June 28, 1959 Boston Globe, Chess Notebook by Lyman Burgess

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Chess Notebook 28 Jun 1959, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Chess Notebook By Lyman Burgess
THE ADVENTURE OF CHESS By Edward Lasker, xxiv + 296 pp. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. $1.45.
Dr. Lasker's famous 1950 opus makes a welcome appearance in this inexpensive paperbound edition. It defies classification: it is more than a potpourri and less than a history although it combines some of the best aspects of both. It is entertainingly informative and unfailingly accurate.
The book proper opens with “The Indian Ancestry of Chess” and closes with two chapters on automation; the first on chess playing automata (fakes to the last) and the second on an electronic chess player (the McCoy). In between Lasker ranges over such subjects as “Chess, Music and Mathematics,” “Chess Mentality” (a study of chessplayers by psychologists), “Chess in Literature and Art,” and “Famous Chess Amateurs.”
The book concludes with a chess primer (pp 231-296). Seldom has so much been offered for so little; a four-star best buy.

THE ART OF CHESS. By James Mason, revised and edited by Fred Reinfeld and Sidney Bernstein. 378 pp. New York: Dover. $1.85.
The original Mason work was published in 1898 and revised by Leopold Hoffer in 1913. This edition is a reprint of the Reinfeld-Bernstein 1947 version.
Divided into three main sections, endings, combinations and openings, “The Art of Chess” in its present incarnation is strongest in the end game and weakest in the opening. The middle game section, appropriately enough, is middling.

David Ames, Quincy, is noted to readers of this fine prose primarily for his fine eye for fine end games: David also plays fine chess. There follows a correspondence game 1957-8.

David Ames (white) vs. Heap (black)
French Defense: Alekhine-Chatard Attack, Teichmann Variation

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K3 2. P-Q4 P-Q4 3. N-QB3 N-KB3 4. B-KN5 B-K2 5. P-K5 KN-Q2 6. P-KR4 P-KB3 7. Q-R5ch K-B 8. PxP NxP 9. Q-B3 P-B4 10. PxP QN-Q2 11. O-O-O NxP 12. N-R3 B-Q2 13. N-B4 K-B2 14. N-Q3 R-KB 15. BxN NxNch 16. BxN BxB 17. BxP K-K 18. Q-R5ch K-K2 19. NxPch PxN 20. KR-Kch K-Q3 21. QxPch K-B2 22. Q-Q6ch K-B 23. R-K4 P-QN4 24. R-Q5 R-QN 25. R-B4ch Resigns

Algebraic 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4 f6 7. Qh5+ Kf8 8. exf6 Nxf6 9. Qf3 c5 10. dxc5 Nd7 11. 0-0-0 Nxc5 12. Nh3 Bd7 13. Nf4 Kf7 14. Nd3 Rf8 15. Bxf6 Nxd3+ 16. Bxd3 Bxf6 17. Bxh7 Ke8 18. Qh5+ Ke7 19. Nxd5+ exd5 20. Re1+ Kd6 21. Qxd5+ Kc7 22. Qd6+ Kc8 23. Re4 b5 24. Rd5 Rb8 25. Rc4+ 1-0

A rook check next move will allow B-K4ch with regicide to follow.