E-Magazine

Interactive E-Magazine Volume 3 • Issue 2 March/April 2012

Chess

C Seraphim Press Commander in Chess-Presidents Who Played Chess White Review Chess E-Magazine March/April - 2012 Table of Contents

Editorial~ “My Move” 4 contents

Feature~ Understanding the 5

ARTICLE~ Bill Wall’s Top 20 Chess Books 9 INTERACTIVE CONTENT Biography~ The Remarkable Reshevsky 10 Portrait of a Prodigy

Feature~ Chess Puzzles 16

Article~ Chess Clubs and Organizations 17

Feature~ Themed Chess Pieces 22

In Retrospect~ Spassky Vs. Lorinci 24 Annotated Game

ARTICLE~ News Around the World 25

BOOK REVIEW~ Versus Amateur 26 edited by Jacob Aagaard and John Shaw

Feature~Death and Chess Players 27

COMMENTARY~ “Ask Bill” 31 White Knight Review March/April 2012 White Knight Review March/April 2012

My Move Editorial - Jerry Wall

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This publication has been somewhat of an experiment. When we started this e-magazine over a year ago we had no idea whether it would have any interest or not. It would be hard to gauge any success White Knight apart from offering a free subscription and gathering an email list and seeing if that Review would grow to any great length. I must say I was pleasantly Chess E-Magazine surprised to see how much that email list has grown in a year. Checking stats on our website has also helped to Executive Editor/Writer By Bill measure hits and visits and again we were delighted to see a slow but steady growth each month. Bill Wall [email protected] Wall Printing this magazine at this time would certainly be cost prohibited but by making it an e-magazine we could offer it as a free download costing us only the labor and Feature website cost. The surge of electronic devises such as Publisher /Editor/ Creative iPhones, iPads, tablet PC’s and e-book readers have also Director Gerald Wall Chess rating systems have been by the system to classify players. helped to make this a viable media for today’s market. Also used for pairing purposes in League of America (CCLA). The the advantages of adding interactivity to the magazine [email protected] chess tournaments as well as CCLA was founded in 1909. In In 1948, the Ingo rating system such as hyperlinks in the Table of Contents, page scrolling, estimating playing strength. 1940, it was using a point sys- was created. It was designed email links and even video inserts are helping to drive this A tournament director wants tem designed by Kenneth Wil- by Anton Hoesslinger (1875- digital format. to avoid pairing the strongest liams. 1959) and named after his home Production/ Marketing town, Ingolstadt in . It Still unfortunately, the time and effort that Bill and I put Steve Wall players against each other in the early rounds of was used by the West Ger- into this pub have not been offset by the support of [email protected] man Chess Federation from advertising as we had hoped. We want to continue to try to a tournament. Rat- ings are also used for The introduction of chess rating systems 1948 until 1992. It was then offer this as a free publication and continue to put out what tournament section- replaced by the Elo system, I think is one of the best Chess pubs out there. So we are For Subscription ing and prize eligibili- may have done more to popularize tour- named after its creator Dr. asking you to help by either advertising or donating what [email protected] ty. Sections or Class- nament chess than any other single factor. (1903-1992), a ever you can to help us out. Thanks for