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Chess 30 Apr 1959, Thu The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
Chess
The Guardian, Chess, Thursday, April 30, 1959, Greater London, England Problem No. 523 By E. Boswell (Lancaster) White...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Problem No. 523 By E. Boswell (Lancaster)
Black (9)
White (7)
White to play and force Black to give mate in two moves. In other words, White wants to commit suicide, and Black cannot stop him.
FEN 2N5/4p3/p7/kp2R3/brPKp3/1pQ1p3/1P2P3/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Kc5 bxc4 2. Qxb4#
The Guardian London, Greater London, England Thursday, April 30, 1959 Problem No. 523 by E. Boswell (Lancaster). White...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Saturday, March 7, 2020
Problem No. 523 by E. Boswell (Lancaster). White to play and force Black to give mate in two moves. In other words, White wants to commit suicide, and Black cannot stop him.
FEN 2N5/4p3/p7/kp2R3/brPKp3/1pQ1p3/1P2P3/8 w - - 01
Last-round jitters
The last round of a big chess tournament puts an extra strain on possible prize-winners, and the number of players who can keep a cool head are few. At the Bognor tournament the Southern Counties championship was decided when Green, in a winning position, left a rook en prise against Pritchard; and an equally interesting case occurred at Mar del Plata recently. The two leaders, the experienced grandmasters Pachman and Najdorf, drew their game decorously in 17 moves: but the two youngsters Ivkov and Fischer, who were half a point behind, both made strenuous efforts to beat each other. Ivkov had a winning position, but ruined it, and then Fischer in turn missed chance after chance and finally had to be content to draw.
However, the United States champion's play is continuing to progress. Here is one of his wins from Mar del Plata, which illustrates the modern way of attack with the Ruy Lopez.
Robert James Fischer vs Ruben Shocron
Mar del Plata (1959), Mar del Plata ARG, rd 7, Mar-30
Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Chigorin Defense (C97) 1-0
1. This variation has been analyzed almost to death, and neither 15. PxKP nor the alternative 15. B-Q2 or 15. P-QN4 appear to give White any advantage.
2. This inaccuracy enables White to take the initiative and ultimately to build up an instructive winning attack. The correct line is 19. … N-B5; 20. N-Q5 BxN; 21. PxB N-N3; 22. B-K4 R-Q3; 23. R-K3 N-B5; 24. B-B1 N-N3 with a draw (Szabo-Gligoric, 1957).
3 This pawn is the spearhead of White's attack along the KR file, if 20. … BxNP; 21. N-Q5 BxN (21. … BxB; 22. N-B6ch K-R1; 23. NxR threatening Q-B6ch); 22. BxB, winning material.
4. Black has prepared a sufficient defence to the immediate king's side attack, but in consequence his queen's side is denuded, and by this clever move White forces open a file. If 26. … PxPe.p.; 27. BxP QxP; 28. B-K3 Q-B3; 29. R-R6, and Black has no counter to the threat of tripling White's heavy pieces on the KR file, followed by RxRP.
5. If he waits until White plan P-QR4, then either Black's QRP or his QNP becomes a target for attack.
6. If 30. … QxBP; 31. PxP, and Black's QBP is weak and White's passed QNP strong; while if 30. … P-N5; 31. PxP QxNP; 32. P-R5 P-B6; 33. KR-QN1 Q-Q3; 34. P-R6, and again White's passed pawn is the more dangerous.
7. If 31. … QxR; 32. RxQ RxR; 33. QxP and the two united pawns win.
8. An unusual method of outflanking the black position; the threat is 35. R-QB6.
9. Inevitably and surely, White's bishops are coming into their own. If 37. … N-Q1; 38. R-R7 N-N2; 39. Q-Q7 QxQ; 40. BxQ R-B2; 41. B-N5 (threatening 42. B-N6), B-B4; 42. BxB wins.
10. A blunder which loses at once. However, if 39. … PxR; 40. QxPch K-R1; 41. QxKPch K-N1; 42. B-B6, Black is defenceless, while if in this line 40. … K-B1; 41. QxKP, threatening Q-RBch and the decimation of Black's pawns.
11. For if 40. … QxB; 41. RxPch.
Moscow tournament 30 Apr 1959, Thu The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
Moscow tournament
In the Moscow international tournament, three Russians, Bronstein, Spassky, and Smyslov, tied for first prize with 7 out of 11. Portisch (Hungary) was fourth with 6.
