MAY 1957 MARSHALL CHESS CLUB CHAMPION l :;e~ " New Y orle " in " W o r ld of Che .... pagel ) 50 CENTS ... 4bsc:ription Rote ONE YEAR $5.50 From the "Amenities and Background of Chess-Play" by m Ewart Napier The Incomparable Twins First Game 23 , . , Q- D5 be fol'e t he nook mo,'e is betlel', When PlIIs bu ry I'eached America afte r St, Pet ersburg. 1896 the 1896 Qu adl'ans ulal' event at St, P e, QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED 23 R- Q2 R- B5 23 Q-B5 Q- BS 24 KR_Ql R- B6 25 K _N2 . , tersburg, w here he {ailed ilgainst St ein­ Pillsbury Dl" Lask~r . Hz, while winning a majority of the glori, White Blacl; White ml ~se (1 ::6 Q- N l with drawing ous six gam e series from Champion Dr, hopes. 1 P_Q4 P-Q4 4 N_B3 P-B4 Lasker, I wall invJled to his lodging in 26 .. ., RxP ~! 2 P-QB4 P-K3 5 B_ N5 B P xP New Yor k, 27 Q-K6t K _R2 3 N-QB3 N- KB3 6 QxP N-B3 A fter congratula tions, his first q ues, The clll'laill goes down o n a b i ~ ban Ie. tion was " Of COIlI'Se , you saw the StH'­ not w ho lly free from such errol' as ('omes prlsing Quee n Ga m bit Declined 1.... 1s ker \\'ith t he llme,lImlt. wo n rrom me! I had. And what had been 28 KxR Q-B6t my re'ac tions? Althoug h I k new not e nough to II r glie t he point, I !l aid there mus t be something radically wrong wllh opening play tha t left Ihe King Dls hop at home for 21 moves and that a s a preachment on premature ilttilck, Uij well a s fOr PI'OfUIHJ!ty and beauty, it was the s martest of all gumes. He grinned. Nimbly, his li ttle ivol'y chessmen we re s et up at the s ixth move, and he 1)layed 7 BxN - a ll wltll a characteris tic look wh ich plainly meant " Wit h that blow, 7 Q-R4 B-K2 12 N _Q4 O-~ t he next time, if a ny , I'll hit him where 8 0-0-0 Q-R4 13 B,N B,B I m issed him bdol"e," \) P-K3 B-Q2 14 Q- RS N,N I became his c hopping block. 10 K_N1 P_K R3 ! 15 P xN B-K3 p,p p,p 1I1:l("k mates In fou l". I was t hen about !Ift een and It wOI'th r 11 16 P- B4 QR-Bl player, bllt not so good as I thought I 17 P- B5 RxN! ! C" mbrldge Springs, 1904 was , a cUng as a sort of proxy for Dr. 1'1ll ~ bury told me th ut the eX(IUlSne Laskel'! Howe ve r, I held the job ro J' (:ornb!nation hel'e initiated was the only T his i.. Pillsbu rr's la :< [ na~h 01 light, n ing: de;l(lly. d lr el"!. ,·iri le. eight ye;l1"s! ~l!lrt1ing and Il tte!'ly diabol ica l SUrprise We played the position whenever we he s uffered in all his cal'eer abl'oad. QU EEN'S GAMBI T DECLINED met, which w as ofte n: years we played 18 PxB , . it, here and a broad. It became a bore: . Pillsbury Dr. Lasker Ul e me of a canal horse, White Black I s aid to P ills blll"y. "Isn'i it sllly to 1 P-Q4 P_Q4 4 N-B3 P_ B4? s uppose that Dr. Lasker, a. s hrewd gen· 2 P_QB4 P_ K S 5 B-N5 BPxP eral, will give YOII ; ~ return-engagement 3 N_QB3 N_KB3 6 QxP N_B3 at t his thing ? Same 1l0flition 11 11 In firSt galli€", Bul lhe big day came. 7 BxN PxB 19 P_B4! p ,p Al Cambl' ldge Springs, I got n p rrom 8 Q-R4 PxP 20 Q_Q4 ! my table to str etch, and met Pillsbmy, P- B3 or cOllrse, I knew he was playing OJ'. 9 R-Q1 B- Q2 21 QxP/ 4 Q- B4 10 P-K3 N_ K4 22 N-K5! Lasker. I kne w a lso in what wretched B- Kl P,N P_ B4 tlealth my h ero was , a \\"l'eck w!th lIot 11 N xN 23 N-N4 K _ B2 long to \i ve, a nd pa s t playing "hess, ex' 12 QxBP Q- N 3 24 Q-R6t QxP ? R_ B3 ce pt a s h is pract lse(1 hand might play it, 13 B-K2 2;' 8 - B4 ' 14 0-0 26 RxP t Q,R robot fashio n. A- B' 15 Q-Q3 R_B2 27 R_ B ' QxRt Said PlI1s bu l"Y, " He's gone illlO the 18 , ' , . R_QR6! 16 N_ K4 B_ K 2 28 KxQ B-Q2 Petersbur g thIng !" " And what did he T h iS sacrifice, a t o nce co rne l'lng a lld 17 N - Q6t K _B l 29 Q-R5t K_Nl pla y!" said J. Then, ,.. ith a gl' in t hat e XI)OSing Ihe King, has a n ex«lI ent claim 18 N _B4 Q-N5 30 N_K5 Resign' was in itseU no mean "'or k or art, he to oricina lhy: it has no Ce llo\\', so far a s s aid. " T a ke a. look ! It is, I guess, tile I know. o nly dawn sche me you neve!' tried!!" 19 PxPt R,P 21 B_N5 QxBt 20 PxR Q- N3t 22 K _ Rl R_B2 :-::--::::-:;::-;-~;:;-:;=C--:-=""7,--- ­ t = ehe('k; l - dbl, ch eck; ~ = dis, ch. CHESS REVIEW 'HI p.eroa, eMUS MAOA"Hf Valumn 25 Number 5 May, 1957 EDITED &. PUBLISHED BY I. A. Horowitz Readers are invited to use these columns for their TABLE Of CONTENTS comments on matters of interest to chessployers, FEATURES Chess Biscuits _____________ _____ ___ 144 PHONY CHESS subs tantial satis faclions of our common Game of the Month ________________ 136 Back in 1951, I read in your maga,o;ine power.c1utching drives) . I missed only a Man Against Machine __ _ ___ ___ _____ 141 of an experiment in telephone chess he· chequer flooring for his miniatures of World Chess Championship Match __ 138 tween two teams of three playing in con­ mimic ma yhem. DEPARTMENTS s ultation al lwo separate houses. After six I'm hoping - touch Loard- that yoar Chessboard Magic ____ ___ __ ____ __ __ 143 years, I finally got an opportunity to try openings oracle will soon unfold my Chess Caviar _____ ______ ___ __ _ 145, 153 this idea myself, and I would like to favorite opening (now so fashionable), Chess Club Directory ___ ___ __ ______ 134 recommend it highly to your readers as an the King's Indian Reversed [Gad! thought Games from Recent Events _____ ___ 149 Morphy Masterpieces _________ _____ 153 entertaining, instructive and highly social he did - ED.} I love this opening for Past Masterpieces ________________ _ 135 evening. its patient tortuosities, the splended mo· Postal Chess __ __ __________ _____ ___ 156 Added entertainment was provided bility it gives t o the clear-tracking White Short History of Chess ____ _____ ___ 146 since our team (Black) lried the innova· pieces, the virile storm of King's wing Solitaire Chess .__ ____ _________ _____ 148 lion which F. Olafsaon introduced vs. I'awns it 8 0 often enables. Spotlight on Openings __ ____ _______ 154 Pilnik in their 1955 match ( CHESS HI-> I likc such features as "Chess Quiz.." Tournament Calendar ~ ____________ 135 I like photos and news (except the Ameri· World of Chess _____ __________ ___ __ 131 VI EW, May, 1956, p. 152) . Our Petroff caught the enemy team completely off can pelty chess news ) and articles evok; You Too Can Be Brilliant (Quiz) __ 130 base, and they h ad to improvise fo r the in g past titans (Steinilz, Winawer, etc.). EDITOR remainder of the game. T his should have I don't much care [0]" chess fiction but 1. A. Horowitz been demoralizing since they had a raft wonder why Ihe philosophical and psycho. EXECUTIVE EDITOR (If books both in English and German on logical s id es aren'l more touched Oil. I s Jack Straley Battell the openings ; but, after improvising exact· there a tlu:oiogical side ? CONTRIBUTING EOITORS ly the same mOI'es which Pilnik played for Pl e a ~e g ll' C the noble GA my delighted I. Chel·nev, J. W. Collins. T. A. Dunst, eighteen moves. they maneuvered their thanks. Dr. :M. Euwe, Hans Kmoch, 'V. Korn, Knight to Q2, KB3 and K5, and the game JAi\" ST APLETON ~'red Relnfeld, p . L. Rothenberg. Heatilmollt, England CORRESPONOENTS was drawn after thirty.five moves. Coll ell iate F . H. K(wr The poor souls were screaming plaintive HEY! WHO PLAYS BLACK? ! Alabama E. M. Cockrell . California J. B. Gee. Leroy Johnson. Dr. H. queries at us as to where we were gelling II has occurred to Ille that, in the light Ralston. M . J. Royer. the analysis ; but, by th., end of the game, of modern warfare, the subjects on the Colorado ,),1. W. Reese. Connecticut Edmund E. Hand. we had convinced them that we were just board arc obsolete. Also, I would prefer Oelaware 1>1.