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time, which rapidly grew in popularity' . But it
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This is the position which occurred
in both games and which is not given in
any of the theory books . And this
despite the fact that only six moves
have been played !
6 , <i)f6;
..•
6 . . . , f6 ; 7 e4 is clearly inferior for
Black.
7'«r X d8 + , 'it� X d8;
Now there is a parting of the ways:
Stein continued 8 e4 , Jlg7 (Keres
suggested 8 . .. , 1th6 to swap the KB) 9
d4, El f8 ; 10 h3 , b6; 1 1 g4 , h5; 12 g5 ,
<i)e8; 13-'tf4 , <i) d7; 1 4 0-0-0, -'tb7; 1 5
h4 , <i)c7 ; 1 6 lth3 , <i)e6 ; 1 7 Ae3 , 'i!fe8 ;
18 El he1 , El d8 ; 19 dS! , c X dS; 20
exd5 , <i)c7; 21 Af4 , El c8 ; 22 El x
e7 + !, �xe7; 23 d6 + , 'itle8; 24 dxc7 ,
fS; 25 g X f6 e.p. , <i) X f6 ; 26 J1. X c8,
11.xc8 ; 27 El d8 + , 'itl(7; 28 <i) gS + ,
'i!lg8; 29 ltd6, El e8 ; 30 <i)dS! , Black
resigned .
A crushing defeat for Black and a
result of his weak fifth move . It is
remarkable that such a master of
opening theory as Paul Keres should
get caught in this trap - and the more
so since he also played at Kemeri
1937!!.
Alekhine played perhaps the better
move 8 d4, which rules out . . . , lth6,
and the game continued 8 . . . , b6; 9 e4,
<i) fd7; 10 1tc4 , �e8 ; ll itf4 , .A.a6; 12
1tb3 , e6; 13 0-0-0, itg7 ; 14 d5, <i)cS;
15 Ac2 , Jlb7; 16 <i) eS, f6; 17 <i) c4 , e5 ;
18 .A.e3 , 1ta6; 19 <i) d6 + , �e7; 20 b4 ,
�xd6; 21 bxc5 + , bxc5 ; 22 Aa4 !
(Threatening 23 d x c6 + , �c7 ; 24
<i)d5 + , �c8 ; 25 c7 ! , � d7; 26 � e7 + ,
*xc7 ; 27 g xd7 + ) 22 . . . , .A.c4 ;
(After 22 . . . , c x d5 ; 23 � xd5 ! Black
is defenceless) 23 d xc6 + , �c7 and
now , instead of the game continuation
24 Jt X c5, � X c6; 25 � d5 + , .Q. X d5 ;
26 e x d5, �d4; 27 d6 + , �b7; 28 d7
which allowed resourceful Rellstab to
play .28 •••, l::tac8!!; 29 d xc8tlt + ,
g x c8 ; 30 *b1, g xc5 and Black
managed to draw a long game,
Alekhine could have surely won by 24
<i)d5 +. A X d5; 25 c X d5.
*
Another fantastic case of history
repeating itself came about after the
following sacri ficial sequence:
1 e4 , <i)f6 ; 2 <i)c3 , d5; 3 e x d5 , <i)xd5;
4 Ac4 , <i)b6; 5 Ab3 , �c6; 6 <i)f3 , eS; 7
d3 , Ag4 ; 8 h3 , Ah5; 9 <i)xe5 ! ! ,
A x d1 ; 1 0 1t x f7 + , 'itle7; 1 1 Ag5 + ,
'itld6; 12 <i)e4 + ! , 'i!l x e5 ; 13 f4 + ,
'itld4 ; 14 El X d1 ,
I first saw this position in an English
correspondence game, played not so
very long ago between D . Jukes and
D . Pinch, which concluded 14 ,
• ..
l¥rxg5 ; 1 5 c3 + , lt'e3 ; 16 0-0 ! ! , "«res
( 1 6 . . . , <i)d4; 1 7 f X g5 , 11.d6 ; 18
<i) x d6 , c x d6; 19 c x d4 wins) 1 7
� g3 ! (Threatening 18 ,l;t f3 mate) 17
••• , � d4 ; 18 J;tf2 (Now the idea is 19
ci)fl mate) 18 •.• , � e2 + ; 19 <i) xe2 ,
ci)a4 ; 20 lt'rt ! (Returning to the mate
by 21 ,l;tf3) Black resigned since 20 ... ,
"«rc6; 21 � d4 ! and there is no antidote
to the dual threats of 22 <i)c2 or <i) f5
mate .
Then , much to my surprise, while
looking through some old copies of the
Illustrated London News, I noticed
another game, Imbaud-Strumilo 1924,
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which also reached the diagram
position! That original version ended
equally nicely by 14 . . . , '<t>e3 ; 15 0-0 !
�
(Me acing mate in two by 16 _!! fe + , _I
'<t>d4, 1 7 c3 mate) 1 5 . . . , otld4, 16
!!del + , otl e2 + ; 17!! X e2 + ! ! , '<t> X e2
18 AhS +, '<t>e3 ; 19 f!f3 + , 'i?td4 ( 1 9 . . . ,
'<t>e2 ; 20 f!g3 +! , '<t>e 1 ; 2 1 f!e3 mate) 20
Af7 ! , Black resigned . There is no
defence to 21 c3 mate which can only
be delayed for one move by 21 . . . , otla4
or Ab4 . This completes a handsome
twin to the first mating web .
* Jorgen Nielsen - Larsen
We continue on the theme of Queen
sacrifices , from the following family
of King ' s Indian Defences :
Bobotsov-Tal, Students Olympiad
Varna 1 95 8
387
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r�t�-·�t
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In all these games Black continued
with the extraordinary otl X dS ! !
Zamikhovsky-Nezhmetdinov was
reached after 1 d4, .tlf6; 2 c4 , g6; 3
otl cJ, .ll g 7; 4 e4, d6; s f3 , 0-0 ; 6-'teJ,
otl bd7; 7 �d2, cS ; 8 otl ge2 , a6; 9 0-0-0 ,
�aS; 10 d X cS, d x cS; 11 'i?tbl , b5; 1 2
otJ d S and now t h e late Soviet master o f
tactics played the combination for the
first time with 12 . . . , otl X d5 !! ; 13
� X aS , otJ X e3 ; 14 f!cl (14 f! X d7,
A x d7 ; 15 �d2, otJ xc4!?; 16 itxd7,
f!ad8; 17 -tiJ x e7, f!d1 + ; 1 8 otlc l [17
'i?tc2 , f!d2 + and . . . , f!fd8] 1 8 . . . ,lth6;
19 A x c4! , .E:l. x h 1 ; 20 1t x f7 + ,El x f7
21 �e8 + , �g7 ; 22 ite5 + with
perpetual check or 21 ... , ltf8!? with
complex play. But 15 ... , otJ xfl!; 16
El x fl , .lle6 is also possible) 14 ... ,
otJ x c4 ! ; 15 .E:!. x c4 (15 it moves then
... , otJ X b2!) 15 ... , b X c4 ; 16 <tlcJ,
!! b8 ; 1 7-'t x c4 , 4::1 e5; 18la.e2 , Ae6; 1 9
fld1 , ltc4? (with 19 .. ., otl c6 ; 20 ita3,
otl b4 Black can play to win) 20 fld2,
otl c6; Draw agreed.
The next appearance of this sensa­
tional sacrifice was made in Bobotsov­
Tal which concluded from the diagram
1 1 . . . , ltJ X dS ! ! ; 12 it X aS, ltJ X e3; 13
.E:!.cl (13 !!d3, ltJ x c4; 14 ite1, !!b8; 15
h4, c x d4; 1 6 ltJ x d4, ltJ c5 is also
dangerous for White) 1 3 . . . , otJ xc4; 14
fl X c4 , b X c4; 15 otJcl , !! b8!; 16
A x c4 , otJ b6; 17 la.b3, A x d4!; 18
 388 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE

�d2, Ag7; 19 tle2, c4!; 20 Ac2, c3!;

21 itd3 (21 tlxc3 , ltlc4 wins), cxb2;
22 tld4, Ad7; 2313dl, 13fc8; 24 Ab3,
tla4; 25Axa4,Axa4; 26 tlb3, 13c3;
27itxa6, Axb3; 28 axb3, l3bc8; 29
'i6'a3, §cl+; 30 §xcl, 13xc1+;
White resigned.
Finally we have the great Bent
Larsen 's version: 9 •••, ltl xd5!!; 10
�X aS, tl X e3; 11 'itd2, c X d4; 12
tlf4!, tl b6; 1 3 itl d5, tlxd5; 14
cxd5, f5; 15 Ad3, fxe4; 16 Axe4,
e6; 17 13cl? (17 lt'f2 is better) 17 •.•,
exd5; 18 13c7, Ah6; 19 g4 ( 1 9 Ad3 ,
l3e8) 19 ... , dxe4; 20 itxd4, 13xf3; Damsky - Gerchikov
21 �xe4, Axg4; 22 l3g1, 13af8!; 23 Moscow Ch. Semi-final 1 966
§X g4, tl X g4; 24 'i6'e6 +, 'i!?h8; 25
itxg4, l3e8+; 26 l3e7, 13xe7+; 27
�dl, 13ft+; 28 'i!?c2, §f2+; 29 'i!?d1,
§d2+ ; White resigned.
It is rare indeed that a Queen is
sacrificed for only two minor pieces .
In this respect the above examples have
a curious king-side counterpart in the
known theoretical line 1 d4, li:) f6; 2 c4,
g6; 3 tlc3 , Ag7 ; 4 e4 , d6; 5 f3 , 0-0; 6
Ae3 , e5 ; 7 d5, tlh5 ; 8- itd2, 'i6'h4 + ; 9
g3 , /tl x g3 ; 10 itf2, tl x fl ! ; 1 1
'i6' xh4, tlxe3 first played by
Bronstein against Spassky in the 1 956
Candidates and subsequently tried in
later games . Browne- Miles, Tilburg 1 978

*
An early fianchetto of Black's QB
has recently become a very popular
mode of development. Yet, amazingly
enough, in each of these three
examples White disregarded the
threats of this bishop and continued
exf5! allowing , A xg2
••• .

Wailer Wurditsch - 1 e4, b6; 2 d4 ,

-

Jl.b7; 3 A d3 , f5 ; 4 exf5, A x g2 ; 5
ith 5 + , g6 ; 6 f X g6 , Jtg7; 7 g X h7 + ,
lt'f8; 8tlf3 ! , � f6; 9 "ltg6, A x h 1 ; 1 0
Ah6 ! , 13 x h7; 1 1 tlg5, A x h6 ; 1 2
� X h 7 + , � X h7; 13 "i6' X h 6 + , 'i!?f7;
14 it X h7 + 'i!?e6; 15 ith6 + , 'i!?d5; 1 6
Wailer - Wurditsch
,

tlc3 + , 'i!? x d4; 1 7 ite3 mate.

Austrian Championship 1977
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Damsky - Gerchikov - 1 e4, e6; 2 d4,

b6; 3 c3, Ab7; 4 Ad3, f5; 5 exf5,
A X g2; 6 �h5+' g6; 7 f X g6, Ag7; 8
gX h7+ �f8; 9 h X g8
I = �+ I

� xg8; 10 �g41 Axh1; 11 Ag5, �e8;

12 h4, c5; 13 dxc51 �c6; 14 f4, �e7;
15 �d2, �f5; 16 �e41 'iWh5; 17 'tth31
�xh4; 18'iWxh11 'ltg4; 19Af11 Etf8;
20 Etd1' EtX f4; 21 A X f4, 'lW X f4; 22
Et X d71 Eth5; 23 c61 Etf5; 24 Ae2, Ae5;
25 �d11 'lte3; 26 Etd3, 'iWf4; 27 �h31
'tth6 and White won.

Browne - Miles- 1 c41 b6; 2 d41 e6; 3

e4, Ab7; 41l.d31 f5; 5 exf5, Ax g2; 6 resignation with the neat flg6! I
�h5+1 g6; 7 fxg61 1l.g7; 8 gxh7+1 guess 1960 must have been 'The Year
�f8; 9 �e21 Axh1; 10 Ag5, �f6; 11 of the Rook'!
'iWh4, �c6; 12 �f41 �f7; 13 Ag6+1 *
�e7; 14 �h5, 'iWf8; 15 �d2, e5; 16
It is also very satisfying to find
0-0-0, �xd4; 17 Et xh11 �e6; 18 f41
duplicates of your own games . I had
d6; 19 �e4, �xg5; 20 'iWxg5, 1l.h6;
the following position against Chris
21'iWh41Ag7; 22 fxe5, dxe5; 23 Etf11
Holme, former producer of the BBC
�d7; 24 �exf6+, Axf6; 25
Network 3 chess programme, in a
� xf6+, �c8; 261l.e41 c6; 27'iWh3+,
London League match in 1974.
�b7; 28Axc6+, Black resigned,
*

Parallel positions are of course

harder to find in the middle game than
in the opening or ending . However, the
similarity in these two games, played
within three months of each other,
would be hard to beat . In both
instances White forced immediate

This arose after 1 e4, e5; 1 .tlfJ ,

Spassky - Tumabator, Students
Olympiad, Leningrad 1 960
� c6; 3 1l.b5, a6; 4 1l.a4 , .tlf6; 5 0-0,
.tJ X e4; 6 d41 b5; 7 Jl.b3, d5; 8 d X e5,
Ae6; 9 c3 , 1l.e7; 10 .tlbd1, .tl x d1; 1 1
'ltx d1 ! , � aS ; 11 � d4 , c5 ; 1 3 .tJ xe6,
fx e6; 14 Ac1 , 0-0 ; 15 "*d3, g6;
I now continued with 16 "*h3, "*d7;
17.g4! (Threatening 1 8 1l.h6, J::lf7 ; 1 9
Jl. X g6, h X g6; 20 • X g 6 + winning)
17 ..., .13n; 18 h4!, Ars ( 1 8 ... , *hs;
19h5, gxh5; 20"*xh5, AfB; 2 1 Ag5
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and 22 -'lf6 + ; - 20 . . . , l::t af8 ; 2 1 lth6 -
20 . . . , "lte8 ; 21 ltg6 are all unpleasant
for Black) 19 hS, ""h8 ; 20 h x g6, l::t g7 ;
21 ith3 !, /i}c6; 22 ltgS, /i} x eS (or 22
.. . , Jle7 ; 23 ltf6 ! ) 23 ltf6, /i}c6 ; 24
it x h7 mate !
But then, last year, I spotted a game,
Broadbent - van Doesburgh, England
v. Holland 1 93 8 , in which the diagram
position had also been reached after a
slightly different move order ! The
great British chess amateur continued
instead with an immediate 16 h4 !,
A x h4 (16 . . . ,/i}c6; 17 f4, A x h4; 18
"lth3 , "lte7 ; 19 g3 ; - 18 . . . , l::t f5; 19
g4-g5 ; - 18 . . . , � c8 ; 19 it x e6 + and
Jle3 etc ; - also 16 . . . , l::t f7 ; 17 h5 ! are
all bad for Black) 17 "lth3, �g7 (17 . . . ,
�e8; 18 g3,lte7 ; 19'1t x e6 + , �g7 [19
*
Kendall - Adams
Southern Counties Jamboree
Romanov - Roshal
MoscowTeamCh.,l%3
. . . , �h8; 20 J. x g6 !] 20 l::td 1 ; - 1 7 . . . ,
l::t f7; 18 g3, lte7 ; 19 it x e6 ; - 1 7 . . . ,
�e7; 18 g3) 1 8 g3, ltgS ( 1 8 . . . , lte7
loses the exchange) 19 f4, lth6 ( 1 9 . . . ,
lte7; 20 'it x e6) 20 !In! (intending 2 1
!lh2) 2 0 , A x f4 ; 2 1 g x f4 and Black
..•
resigned .
Again, none of the theory books
covering the Open Ruy Lopez give
analysis on this particular variation .
There is of course a difference between
a repetition of chess positions by
chance, and by memorizing published
opening variations . We are concerned
here with real chess coincidences .
Another position I had in a
Southern Counties event was even
more remarkable in that it formed part
of a set of five:
Conrady - Olafsson
Varna Olympiad 1962
Zinn - Matulovll:
Maribor 1967
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In each of these positions Black
continued with 'il'fb6!
My game ended very quickly after 11
<iJxg7+, 'i!;f8; 12 <iJxe6+, dxe6; 13
AxeS+, 'il'txcS+; 14 '\t'h1, b4; 1S
<iJa4, �aS; 16 b3, <iJf6; 17 eS,
<iJxeS!!; 18 fxeS, E!.g8!; 19 E!.g1,
<iJg4; 20 �e1, 'il'txeS; 21 'il'fxb4+ (21
'il't x e5 , <iJf2 mate ! or 21 'il'tg3 , f!.g5!
threatening 22 . . , it x g3 ; 23 h x g3,
.
f!.h5 mate ! ) 21 ..., 'i!;e8 and White
resigned as there is no satisfactory
defence to 22 . , 'fiPI x h2 mate.
. .
After this eventful continuation I
began finding the above incredible
similarities .
Conrady - Olafsson was another
miniature: 11 <iJxg7+, 'i!;f8; 12
<iJ X e6 +, d x e6; 13 A X c5 +,
�xc5+; 14'i!;h1, <iJge7; 1S Ad3, hS;
16 f5, exfS; 17 exfS, <iJeS; 18 Ae4,
<iJg4; 19 'il'ff3, 'ttd6; 20 g3, 'ttd2; 21
<iJe2, Axe4; 22 'itxe4, itdS; 23 <iJc3,
�xe4+; 24 <iJ xe4, h4; 2S f6, <iJd5;
26 h3, h xg3; White resigned.
In Romanov - Roshal , White was
successful with 12 <iJd6+, �e7; 13
Af2, <iJd8; 14 <iJxb7, <iJxb7; 15 e5,
Axf2+; 16 .§. xf2, <iJe8; 17 itd2, f5;
18 exf6+ e.p. , <iJ xf6; 19 Af3, E!.ac8;
20 f5, <iJd6; 21 fxe6, dxe6; 22 f!.e1,
.§. hd8; 23 <iJd5+' <iJX d5; 24 A X d5,
391
<iJf7; 25 'itb4 +, f!.d6; 26 Axe6, Black
resigned.
11 <iJxg7 + was again tried in Zinn­
Matulovic, which went on 11 ..., 'ifff8;
12 Axc5+, 'it xc5 + ; 13 'iffh1, <it>xg7
14 e5, <iJd5 (14 . . . , <iJe8 is better) 15
<iJe4, �e7; 16 �h5, f5; 17 <iJd6, f!.f8;
18 g4, '\t'h8; 19 g X f5, e X f5; 20 c4,
<iJc7; 21 AxfS, <iJe6; 22 E!.f3, <iJcd4;
23 Axh7!!, <iJxf3 (23 . , itxh7; 24
. .
'il'f X h7 +, '\ft X h7 ; 25 f!.h3 + , <it>g6; 26
f!.g1 + mates!) 24 Ae4+, �g7; 25
'il'f X f3, <iJ X f4; 26 f!.g1+, 'iffh8; 27
�g4, aS; 28 Ars, b5; 29 �xf4, 'lth7
and now White won after 30 'lte4 ,
§.X f5; 31 'itX aS, f!.f8; 32 c X bS but
could also have played the spectacular
30 El.g8 + ! ! winning the Queen after 30
. . . , � or §. x g 8 .
Finally Durao played 1 2 <iJd 6 +
versus Hartston, with the game
continuing 12 ..., �f8; 13 Af2,
Axf2+; 14 §. xf2, �xb2; 15 'ltet,
�b4; 16 e5, <iJeS; 17 f!.b1, �d4; 18
<iJxe8, '\t' X e8; 19 <iJe4, <it>e7; 20 <iJd6,
f6; 21 Ae4, fxe5; 22 f!.d1, "l!i'c5; 23
Axc6, bxc6 and now the simplest
way to win would be 24 <iJe4, 'ltb5 ; 25
a4 ! , "l!i'xa4; 26 fX e5 or 24 ... , 'ltb6; 25
�c3 ! when Black's king gets killed in
the centre.
 3 92
THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF THE
LEGLESS POLE
by Donald M. Fiene, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, U.S. A.
When I wrote my first article
on Kempelen's Turk (see BCM
1977, pp. 392 and 396), I was
convinced that the pseudo­
automaton had been taken on
tour to Russia in the 1 780s by
Kempelen (or his assistant
Anthon), where its hidden
operator, according to various
accounts, was supposedly a
Pole named Woronski - earlier!) was to discover the
though I had been unable to
educe through casual research
certain proof of this. I was
elated to discover a month or
two before my article was
published (but too late to refer
to in it) that the Soviet chess
historian Isaak Linder had
stated in both editions of his
Shakhmati na Rusi (1964,
1975) that Kempelen had
indeed exhibited his 'Turk' in
Russia -in 1787 - and that
the automaton had played and
defeated Catherine, who there­
upon unsuccessfully tried to
purchase it from its owner. I
immediately wrote to Linder in
care of his publisher asking for
his sources, but never got an
answer.
Inspired, however, by my
belated acquaintance with
Soviet materials on chess
history, I looked up Nikolai
Sakharov's exhaustive biblio­
graphy of chess literature for
the period 1775-1 966 (Moscow
I 968) in the library of the
University of Chicago,
checked off every item that
seemed promising, spent
several weeks waiting for a
disappointingly small number
of these to reach me via inter­
library loan at my home univ­
ersity. Meanwhile, I had been
further stimulated by reading
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Thomas Gavin's excellent hist­
orical novel Kingkill (New
York 1977), based on the
Turk's adventures in America.
I naturally wrote to this author
also - but Gavin knew
nothing of the supposed Slavic
period of Kempelen's machine.
One of the chief tasks I had
set myself (as long' as ten years
precise Russian source for a
story written in 1934 in Paris
by the Russian emigre author
Mikhail Osorgin - one of
numerous historical sketches
published in that period by
him. It was this story, or
anecdote, telling of Woronski's
defeat of Catherine that had
got me interested in the Turk in
the first place. One possible
non-Russian source was J.E.
Robert-Houdin's manifestly
unreliable account of
Woronski's escapades (he
spells the name 'Worousky') in
his Cotifidences de prestidigi­
tateur (I 858) - but I doubted
that Osorgin, about whom I
wrote a doctoral dissertation,
would have been familiar with
this book. Ken Whyld, incid­
entally, was later to suggest
(see BCM 1978, p. 406) that
Osorgin had probably seen the
French silent film, 'Le joueur
d'echecs' (1927), based on a
novel derived from a play ('La
Czarine') that Robert-Houdin
had written about Kempelen,
Woronski, and Catherine. I
suspect that Osorgin might
well have seen this film. But it
was not the direct source of his
story.
For one day in August of
1977 I was called to the Univ­
ersity of Tennessee Library to
pick up a book that had come
in for me on interlibrary· loan:
Mikhail Pylaiev's Zamechatel'
nye c h udaki i originaly
(Remarkable eccentrics and
originals} (St Petersburg 1898)
..,...- and there on page 2S5 I
found word for word the exact
opening paragraph of Osor­
gin's story, followed, in the
next two or three pages, by
Osorgin's basic plot, and with
the normal Slavonic surname
'Woronski' given throughout
to the legless Pole. Eureka! My
ten-year search was over!
Unfortunately, Pylaiev's
account was highly suspect as
to historical veracity, though
more reliable geographically
than Robert-Houdin's bizarre
concoction. (While Osorgin, as
a creative artist, had elimina­
ted all of Pylaiev's obvious
errors to produce a genuinely
readable and consistent narra­
tive.) Of interest to me was
that Pylaiev made no reference
to Robert-Houdin as a source
-though neither did he men­
tion any other source. All later
effort on my part, for the next
several months, to discover the
basis for the Russian belief in
Woronski's party with Cath­
erine -presented as fact in a
variety of publications -came
to naught. Especially disap­
pointing to me was that I was
unable to discover in the
United States any Russian
book on chess published
before 1858 (that is, pre-dating
Robert-Houdin) that also dis­
cussed Kempelen's Turk.
In the fall of 1 977 I applied
to study at Moscow State
University in the summer of
1 978 as an exchange scholar. I

was accepted. As soon as I got
settled in my dormitory room
at M.S.U. I tried to telephone
Linder, but this simple task,
complicated by the non-exist­
ence of ordinary telephone
directories in the U.S.S.R.,
proved beyond me. Though I
managed to learn Under's
address through the editor of a
chess journal, I hesitated to
appear at the author's door
unannounced. So I wrote him
a long letter (again), asking
about the sources for his note
on Kempelen and Catherine.
Within a week I received a
nice letter from Linder, invit­
ing me to visit him. (He men­
tioned that he had not received
my first letter and several
others that followed it.) When
I arrived at his two-room
apartment, where he lives with
his wife and daughter, he sat
me down at a table piled high
with every book and article in
his possession referring to the
Turk. He had done for me in a
week the sort of research that
would have taken me a year if I
had known how to do it in the
first place, which I really did
not.
The first thing he said to me
was: 'I now believe I was
wrong in my book. I do not
think Kempelen ever came to
Russia.' Then we went over all
his materials. I copied down
the titles of two or three that
seemed least unreliable with
respect to their treatment of
Kempelen. Then Linder gave
me the titles of three more
works that he knew of but did
not own one in particular, he
said, written in 1824 by A.
Petrov, was the book I most
needed to consult: if Petrov
said Kempelen came to Russia,
then he did; but if Petrov made
no mention of such a thing,
then I could go to my grave
content that I had proved for
all time that the Turk had
never invaded Russia. Linder
assured me that Petrov must
certainly be in the Lenin
Library - somewhere. It was
up to me to find him.
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It only took me a week or so
to. get my official permit, with
photograph, seal, and seven
signatures, to use the Lenin
Library. It only took me a day
or two to tentatively familiar­
ize myself with the ancient
catalogue there, with its
tattered cards all neatly inscri­
bed in cursive script of the last
century, scarcely a one typed
up in the alphabet of this, with
a system of call numbers
doubtless invented by I va n the
Dread.
I found two of my books
listed, but not Petrov. I places, actually, are wonderful
applied for the two books, was
given a chit, was told to return
in a week. When I returned,
the books were waiting for me
in the reading room. They did
not contain the information I
needed, so I went after Petrov.
By then I had learned from
the grapevine that, contrary to
the published rules, you could
order books even if you did not
have a call number for them.
(In fact, probably half the
books in the library are not
listed in the card catalogue.
Who's got the time to type all
those cards??) I won't go into
the adventures I had tracking
down proof that Petrov was on
the premises. But within a
week I did in fact receive an
official statement that Petrov
resided in the Rare Book
Room.
It did not take too many
days to get permission to enter
that room. Given the address
of the repository - in one of
the many annexes, converted
chapels, and holding pens
clustered haphazardly in the
near vicinity of the main new
building - I required only two
hours to actually stumble upon
it. Then there were more
delays: closed for cleaning,
come back tomorrow; come
back tomorrow and wait inter­
minably for my turn at the
desk; then another long wait
for the discreet tap on my
shoulder from the assistant. *
* Though my remarks on the
Lenin Library have not to this
393
point so indicated, l should
like to make it clear that l was
not discriminated against in
any way. In fact, as an Ameri­
can, I was treated invariably
with respect and politeness,
was aided in my searches by
numerous kindly persons who
went far beyond the normal
call of duty to assist me; such
persons outnumbered the
bureaucratic types in a ratio of
ten to one. I might add that the
Lenin Library is only slightly
more screwed up than the New
York Public. Both of those
places to work in if you are in
no hurry whatever. What you
have to do is give yourself over
to serendipity, remaining ever
calm, patient, and humble.
But at last there it was:
Aleksandr Petrov, Shakhmat­
naia igra, privedennaia v sis­
tematicheskii poriadok, s pri­
sovokupleniem igor Filidora i
primechaniia na onyia [The
game of chess set forth in
systematic order, with an
attachment containing the
games of Philidor and remarks
thereupon) (St Petersburg:
Grech, 1824). In an excellent
historical foreword, Petrov
saw fit to discuss Kempelen's
famous Turk. He noted with
interest its European itinerary,
but had nary a word to say
about any visit to Russia. I
leafed through the book for
another thirty minutes or so,
since it did not seem right to
spend only five minutes on the
final lap of my ten-year
marathon. But at last I closed
Petrov and said a short prayer
over the mangled corpse of
Woronski - dead before he
was born.
Yet - did Robert-Houdin
just invent that name (mis­
spelled or not) for the hell of
it? Did it come to him in a
dream, or what? Surely it was
Robert-Houdin, in any case,
who had managed to convince
the Russians that Woronski
was real . . .
A colleague of mine in
German literature here at the
 394
University of Tennessee, John
Osborne, whom I ha d
managed to lure into this
Slavic wild-goose chase almost
two years ago now, could not
bear to see Woronski die so
ignominiously. So he sub­
merged himself in his reference
books for several days and
came up with a once live
specimen named J6zef Maria
Hoene-Wr6nski (1778-1853),
whom the French, unlike the
Germans and English, called
simply Wroilski. (One of
Osborne's sources says that
J6zef was born 'Hoene' and
changed his name to 'Wronski'
in Paris in 1815.)
'In any event,' writes John
Osborne, in an unpublished
brie f deposited in my campus
mailbox not long ago,
'Wroilski was born in Posen in
1778. His family chose a
military career for him. (One
source says he was educated at
the Corps of Cadets in Warsaw
- probably indicating noble
birth.) At the age of sixteen he
became an artillery officer and
soon afterwar d saw combat
under the command of Kosciu­
szko. On October 10, 1794, in
the battle of Maciej6wice, he
was taken prisoner by th e
Russians and, ·when given the
choice of joining their army or
being expelled from Poland,
chose to accept an officer's
patent in the Russian army. He
subsequently rose to the rank
of lieutenant colonel. H e was
decommissioned in 1797 and
immediately left Russia and
went to Germany, where he
devoted himself for two years
to the study of science. Thus,
Wronski was in Russia in 1796,
was involved in military life,
and did then go west. The state
of his legs, alas, is unknown.'
'After ten years in
BibUCIIJ'8plly
(Supplement to my
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Germany,' Osborne goes on,
'Wronski went to France,
where he spent nearly all the
rest of his life in philosophical
and scientific speculation and
in writing a series of eminently
forgettable tomes (including
one on reforming the French
railroad system!). His perman­
ent residence in France was
apparently Neuilly, then a
village on the· outskirts of
Paris. His first adventure - or
misadventure - in France
ended in litigation. Wroilski
had become the protege of a
wealthy merchant of the Midi
named Arson and evidently
undertook to initiate Arson
into the mysteries of the
Absolute and the Infinite. In
the end Wroilski sued Arson
for 200,000 Fr. damages, but
when the suit was finally
settled (in 1818) Wroilski evid­
ently got nothing. While living
from hand to mouth as it were,
Wronski ground out one
treatise after another on
matters philosophical (Kantian
thought, metapolitics, messia­
nism) and mathematical (the
science of logarithms). He
claimed to have devised a
definitive theory of numbers
and to have solved the problem
of the theory of matter in its
three forms (liQuid, solid, gas).
A remark in my edition of the
Encyclopedia Britannica leads
me to believe that of late
Polish historians have been
trying to obtain a prominent
and permanent place for him
in Polish literature, even
though old Wroilski wrote
damn near everything in
French.'
Osborne concludes: 'I am
struck by the fact that Wroliski
was a resident of Paris (and, I
suspect, a well-known 'charac­
ter') during the very years
'Review of the Literature on the Turk'- 'B.C.M.' 1977 pp.402-4)
when Robert-Houdin was
there. Could the latter have
gotten some cock-and-bull
story from Wroilski about the
young officer's 'escape from
Russia'? Regardless, could he
not simply have used Wroil­
ski's name in a slightly
changed form? And was
Wroilski perhaps a chess freak,
as so many mathematicians
are? Finally, was Wronski a
legless Pole? The answers to
some (maybe all) of those
questions may perhaps be
found in Samuel Dickstein's
biography, Hoene- Wronski:
Jego 'l.ycie i prace (Krak6w:
Akademia umiej etnoici, 1896).
!leave that to others to pursue,
as I do not read Polish.'
As I do read Polish , I
suppose it will be up to me to
look up Dickstein's Life and
Works of Wroilski (published
by the Polish Academy of
Science, by the way), even
though I am perfectly convin­
ced that Osborne has discover­
ed the real man behind Robert­
Houdin's made-up name
'Worousky'. I am just as
certain that Wronski was never
in close association with
Robert-Houd in, as the latter's
name does not appear in the
index of Dickstein's book, a
copy of which index Professor
Osborne was kind enough to
obtain for me by applying to
an accommodating librarian at
the University of Michigan. I
am very much afraid that the
only way I shall be able to
learn the whole story on J6zef
Maria Hoene-Wronski is to get
myself invited to Poland on
some pretext or other and then
spend several months hunting
down the elusive legsless inside
man in the Krak6w Public
Library.

I - General and Incidental
I Alexander, C . H . O ' D . A Book of
Chess. L on d o n : H utchinson, 1 9 7 3 . pp
2 1 -22; has incorrect i l l u stra t ion .
2 Gay, Jean . Bibliogrophie anecdo­
tique du jeu d'khecs, pp 1 55-6. Cited
by Koga n , below (Part 1 1 ) , date not
given; on Grand Du k e Pau l ' s visit to
Pari s ; have not seen t his .
3 H o ro w i 1 z, I . A . , comp. The Golden
Treasury of Che.ss. New York: Corner­
stone L i brary, 1 97 3 . Rep ri n t of ear l ie r
editions. See p. 20. Has game played
by Mouret, in automaton, against J .
Cochrane, London, 1 8 20 - one of
only six games lost by Mouret of 300
played i n a few months.
4 H ort o n , Byrne J . Dictionary of
Modern Chess. Seacaucus, N. J _
Citadel Press, 1 972. (Earl ier edition :
Phi losophical L i bra ry , 1 959) See
e n t r i es at Ajeeb. Kempele n, M ep his t o ,
and Turk .
5 M u rray, H . J . R . History of Chess.
Oxford, 1 9 1 3 . The 1 962 repri nting has
b rief note, pp. 876-7, with illustration
between these pages taken from Chess
Player's Chronicle, Voi . I , I 84 1 .
6 Oppen . ' Lebensgeschichte ei n es
TOrken ' , Schachzeitung ( 1 850), 265-
2 7 1 . (Mentions Grand Duke Paul's
visit with Kempelen in Vienna, p . 266) .
7 Tw i s s . R. Miscellanies. Lond on,
1 805, i i , 1 1 4 .
I V a n der Linde, Antonius. Geschi­
chte und Lilteratur des Schachspiels.
Berli n : J u l i u s Springer, 1 874. Vol . 2.
See pp. 3 3 7-52, ' De r Schach-automat';
also pp. I l l and 3 3 5-6. To a brief
history of the automaton i s appen ded
an annotated bibliography, often with
extensive quotations, of over 80
articles in German, French, Dutch,
English, Italian and Hungarian. Only
a dozen of these are included i n my
listings . An especially interesting item
described on p . 33 5 (with several
translations listed as well) is that by
Walker, below. (Copy i n Univ. of
ChicOJO Library).
9 Walker, J . Modus operondi, or The
Automaton Chess Player, A Play in
Three A cts, with PTtfatory Remarks
and Exi111Cts from Original Letters on
De Kempelen 's A u tomaton Chess
Player. London, 1784. Reprinted:
London: T.H. Lucy, 1 866. + 58 xiv
v
pp. (Ha e not yet seen this; could have
been an inspirational source for
Robert-Houdin).
11. Artiele� & Booko ln Ruoolon
10 Decrem p s , Henri ( 1 746- 1 8 2 6 ) .
Uwsitel'noe volshebstvo. St Peters­
burg, 1 79 1 . Translation of La Magie
blanche dlvoille, Paris, 1 789. (Full
title contains about 50 words. Have
not yet seen this, but evidently includes
an exposure of the Turk . If the
Russian translator includes his own
commentary, but fails to mention any
visit of the Turk to Russia. this would
THE B R ITISH CHESS M AGAZINE
constitute the u l timate negation of t h e
S l a v i c period o f Kempelen ' s mach i n e .
A c o p y of this is i n the R a r e Book
Collection of the li bra r y o f Congress).
1 1 Galle, G . Otkrytye tainy drevnikh
magikov i chorodeev ili volshebnye sily
notury, v pol'lu ; uveselenie upo­
treblennye. Moscow, 1 799. See Part 1 1 .
P P - 3 3 5 -40 , 1Me k han i c h es k ii igrok v
s h a s h k i K e m p e l e n a ' ( K e m pe l e n ' s
mechanical checkers player] . Makes no
mention of tour of Russia. This is a
transla lion of Magie, oder die Zauber­
Kriifte der Natur by Halle - possiNy
swiped from Decremps.
12 Koga n , M i khai l Saulovic h . Ocher­
ki po istorii shakmat v SSSR [Articles
on the h istory of chess in the USSR] .
M o s c o w / L e n i n g r a d : F i zk u l ' t u r a i
s po rt , 1 9 3 8 . See pp. 4 3 and 3 6 3 .
Thinks Kempelen pro babl y visited S t
Petersburg.
IJ Koga n , M . S . , L . I . Kubbel ' , et a l .
( A . A . S m i rnov, gen . ed . ) . Slovar'
shakhmatista [Chessplayer's diction­
ary] . Leningrad : Shakhmatnyi listok ,
1 929 . See p . 1 0, ' Avt o mat, shakhmat­
nyi ' . (All items in brief bibliography
i nc l uded i n present l i s t ) .
14 Linder, lsaak Maksovich. Shakh­
matny na Rusi [Chess in Old Russia ] .
Mosco w : Nauka, 1 964 , p. 1 48 i 2nd
ed . , 1 9 7 5 , pp. 1 90- 1 9 1 . States that
Kempelen toured Russia with Turk in
1 787 and that Catherine the Great had
wanted to buy the machine. Gives no
sources, though book includes an
e x t e n s i v e b i b l i o g r a p h y of c h e s s
literature.
15 N e i s h t a d t , V l a d i m i r . ' l s t o r i i a
shakhmatnogo avtomata' 64, 1 8 ( 1 927)
8-9. Brief history of Turk ; nothing on
trip to Russia.
v
16 P etro , Aleksandr. ShakhmDtnaia
igra, privedenn11ia v sistematicheskii
poriodok, s prisovokupleniem igor
Filidora i primechanii na onyit1 [The
game of chess set forth in systematic
order, with an attachment containina
the games of Philidor and remarks
thereupon]. St Petersburg: Grech,
1 824. In two parts. Foreword, pp.
I S - 1 7 , refers to Turk in Pressburg,
Vienna, Paris, does not mention
Russia.
17 P y l i a e v , Mikhail lvanovich.
Zamechatel'nye chudaki i or;,ina/y
[ Remarkable eccentrics and oriJjnals].
St Petersbur1: A.S .Suvorin, 1 898. See
p p . 255-7. Says Turk visited Russia in
1 776, Jives no sources. This is the basis
for M . A .Osorai n ' s • s h a k h matnyi
bolvan' [Chess dummy), Poslednie
novoati (Paris), 4904 (AUJUSt 27,
1 934), 2; repr . Powsl'o nekoei thvitH:
starinnye rasskazy [Talc of a certain
maiden: stories of byaone times] by
Osorpn. Tallinn: Russkaia knip,
1 93 8 , pp. 107- 1 1 6 .
11 Sakharov, Nikolai I . Shakhrtlllt­
naia litenztul'tl SSSR: Bibliorrqflia
(1 77J-1966) . Mosco: Kniga, 1 968 .
ai
1 9 ' Shakhmatn a mashina', Slulkh­
matnyi /istok, 5/6 ( 1 877), 1 36-42 .
395
Translation by Arnold Vel'mer of an
article originally p u b l i shed in
Ger many .
10 ' S h a k hmatnyi avtomat v
Peterburge', Sllilkhmatnyi listok, S/6
( 1 877), l J S-6. Note on a pseude>­
automaton currently on exhibit in St
Peters burg .
21 'Taina znamenitogo avtomata, ob'
igryvavshego v shakhmaty ' , Otechest­
vennye zapiski, 1 1 ( 1 839), 86-94. Brief
history of Turk , with no mention of
trip to Russia.
Ill. Recent A rtl<les a n d Booko by
Persons herewith ln¥1tetl lo conlrlbule
lo an Anlholocy or materials 011
Automatie Chess Pla y .
22 Carron , Charles Michael. The
Great Chess Automaton. New Yor k :
Dover, l 97 5 . 1 1 6 pp. lllustrated. Good
selected bibliography of 5 2 items, pp.
108- 1 1 3 .
2 3 Chicco, Adriano. 'No.3880 [in
'Quotes & Queries' D . J . Morgan, BCM
(December 1 977), 52().52 1 . Notes that
Leonard Maelzel, brother of Johann,
i s listed as owner of Turk in reference
works Le nouvea.u Laro.usse and
Dizionario enc:iclopedico degli Scacchi
(co-ed i t e d by Chicco ) . Morgan
remarks that, among others, Diction­
noire des tchecs lists Johann . There
can be no doubt that Johann
Nepomuk Maelzel was the true owner
of the automaton.
24 Fiene, Donald M . 1Kempelen's
Turk and the Mystery of the Legless
Pole' , BCM Auaust 1 977, 372-7; Sept­
ember 1977, 396-404. ChronoloiY and
review of literalurc on the Turk, pp.
40 1 -4.
25 Gavin, Thomas. Killlkill. New
York: Random House, 1 977. 398 pp.
Historical novel based on American
period of Turk, 1 826-38.
26 Kaplan, Jim. 'Chess : Not Bad for a
machine' Sports Illwtroted (Septem­
ber 1 8 , 1 978) 74, 76. One of numerous
articles in world press on this even t .
See also: W . S . R . , 'Levy Defeats
Computer, But . . . • Games, 3, i (Nov /
Feb 1 979), 9 - with previous note in
Games (Nov /Dec 1978), 1 0 .
27 KOsze8i. I mre . Kempelen FarktiS.
Budapest, 1 9 5 5 . Have not yet seen thil
book , but there is a copy in the Library
of Conaress , 'Priority 4 Collec:tion'.
28 Meissenbura, E1bert. 'Die Schach­
maschine des Aloys Bayer', B"'-11-
blatt filr den Dwtschen BvchhllndM
(Frankfurt a/M), 23, llUi (1 !167),
803-4. On pseudo-automatoll invented
by Bayer in Bavaria, 1 820; see also
Whyld on tltis, p.406. Meissenbur1
also wrote on Bayer in .Dwlxlw
Schachbllttu in the 1960s and on the
k
Tur in 8-nb/att . . . in same period,
29 Osborne , John C. ' Nicolai and the
Turk , or '�<Sunder Menschenventand'
versus 'Inanimate Reason' •, 1971.
Unpubtishod paper on Christaph
Fried.rich NicaJ&i's rationalist attacks
on the t'OIIUIU II C betievers that a
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machine could reason, with references
to the influence of the Turk on the
stories of E . T. A . Hoffmann.
30 Peckover, J . Edmund. (Artic l e on
Ajeeb, BCM I 979).
31 Vescl}', Jifi. ' Der Schachautomat
Wolfgang von Kempe lens ' FIDE 2
( 1 965), 64-69 (Have not see n this).
32 Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano,
1 952. Var iou s editions; most recent
and readable is Del l , 320 pp. Anti­
utopian • fu turistic novel warn ing
against excessive dependence on
machines. In Chapter V a computer­
type c h e c k er s- p layi n g mac h i n e ,
'Checker Charley ' , is defeated by a
human being .- but only because the
machine has a· loose connection; -
Praetieal Chess Endings
Game No . 1 9129 Sicilian Defence
White: Perenyi Black : Barczay
(Hungarian Championship 1 977)
1 e4, c5; 2 ti) fJ , e6; 3 d4, c x d4 ; 4
tl x d4 , ti) c6; 5 ti) c3 , a6; 6 �e3 , 't!lc7;
7 f4 , b5; 8 ti) x c6, 't!l x c6; 9 Jle2 ,
Jla3 ; 10 Jld4 , � X b2 ; 11 ti) X b5,
a x b5 ; 12 � x b2 , 't!l x e4 ; 13 A x g7,
'tfl X g2 ; 14 JlfJ, it X g7; 15 Jl X a8,
i6'c3 + ; 16 <&>e2 , �a6; 1 7 'tt� d3 , 't!lc8; 1 8
itd4 , 'l!f X a8 ; 19 'tfl X h8, 'tfle4 + ; 20
<lid2 , 't!l x f4 + ; 21 <&>c3 , 't!lc4 + ; 22
i&lb2 , 't!lb4 + ; 23 <lid ' '111 f4 + ; 24 <lib1 '
<&>e7; 25 'tflc3 , ti) f6; 26 <lib2 , ti) dS ; 27
El afl , 'tt� b 8; 28 'tiles + , d6; 29 't!ln,
'tt� h 8 + ; 30 c3 , 't!l x c3 + ; 31 <lib1 ,
'tt� b4 + ; 32 <&>a1 , 'tt� c3 + ; 33 'tt� b2 ,
'ttl x b2 + ; 34 <&> x b2 ,
See diagram n ext column
An entire article might be devoted to
the .complexities of this opening and
middle-game, and the ending is no less
difficult to evaluate. Two exchanges
against three extra pawns can be
regarded as, a slight material advantage
but Black ' s position is solid and White
will have to work hard to make his
rooks aggressive. Moreover , the three
united passed pawns with king and
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included in sequence, pp. 56-64, the early articles treating the new
summarizing basic philosophy of computers. The literature in this field
novel . Vonnegut's machine may be the must be vasl.
first in literatu re that realistically
ant icipates p resen t - d ay chess
com p uter s .
3 3 Whyld, Ken . 'The 'E nglish Devi l ' , Editorial Note - We very much regret
BCM J u l y 1 977, 3 1 5-22. O n Mephisto that owing to pressure of space, a
and Ajeeb. Proposal for A nthology on Chess
34 W h y l d , K e n . ' Th e O r i e n t a l
Automata, drawn up by Donald Fiene,
has to be left out. Serious suggestions
Wonder', BCM January 1 97 8 , 37-42.
and enquiries should be directed to
On Ajeeb. Lists sources.
Donald M.Fiene, Department of
35 Wh y ld, Ken . 'Turkish Deligh t' ,
Germanic and Slavic Longuages,
BCMSeptembcr 1 978, 404·8.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
36 Zobrist, Albert L . and Frederick R . Tennessee J 7916, U. S. A .
Carlson, J r . ' A n Advice -Taki ng Chess
Compu ter ' , Scientific American, 228,
June 1973, 92- 1 05 . Perhaps the best of
by P .C. Griffiths
knight supporting them look quite
alarming at first sight . As the game
unfolds, it becomes clear that the
bishop is something of a liability to
Black , so the first problem is whether
he should have released it by 34 . . . , b4,
instead of the chosen move 34 . . . , f5 .
This would have the additional
advantage of providing the knight with
an outpost at c3 , but the drawback
would be the weakening of the pawn
itself.
After 34 . . . , b4; White could reject
35 El c l , which threatens nothing, and
also 35 ! H3 , h 5 ; 36 El h 3 , .A.e2; which
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does not achieve much . If 3 5 E!. fg l , we
have the following variations : (1) 35
. . . , 4:l c3 ; 36 E!. g7, Ac4; 37 .§. x h7,
4J x a2 (37 . . . , A x a2; 38 E!. a l, Ad5 ;
39 E!. a7 + is very good for White) 3 8
E! h4! Ad5 ; 39 E!. d l , 4:l c3 ; 40 E!. a l with
advantage ; (2) 35 . . . , 4J c3 ; 36 E!. g7, h5;
37 �b3 , 4:l d5 ; 3 8 E!. g5, Ae2? 39 § x d5
and wins ; but (3) 35 . . . , 4J c3 ; 36 E! g7,
Ad3 ; 37 <;tJb3, itl d5 ; with . . . , Ag6 if
necessary and White seems to have
little chance of making progress .
Looking for some improvement, we
find 35 E!. d l !, planning to give back
one exchange in order to win the
b-pawn and split up the remaining
black pawns . If, for example, 35 . . . ,
f5 ; 36 <;tJb3 (not at once 36 .§. X d5,
e x d5 ; 37 'it>b3 , Ac4 + ) �f6; 37
§ x d5, e x d5 ; 3 8 <;tJ x b4, �e5 ; 3 9
<;tJc3 ! d 4 + (otherwise 40 E!. e l + and 41
<;tJd4) 40 <;tJd2, when the pawns are
seriously weakened and blockaded and
White will soon . activate his rook and
advance the a-pawn. 35 . . . , 'it'f6; 3 6
<;tJb3, �e5 ; 37 § he l + is no improve­
ment on this, while if 3 5 . . . , f5 ; 36
<;tJb3 , Ab7 White has 37 E!. hg l , � f6; 38
E!.d3, threatening 39 E!. h 3 , and Black is
running very short of good moves .
In practice then, White seems to
have fair winning chances against 34
. . . , b4; about as good as in the actual
game.
34 . . . • f5 ; 35 E!. hgl , "'f6; 36 § f3,
Taking advantage of this tempo gain
(37 E!. h3 is threatened), the rook
penetrates by a different route.
36 . . . , h5; 37 E!. a3 , Ab7; 38 !! a7 , Ac6;
3 8 . . . , Ac8? 39 E!.g8.
39 E!. a6, Jl.b7;
See diagram
40 !! a7,
40 .§. xd6 would be a premature
sacrifice - 40 . . . , 'it'e7; 41 !! g7 + ,
� X d6; 42 !! X b7, �c6; 43 f!.h7, 4J f4
and White can hardly claim much
397
advantage .
40 . . . , Ac6 ; 41 E!. cl , Jl.e8; 42 E!. c8,
Ag6 ;
Black's last few moves have been
forced and White has now made
substantial progress. In spite of
appearances, the rooks have quite a lot
of threats available, as soon becomes
clear . However, the immediate win of
the d-pawn would lead to trouble - 43
E!.d8, f4 ! (but not 43 . . . , <;tJe5 ; 44 E!.g8 -
the bishop is still a nuisance! - 4:l f4; 45
E!. ag7, <;tJf6; 46 .§. b7, when White wins
the b-pawn and Black has blockaded
his own most dangerous pawn) 44
§ x d6, f3 ; 45 E!. a3 , Ae4; 46 E!.d8, <if;e5 ;
47 E!. f8 , 4:l f4 ; 48 E!. d 8 , f2; 49 E!. d l , Ag2
and wins .
White therefore attacks in a
different place .
43 !! f8 + . �g5;
If 43 . . . , <if;e5 ; 44 !!g8, as shown in
the last note .
44 E!. g7 ! .
An excellent move, threatening
above all 45 h4 + , 'it>h6; 46 g d7 ! Ah7 ;
47 E!. h8 , 4:l f6; 48 E!.n , 'it>g6; 49
.§. x f6 + and restricting Black's choice
of replies :
I f 44 . . . , f4? , 45 E!. fg8; if 44 . . . , e5,
45 h4 + etc . ; if 44 . . . , 'it>h6; 45 g d7,
'i!i>g5 (otherwise h4) 46 !! xd6, f4; 4 7
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H x e6 etc. Notice that the tempo
which Black loses by 44 . . . , <li'h6 is a
vital one . Had White tried 44 H d7 , he
would have found the same problems
as in a previous note, viz. 44 . . . , f4; 45
H X d6, Jlf5 ! and he is unlikely even to
draw , e . g . (a) 46 H c6, f3 ; 47 l::t c1 , f2 !
48 Hg8 + (48 J::t f1, et! e3) <li'f4; 49 H f1 ,
<li'f3 ; 50 Hg3 + , 'i!te2 and wins ; (b) 46
<li'c 1 , f3 ; 47 <li'd2, f2 ; 48 <li'e2 , et! c3 +
and wins; (c) 46 H g8 + , <li'h4; 47 H g l ,
f3 ; 48 H fl (i f 48 <1i'c l , Ad3 ! wins) <li'g4 ;
49 <li'c l (49 l:! c6, ctl e3 ! ) <li'f4; 50 <li'd2,
<tl f6 ! (not 50 . . . , ctl e3 ; 51 H d4 + , Jle4 ;
52 H x e4 + , <li' x e4; 53 H e1, f2; 54
H xe3 + , <li'f4; 55 H xe6 and White
wins) 5 1 H d4 + , ctl e4 + and White
must try 52 El x e4 + (52 <li'el , <li'e3)
A x e4, when he is fighting to draw .
44 . . . . h4 ; 45 aJ ,
Prevents Black from securing the
b-pawn by . . . , b4.
45 •.. , ci::l f6!
Black finds the best chance in a
difficult situation, preparing the
advance of his f-pawn and at the same
time keeping an eye on White ' s threat
of !Hg8 . If 45 . . . , e5; 46 l:!d7, e4; 47
.§ X d6, � f4; 48 <li'c2 wins comfortably
while 45 . . . , � f4; 46 Hb7, e5; 47
1:! x b5 , d5; 48 *c2, also leaves him
with no real hope of a draw . One o f
the features of this ending is the
peculiar contrast between variations .
In some cases the rooks can stop the
passed pawns smoothly and
unhurriedly, and in others they are
tumbling over each other in frantic
efforts to get back in time !
The position is now critical and
analysis seems to indicate that a draw
should be the correct result after
White' s next move (46 H e7). The task
of unscrambling all the subsequent
complications would be virtually
impossible over the board , but it turns
out that he should have established his
own passed pawn at once by 46 l::t b 8 !
in spite of the dangers . We then get
these variations:
46 . . . , f4 (46 . . . , *h6; 47 H x g6 + !
'i!1 x g6; 48 H xb5 leads to similar
positions) 47 .§ x b5 + , e5 ; 48 'i!lc 1 ! (48
a4, f3 and 48 H c7 , f3 ; 49 l::tc 1 , Jld3
both lose; it is essential to use the king)
f3 (or 48 . .. , d5; 49 a4 , e4; 50 'i!ld2,
e3 + ; 5 1 'ite2 and Black runs out of
moves , or here 49 . . . , f3 ; 50 <li'd2 etc)
49 'i!ld2 and now :
(a) 49 . . . , f2 ; 50 <li'e2, � e4 (50 . . . ,
ctl g4; 5 1 h3 and wins) 5 1 Hb4, d5 ; 52
1:! xe4 and wins;
(b) 49 . . . , ctl e4 + ; 50 'i!le3 , f2 ; 51 H b1 ,
d5 ; 52 H x g 6 + , <li' x g 6 ; 53 a4, <li'f5 ;
5 4 a5 , d4 + ; 5 5 <li'e2 and wins (55 . . . ,
et! c3 + ; 56 <li' x f2, et! x b 1; 57 a6) ;
(c) 49 . . . , ctl g4; 50 h3, <tl h2; 51 <li'e3 ,
etc . ;
(d) 4 9 . . . , <li'h6; 5 0 .§ X g 6 + , <li' X g6;
51 a4, � e4 + ; 52 <li'e3 , f2; 53 J;l b 1 ,
transposing into (b) ;
(e) 49 . . . , d5 ; 50 <li'e3 , e4; 5 1 h3 and
wi ns .
Instead he chose to play safe,
keeping his rooks trained on the
advancing pawns.
46 l:! e7, eS ; 47 l::t e6 , ctl e4 ; 48 Hg8 ,
{) f6 ; 4 9 .§f8, {) e4; 50 <li'ct ,
The only way to try for a win. 50
1:! b8 is now bad, since Black has gained
two moves on the previous variations
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and his bishop is unpinned: 50 fl b8? .§ X b 5 , �g2 ; 57 fl b2 + (57 !:l g8 + ,

f4; 5 1 .§ x b5 , f3 and now : (i) 52 �c2, ltl g3 ; 5 8 fl b2 + , �g l ; 5 9 a4, e4 is
f2; 53 fl b l , � g3 + ! 54 ft x g6 + , worse for White) f2 + ; 58 !:l b x f2 + ,
� X g6; 5 5 a4, f l /'lt ; 56 .§ X f l , � X f 1 ltJ x f2; 59 !::! x f2 + , 'it>g l ! (stopping
5 7 � d 3 (57 a 5 , � e3 + ; 58 �b3 , � d5 ; 'it>f l ) and White can hardly do better
5 9 a6, � c7 ; 60 a7 , e4 and wins) than draw, in spite of his passed pawn;
� x h2; 58 �e2 (58 a5 , � f3 ; 59 a6, h3 ; (ii) 55 13 h8 , f2 + ; 56 'it>n , Ad I ! 57
or 59 'ite3 , � d4) � g4; 59 a5 , � f6 and l3 gh7, � x h2; 58 !:l x h4 -i: , "'g3 ; 59
wins; (ii) 52 �a l , f2; 53 fl b l , � d2 and fl h3 + (but not 59 !::! x e4, 'it>f3; 60
wins . 13 h h4, Ac2 ; 61 13 h3 + when he has to
50 , f4 ; SI �dl , Ah5 + ; 52 �el , f3 ;
. . . fight for a draw) �g4 ; 60 13 8h4 + ,
'it>f5 ; 6 1 13 e3 , Ac2 and the result is far
from clear .
On the whole 53 ft e7 does not seem
to give better practical chances than 5 3
h3 , and White can hardly be blamed
for avoiding these complexities. In
addition, the ending which he actually
reaches must have seemed good
enough to win .
53 . . . , f2 + ; 54 13 xf2,
54 'it>n is answered by 54 . . . ,
Ad l (-b3-c4) and he will have to
capture soon .
54 .•. , � X f2; 55 'if1 X f2, J1.g6; 56
13 X d6, J1.f5; 57 13 dS ,
White would normally wish to retain
This immediate advance, wmmng
as many pawns as possible, but if 5 7
one exchange back, is best . 52 . . . , Ag4
'it>g2 , Ae4 + ; 58 �h2 , �f4; 59 !:l h6,
is another possibility , but 53 fle7,
'it>g5 and he can make no progress
Ah3 ; 54 ft g7 +, �h6; 5 5 ft b7 leaves
without using his king .
White better placed than in the game -
57 'it>r4 ; 58 13 x bS , 11. x h3 ; 59 a4 ,
55 . . . , � c3 ; 56 fl b6, or 55 . . . , 'it'g5 ; 56
.• . ,

e4 ;
.§ x b5, �g4; 57 ftg8 + , forcing · the
king to retreat .
53 h3 ,
Keeps the king out , but unfortu­
nately leaves the h-pawn a sitting
target in the subsequent rook v. bishop
ending. Had he played 53 ft e7 , he
would have reached a more favourable
position than in the game after 53 . . . ,
f2 + ; 54 .§ X f2 , oi) X f2; 55 'it X f2,
because his h-pawn will be safe, e.g. 55
. . . , 'i1Jf6; 56 fl h7 , 'it>g5 ; 57 l::l d7 , or 55
. . . , 11.g4; 56 !::! b7. However , Black may
try instead 53 . . . , c&'g4; 54 !:l g7 + , 'it>h3
when the following original variations
may arise: (i) 55 § b7, 'if1 x h2; 56
400 THE B RITISH CHESS M A G A Z I N E
Now White has to choose between
the immediate advance of his a-pawn,
which permits . . . , e3 + and should
only have drawn, and a slower plan,
first holding up the e-pawn . In the ' draw .
latter case there are two methods, 60
�b3 and 60 � b4, but neither is good
enough to win against the correct
defence.
I f 60 � b3, Ae6; 61 � c3, h3 ; 62 aS,
h2; 63 '<t'g2, e3 ; 64 � x h2, e2 ; 6S � c l .
�e3 draws easily by attacking the rook
next time ( . . . , '<t'd2) . If here 64 a6, then whole game, Black stumbles . 64 . . . ,
64 . . . , e2 amounts t0 the same thing .
If White plays his rook to a less
vulnerable square, i . e . 60 � b3, Ae6 ;
61 � a3, then 6 1 . . . , h 3 ; 62 aS, h2; 63
�g2, e3 ; 64 � x h2, e2; 6S � a 1 , Ac4
draws - after 66 �g1, �e3 White can
do nothing.
In these two lines the rook usefully
controls h3, but as soon as his king
moves to g2, the e-pawn advances and
is strong enough to hold the draw . The
alternative 60 � b4 obliges Black to use
two tempi to advance his e-pawn, but
does not cover h 3 ; the bishop is
therefore more mobile and can draw
by a different method as follows :- 60
. . . , lte6; 61 aS, h3 ; 62 a6, AdS ! 63 a7,
Ac6 (waiting) and now the rook
cannot support his pawn adequately,
while still pinning the black one - 64 �fl . (-e l ) .
� a4, AdS ; 6S a8/'lt, A x a8 ; 66
� x aS, e3 + ; and, surprisingly perhaps
STUDIES
by C.M.Bent, Black Latches ,
Inkpen , Newbury, Berks.
DUELS, DUALS AND JEWELS
I once had to work alongside a
colleague who was so over bearing that
I decided life would be much easier if I
White cannot win (see the note to
Blac k ' s 64th move for further analysis
of this position). If here 6S � a3, Black
has 6S . . . , e3 + ! 66 � x e3, h2; with a
White chose the immediate push : -
6 0 aS, e 3 + ; 6 1 'i!?gl ,
61 �e l does not help, since the
h-pawn also needs to be watched .
61 , ltc8 ; 62 � b8 , Aa6 ; 63 � b6 ,
. • .
Ad3 ; 64 a6 , �f3 ? ;
After defending very well for the
A x a6; 65 � x a6, h3 would have
drawn because the pawns are well
advanced, supported by their king and
separated . With pawns at, say, e3 and
f3, the win would be child ' s play, but
now White can only try (a) 66 �h2, e2 ;
67 � e6, �f3 ; 68 'i!7 x h3, �f2; or (b) 66
'it' n , 'i!?g3 ; (66 . . . , h2? 67 �g2, e2; 68
� e6) 67 �e2, h2 ; 68 � h6, �g2 ; 69
� g6 + , �h3 ; or (c) 66 � g6, � f3 ; 67
�fl . e2 + ; 68 �e l , h2; with a draw in
every case. After 64 . . . , �f3 White
wins by force.
65 � f6 + , '<t'e2 ;
Or 6S . . . , �g3 ; 66 a7, Ae4 (66 . . . ,
e2; 67 El e6) 67 � e6 and wins.
66 a7, lte4 ; 67 � f4 , Ab7; 68 � x h4 ,
�e 1 ;
I f 68 . . , �d l ; 69 � d4 + , �c2; 70
.
69 � h 8 , e2 ; 70 a81'it , A x a8 ; 71
� x a8 , ( l -0) .
acquiesced to his way of doing things
and ceased offering suggestions of my
own. So in the end we agreed that he
should go his way and I should go his
way . That was long ago . The
advantage of writing a chess column is
that you are at the helm; the readers go
your way. This mitigates the work . But
one should try to cater for every
appetite . One of these days I must
offer something not particularly my
 THE BRITI S H CHESS MAGAZINE 40 1

own taste . One must steer a s varied a produces a real jewel in which the rook
course as possible within charted emerges the winner . Duals are nowhere
waters . in evidence .
Studies suit me better than the game
because , as intimated , I am not a V.N.Dolgov Sth H.M. , Bulletin
of Central Chess Club USSR, 1972
fi ercely competitive p e r s o n and
nowadays in the combative field the
killer instinct is needed to reach the
top . Ruthlessness is not needed for
studies. In fact what the world needs is
a whole lot more ruth . On hearing that
I have been inveigled into writing
about studies my non-chess playing
friends affect a great show of
ignorance , disclaiming all knowledge
of chess as being too recondite a
subject and clearly hoping to remain
entirely dissociated from it. I Win 3+4
invariably assure them that an ability
to read is an instant passport to the V . Korolkov
understanding of my text up to such Sverdlovsk Tourney 1 946
time as the actual moves are
mentioned . Then I prove it to them .
This does possibly gain a few
adherents up as far as the technical
bits, but I do always mention it in the
interests of accuracy. The written word
calls for great care . A different
impression from what is intended can
be conveyed simply by omitting the
indefinite article. There is all the
difference between : 'A little thought is
required . . . ' and : ' Little thought is
required . . . ' Enormous confusion was
once caused at international level by an
interpreter who , instead of saying : P .Perkonoja 2nd Pr. Breider
Jubilee Tourney,1 967
'Shooting the rapids ' , translated the
rapids into rabbits . Chess calls for
great accuracy. Studies depend on it . I f
on reading aloud the title of this article
the sound of the nouns is indistin­
guishable, the precision of the speaker
does not match what is demanded of
him as a solver .
Precision is exemplified in the
following duels concerning rooks .
Dolgov creates a pretty package in his
miniature . Korolkov' s rook meets it ' s
match in the bishop . Perkonoja
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Solutions El h 2 ; 21 Ag2 , El h4; 22 ef, gf; 23 g7

wins.
Dolgov .
1 Ah5 + , 'ili' g3 ; 2 A x e2 . Now ensues a Perkonoj a.
contest between knight and rook with 1 El e1 , � d2 + ; 2 'i!ile2 . The King must
each threatening the other in turn . 2 be most car efu l to keep out of trouble
, � b4 ; 3 .§ d4 . The solver must find from the other knight. If 2 �f2? � b 1 ;

..
•.•

for himself why the alternative threat
squares fail. 3 ., � c6; 4 .§ c4 , � e5; 5
.§ cS , � d7; 6 l::t d5, � f6; 7 .§ d6, � e8 ; 8
.§ e6, � g7; 9 .§e7, � f5; 10 El e8 . Very
nice. 10 l::t e5? fails to 10 . . . , 'ili' f4. The
text move still puts the onus on the
Knight because the black bishop is shut
in. 10 , � g7; 11 El g8 wins . A
.••
wonderfully tidy affair with so few
pieces .
Korolkov.
1 h7, .§ h4 ; 2 Ab1 , al ; 3 A X al , .§ h 1 ; 4
Ab1 , l::t h2; 5 Ac2 , Ei h 1 ; 6 Ad1 , Ei h2; 7
Ae2 , l::t h1 ; 8 An , l::t h2; 9 Ag2 , .l::l. h4 ;
10 f5 , l::t h1 ; 11 An , l::t h2; 12 Ae2 ,
.l::l. b1 ; 13 Ad1 , .l::l. h2; 14 Ac2 , H h 1 ; 15
Abl , H h3 ; 16 e5 , l::t h2; 1 7 Ac2 , El h l ;
18 Ad1 , .l::l. h2 ; 19 Ae2 , l::t h 1 ; 20 A n ,
3 .§ h 1 , � e4 + and the long diagonal is
open to the queen . 2 ••. , � b1 ; 3 El hl ,
� h5 with the ever present threat of
,
a rit. 4 El d 1 , � f4 + ; 5 'i!ilf3 , Not 5
� f2? � d5; 6 El g 1 , � f6; 7 El h 1 � e4 +
opening the diagonal again. 5 . . . ,
� d5 ; 6 El g1 , � f6; 7 El h l , � h7; 8
El d l , � g5 + ; 9 'i!ile2 . Not 9 �e3 ? � f7 ;
1 0 El g 1 , � h6; 1 1 .§ fl , � f5 + . 9 • . . ,
� n ; t o El g1 , � h6; n Ei n , � f5 ; 1 2
El d 1 , � d6; 13 El gl , � c8 . I f 1 3 . . . ,
� x b5 ; 14 cb wins. 14 El g8 , � c3 + . I f
14 . . . , 'i!il b8; 1 5 a 7 + w ins . 1 5 � x c3 ,
al'it ; 16 El x c8 + , 'ili'a7; 1 7 � b5 + ,
'i!il x a6; 1 8 El a8 + , � x b5 ; 19 El x a l
wins . A n epic struggle b y the knight
against a rook ably supported by his
intelligent king .

ALICANTE 1 979
by W. R. Hartston

�
Allcante - 21st May-30th May 1 l 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total

1 W . R . Hartston (ENG)
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1 Yz Yz VI VI Yz Yz 1 VI S llz
IM -

(
2 J .Eslon (S) IM 0
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Yz 1 Yz Yz VI Yz 1 1 S VI
3 O . Rodriguez (PER) GM VI Yz
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VI 0 VI 1 1 Yz 1 S VI

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4 O .Castro (COL) IM Yz 0 Yz
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1 0 1 1 VI 1 S VI
S M . Chand ler (NZ) IM Yz VI 1 0
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0 Yz 1 1 VI s

6 A. Martin (E) VI VI VI 1 1
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0 VI 0 1 s

l8
7 J . 01tra (E) VI VI 0 0 Yz 1
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1 0 1 4 1/z
J . M .Bellon (E) GM VI Yz 0 0 0 VI 0
-1 1 3 VI
9 J .Fernandez (E)

10 O. Leontxo (E)
0

Yz 0
0 Yz Yz 0
0 0 VI 0
1 1
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0 VI -
Yz 3 1/z
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 THE BRITISH CHESS M AGAZINE
The sixth annual Alicante tourn­
ament moved some miles down the
road this year to the Torre Dorada
Hotel in Benidorm . The organisation
was performed at amazingly short
notice , with the dates only finalised a
fortnight before the event began , and
the list of players only really definite
on the day of the first round. But
Spanish organisation always concen­
trates on friendliness , and despite the
apparent casualness , everything always
turns out well .
In the present case, many of the last
minute worries were connected with
the request I received to find another
player from England to come to the
tournament at two days notice . After a
few abortive 'phone calls , I rang
Murray Chandler , now living in
London. Everything seemed set for
him to come , until he discovered , when
preparing to board the aeroplane, that
his documents were not in order .
Suddenly, the Spanish authorities had
begun to demand visas for New
Zealanders visiting their country, and
he was refused permission to board the
plane without one . By this time I was
already in Spain, and was told of his
frantic ' phone call from Gatwick ,
explaining the difficulties. Murray
then spent a hectic day arranging a new
flight and obtaining a visa, while I
spent my time at the other end
persuading all concerned that he really
would arrive eventually (if one round
late) and that they should not substi­
tute another player . This, I should
mention , was conducted against strong
opposition from one of the Spanish
players who had scored 11 Y2 out of 12
games against the potential substitute .
Fortunately, Murray convinced them
that he was coming , his first-round
game was postponed until the free day,
and the tournament began peacefully.
The early surprises were, in fact,
produced by Chandler himself. After
403
losing his first game to Castro, he
recovered well and proceeded to beat
both the grandmasters . The game
against Bellon shows all the Spaniard ' s
attempts t o confuse h i s opponent come
to nothing .
Game No . 1 9130 - Bellon - Chandler
1 � c3 , d5; 1 e4, d x e4 ; 3 � x e4, � f6;
4 � x f6 + , e x f6; 5 d4, Jld6; 6 1ld3 ,
0-0; 7 '(tf3 ? , c5; 8 d x c5 , '*a5 + ; 9 c3 ,
it x c5; 10 1le3 , '(ta5 ; 1 1 � dl ? ! (Black
threatened � c6 followed by � eS ; this
is an attempt to bluff Black out of
taking on a2) 11 . •. , * x a1 ! ; 11 � e1 ,
� c6; 13 .A.bl , * x b1 ; 14 0-0 , � e5 ! ;
t5 '*e4, fS ; J6 '(tdS , * x e1; 1 7 '* x d6,
� c4; 18 '(t x f8 + ! (The best chance),
"' x f8 ; 19 .A.cs + , c&>e8; 10 � fel ,
* x el ; 11 r! x el + , c&'d7 ! ; 11 Jlf8,
"'c6; 13 .A_ X g7, .A.e6; 14 Jld3 , � d8 ; 15
.A.e1 , .A.dS ; 16 1ld4 , aS ; 17 Jld3 , � g8;
18 g3 , � dl ; 19 .A.e1 , a4 ; 30 f4, a3 ; 31
.!::!. at , � a8 ; 31 � dl , � f3 + ; 33 .A. x f3 ,
.A. x f3 ; 34 r! c t , c&'dS ; 35 <!'fl, .A.e4; 36
.A.es , c&>c4 ; 37 r! dt , a1; 38 � at , Jlbl ;
39 c&>e3 , � a6 ; 40 White resigned (0-1)
Bellon had a thoroughly miserable
tournament. His best results were on
the day of the excursion to a waterfall
in the nearby mountains . The Spanish
players on the trip astonished all by
their obsession with a game involving
throwing five-peseta coins at walls.
Each player throws a coin, and the one
whose coin stops nearest the wall wins
all the money. Play continued
throughout the day, whenever a
convenient wall was to hand (or indeed
almost any other reasonably stationary
obj ec t). I suspect that Bellon's
winnings were not as great as the chess
tournament's first prize, but he
certainly displayed great talent and
ended with a good collection of five­
peseta coins .
Meanwhile, back on the chess­
boards, nobody was doing very well. I
 404 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE
had been failing to win several good
positions . Indeed, my only win in the
first six rounds had been from my only
really bad position. Often it is the bad
positions which produce the points.
The leader at this stage was Eslon, but
he had the hardest finish of all the
players . In round seven, I had the
white pieces against him and knew that
this was my last chance to challenge
for first prize .
Game No . 1 9 1 3 1 Bishop 's Opening
White : W.R.Hartston Black: J . Eslon
1 e4, e5 ; 2 Jtc4 , AcS ; 3 tl cJ , d6; 4 d3 ,
Ae6 ? ! ; 5 A x e6, f x e6; 6 tl a4 , tl c6 ?
( 6 . . . , tl f6 i s better); 7 tl X c5 , d X cS ;
8 lte3 , b6; 9 ll'h5 + ! , g6; 10 itbJ ,
itd7 ; 1 1 � fJ . 0-0-0; 12 0-0 , h6; 13 a3 ,
� f6; 1 4 b4 ! , g5 ; 15 b5 , g4 ; 16 b x c6 ,
'fle7; 1 7 itgJ , g X fJ ; 1 8 ift X fJ , .§ fd8;
19 'fle2 , itd6; 20 f4 , e x f4; 21 A x f4 ,
e5 ; 22 Ag3 , .§ e8 ; 23 a4 (played only
after a long thought about 23 d4,
c x d4 ! ; 24 ita6 + , 'i!?d8 ; 25 AM ,
.§ hf8; 26 .§ X f6, .§ X f6 ; 27 .§ f1 , .§ e6
which ought to win for White, but I
could find nothing clear) 23 . . . , * X c6
24 aS , .§ hf8 ; 25 a x b6, a x b6; 26 c4 ,
tl d7; 27 .§ X f8 , � X f8 ; 28 ifth5, '{bg6
(probably an oversight, losing a pawn ,
but the ending should be tenable all the
same) 29 .§ a8 + , 'i!?d7; JO '{bhJ + , ite6;
31 ift X e6 + , ot\ X e6 ; 32 .§ X e8, ciJ X e8
33 Jt X e5 , c6; 34 \tf2 , b5; 35 c X b5,
c X b5 ; 36 \teJ , \tf7; 37 g4 , \tg6; 38
h4 , hS; 39 1s , \tn; 40 .A.d6, \tg6; 41
.A.gJ , \tn; 42 .A.n , \tg6; 43 \td2, \tn;
44 \tcJ , \tg6; 45 d4, c X d4 + ; 46
A x d4 , 'i!?n ? (46 . . . , b4 + ! should
draw ; the pawn advances to b3 and
White seems unable to win it without
allowing his e-pawn to be attacked by
the knight and forced to e5 , after
which the ending is drawn) 47 .A.eJ ,
-tl f8; 48 \tb4 , \te6; 49 Af4, � g6; so
.A.g3 (Now the bishop keeps knight and
king at bay, and White must j ust worm
his king into the position via e8) 50 . . . ,
�d7; 5 1 � x bS , �e6 ; 52 �c6 , 4:'l h8 ;
53 � c 7 , � e 7 ; 5 4 Ae1 ! , 4:::\ g6; 55 Af2 ! ,
4:'l h 8 ; 5 6 Ac5 + , �e6 ; 5 7 'i!?d8 ! , 4:::\ g6 ;
58 An, �e5 ; 59 �e8 , � x e4; 60 'i!?r7,
�f5 ; 61 Ag3 , 4:'l h8 + ; 62 'i!?g7, 4:'l g6;
63 �h6, resigns. A nice ending.
In the penultimate round , I failed to
win (in fact almost lost) against the
bottom marker , who had made only
half a point to that stage , so when the
last round began , five players shared
the lead , with the games Hartston­
Castro and Rodriguez-Eslon featuring
four of them , and Martin being the
odd man out, facing Fernandez . I had
already calculated that in the case of
any tie, my win against Eslon would
probably be enough to gain me the
first prize trophy on Sonneborn­
Berger . There is no harm in a little
.
optimism . Besides the five of us,
however , also Chandler still had an
interest ; he was half a point behind the
leaders and had white against Leontxo
in the last round . The first game to
finish was my own ; I secured nothing
from the opening and settled for a
quick draw . Shortly after, Eslon and
Rodriguez also decided to risk nothing
and they too shared the point . Mean­
while, Chandler ' s hopes of catching up
had been foiled by a piece of bad luck .
After the opening moves 1 e4 , c5; 2 c3 ,
<i) f6 ; 3 e5 , 4:::\ dS; 4 d4 , c x d4; 5 � fJ ,
4:'l c6; 6 c x d4 , d6; 7 .A.c4 , e 6 ; 8 a3 ,
Ae7 ; 9 0-0 , 0-0 ; 1 0 ite2 , d x e5 ; 1 1
d x e5 , itc7; 1 2 it e4 , Ad7; White had
a very promising position. He played
13 ltg5 , when Black found the reply 13
. . . , <i) x e5 ! ? There followed 14 it x e5
it x c4 ; 15 A x e7, � x e7; 16 itd6
upon which Black sank into thought
for twenty minutes . Presumably
Leontxo had not accurately calculated
the consequences of this move when
embarking on 1 3 . . . , <i) x e5 . He kept
calm, however , and found the amazing
resource 16 . . . , <i) g6 ! 17 * x d7, .!:Hd8 ;
18 it x b7, la db8 with a draw by
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perpetual attack on the white queen ;
an extraordinary, almost unbelievable
finish .
Thus everything depended on the
game Fernandez-Martin. For most of
the game, White held the advantage .
Then in a rook ending which was
beginning to look drawish, Fernandez
suddenly allowed the position to
become totally wild, with both sides
obtaining two connected passed
pawns. At the adj ournment nobody
was sure what was happening, even
after analysing the position . On
resumption, however , it turned out
that Martin had not sealed the best
move (which might even have won for
Quotes
by Ken Whyld , Moorland House,
Caistor, Lines . LN7 6SF
No.3983 - The 'endless hare' (see
A ugust abridged 'Quotes & Queries)
reminds me of the following -
Bernstein- Cuikerman, 1 929. Black
played 60 , .§ gS + and quickly lost .
• • .
Alekhine wrote, in Shakhmatnyy
listok 1211929 that this was a theoret­
ically won ending that called for no
further comment . Kasparyan showed
that the position was drawn by 60 . . ,.
Elb3 ; 6 1 �f2. El h3 ; 62 �e2, El g 3 . He
405
him). Fernandez pushed his pawns
with great 3ccuracy, and pushed the
unlucky Martin out of the first place.
Thus the Sonneborn-Berger tie-split
enabled me to maintain the English
tradition of good results in the
Alicante Internationals (following
outright victories by myself in 1 973
and Keene in 1 977) . As always, the
tournament (and the swimming) was
very enjoyable , and my thanks are due
to Delfin Burdio for his organisation,
and the Club Ajedrez La Cala for their
enthusiasm and friendship to myself
and Murray Chandler during and after
the event.
8 Queries
composed a study - White: '81a 1 , .ftg6,
.ft hS , El h7 : Black: �g8 Elg3 - White
,
to play and win . This he does by
forcing exactly the position after 61 . . . ,
El h 3 , but with Black to move .
No.3984 - John van Manen , guardian
of Australia's chess history, notes that
N ° 3 1 6 in Chernev ' s Wonders and
Curiosities of Chess, given as being
played between Gaudersen and Paul ,
was in ' fact between Gunnar Gunder­
sen ( 1 882- 1 943) and A . H . Faul . The
occasion was the Melbourne Christmas
Tourney of 1 928-9. Here is the game
( N o . 19132 ) , fir s t publi s h e d i n
Gundersen' s column in A ustralasian
on 1 6 February 1 929 . 1 e4 , e6; 2 d4 ,
dS; 3 eS , cS ; 4 c3, c x d4; S c x d4 ,
-'lb4 + ; 6 <tl c3 , <tl c6; 7 � f3 , � ge7; 8
.A.d3 , 0-0; 9 -'l X h7 + , cl> X h7; 10
<tl gS + , c&lg6 ; 1 1 h4 , � X d4 ; 12 'ltg4 ,
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f5 ; 13 h5 + , �h6; 14 � x e6 + , g5; 15
h X g6 mate by capturing a pawn en
- money in your pocket . When I play for
passan t.
No .3985 - Bruce Hayden says the
following game is often attributed to
H . E . Atkins , sometimes given as won
by him in 1 9 1 5 against the well-known
City of London C . C . player Herbert
Jacobs . Game No . 1 9133 - 1 e4, e5; 2
d4 , e x d4 ; 3 c3 , d x c3 ; 4 �c4 , � f6; 5
� f3 , � x e4 ; 6 0-0, � d6; 7 � x c3 ,
� x c4 ; 8 I:l e 1 + , Ae7; 9 � d5 , � c6;
10 Jtg5 , f6 ; 1 1 �:let , b5; 12 I:! X c4 ,
b x c4 ; 13 � e5 , f x g5 ; 14 ith5 + , g6;
15 � f6 + , Jt x f6; 16 � x g6 + , ite7;
17 I:! x e7 + , A x e7; 18 � e5 + , �d8 ;
19 � f7 + , �e8 ; 20 � d6 + , �d8; 21
ite8 + , I:! x e8; 22 � f7 mate . No
doubt mating one move quicker with
the queen, after 18 � x h8 + , was less
'artistic' .
Atkins and Jacobs knew each other
well , and Atkins accepted the legend
that Jacobs composed the game as a
joke, says Hayden , who then asks
'what happened ? ' because the U . S .
book The Golden Treasury of Chess,
an anthology of 540 games compiled
by F . J . Wellmuth, first published in
1 943, gives the game as having been
played at Boston on 8 November 1 892
between F.K. Young and L . Dore . Any
suggestions ?
No.3986 - The mention of Franklin
Knowles Young ( 1 857- 1 93 1 ) reminds
me of a bon mot which may be new to
readers. Young wrote several weird
chess books which no doubt deceived
military theoreticians into believing
that they understood chess. His fellow
American , Clarence Seaman Howell
( 1 881 - 1 936) wrote of Young ' s 'theories
of that vague and dreamy and word­
opulent character which abound in art,
but are unwholesome in chess . ' This
led to a challenge to a duel over the
chess-board . 'As to the matter o f
stakes ' said Young , 'you can put your
money I play poker . ' Howell said ' I
admire your wisdom i n preferring to
back your luck rather than your skill . '
No.3987 - H.J .Gawlik writes : 'One
of the most tiresome habits of news
media is their practice of speaking of a
matter in a state of stalemate when
what they actually mean is deadlock .
The literal chess analogy of this would
be a double stalemate, and I do not
know of any position in the game' s
literature which exhibits this feature . I
therefore constructed the following
position .
With White to move, (a) 1 g4
produces double-stalemate; (b) 1 �g4,
f x g3 ; 2 h x g3 is single stalemate (2
f x g3 loses); (c) 1 g x f4 wins a pawn
after 1 . . . , g x f4; 2 �g4, but White
will now lose since Black can get his
knight out . Those with a chess
computer might be interested to try the
position on it . I think the most likely
outcome is a win for Black if the
machine is given White, since the win
of a pawn is easily seen, whereas the
consequent win for Black , although
obvious to any human player, is much
too far away to be detected by any
feasible tree-searching strategy . '
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moves on the other half. There is a vast

literature, some of it limited to special
aspects such as symmetrical tours . The
diagram shows one solution to the
most limited version - a re-entrant tour
where the squares , numbered in
sequence of move, total 260 for each
rank and file. The two long diagonals
should also add up to 260 to make a
true magic square (see Q & Q 3942).
The above was from a game played a
century ago between F .Amelung and 63 14 37 24 51 26 35 10
G . von Helmersen . After 1 1il g x f6 + ,
'1!1 x f6 + ; 2 /il x f6 + , e x f6; 3 c4, c5 ; 4 22 39 62 13 36 11 50 27
a4, a5; both sides are stalemate (if 1
lil d x f6 + , e x f6 Black wins). 15 64 23 38 25 52 9 34

40 21 16 61 12 33 28 49
No .3988 - On the stalemate theme ,
here is a synthetic game by Sam Loyd 17 60 1 44 29 48 53 8
(Le Sphinx, 1866) to create stalemate
in the fewest moves . 1 c3 , dS; 2 'l!i'b3 , 2 41 20 57 6 55 32 47
hS; 3 'it x b7, AfS ; 4 'l!i' x a7, Ah7; 5
"f1 x b8, El a6; 6 "fl x c7 , El h6; 7 h4, f6; 8 59 18 43 4 45 30 7 54
'l!J X d8 + , �f7; 9 'it X dS + , 'i?tg6 ; 10
ltt' e6 stalemate . The same game but 42 3 58 19 56 5 46 31
with 1 c3 and White' s 6th and 7th
moves reversed was recently sent by a No .3990 - Kurt Gross (alias C . J .
reader who had composed it seemingly Whiffenpoof of Rochade) says , in
unaware of Loyd . The American response to ' Q & Q' N ° 3972, 'Gedult '
genius also composed quite a different has nothing to do (directly at least)
game but ending in the same position with 'Geduld ' ( = patience) but is the
except that white pawns are on c2 and surname of a living chessplayer , a kind
e3 . of elder statesman in the field of
eccentric openings and funny glosses
No .3989 - R . Oiiver has become (or vice versa), and about the same
interested in the Knight ' s Tour and holds for ' Gunderam ' . David Gedult is
says 'can all 64 squares be visited just living in Paris, Gerhart Gunderam ,
once ? ' . There are countless solutions . born 10 May 1 897 , lives in Treia a few
Taking the more limited tour where on miles south of the Danish border .
move 65 the knight can j ump to its
starting square (re-entrant tour) it has Michael Read says that Gedult got
been estimated that there are more the idea from one of Gunderam' s
than 1 22 million solutions . The openings - 1 d4, d5 ; 2 f3 - and
knight 's tour has long exercised chess­ played the immediate 1 f3 . My own
players; solutions exist from more than investigations have led me to a couple
a thousand years ago . H . J . R .Murray of BCM reviews , 1 96 1 p . 3 1 2 and 1 967
says that they started as a task to take p . l 99 . These cover two books by
all 32 chessmen placed on half a board G u n d eram , both called Neue
and it was a simple matter to reflect the Er(Jjjnungswege.
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No .3991 - Gabriel Velasco draws
attention to the game played at Baden - ·
Baden 1 925 .
Game N o . 1 9134
White : Torre Blac k : Reti
1 e4 , <tl f6; 2 e5 , <tl d5 ; 3 <tl c3 , <tl x c3 ;
4 d X c3 , <tl c6; 5 <tl f3 , d 6 ; 6 Ab5, a6; 7
A x c6 + , b x c6; 8 Af4 , .!::!b8 ; 9 b3 , e6;
10 '1Wd3 , d5; 1 1 0-0, itd7; 12 El ad 1 , aS ;
13 El fel , El a8 ; 14 <tl g5, h6; 15 <tl h3 ,
Aa6 ; 16 itg3 , g6; 1 7 Ae3 , Ae7; 18
<tl f4 , c5 ; 1 9 f3 , '1Wc6; 20 c4 , d4; 2 1 Af2 ,
Ab7; 22 a4 . Here Torre , who had been
watching other games, returned to find
that Reti had played 22 . . . , 0-0-0
which was illegal . According to the
rules Reti had to play the piece he
touched first when castling , but
curiously enough he did not remember
if he had moved the king or the rook
first . The referee decided he had to
move the king, and the game ended 22
. . . , �f8 ; 23 El d3 , �g7; 24 � h5 + '
�h7; 25 '/Wf4 , H hf8; 26 � f6 + , A x f6;
27 i'r X f6, g5 ; 28 Ag3 , El g8; 29
it X f7 + , El g7; 30 'lthS, El f8 ; 3 1 h3 ,
Draw. Did the referee make the right
decision asks Dr. Velasco ?
Many readers will remember the
g a m e H e i d e n fel d - Kerins in the
Armstrong Cup , I r e l a n d 1 97 3 . Walker wrote M ' Donnell, while Lewis
H e i d e n feld castled k i n g ' s - s i d e ,
gradually moved his king back to e l
and subsequently played 0-0-0. Neither
player noticed, but Kerins still won .
Has anyone else castled both sides ,
without objection, in a competitive
game ?
A different kind of illegal move
arose in a match game between
Walbrodt and Delmar, New York
1 893 . The game started 1 e4, e6; 2 d4 ,
d5 ; 3 � c3 , � f6; 4 .4.g5, 1te7; 5 J1. x f6,
A x f6; 6 e5, A e7 ; 7 f4, c5 ; 8 d x c5 ,
A x eS . Now Walbrodt played 9 il'g4,
only to find it illegal . At the start of
the game he had placed his queen on el
and his king on d 1 , and as four moves
had been played the array had to
stand . Walbrodt played instead 9 <tl fe2
and went on to win .
No.3992 John van Manen
supplements G . H . Diggle 's biograph­
ical article 'The Master who Never
Was ' , BCM January 1 969, with details
of Gossip ' s parents (from J . A . Venn ,
Alumni Cantabrigienses , Part 1 1 ) .
Gossip ' s father, George Hatfield
Gossip, son of Capt . William Gossip ,
was born in 1 797 at Hatfield . His
mother was Mary Ellen , daughter of
Charles Dingley . George Hatfield
Dingley Gossip was born 6 December
1 84 1 , his parents having married 4
February 1 841 .
No.3993 - Jack Willis, President of
the Rhodesian Chess Association, asks
a deceptively simple question. ' Which
is correct ' , he writes, 'MacDonnell­
Labourdonnais (BCM March 1 979) or
C. d e l a B o u r d o n n ai s - M c D o n n e l l
(BCM January 1 949) ? ' In H . J . R .
Murray's A History of Chess the
author said that he followed the
spelling, MacDonnell, from the tomb­
stone at Kensal Green . He added that
Greenwood Walker and George
u s u a l l y w r o t e M ' D o n n e l , but
sometimes MacDonnel. Later Murray
became satisfied that McDonnell was
the true version, and used it in his post­
humous A Short History of Chess. As
to the Frenchman, he signed his name
' Charles de la Bourdonnais' . The
Dictionnaire des Echecs puts him
under ' L ' , but I suspect that he should
be a ' B ' , as favoured by Jeremy Gaige
in his Cata/og of Chessplayers and
Problemists.
Pursuing the same two years of
BCM W i l l i s a s k s ab out Carl
Schlechter. In 1 949 Mieses said that his
death was in December 1 9 1 9 while a
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guest of the Budapest C . C . , while in
1 979 Steve Cunliffe said that death was
27 December 1 9 1 8 from exhaustion -
no money , no food, etc . This is easier .
The second date is right. He was then a
guest of Budapest C . C . , and malnutri­
tion was a factor.
(see also page 412 - Ed. )
No.3994 - Bruce Hayden comments
on a game 'played by the young Capa
fresh from his triumph at San
Sebastian in 1 9 1 1 , in a simultaneous
at , I believe, 'The Gambit' in London .
Game N o . 1 9135 -
White : Capablanca Black: Downey
1 e4, eS ; 2 d4 , e x d4 ; 3 c3 , d x c3; 4
-'lc4 , c X b2; 5 A X b2 , d6; 6 itb3 ,
ci:l h6; 7 ci:l f3 , <tl c6; 8 0-0 , Jld7; 9 -&c2 ,
'lte7 ; 10 <tl c3 , 0-0-0 ; 1 1 ci:l dS , '*e8; 1 2
!:! fcl , f6 ; 13 ci:l d4 , ci:l g4 ; 14 ci:l bS , '*hS ;
15 h3 , <tl geS ; 16 A x e5, d x e5 ; 1 7
<tl X a 7 + , �b8; 1 8 <tl x c6 + , A x c6;
19 !:! abl , '*e8; 20 Ji.bS , Ji.d6; 21
A x c6, Resigns .
I recall the late Victor Wahltuch, a
most ingenious and dangerous attack­
ing player , showing me a newspaper
cutting of the score of a game he won
as a young player against the old
master Amos Burn . It was a Danish,
and ran on similar lines to the above
Capa win . The cutting could have been
from a Liverpool or Manchester
newspaper , perhaps the Liverpool
Post. I believe that Wahltuch was
living in that part of the world in his
early days . Does anyone know of the
Wahltuch- Burn game I wonder ? '
From David Hooper, who knows as
much about Capablanca as anyone , I
gather that there was no performance
at 'The Gambit' at that time, but the
game against C. Downey was played at
the Curzon Hotel in a simultaneous
display given on 17 November 1 9 1 1 .
Who can search the Liverpool and
Manchester files ? Wahltuch was born
in Manchester although he died in
409
London.
No.3995 - W . John Lutes , of Peoria,
has been looking into 'Q & Q' 3963 .
'Mr . Lewis, it appears , was not the
only critic of Mr. Bingham ' s work.
George Walker ( The Philidorian, 1 838
page 223) wrote : 'This work is, in fact,
a translation of the 3rd edition of
Ponziani , and it appears difficult to
imagine how the English author could
have fallen into the error of ascribing
the book to Del Rio . . . . . . . the student
will hardly be compensated for the
omission of no less than thirty of the
famous ' Semi-centuria di partiti' by
the paper on Chess of Mr . Irwin ' s ,
which i s here reprinted from the
transactions of the Irish Academy. '
. . . . . . . It should also be remembered
that William Lewis, as well as his
teacher , J . H . Sarratt ( ? - 1 82 1 ) , were
instrumental in the introduction of the
Italian school of play to English ­
speaking readers . '
I said i n 3963 that this was not the
whole story . The third edition was
never published . Bingham translated
the fi r s t e d i t i o n (anonymo u s ) ,
probably i n the Venice 1 8 1 2 version,
and was easily misled as to the author.
The second edition had Ponziani ' s
name o n it.
No.3996 Haydn Parry contributes
-
to the pawn-chain discussion started in
'Q & Q' 3959. He sends a game from
the Major 'C' of Rhyl Congress ,
played on 5 May 1 979. He vouches for
the genuineness of the game .
Game N o . 1 9136
White : H.J.Parry Black: S.Hallworth
1 e4, eS; 2 ci:l f3 , -i) c6; 3 AbS , d6; 4
A x c6 + , b x c6; 5 d3 , Jlg4 ; 6 0-0 ,
ci:l f6; 7 b3 , -'le7 ; 8 ci:l bd2, 0-0 ; 9 ltb2 ,
ne8; 10 '*cl , Jlf8 ; 1 1 c.!.'h t , g6; 1 2
-i) gl , Jlh6; 1 3 '*et , a S ; 14 a4 , c S ; 1 5
<tl c4 , c 6 ; 16 1tc3 , d 5 ; 1 7 -i) x eS, d4 ; 1 8
ci:l X c 6 , '*c7 ; 1 9 ci:l X d4 , C X d4 ; 20
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A x d4 , 4:l dS; 21 c4 , 4:l fS ; 22 '€Wc3 ,
Ae2 ; 23 4:l x e2 , 4:l x e2 ; 24 'iWb2 ,
4:l X d4; 25 'ltf X d 4 , J1.g7; 26 'iWeJ ,
Jt x al ; 27 § x al , 'iWeS; 28 El b l , �g7 ;
29 f3 , 'lt!c3 ; 30 'lt!e2 , �g8 ; 31 'it!dl ,
El e7 ; 32 d4, E! ae8; 33 El cl , 'lt!b4; 34 cS ,
h S ; 35 E! c4 , 'lt!b8; 36 c6, El c7 ; 37 'it!d3 ,
'lt!c8; 38 dS, El d8 ; 39 �c3 , 'lt!a6 ; 40 h3 ,
l'! dc8; 41 �h2 , 'iWb6; 42 l'!cS, 'lt!b8; 43
�hl , 'lt!b4 ; 44 'it! x b4 , a x b4 ; 45 El bS ,
�f8 ; 4 6 § x b4 , 'tt e 7; 4 7 l'! c4 , f6; 48
b4, �d6 ; 49 bS, l'! b8 ; 50 �gl , h4 ; 51
� f2 , El b6 ; 52 �e3 , El b8; 53 �d4, gS ;
54 El b4 , l'! e7 ; 55 b6, El f7; 56 b7, El c7 ;
57 aS , § x c6 ; 58 d x c 6 , � x c 6 ; 59
l'! b6 + , �c7; 60 �cS, l'! x b7; 61
§ X b7 + , � X b7; 62 �d6 , �a6; 63
Correspondence
Please note that legible letters are more
likely to attract our atten tion !
Still on the subject of Chessplaying
computers here are t wo further items:
Martin J. Clarke, of Redditch, beats
Chess Challenger 3 as follows :
C.C.J plays Black on Level 1 or 2 -
1 d4 , dS; 2 c4 , d x c4 ; 3 4:l a3 , Ae6 ; 4
ita4 + , bS; 5 4:l x bS , a6; 6 <tl x c7
mate .
C.C.J plays Black on Level 3 :
1 e4 , eS ; 2 d4 , <tl c6; 3 dS, <tl d4 ; 4 -tl fJ ,
JtcS ; 5 .tJ x eS , d6; 6 itbS, 4:l X cl + ; 7
�dl, .tJ x a1 ; 8 iff x f7 mate.
Dr. C .Josephs, of London, owner of
a C. C. J 0, writes a long letter :
' . . . . I have had a lot of fun playing
with some of these computers and
since my present conclusions differ
from those of Mr. Boxall to a degree,
these may be of further interest to your
readers. I have a great love for the
game but must point out that I am not
a good player : probably below average
'tt e 6, � x aS ; 64 � x f6, Resigns.
No .3997 - T h i s is given by Wade,
Soviet Chess , as being the final
position o f a game played in Petrograd
du r i ng 1 9 1 7 , Alekhine - H o fmeister . A
curi ous positi on .
club player . My present computer is
th e Chess Challenger 10 the new
-
upgraded model . In this respect it
differs from Mr . Boxall ' s model which
I had earlier. This is the third gener­
ation of Chess Challenger and this
model is certainly , in my view, an
improvement on the earlier models,
which I have had . Some of the
weaknesses in the programme have
been corrected . My C. C. 10 does castle ,
it does accept and play 'en passant '
and there is a significant di fference in
ability between the various levels of
play. It plays what seems to be a choice
of openings and it also does not always
reply the same move when the same
position occurs during a game - even
though the levels may be the same . I
find it quite refreshing in its variable
response . It does not always take any
piece offered . (One of the aspects of
the earlier models I found quite
infuriating was the ease with which I
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could effect mate by the most obvious
sacrificial move . ) . I carried out a series
of tests by setting up a moderately
difficult study . At any rate , it is
'moderately difficult' to me and I
doubt if I would invariably find the
best move in a similar position should
it occur in over-the-board play . The
position I chose was as follows :
The correct move is 1 oi) f7 double
check , �g8 ; 1 oi) b6 mate. On Level 1
the sequence became 1 oi) d7 + , �g8 ; 1
oi) x f8 . On Levels 2 and 3 the first
move was the same. On Levels 4, 5, 6
and 7 the correct move (i .e oi) f7) was
played and mate followed. C. C. J O was
quite unable to find the best move in a
much more difficult study I set up but•
then neither could I nor several of my
friends.
I had a chance to study the playing
strength of Boris, another computer
now available. Apart from the irrita­
ting trite remarks which it pr oduc ed on
its screen (which may amuse a certain
type o f player) it was intri guing to
watch its very rapid scanni ng of
possible replies before selecting its
final r eply . I probably did not spend
enough time to assess its strength fairly
but on the whole I thought C. C. JO was
marginally better.
Here is a game between C. C. JO and
Boris played with a limit of approx­
imately 3 minutes peJ move. Playing
it through gives some idea of the style
of play. I liked the nice touch when
C. C. JO 'announced' mate on move 22
• i. e. one move before the coup-de-
41 1
grace. I believe that at present the
C. C. JO and Boris fail mainly in the
end-game. This weakness is not
surprising when one remembers that
the computer does not know the
specialised strategies we have learnt
from experience: for each move he
simply examines the board as it stands ,
examines the possible moves and
selects that which he considers the
best . C. C. JO does not play like a
human : it lacks depth and I cannot at
present imagine it producing a
brilliancy following a sacrifice . On the
other hand , it lacks some of the human
failings. It never seems to leave a piece
en prise in error (which of us can claim
this ? ) , and it never tires. And if one
wishes to play lightning chess, C. C. JO
will be a reasonable opponent .
I feel sure the standard of these
computers will rapidly improve . I do
not yet expect a grandmaster standard :
nor am I sure I would want this . At
present I would settle for a level of
play equal to that of a very good club
player . Meanwhile, I enjoy my
C. C. JO. It gives me hours of pleasure
and I am still naive enough to marvel
at the wonder of the silicone chip . . . . '
In order to facilitate playing through
this game on your own Chess
Computer, we have left the notation in
'long algebraic '.
Game No.19137 - White: C.C.10
Black: Boris 1 e1-e4 , d7-d5; 1 bl-c3 ,
•
d5 x e4; 3 c3-e4 , e7-e5; 4 d1-d3 , f7·f5;
5 e4-g5 , c7-c6 ; 6 cl-e3 , g7-g6 ; 7 g1-f3,
h7-h6; 8 dl-d1 , h6-g5 ; 9 e3-g5 , d8-c7 ;
10 d3-d4, f8-d6; 11 d4-e5, d6-e5; 11
0-0-0 , c8-e6; 13 d1-el , b8 x h1 ; 14
f3 X h1, f5·f4 ; 15 b1·f3, b8-d7; 16
f3-e5 , d7-e5 ; 17 d1-f4 , e8-d7; 18
hl-b7 + , e5-f7; 1 9 h7 X f7 + , e6 X f7;
10 f4 X f7 + , d7-d6; 11 g5-f4 + , d6-c5 ;
11 f7-c4 + , c5-b6; 13 c4-b4 mate.
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Referring to Steve Cunliffe 's article
on 'Car/ Schlech ter ' (March 1979
BCM, page 12 7) , Assiac (Heinrich
Fraenke1) passes on the following, just
received from W . A . Fo l d e a k in
Budapest : - 'In the late summer 1 9 1 8
Schlechter took part i n a tournament
at Kaschau (now called Kosice) which ,
incidentally, was won by Reti ahead of
Vidmar . Everyone was concerned
about the grandmaster ' s (Schlechter 's)
evidently very poor state of health .
Soon afterwards, Schlechter took part
in the Berlin tournament and just after
the end of the War . he accepted an
invitation by the Budapest Chess Club .
To quote Abonyi in Magyar Sakkvilag
the grandmaster' s physical state
seemed very worrying indeed . As a
matter of fact he came last in the
tournament and couldn 't complete a
simultaneous display which had been
arranged for him at the end of the
event . Abonyi had to do it for him. All
his many friends wanted him to stay on
to be nursed back to health , but , with
Christmas approaching, he insisted on
going home (to Vienna) to see his
mother. He went to the station where,
in somewhat chaotic post-war condi­
tions , he had to wait for hours in
unheated rooms . Moreover, a thief
robbed him of his wallet containing his
ticket and all the money he possessed .
He went back to the chess club where
Dr. Leo Paul , President of the Club ,
who happened to be a physician ,
diagnosed a very bad cold which soon
turned to pneumonia . He was taken to
the St. Rochus Hospital but it was too
late to save him . He died a few days
later and as , under the circumstances ,
it was impossible to take the body to
Vienna, he was buried in Budapest . '
Donald M. Fiene, author o f The
Birth and Death of the Legless Pole,
wishes to add to the Bibliography on
pages 395 and 396 of this issue , the
following :
Replace entry 27 with the following and insert
27a after it:
27. Kt!szegi, Imre and Jlmos Pap . Kempelen
Farkas. Budapest : Mlivelt Nep , 1 95 5 . 1 86 pp . ,
illustrated . Bibliography, pp. l 83- 1 86 . This i s a
biography of Kempelen , with only the follow­
ing pages dealing all or in part with the Tur k :
87-99, 1 5 1 - 1 77 . T h e final chapter , p p . 1 7 8- 1 82
deals briefly with the state of computer chess
through 1 952.
27a. Levy, David . Chess and Computers.
London : Batsford , 1 976. 1 45 pp.
Replace parenthetical note at biblio entry 1 0
with following: (Full title contains about 50
words . No added material by Russian transla­
tor indicating possible visit by Turk to Russia) .
At biblio entry 32, add the following to
descriptive note: Vonnegut also introduces a
chess-playing computer , named Bori s , 'about
the size of a cigar box ' in the concluding
chapter of his most recent novel , Jailbird
(Delacorte , 1 979).

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* In last year's A ugust issue we gave

the scores of 53 Paul Morphy games.
SOME MORE Here are another 9, plus two endings,
which were inadvertently omitted.
UNKNOWN Game � 10 [page 356 I 1978] should
not have been published as Sergeant
PAUL MORPHY gave it in his 'Morphy Gleanings '. In
Game N° 1, Black 's 13th should read
GAMES �6 (instead of AM) and due credit
should be given to Messrs David
by David Lawson McKay for some of the scores which
have appeared in 'Paul Morphy, The
* Pride and Sorro w of Chess ' -Ed.

Game No . 54 15 �d2 .A.e6 7 d4 e x d4

White: P .Morphy 16 aet � bd7 8 'ltb3 .A.e6
Black: A .Morphy 17 � x e6 f x e6 9 .A. x e6 f x e6
New Orleans 1848 18 13. x e6 10 c x d4 .A.b6
1 e4 e5 1-0 11 d5 � a5
2 f4 e x f4 12 'ltc3 e5
3 .A.c4 'ith4 + 13 � gS h6
4 �fl .A.c5 Game No .55 14 � e6 'lte7
5 d4 .A.b6 White: P .Morphy 15 .A.e3 � f6
6 � f3 'lte7 Black : Amateur 16 .A. x b6 a x b6
7 � c3 � f6 New York 1857 17 a ae1 ac8
8 'itd3 c6 Odds of Queen's � 18 f4 c&>d7
9 .A. x f4 dS 1 e4 eS 19 f x eS d x es
10 e x dS 0-0 2 � fJ � c6 20 it x e5 � c4
11 d6 itd8 3 .A.c4 .A.cs 21 itc3 bS
12 ae1 a es 4 b4 A x b4 22 ith3 c&>e8
13 <tl g5 a x e1 + 5 c3 A.s 23 eS <tJ x eS
14 c&> x et 'lte8 + 6 0-0 d6 24 a x eS c&>n
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2 5 1£\ gS + h x g5 11 'iWb3 i£l f6 20 'iWfS + i£l f6

26 Et x e7 + � x e7 12 lta3 + c5 21 Et x e4 'iWd7
27 �e6 + 1 -0 13 Et ad1 �c7 22 Et e6 '�Wn
14 f4 ltg4 23 d5 1£1 X d5
15 l::!. del Et hf8 24 lt x g7 + � X g7
Game No. 56 16 �c4 Ahs 25 '1W x f7 + � x f7
White : P .Morphy 17 h3 �f7 26 Et x h6 ltl f6
Black : D.Julien 18 li x f7 Et x f7 27 g4 h x g4
New York 185 7 19 f x e5 '1W x e5 28 h x g4 ltl x g4
Odds of Queen' s ltl 20 l::!. f5 ite6 29 Et h7 + �g6
1 e4 c5 21 c4 Et c8 30 Et h3 A x f2 +
2 d4 c x d4 22 ltb2 ltl d7 31 Resigns 0-1
3 ltl f3 l£\ c6 23 itg3 ltc7
4 Ac4 e5 24 'iWh4 + �e8 Game No . 59
5 c3 lies 25 l::!. efl Et x f5 White : C . H . Stanley
6 b4 Jlb6 26 Et x f5 'iWh6 Black : P .Morphy
7 b5 ltl a5 27 '{Wf2 �d8 New York C. C.
8 A x f7 + � x f7 28 !! n Af6 28 November 185 7
9 1£\ x eS + �f8 29 itrs Jle7 Odds : pawn & move
10 itb5 itf6 30 !! x g7 itd6
1 e4 d6
11 Aa3 + i£l e7 31 e5 and wins
2 d4 ltl f6
12 f4 d3 1-0
3 ltl c3 e6
13 0-0-0 Ae3 + 4 Ad3 ltl c6
14 <3;b1 J1. X f4 s Ae3 e5
15 Et hfl g6 Game No . 5 8 6 d5 ltl e7
16 !! x f4 it x f4 White: P .Morphy 7 h3 ltl g6
17 1£1 x g6 + h X g6 Black : C.A.Maurian 8 ltl ce2 ltl h4
18 it x h8 + �f7 New Orleans 9 !! h2 .1l.e7
19 ith7 + �f8 9 May 1864 10 g3 ltl g6
20 it x e7 + �g8 Odds of Queen's ltl 11 f4 e x f4
21 itd8 + �g7 1 e4 e5 12 ltl x f4 ltl e5
22 it x a5 1-0 2 ltl f3 ltl c6 13 ltl f3 0-0
3 ..Q.c4 Ac5 14 ltl x e5 d x e5
4 b4 .1l. x b4 15 ltl g2 c6
Game No.57 5 c3 Ac5 16 c4 Ab4 +
White : P.Morphy 6 0-0 d6 17 Ad2 'lh6 !
Black: T .Lichtenhein 7 d4 e x d4 18 A x b4 /tl X e4 1
Odds of Queen's ltl 8 c x d4 Ab6 19 ltl f4 'ltg1 +
21 July 1859 9 Ab2 Ag4? 20 �e2 it x h2 +
1 e4 e5 10 Jl.b5 '1'18 21 �e3 itf2 +
2 ltl f3 ltl c6 11 A x c6 b x c6 22 � x e4 itd4 +
3 Ac4 AcS 12 h3 h5 23 *f3 c5

lt
4 b4 A x b4 13 itd3 A x f3 24 ..Q.c3 !! x f4 +
5 c3 Ac5 14 it x f3 !! h6 25 x f4 it x f4 +
6 0-0 Ab6 15 a4 aS ! 26 g2 A x h3 +
7 d4 d6 16 !! act ltl e7 27 'l' x h3 itb6 +
8 d x eS ltl x eS 17 iteJ fS 28 �g2 itgS +
9 ltl x e5 d x eS 18 'ltgS f x e4 29 *h2 ith4 +
10 A x f7 + 'l'e7 19 !! fel ltl dS Draw Y2 - V2
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Game No . 60 8 .tJ x c3 .tJ as 28 .§ x g2 .§ x g2 +

White : C . H . Stanley 9 �b4 .tJ x c4 29 <;!l x g2 'ltg5 +
Black : P .Morphy 10 � x c4 J1.b7 30 �h1 'ili'cl +
New York 11 .§el 0-0-0 31 ltg1 Resigns
29 November 1857 12 J1.f4 f6 1-0
Odds : pawn & move 13 .§ acl <;!.>bS
1 e4 d6 14 .tJ d5 J1. X d5
2 d4 .tJ f6 15 e x d5 �d7
3 J1.d3 e5 16 .tJ d4 .tJ e7 White : P . Morphy
4 d x e5 d x e5 17 .§ x e7 J1. x e7 Black: Amateur
5 b3 Ac5 18 �a6 c5 New York ?
6 .tJ fJ .tJ c6 19 d x c6 e.p. �c8 I December 185 7
7 .tJ c3 J1.e6 20 c7 + �a8
8 0-0 �e7 21 c x d8 = � � x d8
9 J1.b5 0-0 22 .tJ b5 �b8
10 A x c6 b x c6 23 .§c7 1 -0
11 J1.g5 ltc4
12 .§ et .§ adS
13 �cl h6 Game No .62
14 .iteJ Jld6 White: P . Morphy
15 .tJ b4 .tJ x e4 Black : A . Morphy
16 .tJ g6 'itf6 New Orleans 1848
17 .tJ x f8 .tJ x c3 l e4 e5 White t o m ate in 3
18 .tJ d7 .§ x d7 2 Ac4 f5
19 b X cJ 'i!i'g6 3 e x f5 .tJ f6 1 .tJ c5 'i!i'e6
20 'itdt ite6 d5 2 'i!i' x e6 + �d8
4 .tJ c3
21 �b1 .§ f7 5 .tJ X d5 ltc5 3 'i!i'e8 mate.
22 .§ b1 e4 6 .tJ x f6 + 'lt x f6
23 !:t b8 + �h7 7 d3 A x f5
24 .§ g1 h5 8 .tJ f3 J1,g4
25 f4 e x f3 e p
. .
9 AdS c6 White: P .Morphy
26 g x f3 'ltrs 10 Ae4 .tJ d7 Black: McConnell
27 'itd3 'it x d3 11 0-0 h6 New Orleans 1849
28 c x d3 .§ x f3 12 c3 0-0-0
29 Ad4 !:t x h3 + 13 b4 Ab6
30 �gl cS 14 a4 a6
31 Resigns 0-1 15 'ltb3 A x f3
16 A x f3 gS
t7 Ae3 g4
Game No . 6 1 18 .it X g4 Ac7
White: P .Morpby 19 Af3 Et bg8
Black : Hart 20 Ae4 !:t g4
1 e4 eS 21 f3 .§ g7
2 4) f3 4) c6 22 bS a x bS White to play & win
3 d4 e x d4 23 a x bS � b6
4 Ac4 d6 24 bS x c6 !:t dg8
5 c3 d x c3 25 !:t f2 'ltd8 All scores have been
6 'ltb3 'lte7 26 Et as + Ab8 checked against the
7 0-0 b6 27 A x b6 !:t x g2 + original copy
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Depart�nent
Game No.19138 Grunfeld Defence
White: A . Karpov Black : L . Ljuboj evic
Round 8 Montrea/ 1979 Tournament
This game is a typical long Karpov
endgame win. He obtains a small
advantage from the opening, but is
unable to obtain anything real against
accurate defence. The Yugoslav grand­
master almost equalises , but White
always manages to keep some winning
hopes . At the adj ournment, it is clear
that Black ought to hold the position,
but that it will be a long hard struggle.
Finally, after relentless pressure ,
Lj uboj evic makes the decisive mistake
at move seventy .
1 c4 , c5 ; 2 � o . � f6; 3 � cJ . d5 ; 4
c x d5 , � x d5 ; 5 d4, � x c3 ;
Lj uboj evic played 5 . . . , c x d 4 ; 6
'fl1 x d4, � x c3 ; 7 "«r x c3, � c6 against
Korchnoi in a club match a few
months before the present game . That
continuation, however , was discre­
dited by the game Portisch- Hubner
from Montreal round three . Now,
therefore, he has to play something
different , entering a Griinfeld Defence
position. Note that the immediate 5 . . ,
g6 is more dubious owing to the reply 6
ili'a4 + which gives Black problems
after 6 . . . , � c6; 7 � e5 or 6 . . . , .A.d7 ; 7
'ttb 3 .
6 b x c3 , g6; 7 e4 ,
Usually White i s content with 7 e3
here, leaving it until later to try to
dominate the centre with his pawn
mass. The move played leaves us in an
old-style Grunfeld exchange variation
with the white knight already on f3 .
7 . . . , Jl.g7; 8 Ae2 ! ? ,
Ga111es
by W . R . Hartston
A most interesting choice, since this
move has been thought innocuous for
many years . I have always played 8
Ab5 + here, though White has very
little after 8 . . , � c6 !
.
8 . • • , 0-0 ? ! ;
Lj uboj evic avoids the theoretically
critical lines which follow when Black
puts immediate pressure against d4 . It
would be very interesting to know
what Karpov intended after 8 . . , � c6.
.
The choice is between 9 Ae3 , Ag4;
when White has nothing better than 1 0
e 5 which looks fine for Black, and the
speculative 9 d5 !? , A x c3 + ; 10 Ad2,
A x a 1 ; 1 1 * x a 1 , � d4; 12 � x d4,
c X d4; 13 it X d4, f6; 14 e5 which
somehow does not seem Karpov 's
style .
9 0-0, Ag4 ;
9 . . . , � c6 now comes too late, since
White can play 10 d5 ! very strongly ( 1 0
. . . , A x c3 ; 1 1 Ah6 ! ) .
10 A e3 , 'it aS ; 1 1 'ltb3 , c X d 4 ; 12
c x d4 , � c6;
At last this knight can emerge; 13 d5
no longer works since the rook on a1
. cannot be recaptured by the white
queen, so there is no Ah6 at the end of
everything to regain the exchange.
13 .§ ad 1 , 'tt b4 ;
White has clearly emerged better
from the opening ; his pawns at d4 and
e4 are securely defended and their
mobility gives a definite advantage to
Karpov. Black therefore offers a queen
exchange hoping that this advantage
will be less important in an endgame .
14 h3 , Jl x f3 ; 15 11. x f3 , .§ fc8; 16
'it X b4 , � X b4 ; 17 e5 ,
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Shutting out the black bishop and
making optimal use of his own white­
squared bishop .
17 . . . , El. c7; 1 8 El. c1 , El. ac8; 19 .§ x c7,
1 9 .ll x b7 , .§ x c l ; 20 .§ x c 1 ,
E!. x c l + ; 2 1 .ll x c 1 , � x a2 gives
White nothing; the black knight can be
rescued by . . . , e6 and .ll f8 if necessary.
19 . , .§ x c7; 20 El. bl , � x a2; 21 El. a l !
. .
B y winning the a-pawn instead o f its
neighbour, White keeps his opponent
on the defensive.
21 . . . , � b4 ; 22 .§ x a7, h5;
Defending against the threat of 23
El. aS + , .ll f8 ; 24 .llh 6. Now White must
refrain from taking the pawn since 23
A x b7, '\t>h7 leaves him in a terrible
pin, while 23 .§ x b7, .§ x b7 ; 24
A x b7 , � c2 ! leads to an easily drawn
opposite bishop ending.
23 Af4 , � d3 ;
2 3 . . . , e6; 2 4 .§ x b7 , .§ x b7; 25
A x b7 is no longer so easy for Black
since White can play 26 d5 when the
knight attacks this pawn.
24 .ll, g5 ! '
In view of this move, we must
wonder whether 22 . . . , h6 might not
have been more prudent than h5 .
24 . . . , El d7;
24 . . . , f6; 25 e x f6, e x f6; 26 -'l.e3
leaves White with a very strong passed
d-pawn.
25 .§ X b7, § X d4 ; 26 e6,
This disrupts the black pawns and
keeps White ' s hopes alive.
26 . . . , f x e6; 27 § x e7, El. d6;
I prefer 27 . . . , � e5 first, to prevent
the bishop from easily occupying the ·
b l -h7 diagonal .
28 Ae4 , e5; 29 El.c7, .il.f8 ; 30 -'l.e3 ,
� f4 ;
Since all the pawns are on the same
side of the board, and none is
inherently too weak to be satisfactorily
defended, the black position should be
tenable. Nevertheless, his weaknesses
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on e5 and g6 can be guaranteed to give
him problems , and the active white
rook and bishops can also create
threats to the king . The only difficulty
for White in playing the position is
that he must ensure that rooks are kept
on the board . In the ending solely of
minor pieces he would have no chances
to win whatsoever .
31 E! c S , '\!?g7; 32 g3 , � e6;
The knight does not emerge alive
after 32 . . , � x h3 + ; 33 c'\t>g2 .
.
33 '\!?g2 , Ae7 ; 34 El. b8 , Ag5 ;
Averting the threatened 35 Elb7.
35 El. b7 + , 'i!'f6; 36 .il.a7, .il.d2 ; 37 !! b3 ,
Jla5 ; 38 h4 ,
Finally cutting out any thoughts
Black might have of playing h4
himself.
38 . . . , � d4 ; 39 El. b7, � e6;
Black's pieces look fairly active, but
they are strictly tied to their defensive
roles . As long as they stay huddled
together , everything holds , but the
permanent danger is that they will be
forced away leaving the pawns unpro­
tected . For example, 39 . . . , � f5 would
have been an error in view of 40 .Q.c5 ,
!!d2; 4 1 El. a7 followed by El. a6 + when
the king is forced back and the e-pawn
aJ,ld g-pawn become vulnerable.
40 e3 , -'l.cJ ; 41 El. b3 , .il.d4 ; .
This was the sealed move; White
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must retain the bishops if he is to
continue to set problems .
42 Ah6, 4) g7; 43 Ags + , �f7; 44
l::i. b7 + ,
Lj ubojevic had been
concerned about 44 I::!. f3 + since 44 . . . ,
�g8 is strongly met by 45 Ae7 and 44
. . , c.!i'es by 45 .A.h6. His intention had
. After defending so well for so long,
been to surrender a pawn with 44 . . ,
4) f5 when all is still not clear .
44 , �g8; 45 Ae7, l;! a6; 46 Jl.dS + ,
. • .
'i!?h7; 47 AgS ,
47 Af8 , H a7 gives White no
advantage.
47 . . . , H d6; 48 Jl.e4, �g8; 49 l:tb8 + ,
'itf7;
After 49 . . . , 'ith7 ; 50 l:t f8 the threat
of Af6 puts the Black position under
intolerable strain. The white rook is
very strongly placed on f8 or f7, so
Black 's king must keep it out of those
squares .
50 l:tc8, 4) e6; 51 Ah6, AeS ! ;
Now Black threatens perpetual
harassment of the white rook by . . . ,
Hd8 and l:t d6, meanwhile he gives
extra much-needed defence to the
squares f8 and e7 .
52 I::!. aB , l::i. d8; 53 J::t as , l:t d6; 54 Jl.bt ! ? ,
Just as Black is happy to have
defended against one winning attempt,
Karpov changes plans. Now the bishop
is to be deployed on the a2 - g8 dia­
gonal , causing fresh problems for the
black king .
54 . . . , Ad4 ; ss l:t a8 , Aes ; 56 Aal ,
*t6; 57 l:t e8 , Ad4; 58 l:t e8 , l:t a6 ; 59
Ae4 , l:te6; 60 Ad3 ,
Back onto the original diagonal .
60 . , c&1f7; 61 l:t a8, l:t d6; 62 Ae4 ,
..
Aes; 63 'itn , l:t dt + ; 64 c&1g2, l:t d6;
64 , l:t d8 would give the same
. . .
position as at move 52, but there is
nothing wrong with this move either.
65 Abl , Ad4 ; 66 l::t a3 ,
Finally, after getting nowhere with
his plan of playing with the rook on
the seventh and eighth ranks, Karpov
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reverts to the other plan of infiltration
on the f-file. Probably he knew this
was the strongest idea all along, but
one should always wear down the
more opposition as much as possible first .
66 . . ., 4:) e7; 67 A al + , 'ite8; 68 .§ f3 ! ,
ci) e6 ; 69 Jl.bl , ci) eS ; 70 .§ f8 + , 'ite7? ;
. Ljubojevic finally overlooks some­
thing . 70 . . . , 'itd7 gave good chances
of holding the position .
71 l:t g8,
Now the double threat of 72 l;! x g6
and 72 Jl.f8 + cannot satisfactorily be
met . 7 1 . . . , 'itf7 is defeated by 72
.!l g7 + , while 7 1 . . . , l:t f6; 72 Jlg5 is
equally fatal .
71 . . . , e4; 72 Af8 + , resigns.
On noticing that 72 . . . , 'i!?f7 is
squashed by 7 3 Aa2 + . A very hard
game for both players.
Game No.1 9139 Centre Counter Def.
White : A . Karpov Blac k : B . Larsen
Round 12 Montrea/ 1979 Tournament
1 e4 , dS; 2 e x dS, it X dS ! ? ;
.
This move has been frowned upon
for many years . For some time 2 . . . ,
4) f6 was fashionable , but the whole
defence is now considered rather
dubi o u s . The paw n , for m a t i o n
obtained is similar to that of the
Caro-Kann, but Black loses time with
his queen .
3 ci) e3 , it as; 4 d4 , 4) f6; s Adl ,
An unpretentious . move , but still
enough to keep the advantage. The
usual continuation is 5 ci) f3 , Jlg4,
when Black usually finds himself
conceding the bishop pair and remain­
ing with a somewhat passive position.
5 . . . , Jlg4; 6 Ae2, A x e2 ; 7 ci) e x el ! ? ,
White's strategy i s based o n his
pawn on d4 giving him more space .
His intention is a general advance of
Q-side pawns. This move facilitates
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that advance, but i t i s still surprising to
see Karpov playing the middlegame
before finishing the opening .
7 . . . , itb6; 8 � f3, � bd7; 9 0-0, e6 ; 10
c4 , Ae7;
Black's development could not
stand his taking the b-pawn; 1 0 . . ,
it x b2; 1 1 � c3 gives White too easy a
game to play .
1 1 b4 ! , 0-0;
1 1 . . . , A x b4? ; 12 §. b 1 wins a piece
for White . Now, however , White has a
clear advantage in space.
12 a4 , c6; 13 itc2 , '«rc7; 14 §. fe1 , b6;
Black does not like to open the
position with 14 . . . , e5? ! ; 15 d x e5 ,
� x e5 ; 1 6 � x e5 , '«Y x e5 ; 1 7 � g3 ,
it c7 ; 1 8 � f5 with a powerful attacking
position .
1 5 aS , §. fb8; 16 a6 ? ! ,
This is consistent with his previous
move, but the whole plan seems
suspect. Black has no real weaknesses
in his position, so Karpov is content
just to gain space . As a result ,
however , he lets his pawns become
fixed on the same colour squares as his
bishop .
16 , b5 ! ;
. • .
Well signalled by his previous move
and ensuring that the d4 and b4 pawns
stay put .
17 c5 , � d5 ; 18 � cl , §. e8; 19 � d3 ,
l::l ad8; 2 0 g3 , J.f6; 21 §. e4 , � f8 ;
The position i s now perhaps slightly
in White's favour. His bishop is bad,
but his extra space is a big plus. Black
will find it hard to play actively from
such a cramped position. White must
seek to restrict him further by
advancing the centre pawns, but, with
the benefit of hindsight, we may say
that this is not a policy without risk,
since the advancing pawns leave weak­
nesses behind themselvl!s .
22 h4 , l::l d7; 23 lit'g2 , l::l ed8 ; 24 g4 , l::l e8 ;
As long as Black has no weaknesses
he is content . All the time he retains his
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better bishop and is ready for any
opening of the position.
25 g5 , 1td8 ; 26 � fe5 , .§ de7; 27 Jl.f4 ,
'«rc8 ;
Of course Black. does not take the
bishop ; if White had no bad bishop
. Black would have nothing to play for .
2 8 l1.g3 , f6 ! ;
The white advance has continued for
long enough ; it is time to fight back .
29 � f3 , .§ f7; 30 itd2, f x g5 ! ;
A surprising move, giving back the
e5 square in return for f5 . Nonetheless
the move is good since it removes most
of the dynamism from the white
position, leaving him with a rather
rigid pawn structure and still nursing
the bad (if active) bishop .
31 � x g5 ? ,
Why this recapture ? 3 1 h x g 5 is
more natural and must be better .
31 , §. f5; 32 §. aJ , � g6;
. • .
Suddenly Black has the initiative.
His control of e5 prevents White from
making great use of this square, while
Black's own pressure is growing on the
f-file.
33 � f3 , §. ef8; 34 � fe5 , � x eS ; 35
§. x eS ,
After 3 5 � x e5 , Jl.c7 ! Black threat­
ens to capture on e5 and leave himself
with a dominating knight against the
poor bishop.
35 . . . , l::l f3; 36 l::l a1 ? ,
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This meets the threat of <tl x b4, but
overlooks something even more
serious .
36 . . . , .a. x b4 ! ; 37 'lte2 ,
37 1t x h4, E! x d3 ; 38 * x d3 ,
<tl f4 + forks king and queen . Also 3 7
E! x d5 does n o t help since 3 7
e x d5; 3 8 A x h 4 , * h 3 + wins for
Black.
37 . . . ; lt x g3 ;
It i s a wonderful sign for Black that
he can even happily now exchange
White ' s problem piece.
38 f X g3 , 'lli" d 7 ! ; 39 -lt X fJ ,
This does not help , but something
must be done before Black can
dominate the position with 39 . , 'lli" f7 .
. .
39 E! x e 6 would have lost t o 39 . . . ,
J:! X d3 .
39 . , J:! X f3 ; 40 � X fJ , <i:l X b4 ! ;
. .
This puts the final touch o n the
destruction of White's carefully
constructed empire . 41 <tl x b4, 'it x d4
leaves Black with queen and far too
many pawns for the rooks.
41 f! dl , 'it X d4 ;
4 1 . . , <tl x a6 might have given
.
White even less hope .
42 § e4 , "ili'd5; 43 <tl f2 ,
Here the game was adjourned . With
queen and three pawns for two rooks,
Black needs only take care to ensure
that he scores the full point .
43 , 'lli" h 5 + ;
••.
4 3 . , "i!it x c 5 is the simplest path ,
. .
but perhaps it is best not to seal the
objectively strongest move when they
all win anyway .
44 �g2 , ctl d5 ; 45 J:! X e6, h6;
Larsen ensures the safety of his king
before queening his b-pawn.
46 .§. dJ , 'i!i'b7; 47 §f3, b4 ! ; 48 g4 ,
48 .§. x c6 would have lost to 48 . . . ,
<tl e3 + ! ; 49 § x e3 , 'lli"d 5 + .
48 • . •, 'ltg5 ; 49 'i!i'g3 ,
49 § x c6, -tl f4 + gives White the
choice between 50 �g3 , <tl e2 +
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followed by � d4, or any .other king
move , met by 50 . . . , 'lli" d 5 .
49 . . . , 'it cl ; 50 <t'l h3 ,
After 5 0 .!:! x c 6 now , Black plays 50
. . . , 'lli" g l + ; 5 1 �h3 , b3 and White is
hopelessly discoordinated .
50 . . . , 'ltc4 ; 51 g5 , h5 ! ;
At a stroke dealing with the
problems created by White's labor­
iously constructed mating net .
52 Ei e8, h4 + ; 53 �g2, b3 ; 54 E! b8 ,
'ite2 + ; 5 5 <tl f2 ,
O r 55 E! f2, 'lli" g4 + ; 56 �h2, 'lli" g3 +
winning everything .
55 . . . , <tl e3 + ; White resigned .
A strange game , in which Larsen ' s
control in a passive position seemed t o
bemuse t h e World Champion into a
totally false sense of security . None­
theless a good game by the Dane who
thereby equalised his personal score
with Karpov .
Game No . 1 9140 Caro-Kann Defence
Black: R.Hiibner
White : M. Tal
Round 13 Montreal 1979 Tournament
1 e4 , c6; 2 d4 , d5; 3 <tl d2 ,
Nowadays, more and more players
are adopting this move instead of the
more usual 3 <tl c3 . The idea is that 3
<tl c3 , g6 ! ? is probably better than 3
<tl d2, g6 when White can still support
the centre with c3 . Usually it makes no
difference since Black captures on e4
anyway.
3 . . . , d x e4 ; 4 <tl x e4 , ltf5 ; 5 <tl g3 ,
Jlg6; 6 h4 , h6; 7 <i:'l f3 , <i:'l d7; 8 h5,
.ith7; 9 ltd3 , lt x d3 ; tO 'it x d3 , <tl gf6;
Some say that 1 0 . . . , 'lli" c7 or 10 . . . ,
e6 first are more accurate, but there
seems little difference.
1 1 Jlf4 , 'lta5 +; 12 Jld2 ,
An interesting idea here is 1 2 c3, e6;
13 a4 ! ? threatening to gain space with
b4 and a5 , as played in the game
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Gaprindashvili -Nikolac , Wij k aan Zee
1 979; Tal prefers to stick to the
standard recipe , which seems difficult
enough for Black .
12 . • • '"lWc7; 13 0-0-0, e6; 14 oi:l e4 ,
,
This i s the start of a plan invented by
Geller about twelve years ago . The
inactive knight on g3 is exchanged and
White plays for g3 and -'1-f4, to gain
control of the h2-b8 diagonal .
14 . . . , 0-0-0 ; 15 g3 , oi:\ X e4 ;
Petrosian has played 1 5 . . . , oi:l c5 ! ? ;
1 6 oi:l x c5, A x eS here, which may be
better , though the knight exchange can
hardly be bad .
16 it x e4 , oi:l f6 ? ;
I d o not trust this knight move ; the
time gained by attacking the white
queen is not important compared with
the resulting rigidity of Black ' s
position and his loss of influence o n
the important e 5 square. The flexible
16 . . . , Ae7 ! is best as for example in
Gheorghiu - Hort , Havana 1 966, which
continued 17 c8tb l , � he8; 1 8 c4, c5; 1 9
Af4, Ad6; 2 0 oi:l e5 , � e7 and Black
kept the balance .
1 7 'iWe2 , cS ? ;
Another dangerous move , hoping
for a simple solution to Black s
problems .
18 d x cS , A x eS; 19 � h4 ! ,
The rook quite commonly develops
in this manner against Black s chosen'
opening variation. Here it is especially
strong in view of the direct threat of 20
b4 followed by � c4.
19 . • • • c8tb8;
Taking the king o ff the dangerous
file, but putting it on an equally fatal
diagonal . 26 , � f5 ; 27 � g4 , � dBj_ 28 .A.es , f6;
20 Af4 , Ad6;
See Diagram
21 .!::l x d6 ! , .!::l x d6; 12 � eS ! ,
The point o f White's combination ;
Black has so much junk on the f4-b8
diagonal that White can even afford to
block it for one move without losing
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the certainty of regaining his material .
Now the threats of � x f7 and � c4
ensure White the gain of at least a
pawn.
22 • . • , 'i!ta8;
22 . . . , � d5; 23 � x f7, � x f4; 24
� x f4 leaves the black rooks · forked
and White emerges a very good pawn
ahead . 22 . . . , � hd8; 23 � c4 is very
similar to the game.
23 � c4 , oi:l e8 ; 24 � g4 ! ,
Black cannot spare a defender for
the g-pawn; the h8 rook is needed on
'
d8 if White decides to play · � x d6
followed by itd3 , and the f-pawn
cannot mov e without losing the
e-pawn.
24 . . • , ite7; 25 � x d6 , � x d6; 26
.!::l x g7,
White' s extra pawn must now be
decisive; Black retains a weakness on
h6 and his knight is not as good as the
white bishop . Huhner must really have
been regretting his choice of opening .
•••
29 .A.c3 , eS ; 30 b3 , a6; 31 'ifl'b2 , ite6; 32
itc4 , ite8;
After exchanging queens Black
would be powerless to prevent · the
white rook infiltrating to g6 and
mopping up the K-side pawns.
33 l::l g6, � cl; 34 ita4, itdB; 35 ite4,
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4::\ d6; 36 �d3 ,
Now another pawn must drop and
all opposition is at an end .
36 , �c7; 37 Ab4, 4::\ bS; 38 !3 x f6 ,
. •.
aS ; 3 9 Ad6 , 4::\ X d 6 ; 4 0 !3 x d 6 , e4 ; 4 1
'itd2 , resigns.
A nice win by Tal , but a most
uncharacteristic Hiibner game .
Game No. 19141 French Defence
White : M. Tal Black: L . Portisch
Round 15 Montreal 1979 Tournament
This game was one of the most
important in the whole event . After
fourteen rounds Tal and Karpov held
the j oint lead , half a point ahead of
Portisch, with no other player in
contention for first prize . This game
put an end to the Hungarian ' s
challenge while also lifting Tal , for the
moment, ahead o f the World
Champion.
1 e4, e6; 2 d4 , dS; 3 4::\ d2 ,
When Tal was winning the World
Championship from Botvinnik , he
preferred to enter the complex lines
with 3 4::\ c3 , Ab4 . Nowadays the
positional nuances of the Tarrasch
variation are good enough for him .
3 , cS;
• . .
Under Korchnoi's influence this
move has become far more popular
than 3 . . . , ob f6 or 3 . . . , ob c6. Black
accepts an isolated queen' s pawn in
exchange for free development of his
pieces.
4 e x dS , e x dS ; S -'l.bS + , ltd7; 6
'lte2 + , -'l.e7; 7 d x cS , ob f6; 8 .tlb3 ,
0-0; 9 4::\ f3, !3 e8 ; 10 lte3 , a6 ;
The 22nd Karpov-Korchnoi game
had continued 10 . . . , .A. x c5 ; 1 1 ob x c5
'it as + ; 12 'itd2, 'it x bS ; 13 0-0-0 and
Black could find no way to equalise.
1 1 -'l.d3 ! ,
In Tal-Karpov, from Round 7,
White had played 1 1 .A. x d7 , .tlb x d7 ;
1 2 0-0, .tl x c5 ; 1 3 .tl fd4 when the
players agreed a draw . Quite probably
Tal already knew at that time that 1 1
Ad3 was a better move, but he was
saving it for a game where winning was
a more serious priority . Possibly ,
Portisch was lulled into a false security
by the peaceful outcome of the earlier
game .
1 1 . . . , Aa4 ;
Theory claims that Black now
regains the pawn with equal chances,
but as we shall see, White still has
some initiative .
12 .tl fd4 , 4::\ bd7; 13 0-0-0, .tl x cS; 14
4::\ fS ! ? ,
From this square the knight i s a
potential menace to the black king ,
while also the d4 square is freed for
queen , rook or bishop to increase the
pressure against the d-pawn .
14 . . . , Af8 ;
1 4 . , .tl X d3 + ; 1 5 'lt X d3 , 11f8; 1 6
. .
Ag5 i s very awkward for Black .
1 S 4::\ x cS , A x cS ; 16 'itf3 , 11 x e3 + ;
1 7 4::\ x e3 ,
The other point o f 4::\ f5 i s revealed ;
the black d-pawn is already under
severe strain with knight , queen and
rook already bearing down on it.
1 7 . . . , !3 c8 ? ;
Black had t o play passively with 1 7
. . . , Ac6, though White's position
remains more attractive .
1 8 ltfS , !3 cS; 1 9 !3 d4 , -'l.c6 ? ! ;
1 9 . . , Ad7 was the alternative, but
.
the d-pawn would be hard pressed to
survive long after 20 1l. x d7 , 'it x d7 ;
21 !3hd 1 .
See diagram
20 b4 ! ,
Drawing attention to the defect in
Black ' s play ; the rook on c5 has no
good retreat .
20 , !3 bS;
• • .
20 . . . , !3 c3 ? ; 2 1 *b2 kills the beast .
21 a4 , g b6; 22 aS , g bS ;
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22 . . . , Et x b4 ! ? was not a bad try ;
after 23 Et x b4, d4; 24 itd l , d X e3 ; 25
it x � . Et x � ; � f x � . A x �; n
Et d l , however, White has every chance
to win the ending . Any exchange of the
black rook allows the white bishop to
c8 winning the b-pawn .
23 itf4 ! '
Removing his queen from the
diagonal of the black bishop. 23 .A.d3 ,
Et x b4; 24 Et x b4, d4 was far less
clear ; now the black rook is surround­
ed and just has to wait for White's
bishop to eat it .
23 . . • , b6; 24 -'ld3 , b x aS; 2S A x bS,
a x bS; 26 � hdl ,
With an extra exchange for a pawn ,
White should have enough to win; the
continuing weakness of the black
d-pawn remains an important feature.
26 , a x b4 ;
. . •
I f Black closes the position with 26
. . . , a4, White can quietly prepare an
advance of pawns on the other wing
culminating in g5, driving the knight
from the defence of d5 .
27 <&>b1 ! ,
27 g x b4, *a5 ; 28 cltb2 , g as gives
Black a great deal of counterplay.
17 . . . , *c8 ;
There was n o longer any point to 27
. . . , *a5, which would have been met
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by 28 Et a l .
18 .§ X b4 , ltJ e4 ; 19 Et d3 ,
Keeping guard over c3 ; 2 9 otl x d5 ? ,
A x d 5 ; 3 0 Et x d 5 , 'ltc3 + would not
have been pleasant for White .
29 . . , .ti cS ; 30 Et a3 , otl a4 + ; 31 C!'ct ,
.
Ad7;
Black 's brief flurry of activity is at
an end ; now he had time pressure with
which to contend in addition to the
material deficit .
32 itd6, Ac6; 33 Etd3, h6; 34 Et f4 ,
'lte6 ; 3S it x e6 ! , f x e6;
Black ' s prospects seem to have
improved by the queen exchange, but
Tal shows that he still has everything
under control.
36 otl g4 , eS;
Otherwise the white knight sits on e5
and dominates the game.
37 .§ fS , .ti cS ;
37 . . . , Ad7 ; 38 Et X e 5 just loses the
e-pawn. This is no better, but 37 . . . ,
e4; 38 .§d4 followed by ltl e3 also
offered Black little hope of lasting very
long .
38 Et c3 , ltd7; 39 � x eS , resigns .
Everything has collapsed.
t
Game No.l 9141 Centre Counter Def.
White: B.Spassky Black: B.Larsen
Round 1 7 Montreal 1979 Tournament
1 e4, dS; 2 e X dS, * X d5;
It worked against Karpov , why not
against Spassky too ? Perhaps the
answer to that question is that the
surprise value had gone .
3 ltl c3 , *aS ; 4 d4 , ltl f6; S otl f3 ,
Playing the classical continuation
rather than Karpov's rather artificial
.A.d2 .
s , .A.rs ? ! ;
• . •
5 . . . , .A.g4 i s the normal move . After
6 h3 , .A. x f3 ; 7 '*' x f3 , White's two
bishops give him the advantage. Most
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interesting is the continuation of the
game Zuckerman-Shamkovich, Cleve­
land USA 1 97 5 , which went 6 h3 ,
,i'th5 ! ? ; 7 g4, ltg6 ; 8 � e5 , e6 ; 9 � c4,
ita6 ; 10 h4 ! , 'ltc6; 1 1 El. h 3 , ltb4; 1 2
h5, Ae4 with a wild game which turned
out in White ' s favour .
6 Ad2,
Back to Karpov ' s recipe, maintain­
ing the possibility of embarrassing the
black queen by moving the knight ·
from c3 .
6 . . . , � bd7; 7 Ac4 , c6 ;
There was a real threat of 8 'i:l d5 .
Now Black hopes that h e will reach a
s a t i s factory C a r o - K a nn type o f
position :
8 'lte2 ! , e6;
8 . . . , A x c2? would have lost
immediately to 9 4:1 b5 followed by
'il d6 + .
9 d5 ! ,
Taking aclvantage o f the black
queen' s position tCY carry out this
thematic central . breakthroug h .
Suddenly White' s development advan­
tage becomes very threatening .
9 . . . , c x d5 ; 10 4:1 x d5 , 'ltc5 ; 1 1 b4 ! ,
'ltc8; 1 2 4:1 X f6 + , g X f6 ;
Unfortunately necessary; 1 2 . . . ,
4:1 x f6; 1 3 ltb5 + ·, � d7 ; 14 'il e5 wins
for White.
13 'U d4 , ltg6; 14 h4 , h5; 15 f4 ! ,
Relentlessly pursuing the attack. { 5
. . . , f5 would allow the sacrifice o n e6
since the g6 bishop is no longer
protected .
15 •. • , Ae7; 16 El. h3 ! ,
Froin here the rook is ready to join
in the attack , whatever Black decided
to do with his king .
16 . • • , 'ltc7; 17 0-0-0, 'ltb6; 18 Aet ,
0-0-0 ;
1 8 . . . , A x b4 was impossible in view
of the reply 19 El. b 3 . For the moment
Black seems to be over the worst, but
as Spassky's next move shows White' s
pieces coordinate beautifully t o
maintain the attac k .
1 9 � b5 ! ,
The threat o f 20 Af2 i s deadly; 1 9
. . . , a6 ? ; 20 Af2 would lose Black his
queen . .
1 9 . . , IU b8; 20 El. X d8 + '
.
20 Af2 ? would be a mistake , since
20 . . . , El. x dJ + forces recapture with
the king when Black's queen escapes to
d8 with check . Now, however, 20 . . . ,
El. X d8 ? loses at once to 2 1 Af2 .
2 0 , � x d 8 ; 21 Af2, 'ltc6; 2 2 A x a7,
.. •
'U d7; 23 a3 ! ,
Patiently solidifying the white
position in the knowledge that Blac k ' s
problems are too great to be helped
much by a single move .
23 . . . , ite4; 24 Ae3 ;
The middlegame is too attractive to
permit an exchange of queens .
24 . . . , ltf5; 25 El. g3 , 'ltc6 ; 26 'il d4 ,
'lta4 ;
A desperate fling to obtain a few
checks before all collapses .
27 /U x f5 , it x a3 + ; 28 'ifi'd1 , 'lta1 + ;
29 Act ' .Q. X b4 ;
29 . . . , e x f5 ; 3 0 .§. d3 leaves Black
helpless .
3 0 ltb5 , � b6; 31 ite4 , 'lta5 ; 32
'lt x b7, .resigns.
Capture of either white piece is met
by 33 El. d3 + mating very quickly . A
game very similar to that between the
same players at Bugojno 1 978 (BCM
June 1 978); Larsen ' s liking for taking
risks in the opening does not seem to
have paid off against this particular
opponent.
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U . S . S . R . - Moscow, June 2nd 1979 . .

Anatoly marries Irina . Our best wishes
to the King and his Queen .

U.S.A.
• - Our sincere thanks to
Sidney Bernstein for the following
news items. - The 1 3th annual Contin­
ental Open (May 26- 28) was held in
New York City and attracted 1 5 5
players (4 sections) . The surprise
winner was 1 5-year-old Joel Benj amin
who scored 5 - 1 and won $500 . . .
Sharing the remaining 3 prizes were
V . Zaltsman, S . Pavlovic, T . Costigan ,
R . Gruchacz , M . Paolozzi and A . Hoff­ .. YUGOSLAVIA ( Y ) - This year 's
man . Here are two games from the edition of the traditional USSR -
event : Yugoslavia match (4 rounds , 10
boards) resulted in a win for the
Game No . 1 9143 Nimzo-Indian Def. USSR by 25 : 1 5 .
White : Pavlovic Black : Sendur
1 d4 , .tl f6 ; 2 c4 , e6; 3 .tl c3 , ltb4 ; 4 f3 , 1 1 J 4
c5 ; 5 a3 , A X c3 + ; 6 b X c3 , 0-0 ; 7 e4 , 1 I 0 VI M . Tai - O. VelimiroviC

d6 ; 8 Jld3 , .tl c6; 9 .tl e2 , e5 ; 10 0-0 , h6; \11 '11 '11 I T . Pctrosian - B . I vkov

1 1 d5 , .tl a5 ; 1 2 Elb1 , b6; 1 3 .tl g3 , l1.a6 ; Yl 0 Vz VI Y . Ba\ashov - M . MatuloviC

V.. •;, '11

14 �e2 , "lii' d 7; 15 .tl f5 , .tl e8; 16 f4 , f6 ;
O . R omanishin - M . KnczeviC

O.Romanishin - E.BukiC:
17 El f3 , El f7; 18 El g3 , �f8 ; 19 �h5, 0 Vi '11 Vl T.Georgadze - l . Ncmet

.tl c7; 20 f x e5 , f x e5 ; 21 1t x h6 , �e8 ; 0 I I Vi: E . G u fdd - M . Bukil:

22 El x g7, Black resigns (1-0). 0 0 I I V .Kupreichik - S . MarjanoviC

'11 V. E.Avnaiparashvili - P . Nikolil:

E.Azma.iparashvili - B . Damljanovi�

Game No . 1 9144 Caro-Kann I I I 1 N . A ieksandria - O.ProkopoviC

1 1 1 1
White : Mengarini Black : J .Benjamin
E.Akhmilovskaya - M.PetroniC

1 e4 , c6; 2 d4 , d5 ; 3 e5 , ltf5 ; 4 g4 , 1l.d7

(not 4 . . . , lte4; 5 f3 , Ag6 ; 6 e6) ; 5 c3 ,
e6 ; 6 1l.e3 , c5 ; 7 .!U f3 , .tl c6; 8 -'1.d3 ,
�b6; 9 "lii' b3 , c4 ; 1 0 � x b6, a x b6; 1 1
lte2 , b5; 1 2 0-0 , b4 ; 1 3 .tl h4, b5; 1 4 f4 ,
l1.e7; 15 ltl g2 , h5; 16 h3 , h x g4 ; 1 7
h X g4 , El h3 ; 1 8 Jtd2 ( 1 8 :§ f3 , .§. X f3 ;
1 9 1t x f3 was essential - but would
entail abandonment of White' s King­
Game N o . 1 9145 English Opening
White : Tal Black : Velimirovic
Notes based on those in '64 '
1 c4 , c5; 2 b3 , .tl c6; 3 ltb2 , e5 ; 4 g3 ,
d6; 5 l1.g2 , lte6; 6 .tl c3 , i*d7 ; 7 .tl f3 ,
J1.h3 ; 8 .11. X h3 , ilt" X h3 ; 9 .tl d5 ,
White has obtained a n advantage
from the opening : on 9 . . , 0-0-0, there
.

side ' attack ' . ) , b x c3 ; 19 b x c3 , b4; 20
f5 , b x c3 ; 21 11. x c3 , El x c3; 22
.tl x c3 , .!U x d4 ; 23 ltl f4 , Et a3 ; 24
!:! act , .tl h6; 25 f x e6, f x e6; 26 1td1 ,
ltl f7; 27 .tl g6, ltg5 ; 28 .§ b1 , El X c3; 29
follows lO b4, opening up the b-file.
9 . . . , i!t'd7; 10 e3 , .tl ce7;
Why not 10 . . . , .tl ge7 ? However,
after 1 1 d4 , c x d4; 12 e x d4, e4 ; 1 3
.tl d2 , .tl x d5 ; 1 4 c x d5 .tl b4; 1 5 ,

El b8 + , J1.d8; 30 .§ X d8 + , c;fj> X d8; 3 1 .tl x e4, .tl x d5; 1 6 0-0, .lle 7 ; 1 7 i*h5 ,
.§ x f7, 1te8 ; 32 El f4 , El d3 ; 3 3 White the advantage lies with White.
resigns . (0-1 ) . l l .tl c3 ! , .tl f6; 12 0-0 , e4 ;
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White was threatening 1 3 d4 .
13 ti:l gS , dS;
On the immediate 13 . . . , itf5 , White
could have replied 14 ti:'l b5 ! , fl d8 (or
14 . . . , "lt x g5 ; 1 5 ti:l x d6 + , !itd7; 1 6
ti:'l x f7) ; 1 5 ti:l c7 + , �d7 ; 1 6 ti:l x f7 ,
� x c7 ; 1 7 ti:l x h8 . The opening up of
the f-file is to White ' s advantage .
14 c x dS , 'itfS ;
Now 1 5 ti:'l b5 would be met by 1 5 . . . ,
ti:l e x d5 .
MORE ABOUT THE c3 SICILIAN
by W .R.Hartston
We left this line in the April BCM
having discussed some possibilities
arising from I e4, c5 ; 2 c3 , ti:l f6; 3 e5 ,
ti:l d5 ; 4 d4, c x d4; 5 tl f3 , tl c6; 6
c x d4 , d6; 7 11.c4!? This month we
turn to a related variation where Black
plays an early . . . , e6. A characteristic
move order is 1 e4, c5 ; 2 tl f3 , e6; 3 c3 ,
tl f6; 4 e5, tl d5; 5 d4 , c x d4 ; 6 c x d4 ,
d 6 (or 1 e4, c 5 ; 2 c3 , tl f6 ; 3 e5 , tl d5 ; 4
d4, c x d4; 5 c x d4, e6; 6 tl f3 , d6) and
now 7 a3 ! ?
See diagram
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1 5 ti:) X f7 ! , 'iff X f7; 1 6 fJ , ti:l e X d5;
I f 16 . . . , e x f3 , then 17 e4 !
1 7 f x e4 , ti:l x cJ ; 1 8 A x cJ , it x e4 ; 1 9
'1th5 + , �e6 ;
The retreat to g8 would have
allowed mate by 20 A x f6, g x f6; 2 1
la x f6 , "lte7 ; 22 itd5 + , �g7 ; 2 3 "ltg5
mate .
20 '1th3 + ' �d6;
I f 20 . . . , �f7. then 2 1 l::l f5 .
21 b4 ! ,
The position i s not as simple as it
appears : after 2 1 A X f6, g X f6; 22
l::l x f6 + , �c7 ; 23 � f7 + , Ae7 , the
attack fizzles out.
21 • • •, �c7; 22 .!a ct , fl c8; 23 fl f5 ! ,
"ltg4 ; 24 Ae5 + , �d7; 25 '1tf1 , ite4?
Necessary was 25 . . . , c4.
26 fl c4 , itc6; 27 "lth3 , ite6; 28 A x f6,
g x f6 ; 29 fl e4 ! , 'it x a2 ; 30 !:! x c5
dis. + , Resigns (1-0).
Owing to summer holidays, issues N°8
and N° 9 are typeset earlier than usual.
Readers will find many news items on
the inside back cover of the magazine.
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This strange looking pawn move has

proved very annoying and a significant
addition to White' s resources in the c3
variation . The idea is simply to
develop the bishop to d3 without fear
of being molested by . . , � b4, but the
.
A: Attempting to disrupt with
move also retains possibilities of later 7 . . , oi:l c6; 8 Ad3 , 'ttas + ;
.

Q-side expansion with b4. One of the

earliest games in this line was Vasiukov
-Diaz, Cienfuegos 1 975 , where we saw
an ideal demonstration of White' s
strategy: 7 . . . , d x e5 ; 8 d x e5 , Ae7; 9
Ad3 , � c6; 10 0-0, 'tt c 7; 1 1 Elel , Ad7;
12 � bd2 , h6 (too passive, Black
should take the chance to play 12 . . . ,
� f4 just to disrupt White' s smooth
play) 13 b4 ! 0-0 ; 14 Ab2 , El fd8; 15
Elcl , a6; 16 Abl , � f4 (too late) 17
'ltc2 , � g6 ; 18 h4! El ac8 ; 19 'tt e4 , Ae8 ;
20 h5, � f8 ; 21 � c4 , b5; 22 � eJ , aS ;
23 � g4 ! Eld5; 24 � f6 + , A x f6 (24
. . . , g x f6; 25 e x f6 with 'ttg4 + to
follow is equally hopeless for Black) 25
e x f6, g6 ; 26 4) e5 , g5 ; 27 � g4 , l:! cd8;
28 � X h6 + , lith8; 29 b X aS , 'tt a 7; 30 This was played in the game Veliini­
Ac3 , El 8d7; j1 � g4 , l::t 7d6; 32 Ab4 , rovic-Sax, Amsterdam 1 976.
� x b4; 33 a x b4 , 1-0. 9 Ad2 ! 'tt b 6;
Now we see Black 's idea; he attacks
d4 and b2, but White can continue
calmly .
An impressive display of utilisation
of central space for launching a 10 � cJ ! oi:l x cJ ;
decisive attack. Black's principal error 10 . . , oi:l x d4; 1 1 4) x d5 , e x d5; 1 2
.

here was , of course , just general
passivity, but we should single out the
move 7 . . . , d x e5 as already a probable
mistake . Black ought not to release the
central tension in this manner; it
makes life too easy for his opponent .
We should mention that the continua­
tion 7 . . , d x e5; 8 d x e5 , oi:l c6; 9 .A.d3 ,
. another advertisement for this
'tt c7 trying to win the e-pawn, is too
dangerous on account of 10 0-0!
oi:l X e5 ; 1 1 4) X e5 , 'tt X e5; 12 .A.b5 + ,
J.d7 ; 1 3 .A. x d7 + , lit x d7; 14 l::t e1 ,
'ttd 6; 1 5 'tt f3 , with a very powerful
attack which it is doubtful Black can
survive. How then does Black gain
active play against this terrible 7 a3?
We shall look at four distinct plans .
4) X d4, 'tt x d4; 1 3 .Q.c3 followed b y 1 4
0-0 leaves Black desperately behind in
development .
11 J. x cJ , d x e5; 12 d x e5,
And White had a clear advantage;
Black's early queen sortie had not been
j u s t i fied . The continuation was
variation : 1 2 . . . , .A.d7 ; 1 3 0-0, h6; 1 4
'tte 2, 4) e7 ; 1 5 .A.d4, 'ttd 8; 1 6 b4, 4) d5 ;
1 7 1le4, 11a4; 1 8 l::t fc 1 , .A.e7 ; 1 9 .A.c5 !
J. x c5 ; 20 1:! x c5 , b6; 21 11 x d5 !
b x c5 ; 22 11 x a8, 'tt x a8 ; 23 'tt c4,
'ttd5 ; 24 l::t c 1 , 'tt x c4; 25 1:! x c4, 0-0;
26 b x c5 , .A.b5 ; 27 l::t b4, 11c6; 28 4) d4,
l::t d 8; 29 f3 and White had little
difficulty winning the endgame.
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B: Quiet development with
7 . . . , Ae7; 8 Ad3 , o-o;
Our model here is the game Tringov­
Taimanov , Vrnj acka Banj a 1 977.
9 0-0, <tl d7;
As we have seen , the knight has little
future on c6 despite its apparent
activity . The idea of . . . , <tl d7 is to
exchange pawns on e5 then continue
with . . , 4::1 c5 to molest the bishop on
. e x f6 , 4::1 x f6; 1 3 *h4 o r perhaps 10
d3 .
10 f! e 1 , d x eS ; 1 1 d x eS , <tl cS; 1 2
Ac2 , aS ;
Black intends to develop a bind on
the Q-side, but as Tringov shows
White has real attacking possibilities
on the other wing . After 13 "*d4 ! Ad7;
14 <tl bd2, Ac6 ; 1 S *g4 ! f! c8; 1 6 <tl e4 ,
4::1 x e4 ; 1 7 A x e4 , �h8 ; 1 8 *h3 , g6 ;
19 Ah6, f! e8; 20 f! ad 1 White had a
clear advantage. Again we see how
reluctant Black should be to exchange
on e5; in this case it enabled the white
queen to utilise the d4 square in transit
towards the K-side .
C: The K-side fianchetto:
7 , <tl c6; 8 Jl.d3 , g6 ! ?
. . .
429
This i s a nice idea, but I do not quite
believe in it . The game Rath-Filipowicz
Esbj erg 1 977, continued 9 0-0 , Ag7; 10
JigS? '111 c 7; 1 1 4::1 bd2, d X eS (for once
this is correct) 12 d x eS , 0-0; 13 .§cl ,
*b8 ! and White was unable to solve
the problem of satisfactorily protect­
ing his e-pawn ; 14 <tl c4, b5; 1 5 <tl d6 is
met by 15 . , 4::1 x e5 ! . Instead of the
. .
suspect 10 Ag5 , White should play
either 10 '111e2 , 0-0; 1 1 '111e4 , fS ! ? 1 2
f!e1 , 0-0; 11 b4 . Black's bishop on g7
can certainly make his king position
more secure, but it can also bring other
problems by having given up protec­
tion of the d6 square.
D : Bringing the bishop to c6 :
7 . . . , Jle7; 8 .!ld3 , Jld7; 9 0-0, Ac6;
This idea has been championed by
the East German Grandmaster Malich .
The intention is to play . . . , oi::l d7 with
the possibility of a later . . . , d x e5 and
.tl c5 . Also possible is the immediate 7
. . . , Jld7; 8 Jl.d3 , Ac6; 9 0-0,. oi::l d7 but
this has been less explored ( 1 0 b4 ! ? is
one interesting possibility) . We follow
the game Mljhring-Malich, DDR 1 977 :
10 .tl c3 ,
430 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE
Or 10 'lte2, 4:) d7 ; 1 1 �d2, 0-0; 1 2
'il c3 , d x e5 ! (Now Black i s ready; he
has immediate counterplay to justify
this capture) 1 3 d X e5 , 4:) c5 ; 14 �c2 ,
4:) x c3 ; 1 5 � x c3 , 4:) a4 ! with equal
chances ; Groszpeter-Malich, Budapest
1978.
10 ... , 'il d7;
1 0 . . . , 'il x c3 ; 1 1 b x c3 , 4:) d7 ; 12
e x d6 ! A x d6; 13 c4 ! gave White a
promising attacking position in the
game Pribyl-Malich, Decin 1 976.
11 e x d6,
1 1 4:) e4, d x e5 ; 1 2 d x e5 , 4:) c5 gives
Black nothing to fear .
11 , A x d6; 12 4:) e4 , 4:) 7f6 !
• • •
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ProbleJD World
by C.J .Feather, 1 0 Tinwell Road ,
STAMFORD, Lincs . PE9 2QQ
Miscellany
Readers are reminded that I am
always willing to consider short articles
for publication here. Articles on
direct-mate themes would be parti­
cularly welcome at present.
The Hungarian Chess Association
announces formal tourneys (closing
date 3 1 1 1 0179) as follows : Mate in 2
(judge Bakcsi), send to G.Koder, 1 067
BUDAPEST, Hunyadi ter 10; Help­
mate in 4 or more (judge Kele) , send to
J . SzOghy, 1 024 BUDAPEST, Romer
Floris u 46 .
Corrections etc. F. Salazar corrects
his 1 1 479 (Nov. '78) as follows : 4S3 1
6P 1 1 3p4 1 Rp2kp2 1 2p 1 p3 1 2p 1 P 1 p 1 1
1p5QIB3K3 : serieshelpstalemate in 1 8 ,
2 c 1 S 4 Sf4 6 g 1 S 8 Sd4 9 b 1 S 1 1 Sd5 1 5
b 1 S 1 6 Sc3 1 8 Sf8 g x f8S . This
corrected version competes in the 1 979
The game continued 1 3 4:) x d6 + ,
'it x d6; 1 4 4:) e5 , 0-0; 1 5 1te3 , .l::l ac8
and Black held the bishop pair at bay
without much difficulty.
Currently this last variation looks
the soundest for Black , but I still have
one doubt . What about 10 b4 ! ? in the
position of diagram 4? This prevents
10 . . . , 4:) d7 ( 1 1 b5 ! ) and takes away the
c5 square from Black. Perhaps this is
the best chance for White to keep the
initiative. In any case I fear that
Sicilian players will have to be putting
up with far more 2 c3 variations in the
next few years, but at least some of the
questions posed here might at last be
answered .
tourney . Y. Cheylan sends the follow­
ing anticipation of 1 0986 ( 1 976) by
Bartolovic, and suggests the problem
should be headed 'after Mari ' . B2K3SI
4p2p I Ss 1 k 2qQ I 1 P 1 b4 I 1 P 1 b4 I
2p 1 Rp2 I 8 I 3 R4, A .Mari , Good
Companions 1 922, mate in 2, 1 Sc7 !
Leading Ladder Scores to March, as
at 1 016/79 (this is being prepared
earlier than usual ! ) are : R. Brain Ill 26
(congratulations on being the first to
make a 3rd ascent ! ) , D.A. Smedley 11
464 , G. Yacoubian 11 462, M . Mc­
Dowell 459, W . H . Duce 11 430, R.Eliot
3 8 5 , G .Whitehead 1 1 3 5 8 , B . D .
Stephenson I 3 44 , no others over 300.
New solvers may join the ladder at any
time, and overseas readers may be
encouraged by the extended time-limit
(now 6 months: this month' s solutions
must arrive before next March). I am
too busy to acknowledge receipt of
solutions , unfortunately, but they are
none the less welcome for that !
 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINI; 43 1

Remaining March solutions mates . Interesting march of the k ings '

(FJ), 'curious symmetrical Black play '

1 1 540 (Kele) (a) Bh 1 Bg4 Qg2 B X a7
(GO) , 'move order nicely achieved '
(b) Ra 1 Bf4 Qa2 B x b7 . ' Echoed
(JED), 'pleasing lightweight ' ( W HO) .
line-effects by Black at maximum
I find this very witty and look forward
distance in a pleasing problem ' (JED) ,
to more originals from this composer .
I like the clearances (solely to get the
546 (Rotenberg) 1 Rf5 ? (a x b4 ! )
'

BQ out of the way) , I also like the

caught some ! Key I f4 ! with 'a fairy
change of functions of the WBs '
Wurzburg-Plachutta' (RB) : 1 . 6Nf5 /
. .
(CGR), 'a spectacular achievement '
4N f5 17Nf5/3Nf5 2 Se7 /Se3 /Qd4/Qd6
(PC ) . 541 (Gedda) (a) e x d5 Rh4 Ke5
'This brilliant problem speaks for
Re6 & S x d5 Rh3 S f4 Re3 (b) B x d5
itself' (VA C) . One solver complained
Se6 Bc4 Rd4 (c) Q x d5 Re6 Be5 Rh4 .
about too many Nightriders but the
'Fourfold capture on d5 leads to nicely
theme does need four ! 'Although very
grouped mates ' (WHO), ' not easy,
symmetrical the play is attractive'
even after guessing quadruple capture
(WHO). 547 (Glass) 1 b8S 2 Kb7 5 a8Q
on d5 ' (ON) , 'the Rs mate from all
6 Qa7 7 d x c8Q (Ra8) 8 Q f5 9 Kc8
points of the compass ' (RB) . 542
R x b8 (Sg l ) . 'A delightful piece of
(Witztum) 4Rf4 K x g2 Bd5 Re2 , 3Rf4
fantasy and trickery . I enjoyed
Kh3 K x f5 Rc5 , Qd2 Kg l Kd3 Rc3 ,
showing it to my fri e n ds' (JAG), ' neat
Se5 d7 Bd5 Rc4 . ' Black move order
i ncarceration of BR' (DAS) , 'a real
dictated by White tempo' (GY), 'with
Circe problem ' (WHK), 'a pretty Circe
White searching for moves ' (BPB), but
finish that took some fi nd ing ' (GW),
'the same Black second move in two of
' Circe condition used to the fullest ,
the solutions is a drawbac k ' (NAM)
with a lovely quiet finish ' (GO) .
and it's 'too bad the fourth tempo
G e n e r a l c o m m e n t s t h i s month :
move isn't by the WK' (GO) . 543
' Outstanding selection of helpmates '
(Lindner) Qc6 Bb2 Be5 Rfl & Qe6 Rfl
(NAM) , 'very enj oyable batch of
Bf4 Bb2. ' Nice pinning and line
helpmates ' (FHvM), 'an enjoyable �nd
blocking' (V A C), ' splendidly intricate'
surprisingly difficult set ' (PC) . A fmal
(PC), 'two double pinmates ' (J � G) , 'a
word of thanks to those who , like
combination of formed halfpm and
FHvM, MP and others send some
pinmate effects. AB : BA pattern of
comments even though they do not
White moves ' (FJ) , 'very good
have time to send solutions.
construction' (AH) . 544 (Korostenski)
Black: Bc6 Rh5 Kd6 Sg5 Kc5 Se4,
White : Ra5 Be8 Kb3 Sd7 Ka4 Sc5 . Original problems 11615-26
Everyone who solved this enj oyed it .
' Both v ari ati ons show the setting up of A reminder that the j udges are
batteries and are similar to the Indian Messrs Savournin (Mates in 2),
theme' (JAG) , 'a marvellous exposi­ Macleod (longer directmates), Zucker
tion of the theme, and very difficult ' (selfmates) , Barnes (helpmates) and
(DAS). 'Two brilliant lines both H . P . Rehm (others). All the tourneys
showing an anticritically prepared close at the end of the year and we
battery. Either would justify a setting hope to give the awards during 1 980.
on its own , together they make a Nothing terribly difficult this month ,
stunning problem' (NAM). ' Delight­ but it is a pleasure to see three of our
ful' (FHvM). 545 (Csaszar) (a) Kc7 e3 regular solvers setting other people
Kd6 Kg6 Ke5 Kf7 Qd6 f4 (b) Kb6 Ke3 unorthodox problems ! Please send
Kc5 Kd2 Kd4 f4 Qc5 e3 . 'Two ideal comments before Christmas !
432 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE

1 1615 H . Kruk ( P U 1 1616 J. L.Millins

mate in 2 (tries) mate in 2

1 1 621 M . Persson (S) 1 1 623 Dr. L.Lindner (H)

11624 C.G.Rains 1 1 626 J.A.Galr

serieshelpmate in 10 set mate serieshelpmate in 8 (see Feb. )

(see Feb. )
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