THE

BRILLIANT TOUCH

IN CHESS

240 Fascinating Positions Commented On By

WALTER KORN

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 PREFACE
TO THE DOVE R EDITION
Tms new edition of The Brilliant Touch in Chess will acquaint
a still wider circle of readers with a collection of chess essays,
which, when first published, were a novel attempt to combine
instruction with unhurried pleasant reading. In looking back,
I find the contents of the book still as pertinent as when they
were first compiled, and I feel no need to change the substance
or style. But the republication offers a good opportunity to
improve the technical presentation of some sections, to incorpor­
ate corrections which have come to light since the first edition,
and to make two important improvements.
First, I have added the following symbols, which will be
found over the upper right-hand corner of each diagram, next
to its stated number:
± , denoting a win for White,
+ , denoting a win for Black,
=, denoting a draw.
Many readers will want first to solve the requirements of the
given position without looking at the solution, and they can do
so more easily with the help of these symbols. Only where the
solution is " conditional," brought about, for instance, by the
opponent's mistake or otherwise doubtful maneuver, have I
omitted a symbol, so as not to mislead the reader.
Second, again to allow the reader a better chance to solve the
problem on his own, I have reversed the order of diagrams and
solution in many cases where the original edition had shown the
solution followed by the diagram.
W. K .
EastOrange, New Jersey
December, r965
 FOREWOR D
THE popularity of books on combinations among chess players
has a deeper reason than mere love of the brilliant, the sensa­
tional, the unexpected. No doubt this love is an integral part
of their attraction, but deeper down there is the realization that
the combination is an essential part of the game.
When both sides have played tenaciously and well, there
comes a time when the players are, as it were, on the verge of a
deadlock, with a draw as the inevitable result.
Then the supreme effort, the combination, comes to the
rescue, not necessarily to win a piece or to bring about a mate but,
possibly, merely to effect a breach or to gain the essential tempo
which will enable the player to turn the scales in his favour.
In addition there is the skill needed for this type of play, as
well as the courage to embark on an adventure not always
subject to mathematically certain calculation.
It is easy enough to compile a book on combinations. A
little random gleaning here and there and a pleasant enough
book, big or small, will be the result. But to write a book of
real value is a very different matter.
A work which is to do more than give mere superficial
amusement must have a guiding idea underlying its structure.
Like Ariadne's thread, it will safely lead the reader through
the maze of complicated thought. More-it will develop his
powers and create in him the " feel for combination " which is
the birthright only of the very gifted.
If, as in this book, the author avoids well-trodden paths,
positions which have become trite through repetition, and instead
delves into the vast field of practically unknown gems for brilliant
and astonishing turns, the reader, at the end, may well exclaim
" Now I have seen everything." J. du MONT
London, 1950 Editor, British Chess Magazine
 CONTENTS
PAGE

To ENJOY BEAUTY, NOT TO DEFINE IT . . . I

THE SWINDLE 4
EXTEMPORE STUDIES IN PRACTICAL PLAY 6
THE IMPORTANCE OF WINNING THE FIRST GAME 15
w HEN KNIGHTS WERE BOLD I8
THE QuEEN-IN HER PowER AND GLORY 36
P-Kt4 !, ETC. • 46
PICTURING THE MARCH OF E VENTS 5I
PAN-AMERICAN EFFICIENCY 55
How TO BECOME A CHESS GENIUS 61
ALL I S WELL . . • 73
INEXORABLY .
• • 76
WITH KNIGHT AND FORK 78
TIME TO RESIGN . • • 80
THE ART OF TELEPATHY IN CHESS 82
Q-R6 ! 87
COINCIDENCES 93
ALL THAT GLITTERS 95
GETTING 0NE's OwN BACK 98
EVEN A WORM • . •
99
 LIST O F DIAGRAMS

DIAGRAM PAGii:

I. Steinmeyer-S. N. Bernstein, U. S.A. Champ., 1944

2. Keres-Wilkins, Correspondence, 1933 2
3· Horowitz-Amateur, Los Angeles, 1940 3
4· Lloyd-Moore 3
5· Korn-Crown 4
6. Koch-Heinicke, Bad Elster, 1939 5
7· Saigin-Sergeyev, U.S. S.R., 1947 5
8. Fleischer-Anon., Switzerland, 1938 6
9· Lamparter-Green, Australian Champ., 1938 7
10. Played at the Chester Club, 1943 7
I I. A. Muller-Gorg, Siegen, 1937 7
12. Schultz-Goede!, U. S.A., 1942 8
13. Adams-Torre, New Orleans, 1924 8
14. Lowtski-Tartakower, Jurata, 1937 . 9
15. Tartakower-G. Wood, Hastings, 1946-7 9
16. Yanofski-Dr. Aitken, Hastings, 1946-7 9
1 7. Popov-Najkirch, Belgrade, 1947 10
18. Horowitz-Kevitz, New York, 1931 10
19. P. Frydman-Dr. Vidmar, Budapest, 1934 10
20. Behting-Anon., Simultaneous, 1908 l1
21. Stahlberg-Becker, 1946 II
22. Alekhine-Anon., Trinidad, 1939 . 11
23. Panov-Lilienthal, Moscow, 1944 12
24. H. Johner-P. Johner, Frankfort, 1905 12
25. Eliskases-Holzl 12
26. Lipschiltz-Schallopp, London, 1886 13
27. Gunston-Bellingham, London, 1901 13
28. Bondarevsky-Ufimtsev, U.S.S.R. Champ., 1940 13
29. Boleslavsky-Ufimtsev, Omsk, 1944 13
30. Mannheimer-Odle 14
31. Garcia Vera-Iliesco, Mar del Plata, 1944 14
32. Korn-Pitschak 16
33· Spielmann-van den Bosch, Soest, 1935 17
34· Helms-Rosenbaum, New York Ch. Ass., 1940 17
35· Gorgen-Faust, Sprendlingen, 1938 17
36. Anon.-Capablanca 18
37. Dr. Mandl-H. Johner, Zurich, 1930 18
38. Dubinin-Smyslov, U.S.S.R. Champ , 1940 19
 DIAGRAM PAGE

39· Anon.-Rellstab, Berlin, 1936 19

40. Foltys-Mohyla, Moravska-Ostrava, 1940 20
4r. Rellstab-Novarra, Berlin, l 940 20
42. Greening-Korn, London, 1939 20
43· Alekhine-Dr. Fischer, Tarnopol, 1916 21
44· John-Schri:iter, Match, Berlin-Saxony, 1938 21

45· Schroder-Ossandon, Santiago, 1944 2l

46. Bendix-Lindau, 1940 2 l

47· Rolf-Stelzer, 1940 22

48. V. Tietz-May, Vienna, 1912 22
49· Morphy-Amateur, Paris, 1859 :a
50. Alekhine-Fletcher, London, 1928 23
5r. Tartakower-Weenink, Liege, 1930 23
52. Frydman-Taubmann, Hamburg, 1930 24
53· Tartakower-L. Steiner, Warsaw, 1935 24
54· Watzl-Dr. Reiter, Vienna, 1939 24
55- Erdelyi-Nielsen, Warsaw, 1935 25
56. Emmerich-Moritz, Bad Oeynhausen, 1922 25
57. Eliskases-Bogolyubov, Match, 1939 25
58. Gunsberg-Sellon, London, 1887 26
59· Field-Tenner, New York, 1923 26
60. Stahlberg-Schroder, Santiago, 1946 26
6r. Rellstab-Brossow, Berlin, 1942 26
62. Samisch-Engel, Brunn, 1928 27
63. Chigorin-Shumov, St. P etersburg, 1900 . 27
64. Coggan-Foster, Boston, 1937 27
6 5. Abrahams-Thynne, Liverpool, 1936 28
66. Spielmann-Honlinger, Vienna, 1929 28
67. Menchik-Graf, Match, 1937 28
68. Blackburne-Schwarz, Berlin, 1881 29
69. Krogius-Nilsson, Helsinki, 1946 29
70. Denker-Fink, U.S. Champ., 1946 29
71. Berndtsson-Bengtsson, Copenhagen, 1916 30
72. Broer-Laurentius, Holland-Estonia, 1935 30
73- Fine-Eklund, Orebro, 1937 30
74. Fox-Anon., Antwerp, 1901 31
75. Sczepanik-Michel, Berlin, 1939-40 31
76. Aubert-Moser, Match, Pau-Tarbes, 1939 31
77. Scholz-Simchen, Munich, 1938 31
78. Choustov-Schretter, Belgium, 1945 32
79. Boros-Szabo, Budapest, 1937 32
80. Balogh-Anon., Budapest, 1939 32
81. Ragozin-Veresov, Moscow, 1945 33
82. Niedermann-Zucks, 1895 33
83. Popp-Bauer, Villingen, 1940 34
84. Koremar-Polyak, Ukraine Champ., 1937-8 34
85. Cohn-Chiszar, Ohio, 1944 34

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DIAGRAM PAGE

86. Toth-Dr. Asztal6s, Lubljana, 1938 35

87. Gygli-W. Henneberger, Zurich, 1941 35
88. Richter-]. K., Berlin, 1935 36
89. Toth-A. Steiner, 1936 36
90. Spielmann-L'Hermet, Magdeburg, 1927 37
9r. Balogh-Gromer, Prague, 1931 37
92. Wagner-Schonmann, Correspondence, 1919 37
93· Steinbrecher-Benzinger, Munich, I9Z9 38
94· Botvinnik-Capablanca, A.V.R.O., 1938 38
95· Marshall-Gladstone, New York, 1932 39
96. Enevoldsen-Anderssen, Danish Champ., 1937 39
97· Rodl-Bliimich, Wiesbaden, 1934 40
98. Alekhine-Prat, Paris, 1913 40
99· Alekhine-Borochov, Hollywood, 1932 40
100. Bonham-Goldberg, Correspondence, 1945 ·P
IOI. von Feilitzsch-Wildegans, Correspondence, 1940 4I
102. Appel-Tartakower, Lodz, 1938 41
103. Horowitz-Anon., U.S.A., 1941 42
104. Vistaneckis-Soler, Stockholm, 1937 42
105· Shtenzapir-Estrin, Moscow, 1946 42
106. Frydman-Gilfer, Folkestone, 1933 43
107· Czillag-Negessy, Budapest, 1942 43
108. Bliimich-Gilg, Leipzig, I940 43
109. Rellstab-Petrov, Kemeri, 1937 44
IIO. Glticksberg-Najdorf, Warsaw, 1935 44
l I l. Cuckierman-Voisin, Paris, 1929 . 44
Ill. Giertz-Kremser, Bad Altheide, 1926 45
l13. Gereben-Szolossi, Budapest, 1948 45
I 14. Ravinsky-Panov, Moscow, 1943 46
u5. Pilnik-Najdorf, Mar del Plata, 1942 46
u6. Alekhine-Maroczy, Bled, 1931 47
u7. Menke-Ahrens, Lubeck, 1939 47
u8. S. N. Bernstein-Aficionado 48
I19· Duras-Olland, Carlsbad, 1907 48
120. Michel-Rossetto, Buenos Aires, 1941 48
l2I. Fox-Dickerson, New York, l 904 48
122. Weissgerber-Rellstab, Bad Pyrmont, 1933 49
123· Bogolyubov-Sultan Khan, Prague, 1931 49
124· Santasiere-Adams, New York, l 926 49
125. Janny-Karhordo, Timisoara, 1922 50
126. Schelf hout-N.N., Holland, 1948 50
127. Poisl-Grgurich, Prague Champ., 1947 50
128. Enevoldsen-Nimzowitsch, Copenhagen, 1923 51
129. Panov-Bondarevsky, Tiflis, 1937 52
130. Appel-Kremer, Jurata, 1937 54
IJI. Koltanowski-Defosse, Gent, 1936 54
132. Fine-Grossman, New York, 1933 55

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 DIAGRAllt l"AGE

133. Fine-Shainswit, U.S.A. Champ., 1944

134. Rivise-Chernev, New York, 1944
135· Molinari-Cabral, Uruguay Champ., 1943
136. Molinari-Cabral, Uruguay Champ., 1943
137· Pelikan-Feigins, Quilmes, 1944 .
138. Pleci-Endzelius, Buenos Aires, 1939
139· Najdorf-Flores, Mar del Plata, 1944
140. Fenoglio-Rossetto, Mar del Plata, 1943
141. Schlosser-Anon., Stettin, 1940
L42· Eliskases-W. Henneberger, Bad Liebwerda, 1934
143· Apscheneek-Landau, Kemeri, 1937
r44. Andreyev-Dolukhanov, Leningrad, 1935
145. Schopper-Anon., Stuttgart, 1938
146. Beyer-Wade, New Zealand, 1940
147· Lyublinsky-Baturinsky, Moscow, 1944-5
148. Alekhine-Anon., Kecskemet, 1936
149· Clemens-Eisenschmidt, Dorpat, 1862 .
150. Kotov-Yudovich, U.S.S.R. Champ., 1939
lp. Wade-Shoebridge, Sydney, 1945
152. Botvinnik-Yudovich, Leningrad, 1933
153. Stahelin-Ragaz, Ziirich, 1942
154· Fine-Johnson, Washington, 1944
155· Lieske-Newman, Nottingham, 1946
156. Koltanowski-Sir H. Walpole, Keswick, 1937
l 57· Neustadtl-Valenta, Prague, 1889
158. Fajans-Holmes, Correspondence, 1946
159· Hermann-Hussong, Frankfort, 1930
160. Mackenzie-Mason, Paris, 1878
161. Kasparyan-Malvelyan, U.S.S.R., 1936
162. Alekhine-Reshevsky, Kemeri, 1937
163. Gargulak-Kogan, 1909
164. Marache-Morphy, New York, 1857
165. Alekhine-Supico, 1942
166. Levitzki-Marshall, Breslau, 1912
167. Vukovich-Anon., 1937 . .
168. Rabinovich-Goglidze, Moscow, 1939
169. Konig-Prins, Hastings, 1937-8
170. Sikorski-Anon , Gleiwitz, 1934 .
171. Popovsky-Khavin, Lodz, 1940 . .
172. Stolberg-Konstantinopolsky, U.S.S.R. Champ., 1940
173· Mikenas-Panov, U.S.S.R. Champ., 1940
174· Van Epen-Reurslag, Amersfort, 1942
175· Keller-Dorasil, Vienna, 1942 .
176. Ragozin-Simagin, Ivanovo, 1944· .
177. Tylor-Wheatcroft, Correspondence, 1933-4
178. Benzinger-Reichherzer, Munich, 1939
179· Vidmar-Anon., 1936

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DIAGRAM PAGE

180. Reynolds-B. H. Wood, Nottingham, 1936 74

181. B. H. Wood-Seitz, Plymouth, 1937 74
182. Von Gottschall-Neumann, Leipzig, 1882 75
183. Chigorin-Schlechter, Ostende, 1905 75
184. Mieses-Anon., 1942 76
185. Weiss-Schallopp, Nuremburg, 1883 76
186. Meitner-Schlechter, 1886 76
187. Breuer-F. Becker, Calssa, 1949 77
188. Another-E. Mason, London League, 1948 77
189. Asztalos-Alekhine, Bled, 1931 78
190. Tartakower-A. Steiner, Budapest, 1921 78
l9I. Alekhine-Tylor, Margate, 1937 . 79
192. Stiihelin-Eliskases, Zurich, 1936 79
193· Wagner-Rellstab, Swinemiinde, 1930 79
194· Pilnick-Reshevsky, U.S.A. Champ., 1942 80
195· Heinicke-Rellstab, Bad Oeynhausen, 1938 81
196. Goldstein-Shaknovy, Moscow, 1946 81
197· Brockelbanck-Sowerby, Melbourne, 1927 81
198. Dr. Treybal-Dr. Dyk 82
199· Mannheimer-Anon., Regensburg, 1912 83
200. Schlarko-Anon., Timisoara, 1924 83
201. Martin-Becker, Paris, 1945 83
202. Neidich-Bruzza, New York, 1939 84
203. Adams-Simonson, U.S.A. Champ., 1940 84
204. Tietz-Judd, Carlsbad, 1898 85
205. Katetov-Golombek, Prague, 1946 85
206. Konstantinopolsky-Petrov, U .S.S.R. Champ., 1940 85
207. Siegfried-Huhnefeld, Posen, 1941 86
208. Westler-Dr. Krejtschik, Vienna, 1913 86
209. Brukk-Gandolfi, Milan, 1939 87
210. Keres-Hasenfuss, Kemeri, 193 7 87
21 I. E. Richter-Kahn, Prague, 1931 87
212. Jakobson-von Hennig, Goteborg, 1920 88
213. Schlosser-Anon., Meseritz, 1940 . 88
214. P. Schmidt-Anon., Heidelberg, 1946 88
215. Alekhine-Mindeno, Holland, 1933 89
216. Stacey-George, Sussex-Essex, 1938 89
217. du Mont-Winterburn 89
218. du Mont-Gosling, Croydon, 1943 90
219. Maczucki-Kolisch, Paris, 1864 90
220. Reti-Tartakower, Vienna, 1910 . 91
22I. Nimzowitsch-Alapin, Riga, 1913 . 91
222. Anderssen-Hillel, Breslau, 18 59 91
223. Vukovich-Dr. Deutsch, Zagreb, 1920 92
224. Koltanowski-N.N., Antwerp, 1931 92
225. Adeler-Chojnatzki, Berlin, 1936 92
226. Pollock-Allies, Buffalo, 1893 93

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DIAGRAM PAGE

227. Post-Anon., Berlin, 1931 93

228. Chigorin-Rubinstein, Lodz, 1906 94
zz9. Lundin-Smyslov, Groningen, 1 946 94
230. Mikenas-Kashdan, Prague, 1931 and Janowski-Chajes, New
York, 1916 94
231. Tartakower-Anon., Paris, 1933 95
232. Wade-Bennett, Correspondence, 1942 96
233. Bogatyrchuk-Dzagurov, Russia, 1940 97
234. Blackburne-Tarrasch, Leipzig, 1894 98
235· Tarrasch-Blackburne, Hastings, 1895 98
236. Shumov-von Jaenisch 99
237· Baranov-Rochlin, U.S.S.R., 1936 99
238. Eliskases-L. Steiner, Budapest, I933 100
239. Broscheit-Lange, Munster, 1939 IOO
240. Rossetto-Aguilar, Argent. Champ., 1945 IOI

XVI
IN LIEU O F AN INTRODUCTION
o START by boring the reader with the quite uninteresting
T but conventional description of " how I conceived the
idea for just another book on brilliancies" seems to me
paradoxical. So I will limit myself to mentioning that I noticed
the interest shown in my short series of " Comments on Com­
binations" in the British Chess Magazine in 1 943-and that's
how it all began . . . .
The positions diagrammed i n this book have been collected
from various, often rarely accessible, sources and most have not
been published before, but as a matter of courtesy I take pleasure
in acknowledging that some of the positions have been brought
to my notice in the publications of Messrs. E. G. R. Cordingley,
T. R. Dawson, ]. du Mont, J. Mieses, and K. Richter.
 THE
BRILLIANT TOUCH
IN CHESS
1. TO ENJOY BEAUTY, NOT TO
DE FINE IT ...

RILLIANCE is a quality so abstract that it is difficult, if not

B impossible, to define it. Yet when examining brilliancies
at chess, some scanty rules for evaluation must be laid
down. Therefore, deliberately simplifying our task, let us take
Diag. I as an example, and study the solution.

STEIN MEYER-
S. N. BERNSTEIN STEIN MEYER-
(U .S A. Championship, S. N. BERNSTEIN
Boston, I 944) (U .S.A. Championship,
Boston, 1 944)
1Rx P! ! KxR
2Q-B7 eh. K-R3 6 Kt-KS dis eh ! ! Resigns
3 B-Kt7 eh. K-Kt4 Because of 6 . . , Kt x Q ;
.

4 P-B4 eh. K-R4 7B-K2 eh., B-Kt5 ;. 8 B x B

5 P-Kt3 Kt-R3 mate
I
 The two exclamation marks to White's sixth move were
provided by the American Chess Review. It was presumably
their custom thus to attract the attention of the average player.
To what ? To the fact that the move threatens the Black
King not with the piece actually moved, but with another
piece which is en prise, thus offering quantity for quality-the
Queen in exchange for a mate. The ordinary player would
earn no exclamation marks, since, choosing a safe win in the
routine manner without risk or bother, he would go about it
the other way round-the less imaginative and more"practical "
way-by 6 B K 2 eh., B-Kt5 ; 7 Kt-K5 dis. eh., Kt x Q ;
-

8 B X B mate. The same final position, yet somehow the

conclusion lacks that touch which appeals to us because it
is "brilliant." The merit of the brilliant solution, where
Kt-K5 dis. eh. is played on the sixth instead of the seventh
move, is the revelation of greater forethought which, forcing
the opponent immediately to realize not only the threat
but also its implications, causes him to resign earlier than
he might possibly have done in the second, more prosaic
alternative.
A similar element enters the scene in Diag. 2, where White's
first and second moves are
± freely interchangeable, but
DIAGRAM 2
where Keres sensed that start-
ing with the sacrifice of the
heavy piece is more artistic
than the reverse.

1 Q x Kt eh. ! ! P x Q
2 Kt x Pch. R x Kt
3 R-Q8 mate

And the same spice of

KERES-:""wILKINS brilliancy is seen once more in
(Correspondence, 1 93 3) Diag. 3 on the next page.
2
 After I Q x P eh. ! !, K x Q ; 2 B-R6 eh., K-Kt I ; White
does not detail brute force to achieve the simple mate by
3 Kt-K7 eh., Kt x Kt ; 4
BxP, but spitefully throws DIAGRAM 3 ±
in another rook with 3 R­
Kt6 eh. ! and mates with 4
Kt-B6.
To conclude the introduc­
tion, through which the
reader and brilliancies may
become acquainted, let us
produce a culminating ex­
ample of creative imagination,
where routine is scorned for
the sheer love of artistry. HOROWITZ-AMATEUR
Without need to look deeper, (Simultaneous,
Lloyd could win in his sleep Los Angeles, I 940)
by I Kt-B5 dis. eh., R-R3 ;
2 RxR eh., PxR ; 3 Qx DIAGRAM 4 ±
Kt eh., and mate follows. In­
stead Lloyd played I Q-K6 ! !,
creating a problem in true
" self-block" style. If 1 • ,
• •

QxP eh. ; 2 KtxQ mate.

If 1 . . , R or Kt X Q ; 2 Kt­
.

Kt6 dis. eh. ; as the Bishop's

line is blocked. If 1 • ,
• .

BxQ ; 2 Kt-B5 eh. (fol­

lowed by 3 Kt-K7 mate) as
the rook's line is blocked. LLOYD-DR. MOORE

3
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 EXTE M PORE STUDIES IN
P RACTICAL PLAY

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DIAGRAM 8 ±
lem Whimove te opens with the (cprob­ alletde
anRook "ambush"-the I Kt B3 !

indirectl
-

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y defendi, Q­ng
against
R8(blocking the threat
mate),the Black Bishop's1 •

Q x R ; 2 Kt-KS !
• •

long diagonal
against the same andmate defending
withQ
theand simultaneous
Kt-Q7with threat
mate),mate in 8 B X

FL(SwiEtISCHER-ANON.
zerland, I9 38) moves at most. Kt x Qch.,
Qx B; 3

6
 DIAGRAM 9 ± against the perpetual check.
But
:a&� II�'�a&•
I Q-QS eh., K-R2 ; 2

• m
v,
. � �t�
t• •t• •
and after this
R-Q3, Q-KS ; 3 R-Q I ! !,

fulQ-R5"decoy"
QX R; success
the shuttle-service­
•t"
�

n ·•�t
. �
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• •
•t
-

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avoided. eh. cannot be
ch.-Q8
• .� ut�..a. DIAGRAM I I (
a ) ±
ft r�¥tY-
� Q �w )••� " . � 0z . .. .
• §� �
v ..

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.t.:• v,.z, .t.
(Australian19Championship,
LAMPARTER-GREEN 7,

38) • •tt• •
�· ··�:� .
hilation" (calledcoupled
key,
I Kt-B6 ! an "anni
with­ •� • • •�
line clearance), �'.% �,� .
..f!.. "�"'�
• ·§� � •.
,.,,�
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im .

and mate next move. A. (SMiegen, 937)

Kt X Kt ; 2
Q-R7 eh. ! !, Kt x Q ; 3 B-KS
ULLER-GORG
dbl. eh.,

DIAGRAM 10 =
Black,could
after (instead of the
I
I . . . , R-B7;
�
-
�
•t• �� •
.� .
••
actually
2 Q-RS,
played . . .
.
K7) have won by the inter­ R (B )­
• • • • ference e.g.
mt•tt•t• 3
•tt• Ut• K- Kt2; 5 R-K Kt1, B-Qs;.
RxR,Q xR; 4Q-Q8ch.,
2 . . . , B-B6 ! ! ;

�� • �ll�•
ri!hQ u -
�• • ·�
6 B-Q6, Qx KtP eh. ;
· Rx Q, R-B8 eh.; 8 R-Kt1,
!! 7
'@'�
• • • B
�=
RX Rhowever,
later, mate. Ain thefewpositi
moveson
the(OffhChester
and gameClub,played
1943)at in Diag. 11 ( ),Black(smashi
h won nbyg
hadMybeenopponent'
Q-Q7,s lastdefending
move the line open);
I . . . , R x K KtP ! ! ;
2 P x Q, R x R
eh. ; 3 B x R, R-Q7 dis. eh. ; 4

7
K-Kt I, B-QS eh. ; 5 B-82, R x I Kt-QS Q-Q l
R eh.; 6 Q-K I , R x Q mate. 2 BxP Q-Q2
DIAGRAM II (b) ± 3 Q-Kt4 R-K3
4 RxR QxR
• ••• 5 Kt-B6 eh. K-B I
�t��t
�-%i � � 6 B-Q6 eh. QxB
9�, •t• 7 Q x B eh. K-K2
8 Kt-Kt8 mate.
m • • •
�· ••• . The above example is an
�
• �.
m - � �j§'i'%� interesting parallel to the
•••
� a ••
AU ��ft�
•
• �, well-known position in Diag.
·§� ·- 13.
MuLLER-GORG
(Siegen, 1937)
In Diag. 1 2 White chases
the Queen from pillar to post
until she perishes from "over­
loading."
DIAGRAM 12 ±

(New O rleans, 1924)

I Q-KKt4! Q-Kt4
(forced)
2 Q-QB4! Q -Q2
(forced)
ScHuLTz-GoEDEL
3 Q-B7 ! ! ! Q-Kt4
(U.S.A., February, 1942: 4 P-QR4 Q x RP
from Bigelow's Chess 5 R-K4! Q-Kt4
Column) 6 Q x KtP Resigns
8
 The same theme occurs in Diag. 14.
DIAGRAM 14 ±

I ... 2 K-R I
Q-B4 eh.
Q-BS
3 K-Kt l Q-QS eh.

56
4 K-R I
Q-QB I
Q-KS !
Q-Q6

7 Resigns.
K-Kt l
K-R I
Q-QS eh.
Q-Q7 !

Whilidenti
almost e in cDialadevi
gs. 15ces and
in 16 games
two a Rookfrois mirretri
one eandvablythelostsameby
tournament.
DIAGRAM 15 ± DIAGRAM I6 ±

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TARTAKOWER-G. Woon ANOFSKI- DR. AITKEN •
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(Hastings,1946-47) (Hastings,1946-47)
Y

1 Q-Kt4 eh. ! I R-Q I !

1 , Q xQ; R xR eh., K any; xQ winning.

9
If • • • 2 3 P
 Black remains a Rook up in forced by two more sacrifices.
Diag. I 7, after I ... P-Kt3
DIAGRAM 1 7 + 2 Q-R6 P x Kt
3 R-Kt4 eh . Px R
4 B x P eh . K-R I
5 B-Kt6 d is. eh ., etc.
And in Diag. I 9 it is the
horse which carries too much
weight to make a race of it. I
Kt x QP ! !, P-Kt3 (If P x Kt ;
2 Kt x B, Q x Kt ? ! ; 3 B x P
eh., winning the Queen) ; 2
Kt x B eh., Q x Kt ; 3 B x Kt,
R x B ; 4 R x R. P x R ; 5 B­
KtS, Resigns. (For Kt X B is
threatened and the final mating
assault cannot be parried.)
±
Through the same trouble DIAGRAM I 9
of overloading Black breaks
��
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M �=
"
down in Diag. I 8. ��··.
DIAGRAM I 8 ± �
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te
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P. FRYDMAN-DR. VIDMAR
(Budapest, I 93+)
In Diag. 20 White, dis­
covering that Black's Q3 is
a " focal point," plays the
faulty but spectacular:
IO
 I
Q-Q6 ! ! ? B x Q? Diag. 22 reveals exception­
B-B6 eh.
2 K-Kt I ally subtle play.
3 R-KtS eh. K-B2 l R-BS Rx R
4 B x R dis. eh. and
( 1 . . . , Q x QP ; 2 Q-B8 ch. !)
5 B X Q winning.
2 Q-K7 ! !
DIAGRAM 20 (2 . . . , Q x Q ; 3 P x R
•A& • ;:,;; (Q) mate. Or 2 . . . , P-R3 ;
• • �--� •t 3 Q x Q.)
--�· . . DIAGRAM 22 =

.,..•. ·�· ; '

• ?8 �
•
'

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/;

t"• • • �� • •ft•t•t
•t• ·�·� t• ·�· •
u • n o •t�� B •.
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BEHTING-ANON.
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.
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% %.!.!.
(Simultaneous, I 908) "i• 7. �-� �-',,
And in Diag. 2 I the "de­
coy" decides the game.
• • • •
ALEKHINE-ANON.
DIAGRAM 2 1 ± (Simul. Trinidad, 1 939)
. . ·�· Removing the protection
• • •t•. from the first rank wins in
�� ·�· . Diag. 23.
• •• •• • l ... R x P eh. ! !
.• .• ·ft� (If 2 R x R, Q-K6 eh. ;
• •• • • and mate next move.)
ft.8 •••ft:-�� 2 K-Kt3 Q-K6 eh.
3 K-R4
. -�· . 4 K-R3
Q-BS eh.
R-K6 eh.
STAHLBERG-BECKER ( 1 946) 5 P-Kt3 R x RP eh.
1 Q-KI eh. ! ! 6 Kx R Q x P eh.
For after I .. . , R X Q; 7 K-R I Q-R6 eh.
2 P-Kt3 mate. 8 K-Kt I R-Kt6 eh.
l I
 A Black R and B are cut
9 K-Bl R-Kt7 e h . off at their point of juncture­
Io K-K I Q-K6 eh. White's square K4-wii:h the
II K-Q I Q-Kt8 eh. result that capture of the key
and mate next move. piece, here White B, induces
mutual interference. This
DIAGRAM 23 ± theme, called the "Nowotny,"
is frequently used in artistic
problem composition.
I B-K4 ! ! Resigns.
If I . . , B x B ; 2 P-R3
.

eh., K-Kt6 ; 3 B-K I mate.

If I . , R x B
. . ; 2 P-R3
.

eh., K-Kt6 ; 3 R-B3 mate.

In Diag. 25 we see the
" Plachutta," which means in­
terference between Black
(Moscow, I 944) pieces of the same motion.
We will meet the same idea
In Diag. 24 a real problem again, executed with great
touch occurs in actual play. ingenuity, further on in Dia­
gram 204.
DIAGRAM 24 ± DIAGRAM 25 ±

I R-QS ! ! Resigns
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 Two neat examples are shown in Diags. 26 and 27.
DIAGRAM 26 ± DIAGRAM 27 ±

(London, I 886) (London, I 90 I)

I Q-B4 ! ! Resigns. 1 Q-QS eh. !
The play from the position i n Diag. 28 is perfect.
DIAGllAM 28 ± For this defeat Ufimtsev,
who was still a very young
player in 1 940, took his re­
venge on another grandmaster
in Diag. 29. I . , Kt-KS ;
. .

DIAGRAM 29

(U.S.S.R. Championship,
prelim., 1 940)
1 R-R8 eh. K-B2
2 B-K8 eh. ! Kt x B
3 K-KtS and
+ R-B8 mate. (Omsk, I 944)
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2 Q-RS, K R-Kt l ! ! (If now 3 B x Q, R x P eh. ; 4 K-R 1 ,
Kt x P eh. ! ; 5 B x Kt, R x P mate, o r 5 R x Kt, R-Kt8
mate) ; 3 Kt-K I , R x P eh. ! ! (If 3 P-KKt3, Kt x KtP ! ;
4 R P x Kt, R x P eh. ; 5 P x R, Q x B eh. ; etc.) ; 4
Kt X R, Kt-Q7 ! ! and there followed 5 Q-Q5, B X Q ; 6
P x B, Q x P ; 7 B x Kt, Q x R ; 8 B-KB3, B x P eh.,
Resigns. If 5 B X Q, R X Kt eh. ; followed by R X
RP eh. and R-R8 mate ! I f 5 P-B3, Q X B eh. ; etc.
(Notes taken from the Soviet Chess Chronicle.)
In Diag. 30 Black has to submit to "self-interference "
I B-Q6 !, winning a piece or forcing mate in four:
DIAGRAM 30 ± . . . , Kt X KtP ; etc., or 2
. . . , Q x R eh. ; 3 K x Q,
R x B eh. ; 4 K-Kt1 , R x
K t dis. eh. ; and 5 . . . ,
Kt X P mate. If now 2 Kt­
Kt2 (B x B, R x R mate),
R x B ! ; 3 R x R, B-B6 ! ; 4
K-B I , Q-R8 eh. ; 5 Kt­
Kt I , Kt X P eh. ; etc., or if
2 Kt-B4, Kt x Kt ; etc.

MANNHEIMER-ODLE DIAGRAM 3 1

1 Px B
2 Kt-B6 eh. ! P x Kt
3 R-Kt l eh. K-R I
4 Q x P eh. ! ! KxQ
5 R-RS mate.

While in Diag. 3 1 Black,

instead of playing as he did
I • , R-B I ; could have
. .

won by the pinning move I

.. . , B-K6 ! , threatening 2 (Mar del Plata, 1 944)
THE IMPORTANCE O F WINNING
THE FIRST GAM E

HE CONCLUSION of a game, even i f not strictly " brilliant,"

T often remains particularly interesting, at least to the

players concerned, because of the intriguing circum­
stances in which it was played.
At the end of an extensive business tour I once arrived in
a distant town, completely broke with literally not a penny
in my pocket. The bank had closed at 3 p.m., so I rang home
with the request to wire some money ; whilst waiting I set out
for a Chess Cafe, where many chessplayers used to meet of
an afternoon, settled down and ordered a frugal tea, quite
confident of finding a " rabbit " who would pay for it by losing
his stake. After having asked the waiter for an opponent, he
arrived with Pitschak, a resident master who always seemed
out for blood (and money) and still lived on his reputation as
first-prize winner in a recent Venice tournament. " Good
Lord!" I thought to myself.
We negotiated for colour in the usual way : one of the
players takes a Black pawn in one hand and a White pawn in
the other-it is, of course, neither " cricket" nor " chess" to
take a black pawn in each hand-and the other player makes
a choice. I did the choosing.
In parenthesis, I wonder how many people realize that by
this method the player who holds the pawns can swing the
chances considerably in his favour. Suppose he holds the black
pawn in his left hand ; then the great majority of people, being
right-handed, will simply move their right hand straight
forward, touching their opponent's left hand, and find them­
selves with the Black pieces. A friend to whom I told the trick
15
now always holds the Black pawn in his right hand so as to be
quite fair--one of the secrets of his failure, perhaps.*
But let us leave the crooks and return to the sports. The
first, rather uneventful game was played very quickly and I was
lucky to win it. As was the custom, I offered a return, double
or quits, a draw not counting. After an involved middle game,
during which quite a crowd collected, we reached the posi­
tion in Diag. 32. After Black's I . . . , P x B ; I appeared to
be quite lost when an accident happened-

DIAGRAM 32 ±
2 R-B8 eh. Kx R
3 Q-BS eh. K-Kl
4 Q-B7 eh. K-Q I
5 Q-BS eh. Kt-K I
6 Q-K7 eh. ! !

thus drawing-and retammg

the stake ! For K X Q stale­
mates and K-B1 ; 7 Q-Kt7
eh., etc., equally draws by
perpetual check.

Pitschak, who had been looking at his watch very frequently,

stood up abruptly and tossed me my 1 s., saying : " I should
have won this game, but I was in a hurry." It must have been
this somewhat tactless remark which made me reply with
impudence : " Oh, I had to win the stake ; I needed it to pay
for my tea."
Here is another combination with a similar opening move.

• The same trick was mentioned in M. G. Sturm's Chess Methods in

Chess, December, 1946, after the first draft of this manuscript had been
submitted to the publishers. I mention the fact not to prove that "great
minds think alike" but to avoid a charge of plagiarism.-W. K.

16
 DIAGRAM 3 3 + DIAGRAM 34 ±

(Soest, 1935) With three pieces down

I R-88 d bl. eh. ! ! and rare luck, Black, on the
2 Kx R Q-BS eh. move, draws in Diag. 35:
3 K-Q2 Q-Q6 e h. DIAGRAM 35 =

4 K-K I Q-K6 eh.

5 K-Bl R.-KBI
Resigns.

In Diag. 34 a win by the

Dean of American Chess
Reporters, played in New
York, 1940 :
I R-B8eh !. K-R2
(1 ... , K x R ; 2 R-
81 eh., K-Kt 1 ; 3 P-K7 dis.
eh.)
2 P-K7 QxP 2 KxR
3 RX R Resigns. 3 K-BS
(3 . . . , Q x R; 4 Kt-B6 4 K-K6
eh. and 5 RX Q, winning.) with perpetual check.

17
WHEN KNIGHTS WE RE BOLD . . .

OM E people play chess in order to win ; they study openings

S and systems. Others play to win beautifully ; they do not

always seem to follow a method, yet under their magic
touch marvels unfold, among them the wonders of the Knight's
move, which many have practically forgotten, wonders which
take us back to the times when we tried the mystery of the
Knight's Tour, or when we played I Kt-KR3, because it was
so bizarre, and our equally young opponents cheerfully gave
tit-for-tat with I . . . , Kt-QR3. Even the great Capablanca
must have once delighted in it, or he would never have given
away a Rook and a Queen to get first a Knight in exchange.
According to .Ajedrez Espagnol, 1 942, Diag. 36, he won by
I . . . , R-B8 eh. ; 2 R x R, Q-R7 e h . ; 3 K x Q, P x R(Kt) eh .
.Ajedrez Brasileiro, 1 942, states that Nimzovitch produced a
win from a similar position i n l 92 7. But the first setting,
probably also "construed," is No. 949 of Tattersall's 1000 End
Games (I 9 I o) , and occurred in practice (Zurich, I 930 ) , in Diag.
37, running I . . . , Kt-Kt6 eh. ! ; 2 P x Kt, P x Pdis. eh. ; 3 K-
DIAGRAM 36 :+ DIAGRAM 37 :+

.. . �
• t�� • •
. . ·�·
• •t• •
t• •"1•"1•
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ANON.-CAPABLANCA DR. MANDL-H. JoHNER
18
Kt l , Kt-B7 ; 4 R x Kt, R-R8 afterwards by analysis without
eh. ; 5 K X R, P X R, queening having been actually played,
with the next move. shown to a " chess reporter,"
and . . . well, you know what
Had all this been in Smys­
happens then, the invention
lov's mind when he decided to .
" Anon. " 1oses h 1s game as
play I . . , R-Q I ; in Diag.
.

usual ; but the lovely play

38, he might have preferred
from Diag. 39 has the stamp
I . . , Q-R8 eh. ! ; 2 K x Q,
.

Kt-B7 eh. ; and 3 . , Kt x

. .
of a " real Rellstab."
Q ; winning. DIAGRAM 39 ±

DIAGRAM 38 + • �- •<!>•1
�
��
••
• • >'�
;?'�
%/;Jd'

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if��u• - !P'�..M.%"�i
f�'0��
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• • • •
• ft. • b
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ANON.-RELLSTAB
(Berlin, 1936)
White played I R-K7,
threatening mate which appar­
ently cannot be avoided, so
This reminds me of a Black-in despair ?-plays I
near analogy, with a Bishop . . . , Q-R8 eh. ! ! ; 2 K x Q,
instead of a Knight, brought B-B6 eh. ; 3 K-Ku, R-Q8
off by Rellstab in Berlin eh. ; and mate next move.
in 1 936. When I see a bril­ Returning to our original
liancy supposed to have been theme, the Knight's saltations
brought off against an " un­ tear open the opponent's posi­
known," I sometimes suspect tion in Diag. +o, the Knight's
it may have been " made up " death being avenged by a
in the sense of being found sudden mate :
 DIAGRAM 40 ± DIAGRAM 4 1 ±

FOLTYS-MOHYLA
(Moravska Ostrava, 1 940)
Diag. 42 is interesting for
its pinning features : I . .,
.
1 B x P eh. KxB
2 Kt-KtS eh. K-Kt I
Kt x P !; 2 K x Kt, Q x P
3 Q-RS B x Kt
eh. ; 3 K-B 1 , R-K3; 4-
Kt-B3, P-Kt5; 5 B-B 1 ,
4 Px B K-B I
5 Q-R8 eh. K-Kl
Q-B6; 6 B-Q2, Q-Kt];
7 Kt-Kt5, Q x QP ! ; 8 B x
6 Kt-Kt6 eh.! P x Kt
7 Q x P mate.
P, B-Q6 eh.; 9 B-K2,
B-QB4 ; 1 0 Kt-R3, R-B3
Close examination of the eh.; Resigns.
above position shows that
Black is two tempi behind, DIAGRAM 4-2 +
which he lost through in­
accurate opening play.
I n Diag. 4- 1, Black, a
Pawn up, had just played . . . ,
Kt-Q4 ! ? , in order to force
the exchange of the Queens.
But the play went :
1 R x Kt eh.! Kx R
2 Kt-Kt6 eh. ! P x Kt
3 Q-RS eh. and
4 Q x P(Kt7) mate. GREENING-KORN ( 1 939)
20
 Famous positions are those Consider also the following
in Diags 4 3 and 44 :
.
DIAGRAM 45 ±
DIAGRAM 43 ±

s• �SR®•
i'.'.f?i II:. •• ��%,
·..EL·��� d"'.'��
�t
• • t� •
• • � t•
• tt U g •
• ·�•tLJ•
ftH •�H ft H
� � • ·§�
ALEKHINE-Dr. FrscHER
( 1 9 1 6)
1 Kt-B7 K x Kt
2 Q x P eh. ! K-Kt3
3 P-K Kt4 B-KS
4 Kt-R4 m ate.
DIAGRAM 44 ±

DIAGRAM 46 ±

21
 All these have been examples of well-known "smothered
mates." But what of the feature with the King mated on Ku,
flanked by his Rooks, as in Diag. 47 ?

DIAGRAM 47

I ... Kt-B6 eh .
In Diag. 49 we meet the
2 K-B I Q-Kt4 eh.
ancient pendant to Diag. 47 ;
3 K-Ktl Kt-Q7 eh.
once difficult, the conclusion
4 K-B I Kt-Kt6dis. eh.
seems now so easy :
5 K-Kt l Q-B8 eh.
DIAGRAM 49 ±
6 RxQ Kt-Q7 mate.
What of the flawless long­
range smothering of Black's
King, and the stupendous
domination of the Queen, in
Diag. 48 ?
1 Kt x P QKt x Kt
2 R x Kt Kt x R
3 R x Kt QxR
4 Kt-KtS Q-Kt3
5 Q x P eh. ! ! QxQ
6 Kt-B7 mate.
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 1 Kt-Q7 eh. K-B I If 5 ... , K-B 1 ; 6 Q-K6,
2 Kt-Kt6 db l. eh. K-Kt l Q-K 2 ; 7 B x B, Q x Q ; 8
3 Q-B8 eh. Rx Q B x Q, K-K 2 ; 9 QR-K 1 ,
4 Kt-Q7 mate. with a winning attack.
And another varied example 6 P x Kt Q-QS eh.
occurs in Diag. 50. 7 K-R I Kt-Q4
DIAGRAM 50 ± 8 B-KtS eh. K-K I
9 Q-RS eh. P-Kt3
�- . �-�· 1 0 Q-83 Kt-BS
. . . �,�� ?""�
1 1 Q x Kt QxQ
�•
..a.a � 4),. ·-
-
if"'t•.f!.• •
DIAGRAM 5 1 ±
M
i� -�4)>.m
•· .f!.••
•t• •
if�
�� • • �if�
-��� �
�M
• ·Yfj�, ,� • .ft
.ftU • •A•
• • /:'\ �R� R ffn
8 "•c.z...J r�l:::j, �
ALEKHINE-FLETCHER
(Simul., London, 1 928)
1 Q x Kt ! PxQ
2 B x P eh. K-R I
3 Kt-Kt6 eh. K-R2 TARTAKOWER-WEENINK
4 Kt x R db l. eh. K-R I (Liege, 1 930)
5 Kt-Kt6 eh. K-R2
6 Kt-KS dis. eh. K-R I 12 RxQ P-KR3
7 Kt-B7 mate. l3 B-B7 eh. K-B I
14 B-B6 P-Kt4
The same technique of the
15 R-B2 Kx B
Knight's sacrifice is to be seen
16 B x R d is. eh. and wins.
twofold in Diag. 5 I.
I Kt x KBP ! K x Kt If 1 5 . . . , R-R2; 1 6 B­
2 Kt-KtS eh. K-K2 Kt6, R-Q2; l 7 P-K6, R­
3 Kt x KP ! K x Kt Q4; l 8 B-K4, followed by
4 B-B4 eh. K-K2 B-K 5 dis. eh., winning the
5 B-B4 dis. eh. Kt-K4 KB.
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 Diag. 5 2 shows the same 8 P-QS ! BxP
Knight's sacrifice "deferred." 9 Q-Kt6 eh. K-Q2
DIAGRAM 52 ± 10 R-Q I and White wins.

EM�.- �a B ��
Short, sweet a nd suitable is
m1 the conclusion in Diag. 5 3.
��If..
��..a.• � 1 �� ��
±
M 1 �-
DIAGRAM 5 3
;\'.'.f4\\ ?�
�- � .
�
'8!i"
·
·.�
· f�� ;M
� � . ·�
· -JS"it�S •® •
B UftB • m.t.• •1m1
• • • • . . �� .
Z$i3 � f'.:'$i3
� t:'$i3.M.·�· ��£��
.J1.��g- • ·Ai� •
• .8.8W •• • •
·•0fjl_}
·�""!v"M ·• ·� � r�
FRYDMAN-TAUBMANN
� �� • $i3
ff' ��
(Hamburg, 1 930) �
11. • �����
1 R-Q3 ! R-RI .-
• ��� t�
r� ��� � �
(If I . . ' K x B ; 2 Kt x
.
TARTAKOWER-L. STEINER
P, Q-B3 ; 3 P-Q5, with (Warsaw, 1935)
Kt X R to follow. If 1 .,
. .
1 Kt x P ! P-BS
P X Kt ; 2 R-Kt3 eh., forcing 2 Kt x R ! Resigns.
B-Kt4, for 2 . . . , K x B ;
I n Diag. 54 a "side-step"
3 Q-K2, leads to mate.)
decides the issue.
2 R-Kt3 eh. K-B I
3 Kt x P ! Qx R
DIAGRAM 54 +

(There is nothing better.

If 3 . . . , K x Kt ; 4P-K5,
Q any; 5 Q-Kt6 eh., with a
winning attack. If 3 .. . , Q
any ; 4 Kt X R, leaves Black
without resource.)
4BPxQ K x Kt
5 P-KS P-B4
6 B x P! Px B
7 Q x P eh. K-KI
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 I ... Kt-R4 DIAGRAM 56 +
2 P x Kt Q-B6 eh.
3 K-R4 B-Q2 mate. ••• • •
mtm • mt
• • • •
Now for a few light cavalry JM�
�g· · &,g � • •
tussles of a different order.
•
· ..!..!,. �� ;� -
4).. if� ��
•
��if� • .
..
•.t.H
�
!ff
/;f;if�
�� - � ��
-· . �M
,� �-- ,l:::S��
, , �
EMMERICH-MORITZ ( I 922)
White brought off a neat
win in Diag. 5 7 by I B-B6,
R-B I ; 2 Kt-BS ! and Black
resigned, because of P X Kt ;
3 Q-Kt3, with mate, or 2
. . . , B-R I ; 3 Kt-R6 mate.
DIAGRAM 5 7 ±
ERDELYI-N!ELSEN
(Warsaw, I 935) .• -��-··
r� �• •
�--..a.• ••t��t
• �
I Kt(Q6)-BS !
2 B-K3 Bx B
• • •t•
3 B x Kt Kt x B �• ·
·
- �t��
•
• % •
•.
•
- M � W"'
7

4 P x Kt B x Kt • � u ,.�

and wins. .Yif• • •11

116 • •11•
In Diag. 56 Black missed a • ;2::;:S�, �
•� •El��
• �
mate in four by : ELISKASES-BOGOLYUBOV
(Match, I939)
I ... Q x P eh. ! !
2 KxQ Kt-KtS eh. The same motifas in Diags.
3 K-Kt l Kt-R6 eh. I 67, I 68, and I 70, of which
4 K-B I Kt-R7 mate. one of the oldest precedents is:
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 DIAGRAM 58 ± DIAGRAM 60
. . � � -- ·
��.1.. � �-
% %v. -
-
7. �
' %�"'i «� i
� :t � �

��
= •
�•
• ... •
.a.. � t ��
·
. �
• •t• •
� �� �
% " •
• • �
-
- �u
�" '0<� "•J;;b � . •
-
� • • � q ..ll.
4l> �" �11
ID
• •
•• •• • t::1 a -
� d� ,

GuNSBERG-SELLON STAH LBERG-SCHRODER

(London, 1 887) (Santiago, I 946)
I Q x B ch. KxQ I ... Kt-BS !
2 Kt-BS dis. eh. K-Kt I 2 P-KR4 Qx P!!
3 Kt-R6 mate. Resigns.
The theme is further ex­ DIAGRAM 6 1 ±
pounded in Diags. 59-62 in
different ways. •• �s • •
· �·�·�· · ·
DIAGRAM 59 + t • • 11: • •
• t • :t •2b•
Q m
� r� •
•
"
• •
•
•
• • • •
4l> �
..ll. ·
- ·
� � •
� 4l> J"� J,
� ..il.
-
• %�
• ?d ?� � ��§ �
RELLSTAB-BROSSOW
(Berlin Championship, 1942)
I R-KS ! ! R-KB I
FIELD-TENNER (The threat was 2 Q-R5
eh., K-Kt 1 ; 3 Kt-K7 eh.,
(Manhattan C.C., 1923)
B x Kt; 4 Q-B7 eh., K any ;
I . . . , Q-R6 ; Resigns. 5 R-R5 mate. If I , . . •
B x R ? ; 2 Q-R5 eh., K­ DIAGRAM 63
Ku ; 3 Kt-K7 eh., etc.) . �- �- -- ·
N i �� .tN -i
" •
2 Kt-K7 ! ! Resigns. - �
(If 2 . . •) R x Q ; 3 R-Rs /./ · •.l• /.
mate.) •
•
- • f�....,
- �-
�f "ZJ �
�
.
DIAGRAM 62 ± • • . ft .
• H • ft •
� %..J.A,�
," � '©' U • B• B ?mm
.
�� ·
,i!:;S, -• · ··
• .§ ��
CHIGORIN-SHUMOV
(Offhand game,
St. Petersburg, I 900)
The above stratagem pro­
vides a precedent for the
following :
DIAGRAM 64 ±
• . • �- -- ·
�
�t• ?mm �
. @'� t �
�� t
·•� �- ·- -
d � · ­·
d
/ ·-· • �
• • � �. �
" t=i
• R • •
Proceeding to the heayier
weapons-the Queen aqd the
Rook-White, in Di/g. 63, �if,! � ,,w,..
�• ?m•m • •
?mm• •?mm -
offers a bait which is fortun­ � • ·
u - !.!.� �f'!'f>
•
ately swallowed-fortunately, ·
- .· .• • .§ •� � -�
� .,,,

because 1 , B X Kt would
• • •
COGGAN-FOSTER
have exploded the bubble.
(Boston, 1 937)
1 Rx P? Q-Kt3 eh. ? I B x Kt Bx B
2 K-Kt2 QxR 2 Q x P eh. KxQ
3 Kt-K7 eh. K-R I 3 R-RS eh. K-Kt I
+ Q x P eh. KxQ + Kt-Kt6
5 R-R I mate. and mate next move.
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 The same theme is incor­ DIAGRAM 66 ±
porated as a threat in the
splendidly executed finish to
Diag. 65 :

DIAGRAM 67 ±
(Position after Black's Kt-Kt5)
(Liverpool C.C. Champion­
.
�1?'. . �-�·
ship, 1 936)
� �
•.a.;
�
- -� »:?- «'Ii t •
-
�
•
1 Q-Kt8 eh. ! ! K-K2 -"
. • t • i•
(If I . . . , K x Q ; 2 Kt­
• • • �i
• 11 • ·�·
Kt6 with mate to follow.)
2 Q x P eh. K-Q I
•
d � -� • m •
&
d &
dm� @
3 Kt-Kt6
4 R-Q I eh.
Q x KtP
B-Q2 ��
a ��
l!i�J;;t, .
• � � �r;i ��
Jl!� .!1..
5 Q x R ch. ! ! Resigns. • · §· § �
Miss MENCHIK-M1ss GRAF

Four further examples, (Match, 1 937)

shown in Diags. 66, 67, 68, I R-Q7 ! ! (Decoying the
and 69, exemplify the idea. Black Queen from the diag­
Diag. 66 is the conclusion of onal B2-R7), Q x R ; 2 Q x
the game Spielmann-Hon­ P !, Resigns, as mate cannot be
linger, Vienna, I 929. averted.
 DIAGRAM 68 ± The same working prin­
ciple is employed from a more
complex position in Diag. 70.

DIAGRAM 70 ±

(Berlin, I 8 8 I)
1 Q x Kt ! BxQ
2 Rx P Px R
3 R X P and mates.
(U.S. Championship,
DIAGRAM 69 ± New York, 1 946)

I R x Kt ! Px R
2 K-R I ! P-B4
3 P x P e.p. B-B2
4 R-Kt I eh. K-R I
5 Q X P eh. ! ! Resigns.

And here is another speci­

men of the decoy (not unlike
the pseudo-brilliancy given in
Diag. 23 1 , page 95), in Diag.
7 I on the next page, starting :
(Helsinki, I 946)
After the preceding ex­
amples this one is easy to I R-Q7 ! ! Kt x R
solve : I Q X P eh. ! ! and mate 2 Q-Kt4 eh. K-R3
next move. 3 R-BS Resigns.
 DIAGRAM 7 I ± DIAGRAM 7 3

(Orebro, I 937)
I Q-Q I
2 K-B I Kt-B4
3 Q-Q I Q x Q eh.
4K x Q 0-0-0 eh.

•..t• B � ,,�<lo. 5 K-K2 B-KtS

'�s-•
• �'"•
6 P-K R3 R-Q7 eh. ! !
• t•t 7 Kt x R
d i�'f •
Kt-QS d bl. eh.
•
d •�-
-
•
•
d -
8 K-K I Kt-B7 mate.
• • N
� {'� M •
P� ·�0�
• 11 •A• • Diag. 7 4 shows a fine win,
. ft . • • for all that the opponent is
� -% •
ii � ·
- � 4> �
� .!1,. �
" anonymous."

• ·§· �� I Q Kt-B4 P x Kt
2 Q x Kt ! ! RP x Q
BROER-LAURENTIUS 3 Kt x KtP P x Kt
(Holland-Estonia, I 935) 4 B x P eh. K-B I
1 R-Q7 ! BxR 5 R-R8 mate.
2 B x P eh. Kt x B (Note the similarity with
(If 2 ., K-R I ; 3 Kt X
. •
Diag. 232, page 96, which
P mate.) shows the same staggering
3 Q x P eh. K-R I Queen sacrifice on a full
4 Kt-Kt6 m ate. board !)
 DIAGRAM 74 ± I n Diag. 76 there i s an
attack in which two pieces are
sacrificed :
DIAGRAM 76 ±

• s.• �-®·
• t •..t• t • t'
��•
'"" •
.t• . • �.
• •to •
• u · �·
Fox-ANON. ( I 9 0 I ) ., HA•• § •
i%% 4),. � 0h
�
..!.!. �
4),. "
§LJ •
- ..!.!. � �
� UVJJ• •®
Especially interesting are
clearance manceuvres by minor
forces, paving the way for the AUBERT-MOSER
ultimate onslaught of the (Pau-Tarbes, Match, I 939)
" heavies." In Diag. 7 5 two I B x P eh., K x B; 2 R-R3
pawns and a piece are sacri­
eh., Kt-R3 ; Kt-84 !, Q-Q I ; 4
ficed in such an attack :
B x Kt, P x B; 5 Q-RS, Re­
DIAGRAM 7 5 =t=
signs.
s.• •® • �­ DIAGRAM 7 7 ±
�� t • • t • t
-�� . .
M • �� ltt:!. i\':'�
� • �,.a_��
� '� ft • t • •
• ft • • O ft
, • � , � ft B4J•
fe:'i,�. �
��r.-. m�
- g�
�B
Bf.;g,B � t:::::::.
SczEPANIK-MicHEL
(Berlin Championship, I 939)
I . . . , P-K6; 2 P x P, P x P; 3
Kt X P, Kt-Q6 eh. ; 4 P X Kt,
Q x P eh. ; 5 K-K2, Kt-QS
mate.
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against the Black Queen, as m rRx RP eh. Kx R
the previous example) followed 2 R x P eh . Rx R
by 2 R x p eh. ; with _ sub­ 3 Q x p eh. K-R I
sequent mate. + Q x R and wins.
In Diag. 7 8 a Rook falls
Diag. 8o provides another
and a Bishop is offered : _ :
example on the same Imes
DIAGRAM 7 8 ±
DIAGRAM 80 ±

. . ,, ,,,,,.• ,� ·
• • • •,,:1: �%
:t'• · �· !/9
�

• :t •� 0 8
�.,' -%• p , .
. ft ./, · � ���
6 ft •�• b �.J
• • • •
v

(Won by Dr. Balogh, Buda­

pest, 1939)

1 R-R7 eh. ! ! K-B I

(If i . . . , K x R ; 2 Q­
DIAGRAM 79 ±
R+ eh., and mates next move.)
2 Q- Ra e h . Kt-B I
3 Q x Kt eh. K-K2
+ Q x p eh. K-Q I
5 R X QP Resigns.

Diag. 8 1 is similar to �he

conclusion of the precedmg
example' but far more out-
.
standing in its concept10n of
economy.
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 DIAGRAM 8 I ± DIAGRAM 82 ±

(Moscow Union Champion­ ( 1 895)

ship, I 945) 1 B-B8 Rx B
2 R-R8 eh. Kx R
1 R x B eh. ! ! BP x R 3 Q x R eh. R-Kt l
2 R-B7 eh. ! ! Kx R 4 Q-B6 eh. R-Kt2
5 Q-R4 eh. K-Kt I
3 Q x RP eh. K-K3 6 Q-Q8 eh.

(If 3 . . . , K-B 1 ; 4 Kt­ and mate next move.

B4 ! !, forces mate !)
DIAGRAM 83 ±
4 Q x KtP eh. K-K4
5 Q-Kt7 eh. Kx P
(If 5 . . . , K-K3 ? ; 6 Kt­
B4 mate.)
6 Kt-B6 eh.
and White won quickly.
The play shown in the next
diagram, with the sacrifice of
a Bishop and then of a Rook,
is attractive i n its economy :

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 Two pieces and a Rook are I Kt-Kt4 p x Kt
sacrificed in Diag. 83 with its 2 Q x Kt Q-Q2
wonderful succession of clear­
ances : (Forced. If 2 . . . , R X Q ;
3 R-K8 eh., R-B I ; 4 R X
I Kt-KS Q-K3 P eh. and mate.)
2 B-84 Px B
3 P-BS Q x Kt 3 Q-QS
4 Kt-Kt6 eh. P x Kt (Threatening R X P eh.)
5 P x KtP Q x KtP
6 R-R I eh. K-Kt l 3 · · .
K-B I
7 Q x P eh. Q-Q4
(Or 3 . . . , K-R I ; 4
8 R-RS eh. Kx R
Q x Q, or 3 . . . , P-KKt3 ;
9 Q-R4 eh.
4 R(Kt3)-K3, or 3 . . . ,
with mate to follow. Q X Q ; 4 R-K8 eh., etc.)
If Black had played I . . ,
.

Q-K I ; then 2 Kt(R4)-Kt6 + Rx P QxQ

eh., P X Kt ; 3 B-B4, P x B ; 5 R-Kt8 d bl. eh. K x R
4 R-R I eh., K-Kt 1 ; 5 6 R-K8 eh. R-B I
Q x P eh. 7 R x R mate.
An orgy of sacrifice until
there is nothing left : A sacrificial broadside in :
DIAGRAM 84 ±
DIAGRAM 85 ±

(Position after Black's Q-Q+)

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 I Kt-Kt6 ! ! Q x R eh. I . . . Q x P eh. ! !
2 K-Q2 QxR 2 Kt x Q Kt x P mate.
3 Kt x P eh. ! ! B x Kt
4 B-B7 eh. ! ! KxB And a familiar theme (see
5 Q-KS eh. K x Kt Diag. 6 1 ) in:
6 Q-BS eh. K-R4 DIAGRAM 8 7 +
7 P-Kt4 mate.

Finally, we give a near

analogy to Diag. 56 in :
DIAGRAM 86 '.f

I Kt-K7 eh.
2 K-R I Q x Kt
3 PxQ R-R4 eh.
4 PxR R-RS mate.

In this extended chapter, we have compiled a multitude of

breathtaking events on the board. Some have taken centuries to
mature. The finale in Diag. 48 (Tietz-May), for instance,
was illustrated in simple shape, as a mating pattern, by Damiano
in the year 1 5 I 2. But what a giant step between the outline of
a mere principle then, and its pinnacle in I 9 I 2, 400 years later !

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 THE QUE EN-IN HE R POWE R
AND G LO RY
HE QuEEN-in her power and glory-but sometimes

T powerless and prostrate, appears in the following

positions, each of which contains a peculiar charm of
brilliancy and problem-like artistry, which are instrumental in
securing the victory.
In Diag. 88 Her Majesty manreuvres the bodyguard of the
opposing King into such a position that Black, although a move
in hand, cannot escape the mate.
DIAGRAM 8 8 ± drops his "ccrur dame " and
chooses another one :
DIAGRAM 89 ±

RICHTER-]. K.
(Berlin, 1 935)
1 Q-QS eh. Q-B I
2 R x P eh. Bx R
3 Q-B6 eh. Q-Kt2
4 R-R I QxQ
5 P X Q and mate follows.
Black's Queen is a helpless
onlooker in Diag. 89 as White
K x B ; 5 P-Kt8(Q) mate. If DIAGRAM 9 1 ±
3 . . . , K-Kt 1 ; 4 B-R7 eh., (Position after Black's P-Kt6)
etc., or 3 . . . , K-K 2 ; f
R x R.) ·�· :_ � - � ;
." t �Ji'..&i?-
�..S:.� ���t•�
Diag. 89 is a true successor • ��
- °'".al
@, ;• .
· •
-
•
of Diag. 90. .-��
•�• -
� �r� � �
�
DIAGRAM 90 ± YIY• • :rt • •
�
�
- �� ��M
4?. �t �� ?'�
.!_!,.ci1 �
.!.1.
4?. ·. 4?.
- fuZ.J �� .!..!,. ··
­
/,�
t=§} o�-• . %� �
�
BALOGH-GROMER
(Prague, 1 93 1 )
The Queen i n Diag. 9 I
appears to have used a "crib "
in the shape of Diag. 92.
DIAGRAM 92 ±
(Magdeburg, 1 927)
1 Qx P! PxQ
2 P x P d is. eh. K-B I
3 R-Kt8 eh. ! KxR
4 P-R7 eh. K-B I
5 P-R8(Q) mate.

The Queen goes into direct

action in Diag. 9 1 with :
I Q-R8 eh. Kt-Kt l \VAGNER-SCHONMANN
2 Q x P eh. ! ! KxQ (Correspondence, I 9 I 9)
3 B x B dis. eh. K-R I
4 R x Kt eh. ! KxR 1 Q x P eh. ! ! KxQ
5 R-Kt l eh. and 2 KR-Kt l eh. K-B I
6 B-B6 mate. 3 B x Kt Q-R6
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4 R-Kt8 eh. Kx R the lone Lady in this gigantic
5 R x Q and struggle in Diag. 94 :
6 R-RS mate.
DIAGRAM 94 ±
Anti-feminism may have
been the reason for White
giving up his Queen in Diag.
93 and preferring a minor
promotion. The result is
superb :

DIAGRAM 93 ±

BoTVINNIK-CAPABLANCA
(Avro, 1 938)

1 B-R3 ! ! Qx B
2 Kt-RS eh. ! P x Kt
3 Q-KtS eh. K-B I
4 Q x Kt eh. K-Kt l

STEINBRECHER-BENZINGER (To avoid mate in two.)

(Munich Chess Club, 1 9 29)
5 P-K7 Q-BS eh.
I QR-Q I Q-B3 ! ? 6 K-B2 Q-B7 eh.
2 Q x Kt QR-K l 7 K-Kt3 Q-Q6 eh.
3 Q-R4 RxP!? 8 K-R4 Q-KS eh.
4 Q x P eh. ! ! PxQ 9 KxP Q-K7 eh.
5 P-Kt7 eh. K-R2 Io K-R4 Q-KS eh.
6 P x R(Kt) eh. K-R I II P-Kt4 Q-KS eh.
7 R-Kt8 mate. I2 K-RS Resigns.

Sacrificing two pieces, (For I 2 . . . , P-R3 ; 1 3

White has a conception eleven Q-B8 eh., K-R2 ; 1 4 P­
moves deep for winning with K8(Q), wins.)
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 Diag. 95 is an amazing " five-mover," the impressive
Queen's march being shown clearly in Diag. 95 (b).
DIAGRAM 95 (a) ±
••-�JS • •
. · � ·�·
tR m• R
. m•
. t•. � .,
• t •®>• •
• •4J• � 'ffi
� -
�Q �� 1�
· �3 Rm
•
·
t��
� .�
- - �
- .a. �
m ..!J. �
•A�§ • § •w
MARSHALL-GLADSTONE MARSHALL-GLADSTONE
(Metropolitan League, (Metropolitan League,
New York, 1 932) New York, 1 932)
I Q-RS eh., B-Kt4 ; 2 Q-Q I eh . !, Q-QS ; 3 Q-Kt3 eh.,
K-K4 ; 4 Q-Kt3 eh., K-Q4 ; 5 Q-Q6 mate.
In Diag. 96 the Queen throws herself into the abyss
at the very end-but with how decisive a result !
DIAGRAM 96 ± I • . . R-QBI
(Position after White's
Kt-K6 !) (If 1 , P x Kt ; 2
. • .

P X P dis. eh., K-R 1 ; 3

B x Kt, Kt x B ; 4 R x P eh. !,
etc.)

2 Kt x KtP ! K x Kt
3 Q x P eh. ! ! Resigns.

and by reversing her tactics,

she achieves the same end in
Diag. 97 shown on the next
page :
39
 DIAGRAM 97 ± 1 Q-RS eh. ! ! !Kt x Q
2 P x P dbl. eh. K-Kt3
• • -�·�· 3 B-B2 eh. K-Kt4
-
·•�
..E.,��-
�3, ..-..J -
.� tY�
..&1�t
; 4 R-BS eh. K-Kt3 !
t• • • • 5 R-B6 d bl. eh. K-Kt4
·
-
.� il� '11�t� �� i'.'��
4*! 6 R-Kt6 eh. K-RS
�
- �
� f!JWJ,
;'0'3 •
:iii
. 7 R-K4 eh. Kt-BS
8 R x Kt eh. K-R4
• .ft . • A •
4l> @' 'ii 4l> � .
� 4J�§% �i!?J.!li
� 9 P-Kt3 ! ! and
..f.!.. 1' , "" ..f.!. .
• e::i
7. �
/ ,
1 o R-R4 mate.
• R. Rn
/'. /

• • • ?@}
RonL-BcOMicH Now there follow a few
(Wiesbaden, I 934) more situations without any
accompanying "thematic"
1 Q x P eh. ' ! KxQ comment.
2 B x P d bl. eh. K-Kt3
3 B-B7 eh. Kx P DIAGRAM 99 ±
4 B-B I eh. K-KtS
5 R-B4 eh. K-Kt4
6 P-R4 eh. and mates.

Study also the treatment in

Diag. 98 :
DIAGRAM 98 ±

(Simultaneous, blindfold,
Hollywood, 1 932)

I Kt-K6 !
and if B x Kt ;
2 Q x P eh. !
with mate in two.
 DIAGRAM I 00 + In Diag. r o r White could
have won by :
I P-BS ! P x BP
2 P x BP B x QBP
3 Q-B4 ! B-Q3
4 R-R8 eh. ! Bx R
(This is a decoy l)
5 Q-B8 mate.

and in Diag. 1 02 White's

guard is smashed by :
DIAGRAM I 0 2 ±
(Correspondence, r 945 )

White threatens a most

dangerous attack but
I . . ., Q x R eh. !
2 Q x Q, B-Kt5 !
and Black will ultimately re­
main a piece to the good.
DIAGRAM I 0 I ±

(Lodz, 1 938)

I • . • B x P!
2 Px P B x P eh.
3 K-B I Q x R eh. !
(The decoy 1s seen here
again.)
4 BxQ Rx P
VON FEILITZSCH-WILDEGANS 5 B-Kt2 Kt-Q7 eh.
(Correspondence, r 94 0) Resigns.
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 After White's natural look­
ing but faulty last move, he is
in for a nasty surprise :

I . . . R x P eh. !
2 Kx R Q-R6 eh.
3 K-Kt l R-Kt l eh.
4 Kt-Kt3 R x Kt eh. !
5 Px R B-B4 eh.
Resigns.
If6 Q-B2 or Q3, Q X P eh.
Obvious but pretty.

DIAGRAM 1 05 ±

1 R-B8 eh. Bx R
2 Q-K8 eh. R-B I
3 R x P eh. Kx R
4 Q-Kt6 eh. K-R I
5 Q-R7 mate.

SHTENZAPIR-ESTRIN
(Moscow Championship,
1 946)

White, instead of playing

1 QR-Q 1 , was mated after
the following :
I B-QB2 ! ? R-Kt3 eh.
2 K-R2 Q-Q7 eh. ! !
3 BxQ R-87 eh.
4 Q-Kt2 R x Q mate.
 DIAGRAM I 06 ± The position in Diag. 1 07
occurred in the Budapest
Championship in I 942 and
pr�ceeded i n true Hungarian
vem :
r R x P eh. ! ! QxR
(I . . . , K x R ; 2 B x Kt,
and 3 R-Ktr eh.)
2 Bx Kt eh. R-B2
3 R-Kt l ! ! Qx R
FRYDMAN-GILFER 4 Q x R eh. K-R I
(Folkestone, 1 933) 5 Q-RS eh. K-Kt2
r Rx P! ! Kx R 6 Q-R6 mate.
2 R-Kt I eh. K-R2
(If 2 . . . , K-R r ; 3 Kt x
Kt, B x Kt ; 4 Kt-K4 !, B x
B ; 5 Q x B eh., P-B3 ; 6
Kt X KBP, and wins.)
3 Kt x Kt eh. B x Kt
4 B-K4 eh. K-R I
5 Q-RS B-Kt2
6 RX B! Resigns.
DIAGRAM I 07 ±

• • • •••
���
�" t �� 'i� a
�M�� �� ,��
• - -�-- 7,.
• a • •�,
• H • �, �
r Rx P! ! Resigns.

BA���. ,1'}.D� �)2!• (For 1 , P xQ; 2

• • •

)i'� ·
­ R-R7 mate, and 1
4- B � f� .
, • • •

J.!.. b � K x R ; 2 Q-Kt3 eh., K­

. . . � �� R r ; 3 Q-Kt6, P-B4 ; 4
CzILLAG-N EGESSY B-K5 eh., etc.)
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 DIAGRAM I 09 + i B-KtB ! !
2 Kt x 8 Q-R7 eh.
• • • .s. ;� :f 3 K-83 P-K4 !
m t • mt• t + QPx P QKt x P eh .
�
• �
,,,/ •
. .s. � ·� 5 P x Kt Kt x P eh.
• • ft •J..• 6 K-84 Kt-Kt3 eh.
.
• ��
.ill'1 �
f".ill'1 �
·
•
7
8
K-83
KP x P
P-85 !

. ft . ·�· ft
� t'�
l!,. �
¥M��
� '?d' "
/"' .,,
(If 8 B x Kt, B-Kt5 eh. ! ;
� - • •
/ · ,%
;;.
9 K X B , Q X P eh. ; and
• � mates in three.)
RELLSTAB-PETROV
8 ... 8-KtS eh. !
(Kemeri, 1 937) 9 Kx B Kt-K4 eh. !
1 B x P eh. I O P x Kt P-R4 mate.
2 Qx B R-Kt6 ! !
Resigns. And finally a " heavy­
weight" of great combinative
(If 3 Q X Q, R X P mate,
power :
and if 3 Q x B, R-Kt7 dbl.
eh. ; and mate next move.) DIAGRAM III ±
Here is a master-pattern of �- . . �­
how to break up, and win in,
an apparently blocked position. • ·�·fl- �
llH • t•t•
DIAGRAM I I 0 +
• • • t • � '1'
�i;!!;>;i
�d �t��
�� � � �
·�· H-�• � 0i
·
� if,'�
��
� 0 '11
% � -£��
• @• • . §
CuKIERMAN-V01s1N
(Paris Championship, 1 929)
1 QPx P! Qx B
2 R-Q I Q x KtP
3 QR-Q4 Px P
4+
 4 R-Q7 eh. B-K2 And, in D"iag. I I 3, the
5 Q X P eh ·I ·I KxQ ouverture _ decides the
like wise
6 B-B4 eh : K-B3 finale :
7 R (Q l )-Q6 eh . .' Bx R
8 R-KB7 mate.
DIAGRAM I 1 3 -+
� • •.t..
�
- �• �­
= - � j1 t
In n·1ag. I If2' h e ouverture
��
- t� �
- ��� iii
,

reminds us o t e decoy in � .•
• � ft • t •
f{§z
,,, •
·
r ,.
·�
.,,

Diag. I O I . J
�
• �
•,, • 11 - • . t ·
-·�·/,
.,.•� �.
� / . "•
•
• � p if.i! '0 · -<:w.� ·
,!!.
� •�v � - · •
• w J@ "ft d •
� �
,!!. �
�� .
� .J.!..� E
;• :;-J a- ?, l:::!l
.,0
H'
� � '0' � - "i'. ,,
GERE BEN-Sz"'L ..
,,
u OSSI

(Budapest, I 948)
I P-Q6 1 P-QKt4
2 B-KtJ Q-R4
3 K Kt-K2 Kt-KS
4 Px P R-K I
5 Q-QS ' ' · · Resigns.
(5 . . ., R x Q; 6 P xR
.
eh. , Q Q ' 7 P-K7 dis.
(Q)
x

eh.)

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 ow MIND prevails over matter is exemplified in Diag.
H 1 14, where White, although a Rook down, sacrifices
the other one and wins by the strength of his two
Bishops.
DIAGRAM I I 4 ± The same typical pawn
move, with the Queen using
all her authority to back up
the pawn, occurs in both of
Diags. I 1 5 and I 1 6.

DIAGRAM I I 5 ±

RA VINSKY-PANOV
(Moscow Championship,
1 943)
I P-QKt4 ! ! Kt-B I

(If 1 . . . , Q x KtP ; 2
B-Kt5, Q x R eh. ; 3 Q x Q,
Kt-B3 ; 4 Q-K6, R x P ;
5 B-B6 eh., K-B I ; and
White also wins in the end.)
1 P-QKt4 ! Kt x P
2 Q-Kt4 ! Q-B6 2 Q-Kt3 ! !
3 R x B eh . ! KxR
4 B-KtS eh. K-Q3 and Black resigned mne
5 Q-Q I eh. ! and mates. moves later.
 DIAGRAM l l 6 ±

-
� .
- .
d �
-
• t • m t •4J
t- - �' �'; t � f.!
� �
• • • tt •
tt • �- • •
• •a •
� "'".
m . .JV!.,.
!B © ��• ..il.�� �
- �.
• � �
- l:::
· �:I �· - �,
ALEKHlNE-MAROCZY
(Bled, 1 9 3 1 ) (Lubeck, 1 9 39)
l P-Q Kt4 ! Q x KtP
(If I ' R x p ;
• • 2 Q­
.
l Q-QS eh.
2 K-R I Kt-B7 eh.
R5 !, P-K4 ! ; 3 P-B6 eh.,
K-Q I ! ; 4 Q x RP !, R x B ; 3 R x Kt QxR
4 P-Kt4 ! ! Rx R
5 Q-B8, R-Q2 ; 6 R-QB5,
Q X P ; 7 R X P, and wins.) 5 Q x P eh. K-R I
6 Q x R eh. K-Kt2
2 Q-KS ! Kt-Q2 7 Q x P eh. K-Kt l
Q-R8 ! RxB Q-B7 eh.
3 8 K-R I
(Even 3 . . . , Q-Kt3 ; 4 9 Q-B8 eh. Resigns.
P-R5 ! !, Q x P ; 5 R-B8, or
4 . . . , Q-R2 ; 5 P-B6 eh., A " Model Mate," pure
etc., does not avert defeat.) and economic, forms the con­
4 P-B6 eh. ! Resigns. clusion to Diag. l 1 8.
(If 4 . . . , Kt X P ; mate in
two. If 4 . . . , K-Q 1 ; 5 I Q-R4 ! P-B7
Q X B eh., and mate next 2 Px P R-K R I
move.) 3 R x P eh . ! Bx R
4 R x B eh. K-Kt l
The move occurs again in 5 Q-R7 eh. ! ! RxQ
Diag. l l 7 where a pseudo­ 6 P x R eh. K-R I
attack is warded off after : 7 Kt-Kt6 mate.

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 DIAGRAM I I 8 ± DIAGRAM I 20 ±
(Black to move)

•• • • )
m •..t.• t �
z

���• t • t •
•, ��
-
• i � 4" - ·
-
, � j!l� .J..!,. ·
�
. . ft •
. Q
• � ��� - �
·
,
ft . � ,� · �·
s. N. BERNSTEIN- • �§ • • §
AFICIONADO MICHEL-ROSSETTO
(Buenos Aires, 1 94 1 )
Now for a series of charm­ I Q R-KKt l
ing mates, all identical in
2Q-R6 eh. ! ! RxQ
principle :
3 B x R eh. K-R2
4 B-BS mate.
DIAGRAM I 2 I ±

· · · �· .
m � •®¥'S- §
'• :tm i t �
•
0

t
• • • U_
• • ft U •
• ft U • •
·· ft � �A• •
• -� • . §
Fox-DICKERSON
(Carlsbad, I 907)
(Brooklyn Chess Club, 1 904
I B-BSdis. eh. B-R4 1 Q x P eh. ! ! KxQ
2 Q x B eh . ! PxQ 2 B-RS eh. ! ! Kx R
3 R-R6 mate. 3 B-B7 mate.
 DIAGRAM I 22 ± artistic, could have been in­
.
� � �
flicted, had White seen it, in
•
1*J! .
. � • .
�� M-. f'�
�-..a.�- · ·
�
. .... .
Diag. 1 23.
·=­ R-QS eh. Kt x R
�
�
·
f' • ·
. .� �
-�f'· 1
• • �� m � ft. ( If I ., K-R3 ; 2 B-
. •

O ft • • • B8 eh. wins.)
• • • • 2 B-K2 eh. K-R4
ft � ��
�.;a,, ,, ,/e
, , •
·
,% 3 R-R7 eh. R-R3
• • • • 4 R x R mate.
WEISSGERBER-RELLSTAB As it happened, the actual
(Pyrmont, 1 933) game was drawn.
1 Q-Q8 eh. K-Kt2 But White saw the mate in
2 R x P eh . ! Px R
3 P-R6 eh. ! KxP
4 Q-R8 eh. R-R2
5 Q x R mate.
And the same mate in a
still more simplified phase of
the game, but certainly no less
DIAGRAM I 2 3 ±

• • • •
• �El § • •
�- . . . SANTASIERE-ADAMS
· ®· •� • (New York, 1 926)
� ��
�- �· ���
�
-­
• ©• �,� • 1 Q x P eh . ! ! KxQ
. . . �� 2 R-RS eh.
3 B-R6 eh.
K-Kt2
K-Rl
• • • • + B-B8 d is. eh. and mate,
BoGOLYunov-SuLTAN KHAN
(Prague, 1 93 1 ) j ust as four years before in:
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 DIAGRAM I 25 ± 1 Q x P eh . ! QxQ
2 R x Q eh. Kx R
• a • • R-R I eh. B-R7
�'P.i1�-
ll&. •
3
ii • t ���� t 4 R x B eh. K-Kt2
!!��
P< t �
"' �� ��
� 8 - 5 B-R6 eh. K-R2
•
. v•
W& W&. �f z•
� � .•
W& v 6 B x R dis. eh. and mate •

•Jl• ft ·�· Or results in the same

§• •
mM•-J:'\� manner from :
� [Link] £
U£ ���
±
� �
DIAGRAM 1 27
. . ••
. .� �
DR. JANNY-KARHORDO • • • •••
•- t • �..u..
•�t •
(Timisoara, I 922)
�
t • � liil � ���.. ��
a
'0

Kx Q ��'11 �-'11 .
r Q x P eh. !
2 R-R3 eh. K-Kt2
� ?!§�
:r n
�
m �?J��
-
�
� /"% � � �

3 B-R6 eh. K-R I • • • •

4 B-B8 d is. eh. and mate. •
• •v• A�7 m ft ,, ,7,

Diag. I 26 reproduced in • -d •
�
• ��
-•
t=I
the Dutch Tijdschrift, August • • • •
I 948, unfolds in the same Po1sL-GRGURICH
fashion : (Prague Champ., I 94 7)
DIAGRAM I 26 ±
I R-KS Q-Q2
2 R x R eh. QxR
3 P-Q7 QxP
4 Q-Kt8 eh. K-R2
5 Q-R8 eh. Kt x Q
6 R-Kt7 eh. and mate.
Final position

-
� -
. �
t""�•
""U� �"&%,
' '

50
 PICTU RING THE MARCH
O F EVENTS

ow LET us proceed to a few examples which are more

N lengthy in their solutions ; these are illustrated by more

than the usual single diagram in order to assist us to
play " blindfold."

DIAGRAM I 28 (
a ) ± (much stronger than + Kt X B,
Q-Kt7 !), R-K Kt l (if now
. . . .... + . . . , K x Kt ; 5 Q-Rs,
�
-
� ·
• � ..a."'
-
• A\ � � t �10•
�t /,i wins) ; 5 Kt x RP ! !
• t• •
i�
jl:S,},�
•
-• • �•
- t� M ·
�
- DIAGRAM I 28 ( b)
• t � � .{). (Position after 5 Kt X RP ! !)
fllf/$; � • N ft
- � •
. �� . . ··�
.
� � � �..M.$"
·�% 'f t;g � 4- .
� .J.!,. �
· ·
-� · d A\ ·
� ..S.. �t�
• N "Z..J
I-""\
���
,;;:;!� • ·
-
• �
�
� • t • �·
ENEVOLDSEN-NIMZOWITSCH
• •to •
(Copenhagen, 1 923)
•tu • •
White removes the nuisance � ·
ft< '!\ ��� � •
-
• ·
� .J.!,.
4-
by I R x Kt !, B x R (if I . . . ,
� /,i

Q-Kt7 ; 2 B-R6 !, Q x R ; •ll� �Y£JU ft •

3 Kt-R5 !) ; 2 Kt-RS, Kt­ . . . �
Kt3 (2 . . . , B-K 2 ; 3 B­ ENEVOLDSEN-NIMZOWITSCH
R6 !, P x B ; + Kt x P eh.,
K-R 1 ; 5 Kt X P eh., K­ 5 . . . , K x Kt (Kt2) (if 5
Kt1 ; 6 Q-Kt+ eh. !, K x Kt ; . . . , K x Kt(R2) ; it is mate
7 Q-Kt7 mate) ; 3 Kt(Kt4)­ in two ; if 5 . . . , R x Kt ;
B6 eh., K-R I ; 4 Kt x KtP ! 6 Kt-B6, R-R2 ; 7 Kt x R ,
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K x Kt ; 8 Q-R5 eh., K­
Ku ; 9 B x Kt, P x B ; 1 0
Q X P eh., and White forces
mate) ; 6 Q-RS, P-B4 ; 7 P x
P e.p. eh., K-B2 ; 8 Kt-KtS eh.,
K x P; 9 Q-83 eh., K-K2 ; 1 0
Q-87 eh., K-Q I ; 1 1 Q x R eh.

PANOV-BONDAREVSKY
(Tiflis, 1 937)
I 8 x P!
2 B-B4
If 2 P x B, R x Kt ; 3 R x
R, Q-Kt6 eh. ; 4 K-R 1 , Q X
P eh. ; 5 K-Ku , Kt-Kt5 ; 6
B-B4, P-Kt4 ! ; and wins.
2 ... Q-Q2
3 Px B Qx P
4 8 x Kt
II ... Kt-B I
12 Kt-R7
DIAGRAM 1 29 (b)
Q-Kt7
13 Kt x Kt QxB (Position after 4 B X Kt)
14 Kt x P d bl. eh. K-K2
K-Q3
• • E fS®•
15 B-KtS eh.
16 Q-BS eh. K-B3
t� • •
�� i • m•
• t ��
�� i
17 Qx 8 Resigns. �� •
. m
� •
� 9- .
• • t• •
For if 1 7 . . . , B x Kt ; 1 8
Q-R6 eh., K-Q2 ; 1 9 Q­
•A• � � •
• 4JU • •
�� �
·
Kt7 eh., and mate next move.
J..!.�. �
�� •
m•��
�d �
��[ ... - "z..J -
MA'A>T r@'1
Diag. I 29 is another " epi­ • '0 ?d �
sodic " treatment. PANOV-BONDAREVSKY
52
 Black threatened 4 . . . , Kt x R ; I 5 R x Kt, P x P ;
Kt X P ; and also 4 . . . , I 6 R-R 1 , KR-K 1 ; and
B x P eh. ! ; 5 K x B, Kt­ wms.
K6 ! ; 6 B x Kt, Kt-Kt5 eh. ; 10 . . . Q-B6 eh.
7 . , Q-R7 eh. ; and 8 . . . ,
· ·
11 K-R2 R-KKt3
Kt X B mate. Against White's 1 2 B x P eh. Rx B
last answer to these threats 13 Q-QS eh. R-B I
there now follows : 1 4 Q-QS eh. K-R I
4 ... Q-KtS eh. ! 15 Kt-Kt3 Q-B7 eh.
5 K-B I Resigns.

If 5 B-Kt3, R x Kt ! And a final example in this

5 ... B x P! method :
6 KxB Kt-KS eh.
DIAGRAM 1 30 (a) f
7 K-B I Q-B6 eh.
8 K-Kt I Q-B7 eh. ! (Position after White's B-K3)
9 K- R I R- K3
. •. B S &S•
/

DIAGRAM I 29 (c) •.t •� ��. t •. t

(Position after 9 . . . , R-K3)

. . �-·· • •A• .• .
• t • • t m t· �
- •.�
il li H ,�• •
·illi •
• • •• • . . �-� . --�

• • t• • 4l> �t.a�
.!.!. � ·•J;;t.
-��
· 4l>·i!'.I!"' �
� .!.!.
BA• � � � .• � -�- � �
•{)8 • • APPEL-KREMER
ft U •
�� '-'�
·r.z.J ·�;, •
�
•
(Jurata, 1 937)
-��� . I ... Q-RS
/ /< //,

PANOV-BONDAREVSKY - 2 P-K R3

10 BxP If 2 P-KKt3, Q-K5.

2 ... Rx B
I o Q-Q3, also loses after
p x B ; I I Q-K3, p x Kt ; 3 Px R B x KtP
I 2 Q x Q, Kt x Q eh. ; I 3 4 B-B3 BxP
K-Kt2, Kt-Q6 ; I 4 K-B I , 5 Q-K2 Q-Kt6 eh.

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 6 K-R I BxR DIAGRAM 1 30 (b) +
(See Diag. 1 30 (b).) (Position after 7 R X B)
7 Rx B R-K I ! ! . . �- -­
Threatening 8 . . . , R X P ! � t•
• . •
.t�
ff' "«� t
8 R-B2 B-BS ! .
- � -� .
- .
-
9 P-K4 R-QB I • • • •
1 0 R-B I R-B3 • A �
. � •
g �
The curtain falls­ • • "
• � ��
Q�-

Resigns. ft D
-�· •
. . ·�· -
APPEL-KREMER
(Jurata, 1 937)
Diagrams 1 28-1 30 resemble the famous Double Bishop
Sacrifice, demonstrated to perfection in the widely known
encounters Dr. Lasker-Bauer, Amsterdam, 1 889, Niemzo­
witsch-Tarrasch, St. Petersburg 1 9 1 +, and Alekhine-Prof.
Drewitt, Portsmouth 1 923. Here is a later one in line of sue-
cess10n.
DIAGRAM I 3 I ±
1 B x P eh. ! KxB
2 Q-RS eh. K-Kt l
3 Bx P Kx B
+ Q-KtS eh. K-R I
5 R-Q4 B-R7 eh.
6 K-R I Q-BS
7 RxQ Bx R
8 QxB R-K Kt l
9 R-KS Resigns.

5+
 PAN - AME RICAN EFFICI ENCY

AN THERE be a raison d'hre for an attempted winning

C combination if subsequent analysis reveals a flaw in the

winning process ? The answer should be an emphatic
' Yes ! " I f there are plenty of replies leading to disaster, and just
one or two difficult roads to a draw, under the mental pressure
-a " war of nerves"-from the inventive attacker, and under
pressure of time, many an opponent will succumb and not find the
saving clause. If accompanied by a perfect technical execution,
this fighting element gives an added pleasure, as in Diag. 1 32.

DIAGRAM I 32 (a) ± 1 . .
• Kt x B
2 Kt x KtP !
•• • •*
K-Kt2
3 R-KKt l ! P x Kt
• • •t• 4 R x P ch. ! ! KxR
��-
� . � �t .
• 5 Q-K6 ! ! Kt x P ?
• t • t• ·�
· · � �� . .
• u • ·�
.ft • • {). ��
� � • • EX•�
FINE-GROSSMAN
(Marshall C.C.
Championship, 1 933)
Black's position seems ten­
able, but White conj ures up :
I Kt-84!
The Knight 1s immune
because of mate.
55
 Fine points out that Black Another " Fine " win,
can just save himself by the against Shainswit, is shown in
unpalatable choice of returning Diag. I 33·
all his extra .naterial. E.g.,
I R x P! ! Qx R
5 • , Kt-K4 ! ; 6 R-KtI
. .
2 Q x P eh. K-R3
eh., K-R3 ; 7 Q x Kt(K5),
3 Q-Kt7 eh. K-Kt4
R-KKu ; 8 Q-K3 eh., K­ K-R3
4 Q-86 eh.
R2 ; 9 Q-R3 eh., Kt-R4 ;
I o Q x Kt eh., Q-R3 ; II These two moves served to
Q x Q ch., K x Q ; I 2 R x R, gain time on the clock.
R x B P ; I 3 R-Kt8 Drawn. 5 Q-B4 eh. Q-Kt4
But he mentions that he
thought his opponent had a If 5 . . . , P-Kt4 ; 6 Q­
good chance of overlooking B6 eh., K-R4 ; 7 P-R3,
this, as he had only four leading to the position in Diag.
I 33 (b), where White has a
minutes left for his remaining
eleven moves. So the game win in all variations. E.g.,
went : 6 R-KtI eh., K-R3 ; (a) 7 . . . , Q-K3 ; 8 P­
7 Q-K3 eh., K-R2 ; 8 Q­ Kt4 eh., K-R5 ; 9 Q-B3,
K7 eh., K-R3 ; 9 Q-Kt7 eh., Q-Q3 ; 1 0 K-Kt2, and
Resigns. mates.
DIAGRAM I 33 (a) ± DIAGRAM I 33 (b)
(Position after Block's Q-K3) (Position after 7 P-R3 in sub­
variation at Move S)
• • •• •
•t• • �t
t • � · �• t •
� •t• •
•
• • m • � 'it a ?£<! %
. � -� � ��
B R � ?£<! '"
b M � ra
iii!
� - �-
� t::H� � �
FINE-SHAINSWIT
(U.S.A. Championship, I9H)
56
 (b) 7 . . . , R-K3 ; 8 Q­
B7 eh.
(c) 7 . . . , Kt-K4 ; 8 B x
Kt.
(d) 7 . . . , P-Kt5 ; 8 P x P
eh., K X P ; 9 Q-B4 eh.,
K-R4 ; 1 0 P-Kt4 eh., K­
R5 ; I I B-B6 eh., and mates.
6 B-Kt7 eh. K-R4
7 Q-B3 eh. Q-KtS
8 Q-QS eh. Q-B4

If 8 . . . , Kt-K4 ; 9 B x RrvrsE-CHERNEV
Kt, Q-B4 ; 1 0 Q-Q 1 eh., ( Hawthorn C.C. Champion­
K-R3 ; 1 1 P-B4 !, and wins. ship, Brooklyn, 1 944)
9 Q-Q I eh. Q-KtS DIAGRAM I 35 +
1 0 P-B3, Q-K3 ; 1 1 P­ •
·®· •
Kt4 eh., K-Kt4 ; 1 2 K-Kt2 !,
Q x KP (if P-R4 ; 1 3 P-R4
• • •t•t
• •t• •
eh., K X P ; 1 4 Q-R 1 eh., r,�
��
ill '�
"' "
?�
,.
•
�
•
.
K-Kt4 ; 1 5 P-B4 eh., K x P ;
1 6 Q-R3 mate) ; 1 3 P-R4 eh., ft · ft · ft · �·
K x P; 14 Q-R I eh., Resigns. • • -�� � ft
I n Diag. 1 34 the victim is �Rt•-
� •AU •
"believe-it-or-not" I . Cher­ �d • r. � .M,,
0' � � '

nev, author of Chess Magic. MOLINARI-CABRAL

I R-K I ! ! (Uruguay Championship,
1 943)
The double pin which saves
1 ... Kt x KB P ! !
the day.
2 B x Kt
I ... Rx P
2 B x B eh. QxB If 2 B x B, Kt x B eh. ; 3
3 Q-R7 eh. B-Kt2 K-Kt2, Kt-K4 ; wins.
4 Q x P eh. Resigns. 2 ... Q-Kt4 eh.

57
 3 K-Rl Q-B5 eh. Czech versus Bait in Diag.
+ B-Kt3 B-Kt8 eh. ! ! I 37, with Black to move :
Resigns.
DIAGRAM 1 37 ±
For if 5 Q x B, Kt-Kt5
eh. ; 6 P x Kt, Q-R3 eh. ;
and mates next move.
The position before Black's
first move in Diag. I 3 5 was
attained by the following artful
manceuvres :

PELIKAN-FEIGINS
(Quilmes, Argentine, 1 944)
I ... Q-B I l
Threatening R X P eh., fol­
lowed by Q-B7 eh. and mates.
If 2 R-K B 1 , R x R ch. ; 3
Q x R, Q-B4 eh.
MOLINARI-CABRAL 2 Bx R Q x B! l
I ... R x Kt ! ! Apparently an ideal posi­
A superb piece of fantasy ! tion, for if now 3 Q-B I ,
If 2 P x Q, R-Kt5 eh. ; 3 R-Kt7 eh. ; 4 Q x R, Q x R
Q-Kt2, R x Q eh. ; 4 K-B 1, eh. ; and 5 . . . , Q X Kt ; but
R X RP ; and mate next move. there follows
While if 2 B x R, Q x QB ; 3 Kt-B6 eh. ! ! Resigns.
with a winning position. For if (a) 3 . . . , K-B2 ;
2 PxR Q-R4 4 Q-K8 eh., K x Kt ; 5 R­
3 B-B4 Kt-Kt5 Q6 eh., K-Kt4 ; 6 Q-Kt6
4 B-1<2 Kt(Q2)-K4 mate, or (h) 3 . . . , P X Kt;
5 P-R3 B-B4 4 Q-K8 eh., K-Kt2 ; 5 R­
6 B-Kt3 Q7 mate, or (c) 3 . . . , Q x
(now revert to Diag. I 35). Kt ; 4 Q-Kt3 eh., etc.
58
 Another hot-climate game (forced for if 4 R X R, Kt X P
is Diag. 1 38 : mate), Kt x Q ; with a piece
DIAGRAM I 38 ± ahead.
DIAGRAM 1 39 :+
a •A• � ,� ��S • •• • ••
m t • •�m,,t • "•* -�,� t • t
• • t m,, �• i • •iV• •
•..QJ• • � , �" • "• t·· �·
.• ·�·/, . "• � ·�·
. . ·� · ,
- ,

-
� �� ff
.%ft · � �"� .,
,

i�� ft · O ft H ���/�
. � �A,ra ��
ft . -
. -� � · · � m • •��
PLECI-ENDZELIUS
NAJDORF-FLORES
(Argentine v. Latvia, Buenos
(Mar del Plata, 1 944)
Aires Team Tourney, 1 939)
I R-QS ! ! B-K2 DIAGRAM 1 40 +
2 Kt-KS eh. ! ! P X Kt •A• •••
3 Kt-Q6 eh. ! K-Kt3
. "• . .
4 B x B and White won.
"• t'• . ,, ,, •
' p x B ;
• Dt• m
If I • • • 2 Kt­
"• v�� !]"ft .
K5 eh., and 3 R-K8 mate.
If 1 . . . , Kt x Kt ; 2 Kt­ ,

Ks eh. !, K-K 2 ; 3 R-K8 eh., �

� � ��-"�" ��
� � -
-
·
%"'� -
K-Q3 ; 4 Kt-B7 eh., K-B2 ; �
- •A•" •
5 R x B, and 6 Kt x R. Only . . �� ·�
1 . . . , P-KKt3 ; was playable. FENOGLIO-ROSSETTO
An attempt at a very neat (Mar del Plata, 1 943)
trap and well worth recording I B-R3 ! !
is the following, in Diag. I 39 : 2 Q-B3
I . . . Kt x B ! ! (If 2 B x B, Q-B7 ; 3 R­
2 R P x Kt ! KKtx, Q-R5 eh. ; 4 K-Kt2,
I f 2 Kt x Q, Kt x B eh. ; Q-Kt6 eh. ; and 5 . . . ,
3 K-R x , R-B8 ! ! ; 4 Q x R Q-B7 mate.)
59
 2 ... B-Q6
3 P-R4 B-KS
4 Q-B I Q-Kt7
Resigns.
A surprise comparable with
that in Diag. l 37 occurs in
Diag. 1 4 1 .
D IAGRAM I 4I +

. �--· �
· ·
- . -
· �-
. �� EusKASEs-W. HENNEBERGER
�� '� � ��
� % � t t� �..d
(Bad Liebwerda, 1 9 34)
·� · . . A sparkle of fireworks is
. §. • • not always the prelude to a
� tt •
�
• · ·
� � quick end, but may lead to a
� � 0
mere improvement in position,
tt • • • tt o or the win of a pawn-though
• • • § •@ a vital one, as in Diag. 1 43·
SCHLOSSER-A NON. DIAGRAM 1 43 +
(Stettin, I 940)
• • • ¥.S�•
B x Kt ! �t�
l
�
§�,& t •
· •
• ·
• 1%• t
Q x R eh. ! ! K-R2 ! ! !
2
t �§ • • •
While the play in Diag. 1 42 • • Ht•
is positively diabolic : • • a •
I ... Q-B2 ! ·�· HA•
2 B x Q eh. K-B I ! ! 4- �
R � � �� • • � �
Resigns. - ·
·
� - �
• e::i -
• ��
On I •, K-B I ; 2 R­
• •
APSCHENEEK-LANDAU
B4 eh., would have won for (Kemeri, 1 937)
White. Now Black's King is I . . . R-B6 ! !
sheltered behind the enemy's 2 Px R B x P eh.
piece. followed by B X R.
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 HOW TO BECO M E A CHESS
GENIUS

N DIAG. 1 44 the end must have come like a bolt from the

I blue, not only to the vanquished, but also to the victor.

A commentator once scientifically explained Black's
success by declaring that it was due to White's unprotected
Queen and his badly placed
King. But " unprotected DIAGRAM 1 44
Queens" are a very frequent
occurrence without being a
sure sign of an impending
brilliancy, and the White King
does not appear to be un­
naturally placed either. There­
fore, with White's position
quite coherent and Black's
game well disrupted, the fact
that the latter should win in a
combination seven moves deep ANDREYEV-DOLUKHANOV
is pure coincidence, for judging (Leningrad, 1 935)
from the constellation of
I KR x B ! !
Black's pieces, he must have
mishandled the game badly 2 RxR Q x P! !
somewhere ; yet what de­ 3 P x Q B x P eh.
serves full praise is the way in 4 K-Kt l Kt-B6 eh.
which he instantly seized upon 5 K-R I B-Kt7 eh.
his chances, perhaps even under 6 K x B Kt x R eh.
pressure of time. This apti- and 7 . . . , Kt X Q ; wins.
tude for imaginative improviza-
tion is very marked in Russian players and has its source in
their genuine search for originality, coupled with fantasy, from
the earliest stages of the game ; although leading to seemingly
" unbalanced " positions, this results in their games being full of
surprises, and gives them an atmosphere quite distinctive from
those of their Western counterparts, whose games are very
efficiently executed, but which either miss a possible brilliancy
or adhere to standard patterns.
The above example forms a precedent to the two examples
following, but it would be an inj ustice to them to deny their
originality on that account.
DIAGRAM 1 45 ± DIAGRAM 1 46 ±

�- · · · ®· · · · · ·®·
•
• �
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•
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•t
A\ . ���
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- t ffi �
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7,,7,

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-� ·
, 7,

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·
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,,

· · .
d � •
,, ;; ;,

• �� ..!..!,. d• - ·
�
d
• .tb. •
0

� • •J..• •
·
-
� 4> d ·
d ..!..!,. · � �j?,,il
-
d �l; J;;:b
� • rii*�
•
� �
" �"' � '% ?i :/

·
·
- �}, ��
. �� � � �� it 6 •A• tt •
�
• �-
• - �'t!!?�, 7 �
•, ,7, ,{::j,
{::j, � 7 • • §• §•w
SCHOPPER-ANON. BEYER-WADE
(Stuttgart, 1 938) (New Zealand, I 940)
I P-B4 B-QS eh. I B-R6 B-K4
2 Qx B! PxQ? 2 Kt x B ! BxQ
3 Kt x Kt eh. K-R I 3 Kt x B eh. K-R I
4 R x R eh . Rx R 4 B-Kt7 eh. Kx B
5 B-Kt7 eh. ! ! K x B 5 Kt x R eh. and
6 Kt x R eh. and 6 Kt x Q wins.
7 Kt x Q wins.

Or the Queen may be captured from another Knight's-

angle in Diag. 1 47 . Compare also with Diags. 1 63 and 1 64.
I . . . Kt-B6 eh. 4 RPx Kt QxQ
2 P x Kt Q-Kt3 eh. Resigns.
3 K-R I Kt-Kt6 eh"
 DIAGRA M I 4-7 =t
� �·
···
�� • •tmt
�
-7. .
. �
- .
•
• ft . • •
. ��· .
n • � •
� . � .
��
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0· • � 4:-. �
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•
. • . •
� "-
•�H' �
LYUBLINSKY-BATURINSKY
(Moscow Semi-final,
1 944-45)
A few more pyrotechnics CLEMENS-EISENSCHMIDT
presentthemselvesin Diag. 1 48. (Dorpat, 1 862)
DIAGRAM I 48 ± 1 B-R3 ! ! Qx 8
• • •• • • @"�;, 2 Q-K6 Kt-Q I
ii" '
� ir
� - ��
H'
» , :i: � - �• �- · � 3 Q-B7 eh. ! Kt x Q
�
. 4:-. � iii- $!-
· .!!.
4 Kt-K6 mate.
.t
• • • •
4:J• n •.t..•
u
� • �� % 1!
·
•�
·
•� � " · · 4:>. �, �
• .!!. v,

• � - • f!1
· a
ALEKHINE-ANON.
(Simultaneous,
Kecskemet, 1 936)
1 Kt-84 eh. KxP
2 Kt-KS d bl. eh. K x R
3 R-Kt I eh. B-Kt3
4- Kt-85 eh. K any
5 Kt-86 mate.
 I R-BS ! ! Px R 10 Q-R4 eh. Kt-Kt5
2 Kt x P eh. K-83 1 1 Q-K? eh ! ! 8 x Q
3 R-Q6 eh. ! K x Kt 1 2 R-Q4 mate.
4 Q-B3 eh. R-BS
5 Q-RS eh. K-KS Look, too, at Diag. 1 5 2.
6 B-B2 eh. K-K6 DIAGRAM 1 52 ±
7 R-Q3 eh. Resigns.

Not dissimilar in its Rook­

thrust is Diag. 1 5 1 .
DIAGRAM I 5 I ±
(Position after Black's K-B2)

• • • � � � ?S
• iiiA••• t
t• • t Ht •
• t • • •A
M -. ���
" · � -
- .
g: �
- �
• • ­ 1 Kt x P ! K x Kt
�
�£�. - � ��
\€Ji £ §i'J1ii 2 B-RS eh. ! ! Resigns.
•
•
. v� � �-'-
R
�-�� � {
For mate by K X B ; 3
WADE-SHOEBRIDGE Kt-Kt3 eh., and 4 Q-K4,
follows.
(Australian Championship,
Sydney, 1 945)
This brings to mind an
I Kt-K4 ! Px8 example of the same theme
2 Q-R4 ! Q-K4 which is " Alpine " rather than
3 R-BS ! Qx R " Slavonic," where the pro­
4 Kt x Q P x Kt cedure is reversed in Diag. 1 5 3.
5 Q x P eh. K-K3 1 Q x P eh. KxQ
6 Kt-KtS eh. K-K4
7 Rx B 8-84 eh. IfI . . . ' K-Kt l ; 2 B-B5.
8 K-B I Kt x K8P 2 B-85 eh. K-Kt4
9 Kt-83 eh. K-KS 3 P-R4 mate.
 DIAGRAM I 55

Diag. I 54 is a " near miss."

It was I o seconds a move and
White could have won by
[Link] I 54 ±

?S B �S B
• 0 i& � � �
The next three examples
�-
� � •
��
� .J,lv{;(. � are all crowned with success.
ikB t • • t • DIAGRAM I 56 ±
• • 6 ·�
• H B . • ·�· rS
. ft • • • �t�..a..
��· -
• • ·t�
• �
ft . • •llU ���c.z.J
�r---... • •
·t- � �--
.
� "� �� d
• �- ��
·d � • � ,� • m
FINE-JOHNSON � � .
-� .
· � �
·
- �
(Washington, I 944) ·
·
- �
• � .
· ·
g:J 0
�.[Link]� · <'-
�
4' ·
..!.!.. ��·
d�d· � 4' ·
� ..!.!.. �
d
I Q x P ch.!!, ( I
2 B-K4 mate.)
. . . , K x Q;
• . §. �
KoLTANOWSKI-
Diag. I 55 reveals a similar SIR H. wALPOLE
diagonal threat. (Blindfold, Keswick, I937)
65
 l Q x Kt eh. ! ! KxQ
2 B-KS mate.
DIAGRAM I 57 :f

� . . .
•t • •t•t
• • • •
•A• •A•
. � ,� -�·
• • •4J•
4:- �
..!.!. � a
·
U a - .!.!.
4:- ?��
�� � ��·®· §
NEUSTADTL-VALE NTA
(Prague, 1 889) (Frankfort, 1 930)
l . . . Q X p eh. ! l Q x P eh. ! !
2 KxQ B-R6 m ate 2 KxQ R-R3 eh.
DIAGRAM 1 5 8 3 K-Kt3 Kt-K7 eh.
4 K-Kt4 R-B5 eh.
-��- • .• 5 K-Kt5 R-R7 ! !
• t •�• t • t 6 Q x Kt eh. RxQ
• t • t • � ,� 7 Kt-KB3 P-R3 eh.
• • • t• 8
9
K-Kt6
Kt x R
K-Kt l ! !
R-K84! !
• n�• • 10 Px R Kt-BS mate.
• •A• ft O The above example is simi-
4:- �
..!l. Q•4:- .
..!l. ·
- -·� ..!.!.
4:- �
RH
� lar to the older Diag. I 60.
•
� "

� � . � �
"

�
1 Q-R6 eh. K�Q
FAJANS-HOLMES
2 Kt(R4)-B5 eh. B x Kt
(Correspondence, l 946) 3 Kt x Kt eh. K-R4
1 Q x P eh. ! PxQ 4 R-R3 eh. K-KtS
2 B-R6 mate. 5 Kt-K3 mate.
A different form of execu­ (Compare with this the
tion occurs in Diag. I 59, Chapter " Q-R6 !".)
66
 DIAGRAM I 60 ± 3 Q x B eh. ! ! KxQ
4 Kt-KS d bl. eh. K-B4
5 Kt-Q3 eh. K-QS
6 K-Q2 !
A quiet move to wind up
with, after which 7 P-B3
cannot be met ; Black's Lady,
with mate, even is of no use.

The theme is further ex­

emplified in Diag. I 62 :
DIAGRAM I 62 ±

� -· · . .
And finally an exquisite • t
. . . -•?,i'J,% •
?,i'J,% r� t
piece offoresight and intuition, rjli�
�t • •
•• � � N -
­
�
u•
evolved not in an individual
. �, � � .
encounter, but in the hustle of
a simultaneous display :
A; •
� � . . • R•
'.
• • • • ft
±
DIAGRAM 1 6 1 ·
� ���
• ;a, -
}�
��
· � ��
.!.!,. �

- •
·
�
• -
� �
• · t=. �
ALEKHINE-RESHEVSKY
(Kemeri, 1 937)
I R x Kt ch. ! Kx R
2 Q x R eh. ! and mates m

three.
Now for a set of triplets,
starting with Diag. 1 63 :
1 Rx B QxR
2 Kt-KKt6 ! ! and wins.
For the Queen cannot be
I R x Kt ! Bx R saved in the face of the threat
2 Q-B4 eh. K-Kt2 of QKt-K 7 mate.
67
 �

DIAGRAM 1 65 ±
t=r ?� -
� �=�
-- � �� �-� �
�
r� •
}". • • *�
M • �t�
.&.
�· .&. .&.

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·
-
·
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.
•
7
� �1:-...
� - 9.L'1 �r.u•
r� �
-
�
•A• • •
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Q �� ft:$\ ·� ·
• �
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•
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. C::!i @;
GARGULAK-KOGAN (1 909) ALEKHINE-SUPJCO
(Blindfold, 1 942)
Diag. 1 63 is certainly a 1 Q-Kt6 ! Resigns.
worthy successor to Diag. 1 64. All of which only shows
that even the unique game in
Diag. 1 66 is not " unique."
In the diagrammed position
White has only one course,
which is " Resigns ! "
DIAGRAM I 6 6 =i=
(Position after Black's
Q-KKt6 ! !)

I Kt-KKt6 !
2 Qx Q Kt(Q5)-K7 mate

And it is equally a worthy

forerunner of Diag. 1 65.
68
 Examine, too, Diags. I 67 And a striking re,;emblance
and 1 68. also to Diag. 59 is to be found
DIAGRA M I 67 ± in Diag. I 69 :
D IAGRAM I 69 ±
. . �-··
• .t �
•
· �� � ;= .t • .t •• •
••
• .t • • 1··
��
�� u
� ·
�
••.t lf.W -�« .t
• • • • • • � � .t •
tt • � .t • �� B. M4JB •
. ft • • • • t • ·�·
�� £
� 4> ·
� ��
- 4> Q
� .J!. � • • • • •
B ·�•A• - .ft "
�, m,,, •·�·
,, �•
vuKov1cH-ANON. � • · §�
(Simultaneous, 1 9 3 7) KoNIG-PRrns, 1 937-38
1 Kt-BS ! Qx R (Premier Reserves, Hastings)
2 Q-RS ! ! Resigns. 1 Q-R6 ! ! Resigns.
DIA GRAM I 68 ±
DIAGRAM I 70 ±
• • • •••
• • • .t • .t • • • ••
•
• r� � ·
�•
• .t •
w. .t
.t •�·�- •
• m B4JB . .t m • · �··
• • • •• . . . . ,

n • n�• � � -�� ·
jli
� •
- .if.,; _ ''1� 1
0

��f · ..!l.
4> •
·
· �"
·

• • 6 1i:.6 � '0�
•
· 'H � �� • l::'i
-l::'i 'H � �
·�· �·. ft � ·, .

"'

RABINOVICH-GOGLIDZE
. .
SIKORSKI-ANON.
(Moscow, 1 939)
(Gleiwitz, 1 9 34)
I B-Kt2 Kt-K4
2 Q-84 Kt-Kt3 1 Kt-BS BxR
3 Q-KtS Kt-KS 2 Kt-R6 eh. K-R I
4 Q-R6 ! ! Resigns. 3 Q-KB6 ! and wins.
 STOLBERG-
(Lodz, I 940) KoNsTANTINOPOLSKY
I Kt x K P ! (U.S.S.R. Championship,
2 P x Kt Qx B!! 1 940)
3 RxP
I f 3 P x Q, R x R eh. ; 4- I n Diag. I 7 3, with Queens
K-K 2, R x R ; 5 Q-B3, all over the place, White
R-KR7 eh. ; 6 K-Q3, R­ "promotes" a win by a subtle
R6 mate. finesse :
3 ... Q-Q8 eh.
4- K-Kt2 Q x R eh. !
5 KxQ R x P eh.
Resigns.
Diag. I 72 shows a massive,
yet in its execution very
elegant, assault of three
" dreadnoughts."
I . . . R x RP
2 Kt-B I R-R8 eh.
3 Kx R R-R4 eh.
4- K-Kt l Q-RS
5 Kt-Kt3 Q-R7 eh.
6 K-B I Q-R8 eh.
7 Kt x Q R x Kt mate.
 2 Q-B8 eh. ! ! R x Q DIAGRAM I 75
3 P x R(Q) eh. K x Q
4 R x Q and wins.
In Diag. I 7 4 Black could
have won similarly by forcing
the opponent's King into a
check. E.g., I . . . , Q-R4 ! ;
threatening both Q X B and
B-R6 eh. followed by Q-08
eh. But the position, an ad­
journed one, was adjudicated a
draw. Cheated of the win !
DIAGRAM I 74 +

• ••
• •
. . '

• •A• •
t• u • •
• • H U
-
�D
ft � �
t•
-
.� ·a
,:;
:i1 ·'%ria'@'%i
�
. " � �0!� .
�
'?.<
• •
• �it· • • •
vAN EPEN-REURSLAG t•
(Amersfort, 1 942)
In Diag. 1 7 5 Black, who
would have been lost after I
R-QB2, Q-B 2 ; 2 KR-B I ,
saved himself unobtrusively
when White played a more
" natural'' move. RAGOZIN-SIMAGIN
I Kt-K2 ! ? P-QS ! (Ivanovo, 1 944)
2 Kt x P K-Kt l ! I R-QB I
Gone with the wind ! Kt-Kt3 was correct.
 2 Kt-KS ! Kt x Kt ? 5 R-Q86 Rx R
Kt-Kt3 would still win. 6 8xR Kt x P
3 8 x 8! Kt-Q6 7 K-82 K-8 1
4 Rx P!! Rx P Drawn.

And, to wind up with, a British brilliancy, in which I find

particular delight in the Rook which " cruises " about with so
fixed a purpose behind its movements.

DIAGRAM I 7 7 + 2 R-K4 R-86 !

3 R-Q4 R-R6 !
•••
�- - · 4 Px R
• II • t m If 4 R x Kt, P x R ; 5
t• •t• • P x R, P X P dis. eh. ; 6
• •�e • Kt-Kt2, R x Kt eh. ; 7 K­
f•
�
j§' -
�
� B
B �
-
� ..!..!.� b
� R 1 , Q-B6 ; 8 R-Q3, Q-B5 ;
• •t£J• • 9 R-Kt3, R x p ; I O Q-K3,
R-B8 eh. ; 1 I R-Kt 1 , R X
ft H ft • §• •
�
- rlh�
·'@'�����
- •
· jll
. R eh. ; 1 2 K x R, Q-K5 eh. ;
1 3 Q x Q, P x Q ; 1 4 K-B2,
'J'YLOR-"\VHEATCROFT P-KR4 ; and wins !
(Correspondence, I 933-34)
4 .. . P x P d is. eh.
1 ... Q-R4 5 Kt-Kt4 R x Kt eh.
Threatening 2 . . . , R-B5 ; 6 Rx R Q x R eh.
3 . . . , Kt-B6 eh. ; 4 P x Kt, 7 K-R I Q-B6 eh.
P X P dis. eh. ; 5 K-R 1 , R­ 8 K-Kt l Q-BS
R 5 ; and mates. Resigns.

For if 9 Q x QRP, Kt-B6 eh. ; 1 0 K-B 1 , Q-B5 eh. ;

1 1 R-Q2, Q X R eh. ; 1 2 K X Q, Kt-Kt8 eh. ; and wins.
Or 9 R X Kt, Q-Kt5 eh. ; 1 0 K-R 1 , Q-B6 eh. ; 1 1 K-Kt 1 ,
P X R ; and "\Vhite i s in Zugzwang. (Zugzwang crops u p again
i n Diag. 1 84. You prefer an English word for Zugzwang ?
Here are for choice : movebound, movestruck, movetight, off
tempo, in a jam, in a squeeze, and, lastly, duress.
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 ALL IS WELL . .. .
TRENGTH in play, though it may appear a very minor

S factor in the field of the brilliancy, is often essential if a

player is properly to understand chess ingenuity.
In music the layman may well enjoy a composition, yet not
be able to appreciate its contrapuntal subtleties. Similarly i n
chess, to the connoisseur a quiet manreuvre which wins i n a
"dull " position is often more stirring than a flamboyant " manu­
factured " brilliancy-like those in vogue in the early nineteenth
century-is to the tyro. Such "dull, simplified " positions are
often to be met with in the end-phase of a game, and I quote
a few below.
DIAGRAM I 7 8 f DIAGRAM I 79 +
• • • •
• • • •
• ft ••• t •
·�· . .
� '� •
"' •§!§ �
ij 4l> ·
�� .u. �
-
-
�
. •
. ��
M �
�
• • • •
• •• • •
BENZINGER-REICH HERZER VIDMAR-ANON.
(Munich, I 9 39) ( I 93 6)
1 P-BS eh. ! Px P
I K-K6 2 P x P eh. K-Q3
2 Rx P R-QS eh. 3 Rx B! RxR
3 R-Kt l K-B7 ! ! 4- B-BS eh. ! ! and wins.
4- R x R B-Kt7 3 B-Q2 would have been
mate. far less elegant.
73
 DIAGRAM 1 80 (a) DIAGRAM 1 80 (b) +
(Position after I 4 K-B2)

. . ·�·
• • • •
• • ft • •
• • • •
t�
� �
.. •
� �
• • • •
�-'g- a
�rlhl!R g
•
B
•
• • •
REYNOLDs-B. H. Woon
(Major, Nottingham, 1936)
1 Kt-K6 eh. KxP DIAGRAM I 8 I ±
2 Kt x B eh. P x Kt
3 P-KS Kt-Q4
+ B-K4 K-84
5 P-KtS P-R4 !
6 P-Kt6 Kt-K2
7 P-Kt7 P-RS
8 B-R7 P-Kt4
9 P-KtS(Q) Kt x Q
10 B x Kt P-KtS
I I K-K2 P-Kt6
1 2 K-Q3 K-KtS !
1 3 P-K6 P-Kt7
1 4 K-82 P-Q6 eh. ! !
1 K x P! R x Kt
Resigns.
2 P-86 eh. K-B I (a)
For 1 5 K x KtP, P-R6 3 RxR BxR
eh. ; and one of the pawns 4 K-R6 B-K4 (b)
queens. 5 P-Kt7 eh. Resigns (c)
The few alternatives equally prove White's win : (a) If
2 , K-Kt 1 ; 3 P-B7 eh., K-B 1 ; + R x R, B X R ;
. . •

74
5 K-R6, B-K4 ; 6 K-R7, B x P ; 7 P-R5, P-B5 ; 8 P-R6,
etc. Or 2 . . . , K-R 1 ; 3 P-Kt7 eh., K-R2 ; 4 P-B7 ! !,
wins. (b) 4 . . . , B x P ; 5 P-Kt7 eh., K-Kt1 ; 6 P-B7 eh.,
K x P ; 7 K-R7, wins. (c) S . . . , K-Kt r ; 6 K-Kt6 !, B x P ;
7 K x B, P-B5 ; 8 K-Kt6, P-Kt4 ; 9 P-R5, P-Kt5 ; l o
P-R6, and mate next move.
Two last-minute rescues-the same conceptions we will
recall in a later chapter (Diags. 1 94-7)-are effected in Diags.
1 82 and 1 83. In Diag. 1 83 it is Black's move.
DIAGRAM 1 82 DIAGRAM 1 83 =

• • • • �; . . .
• ij t •
• • • •• • •
�%-". • �� �-
•
•-
m/ �
%
� �,,"

t • • · �· . •
%%
. �
- - .
• • • •t � ft · • ft • t
ft . • • • �•
.f1. •• �
�'03, •
�•"' 1*�
21}
• • • • • • • •
·�· . . • • • •
•!?. r{h
l'&a '©'.·
- • •
� • • • •
VoN GoTTSHALL-N EUMA N N CHIGORIN-SCHLECHTER
(Leipzig, I 882) (Ostende, I 905)

1 K-R I d raw. I ... Q-82 eh.

2 Q-Kt6 eh. K-R I ! ! d raw.
(I . . . , Q X Q ; stalemate. (3 Q X Q, stalemate or 3
1 . . . , K-R3 ; 2 Q-B 1 eh . , K-R6, Q-B 1 eh. ; 4 K-R5,
K-R2 ; 3 Q-B2 draw.) Q-B2.)

However, there is a rub ; the older sample is more primitive,

as 1 . . . , K-R3; 2 Q-B 1 , Q-Kt4 ! 3 Q X P, Q-B3 refutes the
agreed draw; whereas the next generation, in Diag. 1 83, allows
no such oversight.

75
 INEXORABLY . . . .

HE [Link] motif has a special attraction of its own,

T resembling a hypnotic grip before final annihilation.

Although such sinister desires could never be enter­
tained in the gentle mind of that great chess veteran, J. Mieses,
yet he brings off blindfold j ust such a kill in Diag. I 84.

DIAGRAM 1 84 1 Q-K8 eh. Q-B I ?

Correct was K-R2.
2 P-RS ! Kt-B2
3 K-B2 Kt-Q I
4 K-B3 Kt-B2
5 P-R4 Kt-Q I
6 K-B4 Kt-B2
7 K-QS Kt-Q I
8 P-Kt4 Kt-B2
9 K-86 Kt-Q I eh.
I o K-B7 and wins.
DIAGRAM I 86 +
• • • ®• �­
• ��
- � • -• t �r�
�
i • �.L"'i g ·
• � �
� �
•
� t �2- , '�'<' -
•
·
• %'.'� •
• • ft . •
• ft U ft � ft · �
� .
�
- � %'.'u
�
� � ·�· § �G£j
l\1EITNER-5CHLECHTER
( 1 886)
 In Diags. 1 8 5 and 1 86 it is enough to give one the creeps to
imagine oneself in White's shoes and to discover after I . . . ,
R-R3 ! ! ; 2 B x R, P x B ; one's absolute impotence against the
eventual . . . , R-KKt I .
As fascinating as inevitable is the course of the game i n
Diags. 1 87 and 1 88, which are, by the way, closely linked
with the series given from Diag. 1 89 onwards. Diag. 1 8 8 is
taken from the American Chess Correspondent.
DIAGRAM 1 8 7 + DIAGRAM I 88 =i=

BREUER-F. BECKER
(Corresp. Calssa, 1 949)
I K-Kt2 I B-Kt4 !
2 P-K6 R-R l eh. 2 Px B Kt/R-Kt6 eh.
3 K-Kt l Q-K I 3 Kt x Kt Kt x Kt eh.
4 P-KKt4 R-R8 eh. 4 P x Kt Px P eh.
5 KxR Q-R I eh. 5 K-Kt l R-R8 eh. !
6 K-Kt l Q-R6 6 KxR R-R I eh.
7 Q-Q4 eh. PxQ 7 K-Kt l B-B4 eh.
8 any Q-Kt7 mate. 8 Kt x B R-R8 eh. !
And the following four-fold 9 KxR Q-R I eh.
line clearance : I O K-Kt l Q-R7 mate.

77
 WITH KNIGHT AND FO RK

ASE o f both players completely misjudging their chances

A is shown in Diag. I 89.

DIAGRAM 1 89 K x R ; 4 Kt-KS eh. !, followed

by 5 Q x Reh., and 6 Kt x Q.
In Diag. 1 90 the same
sacri ficial combination of Rook
and Knight is demonstrated in
an mgemous manner, this
time with success.
DIAGRAM . l 90 ±

®• • ••
r� it�..lL�
. Yi �
�-
AszTALos-ALEKHINE
;� �� �- � ':)

• • • •
(Bled, 1 9 3 1 ) •
• � "
-
·
d bz.J •t
•
Black played fo r a direct • • •t•
positional win by I . . . , .§• • � �
P x P ! ? ; deliberately risking 4- � •
11. -
. 0u
� .[Link].�
� 11.
4- �M
�
White's attack 2 Q X R eh., .
D .
D .
"D �
J8}
K-K2 ; and Black wins the TARTAKOWER-A. STEINER
Queen or mates. So White, (Budapest, l 9 2 1 )
not to be outdone in cunning,
played 2 RP X P ?, when, as 1 Q-K4 eh. P-B3
the commentator in the quiet­ 2 R-Kt8 eh. ! ! Resigns.
ness of his study points out, he (2 . . . , R X Kt releases the
could have won by 2 Q X R pin on White's Queen, there­
eh. !, K-K2 ; 3 R-Q7 eh. ! !, fore 3 Kt x Q ; and if 2 . . . ,
K X Kt ; 3 Kt X Q with check DIAGRAM I 9 2 +
and wins.) (White to move)
DIAGRAM I 9 I ±

. . �- .
BtB • �
t • t � � ft · •
• • t• ••
•
-
� �-
- ..!.!.. . � �� • .
• • • �§4J
ft H, m
"•B ' �� D
• •
,, a � STAHELIN-ELISKASES
(Zurich, 19 36)
ALEKHINE-TYLOR
(Margate, 1 9 37) DIAGRAM I 9 3 ±

1 Kt x P BxP ··
·- &\ �
•..a. � f�
��,% - a"i
2 Q-83 eh. R(B I )-B3 ���
�t• ".� . • ��
3 Kt-K4 dis. eh. B x R •. . •
%?0. t •
- . t ""���
4 R x B eh. K-R I • • • t•
5
6
Q x R. eh. RxQ
R-Kt8 eh. ! ! K x R
��� �
-
d;g,, &;Z...l
v .
-

7 Kt x R eh. and . W%ii •d •

d ���
mJ.
8 Kt x Q. � � � .
, ..!.!.. " � ?lj � A
. .. � � r<� �
�§ . � �
And in Diag. I 92 : WAGNER-RELLSTAB
( Swinemunde, 1 9 30)
1 R x Kt Q-Kt4 eh. !
I R-KB ! !
2 K-R I Px R
3 R-K Kt l Q x R ch . ! If now I • , Q XR ;
. . 2
4 KxQ P x Kt Kt-R5 eh., with 3 Kt-B6 eh.
5 K-Kt2 K-R2 ! to follow, forking the Queen.
6 Qx P R-Kt l eh. I ..
. Q-Kt4
7 K-R I R-Kt8 eh. ! 2 Q-K3 P-KR.4
Resigns. 3 Q-KS eh. Resigns.

79
 TIM E TO R ESIGN . . . .
OM E players feel uncomfortable if they stand too well ; if

S they are, for instance, a whole Rook up in a simpli fied

ending and the opponent does not resign but, perhaps in
the vain hope of a stalemate, plays on to the bitter end. It is a
derisive provocation to one's dignity that the opponent should
think one cannot mate with King and Rook. We like a good
game and if we beat the other fellow and yet he distrusts our
knowledge of the elementary principles, does not that reflect
on our opponent himself?
DIAGRAM 1 94 (a) wing, with two passed pawns on
the King's side and with the
• • • •
M • .
rfjjJ.
� .t .
• • . �
-
� Queen guarding against a check
on the diagonal. So Black plays
t• • • • I . . . , P-KtS ; intending to
!f4*
� •
·
·� • ...M,.•
0 §:'1'.'•
•• �
continue with 2 Q X P, Q­
• • • • K8 eh. ; 3 K moves, Q-Kt6
. . � . eh. ; exchanging Queens .
• • • • DIAGRAM 1 94 (b) =

•
(Position after 2 Q-B2)
• • •®
PILNICK-RESHEVSKY • • • •
(U.S.A. Championship, 1 942) �t• • •
We should not be surprised if t• • • •
such thoughts passed through �
�� . · .
·
- . .
Reshevsky's mind when, in • • •t•
Diag. 1 94 (a), his opponent • •
.
• � �, ;;: •.
insisted on playing on. White • •
• ·• �Bi .
• � B
has no shadow of a hope.
Black's King is safe behind a • • • •w
pawn majority on the Queen's PILNICK-RESHEVSKY
80
 But there followed 2 Q­ (If 4 K-K6, R Q Kt2 ! 5
-

B2 ! ! (Diag. 1 94 (b)), and if P X R, stalemate, or 5 any,

2 . . . , Q x Q ; then White is R x P, drawn.)
stalemated. Tableau ! DIAGRAM 1 96
Aren't you thinking of
playing all tournament games � . . .
to the very end in future, how­ • • • •
ever hopeless they may be !
And if you are still not con­
O ft • • •
vinced, compare the following, • • • •
of a different type : �
- R'n
• ��
-t­
��• �
•
DIAGRAM I 9 5 • • • ft .
• • • •
•
• • • . . . �-
• • • •t GoLDSTEIN-SHAKNOVY
• • � ��
�EJ. r..l � ( Moscow Championship,
• •A• • Prelim., I 946)
•. •. " �" •
. Return, in Diag. 1 97, to
•
• •• • • a � .!..!.
� the same subject as in Diags.
•• f�
fij'}. �
- .!..!.
• �- -
�
. 1 94 and 1 82-3 :
• • • • DIAGRAM 1 9 7 =

HEINICKE-RELLSTAB
(Bad Oeynhausen, I 939) •
. •. ��
�}. �-
•
I B-B3 ? Q-B7 eh. ! !
� •
� -
�
� .
. . �-
­
Stalemate. t• • • •
Examine now the solutions �� t • • •
to Diag. I 96 : •
•t� �=}. • •
• •
1 ... R-Q8 eh. • • • •
2 K-KS ? Px P • • • •
3 BxP • • • .\t>
If 3 P-B7 eh., K-B 1 ; 4 BROCKELBANCK-SOWERBY
B-B 5 eh., R-Q2 ! !
(Blindfold, Melbourne, I 92 7 )
3 ... R-Q2 ! !
Drawn. Really a study. 1 Q-B2 ! d raw.
 THE ART O F TE LEPATHY
IN CH ESS

HEN I recently came across some of the positions which

W follow, I was reminded of a game which was played

in the Chess Club " Dobrusky" in Prague many years
ago. The international master, Dr. Karel Treybal, was playing
the fine Czech poet, Viktor Dyk, and they arrived at the position
shown in Diag. 1 9 8 (also a pattern of Damiano's, 1 5 1 2). The
preceding move had been 1 P-R5, Black being unable to take the
Bishop on account of 1 . . . , P X P dis. eh. ; 2 K-Kt1, Q-B4
eh. ; etc. Although the position is full of danger signs, Black
hoped to get in first with his
± attack and played 1 . . . ,
DIAGRAM 1 98
R-K3 ; interrupting the line
B5-Kt 1 , and threatening to
take the Bishop-quite apart
from the " minor" mating
attack ! But Dr. Treybal now
unfolded his plan :
2 P x P d is. eh. K-Kt l
3 R-R8 eh. ! Kx R
4 R-R3 eh. K-Kt I
5 R-R8 eh. Kx R
DR. TREYBAL-DR. DYK 6 Q-RS eh. and mate next
move.
Yet there are two amazingly similar precedents to this
geometrical repetition of a double line clearance.
First, in Diag. 1 99 : 3 R-R8 eh. Kx R
1 R-R8 eh. Kx R 4 Q-R I eh. with mate to
2 R-R I eh. K-Kt l follow.
82
 And the latest development
in this line, shown in Diag.
20 1, begins with a diabolic
preamble.
DIAGRAM 20 I +

B E �S E •
• • • •
t m®• m 11 •
B Btm B
• .t • • •
�
.,
•
� !{. �'01 1t �
{y , /
m
"' �� i �
7 � ��
� 7

�� . �
£;'gf · � • -
. § ��4J•1t•®
�
�- • •
P'� {t=:f§
f£l
f�
MARTIN-BECKER
�� �- � � �� t
....
(Paris, 1 945)
M
�UJ .t -
• .t �'" ,�« •
• I Q-Kt l !
Px P B-R6 !
• •
• • 2
P x P eh . K-Ql !
•AB • • 3
QxB R-R l eh. !
- �- B �
4
im .u. �� �
�� 5 K-Kt l R-R8 eh.
11 • 11 a H i • 6 Kx R R-R I eh.
•®m �Jl B§ 7 K-Kt l R-R8 eh.
SCHLARKO-ANON. 8 KxR Q-R I eh.
(Timisoara, 1 924, from 9 K-Kt l Q-R7 eh.
Revista Romana) 10 K x Kt Q-R8 mate.

Here Black expected to win, Only one Rook is offered in

similarly as in Diag. 1 98, by Diag 202, but it is done with
.

I . . , Q-B4 ; 2 B-Q3, Q-B6 ;

.
great imagination and is pre­
forcing mate. But i n fact he ceded by the sacrifice of a
forced it on himself after 3 R x Knight.
P eh. !, K-Kt l ; 4 R-R8 eh. !, 1 Kt-Kt6 ! ! P x Kt
K x R; 5 R-R l eh., with mate 2 Px P R-B3
in five on the same pattern. 3 R-R8 eh. ! Resigns.
83
 DIAGRAM 202 ± 1 R x P eh. K-B l
2 R-Kt8 eh. ! KxR
• •• �-®
• 1t.1 ·
· � (lli ��
· 3 R-Kt l eh. K-B I
•i- • � ,,� iP� t 4 B-Kt7 eh. K-Kt l
'm "• -i• - '• 5 B-B6 dis. eh. K-B I
•
• f- M •
� t �);LJ
�- •m• 4:-
.!.!.
6 R-Kt8 eh. KxR
•
-• �t�
4:. ��
.!.!.
4:. ·
� .!.!. -
· 7 Q-Kt2 eh. leading to mate.
• • w . A decisive combination,
ft ���· • •
�• �. w�
m preceded by a very fine
•
� ffnlG}, � •
.J;;t, . C:\ "clearance " sacri [Link] of the
N EIDICH-BRUZZA exchange, shows that the late
(New York, 1 939) Viktor Tietz, the Nestor of
It was very unfortunate Central European tourna­
that the same idea, this time ment organizers, was an
on the Knight's file, was not excellent "practitioner" as
translated into practice by well, in Diag. 204.
White in Diag. 203. He DIAGRAM 204 ±
played B X P eh ? and subse­
quently lost, whereas he had
the chance to try :
DIAGRAM 203 ±

1 Rx B! Px R
2 R-BB ! ! Q-Q4
If 2 . . . , R x R ; 3 Q-R 1
eh., P-K4 ; 4 Q X P eh.,
84
R x Q ; 5 B x R eh., K-Kt 1 ; If 1 . . . , B x B ; 2 Q x P
6 Kt-R6 mate. If 2 . . . , eh., B-Kt2 ; 3 R-R8 eh. Or
Q X R ; 3 Q-Q4 eh., etc. if2 . , R-Kt2 ; 3 Q-K6 eh.
. .

3 Q-R I eh. ! ! P-K4 2 Q x P eh. K-Kt l

If 3 . . . , R x Q ; 4 R x 3 R-R I ! and
Kt eh., K-Kt2 ; 5 B-R6 4 R-R8 eh.
mate.
A tempo-winning Bishop
4 B x P eh. Qx B sacnfice, leading to the same
5 R x Kt eh. ! K-Kt2
" Rook-doubling" effect, at­
If 5 . . . , R x R ; 6 K t x Q. tains success in Diag. 206.
6 R-B7 eh. ! Resigns. DIAGRAM 206 ±
For 6 . . . , K x R ; 7
Kt x Q eh., or 6 . . . , K­
Kn ; 7 Q X R eh. The varia­
tions in all the above notes are
well worth playing through.
Simpler, but with a differ­
ence, is Diag. 20 5.
DIAGRAM 205 ±

· · ·�· ®· KoNSTANTINOPOLSKY­
• �
B
• �� z$'- = "':r. �"- i
� Q. PETROV
i• ' "• v• t • (U.S.S.R. Championship,
•
·t•
d �
d ft ·
� d �� @}, 1 940)
• g . ft . 1 B-R6 eh. ! ! Kx B
B BilB ft • 2 R x P eh. K.-Kt2
4l> A
.!..!. 4l> B
� .!..!. � •
M
- d • d 3 Q R-R I R-R I
B OO § B B § 4 Rx R QxR
KATETOV-GOLOMBEK 5 RxQ Rx R
6 Q-QKt3 and Black re­
(Prague, I 946)
signed after a few more
1 Rx P! ! KxR moves.
 All of us wish in our games to come across positions like those
compiled in this book, and see the possible conclusive end spurt
to victory. Many of us probably do arrive at such a set-up but
fail to notice the characteristics. Is it want of imagination ?
Sometimes. Partly we lack, however, the necessary stockpile of
experience, bibliographical knowledge, the time and chance to
study the endless cases of "precedents," which, stored up and
recorded in our memory, give us the requisite warning of the
possibilities in the situation, as found in :
DIAGRAM 207 ± DIAGRAM 208

WESTLER-DR. K REJCHIK
(Posen, 1 94 1 ) (Vienna, 1 9 1 3)
R x Kt eh.
1 Q-B6 eh. ! ! Bx Q
2 Kx R R-R8 eh.
2 R-R7 eh. K-Kt I
3 KxR Q-RS eh.
3 PXB (threatening R-Kt7
4 K-Kt l Q-R7 eh.
eh. and R-R 1 mate.)
5 K-B I Q-R8 eh.
3 ... R-Q I
6 K-Q2 Q x P eh.
4 QR-R I ! ! Resigns.
7 K-Q3 Q-B7 eh.
The Nordic battle-names 8 K-Q4 Q-BS eh.
of both contestants are, for 9 K-KS Q-Q4 mate.
once, worthy of the occasion ! What a chase J

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 Q-R 6 !

HE FOREGOING mechanism, but always applied in an

T entirely original way, is repeated in the following

.
senes.
DIAGRAM 209 + DIAGRAM 2 1 0 ±

·�· • ••
�
� It}. %'r:1'$
��-?d "" �'%, 1 �if� 1
• • •• •
�

-
�
•0 • v�•
�- •
� • m

• • • •
.
�
• •
.
� ��� ?.;§';!''%,�
•• •
4- •
bi
..!..!..•• � 4>. ;:" _ /;:
� ..!..!.
7�
•A{QU�• •
BRUKK-GANDOLFI
(Milan, 1 9 39)
1 R-R3 eh.
2 K-Kt I R-R8 eh. ! !
3 Kx R Q-R6 eh. !
and mate next move.
A quite extraordinary pin l
In Diag. 2 1 0 White wins
anyhow-but see how he does
it.
I Q-R6 ! ! R-K I
2 R-QB eh. ! Rx R
3 R x R eh . Kx R
4 Q-BB eh. Resigns.
 1 Q-R6 eh. ! ! K-K2 I K-B l ! ? Rx P?
2 Kt-Kt8 eh. ! Resigns. 2 B-Kt4 ! R x RP
If 2 . , R x Kt; 3 B­
• .
3 Q-R6 eh. ! ! KxQ
Kt5 eh., etc. + B-B8 eh. K-R4
5 P-Kt4 eh. ! K-RS
DIAGRAM 2 I 2 ± 6 B-K7 eh. P-Kt4
7 B x P eh. K-R6
8 Kt-B2 eh. Kx P
9 B-B4 mate.

DIAGRAM 2 1 + ±

DIAGRAM 2 I 3 ±
1 Q-R6 eh. ! ! KxQ
2 P x P d is. eh. K-Kt4
3 R-RS eh. ! ! Kx R
+ P-B4 d is. eh. ! ! Kt x B
5 Kt-B6 eh. K-R3
6 R-R I eh. K-Kt2
7 Kt-K8 eh. ! ! R x Kt
8 R x P eh. and
9 R x P m ate.

At the close of this chapter

there are some "sundries."
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 DIAGRAM 2 1 5 ± + B-Kt7 eh. K-Kt l
5 B-B6 eh. K-B I
6 R-Kt2 ! R-K2
7 Q R-KKt l K-K I
8 B-B6 eh. ! Resigns.
In the preceding examples,
and especially in Diags. l 98-
203, we saw the same idea
applied to unrelated positions.
Now in Diags. 2 1 7 and 2 1 8
ALEKHINE-MINDENO the same player presents us with
an identical, and intriguing,
(Simultaneous, Holland, l 9 3 3)
pawn-chain twice in a lifetime,
l Kt-KS ! ! P x Kt at different times and with
If l . . . , Q x Kt ; 2 different opponents. J. du
Q x Q, p x Q ; 3 P-Kt6. Mont was White on each
2 P-Kt6 ! Resigns. occasion.

DIAGRAM 2 1 6 ± DIAGRAM 2I7 ±

(Black to move )
. �- -·�·
m.t.• • t • t ss®•
• s.• �
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e- w @'•
g
. Ji,0, t •
'/�ii t :t o;
ft 'ii i'j.�
� ;
% ��
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i::i <%
�t
!::' � � ;� • t !P,'�
. . . ·�
� v /' Y

. �� · �·
-. m4J• • •.tm a •
• -H •Jl•� , • • a ,•
ia • • a • u . u
�� • § • •w i• • ,P��O
C. H. STACE Y-T. H. GEORGE
. . � �
(Sussex-Essex, 1 938) nu Mo NT-WINTERBURN

l Q x Kt ! ! B x Kt (From Tartakower's Breviary

2 Bx B!! PxQ of Chess)
3 R-Kt l eh. K-R I I ... Kt-Q2
 2 B-Kt7 KKt-8 1 7 Kt x Kt Q P x Kt
3 P-85 P-Kt3 8 B-Q2 B x Kt
4 Bx R RxB 9 Bx B Kt x P
5 P-K6 BPx P I O Q-Q4 Q-K2
6 P x KP Kt-Kt3 I I 0-0-0 Q-Kt4 eh. ?
7 P-K7 Resigns. I2 P-84! Q x P eh.
I3 B-Q2 Q-KtS
DIAGRAM 2 I 8 ±
±
•• • ••• DIAGRAM 2 I 9

·
� � ,.
• , �..a.• m .a.
•
�• "" N•t B •A•e• �S
• Ht• • •t• • t•t
• • u . •t• • •
t • • �� • • • • •
• ·
.• - •
• � n
m
p • m�•�•
ft B • B H • • • •
• � % ft B ft U • ft ��
nu MoNT-H. GosuNG • � § •A• §
(Ladder Tournament, Croy­ MACZUCKI-KOLISCH
don, I 943) (Paris, I 864)
Now I B-KtS, and Black
14. Q-QS eh. ! KxQ
resigned. Really a " ladder."
I5 8-KtS d bl. eh. K-K I
I6 R-QS mate !
Here are three immortal
games, wide apart in time but
R1hI-TARTAKOWER
not in structure.
Vienna, I 9 1 0
MACZUCKI-KOLISCH
I P-K4 P-Q83
Paris, 1 864 2 P-Q4 P-Q4
I P-K4 P-K4 3 Kt-QB3 Px P
2 Kt-K83 Kt-Q83 4 Kt x P Kt-83
3 P-Q4 Px P 5 Q-Q3 P-K4 ?
4 Kt x P Q-RS 6 Px P Q-R4 eh.
5 Kt-QB3 B-KtS 7 B-Q2 Q x KP
6 Q-Q3 Kt-83 8 0-0-0 Kt x Kt ?
 DIAGRAM 220 ± 4 Q-QS eh. BxQ
5 R-KS mate.

The father of this combin­

ation is, of course, Anderssen­
Hillel, in :
DIAGRAM 222 ±

R:frI-TARTAKOWER
(Vienna, I 9 I O)
9 Q-QS eh. ! ! KxQ
1 0 B-KtS d bl. eh. K-82
1I B-QS mate.
DIAGRAM 22 I ±

.s.•.t..• -- � � � £ (Breslau, 1 859)

•t• •t•t
t • �· ·�·
I B-KtS Q x QB
2 Q-BS eh . QxQ
• • • • 3 R x R eh. Kx R
. �.� . . 4 R-K8 mate.
• • •il•
,;:. � ,;:. � � � (In these days we should
� �� £ ��a �� u naturally play the less " heroic"
• v �'§• • ii and more efficient I R X R eh.,
NIMZOWITSCH-ALAPIN K x R; 2 B-Kt5 eh. but it
(Riga, 1 9 I 3) wouldn't be mate.)
I B-B6 ! ! Qx B Diags. 223, 224 and 225
2 KR-K I eh. B-K2 follow the same path, marked
If 2 , B-K3 ; 3 Q-Q7
• • •
out by Andersen v. Hille!.
mate. Note the peculiar symmetry in
3 B x Kt eh. K-B I Diag. 225.
9I
 DIAGRAM 224
• • • -- � ,� a
•
- t.
-
�� -N t. �t
•
•
• t •'1k• •
• • • •
• • • •
. ·�· � ·
4>. � 4>. HM 4>. �
J1. � J1. �� .!1. �
a 'm
I• �
a c:i •
• '•• c:i�
KoLTANOWSKI-N.N.
(Blindfold, Antwerp, 1 93 I )
DIAGRAM 225 ±

I B-B4 .s. •.J..•�m .s.•

2 Q-Q8 eh. ! ! KxQ �� 1 ·- � '� t • t
•
3
4
B-KtS eh.
R-Q8 eh.
K-K l
K-B2
l���=
M -•
� �t;; B
• �-·
•
• -
�
•
.• • •t•
5 P-K6 eh. KxP ·
•·� ��
N '-t_J
f."'... ·
-· •
""
�•
(5 . . . , B x P, 6 Kt-K5
mate.) • • • •
4>. � 4>. � � � 4>. � %
£ ���� .£. � �
�a% U�
- ���
��
6 Kt-B4 eh.
7 Kt-KS mate.
K-B2
• � t::i •
•
ADELER-CHOJNATZK y
In Diag. 224 Black (Berlin, I 9 36)
should try to complete his
1 Kt x BP ! P x Kt
neglected development and 2 Kt-B6 eh. Q x Kt
play I . . . , Kt-Q2, etc. But
3 Q-Q8 eh. ! ! BxQ
can we blame his going in for
4 B-KtS mate.
a promising attack by :
Amazing is the almost iden­
I . .
. Qx P? tical configuration in Diags.
2 Q-Q8 eh. ! ! K x Q 226 and 22 7 i n the next
3 B-RS eh. K any chapter, with their analogous
+ R-Q8 mate. movements.
 COINCIDENCES

DIAGRAM 226 ± DIAGRAM 227 ±

1 Q-Q7 ch. BxQ

2 Kt-Q6 d bl. eh. K-Q I
3 Kt-B7 eh. K-B I
+ R-KS eh. and
5 R-QS mate.

Were the thoughts of the two P's related ? We do not know,

for both Pollock and Post are now dead. But the chance in a
billion presents Diags. 228 and 229, where i n the final phase of
the games exactly the same conclusion was available with reversed
colours, with an independent course on both scoresheets. Both
of these positions are taken from the Groningen, 1 946, Tourna­
ment Book, which first drew attention to this amazing coincid­
ence. The depressing fact, though, remains, that here, j ust as in
Diag. 2 30, the " Old Masters " clinched the success, whereas
our generation only drew.
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 DIAGRAM 228 ± DIAGRAM 229

Chigorin played I R-87 and Black resigned. Smyslov

only drew by I . . . , Kt-B7 e h . ; 2 K-Kt l , Kt-R6 eh.; with a
perpetual check, and did not see the win I . . . , R-B7!
DIAGRAM 230

After 1 8 . . . , K-R2 ? ( . . . ,
K-R 1 was correct), a draw
was agreed upon in the 1 9 3 1
game, whereas Janowski won
by 1 9 Kt-Q7, Kt x Kt ; 20
R x Kt, B-B3 ; 2 l Kt-K4,
B x KtP (best) ; 22 Kt-Kt5
eh., K-R3 ; 23 P-Kt4, P­
Kt3 ; 24 P-KR4, R-R I ; 25
Q-R7 eh., R x Q ; 26 R x R
mate.
and
(b) MIKENAS-KASHDAN
(Prague, 1 9 3 1 )

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 ALL THAT G LITTERS . . .

FPosT knew of Pollock's feat, the fact that he remembered

I it and followed where it had led was laudable, but his game
must then be ranked rather among the " pseudo-brilliancies,"
of which Diag. 23 l is a typical example.
This position appeared in
the British Chess Magazine
for April, 1 94-2, as " Tartak­
ower-Anon., Simul., Paris,
I 933·" But in fact it is con­
nected with some exhaustive
analysis of the Max Lange
Attack in the Magyar Sak­
villag, I 927 and 1 928 ; and
before that a good deal of the
analysis was included in Tar­
takower's famous book, Die
TARTAKOWER-ANON. Hypermoderne Schachpartie.
(Simultaneous, Paris, I 933) So he knew all the intricacies
of this opening and played
according to "book." The position is reached after the
moves I P-K+, P-K+ ; 2 Kt-KB3, Kt-QB3 ; 3 B-B4,
B-B4 ; 4- 0-0, Kt-B3 ; 5 P-Q4, P x P ; 6 P-K5, P-Q4 ;
7 P x Kt, P x B ; 8 R-K I eh., B-K3 ; 9 Kt-Kt5, Q-Q4 ;
I o Kt-QB3, Q-B4 ; I I QKt-K4, B-KB r ; I 2 Kt x BP !,
K x Kt ; I 3 Kt-Kt5 eh., K-Kti ? ; I 4- P-KKt4, Q X P(B3) ? ;
I 5 R X B, Q-QI ; I 6 Q-B3, Q-Q2.
Now White proceeds I 7 R-K7 !, Kt-K4 (Q x R ; I 8
Q-Q5 eh., or B x R ; I 8 Q-B7 mate) ; I 8 R x Kt, P-KR3 ;
I 9 R-K7, wins.
Needless to say, Tartakower himself, who has sprung quite a
95
 few scintillating surprises on his fellow-masters, was innocent
of the description in the British Chess Magazine, which was
due to a French editor who, uninformed of the true history of
the position, spread the news of a brilliancy.
DIAGRAM 232
A duplication of this in­ a• B rS -- •
cident occurred in Diag. 232, N •
- j: &'
.;@;, � i ���
�
-
. �i
where White continued :
••iM
9 ieJfii !hi&
[Link] •
.,
•
I R-KKt3 ! ? B-R4 ?
•
d � •
·
d /d
. 5J':'<;
�
2 R-KR3 !
3 Qx B!!!
B-Kt3
Px Q • ll� •..t•
4 B x P eh. ! Rx B • �El • •
5 R-R8 eh. ! KxR .!.!. ���
4-
�.M,. · �
'€1 . �
� .!.!. /5�
4-
�
6 Kt x R eh. K-Kt l . . �� �
7 Kt x Q R-Q I WADE-BENNETT
8 R-K6 ! Resigns.
(Correspondence, New Zea­
land, 1 942)
The game, sent in to the Australian Chess Review without
comment, was published and quoted in Chess, July, 1 943-
among a few games annotated by me-and rightly acclaimed as
" magnificent." But all of us missed the fact that the whole
manreuvre was analysis by Kopayev and Chistyakov, dated as
long ago as 1 939, and had also been mentioned by Yudovitch
in the American Chess Review, 1 939.
In this case again the culprit R. G. Wade, an " International "
of great repute, was without blame ; the fault lay with the other
" experts" who did not know their " book."
Another game which went round the globe was that between
Bogatyrchuk and Dzagurov, played in Russia in August, 1 940.
This went as follows :
I P-K4 P-K4 4 B-R4 Kt-B3
2 Kt-KB3 Kt-QB3 5 0-0 P-QKt4
3 B-KtS P-QR3 6 B-Kt3 P-Q3
 7 Kt-Kt5 P-Q4 II P-QB3 Kt-KtS
8 PxP Kt-QS I 2 Kt x P Q-RS
9 Q-K I B-QB4 ! 13 Qx P Kt-K7 eh.
IO Q x P eh. ? K-B I 1 4 K-R I

14 . .
.
Q x BP ! ! 15 ... QxQ
1 5 Q x B(BS) eh. I6 P-Q4 Q-K2
17 Kt x R dis. eh. K-K I
White must give up the I8 Kt-Q2 Q-RS
Queen to prevent mate by I9 P-KR3 Q-Kt6
Q-Kt8 eh. and Kt-B7 . Resigns.
Unfortunately for him, Dzagurov did not know that the
game exactly followed an analysis by Rabinovich in " Shachmaty
v SSSR " early in I 940, which included the whole line up to the
1 5th move and was known to Bogatyrchuk.

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GETTING ON E ' S OWN BACK . . .

;\ N ACHIEVEMENT which gives a feeling of deep satis­

i--'l. faction.
DIAGRAM 235 ±

• �-J..• �
•
(f.l '%,*� t .
�
� ::;-
�" ' !!i t �
',. z
,.
7, '.'a/ 7,

• • t �� •
• •
• :-.. n fi'r•
b �
�·
·
d 4:- ·
..!1. �· ·
� � �, *­
d
d ft •
• •
� �
d �� ·
�·
d
4:- ·
..!.!,,. - �-
.d;;l, � ·
. .·4- Q
�
..!1. A
• • •§• .
TARRASCH-BLACKBURNE
(Hastings, I 895)

1 R x P ch . ! P x :;. 1 R x RP! Px B
2 Q x BP eh. ! K-Kt l 2 RX R Resigns.
3 Q x Kt Q-B I I f I . . . ' K x R ; 2 R-B6
4 Kt-KS Resigns. eh., K-Kt2 ; 3 B X P, wins.
Or 1 • , R x R ; 2 B x P,
. .

wms.
 EVEN A WORM · · ·

HAT T R Dawson > the doyen of Problem

· · Chess,
W
,, •

called "a veritable Pawn Excelsior in play occurs m

Diag. 236.
DIAGRAM 236 ± Another pawndozer does
r==
B= --u-:�:rr:--
B..l.B�B/, :a --;i,•
. its work in Diag. 237.
• t • • \\'• t DIAGRAM 237 ±
/· � · ··/,� ·
.ff •
• tff•
·�-% �� � ��
• • • •
• • • .�

ft O ft B U/A/� �
/ /, 0

��4:)· · § �
S HUMOV-VON }AENISCH

I P-KB4 K-Kt2
2 P-BS R-K4 ? BARANOV-ROCHLIN
3 P-B6 eh. K-R I (U.S.S.R., 1 936)
4 P-B7 and wins.
I P-K Kt4! P-Kt4
Although I have not been
able to establish the exact date If I . . . , QR-R2 ; 2
of this game, it was played little Kt x P, R x Kt ; 3 P-Kt5,
later than Kennicott-Morphy, Q-Kt2 ; 4 Q-Q6, R-Q2 ;
New York, 1 857, where 2 S R x R eh., Kt x R ; 6
.
. . . , P x P ; 3 Q x B P, R­ R X Kt eh., and mates m two.
Kt3 ; 4 B-B6 eh., K-Kt 1 ; 2 Kt x P ! R x Kt
S Q-B4, B-R6 ; 6 B-Kt5, 3 R x R ch. Kt x R
Q-K6 eh. ! ; followed with a 4 R x Kt ch. ! Kx R
subsequent win for Black. 5 P-Kt5 ! Qx P
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 This, or P X B, is necessary 3 ... QR-K l ! !
to stop the mate. If 5 . . , . + Px Q
Q-R 1 ; 6 Q-R2 eh., K-Kt2 ; If + P x Kt, R x P eh. ;
7 Q-B7 eh., etc. 5 K-B2, KR x P eh.
4 ...
6 Q x Q and wins. Kt x BP d is. eh.
5 K-Q I
Equally it provides a force­
If 5 K-B2, Kt x Q ; 6
ful lever to break up White's
formation in Diag. 238. Kt x Kt, R-K7 eh.
5 . . . Kt x Q
DIAGRAM 238 =F 6 Kt x Kt B-Kt7!
7 Kt-Q4 Bx R
8 P-B4 R-KS
9 B-Kt2
and now Black mates in four
by KR-K r , etc.

But a truly remarkable per­

formance is that accomplished
by the BiBhop's Militiaman in
ELISKASES-L. STEINER Diag. 239.
(Budapest, 1 933) DIAGRAM 239 ±
I P-84 !
2 Q-Kt3
If 2 P x Kt, BP x P ; and
there is no escape from 3 . . . ,
Q-B3. If 2 Kt-K6, Q-R3 ;
3 Kt X R, B-Kt7 ; wins in all
variations.
2 ... P-BS !
3 KP x P
If 3 P x Kt, P x KtP ; wins BROSCHEIT-LANGE
easily. (Munster, 1 9 39)
1 00
 I P-84! R-K6 (forced) 3 ... B-R4
2 P-85 ! R-K4 (forced) 4 P-86 ! ! 8xR
3 R-Q8 ! 5 P-87 Resigns.
Curiously enough, he wants For White queens either on
the square KB8. KB8 or K8.

To the book and its contents, and to reading time, we now

put, in Diag. 240-
THE FINISH ING TOUCH

Black has an imposing attack, gaining a piece if White plays

1 B x B, or the Queen after 1 P X Kt. White cannot play
1 B X Kt, because the Bishop is pinned against the Queen­
or can he ?
DIAGRAM 240 ±
I 8 x Kt ! ! Kt x 8 !
( 1 . . . , B x Q ; 2 P x Kt
and mate by B-R7.)
2 P-QS ! ! Px P
(2 . . . , B x Q ; 3 P x Kt
and the mate still stands.)
3 Px P Q-K2
4 P x Kt R x Q eh.
5 Kt x R Qx 8
ROSSETTO-AGUILAR 6 Kt x Q Resigns.
(Argentine Champ., 1 945)

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