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Chess Kids Pty. Ltd. ABN 43 118 087 871 Volume 7 Issue 2 Editor: David Cordover Term 2, 2007

Is it magic? Can a clockwork wooden toy play ? Read more about “The Turk” (page 6)

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Inside This Issue Slaying the Dragon Page 2 Holiday in Fiji Page 3 Who Am I? Page 3 Samuel Reshevsky Page 4 Puzzle Page Page 5 The Mechanical Turk Page 6 Calendar for 2007 Page 7 Winter Chess Specials Page 8 Page 2 1300 424 377 www.chesskids.com.au Chess Kids®

Slaying the Dragon

By Robert Harle

In 1972 American chess player 15.g4 Nf6 White has sacrificed a into the attack. All of his defeated Boris to open up the h file which pieces are working at maximum ef- Spassky to become the World Chess leads to Black's . 16.Nde2 Qa5 ficiency and Black's position quickly Champion. Two years later the Rus- 17.Bh6 Bxh6 18.Qxh6 The ex- crumbles. 23...Bc6 sian players and Vik- change of bishops (extinguishing the 5,-./01236 tor Korchnoi fought it out to decide Dragon’s fire) weakens the squares who would challenge Fischer for the around the Black King. 18...Rfc8 'POPOÅOäOf World Title in 1975. Here is the 5,-./01236 &pÄÄOPpÄÄOÄh critical second game from this closely fought match: 'POÅOPOäOf %POÑpÄPsÇÄm{g &pÄÄOÑpÄÄOÄh $màPOyOPOPL Karpov - Korchnoi Candidates Final, Moscow, 1974 %POPpÄPsÇÄm{g #POPOwsyPON 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 $màPOPOPOPL "OPOPOwOPM 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 Note Black's d6-e7-f7-g6-h7 #POÅOwOwON !wpwwOPOPOI which resembles a dragon. The g7- "OPsyPOwOPM ÖOPi~POPOxJ breaths fire across the board and the Dragon’s tail (pawns on a7 !wpwwOyOPOI C:;<=>?@AD and b7) usually whips down the ÖOPi~xOPOxJ 24.e5! Bxd5 If 24...dxe5 25.Nxf6+ -side of the board. 6.Be3 Bg7 exf6 26.Nh5 gxh5 27.Rg1+ Kh8 A painful trap would be 6.... Ng4 C:;<=>?@AD 28.Qg7# 25.exf6 exf6 26.Qxh7+ 7.Bb5+ Bd7 8.Qxg4 winning the Korchnoi is looking for the right mo- Kf8 27.Qh8+ and Black resigns . Black Knight. 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 0–0 ment to a Black for 5,-./01236 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.h4 With Korchnoi the White Knight on c3, opening up already castled on the King side lines to the White King. 19.Rd3! 'POPOÅiäPm{f Karpov plans to castle on the Queen Before continuing with the attack &pÄÄOPOÄOPh side. When both Kings are castled on the King side, Karpov overpro- %POPpÄPpÄÄOg on opposite sides of the board a key tects his weak Knight on c3. strategy is to use a to 19...R4c5 $màPOÑOPOPL attack your opponent's King. Karpov 5,-./01236 #POPOPsyPON wastes no time in getting the attack underway. 10...Rc8 11.Bb3 Ne5 'POÅOPOäOf "OPOPOwOPM 12.0–0–0 Nc4 13.Bxc4 Rxc4 &pÄÄOÑpÄÄOÄh !wpwwOPOPOI 5,-./01236 %POPpÄPsÇÄm{g ÖOPi~POPOxJ 'POPmàPqÅäOf $màPqÅPOPOPL C:;<=>?@AD &pÄÄOÑpÄÄtÑÄh #POPOwOwON Although two pawns down, White's attack is overwhelming eg. 27...Ke7 %POPpÄPsÇÄOg "OPsyxOwOPM 28.Nxd5+ Qxd5 29.Re1+ Kd7 $OPOPOPOPL !wpwwOyOPOI 30.Qxe8+ is clearly winning. 1–0 #POÅsywOPpwN ÖOPi~POPOxJ "OPsyPtzwOPM C:;<=>?@AD !wpwwm{POwOI 20.g5 Rxg5 Karpov has sacrificed a second pawn to give his attack mo- ÖOPi~xOPOxJ mentum and open up lines to the C:;<=>?@AD Black King 21.Rd5! Rxd5 if Korchnoi's strategy is to control the 21...Nxd5 22.Qxh7+ Kf8 23.Qh8# dark squares through the Black 22.Nxd5 Now the White Knight (fire-breathing) Bishop on g7 and dominates the board and Korchnoi the pawn on d6 and build pressure is forced to protect against the on the c file by doubling Rooks as threat of 23.Nxe7+ 22...Re8 soon as possible. 14.h5! Nxh5 23.Nef4 White brings his second Chess Kids® www.chesskids.com.au 1300 424 377 Page 3

Holiday in Fiji

By Andrew Fitzpatrick

To play in the World Chess Champi- while you can; you never know is not enough to some- onships you must qualify by winning when it will be your last chance! one with. 24. Qxd5+ Kh8 25. Rh3 a Zone Championships. The 2007 Qf2+ 26. Kb1 fxg2 27. Bxg2 Nf6 Nakauchi - Fitzpatrick Oceania Zonal was held at the 28. Qg5 Qxd4 29. Qe3 White initi- Sofitel Resort on Denarau Island, Fiji Zonal, 2007 ates a series of moves to try and Fiji. What better place to combine 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 This move en- exchange queens. Qd7 30. Rxc7 a holiday and some chess! ters the . The aim Qd1+ 31. Rc1 Qa4 32. Qb3 Qb5 of the opening is for black to gener- 33. Rc5 Qe2 34. Rc2 Qe1+ 35. Rc1 Never mind that I didn’t qualify for ate lots of piece activity around the Qf2 36. Qc2 Qd4 37. a3 h6 38. the World Championships this time, center of the board. 3. Nf3 Bg4 4. Qc3 Qg4 39. Rg3 Qf5+ 40. Ka2 $2 it was still a great experience. Nc3 e6 5. cxd5 exd5 6. e3 Bb4 (40. Ka1 $18) 40... Rbc8 Suddenly The resort was amazing and tourna- (6... Nf6) 7. Bd2 Bxc3 8. Bxc3 Nf6 whites 40.Ka2 comes back to haunt ment hall was set up to accommo- 9. Qb3 Bxf3 9... Rb8 10. Ne5 Nxe5 them as black gets serious chances date the 44 players in luxury. The 11. dxe5 Ne4 10. Qxb7 O-O 11. after this move! The main threat is tournament had players from Aus- Qxc6 Be4 12. Ba5 Black's pawns a Qf2 which will win mate- tralia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua are dropping very quickly - the only rial. 41. Bc6 Rxc6 42. Qxc6 Qf2+ New Guinea competing in Open and thing black has to his advantage is 43. Rc2 Qxg3 44. Qc5 Re8 45. Female divisions for the right to a safe king! Ne8 13. Rc1 Rb8 14. Qxa7 Qd3 46. Qc5 Or 46. Qc7 This represent Oceania at the World b4 Qg5 15. Qc5 f5 16. h4 Qh6 17. move threatens Qd8+ if the Re8 is Championship in Siberia (a bit of a Rh3 f4 18. f3 Bf5 19. Rh1 If 19. moved. Re2 46... Re3 47. b5 Qb3+ climate change if you win). Qxd5+ Be6 20. Qxe6+ Qxe6 21. Bc4 48. Ka1 Nd7 Black attempts to dis- Qxc4 22. Rxc4 fxe3 This position is lodge the queen from defence of The outstanding performances were winning for white as black's attack- the a3 pawn. 48... Qxa3+ 49. Qxa3 both Australian 12 year olds! Gene ing pieces have all been swapped Rxa3+ 50. Ra2 Rb3 51. Rb2 Ra3+ Nakauchi (QLD) and Chess Kids Elite off and white is still a pawn (soon $11 49. Qc8+ Kh7 50. Bb4 Rg3 51. member James Morris (VIC) both two) ahead. 19... Qe6 20. e4 Bxe4 Qc6! This is the crucial move which were awarded the Fide Master (FM) 21. fxe4 Qxe4+ Black has decided black overlooked during the game. title for their performances. they have nothing left to lose so It defends the threat which was The eventual winner of the goes for the attack. Opponents can Rg1+ and Rg2 with mating threats. Women’s competition was IM Irina be at their most dangerous at these 51...Rd3 Black had looked and seen Berezina (NSW) and the Open com- times so beware! 22. Kd2 Qe3+ 23. the next move, but then forgot petition was IM Zhong Yuan Zhao Kc2 f3 The point of this move is to about it and chose to not defend (NSW). open up attacking lines for the with Nf6...Oops! 52. Qe4+ Black pieces black so badly needs in the resigns in face of 52...g6 53.Qe7+ It’s important to beat 12-year olds attack. Remember just one queen 1-0 Who Am I? Knight: What Am I? In 1975 my ELO rating was 2780. See how many clues you need be- A tactical manoeuvre in which a fore you can guess who I am. Pawn: piece is attacked and forced to I was the World Champion from move out of the way in order to 1972 to 1975 when I chose not to King: protect itself. I was born on 9th March 1943 and defend my title. Subsequently, this allows for a sec- first learned to play chess at age I am Robert … ond (and less valuable piece) to be six. captured. Queen: A knight can not perform this ma- I left school at sixteen to become a noeuvre. I am often referred to as chess professional. the opposite of a . Bishop: I was awarded the title Interna- tional in 1958. (The (Answers on Page 8) youngest, at the time, ever to win that title). By Duncan Standley Page 4 1300 424 377 www.chesskids.com.au Chess Kids® Chess Kids Coaching

“Samuel Reshevsky” By Carl Gorka x Born in , 1911 and started giving simultaneous challenges in Poland at the age of 6! x “By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continua- tion. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves.” Quote from Samuel Reshevsky

There have been many great chess He knew that it wasn’t how old 10...Bf6 The rook is blocked from players throughout the years, in- that players are that matters, but f7, but Reshevsky can still take the cluding all the World Champions, how good they are. Look at this weak pawn with either his bishop but one of the most interesting was game for instance. Reshevsky even or knight. He preferred to attack it Samuel Reshevsky. He was born in as an 8 year old knew where his with another piece 11.Qh5 Rf8 1911, in Poland, but at the age of 8 opponent’s weak spot was and how Black thinks he's got his weak spot he emigrated to America with his to attack it. defended now, but he's in for a sur- family. He was to become the best prise! 12.Nxf7! Qxe4+ 12...Rxf7 player in America throughout the Reshevsky - Doery Taking the knight is no good: 1930’s, 1940’s and 1950’s, until Berlin Simultaneous, 1919 13.Bxf7+ Qxf7 14.Qxf7+ Kxf7 15.e5 Bobby Fischer came onto the scene and white will have two rooks and a 1.e4 e5 2.f4 The King's . in the late 1950’s. He won the knight to Black's knight, bishop and White sacrifices a pawn to quickly American Championship 7 times in rook which would be an easy win. activate his pieces. 2...exf4 3.Bc4 all and from 1936 until about 1955 13.Kxh2 Qxc2+ 14.Kg3 Bh4+ A Immediately targetting the weak was considered one of the best few desperate last trick 15.Qxh4 spot f7 3...Be7 4.Nf3 This knight players in the World able to defeat 15.Kxh4? would be a terrible mis- wants to go to e5 where it will also World Champions when he played take as 15...Qh2+ 16.Kg4 d5+ opens attack f7 4...Bh4+ 5.g3 fxg3 6.0–0 them in tournaments, but never up Black's pieces to attack and A great move, sacrificing more quite managing to win the top title White will have to give up most of pawns, but look at where White's his material to avoid mate. himself. rook is. When he moves his knight 15...Qxc4 winning back a bishop Even more interesting than that on f3, the rook on f1 will be attack- but missing Reshevsky's next move. was Reshevsky’s before ing Black's weak spot. 6...gxh2+ the 1930’s when he became one of 7.Kh1 Another clever move, hiding 5,-./01236 the best players in the World. He his king behind an enemy pawn learned the moves at the age of 3, 7...Nh6 Trying to defend his weak 'ÅsÇÑOäqÅPOf and by the time he was 5 was al- spot 8.d4 Now the little 8 year old &pÄÄpÄÄOyOÄh ready one of the best players in his has complete control of the centre, district. By the age of 6, he was so and better development against his %POPOPOPpÄg good that his parents took him on a adult opponent 8...Qe7 $OPOPOPOPL tour of the big cities in Europe where he would take on players in 5,-./01236 #POàpwPOPm{N simultaneous exhibitions, playing 'ÅsÇÑOäOPqÅf "OPOPOPi~PM up to 40 players (mostly adults) at a time. &pÄÄpÄÄmàÄpÄÄh !wpwPOPOPOI When he arrived in America, he did %POPOPOPsÇg ÖqxyOPOxOPJ a tour of cities there playing more $OPOPOPOPL exhibitions, and what was even C:;<=>?@AD 16.Qd8# 1–0 more amazing was that the little 8 #POzpwwOPtÑN year old boy would attract huge "OPOPOyOPM It’s difficult to crowds of spectators to come and think that in this watch the exhibitions. It must be !wpwwOPOPpÄI game, the White nerve wracking enough for an 8 Öqxytz{OxO~J player was only 8 year old to play against adults but years old and the it would be even worse with crowds C:;<=>?@AD Black player an of over 5000 people watching him. 9.Bxh6 That's one defender of f7 adult….it looks like But the little boy wasn’t worried gone 9...gxh6 10.Ne5 and now 3 of it should be the and usually won most of his games. White's pieces gang up on f7. other way round. Chess Kids® www.chesskids.com.au 1300 424 377 Page 5

Need to Build your Mental Muscles™? (Answers on Page 8)

1. 2. 3. 5,-./01236 5,-./01236 5,-./01236 'ÅOÑOPOPqÅf 'ÅOÑiäPtÑÇqÅf 'POPqÅätÑPqÅf &pÄÄpÄäOypÄÄh &OPOÇpÄÄpÄÄh &OÄOPOPOÄh %POPOPsÇPOg %ÄpÄPOPOPOg %ÄOPOÄpwÄtzg $OPOPOPOPL $tzPOyOPOPL $OPpÄPOPOPL #POzpÄPOPON #POÄsyPOPON #POPOPOPON "tzÇOPOPOPM "OPOPOPOPM "OPOPOPOPM !wOPOPpwwpwI !wpwPOwpwwpwI !wpwwOPOwpwI ÖOPOPqxPi~PJ ÖqxPOPi~zOxJ ÖOPOxOxO~J C:;<=>?@AD C:;<=>?@AD C:;<=>?@AD White to play and mate in 2. White to play and mate in 1. White to play and mate in 2. 4. 5. 6. 5,-./01236 5,-./01236 5,-./01236 'POPOPqÅPiäf 'ÅOPOPOPqÅf 'POPOPOPOf &pÄÑOPOPpÄÄh &pÄPpÄäOÄOPh &pÄPOPOPOPh %PpÄÄqÅPOPOg %POÄOPOPpÄg %POÄOÄOPpÄg $OPOPOPsyPL $OPOÄOPtzÑL $OPOPpwPpÄ{L #POÄOPsyPON #POPOPOPON #wOPOPtÑPON "OPOPpwPOPM "OPOzOPOPM "OPOPOwiäÑM !wpwPOPOwpwI !wpwwOxtÑwpwI !PpwPqÅPOPOI ÖOPOPOxi~PJ ÖqxyOPOPO~J ÖOPOPqxPi~PJ C:;<=>?@AD C:;<=>?@AD C:;<=>?@AD White to play and mate in 2. White to play and mate in 2. Black to play and mate in 3. 7. 8. 9. 5,-./01236 5,-./01236 5,-./01236 'ÅOPOPqÅäOf 'POPOPOPOf 'POPOPOPqÅf &pÄÄOPpÄÄtÑÄh &OPpÄPOÄpÄäh &pÄPOÑOPOPh %POPOPOÄOg %POPOÄOPpÄg %POÄpÄPOäOg $OPOPOwOPL $OPOÄOPOPL $OÄtÑPpÄPOPL #POPsÇPOPON #POÇpwÑOPpwN #POPOwqÅPON "OPOÇOwi~PM "OPpwPpwPpwPM "pwPpwwOwsyPM !wpwPOyOzpwI !POPOPOPqÅI !zpwPOPOPpwI ÖqxPtz{OPOxJ ÖqxPi~Pm{POPJ ÖOPOxOxO~J C:;<=>?@AD C:;<=>?@AD C:;<=>?@AD Black to play and mate in 3. Black to play and mate in 3. Black to play and mate in 4. Page 6 1300 424 377 www.chesskids.com.au Chess Kids® CHESS PLAYING MACHINE! The Mechanical Turk By Andrew LeRoy

The clothes you wear, the food you First Von Kemplen displayed an The Turk was especially popular in eat and just about every object you automatic flute player. Paris, which in the 1700s was the see or use was made with the help centre of world chess. It even of machines. This wasn’t always so. The queen yawned. played a match against Philidor who Before the Industrial Revolution Then he showed a key board which was the world champion. everything was made by hand. could speak words. The Turk won almost every game it The dawn of the Industrial Revolu- The queen rolled he eyes. played but could not beat Philidor. tion was in the mid 1700’s. Next he showed the queen what It also played against Benjamin First attempts at making mechani- was to become the most famous Franklin who at that time was the cal devices were quite simple-the machine of its time. American Ambassador to France. main one being mechanical clocks. Von Kemplen rolled out onto the The Turk inspired a man called Engineers would also create other stage a large box with a wooden Cartwright to invent the first ma- novelty machines like a wind up dummy dressed as a Turk (someone chine to weave cloth. duck which walked and flapped its from Turkey) sitting across from a Everyone else thought that a weav- wings, a mechanical trumpet play chess board on the top of the cabi- ing machine was impossible, but af- and various others. net. ter seeing the machine Cartwright Such novelty mechanisms were He open the cabinet and showed stated that if a machine can think called “automata” and people the clock work inside. Then from then weaving cloth is child’s play. would pay to see them exhibited inside the cabinet he took a set of Babbage, the man who invented just like we now go to the movies chess men and set up the board for adding machines and which eventu- or a concert. a game. ally lead to the computer was also Often such exhibitions would also “Your majesty would you like to inspired to his work when he saw have a magic show. play chess against my machine?” he the Turk as a boy. Wolfgang Von Kempelen was the proudly asked. Another who saw it was PT Barnum chief engineer of Hungary in the The queen sat opposite the Turk. the inventor of the 3 Ring Circus. Von Kemplen took out a large key mid 1700’s. Later in its career the Turk played and wound up the Turk. The clock- His job was to design and build Napoleon. work started ticking and then the bridges, roads, buildings and sewer- Turk reached out his arm and made When Napoleon played the Turk he age systems for the Queen Maria a move. The arm went back to its was convinced that it wasn’t really Theresa. He also built Automata as resting position and the clock work a machine. a hobby. fell silent. He believed as did many others that His other duty was to go with the The queen made her move and then it was really operated by a human Queen when she attended magic the clockwork again immediately shows and explain how the various player. sprang to life as the Turk played his tricks worked. So when he played it he covered reply. Within 20 moves the Turk the head and chest of the wooden One day the Queen was watching a had won. Turkish man with a sheet so that if magic show by a French magician, The queen and everyone at court someone was inside looking out he Pellier, when Von Kempelen said were astounded and burst into ap- the show was awful and he could do would their view. plause. much better. However the Turk still won. The queen delighted in showing off “Alright”, said the Queen, “you So what do you think? Is it possible her engineers machine to all the have six months off your engineer- to make a clockwork machine that important visitors to Vienna and ing duties-show me the best magic can beat most players at Chess? then ordered Von Kemplen to take show I’ve ever seen!” How would you do it? it on tour throughout Europe. Ooops. Von Kemplen now had to It played in front of thousands of Is it a trick? make good on his boast or lose his people every day. Everyone was Most chess games last about 40 job, so he set to work. astounded that a machine could Finally the big day came. think! (Continued on page 7) Chess Kids® www.chesskids.com.au 1300 424 377 Page 7

(Continued from page 6) The Turk was a trick, a fraud which and quickened the Industrial revo- moves each and on average each was kept secret for over 100 years. lution and popularized Chess world position has about 30 legal moves. wide. A chess player hid inside the box This means the machine must know and used magnets on the bottom of what to do in 100 million million the pieces to keep track of the positions. Now in six months there Find out more about The Mechani- game. He then used a mechanical is only 15 million seconds of time so cal Turk online - just Google “The arm to make the moves he decided how could Von Kemplen program all Turk, Chess” and you’ll find plenty! to play on the board above him. those positions in that time? Have fun surfing... Although a fake, the Turk inspired

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