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SamQ ali with Staml'lng Out· ,b,., pOllt;1I chesll OI' I)OIlOlilS. They a bo I.n; but with lea t he r playing board (it 307-50c EACH "(lil t I:o ll lly m istake/:l . Dlngn u ll bla nk leather cover. COlllplet" with men ___. 1 *. IHllIa ,·e. Box of 300 I'osta l Chess OR 3 P A DS FOR CanIs ______.. ______$2.00 ON LY $1.35 N o. 240--J.'x tl"a set or men CHESS REVIEW 'HI P/CfUItf CHESS MAOAZINI Volume 17 N umber 4 April, 1949 EDITED &. PUBLISHED BY I. A. Horowitz INDEX Readers are invited to use these columns for their FEATURES Fine VB N ajdorf ______108 comments on matters of interest to chessplayers. Tales of a Wood pusher ______105 DEPARTMENTS TOP TE N? Sir~ : Book of the Month ______116 Sirs: In reference tu historical artieles about Chess Caviar ______98 Here is II list of those I think are the famous playcrs, T enjoy thcse very much Chess Quiz ______118 top tea contenders for Botvinnik's world anti h opc we get 11 lot more. If pOHsible, Games from Recent Events __ _112 cl,umpionship crown. I wuuld be pleased caeh artiele should cont.ain at least one Graphic Endings ,______Iii to l(~arn how many uf yOllr readcrs agrec. not-too-w cll-known eompletc game. Postal Chess ______119 Readers' Games ______110 .1 Reuben Fine ARTH UR T. BROWN Vassily Smyslov Readers' Questions ______98 2 Jamaica Plain, l\Jass. Solitaire Chess ______117 3 Samuel He~hevsky Sir~ : Spotlight on Openings ______l02 4 Miguel Najdurf I noticed wilh plea~ure thc addition of World of Chess ______99 5 P aul Keres a PCO reference to your annutated games. 6 Gideou Stahlberg Thi~ add~ immeasurahly to their value EDITOR 7 Salo Flohr and interest. I hope YOll will continue to !. A. Horowitz 8 D r. Max Euwe make this a regular f",alure, MANAGING EDITOR 9 C. H. 0'0. Alexander Awrl! u I( L. llOLDf::-O John Rathor 10 D. A. Yanofsky EXECUTIVE E D I TOR Philadelphia. P a. Okay, fellow amateurs, I'm out on u Jaek Straley Daltell MIDDLE GAME IMPROVEMENT limh. Call your shots. CONTRI BUTING EDI TORS Sirs : .1. \V. Collin~. l{en\Jen Fine ROIlF.RT Fr.RER Tlte game~ ill Solitail'e Che.H a re ex I fans j(moch, Fred Heinreld Sherman Oaks, Calif. . ASSISTANT EDI TOR cel lent, Thcy Itave done more to improve COMMENTS O N NEW FEATURES David Ro~klnd. Jr. my middle game titan any oth er feature of Sirs: CORRESPONDENTS your magazine. Keep plenty of Solitaire Your current series of Spotlight 011 C ~lI fornla Herbel·t Betker. J . D . Gee. Chrss games cmltmg. Leroy Johnson. Dr. H . Ralston, M. J . Opetlillgs by F red Reinfeld is positively Royer. FRA 1 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL. 1949 97 YUGOSLAVIA, 1948 A Hew Book Heads the List! Q U EEN ' S GA M BIT Ra die h Ivkov -" " 'Idle D1ack HEIDEL8ERG, 1948 1 P-Q4 N_KB3 7 QxBP N- B3 Q UEEN'S GA MBIT D ECLI N ED 2 N- KB3 P- Q4 8 B_B4 R-B1 P. Schm idt F. Karst 3 P- B4 p , p 9 R_Q t 1 P-K4 Wliile Blael. 4 P-Q R4 P- B4 10 B-N3 N- QN5 5 N - B3 p,p 11 Q-N3 Q- N3 1 P- QB4 N-K B3 6 B- B4 P- QR i1 6 Q,P B-Q2 12 K - Q2 B-K3 2 N _Q B 3 P-B3 7 Q- R4 Q-N3 13 Q- R3 . 3 P_Q4 P-Q4 8 P_ K4 p ,p . . . 4 N_B3 Q N-Q2 7 9 N- K5 P-K3 5 p)(p p ,p 10 N-B4 Q-N5 11 Q- B 2 P- QN4 ? World Chesamaste rs in BATTL E ROYAL. Due of AUlericu's onts tillldlug malltC!"lJ. J. A. Horowitz. ilntl fa meli 13 . . . . RxN ! analyst H uns K moeh j oin ror ees to Reaig ns g ive you a t h rilling I·O lllld· by·ro ll ml re. A COlli Ie rinj;;li; If 1<1 P :.: i{ (j(xl(, i\- 12 B- Q6! Ruignli \lOI·t of il m ilestone in chess h lstol'Y 11: 5 ma le). :.I- K5t: 15 K- II: ], N- 1l7 mate. - t he ri r ~ l Wo l"l el Cha m plon!l hip 'l'oUI " Afte r 12 . .. D:.: U ; 13 P- Q 1t3. the m ack Or' 1·1 I'~I(. :.I- 1I: 5t: 15 II:- IJ ] , l\"- Q6t: 16 ney . H e re. wllh enter til lnlng. ins trl1C· Qu een Is t rappel! . P~l'\, Il~{lt : ]j K- 8 2. Q- N i mate . live notes, a l'e all 50 g a mes br World Cha lllllion Ilo tl' in nik, his Ill"Olllilli ng young rival S mys lov, U . S. stil r Hesh· el'sl, r , the brlHlant Keres. nlH\ fO I'mor III a mfllc/I g(lI/le at Oll r ell/b. a playcI Ullis t EUIY e. Soe for yourself how Bot picked up his Bishop OIl QNS wul moved vlnnlk (Iedll ively o nh"O!"('Il these it /. 0 K8, IUII-ching llris .~quare bllt not re. g l'e,ll (l lare rs. modllg Iris haltd j r O Il ~ I/u! piece. Seein& T he book a l!:!o con tain!:! blugraph les Ihal the move !Cas bad, he nllljrt/ed Ihe or the competitors, pieturcs. eiu·tolHl S. 1Ji.lhu/J It) (hV5 U/ul I!tCII p lac I~ d il on 03. IlIlIl- a s pcdl\1 featu re- a l! 1I!'\'(!y nr /lis ufl/J 98 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1941 CHESS Vol.17, No.4 REVIEW APRIL. 1949 'HI ~,(, U" eHU' MAOU'... last place hefore the end of the tourna .'.,;}. I.NTERNATIONAL men t. In deference to Rossetto's Grade A per Moscow 38. Budapest 26 formance, it must he noted that his tak· Anytime Soviet masters play outside of ing first prize from Eliskases almos t made the USSH, the event makes news. When up for the absence of Najdorf, Stahlberg, an eight man Russian team visited Buda and Pilnik: Eliskases had beaten them all pest last mOllth, the result was even more out for top honors in last year's event. provocative: the unpredictable Hungarians Rossetto is probably the best of the native • South American must ers. He has twice scored 26·38 in the first half of an un· l' & usual team match! Run along the lines - won the Argentine title (in 1944 and of the .Mosco w- Prague match of 1946, 1947), both times without the loss of a this event matched each of the players wi th game. all members of the opposing group; thus The details were : each man played eight games. Hector Hossetto ...... 13 <1 Grandmaster Vassily Smyslov, who was Erich Eliskases ...... 12 5 second to .l\Iikhail Botvinnik ill last year's Carlos Guimard ...... 12 5 World Championship Tourney, led the Mi guel Czerniak .... . Il¥:!. 5'l2 Soviet forces. The USSR team includ ed Marcos Luckis ...... 10 7 David Bronstein, who was first in the In· J acobo Bolbochan .... 9ljz- 7¥:! terzonal Tournament at Saltsjobadell last Hod rigo Flores ...... 9¥:!- 7Yz summer; Alexander Kotov, who shared Rene LetcHer ...... 912- 7Yz first place with Bronstein in the recent VASS1LY SMYSLOV P aul Michel ...... 9Y2· 7% USSR Championship; USSR Grandmas· The result was provocative J uan Iliesco ...... 9 • 8 ters Salo Flohr, Andreas Lilienthal and Walter Cruz .. . .. ·. ... 7Y2- 9Yz Vyacheslav Ragozin; V. Simagin, last Rossetto Wins at Mar del Plata Edward Lasker ...... 7%- 9112 year's Moscow champion, and Yuri With Miguel Najdorf resting up from P edro Martin ...... 7%. 9Yz Auerbach, this year's titlist. his North American labors, Gideon Stahl· Carlos Maderna ...... 6%-10% Laszlo Szabo, who was second in the berg safely in Sweden, and Herman P i!· Franz Benko ...... 5 ·12 SaltsjoLaden event, headed the Hungarian nik stranded in New York, Hector Hos· Arturo POllIar ...... 5 ·12 contingent. Backing him up were Gedeon setto had a field day at J\.lar del Plata. The Lois Houx Cahral .... 4+'2.1212 Bareza, P al Benkoe (Hungarian cham 26·year·old former Argentine champion Cesar Corte ...... 4 -13 pion), TiLor Florian, Dr. Josef Szily, Erno won ten, lost one, and drew six to lead Gerehen, Lajos Tipary, and Dr. Arpad Erich Eliskases and Carlos Cuimard by a Yajda. Most of these players are com full point. Reshevsky-Fine Match paratively unknown hut the results of this The finish of the event was reminiscent Enthusiastic supporters of Samuel Resh· match show that they have marked talent. of the Groningen fiasco: Rossetto · 13·3, evsky of Los Angeles and Dr. Heuben The hest individual score was made by Eliskases 12-4; both were undefeated and Fine of New York are trying to arrange a Kotov: he won five and drew three. Two with one round to go Rossetto needed only match between tbe two grandmasters to other players were undefeated : Bronstein a draw to clinch first place. But he didn't take I)lace in New York sometime in June. who won three and drew five ; and Benkoe get it. .Miguel Czerniak, who too k fourth It is hoped that a purse of $5,000 can be who made the best Hungarian score with place with l1ljz-5¥:!, ou tplayed him in 55 raised to fi nance the encounter. the odd assortment of one win and seven moves. An d what did Austrian·born Elis Althougll it would be contested entire· draws. The fighting quality of the match kuses do with his big chance? He lost to ly in the Un ited States, the match would is shown by the fact that Salo Flohr who Guimard in 75 moves! J'lcidentally, be of major international significance. seldom drops a game, even to the greatest Guimard suffered his only defeat (to Rene Heshevsky, five times holder of the U, S. masters, was upset by Vajda who succeed Letelier) in tbe semi-final round. title, and Fine, winner of the recent New ed in drawing only two other games ! The usual international flavor of this York International Tourney, are rated The second half of the match was to be annual event was dil uted to a mere taste amon g the world's strongest players. They played in Moscow starting early this teaser: Edward Lasker came from the are on the list of those who will compete month. It remained to be seen whether United States while Spain sent 17-year-old this summer in the Buenos Aires candi tne boys from Budapest would hold up or Arturo P omar. Neither did very well . dates' tournament. The winner of this lat· whether, as often has happened, the Soviet Lasker ran into a bad patch of adjourned ter event will mee t World Champion Mik playe rs put on a big spurt before admiring games, losing six out of six. Pomar started hail Botvinnik in match play sometime home fans. poorly and barely dragged himself out of during 1950, CIIESS REVtEW, APRIL, 1949 99 title by a mere half point over M. O. Albert Pinkus and George Shainswit. -':;'. UNITED STATES Meycr. Due to the vagaries of the Swiss Undcr the tie-breaking rules, Pinkus was systcm, the two players did not mect each awardcd second prize ; he and Shainswit Otteson Best in Minnesota other ; thus Meyer amassed 4';6.% to were the only contestants to fini sh unde· Still another youngster joined the fini sh cl()se hehind Gee. D. J. Yuke, C. J. feated. Kramer was fourth with 6J;2 ·3!h swelling ranks of tcen-aged champions Carey and A. R. Ch apman, all with 3% · while former U. S. ti tlist Arnold Denker when 16-year-old Milton Otteson of Minne 1%, were third, fourth and fifth, respective· lost three games and wound up with 6·4. apolis captured the Minnesota title by the ly. Seventeen players ' participated in the tournament. Cali/orllia. The six man teams represent· narrow margin of one and a half weighted ing Sacramcnto· took both "A" and "B" Iloi nls in a Swiss system tourney at Min championships in the Central California neapolis. He and Dr. Giles Koelsche, a Chess League last month. In the "A" former champion, had 51f2-Yz but qualita divi sion, the winn crs swept all three tively Otteson's score was better. William matches to amass 15·3 while Fresno, Jones, W. E. Kaiser and George Barnes, Modesto and Stockton tied with 1·2. the defending titleholder, all had 4y:!.l Y2, Fresno was second in total points however. but under the rules they Cinished in that [n the "B" division, Sacramento again won order. Carl E. Diesel!, L. P. Narvesen and all its matclies followed by Modesto, Rohert Gueydan tied with 4-2. Stoc kton and Fresno in that order. Gold Thirty.four players participated in the CUllS were given to the winners. fifty.second running of this state event, Phillips Wyman won the Salinas City one of the oldest in the country. Play took championship with 7Y2·!h. George Oakes, place in the rooms of the Minneapolis 6·2, was second while Foster Clark, 5·3, Chess & Checker Club. took third. Gary Garner, 7Y2.I y"! , made off Mo.-tin Rhode blond Titlist with the " B" title with Wallace Hafner, Albert C. Martin, a 30·year.old chern· 7.2, a close second. istry teacher, won the Rhode Island Cham· The Salinas Chess Club drew its recent pionship with 2¥2.y:! in a four man round match with thc San Jose group 5Yz·5!h. robin tourney held at Providence. William Wallace Smith, one of San Francisco's Reich, 2.1, was second while Walter Sues· leading chcss figures, died early this man, l%.IIh, and Edward Fisher, 0·3, month. f ollowing so soon after the death rounded out the list. • of E. J. Clarke, this is the second such The event was sponsored by the Rhode MAHK P F.N CF. bereavement to west coast chess circles. Island Chess Federation and held at the Five wins were e l~ough Thc South Gate Chess Club downed Greater Providence YMCA under the di· Woodbury College 4·1. rection of Walter Suesman. Martin, who Hickman Pittsburgh Scholastic King Thc Inglewood Chess Cl uh crushed the has held the state title fou r times, received Herbert Hickman of Mt. Lebanon High Cosmopol itan Chess Club 9Vz·2 !h. Visiting the P asadena Chess Club, II custody of a silver cup. ~ School won the Pittsburgh Scholastic Championship for thc sccond straigl1t year group of Los Feliz players defeated their Pence Indianapolis Wi with a score of 5·0. R. Taylor, a school· hosts 9 y:!·P/z. One loss in the first ro d and five wins mate of Hickman's, and R. Freedland of East Bay and San Francisco tangled in were enough to cam 23·year·old Mark AliderdiCt) Hi gh School were bracketed a mammoth match at the Mechanics' In· Pence first place in the Indianapo[is with 31;2 .1 Yz. stitute. Although the match was ev en on Open Tournament. He had a fu ll The event was sponsored by the West· tlte first twelve boards, East Bay won de· point lead over Alfred Gruen, Charles H. crn Pennsyh'ania Scholastic Chess League cisivel y on the last fourteen to amass Haley and Bert Hofm ann, who tied with and dirccted by William Byland. Play took 16 Vz ·9 Vz _ 4.2, hut were ranked in that order on place at the Pittsburgh Downtown YMCA. Delaware. The Wilmington Chess Club weighted points. nosed out the Lancaster Club 5·3. Fifteen players competed in the Swiss It's Page Again in Salt Lake system tourney sponsored by the Indiana· Lewis D. Page regained the Salt Lake Florida. The Tumpn Chess Club defeated polis YMCA. D. C. Hills directed the City Championship which he has held four tlte Bartlesville (Okln.) Chess Club 2·0 ill event. P ence has been playing chess for times since 1937. He won three and drew a radio match last month. "Two other only three years. He is a machine shop two to edgc Farrcll Clarke by half a point gllmes were abandoned because of errors in transmission. inspector. in a round robin tourney. Gaston Chap· pius and Dale :Morgan, a former cham· Georgia. A combincd Columbus and Cor· Martinson Gary Champion pion , tied with 2Yz·2Y2. Herman A. Ditt· dele team won II six board, double round A fifth round victory over W. Kennetll mann, who donated the trophy emblematic match with players from Atlanta and Rearick gave George Martinson the Gary of this champio nship, had Ph·3Yz . Taylor I\"facon 7·5. (Ind.) City Championship after both fini shed with 1.4. Marylalld. The team championship of players had tied with Underwood at 4%· AROUND THE CHESS CLUBS the Baltimore Chess League went to the 1 Y..!. Martinson and Rearick had equal Bisguier Still Manhattan Champ team representing the University of Mary. weighted points but, under the rules, the (See Cover) land. Their group of four, consisting of winner of their individual game became Arthur Bi~ gu i e r may be young but li e Robert llderton, Bernard Rosenthal, Ray the new titleholder. Hybarger and Cox, ccrtainly is tough. After a bad start in t1w Burrington, and Professor D. W. Hall, both with 4.2, were fourth and fifth. Fuur· powerful Manhattan Chess Club Cham· made a nearly perfect record against tcams teen entrants vied for the title. pionship, the tecn·aged U. S. J unior title· from Lo yola College, Polytechnic Hi gh Gee Keeps Sacramento Crown holder showed amazing stamina in recover· School, Univcrsity of Baltimore, Baltimore Defending city champion J. B. Gee ing to retain his club tiLl e with 8·2. His City College, and Gall ant Knights. finish· found that no losses were plenty in this 82·move, last round win ovcr George ing in that ordcr behind the winners. The year's Sacramento tournament. Scoring Kramer was just enough to givc Bisguier event was sponsored by the Baltimore five straieht wins, he nonetheless took the half a poillt margin over veteran master Chess League, directed by State Cham· 100 CHESS REVIEW, APRtL, 1949 pion David Bentz, and held under the aus Ohio. The Perfection SI9ve team won the tournament ahead of the University of pices of the Maryland Chess Club. Cleveland Industrial League Champion Richmond and Washington and Lee. John Joseph Glatt won the Maryland Chess ship by winning two matches and drawi ng Holladay of the University of Virginia won Club title by defeating Charles Barasch one in a four team playoff. T he Lubrizol a rapid transit tourney held in connection two straight games of a playoff match. group took second place after a tie-break with the team event. . Massachusells. Reid Harris of Haverhill ing match with the Post Office team_ Ohio Washington. Tacoma leads the Puget won the first open tournament sponsored Bell Telephone fini s11ed last. Sound Chess League with 5Yz-Yz followed by the Newburyport Chess Club_ His total The Firestone Chess Club drubbed the by Bellingham and Seattle, each with 5-L Goodyear Cluh 8-2 in Akron. of 6Yz-IYz was half a point better than West Virginia. Allen H. DuVall of St. that of Whitcomb and Bart Gould who Albans won the Carbide Chess Club cbam tied for second. Eighteen players com pionship for the third straight year thus peted in the Swiss system event. retiring the trophy presented by the Car The Harvard University team topped bide & Carbon Chemicals Corp. DuVall's Section "A" of the Boston Metropolitan score of 5%-'12 was one point better than Chess League wi th SYz-l1;2. Lynn was run that of teen-aged Dave Marples. Dr. J. S. ner-up with 7Yz-2V2 . Boston University's Blagg, William Hartling and Arthur No. 1 group led the "B" division with Maloy tied for third in this sixteen man ll12-lYz with Boylston close behind_ Swiss system event_ The Massachusetts State Chess Asso ciati on is going to publish a yearbook con taining the names and addresses of all {~CANADA members snd clubs in the state. Robert W. Reddy, president of the group, asks Moser Tops in Winnipeg all clubs and leagues to send details to Leo Moser, a lecturer in mathematics at him at 228 Pleasant St., Brookline, 46_ the University of Manitoba, successfully The Brookline High School team WOIl defended his Winnipeg City title by mak the Interscholastic League Championship ing a clean sweep of six games in the for the fourth time in the last seven years. finals. Due to pending garnes, the other They were runners-up the other three places remained undecided. W. J. Shaw years. had the best chance to earn the runner-up Two Northampton players, David Levin spot with P . Slavin and E. Budnitzky hot and Eli Bourdon, tied for first in the an on his heels. nual Washington's Birthday Knockout J, B. GEE tourney at Springfield. ____ ,NCO losses were plenty Bain Retains Quebec: Title Osias Baill retained the Quebec City MichigaTl. Norman Whitaker, competitor At Columbus, Hans Kmoeh WIlli 32, lost championship for the third year in a row. in the 1948 U. S. Championship, won 33, 3, drew 2 at the Yfo.'1CA Chess Cluh. He won all eight games in a round·robin drew 2, lost 2 in all exhibition at the The Ohio Stale University Chess Club tourney. P. Landry, was the run Council Center Chess & Checker Club in SYz-2'12, defeated Ihe Un iversity of Kentucky 3%- ner-up while N. Guay and J. C_ Mercier Detroit_ T he cl ub recently defeated the 1 Yz at Cincinnati. deadlocked with 5-3 each_The others were: Dearborn Club 6%-2%. The Hoyersford Chess Club scoren over A. Mercier, 41;2-31;2; R. Bedard, 312-4%; Nevada. A flourishing chess club has Lansdale 5·2. R_ Beaulieu, 2%-5%; A. Lamontagne 1-7; been formed in Las Vegas under the spon Oklahoma. Oklahoma City downed Nor and P . Leboeuf, 0-8. sorship of the Monte Carlo Club. i\Ieetings man 4%.1% in the first match of the 1949 Louis Gourdeau was fi rst in the Class are held in Room No_ 2, 900 Sout h 5th St. state chess league season. In another "B" event with 51/z-'12. H. Daigle, 4-2, was Fred Soly, president of the club, has been match, Tulsa defeated Bartlesville 4-1. second. able to place a chess column in the Las Oregon. Chessmaster Arthur Dake play Vegas Evening R eview Jou rnal. ed twelve opponents at Astoria, giving WHERE TO hAY CHESS New Hampshire. T he Porlsmouth Chess Knight odds to all. He WOII 9, drew 3. Class\tled advertl~!ng rate ror this column IOe per word. Dlsptay ad.!! $7 per Inch. Club scored decisively in two recent Pennsylvania. Hobert Yeoman, 912 -2%, matches, defeating the Un iversity of New toj)ped six other players in the Royersford AIr CondItIoned Hampshire 5-1 and the Concord Chess Chess Club tournament to win the title NEW WOR LD CHESS AN D Club 6Y2.1%. from defending champion Donald Francis, BRIDGE CLUB, Inc. New York. Five straight victories, most (S. Birnbaum, president) 8Yz-3% . . J oseph Pattison, 61f2-512, was 252 W. 76th St. (EN 2_<\455), N.V.C. of them by lo p-side scores, have given the third. Cheu & Rubber BrIdge, Every afternoon Manhattan Chess Club a firm hold on first The Royersford Chess Club defeated trom 2 P . M. and evenIng tram 8 P. M. Duplicate Brld"e: 'Vednesday at noon; Tues place in New York City's Metropolitan Ursinus College 6-3 recently. I day and Thursday at 2:30 P_ M. and 8:30 Chess League_ P. M. Under the personal dtrectlon or Mr. Nine of the ten players who qualified AL WE ISS, Lite maSler and wtnner or the The ml\I Chess Club of J ohnSOIl City for the finals of the Pittsburgh Downtown Van derbilt T,·ophy. down ed the Binghamton Chess Club 5Yz. YMCA Championship are cy mpeting in 4%. the finals. The exception is Club Cham LOG CABIN CHESS CLUB A return match between the Rochester pion Paul Dietz, also holder of the state (Founded 1934) Chess Club and Cornell University was senior and junior titles. Fred Sorenson At the home of E. Forry Lauck., 30 Collamore Terrace, West Orange, N. J. won by the fo rmer 21h-l%. and David Spiro are currently leading in The Sunset Chess Club downed the Ihe fi nals. Brooklyn Chess Club "B" team 7%-4%_ Virginia. The Richmond Chess Club North Carolina. The Durham Chess Club scored over tbe Durham (N_ C.) Club 9%- walloped the Sparlcnburg Club 6Yz-3Yz at 57'2 at South HilL Salisbury, mid-way between their home The University of Virginia won the first grounds. state Intercollegiate Chess Association t HESS REVIEW, APR IL , 1949 101 . Up-to-date opening analysis by FRED REINFELD by an outstanding authority CRUCIAL VARIATIONS IN THE SICILIAN DEFENSE: Part 3 10 Q_Q2 R-Q1 11 QR-Q1 • • • • RACTICAL CHESS OPENINGS by Reuben Fine is lhe best and most com Threatens 12 NxN, PxN; 13 N-Q5! an cl P plete treatise of its kind. It offers thousands of variations to churt the no matter how Black plays, W'hite re tains the better game because of his two student's path. With such a tremendous mass of material, however, it is Bishops (13 _ .. QxQ ; 14 NxDt, K-Bl; 15 understandable that there are occasional errors and omissions. More RxQ, KxN). over, shifts in emphasis and development of new ideas mean that even the 11 . . . . NxN best book needs constant revision. With this in mind, I am examining peo Parries the above threat and prepares critically. To make this series of immediate use to practical players, I am r.ounterplay on the Queen Dishop file. discussing with th e Sicilian Defense. The first ten columns on this opening 12 QxN N-Kl 13 Q-KS in pca (pp. 412-414) deal with the Scheveningen Variation, one of the • • • • This was the move actually played, and two most important lines. not 13 Q- Q3 (as given in PCO). Once we play the right move (13 Q-K3) the rec THE first two articles in this series THE BASIC POSITION ommendation at Black's 16th move maj,es (CHESS REVIEW, February, March, sense. 1949) devoted to the t reatment of the 13 . _ . _ B-Q2 Sicilian Defense in Practical Chess Open_ 14 P-QR3 • • • • ings dealt with Columns 1 through 4, Sooner or later Black's Queen must be coyering the Scheveningen Variation. driven away by P-QN4, despite the re The articles stressed the fact that this sulting weakening of 'Vhlte's position on line of play calls for sharp tactics and the Queen Dishop me. precise timing on the part of both play ers. That warning m u st be repeated. 14 . . . . B-KB3 In Columns 1·2. the key move of White's play is P-KN4, with the inten tion of over-runn.ing Black's King-side. In Columns 3-4 the key move of W-hite's play is the maneuver Q-KI- N3. 9 B_N2 In Column 5 (the subject of the pres - - . - ent article), White plays for an early For 9 K- Rl see Game 2 (Kunert-Gruen fianchetto of his Queen Bishop_ As we reId) . see from the basic diagram, White's 9 . _ _ _ Q_R4 fianchettoed Bishop has attacking pros I<'or 9 . .. P-QH3 see Game 3 (Torre pects, while the placement of White's Colle) and Game 4 (Taimanov-Panov) . Pawn at QN3 rules out the favorite coun 10 Q":'Q2 R-Q1 terplay of ... N-QR1-D5. Nevertheless, 11 QR-Q1 NxN Bla ck has a mple resources to maintain 12 QxN N-K1 a level game. 13 Q-Q3 B_Q2 15 P- B4 · . - - Column 5 14 P-QR3 B-KB3 Now 15. _. Q- QB4 will not do beCause 1 P_ K4 P-QB4 15 P_B4 QR-B1 of 16 QxQ, PxQ; 17 P-K5, B-K2; 18 B 2 N-KB3 P-K3 16 R_B3 . - . . B3, QR-Nl; 19 R-Q2 followed by 20 KR 3 P-Q4 PxP So far Alekhine- Euwe, Match, 1927. Ql and ·the pressure on Black's gflme be comes intolerable. 4 NxP N-KB3 16 . . _ . Q- B4t 5 N-QB3 P- Q3 15 . _ _ . QR-B1 Accor ding to PCO the position is equal. 6 B- K2 N_B3 16 R_B3? But the reader is bound to be mystified, • • • • 7 0-0 B_K2 for 17 K- Rl leaves V.'hite with a good More accurate was 16 P-QN4! (pre A continuation calculated to upset attacking game. There is much in these vents ... Q- QB4), Q-B2; 17 R-B3 White's whole system of development is moves which needs dea,ring up_ forcing the actual game continuatIon. 7 _. _ P -QR3; S P-QN3, Q-N3! (most em· 16 . _ . _ P-QR3? barrassing!- but Dot mentioned in PCO); Note that eac::h game begins Best is 16 .. . Q-QB1! bringing about 9 N-B3, Q-E2; 10 B-NZ, B-K2; 11 N-Q2, from the basic:: diagram. the exchange of Queens with lasting pres _P _QN4; 12 P-QR3, 0 - 0; 13 P - B4, B-N2 Game 1 ~ sme on the Queen Bishop file (17 QxQ!, (Bronstein- Kamyshov, USSR Champion RxQ!) . The reader should r eview the ship Semi-Finals, J945). Black lost only (Alekhine- Euwe, Match, 1927) n ote to Black's 16th move as given in because of later mistakes. 9 B_N2 Q_ R4 the column. 8 P-QN3 0-0 Although this m ove is given in the Here is the basic position. column, it is unsatisfactory. t chcck; ~ _ dbl. chcck; § dis, eh. 102 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 194~ 17 P_QN4 Q- B2 Q- Q3 (el'I'oneously gIven In the colul\ln), 36 . . . . P_K5! ! 18 P_ N4 !? , , , , After the m ost accuru.te move lit If now 37 UxP, N- B6 wins the exchange ; DarIng but logIcal. White has P - N5 in WhIte's 16th t urn (P-QN4), Black Is ric· or ir 37 ExP, N- D6! winning a piece! prlve d of the possIbility of equa\l~lng, view, cutting Orr Black's forces from h is 37 N- N2 N-B6! 40 RxP R-B8t KB3 aJl(I t h reatenlng to ach ieve tile set Given the opportunity, Black should 38 Q-N3 BxP 41 B_QI Q-Q7! equall~e (if n ot better) with 16 , , . Q liP Hook on KR3 and Queen KU5, 39 RxB Nx R 42 P-N3 , ... Qfl4 ' 18_ ." BxN !7 A s the game goes, While has the better Or 42 P- K R3, N-B 6!; 43 Q-B?, Rx The moueI'll master uoes not lightly prOS1)ects. Bt; H Nxlt, QxNt; 45 K-R2, Q- Q3t and part with a Bishop to r a K n Ight : bllt wins. Euwe wanls counlerplny on Ihe Queen Game 2. 42 .... R_ N8 44 Q-N3 R.N Bis hop file a nd does not relish the pas' ( Kunert- Gruenfe ld, Vienna, 1931) 43 Q-R3 R- KNI 45 R_K2 Q. R sive for ma tion resulting from 18 ' .. p 9 K_R1 B- Q2 Resigns KN3: 19 P - KN5, B- N2; 20 P - KR4 e tc. 10 B_N2 P-QR3 Conc lusion_: The maneuver K-Rl follow 19 BxB B-N4! 10 ... Q-N3 ! is a p r'o ru lslng a lternative. ed by P- D4 (recomme nded by Alek hlne) 20 R_Q2 , , , , II P _B4 Q_N 3! has little to oUer W h ite. After 20 DxD, PxD Black would bave S tronger t han 11 , .. Q- R4 (Ga me 4, Blac k's .. , Q-N3 confronts White with pressu re on the Queen Bishop and Queen T a imllllov- Pano v) . n serious dilemma, as ta r a s maintaining Rook ClIes. the in itiative Is concerned. 12 NxN . , . , 20 ... , BxB 22 P_K N5 R_ B5 Game 3- 21 RxB Q-K2 23 B_Q4 P- K4 ThIs colorless exchange Is played In the despondent realizlltlon that 12 N-B3~, (T orre_Colle, Baden_Baden, 1925) 23 . '. R;l- B l ; H 1~-n3 loads to N- KN5! iR defin itely bad fOl' W hite; 9 B_ N2 P-QR3 nothing desirable for Black, who s uHel's while 12 K-Rt, Q-B2; 13 B- B3, NxN; 14 P CO gives th l@ lnove and the contlnu· from the fact that his Knight has little QxN, BxN; 15 PxB is dubious becnuse or scope, whlle tlle Dl sbop Is very powerful. Iltlon lip to 16 P- QB4, leaving off with his 8pl it Pawns. the a ppraisal that White's game Ie dIs· 24 PxP PxP 26 K- N2 Q_ K3 12 . . . . B.N tinctly superior. 25 B_B5 R- Q8t 27 P- R3 .. . . 13 B- B3 KR_QI Incidenta lly, 9 , , . Q- R4 transpOses It would be rutlle to play R- BS follow into Game 1 (Alekh lne-Euwe), Gruenfeld was playIng for II. win (\nst ed by Q- KB3- R5. as Black has the ane rO\lnd~), else 13.,. Q-K6!; 14 Q- Bl, Qx 10 Q_Q2 .... quate reply .. . Q- KN3, Q ~I\fflces e ffortlessly fo r equality. 10 K - Hl gives us Game 2 (Kunert 27 , .. _ A-Q2 29 A-Q3 P_ N4 14 Q- K2 Q_ B2 Gruenfeld) and Game 4 (Talmanov 28 Q_N3! N-B2 30 Aj 2- Q2 ! , . . , 15 KR-K1 OR-B1 Panov) . Black must now lose t he exchange and PCO lea ves off hel'e w Ith a verdict o f 10 ... , Q-B2 wi th it the game. e Quali ty. H owever, we k.uow from experl· 10 ... Q-N3 is a possibility here. 30 .... R. R e nce that in games with this vll rlatlon 11 KR_Q I B-Q2 whe l"C \Vh ite does lI ot play s harply, he :\J uc h s t ronge r Is 11 , .. R-Q1! Intend· soon Cl nds h lmse!! on the de fe ns ive. ing ... I'- Q4! 16 OR-BI B-Bl 18 P- B4 Q_N1 It then 12 P- B4, P- K4 ! (better than 17 N-QI N-Q2 19 N-K3 P - QN4 ! 12 ... P-Q4: 13 P-K51: 13 N-B5, B-Bl! Foreshadowing an a ggn~!ls l\'e polIcy on dter which , .. P-Q4 still remains a the Queen-side. For be tter or worse, formidable threat. While shou ld now t ry P- KN4 etc, 12 QR-Bl . . . . 20 N-N4 PxP Halher ponderous. He intends to move 21 QxP B_N2 his Queen Knight (first guarding h l ~ 22 Q- Q4 P-B3 King Pawn) fol lowed by P-QB4 with a White th reatened 23 N - 1l6t! at!'ong bind In the ce nter. 23 Q- B2 Q-Rl! 25 P-B5 N- B4 24 QR- Ql P-K4! 26 Q-K2 · , . . 31 QxRj3? ? , ' . , Too s lOW. There Is stlll a chan ce with A fantastic slip for the grellt Alekhlne, Q- R4 followed by N- D2 and P - KN4- 5. 31 PxR ~ wins In 11 11 variations, tor ex· 26 . . . . P-QR4J ample: 31 . .. R- D8; 32 Q- N2, R- K8; 33 B now 27 Q-B4t, P - Q4! ; 28 PxP, D- B2 and the Rook Is lost. B3;" 29 Q- B3, N- Q6! e tc, 31 . .. HxB: 32 QxQ. NxQ; 33 l'xJt with 27 N- B2 K_RI 29 Q- N5 0 -B2 an easy endgame win. 28 R-Q2 Q_Nl 30 Q-K2 · . , . 3t.,. Q-KN3: 32 P- KR4~ nnd wI n e. Not 30 B-B3?, NxNP! 31 , , . . N_ KI 30 . . . .. Q-N3 33 B- R3 NxRP Despite the unfortunate position of the 31 Q-Ql P_R5! 34 N-Q3 P- Q4 ! Knight, Black can hold the game. 32 PxP Q-R4 35 BxB Rd 12 . , . . QR-B1 32 Q-Q5 Q-K N3 37 Kx R P_ R3 36 PxP • • • • W ha t does Black do about the threat ? 33 QxKP RxKP 38 Px P QxPj 3 - nothing a t a ll! 34 Q-N3 Q- Kl 39 Q-K3 Q-R5t :\f ore exac t Is 12 .. . P- QN4 ! ( threat 3'5 R_B2 R_K7 40 Q-N3 Q_ K5 e n ing to win n Pawn with 13 ... P-N51 ; 36 Q-KB3 RxRt Drawn 13 Q-K3, P- N5; 14 N - N l , Q- N2!; 15 B- ' Conclusions; Bla ck m Isses the !dmplest KB3, NxN!: 16 RxN, P-K4!; 17 R-Q2, equaH1:ing chance In 7 , , ,Q- N3: and, as 8 - B3 nnd mack hall the initiative! we shall see In the fo llOwing game, this 13 Q- K3 KR-Q1 move c an be played w ll h good effect And thIs II IIfe l es~ in comparison to 13 later in the game. ., NxN!; 14 RxN, P-K4!; 15 R-Q2 (or 9 . . , Q-R4 Is of q n e ~ tlollable value, 15 N- Q5, NxN; 16 RxN, B-QB3; I? R/5- 13 Q- K3 (as actually played) gives the Ql , P- B4!), D- B3 with fair prospects. variation II totally different complexion from t he consequences deriving from 13 - Begin with b .... lc diagram on page 102. C;HESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1949 103 HAVE YOU READ 14 Q_N3 N_ K1 to a ccomplis h li ttle with it. The resill· Again, , , NxN! follo\\'e 18 P-B5 • • • 11 P_B4 Q-R4 If IS KPxP, PxP; 19 PxP??, NxN wins This 1I0cs not tum out well. 1l ... Q WINNING CHESS (\\'I'lttell with Irving " pieCe , N3 trans pos es into Gllme 2 (Kuoert Chel'llcl'). The sec l'e l of winning chess 18 , , , , Q-R4 21 a,N a,a Gl'uen feld). lies i n jIL"O])cl' use of combinative play 19 p,p p,p 22 QxB N-B3 12 B_B3 KR-Ql and here i s n book which tells you how 20 P-QR3 N,N 23 P-QN4 Q-B2 13 P_KN4! , . , , t o l'c pog n i?e thl! (li Rtinctivc , ba sic pattern White means business, for e ve ry type of <; ombination. You lell !'!l when, where HIllI how t o eombine a ll the chel\s boanL Getting t o the ver y bedl'ock of winning ch esl!, t he authors illustrate their discu ssion w i th simple, decisive po· sitions from aclUui play. More than 600 diagra ms make il e as y for you to follow the e xplanations without ll s ing a board and men. The I"es ull is a chess book whieh is easy to read, easy to Ilnd()l'· stand, and one which a ctually improve!! your game. 23 1 pages. $2.75 HOW TO P LAY BETTER CHESS. The White has the Queen's id e majority of key ideas 'llul m ethods of planning that Pawns, but their further utilization seems res nlt in winning- (,hess are clearly pre · Imposs ible 01' I'ery difficUlt, Black's 13 . , . . N," sente rl. The topi<"R ind l1 de : middle game Queen Pawn Is isolated, but it Is a lso 14 QxN QR-B1 problem s o[ a U; I< ,k and de fense; proper passe d, and b a s to be per mane ntly block. Black recoils froms the dnnge ro\(s con· use of combinative lllay ; advantage OIl>! aded by White . T h us , although Colle has sequences of 1·\ . ' , l' -K ~ ; ] 5 Q- Q I!?, e xploitntion of pO Ait ionnl wea k nes ses; missed jus t about every thema tic Irl ea of I'xP ; 16 P- K5! ? endgame tedlnlqul'. Parti(,ll lnr nttention the Sche l'eningen VU ]'iat!on but one Note how llluch enc rgetic TalmanOl"s is gi ven to ope n ing the ory. the !luthor's (ultimate , , . P- Q'I), he has a playable 1)lay Is than that of Kunert [n Game 2, s pec ia l fi el<1 . i31> ]mg es. 143 diag rams . game ! $2,50, 15 P-N5 N_K1 18 Q-Q2 P- N4 Thl::; paradox is ]'eadily e xpla ined: a) 16 QR-Q1 B_B1 19 R-B2 P-N5 CHESS MASTERY BY Q UESTION AND the whole variation beginning with S p 17 P_ B5! Q_B4 20 N_R4 !? Q-R4? ANSWER, Test yom k uowledge with QN3 has been over· rated so that exce llent alternatives fOJ' mack on moves 10 and Black's play Is too planless" . BxN 3~ 7 qllestion >! abollt 16 e xciting and In· here or next move was in orde r , s trucU I' e lUaS(e r games. Detail ed a n ~ w e r ~ II have been ol'e rlooked; b) \Vll lt e play· 21 P-QR3 P-Q4? 26 P- B4 Q-N5 give I'alun ble lessons in the s cience of cd a n umbel' of time,wasting moves a,p plann ing, tactics lind strategy. All classes whi(,h hal'e eSCal)ed eriticism: 12 Qil- Bl, 22 BPxP 27 Q-Q3 R_Nl N-B2 of playe rs w ill profit by this "learning· 15 N- Nl, and the maneuver Q- Q2- K3- 23 KPxP 28 B-K5 R-N2 by·lloing" t 104 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1949 by FRED ~1. WREN with his casc, that he might die at any WOODIIUSllt; R'S minute. The doct.o r had given him six Illonths as a 1ll1lximum-he couldn't hope EVERAL years ago, just after t he ehamJl as I turned to tht text of the maga· for more than that. smoke had rolled away from the finale S 7. ine to find out wbat il was all abou t. I-It was bom in Holland. He had emi· of a United States Championship Tourna Then callIc the shock. After the cunven· grated to tht Un it ed States in 1912, had mtJlI, CHESS R Ev n;w \,uhlislll"d on its ()Jl tiollal documtnt ary repurt lhe tuurna· hecome a naturulized citi7.en in 1917 and cover a photograph of the winner- Grand ment results had helm digest cd , I Cll111e to had e n li~te d in the Army in the samc )"ear. mas ter Reshcvsky. The photograph, posed an itcm of information about the photo· J-Ie had lived in Delwer and , after being in the champion's home, was scanned by graph OJl the cover. [t tuld lIlt, among other hospitalized ou t of the Army, he had reo thousa nds of other chess fans, I suppose, things, that the set in the picture was a turned to that cit y. lIe was a member of "ijth the same intense scrutiny to which I prop, furnished by CUESS REVIEW'S staff the American Legion Post there, which subjected it. Chess players and fans afC photugrapher, due to the fact thllt Hesh· he claimed (I never bothered to con fi rm only human after all- press reports, car· evsky, the c1l e~s champion of the United this) was the largest in the world. Aft er tooni sts and long-suffering wives to the States, and probably one of the tbree or 11 year or two of failing health in Denver, contrary notwit hstandin g. \'?c are interest fu ur strongest players ill the world, did he decided to go back to Holland where ~d in the minor details of where and how not own a chess set. At first, I was stunned. his pcnsion would serve the double pur· Qur chess idols H.,c, c,'en though the public I couldn't understand it. Cene Autry with puse of supporting him better than it relations branch of chessciom seems to (HIt a guitar ? Co uld be. Ruy RogcrE with· cou ld in the United States and of being of hal' c failed sadly in the dissemination of out a I ,o rst '~ Poss ible. But Re shevsky with· substantial assistance to his sister's family this kind of information. Hence the en out a chcss set? Incn:diblc. As well think budget. Wiltn I first met him in 1930, he thusiasm wi th which the chess world of Humphrey Bogart without an automatic, had heen in Holland for eight or nin e turntd its coll ective bi-f ocals upon this or Betty Grable without- well , you see years an d was longing for a chance to elcellent study of the champion of the what I mean. speak and hear the English language. United States. - After the first shock, howcver, l ac· I sUppUSt SOlUt lans Wtl"t inltrested in cepted the irrdutablt evidtnet, and 1 he· On my fir~t \·i sit, he asked if 1 could the synthetic game wh ich wa~ set up on gan to pity the guy. That's a laugh, of play chcss. When I sllid that 1 could, a the board before bim. One probably tried course, for a l'ioodpusher like me to be vo ll ey uf Dutch splattered off the four to figure uut what aml huw tllany moves pi tying a grandmasttr. But r did, and I walls of the room; and, almost instantly, had been made to reacb tbe pictured posi still do-even if he ha~ acquired a sct m the sister appeared with a board and a tion. Another probahly went over all Sam the meantime. I'll explain what T mean. set of pieces. \Ve pla~· ed a couple games my's games in that tournament to see if that day a ll d, on each uf my subsequent he cou ld identify any position in one of s I WRITE, there llre ten chess sets visi ts, we knockcd off two or three games. them with the one in the picture. Probably A within twenty feet of me. One of th em We we re just about equal in playing the ladies, after a ea~ual glance at the belongs to my son. 'fIle othtr nine arc strength; ~o it lVas really fun. it was also hoard an(1 pieces, luoked more carefull y mine, and I love everyone of them- each encouraging to see that chess relaxed his It the background of the photograph to one for a diffenmt reason. Let me tell you grim tense attitudc of waiting- so pain see if they eOldd discern any evidence the ~to ries of some of tllem. fu lly apparent at uther times. He began . hich migl lt ind icatt ll"lt Mrs. Hes hevsky For several years, I worked HI the to get stronger ; and, althou gh the doctor .".~g other than II perfeet housekeeper. American Consulatc ill Rotterdam. Onc did not revise his former estimatc, the None of that stuff fu r me. I was interested nlUrning, the consul came in Illy office and patient startt!d taking liult! walks outside in the set of pieces lined li p on the hoard, a~ked i f I would pay a cheer.up visit to the house to which he Ilad betn eonfintd Ind a brief examination of the picture an American veteran of World ';';Ia r I who for so long. caused me to give a mental cheer fo r our was living in The Hague, and who was Shortly afterward, perhaps three months chanlpion . No cu mbersome imported set str i ou~ly sick. 1 fuund the veteran living after 1 first met him, a message came to .".ith a nine inch King; no in tricately carv· wi th hi s sister and brother· in· law. He was me in my office in Rotterdam that some· ed ivory pieces; no fabu lously expensive recelvlIlg total disability compensation one in a taxi Oil the street in front of the set with the white pieces of sterling silver frum th e Un ittd States Vtlerans Adminis office wou lrl like very much to see me, and rand the black of solid gold for Sammy! tration. He had been gassed, not by the would I please go down, as he could not Just a common plastic set- exactly like enemy, hut through negligence in one of leave the car. I went down, and there was ~ne which 1 1'i1IS using at that time- our training camps in the United States. my chess· playing veteran. He was all which retailed for ahout $6.50 f.o .b., New His hcart was seriously affected, and it dressed up, and there was some baggage York . My heart warmed toward the new was no ~ecret 10 him, or tn anyone familiar on the rack of the taxi. I tHESS RlVIEW, APRIL , 19'19 105 OST p arents arc wi lling to admit M that, a lthough they know they shonld IIOt show favorilism among t heir children, then : a rc neverthcl~ss moments in which nne of Ih ei r offs jJ ring ~tands a bit higher in their emotional eva lnation than another. I have to confess the salll e feeling toward oJl e of my (;hess sets. Since Ihe others, be ing inanimale and inarticulate, a('e sup posedly without the power to harbor re sentment or lu pro l ~st against my partial ity, il is probah lr iJi urder to admit and tu eXIJlain my preference. Allow me to use the movies' fla,hhaek techn iq ue 10 set th" ~ c r::n r:: fo r you. In 1819, one Nathaniel Cook registered with t he appropriate aU lhurities in Eng. land a desi gn fOf a set of ehess men, sub stantially the same as what is now known a s the StaUllton design, This registration, valid for only t hree years, was never re When it rOlli/'s 10 ch('s.1 sGt.\', I have a mi.If'rly in.ltinr/.' ne wed _ On August 1 1, 1852, the English ------ma~ter, Howard Staunton, made a d eal "Wlwre tli" hell al"" you going'?" CIII':SS [{ t:VII':W " f March, 1936, curried with I\'athaniel C"uk, a u1.lrorizing the l at I blurted. a ,;Iory under tIle lille, "Vacation in LOll ' ter to lI se a faesi rni le of Staunton 's signa· He grilllwd. "Th" duel"r teJl ~ [111: 1'111 don:' explHining t il e ei rcnmstH Il CcS under t ure as a trademark to attaeh to t he boxes which I aequin:d another of the sets whieh going tu die h(" fon~ I get tn ;'>l e w York, in wh ich his ~e1s were sold. In 1900, t he hut I know better. l'1ll sailing un th" I jIl"ize ~o highly. For the henefit of the finn estahl ished by Nat haniel Cook was IViruM' Allls/adlll!/. of i.oni gli t, and I'm going Y'III1'1,;"r g"lI"rati on chess ad dicls (if ahsurbed by J ohn Jaque~ and SOil, Ltd., tu Denver." un y of them aelually read t his stuff) whu "f London, who cont inued 10 turn out ex· I started lo argue with him, b ut he ;1('10' tvo ylI l!n g tu reml' mhef and who don't eellen l and expen sive wooden chess sets laughed at me. "CUI il out. I know whal wanl I" bOlh er I" look il up, here are tI'e in huxes eaeh of which was stamped with I'm duillg, If I di e fin Ihe boal.- ~u what'! hi g hli g ht.~. Ih" StU ll lltun sig" atu re t.rademark_ If I die on Lhe train b( ~ tw( :e n :"l"ew York I ldt. The Hag">: fo,. a sl 'ort. trip to Tn Septemher, 1937, Chess, the leading and Denver- so what'? I've only gUl a London , On the \.rain 10 Lclush ing, I met d,>:s ~ 'nagazine in England , earried an month or Iwo left anyway. IJllt, i f 1 can a Dutch chess player whu was as keen as advert isement reuding in part as fo ll o w ~: stick it flut, so 1 can sec D(mver a gaill L was U" lIlt: ga", ... We played on the "Genuine Slaunlon dwsslllen. We a re pre then I'll really die happy, 1\I y ~ i slcr will t rain sarIS voir si nce we had no board or pared tu Slake our reputation on the state gd the insurance, and Ihe Legion wi ll p i( :ecs. We played uu lhe hoat. (If there ment that these ~ et s arc identical wi th hury me, and she won't havc tu fU 5S with n n:: any ~x. _\.Jav y guys in the audien ce, let t hose offered hy the best dealers in tht: that, Su it" ~ Lest a ll a(·oun,1. Don't yuu t he m p ipe d own; I know the tecl lll ical dif· Irade at p)"i ees 20-50 per cent higher." think so '(' ferenee between a ~hip and a boat; and, In November, 1937, Messrs. Jaques is- V;' hat (:o uld I ~ ilY ? \Vhile I was saymg in allY language, this was a hoat.) We 5ued a l r::~a l l'iril claiming the followin g: it- silentlr and a Il il llIistily- lw went on. hought the set from t he smoking-roum L An inj unction t n restrain Chess frolll "I called tu say so lung lo you. You\'e steward and played on t he t rain from passing off sets of chessmen not of J a been ~w e ll comin g to see lIle, a nd I've J-Jarwi"h tu London. We pla}":: d nearly all ques' manufaet ure as ehl'ssmen of Jaques' enjoyed OUf chess games. \Vi11 yuu aeecpt d ay uud ull ni ght in London, On the way manufacture by adver tis ing such as "Gen this gifl lu n:lllen,lwr m e hyr " hack. we played on train, bout and train uine Staunton Chessmen" or "Staunton And he held out Ihe l ittle varnished bux - all the way f rom Lon don lu The H ague_ Chessmen;" 2, Delivery up of all l ahels, which held, and still hold s, the chess set The fina l talrulati"" of tlte resuhs of ollr leaflets, and other advertising matter, the with which we played su Jlla"y hut. games. 72 hour chess orgy proclaimed m(~ as the usc of which would b;:: a breach of the in \V hen the iVi"lIw Amsterdam came hack winner by a score ,of 46 to 42; and, by junclion prayed fOf; 3. Damages; 1. Fur from Ihat. t rip, I It:arned t hat he mad e it agreement, mv pri~e was Ihe board and set ther or olher relief ; 5, Costs. as far as l\ew York all r ight, an d tllat he which we load heen ahusing. T he fight was on, and was to rage had sta('led the rai l trip to Denver, eOl' So there's a nutl'er of Illy sets, Just a t.hrough the Engl isl, cuurt~ fur Ih ree vears. fident that he would make that too. 1 hOlle cl " 'ap wooden affai r, witl, Il' e varnish pret he did, for h e wallted to so desperately; J aques' case was hased on tbe claim that t y wI, 11 worn off mu~ 1 "f the pieces_ T he [JU t [ the name, " Genuine Staunton" or " Stann n>:\' e r heard fr"!" hi ", again. Nor whit e Kin g '~ cro~ ~ l 'a~ vanished SUllle lon," in dicated ebessmen of their mann havc 1 forgotten him. Every few weeks wl'er(' in thr shllffle of til(: years ; an d, facture exclusively. T he defense put up by I set up the pieces of Ihe 1Il 0de~l wooden wheu you plunk a black Knight down set which he gave 1,,1' Hnd go ov er a game Chess was t hat the names qu oted indio in an ,:ntllllsiasti e fork of White'~ Queen or t wo with t hem. As I do this, I am alvmys cated c1,e~ s lJlen of a e r:: rta in pallenl ur de aJllI I{ (",k, Ih e h"r ~ e '~ head and the ba ~ e ahle to vi sualize him dearly; sometimes sign and not hin g more. l\Iost of the wit uf IllI) piece are very like ly to part CO II] a~ he used tn luok when lyi ng in his sick, nesses for Jaques were dealers a nd r eo pany. Yel II,,·, s<'l represents my first in hed, craning l,is neck to see tlle pieces on tailcrs of chess sets wltu t.estified t hat their eu rsio" into international p lay, and it wi ll the board be~ide h im; but usually- a nd exper ience had led them to understand preferably- as he looked in lite taxi thnt a lways he tl- c a s uf( ~ d as a trophy of t he that "Staunton" or " Genuine Staunton" afternoon in Hotterdam as he gave lIle Ihe ~ere w i r: s t and longes t. match of my career, chessmen were t hose man ufactured by ~e t , bade me farewell and set hi ~ course and p erhaps of all time. After all, La J aques. An im posing array of defcnse 13011rdonnais- i'l"i'Donnell nwt.ch went to witnesses, including Sir George Thomas, eonfiderr (lv• for Denver. That's the ~ torv• uf on e of my sets. only 84 gam e~ , counting 13 IJsdegs draws. Dr. Max ElIwe, 1.. Prins and other leading 106 CHESS REVtEW, APRtL , 1949 pl ayers and chess au thori ties, testified that Kin gs, its 11/2 ineh Queens, a nd its had been torpedoed off Iceland. Weeks to them thc quotcd wonls indicatcd mere· Pa wns j ust slightly shorte r than the 1l,4 l u lt~ r , it wa s confirmed officially that the ly a standard design and tha t, in respond· inch Roo ks. T he maroon staining of the ship had been lost wi th only one survivor. in g to Chess' advertisement, they wo uld black pi eces has worn through in plllces, He was not the chief. So the boxed set ha ~ not expect to receive a set manu factured a nd the white pieces have attained the repused on m y desk ever since, as a by Jaques. Inell owe d, yellowish patina of frequently. memento of a genial wood·pusher who A decision for Jnques in May, 1939, handled old ivory. never hesitated to grab a proffered pawn. was II llpcalcd to a hil!her COli n , a nd in Dut it is a friendly set lllld one whic h L have. a litt le Icather pocket set, with Marcil, 1940, findings of the lowe r Courl I like to belieYe is ~ l lr ruu n rlcd by an aura rl a t celluloid pieces, which was a Christ· were reversed by the Apllcllntc Branch. to which eilch of the thousands of good mas gift to me a bout ten years ago a nd It was held that thc evid tmcc had clearly games, in which it must have pa rticipated which is one of my most prized posses demonstrated Il lat lin:: words, " Genuine before coming 10 me, has contributed its !l ions. r ca n almost hear you say, "So Staunton" or "5Ia ulllon," signifi ed nothing share. A n a ura composed of everything what?" We)], 1 don't pretend to know the " f the origin of chessmen so dcsignate<1 which is good about ehess and the people tI '(lological implications whicll have caused but referred only to a gene ral Ilallcrn or wll o Ill ay it a nd whi ch has become $0 sat iKlmc of my friends 10 call me a lia r when design, as claimed by Chess. m'ated with these q ualities throughout the I lold them where I got the scI. I don't yean; tha t it ca nnot absorb any more with· In May, 1942, CltcsiJ carried a diffe rcnt e vell care ahout them. All I know is that out shedding a fe w of the old ones to make advertisement which interested me. They a good friend, and one of my bitterest room for the new. How else I explain invited inquiries about used sets, saying can chess club rivals, came to my door on the inspiroo strategy and tactics at my th ey had- them in all mu tcrials and in all Christmas da )' and gave me this set. How command when I a m using th is set? One st yles and designs. 1 had seen and !I(I I know wh y a Jewi sh rabbi would do of m )' chess.opponent friends has a less adm ired a set which came from Denma rk a thing like that? T he point is that he did romantic explanation. was ever a scof· and was anxious to get one something li ke He un d that I am proud of the gift and the fer, howeve r, and so no c rede nce should it. I wrote describing the sel tha t I wan ted ~ Jlir i t of friendship wh ich prompted it. be given to his claim thnt the set was as Staunton in piccc design, but with the carved from the teeth of a sacred crocodile Now you seo why the news that Resh, bases larger and the l)iece~ shortt:r than by some dusky devotee of v(JOdoo ism and (l\'sky didn't lu. ve H chess set of his 011'11 the conventional proportions generally /IS' that its inherent malev olence has in no $hockcd mc. 1 hope that the foregoing has so ciated with Staunton sets. I think I wa y been sweetened b), " recent a nd also explained Illy feeling of pity for him. dcscribt:d the pieces us ~q u /lt and d umpy, liberal a pplication of the well-knowa Wren 1 ha ve told yo u the stories of a few of my as if it had been subjected to pressure luck. What ca n he expect, when he i£ ]lIlly. sc t ~. t have tried to show you timt each from aboyc while in its formalive stage, ing me with a set which can call Ullon ils IIf them really meunt somethi ng to me wilh the result Ihal each piece ha,1 hccn old fr iends-P hi lidor, ,Ie La l3 ourdonnais, Ihat each one possesses a sentimental vaJue forced ,Iuw n into itself. M' Donnell, Sta unton, a mong othe rs-for Iil r in e xcess of its I)ossi ble market value. Back came a leiter from CheJs, from inspira tion and g uida nce of its new and . Call it what you may: pride of possession, which I no w qllole: "1 have a 'stu bby' Iii · a plJrecia tivc owner? miserly instincts, unhealthy sentimental ti e set ill nut ivory which a ns we rs fairly ity; for one reaso n o r a nother I love eve ry well tu your description. T he only trouble H A VE other sets, sOllie of which I one of my scts a nd feel that, through their is, it has great scntimental value 10 me I bought because o r their looks, and pos~es~ i on a nd through my appreciation o( being a set produced in cvidcnce in my others which have been given 10 mt:. There the sentimental ties which bind them to great la wsuit with Jaq ues. It bears 0 11 the is a la rge d ub-si7.c wooden set wh ich came me, my life has been greatly enriched. box the ,o [ficial irn J) riut of the courts show· to me a bout six months ago as a legacy If these nine sels, which proba bly would in g this. The g real collector and authority, from a de,,!, fri end who learned his chess nul bring $JOO 3t an)' a uction, have done Alexander Hammond swore on oath in while a\lendi ng coll ege in lloston in the so milch for mc, j l!8 t thi nk of the collec· the tri al that this set was at least 150 years days when Pillsbury, Barry and Franklin tion which Sammy could have amassed old, thus pre·dating th e foundation of K . Young we re reaching the heights of ~ i lle e he first tOllmd the United States as Jaques, his predecessor, Nathaniel Cook, chess maturity. He knew all th ree well fI prod igy of nine. How prosaic and who first registered thc design, in 1849, and was pre~en t when Barry a nnounced limited and unromantic , have been my and Howard Staunton, himself- ull hough the famous mate in 13 again st P illsbur),. t l'lLvels as compared wi th his. How great a the set ;$ rceogniza bl), of what is now Anothe r sct was given to nl C during the gup hetween the planes on which our reo known as the S taunton d e~ig ll . It may war by the chid steward on a small ship spective chess experiences have taken place. safely Lx: said that Ihis set played a g rellt which called regula rly at Halifax. Ev ery My gumes have bee n wi th other wood part in winning the famous legal battle, time he came in, he would visi t the dub pu~hcrs-h i s with the greatest players in and I 11m not anxious tu part witb il. You for a few gam e~ if he could get away from the world. My ~ r eatest claim to fame is a may, however, if y{m (jr~ fr~ghtflllly keen, the ship. Sometimes he would give me a flu ky d raw with Yanofsky, whereas he bas haye it for-" call, and I would go on board for a few Jlll u letl on even terms or hetter with world The underl ining was his, the price Wil S gamcs a nd a d rink (or a fe .... d rinks a nd a challl ilions, and he has been knocking off sleep, h Ul the set is now mille, and the game), or perhaps he would come to my /IIasters a nd g nu.dmasters for nea rly editor of Ch ess Ileed not worry about his hOlile fo r a few of each. On one visit, he twcnty yea rs. Wouldn't YOll think tha t little set falling into Unal)preciative ha nds. showed ml: this set which a IHt.sseuger had when he took a Ilnl home he would like to It is my fa vorite sct. from a practical as given to him. be able 10 point out his sets? He could well as a scntimental standpoint. I n s pite He said, "J couldn't refuse it, but I say, " Here's the sct I used to beat Euwe of ilS I.istory and basic material, il is nol don't need it. Why don't you ta ke it ? If ill the AVRO Tournament," o r "111is is a set to be placed on a shelf a t home or you evcl' have a c rowd in and need an the one the Maharaja ga\'e /lie, after win in a cl ub j ust to be looked at a nd ad mired. e xtra set )'OU can use this." ning the tou rnament at l\1 agidoor," or It is a real playing set, the one 1 like to As he had just remarked, I couldn't re " Here's 11 li ttlc thing I picked up in a have available at all times for usc in going fuse it, and I C CHUS REVIEW, APR IL . 1949 , 107 FIN E vs NAJDORF Annotations by Hans Kmoch and Miguel Naidor! THE !'ccent match between Dr. Reuben 11 ... N- K IU is unsound , fo t· the ex Othet· m oves a re equally ho p el e ~s . ~'in e and .Miguel Naj dol'f began in cha nge of White's Queen lli:-;hop can be 32 N,P R-N8t 36 P- R6 P- B4 vigorous fash ion. In t he \'eJ'y fh'st game, a tta ined ouly at the cost or a serious 33 K_R2 B-Q6 37 R- B6 B_ N6 FIne gave a conv i ncing demonstration of weakening or mack's K ing pos it ion : 120- 34 R_ N6 R- QRS 38 R-B7t K- B3 the kind of chess thnt distinguishes a KN5!. P- KH3 etc. (12 N xl'?? N- R l ! OJ· 35 N- N4 B_B5 39 P-R7 P-N4 master from t he r un-or·t he·m ill playe r : 12 QxQI'?, NxB ; J3 PxN, Q- Nl favors 40 N-B6 Resigns Fine won by a ccepting a t he ol'etical dis Dla ck) . F or if 40 . . . D- Q·.; H N- K 5, P- N 5 ; advan tage! 12 P_ KR3 P_ KR3 15 BxN N_Q2 P- H4 111 1(1 mate Is unavoidable. " The a ve rage playe r is schooled to shUll 13 Q_ R4 P- R3 16 BxB K,B Notes by Hans Kmoch isolated Pawns, doubled P awns, and 14 N_ K5 NxN 17 R_B2 P- K3 the heaviest of yokes- doubled isolated 18 Q-N4 N_ N1 ! HA!(l, LY (10 we witness it playe r pushed Pawlls. Fine not only shoulders the bur Dlad;: has it ra ther difficu lt game , main. inlo it los" without m aking a pe rccptible den cheerfully; he mak es it the ba sis of ly because of h is passi ve Uishop. HO I\" · en·o !" . It does happe n , hOII·e l·Ct·, and in hi s winn ing strategy. The first of this el·er, bringin g the K n ight to . .. QB3 en· the t hird match game , it did. Cramped s ickly pal!' forces open the Black Queen a bIes hi m to I{ eep the balance. side; the s econ d bol st e rs the \Vhite righ t from the opening, Black g ra dua lly 19 KR_ B1 N_B3 cr umhles u nde r the pressure of \ Vhit e's Knigh t, then goes on to Que en. All of 20 Q- R3 Q_ K2 ? which proves (hat no 1"111 e Is ha rd nnd artful mnneuvers. T he adjoumed ]losition fa st- Jr you n!'e a gran dmaster! T hi s good·looking move cause s a !losi· is t he s ubject of some fasc inating a naly· tional d is a ster. Correct Is 20 . .. P- QN 4! , sis by Najdor f. GRUENFELD DEFENSE and iF 2 1 K- N l , P- K4 g ives Dlack a t en NIMZOINDIAN DEFENSE able game. peo: page 282, column 147 peo: page 254, column 62 R. Fine M. Najdor f M. Najdorf R. Fine White Black W h ite Black 1 P-Q4 N-KB3 3 N-QB3 P-Q4 1 P- Q4 N- KB3 5 N- K2 B_ N2 2 P_QB4 P_ KN3 4 B-B4 . . , . 2 P_ QB4 P-K3 6 P-QR3 B- K2 B_N5 Almos t forgotten today, this stua dy 3 N-QB3 7 P-Q5 0 - 0 P_QN3 s ystem of attack was considered the m ost 4 P- K3 8 N-N3 . . , , Impot·t a nt one for a lon g time following Mo re u sual llere is 8 P - K 4. A gamfl be· Colle 's s uccess against Gruenfeld in twecn Ootvinnlk a nd O'Kell y de GalwflY Baden-Baden 1925. It may be called the (Groningen, 1916) continue(1 with 8 p Colle Attack, as against Kostic h's 4. Px P, KN3? a nd a fter 8· . . . P- QN·1. Black ha d and Botvl nn ik's "' Q- N3. the edge. (Nel·erthelcss, Botl' innik, who was \ Vh ile, 1I"0 n after ma ny I'iei>;s ituues.) 4 . . . . B- N2 5 P_K3 0 - 0 After the t ext move, Black cannot fi t· 21 N-R4!! . , . , tem pt . . . P- Q:\'4 s in ce, despite numerous 6 Q- N3 . , , . 8xcel!tionally s trong and conclusive . It exchanges, W hile's K ing K night P a wn Ke res once r ecommended ti l'xP, Nxl'; is cer ta inly re ma r k able t h at so odd a r emains defended. 7 NxN, QxN; 8 BxP, N-ll3; 9 N- K2 mo ve s h ould have s uch c rushin g effect. 8 . . . . P- Q3 which, however , proved to be t oo risky Out it ha s! 9 B_ K2 P_ B3 011 account of 9 .. . B- N5 ; 10 P- B3, ilx 21 , . , QxQ 9 ... 1'- {j N4 w ill not do OP! ete. (Sal"onov-Doga t yrchuk, aloscow ~ because of 10 19,10). F'orced, in view of t he possibilities Nx U- 03 and if 10 . .. NPxP; II PxP, White Als o ina dvisable is 6 N- D3 becau se of P a s we ll as OxP. 21 . . . P - QN4 fHils nft er lias the s upe rior positioll . 6 . .. P- D4 !. It is important to reta in t he 22 QxQ. N"xQ; 23 N- 85 and the Bis hop 10 P- K4 N-R3 possibility KN-K2 as long as poss ible. must move (if 23 . .. H- B2 ; 24 NxPt OJ· 11 0-0 N_B2 23 . . . H- Q I\" l; 24 N- Q7) and a Pawn falls . 6 , .. , P-B3 12 R-K1 . . , . 22 PxQ P_QN4 24 P-QR4 ! PxP Althoug h Bla ck attacks t he \Vhite This leads to a side line of the Gr uen· 23 N_N6 ! R_ B2 25 NxRP feld Defell s e which I used to call S lav Queen J'aw n five t imes, \Vhlie declines }<'ianchetto for it a lso arises from the Threatening 26 N-D~ ( but not 26 BxP? t o excha nge beca usc , after 12 PxBP, Ex Slav Defen se of t he Queen·s Ga mbit: 1 because 01" 26 ... DxU ; 27 HxN, HxR ; 28 P ; 13 Q- BZ and 14 B- B4, W hite's good P-Q4 , P-Q-I; 2 P- QE4, P - QD3; 3 l\"- QD3, RxR, B- N4!) . Ilrospects are offset by the increased N- B3; 4. 0 -D4, P-K N3 et c. T he Gm e n· 25 . . . . KR_ B1 freedom of Black's Bishops. After t he reid P r oper goes on with 6 , .. l'- D4 - but 26 N- N6 R_QN1 te xt m OI·e, Ul a ck 's Bish ops re main im· mobile. may unite with the P a nov System of the 27 P- QR4! . . . , Incid e ntall y, ]2 D- B3 is a bly met by earo·Kann after 7 PxQP, PxP etc. I\" ow he t h reatens again 2S BxP, and 12 . . . D- HS . One of tbe poi nts of 12 H- K l there is n o derense ngainst it s ince 27 7 N-B3 , . , . is that it makes . . . D- H3 menn ingless as . . . P- QH4 is met by 28 B- N5. Owin g to .. . P- QB3 the possibility it de renslve resolll·ce. 27 ... , R_Q1 29 RxN K N- K2 Is no longer imIlOt "iant ; White is R,R 12 . , . . Q-Q2 safe from a s udden concenU·ated a ttack 28 BxP BxB 30 RxR R-QN1 l( 12 ... K Px P; 13 K P xl', 1'xP; 1-1 D on h is Queen Knight by . .. 1'- Q84, . .. Q 31 P_ R5 . , . . R3 a nd W h ite has t he better ga me. Ob· H4, a nd . .. N- K 5. He could a lso pla y 3.1 Nxi> at oncc : sen·e t hat 14 . . . B- R3 Is not a va lid con· 7 , , . , P-N3 9 PxP p,p 3 1 ... H- N8t; 32 K- H2, U- N2; :13 It- N6 ; tinuatioll. 8 R-B1 B-N2 10 B-K2 N_ B3 0 1· 31 ... B- N2 ; 32 H- !\6, P xN; 33 P- Ra. 11 0-0 R_ B1 31 , . , . R-N2 t _ c1wek; t :::: dbl. check; ~ :::: dis. eh. 108 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 19 .. 9 13 B-B3 KPxP 14 KPxP p,p 15 PxP · . . . 15 N- D5 is beautiful but unsound : e.g., 15 ... KR- Kl; 16 NxBt, RxN; 17 RxR, QxR; IS B- N5, N- K3 aud Black st1l\lds well. In this line, jf 18 1'xP, N/2xP and "iVhite crl.llnot continue with 19 NxN, Nx N; 20 BxN, DxD: 21 QxD because of 21 ... Q:"K8 mate. 15 . . . . KR-K1 1\ 16 B_N5 · . . . \ Play to provoke the advance of Dlack's Wben I analyzed the position dul"lng King Rook Pawn thereby weakening the nctjOUl"llment, I saw that Black can Blacl,'s King·side Pawn structure. I offer considerable resistance with 41 ... QxN! for if 42 B-Q5, PxR; 43 BxQt, Rx B; 41 Q- Q5, B-D5!!; 45 QxR/S, RxP; 46 Q-NS, R- K133; 47 R- RS, B-Q4 and there is no means of making headway against Black's solid position. In fact, after this line, White probably has no better than a draw ! ~ DR. REUBEN FINE, a psycholog ist by After five hours of analysis, I a!"!"ived profession and inclin ation, mopes over at the following variation which I believe e very game as if he were sure to lose. to be a clear cut win: 42 BxR!, fixB; 43 Many unwary rivals have been misled. H- N6. Now there a re three main lines: 1) 43 ... It-Ql; 44 fi/lxB wins; 2) 43 ... Q-B5; 44 P-Q7 (but not 44 the Bishop and so must OCCUpy the Q-R2, QxQ; 15 HxQ, K - D2; 46 R/lxB, Rx 16 . . . . P_ KR3 H; 47 RxR, K-K3 and Black draws), B sQuarp intended fOJ" the Knight. mack has little choice since he must K2; 45 Q-K3, K-B2 ; 46 Q-KB3 wins; 30 R/1_N1 B_ R3 retreat h is King Bishop in order to gain 3) 43 ... B- N2; 44 RxR, BxR; 45 P_. 31 R/5-N4 Q_Q1 any f!·eedom. Q7, QxH; 46 P- QS(Q), QxQ; 47 QxQ and 32 B-N6! .... Note that the White Queen Pawn is Black is lost. For example, .J7 . .. B- B3; immune to either Knight: 1) 16 ... KNx Once again compelling the Black Queen 48 Q-DS, B-Q1; 49 QxKBP, D- B2; 50 K P; 17 HxB wins two pieces fOl' a Rook to occupy the Knight's pivotal squal·e. Bl, P - B5 ; 51 K-K2 and the White Pawns (17 . . . Nxn; ]8 BxB); 2) 16 . .. QNxP; 32 . . . . Q_Q2 advance with a comparatively easy win 17 RxD!, NxR (forced: if 17 ... NxN; IS 33 B-Q4 Q_Q1 since, after fUrther restriction. Black R."XRt .; or 17 ... RxR; JS NxN); 18 BxB, Thus White has gained a valuable must lose more material. Or 47 .. . B-N2 leads to Interesting play; 48 Q-Q7, B QxB; 19 BxN, PxB; 20 N/D3- K4! with tempo. a winning attack. K5 ; 49 P-B3. B-B7; 50 Q-K6t, K-Rl; 34 R_R1! 51 Q-B4, B-N8 ; 53 Q- N3 and the Bishop 17 B_K3 B-K61 The best move of the gnme: it ties 18 Q-Q4 · . is trapped! . . up most of Black's forces. So r was fully IH'epared when the game Now the ad\'anced Black Hook Pawn 34 . . . . N- Q2 was resumed. becomes a target as White threate ns 19 35 P- R3 41 . . . . QxP BxP, PxU; 20 QxN. • • • • It ldways pays to be prudent. This cir· This was the sealed move and, since 18 . . . . N-N4 cumvents possible mate on the first rank. it loses a piece offhand (42 QxQ, BxQ; 19 NxN 35 . . . . N-B4 43 R- N6, etc.), Black resigned without 20 P_QR4! · . . . further play. A better move is 35 ... N- K4, although Arter the preceding exchange of Notes by Miguel Najdorf even then 3f) B- K4 enables White to reo Knights, Black got his Queen into play ta in his advantage. More games from the Fine-NaJdorf so that if 20 BxP, NxP and he can free match will appear in the May issue. bimselL '1'he text move begins driving 36 N_ R5 P-B4 the Queen bacle Fine thought for 50 minutes before 20 • • . • Q_ B4 22 KR- QB1 Q- Q2 making this move. 'White threatens 37 Bx 21 Q-Q2 Q-B2 23 P-R5! .... P, and If 37 ... BxB; 38 It- N·J. If 36 ... SIMPLE CHESS B- Q6; 37 RxR, QxR; 38 Q-B3, B- N3; 39 (New 1949 Edition) 'rhe Queen·side diversion ties Black's BxP and White wins. Or 36 ... Q- N4; 37 THE GAME OF CHESS SOLVED!!! men to the defense. B-K3, Q- K4; 38 R- Ql, B-Bl (to prevent 23 . . . . p,p 25 P-N4 QR_ Bl R- N4); 39 DxN, PxB; 40 R-K4 anll White 11 pages of closely typed analysis 24 RxP P-R3 26 R/1.R1 Q_B2 wins easily. showing more than one hundred win. 27 P-N5! . . . . The text move creates a "hole" at K6, ning variations for White against all 'rhis unusual move apparently liqui· the occupation of which decides the standard defenses by Black to 1 P-K4. dates Black's weakness (the Queen Rook game. Also winning lines for Black against inaccurate opening play by White (1 Pawn). Actually, it opens lines for 37 N-B4 Q_N4 White's pieces, attacking the Black 38 P- R4 Q,P P-Q4, 1 P_QB4, etc.) and a three page Queen Bishop. Any counter·demonstration 39 N_K6 Q-K2 summary of the Adams Chess System. Price $1.00. is difficult to find. If 39 . . . N- K5; 40 BxN, PxB; 41 N-B7 27 . . . . PxP a nd White has his choice of material. Write to: WEAVER W. ADAMS 28 RxP R_R1 40 BxN PxB U. S. Open Chess Champion One effect of 27 P-N5 is now apparent : 41 P-Q6 .... Dedham, Mass. 28 . . . Q- B7 Is out of the Question because At this point the game was adjourned Do nOI expul your friend who ownJ a the Queen Bishop is then u nprotected. with Black sealing his 41st move. He co"y of Ihis analph to tell JOU about il. 29 R-QB1 Q-Q2 thought for 55 minutes, trying to find the He won'l, bUI he'll pia)' it against )'ou! The Queen is tied to the protection of best practica.l chance. CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1949 109 Games played by readers, annotated by one of America's leading masters. by I. A. HOROWITZ Twinkle. twinkle, little star An unu ~ ual move, aime d at. dominating \Vhite's Q5. Its drawba ~k is that White How J wonder what you are i~ tempol"flrily ~iHldled with a backward Queen Pawn ilnd his diagonal KN1- QR7 WHAT constitutes a b ri lliancy? A m!li('kin~ Quecn sacrifi(:c·? SIII)t le i~ weakened. shenan igans: Or masterly maneuvers? This q uestion has stu mped 4 , , , , B- B4 the sages of the ilges. I'radical Chess Ope ning-s suggests Brilliancy awards of the past were full of error and argument. 1he phantom pi n; -\ ... B- N5. The text mOl'e, however, al'[l ea r~ to be the correct Sch l echt e r '~ hrilliaJl(:y aga inst Salve at SI. Pctcr..-hurg, 1909, was ex· way to attempt a l·efmation of White's tinguished by (;001 analysis long after the honorarium had vanished. formntion. Torre's hrill iancy against Grncnfeld at Marienhad, 1925, was discredited by incompetent judges who challenged ils soundness. They acknowledged their error 11 fter th e prize had becn givcn to another player. Heti pur loined the hrillianey prize in New York, 1924, accord i n~ to John Harry. Marsha ll 's g less attractive in a game than a cOllll11onpbcc crusher in fou r. The bril 5 P-K R3? , . . . lianc), should be peril ous, exciting, spectacular, original, rieh in depth [n order to pl'e\'ent Black frOIll pla ying and contain ing diverse comb i nation~. The actual cOlllb i nation~, whi ch ... N- K>i5. r; B- K2 a('hiel'es the ~flme occur over the hoard, should bc implemented with concealcd comhina goal without I()~" or time, Then if 5 ... N KN5: 60- 0. tions, wh idl oceur only in the notcs. The loser should have put up a lneitlentally, if r, Nx l >, NxN; 6 P - Q4, goodly measilre of resifllancc, and, to hoot, a logical coherence should I3- N5; 7 PxN, Nxl': ,~ q - Q4, P- KIH ; 9 predom inate the entire game, These arc the sundry qualities which make PxP ep, Nx Pj3; 10 p - m, Q- K2t; 11 D K3, DxNt: 12 Pxll, 0 - 0 with equality. for brilliancy. 5 , , . . P-Q3 The gumc l,clow undouhtedly !llcri t ~ the grand order 01 brilliancy. 6 P-Q3 B-K3 Perilous sacrifices are woven into a positional patlcrn. The effect is A ]Jointless move as the BIshop does little more at I\3 Ihan at ill. 6 ... P- KR3, pleasing. folloll"ed by 7 , . . 0 - 0 Is one way of con tinuing. ENGLISH OPEN ING A~ : ~ rule. the patterns evolving from 7 B-N5 • • peo: page 42, column 6(a) Ihe [';nglish are pure ly positional in the A pl'ematul'e pin, Correct is 7 B- K2, R, Kujoth A. Powers opening, Eaeh side develops the forces followed· by S 0 - 0. re;;elTedly before ulHlertllkillg positive Whit<- Blacl, a(,tion, 7 . . . . P_KR 3! 1 P-QB4 . . . 1 , ... P-K4 Putting the question lo the Dishop. 'I'he Queen BishoJ) Pawn game, call e d Leads to a Siclliall with (' olol's re· 8 B- R4? . , , . the l~ng liRh Opening after Staunton VPI'HP: 0 - K3. modern O\·el'tones. insofar as no sedollH If ;{ ... P- K5: ·1 N - - Ki\.~ and Hlack·:.; 8 . . . . N-Q5 attem\H is made by '''hite to wrest con K ing p;\1I"1l falls. trol of the eente r (luring the early play. 4 P-K4 . .. t cheek; t _ dbl, ehccl,; ~ _ di~. c h, 110 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1949 To clear the path for .. . P- QB3 in Cra ~ h ing through the a"e llll O ~ of ap. order to challenge \Vh lte'll command of III'ondl to the all verse King. PLASTIC CHESSMEN his Q5. 8 ... P - KN4 Is playa ble, t hough 17 BPxP m ack m ust cR 1cll lato cflre fu lly t he re 13 B-"':5 · . . . suitll of the I)Ossible lIacl'ltlce 9 ,,"x ,," P, If 18 PxP. BxQP ; 19 BxB, RxB ;o \H1 leading 1.0 n perilous I)in. Blrll'k Is ror c holl:e. Wh]tf! makcH II 9 P- KN4? · . . . \'Illlnnt effon to I ll"~ Ve llt a n inCllr~ion III The idem of this movo la t o l! mit thc t he I"e nter. s("oll e of s ()me of Bl ack's forces. U n for· 18 KR_ K i t u nately. howcvel', it projects a t a rget fo r 19 B_B6 R-Q2 Black. 2Q P_ K 5 · . . . 9 . . . . P_ K N4 'VII II' II t:o lllwl hlntCI; H fra ctiol] o f the 10 B-N3 · . . . board. T hel'o arc. howe\'er . some weiL k 10 Nx P, P "N : 11 Ox!' wHl not do as III)o tll. BhLc k IJlay~ .11 . . . P- B3 lIlIt! t here is no 20 • • • • P- Q5! way to Incr'ease the pI" C Jl~lIl" e 011 the p lJL' 21 nl:ll Knight. Obviously not 21 P.xi'. 1.I- N5. etc. 10 . . . . P- B3 21 . . . . p,p 10 .. . NxNP is insufficient fO I' a win: 22 Q_B2 P -QN4 11 !'xN, [IxI': 12 Q- H4t, B- Q2: 13 Q- Q l, and Bhu;k must re pea l movo!! 01' l-emain l ·lili7.i ng his Pawn majo rity a nd 1)\'''' THESF. P lasUr. Ch ellsmen ,\J'e millie of a piece behind. Th e te"t move keeps pIlI'lng a cOllc{'ule!i "combi n o." durable Tenite and molded in the basic Wlrite out or Q5, prelJares for' a possible 23 B-B6? · . . . S taunton lJallt' l"I l. Sturdy and p ractical, sal:I"it! CQ by avoiding the in the thcy are made In three sizes: T ourn a. d re':]; . Thill ha ~t en s t he e11(1. !lett or is 2~ !!- above l lno, a n d opcns II ne w d ia gona l 1( 4. H . . R xN P ; 24 n - D(; alld, ml(] ly ment S ize with G" I(ing. intended for use LJoard~ w 2'A " ror the Q\leell. enough. Rlatk "'ill offer staunch re sJ~t · on Itli to 2'4 " squam8; St andar d Size (2;;" King) for \l se 011 11 B- N2 · . . . it I] ('". U n lOw a re o f what iJ!. In atore, \Vhile boanls with I '"):\ ~ to 2lA1~ SQUII I'OS; Stu. dent Size ( 2 *~ King) is fo r UIIO o n bli thely ( h~\' e l o ps h is men. I I r.;x~ is a n a lternative. a lthough Blac k's l)l'ospee ts boan lll with llhH to 1'*" >;I}uarell. A ll a['e better. sIzes arc wCIl;hted ami felted, available III UI'\t"k & Ivor'Y a nd Hed & Ivory. Each set {'ollles in H two·~ edioll. leflthcrette ('ase wi t h suap fast.encr. (see StHI1(\i\nl :4iw ~bo\·e). No. 70-_Student Size ______$ 4.50 No. CO-Standard Size ______$ 6.50 No. 110-Tou rna m ent S ize ______$25.00 I Pltlase 8IH>"lfy YOlll' "hoice of I ~ olor. 23 . . . RxP! CHESSBOARDS Lcavl n,ll; bot h H oo l (~ e n I lri~e . 24 QxR 11 . . . . N xN P ! If 2 1 RxR. R-Q7 ; 25 Q K ~ , BxPt: 26 A IY lle of com binat ion w h ich has oc· K - U I, U- JJ5t; 27 K _~2. B- Q4 \\'II]~ as curred time and again. He re. I t does not Wh lltl'lI King is [hom ughly eX I)O~el 1. win materia l ; It s hatters W hile's .P awn 24 .... st!"llct.m€ on both w!ng ~. And t he Whitp. 25 K_K2 King, without a refnge, becomes the If 2~ Q- Q2 . B - NS wins. target. 25 . . . . B- B 5 27 BxR Q- B6 12 NxN · . . . 26 QxB PxQ Resigns If 12 PxN, fix!', fo l1owml by ... Q- B3. Bla(; k is tIH'eatertlu,Ir mate by 28 ... Q BI:lc k must recover Ihe Il lece Hnd remRin Q6t 29 K- K I, ll- N5 mate. T h is. plus UI (l material plus. Obsel've that llIa ck's nUao·k on the Hook, decldell. Pf\wn Rt lJ3 prevents White from break T H ESE ~l;ouhLl"lI weight folding boards Ing the pin with a chec k. are of excellcnt quality. a bout l,iJ~ thick . Olltsille cover ll1~ a nd playing surface • 12 . . . . 13 PxN are Illack. dke·gmln clot h . impreA!:I e(! dividiag lines between buff a nd blR.ck 14 PxP • • • • Mater ia l is even. White's Pawn s t r u{' · ,. quare!; . Emboseml co vel's. t1l re, however, is t he worse orr fO I' wear. No. 221 -1 ~" 5q uares ______• • $1,75 N o. 222- 1%" $2.00 14 . . . . Q- R4 5q uares ______No. 223- 2Ye. " 5quaru ______$2 .50 EmllJoying t he lIiagonal, newly opened Oll Black 's 10th move. EXTRA heavy foldi ng board. de luxe 15 Q-Q2 0 - 0 - 0 Qualit y, do uble· weight 'A" t hiek. Al"t er 15 .. . BxNP ; P- Q-l. B- QR6 N o. 204-2\:4" squares ______$6. 50 holdll the Pawn. n ut "It Involves risks. The text move is s afe a nd leads to an Send f or comp let e catalog of eq uipment. overwhelming position. 16 8 _ B3 · . . . MA IL YOUR ORDER TO To IH'otect the K n ight Pa wn. CHESS REVIEW 1 6 . . . • P-Q4 ! 250 W est 57t h Street, Ne w York 19, N . Y. CtiESS REV IEW, APRtl, 1949 111 , NxNt Q,N 10 B- K2 P-QN3 Or 33 ... Q- QB8 ; 34 B-B3, B- Dl (34 ... ·;~\. INTERNA TlONAL 7 N-B3 B--N5t 11 0 - 0 0-0 QxQBP ; 35 P- N4; or 34 ... Q-D7; 35 Q 8 B-Q2 BxBt 12 Q-K3 B-N2 H8 etc.) ; 35 P- K H4, P- R4; 36 P- R5 and 9 QxB N_Q2 13 N-K5 KR-Ql mate III a Cew moves, the maIn threat HASTINGS, 1948-9 14 8 - B3 QR-Bl ? being 37 Q- N5t etc. PROBLEM moves tu'e not confined to In his d i fficul t posi tion Dlack loses ft 34 Q-RS! Resigns compositions alone. Many ovel"-the·board " i ta l tem po. 14 .. . NxN! flt once offel'S Fa.' Whi te threatens 35 Q- DSt and 36 situations require Ule problemlst's tech good chances f OI' reco\'ery : 15 PxN, Q D-D3 mllting. The only rational def ense nique. Here, lIot one bllt two ullu sl1n l K2; 16 Q-K4. R-QZ! or 16 KR- QI, HxRt. (34 . .. D- K7) allows the Pawn to queen. moves nrc called for. 15 P- QN4! Nxl\' Notes by Hans Kmoch QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED 16 PxN Q_ R5 PCO : p~ge 215, column 168 16 .. . Q- K2 i ij n ow IneffecUve be()n \l ~ c KARLOVY-VARY, 1948 w. Muhrlno P. Schmidt of P- D5! followerl by t he penetration 17 PUT'rING his Qlleen Oll t of pillY, Black of Rook to White mack a White Q6. l et s h lm sel( i n for a cl assic attAck on the 1 P_Q4 P-Q4 17 B--K4 R-B2 19 RxR R,R open King K n igh t m e. 2 P-QB4 P-K3 18 K R_Ql QR-Q2 20 P- B5! Q-Q1 QUEEN'S I N DI AN DEFENSE 3 N-QBl P-QB3 21 P_ K R3 P-N3 peo : page 269, column 84(1; The so-<:al led Semi -S lav Defense. Although allowi ng a dudly bl ow, this V. Pir<: H . Golombek , 4 P- K 4 .... Is hal'dly an error . Dlack has a vel'y bad game anyhow. While B lack Somewllllt (\ublous. Also questionable 1 P- Q4 N_ KB3 5 B-N2 B- K2 Is 4 N- B3, because or the Noteboom varin· 2 P-QB4 P_K3 6 0 - 0 0-0 tlon : -I ... PxP etc. T he steady \l ne h 4 3 N-KB3 P- QN3 7 N- B3 N-K5 P- K3. 4 P_KN3 B_N2 8 Q-B2 N,N 4 . . . . PxKP 9 QxN P- KB4 5 NxP N_ 8 3 A stundard position in the Queen'g This is /lelt he.' fish nor f OIII. Indian, one which II! generally tllo\lght to If Black wants to avoid compllcaUonJO fuvor White sligb tly. he can beUer continue with 5 ... N- Q2 : 10 P- N3 . . . . e.g. 6 N - K D3, KN- D3; 7 B-Q3, P- B4 The usual move is 10 D-K 3 but t ills (S plelmann- K ashdan, Bleil, 1931). line, favored by M ilan Vidmal', has a good T he cn _clal move, however , which ot· dea l to recommend i t. fers some ch ance8 of pro!itUng [rom White's fOll1'th, Is 5 ... B-N{it with these 10 . • . • B-KB3 two pos8lbllltles: 11 6- N2 B-K5 22 P- N5! • • • • 1) 6 N- QD3, p - Qn1. Thig is IHipposeu The beginning of a faulty plan. 11 • • • to Cavol' Dlnclt (probably with r egard to Con clusive, since i t cl ears the wily fo r N-B3 Collowed by . .. N-K2 is better. M arshall-Em. IJasl(or, Paris, 1900, not· the Queen Bishop Pawn : 1) 22 . .. Q-D2; 12 KR-Ql Q-Bl withstandIng Mal'shall'g victory). :How. 23 H- QDl ! anticipating n possible ... Qx 13 Q-Q2 Q-N2? ever, Alekhlne- Junge, Salzburg al KP: 2) 22 . .. R- D2; 23 R- QD.l (23 Q 1942, After t his, t he mack Queen remains though r esultfng In Junge's winn ing, is Kn3, Q-Q5; 24 R-Q.l Is also sl rong, but Ol1t of 1)l ay until t he game Is lost. It Is 23 DPxP, R PxP ; 2-1 QxP leads to n othing rather encouraging tor W hite: 7 B - K 3, worth w hile noting t ha t most attack s ar e bec:Ulse of PxP! (hN!alen ing Q-R-I ; 8 KN- K2, PxP; 9 BxP, N- KBS ; 24 ... 25 ... made possible by the fact that t.h e de· H-DSt ! Wlnlli ng the Queen) 23 ... 10 P- QRS, B-K2 lind, then, 11 P- QN4 ! in· Q fend i ng side has i ts Queen somewhere 2 ~ Q-KB3 and Black st ymied. stead of A lekhlne's 11 N - N3? QDl; Is out on a 11 mb. 2) 6 B- Q2, QxP ; 7 BxB, QxNt. T h is 22 .. , . BPxP 27 P-B7 Q-K8 14 N_Kl Bx B 16 N_B4 ga.mblt IB supposed to favor Black be B-N4 23 P-B6 R-Q8t 28 Q-Q8t K_N2 15 NxB P_Q3 17 P- Q5 ! P_K4 . cause or 8 D- K2, QxP; 9 B-KB3, Q- N3; 24 RxR QxRt 29 Q- B6t K- R3 10 Q- Q6, N - Q2. Those trusting this 25 K_R2 B-Bl 30 Q- B4t K_N2 Nor Is 17 ... DxN any better for then PxB! gives White the open lines he analysis may do I!O at their own ,·Isk. To 26 Q- N5 P- N5 31 Q- B6t K_R3 18 me, the Q.u let 10 N - K2! looks much 32 B- R8 ! .... desires. stronger thnn boisterous 10 Q-Q6?, but. 18 Q_B3 B,N T his p roblem move does i t . The llishop more Important. so does S ... N-Q2! In· III sa fe but keeps control oC the long Virtually forced to prevent the Knigbl stend of 3 ... QxP? U n clear as t he con· diagonal without in terferl l1 g with the from hopping into K6, followed by P sequcnces ot 8 B - K 2 are those o[ t he other COl'ces. Su bsequel1 (ly, Whit e can K B·1. new move 8 N- K 2 (CanaJ-Lokvenc, lise his Queen f reely ror ci ng mate 0 1' wi n· 19 PxB N_Q2 Venice, 1948) ar e mor e so al t hough B llIck n l ng Black's B ishop. Oue t h reat is 33 2() PxP p ,p certainl y has better moves than 8 ... N- P- N4, e.g., 32 ... Q-QB8; 33 P- N4, Q- N4; K 2? ( L ok venc ), e.g. 8 ... N - Q2 or S ... p - If 20 .. . l'\xP? : 21 P- ll4 wins a piece. 34 Q- H8 etc. QN3. 21 K-Rl QR_Kl 24 R- N2 N-K5 32 ... B_R3 22 R_KNI R_B2 25 Q-R5 Q- Bl --~~ -, --~~~~~~ Q_QNS t = che ek: ~ = dbl. check ; § _ di~. ch. 33 P-B4 23 Q- B3 N_B4 26 QR-KN 1 112 CHESS REViEW, APRiL, 1949 26 . . . . N_ B31 and Whit e wins at least the exchange): Black's K ing Is In the toils of a mating ne t and cannot sh ake It oft. If 28 ... Px P utting an end to h is misery which 13 RxP, followed by R/l- Nl with a R ; 29 Q-B7 Is mate. At ter the text move, 1V0uid be excruciating In any e vent after strong attack. W hite s hould (ln lsh Quickly with another tbe In tended 27 P -B·I. 12 N-K3 BxNt mating pattern. l ~ is n ot c lear what Black expect!! to 29 R-Q6§ K-Nl gain by this exchange, bllt it soon be comes apparent thai the absence of the 30 R-N1t K-B1 31 Q-66 , . Bishop leaves him weak on billCI{ squares. . . 12 .. ,D- K3 seems better. Instead. 31 Q- B5 would force Illacl{'s resignation at on ce. 13 QxB B-N5 14 P-Q4 Q-B3 31 . . . . Q-R4 T h is shi(tless Queen is reduced to the Na turally. If 31 ... RxR ; 32 QxRt, K - me nial chore of g uarding n P a wn. K l; 33 H- N8 Is mate. 15 PxP PxP 32 QxRPt · . . . 16 Q-BS N-K3 Here, as on move 26, ~'hite g ains time Biac:k's position Is bad : he ca nnOl Oil his clock with r'epetltlon of moves. caetle; his King P awn Is weak; "White 32 . . . . K-K2 34 Q- R6t K-K2 27 QxRt ! • • • • cont rols the Queell file. It J 6 ... P - QN3; 33 Q-B6t K-B1 35 Q-B6t K-Bl The logical culmin ation o r Whit e's 17 Q- Q6, QxQ; 18 RxQ, BxN; 19 PxB a n d 36 R_N6 ! .... pla y on t he K illg Knight file. A !thougb B lnck might as well resign. W ith more time to consider the possj· this com binatiOiI is simple, It reveals the 17 BxN QxB blli ties, White comes up with t he win Ideal coopemtion among the White pieces Or 17 ... DxD ; 18 Nxl'!, Q-D5f (I f III ning move. He a voids 36 R- N7? whlcll and the!'ein lies its cha rm. . .. BxP; 19 P - KN3!); 19 K- Nl, QxPt; loses a Rook aftel' 36 . .. RxRt. 27 . . . . KxR 29 B- R3t P-64 20 K- Rl and, with KH- K l coming up, 36 ... , Q-N3 28 RxPt K- Bl 30 PxP ep§ R_ K2 White has a powerful !\ttnelc 37 K_B l Resigns 31 Bx Rt Resigns 18 R- Q6 a,p A curious finish. T here is n o defense }<'or after 31 . .. K- K 1; 32 It- N8t! (not 19 QxKPt K-B1 ngnJnst 38 Q- N1f, K-Kl; 39 R,lN6-K6t wi t h mat e to tollow. 32 DxN, QxPt and Dlack can s till fight T he a lte rnative 19 . .. B- K3 is a little on), NxR; 33 RxNt winning easily. better according t o Ru blnow w ho Intend· ed 20 N- Q4. 0 - 0 (not 20 ... Q- H8t; 21 U. S. JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP K- D2, QxR; 22 NxD wIth a winning ai· INACCURATE opening play by White tack); 21 KxB. PxN; 22 R- Q7, R-n2; 23 4'4;' UNITED STATES !l. lIows his opponent to usurp t he lnltln' KH- (.l1 with a sllperlor gnml! for White. tlve with inclslve counter·strokes. U. S. CHAMPIONSHIP. 1948 20 KR_Q1 K-N1 VIENNA GAME 21 P_R3 .. .. QUIE T Ollenlngs have a distressing ef· PCO: page 459, column 4(h) This Is not the mos t nccura te. 21 H feet o n some players. H ere' Black J . Sullivan F. Anderson t hreshes wlIcl l)' and soon Is swaddled as Q3 Is s harper. If t hen 21 ... B- K3; 22 N tidily :IS n buhy in its crib. Q4, Q- USt; 23 K - B2, Q-HSt; 24 K- Q2, White Black GIUOCO PIANO B-B5; 25 H- N3 winning easily. 1 P-K4 P-K4 5 BxPt KxB 21 H-Q3 a lso stops 21 ... K- R2 be 2 N-QB3 N-KB3 6 NxN P_Q4 peo: page 101, column 26 (e) cause of 22 N- N5t, PxN; 23 QxP/5, r eo 3 8-B4 N-B3 7 N_B2 PxP S. Rublnow W. Adams gaining the piece with It strong attack. 4 P-B4 NxP 8 P-Q4 8-Q3 White Black 21 . . . . BxN White has played the openin g poorly. 1 P-K4 P-K4 5 N_B3 P-Q3 F or If 21 ... B- K 3; 22 N- Q4, Q-RSt; 01 P- Q3 is a ~ afe r move. Having allow. 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 6 B_KNS P-KR3 23 K - B 2, Q-R5t; 21 K -Q2, B-B5; 25 N ed 4 ... NxP, White s hould try 5 N- D3, 3 B-B4 N_B3 7 BxN Q.B B5 and White's Knight is a pain in the mak ing the opening Il ga.mbit It B lack 4 P-Q3 8-84 S N-QS Q-N3 neck. t) la ys 5 ... NxN; 6 QP xN, PxP; 7 QBxP. Aside from a crude , trap three moves 22 PxB K_ R2? 9 Q-R5t P-N3 10 QxQPt K_ N2 deep, this I'ash move has little to recom J~oslng a Pawn and g reatly s implifying: 11 B_Q2 · . , me nd It. 'l'he obvious and proper 8 ... White 's t ask . The correct defense is 22 . Q- Ql louves Black with 11. good game ... Q-HRt; 23 K-D2, Q- mt .and then 24 White has restored material equality after anyt hing White can dovlse. F or . .. Q- N4. Of course, this wonld ollIy glva bu t In so doing hns acceler ated h is op, Instance, 9 P-B3. P-R3 !: 10 P-Q ~ , PxP; B lac k t h e morbid pleasure of losing un poncill's develol)menl. Al ready he Is In 11 PxP, B- R2, etc. (PCO: pago 101, col ending Instead of a m iddle game. trouble for l( 11 P- BS, R-Kl t; 12 N- K2, umn 29) . H owever, t his sort of pnldeut N- N5 !; 13 Q-N3, B- K3; H P - B4, D-KB4 23 Q-B5t P- N3 defense Is not Adams' cup o( tea. nnd Black wins. Obviously forced s ince 23 .. . K-Nl?'! 9 Q_ K2 .... 1 1 , . , . R-Klt allows 24 R-Q8t and 25 RxR mate. Of cou rse not 9 NxPt, K- Ql; 10 NxR, 12 N-K2 6-K3 Q](KNP; 11 R- KEl, B- KN5 and Black 13 Q-NS p-QR3 has fL winning position. After the t ext T he immediate 1S ... NxP is playable move, Black can h ardly captU re at KN7 but needlessly COrnl)llcat ed. Dlack selects and his Queen Is stu pid ly t)osted. a simp le and st.·ong line. 9 , . . . B_ N3 14 Q-Q3 · . . . 10 P_83 N- 114 CHESS R~VIEW, APRIL, 1949 18 RxP ! . . . . 18 . . . . N- K3 22 B- R5 Q,P The King Bishop file comes into its ~ FOREIGN 19 P- B4 RxRt 23 BxPt . K-R1 own. The threat Is 19 RxR mate ! 20 B, R R_Q1 24 R_B1 N- N4 21 P_B5 Q_Q3 25 Q- B4 Q- Q3 18 . . . . N- B3 ARGENTINA Resigns This shorte ns Black's resistance to t he National Championship, 1948 vanishing Il oint. Nor is 18 ... B- K3 much QUEEN'S GAMBIT DEC LI NED better since, after 19 BxE! (but not 19 • SPAIN PCO; page 182, column 62(f} RxRt, RxR; 20 ExEt, K- Rl; 21 RxRt, F RE NCH DEF ENSE Martinez C. Guimard QxR and t he threat of mate perm its PCO: page 89, column 55 White Blacl!: Black io salvage his Knight) , HxB; 20 F. Perez J . Sanz RxRt, White wIns easily. 1 P- Q4 N- KB 3 9 p , p N,N While Black The main variation Is 18 " . K- Rl; 19 2 P_QB4 P_K3 10 Px N p ,p PxN, RxR (not 19 , .. B-B3 because of 20 3 N_QB3 P_Q4 11 Q-N3 R- Ql 1 P-K4 P-K3 9 N- K3 0 - 0 Q- Q4 !) ; 20 DxR, B- N4! (if 20" , R- Ql 4 N_B3 B- K2 12 P- B4 p , p 2 P-Q4 P- Q4 10 P- B3 P- QN3 or 20, . . R-K2 ; 21 B- K6! is immediately 5 B-N5 0-0 13 B,P N-B3 3 N-Q2 N-Q B3 11 Q-B2 R- K1 decisive); 21 P -D4!, BxP ; 22 Q- B3 , Rx 6 P- K3 P_KR3 14 Q-B3 B-N5 4 KN-B3 N- B3 12 0-0 B- N2 P ; 23 BxB and \Vbite is a piece ahear! ( if 7 B- R4 N- K5 15 B-K2 B,N 5 P- K5 N-Q2 13 B-Q3 N-Bl 23 . .. RxB ?,; M QxR! ) and will win the 8 B, B Q,B 16 P,B R-Q3! 6 B-K2 B-K2 14 P-QN3 R-Bl ending. 17 R- K N1 . 7 N-B1 P-B3 15 N-N4 P-QR 3 . . . p,p 19 Q"': N5! Resigns 8 B,P 16 R-Kl N-N1 17 N/3_K5 P- B4 Black,must lose his Queen for if 19 ... QxQ; 20 RxN §, R- B2; 21 RxR an(l W h ite eIther mates on the back rank or win s t he macl, Queen with a d iscove red check. Such a game as this repays car eful study for in these n ineteen moves t here is a w hole text book of chess, stripped of irrelevant moves. PENNSYLVANIA SELDOJ\I does the opening shapc the course of a game in any ab,lOlute sense . Yet here is an instance: t h e Pawn thr ust 17 . . . . NxP! forwar d on Black's sixth move not only 18 R- Ql • • • • 18 BxPt! N,B Sllrvives; it becom es Whlte's nemesis. For if 18 PxN, R- K l ; 19 Q- K3, R- K3 19 N- R6t! Resigns F ra nk lin Club, Phila delphia - this is t hc point of 16 . . . H-Q3! 'White mates in three moves. QUEEN'S GAMB IT DECLINE D P CO : page 205, column 136 C. Bauder 8. W inkelman Solutions to CHESS QUIZ gentle reader, n ot 1 . .. R- Ql which per White mack (See Page 118) mits 2 QxP ) but Mieses was too crafty to 1 P- Q4 P_Q4 14 QN-Q2 N-K5 play 2 QxP? allowing 2 .. . R-Kat win· 2 N_ KB3 N- KB3 15 B-N2 N/2- B3 1. (Reshe1)sky-Suesrnan. U. S. Cham· ning the Queen. However, after 2 R- Ql, 3 P_ B4 P- B3 16 B_ R6? N_ B6! piOTIShip, 1938) The powder puff punch RxP; 3 RxR, QxR, he was a Pawn be· 4 N- B3 p,p 17 B,N P ,B is 1 B-Bl! and Black resi gns because of hind and lost anyway. 5 P-K3 P_QN4 18 N_ B1 B, B 1 . .. RxR; 2 RxR, R-B2; 3 B-B4 winning 6 P_ QR4 P-N5 19 Q, B QR-Nl a plece. 7. (Reshevsky- llorowitz, 11th Match P_ K3 N_Q4 7 N_Nl 20 Q- B4 2. (Reshevsky-Zabludovsky, Simultane Game, 1941) This one hurts : 1 B- 88! and 8 B,P 8-K2 21 R_ R4 R-N5 Black throws in the towel lor if 1 . .. KxB; ous Exhibition, Berlin, 1920) 1 Q- N2!, 9 P-R5 0 - 0 22 R, R P,R 2 Q- H.8t K-K2 ' :) QxNt K-Kl' 4 Q- B7t QxQ"f; 2 NxQ ! (not 2 KxQ ? because of , , - , , , 10 0-0 QN-Q2 23 P_ K4 Q, Q K- Ql ; 5 Q-Q7 mate. Or 1 ... Q- R2t; 2 24 P,Q N- B5 2 . . . RxP) and Black calls it qnits since 11 Q-K2 P-B4 K- Rl, P - N3: 3 P - K7 wins. Lastly, if 1 12 R-Q1 Q-B2 25 N_ K3 P-N6 2 . .. RxP is met Ly 3 B.xQR! Sammy was . .. NxBP ; 2 Q- N6t decides the issue. 13 P_QN3 B-N2 26 K- Bl ? • • • • some kid. Somewhat better ;, 2' N- K l although 3. (Fairhurst-Reshcv'sky, Margate, 1935 ) S. (Reshevsky-Steiner, U. S . Champion White is still lost. The text move allows Why move the Queen 'when 1 . . . N- N6! ship, 1942) 1 N/ 4- N6, N-Bl (or 1 ... B a :Dretty finIsh . is an easy win : 2 NxQ (or 2 Q-B3, QxQ ; N2; 2 N- B5, etc.) : 2 NxN, RxN ; 3 N- N6 2 PxQ, NxR with all the chips), NxQt ; and Black resigns. Body blows ar e just as 3 K - IU, BxN and of course Black resigned. efficient as haymakers. 4. (M orton- Reshevsky, U. S . Champion 9. (AdamrReshevsky, U. S. Champion ship, 1938) This is pr etty stiff stuff: 1 .. . ship, 1936) This is the mark of a ch am NxKP! (much stronger than 1 .. . RxPt) ; pion: 1 .. . R- Kl ! (dcveloping his piece 2 PxN (for i f 2 NxQ, N- B7 is mate), Rx with a tempo for, cnriollsly enough , if 2 Pt; 3 K - Q2, Q- K7 mate. HxHt, BxR. Black wins a piece!); 2 R 5. (Seit;;-Reshevsky, Syracuse, 1934) KBI, QxP; 3 BxP?? (absolutely groggy), The feint : 1 . . . B- K4, threatenin g 2 . . . Bx QxR t and Black m atcs with 4 . . . B- B5t , p (or 2 ... B- I't], as the case may be) ClC. winning the Rook. White ducks with 2 K 10. (Rcshevsky-Denkcr, Syracu.,e, 1934) Ql and Sammy lets go th e haymaker : 2 26 .... P-B7 28 R- Bl R_N11 The finish is 1 RxN!. BxR: 2 Q-R5t, p . .. R xN! That's too much for White since 27 NxP P, N 29 N- Q2 B-N5! :-.13; 3 BxPt,PxB (or i£3 ... K-Bl; 4Q Res igns 3 PxH. is amply met with 3 .. . P -B7. R6t , B- N2', 5 B-B5t , N- K2', 6 R- Blt White is hel pless: 30 N- B 3, B- ll6; 31 6. (Mieses- Resheosky, Margate, 1935) and mate follows) ; 4 QxPt, K- K2; 5 B RxP, R-NSt; 32 N-Kl, B- N5 wins easily. Thc corkscrew punch is 1 .. . R-K5! (no, B5 mate. Wicked blows, indeed.- J . R. CHESS REVIEW, APR IL , 1949 115 set up for an exhibi tio n. He contested hundreds of games against all kinds of op· position ye t he lost a mere handful of games. If his extraordinary talent did not bring him fo rtune (and it didn't ! ), at lea~l he was rewarded with fame. And Sammy was instrumental in rev iving chess interest in the United States. All over the A retrospect of recommended reading nation, long-dormant clubs sprang to life again. Everywhere players were talking H.fSHEVSKY ON CHfSS hy Samnel hoy might have been playing in the streets ahout this infant phenomenon- and how Reshevsky. 272 pages. 336 diagrams. New of the liule village of O ~ier kov but for the they could improve thcir own play. "After ,I,II " one can ..!magmc t Ilem sayltl. g, "·f1 a York: Che.H Redew. $.5 .00 curious chance that he learned to play che~s when he was on ly fouf years old. kid can do it- ." Tt is a well-known fact that child pro· The genius he d isplayed caught the fancy There is morc to chcss than that, but digies in any fi eld- be it mathematics, of a world sicken ed by war and f iv e years it is true that there is mlH.:h about the music, or chess- seldom mature into com later, after a t riumphal tour of Europe, game which can he learn ed .. Twenty-nine petent performers in their specialty. What Sammy took t.his country by storm. years ago, Sammy R es h cv~ky could not the underlying dcterents may be is not too Sammy was an exceptionally handsome have explained how he managed to win clear, but certainly the glare of publicity youn:,;~te r with a wide forehead, large hi s games. Today, ranked as on e of the falling on an infant wonder does him little grave "'yes, and sedate manner. In off mo· six strongest players in the world, five good. Bei ng stared at, tested like a guinea ment s, he had the exuberance and rest.less times winner of the United States cham· pig, deprived of the normal pleasures of energy of any nine.year.old but, according pionship, he does a much better joh! childhood arc Il ardly the best stimulants to oIJ e observer, he was "a little old man, Re.! hev.!ky on Ches.! is not only the story for successfu l growing·up. Occasionally at least when playing chess." Everywhere of his fabulous career from child prodigy there are happy exceptions: Wolfgang the boy appeared huge crowds gathered to tu grandmaster; it is alsu II ha ndbook of Am adeus i\Io;~a r t was one ; Samu el Resh witn ess his phenomenal chess genius. He his winning teclmiqlle. evsky, another. play up to thirty· five games simultaneously There is no pl ayer, whether he is a be· Looking back to 1920 when nine·year and- what's more- won 90% of them. He ginner or a near-master, who will not old Samuel R~ echewsk i (an approxima· could play hlindfolded and solve chess profit from a study of these no superb tion of the Polish spci li ng of his surname) prohlems wi th inltut,ve case. Sammy games. Hcshevsky has competed in inter· came to the· Un ited States, we may find it toured the country, appearing in theaters, national tournaments wi th the brightest hard to credit the tales of the tremendous department stores. auditoriums, ehess talents of the last tw o decades and he has enthusiasm aroused by his abi lity. This clubs, wl' ere,·er hoards and men cou ld he won a handsome share of the spoils. In this eoIIeetion, you will find his memo orable victories over AIekhine, Capa. blanca, Euwe, Fine, Flohr, Keres, Emanuel Lasker, and other great masters. Resh· Two great books by Reuben Fine ... evsky's play covers a vast variety of chess experience. There arc opening innovations THE WORLD'S A - as in his game with Capablanca at ... AVRO, 1938. Sparkling middle game taco a collection of fifty superb games played between 1944 and tics st ud many of his encounters, but his the present time by the world's leading masters. In this sequel celebrated game with Vasconcell os at Bos· to Chess Marches On!, Reuben Fine gives you a penetrating ton, 1944, is a striking example. (Another insight into the play of grandmasters such as Botvinnik, Resh· fi ne gllme of th is type is given in Solitaire evsky, Najdorf and Smyslov. Here are 323 pages packed Chess on the oppo~ite page.) Strategy plays its part, too; Sammy's game with with entertaining and in structive material; 343 diagrams. $5. Treysmun in the 1938 U. S. Championship is a splendid instan('.e. And t.h ere is ex· PRACTICAL CHESS .. acting endgame play- the hallmark of the the most complete and up.to-the-minute treatise of its kind. grandmaster- as in his great struggle with The author gives you the benefit of hi s extensive practical Alekhine at Nottingham, 1936, Every clement o[ chess is represented and ex· experience in his evaluation of every opening. The book con plained in this collection of exciting games. tains 1240 columns of variations, thousands of analytical Each of these games is painstakingly footnotes plus 196 diagrams illustrating basic positions. annotated to bring out the points likely No other book can answer more of your questions to prove valuable to th e student. As Hesh· II bout open ings. A "must" for practical players. $7.50 eysky says in the foreword : "In my analyses, 1 have tried to anti· For complete catalog 0/ distinguished McKay books by Fin e, cipat.e th e kind of question whien tne Tarrasch, Lasker, Znosko·Borovsky, Chemev, Mason , Mieses, Rein/eld. average player might ask. Wherever pos· Denker, Reshevsky, Golombek and many other noted authorities, write: sible, I have poin ted to the general princi. ples wh ich underly a given position. At The No.1 Publisher of Chess Books the same time, I have att empted to satisfy the near·expert who wishes to explore the DAVID McKAY COMPANY subtle mechanics of master c h es~. " After stud ying these games, you will Washington Square Philadelphia 6, Pa. agree tha t. Samuel Reshevsky has filled the bill nicely.- J. R. 116 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1949 BOOKS FOR EVERYONE ! For the ImproYin g Player SACRIFICING PRINCIPLES REAKING rules is generally careless conduct for rules were made to Bsmooth our way. Occasionally, however, t11 Cl'C is po int in shattering precedent. Playing White, you can scorn tradition with SAMUEL IhsH EVSKY as your fellow iconoclast. The one who sees hi s illusions smashed is V. GRICOIU EF F. The time and place: Chicago, 1934. Open ing: Queen's Gambit Decl in ed ; variation: a passive line akin to the Merall Defense. Cover the scor ing tahle at the line indicated. Taking the name of the openi ng as a clue, make the first move on y OUl' board. Expose the nexl line and see what your partner actually pla yed. Score pa r if you picked thi s move; if not, score zero. Make the proper move and your opponent's R ESHEVS KY ON CHESS. In a h ighly in· reply. then select the next move. Continue tlllI::; to the end of the game. sU'ucUvc a nalysis or his own 110 best COVER MOV ES IN TABLE BELOW. EXPOS E ONE LINE AT A T IME. White Par Black Your Se lection Your games, GI'andmaster Samue l Heshevs ky. Pl ayed Score Playe d for W hite', move Score fi ve times U. S. Chess Champion, le lls 1 P_Q4 __ ~ ______I 1 . .. P-Q4 ______e xac tl y what he thinks a bout when study· ing posltlon-and s h ows how he fInds 2 P_QB4 ______1 2 . . . P-K3 ______~ a 3 N- QB3 ______1 3 .... N- KB3 ______t he best moves. The lmowle dge you gain 4 N-B3 ______1 4 .. .. P- B3 ______.. ______from this book w ill e na ble you to piny s tronger chess, win ning chess! 272 pages. 5 P- K3 ______1 5 . .. . Q N_Q2 ______336 dIagra ms. $5.00 6 B-Q3 ______1 ______• • • • B-K2 7 0-0 ______1 • ______7 • • • • 0-0 For the Po stal Player 8 Q- K2 ______. _ ____ 2 ______• • • • P- QN3 PRACTICAL CHESS OPENINGS. Grund 9 P- K4 ______2 • ______~ ______• • • • PxKP ma s te r Heuben F ine h as blended t !'led 10 Nx P ______2 • __ M ____ _ Hnu·tes te d Variations of the past with up 10 • • • • B_N2 ------11 N_ B3 ______2 to·the·m lnute lines or modern play to 11 • • • • P-B4 12 PxP ______2 ------~ ------produce h is own g uide to chess openings. 12 · • • • NxP ------13 B_B2 ______2 ------Classified alpha be Ucally. ea ch open in&, 13 • • · • Q_B 2 14 N_QN5! ______.. __ __ _ 6 ------covers t he main line In d etail with d Ia 14 • • • Q-B3 • - - ~ ------grams to illustrate bas ic posil!ons. 1.240 15 B- B4 ______3 15 .... N-R4 ------columns of variatlOll S plus thousanda of 16 B- K 5 ! ______6 16 ... . P- B3 ------footnotes , nil evaluated fOI' your guida nce. 17 B-KN 3 ______3 17 .. .. P-K4 ------'! 67 I)agell . .196 d iagra ms. $7.50 . 18 N-B3 ! ______6 18 .... Nx B ------I~ BPx B ! (a) ______11 19 . . .. N-K3 ------Fo r the Beginner 20 N-QS! ______8 20 . • • Q- B4t CHESS T H E EASY WAY by Reuben 21 K- Al ______2 ------21 . . . BxN ------Fi ne. ThIs novel presen tation gives es. 22 Px 8 ______1 22 . . . N_B2 (b) se ntlal rules a nd princ iples of imme nse ------va lue to t he beg inne r. You w ill fi nd them 23 QR_ Bl ! ______6 23 . . . Q-Q3 (c) K N-A4 ! (d) ______8 ------ea sy t o lea l'll, eas y to remembe r, ell sy to 2' • • • • R-B2- (e) 2S BxPt! ______8 ------a pply. And there a re SCO res or PI1lc tical 25 • • • K," ------pl'Oble ms e n a bling tbe s t udent to test 26 Q-A5t ______¥ 2 ------26 • • • K-N I ------his OWll pl'Og,·ess. ,",'I! lI e Inte nded p!'[ma V N-N6 __M ______3 ------27 • • • R/ 2-Bl rily [Q [' tilo n ovice, the bool, se rves ns - ~------~ 28 R-B6! ______8 Resignll (f ) ------a concise reyiew for st ronger playe rs. 186 pa ge s. 229 diagrams. $2.00 Tot il l Score ______100 Your percentage ______SCALE ; 75_100-Excelle nt ; 6O-74---Su peri or; 45·64-Good ; 3O.H Fair. For All Who En;oy Chess Non;s TO Til l( C.Hn; Position aller 24 .. . R-R2 IF YOU MUST PLAY CH ESS by Arnold (Ad apl cd from R t:'shevsky on Chess ) De nke r. A fon ner U. S. Champion pl'e (al A s urpj' ising mo ve, hut it opcns the sentlS 66 or h is most de\J g htful games, u.n · Kin g Bishop fil c with devastating c ffcct. notated In gay, breezy style. YOIl ca n on joy tills book as sheer fun, o r use it to (iI) 22 ... QxP permits 23 B- N3, Q- B3; s ha r pen' yom tactica l eye. 190 ])ages. 207 24 Q- B4!, QxQ ; 25 BxQ , K- D2 ; 26 N dlag l·nmll . $2.00 Nst and the open file t rium phs. (e ) White threatcned 24 BxPt . Send for complete cata log of boo ks. (d) Strun gcr than win nin g a Pawn wil h 24 BxPt, KxB; 25 Q- B2t, P - B4; 26 QxN. MA IL YO U R ORDER T O It) 1£ 24 .. . P - N3; 25 Q-N4 is dccisive. If) Afte r 28 .. . Q- Q l ; 29 Q- R8 t, K CHESS REVIEW B2; 30 NxP t , K - K I; 31 Q- R5t mates. 250 West 57th Street, New York 19, N. Y. CHESS REVI EW, APRIL , 1949 117 \1i/JJ rn: TO ~IO V f: WIIl"n: '['0 M OVE 1 T h is is j ust a warnHIII 2 At the time of this t ussle, V,\flY ING yo ur tactics is good practice I II chcs.s as we ll tll gd the kinks out 01 t hose S,unmy was n ine yea rs old , stiff ll\u ~ cl es . But don't miss weighing in at sixty IJO ullds a s box ing . T hese ten positions from thc gamcs o f tlw l. ~ s-" o n tll be !earned from soak ing wet. Though a fl ea Samuel He,,; hevsky show II Ow one of Amer ica\; lead the lovc tap whieh rocks weight in size, the kid had Lll a ck to sleep : like u good Ihe wallo p uf Joe Louis. ing players mixes his IHI IH.: lles when slugging il out left and a good right, t wo Walch how he g iv es m aek with opponent s. If YO li get groggy, you CUll consult B i ~ h " l1 ~ kee p your rival the old one· two. " pune IIy. " 1 ...... the pointers Oil Pilge 11 S. 1 ...... 2 ...... Besigns li LAC K T O .\10VE B l.ACK TO MOVE IlL ·I !": t( TO MOVE li l.,\CK TO J\lOVE 3 A cl ever Loxer neve r 4 Canny fig ht fan s know 5 Bl ack f e i ll t ~ wiil! hi s lefl, 6 Here's a corkscrew gets Ilu t on thc d efensive. l ie thM White's King is a sd'lIll, t hen- wil en While dodges puneh in Ihe tradition of Kid i5 alwa ys in t here punchin g. ~t a n d i llg in t he C~ ~ ll t e r like connects wil h a solid hay. McCoy. White was 11 vcteran An onlfna ry pug wo ul d d u<; k a punch drunk pug: with hb nMker. T he poor old While so he side·slCJlJled the full Whilc's a ll,lck on t he Queen. guard down. S:uumy lashcs King can't ~ ha k e off this onc f"rce of t he blow ; :1 nOI'iee Not Sa mmy : Il c's a e1 wln t,! "ut with a k idncy l' une h and and Ill: g " <' ~ dnw!! for t he mi ght ha l'e had h is mouth· 1 ...... While hits the canvas. ellllnt. piece knueked out ( in chess 2 ...... I ...... 1 · ...... pudanee : l u~t his Qu<;en ). 3 ...... 2 ...... 2 · ...... I ...... , ' . H e~ ign s v . •...... • .. . . mate I\ eS I"o ns 2 ...... \XI litH: TO MOVE Ili.ACK 'ro M O VE Wltro: TO MOV!:: 7 Black is sparrin g for Boxing a nd c h e~ s a ren't 9 T his nne shows t he class 10 Everybody 10l' es this tillle a nd it looks as if he all haymakers and ' round· uf a I I'ue cll!l mpiull: a lways ki nd of soft touch. White m ight g<; t it b<;cause his King huuse p un chcs. T lw re is in· alert, al ways boring in. wad es in for the kill wi th is adeqnately guardcd. Or l ~ fit!hting. tou. Ilcl'e White Black's first jab leUvt!S White a series of wicked blows that it '! The l'a bLi t lJU neh SamlllY p\llllm cl~ his adversary wi t h so g roggy t hat he b l u n d e r ~ lellr Bl ack apart. sneuks <)I'<; r provid es a <;un· hod y blows tlw t. ma ke him into an uppercut. I ...... vin <;ing answer. Okay, ehun,. tbruw in t he s l " " ' g ~ · . 1 · ...... 2 ...... how ,1 0 YOII .~ l ack u p in t his 1 ...... 2 · ...... ;3 ...... -- slugfest? 2 ...... 3 ...... 1 ...... Hesigns 3 ...... Hesigns Resigns ;; . . .. . mate 118 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1949 Actlvltl". 01 CHESS REV IEW P Ostal Chess JACK STRALEY BATTELL p layer.: Ollme ~ports &. rulr, O'. n a m e s 01 POltal Chen E ditor new pl.oye .... p r ize_wlnn eu ••e le<::ted oam e •• DAV I D A O S K I ND, Jr. player " p r of ile." &. edhor lal com men t . Aut. Edho r POSTALMIGHTIES! 'IS-C'1l 0 A L C.I Cr Jr ...... ".I_~ " _I Golden Kn ights Championships 11 r..: i-;in'1' ~O" ", ...... 1-2 ~ - 1 The followln!' po~t ,, 'il':~ huvc WOn I'ri&c" 1 ~ - C 11 0 A L<"swr J ,' , ...... , hI Ii - I 1st Annua l Chiilmpion ship-I 945 in ('h,,..,. 'l' u"" "")'~ r... ~"1t o f r .. - ·Is-c n P 1"" ,.", .. , ...... 1· 2 5 _ I ,I>, " If" '"'''' Pinal!! section no w fi n ished. IlOrl ..,d ~ 1 t o !··cl.> runry 26_ 5 II! with J"""",'Y D r n :'IHx8<'U ...... 1· 2 " -I Tou r n ey . P la y e n P la c e Score ·IS-C I9 R " ,' '\\' L Ttl lthle • ...... I .. l i+ ~ t hese weight ed po in t IOtals: Angelo San· It I ~ \\,h "I ,, ~· ...... 2<1 a _I I). H - C3' 1't.1 M" nit;o ...... , I ~ ' H drln 3 • . 35. Polis :lS.Ofi. J . H . Norris 'IS-C52 (' H Wood . ... , . , ..... lst .'oj_ ~ H_C f.' P ~' l "'T.a"o ...... 1-:1 4 - 2 ;! !i.O. J. Hasell oeh rl 31.1 , C. :'II. Larson H HI".",,,," .. ,.,. ,.,. 2<1 IV .\I c k ,,~ ...... 1-3 1 - 2 -I ~. I ~ ' I ~-('fj l W j-{ Whi\ n~y .. " .... ls t 6 -0 30. 65. G. 1.. Shln"el 2·1.4 ami Dr. O. C 'Vel ",,,,,, ...... , ...... 1-3 H .'i _ 1 ' -., J.jlt·jjten 20. 0. (l' leu. se ciwck ynur totals, H -C 1U G I " 1<\I '~ h,,11 .. , . , ...... ~ -3 ,j - ~ ·'~- I ·'". ,., '""" , ...... , .. W U Layton ...... 1· :1 D,·. .r )0; RidUlwm' . . . ,3·2 " _ 1 l'i"I)OrL at OtH: e ir you I' tally di8agr el'~ wHh T P(·lIi('I •. , .... . , ...... 1.3 ,; - 1 ,1 1_ CI I 'I !:; J ~ ~ " "ci "fe ' T O ...... :111 Ill"'!! a s published h tl l' e.) , I~ - C~ I (; IV F ly " " ...... l~l H ~l- C I H I I" J)"""g"r ...... 3rd .., 'lX-C~:1 J) H"""drelh ...... 11<1 ii1- ~ W ith many F inal!! secliom; yet to re. H-(:t5~ I" II ,\ah lcy ...... I"t , .. ~8-e 8 !l C .J Miller .... , ...... 1· 2 ~ N 1"lnkdSldn ...... 2'1 5 - I -I ))01·t. we p!"Csent the currently lellding .I ~h "'" ...... 1-2 I C 11,',.\ ._ .. _ .... _ . .• . .. 3rd ~ -2 a • 'II"OI'CI'S CHESS REVI EW , APR IL. 1949 119 Vin son. 36 Kohne yie:lds to L atnlk, halts downs \Vinsor. 168 Bre:wer h est s Buc hanan. POSTAL MORTEMS H a'·'"I~. 39 Duignan downs Schick; Porter Liltle. 169 Bros h eer tops Sout hwood; A reher Ga me reports received hcsts ]J;.' .rlor. 41 Chandlcr withdr awn. H trips Graner. 170 Fowler, Millard best mau; Frankel tops Gage. 45 Chandler withdrawn. Fowler fells Millard; Beran withdrawn. 171 J anuary 21 to Febr uar y 26 ~{) C mi~. )fcGinicy tie. 49 Thomas t ops Goldberger besta Em~rson, L>ows to Syming To report !>ame ~ . give ~ ec (ioll "ltlllh~) ' , full l{ose"L>ium: Rib b le, \Vhaicy tie. ton; Hughes halts ~merson. 112 Howard names of player.. "lid rClIlllt. FoUow the "Ul Sect ions No. 51-75: 52 Condon defeats halt~ Lanier; Howard. Trull trip McFarland. 173 Hutchinson halts RaL>inowit~ . 174 Chand t""n of thes" two "x"mpl~~: T,oorn\s . yields 1.0 Nel~on; 54 Strome bows to Whitney. b ests Bu1lis. 55 Rail r ips Ross. 66 ler withdrawn; Glu",,,,an tOI'~ Ma whinney. 46.C 466 Paul Morphy 1 A . B. Meek O. ties Thomas, 175 SmIth besls Allen, bows to 46.C 466 A. Halpr in! H. N . Pillsbury 1. ,rumga". Miller, McCa ughey rout Roseu L> I",,,. G8 SImpson, lo'ermndiz foil Lindgren. Morrison: Davis downs McCord. Only the w inner reports (or only \Vhilo if 59 McCnll um haltS Hopper. 6"j Vano, Elliott. Sections NO, 176· 200: GJ"iedel" yields to game is drawn) b\l t l' e p(lI't at once! J\ l ~o Edmond s down LallSley; Va no best s Alex Hurley, tops (a) Kearns. 177 Underwood name winner (or While) fir ~ t; and USC" .. lip tlnder. (i5 I:;pcncer withdraws, drops (a) to whips Keelle: Tufts top~ \Vildes. 178 .Arbor I)I """1"'[" rr c ~ I n ) '" olh " .. ~o r r "~po,,,.knc". G elpi. 6G Kahl. Ree~e tie. 68 R. "fille r best~ d owns Mac Donough; Palmer withdraws. 179 A po8tcard i~ ideal for size. D rihch. £9 W esterflcld whips Howland. 10 Hodg~s halts Leyy. 180 I:;eymour sinks If you reported to reach us within the Graves halts Hinger. 11 Ribble rips Stubb e, \Verner. 181 K lar halts H.,cker!. 182 Be~hdoit " 00\'" d"tes, look for your report in thi" Mintz. 72 Lnyt on w ins (a) from l\fuiliken, withdraw~; l~erguson fells McDauieJ, L>ows issue. Locat e your gaUle rC>1l01"t below, by loses to Hume. 75 Guenther wins (a) from to Kuc hinsky; Mar tin downs McDaniel. 183 t he "key" ( !I " 46_C indlcatlng Cl,.s~ Tour Gordon; Unde rwood. Thomas, Guenther down l'i~her, Rtljczak clout Kapian; Webstel· ney begun in 19~6 ) a nd the section number Alford. whips Halcllak. 184 Hoys halts Underwood; (466) in lexl following the "key." Sections No . 76_100: 17 Underhill haHs Und~rwood. SoU!rey lOP Thompson; Howard, S),m bol f Indlc at.es win oy forfeit (,,"'\ car nail: Beyer b e sts CouYertier, Brit~ch. 79 Sollfr~y tie. 185 Power whips Webster, ries ruting credit Oil gumes termjnaled ac Taylor t ops \VyHer; Van Patten downs Kahn. Thomas; O'Rellly bows to 'rhomas, tops tually In 1949); a ~IJOw~ win L>y fo rfell an 120 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1949 to!J~ T--ewis ; T yn(lale down~ ROlo, Lewis. 246 Sections No. 351· 375 : 352 Fo}' fells Willey. Koelsch, Hogan halt Speyer, 247 Rappaport 353 Lateiner rips Resle r. 354 F'1n kelst ein ~toP" rips Stamm; Ash ley t lea B r uce, bows t o ~honl c k, bnw~ t.o Connor . Rohlfs; Co nnol", E mi);,h ; Neff nips H",,(lerson, 2·tS Bell "esl s Hohl fs rips L ucior. 35.1 Gr oss tops Yunker. (u) H.17 L a shua clowns Kersey, 359 Ec km~n h es t~ 1000.00 P tzzn, 21; 0 Brewer . Kilian tie, S ections No, 251, 275 : 251 Shanor shades Price; Puulson whips 'Yilliams, Sehweig, Magill ; Thearle boWs to Daussman , tics Price. 360 H u m o h a lts \ Var t man . 362 Knight IN CASH PRIZES Shanor. w j l h dr a w~ . 253 Graeff t op s S h clhl ; l ops K a plan, Kre ~ ..... 3£4 I"ord stops Stewart, SGG Bllhn r ov be sts S h en,.-In, 367 Bucha nan Goldt~ l' b llo w n ~ Sayen, MeK nlghl: Joh nslon 75 CAS U I'II/ ZES, a mountin g Yie lds to Staffo r d, bests Sayen, 2b4 Erkel h e a t~ Sherld"" . 368 W illey r in,< Humme l. 369 nips C herry; Cherry , J<'a r mer roll Angw in: Spiegcl h a lts H u m ph r ey: Hann o ld jolts t o a t otal of $1000.00 , w ill lluharov be~l s l!:r k el, Farmer. 2"5 Koelsch Joseph , 370 Hecke rt halts N" ehin, Genza, b e awa r d ed t o t h e 75 con· dow n ~ I-"C w ln , 256 K line, B lanchar d beat ]"o rd. 372 Gm·ton, O'Rellly rip n\l~8e ll. 37 3 test an ts who f in ish w ith the Notk off w it hdra w s . 375 Bladon withdrawn, Raker, 257 Stettbach er dewns Donn, h ighe st scores in C H F.SS Hr.· illteh ltng: Do n n docs [o r Lockwood, bows t o los ..... ( a ) lo Carman. VlJ.: w 's 4th Annual Gol d en ou, 258 N e wm~n bests Kohlbeck er , l',' ahm, Sectio ns No. 376· 459 : 378 Piper trounces bows to r."wa.<1i; Lamb nil)s Nahm. 259 Thompson, 37 9 Powell tops Forcl, hows t o K n i g h ts P ostal C h e ss Champio nship, n ow n ;crri,,; " l o rltn bests ],·or d. 3R2 Secr est with · ~ Iay e r defeah .Jo hns on. lies C rowder ; Bar o p en t o all c h esspl a ye r s in t he Unit ed rett wi thclraw 8, 260 Ostrum t rips P "oc t.or, dnJ,ws, 383 M itchell whips \Varner, 381 L ieber· S t ates a n d Cana d a . Hul e s sen t 011 r e q uest. Wood. 261 N ieda w ithd raws; L amber t, Gol(l m~n hesl~ \ Vcaver , F r ank; [o','a.n k ha ll s l;oru wIn (,,) [ "om P iz",,; T~ am lJe r t bests Hayes. 38" F o rd tops SymIngt on. 387 H enin Ent e r this t ourna m en t a n d you can win Goldfar b, Hallbach. 262 Y. ukowski t o ps Karl; h"lt~ Go"' b" ~, \Volf, Hoerch er ; Gomba s up t o $ 250,00 i n cash- the a m o un t of the do wn s \Vo lf . .~ 90 T rum \m ll t r i ps Hall. 393 "'leK ee downs Phillips. 2G3 Ott ~t o ps Stark, ..,Gran d ,Fi rs t P rize. The runner·up will (f) G ro ~5er. 2M Guber w it h draw~ . 2G6 Love ll \Vll ke wall OI)S Hall. Hasse. 395 Cb''''dle r tops l"rank, 268 Buh a r ov , i<'r edgen tie, 269 wit.hflrawn ; Reid r i ps Kivl tz, ~0 2 H o lbrook r e ceive $ 10 0 .00! Thi rd to tenth p lace Im mck cppc1 withdraws; lmagna best~ h alts McGinnis; R h eaume b e st~ Boy ton. 409 p r izcs range f r om $80.0 0 down t o SIS.00. Mikel tops Sidler, 411 T alle }' b o w .~ to I"ran z. llail don ; Hau s~ man . Or lando, G il li~ s , Ilaild" " T hen c!!me 65 prizes !!f $5,00 each f o r withdraws , 412 A rnold downs \Veinln~;er. 418 mob Star k. 270 Crowder tops S h elnon, with pla yer s w h o finish fro m 11th t o 75th ! d,'a ws; 1il nr r iso n h a!!~ H een ey. 273 Allc!! Sud bo rough, 'Taylo,' top Babcock, 434 n o lclen 1)<)9 t s l<'oy, bows to \Vood ; F OY f ell s H azel be~t s Gomb,,", O'Heilly ; Gombas lo p ~ ~le l roy, Rut t h a t isn 't all ! Ever y p l a ye r w ho I"",er, y iehl .• to Smith. 274 Collln .... s lop~ bows to P ixley. 439 Coher. replace$ S h eldon. llUa lifif's fo r t he f in a l round, a nd com· Stone; Lciwcke lo ~cs to )'1eKec. lop~ l'~ge . pletes h is s c hedul e, w ill b e a war d ed the 27" Nelrron; n lllO< Rro~h c "r. Started in 1949 (Key: 49-C) emblem 0/ the Golden Knight- a sterlin g Sections No. 276· 300: 276 1>l lkel mast ers Secti o ns No. 1· 28 : 8 Goss repla ces D e Seewald, Kall. hoff. 277 l'rostka top~ P a lit.7.; L (}7.i er. 9 Spcncer r epl,,,,e s Ch ene y. 10 silvcr, gold·plate d and ename lled lap el He",,,lo!! withdmwg. 278 Pulseh e , O'lleilJy Lciwcke rep l ~ces H ardy. 18 Mnrsh rop l " ee~ b ULt Oll , r eproduced a hove . down Mulligan. 279 Twigg slop .~ Steinfeld, Johnson , A n d e ven if you fa il to q u ali f y for t he bows lo l~ tr wood ; Gould bests Georgi, 280 'rurpin y iel d .~ to H opkirk, t ops Sl r an(IHkov; finals, YOll still get a p rize ! If YO ll arc Danielson (lown ~ Snyder. 283 \ Villiam s h all~ 1944 POSTAL CHAMPIONSHIP elimin a t e d i n the pre limi nary o r semi·f inal Haritckiewiez. 284 H C" k man t o ps Grattan ; Pro~ r e s" i v e qual ifi cat ion cham pio nship r ound, but complete yo u r sche d ule, YOll Grodesk ey bow ~ to GrallV.n, tops T wigg. 285 F I NA L S will r e ceive one free entry (wo r t h $ 1.00) Gilliss be st ~ S mi l h. 28 6 Heinrich Yields t o Muller. hfl lt.s B r ~dy; Magee t ops Brarly. 28 7 44·Pf 14 : Rivise rips P ierco; H "lloek halts into !! Il r reg u la r C l ass T o u rna ment.. Coult.e r. Willi s w hips Fu lton. 28·8 Oeder o vercomes FOR BEGINNERS AND EXPERTS 'f'immer, lie('kH, bows t o Sharpel!. 290 , Va ;'ne F IR S T PLAC E PLAY - OF F whips Hoolihan , B aY$. 291 R osenst on, Fld T he winner !!f t h is Li g p !! s t a l chess con· low, K umro, Gil be rt$on, Grelss m o b Talley; F ug lie fell s H endrick~, l est will a c h i eve n a t ion a l reco g n iti on. H is Hose '" ~to !! r i p.. Gr eiss; Gilhertson bests Kumro. 292 H nn,~ en , Youker h " lt Grubb ; GOLDEN . KNIGHTS p ic tu re will b e p ubl isl,,:d in t h e news Han~on , Gruh b down Dowell. 29( Gross, i\l u l P rogres sive q u a ll f l c atlo ~ ehamp lo nshlps s ect ion o f C HESS H EvH:w- a n d he'll g et ligan hit Mark . 2% Si m p~on top~ Mus/;"rove, a bi g check for $250.00. But you d on·t Dar Hkli s; Twi"g t np ~ \ \'(H"t",,,," , 297 How lan fl 1 st Annual Championship-1945 downs Delag,,). 298 K orber/;" n illS Ehrm an ; have t o be a n e xpcrt to g o a l ong w a y i n Busbnen best s Norberg, Cherr y. 299 M cGin F I NA LS (Key: 45. Kf) th" Gol den Knights. L ot$ of l es s talent· nis stop ~ Stewart; Br o d~, rse n be s l s :tIarch. Se ctions No. 1· 24 : 5 8 hindel defeats N o r · ed players are goin g to have g r a nd fun lOO Sohwelg bests B urr ow~, Gi lbert, bows to rls. 10 Key ~ [)f,sts B a rnhise r; Green e tops a nd capture han d som e p r izes i n this m a m· Musgrove : n e !! edc t l i flow n ~ GUbert , bows to G ray. 17 D fl rnhiser ~tOJ)H Slein feld, hows t.o Bu r r ows , Musgrove; B urrows hea ts S t ewar t, Hu mmel. ~1 Sehult z (lo wns D ietor l. ~2 Brien· moth tourname nt. Even if YOli have n ever Sect io ns No . 301·325 : Applegale downs :'oJash nips Pelouxe. p l a yed in a eomp elitive event Lefore, y o u L~tnlk , Spe"r, P rice ; Munson tops Lut n ik . may turn out t o b e Gold e n K n ights Cham · ~03 Dro? l w h ip~ ' Vurr en. 304 MAr~h a ll tops 2d Annual Championship-1946 pion or ,\ If'atl i ng prize. w inner when the CarL 305 Perkins tops (a) C orrig a n ; Graeff SEMI· F INALS ( Key : 46. Ns) rips nieh a rfl . ~ O(; Herrick halts Peisaeh. 307 tourney is over. So d on't hes itate to enter Thomas t o ps Kaplan. 309 S heridan bow" to S ect io ns No. 1 · 82: 2 lloss r ips MeAule}'. because y o u fe el you a re n ot a strong 27 P e e b le ,~ downs Chu rch . 29 O Pllenhelm Mnrttn, lops Anderson . 31 2 Goodm ~n , B r and e n ough p l a yer. B eginn e rs w ill find this a best Pnrker; Brand d owns M itche ll. 31 3 Nor· h alts H ankins. 3G Moore bests Be c k m~n . 41 berg nips Dan ziger. 3H Smith . .M elstrand, \ Vhee le r w h tps S~ l g ~ do . 46 Clark, S ehe fter fin " way t o improve their chesspl a y . top Pei."8Ch , !i t; Dowden, Driver tio. 60 .Jaeo b ~ ~!osHr lose to Dodson; Smit h nips Newell. All classes e n ter together in this " o pen" jolts Lauzon. 62 Spier tops S male. 63 C on· 315 Sta u ffer s t o p ~ l{npla n. 316 Nearin/;" n ips ve,·s.. , R eynolds ti e. G!i Gmy bows to t011 r namen t , b u t to start your ratin g a s a McCallum; Mogens en best~ Schneider. 317 Cr omnlin, best s :tIo rri80n. Go Pelo u2e sweeps post a l player, s tate if you are "class" A, Humphr ey h a l t ~ Sim])so n , Hedborg; E lls Selv aggi, Epstein, lhnman , 67 Doe downs wo rth whi ps H edborg ; Va ssila kos tO ll ~ ( 0 13, C o r D on the c oupon below, if you a r e (' 9 n i p ~ Lig,::e tt., Schaffer. 3 18 Dewey WIthdraws, 320 B"O"son t\akao. Plan t l\nlson. L auter. a n ewcom e r. (A is h igh est class. ) best s Oli ker, Scn,ccln (erro, B everas-e ; H ichter 70 Dhein downs M orris, Coekrell; Rogan rips C ockrell. 7G Ben? bests P a sznik. 77 Perkin" rips '1'hom !>• • nn, Sc ~cc l"fer r o . 322 L lIl.ma.n MAIL YOUR ENTRY NOW downs Dotter er; \ VIll",f{ whips \Vh iunan: wit h dr~w n , lOBes (a) to Miller; Barnh iser A ~ a G o ld en K n igh t er, y ou'll enjoy t h e Whit m an , \V il koft s t op St"nord. 323 Wolfson hest s Peper; S ton e "t o p~ B rice-l',' ash. 79 K norr n ips H asenoe hrL 82 Underwood. fell. F ord ; Gar d inier be.,ls F'o"d, I ..o ckwood; t hrill of compet ing for b ig c a sh prizes. Llsansky tops Burk halter . 621 Glusman tie" Ka~h in , :tIe iden wIn (It) from R olan d : Nea l You ' ll m eet n e w frien ds by mail, impro ve n ips Meld,,!!. Yunker, bows t o \ \'ood; l\ef( nips \ Vood. your gam e, a n d have a g r an d ti me. 32 5 E delhn u m hesU J o rg ensen, H arris, Graf. FI NA LS ( Key: 46 · Nf ) So get s t a r ted--entcr now. Entries must Sectlon5 No. 326· 350: 32G Poillon t o ps ( f ) S ection s N o, 1·27 : 4 .\far t in m"H I ," ' ~ Ro~s , be m ailed on or b efo r e J une 3 0 . ~r ozl e y . 32 7 Holzma n ha llS Shaw . 328 Jonas r; Olin ~ t. ops Straha n. 7 'Vallfleo wa ll op~ Grif _ jolts Anlrwin. Sllverkru bbo; Buharov best~ fin. 10 Hecke r bests Cl" rk, Il Bre"rle}' bo,,"s Aronson, Angwin: Aro"son t ops An gwin. 330 1.0 )'kKen zi". bea ls H oglund, Halyea. 12 '-cH7ss 7 E V-;-;;: W- D C he:;: h:: i;-::oul r..evy downs SdHlllz. 331 H owell wilhdraws; Cla r vou. Snl,wdo down PC!.e r son; Salgado. Postal Ch~ ss Depl. " .. eon l eri" gPoslal I R. Smi th fells I·'ord , 332 i>ia n iuci witbdraw s. .Vitdl tie . 1.1 R o x~a ri PN K llgo"e. Poller . I{) I 250 W . 57th St .. CheM K il on o pposite III Pomp",· h"Us Myernheim; Sou tl",rert r ip., 13 \!l.· Chess ri ps Gr a y. Hea t h ; P oole w ithdrawn , 314 .\lal>< I" ,· w o rlh. 2 :1 K ei ,h withdnlwn. I closed en t ry per I tops G l u~ma"; 1.... 11(· h eli hall s Ma t z, H owell. s ectio~ . Is ...... 3.S Mull igan dow n s D " ,'Il" Il . 347 Donn do wn~ 3d Annual Championshipp-·1947-S ],·ord. 348 . J ona ~ , l\l urphy top Lnngc; Loo I NA M E ...... I downs Goe . .1 ·t9 Stanley stops S h er",., Up P R ELIMINAR Y ROUND ( Key: 47 , N ) hol t; Ver t halts Hani, 350 S taniewkz stops S ections No. 1· 100: 1 l·loga n. Schuster tie. I A DDRESS .' ...... ' .. .. " ...... " " .. . I Ho~rch"r; Funkhouse,' halts Suplee, bows to 9 F'erra nd i 7- fells Huber. 17 K o hne quells Ho ercher. C om stock. 19 Luprech t , Hogan t np S chaldlcr . L . ,: .. : ..: : .:..:..: ' .:..:..:' ':":": .. :..:..:' .:..:..: .. :.:..:." :..:..: ' .:"'1 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1949 121 23 Hayle withdrawn. 26 Rozsa. Waldrep drop Ho[strom, Knight, Mears; K night nips H ol H uff; Strahan rips Riehmond. 37 Pettlt, strom; ).fears bows to Hansen. w[os (a) Goodale down Mendlcson. 38 HIlUman, Spear from 'fhompson. 19 .\lcG,wock rips Relnmuth. lie; ).!orrisHte downs r..up~ l ey . 41 :Mltchell 20 Holtnes withdraws. bests )leiden. 42 Betker halta Hennings; SectIons No. 21· 58 : 22 Steinfeld bow8 to Holmes, \Voods tie. 18 Con!;,don. Drive r tie. P e rr ine. Chobalov. to]>H r,nlt rs ; Perrine besl" 55 'Wyman whip;!! \Vyllcr . u6 Rist rips Hico, Chobatov, 2-1 Ambrogio, -'-jitter down Grieder. Carroll, ties Doe ; Rlce halts Hanmer, bows 31 :-"o CHESS REVllW, APRIL, 1949 123 l3utlcr G ...... 582 862 w . Duignan P S • . • 1138 s ..... Buller R 0 . ... 666 616 Ella. 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Van Dellen 11 •. g40 .00 8~n T a lso W ...... Vandemark F E 1360 ""no Tamayo A . ... . Vanderbor g 'V. 11 00 ,0< n;; Taag-eman J B. Van Dyke ?Ii.!IS 830 '"GO, Taplin A ...•.• Van Epg T .... $00 Jl62" . . . . T a pp J ...... •• Van Gieson P . . 508 . , GOO .. TaroLW ...•• Vano E ...... 1262 ,.. 10'"'00 . . . . . T a teEH .... . Van P a tte n I:I T 1160 .. '"8H 19-1 E .Jr Taubert CA .. . V~ E .I J r . . 592 ,," .. Taves T S .... . V arn B •...... 51'1 'r a ylor C F . . . . Vassilakos L .. 8( 0 .''''.. Vaug han H W 896 ltSG R T aylor C n ... . '""" T aylor ),11,," E .. V aug h an P ... . 656 116...2 "" Taylor G O •.. . Vecsey ,r ...... 888 P 1032 '00'" T aylor H P Jr . V elas R M 968 CH!$S REVllW, APRIL, 1949 127 • Ii· 70H so lose is that they do not because of poor ...... 814 S 74 6 THE RULES AT WORK . •. . . • . 10101 .• 97 0 chess·play but through a technicality. 79·1 HEN and as space permits, we at· ::~V), ':... m S7G tempt to explain the Rule8 and Reg. But 1I1 IIt technicality I S a m U$t. First, 1122 a., W 00. ulations for P ostal Chess. Meanwhilt! if 1:1 p [ay~r is allowed to take back a move · . . • • 4GG 286 sont, all the opponent knows is tbat he had '"58& JlO)stalites arc welcome to ask about any · . . . . 600 IOU I}uinls thaI may seell\ unclear to them. received a move and, if this can be reo '" ,.. tracled, hll will nel'llr know hencefo rth · . . • . ".600 .. . Consult the actual rult:s (l$ yOu reaa tile ..0 if /.Illy move will stand as made. Whether 122 ,,~ commentaries OIl them below. " 1008'" the player was dishonest or just careless ... <> &28 "'0 Rille 2 (COltt.) A complete. correct hll cannot know either. N o r~ if such a "0 1108 · • •• 11&8 and legible record tl f each game is essen turn of events is pe r mitted~w i ll he care...... S88 ,,',,' ... ~:W,~c 1054 lial, and the records of Ihe two players For, in any case, he has made an bonest .. 5H". w • must agree. Article 23 of the Laws of reply, finds his efforl wasted, his record , ·. . . . 111."4 Chess requires so. And a player lII ust be Ill uddlcd and his game delayed. S .SO '"n" M 1374 Ilrepared to substanliate his report of a Further, in the on ly comparison possible P 1076 ""000 800 win or a draw by !lubmitting the game with ove r·the-board play, we have the rules '" 1168 score, if neo:;essary. Or to aid ill cl arifying on sealed moves al times of adjourning · . . 11 90 '".W · . . 930 a dispute over the moves mll de, if Buch games. These al·e even more severe than · • •. 11 3 4 may occur, during II gllme. Rules 2 - 6 are the Postal Chess rules. ,'".. A 8t8 1224'" · ...... 1342 are designed to avoid such disputes so far For Ihese reason s, there are those wh o SO. sr;o 1232 102B as possi bl e and Rule 7 to put teeth in]() claim that record.keeping IS part of the 1316 .. 1068 · •• GS4 360 the preceding rules. game as played by mail. They point ou t . ' . Gl0 Rule 3 In Postal Chess, so much de· that the player has obvious advantages to ,\ .< "" "SG "Il 107G · ., GSG pends on the recording of game ~ tllll! this cOlllpt.:i1 satc for t h~ chance of error in his A, 11". 00 . ... 1 2~ S GO, ·t 67-1 rule must be re-emphasi:l,ed. To kee p the recording; the use of books, the ability F'J,' 850 C . . 1134 mutual records absolutely strilight. each to "~h ift wood" in analyzing and freedom · . . .. 988 G 912 .0> o 908 vlayer simply must r ~ peat his opponent's from pressure of time and nerve-strain. .. 65S ... 5~8 previous move. In doing so, he states, in An d he can and should eheck his move be· 85 0 m A 1156 effect; "If this 18 truly you r last move , fore signing and posting it! 850 '" ·. . . ,M then lil y move is ... " And, in this sense, Certainly, smce Rule 4 stands pre-an· · . .. 1208 "."" · . . .. ~~ · t an incorrect acknowledgment makes the Il oulleed, il i~ equally fair to all. ..0 ...... I 05H move accompanying it vo id and replay '" 1288 Rille 5 Strictly speaking, an ambigu . ... 850 able. So any misacknowledgment should .08 ous move IS a definite move 10 wlIi ch a ,SO ." be challenged and clarified before a game IIl aYllr is committed by Rule 4 but for 1008 may conlinuc. '" · . . ".'"984 which he has failed to give complete in· 000 <0 • • 50 m A com mon oversight on acknllwledg formation in his notation of the move. So IO U menls is failure 10 give any (or accellted the purport of R ule 5 lII ay be !limply • • . '"46H '00 " if" moves. " IP' moves are particula rly .0< · •. 1""320 stated as; when a player fails to give a · •. ] 0]8 conducive to crrors. So both players should fu ll recording fo r a move, he should be reo ."'" be p!lrticularly careful to exchange fu ll · . . 1352 ,0< quired to do so before any further move '"..0 .. , acknowled gments of the complete "if" is made. He lIIay not give any different · . . . 922 'OR 1386 ... series, so far as accepted, as well as of the move bU I should clarify the move actually ... '"'GO moves immediately before and after. (On made by providing more complete infor· ] 03 4 85 0 the whole, "if" mov~s are best not used mation on it. ] '"04 2 ... . . 106 U t 112 except when players are absol utel y sure For example, KR- Bl is ambiguous if · R SG8 830 of them. We shall discuss them more fully 1102 1114 the Roo k Clln go to both KBI and QBl. under R ule 8.) The player is committed to movmg bis · . . . .S06" "'0'" 1444 ~34 Correct numbering is of course csscntial King Rook to one Bishop square or the ] 032 '" to the r~co r di n g of a game. A ny errors in othe r ; he must simply make clear to which 10~0 '" 1064 1132 numhering are as fnlly subject to Rule 7 he had intended to move, by supplying the t'2H" . . . ".812 · ...... as is any other factor in Rules 2 - 6. fu ll notation of KR- KDl or KR- QBl. I', .... 11% . .. 726 D A .. Rule 4 This i ~ perhaps the lIIoS t bi tter· The second paragraph of Rule 5 carries 105 2 T. H .. 654 00' L . .... """ 0 ly controversial point in II ll Poslal Chess on this idea for an occasion in which the 1010 · . . . . .08 regulations. It does seem to make record l UG 11 94 ollponellt fails to Ilole that. a move is am 1022 c " 8201 ing all unduly ,·ital factor in Pvstal Chess. biguous. I n such, the ambiguous move '" · .. . . 11 02 Fll r in over- the-board play, one net.xI not ,: ...... 0 must slill he corrected (whenever discover· "" " W~ 13:90 generally (ear losin g a game merely (rom ed to be ambiguous) and is to be corrected ."'"0 ~ A . • • . • 1 ~ 18 ,'".. nOling an incorrect move on a score sheet. by Ihc original player of the move. This · . .. 1010 850 ... T he common comillaint of 11001alile! who correction, o( cou rse, renders null and void 1142 ... ---~ --- 1006 ..'"0 any move(s) Ihat the opponent may have 980 ,8< Inade while ignorant of the true nature o( .. 736 •. 1040 . • . . . 850 1050 .... 1 2 0 ~ the am biguous move. 1184'" 000 ' ''' 1210 . •. 11'"118 '" .. 640 · . . 526 Otherwi se (I) the origi nal player might . . . . . a .. A.I . IO850~ ~ ... 1068 '"59 2 :~;~~: ~~ bt! committed to a move which he did not I . 6~8 o ... S . 850 ...... 992 ~ 1006 actually send; and (2) the opponent ... ·. . ' 5~ ,.. 83 • '"m · . .. . '" . . . ~:;z might be committed to replyin g to a move ]142 J r .. 1458"" m· m which was not actually made. 590 JI-t .J r 1050 1394 ..0 ." . . . . 1038 . . 961 The laSI patllgraph of Rule 5 refers to a y • • • 9UO ... Z . . . .. 1080 different sort of alllbiguity which we shall '" Yaffe L L ·. . . Za hara k ls G .. . IS30 85. ." discuss in the May CHMS REVIEW. ... Yani8 D · ...... "'" Zahorsky T S . . 850 ." 128 CHESS REVIEW, APRIL, 1949 lllTE TO PLAY A:\D WIN! Position afta 1 WApparent.ly the position IJ-Q2. Whit.e can ,~ll'" RESTIHCTED mobility in an ending can be a fatal dis is hopdessly bloeked hut a bOlh weak poinls only at advantagc onc which turns an othcrwisc cvcn posi close look show~ that White KB3. Black ean simultane· ha~ thc "bettcr" Bishop: it ou~ly defend them only at tion into a certa in loss. Recognizing thc morbid j~ acti ve while Black's piece ... Kl. If it were Black's symptoms or rcstriction is routinc for a skillful play· i~ pa~sive. ~IoJ"eover, Black move in t1w original position, er. Schclfout (Whitc) not only saw his chance against lllust guard two weak Pawns she would have to ahandon (at . .. QIB und .. . KIN). OJ]C of the~e Pawtl~. There, Miss MCllChik; he exploited it. Whitc moves up thc T he burning issuc is whethcr fore White sets out to lose pag-e, Black down. she can do it. a move! Position after 2 B-Rl!, Position aitrr 3 B- B3. Positioll after 3, .. B 5 IJosition afta 4 ... B- 2 /i- Kl. Whitc\ second 3 With superh ecollomy of 4 Q2; 1- /ix/U'. Black Ill; S Il-KIJ! Rather nwve is the key to his plan lllean~. White has achieved elioses to give up the Houk than immediately abandon to shift the onus vf moving his objective: this is thc Pawn for if 3 ... B- B2; 4 ... KN4 hy moving h! ~ r King, onto his 0PPvJlenL Without original position hnt now it Ih!3P, lJxi'; .) B- Kil, 13 - N6; Blaek ]"( ~ treal~ her Bishop access to Hl, White could IS Black's m01!~. The com 6 P-B6, BxP; 7 [,- H7! Or only to have 'Vhite pounce not win, Nor 'would he score pulsion to move works a ter ;) ... K- B2 and 4 K-N5 wins savagely after it. Notice how if Black had a similar l"duge. rihle hardship on the defend· In rOllline fa~hion. After White eontinually restricts Tite limit.ed scope vf Black's (;f in sueh cases and now she \\"hite'~ fourth move, be i~ the movements of Black's Bishop IS thc dec isiv {~ factor must unguard one of the muterial ahead but. must Bishop and k(){~ps the Zllg· here. weak rawn~, still furce ill his King. ~n'allg III force. 1,--osr,twn Itj tn .~- . .. B - Position after (j .. K Position aflCr 9 K-K3, Posilion after 11 ... K 6 lV2; v 8-Q7! Naturally 7 lV3 ; 7 K-N3, K-/J3, I) K- 8 K-IJ3; 10 K-Q4, JJ-R1; 9 Q2; 12 K-K.), Resigns. Black had to vrotect the 1J3, K-,"i.l Blaek is finally 11 8-E8t Once White's King With no moves for hcr Bish· Qlleell Bishop Pawn and al ohliged In move her King III reaches Q4, DJaek's King "p, Black has to give way low further e()llfillem"llt of onl,,[' to guard the Pawn anri canno[ dally iJac,k and forth anri lhe While King marehes her Bishop. Nnw Whit~ now til<:' White King swings bul. must stay to guard ... 1Il. 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