August 14, 1958 Chess With Sam Laird, Courier Post, Camden, New Jersey

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Chess With Sam Laird 14 Aug 1958, Thu Courier-Post (Camden, New Jersey) Newspapers.com

Anthony S. Cantone, Penn State Ogontz Center star, annotates another of his games in the recent National Junior Championship at Homestead, Fla., a Max Lange that is even more exciting than the average game this aggressive opening produces.

Max Burkett vs. Anthony S. Cantone, 1958 Junior Championship
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit, Max Lange Attack, Long Variation

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. N-KB3 N-QB3 3. P-Q4 PxP 4. B-QB4 B-B4 5. Castles N-B3 6. P-K5 P-Q4 7. PxN PxB 8. R-Kch B-K3 9. N-N5 Q-Q4 10. N-QB3 Q-B4 11. QN-K4 Castles 12. KNxB PxN 13. PxP(a) KR-N 14. N-N3 Q-N3 15. Q-R5 B-N5 16. R-K4 P-Q6 17. QxQ(b) PxQ 18. P-QB3 B-B4 19. B-R6 B-K2(c) 20. R-Q P-QN4 21. B-B4(d) RxP 22. RxKP B-Q3 23. B-N5 QR-Q2 24. N-K4 N-Q 25. NxBch RxN(e) 26. R-K4 N-K3 27. B-K3 P-N4 28. P-KN3 P-KN5 29. K-N2 P-R4(f) 30. P-N3 PxP 31. PxP P-B4 32. R-K5 R-QB2 33. P-N4(g) RPxP 34. PxP P-B5 35. RxNP P-B6 36. R-QR5 P-Q7(h) 37. R-R8ch K-Q2 38. P-R3 PxPch 39. KxP K-K2(i) 40. R-R8 P-B7 41. RxP P-B8(Q) 42. R-R7ch K-K 43. R-R8ch N-B 44. RxR Q-R8ch Resigns(j)

Algebraic 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Bc5 5. 0-0 Nf6 6. e5 d5 7. exf6 dxc4 8. Re1+ Be6 9. Ng5 Qd5 10. Nc3 Qf5 11. Nce4 0-0-0 12. Nxe6 fxe6 13. fxg7 Rhg8 14. Ng3 Qg6 15. Qh5 Bb4 16. Re4 d3 17. Qxg6 hxg6 18. c3 Bc5 19. Bh6 Be7 20. Rd1 b5 21. Bf4 Rxg7 22. Rxe6 Bd6 23. Bg5 Rdd7 24. Ne4 Nd8 25. Nxd6+ Rxd6 26. Re4 Ne6 27. Be3 g5 28. g3 g4 29. Kg2 a5 30. b3 cxb3 31. axb3 c5 32. Re5 Rc7 33. b4 axb4 34. cxb4 c4 35. Rxb5 c3 36. Ra5 d2 37. Ra8+ Kd7 38. h3 gxh3+ 39. Kxh3 Ke7 40. Rh8 c2 41. Rxd2 c1=Q 42. Rh7+ Ke8 43. Rh8+ Nf8 44. Rxd6 Qh1+ Resigns

(a) Premature. Now P-KN4 cannot be played by White because of Black's RxP pinning the NP. Better was 13. P-KN4, Q-K4; 14. PxP, KR-N; 15. B-R6 P-Q6; 16. P-B3 and it is now a matter of who can press his advantage the most quickly. White's attack is based on the exposed position of Black's KB and later on his advanced passed KNP while Black plays for expansion in the ccenter and the K-side attack.
(b) If 17. R-N4. P-Q7; 18. BxP. QxQ; 19. NxQ, BxB; 20. N-B6, B-R3; 21. NxR RxN; 22. R-R4, BxP; 23. RxRP, BxP; and Black's BP becomes very strong.
(c) This loss of time by Black is not necessary. 18 … B-K2 is better than the text.
(d) I never did discover why White did not continue 21. RxKP, R-Q3, simply winning a pawn.
(e) 25 … PxN deserves to be investigated. Pushing this QP and then advancing the QR and QN pawns shows promise.
(f) This advance, long postponed, could have been played on move 27.
(g) Break after break have combined to cancel out Black's mistakes and give him a decent game.
(h) Why not?
(i) Not 39 … P-B7; 40. RxP, RxR; 41. BxR and the game is drawn.
(j) The three pawns are just not enough compensation for the Queen!