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\-XI~ need tournament,- lo bring I.op players Logetlw r. r ne d m ney to send L ams to tournament ahroa l. , I II cl mon ·v to form ch "- S 1·l11l1s in colleges and .-\ 1c 111 of ight Puerto Rican-. lrav lin:r on Am rican pas;;- ;;ch ol ::- ... lo pay for instru ·ti II for the hot you n_ lf'h for 11. Olympi nini;r d. - · 01e purt~. Che5• at L ;'\ews . comers lik Bobby Fi .-ch r. lo en ouracre our ou n_ THE "i'ilTf.D T.-\TF.S 010 NOT - E.:'olD A T£,\M . grandma. ten; like tbe Byrn e:a: a nd I i ·gui r:; and Evan-·. We had 11 money. \.Ve 11 " d monev to pro111ol di -::; in veteran hospital.-. THE NlTF.Ll STATES IJ ID --..oT END A TEAM TO T HE in welforn organizations, y s, ven in prisons. F r Ai l "J'Elll>AM OLYMPICS IN 1.954. all l.evek frnm the ba,;e Lo the !:op. fur all aggrega tion.-. We hncl IH> mo 11 ey. we need n1011c~' . THE U:\' ITEl ' T 1\TES SEJ"\T A SCJffR TEA\1 TO HEL· * :;-:: * * SINK ! IN 1952. Th · ,,·orlrl over. the l1attl e \l" HX s for the heart,- anti We had 11 0 mone~-. mind:: of m 11. The .~o,·iel nion ·p nd, a quarter * * * of a million dollar;; for the l nin «nH.l lympics. col o,-. m •ri ·ctn ~s in a wa,·. •h i,,: bad \lak no mistake sal ,.;1111 1.; for ('h e,-,- ,wli\·itie-:- . . . to impr s,,: the peopl - 110 about it. Th re is mont>y a ;tilahl •. of all 1rntion~ that ··brain. ·· H1.· tl , o i t monopol '· Gui now n new may A new sun be ri sing. hod W<•, whose lwrila~e stem,,: fr 111 1'11 first world cham called Th• American Chess Foundation has been pion, Paul Morph~. ,deep. W, who hoasl of the re fo rmed , and u recent mling of the In ternal Revenue ~oundin~ vidnrie.~ nf Pi lhdJLtry cind Marshall, of F in Depart me'nl stotP.S . . . all contribntim1,~ to this new and Rr~h<'v"b ·. of Llie world lea111 ·hampionshi p al body flr e /11ll r deductible for income tax purposes! PraJ?:11 • 1c :{ 1: Fo !ke,.;tun<:'. 19:{3, ' ar;.;a1c 1935 a11 If thi · l,ody faik American l·he~s will he et ha ck Sto kho l111. l 9~, - " r ~1 ry in th(' pa ·t. I 00 y ell" . \Ve :-: a,· tlH' r<' a rt>11·1 .111,· fund ,-. and \"et, if e,·er~ r ------1 Am ri ·,11; !'It<,..,. lnn·r \\ 0 111° I r ntrilml ju~t Sl a yc:>a r. ''° 1\"01ild lian· .~t'Y f' ra l hundr cl thou ·and dollar:- i1 I I11f11fl I ·a ·h ·1vailalalt'. a11d rnuld : INDEX FEATURES End-game of the Month ______309 UNLIKE l\:CORPHY'S OTHER RIVALS. :'l'lor and more cl el'elopment! If now My Best Games of Chess ______296 Anderssen was chivalrous e nough to ac- 12 1-'--1<5, Q-K3, e tc. Sour Side of Chess ______306 1,nowledge ?.:Iorphy's gl·eatness. But, by 12 PxP P- KB4 14 BxNt KxB way of extenuation for his bad showing, 13 B-N5 P-QR3 15 P- Q3 DEPARTMENTS the German master could not help a.l l :i P- Q-b i~ be t.t 1· . While is losing Chess Caviar ______290 ludi11g to his lack of rira ctice with the time wlloleHal E> . and JJlaC'k is gaining it Chess Club Directory ______. ___ 295 patha tic remark that one cannot " bottle just as ni[)i The Uruguay Way Montevideo wa~ Lhe scene for a 12 man international r/J1111d rnhin tournament last July. It was wo n handily by our old friend Miguel Najdorf, who scored 10-1 (two draws, with Eliskases and Zubieta). Erich Eliskases. now a fell ow Argenti nian, came second wi th 9-2 ( 1v-ith 4 draws, Ro·. :;eno, Bam:a a nd ilfondez) . A Paraguayan. Ronald Cantero scored 7½ Lo place third: and Hector Rossello was a close fourth al 7. L ui s A lverez 5-.S squeezed in ahead of Lorenzo Bauza, Alfredo Olivera. Fernando Rubio Aguado (of Spain ) at 4,½. Pedro S. lsain and .Joan Souza Mendez (of Brazil ) sco red 4 point. . And Magin Zubieta ( of Bolivia) garnen~d three draws. (A ll un designated are from Argentina.) Mission to Moscow A brief di spatch in the New York Ti,ncs j n late August slated that the FIDE in its meeting at Moscow during the Interna tional Chess Team Tournarnent voted 10 bave the next Team Tournament and also 1he (next) Challengers· Tournament. in Miguel Najdorf (left) meets Lorenzo Bauza at the Montevideo Tournament. tl1e U.S.A. Frank R. Graves, president of the USCF, 5lopped by in N w York earlier this month V. Hagozin of 1·he Soviet lJ nio11 w,h se<.; to qualify to the fin a ls. Ther·c seem to to say that he was allending Lh e FIDE ond wjth 12 1/ i-6½. In a ti e for t: hird at have been no ,:en,ati onn l tip,;ets in the meeti ng for Lh e purpose of bringing the 12-7 were Sain Flohr (Soviet Un ion) and preliminaries. as when [-Tol land Li ed the 1958 lntenrn1ional T eam Tournament to Lud ek Pacl1man ( C,,echo-Slnvakia) . Soviet Union in the p relim., at Arnst.enlam. the U.S.A. And we have personal word But some of our readers. s 11 rely, will be from him confirming th at the Team Tour Routine Drubbing astonished, mildly at least, I.O note some nament will be held here. Vichy. F rance. saw a JJOwerful Yurroslitv of the qualified finalists. team rip French opponen h by 13½ -6½ in The sections, co untries. game points Washington Wins a double n,und encounter. S. Gligorich of are liHed herewith: in each section, the Despite a fir t-board triumph by W. Yugoslav ia drew twice with D1·. 0. S. firsl three qualified to the Finals: J ursevskis of Britislt Columbia over E. Bern~lein 011 top board. Zemgalis of Wa $hington State, the latter Section l: Soviet Uni on 23½-4½; Bul line- up collected 21 po ints as against 9 International Team Tournament garia 19½; Switzerland 18; Poland 15; fo r their Canadian rivals in an inter Meetin g al :\foscow, teams from most of Sweden 141/z; Norway 9; Puerto Rico 7; national match between state ~nd province Lhe world, eve n including Puerto Hico, T he Saar 51/2 (Total game points- 28 ) . at Mount Vernon, Wash. At Board 2, but not lite Uni ted States, ai-e contest Section 2: Y Lwosl avia ?.3½-4 ~1.,- Israel 18 · T. Warner of v;ra8 hington drew with F. ing the biennial world team championship. Denmark 161/; : Holla~d 16; -,\u~lria 13; .\fay, while the next three boards all went .'\s we g(, to p ress, the final round is well France 12 ½; i\Iongolia 71/~; cotland .S . in to the Washington winning column under wnv , but far from fin ished. So we Section 3: Argentina 24-8 ; West Germanv through the e ff11rts of R. E dberg, J. Mc giv e here a complete survey of th e prc 23 : Great Brita in 22; Ice land 21 : Chi] ~ Cormick anrl Dan Wade. liminarie~ ao the only complete chapter 171/2; Finland 141/z ; India 12 ½ ; Luxem available. bourg 5½ ; Ireland 4 (Total gamcs-32 ) . Steinitz Memorial Thirty-four teams entered and were Section 4: Hungary 23-9 ; Czecho-Slovakia A tournament .in Czecho-Slovakia in divided intu four preliminary sections : 21½: R oumania 211/2; East German y commemoration of Steinitz was won by eight in each of the first two; n.ine in 18½; Colombia 18 ; Belgium 14-1/2; P hil the Czech, Dr. Miroslav Filip, with 13-6. the last two. fn each secti on, three were ippines 10 ; Greece 8½ ; Iran 8½. CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER , 19S6 291 Evans Anderson Lombardy Yanofsky First "Open" Championship ln the last rot1nd, Lombardy drew with UNITED ST ATES Canada's fir t "Opeu" was a smashing V11itonis for a Iinal cure of 8-2. Bui succ from all accoun1 ~ with 88 par Evr111 . defeated hcrwin . to equal 1ha1 ·NATIONAL ticipant , 66 from Canada 20 from the scor . ud Evan_' 96 mO\' victory a Im o t Training Match U and 2 from Guatemala. Despite the unclouhtedly provided hi onnenhorn pr cnce of ~ome of Canada' be t how D rg r tie-break ma r.,in which gave him .- reported in our la-1 issue, the first ever th ti tle went to Larry Evans of New th title. five «ames of 1h match between amu c:l H . he\·~ ky and Bill Lombardy were draw_, Yo rk and second with an eq ual games At first and second. • vans and Lom and hard fought draw 011 the whole, too. scorn was Will iam Lombardy ()f Ne w York. bardy divided the $500 and $300 prize Th · sixth brought not (jn ly a decision but Eal'lier, Daniel Abe Yanof ky of Winni even!}'. Five of tli e r mai ning cash prize a s111·prise as R es hev ky seemed to win nil peg oft-champion of Canada and once w re hared equally by herwin, Lionel th e way, to tak • 1!1 match by 31/2-2l/2. conqueror of Botvinnik, had defeated Joyner of Montreal, aitonis Edmar Med- Evan and then looked p rhap to hold 11i of New York and Di Camillo. th ti • With two draws carliei:- in the Rosenwald the J ad. Frank Ander on of Toronto_ bra k t which placed 3d l o 7th, r pee• Tournament, Lombardy had seven draw; also, fi gu1·ed in tJ1e for front ti ll fairly liv ly. a t 7½-2½. runn ing again t grandma ter Reshev ky - c ·rL.iinl v a rn or than creditable perform• late in th e tournament. In the 7-3 point bracket were And erson, anc: • Cur an eighteen-year-old! But as the ninth round came up, .Lom ano.fsky .J. Noel Williams of Mo nt real, bardy and James T. Sh rw in, also of New Nick Bakos of New Yo rk und 13 year old On the ot her hand, if Reshevsky's fi nal York, held the lead and, drnwin g wiLh B uby Fischer of Brooklyn. vi Lory argue that he played himself in to each other then had 7½-1 1/z each. ahead form. thi;; "training match" was worth, B ides the 12 ca h f)rizes, we under of Evan . Attilio Di Cami II of Philadel whi le for him, t . He u ed in popular _tand there were numerou merchandi e phia and Paul Vaitonis of Hamilton On opinion. to pla)• liim If into fom1 in mi d priz •- of very £inc qua lity, and the top tar io, each with 7-2. And the stage wa lul!rnament - a l tli e expense of a r. oint et fol' a clo e finish. or s i-eceived replicas of th e fine John ur Lwn in t.he cu rly rounds. ( Ph ot os abotJI! b)' £. N 1J1d) C. Prentice trophy. INTERSTATE In the Carolinas NOW, Decorate Your Walls With ... Eliot Hcar ·t of 1ew York, 7-0, domi nall'd 1he 31 pln>•cr Carolinas Open at CHESSMEN )frnlc Beach outl1 Carolina. Don Ilu r dkk of We -L V.il' gini a and Robert Lu J. Hong these uni,juc, ortistic chc. S• om•n on )'Our wo Ii ond then nntkc luw. 5½-1½ each, fini shed second an d how they stir ur, mn ny an 3n im:\I • ed ron vt:rs::ui n. Thi s cxciti[l g new 1liird respectively on olkoff point . Next wa ll decor will .,ppcal ro rou ll'cr · Jerr)· ulli vo n and R. C. Ea twood. whether or n l ,·ou :i re an en • thusiost of the i,;ome. The cl,b,. i11 11r1h and fifth re pectively on olkoff men lend them.solve be•utifull1· II> • va,iet)' of lntrij!uing :trr~ni:e• l111ul~ after ea h hod cored 5-2 in gam -. ments. rotttr Lhcm os i·ou w,, lo -or show 1hcm a a group. fn the Carolina. Open peed, orman T. \\'hi1aker of hady ide, _faq •land. Lich is about 8" tall- made of heavyweight sculptor's nr t c:is1i".~ t dli1•d 11-1, 1d1eud of Charles T. Morgan. stonc~a m11tcrl :,I that brings nut every exquisite clct,d l. All pieces 9 1 ~-2\ i. Semi for FREE ,,,,,,/o~ of wall masks, rl,rn ,·,11 io1J.r arc ebon y hbck- reS . \ 0 ~o ia tion in Miami on the ba is of a 292 CHESS REVIEW, OCTOB ER, 19S6 better Swiss showing than Dr. Jose Fer Robert Brieger, San Diego; and D. J. champion. Starlings and ~[oi-ris finished nandez of Cuba, also 1\ith a 6-1 game Foley, San Jose; 9th Harry Borochow, 7th and 8th with 4-2. llesides these 8 score. Third to eighth on Swiss totab L1Js Angeles 5; Joe Mego, Los Angeles prizes, one for junior champion was given with 5-2 each were Clarence Kalenian, 5; Larrr Remlinger. L,ng Beach, 5; Lo ~orvcll Fortson. J. L. Cabe, Dr. Gusta\' Drexel, Bob Lud Roger Smook, Berkeley. .5; 13 to 15th The business meeting voted to keep the low, Dr. N. !\l lforn$tein and Charles A. (all 5) Horst Bullwinkel, San Franci co; tournament confined lo state residents but Wisch in the order me ntioned. Thirty Tom Fries. Fresno: and George Hunncx. lo hold an open tournei· in Atlanta later eight players participated. Ebinorc: 16th Robion Kirby. Chicago ( ! ) in the year. :.\fr~. Morrill Goddard won the women's .5: 17th .I ack H ursch, Berkeley. 5; and l8 ti tle and 17 year old Bob Ludlow became Charles Henderson, Beverh- 1-lill.c:. 5. junior champion. MICHIGAN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA State Championship Northern Team Play A strong round robin for the District Donald Byrne, who won the U. S. A deci~ive play-off vi ctory by 5-1 versus championship was captured hy Hans Ber "Open" at Milwaukee in 1953, scored Salem gave ho1wrs in the North Shore liner with the excellent score nf 10½-I½, dual triumphs in Michigan chess tliis year. Chess League Lo :'llewburyport. Salem, in representing nine wins and three draws. ,econd place, was followed by Portsmouth ln the state charn pions hi p. an 8 round Runner-up was Russell Chauvenet. 10-2. in third and Lynn in foL1rth. Swiss with .'58 participants. Byrne took the followed hy Norman T. 1Vhitaker. 9½-2½. title at 7-1. with two draws. Defending Chess Outdraws Zoo champion Leonid~ Dreibe rg~ became co GEORGIA A 45 board match between Wisconsin runncr-np with \forrie \'\'eide11l.ia11m, 6\S· :rnd Illinois was held outdoors at the Ra H. B. (Sandy) .Miller. IIT. a 21 year old l½ each. Dreiherg:~ drew with Byrne, but cine Zoological Gardens in Wisconsin. The Emory University student from Athrnta Weidenhaum beat Dr c> ilw rg, . In the six ;; pectator appeal of the event diverted won first prize in the amrnal Georgia State point hracket were Kaz"~ Skcma (who much of the attendance from the monkey chc~, tournament, held at the Georgian drew with \'iieirl enl,uun, and Phil Le house and the lion house to the chess Hotel in Atlanta over the Labor Day week Cornn), Frederic Font e and Hobert Ohl boards while the match was in progress. end. 35 entrants competed in Lhe 6 round mann ( who lost lo L11eill c Kellner). At Illinois won handily by 29-16, with J. Swis~. Mil1er's score was 5\ ':!·\'z, ahead of 5½-2½ came John Penquite. Phil Le r raszewski and R. Kujoth scoring on first Paul Davis, 5-1. Other leaders, with 4-½· Cornu (who scored llyrne ·· other draw) :!.nd third boanb respectively for Wiscon• 11/~, l.iut set off by S.-B. point~, were F. T. and \Vesley Bu.rgar. 13urgar'~ ~core won c'i n and H. ~,fyers winning on fourth board Blr, 3d: Jim Cabe, 4th; Charles Oxford. him the Junior title, and Lucille Kellner, or Illinois. J ohn :\. Nowak captained the 5th; and D. ll. \'lade, 61 h. tb e de fending at =>-3. took the Women's Championship. rictorious lllinois team, while CHESS RE· 11EW correspondent Arpad E. Elo was hieftain of. the losers. Close Victory CHESS FOR FUN In an intercity contest at the Arion Chess Club of Baltimore, a 15½-13½ tri AND CHESS FOR BLOOD ph was notched by Baltimore over by Edward Lasker ashington, D. C. This delightful book is crammed with telling anecdotes Columbus Conquers about chess and cbessplavers. There arc fascinating The Columbus YivICA Chess Club of chapters on Chess Amenities, Checkmating Combina hio defeated Charleston, West Virginia, tions, Endgame Play, Strategic Principles, Master i}- ,5½-2½ when Jim Schroeder, Dan Fid- Chess Tournament Ethics, etc. Witty and instructive. low, Harold Snyder and Jack Joffe all Charmingly illustrated by :Maximilian Mopp. Revised w.rned in victories for Columbus as and augmented edition. ~ ainst a solitary win for Charleston by 224 pages, 94 diagrams $3.25 ·chard Lee. Three games were drawn. CALIFORNIA The Best Games of the Most Brilliant Player! In. the California "Open" Chess Cham• ·onship, held at Hotel Carrillo, Santa Bar ic.ERES'-':_ ra, three tied for first place, scoring :i KERES' BEST GAMES ' I ·x points (presumably out of seven) in a BEST GAMES : i 'i OF CHESS player Swiss. In the Sonnenborn- Of Cf-lESS I 1931-1948 . Berger tie-break, Gil Ramirez of San Fran- ·!' by Fred Reinfeld ·•co, with 281/4 won the CSCF trophy anti i e right to compete in the State Cham , -, An attractive collection of the 90 most brilliant pi onship finals in San Francisco, Thanks t gun1es of Pau] Keres. considered the greatest ·ving week. Gil is a 16 year old high ~ attacking player of our day. The games are -boo! student. Kurt Bendit, also of San annotated with great care to bring out their rancisco, had 27½, and Robert Cross of many beautiful points. Tlie play is unusuall, a nta Monica, 261/4. rewarding to students becalise o[ its richness of 11-'e do not have much else by way of combinative detail, and the openings adopted etails, but other leading scores, broken by have great theoretical value. Revised and aug• . -B. points, were: 4th William G. Addi- mented edition. - n. San Franci~co, 51/2 ; 5th P. D. Smith, 26 ,1 pages, 110 diagrams $3.50 resno, 5; 6th to 8th ( same S.-B. and all ~ points) Charles Bagby, San Francisco; DAVID Mc:KAY COMPANY, Inc., 55 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y, CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER, 19S6 293 Tartakover Memorial NEW YORK Later that same m nth ,1{ August, chc~~ T he :'-lew York tale Champion hip. in .\i.ichigan shifted from Ann Arbor h Id al the Universit y of Buffalo, wa w,, n (wlu rt' Donald Byrne. in iclentally, is an liy . nthony E. nnta iere, who scored 8-1 in stru tor at Lh e Un iver, ity or Micliignn) 2 draws) in a wi field of 29. Tuni lo D troil for an up n tournament wit h has wun the title before - the repon, g n r1111~ prizes in m nwry o f Tartakover. . ay twice - but it eems more, 1928, 19:,o T h~ fi eld was larger wi th 70 entrants of and 1946 we think. A Bronx schnnl whom at least eight 1,·e r masters: Donald teacher. his past record in cludes champion , Byrn e. SCF Champi11 11 1111d Open Cham . hip of the fa rs hall Chess Club, hi ~h pion Arthur B. Bisguit:r. 'i ·,alter Shipman. ~core,; in Li Championship and " Op n .. Leonid Dreiberg:.'. ' . P pd. P. T aul Championship,, and he once cornered th vai.ha . . Dr. Ariel . .. iengarioi and J. N w England Champion hip. Thcudorovich of Toronto. antasiere and former Champion Joli n In the final outcome. Byrne won quite W. Collins of Brooklyn ran a neck an COMING EVENTS •N THE U, S. i:omfortab)y, stand in g: off Bisguier for a neck race most of the way. Tied at 3, ANO CANADA tint'"' and the un l y ~c ore against Byrne, in with George Scriabine u{ Syracuse · an • Abbrev latlons-SS Tmt: Swiss System Tour• th• fi nal round some lime after the USCF ta i re and Collins drew, while foll .,,, nament (In 1st round entries paired by lot rlnuhl champion hacl dropped a foll point yracusan George F. Miller tied ria- or selection; in subsequent rounds players with similar scores paired). RR Tmt: Bound tu :\Torri Weidenhaum. '\. ith Byrne at bin ·. nd they pull •d ahead in the ne. t Robin Tournament {each man plays every 7½ , Ri~guier and Ta utvai has at 6½ round as Santa iere defeated criabin other m an). KO T mt : Knock -out Tourna shared econd place. hipman, Pope] and men t (losers or low scorers eliminated). and Collins, Chesler T. Fell of Buffal 11. $$: Cas h prizes. EF: Entry tee. CC: Chess ,\'1cn garini tied at 6-2. Dreibergs and Th ' f widened their lead when Santa$it>r Cl ub. CF: Chess Federation. CA: Ch ess As .l nk~lns Lied at 5 1/:!-2J/ 2• And a slew came won from Victor Guala of Westburv an d sociation. C L1 Chess Leas-ue. in with 5 points: Thcodorovich, F erryman. Co ll in$ from Vernon Gable of Tona\~a11da. , rombacher, Lucille Kellner, Robinson. Massachusett s-November 10-12 In the 7th round when Santasiere wa, Wa·. rrnan and Marchancl. Ma achu ett Open Cham1>ion hi p - A winning from Gable came the deci::i, & B Cla · e a l Newburyport ~ CA: 6 rd 1L i. of intere~ L th l am ng tbe 4½ break. With the promi ing younger up- Tmt. 45 moves in 2 hnu r . 2 rel a clav: p int c rers : Gaba, Foote. Turiansky. Later , Scriabine, F ell Miller and Georg Ef .. 10 for A; $5 for B. Good priz.;,,. O'Keefe and 15 year old Wesley Burga.r, Mauer of Buffalo, pretty much out of th Brin g che.,s eqL!ipmen t ; fo r more WEST VIRGINIA California New York In the annual late chc s congress, held PACIFIC PALISADES CHESS CLUB at 1hc Wheeling Y}ICA, Donald Burdick BROOKLYN CHESS CLUB 601 Latimer Road 80 Lafayette Avenue .wd Charles .\lorgaa. hoth of Huntington, Parlfi · Pall ades, California Brooklyn, • 'ew York rnppecl the ri eld hy scoring 5-1 each. Mor Telephone: GL-4-5161 Telephone: C1·3•7687 g:a n wa · awarded first prize on the basL f Snlkoff superiority bnt wa. not given PRECITA VALLEY CHESS CLUB MANHATTAN CHESS CLUB • clu ~iv c possession of the title. which he P. V. Community Center. Snn Francisco, 100 Central Park Soutl1 m arccl as co-champion with Burdick. Tom California : phone: Mi ssion S-5759 New York 19. New York Bergquist. Allen H. DuVall and Edward Telephone: CO-5-8738 I. foy tied for third to fifth with 3½--21/z Florida MARSHALL CHESS CLUB ch. MANATEE COUNTRY CHESS CLUB 23 West 10 Street Tiu: 011en, held concurrenrlr with the ( Bradenton, Florida) 1 ew York, New York mai n event. was won by Walter Crede of P.O. Dox 76. Cortez, Florida. e/o of L. Telephone: GR-7-3716 Charles1011 , 11-1 , ahead of A. W. Paull, Sr., M. Malcolm: Bradenton 9·2-191 frs. Ceclric Smith and Tom Sweeney, TIMES CHESS CENTER each 3-2. Mrs. Smith wa declared Illinois 1-11 West 42 Street New York, New York omen's champion. IRVING PARK YMCA CHESS CLUB T •rl Bak r of Huntinglon took the junior 4251 Irving Park Road WESTCHESTER BRONX CHESS CLUB ·ent of the Congrefi.S by 4-2 in a double Chicago, Illinois 2244 Westchester Avenue un,J robin. Bronx 62, New York Massachusetts Telephone: T A-3-0607 CANADA HIXON CHESS CLUB YORKTOWN CHESS CLUB Hotel Hixon Yorktown Heights, N. Y. Telephone: ..4Jberta 1':orlh Attleboro. '.\IassaC' hn ~elts El'enlng, Yorktown Heights 2·4564, Lawrence Barrs easiJy won lhe Calgary Day. Yorktown Heights 2-053. Ou.-H Club ti1l e with a score of 12-1. Sec New Jersey en d and third in the round robin were LOG CABIN CHESS CLUB Ohio Ceor!'!e Kende (11-2) and Drago Jurisich (Founded 1934) CINCINNATI CHESS CLUB ◄ 10%-2½) rcspcclivcly. Al the liome of E. Forry 1~a11cks 1209 Merca.ntile Lib. Bldg. 414 Walnut 30 Colla.more Terrace Street. Cincinnati, Ohio: Phone N. Gabor, West Orange, New Jersey Woodburn 1-6480. ChamplonM of the N. Y. "Met" League, Grove's Bookstore 1~·18, Organli:cd and founded Xorth Jersey Chess Le:ii:uc and InLer-c hess Lcai;ue. Flrsl Washin9ton, D. C. Try our service for out-of• to help in lari;-c scale inter-slate matches. print and hard-to-find books. First to fly by air to Deep Rh· r Chess WASHINGTON CHESS DIVAN Club. F'lrst to promote l:irgest International 2-145 15 Street, N. W. Chess books our specialty. match of 18 and 19 boards. First to make transcontinental nnd lnternutlonal barn Wasbington, D. C. 68 Main Street, Hempstead, New York slormi7Jg tours. Telephone: C0-5-9890 tHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1956 295 By REUBEN FINE IX. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GOOD CHESS Most of my games, like those of any other master, often until they have readied a certain level. Thi~ do no nm with absolute precision, even though they process leaves many traces in the adult, who then di~ may seem technically pedect to the uninitiated. plays all the varia!Jility about which we have been Usually, there is hesitation, uncertainty and slight talking.* errors which go unnoticed unless the game is very If we wish to analyze the :,;tyle of any chess player. carefully annotated. and its connection with his personality, we have to Unevenness is characteristic in chess, much as in know in the first place th e history of his conflict:< other contests. The world championship baseball team around aggression, and how he resolved them. Alek• plays magnificently one day and may he almost un• hine, for instance, was a highly sadistic individual wh o recognizable the next. Of course, chess masters differ had no qualms about hurting other people. Thus, hi considerably in this respect; some are much steadier play was affected to the point that he not only loved than others. At his hest, Capablanca could play through the attack but often attempted to push it too far. a whole tournament 11·ithout any errors. Lasker, on Capablanca by contrast, had an entirely different the other hand, frequently slipped but had developed psydiological make.up. His pleasure in winning cfo to a fine art his capacity for getting out of uncom• appeared once he had become world champion. He fortable positions. became more anxious to avoid battle than to pursur Chess, like other games and contests, is an expres• it as ca me out quite clearly in his play. sion of the aggressive drive which has as a normal s\1b• The following game, which is not marred by am· limation the pleasure in winning. In the upbringing of uncertainty, I look upon as one of the best in thi , the man, it takes a long time to keep this pleasure collection. Soon after the opening, I hit upon a win within acceptable hounds. Boys do not learn "fair ning plan which could not be stopped, but even the n play'' overnight. They bully, act sadistically, cheat - my opponent was taken by surprise by the key mon•. or, on the other side, turn coward and run - quite The mopping•up operation proceeded quite smoothl:·· Milwaukee, 1935 8 .... P-QR3 QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED 9 0-0 Q-B3 Reuben Fine A. C. Simonson Out of the frying pan into the fii·e. White Black l3lack is afraid that, on the normal 9 ... KN-B3, there might follow: 10 Q- N3. 1 P-Q4 P-Q4 3 N-QB3 P-QB3 0-0 11 N-K2. Q-K2 12 P-QR3 and 13 2 P-QB4 P-K3 4 P-K3 n-xJ after which his weakness on tl1e A va1·iation of which I was always quite black squares might prove fatal. But fond. It looks quite tame, yet carries what he lets himself in for is far worse. quite a bit of punch. 10 R-K1 ! 4 . . . . N-Q2 Preparing the sacrifice. II' now 10 . Black avoids t he complications of the ~ - K2, \Vbite has 11 P-K4! BPxP 12 BxP: ~Ieran Variation. If he wishes, however. as. on 12 ... PxB, 13 "NxP regains 1 he to reach the Stonewall formation. he piece at once. 13 .... PxB does better to play ... P-KB4 at once, to 10 . ... B-N1 mack has no goocl way of declining 1h _ be able to captm·e with the King Pawn ~aerifice : J3 ... 0 - 0? H BxPt! KxB l' Black hopes to stop P-K-!. later. HxP: and While wins as both 15 5 N-B3 B-Q3 11 R-QB1 Q- Il2 and l:> ... QxR. are met by 6 B-Q3 P-KB4 An essential preparation. :-; . :-:.,; ,. 7 PxP BPxP 11 . . • . N-K2 14 NxP Q-B1 Now this weakening reply is forced. 12 P-K4! l31ad, ,1inrn lo keep his King Kn ig t• 8 B-Q2! Anyhow. proteeted. There is no good alternati·,e Exact timing is necessary here. With 12 . . . . BPxP e.g., 1-1 . .. Q-N3 1:3 ~ / 4- N5, N-KD:3 F the text, White gains a vital tempo be• 13 BxKP ci - :<3, and Black is lost : 16 ... 0 - 0 : cau se of the threat, 9 N-QN5. On 9 ... :-:-xKP, Dx:>i 18 QxB~. TI - B2 19 N-Ni",. B-Nl, 10 B-N-! secures the black squares; • l"or those who are inlerested in ,. more ci<, · tailed discussion of lhe psychology oi c h~.ss, 15 Q-N3 and, on 9 ... B-K2, 10 R-QBl gains e ntry l ha.ve rcccntl)· written a more extensi\".. to QB7. Thus, the reply is forced. monogntph on the ~ubjccl.-R.F, T = chccl,; t = dbl. check; § = dis. c· 296 CHESS REVIEW , OCTOBER , !9Sc£ With all kinds of th reats. 15 . . . . P-R3 Black is move-lie r!. If 15 . .. :\"-KB3. White wins ·with 16 Rxl3 t, ~x R H QxNP; but lG lb:131 now fails with . .. :\'- :\'3 at the end. 16 QxKP :\' ow 'White t.hrea tens RxBt and, on l G ... K--Ql, 17 K:\"- :\" 5 is ruinous. KERES IS THE BERRIES Caution is thro1\·11 lo lhe winds, and the chessmen fly when Keres is in his element. At Nioscow. l 940, Petrow (Black) is the victin1. The opening is the Falkbeer Counter Gambit ( variation of the King's Gambit) with l P-K4, P-K4 2 P-KB!J-, P-Q4 3 PxQP, P- K5 4- P-Q3, N-KB3 5 N-Q2, PxP 6 BxP. Cover the scoring table at the line indicated. Set up the position and make Black's next move ( exposing the table just enough to read that move). Then guess White':,; seventh move. Now expose the seventh in the table and score par if your move agrees: score zero, if not. Make the moves as actually played and the opponent's reply. Now guess White's 16 . ... N-QB4 next move and continue th e procedure lo the finish. Desperation. 17 N-B6f COVER WH ITE MOVES IN TABLE BELOW. EXPOSE ONE LINE AT A TIME Regaining the piece and retaining the 01·erwhelming position. White Par Black Your Selection Your 17 •... QxN Played Score Played for White's move Score Not 17 .. • K-Ql 18 B-R5t, B-B2 19 6 .. . . QxP Q-Qo·j"! and White mates. 7 KN-83 ______4 18 QxBt K-82 7 . . .. B-QB4 (a) 19 QxN 8 Q-K2t ______5 8 .... Q-K3 (b) The rest is simple. 9 N-K5 ______6 9 .... 0-0 19 . . . . R-Q1 22 R-K6 Q-84 10 N-K4 (c) ______6 10 .... NxN 20 Q-N4 B-Q3 23 R/1-K 1 N-Q4 21 Q-N3t K-81 24 QxP 11 QxN (d) ______5 11 .... P-KN3 White mak:es further inroads into the 12 P-QN4 ______8 12 .... B-K2 Black position. 13 B-N2 ______5 13 ...• 8-B3 24 . . • • QR-N1 14 0-0-0 ______5 14 ..•. N-83 15 P-KR4 ______7 15 ...• P-KR4 16 P-KN4 (e) ______9 16 .... BxN 17 PxB ______5 I 17 .... QxN P 18 Q-K3 ______5 18 .•.. NxNP (f) 19 P-K6! ______6 19 .... N-Q4 20 PxPt ______5 20 .... RxP * 21 8-84 (g) ______9 21 .... P-B3 22 RxN ______7 22 .•.. QxB 23 Q-KBt ______3 23 •... Resigns 25 RxB! The silllplest. 25 •••• RxQ Total Score ______100 Your Percentage ------·- 26 RxRt K-82 27 N-K5f K-K2 SCA LE: 75-100-Excel lent; 55-74-Superior; 40-54---Good; 25-39-Falr Or 27 .. . K-K3 28 N-Q7 § ! K-Q3 29 • ·-B:,§, and so on. NoTES TO Till-: G.HIE *Position after 20 ... RxP 28 RxN a) Better is 7 ... B-K2 or c,·cn 7 ... N-B3 Threatening to win the Queen. with Queen-side castling in view. lS . . . . Q-B7 30 N-83§ K-82 b) Or 8 ... B-K2, conceding a whole tempo. 29 B-83 R-82 31 R/5---K5 Q-R5 c ) Herc again ihat unfortunate King Bishop 32 P-KR3 Resigns shows itself in the wrong place. There is nothing to be done against d) i\fove after move, each with a tempo. The e elementary advance of 'W11ite's threat he re is mate! ueen Pawn. e) Viol ent breakthrough. f) There is no good defense. After the block ade, 18 .. . R-K3, Black cannot survive a prepared sacri [ice at his KN3. g ) The point of the whole combination. QIESS REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1956 297 A SHORT HISTORY OF CHESS By Henry A. Davidson, M. D. Chapter 9. Four-Handed Chess kings," called chmuraja, his confusio1 becomes complete. CH£5s ha long been played as a four ~:3,,,;- Another question: \Vhy do we prom pl handed game. During the nineteenth cen ., ly dismi s the po sibilily that chess wa; tury, it was fashionable to suppose that ~ ... I T originally a four-handed game? F o1 four-handed ches was the original game .... • three reasons. Ffrst, the generally ac and that the two-handed chaturanga l cepted theory is against it and the advo ( which certainly fathered modern chess) in- ... cate of a new the is mu t prove it. Thi; was only a derivative of a more ancient ~· ._. ' ' Cox and Forbes have fail d to do. Their four-handed game. This thesis is prob ' evidence is insu ffi cient Lo overthrow. fm ably incorrect but has been repeated so at one thing, the conclusion of Sir Wiiliani often that it must be reviewed here. -4et Jones who conducted hi tudies right in Cox was probably the originator of India with the aid of Hindu hi storians the four-handed theory. In his 1801 • ◄ and in terpreters und wh o finally decided a.rticle on Burme e chess,* he advanced -(II : that th two- handed game came fir~I. the theory. i .l i i ◄ - While il does not fo llow that Jone cannut The vigorous advocate of a primary J_ be wrong, it is ·foir lo require the ad four-handed ches ', however was Dw1- I ◄ ~ Clll:11:IE.N voc.1te of a new theory 10 carry Lhe bur can Forbes, whose 1860 book elaborates • • den of proof. A second objection to th., that thesis. Culin indirectly supported Four-handed chess, 1:ha turrnJo h. showing the Cox-Forbes-Cul in thesis i , this : the four Forbes by asserting that chess was de la yout n t the start of a game. There Is no queen , and the dlAgonally opposite players handed game is more complex than the rived from four-handed parchesi. are partn ers. This Illustration Is like the two-hand d and this in itself bes peaks is true that the four-handed game frontispiece of the 1865 edition of Forbes' It a more advanced ·rage or development. is o( great antiquity. Sir William Jonest HI ·Lo1·y or C hess In which an attempt Is m nde t o prove th at chess began I ts h Is The history of chess has not once re has shown how long ago it was played tory as a four- handed game like this, vealed a backward step toward simplifi but he sees it a a derivative of a till Forbes labels th is dia gram "The P rimaeval Hindu Chess." It Is now belleved th:it fou r. cation. Any change wh ich has been mad.: older two-handed game; and he is prob handed chess was a blind :illey off-ahoot ot has always been in the direction of in ably right. nn orlglnal t wo - handed game, and not the nncestor of the modern game. creasing the complexity of the game or Four-handed che is played by a sign the power of a piece. Thus. the hi tori ing to each participant one king, one bish cally verifiable inno1•atiuns ;re: castling. op, one knight, one rook and four pawns. 1he mrmtri, as well as of the origin of lhe two-square initial move of the pawn. Each player arranges hjs J>ieces in the 1lrn two-handed game. This in genious allowing the promoted pawn lo assume an,· usual two ranks along the left-hand half thesi is not supported by historical evi rank and increased power for the bishoi, of his side o[ the hoard. The pieces have dence. and queen. All of these are in the direc the moves in San krit ches , describ d in Four-handed che s is still played in tion of more power or more com1>lex i11·. Chapter I (January issue fl. 12), with J)Urt s of India and, in one Corm or an The third objection is that che is · two exception : there is no mantri, and, other (sometimes with an enlarged hoard ), in other parts of the world. mimicry of war, and it seems altorrc ther on promotion, a pawn acquires the rnnk unlikely that an imagery 0£ a st;ugglt of the piece located behind it at the start conj ured by a primitive people would of the game. Whether th king's pawn Why did Cox, F orbes and CuJin think 1h 11t four-handed chess wa Lhe original have started with a four-sided battle when was thus eligible for promotion to king two-sided wars were more frequent an THE ANTI-SICILIAN PORCUPINE 13 ~-Q5, QxQ 14 NxNt, BxN 15 RxQ. B-K2 Ol' 15 ... KR-Ql is ineffective for THE YUGOSLAV VARIATION - Part Two White. A subtle transposition is 13 P- QR3, Our preceding observations ( page 268 of the tishing for the inaccuracy, 13 ... KR-Ql, which leads to 14 N-N5! QxQ 15 RxQ, September issue) foc used on variations of the Anti P- Q-1 16 N- B7, QR-Bl 17 NxB, PxN 18 Sicilian Porcupine formation, arising after 1 P- K4, PxP, NxP! 19 BxP, P-N3 20 P - QB4, R- Hl 21 P xN, RxB 22 B- B4, K- B1. Though P-QB4 2 N-KB3, P- Q3 3 P-Q4, PxP 4 NxP, White is a Pawn up, the game is still N- KB3 5 N- QB3, P-KN3 6 P-B3. We there can diffic:uH because or the Bishops of op vassed two and a fraction "Variations," carrying posite colors. (It should be noted that 16 through the moves, 6 ... B-N2 7 B- K3, 0 - 0 8 N-B7 is not possible if Black plays 13 ... QR-Ql.) Q- Q2 ( and with side-variations), N- B3 9 0 - 0 - 0. Nor does Black fare better after 13 . . . We arrive thus at the first diagram below, KR- QJ 14 N-N5, Q-R5 15 P-QB4! BxP 16 N- D3, Q- N6 17 BxD, QxB 18 B-N:i. which provides two entrances to two different treat Q-1{3 19 BxN, QxB 20 N- Q5; for, in ments of this line, namely 9 ... NxN and 9 .. . Boles!avsky-Lisitsin, USSR Champion B-K3. Final judgment on neither has been ren ship, 1956, White mounted a swift and dered·so far. Walter Korn decisive -King-side attack. 13 . . . . KR-B1 Variation 3 (Continued) White's move is designed both to pro Black's last does not achieve full Starting with our "major" sub-variant tect his Queen Rook Pawn and to prevent equality but is better than 13 .. . QR- Bl C at which we broke off last time, we mack's effective development of his 14 P - QR3, P-QR3 15 P-KN4, R-B3 16 have this critical position. Queen Bishop. P-N5, N-R4 17 N-Q5, QxQ 18 N- K71. 11 . . . . B-K 3 K-Rl 19 RxQ, R-B2 20 N- Q5, with a Anyway! menacing advantage for White, Ivkov 12 B-N 3 Flores, Mar del Plata, 1955. Afte r 13 . . . KR-Bl, White retains Also effective is 12 BxB, PxB 13 Q-K2 some pressure after 14 P-QR3; but l·l as White threatens 14 P- K5 or 14 Q-B4. P - KN4? HxN! 15 QxR, QxPt 16 K- Bl, 12 . . . . BxB 14 K- N1 R-Q2 P- Q4 ! takes Black off the hook. 13 BPxB KR-Q1 15 P- KN4 The difference between 13 ... QR-Bl White's inevitable King-side assault. and 13 .. . KR- Bl comes to ligh t on the 15 . . . . QR- Q1 18th move when the latter a lternative 16 Q- K2! B-R1 ! permits 1 S .•. K-Bl (in line given above Too tame is 16 . . . P-K4 17 B- K3, P- Q4 with 13 ... QR-Bl). Moreover, on 16 as White has 18 "P- N5 ! P-N5, Black can retreat . .. N-Kl with out shu tting in the King Rook. L ast. 17 P-KR4 P-K4 19 B-N5 Px P but not least, both Rooks ought to be on 18 B-K3 P-Q4 20 RxR RxR Sub-sub-variant 4 the Queen-side to support the attack So far this line is from the game, there. Pa rt A Vasjukov- Khasin, l\foscow, 1954, and 9 • •. • NxN here 21 PxP may set np a minute advan 10 BxN Q-R4 tage for White, but a most difficult one Part B to convert into a win. (Resu me from first diagram) 9.... NxN 10 BxN B-K3 2nd Departure (Resume from last diagram) 11 K-N1 P- K4 . Black's last is Boleslavsky's magic standby which recurs in so manv related positions of the Sicilian. • Black achieved near-equality with 11 ... R-Ql 12 P- KN4, P - K4 13 B-K3, B- K3 14 P - KR4, R- Q2 15 P- R5, QR-Ql 16 B-Q3, Drimer-Halic, Bulgarian Cham pionship, 1955. 1st Departure 12 B- K3 B- K3 11 B-B4 13 B-K2 300 CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1956 11 K-N1 Q- R-1 11 NxB, PxN 12 B-QB4, N-Ql 13 ~ore precisely timed UUiD either (a) N-N5, QxQ 14 RxQ, P-QR3 15 N-B7, as A SUPERB GIFT 11 P-KR4, Q-R-1! 12 P-QR3. QR-::•,n f and White win a Pawn as was sho,vn earlier. 13 ... P- QN4 or ( b ) 11 P- K:. ·.t, Q-R•l 12 11 P- KN4 K- Nl, KR- Bl 13 Bx.K, R..._N H QxR, QxPt White does not take immediate a dvan 15 K- B1, BxB 1(l Q- R3, 8-X.J ~. tage of Black's preceding mo\'e, but. he 11 .... P-QR3 can hold Black in a strong squ eze with Here 11 . . . - R-1 is di tlnctly wrong : 11 :\'xB, Px_ 12 B- QB-1. Q-Q2 13 B- "3! e.g .. 12 N-Q5, QxQ 13 ~xP ... . K-Rl 14 .K- QR-1 1-l BxRP - or 13 .. . P-Qfl.3 H rtxQ. R- Kl l(i Bx:-:. BxB 16 l\"- Q5 with N-R-I - or 13 . . . KR- Ql 1-1 P - B4 , a Pa11·11 plus for White. N- K:'.5 15 B-Kl (Vuko,·ic-h) - or indeed 12 P-KN4! 15 P- B5. It. took long tournament experience to 11 . . . . Q- R4 work out the finesses a nd 01111ters in The game, Geller- Byrne. t: R-USA ,·olved i11 the innocuous looking t rans ~latch, 1955, continued from he r e with 12 position of \\"h ite's thrusts. P- KN4 and >l'xB, PxN 13 B- QB•I, X-Ql H B- K 2, THE MIKADO, the finest peg-In set P- KR-l. The immediate 12 P - K R4 is an• -Q2 15 B-Q-!, and Ernns ri htly sug available, made of smoothly finished Tsuge wood in a handsome Staunton SW r cl with 12 . . . P-Q -I 13 P-R5. gested the beuer ontinuation l 5 ... P- N5 ! as in Geller-Horowitz, USSR Bxn 16 QxB, N - N3 ! ! (for full game, see cherry pattern ( K ing hei ght 1"), is a su USA, )954 (for game in full , s ee p , 269, il, 27G . eptember , 1955). pe rb gift fo r a real chess friend. It Is en hanced by a handmade two-ton e leather Septembe1·. 195-JJ .* 12 P-QR3 N-Q2 Less accurate is 12 P- TUl•I by 13 B-K2 board and an unfolding case attractively which Blac k tri Lo pr v nt While'!! covered i n rayon velvet. SP.less is 13 - Q5. QxQ wlth simpli When opened (see smal I photo), the thrust. P-H5, but gives him a lever with fic:uion and d rawish aspects. which to pry open the King-s ide. Illustrn hinges slide t he top underneath to be 13 NxN tiv is the game, Bronst In- Denker (i11 come the supporting base (as In top 14 BxN t he same malt;b): 13 N- Q5, BxN H PxB. BxB photo). Closed size is 71/s'' by 51/e" by 15 QxB :'.- Q2 15 BxB, KxB 16 Q- Q4t. P-B3 17 N-N3 1¼". Playing board ls 4½ " sq uare. P-KN4! (the I ver !). Q-N3 1 QxQ, NxQ Bia k now has control of Lhe stand- The size of board and men g iv es ex 19 P xP, PxP 20 B- R3, an cl Blac k's end al'd j 11 111p ing off point fo r 16 . N-B5 cellent playing visibility. The design of game position 1s shot. (or lG . .. B-B5). men is both finel y artistic and, with their exceptional size, of top qual ity for play 12 • • . . P-QN4 16 P- N5 N-R4 16 Q-N4 QxQ 18 B-Q3 BxB ing purposes. 13 P-K R4 P-N5 17 8- 84 KR-81 17 PxQ 8-85 19 PxB P- QR3 14 N-Q5 BxN 18 B- N3 N-N6 20 R-QB1 K-N2 15 Px B Q-R4 19 KR- N1 BxB Petrosyun and P anno. Chall engers Order by caluloguc 20 QxB N-84 T ournamen t, Amsterdam. 1%5, agreed to number: The M i a draw. kado No. 181 Sub-sub-variant 5 Price Postpaid ( Resume from f irst diagram) Coda 9 • . • • B-K3 Al'ter so muc h exhausU,·e research, $12.50 ihe qu est for some thing different be comes more urgent. And. as "·e said in lhe introduction to Part I. e1·en as we TRAVELING CHESS SET went to 1>ress, such an attempt occurred in the Res hevsky- Lombardy praciice match. T he first game ran in iltcordance with what "·e l1ave given a s Variation 3 (pag 269, epte.mbe1· i. sne). And Lom bardy inlroduced a mo,'e whl ·b consti tutes , !n effect, S1tb-varianc O. 9 D-QB Here Black dares Whit to ta.ke the Bishop and so reate a doubled Pawn a ncl implicitly lndicates thnt Black con sidel's surh a course or no disadvantage lO himseU. 10 K-N1 l This peg-in t raveling set has a playing 10 NxB, PxN 11 B-QB-1, Q- 81 12 ·Q-1{2, board al I of 8" square! Plastic men, ¾" ~ - K •I l is indeed quite s11 tis factory for high, plug Into plywood board which is Bla.cli.. U pon 1 1 B-KR6, Vukovich gives encased in a leatherette cover: The De 11 ... BxD J 2 QxB. - I(~ and 13 ... Luxe m odel (also has compartments at R- D.t or 13 P-Il-1, X/4.-N5 1-1 Q-R-1, Q- 3 each end for captured men) . Standard with a good game for Black. model is in pasteboard cover (has no 10 . . . . R-81 9 . • N-QR4 compartments) . De Luxe in photo. 10 ... ) Ujpest, 1934 15 P-K4 P-QN4 27 , . . . Q-N6 Lilienthal makes a contribution to the 28 R-N3 R-N2 theory of attack. He demonstrates how 29 P-R3 to break through the opponent's King The King must have air. side with pieces, when Pawns (the usual 29 . , , . R-N8 battering rams) are not available. 29 ... PxN, instead, leads to a bril NI MZ0-1 N DIAN DEFENSE liant finish by 30 PxP, B-B2 31 RxNt' BxR (if 31 ... KxR, 32 Q- N3t wins) 32 A. Lilienthal E. Eliskases P-B7§, K-R2 33 P-BS(N) mate! Black White W N-K8 RxR 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 3 N-QB3 B-N5 31 QxR Q-R7 2 P-QB4 P-K3 4 P-QR3 BxNt Biack fights hard. He not only menaces 5 PxB the win of the ·Queen but, later on, he Lilienthal plays a variation popular even manages to conjure up mating ized by Saemisch, who has won some mack's idea is to post his Knight at threats! fine games with it. White's object in B5 and, after it is captured (White 32 K-R2 R-N8 forcing the foregoing exchange is to cannot let it stay there indefinitely), to 33 Q-K3 Q-R8 build up a strong Pawn center, secure recapture so as to open the Knight file. an open file for his Rook and obtain He threatens mate on the move. 16 P-KS N-N1 the advantage of the two Bishops. 34 RxP R-R8t 17 P-KB4 P-B4 5 . . . . P-84! 35 K-N3 R-Q8 mack cannot pe1·mit White's powerful Now he means to win the Queen by 36 Besides disputing the Pawn center, 18 P-B5. Black's reply makes possible an attack . . . R-Q6. 18 R-83 N-B5 by . , , Q-R4 and . . . N-K5. 36 K-R4 R-Q6 19 BxN NPxB 6 P-B3! 37 Q-B2 QxRP Dlacl, has carried out his plans : an 38 Q-K2 Q-B8 Whlte prepares for P-K4 and stops open file for his pieces, .and also the . . . N-K5. Here Black's plan is 39 . .• QxPt 40 removal of one or ·white's Bishops . K-R5, B-B2t '11 RxB, Q-N,! mate. 6 .... P-Q4 20 B-K3! 39 P-N3 R-Q7 Preventing 7 P-KI. White threatens to win a Pawn and so Black still bas a trick up his sleeve. 7 P-K3 0-0 forces Black's next move. 40 Q-R5 R-KR7 8 BPxP KPxP 20 .... PxP Black's last is an error, though far 21 BxP B-K3 Here is llis idea: if White plays the from an obvious one. He ought to recap seemingly powerful n Q-N6, then Black White's passed Pawn must be block turns the tables by 41 . . . RxPt 42 KxR, ture by 8 •.• NxP. A plausible continua aded: Otherwise, its "lust to expand" tion then is 9 B-Q2, N-QB3 10 B-Q3, Q-RS mate. makes it dangerous: e.g., 21 ... R-Nl But White has his own ideas. PxP 11 BPxP, P-K4. 22 N-R5, and White threatens to win a 9 B-Q3 N-B3 piece by 23 P-KG, as mate by 24 BxP 41 RxNt! KxR 10 N-K2 must be prevented. 42 Q-N6t K-81 43 B-85 mate Clearly, White is developing his pieces 22 N-R5 R-K2 24 Q-K1 R-N7 with an eye to a King-side attack. 23 R-R3 R-N1 25 Q-R4 Q-N2 10 . . . . R-K1 White has massed his pieces for an 11 0-0 B-Q2 attack against the adverse King, but 12 N-N3 Q-81 how does he break through? Black's last two moves were intended to prevent 13 N-B5 without making the weakening . . . P-KN3, a move which would have been made automatically 50 years ago. 13 B-Q2 K-R1 ,Black prepares a flight square for his Knight. 14 R-B1 N-QR4 Black's chance lies in counter-action on the Queen-side. 26 N-86! White threatens insta.nt annihilation by 27 QxP mate. Nor is 26 ... PxN suf ficient defense: 27 PxP, R-KB2 28 QxPt! RxQ 29 P-B7§ {the passed Pawn's Just to expand), and mate next move. 26 . , . . P-KR3 27 Q-K1! A clever retreat. White's Knight is !n no danger as 27 . . , PxN is met by 28 PxP, R- KB2 29 QxB, 302 CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER, 19S6 By I. A. HOROWITZ ROOK and PAWN versus ROOK It i not o strange th at many epic l attles of the che board ·ul minate in an ending with a Pawn plus for one of the pla er. It i , indeed, a lik I ihood that a game between more or less evenly mat hed adver sarie in a conte t of attrition will produce uch an insignificant difference. When that extra Pawn is in a position wh ich has simmered down to Roo k and Pawn play, a i often the ca e the result i p roblematical. There are times when the Pawn ·win perforce, and there are Limes , hen the Pawn can be che ked. T distinguish between the resultin.,. wins and draw cl mands a refined technique. In ·ome cases, for example, the only drawing method i to bring the Rook b hind the Pawn. In other cases, th onl y method Knnw rn11r end in" ! How ,loes While 1 in here? Don't let pre is to bring the Rook to the ide or in front of the Pawn. cone ·i,:erl 11otio11s i11/fue11ce rou here. olvc the probleni on rour To know the e idea j the certain path to coITect 01c11 merits. Cf111 you? For rms10er, see last example on page 305. p)anning aJ1d projecting in Rook and Pawn endings. A Basic Example 2 K - Ql is just as good. Why did White select this particular room Is With a Pawn behind here, White can 2 . . . . K-Q4 en t to go to RS? The reason simple and clear. Heretofore, a Rook hold th e game even. l1ln~lc's is 3 . . . K- B5, plan to play move to the th allow d the Black King t'ollowed by . . . P-Q6 and ... K-B6, to go to B6, after whl h a Rook check all his when the concer ted action of from behind wotlld ha v drh·en the King forceii will smooth the path ot the Pawn to Q6, where lt would ha,·e been shel· to the eighth. tered. Black would lhen have been Ln 3 K-Q1 a winning position. in Black's Pawn \~ hlte stalls again. His stand is 011 moved lo Q6, bowe\' r·, the Pawn no the third rank. longer can afford shelter to the King. 3 . .. . K- 85 Hence, the timlng of the nook move. 4 R- K R3 Draw tlll biding his time, While holds the No matter how Black plays, he is t hlr,1 rank. subject to flaUing hecks, which he 4. . . . P-Q6 cannot very rell avoid. A Rook inter position, for example, permits the ex Now K-B6. Whit e draws Black threatens ... The change of Rooks and a subsequent draw. time hns come for countel'-a tion. Becaus vVhi te is a Pawn behind, the Befor e examining the next position, on us of pl'oving the draw l'ests with him. let us summarize th e salient features of F rom t he diagrammed position, many the c\rnwing method. moYes, if co rrectly pursued, will draw. (l) White maintains his Rook on the There is, however, one principle which third rank, preventing the Black King embraces the correct le hnlque. It in from crossing onto Lhal rank. voh·e U1e de[ense on lhe third rnnk. (2) When the Blac k I,ing threatens to Bla k's King shall not cross onto \, hlte's Invade, Whi e essay. his Rook to the hinl rank. elglnh. and Blacl, tan not successfully 1 R- KN3 wa.rcl off the ensui ng ·11 Its. For a ll intents and Plll'tlOses, a stall. Worthy of no te is that this ending ls White bides his time until Black threat basic. The same method applies if ens to ent r White's third rnnk- Black's Pawn is ou some other file or 1 . . . . R- R7t rank. Then White takes his stand on another rank, never permitting the Black Black 5 R-R8 ! drives the enemy King to the King shelter in front oE the Pawn. first rank. White dare not permit the Black King 2 K-Kl to r ach B6 unmolested. t = check; :j: = dbl. ch eck; § = dis. ch. CH ESS REVI EW , OCTOBER, 1956 303 An Unlike Pair of Examples winning technique, however, is a matter If 13 . .. K-N4 14 R-B7 and the threat With the Pawn advanced to the sixth of knowledge. of 15 K-K8, followed by queening of the rank, as in the following position, and Pawn, cannot be met, the superior King sheltered from molest 14 K-K7 R-KSt ing checks, the result ls usually a win 15 K-Q6 R-QSt for the Pawn. Here it does not matter 16 K-K6 R-KSt who moves first, White wins. Otherwise 17 R- B5_:Q5. If 16 ... K-N3. 17 R-88 and the Pawn cannot be stopped. 17 K-Q5 R-QSf 18 R-Q4 Resigns The Rook Pawn Exception In almost every phase of the ending, the Rook Pawn plays its exceptional White wins part. With Rooks on the board, the Rook Pawn, too, voids all preconceived 1 .... R-QS prlncipies. There is no valid defense for Black. Here is one of the important excep But he can put up strong resistance. The tions. The Black King is ahead of its White wins text move offers the best chances. Pawn and the White King is cut off R-KR2 2 K-B5 from participation in the critical sector. Yet the result is a draw. White threatens mate. With Black on White makes way for the advance of the move, the result is the same, since the Pawn. his Rook is tied to the first rank to 2 .... R-B8f prevent mate. 3 K-Q6 1 . . . . K-N1 Thereby, White leaves the square, Q5, 2 R-N2f K-R2 vacant, so that the Pawn can advance. If 2 . . . K-Bl 3 P-K7t, followed by 3 . . . . R-QS 4 R-N8t, decides. 4 P-Q5 R-Q6 3 K-B7 Resigns Black can do no better than stall. There is nought can be done about 5 K-B6 R~B6f both the threat of R-R2 mate and that 6 K-Q7 of the advance of the Pawn, simultane Again White leaves Q6 vacant for the ously. advance of the Pawn. In many respects, the following po 6 •.•• R-Q6 8 K-B7 R-B8f Draw sition is similar to the previous one. 7 P-Q6 R-QS 9 K-QS R-QS There is, however, one vital difference Despite the advantage in Black's favor, - the Pawn is on the Knight file. Be So far so good. White has made prog there Is little he can do. For, on the ress in getting the Pawn down. Fol· cause of that factor, the position is a edge of the board, the Black King is lowing the next move, White's play will draw. limited in scope. There is only one try. require a new plan. It is to bring the Black Rook to· Black's 10 P-Q7 R-QBS K N6, N7 01· N8. When the Rooks are Now, how does White extricate his oJ>posed, the White Rook will be com King and succeed in queening his Pawn? pelled to abandon the file. Then, maybe, 11 R-B2f the Black King will exit. The first of the important moves. The 1 . • . . R-QR2 Black King must be driven away from 2 K-K2 guarding the exit. White must anticipate Black's action. 11 . . . • K-N2 If be merely temporizes, he will Jose. 12 R-B5! He must bring his King, at the first opportunity, to KBl or KB2. A star move. White can make no prog ress by exiting with his King to K7, 2 . • . . R-R7f thus: 12 K-K7, R-K8t 13 K-Q6, R-Q8t 3 K-81 R-KN7 1 ... , R-R7 14 K-B7, R-B8t 15 K-QS, R- QB8. Now the Rooks are opposed, and White 2 R-QB1 After the text move, White does must a bandon the Knight file. Or any other move with the Rook on threaten to exit with his King. For, as 4 R-KBS the first rank. suming it is White's move, 13 K-K7, There are many moves which a re suf 2.... R-N7t. R-K8t 14 K-Q6, R-Q8t 15 R-Q5, and ficient here. The text move ls made with it is over. The -Rook, by going to the 3 K-R1 a view to preclude •Black from checking fifth rank, is preparing to interpose on Not 3 K-Bl, for then ... K-R7 wins. on the Bishop file, later on, and driving one of the checks. off the White King. 3 • • . . R-R7t 12. . . . K-N3 4 .•.• K-N6 4 K-N1 13 R-B4 The King is out. But not for long. Draw 13 K- K7 works also by tricky play. It Black can make no further progress. resolves the ending, however, into a 5 R-NSf K-R7 He must not advance ... P-N7 on ac Queen versus Rook ending. And it is not The King popped out but has nowhere count of 5 R-B3t. the thematic continuation. to ;;o. On other moves, such as Now White threatens to bring his King K- BG or .. . K-R5, the Rook checks re out, and, after exhausting Black's checks, lentlessly until such time as the King The Lucena Position interpose his Rook at either K4 or Q-1 a bandons the Pawn. Then the Rook at When, as in the following diagram, and so cut off Black's Rook from the tacks the Rook Pawn, and Black is the inferior King is cut off from the action on the Pawn. unable to make progress. defense, the Pawn generally wins. The 13. , , , K-N2 6 R-KBS Draw 304 CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1956 If Black continues with .. . K-R8 and White has much in his favor here. He 4 K-R7 .. P- R7, he is unable to exit with is not only a Pawn to the good but also If 4 K- R8, R- R3t. his King. the Black King is shut out of the defense. With White out of chec k, at last, it Yet Blaclt's King and Rook are suf now appears that Black is doomed, ficiently disposed to hold matters even. 4 . . . . K-B3! The Exception Excepted 1 K-B4 Blal"k must win the Pawn. The following position has all the ear Or 1 K-R-1, R-Rl t 2 K-N5, R-Nl t 3 5 R-BSt marks of the previous one with a vital K-B·l. reaching the text position. difference. That difference, however, is On most other Rook moves, there fol enough to turn the usual draw into a 1 . . . . R-KR1 lows .. . R-N2t, and the gain of the Pawn. win for \Vhite. Now \Vhite is at a loss to make prog 5. • . • KxP ress. If his Rook moves, then 2 . . . K-B3, Draw after which Black's King joins I.he de Each Rook is en prise. fense, and Black dra,vs as in '"A Basic Example." White dare not advance his Pawn on account of 2 ... R-R5t, after which Wh!te's Rook is vulnerable. Hence, ·white is reduced to temporizing or tak- ing a stand on a slim pros pect. 2 K-N3 White returns, hoping that Black may go wrong. 2 . . . . R-QN1 As good a s any. But not, fo1· exa mple, White wins .. R- RS with the idea of getting be The Black King is now limited to the hind t he Pawn. For then 3 R-B3 gives Bishop file. This factor gives White "White the necessary se t-up to be able The Biggest Bargain ample time to describe the winning to advance his Pawn to N5. maneuver. 3 K-R4 R-R1t In Chess Literature! 1 R-KR1 4 R-R5 R-R1 The plan is to bring the Rook to QN8 Of course not the exchange of Rooks. CHESS REVIEW as quickly as possible. 5 K-N5 R-N1f 1 . . . . K-K2 6 K-B4 R-B1t ANNUAL As before, Black hurries to post his 7 R-B5 King on . .. QBl or . .. QB2. White can make no headway. Volume 23 2 R-R8 K-Q2 7 • • . . RxRt LL twelve issues of CHESS REYIEW 3 R-QN8 8 PxRt K-83 A Now Black must abandon the file, Draw published during 1955 have been ,, bile White has a n exit for his King. handsomely hound in cloth to make 3 • • • . R-QB7 thfa jumbo-sized 384 plus page book. 4 K-N7 Illusion! 298 full games, selected by experts, White threatens to queen. According to all the rules and reg profusely diagrammed and annotated by masters are drawn from the most 4 • • • • R-N7f 6 K-N6 R-N7f ulations, the following position ought to 5 K-R6 R-R7t 7 K-B5! be an easy win for v\'hite. It isn't. important events of the past year and special gems past masters and cur White queens perforce. by It is to be noted that, had Black played rent postal players. Such events as the his King to Q3 to guard the exit at TT osenwald Tournament, the USCF ·w hite's B5 , ¥lhite would s t!ll have won "Open," Hastings, Mar de! Plata and by playing llis King to B8. Lhe World Champion Challengers Tour 7 . . . . Resigns nament are covered by games and stories and photographs. The volumes contain special features, Rook to the Fore! quizzes, photos, stories and anecdotes Genera.lly speaking, the Rook is most as well as fine instructi on by Euwe, effecti,·e behind the Pawn. There are Tartakover, Reinfeld, Horowitz, Kmoch, times, however, when the vantage point Korn and others. i.s in front of the Pawn. Here is an instance. Everything is favorable for White here. Postal Chess is well represented He is a Pawn to the good; his King is with games annotated by Collins. in front of the Pawn; and the queening Other Volumes on hand: path is clear. Yet Black can hold the game. Volume 15 - for 1947 - $5.00 Volume 16 - for 1948 - $5.00 1 . . . . R-N3! Volume 19 - for 1951 - $6.00 The star move. ¥.'hat is White to do? Volume 20 - for 1952 - $6.00 H is King ca nnot move without giving Volume 21 - for 1953 - $6.00 up the Pawn, and on R-K7, Black tempo Volume 22 - for 1954 - $6.00 rizes. 2 P-K7 Order Your Copy Now! The only attempt at progress. 2 R-KR8 avails nothing : 2 RxP 3 R- R5t, CHESS REVIEW K-N 4 4 KxR, K xR. Draw 250 WEST 57th ST. 2 • •• • R- B3t NEW YORK 19, N, Y. t = check; t = dbl. c~_~ k; § = dis. ch. 3 K-N7 R-N3f CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBE~{"l956 305 THE SOUR SIDE OF CHESS By BRUCE HAYDEN "He is the most obstrusive fellow, sir. His chess made him champion and "'Like? - Oh, Mr. Staunton, I vood He can't say the simplest thing but in the brooked no argument; his bluster made be delighted.' most oracular manner. him feared in an age of brass bancb, "WelJ, sir, I considered that to get them "Sir, one very rainy day, I was playing pomp and bluster; and his aristocratic over here and prepare apartments would an important match game at the St. connections gave him influence. cost 200 pounds. So, next day, I went. George Club when he entered my salon "Play with me," he would roar at tile down to our club and met some of . my and, catching my eye, beckoned me to aristocratic St. George's, "and I'll make a intimate friends, the Duke of M--, and follow him into the adjoining room. As man of you." Lord D--, also- the Marquis of T- - . soon as I arrived there, he carefully shut His campaign against Paul Morphy and in the course -0£ half-an-hour, I col the door and, laying his hands upon my through his column in the Illustrated Lon lected two hundred guineas. shoulders, stared wildly into my eyes. don News is well known; but other ex "I need hardly tell you, sir, that, if I "I thought the fellow was demented, amples of his vivid style of abuse are not had asked for two thousand, it would and I made an effort to leave when he so familiar. have been as readily subscribed. suddenly said in a voice of Delphic mys Here is his colorful account of a hap "The same day, I invited the fellow to tery: 'Staunton, it rains. By G-d, sir, it less individual who had aroused the dinner and presented him with a cheque R-A-1.N-S.'" Staunton wrath: on my banker for the money, and he promised to get his family over within a Thus spake HOWARD STAUNTON, the "Sir, the fellow's an ingrate of the fortnight. early-victorian chess champion of one of basest stamp - a serpent, sir. Shortly "Week after week rolled by, and th e the many individuals who had aroused his after his arrival in this country, I gave fellow's face went yellower - a picture ire. him a home in my own house for several of abject misery and meanness. My pa My neighbor on another page, Irving weeks and got him lucrative engage tience was exhausted, and I attacked him . Chernev, has contributed amusing descrip ments at our club: in short, made -a man tions of the chess scene in his book, The of liim. "'What do you mean,' I asked, 'sitting beside me day after day - a bundle of Bright Side of Chess. But there is an "Well sir, day by day as I saw him, misery - looking green and yellow and other side - the Sour Side - and it may he seemed to grow more and more miser all sorts? I can't endure it any longer. well start with Staunton. able in appearance, his face longer and Have you got your wife and children Staunton, horn 1810 as the reputed more sour. My hr-other members noticed over yet?' "natural" son of a nobleman, said to be the change and complained to me. I re Lord Howard, Fifth Earl of Carlisle, was solved to inquire into the cause and, if "'I have not,' he replied and burst into the chess autocrat of his age. When he possible, remove the evil. So I asked tears. was victorious by 11 to 6, with 4 draws, him why he looked so dejected. "'Why NO T, sir? I demand an answer: over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint "After considerable effort, he exclaim "'Because-because (more tears)-be Amant, the French champion, in a great ed: 'Oh, Mr. Staunton, I am so miserable!' cause dere ain't no vife and dere ain't match in Paris, he became the lion of the "'What makes you so?' no children.' " chessboard. " 'Oh, my dear wife and my poor chil- That Staunton was a master of fiery dren.' OTHER times, other manners. The lat.er invective wrapped in the florid verbosity " 'What! are you married and a father?' Victorians mellowed under a middle-class of his age in no way detracted from his H 'I 1am,' prosperity. The domineering bluster gave prestige. He practiced skillful abuse in "'And where •are they?' way to a genial -and off-hand, if some his chess writings -and in long pompous " 'In Jericho-I mean Cracow, and I what lordly, manner which mingled with addresses to his admirers. At the St. am miserable because I am separated the pomposity ·of the century. George Club, where masters mingled with from them.' St~initz bestrode the chess world and followers of the game among the nobility " 'Indeed, and would you like to be made no bones about it. Harshly dog and gentry, Staunton was King. with them?' matic, he was, to quote one commentator. not only a bad loser but also a bad win ner. And , though Steinitz was worl d WON BY DESHABILLE? VVhen in the August issue we ran the Napier gave this as one of so few champion, the lame, short-sighted and Napier fragment of Deschapelles, it specimen's of Deschapelles skill left irascible visitor from Central Europe, wh o seems we started something. Reme'mber and offered it for the readers to solve, bent his massive head and snuffled ov er Napier · said "Labourdonnais lost this citing it as a mate in five. Well, our the chessboard as he played his queer. little known ending"? ingenious readers, some of them, could cork-screw style of defensive play, did not not solve it, with White to move (as is capture the imagination of the chess pub, customary) and play up the diagram (as lie as did Blackburne. is customary). ·But they could solve it JOSEPH HENRY 8LACKDURNE, the Lan with White to move and play down the diagram, cashire lad, who had sacrificed a stead\' And so we learn that the position is job to seek his fortune at the game, wa ;: a mate in five, equally either way. A a master of slashing attacks and sacri, very cute position. ficial combinations which appealed to the Too cute, in fact, as it suggests that gallery. He was forever laying brilliant this "Deschapelles' Legacy" js something and wily traps in which even the greatest more than just the end of a game by him. were ensnared. Look how he swindled the Quick! Can any chess his torJan elucidate great Tchigorjn out of a won game by the matter? even allowing liim to have an extra Queen. 306 CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1956 Vienna, 1898 This sort of swindle occurred time ahd 18 Q-B5t N-N4 20 K-82 K-R3 time again in a Blackburne display. 19 PxN PxP 21 BxPt "And now," added Ulacklrnrne, with sarcasm, "the gentleman will be able to catch hi~ train." 21 . . . . QxB 22 R-R1f Resigns It is on record that Blackburne met his verbal match during one simultaneous in a citizen who showed reluctance to come out into the open game and be slaughtered artistically. This citizen played the Blackburne (Black, of course) played French - or at least appeared to intend into 1 . ... PxP 2 P-RS(Q), P-N6 3 The blindfold Blackburne is in a bad it with 1 •.. P-K.':I in reply to Black Q-KBS, PxP 4 Q-B5t, K-R1 5 Q/4-Q4, way with the White pieces. So, with hurne's favorite King Pawn npening. QxRPt 6 R-R2, Q-KSf! 7 NxQ, P-88(Q) a final sally, he played 1 K-K3, Black "A h, I resign.'' s,tid Blackhurne in mate. grabbed the bait with 1 . • . R-R6t 2 mock fear when he reached the board. K-K4, Rx R and, when he looked at the But this time he had ca ught a tartar. board again, his face went red, we are "Thank you, :.Ir. Blackburne, I accept Blackburne'.s ferocious brilliance rarely told. failed to get him in the Jirize list of all vour resignation," retort ed the player, the big tournaments, and his admirers jumping ou t of ambush. Thereupon, he thought that, in truth. the mantle of Mor find the best muves hut. un the other t.urned to the marker and added: "Please phy had descended on their hero. He was lrnnd, som e were able lo find the worst, score my game as a win to me." apt t.o beat the best. "Blaekhurne is al and he had found the wnrst which doubt Thus, did a master lose a game after ways very dangerous," Teichman said to less was just as difficult. making only the first move: a verbal E. G. Sergeant. llut, wh en he had Inst An old player, .J. E. Ellam has told me checkmate! I should like Lo know what matches to the two iron men of position how, in his youth, he wa~ hold enough B!ackburne'$ re-action was t o this. Rec and maneuver, Steinitz, and later Lasker, to bait the warrior when he carne 'round ords show that. when he was on the losing without winning a game, his followers to hi ~ board. "Tell me, :.Ir. Bl<1ckburne," side, sourness replaced the famous jovial sighed for the return of the days of he sa id , "Why do you al ways have to take it y, though the pretentious superiority re :\forphy, Andersscn and Kolisch when a a drink of whisky be fore making Your mained. man would come out into the 01>en and move against me?" slug into the other man with sacrificial "The reason, my hoy, i;; that it is mate I've had many a chuckle over hi s ending attacks and with "checks going like in seven" was the reply. And it was! with Marshall in their game in the cable Gatling guns" (to quote a writer of the The crowd loved it all and lapped it up. match of 1910. It was a long hard battle times). Still, they remained loyal to their until on hi s 61st move, i'vfarshall an hero and, for over half a century, invited The veteran Irish player . .J . .l. O'Hanlon nounced mate in five. him on a yearly tour of the clubs where, recal ls the game he playP-d as one of eight Blackburne had departed the arena and in brilliant blindfold performances, he against the blindfold Blackburne in 1896. left the reply to be cabled : "Saw it. dissected their very best club players by Gone home." sparkling sacrifice and trap. HAMPE ALLGAIER GAMBIT Blackburne 0'Hanlon Blackhurne claimed also Lo have "seen" Blackburne could and would consume White Black the coming combination hy which Zuker an d burn up a bottle or more of whisky 1 P-K4 P-K4 9 NxP B-K3 tort beat him in the great London Tour during these seances, without turning a 2 N-QB3 N-QB3 10 P-Q4 N-B3 nament of 1883, in one of the most bril hair. The story quickly spread how, dur 3 P-84 PxP 11 Q-Q3 K-N2 liant games ever J>laved. ing a simultaneous display with e.ight of 4 N-B3 P-KN4 12 NxKBP BxB Zukertort had arrived in London with the board, Im came to a table where the 5 P-KR4 P-N5 13 QxB Q-K2 1h e reputation of being the fin est chess player had a glass of whisky. Black 6 N-KN5 P-KR3 14 P-K5 N-Q1 and dominoes player and the best pistol burne spotted it. "Ah, this has been left 7 NxP KxN 15 0-0 N-R2 shot on the European con tinent. (Cer en prise. I will capture it en passant," he 8 B-B4t P-Q4 16 N-R5t K-N3 tainly, I would say that Lo be a good said and drained the glass before making 17 Q-Q3t KxN pistol shot was a useful accomplishment his move and moving on. Black bu me tells how at this stage, Black wished to make a few consecutive if you were as good a player as Zuker All the time that the famous swash moves a5 he had a train to catch. ';He tort.) buckler, glass of whisky in hand, . was kindly offered a draw although two pieces In his immortal game (No. 127 in the mowing down the assembly of amateurs ahead." he added. The point of this irony Colden Tr eas ury of Clw.1s ) . Zu kertort had or swindling them out of their wins, he is that lllack has a lost game. foreseen hi s opponent'.• deep plot to win accompanied his 111 01,es with a barrage of a piece. So, early on, he prepared a witty comments, mingling irony with counter with the offer of a Queen as joviality at their expense. the forerunner to what Steinitz described To one worried s011) who couldn't find as "one of the most noble com binations a move to get him out of trouble, Black conceived over the che~sboard." burne said : "Quite right, if you don't The game aroused the wildest excite move, you can't lose." To another who ment. When it seemed that Zukertort had just lost and who remarked that he was to drop the piece, one ardent sup hadn't been able to find the best moves, porter was so sure of his skill that he was Blackburne adopted a consoling air and - willing: to bet all and sundry a shilling replied that some players were able to that Zukertort would yet win the game, t = check; t = dbl. check; § = dis. ch. says one report. CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER , 1956 307 PLASTIC CHESSMEN B!ackburne 28 .... R/1-B4 • ·ow Zukertort i about to fire an other brilliant rocket into the Black po i- 1ion. :\-leanwhile Blackburne' commenl~ (lD ''the little man who is winnin" thi, great game are rising in an ever high r crescendo of con cl $ nding su perinrity. "I thou ght th is sufficient, quite over looking the acrifice o{ the Rook " he says. 'At thi tao-e. walking round t 11 see how the other games were going, on I the player ·aid to me. 'You ve got 1h • liule man.' I don't know' I replied 'It". Zu kertort tremendously diHiculL.' On returning ... 21 R-K3! it dawned on me that Lhe sacrifice of the "When Zukertort made this move h Rook was fatal, and tJ1c only questi on was wheth er he would find it out ... These Plastic Chessmen are made of hod in his mind's eye the whole combina durable Tenlte and molded in the basic tion tl1al follow down to Black' 28th Returning Lo the other board , [ heard a crnsh a though a piece were being Staunton pattern. Sturdy and practical. move.' ~aid the commentator in the British lapped down with all the empha i a they are made in four sizes: Tour-nament Ch .ss Magazine, ' . .. It mu t b re man'.,; muscle· co uld give it and pre,;. Size with 5" King, for use on 2½ or 2¼ " m rnb red that . fr. Blackburne doubled ently came a lap on my shoulder. 'Your squares; Standard Size In de luxe chest hi Rook with the intention o[ playing and Standard Size in 2-sectlon case, with clock is going, ha"e made my mov .' to 137 a soon as he hud got rid of the I 2¾" King, for use on l¾ to 2¼" square.s; he said ; and, from the manner in whi h Whit King's Bishop .. . expecting to Student Size with 2%" IGng, for use on be drew himscl( up to hi full height. win a piece. The real beauty of Zuk r 11h to 1 ¾." squares. All sizes are weigh Led I felt that I might remark a the writ r torl play is lhal he led hi opponent and !elted, available in Bia.ck & Ivory and did when the audience damned hi play. Red & Ivory. {See Student Size above.) into the trap, correctly calculating the 'He ha found il out has he?'" No. 70-Student Size ______$ 4.50 resu lt ." 29 R-B8f! ! KxP 31 BxPt KxR No. 71-Same but In Red &. Ivory_$ 4.50 21 . , . . P-B4 23 P-B5! N-K5 30 QxPt K-N2 32 B-N7f! K-N1 22 PxP e.p. NxP 24 BxN PxB No. SO-Standard Size ------$ 6.50 33 QxQ Resigns No, 81-Same but In Red &. Ivory_$ 6.50 25 PxNP! R-B7 No. 125-Sta11dard, De Luxe ChesL$10.00 N11w, with the excited spectators think No. 126-Same but 111 Red &. lvory_$10.00 WELL. as afoi·e-men Lioned. other Lim • ing that White wa about to lose a piece, No. 110-Tournament Size ______$19.50 other manner , but there' till a sour thi i where Zuk rtorl rooter offer d No. 111-Same but in Red&. Ivory $19.50 side to chess and che s-play r . The old hi shilling bets. aying about being able to see a man in Zukertort later pointed out how, on hi true color in drink. in anger, in grief 25 ... PxP Black i till lo t - but and ad ersity, can be upplemented by CHESSBOARDS th 11 the technical points o[ the game - and at che s. have been annotal d right and left. 26 PxPt K-R1 In these genle 1 times if Staunton were 27 P-Q5§ P-K4 LO come rearing into a ches club, offer 28 Q-N4! ! ing to play any member "and mak a man of him,· he would be quickly hu he ---· down. If he made a habit of thi noi. y ...... behavior. it would probably co t him hi, membership. No lon ger do players sit at the board •••• with a nearby glass of whisky en pris e. And, if Blackbum or an yon' \I' r tn ------wipe a member' cup of coffee he would certainly be looked at a kancc with rai.ed ------yebrvw-. He'd probably be con idcred THESE standard weight foldlng boards a a poor old Jo who was going potty in are of excellent quality, about ¼" thick. the head if he repeated it. Outside covering and playing surface are black, dice-grain cloth. Impressed I wa s reflecting on all this a [ew cloy• dividing lines between buff and black A really gloriou move, says Steinitz - back during a full dress squabble betll'een squares. Embossed covers. who gave every sacrifice the minutest ex two chess executi\•e over an· incident mor No. 221-1 %" squares ______$1.75 amination under hi analytical micr • in keeping with the time . Apparentl y. No. 222-1 ¾I" squares ------·--.$2,00 01, before he wouJd admit it ound- ne had given grav offense to the oth No. 223-21/a" squares ------$3.00 ne . by omilling from a recording of hi name EXTRA heavy folding board, de luxe By now, Blackburne wa starting Lo that hal l-m ark of ge ntility, th hyphen : quality, double-weight ¼" thick. feel a bit sour about his plans going Bitter words had been written and spok n. No. 204-2¼" squares ______$7.50 awry a nd, in the book of hi $ games, he lmagine! gives a condescending commentary; "An Send for complete catalog of equipment So don't forget, boys and girls. In enthusiastic critic, who - by-Lhe-bye - future. addre s me as Bruce (hyphen 1 wa not present, _ays this literally elec Hayden -- unless you think I'm kidding'. lookers•on ; o MAIL YOUR ORDER TO trified the whether this be or not, at all events it was anticipated For the r<>cord. R, )•den'!! Cull name ill Hendry CHESS REVIEW by me as there was no other move Lo Bruce Col.lb Ellenband-Hayden; buL he !ore goe.s using the hypheno ted surname o:s belni; 250 Weat 57th Street, New York 19, N. Y. s«ve him from immediate loss." cumbersome. - Ed. 308 CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER , 1956 by DR. MAX EUWE Former World Champion END-GAME 18 First Variant Position after 4S K- B2 46 RxP, RxPt Challengers Tourname nt So the White Rook has at least partially a defensive role. But, by defending alone, Amsterdam, 1956 one cannot win a game, and so this is a GRUENFELD DEFENSE particularly difficult end-game. David Bronstein Dr. Miroslav Fil ip Still Jet us grant first of all: the num• White Black ber of twists is so great that absolute com))leteuess is impossible. 1 P- Q4 N-KB3 21 P-K6 NxB 2 N-KB3 P-KN3 22 PxN N-B4 3 P- B4 B- N2 23 PxPf KxP The Actual Play 4 N-B3 P- Q4 24 N/5- Q4 R-Q4 41 . . .. K- K3 5 B-B4 0-0 25 R- KB1 B-B3 42 R-K5t K-Q3 6 R- B1 P-B4 26 P-N4 K-N1 7 PxBP PxP 27 R-N5 R/1- Q1 After -12 ... K-B2? 43 P- NS, White 8 QxQ RxQ 28 R-QR1 BxN obtains a type of position which he does \\Thite w ins, with some clifficulty, as 9 P-K4 N- R3 29 NxB R/1-Q3 get in the game, only much later (about follows. the 52d move) and with g1·eat difficulty. 10 P-K5 N - N5 30 R-R8f K-B2 47 K-B5 K-Q2 11 P-KR3 N-R3 31 R-QN8 P-R4 43 R- R5 R-QN7 K - K6, 12 BxP NxP 32 P- N4 N-K3 44 R- R6t K-Q2 After 4i ... ll-::'-.4t 48 every• 13 K-l<.2 B-K3 33 RxR RxR 45 R-N6 K-K1 thing 1'\ll\S m\\ch more smootn\-y. A.s soon 14 N-QN5 QR-B1 34 NxN KxN as tlle Black King Pawn falls, the K night How White wins, after 45 ... K-B2 46 Pawn wins out of hand. 15 NxP R-R1 35 RxP PxP RxP, HxPt, is set forth in greater detail 48 P-K4 16 B-K3 BxBt 36 PxP R-KN4 undel' U1e First Variant. Dlack's King l~ 17 RxB N-Q2 37 K-B3 R-Q4 just one square too far removed. Horizontal cover-up for White's King 18 N-QN5 RxP 38 R-N6t K-B2 46 K-Q4 K-B2 48 K-B3 R- K7 (P-KS). 48 R- QR6, K-Kl -!9 K- N6, R-K5 19 R-QN4 N- KB4 39 K-K4 R-Q8 50 47 P- K4 R- Q7f 49 K- Q3 R- KN7 R- R3 also presents winning c hances, 20 R-Q1 R/ 7- R1 40 P-KN5 R-Q7 but the cotu-se of eYents then soon be 41 R-N5 How White wins a fter -J9 . .. R-QN7 ls comes very unsurveyable. worked out under the Second Variant. 48 • . . . K-K1 50 P-N6t K-N2 50 R- N5 K- K3 49 R- QR6 K-B2 51 R-R7 K-B1 Black's move loses more quickly than does 50 ... K - Kl (Third Vadant) or 50 ... P- K3 (Fourth Varialll). 51 R-Q5 Now Black's King is c:ut off. and the White King can support the advance of the passed Pawn. 51 . . . • R-N7 52 K-64 R-K7 53 K- Q4 Already possible is 53 P - N5 (53 The adjourne d position. Is there a RxP-r 54 K-B5, R-KS 55 K-B6, etc.) forced win'/ 53 . . • . R- Q7t After the following explanations, one 52 R-R1 ! inclines to an affirmative answer. Yet 54 K-B5 R- B7t 55 K-N6 White's Rook must intervene via the no absolute certainty can obtain: Rook King Roolc file. Direct attac k against end-games, when all is said and done, White considers this the ))roper mo- Black's King P awn (52 H- nSt, K-N2 53 being Rook end-games. Tarrasch once ment to give up his King Pawn. R-KS, R-X2 5-l K - Kli) leads only to a said: "Practically all Rook end-games 55 . • . . R-B5 draw (after 5-1 H - N5 55 P- K5, are draws, regardless of whether one 56 P-N5 RxP R- N-! !). is a Pawn ahead or a Pawn behind." He 57 K-B6 R-QN5 aimed thereby especially at the Rook 52 . . . . R- N7 Black will answer 58 P- N6? with 58 . . . 53 P- K5 R-N6 endings in which both sides have iso· R xPt! - the last little pleasantry. lated Pawns so that the Rook of the 53 • • • R- B7t 5-1 K- I{G <.:omes to prnc• stronger side must be used for defense 58 R- QB5 Resigns tically the same thing: 5-1 .. . R-QN7 55 in order to maintain the mate rial p re• The passage of the passed Pawn is R-RSt, K- NZ 56 KxP as will appear ponderance. assured, with 59 P- N6 and contingently later. There are innumerable ramifica· Suc h a case we have here. all three 60 R-N5. tions of which only the most important W hite Pawns being vulnerable, while Now let us regard the principal al• can be investigated here. the K ing is unable to protect them all. ternatives. 4 R-R1 R- B6t CHESS REV IEW, OCTOBER, 1956 309 Now Black can no longer temporize. 54 R-KS 59 P-N6, R-QN8 60 K-B5, K-Kl 52 ... K-Q3 53 R-B6t, K-K4 54 RxP, . . . R~N7 55 R-R8t, K-N2 56 R-R7t, K 61 K-B6, etc. (62 P- N7 and 63 R-N5) . R-N6"t 55 K-B-1, KxP 56 P-N6 only Bl 57 R-B7t. K-Kl 5S P-K6, and \\'hite's 54 R-N7 K-81 makes matters smoother for White. P-N7 soon follows. 55 R- NSt K-N2 53 K-Q4 R-N7 55 K-K6 R-KN6 56 R-KS! RxP Black follows a waiting policy. 53 56 R-R8t K-N2 White wins simply and quickly on 56 . . R-QSt 54 K- K5 or 53 . . . R-N8 5.J . .. R- B2 57 K-Q4, etc. K- K5 only speed up matters as does 53 57 RxPt K-81 . .. K-Q3 54 R-B6t likewise. 57 ... K-Nl 58 R-Q7, K-Bl (else 58 54 K-B4 .. R-Nl 59 K-K4) leads to the same 54 P-N6 leads, after 54 ... R-N7 :n position. R-B7t, K- Q3 56 P-K5t, K-K3 57 ,R-,B6t, 59 R-B7t K-B-5, to unsurveyable. involvements. 54 • . . • R-N5 56 K-N5 R-K8 55 P-N6 ! RxPt 57 P-N7 R-N8t 58 K-R6 R-R8t Here other moves fo1· Black come to the same thing, or at least to nothin~ better (e.g., 58 ... R-N7 59 R-N5! RxR 60 KxR, K-B2 61 K-R6, K-Nl 62 K-N6. 57 R- R8! P-K! 63 K- B5, P-K5 6•1 K-Q4, and White After 57 R-R7t, KxP 58 RxP, R~QR6! wins the Pawn ending). the end-game is a draw. What comes 59 R-R5 RxRt 62 K-N6 P-K4 into play here is the familiar rule of 60 KxR K-B2 63 K-B5 KxP the "Rook on the long side." By plac 61 K-R6 K-N1 64 K-Q5 K- 82 ing his own Rook on the Queen Rook 65 KxP file, White prevents Black's Rook from And White wins another version of the gaining sufficient room for delivering A completely new chapter. The game same Pawn ending as in previous note. flank checks. (that is to say, the King) can now fol• low either of two courses. 57 •••• R-K6 Fourth Variant Black's attempt at flank checks might Course A Position after 50 R-N5, P-K3 run as 57 ... RxPt 58 KxP, R-N3 59 59 . . . . K-N1 P-K6, and now, if White's Rook stood 60 R-84 R-N3 on QN8 and Black's on its QR3, the game would be a draw; but, as it is, ·white On 60 . . R-Nl, 61 K-Q4 decides. win8: 59 ... R- N2t 60 K-Q6, R-N3t 61 61 P-K7 R-K3t 63 KxR K- 82 K-Q7, R-N2t 62 K- B6 ! The Black Rook 62 R-K4 RxRt 64 K- Q5! KxP stands just one square too close. 65 K-K5 58 R-R5 K-B1 And White wins the Pawn ending. 59 P-N7t KxP ! Course B 60 KxP ( Resume from last diagram) And White wins, by virtue of the 59 • • . • K-K 1 62 K-84 RxP shortened long side. 60 R-KN7 R-N3 63 K-85! R- K8 61 RxP K-K2 64 R-KB6 And White also wins (e.g., 64 . . . Second Variant Black's 50 . , . P-K3 looks a bit clumsy, Position after 49 K- Q3, R-QN7 R-BS"i" 65 K-N6, RxRt 66 PxRt, K-Bl 67 P-B7). because his King can now be driven back lo its first rank: 51 R-N7t, K-Kl. Curi· ously enough, however, White gains no Third Variant conclusive result th11s: e.g., 52 P-N5. Position after 50 R- N5, K-K1 RxP 53 P-N6, K-Ql 54 R-N7, K-Bl! 55 R-K7, R-N8 56 RxP, K-N2 57 K-K3. P-N4. So, here (as in the Third Variant). White's best continuation appears to be: 51 R-QB5! K-K2 52 K-B4 Black's King is cut off, and White's joins its passed Pawn to support its ati· vance. White must, however, give up one White wins, with considerable dif of his other Pawns. So it becomes a ficulty, as follows. question of counting squares. And Blacl, has four major courses. 50 P-K5 ! R-N7 51 P-K6t K-N2 51 , .. K-Bl 52 R-N8t, K-N2 53 R-N5 White wins, with great difficulty. comes to the same thing. 51 R-Q85! 52 R-N5 R-N5 Here 51 R-Q5, as played In the game, On 52 ... R-N8, there follows 53 R-K5. does not solve the problem on account . 53 K-K3 R-QB5 of 51 ... P-K3. Also possible is 53 ... R-N8, to which Black's King, true enough, is now cut White replies with 54 R-K5, and we con off by one rank further than in the fine ourselves to a single variation, game. Hence it is somewhat less effec again for lack of space to exhaust all tive but still just sufficient. possibilities: 54 .. , R-QS 55 P-N5, K-Bl 51 . . . . K-Q2 56 K-K4, R-Q3 57 R-Q5, RxPt 58 K-Q4, 52 P-N5 R-NS 310 CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1956 Course A O11e more. important junction. It comes This is lhe erilkal position (last dia 51 . R-N5 up also in Courses C and D. ll'or now, grnm) of oui·s B except that the While 52 K-Q4! there are two roads open lo Black, tbe passed .Pawn stands on :\"-1 insteatl of X5. Wl1ite 1"eeon!:id rs: After 52 K- N5, vertical and the horizontal. FortL1nMely, that diffei·ence does not make a ~rucial one in the outco1ue. RxKP, he gel$ no further (53 K- R5, Here, too, ,,.e have the vert1cal (55 K - Q3) "'illtout gh·Jng up his Knight ... n - N ) and the horizontal (55 .. . Pawn, too. After th t xl mo1·e, how• H-D5) defenses. We let a single varia e,,er,. While has 11:nin d a mo t imponant tempo - just . ufflciently for a rela lion s uffice: 55 ... R-N8 56 P-N5, P- N4 57 R-B7t , K-Ql 58 R-K.J'\/7, P-N5 59 K-B6, tively simple win. P- 6 60 P-i 6, P- 7 6l P-:\"7, R-B8t 62 T{- Q6, H-Q8t 63 KxP. ll-QN8 6-t RxP, and White wins. Course D ( Resume f rom last d iagram, page 310) 51 . . • . K-Q2 53 P-KS RxP 52 K- N5 R-N5 54 K-N6 And White continues as in Course C. Course B1 56 .. A-NS Summation 57 R-B7t K-Q1 Af(e l' so xtensi\'e and difficult an 58 R-KN7 R-K8 analysis, a few remarks are meet. It White wins quickly on 5' . .. P-N4 59 ls possible that, here and there, the was so 52 .... R- NS K-Bo, P- N5 60 P-N6. r ealler fe ls rlonbts arisi ug. It with me. Dozens of tirues, I had to Directly back agldn I El~e, on 52 59 K-B6 RxP 60 P-N6 R-K8 t hrow all my variations O\'erboard and K- Q2 or ... K-Q3, ther e ro ll ows 53 P- 15 61 R-N8t ! searcll t'or ne11· ones. And who knows (52 ... K-Q3 53 P- :--.'5, RxPt? 6·1 Kxlt, what an even rleepe1- a naly~is might not KxR 55 K- K5). 61 P-N7 is also a (much lmrrler) win. unco\'er '/ It is one more proof of the jn 53 P-N 5 61 , . . . K-K2 63 K- N6 R- N8t exhaustiblllty of our game of chess. 62 P-N7 R-BSt 64 K-851 A bright side of Wl1ite's Jin -up is If w now Jll'Obe briefly for what mo that g1vt11g hecks from the rear does And now 6·1 ... RxP fal ls ngalnst 65 tives dominate White's winning process, not improve the situallon for Blaclc R-N7t. then we find it chiefly in the cutting 53 ... R-QSt 5·l K-KG, with the threat otf of Black's King so as to advance o( 55 R-B,~. Course 82 snbsequ ntly w ith King and passed Pawn. I n the game, the cutLing off process took 53 • . . • K-Q2 ( Resume from last diagram) plac a long tl1e Queen file. I n two of On 53 .. . K-Q3, there [ollows 5-l P 56 . , . . R-84 58 K-86 RxP Lb more Importan t ramifications (in the Kiit , K-Q2 55 P - . 6. wllll about the 57 R-B7t K-Qt 59 P-N6 R-KS Third and Fomih Variants), it was along same consequences as in the gam (55 The position arising after 59 .. . R-Q4 the Que n Bishop file. In these, there .. . R- 8 56 R- B7 t and 57 K- B5). ~or 60 R-IG'H, H-Q8 we already learned from fore, ·areful watch had to be exercised does driving White's King forward with Course Bl: 61 R-~8t, K-1.. 2 62 P - 7. lest B ia le obtain counter-chances with rl1ecks have any merll (55 ... ll-Q 66 t 60 R-Q7t K-K1 th uassed King Knight Pawn which he K-B4, R-B8t 57 K-N5, R- N t 6 K-H6, stabllshed meanwhile (as in the last R- RSt 59 R- R5). Not 60 ... K- BJ 61 P-X it : dtugrnm). 54 P-N6 R-NS 61 P-N7 R- BSt In two other by-lines (Fi r·st Vtu-iant 55 R-B7t K-Q1 62 K-Q6 R-QBf and mfd-way ln the Second), we observed Not 55 ... K- Q3 56 P- K5 mate! Or 62 . .. H-QNS 63 R BT. a n enu-g;une of two against one on the King's wing, leading mos tly into a won 56 K-B5 63 KxP R-KSt end-game o[ Rook a ncl Pa\,·n against Hook 64 K-86 R-BSt And now White wins easlly. (note particularly the position late in 65 K-N7! Lh e First Varia,nl. "·ith Black's wing Hence \),,"bite wins. Course B clipped Rook denied lhe use of the "long side"). ( Resume from next to last diagram) C Atitl, for an a rlditional minor point to 51 • . . . R-K7 Course (Resume from last diagram, p age 310) be observed, w e IHtd the sudden crop Now 52 K-Q4, K- Q3 Js 1 ss o,ncluaive Jl ing up ot a Pawn e rul-game in Course A 51 • . . . K- Q3 as Black's Rook is already ln position of th Secontl Variant_ 52 K-N5 R- N5 to deliver the vertical r,hecl,s, 'White All·ln-all, a mai::nlficenl and most must acce1>t the race. 52 . . . R- K7 53 P-K5'- is Casler by instructi\·e end-game i 52 P-K5 R-K5t one tempo as 53 ... HxP fa ils against Or 52 ... R-RN7 53 K- . 5. R- N5; but 54 RxR, KxR 55 K-BG. not 53 _ . LtxP 5•1 K- BG whi h leads to 53 P-KSt K- Q2 smooth sailing for White. 54 K-R5 RxKNP 53 K-NS R- N5 55 K-N6 On what else can Black ven his rage ? 54 K-R5 ANNOUNCING For tbe time bein , Blacli:'s Rook ·very neatly rest.rains White's King. Transcontinental Exhibition Tour 54.... RxNP 55 K-N6 K- Q2 by I. A. Horowitz After 55 ... R-NS 56 K- B7, White wins Lectures and Simultaneous Performances effortlessly with his passed Pawn. 66 P-N5 For January and February 1957 For further Information, booking, But write NOW for good write to l. A , Horowitz, 250 W. t = check; :j: = dbl. check; § = dis. ch. and timely bookin g 57 St., New York 19, N, Y. CHESS REVIEW , OCTOBER , 1956 311 Entertaining and instructive games annotated by a famous expert. by HANS KMOCH 18 P-B3! ;;.?:r. INTERNATIONAL With the main point that 18 . .. PxP loses a piece to 19 P-K-1. But Black has URUGUAY, 1956 no adequate defense to the threat of Montevideo International 19 PxP, either. 18. . . . Q-N4 Refugee Or 18 . .. Q-R5 19 PxP, BxP 20 RxR, Eager to evade the perils of the Ex KxR 21 QxPt, and White wins. change Variation, Black escapes to the 19 PxP ,B.- K3 Stonewall - only to meet the usual destiny of a refugee. Black must hope, vaguely, lhat, after 20 PxN, BxP, the double thl'eat (of mate QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED a nd of . . . BxQ) may somehow work. M iguel Najdorf Alfredo Olivera 20 RxR BxR 13 N- K 3 R-Q1 Argentina Uruguay 20 ... KxR fails against 21 QxPt. 14 Q-K2 0-0 15 P-QR4 P-B5 White Black 21 PxN BxP 1 P-Q4 P- Q4 4 N- B3 N-Q2 22 N·-B3 Resigns Black's last ls his only good defense. 2 P-QB4 P-K3 5 PxP KPxP White retains his extra piece. 16 PxP PxP 3 N-QB3 P- QB3 6 8-B4 K N-B3 17 N-N5 B-QB4! 7 P-K3 N-K5 .Again the best. Black has equality. As the Exchange Variation promises ENGLAND, 1956 18 P- R3 Black only hard labor, he gives the game White lacks a promising continuation. another turn. But his choice is also Bognor Regis International The consistent move is 18 N- Q5; but it troublesome. Combination of Theoretical Value offers no advantage because of 18 .. . 8 B-Q3 B- N5 A neat, though harmless, combination BxN 19 PxB, N- K 2! (not 19 . .. RxP N eithe1· 8 ... NxN nor 8 . .. P- KB4 9 here nets Black a decisive a dvantage which fails against both 20 NxRP! and 20 N-K4 ! ) . Nor does 18 NxB offer any N-K5 is satisfactory for Black. But tlle ,11hen White erroneously tries to refute scope as, after 18 . . . PxN, Black's text move ls worse. It. The combination has occurred before doubled Pawn, far from being assailable. 9 Q- B2 P- KB4 In a similar position and can be consid renders excellent service in guarding 10 0-0 0-0 ered as characteristic for the variation. vital squares on the two open lines. 11 Q-N3! So 1l has theoretical value. The text move is probably designed as Whlte threatens both 12 QxB and 12 RUY LOPEZ preparation for 19 N-N4, but it gives NxN, BPxN 13 BxP. He stands better Black the chance for a surprise coup. by far. (Via the Sicilian D efense) Clarke D. Yanoshevich 11 . • • . BxN P. H. 12 PxB England Yugoslavia The poslt!ou Is now a caricature of a 1 P- K4 P-Q·B4 5 P- B3 N- B3 Stonewall. Black Jacks his good Bisbop. 2 N- KB3 N-QB3 6 R-K1 P-QR3 And White Js ready to attack the center 3 B- N5 P-Q3 7 B-R4 P-K4 with P-QB4. 4 0-0 B-Q2 8 P-Q4 Q-B2 12 • • . . QN-B3 14 P xP NxQP The opening is approaching the Tchi 13 P-B4 P-KR3 15 B-K5 R-B2 gorln line against the Ruy Lopez, though Now Black loses by force; he ought it ls still a Sicilian a.t this point. rather try 15 ... KN-B3. 9 QN-Q2 B- K2 16 BxN ! PxB 10 N-B1 P- QN4 17 N-Q2 B- B4 11 PxKP In trying to hold his King Pawn, Black White aims to avoid the questionable 18 •. . . N-Q5! complications after 11 B- B2, BPxP when only accelerates the issue. This is the combination. While it net~ Bia.cl, wins a Pawn, at least temporarily. no advantage by force, it is still strong 11 . . . . PxP inasmuch as it delivers White the omi 12 B-B2 B- K3 nous warning that he must not dream of Only now is the transposition to the anything better than equality. Ruy Lopez complete. White has saved The previous occasion mentioned is one move (no B-N3); Black, two (no Matanovich-Pilnik, Saltsjoebaden, 1952. QN- R-1-Il3) and Jost one (with h is Queen which continued from the pre,.,ious dia Bishop). The players have arrived at the gram as follows: 13 P-KR3, 0-0 14 exchange variation of the accelerated N-K3, KR-Ql 15 Q-K2, P-B5 16 N-No. Tchigori.n (in which Black plays ... N B-QB4 17 NxB, PxN 18 P-QN3, BxN 19 QR4 before having castled, thus relieving BxB, N-Q5! 20 PxN, KPxP 21 B-N5, P White of need for P-KR3). Q6 22 Q-133, Q-K4! 23 BxN, PxB 24 PxP. WWte has -a slight edge. PxB 25 Q-K2, QR- Bl 26 QR-Bl, Drawn. 312 CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1956 19 PxN PxP ENGLISH OPENING 18 .... R-Q3 20 R-N2 NxN 20 Q-B3 Or. M. FIiip Viachislav Ragosln 19 8-K4 P-R3 21 BxN Q-K2 22 Q-KS R-K1 White's last is weak. Apparently, he Czecho-Slovakia Soviet Union expects only 20 ... PxN, leaving him a 'White Black Blacl!: threatens to win a piece with promising game after 21 BxP. 23 ... N-N"4. Yanoshevich gives the following al 1 P-QB4 N-KB3 2 N-QB3 P-B4 23 N-B2 N-N4 ternatives : 1) 20 l\xB, PxN 21 NxP, PxN 24 QxQ RxQ 22 QxP, P-Q6 ! 23 BxP. BxPt 24 KxB, There are plenty of alternatives de Black's game has improved a little by N-N5§, and Black mates (25 K- Nl, Q-R7) pending on one's taste: 2 ... P-B3, 2 or wins the Queen (25 K- K2, R-B7t 2li ... P-K3, 2 . . . P-K-1. 2 .. P-KN3, 2 the exchange of Queens, and more relief is coming by the exchange of Knights K-Ql, QxQ); 2) 20 ::-l'-Q5! BxN 21 PxB, . . . P-Q3 and 2 .•. P-Q-l. by 25 ... N-R6t after \Vhile parries the P-Q6 22 BxP, PxB 23 QxP, RxP, wlth 3 P-KN3 P-Q4 equality. threat of 25 . . nxP. Or so it seems, Now ... P-Q4 is more committing than at least. 20 . . . . P-Q6! on the last move. This reflection does In this way, Black recovers his piece not mean, however, that the move must advantageously. be criticized. 21 B-Q2 4 PxP NxP If the attacked Bishop retrnats, Black 5 B-N2 N-B2 proceeds favorably with 21 ... P-Q7. After 5 . .. NxN 6 :\'PxN, P-KN3 7 Nor is White better off after 21 BxP, R-Nl, White also has some initiative. RxB. (Note that the threat is S RxP, not 8 21 .... PxB BxP, BxB 9 RxB, Q- Q4). 22 B-R5 Q-K4! 6 P-Q3 P-K4 Black 's last is an important point. 22 7 P-B4 . . B-N3, instead, offers White fine Here we have Simagin's line of the attacking chance s after 23 BxB, QxB Sicilian Dragon system 111 reverse - a 24 P-K5, N-Q4 25 Q- K4, P-N3 26 Q-R4 territory but little e xplored as yet. 25 K-N2! (Yanoshev icl1) . 7. . . . PxP 23 BxR RxB 25 NxP/2 QxNP 8 BxBP N-K3 A fine combination by merit of which 24 NxB PxN 26 N-K3 R-KB1 9 N-R3 White maintains a strong pull. No good Black has superlor compensation for is 25 R-Kl because of 25 .. . RxB 26 PxR, Since it is hardly possible to decide N-B6t 27 K-Bl, NxR 2S KxN, RxPt. the Exchange: -an extra Pawn, two con whether this move or 9 B- Q2 deserves nected, passed Pawns, looming threats Less effective than the text, though preference, White follow~ the princ;iple still advantageous is 25 P-I{ 4: e.g., 25 along the King Bishop file. Also, if of rapid development. Black's Queen is attacked by a -Rook, . . . N-R6t 26 NxN, BxN 27 KR-Nl, 9 . . . . B-K2 i t can always keep the other Rook under R-KB3 28 R-KB2 ! - or 25 . .. N-B6t 26 fire and so afford indirect protection for Swapping off the Bishop and then K-N2, N-Q5 27 KR-QNl. the Queen Knight Pawn. quickly working to defend the Queen 25 • , • • RxP 27 N-K4 R-Q1 27 QR-N1 Q-66 29 N-82 Q-R3 Bishop Pawn is a more careful plan : 26 P-K R4 N-K3 28 R-Q2 28 KR-QB1 Q-R6 30 N-K3 Q-'B3 e.g., 9 ... 'NxB 10 NxN. B-K2 11 0-0, The point of White's Pawn sacrifice N-Q2 12 R-Bl, R-QNl. Now Black sets up a concentrated at now appears. He threatens to win the tack on the King Bishop Pawn. 10 0-0 N-83 Exchange with 29 K-B2 ; so Black's re a 31 P-K5 The plan just mentioued is stlll there turn of Pawn is forced. but does not appeal to Ragosin who is N-Q5 31 Q-K2, NxP is just as bad (32 ·R-Bl, 28 •. . . noted for his colorful and heavy style. K-R2 :\'-B6 or 32 P-B3, Q-NS) . 29 BxPt He blds for complications, instead. 31 .... N-K5 29 . .. K-Rl, so as to deny White an 11 B-Q2 32 Q-K2 RxP extra tempo with the Bishop, is prefer 33 Q-K1 Q-N3 But \Vhite, here and on his next move, able. wisely avoids the challenge. He omits Here 33 ... RxPt! 34 KxR, N-Q7§ is 30 P-R5 P-QN3 BxN ( t) as this rupture of Black's Queen an elegant alternative. 31 B-N6t K-N1 side is at the expense of perilom1 weak 32 R/2-KB2! 34 RxBP ening of White's King-side. A preliminary threat (33 R-B7) which Or 34 NxP, R-K7§ 35 K-R2, RxQ 36 11 • . . . 0 - 0 helps White to occupy the Queen Knight NxQ. B-NSt 37 K-Rl, N-N6 mate. 12 N-Q5 P-QR4 file with due effect. 34 . . . . BxN 39 R-QN 1 P-N6 Black's last is an unmotivated weaken 32 R-N2 is less accurate because of 35 RxN R-K7§ 40 K-83 P-N7 ing, and loss of time, too. 12 .. . B-Q3 32 . .. R-K7t. And 32 R-QNl is simply 36 K-81 RxQt 41 R/4-K1 Q-N6t at once is much better: e.g., 13 B-QB3, weak because of 32 .. . N-B6, followed 37 RxR B-B4 42 K-K4 Q-B7t B-K4 14 P-K3, P-B4. by 33 . . . N-K4 or possibly 33 38 K-K2 P-N5 Resigns 13 B-QB3 B-Q3 N-KSt. 14 P-K3 B-K4 32 . . . . N-K3 15 Q-R5 BxB CZECHO-SLOVAKIA, 1956 Black can parry only the prel!minary Now Black's exchange has the draw threat. not the final one (if 32 . . . Steinitz Memorial at Prague back of strengthening White's center and B-K3 or ... R-K7, then 33 R-QNl). The Enterprising Positional Play conferring him pressure along the Queen Queen Pawn is immune, of course: 32 Knight file (in consequence of Black's ... RxP? 33 N-B6t. Tournament winner Filip added to his 12th move). Black ought to play 15 . .. 33 R-N2! success by scoring against his main P-KN3 16 Q-R6, P-B4 but has a difflcult 33 R-B7 is met with 33 . . R-Bl. rival, Ragosin, relegating him to second game even then. 33 . . . . N-B1 place. 16 PxB N-K2 The game is a fine example of enter 17 P-B4 R-R3 Black counters on the Queen Pawn: prising positional play. Indeed, the de 18 QR-N1 34 .. . NxB 35 PxN, R/ 6xP. cision falls possibly by a blunder. But The pressure on the Queen-side is es 34 B-B7t K-R2 White, with the pull from the beginning, 35 RxP merits his victory. tablished. Black's three Pawns there are all weak as 'White has the latent This is not just a capture as it sets t = check; t = dbl. check; § = dis. ch. threat of R-QN5. up further targets on the Queen-side. CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1956 313 35 .... R/6xP 37 R-B2 N-q2 It seems more natural to strive for BxN', BxB with these possibilities: 36 B-Q5 R-R6 38 R-Q6 P- Q,1 and, for that purpose, 7 P-B3 is 1) 21 QxP?? KR-Bl 22 Q- N4, B-B6! Now it looks as if Black's game wnt better. postponing the development or 23 QxN, R-N2, trapping ',Vhite's Queen: collapse at any moment. But that is not the Queen Knight fo1· a later N-QB3 arte1· 2) 21 PxP? B- Q5 with a decisive ad so. He still has the means for pu tting the Queen Bishop file is opened. ,·antage for Black: up a tough, if not successful, resistance. 7.,.. 0-0 3) 21 P-K5 ! and 21 ... D-N2? 22 QxP, 38 . . . . R-K1 8 P-B3 Q-B2 with considerable advantage for \Vl1ifo Not 38 ... R-Bl because of 39 RxH. 9 Q-B2 or 21 . .. BxN 22 PxB, QR-Bl, with a NxH -10 H-Q~. etc. !J P- Q4? PxP 10 PxP. B-N5 (threaten very complicated position which may offer approximately even chances. 39 B-B7 R-B1 ing to \\'in a center Pawn by 11 ... IlxN) 20 . . . . QR-B1 40 P-N4 favors Black as it otfei·s him control or the open file. With the strong threat of H P-N5. A substantial illlprovement of Blacl(;; 9... B-Q2 position. He now has the edge. 40 . . . . N-K4 10 N-84 21 P-B5 Afler havini; defended his difficult Still not. 10 P-Q-1 because of 10 A decisive error. The best White ha~ game cleverly and successfully, so far, Black drops a piece. in effect, on his PxP 11 PxP, QH-nl (t hreat : 12 is still 21 BxN, BxB 22 P-K5, though 22 NxQP). . B-N2 is now a convenient reply. last move before the time control. Still his positioll is critical: -10 . 10 . . . . P-QN4 12 B-Q2 P-K3 B-N2? 41 B-::'16t (-12 HxN); or -10 ... K 11 N-K3 QR-N1 13 N-N5 Rl 41 B-N6, RxHt -12 KxR, RxPt -13 K At this point, 'Wbite can play P-Q4 K3, and the threat of NxP is too strong. with impunity and hold the balance in 41 B-N6t Resigns »])ite of his slightly awkward develop men1. His King-side action. instea,d, of The piece falls to the eventual R-Q81' by White. fers little chance for satisfactory head way a8 Black is already prepa1·ed to sll·i ke on the Queen-side. 13 . . • . N-K2 €'-- UNITED STATES This move and Black's next \lndoubted ly have their merits. But. as the Queen Knight and Queen are all'eady well NEW YORK, 1956 placed, Black can just as well proceed 21 .... P-Q5 State Championship at Buffalo more energetically, sar, with 13 ... Here Black returns the compliment of Unexpected Expense P- QIU (or 13 . . P-KR3 H N-R3, missing a rather easy win. True, the P-QH-1). text is sound and even holds some prom This slow-moving game leads both 14 P-KB4 Q-N3 16 QR-KB1 Q-R3 ise. But it is nothing like 21 ... N-B3' players into a jungle of dimly lit possi 15 R- B2 P-N5 17 P-N3 PxP which simply wins: e.g., 1) 22 B-Q6. bilities. points and counter-points. Sma.11 N-QN5! 2) B- B4, P-K-1 ! 3) 22 B-QB3. wonder that some golden opponunities Black's handling of his Queen-side P-Q5! 4) 22 B-QRl, N-QN5! 5) 22 Bx:N. go unexploited. Nor is it a miracle that aetion is dubious: the text has the draw Black finally scores since he has held a back of pushing White's inactive Bishop BxB 23 N- B3, BxP! (or, though more complicated, 23 ... N-N5 ! ) ; 6) 22 Q-N2. slight initiative most of the way. An into a menacing position. NxB 23 QxN, N-N5 ! 7) 22 P-QR4, BxQr optimistic miscalculation on \Vhite'R 18 BxP 22 PxKP part nets him a Pawn-at the unexpected With at least two threats: mino1·, 19 expense of a piece! J>-Q4 ! major (of which neither side A neat llttle combination, but neither proves to be a ware), 19 Q-N2 ! nec'"ssary nor forcing. White also ha~ SICILIAN DEFENSE sufficient chances after 22 N-B4: e.g.. 18 . . • . B-N4 George J. Mauer J. W. Collins l) 22 ... N- N5? 23 P-B6! 2) 22 . . . Bx:-- Necessary is 18 ... N-B3 so RS to meet White Blark 23 QxB, QxQ 24 NPxQ, N- N5 (24 .. 19 Q-'.\12 with 19 ... N-Q5! (20 BxN. KPxP 25 B-Q6 ! ) 25 BxB, KxB 26 P-B6f . 1 P-K4 P-QB4 PxD 21 QxP?? N-Q,1 22 P-K5, H-N5!). 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 .\'xBP 27 RxX, KxN 28 NxPt; 3) 22 .. . 3 P-KN3 KPxP 23 B-Q6 (23 ... BxN 24 BxN, KU K l 25 QxB, QxQ 26 NPx(,l, Rx,B 27 PxP. At this juncture, the fianchetto holds N- N5 28 R-B-l). little promise as none of these thl'ee possibilities is assured: 1) a transposi 22 . . . • PxP tion to norm11.l lines with P- Q4 and N \Visely avoiding 22 ... PxN 23 RxX. QB3; 2) a transposition to the closed BxR 2+ BxB. although, after 2,1 ... N-B3 system (N-QB3 and P-Q3) in such a way 25 PxPt, RxP 26 NxR, KxN, it is \Vhite'~ that White's King Knight, now placed on turn to hunt for some satisfactory con KB3 instead of K2, will serve properly; tinuat ion. Best seems 27 Q-D3, but then 3) the arrival at a King's Indian re BlaC' k ean likely hold his own with 27 ... versed, depending on one of these center P-K7 28 R-Kl, BxP 29 B-R8, N-Q5 30 Pawn formations by Black: Pawns at [lx:'-, PxB 31 QxP, Q-N3. Q4 and K4, or at Q-1 and K3, or at Q3 23 N-84 P-R3 and K4. 19 R-Q1 Here Black prepares for 24 . .. N-K5. 3 . . . . P-Q3 5 P-Q3 P-K N3 followed possibly by ... N-K6. The im 'White succumbs to iniimidation. With 4 B-N2 N-B3 6 0-0 mediate 23 ... N-N5 gives ·white thf 19 Q-N2 ! he wins rather easily (19 ... chance for counter-attack: 2-1 RxRt, RxR White's mongrel set-up has the slight N-Kl 20 BxB, NxB 21 N-N 4). But the ~" BxB. KxB 26 Q-K2, P - 11-1 27 R-KBJ. drawback of being rather passive. Note 1!angern11s (20) Q-N2 is still there. the absence of elements characteristic 24 B- Q6 19 . . . . P-Q4 for the King's Indian reversed: the1·e And here White prepares for a miscal Obviously, Black no\\; sees the threat is neither tension in the center (King r·nla tion (t hough the text move itself io and hastens to meet it radically. Pawn -vs. Queen Pawn) or the possibility sound). A fair alternative is 24 BxN, BxB of crossing the middle line (P-K5 or 20 B-K5 25 N -B3, after which Black's two Bishops ... P-Q5). 'vVhite seemingly believes that he i;; have little, if any, significance. Only t he 6 lil- N2 winning a tenipo whereas he actually 1·etreat of the Knight (24 N-B3 or ~ 7 QN-Q2 presents one to Black. Correct is 20 KR3) leads to trouble (24 ... N-N5). 314 CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1~5( 24 .... N-N5 Black's last is good; though, 7 16 P-Q4 25 RxRt BxR P-QB4 may be a little stronger. Here 16 P-Q3, instead, is a more prom 26 NxP 8 PxP NxP ising possibility. White loses his Queen Here is the miscalculation. (Also bad A good alternative is offered by the Pawn but obtains development: 16 for White are these lines: 1) 26 ·N-B3 '! interpolation of 8 ... B-N5t 9 B-Q2. BxP 17 B-N5 (17 QxB?? B-R7t). BxN 27 BxN, N- K6! 2) 26 B- R3? BxN 27 BxB-r. 16 . . . . R-K1 KBxN (27 QBxN. '.'i - K6!). QxB, 28 QxB, 9 P-B3 NxNt 17 B-K3 PxN 29 BxPt. K- :--;2 30 BxR, NxB. 10 QxN P-QB4 The choice i8 difficult. After either Correct is 26 BxN ! e.g., 1) 26 ... BxN 27 QxB, QxQ 28 QPxQ! IlxD (28 ... N- But Black's last is a decisive error. 17 llxRt, Qxll 01· 17 R- K3, B-K5 18 Q-Ql K6? 29 NxP') 29 B-H3! most lil,ely with Correct is 10 .. . B-K2 1 t P-Q4. P-QB3 (not 18 Q-K2? B-B5!), BxP 01· ..• N-Q4, with about equal chances. Blacl;: has a strong attack. a draw; 2) 26 ... BxB 27 B-R3 ! and 27 ... P-R4 28 '.'i-B3 with a good game for 17 . . . . B-K5 White or 27 ... KBxN 28 BxN most 18 Q-Q1 P-KR4! likely with a draw. The threat is 19 .. . ;';XP 20 PxN, Q-R5. 19 N-Q2 RPxP 20 RPxP BxP 21 P-N5 vVhlte's last move is a serious weaken ing after which his game falls apart. The threats of 22 Px:\' and 22 P-N6 are inef fective. Of \Vhite's several better alter natives, most natural is 21 I\"-B.f. 11 P-Q4! The winning move, \,·ith threats both of 12 B-N5t and 12 P-4)5. 26 .. N-K6! 11 . . . . PxP Black wins a piece, and that's the end! 12 B-N5t B-Q2 Probably, White expected only 26 ... 13 P-K6! BxN? 27 QxB, Qx.B 28 N-N5§ after which With 13 QxP, BxB 14 QxBt, Q-Q2 15 he recovers the piece with a satisfactory QxQf, KxQ 16 PxP, ,Vhite conveniently game: 28 . . . N-Q4 ! 29 P-K5 ! QxP 30 wit18 a Pawn. But his text. threatening QxNt. mate, is far stronger. 27 NxN 13 .... PxP :\'loving the Queen is no better because 14 0-0! Q-K2 21 Q-Q2! of 27 ... BxN. No other move helps, either: e.g., 14 Conclusive. White has no adequate de 27 • . . . QxB ... Q-B2 15 Q-B7t, K-Ql 16 B-N5t, K-Bl fense to the threat of 22 ... Q-R6. 28 N-KB4 17 QxKBt! - or 14 ... Q- Bl 15 Q-B7t, 22 PxN Or 28 NxB, PxN! as White's other K-Q1 16 QxKBt, etc. Or 22 P-Q5, Q-R6 23 PxB, B-R7t 2-1 Knight is trapped - the last of the 15 B-N5! Resigns K-Hl, RxB 25 N-B1, N-N5 26 Q-Q2, RxR game's many points. 27 RxR, D-N6§ 28 K-Nl, BxPt, and 28. . . . PxN 33 P-K5 QxP Black wins. He does likewise after 22 29 B-R3 R-K1 34 BxPt K-R1 COLORADO, 1956 P-N6, Q-R6 23 PxPt, K-Rl 24 PxR(Q)t, 30 B-K6t K-R2 35 Q-QN2 B-N2 "Open" State Championship RxQ 25 P-Q5, NxP. 31 P-Q4 PxP 36 8-87 P-K7 at Denver 22 .... Q-R6 32 B-87 R-B1 Resigns 23 P-Q5 B-R?t Threat and Counter-threat 24 K-R1 RxB Facing a strong attack, \\1hite makes The last sacrifice threatens the rou NEW YORK, 1956 an over-aggressive move which fatally tine: . . B-N6t . . Q-R7t, . QxP Manhattan Chess Club compromises his King•~ position. Black mate. refmes the apparently strong threat 25 N-B1 RxR 28 K-N1 B-Q2 A Mine on the Doorstep with a still stronger cou n teJ'-th reat. 26 QxR R-K1 29 Q-Q2 Q-N5t The opponents in the following, off RUY LOPEZ 27 Q-Q1 B-Q3§ 30 N-N3 hand game are fine players of about 30 K-Rl loses to 30 . . . Q-B6t 31 K-Nl, even strength. They both like the Vienna Robert Mclellan Claude H ii linger B-R6 32 N-K3, R-K5 (or . . . R-K4) . and must have played hundreds ot· games White Black 30 , . . . BxN 32 Q-Q3 B-B4 with that opening against each other. 1 P-K4 P-K4 6 Q-K2 P-QN4 31 PxB R-K7 Resigns It is the more curious, therefore, that 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 7 B-N3 0-0 Black steps on a mine, so to speak, In 3 B-N5 P-QR3 8 P-QR4 P-N5 front of his very door. 4 B-R4 N-B3 9 P-QB3 P-Q4 VIENNA GAMBIT 5 0-0 B-K2 10 KPxP B-N5 Dr. A. Blasi Karl Forster Another gambit of the i\farshall family. White Black 11 P-R3 B-R4 13 P-N4 PxN 12 PxN P-K5 14 QxP B-N3 1 P-K4 P-K4 3 P-84 P-Q4 15 R-K1 2 N-QB3 N-K83 4 PxKP NxP 5 P-Q3 NxN White moves to prevent 15 . B-K5. He is vainly attempting to keep all his As is known, 5 . . Q-R5t? 6 P-KN3, booty. two Pawns plus. A better defense ~xP 7 N-B3, Q-IH 8 NxP favors White. is 15 P-Q-t: e.g., 15 ... B-K5 16 Q-N3. 6 PxN P-Q5 BxP 17 P-B3, followed by B-KB-1 and 7 N-B3 N-83 N-Q2. t = check; t = dbl. check; § = dis. ch. 15 . . . . B-Q3 CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER , 19S6 315 Actilllties of CHESS REVIEW Postal Chess players: game reports & ratings, names of JACK STRALEY BATTELL new players, prize-winners, selected games. Postal Chess Editor tourney lns~ructlons &. editorial comment, The!'e a re some Semi-finalists. not many, J,',. iede,rich, E. H. Hale, R. Hea th. G. \\·. POSTAL SCRIPTS st.ill to qualify. So we urge a ll with HoUma n . .T. I-Ioffn1an, fl. Kc nzner, J. l{ra u :-:. A. E. L ilhnnrs, K .. 2\L ~'l'ont .i:;·<,n1c ry, J . .\l u! . For a <;ouple ol' years now, we have ;;till unfinished games in the Semi-finals IJet't'Y. C. Schenk, R Schn eidel', D . Shoo k ..J . been distressed by a factor appa1·ent in t.o try to speed their play so we can close Shule, ,\. Silinish, R. E. \Va.lsh, R. \\"as Postal Chess. P laye!'S fail to report om tha.t round and give the last Finalists n1und , L. X . \Vood a nd D . A , :{ oun;;s; their results. a reasonable start. Class D at 600: .T, B , B eclmmn, D. Brad)·. .J. Brnoks, E. Custer, G. .\'. D ick, G. \ \·. Such unreported g-ames. most of them. 8th Annual Championship-1954 l ) odP.-e. G. -ooug:lass, ),l. J) u stin. L . 11.loyc r. continue so indefinitely. A l'ew, very I. :llf, :lkCloud , T , \V. ,\ IcClo u d, P. Xot lcr few, are r eported late - and. when jus As a result of cnJTent Postal Mortems, m a n, C. D . P ink.staff, C . C. Hife, K. Y on tified. t hey are s t·ored as conections to the follo"·ing qualify for assignment to .,\pJJen and L. \ Va. 316 CHESS REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1956 White threatens 27 Q-B-1. 7 •••• P-KR3 10 N-Q7 NxN 26 . . . • B-N5 28 QxR P-N3 8 N-KB3 P-K5 11 PxNt BxP POSTAL GAMES 27 Q-K4 RxR 29 BxN ! 9 N-K5 Q-Q5 12 N-83 from CHESS REVIEW tourney, This is the only way to maintain the \'Vhite threatens 13 NxP, Qx:\'.? 14 initiative. f,'or 29 N-K4? H- Ql loses the H- Kl. annotated by Queen. 12 , ... B-K2 14 Q-K2 0-0 29 . RxB 13 R-K1 B-KB4 15 P-QN3 JOHN W. COLLINS If 29 . .. QxB 30 Q-K5i'. P- B3 (30 . .. 15 .!'lxP, KR-Kl is too dangerous for K-N1 31 N - K4 ! ) 31 Q-K7t. rollowed by White. 32 N-K4, White wins at least a Pawn. KB7 Overcome 15 • . . • B-N4 White finally wins by overcoming re :vi:ore prudent is 15 ... PxP. sistance on KB7. 16 QxBP QxQ RETI OPENING 17 PxQ B-83 18 R-N1 KR-K1 J. A. Harris E. J. Werner Both 18 ... BxN 19 PxB. QR-Nl and White Black 18 . .. QR-.:•n deserve consideration. 1 N-KB3 P-Q4 19 B-N2 QR-N1 Black's move is more committing than 20 B-R1 RxR 1 ... N-KB3. 21 RxR R-Q1 2 P-84 P-Q5 Be~t is 21 ... P-B3 ! Alternatives are 2 . . PxP, 2 ... P- 22 N-Q5! B-N4 QB3 and 2 ... P-K3. 23 N-K3 B-K3 3 P-K3 P-QB4 30 R-K1 ! 24 B-B3 P-QB3 Or 3 ... N-QB3. But 3 •.. PxP? 4 An alert Zwischenzug whh;h wins ma On .24 ... BxN 25 BPxB, BxP, White BPxP givei, \\fhite ;i !)owerful Pawn terial or mates. recoups with 26 R-N7. center. 31 . • . • Q-Q3 25 R-N7 R-Q2 4 P-QN4 P-KN3 If the Knight is tal,en, 31 R-K7 wins 26 R-NSt 5 B-N2 B-N2 the Queen or mates. Better is 26 RxH. 6 NPxP 31 R-K7! 26 .... R-Q1 White does not ex11ect to hold this Now White tll!'eatens 32 QxPt. K-R3 27 RxRt BxR Pawn, hut the capture serves to open 33 QxRPt. K-N,1 34 Q-JHt, K-B4 35 28 P-B3 lines ancl to undermine Dlack's Queen H-B7·r and ma.yhem. Ri:;ky. Sounder is 28 K-Bl. Pawn. 31 .... Q-83 28 .•.. PxP 31 P-Q3 B-N3 6 , , . , P-K4 8 P-Q3 N-QR3 29 PxP P-K B4 32 P-Q4 P-85 7 PxP PxP 9 QN-Q2 Now White's attack on K.87 wins through. On 31 ... B-K3, however, 32 30 B-K5 P-N4 33 P-85 B-R4 Not 9 B-R3? NxP 10 BxN, Q-R4t 11 NxBt wins simply enough. Relatively Both 33 PxN and 33 . BxBP Q-Q2, QxB. best is 31 ... QxR 32 QxQ, HxN, al merely dz-aw. 9.... NxP though ·white has a winning game after 34 N-N4 BxP! 10 N-N3 N-K3 33 QxRP. $(ftting up the big little Rook Pawn! With 10 . . . NxN 11 PxN, White ls 32 N-K4 Q-B6 ceded an open Queen Rook file. 35 NxPt K-B1 If 32 •.. R-Bl 33 NxQ, fl;o.:Q 34 NxRt, 36 N-B5 11 P-N3 N-K2 K-Bl 35 R-Kl, White wins. 12 B-N2 0-0 Too late, the Knight goes back to 33 N-N5 stop the Rook Pawn. The chances are practically equal. The straw that broke-! Not 33 QxR? 13 0-0 N-B3 Q-Q8t 34 K-N2, Q-B6t as Black draws. 14 R-K1 Q-N3 33 • . • • Q-Q8t 15 KN-Q2 R-Q1 34 K-N2 R-B3 :\fore precise ls 15 ... B-Q2. 35 RxPt Resigns 16 P-Q R3 B-Q2 After 35 ... RxR 36 QxHt, K-1{3 37 17 QR-B1 N-84 P-KR4, Black can only delay the ulti On 17 ... QR-Bl 18 P- B5, Q- B2 (18 mate at KRi. . .. Q-N4 19 B-Q5 ! ) 19 N-K4, White's King Knight gets to Q6 or KB6. Invincible Queen Rook Pawn 18 NxN QxN The big pieces have their inning8, 19 N-N3 Q-N3 but it is the Black Queen Rook Pawn 20 R-N1 Q-B2 which eventually scores. There is no need to run yet. Better are 20 ... R-Kl and 20 ... QR-Bl.. TWO KNIGHTS' DEFENSE 36 • • • • 8-86! 21 N-B5 B-QB1 P. H, Lounsberry Rev. A. C. Suyker Black prevents 37 P-Q5. Black is in reverse. Preferable is 21 1 P-K4 P-K4 3 B-B4 N-B3 37 N-Q6 P-R4 . .. B-Kl. 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 4 N-N5 P-Q4 38 N-K4 B-N7 5 PxP P-N4 Resigns 22 B-QB1 B-81 23 B-B4 B-Q3 This is the Ulvestad Variation of the There is no way to halt the advance Two Knights' Defense. of the Rook Pawn. Black allows \Vhite to penetrate to the eighth rank; but, if 23 ... Q-R4? 2-1 6 PxN .~xP, BxN 25 RxB, QR-Bl 26 B-Q5, This move is inferlor. 6 B-Bl, oddly White wins. enough, is best. 24 BxB RxB 6. . . . PxB If 24 ... 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