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Chess 10 Mar 1940, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
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CHESS HERMAN STEINER International Chess Master Address all mail to dies Editor Qrange-Grape-fruit March 10. 1910 L.A. TIMES PROBLEM NO. 1067 By R. Ceter .typical iituation which Justifies a corr.bina- DIAGRAM White mate In two. iWb. 13; Bl. 8.) L. A. TIMES PROBLEM NO. 1068 By N. Sardoiich
White mate in three. (Wh. 6; Bl. 3.) SOLUTION TO PROBLEM 1063: B-B7. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM 1064: Kt-B2 We received solutions from the follow ing: G. A. Hnll. C. P. Ford. M. Rudliolm, H. Bruhn, J. T. Watson. J. C. Drake, E. L Darnells. T. Zetzer. Rev. P. Prichard, B. Clews, E. H. Schadee, Miss E. Iroxel (welcome to our ladder, Kt-K4 does not mate in one as the Kt cannot move, and In 1064 if Q-K5ch. PxQ and no mate as you have suggested,) N. P. Brooks, J. O. Dodge. J. Davidson. H. J. Gilmore. L. A. Gustafson (welcome to our ladder.) W. Harmon. D. A. Innes, Dr. F. B. Sheldon. G. Sharp. L. Sheppard (Modern Chess Opening by Griffith and White revised by R. F.ne is $2.50 Plus postage, the others I do not know,) W. B. Tudor, J. P. Walsh, W, Antonson, J. E. Blier, J. R. Barry. G. C. Fish. L. F. Sherman. Due to lack of space, the ladder will be published the first week of next month with two winners, NEWS Or THE CLl'BS j The Hollywood Chest Group has mad arrangements for a tea-game match be tween Philip Woliston. California State champion, and Herman Sterner to be played at IOH N. Formosa Ave.
beginning Monday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. Reset vs tions for onlookers may be made by writ Ing the club or phoning WE-Hsw. Mr. Edward Kovacs, Viennese champion In competition with international cham pions like Oruenfeld, Rubinstein, Thomas and who recently took part m the Cali fornia State championship tournament, gave a simultaneous exhibition last week at Belmont High School against a team of 10 students. The result was as follows: Mr. Kovacs won all 10 games. This will create new activity among high schools and colleges of California. The credit for this new activity ia greatly due to the co-operative effort of Mr. Oscar Kessler, vice-president of the students chess group Mr. Kovacs.
a member of the Southern California ches team, will give another exhibition, this time at Hollywood High School during the month of April. COMBINATIVE PLAY By Dr. Max Euwe (World champion, 1935-7) I. COMBINATIONS AND MATIVO AT TACKS AGAINST THE KING IN THE CENILB, W have arrived at Diagram 1. White could play 12.
Q-K2 simply, and stand well enough, for Black i prevented from ca-itling and will have difficulty in completing hi development. White' big pull in development tempts him to look for jomethtng more energetle and 12. P-Q6 comes Into consideration a a keen move, which might win speedily. DIAGRAM Prevention of castling by a pin along the king' file odea decisive.
There Is one little drawback: Black will play . . . Kt-B3 (after . . . BPxQP) and put up a atubborn defense. So we turn to other moves, to find that 12. B-KKto Is better, in fsct far the strongest. Black is forced to play 12.
. . . P-KBli and now comes a smashing blow: 13. BxP! PiR 14. P-U6 (withheld until Black king side has been broken thi move now has shattering effect.) 14. . . , PxPi (or 14. . . . K5-B3; 15. Q-Q5, R-Bl; 16. 8-RSch followed by mate.) 15.
-QS (other moves would also win, e g . 16. Kt-Q4 or 16. Kt-Kt5. 15. . . . Q-KIS (forced, line 15, . . . R-Bl fall against 16. -K5ch.) 16 Q-B7ch, K-Oll 17. OiKtch. K-B: 18 Kt-Q4 and win easily since there threat en not only 19.
Kt-Kt5cn, K-B3: 20. QxP mate, but also 19. Kt-K6ch, K-B3; 20. R-Ql. etc.
The position in Diagram 8 shows another Weak doubled king's pawns. tton against the uncastled king. The dou-bled-biack king pawns are the key to the situation. They interfere badly with the develop ment of Black king side, whilst the absence of pawn on Black KBP renders possible various attacks along the diagonal from White KR5 to his K8. Here, where Black has further weakened hi kin' side through playing . . P-KRJ, Is hi situation particularly critical. (The position arises thus: 1. P-K4, P-QB3; 2, P-Ut. P-tit : 3. P-K5. B-B4; 4. P-KKt4. B-Kt3i 5. P-KR1, P-KBSi 6. P-K, PiPi 7. B-Q.1, BxBi 8. QxB. White' attacking chances in such a situation as this were demonstrated by Bpielmann in the following little game: (No. 701.) 1. P-K4, P-QB3: 2. Kt-QB3. P-Ql. 3. Kt-BU. Kt-KB:; 4. P-K5. Kt-K5s 5. 0-K2, KtxKt; 6. QPxKt, P-QKWt 7. Kt-Ql, P-QUt? (77... P-K3 is essential. If 7. . . . B-R3; 8. Q-B3, BxB; 9. P-K6! with advantage.) 8. F-K(i! (Possible only through a beautiful combination; to wit, If 8. . . . PxKt; 9. O-KtSch, Kt-Q2; 10. QxP winning the exchange; for 11. PxP mate 1 threatened, as well aa 11. QxR.l 8. . . . PxP: 9. Q-R5ch, K-O.'i (forced, for 9. . , . P-Kt3 fail against 10. Q-K5. R-Ktl; 11. B-Kt5ch.
followed by 12. KtxP;) 10. Kt-BS (White has obtained an ideal position. Black has terrible difficulty in developing his pieces a difficulty which Spielmann genially aggravates.) 10. . . . K-B; 11. Kt-K.V (White has a won game already, for there is no defense to the threatened 12. Kt-B7 11. . . . B-Q.'i 12. Kt-B7. Q-Kli 13 U-K5ch, K-KtSi 14. B-B4! (Threatening mate-more decisive than picking up a rook!) 14. . . . P-B5 15. Q-Rlcb, K-RSi 16. Kt-QH! Kt-B3 17. Q-Kt7ch, K-Kti 18. F-R4ch.
K-Bli 19. QxKtchll BxQ; 20. KtxP male. (T be continued) j The championship tournament of the Hollywood Chess Group has produced some naa games to date. One of the most In teresting games wa that of Wolfgang Reinhardt.
well known film producer, asalnst Jay Chernis, well known musical composer. The game possessed all the characteristics et Anderssen' iljle. ANDERB8EN OPEWNCI Reinhardt White 1- P-QR3 2- KI-KB3 3- P-Q4 4- P-B4 5- P-K3 6- Kt-B3 7- Q-B2 8- PxBp 9- P-OKH 10- B-Kt2 11- R-Q 12- Kt-QKtS (a) Mate follow If Kt-B3; 24. Q-R3ch, Kt-R4; 25. Kt-B7 mat.
More of the Keres-Euwe games: The Ruy Lopeze continue. Kere adopt a (low variation: 5. Kt-QB3 and as the game develop he obtains an open QR file, with pressure against Black QRP, whereas Euwe takes control of the open Q file. Mid-game simplification eventually lead to exchange of queens and a R and Kt vs. R and B ending in which Keres has the Kt wltA in tthle in fore nati( P The game, having been adjourned on the 45th, I took a critical turn shortly after.
Kere ap brilliant Chernis Reinhardt - Chernis Black White Black Kt-KB3 13-Q-Kt3 PxP P-Q4 14-BxP BxKt P-OKt3 15-PxB O-O B-Kt2 16-Kt-34 KR-K P-K3 17-BxP! PxB QKt-Q2 18-KtxP K-R P-B4 19-RxKt!l KtxR BxP 20-BxPch K-Kt B-K2 21-Kt-QRch KxB R-QB 22-R-Ktch K-R3 Q-B2 23-Q-Kbch Q-Kt Resign (a) prently overlooked something, because lie never recovered from the los of pawns sacrificed in the attempt to push through his own passed P. Instead of 52. K-Kt6, 52. R-B8ch. K-R2; 53. Kt-B7 is Inviting, but Black might save himself with BxPch, since White ha only the RP left. , FOURTH GAMS RUY LOPEZ Kere Euwe Kere Euwe White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-K4 31-OxR BxKtP 2- KI-KB3 Kt-QB3 32-Q-K3 Q-Q8 3- B-K15 P-QR3 33-Kt-B5 B-B5 4- B-R4 Kt-B3 34-R-R7 R-QB 5- Kt-B3 B-K2 35-Q-KI3 Q-Q3 6-Castlea P-QKI4! 36-R-R8 Q-K2 7- B-KI3 P-Q3 37-Q-K3 R-Q 8- Kt-Q5 Kt-QR4 38-R-K7 K-B 9-KtxB QxKl 39-Q-B ' Q-Q3 10- P-Q4 "Castles 40-Kt-Kt7 Q-Q7 11- PxP PxP 41-QxQ RxQ 12- B-KtS B-K12 42-R-R8ch K-K2 13- O-K KtxB 43-R-QB8 RxP 14- HPxKt P-R3 44-RxPch K-B 15- BxKt OxB 45-KI-Q6 B-Q6 16- Q-K3 C1-B3 46-K-K13 R-B7 17- KR-K J-B3 47-K-K14 RxPch 18- P-QKU Q-B5 48-K-B5 K-Kt 19- P-B3 KR-Q 49-R-B5 P-R4 20- Kt-O2 Q-B2 50-P-B4 PxP 21- R-R3 R-Q3 51-P-Kt5 R-Kt7 22- Kt-KtJ QR-Q 52-K-Kt8 R-Kt7ch 23- Kt-B5 B-B 53-K-B5 B-BB 24-P-R3 R-Q7 54-P-Kt6 R-Kt7 25- R-K2 R-Q8ch 55-K-Kt8 BxP 26- K-R2 Q-R4 56-KxP B-K3 27- P-OKt3 R-OKt8 57-Kt-B5 RxP 2S-Kt-U3 B-KaSO-R-BT BxKt 29-R-W2 R-a 58-PxB R-K17 30-RxP RxRI Resign Euwe nlay P-Q4 and an unusual Nlmzo Indian results. In spite of early simplifica tions. Including exchange of queens, Keres obtain possession of the open Q me ana Euwe game is inferior from his 15th or 16th move. Before long, Kere la able to win a pawn or two and even bishop of opposite color cannot save uwe.
PIPTH GAME NIMZO-INDIAN DEFEN3I Euwe White 1- P-04 2- P-QB4 3- Kt-B3 4- 0-B2 5- B-K15 6- B-R4 7- P-K3 8- B-Q3 9- P-05 10- PxKl ; 11- OxP 12- QxQ 13- Q-W2 14- KxB 15- K-K2 , 18-R-QB 17- B-K13 18- Kt-B3 19- KR-Q 20- KxR Keres plays P-Q4 and a somewhat differ ent Nlmzo-lndian result. A close position is finally opened by Euwe 24 . . . p-bj.
But thi fails to lead to anything very tangib e for either player, and Euwe de cides to move his K from the K side to the Q side since the Q iae is pretty mucn b ocked. and Kere' only winning pian is to open ud the K side. This he does, and the ending becomes very critical. Euwe's K I badly exposed, with the result that Keres able to eauai tne mai.cn score. o. K-Kt I hardly better than the text, since after 55. R-R8ch, K-B2; 56, R-KK.18, Black 1 equally uniortunaie, SIXTH GAME . NIMZO-1NDIAN DEFENSE Keres Euwe Keres Black White Black KI-KB3 21-Kt-Kt R-Qch P-K3 22-K-K R-Q7 B-Kt5 23-P-B3 . RxKKtP Castles 24-PxKt RxKtch P-KR3 25-K-Q2 RxR Kt-B3 26-KxR BxP R-K 27-P-KtJ B-Q6 P-K4 28-BxP P-KR4 P-K5 29-K-Q2 B-Kt8 PxB 30-K-B3 P-R5 QPxP 31-P-R4 BxP BxKtch 32-K-B4 P-Kt3 BxQch 33-P-R5 PxP Kt-K5ch 34-KxP B-B7 B-K3 35-K-Kt5 BxP P-KKt4 36-KxP K-Kt2 QR-Q 37-K-R6 K-Kt3 P-QB4 38-P-K4 P-Kt6 RxR 39-PxP P-R6 P-Kt5 Resign Kere White 1- P-Q4 2- P-QB4 3- KI-UB3 4- Q-B2 5- Kt-B3 6- B-Kti ' 7- B-R4 8- P-K3 6-B-K2 10-P-Q5 ll-Kt-Q2 Euwe Black Kt-KB3 P-K3 B-K15 Kt-B3 Castles P-KR3 P-Q3 Q-K2 P-K4 Kt-Kt OKt-Q2 12-CastiesKR P-QR4 13-QR-K 14- P-B4 15- QxB 16- KtxKt 17- P-KKt3 18- B-Kt4 - 19- KtxKtCb 20- BxB 21- R-B2 22- R(K)-KB 23- P-B5 24- P-K4 25- PxP 26- P-QR4 27- R-Q 28- P-Kt3 (Score R-K BxKt Kt-K5 QxB Q-K2 Kt-B3 QxKt QRxB P-QKt3 Q-Kt3 Q-B3 P-B3 Rxp K-B KR-B K-K2 and note from c.s.M. Kere White 29- Q-B3 30- P-KR4 31- K-B 32- K-K2 33- R-R2 34- P-KKt4 35- R-Kt2 36- R-Kt3 37- Q-Q3 38-R-KR Euwe Black K-Q2 K-B2 K-Kt2 R(B!-B2 Q-Q P-B3 R-B Q-Q2 Q-KB2 R-KR 39-R(Ri-R3 R(B3)-B 40-P-Kt4 41- PxP 42- Q-Q5cU 43- R-Q3 44- RxR 45- R-R7 4S-K-B3 47- K-Kt 48- P-Kt4) 49- P-R5 50- PxPch 51- QxPch 52- QxKP 53- R-R3 ' 54- Q-Q4ch 55- Rxp RPxP Q-B2 K-R2 RxR PxP Q-K2 R-B R-B2 PxP Q-Kt2 KxP K-R2 P-Kt6 R-B3 R-Kt3 Resigns h SWEDEN
White mate in three. (Wh. 6; Bl. 3.) SOLUTION TO PROBLEM 1063: B-B7. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM 1064: Kt-B2 We received solutions from the follow ing: G. A. Hnll. C. P. Ford. M. Rudliolm, H. Bruhn, J. T. Watson. J. C. Drake, E. L Darnells. T. Zetzer. Rev. P. Prichard, B. Clews, E. H. Schadee, Miss E. Iroxel (welcome to our ladder, Kt-K4 does not mate in one as the Kt cannot move, and In 1064 if Q-K5ch. PxQ and no mate as you have suggested,) N. P. Brooks, J. O. Dodge. J. Davidson. H. J. Gilmore. L. A. Gustafson (welcome to our ladder.) W. Harmon. D. A. Innes, Dr. F. B. Sheldon. G. Sharp. L. Sheppard (Modern Chess Opening by Griffith and White revised by R. F.ne is $2.50 Plus postage, the others I do not know,) W. B. Tudor, J. P. Walsh, W, Antonson, J. E. Blier, J. R. Barry. G. C. Fish. L. F. Sherman. Due to lack of space, the ladder will be published the first week of next month with two winners, NEWS Or THE CLl'BS j The Hollywood Chest Group has mad arrangements for a tea-game match be tween Philip Woliston. California State champion, and Herman Sterner to be played at IOH N. Formosa Ave.
beginning Monday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. Reset vs tions for onlookers may be made by writ Ing the club or phoning WE-Hsw. Mr. Edward Kovacs, Viennese champion In competition with international cham pions like Oruenfeld, Rubinstein, Thomas and who recently took part m the Cali fornia State championship tournament, gave a simultaneous exhibition last week at Belmont High School against a team of 10 students. The result was as follows: Mr. Kovacs won all 10 games. This will create new activity among high schools and colleges of California. The credit for this new activity ia greatly due to the co-operative effort of Mr. Oscar Kessler, vice-president of the students chess group Mr. Kovacs.
a member of the Southern California ches team, will give another exhibition, this time at Hollywood High School during the month of April. COMBINATIVE PLAY By Dr. Max Euwe (World champion, 1935-7) I. COMBINATIONS AND MATIVO AT TACKS AGAINST THE KING IN THE CENILB, W have arrived at Diagram 1. White could play 12.
Q-K2 simply, and stand well enough, for Black i prevented from ca-itling and will have difficulty in completing hi development. White' big pull in development tempts him to look for jomethtng more energetle and 12. P-Q6 comes Into consideration a a keen move, which might win speedily. DIAGRAM Prevention of castling by a pin along the king' file odea decisive.
There Is one little drawback: Black will play . . . Kt-B3 (after . . . BPxQP) and put up a atubborn defense. So we turn to other moves, to find that 12. B-KKto Is better, in fsct far the strongest. Black is forced to play 12.
. . . P-KBli and now comes a smashing blow: 13. BxP! PiR 14. P-U6 (withheld until Black king side has been broken thi move now has shattering effect.) 14. . . , PxPi (or 14. . . . K5-B3; 15. Q-Q5, R-Bl; 16. 8-RSch followed by mate.) 15.
-QS (other moves would also win, e g . 16. Kt-Q4 or 16. Kt-Kt5. 15. . . . Q-KIS (forced, line 15, . . . R-Bl fall against 16. -K5ch.) 16 Q-B7ch, K-Oll 17. OiKtch. K-B: 18 Kt-Q4 and win easily since there threat en not only 19.
Kt-Kt5cn, K-B3: 20. QxP mate, but also 19. Kt-K6ch, K-B3; 20. R-Ql. etc.
The position in Diagram 8 shows another Weak doubled king's pawns. tton against the uncastled king. The dou-bled-biack king pawns are the key to the situation. They interfere badly with the develop ment of Black king side, whilst the absence of pawn on Black KBP renders possible various attacks along the diagonal from White KR5 to his K8. Here, where Black has further weakened hi kin' side through playing . . P-KRJ, Is hi situation particularly critical. (The position arises thus: 1. P-K4, P-QB3; 2, P-Ut. P-tit : 3. P-K5. B-B4; 4. P-KKt4. B-Kt3i 5. P-KR1, P-KBSi 6. P-K, PiPi 7. B-Q.1, BxBi 8. QxB. White' attacking chances in such a situation as this were demonstrated by Bpielmann in the following little game: (No. 701.) 1. P-K4, P-QB3: 2. Kt-QB3. P-Ql. 3. Kt-BU. Kt-KB:; 4. P-K5. Kt-K5s 5. 0-K2, KtxKt; 6. QPxKt, P-QKWt 7. Kt-Ql, P-QUt? (77... P-K3 is essential. If 7. . . . B-R3; 8. Q-B3, BxB; 9. P-K6! with advantage.) 8. F-K(i! (Possible only through a beautiful combination; to wit, If 8. . . . PxKt; 9. O-KtSch, Kt-Q2; 10. QxP winning the exchange; for 11. PxP mate 1 threatened, as well aa 11. QxR.l 8. . . . PxP: 9. Q-R5ch, K-O.'i (forced, for 9. . , . P-Kt3 fail against 10. Q-K5. R-Ktl; 11. B-Kt5ch.
followed by 12. KtxP;) 10. Kt-BS (White has obtained an ideal position. Black has terrible difficulty in developing his pieces a difficulty which Spielmann genially aggravates.) 10. . . . K-B; 11. Kt-K.V (White has a won game already, for there is no defense to the threatened 12. Kt-B7 11. . . . B-Q.'i 12. Kt-B7. Q-Kli 13 U-K5ch, K-KtSi 14. B-B4! (Threatening mate-more decisive than picking up a rook!) 14. . . . P-B5 15. Q-Rlcb, K-RSi 16. Kt-QH! Kt-B3 17. Q-Kt7ch, K-Kti 18. F-R4ch.
K-Bli 19. QxKtchll BxQ; 20. KtxP male. (T be continued) j The championship tournament of the Hollywood Chess Group has produced some naa games to date. One of the most In teresting games wa that of Wolfgang Reinhardt.
well known film producer, asalnst Jay Chernis, well known musical composer. The game possessed all the characteristics et Anderssen' iljle. ANDERB8EN OPEWNCI Reinhardt White 1- P-QR3 2- KI-KB3 3- P-Q4 4- P-B4 5- P-K3 6- Kt-B3 7- Q-B2 8- PxBp 9- P-OKH 10- B-Kt2 11- R-Q 12- Kt-QKtS (a) Mate follow If Kt-B3; 24. Q-R3ch, Kt-R4; 25. Kt-B7 mat.
More of the Keres-Euwe games: The Ruy Lopeze continue. Kere adopt a (low variation: 5. Kt-QB3 and as the game develop he obtains an open QR file, with pressure against Black QRP, whereas Euwe takes control of the open Q file. Mid-game simplification eventually lead to exchange of queens and a R and Kt vs. R and B ending in which Keres has the Kt wltA in tthle in fore nati( P The game, having been adjourned on the 45th, I took a critical turn shortly after.
Kere ap brilliant Chernis Reinhardt - Chernis Black White Black Kt-KB3 13-Q-Kt3 PxP P-Q4 14-BxP BxKt P-OKt3 15-PxB O-O B-Kt2 16-Kt-34 KR-K P-K3 17-BxP! PxB QKt-Q2 18-KtxP K-R P-B4 19-RxKt!l KtxR BxP 20-BxPch K-Kt B-K2 21-Kt-QRch KxB R-QB 22-R-Ktch K-R3 Q-B2 23-Q-Kbch Q-Kt Resign (a) prently overlooked something, because lie never recovered from the los of pawns sacrificed in the attempt to push through his own passed P. Instead of 52. K-Kt6, 52. R-B8ch. K-R2; 53. Kt-B7 is Inviting, but Black might save himself with BxPch, since White ha only the RP left. , FOURTH GAMS RUY LOPEZ Kere Euwe Kere Euwe White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-K4 31-OxR BxKtP 2- KI-KB3 Kt-QB3 32-Q-K3 Q-Q8 3- B-K15 P-QR3 33-Kt-B5 B-B5 4- B-R4 Kt-B3 34-R-R7 R-QB 5- Kt-B3 B-K2 35-Q-KI3 Q-Q3 6-Castlea P-QKI4! 36-R-R8 Q-K2 7- B-KI3 P-Q3 37-Q-K3 R-Q 8- Kt-Q5 Kt-QR4 38-R-K7 K-B 9-KtxB QxKl 39-Q-B ' Q-Q3 10- P-Q4 "Castles 40-Kt-Kt7 Q-Q7 11- PxP PxP 41-QxQ RxQ 12- B-KtS B-K12 42-R-R8ch K-K2 13- O-K KtxB 43-R-QB8 RxP 14- HPxKt P-R3 44-RxPch K-B 15- BxKt OxB 45-KI-Q6 B-Q6 16- Q-K3 C1-B3 46-K-K13 R-B7 17- KR-K J-B3 47-K-K14 RxPch 18- P-QKU Q-B5 48-K-B5 K-Kt 19- P-B3 KR-Q 49-R-B5 P-R4 20- Kt-O2 Q-B2 50-P-B4 PxP 21- R-R3 R-Q3 51-P-Kt5 R-Kt7 22- Kt-KtJ QR-Q 52-K-Kt8 R-Kt7ch 23- Kt-B5 B-B 53-K-B5 B-BB 24-P-R3 R-Q7 54-P-Kt6 R-Kt7 25- R-K2 R-Q8ch 55-K-Kt8 BxP 26- K-R2 Q-R4 56-KxP B-K3 27- P-OKt3 R-OKt8 57-Kt-B5 RxP 2S-Kt-U3 B-KaSO-R-BT BxKt 29-R-W2 R-a 58-PxB R-K17 30-RxP RxRI Resign Euwe nlay P-Q4 and an unusual Nlmzo Indian results. In spite of early simplifica tions. Including exchange of queens, Keres obtain possession of the open Q me ana Euwe game is inferior from his 15th or 16th move. Before long, Kere la able to win a pawn or two and even bishop of opposite color cannot save uwe.
PIPTH GAME NIMZO-INDIAN DEFEN3I Euwe White 1- P-04 2- P-QB4 3- Kt-B3 4- 0-B2 5- B-K15 6- B-R4 7- P-K3 8- B-Q3 9- P-05 10- PxKl ; 11- OxP 12- QxQ 13- Q-W2 14- KxB 15- K-K2 , 18-R-QB 17- B-K13 18- Kt-B3 19- KR-Q 20- KxR Keres plays P-Q4 and a somewhat differ ent Nlmzo-lndian result. A close position is finally opened by Euwe 24 . . . p-bj.
But thi fails to lead to anything very tangib e for either player, and Euwe de cides to move his K from the K side to the Q side since the Q iae is pretty mucn b ocked. and Kere' only winning pian is to open ud the K side. This he does, and the ending becomes very critical. Euwe's K I badly exposed, with the result that Keres able to eauai tne mai.cn score. o. K-Kt I hardly better than the text, since after 55. R-R8ch, K-B2; 56, R-KK.18, Black 1 equally uniortunaie, SIXTH GAME . NIMZO-1NDIAN DEFENSE Keres Euwe Keres Black White Black KI-KB3 21-Kt-Kt R-Qch P-K3 22-K-K R-Q7 B-Kt5 23-P-B3 . RxKKtP Castles 24-PxKt RxKtch P-KR3 25-K-Q2 RxR Kt-B3 26-KxR BxP R-K 27-P-KtJ B-Q6 P-K4 28-BxP P-KR4 P-K5 29-K-Q2 B-Kt8 PxB 30-K-B3 P-R5 QPxP 31-P-R4 BxP BxKtch 32-K-B4 P-Kt3 BxQch 33-P-R5 PxP Kt-K5ch 34-KxP B-B7 B-K3 35-K-Kt5 BxP P-KKt4 36-KxP K-Kt2 QR-Q 37-K-R6 K-Kt3 P-QB4 38-P-K4 P-Kt6 RxR 39-PxP P-R6 P-Kt5 Resign Kere White 1- P-Q4 2- P-QB4 3- KI-UB3 4- Q-B2 5- Kt-B3 6- B-Kti ' 7- B-R4 8- P-K3 6-B-K2 10-P-Q5 ll-Kt-Q2 Euwe Black Kt-KB3 P-K3 B-K15 Kt-B3 Castles P-KR3 P-Q3 Q-K2 P-K4 Kt-Kt OKt-Q2 12-CastiesKR P-QR4 13-QR-K 14- P-B4 15- QxB 16- KtxKt 17- P-KKt3 18- B-Kt4 - 19- KtxKtCb 20- BxB 21- R-B2 22- R(K)-KB 23- P-B5 24- P-K4 25- PxP 26- P-QR4 27- R-Q 28- P-Kt3 (Score R-K BxKt Kt-K5 QxB Q-K2 Kt-B3 QxKt QRxB P-QKt3 Q-Kt3 Q-B3 P-B3 Rxp K-B KR-B K-K2 and note from c.s.M. Kere White 29- Q-B3 30- P-KR4 31- K-B 32- K-K2 33- R-R2 34- P-KKt4 35- R-Kt2 36- R-Kt3 37- Q-Q3 38-R-KR Euwe Black K-Q2 K-B2 K-Kt2 R(B!-B2 Q-Q P-B3 R-B Q-Q2 Q-KB2 R-KR 39-R(Ri-R3 R(B3)-B 40-P-Kt4 41- PxP 42- Q-Q5cU 43- R-Q3 44- RxR 45- R-R7 4S-K-B3 47- K-Kt 48- P-Kt4) 49- P-R5 50- PxPch 51- QxPch 52- QxKP 53- R-R3 ' 54- Q-Q4ch 55- Rxp RPxP Q-B2 K-R2 RxR PxP Q-K2 R-B R-B2 PxP Q-Kt2 KxP K-R2 P-Kt6 R-B3 R-Kt3 Resigns h SWEDEN
