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Chess 06 Aug 1959, Thu The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
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The Guardian, Chess, Thursday, August 06, 1959, Greater London, England Problem No. 536 By H. W. Massingham...
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Problem No. 536 By H. W. Massingham (Manchester)
Black (8)
White (8)
White mates in two moves.
FEN 8/p1B5/2ppB3/2k1p3/1R3N1Q/P7/1P3p2/1b2bK2 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. a4 Kxb4 2. Nd3#
Timing the attack
Many of the most striking fighting games occur when, one player, builds up a king's side attack and his opponent counters in the centre. An attack which involves advancing the pawns in front of the castled king can lead to your own king becoming exposed unless the timing is exact. This week's game. Won by the British champion in the world students' tournament in Budapest, is a fine illustration of how to conduct these attacks. Penrose's score at 6½ out of 10 was one of his best international performances, and on this showing he has an excellent chance, of retaining his title at York next week.
Jonathan Penrose (white) vs. Ilkka Antero Kanko (black)
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, Amsterdam Variation
1. Penrose has always preferred this move to the more popular 6. B-K2 and 6. B-KN5, and indeed, in spite of the intensive analysis devoted to the latter continuations, Black's game remains quite playable.
2. Here and at the next move, Black mixes up two different systems. His plan is sound against 6. B-K2, but here grants White too much scope for king's side attack. Correct is 7. … QN-Q2; 8. B-Q3 B-K2; 9. O-O O-O; 10. P-QR4 and only now 10. … Q-B2; 11. Q-K1 P-QN3; 12. N-R4 P-N3; 13. P-B5 B-N2; 14. B-R6 KR-K1; followed by … B-KB1; when Black holds his own.
3. It is too risky to win a pawn by 11. … PxP; 12. BxBP Q-N3; 13. K-R1 QxP; because of 14. N-Q5, when Black is unable to castle and White threatens to trap the queen by 15. P-QR4 and 16. KR-QN1.
4. White already has his pieces lined up for the attack on the KN file, and there is little that Black can do to meet it.
5. The first wave goes in; if the pawn is captured, White wins by 16. … NxNP; 17. R-KN1 N(N5)-B3; 18. B-R6 N-K1; 19. RxPch NxR; 20. R-KN1 B-B3; 21. RxNch BxR; 22. Q-KN2.
6. The traditional counter-action in the centre. It fails because White's attack is already far advanced and Black is unable to bring sufficient pieces to bear on the long white diagonal.
7. If 20. … PxP; 21. PxP Q-N2; 22. N-B4, and White has a useful central post as well a retaining his attacking chances.
8. Now White wins by a fine combination. Black could hold out to an ending, admittedly a lost one by 21. … PxP; 22. Q-N2 N-B4; 23. NxKP P-N3; 24. NxNch BxN; 25. QxQ NxQ; 26. N-Q5 K-N2; 27. QR-KB1 B-Q1; 28. P-B6ch followed by 29. BxP.
9. 23. … N(Q4)-B3 loses immediately to 24. QxPch K-R1; 25. N-K6.
10. If 24. … K-B1; 25. RxP transposes to the game, while if 24. … N(Q4)-B3; 25. RxPch KxR; 26. Q-R6ch K-N1; 27. B-N1ch, and wins.
11. If the King tries to escape by 26. … 26. K-K2; then White wins the queen by 27. RxPch KxR: 28. Q-N6ch K-B1; 29. B-R6ch K-K2; 30. Q-N7ch, winning the Queen— the justification of 22. NxQP, which was foreseen by Penrose before he played the combination.
12. White mates in two.
World Junior Championship 06 Aug 1959, Thu The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
World Junior championship
England's representative, David Rumens, has shown splendid form in the world junior championship in Munchenstein, Switzerland. After five rounds of the final he shares the lead with Parma (Yugoslavia) with 3½ points, a clear point ahead of the Russian.
Chess Championship Opens Quietly at York 11 Aug 1959, Tue The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
Chess championship opens quietly at York
From our Chess Correspondent
York, Monday.
The British Chess Federation's annual congress began here this afternoon with 207 competitors. Of these, 34 are taking part in the British championship, which includes one of the strongest entries since the war. The tournament is played in eleven rounds of the Swiss system, under which pairings for the first round are made by lot and thereafter players with similar scores meet each other.
Apart from a decorous draw in twenty moves between Wade and Clarke, the favourites generally avoided each other in the first round. The holder of the championship, Penrose, was matched with Howson, who was fourth last year. Howson met the Sicilian Defence with the same variation with which Penrose was beaten in a game in last year's tournament.
He seemed to be heading for an unexpected win when the exchange was lost by an oversight. In compensation Penrose had a strong attack, but in time trouble he mishandled it and Howson has winning chances in the adjourned positions.
Golombek won by excellent strategy against Beaty, but two of the other older players, Alexander and Aitken, agreed a complicated middle game drawn at the adjournment in order, as they put it, to have their dinner in comfort. Barden was in poor form against the Birmingham player Clough. He lost two pawns, and although Clough later lost a piece by an oversight, Barden in turn blundered, and at the adjournment is a pawn down. Other results:
Haygarth ½, Hallmark ½; Parr 0, Pritchard 1; Edwards 0, Dr. Fazekas 1; Littlewood 1, Hilton 0; Lloyd 0, Wallis 1; Freeman 0, Wood 1; Beach ½, Cafferty ½; Green 0, Milner-Barry 1; Mardle 1, Socean 0. The games between Naylor and Curtis, Ellison and Sergeant, and Thomas and Fallone were adjourned.
Alexander Stops The Rot 12 Aug 1959, Wed The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
ALEXANDER STOPS THE ROT
Chess championship
From our Chess Correspondent
York, Tuesday.
Strategical manoeuvring was the order of the day in the two most important games in the second round of the British chess championship, so much so that in neither case did an exchange take place during the opening nineteen moves.
Clarke tried to surprise Alexander by a novel line against the King's Indian Defence, involving an early blockade of the king's side pawns. Alexander countered accurately by creating weaknesses in Clarke's pawn formation, but alter the queens were exchanged both sides were left with pawn chains stretching across the entire board. A draw was agreed in 27 moves.
For some time Penrose made little progress against Wade in a blocked form of the Ruy Lopez but he maintained the initiative. In the late middle game Wade overlooked a clever combination by which Penrose opened lines for his two bishops; Wade's pieces were driven to the back rank and Penrose had a good win.
Mardle and Wood are the most likely leaders when the round is completed. Mardle is a pawn up against Sergeant although bishops of opposite colours make the win difficult. Wood has a clear advantage against Milner-Barry. Wallis has the initiative in a blocked position against Golombek, but there is no clear break-through and a draw is probable. Other results:
Dr. Fazekas ½,
Thomas ½;
Pritchard ½,
Littlewood ½;
Curtis 0,
Barden 1;
Cafferty 0,
Naylor 1;
Dr Aitken 1,
Beach 0;
Ellison 0,
Lloyd 1;
Beaty 0,
Freeman 1;
Fallone 0,
Green 1;
Hilton 1,
Parr 0
The games between Clough and Haygarth, Hallmark and Howson, and Soesan and Edwards were adjourned. Results of adjourned games: Barden ½, Clough ½; Naylor ½, Curtis ½; Howson ½, Penrose ½; Ellison 0, Sergeant 1, Thomas 1, Fallone 0.
