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Chess Chats 24 Jun 1956, Sun The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California) Newspapers.com
Problem No. 29 by A. P. Bloedow, Parks. White to play and mate in two moves.
FEN 2B1k3/4Nn2/6N1/B2K4/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Nf5 Ng5 2. Nd6#
Tournament Play
Played in the Candidates Tournament now being played in Amsterdam:
Paul Keres vs David Bronstein
Amsterdam Candidates (1956), Amsterdam NED, rd 1, Mar-27
Vienna Game: Stanley. Three Knights Variation (C28) 1/2-1/2
(a) Looks for trouble, and gets it!
(b) With 9. … Q-B7ch; 10. N-K2, Q-K6ch, black could force a perpetual check!
(c) To avoid QxPch.
(d) Leads to Bishops of different color, which spells: Draw.
In the following short little tussle, black, after the 11th move, thinks he has been very clever. He has picked up white's QR for a Bishop and now if 12. PxKP then 12. … QxRPch and 13. … QxKP saves him nicely. However, white goes after bigger game, the black queen herself. Desperately trying to save his lady, black gives up a knight to stave off immediate disaster but the trapped position of the queen still proves fatal. This is one of Bogolyubov's many short brilliancies.
Efim Bogoljubov vs Johannes Hendrik Otto van den Bosch
Bad Nauheim (1936), Bad Nauheim GER, rd 4, May-20
Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Variation (D52) 1-0
Chess Quote of the Day
Chess is a science as well as an art. Harmoniously uniting in itself the curious, the beautiful, and the true. Chess appears to hold a permanent relation to the innate susceptibilities of intelligence—J. Mason, The Art of Chess.
