JULY 1960
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN ( s .... pag .. 1961
60 CENTS
Subscription Rat. ONE YEAR 56.00 1 White t o move 2 Blaek to move AFTER ALL, IT'S OBVIOUS! Wh en 11 mate is in thE' orr· Here you a ctually have an How often ha ve you. and a j·oom fu l of ~ I )e l ·ta to rs. s een a Ing. It may h:\\"e been all· equality in material. But Is mate In t ll"O or t hree. but the player. nfte .· II brow n ~ l \1{ I J". sured by shoer fOl" t:e : but. II nm te Ilossible ? T he White m issed ll? Il may be hard. Indeed, to build up a good mo .·e often. the HU ac ker hall 1\: ln,lt Is t ucked a way m ighty Dl atlng aunck: but. when the mate Is there. it is so milch e:q)ended ma terial to get t he s nuggly. anti your pie ces the obvious objel'llve that it nevel" !!11ou ld be missed! He'"e ehllnl·e. Here t he ·'in'·est· seem l'I lmost ill each ot her's you know the mate is t here in ea<,h "o ~h l on (un less yon ment ·· hal< beE'1! dlea p way. I ... ;\"xKP ill a l'l'lIr· don·t t r ust UlS .) So annoull<:e It! Sco re your self excellent and yet timely. fo r note t he ent!)' a sm·e enough win . fot" 10 (·one(:t lSo lntions: good for S: fait· fOI· 6. And we d Olle ri~k l"Cpl·esented in But is it artistic? In rad. i ~ hope you enj()~' th e "ariety of vexations. t he threat of . .. QxHt. Bosh il a win? No! Yes? Well. Solutions on page 2 19. to nil t hrentll: rOil mate! look fOl" II s UI·e mate !
3 White to move 4 Blaek to move 5 White to move , Black to move It's alll'II}">! u ·kky to be Here Wllito ,·(,!"ln iuly has You :l ro H 1100k Ilown here. F01· thilt Illilllel". entelechy down a n RxdlHllJ;e fOl" one t he m:ltel·ln l : but he nel"er bllt. uudoubtedly. Oil the rlgures in this I)()sition. too. Pawn or the I""al·tical equh;· reallv got It unlim bered. teleoloJ;itnl mot inltion of llIal· k d id 1I0t take on t he alent, a!! here. to ha I'e a Gh·e hiln time. of ,·ou rse . estabilshlllj!: 'i ng nu mber - wl l hout fo reseeing whal tion s m:h !\>' t his. a ll the Iy to engineer t he ,·il'oste of t ries, mO'·e o r less phw>;l· he \\" a ~ going to get In I"C' "tricks'· a r e thoroughly saluta ry. Or. In IJ lain Eng· ble . A vllriet y o f choke", l·Hl' turn. The fl.i WRlion Is just agreeable oll es fO!· your own Iish. it. III time for you LO be 111'f!.e n in g 0"0'· the board. u·icky e nough. though . that side. You I·:tn ~ l!!· ely shoot get m ovln!:: alHI annOIlJl(·e Jus t pick the right line her e. yon may have to lI~ratch a the wOl·k H -- for mate. lhe mate! bi t rOl· the solntlon. See It 1
7 Wh ite to move 8 Bl aek to move 9 White to move 10 Black to move The position here Is some· Here·1I a nother· game not How would it chess doctor The a ll·out King·s ide al· what quaint. In one "ay. it yet OU t of the opening! It d ill gnose illill"k·s position ? tRe k stemming from Black·s is hardly ont of t he open· is eM}, to lIee tha t Bifl(·k He seellllS J·ei\~ollabJy well Ollt ch Defense "rob:lbly eall ing. and yel hO I\" did \\'hite's malle a big silialih with a ... del·eloped. exeellt ing only be me t a nd t hrown back too Queell get po!! ltloued a head BxP1 lind 1)I"()ba bly ... Q thl'l t hi!! Queen Bis hop has easily by It true Ula s ter. III of the m!lwl· Iliecell? Most· Ra, lind ... 1'\ - K57 in thal no .·elt l sco lle. 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NASSAU COUNTY CHESS CLUB Phone: OR-4-8698 Always open Kennedy Memorial Park Hempstead, New York Meets every Wednesday evening. JERSEY CITY YMCA CHESS CLUB 664. Bergen Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. Meets at 7:30 PM FOr how your club can be iisted Every Tuesday and Friday write to CHESS REWIE7W. 194 CHESS REVIEW, JULY, 1960 CHESS Vol. 18, No.7 REVIEW JULY, 1960 INTERNATIONAL CALIFORNIA ert Jacobs of Louisville, who at 3% to T he 27th Annual Nort hern California I Y2 wa s hi ghest ranking Kentuckian. World Postal Title \' 5. Southe rn California Chess Match, a J a<;(lbs linished sixth_ The second World Correspondence classic b trastate eve nt invaria bly noted At 4 to I, sccond through fou rt h were C hanll)j on ~ h i ll went to V. Ragosin of the for hoth thc quantity and q ualit y of the Paul i\'loneJl of Ga 1")', Indiana ; Andrew Soviet Uni on wit h II score of 11 -::1. L. chess it prod uces, WilS won by the North Schoene. ~o rfo l k , Virginia; and Al Quill. Endzel in s of Australia and Lothar Schmid wit h a 29-22 tally. South Californ ians dry. J acksonville, Illinois, in 5_ -B. tie of West Germany, with 1O%-3 Vz each, I. Kashd,m and Z. Kuvacs defeat ed L break order. Aft er them, in order, were : placed £ccon cl 1II1 (i third res[Jcctivciy on Koni g and W. Pafnulieff on first and Angelo Sandrin, Chicago; J acobs ; P at II tie-breakin g basis. A. Lundqvist of second boards respectiv ely. Amung the Fursec, Lou isvi lle; Carl Spies, !\Iempliis, Sweden, 9%·4;.]:, f j ni ~ h e d fourth. stalwarts who won for th e North were T c nn c~ s ce ; Ed. Gudhold, Ch ical!o; A_ 1. Schmitt, V. Zemitis, H. Burger, O. ? I i~ h in , }Iilwnukee; and AHldred Morrell, Tourney in Holland Celie ant! A. J anushkows ky. Gary. Ind iana. Sandor 01 Hungary and Wade of Ne w S. tohllnel' of Fullerton J uni or College Richard W. Shields, former Louis"ille Zealand, ell ch 41h·lY2, divided the fi rst and H. G ross of Lung Beli ch S tate Col and Kent ucky cham Ili on, di recte!1 the IWO prizes in an international c ve lll lit e vent. lege we re tied at 41/2-% ill Ihe second an Zwolle, HoilAnd. liltllanowi cl'; of Pola nd nual Cali fornia cha mpionship, Ihe nod was third with 4-2. going to :\1atzner on Solkoff points. MISSOURI Forty-four players from nine states con UNITED STATES COLORADO ve rged on St. Louis to compete in the J\'li s· ,Meeting in the final roun d of lhe Co lo souri Open Championship_ won by Jamcs Amateur Champion rudo Statll Team Championship, the Den ?f. Wright of Kansas City with a tally of What lhe USeF calls the "Amateur ve r Chess Club and the Boulder Che:s 5Y2 - Y~ . Runner- up was Willin m Bachel Cbam ll ionship" of the Un it ed States, II Club lied at 3-3 and wou nd up with der, 5-1, and next, with 4%-1% eli ch, six rou nd Swiss at Asbury Park, New match scores of 3%- % ellch. Al H ulmes wc re Leonll rd Carmody, Charles Spon J ersey, was won by .Manhattan Chess Cl ub of Denver won an epic game of 123 mov es agle snd Robert B. Potter, who tllaced member, Ruul Bell edito of New York, against Kenneth Mundt of Boulde r. The thirll to lihh respectively on tie-breakin g 6-0. Leslie H. Ault of Cranford, New Denver men we re declarcd tcam cham· point s_ Robcrt Jacohs of Louisville be Jersey, was desi gna ted second, though he Il ions on the basis of superior game totals. callie j unior OIICIi titl eholder alld Paul tied with John Fab io of P aterson, ill. J. Taylur of Kansas Ci ty emerged as junior 154 participll ted, and M. Nevid of Bo· IDAHO stat l: champi rlll . T he prizes totaled more chester, N. Y., led in A Division ; Eric Mike Franc,t of Sea tl le, 4%.1,6 , took than $300. Greenba um of West Orange, N. 1. in B ; fi rst place in the 20 player Idaho State M rs. M. Fuchs of New York in the Open, fo llowed by Farrell L. Clark, Don NEW YORK wOlll en's division. ald Turne r, Gaston Cha ppui s and Phil As usunl. the grand fi nale of the Met_ U.S. Student Team Dolph_ Cla rk was t unne r·u p on tie ropolitan Che ~s Leaguc of New York breaking cons iderat ions_ brought together tli e country's IWO lead Bill Lombardy, Cbarles Kallll e, Edlllnr ing che.;;s clubs. the Manhattan and the Medni.;;, Haymond Weinstein and Anthony IOWA !'<'farshall, rC llresented by a verita ble ar Said }' will make UII the US team in the T hc ncw state titlehol der is Robert rny of who's who in national and int e r_ " world stude nt chess team chamllionshill" Bradley of Cedar Rapids as a result of a national cheiis. As usual, also, the Man_ to held in Len ingrad, J uly 18 to Au· be 41,6-1,6 showing in the slate chanlp;omhip hau an ites won , though not hefore the gust 2. The United Stat es Chess Federa· tou rn ey. Ray Ditri c h ~, Kenneth Grant and Marshall team exploded a bombshell by tion, the j\meri can Chess Foundation lind Dan Rey nolds ti ed at 4-1. The state jun starling off with vi clodes over two of th ~ th e State D l~ partment arc sponsoring tI le ior co-champions are Boh Burrell and ll\ost for mida ble of th e Manhattan play trip. Doug Nassif. ers (P. Beuko and Al Horowitz), estab· REGIONAL lishing a probable wi n in an adjonrned KENTUCKY gallic wit h a nother ,Mnnhattan star (W. Victory for McCormick T he championship of the state of Ken_ Lombanly) and dra wi ng wi th two more In the Pacific Northwest Open, J ames tucky was copped this year by Charles Manhauan virtuosos (A. Bisguier and G. McCormick of Seattle yi elded only one Weldon of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, scoring 5hains wit) . draw, to J ulius Loftsson. and defeated 4 1/ ~ to ~ in a 23 Ill an Swiss System of 5 In Ihe end. llowever, the powe r of the fi ve players to capture fi n t prize. He rounds at the Louisvi lle YM CA. :\fanhallan line-u p asserted iLsell, and was followed by John Braley, 5-1, and T hus, he won the S50 first p ri~e , hut five of the six adjourned games in the Arthur Wang and Loftsson, each 4%- 1%. th e Showalter T ro phy, donated hy the 10 board match cventually went in to the Twenty.eight ent rants took part. Luui sv ilJe Courier-Journal, went to Roh- Manha tt an winn ing column. Notable con- CHESS REVIEW, JULY, 1960 195 tributors to ?o.bnhattan's ultimate triumph were S. 'Reshevsky and Arnold Denker. The sixth adjourned game, between J. Sherwin and W. Lombardy, was called a draw de<; pite Lombard\i'S poor prospeclS, inasmuch as Ille latter would have had to make a s pecial trip to playoff the game a nd a Marshall victory would not have affeeted the final resuh. The sum· maries foll ow, with Manhattan players named first and playing White ( HI the odd·numbered hoards : P. Benko, 0, H. Weinstein, 1; A. Bisgui er, :th, E. Mednis, %; W. Lombardy, lh, J . Sherwin, l/z; S. Reshevsky, 1, A. Saidy, 0; A. Denker, 1, S. llernstein, 0; I. A. Horowi tz, 0, A. E. Sant8siere, 1; A. DiCamillo, 1, C. P ilnick, 0; K. Buq;er, 1, J . Collins, 0; H. Sussman, 1, J. Wcstbrock, 0 ; G. Shainswit, %, S. Margulies, Jh. T hus Manhattan won by 6%·3%. NORTH CAROLINA In the North Carolina Invitational Toul" nament, which was a round robin of the state's six top players, first place we nt to Dr. A. ~l Jenkins with 4Y2'Y2, ahead of runner·up Dr. Norman l\t Hornstein. Saint Lo u is High School Chess Clu b: front: M. Corriveau, R. Charbonneau, G. Gagne; Tied for third and fourth were Oliver back: Brother Armand, E. Boucher , D. Lessard, V. P ina rd and R. La p ierre. See HutaH a nd Paul Newton. it em under Ma ine in " Local Events." Brother Armand was a Go ld en Knighter. Gatc Class B Raling 'fournamenL Irving Once again the Knight Klub Chessmen LOCAL EVENTS Frank, 3¥2·1Yz, placed third in th e 14" of Chicago jousted s u c ce~ fully with their Cali/Ofilia. With a perfect 5·0 taily, R. man competition. rivals, unhorsing the Arthington YMCA Baker won the Fresno city championshilJ, Final standings in Division A of the San Chess Club by 7·} and the new Chicago followed by A. Tange, 3%·P/2. Francisco Bay Area Chess League saw Central YMCA Chess Club hy 8·6. KK P. D. Smith of Fresno and T. fries of tho Mechanics' Institute Knigh1 s win out winners against Arthington were Chark'S Los Angeles, each 4-1 and with the sallie with a 4·1 match scorc. Golden Gate was Adams, Ray McGuire, K ramer, C. Meyer, Solkoff I)oints, shared the cash prizes and second with 3Y2·1¥Z. K. i\'fcGregor, T. Casper and J erdee. For top honors in the San J oaquin Valley Santa Monica outclassed th ree other Arthington, the sole wi nner was Esposito. Championship. teams in Class I of the Southe rn Califor· In the lighter COn test versus the Central The Precita Valley title event was nia Chess League wil h a score of 3Y2.¥.!, YMCA, scorers of fu ll points for the KK bagged by Lowell T ullis, 6-1, in frolll of "'ell ahead of LOll g Beach. in second were G. VOh1., C. Meyer, G. Vandertuin, Ted Wong and Jim Fletcher, each 5·2. IIlace with 2·2. W. Duttny, K. McGregor, 1. Kraynak After drawing with each other in the Fl orilia. Scoring an unbroken series of and T. Casper. Central Yi\lCA ViclOI'S first round. Carl Hunekt and Dan Mc· successes, the University of Florida Chess were S. Rosen, 111 Ptacek, O. Christen· sen, V. Snialorius and R. Kilsmiller. Leod went 011 to score four straight and Cluh defeated the Orlando Che ~s Cl ub by share first place in the initial Golden 7lj2·4Y2, the Tampa Cbess Club by 7·0 Adams and Dudek of the KK drew with and the SI. Petersburg Chess Club by 5·2. Wheeler and Bikulis respectively. Idaho. A 7·0 sweep gavt: the Boise cham· The Chicago Central YMCA Chess Club pionship to Phil Dolph. Dick Vandenburg, lost a close match to the Oak P ark Ch es~ ON THE COVER Club when the Inlie r came through with The front cover this month Is a shot 6-1, and A. L. Ha rle, 5·2, fi ni shed second and third respectiv ely in the 18 player a 7·6 margin. For Oak Park, the willn ers of former World Champion Dr. Max were Max Kobli3h, Delures Herzog. Jael.: E uwe, lecturing on the recent match be· evelli. Barnes, Charles Brolski , Pa ul Adall1 ~ . tween Botvlnnlk a.nd Tahl to a la rge Allowing but two { I raw~, Ted Hartwell, gallery in Milwaukee. 13·1 , dominated the T win Falls Chess John Neilsen and :\Iontgolllcry -'I ajur. We speak of him as the Flying Dutch· Cl ub championship. T rail ing with 9%.4112 Relaliating for lhe Cen tral Y:\ICA. Ihough man because we'd IleaI'd he was comlll~ was r lln!ler'U]l Lloyd Kimpton, followed short one vitlll poinl , wcrc Seyml)ur to this country- asked when will he Itr· by Uill Clark, 9·5. Rosen, HughWhetler, Jolm Tyler, John l'ive?- wel'e told, he has and is now In Muench, M. P I(leek and Otto Christensen. MilwauJlee-so, It day oj' so later, we Illinois. T he Auetin Ches~ und Checker asked is he back from Milwaukee yet. Club of Chicago downed the Chicago I n· were told: oh, yes, and he flew back to dustrial Chess League AII·Stars by 7%. BE HIN D T HE JU NIORS Europe yesterday! !! 'Vell, Euwe II\'es In 51;2 through the win ning efforts of J ames T he CliP fO r the U.S. Junior Champion· the airplane age. Warren, J ohn Nowak, Ed Huerger, Paul s hip h; most rtulngly labelled the John The photo shown Is by tbe Milwaukee Adams, Frank Ha ubold, Walte r Alberts W. CollIns T I·o phy. Some mention has Journa l, forwarded by Ernest Ol[e, wllo been made hl these Ilages, notably by writes: " Dr. Euwe could lI ot say ellough a nd Bob Stein. Victors for tile Industrial AI·thm· Blsgu\er. ot how well and how about the chess enthusiasm here." Also. Lcague were D. Lazarevich, Anthony unselfis hly Jack Collins has promoted and possibly In the same context, lie Vikrikas, M. Mejzr, E rw in Puto and Don the chess dll;'elopment of quite a num· quotes Dr. Euwe: "r have hEard so milch McCluskey. Klein (Austin) drew with bel' or our jUnior s tars, past and present. a bout Milwaukee - now I know." Walter Elliott. The cup Is weU named. 196 CH ESS REV I EW, JULY , t 960 Loui.siana. New Orleans skewered Balon Rouge by 10·2, with victories for the for· mer going to A. L McAuley, Al Wills, Andy Lockett, Kenneth Vine ~, Steve Buin· ing, Robert Wright, Lloyd Lowy, Hans Bogatsch, Karl Berghofer and William Waguespack. James West and Henry Owen re~isted for Baton Rouge. A 5·0 swet:p ea rned the New Orleans junior su premacy for Byron Wall. Maill c. With a rousing 5·0 victory over the Portland High School, the S1. Louis High School completed its regular schedule by taking ten out of cleven matches. Out· standing SI. Louis players were Robert Lapierre, Victor Pinard, Donald Lessard, Ernest Boucher, Gilles Gagne, Marcel Corriveau and Richard 'Charbonneau. The Portland Chess Cluh edged Water· ville by 411z.3Y2. winners fur Portland being Harluw Daly, Jeffrey Duucettc, Raymond Duval and Juseph Casey. \V'ater· Bankers' "Athletic" Chess party controlling the space rented reneged ville vi ctors were David Gruss, Bub Risch At a dinner winding up the activities uf on a verJJ.d agreement on a lea~e. and Delvin Smit\i. Por tland c ity charn· the Bankers Athletic Le(lglle, a rapid "I can whip any mall in the house," piun Stanley £lowiteh drew with Larry trans it tournament, comprising a field of said a vlSlling seamun at Chumley's Eldridge. 62 entries, was won by P eter Andina of Greenwich Vi llage restaurant, uffering to IIfassar;liusetts. Dr. Kurt Hirschmann won play (".hess for up to-1- S200 a gamc. He the Chemical B(lnk New York Trust Cu., the Pittsfield YMCA Chess Club title for lost, at no stakes, to free·lance writer ahead of runner·up Michael Shannon of the six th time in ten years with a convinc· Loren Disney. then argued the g(lllle with the ?'forgan Gua ranty Trust Co. and third ing 8Y,z·1% tall)'. Second \\'(lS Georgc free·lancer Clinton Curti ~ . Curtis struck prize winner Alexander "Farago. of the Munson, who d efeated Hirschmann, and him; he punched buc k, forgetting the First National City Bank. These players third w~s Fred Townsend. glass in hi ~ hand. The glass shattered, are not identified in Ihe accompanying Phillips Academy at Andover was host cut Curtis' thmut, and 'Curtis died. illustration. to Brooks, Gru~un and Exeter schools, with Exetcr searing a brilliant sweep in interschool play. i11issonri. In 11 round robin for the St. A GREAT BOOK by a GREAT TEACHER Luuis District title. R. H . Steinme~·er won conclu3ivcly with an BYz-% score, yielding unly one draw to L. C. Stephens. The latter was runner·lIp with 7-2, while 1. D. CHESS SECRETS Define, 6%-2%, placed third. by EDWARD LASKER Nebraskfl. The fine seore of 12Yz,lYz en· abled A, Lic;lllirks to finish 1% points aheal] of both AI!ton Silrlmels and Cantor Zimmerlilan in a rOllnd robin for th e N this mellow volume of memoirs, Lasker offers championship of Li ncoln. Sildmels wa~ I a wealth of fascin ating detail about his name second lifter ti e.brf'aking. sake Emanuel, Capablanca, Alekhine. Nimzovich and New fori,. Erich W. 1Iarchand of Roches· other great players of past and present, from whom ter, 4Y:l·yz. wun l\ first prizc of $50 in he learned the fine points of chess by crossing swords the l\lapll' Cit)' Open at Hornell. T ied for with them. A member of the armed forces writes: second were :i\t Rosenhloom and R. " . ... My heartiest congratulations on what I cun· O'Neil, each 4_1. Sad news fo r chess, particularly in the sider a monumental piece of wor k, outstanding in a New York metropolitan area is the un Tare combination uf instruction, entertainment and sheer reading pleasure.. .. timely demise of the Crussroads Club. I was SOrry when I reached the end b ut found the second reading even more enjuy. Wonde rful as were the promises in the able . ... I have actually been trying in vain to recall any book which has given me ads which that club ran in CHESS RE· so much enjoyment as this one." 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RR Trnt: Round . - Robin Tourna.ment (each man plays every other man). KO Tmt: Knock_out Tourna_ "Resign? NEVER" ment (losers or low lIeorera eliminated). Conception: AI Gowan All right ~ ,·ese,.ve(1 Photography; Mike Graznan ,,: Cuh prizes. EF': Entry fee. CC: Chess Club. CF': Chen FederatIon. CAl Chen As sociation. CL: Chus League. Rd: rounds. Arkansas _ July 30 to 31 S. A. Schmitt, 114 Church St.. Kitchener, 41h Annual Arkansas Open at Majestic Ont., Canada. 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Louis and probable 20, prelims 8:30 AM , 10 seconds per right to play in US Championship in New move: EF $5, 58: Women's Champion_ York City: other S$ and trophies to be ship separate, if 12 or more so elect, announced: 9 Rd SS Tmt, 50 moves/27~ otherwise title to highest woman in Open: hours, 20 moves/hour after: some free o )98 CHESS REVIEW, JULY, 1960 Texas . A perfect 5·0 tally gained the Saskatchewan BulCJaria championsrup 01 the Houston Chess Club [n the Northern Chamllionship fin al reo The Bulgari an women's championship for William Bills. Considerably behind cently concluded at Saskatoon, K. Gra· was credited to Ven ka Assenova, 10·1. were T. Nard, 3%·1%, and B. Patlenon, ham of Regina conquered with II 6·1 tally. 3·2. The current provincial titleholder, E. HunCJary Szabo broke a triple tie for the national Utah. The Sperry Chess team dispatched Hoehn, was runner·up with 5%-1%, fol· lowed by O. Draunieks, 5,2. title by scoring 5 points in a fou r·round an Ogden group by 9·6 and the Tbiokol tourney again~ t Barcza'!! 4 and Portsich's Chell Club hy 12¥2.8Y2. Sperry victors 3. in the Ogden match werl! T. Pathakis, B. Peterson, R. Shipperl, C. Stevens, C. Fin· LATIN AMERICA South Africa ley, R. Jensen, G. Weeks, R. Miller and A. N. Rubenstein, 81h-2Yz, captured the B. ThinneL Ogden's wins we re registered Cuba Western Province title, with I. Bekerman, by Paul Jeffs, Pickerin~ , Ralston, Alvard, Wi nner of the Cuban national cham· 8-3, placing second. Thonte!'lson and Davenport. Versus Thio· pionship was EleaUir J iminez, who went The South Africa n Correspondence kol, full points for Sperry were made by undefeated through the title event, emerg· Cham)lionship W85 won by L. R. Reit· T. Pathakis, J. Goocoma, A. Lieberman, ing with six wins and fh'e draws. Close stein, 61)~- 1 1,.2 . R. Meany, R. Bassett, B. Eldredge, T. behind were E. Cobo and J. Gonzalez, Hone, G. Weeks, D. Jacobs, D. Stoker each 8·3, with Ca bo taking second on and C. Detzel, as against Thiokol's wins S.·B. poin ts. The final round game be· Your Chess Style gained by B. Luskin, R. Knudson, R. tween Jiminez and Gonza lez wa.s reported and Your Personality Lamhourne, L. Menderink, F. Babcock, as a taut struggle requiring all of J im· Cm:s~ R':VIEW has reeeived a clipping M. Cooms and H. Pulsipher. Three games inez' defensive skill in order to draw the from Bamie Winkelman on lhe suhject were dr.lwn in Ihis match. game and win the championship. of chess as a sort of persf)nality indicator. Scoring an invincible 12·0 sweep or II seems that the actor, Anthony Quin n, " picket fence," K. R. Jones easily an· Mexico uses chess to get a line on human nature. nexed the round robin for Ihe Reno ci ty The Seyenth National Championship Feeling tllal characler traits are orten reo championship. Following al a dderential T ournainent, attended br no players, vealed in a game of chess, Quinn says distance were Wayne Chapman, 9~·2%, was WO!l. by A. Iglesias with 7 points, fol· that he brought a che5s set on location and 1. E. Kimpton, 9-3. lowed by J. Camerena wilh the same while the film, "Gun s oi Navarone," was game ~c ore but fewer S.·B. ))O ints. The being shot in Greece. He then played Wa.,/lillgton. The new Pierce County first ten players, in addition to Iglesias chess with five other slars becauM: he champion is Russ Hewitt, 6lh.'%, com· and Camerena, were A. Perez, G. Mij ares, wished, III rus own words. to know more fortably ahead of Charl es Allyn, 5·2, and J. J. Mnndn gon, J . J . Araiza Jr., A. Ace· about them for the purpose of more ef· defending champion Verllon Holmes, 4-%. vedo, A. Ferr i:!:, R. Trevino and F. Ace· fectively portraying scenes of close cam· 2%. There were eleven competitors. vedo, all of whom are scheduled to en· araderie. Results or the chess research : Frank Ashley won the Spokane Closed gage in a fall tournament. Gl"egory Peck "plays (\ slow, calculated Championship with an 8-2 score. Dr. game ... He does vcry few things im· David Groenig, 6-3, was runner·up. pulsh·ely." David NiYen, on the other FOREIGN hand, is a " devil.may.care fellow" with " a great sense of humor," and Stanley Baker, CANADA Australia who "plays a very hart! game," is aggres· British Columbia Otto Weber, 7·0. ca ptured the Tasman· sive bm " .. . is s good sport" and "likes The championship of the prov ince was ian championship. The runner'Up was Dr. action." Anthony Quail "was a colonel again IIocketed by Canadian open title J . N. Baxter. . .. and you can sense the military in holder E. Maeskasy with 5-1. C. Neufahrt In the City of Adelaide Championship, his thinkin g." As for James Darren, he was sec?nd with 4-2. L. Endzdins had no diHiculty winning "has a bulldog quality and tenacity wh ich with. a 10·1 score, far ahead of the runner· make him the best player of all ...." Ontario up, A. Cun tala, wit!\ 7%·3%. So chess lias become n diagnos ti c 1001. Slobodan Kirc, former CHESs Rr.vu:w A match between New South Wales and postalite and rising Canadian Slar, fin· Victoria, the 66th in a series hilherto in· Chess Professionol's Overhead ished. fi rst in the strong Toronto cham· variabi)· played by telegraph, was con· pionshi p. His 6·2 score was equaled by tested over the hoard at Wagga - the J. Shebaylo, J. Kegel li nd K. Frantzen , first interstate match so played in Aus· but Kirc had enough tie· breaking points tralia. Victory wen t to Ncw South Wales to relegate the others to second, third and by 6%·3%. fourth positions. So dangerous a con· 1.ender as Geza Fuster, international mas· ter, could score only 4%.3%, indicating A Chess·Playln9 President? the over·all power of the fi eld. A timely warning that the- Russians play chess politically as well as on the check· ered squares was voiced recently by Wal· Mrs. Roosevelt on Chess -ter Lippman in hi s widely syndicated col. Showing that she is informed on chess umn on current events. If it turns out and famili ar with the wGrk of the Ameri· thllt the Ru ~sians are j ust too good for can Chess FO'un dation, Mrs. Eleanor us at international "stratagems lind Roosevelt writes in a published comment, spoils" - which is what political chess "I think there is no reasto n why we should amounts to - it may be.hoove us either not have as good chess players in our 10 do ~me homework on chess and elect country as there are in other countries. a President who understands it, or " play" Chess is certainly intere$ting more and the Russians at a game or sport of our more of our young people." own choosing. CttEU REVIEW, JULY, t960 ", LD CHA PIONSHIP MIKHAIL TAH~ Is the New World Chess Champion by V. Panov The tense two-month world chess title match has end ed. The 2]sl game, which proved to be the last, ended in Ii draw after a short struggle. Mikhail Tall J thus heat Mikhail Bot yin. nrk, 12% 10 81h. to win the world chess title. He chalked up six victories, achieved a draw in 13 games, and lost only twice to the former world champion. This fin e score testifies most vividly tha t the 23 year old Soviet and International Grandmaster fully merited Ih is success, the greatest in hi s playing career to date. Mikhail Tahl becomes the ei ghth to bear the world ch ess title since it~ insti· tution in 1886. He is Ii worthy successor 10 the cory phaei 01 chess - Wi lhelm Steinitz., Emanuel Lasker, JOlle Raul Capa. '!';: 1" 1 , blanca, Al exander Alekh ine, Max Euwe, . ' ...... 1 •• Mikhail Botvinn ik and Vassily Smys lol'. It is a pleasu re for us, Soviet people, to note that half of this fam ous cohort of Another vi ew of the first Tahl-Botvinnik game: SOVFOTO by L. Vetikzhanin chess champions 6re our fellow country· men. Tahl chalked up his first major sue· new feature to modern chess, and that is are shout ed at every corner ! Carry on in cess in 1953 when he became the chess conviction in the need of taking big risks. your own way wi thout iear!" champion of the Latvian S.S.R. A year ft seemed as though Tahl was too bold in This was how Tahl conducted hims elf later, he qualified for the title of Chess many games against Botvinnik, a Soviet in the malch which has just ended. In Master, and then, in 1957·1959, scored a chess classic, who has made valuable Ihe person of the new wo rl d cham Ilio n. number of brilliant victories III the contributions to world chess. T here we hail the resu rgence of Tchigorin's dar. U.S.s.R. cham pionships and international sprang up on the chessboa rd Imzzlin g ing. fervent and resolute style of play tou rnaments. He thus proved hi., superi. situations with mutual weak points and enriched with all the achi e\'elnents of the ority over leadin g Soviet and foreign chances. The outcome of the struggle was Soviet chess theory. Grandmasters. decided by Tahl's swift thinking. He The new chess king will have to with· But each world champion is no! on ly spent half as milch timc as his opponent stand the pressure of many dangerous So· the strongest of leading players. He is in pondering ovcr moves. The Riga viet and foreign rivals. His talents con· also an innovator ill both Iheory and prac· Grandmaster's resourcefulness, laclical tinue to develop as borne 0111 not llbly in tice of the ancien t lind ever yo ung JJIlS' ingenuity and faith in himself lind his the latest match in which Bol\·innik di s· time of chess. Without this knack of success - all this also Jlla yed a decisive played more profound knowledge of in troducing novelties, Mikhail Tahl would Ilart. We im'ohmtarily recll ll the follow· strategy and of theory of openings tha n not have succeeded in win ning the che s.~ ing conclusion drawn by i\'likhail Tchi· Tahl. But TDhl's YOll th, the magni· crow n. He is a pupil and a typical I·ep· gorin alter 40 tense years of chess Illay. tude of his talents, his great will to ,,·i n resentative of the Sovi et chess school ing and writing: " Do you know wherein and abili ty in traini ng himself sen 'e as whose vivid combinational style r e m i nd ~ lies the secret of success? It is nO L to an earnest that the ba nncr of the Soviet us of our great fellow countrymen, Tclli · be afraid of anything ! You must not be chess school and th e world chess crown gorin and Al ekhin e. Tahl has added n afraid of those famous weaknesses which are in reli abl e hands. THE RECORD OF THE MATCH Game 1 French Oefense 32 moves won by Tah l Game 12 Queen's Ga mbi t Declined 41 mo ves Drawn Game 2 BenoP'lI CouP'l ter 44 move. Drawn Game 13 Reti OpeniP'lg 16 moves Drawn Game 3 Caro·Kann Defense 37 moves Drawn Game 14 Nimzo.lndian Defen.e 22 moves Drawn Game 4 Ni mzo·lndian Defense 40 moves Drawn Game 15 Caro·Kann Defense 41 moves Drawn Ga me , Caro·Kann Defense 43 moves Drawn Game 16 Nimzo- tnd ian Defense 40 moves Drawn Ga me , King's Indian Defense 46 moves won by Taht Ga me 17 Caro-K ann Defense 41 moves won by Tahl Game 7 Caro·Kann Defense 52 moves won by Taht Game 18 Nimzo- Indian Defense 76 moves Drawn Game 8 BeP'lon i Counter 41 moves won by Botvi nnik Game 19 Dutch Defense 41 moves won by Tahl Game , Caro.K'P'l n Defense 58 moves WOP'l by BotvinP'li k Game 20 Nimzo·t P'ld ian DefeP'lse 27 moves Drawn Gam e 10 King" Indl a P'l Defense 60 moves Drawn Gam e 21 Queen's [P'ldi a P'l Defense 17 moves Drawn Gam ~ 11 King's In dian Defense 72 moves won by Tahl T"hl woo 6 games; Botvlnnik 2; 13 were drawn CHESS REVIEW, JULY, 1960 ~og Russian Comment on the Match wh ile Botvinnik used an hour. From the The first five moves duplicated those Concluded outset, 130tvinn ik sought exchanges and in Game 14. But Botvinnik was not in utmost sim()lification, even though Tahl the same mood as his rival. He played (by Y. Auerbakh) Game 13 held a two point lead in the mateh. mueh more strongly and gained a small The Shortest Game. Queens and half of the light pieces but firm positional advantage. Tahl, as The second half of the match began on were exchanged in 22 moves. Tahl de usual, played faster and obviously was in April 14. The first dozen games had pro clined a Knight sacrifice as the Champion a hurry to simplify the position, succeed ceeded in exceptionally keen struggle, reo could have retained material advantage. ing in exchangin g both pairs of Hooks and qUlnng ulmost tension of strength on the a couple of light pieces. But he was still parI of both Grandmasters. Foll owing exchanges, both players had unable to prevent White's Queen and Tahl opened with the Queen Bishop a pair of Rouks, a Bishop and seven Knight from penetrating the heart of his Pawns, but White's pieces were more ac Pawn in Game 13, to repeat the opening position. He was forced to surrender a which proved so successful in Game 11. tively deployed. Tahl prevented counter_ Pawn but managed to improve his posi The opponents set up their white· field play on the Queen-side while launching a tion somewhat. Pawn offensive on the King-side. At the Bishops on the longest diagonal. Soon When the Champion began 10 experi moment, Botl'innik had only 16 minutes afterward, White transferred his Queen to ence time trouble, Tahl not only won back left for moves. T he Champion, there the King-side in a threatening position. 11 his Pawn: he built up a threatening fore, limited himself to temporizing moves Two moves later, Botvinnik had an op counter-attack. A bit too hasty himself, with his Bishop. portunity to exehange Queens a nd quite however, in the end of the game he per reasonably did so_ After furt her ex T ahl pondered long over Ilis 34th lllove, mitted a Queen exchange which was in changes, the peaceful outcome was in then broke through with a Pawn sacrifice_ vain_ T he game was adjourned with a evitable, and Botvinnik agreed to his Despite his time trouble, Botvinnik put Knight and four Pawns for each side. rival's suggestion of a draw. up stiff resistance. Tah! won his Pawn Tahl phoned the chief umpire, Grand_ It is quite natural that, after a month back with the more active position as the master Stahlberg, next morning, to say he of tiring struggle, the players have de game was adjourned. proposed a draw. Shortly afterward, word cided to give themselves a little rest. This .Botvinnik scaled, but ~ a draw was agreed came from Botvinnik that he accepted. has happened in previous world title Without play the next day as home an (Botl'innik's sealed move was 41 P-QR4.) matches, notahly in the Capablanca-Alek. alysis showed White could not cash in on hine match in 1927 when each victory his slight Jlositional advantage_ Game 17 (by V. Panov) was followed by a series of drawn games. Botvinnik's sealed move proved to be Tahl opened hostilities by advancing Game 14 (by Y. Auerbakh) the best : 41 ... R-QB2. his King Pawn. T he Grandmasters launch After an interval due to Tahl's illness, ed into a variant of the Caro-Kann al Game 14 was played on April 19. Chess Game 16 (by V. Panov) ready used a number of times, Botvinnik, fans tried not to be late for the start, for This game, played April 23 and 24, however, declined the continuation which they were afraid the contest might end showed that, in the home stretch, the had led to mass exchange of pieces in just as sw iftly as the previous encounter Challenger has departed from his typical, Game 15. and they would not see anything of the militant and daring style. Enjo),ing a A complicated s ituation arose. Tahl battle_ This was exactly what happened. two Jl oint lead, Tahl apparently has de castled King-side, and Botvinnik, Queen The pla),ers agreed to a draw after 22 cided to go on and halve the points re side, as usually heralds mutual attacks moves. mammg. on the Kings. The rivals turned to a sharp variant of the Nimzovich Defense, but further events proceeded peacefully. Botvinnik's 6th move was a surpnsc. He shifted his Knight to the edge of Ihe board. Many Grandmasters regarded this as an unsuc cessful move. Tahl quickly leveled the chances. Queens were exchanged on the 10th move. "This signals a drawn game very soon," people in the hall began to say_ Fresh exchanges took place several moves later. "Peace negotiations" opened on the 20th move. Tahl proposed to halve the (JOint, but Botl'innik declined. In two moves, howel'er, Botl'i nnik himself sng gested that a "peace treaty" be signed. The Riga Grandmaster was willing. Game 15 (by V. Pa nov) In this game, Tahl as White again re turned to the King Pawn opening, and the World Champion once more resorted to the Caro-Kann Defense. The contestants followed the same var iant encountered more than once in this tilt, but Wilh some change in sequence of moves. Tahl played quickly, spendin g Former Wortd Champion Vassity Smystov (near tower right) watching the match only 17 minutes on his first 16 moves, from with in the spectators' hall. SOVFOTO by A. Batanov CHESS REVIEW, JULY, 1960 201 Tah],s 12th move was controversial as it greatly weakened his King Pawn and cut his Queen Bishop off from the maiu torces. Had Botviunik displayed more energy latcr and drawn his Rook awa)' from l)inning, he most likely would hal'e beell able to organize a dangerous a\lack on White's King. After he pondered the situation for Ii long time, however, he pre ferred a more cautious continuation which still left him with a good and active posi. tion. A bllttle o[ maneuvers began after the exchange of black-square Bishops. Though Tahl did lose some pace on the 19th move, he vigorously advanced his Queen side Pawns. The battle became sharp a~ Botvinnik took advantage of an open file on the other edge of the board, and com· bined his attack on White's weak Pawn with threats to his King. F ans, unab le to get tick et s t o t he 19th game, w atch each move on demonstrat ion feeling thi s increased pressure, Tahl board outside th e Push kin Theat er i n Moscow, wh ich serv ed as t he tournament moved his Queen to the center of till: hall for t he W or ld C ham pionsh ip Mat ch. SOVFOTO by N. Granov board and offered an exchange of Queens. Later, however, he dropped the idea of exchangin g und again mounted an offen repet ition of llWVeS, bu l BOlvinnik Puwn. The game wa~ adjourned with sive against Bluck's King. Botvinnik put evaded the repetItIOn. He could dev el op Tahl having chances of win ning. up a brilliant defense and won a Pawn a fOl"lllidable attack hUL hounded by time The following day, after home analysis after a bold muneuver with hi s Queen. trouble, he li mit ed himself to the ga in showed thut further resistance wu s use· The Challenger skilfully shurpencd play . of (I Puwn us the game was adj"llfIled. less (Botvinnik was mi nus a Pawn, and With bot h experiencing time trouble (it On I" e~ uming pIuy, Tahl mutle ~ kiHull his position was worse), th e Chamllion was the first time in the malch for Tahl ) , u ~..., "f his more act ive King, sacrificed resigned without resuming play. Botl'innik committed a gro ~s error. fo uml hi s Kn ight for two Pawns Ml tl could himself under a dev ustulin g attack and break through with his King t" take hi s Game 20 (by A. T ol ush) resigned. "pponen t ' ~ remaining Pawn fnr ,die flf In a sharp varia tion of the Nimzo hi s two PawIB. Indian Defense, on May 5, Botvinnik as At th is poi nt , Challenger T ahl leads III the end, Botvinnik wit.h I{"uk and White adopted an interesting continuu_ Champion Botvinnik by 10 to 7. Knight llgainst Rook and Pawn. finally tion which led to u promising position. himself offered a draw. His later moves, lJOwever, were not the Game 18 (by V. Panov ) hest. After most of the pi eces were ex· (by V. Panov) The Grandmasters played the same vuri. Game 19 changed, there were no grounds to go Oil ant of the Nimzo·lndian as previously Tuhl us Wh ite steered for u Heti Open. playing for a wil), und, therefore, Hot except that Tahl varied on the seventh ing as he had before, but Hotv inllik adopt. vinnik offered a draw. Tah! uccepted . move. It is interesting that Tahl, who ed a new course, and the game took on Game 21 (by V. Panov) usually play s very rapidly in the open· the nature of a sharp "Leningrad Varia· ing, took twice as much time here as did tion" of the Dutch Defense. In the past, The last moves of the match were made the World Cham Ilion. Botvinnik spent 28 Bot\'in nik had scored many fine viCTories on May 7. The 21st game, which proved mi nu tes on the first 12 moves, Tahl with this open in g. Alekhine al so li ked !o be the last, was a brief affair. The 53. An interesti ng, intricate pOSl llOn lhis opening when playing Black. variunt of the New Indian Defense [ap. urose with good prospects for White in It seems that Botvinnik would succeed pu rently the Soviet name for the Queen's the center and the King-side. in complicating affairs 10 his benefit, but Indian] chosen by Ihe Grandmasters Tah! wus obviously not inclined to take quickly leveled chances und u draw was But Botvinnik pondered nearly an hour too great a risk. A drawn game would be agreed upon after 17 llloves. over the next three moves, and 1he re quite all right for him as he had a com The score became 1 2Y~ · 8y:!, thus mak· sult was a hardly fort unate Queen thrust. fortahl e lead ill points. He simplified ing n.likhu il Tahl the ChalllPioll of the Tahl immediately offered an exchange of the position by making a temporary Pawn World in chess. The ~pectutors hai led Queens which the World Champion did sacrifice. Then he aimed his Bishops ut the willner of the match. not try to avoid, und the position hegan his <)pponent's Queen-side Pawns. In all in terview with pn~ ss represenla to simplify at u fusl rate. It mal' he interesting to kno\\" tha t Tahl lives, the new w()rld chess king sa id: In an early end.game, Tahl set up a played as slowl), as Botvinnik this time: "1 am happy over thb viclory won in Queen-side, passed Pawn and began to both spen t almost one hour und a half on u very difficult conlest. Tension was advance it. But Botvinnik discoyered a their first 19 moves. Afterward. the Cham high throughout lhe match, which, per· clever coun ter·cha nce. He exchanged pion pondered longer, and the unpleasant haps, explains why we bO lh Illade mis· Rooks and used his other Hoo k to stop prospect of time trouble arose for him. takes. 1 am expecting a challenge to a the Puwn and to sel II]) threats against At that moment, T ahl, who could have return match and, when I receive it, I Tahl's King. won back his P awn, began to sharpen shall begin preparing for th e new en Suddenly, a trenchan t end-game arose play. counter wi th Botvinnik." in which Tahl was threatened with an He soon restored material equality and "I hope to be able to luke p"rt in the immediate mute. The Challenger began then went on to gain a cleul", positional 14th World Ol),mpiad in Leipzig this to check White's King to force a draw by advantage and finally pocketed un extra fal l." 202 CHESS REVIEW , JULY, 1960 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP l, e pt free from a ny u:lIlecessal'Y inte r· 32 Q- N5 Q-R6 36 K_N2 P-N5! MATCH GAMES l'e rence by Pawn!) 0 1' lIllllor pier;')s, 33 P- B3 Q-K 3 37 Q- Q3 P- R4 19 R- 8 1 R- R3 3~, R/2- KB2 R- B3 38 R_ B 1 Q-K3 Annotations by HANS KMOCH 20 N_Q4 N-QB3 35 RxR QxRt 39 P x P R.R 21 P- N3 P- KN4 40 KxR p,p GAME 12 Thb; a rll'>tllee may look r iHky but is Fl'om here all. White t ries \'llinly to make h is \'eIT small a(II'antllge telL T he Mild Yet Wild l e ~s so than a passive attitude. If White is left ull di ~ t u r bed on the King·s i{le. l!e fact that he has t wo isolll ted Pawils is T his ti me . t hel'e is no Indian stuff lII ay t a ke adl'a n tage of t he is olated olle factor tha t largely nulliFies h is on Ta hl's jJ ill't. He chooses instead a Queen Pawn. present Pawn plu s. And he has other mild defense. Bnt t he change of opeil wen Imesses. 22 N- Q3 R- Kl 24 Qx B NxN ing does not change the Jllnyel', and the 4 1 P-QR4 Q- QN3 45 Q-K3 QxP 23 8- N4 B,B 25 PxN • • • • game 300n becomes wild e nough. 42 K -B2 Q_ N 5 46 Q-KSt K-B1 Tahl lw s n eut r alized the effe{' t of his Tall! ll ll de l' ta ], es t o attack. When Bot· 43 K - K 3 QxRP 47 Q- Q6 t K- N2 isolate(l QUeen P a wn, a nd a cl'lticfll vinnik I' eve ls the a tta ek , his ch ances 44 K - B4 Q-R7 48 QxP Q- B 7t poin t has been rea ched. look bright ror a moment, but Talll 49 KxP P- B4t ! White 11 0 longer has t he advant.age In bla s ts away with Ii s acrifice. restoring T a hl handles the defense nimbly, 50 the s it uation. Fina lly, however. t he the c <'lI te r but ha s I'e pelled the attatk and is ready to start a power ful King· QxP, QxPt leayes small chan(:es. White game lapses in to a long e nd-g ame in e lects to keep t he center Pa wn. w hich Botl"i n nik ," a iniy tries to utilize s ide atta ek h imself with 26 P-O·1. 50 K _ N 5 QxPt 53 K _ K3 K _Bl 25 . . . . Q- B3 a m ieroscopic a lll'anlage. 51 K xP Q-N3t 54 K - Q3 26 N- K 5 N-Q7 Q-B8t 52 K - B4 Q- B 3t 55 K_K4 Q-N7t QUE E N'S GAM B IT D EC LI NE D !3lar:k IIIUSt do somet h ing nbout 1he 56 K_K5 Q-N4t M. Botvinnik M. Tahl eO llling P-ll-1. Of course. 56 .. QxQt sets up a lost Champion Challenger 27 KR-Q1 • • • • ell<:ing fOl' Black ; but. with Queens on White Bla ek E l' e n h ere . 2i p - n~ is plausible . ai, w open ,t boa rd, Black I'emains in Ill) 1 P-QB4 N-KB3 6 P-QR3 B- Q3 t hough ll :mlly s trong: e,g .. 2i . .. Kx ll: danger nOI\" , 2 P- Q4 P-K3 7 Px B P BxBP ] ) 28 hP? Nxl{P 29 Q-Q7. N- 13 6t! 30 57 K - K6 Q- K2t 65 Q- B5 Q- Q3 3 N_ KB3 P_Q4 8 P_QN4 8 _ Q3 Nx;'J, H- H ~ t ! 31 KxR, QxNt, a nd llla ck 58 K_ B5 Q- Q B2 66 Q- B7t K - B l 4 N_ B3 P-84 9 8-N2 0 - 0 wins : 59 Q-R8t K - K2 67 Q- B5t K _Q 1 p,p 5 P- K3 N- B3 10 PxP 2) 28 fix]\", R- l'," 3 29 P- B5. and White 6D Q-K4t K - Ql 68 Q-R5t K _ K l 11 N-QN5 • • • • has ra il' com pe nsation fo r t he E xdla nge , 61 Q-R4t K-B1 69 P_Q5 K_Q2 62 Q- R8t K- N2 70 Q- R7t K_Q1 This i~ actually a line of the Queen's 27 . . . . Rx N Gambit Accepted with colors rel'erserl. 63 Q- K5 Q- B2t 71 Q- R8t K_Q':! But Dlac k has t wo tempi less than nol" A n e c e s ~ a r y stroke: for . aflel' 27 64 K - K 4 Q- N3f 72 K_ B5 Drawn ma l fo l' t he gil'el' or t he gambit; one be 1\- K5 28 P -B3. Blac k is in bad ~h a)J e . cause he is the s econu pla ye r; and t he other beca use his Uishop moved t o Q3 GAME 13 befor e 7 PxDP. DxBP. The diffe ren ce ma y be apparent from An Extra Day Off t he foll owing : 1 P-Q~ . P-Q ~ 2 F- (W ·I, A set·up in which tens ion can be ex· PxP 3 N- K1l 3, :"- K03 ·1 P- K 3. P- K3 5 pected Fails to prodnce any. T he play· Oxp . P- U" 6 0 - 0 , P-QH3 7 N- B3, P e rs early land in a s ll'ipped position and QN·I 8 0 - Q3. {-' xP 9 PxP , B-N2. Now, fo]' s hake ha nds. T hey really have deserved B lack to have t he fo rma tion which (as an e XlI' 29 P-QB5 • • • • Here ·White t hreatens 30 BxP. while simultaneously pl·epal"ing for B-B3. The text makes his Queen Pawn backward; bu t \\'lIite cannot bother about such de· tails. His position is unsuitable for po· sitional maneuvering, and he must play fOJ· attack. 29 .... K - R1 36 . . . . K - R2 30 8-B3 N-B3 An ineffective defense. It only helps 31 BxN • • • • White to strengthen his attack. No.1 W. B. Rice White·s is not a desirable move, but By capturing one of the loose Pawns. Wh ite mates In two a necel 37 R- N6! • • • • 1\0w White threatens 38 P- B!i, and "The pin is mig]ltier than the sword" Black has no satisfactory defense. - Reinfeld. 37 . . . . QxKBP 32 .... Q- R5 Hanlly 37 . . . HxP 38 RxNPt, QxR 39 No.2 Dr. Emil Pa!koska Here, however, Botyinllil;;:. probably RxQt. KxR ~O Q-N2t and ~1 QxR. short of time. underestimates the dan· 38 N_ K2 Q- K5 White mates in two ger. In seeking to win a Pawn. he runs 39 Q- QN3 . . . . into gl·eat trouble. Now the threat is ·10 HxHPt, Pxl{ H The danger lies in White'H trebling Q- N6t. K-Rl 42 QxPt, R- R2 43 QxfV8 hi8 heavy pieceH on the Queen Knight mate. file. after whiCh he can bring his Knight 39 . . . . Q_Q4 into action. preferably with N-K2-B3-R4. Dlack must combat this plan, mainly by Black igl1or e~ t he threat and loses oUl keeping the Queen Pawn under fire. right. Thus, with 32 . . . R/l- Q1! Black has B ut he has a lost game even after 39 the threat of 33 .. . i\'-K5 for substan· ... K-R1, which is his only move. Then tial relief: Blacl;: can even win after 40 P-B6? RxBP 41 RxNP, H-B8t! And he has at 1) 33 R/3-Q3, K- K5! gives Black a least a draw on 40 N- B3·' QxQPt 41 K good game after 3·1 NxN. QxN and an Rt, N- N5! And he is all right with 40 advantage at"ter 3·1 N-K2, NxP! (35 R R- N2? N-N5! But, after 40 P - H3! ' ·\-'hite QB1, I\-H5); Appropriate here is the moUo: "Wait wins against any defense. till the sun shines." 2) .,4 N- K2! N- Q4, and Black has the Some plausible continnations ilI·e: edge after 35 R- Nl, N- B2! 36 R-QN3, 1) ·10 .. . QxN H RxNP! etc. N-N~! True, ·White has good chances on 2) 40 . . . R/1- D2 .J1 RxPt! No.3 F . A. L. Kuskop 35 R-QN3! N-B2?! 36 R-N6! but Black 3) 40 ... Q-·Q4 41 Q-H4 (threat ening gains a steady position with 35 ... N 42 RxPt). K-R2 42 K-Rl! and the threat White mates in three K2, which guards against P-B6. of ·13 i:\-D3 is conclusive ; 33 R/3-Q3 R- QB1 ·1) 40 .. . H/ 2-B2 41 I\-B3! (note t hat 34 R_ N1 Q,P 41 P- B6:? RxP 43 HxNP, R - B8t 43 NxR. 35 R-N3 • • • • RxNt 44 RxR, QxR may let Black draw). Now White has achieved the ideal po· QxQPt ·12 K-Rl, and now the double sition with portentous speed. He now threat of 43 RxNP and 43 P - B6 is too threatens, of course, to win outrighl strong: e.g .. 42 . . . K- Q4 43 RxNP! 01" with 3(; RxP. 42 ... Q-Q6 43 P-B6! or 42 . . . Q-Q2 35 .... Q- B2 ·13 P-B6, RxP 44 RxNP. RxN 45 R-N8t. K- R2 46 Q-N7t. 36 Q- R3 • • • • Noll', thanl!s to lhe elimination of his 40 RxRPt! K - N1 Queen Rook Pawn, \Vhite is able to 41 Q-R4 Resigns utilize the QUeen Rook file for attack White threatens both 42 R- R8j·. K-D2 also. He leaves two Pawns en prise. Both 43 Q-R5t and also ~2 P-B6. There is Watch that block. are poisoned, but not necessarily to a no defense. deadly degree. For the remaining games of the Match. Solu tions on page 219. t = che-ck; t = db!. check; § dis. eh. see our August issue. Z06 CHESS R£VI£W, JULY, 1960 BENJAMIN FRAN LIN AND CHESS By RALPH K. One of the many kinds of mortification every player experiences de Valentinois whieh the older de Chau· IS the resulL of chess blindness. You study the position long and care mont's wife occupied. \V hen it Came time fully. You find exactly the right move. You make it confidently, per to retire, the game being st ill in prog· ress, Franklin proposed they go to his haps even screw the piece solidly on its new square. But no sooner do wing of thc building to finish it. As soon you take your hand from the piece than yOlI "ee everything that's wrong as the game was ended, another was with the move. It is probably the worst move YOll could have made. speedily begun. This procedure was re- Writers frequen tly have a similarly humbling experience. The writer reads rhe manuscript carefully time and again. He rechecks his sources and references. He sends the manuscript orr. No sooner docs he see his brain child in print than all his sins of omission und commission glare out at him, like the faults of a bad chess mOl'e. [n my case. my leiter a~king for a stop-press to add an aPllcndix to m)' hook actludly cr os~ed in th e mail with the first shipment of Benjamill J'ranklin and Ches.~ in Early America.! After I had sent my manu~cript to the Jlub lishers, and was no longer looking for ., new material actively, two books on t;;;'" . Franklin were pllblislled which escaped , '"3l my immcdinte attention.:! B"th contain - . amnsing accounts by other ~ of Franklin as a che% plarer. While not strictly ger '"'7j , mane t" the th eme of mv buok, which ..., , was to give Franklin's own views of the ,~' '. game, these stories would have made nn " amusin g appendix to the hook. The re, '" liahility of anecdotes is always question, '" able. fn the first anecdote, fo r example, I am sure thnt Franklin never used such ornate langnage. And, one translator says Franklin studied the position to find a checkmate; the other say s he actually changed the position of the pieces. ,i Franklin served as United States rep· I resentative at the court of Franec from , 1777 In 1725. Next to love·making and ," moralizin g, hc seems to have dCl'oted hi~ leisurc tilllc principally to playing chess. Howevcr un likelv it mar sccrn to us, who consider him a model of ml)d eration, the 111)te5 and en mmenh of his friends imply that his fondness for the game was more of an addiction than a recreation. The qudatioll from hi~ essay 011 the gout, giVtll in my hook. wuuld tend to add evi· dence for this point of view. REVIEW OF THE On one occasion, Franklin was staying al the lwuse of hi~ friend and landlord, Donaticn Le Ray de Chaumont. Vincent de ChauJllnnt telL, of one all-night bout Franklin had with an "Abbe Catholique," Ratph K. Haged:;.rn is President of the California St ate Chess Federation and presumably Morellet or de la Roche. The has specialized in Franklin chessiana and chess during the time of Franklin, game was begun in the wing of the Hotel Reproduced above is the design of the "dust cover" of his book. CHESS REV t EW , JU LY, 1960 207 peated ad infinitum. In the middle of said Franklin, "and we shall soon see fingers, as though playing the piano, one game the last wax candle in the that the party without a King will win when his opponent did not move immedi· Franklin establishment was discovered to the game." ately. De Chaumont called his attention be burning perilously low. The abbe Another time Franklin's King was in to this distraction by telling Franklin momentarily considered stopping, but check. He did not try to defend it, hut that he had omitted one vice from the Franklin would not hear of it. "My dear made another move. When his French catalog in his Essay on the Morals of abbe," he protested "it is impossible for opponent ohjected, Franklin explained, "I Chess. When Franklin asked what it was, two men such as us to stop merely be· see he is in check, but 1 shall not defend De Chaumont diddled his fingers on the cause of lack of light." The abbe then him. If he were a good King, like yours, table in Franklin's manner. "Bah," re· remembered that he had some extra he would deserve the protection of his plied Franklin, "That's a mere bagatelle candles chez lui. He would run baek subjects; but he is a tyrant and has cost and scarcely worth talking about." and get them, he excitedly told Franklin. !.hem already more than he is worth. Take Franklin dedicated his Essay on (he "Go, then," the doctor replied, "and may him, if you please. 1 can do without him Morals of Chess, the first American writ· the goddess of nigbt protect you in your and will fight the rest of the battle as a ing on the game, to Mme. BrilIon. The adventurous course." Chaumont says that commonwealth's man." story of their best known game, played when the abbe had disappeared, Franklin We must not conclude from these anec while she was in her bath tub, is told in profited by the last flicker of the candle· dotes that Franklin lost his games most my book. The Essay, with its sound ad· light to re·arrange the pieces so that be of the time. Rather, because of his tre vice, is as applicable today as it was then, would win. When the abbe returned, it mendous popularity in France, his witti and is still reprinted frequently. Less was dawn. Still pretending to be ab· cisms were quoted far and wide. They well known is the fact that he gave, the sorbed in the game, Franklin said, doubtless contributed, psychologically, manuscript to his good friend Dubourg "What's tbe matter, dear abbe? You toward inclining the French to support to read. Dubourg in turn prepared a have the face of a man who is about to the Americans rather than the British. companion piece, modeled on the Essay, lose two games of chess. The goddess De Chaumont remarks that in addition in which he, a doctor, pointed out the ad of night has just answered my prayers to being a poor loser, Franklin had one ~'erse effects of the game. Here is Du· and has sent one of Mercury's agents other fault as a cbess player. He was bourg's reply to the Essay. May our wives here to aid me while you were gone." impatient and would strum with his not use it against us! "Ail, well, my dear doctor," the abbe responded, "darkness is appropriate to him and to thieves! But it is Phoebus, THE OTHER MORALS OF CHESS or at least the rosy fingers of Aurora, The game of chess is less an amuse· fulfill better the duties of the latter? that reign at tbis moment." ment than a vain occupation, a laborious How many disparities there are between Drawing the blinds and for the first frivolity, which does not exercise the the one and the other! time noticing that the new day had ac· body. which tires the mind instead of L In the game of chess time is count· tually arrived, Franklin said, "All Passy refreshIng it, which dlies up and hanl ed for nothing. In the course of life. it awakes, it is time for us to go to sleep!":1 ens the souL It is neither a social game, Is not a matter of indifference to know On another occasion, Franklin was play. nor an occasion of friendshIp; it Is the how to make up one's mind promptly If ing with a diplomat at the home of one simulacrum of war, of that cruel game need be; to kno\\' the value of time is to whIch necessity alone can serve as an one of the most important skills of man. of the French ministers. Although the excuse, because to !lourisll the pride of 2. In the game of chess one is con· room was filled with important people, one and to mortify the egoism of the stantly grappling with individuals. In the Franklin continued playing. Suddenly a othel" is the least evil or the greatest course or life, everybody often has to messenger appeared with dispatches from good it can do. defend himself agaInst several at once, America. This was at a time of one of The players of chess are nearly always and always has occasion also to be the most crucial phases of the war, but restless, full of care, skittish, unap helped by several, and to help them in Franklin ignored the messenger, and went proachable, punctilious. disdainful; pros turn. on with the game. When it was finally pelity intoxicates them and singularly 3. In the game of chess, the differ over, Franklin opened the dispatch, and inflates them; adversity overwhelms ence is always precisely from loss to them. They do llOt pardon each other gain. In human life one can make small read to the assembly the news of one of anything and are continually sllspicious or large losses, small or large profits, the most glorious triumphs of the Ameri even of the spectators, when the bore· according to whether oue conducts him can army. dom which they Inspire does not suf self more or less well, and whether one Thomas Jefferson related that Frank· fice to disperse everything around them. finds himself in circumstances more or lin frequently played with the Duchess of It is a singular observation that the less favorable. Bourbon. On one occasion he deliberate game of chess diminishes perspiration 4. The game of chess admits thousands ly captured her King and removed it from and increases the [Jow of urine, whereas of combinations, but all of the same kind, the greater number of other games pro· subordinated to a calculation only, and the board. "Ah," said she, "we do not voke more perspiration, whIch is more Independent of fate. In the course of take the Kings so." "We do in America." favorable to health. But this is the least lIfe. fate influences more or less all replied Franklin. A similar story is told reproach one has to make about it; what events; wisdom and fortune join and by Jeremy Bentham. While Franklin was I cannot pardon it, is that far from de recoil from each other in turn; mingle, negotiating in Paris, he sometimes went veloping useful talents, it seems to stifle separate and recombine themselves in so into a cafe to play chess. A crowd us· In the heart every seed of publIc virtue: many ways that there results not only ually assembled, of course to see the man the sight of a chessboard fascinates so an infinity of gradations. but also an rather than the play. Upon one occa· much an abundance of excellent minds infinity of nuances. sion, Franklin lost in the middle of the that the fatherland only finds players in Piquet is Incomparably more lively. subjects fortunately enough born that it game, when, composedly taking the King more social than chess. and more suited would have been thought possible to if not to form men, ar least to shape from the board, he put him in his pocket ~ount them among her best citizens. them up. But no game Is made to ieach and continued to move. Tbe antagonist Do not chess lovers delude themselves. us the busIness of lIfe. Their sole use· looked up. The face of Franklin was so too much In imagInIng their favored fulness is limited to filling innocently grave, and his gesture so much in earn· game as the Image of human life, and in life's few empty moments; and the mos.t est, that llis opponent began with an deceiving themselves that the former fortunate of all mortals is the one to expostulatory, "Sir!" "Yes, Sir, continue,'" will teach them to know better and to whom fewest remain. CHESS REVIEW, JULY, 1960 We do not know what Franklin thought of the Other Morals, b ut [ am s ure that he, too, saw the dements of truth in cer tain parts of it which are inherent ill good satire, AI! of liS ha\'e met oppo nents who ,Jjsplayed most of the faults listed by Dubourg. T hc references to time and small advantages clearly show that the piece was writ ten before the Jays of chess clocks and current principles of WHAT'S IN A NAME? play. Consequently Dubourg's essay be· The designation, "drawing master," for Carl Schlechter can be taken comes even more inconsequential, but Franklin's truths retain their timeless val· with a grain of sa lt. As witness how here as White at the .Master 'four· idity. His Essay remains one of the out· nament of Ostend, 1906, he lights into Amos Burn with a sacrificial com standing pieces of chess literature. bination which makes the rafters ring. The opening is a staid, old Queen's Perhaps some reader can help me with Gambit Declined. It begins with these moves : 1 P~Q4., P-Q4 2 P-QB4, one more bit of Frankjiniana. After a P- K3 3 N-QB3, N-KB3 4. N- B3, QN-Q2 S Il- NS, B- K2 6 P- K3. and review of my book appeared in the LOII dOl. Times Literary Slipplellj('l!t, the nothing so far suggests fireworks to come, Countess of lddesleigh asked me whether Cover scoring table at line indicated. Set ltp position, make Black's I could con firm the tradition in ber fam· next move (exposing table just enough to read it). Now guess White's ily Ihat Franklin and Dr. .I o~eph P riestly 7th move, th en expose it. Score par, if move agrees; zero, if not. iVlake played che~s by mail. I hal'c bcen unahlc to verify this from biographical records. move actually given, Black's reply. Then guess White's next, and so on. P erhaps some player more informed 011 the history of postal ehess know3 Ihe COVER WHITE MOVES IN TABLE BELOW. EXPOSE ONE LINE AT A TIME answer. This game, if they actually White p" Black Your Selectfon Your played, muM bc onc of the curliest, and Played Score P tayed fo, White's move Score sundy the longest, s uch game in history. 6 0 - 0 · · · · · · · · · • · • • • · · · · · · · · · · They [)lared while Franklin was 1lI Q-B2 7 • • • • • • · · · · • · • · • · 2 7 P- QN3 (.) • • • • · · · · • • • · · · · · • • • • · · · · France, 1Hhl Prie~tly i ll America. p,p p,p 8 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 6 8 • · • · • · · · • · · · · • · · · • · · · · · · 'BenJamin Franklin and Chess In Early 9 B-Q3 3 · · · · · · · · · .. · · · · · • 9 B- N2 · · · · · · · · · · · • · • • • · · · · · · · Amerlc", loy nalph K. Ha g,, CHESS REV IEW, JULY, 1960 20~ Up -to·date opening analysis by DR. MAX EUWE by an outstanding authority. Former World Champion The flrH strategy, adopted for yean; KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE but not alw(l ys with g reat st1c(;ess, is 7 , , . N- H4. T h e idea is to continue with A New Idea in the Saemisch Variation . . . P- KB4. t he l"ight strategy for a ttack· The King's Ind ian is a d ifficult opening not only for Black but also ing 'White's Pawn cha in. B ut. as stated before. the strategy i n tens i fie.~ the and especiall y for White, Black's K ing Bishop on the long diagonal is str uggle where Black is most I' ul nerable often very trou blesom e fo r White_ Hence, White often adopts th e idea as has been demonsO'ated i n many om· of taki ng th e fi rst opportunity of cl osing that d iagon al wi th th e advance standing games. An other sU'a t egy is 7 .. . P- D·l. to be of his Queen Pawn to Q5, In con sequence, the center is completely fo llowed by .. . N- R4 or . . . N- K 1 a nd R bl ocked, and Wh ite then IHls two method s of attacking the hostile pos i later .. . P- K B4, This system has the tion : 1) Oil the King-si de by pushing his wi ng Pawns forward; 2 ) on the same dl'«wback as the fi rst. Du t there is t he diffe rence t hat Black can more Qu een.si de by eHecting the break, P~QB 5, at th e right mom ent. Both easily obtain Quee n-sid e counter-play, methods occur in many va ria tio ns of the King's Ind ia n; but the Saemisch by , . . P- Q R3 and . . , P- QN·!, bui ld-up is generally used as a ba se for the King-sid e attack. 7 . . . . P-B3 In th e course of this Kin g-side attack, as White can castle Qu een-sid e, This is the t hird strategy now under r eview. It has had, on the whole, satis he gen ernll y has full opportu nity to storm Black's King position , while factory results, Bl ack has no t sufficient poss ibil ities La start any counter-action again st 8 Q-Q2 p , p Wh ite's King. The stru ggle then centers all a f ront on which Bl ac k is very 9 BPxP , , . . vuln erable. ( Se e Diag r a m 2) 9 " .. P- QR3 I II H ll ll llllJer of recent ga mes, Black ha s repl ied to the Saemisc h with In 1l;l l'lllony with t he nell' conception or 7 . .. P~ QI33 (see diagram 1). He plans thus to open the Queen Bi shop t hi ~ ~ystem , mack a wa its t he W hite ad fi le and W re:" erve beforehand sufficient Qu een-sid e attacki ng chances vance on the King-side where he has re s erved special s t rategical and tactical after White hHs castled 0 11 that wing. He li kewi se thus foresta ll s the measnr e6, And. at the ~ame li me , he White maneuver of P~Q B5, though that point is of lesser importance. prepal'es effectively for a Queen-s ide This then is the theme of thi s article, togeth er however with a new counteNlttack, way for Black to meet Wh ite's King-side Pawn storm, by ... P~KR4 , Old· fash i oned Is 9 , , . N - K l 10 P- KN,j , P- B4 11 NPxP, PxP 12 0-0- 0: e,g" which is a vital factor in this new system. 12 , .. P- B5 13 B-B2, and 1) 13 ' .. N - Q2 1 -1 K - Nl, QN-TIS 15 B The Saemlsch begins with T his Is the s ignal for the center· R S, I'\- B2 16 13- RI, BxB 17 NxB (I.a l'sen locki ng Queen Pawn advance. 1 P- Q4 N- KB3 3 N_QB3 B-N2 Donner. Ha);ue. 1956) 2 P- QS4 P_ KN3 4 P- K4 P-Q3 7P-Q5 " . 2) 13 ' , , P-QR3 J.1 K-Nl, B- B3 Hi P , 5 P-B3 . . . ( See Diagra m 1) K R~ , N- i\:2 16 B- HS, N - Q2 17 B- K 6t K - -W h ite 's last cha r acte r l z e~ thl'! varia- Now the die is cast. and Blad. has to fl1 18 1\'- 1\3, Q- K 2 ]9 N- KNS. P- N4 20 lion, It protects t h e cente r and sim ul dl'!cide u pon the plans to Follow. He ha s QR-N [, R-QNl (Pachlllan- GJi gorich, taneollsly pl'epa l'es the advan(,e , P -KK4, t he c hoice of t hree syste m~, Bu t. t his Dublin, 1957 ). 5 ,. . . 0 - 0 artiele, for )'easons previonsly stated. In both exampl es. the initiative and 6 B_ K3 P-K4 prefers t he third, chances are comple te ly on Whl t e'~ side, Dia g ram 1 D in g r a m 2 Diagra m 3 D iagr am 4 21 0 C H ESS REV I EW. JULY. 11lEO 10 P-KN4 QN- Q2 13 . . . , P-B3 18 0 - 0 - 0 B-Q2 Here, howevel'. Black goes astray. 15 (See Olagram 3) 14 PxP RxP 19 K_ Nl R- B1 . , N- B4! Is milch better. On ]6 Bx!\". P-QN4 R_ KB2 11 KN - K2 • • • • 16 KN-N1 20 B-K2 P xB, Black s tands well. AncJ he gets a 16 N-Ql N_B4 In Tahl- Gllgorich, 1uterzonal at Por to· 21 R- R2 B-Kl satisfactory game on 16 B-N5, Q- N3 17 N- B2 Q-Bl 22 N-Q3 NxN (with t hreat of 17 ... QxP ) 01' even roz, 1958, thel-e occulTe!l: 11 P-KR4 . p KR4! The key to t he whole system. rOr 23 8 11:N KR-B2 1G . , . QNxP or 16 ... KNxP. eit her 12 PxP or 12 P- N5 leaves White's Blac k has excellell t chances. 16 B_N 5 N- B5 atta<:k completely blocked, Also. t he 17 Q-Q3 Q-B2 adva nce of BillCk's King Rook Pawn In· Sub·vi!lriation II: Queen·slde Activity 17 ... NxQNP Is refuted by 18 Q-B3. eludes many t hreats In <:o-ollel"atlOil (Continue from. DIIg rRm 5) 18 P-N3 N-R6 with activities In t he center and on 13 . . . , P-N4 19 R-81 . . . , t he Queen·slde, a~ will be seen from 14 N-N3 N- N3 this a nd other variations. Here Bla ck played 19 .. BxP? and 15 B-Q3 B- Q2 lost a piece: 20 DxN, BxN 21 KxB, Dxll The game contlnued with 12 B- KN5, Prematnre is 15 .. . N- B5 16 BxN, 22 N-Nl! Q- R4 23 P- l\" 4 ! Q-H4 13 PxP ( pI'actlcally for<:ed as 13 PxB as Black cannot perform anything B-R3, PxP 14 PXP. N-B4 costs "'''hlte n :-. Io ng t he Knight file. Pawn In v iew of the threat, a mong others, ot 15 , .. N_N6!), NxRP 14 B 16 0-0-0 R- Bl 18 BlCN Va riation C K7? R- K I, after which 15 BxP falls 17 K-N l N_BS 19 QN- K2 Q-K2 (Continue from C 'ag ra m >:0) 20 R_QB1 against 15 ... Q- 1'3! 16 B- R3, N-N6 17 KR-B1 12 B-N5 , . . N-R ~ , Q- R2, The line is P oluga yevsky- Peu'osyan, This Pawn sacrifice was tried by Bot· 11 , , , , P- KR4! TUlls, 1959, and t he chances are about vinnlk III his tenth match game with even . It contin ued: 21 RxR, RxR 22 N Tahl (cf. commenu In CHESS REVIEW, Black can walt no longer for this m ove Dl and now Black ought to hllve playecJ as i2 N- N3 pI'actlcally prohibits It. page 114, June. 1960). T he soundness 22 . "P- B3! oi the sR cI'jflce Is doubtful. (S~e Olag ram 4) ThiS IS the SUrprising point of tho 12 , . • • PxP 13 PxP N-B4 moderll line, Dlack t ries to force his Variation 8 opponent to a decision. r egarding the Kow Black threatens both H ... BxP ( Continue f rom Diag ram 4 ) line to follow, by attacking White's King iln:! l ~ ... QNxP. Knight Pawn d irectly and his King Pawn 12 P-KR3 ... 14 N-N3 . . , . indirectly. In t his way, Wh ite's s tra· The obvious move which seems Qu ite Practically fo rced. H BxN is not n tegy a s established In the Saemlsch 1I1'.115(actOl1' at (\rst sight. It looks as if sallsfac tOlJ' a lte r native because o r 14 build·up has been complete ly unde l" White will be a ble to continue h is a t· QxB with t he double threat of 15 ... mined. l 'lck In d ue time . Bu t Black has a !I'ump Q- B6 and 15". DxP. White has three possibilities as to in reserve. 14 , . , , 6xP 16 P-KA3 parl'ying : 12 , . . , N- R2! B-B6 15 P- N4 N/4-Q2 17 R- R2 . . . , A Con cession : 12 P-N5; (See Dia gr am 6) 17 R- N l Is bad In vIew of 17 ... Q- N3. B Con solidation: 12 P - KR3; Dlack Intends to answer 13 PxP? by 1 :~ C Comblnutlon: 12 R-N5. .. Q- R5t 14 B-B2. QxP/4. And, If W hite (See Ol;gr;o.m S) contInues in a solid way by 13 0 - 0 - 0. The handicap of Black's position here Olack can control his IlIIportant KN·I : lies in the mlher limited movement of Variation A 13 ... P- R5! 14 K-Nl. B-B3 15 8-B2, B his Queen nisilOI). White threatens .II! (Contlr,u8 from Diall r am 4) iIi 'l Hi Q-K1, P-N4 wi th Sti lleriorlt)' fa)" Q ~ · K;;, B- R4 (tol'ced ) 19 NxB. FOI", after Wb lte concedes an end to h is Klllg· Black (Sherwln-GIIJ!;ol'ich , Intl.lI'zonal 19 .. . P xN, Dlac k's King position \s s ide aHac k and Gives the in itiative to rot Portoroz, 1958 - the game Is g h'en \' er~' HII" e rable, a nd t hat rac tor is or his o pponent. It does not follow. how. in CHESS RE VlEW, page 3 ~ 2, Novem· great Im por tlulce, e ver, t hat Black's position Is t herefoz'e ber, 19:;8). To prevent such an occun-ence, Blac k superior. He mnst play veIl' carefully 13 P- KR4 , , . , ought to have pJayed 17 ... Q- N3, unpin· to maintain his Grip 011 the poslllon. Thus, Tahl played against Glig-orich in ning h!s King Knight at once so as til be 12 , . . . N- R2 the Challengers Tournament, 1959. able to take back with tha t Knight artel' 12 ... N- Kl Is also to be considered. 13 ... , PlCP 18 R-B2, B- R4 19 NxB. 17 . . . , P_R4? 13 P-KR4 . , . . 14 PlCP KN - 8 3 (S" Clag r am 5) \-I QN-B3 Is also st rong, aCCOI'ding to Now White obtains a wonderful game Now Black has two major continua· V. Vukovich. It forces White to play by]8 Q-K3 ! PxP 19 N- N5, B-R4 20 NxD, tions. IS P-N5 and, after 15 ... N- N5 16 B P xE, according to Keres, Botvlnnlk N l? P- B3! Black has a n overw1n~l m l n~ missed the oPPO I'tun lty and had to figh t position. out a hard ending to a draw a fte r 18 Sub-var iation I: K ing·side Activity P-:.!5, Q-N3 19 Q- D2, QxQt 20 RxQ, 15 B-R3 . . ' . In t his, there Is t he risk that t he B-RI 21 P- N6! White attac k will I·evlve. The line Is ( See D l a g r~m 7) Gligol"ich-Szabo, Belgrade. ] 959. 15 , , . . N-N3 t _ cheek: t = dl>!. e h ~ k. : I _ db, ch, Diagram 5 D iagram 7 O l~gram 8 CHESS REV IEW, JULY, 1960 211 The End-game Composer's Craft The astonishing end-game creations which are re prin ted, discussed and admired in these pages did not simply "happen." One must realize that the com which they take up and, fo r some especially at the out· pletion of some of these studies has taken years of Ier !iet from the help and assistance of more experienced mentation and experimentation. And accurate, ex lulors. For both quality and quantity, end-game stud y hausti ve and encyclopedic knowledge of end-game as an effective art grows far best within a conducive techniq ue was often required for them. For, at times, environment. And, perhaps, it grows only in such. th e th emes and even mere " si delines" occlirring in the Hence, it may be th at end -game composition has compositions require knowledge of th e entire end few prominent exponents in thi s country. For, in the game techniq ue in order to prove the soundness of the Vllst extent of the United States, th ere are too few com posers • co neI ll SlOllS.' reall y consecrated chess circles in which a sufficiently Tdeas fo r end-game stud ies, moreover, do not large number of su ch specialized experts can concen· fl ourish in isolation. C.reative composers, even the trate, in which the infection and contagion of compos· geni uses, need inspiration. They may indeed get som e ing Ca n find the breed ing ground such as actual play from the games whie_h they see a nd end ings which they does in the congregation of competitive opponents_ analyze. But, more often, com posers gain from ideas The problem composer can perhaps work a little wh ich they exchange with others, from challenges mo re easily in seclusion. But the end.game com poser P_ R4 PAWN CHAIN RE-ACTIONS Croydon, 1943 1 • • • • 11 N_ B5 K _Bl As a further species or "Engln eered Ladder T ournament 2 N- B2 K- Q2 12 N-Q6t K - N1 Geometry" (dlscussed In th e May lssue) H. Gos ling 3 K - R4 K - Ql 13 N-B5 K_ Bl K_Nl or gene rally or biza rre and int riguIng 4 K,P K - K 2 14 K - B4 formations . t here are t he sbldles of 5 K -N4 K - K 3 15 K-K5 K-Bl Pawn chains. They are ot conr se usua lly 6 K - N 3 K--Q2 16 K - K6 K_Nl artificially constructed bu t diffi cult . 7 N- R3 K_Ql 17 K-Q7 K-R l 8 N _B4 K - Q2 18 N- N 3 K_N l i n t e l ~stlng and pu rposeful. The Pawn 9 N _ R5 K _ K 3 K_Rl chains come ho rlzon lal. ve rtical and 19 N-B l K_Q2 diagonal. 10 N - N 7 t 20 K - B8 • • • • Now Blac k·1I Klng Is stalema ted ; 60 he Dia90nal Ladde-rs m ust move the P awn. whereafter -White's As a. milde r because ·'natural" sort ot K ing marches back (Iown t he board to Pawn chain. here a l·e thr ee from practt. capt ure the nolV ··unchained" Pawn and cal play. Of the fl r st two, this l\Tlter·s the n moves hn ck UP the board t o win book, "The Br!1l1 ant Touch" states : the game. '·The same player presen ts liS with nn 20 • • . . P-B7 Identical and Intriguing P awn chain du Mont 21 K_Q7 . . . . 1 B-N5 Ru;gns twice In a lifetime. at different times Not 21 N-N3, P- D8(Q) 22 NxQ, Stale· and w it h dlfte re ll t opponen ts.'· Really a ·'Iadder." mate! W interburn 21 . . . . K-Nl 22 K - K 6 T he t h1l11 instance Is a his toric one. Nottingham, 1936 And W h ite wins. T homu Another Bit of Bibli09raphy The .·e hns been m ention before in t hls o;erles of how co·lncldentally ma t eria l unde r conslderntlon will crop up. S\lch II. co·lncldence occurred while the topic of Pawn cha ins was stlll on this writer's desk. See t he 15 mover by Barclay. page 70. March Issue as a supplement to th is s t udy. (Also. on the facing page du M o nt, 1937 is just such a P awn configUration as will 1 • • . • N-Q2 4 B)(R "'S :\ppeal· in this series In the section on 2 B- N7 K N_ Bl 5 P-K6 BP)(P '·serrated" forms.) 3 P-B5 P- N 3 6 P)(KP N-N3 7 P-K7 R esigns Botvinnik t ::: check : t = d bl. check ; § = dis. eh. 212 CHESS REV I EW , JULY. 1960 needs actual contact with the game and the players. tainly SO when th ey happened to be nea r them. Not For his subj ect is mo re of a direct outgrow th of actual all lived in Prague. Dedrle of international fame play than is II problem. So the great productivity in lived in 8mo. Dr. Mandler, a prolific end·game end.game stud ies in some European co untries stems spec ia list, known here as editor of Reti's studies, from the numerical and geog raphical in tensity of ches;; li ved in Ladders Eccentric! White moves and forces self.ma te in 5 F rom the game themes as jll st s hown. 1 B-RS! PxP some eccentric and highly amusing con· Blark's n10\'e is forced as all his other coctions have been derived. Note how men a l'e ImmobiliZed. they reach almost the stage of automa· Don't point out that ,,'hite ca n mate tion in the way in wh ich the wheels by 1 Q- R7: the terms or the problem work and the fi nal stage Is attained. put thAt Idea out of discussion. These examples are all "problems." 2 B- N5 p"p 4 B-Q3 p " p H . Rinck 3 8 - 84 p"p 5 8-K2 p "p ("L'lII ustraUon." 1938) mate A chesslc way of symb o li z in~ selt·de· Stl" nCtlon and subJi mizing masochism. Mat e in 5 moves 1 8 _NS ! ! 3 B_Q4 2 8-85 4 B-K3 The- Ve-rtical Elevator 5 8 - 8 1 mate Whness th is ingenious devke fol' " rOl'c!ug the opponent down. " G. Bridgewater Pleasure in Sufferin9 ("Chess." ] 936 ) To touch upon a bit of unexplored land. the next problem Is of the type called "self·mate." in It, problem tic' tion demands that White commit sui· Mate in 15 movu cide by directing Black to do as com· The solution (dubbed by Karl Richter manded but in a reversed way, There "The Cable Car"): a) the downward tril) : Is nothing conditional about the moves 1 Q-N6t. K -Q3 Z Q- D5t. K- K·l 3 Q- QH. elthel·. They. too. most leave no choke. K-B5 " Q- K3t. K- N6 5 Q- 82t: b) the See to r yourself. upward journey: 5 .. . K-B5 6 P-N3t. R. Rubin QxP (or. , .BxP) 7 Q- K3t, K- K4 8 P (Ba\'aria. ] 920) BH, QxP 9 Q- Q4f. K-Q3 10 P-K5 t, QxP 11 Q- B5t. K- B2 12 P- Q6t. Qx P 13 Q NSt, KxN 14 P- Bit. Qx P 15 Q- R7 mate. Mat e in 6 moves 1 B- N 1! P_N7 4 R-R4 P- N4 Tile next Is a shOl·ter ple A Longer Conveyer In this construction, an unbroken string of Pawns is soon to appeal' dra· matically - and dramatically to be rolled up. The study is by Korolilw\'. it has travelled around the world, and it IS typical of the composer who has t urned out a great variety of ~tudies with a multitude of Pawns on the board, some inl'olvlng the subject of under· promotion. V. A. Korol ikov Mate ;0 8 moves 1 a- a- a! K,P 5 R-Q5 K,P 2 R-QS! K,P 6 R-Q4 K, P 3 R- Q7 K,P 7 R- Q3 K- RS 4 R_Q6 K,P 8 R- R3 mate Do we hear anyone say : "I wish 1 Walter Ko rn Now sojour ning i n Tel Aviv eould coneeive ~ueh feats"? It does not look as if White, with his King in the remotest corner. can do any· The Serrated Cate rpillar thing about it. Try! This is a "humoresque" not by the 1 K _Nll music composer Dvorak but by another Czech (chess) composer Jaroslav Hasek, The King first co\u'ageously sets out one or many highly talented end-game on a trip. On 1 R- B5, K-N3 2 RxP, R-Rl, Wh ite t o play and win artists of tlmt region, A name sake of Black wins as mentioned. 1 R-N1 the famous author of the novel, "Shvejk" 1 • . . . K-N2 The threat is 2 B- Q7 mate; there is (the prototype of a Czech artisan, Black attacks the Roo]!, clears the but one riposte. muddling thl'ough Austro·Hungarian im King Rool! file fOl' the cited win. 1 . . • • Q-N5 pel'ialoppression), J, Hasek a lso had 2 R- KR6! . .. . 2 BxQ the unassuming, so:newhat sloppy ap· This move gains time for White's King 3 R- QB1! . . . . pearanee of a provincial artisan, a little to keep up marching by temporarily Now the threat is -1 RxP mate, and the flabby and certainly not '"intellectuaL" closing the King Rook file. whole Pawn chain gets into rolling mo· A quite deceiving impression on(;e one 2 . . . . KxR 4 K_Q1 tion, under continued threats of RxP had a chance to sit down with Hasek R- R1 3 K- B1 K_ N4 5 K_K1 mate. in a corner of the Cafe Slavia in Prague R- R? 6 K-B1 , and analyze some of his prospective . . . 3 , . . P- QB6 7 R- KNl P- N6 ideas with him. Will the remedy hold? COllslder 6 . . . 4 R- Q1 P- Q6 8 R-K R1 P- R6 R- RSt 7 K-K2! The point is that t he 5 R-K 1 P- K6 9 RxP any J. Hasek Black Rook cannot stay on the back 6 R_K B l P_B6 10 R- R4 mat e ("Czeskoslovensky Scha(;h, 1937) rank because of stalemate. Nor call About a year ago, a prominent maga· mack's King penetrate the fortress. zine t hought it had discovered a flaw in Hen(;e, the dr'aw! this study. It pOinted out a dual solution As an alternate, if Black plays 1 , , . by 1 H-l\5~! Again, 1 . . . Q-N5 2 BxQ, It- In at once, White gains the same end PxB is forced, but now White threatens by 2 R- BS! In fact, the White Rook is to mate by 3 K- NG, fo llowed by "' RxPt, of nse only to sacrifice itself for two K-N5 5 R- K5t K- R5 6 K- B5 and 7 R- N7 tempi, two diversionm'y moves. and 8 H-H7 mate. 01', after 3 . . . P-QTI6. 4 R- Q5 sets up mate next. Ttle Horizontal Conveyer The study, however, remains intact Raedisch, et a l al"ler J31ac]!'s reply (overlooked by the ("'Die Schwalbe," J932) critic): 3 . . . P-K6! 4 RxPt, K-NG G R- N5t, K- H5 6 K-n5, P-K7! 7 R-l\7. P- K8(Q)! as now the Queen (;an inter· White to move, draws (?) pose against the otherwi~e threatened To llnderstand the problem. we need mate. some prior orientation about its gen eral landmarks. White's Rook obviollsly tan swallow some of Black's Pawns and The Chorus Line then the White Pawns tall march. But In winding up this chaptel', we have they have quite a distance to go, whel'e two (;ute double lines of Pawns stepping as Black's Rook threatens simply to o~ out spectacularly e nsemble. The \Vhite cupy the King Rook file, swoop upon line in each moves like chorus girls in White's King Knight Pawl) (and indo clOCkwise succession. The first is also dentally the Queen Bishop Fawn with by Korolikol', in co-operation with Doluk (;heck), and the Black King Knight Pawll hanoI'. and appeared in Shakhmaty in queens early, and with mate! Bleak! Mate in 4 moves 1939. 214 CHUZ REVIEW, JULY , 1960 Meseritz, 1940 Ne w York. 1898 Wh ite invokes it so und principle : An exq uisite Queen sac rifice to ex, att ack a de fending unit! ploit t h e long diagonal. F'ALKBEER COU NTER GAMBIT QU E E N'S GAMBIT DECLI NED W hite t o m ove w in ' 0' E. Sch loesser Am ateur E. Delmar Am ateur 1 B- Q8 PxNP 5 P- N4t! K-Q4 2 K- R3 P- N8 (Q) 6 P- B4t ! K- K4 White Black 1 P _Q4 P_Q4 9 P,N NPxP p,p 3 R- R4t K_ N4 7 P-Q4t ! K- B4 1 P- K4 P- K4 6 N- KB3 B_QB4 2 P _QB4 P- K3 10 0 -0 4 P- R4t! K_B4 8 P- K4t K_ N4 2 P_ KB4 P-Q4 7 Q_ K2 P_B4 3 N_QB3 N_KB3 11 N-K5 B-N2 9 P_B4 m ate 3 K PxP P- K5 8 KN_Q2 0 - 0 4 P- K3 P-B4 12 B- N2 N_Q4 5 N-B3 N- B3 13 Q- R5 P_N3 ? N ote t he far·r eaching importance o! 4 P- Q3 N-KB3 9 N> N P,N p,p 6 B- Q3 B- K2 14 Q- B3 B- Q3 Whit e's fi rst move! 5 NxKP 10 B-K3 QxP ?? P_B4 N_N S Plausible but d isastrous. 7 0 - 0 BPxP 15 To fill in the sideline s: on 1 .. . 8 BPxP P,N 16 B_N1 Q-B2 ?? PxKP, t he sequel is 2 KxP. P-K8(Q) 3 17 Q- B6! B_ K2 R-Rlt . K - "'~ ~ P- R·l t . K- B·I 5 P- N·lt . K- Q·I lj P- B~t. K - K ·I 7 P-Q~t . K - B~ 8 R-B4t. K - N4 9 8xHt. K - R3 10 R-IH mate; and. analogo usly. on 1 . . • PxBP. th e solution rUllS: 2 K - N3. P - B8(Q) 3 R- R4t, K - N ·I 4 P-RH. and so on. as before, Absolutely magnificent! T he fi na l position is no end-game study but n problem hy t he Fl'encitman Lazard, Hez'e t he Black " chorns line" 11 Q-B4 ! Resig ns kicks back. Black must lose a piece. 18 Q- R8t! K,Q 19 NxBPt K- N1 20 N- R6 mat e Kie v, 1959 Black sees a head ; \Vhite sees fnrther. West Germany vs. Sweden, 1960 SICILIAN D EF ENSE The theme or t his game is apparen t L ipn itzky Lasarev Iwen without notes. Black's 10th move 1 P- K4 P-QB4 6 P- QN3 P_ B3 is ,Ill innovatio n. White's answer is a 2 N- KB3 N-KB3 7 B_N 2 PxP ? Quic1, attack based 011 a pin. N_Q4 3 P-K5 8 NxP N, N FRENCH DEF E NS E 4 N-B3 P_ K3 9 B,N P-Q3 W . Unzicker 5 N- K4 N-Q B3 10 Q- R5t! P- N3 G. Stahlberg 11 B- N5t! B_Q2 1 P_ K4 P- K3 9 Q_ B3 P_ B4 2 P _Q4 P _Q4 10 PxP P _Q N3? Blac!;: nail'ely expects to win a p iece White m at es in 6 moves 3 N_QB3 N_ KB3 after 1Z BxDt? QxB, 11 P-R5! PxP 1 P-N4 , , , . 4 B_ N5 B_ K2 12 P- R6! P_N3 The threat is 2 N- B 7 mate. 5 P- K5 KN_Q2 13 0-0_0 QN_Q2 1 , , . . pxP e.p. 6 P_KR4 P_ KB3 14 R- Kl! Q_N3? 7 Q-RSt K-Sl 15 B_ N5 K_ B2 T he rea(\er can chec k o ut other line s : 8 PxP N,P 16 N_ R3 P-R3 e.g .. 1 .. . P- QB6 2 P- Q3, PxP 3 PxP. >ixP ~ PxN, and 5 N - IH mate; or 1 . .. P- Q6 2 P- QB3, P- K 6 3 1'- 133, PxP ~ PxP, :\' xP 5 PxN, a nd 6 N- 13i m ate; (11' 1 . . , P-K62 P- Q3, et c. 2 P- B4t PxP e.p. 3 P-Q4 , . . . At this point, N - B7 mate is still t he thr eat. and other m oves than the text mOl'e have no point. except fol' 3 . .. p 12 Q- R3!! PxB K6 whleh is mel by ·1 1>- 133, P xP 5 P x P . O t' 12 . .. B-xB 13 QxPt, B- K2 (if an d t he recurrent 6 N - D7 mate. 13 . .. N-K2?? 14 N-B6 mate; if 13 , .. 3 . , " PxP e.p. 5 P-B4 PxP e.p. Q- K 2, 14 NxPt wins ) H BxR, etc. 4 P-K4t PxP e.p. 6 R-N5 mate 13 QxPt Q- K2 15 Q xN Qx8 Black ducks loss of a Pawn by 16 T he i3111c k line per fo r med m agnificent, 14 BxBt K-Ql 16 QxKP B-N2 H- Bl 17 N-B~ (P- R3 18 H xP), ly "teqlsichOl'eally" but dese r ted its 17 Q- N5t Resigns 17 BxQN BxB K ing " chessically," Arter 17 . . . K-K1 18 0 - 0-0, Q- Q5 18 BxN BxS t = ch eck; t = dbl. ch eck; I db, c h, l!1 N - B3, Wh ite Wi ll S easily. 19 N- NS t Resigns CHESS REV IEW , IULY , 1960 215 Actlvltlet 01 CH ESS REVI E W Postal Cheu JACK STRALEY BATT ELL p l~yers: game r e ~ ort. &, rating., names 01 r'lew player., prlze.wlr'lne r., se lected game., Postal Chess Editor tou rney Ir'l. truct lor'l , &, ed it orial cammer'll. TOURNAMENT NOTES 10th Annual Championship 1956 Golden Knights than in any other, In· As a result of c,lrrent Posta l Mortems, clud ing 1959 wh leh had 189 pr elim sec Progress Reports for tions or 1323 competitonl. Golden Knights Tournaments no more Qualifiers fo r the l-~i na l s have come t hro ugh, bu t Finals section. 56· 8th Annual Championship- 1954 Nf 5, has completed play, a ll d the COIl POSTALMIGHTlES! Adjudlcallons 011 t he last games o( th l ~ testants therein hal'e acored t he follow· Prize Tournaments ing, weighted points: " tournament nre not yet doue. \VIHm they T h e rollo,,"lnll" l>03tnilt eH h,we W,m PI·I7. e~ are cleared, we w!1l have the tinal s lan(\· Eva Aronson 37.3; 1. Zalys 35.25 ; G. in 19;;8 IOJul 19;;9 1'J"l~e 'l"ourna m unt~ "~ II. ings to announce. W. Baylor 33.05; D. G. Wa.llace 28.3; r &su lt of currcn l POst a l Mortems. V. D. Landon 27.25; S . Crown 20.55; lIn(1 Tourney F'l a yer~ Place Score 9th Annual Championship-1955 H. Cleveland withdrew. 58 - 1' , C S ~ ll !lI e J' ...... 18t 5~- ~ A C !II (!(' kl n ...... 2nd ~_2 As a I'esult of current Postal Mortems, 11th Annual Championship-1957 .[3 \\. A H".lley ...... 1·2 · I~- I~ Finals sections, 55·Nr 17, has completed I) I{ HlIli ...... 1-2 ~ ~-g play, a nd the contestants therein have As a result of cu rrent Po.tal Mortems, HUH .\I{I'e'" ...... ISI SI - 6 earned the rollowlng, weighted. point the fi rst final results are Ill. F ina ls sec· L \.!t,1.!;< ...••••.•.••••• 2nd 4.2 tion, 57·Nf 4, ha s completed play, li nd t he 16 I" Helm ...... 2nd ~~- 1 6 scores: 82 .J n S m ith ...... 1-3 5 · 1 H. G. 8r'own 35.3; B. D. Rosenblum contestants t herehl hal'e IIcOt-e'Iuller ...... 81.(h; assignment to the Fhlals : I. Rubi n, D. L Joyne r ...... ~ S.I P D L)'neh .... 3 1 .1~ The following POlll a lites han' WOn 01' lied E Buer ger ..... 41.2 S Podolsk)' .... 31.1 M. Wemig, J. McNeese, S. He ifetz. A. for fir~1 In 1 9~~ lind 1959 Cla 216 CHESS REVI EW, JULY, 1960 Culmination - Mate POSTAL GAMES A ferocious attack, obtained at the cost of giving u p castling a nd a piece, from CHESS REVIEW tourneys n ets White a mate. Our P ostal p layer s V I ENNA GA ME are invited t o sub. MCO 9 : p~ge 60; cOlumn 1 ( a ) m it their BEST B. J ohnston R. Coveyou games f or this White mack department. The 1 P-K4 P- K4 moves of each 2 N-Q B3 N- KB3 game m ust be 3 B-B4 N-B3 .... rltten on a stand· More tactical is :: . . NxP ., Q-R5 ard score sheet, 18 Nx NP J . . . . . or typed on a (4 NxN. P - Q4 ) , N- Q 3. A mora l nece sslty, single sheet of a ccordin g to some. 4 P- B4 . . . . 18 . . , . K,N paper, and mark_ Recommended by Adams. In reply to ~ ed "for publi ca· 19 R- N3t K- R2 20 BxP!! . P- Q3. mack h a s a good choice of 4 .. tion" . . B- N5. 4 ... ll- D Cl'UX of the case , t his sacrfflce oc(.: urs 19 P- QR4! N/ N- B4 ~';>" INTERNATIONAL fl'equen tly in such positions) Is ve ry On 19 ... PxP 20 RxP. White soon s t rong here: e .g., 20 ... PxN 21 NPlCP, wins t he Queen Rook Pawn. H- B2 22 N- Rt gives White II. terrlrtc a t· 20 Px P PxP SWEDEN. 1959-60 tack, all of which Blac k ca n safely an International at Stockholm ticipate In the t r ue classical line. B llt 1I0W he wins t he Queen Knight After 13 ... P -B5, Blad! Is not so Pawn , Critical Mishap badly off but has chances only fa !" equal· In this game, Black adopts a critical Ity (Ct. Spassky-Olafsson, page 201, va l'i atloll to start with and t he n IIlIS ,Ju ly, 1959). plays it fLt t hat. Consequently, he Is 12 . . . . BPxP soon fig hting a lost cause. Winner Mal'tln Joha ns son displays fi ne This ex(.: hange oHers some relief. FOt", with the Queen Bish op rile open, W hite under standing nnd energy. He was the snr pr lse of the tOll l'lla m ent, tying fO I· cannot easily concentrate his rorces on fi rst a long wit h KO tOl', ahead of K eres t he King·slde. and fa r Il hend of S tahlberg. 13 P x P R- Bl T he text is an Indirect p,'olection of RUY LOPEZ the K ing Pawn (1 4 P xP, P xP 15 N xP? Q Martin Johatl l so" Kristia " Skold D2! ) , and it is more promising t hall the Sweden Swede tl direct protectiml by . .. Q- B2 with re· Whit e Blac k spect to 1-1 N - 8 1, P- Q4. But It Is more 21 B- R5 N_ N3 com mitting inasm uch as on 14 P- (~ 5 t he 1 P_ K4 P- QN 4 22 Q- K2 • • • • P- K4 6 R- K1 Hook then interferes wit h . B-DI, 2 N-K 63 N- QB3 7 B-N3 0 - 0 which will be n eeded. 13 Q- D2 is And the l·est Is an execution, I1 CllU y 3 6 - N5 P_QRS 8 P- B3 P_Q3 the refore prefer able her e. staged by White. 4 B_ R4 N_ B3 9 P-KR3 N- QR4 14 P-Q5! , . . . 22 . . . . R_ N1 24 Q-K2 P-B4 5 0 - 0 B- K2 10 B_B2 P_ B4 23 QxP Q- Q2 25 Px P P-K5 11 P-Q4 B-N2 White has the edge, as Is rather nor· 26 P xP l mal nfte l' Bla ck's fialwhelto. • • • • In t he t heory of t his opening, it W[\5 Wh ite Is well ahead of a ll thnlfLlll. 14 . . . _ N- Q2 quite de rtnitely considered fonn erly that 26 ... I:'xN is futile: 27 P xPt Is fol· Blac k's Queen Bishop is needed on t ile The l-e-actlvation of Black's Queen lowed by apprOI)rlate checks (e.g., 27 QBI-KR6 diagonal. And, a lthough tile Bishop Is now a problem. The text aims ... K-B2 28 QxPt, 8 - B3 29 B-B:;:l. text 11 .. . B- N2 has been played with at t he r ad ical 15 .. . P- D'I 16 PxP, DxP. 26 p,p B- 831 K- R2 s ome fl-eqUenC Y late ly, t he move call Bll t t he line is neithe r Ideal, since Black • • • • 27 P- QN4! N,P 32 QxBP K- N1 hardly be recommende d. The con sel"V:\ \\"lllll s up with hanging Pawns and II " 28 N,N B,N 33 Q-Q3 K- A2 live 11 . .. Q-D2 is preferable, partly critically weake ned Klng·side, nOlO Is it 29 PxN P,N 34 Q-Q4 R-N 1 because then 12 P - Q5 offer s \Vhite only obtl\inable by force. 30 Q- Q3 B_ B2 35 P-B6 ! Res ig ns equallty at best, (IS demonsll"ated. e.g., mack can more patien tl y pur sue lh e in Evans-/lossolimo, page 309 , CH ESS Slime idea, a nd with fall' c hances, by H R E VIEW, Oct ober, 1955, . .. Q- B2 15 B - N l , N- R4! (16 NxP? QxB!), as is poin ted alit In the Swedish Skalded ches8 maga!ine. T he re m ay be nla ny var iations whiCh At any rate , t he a lternatives a re wOl"Se . K er es k nows better th an Skold; but t he A regrouping i n the patte rn of 14 ... one In this game Is obviously a nothel· R- Nl 15 N-BI, n-B l Is mons u 'ot.n;ly ma tte l·, for whic h the g randmaste .· must tlme· C OII~um i ng . And IIny maneuve l"i ng take a severe '·skold ing." not directed at t he liberation or the ban· Ished Bishop likely enta ils a steady In· RUY LOPEZ crease of Black's difficulties. Kr istian Skold P aul Ke res 15 N-B1 R_K1 Swed en Soviet Union m ack r es ol ts to useless m a ll e u"erlll~ W hite Blaclt a nd quick ly gets a n entil·ely h op e l e ~s 1 P_ K4 P- K4 6 p,p B,P pOSition. As . .. P - B4 IS Il ls only .-: hance 2 N- KB3 N- QBS 7 P-Q4 P- K5 f OI· co\mter·play, h e m\lst try \.') .. . P- N3. 3 B- N5 P- Q RS 8 N_N5 P_Q4 12 QN- Q2 • • • • 4 B_ R4 P- Q3 9 P-B3 P-K6 H ere 12 P- Q5! B-Bl 13 QN- QZ Is 16 P-QN3 ! ... . 5 P_ B3 P- B4 10 P_KB4 B-Q3 strong a nd JU ost likely W ll ile's bes L White I1l les ou t ... N- QB5 ami a lso 11 0-01 . . . . Fo r example: 13 ... N- N2 1<1 N-Bl , N (We llareS fOl· action with P- QIH . K l 15 P- KN4, P- N316 B- R6, N-N2 17 N 16 . . . . B- R1 This move was recommended in this N3, Q- B2 18 K - RZ, N- Q1 19 R- KN1, F 17 N- K3 P- NJ column long ago (cf. E uwe- Kel-es. In B3 follows l he c lassical line or defen se 18 B- Q2 N- N2 which II Q- 83? was played. pll ge 12. CH E SS REVIEW, June, 1948). for Diack as In the E vans- Rossolimo, Clearly, Ulack's game Is very ba d. Bul, plnyed w!th two tempi down. It Th is line of t h e Siest a Vll r illlloll ls works ou t poorly. Fo!" now 20 N- B5 ! (t he t = eheek ; t = dbl. cheek: f = dl,. ch. very diW cult fo r Dlack, most likely t oo CHESS REVIEW, JU LY, 1960 221 difficult. At a ny rate. Ke res tries vainly SOVIET UNION, 1959 10 O-O!? , . . . to restore it hel·e. International at Riga White's point - a sacrifice resembling 11 . . . . BxP t he Muzio (though of less vigOr) and as Weaker or Stronger? The c rucial mon~, hut it works poorly. su ch rathe!' in t he s tyle of Tahl. T ournament winner Spassky meets the What better move there may be remains 10 . . . . P,N Albin wilh what h as been s upposed to to be seen. Next on the waiti ng list for 11 NxP · . , . sC I'utiny is 11 .. . Q- K2. be a wea kel' s ide line, and he scores a quick s ucces s. The weakel' li ne is Now White thr ea tens 12 P-K5, which 12 N-K R3 ! B,N a ctua lly fairly st r ong, it appears, though is obviously very powel·ful. 13 Q-R5t P-KN3 this game itself justifi es no definite 11, . . , B_Q3 14 QxB P-K7 conclusions . An ineffective measure. Correct is 11 Bla ck's las t move is h ope less . 14 .. P - D3. How White intended to pr o· 8 - Q3 mu st be pla yed. th ough it leads to ALBIN COUNTER GAMBIT cee d t hen is hard to guess. The plausi a fine game for White a fter 15 BxP. 60ris Spassky V. I. Mi k enas ble continuations : 12 P- K 5. P xP 13 P Soviet Union Soviet Union D6 (or 13 N-N5, N- B3) , N xP 14 N- N5, White Blac k B .. N5, and 12 P -QR3, B- Q3 13 P-Ql\'4 , N- JH! rather fa vor Bla ck. 1 P_Q4 P-Q4 2 P-QB4 P-K4 12 P_ K5 ! • • • • i"I"li kenas is a player wit h a lot of With this b l-eakt hrongh , \ Yh Ue's at· cOIll'age and a foible for t he eccent r ic. tack becomes v el'Y s trong. H e did very well in this tomnament. 12 . . . . NxP nnishing second. ahead of Tolush t hird. There is no prospect in refusing the Tall l fO\ll"t ll. sacrifice, t hough 12 . . . K BxP is a bit 3 PxKP P-Q5 better. 4 P-K4 • • • • 13 R-K1 P-B3 The supposedly wea ker move. 4 N 14 P- B5! • • • • 15 Q-K6t • • • • KB3 is the usual r ecommendation. And n ow W hite's a ttack takes an othe r Actually, t his is not th e best. More 4 . , , . N-QB3 ju mp. convincing is 15 BxNt ! e.g., 5 P_ B4 P- KN4 19 . . . . B-K2 1 ) 15 . .. PxD 16 Q- K 6t , Q- K2 17 T his is the m ove from the famons After 14 .. . K BxP 15 NxN. PxN 16 QxPt, K - B2 18 RxD'i', K- N2 19 B- Q2, etc. Bum vs. Schlech ter game of Munich, RxPt, B-K2, White wins wit h 17 Q- R 5t: 2) 15 . .. K- K 2 16 Q- R4t, a nd White 1900. to which mos t books (·efer. e.g., 17 . . . K-Bl 18 D- QD4, Q -K 1 19 wins wilh 16 .. . P-N4 17 Q- Kl! or 16 6 P_ KB5 .... B-R6t (or Q-R 6t> and mate to follow, or . . . K-Q3 17 QxQt, RxQ 18 BxBt or 16 17 ... K-Q2 18 R- Q5t. B- Q3 19 B-N5t! . .. K-K3 17 Q- Kl! BxD 18 QxP t, K-Q3 Burns played 6 B- Q31 The text move P - B3 20 B-KB4. 19 B-R,I. is known as good enough fOI' equa lity ; 15 NxN P,N 17 B-KN5 0 - 0 15 , , , , Q-K2 but it is proba bly bette r t han that. Much de pend s on the question of whether 16 RxP N- B3 18 Q-N3t , , . , 16 BxNt K-Ql ! Wh ite can get in (after 6 ... NxP) an W hite h a s a winning a tta cl\. Now Black h as t his good m ove, win· ea!'ly P-K5, possibly by means of a sac· n ing II t em po, so averting t he WO I·S t. rifice. 17 QxPt B-Q3 6 . , . . N,P 18 R-Kl PxB 7 N-KB3 B-N 5t 19 Q-KNS .... The alternative, 7 . . . NxNt 8 QxN, While must eye 19 .. . BxP t 20 K xB, may be better, provided Black can a n Q-R5t carefully. So h e cannot elimi· t icipate P- K 5, e.g., nate BlacJ;:' s passed Paw n quick ly a nd 1) 8 . . . P -KR ,]?! allows White good t herefore I'emains a bit handicapped. attacking ch ances on 9 P - K 5 ! 1 Q- KZ 1Q 19 . . , . N-B3 D-Q3. QxPt 11 K-Q1. On 9 B- Q3, P 20 N- R3 R-QN1 KB3 ]0 P-I 222 CHESS REVIEW, JULY, 1960 his Dishop, too favorably on his Q4. Yet tion fo r the opponent's pieces ; 25 . '~A UNITED STATES t he text move is not bad. PxP 26 R-Q2 (not 26 R- Ql? P-B5!). 14 . . . . KNxP Of course, t he sa('rifice can hardly be DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 15 N-B4 N/3-K2 COITect but does lead to complications 16 R- K1 and therefol·e some IJI" 36 N-K7t ... The winning move Is 36 N -D-1. 'rhen 36 .. B- Q6 and 36 . .. B- K7 a t'e cancelled out. and Black is helpless against the tlll'eat of 37 P-R7\", and N-R6-B7(t). The text, however. is no mistake as White can get the same position again. In embarking on the ambitious ad 36 . . . . K-Rl vance of his King Knight Pawn, Black Dr awn does not foresee Alekhlne's clever reply. Only this is White's blunder. He had 13 N-K5 ! N/3xN enough time on his clock and considered 11 P-QN4 · - . . 14 PxN BxNt the position carefully. But the winning White is unaware or Dlack's point. line of 37 N- N6i, K-Nl 38 N- B-t! just 15 PxB P- N3 Onee again, 11 It- Nl is the move. did not enter his mind, and so he finally 01' 15 ... QxKP 16 B-Q4, Q-E5 17 p,p accepted a draw. 11 . . . . B-N5t. followed by White's castling, and 12 PxP NxBP! ! Black's game is shot to pieces. 13 NxN Q-B2! 16 O-O! 8 - Q2 Brief and Amusing And Black favornbly I'ecovers the piece. This encounter between two first class ers, Moran Airman First Class and 14 N- RS • • • • Feuerstein Private FIrst Class and both, Or 1<1 Q- N3, KR-Dl 15 N- R5, QxN/6 by the way, absentee members of the 16 QxQ, RxQ 17 NxP, R- K6 also with a Manhattan Chess Club, is brief and supet'ior game for mack (18 B- QR3, N amusing. When the raider hits a dummy K519 R- R2, N-B6!). and Is hit himself by several klcJ{s from 14 . . . . QxNj6 the ground, he bails ont. 15 B-Q2 • • • • DUTCH DEFENSE \\lhite is a Pawn down and has posi· tional difficulty, too. He lacks a satis· Richard C. Moran Arthur Feuerstein factory mo,'e. White mack 15 • _ . . Q-Q5 1 N- KB3 P-KB4 16 R- R3 N-KS! 17 KR-Q1!! a-RS 2 P- Q4 P-KN3 17 R-Q3 Q- N3 Black lunges at the bait. Relatively Private First Class Feuerstein u'lel; Black has consolidated his advantage with Black what civilian first class beller is 17 . . . 0-0-0 although. after ~\!ld must win, though not necessarily so 18 Q-N-t! \Vhite':; game i:; far better. Feuerstein used to play with 'Vhite in quickly as follows when airman Moran, BIni's Opening. The experiment is sowe· 18 Q-N1 .... as it were, bails out. what risky, b"t that only befits a brave Now Black can win the Exchange iu soldier. 18 B-Kl QR-Bl 20 R-R3 B- N7! two different ways, both of them bad - 19 K- Rl B-N4 21 R-R2 R- B8 S P-B4 B-N2 18 ... BxR B-N5t 22 Q-NS RxB! e .g., 19 (stronger 4 N-B3 N- KB3 than 19 QxN, O-O-O!), K- K2 20 QxN The Rool, is immune, on pain of mate S P-KNS • • • • and White wins. by asphyxiation. The nsual pattern against the Dutch. 18 . • • • NxQBP In this case, however, 5 Q- B2, followed 23 P-K3 BxR 19 RxN QxR possibly by P-K4, is also a continuation Resigns On 19 ... BxH., 20 B-N5t wins easily. or promise. 20 B-N5t BxB 22 B-R6t K_N1 5 . • . _ 0-0 21 QxBt K_B1 23 Q-Q7! Resigns 6 B-N2 P-Q3 If 23. . 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I ~I 5} · I o p r:;ihnes •... 21.S 25(} J A ROCkwell ...... I ~ I 5·1 number is shaping up to be t he second 2 ~ .; D C Hnm"'ond ...... I~t 6·0 · " ' e lght ed polr'lt t o tals a r-e based on t he highes t ever in the Golden K nights. For 256 H 0 Jewet l ...... I - ~ n ·1 (ollowl ng 8cala: 1.0 point per win In t.he we cannot e xpect the 213 se<:lions (1491 H ,\ "Iuk" ...... 1- 2 5·1 preliml: 2.2 In sem l·tlnals: and 4.5 in tlnals. contestanis) as came In in 1947. We 2i7 r:; BregSlonc .. . • ...... h t G-O Draws count half the~e va lues. Published 293 I. I.l 'r,'CI)(HI )' ...... I st G·O only after all (:"unes in section repOrted. a lready have more contest a nts In t h is 3,;8 K W oo l~e y ...... Ist !i -O eisaeh. on€> to Stillerman. 125 '1'ulvin!;" licks Long. 381 ,\1lla,m bests Burg twice. 382 Finch tops Withdraws. 67 Hayward, Stephens tie. 69 129 Sampson bests Martin, Eurg·ess. 133 Camhol'l' twice. 384 Yoder loses two eru;h to Grun tops (a) Weston; Baskett tops (0 Kaikow. Rockwell tie. 13+ Hocking halts S heller and Goodspeed; Cameron withdrawn. Redl. 70 Kramer tops Tlmmann: Abramson Aranoff; Itkin tops Branch lwlee. 135 385 Coghlll tops, then ties Margh. 390 Gnad!). mauls MarChand. 7-t Horwitz loses to Cos_ tain, licks Downs. 75 LaJc!k, Mayer halt Hendricks stops Sturgies. 136 Clal'k clipil ~!onye k tie. 391 Lees, Gregory lick Istvan, ~\Iiller. 137 Swartwo,·th jolts Jefferson; 392 Hutchinson. Olson each top Yoder twice. Holden. 77 Orbanowski be~ts Summerville. 78 Donlns. Wood tie. 79 Stefani, Cullum conk Koffman conks \\'achteL 139 Harrison 394 Stanford conk,'J Kos~. 398 Ranish, Chu$e halts Harbo twic!). HI Stark stops Verdo· rip St,-ouP. ·100 Tate tops Specht twice. 407 Tockman; Ryan withdrawn. SO Hobbs, Odell lino. 152 Dumont downs Abbott. 153 '1'hu· spill Splettstoesser; Odell downs Hobbs, Taylor downs DeClalre. 409 SOmCl','J bests l\(ontgomery but 1.>ows to Levy. 81 Klaus nen lOPS Tudor. 155 Bonsey bests Ten Price. bows to BIgler. H2 Luchi beats Broeck. 156 Brown. Rad)'s tie. 163 Poole Withdraws. 82 Kent tops Hanson. (a) Hess; Bebky. Sciarretta licks Larsen. 84 Harkness boWs conks Cole. 177 KUcera top ~ K in"" (a). 1'19 Correclion; -'Iarlin won from llcLaughlin. \0 Fitzsimons, best ~ llitehell; 'Vaitkus top.s Started in 1960 (Key: 60-C) T Urgeon. 85 Preston besu Bullocku~. 87 Tourneys 181 . 250: 191 Favorite feHs Clark. Tourneys 1· 166; 1 ;\Iclntyre ha lt~ HarriR. Pratt loses to \Veaverling. licks Cohen; 192 BurgeLt lX'su San Giorgio. 19S Wright 13 "'orsel! tops Toole twice. 17 McGowan Cohen conks CaPOral. Harris. 88 Bickham lOps (2a) De)'o. 119 Johnson. Sloboda tie mauls MascarI. 18 Hansen halts Sampson. beats Hacker. :Burton. 90 Parras-h outpoints tWice. 20 4 Johnson jolts ""Iaddux. 206 Gold· Googins, man mauls FledeL 209 Dundatscheek tops Tourneys 91·112: 91 Barnes beats Davis. (2f) Sauvageau. 213 Bratz boWs to "'ine. Postalites in All Tournaments 92 Cohen tops ThyselL 93 Lodato lIeh RoI· bests Real·dan. 214 B erman bests Boehm Check to see It your results appear In lins. loses to Peltier; Terry tops Peltier. and top~ Bendix (the latter by If and la), "Postal Mortema." Report any corrections 94 Reynolds rips Parker. Porters. 95 McFar 215 'tayIOl' tops Hill. 219 Nordenson rips or omissions within the month of publica. land fells Yaffe; Garcia whips ¥/ard. 96 O'Reilly. 220 Kalkow tops (la) Bendix. 223 tion (or non· publication). Submit summary Rutherford withdraws. 100 Garver tops Lilly li cks Loftin; Edens withdrawn. 225 of all results In tourney if In "ny doubt all Knopf. tl e ~ Levy; 'Yipvcr tops (a) Lehman; \\'-ard whips Corrigan. 228 Minkin tops Lilly not reperted. And pre~s tardy oppon·ents Bancroft nips Knopf, 101 Croy halts Hurley. twice. 231 Brandln downs Dudley. 233 Hol- for punctual moves. 102 :Brooks tops HarriS, Sherman and (f) 218 CHESS REVIEW, IUlY, 1960 H acker. 103 Adams downs Crawford: Mal drawn. 28 Stichka stops Durkin. 31 Plock. sack mauls CltrtC!". I().1 Carr conks Samitt, Hunkel tie. 35 Lane licks Hamilton. 38 CHESS BY MAIL "Iooke. 11)5 Keyser bests Cotter, Baker ; Cle .... horn tops Talmage. 4l F u<·hs to[">s (f) J un!.'"e withdrnw~ . 107 Farnham fe ll s Kull :·'lol"eetl. ~2 Har tigan halts Eilmes. H !lie If you have not p layed In our tourneys man. 108 Borke,· heats T homs. 109 Spear "ee~ \ Ies Brown, to!)S Meiden. Gorham. H before, please spe<;ify in which class you spil ls BO\l,·i<)r. 1I0 Burken bests Chase; Du l