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Wonders and Curiosities of Chess

Logical Chess, Move by Move
The Bright Side of Chess
Chessboard Magic I
The Iooo Best Short Games of Chess
The Chess Companion
Winning Chess Traps
The Russians Play Chess
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WONDERS
AND t;URIOSITIES
OF
CHESS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I wish to thank the Clarendon Press, Oxford, publishers of

A History of Chess by H. ]. R. Murray, for permission to
quote material which appears in that book on the gambling
propensities of the Indians, and the advice offered to chess
players by Lucena and Damiano.
INTRODUCTION
"And then Chess came

to gladden the hours."
-Mrs. W.]. Baird
I learned to play chess early in life, and was immediately

fascinated by the game. There were thousands of beautiful
games, brimming with brilliant ideas to play over, wonder
ful problems to solve, and fanciful endgames to revel in.
Chess offered everything to beguile the faculties and pleasure
the soul. There was excitement too in following the careers
of the great masters. What more glorious heroes could a
young man have than Morphy, Pillsbury and Capablanca?
I read books on chess, magazines on chess and newspaper
columns on chess. I bought books on chess-as many as
I could afford. But where most young amateurs studied
master games to improve their own play, I was content to
read (and subconsciously do research) about chess for my
own enjoyment. I did not confine myself to master games,
absorbing though they were. I could indulge myself in all
the splendid variety of chess-the problems, endings, anec
dotes, the facts and fancies about chess and its players.
There was a vast literature on chess, greater in fact than that
of all other games combined. So I made notes in my little
black book of the most interesting of my discoveries, as I
was bursting to show these choice morsels to my friends
who played chess (and to some who didn't-but should
have).
Eventually my opportunity came. When Chess Review
came into being, I was offered a column in which I could
write on any phase of chess which interested me. So I wrote
on various themes, happy to share the fruits of my readings
and researches with fellow chess players. My topics covered
King Wanderings, Galloping Knights, Fantastic Positions,
viii WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
Purely Personal Opinions, Curious Chess Facts, and every

thing else that pleased, amused, or excited me.
Appropriately enough though, my first column was
headed Curious Chess Facts, and in it I related the strange,
beautiful and sometimes incredible things that occurred
to chess players in the course of their careers. This was
followed by similar columns which appeared in Chess
Review, American Chess Bulletin and British Chess Maga
zine, and which created a great deal of interest in the
happenings in "the small flat world of chess," as Gilbert
Highet phrased it.
Eventually I compiled 206 of these chess tidbits into a
booklet which was published in 1937 under the title
Curious Chess Facts. This work has been out of print for
several years. The present book is an enlarged version of the
original edition, as many more curious facts have been
added, and with them illustrative games.
I submit my discoveries for your delectation and your
astonishment.
IRVING CHERNEY
San Francisco,
January I974
WONDERS
AND IJRIOSITIES
OF
CHESS
J: his lone King, Duras hung on (hop
SHORTEST MASTER ing perhaps for an earthquake) .
GAME Here is the score of this sea serpent:
The shortest tournament game ever
played between masters lasted only CARLSBAD, 1907
four moves. It occurred between Ruy Lopez
Gibaud and Lazard in a Paris
Wolf Duras
Championship Tourney. The moves
White Black
were :
I P-K4 P-K4
PARIS, 1924 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
Queen's Pawn Game 3 B-Ns P-QR3
4 B-R4 N-B3
Gibaud Lazard 5 N-B3 P-QN4
White Black 6 B-N3 B-B4
I P-Q4 N-KB3 7NxP ()-()
2 N-Q2 P-K4 Bo-o N-Qs
3 Px P N-N5
4 P-KR3 N-K6 1 Duras decides to play it a Pawn
down, instead of regaining the
This is the position : Pawn by 8 . . . N x N 9 P-Q4, B-Q3
10 P x N, B x P.
g N-B3 P-Q3
10 N x N BxN
I I N-K2 B-N3
12 P-Q3 N-N5
13 P-KR3 N-K4
14 P-Q4 N-B5
15 N-N3 Q-Rs
1 6 P-QB3 P-N3
1 7 Q-B3 B-K3
IS B-B2 QR-QI
19 P-N3 N-
White resigns, as he must either 2o B-K3 P-Q4
lose his Queen, or be mated if he 21 P-K5 P-KB4
takes the Knight. 22 Q-B4 QxQ
23 BxQ N-N2
24 N-K2 P-B4
a 25 P-QN4 ! P-B5
LONGEST WON GAME 26 P-QR4 R-NI
The longest master game ending 27 P x P PxP
in a win lasted 168 moves. The 1 907 2B B-Ns K-B2
Carlsbad Tournament was the scene
of this gigantic struggle. Six sittings This prevents White's positional
consuming 22t hours were required threat of 29 B-K7 followed by
before Oldrich Duras, who had lost a 30 B-Bs.
Pawn at his seventh move against 29 R-R6 N-QI
Heinrich Wolf, capitulated. Even 30 KR-RI B-B1
when Wolf had two Queens against 31 R(R6)-R2 N-K3
2 WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
32 B-K3 B-Nz 54 N-K3 N-B1

33 K-R2 K-N2 55 N-Bz K-Qz
34 P-B4 P-R.J 56 K-Kz N-N3
35 P-N3 N-B2 5 7 N-K3 K-K3
36 N-N1 QR-R1 58 K-B3 N-Rs
37 R x R RxR 59 N-Q I K-K2
38 R x R NxR 6o K-N3 K-Bz
39 P-N4 RP x P 61 K-R3 K-Nz
4o P x P B-B1 62 K-R.J K-N3
4 1 N-B3 B-QI 63 K-N3 K-Bz
42 P x P BxP 64K-Bz K-Kz
43 B x B PxB 65 K-K2 K-K3
44 B-B2 K-Bz 66 K-Qz N-N3
45 B-R4 BxB 67 N-K3 N-B1
46 N x B K-K3 68 N-Bz K-Qz
47 N-Nz 6g N-Kx K-K3
This lengthens the game by roo 7o N-B3 N-N3
moves, according to Marco. He 71 K-Kz K-Kz
suggests bringing the Knight to 72 N-N5 N-R5
QN I, from where it defends the 73 K-Q2 N-N3
weak QBP and is in position to 74 N-R7 N-Qz
attack most of Black's Pawns. The 75 K-K3 K-Bz
play might go as follows: 47 N-B3, 76 K-Bz K-K3
N-N3 48 N-Qz, N-R5 49 N-N 1 . 77 K-K3 K-B2
Black's Knight i s now dead, as 78 K-Qz K-K3
moving it to N3 or N7 loses a Pawn 79 N-Nsch K-K2
after 50 N-R3 in reply. And on 8o N-B3 N-N3
49 . . . K-B2 50 K-R3, K-N2 5 1 81 N-K1 K-K3
K-R4, K-N3 5 2 P-K6, K-B3 53 8z N-Bz K-Q2
K-R5 , K x P 54 K-N5 , N-N7 55 83 N-R3 K-B3
N-R3 and White wins. 84 K-K2 N-R5
85 N-N x
47 .. . N-N3
48 N-K3 N-R5 "Wolf has reached the decisive
49 N-Q I position," says Marco, "and the cat
and mouse play is over."
The difference is apparent , in that
White's Knight is tied down to the
8s . . . K-Q2
defence of the Bishop Pawn, and
86 K-B3 K-K3
cannot be freed until the King
87 K-N3 K-B2
wanders down to Q2 to protect the
88 K-R4 K-N3
Pawn. In addition, the Kn ight is in
89 P-K6 K-B3
no position to attack Black's Knight
90 K-Rs K-K2
Pawn. KxP
91 K-N6
49 . . . K-Kz 92 K-Ns N-N7
5 0 K-N3 K-B2 93 N-R3 N-Q8
51 K-B3 K-Kz 94N x P N-K6
52 K-K3 N-N3
53 K-Qz K-K3 A diagram might be in order:
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS 3
u3 K-Ks. Q-N4ch u4 K-K4.

Q-N7ch U5 K-K5, Q-N4ch u6
K-K6, Q-N 1 ch u7 K-Q6, Q-Qich
uS K-B6, Q-R1ch, and Black
forces the draw, as White's King
:finds himself on a merry-go-round
from which he cannot get off.
U2 . . . Q-Qich
U3 Q-Q7 Q-B3ch
u4 K x P Q-B6ch
U5 K-Q6 Q-N6ch
I I 6 K-K7 Q-Rsch
U7 K-K6 Q-R6ch
The King moves toward the uS K-B6 Q-R3ch
Knight :file, to keep an eye on the u9 K-Bs Q-R4ch
pf'.ssed Pawn. White's King will 120 K-B4 Q-R3ch
th.:'\reby have more terrain. 1 2 1 K-B3 Q-R4ch
1 2 2 K-K4 Q-Rsch
96 N-R6 K-B3 1 23 K-K5 Q-R7ch
97 N-B5 K-N4 I 2 4 K-Qs Q-RSch
9S K-B6 N-QS I 2 5 K-K6 Q-R6ch
99 KxP NxP 1 26 K-K5 Q-R7ch
100 K-Ks N-R5 1 2 7 K-K4 Q-Rsch
101 P-Bs NxN 1 2S K-B5 Q-R4ch
1 02 NPxN P-B6 1 29 K-B4 Q-R3ch
I OJ P-KB6 P-B7 1 30 K-N3 Q-N4ch
104 P-B7 P-BS(Q) I 3 1 K-B3 Q-R4ch
1 05 P-BS(Q) K-B5 1 32 Q-N4 ! Q-Q4ch
I o6 Q-B6 Q-QRS 133 K-K3 Q-Q3
107 K-Q6 Q-R6
Obviously, 1 33 Qx P 1 34 P-Q5
I oS Q-B1ch ! K-N5
dis.ch, Q-B5 1 3 5 Q x Qch would
If 10S . . . K x P 109 Q-KB4ch, be disastrous.
K-B6 I IO Q-KJch, K-N7 I I I
Q x Qch, Kx Q I 1 2 K x P, and 1 34 Q-B4 Q-K3ch
White wins. I 3 5 K-Bz Q-R7ch
136 K-N3 Q-Nich
1 09 Q-K1ch I 3 7 Q-N4 Q-N1ch
" In order to play 50 more I 3S K-N2 Q-Q3
moves, " says Marco. " The imme 1 39 Q-Q7 Q-N3ch
diate 1 09 P-B6 would decide the 140 K-B2 Q-B7ch
game quickly. " 1 4 I K-B3 Q-QSch
142 K-B4 Q-Q7ch
109 ... K-N4 143 K- B5 Q-KB7ch
1 10 Q-K2ch K-N5 1 44 K-N6 Q-N6ch
III Q-K6 Q-RI 145 K-B7 Q-R7
U2 P-B6 146 Q-K7ch K-R5
On I I 2 Qx P instead, the con 147 P-Qs Q-R4ch
tinuation would be I I 2 . . . Q-Q 1ch 14S K-K6 Q-Nsch
1 49 K-Q6 Q-N5ch 3
1 50 K-Q7 Q-N5ch LONGEST DRAWN GAME
1 5 1 K-B7 K-N4 The longest game ending in a
1 5 2 P-Q6 Q-KB5 draw occurred between Pilnik and
1 53 K-N7 Q-QN5 Czerniak. It lasted 1 9 1 moves and
154 Q-K5ch K-B5 dis.ch required 23 hours of play.
1 5 5 K-B7 Q-R6 The drawn result after such a
1 56 K-Q7 K-N5 lengthy battle reminds me of the
1 5 7 P-B7 Q-R6ch prize fight between Andy Bowen
1 58 K-Q8 Q-R5ch and Jack Burke which took place
1 59 K-BS K-N6 at New Orleans in 1 893. After 1 1 0
1 6o Q-N5ch K-R6 rounds which took seven hours and
I 6 I K-N8 Q-Q5 19 minutes o.f fighting, the battle
162 P-Q7 Q-B6 was declared " no contest."
1 63 P-Q8 (Q) Q-QN6 Luckily for my readers I do not
164 Q x Qch KxQ have the score of the Pilnik
165 P-BS (Q) Czerniak game, so I shall spare them
the details.
Never before this has a master
played on in a master tournament, 4
with a lone King facing two Queens. MOST DEFEATS IN
A TOURNAMENT
165 ... K-N5 Many wonderful records have
166 Q-Q3 K- been compiled in tournaments. The
1 67 Q(Q3)-B4 K-N3 poorest was undoubtedly achieved
168 Q-N4 mate by Moreau, who played in the Monte
The final position: Carlo Tournament of 1903. His final
score consisted of 26 zeros, without
so much as a draw to his credit.
5
GRUNFELD SELECTS A
FIRST MOVE
Ernest Grunfeld, in his time one
of the greatest authorities on open
ings, played 1 P-K4 only once in
his whole tournament career (against
Capablanca at Carlsbad in 1 929) .
When asked why he avoided I
P-K4, he replied, "I never make a
Four years after losing the longest mistake in the opening."
game ever played, Duras acquired
another doubtful distinction. He 6
lost the second-longest game ever MORPHY AND FISCHER
played. This time it was Janowsky AGREE ON THE BEST
who defeated Duras in a hard-fought FIRST MOVE
battle that lasted 161 moves at San In contrast to this, Paul Morphy,
Sebastian in 1911. admittedly one of the greatest
masters in the history of the game, Gutmayer never won first prize
never began a game with I P-Q 4, in a Hauptturnier, a requisite for
although this move is nowadays the title of master in Germany.
considered the strongest opening
move. 10
Bobby Fischer, one of the modem A MILLION -DOLLAR MOVE
chess world's brightest stars, says, Frank Marshall brought off one
"I have never opened with the of the most startling and unexpected
Queen Pawn-on principle." In moves ever seen on a chessboard in
annotating a game of Steinitz's, his game against Levitzky at Bres
Fischer says, " The players of I 862 lau in 191 2 . The spectators were so
knew something very valuable that electrified by the brilliant coup that
the players of today would do well they responded by showering the
to make note of : I P-Q4 leads to board with gold pieces!
nothing !'' Here is the game :
7 BRESLAU, 191 2
BLINDFOLD PLAY BANNED Defence
French
BY LAW
Levitzky Marshall
In Russia chess is thought of so
White Black
highly that it is taught in the public
I P-Q4 P-K3
schools. Yet blindfold play is for
2 P-K4 P-Q4
bidden by law. (Alekhine in Auf
3 N-QB3 P-QB4
dem Wege zur Weltmeisterschaft.)
4N-B3 N QB 3
-
5 KP x P KP x P
8 6B-K2 N-B3
RESHEVSKY MAKES 7 o-o B-K2
A PREDICTION 8 B-KN5 o-o
United States Champion Sammy 9 PxP B-K3
Reshevsky was asked whether he Io N-Q4 BxP
expected to win the Western Tour 1 1 NxB PxN
nament of 1933. His reply was, 1 2 B-N4 Q-Q3
" Who is there to beat me ? " Resh 1 3 B-R3 QR-K 1
evsky was right. Nobody did beat 14 Q-Q2 B-N5
him-but he did not win the Threatens to win a piece by
tournament. (With nine wins, no 15 . . . P-Q5.
losses and four drawn games, Resh
1 5 BxN R xB
evsky had a score of 1 1 -2. Fine's 12
16 QR-Q 1
wins and one loss gave him the
winning score of r2-r.) Now it's White who threatens-
1 7 N-K4
9 I6 . . . Q-B4
I7 Q-K2 B xN
AN AMATEUR FOR LIFE
Franz Gutmayer, who wrote a 18 P x B QxP
19 R x P N-Q5
book on how to become a chess
master, was never able to become White has recovered his Pawn,
one himself. but Black has the initiative. If now
20 Q-Ks. N-B6ch ! 2I P x N, board with gold pieces. I can only

R-N3ch 22 B-N2, Q x KBP, and say that Marshall himself assured
Black wins. me of the truth of the incident.
2 o Q-R5 QR-KBI
2 1 R-K s II
STRANGE NAMES
The reply to 2I R-QBs would be OF PLAYERS
2 1 . .. R x P 22 R x R, Q-K8ch To the nonplayer the strange
followed by mate . names of the various chess masters is
a never-failing source of merriment.
2 1 . .. R-R3
We need but mention Bobritschev
22 Q-Ns
Putschkin, Bogolyubov, Dus-Chot
Here if 22 Q-N4 (to protect the imirski, IlyiJ;t-Genevski, Przepiorka
Bishop) 22 ... N-B6ch 23 P x N, and Konstatinopolsky in illustration.
Q x R (but not 23 . . . R-N3 24 We therefore commend his atten
R-Ns) wins. tion to the following curious chess
fact : In a tournament held at St.
22 . . . RxB Petersburg in I 903, no less than
2 3 R-QB5 Q-KN 6 ! ! three Znosko-Borovskys won p rizes .
A spectacular finish ! The Queen
moves right into a nest of Pawns to IZ
force White to surrender. UNWILLING
Black's threat is immediate mate CLUB MEMBERS
by 24 ... Q x RP. One club that no one cared to
If 24 RP x Q, N-K7 mate, or if join was the Vera Menchik Club.
24 BP x Q, N-K7ch and mate next There were no dues, and no meet
move. Finally, if 24 Q x Q, N-K7ch ings were ever held in this strange
25 K-R I , N x Qch 26 K-N I , N x R, club.
and Black has won a piece. Levitzky The members consisted of masters
of course resigned-as soon as he who had lost a game to Vera Men
recovered from the shock. chik-a master but still a woman !
This is the final position: Notable unwilling members in
clude Dr. Euwe (former World
ChamP.ion) , Reshevsky, Sultan
Khan, Colle, Laj os Steiner, Sir
George Thomas, Samisch, Becker
and Yates. .
A sample of Miss Menchik ' s
prowess :
LONDON, I932
Samisch Attack
Menchik Thomas
White Black
I P-Q4 N-KB3
There are those who doubt that 2 P-QB4 P- KN 3
spectators actually showered the 3 N-QB3 B-Nz
4 P-K4 P-Q3 K-R1 (or 19 . . . N-N 3 20 P-B6ch)

5 P-B3 o--o 20 Q-R6, R-KN1 2 1 Q-B6ch
6 B-K3 P-K4 followed by mate.
7 KN-K2 P-QN3 P-R6
19 NP x N
8 Q-Q2 N-B3
20 P-B6ch ! 'K-RI
9 P-Q5 N-K2
I o P-KN4 ! N-Q2 Or 20 . . . K x P 21 Q-N5ch, K-N2
II R-KNI 22 P-R6ch, K-N I 23 Q-B6, and
mate follows.
This discourages Black from
playing I I ... P-KB4, as that would 21 Q-R6 P x Pch
open the Knight file to White's 22 K-N 1 R-KN 1
advantage. 23 PxP BP x P
24 Q x RPch ! Resigns
II . .. P-QR4
I 2 o-o-o N-QB4
I 3 N-N3 B-Q2 XJ
14 P-KR4 P-R5
GOOD ADVICE
1 5 P-R5 Q-N I
A book published in German
1 6 B-R6 ! Q-R2
whose title in English would be
17 B x B Advice to Spectators at Chess Tourna
This removes an important de ments, is completely blank with the
fender of the King, and helps expose exception of one page. On this page
him to attack.
there are only two words: Halt's
17 . . . KxB Maul . (Keep your mouth shut) .
I8 N-B5chl
If this is the kind of move that an I4
attacking player makes almost in BLIND COMPOSER
stinctively, Miss Menchik deserves Comparable to Beethoven's mir
credit for bringing about a position acle of composing music while deaf
in which this move could be made. is that of A. F. Mackenzie, who,
Here is the position: although blind, created some fine
chess problems. Here is one of them,
a first prize winner.
18 ... NxN
If 18 . .. K-B3 instead (to protect
his Knight) then 19 P-N s is mate. Mate in Two Moves
Or if I8 ... P x N I9 NP x P dis.ch, #'fi-N I : UOIntOS
xs 28 K-N2 B-KI
DAZZLING EXHIBITION 29 QR-N1 Q-B2
Capablanca played 103 games 30 B-RI B-B2
simultaneously in Cleveland in 1922. J I Q-QN3 N-Q7
While the total number of games This is the position:
has been exceeded, the phenomenal
percentage of wins achieved by the
World's Champion has never been
approached. Capablanca won I02
games, lost none, and allowed one
player to escape with a draw. Here
is a game from this remarkable
exhibition:
CLEVELAND, 1922
Queen's Gambit Declined
Capablanca Tarasov
White Black Black could not resist the tempta
I P-Q4 P-Q4 tion of attacking the Queen and
2 N-KB3 N-KB3 both Rooks simultaneously. Did he
3 P-B4 PxP think that Capablanca would over
4 P-K3 P-K3 look this-even playing 103 games
5BxP B-N5ch at the same time? Commenting on a
6 N-B3 o-o similar instance (in his game against
7 o-o P-B3 Winter at Hastings in 1919) Capa
8 N K5
- QN-Q2 blanca said, after Winter made
9 P-B4 N-Q4 what seemed to be a strong move,
Io B-Q2 N(Q2)-B3 "Only lack of experience can ac
I I Q-B3 P-QR4 count for this move. White [Winter]
I2 B-Q3 N-K2 should have considered that a
13 Q-R3 P-KN3 player of my experience and strength
14 P-KN4 P-B4 could never allow such a move if it
15 P-N5 N-R4 were good."
16 P-R3 BxN 32 NxBI KxN
I7 PxB PxP
18 KPxP N-B4 Of course not 32 . . NxQ 33
.
19 B-K2 N(R4)-N2 N-R6 mate. The reply 32 . .. QxN

2oN-N4 or 32 . . RxN would lose after,
.
33 Q B3 threatening to mate at RB
- ,
Threatens a quick end by 21

or to Cl!tture the Knight.
N-B6ch.
20 .. . N-KI 33 Q-B3
21 B-Q3 B-Q2 Now the threat is 34 Q-N7ch
22 BxN KPxB winning the Queen.
23 N-K5 P-B3
33 .. . K-KI
24 PxP NxP
34 QxN Resigns
25 P-B4 N-K5
26 B-B3 B-BJ The Knight pays with his life for
27 P-Q5 Q-N3ch his rashness.
:r6 :zo
BOARD KINGS
ANDERSSEN AND RECORD - BREAKING
ANDERS ON BLINDFOLD FEATS
In 1851 the Chess Champion of When Fram;: ois Andre Danican
the World was A. Anderssen the ,
Philidor played three blindfold
Checker Champion of the World was games simultaneously in 1783, affi
A. Anderson. davits were drawn up attestin g to
the fact of this pedor m a nce, as the
chess players of that day doubted
J:7
that future generations would be
DRAWING MASTER
lieve such an achievement to be
"The G reat Drawing Master" in
possible. Yet Blackburne, a few
ch ess history was Carl Schlechter.
years after he learned the moves was
Not only did Schlechter draw
able to play 10 blindfold games
innumerable tournament games, but
simul taneou sly with ease ! Later on,
he drew seven of the nine matches
Blackburne played as many as 16
in which he took part.
games in that fashion.,--a record
Even Dr. Lasker, World's Cham
subsequently equ aled by Zukertort.
pion, could do no better than draw
Some years later Pillsbury came
his match with Schlechter, when
along and played 12 and 16 boards
they played for the title in 1910.
at one time as a matter of routine.
Coming back to Philidor, his feat
:r8 in piaying three blindfold games
simultaneously remained the record
BAD YEAR
for about 75 years un til Paulsen
FOR CHAMPI ONS
and Morphy appeared on the scene
The year 1894 was a disastrous
.
year for board cha mpi ons William

.
Louis Paulsen gave a display on
Steinitz , World's Chess Champion four boards in New York in 1857,
for 28 ye ars, lost his title then to one of his oppone nts being Paul
Emanuel Lasker, while James Wyl Morphy himself (who of course
lie, Checker Champion for 40 played without sight of the board).
years (!), had to relinquish his crown In the same year, also at New York,
to James Ferrie. Paulsen tried his skill at five boards,
and improved on that number later
on at Dubuqu e, where he conducted
J: 9 seven games simultaneously.
FIRST BLINDFOLD STAR Paul Morphy surpassed this num
The first display of simultaneous ber while in Europe, giving two
blindfold play was given by Buzecca, marvelous exhibitions, one in Lon
the Saracen chess master, when he don and one in Paris, each on eight
visited Florence in January of 1266. boards. His play was impressive,
He conducted two games blindfold, being brilliant, accurate and con
and one game over the board against siderably faster than Paulsen s. '
tllree of the city's leading players There is no doubt, judging from the
The exhibitio n resulted in two wins ea se of Morphy's play, that he could
for Buzecca and one draw. have managed many more than
This record stood for 517 years! eight boards without any trouble,
10 WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES O F CHESS
except that the vogue for record play on 2 1 boards at Hannover.

breaking was not in existence at After 1 It hours Pillsbury finished
that time. with a score of three wins, seven
Paulsen played IO boards at a losses and 1 1 games drawn. Appa
time on four occasions in I 858, at rently not a remarkable result,
four different cities in the United Pillsbury's score was more impres
States, with fair results. sive than appears at first glance
It remained for Johannes Her for Pillsbury's opponents were all
mann Zukertort to smash Paulsen's Hauptturnier players, which meant
record. This he did in IB76 by they were all of master or near
playing I6 blindfold games simul master strength.
taneously with the fine result of I 2 For most of the rest of the year
wins, one loss and three games Pillsbury confine his exhibitions
drawn. to 12 to I6 boards, until in his
Zukertort's mark remained un travels he reached Moscow. There
touched for 24 years until the peer Pillsbury set a new mark by tackling
less Pillsbury came along. Pillsbury 22 players, achieving in result the
had been giving exhibitions of his fine score of 1 7 wins, one loss and
skill at blindfold play for several four games drawn.
years, contenting himself with dis Pillsbury's mark stayed intact for
plays on six, eight or I 2 boards at a I 7 years, when Reti opposed 24
time until the year Igoo when he players at Haarlem in I 9 I 9, and
tackled I 6 players, his efforts re emerged with a score of I 2 wins,
sulting in the fine score of I I wins, three losses and nine games drawn
one loss and four games drawn. after 7t hours of play.
From Chicago (where he had given Reti's record lasted only two
this exhibition) Pillsbury went on to years as Breyer broke it by playing
New Orleans, where he tried his 25 boards at Kaschau in I 92 I .
hand at playing I7 boards at a time, Breyer won 1 5 games, lost three
and came up with a score of I O and drew seven games.
wins, two losses and five games It was the mighty Alekhine who
drawn. In the same year at Phila set a new record . In I924 at the
delphia, Pillsbury met a powerful close of the great New York Inter
team of 20 players, including such national Masters Tournament, Alek
redoubtable experts as Shipley, hine met a strong team of players,
Bampton, Robinson, Magee, Stadel including a number of masters and
man and Kaiser. In the short space well-known experts. In the line-up
of 6!- hours Pillsbury had won 1 4 were such powerful paladins as
games, drawn five, and lost only Kashdan, Steiner, Tholfsen and
one game. His style of play was Pinkus . Despite this strong oppo
impressive, too, his win against sition, Alekhine emerged after nt
Bampton (see The Chess Compan hours with a good score-I 6 wins,
ion, page 2oo) being a fine specimen five losses and five games drawn.
of the ease with which Pillsbury Alekhine improved on the n u m
handled complicated positions. ber of games played by encountering
Pillsbury gave many exhibitions 28 players the following year at
subsequently, but never ventured Paris, this time winning 22 games,
beyond 1 7 games at a time, until losing three and drawing three games
1 902 when he gave his famous dis- The record did not last long, as
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS II
Reti raised it to 29 games at Sao not so long ago that people said
Paulo, with this result-2 1 wins, no man would ever run a mile in
two losses and six games drawn. less than four minutes.
A new contender entered the field Here are two games to show the
when Koltanowski took on 30 skill of such artists in the field
players at Antwerp in 1931, and of blindfold play as Morphy and
attained the remarkable result of Pillsbury:
20 wins, IO games drawn and no The first is from an exhibition on
losses ! eight boards given at Paris in 1858.
Alekhine met that situation two
years later by giving a display on
32 boards at Chicago. His score on
PARIS, I858
that occasion, after 12! hours of
Philidor Defence
play, was 19 wins, four losses and
nine games drawn. Morphy Seguin
Once again it was up to Kolta White Black
nowski, and he met the challenge I P-K4 P- K 4
by encountering 34 players at 2 N-KB3 P-Q3
Edinburgh in 1937 , and again 3 P-Q4 PxP
wound up with a fine result. He 4NxP N-KB3
won 24 games, drew 10 games and 5 N-QB3 B-Kz
lost none! 6B-Q3 o-o
Once again the record seemed
safe from assault, but a new knight The tempting 6 . .. P-B4 leaves
appeared in the lists in the shape of White with the better game after
Najdorf. He broke Koltanowski's 7 B-Nsch, B-Qz 8 B xBch, Q x B
record in 1943, and then shattered 9N-Bs.
his own in I 947 Naj dorf played 40
boards blindfold simultaneously at 7P-B4 P-B4
Rosario in I943 of which number 8N-B3 N-B3
he won 36 games, lost three and g o-o B-Ns
drew one game, after a 1 7! hour 10 B-K3 P-QR3
session . At Sao Paulo in 1947, Naj
I I P QR4
-
dorf met 45 players, and emerged

This prevents I I . . . P-QN4,
after a grueling 23t hours with the
remarkable score of 39 wins, two with counterplay on the Queen side.
losses and four games drawn. I I .. , P-R3
If Naj dorf thought that he had 12 P-R3 BxN
set a mark for blindfold play- which I3 QxB N-QN5
:would endure forever he was mis
,
14 QR-QI Q-B2
taken . .Janos Flesch, a Hungarian 15 P-QN3 NxB
International Master, met 52 players 16PxN
in an exhibition of blindfold simul
taneous play. It lasted 12 hours, at But not I6 R x N, P-B5 , and
the end .of which Flesch had won Black stirs up trouble.
31 games, lost three and drawn I8
games. Is this the record that can 16 . . . KR-K1
not be broken? "Time," as some I7 P-Q4 Q-B3
body has said, "will tell." It was 18 P x P PxP
I WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
Here is the position : clear-cut style the technique of

winning a won game.
29 ...
30 B-K3
31 P-KN4
Morphy intends to use his Pawn

majority on the King side to keep
Black's King busy ; meanwhile he
can bring his King over to the Queen
side.
31 .. . N-Qr
32 K-B2 N-B3
33 K-K2 P-QN4
r9 P-Ks!
34P x P PxP
Maroczy comments at this point, 3 S K-Q3 K-Br
" Beautifully played ! One can see 36 B-Esch K-Kr
that Morphy understood position 37 K-K4 K-Q2
play. He permits the exchange of 38 K-Qs N-Qr
Queens, and concentrates his forces 39P-Bs PxP
against the Pawn at QB s with the 40 P x P P-R4
care and accuracy of a modem 4 1 B-N6 N-N2
Grandmaster. ' ' 42 P-K6ch PxP
19 . . . QxQ 43 P x Pch K-K2
2o R x Q N-R2 44 K-B6 N-Qrch
2 1 R-Q7 QR-Nr 4S B x Nch KxB
22 N-Qs B-B r 46 K-Q6 K-Kr
23 B-B2 47 P-K7
Clears the way for the King Rook. And White wins.
The following game is from an ex
23 . . . KR-Qr
hibition given at the Augsburg Chess
24 N-N6 RxR
Club in rgoo, and is one of r6 games
Otherwise 2S KR-Q3 could be played blindfold simultaneously :
come painful.
2S N x R R-Br AUGSBURG, 1900
26 R-B3 Vienna Gambit
After this the Bishop Pawn is Pillsbury Hausler

doomed. White Black
I P-K4 P-K4
26 ... R-B2 2 N-QB3 N-QB3
27 NxB NxN 3 P-B4 PxP
28 RxP RxR P-Q3
4 N-B3
29 BxR 5 P-Q4 P-KN4
Theoretically, White has a win. 6 P-KR4 E-Ns
The rest of the play is interesting 7 B-Ns P-QR3
nevertheless, as Morphy shows in 8 B x Nch PxB
9 PxP N-K2 ZJ:

Io B x P N-N3 CHAMPIONS' LONGEST
REIGNS
A strange sort of gambit-where William Steinitz held the Chess
Black has sacrificed a Pawn ! Championship of the World for 28
II Q-Q2 B-N2 years against all opponents-an
I2 o--o-o Q-BI astonishing achievement !
I3 P-Ks Q-B4 His conqueror, Dr. Emanuel
14 B-R2 PxP Lasker, proved to be a worthy suc
15 PxP o-o cessor; he held the Championship for
27 years !
Instead of this, Black might have
ventured on regaining his Pawn by zz
I5 . .. B x N 16 P x B, N x P (but
NAPOLEON'S
not 16 . . . Q x BP 17 Q-Q7ch, K-BI
HYPERMODERN MOVE
I8 KR-B I, and White wins.
" The opening of the future, " as
I6 N-Q4 Q-Q2 Tartakover called the Reti-Zuker
I 7 N-K4I BxR tort Opening in 1 92 4 , was played as
No better is I 7 . . . B x P 18 B x B, far back as 1 804 by Napoleon Bona
N x B 19 N-B6ch, or 1 7 . . . N x P parte !
1 8 N-B6ch, B x N 1 9 P x B, and
White threatens to force mate by ZJ
20 Q-R6, as well as to win two PHILIDOR ESCHEWS
pieces for a ;Rook by 20 B x N. HIS DEFENCE
18 N-B6ch B xN Philidor never played Philidor's
19 NP x B Q-Ns Defence !
2o Q-R6 N-RI
21 N-Bs KR-KI Z4
22 RxB THE TRANSPOSED
Now the threat is 23 R-Q3 fol KNIGHTS
lowed by 24 R-KN3, and White The first few moves between
wins. Berger and Marshall in their game
at Carlsbad in 1907, ran as follows :
22 . . . Q-N3
2 3 R-Q7 QxQ CARLSBAD, 1907
24 N x Qch K-B I
25 R x QBP QR-BI Berger Marshall
26 R-Q7 QR-Q 1 White Black
Black cannot get his Knight into I P-K4 P-Q4
play, as 26 .. . N-N3 allows mate 2 PxP N-KB3
on the move. He therefore tries to 3 N-KB3 NxP
seize the open Queen file or to force 4P-Q4 P-K3
an exchange of Rooks. But Pills 5 B-Q3 N-Q2
bury's reply is immediately decisive. 6o-o B-K2
7 P-B4 N-N5
27 P-K6 ! Resigns 8 B-K2 o-o
Black cannot parry the threat of 9 P-QR3 N-QB3

mate by the Bishop. IO N-B3 N-B3
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
And now, strangely enough, 12 ... N x Nch

Black's Knights have changed 13BxN P-QB3
places. The King's Knight, usually 14BxR Q x B
developed at KB 3 , stands at QB3; 1 5 N-B3 Q-B4
the Queen's Knight, usually de 1 6 Q-N3 N-K4
veloped at QB3, stands at KB3. 17 o-o-o NxP
1 8 R-Q 8 ch B--B r
19 K R -Q r B--K3
Black plays to win the Q ue en ,
as butthe cost is heavy.
ENGLISCH LOOKS INTO 20 R x R Q-N4ch
THE FUTURE 2 1 K-N I N-Q 7 ch
One of the most hotly debated 22 R x N BxQ
problems of Hypermodern play in 23 R(Q2)-Q8 B-B5
the 192o's was the soundness of the 24 RxBch K-N2
Four Pawns' Attack in the King's 25 R(B8)-Q8 P-N4
Indian Defence. 26 P-QN3 B--BB
Yet the whole variation had seen 27 R-Q7 Q-QB4
the light of day some 35 years earlier 28 N-Q r P-N5
in the Hamburg r 885 Tournament: 29 R-Q2
Here is the game:
White avoids 29 R(RS) x P, as
HAMBURG, r885 after 29 . . . B-Q6ch, he would have
King's Indian Defence to give up the exchange by 30 R x B,
Q x R, or be m ated .
Engtisch Tarrasch
29 .. . Q-K4
White Black
30 R(RS) X p Q x RP
I P-Q4 N-KB3
31 R (Q2)-Q7 K-R3
2 P-QB4 P-KN3
32 R x P B-Q6ch
3N-QB3 B--N2
33 K-BI Q-K4
4 P-K4 P-Q3
34 K-Q2 BxP
5 P-B4 o-o
35 B x B QxB
6 N-B3 QN-Q2
36 N-K3 Q-NS
7 B--K 2 P-K 4
37 K-K2 Q-N7ch
Black frees his game, at the cost 38 K-B3 P-B4
of the exchange. 39 R(R7)-Q7 Q-B6
40 P-N4 Q-RS
SQPxP PxP 41 R x Pch K-N4
gP x P N-N5 42 R-Q5ch K-B3
ro B--N 5 Q- K 1 43 P-N5ch K-K3
11N-Q5 N(Ns) x KP 44 R(Q5)-Q7 Resigns
12 B--K7
But not 1 2 N x P, N x Nch 13

BxN, Q - K4 14 N x R, Q x B and 26
White's Knight is lost, as 15 N-B7 FOURTEEN PAWN MOVES
allows 15 . . . Q- R4ch followed by Frank Marshall, in a game played
16 ... Q x N . for the Championship of the Mar-
shall Chess Club in I 940, won his Blac k p layed on a few more moves,
game from Rogosin by making I 4 before deciding that his game was
Pawn moves i n succession i n the hopeless.
opening. Every one of Marshall's There is another curious fact
eight Pawns took part in this re about this strange game: Black's
markable series of Pawn moves ! Knights made I O moves in succes
Here is the game : sion in the course of their frantic
hopping about !
NEW YORK, I 94o
Sicilian Defence Z7
PAWNS ONLY !
Marshall Rogosin
Hans Bruening won a game in
White Black
six moves without moving a piece !
I P-K4 P-QB4 Here is the score :
2 P-QN4 PxP
3 P-QR3 N-QB3 MILWAUKEE, I908
4 PxP N-B3 Amateur Bruening
5 P-N5 N-Qs White Black
6 P-QB3 N-K3 I P-Q4 P-Q4
7 P-K5 N-Q4 2 P-QB4 P-K3
8 P-QB4 N (Q4)-B5 3 N-QB3 P-QB4
g P-N3 N-N3 4 B-B4 P x QP
Io P-B4 5 BxN PxN
This is the situation : 6 B-Ks P x NP
_
And Black wins, his threats being
7 .. . P x R(Q) as well as 7.. . B-N 5ch.
z8
TEN IN A ROW
Ten years after the fo regoing game
was played, Richard Kuj oth emu
lated Marshall's feat by winning a
game in which he moved Pawns, and
nothing but Pawns ! Kujoth made
10 Pawn moves in succession, and
brought about an elegant finish.
IO . . . N (N3) x BP Here is how he did it:
One Knight must be lost. If I o MILWAUKEE, 19 50

. .. N-B2 I I P-B5 , N x K P I 2 Sicilian Defence
P-Q4, and the ce ntrali zed Kn i ght Kujoth F ash in g-
has no retreat. bauer
II P x N NxP White Black
I 2 P-Q4 N-N3 I P-K4 P-QB4
I 3 P-R4 2 P-QN4 PxP
3 P-QR3 N-QB3
Now he threatens the other Kn ight ! 4 PxP N-B3
I3 . . . 5 P-N s N-QN I
I 4 P-Rs 6 P-K 5 Q-B2
I6 WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
Ready to meet 7 P x N with 6 P-Qs N-K4

7 . . . Q-K 4ch, winning a Rook. 7 P-B5 N(N3)-Q2
7 P-Q 4 N-Q 4 8 P-B4 N-KN3
8 P-QB4 N-N3 9 P-KR4 P-K3
9 P-Bs N-Q4 Io P Rs - N-K2
10 P-N6 ! Resigns I I P-Q61 Px P
I2 P x P N-Q 4
This is the position :
If I 2 . . . N-QBJ IJ N-Ns wins.
IJ N x N Resigns
If 13 . . . Q-R4ch I4 N-QB3
wins, or if IJ . P x N I4 Q -K 2ch
. .
wins a piece:
30
THE HUNGARIAN
GAMBITEER
In the first Master Tournament in
Black must lose a piece. For which he played (Nuremberg 1 896-
instance, if 10 ... Q-Q I 11 R x P, one of the strongest ever held)
R x R I2 P x R, Q-R4ch 13 N-B 3 !, Rudolf Charousek played a Gambit
N x N I4 PxN(Q), N x Q dis.ch, every time he had the White pieces !
IS B-Q2, Q-QI I6 K x N, and White and I don't mean the safe and sound
is a Knight ahead. Queen s Gambit
' .
The nine games included an

Evans Gambit, a Scotch Gambit,
Z9 three Bishop's Gambits and four
ELEVEN OUT OF TWELVE King's Gambits. His v ictims in
Once again, the Marshall Chess cluded Lasker, Janowski Showalter ,
Club is the scene for some Pawn and Blackburne.

peregrinations. In this game from Here is his game aga inst Dr.
the Club Championship Tourna Lasker, who won the tournament :
ment, White's Pawns make I I of
the first 12 moves to bring about the N UR EM BERG, I 896
win. Bishop's Gambit
Here is the story:
Charousek Lasker
NEW YORK, 1964 White Black
Center Counter I P-K4 P-K4
2 P-KB4 PxP
Lyman Greenwald 3 B-B4 P-Q4
White Black 4 BxP Q-Rsch
I P-K4 P-Q4 5 K-BI P-KN4
2Px P N-KB3 6 N- KB3 Q-R4
3 P Q4
- NxP 7 P-KR4 B-N2
4 P-QB4 N-N3 8 N-B3 P-QB3
5 N- QB3 N-B3 9 B-B4 B-N5
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS I7
It would have been better to play 3 J:

9 . . . P-KR3, to keep the Pawn DAKE BEATS THE BOOK
chain intact.
In the I933 Folkestone Team
I O P-Q4 N-Q2 Tournament, Arthur Dake of the
I I K-B2 United States team used the English
Threatens I2 P x P, now that his Opening to defeat Hans Muller of
Rook is protected. Austria in 2 I moves .
II . . . BxN Muller is the author of an ex
I2 p X B ()-Q-0 cellent treatise called Die Englische
I3 P x P Q x NP Partie.
Here is the way he did it :
If I 3 .. . B x Pch I 4 Q x B, Q x R
I 5 B x P(B4) , Q x R I 6 Q-Q6, and FOLKESTONE, I 933
White wins. English Opening
I 4 N-K2 Q-K2 Dake Muller
I5 P-B3 N- White Black
I 6 Q-R4 NxB I P-QB4 P-QB4
I7 Q x N N-B3 2N-KB3 N-KB3
IS B x P N-Q2 3 P-Q4 PxP
I9 Q-R4 P-QR3 4 NxP P-Q4
2o Q-R5 N-BI s Px P NxP
2 I N-N3 N-K3 6 P-K4 N-Ns
22 N-Bs Q-BI
Many a man has overlooked at
But not 22 . . . Q-B3 23 B-Ks, this point that Black threatens to
Q-N4 24 P-KB4, Q-N5 2S win a piece by 7 . . . Q x N.
QR-KNI , and Black loses his Queen.
7 Q-R4ch QN-B3
23 B-N3 R-Q2 S NxN NxN
24 N x B QxN 9 N-B3 B-Q2
2s Q-Ks Io B-K3 P-:J(3
This forces the exchange of I I R-BI B-Q3
Queens and the win of a Pawn 12 B-K2 B-K4
enough to win, even against a Lasker. I 3 o -o N-Qs
I4 Q-N4 N x Bch
2S . . QxQ I5 N x N Q-NI
26 B x Q P-B3
27 B X P R-BI Black has the two Bishops-for a
28 R-R6 N-Bs while anyway, but his King may not
29 K-K3 N-N 7 ch Castle and is exposed to danger.
30 K-Q2 R (Q2)-KB2 I6 P-B4 B-Q3
3I P-Ks N-Bs I 7 B-Bs BxB
32 R(RI ) -RI R-NI 18 Q x B P-QN3
33 P-B4 N-K3 19 Q-Q4 P-K4
34 K-K3 N-B I 2o P x P B-N4
3 S P-Q5 R-Q2 2 I Q-Q5 Resigns
36 P-K6 Resigns If 21 . . . B x N 22 Q x Pch, K-Q1
If 36 . . . R-QB2 37 P-Q6, or if 23 K R-Q 1 ch, and mate follows
36 ... R-Q3 37 B-K7 wins. soon at Q7.
IS WONDERS A N D CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
32 Now come five Pawn moves in a

TCHIGORIN TRIE S A row that crowd Black more and
NEW GAMBIT more.
Tchigorin, who had so much I 7 P-Bs K-RI
trouble finding a defence to I P-Q4, 18 P-B4 R-KN I
adopted this move as White only I 9 P-K4 P-B4
once in his career. He won that game 20 P-K6 Q-QI
easily-in fact he tied his opponent 2 1 P-K5 N-BI
up in knots. And yet, he never 22 Q x P Q-R4
played I P-Q4 again ! 23 P-QR3 P-QR3
Here is the game : 24 P-QN4 Q-Q I
NUREMBERG, 1 896 25 KR-K I
A lbin Counter-Gambit Tarrasch recommends (for the
sake of ending Black's agony) 25
Tchigorin Albin B x P, N x B 26 KP x N, P x B 27
White Black P-Q7 (or 2 7 N x QBP) .
I
P-Q4 P-Q4
2
P-QB4 P-K4 25 . . . N-K2
3QP x P P-Qs 2 6 QR-Q 1 Q-B I
4N-KB3 N-QB3 27 R-Q2 R(NI )-BI
5P-KN3 B-KB4 28 P-Q R-NI
6B-Nz P-Q6 29 P-N5 RP x P
7P-K3 N-R3 30 P x P Q-RI
31 B x N RxB
" The Knight rests safely here
32 P x P PxP
for the next 30 moves, " says
33 N x QBP Q-QBI
Tarrasch, a bit sarcastically.
8 o-o B-K2 If instead 33 . . . R x P, then 34
9 N-B3 o-o N-Q4 followed by 35 N x R
xo P-N3 Q-Qz and 36 B-Q5 will win two Rooks
I I B-N2 QR-KI for White's Knight and Bishop .
I2 N-Q5 B-Q I 34 N x R Q x Pch

I3 B-QR3 B-K2 35 K-RI QxN
14 N x Bch NxN 36 Q-Q6 Q-R2
1 5 N-Q4 P-QB3
How a chess player is loath to resign!
1 6 B-Q6 B-N3
37 R-QNx N-N5
38 Q-N6 Q-R6 . '
39 P-R3 QxP
40 P x N PxP
4 1 R(N I ) -Q x Q-R5ch
42 K-Nx P-N6
43 R-Q8 B-Kx
44 Q-Q4 P-R4
45 R-Q3 R-B x
46 P-K7 R-Nx
47 R x B RxR
48 Q-Q7 Q x KP
49 Q x Q RxQ
5o R x P R-KB2 " And Black has the superior posi

5 1 P-K6 R-Rz tion." They seem to have overlooked
52 R-K3 R-K2 that White can play ro N-Q6-
53 P-Bs K-R2 m ate on the move I
54 R-KN3 R-R2
55 R-N6 R-QB2 34
56 B-K4 P-R5
K-Rt THE " COOK " THAT
57 K-Rz
R-Rz FAILED
58 K-R3
59 K x P K-Rz Frank Marshall once saved a line
6o B-B6 R-QB2 of play in the Ruy Lopez for ro
6r B-Q7 R-B5 ch years in order to use it against
62 R-N4 Resigns Capablanca. The opportunity arose
in the New York Tou rnament of
" Now that Black missed the 1 9 1 8, b u t the great Cuban smashed
right moment to resign , he might the variation !
as well have waited for mate, " says Here is the game, a masterpiece
Tarrasch . of defence and counterattack.
33 NEW YORK, 1 9 1 8
THE BOOK GETS MATED Ruy Lopez
In the eighth edition of a popular
manual by Dufresne and Mieses, Capablanca Marshall
the following line of play is given : White Black
I P-K4 P-K4
White Black 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
I P-Q4 P-Q4 3 B-Ns P-QR3
2 P-QB4 P-K3 4 B-R4 N-B3
3 N-QB 3 P-QB4 5 ()-() B-Kz
4 N-B3 BP x P 6 R-Kr P-QN4
5 KN x P P-K4 7 B-N3 ()-()
6 KN-N5 P-Q5 8 P-B3 P-Q4
7 N-Q5 N-QR3 9 Px P NxP
8 Q-R4 B-Qz ro N x P
9 P-K3 N-Kz
" I thought for a little while,"
This is the situation : says Capablanca, " knowing that I
would be subjected thereafter to a
terrific att ac k, all the lines of which
would be of necessit y familiar to my
adversary . The lust of battle, how
ever, had been roused in me. I felt
that my j udgm ent and skill were
bein g challenged by a player who
had every reason to fear both (as
shown by the records of our previous
encounters) , but who wanted to
take advantage of the elem ent of
surprise and the fact of my being
At this point the analysts say, unfamiliar with a thing to which he
had devoted many a night of toil and K-BI, B-N6 1 8 Q-K2 (here 1 8
hard work. I considered the position Q x Pch fails a s Black recaptures
then and decided that I was in with check ) B x P 19 P x B, QR-K x ,
honor bound, so to speak, to take and Black wins.
the Pawn and accept the challenge, 16 . . . B-N5
as my knowledge and judgment told 17 P x B
me that my position should then be
defensible. " This is safer than I7 Q x N
(though there are still complications)
10 . . . NxN when there is this possibility : 1 7 . ..
II R x N N-B3 B-N6 x 8 Q-B r , B x R 1 9 Q x B,
12 R-K 1 B-Q3 QR-K r , and Black wins.
13 P-KR3 N-N5
14 Q-B3 l 17 ..: B-R7ch
Taking the Knight instead would Better than 1 7 . . . N x P when
be fatal, e . g. I4 P x N, Q-R5 1 5 18 B-KB4 ends the proceedings.
P-KN3, B (Q3) x P 1 6 P x B, r8 K-BI B-N6
Q x Pch 17 K-B 1, B x P and Black 19 R x N Q-R8ch
wins the Queen. 2o K-K2 BxR
14 . . . Q-R5 2 r B-Q2 B-R5
1 5 P-Q4 ! 22 Q-R3
Of course not 1 5 Q x R, Q x Pch This forces Black either to ex
and mate next move, while the change Queens or to drive White's
tempting 1 5 R-K8 (threatens to King to QB2, a safer square.
force mate by 1 6 Q x Pch) is refuted 22 . .. QR-K x ch
by 1 5 . . . B-N2 16 R x Rch, R x R 23 K-Q3 Q-B8ch
17 Q x N, R-KI 1 8 K-B 1 , Q-K2 24 K-B2 B-B7
19 B-K6, B-Q4, and Black has the 25 Q-B3 Q-N8
better chances.
" To get out of the pin and be
15 ... NxP
free to use his forces, " says Capa
This is the position : blanca. Against 25 . . . R-K7,
Capablanca was prepared to play
26 N-R3, R x Bch 27 K x R, Q x R
28 Q x B, Q x Pch 29 N-B2, P-QB4
30 B-Qs . " and White should win,
though the ending israther qifficult . "
26 B-Q5 .
White's pieces and Pawns on the
Queen side spring to life .
26 ... P-QB4
27 PxP BxP
28 P-N4 B-Q3
I6 R-K2 1 29 P-R4 P-QR4
White avoids 16 Q x N because of 30 P x NP PxP
16 . . . B-R7ch ! (but not 16 . . . B-N6 31 R-R6 PxP
when 1 7 Q x Pch forces mate) 1 7 32 NxP B-N5
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS 2I
J J P -N6 BxN This is excusable, as anyone

J4B X B even a Grandmaster--can fall into a
White's King looks rather ex trap, but Rubinstein fell into a
posed, but is quite safe. In fact it is variation of the same trap two
Black who must make his King years later at San Remo, against
secure before continuing his attack. Alekhine. This is how that game
If, for example, J4 . . . R-K6, then went :
35 Q x Pch, R x Q J6 R-R8ch, and
White mates next move. SAN REMO, 19JO
Queen's Gambit Dedined
J4 . . . P - RJ
J 5 P-N7 R-K6
Alekhine Rubinstein
Capablanca announced mate in White Black
five moves, which is carried out thus I P-Q4 P-Q4
J6 B x P ch RxB 2 N-KBJ N-KBJ
J7 P-N8 (Q)ch K-R2 J P-B4 P-KJ
J 8 R x P ch KxR 4B -N5 Q N Q2
-
J9 Q-R8ch K-N4 5 P -KJ B-K2

40 Q-R5 mate 6 N-BJ o-o
7 R-B 1 R-K 1
8 Q -B2 P -QRJ
35
9 Px P PxP
RUBINSTEIN SLIPS
1 0 B -Q J P -BJ
AND FORGETS
I I o-o N-K5
Rubinstein fell into the following
1 2 B-KB4 P-KB4
opening trap against Euwe at Bad
I J Nx P
Kissingen in I 928 :
And again the Knight must not
BAD KISSINGEN, I928 be taken, as 14 B-B7 in reply wins
Queen's Gambit Declined the Queen.
Euwe Rubinstein
White Black 36
I N-KBJ P Q4
-
TARRASCH SPRINGS
2 P-B4 P-KJ A TRAP
3 P-Q4 N-KBJ At Dresden in 1 892, Dr. Tarrasch
4 B-N5 QN-Q2 beat Marco in five minutes. Al
5 P-KJ B-K2 though the game took so little time,
6 N-B3 o-o it is an important one in the theory
7 R-B1 P-BJ of the Ruy Lopez Opening.
8 B-Q3 P-Q RJ Here is the game :
9 P x P KP x P
I o o-o R-K I
I I Q-NJ P-R J DRESDEN, 1 892
1 2 B-KB4 N- Ruy Lopez
I J NX P
Tarrasch Marco
White wins a Pawn, as I J White Black
P x N would cost the Queen after I P - K.f. P - K4
14 B-B7 . 2 N- KBJ N-QBJ
3 B-N5 P-Q3 I P-Q4, which he followed up with

4 P-Q4 B-Q2 2 P-KB4 regardless of the oppo
5 N-B3 B-K2 nent's reply to his first move. Ware
6 o--o N-B3 managed to draw two of those six
7 R-K r o--o games !
A natural move which loses,

strangely enough, as Black seems
to have been making sound de 38
veloping moves. Instead of this, TORRE'S DOUBLE
Black must play 7 . . . P x P, giving VICTORIES
up the center. After losing to Torre in I 4 moves
at Baden-Baden in 1 925, Grunfeld
B BxN BxB
assured his friends that he would
9 PxP PxP
take drastic revenge against Torre in
10 QxQ QR x Q
their next encounter. A few weeks
11 NxP BxP
later they met at the Marienbad
If 1 1 . . . N x P 1 2 N x B wins a Tournament. Despite Grunfeld's
piece for White. grim prophecy, he was defeated by
Torre in brilliant style. Here are
I2 N x B NxN both games :
I 3 N-Q3 P-KB4
I 4 P-KB3 B-B4ch BADEN-BADEN, I925
I5 N x B NxN Dutch Defence
I6 B-N5 R-Q4
Grunfeld Torre
On r6 . . . QR-K 1 , the reply I 7 White Black
B-K7 wins the exchange. I P-Q4 P-K3
2 N-KB3 P-KB4
Resigns
3 P-KN3 N-KB3
Black must give up the exchange, 4 B-N2 P-Q4
as after 17 . . . R-K r IS P-QB4 5 o--o B-Q3
forces a win of material. 6 P-B4 P-B3
7 Q-B2 o--o
8 P-N3 N-K5
37 g B-N2 N-Q2
WARE'S ro N-K5 Q-B3
WEIRD OPENINGS I I P-B3 NxN
In the Fifth American Tourney I 2 QP x N
held at New York in I 88o, Ware This was probably played in
replied with I . . . P-Q every stinctively. The proper move was the
time he had the Black pieces . He zwischenzug I2 P-Bs , and then if
won four and lost five of these I2 . . . N-B2 13 p X N.
games.
I2 . . . B-B4ch
Playing White, Ware began two
I3 K-Rr N x Pch
games with I P-QR4, winning one
game and losing the other. In six 14 Resigns
of the seven other games in which If 14 P x N, Q-R3ch and mate
he played White, his first move was next move.
MARIENBAD, I 92S 26 B x B K R2
-
Queen's Pawn Game 2 7 R-N3 Q-K2

Black avoids 27 . . . Q x P, when
Torre Grunfeld
this might happen : 28 P-Bs, N-Q4
White Black
29 Q-Q2 (threatens 30 R-KR3 with
1 P-Q4 P-Q4
quick mate in the offing) P-KR4
2 N-KB3 P-QB3
30 R-N5, and White's next move
3 B-B4 N-B3
3 1 B-N3 catches the Queen.
4 P-K3 Q-N3
s B-Q3 Q x NP 28 R (Q r ) -N r P-B4
6 QN-Q2 Q-N3 29 B-Q3 B-B3
7 o-o P-K3 30 P-Q5 !
8 P-K4 PxP This begins a fine combination.
9 NxP NxN The idea of this move is to remove
Io B x N N-Q2 a support from Black's King Bishop
I I Q-K2 N-B3 Pawn.
12 B-Q3 B-K2
13 B-Ks o-o 30 . . . PxP
14 N-N5 P-N3 This is the position :
15 P-KR4
White's first real threat since
giving up a Pawn-16 P-R5, N x P
1 7 Q x N, and Black dares not take
the Queen.
15 . . . Q-Q I
I6 Q R-N I N-Q 2
1 7 B-KB4 B-B3
18 K R-Q I N-N3
19 P-B4 B-Q2
2o R-N3 R-BI
2 1 B-K4 P K R3
-
22 N-B3 B-N2 31 R x PI
23 B-Q6
Forcibly removes another sup
" White could win his Pawn back port of the King Bishop Pawn.
by 23 P-Bs, but prefers not to Black may not capture the Rook,
simplify, " says Torre. as this would follow : 31 . . . K x R
3 2 Q-N4ch, K-R2 33 B x Pch, R x B
23 . . . 34 Q x Reb, K-N r 35 Q-N6ch,
24 B-B2 K-Br 36 B-Q6, and White wins the
Hei'e too, Torre prefers to keep Queen.
both his Bishops to winning the R-KN 1
31 . . .
exchange, say in this line : 24 B x R, 32 R x R KxR
P x B 2 5 B x B, P x N 26 R x P, 33 B x P RxB
K x B 27 Q-Ksch, K-N r 28 R-B6, 34 Q-N4ch R-N4
B-KI .
35 P x R QxB
24 . .. R-KB2 36 P x P dis.ch K-R2
25 N-K s BxN 37 R-N3 B-Q2
38 Q-R.J Q-K8ch Tchigorin at Hastings, 1 895

39 K-R2 Q-Ks Tarrasch at Hastings, r 895
4o Q-B6 Q-N3 Bardeleben at Hastings, 1 895
4 1 Q-K7ch K-Rr Charousek at Nuremberg, r 8g6
42 Q-B8ch K-R2 Marshall at Paris, r goo
43 Q-K7ch K-R1 Rubinstein at St. Petersburg,
44 R-K3 Q x RPch 1 909
45 K-N r Q-N2 Dus-Chotimirski at St. Peters-
46 Q-Q8ch Q-Nr burg, 1 909
47 Q-B6ch Q-N2 Torre at Moscow, 1925
48 Q-B4 B-Ns Levenfisch at Moscow, 1925
49 R-KN3 NxP Stahlberg at Zurich, 1 934
so R x B Q-R8ch Fine at Nottingham, 1 936
5 1 K-R2 Q-K4 Reshevsky at Nottingham, 1936
52 Q x Q NxQ
53 R-Ns N-Q6
54 R x P P-Bs 40
55 R-Q8ch K-N2 ALEKHINE'S DEFENCE
56 R-Q7ch K-B3 ANTICIPATED
57 R x P P-R4 In his book My Best Games of
58 R-B7 N-N7 Chess, Alekhine writes of the Alek
59 R-Bs P-Rs hine Defence, " This defence was
6o P-N4 K-K3 played for the first time by myself
6r P-Ns K-Q3 in a consultation game at Zurich in
62 R-B8 K-K3 August of 1 92 1 . "
63 K-N3 P-R6 Actually the defence was first
64 P-B4 K-B4 adopted as far back as r 862 by a
65 R-Bsch K-N3 contestant named Pearson, who was
66 R-B6ch K-N2 receiving Knight odds from the
67 P-Bs K-B2 celebrated Anderssen in the London
Handicap Toumament. A piquant
The game was adj oumed here,
touch is ded by the fact that
but Black resigned without resum
Gottschall in his monumental collec
ing play.
tion of Anderssen's games (pub
lished in 1 9 1 2 ) places two question
39 marks after Pearson 's r . . . N-KB3 ,
and comments, " The decisive mis
LASKER COMES
take ! "
A CROPPER
Dr. Lasker is considered by many
competent critics to have been the 41
greatest chess player that ever MASTER LEARNS THE
lived. And so perhaps he was. Yet MOVES TWICE
it is strange that the following The Russian chess master Ilj in
masters were successful in their Genevsky had to leam the moves
ft'l'st encounters with him in touma twice ! Shell shock in the First World
ment play : War took away his memory, and
Van Vliet at Amsterdam, r 88g the master player had to be told how
Makovetz at Graz, I 8go the chess pieces move and capture !
.p 5 Q-K2 KN-B3
CORRESPONDENCE 6 N-Q6 mate
Q UICKIE
A correspondence player can take 44
a day or two for each move . One QUICKEST POSSIBLE WIN
would expect him to make blunders A game of chess can be won in
rarely, and the games so played to two moves ! Here's how :
be long, drawn out affairs. The
world's record for brevity in chess White Black
by mail must therefore be this I P-KB4 P-K3
2 P-KN4 Q-Rs mate
quickie :
CORRESPONDENCE, I93o 45
Budapest Defence VICTORY AFTER
40 YEARS
Warren Selman Dr. Lasker was a hard man to
(Dublin) (Amsterdam) beat. Frank Marshall won from him
White Black in May of I900, and then again in
I P-Q4 N-KB3 May of I94o--4 o years later ! In the
2 P-QB4 P-K4 course of this period they had met
3 Px P N-K5 many times in tournament or match
4 P-QR3 P-Q3 play, but never had a game ended
s PxP BxP in Marshall's favor.
6 P-KN3 N x BP Here are both games :
And Black wins, as 7 K x N is
met by 7 . . . B x Pch winning the
, PARIS, I9oo
Queen, and on other moves Black Queen's Gambit Declined
wins the exchange.
Marshall Lasker
White Black
43
I P-Q4 P-Q4
ALL FOUR MISS 2 P-QB4 P-K3
MATE IN ONE 3 N-QB3 N-KB3
Many a miniature game owes its 4 B-N5 P-B3
existence to an early mistake made 5 P-K4 P x KP
by one of the players. But when four 6NxP B-Ns ch
allies discuss their ideas with each 7 N-QB3 P-B4
other, and then get mated on the 8 P-QR3 B x Nch
sixth move-that is unique ! 9 Px B Q-R4
I O B-Q2 N-K5
PALMA, I935 I I N-B3 N x QBP
Caro-Kann Defence I2 P x P
Alekhine Four Allies If I2 Q-N3 at once, then I2 . . .

PxP I 3 N x P, Q-K4ch frees
White Black
P-QB3
Black from the pin.
I P-K4
2 P-Q4 P-Q4 I2 . . . NxQ
3 N-QB3 PxP 13 B x Q N-N7
4 NxP N-Q2 I 4 P-QR4
26 WONDERS A N D CURIOSITIES O F CHESS
With an eye to capturing the But not at once 39 N x Pch when

,
Knight by 1 5 R-R2. Black replies 39 . . . K-B4.

14 . . . B-Q2 39 . . . N-B3
Attacks the Rook Pawn with two 40 K-Qz N-N5
pieces, but White has an ingenious 4 1 R-Q8 ch K-K4
counter to this. 42 N-Nz R-QB2
43 N-B4ch K-B4
15 P-B6 1 44 R x P
Now if 1 5 . . N (B3) x P 1 6 B-B3
.
wins the Knight. At last a tangible gain ! The rest

of the ending is easier.
15 . . . BxP 44 . . . R-B4
x 6 N-Ks B-K5 45. B-K8 R-Q4
The alternative 15 . . N-Qz,
. 46 N-K3ch K-K4
suggested by some annotators, 47 N x R KxR
fails after 1 6 N x B, P x N 1 7 B-B3, 48 N x N PxN
QR-N I IS R-QN I when I 8 . . . 49 B-B7 P-B4
N-Q6ch loses as I9 B x N in reply 50 B-N8 P-R4
protects the Queen Rook . 5 1 B-B7 P-R5
1 7 P-B3 P-B3 52 P-R3 P-N4
I 8 B-B3 B-B7 53 B-K8 K-B5
I9 K-Q2 N x RP 54 B-Q7 P-N6
zo K x B NxB 55 B x BP K-N5
2 I N-Q3 ! N-Q4 56 B-Q3 P-N7
22 P x N PxP 5 7 K-B2 K-R6
23 N-B5 P-QN3 58 K-NI Resigns
24 B-N5ch K B2
- The next game is from an ex-
25 N-R4 hibition match, and was one of
Threatens 26 N x P, but Black Lasker's last serious games.
has an ingenious reply. NEW YORK, 1 940
25 ... N-B3 Queen's Gambit Declined
26 N-B3 KR-QBI
27 KR-Qx N-K2 Marshall Lasker
29 K-N2 R-B2 White Black
I P-QB4 P-K3
Black is ready to parry 29 N x P 2 N-KB3 N-KB3
with 29 . . R-B4.
.
3 N-B3 P.-Q4
29 B-Q3 P-QR4 4 P-Q4 QN-Q2
3o N-R4 R-B3 s B-N5 B-K2
3 1 QR-BI R-QN x 6 P-K3 o-o
32 R x R NxR 7 Q-B2 P-B4
33 R-QB 1 N-K4 8 BP x P NxP
34 R-B7ch K-K3 9 Bx B Q x "B
35 B-Ns P-N4 xo N x N PxN
36 R-R7 P-Q5 I I B-Q3 P-KN3
37 R-R6 K-Q4 12 P x P NxP
38 K-B2 R-N2 1 3 o-o P-N3
39 R-R8 14 QR-BI P-QR4
This is to prevent IS P-N4, 28 PxR Q x Pch

driving the Knight away from a 29 Q-B2 QxN
good square. 3o QxQ RxQ
IS KR--QI B-N2 31 R-Rs
I 6 N-Q4 KR-B I This threatens 32 R-B7 and
I 7 Q-K2 Q-B3 doubling Rooks on the seventh
I8 P-KR3 R-B2 rank.
I9 R-B3 QR-QB I
Q-K4 JI ... R--QBs
20 KR-QBI
32 RxR PxR
2I P-R3 P-Rs
33 R--QBs B-R3
Once again to prevent 22 P-QN4. 34 P-QR4 Resigns
22 B-Ns R-RI
Seems to protect the Rook Pawn
amply, but apparently not enough 46
against the wily Marshall. RUBINSTEIN MISSES
This is the position : MATE
Racing down the home stretch in
a thrilling neck and neck tie for first
place in the San Sebastian Tourna
ment of I 9 I 2 were Rubinstein and
Nimzovich. Fittingly enough, they
were scheduled to play each other
in the last round. First prize would
go to the winner of this game I
In the opening, Rubinstein had a
bit the better of it, and kept his ad
vantage to the midgame. Suddenly,
Nimzovich, affected no doubt by
23 B x P ! RxB the keen excitement of the occasion,
24 P--QN4 Q-KI blundered. He made a move which
would allow his opponent to mate in
If 24 . . . N-N6 2S R X R, N X N two moves ! An unbelievable error
26 Q-Q I , or if 24 . . . N-N6 2S R x R, in a master of Nimzovich's ability,
N x R 26 Q-B2, and White wins in and sure to be pounced on by the
each case. eagle-eyed Rubinstein.
2S Q-B2 This was the situation :
But not the hasty 26 P x N when
Black can reply 2S . . . R x N.
2S . . . R-K2
26 P x N PxP
27 R x P R x KP
On 27 . . . R x RP instead, there is
this possibility (pointed out by
Marshall) 28 Q-N2, Q-Rs 29
R-B8ch l , B x R 30 R x Bch, K-N2
3I N-Bs check, double check and
mate !
But, " curiouser and curiouser, " which has come down to us would
eagle-eyed Rubinstein missed the seem to be rather primitive :
mate by I Q x Pch, K-R1 2 Q x P
mate. Undoubtedly, this was one MADRID, 1 5 75
of the strangest double blunders in King's Gambit Declined
chess history I
Lopez Leonardo
White Black
47 I P-K4 P-K..,
HEATED CHESS PLAY 2 P-KB4 P-Q3
In 1 9 1 1 Schlechter and Tarrasch 3 B-B4 P-QB3
played a match at Cologne which 4 N-B3 B-Ns
was one of the finest ever contested. The fir.st error-it loses a Pawn.
What made this remarkable was the
fact that the games were played 5 PxP PxP
when the temperature averaged 95 6 B x Pch KxB
degrees in the shade-enough to 7 N x Pch K-KI
discourage any kind of chess ! 8QxB N-B3
The second and more serious error.
48 It loses the exchange and the game.
MARACHE IN A HURRY 9 Q-K6ch Q-K2
Napoleon Marache made such 10 Q-B8ch Q QI
-
rapid strides in assimilating chess n Q x Qch KxQ

that he was able, three weeks after 1 2 N-B7ch Resigns
his first lesson, to give his tutor the
odds of a Rook ! 51
LONGEST PROBLEM
49
MATE
RESHEVSKY TAKES J . N. Babson published a problem
HIS TIME in Brentano's Chess Monthly in 1882,
In their twelfth-round game at the terms of which were : White to
AVRO in I938, Reshevsky took a mate in I , 22o moves, after compell
full hour for his first five moves. ing Black to make three successive,
Capablanca took only two minutes complete Knight's tours.
for his ! This is the position, should you
care to try to solve it :
so
RUY LOPEZ AT PLAY
The first International Chess
Tournament was held at Madrid in
1575 at the Court of Philip I I . The
players were Ruy Lopez and Alfonso
Ceron of Spain, and Giovanni
Leonardo {also known as II Puttino)
and Paolo Boi of Italy.
Leonardo was the winner of first
prize .
One of the games (if authentic)
5Z 54
LUCKY STALEMATE MIGHTY ARMY
In the Fifth American Tourney, UNAVAILING
held at New York in 1 88o, Delmar Mr. A. P. Barnes once gave an
had a Queen and five passed Pawns amateur the odds of a Rook and
against Congdon's lone Queen Knight, and won easily. There's
but he let Congdon escape with a nothing startling in that, but in this
draw by stalemate ! Here is the case his opponent finished up with
position a few moves before Delmar more pieces than he had started
came to grief : with originally !
NEW YORK, 1 877
(Remove White's QR and QN)
Barnes Amateur
White Black
I P-K4 P-K4
2 P-Q4 PxP
3 P-QB3 Px P
4 B-QB4 N-QB3
5 P-QR3 QN-K2
6 N-B3 P-QR3
7 o-o P-QN4
8 B-R2 P-QB3
Play continued as follows : 9 N-N5 N-R3
40 ... P-R6 10 Q-N3 Q-
41 Q-QN3 P-Q6ch II R-K I PxP
42 K-Q2 Q-Q5 12 R-Q I P x B (Q)
43 K-Q I Q-B6 This is the position :
" Almost any other move would
have won, " says the Tournament
book.
44 Q-N8ch ! KxQ
Stalemate
53
RECORD FOR
SIMULTANEOUS PLAY
The record fo r simultaneous chess
play is held by Gideon Stahlberg,
Swedish master. He played 400 At this point, Barnes, who had a
games at Buenos Aires, in an exhi Queen, Rook, Knight and Bishop
bition which started at 1 0 : 00 P . M . less than his opponent, announced
Friday, August 29th 1 94I, and mate in three, beginning (naturally)
ended at 1o : oo A . M . on Sunday. with a Qu een sacrifice .
He wound up with the fine score of 1 3 Q x Pch NxQ
364 wins, 14 draws, and only 2 2 I4 B x Nch K-Q I
losses ! I 5 N-K6 mate
55 been announced which is longer

ANNOUNCED MATE than the rest of the game itself !
LONGER THAN REST
s6
OF GAME
WATER-MARKED
Norwood Potter once performed
TOURNAMENT BOOK
an interesting feat. He gave an
The Tournament Book of the
amateur the tremendous odds of a
Sixth American Chess Congress
Queen. After only six moves were
held at New York in 1 889 was
played, Potter announced a forced published on paper especially water
mate in nine moves ! marked " Sixth American Chess
The game went thus : Congress. "
LONDON, 1 870 57
(Remove White's Queen) ARMY OF
WOMEN PLAYERS
Potter Amateur More than 1o,ooo women players
White Black took part in the eliminating sections
I P-K4 P-K4 of the Russian Women's Chess
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 Championship in 1 936 !
3 B-B4 N-B3
4 N-B3 N-QR4 58
sNxP NxP MOVING PIECES
6 P-Q3 N-B4 I S FUTILE
This is how the board looks : In 19 1 1 Spielmann and Alapin
played a match of 10 games at
Munich with the novel idea (sugges
ted by Alapin) of being permitted to
analyze the positions by moving the
pieces on a separate board.
Spielmann did not avail himself
of the privilege, but won the match
by 6! to 3! !
59
MASTERS BECOME
ARMY OFFICERS
White announced mate as fol- Reuben Fine and Isaac Kashdan
lows : have been officers in the Mexican
7 B x Pch K-K2 Army.
8 B-Nsch K-Q3 The reason for these titles (which
9 N-Nsch KxN were honorary) was that it would
10 P-B4ch K-B4 facilitate their travels through
1 1 N-Q4ch K-N5 Mexico.
1 2 P-R3ch K-N6 6o
13 N-K2ch KxP DISTINGUI SHED
14 B-Qsch N-K5 RACE- HORSES
1 5 B x N mate
Steinitz and Capablanca have had
Never before or since has a mate racehorses named after them.
61 Here is the position :

SUSPICIOUS-LOOKING
MOVES
Steinitz was once arrested as a
spy ! Police authorities assumed that
the .moves made by Steinitz in
playing his correspondence games
with Tchigorin were part of a code
by means of which important war
secrets could be communicated.
6:z
CAPPED KNIGHT
INFLICTS MATE
Much more difficult even than the 1 5 Q x Nch ! KxQ
odds of a Queen is undertaking to 1 6 R-N 4 dis.ch K-&J
force checkmate with a particular 1 7 N-N3ch KxR
Pawn or piece. Clearly the opponent 18 R-Bs P-KR3
can afford to give up any amount of 1 9 P-R3ch K-R5
material to rid the board of the only 2o R-Rsch BxR
piece that has the power to inflict 2 1 N-Bs mate !
mate . In the course of fu lfilling his task,
Here is a rare example of this Lange sacrificed his Queen, two
stipulation being carried out suc Rooks, a Knight and a Bishop I
cessfully. Max Lange co ntracts to
checkmate with his Queen Knight.
63
BRESLAU, 1 868 FRUSTRATING THE
BOOK PLAYER
(Place a Ring Around the Queen's
G. A. MacD on nell was t he winner
Knight)
of a tournamen t played at London
Lange Von Schier- in 1 868 . All the competitors began
stedt their games with the position of
White Black their Knights and Bishops reversed
I P-K4 P-K4 -in order to avoid book play. And
2 N-QB3 N-QB3 this was back in 1 868 !
3 P-KB4 PxP
4 N-B3 P-KN4
5 B-B4 P-N5 64
6 o-o PxN MASTER OF CHESS
7 P-Q4 PxP AND WHIST
8 B x Pch KxB Alexandre Louis H onore Lebre
9 Q-Rsch K-N2 ton Deschapelles was once acknowl
Io R x P N-R3 edged to be the best player in the
I I B- K3 P-Q3 world at both chess and whist. The
1 2 N-K2 Q-K2 Deschapelles Coup, his invention, is
I3 K x P B-K3 still used today by master bridge
1 4 QR-KB1 B-B2 players.
6s I S N-Bs !
NAPIER PICKS HIS Does this win a piece ?
BEST GAME
Most players are proud of their 15 . . . NxN
most brilliant efforts, b ut Napier x6 Q x Q KR x Q
thought the best game he ever I 7 N-K7ch K-RI
played was the one he lost to Dr. This is better than I 7 . . . K-BI
Lasker at Cambridge Springs in 18 B-B5, N-K5 I9 B-QR3, N-Q3
I 904 l 20 N X B. QR X N 2 I o-o-o, K-K2
Here is the game, which is not 22 B-N2, and White wins (accord
only Napier's best, but is one of ing to Marco) .
Lasker's most impressive victories
as well : I B P-Rs
Marco points out that this is
superior to 1 8 P x N, P x P 1 9
CAMBRIDG}': SPRINGS, I904 B-Q4, B x B 2 0 P x B , R-K I , and
Sicilian Defence Black is a Pawn ahead, and with
the superior position.
Lasker Napier
White Black IB . . . R-K I
I P-K4 P-QB4 19 B-Bs
2 N-QB3 N-QB3 Here is the position :
3 N-B3 P-KN3
4 P-Q4 PxP
sNxP B-N2
6 B-K3 P-Q3
7 P-KR3 N-B3
8 P-KN4 o-o
9 P-N5 N-KI
xo P-KR4 N-B2
I I P-B4
This early, perhaps premature

attack is foreign to Lasker's usual
style, but the end (in this case)
justifies the means. I9 . . . NP x P
II ... P-K4 " Is it not queer, " says the inde
I 2 KN-K2 P-Q4 fatigable (and indispensable) Marco,
13 KP x P N-Q5 ! " that Napier avoids 19 . . . KP x P,
I4 N x N N x P! which removes the Knight's attack
on his NP, protects the Knight, and
Black is prepared to meet I 5 increases the scope of his King Rook
N x N with 15 . . P x N 16 B x P,
. and King Bishop ? " Marco then gives
Q x N I 7 B x B, Q x R I B B x R, a detailed analysis, of which I quote
Q x Pch with the better game. But
, two lines of play :
Lasker has something up his sleeve If 19 . . . KP X p 20 p X N,
-and so has Napier ! B x Pch 2 1 K-B2, B x R 22 B-B4,
B-N 2 23 N x Pch, BP x N 24 P x P, 66
P-KR3 25 R x Pch, B x R 26 RUBINSTEIN DEFEATS
P x B, R-Q 1 27 B-K7, and White THE BIG THREE
wins. Or if 1 9 . . . KP x P 20 P x N, The three greatest chess . masters
B x Pch 2 1 K-B2, B x R 22 B-B4, that ever lived (in my opinion) were
B-B6 23 B x BP, R x N 24 P x P ! , Capablanca, Alekhine and Lasker.
R x B 2 5 P x R, B-N2 2 6 P-N6, Rarely did any of them lose a
P-KR3 27 R x Pch, B x R 28 game, and yet Akiba Rubinstein
B-Q4ch, B-N2 29 P-B8 ( Q ) mate. defeated each of them in tum the
2o B-B4 ! PxP first time he played them !
2 1 B x BP ! Here are his three great victories :
According to Napier, Lasker had
only three minutes for this and his ST. PETERSBURG, 1909
next nine moves. Queen's Gambit Declined
21 ... N-K5 ! Rubinstein Lasker
22 BxR BxP White Black
23 QR-N 1 B-B6ch 1 P-Q4 P-Q4
24 K-B 1 B-K Ns ! 2 N-KB3 N-KB3
Black is a Rook behind, but he 3 P-B4 P-K3
has four threats : 25 . . . R x B, 25 4 B-Ns P-B4
. . . N x B, 25 . . . N-Q7ch and 25 . . . s P x QP KP x P
N-N6ch. 6 N-B3 PxP
White, who has only a minute or 7 KN x P N-B3
so on his clock, must find a way to 8 P-K3
save himself-or he isn't Lasker ! White does not try to win a Pawn
by 8 B x N, Q x B, 9 N x P, as 9 . . .
25 B(K8) x P ! BxB
Q x N 10 N-B7ch, K-Q 1 1 1 N x R,
26 R x B! N-N6ch
B-Nsch would find him mated.
27 K-N2 NxR
28 RxP 8 ... B-K2
Lasker has returned the Rook, 9 B-Ns B-Q2
simply to clear up the complications, 10 B(KNs) x N BxB
and get a superior ending. u NxP BxN
12 P x B Q-N4
28 ... P-R4
13 B x N BxB
29 R-N 3 B-N 2
1 4 N-K3 o-o-o
30 R-KR3 N-N6
I S o-o KR-KI
31 K-B3 R-R3
Threatens 16 . . . R x N
But not 3 1 . . . B-K4 (to protect
the Pawn) as 32 N-N 6ch wins the I 6 R-BI !
bishop. A subtle move, whose depth
32 KxP N-K7ch seems to escape Lasker.
33 K-B5 N-B6 16 . . . RxN
34 P-R3 N-R5
35 B-K3 Resigns Somewhat safer was 1 6 . . . K-N1
(to avoid the chief threat of 1 7
For 36 P-N 6 will force the win. P-Q5) but Black's position would
J4 WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
still be inferior after I ] R-B5 , (or 24 . . . R x R 25 Q x Q) 25

Q-B5 I 8 P-Q5 . R x N I 9 Q-B I , Q-Q6ch and mate next move.
R-K4 20 p X B , p X p 2 I Q-BJ .
2 2 Q-B5 Q-K2
Here if 22 . . . R-Q8ch 23 K-B2,
R-Q7ch 24 K-K I , Q x P 25
Q-R5ch, and White wins a Rook.
2J Q x Qch KxQ
24 R x P R-Q8ch
25 K-Bz R-Q7ch
26 K-BJ R X QNP
27 R-QR5 R-N2
28 R-R6 K-B I
29 P-K4 R-QB2
JO P-KR4 K-B2
J I P-N4 K-B r
I ] R x Bch PxR J2 K-B4 K-K2
I8 Q-B I ! JJ P-R5 P-RJ
This is the point ! If instearl I 8 34 K-B5 K-B2
P x R , Q x KPch I 9 K-R I , Q x P, J5 P-K5 R-N2
and Black is a Pawn up . J6 R-Q6 K-K2
J7 R-R6 K-B2
r8 . . . Rx P J8 R-Q6 K-B r
After I 8 . . . R-K4 instead, White J9 R-QB6 K-B2
still had the advantage by con 40 P-R3 ! Resigns
tinuing I9 Q x Pch, K-N I 20 P x R, On a King move, 41 K-N6 is de
Q x P 2I R-Br . cisive ( note how 40 P-RJ prevents
I9 P x R R-Q2 Black from moving R-N 5 ) , or if
40 . . . R-K2 41 P-K6ch, K-N r
Protecting the QBP by 1 9 . . .
42 K-N6, R-K I 4J P-K7 followed
R-QJ allows 20 R x P, and the
by 44 R-Q6 and 45 R-Q8, and
Rook's penetration can cause
mate follows qu ickly .
trouble.
The following year Rubinstein
20 Q x Pch K-Q I scored another great victory, this
2 I R-B4 time over Alekhine. Thou gh still in
A sp le nd id conception ! Rubin his teens, Alekhine was llggressive
stein threatens 22 Q-R8ch, fol and imaginative, and thor ou ghly
lowed by 2J R-K4ch or 23 R-B4ch, dangerous at all times .
winning by direct attack.
MOSCOW, 1910
2I ...
Ruy Lopez
If 2 I . . . Q-QR4 2 2 Q-R8ch,
K-K2 2J R-K4ch, K-BJ 24 Alekhine Rubinstein
Q-B6ch, K-N4 25 P-R4ch, and White Black
White wins a Rook. Or if 2 I . . . I P-K4 P-K4
R-Q8ch 2 2 K-B2, R-Q7ch 2J 2 N-KBJ N-QB3
K-K I , Q x P 24 R-Q4ch, K-K2 J B-N5 P-QR3
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS 3S
4BxN QP x B This is the position :

S P-Q3 P-B3
6 B-K3 B-KNs
7 QN-Q2 P-QB4
8 N-B4 B-Q3
9 Q-Q2 N-K2
10 Q-B3 N-B3
1 1 N x Bch PxN
1 2 N-Q2 B-I{J
13 P-B4 o-o
1 4 N-B3 N-Qs
IS Q-Q2 P-Q4
1 6 P-B3 N x Nch
17 P x N P-Bs
1 8 P-Bs B-B2
29 R x R QxR
19 KR-N1
30 R-Nr
The first threat in the game- Of course not 30 K x B, Q-Q8ch,
slight though it is (2o B-R6, win winning the Rook.
ning the exchange) .
30 ... B-R4
19 ... K-R1 31 R-K1 Q-Q6
20 QP x P P x KP 32 Q-K7 P-R3
21 PxP BxP 33 K-N 1
22 Q-N2 R-B2
23 R-Q I Q-B2 A tempting move is 33 B x P, but
24 Q-QB2 then this follows : 33 . . . Q-B6ch
34 K-N I , Q-Nsch 3S K-R 1 , R-K 1 ,
Now a real trap ! If 24 . . . B x P and Black wins.
2S P-N3, Q-R4 26 R-QR1, B x P
27 Q x B ! , Q x Rch 28 K-B2, and 33 . . . K-R2
White wins. 34 B-B2 Q-R6
24 . . . R-Q I With the deadly threat of forcing

2S K-B2 R(B2)-Q2 mate by 3S . . . B-B6.
26 Q-R4
3S B-Q4 B-B6
Exchanging Rooks instead could 36 K-B2 Q-N7ch
lead to this debacle : 26 R x R, Q x R 37 K-K3 B x P!
27 K-B3, B-Q6 28 Q-N3, B x Pch
29 K x B, Q-B3ch, and mate next For 38 Q x R permits a mate in
move. three.
26 . . . B-Q6 38 R-K2 P x Bch

2 7 Q-N4 P-QN4 39 P x P Q-B6ch
40 Resigns
Threatens to win the King Pawn
by 28 . . . P-QR4. Rubinstein's defeat of Capa
blanca must have been particularly
gratifying to the Polish master,
as it was Capablanca's only loss in Here is the way the board looks :
his sensational tournament debut.
SAN SEBASTIAN, I 9 I I
Rubinstein Capablanca
White Black
I P-Q4 P-Q4
2 N-KB3 P-QB4
3 P-B4 P-K3
4 P x QP KP x P
5 N-B3 N-QB3
6 P-KN3 B-K3
7 B-N2 B-K2 I 6 K-N2 !
8 o-o R-B I "This is the move which I had not
considered, " comments Capablanca.
Capablanca notes that the simple " I thought that Rubinstein would
8 . . . N-B3 was better, but he have to play 16 B-N2 when I had
wanted to get away from the well in mind the following combination :
analyzed lines of play. 16 B-N2 , N-K4 I 7 N-B4 (if 1 7
R-B I , Q x R ! I 8 Q x Q, B x Pch
9 PxP BxP wins) N-N5 r 8 P-KR3 (if r8 N-R3,
Io N-KN5 N-B3 B x Pch 19 R x B, R x R 20 N x R,
n NxB PxN Q x Pch 2 1 K-B I , N-K6ch wins
I2 B-R3 Q-K2 the Queen) N x P 19 R x N, B x Rch
I3 B-N5 o-o 20 K x B, P-KN4, and Black should
" The right move was I3 . . . win. It is curious that this combina
R-Q I , " says Capablanca, " in order tion has been overlooked. It has
to get the Rook away from the line been taken for granted that I did
of the Bishop at R3 and at the same not see the 1 7th move Q-B I . "
time to support the Queen Pawn. I6 . . . QR-Q I
Against the text move White makes I 7 Q-B I I PxN
a very fine combination which On I 7 . . . R x N, there follows
I had seen, but which I thought I 8 Q x Q, P x Q I9 B x Pch, and
could be defeated." White wins.
I4 B x N QxB I8 Q x B Q-Q7
I5 N x P ! I9 Q-N5 N-Q5
20 Q-Q3 QxQ
Rubinstein is prepared to meet
2I P x Q KR-K I
I5 . . . P x N with I6 Q x Pch
2 2 B-N4 R-Q3
followed by I 7 B x R, as well
23 KR-KI RxR
as I5 . . . B x Pch with I6 K-N2,
24 R x R R-QN3
Q-R3 I 7 N-B4. These are obvious
25 R-K5 RxP
lines, but there are subtleties in the
26 R x P N-B3
position.
2 7 B-K6ch K-BI
I5 . . . 28 R-B5ch K-K I
This is better than 28 . . . K-K2, 39 P x P P-R6

B-B4 , and white threatens 29 40 B x N R x NP
R-B7ch.
If 40 . . . P-N7 4 1 R-Nsch,
K-Q2 K-R3 42 R-N8, and White wins.
P-QR3
4 1 B-Qs P-R7
Capablanca says that the proper 42 R-R6ch Resigns
move here was 30 . . . K-Q3 . Then If 42 . . . K-R2 or 42 . . . K-R4
if 3 I R-QN5 (to exchange Rooks) 43 R-R8 followed by 44 R-R8ch
R x R 32 B x R, N-Q5 followed by wins, or if 42 . . . K-N4 43 B-B4ch
33 . . . P-QN4, " and White would followed by 44 R-R6 wins.
have an exceedingly difficult game Comments on the merits of this
to draw on account of the domi game vary from Kmoch's. " One of
nating position of the Knight at Q5 the most famous accomplishments
in conj unction with the extra Pawn of the Polish Grandmaster," to
on the Queen's side and the awk Capablanca's, " As an endgame,
ward position of White's King." this is rather a sad exhibition for
31 R-B7ch K-Q3 two masters. The redeeming feature
32 R x KNP P-N4 of the game is Rubinstein's fine
33 B-N8 P-QR4 combination in the middle game,
34 RxP P-R5 beginning with 14 BxN . "
35 P-R4 P-N5
36 R-R6ch K-B4 67
37 R-Rsch K-N3 PROMPT REPLY TO
38 B-Qs WANT AD
A blunder in a winning position I The A merican Chess Bulletin had
The right way was 38 B-B4, then this advertisement in its issue of
if 38 . . . P-N6 39 R-Nsch, K-B2 February 1 909 :
40 B x P, P x B 41 P x P, and Wanted . . . A youth with the
White's Pawns will go on to victory. genius of Morphy, the memory of
38 . . . P-N6 Pillsbury and the determination
of Steinitz ; of robust health which
Capablanca in turn misses a he values above rubies ; full of a
golden opportunity to save the modest j oy of living and possessor
game-a rare happening in Capa of habits of life that square with a
blanca's career. sensible ideal-as adversary for
The right line (which he dis the present and invincible cham
covered after the game) was 38 . . . pion of the world. Unto such an
R X p 39 B-B4 , (if 39 B X R, P-N6 one will come su pport unlimited,
40 B x P, P x B, and Black's last friends by the legion, imperish
Pawn cannot be stopped) R-B7 able glory, and possibly, Victory I
(threatens to capture the Bishop)
40 R-Nsch , K-B2 41 B-N8, P-R6 The terms of this advertisement
42 P-R5, P-R7 43 B x P, R x B, seemed difficult to fulfill, but they
" and if there is a win it is very received a speedy reply, when their
difficult to find it, as against 44 own pages recorded a few months
P-R6, R-R3 ! offers excellent chan later the smashing victory of Capa
ces for a draw. " blanca, the new chess star, over
Frank Marshall, Champion of the 69

United States. HARRW ITZ'S REVENGE
This was the beginning of Capa Harrwitz published a book on chess
blanca's meteoric chess career, wherein he quoted several of Mor
which culminated in his winning the phy's games. Instead of the usual
World's Championship from the brilliancies one would expect, the
mighty Lasker . games cited showed only Morphy's
68 losses.
BLINDFOLD MATE
(It may be explained that Harr
witz's bitterness against Morphy,
IN 16
after losing a m atch to him, was
J. H. Blackbume, the great
probably the cause of this spiteful
British master, once announced a
attempt at revenge.)
forced rnate in I 6 moves in one of
his games !
This would be remarkable enough 70
in over the board play, but in this MERRY-GO- ROUND AT
case Blackbume was playing blind BADEN- BADEN
fold ! In the double-round tourney held
Here is the position, with White at Baden-Baden in 1 8 7 0, Anderssen
to move : beat Steinitz 2-o, Steinitz beat
Neumann 2-o, and Neumann beat
Anderssen 2-o.
(They say that chess is a scientific
game, where the better man always
wins.)
71
MERRY - GO - ROUND AT
MEXICO CITY
In a tournament held at Mexico
City in 1935, nine Mexicans and
I R x Bch K-R2 three Americans participated. Each
2 Q Q3 ch
- R-N3 of the Americans made a clean
3 Qx R ch PxQ sweep against the Mexicans. In their
4 R -K7 ch K-N I individual encounters Dake beat
5 B-K6ch K-B I Fine, Fine beat Steiner, and Steiner

6 B 7c h
- K-KI won from Dake, leaving a curious
7 N -B6ch K-Q I triple tie for first place.
8 R-Q7ch K-B I
9 R x RPch K-N I 7Z
IO N -Q 7 ch K -B I QUEEN SACRIFICE
I I N-B5 ch K-Q I DOWNS LASKER AND CAPA
I 2 R -Q 7ch K-B I IN z6 M OVES
I 3 R- KB 7ch K-Q I A strange disaster occurred to
I4N-N7 ch K-K I Lasker and Capablanca in 1 934
1 5 NxP ch K-Q I Alekhine beat Lasker at Zurich in
1 6 B-N6 mate 26 moves, sacrificing his Queen to
do so ; Lilienthal beat Capablanca Frees the third rank for the

at Hastings in 26 moves, sacrificing convenience of the Rooks.
his Queen to do so I 23 . . . N-KN I
Here are the two games : 24 R-Q3 P-B3
The position at this point :
ZURICH, I 934
Queen 's Gambit Declined
Alekhine Lasker
White Black
I P-Q4 P-Q4
2 P-QB4 P-K3
3 N-QB3 N-KB3
4 N-B3 B-K2
s B-Ns Q N-Q 2
6 P-K3 o-o
7 R-BI P-B3
S B-Q3 PxP
gBxP N-Q4 25 N-B5ch K-R I
1o B x B QxB 26 Q x P! Resigns
I I N-K4 N(Q4)-B3 After 26 . . . P x Q 27 R-R3ch
I2 N-N3 P-K4 forces mate.
I3 o-o PxP Here is the story of Capablanca's
I4 N-Bs Q-QI mishap :
I5 N(KB3) x P N-K4
16 B-N3 BxN HASTINGS, 1934
I7 N x B Q-N3 Nimzoindian Defence
The proper move, according to
Alekhine, was I7 . . . P-KN3 . After Lilienthal Capablanca
Lasker's Queen sortie, Alekhine's White Black
Queen is enabled to assume a I P-Q4 N-KB3
dominating position. 2 P-QB4 P-K3
3 N-QB3 B-Ns
IS Q-Q6 ! 4 P-QR3 B x Nch
The alternative IS . . . N-N3 is sPxB P-QN3
not a happy one. After I9 N-R6ch, 6 P-B3 P-Q4
P x N 20 Q x N, Q-Q 1 2 I Q-QB3, 7 B-Ns P-KR3
White has the advantage. S B-R4 B-R3
g P-K4 BxP
19 KR-Q I QR-Q 1
Io B x B PxB
2o Q-N3 P-N3
I I Q-R4ch Q-Q2
21 Q-Ns !
I 2 Q x BP Q-B3
Threatens 22 R-Q6, N-KI 2 3 1 3 Q-Q3 QN-Qz
R x Pch, R P x R 24 Q x Pch, and I 4 N-K2 R-Q 1
mate in two. 1 5 o-o P-QR4
21 . . . K-R I 1 6 Q-B2
22 N-Q 6 K-N2 Not at once I6 P-QB4 as I6 . . .
23 P-K4 ! N-K4 wins a Paw n .
I6 . .. Q-Bs ta at the same time that he was

I7 P-B4 R-QB I conducting two games of chess
I8 P-Bs ! P-K..t blindfold !
I9 P x P Q x KP
A plausible capture which is 75
nicely refuted. CHESS AND INSANITY
This is the position : In I 85o an old passion for chess
awoke in Szechenyi (founder of the
Magyar Academy) and took an
insane character. It became neces
sary to pay a poor student to play
with him for IO or I2 hours at a
time.
Szechenyi slowly regained his
sanity, but the unfortunate student
went mad !
76
M ORPHY OFFERS ODDS
TO THE WORLD
20 P x N I QxQ Before retiring from his throne,
2I P x P R-KNI Paul Morphy, King of Chess, offered
22 N-Q4 Q-Ks to play a match with anyone in the
If instead 22 Q-R5, then 23
. . . world at the odds of Pawn and
QR-Ki ch, N-K4 24 R x Nch, move !
K-Q2 25 R-Qsch, K-K I 26 R-KI The handicap was big, but no
is mate. one accepted. Apparently everyone
N-B4 was convinced that Morphy was
23 QR-KI
NxR invincible.
24 R x Qch
25 R-K I RxP
26 R x Nch Resigns 77
LUCKY PRIZE- WINNER
In the International Tournament
73
held at London in I 8 5 1 , Mucklow
ONE - UPMANSHIP
won a grand total of two games,
400 YEARS AGO !
lost eight, forfeited the rest-and
Ruy Lopez, the famous bishop, still won a prize I
player and wri ter on chess, recom
mended as good chess tactics placing
the board so that the light would 78
shine in the opponent's eyes ! FORM IDABLE ANALYSIS
(A valuable addition to the theory In Die Hypermode.,ne Schach
of the Ruy Lopez opening !) pa.,tie, Dr. Tartakover annotates a
game between Spielmann and Tar
74 rasch, played at Mahrisch-Ostrau
BLINDFOLD MUSICIAN in I923. To make sure that the
The organist Sir Walter Parratt student does not miss any of the
was able to play a Beethoven Sona- fine points, he devotes I I columns of
notes to only two moves in the

game. A less conscientious analyst
would have filled up this space with
I I games, notes and all !
79
.JUST WILD ABOUT CHESS
Perhaps the most fanatical devo
tee the game has ever known was
Daniel Harrwitz. He wore stickpins
shaped like chess pieces, chess ties,
and had chess figures embroidered on
his shirts. He played chess at the 9 Q-Q8ch ! KxQ
Cafe de la Regence morning, noon Io B-Ns dble.ch K-B2
and night seven days a week ! I I B-Q8 mate
At one stage of his match with
Morphy, Harrwitz pleaded illness, 81
and failed to put in an appearance. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
His admirers found him resting up TWICE
at the Cafe de la Regence, playing Playing against Reti at Pistyan
chess ! in I922, Hromadka had the pleasant
choice of winning his opponent's
8o Queen or announcing mate in five
GRANDMASTER moves.
CHECKED, D OUBLE He overlooked both possibilities,
CHECKED AND MATED and finally lost the game on time
IN ELEVEN limit !
A grandmaster who had 40 years Here is the sad story :
of experience, and had written more PISTYAN, I922
than 20 books of chess instruction, King's Gambit Declined
was once checkmated in 1 1 moves I
This is how he was polished off : Reti Hromadka
White Black
VIENNA, I9IO I P-K4 P-K4
Caro-Kann Defence 2 P-KB4 B-B4
3 N-KB3 P-Q3
. Reti Tartakover 4 P-B3 P-B4
White Black s BP x P QP x P
I P-K4 P-QB3 6 P-Q4 KP x P
2 P-Q4 P-Q4 7 B-QB4 N-KB3
3 N-QB3 PxP 8 P-Ks N-Ks
4NxP N-B3 9 PxP B-N3
s Q-Q3 P-K4 I o N-B3 N-QB3
6 Px P Q-R4ch I I B-K3 N-QR4
7 B-Q2 Q x KP
I 2 B-Q3 NxN
8 o-o-o NxN
I3 P x N o-o
This is how the board looked I4 Q-B2 P-KR3
before the blow fell : IS o-o
A better move was I S P-B4, force mate by 3S . . R-B7ch 36

.
enabling White to meet I S P-B4. . . B X R, B-R6ch 37 K-K I p X Bch ,
with 16 P-Qs. 38 K x P, Q-N7ch 39 K-KI , Q-N6

P-B4 ! mate.
IS . . .
16 P x P B-B2 Black missed these golden oppor
1 7 QR-K 1 Q-K2 tunities and played :
1 8 B-Q4 B-K3 3S . . . Q-N7ch
19 Q-B2 P-KN4 3 6 K-K1 NxP
2o P-KR4 R-B2 37 B x N B-B4
21 P x P PxP 38 Q-Q4 BxB
2 2 B-K3 P-Bs 39 Q x B Q x Nch
23 B-Q4 P-Ns 40 K-Q2
24 N-Q2 P-N6 At this point Black had over
2S Q-K2 Q-Rs stepped the time limit, and his
26 N-B3 Q-R4 game was declared forfeit.
27 R-N 1 K-N2
28 KR-Q 1 R-RI
8::z
29 K-B1 Q-R8ch
30 N-N 1 GO FOR CHESS
Dr. Emanuel Lasker trained for
If 30 B-N 1 , R-R7 follows, and his World's Championship with Dr.
the threat of 3 1 . R x P is decisive.
. .
Tarrasch by playing the J apanese
30 ... P-B6 game Go daily with Edward Lasker !
31 PxP R-R7
32 Q K4
- K-B 1 83
33 P-B6 P-N3 BELATED TOURNAMENT
34 B-K2 N-Bs BOOK
3S R-N4 The Cambridge Springs Tourna
This is the position : ment took place in 1904 . The Book
of the Tournament was published
in 193S. 31 years later !
84
EXCEPTION
WINS TOURNAMENT
The Tournament at San Sebastian
in 191 I was limited to those masters
who had won at least one third
prize in an International Tourna
ment.
An exception was made to this
ruling in the case of Capablanca
Black can now win the Queen by (who had never played -in an Inter
3 S . B-B4 , as 36 Q-Qs in reply
. . national Tournament) on the
allows 36 . . . Q-N 7ch 37 K-K I , strength of his phenomenal victory
Q-B7ch 3 8 B x Q . P x Bch 39 over Marshall two years earlier.
K-B 1 , N-K6 mate. The exception won the tourna
The other pleasant choice is to ment !
STANDING ROOM ONLY BABY ( O F TOURNAMENT)

Over I oo,ooo people requested FINISHES THIRD
tickets of admission to the first Nimzovich once took part in a
round of the Moscow I93 5 Inter tournament where he was forbidden
national Tournament ! by law to enter the tournament
room ! This occurred in Ostend in
1 907, where the play took place in
the Casino. Since all under 2 I were
forbidden to enter the building,
86 Nimzovich (who was I9 at the time)
TOUGH OPPOSITION had to play his games outside.
Capablanca and Flohr were in The baby of the tournament
their day considered the finest finished third in a field of 29
simultaneous players in the world entrants.
and they probably were, except in
88
Moscow and Leningrad !
Capablanca's score in some other CARRIED TO THE BATTLE
cities in I 9 35 were : A curious misfortune afflicted the
youthful Alekhine in the Hamburg
I 9 I O Tournament. Because of an
City U'on Lost Drawn
injury to his foot, he had to be
Manchester 39 0 I
carried to his table every day. (A
Paris 12 0 0
study of his games makes one think
Bayreuth 29 I I
that his opponents usually had to
Leipzig 20 0 IO
be carried away from their tables ! )
Prague 25 3 5
Warsaw 26 4 6 8g
Mahrisch-Ostrau 2 2 2 8
ANNOUNCES MATE IN
But in
:z:z MOVES
Moscow 7 I4 9
Walter Penn Shipley, playing a
Leningrad IO II 9
correspondence game with J . S .
Flohr's scores outside of these two Hale of Canada, i n which only
cities were close to those of Capa Pawns were left on the board,
blanca's. But in Moscow he won announced a forced mate in 2 2
12 games, lost 20, and drew I 8 ! moves !
And in an exhibition of 30 games in This was the position :
Leningrad, he won five, lost I 3 ,
and drew I 2 !
Both of these Grand Masters
were reconciled to these seemingly
poor performances when they were
told that most of their opponents in
these two cities were little below
master strength, and were accus
tomed to give simultaneous exhi
bitions themselves ! (One is reminded
of Thor's visit to the giants of
] otunheim . )
The mate is accomplished as 7 N-B3 P-Q4

follows : 8 PxP KN x P
g o-o B- K3
I P-B6 KxP
2 P-B7 P-K6 1 o B-KN5 B-K2
3 P-B8 (Q) P-K7 II Bx N
4 Q-KB5ch K-N8 Steinitz exchanges a few pieces to
5 Q-K4 K-B7 prevent Black from Castling.
6 Q-B4ch K-N8
II ... B (K3) x B
7 Q-K3ch K-B8
12 N x B QxN
8 Q-B3ch K-K8
g K-N4 K-Q7 If 1 2 . . . B x B 1 3 N x Pch wins a
Io Q-Qsch K-B8 Pawn.
I I Q-B4ch K-Q7 13 B x B NxB
12 Q-Q4ch K-B8 1 4 R-KI P-KB3
13 Q-K3ch K-Q8 1 5 Q-K2 Q-Q2
14 Q-Q3ch K-B8 16 QR-B I P-B3
15 Q x P P-R5 1 7 P-Qs l PxP
I6 K-B3 PxP 18 N-Q4 K-B2
17 P x P K-N8 19 N-K6 KR-QB I
1 8 K-K3 P-N3
19 K-Q3 P-N4 On 1 9 . . . QR-B I , Steinitz had
2o P x P K-R8 prepared 20 Q-N4, P-KN3 2 1
2 1 K-B2 K-R7 N-Nsch, K-K I 22 R x Rch, Q x R
22 Q-R6 mate 23 Q x Q mate.
20 Q-N4 P-KN3
90 2 1 N-Nsch K-K 1
FIVE-FOLD ROOK This i s the situation before
SACRIFICE lightning struck the board :
In the great Hastings 1 895
Tournament, Steinitz offered his
Rook to Bardeleben at five different
squares in five consecutive moves.
Capturing the Rook would have led
to immediate disaster, but even
after the refusal, Steinitz was able
to announce mate in Io moves !
HASTINGS, 1 895
Giuoco Piano
Steinitz Bardeleben
White Black
I P-K4 P-K4 2 2 R x Nch ! K-BI
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 If 22 . . . Q x R 1 3 R x Rch wins
3 B-B4 B-B4 at once. If 22 . . . K x R 23 R-K1 ch,
4 P-B3 N-B3 K-Q3 (23 . . . K-Q I 24 N-K6ch,
5 P-Q4 PxP K-K2 25 N-B5 dis.ch wins the
6 Px P B-Nsch Queen) 24 Q-N4ch, K-B2 25
WONDERS AND CURIOSIT I E S OF CHESS 45
N-K6ch , K-N 1 26 Q B4 ch R-B2 - , without allowing a single draw !

27 N x H, and White wins. Lasker's opponents were Albin,
Meanwhile White is threatened Delm ar, Lee, Showalter, Hanham,
with mate, and four of his pieces Pillsbury, Taubenhaus, Pollock,
are en prise. Schmidt, Jasnogrodsky, Oily, Ryan
K-N I and Gossip.
23 R-B7ch l
But history repeats itself I In the
If 23 Q x R 24 R x Reb wins
. . .
New York tournament of 1913,
easily, and if 23 . . . K-KI 24 Q x Q Capablanca too faced 1 3 opponents,
is mate. and mowed them all down in quick
24 R-N7ch l K-RI succession, without allowing a single
draw I The ones he beat were Duras,
Here if 24 . . . Q x R 25 R x Reb Black, Chajes, Kupchik, Marder,
leads to a won ending, while 24 . . . Tenewurzel, Adair, Bernstein, Bey
K x R loses to 2 5 Q x Qch. Finally, non, Phillips, Grammer, Beihofi
if 24 . . . K-BI White finishes a and Stapfer.
Queen up with 25 N x Pch, K x R More recently, Bobby Fischer put
(or 25 . K-KI 26 Q x Q mate)
. .
to rout all I 1 of his opponents in
26 Q x Qch .
the U.S. Championship Tourney
25 R x Pch ! Resigns held at New York in I Q63-64,
defeating in turn Evans, Benko,
After 25 . K-N I , there is a
Reshevsky, Saidy, R. Byrne, Wein
. .
remarkably brilliant mate in Io

stein, Bisguier, Addison, Mednis,
moves or a win of Black's Queen (as
Steinmeyer and D. Byrne.
Steinitz demonstrated a the time) :
26 R-N7eh K-RI C)Z
On 26 . . . K-B1 2 7 N-R7ch wins SACRIFICES
as in the note to the 24th move. ALL EIGHT PAWNS
All sorts of sacrifices have been
2 7 Q-R4ch KxR
made in order to inflict mate :
28 Q-R7eh K-BI
Queens, Rooks, Knights, Bishops
29 Q-R8eh K-K2
and Pawns have been given up.
30 Q-N7ch K-KI
But to Dr. Ballard belongs the rare
3 1 Q-N 8eh K-K2
distinction of giving away all eight
32 Q-B7ch K-Q I
of his Pawns in the course of an
33 Q-B8ch Q-K I
oddsgame !
34 N-B7ch K-Qz
35 Q-K6 mate
LONDON, 1 8 72
Undoubtedly this game was Stei (Remove White's Queen Knight)
nitz's Immortal.
Ballard Fagan
White Black
91 I P-K4 P-K4
CLEAN SWEEPS 2 P-KB4 PxP
BY LASKER, CAPA AND 3 N-B3 B-K2
FISCHER 4 B-B4 B-R5ch
Dr. Lasker made a clean sweep 5 P-N3 PxP
at the New Yoi:k Tournament of 6 o-o N-KR3
1 893. He won 1 3 games straight, 7 P-Q4 o-o
S PxP BxP Of these last, Fine won I 7, drew

9 K-N2 B-Q3 four, and lost none. Of the remain
IO R-RI Q-B3 ing 397 games, Fine won 3 76, drew
I I P-K5 Q-N3ch IS, and lost only three games !
I2 K-BI N-B4
I3 KR-NI N-N6ch 94
I 4 K-B2 N-K5ch WHO'S LOONEY
I 5 K-KI B-N5ch NOW?
I 6 P-B3 NxP Cambridge University once played
I7 P x N B x Pch a game by correspondence with an
IS K-B2 Q-QB3 insane asylum-and lost l
I9 B-Q3 BxR
20 P-Q5 Q-N3ch CORRESPONDENCE, I SS3-I SS5
2 I B-K3 Q-N7ch Sicilian Defence
22 K-BI P-KB4
23 B-Q4 QxP Cambridge Bedlam
24 B x B QxP White Black
25 P-K6 P-KN3 I P-K4 P-QB4
26 P-K7 R-KI 2 N-QB3 P-K3
27 Q-K2 Q-B4 3 N-B3 N-QB3
2S Q-QN2 RxP 4 P-Q4 PxP
29 Q-RSch K-B2 5NxP B-N5
30 N-N5 mate 6 N-N5 N-B3
7 P-QR3 B x Nch
The final position :
S NxB P-Q4
9 PxP PxP
I o B-KN5 B-K3
I I B-K 2 o-o
1 2 o-o N-K2
I3 B X N PxB
I4 B-Q3 K-RI
I5 Q-R5 P-B4
I 6 N-K2 Q-Q3
I 7 N-Q4 Q-K4
IS N-B3 Q-N2
I9 N-R4 R-KNI
20 P-KN3 Q-B3
93 2 1 P-KB4 R-N
FINE'S RECORD Cuts off the unfortunate Queen's
BREAKING EXHI BITION retreat.
PLAY 22 QR-KI QR-KN1
In 1 940 Reuben Fine toured North 23 N-N2
America, giving exhibitions of blind
fold play, simultaneous chess, and The threat was 23 . . . R x N.
serious games against single oppo 23 ... R(N 1 ) -N3
nents. 24 RxB PxR
He played 4 1 S games in all, of 25 B-K2 R-R3
which 2 I were conducted blindfold. 26 Resigns
only lost his game to Salwe but had

the unique privilege of paying the
equivalent of $2o.oo in fines for
doing so l
98
FIRST PICTURE BOOK
OF CHESS
A book of Philidor's games, pub
lished in I 8 r9, had illustrative
diagrams showing the position of the
pieces after every move. The editor,
J . G. Pohlman, must therefore be
95
given credit for being the originator
LONG- RANGE PROBLEM of chess in movie form.
Solving Otto Blathy's problems is
no picnic. In a booklet of his com
99
positions ( Vielzugige Schachauf
gaben) , the shortest problem re MATE EVERY MINUTE
quires that White is to mate in 30 On a wager, C. F. Burille solved
moves, the longest specifies that 62 chess problems in one hour !
mate is to be forced in 292 moves I
100
96 SMOTHERED MATE
PARIS FORCED TO OF QUEEN
CHECKMATE Games where the King meets his
In I 8 78 Paris and Marseilles end by smothered mate are not
played a game by correspondence uncommon. Instances where the
with these curious conditions : Paris Queen gets this airtight treatment
gave Marseilles Queen odds ; in re are rare, as the Queen is a powerful
turn for this advantage Marseilles fighting piece.
undertook to force Paris to checkmate In a game played at Ostend in
them. I 907, Dr. Tarrasch brought about a
smothered mate of Bum's Queen,
97 although all of Burn's pieces were
CASH PENALTY still on the board !
FOR EXCEEDING TIME
LIMIT OSTEND, I 907
In the Nuremberg Congress of Ruy Lopez
Igo6 there was no time limit if a
game took six hours or less. After Tarrasch Burn
wards the players were required to White Black
move at the rate of I 5 moves an I P-K4 P-K4
hour. 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
If they exceeded the time limit, 3 B-N5 P-QR3
they were penalized at the rate of a 4 B-R4 N-B3
mark for each minute of extra time. 5 o-o B-K2
Under this ruling, Tarrasch not 6 R-K I P-QN4
7 B-N3 P-Q3 JOJ

8 P-QR4 B-N s BALD HEADS
9 P-B3 o-o WIN MATCH
IO P-R3 B-Q2 In 1891 a team match was played
I I P-Q4 Q-BI at the Manhattan Chess Club be
12 B-Ns tween the bald-headed members
Threatens 13 RP x P, RP x P 14 and the full-haired members. The
R x R, Q x R 1 5 P x P, P x P 16 bald heads won 1 4- I I .
B x N, B x B 17 Q x B, winning a
piece. J02
S INGLES BEAT
12 . . . R-N1 MARRIED
1 3 RP x P RP x P Somewhat similar to the en
14 QN-Q2 R-K1 counter cited above was the match
15 K-R2 B-QI between the bachelors and the mar
16 Q-B2 P-R3 ried men held at the New Orleans
17 B-K3 B-K2 Chess, Checkers and Whist Club in
IS N-KNI P-N4 1 890.
1 9 P-N3 B-B I As the report puts it, " Is there
2o P-KB4 NP x P any need to give you the result ?
2 1 NP x P P x BP The single men won it easily by a
22 B x P N-QI score of 8 to 4 "
23 R-KBI N-K3 One o f the games o f the match :
24 B-K3 B-N2
25 R-B2 N-R2
NEW ORLEANS, 1890
26 QR-KB1 R-K2
27 Q-QI Labatt Dameron
With an eye to bringing the White Black
I P-K4 P-K4
Queen to Rs .
2 N-KB3 !i-QB3
27 . . . Q-KBI 3 B-B4 N-B3
2 8 N(N1)-B3 B-KI 4 N-Ns P-Q4
29 N-}4 N(K3)-N4 s PxP N-QJ4
30 N-N6 Resigns 6 P-Q3 B-Q3
7 P-KR3 B-Q2
8 N-QB3 o-o
9 P-R3 P-KR3
ro N(Ns)-K4 NxN
n NxN NxB
12 P x N P-KB4
13 N x B PxN
14 o-o P-Bs
15 P-KB3 (J-N4
16 K-RI Q-14
1 7 K-R2 R-B3
18 Q-K2 R-N3
19 B-Q2 R-KBI
20 B-K 1 R-B4
2I B-B2 R(B4)-N4 Now we have a position probably

22 R-KNI R x Pch unique in the literature of chess
23 RxR Q x Pch three Queens occupy the long
24 K-NI Q x R mate diagonal ! The continuation was :
(Note : Dameron was a bachelor.) I6 Q x P QxP
I 7 B-B4 Q-R4
103 I8 B X P I ()-(H)
THREE QUEENS If instead I S . . . P x B I9 N-N3,

ON ONE DIAGONAL Q x Q 20 R x Q, Q-B2 (mate by
A strange position occurred in a 2 I Q x N was threatened) 2 I B-B4,
game played in I 962, for the Q-BI 22 Q-N6ch, K-QI 23 Q-B7
Championship of the Ukraine. and White wins.
Play went as follows : I9 Q x P
The threat is now adding pressure
UKRAINE, I 962 on the pinned Knight by 20 N-N3
Slav Defence or 20 N-B4.
Lazarev Goldstein I9 . . . Q-N2
White Black 2o Q x Q BxQ
I P-Q4 P-Q4 2 I N-B4 Q-B2
2 P-QB4 P-QB3 22 Q-N4
3 N-KB3 N-B3
Attacks the Bishop and also
4 N-B3 P-K3
threatens the life of the Queen by
5 P-K3 QN-Q2
23 B-B4 .
6 B-Q3 PxP
7BxP P-QN4 22 ... B-K4
8 B-K2 B-N2 23 B x Ncb RxB
9 P-K4 P-N5 24 Q-N8ch R-QI
Io P-K5 PxN 25 Q-K6ch Resigns
II P x N P x NP
I 2 P x NP P x R(Q) 104
I 3 P x R(Q) Q-R4ch
I4 N-Q2 Q(R4)-B6 FOR WHOM THE BELL
I 5 o-o Q x QP TOLL8-15 TIMES
Samisch lost all I 5 of his games
This is the situation : in a tournament held at Berlin in
I96g. Others before him have lost
every game they played in a tourna
ment, but not in the way Samisch
did. He lost every game on time
limit !
There is a temptation to say that
Samisch would have done better by
not looking at the board at all, for
it was of his skill as a blindfold
artist that Alekhine once said, " Of
all the modem masters that I have
had occasion to observe in blindfold
so WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
play, it is Samisch that interests me This is the position :

the most ; his great technique, his
rapidity and accuracy have always
made a profound impression on me. "
105
RECORD WINS, LOSSES
AND DRAW S
The most wins in one tournament
go to the credit of Tchigorin, who
registered 27 victories in the double
round Tournament held at New
York in I 889.
The most losses in one tourna
At this point Fischer, absorbed in
ment were incurred by MacLeod,
his thoughts, touched his King
who lost 3 I games in the same New
Rook Pawn, toying with it-and
York 1 889 Tournament.
found to his horror that having
The record for most drawn games
touched the Pawn he had to move it.
in one tournament is held j ointly by
In consequence, he found himself
Englisch and Rosenthal, each of
with a lost game !
whom drew 22 games in the London
Play continued as follows :
Tournament of 1 883.
12 ... P-KR4
lo6 1 3 P-K5 PxP
qPxP N-Ns
FI SCHER TOUCHES
15 B x B QxB
A PAWN
I 6 N-K4 Q-B2
Fischer once absent-mindedly
17 P K R3 NxP
touched a Pawn in the course of a
-
1 8 N-B6ch K-R1
tournament game, had to move it,
19 Q-N s N x Bch
and lost the game !
2o R x N PxN
2 1 Q x RPch K-N2
BUENOS AIRES, 1960 22 Q-N4ch Resigns
Sicilian .Defence
After 22 K-RI
. . . 23 R-KN3
Unzicker Fischer wins instantly.
White Black
I P-K4 P-QB4
2 N-KB3 P-Q3 107 .
3 P-Q4 PxP SKEPTICAL CRITIC

4NxP N-KB3 A chess critic speaking over the.
5 N-QB3 P-QR3 radio in 1935 gave his opinion that
6 B-N s P-K3 Alekhine's style was not convincing.
7 P-B4 B-K2 At that time Alekhine had -28 first
8 Q--B 3 Q-B2 prizes in tournament play to his
9 o-o-o o-o credit, 1 6 of them without a single
10 B-Q3 N-B3 loss--undoubtedly the greatest rec
II N x N PxN ord ever achieved by any chess
1 2 Q--N3 master !
lo8 This would seem to be a record

LONG, B ITTER hard to beat, but-Tal became
BATTLES World's Champion in 196o at the
The match between Janowski and age of 23 !
Jaffe in 1 9 1 6 was notable for the I X2
inordinate length of the games pro
duced. In this stubbornly fought THE STAUNTON
match the average length of each KNIGHT
game was 65 moves. The Staunton pattern Knight is
Janowski won five of the 1 3 modelled from the famous Greek
games, Jaffe four, and the remainder horse of the Elgin Marbles in the
were drawn. British Museum.
109 I IJ
KOSTICS'S UNAFFECTED BY SMOKE
FANTASTIC MEMORY Botvinnik trained for chess tour
In 1 9 1 9 when Kostics played a naments by b r eathing tobacco
match with Capablanca, it was said smoke ! He describes this as follows :
that the Yugoslavian master knew " In the 1 2th Champio n ship Tour
by heart all the games played in the nament I had suffered through not
chief master tournaments in the 30 being used to tobacco smoke, so we
years past ! had to resort to radical treatment :
during our training games Ragozin
1 10 smoked me for five hours in suc
HOW STRONG WAS cession ! Naturally I soon got used to
STEINITZ ? tobacco. "
In 1 862, Anderssen called Steinitz
the Austrian Morphy. In 1 866, U4
Anderssen (after having lost matches FIRST MATCH I S
to both Steinitz and Morphy) said B I G ONE
that Steinitz was better than The first match Petrosian ever
Morphy. played in his life gained him the
Steinitz, after strengthening his title of World's Chess Champion !
play and increasing his knowledge This match took place in 1 963,
of the game for another zo years, when he defeated Botvinnik by a
lived to see a self-appointed com score of 1 2! to 9!
mittee of experts assert that Morphy
could have given Stein itz Pawn and us
move. SKIMPY CHESS BOOK
(When this statement was made, A book called Capablanca's Samt
Steinitz had been World's Cham liche Verlustpartien contains all the
pion for 20 years !) games that Capablanca lost in
tournament and match play in the
IIX course of his lifetime career in chess.
YOUTHFUL The book is about 1 /64th of an
WORLD CHAMPIONS inch in thickness. After all , not
Lasker became World's Cham much space is needed to print the
pion in 1 894 at the age of 26 ! scores of 3 5 games !
u6 The record is held by Bird and

HOLZHAUSEN Dobell, who lost to Gunsberg and
FAST WORKER Locock at Hastings 1 897, in nine
Napier, in his delightful A menities moves !
and Background of Chess Play,
quotes a 13-move game of Dr. HASTINGS, 1 89 7
Tarrasch's, calling him " a fast
worker. " Bird Gunsberg
He was-usually. But in this Dobell Locock
case, the fast worker was Von White Black
Holzhausen, who was the winner of I P-KB4 P-K4
this particular game. 2 PxP P-Q3
3 PxP BxP
HAMBURG, 1910 4 N-KB3 P-KN4
Philidor Defence 5 P-B3 P-N5
6 Q-ch N-B3
Holzhausen Tarrasch 7 N-Q4 Q-Rsch
(Simulta 8 K-Q I P-N6
neous) 9 P-N3 Q x PI
White Black
P-K4 White resigns, as he must lose a
I P-K4
P-Q3 Rook. If 10 R x Q, P x R and Black
2 N-KB3
B-Kz gets a new Queen.
3 B-B4
4 P-Q4 PxP
N-KB3 n8
sNxP
6 N-QB3 N-B3 YOUNGER OCTOGENARIAN
7 G-O o-o WINS
8 P-KR3 R-K1 In his game against Foreest,
9 R-K1 N-Q2 played at the Hague in 1949,
ro B x Pch ! KxB Mieses demonstrated that chess is
a young man's game.
If 1 0 . . . K-R1 (or 1 0 . . . K-B1 )
I I N-K6 wins the Queen.
HAGUE, 1949
I I N-K6 1 Sicilian Defence
Forces Black to accept the Knight
Foreest Mieses
as well.
White Black
II ... KxN I P-K4 P-QB4
1 2 Q-Qsch K-B3 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
.
13 Q-Bs mate 3 P-Q4 PxP
4NxP P-K3
5 P-QB4 N-B3
1 17
6 B-Ns Q-ch
ALLIES LOSE QUICKLY 7 B-Qz Q- K4
Although even great players are
apt to blunder and lose games in Mieses steals a Pawn .
short order, one would not expect 8 NxN Q x Pch
two masters consulting together to 9 B-K2 NP x N
lose quickly. I O Q-0 B-B4
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF C H E SS 53
I I B-QB3 Q-Bs 1 872 , " (the date of their first match)

1 2 P-QN4 B-K2 and " was no longer Zukertort in
1 3 P-N3 Q-B2 1 886, " (the date of their second
1 4 B-Q3 P-B4 mat ch) .
1 5 P-N5 B-N2
r 6 Q-K2 P-KR4 I:Z:Z
1 7 N-Q2 P-R5 LIFETIME OF CHESS IN

r8 N K4
- N-R4 TWO MONTHS
19 QR-Qx P-B4 ! In two months (December I I ,
This decides the game ; when the 1935 to February 3 , 1 936) C . J . S.
Knight moves away, disaster will Pu rdy of Australia played more
strike at N6. chess than Morphy did in his whole
life !
20 Resigns
" Youth has triumphed " said
,
1 23
Mieses when he won this game from
CONSCIENTIOUS
his 86-year old opponent. For Mieses
ADJUDICATOR
was then only 8 4 years old I
L. Hoffer consumed ei ght hours
analyzing a game sent to him for
: ng
adj udicationwhich was consid
OFFERS VICTOR erably more than the entire time
KNIGHT ODDS spent on the game by the players
Chess players are not noted for

themselves !
poor opinions of their own prowess.
David J anowski once furnished a IZ 4
good example of this trait. After
CAPA'S
losing a match to Frank Marshall,
GREAT SIMULTANEOUS
he sent the American a cable offer
RECORD
ing to play hi m another match at
On a chess tour in 1909 Capa
Knight odds !
blanca played simultaneous chess,
120 and games with individual oppo
EVERYBODY IN TOWN nents, with this remarkable result :
PLAYS CHESS out of 720 games, 686 wins, 20
In the village of Strobeck in draws, and only 1 4 losses !
Germany chess is taught in the
,
(At that time Capablanca was not
public schools. Every man, woman yet recognized as a master !)
and child in S trobeck knows how to
play chess ! IZ 5
CHESS MASTERS WIN ;
121 CHECKER MASTERS DRAW
WHEN WAS ZUKERTORT The World Championship Match
ZUKERTORT ? between Steinitz and An derssen in
Did Steinitz ever really defeat 1 866 resulted in victory for the
Zukertort? A noted critic once said former by a score of eight wins to
that Steinitz's victories over Zuker six losses-with no games drawn.
tort were due to the fact that In co ntrast to thi s a Checker
,
Zukertort " was not yet Zu kertort in Match between Michael Lieber and
Samuel Gonotsky in 1928 resulted 17 B--N 3 N-B2

in all 40 games being drawn ! 1 8 Q-B3
Threatens 19 B x N, R x B 20
126 P x P, P x P 2 1 Q-B5ch, win ning a
AJEEB, CHESS AND Pawn.
CHECKER WIZARD 18 . . . QR-KI
Conducting the chess and checker 1 9 Q-K3 P-QN3
automaton Ajeeb, C. F. Burille
played goo chess games, of which he Of course not 19 . . . P x P 20
lost only three ! Of the countless P x P, N x KP 2 1 Q x N, Q x Q 22
checker games he played, he never R x Q, R x R 23 B--Q 3 followed by
lost one. 24 P-KB3, and White wins.
20 B-N5 R-Q I
2 1 P-QR4 N-R1 !
127
An elegant positional move ! The
RUBINSTEIN SCINTILLATES
Knight is headed for KB5, where
Rubinstein won only six games at
it will exert a great deal of pressure.
the Teplitz-Schonau Toumament
Should it be removed, though, by
of 1922. But of those six games, four
the Bishop, the consequent re
were awarded prizes for brilliancy !
capture by the Knight Pawn will
Here is one of the games so
give Black a strong control of the
honored :
Black squares.
TEPLITZ-SCHONAU, 1922 22 P-R5 N-N3

Four Knights Game 23 P-B3 N-B5
24 B-BI K-R 1
Wolf Rubinstein 25 BxN NP x B
White Black 26 Q-B2 P-KN4
IP-K4 P-K4 27 P-Q5 P-R.4
2N-KB3 N-QB3 28 B--Nz K-N2
3N-B3 N-B3 29 Q-K2 R-KR 1
4B--N s B-N5 30 K-B2 R-RI
5 o-o o-o 31 KR-QN1 N-Q2
6 P-Q3 P-Q3
Now this Knight plans to settle
7 B-N5 BxN
down at QB4, from where it cannot
8 PxB Q-K2
be driven off.
g R-K 1 N-Q I
1 0 P-Q4 B-N5 32 Q-Ns KRP x P
I I P-KR3 B-R4 33 KRP x P N-B4
12 P-N4 B--N 3 34 R-R 1 R-R5
1 3 N-R4 P-KR3 35 R x R PxR
14 N x B Black threatens 36 . . . P-R6,
White now has the two Bishops and if 37 B x P, Q-Rsch 38 K-Nz,
and the inferior game ! Q-N6ch , and wins the Bishop.
14 . . . PxN 36 B--R 3 PxP
1 5 B--B4ch K-R2 37 Q x P Q-Q 1
16 B--R4 P-KN4 38 R-QN1 R-N 1
39 R-N4 P-R3 The plan is hatched ! Black will

40 K-K2 R-N3 sacrifice both Pawns for the sake of
41 Q-R 1 K-N3 obtaining thereby an irresistible
42 K-Q2 K-N4 attack.
43 R-N1 Q-QN 1
ss Q x P
This assures Black control of the
White must capture, as otherwise
Knight file.
the Rook swoops down to N 7.
44 R-RI P-R4 ! 55 . . . R-RI
This is the position : 56 Q-N2 P-R6 1
5 7 B-B4 Q-Rs
58 B-K2 Q-B7 !
And now this other Rook Pawn
must be removed, as Black threat
ens 59 . . . P-R7 and 6o . . . Q-N8
59 R x P Q-K6ch
6o K-K I N-R5
6 1 Resigns
The threat of 61 . . . N x P next
move is too strong to withstand.
A magnificent game by Rubin
45 B-N2 stein.
White may not take the offered
Pawn, as after 45 Q x P, there Ia8
follows 45 R-N7 46 Q-R3, N-N6ch SPEED STAR LOSES
47 K-Q3 (if 47 K-K2, Q -N4ch ON TIME LIMIT
48 K-B2, R x Pch 49 K-N I , Q-K7 Capablanca, who has been cred
and quick mate) Q-N4ch 48 P-B4, ited with the quickest sight of any
Q-N3, and mate will come in a master who ever lived ( " His speed in
hurry. play, " says Fine, " was incredible in
45 . . . P-R5 the early years. \Vhat others could
46 Q-K1 Q-KR1 not discover in a month's study he
47 Q-QB1 R-R3 saw at a glance. ") once lost a
48 B-B I R-R1 tournament game on time limit !
49 B-B4 P-QR6 This is the historic game :
s o B-R2
Both dangerous Rook Pawns are MOSCOW, 1 935
now stopped, but Rubinstein (after Nimzovich Defence
an interval) conceives a winning Riumin Ca.pablanca
plan which utilizes the Pawns Black
White
if only to give them up ! N-KB3
I P-Q4
so ... Q-R2 2 P-QB4 P-K3
51 R-R3 N-Q2 3 N-QB3 B-Ns
52 Q-B I Q-RI 4 Q-B2 P-Q4
53 R-R I N-B4 5 P-QR3 B x Nch
54 Q-BI R-QN z ! 6QxB N-K5
7 Q-B2 P-QB4 129

8 P x BP N-B3 DUPLICATES FEAT AFTER
9 P-K3 Q-ch
so YEARS
Io B-Q2 Q x BP Jacques Mieses was a participant
I I P-QN4 Q-K2 in the almost legendary tourna
1 2 B-BI P-QR4 ment at Hastings in I895, where he
1 3 P-N5 N-K4 drew his game with the then World
14 B-N2 N-N5 Champion Lasker. Fifty years later,
15 N-R3 Mieses again played in a Hastings
tournament, this time drawing with
Of course not 15 P-B3, as 1 5 . . .
former World Champion Euwe, and
Q-R5ch follows.
also winning a Brilliancy Prize.
I5 ... Q-R5
1 6 P-N3 Q-R3
I 7 Q-K2 IJO
Here if I 7 B-N2, N (K5) x P I 8 TWO QUEENS FAIL
N x N , N x K P wins for Black. TO WIN GAME
In a game played in 1 858 between
I7 ... N (N5)-B3 Franz and Mayet, the former had
I 8 NB4 0-<l
two Queens on the board, but lost
I9 B-N2 PxP the game. Mayet hadn't any Queens,
2o Q x P N-Q3 but evidently didn't need the m !
2 1 Q-Q3 R-Q I
22 R-QI N (B3)-K 1
23 0-<l P-R5 BERLIN, 1 858
24 N-K2 B-Q2 Petroff Defence
25 N-B3 R-R4
Franz Mayet
An unfortunate attem pt to coun
White Black
terattack. Black still had equality
I P-K4 P-K4
by playing either 25 . . . QR-B 1 or
2 N-KB3 N-KB3
2 5 . . . Q-N4.
3 B-B4 NxP
26 Q-Q4 4 NxP P-Q4
5 B-N3 B-K3
Threatens strongly 27 Q-N6 or 6 o-o B-Q3
27 Q-N4.
7 P-Q4 Q-B3
26 ... Q-N4 8 P-KB4 P-B4
27 Q-QN4 P-QN 3 9 B-R4ch K-K2
28 R-Q2 BxP 1 0 P-B4 QP x P
29 KR-Q 1 P-R3 I I Q-B2 B-B4
12 Q x P PxP
With his last move, Capablanca 1 3 Q-N5 P-QN3
overstepped the time limit. His 14 R-K I B-B4
game was lost in any case, a possible 1 5 P-QN4 P-QR3
continuatio n being 30 N-K4, N x N 16 Q-B4 P-QN4
3 1 R x R, N-B4 32 B-KB 1 , B-B3 1 7 Q-Q5 BxP
33 Q x NP, and Black's game col 18 R x N BxR
lap ses. 19 Q x B R-QBI
20 Q-N7ch K-Q 1 62 Q-B2ch K-Q4

21 N x Pch QxN 63 Q-KB5ch B-K4
22 QXQ R x Bch 64 Q-B3ch K-B5
23 K-B2 N-Q2 65 Q-Q r R-Q6
24 B-N3 K-B2 66 P-R4 B-B6
67 P-R5 R-K6
The smoke of battle has cleared 68 Q-B 1 ch K-N6
away, and White, with the advan 69 Q-Q 1ch K-N7
tage of a Queen for a Rook, would 70 Resigns
seem to have an easy win. But life
apparently is not that simple. They fought like tigers in those
days !
25 Q x P B-B4
26 P-B s R-K1
2 7 B-K6 R-K 2 J:3J:
28 Q-N3ch K-N2 SIMULTANEOUS BLINDFOLD
29 Q-Q3 K-N 3 AT :r:o SECONDS A MOVE
30 P-QR4 N-K4 Immediately after the end of the
3 1 P-R5ch K-B2 radio match between the United
3 2 Q-K4 P-Q6 dis.ch States and the U . S . S . R. in 1 945,
33 K-N3 B-QJ Reuben Fine gave a startling
34 Q-R8 N-B3 dis.ch exhibition of blindfold play.
35 K-R4 B-K4 He undertook the task of playing
36 Q-B8ch K-Q3 four blindfold games simultaneously
27 N-Q2 BxR at the rate of ro seconds a move I
38 N-K4ch K-K4 This, to my mind, is far more
39 P-B6 RxB difficult than playing as many as
40 P-B7 R-R3ch 30 games blindfold simultaneously.
4 r K-Ns R-N3ch At 10 seconds a move, the blindfold
42 K-R5 KxN player has no time to check a posi
43 P-B8 ( Q) B-K4 tion by running over the previous
44 Q-B3ch K-Q5 moves in his mind.
45 Q (B8)-B5 R-B6 What he must do is picture the
46 Q ( B3) -K4ch K-B4 position as clearly as though it were
47 Q-B8ch R-Q3 photographed, and after making his
48 Q-B2ch R-Q5 move, dismiss it at once and call up
49 Q-B8ch B-Q3 the picture of the next position. He
s o Q-B2 P-Q7 then has 10 seconds in which to plan
5 1 Q x Nch KxQ an attack, make a combination, or
52 Q x R R-B4ch decide on the proper strategy to
53 K-R6 R-Q4 pursue. His move made, he must
54 Q-N6ch K-Q2 forget the position for the time
55 Q-N7ch K-K3 being, and summon up the next one.
56 Q-B8ch K-K4 Despite the difficulty of his task,
57 Q-R8ch K-B5 Reuben Fine made short work of
s8 Q-B6ch K-K5 his seeing opponents, and chalked up
59 Q-B3ch K-Q5 a score of 4-o .
6o K x P K-B5 Here is one of the games (with
6 1 Q-K4ch R-Q5 some fearsome complications in it)
5s WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
piayed again st a rising young I JZ

m aster : SMOTHERED MATE
NEW YORK, 1945 soo YEARS OLD
King's Indian Defenu Winning ideas that are almost
five centuries old are still in use
Fine R. Byrne today !
White Black Here is a position published by
x
P-Q4 P-Q4 Lucena in 1496 :
2
P-K3 N-KB3
3
N-KB3 P-KN3
4
B-Q3 B--N 2
5 o--o QN-Q2
6 P-QN3 o--o
7 B--N 2 P-B4
8 QN-Q2 P-QR3
9 Q-K2 P-QN4
IO P-B4 BP x P
I I KP x P NP x P
12 P x P N-N3
1 3 QR-Nx N-R5
14 B--Rx PxP
15 N x P B--KJ Show this to any chess master,
x 6 N (B4)-K5 P-QR4 and say, " White to play and win, "
I 7 B-N5 N-N3 and h e will polish o ff the Black
IB N-B6 Q-Q3 King by smothered mate in five
19 N-N5 B--N5 moves, as follows :
2o Q x P N-BI
2 I Q-N7 P-R3 I Q-K6ch K-RI
22 Q x R PxN 2 N-B7ch K-NI
23 N-Ks B-B4 3 N-R6 dble.ch K-RI
24 QR-B x N-K2 4 Q-NBch l RxQ
25 Q x P N(B3)-Q4 5 N-B7 mate !
26 B--B4 N-Bs Nowadays this combination is so
27 Q-B5 Q-Q I familiar that the mere threat of
28 KR-Kx Q-RI smothered mate is enough to elicit
29 B--Bx N(K2)-Q4 resign ation . Witness the following
30 P-B3 R-BI example, in which the gallery is
31 Q-N5 R-Bx deprived of seeing a briliiant finish :
32 P-QR4 K-R2
33 P-R5 P-B3
CARLSBAD, I929
34 N-B6 P-N5
Indian Defence
35 P x P BxP
36 P-R6 N-B2 Capablanca Mattison
37 Q-N7 N (Bs)-Q4 White Black
38 Q x Q RxQ I P-Q4 N-KB3
The score does not go any further, 2 P-QB4 P-K3
but Black resigned on the 48th 3 N-QB3 B--Ns
move. 4 Q-B2 P-B4
s Px P N-B3 On the alternative 19 . . P x B,

.
6 N-B3 BxP the reply 20 P x N will win a piece

7 B-B4 P-Q4 for White.
S P-K3 Q-R4
g B-K2 B-Ns 2o B x N Resigns
I o o-o BxN Thereby bringing down the cur
II PxB o-o tain before the audience could see
1 2 QR-NI I a finale they would relish-a
The Rook exerts powerful pres- smothered mate preceded by a
sure on Black's Queen side. Queen sacrifice, as follows :
12 ... Q-R6 20 . . . QxB
1 3 KR-Q1 P-QN3 ;u P Bs ch
- K-RI
14 P x P NxP 22 N-B7ch K-NI
If 1 4 . . . P x P 1 5 P-B4, and
On 22 . . R x N 23 R-QS ch
Black cannot capture by I 5 . . . P x P
.
forces mate.
as I 6 B-Q6 wins the exchange, nor
can he defend his Pawn by I5 . . . 23 N-R6ch K-RI
B-K3, as after 1 6 P x P, B x P I 7 24 Q-NSch l RxQ
R x B wins two pieces for a Rook. 25 N-B7 mate
I S N-Ns !
I 6 B-B3
White's threat was 17 R x N, I 3J
P x R IS B x Pch, removing a good RINCK AND GRIGORIEV
part of the army. Other defences CARRY OFF PRIZES
fail, as White's Bishops are power In 1924 Sydsvenska Dagbladet
ful, and Black's Knights lack Sniillposten sponsored an endgame
support. Par eiemple : If 16 . . . competition in which composers
N(B3)-K2 1 7 P-B4, N-N5 IS were restricted to positions where
R x N wins, o r i f I 6 . N(Q4)-K2
. .
two Rooks opposed Rook and minor
I7 B-Q6, Q-R4 IS B x N(K7) . piece. In this competition Henri
Finally, if 1 6 . . . N x B 1 7 B x N, Rinck carried off these awards :
R-NI IS P x N, and White wins. First prize, second prize, third
prize, first honorable mention, sec
N (Q4)-N5
ond honorable mention, and third
Other possibilities and their re honorable mention ! A remarkable
futation : I7 . N-B3 IS B-Q6
. .
achievement, but-
(or IS R-N5) wins, or 1 7 . . . N x B In I 936, in an endgame competi
xs. R-Ns . Q-K2 I9 B x N, Q x N tion sponsored by La Strategie,
20 P x N, and Black's Queen is N. D. Grigoriev shared first and
attacked on one side, and his Rook second prizes, won third, fourth and
on the other. fifth prizes, shared first and second
honorable mentions, and was award
ed third, fourth, fifth and sixth
Black tries to obstruct the annoy honorable mentions !
ing Bishops.
Here are two positions from these
I 9 P-QR3 N-R3 competitions :
6o WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
Rinck White to play and win

The solution :
I K-B 6 K-K2
2 K-Q5 K-Q2
3 K-Q4 I K-K2
4 K-K3 K-Q2
5 K-B4
Threatens to come in strongly at

B5 .
5 ...
6 K-K4
White to play and draw
If instead 6 . . . P-B 3 7 P x P,
The solution :
K x P 8 K-B4, K-N3 9 K-N4
I K-K2 (White has the opposition) K-B3
Any other move (by Knight or Io K-R5, and White wins .
Rook) allows I . R-QR8ch, win
7 K-B 5 K-K2
. .
ning at once.
8 P-N4 K-KI
I ... R-Q6 9 K-B6 1
2 R-QR1
But not 9 P-K 6 , K-K2 Io P x P,
Other Rook moves, say to KNI ,
K x P I I K-N5, K-N2, and Black
are met by 2 . . . R-Q7ch, winning
has the opposition and draws.
the Knight.
2 . . 9 ... K-B I
3 K-KI 10 P-N5 K KI
-
3 K-K3 , Black wins b y 3 . . .

If
I I K-N7 !
R(R7) x N 4 R-R2ch, K-B6 Here too 1 1 P-K6 fails, as there
3 . .
. R (R7) x N follows I I . . . K-B I I 2 P-K7ch,
4 R-Bich K-KI , and White must concede the
And White draws by perpetual draw.
check, or by stalemate if Black II ... K- K 2
takes the Rook. I 2 K-NB K- KI
Grigoriev
If 12 . . . K-K3 I 3 K BB K X p
- ,
I4 K x P, and White "wins.
I3 P-K6 ! PxP
14 P-N6 P-K4
I5 P-N7 P-K5
I6 K-R7 P-K6
I7 P-NB (Q) ch
White wins.
A fine composition-one among
many exquisite creations by Gri
goriev.
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS 6r
IJ4 7 N-B3 B-Q2

CHESS TOURNAMENT 8 B-K3 N-R3
BLINDFOLD 9 PxP P-N5
In 1 8 74 a tournament was
,
I O N-Q4 Q-R4
conducted in Prague in which all I I P-QR3 P x BP
the competitors played their games I2 N x N P x Pch
blindfold ! The winner was the I3 N x Q P x R (Q)
problemist J an Dobrusky, who 1 4 P-B6 B-B r
scored a magnificent I 3 -!- points out I 5 Q-R4 N-B4
of a possible 1 4 . r 6 B R7
- BxP
17 P-B7 ch B-Q2
r8 B-N8 BxQ
IJS 19 P-B 8 (Q) ch K-K2
CHESS MASTER' S
Here is the position, and a weird
STRANGE PROFESSION
one it is :
Possibly the most incongruous
profession for a chess master was
that of Max Harmonist, who was a
ballet dancer !
IJ6
REMARKABLE
DUPLICATION
OF IDEAS
In the first 13 moves of a game
against Forgacs, Maroczy sacrificed
his Queen, won his opponent's
Queen Rook, and promoted a Pawn 20 Q-N 7ch K-B I
to a Queen. 21 Q x R B-Nsch
Within the next eight moves 22 K-B r P-N4
Forgacs duplicated the feat ! 23 B-B7ch K-N2
He sacrificed his Queen, promoted 24 Q x RP Q-N]
a Pawn to a Queen, and won his 25 B-N6 Q-B 8 ch
opponent's Queen Rook. 26 K-B2 QxR
Here is the score of this extra 27 B-B I QxP
ordinary game : 28 Resigns
1 37
BUD APEST, I 9o2
Irregular Defence FORTY-FOUR WINS
NOT EN OUGH
Forgacs Maroczy Frank Marshall once played in a
White Black tournament where he won 4 4 games
I P-K4 P-QR3 in succession, without permitting
2 P-Q4 P-K3 even one draw to be scored against
3 P-KB4 P-Q4 him . A mighty feat, and yet he
4 P-K5 P-QB4 won only third prize !
5 P-B3 P-QN4 Here is how it happened , as John
6 B-Q3 N-QB3 Keeble tells it :
In its early days the British Jorgensen mated in three moves

Chess Federation used to run a (thereby solving al-Adli's problem)
contest for congress competitors in by
which they might play in their spare
I N-Rsch RxN
time . All entrants were classified.
2 R x Nch KxR
A player received seven points for a
3 R-K6 mate
win against a player in his own
class, eight for a win against a
player in a class above, and so on ; 1 39
correspondingly, six points for a
win against a player one class TEN EYES OVERLOOK
below, and so on. THREAT TO QUEEN
This went on until at Richmond The greatest players have been
in I 9 I 2 , Frank Marshall turned up known to blunder ; that is not news.
too late to play in any of the When five masters combine their
ordinary tournaments, so entered talents as a team, and their I O
this one. He won 44 games in eyes overlook a simple combination
succession, with no losses and no -that is news.
draws, and he took third prize ! In the diagram below, it is Black's
The reason was that he had been move, the Allies conducting the
put in a class by himself I Black pieces being Bogolyubov,
Grunfeld, Kostics, Sterk and
Abonyi.
1 38
REINCARNATION
OF PROBLEM
Do you believe in the reincarna
tion of chess ideas?
The diagram shows a position
which occurred in a game played in
1 945 between Jorgensen and Soren
sen. This identical position is
described by al-Adli in an Arabian
manuscript dating back to the ninth
century !
The Allies played I . .. R x R.

No doubt they expE!c ted the re
capture 2 B x R in reply. What they
got instead was a little lesson in
Knight forks !
White played 2 N-R6ch, and
Black could only choose between
2 . . . K-RI when 3 N x Pch wins
the Queen, or 2 . . . K-N2 when 3
N-Bsch wins the Queen. Note that
after Black's Queen falls, the hungry
Knight threatens both Rooks.
1 40 1 41
BLIND COMPOSERS SEE PILLSBURY'S BLINDFOLD
SAME IDEA FEAT
An extraordinary set of coinci What is the favorite pastime of a
dences marked two problems sub chess master ? Chess, and more
mitted to the Eighth Composing chess !
Tourney of the Brighton Society in In the course of the Hannover
I 898. These were the positions : I902 Tournament, Pillsbury spent
one of his precious days of rest in a
A. F. Mackenzie, America record-breaking exhibition of simul
taneous blindfold chess ! He took
on 2 I of the budding masters of
Germany, offering prizes to those
who scored against him (j ust to
make things tougher ! ) . He per
mitted consultation as well as
moving the pieces around to facili
tate analysis. His final score of
three wins, I I draws and seven
losses is more impressive than might
first appear, as his opponents were
all players of considerable strength.
Here is one of the games from
that e:rhibition :
White mates in two
Key : Q--R2
HANNOVER, I9o2
H. W. Lane, England
Max Lange A ttack
Pillsbury Moller
White Black
I P-K4 P-J4
2 N-KB3 N-QB3
J P-Q4 PxP
4 B-B4 N-B3
5 o-o B-B4
6 P-K5 P-Q4
7 PxN PxB
8 R-K ich B-K3
9 N-N5
Threatens to win a piece by I o
White mates in two N x B followed b y 1 1 Q-Rs ch .
Key : Q-R2 9 ... P-KN3
Not only were the positions I O Q-N4 Q-Q4
almost alike, the key moves matched, 1 1 B-B 4 K-Q2
the resulting ideas duplicated each I2 N x B PxN
other, but strangest of all-both I 3 N-Q2 Q-B4
composers were blind I I4 Q x Q KP x Q
15 N x P KR-K1 strategy in an important game to

1 6 K-B1 P-QN4 make five retreating, undeveloping
17 N-K5ch NxN moves in succession !
18 B x N K-B3 This was the position, from his
19 QR-Q I QR-Q 1 game against Marshall in the
2o P-KB4 R-Q2 Ostend Championship Tournament
2 1 R-Q3 KR-Q1 of 1907 :
22 P-KR3 P-QR<j.
2 3 K-B2 B-N3
24 K B3
- K-N2
25 P-KN4 P x Pch
26 P x P P-B4
2 7 P-N5 K-B3
28 P-B5 I
Pillsbury tries a break-through,
but it is not clear yet how he will
succeed.
28 . . . R-KI
29 K-B4 B-B2
30 R (Q3)-QI R-Q4
31 B x B R x Pch I R-RI Q-K 2
32 K-N4 RxR 2 Q-Q I N-K3
33 R x R KxB 3 B-B 1 K-R2
34 R-K7ch K-Q3 4 B-K2 R-KB r
35 R x P P-B5 5 B-B I
36 R-R3 K-K4
37 R- KB3 K-K5 That Tarrasch eventually drew
. 38 R x R P x Rch the game is evidence of his great
39 K-N3 Resigns ability.
J:42
HOW MASTERS SPEND J:44
DAY OF REST TEN-YEAR - OLD
Dr. Alekhine spent his day of IN MASTER TOURNAMENT
rest in the Carlsbad 1 92 3 Tourna A boy of 10 once played in a
ment playing chess at 10 seconds a master tournament ! , The prodigy
move with Dr. Lasker for 1 2 hours ! was Sammy Reshevsky, who sub
sequently became United States
Champion.
J: 43 The game which follows is from
TARRASCH RETREATS that tournament. David Janowski,
FIVE TIMES Sammy's opponent, was not only
Dr. Tarrasch, the greatest chess almost six times the youngster's
teacher of his time, and leading age, but had played a match with
advocate of the proper development Lasker for the World's Champion
of all the pieces, found it necessary ship before Sammy was born !
NEW YORK, 1922 36 R(NI )-NI R-N I

Queen 's Gambit Declined 3 7 P-Q6 Q-QNz
Janowsky Re sh evsky The position at this point :

White Black
I P-Q4 N-KB3
z N-KB3 P-Q4
3 P-B4 P-K3
4 N-B3 QN-Qz
5 B-N5 B-Kz
6 P-K3 P-B3
7 B-Q3 P-QR3
B o-o PxP
9 B x BP N-N3
1 0 B-Q3 N (B3)-Q4
II B x B QxB
1 2 Q-Qz NxN
13 P x N P-QB4 38 P-R4
1 4 QR-N 1 N-Qz Analysis shows that Janowski
1 5 P-QR4 o--o missed a wi n here. The proper way
1 6 Q-Bz P-R3 was 38 N-Nsch ! , P x N 39 R x P,
17 KR-K I P-Q N3 R-Nz 40 Q-KN3, Q-B2 4 1 R-Rsch,
18 R-Nz R-N I K-N I 42 R-R6, N X KP 43
19 KR-N I Q-Q3 P x N ! , R x Q 44 R x Rch, Q-Nz
zo Q-Kz P-QR4 45 R x Q ch, K x R 46 R x P, and
21 B-Ns R-Q I White wins.
22 P-R3 Q-Bz
23 P-K4 N-B I 38 . . . Q-B3
24 Q-K3 B-Q2 39 P-R5 N-R I
zs N-Ks B-K I 40 N-Ns ch PxN
z6 B x B RxB 41 P x P N-N3 !
2 7 P-KB4 P-B3 42 R-N3 K-Nz
28 N-B3 N-Qz 43 R-KR3 R-KRr
29 P-K5 P-B4 44 P x N R x Rch
30 P-N4 ! 45 K x R R-R r ch
46 K-N3 Q x RP
J anowski fin ally starts an attack, 47 Q-KB3 P-Bsch
after some masterly inactivit y, 48 K-N4 Q-B7
designed to make the youngster 49 Q X P Q-K7ch
lose patience. 50 K-N3
30 . . . P-N3
Of course not 50 Q-B3, R-Rsch
3 1 NP x P NP x P
51 K-N3, R-R6ch, and White's
32 P-Qs N-B I
Queen falls.
If 32 . . . P x P 33 Q-Q3 reg ain s so . . . Q-Q6ch
the Pawn with advantage . 5 1 K-Nz Q-K7ch
33 R-Nzch K-Rz 52 K-N3 Q-R7ch
34 P-B4 Q-Bz 53 K-B3 R-KB 1
35 K-R2 N-N 3 54 Q-B6ch ! K-N r
55 P-Q7 R x Qch BALTIMORE, I935

5 6 NP x R French Defence
After missing the win, J anowski
Dake Di Paula
now misses the draw. The right way
White Black
to capture was by 56 KP x R. Play
I P-Q4 P-K3
would then proceed by 56 . . . Q-Q7 2 P-K4 P-Q4
57 P-B7ch, K-N2 58 R-KRI !, and 3 N-QB3 B-N5
Black would have to take the draw 4 N-K2 PxP
by perpetual check, as 58 . . . Q X QP 5 P-Q R3 B x Nch
would lose nicely by 59 R-R7ch, 6NxB N-QB3
KxP 6o P-BS (N)ch, and the 7 Q-N4 NxP
Knight then gathers up the Queen. 8 Q x NP N x Pch
56 . . . Q-Q7 9 K-K2 Q-Q6 mate
57 R-KRI Q-Q6ch
But not 57 . . . Q X p 58 P-B7ch, 146
K-N2 59 R-R7ch, and wins. DAKE MATED
5s K-N2 IN TEN
Dake had another misadventure
If instead 58 K-B2 , Q-B4ch in simultaneous play, this time
followed by capturing either the being mated in ro moves.
Knight Pawn or the King Pawn Here is the story.
with check.
58 ... Q x Pch
Q-B4ch MILWAUKEE, I 93 7
59 K-B2
Q-N4ch A lekhine 's Defence
6o K-N2
61 K-R2 Q-K7ch Powers Dake
62 K- R3 Q-Q6ch White Black
63 K-R4 Q x QP I P-K4 N-KB3
64 R-N i ch K-B I 2 P-K5 N-Q4
65 K-N5 Q-Q5 3 N-KB3 P-Q3
66 Resigns 4 B-B4 N-N3
5 B x Pch KxB
6 N-N5ch K-NI
7 Q-B3 Q-K I
1 45 8 P-K6 P-KR3
DAKE MATED 9 Q-B7ch QxQ
IN NINE IO P x Q mate
Arthur Dake, one of America's
And Dake exclaimed, " Is my
strongest players in the 1 93o's, once
face red ? "
gave an exhibition of his skill at
simultaneous chess at Baltimore.
One of his opponents was evidently 1 47
unimpressed by Dake's reputation, KMOCH LOSES
as he mated the Pacific Coast star IN EIGHT
in nine moves I Dake's nine-move upset was
Here is the blow-by-blow de speedy, but not the record for such
scription : debacles. On January 25, 1 948,
Hans Kmoch met all comers in a If 5 . . . N-N5 6 P-B5, N (N3) x P

simul-taneous exhibition at Cleve 7 P-QR3 wins a Knight.
land. One of his opponents did the N (N3)-B5
6 P-B5
unexpected. He made Kmoch sur
7 P-B4 Resigns
render in only eight moves !
Here is the morsel : White wins a piece, one of the
unfortunate Knights.
CLEVELAND, 1 948
French Defence 149
Kmoch Ellison MORPHY MATED
White Black IN 12
I P-K4 P-K3 Even the mighty Morphy, King
2 P-Q4 P-Q4 of Chess, suffered a mishap once,
3 N-Q2 P-QB4 being mated in 12 moves !
4 KN-B3 BP x P
SPRINGHILL, I855
5 NxP PxP
6 N(Q2) X P N-KB3 (Remove White's Queen Rook)
7 B-KN5 Q-R4ch Morphy Maurian
8 B-Q2 Q-K4 White Black
9 Resigns I P-K4 P-K4
Black wins a piece and the game. 2 P-KB4 PxP
3 B-B4 Q-R5ch
4 K-B I P-QN4
I -48 5 B-Q5 N-QB3
FINE RESIGNS 6 N-KB3 Q-R4
I N SEVEN 7 P-Q4 N-B3
Reuben Fine lost one of the 8 B-N3 B-R 3
shortest games in modern tourna g Q-K2 N x QP
ment play, when he had to lose a 1o N x N P-N5
piece after a mere seven moves.
Even an unsupported pin can do
A singular feature of the game was
the trick. White's Queen is lured
that the winner moved nothing but
away, and Black's Queen zooms
Pawns, the loser moved nothing
down.
but Knights !
Does this tell us anything about II Q x B Q-Q8ch
the value of developing the pieces ? 1 2 K-B2 N-N5 mate
PASADENA, I 93 2
A lekhine's Defenc8
I 50
Borochow Fine CAPABLANCA YIELDS
White Black IN IJ
I P-K4 N-KB3 When Capablanca, the greatest
2 P-K5 N-Q4 genius that chess ever produced,
3 P-QB4 N-N3 loses a game in I3 moves--even in
4 P-Q4 N-B3 simultaneous play-it is cause for
5 P-Q5 ! N x KP wonder.
Here is this rarity : to being taken by surprise, and lo s

ing in short order .
BROOKLYN, I 924 A case in po int :
Orangoutang Opening
ISRAEL, I958
Capablanca Kevitz Nimzovich Defence
W h i te Black
I P-QN4 P-Q 4 Reshe vsky Margolit
2 B-N2 B-B4 Whi te Black
3 P-K3 P-K3 I P-Q4 N-KB3
4 P-KB4 N-KB3 2 P-QB4 P-K3
5 N-KB3 B x NP 3 N-Q B3 B-N s
4 P-K3 P-QB4
6 N-B3 QN-Q2
s N-K2 N-B3
7 N-K2 N-N5
6 P-QR3 Q-R4
8 P-B3 B-K2
7 B-Q2 P-K4
9 P-KR3 N-B4
8PxB N x NP
Threatens instant mate by ro . . . g RxQ N-Q6 mate
N-Q6.
I O N-N3 B-Rs I52
Black is now ready to mate with STEINITZ LEADS I N

his Bishops, e . g. I I P x N, B x Nch QUICK MATES
I 2 K-Kz, B-q 6 mate. Steinitz's style is usually "de
II N x B QxN scribed as " sound, safe, dull and
1 2 Q-B3 NxP cautious . " Morphy 's play, on the
I3 Q-B2 other hand, is generally regarded as
" daring, inspired, sparkling and
Capturing the Knight instead brilliant. "
(by Queen or Pawn) is met by I n a book entitled Quick Mate/
I 3 . . . N-K5, which regains the 700 Short, Brilliant Games of Chess,
piece for Black and leaves him two the player having the most exam
Pawns ahead. ples to his credit is Steinitz !
I3 . . . NxB Next in order is Tarrasch, whose
method s in the popular eye seemed
And wins . If I 4 K x N (certainly
to parallel those of Steinitz . The
not I4 N x N or I4 R x N, when
brilliant Morphy comes next, after
I 4 . . . N-Q6ch wins the Queen)
these two " dull " players .
N-Q6 IS Q-K3, Q x Pch is con
Curiously, Capablanca is not even
vincing enough. .
in the book, while Lasker is repre
sented by one game o nly-a game
ISI that he lost !
RESHEVSKY MATED
IN NINE ISJ
The masters of today who are FI SCHER GETS AN
familiar with hundreds of lines of EARLY SHOCK
play in the ope n ing, and are pos The phenomenally gifted Bobby
sessed of extraordinary natural Fischer, who can see i nto the
abili ty as well, ar e still not immune intricacies of his opponent's co m-
binations in split seconds, is rarely I 54

the victim of an early brilliancy. MORPHY PLAYS MASTERS
He gets a rude shock in this SIMULTANEOU SLY
snappy I 4 mo v er !
-
Paul Morphy once gave a simul
taneous exhibition against five
SAN FRANCISCO, I 963 players.
Two Knights Defence What's startling about that ? All
five of his opponents were in the
Fischer Burger master class ! Morphy won from
White Black Amous de Riviere and H. E. Bird,
I P-K4 P-K4 drew with S. S. Boden and Jacob
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 Lowenthal, and lost to T. W.
3 B-B4 N-B3 Barnes.
4 N-N 5 P-Q4 Incidentally, Barnes, whose name
s PxP N-Qs may be completely unknown to
6 P-QB3 P-QN4 present-generation chess players,
6 P-QB3 P-QN4 won more games from Morphy than
7 B-B I N x QP anyone else ever did !
8 PxN QxN Here is the score of Barnes 's
9 B x Pch K-Q I victory :
Io Q-B3 B-N2
II o-o P-Ks LONDON, I 859
I2 Q x KP B-Q3 Petroff Defence
I3 P Q3
-
Morphy Barnes
This is the scene : White Black
I P-K4 P-K4
2 N-KB3 N- K B 3
3 B B4
- NxP
4 N-B3 NxN
s QP x N P-KB3
6 o--o Q-K2
7 N-R4 P-Q 3
8 Q-R5ch K-Q I
9 P-B4 B-K3
Io B x B QxB
IIPxP QP x P
I 2 N-N6 B-B4ch
I3 . . . B x Pch !
I4 K x B N-Bs Pinning the K night instead by
I S Resigns I2 . . . Q-KI fails after 1 3 Q-Q i ch,
B Q3 I4 N x R, and White wins
-
If White plays IS Q x B (the only the exchange.

way to save his Queen and guard
the threat of mate at his N2 square) 13 K-R I R-K I
then there follows I5 . . . Q-R5ch 14 Q x RP Q-N I
I6 K-N I , N-K7 mate . IS Q-R5 N-Q 2
Fischer's comment, according to 16 P- Q N 4 B-Q3
report, was, " Gee, terrific ! " 17 B-Q2
Later events showed that de Of course not 33 R x Q, R x P

veloping the Bishop to K3 would mate.
have been better.
33 . . . R x Pch
17 . . . Q-B2 3 4 K-N5 Q-N7ch
1 8 Q-N4 Q-K3 35 R-N5
19 Q-K4 N-N3
Forced, as 35 K x P allows 35 . . .
2o Q x NP Q-Ns
R x Pch 36 K-K6, Q-N3ch and
2 1 P-QR4 R-QBI mate next move.
22 QR-Q I QxN
23 B-K3 N-B5 35 ... PxR
24 Q-B6 Q-B2 36 Q-B7 Q-B3
37 P-N5 Q-Q2
The tempting 24 . . N x B would
.
38 RxB
be met by 25 R x Bch, K-K2 (of
course not 25 . . . P x R 26 Q x P, There is still a chance that Black
and Black is the victim of an might go wrong with 38 . . . P x R
epaulet mate) 26 R-Q7ch, K-BI 39 B-N6ch, R-B2 40 Q-B8ch,
27 Q-Bsch, K-N1 28 Q x N, and Q-K 1 41 Q x Pch, Q-Q2 42 B x Reb
White has at least an even game. K-B 1 43 Q X Qch, K X Q 44 B x R,
and White wins.
25 BxP P-K5
26 R-Q4 Q-R4 38 . . . QxR
27 R-B4 P-K6 But Barnes does not oblige, and
28 P-N4 P-K7 Morphy must resign.
29 PxQ P-KB (Q) ch
30 K-N2 R-K7ch
31 K-R3 P-B4 ! 1 55
PROBLEM
Begins a clever attack by Barnes,
SOLVES I TSELF
against which Morphy's desperate
Strange as it may seem there are
ingenuity fails .
The position at this point : problems any one, no matter how
poor a player, can solve.
Here is one, the terms of whiCh
are :
White to play and mate in six
moves.
Ropke
32 Q x N Q-B8ch !
A pretty move to make, especially
against Morphy.
33 K-R4
IS6 It developed that the Railroad

YATES GETS FULL COUNT Octopus had taken about all his
A book of Yates's games was money. However, he was given a
published with the title One Hundred board. Shortly after play had
and One of My Best Games of Chess. started (on Alekhine's second
The reader gets a baker's dozen, as round) all eyes were focused on
the book contains 1 09 games. Dake's board, where the two were
moving the pieces at less than
IS7 one second per move ! Dake
DECLINING DRAW lasted thirteen seconds, when he
IS COSTLY blew a piece and the game.
Schottlander needed only a draw
to win first prize in the Leipzig I 59
Tournament of r 88 8 . Mieses offered WINS MOST GAMES
him a draw in the course of their TO FINISH LAST
last-round game, but he declined it I Dr. Milan Vidmar won more
Schottlander lost the game, and games than anyone else in the
with it first prize I Budapest Tournament of 1 9 1 2 , and
yet he finished last !
IS8 Marshall won only one game, and
DAKE LOSES IN yet he tied for first ! The point score
IJ SECONDS explains :
Arthur Dake took a r soo-mile
wins draws losses total
trip to play Alekhine, who was
Marshall I 4 0 3
scheduled to give a simultaneous
Schlechter I 4 0 3
exhibition. Dake lost the game in Duras I 3 I 2!
13 seconds ! Here is the story, as told Maroczy I 3 I 2!
by E. J . Clarke in The A merican Teichmann o 4 I 2
Chess Bulletin : Vi dmar 2 0 3 2
When Alexander Alekhine was
touring the United States in 1 928, 160
after his triumph at Buenos Aires,
TASTY TOURNAMENT
it became known at the Mechanics'
PRIZE
Institute Chess Club of San
One of the prizes offered for the
Francisco that a boy from Port
winner of the match between
land was to travel the 1 , 500 miles
Tarrasch and Mieses in 1 9 1 6 was a
to Los Angeles to play the World's
half pound of butter.
Champion in the latter's simul
The prize was more valuable than
taneous there. Alekhine was sched
might first appear, as butter was a
uled to play at the Institute two
rarity in wartime Germany.
days later, and j ust before play
started a young man approached
the secretary, announced his I6I
name as Arthur Dake of Portland, SPIELMANN'S
stated he had held Alekhine (or SOLITARY WIN
Alekhine had held him ! ) to a 54- In the Bad Kissingen To urnament
move draw, and could he take a of 1 928, Spi elmann won only one
board ? game, but that was from the great
man himself-the (almost) invin Black gets in KR-Q1 followed by

cible Capablanca ! N-Q4 with a powerful position.
Here is the game : 18 .. . QxB
1 9 QR-B I
BAD KISSINGEN, I928
Besides seizing an open file,
Slav Defence
White's move makes possible a
Capablanca Spi el m ann threat against the lives of both
White Black Bishops by zo N-QR5 .
1 P-Q4 P-Q4 19 . . . KR-Q I
2 P-QB4 P-QB3 20 Q-R5 QR-B1
3 N-Q B3 N-KB3
Black is now prepared to meet
4 N-B3 PxP
2 1 N-QR5 either with the simple
5 P-K3 P-QN4
2 1 . . . P-N3, or with the combinative
6 P-Q!4 P-N5
7 N-R2 P-K3 2 1 . . . B-R3, with this idea in mind :
8BxP B-K2 22 R X B, R X R 23 Q X R, B X R
9 o-o o-o 24 K x B, Q-R8ch 25 K-K2, Q-Q8
10 P-QN3 P-B4 mate.
I I B-N2 B-N2 2 1 KR-Q1 P-N3
12 N-B1 N-B3 22 R x Rch QxR
13 P x P N-QR4 ! 23 Q-K5 B-K2
24 P-R3 R-B4
This is better than the obvious 25 Q-R1 B-KB3
recapture of the Pawn. 26 R-Q 1
14 N-K5 The position on the board :
If White tries to keep the extra
Pawn by 1 4 N-Q3. then after 14 . . .
N x B 1 5 P x N , P-QR4 followed by
1 6 . . . R-B I leaves Black with a
strongly protected passed Pawn.
14 . . . NxB
15 N X N B x P(B4)
1 6 N-Q3 Q-Q4 !
A strong move, but not because
of the one-move mate threat.
1 7 N-B4 26 . . . R-Q4 !
The alternative 1 7 P-B3 would 27 R x R
lead to trouble, viz : 1 7 P-B3, There is little choice, as 28 N-N2,
QR-Q 1 1 8 N-B2, Q-N4 19 Q-K2, R x Rch 29 Q x R, Q x Q 30 N x Q,
B-R3 . B-K5 leaves Black with the far
17 ... superior position.
18 B x N 27 . . . PxR
A bitter necessity (giving up the 28 N-K5
long-range Bishop) , but otherwise This loses a piece, but 28 N-N2
instead loses slowly but surely after 163

28 . . : P-Q5 29 Q-Q 1 , P x P 30 SLOW WIN AND
Q x Qch, B x Q 3 1 P x P, B-K5 QUICK LOSS
28 . . . Q-Q3 At Monte Carlo in 1 902, Tchigorin
29 N(B4)-Q3 B-R3 fought for 144 wearisome moves to
30 Q-K1 beat Mason, only to lose to Marshall
in eight moves !
There is no way to rescue both
I shall spare you the wearisome
Knights, who strangely enough are
1 44-mover, but here is the game
least effective when they protect
with Maxshall :
each other-or seem to ! If 30 Q-Q4
instead,. 30 . . . B (R3) x N follows MONTE CARLO, 1 902
and Black wins a piece. Queen's Gambit Declined
30 . . . B(B3) x N Marshall Tchigorin
31 N x B QxN White Black
32 Q x P B-Q6 I P Q4
- P-Q4
33 Q-B5 Q-Nr I 2 P-QB4 N-QB3
34 P-QN4 3 N-QB3 PxP
If 34 Q x QP, B-B7 regains the 4 P Q5
- N-R4
Pawn. 5 B-B4 B-Q2
6 P-K4 P-K3
34 . . . Q-N2 7 Px P PxP
3 5 P-N5 P-K
B-B5 An error of the sort that defies
36 Q-B3
37 P-K4 Q-K2 explanation.
38 P x P B x QP 8 Q-R5ch Resigns
39 P-R5 Q-K5 164
The threats of mate and of win HASTY RESIGNATION
ning a Pawn by 40 . . . Q-N8ch are During the Cable Match between
convincing enough. England and America in I 90 I ,
40 Resigns Bellingham (England) cabled his
resignation at the same time that
his opponent Voight cabled an
offer of a draw l
16a This was the final position, with
MARSHALL'S SPEED I N Black (Voight) to move :
SIMULTANEOUS PLAY
In January of 1 922, Frank Mar
shall played 1 5 5 games simultane
ously at Montreal. He won 1 26,
drew 2 I and lost only eight games,
in the quick time of seven hours
and 1 5 minutes, an average of
three minutes per game !
More impressive even than his
speedy pace was the fact that he
recalled all the moves that were
made on 1 5 3 of the boards !
P. S. When time was called, the games : 825 wins, 1 13 draws and
game was left as drawn. only five losses I
J65
r68
STEINITZ'S 16
MODEST CHESS MASTER
I N A ROW Dr. Lasker complimented Fred
In the double-round tournament Reinfeld and Reuben Fine on their
at Vienna in I 87J, William Steinitz book Dr. Lasker's Chess Career, but
won I 6 games in succession, with regretted the fact that they had
out allowing even a single draw to be not included any of his lost games
scored against him I The casualty in the book.
list : (A modest chess master is a rare
Steinitz 2 Rosenthal 0 bird !)
Steinitz 2 Paulsen 0
Steinitz 2 Anderssen 0
16 9
Steinitz 2 Schwartz 0
Steinitz 2 Gelbfuhs 0 CAPA'S ONLY LOSS
Steinitz 2 Bird 0 I N TEN YEARS
Steinitz 2 Hera! 0 In IO years of tournament and
Steinitz 2 Blackburne 0 match chess (including his match
Grand Totals I 6 0 for the World's Championship with
Dr. Lasker), from I 9 I 4 to I 924,
J66 Capablanca lost only one game !
UNLUCKY YEAR FOR
Here is the historic game :
CHESS MASTERS
No astrologer, soothsayer or life NEW YORK, I 9 I 6
insurance actuary predicted that French Defence
I932 would be a fatally dangerous
year for chess masters and chess Chajes Capablanca
problemists. White Black
In that year there departed from I P-K4 P K3-
this earth such distinguished chess 2 P-Q4 P-Q4

personalities as these : F. D. Yates, 3 N-QB3 N-KB3
Edgar Colle, Daniel Noteboom, 4 B-N5 B-N5
Alexander Takacs, Herman Matti 5 P-K5 P-KR3
son, H. G. M. Weenink, L. van 6 B-Q2 BxN
Vliet, Alexander Fritz, R. J . Loman, 7 PxB N-K5
Bernhard Kagan, Friedrich M. 8 Q-N4 K-BI
Palitzsch, L. A . Issaefl, Will H . 9 B-B I P_:QB4
Lyons and Fritz Riemann. I O B-Q3 Q-
I I N-K2 PxP
J6 7 I 2 o-o PxP
MAROCZY STARS I3 B x N PxB
IN SIMULTANEOUS I4 Q x P(K4) N B3-
Playing simultaneously in Europe I5 R-Q I

from June 1 9 2 7 to March I 928, White is ready to meet I 5 . . .
Geza Maroczy compiled the almost N-K2 (to be followed by I6 . . .
incredible score from a total of 943 N-Q4) with I6 N x P or I 6 B-R3.

15 . . . P-KN3 30 P-N3 B-B3

I 6 P-B4 K-N2 3 1 R-Q I K-R4
1 7 B-K3 N-K2 32 R-Q6 B-Ks
IS B-B2 N-Q4 33 Q x BP N-Q4
At this point Black is a Pawn 34 R x R KxR
ahead and the better game-per Of course not 34 . . . N x Q 35
haps a winning position. R x R, and if 34 . . . R x R 35
19 R-Q3 B-Q2 Q-R8ch, R-R3 36 Q-N7, R-KN3
2o N-Q4 QR-QBr 37 Q-R7ch, R-R3 38 Q-B7ch,
2 1 R-N3 K-R2 R-N3 39 P-N4ch, K-R3 (if 39 . . .
22 P-KR4 KR-Nr P x P 40 Q-R7ch wins the Bishop)
23 P-R5 Q-N s 40 P-N5ch, K-R4 41 Q-R7ch
24 R-R3 P-B4 wins the Rook.
25 P x P e .p. N x P(B3) 35 Q-K5 K-B2
26 P x Pch RxP 36 P-B4 R-Kr
This is the position : 37 Q-N2 N-B3
38 B-Q4 R-KRr
39 Q-Ns
Naturally Chajes does not grab
the Knight when 39 . . . R-R8ch
would net his Queen in return, and
leave a drawn position.
39 . . . R-R8ch
40 K-B2 P-R3
41 Q-N6 R-R7ch
42 K-K r N-Q2
4 3 Q-Q6 B-B3
44 P-N4 PxP
45 P-KB5 R-R8ch
27 R x Pch 46 K-Q2 K-K I
This wins the Queen. 47 P-B6 R-R2
48 Q-K6ch K-Br
27 . . . KxR
49 B-K3 R-B2
28 N-Bs ch PxN
s o B-R6ch K-NI
29 Q X Q QR-KNI
5 1 B-N7 !
Capablanca thinks that he missed
his chance with this move. He Much better than 5 1 Q x Pch,
K-R2 52 Q-R5 , R x P 53 B-N5ch,
shoul have played (he says) 29 . . .
K-N2 54 B x Rch, K x B, " and
B-B3 to force 30 P-N3, wheredpon
while White has a won game," says
he would continue with 30 . . . K-R4,
Capablanca, " it is by no means
with the general idea of threatening
easy."
mate by . . . R-KRr and . . . K-Ns.
To avert this White would have to 51 . . . P-N6
resort to perpetual check. In any 5 2 K-K2 P-N7
case the actual move loses valuable 53 K-B2 N-B I
time which he could ill spare. 54 Q-N4 N-Q2
The QR is on the wrong file. 55 K-N I P-R4
56 P-R4 BxP first player and writer on chess in

57 Q-R3 RxP America.
58 B x R NxB
I7I
59 Q x Pch K-B 1
6o Q x P B-K1 PILLSBURY PLAYS WHI ST
6 1 Q-N6 K-Kz AND BLINDFOLD CHESS
62 Q x P N-Q2 AND CHECKERS
63 K-Bz B-B2 One of Harry N. Pillsbury's
64 K-K3 K-Q3 favorite stunts in the realm of
65 K-Q4 K-B3 memory and imagination was to
66 Q-KB5 Resigns give a simultaneous blindfold dis
play, where he engaged 10 players
170 at chess and 10 at checkers, mean
while taking a hand at a rubber of
FRANKLIN
whist !
FIRST AMERICAN CHESS
WRITER 17:1
Leonardo da Vinci may have been WHO WAS
" perhaps the most resplendent WORLD'S CHAMPI ON ?
figure in the human race, " but Steinitz and Zukertort were once
Benj amin Franklin was a worthy present at a dinner where a toast
runner-up . was proposed to the Chess Champion
S o many and varied were his of the World.
interests that it should occasion Both players stood up in response !
little surprise to learn that the man
who was a printer, publisher, I 7J
philosopher and postmaster general, SI STER GAMES TOTALLY
the inventor of the lightning rod, DISSIMILAR
the rocking chair and bifocal spec Are chess and checkers sister
tacles should also have been the games ? See box.
In chess : In checkers :
1 . All 64 squares are used 1 . Only 32 squares are used
2 . White moves first 2. Black moves first
3 Captures are optional 3 Captures are compulsory
4 Only one piece may be taken at 4 One or more pieces may be
a time taken at a time
5 The capturing piece replaces the 5 The capturing piece j umps over
one that is removed the one that is ren1oved
6. A stalemate is a draw 6. A stalemate is a loss
7. The pieces move in different 7. The pieces all move the same
ways way
8. The Pawns promote to any 8. The pieces promote to a King
thing but a King only
9. The choice of openings is not 9. The openings are chosen by
restricted ballot
1 0 . The time limit specifies a certain 10. The time limit is five minutes
number of moves per hour per move
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES O F CHESS 77
1 74 N-R5ch, which would win his

SCHLECHTER DOESN'T Queen.
LOSE, DOESN'T WIN Now comes the strangest part I
Carl Schlechter did not lose a game Buerger moves the Knight but not
-
at Pistyan in 1 9 1 2, but could not do to R5 ! Instead, he played 2 N x B.

better than tie for fourth, fifth and With this move, he contributed to
sixth prizes. In the same year at one of the greatest double-barreled
Breslau, he repeated the perform blunders on record I
ance of not losing a game, and again
finished in a tie for fourth, fifth and 1 76
sixth prizes. COUNT ALBERIC
DRAWS AGAIN (AND AGAIN
1 75 AND AGAIN)
COMBINATION KING MAKES Count Alberic O' Kelly de Galway
WORST BLUNDER EVER drew all nine of his games at
The worst blunder ever seen on a Beverwij k in 1957.
chessboard was made by one of the Count Alberic O' Kelly de Galway
most brilliant players that ever drew all nine of his games at
lived ! Beverwij k in 1959.
Alexander Alekhine, conqueror of What happened at Beverwijk in
Capablanca for the Championship of 1958 ? O' Kelly played there, but
the World, creator of dazzling drew only seven of his nine games.
combinations, blindfold player ex The sum total in three tourna
traordinary, profound analyst with ments : out of 27 games played,
out peer-makes a terrible mistake ! O' Kelly drew 25 games, won one
He overlooks a one-move Knight and lost one. This is an achievement
fork that would win his Queen ! which even Schlechter, the great
This was the way the board drawing master, might have envied.
looked in Alekhine's game with
1 77
Buerger at Margate in 1937 :
INEXHAUSTIBILITY OF
CHESS
Mr. Edwin Anthony wrote an
interesting article on the inexhausti
bility of chess, from which we learn
that to estimate the actual number
of ways of playing even a very few
moves is beyond the power of
calculation, but to get something
of an approximation to that num
ber is very simple. Taking an
average variation of the opening as
usually practiced, we find that the
Alekhine was Black, and it was first player has 28, 30 and 33 ways
his turn to move. of playing the second, third and
Alekhine played 1 Q x P,
. . . fourth moves respectively ; 29, 3 1
missing completely the reply a , and 3 3 being corresponding numbers
devastating Knight fork by 2 for the second player. Of course, both
players, on their :first move, have a his leading challenger, Isaac Kash
choice of 20 moves. On the hypoth dan, at the Chicago Tournament in
esis that the number of replies open 1 926.
at each move is always the same, Here is one of the games :
whatever the preceding moves may
CHICAGO, 1926
have been, and that the foregoing
Queen's Pawn Game
:figures give those numbers, the
number of possible ways of playing Banks Kashdan
the first four moves only on each
White Black
side would be 3 1 8,979.584,ooo. If, I P-Q4 N-KB3
then, anyone were to play without 2 N-KB3 P-B3
cessation at the rate of one set a 3 B-N5 P-K3
minute, it would take him more 4 QN-Q2 P-Q4
than 6oo,ooo years to go through
5 P-K3 QN-Q2
them all ! 6 B-Q3 Q-N3
The number of possible ways of B-K2
7 R-QN1
playing the first 10 moves on each
8 o-o o-o
side in a game of chess is 1 69,5 I8, R-K 1
g N-K 5
829, I00,544.ooo, ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo.
10 N (Q2)-B3 N-B 1
I I P-B 3 N (B3)-Q2
1 78
12 B x B RxB
ALEKHINE WINS BY 13 N X N BxN
St LENGTHS 1 4 Q-B2 P-B3
In the great tournament at Bled 15 N-R4 P-QB4
in 193 1 , Alekhine did not lose a 1 6 P-KB4 B-K 1
single game in 26 rounds of play. 17 Q-B2 N N3
-
The number of points separating 18 P-KN4 NxN

him from the second-prize winner 19 Q x N B-N3
Bogolyubov was 5 !----almost as 2o B x B PxB
great as between second place and 2 1 R-B 3 R(K2)-K1
last ! 22 R-R3 K-B2
1 79 23 P-B5 ! R-R I
SEVENTY CHECKS NEEDED 24 P x NPch KxP
TO FORCE DRAW 25 Q-N 3 PxP
A peculiar rule regarding drawing 26 KP x P P-K4
a game by perpetual check is given This is the position :
in Murray's History of Chess.
The rule is that games in which
perpetual check occurs are called
drawn, but check must be given 70
times !
18o
CHECKER STAR UPSETS
CHESS MASTERS
A checker master, Newell Banks,
defeated both the United States
Champion, Frank J . Marshall and
,
27 RxR RxR coccus, micrococcus, plasmodium,

28 P-N5 R-R4. Mississippi, Freiheit, Philadelphia,
29 P x Pch R-N4 Cincinnati, athletics, no war, Et
3o Q x Rch ! chenberg, American, Russian,
A sacrifice which must have philosophy, Piet Potgelter's Rost,
taken Black by surprise, so that he Salamagundi, Oomisellecootsi,
did not put up the best defence. Bangmanvate, Schlechter's Nek,
Manzinyama, theosophy, catechism,
30 . . . KxQ Madjesoomalops.
3 1 P-B7 Q-Q r Pillsbury looked at the list for a
This loses ! Black should play few minutes, repeated the words
31 . . . Q-N3, when this might be the in the order given, and then
continuation : 32 R-KB r , K-R5ch backwards.
33 K-R r , Q-K5ch 34 K-N r , K-R6 1
35 K-B2 (but not 35 R-B2 when 18z
35 . . . Q-N5ch forces mate) P x P ALAPIN C ONCEDES IN
36 P x P, Q x Pch , and Black's FIVE MOVES
Queen will pick up another Pawn or Dr. Tarrasch once beat Alapin in
two before moving to KBr to a tournament game in five moves I
blockade the Pawn. Here is the way it happened :
32 R-KBr Q-KBr
33 P x P P-R4 BRESLAU, r 889
34 P-K6 K-N3 Petroff Defence
35 R-B2 P-N4
Tarrasch Alapin
36 P-QR3 P-N5
White Black
37 RP x P PxP
I P-K4 P-K4
38 P-K7 Q x P(B2)
2 N-KB3 N-KB3
39 R x Q KxR
3 NxP P-Q3
4o P x P KxP
4 N-KB3 NxP
4 1 K-B2 K-Q3
42 K-K3 K-B3
43 K-Q4 P-N4
44 P-R3 K-N4
45 K x P KxP
46 K-K5 Resigns
I8I
PILLSBURY'S
MNEMONIC FEAT
Dr. Threlkel-Edwards of Bethle
hem and Professor Merriman of
Lehigh University once tested Pills
bury's memory for other things than At this point Tarrasch moved
chess, by giving him this list of 5 P-Q3 . Alapin h ard ly looked at the
words to memorize : board, as he ex pec te d 5 P-Q4, the
Antiphlogistine, periosteum, ta customary move at that time .
kadiastase, plasmon, ambrosia, Almost automatically he to uch ed his
Threlkeld, strepto co ccu s , staphylo- King Bishop, as he intended to
8o WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
answer 5 P-Q4 with 5 . . . B-K2 . I86

Imagine his horror when he looked TWO SEA SERPENTS
at the board and saw that his Knight IN A ROW
was attacked and that he could not Schlechter won the ninth game of
move it away ! his match with Tarrasch after an
He had touched his Bishop, and exhausting, long drawn-out battle
regardless of the consequences, he of 1 06 moves, only to lose the very
had to move the Bishop ! next game after an even more
There was nothing left but to strenuous struggle of 1 07 moves !
resign at once ; playing the game I do not hesitate to give both
out with a piece minus against a games despite their length, as they
master like Tarrasch was hopeless. are fascinating and (I add fearfully)
instructive as well.
The ninth game :
183
NO DEATH OF THE DRAW COLOGNE, 1 9 1 1
Out of 1 82 games played in the Queen's Pawn Opening
London Tournament of 1 8 5 1 , only
Schlechter Tarrasch
seven games were drawn !
White Black
I P-Q4 P-Q4
2 B-B4 P-QB4
184 3 P-K3 Q-N3
ZUKERTORT TIRES IN 4 N-Q B 3 P-K3
THE STRETCH On 4 Q x P instead, the reply
. . .
Zukertort lost his last three 5 N-N5 leaves the Queen stranded
games in the London Tournament and exposed to possible dangers.
of 1 883-and yet he finished first,
three points ahead of World Cham 5 BxN
pion Steinitz ! This and the next move prevent
Black from Castling, but the idea
is not as good as might first appear.
ISS 5 ... RxB
6 B-N5ch B-Q2
WORLD'S CHAMPION
7 B x B ch KxB
I S NOT " WORLD' S
8 R-N I N B3
FOREMOST CHESS EXPERT "
-
9 N-B3 B-Q3
The title page of a work published
10 o-o K-K2
in 1 935 reads, " A Primer of Chess, "
by Jose R. Capablanca, world 's Prepares for artificial Castling.
Foremost Chess Expert.
At the time of publication, Dr. II Q-K2 KR-Qr
Alekhine was World Champion, 12 PxP Q .x P
13 P-K4 P-Q5
and presumably the " World 's Fore
most Chess Expert, " having de 14 N-QN5 P-Q6 1
feated Capablanca for the title in 15 PxP
1927, and having held it for eight Of course not 1 5 Q x P, B x Pch ,
years ! and White loses his Queen.

15 . . . QxN 39 . . . N-B3
16 P-K5 BxP 40 Q-B7ch K-N3
17 N x B R-Q4 41 Q-N3ch R-N5
1 8 KR-KI R-Q BI 42 Q-N3 R-Q5
43 P-KR3 R-Q6
A hasty move which costs a Pawn.
44 Q-B4 R-Q4
19 N x P Q-B3 45 Q-N3 R-KB4
Clearly if 19 . . . K x R 20 Q x Pch 46 R-K2 Q-B8ch
follows and the Queen Rook falls. 47 R-KI Q-Q7
48 R-K2 Q-B8ch
zo N-K5 Q-B7
49 R-K1 Q-Q7
2 1 Q-K3 Q-B2
50 R-K2 Q-B8ch
22 R(N1)-B1 R-B4
5 1 R-K I Q-B4
23 R x R QxR
52 Q-N3ch K-B2
24 P-Q4 Q-Q4
53 K-NI Q-B7
25 Q-R3ch K-K I
54 Q-K3 QxP
z6 Q x P N-Q2
27 N-Q3 R-B5 Tarrasch makes another error
28 N-B4 (he explains that he was suffering
from influenza at the time) . He does
Probably counting on 28 . . . Q x P not realize that he is in danger of
29 Q x Q, R x Q 30 N x P, but he losing a piece, or he might have
gets a shock. played 54 . . . P-R3 to ward off the
z8 . . . Q-Ks ! threat .
55 P-N4 R-Q4
Black wins a piece, as the Knight 56 P-N5 Q-Q7
cannot be saved (29 N-K2, Q x N) .
The Knight must hold still, e.g.
29 K-B 1 QxN if 56 . . . N-Q2 57 Q-K8 mate.
3o Q x P 57 P x N QxQ
Black has no easy win, as his 58 R x Q KxP
opponent has three Pawns for the 59 R-R3 P-R.J
lost piece, two of them being con 6o K-N2 P-N4
nected passed Pawns. 61 R-R8 R-Q6
62 P-QR4 R-R6
30 . . . Q x QP 63 P-R5 P-R5
On 30 . . . K-K2 (to protect the 64 P-R6 K-N2
King Pawn) 3 1 Q-Q5 follows, 65 P-B3 K-R2
winning the King Pawn. 66 K-B2 K-N2
67 K-K2 K-R2
31 R x Pch K-B2 68 P-R7 K-N2
32 R-K1 Q-Q6ch 69 K-Q2 K-R2
33 K-N 1 Q-Q7 70 K-B2 K-N2
34 K-B1 Q-Q6ch 71 K-N2 R-R3
35 K-NI Q-Q7 72 K-B3 R-R8
36 K-B1 Q-Q6ch 73 K-N4 R-R7
37 K-N1 Q-Q7 74 K-N5 R-R8
J8 K-B1 R-QN5 75 K-B6 R-R7
39 Q-B6 76 K-Q6 R-R8
Threatens a little mate in two. 77 K-K6 R-R.J
This is the position : r os K-N6 R-R7

I o6 R-KN I Resigns
The r oth game :
COLOGNE, r g u
Ruy Lopez
Tarrasch Schlechter
White Black
I P-K4 P-K4
2 N-KB3 N-QB3
3 B-Ns P-QR3
4 B-R4 N-B3
78 R-KS ! s o-o B-K2
6 N-B3 P-Q3
Black must not tou ch th e Pawn. 7 P-Q4 B-Q2
If 78 . . . R x P 79 R-K7ch , R x R 8 BxN BxB
So K x R, K-N3 S r K-K6, K-R4 g Q-Q3 PxP
82 K-Bs, K-R3 83 K-B6, K-R4 ro N x P o-o
84 K-N7, P-Ns Ss BP x Pch, and I I R-K I N-Q2
White wins. I2 N x B PxN
I 3 B-K3 B-B3
79 K-Bs RxP 14 QR-Q1 Q-NI
So K x P R-R6 I S P-QN3 Q-Ns
8 1 K-N4 R-N6 1 6 B-Q2
82 R-K4 K-N3
83 R-K6ch K-N2 Threatens 1 7 N-Qs . and the
84 P-B4 R-N6ch removal of Black's strongly-posted
Bs K x P R-NS Bishop.
86 R-K3 K-B3 16 . . . Q-N2
87 R-KN3 R-QRS 1 7 N-R4 KR-K I
88 K-N4 R-RI I 8 B-B3 R-K3
8g R-N3 R-N rch 19 B x B NxB
go K-B3 R-NS
White has disposed of the annoy
gr R-N6ch K-B4
ing Bishop, and now he devotes his
92 R-Nsch K-B3
energies to preventing his opponent
93 R-NS R-B8ch
from playing the freeing . . . P-Q4.
94 K-N4 R-N8ch .
9 S K-Rs R-N2 20 R-K3 QR-K1
g6 R-B8ch K-K2 Of course not 20 P-Q4, as 2 1
. . .
97 R-B s K-K3 N-Bs wins the exchange for White.

g8 R-KNs R-R2ch
RxP 2 1 N-B3 P-R3
99 K-N6
roo R-Ksch K-Q3 It's time for both sides to take
r o r R-K r R-RI measures against surprise mates on
r o 2 P-Bs R-N rch the back rank. For example, if
1 03 K-B7 R-QRI 2 1 . . . P-Q4 22 p X P, R X R 23
r o4 P-B6 R-R2ch p X R, p X p 24 N X P, N X N 2S
Q x N, Q x Q 26 R x Q, and Black " This bears out the dictum, " says
may not play 26 . R x P as mate
. . Tarrasch, " that the effect of an
on the back rank would follow. unexpected sacrifice is often to
throw the opponent off balance so
22 P-KR3 Q-R2
that he fails to put up the best
23 Q-Q4 P-B4 defence. Black is momentarily a
24 Q-Q3 Q-N2 Rook ahead (in the diagrammed
2S R(Q1)-K1 Q-Ns position) , but his Rook and Knight
26 P-B3 are attacked, and counterattack
This frees the Rooks from being fails-32 . . . R(K7)-K6 by 33 P x N,
tied down to the defence of the and 32 . . . R(K1 )-K6 by 33 P x N,
King Pawn . R x Q 34 R x R-there remains only
retreat by 32 . . . R(K7)-K2 when
26 . . . Q-N2
the continuation would be 33 P x N,
2 7 R(K3)-K2 Q-R2
R-Q 1 34 N-Q5 , R(K2) x P 3S
28 K-R2 P-B3
P-B4, and White has the superior
29 P-B4
position, but Black has drawing
Tarrasch is now prepared to chances. After Black's actual move,
meet 29 . . . P-Q4 with 30 P-Ks White is a Pawn up with a win in
followed soon after by P-B s and a sight."
possible assault on Black's King
33 N x R NxP
side by the Pawns.
" One must take heed even on the
29 . . . N-Q2
verge of victory, " says Tarrasch,
30 R-Q I
" as at this point when Black
But not 30 P-B s , N-K4 3 1 threatens to win by . . . R-Q 1 . "
Q-Q2, R(K3)-K2 32 Q x P , R-Q2
and White loses his Queen. 3 4 N-N3 R-Q 1
35 Q-B3 RxR
30 . . . P-Q4 36 Q x R N-Qs
Black gets in P-Q4 at last. 3 7 P-B3 N-K3
But is it good ? 38 P-Bs N-B i
31 P x P RxR But not 38 . . . N-N4, when 39
This is the position : Q-Q8ch, K-R2 40 P-KR4 steals
the Knight.
39 Q-Qs N-Q2
40 N-K4 Q-N 1 ch
4 l Q-Q6 Q-R1
Black gives up the Pawn as
exchanging Queens is hopeless, and
41 . Q-R2 allows 42 Q- K 7 pinning
. . ,
his Knight and threatening him

with various disasters.
42 NxP NxN
43 QxN Q-N 1 ch
44 K-R1 Q-B s
32 P x P N-N1 4S Q-B4 Q-Q7
46 Q x P Q-B8ch 63 P-N5 P-B4

47 K-R2 Q-B5ch 64 P-N6 Q-K6 !
48 K-NI Q-K6ch 65 Q-Q6 1
49 K-B I Q x BP White is prepared to meet 65 . . .
50 Q-K2 Q-B8ch P-B5 (threatens perpetual check)
51 K-B2 Q-B4ch with 66 Q-N4, which guards the
52 K-N3 Q-Q3ch square K 1 , and places the Queen
53 K-B3 Q-B3ch behind the passed Pawn.
54 Q-K4 Q-B6ch
55 Q-K3 65 . . . Q-QN6
66 Q-QB6
White decides to give up a Pawn
for the sake of securing control of Now if 66 . . . P-B5 67 Q-K4ch
the diagonal leading from his KR2 once . again guards the square K 1 ,
to QN8. and permits the passed Pawn to
advance one more square.
55 ... Q-B7
56 P-QR4 Q x BPch 66 . . . Q-K6
57 K-N3 Q-N3ch 67 Q-Q6 Q-QN6
58 K-R2 Q-Q3ch 68 Q-QB6 Q-K6
59 Q-N3 69 Q-Q6 Q-QN6
70 Q-QB6 Q-K6
Finally ! But White's difficulties 7 1 Q-N5 Q-B5ch
are not yet over. Black's Queen 72 K-N1 Q-Q5ch
puts a restraining hand on the passed 73 K-B1 Q-Q8ch
Pawns with the next move. 74 K-B2 Q-B7ch
59 . . . Q-N5 75 K-N3 P-B5ch
76 K-B3 Q-B6ch
This is the position after Black's 77 K x P Q-Q7ch
59th move : 78 K-B3
But not to the fifth rank, as that
loses the Queen !
78 ... Q-Q8ch
79 K-K3 Q-K8ch
So K-B3 Q-Q8ch
81 K-K4 Q-K8ch
82 K-Q5 Q-Q7ch
83 K-K6 QxP
84 P-N7 Q-N3ch
Obviously 84 Q x Pch 85
Q-B5ch is fatal.
6o P-R5
85 K-Q5 Q-B4ch
White offers up one of his precious 86 K-B6 Q-K3ch
Pawns as the best way to make 87 K-B7 Q-K2ch
progress . 88 K-N6 Q-Q 1ch
6o . . . Q x RP 89 K-R7 Q-Q5ch
6 1 Q-N8ch K-Rz 90 K-R8 Q-K5
62 P-QN4 Q-KN4 91 Q-QR5 Q-B6
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS 8s
92 Q-N4 Q-Q4 187

93 Q-N ich P-N3 LOWENTHAL'S LONG LEAD
94 Q-B2 P-R4 LIQUIDATED
95 P-R4 K-R3 Lowenthal was leading 9-2 in
96 Q-B7 ! Q-Ks his match with H arrwitz, but
managed to lose finally by a score of
Schlechter avoids the plausible 1 1-1o l
96 . . . Q-R7ch 97 K-N8, Q-N ich
98 Q-B8, Q-N2 (indifferent moves
allow a mate at White's KR8) 99 188
Q-B ich, K-R2 100 Q-B7 and THE QUEEN'S
White wins. MANY, MANY MOVES
97 Q-Q7 Q-B6 At St. Petersburg in 1909, Cohn
98 Q-K7 ! Q-QB3 made 44 Queen moves in succession
99 K-R7 against Salwe I Remarkable but
there's nothing new under the sun.
The King prepares to take a trip At London in I 882, Mason made
over to KN8 to threaten mate ! 72 consecutive Queen moves against
Capt. Mackenzie I
99 . . . Q-Rsch
1 00 K-N6 Q-N6ch
101 K-B7 Q-Bsch 18g
1 02 K-Q7 Q-N4ch COMPETES IN s o YEARS
1 03 K-Q8 Q-N7 OF TOURNAMENT PLAY
104 K-K8 Q-KR7 The English master J . H. Black-
105 K-B8 Q-N1ch borne was a contestant in Inter
106 K-B7 national Chess Tournaments for
over so years I
White now threatens 107 Q-N sch,
His opponents included every
K-R2 1 08 Q x NPch, and mate
body of note, from Anderssen in
next.
1 862 to Alekhine in 1914.
If Black plays 1 06 . . . K-R2 , then
comes 107 K-B6 dis.ch, and mate
at N7. I CJO
106 . . . Q-Bsch CHAROUSEK'S
107 K-N8 MONUMENTAL TASK
Rudolf Charousek could not af
Now we see the strength of ford to buy a copy of Bilguer's
White's 98th move (Q-K7) . If gigantic Handbuch des Schachspiels,
Black plays 107 . . . Q-N ich 1 08 so he copied it out by hand.
Q-B8ch wins, or if 1 07 . . . Q-Bsch,
then 108 Q-B7 ends it.
191
107 . . . Resigns
MORPHY CONDUCTS
The well-played Queen ending CHESS COLUMN
should amply compensate the reader Paul Morphy once conducted a
who has had the patience to wade chess column at the fantastic salary
through 1 07 moves. (for I 859) of $3,000 a year.
1 93 published move for move nine

REUBEN FINE years previously in the British
THE GIANT KILLER Chess Magazine for December I900 I
In AVRO in 1938, Reuben Fine Here is the score of the game :
performed this marvelous feat : in
successive rounds he won from PARIS, 1909
Botvinnik, he won from Reshevsky, Danish Gambit
he drew with Capablanca, and then
won from Euwe, Flohr and Alekhine. Janowski Lasker
Soldatenkov Taubenhaus
1 93 White Black
CAPA NEVER CHECKMATED I P-K4 P-K4
Capablanca has never been check 2 P-Q4 PxP
mated ! 3 P-QB3 PxP
4 B-QB4 PxP
s BxP N-KB3
1 94
6 P-Ks B-Nsch
THE MOST P OPULAR GAME 7 N-B3 Q-K2
For more than 1000 years, more 8 N-K2 N-K5
people have played chess than any 9 o--o NxN
other game. 1o B x N BxB
II NxB o--o
1 95 1 2 N-Qs ! QxP
UNIQUE MATCH 1 3 R-KI Q-Q3
CONDITIONS 1 4 Q-Rs P-QB3
Zukertort and Rosenthal played a 15 N-B7 ! P-KN3
match in I 88o. One of the curious But not 15 . . . Q x N 1 6 Q x BPch l
articles in the agreement drawn up and mate next move.
was that neither player was per
mitted to leave the other alone 16 Q-R6 QxN
during the midday adjournment, The position at this point :
but that they must lunch and stay
together until the afternoon session
began !
Another clause specified that
Rosenthal had the right to postpone
the match to autumn in the event
that the temperature reached 67
degrees Fahrenheit !
lg6
BRILLIANCY ANTICIPATED
Janowski and Soldatenkov in
consultation played a game against
1 7 B x Pch ! KxB
Lasker and Taubenhaus at Paris in
1 909. Forced, as on 1 7 . . . R x B 1 8
They won a brilliant Danish R-K8ch follows with mate next
Gambit, but the game had been move.
IS Q x RPch K-B3 22 B x N PxB

I9 Q-R.4ch K-N2 23 N-B4 R-Ks
20 R-K7ch R-B2 24 Q-N3ch K-R1
2I Q-Q4ch K-B I 25 N-R4 NxP
22 Q-R8 ch ! KxR 26 Q-KR3 R-B7
23 R-K i ch K-Q3 2 7 P-N6 B-B3
24 Q-Q4 mate 28 N-B3 P-R3
29 N-K6
1'7 A desperate move, but his game
LASKER'S QUEEN was hopeless.
STAYS AT HOME 29 . . . NxN
In the I 924 New York Tourna 3o B x P R-KR5
ment, Dr. Lasker beat Maroczy in Resigns
30 moves without once moving his
Queen ! lg8
Here is the score of the game : YATES DEFEATS CRITIC
Yates won only one game at the
NEW YO RK I924 , Hamburg Tournament in I 9 I O.
Alekhine Defence The man he beat was Dr. Tarrasch
who had objected to Yates's entry
Maroczy Lasker on the ground that he (Yates) was
White Bla:;k not a strong enough player for this
I P-K4 N-KB3 tournament !
2 N-QB3 P-Q4 H.ere is the record of Tarrasch's
3 P-K5 KN-Q2 debacle :
4 P-Q4 P-K3
5 QN-K2 P-QB4 HAMBURG, I 9 1 o
6 P-QB3 N-QB3 Queen's Gambit Declined
7 P-KB4 B-K2
8 N-B3 o-o Tarrasch Yates
9 P-KN3 PxP White Black
Io PxP N-N3 IP-Q4 P-Q4
II B-R3 B-Q2 2N-KB3 N-KB3
1 2 o-o R-BI 3P-B4 P-K3
4P-K3 B-K2
Black's development is manifestly
sN-B3 P-B4
superior to his opponent's, whose N-B3
6B-Q3
pieces seem to be in each other's o-o
7 o-o
way.
8 P-QN3 P-QN3
13 P-KN4 P-B3 9 B-N2 B-N2
14 PxP BxP 10 R-B I R-BI
IS P-Ns B-K2 I I P x QP N(KB3) x P
16 K-R1 N-Bs I 2 N-K2 PxP
17 N-B3 B-Ns 13 N (K2) x P NxN
18 Q-K2 R-KI 14 N x N RxR
19 Q-Q3 N-Q3 rs Q x R B-Q3
20 P-Bs N(Q3) X P r 6 N-B3 Q-K2
21 NxP B-Q3 1 7 Q-Rr P-B3
88 WONDERS A N D CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
IS N-Q4 199
I9 R-B I FLAWED PRIZE PROBLEMS
With this move all five of White's P. F. Blake received first pri ze
pieces have been shifted away from for a problem published in the Kent
the K ing side-against which side MMcury in I892. The problem was
Black's pieces are aimed . The better later found to have a dual solution !
move would have been to return the Stranger was the case of the
Knight (the best protector of the problem by L. Knotek which won
Castled King) back to B3 . second prize in a composing tourney.
The position on the board : The problem was found to have
seven first moves which would solve
it, in addition to the one intended
by the author !
aoo
AROUND AND
AROUND AGAIN
The Manhattan Mei'Yy-Go-Round :
In the Championship Tournament
of the Manhattan Chess Club,
played in I 934-
I9 . . . N x P! Platz beat Willman
2o P x N Q-N4 Willman beat MacMurray
2 I K-Bz MacMurray beat Kashdan
The alternative 2 1 B-B 1 leads to K ashdan beat Kupchik
this : 2 I . . . Q x KPch 22 K-RI , K up chik beat Richman
Q-B5 23 K-N I , Q x Pch 24 K-B2, Ric hman beat Hassialis
B-N6ch 25 K-K2 , B x P, and Black H ass ialis beat Denker
wins. Denker beat Jackson
2I ... Q x NPch J a ckson beat Simonson
2 2 K-K I BxP Simonson beat Schwartz
Schwartz beat Cohen
Black has three Pawns for the
Cohe n beat Tenner
piece, two connected passed Pawns,
Tenner beat Platz
and the attack. \\'hat more could
man ask for ? This proves that everyone is
23 B-K2 P-K4 better than everyone else I
24 N-K6 B-N6ch
25 K-Q I B-B6 :ZOI
26 B x B Q x Bch PRODIGY IN
27 K-B2 Q-Ksch CHESS AND MUSIC
28 K-Q2 Q-Q4ch Philidor, the strongest chess play
29 N-Q4 PxN er and theoretician of his time was
30 B x P P-Bs not only a chess prodigy, but a
3 I P-K4 Q x KP musical prodigy as well. He com
32 R-B4 R-Q I posed a motet at the age of 1 I that
33 P-R4 B-B7 was performed at the Chapel Ro yal
Resigns in Versailles.
202 3 N-QB3 N-KB3

THE THIRTEENTH CHILD 4 B-N5 B-Kz
William Steinitz, who has been 5 P-K3
called " the most original thinker, 6 N-B3 P-QN3

the most courageous player, and the 7 B-Q3 B-Nz
most remarkable personality that 8 PxP PxP
the chess world has produced in the 9BxN BxB
fifteen or so centuries that the game I O P-KJ4 P-N3
has been in existence," was the u P-Rs R-K I
13th child in his family. 12 P x P RP x P
(This should give the proponents I 3 Q-B2 B-Nz
of birth control something to think The position on the board :
about.)
ao3
GROB'S OPPONENTS LOSE
ON TIME
In the Ostend Tournament of
I 937. Grob won three games in a
row when his opponents exceeded
their time limit.
He beat Reynolds (who had a
drawn position) Dyner (whose game
was lost anyway) and Keres (who
should have drawn) .
I4 B x P I PxB
IS Q x P N-Qz
:304
1 6 N-KNs Q-B3
WHEN CHES S WAS A
I 7 R-R8ch KxR
GAME OF LUCK
I8 Q-R7 mate
Chess players for more than soo
years have used a pair of dice to
determine their moves. ao6
EXTENT OF CHESS
aos LITERATURE
DUPLICATES MARSHALL'S The eminent scholar and historian
BRILLIANT MOVES H. J. R. Murray, says in his classic
Mentges won a brilliancy prize in work A History of Ckess, " The game
I 9 I 3 for a game which was identical possesses a literature which in
move for move with Marshall's contents exceeds that of all other
classic brilliancy against Amos Bum games combined. "
in the Paris Tournament of I9oo l
Here is the score of the game : 'MY'/
Q148en's Gambit Declined THE SKILLFUL KNIGHT
The same authority tells us, " In
Mentges Gitzen the Middle Ages, skili in chess play
White Black was esteemed in a knight as befitting
I P-Q4 P-Q4 his rank and position, and while a
2 P-QB4 P-K3 knowledge of chess is attributed to
go WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
almost every character of rank in Appropriately enough, the posi

the romances, the heroes are regu tions of White and Black (or Weiss
larly credited with a very high and Schwartz) are completely
degree of proficiency. " identical !
This is the picture on the board :
208
THE PERFECT GAME
A chess game where White and
Black play perfectly should end in
a draw.
In the Nuremberg Tournament of
1 883, Weiss (which means V\'hite)
met Schwartz (which means Black)
in the fifth round. This is what
h appene d :
NUREMBERG, 1883
French Defence
Weiss Schwartz aog

White Black ONE STAR D I SAPPROVE S
I P-K4 P-K3 In 1837 there was a group of
2 P-Q4 P-Q4 strong players in Berlin whose
3 PxP PxP members were L. Bledow, W. Han
4 N-KB3 N-KB3 stein , C. Mayet, B. Horwitz, K.
5 B--Q3 B--Q3 Schorn, Baron Tassilo von Heyde
6 o-o o-o brand und der Lasa, and Lieut.
7 B--KN5 B--KN5 P. R. von Bilgu er .
8 P-B3 P-B3 They were known as the Seven
9 QN-Q2 QN-Q2 Stars of Berlin, or The Pleiades.
10 Q-B2 Q-B2 Von der Lasa objected to the
I I KR-KI KR-KI name Pleiades because this group of
12 P-KR3 BxN stars shines only faintly.
13 N x B P-KR3
14 B x N NxB
210
1 5 N-R4 R x Rch
HERCULEAN TASK FOR
16 R x R R-KI
BLINDFOLD STARS
1 7 R x Rch NxR
In Febru ary of 1934, Alekhine
18 N-Bs B--B 1
and Koltanowski p1ayed a tandem
19 Q-K2 N-Q3
blindfoid simultaneous exhibition
2o N x N QxN
(without consultation) at Antwerp
2 1 Q-K8 Q-K2
against 24 players, all of first-class
22 Q x Q BxQ
stren gth consulting at six boards .
23 B--B5 B--N4
,
The blindfold playrs won three,

24 B--B8 B-BB
drew two and lost one game. The
25 B x P BxP
difficulty of s uch a feat may be
26 B x P BxP
appreciated by Koltanowski's sub
27 B x P BxP
seq u ent statement to the effect that
Drawn this exhibition had tired him more
than playing 30 games blindfold In this position, Mikenas forced

simultaneously in the " ordinary " a draw by perpetual check at R5 and
manne r ! B7. In exactly the same position
Janowski beat Chaj es in their I9I6
z:u: tournament game at New York, by
MIKENAS MISSES MAGIC a combination which was awarded
MOMENT the brilliancy prize I
In his game against Kashdan at This is how Janowski continued
Prague in I 93 I , Mikenas had the it :
ingredients for producing a bril 19 N-Q7
liancy, but could not find the right
recipe ! Attacks the Queen, and also
Here is the game : threatens 20 N x Bch.
I9 . . . NxN
PRAGUE, I93I zo R x N
Queen's Gambit Declined Now the threats are 2 I R x B and
Mikenas Kashdan 2 1 Q x B.
White Black 20 . . . B-B3
I P-Q4 N-I\:B3 2 1 N-R4
2 P-QB4 P-K3 A pretty move ; if 2 I . . . B x R
3 N-QB3 P-Q4
22 N x Bch, K-R3 (or R 1 ) 23
4 B-Ns QN-Q2
Q-Rs mate, and i f 2 1 . . . B x N
5 P-K3 B-K2
22 Q x B, R-KN1 23 R(B1 )-B7
6 N-B3 PxP
wins;
7BxP P-QR3
Bo-o P-QN4 21 . . . BxP
9 B-Q3 P-B4 22 N-Nsch K-R3
IO Q-K2 B-N2 23 P-N4 P-N3
I I KR-Q I Q-N3 But not 23 . . . K x N 24 Q-Rsch,
I 2 QR-BI o-o K-B3 25 R-B7 mate.
I 3 N-Ks KR-K1
q Px P NxP R-R I
IS B X N BxB Resigns
1 6 B x Pch KxB
1 7 Q-Rsch K-NI ZI2
18 Q x Pch K-R2 EXTRAORDINARY POSITION
ANTICIPATED 100 YEARS
EARLIER
A most remarkable, almost in
credible position came up in a
game between Janowski and Ed
ward Lasker in the 2 1 st round of
the New York Tournament of 1924.
White had three connected passed
Pawns on the seventh rank, ready
to Queen, and Black had one passed
Pawn on the seventh. Surely a
situation which could never have
occurred be fo re in master play, and Otherwise White p lays 26 P x P,

yet . . . Q x P 27 N -K s. a nd the K night
About zoo years earlier, in the s tands fi rmly on the bes t squa re on
62nd ga me between La Bou rdon the boa rd.
n ais and McDonnell, the fo rme r had 26 N x P K-B I
t hree connec ted passed Pawns on
the seventh rank ready to Queen, The threat w as 2 7 R x P, Q x R
and the latter had one p assed Pawn 28 N x Pch winning the Queen.
on the seventh ! 27 R-R8 K-N2
Here is the 19 24 ga me : 28 N ( Q2)- K4
Threatens ano ther Knight fork
NEW YORK , 1924
win ning the Queen , this t ime by
Queen's Pawn Opening
29 R x B, Q x R 30 N- Q6ch.
Janowski Ed. Laske r 28 . . K-N3
Black
.
White 29 N-B5 B-B3

I P-Q 4 P-Q 4
2 B-B 4 N-KB3 Black misses the chance to p lay
3 P K3
- P-K3 29 . . . P-K4, and the consequent
4 B-Q3 P-B4 exchange of Pawns would expose
5 P-QB3 Q-N3 White 's King to dange r.
6 Q-B2 QN-Q2 30 N(N5 ) x P B -Q4
7 N- Q2 B- Q3 3 1 N -N5 K-R4
8 BxB QxB 32 P-K4 B-B3
9 P- KB4 N -N5 33 K-K3 B-K 1
I O N-B I PxP 34 N-B3 P-N5
1 1 BP x P Q-N5ch 35 N- K5 B -N4
1 2 K-K2 N- N3
13 P-QR3 Q-K2 If 35 . . . P-B6 36 p X BP, p X RP,
14 N-B3 B-Q2 W hite would win by means of 37
R-QB 1 R x B !, Q x R 38 N-B4ch, K-N4
1 5 P-R3
1 6 Q x Reb 39 N-Q6ch (Alekhine) .
A ra the r unexpec ted sacrifice, 36 P-R4

wh ic h offers White so me ch ances . " Immediately decisive," says Al
He gets only Rook, Knight and an e khine (who could always be t rusted
open Rook file i n exchange for his to find beau tiful ideas in the ga mes
Queen, but prefers this transac tion of o thers as well as in his own) ,
to the altern ative of p ass ive defence. "would have been 36 R-QN8
16 .
. . NxQ (threate ni ng mate in two by 37
17 PxN N -Q 3 P x Pch, K x P 38 N-B6 mate)
z8 R-Bz N-Bs P-N6 (o r 36 P x P 37 N x Pch,
. . .
19 BxN Px B B x N 38 P-N4 mate) 37 P-R4 I,

20 QN- Q2 P- QN4 P- R 3 38 P x B, with mate in sho rt
21 R-Rs P-B3 orde r."
22 P-N S K- Q1 36 . ..
23 QR-KR1 B-K 1 37 N x Pc h
24 RxP RxR 38 N-K5
25 RxR PxP 39 R-QN8
40 P-KN3 P-N4 69 K-K6

<tl N-B3 P x Pch
The right way for the King was to
42 P x P Q-R2 the right, not the left. There was a
43 P-Bs Q-R8 win by 69 K-N6, P-N8 (Q) (or 69
44 N-N3ch K-R5 .. . Q-N8ch 70 N-Ns) 70 P-BS (Q) ,
45 N(N3)-Q2 Q-R3ch and White wins.
46 K-B2 B-Q6
47 R-N8 Q-Bs 69 ... P-N8(Q)
48 R-KR8 P-N6 70 N x Q
49 R-R4 Q-B2
soP-B6 B-Bs Or 70 P-QS (Q) , Q-R7ch 7 1
51 R-R5 B-K3 K-Bs, Q x Pch, and Black draws
52 R-K5 Q- KB2 by perpetual check.
53 R x B QxR
54 P- K5 K-Ns 70 .. . Q xNch
55 K-K3 P-R4 7 1 K-B6
56 K-B4 P-Rs
57 N-N5 Q-Q2 There is no escape on the Queen
58 P-B7 Q-K2 side : if 71 K-Q6, Q-Qsch 72 K-B7,
59 P-Qs P-R6 Q-R2ch 73 K-Q8, Q-NI mate.
6o P x Pch K-B6
Q-B I 71 ... Q-Rsch
61 P-Q6
62 N (N5) -K4ch K-Q6 D rawn
63 P-K6 Q-R3ch
64 K-B5 P-N7 " If 72 K-N7," says Alekhine,
65 P-Q7 Q-B I " then Q x P 73 P-QS (Q) , Q x Q
66 P- 74 P-BS (Q) , Q- Q2ch followed by
White intends to push this Pawn 75 .. Q x P, drawing. Without
.
to R7, then play K-N6 followed by doubt this is the oddest game of the
P-R8 (Q) and P-K7. Black therefore tournament. "
becomes desperate. Now for the (comparatively)
66 .. . Q-QRI simpler but equally fascinating 1 834
67 P-K7 Q-Q4ch game:
68 K-B6 Q-Qs ch
The position at this point : LONDON, 1 834
Sicilian Defence
McDonnell LaBour-
donnais
White Black
I P-K4 P-QB4
2 N-KB3 N-QB3
3P-Q4 PxP
4 N xP P-K4
sNxN NP x N
6 B-QB4 N-B3
7 B-KN5 B- K2
8 Q-K2 P-Q4
9BxN BxB The diagram of this remarkable

1 0 B-N3 o--o finish :
I I o--o P-QR4
12 P x P PxP
1 3 R-QI P-Qs
14 P-QB4 Q-N3
15 B-B2 B -N2
16 N -Q2 QR -KI
17 N-K4 B- QI
18 P-Bs Q-QB3
Threatens to win the Knight by

19 . P-B4 .
. .
19 P-B 3 B -K2
20 Q R
-B1 P-B4
2 IJ
21 Q-B4 ch K -RI
22 B-R 4 Q-KR3 LUCENA'S PRECEPTS
23 BxR PxN Lucena is the author of the oldest
24 P-B6 P x PI existing printed work on chess. It
25 R-B2 was published in Spain in 1 497, and
is called Repeticion de A mores e A rte
If 25 P x B, Black forces the win de A xedrez.
by 25 . . . Q- K6ch 26 K-RI , P x Pch Here are some of his suggestions :
2 7 K x P, R-B 7 ch 28 K-N r , 1 . If you play at night, place the
R-K7ch 2 9 K-Rr , Q B6ch 30
-
candle at your left ; if by day, place
K-N 1 , Q-N7 mate. it so that it shines in your oppo
nent's eyes. (In this he seems to
25 .. . Q-K6ch have anticipated similar advice by
26 K-R r B-B 1 Ruy Lopez.)
27 B-Q7 P -B 7 2 . Play your oppo nent when he
28 R-KBI "
has eaten and drunk freely ; it will
be worse for him.
But not 28 Q-B I , B-R3 29
3 Eat lightly before a game, and
Q x B, P-Q6 30 Q x QP (or 30
drink water, not wine.
R x B P R x R, and Black wins)
,
4 Break through on the Queen

Q x Q 31 R x Q, P-BS(Q) mate.
side, not the King side.
5 Play only for a SIJiall stake, so
28 ... P-Q6
29 R-B3
that the possibility of losing it does
BxB
3o PxB P-K5 not disturb you.
3 1 Q-BS B Q-I
32 Q-B4 Q- KB 2I4
33 R -B I P- Q7 KONIGSTEDT'S STRANGE
3 4 Q-Bs R-N1 ADV ICE
35 R-Q I P-K6 An unusual bit of advice is offered
36 Q-B3 )
Q x R (QS in Konigstedt's Kort A/handling,
37 R x Q P-K7 the oldest Swedish textbook on
Resign s chess. It was published at Stock-
holm in I 78 4 , and counsels the 5 Try to m aint ain your King

reader that " Great players ne ver Pawn and Queen Pawn (and if
Castle." possible the t wo Bishop Pa wns) on
T he late r edition published in t heir fourt h s quares.
I 8o6 amends this to "Good pla yers 6. When you have a good move,
seldom Castle. " loo k for a better one .
:Zis
EVEN THE WORTHY a17
PHILIDOR SIX-FOLD QUEEN
SOMETIMES NODS SACRIFICE
Even the great player, writer and E. Z. Adams o ffered t he sacrifice
t heoretician Philidor could o ffer of his Queen in six consecutive moves
misleading advice about an early on four di fferent s quar es to Carlos
opening move. To rre in I920.
In his Analyze du feu des Echecs, Th e game is so brill iant t hat the
published in I749, he says this abo ut victo ry is credited to To rre mo re
Whi te 's second move in the King 's often than to his opponent.
Knight 's Opening ( I P-J4, P-!4 (T his has happened in c hec ke rs
2 N-KB3) : too, as with the bri l iant Dundee
"Playin g t he King 's Kn ight t he ga me won by C. F. Barker fro m
second mo ve is entirely wrong, J. P. Reed, which has o ften been
bec ause it not onl y loses the attack, credi ted to Reed. )
but gives it to the adversary ." Here i s the scintillating A dams
Philidor preferred 2 B-B4, as win:
2 N-B3 obstructed the movement
of the Bishop Pa wn. I t is only fair NEW ORLEANS, I92o
to add that he revised h is op inion Philidor Defence
in the I 7 7 7 edi tion of his book.
Adams To rre
a16 White Black
I P-K4 P-K4
DAMIANO'S
2 N-KB3 P-Q3
CENTURIES- OLD
3 P-Q4 PxP
ADVICE STILL GOOD TODAY
4 QxP N-QB3
General advice , good even today,
was o ffered by the Po rtuguese 5 B Q N5
- B-Q2
6BxN BxB
apothecary and chess writer Da
7N-B3 N-B3
miano , as far bac k as I 5 I 2 ! In his
8 0--Q B-K2
publ ication Questa Libra e da impa
9 N -Q5 BxN
rare giocare a scachi, w hich then
Io P x B 0--Q
a ppea red in print, he makes these
nB -N5 P-B3
sugge stions :
I2 P-B4 PxP
I. Do not make aimless moves. I 3 l' X p R-K I
2 . Do no t play quick ly . I 4 KR-KI P-QR4
3 .A vo id obvio us oversights. I 5 R-K2 QR-BI
4 Do no t play to win a P awn at I6 QR-KI Q-Q2
the cost of weaken in g yo ur pos ition . I7BxN BxB
The stage is now set for the fire 22 R-K4I Q-N4

wor ks. From now on until the end , 23 Q x NPI Resigns
ev ery one of Wh ite's moves de
se rves a t leas t one exc lama tion 218
mar k. ALEKHINE SCORES
Th is is the scene on the s tage : IN DOUBLE-QUICK TIME
The ninth gam e of the World 's
Cham pionsh ip Match pla yed in
193 4 between Al ekhine and Bogol
yubov , lasted 46 moves. Bogolyubov
s pent two hours on his first 1 6
moves, which le ft h im with o nly a
half hour for h is next 24 moves.
Alekhine, who won the game, too k
less than an hour for his ent ir e 46
moves !
The game, wh ich follows, is
pr oof of the fact tha t an o pening
(or defence) may be weak, bu t have
the merit of making the o pponen t
On 1 8 . .. Q x Q 1 9 R x Rch, R x R lose valuabl e t ime in the attem pt to
20 R x R is mate. fathom its resour ces .
Black 's Queen must stay on the
diagonal le ad ing to his K ing 's Rook.
PFORZHEIM, 1 934
1 9 Q-QB4 ! Q-Q2 Benoni Defence
Once again, if 1 9 ... Q x Q 2 0
R x Rch forc es mat e, and if 1 9 .. . Bogolyubov Alekh ine
RxQ 20 R x Rch , followed by White Black
ma te. Finally, if 19 ... R x R 20 I P-Q 4 P-QB4
Q x Rch, Q-K 1 21 Q x Qch, R x Q Ale kh ine says of t his defenc e, "I
22 R x R mate. consider the choice of this move
Black's Queen, please note, mus t (which in cons eque nc e o f my success
stil l stay on the vi tal diagonal. in the actual game b ecam e a so rt of
2 0 Q-B7 ! Q-N4 fashion) as one of my chess sins.
Because i f a cham pion , b eing hu
Here too, 2 0 . .. Q x Q or 20 . .. man, cannot som etimes h elp adop t
R x Q succumbs to 2 1 R x Rch, ing infer ior mov es , he must at least
while 20 . . . R x R loses prosai call y avoid those which he himself co n:
by 21 Q x Q. siders as not quite satisfactory."
21 P-QR 4! !
2 P-Q s P-K4
This move gets two exclamat ion 3 P-K4 P -Q3
marks. Not only does White stil l 4 P-KB 4 PxP
l eav e his Queen en prise, but he sB x P Q-R sch
avoids the plausible 21 Q x NP, 6 P- N3 Q-K2
which would lose brill ian tly b y 2 1 7 N-QB3 P- KN4 !
. .. Q x R ! Bayon et attack ! A sharp move,
21 . . . QxRP but one expects that from Al ekh in e.
8B-K3 N-Q2 37 R x B RxP
9 N-B3 P-KR3 38 P-KR3 PxP
IO Q-Q2 KN-B3 39 K-B2 P-R7
II 0-o--o N-N5 40 R-Ntch R-N2
I2 B-K2 B-N2 4I R-KRI R-N7ch
13 KR-B I NxB 42 K x P RxP
I4 Q x N P-R3 43 K-Q3 K-B2
I5 N-KNI P-N4 44 K-K4 K-B3
I6 R{QI)-KI B-N2 45 K-B5 P-R4
I7 N-QI 46 K-N5 P-QR5
The Knight is headed for the Resigns
fine outpost at KB5.

:ZI9
I7 . . . o-o-o
IB B-N4 K-NI THE GRANDMASTER
IgB x N RxB DRAW
20 Q--Q2 The tourney game played be
tween Marco and Englisch at
The Queen makes room for the
Berlin in I 897 ended in a draw by
Knight.
repetition of moves, after II moves.
20 . . . P-KN5 I No pieces or Pawns had been re
This prevents White from moving moved from the board.
his Knight to KB3, and prepares Tarrasch and Fritz drew by
for posting the Queen at K4. repetition of moves after an eight
move game at Breslau in I88g.
2I N-K3 Q-K4 Denker and Kupchik agreed to a
22 P-B3 P-KR4 draw in their Philadelphia Tourna
23 N-B5 B-KB3 ment game in I936, after eight
24 Q-B4 moves.
White's game is difficult, accord Capablanca offered Fine a draw
ing to Alekhine, but the exchange of after eight moves in their game at
Queens makes it hopeless for him. Nottingham in I9J6.
QxQ (These achievements which re
24 . . .
25 p X Q R(Q2)-QI sulted in peace and harmony are rec
ommended for the consideration of
This makes room for . . . B-BI, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee .)
which will either remove the Knight I append one of these games:
or drive it away.
26 P-B4 PxP BRESLAU, 1889

2 7 N-K3 P-B6 ! Queen's Gambit Declined
28 P-N3 B-Q5
29 N-B4 P-B4 Tarrasch Fritz
30 P-K5 PxP White Black
JI P x P B x QP I N-KBJ P-Q4
32 R x P QR-KBI 2 P-Q4 B-B4
33 R x Rch RxR 3 P-B4 P-K3
34 P-K6 R-KI 4 Q-N3 N-QB3
35 P-K7 B(Q4) x N 5 QxP N-N5
36 P x B BxN 6 N-R3 R-NI
7 Q x RP R-RI the players cons truc ted ch ess pieces

8 Q-N7 R-N I from bi ts of bread and beans, in the
Drawn absenc e of real pieces.
Bo th players indica ted tha t they
would continue repea ting their
ZZ4
se ven th and eigh th mo ves.
JUDGE
MEETS GENIUSES
:120
Judge Ja mes McConnel l is the
VALUABLE CHESS only man to ha ve bridged the gap
PAINTING of many g enerations, and played
The Chess Players at CaYo, a chess wi th th e two men g enerally
famous pain ting by Mul ler, was considered the grea tes t chess geni
sold in 1 874 for 4,05 2. uses tha t ever lived -Morphy and
Capablanca !
221 H ere is a ga me in which Morphy
THE YOUNG MASTERS ma kes shor t work of the Judge :
In 1 93 1, Ci ty Co l ege (N ew York)
had a team of four play ers, all of NEW ORLEAN S, 1850
mas ter str eng th . The team consisted FYench Defence
of Reube n Fine , Sidn ey Bernst ein,
Robe rt Wil lman and Fr ed Reinfe ld . McConne ll Morphy
This powerfu l agg regation swep t White Black
through the year's sch edule with a I P-K 4 P-K3
score of 23 ! t I
-
2 P-Q4 P-Q4
The lone draw was due to the 3 P-K5 P-QB4
fac t tha t Sidney Bernst ein showed 4 P-QB3 N-QB3
up one hour and 59! minutes la te 5 P-KB4 Q-N3
for one of his games . He p layed h is 6 N-B3 B-Q2
40 moves in the half minute and 7 P-QR3 N-R3
drew his game ! 8 P-QN4 P x QP
9 PxP R-BI
I o B-N2 N-B4
zzz
I I Q -Q3 B x Pch
THE YOUNGER MASTERS 1 2P x B N x NP
In I94 5. the Brooklyn Technical I 3 Q -Q2 R-B7
High School had thr ee masters on I 4 Q-QI N-K6
their chess t eam : G eorge Kra mer, Resigns
Robert Byrn e a nd Dona ld B yrne. White mus t lose his Queen.
George Kr amer at 1 6 was New
Yo rk State Ch ampion , and Robert
Byrne was the runner -up for the zzs
ti tle . CHESS FOR HIGH STAKE S
The Arabic historian al-Masudi,
ZZJ writing abou t 950 A.D., d esc ribes
FOOD FOR THOUGHT the ga mbling prope nsities of the
Oscar Tenn er once ate his chess Indians.
piec es I Th e explanation is tha t this When t he Indians p lay at chess
occurred oft en in war ti mes, when they wager s tu ffs or precious
stones. But it sometimes happens 4 N-B3 QN-Q2

that a player will wager one of his s B-Ns B-K2
limbs. For this they set beside 6 P-K3 o-o
the players a small copper vessel 7 R-B1 P-QR3

over a wood fire, in which is 8Q-B2 R-KI
boiled a reddish ointment peculiar 9B-Q3 P xP
to the country, which has the Io B x P P-N4
property of healing wounds and II B-Q3 B-N2
stanching the flow of blood. If 12P-QR4 P-N5
the man who wagered one of his 13 B x N NxB
fingers loses, he cuts off the finger I4 N-K4 NxN
with a dagger, and then plunges 15 B x N BxB
his hand in the ointment and 16 Q x B
cauterizes the wourid. Then he
White now threatens to intensify
returns to the game. If the luck
the pressure on the backward Bishop
is against him, he sacrifices
Pawn by 17 R-B6.
another finger, and sometimes a
man who continues to lose will 16 . ..
cut off in succession all his 17 P x P
fingers, his hand, his forearm, 18 P-QN3
his elbow and other parts of his 19 N-N5!
body. After each amputation he
There is a great deal more behind
cauterizes the wound with the
this move than the mere idea of
ointment, which is a curious mix
forcing Black to weaken his King
ture of ingredients and drugs
peculiar to India, of extraordinary side by advancing one of the Pawns
effectiveness. The custom of which near his King.
I have spoken is a notorious fact. 19 ... P-R3
From H. J. R. Murray's History 2o Q-R7ch K-B1
of Chess. 21 Q-RBch
A long-headed combination in
za6 which White sacrifices his Knight to
"FULL MANY A GEM OF effect a complete tie-up of Black's
PUREST RAY SERENE ..." pieces.
Capablanca received a brilliancy 21 ... K-K2
prize for his game against Schroeder 22 Q x NP PxN
played at New York in 1916, for a 23 Q x NPch K-Q3
combination he had in mind, but 24 K-K2I
which never appeared on the board!
A beautiful move! The King (who
NEW" YORK, 1916 is perfectly safe, though seemingly
Queen's Gambit Declined exposed to danger) makes room for
the King Rook.
Capablanca Schroeder
24 ... QR-B1
White Black
I P-Q4 P-Q4 Black's object is to unpin the
2N-KB3 P-K3 Bishop-- something he cannot do by
3 P-B4 N-KB3 simply moving it away. If for
IOO WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
exampl e 24 . . . B -N3 then 25 30 Q x Qc h KxQ

KR -Q i c h forc es ma te. 3I R x R RxR
25 R-B4 K-B3 If 3 I . . . B x R 3 2 R -B6 in r epl y
26 KR-QBI K-N3 paraly z es all of Black 's pi ec es I
27 P- R4! 3 2R x R BxR
Capablanca mak es no a ttemp t to 33 P-B4
exploit the helpl ess posi tion of his
To k eep the Bishop from occupy
oppon ent. H epays no furt her a tten
ing the long diagonal.
tion to him, bu t wi th d elig htful
(and en viabl e) insoucianc e s tar ts a 33 . . . B -Q I
Pawn o ff on i ts way to the Qu een 34 P -N4 B-B3
ing Squar e! O therwis e 35 P-N5 follows, and
This is the way the board lo oks: t he B is hop is compl et ely shut ou t.
35 P-N5 B-RI
36 P-K4 K -N3
37 P-Bs Px P
38 Px P K -B3
39 P -N6 PxP
40 Px P K -Q3
4I P -N 7 and wins
22 7
FINISHES GAME WITH
OPENING MOVES
In a gam e aga ins t Koshni tzky,
H ewi tt's King Knight cap tur ed in
27 .. .
succ essio n a P awn, Knig ht, Qu een,
T his is wha t Black play ed, and King Bishop Pawn, King Rook and
i t los t quickly. We'l l com e bac k to King Knig ht Pawn. Koshnitzky
the pos ition . r etalia ted by capturing in the same
28 Q -N7 R-K 2 order a Pawn, Knigh t, Qu een,
29 Q -Ks R-B3 King Bishop Pawn, King Rook and
30 R x B ! R esigns King Knigh t Pawn.
T hen, to finis h o ff this r emarkabl e
If 30 . . . R x R 3I Q-Q6c h, R-B3 gam e, Whit e mak es us e of two
3 2 R x Rc h, K -N 2 33 R -Bs, and mov es commonly r es er ved for th e
whi te wins a Rook . op ening -P -Q4 and P-K4 !
Now l et us r eturn to th e pos ition
s hown on th e diagram, to s ee the CORRESPONDENCE, I945
combination pr epar ed by Capa
blanca agains t the b es t d ef enc e: Koshnitzky H ewit t
27 .. . R -B 2 White Black
I P -QB4 P -K4
In ord er to doubl e Rooks, and 2 N -Q B3 N-Q B3
fr eeth eBis hop and theQu een . 3 N -B3 N -B3
28 P-Rs KR -QBI 4 P-K N3 B -K2
29 P -R6 B -Q3 5 B -N 2 P-Q4
6PxP NxP numbered players, and draw with

7NxP NxQN the even-numbered ones. This is the
8NxN NxQ way Alekhine 's score ran :
9NxQ NxBP Draw against Rubinstein, #2
1o N x BP NxR
Win against Samisch, #3
uNxR NxP
Draw against Bogolyubov, #4
12PxN P-B3
Win against Marshall, #5
This prevents 13 B-Q5. and the Draw against Tartakover, #6
escape of White's Knight by way of Win against Rabinovich, #7
B7. Draw against Grunfeld, #8
P-KN3 Win against Nimzovich, #9
13 B-14
14NxP PxN Draw against Torre, #I o
K-Q1 Win against Reti, #II
15 BxNPch
16P-Q 4 B-KN5 Draw against Spielmann, #12
Win against Treybal, #I3
17P-K4 Resigns
Draw against Carls, #14
Win against Yates, #15
z:z8
Draw against Rosselli, #16
MASTERS Win against Tarrasch, #17
TAKE THEIR TIME
In the 1 I th game of their match 231
for the World's Championship in
BRILLIANCY IS ALL
1927, Capablanca took two hours
BOOK
on one move, and Aleldline took an
A game played at the British
hour and three quarters for his
Chess Federation Tournament held
reply I
at Cheltenham in 1913, was awarded
the brilliancy prize.
229
It was later found to be book,
SCHL ECHTER I S from the first move to the last!
RARA AVIS
Carl Schlechter never entered his CHELTE NHAl\:1, 1913
games for brilliancy prizes, as he Giuoco Piano
wanted others to share some of the
prize money. Loye Beamish
That was one reason, but another White Black
one was undoubtedly his innate I P-K4 P- K4
modesty. 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
3 B- B 4 B-B4
:ZJO 4P-B3 N-B3
AL EKHINE' S 5P-Q4 PxP
ALTERNATING SCORE 6 PxP B-Nsch
At Baden-Baden in I925, Alek 7 N-B3 NxKP
hine won first prize easily. This was 8 (H) BxN
not an unusual feat for Alekhine. 9P-Q5 B-B3
What was unusual was his score IO R-K I (H)

against the I6 players just below II Rx N N-K2
hi m in the standings. Apparently, 12P-Q6 Px P
the idea was to beat the odd- 13 QxP N-B4
1
14 Q-Qs P-Q3 must do something or lose slowly

1s N-N s BxN but surely.
16 BxB QxB 2 0 .. . KxB
17 Q x Pch RxQ 2 1 N-Nsch K-Nr
18 R-K8 mate 22 Q-Rs N-K4
23 Q-R7ch K-BI
24 Q-R8ch K-K2
23 2
2 S Q x Pch K-Q3
MARSHALL F ORGETS
H IMSELF The proper caper, as the Rook
On page 22 of Marshall's Chess must not be taken. If instead 2 S . . .
Swindles, there is a game played N-B2 2 6 N-R7 i n reply would be
between Burn and Marshall at painful.
Ostend in 1 906 . 26 K -N3 N-Q2
Marshall must have liked the 27 P -K4 K -B3
game, as it is reprinted with differ 28 P-Ks
ent notes only two pages further This is the position :
in the book !
(Well, it is a fine game.)
OSTEND, 19 06
Queen's Pawn Opening
Burn Marshall
White Black
I P-Q4 P-Q4
2 N-KB3 P-QB4
3 P-QB3 P -K3
4 B-B4 N-QB3
S P-K3 N-B3 28 . . . Q-Br l
6 QN-Q2 B-Q3
7 B -N3 o-o
Clever defence ! Marshall i s pre
8 B- Q3 R-K I pared to give up the exchange (and
9 N -K5 BxN later on a Rook) to gain the initia
Io P x B N -Q2 tive. The alternative 28 . . R-Br
.
I I P-KB4 P-Bs (or 28 .. : R-B4) is met by 29 N x P ,

I 2 B-B2 Q-N3 threatening 30 N-Q4ch, with a
win in sight.
Wins a Pawn or two.
29 P x R QxP
I3 K-B2 Qx P 30 Q-N8
I4 R-QBI Q x RP
I S Q-K2 P-B4 Burn should probably have ex
I6 P x P e.p. NxP changed Queens instead, and then
I 7 B-KR4 R-BI started racing his Pawns.
I8 B x N RxB 30 . ..
I 9 N-B3 Q -R6 3 1 Q-K8ch
20 B x Pch 32 Q x R
A desperate attack , but White Threatens mate on the move.
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS 10 3
33 N-R3 Q-N3ch B B -Q s N-B3

34 K-B2 N-Q 6ch 9 Q -N3 Q-B I
35 K-B I NxR 10 N-B4 N-Q I
36 N-B2 Q-B 7
U nusual ly passiv e fo r Marshal l.
37 P -N3 N-Q 6
O ne would exp ect so methi ng lik e
38 Qx P P-Q5
10 . . . B x B II P x B , N-K4 1 2
39 NxN B-R6ch
R-K I , B-K2 1 3 B x N, Px B 1 4
40 K-K I Px N
R x P , Q-Q2 , follow ed by Cas tli ng,
R esig ns
w ith th e b ett er gam e.
II B x N PxB
233
1 2 N-R5 P-B3
SIR GEORGE I S CHAMPION 13 R-K x ! B-K2
IN TWO GAMES 1 4 Q-KB3 R-K N1
S ir G eorg e Thomas i n o ne year,
1923 , h eld th e t itl e of B ritish Ch ess If 1 4 p X B 1 5 p X P , B-Q2
. . .
Cha mpio n as w ell as All E ngla nd 1 6 Q x P, a nd Whit e wins.

Bad mi nto n Champio n. 15 N x Pch BxN
x6Q x B PxB
:134 17 P x P R-N3
HODGES DOESN'T 1 8 Q-R8ch K-Q2
LOSE 1 9 N-B3 BxP
For mer Unit ed Stat es Cha mpio n Marshall los es pati enc e; a b ett er
A. B. Hodg es part icipat ed in all th e d ef enc e was 19 .. . N-B3 .
Ca bl e Matc hes b etw een t he United
S tat es a nd E ngla nd , a nd nev er lost 20 Q-K8ch K-B2
a ga me! 21 N x Bch K-N x
22 QR-B I N-B3
235 2 3 R x Nch Px R
PICTURESQUE MATE 24 R-N I mat e!
Jacqu es Mi es es brought off th e Th is is th e pr etty pictur e o n th e
lo ng est epaul et mat e ev er s een o n a boar d:
ch ess board agai nst Fra nk Marshall
i n th eir gam e at Mo nt e Ca rlo i n
1 903.
MONTE CARLO, 1903

Danish Gambit
Mie ses Marshall

White Black
I P-K4 P-K4
2 P-Q4 Px P
3 P-QB3 Px P
4 B -QB4 Px P
5 BxP P-Q3 Th e two pi ec es at each si de of
6N-K2 N-QB3 Black's Ki ng form th e epaul ets o n
7 o--o B-K3 his shoul ders.
336 14 Q-B3 QxN

ALEKHINE THE INVINCIBLE 1 5 R-K xc h K-Qz
Alekhine pla yed t hro ug h five I6N-R3 BxN
consecu tive s tro ng Master Tourna 1 7 B-Nsch
men ts withou t losing a ga meI Morp hy tries to w hip up an
Ou t of 77 g ames he wo n 5 1 , and a ttack , bu t Kipping is on his mettl e.
drew the re maining 26.
17 ... P-B3
T he record of these successes:
IB p X B KR-KI I
Kecske me t 1927 16 ga mes Black avoids 1 8 ... Px B , as the
Bradle y Beach 1929 9 ga mes reply 19 Qx Pch would be fa tal .
Sa n Re mo 1 930 15 ga mes
Bled 1931 26 ga mes 19 QR-BI P-Q4
London 1932 1 1 ga mes 20 Q-QN3 K-B2
21 B-Q3 R-K6
To tal 77 games
22RxR QxR
23R-QNI Qx Pch
24 K-NI P-QN3
25 R-KI Q-N6ch
337 26 K-BI Qx Pch
M ORPHY' S ONLY
27 K-N2 Q-N4ch
BLINDFOLD L OSS 28 K-BI N-Ns
Paul Mo rph y lost onl y o ne blind 29 R-K2 N-K6ch
fold ga me in his life. It was one o f Resigns
eight games pla yed a t Bir ming ham
in r8s8 .
338
BLACK' S EFFORTLESS
BIRMINGHA M , 1 858
VICTORY
Scotch Gambit
In 1909 Ro y T. Bla ck won a
Mor ph y Kipping match fro m Nuge nt wi th a score of
White Black 5-1 , withou twi nning a single game !
I P-K4 P-K4 He lost the firs t ga me, and
2N-KB3 N-QB3 N ugent forfeited all the others.
3P-Q4 Px P
4B-QB4 B- B4
5 <H> P-Q3 :Z39
6P- B3 Q -B3 NINE GOOD ROUNDS, AND
7 B-KN5 Q-N 3 NINE BAD ONES
8PxP NxP Bardele be n did no t lose a gam e
9NxN QxB i n the 1i.rst nine rounds at t he
1 0 P- B4 Q-N3 Has tings 895 Tourna ment-but he
II K-RI N-R3 could nc t win a ga me in the next
12P-KR3 ni ne !
T he ga me that started him oft
A sli p-and for Morph y a rare
on his tobogga n slide was the
one .
fa mous b rilliancy Steinit z broug ht
12 ... BxP off against him (which the rea de r
13 P x B QxPch w ill find elsewhere in this book).
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS ros
:LJO I O Q-K r P-Q4

FIRST PRIZE ELUDES I I B-Q3 PxP
VIDMAR I2 N x P R-KI
Dr . Vidmar, o ne of the world 's I3 K-R r B-QB4
g reat maste rs, played in tourna 1 4 Q-N3 NxN
ments for 28 years before w in n ing a IS Q x B
ma jor first prize. Or IS B x N, B-K 7. Thi s is the
He fi na lly accomplished this pos ition :
feat, but he had to share first prize
with Salo Flohr !
:14 1
IVAN IV CONDEMNS CHESS
Russia le ads the world at chess .
It is Russia's national game.
Yet in rss r. I van IV of Russia
labe lled it as a "pastime of Hellenic
de vilry," and made it illegal.
242
IS ... Q x B!
STRANGE DUPLICATION
An e xtraordinary coincidence of White res ig ns, for i f I 6 P x Q,
combinations occurred in two games N-B 7ch wins the Queen (for t he
playe d almost 2 0 yea rs apart. Rook may not capt ure on pai n of
From two totally di ffe re nt ope n rnate) and lea ves Black a piece
ings, with colo rs re versed, identical ahead .
positio ns we re prod uced, al low ing Now comes the extraordi nar y
the same finish-an e xqu is i te Q ueen coincidence : Alekhi ne was a spec
sacri fic e to fo rce the wi n. Here is tato r at this game, and immediately
one game : showed the aston ished bysta nde rs
the following game, which he had
played al most 2 0 years earlier :
PARIS, 1 926
Two Knights Defence DUSSELDORF, I9o8
Ba ratz Colle System
D resga
White Black Alekhi ne Koe nlein
I P-K 4 P-K 4 Wllite Black
2 N-KB3 N-Q B3 I P-Q 4 P-Q 4
3 B-B 4 N-B3 2 N-K B3 N-KB3
4 P-Q4 PxP 3 P-K3 P-K3
5o-<> P-Q3 4 B-Q3 QN-Q 2
6NxP B-K2 5 QN-Q2 B-Q3
7 N-QB3 o-<> 6 P-K 4 PxP
8 P-B 4 B-N s 7N x P NxN
9NxN PxN SB x N o-o
But not 9 BxQ r o N x Q, 9 ()-() P-K B4
and White wins a piece . IO B-Q3 P-K 4
II B-KN 5 Q-K 1 O nly thr ee y ears lat er Elai ne

I2 P x P NxP Sau nders wo n th e Britis h Ladie s'
I3 R-KI Q-R4 Cha mpionship. At th e ag e of I 3
14 N x N QxB s he was the you ng est pla yer ev er to
I5 B-B 4ch K-R I acquire th e title of British La dy
I6 Q x B ! Resigns Cha mp io n.
343
345
A PARADISE FOR
CHESS PLAYERS MILLIONS
I n o ne Sumatra tribe all the wor k OF CHESS PLAYERS
is do ne by th e wo men, w hereas t he Accor di ng to a census held i n
m en sp end a ll day every day play the U.S.S. R. in I966, th er e w er e
ing chess. 3 .54o,ooo r egister ed ch ess pla yers,
compar ed with 3,486,ooo registered
344 footb all (socc er) play ers.
GIRL CHESS PRODIGY
C he ss prodigies up to now hav e 346
alwa ys been boys. But wh en th e MAJORING IN CHESS
prodig y is a g irl-t hat si uni qu e! In 1965 Mos cow University intro
To a dd to t he wonde r, t his little d uce d a course on c hess, co vering
girl was abl e to play chess without Chess History an d Theo ry. Abo ut
looking at the board ! So here is a 2000 st udents attended t he l ectur es,
ga me in w hich El aine Sau nders, which we re cond ucted by Tal,
only Io years ol d, plays bl indfold Petrosian, Korc h no ,i Bronstein and
again st her fa ther, j ust as the yo ung Kotov.
Morphy pla yed blindfold a gainst his
fath er bac k in 1 8 49.
347
ENGLAND, 1936 BRILLIANCY UNREWARDED
Max Lange Attack Tarrasch was considered to hav e
played the most brilliant ga me of
Elain e the St . Pe tersbu rg 1 9 1 4 Tou rna
Sa unders H. Saunde rs ment, but he did not get t he br il
White Black
liancy pri z e o n t he groun d that D r.
I P-K 4 P-K 4 La sker had brought o ff practically
2 B-B4 N-QB3 the sa me co mbination against Ba ue r
3 N-KB3 N-B3 in 1 889, 25 years befor et heTarrasc h
4 P-Q 4 PxP ga me !
5 o -o P-Q 4 Here is th e w ay Tarrasch play ed
6PxP NxP it :
7 R -Ki ch B-K3
8N-B3 B-QN 5 ST . PETERS BUR G, 1 9 1 4
9 BxN PxN Queen's Gambit Declined
1o B x B PxP
II B-Q sch N-K 2 N imzovic h Tarrasc h
12 B x Pch Kx B White Black
I 3 N -K sch K-B3 I P-Q4 P-Q4
I4 B-N sc h KxB 2 N-K B3 P-QB 4
I5 N-B 7 ch R esigns 3 P- B4 P-K3
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS I0 7
4 P-K3 N-KB3 Nothing else is any better: if

5 B-Q3 N -B3 23 Q-Q3, Q-N6 wins, or if 23
6 o-o B-Q3 KR-K r , R x Rch 24 R x R, Q x Rch
7 P-QN3 o-o 25 K x B, Q- K 7ch 26 K-R3 , R-Q4,
8 B -N2 P-QN3 and wins.
9 QN-Q2 B-N2 23 . . . Q-R8ch
IO R-B I Q-K2 24 K-B2 BxR
I I BP x P KP x P 25 P-Qs
I 2 N-R4 P-N3
1 3 N(R4)-B3 QR-Q I Here if 25 R x B, Q-R7 ch wins
14 P x P PxP the Q u een for Black.
15 B-N5 N-K5 25 .. .
16 B x N BxB 26 Q -B3
17 Q-B2
The only hope is to play for
Carefully avoids running into mate! If instead 26 N- B6ch, K-B2
this snag: I 7 P-QN4, B- N4 I 8 27 N x R, R x N, and White must
p X P , N X QBP I 9 R-KI , N-Q6 , give up his Queen to avoid mate.
and Black wins the exchange.
26 . .. Q-N7ch
1 7... NxN 27 K-K3 Rx N ch !
I8 N x N P-Q5 28 P x R P -B sch
I9 P x P
Tarrasch misses a mate in three
The stage is set for the fireworks: by 28 .. . Q-N6ch 29 K-Q 2,
Q-B 7ch 30 K-Q r, Q-K 7mate, but
he does evolve a picturesque finish.
29 KxP R-B rch
30 K-Ks Q-R 7ch
31 K-K6 R-K i ch
32 K -Q7
Or 3 0 K-B6, Q-Rs mate.
32 ... B-N4 mate
And this is the Lasker (and
earlier) version of the two-Bishop
I9 ... B x Pch ! sacrifice:
2o KxB Q-R5ch
AMSTERDAM, r 889
21 K-NI B x P!
Bird's Opening
22 P-B3
Taking the Bishop instead leads Lasker Bauer
to this: 22 K x B, Q-N5ch 23 K-Rr, White Black
R-Q 4 24 Q x P(B5), R- ch 25 I P-KB 4 P-Q4
Q x R, Q x Qch 26 K-N 2, Q-N4 ch , 2 P-K3 N-KB3
and Black picks off the Knight . 3 P-QN3 P-K3
22 . . . KR-KI 4 B-N2 B-K2
5 B-Q 3 P-QN3
Threatens 23 .. . R-K 7. 6 N-QB3 B-N2
7N-B3 QN-Q2
8 o-o o-o 24 R-KBI QR-NI

9 N-K2 P-B4 25 Q-Q7
Io N-N3 Q-B2 Picking off Pawns instead would
u N-K5 NxN
be petty.
I2 BxN Q-B3
I3 Q-K2 P-QR3 25 ... KR Q I
-
I4 N-R5 NxN Not so much to protect the Queen

Expecting the simple recapture Pawn, as to allow the King a flight
of the Knight, but Lasker inserts a square.
brilliant zwischenzug. 26 Q-N4ch K-BI
This is the position: 27 PxP B-N2
But not 27 ... B xP 28 Q-K6,
and the Bishop is lost.
28 P-K6 R-N2
Here if 28 ... P-B3 29 P-K7ch
follows, and the Bishop falls.
29Q-N6 P-B3
3o RxPch BxR
3I QxBch K-KI
32 Q-R8ch K-K2
33 Q-N7ch Resigns
Strangely enough, despite Lasker's
I5 BxPchl KxB success with Bird's Openi ng, he
I6QxNch K-NI never again in his life piayed it I
I7 BxP! KxB
On I7 ... P-B3 instead, White :248

wins quickly by I8 R-B3 and I9 SZABO HAS
R-N3. A BLIND SPOT
K-R2 In the great World's Champion
P-K4 ship Candidates' Tournament, held
at Zurich in I95 3 , Szabo missed an
Black must part with his Queen elementary mate in two moves
and then one of his vulnerable against Reshevsky! Here is how it
Bishops. happened:
20 R-R3ch Q-R3
ZURICH, I953
2I Rx Qch KxR
22 Q-Q7 B-KB3
23 QxB Szabo Reshevsky
Lasker has a won game, but the White Black
way in which he forces resignation I P-Q4 N-KB3
is an interesting lesson in tactics. 2 P-QB4 P-K3
3 N-KB3 P-Q4
23 ... K-N2
4 N-B3 P-B4
If 23 ... PxP 24 QxNP, K-N2 5 BPxP NxP
25 R-KB1. 6 P-K3 N-QB3
7 B-Q3 NxN "Well, you don't just look for

8 PxN B-K2 m ates in two against a Reshevsky!"
9 Q-B2 P-KNJ The game continued:
1o P-KR4 ! P-KR4 21 ... BxB
11 R-QN1 R-QN 1 22 PxB Q-Q3
12 B-K4 23 Q-B3 QxP
Simple t hreat: 13 BxNch, 24 KR-Qx Q-B4
winning a piece. 25 P-K4 Q-K3
26 B-N7 P-NJ
12 ... Q-B2 27 BxR
The plausible 12 ... B-Q2 allows Szabo misses another chance! He
13 BxPch, PxB 14 QxPch, cou ld have won a clear Rook by
K-B 1 15 P-K4 followed by 16 27 B-R6, P-B3 28 Q-KN3, and the
B-R6ch, and White wins. threat of 29 QxPch and mate next
IJ o--o B-Q2 would win the unprotected Queen
14 P-Qs PxP Rook.
15 Bx QP B-B3 27 ... KxB
16 N-N5 N-Q1 Szabo was now short of time and
17 P-QB4 proposed a draw, which Re sh evsky
Now he threatens to win by was pleased to accept.
18 NxP, N xN 19 QxP
17 B-B3 249
18 N-K4 B-N2 REMARKABLE
19 B-N2 o--o RUY LOPEZ
20 N-B6ch B XN Many players start their games
with the Ruy Lopez opening, but
Barry showed he could checkmate
by finishing with it!
He composed this prob lem :
(White to Play and Mate in Three
Moves)
21 BxB(KB6)
Szabo misses 21 Q x Pch, B-N2
(if 21 ... K-R1 22 BxB mate)
22 QxB mate.
Euwe called this, "The worst The solution is:
blunder of the last decade." When I P-K4 .
Szabo was asked to explain this 2 N-KB3
extraordinary oversight, he said, 3 B-N5 mate!
I IO WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
250 astonishment when Averbach

CAPABLANCA FEATURES pointed out to me that my Rook
HIS LOST GAMES had crossed an attacked square I
Most masters show off proudly I simply waved my hand from
the most brilliant games they won K1 to QB1 and said faintly, "the
in their books, but in Chess Funda King"-thinking at the time
mentals by Capablanca, there are that it sounded like a royal toast.
six losses in succession to start off a " Only the King?" cried Aver
game section of only 14 games! bach, "not the Rook?" I just
Capablanca gives the scores of shook my head gently. It seemed
games won from him by Marshall, rude to instruct a grandmaster.
Rubinstein, Janowski, Znosko-Bo I realized that this amicable
rovski, Lasker and Chajes. dispute must end in my favor
and there was no need for me to
251 talk.
GRANDMASTER
LEARNS THE RULES
ABOUT CASTLING 252
A grandmaster, and a former MASTER FAILS TO WIN
Chess C)l.ampion of the U.S.S. R., A SINGLE GAME
who has written some of the best R . G. Wade once gave a simulta
books on the endgame, was mistaken neous exhibition on 30 boards and
about one of the rules of chess. Here could not win a single game!
is the curious fact, as C. J. S. Purdy It happened in Moscow in 1951,
tells it: and Wade's opponents were school
The most amazing incident of boys, none of them over 14 years
my chess career-no, my whole old. When play had ended, after
life-happened while I was play seven hours, Wade had lost 20
ing my game in the Australian games, and drawn the remaining 10.
Championship with Averbach in
Adelaide in 1 960. The diagram
med position occurred, and I
Castled Queen side: 253
ERROR TU.It.NS INTO
BRILLIANCY
Erich Cohn won a brilliancy prize
against Tchigorin at Carlsbad in
1907 (a tournament noted for its
wealth of beautiful games) for a
"beautiful combination starting
from an extraordinarily deep Pawn
sacrifice."
But Cohn stated after the game
that he had not intended to sacri
fice the Pawn-he merely lost it,
after which he had to play force
Of course many beginners think fully to make up for his material
this is illegal. But what was my disadvantage I Here is the game:
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS I II
CARLSBAD, I907 Another interesting possibility is

Old Indian Defence this : 25 ... R-BI 26 P-N6, RPxP
27 BP x P, BPxP 28 Q-B7ch,
Cohn Tchigorin K-RI 29 P-K6. RxP 30 P-Rs.
White Black R-K2 31 PxP, Rx Q 32 R-Rsch,
I P-Q4 N-KB3 K-NI 33 P x R mate.
2 P-QB4 P-Q3
3 N-QB3 QN-Q2 This is the position:
4 P-K4 P-K4
5 KN-K2 B-K2
6 P-KN3 o-o
7B-N2 R-KI
B o-o B-BI
9P-KR3 PxP
Io QxP N-K4
With two threats of winning a
Pawn: one by I I .. . BxP, the
other by 1 1 P-B4. Cohn sees
.
only one threat.

uP-B4 P-B4
I2 Q-B2 NxBP 26 P-K6I PxP
13 P-N3 N-QR4 If instead 26 ... BxR 27 BxB,
14 B-N2 N-B3 PxP 28 PxP, Q-K2 29 Q-Q4,
IS QR-QI Q-R4 and the threat of 30 R-B7 is
I 6 P-KN4 N-Qs decisive.
I 7 NxN PxN 27 PxP Q-K2
18 P-N4!
" Capturing the Rook," says
A pretty move. If at once I8 Marco, "leads to a grandiose finish:
RxP, P-Q4 (with the threat of 27 . . . B X R 28 Q-B7Ch, K-RI
I9 .. . B-QB4) permits Black to 29 BxB (threatens 30 P-K7) R-K2
exchange off his weak Queen Pawn. 30 Q-Bs. K-N1 3 I B-K4, P-KN3
32 Q-B7ch, RxQ 33 PxR mate."
18 . .
. QxNP
I9RxP Q-R4 28 Q-B7ch K-R I
20 P-Ns N-Q2 29 R-KB5 QxQ
2I N-Qs Q-QI 30 PxQ R-K7
22 P-KR4 N-N3 31 R(BI)-B2 RXR
23 P-Bs NxN 32 RxR P-Q4
24 RxN B-Q2 33 B-Q41
25 P-Ks B-B3 Threatens a mate in five by 34
If instead 25 .. . PxP, White P-R5, 35 P-R6, 36 PxPch, 37
does not play 26 KR-QI, as that P-B8(Q)ch, and 38 RxR mate.
permits Black to wriggle out of the 33 ... P-K
pin by 26 ... Q-BI 27 RxB, B-B4 34 P-N6 B-Q2
28 B-Q4, Qx R, but continues 35 R-K2 B-Q3
instead with 26 P-B6, P xP 27 36 B-R3! B-N4
B-KR3. 37 R-K6 Resigns
Il2 WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
There is no defence: if 3 7 ... 30 PxR

B-B2 38 B-QB5 , B-N3 39 BxB, 3I P-Ks
PxB 40 R-Ks, and mate cannot And now we have this picture of
be averted. a chain of six Pawns in diagonal
formation:
as4
LONGEST PAWN CHAIN
The British chess master J. du
Mont built the longest Pawn chain
ever seen on a chessboard.
Here are the preliminary moves,
and a picture of it will appear later
in our story:
LONDON, I943
Reti Opening
duMont Gosling 3I . .. R-RI

White Black 32 B-Ns Resigns
I N-KB3 N-KB3
2 P-KN3 P-Q4
3 B-N2 P-B3 ass
4P-Q4 P-K3 ALEKHINE SACRIFICES
s o-o B-Q3 THREE QUEENS IN ONE
6QN-Q2 o-o GAME
7 P-B4 QN-Q2 In a game played at Hastings in
8 P-N3 R-KI 1922, Alekhine sacrificed his Queen,
9B-N2 PxP queened a Pawn, sacrificed the new
Io NxP B-B2 Queen, queened another Pawn,
II N(B3 )-Ks P-B4 sacrificed the third Queen, and was
I2 P-B4 R-NI preparing to advance a Pawn for
I3 NXN NxN his fourth Queen, when Bogolyubov,
I4P-K4 P-QN4 his opponent, resigned.
IS N-Ks NxN The writer considers this master
I6QPxN B-N3 piece of Alekhine's to be the greatest
I 7 Q-B2 P-Ns game of chess ever played.
IS KR-QI P-Bsch
I9 K-R I Q-B2 HASTINGS, 1922
2o QxP QxQ DutciJ Defence
2I PxQ P-QR4
22 B-Q4 BxB Bogolyubov Alekhine
23RxB B-R3 White Black
24 P-QB5 KR-Qx I P-Q4 P-KB4
25 R-Q6 B-N4 2 P-QB4 N-KB3
26R-QBx P-Rs 3 P-KN3 P-K3
2 7 P-B6 QR-Bx 4B-N2 B-Nsch
28 P-B7 R-Q2 s B-Q2 BxBch
29 B-Bx RxR 6NxB N-B3
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS ll3
7 KN-B3 o-o the center (after 24 . . . P x P 25

B o-o P-Q3 Qx P) by 2 5 .. . N (B3 )4
9 Q-N3 K-R1 24 R-KN2 PxP
Io Q-B3 P-!4!
25 PxP BxP
White cannot try to win a 26 N-B2 2
Pawn as after II Px P, PxP 12
Prevents any expansion by 27
N X P, N X N 13 Q X N, Q X N, it is
P-N4.
Black who gains a piece.
2 7N 2 PN4
1 1 P-K3 P R4 I 28 N 1 N6
This prevents 1 2 P-QN4 fol 29 Rx P
lowed by P-N5, displacing the This is the position:
Knight.
12 P-N3
1 3 P-QR3
Here too, White must not chase

after a Pawn, as 14 Px P, Px P 1 5
N x P, N x N 1 6 Q x N , N-N5 (at
tacking the Queen, and threatening
mate on the move) is the well
known Alekhine kick at the end of
a combination.
1 4 P-KR4 N-KN5
1 5 N-N5 2
16 P-B3 N-B3 29 . . . P-N5I
1 7P-B4 P-K5 Begins a magnificent combina
18 KR-QI P-R3 tion, or properly speaking, a series
1 9 N-R3 P-Q4 of magnificent combinations.
20 N-BI N-K2
3 oRx R
The intention is to follow with
2 1 .. . P-Rs, attacking the base of If 30 Q-R1, RxR 3 1 Q x R,
the Pawn chain. Then if 22 P-QN4, Q-R1 32 Qx Q, Rx Q, and the
PxP 23 QxP, N ( K 2 )-Q4, and the Rook will come strongly into the
Knight secures a firm hold on a game at R7 or R8.
center square, as no Pawns can 30 ... PxQI
drive it off. 3I RxQ P-B 7I
21 P-R4 This is the point of the first
The Knight returns, as now it can combination! The Pawn cannot be
invade the enemy territory by way prevented from Queening, and a
of N5 and Q6. new phase begins.
22 R-Q2 N-QN5 32 Rx Reb K-R2

23 B-R1 Q-K1 33 N-B2
Now the threat is either to win a Any other move loses a piece.
Pawn by 2 4 . . . P x P 25 P x P, 33 ... P-B8(Q)ch
B x P, or to establish a Knight in 34 N-B1 N-K81
Threatens a colorful smothered 52 K-K3

mate. 53 K-K4
35 R-R2 Q x BP Resigns
New threat : 36 . . . B-N4 3 7 Bogolyubov does not care for the
N-Q2 {if 37 B-N2, N x B wins a continuation 54 K-Q4, K-B4 55
piece) Q-QB8 38 N-B 1 , N-B6ch K x P, K x P 56 K-Q4, P-B4
and mate next. 57 K-Q3, K-N6, and he would see
36 R-QN8 B-N4 Alekhine's fourth Queen on the
37 R x B QxR board !
38 P-N4 N-B6ch l zs6
39 B x N PxB ALEKHINE BUILDS TOWER
4 oP x P OF PAWNS
Forced, for if 40 P-N5, N-N5 Doubled Pawns are common ;
41 N x N {on 41 R-R3, Q-K7 triple d Pawns are unusual ; quad
wins) P x N, and Black has two rupled Pawns are unheard of!
connected passed Pawns. Yet Alekhine in his youth pro
40 . . . Q-K 7I duced this unique arrangement of
Pawns-to his detrimentI
This ties Black up completely.
Here is how it came about :
If any of his pieces moves, he loses
at once. On 41 N-R3, for example,
N-N5 follows, and after 42 R x Q, MOSCOW, 1 907
P x R, and Black gets a new Queen. Queen's Pawn Game
Or if 41 R-R3, N-N5 is again the
winning move. Alekhine Nenerakov
White Black
41 P-Q5 K-NI I I P-Q4 P-Q4
Alekhine cleverly avoids the 2 N-KB3 P-K3
natural continuation 41 . . . P-R4, 3 P-K3 P-QB3
which allows White to escape nicely 4 B-Q3 P-KB4
by 42 N-R3, N-N5 43 N-N5ch, 5 N-K5 Q-B3
K-N 1 44 R x Q, P x R 45 N-B3 I 6 N-Q2 N-Q2
7 P-KB4 NxN
42 P-R5 K-R2
8 BP x N Q-B2
Just waiting for White's Pawn g o-o Q-B2
move to run out. 1 0 P-B4 N-R3
43 P-K4 N x KP I I P-QN3 B-Q2
44 N x N QxN 1 2 P-QR4 B-K2
45 P-Q6 PxP I3 P X P BP x P
46 P-B6 PxP 1 4 B-R3 BxB
47 R-Q2 Q-K7 ! 15 R x B o-o
1 6 R-R2 QR-B1
" A pretty finish, worthy of this 1 7 Q-K2 Q-N3
fine game , " says Alekhine himself. 1 8 R-QB2 RxR
48 R x Q PxR 19 B x R R-BI
49 K-B2 P x N {Q) ch 20 B-Q3 Q-N5
5 oK x Q K-N2 2 1 P-R3 N-B2
51 K-B2 K-B2 22 R-N I R-B6
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS I IS
Black's advantage in position is 38 . . . Q-K I

his pressure on the B lack squares.
Blockades all the Pawns a t one
23 K-R2 P-QR3 stroke, and wins .
24 Q-Br Q-R6
39 Resigns
2S R-Q r Q-N7
26 Q-K2 N-Q I
27 R-QNr Q-R6 Z57
28 R-KBr Q-Ns CAPABLANCA CREATES
29 B-Nr P-Q N4 FATASTIC DESIGN
30 P-N4 P x RP One would hardly expect a
3 1 P x BP B-N4 fantastic arrangement of Pawns
32 N-B4 and pieces from Capablanca. But he
created one of the weirdest posi
No better is 32 Q-Rs. B x R
tions ever seen on a chessboard, in
33 P x KP, B-Q6.
one of his great m asterpieces .
32 ... R x NP Here are the moves leading up to
33 PxP P x NI the position :
34 Q-B3 RxB
3S RxR QxR
CARLSBAD, 1 929
36 P-K7
The last chance. Alekhine had
counted on a draw by 36 Q- Qs. Capablanca Treybal
N x P 3 7Q x Nch, K-B r 38 Q-Q6ch, White Black
K-B2 39 Q-Qsch, but then realized I P-Q4 P-Q4
that 36 Q-Qs would succumb to 2 P-QB4 P-QB3
36 . . . Q-B7ch 37 K-Rr (other 3 N-KB3 P-K3
King moves are answered by 3 7 . . . 4 B-Ns B-K2
Q-N3 ch and 38 . . . N x P) B-B3 , s BxB QxB
and Black wins the Queen. 6 QN-Q2 P-KB4
7 P-K3 N-Q2
36 . . .
8 B-Q 3 N-R3
37 P-Qs
g o-o o-o
39 P x N
IO Q -B 2 P-KN3
And now we have a picturesque II QR-N1 ! N-B3
Pawn position ! A column of quad 12 N-Ks N-B2
rupled, isolated Pawns ! 13 P-B4 B-Q 2
14 QN-B3 K R-Q r
IS P-QN4 B-K 1
r6 KR-B r P-Q3
17 Q-B2 NxN
18 NxN N-Q2
19 N-B3 R(Qr )-Br
20 P-Bs N-B3
21 P-QR4 N-Ns
22 Q-K r N-R3
23 P-R3 N-B2
24 P-N4 ! B-Q2
2S R-B2 K-R r
I I6 WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
26 R-KN2 R-KNr 45 R(RI )-R4 K-B I

27 P-KN5 Q-Q I 46 Q-R3 K-N I
28 P-R4 K-N2 47 K-N3 B-Q2
29 P-R5 R-Rr 48 K-R4 K-Rr
30 R-KR2 Q-B2 49 Q-R r K-N r
3I Q-B3 Q-Q I 50 K-N3 K-Br
5 1 K-N2 B-K r
Black cannot free himself by
52 N-Q2
3 1 . . . P-R4, as the reply would
simply be 32 P-N5. The Knight is headed for QR5,
to help attack the Queen Knight
32 K-B2 Q-B2
Pawn.
33 R(N r ) -KRr QR-KN r
34 Q-R r R-N r 52 . . . B-Q2
35 Q-R3 R(Nr )-N r This is the unfortunate Bishop s '
36 P-N5 I RP x P fou rth ( and last) little walk to Q2.

If 36 . . . BP x P 37 P-R6ch, 53 N-N3 R-Kr
K-B r 38 P-B6ch, and White wins
a Bishop. The alternative (or properly
speaking, another way of losing) is
37 P-R6ch ! K-B I 53 . . . B-Kr 54 N-R5, R-Q2 55
38 P x P K-K2 N x NP ! , R x N 56 R-R8, and
39 P-N6 Q-N I Black loses his Queen.
White' s Pawn stru ctu re is so 54 N-R5 N-Q r
harmonious that the position at this 55 B-R6 !
point deserves a diagram :
Now look at the position ! "White's
Pawns are arranged in a V for
Victo ry design all his pieces (ex
,
cept the King) are lined up on the

Queen Rook file, while nearly all his
opponent s pieces stand fearfully
'
on the back rank I
40 R-R r
White controls the QR file. His
obj ect now is to establish an outpost
at QR7, and then exert irresistible
pressure on Black's QNP.
40 . . . R-QB r
4 1 Q-N4 R(RI )-Q r
K-B I 55 . . . PxB
42 R-R7
B-K r 56 R x B R-K2
43 R-KRr
44 R(RI )-R r K-N I If 56 . . . K-N r instead, to save
the KRP, then 57 N-N3 will doom comment to the game Yates
the other Rook Pawn. Alekhine, New York I 924, and is
57 R x Nch ! Game Two in the book of the tourna
ment.
A simple and elegant finishing
The game started as follows :
move.
57 . . . Resi gns NEW YORK, I924
Ruy Lopez
An impressive game by the
greatest chess player that ever Yates Alekhine
lived. White Black
I P-K4 P-K4
ass 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
FOUR WORLD CHAMPIONS 3 B-N5 P-QR3
ON ONE TEAM 4 B-R4 P-Q3
In I 964 the U.S.S.R. sent a team Alekhine's note at this point
to represent them at the Olympics reads as follows :
held at Tel -Avi v, that was as power
ful as one could imagine . They were : This variation of the Steinitz
defence seems to be better than
1 . Petrosian (former World Cham
P-Q3 at once, as White after 5
pion)
P-Q4 must reckon with an im
2. Botvinnik (former World Cham mediate draw ing line (5 . . .
pion) P-QN4 6 B-N3, N x P 7 N x N,
3 Smyslov (former World Cham
P x N 8 Q x P, P-QB4 9 Q-Q5,
pion) B-K3 IO Q-B6ch, B-Q2 II
4 Keres (contender for the World's
Q-Q5, B-K3 , etc.)
Championship)
5 Stein (former Soviet Champion) What Alekhine misses is that
6. Spassky (later World Cha mpion) Black could play as his n th move
P-B5 instead of l l . . . B-K3 , and
Z59 win a piece (and the game) for two
Pawns .
FASTEST TOURNAMENT
PLAYERS
z6I
The fastest tournament p layers
have been Zukertort, Charousek, ONLY ONE - PAWN
Janowski, Dake and Capablanca. IS CAPTURED
After 94 moves of the game
between Chaj es and Grunfeld at
a6o
Carlsbad in I 92 3 , only one Pawn
ALEKHINE CAUGHT IN had been removed from the board !
OLDEST TRAP
The peerless annotator Alekhine CARLSBAD, I923
once recommended " an immediate Ruy Lopez
drawing line " in the Ruy Lopez
opening that would have cau gh t Chaj es Grunfeld
White in a trap whose very name White Black
im plies its antiquity-the Noah's I P-K4 ' P-K4
Ark Tra.p ! 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
The note appears as the first 3 B-N5 P-QR3
u8 WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
4 B-R4 N-B3 52 B-B2 N-B2

5 o--o B-K2 53 B-N r N-R r
6 R-K1 P--QN4 54 B-B2 N-N3
7 B-N3 P--Q3 55 B-K3 N-BI
8 P-B3 N-QR4 56 B-Q2 N-K2
g B-B2 P-B4 57 N x N
x o P-Q4 Q-B2
At last a piece comes off the
I I QN-Q2 N-B3
board after 56 moves of masterly
12 P-Qs N--Q1
inactivity. The game begins now, at
1 3 N-B1 o--o
a point where most games have
14 P-KR3 N-K I
ended.
15 P-KN4 P-N3
16 N-N3 N-KN2 57 . . . BxN
1 7 B-R6 P-B3 58 N-QI B-KBI
1 8 K-R2 N-B2 59 N-K3 NxP
19 B-K3 B-Q2 6o R-R5 B-B 1
20 R-KN1 K-RI 6 1 R(Rx)-R3 N-Nr
2 1 Q-K2 Q-B1 62 Q-R2 R(N3)-N2
22 R-KN2 Q-N2 63 N-B5 R(N2)-KB2
23 QR-KN r P-Bs 64 Q-R1 Q-B2
24 P-R3 KR-BI 65 R-R2 Q-Q 1
25 N--Q2 Q-B2 66 K-B2 Q-K 1
26 N(Q2)-B 1 B-B1 67 K-N2 R(B2)-B2
2 7 P-KR4 B-K2 68 K-B2 R-B2
28 K-R1 R-BI 69 K-N2 Q-Q 1
29 R-R2 Q-B1 70 K-B2 Q-B2
30 P-B3 Q-Q1 71 K-K2 Q-Q I
J I B-Q2 R--QN1 72 K-B2 Q-B2
32 N-K3 Q-BI 73 K-K2 R-R2
33 N--Q r Q-Q I 74 B-K3 R--QN2
34 B-K3 R-RI 75 B-Q2 Q-Q1
35 Q--Q2 R--QN 1 76 K-B2 Q-Kr
36 N-B2 R-R1 77 K-N2 R(B2)-B2
37 B-N 1 R--QN I 7 8 K-B2 Q-Q I
38 N-R3 Q-BI 79 B-K3 R-B2
39 B-R6 R-N I So B-Q2 Q-B2
40 B-K3 R-BI 81 K-Q2 Q-N1
41 N-B2 Q-Q I 82 B-K3 Q-B2
42 P-Rs P-N4 83 B-Q2 Q-Q r
43 P-R6 N-K I 84 K-B2 Q-N3ch
44 N-B5 R-N I 85 B-K3 Q-Q I
45 K-N2 B-KB1 86 B-Q2 P-R3
46 R(Nr)-RI KR-N3 87 K-K2 R-KR2
47 K-N3 R--QN2 88 B-K3 B-Q2
48 Q-K2 Q-R1 89 R(R5)-R3 B-K 1
4 9 B-Q2 R-B2 g o B-Q2 B-N3
so B-B2 Q-N I 91 K-B2 Q-B2
5 1 B-N 1 R-QN2 92 K-K2 Q-B2
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS I I9
93 Q-QI z6z
94 B-K3 LINDERMANN COMMITS
SUI - MATE IN THREE
This is the position after 94 A player called Lindermann once
moves of a wearisome game. Note lost a tournament game in three
that up to this point only one Pawn moves !
has come off the board ! Here is how it came abou t :
KIEL, 1 893
Center Counter Game
Lindermann Echterme y e r
White Black
I P-K4 P-Q4
2 PxP QxP
Lindermann now in tende d to
move 3 N-QB3 , but picked up his
Q ueen Bi shop instead, and placed
it at QB3 . The rule then in force
compelled him to retract his move,
95 P x P BxN and move his King instead. So the
96 P x B R-R3 game continued :
97 B-K4 Q-K I 3 K-K2 Q- K s mate
98 P-R4 R(Q2)-KR2
99 P x P PxP
263
100 Q-KR1 B-K2
101 K-B2 B-Q I ILLEGAL MOVE SCORES
1 02 K-N3 Q-B2 THE WIN
1 03 K-N4 Q-QN2 In a game between Mason and
1 04 Q-R1 B-N3 Winawer played at London in 1 883,
105 Q-KN1 BxB the latter made a move strong
106 Q x B Q-R3 enough to cause Mason's quick
107 R-RI N-K2 resignation.
1 08 R-Q I N-B I But the move was an illegal oneI
109 R (R3)-R1 Q-N2 This was the position :
1 1 0 Q-B2 Q-KB2
I I I.Q-R2 N-K2
I I 2 R-RI N-N 1
I I 3 Q-N2 RxP
I 14 K-N3 R-R5
I IS R X R RxR
1 16 R-R6 Q-R4
I I 7 R-RI P-KN5
I I 8 P-B4 P x Pch
ng K x P R-R6
1 20 B-B2 Q-N 4ch
Re signs
- after I S! hours of
play ! Winawer moved 43 . . . N-B4 and
1 20 WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
won in a few moves. Not until the This was the position on the
official score was examined several board :
days after the game was played, did
anyone notice that the Knight had
moved like a Bishop. Apparently the
position had been noted down in
correctly at adjournment time, and
the Knight had been placed at Q2
instead of K2.
z64
STEINER WINS BY
ACCIDENT
In a game against Colle at Buda
pest in 1 926, A. Steiner accidentally At this point Steiner replaced his
knocked over his King with his King at KN I , and play continued :
lleeve, and replaced it at Knight
quare instead of Rook square, I 4 P-B5 N-Q4
where it belonged . During the game 1 5 Q-N3 P-K3
he played a combination which 16 B x N KP x B
forced a win, but which would have 1 7 B-N5 P-B3
bee n unsound with his King at KRI . I B QR-K i ch B-K2
Unfortunately for Colle, the dis 19 R x P I PxR
crepancy was not discovered until 2o B x P
the game was over. His protest to 2I R x B
the committee was turned down, A powerful position for White.
as the rules did not cover such a But if his King were at RI (where
li.tuation. As a result, he was it belonged) Black would simply
relegated to seventh place in the play 2 1 . . . Q x R and win, as
final standings, instead of third. capturing the Queen allows mate
Here is the game : on the move.
BUDAPEST, I926 2I . . . RxB
A lekhine Defence 22 R x Q BxR
23 N-K4 R-B2
A. Steiner Colle 24 Q-N3ch R-N2
White Black 25 N-B6ch K-R I
I P-K4 N-KB3
2 P-K5 N-Q4 If 25 . . . K-B I 26 Q-Q6ch, K-B2
3 B-B4 N-N3 27 Q-B4, and White wins.
4 B-K2 P-Q3 26 Q-K5 B-R6
5 P-KB4 N-B3 27 N-R5 Resigns
6 N-KB3 PxP
7 PxP N-Q5 265
s N x Nch BENKO
9 BxN Q-Q5ch PICKS UP THE PIECES
ro K-RI Q x KP AND LOSES
I I P-Q4 Q-Q3 An even stranger incident in
1 2 P-B4 Q-Q2 volving pieces off the board was the
13 N-B3 P-QB3 cause of Benko 's debacle in the 2oth
round o f the World 's Championship 2 4 P-K R3 R-BI

Candidates Tournament held at 25 RxP R-KI
Curaao in 1962. 2 6 B-Q4
Benko was in time trouble-he
But not 26 B-Q2, B-B x followed
had three moves to make in a
by 27 . . . B-B4.
second or two-but he could have
forced a draw by perpetual check. 26 . ..
However, in the course of making a 27 R-Q7 !
move he knocked over two pieces, The natural 27 P-N3 succumt.
and while he was picking them up to 27 . . . B-Bx 28 R-Q7, Q-N8ch
his time ran out ! 29 K-N2, Q-Q8 ! , and White has
Here is the sad story : no defence.
27 . . . BxP
CURACAO, 1 962
2 8 P-N3 Q-K3
Sicilian Defence
2g R x RP B-N x
Keres Benko 30 R-N7 BxP
White Black 31 Q-B3
I P-!4 P-QB4 Keres misses a pretty win by
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 3 1 Q x B, Q-Q4 (evidently relied on
3 P-Q4 PxP by Benko to win back the piece)
4NxP P-KN3 32 Q-K3 !, and 32 . . . R x Q falls
5 N-QB3 B-N2 into 33 R-N8ch and quick mate.
6 B-K3 N-B3
31 ... B-Q3
7 B-QB4 N-QR4
32 K-N2 B-B4
8 B-K2 o-o
33 B-B3 B-Bx
g o-o P-Q3
34 R-R7 P-R4
x o P-B4 B-Q2
35 P-QR4 P-B4
I I N-N3 B-B3
36 P-N4 P-KN4
1 2 Q-Q3 N-Q2
37 Q X RP Q-Q4ch
13 B-B3 NxN
38 K-Nx
1 4 BP x N N-B4
1 5 Q-B2 Q-Q2 This is the position :
16 P-K5 QR-Bx
1 7 QR-Q 1 Q-K3
x8 B x B RxB
1 9 Q-B2 P-N3
20 P x P R x PI
If White now tries to win a Pawn,
he loses the exchange by a little
tactical trick that I do not re
member ever seeing before, as
follows : 2 1 B x N, P x B 22 Q x P,
B-Q5ch 23 R x B, Q-K6ch, and
the Rook comes off next move.
21 R x R PxR It was at this moment that
22 R-Q I N-K5 Benko picked up the two pieces
23 N x N QxN that had been displaced and made
I22 WONDERS AND CUR IOSITIES O F CHESS
the move that would have saved game : had Feyerfeil drawn it,
the game for him, but it was too as he should have (with the position
late ! The draw could have been set up properly) he would have won
assured thus : 3 8 . . . B-B4ch 39 the tournament ahead of Emanuel
P x B, Q x Pch 40 K-B 1 , Q-Bsch Lasker. In that event, Lasker would
4I K-N2, Q-Q4ch and White does
, probably have given up chess-as
not dare to play 42 Q B3 as 42
-
, he himself said-and all chess history
. . . R K7ch 43 K-N3, R-K6 1 44
-
would have been different .
Q x R, P-Esch would win the
Queen.
267
266 OLDEST KNOWN
ERRONEOUS PAWN CHESS GAME
POSITION CHANGES The oldest known chess game
CHESS HISTORY (played about 1 485, when the
In a Hauptturnier (a qualifying mediaeval moves of Queen and
tournament for the title of Chess Bishop were changed) is one that
Master) an illegal move by von was contested between Francisco
Feyerfeil against Lipke may have de Castellni and Narcisco Vinoles.
changed chess history ! This is how it went :
This was the position, with White
(von Feyerfeil) to make his 53rd
BARCELONA ( ? ) , 1485
move against Lipke at the qualify
Center Counter
ing tournament at Breslau in 1 88g.
Castellni Vinoles
White Black
I P-K4 P-Q4
z PxP QxP
3 N-QB3 Q-Q I
4 B-B4 N-KB3
5 N-B3 B-Ns
6 P-KR3 BxN
7QxB P-K3
8 QxP QN-Qz
g N-N5 R-Br
1 o N x RP N-N3
II N x R NxN
1 2 P-Q4 N..:.Q3
53 R-KRz 13 B N s ch
-
NxB
Explanation : The position had 1 4 Q x Nch N-Qz
been set up by mistake without a r s P-Q s PxP
Pawn at White's KRz . Neither r6 B-K3 B-Q3
player noticed it, and the game 17 R-Q r Q-B3
went on until Lipke won it at the r8 R x P Q-N3
r z r st move ! (I do not propose to 1 9 B-B4 BxB
give you the 1 2 1 moves. ) zo Q x Nch K-Br
Now for the importance of this 2 1 Q-Q8 mate
268 capture of the Queen with check loses.

INCREDIBLE BEST White should play 2 R x Pch, K-Bx
AND WORST MOVES (if 2 . . . P x R 3 B x Qch, followed
In a position that arose between by 4 P-K N4 ) 3 P-KN4, Q x R 4
Eliskases and Henneberger at Lieb Q x P !, with a probable draw.
werda in 1 934, the latter's best move 2 ... K-B 1 I
in reply to a check was to interpose
And White has no defence to the
his Queen !
mate.
The worst move then for Eliskaes
was to take the Queen with check !
:z6g
Here is this unbelievable position :
AUTOMATON WINS
TOURNAMENT
As far back as 1 8 78, a chess
automaton played in a chess tourna
ment-and won first prize !
In I 8 78 the entry of the automa
ton " Mephisto " was accepted for
the English Counties' Chess Asso
ciation handicap, in which leading
English players participated. The
Rev. G. A. MacDonnell refused to
play unless told the identity of the
player in the machine. As this
It was White's move, and he is could not be revealed, MacDonnell
threatened with immediate mate. withdrew. " Mephisto " won first
He cannot escape by 1 R x Pch, prize. The player at that time was
P x R 2 K R3 (if 2 P-KN4, Q-R5
-
Isidor Gunsberg.
mate) as 2 . Q-N4 keeps him
. .
imprisoned . Therefore he playe d : 270

I B-Qsch COSTLY CHES S B OOK
White now expected either I . . . At an auction of Lord Cunliffe's
K-B I , 2 R-B4ch, R x R (but not library in 1 946, The Game and
2 . P x R 3 Q-R8 mate) 3 KP x R,
. .
Playe of the Chesse, printed by
and the mate is averted, or I . . . William Caxton in 1 474, was sold
K-N2, when there would follow at a high price : the bidding reached
2 Q x Pch, Q X Q 3 B x Qch, K-R3 the sum of ! goo.
(here if 3 . . K-BI 4 R-B4ch
.
draws) 4 B-B4ch, K-N 2 5 B-Ksch, 271

and a draw. Amor Omnia Vincit
.I . . . Q-B2 l ! A chess player withdrew from a
This must have knocked Elis tournament because of love !
kases off his seat. Lisa Lane, U.S. Women's Cham
pion, played four games in the
2 B x Qch Hastings Tournament of 1962, and
Takes the Queen with check-a then withdrew, to return to America.
move he must have made in a split She said she could not concentrate
second. The tempting and obvious because she was in love !
272 275
UNITED STATES PLAYS BLINDFOLD CHESS
CHAMPION AT 1 4 AT EIGHT
Bobby Fischer became Chess Sammy Reshevsky was a chess
Champion of the United States at prodigy in every sense of the word.
the age of I 4 ! He could play simultaneous chess
Bobby won first prize in the with the flair of an accomplished
United States Championship Tour master, solve chess problems with
nament held at New York City in ease, and play a respectable game
I957-8, ahead of former U . S . of blindfold chess.
Champions Reshevsky and Denker, Following is a blindfold game
as well as such well-known mas played by Reshevsky at the age of
ters as Lombardy, Sherwin, and eight ( ! ) , against R. C. Griffith (who
Bisguier. also played blindfold) , co-author
with J . H. White of Modern Chess
273 Openings, the Bible of chess players.
INTERNATIONAL
GRANDMASTER AT x s LONDON, I g2o
Bobby Fischer became an Inter Ruy Lopez
national Grandmaster at the age of
Reshevsky Griffith
15 !
White Black
Bobby was awarded the title
when he finished in a tie for fifth I P-K4 P-K4
place (with Olafsson) at the strong 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
Portoroz Tournament of 1 9 5 8 , 3 B-N5 N-B3
and qualified for the Candidates' 4 0-o NxP
Tournament. 5 P-Q4 B-Kz
6 R-K I N-Q3
He scored I 2 points, It points
7 BxN NP x B
less than first prizewinner and
8 PxP N-N2
future World's Champion Michael
9 N-B3 o-o
Tal, and only t point below future
I o N-Q4 N-B4
World 's Champion Tigran Petro
I I P-B4 N-K3
sian. An impressive achievement for
I 2 B-K3 NxN
a I5-year old !
I3 B x N P-Q4
I4 Q-B3 B-KB4
274
LIFETIME OF CHESS Of course not I4 . . . P-QB4 1 5
WRITING N x P, P x B 1 6 N x Bch, Q x N
Hermann Helms, Dean of Ameri I 7 Q x R, and White wins.
can Chess, conducted the magazine 1 5 P-KN4 ! B x BP
The A merican Chess Bulletin, from 16 QR-B 1 P-QB4
I 904 until I 963 (the year of his
death) , a period of 59 years ! The alternative is 1 6 . . . B-Ks
Mr. Helms also conducted a I 7 N x B, P x N I8 Q x P, and Black
weekly column in the BrookZvn loses another Pawn.
Daily Eagle from 1 893 to I 95 5 (the I7 R X B PxB
year that the Eagle discontinued 18 N x P P-QB4
publication) , a period of 62 years ! 1 9 P-B5 B-N4
2o R x P R-B I Three hundred and eighty masters

21 R x R QxR conducted this huge operation,
The position at this point : each of them tackling 1 8 players.
277
THE DEFENCELES S KING
TAKES A WALK
The Finnish master Kaarle Oj a
nen once lost a game because he did
not develop a single one of his
pieces-except his unwilling King !
Here is this strange game :
HELSINKI, 1 944
Sicilian Defence
22 P-B6 1 R-KI
Krogius Ojanen
This costs the exchange, but
White Black
choice is limited. If 22 . . . Q-Q2
I P-K4 P-QB4
23 P-KJ4, B x RP 24 N-K7ch,
2 P-Q4 PxP
K-Rr 25 P x Pch, K x P 26 N-B5ch,
3 N-KB3 P-K4
and the Bishop falls, or if (more
4 P-B3 PxP
drastically) 22 . . . Q-Q2 23 P-KR4,
5 QN x P P-Q3
B-K6ch 24 R x B, P x R 25
6 B-QB4 P-KR3
N-K7ch, K-R r 26 P x Pch, K x P
7 B x Pch KxB
27 Q-B6 mate !
8 N x Pch K-K2
23 N-K7ch RxN 9 N-Q5ch K-K3
24 PxR BxP 10 Q-N4ch KxN
25 R-KBr Q-K I 1 1 B-B4ch K-Q 5
26 Q-Q5 B-Q r 12 B-K3ch K-K4
Reshevsky now finishes neatly. 1 3 Q-B4ch K-K3
14 Q-B5 mate
27 R x P ! QxR
2 8 Q x Bch Q-B r
29 Q x Qch KxQ :Z78
30 K-B2 Resigns APPOINTMENT AT
The rest is child 's play-at least SAMARRA
In an I S -move miniature, Huber
for a child like Reshevsky.
brought about one of the neatest
and quickest King wanderings on
:Z76 record !
CHECKMATE ON Huber gave up his Queen to
THOUSANDS OF BOARDS force Black's King to walk down
The 1 7th Chess Olympics were the board, from one end to the
held at La Habana in I 966. other, in seven consecutive moves
On Capablanca Day, November (as fast as the King could make it)
19th, an open-air simultaneous to meet h i s fate at the enemy King's
display was gi ven on 6, 840 boards ! home square !
This is how it happened : by sacrifices of Queen, Bishop and

two Knights, the King is forced
ESSEN, I935 into a duel with the remaining
A lekhine Defence Bishop.
Huber Lemke
White Black VIENNA, I 872
I P-K4 N-KB3 Vienna Game
2 N-QB3 P-Q4
3 PxP NxP Hamppe Meitner
4 B-B4 N-N3 White Black
5 B-N3 P-QB4 I P-K4 P-K4
6 P-Q3 N-B3 2 N-QB3 B-B4
7 N-B3 P-K4 3 N-R4 B x Pch
8 o-o B-N5 4 KxB Q-Rsch
9 P-KR3 B-R4 5 K-K3 Q-Bsch
Io N x P I BxQ 6 K-Q3 P-Q4
n B x Pch K-K2 7 K-B3 Q x KP
I 2 B-N5ch K-Q3 8 K-N3 N-QR3
9 P-QR3 Q x Nch !
I3 N-K4ch ! KxN
ro K x Q N-B4ch
I4 P-B4ch K-Q5
n K-N4 P-R4ch
If I4 . . . K-B4 I 5 N-N3 mate. I2 K x N N-K2
I5 QR x B K-K6 Threatens I3 . . . P-N3ch
I6 R-B3ch K-K7 K-N 5, B-Q2 mate.
I7 R-Q2ch K-K8
I8 R-B I mate I3 B-N s ch ! K-Q I
I4 B-B6 P-N3ch
I5 K-N5 NxB
I6 KxN
If the King tries to run away by
I6 K-R4, then I6 . . . N-Q5 sur-
rounds him and I 7 . . . B-Q2 mate
finishes him off.
I6 . . . B-N2ch l
I 7 K-N5
If 1 7 K x B, K-Q2 I8 Q-N4ch,
K-Q3, and White cannot prevent
the mate.
17 . . .
279 r 8 K-B6
A STRANGE
PERPETUAL CHECK But not r 8 K-R4, B-B5 fol
The game which follows may be lowed by 19 . . . P-N4 mate.
the most extraordinary drawn game
ever played . r8 . . . B-N2ch
After a King wandering induced Drawn by perpetual check.
a8o Here is the score of this remark
WORST BLUNDER able game :

IN YEARS WINSCHOTEN, I 896
Averbach made one of the worst Ruy Lopez
blunders seen in recent years in
his game with Stahlberg at Bever Tresli ng Benima
wij k in I 963 . White Black
This was the position, with Black I P-K4 P-K4
(Averbach) to move : 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
3 B-N s P-QR3
BEVERWIJK, I963 4 B-R4 N-B3
Stahlberg Averbach 5 N-B3 B-K2
6 o-o P-QN4
White Black
7 B-N3 P-Q3
8 P-Q3
Everybody knows the trap into
which Noah fell in his game against
J apeth at Ararat, 2349 B . c . : 8P-Q4,
P x P 9 N x P, N x N Io Q x N,
P-B4, followed by II P-B s and
. .
Black wins a piece.
8 ... B-K3
9 Q-K2 Q-Q2
I O N-Q5 BxN
II P x B N-QR4
The obvious move was to capture 1 2 P-Q4 NxB
the Bishop which had taken a piece.
,
1 3 RP x N P-K5
But Averbach thought he would 1 4 N-Q2 o-o
threaten a Queen and Bishop mate. 1 5 P-QB4 KR-K 1
So he played : I6 N x P NxN
I ... B-R6 I7 Q X N B-B3
To his horror, Stah lbe rg did not
1 8 Q-Q3 Q-Ns
19 B-K3 P-N5
guard against mate, but replied :
20 P-B4 P-KR4
2 Q x Pch 2 I P-R3 ! Q-Q2
And A verbach found himself in a 22 P-KB5 Q-K2
Queen and Bishop mate ! 23 QR-K I P-R4
24 K-RI Q- Ks
25 Q-Q I P-B4
26 P x P BxP
:z8I 2 7 R-B4 Q-K2
FIVE QUEENS ON 28 Q x P B-B3
THE BOARD
In a game played between Tres If 28 . P x P, White wins by
. .
ling and Benima in 1 8g6, five 29 R-R4, P B 3 30 Q-R7ch, K-B2

-
Queens appeared on the board at the (if 30 . . K-BI 3 I Q-N6, Q-KB2

.
same time ! 32 B x Pch, and m ate follows) 3 I

n8 WONDERS A N D CURIOSITIES O F CHESS
Q-N6ch K-N r 32 R-R7 (threatens

, But it took him more than two
33 Q-Rs} Q-KB2 33 R-R8ch and hours to win this miniature !
wins the Queen.
BUDAPEST, I948
29 P x P QxP Queen's Gambit A ccepted
30 Q-B3
Guards the Rook, Bishop, and Tartakover Fuster
Qu een Pawn, and threatens 31 White Black
P-Bs .
I P-Q4 P-Q4
2 P-QB4 PxP
30 . . . R-14 3 N-QB3 P-K4
3 1 R-14 RxR P-QB3
4 P-Q s
32 Q x R Q-N6 S P-K4 B-QNs
33 B-B4 Q x NP 6BxP N-B3
34 P-Q6 R-KBr 7 Q-N3 Q-Q3
3 S P-Bs P-Rs 8 N-K2 N x KP
36 P-B6 P-R6
9 Px P o-o
37 B-Ks BxB
I O o-o BxN
38 Q x B P-R7
rr P x P QB x P
39 P-Q7 Q-R6 N-QB3
I 2 Q x QB
40 P-B7 P-N6
4 1 P-QS (Q} P-N7 If r2 . . . N-B4 13 Q-Q5 does the
-42 P-B8 (Q} P-NS(Q} trick.
This is the prett y picture : I3 P x B Resigns
a83
FI SCHER WINS
IN A FEW MOMENTS
In contrast to Tartakover's two
hou r e ffort, Bobby Fischer brought
o ff a bril liancy in less than five
minutes against grand master Dely,
who nea rly lost the game on time I
SKOPJ E, I 967
White mated in three mo ves by :
Sicilian Defence
43 Q x Rch QxQ
-44 Q x Qch KxQ Fischer Dely
4 5 Q-K8 mate White Black
I P-K4 P-QB4
2 N-KB3 P-Q3
z8a 3 P-Q4 PxP
TARTAKOVER TAKES TIME 4 NxP N-KB3
IN MINIATURE S N-QB3 N-B3
Tartako ver won a snappy I 3- 6 B-QB4 P-K3
mover from Fuster at Budapest in 7 B-N3 P-QR3
19-48. 8 P-B4 Q-R4
g o-o NxN were on black squares, while SultaD

Io Q x N P-Q4 Khan's Pawns all occupied whit.
With a little pinning threat. squares !
II B-K3 NxP BERNE, I 932

I2 N x N PxN Stonewall Defence
I 3 P-Bs l
Flohr Sultan Khaa
A clever move, and probably White Blacll
unexpected by Dely. I P-Q4 P-K3
13 . . . Q-N s 2 N-KB3 P-Q4
3 P-K3 P-QR3
If I 3 . . . P x P
I 4 B-R4ch, P-N4
4 B-Q3 B-Q 3
I 5 Q-Qs. R-QNI 1 6 Q-Ksch, and 5 P-QN3 N-Q2
White wins easily. 6 B-N2 P-KB4
I4 P x P BxP 7 P-B4 P-B3
IS B x B PxB 8 Q N-Q 2 Q-B 3
I 6 R x Bch ! 9 R-QBI N-K2
I O R-B2 P-KN4
And this must have come as a
I I P-N3 o-o
rude shock !
I 2 K-BI N-KN3
16 . . . QxR I 3 P-KR4 P-N5
I 7 Q-R4ch Resigns I4 N-KI P-KR4
Clearly, I 7 P-N4 is met by 1 S I S N-N2 Q-N2
Q X K P , R-QN I (if I S . . . R-BI I 6 N-B4 NxN
I9 Q x Pch, K-Q I 20 R-Q i ch, I 7 KP x N N-B3
K-B2 21 Q N 6 mate) 19 Q-B6ch,
-
I S P-B s B-Bz
and the next check b y Rook or I9 P-N4 N-K5
Bishop wins the Queen, while if 2o P-R4 B-Q2
I 7 . . . K-Q I IS R-Q i ch, K-B I 2 I P-R5 N-B3
I9 Q-Q 7ch, K-N 1 20 B-N6, Q-B5 22 N-N3 K-B2
2 I Q-QSch forces mate. 23 B-B I N-N I
24 B-K3 N-K2
25 B-K2 N-N3
z&t
26 N-BI
CHESS GAME TAKES Drawn
16 YEARS
The position at the finish :
A correspondence game begun
in I S59 between a Mr. Brenzinger
of New York and his brother in
England lasted I 6 ye ars !
:zSs
ALL THE PAWNS STAY
ON THE BOARD
Flohr and Sultan Khan played a
26-move game in which all I 6 Pawns
remained on the board.
At the finish, all of Flohr's Pawns
286 25 N-R5 R-KN r

BLINDFOLD PLAY I N 26 N(Q5)-B6 PxN
THE ROUND 2 7 R-K8 Resigns
A strange sort of blindfold game
was once indulged in by five ama :z87
teurs of the City of London Chess ANDERSSEN AND KOLI SCH
Club. FIRST TO USE TIME LIMIT
Messrs . Curnock, Johnson, Law The first match in which the
rence, Layzell and Turner made players were restricted to a certain
alternate moves. Mr. Turner called number of moves per hour was the
the first move, Mr. Layzell the one between Anderssen and Kolisch
second, and then each player made in I 86 r . An hour glass was used, and
a move in succession ; as there were each player had to make 24 moves
five players, each found himself in two hours.
making White and Black moves Here is a game from that match :
alternately after each round. " There
are not many Clubs, " says the narra LONDON, r 86 r
tor, " whose members could equal Sicilian Defence
this. "
Kolisch Anderssen
White Black
LONDON, I 9oo I P-K4 P-QB4
Center Game 2 N-KB3 P-K3
3 P-Q4 PxP
White Black 4 NxP N-KB3
I P-K4 P-K4 N-B3
5 B-Q3
2 P-Q4 PxP P-Q4
6 B-K3
3 QxP N-QB3 PxP
7 PxP
4 Q-K3 N-B3 8 o--o B-Q3
5 P-K5 N-KN5 P-KR3
9 P-KR3
6 Q-KN3 P-Q3
10 N-QB3 o-o
7 P-KB4 PxP
II Q-Q2 R-K r
8 B-K2 PxP
12 QR-Q I B-B2
9 BxP N-B3
13 KR-Kr Q-Q3
10 N-KR3 B-QB4
14 N-B3 P-R3
II N-B3 o-o
I2 B-KR6 N-K I The position at this point :
I3 R-Q I Q-K2
14 N-Q5 Q-K3
I5 B-KN5 B-Q3
I6 B-KB4 BxB
I7 N (R3) x B Q-K4
I8 o-o QxP
I9 N-R5 P-B4
2o B-B4 K-R I
2I N (R5)-B4 N-B3
22 P-B3 P-QN3
23 KR-KI N-KN I
24 P-KR3 N-R3
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS I3I
I S B x KRP ! R x Rch Alexeyev and Russia's leading

I6 R x R PxB swimming coach, Leonid Meshkov
I7 Q x P set to work to make them Ioo%
physically fit. The Soviet Chess
With this threat : I S R-KSch, Federation is of course a branch
N x R I9 B--R7ch, K-R I 20 B-N6 of the Department of Physical
ch, and mate in two. Culture and Sport.
17 " . Rising at 7 A . M . , the masters
I B Q-Rs had ten minutes' gymnastics,
19 N X P! then bath and breakfast. At I O
A . M . they exercised under Alex
Another gift for Anderssen.
eyev-and he made them sweat.
I9 . . . QxN Two 400-metre races, high and
2o B x N Q-Q2 long j umps (the latter without
Black cannot afford 20 . . . Q x B any run up) and 6o and I oo
2 1 R x Q, P x R 22 N-Ns, and metre races or a three-quarter
there is no defence. mile walk might be a typical
morning's programme ; and after
2I B--Qsch K-N2 this, Meshkov would be waiting
If 2 I . . . Q x B 22 R-KSch, K-N2 for them at the swimming baths.
23 Q-RSch, K-N3 24 N-R4ch, After lunch, prepared by a diet
K-N4 25 Q-N7ch and mate next specialist, came two hours' rest
move. in bed, followed by tennis or
rowing.
22 Q-Nsch Resigns
Only in the third week came
If 22 . . . K-R2 23 Q-N8ch, chess, for which each of the nine
K-R3 24 B--B 7, and Black must masters had his own special
give up his Queen to avoid mate. trainer. The practice began usu
Imposing a time limit apparently ally with a selected chapter from
did not affect the play of the masters the literature of chess, followed
of that period. by a detailed examination of
some game by one of the non
Russian contestants in the Candi
z88
dates' tournament, whose favor
S OVIETS' PHYSICAL ite openings were exhaustively
AND MENTAL TRAINING studied and their personalities
FOR CHESS searched, with the aid of films
How the Soviet players trained and photographs, for psycho
for the Candidates' Tournament in logical weaknesses and vulnerable
Zurich in I953. is described as spots. Flohr, Smyslov's trainer,
follows by the Suddeutsche Zeitung : commented keenly on Reshevsky's
Preparation for the event last chronic time trouble and his
ed for two months in the health habit of proposing a draw to
resort Tarasovka, near Moscow. delay the next move for a mo
Chess was completely absent ment. The opening to be adopted
from the timetable for two weeks . by each Russian player against
Medical specialists in sport train each non-Russian player was
ing and diet, the famous Len already determined at Tara
ingrad light athletic trainer sovka, even before the Russian
masters left for Switzerland ! At 36 N x Pch K-N I

the same time, each was well 37 Q x Qch KxQ
equipped with a number of 38 NxR RxN
strategical surprise weapons and 39 R-K7ch R-B2
novelties in the openings, for use 4o R x Pch KxR
if a change of plans became ad 4I R x Rch K-N3
visable. 42 R x QBP B-RI
The day closed with a peaceful 43 R-QR7 B-N2
stroll, the evening meal, and a 44 RxB K-B3
film show or a concert. By 10 P . M . 45 P-KR4 K-N3
all had to be in bed. Each had a 46 R-QB7 K-B3
two or three-room apartment to 47 R x Pch K-K2
himself, with personal service 48 P-R5 K-Q2
and every comfort. The Soviet 49 R-KN6 K-K2
Sports Committee made itself 50 P-B6 P-R4
responsible for the whole of this 51 P-B7 K-Q2
by no means inexpensive pro 52 P-R6 KxP
gramme. 53 P-R7 P-R5
54 P-R8 (Q) PxP
z8g K-Q I
55 Q-R7ch
TWO LONG-DI STANCE 56 R-N8 mate
LONG-RANGE MATE S In the following position, Mrs .
ANNOUNCED Gilbert is Black, and forces mate
In the correspondence match in 35 moves in this way :
between the United States and
England in 1 879, Mrs. Gilbert of
Hartford, Connecticut, announced
a mate in 2 1 moves in a game with
Mr. Gossip, and a mate in 35 moves
in her second game with him !
William Steinitz, then Champion
of the World, confirmed the accu
racy of Mrs. Gilbert's analyses in
both cases .
Here is the position in which Mrs.
Gilbert announced mate in 2 1
moves :
42 . . . P-N4
43 P x P PxP
44 B-Q8 K-B5
45 P-K5 P-N5
46 B x P P-N6
47 P-K6ch K-B6
48 B-K5 P-N7
49 B-Q4 K-K7
50 P-K7 K-B8
5 1 K-B3 P-N8 (Q)
52 B x Q KxB
5 3 K-Q3 K-B7
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS I 33
54 K-Q2 K-B6 8 P-QR3 PxP

55 K-Q3 K-B5 g B x BP P-QN4
56 K-B4 K-K4 10 B-Q3 P-N5
57 K-N4 K-K3 I I N-QR4 PxP
58 K-B4 KxP 12 P x P B-N2
59 K-N4 K-K3 1 3 QR-N 1 Q-B2
6o K-B4 K-K4 1 4 N-K5 N-R4
6I K-B3 K-Ks 1 5 P-N4 BxN
62 K-B4 K-K6 16 P x N B-N2
63 K-B3 K-K7 17 P x P RP x P
64 K-N4 K-Q7 1 8 Q-B4
65 K-R3 K-B7
Threatens to win two pieces for a
66 K-N4 KxP
Rook by 1 9 R x B followed by 20
67 K-R5 P-R6
Q x N, as well as 1 9 B x P, winning
68 K-N6 P-R7
a Pawn.
6g K x B P-R 8 ( Q)
70 K-Q7 K-R6 ! 18 . . . B-B 1
71 P-B6 P-N7 White could win a Pawn now
72 P-B7 P-N8 (Q) with 1 9 B x P, but after 1 9 . . .
73 P-B8 (Q) Q-Q sch B-K3 20 Q x N, P x B, Black's two
74 K-K7 Q-KR2ch Bishops and his pressure on the
75 K-K6 Q- K N 3ch King Bishop file would give him
76 K-K7 Q(Q5)-Q3 good chances.
mate
19 R-N 1
a9C)
20 B-Q2
21 R-QB1
SCHLECHTER FAILS TO
22 Q-B2
DRAW CRUCIAL GAME
Carl Schlechter, considered the Threatens 23 R x P, P x R 24
greatest drawing master that ever B-B4, pinning the Queen.
lived, needed only one draw to 22 ... Q-KR4
wrest the World's Championship 23 BxP QxP
from Dr. Lasker, but he couldn't 24 R-B I PxB
get it ! 25 Q-N3ch R-B2
This was the decisive 1 oth game 26 QXB QR-KB1
of their match : 27 Q-N3
BERLIN, 1 9 1 0 But not 27 Q x N, R x P 28
Slav Defence R x R, R x R, and Black wins.
27 . . . K-RI
Lasker Schlechter 2 8 P-B4 P-N 4
White Black 2 9 Q-Q3 PxP
I P-Q4 P-Q4 30 P x P
2 P-QB4 P-QB3
3 N-KB3 Here too, White must not take
N-B3
4 P-K3 P-KN3 the Knight, as then 30 . . . P x P
5 N-B3 B-N2 wins for Black .
6 B-Q3 ()-() 30 . . . Q-R5ch
7 Q-B2 N-R3 3 1 K-K2 Q-R7ch
32 R-B2 Q-Rsch. If then 40 K-Q2, Q-R7ch

33 R-B3 41 K-K3 , R x Rch 42 K x R,
34 RxP Q-R6ch 43 K-K2, Q x R 44 Q x N.
35 R-B4 Or if (after 39 . . . Q-Rsch} 40
White avoids the tempting 35 K-B I , Q-R6ch 4 1 K-B2, R x Rch
R-B5, which looks as though it 42 Q x R, Q x R 43 Q-Rsch, K-NI
wins a piece. The continuation 44 Q x N. Finally, if (again after
would be 35 . . . N x Pch 36 Q x N, 39 . . . Q-R5ch} 40 R-N3, Q-R8ch
Q x Rch 37 K x Q, B x Q, and Black 41 K-Q2, R-B7ch, and Black wins.
wins. 40 R-BI Q-Rsch
Nor can he play 35 B-K3, when 41 K-Q2 RxR
this follows : 35 . . . N x Pch 36
B x N, R x P 37 B x Bch, K x B Here if Black pins the Queen by
38 Q-B3ch, P-K4 39 R-B7ch, 4 1 . . . R x P, he betrays his King as
K-RI, and White cannot save his the continuation would be 42
pinne d Rook. R(B8} x Bch, K-N2 43 R(B1}-B7ch,
K-R3 44 R-R8ch, K-N4 45
35 ... RxP
R-N8ch, K-R3 46 R-R7 mate.
36 BxR RxB
37 R-B8ch B-BI 42 Q x R Q x Pch
38 K-B2 Q-R7ch 43 Q-Q3 Q-B7ch
Schlechter realizes that winning a 44 K-Q1 N-Q3
Rook (which he may have counted 45 R-B5 B-R3
on) would lose the game, thus : 38 46 R-Qs K-N I
. . . Q-Rsch 39 K-N2, Q-Nsch 47 N-B5 Q-N8ch
40 R-N3, Q x R ( BI ) 41 Q-N6, 48 K-B2 Q-B7ch
and White wins. 49 K-N3 B-N2
so N-K6 Q-N7ch
39 K-KI 5 1 K-R4
Threatens to simplify by 52
R-KN5 .
51 . . . K-B2
52 N x B QxN
53 Q-QN3 K-KI
54 Q-N8ch K-B2
55 Q x P Q-N5ch
56 Q-Q4 Q-Q2ch
57 K-N3 Q-N2ch
58 K-R2 Q-B3
59 Q-Q3 K-K3
6o R-KN5 K-Q2
39 . . . Q-R8ch 61 R-Ks Q-N7ch
Schlechter misses the draw and 62 R-K2 Q-N5
the World's Championship, as this 63 R-Q2 Q-QRs
was the last game of a I o-game 64 Q-B5ch K-B2
match, and the score was 1 -o in his 65 Q-B2ch Q x Qch
favor. 66 R x Qch K-N2
The drawing line was 39 . . . 67 R-K2 N-BI
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS I35
68 K-N3 K-B3 2o Q x P R BI
-
69 R-B2ch K-N2 2 1 B-N4

70 K-N4 N-R2
7I K-B5 Resigns A good move, which not only
threatens to penetrate Black's
Curiously enough, Black's King hedgehog defence by 2 2 B-R5 , but
Pawn, the sole survivor of the eight clears the way for the passed Pawn
Pawns, has not moved at all of the Rook file.
throughout this long struggle ! Usu
ally, in those days, it was the first 21 . . . Q-B2
Pawn to make a move.
A fine combination could come
about by 2 I . . . K-Q r 22 B-R5,
29 1 B-K r 23 R x P, P x R 24 N x Pch,
K-Q2 25 N x Reb, K-Q I 26
DEVASTATING KNIGHT
R x Pch, B x R 2 7 N-K6 mate.
FORK
" The threat is sometimes stronger 22 K-Rr
than the execution, " and Tal's 23 B x P I
opponent resigned in this game,
rather than face the most devastat Delightful ! Sacrificing the Bishop
ing Knight fork ever to be seen on a allows Tal to sacrifice his Rook I
chessboard !
Here is the whole game, including 23 ... PxB
the deadly Knight fork : 24 R x Bch ! KxR
25 R-Krch K-Q I
26 Q-R4ch P-B3
MOSCOW, I957 2i Q-R6 Q-R4
Sicilian Defence
Black abandons his Rook, as
Tal Klaman
moving it allows quick mate . There
White Black is a slim chance that Tal will play
I P-K4 P-Q B4 hurriedly, and fall into this : 28
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 Q x Reb, K-B2 29 Q x P, P-N6,
3 P-Q4 PxP and Black wins.
4 NxP N-B3 But Tal is on his guard, and
5 N-QB3 P-Q3 insinuates a little zwischenzug.
6 B-KN5 B-Q2
7 Q-Q2 NxN 28 N-N3 I Q-Q4
8 QxN Q-R4 29 Q x Rch K-B2
9 BxN NP x B 3o Q x P R-K r
I O o-o-o R-B I 3 1 R-QB r B-R5
1 1 P-B4 R-KN r 32 Q-Q4 Q-N2
I 2 P-KN3 P-K3 33 R-Q r R-K3
I3 B-R3 Q-QB4 34 Q-B4ch Resigns
I4 Q-Q2 P-N4
I5 KR-K I P-N5 Black gave up, as he did not
I 6 N-K2 Q-B5 want to play 34 . . . K-Q2 (to
I7 K-N r QxP protect the Rook) when he would
I 8 N-Q4 Q-N2 see (after Tal's instantaneo us reply)
19 Q-Q3 B-K2 the following position on the board :
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES O F CHESS
Of course not I 7 . . . N x R I 8
B-Q6 followed b y 19 Q x N, and
White wins.
I 8 R-R3 P-N3
I9 Q-Q2 P-KR4
20 R-K I KR-Q I
2 I Q-B4 Q-B I
22 N-B3 QR-BI
23 N-R4 BxN
24 R x B N-B7
35 N-B5ch ! , and the Knight
attacks King, Queen, Rook and
Bishop !
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KNIGHT THREATENS
EVERYTHING IN
SIGHT
In I962, Filip brought off a
devastating Knight fork that actu
ally appeared on the board in an
Interzonal game.
The Knight now attacks both
Here is the way it came about : Rooks, threatens to win the Queen
(by 25 . . . N-Q6ch) and helps
STOCKHOLM, I962
threaten a mate on the move! What
Sicilian Defence
a Kni ght fork !
Aaron Filip White of course resigned.
White Black
I P-K4 P-QB4 Z9J
2 N-KB3 P-Q3 YOUNG'S MAGIC
3 P-Q4 PxP CHE SS FORMULA
4NxP N-KB3 Writers of chess books often
5 N-QB3 P-K3 indulge themselves by their efforts
6 B-KN5 B-K2 to make a science of an art. They
7 Q-Q2 P-QR3 try to show how games can be won
8 P-B4 Q-B2 and positions may be analyzed by
9 o-o a series of mathematical symbols
IO B-Q3 P-QN4 (or a reasonable facsimile there
I I P-QR3 QN-Q2 of) .
I 2 KR-KI B-N2 An interesting example of one
I 3 R-K3 N-B4 such explanation is th e following
I4 P-K5 PxP characteristic algebraic demonstra
I5 P x P N x Bch tion by Franklin K. Young of a
I6 Q x N N-N5 position which appears in his book
I7 B x B QxB The Major Tactics of Chess.
Here is this extraordinary game :
VIENNA, 1916
Slav Defence
Schlechter Kaufmann
White Black
I P-Q4 P-Q4
2 P-QB4 P-K3
3 N-QB3 P-QB3
4 N-B3 N-Q2
5 P-K4 P x KP
With or without the move, the 6 NxP KN-B3
White Queen Bishop Pawn is 7 B-Q3 P-QN3
defended. B o-o B-N2
9 Q-K2 B-K2
Solution :
IO B-B4 NxN
x = Any piece employed in the II B x N N-B3
given evolution. 1 2 B-B2 o-o
y = Piece attacked . 1 3 QR-Q I Q-BI
B + R + Q + R = Attacking pieces. 14 B-N5 R-K1
B + R + R = Supporting pieces. 1 5 N-K5 P-B4
B + R + Q + R>B + R + R = 16 B x N BxB
Construction of the inequality. 1 7 B x Pch ! K-BI
= Number of terms on left side.
3x = Number of terms on right side. If 1 7 . . . K x B 18 Q-R5ch, K-Nr
4X-3X = Excess of left side terms. 19 Q x Pch, K-R2 2o R-Q3, and
(B + R) - (B + R) = Value of like White wins.
terms. 18 B-R4 PxP
Q-R = Value of unlike terms. 19 P-B4 BxB
Thus the given piece is de 2o QxB R-Q I
fended, for, although the number 21 R-Q3 Q-B2
of terms contained in the left side 22 P-KN4 P-N3
of the inequality exceeds by one the 23 P-N5 B-N2
number of terms contained in the 24 KR-QI QR-BI
right side, the third term of the in The plausible 24 . . . Q-B4 allows
equality is an unlike term, of which 25 Q x R, R x Q 26 N-Q7ch, and
the -initial contained in the left side White wins the exchange.
is greater than the initial contained
in the right. 25 R x P Q-B4
26 K-N2 RxR
294
27 R x R BxN
ROOK I S 28 Q x B QxQ
INTERESTED SPECTATOR 29 P x Q K-K2
IN ROOK ENDING
Schlechter won a beautiful Rook This is the position, as Schlechter
ending from Dr. Kaufmann, in proceeds to win a Rook ending in
which Schlech:.er's Rook did not classic style-without making a
make a single move ! single move with his Rook !
dent with the Obj ective Plane ; then

if the Prime Tactical Factor can be
posted at the Point of Command,
the adverse K ing may be check
mated.
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TARRASCH HOLDS ON TO
HIS PAWNS
In a game with Gottschall,
Tarrasch kept all his Pawns until
the 96th move !
30 K-B3 R-KRI Four moves after capturing one
31 P-KR4 R-QB I of Tarrasch's Pawns, Gottschall
32 K-K4 R-B4 resigned !
33 P-N4 R-BI
34 K-Q3 R-Bz NUREMBERG, 1896
35 K-B3 R-BI F1ench Defence
36 K-N3 R-Bz
37 K-R4 R-B I Gottschall Tarrasch
White Black
If 37 . . . P-R3 38 K-N3 , R-B3
I P-K4 P-K3
39 P-Bs , P x P 40 R-QB4 followed
2 P-Q4 P-Q4
by 41 R x P wins for White.
3 N-QB3 B-N5
38 K-NS K-KI 4 P-K5 N-Kz
39 K-R6 R-Bz 5 P-B4 P-QB4
4 0 P-R4 K-Kz 6 P-QR3 B x Nch
4I P-R5 PxP 7 PxB P-Bs
42 K x P R-B3
The idea is to cramp White, and
43 P-B5 R-Bz
then put pressure on his weak Pawns.
44 K-R6 K-KI
45 K-N5 R-B I 8 N-B3 Q-R4
46 P-B6 R-Bz 9 Q-Qz N-Qz
47 K-B5 R-RI IO N-R4 N-QN3
48 P-N5 R-Bz I I Q-K3 N-R5
49 P-N6 Resigns Iz B-Qz Q-N4
I3 B-Kz N-KN3
After 49 P x P 50 K x P,
14 N-B3 N-Kz
R-B I 5 1 P-B7 followed by 52
15 N-R4 N-KN3
K-N7 wins.
I6 N-B3 N-Kz
1 7 N-R4 N-KN3
295 18 N-B3 Q-R4
YOUNG'S FORMULA FOR 19 o--o Q-Q I
CHECKMATE zo Q-Bz N-Kz
Franklin K. Young gives us this 2 1 N-R4 N-KN3
formula for achieving checkmate : 22 N-B3 N-Kz
Given a Geometric Symbol Posi 23 N-R4 N-KN3
tive or a combination of Geometric 24 N-B3 B-Qz
Symbols Positive which is coinci- 25 K-RI N-N3
26 QR-K 1 Q-K2 free to help out in the attack on

27 B-B1 N-QR5 Black's Queen Rook Pawn.
28 Q-K3 P-KR3 55 K-B2 K-K1
29 P-N3 QR-B 1 S6 K-N2 K-B1
30 N-N1 P-KR4 ! 57 K-B2 K-N2
This prevents 3 1 P-N4 followed s8 K-N2 K-N3
by 32 P-Bs . as well as this possi 59 N-B3 R-QB1
bility : 3 1 B-Rs followed by 32 6o N-Q2 R-B3
P-Bs . P x P 33 P-K6, B x P 34 61 N-N1
B x N, and White wins. The Pawn is now adequately
protected, so Tarrasch decides to
3 1 N-R3 Q-B 1 do a bit of tacking, to induce care
32 B-B3 N-K2 lessness.
33 B-N2 N-KB4 61 . . . R-BI
The Knight finally occupies the 62 N-Q2 K-R3
desired square, but it turns out to 63 N-B3 N-B2
be not so strong as it looked. 64 K-B2 N-N4
65 K-N2 R-B3
34 Q-Q2 Q-K2 66 N-Q2 R (B3)-R3
67 N-N1 R(R5) -R4
And here, Tarrasch points out, he
68 K-B2 N-B2
should instead have maneuvered
69 N-Q2 B-Rs
his Queen Rook to N8, by way of
70 B-B I N-N4
B3 and N3 .
7 1 K-N2
35 N-Ns Q-Q 1 Tarrasch now embarks on a
36 B-R3 P-KN3 combination which, he says, could
37 B x N NP x B not be calculated accurately in
38 R-K3 Q-K2 every variation, but which offered
39 Q-N2 K-Q 1 him good winning chances. Every
40 B-Q2 K-B2 one in the large audience though,
41 R-RI K-N 1 considered it suicidal.
42 P-R4 R-B3 Here is the position :
43 R(K3)-K1 R-N3
44 K-N 1 B-K 1
45 K-R1 R-N4
46 K-N 1 N-N3
47 Q-K2 R-R4
48 B-B1 R-Rs
49 B-N2 N-R1
50 R(Kr )-N 1 N-B2
5 1 R-R2 N-N4
52 R(N1 )-R1 B-Q 2
53 K-N2 K-B 1
54 Q-K3 K-Q1
Black intends to bring his King 71 . . . B x PI

over to KN 3 to guard the Rook The first Pawn comes off the
Pawn. His King Rook then will be board, after 7 1 moves !
72 R x B N x RP This is the position

73 B x N
But not the plausible 73 R(B2)
R2 as then 73 . . . N-B7 at once.
73 ... RxB
74 RxR QxR
75 Q-KI P-N4
76 N-N 1
If 76 Q-QNI , Q-R5 77 Q-N4,
Q x Q 7S P x Q. R-R5, and Black
wins neatly, as the Pawn may not be
protected, and Black will have three
96 Q x RP
passed Pawns after its capture.
The first Black Pawn comes off
Q-N6 the board, after 96 moves !
76 . . .
7 7 Q-QB1 R-R7 96 . . . P-N7
7S R x R Q x Rch 97 Q-RSch K-Q2
79 K-B3 K-N2 l 9S Q-KBS P-RS (Q)
99 Q x Pch K-B3
This is necessary to prevent So 100 Q x Pch K-N4
Q-R3 followed by perpetual check Res igns
if the Knight is captured. A highly interesting game, de
The King move is better than this spite its great length.
line : 79 . . . P-R4 So Q-R3, Q x Q
S 1 N x Q, P-N5 S2 N-B2, P-N6
S3 N-R3, and the Pawns are Z97
harmless. SUCCEEDS
So Q-R3 FIVE TIMES IN A ROW ;
FAILS
The only way to create difficul EIGHT TIMES IN A ROW
ties for Black. Sammy Reshevsky won the title
So . . . QxN of Champion of the United States
S 1 Q-K7 Q-BSch five times in succession !
S2 K-K3 Q-KSch From 1 957 on, he failed to win
S3 K-B3 Q x BPch the title eight times in succession !
S4 K-N2 Q-Q7ch
S5 K-R3 Q-R4
S6 Q-B6ch K-B 1 zg8
S7 Q-RSch K-K2 BOBBY
SS Q-B6ch K-K 1 WINS U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP
S9 Q-RSch K-Q 2 EIGHT TIMES IN
9o Q-KBS Q-Q I ! SUCCESSION
91 Q-B5 Q-QN 1 Bobby Fischer won the ti tle of
92 Q-N4 K-K1 Champion of the United States
93 Q-B5 Q-N2 eight times in succession !
94 Q-R3 P-N5 His scores were phenomenal, as
95 Q-KB3 P-N6 the following tables show :
Year Games Wins Draws Losses I3 N x N PxN

1 5 7 I3 8 5 0 I 4 QR-Q I
I 958 II 6 5 0 On 14 R x P, B-B4 I 5 Q x R,
I959 II 7 4 0 B x R, and Black wins.
I96o II 7 4 0
I962 II 6 4 I I4 . . . B-Q3 !
I963 II II 0 0 I5 Q x R QxB
I965 II 8 I 2 I 6 P-KB4 Q-R5
I966 II 8 3 0 Taking the Pawn with the Queen
90 6I 26 3 loses by I7 R-KBI , while if 16 . . .
B x P, the reply I 7 R-Q8 should
In all, Bobby lost only three
win for White.
games out of go played. There were
no losses in six of the tournaments, I7 R x P
and in one of the six (in I963) he If 1 7 P-KN3 instead, Black wins
did not allow a single draw to be by I 7 . . . B-B4ch I8 K-RI,
scored against him ! B-KN5 19 R-KB1 , Q-R4, and
A superb achievement ! White loses his Queen as a start
- .
17 ... B-KR6 !
:199
I8 QXR B-B4Ch
19 K-R 1 B x Pch !
RETI GIVES UP
20 KxB Q-N5ch
FOUR ROOKS IN TWO
21 K-B 1 Q B6ch
SUCCESSIVE GAMES
-
22 K-K 1 Q-B7 mate

In the match between Euwe and
Reti, played in I920, Reti sacrificed The second game :
both Rooks in one game, and fol
lowed it up in the next by sacrificing AMSTERDAM, 1920
both Rooks again, winning both Dutch Defence
games brilliantly !
Reti Euwe
Here are the two games :
White Black
I P-Q4 P-KB4
AMSTERDAM, I920
2 P-K4 PxP
Two Knights' Defence
3 N-QB3 N-KB3
Euwe Reti 4 B-KN5 P-KN3
White Black 5 P-B3 PxP
I P-K4 P-K4 6 NxP B-N2
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 7 B-Q3 P-B4
3 B-B4 N-B3 8 P-Q5 Q-N3
4 P-Q4 PxP 9 Q-Q2 Q x NP
5 o--o - NxP 10 R-QNI NxP
6 R-KI P-Q4 Black must have depen ded on
7 BxP QxB this move to save hi m. If, for
8 N-B3 Q-QR4 example, I I R x Q, B x N wins for
9NxP NxN Black.
Io Q x N P-KB4
I I B-N5 Q-B4 ! u N x N!
I 2 Q-Q8ch K-B2 But this unexpected offer of
both Rooks must have disturbed Threatens to win at once by

his equanimity l 10 . B x Nch I I P x B, Q x Q.
. .
II ... Q x Rch 1o N-Q2 QxB

1 2 K-B2 QxR u PxN o-o
13 B x P 12 P-QR3 N-N5 l
Reti intends 1 4 Q-K2 next, with 13 P-KN3 Q-B3
a threat of mate in two. If then 14 PxB
14 . . . P-Q3, he administers it in This is the position :
three moves by 1 5 N-B7ch, K-Q2
1 6 Q-K6ch, K x N 1 7 Q x P mate.
13 ... P-Q3
14 BxP N-B3
15 B-N5 B-Q2
16 BxN PxB
17 Q-K2ch Res igns
If 1 7 . . . K-QI 18 B-B7ch, K-B1

19 Q-R6 is mate, or if I 7 . . . K-B2
r8 N-N5ch, K-N 1 19 N-K7ch,
K-B 1 20 N-N8ch, K x N 21
Q-B4ch, and mate next move.
14 . . .
1 5 K-Q I
300 The idea is to force the Queen ofi
BRONSTEIN DREAMS UP the diagonal leading to White's
A GAME Queen square.
Masters have produced beautiful
1 6 Q-N3 B-K3
chess with their eyes open, and
1 7 Q-R3 N-K6ch
often with their eyes shut-when
18 K-BI Q-K8ch
they played blindfold. But Bron
19 N-QI Q x N mate
stein once went beyond that.
Bronstein dreamed a brilliant
little game ! Here is the way it went : 3 01
CANAL SACRIFICES O N
MOSCOW, 1961 A GRAND SCALE
Nimzo-Indian Defence In 13 moves Canal sacrifices both
Rooks a:nd his Queen-and then
Bronstein Bronstein mates on his 1 4th move !
White Black
I P-Q4 N-KB3 BUDAPEST, 1 934
2 P-QB4 P-K3 Center Counter
3 N-QB3 B-N5
4 B-N5 P-KR3 Canal Amateur
5 B- R4 Q-K2 White Black
6 N-B3 P-Q3 (Simultaneous)
7 Q-R4ch N-B3 I P-K4
8 P-Qs Px P 2 PxP
9PxP Q-Ks ! 3 N-QB3
4 P-Q4 P-QB3 303

5 N B3
- B-N5 PAWN BECOMES KNIGHT
6 B-KB4 P-K3 IN SEVEN MOVES
7 P-KR3 BxN Goetz effected a remarkable finish
B QxB B N5
-
in a mere seven moves . He trans
g B-K2 N Q2
-
formed a Pawn into a Knight, and
10 P-R3 o-o-o mated White.
This is the position : The opposition was weak, but it
had to be that to bring about the
fastest under-promotion on record.
Here is the little game :
STRASBOURG, I 88o
King's Gambit
Amateur Goetz
White Black
I P-K4 P-K4
2 P-KB4 PxP
3 P-QN3 Q-R5ch
4 P-N3 PxP
u PxB! Q x Rch 5 P-KR3
12 K-Q2 QxR Loses instantly, but there aren't
13 Q x Pch ! PxQ any good moves.
14 B-R6 mate
5 ... P-N7ch
A man might play a million 6 K_:Kz Q x KPch
games of chess, and never duplicate 7 K-B2 P x R(N)
Canal's feat. mate !
302 304
FORMER WORLD CHAMPION JOURNOD'S MIGHTY
WINS ONE GAME OUT OF I 7 LITTLE PAWN
Smyslov, former Chess Champion Journod brought about a posi
of the World, m anaged to win only tion in one of his games in which a
one single game out of the 1 7 he single, isolated Pawn of his was
played at the tournament held at more than a match for his oppo
Buenqs Aires in 1 970 ! His strange nent's King, Queen, Rook, Knight
score, totalling 9 points, consisted of and Bishop !
one win, 16 drawn games and no This is how it happened :
losses.
En passant, we might mention PARIS, I 86o
Fischer's score in the same tourna Sicilian Defence
ment, which was truly phenomenal.
Bobby racked up 13 wins, allowed Chapelle Journod
three draws and suffered no losses. White Black
He came in first with 15 points, 3t I P-K4 P-QB4
points ahead of Tukmakov, his 2 B-B4 P-K3
nearest rival ! 3 N-K2 P-Q4
4 PxP PxP his opponent s Queen, metaphoric

'
5 B-N5ch N-B3 ally and literally !

6 o--o B-Q3
7 R-K1 B-K3 MUNICH, 1 9 3 1
8 N-N3 N-B3 Slav Defence
g N-B5 o--o
1o N x B QxN Amateur Koch
IIBxN PxB White Black
1 2 Q-B3 QR-K1 I P-Q4 P-Q4
2 P-QB4 P-QB3
Threatens 13 . . . B-N5 1 4 R x R,
3 B-B4 PxP
R x R, and White must give up his
4 P-K3 B-K3
Queen or be mated.
5 N-KB3 N-Q2
13 R-K3 P-Q5 6 Q-B2 P-QN4
14 Q-N3 7 P-QN3 Q-R4ch
Looks plausible as Black's Queen
,
8 Q-B3 P-N5
is u nprotected .
9 Q-B2 Px P
14 . . . Px R! 1 0 Q x BP B-Q4
This must have given Chapelle a I I Q-B I
j olt ! The only safe square, out of 20
15 Q x Q P-K7 at the Queen's disposal.
Here is the pos ition on the board : II ... PxP
12 QN-Q2 P-N6
13 Q-N2 P-K3
14 R-Q 1 B-R6
15 Q-R 1 P-N7
Resign s
Such a scene deserves a diagram :
16 Resigns
The lone, isolated Pawn holds all
White's forces at bay. The only
move to stop it from Queening is
16 Q-K5, when I6 . . . B-Q4 in
reply forces \Vhite to give up his
Queen for the Pawn.
Jo6
JOS ZUKER TORT,
WHITE' S QUEEN IS THE MAN OF MANY
C ORNERED TALENTS
Koch effected a unique finish in The most remarkable man that
one of his games when a couple of
, chess ever produced was Johannes
his bloodthirsty Pawns cornered Z u kertort .
Zukertort spoke English, Italian, at the age of 30 he was a military

Spanish, French, Greek, Latin, veteran, having engaged in the
Hebrew and Russian ; and he was Danish, Austrian and French cam
well acquainted with Turkish, Ara paigns of the Prussian army. At the
bic and Sanskrit. He learned Italian battle of Gravelotte, every other
in order to read The Divine Comedy, officer in his regiment was either
Spanish in order to read Don killed or wounded. The regiment
Quixote, and Sanskrit in order to was exposed to the enemy's fire for
trace the origin of chess ! six hours without being able to
He wrote extensively on philol retUrn a shot. They went into
ogy and theology ; took a deep action 1 , 8oo strong, of whom only
interest in all questions of social sci 400 survived. During the Prussian
ence, and wrote on prison discipline. wars, Zukertort served with the
In addition he was a pupil of the rank of Lieutenant, won nine
noted piano instructor Moscheles, medals for bravery, was severely
and from 1 862 to 1 866 he was wounded twice and once left for
music critic of the Silesian journal. dead on the field of battle !
He obtained the degree of M.D. at Zukertort died at the age of 46 l
Breslau in I 865, having specialized " A man, " said the profound Bacon,
in chemistry and physiology. He " may be young in years, but old in
was on the staff of Bismarck's paper hours. "
the A llegemeine Zeitung, and was
at the same time editor of one of the
307
leading political j ournals of the day.
It may also be mentioned that he BLINDFOLD ARTISTRY
was an expert swordsman, the best AT I:.Z
domino player in Berlin, one of the Morphy was an accomplished
finest whist players of his time and blindfold player at the age of 1 2 1
so good a pistol shot that he was Here is a specimen of his skill :
certain to hit the Ace of Hearts at
15 paces ! NEW ORLEANS, 1 849
In the field of chess, he played Giuoco Piano
matches for the World Champion
ship with Steinitz ; he won the Paul Ernest
London 1 883 Tournament (one of Morphy Morphy
the greatest in the whole history White Black
of chess) in which he came out I P-K4 P K4
-
three points ahead of the then title 2 N-KB3 N-QB3

holder Steinitz ; he broke the world's 3 B-B4 B-B4
record for blindfold play by con 4 P-B 3 P-Q3
ducting I6 games simultaneously ; 5 o-o N-B3
he wrote several books on the game, 6 P-Q4 PxP
and edited the Neue Berliner Schach 7 PxP B-N3
zeitung and The Chess Monthly for 8 P-KR3 P-KR3
many years ; with Anderssen alone g N-B3 o-o
he contested over 6ooo games, 10 B K3

- R-KI
starting as a Rook-odds player ! 1 1 P-Q5 BxB
One would suppose that his intel 12 P x N B-N3
lectual labors were continuous, but 1 3 P-Ks
Even at the age of 1 2 , Morphy Fox's winning idea was as follows :

learned that a sacrifice of a Pawn or
two opened up lines for an attack by 32 . . . B-R3
his pieces. And very few knew how 33 Q x B R x Pch
to defend against a Morphy attack ! 34 K x R Q-R3ch
35 N-R5 R x Nch
13 ... PxP
36 R-R3 Q-Bsch
1 4 Q-N3 R-K2
37 K-R1 R x Rch
1 5 B x Pch RxB
38 P x R Q-B6ch
16 N x P Q-K1
39 K-R2 B-Q3ch
17 P x P !
40 K-Nr Q-N6ch
This lures the Bishop away, 4 1 K-B I Q x Pch
preventing it from moving to K3. 42 K-K2 Q-N7ch
17 . . . BxP 43 K-K3 Q-N4ch
I 8 QR-K I B-R3 44 K-K2 Q-Nsch
The alternative 18 . . . N-K5 19 45 K-B r Q-B6ch
N x R, Q x N 20 Q x Q ch, K x Q 46 K-K r B-N6ch
2 I N x N, B-R3 2 2 R-Q I , B x R 47 K-Q2 B-Bsch
23 K x B, leads to a lingering but 48 K-K r Q x Nch
sure death. 4 9 K-B r Q-B6ch
1 9 N-N6 Q-Q I 5o K-K r Q-Noch
2o R-K7 Resigns 5 1 K-Br Q-R6ch
52 K-K 1 Q-Rsch
Jo8 53 K-K2 Q-R7ch
LASKER 54 K-BI Q-R8ch
CUTS COMBINATION TO 55 K-K2 Q-N7ch
ONE MOVE 56 K-Q3 Q-B6ch
A. W. Fox was awarded a gold 57 K-Q4 Q-K6 mate
medal for his game against Lawrence
in the Cable match of 1 9 1 1 . The Dr. Lasker's comment was :
award . was based on an unusually The Lawrence-Fox game of the
brilliant combination 28 moves Cable match has been rated very
deep ! highly. It is not a bad game, but
In commenting on the game, Dr. to say that " it will hold its own
Lasker showed a simple one-move with the most masterly examples
win ! of international chess " is like
This was the critical position : shooting with a big gun where a
small pistol would do. In the
position on the diagram, Fox
made his 32nd move B-R3, of
which it was said that " it will be
rated as one of the finest endings
of over the board play. " White
should have replied 33 Q x B,
and the analysis of Fox goes 22
moves, that of Barry 28 moves,
to show a win for Black in that
variation. Such long-winded anal
ysis has weak points. B ut the
success of the sacrifice does not with a draw ! Yet Yates was the
prove it to be a masterpiece. only one to defeat Nimzovich, the
The first question is, whether it is winner of first prize.
sound. That may be answered in Here is the position :
the affirmative, in conferring the
benefit of the doubt. The second
question is whether it is necessary
in order to arrive at the win. And
here the answer is surely a nega
tive one. It is by no means the
best method of winning. Against
3 2 . . . Q-Q3, menacing 33 . . .
R x Pch followed by 3 4 . . . R-R4

mate, White had no sufficient
defence. If, for ;_nstance, 33
R-B4, B-K6, and t 1e White game
falls to pieces, Black wins as he
wants to. Yates, who was White, played :
56 Q-B4ch
3 09 The simple win is 56 Q-B 2, P-R6

57 K-B3 , K-R8 5 8 Q-N3, P-N8 ( Q )
CURI OSITIES FROM
59 Q x Pch, Q-R7 6o Q x Qch, etc.
CARLSBAD
The Carlsbad I929 Tournament 56 . . . K-R6
was full of curious incidents, as 57 Q-Q3ch
witness these :
But definitely not 57 Q-B2
A spectator offered 500 crowns in
,
P-N: . ':J) I 58 Q x Q and .dlack is

the 1 4th round to the master first
sta ' ..:mate.
winning his game in that round.
The winner of the prize, strangely 57 . . . K-R7
enough, was Tartakover, who up to 58 K-B4
that time had not chalked up a Here too, 58 Q-B2 is decisive.
single victory ! To add to the sur
prise, his opponent was the formid 58 . . . P-NS (Q)
able Bogolyubov ! 59 Q x Qch KxQ
Tartakover, who lost only three 6o K-N4 K-N7 !
games in a field of 22 strong con
testants, could not do better than The key move ! If instead the
tie for 1 2th, 1 3th, qth and 1 5th natural-looking 6o . K-B7, then
. .
places ! 61 P-B4 wins.

Maroczy overstepped the time 61 K x P
limit in a game against Samisch, in
Forced, as 6I P-B4 loses after
a drawn position. This has hap
61 . P-R6, and Black is first to get
pened before to masters, but in this
. .
instance the players had fought for a new Queen.

I4 hours ! 61 . . . K-B6
Yates, a Queen ahead in an 62 P-B4 K-Q5
ending, allowed Marshall to escape Drawn
q8 WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
JIO 24 P x Pch PxP

RUBINSTEIN, 2S R-Q2 P-N4
THE ENDGAME MAGICIAN 26 P-QN3 P-KR4
Rubinstein, playing a Rook and 27 P-N3 P-Bs
Pawn ending against Mattison, 28 R-K2ch K-B4
extracted a win from such a " hope 29 R-K4 P x NP
lessly drawn " position that the 30 RP x P R-KN1
editors of the Tournament Book 3 I R-B4ch K-K3
united in the assertion that had this 32 R-K4ch K-Q2
happened 300 years earlier, Rubin 33 P-KN4 R-KBI I
stein would have been burned at the Ready to meet 34 P x P with
stake for being in league with evil 34 . . . R x Pch followed by 3S
spirits ! R-R6, winning a Pawn.
Here is the game :
34 R-K3 P-Rs !
CARLSBAD, 1929 3S P-R4 P x RP
Ruy Lopez 36 PxP R-K I
37 K-Q2 RxR
Mattison Rubinstein 38 KxR P-Q4 ! !
White Black Resigns
I P-K4 P-K4
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 The finish could be : 39 P x P,
3 B-Ns P-QR3 P--'R6 40 K-B2, P-R7 41 K-N2,
4BxN QP x B P-Bs 42 P-Ns, P-B6 43 P-N6,
S P-Q4 PxP P-B7 44 P-N7 , P-B8 (Q) 4S
6QxP QxQ P-N8 (Q) , Q-N8ch, and Black mates
7 NxQ B-Q3 next move .
8 B-K3 P-QB4
9 N-K2 P-KB3 JII
10 B-B4 B-K3 FOUR QUEENS
II B x B PxB IN A WORLD CHAMPI ONSHIP
1 2 N-B4 B-B2 GAME
13 N-QB3 N-K2 The only time four Queens
14 o-o-o o--o-o appeared on the board in a World's
I S N(B3)-Qs KR-Kr Championship Match was in the
I6 P-KB3 NxN 1 1 th game of the Capablanca
17 N x N BxN Alekhine Match in I927.
18 R x B R-K4 Naturally, this state of affairs did
19 KR-Q I RxR not last long.
2o R x R K-Q2 Here is the game :
By no stretch of the imagination
could Mattison picture anything BUENOS AIRES, 1927
but an easy draw in the position. Cambridge Springs Defence
2 1 P-QB4 P-KN3
Capablanca Alekhine
22 K-B2 K-K3
White Black
23 K-B3 P-B4 !
I P-Q4 P-Q4
This will secure an open file for 2 P-QB4 P-K3
Black's Rook. 3 N-QB3 N-KB3
4 B-Ns QN-Q2 38 B-N2 BxB

5 P-K3 P-B3 39 K x B Q-Q4ch
6 N-B3 Q-R4 40 K-R2 Q-KB4
7 N-Q2 B-Ns 4 1 R-B3 Q-QB4
8 Q-B2 PxP 42 R-B4 K-R2
gBxN NxB 43 R-Q4 Q-B3
Io N x P Q-B2 44 Q x RP P-B6
I I P-QR3 B-K2 45 Q-R7 K-NI
I 2 B-K2 o-o 46 Q-K7 Q-N3
I3 o-o B-Q2
I 4 P-QN4 P-QN3 If 46 . . . P-B7 47 R__:Q8ch, R x R
I S B-B3 QR-B r 48 Q x Rch, K-R2 49 Q-K7, Q-K3
I6 KR-Q I KR-Q 1 so Q-B7, and White forces the draw.
I 7 QR-BI B-K r 47 Q-Q7
I S P-N3 N-Q4 Capablanca could have drawn
I 9 N-N2 Q-N I here (according to Alekhine) by
20 N-Q3 B-N4 47 R-Q7 ! , Q X Pch 48 K-R r , Q-R7
2 I R-N I Q-N2 49 R-Q8ch, R x R so Q x Rch,
22 P-K4 NxN K-R2 5 1 Q-KBS, and Black
23 Q x N Q-K2 must take the draw by perpetual, as
24 P-KR4 ! White 's KBP is invulnerable.
After a great deal of j ockeying
for position, Capablanca finds an 47 . . . Q-B4
opportunity to put Black's K ing 48 R-K4 Q x Pch
Bishop out of play. 49 K-R3 Q-B8ch
so K-R2 Q-B7ch
24 . . . B-R3 5 1 K-R3 R-B r
2 S N-Ks P-N3 52 Q-B6 Q-B8ch
26 N-N4 B-N2 53 K-R2 Q-B7ch
27 P-Ks P-KR4 54 K-R3 Q-B8ch
28 N-K3 P-QB4 55 K-R2 K-R2
29 NP x P 56 Q-B4
If 29 QP X P, p X p 30 R X R, Taking the Pawn lets Black win
Q x R 3 I P x P, Q-B2, and Black nicely by 56 Q x BP, Q-B7ch
has a fine free game. S7 K-R I , R-Q I sB Q-K I , Q-B6ch
29 . .
. PxP 59 K-R2, R-QB, and White must
3 0 P-Qs PxP give up his Queen to avoid mate.
31 N x P Q-K3 Q-B7ch
s6 . . .
But not 31 . . . Q x KP 32 Q x Q, 5 7 K-R3 Q-NS !
BxQ 33 N-K7ch, winning the 58 R-K2
exchange. Here if 58 P-N4, P-B7 ! 59
32 N-B6ch BxN Q x P, R-K r ! , and White is help
33 PxB R x Rch less :
34 RxR B-B3 If 6o R x R, P x P mate.
35 R-KI Q-B4 If 6o R N 4 R-K6 mate.
- , .
36 R-K3 P-Bs ! If 6o Q-K2, P x Pch 6 1 Q x P,

37 P-R4 P-R4 Q-R8ch wins a Rook.
I SO WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
sB ... Q-B8ch 9 P-QR3 P-QR3

59 K-R2 QxP IO B-Q2 P-QN3
6o P-Rs R-QI I I o-o-o B-Q2
6r P-R6 Q-BS ! I 2 K-NI N-QR4
62 Q-K4 R-Q7 I J R-QBI N-N6
63 RxR PxR 1 4 R-B2 P-B4
64 P-R7 P-Q8 (Q) rs P-Qs R-KI
6S P-RS (Q) I6 P-KR4 P-QN4
And this position was reached : Following Nimzovich' s precepts,
Black undermines the base of
White's Pawn chain.
N-Qs
This also is in line with Nimzo
vich's admonition to meet a wing
attack by play in the center.
I8 N x N PxN
I 9 N-K4 PxP
20 N x Nch
If instead 20 R x P, B-N4 2 1
R x P (or 2 1 N x Nch, B x N , and
65 . . . Q-N8ch Black wins the exchange) B x Bch
66 K-R3 Q(Q8)-B8ch 2 2 R x B, N x N, and Black wins a
Resigns piece.
If 67 Q-N2, Q-RS is mate. 20 . . . BxN
2I B x P B x NP
22 B-Q3 B-B6
3 1 :Z
23 R-R3 B x QP
CAPABLANCA GETS
24 P-Rs B-K3
QUEEN ODDS
2S R-N3 P-N3
Capabl anca once received the
26 P-B4 B-Rs
odds of a Queen !
2 7 R-Nr K-RI
Here is the game of a lifetime :
28 P-Bs BxP
29 B x B PxB
HAVANNA, I 893
Jo B-R6 R-KNI
Petoff Defence
3 I R(Bz)-N2 RxR
(Remove White's Queen) 32 R x R Q-BJ
Iglesias Capablanca
The Queen has done nothing to
White Black this point, but decides now to come
I P-K4 P-K4 into the game and put an end to
2 N-KB3 N-KB3 any possible threats.
J NxP NxP
4 P-Q4 P-Q3 33 B-N7ch QxB
5 N-KB3 B-K2 34 RxQ KxR
6 B-Q3 N-KB3 3S K-B2 K-B3
7 P-B4 o--o 36 K-Q3 K-K4
8 N-B3 N-B3 37 P-R6 P-Bs
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS 15I
38 K-K2 K-K5 2o N-K4 NxN

Resigns 21 P x N B-K3
The explanation : Capablanca did 22 R-Q I B-Bs
get Queen odds, but this game was 23 R(K2)-Q2 R-N2
played when he was less than five 24 R-Q8 RxR
years old ! 25 R x Reb K-B2
Capablanca was the only master 26 N-R4 P-KN 4
to play the Petroff Defence, and 27 N-B5 R-QB2
then abandon it at the age of five ! 28 P-N4 K-N3
29 R-Q6 B-K7
3o R-Q8 BxP
31 3 3 1 R-N8ch K-R4
COMPUTER PLAYS I N 32 N N7 ch
- K-R3
TOURNAMENT MacHack VI avoids 32 . . . K-N3
An electronic computer played in 33 N-K8ch, K-B2 34 R-N7 ch and ,
the Massachusetts Amateur Cham Black loses the exchange.

pionship at Boston in 1 966. It
played against human beings under 33 N-B5ch K-R4
regular tournament conditions, with 34 N-N7ch K-R3
a time limit. Drawn
The computer, called MacHack
VI, played all five rounds, and 314
ended up with a score of t-4!
U.S. C OMPUTER MATED
Here is the one game it drew :
IN I9 MOVES
A match of four games was played
BOSTON, 1 966
in 1 967 between an American
Two Knights' Defence
computer and a Soviet one.
Conroy MacHack VI The Soviet computer won two
White Black games, and two games were drawn.
I P-K4 P-K4 Here is the first game of the
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 match :
3 B-B4 N-B3 STANFORD, CALI F. AND MOS
4 N-N5 P-Q4 COW (BY TELEGRAPH) , 1967
5 PxP N-QR4 Three Knights' Game
6 B-Ns ch P-B3
7 Px P PxP U . S . S .R. u.s.
8 Q-B3 Q-Q4 White Black
gQxQ NxQ I P-K4 P-K4
10 B-K2 B-KB4 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
I I P-Q3 B-N s ch 3 N-B3 B-B4
12 B-Q2 B x Bch 4NxP NxN
13 N x B s P-Q4 B-Q3
1 4 P-QR3 P-B3 6 PxN BxP
15 N(N5)-B3 QR-N 1 7 P-B4 B x Nch
1 6 P-QN4 N-N2 8 PxB N-B3
17 N-B6 g P-K5 N-Ks
18 KR-K 1 N x Bch 10 Q-Q3 N-B4
1g R x N N-Q3 1 1 Q-Q5 N-K3
This leads to trouble. A better followed by 14 B-B6 wins material

move was simply I I . P-Q3. . . for White.
1 2 P-Bs N-N4 10 P-Rs P x NI
A bad move-even for a com- II P x Q R x Rch
puter. I 2 B-B1
1 3 P-K P-KB3 Of course 12 K-K2 instead runs
14 P x N P x NP into a Knight fork losing the Queen.
IS R x P R-BI I2 . . . R x Bch
Of course not r s . . . R x R, as 1 3 K-Q2 R x Pch
White then mates in two. 14 K-Q I R x NP
16 R x P P-B3 I S Q-QR3 R-N8ch
1 7 Q-Q6 RxP 1 6 K-B2 R x BI
1 8 R-N8ch R-B r This gets rid of a Bishop that
19 Q x R mate might cause trouble-at a little
cost, to be sure.
315
17 Q-R8ch K-Q2
MASTERS
18 R x R N-Q4
PLAY BLINDFOLD MATCH
19 Q x P N x NP
A match between two masters,
20 K-NI P-K3
both playing blindfold, is rather
2 I R-BI N-Bs !
unusual. Schlechter and Mieses
played such a match in 1909. The Takes advantage of the fact that
match was for the best out of three White may not capture the passed
games, and Mieses proved to be the Pawn.
victor, winning two games and 22 Q-R8 P-N3
drawing one. The quality of the 23 P-Qs PxP
games, considering the circum 24 R-Q I P-Qs
stances, was amazingly high. 2 S R x Pch NxR
Here is the third game of the 26 Q-Qsch B-Q3
match : 27 Q x N (Q4) R-KI
28 Q-Qs P-QB3
STUTTGART, I909 29 Q x KBPch R-K2
Center Counter 3o Q-N8 R-K8ch
Schlechter Mieses 3I K-B2 R-K7ch
White Black 32 K-Q3 RxP
P-Q4 33 Q x Pch K-B x
I P-K4
2 PxP QxP 34 K-B3 B-K4ch
3 P-Q4 N-KB3 3 S K-Q3
4 N-QB3 Q-QR4 But not 35 K-N4, B-Qs . and
s N-B3 N-B3 White's Kin g is in a mating net.
6 B-Q2 B-Ns
3S R-Q7ch
7 N-QNs Q-N3 .
3 6 K-K4 R-Qsch
8 P-QR4 BxN 37 K-B3 P-Ns
9 QxB P-QR3 38 K-Kz R-Q7ch
Mieses avoids 9 . . N x P 10
. 39 K-Br P-N6
N x N, Q x N II Q x P, Q-Ksch 40 Q-N8ch K-B2
1 2 Q x Q, N x Q, when 1 3 B-Nsch 4I Q-B7ch R-Q2
42 Q x N
43 Q-N3
44 Q-B2 White is not interested in cap
turing the Knight He is interested
.
A brilliant move which forces in getting at the King.

resignation. If 45 Q x R, P-N8(Q)ch
46 K-K2 (on 46 K-B2, Q-N3 I2 ... P-B4
brings about the exchange of I3 P-R5ch K-R3
Queens) Q-N4ch, and White must I4 N x KPch P-N4
exchange Qu eens .
I5 P x P e.p. mate!
45 Resigns
An extraordinary finish-check
mate by capturing a Pawn en
3 16
passant !
ONE MATE
IN A MILLION
Gaudersen effected a checkmate
that is probably unique in the litera 3 17
ture of chess.
UNIQUE COUP DE GRACE
This is how he did it :
MOJPhy once finished a game by
MELBOURNE, I 928 Castling, and with that move mated
French Defence his opponent.
Here is his brilliancy :
Gaudersen Paul
White Black
I P-K4 P-K3 NEW ORLEANS, I858
2 P-Q4 P-Q4 TwQ Knights ' Defence
3 P-K5 P-QB4
4 P-QB3 PxP (Remove White's Queen Rook)
5 PxP B-N5ch Morphy Amateur
6 N-B3 N-QB3 White Black
7 N-B3 KN-K2 I P-K4 P-K4
8 B-Q3 0-0 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
9 B x Pch KxB 3 B-B4 N-B3
IO N-N5ch K-N3 4 N-N5 P-Q4
I I P-K N x QP 5 Px P NxP
6 N x BP KxN
The position at this point :
7 Q-B3ch K-K3
8 N-B3 N-Q5
9 B x Nch K-Q3
IO Q-B7
Threatens I I N-K4 - mate on

the move .
IO . . . B-K3
II B x B NxB
I 2 N-K4ch K-Q4
I3 P-B4ch KxN
I4 Q x N Q-Q5
154 WOND ERS AND CURIOSITIES O F CHESS
This is the position : This is the situation :
1 5 Q-N4ch K-Q6 Io P x P BP x P
I 7 Q-K2ch K-B7 n N x PI PxN
I 8 P-Q3ch KxB 1 2 Q x Qch KxQ
I9 o-o mate ! I 3 o-o-och I Resigns
Morphy never painted a prettier Black must get out of check, and
picture on a chessboard ! his Rook falls .
319
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FIRST GAME TO BE
CURI OUS CASTLING COUP AWARDED BRILLIANCY
A curious Castling coup is this PRIZE
one, in which there is a simultaneous The first tournament game ever to
attack by King an d Rook l Feuer's be honored with a prize for brilli
Rook checks the King, while his ancy was played at New York in
King at the same time strikes at a 1 8 76, and was won by Bird against
Rook ! Mason.
Here is the little game : Here is the score :
LIEGE, I 934 NEW YORK, I876
Ruy Lopez French Defence
Feuer O 'Kelly Bird Mason
White Black White Black
I P-K4 P-K4 I P-K4 P-K 3
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 2 P-Q4 P-Q4
3 B-N5 P-QR3 3 N-QB3 N-KB3
4 B-R4 P-Q3 4 PxP PxP
5 B x Nch PxB 5 N-B3 B-Q3
6 P-Q4 P-B3 6 B-Q3 o-o
7 N-B3 R-NI 7 o-o P-KR3
8 Q-Q3 N-K2 8 R-K 1 N-B3
9 B-K3 RxP 9 N-QN5 B-QN5
The position seems innocent
10 P-B3 B-R4
enough ; the Rook certainly appears I I N-R3 B-KN5
to be in no danger. I 2 N-B2 Q-Q2
1 3 P-QN4 N3 This is the real point of the com

14 P-KR3 KR4 bination-the sacrifice of the
1 5 N-K3 KR-K1 Queen !
16 P-N5 ! N-K2 31 . . . RxQ
1 7 P-N4 N 3 32 P x R N-Q 1
1 8 N-Ks 33 N-KB4 Q-B 1
S imple and strong ; White's posi- 34 N (B4)-N 6 R-K1
tional advantage is undeniable. 35 N x P !
18 . . . Q-BI An interesting (and possibly un
19 P-QR4 P-B3 sound) sacrifice. Here are some
20 P x P PxP choices for Bl ack :
2 1 R3 N-K5 35 . . . R x R 36 N (B6) -K7ch and ,
22 Q-B2 N-N4 White wins the Queen,

23 B x N RxB 35 . . . Q x R 36 R x Rch and ,
24 B x B PxB mate next ,
25 Q x P N x Pch 35 . . . N x N 36 R x Rch, Q x R
26 K-R2 N-Bs 37 R x N, (threatens 38 R-B8)
27 Q-B5 N-K3 K-R2 38 R-K6, Q-B2 (but not
38 . . . Q x R 39 N-B8ch) and Black's
If 27 . . . Q x Q 28 N X Q, R-QB2
QRP should win the game for him.
29 N x BP, and White wins a Pawn.
35 . . . Q-Bzch
28 N-N2 Q-Bz
36 N(B6)-K5 QXp
29 P-R5 !
White's game begins to look
Offers a Pawn (which mu st be
t aken) in order to offer a Rook shaky, but he finds resources.
(which must not be taken) . This is 37 R-K3 Q-Q7
the position : The reply to 37 . . . Q x P would
be 38 N-B3, winning for White.
38 K-N2 QxP
This looks attractive, as he re
moves a center Pawn, protects his
QRP, creates another passed Pawn
(his QP) and safeguards his Rook
against attack (if 39 N-B3, Q
N4ch) .
39 P-B6 !
Bird is ingenio u s !
39 . . . PxP
29 . . . B x RP 40 R x BP N-K3
3o R x B ! R-KB1 4I R-KN3 N-N4
If 30 . . . Q x R, then 3 1 N-N6 42 N-N4 K-N2
wins, but not 3 1 N x P (as Fine 43 N-B4
suggests) as that permits Black to Clever footwork by the Knights.
escape by 3 1 . . . Q-Bzch in reply. 43 . . . Q-K 5 ch
3 1 R-R6 ! 44 K-R2 N-R2
Black shies away from 44 0 0 0 14 Q x B PxB

N-B6ch, when 45 R x N, Q x R 1 5 N-K6 R x Rch
46 N-Rsch wins his Q ueen . x6 R x R Q-R4
45 N-Rsch K-RI 1 7 P-QN4 Q-R6
46 R x P Q-B7 18 N x Pch K-RI
47 N(R5)-B6 R-K2 19 N x P
48 K-N2 P-Qs Threatens instant mate.
49 N-Ks 19 . . . NxP
Threatens so R-N8 mate . Black 20 R-B8ch ! Resigns
can not prevent it by 49 . . . R-KN2,
If 20 B X R 2 1 Q X Nch,
0
as then White breaks through by

B-N2 22 N-B7 mate.
50 N-B7ch, R x N 51 R-N8 mate.
49 . . . Q-BI JZI
so N-N6ch Resigns ALEKHINE WINS MOST
The conclusion could be so BRILLIANCY PRIZES
K-N2 5 1 N x Rch, K x R 52 R-N6 A le khine won more brilliancy
mate . prizes than any other man that ever
lived !
320
Here is one of my many favorites :
BRILLIANCY PRIZE GAME
BUDAPEST, 192 1
IN LIGHTNING
TOURNAMENT
Niemela won a b rilliancy prize Alekhine Sterk
for his game against Salo in an White Black
ecl air ( lightn ing) to urnament.
I P-Q4 P-Q4
Within the seven minutes allotted 2 N-KB3 N-KB3
to each game, Niemela produced 3 P-B4 P-K3
the following little sparkler : 4 N-B3 QN-Q2
5 P-K3 B-Q3
FINLAND, 1945 6 N-QNs B-K2
King's Indian Defence 7 Q-B2 P-B3
Niemela Salo
8 N-B3 o-o
White Black 9 B-Q3 PxP
I P-Q4 N-KB3 Io B x P P-B4
2 P-QB4 P-KN3 IIPxP BxP
3 N-QB3 B-N2 1 2 o-o P-QN3
4 P-K4 o-o 1 3 P-K4 B-N2
5 P-K5 N-K I 14 B-KNs
6 P-B4 P-Q3 A great master mu st n ot only
7 N-B3 B-Ns know how to create forceful com
8 B-K2 N-Q2 binations, he must also know how to
g o-o PxP avoid the attractive-looking com
Io BP x P P-QB4 binat ions that rec o il on the maker.
I I N-Qs PxP Here for example, there is the
1 2 B-Ns P-B3 tempting line 14 P-Ks, N-Ns
1 3 N x QP ! BxB 1 5 N-KNs, P-N3 16 N x KP, which
seems t o win the exchange for two The threat is 24 R-KN4, Q x Q

Pwns. It would boomerang on 25 R x Pch and mate next move.
White though, as the continuation 23 . . . K R-B 1 I
would be I 6 . . . Q-Rs 17 P-K R3,
Q-N6, and Black forces mate. This is Black's best defence, if
instead 23 . . . P-R4 24 R-KN4,
14 . Q-B I !
. .
Q x Q 25 R x Pch, K-RI 26 N-Ns,
15 Q-K2 B-Ns and there is no way to prevent 27
1 6 B-Q3 BxN R-R7ch followed by 28 R-R8 mate.
1 7 KR-QB I ! NxP Now comes another astonishing
18 B x N BxB move.
19 Q x B N-B4
20 Q-K2 ! B-R4 24 Q-Ks !
2 1 QR-N I 24 . . .
Threatens to win a piece by 22 Alekhine shows that the follow

P-QN4. ing variations were also unavailing :
21 . . . I . 24 . . . Q x R 25 Q-KNs, K-B I
Now if 22 Q x Q. N x Q 23 26 Q x Pch, K-K I 27 Q-N8ch,
P-QR3, P-QN4, and Black's minor K-Q2 28 N-Ksch, K-B2 29
pieces are safe. Q x Pch followed by 30 N x Q.
I I . 24 . . . R x R 25 Q-KNs ,
22 R-B4
R-KNs (or 25 . . . K-B I 26 Q x Pch,
Renews the threat of 23 P-QN4. K- K I 27 N-Ks. and the King is in
22 . . . N-Rs ! a mating net) 26 Q x R, P-N3 27
Q x N.
Very clever ; now if 23 P-QN4, I I I . 24 . . . P x B 25 R-N4ch,
N-B6 follows, and Black wins the K-B 1 26 Q-Q6ch, K-K 1 27 R-N8
exchange. mate.
This is the position on the board :
25 Q-N3 P-N3
26 RxN Q-Q6
27 R-KBI Q-B4
28 Q-B4 Q-B7
29 Q-R6 Resigns
A brilliant game by the greatest
player that ever lived-except for
Capablanca of course !
,
3:&2
BOTVINNIK PLAYS
LONGEST CHESS
2 3 B-B6 ! 1 COMBINATI ON
After all the fencing on the Queen To Botvinnik goes the honor of
side, there comes an astonishing making the longest combination to
move on the King side ! be seen in master chess play.
Alekhine himself gives this move In the course . of its 22 moves,
two exclamation marks. I can do no Botvinnik sacrifices both Knights
less. and a Rook to start his opponent's
King on a long j ourney from which This is the position :

he never returns.
The combination is remarkable
not only for its length but for its
surpassing beauty.
MOSCOW, 1 93 5
R6ti Opening
Botvinnik Chekover
White Black
I N-KB3 P-Q4
2 P-B4 P-K3
3 P-QN3 N-KB3 2 2 N-N5 l
4 B-N2 B-K2
5 P-K3 o-o This begins the long, and accu
6 B-K2 P-B3 rately calculated combination.
7 o-o QN-Q2 22 . . . PxN
8 N-B3 P-QR3 23 p X p N ( B I ) -Q2
9 N-Q4 PxP
The other Knight must stay put.
1o P x P N-B4
If 23 . . . N (B3)-R2 24 N x P, N x P
I I P-B4 Q-B2
25 Q-R5, N (N4) -R2 26 P-Q5 , P x P
1 2 N-B3
27 N-R6ch, K-R1 28 Q-B7, N-B3
White's last few moves have been 29 Q-N8ch l, N x Q 30 N-B7 mate.
directed to prevent . . . P-.
24 N x P !
Black's were meant to enforce it.
Very pretty, and must have sur
12 ... R-Q1 prised Chekover. Instead of regain
13 Q-B2 ing his piece, Botvinnik offers up
Black must take care in de his second Knight !
veloping. The natural 1 3 . . . B-Q2 24 . . . KxN
loses a piece after 14 P-Q4. 25 P-N6ch K-N 1
13 . . . N (B4)-Q2 Against the alternative 25
14 P-Q4 K-K I , Botvinnik had prepared
this pretty win : 26 Q x P, N-B1
This ends the argument ; White 27 Q-B7ch, K-Q2 2 8 B-R3 , R-K1
is in full control of K5 . 29 R x N, P x R 30 P-N7, and
14 . . . P-B4 White wins.
15 N-K5 P-QN3 26 Q x Pch K-RI
16 B-Q3 PxP 27 Q-R3ch K-N I
17 P x P B-N2 28 B-B5
1 8 Q-K2 N-B1
19 N-Q I R-R2 Threatens 29 B-B 5 ch, and mate
2o N-B2 Q-N 1 next move.
21 N-R3 P-R3 28 . . . N-BI
Black stops the Knight from If 28 . . . B-N 5 (to give the King
reaching N5--or does he ? more room) 29 B-K6ch, K-B 1
30 B x N, Q-Q3 ( or 30 . . . R x B Sanz, playing Black, won it in

3 I Q x R, Q-K 1 32 R x Nch, P x R such beautiful style that the posi
33 P-N7ch, and Black loses his tion is included in almost every
Queen) 31 Q-R8ch, K-K2 32 Q x P book on endings.
mate-a neat self-block. This is the position, with Black to
play :
29 B-K6ch ! NxB
30 Q x Nch K-R1
31 Q-R3ch K-N I
32 R x NI
A third sacrifice !
32 . . . BxR
If 3 2 . . . P x R 33 Q-R7ch fol-
lowed by mate.
33 Q-R7ch
34 R-KI !
35 Q-R8ch !
I ... R x NP I
Brilliant and more forc eful than
2 Nx R P-B6
35 R x B, Q x R 36 P x Q, R-Q8ch
3 RxB
37 K-B2, R-Q7ch, etc.
If 3 N-R4 (or to Q r ) P-B7 wins.
35 . . . K-K2
Or if 3 N-Q3, P-B5ch 4 K-B 1 ,
The King starts out unwillingly P x N 5 K-KI , P-B7 6 K-Qz,
on his last long j ourney. B-K6ch, and Black wins.
36 Q x Pch K-Q3 3
P-B5 !
3 7 Q x Bch K-Qz But not 3 . . . P x R 4 N-Q3
38 Q-Bsch K-B3 followed by 5 N-B 1 , and the Pawns
39 P-Qsch K-B4 are stopped.
40 B-R3ch KxP
4 1 Q-K4ch K-B6 4 R-N4
42 B-N4ch K-N7 Ready to meet 4 . . . P x N with
43 Q-N1 mate 5 R x N P, or 4 . . . P-B7 with 5
Strangely enough, Botvinnik did R x P.
not include this beautiful w in in his 4 ...
boq k One Hundred Selected Games.
But then, which game could he This will dislodge the Rook from
have left out ? its ideal square. Now if 5 R x P,
P x N wins , and on other Rook
moves, the advance by 5 . . . P-B7
3Z3 does the trick.
CLASSIC ENDING
ANTICIPATED 5 Resigns
An amazing coincidence in the But, alas, " There is no new thing
field of endings from actual play under the sun, " says The Good
concerns the classic finale of the Book. An ending almost exactly
game won by Sanz from Ortueta in similar to this one came to light.
I933 It was played at Poznan in 193 1 ,
and was published in " Szachy " in I die in the thick of the battle) , for
1932. he died while playing chess.
It occurred between Tylkowski This was the game he played at
and Wojciechowski, with the latter the time :
playing Black.
HAGUE, 1 933
This was the position, with Black
Sicilian Defence
to move :
POZNAN, 1931 Olland Hamming
White Black
Tylkowski Wojcie I P-K4 P-QB4
chowski 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
White Black 3 P-Q4 PxP
4NxP N-B3
S N-QB3 P-Q3
. 6 B-K2 P-K3
7 0-o B-K2
8 P-QN3 o-o
9 K-RI P-QR3
I O P-B4 Q-B2
I I B-B3 B-Q2
I 2 N (B3)-K2 P-QN4
I3 B-N2 KR-Q I
I 4 N-N3 QR-BI
IS R-BI NxN
I R-Q7 I6 Q x N Q-B4
2 N-R4 RxP I 7 Q-Q3 P-Ns
3 NxR P-B6 I 8 B-Q4 Q-QN4
4 RxB P-Bs ! I 9 Q-K3 P-Q4
This keeps the Knight from 2o B-K2 Q-N2
moving to Q3. 21 B-Q3 PxP
s R-N4 P-QR4 22 B x N BxB
6NxP P-B7 23 N x P B-B6
7NxP P-B8 (Q)ch 24 N-Q6 Q-B2
8 K-R2 2s N x R BxN
Obviously if 8 K-B2, Q-Q7ch At this point the unfortunate Dr.
wins the Rook. Olland suffered a heart attack and
8 ... Q-B4 died almost immediately.
9 R-R4 Q-R4ch
IO K-NI Q-Q8 ch J:Z5
Black wins the Rook and the SMYSLOV BLITZES

game. RESHEVSKY
Smyslov took only one minute for
324 his first I s moves in his game
DEATH COMES AT THE against Reshevsky, in the radio
CHESSBOARD match between the U . S . and the
Dr. Olland's motto must have U . S . S . R . in 1 94S !
been Cum moriar, medium solvar et At the 23rd move, Reshevsky
inter opus (If I must die, then may had taken more than an hour and a
half, while Smyslov's time was only Reuben Fine comments :

eight minutes !
Hereabouts we radioed for
Smyslov won the game. time consumed by the other team.
Here is the score :
Reshevsky, who had taken about
RADIO MATCH, 1 945 an hour and a half for the first
Ruy Lopez 23 moves, d isc overe d to his dis
may that Smyslov had taken
Smyslov Reshevsky
exactly one minute ! The whole
White Black
variation, we later discovered,
P-K4
I P-K4
had been published in the J une
2N-KB3 N-QB3
1 94S issue of Schachmaty (official
3B-N5 P-QR3
Soviet chess magazine) . Foreign
4B-R4 N-B3
material has always taken a long
5 o-o NxP
time to reach the U.S., and during
6 P-Q4 P-QN4
the war the delay of course was
7 B-N3 P-Q4
much worse than before .
8 PxP B-K3
9 P-B3 B-QB4 Actually, hardly any one on the
10 QN-Q2 o-o team ever looked at material
I I B-B2 P-B4 published in foreign chess maga
1 2 N-N3 B-N3 z ines. Had they done so, they
1 3 N (B3)-Q4 NxN would have found that the play up
14 N x N BxN to this point was not new, but had
1S P x B P-Bs occurred in several games played in
1 6 P-B3 N-N6 1 942 and 1 943, notablyBoleslavsky
17 P x N PxP Ragozin, Moscow 1 943, Cortlever
1 8 Q-Q3 B-B4 Euwe, Amsterdam 1 942, and
If instead I 8 . . . Q-R5 19 Q x Pch, Boleslavsky-Botvinnik, Sverdlovsk
Q x Q 2o B x Qch, K x B 2 1 B-Q2, 1 943-to name a few.
and White has the better chances in
23 ... QxP
the endgame .
24 B-B4 P-B4
19 Q x B RxQ 2S B-K6ch K-R1
2o B x R Q-Rs 26 B x QP R-Q I
2 1 B-R3 Q x Pch 27 QR-Q I P-Bs
22 K-R 1 Q x KP 28 B x NP P-B6
23 B-Q2 29 B-K5 !
White is prepared for 29 . . . Q-K7
30 B x P, R x B with 31 QR-K 1 ,
R-R4ch 3 2 K-N 1 , and the threat
of mate is decisive.
29 . . . P-N5
3o B-QN3 R-Q7
3 1 P-B4
Now the threat is 32 R x R, R x R

33 R-Q I , and death on the back
ran k .
31 . . . P-K!Y uation could then be : 8 . . . P-N4

3 2 R-QN 1 R-KB7 9 p X P, p X p 10 B X P, N X KP
Though terribly short on time, II N X N, Q-R4Ch 12 N-B3.
Reshevsky puts up a hard light. B x Nch, etc .
33 R (B 1 ) -K 1 Q-Q7
8 ... QN-Q2
If 3 3 . . . R-K 7 34 K R-Q r , R-Q7 9 N-B3 N-K 1
35 R x Q, for the Rook is defended ro o-o N-K4
on Qr (Srnyslov) . I I N-Q2 P-B3
34 Q R-Qr Q-N7 12 B-K3 R-N r
3 5 R-Q8ch K-R2 13 P-B4 N-KB2
36 B-N8ch K-N3 14 Q-B2 P-N3
3 7 R-Q6ch K-B4 15 KR-N r P-Q R4
38 B-K6ch K-N3 r 6 N-B3 N-B2
39 B-Q5ch K-R2 17 R-K r N-QR3
40 B-K4ch K-N 1 r 8 Q-Q2 N-N5
41 B-N6 Resigns 19 N-R2 NxN
2o R x N B-Q2
326 2 1 P-QN3 Q-B2
BREAKTHROUGH ONLY 22 B-Q3 R (N r ) -K r
BY A SACRIFICE 23 P-B5 N-K4
With nearly all their pieces and 24 N x N QP x N
Pawns still on the board , Bronstein 2 5 P-R 4 K-B2
and Pilnik reached a stage where 26 Q-KB2 R-Q R r
neither side could possibly break 2 7 B-K2 R-KN 1
through, or make any progress 2 8 K-Rr K-B r
withou t a sacrifice of material . 2 9 P-KN4 Q-Q3
Another curious feature of the 3 0 R ( R 2 ) -R r B-K r
critical position was that all eight 31 R-KN1 P-R3
of Bronstein ' s Pawns occupied 32 B-Q3 P-KN4
White squ ares, all of Pilnik's 33 P-R5 l K-B2
Pawns occupied Black squares.
Here is the game, which, inci This is the extraordinary posi
dentally, is one of Bronstein's many tion-where all of Bronstein's Pawns
masterpieces : stand on White squares, all of
Pilnik's on Black squares, and
BELGRADE, 1 954
where neither side can break through
King's Indian
without a sacrifice of some sort !
Bronstein Pilnik
White Black
I P-Q4 N-KB3
2 P-QB4 P-KN3
3 N-QB3 B-N2
4 P-K4 o-o
5 B-K2 P-Q3
6 B-N5 P-B4
7 P-Q5 P-QR3
8 P-QR4
This prevents counterplay which

would follow 8 N-B3 . The contin-
34 P-N4 I RP x P P-N7 ! 69 R-R x , B-K7ch 70

K-N4, B-B8, with a probable draw.
Obviously if 34 . . . BP x P 35
B x P with advantage to White. 68 B-N5 !
A clever retort ! Now if 68 . . .
35 P-R5 ! R-QBI
P-N 7 6g R-Rx , B- K7ch 70 K-B5,
While here 35 . . . R x P 36 R x R, B-B8, the reply 7 I R x B ! wins for
P x R 37 B x P also favors White. White.
36 P x P Q x NP 68 . . . B-K x
37 Q-QRz 6g R-R3 Resigns
Control of the open file is worth

a Pawn
3 27
.
37 . . . B-Q2 DI SDAINS FOUR

38 Q-R7 Q-Q 3 DIFFERENT PERPETUAL
39 R (NI)-N I R-B2 CHECKS AGAINST CAPA
4o Q-R6 R(N 1 ) -N1 In their first encounter in an
41 B-QB2 B-KBI International Tournament, Janow
42 B-N3 K-N2 ski could have drawn by four differ
43 K-N2 B-B I ent kinds of perpetual check against
44 Q-R2 B-Q2 Capablanca, two on the King side
45 Q-KB2 R-N3 of the board, and two on the Queen
46 R-R8 R-R3 side !
47 R(NI)-QRI R-R6 Here is this memorable game :
48 R(RI) x R PxR
49 R x P Q-N3 SAN SEBASTIAN, 1 9 1 1
5o Q-R2 R-N2 Queen's Gambit Declined
51 K-B3 R-NI
52 B-Q x Q-N5 Capablanca Janowski
53 B-Q2 Q-N8 White Black
54 Q x Q RxQ I P-Q4 P Q4
-
55 K-K2 K-B2 2 P-K3 N-KB3

56 B-K3 R-NI 3 N-KB3 P-B4
57 B x P R-BI 4 P-B4 P-K3
5 8 R-R5 K-KI 5 N-B3 B-K2
59 K-Q3 P-K3 6 P x BP
7 P-QR3 BxP
Desperation but against passive
8 P-QN4 B-K2
,
measures the advance of White's

g B-N2 P-QR4
QBP wins.
xo P-Ns P-QN3
6o B x B P x BP II P x P PxP
6I NP x P KxB 1 2 N-Q4 B-Q3
62 P-B5 B-K I 13 B-K2 B-KJ
63 K-B4 R-N I 14 B-B3 R-R2
64 B-R4 BxP 15 R-B2
65 P-B6 P-N5 1 6 Q-N3 QN-Q2
66 P-B7 R-B I 1 7 KR-Q1
67 P-Q6 P-N6 1
Of course not 1 7 N x P, B x N
Sets a fine trap: if 68 B-Q7. 1 8 B X B. N-B4 19 Q-R2, N X B,
and 20 Q x N is penalized by 20 . . . next move, while 39 B-B3 loses

B x Pch, and loss of the Queen. after 39 . . . Q-R7ch 40 K-B 1 ,
N-K6ch, and the Queen falls.
17 ... N-K4
1 8 B-Kz Q-K2 39 ... Q-R7ch
19 QR-B 1 KR-B1 40 K-B 1 Q-R8ch
zo N-R4 RxR 41 K-K2 Q x Pch
21 R x R R x Rch 42 K-Q I N-B7ch
22 B x R N-K5 43 K-B2 Q-N3ch
23 B-N2 N-B5 44 K-B I Q-KN8ch
24 B x N B x Pch ! 45 K-B2 Q-N3ch
25 K x B Q-Rsch Shifting over to the Queen side,
26 K-N I Q x Pch Janowski now has a third oppor
Janowski's Queen and Knight can tunity to draw by .perpetual.
now force a draw by perpetual 46 K-B1 N-Q6ch
check.
And for the third time Janowski
27 K-R2 Q-N6ch spurns the draw I
28 K-N 1
47 K-N 1 PxN
Carefully avoiding 28 K-R 1 , 48 Q-QB2 P-R4
when 28 . . . B-R6 29 B-KB1 , 49 B-Q4 P-Rs
N-B7ch 30 K-R1 , N-N5 wins for 50 B x QNP P-R6
Black. 51 B-B7 P-K4
28 . . . PxB 52 P-N6 Q-Ks
29 Q-B2 Q x KPch 53 BxP
Janowski is not content to draw. This is the position :
30 K-R2 Q-N6ch
31 K-N 1 Q-K8ch
32 K-R2 Q-N6ch
33 K-N 1 Q-K8ch
34 K-R2 N-B3 !
Threatens to win the Queen by
35 . . . N-N5ch 36 K-R3, N-K6
dis.ch.
35 N x B Q-R5ch
36 K-N 1 Q-K8ch
37 K-R2 Q-R5ch
Now the Queen alone can force 53 . . . Q-K8ch
a draw by perpetual check.
Janowski misses the golden oppor
38 K-N 1 N-N5 tunity ! The winning move was 53
Janowski disdains the second . . . Q-R8ch, as from that square the
drawing opportunity. Queen can keep an eye on White's
dangerous passed Pawn.
39 Q-Q2 !
The only move, as 39 Q-B3 54 K-R2
allows 39 . . . Q-B7ch, and mate And now Janowski has a fourth
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS r 6s
chance to draw by perpetual check ! 64 Q-B8ch K-R4

He can do so by 54 . . . N-B8ch 65 Q-R8ch K-Ns
55 K-N2, N-Q6ch 56 K-R2 , 66 Q-B8ch Resigns
N-B8ch, but . . . Good midgame play by J anow
54 . . . NxB ski-marvellous endgame play by
Capablanca .
. . . he misses it ! And with that
goes his last chance.
55 P-N7 N-Q2 J:z8
56 N-Bs ! B OTH BLACK AND WHITE
SACRIFICE FREELY
An important move. The later
All sorts of sacrifi ces may be
play will show why this is superior
found in the games of the masters,
to 56 N-N6.
gen e rally made by the ultimate
56 . . . N-N r winner. But when Panov played
5 7 Q x Pch K-Rr Yudovich at Tiflis in 1 937, it
58 N-K4 appeared that each player tried to
The Knight is beautifully cen outdo the other in giving away his
tralized. It guards White's King pieces.
against annoying checks by the In the course of 26 moves, White
Queen, and it is also in perfect offered his op po n ent a Bisho p , a
position to take part in combination Knight, a Rook, his second Knight
play against Black's King and and then his remaining Rook.
Queen. Not to be outdone in generosity,
For example, if 58 . . . P-R7 59 Black offered a Knight, the ex
Q-B8ch, K-R2 6o Q-R3ch, K-N r change, his Queen and a Rook.
(if 6o . . . K-N3 6r Q-K6ch followed Here is the record of this exciting
by 62 N-B6ch wins the Queen) game :
6r Q-K6ch, K-R r (if 6r . . . K-B r
62 Q-Q6ch, or if 6r . . . K-R2 62 TIFLIS, 1 93 7
N-Nsch) 62 Q-K8ch, K-R2 63 French Defence
N-N sch wins the Queen (Schlechter) .
Panov Yudovich
58 . . . K-R2 White Black
59 Q-Q3 P-N3 I P-K4 P-K3
2 P-Q4 P-Q4
If 59 . . . Q-Rs 6o N-Nsch,
3 N-QB3 N-KB3
K-R3 61 N-B7ch, K-R4 62
4 B-KN5 B-K2
Q-Bsch, P-N4 63 N-Ks and wins
5 P-K 5 KN-Q2
(Caj> abl anca) .
6 P-KR4 P-KB3
Or if 59 . . . P-R7 6o N-N5ch,
7 B-Q3 P-QB4 !
K-R3 6 1 N-B7ch, K-R4 62 Q-Bsch,
8 Q-Rsch K-B r
K-R5 63 Q-B4ch, K-R6 64
9NxP PxB
N-Nsch, K-N7 65 Q-B3ch, K-N8
66 N-R3 mate ! (Schlechter) . If 9 . . . P x N r o P-K6 (threatens
mate) Q-K I I I Q x Qch, and White
6o Q x Pch K-N2
regains his piece w ith an even game.
61 Q-KB3 ! Q-QB8
62 Q-B6ch K-R2 ro R-R3 P-Ns
63 Q-B7ch K-R3 I I N-B4
With dire threats : if I I . . . P x R Then, as though to show his con

1 2 N x Pch, K-N1 1 3 N x Q, and tempt for traps, Capablanca de
the mate threat at B7 prevents liberately walked into the same
Black from playing 13 . . . P-R7, trap the next time he had Black
and getting a new Queen. and again drew the game I
Did Capablanca perhaps want to
II ... NxP
demonstrate that he could give the
12 PxN PxR
odds of the exchange to any leading
13 BxP RxB
master ?
14 QxR P-R7
Here is the score of the eighth
15 K-K2 P-RS (Q)
game :
Lissitsyn says, " The originality
of this opening system, devised by AMSTERDAM, I93 I
Black, is expressed in the career of Queen's Indian Defence
this Pawn, which has crossed three
files and six ranks, captured two Euwe Capablanca
pieces, and has become a Queen on White Black
the 1 5th move ! " I P-Q4 N-KB3
2 P-QB4 P-K3
16 N-N6ch K-B2
3 N-KB3 P-QN3
1 7 N-R8ch QxN
4 P-KN3 B-N2
z8 Q x Q N-B3
5 B-N2 B-N5ch
1 9 Q-R5ch K-NI
6 B-Q2 B x Bch
2o N-R3 Q x P!
7QxB o-o
2 1 Q-K8ch B-Bz 8 N-B3 N-K5
22 N-N5 9 Q-B 2 NxN
Threatens 23 Q-B7ch, K-RI
At first sight a simple exchange,
24 Q x B mate.
but White makes a zwischenzug
22 ... NxP which lands his opponent in th e
23 P-B4 Q-N5ch Monticelli trap.
24 K-B I Q x Pch
25 K-N I Q-N5ch 1 o N-N5 I
26 K-B z B-Q2 !
Instead of recapturing, White
The last offer is more than White suddenly threatens mate as well as
cares to accept, as 2 7 Q x R i s I I B x B, and an attack on the
answered by 27 . . . B N4ch fol
- Rook.
lowed by mate, so,
IO N-K5
27 Resigns II B x N BxB
12 Q x B QxN
329
13 Q x R N-B3
1 4 Q-N7 NxP
CAPABLANCA IS
1 5 R-Q I
CONTEMPTUOUS OF TRAPS
In the eighth game of his match White carefully avoids the cen
against Euwe in I 93 1 , Capablanca tralizing move 15 Q-K4, when 1 5
fell into a trap in the opening which . . . Q-R4ch 16 K-B 1 , N-N6 1 7
cost him the exchange. He drew the R-Q I , N-Q7ch regains the ex
game though after a bitter struggle. change.
15 . . . 33 . . . P-Ks ch
1 6 P-K3 Capablanca thought more than a
17 K-K2 half hour before making this move.
If 1 7 K-B I , P-Q4 1 8 p X P, Apparently there were no prospects
Q-Ks 19 R-KN1 (i f 19 K-N 1 , in this line : 33 . . N-B6 34 R x P,
.
N x P ! 20 P x N forc ed t o pre
- ,
P-QR4 35 R-K7, P-QN4 36
vent mate-2o . . . Q x Pch 21 R-B7, P-Ns 3 7 R-N7, and Black's
K N 2, Q-K7ch 2 2 K-R3, Q-R4ch,
-
Queen side is impotent.
and a draw by perpetual) N x P 20
34 K-B4 N-Ns
P x N, Q-B6ch 21 K-K1 , Q x KPch,
35 R-QN5
and Black draws .
17 . . . P-Q4 ! Here if 35 R-Q7, N-Q6ch pro
tects the K ing Pawn indirectly, or
Better than 1 7 . . . Q x QNP 1 8
if 35 R-Q2, P-B4 36 R-Q 7ch
R-Q2, Q x P 1 9 Q x BP, Q-R5 ,
K-B3, and Black's threats of mate

20 R-QBI , N-N s 2 1 R X P, with
safeguard his Pawns.
advantage to White.
35 . . . N-Q6ch
18 R-Q 2 Q x QN P
36 K x P N x Pch
19 P x P Q-N4ch
3 7 K-Q4 P-B4
20 K-B3 N Ns
N-N5
-
38 R-N2
2 1 R-QBI Q-R 4
39 P-R3 N-B3
2 2 P-Q6
4o R-QB2 N-K5
Best, as White is enabled to force
an exchange of Rooks. The agile Knight gets to work on
22 .. . PxP White's King side Pawns.
23 R-B8 P-N3 41 P-N4 K-B 3
24 R x Rch KxR 42 PxP KxP
25 Q-B8ch K K2
- 43 R-B7 N-N4
26 Q-B7ch K-B3 44 R x QRP P-R4
27 Q-B3ch K-K2
Now that his Queen side is no
28 Q-B7ch K-B3
longer a threat, Black plays to
29 Q-Q8ch K-N2
create two connected passed Pawns
3o Q x QP NxP
on the King side.
3 1 Q-Q4 ch P-K4
32 Q-Qs QxQ 45 R-R3 !
33 R x Q A clever defence : if 45 . . N x P
.
4 6 P-K4ch, K-N5 47 R x N, K x R
48 P-K 5 , K-N7 49 P-K6, P-R5
so P-K7, P-R6 5 1 P-K8 (Q) . P-R7
5 2 Q-K4ch, K-N8 53 Q-N4ch,
K-B 7 54 Q-R3, K-N 8 55 Q-N3ch,
K-R8 56 Q-B 2 P-KN4 57 Q B I
, -
mate (Becker) .
45 . . . N-B6ch
46 K-Q3
Capablanca was now very short
of time, but he made his next 1 I
r 68 WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
moves quickly and accurately and 4 B-R4 P-Q3

secured the draw. 5 P-B4 B-Q2
46 . . . N-N8 6 N-B3 P-KN3
4 7 K-Q2 P-KN4 I 7 P-Q4 B-N2
48 R-N3 P-R5 8 B-K3 N-B3
49 R x P NxP g PxP PxP
50 K-K2 P-N5 The safer capture was 9 ...
s r R-Nsch K-K5 QN x P, as White's next move will
52 R-N4ch K-B4 show.
53 K-B 1 K-N4 IO B-Bs l
54 R-Nsch K-N3
55 R-N4 K-R4 Prevents Castling, and sets Black
56 R-N7 N-N4 some problems.
Drawn IO . . . N-KR4
I I N--Q5 N-Bs
330 I2 N X N PxN
KERES BEATS 1 3 P-K5 P-KN4
NINE WORLD CHAMPIONS 14 Q--Qs l
Keres, who never held the title A powerful move, one point of
of " World Champion " has beaten which is that it stops 14 . . . P-Ns,
nine World Champions in the course as then the following occurs : 1 5
of his career ! P-K6, B x KP (not 15 . . . P x P
A list of his victims (a Who's r6 Q-R5 mate) r 6 B x Nch, P x B
Who of the chess world) is as 1 7 Q x Pch, B-Q2 r8 Q-K4ch,
follows : B-K3 19 R--Q1 , Q-B1 20 Q-B6ch,
r . Capablanca 6. Tal B--Q2 2 1 R x B, and White wins
2. Alekhine 7. Petrosian (Euwe) .
3 Euwe 8. Spassky 14 . . . B-KBr
4 Botvinnik g. Fischer
15 B x B RxB
5 Smyslov r 6 o-o-o Q-K2
Following are the scores of his
Alekhine is prepared to give up
victories against these nine World's
a Pawn (by 17 N x P) in order to
Champions :
Castle. He would then be threaten
Alekhine, Keres's first opponent,
ing r 8 . . . Q x N, or 1 8 . . . N x P, or
held the title from 1927 when he
r 8 . . . B-Ns .
beat Capablanca, to 1935 when he
lost it to Euwe. He regained it in 17 B x N BxB
1937 in a return match, and kept it r 8 Q-Q3 B-Q2
to his death in 1946. Agair: <\lekhine is willing to part
with a Pa .vn in order to Castle into
MARGATE, 1 937 safety.
Ruy Lopez
rg N x P o-o-o
Keres Alekhine 20 N-B3 P-KB3

White Black 21 P x P RxP
I P-K4 P-K4 22 KR-KI Q-N5
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 An error, but he was lost in any
3 B-N5 P-QR3 case, as he was a Pawn down with
no compensation in position. If 13 . . . PxN

2 2 . . . R-K3 instead, then 23 Q-Q4, 1 4 P-B4
with threats of 24 Q-R7 or 24 Q x P, Now the threat is I5 P x P, P x P
should win for White without too 16 Q-Q4, with powerful centraliza
much trouble (for Keres, that is) . tion.
23 Q x Bch Resigns 14 ... B-K3
He must either be mated after 15 Q-B2 PxP
23 . . . R x Q by 24 R-K8ch, or lose 16 B x BP BxB
both Rooks. 17 QXB KR-NI
Keres's opponent in the following 18 P-KR3 R-N4
game is Capablanca, who won the 19 QR-B I R-QBI
title in I 9 2 1 from Dr. Lasker, and 20 KR-Q 1 N-N3
lost it in I927 to Dr. Alekhine. 21 N-Q4 R-N3
AVRO, I 938 If 2 I . . . R-Q4 (which Capa
French Defence blanca may have intended to play)
22 N x P, R x Rch 23 R x R, Q x N
Keres Capablanca 24 R x B ! , leaves White a Pawn
White Black ahead.
I P-R4 P-K3 22 N-K6 !
2 P-Q4 P-Q4
3 N-Q2 P-QB4 It must have been a thrill to play
4 KP x P KP x P this pretty move against a Capa
5 KN-B3 N-QB3 blancaI Here is the position :
6 B-N5 Q-K2ch
7 B-K2
Keres is not interested in 7
Q-K2, Q x Qch and an early draw.
7
PxP
8 o-o Q-B2
9 N-N3 B-Q3
Probably not as good as 9 . . .
N-B3 Io N (N3) x P, B-K2 and
then I I . . o-o . .
I o N (N3) x P
22 . . . Q-NI
For how Black has to waste time
with this move (to prevent II If 22 . P x N 23 Q x Pch fol
. .
N-Ns and 1 2 N x Bch, giving lowed by 24 Q x B regains the piece,

White the advantage of the two and leaves White a Pawn ahead.
Bishops) . Or if 22 . . . B-R7ch 23 K-R I , P x N
24 Q x Pch, K-R1 25 R-Q7, and
I I P-QN3 KN-K2 White wins.
I2 B-N2 o-o
I3 N x N ! 23 N-Ns R-N2
This relieves Black of his isolated 24 Q-KN4 B-B5
QP, but it creates new weaknesses 25 R-B4
at Black's QR3 and QB3 . With the nice threat 26 N x RP,
K x N 27 R x B, and neither Queen -t B-Ns B-K2

nor Knight may recapture with s P-K3 o-o
impunity. 6 N-B3 P-QN3
2S . . . R-N4 7 PxP PxP
26 N x BP R-K 1 8 B-Q3 B-Nz
Of course not 26 . . . K x N 2 7 9 Q-B2
R-Q7ch, and White wins. White could also follow the
2 7 P-N3 Q-B I Pillsbury recipe and play 9 N-Ks
This loses another Pawn, but and then support the Knight
there was no saving move. If 27 . . .
strongly with IO P-B4.
K x N 28 R x Bch, K-N 1 (or 28 . . .
9 ... QN-Q2
N x R 29 Q x Pch and mate next) IO o-o . P-KR3
29 R-Q7 and White wins . Or if 27 . . . I I B-KB4 P-R3
B X P 2 8 Q X B, Q X Qch 29 P X Q, I 2 KR-Q I N-K I
K x N 30 R x P, and White wins I 3 QR-B I B-Q3
the ending. I4 N-K2 Q-K2
28 R x B QxQ IS B x B QxB
29 R x Q KxN
The recapture with the Knight
30 R-Q7ch R-K2
might have been better. White
3I R x Rch KxR
could not, in that case, have played
32 B x P R-QR4
I 6 Q x P, as the reply 16 . . . QR-B 1
" To save such a position, " says wins the Queen.
Keres, ' ' not even the endgame skill
of a Capablanca is sufficient. " 1 6 N-N3 P-N3
3 3 P-QR4 R-QB4 A weakening move, but Black
34 R-N4 K-K3 could not permit 1 7 N-Bs .
3S K-N2 P-KR4 I 7 P-KR4 ! P-KR4
36 R-QB4 RxR I8 N-Ns P-QB4
37 P x R K-Q3
38 P-B4 Resigns
If 38 . K-B4 39 P-Bs. N-K2
. .
40 B-B8, K-Q3 41 P-B6 wins the

Knight.
Smyslov, Keres's opponent in the
game that follows, became World
Champion by beating Botvinnik in
19S7. but lost the title one year
later, in a return match with
Botvinnik.
LENINGRAD-MOSCOW, 1 939
Keres Smyslov 19 B-Bs !

White Black A startling move ! It begins a
I P-Q4 N-KB3 series of combinations in Keres's
2 P-QB4 P-K3 most dazzling style.
3 N-QB3 P-Q4 White's immediate threat is 20
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CH ESS 171
B x N, Q x B 2 I N x RP, winning 25 . . . R x Rch

arr important Pawn . 26 R x R
19 . . . PxP Now if 26 . . . Q x N (N6) 2 7 R-B7ch
Black must not take the Bishop, is decisive.
as this follows : 19 . . . P x B 20 26 . . . N-Q3
N x P(B5 ) , Q-B2 (if 20 . . . Q-N3
2 1 N-K7ch wins the Queen, or if Prevents the Rook check, but
20 . . . Q-KB3 2 1 N-K7ch and 22 White has some trumps left. The
Q-R7 mate) 2 1 N-K7ch, K-N2 right move was 26 . . . N-B3, then
22 Q-R7ch, K-B3 23 N-N8ch, if 27 R x N, K x R ! (not 2 7 . . .
R x N 24 Q x P mate. QxR 28 N x RPch, P x N 29
2o B-K6 ! Q-R7ch, K-B1 30 Q x B, and the
attack on the Rook as well as the
Another elegant move ! White now threat of a Knight fork wins for
threatens 2 1 Q x Pch and mate next. White) 28 Q-B 1 ch, K-K2 29
20 . . . P-Q6 ! Q-B 7ch, K-Q3 30 Q x B, Q x N (N6) .
A zwischenzug which gains a 27 N x RPch !
tempo for the Knight's attack on
the Queen . Obviously, taking the Knight
allows mate on the move.
21 Q x P N-K4
Note that the Knight also guards 28 N-B6 Q x Pch
the delicate Knight Pawn . 29 K-R1 Q-Q5
22 Q-N 1 PxB White was threatening the Queen
Some pretty play follows 22 . . . by 30 N-N4ch. If inste ad 29 . . .
N-B2 : 23 N-B5 , Q-Q 1 (or 23 . . . K-N2 30 N-N4, Q-K7 3 1 R-B6 ! ,
P x N 24 Q x P, K-N2 25 B x QP, N-K5 3 2 R-B7ch, and Black i s i n a
B x B 26 Q-R7ch K-B3 2 7 N-K4ch m ating net.
winning the Queen) 24 N-R6ch,

30 N x KP Q x Pch
K-N2 25 N(R6) X P, N X N 26
31 K-N 1 P-Qs
B x N, R x B 2 7 R x N ! , R(or Q) x R
28 N-K6ch, and White wins the On 3 1 . . . R-QB1 (to stop the
Queen. Queen check) 32 R-B4, Q-N6
K-N2 33 R-B3 and then 34 R-R3ch
ends the struggle.
Tlie Knight dares not move, as
24 Q x Pch would be fatal. 32 Q-B r ch P-N4
QxP 33 Q-B7 Resigns
:i4 P x N
25 R-B 1 I One of the most beautiful of
Keres adds fuel to the fire. His Keres's four-star brilliancies.
immediate threat is 26 N x RPch. Dr. Euwe, Keres 's opponent in
If Black plays 25 . . . Q x N (N6) , this next game, became World's
the reply 26 N x Pch wins at once, Ch ampion in 1 935 when he defeated
or if 25 . . . N-B3 26 R-B7ch, K-R3 Alekhine, but lost the title in 1 937
27 R x N, and Black is faced with whe n he played Alekhine a return
two threats of instant mate. match.
HOLLAND, 1940 This is the position :

Queen's Indian Defence
Euwe Keres
White Blaek
I P-Q4 N-KB3
2 P-QB4 P-K3
3 N-KB3 P-QN3
4 P-KN3 B-N2
5 B-N2 B-K2
6
7 N-B3 N-K5
8 Q-B2 NxN
9QxN P-Q3 22 . . . P-Q6 !
1o Q-B2
Sacrifices his beautiful passed
Threatens positionally 1 1 P-K4, Pawn !
and White has a powerful center
and tactically I I N-N5, which 23 R x P Q x RI
wins the exchange by the threat of And now a Queen sacrifice !
mate. Hasn't Keres any respect for a
10 ... P-KB4 former World Champion ?
II N-KI Q-B I 24 Q x Q B-Q5ch
12 P-R4 N-Q2 25 R-B2
13 P-Qs P x KP
14 QxP N-B4 No better is 25 K-R1 , R x B
15 Q-K2 B-KB3 followed by doubling the Rooks,
16 B-R3 R-K1 and then . R-K7. Or if 25 N-K3,
. .
17 B-K3 R x B 26 R-KI , QR-KI 2 7 K-B2,

R x N, and Black wins.
Prevents 1 7 . . . P x P, and in
turn thre ate ns 18 B x N followed 25 . . . RxB
by 19 B x Pch. 26 K-B1 QR-KI
17 . . . Q-QI ! This is more elegant than the

brutal 26 B x R. It is
. . . also more
Fiendishly clever, as will be seen. forceful, as now there threatens
18 B x N PxP 27 . . . B x R 28 K x B, R K7c h
- ,
1 9 B K6ch
- K-RI and White's Knight falls.
20 R-QI 27 P-Bs R-K4
If 20 B-QR3, Q-K2 21 P x P, 28 P-B6
B x QP, and Black recovers his p iece White has a littl e trick up his
with a winning position. sleeve : if 28 . . . B x R 29 K x B,
20 . . . QP x B R-K7ch 30 Q x R, R x Qch 3 1
2 1 N-N2 K x R, B x N 32 P-B7, and White
wins.
Or 2 1 P x P, B x QP 22 R x B,
Q-K2. 28 . . . PxP
21 . . . P-Qs 29 R-Q2
22 P-B4 Of course not 2 9 R x P, B x Nch
30 K x B, R-K 7ch , and the Rook 8 P-KN3 N-Q2

comes off. 9 B-N2 N (R4)-B3
29 . . . B-B 1 !
IO P-KR3 o-o
11 0--Q K-R2
Intending 30 . . . B-R6 3 1 R-Q1 12 P-KN4 P-K4
(to stop mate) R-B4ch, and White 13 Q-N3 PxP
must give up his Queen. 14 NxP N-!<:4
R-K6 ! 15 QR-Q 1 Q-K2
30 N-B 4
16 B-B4 P-KR4
The beginning of a sparkling 17 P-N5 N (B3) -Q2
combination. r8 N-K4 N-N3
31 Q-N 1 R-B6ch 19 Q-N3 N ( K 4) x P
32 K-N2 R x N! 20 P-N3 N-K4
33 PxR R-N 1 ch 21 N x QP !
34 K-B 3 Keres conj ures up a combination,
If 34 K-R1 , B-N2ch is fatal, apparently out of thin air !
while 34 K-B1 costs the Queen 21 ... QxN
after the Rook check at N8. 22 N-B S Q - R6
34 . . . B-N s ch If 22 . . . Q X R 23 R X Q. B X N
Resigns 24 B x N, and Black does not have
enough com pe n sat io n for th e Queen.
For 35 K-N3 loses the Queen
Or if 22 . . . Q-B2 23 N x B,
after 35 . . . B-B4ch, while 35 K-K4
N (N3)-Q2 24 R X N , Q X R 24
succumbs to 35 . . . R-K r ch 36
B x N, a n d White has two pieces
K-Q5 (if 36 K-Q3, B-B4 mate)
for a Rook.
B-B6ch, an d mate next move.
An exquisite game, and one of 23 N x B
the best ever played by Keres (or 24 B-Q6
anyone else for that matter) . 25 B x R
Petrosian, Keres's next opponent This is the position :
in this series, won the title of World's
Champion by beating Botvinnik
in a match in 1963, and kept it until
1 969 when he lost the match
against Spassky.
MOSCOW, 1 949
King's Indian Defence
Keres Petrosian
White Black
I P-Q4 N- K B3
2 N-KB3 P- K N3 26 N-K8 !
3 P-B 4 B-N2
The Knight escapes, and helps
4 N-B3 P-Q3
5 B-B4
bring about a decision.
N-
6 B-N5 P-KR3 26 . . . B-K3
7 B-K 3 P-QB3 27 N-B6ch K-R I
I 74 WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
28 Q-B4 N-R2 I 3 B-N5 N-B3

29 Q-Q4 NxN 14 B-Q3 Q-K I
30 Q x Nch K-R2 I5 N-K2 NxN
3I P-K4 I6 B x N B-B3
I7 B x B RxB
Keres plays to win by direct
I S Q-Q2 P-B4
attack on the King .
I9 P x P e.p. PxP
3I ... Q x RP 2o P-KN4 N-K2
32 P-B4 B x NP 2 I o-o B-R3
33 R-Q6 R-KNI 22 P-N3 P-Q4 !
34 P-B5 R-N2
Seizes the center and the initia
35 R-QS Q-R4
tive. The position at this point :
36 Q-Q6 P-B3
37 Q-BS P x BP
If 37 . . . B-N I 38 P x BP wins a
piece.
38 Q-RSch K-N3
39 Q-R6ch Resigns
It is mate next move.
Michael Tal, Keres 's opponent in
the next gam e , became World's
Champion in I 96o when he defeated
Botvinnik in a match, but lost the
title in I96I when he was beaten
by Botvinnik in a return match. 23 Q-N5
If i nstead 23 P x P, B x N 24
TALLINN, I954 Q x B, P x P 25 B-Q3, N-B3, and
King's Indian Defence Black has a marked advantage.
Tal Keres 23 ... Q-B2
White Black 24 B-Q3 PxP
I :P-Q4 N-KB3 25 BxP BxB
2 P-QB4 P-KN3 26 PxB R-KBI
3 N-QB3 B-N2 With strong pressure on the KBP.
4 P-K4 P-Q3
5 N-B3 o-o
27 Q x KP R-K3
6 B-K2 P-K4 28 Q-R2 R-K6
7 B-K3 N-B3 29 N-N3 Q x .P(B5)
8 P-Q5 N-K2 30 N-K4 Q-Q5 !
g P-KR3 N-Q2 A strong move against which
I O N-Q2 P-KB4 there seems to be no defence. If for
I I P-B3 PxP example 3I K-N2, R-K7ch 32
I 2 N(Q2) X P N-B2, R x Nch wins a piece, or if
If I 2 P x P, N x P can be played
3I K-R I , R(K6) x P is decisive.
with impunity, as Black's Queen Tal's rep ly lets him get away with
threatens mate. only the loss of a Pawn.
I2 . . . 3 I QR-Q I R-Q6ch
32 N-B2 R(B I ) X p To prevent pressure on his posi-

"33 RxR RxR tion by I I B-K2 and 1 2 B-R5.
34 Q-N8ch K-N2 I I K-NI B-Q2
35 Q-B7 Q-K6 1 2 B-K2 Q-N3
36 Q-N7 K-R3
I 3 N-N3
37 Q-N I R-Q7 1 4 KR-B 1 N-R4
38 Q-N3 N-Q4 NxN
15 R-B3
39 P-Nsch K-R4 1 6 RP x N K-N I
Of course not 39 . . . K x P 40 17 N-R4 I Q-R2
Q x Qch, N x Q 41 N-K4ch, and Not a happy square for the
White wins the Rook and the game. Queen but 1 7 . . . Q-B2 18 Q-Q4,
,
4o Q-N7 Q-N6ch B-K2 19 R-B3, B-B3 20 N-N6

41 K-R1 RxN with the unpleasant threat of 2 1
42 Q x Pch KxP N-Q5 is not an alternative to be
43 P-R4ch relished (Keres) .
" Unfortunately, " says Keres, 1 8 P-Bs ! B-K 2
" the pin by 45 R-KN1 doesn't 19 P x P PxP
work on account of 45 R-R7
. . .
The pos itio n at this point :
mate."
43 K-B3
44 Resigns
If 44 Q-R8ch, K-B 2 45 Q R7ch , -
K-K3 46 R-K 1 ch, K-Q3. and the

checks die out.
Michael Botvinnik, Keres's opp o
nent in the following game, became

World's Champion in 1 948, lost his
title to Smyslov in 1957, regained
it in 1 958, lost it to Tal in 1 96o,
regained it in 1 961 , an d lost it for
20 R x P I R-R2
the last time to Petrosian in 1 963.
Of course not 20 . . . B x R 2 1
MOSCOW, 1 956 Q x Pch, K-B1 (or R 1 ) 2 2 N N6ch -
Sicilian Defence and White wins the Queen, while

20 . . . B x N su ccu mbs to 2 1 R x P
Keres Botvinnik
which regains the p iece and leaves
White Black
White a Pawn ahead.
I P-K4 P-QB4
The depth of Keres's sacrifice
2 N-KB3 N-QB3
may best be gauged by the following
3 P-Q4 PxP
line of play : 20 . . . P-N4 2 1 R-B7,
4NxP N-B3
P-Q3 B-K 1 22 R-N7 !, P x N 23 Q-N4ch,
5 N-QB3
K-R1 24 P-K5 !, when Black has
6 B-KN5 P-K3
no defence (Keres) .
7 Q-Q2 P-KR3
8BxN PxB 2 1 R-N6 P-N4
9 P-R3 22 N-B3 Q-B4
1 o P-B4 P-KR4 23 N-R2
WONDERS AND CURIOSI TIES OF CHESS
The Knight is heading for Q3, 15 N-KN5 Q-B3

from which square it can play an 16 P-B4 P-R3
important role in the proceedings. 17 N-B3 B2
23 . . . K-R2 18 N-KR4 3
24 N-N4 R-KBI 19 B-N1 KR-K1
25 B-B3 P-R5
26 P-R3 B-BI Black's efforts are directed to
27 N3 B2 advancing his King Pawn.
28 N-B4 R-B3 2o KB2 N-B1
29 B-N4 I RxR 21 Q-N3 N-R4
The natural move 29 . . . R(R2) 22 Q-R3 N-B3
B2 loses another Pawn after 30 23 N-N6 P-14
N x P, B x N 3 I B x B. 24 N-Q5 !
3o N x R B-N2 A good move, as it allows the
3I B x P B-Q I Bishops more scope.
32 B-Q5 BxB 24 . . . BxN
33 Q x B R-B2 25 P x P I B x KP
34 P-K5 Resigns 26 N x B B-K3
Boris Spassky, Keres's opponent 2 7 Q-N3 RxR
in the next game, won the title 28 R x R PN4
of World's Champion by beating 29 R-KB1 N(B3)2
Petrosian in a match in 1969. A mistake made under the strain
of defending a difficult position
GOTHENBURG, I955 while in time pressure.
Queen 's Indian Defence
30 Q x Pch l Resigns
Keres Spassky
White Black After 30 . . . K x Q 3 1 N x Nch,
I P-Q4 N-KB3 K-N1 32 N-B6ch, K-B2 33
2 P-QB4 P-K3 N5ch, K-N1 34 N x Q leaves
3 N-KB3 PN3 White a piece ahead.
4 P-K3 B-N2 Bobby Fischer, Keres's opponent
5 B-Q3 B-K2 in this final game, became the
6 o-o o-o World's Champion when he beat
7 P-QN3 P-Q4 Spassky in 1972.
8 B-N2 QN-Q2
9 N-B3 P-B4
I O Q-K2 P x BP BLED, 1 959
I I NP x P B2 Caro-Kann Defence
I 2 QR-QI QR-Q1
Fischer Keres
I3 P-Q5 !
White Black
Threatens I4 P6. B x P 1 5 I P-l4 P-QB3
NN5 , Q-NI 1 6 N x B, Q x N 2 N-QB3 P-Q4
1 7 B x Pch, and White wins the 3 N-B3 B-N5
Queen. 4 P-KR3 BxN
13 . . . P-QR3 Keres doesn't mind letting White
14 P x P PxP have the two Bishops.
5 QxB N-B3
6 P-Q3 P-K3
7 P-KN3 B-Ns
8 B-Q2 P-Qs
9 N-N1 Q-N3
10 P-N3 P-QR4
I I P-R3 B-K2
1 2 B-Nz P-Rs
13 P-QN4 QN-Qz
1 4 o-o P-B4
1 5 R-R2
Of course not 1 5 P x P, Q-N7,

26 . . . N(N3) x B
and Black wins a piece. Fischer's
27 B x R
move prepares against 15 . . . P x P
1 6 P x P, B x P, when 1 7 R-N2 Or 27 P x N, R-R5, and Black
wins the Bishop. wins .
Fischer's opening strategy has 27 ... N (B5) x B
not been commendable, as his Queen 28 P-N4 B-R7ch
side pieces are awkwardly placed 29 K-N2 N x NP
and have difficulty developing. 30 N-Qz (at last) N-K6ch
31 Resigns
15 . . . o-o
16 P x P BxP White must suffer heavy loss of
I 7 Q-K2 P-K4 material or be mated, a picturesque
continuation being 3 1 K-RI,
This prevents the possibility of a N-N6ch, 32 K x B, N(N6) x R
King side attack beginning with dble.ch 33 K-R3 (or R 1 , or N 1 )
18 P-Ks. Q-R7 mate !
1 8 P-KB4 KR-B1
19 P-KR4
33 1
Makes room for his King Bishop FIRST HISTORJ;.CAL
to get into play. CHESS DOCUMENT
19 . . . R-B3 The first known historical docu
zo B-R3 Q-Bz ment connected with chess is an
21 P x P N (Q2) X P inscription on a tablet in a pyramid
22 B-B4 B-Q3 at Gizeh, dating back to 3,000 years
23 P-R5 R-R4 before Christ !
24 P-R6 N-N3
25 Q-B3 R-R4
26 B-N4 333
FIRST CHESS
If 26 B-Nz, B x B 27 P x B, PROBLEM
R-R5 2 8 P-Bs (28 P-K5, R x KBP The first chess problem, as far as
wins) Q-R7ch 29 K-B2, R-Bs, and can be ascertained, was composed
Black wins the Queen. by the Caliph Mutasim Billah
This is the position, with Black during his reign in Baghdad from
to make his 26th move : A . D . 834 to 842.
333 339
FIRST LEGAL CHESS FIRST PROBLEM
DOCUMENT COMPOSING TOURNAMENT
The first legal document in The first problem-composing tour
Europe dealing with chess was a nament was held at London in
testament of Armengo of Urgel in 1 854. It was confined to English
Janu ary, I O I O. men, and was won by Walter
Grimshaw.
334
FIRST CHESS BOOK 340
The first book dealing with chess FIRST WOMEN'S CHESS
was published in 1.472, under the TOURN.i\MENT
title Dass Goldin Spil, in the city of The first women's international
Augsburg. chess tournament was held at
London in 1 897, and was won by
335 Miss Mary Rudge of England.
FIRST NEWSPAPER
CHESS COLUMN 34 1
The first newspaper column on
OLDEST EXISTING
chess appeared in the Liverpool
CHESS COLUMN
Mercury, July 9, I B I J .
The oldest chess column still being
336 published is the one in the Illustrated
London News, which dates from June
FIRST MATCH BY
25, 1 842.
CORRESPONDENCE
The first match to be played by
correspondence was begun in April , 3.P
1824 between the London and Edin TAL'S IMPRISONED
burgh Ches s Clubs. The match BISHOP
lasted two years, and was won by the In a game between Fischer and
Scotsmen . They scored two wins, Tal, the latter's Queen Bishop was
lost one, and drew two games. imprisoned by two Pawns for 29
moves !
337 In fact, when Tal had only two
Pawns left on the board, those were
FIRST CHESS MAGAZINE
The first chess magazine ap the Pawns that kept his Bishop
peared in Paris in 1 836. It was from coming into pl ay !
called La Palamede, and its editors Here is the game :
were La Bourdonnais and Mery.
BLED, 1 961
Sicilian Defence
3 38
FIRST MATCH BY Fischer Tal
TELEGRAPH White Black
The first match by te legraph I P-K4 P-QB4
was played in 1 844, the year in 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
which the telegraph was invented . 3 P-Q4 PxP
The players represented the cities of 4 NxP P-K3
Baltimore and Washington, D . C . 5 N-QB3 Q-B2
6 P-KN3 21 B x P
7 N(Q4)-N5 2 2 B-Q3
8 B-KB4 Offers a Pawn to give his Rook
9 B-K2 l (and eventually his Bishop) some
Io B x NI freedom. Anything else is hopeless.
Very good , as it enables the
23 P x P! RxQ
Pawns to advance and rip up
24 PxR Q-B4
Black's King side.
25 BxP Q-KN4
IO QxB 26 BxR Q x BP
I I P-B4 Q-N I 27 KR-B r QxP
I 2 P-K5 P-QR3 28 B x Pch K-Q I
Practically forced, as I 2 . . . N-NI 29 B-K6 Q-R3
I3 N-K4, B-K2 1 4 Q-Q2, followed The position at this p oint is
either by I5 o-o-o or I 5 N (N5) fantastic, and one that Steinitz
Q6ch is not appetizing. would have relished. Tal has only
I3 PxN PxN two Pawns on the board, but they
I4 PxP R-NI imprison his unfortunate Bishop !
I5 N-K4 B-K2 This is the scene :
I6 Q-Q4 R-R5
I7 N-B6ch BxN
Of course not I 7 . . . K-Q I I 8
Q-N6ch, Q-B2 I 9 Q x Qch, and
Black loses a Rook-as a start.
I8 Q x B
White now threatens to bring
about disaster by I9 B-R5 or I 9
B-Q3 .
I8 . . . Q-B2 l
Black is prepared to meet 1 9 3o B x P BxB
B-R5 with 1 9 . . . P-Q4. while the
The Bishop emerges but only for
alternative attack 19 B-Q3 lets
a moment, as his career is short
him escape by 19 . . . Q-B4 20
lived.
B x RP. Q-K6ch 2 1 K-B r , Q-B6ch
22 K-N 1 , Q-K6ch 23 K-N2, 31 R-B7 QxP
Q-K7ch 24 K-R3, R x NP I 25 32 R(Q 1 ) X Bch K-K 1
Q x R, Q-R4ch, and Black draws 33 R(Q7) -K7ch K-Q 1
by perpetual check. 34 R-Q7ch K-B r
35 R-B7ch K-Q 1
19 o-o-o R x RP
36 R (KB7)-Q7ch
20 K-N 1 R-R3
To guard the square K3, rather White is gaining time on his
clock.
than the Knight Pawn . If in
stead 20 . R-R4 2 1 B-R5 , P-Q4
. . 36 . . .
22 R x P !, P x R 23 R-K r ch is 3 7 R-Q r
disastrous . 38 R-QN7
I SO WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
If 38 . . . Q x P 39 R-RI (threat 6 P-KR3 P-B4

ens mate at RS) Q-K4 40 R-R8ch ! 7 PxP Q-R.t
(why let the Queen stop you ? ) Q x R S N-Qz Q x BP
4 1 R-N8ch, and White wins. 9 N-N3 Q-N3
zo B-K5 P-K3
39 P-KN4 Q-R6
u N-N5 N-KI
Here too if 39 . . . Q x P 40 R-RI
wins. To prevent 12 N-B7 as well as
12 B-Q4 followed by 13 B x P.
4o P-N5 Q-KB6
41 R-K i ch K-B I 12 B x B NxB
42 R x P K-N2 1 3 P-KR4 I
43 R-N6 Q-KN6
44 R-Q I Q-B2 Alekhine makes an interesting
45 R(QI)-Q6 Q-B 1 comment here :
46 P-N3 K-R2 And yet some will say that
47 R-QR6 Resigns Capablanca's play is altogether
too dry ! His planning of the game
343 under consideration (apart from
CHESS PRESCRIBED the not wholly exact sixth move)
FOR HEALTH is so full of that freshness of his
The Greek physicians Galen and genius for position play that
Hippocrates (the father of medicine) every hypermodem player can
considered chess a potent antidote to only envy him. Of course, he did
diarrhoea and erysipelas, and pre not for a moment hope by means
scribed it with success. of this unexpected move to
checkmate his opponent without
more ado, but through the
344 threat of opening the KR file to
CAPA'S KNIGHT WHEELS mislead Black into creating a new
AROUND weakness ( 1 5th move) , where
In a game with Yates, Capa upon White will bring about an
blanca made use of a beautiful ending which is partly won from
theme known in the world of prob the very start.
lems as the Knight Wheel.
His Knight circles about Yates's 13 . . . P-QR3
Rook Pawn like a hawk, and then 1 4 N-B3 N-B3
swoops down and pounces on it I 15 B-Q3 P-B4
This is the score of the game : 16 Q-Q2 N - !4
1 7 B-K2 N-'-B5
NEW YORK, 1 9 2 4 18 B x N PxB
King's Indian Defence 1 9 Q-Q4 Q-B2
20 Q-Bs QxQ
Capablanca Yates 21 N x Q P-N3
White Black 22 N (Bs)-R.t R-N I
I P-Q4 N-KB3 23 o-o-o P-QN4
z N-KB3 P-KN3 24 N-B5 R-N3
3 N-B3 P-Q4 25 P-R4 N-R4
4 B-B4 B-Nz 26 P-QN3 BP x P
5 P-K3 o-o 2 7 BP x P PxP
28 N (B3) X p R-QB3 44 . . . B-N4

29 K-N2 N-B3 45 N-Q6 B-Qz
30 R-Q2 P-QR-4 46 N (R5) -B4 R-Rz
3 1 KR-Q 1 N-Q4 47 N-K4 P-R3
32 P-N3 R-KB2 48 P-B4 i3--KI
33 N-Q3 R-QN2 49 N-K5 R-RI
34 N-K5 R(B3)-B2 5o R-QB 1 B-Bz
35 R-Q4 K-N2 5 1 R-B6 B-N I
36 P-K4 PxP 52 N-B5 R-K I
37 R x P R-N4 53 R-R6 R-K2
38 R-QB4 RxR 54 K-R3 B-Bz
39 N x R B-Q2 55 P-QN4 N-Bz
56 R-B6 N-N4ch
Capablanca now evolves a re
57 K-N2 N-Qs
markable idea : while one Knight
58 R-R6 B-K 1
attack s the Rook Pawn the other
59 P-N4 K-B3
one circles about to strike at it
6o N-K4ch K-Nz
again, gaining time meanwhile by
61 N-Q6
a tt ac k in g the Rook four times in
succession ! The Knights gain more and more
This is th e pos ition : territory.
61 . . . B-N4
62 R-R5 B-B8
63 R-R8
Threatens 64 N-K8ch, K-R2
65 N-B6ch, K-Nz 66 P-N5 , and
mate at N8.
63 . . . P-N4
64 BP x P PxP
65 P x P B-N7
66 R-K8 R-QB2
67 R-Q8 N-B3
68 N-K8ch K-B I
6g N x R NxR
Of cou rse not 40 N x N as 70 K-B3 B-N2
4 I R x B ch followed by 42 K x N 71 K-Q4 B-B 1
is fatal fo r Black. 72 P-N6 N-N2
73 N-K8 N-Q I
41 N-K4 74 P-QN5 K-N I
42 N(K4) -Q6 75 P-N5 K-BI
43 N-N7 76 P-N7ch K-N I
44 N (N7) x P 77 P-KN6 Resigns
The rest (for Capablanca) is a Mate follows in a few moves, by

matter of technique, but Capa 78 K-K3, B-Nz 79 N-N4 and So
blanca's technique in converting an N-B6.
advantage in m ate ria l into a win A masterpiece that only Capa
is always a priceless lesson. blanca could have c reated .
345 Something wicked this way comes.

SHAKESPEARE ANNOTATES IO . . . P-KB4
A CHESS GAME
In a book called Chesslets, by Though this be madness, yet
Dr. J . Schumer, all the games are there is method in't.
annotated by quotations from vari II B x B
ous writers. The ripest fruit falls first.
Here is one of the games, with
II ... KxB
comments by Shakespeare :
. . . would be rid of such an enemy.
STRATFORD-ON-AVON, I 925 12 P x P PxP

Queen's Pawn Game
. . . food for p owder, food for
Atkins Saunders powder.
White Black
1 3 B-K2 P-Q R4
I P-Q4
I4 P-KN4
To show our simple skill,
Playing the mouse in absence of
That is the true beginning.
the cat.
I ... N-KB3
I4 . . . N-B4
2 P-QB4 P-KN3
xs P x P BxP
3 N-QB3 P-Q3
I 6 o-o-o N(Nx)-R3
. . . to climb steep hills 1 7 QR-N x ch
Requires slow pace at first.
Sits the wind in that comer ?
4 P-K4 B-N2
I7 . . . K-R I
To be direct and honest is not safe.
Thou marshall 'st me the way
5 N-B3
that I was going ;
6 P-KR3
. . . to be forestalled ere we come I 8 Q-K3
to fall . 19 P-QR3
6 ... o-o Instinct is a great matter ; I was

7 B-K3 N-Q 2 a coward on instinct.
. . . retire into your trenches. 19 . . . B-N3
8 Q-Q2 P-K4 2o R7N5

9 P-Qs Defer no time, delays have
My purpose, is, indeed, a horse of dangerous ends.
that colour. 20 . . . N-N5
9 ... N (B3)-N I Some Cupid kills with arrows,
There i s n o virtue like necessity. some with traps . . .
. . . to the noble mind
The better part of valour is Rich gifts wax poor when givers
discretion. prove unkind.
IO B-R6 21 N-K R4
By the pric k ing of my thumbs When I shun Scylla , your father,

I fall into Charybdis, your Omitted, all the voyage of their

mother. life
Is bound in shallows and in
21 . . . N-N6ch
miseries.
Stand not upon the order of your
27 Q x Q
going,
But go at once. What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.
22 K-QI
My grief lies onward and my joy
27 . . . R x Qch
28 K-K I
behind.
22 . . . . . . to fear the worst oft cures the
worse.
Courage mounteth with occasion.
28 . . .
2 3 K-KI 2 9 K-B2
Something is rotten in the state
True hope is swift, and :flies with
of Denmark.
swallow's wings.
23 . . . B-K5
29 . . . RxN
Cassie, I love thee ;
If it were done when 'tis done,
But never more be officer of mine.
then 'twere well
24 Q x B It were done quickly .
. . . it goes much against my 30 K-N3

stomach.
. . . naked as I am I will assault
,
24 . . . Q x Pch thee.
Lady, you are the cruell'st she 30 . . . R-B5

alive. 31 R x R
25 K-QI Off with his head I
One woe doth tread upon an 3I Px Rch

other's heel, 32 K x P
So fast they follow.
. . . there's a special providence in
25 . . . R-B5 the fall of a sparrow.
The Gordian knot of it he will 32 . . . N (B7)-Q5
unloose. 33 R-N2 R-Q I
2 6 R-B1 Ill blows the wind that profits
Hoist with his own petar. nobody.
26 . . . Q Q5 ch
-
34 B-N4 P-R3
35 B-QI N-QB4
Striving to better, oft we mar
36 R-Q2 R-B t ch
what's well.
37 I<:-N4
The eagle suffers little birds to

There is a tide in the affairs of sing.
men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads
37 . . . R-N t ch
on to fortune ; Draw agreed

We cannot all be masters, nor 21 R x Q N x Qch

all masters cannot be truly 22 P x N QR x Q
followed.
. . . your hearts are mighty, your
skins are whole.
All's well that ends well.
346
UNDEVELOPED PIECES
WIN GAME
Bronstein won a beautiful game
from Botvinnik, despite the fact
that after 22 moves the pieces he
had left were still on their original At first glance, Botvinnik has a
squares ! winning game. He is ahead in
Here is the score of the game : material, with Rook and two Pawns
for two minor pieces. He has the
MOSCOW, 1 944 advantage in position, with his
Ruy Lopez Rooks controlling the open files,
while Bronstein's pieces are still at
Bronstein Botvinnik
home.
White Black
The game continued :
I P-K4 P-K4
2 N-KB3 N-QB3 23 P x P PxP
3 B-Ns P-QR3 24 B-Q2 R-Q6
4 B-R4 N-B3 25 R-R5 R-QN6
s B-K2 26 B-B 1
6 R-K1 P-QN4 But not the natural 26 B B3 - ,
7 B-N3 P-Q3 when 26 . . . P-Ns 27 B-Q4, P-B6

8 P-B3
might be more than White could
9 P-KR3 B-K3
bear.
10 P-Q4 BxB
II QxB PxP 26 . . . P-B3
12 NxP NxN 27 R-R3 R-Q6
13 PxN P-B4 28 R x R PxR
14 PxP PxP 29 B-K3 RKs
15 P-Ks N-Q2 30 K-B3 R-Ns
16 P-QR4 ! 3 1 B-B r P-N4
32 P-KN3 R-QBs
In order to weaken Black's
33 B-K3 P-R4
Queen side Pawns .
34 P x P P-Nsch
16 . . . P-Bs 35 K-B2 R-B7ch
1 7 Q-N3 R-K1 36 N-Q2 RxP
1 8 R-Q I B-R5 37 B-B4 R-R7
1 9 Q-N4 B x Pch 38 K-K3 R-R6
2o K x B NxP 39 K-Q4 K-B2
40 K-K4 34 7
41 K-Q4 TWENTY - ONE MOVES
42 P-R6 WITH PIECES,
43 K-B4 TEN WITH PAWNS
44 K-Bs ! From the eighth move on, in his
game against Cohn at St. Petersburg
The plausible 44 N-N3 is danger
in 1 909, Rubinstein never touched
ous, if not fatal. The continuation
his Pawns, but made 2I moves in
could be 44 . . . R-B3ch 45 K x NP
succession with his pieces . Then he
(if 45 N-Bs, P-N6, or if 45 K x QP,
made 10 Pawn moves in a row, and
R-B6ch wins) R-B7 46 N-Q2,
his opponent resigned !
K-N3 47 N-B4, R-B7, and the
Had the game continued, Rubin
Bishop is threatened with capture.
stein would have made five more
44 . . . R-N2 Pawn moves to force mate-with a
45 N-N3 K-N3 Pawn.
46 K-B4 R-N3 Here is this unique game, one of
47 N-Bs ! K-R2 Rubinstein's many masterpieces in
48 K-N3 P-Q7 this tournament :
49 B x P R-Q3
so B-B4 R-Q8 ST. PETERSBURG, 1 909
5 1 N-K4 ! Queen's Pawn Game
White avoids the little pitfall Cohn Rubinstein

5 1 K x P, R-Qsch 52 K-B3, R x B, White Black
and Black wins. I P-Q4 P-Q4
2 N-KB3 P-QB4
51 . . . K-N3 3 P-QB4 P x BP
52 N-B2 R-N8ch 4 PxP Q x Qch
53 K-B2 R-QR8 s KxQ N-QB3
54 K-N2 R-R6 6 P-K3 B-Ns
ss N x P R-QB6 7 BxP P-K3
56 N-K3 R-Q6 8 P-QR3 BxP
57 N-B2 R-Q8 g P-N4 B-Q3
I o B-N2 N-B3
The Pawn cannot be rescued by
1 1 QN-Q2 K-K2
57 P-N6, as then 58 N-K I ,
I 2 K-K2 B-K4
. . .
R-Q8 59 N-B3 followed b y 6o

13 B x B NxB
N-Q2 wins the Pawn.
1 4 KR-QB1 QR-QB1
58 N x P K-B4 1 5 B-N3 KR-Q I
59 N-B6 R-Q2 16 N-B4 N x N(B5)
6o K-B3 K-K3 17 R X N RxR
6I K-B4 K-B4 18 B x R N-Ks
62 N-Q4ch K-Ks Threatens to win a Pawn by
63 N-K6 K-B4 1 8 . . . R-Q7ch
.
64 N-B8 Resigns
19 K-K I BxN
If 64 . . . R-Q 1 65 B-Q6 !, and the 2o PxB N-Q3
Rook Pawn goes on to become a 2I B-K2 R-QB I
Queen. 22 K-Q2 N-Bsch
r86 WONDERS A N D CURIOSITIES O F CHESS
23 BxN RxB 36 . . . P-R5

24 R-QBr RxR 37 K-Nr P-N6
25 KxR K-B3 38 RP x P PxP
26 K -Q2 K-N4 Resigns
27 K-K2 If 39 P-B4 there follows 39 . . .
The alternative, going after the P x P 4o P-K5, P-N7 4 1 P-K6,
Pawns on Black's Queen side is too K-N6 42 P-K7, P-B6 43 P-K8(Q) ,
slow, viz. 27 K-Q3, K-R5 28 P-B7 mate.
K-Q4, K-R6 29 K-B5, K x P
30 K-Q6, K-N7 3 1 K-B7, P-QN4 ! , 348
and Black wins.
FISCHER BLITZES
27 . . . K-R5 BLITZ SPECIALISTS
2 8 K-Br K-R6 Fischer made a sensational score
29 K-Nr P-K4 in the strongest blitz tournament
30 K-RI P-QN4 ever playedI Despite the presence of
3 1 K-NI P-B4 such specialists in the art of light
32 K-Rr P-N4 ning chess as Tal, Petrosian and
33 K-N r P-KR4 Smyslov {three former World's
34 K-Rr Champions) as well as Korchnoy,
Bronstein and Reshevsky, Fischer
This is the position before Rubin-
emerged with a score of 19 points
stein makes the break-through :
out of 22 games played, away ahead
of Tal with r4t. Korchnoy q,
Petrosian 1 3t and Bronstein 1 3 .
Fischer rarely used u p the five
minutes per game allotted to each
player, but won most of his games
within two or three minutes !
The quality of chess he played at
this incredible speed may be seen
from his game against Matulovic,
which follows.
ZAGREB, 1970
Ruy Lopez
34 . . . P-N5
35 P-K4 Fischer Matulovic
Or 35 P x P, RP x P 36 K-Nr , White Black
P-Bs 37 P x P, P x P 38 K-Rr, I P-R4 P K4
-
P-N6 39 BP x P, P x P 40 P x P, 2 N-KB3 N-QB3

K x P, and Black gathers up White's 3 B-Ns P-B4
remaining Pawns. 4 N-B3 PxP
s QN x P P-Q4
35 . . . P x KP 6 NxP PxN
36 P x KP 7 NxN Q-N4
If 36 P x NP, P x P 37 K-Nr, 8 Q-K2 N-B3
P-K6 38 P x P, P K5 39 K-Rr,
- 9 P-KB4 Q x BP
P-N6, and Black wins. IO P-Q4 Q-Rsch
I I P-N3 Q-R6 same time, and in the very same

1 2 B-N5 P-QR3 room, Spassky's game against Pil
1 3 B-QR4 B-Q2 nik and Geller's game against
14 B x N PxB Panno, matched Keres's game
1 5 Q x Pch K-B2 against Naj dorf move jOY move !
,
1 6 N-K5ch PxN Here is the score of this remark

17 R-B 1 ch K-K2 able game (or games) :
18 B x B KxB
1 9 R-B7ch K-KI GOTHENBURG, 1955
2o R x BP B-Q3 Sicilian Defence
2 1 R x NP R-QB1
Keres Najdorf
22 o-o-o Q x RP
White Black
23 P x P B-K2
1 P-K4 P-QB4
The position at this point : 2 N-KB3 P-Q3
3 P-Q4 PxP
4 NxP N-KB3
5 N-QB3 P-QR3
6 B-KN5 P-K3
7 P-B4 B-K2
8 Q-B3 P-R3
9 B-R4 P-KN4
Black offers a Pawn to enable
him to occupy K4 with his pieces.
zo P x P KN-Q2
u N x P! PxN
1 2 Q-R5ch K-B 1
24 R x Bch ! KxR
25 Q-N7ch K-K3 This is the position :
26 Q-Q7ch KxP
27 Q-Q5ch K-B3
28 R-B1 ch K-N3
29 Q-K6ch K-N4
30 R-B5ch K-N5
31 R-B4ch KxP
32 Q-N4 mate
349
KERES'S RARE
BRILLIANCY APPEARS ON
TWO OTHER BOARDS At this point we might expect the
Keres's comment in summing up plausible 1 3 B-B4, when this might
one of his most brilliant games, follow : 13 . . . N-K4 14 CHX:h,
was " This e xc eptionally exciting K-N2 15 B-KN3, QN-B3 !, and
game, full of sacrifices, is of a type Black maintains a Knight at his K4
rarely seen in contests between outpost.
grandmasters . ' ' Obviously, White mu st try to
D espite this assertion, at the very prevent the key move to the defence,
15 . . . QN-B3 ! I give this explana 22 . . . Q x R costs the Queen after

tion for the better apprec iation of 2 1 B x Pch.
Keres's next move. 19 R-B1 ch K-K 1
13 B-N5 1 1 20 Q x Nch K-Q2
The beauty of this moves lies not 2 1 R-B7 N-B3
in the simple fact that 1 3 . . . P x B Black seems to be sheltered
allows a White win by 14 o -och, against further attack, but Keres
but because the Bishop attacks tiUJ maintains the pressure.
shadow of a Knight (Black's Queen Another diagram seems to be in
Knight, which has not yet moved) order :
and is poised to capture it the n1oment
it moves to B3 or Qz.
This is as subtle a move as I have
ever seen on a chessboard.
White is now prepared for this
continuation : 1 3 . . . N-K4 14 B-N3,
N(N1 )-B3 (to replace the Knight
at K4 with another in the event of
its capture) 15 B(N5) x N, P x B
16 B x N, P x B 1 7 o-och, and
White wins.
13 . . . K-N2
22 N-Q5 !
There is no relief in 13 . . . Q-KI
1 4 o-och, K-N2 1 5 P x Pch, K-R2 Threatens 23 N x B, N x N 24
1 6 R-B7ch, and White wins. B-R4, and White wins.
N-K4 22 . . . RxP
q o-o
If 14 . Q-N I 15 P-N6 1 , B X B
. .
If 22 . . . P x N 23 Q x Pch, K-K1
16 Q x B (stronger than 1 6 R-B7ch) , 24 Q-N6, P x P (or 24 . . . K-Q2
Q-Q1 1 7 R-B7ch, K x P 1 8 R-K7 !, 25 P x P, and Black must lose a
and Black has no defence (Keres) . piece) 25 R-N7ch, K-Q2 26 Q
Q6ch, K-K 1 27 R-N8ch, and mate
follows next move.
If 1 5 . . . QN-B3 (or to Q2) 1 6 23 P-R4 Q-R1
B (N5) x B, P x B 1 7 B x Nch, P x B 24 N x B NxN
1 8 Q-B7 m ate, or if 1 5 . . . Q-N 1 25 Q-N5 Resigns
16 B x Nch, P x B 1 7 B-KS ! , Q x B
If 25 . . . Q-Q 1 , there follows 26
1 8 P x Pch, and Black must give up
Q x Pch, K-B2 27 Q-B5ch, K-NI
his Queen or be mated.
28 B x Pch, K-R1 29 B x N, and
1 6 P x Pch RxP White wins.
1 7 R B7ch !
- KxR
18 Q x R PxB 35 0
Keres shows this pretty win after CHERNEY EXPERIENCES
18 . . . Q-R1 : 19 R-B1ch, B-B3 PSYCHIC PHENOMENON
20 B-K8ch I, K x B (if 20 . . . Q x B One of the strangest coincidences
21 Q-R7ch) 2 1 Q x Nch, K-K2 in chess, appropriately enough,
22 R x B ! , and the rec apture by happened to me recently. I was
looking at the score of an interesting been made by two other players 23

game, when th,e phone rang. I an years before Atkins made them
swered, and the breathless voice of a against Jacobs ! "
friend said, I j ust came across a
" Here i s the game :
brilliant game where the winner
sacrifices everything in sight except BOSTON, 1 892
a Kni ght He mates with the
.
Danish Gambit
Knight, although his opponent still
Young Dore
has two Rooks, two Bishops and a
White Black
Knight on the board. Set up the
I P-K4 P-K4
pieces on your pocket-board and
2 P-Q4 PxP
let me read off the moves of this
3 P-QB3 PxP
little beauty . " Almost without
4 B-QB4 N-K B 3
waiting, he proceeded to call out
5 N-KB3 NxP
the moves of the game. As he came
6 o-o -Q3
to the n th move, I said, " Does it
7NxP NxB
continue with I I R-QBI P-N4
8 R-K i ch
,
B-K2
12 R x N, P x R 1 3 N-K5 ? "
9 N-Q 5 N-Q B3
" How did you know the next
IO B-N 5 P-KB3
moves ? " he said.
I I R-Q B I P-QN4
" J ust a wild guess," I answered.
12 R x N PxR
" Now let me read the rest of the
moves to you . " The position at this point :
And I continued to call out the
moves until White announced mate.
My friend was amazed at the coin
cidence-that I had been looking at
the very game that he had tele
phoned to tell me about.
This would have been extraor
dinary enough, but there's more to
the story than that !
" What do you think of the
game ? " he asked . " Wasn't it
played beautifully by Atkins ? "
" By Atkins ? " I asked.
" Yes, the game is Atkins 1 3 N-K5 ! PxB
Jacobs, London, 1 9 I 5 , and it appears 1 4 Q-R5ch P-N3
on page 85 of Du Mont's a o o 15 N-B6ch BxN
Miniature Ga.mes of Chess. " I6 N x NPch Q-K2
" Very interesting, " I answered, There is no relief in 16 . K-B2,
. .
" but the game I was looking at as I7 N-K5ch forces the Ki ng to

when you called was Young-Dort;, the K in g file, and into a discovered
Boston, I892 , and appears on page check costing the Q u een.
4 I 2 o f Franklin K. Young's Gra nd

Tactics of Chess ! " I 7 R x Qch BxR
" Not only was I looking a t the IS N-K5h K-Q I
same game you c all ed to tell me I9 N B 7ch
- K-K I
about, but the moves I followed had 2 0 N-Q 6 ch K-Q I
2 1 Q- K8ch RxQ 25 R x Q RxQ

22 N-B7 mate 26 R x N R-B I
The final position : 27 R-B3
This guards the square KB3 , and
assures the safe return of the Knight
at N5.
The position is hopeless for
Blac k, but Bogolyubov fought on
for 30 m ore moves before resigning .
35 Z
WORLD CHAMPION FAILS
TO MAKE TEAM
Botvinnik failed to make the
team which represented the U.S.S.R.
for the 1 oth Olympiad held at
Helsinki in 1952 .
35 1
A ballot o f the team members
BOGO'S CONCENTRATION
was held in which on l y one vote was
LEADS TO ABERRATION
cast in favor of the World Cham
Bogolyubov, playing Black in his
pion. His failure to qualify was
game against Laj os Steiner at
owing to his mediocre results in the
Berlin in 1 928, took two hours
previous Soviet Championship.
deciding on his 24th move, only to
blunder and lose a piece instantly.
This was the position, with Black 35 3
to move : SACRIFICE OF
THREE PIECE S ON
ONE SQUARE
Dubinin sacrifice d three pieces
on one squ are- KN7 .
Here is how he did it :
ROSTOV-ON-DON, 1 936
French Defence
Dubinin Petrov
White Black
I P-K4 P-K3
2 P-Q4 P-Q4
Steiner had j ust played 24 3 N-QB3 PxP
P-QR4, attacki ng the Q u een . Bogo 4NxP N-Q2
saw that 24 . . . R x Q 25 P x Q left 5 N-KB3 KN-B3
two of his piec es en prise. He feared 6 N-N3 P-B4
the complications arising from 24 7 P x..P BxP
. . . Q x NP 2 5 Q x Pch, N-K3 26 8 B-Q3 Q-N3
N-K3, so he thought for two hours 9
and then moved 24 . . . Q-B5. Play 10 Q-K2 R-KI
continued : I I P-B3 N-B I
12 N-K s N-N3 If 26 . . . K-R2 27 R-Q3 wins, or

13 BxN RP x B if 26 . . . K-B1 27 Q x N, R-Q2
14 P-KR4 Q-B 2 28 N-N6ch, K-KI 29 Q-R8 mate.
15 P-R5 PxP 27 Qx Nch K-NI
x6 N x RP N-R2 28 R-Q3 Resigns
17 N x NP !
The first sacrifice 354
I7 . . . KxN NEW MALADY
1 8 Q-R5 FISCHER FEVER
Threatens 19 B-R6ch, K-B3 Fischer's opponents seem to suffer
(if 19 . . . K-R1 20 N x Pch forces from Fischer Fever (as Capablanca's
Black to give up his Queen or be opponents were affected by Capa
mated) 20 Q-R4ch, K x N 21 blanca Fright) .
B-B4ch , winnin g the Queen. his m atches
During the course of
in 1 9 7 1 1972 in The World
and
18 ... B-B1 Title Series, Fischer played Tai
19 R-K x K-N x manov, Larsen, Petrosian and
2o R-K3 R-K2 Spassky .
21 R-N3ch B-N2 Each of Fischer's opponents asked
22 R x Bch for a few days' postponement
Once again White gives up a because of illness.
p iece at N 7 .
22 . . . KxR 355
2 3 B-R6ch K-R1 COMPUTERS
24 R-Q1 N-B3 .AltE ONLY HUMAN
Compu ters may never h ave the
If 24 . . . B-Q 2 25 N x Pch, R x N
26 Q x R wins. i magin ation to play chess artisti
cally, to compose a beautiful p iece
This is the position, with White of mu sic , or to write a poem that
to move : touches the heart, but they are
beginning to acquire some hu man
characteristics .
In a game played between two
computers at Boston in 1972, one
of the computers lost on time !
Herewith the score of the game :
BOSTON, 1972
Ruy Lopez
Chess 3 . 6 Tech
White Black
25 B-N7ch ! x P-K4 P-
2 N-KB3 N-QB3
The third, and this time fatal
3 B-N5 N-B3
sacrifice on the same square. 4 o-o B-B4
25 . . . KxB 5 N-B3 P-Q3
26 Q-Ns ch K-R1 6 B x Nch PxB
7P-Q4 PxP 35 6
SNxP o-o
SEVEN QUEENS ON
9B-N5 B-KN5 THE BOARD
10Q-Q3 BxN I thought the limit on Queen
II Q x B R-N 1 promotions in actual play had been
12 B x N QxB reached with the quintet of Queens
13 Q x Q Px Q that appeared on the board in the
1 4 P-QN3 R-N5 Tresling-Benima game (see Curious
1 5 P-KR3 B-K3 fact #28 1 ) , and in the game
16 P-N4 R-Q5 Alekhine-Gregoriev, quoted by Al
1 7 QR-QI RxR ekhine in his book My Best Games
xS N x R K-N2 of Chess 1 9o8-1923 (on the authen
19 N-K3 K-N3 ticity of which, though, some doubt
2o P-KB4 K-N2 has been cast) .
2 1 K-N2 R-QN1 Recently, however, Donald A.
22 K-B3 R-N4 Keast wrote me from Australia,
23 P-B4 R-QR4 enclosing the score of a game
24 P-KB5 B-Q2 played there, which features a
25 R-B2 R-K4 truly amazing finish. After White's
26 R-Q2 P-QR3 30th move, no less than seven
27 P-KR4 P-B4 (count them, seven) Queens appear
28 N-Q5 B-B3 on the board at one and the same
29 N x QBP B x Pch time !
30 K-B4 P-KR4 Here is how it happened :
31 P x P P-R4
32 R x P BxP AUSTRALIA, ca. 1965
33 P-R6ch K-N3 Sicilian Defence
34 P-R5ch K x P(R4)
35 R x P R-K7 Sumpter King
36 K x B R-B7ch White Black
37 K-K5 R-R7 I P-K4 P-QB4
38 N-Q5 K-N4 2 N-KB3 N-QB3
39 N-B3 R-R5 3 P-Q4 PxP
4o R x P KxP 4NxP P-K3
4 1 N-K4 R-R4ch 5 N-QB3 Q-B2
42 K-Q6 K-N3 6 B-K2 P-QR3
43 R-QR7 P-R5 7 o-o P-QN4
44 R x P K-B2 8 K-R1 N-B3
45 R-R7ch K-N3 9 P-B4 P-N5
46 P-R4 R-B4 10 P-K5 PxN
47 P-R5 R-B6 II P x N P x NP
48 R-QN7 K-B4 12PxP P x R(Q)
49 N x P R-B6 1 3 P x R(Q)
50 P-R6 R-R6
5 1 P-R7 White threatens 14 N x P, Q x Q
1 5 N x Qch followed by 1 6 N x R.
Black (Computer Tech) lost the
game at this point by exceeding 13 . . . Q x RP
the time limit. 14 Q x P P-!4
1 5 P-!4 P-R5 35 7
1 6 P-Rs P-R6 SUICIDE ON THE
1 7 P-R6 Q-N8 CHESSBOARD
1 8 Q-N8 P-R7 Good players usually resign in a
19 P-R7 P-R8 (Q) lost position ; . others keep on
20 P-R8 (Q) Q-Ns struggling until they are mated.
21 B-K3 NxN One player put an end to his
22 B x N Q (R8)-R6 difficulties in a unique way
2 3 B-R5 he committed chessic s uicide I
Threatens 24 Q x Pch and mate He helped construct a sell-mate
next. position.
23 . . . This was the way the board
24 P-Bs looked toward the end of a game
25 P x P o-o-o between Bialas and Hecht, at
26 R x P Q (B2)-!4 Pyrmont in 1963 :
27 P-B3 Q-Q3
28 B-N4 R-K I
29 P-K7 dis .ch K-NI
30 P x B (Q)
This is the position, with seven( !)
Queens on the board :
Bialas (White) to play, con

tinued :
I K-RI P-R6
2 R-KNI P-R7
3 P-R6 R x P mate
Black resigned. The sight of three
White Queens arrayed powerfully
on the eighth rank, was alone
enough to frighten Black to death.
A curious feature of this strange
game is that White's original
Queen still stands at Q I , from where
she never made a move.
INDEX
The references are to the numbered headings, not to page numbers.
Adams offers Queen six times, 2 1 7 Blackbume announces mate in 16

Admission tickets requested, 85 moves in blindfold game, 68
Advice to spectators at chess tourna- Blackbume plays everybody in so
ments, 1 3 years, 1 89
al-Adli, problem by, 1 3 8 Blathy's problems no picnic, 95
Alekhine beats odd-numbered players, Blind problem composer, 1 4
2 30 Blindfold in the round, 6
Alekhine carried to table, 88 Blindfold match b y masters, 3 1 5
Alekhine's day of rest, 1 4 2 Blindfold play b y girl prodigy, 244
Alekhine's Defence played in 1 862, 4 0 Blindfold players in tournament, 1 34
Alekhine makes worst blunder ever, Blindfold play forbidden in Russia, 7
1 75 Blindfold simultaneous records, 20
Alekhine mates four allies, 43 Blindfold tandem exhibition, 2 1 0
Alekhine misses " Noah's Ark " trap, Bogo takes two hours o n a move-and
26o blunders, 3 5 1
Alekhine Queens one Pawn after Book play refuted, 3 3
another, 2 5 5 Both sides sacrifice freely, 3 28
Alekhine's score at Bled, 1 78 Botvinnik makes longest combination,
Alekhine's 77 games without loss, 236 322
Alekhine takes little time, 2 1 8 Botvinnik trains for smokers, I I 3
Alekhine wins most brilliancy prizes, Breakthrough by sacrifice only, 326
321 Brilliancy game is all book, 23 1
Allies (five) blunder, 1 39 Brilliancy in lightning tournament, 320
American Chess Bulletin's advertise- Brilliancy prize game, first, 3 1 9
ment for genius, 67 Brilliancy published earlier, 1 96
Analysis permitted in match, 58 Bronstein's backward pieces win game,
Annotation by quotation, 345 346
Annotations, comprehensive, 78 Bronstein has a dream, 300
Announced mate longer than rest of Bruening wins with Pawns, 27
game, 55 Burille scores as Aj eeb, 1 26
Automaton wins tournament, 269 Burille solves them fast, 99
Averbach's misconception of rules of Butter is valuable prize, 1 60
chess, 280 Buzecca as first simultaneous blind
fold player, 1 9
Babson, problem by, 5 1
Bachelors win match, 1 02
Baderi: Baden prizewinners beat each Cambridge loses to insane asylum, 93
other, 70 Capablanca and Alekhine ponder on
Baldheads win match, 1 0 1 one move, 228
Ballard gives u p all his Pawns, 92 Capablanca and Flohr have disastrous
Banks beats champion and challenger, scores, 86
I SO Capablanca answers advertisement, 67
Bardeleben's ups and downs, '239 Capablanca's book features lost games,
Barnes gives odds, 54 250
Barry mates with Ruy Lopez, 249 Capablanca defends against Marshall's
Bellingham cables resignation, 1 64 innovation, 37
Benko picks up pieces and loses, 265 Capablanca's early simultaneous scores,
Black wins match, 238 124
195
Capablanca falls deliberately into trap, Dake defeats author of Die Engliscke
3 29 Pa,tie, 3 1
Capablanca gets Queen odds, 3 1 2 Dake loses in seconds, 1 5 8
Capablanca loses i n I 3 moves, I S O Dake mated i n nine moves, 1 45
Capablanca loses o n time limit, 1 2 8 Dake mated in 10 moves, 1 46
Capablanca's lost games make slim Damiano offers some advice, 2 1 6
book, us Death a t the chessboard, 3 2 4
Capablanca never checkmated, 193 Dice govern chess moves, 204
Capablanca ' s only loss in I o years, I 6g Disaster strikes Lasker and Capa
Capablanca's simultaneous feat, IS blanca in same way, 72
Capablanca takes two minutes, 49 Disastrous year for board champions,
Capablanca utilizes Knight wheel, 344 18
Capped Knight achieves mate, 62 Drawing master, 17
Carlsbad 's curious incidents, 309 Drawn game extraordinary, 2 79
Caxton's chess book sold at auction, Dubinin sacrifices three times on one
3 70 square, 3 5 3
Charousek copiesHandbuck, I9o
Charousek's gambit play, 30 Endgame classic anticipated, 323
Checker Champion in 1 8 5 I , 1 6 Ending b y Grigoriev, 1 3 3
Checker master's feat, 1 80 Ending by Rinck, 133
Chess and Checkers sister games ? , I 73 Ending b y Sanz, 3 2 3
Chess and insanity, 75 Ending by Wojciechowski, 323
Chess as antidote to ills, 343 En passant capture checkmates, 3 1 6
Chess Champion in I 8 5 1 , 1 6 Epaulet mate a t long distance, 2 3 5
Chess in a dream, 300 Exception wins tournament, 8 4
Chess is world's most popular game,
194 Fanatical devotee, 7 9
Chess is young man's game, uS Feyerfeil forgets a Pawn, z66
Chess movies, first, g8 Fine as Giant-killer, 1 92
Chess once banned in Russia, 2 4 1 Fine's blindfold feat, 1 3 1
Chess-playing village, 1 2 0 Fine's fine scores, 93
Chess taught i n public schools, 7 Fine loses in seven moves, 1 48
Clean sweeps by Lasker, Capablanca, First book dealing with chess, 334
Fischer, 9 1 First brilliancy prize game, 319
Club, Vera Menchik, 1 2 First chess magazine, 3 3 7
Cohn's error leads t o brilliancy, 253 First chess match b y telegraph, 3 3 8
Coincidence in games, strange, 350 First chess match b y correspondence,
Coincidence in problems, 1 40 336
Coincidence of combinations, 242 First chess movies, 98
College has masters on team, 221 First chess problem, 3 3 2
Combination i n the notes wins prize, First historical document connected
226 with chess, 3 3 1
Computer loses on time limit, 355 First International Chess Tournament,
Computer plays in tournament, 313 so
Computers play match, 3 1 4 First legal document dealing with chess,
Congdon escapes b y stalemate, 5 2 333
Consulting masters lose quickly, II7 First newspaper column on chess, 3 3 5
Correspondence game, lengthy, 284 First problem-composing tournament,
Correspondence quickie, 42 339
Critic displeased with Alekhine ' s style, First time limit game, 287
107 First Women's International Tourna
Curious Castling coup, 318 ment, 340
Curious conditions for correspondence Fischer is Champion of U.S. at 14, 272
play, 96 Fischer is Grandmaster at 15, 273
Fischer loses in I 4 moves, I 5 3 Keres beats nine World Champions, 330

Fischer on openings, 6 Keres brilliancy duplicat ed instantly,
Fischer phenomenal in blitz, 348 349
Fischer scintillates in minutes, 283 King has appointment at Samarra, 278
Fischer touches a Pawn, I06 Kmoch loses in 8 moves, 1 4 7
Fischer wins title 8 times in a row, 298 Knight fork, most devastating, 292
Five Queens on the board, 28I Knight fork threat frightens Klaman,
Four Pawns' Attack in I 885, 25 291
Fox misses one-move win, 308 Knight patterned on Greek Horse, I I 2
Franklin first chess player and writer, Knights and Bishops reversed in
I 70 tournament, 63
Knights required to have chess skill,
Game, longest drawn, 3 207
Game, longest won, 2 Konigstedt cautions against Castling,
Game, oldest known, I 67 214
Game, shortest possible, 44 Koshnitzky finishes with opening
Game, shortest won (in master play), moves, 2 2 7
I Kostic's fabulous memory, 1 09
Games won by Pawns, 26, 2 7, 28, 29 Kujoth wins with Pawns, 2 8
Gilbert (Mrs.) announces long mates,
289 Land, problem by, 1 40
Girl prodigy plays blindfold, 244 Lasker does not move Queen, 1 9 7
Gold pieces game, IO Lasker regr et s lost games omissions,
Grandmaster learns the rules, 2 5 I I68
Grandmaster polished off, So Lasker's tournament losses, 39
Grigoriev wins endgame prizes, I 33 Lask er' s training for mat ch, 8 2
Grab wins games on time limit, 203 Lengthy games in match, 1 08

Grunfeld fails to get revenge, 38 Lengthy wins in s ucces sio n , 1 8 6
Grunfeld on openings, 5 Lieber-Gonotsky match score, 1 25
Gutmayer and chess mastery, 9 Lindermann loses in three, 262
Literature of chess exceeds all other
Harrwitz publishes Morphy's losses, 69 games, 206
Helms conducts chess column for 62 Longest drawn game, 3
years, 274 Longe st won game, 2
High school has masters on team, 222 Love conquers chess, 2 7 I
Hodges maintains clean record, 234 Lowenthal 's lead evaporates, 1 8 7
Hoffer's lengthy analy sis , 123 Lucena 's advice t o pla yers, 2 1 3
Hromadka comes a cropper, 84 Lucena' s mate , 1 3 2
Lyman wins with Pawns, 29
llj in-Genevsky learns moves twice, 4 1
Incongruous profession for chess mas- Mackenzie, problems by , 14, qo
ter, I 3 5 Manhattan merr y-go- ro u nd , 200
Indians risk loss of fingers, 2 2 5 Marache ' s quick progress, 48
Inexhaustibility o f chess, 1 7 7 Maroc zy's simultaneous feat, 167
Insane asylum beats Cambridge, 9 4 Maroczy's tactics duplicated, 1 36
In sani ty and chess, 7 5 Marshall's 40 scoreless years against
International Chess Tournament, first, Lasker, 45
50 Marshall's go l d pieces coup, 1 0
Marshall impresses i n simultaneous, 1 6 2
Janowsky brilliancy anticipated, 1 9 6 Marshall likes Burn ga me , 2 3 2
Janowsky offers Knight odds to Marshall wins third prize, 1 3 7
Marshall, 1 I9 Marshall wins with Paw ns, 2 6
J anowsky spurns four different perpet Match played i n heat, 4 7
uals, 3 2 7 McConnell plays greatest geniuses, 2 2 4
Mentges copies Marshall, 205 Perpetual check rule, strange, 1 79

Mexican Army Officers Fine and Kash Petrosian wins Championship in first
dan, S9 match, I I 4
Mexico City's prizewinners beat each Philidor and Philidor's Defence, 23
other, 7 1 Philidor disapproves of 2 N-KB3, 2 1 5
Mieses i n Hastings Tournaments, 129 Philidor dual prodigy, 201
Mikenas misses brilliancy, 2 I I Physicians prescribe chess for ill s , 343
Moreau 's deplorable score, 4 Pillsbury demonstrates memory, 1 8 1
Morphy's fantastic salary, 1 9 1 Pillsbury's exploit a t Hannover, 1 4 1
Morphy loses a blindfold game, 237 Pillsbury plays chess and checkers
Morphy's losses featured in book, 69 blindfold, I 7 1
Morphy mated in 12 moves, 1 49 Player commits chessic suicide, 357
Morphy mates by Castling, 3 1 7 Playing against Fischer induces fever,
Morpny offers to the W o rl d, 76 354
Morphy on openings, 6 Poorest tournament score, 4
Morphy plays blindfold at 1 2 , 307 Primer by " World 's Foremost Chess
Morphy plays five masters, 154 Expert," 1 8 5
Most drawn games in one tournament, Prizewinning problems have dual
1 05 solutions, 1 99
Most losses in one tournament, 1 05 Prodigy plays blindfold at eight, 275
Most wins in one tournament, 1 05 Problem, self-solving, 1 5 5
Mucklow's prize score, 77 Problems, coincidence in, 1 40
Purdy played more chess than Morphy,
Names of chess players, strange, I I 122
Napier's most brilliant game, 65
Nimzovich forbidden admission, 87
" Noah's Ark " trap missed by Alek- Queen and two Rooks sacrificed i n I 3
hine, 260 moves, 301
Nobel Peace Prize candidates, 2 1 9 Queen is cornered, 305
Number o f possible moves i n chess, 1 77 Queen is smothered, r oo
Queen makes 72 consecutive moves, 1 8 8
Oj anen develops his King, 277 Queen taken with check i s worst move,
O' Kelly new drawing master, 1 76 268
Oldest existing chess column, 341 Queens (2) lose game, 1 30
Oldest known chess game, 267 Queens (3) on long diagonal, 103
Olland dies at chessboard, 324 Queens (4 ) i n World Championship,
3II
Ol ymp ic team of World Champions,
25 8
Queens (5) on board, 2 8 1
Opening of the future, 22 Quotations used in annotations, 345
Openings, Fischer on, 6
Openings, Grunfeld on, 5 Race horses named after Steinitz and
Openings, Morphy on, 6 Capablanca, 6o
Reincarnation of ancient idea, 1 3 8
Painting sold at high price, 220 Reshevsky's exp ec tat ions, 8
Pawn chain, longest, 254 Reshevsky succeeds five times, fails
Pawn holds army at bay, 304 eight times, 297
Pawns all remain on board, 2 85 Reshevsky mated in 9 moves, 1 5 1
Pawns and pieces, fantastic arrange Reti sacrifices four Rooks , 299
ment of, 2 5 7 Rinck wins endgame prizes, 1 3 3
Pawns (except one) stay on for 9 4 Rook stands pat i n Rook ending, 294
moves, 261 Ropke , problem by, 155
Pawns on seventh rank position antici Rubinstein's brilliancy prizes, 1 27
pated, 2 1 2 Rubinstein defeats three greatest play-
Pawns, quadrupled, 256 ers, 66
Rubinstein escapes burning as witch, Steinitz's short brilliancies, most ex-

310 amples of, 1 5 2
Rubinstein falls twice i n same tiap, 3 5 Strange coincidence i n chess games, 350
Rubinstein misses mate i n two, 4 6 Strange names of chess players, I I
Rubinstein uses pieces only, then Strebeck's villagers play chess, 1 20
Pawns only, 347 Sumatia's men play chess all day, 243
Ruy Lopez offers useful advice, 73 Szabo misses mate in two moves, 2 4 8
Tal youngest World Champion, I I I

Samisch loses 1 5 games on time limit, Tal's Bishop imprisoned, 342
1 04 Tarrasch called " fast worker ", u6
Schlechter as drawing master, 1 5 Tarrasch keeps Pawns for g6 moves,
Schlechter disdains brilliancy prizes, 296
229 Tarrasch underdevelops, 1 4 3
Schlechter's drawn games, 1 74 Tarrasch wins in five minutes, 36
Schlechter fails to draw, 290 Tarrasch wins in five moves, 1 82
Schottlander loses gamble, 1 5 7 Tarrasch's brilliancy game anticipated,
Score, poorest tournament, 4 2 47
Seven Queens on the board, 356 Tartakover labors over miniature, 282
Shipley announces mate in 22 moves, 89 Tchigorin's good fortune with Queen's
Shortest correspondence game, 42 Gambit, 32
Shortest possible game, 44 Tchigorin's ill fortune at Monte Carlo,
Shortest tournament win, 1 163
Simultaneous against masters, Ten second blindfold by Fine, 1 3 1
Morphy's, 154 Ten year old plays i n master tourna-
Simultaneous blindfold play, first, 19 ment, 144
Simultaneous blindfold records, 20 Tenner eats chess pieces, 223
Simultaneous chess, gigantic display of, Time limit, expensive, 97
276 Time limit game, first, 1 86
Simultaneous play by Capablanca, 15, Tournament book makes late appear-
124 ance, 83
Simultaneous play by Maroczy, 1 67 Tournament competitors blindfolded,
Simultaneous play, record for, 53 134
Sir George Thomas holds double (and Tournament players, fastest, 2 5 9
doubles) titles, 233 Tournament's few drawn games, 1 83
Sir Walter Parratt's performance, 74 Transposed Knights, 24
Smothered mate threat wins, 132
Smyslov takes a minute, 325
Under promotion in 7 moves, 303
Smyslov's strange scores, 302
Unique mate by Pawn, 3 1 6
Snappy simultaneous by Marshall, 1 6 2
University offers course on Chess, 246
. Soviets train for chess, 288
U . S.S.R. has more chess than football
Spielmnn wins a game, 1 6 1
players, 245
Stahlberg breaks record for simulta
neous play, 5 3
Steiner misplaces King, 2 64 Vera Menchik Club, 1 2
Steinitz and Zukertort respond to Vidmar fails t o win first, 240
toast, 1 72 Vidmar finishes last, 159
Steinitz-Anderssen match score, 1 25 Von der Lasa objects to " Pleiades ",
Steinitz appreciated and depreciated, 209
I IO
Steinitz arrested as spy, 6 1 Wade could not win a game, 252
Steinitz i s I 3th, 202 Ware 's weird openings, 3 7
Steinitz notches up 16 in a row, I65 Watermarked paper i n Tournament
Steinitz offers Rook at five squares, go book, 56
200 WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OP CHESS
White and Black play perfect game, Yates lets Marshall escape, 309
208 Year of I 894 disastrous for board
Winawer moves Knight like Bishop, 263 champions, 1 8
Women players in Russian Champion Year o f 1 9 3 2 fatally dangerous, 1 66
ship, 5 7 Young's equations for Pawn safety,
World Champion Botvinnik can't 293
make team, 3 5 2 Young's formula for achieving check
World Champions o n Olympic team, mate, 295
258
World's Checker Champion in 1 85 1 , 16 Zukertort and Rosenthal match agree
World's Chess and Whist Champion, 64 ment, 195
World's Chess Champion in 1 85 1 , 16 Zukertort and Steinitz respond to
World's Chess Championship, record for toast, 1 72
21 Zukertort's big tournament lead, 1 84
Zukertort's remarka:ble career, 306
Yates beats detractor, 198 Zukertort-was he ever Zukertort ? ,
Yates book offers baker's dozen, 156 121
PLAYERS INDEX
The numbers refer' to the heading number of each curious fact.
Aaron-Filip, Stockholm ( 1 962) , 292 Capablanca-Marshall, New York (191 8) ,

Adams-Torre, New Orleans ( 1 920) , 2 1 7 34
Alekhine-Allies, Palma ( 1 935), 43 Capablanca-Mattison, Carlsbad (1929) ,
Alekhine-Koenlein, Dusseldorf ( 1908) , 132
242 Capablanca-Schroeder, New York
Alekhine-Lasker, Zurich ( 1 934) , 72 ( 1 9 1 6) , 226
Alekhine-Nenerakov, Moscow ( 1907) , Capablanca-Spielmann, Bad Kissingen
256 ( 1 928), I 6 I
Alekhine-Rubinstein, Moscow ( 1 9 1 0) , Capablanca-Tarasov, Cleveland (1922) ,
66 15
Alekhine-Sterk, Budapest ( 1 9 2 1 ) , 321 Capablanca-Treybal, Carlsbad (1929),
Amateur-Bruening, 27 257
Amateur-Goetz, Strasbourg ( 1 88o) , Capablanca-Yates, New York ( 1924) ,
303 344
Amateur-Koch, Munich (193 1 ) , 305 Castellni-Vinoles, Barcelona (1485),
Atkins-Saunders, Stratford-on-Avon 267
( 1 925) . 3 4 5 Chajes--Capablanca, New York ( 1 9 1 6) ,
1 69
Ballard-Fagan, London ( 1 872) , 92 Chajes--Grunfeld, Carlsbad ( 1 923) , 261
Banks--Kashdan, Chicago ( 1 926) , r 8o Chapelle-Joumoud, Paris ( 1 86o) , 304
Barnes-Amateur, New York ( 1 877), 54 Charousek-Lasker, Nuremberg ( 1 896) ,
Bird-Mason, New York ( 1 876), 3 1 9 30
Bird & Dobell-Gunsberg & Locock, Chess 3 . 6--Tech, Boston ( 1 972) , 3 5 5
Hastings ( 1 897) , 1 1 7 Cohn-Tchigorin, Carlsbad ( 1 907) , 253
Bogolyubov-Alekhine, Hastings ( 1922) , Cohn-Rubinstein, St. Petersburg
255 ( 1 909) 347
.
Bogolyubov-Alekhine, Pforzheim Conroy-MacHack VI, Boston (1966),

( 1 934). 2 1 8 313
Borochow-Fine, Pasadena ( 1932), 148 Cumock, Johnson, Lawrence, Layzell,
Botvinnik-Chekover, Moscow ( 1935), Turner, London ( 1 900) , 286
322
Bronstein-Botvinnik, Moscow ( 19 44 ), Dake-Di Paula, Baltimore ( 1 935), 1 4 5
346 Dake-Muller, Folkestone (1933)", 3 1
Bronstein-Bronstein, Moscow ( 1 961), Dresga-Baratz, Paris ( 1926) , 242
300 Dubinin-Petrov, Rostov-on-Don
Bronstein-Pilnik, Belgrade ( 1 954) , 326 ( 1 936), 353
Bum-Marshall, Ostend ( 1 906) , 2 3 2 Du Mont-Gosling, London ( 1 943) , 254
Duras--Wolf, Carlsbad ( 1 907) . 2
Cambridge-Bedlam, Correspondence, Englisch-Tarrasch, Hamburg ( 1 885),

( 1 883-1 88s). 94 25
Canal-Amateur, Budapest ( 1 934) , 301 Euwe-Capablanca, Amsterdam ( 1 93 1 ) ,
Capablanca-Alekhine, Buenos Ailes 329
( 1927) . 3 1 1 Euwe-Keres, Holland ( 1 940) , 330
Capablanca-Janowsky, San Sebastian Euwe-Reti, Amsterdam ( 1 920) , 299
(191 1), 327
Capablanca-Kevitz, Brooklyn (1924) , Feuer-O' Kelly. Liege ( 1 934) . 3 1 8
150 Fine-R. Byrne, New York ( 1 945) , 1 3 1
201
Fischer-Burger, San Francisco (r963 ) , Labatt-Dameron, New Orleans ( 1 8go),

153 102
Fischer-Dely, Skopje ( 1 967) , 283 Lange-Von Schierstedt, Breslau ( 1 868) ,
Fischer-Keres, 330 62
Fischer-Matulovic, Zagreb ( 1 970) , 348 Lasker-Bauer, Amsterdam ( 1 890) , 247
Fischer-Tal, Bled ( 1 961 ) , 342 Lasker-Napier, Cambridge Springs
Flohr-Sultan Khan, Berne ( 1 93 2 ) , 285 ( 1 904) . 65
Foreest-Mieses, Hague ( 1 949) , n 8 Lasker-Schlechter, Berlin ( 1 9 1 0) , 290
Forgacs-Maroczy, Budapest ( 1 902), Lazarev-Goldstein, Ukraine ( 1 962),
1 36 1 03
Franz-Mayet, Berlin ( 1 858) , 130 Levitzky-Marshall, Biarritz ( 1 9 1 2) ,
10
Gaudersen-Paul, Melbourne ( 1 928), Lilienthal-Capablanca, Hastings ( 1 934)
316 72
Gibaud-Lazard, Paris (1 9 24 ) , r Lindermann-Echte rin ayer, Kiel ( 1 893) ,
Gottschall-Tarrasch, Nuremberg 262
( 1 896) , 296 Lopez-Leonardo, Madrid ( 1 575), 50
' Loye-Beamish, Cheltenham ( 1 9 1 3 ) ,
Grunfeld-Torre, Baden-Baden (1925),
38 231
Lyman-Greenwald, New York (1964) ,
29
Hamppe-Meitner, Vienna ( 1 872) , 279
Holzhausen-Tarrasch, Hamburg ( 1 9 1 0)
II6
Huber-Lemke, Essen ( 1 93 5 ) , 278 Maroczy-Lasker, New York ( 1 924) ,
197
Iglesias-Capablanca, Havanna ( 1 893), Marshall-Lasker, Paris (1900) , 45
312 Marshall-Lasker, New York ( 1 940) ,
45
Marshall-Rogosin, New York ( 1 940) ,
Janowsky-Ed. Lasker, New York 26
(1924), 2 1 2 Marshall-Tchigorin, Monte Carlo
J anowsky-Reshevsky, New York ( 1 902), 1 63
( 1 9 2 2 ) , 144
Mattison-Rubinstein, Carlsbad ( 1929) ,
J anowsky & Soldatenkov-Lasker & 310
Taubenhaus, Paris ( 1 909) , 196 McConnell-Morphy, New Orleans
( 1 85o) , 224
Keres-Alekhine, Margate ( 1 937), 330 McDonnell-La Bourdonnais, London
Keres-Benko, Curayao ( 1 962) , 265 ( 1 834), 2 1 2
Keres-Botvinnik, Moscow ( 1 956), 330 Menchik-Thomas, London ( 1 932) , 1 2
Keres-Capablanca, Avro ( 1 938), 330 Mentges-Gitzen, ( 1 9 1 3 ) , 205
Keres-Najdorf, Gothenburg ( 1955), 349 Mieses-Marshall, Monte Carlo ( 1 903) ,
Keres-Petrosian, Moscow (1949), 330 235
Ke,res-'Smyslov, Leningrad-Moscow Mikenas-Kashdan, Prague ( 1 93 1 ) , 2 I I
( 1 939) , 330 Morphy-Amateur, New Orleans ( 1 858),
Keres-Spassky, Gothenburg (1955) , 317
3 3 Morphy-Barnes, London ( 1 859) , 1 5 4
Kmoch-Ellison, Cleveland ( 1 948) , 147 Morphy-Kipping, Birmingham ( 1 858),
Kolisch-Anderssen, London ( 1 86 1 ) , 287 237
Koshnitzky-Hewitt, Correspondence Morphy-Maurian, Springhill ( 1 855),
( 1945) . 227 1 49
Krogius-Oj anen, Helsinki ( 1 944) , 277 Morphy-E . Morphy, New Orleans
Kuj oth-Fashingbauer, Milwaukee ( 1 849) , 307
( 1 950) , 28 Morphy-Seguin, Paris ( 1 858) , 20
Niemela-Salo, Finland ( I 945), 320 Steinitz-Bardeleben, Hastings ( 1 895),

Nimzovich-Tarrasch, St. Petersburg 90
( 1 9 1 4) . 247 Sumpter-King, Australia ( 1 965) 356
Szabo-Reshevsky, Zurich ( 1 953), 248
Olland-Hamming, Hague ( 1 933), 324
Tal-Keres, Tallinn ( 1 954) , 330
Panov-Yudovich, Tifiis ( 1 937), 328 Tal-Klaman, Moscow (1957), 291
Pillsbury-Hausler, AugsbUig ( 1 900) , Tarrasch-Alapin, Breslau ( 1 889) , 1 82
20 Tarrasch-Burn, Ostend ( 1 907), 1 00
Pillsbury-Moiler, Hannover ( 1 902) , 1 4 1 Tarrasch-Fritz, Breslau ( 1 889), 2 1 9
Potter-Amateur, London ( 1 870) , 5 5 Tarrasch-Marco, Dresden ( 1 892) , 3 6
Powers-Dake, Milwaukee ( 1 937), 146 Tarrasch-ScWechter, Cologne ( 1 9 I I ) ,
1 86
Reshevsky-Griffi.th, London (1920) , Tarrasch-Yates, Hamburg ( 1 9 1 0) , 198
275 Tartakover-Fuster, Budapest ( 1 948),
Reshevsky-Margolit, Israel ( 1 958) , 1 5 1 282
Reti-Euwe, Amsterdam ( 1 920) , 299 Tchigorin-Albin, Nuremberg ( 1 896) , 3 2
Reti-Hromadka, Pistyan ( 1 9 2 2 ) , 8 1 Torre-Grunfeld, Marienbad ( 1925) . 3 8
Reti-Tartakover, Vienna ( 1 9 1 0) , S o Tresling-Benima, Winschoten ( 1 896),
Riumin-Capablanca, Moscow ( 1 935), 281
128
Rubinstein-Capablanca, San Sebastian Unzicker-Fischer, Buenos Aires (1960) ,
( 1 9 I I ) , 66 1 06
Rubinstein-Lasker, St. Petersburg U.S.S.R. Computer-U.S. Computer
( 1 909) , 66 ( 1 967) . 3 1 4
Saunders-Saunders, England ( 1 936),
244 Warre n-Selman Correspondence
,
Schlechter-Kaufmann, Vienna ( 1 9 1 6) , ( 1930) , 42

294 Weiss-Schwartz, Nuremberg ( 1 883),
Schlechter-Mieses, Stuttgart (1909), 208
315 Wolf-Duras, Carlsbad ( 1 907) , 2
Schlechter-Tarrasch, Cologne ( 1 9 I I ) , Wolf-Rubinstein, Teplitz-Schonau
1 86 ( 1 922), 1 2 7
Smyslov-Reshevsky, Radio ( 1 945) , 325
Steiner-Colle, Budapest ( 1 926) , 264 Young-Dore, Boston ( 1 892) , 350
About the Author
Irving C h e m ev is widely regarded as the Arch-Connoisseur of Chess.

He is the author of many much-loved books, among them An Invita
tion to Chess, Logical Chess Move by !Hove, The Most Instructive Ga111es
of Chess Eve1 Played, and The Chess Companio11.
Chemev learned to play chess at the age of twelve, and is s till pas
sionately in love \dth the game. His othe r enthusiasms are music,
travel, good food, tine wines, and the conversation of congenial friends.
His heroes are Jose Capablanca, S. J. Perelman . .John Collier, Jascha
Heifetz, Willie Hoppe, C a rdini , John Barrymore, Athos (the Comte de
Ia Fere) and Alexander Alekhine. If there is reincarnation. he would
ch eerfu lly assutne one of their roles.
Chernev l ives in San Francisco with his wife, and tears himself away
front there only when the lure of visting Iondon or Paris becomes
irresistible.

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"And then Chess came

I learned to play chess early in life, and was immediately

Purely Personal Opinions, Curious Chess Facts, and every

32 B-K3 B-Nz 54 N-K3 N-B1

u3 K-Ks. Q-N4ch u4 K-K4.

20 Q-Ks. N-B6ch ! 2I P x N, board with gold pieces. I can only

4 P-K4 P-Q3 K-R1 (or 19 . . . N-N 3 20 P-B6ch)

19 B-K2 N(R4)-N2 N-R6 mate. The reply 32 . .. QxN

Threatens a quick end by 21

year for board cha mpi ons William

except that the vogue for record play on 2 1 boards at Hannover.

dorf met 45 players, and emerged

Here is the position : clear-cut style the technique of

Morphy intends to use his Pawn

After this the Bishop Pawn is Pillsbury Hausler

9 PxP N-K2 ZJ:

Black cannot parry the threat of 9 P-QR3 N-QB3

And now, strangely enough, 12 ... N x Nch

But not 1 2 N x P, N x Nch 13

One Knight must be lost. If I o MILWAUKEE, 19 50

Ready to meet 7 P x N with 6 P-Qs N-K4

The nine games included an

Club is the scene for some Pawn and Blackburne.

It would have been better to play 3 J:

32 Now come five Pawn moves in a

I2 N-Q5 B-Q I 34 N x R Q x Pch

5o R x P R-KB2 " And Black has the superior posi

J J P -N6 BxN This is excusable, as anyone

J9 Q-R8ch K-N4 5 P -KJ B-K2

3 B-N5 P-Q3 I P-Q4, which he followed up with

A natural move which loses,

Queen's Pawn Game 2 7 R-N3 Q-K2

38 Q-R.J Q-K8ch Tchigorin at Hastings, 1 895

Alekhine Four Allies If I2 Q-N3 at once, then I2 . . .

With an eye to capturing the But not at once 39 N x Pch when

Knight by 1 5 R-R2. Black replies 39 . . . K-B4.

wins the Knight. At last a tangible gain ! The rest

This is to prevent IS P-N4, 28 PxR Q x Pch

rapid strides in assimilating chess n Q x Qch KxQ

55 been announced which is longer

61 Here is the position :

This early, perhaps premature

still be inferior after I ] R-B5 , (or 24 . . . R x R 25 Q x Q) 25

4BxN QP x B This is the position :

24 . . . R-Q I With the deadly threat of forcing

26 . . . B-Q6 38 R-K2 P x Bch

This is better than 28 . . . K-K2, 39 P x P P-R6

Frank Marshall, Champion of the 69

do so ; Lilienthal beat Capablanca Frees the third rank for the

I6 . .. Q-Bs ta at the same time that he was

notes to only two moves in the

A better move was I S P-B4, force mate by 3S . . R-B7ch 36

enabling White to meet I S P-B4. . . B X R, B-R6ch 37 K-K I p X Bch ,

with 16 P-Qs. 38 K x P, Q-N7ch 39 K-KI , Q-N6

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