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World Championship Match
Contrary to expectation, Karpov did not
take a break after his discouraging loss in
the 8th game on November 3rd, and the
9th game began on November 4th.
9 D Karpov
• Kasparov Grtinfeld
1 d4 ./fJf6 2 c4 g6 3 ./fJc3 dS 4 cXdS ./fJxdS
5 e4 4Jxc3 6 bXc3 /J,.g7 7 ilc4 cS 8 ./fJe2
./fJc6 9 lle3 0-0 10 0-0 �4 11 f3 ./fJaS
12 Jlxn+ .§.xn 13 fXg4 .§.xn + 14
�0 cXd4 (An exchange Black had
avoided in all previous games of the
match where this position had occurred)
15 cXd4 �6 TN? ( 15 ... �d7 is
standard play, preparing to go to e6, but
the text retains that option as well as the
chance ofan entry atb2) 16�1 �e617
�d3 �g4 18 .§.n .§.c8 19 h3 �d7 20
dS ./fJc4 21 .l}.d4 eS
To gain some grip on the centre at the
expense of making his bishop less
mobile. 2 1 . .. ./fJe5 22 J;txe5 l;txe5 23
./fJd4 probably forces a further exchange
on d4 when White has a slight enduring
advantage. 22 Jixa7? b6 23 .§. cl �a7
24 .§.xc4 .§.xc4 25 �c4 b5+ is a
simple trap.
22 dXe6 (22 .(;tal looks thematic, but
22 . .. . ./fJd6 threatening . . .�a4 is a good
answer) 22 . . . �e6 23 Jlxg7 �g7
24 ./fJf4 �d6 25 �c3+ �6 (Proof that
his position is uncomfortable after the
exchange of bishops: 25 .. . �g8 26
./fJd5, or 25 . . . �e5? 26 ./fJe6+ �g8 27
�c4!) 26 ./fJdS �eS 27 �d3 (27
�4!) 27 . . . �7 28 4Jr6 �d6 29 �c3
�eS 30 �d3 �d6 31 �c3 �eS 32
�3 .§. c7 33 �d3 .§.n 34 �c4 .§.xr6
35 .§.d1 bS (Risky; 35 .. . .§.t7 is better to
stop the rook check, since in what follows
the slight exposure of the black king is
more important that Black's Q-side
majority or the isolation of the e-pawn)
36 .§. d7+ \tth 6 37 �e2 �cS+ 38 �h2
�eS+ 39 g3 �c3 40 �2 �c4 41
�e3+ gS 42 .§.d2 �0+ 43 ®h2
The adjourned position. Black's
temporary initiative cannot change the
assessment that he still has to struggle for
a draw.
43 . . . � 44 �d4 .§,e6 45 eS �fS
(45 ... a6 consolidates, but Black prefers
a more aggressive line) 46 .§. e2 aS 47
�dS b4 48 �aS �d3 49 .§. g2 �d4 50
�aS �eS 51 �f8+ �g6 52 �b4 hS
53 h4 gXh4 54 �h4 .§.d6 55 �c4 .§. d4
56 �c6+ �7 57 �c7+ �h6 58 �c6+
�7 59 .§.c2 .§.h4+ 60 �2 �e4+ 61
�e4 .§,Xe4 (Very drawish now due to
diminution of material and the fact that
the defender's rook will get behind the
passed pawn) 62 .§.c7+ �6 63 .§.a7
.§. e3 64 �h3 .§. c3 65 .§.aS .§,c4 66 a4
�5 67 aS .§.a4 68 a6 �h6 69 �2
.§,a3 70 � �7 1/z-1/z.
Rather prolonged, as it had been a
book draw for some moves. Black keeps
his king at g7 or h7 so as not to fall for the
old trap of having his king on e7 or t7
when the pawn is at a7, when .§.h8,
 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE
.§. xa7; .§.h7+ wins.
The lOth game provided the first
variety when Kasparov tried 1 e4, but he
had nothing new or forceful to
demonstrate against the Caro-Kann.
10 D Kasparov
• Karpov Caro-Kann
1 e4 c6 2 d4 d5 3 .£)d2 dXe4 4 .£)xe4
.£)d7 5 .£)f3 .£)gf6 6 �Xf6+ �Xf6 7 c3
Jlg4 8 h3 Jtxo 9 �f3 e6 10 Ac4
lte7 11 0-0 .£)d5 12 �e3 (Passive
placing of the bishop seems a confession
that White has little against Black's solid
formation) 12 ... �6 13 Y/1e2 0-0 14
.§.ad1 ltd6 15 itb3 .£)xe3 16 txe3 cS
17 .§.f3 .§.ae8 18 .§.f3 ( 1 7 ®h 1 followed
by an advance of the centre pawns in the
hope of opening the diagonal b3/f7 was a
plan suggested in the p ress centre) 18 . ..
.§.ae8 19 Y/Jf2 Y/1c7 (White offered a
draw afier Black's move, to which the
move") 20 Y/Jh4 lfz-1/z.
standard reply followed: "Make your
Thus the score was 5-5 after ten games.
The next game was marked by a
strange blunder from Karpov.
11 D Karpov
• Kasparov Griinfeld
(The first 13 moves as in the ninth game)
14 \t'xfl Y/1d6 15 �1 (Conceding at
last what many Griinfeld players would
feel in their bones: that 15 e5 as in games
5 and 7 gives Black too much control of
the central white squares) 15 .. . Y/1e6 16
Y/1d3 Y/1c4 (A thematic Griinfeld move,
as 16 .. . Y/Jxg4 17 .§, bl gives White
good play in view of the threat 18 .§, b5 in
conjunction with dXc5) 17 �c4+
.£)xc4 18 Arz cXd4 19 cXd4 eS 20 dS
ith6 21 h4 jtd2 22 .§. dl ltas (22 . .. b5
at once was the general expectation) 23
.§.cl bS (23 . . . .£)d6 23 .£'Jg3 Ab6 was a
22nd move, when 24 .Q,xh6 aXb6 25
press room suggestion to j ustifY Black's
.§. c7 .§. a4 looks an easy way to equality)
24 .§.c2 .£)d6 25 �g3 .£)c4 26 .£)n
.£)d6 27 .£)g3 .£)c4 28 gS '3;;r7 (Is this
3
meant to be p rovocative? Black took 38
minutes over it, whereas 28 . . . a6 or .§. c8
looks a 'normal' move) 29 �fl .£)d6 30
.£)g3 .£)c4 31 ®f1 ®e7 (This too looks
strange, but if you believe that Kasparov
is trying to play like Lasker, all becomes
clear . . . ) 32 itcS+ '3;;rl 33 .§.1'2+ �7
.. . . {�
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White could consider 34 h5, or ®e2.
Instead he goes for a more ambitious
idea which is the p relude to a gruesome
blunder, though, according to Gufeld,
many people in the press room were
suggesting the next two rook moves as a
logical continuation.
34 .§.£6 ltb6 35 .§.c6? (Kasparov
could not believe his eyes and did not
play his answer quickly, though his whole
demeanour showed he had seen that a
backward knight move, always difficult to
spot, would win him the exchange) 35 . . .
.£)aS 36 jtxb6 .£)xc6 37 itc7 .§.1'8+ (37
.. . .§. c8 was a simpler way of playing it)
38 ®e2 (38 .£)f5+ gXf5 39 dXc6 fXe4 40
®e2 .§. e8 and .. . .§. e6 to mop up easily)
38 . . . .§.n 39 ltd6 .§.d7 40 JtcS .£)as
41 .£)n (Adjourned. Black sealed the
most aggressive move and rattled off the
rest of his moves to demonstrate that it
had all been analysed out at home) 41 . . •
.§.c7 42 itd6 .§.c2+ 43 ®d3 .§.xa2 44
.£)e3 '3;;r7 45 .£'Jg4 .£)c4 46 .£)xe5+
.£)xes 47 Axes b4 48 J}J6 b3 49 eS (49
® c3 .§. e2-as in the game Black needs
to get his rook on the long side of his
passed pawn, a common feature of rook
endings) 49 . . . .§.xg2! 50 e6 ®1'8 0-1
A little excitement for the public : 51 d6
4 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE

b2 threatening to queen with check, (Black loses material after 16 . l;txd5 . .

when 52 i;txb2 ,§xb2 means the king l7 A,b4 ,B:d8 18 Jlc4) 17 i;tb4 .B:rc818
stops the two connected passed pawns. liJ.,e7 ( 1 8 4jd4 comes into consideration)
A real blow for Karpov, losing the lead. 18 ... .llr6 ( 18 ... .llfl! is more passive,
Kasparov's first win with Black against since Black does well to retain the option
Karpov since 9 November 1985 when he of Bf6Xd4 when the knight moves to the
took the 24th game of the second match. centre) 19 d6 �7 20 .B:e1
• � • :&rift 7'&;
In the next game Karpov decided to
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10':.?
f*:(.t_� t �t
defend against the English by going for a
• ... � a
•t. 8J
transposition to the steady Queen's iM•ilW
Gambit Declined. It was yet another -
- u
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tame game, typical of this period when • • • a
Kasparov was White all the te nsion ..
•
-

came when he was Black.

12 0 Kasparov ft
• Karpov QGD •
1 c4 e6 (Karpov was a couple of minutes
late and White delayed making his first White took about 40 minutes on this
move till the opponent came to the move. The assessment of the position
bored, White's clock running, of course) revolves around whether the pawn at d6
2 4Jc3 d5 3 d4 A,e7 4 cXdS eXd5 5 .llr4 is strong or weak, and whether the bishop
4Jr6 6 e3 JUs (Unusual before .. .c6, so at e7, somewhat limited in scope might ,

White could consider the ambitious become a 'dead' piece. Black needs to
7 �3) 7 4Jge2 0-0 8 ,B:c1 c6 9 4jg3 maint ain the blockading knight at d7, and
Jie6 10 i;td3 Be8 1 1 �3 �6 12 so would meet 20 .ll bS by 20 . .. Ac6.
"?/Jc2 4jbd7 13 0-0 g6 14 h3 i;tf8 15 That seems an argument for 20 4jd4.
4Jge2 .B:ac8 16 "?/Jd2 4jb5 17 Jlh2 20 ,B:c5 21 .llbS l;tc6 22 Axc6
• . .

4Jg7 18 g4 "?/Jd8 19 f3 (White criticised .B:xc6 23 .8: bd1 (Nice centralisation, but
this move after the game, but he seems Gufeld p refers 23 g4 at once) 23... i;tc3
already to hav e 'lost the thread', 24 Be3 f6 25 g4 g5 26 h4 h6 27 hXg5
uncertain whether to play on the Q-side hXgS 28 4Jd4 (The press room favoured
or in the centre) 19 ... 4Jb6 20 b3ll,a3 28 ,B:d5 followed by 29 4jxg5, when
21 Bc2 %-lfz. White has a certain draw by perpetual
Black had only 40 minutes left to the check and maybe more) 28... .Q.xd4! 29
time control. §.Xd4 ,§b8 30 Bel (White's intention
13 OKarpov is f4, to force open the lines on the K-side,
• Kasparov Grunfe ld but he has to anticipate the rook check on
1 d4 4Jr6 2 c4 g6 3 4Jc3 d5 4 4jo �7 the back rank) 30 ... Bc2
5 cXdS 4Jxd5 6 e4 4jxc3 7 bxc3 c5
8 Bbl (This in conjunction with the 4th
move forms a popular modern idea,
hoping that White's central pawn
majority is worth something even if he
has to concede the exchange of queens)
8 ... 0-0 9 Ae2 cXd4 10 cXd4 "?/JaS+ 1 1
"?/Jd2 �d2+ 1 2 Axd2 e 6 13 0-0 b 6 14
,§fd1 �b7 15 dS eXdS 1 6 eXdS 4jd7
 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE
Black has seized the initiative, largely
because White cannot shift the
blockader. However a draw still seems
likely after the almost inevitable f4 since
Black can then double rooks on the
seventh rank, or play ... .§.ch2 and then
check from the side.
31 a4 aS (3I ... �e5 32 .§.xe5! txe5 33
.§, di wins back material: 33 ... .§cc8 34
d7 .§.cd8 35 Axg5 with advantage to
White) 32 f4 �6 33 D<gS <i!(xgS 34 .§. fl
�6 3S .§.a .§.hcS 36 .§.df4 .§.xa
%-%.
In the next game the Caro-Kann once
again proved impregnable and Kasparov
once again called off the fight in the early
middle game before there had been any
'action'. Bad news for adherents of I e4.
Karpov won't play it because he achieves
little against the Sicilian; Kasparov
cannot break down I ... c6. Perhaps his
team was set to work on it again, since
after the tame draw Kasparov took a
break.
14 D
Kasparov
•
Karpov Caro-Kann
1 e4 c6 2 d4 dS 3 �d2 dXe4 4 �Xe4
�bd7 S �f3 �gf6 6 �Xf6+ �f6 7 c3
�4 s h3 ltxf3 9 �f3 �dS! 10 J:l,e2
e6 1 1 0-0 ltd6 12 �d3 ltc7 13 i;tf3
�d7 14 .§.d1 0-0 1S c4 .§.adS 16 �3
�e7 17 g3 �bS 1S Ae3 .§.d7 19 .§,d2
.§. fdS 20 .§.ad1 h6 lfz-'lz.
The next game followed on 20
November.
15 D
Karpov
•
Kasparov Grtinfeld
1 d4 �f6 2 c4 g6 3 �c3 dS 4 �f3 itg7
S �3 dXc4 6 �c4 0-0 (Back to the
established patterns of the earlier post­
war decades ) 7 e4 �a6 (... but not
7 . �4 as played by Smyslov, Fischer
. . .
. .
and other adherents of the defence)
S Ae2 cS 9 dS e6 10 0-0 eXdS 1 1 eXdS
�S 12 .§, d 1 (Careful timing, after I2
ltf4 as in the 19th game of the previous
match Black will get good counter play by
5
a timely . . . �6, boldly preparing to
take on b2) 12 . . . .§.eS (32 minutes on
Kasparov's clock over this) 13 d6 h6
Black took 25 minutes over this,
preventing �g5 or �5. The position
promises a tense struggle. White's pawn
on d6 is a strength, but may become
weaker after many exchanges. Black's
chances lie in tactical threats against the
slightly exposed queen.
14 h3 �b4 (Hoping for I5 �c5? �c2
16 .§. b I �d7 I7 �5l;txc3 IS bXc3 a6
and the queen will be driven away from
the defence of the l;te2) 1S ltf4 �d7 16
.§d2 a6 17 �3 bS 1S �d 1 c4 19 a4
�cS (Each side had an hour left on the
clock. Black decides to abandon his Q­
side pawn chain in an attempt to win
material) 2 0 aXbS �bd3 2 1 i;txd3
�Xd3 22 .§.xd3 (22 �3 �Xb2! with
good chances for Black) 22 . . . cXd3
(Retaking with the bishop is possible but
Black tempts his opponent into 23 g4
ltd7 24 bXa6 �6 with good counter
play) 23 �dS aXbS 24 �e7+ c;!th7 2S
.§.xas �as 26 �xrs gXfS 27 �d3
�e4 (White's liquidation of pawns has
ensured him against loss while keeping a
chance of using his passed pawn) 2S
�bS .§.aS 29 J'id2! .§.dS (29 ...
�I+ 30 ®h2 .§.ai 3I d7 and Black's
'attack' has no future) 30 �cS �e6 31
ltr4 J;l,xb2 32 �M .�.f6 33 �fS+
(Again preferring security to the risky 33
�x5) 33 . . . �rs 34 �rs hS 3s g4
hXg4 36 hXg4 �6 37 �2 Jlb2 38
�e7+ �6 39 �Xc6 .§, d7 40 �b8
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The adjourned position in which
Karpov sealed 43 !J.c7, but offered a
draw through the arbiter via an aide,
Pischenko, at about noon next day. Play
was due to resume at 3.30pm and
Kasparov was not contactable (sleep­
ing?). Some misunderstanding arose and
Karpov tried to take back his offer of the
draw! The Dutchjudge ruled that an offer
cannot be withdrawn, even if made
through an intermediary, a reasonable
decision, but the considerable delay
involved caused friction and something
of a 'slanging match' at the separate press
conferences.
It should be noted that the termsof the
match involved the requirement for PR
that both players should answer
questions from the press after a draw and
the winner alone in the case of a decisive
game. Kasparov preferred to do this
immediately after the game; Karpov nor­
mally did it the day after the game ended!
The position is objectively a draw: 43
... ,§Xd7 44 �Xd7 �d7 since bishop
and two united pawns cannot win when
the defender has a pawn on a file of the
enemy pawns.It is possible to construct a
losing position for Black (Wh. !J.e7 ®t;,
pawns f6/g5; Bl. !J.c 1, �e8, pawn f7-
White plays g6) but the correct defensive
formation is� .ftf6 and Black plays
•
waiting moves with the bishop.
16 D Kasparov
• Karpov English
1 c4 e5 2 �c3 <iJr6 3 <iJtJ <iJc6 4 g3
J;tb4 5 ,iL2 0-0 6 0-0 .§eS (Deviating
from6 ... e4 of earlier games) 7 d3 .Q.xc3
8 bXc3 e4 9 <iJd4 h6 10 dXe4 (TN? As
usual, Kasparov does not mind pawn
weaknesses if he can obtain free play for
the pieces. 10 c5 eXd3 11 �d3 <iJeS is
the main line given in ECO, quoting a
1972 British Championship game Stean­
Hartston) 1 0 . . . �e4 1 1 �c2 d5 12
cXdS (White took 42 minutes over this.
Tal preferred 12 <iJbS l;t5 13 cXd5
<iJxg3 14 e4 with good play, while
fantasy variations were suggested such as
14 ... �Xfl 15 dXc6 bXc6 16 �d4
J;txe4 17 .Q.xe4 �4 1 8 Jlg2 ,§el, or
1 8 f3 <iJxh2 ! 19 �h2 �e1+ 20 �
�c3) 12 . . . �d5 13 e3 <iJa5 14 13
�d6 (The position bears some similarity
to the 4th game in London last year, but
then White had free piece play, whereas
here his only plan is to advance his pawn
majority seeking to free lines for the
bishops) 15 e4 �c5 16 Jle3 �dc4 17
J;trz �e7 18 .§ad1 (Was 18 .§ae 1
backing up the pawn advance a better
chance? What is the rook going to do on
the d-file? Wisdom after the event cer­
tainly shows up when you examine
Black's 20th and 26th moves) 18 Jtd7
19 f4 .§adS 20 e5 .Q.g4 21 �rs �e6 22
. • .
.§Xd8 ,§Xd8 23 <iJd4 �c8 24 f5 (Very
risky. 24 Jte4 was a sound continuation
to continue <iJB when Black plays his
logical counter ... c5, a move that some
in the press room thought should have
replaced 18 ... .§ad8) 24 . . . c5! (Not 24
..../£:)Xe5 25 h3 c5 26 hXg4 cXd4 27 �e4
with better attacking chances than in the
game) 25 �e4 cXd4 26 �g4 �Xe5 (26
. . . dXc3 or even 26 ... d3 were riskier'
lines, though it is not clear that White's
attack breaks through after 27 e6
intending 28 f6) 27 �e2
A crucial decision. 27 �e4 ./£:)ec4 28
Jlxd4 looks good after 28 ... �d2 29
�e5 ffi? 30 �aS, but White may have
feared the liquidation 29 ... ,§xd4 with a
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drawish position. Perhaps Kasparov
thought he must keep up the tension at
all costs, but from now on the onus is on
Whit e to find a draw.
a
d
... ·'
ftll ···�o ��
tJ � �®
27 . . . �ec6 28 cXd4 �Xd4 29 .Q..xd4
(29 �e4 'itfxf5 30 'itfxfS �XfS 3 1
l;txa7 with the double threat of 32
�XfS/i;tb6 should hold the draw) 29 ...
�Xd4 30 f6 �e6 3 1 �2 (A fi nal
attempt to complicate. Objectively 3 1
'ltfxe6 txe6 3 2 .§.e 1 gave drawing
chances: 32 .. . �d6 33 �Xe6 �Xe6 34
l;td5, but would Kasparov voluntarily go
into a te chni cal ending a pawn down?) 31
. . . �e5+ 32 �1 b6 33 txg7 ,!£Jc4 34
�c2 �g7 35 i,ld5 �d6! 36 �2
�e5 37 .Q.b3 aS 38 �f2 f5 39 �2 b5 40
a3 <i!fg6
This was the adjourned position in
which White sealed 41 �f2 but resigned
without resuming . 4 1 �c3 looks to put
up a better fight, but in most variations
White was faced by a dilemma. If he
keeps queens on to avoid the lost ending
(Black's Q-side pawns have made con­
siderable progress since move 31) Black
can himself play for ll mating attack by
�e4 in conjunct ion with �Xg3+ with
the black rook coming in at d2 or h4.
17 D Karpov
• Kasparov King's Indian
1 �f3 �f6 2 c4 g6 3 �c3 .ilg7 (Both
sides change tack in the opening: White
has extra chances against the Griinfeld­
like reply 3 ... d5, and Black goes into the
King's I ndian when White cannot play
the f3 S amisch variation) 4 e4 d6 5 d4 0-0
CHESS MAGAZINE 7
6 .Q.e2 e5 7 0-0 �c6 8 d5 �e7 9 ,!£Jd2 a5
(ECO favou rs ...aS, but the combination
of the two restraining moves a5/c5 seems
unusual) 10 b3 c5 11 a3 (Deciding that a
brea kthrough on the b-file is more
promising than 1 1 dXc6 bXc6 when
Black can continue with . . . �e8 and
then aim for �c7-e6-d4) 1 1 ... �e8 12
� b1 f5 13 b4 aXb4 14 aXb4 b6 15 �3
�f6 16 Ad3 -'l,h6 17 .§b2 � a1 (The
first long think of the game) 18 �c2 i:U'4
(Inv iti ng 19 g3 which mig h t weaken
White's K-side) 19 �f3 txe4 20 �Xe4
,!£Jxe4 21 ,ilxe4 .§.xc1 22 .§.xc1 ,ilxcl
23 'lttx. ct �f5 24 �g5 (Working on th e
assumption that in an ending the base
pawn at d6 will finally be exposed to
attack) 24 .. . �d4 25 'itfxd8 �Xf3+ 26
-'l,xf3 .§.dx8 27 bXc5 bXc5 28 .§.b8
.§.f829 �b6 .§ f6 3 0 .§,b8 .§.f831 .§b6
.§.r6 32 lle4 .Q.rs 33 Axrs .§.xrs 34 g3
The first piece of excitement in this
drawish ending: 34 .§.Xd6 �f4 35 .§.e6
.§.xc4 36 � e4 37 d6 .§.d4 with an
o bv ious draw.
34 .. . .§.f6 35 h4 h6 36 ®g2 <;!{g7 37 f3
®g8 38 ®f2 g5 39 hXg5 bXg5 40 ®e3
<;!{g7 41 .§.b8 �7 42 �d8 ®g7
(Sealed) 43 .§. as ®rl 44 �e4 <;!{g7 45
.§.a7+ <i!fg6 46 �e7 g4! 1/z-lfz.
White had been hoping for 46 . . . ®h6
47 .§.e6 ®g6 48 .§.xf6+ �f6 49 g4
®g6 50 ®d3! ®f6 51 ®c3 e4 (Black is
outflanked if he defends by 5 1 ... ®e7)
52 txe4 ®e5 53 ®b3! producing a que en
ending in which White can hope to make
h is opponent suffer. After the text 47
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fXg4 <it>g5 48 .§.g7+ .§.g6! is a draw as
Black's protected passed pawn at e5 is
worth more than the g-pawn if White
should exchange rooks.
The players, for the first time in the
match, analysed a few moves at the board
immediately the result was agreed.
Karpov took a long weekend break by
postponing the game scheduled for 27
November.
As the match neared its end, risks were
avoided, and Kasparov still could make
little impression with the white pieces.
18 0 Kasparov
• Karpov QGD
1 c4 e6 2i[Jc3 dS 3 d4li.e7 4i[Jf3i[Jf6
5 J;tgs h6 6 �4 0-0 7 e3 b6 8 Ae2 Jib7
9 l;txf6 Jixf6 10 cXdS eXdS l l b4 c5 12
bXcS bXcS 13 .§.b1 Ac6 14 0-0 i[Jd7 15
Abs 'Y!fc7 16 'Y!fd3 .§.fc8 (After 42
minutes, the length of time showing that
Karpov suspected an improvement on 16
... .§.fd8 17 'Y!JB?! cXd4 18 eXd4 g6 with
near equality, Dydyshko-Vladimirov,
Moscow 1983) 17 .§.fc1 .§.ab8 18 h3 g6
19 -'txc6 .§.xb1 20 �bl �c6 21
dXcS �cs 22i[Je2 'Y!1r8 23 h4i[Je5 24
i[Jxes �xes
-- �
M"B'wb
MA. �m..a. . �fi
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• •
• - 7.E<
•
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:li:� • the late night hours when most Spaniards
.JIA.�
.tg?t::!>� �
- follow TV. The clip lasts 20 seconds:
The isolated pawn is not a great
disadvantage in' a position where queens
remain on the board, so a draw is already
the most likely result.
25 .§.d1 'Y!fcs 26 hS �c2! 27 �c2
.§.xc2 28 .§.xdS .§.xe2 29 .§.xes
.§.xa2 30 hXg6 fXg6 31 .§.e7 aS 32 .§.a7
a4 33 g3 hS 34 �2 a3 35 e4 g5! 36 �
g4+ 37 <it>e3 .§.at 38 �4 .§.a2 39 <it>gS
.§xn 40 .§xhS .§.e2 1/2-%.
A slight surprise they went on so long,
but Karpov was rather short of time.
Six games to go. All square at 9-9!
The 19th gameended in a draw after 62
moves of a QGD, 7 . . b6variation.Black
.
gave up a pawn at move 18 and had to
defend a double-rook ending by very
careful play.
The 20th game was also a draw, in a
QGD, 5 �c2. Black had to defend
against considerable pressure but
achieved a drawn queen ending with
forced perpetual check after 37 moves.
These games and the remaining
encounters of this close match will
appear next time. Commentators were
already speculating about the first 12-12
draw since 1954.
Comment from Dragoslav Andric:
Kasparov as an Excellent Actor
The Yugoslav press follows the world
title match in Seville, Spain as if it were
being played in Belgrade. There were
headlines whose characteristic subtitles
were: "World Champion Impresses in
Front of the Cameras Advertising
'Schweppes"' and "First Soviet Citizen in
a Western Publicity Clip"
It had been announced even before
the start of the match that Kasparov had
ad.The clip could be seen on the Spanish
Television's most popular programme, in
Kasparov appears in the company of a
French actor who has been advertising
the same drink on Spanish TV for nine
years and a young girl from Finland, a
photo-model. The world champion sits
by a chess table, with the elegantly clad
girl by his side. At one moment,
Kasparov takes a bottle of"Schweppes",
takes a Knight off the board, and opens
the bottle with it. His chess opponent
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tries to do the same trick, but does not
succeed.
Mr. Rod Large, president ofan English
company that publicizes Soviet products
in the West, asserts that it was "the first
case ever of Soviet citizen taking part in
such an enterprise. "Kasparov's
manager, Englishman Andrew Page,
who organized the whole thing, says that
"this clip is much more effective than
standard ad. messages, as the audience
knows that Kasparov comes from the
Eastern block and will remember the ad.
much better because of that."
Page would not reveal how much
rare in the world of chess. He only said
Kasparov was paid for that action, still
that the whole sum is to be paid to the
Sports Committee of the USSR, which is
then to decide how much ofthat sum is to
be paid to Kasparov. This, we might add,
corresponds to Soviet regulations in such
matters, esp. when professional sports­
men are involved - they get usually 50%
of the lot, but that money stays at their
disposal in convertible currency, to be
9
taken out of the country at their will, or to
be spent in exclusive stores for Western
"Schweppes" company manager John
residents in USSR like "Berjoska".
Zuluetta is also very satisfied with the
arrangement. He considers that
Kasparov is "an excellent actor". The
initial intention was, actually, to film a
"serious ad.", but "when we saw how
photogenic Kasparov was, and how
adroitly he behaves in front of the
cameras, we decided to make an amusing
clip, says Zuluetta.
. . . and the Press Centre Veteran
GM N ajdorf is, if not the most active,
then the most attractive personality iri the
Press Centre in Sevilla. He keeps trying
to guess the two opponents' moves. After
a correct guess he would congratulate
himself with : "Bravo, Miguelitto!" And
when he guessed wrongly, he would
comment disdainfully: "These two know
nothing of the game!"
Karpov and his new wife Natalya (Agterdenbos)
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One of the Strongest, All-GM Events of 1987
BELGRADE RIDES AGAIN!
by Dragoslav Andric
There is hardly any other place, even
including Moscow or the like, where
interest for chess per capita is so high as
in Belgrade. Football stars play it
between their training sessions,
university professors hurry to confront
their regular rivals over the board
between their lectures, there are chess
clocks, for 5 minute games, all around
"Politika", the biggest Yugoslav daily.
This newspaper is possibly the only daily
in the world (could someone, perhaps,
cite another?) that has not only two
columns about chess day in, day out, but,
since December 1986, a two-page chess
supplement every Monday (with our
own regular column in it, by the way).
Well, maybe it's just because they are
so involved with their deeply personal
chess ambitions and with world chess
happenings that Belgrade fans - who
used to stop traffic in the very centre of
the city during the first Rest ofWorld vs.
USSR match way back in 1970 - didn't
notice that they have not had a GM
competition, or any stronger inter­
national tournament for that matter, ever
since 1 969; won by Ivkov, Polugayevsky
and Matulovic, with Botvinnik etc.
further down! That fact emerged only last
October, when they were most pleased to
meet an elit� GM group again. As if to
appease their long thirst, the tournament
was marked by extraordinarily fighting
spirit all along: no fewer than 37 games
were decided, against only 29 draws -a
formidable proportion, long unheard of
at such tournament levels!
The event started as a Category 1 4
tournament, but ended, i fnew ratings are
considered, as a 15 category one:
1. I.Jubojebic 8 (the only one unbeaten);
2. Timman 7,5; 3. Belyavsky 7; 4-6.
Korchnoi, Nikolic and Popovic 6; 7-8.
Gligoric and Salov 4,5; 12. Marjanovic
Short, Hjartarson and lvanovic 5; 1 0-11.
1 ,5 (he only managed to win the last
round game, as Black at that, against
Short).
The rating outcome: Ljubojevic + 1 8.4;
Timman + 12.3; Belyavsky + 7. 3; Nikolic
-1.6; Korchnoi -2.7; Popovic +9.94;
Short 1 1 6 ; Ivanovic +2.27; Hjartarson
+0.5; Gligoric --o.I; Salov -8.9;
- .
Marjanovic -29.8 points.
I.Jubojevic Too Rides Again
A low place in Reykjavik, then the
triumph, level with Kasparov, in
Brussels; debacle in Tilburg, and then,
after a peaceful start-and no less than 20
games in the series without a single win!
-an irresistible finish, with 51/z points out
of 6, in that strong, all GM company in
Belgrade: well, that is Ljubojevic for you,
in 1987! He did not manage to qualifY for
the world title candidates matches -and
now he left five of them behind:
Korchnoi, Belyavsky, Timman, Short
and Hjartarson! Yes, some performance!
Korchnoi's rather refined blunder
against Timman in the second round
might qualifY for any handbook, in the
chapter on "in-between" moves:
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Instead ofl9Axd5 ! ( 1 9... A xd5 2 0
� xds 'lttx d S 2 1 .§. e8+ �7 2 2 'lttx ds
.§.xd5 23 .§. xc8, or here 20 . . . a6 21
itf cS 4::) b8 22 4Je7+) , Korchnoi chose 19
4::) xd5?, b u t now 19 ... a6 de c ides (with
White's bishop and n ot the knight on d5,
"counter-in-between" move 20 .Q.xc6):
it would be met, of course, by the
20 itf cs �xd5 21 .(;txds 4::) b 8!
(Ano ther "in-between" move!) 22 itfas
b6! (The third move of the same kind!
White's queen has to leave the bishop to
his fate now) 23 Axn + 'lttxn 24 'lttx b 6
.§.f6, and the surplus of pawns proved
White here - he fought heroically but
not to be a sufficient compensation for
nevertheless went slowly down, and had
to resign after 38 more moves.
At about half w ay through, who do you
think was the leader, in such formidable
company? Hjartarson, the B aby Face! He
round, thanks to his wins against
was even alone at the top after the 5th
Marjanovic, Short and Ivanovic, and
then escorted by Korchnoi and
Belyavsky after the 6th round. But his
retreat from the limelight began whe n he
missed a stalemate combination against
Popovic. Here is that funny item, yet
an other one fit for handbooks:
There w as a witty draw for White in
here : 76 'lttxg 7+ ! ! 't;xg7 77 4::)X5+!
gX5- stalemate! Hjartarson p layed 76
'lttx a7? instead, and resigned right after
76 . . . 'ltt xd6 77 'l/1b7 i!idl+.
Korchnoi's mid-way win against Salov ,
one of the most prominent Soviet yo u n g
11
hopefuls, made people remember that he
was nicknamed �Korchnoi the Terrible"
some 20 or so years ag o, when USSR and
Yugoslav teams used to meet annually,
and when those near the top in the
Yugoslav team frantic all y groped for any
handy excuse just to avoid being p aired
with such a player who, whenever offered
the draw at such relaxed, collegial,
mainly touristic encounters, would
knock them down morally with his
simple retort: "Why?". The way he
defeat e d Salov also made someone cite
the old assertion that you could light up
an av e rage street with the energy that
Korchnoi usually spends in a single
game. This one began as a West ern, then
suddenly turned in to a thriller, to e n d
with some horror scenes:
D V. Korchnoi
• V. Salov Queen's Indian Defence
1 c4 4::) r6 2 4::)o e6 3 4::) c3 b6 4 g3 .Q,b7
5 .Q.g2 l;te7 6 d4 �e4 7 .(;td2 ..Q.r6 8 o-o
0-0 9 .§.cl d5 1� cXd5 eXd5 11 ..Q.r4 �a6
12lles .§. e8 13 .Q.xr6 'lttx f6 14 e3 c5 15
4::) e5 itf e7 16 .§.et �c7 17 �d3 �Xc3
18 bXc3 c4 19 4::) r4 itfd6 20 f3 .§.e7 21 e4
f6 22 .§.c2 .§.ae8 23 .§ce2 b5 24 h4 aS 25
�2 �c6 26 itfc2 g6 27 i;l,h3 �7 28
h5 g5
29 4::) g6 hXg6 30 e5 1Xe5 31 dXe5 itfcs
32 'ltt x g6+ �8 33 i!if6+ �8 34 h6
.§.rs 35 'ltt xg5+ �h8 36 f4 .§h7 37 rs
l;te8 38 e6 (One might venture here to
d4 39cXd4 'lttx d 4 40 .§. d2 itf cs 41 iifh4,
mention the alternative 38 ffi, e.g. 38 . . .
or 40 . . . itf c341 .§.fl, and both .ft e5 and
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.ft g3 are ready to make a career - but
then, we'd be deprived of the great
excitement that follows) 38 ... �e7 39
'l!!fxe7 .§.xe7 40 g4 b4 41 cXb4 c3 42 g5
d4 43 g6 d3 44 g7+ .§.Xg7 45 hXg7+
'3}xg7 46 .§.gl+ �6 47 .§.e3 jlb5 48
.§.g6+ �e7 49 .§.g7+ �d6 50 a4! .i£Jd5
(Not 50 . . . c2? 5 1 aXb5!! cl=� 52 .§.d7
mate!) 51 e7 .§.e8 52 .§. e 6 + (It was right
at this moment that Salov ceased to make
his long, energetic strides along the
whole width of the stage - according to
textbook advices from Soviet experts for
the right chess psycho-physical approach
- while Korchnoi stood up and started
his relaxed walk, the first one after quite a
time- precisely when everybody amund
believed that he had made a miscalcu­
lated slip while along the razor's edge
during the last few moves!) 52 ... �c7
53 aXb5 c2 54 .§.c6+ �7 55 f6 d2 56 r7
Not as a close-up of the outcome at
hand, but because of its rare pictorial
values, this position deserves a diagram:
Four possible ways to queen qualify
this tableau for anthologies of chess
curiosities. And the one who is the first to
queen - loses!
56 ... dl=� 57 D<e8=� �d2+ 58
.§.g2 �f4+ 59 .§.g3 1-0
Just a shade less dramatic, perhaps,
was the encounter of two fighters whose
every move here was inspired by
explosive will to win:
D Belyavsky
• Ivanovic Sicilian Defence
1 e4 c5 2 .!£:in .l£:ic6 3 d4 cXd4 4 .l£jxd4
.l£jr6 5 .l£jc3 d6 6 i;tg5 e6 7 �d2 ,Sie7
8 0-0-0 o-o 9 f4 h6 10 Jih4 e5 11 .l£jrs
jixf512 eXfS eXf413 �� d514 jixf6
J;txr6 15 .l£jxd5 i;te5 16 ,Sic4 b5 17
Axb5 .§.b8 18 c4 .i£Jd4 (The opening
track has been trodden right up to here!
The game Rodriguez v Popovic, at the
last Olympic games in Dubai, went 19
.§. hel to 20 Jl e4 etc. Belyavsky applies
an obvious home-made novelty) 19 f6
gXf6 20 a4 a6 21 g3 (Both player's moves
seem "lightning-chess-coloured". Actu­
ally, both of them are ready to bid any
price in pawns and pieces for the initiat­
ive.) 21 . .f3 22 Jlxa6 .§.b3! (Getting
.
into the enemy camp before White's
bishop is back on his b5 post! Belyavsky's
long musing here proved that this had
not been considered by him beforehand.
As we shall see, he did not found the
answer on the spot, so the theoretical
enigma remains . . ) 23 .§.het �d6 24
.
.§.e4? (The effects oftime pressure : here
24 .§. e 3 was obviously better.) 24 ...
.§.fb8 25 .(tb5 .l£jr5 (In a typical attempt
to prevent his opponent's deliberation on
right move 25 . . . .l£:ie2! here) 26 �2?
Black's own time, Ivanovic misses the
(The deciding mistake, instead of the ex­
change sacrifice 26 .§. xe5! that suggests
itself. Curiously enough, White's choice
was aimed at introducing a combination
which should make it possible for White
to win Black's queen afterwards . . . but,
in his calculations, he did not go far
enough to see that the black king could
re-marry!) 26 .. . .§.Xb2+ 27 'l!!!xb2
jixb2 28 .l£:ie7+ � 29 .§.xd6 .l£jxd6
30 .l£:ic6 .l£:ixe4 31 .l£jxb8, and now the
humble underdog crushes White's piece­
for-piece (with so many of them having
changed hands in so short a time)
calculations: 31 . f2 0-1
. .
The last round win by which
Ljubojevic reached the top alone -
rightfully deserves a place in this
discriminate selection based mainly on
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theoretical criteria that imposed them­
selves with 1000-2000 onlookers around
all along, and with a daily half an hour
chess programme "The World of Chess"
on TV Belgrade that coloured the end of
each of those hectic tournament days.
D Hjartarson
• Ljubojevic Slav Defence
1 d4 4)f6 2 c4 e6 3 4)f3 d5 4 4)c3 e6 5 e3
4)bd7 6 ltd3 ./J..e7 7 0-0 0-0 8 e4 dXe4
9 4)xe4 b6 10 b3 c5 11 i;tb2 l;lb7 12
'i£/e2 cXd4 13 4)xd4 4Jc5 14 4)xc5
�Xc5 15 4)f3 'i!:fc7 16 4)e5 (White
seems to feel as if he could play for a
middle game win, wrongly discarding 1 6
�Xffi gXf6 17 .Q.e4 with a slightly better
endgame in view) 16 .§.ad8 17 .§.ad1
• • .
.§d6 18 4)g4 4)xg4 19 �g4 f6 20
�c2 'i£/e7 21 .§.Xd6 �Xd6 22 .§.e1 e5
23 h4 (There is that typical case again:
one who has enjoyed a slight, or apparent
advantage - fails to admit himself, at the
right moment, that his opponent has fully
equalized . . . and then one goes on
basing his play on nice memories,
choosing the moves that correspond
more to the state of his lulled feelings
than to the objective demands of the
position. Judging such a move as a
consequential reinforcement of his
superfluous initiative, White misses to
see that, on the contrary, he is thus giving
his opponent a suitable target for a
counter-attack) 23 • • • .§.d8 24 h5 J;ib4
25 .§.e2 (Another little mistake : he
avoids the exchange ofrooks, still staring
into his mirage. And two little, invisible
mistakes sum up to a medium, very
visible one.) 25 . . . 'i!:Jd7 26 ,ilrs (See the
two preceding remarks!) 26 'i!:Jd1+ 27
. • •
\t>h2 .,Q.d2! 28 Ae6+ \!lh8 29 J;id5
(The threat was, of course, 29 . . . ,ilf4+)
29 . . . ,ilf4+ 30 g3 f5! 31 �4 (Not 3 1
iff£3 .§.xdS!) 31 .,llxg3+ ! 32 ®xg3
• • .
.§.xd5! 33 cXd5 �d5
A most curious position. White is a
rook up, all his pieces are near enough to
13
take up their parts in the defence of their
king, faced with "only" one threat at the
moment. But White's forces suffer from
the lack of coordination just as Black's
function most harmoniously, attacking
and covering the right squares and
crossroads.
34 �4 'i£/f3+ 33 �4 h6 (Simul­
taneously preventing - and threatening
- mate: what more could you expect of a
meek bystander like Black's .ft h7?) 36
.§.e3? (Heading for the zero point. There
was still a draw in there, it seems, to be
reached with 36 AxeS, as was found
during the post-mortem that very
evening: 36 . 'i£!h 1 + 3Hf1g3 'i£/g1 + 38
�4 'i£/gS+ 39 �3 'i£txh5+ 40 'i!:Jh4
. .
iff£3 + ! 41 YJjg3 'itih l + 42 Ylih2 iff£3 + !,
with a dramatic perpetual check. But who
could blame White for his hopes to win
by activating his rook?) 3 6 ...�f2+ 37
.§. g3 YJjb2+ 38 .§.h3 'i£/f2+ 39 .§.g3
®h7! (Another move as cool as could
be ! Black discards the possibility to draw,
although still a rook down !) 40 ®h3
(Even in time pressure, it was possible for
White to see how bad the alternatives
were : 40 YJie7 YJih2+ 41 .§.h3 'i£tf4 mate,
or 40 ,ilxes 'i!:fh2+ 41 .§.h3 'i£txes,
winning.) 40 .. . 'i£/fl + 41 ®h4 'i£/h1 +
42 .§.h3 YJig1 43 .§.g3 �2+ 44 .§.h3
�b2 45 'i£/c3 YJif2+ 0-1 (Facing
checkmate: 46 'i£/g3 'i£/d4+, or 46 .§.g3
'i£/h2+ 47 .§h3 'i£tf4+) .
A nice point for Ljubojevic, as well as
indicative of the fighting spirit that
dominated the event itself
14 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE

More games from Belgrade: S .Q,d3 l£Jc6 9 0-0 �e7 10 l£Je4 l£:1Xd4 11
o Glig o ric -'l,gs l£jxf3+ 12 vt:fxf3 _ilxg5 13 l£jd6+
• Short French r:3;d7 14 .§adl ®c7 15 -'l.e4 vt:fe7 16
1 d4 e6 2 e4 d5 3 {:)c3 Ab4 4 e5 c5 5 a3 .Q.xb7 rt;bs 17 Axes § xcs ( 1 7 . . .
Axc3 + 6 bXc3 {:)e7 7 a4 {:)bc6 S {:)f3 {:) xc8 1 8 'vt:!b3+ {:)b6 19 a4 !) lS a4 l£Jds
vt:faS 9 'vt:fd2 �d7 10 .Q,d3 c4 11 ,£le2
0-0 12 0-0 f6 13 �a3 .§ aeS 14 Ad6 .§ f7
15 g3 {:)rs 16 J;lb4 'vt:fc7 17 .§ fe1 txe5
1S dXeS {:)xb4 19 cXb4 .§ ef8 20 {:)gS
.§e7 21 -'l,g4 l';tes 22 c3 aS 23 bXa5
vt:fxaS 24 'vt:fc1 .Q.c6 25 f4 h6 26 {:)f3 d4
27 cXd4 g5! 2S txgS hS 29 Axh5? (29
Axf5 ! .§ xf5 30 {:) d2) 29 . . . {:)xg3 3 0
hXg3 ,ilxf3 3 1 'vt:fa3 vt:fdS! 3 2 .§ad1
.§ h7 3 3 g4 .Q.xd1 3 4 .§xd1 § f3 o-1.
D Short • r - .. . 19 .§xds eXd5 20 'vt:fb3 + rtfc7 21
• Korchnoi • - Giuoco Piano vt:fxds 'vt:fd7 22 § d1 'vt:fc6 23 vt:Jxn+
1 e4 e5 2 l£Jf3 l£jc6 3 Ac4 Acs 4 c3 l£jf6 rt;bs 24 .§ d3 Ads 25 &LJxcs \t?<cs 26
5 b4 �b6 6 d3 a6 7 0-0 0-0 S {:)bd2 d5 e6 'vttc7 27 f!, d7 vt:feS 2S .§xdS+ 29
9 eXd5 l£:1Xd5 10 'vt:fb3 l£Jf4 11 d4!? ,ile6 'vt:fd7 mate.

• ·{;I • :a: e�&k

This was the Game ofthe Year, chosen at

Vj t �;t; t�t
the Danish Chess Journalists ' Congress.

t -�·
The decisive game of the Danish
• championship, last round:
rt: �� .,. . D Mortensen
dil� • • • Hei Modern
�'vt:!Hif."'{�,., . {:) . 1 e4 g6 2 d4 �7 3 �c3 d6 4 .Q.e3 l£Jd7
41- Bi !!:! ' 41- �
� � .a n
-

.n.. a �- s l£jf3 a6 6 vt:fd2 b5 7 a4 b4 s l£Je2 l£Jgf6

§i -�0
.•

§® . 9 �g3 hs 10 J:tgs llb7 n .Q.d3 a5 12

0-0 rt;f8 13 c3 bXc3 14 bXc3 l£Jh7 15
Too ambitious, as three minor pieces Ah6 e6 16 h4 l£Jhf6 17 .Q..gs 'vttcS 1S
normally outweigh a queen on a crowded .§ ab1 ,ilc6 19 'ltic2 l£Jh7 20 .Q.e3 ,ilf6
board. Black had to try 1 1 . . . eXd4. 21 l£jgS l£:1Xg5 22 hXgS _ile7 23 f4 h4 24
12 dXeS &LJxes 13 J£Jxe5 'ltJgS 14 g3 l£Jh1 h3
l£Je2+ 15 ,ilxe2 ,ilxb3 t 6 l£Jdf3 vt:fr6
17 aXb3 .§ acS 1S .Q.r4 h6 19 Ac4 g5 20
{:)g4 vt:fxc3 2t l£Jxh6+ r:3}g7 22 l£:1Xg5
vt:fxh4 23 {:)hXI7 i;td4 24 § ad1 vt:fc3
25 .§d3 'vt:!b2 26 Act Axl2+ 27 r:3}g2
'vt:fal 1-0.

Svend Novrup has sent some games :

D B'j. Kri s te nse n Tovshavn 1986
• J. Rodgaard French 25 l£:112 hXg2 26 r:3}xg2 d5? 27 e5 ®g7
1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 {:)d2 l£Jr6 4 e5 {:)fd7 2s .§h1 .§xh1 29 .§xh1 �b6 3 0 l£Jg4
5 l£jgf3 c5 6 c4 dXc4 7 Jlxc4 �b6 'vttd 7 3 1 �f6 1 -0.
 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 15

Reviews and New Books in Brief

(Prices include packing and postage - by surface mail - to any address in the world)

How to Play the Sicilian Defence b y David Levy, Kevin O'Connell, Batsford 29 x 1987.
Limp, viii+133pp. £7.43 Overseas £7.63 US $13.80
An updated version of the first edition, "algebraicised" as the blurb puts it. The
authors make a big effort to get away from obscuring detail in order to consider
general ideas for both sides, but the Sicilian has so many sharp lines, that such a
general approach, while admirably carried out here, means that they have to refer the
competition player to reference books.
A useful publication with its attempt to apply to one opening the approach
pioneered by Fine's "The Ideas behind the Chess Openings".
Schach Das Unsterbliche Spiel by Werner Lauterbach, W. de Gruyter, Berlin xi 1987.
Limp, 294pp. £12.75 0 . £12.95 US$23.50
The fifth, revise d edition of a book formerly publis!Jed in the Rau Verlag. Its sub title
,

'Einftihrung in der Schachkunst' indicates its approach to the artistic side of the game
through a wide selection of games, game positions, studies and problems. There are
579 diagrams in all. The printing of the text is excellent, but for such a price the reader
has the right to expect that the diagrams will not be skimped: a number seem to have
been done by hand and have the figurine decentralised or even touching the border of
the next square.
Saving Lost Positions by Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller, Batsford 26 xi 1987. Limp,
vii 1 0 1 pp £7.42 0. £7.62 US $ 1 3 .80
.

A collection of games and positions where the outcome is not strictly in accordance
with the run of play earlier on. In other words, play typical ofthe majority of games at
most levels, but of the sort rarely published, because the winner is not too keen to
show how lucky he was. However, the US authors concentrate on "resourceful" play,
in the hop e that useful lessons might be gleaned. A practical book with some very
entertaining material.
Secrets of Grandmaster Play by John Nunn, Peter Griffiths, Batsford 26 xi 1987. Limp,
x + 2 1 lpp. £9.55 0. £9.82 US$ 1 7.90
A selection of John Nunn's best games, 24 in all from 1974 to 1985, annotated very
d eeply and reworked by Peter Griffiths to show how to think at a high level of
excellence. In other words, a far from easy book to take in quickly, but those who have
the determination to stick at it, will gain immense benefit and pleasure from going
through the notes.
At every instructive point the authors indicate what was really going on in the
position, even if it was not appreciated at the time.
There are wins here against such great players as Korchnoi, Portisch, Miles,
Polugayevsky, Tal, Olafsson, Belyavsky an d Andersson. There are also games from
British opens, such as the fantastic game against G. Anthony at Bristol l98 1 in which
White's king played up to g4 and then captured on f5 and e5 with queens on the board!
A note t.o the crucial position in that game runs over three pages.
16 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE

For those who have ever wondered if they are obtuse in staring at a chess position
for hours on end, trying to work out the ultimate truth, this book is a consolation:
many strong players and coaches have done the same thing.
David Yanovsky (Janowski) in Russian by S. B. Voronkov, D. G. Plisetsky, Fizk. i
Sport, Moscow 1987. H. 4 1 5pp. £5.20 0. £5.67 US $ 1 0.25
The long awaited book on Janowski's career, written by two Soviet journalists, with an
introduction by David Bronstein. Strangely enough, there has been no book on this
temperamental Franco-Pole who played with an elemental force in the two decades
before the First World War. Possibly this was because no nation knew whether to
claim him as their own.
Janowski was born near Grodno, an area under Lithuanian, Russian and Polish rule
at different times in its history . It is now just inside the Byelorussian republic near the
border with Poland. It was part ofthe Pale of Jewish settlement, an area productive of
chess masters. Near by Bialystok was the scene of one of the most fierce pogroms of
Tsarist days.
No wonder then that Janowski spent nearly all his adult life in the West, first coming
to Paris as a young man in 1886 or 189 1 . In Harry Golombek's Penguin Encyclopedia it
is stated that he ultimately became a naturalised Frenchman. It is claimed here that he
never renounced Russian citizenship, although he played as a representative ofRussia
for only a short time: 190 1-1904. The 1907 book of the 4th All-Russian Tournament
claimed him as their own by indicating that he was resident in Paris, l3 Quai Voltaire,
but from Lodz. It was to the Russian consul in Geneva that he applied in 19 15 in order
to receive a passport enabling him to go to the USA to escape from war-torn France.
The book is a 'first' in that it abounds with extracts from sources of the day, both
newspapers and chess magazines, in order to supplement the 1 75 games with detailed
career information. Janowski's nervous and over-ambitious approach is noted - as
well as his insufferable comments to those who beat him. His standard approach was
to offer a game at odds !
A fine book in every way. We can only hope for similar works using the same
approach to primary sources.
Szachy od A do Z 1 by W. Litmanowicz I J. Gizycki, Sport i Turystyka, Warszawa,
1986. H. with dust cover, 75 l pp. £17.10 0. £18.00 US$32.40
We received a review copy of the first part ofthis wonderfully well illustrated Polish
language reference book in May, but only had commercial supplies in late November.
There is little doubt that the width of documentation is very impressive and we
wonder how many years it took to assemble the photographs and illustrations with
which the work is richly endowed. There are also many diagrams.
The approach is thoroughly international, the first entries being Aaron ( 1 4 lines),
Abkin (6), Abonyiego gambit (2) Abramow A. (a Soviet author, 1 2), Abramow L. (17)
making about half th e first page. On a quick check we found photographs of Barcza,
Barczay, Bednarski, 0. Bernstein, Bisguier, Blackburne, J. H. Blake . . just to select
.

from the first half of the entries for 'B'.

The second and concluding volume should appear in 1988, covering the entries
N-Z. We look forward to it with some anticipation, as the work sets new standards with
regard to literary and artistic references to do with chess, including films.
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GENERAL SECfiON
See separate sections for Games, Reviews I New Bo oks,
Tournaments and Matches. Problem World, Readers ' Letters, Studies

Alekhine A. A. 263, 290 Lee, Graham BCF Secretary 253, 484

Ancient Chessman 324 Leigh Grand Prix 52
Anniversaries 548 Library Collections 26
Association of GMs 148, 334, 445, 546 Light and Shade of the Bundesliga 340
Bank of Scotland Sponsorship 25 Lloyds Bank Problem Solving
BCF Changes 484 1 69, 462, 5 1 1
BCF Grading 204, 502 MacDonald-Ross Chess Auction 201
BCF Newsflash 1 56, 356 Mecking H. 32
BCF President s Award
' 349 M iddlesex C. A. in the Last Ten Years
Book Values 312 404
Books Galore 557 Miles, Tony 285, 489, 537
Breyer's Brilliancy 332 Mindblower (Fiction) 264
B undesliga 20, 2!11, 535 "New Methods in an Old Endgame" 4 1 6
Buswell, Paul a Tribute
, 25 Obituary
BWCA 3, 304 V. A. Alatortsev 205, 257
Cambridge Univ. leave Europe 335, 406 S. E. L. Bainbridge 1 57
Candidates Matches Draw 546 V. Bergraser 73
Cartoon 300 J. P. Boyer 73
Chess by Microlink/Teletext 203 A. H. Challis 449
Correspondence Chess 22, 126, 164, Y. B. Estrin 205, 257
210, 259, 359, 407, 453, 502, 552 Sir Frederick Hoare 25
Daily Columns 186 D. M. Holmes 449
Donner J. H. 222 P. H. Little 544
Don't Resign - Zs Makai 306
You Might be Winning 478 Dr. M. Niemeijer 544
"Deutsche Schachbliitter" J. Podgomy 257
Amalgamation 56 J. C. Prentice 257
English Chess Association 545 R. H. Rushbrook 449
English County Final 356 A. V. Sarychev 157
Escape Club in Art Gallery 156, 289 J. A. Sutton 449
FIDE Rating Lists 1 00, 1 93, 24 1 , 352 P. R. Vivian493
Film, Soviet, on Capablanca 385 M. M. Yudovich 493
Find the Continuation OHRA Problem Solving 366
1 1 7, 1 63, 176, 246, 381, 477 Old How, is Chess?
, 214
Gilbert Mrs. Announces Mate 410 Olympiad Records 121, 170
Greig E. A. 222 Olympiad Repercussions 159
/LN Column Closes 156 Oscar Chess 1986
, 244
Interzonals 286 Ostend 1906 (Gunsberg) 206
Kasparov's English Manager 156 Photographs
Kasparov-Karpov Controversy 1 85 S. Agdestein 158
Koblents A. 106 M. Adams 469, 519, 522
Kusht, National Game of Turkestan 1 52 V. Anand 468
Last Round Encounter (poem) 307 Ancient Chessmen 326-329
 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE (iii)

D. W. Anderton 17, 289 J. D. Nunn 45, 47, 391, 497

K. Arkell 1 17, 1 57, 5 1 9 M . O'Hara 446
S. Arkell 1 17, 140, 304, 466, 470 J. Penrose 503
A. Belyavsky 47 J. Piket 242
G. Botterill 135, 136 Zs. Polgar 175
P. Bryson 1 95 J. Plaskett 289
M. Chandler 1 7, 43, 136, 466 L. Portisch 2, 518
M. Condie 1 95 F. Rayner 519
J. Delaney 138 z. Ribli 1 69
P. Diaconescu 504 J. Riley 298
J. Emms 117 M . Sadler 469
Y. Estrin 257 N. S hort 17, 45, 143
S. Feakes 298 Y. Seirawan 283
A. Franklin 298 M. Seton 289
C. Flear 339, 470 L. Smart 289
G. Flear 43 J. Speelman 17, 45, 1 36, 301
S. Fruteau 396 J. N. Sugden 289
H. Golombek 298 M . Tal 105, 1 58
M. Gulko 537 R. Vaganyan 395
M. Hebden 241 R. G. Wade 298
J. Hodgson 138, 497 A. J. Whiteley 371
A. Hollis 298 A. Yusupov 285
B. Jacobs 519 Player o f the Year 349
D. Jarrett 372 Polugayevsky Introverted? 341
B . Kagan 209 Positional Sacrifices 450, 498
V. Kalinin 135 Premature Resignation 161
T. Karolyi 117 Q P Time Limits 225, 256, 302, 399
A. Karpov 3, 53 1 Redistribution of Chess Power 376
G . Kasparov 274, 497 Ribli GM Annotates 294, 378
A. Keene 298 Smoking, No 1 1 8, 250, 303

1 54 et seq.
R. D. Keene 298 Sokolov 1., New Yugoslav Star 374
Kusht Pieces Soviet Awards 338
G. Lane 5 1 9, 521, 522 Steinitz W. Recovers 161
J. Lautier 486 Super-Tournaments
J. Lebel 339 in Chess History 474
L. Ljubojevic 47, 229 Tal at 50 105
M. Magnusson 370, 372 Taxation of Stars/Entertainers 25
A. D. Martin 519 Thames T V v . Chequers 81, 159
S. Mannion 519 Transliteration 359
A. J. Miles 2, 45 TV "Match of the Generations" 338
H. J. Milligan 140 Trelford D. 25, 484
Lady T. Milner-Barry 304 USCF Journal (L. Parr) 537
Sir J. Morse 468, 469 US "Hall of Fame" 1 04
H. M ostert 504 Vanishing Rating Points 496
P. Motwani 297 VAT on Books? 251
H. Mutkin 298 Women Defeat Ljubojevic 350
Y. Murey 393 Zone II Fiasco (Cheating?) 198
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REVIEWS AND NEW BOOKS IN BRIEF

13. 54, 108, 146, 194, 239, 288, 354, 402, 447, 482, 532

Addict, The Complete Chess 534 GM Nimtsovich (Russian) 147

Aljechin Verteidigung I 55 Groningen 25 Jaar . . . 1963-87 146
Analiticheskiye . . . 4 (Botvinnik) 447
How to Play the Nimzo-lndian 54
BCM Anthology 1923-32 13 How to Play the Ruy Lopez 1 94
BCM Bound Volume 1986 147 How to Reassess Your Chess 146
Bibliography USSR Literature
1775-1966 239 Informator 43 483
Bled 193 1 (Kmoch/Adams) 239 International Opening Keys 56

Chess Characters (Diggle) 1 95 Keres's Best Games I 146

Chess Endings, Korolevy Sh. Kompos. (Russian) 288
Essential Knowledge 288 Kratkaya Sh. Entsiklopedia
Chess Notes 1986 1 09 (Russian) 108
Chess Openings (Basman) 1 95
Chess Personalia A Bibliography 533 London-Leningrad
Chigorin, Creative Genius 482 Championship Games 534
Chigorin Selected Games
, 482
Child of Change (Kasparov) 484, 532 Masters of Chess (Reti) 402
Comprehensive Chess Endings 5 482 My System 402
Correspondence, World Ch.
Games I-X 355 New in Chess Yearbook 5 108
Nezhmetdinov, Rashid 403
Developments in the Grilnfeld Notes of a Soviet Master 55
1985-87 355
Developments in the King's Indian 403 Opening Repertoire for Black 194
Developments
in the Modern Benoni 146 Philidorian, The 355
Developments in the S icilian Najdorf Play the Catalan Vol. 1 534
1985-87 403
Samouchitel' (Self-Teacher) 354
Encyclopedia of Chess Openings D Schach im Kampf (1953)
Elite 146
(2nd edition) 403 Schach Lebenslanglich 354
Shakhmatny Byulleten 1956 1 08
444 Sraz hon i kh Korolya (Miniatures) Sicilian Poisoned Pawn 54
534 Sicilian Sveshnikov Variation 1 08
From Baguio to Merano Simple Chess (Stean) 55
(K-K 1978+198 1 ) 355 Speed Chess Challenge
From the Middle Game Kasparov v Short 1987 1 94
into the Endgame 1 94 Suetin, Aleksey 483
Swift-Chess World Championship 403
Gambit, Le (Yudovich) 447
Gipslis, Aivar (Russian) 288 Theorie der Sch. Eroff. IX/III
GM Kompozitsii (Russian) 55 Sizilianisch/Skandinavische Vert. 288
 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE (v)

Tipovye Pozitsii (Russian) 108 STUDIES

Turnierleiterbuch
30, 79, 124, 1 73, 223, 2 71,
des Deutschen Sch. Bundes 55
319, 367, 415, 463, 490, 540

Unorthodox Openings 483

USSR Zonal
A. Botakanov, M. Zinar 415
and 54th Championship 288 M. M. Bo tvinnik 79

79
V Poiskakh Krasoty
A. Cheron

J. Dobias
(Nadareishvili, in Russian) 194 540
V. N. Dolgov, L. A. Mitrofanov 415, 491
. . . Wiener Kongress 1873 (Olms) 146
Winning Endgames 195 T. Gorgiev 31
Winning with The Griinfeld -402 N. D. Grigoriev 79, 223
Winning with the Queen's Indian 402 D. Gurgenidze 464
Women- in Chess . . .
Modern Players 240 V. Halberstadt 540
World Chess Championship
A. Herbstmann 464
Botvinnik to Kasparov 54 A. Herbstmann, T. Gorgiev 272
World Chess Championship
B . Horwitz 464
Steinitz to Alekhine 54
L. Isayev, S. Levman 31
Zaschita Alyokhina
(Alekhine's Defence) 240 D. Joseph 367

A. Kakovin 367
A. Kazantsev 272
G. M. Kasparyan 319, 415
A. Koranyi 540
L. Kubbel 367

P. A. Lamford 30, 79, 272

M. Liburkin 31

I. Marishko 223
M. Matous 367

G. Nadareishvili 125, 319, 490

E. Pogosyants 319

N. Rossolimo 319

A. S. Seleznyev 223
V. Smyslov 174

A. A. Troitsky 490
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MATCHES AND TOURNAMENTS

"Abbey National" Schools 1 18 Calderdale 296
Aberdeen 306, 3 1 8 Calicut 243
"Acropolis", Athens 487 Cambridge vs Oxford,
Adsteam-Lidums 102 University M atch 1 84
Altenstieg 383 Canadian Championship 382
Anand-Levitt 322 Canadian Closed Championship 56
Arc Young Masters 1 56, 205, 2 1 7 Cannes Masters 191
Austrian Ch. 382 "Capablanca In Memoriam", Cuba 335
'Casino de Juego Gran M adrid'
Baden-Baden 487 Open 283
Baku 104 CDS Software/Ceefax
Barbican Open 492 Junior Championships 203
B arcza Memorial 383 Cespedes 280
Barnet 118 Chappelle-La-Grande 1 96
&�cr � Charlton 398
B enidorm Open 282 ' Chess For Peace' 472
Berks and Bucks 448 Chequers 304, 356, 448
Berlin Summer Open 444 Christiansen-Kavalek 445
B� �4 City Quick-Play
B ilbao 337, 350 25, 72, 1 1 8, 204, 253, 304, 356, 398, 492
Birmingham 253 Clermont-Ferrand 1 96
B irmingham and District League 356 Cleveland 398, 414
'Birmingham Post' Cup 492 Correspondence Olympiad 453, 502
Blackpool 204 County Championship 204, 356, 406
Blau Memorial 149
'Bohemians', Prague 1 96 Danish Championship 280
Bolton 253 Danish Junior Championship 382
Bor 21 Deszo Memorial 28 1
British Championship 434, 481, 512 Dijon 444
British Championship Play-Off 34 Dinard Open 242
British Championship Qualifying Dortmund Chess Festival 243
305, 357 Dubai, 27th Olympiad (1986) 4, 37
British Correspondence Ch. 25 Dutch Championship 337, 368
British Open Quickplay 277
British Schools Championship 448 East German Championship 242
British Speed Championship 448 Edinburgh 1 19
British Universities E.E.C. Championship 487
Team Championship 254 Eichgraben 382
Budapest Spring Festival 243 English Counties Championship253, 304
Bulgarian Championship 19, 335 Essex Championship 320
Bundesliga 28 1, 294, 340 European Cup 57, 335, 357, 406
Bury St. Edmonds 304 European Junior Championship 69
Buxton 25 European Team Cup 3 6 1 , 386, 449
Euwe Memorial 282, 295
Cala D'Or 57
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Faber Cup 493 Le Touquet 20

French Championship 486 Leigh Grand Prix 52
French Junior Championships 241 L�� 1 ro
Leningrad 284
Gausdal Arnold Cup 282 Letchworth 204
Gausdal International, Norway 488 Levitt-Anand 322
Geneva Open 1 04, 1 47 Linares 1 83
Geneva Young Masters 283 Liverpool Spring Congress 204
Gent 444 Lloyds Bank Masters 448, 466
Glasgow 493 London Junior Championships 72
Glorney Cup 493 Lugano Open 197
GMCA Congress 357 Luxembourg Junior Invitational 383
GMCA Winter Congress 157 Luxembourg Open 336
Greater Manchester Congress 512
MCCU Championships 300
Hamburg Junior International 383 Maidenhead Junior Congress 254
Hastings 70, 82, 1 18, 254 Malmo Open 1 03
Holon, Tel Aviv 149 (Manchester and District
Hull 492 Association 357)
'Hutnik' Tour 204 Marseille 392
Hyeres 335 Marymass 493
Mediterranean Cup 336
Insurance Championships 356 Middlesex Annual Knock-out and
Inter-Bank Championship 156 Trophy Team Tournament 72
lnterzonals 286, 342, 376, 388, 418, 432 Middlesex League 357
Irish Open Championship 255 Midlands Championships 253
Islington 72, 401 Minsk 57, 202
Israel 244 Moscow 338
Israeli Championship 385 Moscow Champ ionship ·245
Mulcahy Memorial 1 19
Jersey 296, 306, 361
Jerusalem 57 National Club Championship
Jurmala 489 305, 349, 370, 448
NatWest Young Masters 492
Karpov-Sokolov, New York Open 244
World Title Eliminator 144, 178 Nordic Championship 445
Kasparov-Short, Norfolk Championship 305
Speed Chess Challenge \ 95, 130 North Wales Open 305
Kavalek-Christiansen 445 Northampton 204, 220
Keres Memorial 245 Norwegian Championship 445
Kings Head London Open 357 Nottingham 1 1 2, 254
Kolhapur (Nova Park Hotel, Christmas 104)
48 �
336
Kuldiga Novi Sad 21
Nuenen International Girls' 1 03
La Paz 444 Niirnberg 56
(Lancaster 1-:0ay 398)
Latvian Championship 385 OHRA 'Crown Cup' 444
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OHRA GM Tournament, Brussels 58 USSR Junior Championship 1 04, 197

(Orange, France 382) USSR Young Masters 1 49
Oxford vs Cambridge,
University Match 1 84 Vidmar Memorial 338
Polish Championship 282 Visually Handicapped
'Politiken Cup' Open 382 World Championship 21
Poznan 14 Vitrolles 35 1
Vrnjacka Banja 285
Reggio Emilia 96
Renfrewshire 398 Warrington 306
(Rolls Royce Congress, Crewe 1 56) Weald Junior 255
Rumanian Championship 244 Welsh Club Championship 303, 306
West German Championship 383
St. lngbert Open, Saarland 487 West of England Championship 255
Sarajevo 1 97, 272 West of Scotland Championship 449
'Save and Prosper' Congress, Wijk aan Zee 109, 1 50
Edinburgh 205, 297 Wiltshire Closed Championship 255
SCCU Easter Congress 293 Women's Candidates 489
SCCU Junior Championships 254, 293 Womens' Interzonals 386, 446
Scottish Championships 397, 398 Central European
Seville Open 1 03 Womens' Zonal, Erlangen 1 96
Short-Kasparov, Womens' Zonal, Balatonfoldvar 1 97
Speed Chess Challenge 95, 130 1 2th Women's Olympiad 51
Shropshire 1 18 World Championship 235, 387, 486, 487
Simmons Memorial 305 World U-12, U- 14, U-1 8 384
Skegness 398 World Under 16 Championship 1 9, 279
Sokolov-Karpov, World Under 21 Championship 384
World Title Eliminator 144, 1 78 World Open 385
Southend 255
Surrey Easter Congress 255 York Weekender 118
Swedish Championship 445 Yugoslav Championship 1 04
Swift Tournament, Brussels 226 Yugoslav Team Championship 489

Tarnby 296 Zonal, Andorra [W. Europe] 385

Tashkent 385 Zonal, Asian/Australasian 1 98
Than et 493 Zonal, British Isles 134
Tilburg 2,487 Zonal, Bupel 282
Timisoara 337 Zonal, Central American/
Toth Memorial 335, 383 Caribbean 279, 299
Turin Masters 336 Zonal, East European 1 49, 159
Zonal, Jakkarta 1 98, 280
Upminster 401 Zonal, Munich 1 03
USA Championship 20, 445 Zonal, Nordic 1 03
US Open 488 Zonal, Pucarevo 1 97
USSR Championship 1 68, 1 99, 299 ZUrich Clock Simul (by Kasparov) 274
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PROBLEM WORLD
28, 76, 122, 1 72, 218, 268, 316, 364, 412, 460, 509, 558

Ahues 268, 460 Lousteau 317

Aburahmanovic/Wiedenhotf 510 Love 559
Baksci 29, 5 1 1 , 559 Lyris/Rehm 413
Barnes/Smedley 317 Macleod 76, 219, 559
Beal 29, 3 1 7 Matthews 511
Beasley 318 May cock 28
Bettmann 268 McDowell 76, 219, 559
Bondarenko 30 Morse 412
Cheylan 123, 4 1 4 Liew Chee Meng 364
Coward 123 Morse 412
Dobbs 172 Myllyniemi 172
Dragoescu 124, 5 1 1 Nob re 1 23
Draper 28, 76 Petite 510
Eerkes/Groenveld 29 Q uack 413
Foster 510 Ram Shankar 30, 124, 3 64
Friedgood/Macleod 77, 2 1 9 Rice 76, 123, 413
Gair 30 Riczu 3 1 7, 3 1 8
Garafalo 317 Ritchings 3 1 6, 4 12
Garai 124, 317, 413, 5 1 1 Rosalah 510
Goumondy 29, 124, 220, 3 18, 4 1 4 , 5 1 1 Rosner 316
Raring 368 Rozsa 559
Heasman 413 Russ 413
Herpai 29 Sag 219, 413
Hemitz 559 Saunders 29
Hoek 29 Shire 29, 123, 2 1 9, 413, 51
Howard 413 Sin clair 559
Hughes 413 Sokholov 29, 220, 4 1 4
C. Jago 510 Sommer 268
M. Jago 219 Speckmann 29, 2 1 9
Jones 123, 219, 317, 5 1 0 Stanton 219, 3 1 7
lngre 413 Steiner 219
Inostroza 30, 1 24, 219 Stephenson 29, 559
Suratka Ismile 1 23, 5 1 0 Strzala 316
Kloostra 1 23, 5 1 0 Swindley 460
Laborczi 172 Sydenham 364
Larrain 460 Taraba 268
Latzel 268 Turn bull 218
Leopold 268 Turner 29
Lewis 218 van Griegen 268
Lindgren/Rehm 510 Vaughan 76, 123, 3 1 7
Lobusov 510 Wenda 1 24, 220, 5 1 1
Loyd 268 Whitehead 123
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GAMES
Abarca Fabrega 444 Belyavsky Fle ar 390;
Adams Anand 468 ; Gavrikov 200; Karpov 57;
Arkell 52 1 ; Gurevich 279; Korchnoi 3;
Lane 522 ; M cNab 435 ; Malanyuk 249;
Pritchett 539; Short 438 Portisch 96; Rib l i 98;
Adorjan Po rt is c h 390 Salov 299, 43 1 ;
A d y Agnos 2 1 3 Smyslov 96
Agdestein Kudrin 392 Benjamin Hebden 472
Agnos Ady 2 1 3 ; K. Berger I. A. Nisman 409
Arkell 293; Conquest 249; Berger K. Elz 3 1 5
Mortazavi 47 1 Bergraser Breazu 128;
Ahman Krantz 1 67 Es trin 126; Weiner 127
Akhsbarumova Vinc en t 193 Berlinsky Dukaczewski 2 1
Alatortsev Ryumin 257 Berry Fox 406
Alburt Browne 488; Beville Le Blanq 361
Rib1i 379 Birnboim
Anand Adams 468 ; J. E. Littlewood 473
Kai danov 323 ; Levi tt 322 ; Black burne Pindar 7 5
Torre 44 ; Wagn er 47 1 Boisvert Stewart 407
Andersson Nunn 390; Bonay Oakley 2 1 1
Salov 390 Bonin Large 469
Andonov P al e rm o 33 1 Biisken Jacobs 70
Andruet Kuligowski 444 Botterill Bellin 437
Anton Penrose 454 Bouaziz Salov 433
Arencibia Armas 196; Bradbury Short 2 7 8
Nogueiras 280 Braga Ward 4 73
K. A rke l l Adams 52 1 ; Breazu Bergras er 128
Agnos 293 ; S . Ar kel l 1 12 ; Brenninkmeijer
Davies 277; Jacobs 520; Littlewood 467 ;
Nunn 278; Tebb 278; Watson 1 5 1
Whi tel ey 5 2 1 Brglez Shephard 456
S. Arkell K. Arkell 1 1 2 ; Britton Prasad 469
Giu l i an 1 40; Browne Alburt 488
Litinskaya 375; Smith 543 Bryntse O sterling 166
Arlandi Su b a 336 Bryson Crouch 1 13
Armas Ar e nc i b i a 1 96 B uckley Gamble 300
Arnason Chandler 46; Budde J oh an se n 20
Short 1 4 1 Burgess Wal k er 1 84
Atalik Popovic 224
Cairns Hennigan 203
Baker C. W. J aco b s 220; Cane Napolitano 1 65
Tozer 205; W ay 2 1 7 ; Cannon Greig 222
Wheeler 300 Chandler C. R. J. Nun 2 1 2
Balashov Farago 243 Chandler M. Amason 46;
Barheau H e rg o tt 382 Filguth 4 1 ; Gurevich 28 4;
Barbulescu Sp ee l man 4 1 Hodgson 9 2 ; Hiibner 549;
Barczay Sinkovics 243 Lobron 549;
Barton Dutton 350 Mannion 3 1 8 ;
Barua Spassky 284 M estel 34, 35;
Bellin Botterill 43 7 ; N ogu e i ras 459;
Kinsman 296 Plaskett 82, 467 ;
Sp ee l man 34, 35, 36, 136;
Vaganyan 8
Chemikov Zsof. Polgar 243
Chemin H am i d 345 ;
Ribli 378; Speelman 347;
Tukm akov 201
Cbiburdanidze
Ljubojevic 350;
J. M iles 5 1
Cbigorin Sha b e l s ky 164
Coleman A. P. Lewis 320
Condie F1ear 135;
N ev erov 1 5
Con quest Agnos 249;
Gallagher 44 1 ;
lvonov 547 ;
Machulsky 16; W.
Schmidt 1 8 ; Short 436
Coop e r Ivanov 470
Cordovil Footner 504
Correa Van Riemsdijk 267
Costa Harman 2 1 2 ;
J. Polgar 545
Craig Dempster 168
Crawley Kemp 48 1 ;
Plaskett 547
Crouch Bryson 1 1 3 ;
Gallagher 1 14; Van
Kemenade 297
Crusi T h o m as 553
Dale Shovel 401
Davies N. K. Arkell 277;
Hebden 70; Karo lyi 7 1
De Castro Spee lm an 46
De La Villa Nunn 389, 427
Delaney Mestel 139
Delannoy L an e 7 1
Delitz Spi n d l er 408
D e mp s t er Cra ig 168
Dizdarevic Morrison 323
Djurhuus M an o r 69
Djuric I. Soko l o v 375
Dolmatov Yusupov 200
Donner Tal 500
Dukaczewski Berlinsky 2 1
Dunworth Watson 468
Dutton B arton 350
D yb ow s ki Sm ag i n 308
Ehlvest Granda 432;

To rre 433 ;
Tseshkovsky 200
Ekebjaerg Strand 22
Elz K. Berger 3 15
Emst Marj an ovi i: 345 ;
Ogard 175; Popovii: 345;
Short 343 ; Smyslov 349
Ernst Spee1man 377
Esser D r . Breyer 332
Estri n Bergraser 126;
Ravinsky 258
Ettlinger Pillsbury 1 70
Everett Lawton 296
Fabrega Abarca 444
Farago Balashov 243 ;
Prendsetter 159
Fatin Lane 52 1
Fe4orowicz Gulko 192;
Sax 44 ; Thorhallsson 468
Feustel S . J ackson 5 r
Filguth M. Chandler 4 1 ;
Korchnoi 498
Fine Yudovich 4 1 1
Flear Belyavsky 390;
Condie 135;
0 . A. Jackson 249;
Sosonko 1 1 1
Footner Co rd ovi l 504
Forintos W. Watson 383
Fox Berry 406
Franklin Hall 258
Freeman Walker 80
From Jado ul 296
Gallagber Conquest 44 1 ;
Crouch 1 1 4; Lawton 1 1 5 ;
Motwani 439
Gam ble Buckley 300
Gatto Lodge 2 1 3
Gavrikov Belyavsky 200
Gayson Large 323
Georgiyev Tseshkovsky 43
Gerber White1ey 470
Giulian S. A rke11 140
Gligoric Smyslov 548
Gobet Kasparov 275
Granda Eh1vest 432
Grant M. Smith 373
Greig Cannon 222
Grunberg Kasparov 1 48
Gufeld Mestel 88;
Plaskett 86
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Gulko Fedorowicz 192 ;
Hai"k 1 9 1 ; Mira1les 193;
Van der Wiel 445
Gurevich Adams 279;
M. Chandler 284;
Seirawan 20
Gutman Miles 1 1 1 ;
Ribli 294; Rossiter 337
Hai'k Gulko 1 9 1 ;
Todorcevic 394
Hall Fr ankli n 258
Hamid Ch e m i n 345;
Short 347
Hansen Ivanch uk 69
Happel Westwood 24
Hannan Costa 2 1 2
Hawkes Pantaleoni/
Tirabassi 262 ;
Siemmes 554
Hawleko Negulescu 159
Hebden Benjamin 472 ;
Davies 70; Jadoul 296
Helbig Kosten 7 1
Hempson Lund 350
Hennigan Cairns 203
Hergott Barbeau 3 82
H ernan dez Rodriguez 299
Hick! N ik o li c 433
Hill Vaughan 303
Hi T ech Lautier 193
Hjartarsson Short 46
Hodgson Chan dler 92;
Kalinin 137; Klirner 245 ;
Kinsman 249; Lputyan 86
H ollis J ovcic 454
Holmes D. M.
B. Marshal! 484
Homer va n Kemendade 5 12
Hort Kosten 1 47
Howell Lawson 1 84;
Mooney 414
Hiibner Chandler 549 ;
Kasparov 58, 60 ;
Korchnoi 488; Short 67
Hug Kasparov 274
Hulak Korchnoi 433 ;
Short 1 10; Vaganyan 394
Huss Kasparov 275
Hyldkrog Strand 23
Ivanchuk H an s en 69
lvanov Conquest 547;
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Cooper 470
Ivanovic Rajkov i i: 2 1
lvell Pein 3 73
Jackson 0. A. F l e ar 249
Jackson S. F euste l 5 1
Jacobs C. W . Baker 220;
Bosken 70; J . Rogers 40 1 ,
K. Arke11 520,
M annion 52 1
Jadoul From 296;
Hebden 296
Jilmaz Marjanovii: 197
Jobansen B u d d e 20
Jones M. N. R. Smi th 359
Jovcic Hollis 454
Jupp Kingdon 240
Kaidanov Anand 323
Kalinin Hodgson 137
Kiimer Hodgson 245
Karolyi Davies 7 1 ;
Richmond 1 14
Karpov Belyavsky 57;
Kasparov 234, 523-53 1 ;
Ljubojevic 7 ;
A. J. Mi le s 2 ;
A. Sokolov 1 44-5,
178- 183; Sznapik 42 ;
van der Wie1 282
Kasparov Gobet 275 ;
Grunberg 148;
Hiibner 58, 60; Hug 274;
Huss 275 ;
Karpov 234, 523-53 1 ;
Korchnoi 67; Larsen 230;
Ljuboj evic 234;
Meu1ders 227;
A. J. Miles 44;
Nunn 58, 59; Portisch 67;
Schmidt 43 ; Seirawan 45;
S hort 59, 68, 235;
Smejkal 5; Tal 233 ;
Tatai 4 2 ; Trepp 276;
van der Wiel 228;
Velibekov 455;
Wirthensohn 276;
Ziiger 275; Zuniga 5
Kavalek Ravi 4 1 ; Short 6
Kemp C raw1ey 48 1
Kingdon Jupp 240
Kingston West 373.
Kinsman Bellin 296;
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Hodgson 249
Kishik Nesis 408
Klavestad Rojah n 1 65
Knaak W. Watson 383
Knox S iddal l 5 1 2
Koch C. Ward 245
Korchnoi Belyavsky 3 ;
Filguth 498 ; Huhner 488;
Hulak 433 ; Kasparov 67;
Larsen 226;
Ljubojevic 23 1 ;
Nogueiras 433 ;
Polugaevsky 2 5 1 ;
Seirawan 495 ;
Short 68, 1 09, 141 ;
Ti mman 229 ;
Yusupov 547
Kosten Helbig 7 1 ; Hort 1 47;
Kupreichik 202
Konatly Murey 393 ;
Vaganyan 394
Krantz A hm an 167
Knbikova Poruszky 190
Kndrin Agdestein 392
Kuligowski Andruet 444
Kupreichik Kosten 202 ;
Yusupov 200
Lamford Motwani 536;
Sarno 536
Lane P. W. H. Smith 2 1 0
Lane Adams 522 ;
Delannoy 7 1 , Fatin 52 1 ;
F. Rayne r 520
Large Bonin 469;
Gayso n 323; Larsen 85 ;
Lputyan 90; Spee1man 85
Lars en Kas parov 230;
Korchnoi 226; Large 85;
Ljubojevic 232;
Speelman 91
Laszlo Szi!agyi 2 6 1
Lantier Hi Tech 1 93
Lawson Howell 1 84
Lawton Everett 296_;
G all agh e r 1 15
Le Blanq Beville 36 1 ;
Speelman 139
Lein Shirazi 20
Levitt Anand 322
Lewis A. P . Coleman 320
Lilley Norwood 5 1 2
Litinskaya S. A rkel l 375
THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE
Littlewood J. E.
Bimboim 473
Littlewood P.
Brenninkmeijer 467;
Thorhallsson 467
Ljuboj evic
Chiburdanidze 350;
Karpov 7 ; Kasparov 234;
Korchnoi 23 1 ;
Larsen 232 ;
Meulders 227;
Nogueiras 150;
Nunn 388, 42 1 ; Zs.
Polgar 350;
S hort 1 4 1 , 229;
Yusupov 547
Lobron Chandler 549;
Sax 102
LoJlge Gatto 2 1 3
Logema Peart 373
Loheac Magem 497
Lputyan Hodgson 86;
Large 90
Lund Hempson 350
McDonald Sommerbauer 69
M cDonnell W****** 266
McNab Adams 435 ;
Mortazavi 71
Machulsky Co n qu e st 16
Magem Loheac 497
Magnusson So w ray 554
Malanyuk Bely av sky 249
Mannion M. C h andl e r 3 1 8,
Jacobs 52 1
Manor Djurhuus 69
Marin Nunn 390, 423
Marjanovic E rns ! 345;
Jilmaz 197
Marshall B.
D. M . Holmes 484
Martin A . Yusupov 46
Martin A. D. Mestel 442;
Motwani 297
Matamoros Murey 473
Mecbkarov Sko rp ik 408
Mestel Chandler 34, 3 5 ;
Delaney 139; Gufeld 88
Mestel A. D. Martin 442;
Nicholson 435 ;
Speelman 34, 35;
Wells 547
M eulders Kasparov 227 ;
Lj u b oj evi c 227; Short 230;
T al 226
Miles A. J. Gutm a n l l l ;
Karpov 2; Kasparov 44;
Portisch 2; Sax 44;
Seirawan 245 ;
I. Sokol ov 272
Miles J. Chiburdanidze 51
Milner Harry Rely 47 1
Miralles Gulko 193 ;
Spassky 1 9 1
Mokry Pinter 46;
Schmidt 159
Mooney Howe l l 4 1 4
Moran Z apata 299
Morrison Dizdarevic 323
Mortazavi Agn os 47 1 ;
McNab 7 1
Motwani Gallagher 439;
Lamford 536; Martin 297;
Szalapaj 3 1 8 ;
Thomson 397;
Velikov 46;Wheldon 297
Murey Ko uatly 393 ; 473
Muse N ev e rov 14
Nsgjar Sion 496
Napolitano Can e 165
Negnlescu Hawleko 159
Nesis Kishik 408
Neverov Condie 1 5 ;
Muse 14
Nicholson Mestel 435
Nikolic Hick! 433 ; Ribli 46
Ninov I. Soko1ov 375
Nisman I. Be rger 409
Nogueiras Arencib i a 280;
M . Chandler 459;
Korchnoi 433;
Ljubojevic 150
Norwood Lilley 5 1 2
Nun C. R. Chandler 2 12
Nnnn Anders s on 390;
K. A rkel l 278;
de la Villa 389, 427;
Kasparov 58, 59;
Ljubojevic 3 8 8 , 42 1 ;
Marin 390, 423 ;
Portisch 64, 487, 5 1 4-5 1 7 ;
Sahovic 147; Short 6 1 ;
Sokolov 8; Velimirovic 9;
Wilder 467; Zapata 6

Oakley Bonay 2 1 1
Ogard Ernst 1 75
Olafsson S h ort 1 1 0, 1 43
Olim S. Webb 456
011 T al 190
Omeltschenko Shephard 506
O sterling B ryntse 166
Padrajsek Palmo 360
Palermo Andonov 33 1
Palmo Pad raj sek 360
Pantaleonimrabassi
Hawkes 262
Peart Logema 373
Peio I vel l 373 ; Plaskett 539;
Shutler 434
Penrose Anton 454;
Stern 23
Pereyra Sande 409
Petursson Tisdall 488
Pieterse T i mman 3 68
Piket W. N. Watson 151
Pillsbury Ettlinger 170
Piodar Blackburne 75
Pioter Mokry 46
Plaskett C handl e r 82, 467;
Crawley 547; Gufeld 86;
P�in 539; Pritchett 5 1 2
Polgar Zs. Chernikov 243 ;
Ljubojevic 350
Polgar J. Costa 544
Polugaevsky Ko rchnoi 25 1
Popovic Atal i k 224;
Ernst 345 ; Sax 346;
Sokolov 45
Portisch Admjan 390;
Portisch Belyavsky 96;
Kasparov 67; Miles 2 ;
Nunn 64, 487, 5 14-5 17
Poruszky Kubikova 190
Powell Wil l m o th 406
Prasad Britton 469; Tal 349
Prendsetter Farago 1 59
Pritcbett Adams 539;
Plaskett 5 1 2
Przewoznik Sarwinski 1 7
Rajkovic Ivanovic 2 1
Ravi Kavalek 4 1 ;
Shamkovich 472
Ravinsky Estrin 258
Rayner F . Lane 520
Rety Milner-Barry 47 1
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Reynolds S u tton 555 Sax 343 ; Smyslov 346;
Ribli Alburt 379; Speelman 440;
Belyavsky 98; Timman 142;
Chemin 378; van der Wiel 1 10;
Gutman 294; Nilolic 46; Velikov 361; Wells 442 ;
Short 347; Speelman 343 ; X u 347; Yu su p ov 44;
Suba 96; Wittman 49 Zapata 348
Richmond Karolyi 1 1 4 Shovel Dale 40 1
Rodriguez Hernandez 299; Shutler Pein 434
Short 344 Siddall Knox 5 1 2
Rogers I . Welling 1 5 1 Siemmes Hawkes 554
Rogers J. Jacobs 40 1 S imon Weirich 260
Rojaho Klavestad 1 65 Si okovics Barczay 243
Rossiter G ut m an 337 Sion Najjar 496
Rozeotalis Yakovich 1 49 Skorpik Mechkarov 408
Ryumin Alatortsev 257 Smagin Dybowski 308
Kasparov 5
Sahovic N u nn 147 Smith M. Grant 373
Salov Andersson 390; Smith P. W. H. Lane 2 10
Belyavsky 299, 43 1 ; Smith R . M . N . Jones 359
Bouaziz 43 1 Smith A. P. S. Arkell 543
Saode Pereyra 409 Smyslov Belyavsky 96;
Saroo La m fo rd 536 Ernst 349; Gligoric 548;
Sarosy S tewart 552 Short 346
Sarwinski Przewoznik 1 7 Sokolov A . Karpov 1 44, 145,
Sax Lobron 102; Miles 44; 178- 183; A. J. Miles 2 72 ;
Popovic 346; Short 343 Nunn 8 ; Popovic 45
Schmidt Co n qu est 18; Sokolov I Djuri c 375;
Kasparov 43 ; Mokry 159 Ninov 375; Tringov 374;
Seeliger Toothill 505 Vera 374
Seirawan Gurev i ch 20; Sommerbauer McDonald 69
Kasparov 45; Sosooko Flear Ill
Korchnoi 495 ; Sowray Magnusson 554
A. J. M i les 245 Spassky Barua 284;
Sbabelsky Chigorin 164 Miralles 1 9 1
Shamkovich Ravi 472 Speelman Barbulescu 4 1 ;
Shephard Brglez 456; Chandler 34, 35, 36, 136;
Omeltschenko 506 Chemin 347;
Sbirazi Lein 20 De Castro 46; Ernst 377 ;
Short Adams 43 8 ; Large 85; Larsen 9 1 ;
Arnason 14 1 ; Le Blancq 139;
Bradbury 278; Mestel 34, 35; Ribli 343 ;
Conquest 436; Ernst 343 ; Short 440; Tal 343 ;
Hamid 347; Zapata 342
Hjartarsson 46; Spindler Delitz 408
Hiibner 6 7 ; Hulak 1 10 ; Spycber Way 382
Kasparov 59, 68, 235; Stern Penrose 23
Kavalek 6 ; Stewart Boisvert 407
Korchnoi 68, 109, 1 4 1 ; Sarosy 552
Ljubojevic 1 4 1 , 229; Strand Ekebjaerg 22;
Meulders 230; Nunn 6 1 ; Hyldkrog 2 3
Olafsson 1 10, 143 ; Suba Arlandi 3 3 6 ; Ribli 96;
Ribli 347; Rodriguez 344; Velimirovic 336
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Sutton Reyno ld s 554;
Tach 556
Szalapaj Motwani 3 1 8
Szilagyi Laszlo 261
Sznapik Karpov 42
T alDonner 500;
Kasparov 233 ;
Meu lders 2 2 6 ; 011 190;
Prasad 349; Speelman 343
Tatai Kasparov 42
Tebb K. Arkell 278
Thomas Crusi 553
Thomson M otwani 397
Thorhallsson
Fedorowicz 468 ;
P. Littlewood 467
Timman Korchnoi 229;
Pieterse 368; Short 142;
van der Wiel 295;
Yusupov 80
Tirabassi/Pantaleoni
Hawkes 262
Tisdall Petursson 488
Todorcevic Hai"k 394
Toothill S e e lige r 505
Torda Veress 259
Torre Anand 44;
Ehlvest 433
Tozer C. W. Baker 205
Trepp Kasp a rov 276
Tringov I. Sokolov 374
Tseshkovsky E hlvest 200;
Georgiyev 43 ;
THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE
Yusupov 200
Tukmakov Che m in 201
Vaganyan M. Chandler 8 ;
Hulak 394; Kouatly 394
van der Wiel Gu l ko 445;
Karpov 282;
Kasparov 228; Short 1 1 0;
Timman 295
van Kemenade Crouch 297 ;
Homer 5 1 2
Van Riemsdijk Correa 267
Vaughan Hill 303
Velibekov Kasparov 455
Vel ikov M otw an i 46;
Short 361
Velimlrovic Nunn 9;
Suba 336
Vera I . S oko l ov 374
Veress T orda 259
Vilela Zapata 541
Vincent Akhsharumova 193
W****** McDonnell 266
Wagner Anand 47 1
Walker Burge s s 1 84;
Freeman 80
Ward Braga 473 ; Koch 245
Watson W. N.
Brenninkmeijer 1 5 1 ;
Dunworth 468 ;
Forintos 3 83 ; Knaak 383;
Piket 1 5 1
Way C. W. Baker 2 1 7;
Spycher 382
Webb Olim 456
Weiner Bergraser 12 7
Weirich Simon 260
Welling Rogers 1 5 1
Wells Mes te l 547; Short 442
West Kingston 373
Westwood Happel 24
Wheeler C. W. Baker 300
Wheldon Motwani 297
Whiteley K . A rkell 52 1
Wilder Nunn 467
Willmoth P owe l l 406
Wirthensohn Kasparov 276
Wittman Ribli 49
Xn Short 347
Yakovich Rozentalis 149
Yudovich Fine 4 1 1
Yusupov Dolmatov 200 ;
Korchnoi 547;
Kupreichik 200;
Ljubojevic 547;
Martin 46; Short 44;
Timman 80;
Tseshkovsky 200
Zapata Moran 299; Nunn 6;
Short 348; Speelman 342;
Vilela 5 4 1
Ziiger Kasparov 275
Zuniga Kasparov 5
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OPENINGS
1 b3 20, 1 6 1 , 1 90, 406 297. 350, 368
1 f4 1 66 I d4 4Jf6 2 c4 g6 3 .£lc3 d 5 Griinfeld
1 4Jf3 d:S Reti 85, 91, 96, 226, 397 3, 5, 45, 58, 59, 200, 200,
1 4jf3 b5 521 375, 393, 487, 5 1 4, 527, 528
1 c4 Englis h 1 . . . e5 41, 46, 96, 1 48, 193, 3 g3 Neo-Griinfeld 5 1 6 , 5 1 7 , 523, 525
267, 435, 473, 52 1 , 524, 526, 528, 529 3 . . . d6 Kings Indian
1 . . c5. 7 1 , 2 1 7 , 234, 299, 392, 495 4 e4 34, 46, 88, 1 5 1 , 276, 320, 337,
1 Other
. . . 139, 1 65, 2 1 1 , 227, 294, 336, 342, 377, 382, 383, 406, 433, 471, 505
394, 444, 456 4 g3 69, 70, 1 59, 212, 293, 433, 473
1 d4, d5 QP without c4 41, 1 1 4, 130, 258, 4 e3 1 90
33 1 , 382, 409, 409, 552 I d4 f5 Dutch
1 d4 d5 2. c4 Queen's Gambit 226, 230, 235, 296, 299, 345, 347, 350
2 . . dXc4 QGA 1 1 1 , 1 1 4, 135, 159, I e4 a6 St George 80
I
.

347, 378, 454 e4 c6 Caro Kann 2 d4 d5 3 e5

2 . . . 4jc6 Chigorin 49, 361 1 80, 278, 278, 295
2 . . . e6 3 4jf3 4Jf6 4 �5 467 3 eXd5 5 1 , 96, 1 26, 1 44, 1 82,
3 -tlc3 c5 Tarrasch 220, 230, 275, 245, 259, 323, 401, 468, 520
349, 375 3 'tlc3 dXe4 4 4Jxe4 -tld7 34, 1 45,
3 Ae7 390 1 78, 190, 278, 282, 343, 442, 539, 549
Other
. . .

3 . -tlf6 4 e3
. . 373 3
4 Jlg5 57, 67, 68, 85, 98, 300, 249, 44 1 , 5 1 6 , 521 , 537, 543, 547
350, 408, 4 1 1 1 e4 c5 Sicilian 2 c3
4 -tlt3 fj_e7 5 jtr4 547 140, 308, 433, 468, 496, 520
4 cXd5 15, 42, 46, 240, 390 2 f4 262, 5 1 2
3 g3 Catalan 36, 69, 275, 379, 547, 548 2 .£lf3 d6/'tlc6 3 jtb5(+) 1 3 1 , 297, 350
2 . c6 Slav
. . 41, 60, 69, 228, 332, 2 -tlt3 d6 3 d4 cXd4 4 4jxd4 4Jf6
343, 374, 434, 470 5 4Jc3 a6 34, 58, 59, 67,
I d4 c5 Old Benoni 16, 203, 257 1 4 1 , 147, 200, 229, 347, 349,
1 d4 4Jf6 2 �5 Trompovsky 86, 249 374, 390, 423, 439, 469, 506
2 c4 e5 Budapest 261 5 . . . .£lc6 45, 1 1 0, 1 13, 297,
2 c4 c5 3 4jf3 cXd4 544 344, 345, 43 1 , 444, 467, 536, 539, 549
3 d5 b5 Benko 2, 18, 20, 43, 192, 205 5 . . . e6 8, 46, 1 02, 1 4 1 , 323,
3 . . . a6 Alburt 2 336, 454, 47 1 , 5 1 2
3 e5 Czech Benoni
. . . 272 5 . . . g6
3 e6 Modern Benoni 35, 42, 1 1 0, 343, 346, 435, 488
2
. . .

51, 200, 296, 488, 5 1 2 . e6 3 d4 cXd4 4 4jxd4 a6

e6 &
. .

3.. . 4 . . . b5 Blumenfe1d 46, 323, 3 6 1 , 390

128, 472 4 -tlc6 86, 1 1 5, 275,
I d4 4Jf6 2 c4 e6 3 4Jc3 jtb4 Nimzoindian
. . .

348, 375, 547, 442, 467, 504

4 e3 17 1 96, 227, 233, 276, 456, 470 2 .£lc6 3 d 4 cXd4 4 -tlxd4 4Jf6
4 4Jf3 & 5 g3
. . .

35, 44 5 'tlc3 e5 2 1 , 44, 1 39, 296

4 Other 1 4, 80, 1 1 0, 1 9 1 , 2 5 1 , 4 . . g6 . 9, 2 1
260, 401, 433, 556 2 .£lc3 .£lc6 3 g3 232, 274
3 .£lf3 b6 Queens Indian 2 Other 7 1 , 31 5, 484
4 .£lc3 Jib4 5 !J_gs 44, 201, 245, 467 I e4 d6 2 d4 4Jf6 Pirc 6, 1 1 2, 136,
4 g3 35, 44, 46, 127, 1 44, 151, 213, 234, 394, 400, 464, 512
1 78, 1 80, 1 8 1 , 408 2 . g6 Modern
4 a3
. .

44, 82, 159, 224 35, 71, 136, 1 5 1 , 234, 277, 278, 432
4 e3 390 1 e4 d5 Scandinavian 22
1 d4 d6 2 4jf3 itg4 111 1 e4 e6 French 2 d3 1 93
1 d4 4Jf6 2 c4 d 6 3 4Jc3 e 5 Old Indian 2 d4 d5 3 4Jc3 d Xe4 24, 75
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3 . . �f6 229, 284, 300, 555 .[Jc3 Four Knights 46

3 .
.

.� 1 4 1 , 147 3 Ac4 ,ilcS 4 b4 Evans 167, 258

3 .
.

Ab4 8, 20, 23, 4 c3 Gnioco Piano 231, 373

68, 1 09, 142, 150, 191, 202, 213, I
. .

e4 e5 2 .[Jt3 � 3 jtb5 Rny Lopez

243, 322, 383, 459, 469, 500, 539 3 . . .[Jf6
. 408, 515, 517. 554
3 �d2 193, 243, 279, 299, 373, 472, 541 3 . . . .[Jd4 43, 284, 345, 389
3 eXd5 90, 141 3 . . . g6 522
3 e5 137 3 . . f.5 427
I
.

e4 �c6 Nlmzowitch 36, 147, 296, 481 3 . a6 4 jtxc6 149

I
. .

e4 .[Jf6 Alekhine 2 1 2, 359, 360, 468 4 i;ta4 d6 346

I e4 e5 2 f4 Kings Gambit 4 . . . .[Jf6 5 d4 197, 210
7 1 , 164, 1 68, 1 84, ZZZ, 249, 5 t/re2 347
266, 303, 3 1 8, 373, 407, 471, 472 5 0-0 �Xe4 437, 488, 547
2 d4 1 65 5 . . . b5 70
2 .[Jt3 d6 Philidor 92 5 . . . l;te7 5, 6, 7, 23, 6 1 ,
2 . . . .[Jf6 Petroll 96, 143, zoo 249, 3 1 8, 343, 388, 4 1 4, 42 1 , 438
2 . . . .[Jc6 3 d4 Scotch 170, 445, 553

READERS' LETTERS (CORRESPONDENCE)

K. Arkell 73 R. D. Keene 307
P. Brockman 256, 493 R. K.ingdon 73
P. Buswell 32 F. Mertens 358
D. H. Butler 358 J. J. Moore 494
R. Colonna 32 W. Ritson Morry 205
P. Constant 256 E. Nowell 32
B. Bison 544 D. N. Pattison 449
H. R. Dundas 119 S . Reuben 205
N. Freeman 494 A. Saidy 401
C. Fulker 256 D. Sands 494
J. Gaige 32 R. Shilton 358
H. J. Gawlik 358 A. A. Thomson 401
W. Goerke 399 J. J. Walsh 119
R . Holmes 358 D. Wallace 399
D. M. Home 544 E. G. Winter 1 19
R. Hubbard 358
 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE
NEWS FROM OVERSEAS
ARGENTINA - There were 209 entrants
in the open, 3 1 x - 10 xi, to celebrate the
centenary of the Banco Credito
Argentina, of whom home man Panno
and Cuban GM Amador Rodriguez were
rated over 2500. However, first prize fell
to the younger man Marcelo Tempone.
Unfortunately points totals are not
notified in the result sheet we have been
sent, which indicates that Rodriguez took
second p rize and Gomez Baillo - third.
AUSTRIA - The "Casino Open" in Graz
produced a surprise when the young
Yugoslav IM B. Damljanovic, rated 2500,
scored 7 1/z(9) to take first prize of 40 000
Austrian Schillings which is about £ 1 950.
Second place was shared by Suba (R),
Hick! (WG), Ninov (BUL), Cvitan (Y)
and Gutman (ISR) 7 ; top of the group
scoring 61/z was veteran S oviet GM
Averbakh, in the company of such
prominent names as Kudrin (USA),
Daniel King, Gheorghiu (RUM), I.
Sokolov (Y) and Cebalo (Y) . William
W atson scored 6 and was placed 32nd.
David Norwood had an impressive
second place in his first outing after the
World Junior of last August. In the
Casinos Austria all-play-all for 1 4 players
at Vienna Atzgersdorf the top scores
were 1 Schneider (H) 1 0 ( 1 4) undefeated ;
2 Norwood 9; 3 Hausner (CZ) 8 1fz; 4-5
Brestian, Rigo (H) 7 1fz ; 6 Eisterer 7; 7-9
Costa (CH) Janetschek, Roth 61f:z ; . . . IM
norm was 8V:z points.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA - The little­
known Moscow IM Igor Naumkin made
a GM norm at the Czech Open Cham­
pionship at Namestovo near Bratislava.
His margin of victory was of Fischer-like
proportions : 1 Naumkin 101/z( 1 4) ; 2-4
Blatny, Meduna, I. Nun 8; 5-6 Luther
(EG=), Jansa 7 1/:z ; 7-8 Lechtinsky,
17
Paunovic (Y) 7; 9-1 1 Knezevic (Y),
Pekarek, Plachetka 61f:z ; 1 2- 1 3 Mokry,
Trap! 6; 14 Stall 5 1/:z ; Rantanen (SF) 41/:z.
DENMARK Nigel Davies shared first
-
place in a Category 6 tournament at
Espergaerde: 1 -3 Hoi, Bo Hansen, Davies
51/z(9) ; 4-6 Westerinen (SF), Hector (S),
Rodgaard 7 ; 7 Danielsen 41/z ; 8 Joe Gal­
lagher 4; 9 Ksieski (P) 3 1/:z; 10 Hutters 1 % .
W. GERMANY Stuart Conquest was
-
equal second in a Munich Open of over
300 players. The 2 1 -year-old Greek IM
Evstratios Grivas scored 8(9); 2-6
Novoselski (Y), R. Zysk, Conquest,
Weber, Sander 71Jz; . . .
NETHERLANDS - The Rotterdam side
Volmac beat Spartacus, Budapest, 7-5 in
the match on 22-23 xi. Thus the Dutch
go into the fourth round of the European
Cup. Korchnoi drew both games with
Farago on top board, van der Wiel did the
same against Csom, but Speelman
scored 1 1f:z-1Jz versus Benko and Ligterink
won both games on bottom board.
PORTUGAL - A Category 7 tournament
at Sesimbra was a triumph for the New
Yorker John Fedorowicz who scored 8
points out of 1 1 ; 2-3 P. Lukacs (H),
Taimanov (USSR) 7 ; 4 A. Fernandes 6; 5
Kouatly (F) 51/z; 6-9 Nigel Davies, J. P.
Santos, Antunes, L. Santos 5 ; 10 Frois
41/z ; 1 1 - 1 2 Almeida, Cordovil 4.
SPAIN A not very representative
-
national championship at Salou had 58
players and produced a surprise result
when Romero Holmes, 23, scored 8%( 1 0)
to finish a point ahead ofGil Reguera 71/:z;
3-7 Gomez, Bellon, Martin, Sanchez,
Noria 61f:z; . . . the group scoring 6 points
included Illescas, Izeta and Ochoa.
 18 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE

Manuel Rivas had a marvellous President GM Lombardy came bottom

summer and early autumn, winning all of three candidates.
four opens of the Catalan circuit: Sitges, The national championship was
Badalona, Berga and Manresa. This was played at the traditional venue of Estes
made up ofthree scores of71fz(9), coming Park, Colrado, 2-18 xi. Alburt and
equal first at Berga with the Paraguayan Kavalek were notable missing players.
Z. Franco, and 8( 1 0) at Manresa! He The favourites had a hard time ofit, since
followed this up w ith a GM norm, his Benjamin beat Seirawan and Gulko near
first, at Salamanca in September: 1 Rivas the end. Nick de Firmian had the dream
7(9) ; 2-3 0. Rodriguez (PER), Sunye Neto finish of three points from his last four
(BRS) 6; 4 J. L. Fernandez 51/z; 5 Sisniega games. 1 -2 Benjamin, de Firmian 8(13);
(Mex) 5; 6-7 Z Franco (PER), F. J. Sanz 3-6 Dlugy, Fedorowicz, Seirawan, Wilder
4lfz; 8-9 Hernando, Sion 3; 10 Barnal 1/z. 11/z; 7 Gulko 7; 8-9 Christiansen, Rohde
61/z; 10 Browne 6; 11 Kudrin 51/z; 12 White­
SWITZERLAND - The Mendrisio open head 5; 13 Kogan 41/z; 14 Gurevich 4.
attracted a large number of Yugoslav
players, who took 15 places out of the first USSR - The 6th Kotov Memorial was
20 ! 1 Cvitan 61/z(9) declared winner ahead played at Voronezh, and was well
ofGheorghiu (R), Martinovic and Nemet contested at the top, no-one reaching the
who all made the same score; fifth place IM norm of 8l!z points; 1 -2 Balashov,
was shared by seven players of whom Rosentalis 8(12) 3 Bareyev 7'1z; 4 Smagin
Rogers (AUS) was ranked 7th and Joe 7; 5-6 Palatnik, Petrienko 6'/z; 7-8
Gallagher 1 1th. The group making 51/z Kochiyev, Teske (EG) 6 - a fine result for
points was headed by Damljanovic, the German FM who is a new name at
ranked 13th. this high level; 9-10 Prandstetter (CZ),
Tolnai (H) 5'1z ; 1 1-12 Kristiansen (OK),
USA - The November issue ofthe USCF Yrjola (SF) 41/z; 13 Pinkas (POL) 2 1/z.
magazine Chess Life reveals that a first
official approach concerning the YUGOSLAVIA - The Belgrade Open,
'defection' of Tony Miles came through sponsored by the airline JAT at the Sava
Alien Kaufman of the American Chess Conference Centre, 3-13 xi, had a tie for
Foundation at a meeting of the USCF first place: I, Sokolov, Ftacnik (CZ),
Policy Board in May 1987. With regard to Kozul, Damljanovic, Cvitan 8( 1 1); 6-10
the stated intention of GM Miles to Smagin (USSR), Matulovic, Raicevic,
comment frankly about the English chess Drasko, Mohr 1lfz ; . . Georg Mohr is a
.

scene, the magazine writes: "The pages new Yugoslav name, rated 2360, but he
of Chess Life are open to him to speak his beat Smagin here. 1 05 players, 1 1 GMs.
mind within the limits prescribed by 0 Kozul
USCF lawyers. Those who feel in­ • Nestorovic Gri.infeld
commoded by his observations will have 1 d4 �f6 2 �t3 g6 3 c4 ,!;h.7 4 �c3 dS
a right of reply . . . the readership . . . will 5 �3 dXc4 6 �c4 0-0 7 e4 a6 8 e5
enjoy a journalistic front seat as GM �fd7 9 h4 TN? b5 10 �3 cS l l e6 txe6
gladiators face off in printed combat." 12 hS cXd4? 13 hXg6! �f6 14 gXh7+
The same source gives the voting �8 15 �eS �Xh7 16 '{{Jc2 d3 17
figures for the election of the USCF Jlxd3 Axes 0-1 not waiting for 1 8
President: Harold Winston 207, Yasser .§,xh7+ � 8 1 9 "f;je2 6. '{{Jg4+1'{{Jh 5 1
Seirawan 123. In the vote for Vice '{{Je 4.
 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE
NEWS FROM THE BRITISH ISLES
ABC - A new abbreviation for us to learn : the
Association of B ritish Chess Masters,
Chairman, Andrew Martin, Secretary,
Malcolm Pein, 239a Ballards Lane, London
N3 1NG (01 -572 9363 evenings), Treasurer
Byron Jacobs. This is envisaged as a
democratic organisation, affiliated to the BCF,
which has already made representations about
the distribution of appearance fees in the
Lloyds Bank Masters oflast year, and explored
the feasibility of the Hastings Challengers
having a possible GM norm. It is hoped that a
European Grand Prix will be set up. Willi
lcklicki, the Belgian organiser, is helping with
this, and has also asked OHRA to consider
help with an alternative Chess Oscar for the
most improved player " . . . as opposed to the
p resen t K-K benefit."
In the publicity m aterial furnished by
Malcolm Pein we also see that the ABC will
press for accounts of all international
tournaments with ABC participation to be
published, so that the exact relationship
between players' and organisers' fees can be
established. The ABC has also deprecated the
loss of Graham Lee as BCF Gen Sec.
Membership of the new body is open to any
titled player, FM, IWM to GM in the UK.
Many of the titled players have already joined .
Bolton - The Bolton QP at The Pack Horse
Hotel on 8 November incorporated the Lloyds
Bank Northern Invitation. The Droitwi ch IM
Keith Arkell had an impressive victory,
winning all his six games and finish ing one
and a half points ahead of the three players in
second place - J. Homer, P. Kane and J. E .
Littlewood. T h e leading juniors were G .
Buckley and G . Quillan.
In the top section of the open A. W.
Beardsworth, T. S. Brotherton, 0. A. Jackson
and J. Naujokas scored 5(6).
Bradford - A notable anniversary in 1988 is
the centenary of the Bradford Congress of
August 1888 won by Gunsberg who scored
1 3 112 ( 1 6) ahead ofMackenzie, von Bardeleben,
Mason, Burn, Blackbu rne, Weiss,
Taubenhaus, B ird, Pollock . . . One wonders if
Yorkshire or other organisers could arrange
an international tournament to celebrate the
occasion. The North has been singularly
lacking in prestige events since the withdrawal
19
of the Benedictine sponsorship for
Manchester.
Chester - The British Deaf Chess Association
Congress on 13- 1 5 xi had three sections for the
40 entries, reports Phillip K. Gardner,
Secretary of the EDCA. The top sectio n was
won by David Guy (WAL) 4 112(6) ahead of
Tony Nabarro, Ilford and Michael Freund,
Edgware, 4. In the Major Richard Dunn,
Hampstead, and Hugh Fenwick, Epsom,
scored 5(6) and in the Minor Tom Higson,
Chester, won all his six games.
Gary Hunter, Warrington, took the prize for
best junior, and the Kings Cup for the team
event was won by Doncaster College.
City - The City QP at Highbury Fields School
on 15 Novem ber saw the by now traditional
hu ndred per cent score, Chris Ward taking
£ 1 00 for his six wins. 2-3 Nigel Davies and
Jonathan Manley 5 112(6). First round loser
prize to G. Dormand 4112. The same score gave
A. Kitchlew, M. Trent and J. Holland the U-
1 75 grading prize. 1 73 took part.
P. Lamford - Paul Lamford, BCM S tudies
columnist and Technical Editor at B. T.
Batsford, has taken up a new appointment at
Pergam on.
Liverpool The B ritish Lightning
Championships were held here over the
weekend of 1 4- 1 5 November. I Muswell Hill
'A' 22(28); 2 London Central 20; 3 King's Head
'A' 19112 ; . . . the winning team out of 34
consisting of M . Hennigan, A. Mortazavi, G.
Quillan, P. Hughes. The runners-up were A.
Martin, J. Ady, N. Care, R. Granat, while J.
Speelman and A. J. Whiteley were top boards
for King's Head.
The individual title fell on better SOP to
Andrew Martin 7(9) after coming equal on
points with K. Arkell, C. Crouch, N . B ryans.
Richmond - Lee Jacobs (Priestmead) scoring
5(6) won the U- 12 section of the Richmond
Junior Congress, O�leans Park School,
Twickenham on 14- 1 5 November, sponsored
by the Richmond branch of Midland Bank. 6 1
played here and 6 6 took part i n t h e U - 1 0 won
by Richard Bates (S heen Mount) and Andrew
Ram (Roxbourne Middle) 5(6). The final
section for under-eights had 30 players and
was tied between Mandy Hasl inger (Hayes
Park) and George Michaels (St. Stephens,
20 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE
Twickenham) 5(6)
Torquay - The five round event on 2 1-22
November was tied between M. Adams, C. W.
Baker and M . Franklin 41h(5). The fi rst two
drew in the last round, while Franklin beat A.
P. Ashby. Others in the field included Gary
Lane, Frank Parr, Chris Ward.
Worcester - Worcester City Club, founded
1837 and so the third oldest British club, had a
tandem simul' on 23 November at Worcester
Guildhall. This was to celebrate its 150 years.
The club used to meet in a fine room at the
central library, but now has a suburban venue
at Claines Church Institute .
SCA - Much to report from here, thanks to
the regular press releases from Lynne
Morrison, SCA General Secretary.
The Scottish Regional Team Champion­
ship, contested as a jamboree at Grangemouth
on 1 Novem ber, was won convincingly by
Central Region, headed by Mark Burgess of
Polmont and Ian MacKay, aged 17, of
Cumbernaud. The winning total was 7 112(8).
Over the same weekend Rosie Giulian won
the play-off for the Bank o f Scotland Ladies
Championship, following only five weeks after
her win of the B ritish Ladies QP
Championship.
The Scottish Team Lightning Champion­
ship at Stewart's Melville College, Edinburgh,
14 xi, had three final sections and was marked
by the new sponsorsh ip of Chess Suppliers
(Scotland) Ltd.
The top scores in the 'A' final of ten teams
were: Wandering Dragons A (C. Thomson,
M . Orr, I. Mullen, G. Ham ilton) 27 1/2game
points; Edinburgh A 22112 ; Dundee University,
Shettleston 2 l lh ; Glasgow 2 1 ; Cathcart A 1 9lh ;
Dundee 1 7 1h.
Mark Condie is now working as a financial
consultant with the Save & Prosper Group,
whose next sponsorship venture will be the
Edinburgh Chess Festival of 25 iii-6 iv.
Correspondence
R. P. Van n of Stockport feels that the 35
tournam ents of average player strength
greater than 2600 listed on pages 475/476 of
last November's issue must exclude many
tournaments where five or more players were
above 2600, but the strength of the event was
diluted by a number of players below 2500,
such as Hastings 1895 or New York 1924. Can
anyone contribute a list of tournaments based
on the strength of the top five? Another
interesting list would be based on the sum of
points over 2600 per player i.e. a 2700 player
would contribute 1 00 points to the assessment
but a 2595 player would contribute nil. This
sieve would pick out events with a lot of elite
players such as Candidates tournaments.
P. K. Bissicks, B ristol, points out that the
Blucher problem quoted on page 495 of the
November issue last year, is not sound in its
transcribed form with rook at c l , as then there
would be two solutions : 1 .§. al and 1 .§. c4.
M . McDowell writes from Newtownards that
he has three books in his library giving this
same problem . All give the source as "Waiter
Eiche, Basler Nachrichten 1948." The problem
is a three-move mutate, set 1. . . g6 2 .,Q.d2
�d4 3 .Q.c3 .
Bruce Hayden comments that the onlooker
who pointed out that Sir George T homas had
resigned when he had an advantageous
continuation, see page 479 Iast November was
Blackburne. The authority for this was Brian
Harley, who was present in the adjacent room
where the game was being analysed. "Harley
mentions the episode in one of his books, I
believe, but I cannot recall whether it was on
this occasion that the veteran Blackburne
made his scathing comment on Capa's play
that it was 'scientific woodshifting' . . .
H. J. Gawlik ofFairburn, Muir ofOrd, sends a
position where a computer played an awful
move.
" . . . we are now being asked to consider the
prospect of a computer as Chess champion of
the world . . . The July 1987 issue of the
Communications of the Association for
Computing M achinery carried a report on
the 1 7th North American Computer Chess
Championship, won with a clear score of 5(5)
by BELLE, a programme developed by
Thompson and Condon of AT and T Bell
Laboratories. The authors of the report,
Kopec and Newborn, say that "chess trees
averaging 1,000,000 positions were searched
 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 21

on each move", so that w e might expect a fairly Dubious Descriptive

high standard of play. A fine example ofthe snags of descriptive
In discussing the undoubtedly impressive notation came in an article by the IM
result achieved by BELLE, the authors show a
Jesus de la Villa in Jaque.
U' rh'll :@s
position from the 4th round from which
BELLE, playing Black against BEBE, was
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*iJfi·;i:
lucky to win.
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Black played 22 . . . .§ a???, characterized by
the authors of the report as an "error" . But the
move is not merely bad; it is grotesque. The
only explanation which occurs to me is that
the programme "knew" of the advantage of
two bishops against two knights and was trying
to preserve them ; but no player who was good
enough to know that would even consider the
move, which immolates the rook. A human
player of even modest standard, faced with
this position, would probably reason thus :
"Material is effectively equal, and pawns are
equal on both sides of the board with no
weaknesses. My advantages are that I have
bishops against knights, and White is very
vulnerable to mate if he takes his rook off the
first rank. My disadvantages are that I am very
cramped and behind in development. I can
play 22 . . . �Xd7 23 .§ xd7 ,§ d8; and
because of the mating threat White must
exchange rooks and the game is drawn" and
would reach that conclusion with an effort
neglibible in comparison with a search of one
million positions .
In 1968, at the IFIP Conference in
Edinburgh, I played a game against a PDP
computer. I won in 66 moves, and I still have
the computer print-out of that game. I played
it through again to confirm my impression
that the machine's moves were sometimes
very good and never less than plausible. If the
example quoted above represents 19 years of
progress, then it would appear that the
Computer as Champion is still rather a long
way off.
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Quoting the end of a crucial 14th
round game at S zirak between Belyavsky
and Portisch, he gave the score as
follows, tran slated into our notation: 36
S b l c3 ! 37 h3 Sa2! 38 �fl c2 39 §.cl
�b4 40 e5 .§. b2 4 1 �fl �e4 42 <;!th2
and now, your editor, following the game
without a set, was rather taken aback by
'DXP'. Can't the queen take no fewer
than four pawns? Admittedly two would
fall with check. Would that version still
apply if White had his king, say, at h 1 ?
After a quick rethink i t is obvious that 42
. . . �d5 is the only move that does not
lose the queen. What if the Spaniard
were to seal such an ambiguous move in
a key game?
0 Adorjan New York Open 1987
• Kudrin Queen's Indian
1 d4 2£)r6 2 2£)13 e6 3 c4 b6 4 g3 ia,a6
5 2£)bd2 ia,b7 6 i;lg2 c5 7 e4 cXd4 8 e5
2£)g4?! 9 0-0 �c7 10 Se1 Ac5 (10 . . .
h5 or d3 comes into consideration) 1 1
2£Je4 d3 1 2 2£Jfg5! 2£)xe5 1 3 J1r4 d 6 1 4
�h5 ®fs (The threats included 1 3
2£jxe6; perhaps 14 . . . �e7 would hang
on longer) 15 2£)xc5 bXc5 16 .§xe5!
dXe5 17 l,lxe5 �d7 18 J1xb7 �b7
19 2£Jxe6+ <;!tg8 ( 1 9 . . . txe6? 20 Jld6+)
20 2£jxg7 2£jc6 21 2£)r5 2£Jxe5 22 �g5+
2£jg6 23 �(6 1 -0.
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POSITIONAL SACRIFICES (Part 3)
by Peter
We can now move on to look at some
exchange sacrifices; and in this depart­
ment of the game I'm inclined to think
that the difficulty for many players lies
not only in the sacrifice itself, but in
learning to play with unbalanc<:: d
material. For example, if a player has a
knight/bishop and two or even three
extra pawns against a rook, and does not
know what he is supposed to be doing
with this material, then he is likely to lose
even though he has made no sacrifice.
On the other hand, if he knows how to
play this kind of game he can soon learn
to cope with a position where he has only
one pawn, or no pawns, for the exchange,
always provided that the sacrifice was
sound in the first place, of course.
So there are two sides to this problem:
(I) How to judge an exchange sacrifice;
and (2) How to play the subsequent
unbalanced position. Here, to begin with,
are some relatively easy examples:
1) Unzicker - Andersson, Munich 1979,
after 45 .§a1 :
If Black is to maintain the advantage he
must take some positive action before
White regains his lost pawn at a6; but if 45
. �4 46 .§ xa6 l;txe4? 47 .§ a7 wins
. .
for White. Andersson solves the problem
with an exchange sacrifice: 45 . . . ,§Xd3 !
46 cXd3 �d3 47 �d5 �e3 Not 47 . . .
-'b:e4 48 �d3 Axd3 49 .§xa6, when
White's active rook gives him at least
Griffiths
equality. This is the type of position
where Black must keep his aggressive
queen in order to create mating threats.
48 ,§xa6 J;txe4 49 �e6
White's central position has been
wiped out and Black has material equality
together with a sound pawn structure and
well-placed pieces. But just how should
he handle this position? Obviously he
must beware of a counter-attack by the
queen and rook; so he begins by the
reliable method of driving the rook onto
a more passive square. This would be an
important point in any kind of position;
when the material is unbalanced it
becomes absolutely crucial. In these
circumstances you can never simply
defend by trying to neutralise your
opponent's pieces - rook for rook, knight
for knight, or whatever it might be -
because you have a different set offorces.
The only thing you can do is to try and
make the most of the material you
happen to possess; and that is why the
initiative is so vitally important.
49 . . . h5! 49 . �g3 would also force
. .
50 .§.a2, but the pawn will contribute to
the pressure on White's king. If now 50
�d7 (50 'ltif7? �h3+) Black has 50 . . .
h4, and if 5 1 .§a7? �e l+ and mate in
two. 50 .§a2 �6 If 50 . . h4 5 1 �g4 is
.
awkward, threatening a queen exchange
or perpetual check by �5+. In some
circumstances 50 . . . �6 might now
permit the black king to advance further
up the board, even as far as g3 . It is also
designed as a useful waiting move, partly
because White is rather at a loss for good
ideas and partly because Black appears to
be short of time, as the following
repetition indicates. 51 �2 �f4+ 52
�· �cl + 53 �2 �f4+ 54 �·
�cl+ 55 \t1h2 �e3 56 �g8 Ifthe rook
leaves the second rank 56 . . . � wins at
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once - another point of 49 . . . h5, which
prevents �g4 . If 56 .§, b2? �4+ 57 \ftg l
�c l+, or 57 g3 �- 56 ltc6 . • .
-�f�
• is allowing himself the option of a (now
• •
• • •
� t � • rl: t
,f '
• :.
� • - -
l!J:
� �
<lloo •
j'i@t .!.!. - #% .!.!.
M 4loo
�"� B
f?lti
.::. � -
:. �• .!.!.
<lloo �
S example, then a queen move followed by
rs.J
.
. ·�q;"fJ.
� ;;;.,
.-.Y_:s.
�-
The second time-control comes at
move 56, and Black now regroups to
intensifY the pressure on g2. The bishop
move also defends the b-pawn and
prevents a possible queen check at e8.
His winning plan can be summed up
broadly as follows: (l) Tie up the white
rook to the defence of g2; (2) Secure the
king from checks; (3) Advance the e­
pawn. Bear in mind that Andersson is still
probing the position. At this stage he will
certainly not have seen how the plan will
work out in detail. It turns out, for
example, that c6 is not the best square for
the bishop.
57 .§,c2 �f4+ 58 �1 Yl!fe4 59 .§,a
Forced; i f 5 9 Yl!fh8+ � 6 6 0 .§.f2 the b­
pawn goes. 59 . . . Y!Je1 + 60 �fl Yl!fe3+
61 � a Forced again, otherwise the rook
becomes hopelessly passive after 6 1
\t'h2 Y!Je2 62 .§.gl etc. 6 1 .ile4 Black
• . .
now intends to advance his passed pawn,
and for this purpose the bishop is best
placed at d3. For the moment it also
conveniently defends the king against a
check at h8. 62 �8+ ,ilh7 If62 . . . �6
63 �e8+ and White can safely take the b­
p awn. 63 � ,ild3 Threatening 64 . . .
�el+, to which there is only one
defence. Not, ofcourse, 63 . . . Y!Jx b3? 64
.§, Xffi+ etc. 64 �4 If now 64 Yl!fh8+
\t>g6 65 Y!Je8+ �5 and White is
helpless against the check at e 1. 64 . . . e4
65 Y!Jc3 h4 Black is playing for
23
Zugzwang. Neither king nor rook can
move, the pawn moves soon run out and
the queen has to guard e 1. 66 b4 �6 67
Yl!fa1 � By centralising his king Black
favourable) exchange of queens - in
some lines he could play . . . \t>e6-d5 and
. . . Y!Jd4. But after 68 �c3 he would have
to return to g6 to avoid the checks: 68 . . .
�g6 69 Yl!fal ltc4 70 � 1 f5, for
the advance of the e-pawn. 68 �d1 �e7
69 Y!Ja1 \t>e6 70 Yl!fb2 The king can
wander around safely now; if 70 Yl!fc3
\t>d5 71 �3+ \t>d4 72 � 2+ \t>c4 is
quite playable. 70 . . . .{tc4 71 \t>ht
Y!Jel+ 72 \t>h2 e3 0-1. If 73 .§,f3 .ild5
traps the rook, or if 73 � c2 e2 74 � c3
Y!Jg3+.
2) Sosonko - Rivas, Amsterdam 1978,
after 24 . . . Jlxc5 :
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:'?) AB
tm m •
� "" • .\'ilf"
•�• •
o·�
!>•, t W <lloo ·
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. -
!ltB B �?jc
• •
•
- ?'� .il.
b <lloo J'
.o(lt
�- . ',
,§1 B§B �
In the next example Black has one
pawn for the exchange and the possibility
of picking up a second by winning the
weak d-pawn. But the total number of
pawns is not the important thing. Once
again what matters is that Black has the
initiative because he has a convenient
plan available - to advance his 3 : 1 Q-side
majority. In other words his position can
unfold; it is going somewhere. White on
the other hand does not have a plan
because it is very difficult to find anything
active for the rooks to do. This is the key
to understanding all exchange sacrifices.
The rooks cannot operate effectively on
the a- or b-file; they cannot seriously
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attempt anything aggressive o n the o th e r cannot be a ctivat e d ; if 3 5 .§as l;tes,

wing; and any potential entry points on threate ning 36 . . . b3+ etc. 35 . . . �cS 36
the e-file can easily be covered by Black. Ad3 If36 f4 (preventing . . . lte5) �d4
Nor is there any hope of o pen i ng another and 37 . . . b3+. 36 . . . .Q.xdS 37 .§.a6
file by pawn advances within a reason­ Jtes 38 .§aS+ The last chance, hoping
able time . for a blockade in the opp osite bishop
25 Jlg4 �c7 26 J;U3 lld6 The e nding ; but Black's king is too stro ngly
correct p lacing of the pieces, le aving the p l ace d .
king free to support the passed pawns. If 38 . . . �d4 39 .§xdS+ <it>xds 40 f4
26 . . . �d6 27 .§ e l .§ Xel+ 28 .§ xel itd6 4t J;lg6 �c4 42 .i1f7+ �d4 43
the rook has a chance of some activity by ,ilb3 �e3 44 rs White s only hope is to
penetrating to e6 or e8 (28 . . . .Q..x d S? 29 secure his K-side in such a way as to
'

.§ d l ) . 27 � If 27 .§ e l .§xel+ 28 prevent Black from obtaining an othe r

.§ xe l i;teS 29 .§e3 �d 6 followed b y pa sse d pawn. At first g lan ce that might
. . . aS and . . . b4. It is wo rth m e nti on ing seem a poss ibili ty ; in fact it stre tches his
,

that in p ositio n s o f this typ e two b ish o p s defe ns iv e resources to b re aki ng point. 44
agains t a roo k and bishop are often m u ch . . . hS 45 ./J..f7 h4 46 gXh4 Axh2 47 l;ta2
b etter than a single bi s h o p agai nst a If 47 h5 �e4 48 .Q.g6 (or 48 -'l_e6 �4-gS
si ngle rook. The bishops always combine and . . . �h5) ..Q.e5 49 llh7 b3+ ! 50
very well, covering the squares of both �b3 �d3 and wins. 47 . . . .Q..d 6 48
colours, and they tend to creat e a b arri er .Q.bt ®!4 49 �3 �4 50 ®c4 �h4
for the rook which prevents it from Sl .{ic2 c;t>gs 52 �d5 ll18 53 �e4 (if 53
entering their p o s ition . �4 Black plays . . . g6 anyway) g6 54
Another p o s s i b le line here is 29 d6+ txg6 fS+ 55 �eS lL:7+ 56 �e6 f4 57
� d6 30 l;txb7 �b7 31 .§ e6 .Q.es � ®b6 0-1.
(or 3 1 . . . �6 32 .§ e8 J,le5, to be u l t ra­ 3) Sokolov - Yusupov, 1st match game,
cautious) 32 § e7+ �c6 33 .§ xg7 Riga 1986, after 29 4jf6:
Axc3 and the black p awns win easily .
27 . . . \tlb6 28 .§et .§xel+ 29 � B B 8
�el aS 30 �d2 b4 31 cXb4 aXb4 ..... . - . ....
--� - ......
B l ac k s basic plan is . . . Jtes, . . . ita6-b5 ·4l· t � •
and . . . �5, follo w e d by the advance of • at
'

iiA
the p awns , an d as l o ng as he takes BtU 11
reasonable care and avoids any blockade
H � B§
there is no reason why he s hou l d not win. • .!!. g
Bi �� .!!. B
�­
This plan may be adj u s te d s lightly !f-i1 1"i; � . w�(--::c
acco rd ing to which defen c e White
w,.- ;� �� �"'':::

adopts. 32 .§ a4 Pro bab ly the best 29 . . . .§xf6! 30 eXf6 �f6 The

figh ting chance. 32 �c2 would only dominant placing of the white knight
encou rage the pawns to a d van ce more obviously provoked th e exch ang e
quickly: 32 . . . b3+ 33 �d l (or 33 �d2 sacrifice , and the re s u lti ng pos ition has
c3+ 34 � c2! 35 .§ e i ..Q.a3 J c3 34 Ae4 s eve ral aspects favourable to Black: (1)
�5 etc. (35 .§.a7 .Q..x d5!). 32 . . . ,ila6 His minor pieces are quite a ctiv e ; (2) The
32 . . . c3+ 33 �2 Aa6 34 �3 would o pening of the centre by . . . e5 is l ike ly to
al low a blockade, at least temporarily. 33 bring White's king into some danger; (3)
.Q.e4 c3+ 34 �c2 ltc4 35 g3 The rook is The white rooks are not very effective.
a u sele ss defensive piece, but it simply That is perhaps not obvious, but in a
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moment White will feel obliged to play
t3, in order to keep the knight out of e4,
and this pawn will then obstruct the h3
rook and prevent any occupation ofthe f­
file or easy doubling on the e-file.
Thereafter only the h-file will be available
for the rooks (apart from the difficult
chance of a later sacrifice by aS), and
Black can handle that problem without
much discomfort.
31 .(h4 .:£jd6 Black keeps his knights,
which are admirably suited to this
blocked position, and on the following
move exchanges off White's better
bishop. 32 13 J;trs 32 . . . e5 is a sharper
line, probably at least as good as the text
move. 33 jtxrs eXfS 34 .§. chl f4 35 ltfZ
.§. e8 36 �dl .:£Jrs Compare note 3
above; the h-file is a dead-end for the
rooks. 37 .§.et .§. e7 38 .§.hhl '3;;c7 39
a4 �r7 40 .§.xe7+ 'i!!><e7 41 .§.et �n
42 �e2 '3;;d7
The entry points on the e-file have
been covered, leaving White's rook with
no hope of any play; meanwhile Black
has a useful plan in the advance of his K­
side majority: once again we see the value
of the initiative. There is one active
possibility which White could have tried
here: 43 aS 4Jxa5 44 �e5 4Jc6 45 �8
h5 46 �aS etc. This is the kind ofthing he
should be looking for, but although the
queen has managed to penetrate there
seems to be nothing definite after 46 . . .
4Jd6. Black could also play 43 . . . bXa5
44 .§. b l '3;;c7 45 .§.el 4Jg7, which is
slightly more passive, but keeps the
25
queen out.
43 '3;Jct h5 44 '3;Jh2 �g6 45 � g4 46
.§. e2 46 txg4 hXg4 47 .§. e2 would seem
to be preferable because it opens the
position a little for the benefit of the rook.
Sokolov understandably did not wish to
leave e4 open for a black knight, but if 47
. . . .:£jd6 he has 48 Ael 'il1f5 49 .Q.d2
etc., winning the f-pawn. 46 . . . g3 47
Aet 4Jfe7 48 jtd2 � 49 �el h4 50
aS Black has it all his own way now, and
this move has a look of desperation about
it. If 50 � 4Jg6, and then, for example,
51 jtcl h3 52 gXh3 4Jh4 53 �1 �g5
54 .ild2 g2 55 �gl �g3, and with the
enemy queen immobilised Black can
decide the game by bringing his c6 knight
into play.
50 . . . bXaS 51 �at 4Jg6 52 �a3 h3
53 gXh3 �5! Better to win the f-pawn
first, defending the d-pawn at the same
time. 54 �cS 'i!!><l3 55 .§.et 4Jge7 56
�5 g2 57 �7+ '3;;d 6 58 .§.gt �12 59
Axr4+ 'l!!><r4 60 .§.xg2 � 61 .§.g4
'i!!><h 3 62 .§.f4 '3;;e 6 63 .§.18 �6 64
.§.13 If 64 .§.e8 '3;;d 6! and the rook is
trapped on the back rank. 64 • . . �8 65
.§.e3+ '3;;d 6 66 .§.13 �6 67 .§.n �g7!
fr4i �·
lW* !W'4
W'A
m
� - . .
�
• u
'�
¥"! t' •
�
IJ t B • B
� D g .
� • 0�
##'A . 'u u � If\*( '
?r:% - - � /1;/,"
This is essentially the winning move,
activating one of the knights by preparing
to offer a queen exchange, which White
of course cannot accept. 68 '3;;a3 .:£jrs 69
�c8 4Je3 70 .§.18 Or 70 .§.f2 �g6 7 1
�+ '3;;c7 , and Black wins the c-pawn
or exchanges queens. 70 . . . 4Jxc2+ 71
'3;Ja4 4J2Xd4 72 cXd4 'i!!><d 4 0-1
(73 .§.d8+ '3;;c 5!).
26 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE
QUOTES & QUERIES
by Ken Wbyld, Moorland House, Caistor, Lincoln LN7 6SF
No. 4675 - Archivists have been
troubled by conflicting dates of birth or
death for many World Champions (e.g.
Staunton, Steinitz, Lasker) but the
present title-holder has created a new
diffi culty, that of knowing his first name!
There are four choices, Garik, Garry,
Harry and Gary. The first three are all
used in Child of Change, Kasparov's
fascinating autobiography. The last
,
Gary, is a non-starter. Invented for the
film star, Gary Cooper, the name is
unknown in the USSR. "It is not clear
why I was called Garik. My father took a
great interest in names, but on this
occasion he could not decide, so I had no
name at all for two month . . At home in
. any other game at Mannheim end l ike it.
Baku most people pronounce my name
'Harry' because of the soft Russian 'G'
sound." (p. 24). Elsewhere (including the
title p age) he calls himself'Garry'. When
he first wrote to the UK, in English, he
signed himself 'Harry Kasparov'.
Our editor tells me that 'Garik' is a
diminutive for 'Henrick' (or 'Genrick'),
much the same as 'Harry' is for 'Henry'
here. It is also a pet name for 'Georgy' or
'Igor'. The whole matter is complicated
by the fact that the Cyrillic (Russian)
alphabet has no letter that corresponds to
'H'. The letter r most often equates to 'G'
in Roman-alphabet languages. However
in Ukrainian and Byelorussian names it
usually corresponds to 'H' but western
writers with a basic knowledge of Russian
transliterate to 'G' willy-nilly. Thus we
get Russians, named after the mythologi­
cal hero, appearing as 'Gektor', and the
Armenian player Amiryan, named after
Shakespeare's 'Gamlet'. The Russified
German name Einhorn, the player from
Odessa, comes b ac k as Eingorn, Geller is
from Helier etc. A final factor is to
consider what language his parents used
when th ey named Kasparov. He says (p. 69
Child of Change) Ru s s ian is my first
"
language, not Armenian or Azerbaid­
jani." That does not necessarily mean
that it was the language of his family.
No. 4676 - Edward Winter asks "Can
you say more about the Mieses-Post
'classical position' (November BCM
p. 479)? I cannot see it in the M annheim
19 14 t ou rn ament book." In the tourna­
ment Post was White, as indeed the
S chu r ig pa iring tables required. The
game Post-Mieses in the book, and also
in Deutsches Wochenschach 1916 p. 36, is
quite different from that in BCM. Nor di d
No doubt Jim Walsh will give his source.
By odd co incidence a contemporary
Mattison drawing study (Rigaer Tageblatt
19 13) had almost the same material, and
readers might like a shot at -it.
• •
Solution: 1 a4+ ®b6 2 .Qj2 cl= �
3 .§.xc5 �c5 4 � 1 ! �f2.
No. 4677 - EW also shows that not
everyone missed the win, Korchnoi­
Miles, Tilburg 1986 (Q&Q 4662). It was
demonstrated by Timman in New in
Chess 1986 No. 8.
No. 4678 - Staunton was not wealthy, as is
generally known. Recently I examined his
will. He left all "to my dear wife Francis
 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 27

Carpenter Staunton" and made her sole
executrix. When he died he came into the
official category ofowning "under £100 and
no leasehold". Letters of administration
were granted to "John Pretyman Slingsby
Roberts of7 Leadenhall Street, in the City,
solicitor and creditor."
No. 4679 An Ame rican recently wrote to
-
�c3 46 �1 �a5 47 �c2 �d8 48 aXb5
aXb5 49 �el �5 50 �f3 �c7 51 �g5
�d6 52 �3 Ae7 53 �t3 Jl,d8 54 h3
�e7 55 � 1 ,ild6 56 g3 �6 57 4jf3
,iie 7 58 �Xe5 W6 59 <it>d4 � 60
�5 \tlb4 6 1 �c6+ �b3 62 c5 �5
63 h4 .Q.c1 64 �d4+ �4 65 �6 b4 66
e6 l;ta3 67 e7 1-0
No. 4682 - Eucl i d was the pen nam e of

me about the book "Hank Atkins' Games". " " -

Did anyone call H E Atkins "Hank"? Alfred Crosskill (1829-1904), one-time

mayor ofBeverley, and perhaps the most
No. 4680 - Chess Review is perhaps the skilful endgame analyst in Britain during
title of what is perhaps a magazine.* the nineteenth century. His book The
Nothing is clear from the one undated Chess Ending King & Queen against King
copy I have seen. It i ncludes an article & Rook (1895) is still valid. Bernard
printed in ran dom page sequence abm�t Cafferty wonders why it has been ignored
Steinitz. At one point h i s birthdate is by the major writers on the endgame -
given as 12 May 1863 (sic), and at another, Berger, Cheron, Fine and Averbakh.
14 May 1837. Both are wrong. He was Were they unaware of it, or simply
born in May 1836, either 1 4th or 1 7th. t disinclined to wade through descriptive
There is a general use of eccentric notation in an ending where orien tation
English, understandable from contri­ in descriptive is easily lost?
butors to whom it is a foreign language,
but readers may find it ·strange to read of No. 4683 - Joan Collins is alleged to
GMs Perfossian, Slosonko, and Humber. believe that 'nice guys finish last'. Does
this apply in chess? Nobody gets to the
No. 4681 - Hamilton McMillan aske d in top without a degree of resoluteness, but
Q&Q 4528 (May 1986) for the position in the pre-Elo days popularity could
which caused a writer to say that offset failure to reach the summit. These
Petrosyan's winning plan would elude thoughts were prompted by an examin­
most IMs even in post hoc analysis. He ation of an index I made some time ago,
has now found the position himself, in giving the names included in 19 chess
Deutsche Schachzeitung September 1964, reference books. Some well-liked but not
but without the annotation he recalls. quite top flight players appear in every
book. For example, Bird, Ed. Lasker,
Mieses and Znosko-Borovsky. A player
of comparable strength, but of a haughty
sarcastic manner, Kaufmann, appears
only in the O)([ord Companion to Chess.

* "Endorsed by FIDE", published in

Petrosyan-Oliveira, Bueno s Aires
1964: 43 . . . �d8 44 �e2 �a5 45 �d l
1987 to judge from the reference to the
Dubai Olympiad, editor seems to be D.
Bjelica. Ed.
t Death date given as 12 ii 1900 -
wrong by over six months ! Ed.
28 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE
PROBLEM WORLD
The first four contributions all s how consider­
able economy of means (problems should be
economical, with no pieces not necessary to
the solution) and complexity in their different
ideas. There is a glimpse of chess geometry in
Suratkal Ismile's problem ; a perfect quartet of
mates in Cyril Whitehead's composition;
battery play and a generous key-move in Pat
O'Shea's creation; and Paul Steiner might
catch you out with a strong-looking 'try' move
which on closer exam inationjust fails to solve.
Now, you are primed for the heavyweights !
J. R. Fleiuss, a newcomer from Brazil
(welcome), shows us a nice blend of unpins
and interferences, introduced by an accurate,
thematic key. Tom Russell - he took part in
the annual Lloyds Bank Chess Solving Cham­
pionship - has got the composing 'bug' again
after some 40 years. I see 7 different mating
moves in his complex problem. Then there is
the coincidence of the contribu tions from
Messrs . Howard and White. What have their
problems in common? Why are they so
different?
Readers of The Problem ist - the bi-monthly
specialist problem magazine - can compare
Fuad Jada's problem with his C730 1 . Those
who are in position to say, I ask you, please, to
indicate which ofFuad's spectacular problems
on the same theme is the better.
Incidentally, The Problemist really is a 'must'
for problem lovers . Details may be obtained
from the British Chess Problem Society, Hon.
Treasurer Paul Valois, 14 Newton Park Drive,
Leeds, LS7 4HH. BPB
We start the longer problems with a 3-mover
from the Chess Problem Editor of The
Suratkal !smile (India)
1 2373
Mate in 2 Mate in 2
Edited by Colin Vaughan 1 188
Independent, who tells me that it was inspired
by an original sent to the paper by that grand
old man ofProblem Chess, Maurice (M.E.M.)
Jago, who recently celebrated his 85th birth­
day. Interestingly enough, we also have a most
unusuai S-mover by Maurice himself. Solvers,
you have been warned ! Welcome to our new
contributor from Athens, who shows that it is
possible to put new wine in old bottles.
Laurent may have achieved something new in
the selfmate field by transposing a popular
more-mover idea. The first three helpmates
competed in the "Whisky Ty." at Graz. All
received excellent marks for artistic merit but
failed to make the prize list only because
Graham Lee managed to solve them too
quickly! It is an honour to have an original
from the "King" of Fairy Chess and publisher
of feenschach, Peter Kniest. Michael's finely
balanced double solution rounds off a feast of
fine helpmates. Play and mate are normal in
Lev's "home-base" problem, but Black must
capture if he can. NAM
Solutionsand comments please to David
Friedgood, 1Waverley Place, Leatherhead,
Surrey KT22 SAS by 7 February.
Original Problem s : 2-movers to B. P. Barnes,
Marsh House, Marsh Road, Hailing,
Rochester, Kent ME2 IDB; all other types to
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SOLVER OF THE MONTH A book prize is
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solutions and comments to all IS problems;
please say if you have used a computer.
Mate i n 2
 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 29

12317 12378
R. Fl ei us s (Brazil) Tom Ru sse l l (Glasgow)

Mate in 2 (try) Mate in 2 Mate in 2

12379 12380 12381

D. Honrd (Bristol) Fuad Jada (USA) J. R. R. While (Bournemouth)

Mate in 2 Mate in 2 Mate in 2

12382 1 2383 12384

Jlm GrevaU ( 8ordon) G. Georgopoulos (Greece) Maurlce Jago (Penzance)

[j -�· • •
• fl jt ·�·-
,.a. • .4J� i ·
• B ft ll • • i
• • � g •
114J • • • • ft rl
� • •� • • •
••• -�· • • •
Male i n 3 Mate in 4 Mate in 5

1 2385 12386 1 2387

J... ure.t Joudoa (France) Peter Kniest (W. Germany) Attila Beuedek (Hungary)

He lpm ate in 2
(b) remove (b) remove c3
Selfmate in 6 (a) diagram Helpmate in 2 (a) diagram
c8
30 THE BR!TISH CHESS MAGAZIN E

12388 1 2389 1 2390

Timo Kallio (Finland) Mlcbael McOowell {Newtownards) Lev Sokholov {USSR)

Helpmate (a) diagram in 6

(b) add bRh6 (c) bPg5 Black capture.
in 2 Selfmate
must

CORRESPONDENCE CHESS
by Reg Gillman and John Hawkes
One of the most successful ideas for several tournaments in the preparation
correspondence chess has been the inter­ stage at the same time, each vying for the
national Grandmaster invitation tourna­ few GMs who might be available and
ment. Any country affilliated to ICCF determined to make their tournament
can apply to organise such an event and better than the others. Thus the prizes
provided it is run as an all play all group of are on a rising spiral and GMs are being
13 or more players to commemorate offered other incentives, such as
something of value for correspondence appearance fees or contributions towards
chess, it is accepted. If enough of the their postal costs. In fact, there have been
participants have the necessary titles, it so many tournaments with such
will be given norms. The rules are quite attractive prize funds, that the ICCF
simple. 65% of the players must be title Treasurer proposed this year to take a
holders and 30% of the players must be cut. It was agreed that in future, all
Grandmasters. So a 15 player group must individual tournaments authorised by
have ten titled players including five ICCF would be subject to a charge of 5
Grandmasters. Swiss francs per player.
However, norms are only a concept John Hawkes has chosen three games
and remain flexible. If the circumstances from recent GM invitation tournaments
change so do the norms. Thus if a for your enjoyment.
tournament is started with only ten titled D B. J. Marcussi (ARG)
players and one of them withdraws, the • G. J. Timmerman (NDL) Ruy Lopez
GM norm is withdrawn too. That can be
rather awkward when the national 1 e4 e5 2 ./£Jf3 ./£Jc6 3 �b5 a6 4 �a4
(NBC 15 Volmac GM Tournament)

federation has put up a lot of money for ./£Jf6 5 0-0 �e7 7 .§.et b5 7 .k;tb3 0-0 8 c3
the prize fund and promised the IM d6 9 d4 ltK4 10 �e3 d5?!
players a crack at the GM title. Therefore, One must be impressed by Black's play
it's a jolly good idea to have at least one in the Stern v Penrose, Nielsen Memorial
extra GM and IM in the tournament. But Tournament encounter: 10 . . . eXd4 1 1
the GMs who are willing to take part are cXd4 ./£Ja5 1 2 �c2 c5 1 3 dXc5 dXc5 14
spread very thinly for there are normally ./£Jbd2 ./£Jd7 1 5 h3 iVt5 16 g4 Jtg6 1 1
 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE 31

� 2 '/bc7 1 8 f4 f6 19 �df3 c 4 2 0 �h4 34 '/bht !

,§ adS ! gave Black a superbly balanced
position which was immediately
exploited (see BCM page 23 last ye ar) .
1 1 eXd5 eXd4 12 �Xd4
Best. 12 �5 �XdS ! 13 �XdS '/bxdS
14 .(lxe7 �f3 15 '/bxf3 '/bxf3 16 gXf3
.§ fe 8 =r (1. Togh v Perenyi, Hungary
1977) completely justifies Black's
du b iou s l Oth move.
12 . . . �d4 13 cXd4 AM 14 �c3
l;lxc3
'Book' is 14 . . . aS 15 a3 �c3 1 6
bXc3 a 4 17 �a2 '/bd6 1 8 h 3 �hS!?
unclear (ECO)
15 bxc3 �d5 16 '/bd3 lte6 17 .§ es
And White has an attack going.
17 . . . 4jr4 18 '/be4 4jg6 19 4jg5!
.Q.xb3 20 aXb3 b4 21 c4 c6
22 h4! h6 23 h5 hXg5 24 hXg6 1Xg6 25
.§ e6 .§ r4 26 �c6 ,§xd4
Black has managed a degree of
A m arv ell ou s 'quiet' winner.
34 . . . '/bxf2+ 35 c;!th3 1 -0.
Ready for discovered 'corridor' mate.
0 J. Dondali (Y)
• S. Brilla-Banfalvi (H) Ruy Lopez
(Keres Memorial GM Tournament)
1 e4 eS 2 �t3 �c6 3 Abs f5 4 �c3 1Xe4
5 �Xe4 �f6 6 �Xf6+ '/bxf6
Believe it or not, 6 . . . gXfO h as been
played in serious postal chess. Persidsky
v Tikhomirov, USSR 1967-68 went, 7 d4
d6 8 dS a6 9 .Q.e2 4Je7 10 4Jh4 4J5 1 1
i;thS+ �e7 1 2 �X5+ �5 1 3 0-0
�6 14 f4 '/be8 1S ih4 h5 16 ID3 �d8
17 fXeS fXeS 18 JhS+ �e7 19 .§ f6!
'/bg8 20 '/bf3 �e 8 2 1 ID4 '/bg7 22 '/bf2
.§ h6 23 .§f8 .§h8 24 .§xh8 '/bxh8 25
Axe7+ �e7 26 .§.fl h4 27 '/bd2 '/bhS
28 .§5 '/bg6 29 '/bb 4 ! '/bh6 30 .§ xe5+
�8 31 .§ e l 1-0.
7 '/be2 i;te7 8 Axc6 dXc6 9 �e5 l,trs
Or 9 . . . 0-0 10 0-0 Ad6 1 1 d4 cS 12
�e3 and a choice between 12 . . .
Axes, . . . Ae6 for Black. The
Hungarian veteran plays logically,
thinking of qu e ens ide castling.
10 d3 0-0-0 1 1 0-0 .§.he8 12 f4 l;td6 13
'/bt3 Axes 14 1Xe5 .§xes 15 Ad2
.§ ed5 16 .Q.c3 '/bg6 17 .§ aet ,§ 8d7
.... V.j( 1il" $ji � fx,
\C•�
4{ t nlo.. a:,:\ a
e' ¥§?i '* t
J.:' Wfl � /, f//.

simplification but he is still highly +.:: •

susceptible to a K-side assault. White B
IB t IB • . fB W //J
•"'-!�?>,
handles it beautifully. ?1 Ei> :i � ..IJI
27 .§ae1 ,§ d1 28 �2 .§xe1 29 .§xe1 !B
- .
� -
- �
• O ft ·Yb·
;iL "
�7 30 .§h1 �8 31 g3 ! .§ a7 32 .§.et
c;!th7 33 .§ e8 '/br6 ft � ft fql ?#; ft tjhj
• • .§. • m . .
·• �� o
• rt:::<. \"'' �
Q

.,
- .
� -.
- - -·
t aMt#J
Black has held himself together but
. ��
White can subtly exploit the back row
- -
�
�. ­
!J0ii
weakness.
18 'ltfe3 bb6 19 .§tJ h5 20 .§ g3 '/bh7 21
. � '/be8+ �7 22 a4 a5 23 b4 aXb4 24
a • �. i;txb4 g6 25 a5
M ·
D � Commencing a very interesting attack.
32 THE BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE

If 25 .§. d8 26 a6+ followed by Vaganyan v Ribli, Montpellier 1985. But

'{kxc6. 12 . . . c3 1 3 bXc3 0-0-0 14 �3 l,tc5 1 5
25 . . . bXa5 26 Jl.e7 .§. b5 27 � <iJO ! favours White.
The black queen is stalemated and 13 h3 .§, d8! 14 �c2 l;tc5 1 5 <iJxc4 4Je4
needs air. 16 4)e3
27 . . . h4 28 .§. ge3 h3 29 c4 .§. b2 When you have to play such unnatural
moves in defence, it's a sure sign that all
is not well.
16 . . . .Q.b6 17 a4
11 b4! Ji.d4 I 8 b5 Acts 19 .§.bl o-o? 20
<i!tfl .§.c8 21 �d3 with a slight edge for
White. Hovde v Groiss, 29th European
CC Championship.
17 . . . h4 18 g4 <iJgS 19 aS
If 19 4Jc4 4)xh3+ 20 �2 4)xf2 2 1
4)xb6 4)xg4+ 2 2 � � h3 23 Af4 h2+
30 �f6! 24 itxh2 .§.Xh2 threatening . . . .§.hi
Threatening .§,e8 and a mating attack mate.
via the back door. 19 . . . Jl.c7 20 4Jg2 4)Xb3+ 21 <i:!tfi
30 . . . .§.17 31 �a3 .§.xg2+ 32 �1
• ••• •
•t-
•
�6
- �q
A defence against 33 .§.e8 with 33 . . . - � -
�
�

.§.xh2+! but not against the quieter

move. H •
33 '{kxa5 '{kxe3 34 .§.xe3 .§.Xf6 35 • • . ft .
�4+ '3;;a7 36 .§. et c5 37 .§.al+ .§.a6 . -
. - -
- . ..
. ..
38 �cS+ �7 39 �5+ .§, b6 40 R�• ft a4Jw&r
�dS+ 1 -0 f.\3l . ·a f$1��-·:w£
The final point.
D G. Rotariu (R) Black's sacrifice is to be absolutely
• P. Heilemann (WG) Catalan conclusive.
(Yugoslavia 50 GM To urnament) 21 . . 4)xa! 22 Jlgs
•

Notes based on those in "SSKK Bulletinen • Inadequate. But so was 22 �f2

1 d4 <iJr6 2 c4 e6 3 g3 dS 4 �2 dXc4
5 <iJf3 cS 6 0-0 <iJc6
An excellent line of defence and
straightforward too.
7 �a4
An extreme measure to prove White's
system.
7 . . . cXd4 8 <iJxd4 �d4 9 l;txc6+
Jid7 1 0 .§, d 1 �d 1 + 1 1 �dl Jl.xc6
A sort of material equality.
12 <iJbd2 hS!
Theoretically important and with an
altogether logical look to it. Also playable
is 12 . . . b5 and if 13 a4 l,te7 ! as in
i;tg3+ 23 �gl because of 23 . . . h3 !
22 . . . <iJxg4 ! o-1.
The h-pawn is untouchable because of
the fork on e3.
OHRA Problem Solving - The key move
for the Jac. Haring problem dedicated to
the 1987 OHRA tournament, see page
366 of our August issue, was 1 .§.f6.
Dutch names predominate in the list of
35 prizewinners received in November,
but we note H. Johnson, London, and G.
Ednie; Waking, amongst those who were
awarded the tournament booklet.
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Blackwood - Chris Ward, Tun bridge qualifiers, would play KO matches to
Wells, scored 4112(5) to win the top section establish a challenger for the wo rld title.
of the 4th Islwyn Congress, Blackwood, There were 2 1 0 players in the 1 6th
8-9 xi. 2-6 P. A. Richmond, S . Le Blancq, Seville O pe n . Julian Hodgson came close
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Harwar, Cheltenham, and F. Brown, (ISR) slip half a point ahead in the last
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Centenary - The London .v. Rest of Andrei Sokolov, Tallabera 7; 6- 19
England match to celebrate the centen­ Damlj anovic . . . Taimanov, Gufeld,
ary ofthe London League was won by the Adorjan, Flear, Hebden, Martin . . . 6'1z.
home side 5-3 . Played at the RCA, The World Title Match - The 2 1st game was
M all , on December 5, the event was a Griinfeld, drawn in 28 moves by rep­
graced by a good GM turnout, including etition. Kasparov's position was better in
the presence of GM Fedorovicz from the middle game and he won the ex­
New York! change for a pawn, but followed up i n ac ­
l!arnborough - G tr. M anchester won the curately. Signs of the stress showing in
U-14 Team Championships by a convinc� both players?
ing margin on 29 xi, retaining the title Kasparov took his last break on 9- 10
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each on the clock and only ten minutes was won by Nana Ioseliani 14'12(19) at the
between rounds. It does not seem to have end of"November. M aya Chiburdanidze
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mass Swissfor 1 00 pl ayers would be held, the final, . . . 8th= P sakhi s . . .