highest scores in the Sixteenth pion o'r a leading prize-winner-and, at least, you'll Annual Golden Knights Postal Cham­ have lots of fun. For all classes of postal players pionship now running! Entries accepted from No­ compete together in this "open" Postal Chess event. vember 1, 1962 to end of October, 1963 (must bear Beginners are welcome. If you've ju~t started to postmark of no later than October 31). play chess, by all means enter. There IS no better This is the 1963 Golden Knights way of improving your skill. PRIZES FOR EVERYBODY MAIL YOUR ENTRY NOW But that isn't all! Every contestant can win a As a Golden Knighter you'll enjoy the thrill of prize of some kind! You can train your sights on competing for big cash prizes. You'll meet new that big $250.00 first prize, or one of the other 74 friends by mail, improve yom" game, and h,ave.a whale cash prizes, but even if you don't finish in the money of a good time. So get started--enter thiS bIg eve~t you can win a valuable consolation prize. Every play­ now! The entry fee is only $4.00. You pay no addI­ er who qualifies for the final round, and completes his tional fees if you qualify for the semi-final or final playing schedule, will be awarded the emblem of the rounds. But you can enter other first round sections Golden Knight-a sterling silver, gold-plated and en­ at $4.00 each (see Special Rules fO l' Golden Knights). ameled lapel button, reproduced above. You earn the You will receive Postal Chess instructions with your right to wear this handsome emblem in your button­ assignment to a tournament section. Fill in and mail hole if you Qualify as a Golden Knight finalist, this coupon NOW! whether or not you win a cash prize. And even if you fail to qualify for the finals, you 1- c-;;-Es7 R~IEW -- 0 Check hm 1)'o;-ar;:' :;:.. -I still get a prize! If you are eliminated in the prelim­ 134 West 72d St., (orner 10 POI/tIl ChI!SJ. inary or semi-final round, but complete your playing I New York 23, N. Y. Start me as CLASS .. .. . , I schedule, you will receive one free entry (worth $1.50) into our regular Class Tournament or can I I enclose $ ...... Enter my name in ...... I enter our regular Prize Tournament (entry worth (how many?) section (s ) of the Sixteenth Annllal Golden I I Knights Postal Chess Championship Tournamen t. The -$2.75) on payment of only $1.50. First and second in amount enclosed covel'S the ent ry fee of $4.00 per ~echon. each Prize Tournament win a $6 and $3 credit re­ I Print Clearly 0 (/>uk here if already "reg· I spectively for purchase of chess books or chess equip­ iJlertd PM/a/itt. ment. I I FOR SPECIAL RULES I Name ...... I SEE REVERSE SIDE OF PAGE. Address .....•....•...... Postal I MAIL THIS ENTRY COUPON IV()IY City ...... Zone ... .. State ...... · I ------