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CHESS REVIEW

INTERNATIONAL Ascendant Star

International graudmaster Vietor Kor­rhnoy, a three-time winner of the Suviet champion shi p, is again in the news with two bi g triumphs- a 9Y2.3lh tally against a tough field at Yerevan, ]{us~ia (which included world champion Tigran Petro­syan ), und an invincible I 'Ph·l/z accumu· la tion in the Asztalo$ Memorial Tourna­ment at Gyula, Hungary. In the latter contest, Honri and Lengyel were far be­hind in a 9·6 lie for second. The Yerevan event saw I'et rosyan and Leonid Stein lie for second with 81/2·41A~ each. Indifferent scores were turned in by s uch lum inaries as Portisch of Hungary, i\latanovich of Yugoslavia, Filip of Czechoslovakia and Stahlberg of Sweden.

Battle in Bulqaria L. Kavalek of Czechoslovakia scored an

outs tanding 11 ·4 to take a strong interna· tional event in Varna, Bulgaria. He was followed by Kolarov of BlI lgariu with 9%. 5Y2, and a trio who we re deadlocked at 9·6: Bobozov of Bulgaria, !\htulovieh of Yugoslavia and Lengyel of Hungary.

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for t he comp lete match, see pages 362_7

Chesswomen in Action At a n in ternational women's tourn ament

in the Soviet Un iOIl, \Y. Koslovskaia (USSR) pl aced first wit h 8V2.21h . closely pursued by her compat riot Rann ikn, 8·3. Nicolau of Hum-nnia, 7V2·31h, was third.

Italian Interlude A fourfold tie for first was registered

in a Swiss tourney at San Benedetto del Tranto, Italy, when Nestler, Palmiott o, Porreca and Pa,-lovich each scored 51;4· 2Y2. Sevcri was fifth with 5·3. Countries that were represented in addition to Italy were England, Fl'ance, Swit7.erland and Yugoslavia.

Outclassed In a double· round student duel at WUtz·

burg, West Germany, the Dutch visitors were no match for their hosts and suc· cumbed h)' 4%.15Yz.

Visitors Edge Hosts A Swiss tournament at Eastbourne in

England , dubbed the "Open Cham Ilion. ship," was won by two foreig ners, H. Rcefschlaegcr of Germany and J. R. Roos of Holland, each 8~'2·2%. English repre· scntatives K. B. Hannon, L. P. Burnett and P. N. Wallis tied for th ird through fifth with 8·3 each.

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Transactions in Thule Oslo, Non,-ay, was the scenc of the

NOl1herll Championship, a round robin restri cted to players from Den mark, Ice. land, Norway and Sweden. F . Thorbergs· son of I celand and S. Johannessen of Norway headcd the l ist with 9·2 each and then t ied again in a playoff, after which Thorbergssoll was grant ed top honors on the basis vf a point e' ·aluation .

A Top for Holland The Cdtex international tournamen t

for teams of four went to Holland on a tiebre:lk basis. England equaled Holland's 20·8 match score, and both countries left West Germany far behind in third p lace with 15·13.

The Return of Aben Rudy \Ve heard hom Ahen Rudy again reo

cently. He was explaining the application 'Jf the term, "Irrcducible Minimum" to chess. It come8 lip for example when a chess situation is so rare and peculiar that it, at the vcry least, mllst cvoke a "The deuce you say !" "You know," he concluded, " whcn a jlosition is positively weird or eery:'

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Spas sky Tied by Unzicker At Sochi in the Soviet Union, the Tchi.

gorin Memoriul Tournament was won jointly by B. Spassky (Soviet Union) and W. Unzicker (Germany), each 10Yz.4Y2. Neither incurred loss. Thi rd was Chirich (Y ugosJavia), 10·5.

Still the Queen Non'a Gaprindashvili retained the worn·

en's world championship by downing Alia Kushnir in a title match. Both are Soviet citizens.

UNITED STATES REGIONAL AND INTERSTATE

Pittsburgh by One Point In a match between Pittsburgh and

Cleveland, the former gained a narrow victory by 7%.6Y2. F. Sorenson, L. Gard· ner, W. Byland , G. Doschek, D. Lawrence and R. Kinney won for Pittsburgh, while R. Kause, E. Kossak, G. Kromp, L. Ihasz and L. Battes scored full points for Cleve· land. The following three games were drawn (with Pittsburgh players named first): M. Lubell 'liS. J. Schroeder, D. ]\JcClelian 'lis. H. Hintzer and J . Kolts 'lis. J. Hoffman.

With New England Students An intercollegiate invitational team

tournament, arranged by Norwich Univer. sity of Vermont, resulted in a 5·0 sweep for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Next was the University of Massachusetts, followed by Norwich University and St. Anselm's College in New Hampshire.

ALABAMA With a 6·0 sweep, G. C. Bates won the

Alabama Open, followed by Salvador Martinez, Jr., 5·1. The seventeen·player event was sponsored by the Birmingham Chess Club.

CALIFORNIA Captain John Hudson and John Black.

stone, each 6·1, tied for first in the eighty. fivc.playcr California Open. A slim ad·

ALLA KUSHNI R She lost decisively to Nona Gaprindash.

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vantage in tie· break points gave the offi· cial trophy to Hudson. Players with 5%.1 Y:i scores were Z. Kovacs, D. Blohm, P . Perillo, fit Wilkerson and N. Wood .

IOWA In the strongest group of the Eleven th

Annllal Iowa Open, played in three see· tions, the name of Gilbert Ramirez led all the rest with a 5·0 shutout. Scores of 4·1 in this forty.six.player section were garnered by Melvin Matherly, Paul Hersh, Dan Reynolds. Glen F. ProecheJ, Ray Wenzel, John G. Warren and Laszlo Ficsor. The " l'vTiddle Class" division was won by Matthew R. Baird, 4·1, and the J unior hy Lee DeWitt, 41f2.Yz.

KANSAS Wesley Koehler was the successful can·

didate in the Kansas Open with an in·

vincible 5·0. Second in the thirty.eight. player tourney was John R. Beilling, 4%.%. V. W. Harris, whose 4-1 tally was shared by Robert Spies and Lee Magee, was declared stale champion as highest ranking Kansan.

LOUISIANA Of the 38 pla),ers who tried conclusions

at the Louisiana Chess Aisociation Cham_ pionship, A. L. McAuley predominated in first place with 6·1, ahead of George Lecompte, 5·1. It was a gratifying victory for McAuley insofar as he has had the frustrating experience of winding up as runnerup for the past five years.

M INNESOTA A playoff to resolve a quadruple tie for

first in the Minnesota Junior Champion. ship was won by Brendan Godfrey, with Robert K. Johnson becoming runnerup, and James A. Davies and Ray McRoberts bracketed for the next two places. Each of the four scored 3%·Vz in the regular tweuty·six.player tOllrnament.

In the Minnesota Equalizer Tourna· ment, Ivan Kaszas collected the most "equalizer" points and thus won the first · place trophy plus a money prize.

James H. Young and Laszlo Ficsor both scored 4·0 in the State Fair Chess Torna. do. Young had a slight advantage in Sol. koff points.

NEBRASKA G. Ramirez of Omaha won the state

tit le with a 4·1 showing in the combined Nebraska State Championship and Mid· west Open. l'tIidwest hOl:wrs went to C. Gant of New York, 4 %'12. 22 played .

OHIO The new state champion 1S Richard

Noel, J r., who piled up an unheatable seven straight points. Edward Ernst ami Thomas Mazehukowski were second and third with 6·1 and 5%.lYz respectively.

OREGON III the Orcgon Open, Viktors Pupois

swept seven rounds to capture first, ahead

Legend has it , Trifunovich says, t hat anyone who r ings the bell in this picturesque chape l near Bled has his prayer granted,

Afte r game 5, Larsen, lead ing, looks cocky. No one t ruly knows what happened, but Tah l visited the chapel and the be!1 tolled.

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of Ivars Dalbergs, 6·1. Third in the field of 48 entrants was Lei{ KarelI, 5Yz-IYz_

VERMONT In the twenty-player Vermont Open at

Rutland, Alan Morrill, John Curdo and Gerald Rubin each scored 4-1. George Midj anian placed fourth_

WISCONSIN The Wisconsin Speed Championship,

played in two sections, yielded a quad­rangular final that was won by Will iam Martz, 2Y2-Y2. Other final ists were : Nowak, 2-1; Weldon, lYz.lYz; Gaigals, 0·3.

LOCAL EVENTS

California. No sooner was grandmaster Pal Benko installed in new diggings at Sau Diego than he set about investigating (and conquering) new chess worlds. As a start, he won the sixty.two-player South­ern California Open with a clear first of 5%.% . His fellow grandmaster, Larry Evans, headed a group of four at 5.1, placing second on aliebreak. Benko will soon embark on a tour of the United States, during which he will give lectures, simultaneous displays and simultaneous clock exhibitions. He will also be avail­able for individual match games. Anyone interested in arranging for Benko's serv­ices should communicate with the Steiner Chess Group of San Diego, 3447 Ingraham Street, San Diego, California 92109.

In the Northern California Champion­ship, Don Sutherland and Carroll Capps each scored 4%-Yz, with Sutherland win· ning out on a tiebreak. Arthur Wang, Allen Bourke and Ira Pohl scored 4·1 each. There were 46 players.

The San Francisco Bay Area Cham­pionship, a thirty.five .player event, went

READERS' FORUM The diagram under thIs department in

October. page 293, unfortunately had a Pawn mIssing (Black on Black's KN6) . Arnold Berman of Jericho. New York, like many pointed out the flaw but, un_ like al! others, gave the correction_ For those interested, here are the corrected position and terms.

1 Wh ite to move _ mate in 3 2 Remove Knight _ mate in 4 3 Remove Kn ight an d Pawn on R2-

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American Leg ion National Commander, commenting on the Armed Fo rces Cham_ pionship in Washi ngton, Nov. 6_1 3: "We wou ld like to see opportun ities for com. petition agai nst t he cham pions of t he Armed Forces of oth er countri ~s . " Dept. of Defense author ities, wi th the Ame ri_ can Chess Fou ndation, are exploring in t hat direction .

to ha Pohl with 4Yz.Yz. A quadruple tie at 4·1 was registered by Joe Fliegal, David Blohm, Robert Shean and John Jaffray_

A 7-0 shutout was credited to William Batchelder in a rOllnd robin for the championship of Stanford University.

In the Pasadena junior litle lournament. David Forthoffer of Glendale High School placed first with an outstanding 6%-Yz .

The Woodpushers' Tourney al the Whittier Chess Club, attended by 40 xylo. manipulators, was won by J. Barnard, 6·0.

According to Terrachess, the first two sections to finish their schedule in the City Terrace Invitational Cats' Tourna­ment were the Jaguars and the Bobcats. C. Larson was jaguar.in.chief with 7·1 , while H. Guadarrama became head bob· cat with 8-1.

In the South California Amateur Open , which featured an outpouring of 81 che~s

fans, G. Gean and E. Warner shared fir st and second prizes with a 5%-% record. Following with 5·1 each were T. Fries, S. Geller, R. Lalazarian, fit Rubin and S. Rubin. The competiti0n was restricted to pIayers who either rated uflder 2000 or were unrated.

The Panthers and the Leopards have now joined the Jaguars and the Bobcats in completing their schedules in the City Terrace (Los Angeles) Invitational CaB' Tournament. S. Saiter, 8·2, emerged as top Panther, and 1. Porth, 6Yz·l%, be-

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came foremost swinging Leo pard . The Lions and th e Wild cats a re ex pected to be 'heard from shortly. Where are the Tigers in Ih is ar ray o f fa nged feli nes?

Angelo Salldrin ach ieved II 5·0 slml·out in Ihe an nuol 30/ 30 tournament of the Chicago Indust ria l Chess League. Sell' arated on ly by slight tie·bre-ak marg in ~,

Walter Gl'ombacher, Ted DePa rry and Viclor Narkevicius, each 4-1 in game points, finished second, third and fourth in the order li sted . Twent y-two contest_ ants took Ilart.

Georgia. Brad Wade, 5V~-%, was a clea r firsl in the At lanta Open . Da\'e Trucsdel -and Non na n T. Whita ke r, 5-1 each, took second and third respect ively on a tie· break. Fort)··se\"cn players competed.

IlLiliois. T he Gompers P a rk Chess Club of Chicago defeated the Evanston and Metro Chess Cl ubs by 7-6 and 11-2 respectively.

Indiana . At Ind ianapolis, a total of 47 plaYt:r~ reported for action in the Hoosier Open, the main event of which was creditcd to Ed Vano, 4Y:!-"%. Bunched a t 4-1 were Richa rd Braden and T heodore Pehnec (sharing fecond and thi rd on a tie-break). Hen ry T yler a nd E rnst (fourth and fifth resllect ively on a similar basis) and Dan Gregg and Wendel Lutes (tied for sixth and seventh) .

A one-day In dianapolis Chc~s Club

tourney went to George Berry, 4-0, fol. lowed by Dan Gregg and N. Van Duesen, euch 3·L Ten jllayec5 com pcted.

K elll!tcky. In the title tourney o f the Louisville Chess Club, G. Pa t For~ee came in fir5t wit h five st ra ight victories. Run. nerup was Richard O'Bryan, 4-1.

Louisialla. Premier honors in the nine_ man cham pionship of the Cathol ic Chess Cl ub in New Orleans were gained by David Levin, 4Yz-Y2. William Hale. 312' I Y2, was second.

Maille. An eleven-playcr round robin for rhe championship of the Port land Chess Club was gained b)' undefeated John ~Io r­rill, 9·1 , followed by Dr. Edwa rd Bl um_ berg, 8th-Ph. Massachusetts. In a thirty.six-player open at Lynn, John Curdo triumphed with a 5·0 sweep. Thomas McCafferty, Donald V. Haffner a nd Alan C. J\.I orrill, e8ch 4_1, placed second, th ird and fourth respec­th'e!y on tiebresks.

Millllt:so/(l. In the Univers it y of Minn esora Cham pionship, Ronald Lifson was first on a liebreak, ahead of runnerup Gary Boos. Both had scored 4lh-Y2 in game points.

In the P remier Section of the T ribute to Stearns Chess Fest ival in Cleveland, J ames Schroeder crushed all OPllosit ion wit h 8n 11 ·0 steam l"(llier. Al Nasvytis was runnerup with 8"Y2 .2%. T he Candidates'

and the Open Sections were won respec_ ~ ively by Lee Dattcs a nd Edward Case, Jr., each 8Y2-2Vz. New Jerst:)'. A sharply con tested match between Ule Jersey City "Y" and tIle El izabeth Chess Clul! ended in a 4%-3% decis ion favoring Jersey City. Winners for the lattc r were H. Faivus, C. Diskin, ~f. Connel ly and E. Allen, while E l i~l '

beth victon were :\1. Strand, I. Elln er and G. Qui nn. ~L HiH of Jersey Cily drew with E. Rosenfeld .

New York. T he hu ge, city-wi de tuurna· ment fo r New York youngsters nnder seventeen, reported in C H F.SS REVIEW for September(pages)262-63), has now drawn to a elose with a 5-0 sweep in the finals by sixtcen-)'ear-oJd William Smith. SCi;· ond was Hicharcl Su lzbach, 3%-%, ami third was Robert G w)'dir, 3-2.

At Poughkee psie, Donald Schultz down· ed Di ck ~", eye rson by 2-0 in a p!aynff fo r the Chadwick Chess Club tit le.

Ohio. Lee BOll es was crowned Cleveland juniur chess king by I'irtue of a 4Yz-% vic tory in a sixteen-player field. Gregg Stark, who lost only to Battes, ..... as sec· ond .... ith 4- 1.

pCnluy!vullia. The sixth Annual Ga teway allen in Pillsburgh, drawi !"!g a la rge crowd of 68 players, was won by Dr. Erich W. i\lan::hand with a 5·0 sweep, ahead of John Telega, 4¥t-n· Taliies of

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In Philadelphia the GEBA Chess Clul! \ -of the General Electric COmp(lUY conclud­ed its first title tourney, which lI'a~ won by H. Shulllski , 5·0 Grouped at 4·1 were C. Smit h. C. Sta hl and K. ratchel , with Smith tak in g second 011 mediun points.

A m:ltch between Bloomsbu rg Stal e CO'I. lege and Franklin and Marsha ll CO'llege wound up in a 2112-2% standoff. BSC winners were Leonard Thom(l~ and RO'b­crt SCOII : fO'r F 1':: ,\1 the I"ictors wefe Ray Goldnwn and J>eter Goodma n. On first !Joan!. J oe Kres~ l .., r "f USC drew wilh F & !\I'~ Honaltl Blagg.

The Su~qllehunna Valley Open, held in B!oom~b\lrg, wenL t o' David Daniels, 4V:!. 1Jz, fO'r the third successive year. Richard A brams il1ld Ed gar T . .\1cConnir.k match­ed the winner '~ game score, but were relegated I.! secO'nd and third respectively on liebreaks. There was a record entry of 60.

V crtllOli1. !{eeent ly opening its regular int ercollegiate chess season , Norwich Un i· \ 'e rs it~, _~turted auspiciously with a 7·0 rout

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Sea fs land Motel on So. P adre Is land : EFs & ill(juil'ies to 1. D. T aylor, 2403 E. \V:lshin gloll, Harl ingen, Texas.

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Connecticut - February 22 Hartford 30·30 Open at Y?IICA , 315

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51. Ansel n/ s College repre5cntatives, who lost by Jl/2·3 Y2. Her~ Cadets Bill Black· wood and Lurry \Villwel1h again won for Norwich, while A. Cote held the fort fo r St. Anselm's. First bO'ard saw Cadet Dan Carr drawing with SI. Anselm's RO'd ~'la e. DO'nald.

IVisCOIiSill. Doings at Hal,·,horn Glen: Gregory Nowak captured the Fall Cham­pionship with five straight wins and Henry .\lcHert took a 30/ 30 event with 6·1. III the Chumpionshil), Joseph Lynch, Charles Adashek and Joseph Choho! ()laced sec· ond , third and fourth respectively on tic· breuk point s after each had ()osted 4·\ in game~ . Twenty-seven players were drawn to the tit le tourney.

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Eric Long \\' 011 the Alberta Open with a clear first of 5%-%, followed by J. Kassay- Farkas, 4%- l1h. W. Cairns and A. Dejong scored 4-2 each, with Cairns pl-acing rhird on a l iehreak.

No. 1 YOIl are White Quebec

How do YOIl best win 011 A I. . . Q- B61 B 1 .. . ll.- B61 C 1 ... RxRP?

No.2 You are Black

How do Yoll bes t win on 0 1 Q-K21 E 1 Q-KB5? F 1 Q-QB5 ?

No.3 YOII are WMte

How do YOII bes t win on G 1 ... P-D6 ? HI ... NxB1 I 1 . . . R- N3 ? No.4 YOli 31'e Black

How do you best wIn on J 1 N- B4? K 1 B- B5? L 1 RxP? or M 1 P- N 8(Q)?

~oJutions on page 384.

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In the fony-eighHnan provincial cham. pionship, G. Luntos and L. Witt, each 5.1, divided first and second prizes_ Lantos, however, re<:eived tlle nod on a slight edge in the tiebreak. Players scoring 4%-1% were T. Ackerman, R. Rubin, I. ZllIY5, E. Leimanis, P. Haley, .I. Rubin and J. Labelle.

FOREIGN Belgium

Alth{)\lgh van Selers, 8%·2l;§, finished first in the Belgian Championship. the runnerup Boey, 71/ 2-3 1/2, was declared national titleholdcr because van Selers is not a Belgian ci tizen.

International Grandmasters We are ohen asked to l ist the l nler­

nal ional Grandmasters. Here is the offi· cial listing as of now. V. Ron (Czech) 1965 is unofficially listed as he qualified by lying for firsl (wilh Keres) at :Marien­bad this summer (we almost said "last yea r" ). Dales indicate year of earning tltle according to the F. I.D.E.

V. Antoshin (USSR) 1964 Y. Avcrbakh (USSR ) 1952 C. Barcza (Hungary) 1954 P. Benko (USA) 1958 I. Bilek (Hungary) 1962 A. B. Bisgu ier (USA) 1957 :vI. BobolzoV (Bulgaria) 1961 I. Boleslavsky (USSR) 1950 L Bondarevsky (USSR) 1950 i'l1. BOlvinnik ( USSR) 1950 D. Bronstein (USSR ) 1950 R. Byrne (USA) 1964 M. Damjanovich (Yugo. ) 1964 K. Darga (W. Ger. ) 1964 J. H. Donner (Nelh.) 1959 E. Eliskasis (Argent. ) 1952 M. Euwe ( ;\ieth.) 1950 L. Evans ( USA) 1957 R. Fine (USA ) 1950

, M. Filip (v.eeh.) 1955 R. J. Fische r (USA ) 1958 S. Flohr (USSR ) 1950 Y. GelIe r (USSR ) 1952 S. Gligorich (Yugo.) 1951 C. Cuimard (Argen!. ) 1960 J. Kashdan (USA) 1954 P. Keres (USSR ) 1950 V. Korchnoy (USSR) 1956 A. KOlov (USSR ) 1950 M. Krogius (USSR) 1964

England Peter N. Lee, who al Iwenly-one is 1I1e

" YOuDgest British champion ever," accord­ing to British chess publicat i{)ns, won the nalional t itle in a fie ld of 3'~ with a clear fi rst of 81;§.21;§, ahead or J. Penrose and N. Littlewoorl. 8-3 each. The British women's eh'aml)ionship wenl 10 Mrs. E. Pritcha rd.

At thf' Pa ignton Congress, W. R. Hart­SIOn carne in fi rst wilh a 5·2 lally. P. H. Clarke, P. C. Gibbs and A. Toothill shared second, third and fourth prizes.

Germany The sixty.four.year.old veteran, Karl

Gilg, won t'he Bavarian championship two full points in front of his neares t r ival, Kieninger.

Soviet Union The Moscow tide was bagged by Aronin,

10Y2-4l,4, one point ahead of Ignatiev.

Switzerland A playoff between Marcus and Walther

for the Swi$s championship was won by Marcus, 2%.1%.

R. Kholmov (USSR ) 1960 B. Larsen (Den. ) 1956 L. Lengyel (Hungary) 1964 A. Lilienthal (USSR .l 1950 W. Lombardy ( USA ) 1960 A. Matanovich (Yugo. ) 1955 M. Najdorf (Argenl.) 1950 A. O'Kelly (Belgium) 1956 F. Olafssen (Iceland ) 1958 1. Pachman (Czech.) 1954 N. Padevsky (Bulgaria) 1964-0. Panna (Argent.) 1955 B. Parma (Yugo.) 1963 T. Petrosyan (USSR) 1952 H. Pilnick (Argent. ) 19.52 V. Pirc (Yugo.) 19.53 L. Polugayevsky (USSR) 1962 A. Pomar (Spain) 1962 L. P ortisch (Hungary) 1961 S. Reshevsky (USA) 1950 K. Robat sch (Auslria ) }961 H. Rossetto (Argent.) 1960 N. Rossolimo (USA) 1953 1. Schmid (W. Ger.) 1959 V. Simagin (USSR) 1962 V. Smyslov (USSR) 1950 B. S passky (USSR) 1955 1. Szabo (Hungar)') 1950 M. Taimanov (USSR) 1957 M. Tahl (USSR) 1957 G. Stah lberg (Sweden) 1950 L. Stein (USSR) 1962 A. Tolusch ( USSR) 1953 G. Tringov (Bu lgaria ) ]963 P. Trifunovich (Yugo. ) 1953 M. Udovchich (Yu go.) 1962 W. Uhlmann (E. Ger.) 1959 W. Unzicker (W. Ger.) 1954 A. Yanovsky (Canada) 1964 E. Vasyukov (USSR ) 1961

CHESS REVIEW. DECEMBER, 1965'

AS ANALYZED IN THE U. S. S. R. The World Cham pion Speaks

GAME 7, TAH L_PO RTISC H MAT CH (Ana ly:>:ed by T igran Petrosyan)

In the seventh game of the world title elimination match between lI[ikhaiI Tall! of the ussn and LajDs Portisth of Hun_ gary, the latter, playing White, failed in all his efforls to gain someth ing by simple means. It was Tall l who seized the advantage shortly aner the ent! of the open ing stage and gTadllally increas_ ed it with strong llloves which outward_ ly did not look so effective.

N I MZO. INO I AN D EF ENSE

L Port isch

Hungary

\Vhite

1 P- Q4 N- KB3 2 P-Q B4 P- K3 3 N_QB3 B_ N 5 4 P-K 3 0 - 0

10 R- Bl

5 6 7 8 9

M . T ahl

Soviet Un ion

Black

N-B3 P_84 8 - K2 P- Q4 0 - 0 Px Q P K Px P N_QBS B- N5 8- K2

. . . . Th is is a typical moment. P lay be_

comes s trategica.lly acute after 10 P - B5. Portisch hopes to force hi~ !"ira!, aftel' 10 ..• PxP, LO a cquiesce to a position in which While will Iwve an isolani. It is a position with whir:h lie is quite familiar and whi ch he has often success_ fully applied.

10 . . . . ? _QN3

Now, with stereotyped continuations, White has litt le chance of retaining the ini tiati re in t o the middle game. His plan of action, therefore, is rarely resorled to and actually fJl"omises ,;0 1'ea I advan_ tage.

1 1 S,N S , S 12 PxP p, p 13 Q-R4 B- N2

:Manifestly, afte r Ibas to think about 'l1(ame.

17 Q- B2 18 R- K 1 19 RxR 20 B- Q3

R_QBl R, R

N-B5 P- N3

,. KR-Q1 P- QR3 15 Q-N3 R_ K1 16 B- B1 N- R4

this move, 'Wh ite llre:lerving an equa l

21 Q_ K2 22 N- K 5 23 Px B 24 N- Ql

P- QN4 BxN! P- Q5 Q- N4

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25 P_ B4

White's game has been de teriorating. ami he makes a desperate effort to turn the tide.

Probably. POl"tisch had too little time to figure and be convinced that the val'iants afler 25 p - N3. ;\""xKP were a o:­cepta.ble: e .g. 26 P - B4 [worse is 26 QxN. QxQ 27 RxQ. R-B8 28 ll-K2, P - Q6 or 28 R- IG, D- B6] , N - B6t 27 QxN, BxQ 28 PxQ, H-B8 29 K - B2, RxN [29 . . . BxK 30 ll- K3] 30 R- KSt, K - N2 31 KxB. HxBt 32 K- K2! 25 . . . . Qx B? 26 P-K6 B- Q4 27 R-B1 Q- N4

Now White loses that is insignifican t qu i te sombe r .

30 . . . . B_Q4 31 B_ K4 S,P 32 p , p B_B5 33 Q- QB2 p,p 34 B- Q5t K- N2 35 S,S P,S

28 Px P t 29 ? - QN3 30 P-QR4

s , p N- K4 - . . .

another Pawn. Boc

"' his position [,

36 Q- K 4 R- Q1 37 P- R4 Q_N6 38 Q- N7t R- Q2 39 Q-B8 R-KB2 40 Rx Rt K,R 4 1 Q-B7t

The game " -as adjonrned here , anel White res igned w ithout resHming p lay. Tahl played this game s imfJly and wel l.

The Soviet Champion Speaks VAN DEN BERG vs KORCHNOY

(Analyzed by Korchnoy)

Th ere wel'e llighly interesting, com. J)1icated moments in th is game in t he European Team ChamplOllships in Ham_ burg. The Soviet title -I lOlder comments on the game.

N 1MZO_I N DIAN DEFENSE

C. B. van den Berg

Ho lland

White

1 P- Q4 2 P- QB4 3 N_QB3 4 P- K3 5 B-Q3 6 N-B3 7 0 - 0

N- KB3 P- K3 B-N5 0-0

P_Q4 P- QN3

B- N2

V. K orchnoy

Sov iet Union

Black

8 PxP 9 B-Q2

10 R- B1 11 N_ K 5 12 P- B4 13 N-K2 14 B-B3 15 P_B5

p , p B-Q3

P-QR3 P_B4 N-B3

P-QR4 N- K 2 . . . .

After 1;j :'\!- X 3, White has real chances ot" develo]Jing an attuck. but hi~ advan_ tage is el"<1.-sed by thi8 ]ll"emalUl"e thrust of h is Bishop P~L\\"n .

15 . . . . N_ B3! 16 Q_ R4? . . . .

The correct re]J ly i ~ 16 B-.'\ 5.

16 . . . Q- K2?!

Now, with 16 P - B5 17 :\' xN, Q-Kl, lllack could hal'e obtained mao te r ia l adrantage, but he is carried by another idea. Play becomes sllarp.

a way very

17 NxN 18 K- R1 19 ? x P

QxPt Q,S p,p

20 Bx N 21 Q- R4 22

QXN KR-K1

BxP! . . . . In pl'eJiminary calculations, Black con_

sidered 22 Q- N5 which he would have m e t by 22 ... B- KBI 23 BxP, Q-K6!

22 . . . . S ,N

W hite answe l's 22 . . R- K5 by 26 Q-lJ6!

23 B_ R6! . . . . Again, the best move. 23 i3- B6 loses

to 23 . . R-E:k Also, Black gains a winning position on 23 B- B3, P - Q5 2·1 Q- N5t, [{ - Bl 25 Q- H6t, K - K2 26 KR- Kl , K-Q2! 27 RxQ. RxIl.

23 . . . . Q-K4

24 B-B4? . . , . T h e decis ive e nol". Oil 2·1 QR-Kl,

Black is ob"liged to return his piece with 2·J ... QxPt, and both sides then hal'e equal chance~ .

24 . . . . B_ K2!

Wh ite had overlooked lhi ~ reply.

25 Q-R5 Q-B3 27 B- R6 B_Q3 26 R- QB3 B-Q2! 28 R- KR3 QxB?!

Resigns

t = check; t = db!. check; ! = di ~ . eh.

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Matches Toward The World Championship The Tahl-Larsen Semi-finals at Blecl196S

By Dr. PET AR TRIFUNOVICH

In match play, being White in the first game does m<ltter. Though he who is Black will be ' Vh ile in the l a~ t game, 'that is only if he lasts till then. So the good old Viennu practice was invoked for the pair ings. ATililer Dr. Donnil Jllaccd two wral)ped bottles of brandy before the duelists ; and, as Talll ch~ the one wilh the dark Co'\ l ent ~, he Sla rted as Black.

The match, !cl for J ul)' b l, had to be postponed two days as T ah! declared he had developed a bl ister on llis fOOl from table tennis. To many. including the na1'· rator, the reasoning seemed uncleur. For foot ball, yes- hilI could onc sim pl e blis­ter prevent OIl C from pluying ches.~? T lw agitated spirits were soon allayed: " II is well known that, during a game, Tahl likes 10 fl y arou nd h i~ viclim as a con· dor a round hi! prey. " He cannot do ~o

with an inj ured foot and so would be seriously hand icapped." Understood ; no object ion.

Though Larsen eliminated his famo ns rival Ivkov quite easily, few supposed lin eq ual batt le "'ould ensue here. But L'arscn proved an absolutely equal part ncr. wilh his great opponcnt regarding tactics- in which T a hl had Uecn thought "eerl e~s. In Game 1 against the King's Indian , Larsen allplied a line of gra nd m;lster Benko, .. c ry hazardous but lill ie known and untC!tcd . TaM mi"sed the correct continuation and lost much lime in tll in king. He elected to t'llke a P awn; but , while he did , Larsel) penetr-aled on the Queenside and adj ourn. cd with a winning game.

Game 2 was avidly anticipated, espe· cially 10 sce how Larsen would defend ver~us Tah!'s 1 P- K4, a problem not solved by POl1isch in Tahl's prior ma lch. Larsen chose the Spanish Gamc, an old a nd a bit passive systcm of Sieinit ;,;' De· fe nse. Whe n he could easily have "Ia yed , in d ifferent ways, to d raw, he committe!1 two 'Serious o\'e rsi gh t ~ and T a hl guillotin. ed his rival with mathe matical precision.

T alll then Jed with one game adj ourned , but he resign ed that withotll playing.

In Game 3, aga inst Larsen·~ Catulun System, T a hl evoked the Benoni and very early . . . P- QN4, in theo ry a dubiou.i move for Black. Larsen could not find a weak point, then mi ssed an a n ackin:; chance offert.>d nccdlcs~I)' by Tahl Bnd round himself in a IlOOr cndgame. La r. sen's precise defense ba rel y held off T ahl's e Horts.

Great courage is needed 10 cmploy Ihc Alekhine De fense against an attacker like Tahl. But Larsen did it in Game 4. Dubi.

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OU.i- hut the game justified him. Tahl Wtl S man ifest ly taken by surprise. Then he lost a good deal of time calculating a I'cry comp licated sacrifice a nd finally ab· stained. Alrcady a psychological ad van· lage fur Larsen. A bit tired and with the game not developing to Ilis taste, Tahl con· l in lled inexactl y wilh a Pa wn 53crifice when al ready in II bad posit ion. Larsen easily shook o ff his attem l" 5 to COml)licaie lind adj ou rned in a Rook end game unani. mOllsly judged a win for him. I ncredibly, huwev[:r, he juggled an elementary win, need ing no analysis, intu a draw.

In four games, Larsen looked, s urpris. in gl y, the beller, except for uncertainty in profi ting from his advantages.

In Gallic 5, Larsen cunningl y tr ied an old cont inuat ion com pell ing Black to qu ict aut! pat ient play for a draw. T a M al· telll lJ1cr! 10 com"licate and already could Ila"e re~ igned hy move 25, the E:t"change down without compensation hut he reo sistcd till mo\'e 50.

So the situation be('alllC critical for Taill as Larsen let! for the second time, and Tahl could not afford a nother defeat.

LaBen a ppeared unable, however, 10 Ilro£il from the c ircumstances lind require Ta h! to try 1o force the game in s imple l)O;S ilions. For G(lme 6, he again chose the Alekhine, and whe ll Tahl mighl be ex· lleeted I)reparoo for it. Tah l "'as, having Il. IUI!Y1.ed .he o pening wilh Ivkov, And sur· p)' i;;.ed Larsen with his sixth 1II0\'e ( found dllring the I "kol' anal ysis ) . Tahl took o"cr the ini tiat ive, sacrificed ingeniously on tn,-,ve 16 and evcned the score,

Gllllle 7 \\'as identical with Game 3 IHI lJlove 12. Here Larsen could be expected to have an improvemenl. On the cont rary, he soon had a poor position. Tahl made lin eXlraordinary ~acr ifice and u ltimately won the Exchange. The ganle looked like an easy win,and Tah! said so. But it 1))'01'00 to be an c:t"cept iona l dra w.

Clim e 8 was t he le ast in teresting of the match. T hough White, T ahl was not fit for hatt ie. He might have had a sleeplcs~ night searching for a win in Gamc 7. So Tahl, the sworn enemy of the Sicilian, did not perform bellicosely again$t that

• Ollcmng. Now tile match neared its end, the si tu·

II lion was unresolved Rnd the nervous tellsion of both players was at a culmina. ti ... n. Till now,aU wins were by While. Larsen Ilad 10 play 10 win in Came 9; he kne '" T ahl would in tlle last game. Larsen selected an incorrect plan again~t the King's Indian, yielding the initiative to

Tah!. Tahl cont inued in ,a risky way, thell made an error, r('turni ng the advantage to Larsen. Then, short of time, Taill lapsed into a lost endgame. Bllt the mira. cle happened 8lO'ain, and Larsen analyzed p..,orly, ol'erlooked a problem move and ended drawing.

No onc believed a lly longer in 'a vic­tory for Larsen. lIe had, it 's the gene ral inJllre s~ i on , enou:h chances which he let go too easil)·. So all believed Tahl'~ " five min utes" had cOllie. Lar;;.en him;;.e lf was worried and indi sposed. Tah! was very fit for hallIe 'against Larsen's Sicilian in Gamc 10. He found occasion for a very complicatcd and coul'ageous sacrifice of a Knight. It is difficult to say if it was correct or not, or what might foll ow. But Larsen came out two Pawns down a nd short of t ime.

So the score became 5~.41h for T a hl . T he cou rse of th is match refuted the

prevailing opinion (beforehand) that , in tact ics, Tahl WII S peerless and Larsen un· able to OP llose him. Tahl did demOllstrate he i~ beyond Larsen in creation of in. genious combinations, but Larsen opposed him succc~sfully and imllOsed his own con· ceJltion~ on the formt'r World Champion. He proved a " 'orthy oPllOnent, and the reo ~ ult could easily have turned to his favor. He startetl sure of his strength, Lut he would have done oc"tter 10 have brought along a good second. I n t hat el'cnt, he would have won the adjourned po~ition s

in Games 3 and 9. It is interesting to note that all wins

were hy White. Tahl played 1 P-K4 as 1 hough. obligalorily, and Ihe im pression remains that Lar~cn did not have a su re defense. On the other halld, Tahl was not well prepured again st La rsen's 1 P- Q4 and, as in Came.! 1 and 5, often incurred an in ferior posit ion even in the opening.

Tahl's lIIa tch w ilh S ra;sky is scheduled from Oaoher :iI to :."lovember 18 in TbiJisi ( Tiflisl , lasling 12 games, with a sudden death playoff of four games, and a coin toss if t he nl<1tch is st ill tied.

Tahl liquidll tl:d hi., ri\'alsat Bled, but the real job and the real opponent awaits him now. To succeed , Tahl must play lIIuch bette r thun in his llrevious IwO matches.

T h is filIa l ma tch he\l~een S passky a nd Tahl re llrCsemS a grca l a tt raction for the amateurs of che~s. 'l1 'e system of matcilCS 10 determine the Challe nger for the World Cham llinnshirl ha~ jU~lified its existence. The earlier "b~tac J (,"s am! remarks cannot

CHESS RlVI(W, DECEMBER, 1965

be taken longer into '/lccount. The way to , he s ummit is secure for the strongest player.

Gam e 1 KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE

Bent Larse n Mi k hail Tah l Denmark Soviet Union White Black 1 P-Q4 N- KB3 6 B- K2 P-K4 2 P- QB4 P_KN3 7 0 - 0 N_ B3 3 N-QB3 B- N2 8 P- Q5 N-K2 4 P_ K4 0-0 9 N_ K1 N-Q2 5 N- B3 P-Q3 10 P-B3 . . . .

One m ust be acquainted with fiuesses such as this last mO I·e. 10 N- Q3 a llows Dlack an even game by 10 . . . P- KB·' 11 P xP. PxP.

10 . . . . P_ KB4

11 P- KN4 • • • •

This paradoxical b ut logical move was patented by Benko in his game against Pachma n in t he I nter zonal at Porloroz 1958.

After 11 N- Q3, P- U5, Bla ck, as pntC_ tlce has o[ten confirmed . gels counter chances a ga inst White's Ki ng by . . . P- N4- 5. The text blocks of( that atta ck while it is st ill emhryonlc and, if suc­cessful. the l·efore. enhances White's Queen side chances.

11 . . . . P_ KR4

Though t his position ha s come up often, theor y doesn't ind icate Black 's best m ove. The text is from Wade- Re_ shevsky, Buenos Aires 1960. It cannot be recommended. A better line is in Bilek- Stein, Inlel"?onal at Stockholm 19 62 : 11 . .. K - Rl 12 N- N2. N- KB3 13 B- Q2, P - B4 14 R-Nl, B-Q2 15 K- RI, Q- B2 wi t h approximately even chances.

12 P- N5 . .. . 12 PxRP, P - B5 was bad for \Vhite in

Velimirovich- Mlnich, Belgrade 1960. 12 . . . . P-R5

Blacl, follows Reshevsl;:y's scheme, h is one good chance, t o play to win the Knight Pawn, pr eparing for .. . P-B5 and for posting Rook at l(R4 and K night a t KR2.

13 N_Q3 14 K_R1!

P-B5 . . . .

Wade had played 1<1 Q- K l and s oon bad a lost pos ition. La r se n mllst be well acquainted with that gam e. He inlproves on it. Posting bis l{ing sa.fely saves h im an important t empo later and fox ily lets m a ck pr ess on with h is progmm, ex_ pecting to u ti lize the exposed position of Black's King.

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Tan l an a lyz ing dur ing play is qu ite a s ight. Tne spa rkle of ideas see ms t o contort him . And, in addi tion, he is very likely to be surrounded by admi ri ng fans - especi ally youthful ones. And Tan l is q uit e conte nt about t nat.

14 . . . . 15 P- B5

K- B2 · . . .

By this sacrifice, Wh ite ollen s the Q ueenside and begins opera tions th ere.

15 . . . . R- Rl Hlack ca n do no better than follow

his program. Accepting the sacl'ifice leads to a strong initiative for White after 15 . . . Nx P ]6 NxN, PxN 17 Q- :-"' 3, K- K 1 18 R- Ql [1 8 B- N5t also is good] as Dlack must pr event both 19 P-Q6 a nd 19 N- N5. Hence 18 . .. P- QR3 ]9 Q- R 3 ! with White's initia tive grow_ ing.

16 Q- N3 · . . . Tahl h imself has since recommended

16 P xP , PxP 12 N xPI Px N 18 BxP , B- K4 19 B- K3 with threat of P - B4- 5 etc.

16 . . . P-N 3 This is a necessary

17 P- B6. defense against

17 PxQP 18 Q- R3

p , p N_QB4

Agai n, Black 's reply is fOI'ced: [or 18 . .. N- Bl is met by 19 N- N5.

19 NxN 20 P_N4

NPxN • • • •

Now White is master of the Queenside . 20.... Px P 21 QxNP B_RS

Black's last is motivated rense than attack, defense Pawn as against 22 N- N5.

22 R- KN1 23 N- N5

more by de. for his Queen

R_QN1 N-B1

Not 23 . . . P- QR3 24 NxP t . 24 B_R3 25 Q- B4

B_ B1 B- K2

26 Q- B7 ! • • • •

\Vhite looks ahead t o occupying KG wit h hi s Knight.

28 • • • • Q,Q 29 N,Q R-R4 30 B- KB I B,B

28 .. . B- Q2 29 N- K6, BxN 30 P xBt , J(xP 31 D- R3t. K- B2 32 QR-QBI, N- N3 33 R- D7 is hopeless [or Black. 29 KRxB ! RxP 31 QR- B1 K- B3

R- KR1 30 N-K6 R_R4 32 R-B7 33 R/l-B1 • . . •

33 P - H3 Is corr ect.

33 . . . . P-N4 B1a cl, ought to pla y 33 ... P- R6 as

he then has counter chances with .. . P - N·I- 5. Tahl, labol'ing under the im_ p ress ion ot: a variat ion wi th 33 . . . N- N3 34 N xP, PxN 35 B- N2t, K-B2 36 BxH. Rxil 37 fixP , thought he h ad to protec t h is K J35. Now, art er White's next , macl;:'s K ingside is block ed a nd b e has only waiting mOI'es. 34 P- R3 1 R_N1 35 R/7_ BS K-B2 3S K-N2 K-B3 37 K_ B1 R-KR1

38 K- K2 39 K- Q3 40 R- B7 41 R/1- B6

R_ N1 R- KR1

N- N3 • • • •

The threat is -!2 RxB and 43 BxPt. 41 . . . . KR-QB1

This was the sealed move. 41 . . • ,,- 81 is met by 42 N- B5! with threats of 43 N- Q7t and 43 N- N7.

Res igns 42 DxP is dec isive.

Game 4

ALEKH INE DE F ENSE

M. T a hl B. Larsen 1 P_ K4 N-KB3

Aga inM an aggressive player like T ah\, it i~ not r ea solHcble to a dopt the Alek_ h in e. It o[fers fertile gr ound for his fecund imagina tion and is the source of num erous attacl;: ing possibilities. Th e C Ol\I'~e of t his game does not change th is opinion; olle lIdds only tha t the star s lI"ere agains t Tahl, this once.

2 P- K5 3 P-Q4 4 N- KB3

N-Q4 P- Q3

The move m er its a Question mark : It is a nOl'elty of it sor t by Larsen but bad a8 it a ids the development of White's pieces.

5 NxP N-Q2

In Games 6 a nd 8, for reasons best under stood fl'om t h e com ment imm edi. ately following, Larsen played 5 . . .

t == cheek ; t == dbl. cheek; § == dis. ch.

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P-K3. For Game 6, see comments there. As for 8, Larsen also achieved a dubio ous position after 6 Q-H5, P- KN3 7 Q- B3.

6 B_QB4 • • • •

Certain loose tall, of how Tahl always makes a sacrifice unless he can see a definite refutation can end here. H" studied II NxP and its consequences for 45 minutes and co,lld not decide on it.

It must be confessed that the conect conUnuation is extremely dirficult to work out. Most commentators and many analyses after the game resorted to the generallty that later analysis will prove the point. In this writer's opInion tile sacrifice is correct and may lead to 7 NxP! KxN 8 Q- R5t, K-K3 9 P-Q.134, N"/ 'I-B3 (9 ... N- N5 10 P-QR3 ! N- B7t 11 K-Q1. NxR 12 Q- Q5t, I\- D3 13 B- N5t and 11 B-Q3t etc.] 10 P-Q5t, K- Q3 11 Q-B7 ! ! nhe key mm'e: the t in-eats are 12 Q-K6t and 12 B- B4tJ, and the fol. lowing:

a) 11 . . . N- K4 12 B- B-I, Q-K1 [or ... P - QN3 13 N-B3, P­QR3 .H 1'-QN4 with threat of ] 5 P - D5t etc.] 13 P- D5t, KxP ]A QxQ, NxQ 15 BxN, KxP IG P-D4! with tbreat of 17 N-B3t. White has a deci.

sive advantage in development worth more than one Pawn;

b) 11 . .. N-N3 12 D-BH, K- Q2 13 N-B3, Q-Kl 14 Q-Kllt, 1{-Ql 15 Q- K5, Q-Q2 16 0 - 0 - 0 , and Black has no good defense against 17 P-B5;

c) 11 ... N- B4 12 P - QN4, N/,I-K5 13 P -·B3 et c.

6 . . . . P-K3 7 Q-N4 • • • •

Wh ite acts prematurely and can mal,e no' profit. 7 0-0 is better.

7 . . . . P_KR4

. An audacious answe]" : it Is justified in the _ following line wherein Wh ite's Queen tries to remain on the Knight file: 7 'Q-N3, P-R5 8 Q-~-I, NxN 9 PxN, B- Q2 10 B-KN5? B-K2 11 BxB, QxB 12 QxNP, 0-0- 0 , with a winning position for Black.

8 Q- K2 9 PxN

N,N B-Q2

Now Black has no problems: he pares B-B3 and also to castle long.

100-0 • • • •

White does better and gets an game by 10 N-Q2, B- B3 11 N- B3.

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10 . . • . 11 R_Q1

B-B3 Q-K2!

Now 12 N- Q2 is met by 12 .. . N- B5.

12 N-B3 . • •.

Needlessly, -White lets his Pawn for_ mation be smashed. He ought to simplify by 12 B-QN5, BxB 13 QxBt, P-QB3 14 Q-K2, preparing for P-QB4.

12 . . . . 13 PxN

N,N P- KN3!

Now Black aims for . . . 0 - 0 .

B-N2 and

14 P-QR4 • • •

14 B-QN5 is met by 14

14 . . . .

Q-B4.

P-QR3 15 R_N1 • • • •

This innocent. looking move hides a devilish trick: 16 BxRP! PxB 17 QxQRP, and 17 .. . B- K5 18 QxRt, BxQ 19 R- NSt or 17 .. . Q- B4 18 QxR! BxQ 19 R-N8t, K-K2 20 B-N5t etc.

15 • . • . Q- B4 16 B_K3 ••..

This Pawn sacrifice gains only a mo_ mentary initiative. 16 R-Q4! B-N2 17 P-B4, 0-0 18 B-K3, and '''hite need not lose this positioll. 16 . . . . QxP 18 B-Q3 17 P-B4 Q_ KB4 19 Q- B2

Q-NS B_K2

On 19 .. B-N 2 20 P-R3, Black's Queen is trapped.

20 B_Q4 • • • •

White misses his 1ast chance. On 20 B- K2, Q-R5 [or 20 ... Q- 84 21 B-Q3] 21 P-N3, Q-R6 22 B-B3, White gets tile same position a s in the game but with two tempi more. The diffe]"ence is re_ markable.

20 .... 21 B_K2 22 B-Q3 23 B-K2

0 - 0 Q- B4 Q-N5 Q-R5

24 P-N3 25 8--B3 26 BxB 27 B- K5

Q-R6 QR-Q1

P,B Q-B4

Black's Queen gets back into play. On 28 BxP? Black has 28 ... B-B4.

28 Q- K2 8--Q3! As White has weak points on both

sides, Black can operate with counter threats, disregarding hIs own weak Pawns.

29 R-Q3 30 PxB

B,S R,R

31 PxR R-Q1 32 R- Q1 P-B4 33 P-B4 ••.•

If White allows 33 .. . H-Q·1 , Black wins easily after 34 P-Q4, PxP 35 PxP, P-B4! 36 PxP, RxBP.

33 .... Q- N5! The Rook ending is an easy win for

Black , and White cannot avoid exchang. ing Queens because of 34 .. Q-Q5(t).

34 QxQ PxQ 35 K_B2 R-N1

Dlack has difficulties after 35 . K-N2 36 K-K3, P-N4 37 R-QNl!

36 R_Q2 K-N2

Here Black begins a series of minor inaccuracies. Arter the simple 36 . . . R-N5 37 K-K3, P-N4 38 R- R2, P - R4 39 K- K4, K- N2 40 K- K3, K- N3 41 K-K4, P- QB3, any White move los es material.

37 K-K3 P-N4

t _ check; : = db!. check; I = dis. cl!..

38 P-Q4 39 K-B2

Or 39 K-K4, R-QB6 etc.

R- N6t • • • •

39 , •.. PxP! 39 ... R-N5 40 1'-Q5, K- Bl 11 PxP!

[not 41 P- Q6, PxP ·12 PxP, K-Kl!], PxP 42 R-Q7, RxRP 43 Rx1', RxP 44 R- -QR7. R- H5 45 K-K3 looks like a quick win. Bllt, though Black is two Pawns up, his win is problematical.

40 RxP 41 RxP

The sealed move. 41 . . . . 42 K_N1

R-N7t K_B4

46 R-Q7

K-N3 • • • •

43 R-Q4 44 R-Q7 45 RxP

• • • •

K,P P-B4 K-K5

The only defense against 46 ... K-B6. White has re·estabUshed material equal. ity, but all the poSitiOnal trumps are his opponent's. His pieces al'e aggressively disposed, and he call create connected, passed Pawns. It seems incredible, but Lal'sen did not realize this advantage.

46 . . . . R_QB7 47 R-Q6 P-K4 48 P-R4

A last and very

48 . . . . 49 PxP 50 P-R5

• • • •

bad hope for White. p,p R,P

K-B6

Black wins Immediately by 50 ... RxP 51 P-R6, K- K6 52 R- K6, R-N5t 53 K-Bl, P-K5 followed by ... R-R5.

51 R-Q3t 52 P-R6

K-N5 R-B2

Again, Black has better: 52 ... R-B3 53 P-R7, R-It3 with a winning game.

53 R-Q6 P_K5 54 K-B2 P- R4 55 R-N6t K-R4

Now Black misses his last chance; 55 . . K-B5 56 R -N7, P-K6t 57 K-N2,

R-B7t 58 K-Nl, R- B8t 59 K-N2, P- K7 60 P-R7, P-,K8(Q).

56 R-RS P-B5

Black does better to bring his King back. Now WllIte can breathe again. 57 R-KS! R-B7t 68 R- B6t K-N5 58 K_K1 R-B8t 69 K-Q4 K-N6 59 K-Q2 R-K R8 70 R-N6t K_R6 60 RxP K_N5 71 R-N7 RxR 61 R-K6 K-N6 72. PxR P_B7 62 R-KB6 P-B6 73 P-N8(Q) 63 K-K3 R-K8t P-B8(Q) 64 K-Q3 R_K2 74 Q- K6t K-R5 65 R-NSt K_B5 75 K-BS Q- QN8 66 R-B6t K-N6 76 Q- B4t K-N6 67 R-N6t K_B5 77 Q- B3t K-B7

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Game 6 ALEKH INE DEFE NSE

M, Tah l

White 1 P-K4 2 P- K5

N- KB3 N- Q4

3 P- Q4

B, La rsen

Black P- Q3 Px P ? 4 N-KB3

5 NxP P_ K3

Now Black avoids 5 , , , N- Q2, 6 Q-B3! , , . '

Here is the answer found by Ivkov and Talll in analysis together, Ivkov can. tinued 6 Q- R5, P- KN3 7 Q- B3, Q- K2 and later analysis confirmed that 6 Q-R5 donated an important tempo for Black's fiancbettoing,

6 , ' , , 7 Q_N3

Q-BS P- KR3

Black has to lose this t empo on ac. count of the threat of 8 B- KN5.

8 N-QB3 , • , •

8 N- Q2 and 9 N-K4 seems worth. while.

8 , , . . N-N5

This may be the only satisfactory line. 8 . .. NxN 9 P xN, B-Q3 10 P- KB4 fol. lowed by B-Q3 and 0 - 0 gives White a form idable attacking position.

9 B-N5t P-B3 10 B- R4 N- Q2 11 0 - 0 · . , ,

11 N_K4 fails against 11 • • Q- B4.

11 , , . . N, N 12 Px N Q- NS •

Black threatens \Vhite's Queen Bishop Pawn actually meaning to induce QxQ.

13 Q- BS Q_B4

13 . .. NxBP is met by 14 BxPt! So Black prepares .. . B- K2, 13 ... B- K2 run s into 14 P- QR3, N-Q4 15 NxN, PxN 16 QxQP! P - QN4 16 BxNP, B-Q2 17 Q-B3.

14 Q_ K2 15 P- QRS

B_ K2 · . , .

Tahl's second, master Koblenz, has pointed out that here the solid posi. tional plan of 45 P- B4 followed by N-K4, P - B3 and B- B2 is better.

15 . . . . N-Q4

16 N- N5 • • • •

A pretty and SUrprising move, typical of Tahl's style but more impressive than effective.

16 . , . . Px N

The present cannot be refused: e.g. 116 , , . 0-0 17 N- Q4, Q- N3 18 P- QB,j,

N- NS 19 B- B2, and Black can resign.

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17 . . . K- Bl 18 Q- K8 is mnte.

18 P-Q B4 Qx KP Why give back the piece in this way?

Much better is 18 .. . N- NS 19 Q-RG, K- B2 20 P-B5, K- Nl 21 Pxl": , 22 Q-N5. R-Ql! with threat of 23 . . . B- Q2 and all pieces actively placed. l\fas te l' Koblenz' plan now appears correct (see note to move 15).

After 18 . , . N- B5, Tahl in tended: 19 R- Qlt, K- B2 20 R-Qn BxR 21 QxBt, K- Nl 22 QxB, QxP 23 B- KS, N-NS 24 QxBP, Q- B3 25 B- K8! Q- K2 [or 25 . . . N- K4 26 B-B4J 26 QxN, lixB 27 B-B5! Q-Q2 28 B-Q6t ! K-Bl 29 P - B5 with a positionally won game.

19 PxN 20 P-KNS 21 Q-K2

B-Q3 QxQP , , , .

Now Black is defenseless. His Pawn plus means nothing in the face of the open Queen and Queen Bishop files fol' White's Rooks, Black's King exposed and his Rooks undeveloped.

21 . . . . 22 KR-Q1

K- K2 Q_QR4

22 , . . Q- K4 is met by 23 Q-B2 with threat of 24 B- B4.

23 Q-N4! Q- KB4 23 . .. R-Ql permits a deciding sac.

rifice: 24 QxNP! QxB 25 BxP followed by 26 B-N5t.

24 Q-QB4

Or 24 . . . R-Ql 25 Q-Q3 26 Q-QB3

Q-QB4

25 B- K3 etc. Q- Q4 B_K4

Now Black cannot repeat moves wIth 26 . . . Q-QB4 because of 27 B-B4, P- K4 28 BxKP! or 26 . . . Q-K4 27 B-B4. QxQ 28 BxBt etc.

27 Q-Kl! . . . . With this move. White acquires the

t empo for developing his Queen Bishop and has no more problems about win. ning. 27 .... 28 B-Q2!

Q-B' K- BS

On 30 . QxP, 31 Q- N4

29 QR- B1 30 B-K3

Q-N3 Q- RS

White has 31 P - B4.

• • • •

White operates with little 'threats, e.g. here S2 B-QN5.

31 . . . , P-Q N4 32 Bx NP Q_ N2 33 P-B4 6-N1

0,· 33 . . • B- B2 34 Q- BSt aod 35 B- B6.

3' B- B6 Res igns

Game 7 - An Except iona l Draw

49 .... R- K1

Tahl is Black In a game which had appeared a certain win for him. But his ship was wrecked on this cliff.

Blacl,'s difficulty is his King position. The King cannot leave the corner very conven iently ; e.g. 49. . K- R3 50 X- E5t and 51 NxP. Hence, mack must consent to further simplication a nd ex. ch ange of Qlwen Pawns , 50 N_ 85 R-K4 52 N_K4 K-N3 51 NxP RxP 53 P- N4 , . . .

White has just lime to preyent 53 .. . P - B-I. T his type of ending is little known ; and this example serves to en· force the general theory that the win is difficult and exceptional. 53 . . .. R- QR4 56 K_ B4 54 K_ B3 K- B2 57 K- B3 55 N- N3! K-K3 58 N_R5!

R- R5t K- K4

Here i~ the key move. The Knight does its u tmost, attacking Black' s Pawn and preventing Black's King [rom ap. proach'lng. It was a draw in 91 moves.

Game 9 _ Bad Analysis

There was reference in October (page 301) to Larsen's faltering !n analysis of adjourned games. Here is a sample.

42 R-R4 • • • •

The first move after adjournment, and Larsen is going wrong. The correct 42 P- R4 fixes both Black Pawns on black squares, and a satisfactory defense for mack seems unascertainable : 42 . , , B- B2 4S R- B5, K- Q2 [or 43 . .. K-Q3 H R-Q5t, K- B3 45 B- Q2 and 46 B-B3 etC.] 44 B-Q2, R- R2 45 B-B3, K- K3 46 K-K2, and "White's King decides.

42 , , . . 8_ B2

"White can sun adopt the method described by 43 R-B4 and P - R4.

just

43 K-K2? K- Q2 45 R-R3 44 K-Q3 R_ N7 46 B_Q2

Here -1 6 P- BS is correct. 46 .... 47 R- R4

Or 47 RxP?? RxBt etc. 47 . . . . 48 BxB

Virtually fOl'ced.

48 .... 49 K_ B4 50 K-Q5

B_ K2! · . , ,

B- N5! · . , .

P,B RxBP , , . ,

B-Q1 • • • •

Or 50 KxP, K-B3 50 R- R6t, K- N2 etc. 50 , , " R- QN7! 52 KxP P-N 6 51 R- R7t K_B1 53 PxP Rx P

Now the game is a theoretical draw. but Larsen kept on till move 78.

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Game 10 The last and deciding game.

SIC ILIA N DEFENSE

M. Tah ! B. L.arsen White Black 1 P_K4 P-QB4 5 N-QB3 P-Q3 2 N_ KB3 N-QB3 , B-K3 N- B3 3 P-Q4 PxP 7 P-B4 B-K2 4 NxP P-K3 8 Q_ B3 0-0

9 0 - 0 - 0 • • • •

W h it e h., demonstrated h is lut en. t lons. sharp IJosition a nd com plica tions .

9 . . . . Q- B2 H ere is a s mall inaccuracy. 9 . . . D- Q2

to finish developi ng is be tte r . 10 N/ 4-N5 Q- Nt 12 N-Q4 NxN

P_QN4 11 P_KN4 P-QR3 13 BxN Reasonably. Black refuse s t o go In to

13 . . . P - K 4 14 P -N5 and a) 11 ... PxB I i) PxN, DxP 16 N- Q5. B-Q1 17 P - B5! with a positional adv l!.nl fLge and strong attack for White or b) 14 • . , B- N5 15 Q- NS, DxH ]6 PxN, BxP 17 N- Q5! PxD 18 NxBt , K - Rl ]9 R- N1 on whlPh White wins.

14 P- N5 15 B-Q3

N_Q2 · , . ,

White ' s intention here Is bolder thfLn may be Imagined a s his nex t move reo " e ll Is. A solider and more log ical a tta ck, however, lies in 15 R- Nl: e .g. 15 , .. P- N 5 1(; N- K2 , P - K4 17 B- K3, PxP 18 XxP witll beller play fo r W hite,

15 , . . . P- N5

16 N-Q5 !! • • • •

As usual with Tahl, a genial but in . correct sacrifice. He is not contellt with 16 N-K2, P - K4 17 B-K3, PxP 18 NxP, N - KI. He wan ts to tellr into hi s oppo. ne nt at once.

16 . . . . PxN The offer must be accepted. On 16 . . B- Q1 17 N- B6t ! PxN 18 PxP, the

attack on the opened Knigh t me decides. 17 Px P • • • •

1'he idea i s both Bishops s hoot at the Bla ck King , a nd Black's m a in fo rces a re far orr. A \'ery dange rous Idea.

17 . . . . P-B4 The posit ion is an elechica lly charged

c loud bringing a s to r m. In a torna do variation, W hile sac ri fices a ll pieces: J7 ... N-B4? 18 BxP t ! KltB 19 Q- R 5t. K_,x1 20 BxP ! KxB 21 Q- R6t, K-Nl 22 P~~6, a nd Wh ite dl"ives h is enemy orr lhe board. In a "rich man's variation," Black retu r ns the piece: 17 ... N- K4 18 PxN. PxP 19 Q- K4, ExPt 20 K- Nl, P - B4 21 QxKP. QxQ 22 BxQ, P-QR4. and mack plays a quie t chess ending. In a variation of "an offended gentle_ loan," t o prove it Is not so easy to hand

him a piece, Black has 17 . . . P-N3! 18 P- Kl14, N- B4 19 P- R5, NxBt 20 RxN. 8 - 8 4 21 PxP, BPxP; for now the com. blnntlon wi t h 22 RxP, KxR 23 Q- Rlt, K- Ni 24 Q- R8t, K- B2 25 Q- N7t, K-K1 26 R- K 3 Is hu ng up by 26 .. Q- B2!

iAIl"s en's defense loses. 18 QR_K l • •

18 . . . . R_ B2 White wins on 18 , . . B- Ql very

prettily: 19 Q- R5, N-B4 20 BxNP!! NxDt zt K- Xl , Nxn [or 21 ... NxBP 22 Q- R6 e t c.] 22 RxN, R-R2 [ or 22 . . . Kxl3 23 Q- R6t, K- NI 24 P - N6, Q-B2 25 PxP t, QxP 26 R- N l t etc.] 23 BxR, R- KD2 24 P- N6! PxP 25 QxPf! KxB 26 Q-R6t, R- N2 27 R-Nl, Q-B2 28 Q-RSt etc.

19 P_ K R4 B-N2

19 .. . N- Bl looks better; but, after 20 P- R:'i . Bla ck has no ndeq\\ate defense aga inst 21 P- N6 : e.g. 20 ... P -N3 21 Q- Ra t hrea te lllllg 22 PxP , 1\'xP 23 Q-R6 [ in t urn threa ten ing 24 QxN! PxQ 25 H- H8 mate ) . N- 01 24 P- N6 ! e tc. And, on 19 ... N- B·' 20 P- R5. NxBt 21 QxN, D- 01 22 P - N6. R~K2 23 RxR. BxR 24 PxPt . K xP 25 Q- ,x3 followed by 26 Q- N6t and 27 P- R6.

20 BxBP 21 RxB

RxB N-K4

Tuhl Is r eady to solve in his unique s ty le 21 ... R- B2 22 RxR, KxR by 23 P- N6f ! P xP 24 P - H5, N-DS 25 PxPt. KxP 26 n - Nl t , K- B2 27 BxN! KxB 28 Q- :;'.'4 ! \\·Innlng.

0,·

22 Q- K4 23 PxN 24 Q- K3

24 •

Q- QN3 ! 25 Q- K2

0 , 25 . · Q- Q2 etc,

26 QxR 27 R- K1 28 RxP

. fixE 25

ExP 26

Q-KB1 R_ B5 R-B6

RxB, RxP

QxR

PxP, Q-D5t

PxP R-Q1 • • • •

26

27

T he g ume is decided : White ha s two P a wns plus In a good pos lt ioll. Larse n can pack tor Copen hagen. and T ahl Is step by step a pproaching t he chess c rown. But t he next step is more dlrtL cu lt ; In S passky. he has a t ougher O l)~

])ollent than Portisch and Larsen. 27 . . , . 28 Q_B4

Not 28 29 Q- K4 30 RPxP 31 K- Q2 32 P- B3

· , BxP? P-N6

R- BSt Q-N5t

Q-Q3

Q-Q3 R_Bl

29 H-Q8t e tc.

QxB R-B1 K- R1

33 B-B5! 34 R-K8t 35 Q- K6t 36 Q- B7 ! Resigns

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Game 10 KING'S INDIAN DEFENS E

W hite: Larse n Black: Ta hl

Game 2 RUY LOPEZ

W hite : Tah l Black : L arse n

1 P_K4, P-K42 N- KB3, N-QB3 3 B_NS, N- B3 4. 0-0, P-Q3 5 P_Q4, B- Q2 6 N_B3, PxP 7 NxP, 8-K2 8 P- QN 3, Nx N 9 QxN , BxB 10 NxB, N- Q2 11 B_RS, P_QRS 12 N-B3, 8 - 83 13 Q- Q2, 0 - 0 14 QR_Ql, R-Kl 15 KR-Kl, N- N3 16 B- N2, Q_o.2 17 P-QR4, 0.-83 18 P-R5, N- Q2 19 B_ Al, R- K3 20 N-Q5, BxB 21 RxS, A/ l _ Kl 22 P-KB3, P-B4 23 A- K3, PxP 24 A- S3, N- B4 25 N-B4, P- K6 26 0._0.4, R_K4 27 P-QN4, P-K7 28 A- Kl , Q_ RS 29 R_ B4, N-Q2 30 AxSP, N-B3 31 Qx ?, Q_R? 32 P- R4, N-Q4 33 R_BS, NxN 34 RxR, R-KB1 35 P-N3, 0.-82 36 Px N, Qx? 37 Ri b? Blac k t'e!llgns.

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Game 3 BENONI DE F ENSE W hite : larsen B lnck : Tah l

1 P- Q4, N- KB3 2 P- QB4, P-K3 3 P_K N3, P_B4 4 P- Q5, PxP 5 PxP, P- QN4 6 B-N2, P-Q3 7 P- QR3, P- QR4 8 N_QB3, Q_N3 9 N- B3, B-K 2 10 0 - 0 , 0 _0 11 P_K4, QN-Q2 12 R- Kl , B-R3 13 P-K 5, PxP 14 NxKP, NxN 15 RxN, K A_K 1 16 B- N 5, P-R3 17 AxB, Ax A 18 P-Q6, Px B 19 PxR, R_K l 2Q Q- Q2, AxP 21 QxP, Q-Q 3 22 P-KA4, P- N5 23 PxP, BPxP 24 N-Q5, A- K4 25 NxN t, Qx N 26 QxQ, PxQ 27 B_B6, B-B5 28 P_B4, A- Q64 29 B_A4, B-K3 30 R-Kl , 8-R7 31 R-K3, 8_N 8 32 K_B2, B_B4 33 K-B3, R-B8 34 P- N4, B-K3 35 P-B5, B-Q4t 36 K- 6 2, R_QR8 37 P- N3, R-Q8 38 R-K 8t, K-N 2 39 A_Q8, IB- B6 40 RxA , 8 xR 41 K- N3. 8_B7 , Drawn ,

Gam e 4~ ALEKHINE D EFEN SE

White : Tah l B1 ll. c k : Larsen

Game 5 GR U E N FELD DEFENS E

White : L arsen Black: Tahl

1 P_Q4, N-KB3 2 P_QB4, P_KN 3 3 N- QB3, P_Q4 4 8-B4, B-N2 5 P-K3, P-B4 6 QPxP, Q_R4 7 R- Bl , Px P 8 BxP,

Lar.lell- T a hl, Ga me 5

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7 8 9 10 Tota ls W D L Y, Y, y, 1 S Ij2 ~ Y, 3 5 2 y, y, y, 0 4 1f2 ·5 V, 253

0 - 0 9 N_B3, N- B3 10 0 - 0 , QxB P 11 B-QN 3, Q- KR4 12 P_KR3, P-K 4 13 B- R2, R- Ql 14 N-Q2, Q-R 3 IS Q_K2, 8 -B4 16 KR-Ql , B- Q6 17 Q- B3, Q- R5 18 B-N3, Q-R4 19 QxQ, NxQ 20 B- R2, N-B3 21 N_B3, P-K5 22 N- KN5, R_KBI 23 B-Q6 (see dia gram ), P-K R3 24 Bx R, RxB 25 N-B3, R- Kl 26 N- Kl , B_R 3 27 N-R4, B-N4 28 N_B5, N-QR4 29 B- R4, BxB 30 NxB, R- K2 31 R- BSt , K_R2 32 N-B5, N_B5 33 P- QN3, N_N3 34 R- QN8, R- B2 35 P-QN4, N/B-Q4 36 P- A3, N- B6 37 R/l-Q8, N- B5 38 RxP, RxR 39 NxR, NxRP 40 R-Q7, B-Bl 41 Rx Pt, K_Nl 42 R-B6, K-N2 43 A-R6, BxP 44 K- Bl , N / R_N4 45 N- B2, B-K2 46 N_Q4, N xN 47 PxN , N_N4 48 R-R4, K_B3 49 N_8 5, K-B450 R-R5 Black res igns.

Game 6· ALEKHL N E DEFE NS E

W hite : Tah l Bla ck : L ar se n

Game 1 BLUMEN FELD DEFE NS E

Wh ite: L arsen mack: T ah l

1 P_Q4, N_B3 2 P-QB4, P- K 3 3 P- K N3, P-QB4 4 P-Q5, PxP 5 PxP, P_Q N4 6 B-N2, P-Q3 7 P-QR 3, P- QR4 8 N-Q8 3, Q-N3 9 N- KB3, B_K2 10 0 - 0 , 0 -0 11 P_K4, QN-Q2 12 R-Kl , B-R 3 13 B-64, N_KN5 14 B- KB1 , B- B3 15 N- Q2, N / 5_ K4 16 P-Q R4, PxP 17 N xP, Q-N5 18 6x 8 , RxB 19 Q-K2, P- B5 20 KR- QB1 , R_81 21 R_B2, R-R2 22 Q-K 3, R/ 2- B2 23 Q-R3, P- N4 24 BxN , NxB 25 Q- K 3, N-Q6 26 N_N6 (see diagr am ), P- B6 27 PxP. RxP 28 R- Nl , N- N7 29 P- K5, RxR 30 PxB, QxN / 7 31 QxQ, RxQ 32 NxR, P- R5 33 K_N2, P-R6 34 R_QR1, N-B5 35 R-QB1, N-K6t 36 K- B3, N-B7 37 R- QN1 , P-KR4 38 R-N8, K- R2 39 N_K 7, P- N5t 40 K_B4, P_R7 41 R- KN8, RxPt 42 K_N5, RxBP 43 R-QR8 (sealed move), R_ B7 44 RxP, P-B3t 45 KxRP, RxPt 46 K xP, N- K6t 47 K-B3, RxR 48 KxN , R_R l 49 K-B4, R-K l 50 N-B5, R_K4 51 N xP, Rx P 52 N-K4, K-N3 53 P_N4. R- QR4 54 K-B3, K_B2 55 N-N 3, K- K 3 56 K-64, R-R5t 57 K-B3, K_K4 58 N-R5, R_Rl 59 K-K3, R-Q N l 60 K - B3, R_Kl 61

u u-sen-Tah l. Game 7

N- 84, K_QS 62 N-RS, R-K8 63 K-B2, R- K5 64 K_B3, K_K4 65 K_N3, R-K6t 66 K-B2, R- QN6 67 K-N2, R-N2 68 K- B3, R- Nl 69 K-K 3, R-KNI 70 K- B3, R- K RI 71 N_N3, R- R2 72 K_K3, R-R6 73 K- B3, R_R7 74 K_K 3, R_QN7 75 N_ R5, R-N 6t 76 K_B2, R- Q6 77 K_N2, K-K5 78 NxPt , K_B5 79 K-B2, R-Q7t 80 K-Kl , R- Q3 81 P_N5, K- B6 82 N_R7, K_K6 83 N- B6, K- B6 84 N_R7, R_Q4 85 P-N6, R- Q2 86 N- NSt, K- K6 87 N_K6, R-Q7 88 N- 84. R_K R7 89 N-QSt , K-B6 90 K- Q l , R_KN7 91 P_N7 D ra wn,

Game 8 SICI LI A N DEFENSE

Wh ite : Tah l Black: L arsen

1 P_ K4, P_QB4 2 N- K B3. N-Q B3 3 P- Q4, PxP 4 NxP, P_K 3 5 N-QB3, P-Q3 6 P_KN 3, B-Q2 7 B- N2, Nx N 8 QxN , B- B3 9 0 - 0 , N- B3 10 R-Q 1, B-K2 11 P-K 5, PxP 12 BxB t , Px6 13 QxKP, Q-Nl 14 B- 8 4, QxQ t 5 Bxo., 0 - 0 16 B-Q6, BxB 17 RxB, KR- Bl 18 N- R4, QR_Nl 19 P_QB4, K_Bl 20 QR-Ql, K-K2 21 R/6- Q2, R- Ql 22 N- B5, RxR 23 RxR, R_Ql 24 RxR , KxR 25 P-B3, N- K l 26 N- Q3, K- B2 27 P-B5, ?-B3 28 P-B4, K- Q2 29 K_B2, N-B2 30 K-K3, N- Q41' 31 K-Q4, P_ KR 3 32 K_K4, K_K2 33 N- K l , P_N4 34 N- B3, P-N5 35 N-Q4, K-Q2 36 P-QR3, N_B2 37 P_N4, P_KR4 38 N- B2, N_Q4 39 N- Q4, P-R 3 40 N-B2, N- B6t 41 K- Q3 Drawn,

Garne 9 E NGLISH OPENING

W h ile: Larse n Black : Tah l

1 P_QB4, N_K63 2 N-KB3, P-QB4 3 P_ K N3, N-B3 4 B-N2, P_KN 3 5 0-0, 8-N 2 6 N- B3, 0 - 0 7 P_Q4, PxP 8 NxP, NxN 9 Qx N, P-Q3 10 R- Qt , B-K3 11 Bx P, N- N5 12 Q- B4, R-N 1 13 B_N2, Q-Bl 14 N- Q5, R- Kl 15 P-KR 3, N-K4 16 Q- R4, Qx P 11 NxPt , K_Rl 18 P_K 4, Q-K7 19 B- K 3, Rx? 20 N-Q5, P-KA 3 21 P-N4, N- B6t 22 BxN , Qx KB 23 N-B7, R- KBI 24 RxP, P_N4 25 Bx N P, B-K4 26 B_K3, Bx A 27 NxB, Px N 28 QxPt , K_N1 29 Q- N6t , K- Rl 30 B-Q4t, ?-K431 Q-R5t, K_N2 32 Q- N5t, K- B2 33 BxR, QxRP 34 Q- RSt, QxQ 35 PxQ, R-KRI 36 A_QB1 , Rx? 37 R_B6, B_Nl 38 B_B1, R- A2 39 R- B4, K_K3 40 K-Bl, R-Q N2 41 8- K 3 ( ~e:! l ed mOI'e), P_R4 42 R- R4, 8-B2 43 K_K 2, K-Q2 44 K_Q3, R-N7 45 R_R3. B- Ql 46 B_Q2, B_K2 47 R_R4 (01' -17 llxP ? Rxll t etc.), B-N5 48 BxB, Px B 49 K_B4, RxB ? 50 K-Q5, R-QN 7 51 R- A7t , K_B l 52 K xP, P_N6 53 PxP, Ax P 54 K_Q6, R- Q6t 55 K-K 6, R-KR6 56 R- R8t , K_B2 57 R-KB8, R-K6 58 P-K 5, R_K 8 59 R_K8, R-KR8 60 R-QR8, R- K8 61 R- Rl t , K-Ql 62 R_ Rl, R-K6 63 R- R8t, K_B2 64 R-A6, K-Ql 65 R- R8t, K- B2 66 R- K 8, R_KR6 67 R-KB8, A_K6 68 R- KN8, R- K8 69 R- N2, K_Ql 70 R_Q R2. R_K6 71 R-R 5, R-K8 72 R_N5, A_K7 73 K- B7, R-B7t 74 K-K6, A- K7 7S A-N8t, K_B2 76 R-K8, R_KR7 77 K_B7, R- R2t 78 K- N6, K_Q2 Dra wn .

Game 10·

WhIle: Tanl

SICI LIAN DEFE NSE

Dlack: Larse n

• Gamc~ 1. ~, 6 I:: 10 on Pl) . St. _C. and 10 with Ell\,'C' , comments alao on p. ~it6, Oct.

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An outstandi ng recent game, a nnotated by a former W or ld Cha m pion.

SOCHI IN THE SWING The chess season is in fu ll swing with th ree international tourna­

ments taking place at almost the same time : Havana, Sochi and Erevan . Although of the th ree tha t at Sochi was probably, say from a technical point of view, the least im por tant, stil l the partici pa tion of Boris Spassky, so close to his challenger's duel with Mikhail Tahl, gave specia l color to this event. Generally, it is not considered shrewd to show one's ha nd just befo re so important a trial of strength . But Spassky can afford 10

do so . Ap parentl y, he disposes of mo re th an one repertory and, at Sochi, he d isplayed the "other one," th al is, not the one he in tends to llse in the eomi ng match. Indeed, it appeared Spassky took th is tourna · ment ra th er ha l£.hearted ly: he drew six ti mes ill the first seven rounds. By half·time, hi s appetite awoke, and he a ttained lOY2-4Y?, and thi s 70% score was sufficient for hi m to tie for first prize . Wolfgang Unzicker was for tunate enough to score the sa me nu mber of po ints and, qualitatively, he performed even hetter.

The fol lowing game, it is true, shows no partic ular br il li ancy . Yet it is rated the best game of the tou rn ament, a positional perfo rma nce in the grand old style.

SICIL IAN DEFENS E

W. Unzic ker A. Le in

W est Ge rm a ny Sov ie t Union

Whi t e Black

1 P-K4 P_QB4 3 P_Q4 p,p

2 N- KB3 P-K3 4 N, P P_QR3 5 N_QB3 • • • •

5 B-Q3 and 5 Q"'- QZ are good alterna. tives here. S • . . . Q-B2 7 B- N2 B_K2

6 P-KN 3 N-K B3 8 0 - 0 0 - 0 9 P_ B4 • • • •

Theory has held th is move io be not the best; But Unzicker shows th is judg_ ment doubtful, LO sa y t he least. 9 . . . . N-B3 12 N- K4 P- KB4

10 NxN 11 P- K5

NPxN N_Q4

13 PxP e.p. 14 B-K3

NxP/ 3 • • • •

t = check ; * = dbl. check: § = dis. ch.

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Here is the point; Bl~k·s center will become weak as soon as White gels a gl·ip on the black squa res.

14 . . . . 15 Bx N 16 B_ N2

N,N P_Q4

• • • •

by DR. MAX EUWE

T his is the critical situation. If W h it e succeeds in controlling his K5. the strug_ gle w ill be deCided In the strategical sense. Th erefore, only \ 0 ... P- B4 an d 16 . . . P- K4 desel"l'e cons ideration by Blade

After 16 . .. P-IH, the sacrifice by 17 13xQP fails on a CCOllilt o( 17 . . . P x13 18 QxPt. K - Rl 19 QxR , B-NZ 20 Q- R 7. R - R l etc. White or cour se has bettel·: ]7 P-U4. 13- X2 18 Pxp. QR- Ql 19 P - Q6 ! arte!· which White·s Pawn structure is superior.

After 16 . . . P- K-I. the sacrifice is not any good eithe r : 17 BxPt. P xB 18 QxPt , K-Hl 19 QxR, 13-N2 20 Q- H7. Q- 133 with a feal ·f\11 attack for Black. ·White call gain some positional advantage. 110 ll"eve l", by 17 Px p . IhRt 18 BxR, QxP 19 13-Q4, Q- Q3 20 p - n4, and, If 20 . . . P- 134. 21 B- N2. SUlI, a ccorcllng to Flohr, 16 . . . P- K4 is best with intent to sacrifice a Pawn: ]7 1'xP. B- I<3 .

16 . . . . R_N1? 17 B-Q4 B-Q3

T h e continuation: 17 . .. P - B·] 18 D- K;;, B- Q3 19 R-Kl leads to I)ractically the same position as in the gam e.

18 P-N3 19 B- N2

P-B4 B_N2

19 . .. P - Q5 is met by 20 P-B3.

20 R- K1 21 8- K5 !

QR_ K1

• • • •

Thi s i s a strategical I'lloclwut.

\Vhite maintains h is power over K 5; and. in consequence. on e or more or 13lack·s P awn s remain wea k. 21 . . . . 22 Bx B

R_ B4 a,s

23 B- R3 24 R_ K5

R/4-B1 P-Q5

Black has 10 do s omething against the eontinuing s iege of his King Pawn. 25 Q- Q2 26 B_ N2

Q-83 Qx 8 t

27 Q>l: Q 28 K>l:B • • • •

T o Slim Hr. iliad ;: ha s eliminated m any p ieces. but he did not eliminate tha t

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positionlll disadvantage. His Pawns In the cell ter al'e weaker t hall evel', 28 , , , , R-B4 30 K_B3 29 Aj 1-K1 K_B2 31 Aj 1-K4

P- N3 R,R

Black hlls exhausted his wai ting mo\'es ·-the exchange Is just as bad as any other llIo\'e,

32 AxR 33 K_ K4

A-QB1 , . , ,

Wh i te completes h is blockade of the Black center.

33 , ' , , 34 P_KA4

K_K2 , , , ,

In such positions as this, In which one side Is at the mercy of the othp.l'. the deci sion must be forced by aggression on more than one Il'ont,

34 , , , , 35 P_R5

K-Q3 , ' , ,

Thus, White accomplishes a (urther weakening of Black's ])osltlon at the cost, however, of putting liP temporal'l ly with th(' weakness of his 011'11 King Knight Pawn,

35"" PxP 36 RxP R_KN 1

37 K- B3 38 P_ KN4 39 P-N5

R_N2 P_R4 , , , ,

K o w t he vulnerability of the King Knight Pawn is removed, and Whi te's King can take u p Its fon ner wor k: tQ 11I'ess on Black's center,

39 . , , , P-B5

Black cannot bear his waiting alti t ude any lon ger, hi fact, aner other moves, t he ending Is lost also,

40 K-K4 P-Q6 42 R-R2 K- B4 41 PxQP P-B6 43 P- R3 l , , , ,

Arter 43 R-QD2, I{- NS, the game does not look so bad (or Black.

43 , ' , , A-N2

44 K-K51 . , ' . Precise calculation went Into this

move, While had to take thol'ough ac_ count of t he power of Dlack's passed Pawn,

44 , , ' , R-Q2

Aftel' H ' RxP 45 RxP, K -B3 [else ,15 ' , , P- B7? 46 R- B7tl ~6 R-Rl, W h ite's King Knight Pawn i s stronger than Black 's Bishop Pawn,

45 P- Q4t l

A fine ffim'e: artel' 45 wins by ,Iii R- R3,

45 .. , , 46 R-QB2 47 KxP

, , , . • • • RxP, White

K_N4 R-QS2

P_R5

This is a l ast attempt by Black.

CHE SS REVJEW, DEC£MBER, 1965

M iniafure games ore fhe hors d'oeuvres of chess,

Ottawa (Onto) Club Championship 1965 Pawn offers embroider a wi nn ing

game for White,

CARO_KANN DEFENSE

K , Wi nt er ton

White

A, WestwalJ

B lack

1 P- K4 2 P_Q4 3 N-QB3 4 NxP

P-QB3 P_Q4 p,p

N- Q2

5 B-QB4 6 N_N5 7 Q-K2 8 B_N3 9 B-K3

KN-B3 P- K 3 N-N3 P- B4 . , , ,

White eoun ts on 9 " PxP 10 0 - 0 - 0,

9 , , , . 10 PxP

0 1' H , loses to 14

~3 B-N3

16 SxN

OJ' 18 QxB,

Q-B2 N-Q4

11 B- Q4 P- KR3 12 BxNj 4 PxN

, NxB IS N-DS as 13 , , ,BxP Q- N5t,

R,P 14 RxR 15 0-0-0

17 B-R4t 18 Q- N5

P-B4 19 Q-KSt

Q,R QxP?

K-K2 Q-B3

and 20

19 Q-RS Resigns

On 19 ... P- N3, 20 BxQ w ins,

Manchester, Eng land 1965 Pnwn offers gh'e ·Whit e a promising

auacl" 9 P- D5!? and 10 0 - 0 but ap· parentl y only a uraw on 14 .. ' K - Kl 15 B- B7t etc,

p, Adams

W h ite 1 P_K4 2 N_KB3 3 P-Q4 4 Nx P 5 N-QB3

48 PxPt 49 P-Q5

SICI LIAN

P-QB4 N- QB3

p,p

N-KB3 P-Q3

K-B5 K_Q6

DEFENSE

K, J,

6 B-QB4 7 B-N3 8 P- B4 9 P-B5

10 0 - 0 11 B-N5

50 P-Q6 51 AxPt 52 P-B5

Thorpe

Blacl.

P-K3 B-K2 B..Q2 p,p p,p

B_N5 ?

R-B5 K,R

, , , ,

The lone Rook cannot cope w ith so many p,lwns,

52 , ' , , 53 K_Q5

R-K5t R-Q5t

54 K_K5 55 P- B6

RxAP K-B5

56 P-B7 Resigns

12 QxB N,Q

01' 13 • • K - Dl l ~

14 B- K6t K- B2 ? 15 N-Q5t K-N1 16 NxN t P,N 17 BxB Q-R4

13 BxPt N-K6 mate,

18 BxPt 19 R-B7t 20 N-B7t 21 NxRt

K- Q2

K-N2 K_R3 K-N3 R,N

Black hns little choice by now: 21 . , , K -R3 22 D-DH! or 21 " K -N4 22 P-RW 22 B-B7t K_A3 23 BxQ Resigns

Reg iona l Championsh ip, Minnesota

A Curt flnlsb to a wild imbroglio,

GRUENFELD DEFENSE

Mike Callinan Curt Brasket

White Black

1 P- Q4 N- KB3 , N,N Q,N 2 P_QB4 P-KN3 7 P-K3 Q-R4 j S N- QB3 P_Q4 8 Q-Q2 QxQt 4 B_B4 B- N2 9 KxQ P-B4 5 PxP N,P 10 N-B3 p,p

11 N,P P- K4

White.inltlnted exchanges have sl im. med do\\'n the chances of action, Black now drives w hich looks 12 N_N5 13 N-B7t 14 R_B1 15 NxR

W bite i nlo an en terprise risky for Black ,

PxB 16 B-N5 K-K2 17 K-K2 N-B3 18 P- B3 B-K4 19 PxP

20 R-B4

A-Q1t B-N5t B-Q2 BxBP , , , ,

White's material 1)lu8 turns minus on , , RxN; so lie attacks,

20 , , , , N-Q5t Resigns

Whichever way the wind may blOW, some White piece is bound to g o,

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Up-to-date opening analysis by an outstanding authority_

THE ALBIN COUNTER GAMBIT 1\1 ANY chessmaslers prefer a "quiet life" especially when playing

with the White pieces. They consider gambits a nuisance, fo r gam· bits complicate the game and hence favor the combinative player.

They do even more; they work psychologica lly. Most gam bits are rated insuHicient theoret ically, and hence the opponent tends to underestimate the gambit, expects too much of the position and wishes to attain a clea r advantage and consequently rejects all variations which do not afford stich an advantage. In the long run, stich a policy means dangerotls taelics; for the variations left for the opponent prove in ferior more often th an not especiall y when he has attempted to retain his mao terial edge.

It is, on the whole, much better to return the gambit Pawn, ac­cording to the well· known directive, on the ea rliest occasion which per­mits some positional advan tage. After having accepted the gambi t Pawn, it is good that one need not worry about the material relation in the game and converting the ma terial thus is a healthy way of uti lizing that advantage.

Positional players, 1I0t lik ing the gambi t, avoid or decline it. In the early days of the Budapest Defense ( rea lly a counter gambit), White lIsed to avo id it by playi ng 1 P- Q4, N-KB3 2 N- KB3, instead of 2 P- QB4, P-K4. Bul 2 N-KB3 has now been abandoned as it offers less by way of possibi liti es for White than does 2 P-QB4, and, moreve J' , the Budapest has los t its power and its terror.

Something simila r has happened in the Queen's Gamhit : White no longer plays 1 P- Q4, P-Q4 2 N- KB3 in order to avoid the Albin Counter Gambi t, 2 ... P-K4. Still, the Albin remains somewhat trouble­some, espec ially in simultaneous exhibitions. It is not qu ite cleal' whether and how White can retain the gambit Pawn in the best way or play fo r some other advantages.

Modern development of the theory of this gambit, however, runs much in favor of the Whi te player. It even looks as though the Albin may soon be scratched fro m the list of satisfactory openings.

White 1 P- Q4 2 P_Q B4

]}Jack P_Q4 P_ K4

(See adJaceot diagram)

3 P x KP . . . . Declining the gambit makes little

sense, Dr, Tarraseh once played 3 P- K3 with the motil'aUon: "In general. I at. tack with the White pieces while I must. on the other hand. defend with the Bla ck. If, when playing 'White, however. I must defend. when shall I be able to attack at all?" It is not quite clea!'

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Position a fte r 2 . .. P · K 4

by DR. MAX EUWE Former World Champion

whether the good Doctor considered the position after 3 P- K3 (Freneh Reversed) an attacking one.

3 . . . . P- Q5

3 .. . PxP 4 QxQt . KxQ 5 P - K4 is favorable for ·White.

4 N_KB3 • • • •

A The obvious 4 P- K3 is refuted by 4 . B-NSt 5 D-Q2. PxP!

1) 6 DxB? PxPt 7 K - K2, PxN(N)t! 2) 6 Q- R-1t? N- B3 7 BxB, PxPt S KxP ,

Q- RSt etc. 3) 6 PxP, Q- HSt 7 P- N3, Q- K5 and

Black I'egalns his Pawn w ith positional advnntage.

Othel' possibilities are: B .. P- K4 . N- QB3 S P - B4, P- KN·1 6

P- B5 [an idea of Spassky's], NxP 7 N- KB3. B- NSt S QN-Q2, N-QB3 9 B- Q3, P- N5 10 O- O!? PxN 11 NxP (Spassky­Mikenas. Riga 1960). It is not for com. man mortals to decide if \Vhite's attack is worth a I)iece!

C " P- QH3. N-QB3 ::; P- K3 [ by bis fou rth move. White made this counter push possible ] , P-QR .. 6 N- KB3. B- QB,1. Chalices are about even.

4 . . . . N-QB3

4 •• , P-QB~ facilitates White's de. ve lopment. partly as Black h imself has prevented ... B-N5t. So, after 5 P-K3. N- QD3 6 PxP. PxP 7 B-Q3. White's position Is overwhelming.

T he K ey Position

Variation A 5 P-QR3 . . . .

The varia t ion is given only ro r bis. torical reasons: Lasker played it vs. Alekhine at Sl. Petersburg 19J.1. After 5 ... B- KN5 ti QN-Q2, Q-K2 7 P - R3. Bx!\' S NxB. 0 - 0 - 0, Black had at least an even game.

t = cheCk ; ~ = dbl. check: § = dis. ch.

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Variation B (Continue from the K ey Position)

5 QN - Q2 • • • •

As this move is no longer considered best, the following is me rely a silort re_ view of the most important lines.

Suhva r iation 1 5 . . . . 6 P- QR3 7 Bx B

B-Q N S? BxNt B_N5

8 Q-N3 9 P-N3

10 B-N2

KN-K2 0-0

White stands better.

Subvar iation 2 (Cont inue from last diagram)

S • • . • In typical gambit style.

6 P x P 7 P-K N3

P-B3

Q, P B_ K B4

8 B_N 2 N- NS

Or 8. . 0-0- 0 9 N- R-t followed possibly by 10 N- K4.

9 O-O! N_B7

9 ... B- B7 10 Q- Kl, B- N3 11 N - N3. N-B7 12 Q-R5, NxR 13 QNxP is vel'Y favorable FOI" ·Wbite. 10 R_N1 11 P- R3!

N- NS B, R

12 NxB 13 P-QN4

N_ B3

White has more than suCficieut com_ pensation for the Exchange.

Subvar iation 3 (Cont inue from last diagram)

S . . . . B-K N S!

: Sub_sub_variant I. 6 P- K R3 BxN 7 N x B B-NSt

' S B- Q2 Q-K2 •

9 P-R3 10 Qx B 11 0-0-0

sxst 0-0 - 0 - . . .

I On 11 Q-B4, P - B3 12 PxP, is all right.

NxP, mack

11 . . . . 12 N xN 13 P-K3

The chances Black pla.ys 14

are equal. On 1<1 Q- R5. . . . N- K2!

Sub_sub_va r ia nt 11 ,

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(Continue f rom last diagram)

6 P_K N3 Q-Q2 8 0 - 0 KN-K2 7 S- N2 0-0_0 9 P- QR3 N- N3

Black j'ecaptures his Pawn with equallty.

Subva ri at ion 4 (Continue f rom next to last d iagr~m)

5 . . . . 8-K3

This move leads by transposition into pOSition in Variation C, Sub"al"iation 3.

Variation C (Conti nue f rom t he Key POSi tion)

5 P-KN3! • • • •

The most logical and straighifOl"wal'd continuation: White loses no time and prepares for direct exertion of pressure on the Queenside, aiming at an eventual P- QN4.

Subvariat ion 1

5 . . . . B-N5t 6 Q N_Q2 . . . .

The game takes on the character of Val'iation B, subvariation 1. It does not matter milch that White pla.ys P - QR3 a rew moves later.

6 . . . . 7 B_N2

B-N 5 Q_ K 2

7 .. KN- K2 S P- QR3. BxNt 9 BxB, N- N3 10 Q- N3 leads to Variation B, sub_ val'iation 1.

8 0 - 0 9 P- Q R3

0 - 0 - 0 KBxN

10 BxB N xP

10 .. . BxN 11 P xB! NxP 12 R- K1 is also vel'y strong for ·White.

11 NxN 12 Q-N 3 13 B-B4

Q. N P-QB3

White's position is overwhelming. On 13 .. . QxP, White answers 14 R-Kl.

Subvariat ion 2 (Cont inue f rom last diagram)

5 . . . . 6 B_ N 2 7 0-0

B- KNS Q_Q2

0 - 0 - 0 The Pawn storm by 7 . P- KR4

produces no effective end: 8 P-QR3, P- R5 9 B- B·I, PxP 10 BxP, KN- K2 11 P-N-I! The last move is a lways the mo_ tive and force of this variation for White. Here White stands better (Sokolsky­Simagin, "'oscow 1953).

7 . . . KN- K2 was refuted convinc_ ingly in Tolush- Horne (Hastings 1953_ .1): 8 P- N4! NxNP 9 P-K6! BxP 10 N- K5, Q- B1 11 Q- R4.t etc.

8 Q-N 3 B-R6?

7 . KN-K2 is me t by 9 R- Ql . Re latil'ely bes t. howe ver, is 8 . .. N- R4 with th e following <:on~eq\\ en ces : 9 Q- Q3. and

a ) 9 . . . U- I·:;r!-j 10 1'- ]-( ·1, p"p e. p. 11 Q" p. 1\ _:\"11 2 P- :\"3 with a plear ~ll rH' rio rit)" for Whi t e :

b ) 9 .. . I' - Q13·1 10 :\"- :\"5. B-B ~ 11 Q- H3. :\"- Q B3 12 13- 13 1 or 1 ~ 13x:\" wi lh an adnulla~e for W hite .

9 P- K6!

:\"Ot 9 ... Qx P '? IV :\"- :\" 5.

10 N_KS ! Q_Q3 11 Nx N PxN 12 Q-R4

\Vhite has an easy win (Spa ~;; ky-For_

intos. Soehi ]965) .

Subvar ia ti on 3 (Continue f rom last diagram)

5 . . . . B- K3 6 QN_Q2 · . . .

White 's pos ition is very promis ing. H e need not fear the los s of his Queen Bi sh_ op Pawn as the possi bili t ies a long h is diagonal. KN2- Q:\"7 supply sufficient compensation.

Here are some likely con t inuations :

Sub_sub_va r iant r. 6 . . . . 7 B-N2 8 0-0

B-QNS B,P

· . . . Now White s t ands bett er a fter 8 . . .

BxN 9 QxB . KN- K2 10 P - N3, B- K3 11 B- N2. And likewise after 8 . . . B- Q4 9 N- N3, Q- Q2 10 QNxP.

Sub_sub_varian t II. (Cont inue from last diagram)

6 . . . . Q-Q2 7 B_N2 · . . .

NOI", a fte r j ... R-Ql 8 0 - 0, K N- K2 9 Q·-H.-I, N- N3 10 P- QR3, B-K2 11 P- QN4, 0 - 0 12 B- K2, White 's position is su­pe rior: e.g. J2 . B-H6 13 P- N5, BxB 1·1 KxB, QNxP 15 BxP (Pir<:- Kostich, 2agl'eb 1947).

7 . . . . 8 0 - 0 9 Q-R4

0 - 0-0 KN-K2 P-QR3

Or 9 . . N- N3 10 N- N3, K-N l 11 R- Q1. 10 P-Q N4 11 P- N5 12 N-N3

P-KR4 N_QN1

N- B4

13 B_NS 14 BxB 15 KR_Ql

And White won in th e game. Gligorich­Leban. ·in the latest Yugos lavian Cham_ pionship 1965.

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CHESS REVIEW, nECEMBER, 196$

Activit ies of C HES S REVIEW P osta l Chen p laye rs: gam e r e por t s &. ratings, names of new player. , p rl>:e-winners , selec ted games, tourney Inst r uct ions &. editoria l comment.

TOURNAMENT NOTES

Progress Reports for Golden Knights Tournaments

13th Annual Championship In t he 1959 Golden Knigh t s, n o new

F inals section has completed play. The lis t of pros pective ca sh prize winners r e_ main s as given, page 345, November issue.

14th Annual Championship In the 1960 Golden Knights, n o n ew

Finals section hllS finis hed play for t his issue either.

15th Annual Championship I n the 1961 Golden K n igh ts , F ina ls sec_

tion 61 _Nf 8 has completed play, and the contestants there in scored t hese weighted _point tota ls : ·

G Ca l'lson ·12.9 ; J D :Moor e 34.95 ; E S J acob 31 .8 ; A P Butle r 24.55 ; D D T hurman 22.8; H A J ania 21.8; and W '\V Fuchs withdrew.

Meanwhile, F, A J aaska , H P Patemau a nd N Li Pe tri have Qualified for assign_ men t to the Fin<lls.

16th Annual Championship In th e 1963 Golden K nigh ts , the [allow_

ing contendel's Qualified for assign_ ment 10 the Fina ls: P ;\1 L amb, 'IY P Bigle l', C Adashek, B R Worrell, H Fah'us, H G Christiansen, J H Marica, M L Hatch, H A F isher , J A Starinkas and J W Weihe.

None have Qualified fr om the P r e1!ms to the Semi_finals for this issue.

17th Annual Championship In the 196 ·1 Golden Knights, the fol _

lowing contenders have Qualified fo r a s_ signme nt to the }'ina ls: R L Andel'son, G W Sullinger, B Maillard and R A Cayfonl.

Also, these players qua lified fol' tbe Semi.finals: \\' Halpern, J Cr utchley, R LollI'man, It C Howat'd, R F i\ lcGregor and i\I W Herrick.

18th Annual Championship In t h e re<;eutly current Golden Kn ights.

t be follow ing eontenuer s have Qualified for ass ignment to the Semi_fina ls: F R Stauffer, fi' n Lyn ch, C ~I Crenshaw, 0

'W~ighted poi n t tota ls are based On th~ follOWing scn le: 1.0 pOints per win in the prellm~ : 2.2 In s emi_fina ls: and ~ . 5 i n final~ . D raws count hul! these ,·alues .

CHESS REVIEW , DECEMBER, 1965

H Phipps, I Erkmanis, C Schofield , J P Laird , M R ibowsky, E Polgar, L B Joyner, C A Va n Brunt, P Marks, J Duchesne, G L Frank, A C de Sherblnln, J E Dlschoff, L Fogg, i\I Gottesman, F Ashley, E C Brow n, H E Wi ns ton, S Klein , 0 W Straha n, J R Daniels , J Yelll , W A Norin, J Ozols, A F Woods and B 1 .. Patteson.

As of the end of October, 180 prelim_ inary s ectlons we r e in pla y, 01' 1260 COIl _ testants. With ent ries closed as of No_ vember 30, we shall fin ish assigning pl'eUm sectiolls in mid_December.

19th Annual Championship 'This n ewest edition of the popular

Golden K nighls, the 1966 nineteenth An_ nual Golden Knight s an d e ighth annual U, S. Open Postal Chess Cha mpion ship is now open for applicaUons. We shall not make liP a nd send out assignments, however, un after the Xmas mail rush subsides. Look for a ssignments in Jan_ uary 1966.

T hese ,,, U63 • To urney

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POSTALMIGHTIES! Class Tournaments

Pos tulites have WOn "' t ie<J rot· 196. a nd 1~65 Class Tou l't\ er~.

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:\\ I..acey . , . . . . . .• . • . .. . 2- 3 71 R L Sam!)le .. . .• . . . . . . 2nd 74 A C )Iorrill . ... . . .. ... . . I st

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Aftel' a hectic yeal' fOJ' the Postal Chess department. we've fina lly caught up with processing a nd s ending out time complain t inqui r ies . j\Jany went out Qu it e late ; bu t your (:omplaint, if merited, was or will be adell UPOII in due cour Se afte r Ihe inquiry.

Now it Is time to rem ind yo\]. tha t mall fl 'om m id _Decem ber on is apt to be e r_ ra tic. So we recomlllend you send moves as per usua l, even try a " repeat" if all opponent fails to answer. But Ple lls e do not flIe a ny time CO ml)laint during the pel'iod of from Decem bel' 15 to J alllmry 6. Most delays. we've fO\lnd, for this t ime, will tUl'll out to be a cdden ts of the season, and our Inquiries are also apt to go astray .

By January 6, if YO I1 still have no re_ ply and have sent move and r epeat, re_ port so lo U8 a long with opponent's name, a ddress a nd tourney number. If you h ave not sent a repea l, do so and report like_ wise if there is no timely response.

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before, please specify in which class you would lik e to start. We recommend C lass A for unusually st rong players, C lass B fo r above average pl a ye rs, C lass C for about average players and Class D fo r below ave rage, If you have played. p lease state your probabl e rating.

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Your game results will b e recorde d and publ ishe d in CHESS REVIEW as well as y our p osta l c hess rating.

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Ycu sta n d a good chance of winning a pr ize, t o o! Cred its of $6.00 and $3.00 are awarcled to 1st and 2d place winners in each section. Credits may be used to purchase chess books or equipment.

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POSTAL MORTEMS Game Reports Received

during October 1965

To report re~ults. follow instructiolli

on pages 4 & 5 of your b ooklet on Postel

Chess strictly and exactly. Otherwise the report may be mlsrec ord ed, held up or

even lost, Please note: W inners ( and those with the

White pieces In case of draws ) must repOrt a s sOOn as resul t Is confirmed by oppOnent. The opponent may report a lso to ensure his record a nd rating gOing through but mus t then s tate clearly that he was the lose r (or pla yed Black in case ot a draw) .

Game repOrts sent In time to r receipt by dates given above should be pr inted b"loVl'. And the players concerned should c heck to see that they are so published. To spOt them. look under your section n umber, tll'Ilt by the key (e.g . , 65-C Indicating Class Tourney begun In 1965) and by number (466) given In text below the key.

Symbol f indicates a win by forfeit w ith_ out rat ing credit; a shows a rating credit a djudication; elf marks a dou ble -fortelt.

CLASS TOURNAMENTS Four_man Tourneys Graded by Cla sses

Started in 1963 (Key: 63.C) Notice: Ga me reports on a ll t ourneys be­g u n in December 196·3 become pa st-due thi s month. Get In repor t s to reach Us he re by December 31 to a void losing on double- to r ­fei t (both players lose !). T ourneys 1 · 404: 383 E ulensteln w ithd raws. 3M l~u l enstein withdraw s .

Started in 1964 (Key: 64·C) T ourneys 1· 299 : ~9 G raber tops Bassi" twice a nd sp li t s two w ith T om as. 105 S tee­ger tops (a) B artle O. l OS Sattinger a xes Evans. 111 Eulen5tein loses to De Long a nd withdraws. 1I5 Gieber bes ts Cas ter but bows to Cunningham. 130 De Loz ier licks S tonkus. 135 l'llchae l mauls Simpson. 136 Cor r ecllon: King Won f rom Ebbs. 137 D e Paul. Lauer tie. 138 Brand conks Cooley. 15(} Correction: Ploss won [rom S tonlms. 157 Re in bold bes t s Bar nard. 158 Field fells R ein_ bold and (20 Hodges . 168 Tyner tops Booth. 190 Fee (ell s Gawle r t wice and Yea k el o nce . 21}6 Caruso conk~ Cohen. 247 Neff nips Wl1-Iiam s. 253 Noble tops (2f) Bowman. 259 George ri ps R ob ertson . 263 C uomo, LI ttl e spli t two. 273 Sta ya r t stops P eacoek. 274 W lpper whips W ells. 277 Make r m a ul s Mc _ Quarri e. 21>1 P a mpel halts Hahn twice. 283 T iling tops ?..rad d ux. 288 Weber w h ips K eeney. 290 \V ill iams re ll s F orman. 29'5 Younghusba nd be~ts Constantine. 297 Cor­rection : S truss fe lls :F"i nn. Tourneys 300 - 399: 308 Atoraham wI ns t ram R usclo a nd May; IIIa y w ithdraws. 310 O' Ne il nips And L 316 Ra iley rips Board. 322 K ook tops Atchley and (2f ) Sakes. 332 Kyreakaki s beRts Seymour once and Campbell t wice. 333 Cone. H e uchert tie. 339 SpOOner spilla Curti ~ a nd Petty. 3 ~0 Zanath clips Mc­Clos key. 3H IABre w ithdra w n. 357 Ves t beats Barra; F u nkhauser bows to Ves t but hests Bar ra . 359 P ierce tops Hoef t t w ice. 36. H uckin tops AUd ral n and M urphy each t wice ; Fulk tops Murphy t w ice. 3(;5 Fried­berg w ithdrawn . 366 \"eber w h ips Skr zypin_ ski. 368 Gerzadowicz beats Klein but bows to Opp ; Opp tops Klein twice. 371 Schreiner bes ts Bourgeois twice and Opp once. 382 Boroug hs bea ts H arper . SSS V enesaar tops -'il tchell once and Al,'i s t w ice. 390 Burgess . F olkman t ie. 392 Lundsted t rip s R ice; Buen_ t e llo--'lalo withdraws. 397 Cloyd . Folkes tie . 398 R oss rips HasbrOll ck; Shaff withdrawn. T ourneys 400 _ 416: 401 P iraccl wins f rom Noreen . 408 S mith s mites Moor h ead. 409 Fon ­taine, N eville s to p Ste phans ky.

Started in 1965 (Key: 65-C) Tourneys 1 - 39: 3 F ee and Biewald each w in twice from Lu.nd ey; Wallach ties B le-

wa ld and tops Landey ; Blewald bests Fee. D L indberg tops (a) Les niewsk i. 6 Aa vik a.. ... es Gossw iller. 7 Bailey bests "'-[ullen twice. 9 F ee win~ two ( rom tooth R osen wald a nd Harris. 10 MacConnell fells Fou nta in ; Perry stops Angslenberger. 12 ' Veil s bea t s Christy b ut bows to E enskj'. 13 Marti n do w ns De_ s tasio. 15 Hogan tops and t ies Vie t s. 17 Cragg cracks Ax np. 18 Kohn beats Shea r ­man a nd Schecter t w ice erich . 19 B eam bes ts Sia dak. 20 Can to ne tops Leiserson t wice. 23 Bancroft beMs R a r tnQ r . 31 ,Yoodworth whipa Siadak . 32 Sa udek tops Pace twice. 35 S a chs to ps Sobiera.l a nd Costa t w ice each. 37 Finelli rips Roscoe ; P esk ow itz. Su1l\van tie. Tourneys 40·99 : 41 Ha r r ison w i ns f rom Gordon. 47 Crossm an. S hrine r tl e. ~ S Har_ ri son beats B oe : Yo\mg wlthdl·aws . 49 Leon­ard tops Gay ton and (2f) Hogan. 59 Gold y ri ps Re itz . 60 Montgomery loses to H lIl a nd to H arms and t ies Harms. Gl D evereaux conks Kingsley twice . 62 H oag hal t s Pappa~. G-l Crow cracks Voight t wice. 66 Har rison tops (a ) Cri s p. 68 Martin conks Carpenter twice . 69 H a use r ha lt s Hanes . 72 Pratt best~ Bakie. 73 K ay conks B ram twice; B loc h lnger best s Scheper. 78 Medlocki n . Quane tie. 80 Rend ,." stops S tonk u s. 8-1 Ballenge r downs Ducker. 86 Fales j olts J aCObsen. 88 lIenzel maul s B rad ley twice. 93 Glass tops (~a ) Seo,rles. 94 Boynton. H olmberg t ie : H eaney h alts Skotte. 95 B all a l"d bea t s Sia da k. 91 Carrington loses to Carpe nt er and (0 U nderhil l. 99 TarJ a n w ithdraws. T ourneys 100· 139: 100 Buh a lo Wi llS fro m S ipples . 11)5 Harri son tops (a) 1\ lonaco. 107 Ca m er on conks ~'alepa. 108 Stei n loses to Hu ber a nd ti es Rarrlson. 111 McAteer r ips Ra tCliff . 112 Corthcll co nks Milden. 113 Cam_ pion tops Chieffo once a nd L a nge r t wice; Probst licks Lange r_ 1] 4 Stor y tops (20 Glass . 115 Harr ison ha lts Yenatav nge and Slomowit.z. 116 As her tops McCoubr cy t w ice. 117 H a her ha lt s Soraha n . 118 Streeter rips Ruh len. 122 Chosak w ithdraws. 123 Lion loses to Harr ison and splits two wi t h Noel. 127 S harpel conks Cavallaro . 128 Saka r las loses to Lynn and ties Orem ; Orem conks Cooley. 129 P a n taz i spl lts t wo with ,Vilson a nd w hi ps Connolly. 130 Suyker nips N ilsson . 134 E u lens teln w ithdraws . 136 Brockman w ith draws ; IIfood " tops Orem twice. 138 >,TcDonaJd d owns Sch ultz. Tourneys 140· 199: 141 Mar ti n wins from Bixby. 142 Hallsga ard tops Q uin lan twice. 143 Ber r y bests T uttle . H7 H endrick s d r u bs Ellis bu t los es tw ice to Campbell. 148 Laue r li cks AndrU8s. H9 EU lensteln withdr a w s. 151 Lewis to ])S and li es DeVin. 152 S tein s tops H arley a nd La F'I ll.m. 153 Garber bests Sipiles. 155 l-Ii erzcJ<,>w ski bows to Schreiner but bes ts Carney. l liS Hick man tops Skinner t w ice. 167 Meyer s lose5 to Leona rd once and t w ice to Oppen heimer . 169 Skinner whips ' Vhalen twice and Biumottl once . 175 Strong ma\1 i~ Morgan. 176 Man ning, Brow n best Beechler. 177 B e,.,.y. ' Volf sp li t two. 178 Nowa k wil hd "a w s. I S3 Paditt ou t poi nts Pauley. 189 U lre ioh with draws. 193 U lre lch Withdraws . 198 Carpen te r r ips R a lrd ln. Tour neys 200 · 365 , 205 Sheehan w ins f rom Ro~e. 206 Bancroft bests Yeakel. 208 Long.

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Rouner t ie . 210 Neff nips Angstenbergl)r and GIbbs. 213 Mahon. Bancroft top ~Iantel l. 214 Yehl yerks S lomowHz. 217 Seery conks Kaufman. 225 Roberts rips Reichman. 228 \Yilson I·ep laces De Rosa. 231 Eline ooSIS Thunen. 234 Shepard licks Lnr?el<:,,·e. 237 Hamill. ~Iorrin split two. 241 Marks lIlauls Vorc. 249 Herr)' replaces Sipples. 25.:; Huber rips Radcr. 262 Bohnen, Ch083k withdraw. 264 Carpenter rlp~ Ross. 265 Gubl·lel tops Cortese twice. 2';8 Kinslow rep laces Goff. 269 Ca nfield replaces 'Vonl;. 279 Harl"l~on replaces Auga), . 280 Jamison replace~ Man_ gold . 291 1)e P aul I·eplaces Hewitt . 337 Quane rep l ace~ Kalamarz. 338 Ro~<:nlh,, 1 re_ place~ Kalalllan.

PRIZE TOURNAMENTS Seven_man Tourneys for Premiums

Started in 1963 (Key: 63~P) Notice : Game )"ePOrt~ on all to",·neys begun in December 196:1 become pa~t-due thi~

month. G<:t in reports to reach us on or before Oecember 31, to avoid los ing on dou­ble- fo r feit (hoth pla~·el"S lose!) .

\\' inner>! now Sel liP by closln/: of the tourne~·s IX.'!;·lIl1 i n OctOber 1%3 a ppear in Postalmightiul of thi s issue. Tourneys 1_ 112: SS Alexander wins from Johnson. 95 Schwar z withdrawn. 10~ Dul' ­kers cO ll k~ Lesc he nsky.

Started in 1964 (Key: 64.P) Tourneys 1 _ 89: 28 Phillips t o ps 'rnl' lo)·. ·11 Becker. Carl" tie. ·11 Cook whip~ Well. 49 Post halts Hayes. 51 Von Sale>!kl bows to Brison but lieks I~aeey . 52 ~Iackin. ~Iartin tie . 59 So,·el1,;<)n . Lacey best O,·banowski; Lacey loses (a) to Jarv is but licks C w ynn. G5 Hamilton tops SpOoner. 70 Neff nips ~Ic­Carthy. 72 Spohr. Hyde clout Clarkson; Leach hea l S Burk. 73 'l'aylor llek~ Halpert!. H Bishop be.~tS Galssert. 75 H,\I"lwiS· whips ·Weber; \'lard wallops Tarter. 76 Klein clips Stevens. SI Wip(>(>r fel ls l'll ir e~. S3 Evan" smear~ Sumrt. 84 1I1cFariand be~ts Burke; .Jos lin j olt>! BlI ,. ~e and tles :'kF'arlnnd . 8;; Rasso<:h wilhdraws. 86 Shepherd tweaks 'rweten. 88 Esposito. " ' ells tie: Hildenhrand. S voboda ti.::. S~ Steph ens slops Dickey and Rollins: Dickey downs \ \'alkling.

Tourneys 90 _ 120 : 90 Ashley, Parks tie. 92 \ViIl iams to»8 Thompson. 94 Webb with_ drawn . 95 Ekstrom . Henri1(sen crack Crl\,y; Ne"ler, HlIJ t:><or maul Maier. 9fi Clark clips Cha rles and Valadez; Ercegovac t ies Clal·k and lose~ to Ehrman. 9S 1Ifalty ma Ills Crum; Gallagher, \Vln~toll best Sanbol·n. 99 Robin_ sOn rip~ Peterson and Trot~lIk. lU2 Rock­more he>!t>! Hamilton but bows to Drago­neUI; Mang withdl·awn. lOG Va n de Ca,.,. tops Tweten and ties 'Yard. 10 , Story SlOPS Friedman. l OS Haines bests Kyker bm bows (a) to Heer. 1]0 Clay cli ps Clark ; Levy licks Hunt. 111 KII .•.• nck conks Yani s and Kline. 113 Dyba down.~ Kid,; I3ettilli, lapplnl t ie. llo Sororic downs Dale. 11" Barker jolt s Johnson. liS Sylvester rips Reno.

Started in 1965 (Key: 65·P) Tourneys 1 _ 24: 1 Sampson wins from Lon_ dry bill bows to " ' endling and 1)lIlll1e; Mor_ ri s downs Dunne. 2 Greer s\l-<lres SlI"upeck. 3 Valenteen lieks Shandor. ~ Rugs rll)S :'Ior­ris and 1'osl; Schmidt whips Wennerstrom. 7 Hor:':er bellts Schmitt and Kohn hut bows to DylJa. and Pohl . IG Nolt-Smlth c lotl ts Klacsmanll . 11 Wi lson whips Hendry; 'Vll­son, Hailey ax )i;lIlman. 12 Robln~on rOllts Rober t~ : Bills. Encinas and Robison fell F'nivns. J.! Benham beats H u mphr"y and Barker bllt l>ows to Herrick. 15 Cross c l·acks Paelkau . 16 HaYes licks Bolles bu t loses to L atus. McLatl!;hlin and Hall. 11 Becker bests Wllsoll. 18 Hayes. Jacob~en tie. 1~

' Cohen conks King and Haines. 20 Smhe .. -land withdrllwn. drops (a) to Cold wasser. ~1 Lieberman loses to L. ... rsen but licks F isch ; HuJber halts Larsen. 22 Sullivan !Jocks Lundy. 2.1 Endsley hits Haines and Hahn; Hahn hurts Haines.

Tourneys 25 - 49: 25 Lei).\·eke bests Ander_ SOn but boWl! to Nechal ; Hartenstein wlth _

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drawn. 27 Bunon. Hoey whip \Voelf inger; Sladak 100es to R:lttler but !leks Hoglund. 28 Reedy rips Matty. 29 Komor. Brat? and Fu.::hs eonk Pariseau. 30 Encln~$ tops Thoma5. 33 Kclin bea t s Becker. 34 Brock_ man withdraw.~. drops (a) t o Hcaney. 35 Hall nip~ Nolde; Helper haltg Harris. 36 Tweten tWcYlks I'rank. 37 DUllcAn downs Leonard. 38 Brenner halts Hall. 39 Blanch _ a rd whIps \Varner. 40 Carman wlthd,·awn . H Lome, Sheetz rip Rein; Sheetv., Carney nip Xelson. ·12 C ,·OW toP~ (a) l\"o"·ak. H Pavitt jars .Jone~. 4 ~ \\'hecler. Josl1n and Sororlc beat Be,""sten; Dobbln~ downs Criner; \Vheeler whips Soforic. H As hley axes Aks: Ha.nsen hexes Tolle. ~S Ftlzziola beats Beer. ·19 Daly with\lrawn.

Tourneys 50·91: liO SYlve~ter tics Bolden and tops McGI'fIth; Hynes halts 'rhom~ and ~fcGrath. 52 Rapier. \Valdman tie. 53 Long licks johnson. 54 Jone~ jars Hall. 57 M ichne l" replaces Sauvageau. 59 Cn,tchley licks Parker. 61 Erkmanl" mauls Gorr. 65 Gribu~hin bests Peter son. 69 Lieberman whips Weyl. 10 Cotter stops Sterfee. 18 P arks replaces Ste"ens.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS P rog ressive Quallfi cation Championsh ips

13th Annual Championship-1959 FINA LS (Key: 59._Nf)

Sections 1 _ 32: 29 Capmon tops (0 KoUer but loses to Stevens. 31 LlIndh ~tops Stev­eas; Limar,'; tops ?IHleUe and ties Steven".

14th Annual Championship 1960 SE MI_FIN A LS (Key; SO-Ns)

Sections 1 ·80: 78 Fleming. Self M. SO Flcken~chcr nnd T..anglo rd df.

FINALS (Key: W_Nf)

Sections 1 · 32: 30 Stolzenbcn; willS from )lartin; Travis trips \Vare. 31 A~h l ey. Leh-

pamer tie. 32 Burdick downs :'loI"I"ls; Ladackl withdraws.

15th Annual Championship-1961 SEMI-FINALS (Key: 61-NsJ

Sect ions 1 _ 9S : 59 Muir df with Slolzenberg and \ Vi!Mn: S teplltat. ·Wilsoll df. 61 Belisle. H erman df. 62 Buckendorf. R" ich <If. 67 Butler. Eng~trom df. 78 Jaa~ka Jolts B a uer. S, Sh',w. Pateman shave Alle n . 93 Li Pe t ri tops ( al Cnrroll.

FINALS (Key: 51_Nf) Sections 1 - 33: 7 Gribu~hin willS from Suy_ ker. 8 :'Ioore. ThUrman tie . 10 St,uford .

Solutions to CHESSBOARD MAGIC!

No. 1 White draws by 1 K-N2, K - E5 2 K - E3, and (a) 2 . K-Q6 3 K - B4, K-K7 .j KxB, K -D6 5 P- RS, K - N6 6 K-K4, KxP 7 K-BS etc. or (b) 2 . . K-Q4 3 K - B4, K - K3 4 K - N5, P - R6 a K-B4 and back to KNL

No, 2 While wIns by 1 N-KS! K OoKS 2 P-R5t, HxP 3 P-B5t, RxP ~ P-X4, R-B4 5 B-B5t, RxB 6 N-N7! any 7 PxR mate.

No, 3 White draws by 1 N - B7, P - R6 2 N-Q6t, K - A' 3! 3 N - K4 , P- R7 4 N - B2 [not 4 N-NS as Black wins with .! .. . K-B3 5 N- Hl. K-QS 6 X - B2. K - K3! and . . . K-B~ and ... K-B~]. K-BS a K-N8 ! [on;; K - Q8. Blaek wins by 5

K - Q3J, K-QS 6 K - X7. K - K3 [or 6 . K -K4 7 X - N4 t etc. } i K-BIi, K-B4 8 K - Q5. K - B5 9 K - Q4, K - B6 10 N-Rl, K - N7 11 K-K3, KxN 12 K - B2 Stalemate.

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Strahan tie. 18 Tuttle tops Stern: " 'arren whips Swift. 21 Ogni downs DeVault. 22 ~'earey. Pittinger tle: Joyner jolts Tucker. 23 Yanls tops :\lcK"ig. tle~ Meiden and loses to Russanow. 2·1 Pehns conks Carr: Algase bows to Unc~ko but bests Carr. 25 Smith smites Wisegarver. 28 Barnett, Churchill tie. 30 \Ve il whip~ Lense: Ladackl with­draws.

16th Annual Championshipp-1963 PRELIM I NARY ROUND (Key: '63.N)

Sections 1 _ 177: 124 Gleeson wins from 'rolins. 1·19 Chol)Ot, Olsen tie. I~I Correc­lion: S<:haffel won from A . .Johnson. 173 Stolz(!nberg b(!s ts Hoyer.

SEMI_FINALS (Key: 53.Nsl Sect ions 1· 59: 4 Gaughran wins from Sloane. 2G 1[lIlier bests Berg. 34 Sonshine withdl·aW$. 3$ Adashek downs May. 38 ElIch(!r sm ites Smldchens. 39 Eucher, Stnu!_ fer stOp Giles: I-Iendry bows to Eucher but /Jests Giles: Sta"ffer stop~ Howell. 40 \VOI" _ rell wins from Bielefeld but bows to Soules: Bielefeld. F'alvug tie. 45 Byrd stops Stark. -16 ~1"11"'.11 licks Burlingame but loses to \Valker. .18 Christianson mauls Jl.Iarschall. ~n .:Iral·ica halls Hart. 51 Uarinis mauls Mc_ Cormick. 52 HInch stops Stepulat. 5~ Fisher quells QUirin!;" and Scott: :ilfoorin mauls Scott and Pedel·; Lohrman licks Peder and ScOtl. 55 S tarlnaks Clips Clark. 58 'Vasilie\\" hults Hyde. :;9 Sl()putat bests Edgecomb hnt bows 10 [kl;""ult: Legault downs Dube.

Sections 50 • G6: 60 Condon wins from Gra)·. 62 " ' eihe whips :\Id';:aig and Rattler. 6·1 Rudells rip" naltlel·; Thompson mauls :"IIooney. GG :\lcCrelght withdrawn.

FINALS (Key: 53_Nf) Sect ions 1 _ 14: 1 Ka.t~ wins from Colins. 2 Berg beats Hobjn~on. 3 Dreibergs drubs Sokoler. 4 Burdick bows to Kucera but bests Carr: :\lay mauls Schimel. 5 Julson los(!5 to Giles but I1cks Cotler; Bender bams Boldt. G Daly downs S teputat. 7 Farber fells Uu]icai. S ElIi~ axes Parr. 9 Aguilera mauls ~[ay; Goodman tops (a) Lay. 11 Abram downs Donin".

17th Annual Championship 1964 PRELIMINARY ROUND (Key: 64 _N)

S ections 1 - 151: 8 Halpern halts Middleton. Sigl and Peck. 62 ,\dorjan. Bergel·-Olsen tie. 83 Yehl yel"ks CO VCYOll . 88 Tomaino tOPS Hamilton. 91 Lee licks Wojtowicz. 94 :iI[c­Kalg. Schleldt tie. 96 Crutchley conks Kaman. 101 Bauer bests Siegel. 106 Barrick, Genens tie. 110 SlOlzenberg beat" Burlin_ game. 11-1 0])]). Klinkne r ax Oswald. 115 Hesse Illauls .\1"rs l",l!. llG Higgins. Alwatl ax Endsley. 117 Lohrmatl bests Derr but bows .0 1'1·emblay. 122 Spencer jolts John_ son. 123 Diel<ha".~ downs Aicher. 129 Ein_ stein stops Hamilton. 130 Boldt. ConneH tie. 133 :ilIcDollllld. Vll1(1e~-Perdomo tie. 134 Paterson tops Pctcrs(", ; Peterson. Paterson down Apal·lclo. 136 CC>1"Tection: Howard won from Cal·per. I:\i S mithers smites Keiser: Ozols besig l3i.;r. 13S Ross ";ps 'Yarne: Ross. Whitman I·Ollt Paul~en. HI Donins downs Egle. IH Werner jars Jacob. 146 Priebe. :"IlcGregor rell Fa llst. 149 Roskind , Herrick rip VOn Sale~l\i: Ito~k ind conks :\-IcGuinness: Hanson wilhdrawn. 151 Schwart:t dowlls B,·odeu1".

SEMI· FINALS (Key: 64_Ns) Sectlon$ 1·46: 1 Anderson wins from Kirchner and lies Macormac : Sul]lva" .'IOCk5 Macormac. 3 Kehk.r. Loeffler tie; Stiefel atops Buhalo. 5 Brand halts Hoglund. C Sullinger lo~e~ to Came but licks Van de Carr and Wright. 8 Edberg bests Pipher. $ Stern ties S",~' art aud lo~es to :-<uss(!r: Jl.fail_ lard nil}S ~u~ser. 19 Oakes. Ferber crack Croyle. II Smilh smites Fairbank. 13 Dun_ ham downs :llon~on. 15 Poliakoff conks Kaye and Gurton and ti"s Gibbs. 17 Rugs. Uau­man rip ~lcDonald: Rllg.~ routs Frank. 18 Shrev(! shreds Fra nk. 19 l>~enner, Mason, 'Vitson and Suykcr mob f'aivlls: Wilson bows to Suyker but hests .\lason. 20 Sch­wartz whipS \Yalmlsley. 22 Roberts. Ten_

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ncr tic. 23 O'Nen nips Levy. 24 Levy ties "',,,·ren but loses to Rivera. and Makaitls. 25 I,eln webber beats Butland. 21 Ro~enbel·); blffs Bland: Howell bams 'Yard. 28 Sle"el resigns to Cayford. Penni~ton. Herrick. Shipley and Doman,,: Cayfo,"d tops Shiplcy a"d Pcnniston. 29 HenrIksen rIps Wright. SI Solot best~ Alherts. 'IG Klein repl,\ces Carson.

18th Annual Championshipp-1965 PRELIMINARY ROUND (Key: 65_N)

Sections 1 - 29: 1 Houser wins from Jach­Imowlcz; Marks withdrawn. 2 "le"ks. O,·lh nil) Nickel: Orlh conks Carpenter. 3 'Vilsou whips Cnl·penter: correction : Tileston won from Gross. ·6 Spangler besls U()l\rens. 9 Cooy conks Cave. 10 Woelflnger ll~ks Lim­beck : Anderson downs Eves. 11 Howell ti(!H Henth. but lo~es to Smith. 13 I.y ac h sm ites Smllh. 14 Rufty tops «() Loyal. 15 Phip!>>!, Crens ha.w sock Parsons: Crenshaw rips Reme,.: Jamison jars Harper. 16 S mith smites Corrigan. 18 Parham be~ts Peay. 19 Chlrk clips Tysoll. 21 Alberts bestH l'lIt­man: 8rkmanis beats Youngquis t . Plttlnan. Alberts and Mills. 22 Knuth nips Knylor. 23 Rugs rips Christian. 26 Anderson bests Summerville and Oursler but bO\l"~ to Richter: Partlow licks Smnmerdlle. 27 OSU.<ICfl m"ul~ 1IlcCann. 28 Lidra l lieks :11,,1_ ler "nd li:in~teln .

Sections 30.49: 3(1 Sauvagea" win" from Lacourc!ere. 31 S"hofield joll~ John~on: 1.,:1.lrd beats Bender. 33 Riho\\"~ky top" Ad­delHton. 3~ Joyner jurs Faivus nnd Horne: Pol!:",,,· tOI)S (f) Ca..~telle. 35 Yan Brunt be~ts Hermnn but bows to Ow: Schevrer hllit'l Herman. 37 Gordon downs Potofsky. as Herdt conks Capper. 39 Van Lith licks Sch­mitt fi nd K elso. 40 Marks top~ "Po~ncr and tie:J Blochinger: Blochinger. Wright bcat 8nchnrach. 0/2 Brown smites Smithel·s. ~3 Uuchesne downs Muir. 44 Coker withdra.wn. 45 C haffee chops McKaig. 46 IGelmun lind Tuttle lick Lleberma.n. 17 Dobrich dowlls 1I1eyer: correction: Dobrich WOn (0 from '\Ieyers. 48 Von Hagel tops (al Lelt,hrand. 49 BIschoff bests Lohrman.

Sections 50· 69: 52 " ' eitthoH wins from Huber. 53 Sibbett besis Vaughan and Vama· moto: Buchanan bC,Hs Carpen!er. 54 Smith smiles O·Nei!. ~5 Chinn ch·ws Brown. 56 Dryfoos drubs Chiesa. ~1 Vonglnhn halts Blanchard. 58 Rock rips TschoPl). 59 Von­glnhn ties Berger-Olsen and \Vojtowlcz: 'Vojtowlc~ whips \Vennerstl"om. 60 MeIntyr" top~ Hansen; Yeller whips \,;"Uson . 61 I"ogl;" besl~ Parker and Bachman but bows to Got­tesman: Gotlesman down~ Dickey. 02 Shorb licks L iming. 63 Ashley stops Stohlman: Shattuck loses to Ross but licks '''!Ills. 6·1 Gu~ta.f."on tops Austin. 65 Smithel·s bents Bo)"n lon: Brown licks Yallee. 66 'VaIT(!n tOP$ (f) l"erret. 67 Jos lin Jolts n" ll . 69 Bnlmnth hests Volkman and Blumetti.

Sections 70 - 84: 7() Kette r"r. Heepllleyer Ii,,: Rabinowitz bests Eelt. 71 De Yor" ties Le,·y and Gellish: Carpenter lies J..evy bUl 108<)$ to De Yore. 72 ShulmaH lOpS Rabino_ .wilz and ties lIfantel!. 13 .\Illntell bents Horden. H B. ... chman bests Groner. 75 Crown cracks DePanl; Deidn1l, Stayart t:e. 76 lelo_ witch whips MacKei!. 78 Kall,ue withdrawn. SO Strahan, Daniels down Hassenpflug. Sl ~h"lIlH bows to Oswald but bea ts Slulken. 82 Yehl whips Wagn"r and Cooner: Kaplan t i e~ Wang an(\ tops Comer: \Vang. y"hl tie. 83 NOI·in nips Jeans. 84 F. Brown be$ts :\"1Iglco"sky and :liT. Brown bu t bows to Ozols and Pm,lekas: OZOls mauls 1llglcovsky.

Sections 85 - 99: 86 Sachs wins from I..erner lind Huiz. 87 Cham"y downs Hogcndyk: Dreibergs bests SparrD"·. 88 Pepper rlp~

Hothma". 89 :\{orford licks Larrondo: Drag. onettl n ips Young. 90 Pauleklls , Ad"rholdt best VHlene"ve: \\'ooos beats Bigler. 91 J~)"nn loscs to Ahrahamson a nd ties C"rpen_ ter. n l'.'arkinsky nips CarrIgan and H1lwk­sley: Bllczko bests Hawksley: Dickey downs Penniston. 93 "Iarkie,,"icz stops Story. 9·! Kaplan ties Kanzaki and loses to Leonal"d. 95 S~"'m beats Gilbert. 96 Gr""es g,·lnds Glass; Peeney withdrawn. 97 M1lrschall bests Berres: Yee ma.uls Miller. 98 Hednary nips

I''laksman: Larzelere li cks ~lllcek. 9g Patte­son mauls J'.Ianlott and )lacGrcg or.

Sections 100 - 119 : 100 Hnral~on lo~es to Bock but licks Gillmore. lOI Asbury bests Hog­lund; Chippas. Hoglund and Asl)ury hit Huber. 102 Tarbell tops Schaar. 103 Cox conks Saas: Robertie rip~ Gens. 1M Martin mauls Orem. 105 Trone. !-hICkln. Daniels nnd Patteson mob .:IlcCreil-:"ht. lOG ",'onella conks Cllrney; .\[oso"e,· '''!luis McGowan: Pflumm nips Nonella a nd Carney. 107 Es­posito axes Tripp: Syl"estel· whips 'Yelling. 108 Duchesne down~ Ch"I>1l""' . 109 .\fayer. .:IIcGehee top .\I",·tln: ~!cGehce bows to Greer out bests Royalt)': .\lnrUn \\"ithdraw~.

110 Steffen. TripI) ,u"u l ~1~' (!I·s. III l>~isch fells "·eism"n: \\'ood 10H<)s to 11antell and withdraws. 112 On"" top~ \\' lllter and ties Ashey. 113 Tomas tOps Oswal.i. 115 R obertie, Collins ~top Einstein: CoHins conks A. Hamilton: correction: Rohertle won from J. (not A . ) Hamilton. lI£ Hendricks bows to Sen tel· but bests Cook: Jep~oll jars Cook. 117 Appelblatt tops Jackson. Proudfoot and Hannold and ties Jud~on: .Juckson loses to Proudfoot but licks Hannold and Crabtree. 118 Klein clips Van de Ca!"]". 119 l~itts beats Post but boWs to :\lassCll.l(nle: Jow"". Post jolt Gebhardt.

Sect ions 120· ISO: 120 Hol"'c~, Rapier tie: Schleidt tops Orem. 121 CaplUon. Page conk Hamilton: Robertie rips PlOge. 122 Pruitt. \Visegurver. Orem. Sherman and Schleidt ,,·hip Sequeira. 123 C"sel·t" bests Bodie. 12~ Crum. Vondrllska ti e . \2.'; .Joslln jolts Mc_ Kenna: '\(oore mauls \Velll<: LaBre " ' ith_ draws. 126 Hujber tlt's Fal·1>e,. but loses to Xeff. 128 yo",,,ans yerks ,"ek"r\. 129 Hyde beats Ball nnd Collen~: Co~tt.'lIo withdraws. 130 Lane licks Gordon. 13·1 BlallChlll"{( cracks Criner. 136 Leinweber licks Winston. 137 Petithory pustes Pal·l<er: F:in~tel", COllins RtOP Paulekas. US Brand be~ls Blaney. 147 'Veil replaces Lllp;enski: Schneider downs Dustin. 1-19 Shohnan fell s Pa"noni and Brown. 131 \Vard rips RoulJlk.

SEMI_FINALS (Key: 65.·NI) Sections 1 _7: -I Rosellbel·g and Shaw re_ placc S\I~sweln and Elowitch.

NEW POSTALITES The following new Postal Che~g pla)·ers

began in Oetober with these I·n-Hngs: CLASS A at 1300, E Amhler. R Koppel, n L '1'aylor and P M Unge,.: CLASS 8 at 1200: J Alf"~sn, '1' A Bake. L Bolef, "1 Di :ilIartino. f' 8zell. D F'arfams, K R Feemster, S Flnette . N E France, A \V Hohner. R Iceao.l( le. 'l' M Luu. 1Il "Io,,·ls. M Nadler. G J Nettcr, R L Parks. T Stephens. J E Slrauc.h, S T ennant and T Varley: CLASS C U 900: F" ~l Banett, It J Battle. R Beach, R A Bllnckmann. R S Boblner. J Cohn. '1' Crycr. A Dennehy .. J ;\I Devine, R L Emest. P X FishCl·. C g Franke. :M D Galinsky. lIf Greenc. C H Hecox, J Hodes. B Hudak. A )I HvoHI(!{, J~ .Jay.son. 11[ D Kelle)·, R Lavalle(!. H 1': Leaper. D Lema)', p U ~Iatthews .. f P lIfclnty,.e. R N Mc­Lemore. R C .:I(eacham. P C .:Ilell;. R ~eri. W ~e\"ille. n E O·Conner. J Pitts. H 1 Potter. A E Rackctt, W i{a6chk(!, A Reeser. R Rutherford. J Simon. B Sowetow. :E Stansbury. \" Staples, R L Stevenson, G Stralls. :lI.( Tinker, A V';I"Ville, ~ M Weber . H ·Weiner. H P Wmett. 1;' A YC1"ke and J N Young;

CLASS D at 500: V C AgOst!n". J Bonde. W L Bl"Hdford, J .f Cox, R 1, Criner. E De Luca, G Ellwood, R F ,.iberg, J 'r Henni~s. R H He,.man. T E JOhIlSOll, H Kennedy, W P I~ittrell. D J .:II iller. R .:I"'''·Il.)'. C 'Y Os­born. J COlt, S P,·aneo. G 11{ Sherrill, R 11[ Smith. Anita Soik. J-; r, '1'ell;l1""'''. B '''lId011er. R "'inter ,,,,d n I~ " 'olr.

RETURN POSTS The follow ing old limCl"S returned during

Oclob" r at the5e form e r ratings: \\' Junge 1206; P ~I Lo?"uo 1202; 'V

R(Ll1denbu~h 1568: 1" S e ide llfeld 1066; and C S Weikel 993.

CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1965

POSTAL GAMES "0'" C HE SS REV IEW tClII ~ "l'V\

Annotated by JOHN W. COLLINS

Moot Sac.rific.e Lacking a confe$slon by the perpe_

trator, one Is hard put to judge whether or not the Queen sacriflce inlUated wi th 24 . . . N- K6!? was deliberate o r t he result of a. combination gone awry.

SICILIAN DEFENS E

V. Stack

While

M. Zih:man

Black 1 P_ K4 P_QB4 2 N_K 83 P_K N3

Rejecting the more usua l 2 . . . P--Q3, 2 . . . P- K3 and 2 . . . N- QBl, Black adopts the Accelerated Dragon.

S P_Q4 B_N2 4 P_QBl ....

White gl'asps the rare opportunity (in the Sicilian) to maintain a Pawn phalanx in the center.

S m ys]ov played 4 P-B4 agains t BoL viu nlk In their 12th World Cham pion_ ship Uatch Game, 1957.

On 4 PxP? Black bas 4 . . . Q-R4 7

and 5 ... QxUP.

4 . . . . 5 PxP

P.P P_ Q3

OIa.fsson- Denko, Buenos Aires 1960. contin ued 5 ... N-K133 6 N- D3, P-Q4 7 P-K 5, N- K 5 8 13- Q3, NxN 9 PxN, N-B3 - . , B_QB4 N-KB3

7 N_B3 0-0 8 0 - 0 • • • •

8 '1- 'K2 is more precise.

8 . . . . N_B3

An equnll~lng tinesse " available in

8 . • . NxP 9 NxN. P- Q·1.

• B-K3 B_N5 10 P_K R3 •• N 11 Q •• R_B1

The threat Is 12 RxB.

. . NxQP 13 BxN,

12 B-N 3 13 KR_Q1

Q_R4 P-QR3

14 Q_K2 15 P-R3 16 QR_B1

P-QN' Q_B2

• • • •

Now Wh i le l h reatens 17 NxP and 18 P-QS.

16 • . . 17 B- R2 18 B_K B4

Q-N2 N_QR4

N-BS

19 P- KS 20 B_R2 21 Px P

N-R4 P.P

• • • •

A nd now White lh reat(>nS to King K night with 22 P- K N4.

will the

21 . . . . B_R3 23 N- K4 N-K3 22 R- B2 N-N2 24 K_ Rl • • • •

Not 24 BxN1 PxB 25 RxP, RxR 26 QxR. R-Bl 27 Q- K2, B-DS! a.s Black regains his Pawn wi th aQvantage,

(See diag ram , top of next co lumn)

24 .... N- K6 !?

An imaginative move, which forks Whi te' s Rook s and cuts oU the protec. tlon of his Knigh t, but It does nOt qui te werk . 24 , . . N-N4 Is probably best.

I = check; I = d b!. check: I = dis. eh.

CH ESS RlV l fW , DEC EM BER, 1965

Posi tion after 24 K · R l

25 RxR 26 Q-B3! • • • •

In addi tion to declining th e likel y loss by 26 PxN? QxN, White guards his Knight. noll' really threatens 27 PxN and even menaces Block's Queen.

26 .... NxR

Black is fOI"Ced to give h is Queen for a Rook, a Knight and a. mating attack. 01' did he plan It this way?

27 N- B6t PxN 28 QxQ R-B8!

The threat is 29 ... NxBP mate! 29 Q..N8t N_Bl 30 B-KN1 NxPt 31 K_R2 N_K5

On 31 . , . D-BSt 32 P- N3, DxKP 33 Q- Ni , White, threatening 34 QxPt, K - Rl 35 Q- N8 mate as well as 34 BxN, wins ea.slly.

32 P_K6 ! · . . . Now I t is clear saHing.

32 .... P.P K_R1 33 BxPt

34 B-K3!

Neat.: If 34 . Wl1'lte l·e.acted

N - K6.

Resigns

. BxD, 35 QxN mate. perfectly to 24 . , .

Thematic Sacrifice A t hematic Rook sacri fice In the ear ly

middle game sparks a. mating attack for W hile,

QUEEN'S GAMBiT DECLINED

W. Meide n

White 1 P-Q4 2 P_QB4 3 N-QB3

W. McKaig

Black

P-Q4 P_K 3

• • • •

If one ,,>; shes to essay the E)I;challge Variation i t is best to p'lay 3 PxP be. ca\l~e a move later Black has the option of4 ... NxP.

3 • • . . 4 B_N5

4 PxP, 4 P-K3 good.

4 . . . . 5 P-K3 6 N- B3

N-KB3 • • • •

and 4 N-B3 are abo

QN-Q2 P- B3 • • • •

Recogn izing the equalizing power of 'lhe Cambridge Spl'llIgS Defense, most masters avoi d it with 6 PxP.

6 . . . . Q-R4

And Black has h is Ca mbridge-an ad"enlllre on the da rk squares.

7 N-Q2! PxP

But this capture Is not the idea at all. 7 ... B-N5! II Q- D2, 0 - 0 [01' now 8 .. PxP] 9 B-R4 [or 9 D- KZ. X - K5 10

N/ hN, PxN 11 B-R4 =], P-D~! Is con· sis tent.

8 BxN · . . The annotator once \l'on a postal game

which I'an 8 NxP?? QxB!

8 . . . . 9 NxP

10 R- B1

N.B Q- B2 N_Q4

It seem s iIIo~ca l to desert t he Impor_ ta.n·l post at K B3 and to neglect devel. opment.

11 B_Q3 B-N5

On 11 , , . NxN 12 PxN, B- K2 13 0 - 0, 0 - 0 14 P- B1, White has the strong. el' center.

12 0-0 0-0 13 NxN K PxN 14 N-K5 B-Q3

" . • . P-KB'I Is more practical.

15 P-B4

A gain, 15 . . . P- KB'l !

16 BPxB 17 Q- RS

B.N

Q_K2 P-KR3

B lack errs sadly. The best defense III 17 ... P-KN3 18 Q- R6. P- B3.

18 R-B6! · . . , Logical chess. Black Is denied the de_

fensive resource of , , . P-KD4. A fur_ t her buildup with 19 QR-Dl. 20 QJt.-Da and 21 R-N3 is envision ed. A nd the sac· riflce of the K ing Rook for the King Rook Pawn Is set up.

18 . . . . 19 QxP 20 R-B1

P.R P_KB4

· . . . 21 R- D3 and 22 R- N3t 01' 22 R-R3 now

loom lor a quIck w in.

20 . . . . 21 Q- R3

22 Q-R~ is mora accUI'ate.

21 • . . . 22 Q_R4

Q- K3 • • • •

Q- N3 • • • •

22 R- B4 and 22 DxP lIlay be better.

22 ....

Black can f igh t better K - N2 or 22 . .. Q-:\,;;.

23 R_B3 24 R-N3 25 BxP!

R_K1

after 22

K-Bl Q-K 3

• • •

This subsidiary sacrifice wins Black Queen or mates.

25 . , . . 26 Q-R6t

Q •• Resigns

26 . , . K-K2 27 Q-Q6 is male. An instructive li ttle game,

. . .

tho

377

Entertaining and instructive games annotated by a fam ous expert.

-@o.INTERNATIONAL CUBA 1965

Capablanca Memorial at Havana

Magnificent Technique Blacle avoids first ~l g'llgllt ly InFerior

endgame, then a. somewhat risky middle J;ame; but the upshot is that he lands in a definitely inferim' endgame which he cannot hold against his opponent's magniFicent technique.

It is a rare s lroke or mi sfortune for Smyslov that he loses to both Ivkol' and Fischel' (page 316. October) in just that pal·t of the game in which he nOl'mally excels.

QUE EN'S GAMB IT D ECLI N ED

Bor is I vkov

Y ugoslav ia

White 1 P- Q4 2 P_QB4 3 N_KB3 4 Px P 5 N- 83

P_Q4 P-QB3 N-B3 p, p

N_B3

V assi ly Smys lov

Soviet Un ion

6 B_B4 7 P-K 3 8 BxB 9 B-Q3

10 0 - 0

Black P-K3 B-Q3 Q ,B

0-0 B-Q2

The preva il ing opinion up to 11 gen_ eration . or . so ago was that 10 .. P-QR3 followed by 11 ... P- K'I offers BlRtk a satisfactory game despite hi s isolate(l Queen Pawn. But tim es change. No recent exam [lies back t ha t O[llnion. Apparently, Smyslov disagrees. And the opinion of t he former world Challl [lioll, eS[lecially in regard to endgames, mUHt be h ighly l'espected, in s]lite of his losing the endgame hel'e a s well a~ that with Fischel' earlier (lmge 316. October issue) . 11 R_B1 \2 P- QR3

Q R_B1 P-QR3

13 B_N1 14 N-K5

N_QR4 N-B5

15 NxN RxN

·White has s trong attacking chances on the Kingsi(te after 15 . . . PxN 16 P-K4: e.g. ]6 ... P - K4 17 PxP. QxKP 18 P - B·I, Q- B-It HI K-Rl.

16 P_ K4! . . . . Even now. White still plays for King_

side chances. He has a moderate edge.

(See diagram. t cp cf next cclumn)

16 • . . . Q_B5

T he text makes matters worse for Black. He needs to proceed with 16 . .. P xP 17 NxP. RxR [forced] 18 Nx~t. PxN 19 QxR with t hese possibiHtles:

1) 19 . . . QxQP 20 R - Ql, Q- QR5 21 P - QN3, Q- N'I or Q-B3 22 Q- R6. P- B-I

t - "h~<"k; t = d h!. c h eck; I = d !8. ch

378

Positic n after 16 P · K4!

23 R- Q3! and White wins: e .g. 23 .. . P- IJ5 2·1 R- N3t!

2) ] 9 . , . R- Bl 20 Q-R6, P- D·\ 21 DxP, and White wins;

3) 19 . . . P- B4 20 Q- N5t, K-Rl 21 Q- ll6 t. K- 1\'1 22 BxP, Q- Q4! 23 B- N4! and White ought t o win;

4) 19 ... K- 1\'2! This is Black's best move . He still has a difficult game but does have a moderat e chance of holding his own. 17 P_KN 3 18 P-B3 19 P-K 5

Q- N5 Q-R4 N-K1

20 B-Q3! 21 P- B4 22 KRxQ

R-B1 Q ,Q

• • • •

As in his gam e against Fischer, Swys_ lov has landed In an ending In which he is handicapped from the start. He suf_ fe rs here from a n Inferior Bishop. bad lodging ror his Knight and, generally, lack of controlled teIJ'ain.

22 .. " N_B2 23 K- B2 P- B3

SmysloY looks t o King_side counter_ play. The plan finally fails, but there Is hardly any line of better promise. Two alternatil'es are worth tlTing. though. both designed t o avoid tomplete weak_ ness on black squares on the Queenslde : 23 . . . P- QR4 and 23 ... B- N4 2·\ B- B2. P- QR4,

24 K-K 3 25 QPxP! 26 B_B2

p , p B-N4 B_B5

AS Black's K3 lacks Pawn prolettion, 26 . . . P- QR4 loses by force : 27 NxB, NxN 28 D- R·I , RxR [or 28 . . . N- R2 29 B- Q7 !] 29 RxH. N- R2 30 R - D7 [also 30 D-Q7, K- 82 31 R- B7! ]. R-B2 31 D- Q7, and 'Vhite wins.

27 P-N3 B_N4

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28 P-QR4 B_K1

Apparently. Dlack has provoked two Paw n moves in ol'(lel' to I'estrlct the scope of White 's B ishop on the Queen_ side. And now he aims to I'estrain the Wh ite Knight ftom l'eaching Q4 : 29 N-K2. B- R4 . All his measures. however. are merely stop_gap one. Hi~ basically unsound pos ition cannot be redeemed, 29 B-Q3 8 -R4 34 P- R5! K_B2 30 R_K N1! K R_Q1 35 N- R4 Rx R 31 K-Q4 ! B_N5 36 RxR B-B4 32 R_B2 N_ K1 37 N-N 6 BxB 33 R/ 1_QB1 P. K N3 38 KxB .. , .

Trading Bishops is a partial sllccess for Blad\, bm too late, White has mean_ while made decisive headway on t he Queenside.

38 . . . . P-N4

This move is insufficienl- but under the c i!' C l1mStallCe~ very good. Dlack ob_ ta'ins strong counter chances, and White has to play vel"}' weli to hald his edge. 39 P:.: P K-N3 41 K_Q4 K-N5 40 P-R4 K_B4 42 R- B8! ... ,

This a lso is a fine move, Attack is the issue. and White l'etains the lead b)' trading Hooks. The poinl was not easy to see. Contrariwise. aftel' 42 H- E3. N-N2! Black's counter attack may be_ come too strong,

42" .. Rx R 43 Nx R N_N2

On ·13 . . . KxNP, White is first 10 Pl'Omote a Pawn, as he is in the actual game. after H N- Q6! N- )<2 ·15 l'\xP, Note that ~~ P- R5 is met by ~ ·I .. K- l\5 ·15 P-N6. P- R3! 44 N-Q6 N-B4t 45 K- B5 NxN P 46 P_N4! N-K5t 47 K-Q4 N-Q7 48 NxP N-B6t 49 K_B5 NxKP 50 P- N5! N-Q2t 51 K-B6 P- Q5

52 N-Q6! 53 N-K4 54 N-B3 55 K-B7 56 P:.: P 57 P-R7 58 N- Q1 59 P-R8( Q)

P-Q6 K- B5

N- K4t P- Q7 K- K6 K- Q6 K- B7

Resigns

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.-.---For White ge lS yet another Queen : 59 .. KxN 60 Q- Rlt. K- Bi 61 P- RS e tc.

New Variation W hite m eets his Ollilonenl's contemp.

tuOUs . . . Q- ",3 in gam bi t s tyle. Ob. talnlng fine attacki ng chllll('es {Ol" a Pawn. Yet Black handily holds h is 011'11-U11 he blundel's. The l'ar\,ltion is 1m POI'_ ta llt a nd new ( llrobably qu ile new) in tou r nament play.

SICILIAN DEFENSE

Robert J. F i,eher

United St a t es

White 1 P_K4 P_QB4 5 N,P

Eld is Cobo

Cuba

Black N-QB3

2 N-KB3 P_KN3 6 B-K3 3 P_Q4 B_N2 7 B-QB4 4 N_B3 p , p 8 P-B3

'I'h ls mOl'e Is risky as Is any .. QxQNP Is a by.polnt.

9 N_85 • • • •

N_B3 P-Q3 Q_N3

when

White ac(,epts the cha llenge, !-'or !I B- QN5. see O'Donnell-Soltis, p. 384.

9 • • . . QxP 10 N xBt K_Bl 11 N_Q5 • • . •

In this milch analyzed position, this Is mos t likely White's bellt mo\'e.

11 . , . . N ltN 12 BxN KltN

12 .. . Q.~N is Infer'lor. camllng a trarrtc jam 011 the K lngs lde. The lext is playable in view o( 13 8 xN? Q- 86t or Q- N5t: Blar k s aves hi s Queen while White has uselessly yielded his Two BIs hops.

13 0 -0 . . . ,

Now White does th realen 101 , • . PxB 15 ll- Q4t,

14 8 xN: e.g.

13 . . . . 14 R_K1

Q_B6 Q-R4

Th us. the opening has become a prom. Ising gambit. White has fine com pensa. tlon [or his Pawn. 15 Q- B1 P-R4 18 P-K84 P-R5 16 Q- N2t P-B3 19 P-KR3 B-Q2 17 QR- Ql Q- B2 20 R-N1 QR-QN1

20 ... 1'- N3 Is no real Improvemen t. and the highly Mtifictal 20 . . . K R--QNl pl'e ve nts Wh ite' s sequel but is rendered In sufficient by 21 B- B2!

21 P- K5! • • • •

So (a r, White has merely been pl·epar. ing; with Ihls bl-eak l hrough , however, he starts to attack. 21 . . . . QPxP 22 PltP 23 BxRP

N,P R-Rl

24 B-Q4 25 BltN 26 R_K6

CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1965

N-B3 B,B

. , . .

White threatens 27 BxPt. H is attack is very strong.

26 .... QR_KB1

Th e te :o:t fa ils OUU·lght. Black mu st proceed with 26 ... Kil- K BI 27 QR- KI , QR-K 1. Then Blal'k h in a c rilk;!l po~1. lion. but It Is nOI certain th;1\ he must lose.

27 QR_K1! 28 RxKP !

R_B2 , . . .

Appa rently, Black failed to ror-e~ee

he cannot ofre r a draw In a position In which ])racticaily IIny mo\'e wins, So 11e plays on.

36 . .. , P-Q6 37 B_B3 Resigns

Bi:u-k Im ~ Jill! his " ins e n prise, ,,0 10 ~Jleak. -'1;-11 (> i~ in(>vitable, as"in~1 the f' OnQu ero r of S m~',; lo\' and l-~!~cher , S uch a l'cn~alion could occur onlr once in a blue moon.

this eventuality. Iv's Ifs Off 28 .. , . 29 BxPt 30 Q-B l t

Q-N6 K- R3

P_KN4

31 QxP t 32 BxQt 33 R-KB1 34 BxR

Q,Q

K-N2 R, R

. , . ,

Now White wins easily, two Pawns liP wit h the PMwn on R5 sure to fa ll , de. s pite the BIshops or opp()!;ite colm·s. 34 , , . , R-R1 37 R_B4 K-N4 35 P-R3 R-R5 38 R- Q4 K_R4 36 B-N4 K-N 3 39 P-B4 Resign.

Or ·10 D- K7 followed by H n xPt.

Two Rounds to Go h'ko\' was solidly entrenched in first

place with two rounds to go. He could fall out only by losing both hi s remain. Ing games. Here's how he managed ror Ihe pemt ltlmat e gam e.

QUE EN 'S GAMBIT DECLINED

Gi lberto Garcia

Cuba Wh ite

1 P-Q4 2 P-QB4 3 N_KB3 4 P-K 3

N_KB3 P-K3 P-Q4 P_B4

5 QPxP BxP 6 P-QN 3 0-0 7 Q-B2 N-B3 8 P-QR3 B-N3 9 B_N2 R-Kl

10 N_B3 P-Q51 11 R-Ql P_K4 12 P-K4 N_KN5 ! 13 N-QR4 B-R4t 14 P-QN4 NxNP! 15 PxN BxPt 16 R-Q2 B-Q2 17 B-Bl P-QN4! 18 N-N2 R_QBl

Boril. lav Ivkov

Yugoslavia

Bl ack B_ K3 19 B-K2

20 0--0 21 NxBP 22 Q_R4 23 BxS 24 R-B1 25 RxS 26 RxR 27 Q_Q7 28 8-KB1 29 Q-B7 30 Q_Q7 31 P-R 3 32 B-K1 33 Q- B5 34 B-Q2 35 Q- B6 36 P- N4

p,p Q_B2 B,R B,N

Q_B3! Q,P R,R

R- B1 N_B3 N_Q4 N-S5

Q-N8! P-K 5! N-K3

P_N 3! P,N

. . , ,

So far so good, or so bad- just how one chOOlles to regard it. White mls. played t he open ing, fe ll into lamen table d ifficulties, then put up a tough res is t . ance but la nded sUU in thIs position.

Blac k I~ the Exchange and three Pawns np and needs only a d raw to clinch tlrst prize In the tour nament. But, of course,

A lot or irs had pointed lO I\'ko\" s being the sole winner of t he tou rnamenl. None )'emained afler t his last. round game. Wlnnel' Robatsch (l id well in the tournament a s R whole and rises here to an extra.flne performance of the q uIe t, positional type.

RUY LOPEZ

Bo ris lav Ivkov

Yugoslavia

White 1 P_K4 2 N_KB3 3 B-N5 4 S-R4 5 0-0 6 R_Kl 7 B-N3 8 P_B3

P_K4 N-QB3 P-QR3

N- B3 B_K2

P-QN4 P_Q3 0 - 0

Karl Robataeh

Austria

Black 9 P_KR3

10 B_B2 11 P_Q4 12 QN-Q2 13 PxBP 14 N-Sl 15 N- K 3 16 Q-K2 17 N- B5

N_QR4 P-S4 Q_B2 N_B3 p,p

B_K3 QR_Q1

P- B5 . , . ,

He l'e the game deviates from FI!lcher­Kholmov in wh ich I . :\-N5 was played.

17 , •. , BltN 18 PxS , . . .

In this type of position, White nor· mally has c hances for a K lng·s ide Pa wn s tor m , provided he ret:li ns absolute con. trol or his K·I, preferably by posting his Bishop or Knigh t there. in thIs pa l·Ucu. la r posi tion, W h ite's chances for such a Pawn s torm III'e ac tually very d im,

18 , . , . KR_K 1 19 N-N5

Not 19 NxP because 20 Qx:\, 8 - Q3.

19 . . , .

• •

of1 9 . .. NxN

N-N1 !

This Kn ight Is to take the c)'ltlcal squares, Blac k's K5 and Q6, under ti re. Hemember : While mus t COlltrol Ills K4! 20 B_K 3 QN_Q2 22 BxN BxB 21 P_QR4 N_B4 23 PxP PxP

24 P- QN4 . . . . He t-e W h ite errs, 3chle\' ing notblng

but 11 weakening of his Queenslde. 24 ;":- K-I IS corl'eel, with about even chances a.1t(,I' 2 ~ . . . NxN as well as a fter 24

. N- Q4 25 P- KN3 [25 P- D6 Is d ubio ous because of 25 , . , P - N3 J.

24 . , . . B_N3 25 KR-Ql · . . .

Here is a nother e rror, a tld a n e\'e n more serious one. With 25 N- K4 . Whi te ought s till to be able to hold ,

25 ... , RltR t 26 QxR · , . '

Or 26 RxR, P-K5 ! 2; 1\'x KP, NxN 28 ExN. Q-J{.! also with a win ning advan. tage (or Black: e.g. 29 R- Kl, Qx P/ 6 30 P- B6, P- N3! o r 29 B- D3. QxQ 30 BxQ, RxD 31 U-Q6, R- KSt 32 K- R2, D- D2!

379

26 . . . . Q_83!

hi t hus gaining control OI'llr the square K5 (01' White's K ,I) , Dlack tahls It decisive Advantage.

key ob_

27 N- B3 P- K5 29 R- A6 28 N_Q4 Q-Q4 30 QxB

31 PxQ

8,N Q,Q

A- N l In tllis endgamt', ·White III hopelessly

hand icapped by h is i n ferior Paw n st r uc. ture.

32 K-B1 33 BxP

N_Q4 N,P

Now, with connect ed, pa ssed Pawl1~ .

Dlack wills ea !;ily al t hough I t la lies some time.

34 A- A7 35 P-Q5 36 P- B6

K-Bl A-Ql !

• • • •

Note the amusi ng !;iUJItt ioll ari el' 26 U- N7. N xP 37 Ih P. N - nG In whlcll CI'CQ' one of White's thl'ee pieces i:l in pel'il.

36 , , . . PxP 48 P-A5 P-N8 (Q) 37 P- 83 NxP 49 8 xQ Nx8 38 A_N 7 P- 84 ! 50 K_K2 A-B7t 39 B-NI P- N5 51 K- Ql N_R6 40 K- B2 P- B5 52 A_A4 A_Q A7 41 BxP P- N6 53 P- N5 P-B6 42 P- N4 N-B6 54 P-A6t K_Al 43 A-N4 R-Q7t 55 A- A8t K-A2 44 K- K l R-Q8t 56 R- KB8 P-B7t 45 K_B2 A- Q98! 57 K- Q2 A_A8 46 P- A4 K_N2 58 AxPt K_N l 47 8_B5 P-N 7! Resig ns

ISRAEL 1965 International Tournament

at Natania

Hope amidst Intricacy T h is bri lliant perfonnance by tour na,

men t winnel' Czern iak Is I'emarkabl e also for its intricate nature, O\lrin !; th e crucial stage of the gam e, dar.zling lIum. bers of questions ar ise w ith almost every move. The bom barded annotator can only hope to have found some of the good answers.

ROBAT SC H DEFEN SE

B. Soos M. Czern iak ijoumania Israel

While Blnck 1 P_K4 P- KN3 4 8-QB4 N-KB3 2 P-Q4 B- N2 5 QN _Q2 0-0 3 N-KB3 P- Q3 6 Q-K2 . , , .

Here as In si milar po~ l t lon s, Whi te must guard con stantly against the fork by 6 , , . NxP: e,g. 7 NxN, I'- Q4 as w eI! as the fork ing break by 6 ' . . P- Q.I . E ither leaves hi m but one Pawn in t h~

center. Nei ther was distu l'blng at the

380

mom ent. but antici pating both by the text does no ha rm . 6 B-N3 I\lso serve~ t he \;arne pur pose.

6 . . , , P- B3

The break by G ' . . P-Q~ Is met by 7 I'xl'. N xP 8 0 - 0 . The" nttempt to ha rass W hUe's Queen rail s: 8 ... N-8,; 9 Q-K~ , IJ-R3 10 N - N3, 8-B~ II QxNP! Likewise, attempt to swap ott Wh ite's K i ng Dlshop (possible If the Queen Pawn were insurriciently protected): 8 . , , N- N3 9 B-N3, BxP ~ 10 N 1o:8, QxN 11 QxP! A s in most Similar positions, 6

. . QN- Q2 is even worse, because of 7 P- KS and a l atel' P- K6,

7 B-N3 • • • •

7 P- K5 is uselessly comm i tting, and Black can choose 7 . . . N - Q4 or 'i . . . P1o:P rirsL The lattel' Is w ea k when 8 N xP Is playable but that fail s hel"e against fI . . . Qx P. The text gtlard~ further against 7 , . . I'- Q.1. but the con'ect precaution i s 7 1'- 83, Then 7 .. . P-Q4 8 8-Q3 s\lghtly favOl'S White, and so does 7 . .. Q- 828 P- K5! w b ich timely prel'ents 8 ... P-K~ and allows White 8 . .. PxP 9 NxP! 01' 8 . . . X-Q'I 9 PxP ; 01' 8 ' .. N - K l 9 0 - 0 ; 01" S .. , N-R~ 9 P- KN3.

7 . . . . 8 0 - 0

Q_B2 . , . .

Despi te White's l ost tempo, he docs bettel' preventing 8 . , . P- K 4 by 8 P- K 5.

8 . . . • 9 PxP

10 N-B4

P- K4 p,p

QN- Q2 maclt has a good game. H e t hreatens

to malie headway by . . . P- Q;\'4 or .. N- B4.

11 P-B3 , . . . White can not IJarry both thl'eats per.

fectly but does have better llloves.

11 R- Q I gi ves Wh i te a good game on 11 . . . P-QN~ 12 N- Q6 : e.g. 12 .. . N-8~ .1 3 N xKP ! It gil' es Ilim a fai r game on 11 ... N- Kl J2 B- KS, P- QN4 13 "'/ 4- Q2, N / l-BS 14 P- K R3, N- H·' Vi R- K l : e,g. 15 .. , N- 8 5 16 B xN, Px8 17 P- K 5, N-84 19 N-Q~ . But BlaCk gets a good ga me by II .. . N-B~! to.g. 12 :V,l xl', NxB 13 npx:", R- K l.

11 U- N 5 allows White's Queen Knight to r etreat without hampering thi s Bish. op. A plausible line t hen is 11 . . . P- QN4 12 N/~-Q2, N-B~ 13 P-E2. P-KHS! 14 BxN. DxB 15 B - 82, N- K :l with II. slight edGe for Black

11 , , , , P-QN4 12 N/ 4-Q2 N- R4

Ah-eady, Black takes t he i nitiative.

13 P-N 3 14 B-B2

N-84 B- N5

15 Q-K 3 16 N- N3 17 P-Q R4

Q-K2 N-K3 . , , .

Whi te prevents .. P-QD~-5 and seeks Queen.Slde counteqJlay but actual. ly needs evel'y t empo to strengthen his King.slde defenl!es. With Pawn holes on 1\:03 and RR3, t he normal defense Is 17 K - N2 and I S N - N1. It Is Whi le's best hel'e.

17 , , , , Q- B3! 18 B- Ql . , , .

It is too late for 18 K - N 2 as 18 B- R3 t hen wins,

18 . , , .

Now the threat Is 19 , .

19 N/ N-Q2

QR- Ql

, RxB! . . . . ,

. . .

Agai n. t he Knigh t resumes Its maL function as a roadblock. 19 K - l\'2 falls because of ] 9 . . . RxB 20 RxR. B- R3! 21 Q-Q a or Q- K2, 8x B with th reat of 22 ... N-DSt etc.

19 . . , . N / R-B5!

Th is routi ne sacrifice strong ly sug. r;ests i t seU on genera l principles, and li n exact check on all Its consequences is hanlly possible ovel' the board, The Dlack attack gains greatly In momentum.

20 PxP , , . . Some of the pl,msible var iations aner

20 P)(N. NxP follow.

1) 21 D- K2, D- Ita! and Black w i ns.

2) 21 B- U2, D- R3 ! 22 QxP, RxN ! and Black wi nK : e.g. 23 DxR, N-K 7t etc. or 23 NxR, Q- N 4! elc.

3) 21 Qx!', and it Is not easy to de_ clile on lllack's best. A strong continu o Atlon is 21 . , , N- It6t 22 K - N 2, D- R3 :

II ) 23 N- K i:\1. N -·DSt 24 K-Rl, Bx8 25 Hx D, Q-N~ and Black wins;

b) 23 PxP, H- Q6 24 PxP, BxN/ 7 2" NxO. OxO 26 Rx8 , N - D5t 27 K - RI, Q- N4 28 R- KN l , Q- H4. In t his position , B lack l lll'ea lens 29 .. . QxPt and mate next. And he wins 011 29 P- 83. RxN ! etc, or 29 R- :'\i3, Q- QSt 30 H- Nl. HxN! and, if 31 Q- K3 , QxRt etc. Finll.l l y, on 29 Q- Q7. HxQ [not 29 , . . HxN SO Q-NH 30 hR, H- Ql 31 It- In , Q- K7, Black must w i n. His aUileli Is still too l\ tI"ong; one of his threats is 32 . , . :"\ - Q6.

20 , . , , 21 K- Rl 22 QxP

B- R3! R-Q6 N-R6

With no piece 11 0 11'11, Black hi'S an () ~sy job COni pared 10 tho lines above.

23 K_N2 BxN/7 24 Nx9 BxB 25 R1o: B N/ 3-N4!

I _ cheek : t = db!. cheek : I = dla. ch,

CHUS REVIEW , DECEM BE R, 196:i

Black can afford time for .. . PxP. yet cornfOI·tably keep his initiativ(; . BIIt the text is rine r and intriguing.

26 P-KB4 . . . . White tries a de sperate counter ac·

tion and only demonstrates the hopeless_ ness of his pos ition.

Aftel' 26 PxP. Black must avoid the tempting 26 . . . HxN which leads only to perpetua l ch etlc 27 BxR. Q- D6t 28 K-Dl. Q- QGt 29 K-N2. QxPt 32 K- Dl. Q- R8t 33 K- K2. Q- 136t H K-Dl as Dlaclt has nothing be tte I' than to kefp on checking.

The true point of Black's last move is 26 ... Q- K3 ! wit h threat of 27 .. . N- B5t etc. or. wilen appropriate. 27 . . . NxKP. 27 . . . N-Bo and 27 . . . Q- N 3. The respective variations are easy.

26 .... 27 R-B1 28 PxKBP

KP xP R(1_Q1 !

• • • •

Whi te's alte rllath'es are jus t as ball. 1) 28 N- 1\"\. N - N 3 or N - B·!, P-D6t 29

K- HL P- B7 and the threat of 30 . . Q- B6 mate Ilins.

2) 28 H- QI. P- D6t 29 K - B1, NxKP. 3) 28 l'\- B3, RxN 29 RxR. NxR and 30

KxN/R. N- No!t 31 K- N2. P-B6t etc. or 30 KxN(D. PxP~ and 31 KxP. R- QSt or 31 K- N2, P xHP :{2 KxP. Q-R5 elc.

28.... RxNt 29 Bx R RxB t 30 K_ Rl NxK P

Th e rest plays itse lf. 31 Q- NSt K-N2 34 K_B1 32 R-B3 N(5-B7t 35 Q- K5t

, 33 K-N2 Q-R5 36 R-N3

Q_N5 K-R 3

N-Q6 !

The real threat is S7 . . , R-Bi mate.

37 Q- K3 38 RxR 39 K- N2

R-Q8t QxRt

N/Qx P t

40 Qx N NxQt 41 K-B2 Q-K7t

Resig ns

"I do wisk you 'd subscribe to Ckess Re· View. Mother. instead of always running of f with my copies ."

CHESS REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1965

ROUMANIA 1965 Students Team Championship

at Sinai a

Symbalic Name Dominant in thI s event were the vic.

torious Hussians and. s omewhat s m·pri ;;. ingly. the Israeli \\'110 finished second . \"o:lllgs ter Kagan is in a lI"ay s ymboli c a,s his name is the nussian form of Cohen.

In this game. White's lIttaek Is duo bious at the beginning: bllt . \\'ith a bi t of co.operation. it de ve lops into a hurrl . cane of brilliancy.

S IC ILI AN DEFE NSE Kaga n Nordstroem Is rae li Swede n

White Black 1 P- K4 P_Q B4 5 N-QB3 P-Q R3 2 N-K B3 P-Q3 6 B-Q B4 P-K3 3 P-Q4 p , p 7 B-N3 N- B3 4 N, P N- KB3 8 0 - 0 Q_B2

9 K_R1 N_QR4

Black starts action at this early s tage - very risky.

10 P- B4 P_ QN4

Black lays a Pawn.

threat on WlJite's King

11 P- B5 · . . . Now ·Whlte also takes chances. 11

Q-K2 is the steady continuation, threat. ening 12 P - K5: e.g. 11 . .. NxB 12 RPxN, P - N5 13 P- K5! wt t ll fine attack. ing Chances fOI' \Vhlte .

11 . . . . N,B

The a lte rnative 11 favors White.

P-K~ 12 N-Q5

12 RPxN P-N5 13 N(3-NS • • • •

This sacrifice is dubious . but there is no good a lternative. On 13 N- QNI, Black safe ly wins the King Pawn.

13 . ' . . Q- N1

Now White is able to get a steady at. tack without sacrifi Cing a piece. 13 . . . Q-N2 is correct. It threatens 14 ... PxN and. by protecting Black's QB3. stops White 's tactical stroke which follows in the game. l<~!nal1y, 14 PxP. PxN allows White but moderate compensation for the .)iece.

14 P- K5! 15 N-B6!

QPxP · . . .

Here is t he decisive point. As Black must protect against 16 Q- Q8 mate, White 's other Knight escapes with good effocl.

15 . . . . Q- N3 16 N-Q6t 17 QxB

B,N

· . . . Now t he threats are both 18 Q-K7

mate and 18 B-K3.

17 . . . . N_Q4 18 R- R5 • • • •

No\\,. of course. the threat is HxN. 18 . . . .

Black counters by threat QxN (in answer to 19 HxNl.

19 PxP 20 R-Q BS

B_Q2

of 19 .

p,p R_QB l

(Concluded on page 384)

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ARTICLES Beg inning on Page

A lia Ku,hn ir (by Vassily P a nov) .............. . ......... 12'1 As Analyzed in t he U.S.S . R. (T. Pe tl1)syan, V. Korchnoy) . . 361 Battle of the Amazons in Moscow ( Dr. P . T r ifunovich ) .. .. 74 Battle r at Beverw ijk (Dr. M. E uwe) . . ..... . .......... . .. . 106 Bot v in nik " Retires" (J ack S tI-a1ey Batte ll) . .. ... .. .... ... 97 Chess Hoax of the Ce ntury ? ..... . ... .. ........ . . . . .. 33c, 38 Chessme n in Orbit (Walter Korn) .. . ... ....... ..... . .. . . 178 Ch ess on Chann el 11 ...•.. . .. .. •••. . ••.. . • . . ........ 65c, 91 Ch essplaye r's Dile mma (Wnllam Lom bardy) .... . ......... 208 End.gam e Study 47 (Euwe) . ...... .... . ... . . . . . ... . .. .. .. 14 0 F ighters an d Stud ents of Chess (Korn) .. ... . ............ 250 First Tourname nt of P eace (T rlfullov\ch) .. . . ... .... .. ... 245 Fun Ch ess . . ... . . . ... . .. .. . ........ .. . ' . ..... ...... 129c, 132 Gabor Orig inal (N. Gabor) ..... ......... .. " ........ . ... . 101 Ge ll er- Smyslov Ma tc h (Euwe ) . . . . ................. . ... .. 200 Hamburg 1965 (Trl t llllovlch) ... . . . . .. ..... • .... ..... ... .. 272 I nte rna t i 0 na I G randmaste rs . . . . .. .............. , . . ....... 360 In th e Tradition .. .. .. . ..... ... .. . . .. . .. .. ..... , .. . .... . . 159 Junior W orld Championship (Euwe ) . . . . .... . .. " . . ... .. .. 328 Larsen_lvkov Match (Trl!unovlch ) . ... .. . . . . .. , • ......... 301 liability of the Champio n.hlp (Euwe) ...... . ... • ... . ..... 72 New Hope from H oogonn (T r lt unovlch) .. . . ..... . .. . . . .. 108 Odd, and Ends (Korn ) ......... . ... ', . ........ , . ... .. . ,' S2 Oh! Kin Ah Win ? ..... .. .................. . .. ......... .. 211 P rac titioners a nd Operat ions Re t:earc h (Kor n) . .. . . . .. ... 270 Professors and Prac t itioners (Korn) ........... . ...... .... 298 Quality of Confid ence (Arthu r B. Bisguler ) . ... . ........ .. 42 Sa rajevo 8 (Tr Uunovleh) ..................... _ . .. ... . . .. 202 S 1de S teps. Back S te ps, Front St eps ( K orn ) . ........... .. 330 Soch i in t he Swing ( Euwe ) . " ......... . ...... . ... .. .. . .. 368 Spassky-Ge ller Ma teh ( Euwe) ... . .... .. .... . .. .. .. .... . . 232 Spa ssky_Kere s Match (E II \\'e) , .. ,.,., .. .... . ..... . . . .. .. 16S Stroebeek . ... ... , .. ,', ... ,',..... ..... .. ....... . . 353e. 354 Studies in Mot ion ( Korn ) .... " .. . , .. . , ... . ....... . . .. .. . 39 Summation of the O lympiad (Euwe) . ..... . ... .. . . .... .. . . 44 Tah l-Larse n Match (E uwe. T r lfllnov lcb ) ............ 296. 362 Tah l- Port isch Match ( E l1we, T l' lfunov\cb) .. ..... ... 234, 333 Ta il End of the Game (Koro ) .... .. . .......... . .. . . ... .. 142 Thi rd An nua l Capablanea Memorlal (Euwe) . .. , .. , ... .. .. S Third European T eam Championship (Trlfunov\ch) ....... 272 32d USSR Championship ( Petl'osYIUI) , .... .. . . , . .. ... .. .. 104 Thrice Told T a le (Euwe . H a ns Kmoch. Petrosyan ) .... , . . . 138 T radition Renewed (A . Kotov) .. . .. . ...... , . ..... . ... . . . . 174 U A Wand Chess ... .. . ... ... .. . . ....... . . . .. . .. . . ... .. . 327 USSR Championship (R otov) ..... ... . ... . ...... . ....... 175 Zagreb 1965 (Blsgulel'. T rllunov!ch ) .. . .. .. ... . . . ... 206, 245

DEPA RTMENTS An nounce th e Matel ( Qu'lz : Batte il ) . ......... . . .... 130, 290 Chess Biscu its (Games with comm e nt: Bisguler) . . , .. 42, 206 Chessboard Mag ie ! (End.game com posi tions:

P . Rothe nberg, Horow itz) .. .. ... 43, 113, 172, 233. 354 Chess Caviar (Game brevi tie s: BaHell) ....... . .... 7, 96, 160 Chus Quiz ( Ba:tte ll) .... 34. 66, 98, 162, 194, 226, 258. 332, 360 Finishing Touch (PI'oble ms, E nd .ga m e com positions:

Korn) ......... . ... .. 32, 92, 14 2, 178, 250, 270, 298, 330 Game of the Month ( E uwe) .. , ........ 8. 44, 12. 106, 136, 168,

200, 232. 264, 296, 328, 368 Games fro m Rece nt Eve nts (Kmoch ) . ... . 16, 62, 94, 106, 112,

189 , 222. 234, 266. 316, 336, 377

* All !~umber referenees Ind lclte page number. : monthly issues end with follow ing numbers : Jan. 32, Feb. &4 , March 96, April 128, May 1'60, Ju ne 192, July 224, A'Ug. 2!)6. Sept. 288. Oct. 320. Nov. 352. Items appear ln; on CQver, when Indexed lI"e listed wi th number of fa cing page (count ing such, to tal pages run to more than 384):

c indica tes cover pa; , nesrut to page n'umber indicated; f (ff) indicates page.(I) following on ume Item.

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How to Win In th e Ending (Euwe) . . ..................... 140 On th e Cover ... .. . ...... ......... 3, 38, 91. 99, 132. 164. 196.

228, 264, 292, 234, 354 Over t he Board ( Guest a nnotators : Kotov, Lombardy) .174.208 Postal Chess (Chees.by.ma11: Batten) ..... . . .. 22, 54, 82. 119,

152, 184. 21 5, 252. 277, 305, 342, 373 Postal Games (John W . Co!l!na) . .. .. . 26. 61, 89. 123. 156. I S8,

219, 256, 285, 313, 346, 381 Postal Ra t il'lQS ... . .......... 1964: 57,82; m id.year : 277,305 P rob lemart (Problems: Rot henberg, Horowitz) ... 7, 87, 148,

213, 269 Readers' Forum (Letters) ..... . ....... .. .... . ...... 293, 357 Solita ire Chess (Quiz: Horowitz) . .. . .... 15, 41, 91, 115, 149.

183, 224, 299, 329 Spotlight 0 " Ope l'l lngs ( E uwe) . ... .. 10, 46, 76, 110. 150, 176.

210, 238, 286, 314, 350, 370 Whe re to Pilly Chess (Chess Clu b di l'ee tol'Y) , . .... 32. 48, 71.

128e, 135, 192e. 199, 256, 276. 304, 352, 372 World of Chess (News collated by T. A. D unst) , . .. 3, 35, 67.

99, 131, 163, 195, 227, 259, 291, 323. 355

fiCTION Haunted Chessboard (Battell ) . ... .. . .. . ..... . .... .... ... 116 Return of the Haunted Chessboard (Battell) . .. ... . . .. ... 240

MEMORIAL D. H , Mugri dge (Dr. n. S. Cantwell) . .. ........... , ... .... 13

SERIALS Challengers Roun d ( r-:ews a nd games ) ..... 131. 163, 168, 195.

200. 220, 227, 232, 259, 264. 288, 296. 301, 333. 348, 362. 367

C hess on the Computer (Euwe) . .. .. ... .. ...... 157, 180. 212 European Team Champiol'lsh ip ...... .. 272. 317. 318. 336. 337 Fourth Capablanca Memoria l (News a nd games. Fischer a t

te letype) .......... . ... 259, 292, 316f, 323, 336. 377tf Matehes toward t he Wor ld C hampionsh ip

(Tr Uunovleh) . ... .. ... . .. . .... .. .... ... 301, 333, 362 Note boom Me moris l Tour name nt (Euwe, T rifunovieh) 136,170 Olympiad 1964 ( K moch) .. . ....... 27, 42, 49, 78, 126, I H , 222

INDEX O f PLAYERS Adams \' Thol'pe 369 Addison v Da leerows kl 223 Agree v OM 346 A latorzev v Botvlnnl k 299 A lekhil'le v Gregorle tr S3e A loni v Bot vlnnlk 145 Ambarian v Goldin 96 Al'lde rson, B. v Unzick er 147 An derson, F. v Ga r cia 222 Ashley v ·Woods 156 Bagirov v lIIovshovlch 160 Bakulin v Bronstein 95. 138, Vasyukov 340

Ba lcerowski v Addison 223 Baldwin v H llh n 188 Ballinas v MaUch 144 Barcza v Lellgyel 244 Barendregt v Teschlle r 817 Bedl'larsk i v K raldman 146 Benko v Tahl. Byrne 19, Smy. s lov 30, Y ortie 236, Burger 268, Gore 269, Byrne 319 Bern,tei n v Me tge r 244 Bia la s v S paseky 79 6iel iek i v E vans 8 B isguier v Stein 29. Kava lek 42, Tebl 52, Wes tbrock 113, Larsen 207 Birste n v Ilkln 285 Bobr il'lsky v Rekka 160 Boouwm eester v Padevskl 44, Petrosy an 72 Botvinnik v Donner 136, A lon! 145. Trlfunovl ch 171. Gil . gOI'!ch 274, A lato l'zev 299. Schmid 318. Tarta,ko, 'e r 329

Bouche r v W a lrath 156 Brigma nis v O'Donnell 188 Brandts v P ineo 191, 192 Brasket v Callina n 369 Bronstein v Bakulin 95, 138, Kholmov 104 Browne" Soltis 63, Marchand 190 Brunner v Shainswit 338 Burger v Benko 268 Byrne, D, v Pfleger 126 Byrne, R. v Benko 19, OJ. trlchs 64, Benko 319

Callinan v Brasket 369 C hace v O'Donnell 89 Cherubim v Orth 300 Ch er ry v Frithiof 313 Cobo v Fischer 379 Cole v Wilson 156 Cukier mal'l v Tartakove r 41 Czerniak v K raidman 21. Saos 380

Ditrichs v Byrne 64 Doe v Joyner, Ag ree 346, Tay. lor 347. Donne r v Bo tvinn ik 136 Dumont v Sa in t 156 Dunham v Goods peed, Hen. d lieks 156

Eid lin \' S hmatkov 156 E liskases ,. Portlsch 50 Evans v Bielicki 8, Padev. sky 17, Udovchich 18, Re. shen ky 189

Fattma n v Winkler 256

CHESS REVIEW, DEC EMBE R., 1965

Feuerstein v McCormick 94 Fischer v Smyslov 316, Leh_ mann 317, Cobo 379 Foguelman v Petrosyan 112 Forman \' Freeman 285 Fowkes " Helnoo 219 Freeman \' f<~orillan 285 Fricke r \' Nes tle )' 300 Frithiof v Che ny 313

Garcia \' Ande rson 222, Ivkov 378 Gedu lt y j\'ia7.zoni 2.14 Geller v l .engyel 106, Pacll_ man 108, Smysloy 200, 221 Spass ki 2a2, Smyslov 234, Spnssky 288 Gheorghiu v S tein 266 Gh itescu \' Heshevs ky 126 Gipslis " Honfi 300 Gligorich v Vmnesic 7, Keres 189, lI;kol' 2·!i, Schmid 273, Szabo, notv inl)ik 274 Goldin v Ambarian 96 Goodspeed v Dunhnm, Hog. lund 156 Gore I ' Be nko 269 Goregliad v Hoffmann 267 Gragger \' ",Iaoan 148 Grant v Wilden1!erg 235 Grefe v r<I e llga L'ini 320, Robey 340 Gregorieff \. Alekhine S3c Gresser \' Lazarel'ich 16 Gufeld v Klovan 36

Hahn I' Bald win 188 Hanauer v i\[ugridge 15 Heinoo I' Fowkes 219 He lder y ~mith 123 Hendricks v Dunham 156 H ess \' K e nt 61 Heubner \' Knraj lcha 328 H ibe r v Polillo 89 Hochberg I' I<leillich 26 Hoffmann v Pe trorJ' 7 Hoffmann, A. " Goregliad 267 Hog lund v Keh ler 61, Good_ s peed 156 Honfi I ' Gi ps lls 300 Hoppe I ' S uttles 20

! Horton v Hatc1iffe 2H i Hujber v Schw;lb 26

Itkin I' Birsten 285 Ivkov \' Vasyukol' 18, Glig_ orich 247, Larsen 301, 303, 3,19, Smys!ol' 378, Garcia,

IRobatsch 379

Jarvis v P ullen 31~

Joyner v Doe 341:i

Kagan I' Nonlstroe m 381 Kalish v ?Ianning 211 Katz I' Rosen berg 246 Kaufman \' Seidman 223 Kavalek I' Bisguier 42 Kehler I' Hoglund 61 Kent " Hess 61 Ke res v Saldy 31, Schmid 78, Littlewood 9·1, Walther 148, Spassky 168 , Gligori ch 189, Spassky 220, 221 Khanov y Lia shkol' 160 Kholmov v Bronste in 104 Kleinich y Hochberg 26 Klol'an y Gufled 96 Korchl)Oy v P eterson 175,

CH ESS REV IEW, DECEMBER, 1965'

Pfleger 336 Kort y Trifunov!ch 173 Kra idman v Czerniak 21, Szabo 27, S chmId 144, Bed_ narski 146 Kopper v Petl'osyan ,19 Kushnir I' Teodorescu IN Kuypers I' Portisch 80

Larsen I' Tri funol'ich 172, i\JatanOl'ich 206, BisguiRr 207, Tahl 296, Jvkov 301, 303, 349, 363ff, 367 Lazarevich v Gresser 16, Zatulol'slta 7·1. 75 Lehmann v Fischer 317 Lei n I' Unzick er 367 Lengyel v Ge lle r 106, Barcza 244, Pfleger 337 Levy v Shipman 235 Liashkov I' Khanol' 160 Liberson v Petrosya n 159 Littlewood y Keres 9·1 Lombardy " Hauch 208, Seid_ man 236, i\fengrtrini 339

Machine y Opponeut 180 Madan y Gragger 148 Ma lich v Dallinas 144 Manning v Kalish 211 Marchand v nrowne 190 Marshall v SubaL'ew, llabino. vieh 14, Mug ridge 15 Matanov ich v POl'tisch 109, Lat'sen 207 Mazzoni I' Getll1 lt 2<14 McCormick \' Feuers tein 94 :'>Iengarini I' Gl'ere 320, Lom_ bardy 339 McKaig" Meidon 377 M~iden v ;>'IcKaig 377 Met ger v Be rns t e in 22·1 Morton y Smith 294 Movshovich v I3agirov 16i) Mugr idge v )larshall, Han_ auer 15

Najdorf v Stein 266 Nestler I' Fricker 300 Nordstroem \' Kagan 381

O'Donn e ll I' Chace 89, Bl'ig_ mallis 188, Solt is 38~

O'Hearn I' Thomps on 123 O'Ke lly I' U m:icke!' 17 O!land y Wolr 15 Opocensky I' Steiner 7 Opponent v Ma chine 180 Orth y Che rubim 300

Pachman v Gell e r 108, P or_ tisch H 5 Padevsky I' E vans 17, Boouw_ meesler 44, Uhlmann 248 Pan no v Pilnik 267 Peacock I' Stayarl 156 Pete rson I' Korchnoy 175 Petroff \' Hoffman 7 Petrosyan \' Heshevsky 28, Kuppe r 49, DOOllwmeeSter 72, FoguelnHl11 112, Ciberson 159, Taimanol' 17·1. Pol'tisch 2-16 Pfleger y S tein 80, Byrne 126, Korchnoy 336, Lengyel 337 Pi Jnik v P a nno 267 Pineo I' Bra ndts Ploss v Stonkus Po lillo v Hlber

191, 192 156 89

Po lugayevsky \' U hlmann 202, SueUn 20-1

Pomar v U nz\c\re r 127, Porath 222 Porat h \' Pomal' 222 Portisch v Eliskases 50, ({ny.

pel'S 80, iIIa t ano\,!ch 109, Pachman 145, Petrosyan 2·16, Tahl 264, 333, 33·1, 348, 361 Pullen" Jan'i s 313 Purdy" Vaughan 92

Rabinovich v Mars hall 14 Ra t cliffe v Horton 24-1 Rauch y Lombardy 208 Rekka I' Bob)'!nsky 160 Rem en iuk v Stein 96 Resh~vsky v Petrosyan 28, GhitesCll 126, El'ans 189 Robatsch I' lvkov Robey I' Grefe

379 310

INDEX OF OPENINGS SOlne openjn.,s may occur under more than one see Lion: e,g, Ki n~'s Inohm Defense : 1 P-Q{ under .j; 1 N-K B 3 und er 5,

1 DOUBL E K ING PAWN 1 P_ K4, P- K4

H. 7, 3,10

Evans Gambit Giuoco P iano King's Gambit

Doilclined Petroff Defense

G2 14

Ponziani Opening 156 Qu een Pawn Counter 211 Robatsch Defense 380 Ruy Lopez 15, 26, 63, 75,

78, 80, 89, 91 , 92, 96, 111),

114, 176, 183, 188, 189 , 220, 222, 232, 235, 256, 267, 288, 313, 316, 317,

Two Knights Vienna Game

Def. 34&, 379 294, 313 156, 347

2 S INGLE KING PAWN 1 P- K4; no 1 • , • P-K4

Alekhine Defe nse 303, 363 , 365

Caro_Kann Defense 7, 19, 80, 95. 127 , 138. 172, 26,1,

320, 333, 348, 369 French Defense 18, S3c, 46,

49, 123, 156, 159, 203, 334 King's Indian Reyerscd 19 Pirc Def~ns.e J6 lMi;, '!I .... ,

;;:l ,~ , 261:\ ~b~ , l~

Roba t sch LJet.,"se 204, 238, 269,

·16, 14ti, 274, 286, 7, 17, 29,

79, 9t Sicilian Defe nse

3

44, 61, 64, 74, 96, 10·1, 109, 156, 160. 173. 244, 266, 267, 296, 300, 317, 346, 366, 367.

3iT , 379,

112, 124 . 219, 223. 285, 288, 328, 339, 368, 369, 381, 384

DOUB L E QUEEN PAWN 1 P_Q4, P_Q4

Albin Counter Gambit 370 Queen's Gambit

Accepted 160, 17 5, Oecl ined 115, 126,

15, 61, 210, 2H;,

-0 -, ;) , ,~,

150, 191,

125, ,-, -" 103, 192,

Rosenberg v Katz 256 Rubinstein \' Te ichman 115

Saidy \' K e res 31 S . • D 1"6 aln. \' .. UlllOn t ~

Salwe \' S~h lecht "'L' 183 Sch eff ~ r ,. Schwan z 219 Schlechter \. Sa l we 183 Schm id 1- K", res ' S. Kra idman 144, Gligorieh ~ i 3 , n otl' innik 318 Schwab ,. H uj be r 26 Schwartz v Scheffer 1 8 ~

Seidman \' K a u fm a n 223, Lombanly 230 Shainswit v Brunn er 338 Sherwin y Vall'o 62 Shipman v Le l'Y 235 Shmatkov \' E id li n 160

'-6 -, . 288, 299,

Slav Defense 303,

,--"I i , 378,

3,9 160, 222. 3·19, 378

SINGLE QUEEN PAWN 4 1 P_Q4; no 1 •.. P- Q4 Benoni Counter Gambit 21,

42, 145, 2'18 , 337, 36 , Blackmar_Diemer Gambit 156,

2H Blumenthal Defense 367 Colle System 156 Ind ian Systems

Gruenfe ld Defense 51, 76 , ~! 2, 123, 189, 200,

221, 369 K ing's Indian Defense 18, 28, 31. 92, 1·1 8, 171, 202, 219, 223, 236, 273, 314. 318, 319, 329, 336, 349,

:-W3 , 367 Neo_Gruenfeld Defe nse 338 Neo_ lnd ian Defense 10 Old Indian Defense 14 ·1,330 Nimzo.lndian Defens~ 27, 168, I H 220, 221, 234, 236, 2'17, 2G6, 288 , 300,

3·16, 3 13 300, 361 Queen' s Ind ian Defe ns~ 17,

·11 , 52, 220, 349 Pirc Defense ·'0-- , Queen Pawn Ope ning Robatsch Defense Ston ~wa ll Syst em

: 6, 156 207 ISS

5 OTHER OPENINGS No 1 P_K4, nor 1 P_Q4

Be noni Counter Gamb it 340 Bird Open ing 94 Caro.Kann Revers~d 126 Catalan System 1-1" 201\ ,

Dutch Defense English Open ing

'0. - " -" - , _ J _, , _ , 11:\ ,

126, 136, H 7. 22 (1 , 221. 22·1.

3·18,

221 300

3, 20, 29 , .l OG, 113,

190, 206, ~ ·14 , 340. 34 9, 36 7

Irregular Op~ning 26 K ing's Ind ian De!. 2()8 , 349 King's Ind. Rev~rsed 285 Reti System 14 , 208,

300, 301, 349 Sicilian Reversed 8, 20.

30, 19 0, 2z.t, 349, 367

383

Silvester v Vianna 149 Stankus v Ploss 156 Smith, T . v Morton 294 Subarew v Marshall 14

Teodorescu v Kushnir 124 Teschner v Barendregt 317

Vranesic v Gilgorich 7

Walrath v Boucher 156 Sm ith, V. v Helder 123 Suetin v Tahl 114, Uhlmann

203, Polugayevski 204 Thompson v O'Hearn 123

Walther y Keres 148 Smyslov \. Benko 30, Unz.ick_ er 78, Geller 200, 221, 234, Fischer 316, Szabo 336, Ivkov 378

Thorpe v Adams 369 Weiss v Bjornsson 92 Suttles v Hoppe 20

Szabo v Kraldman 27, GUgOI'_ ich 274, Smyslov 336

Trifunovich v Botvinnik 171, Larsen 172, Kart 173 Westbrook y Bisguier 113

Westwall v Winterton 369 Wildenberg v Grant 235

So ltin v Browne 63, O'Don_ nell 384 Soos v Czerniak 380

Spassky v Bialas 79, Keres 168, 220, 221, Geller 232, 288

Tahl v Benko 19, Suetin 114, POl,tisch 264, Larsen 296, Por_ tL<lch 333, 334, 348, 361, Lar_ sen 363ft, 367

Udovchich v Evans 18 Uh lmann v Yanofsky 51, Pol_ ugayevski 202, Suetin 203, Padevskl 248 Unzicker v O'Kelly 17, Smy_ slov 78, Yanofsky 80, Pomar 127, Anderson 147, Lein 367

Wi lson v Cole 156 W inkler v Fattman 256 W interton v Westwall 369 Wo lf v OUand 15 Woods v Ashley 156 T a ima nov v Petrosyan 174

Stack v Zitzman 377 Tarrasch v Tchigorln 91 Yanofsky v Uhlmann 51, Un_ zicker 80 Stayart v Peacock 156

S t e in v Bisguier 29, Pfleger 80, Remeniuk 96, Najdorf,

Gheorghlu 266

Tartakover v Cukierman 41, Botvinnik 329 Taylor v Doe 347 Tchigorin v Tarrasch 91

Va lvo v Sherwin 62 Vasyukov v Ivkov 18, Baku_ lin 340

Yoffie v Benll» 236

Zatu lovska v Lazarevlch 74, 75 Tebi v Blsguier 52 Vaug han y Purdy 92

Steiner v Opocensky 7 Teichman v Rubinstein 115 Vianna v Silvester 14lJ Zitzman v Stack 377

(Continued from page 381)

21 R-B7! Kx R Or 21 . . . BxN 22 QxP1", K- Q1 23

RxNt with mate to rollow. 22 NxP t 23 QxB 24 R_ B6

K-N1 R_ B1

Resigns

{~i- UNITED STATES NEW YORK 1965

Ne w York City Junior Championship

Tre acherous Points In this last round encollnter between

two rivals, when White refuses to make

Solutions to CHESS QUIZ A 2 R-KSt , B-B1 3 RxBt, Kill ( N_n5~, and mata next . S 2 RxQ [2 QxR/2 not so clear bp.eause or 2 . .. RxPtl. and 2 .. RxQ 3 R-K8t, fol ­lowed by 4 N x N", Or 2 • .. BxR 3 QxR/2 etc. C 2 Q-KB3 and. if 2 ... Q-B3. 3 R-KSi. D 1 ... H_RS at least. wins \Vhlte's Queen. E 1 . . . B-R3t 2 K-Nt, Q-Q8t leads lo mate. F l .. . B-R3t 2 B-B4. BxBt leads to mate. G 2 BxRPt . NxB 3 RxN, KxR ( R-RH, K-X1 5 Q or R-R8 mate. or 2 RxP etc. H 2 RxNt, RPxR 3 R-R4, any 4 Q or R-RS mate. I 2 N_K6 [2 P -K6 also leads to mate): and 2 . . . R/3xN 3 ExRPt, NxB 1 R-:-'I4t. N_ :;"l~ 5 Q or R--RS mate; or 2 ... BxN 3 HlCRPt, NxB 4 RxN. Kx.R 5 R-R4t etc. J 1 . . . N-B5 2 Q-N4, Q-Q8t 3 BxQ, N- Q6~ 4 Q-B3, R-B7t 5 QxR, RxQ mate. K 1 . . . N-KGt and mate next. L 1 ... ",-KGt 2 K-Kl. Q-Qat 3 BxQ. R-BS mate. MI ... N-K6t 2 K-Kl , Q-QSt 3 BxQ. R-ESt 4 RxR, N-N7 mute.

For 13 correct solutions. score yourself exce!1ent: for 10. good; for 7, fair.

384

it a gambit, Black makes it one himself. His Pawn sacrifice, though of a familiar typ~, has s@me treacherous particular points, too. White's failure to realize so entails quick disaster.

SIC ILIAN DEFENSE

Michael O'Donnell Andrew Soltis

1 P-K4 P_QB4 5 N_QB3 B_ N2 2 N- KB3 N- QB3 6 B-K3 N_B3 3 P_Q4 PxP 7 B- QB4 P-Q3 4 Nx P P- KN3 8 P- B3 Q-N3

9 B- QN5 - . . . 9 N-B5 is an enterprising gambit con_

tinuation which Fischer played in the Capablanca Memorial Tournament.

9 . . . . 10 Q_Q2

Q-B2 B_Q2

11 B- K2 12 P-KN4

R- QB1 0-0

It requires good nerves to castle at this moment, but tournament winner Soltis has them.

13 P-KR4 P-QN4!

Black fires his secret weapon, a Pawn sacrifice which offers strong counter_ play in several variations. The threat is 14 . . . NxN 15 BxN, P - N5 and, if 16 BxN, PxN!

14N/4xP •... 14 P-R3, P - QR3 holds no promise es_

pecially as White Intends to castle long and so doesn't want to weaken his Queen_side Pa Wl\S.

SO he accepts, but that is worse. His way of taking is apparently compara­tively safest, but it is this way which has a par ticularly treacherous point.

14 N/3xP, Q- N2 15 NxN, RxN! 16 P- B3 allows White to hold his own for the time being but still defending against a strong positional gambit. And 16 NxRP,

t = check; : = db!. check; I = dis. ch.

R- N3 gives Black superior play especial_ ly Inasmuch as 17 BxR, QxB costs White his Knight and allows him no chance of using his connected, passed Pawns ef_ fectively.

On 14 BxP, NxN 15 BxN, BxB 16 NxB, Q-N2! Black threatens both 17 ... QxN and 17 ... NxKP, and 17 N- B3 falls against 17 ... P - K4! 18 B- K3, QxNP. So White laeks an adequate defense.

14 .... Q_N2 150-0-0 . . ..

White has relied on the text, but Black was walting for it. There may be comparatively better moves, but there is hardly a satisfactory one. On 15 P-N3, Black proceeds as In tile game though with lesser effect.

15 . . . • N-N5! Here is Black's treaeherous point. His

primary threat is actually what now hap_ pens. White Is lost.

16 P-R3 BxN 17 BxB · . . .

Or 17 PxN, RxN 18 PxH [on 18 BxB, Black plays. . RxB!], Q-R3! 19 K- N2, BxB a nd Black wins.

17 .... 18 PxR

Or again, if 18

18 . . . . 19 K-N1 20 PxN

RxN! • • • •

PxN, RxB etc.

N- R7t NxKP!

• • • •

White hasn't even a possibility of giving up his Queen for moderate com_ pensation.

20.... NxP t 21 K_B1 N-R7t!

Resigns For, after 22 K- Nl, BxB§, even 23

Q- N4 only delays mate but briefly.

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1 CI U~SS RJ::\'IE\\" ~ I'th An"ual Colll ­en Knights l-'OBtal Chess Champlen.hlp 'four ­nament Is open to al! persons living In the continental Untied Sta tes o( Amer lc::a and In Canada.. except CHESS REVIE\V's em· ... loyt1l! .. , contribu l ing editers and members ot their f&ro illeos.

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7 Fer comp u ting the tota l scores to de . lernlille the dl~t rlbu tien of prize". each .. arne WOII In the t l rM round will be scored lUI 1 !)OInt ; eac::h game won In the secend round n. 2. 2 !)Olntl; each gnme won In the t lnal round ns 4." !)Olnla, A dra.wn gsmfl wm be lIeOred as half or these respective amount..

• In the C8.afl ot tlCll. It two or more finsllllS t ie for first pliLCe, achlevln.. the ,",me total score, as computed in R ule " then the fi rst 2 or more pri~f!!I will be reo aerved lor those flnaliSis and the Prlxes w ill be awarded In aecor<!a.nc::e 1\'llh the 1COl'U achieved by the m in a tie· breaking ma tch er round- robin contest in wh lc::h each con testan t ",III play ne t less than % pmes with every other lied contestant. Ties for other cash prbes will be broken In the ssme m&nnur. Any ties which may develop In the tle.bra,k. In&' contesll will be played off In addlUena.l matches or tournaments.

t 'l'he entry fee I" $ ~ .5v lInd t'ltltles the conte.tant to compete In one section ot the preliminary round. No additional fee Is charlred COnteslalllS who quality t or the $ec;. ond or third rounds. A contestant may enter ...n)' number of );ec::tlons Of the preliminary rou nd upon puyment of the ref: of U .5C1 pcr sec tion entry provided he a pplies early enough so thM we call plaec him In lIepa.rate "c::tlol1l. l lultlple entries by eno peuon will compCle and quali ty a" though made by "CpMate IndividualS. No contu u,n t , how. ever, may win more t han one pr l::te, and a player who qualifies [or more than one sec. tlen ef the final round will be a w. rded b ls prbe Oil the basis or the total score achieVed by enly ene ot his elltriet. (The entry milk. In£" the h ighes t total scere will be taken ,) llultlple en tr ies wm be placed In different sections ot each rou nd.

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The Ei9hth United States Open Postal Chess Championship and the Nineteenth

To befit the Championship, there are added prizes in the form of handsome plaques, suitably inscri-becl

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SEVENTY-FIVE CASH PRIZES, amounting to a total of $1000.00, will be awarded to the seventy-five players who finish with highest scores in the Eighteenth Annual Golden Knights Postal Cham­

pionship now running! Entries accepted from De-,- cember 1, 1965 to end of Novembc1', 1966 (rnu8t 'bca';'J

postma1'k of no latcr thcw Novembc1' 30, 1966). ' This is thc 1966 Golden J\night8

PRIZES FOR EVERYBODY - EXCEPT DROPOUTS. But that isn't all! Every contestant can win a

prize of some kind! You can train your sights on that big $250.00 first prize, or one of the other 74 cash prizes, but even if you don't finish in the money yOU can win a valuable consolation prize. Every play­er who qualifies fo r the final round, and completes his playing schedule, will be awarded the emblem of the Golden Knight-a sterling silver, gold-plated and en­ameled lapel button, reproduced above. You earn the l'ight to wear this handsome emblem in your button­hole if you qualify as a finalist and finish all games, whether or not you win a cash prize.

And even if you fail to qualify for the finals, YOll still get a prize! If you are eliminated in the prel!m­inary or semi-final round, but complete your plaYlllg schedule, you will receive one free entry (worth $1.75) into our l'egulal' Class Tournament oj' can enter om regular Prize Tournament (entry worth $3.25) on payment of only $1.75. First and second in each Prize Tournament win a $6 and $3 credit re­spectively for purchase of chess books or chess equip­ment.

FOR SPECIAL RULES SEE OTHER SIDE

PRIZE .. $250.00 Second Prixe Third Prixe Fourth Prixe Fifth Prixe

$100 Sixth Prixe $40 $80 Seventh Prixe $30 $65 Eighth Prixe $25 $50 Ninth Prixe $20

, Tenth Prixe $15 65 Prixes - Eleventh to Seventy-fifth

$5.00 each AND THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS EMBLEMS!

for the winners of the first five places in this national event, as well as the Golden Knights emblems.

OPEN TO ALL CLASSES OF PLAYERS

Even if you've never played in a competitive event before, you may turn out to be Golden Knights cham­pion 01' a leading prize-winner- and, at least, you'll have lots of fun. For all classes of postal players compete together in this "open" POStal Chess event.

Beginners are welcome. If you've just started to play chess, by all means enter. There is no better way of improving your skill.

MAIL YOUR ENTRY NOW

As a Golden Knighter you'll enjoy the thrill of competing for big cash pl'izes, You'll meet new friends by mail improve your game, and have a whale of a good time.' So get started-enter this big event now! The entry fee is only $4.50. You pay no add i­tional fees if you qualify for the semi-final or final rounds. But you can enter other first round sections at $4.50 each (see Special Rules for Golden Knights). You will receive Postal Chess instructions with your assignment to a tournament section. Fill in and mail this coupon NOW!

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