June 14, 1959 Chess Chats by George Koltanowski, Press-Democrat, Santa Rosa, California

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Chess Chats by George Koltanowski
International Chess Master

The Press Democrat Chess Chats by George Koltanowski, Sunday, June 14, 1959, Santa Rosa, California Problem No....

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Problem No. 184
White to play and mate in two moves.
FEN 5b2/5pq1/8/3K1pp1/5k2/3RRN1P/7P/Q7 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Qc1 Bc5 2. Re4#

A game wherein check-mate was the only goal!

Played in the Toronto Chess League recently.

E. Rose (white) vs. Keith Kerns (black)
King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation, King's Knight Variation

Descriptive 1. P-Q4 N-KB3 2. P-QB4 P-KN3 3. N-KB3 P-Q3 4. P-KN3 B-N2 5. B-N2 O-O 6. O-O QN-Q2 7. N-B3 P-B3 8. Q-B2 P-K4 9. R-Q1 Q-B2 10. P-QN4 N-R4 11. R-N1 P-KB4 12. N-KN5 N(2)-B3 13. P-Q5 P-B5 14. QPxP NPxP 15. P-N5 B-B4 16. Q-N3 P-KR3 17. N(5)-K4 K-R2 18. P-N4 NxP 19. RxP QR-Q1 20. RxQBP Q-K2 21. B-QR3 Q-R5 22. BxR QxRPch 23. K-B1 RxB 24. N-Q1 N-K6ch 25. NxN BxN 26. BxB N-N6ch 27. PxN PxNch 28. K-K1 Q-N8mate

Algebraic 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nf3 d6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 0-0 6. 0-0 Nbd7 7. Nc3 c6 8. Qc2 e5 9. Rd1 Qc7 10. b4 Nh5 11. Rb1 f5 12. Ng5 Ndf6 13. d5 f4 14. dxc6 bxc6 15. b5 Bf5 16. Qb3 h6 17. Ne4 Kh7 18. g4 Nxg4 19. Rxd6 Rd8 20. Rxc6 Qe7 21. Ba3 Qh4 22. Bxf8 Qxh2+ 23. Kf1 Rxf8 24. Nd1 Ne3+ 25. Nxe3 Bxe4 26. Bxe4 Ng3+ 27. fxg3 fxe3+ 28. Ke1 Qg1#

(a) First 13. … R-N1 would avoid a lot of difficulties.
(b) Does not care for 16. … BxR; 17. N-K6 etc.
(c) Weakens his king's side. 18. PxP gives him the better game.
(d) Should consider P-KR3.
(e) Best was 24. B-B3.
(f) If the King moves, 27. … NxB gives Black a winning attack.
(g) Well played.

Played in the recent Hastings Congress.

Klaus Darga vs Miroslav Radojcic
Hastings (1958/59), Hastings ENG, rd 4, Jan-01
Dutch Defense: Classical. Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation Modern Main Line (A99) 1-0

(a) Loses time. QN-Q2 is much better. Black has two ideas at the same time King's and Queen's side attacks … never recommended.
(b) Decides to sacrifice the pawn so as to get freedom of action for his minor pieces.
(c) This he had not counted with. 15. … NxR there follows: 16. PxB R-K1; 17. N-K5 (or even 17. Q-Q4), 17. QxQch; 18. RxQ N-B; 19. R-Q8 B-K3; 20. RxR RxR; 21. BxP R-K1; 22. B-R3 etc.
(d) Leads to a merry chase.
(e) 26. … R-Q1; 27.BxB etc.

CHESS QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Chess is a very complex game but how much more complex is the game of war, which must be played within certain limits of time, in which there is not one will controlling lifeless toys, in which the whole is the innumerable collisions of diverse individual wills.”—Leo Tolstoy, 1868.