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Chess Chats by George Koltanowski Sunday, February 19, 1950 The Press Democrat Santa Rosa, California End Game Study by...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Tuesday, March 31, 2020

End Game Study by S. Saiovici, Bucharest. White to play and win.
FEN 3N4/1p1K4/pp1R4/k3p3/r2p3r/2P1P3/2PP4/8 w - - 0 1
1. NxPch K-N4
2. R-Q4ch K-B5
3. R-B5ch PxR
4. N-Q6 K-Q4
5. P-B4ch RxP
6. P-K4ch RxP
7. P-Q3! and mate next move.

Reshevsky Beats Dake

Recently Reshevsky played Arthur Dake a match in Portland, Ore. Here's the game.

Sicilian Defense
A. Dake (white) vs. S. Reshevsky (black)

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-QB4 2. N-KB3 P-Q3 3. P-Q4 PxP 4. NxP N-KB3 5. N-QB3 P-KN3 6. B-K2 B-N2 7. O-O O-O 8. B-K3 N-QB3 9. N-N3 B-K3 10. P-B4 Q-QB1 11. Q-Q2 R-Q1 12. B-B3 B-N5 13. QR-K1 BxB 14. PxB Q-R6 15. N-Q5 QR-B1 16. P-B4 P-KN3 17. R-B1 P-K3 18. NxNch BxN 19. R-B2 P-Q4! 20. BPxP PxP 21. PxP N-K2 22. RxR QxR 23. R-B1 Q-Q2 24. B-Q4 Q-B4 25. BxB QxB 26. Q-Q4 QxQc 27. NxQ NxP 28. P-B5 N-B5 29. P-B6 P-KR4 30. N-B6 R-Q7 31. N-K7ch K-R2 32. R-B7 P-KN4 33. RxP RN7ch 34. K-B1 RxRP 35. R-R8 N-K3 36. P-QN4 R-QB7 37. P-QR4 P-KR5 38. K-N1 N-Q5 39. R-KN8 NxPch 40. K-B1 P-R6 41. R-N7ch K-R3 42. N-B5ch K-R4 43. RxBP K-N3 44. N-Q6 P-R7 Resigns

Algebraic 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be2 Bg7 7. 0-0 0-0 8. Be3 Nc6 9. Nb3 Be6 10. f4 Qc8 11. Qd2 Rd8 12. Bf3 Bg4 13. Re1 Bxf3 14. gxf3 Qh3 15. Nd5 Rc8 16. c4 e6 17. Rc1

5. An interesting innovation.
12. Gets rid of white's strong bishop.
14. Don't like this at all. White reckons he will open file for attack. 19. N-Q4 and exchange the minor pieces was better.
19. ... Only a temporary sacrifice of a pawn but it certainly opens up the game.
24. Defends and attacks.
27. White's bad pawn formation loses the game.
28. Threatens RxN even after R-Q1.
29. Not RxN as R-B8 mates!
33. Black is not bothered with the queen's side, he has the white king where he wants him.
35. This move settles the game. The black pawns have free rein.
44. A good game.

As of 3/31/2020, game not listed among the games of Arthur William Dake vs. Samuel Reshevsky