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Chess 24 May 1942, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
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CHESS May 24. 1942 L A. TIMES PROBLEM NO. 129T By J. T. Eaton. White mates in two. (Wh. 10; Bl. 10.) L.A. TIMES PROBLEM NQ. 1298 By B. J. de C. Andrade. White mates in three. (Wh. 5; Bl. 10.) SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO, B-QS. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO, 1293: 1294: B-B4. We received solutions from the following: J. E. Tyler. E. H. Lundstedt, W. C. Nolting, W. Harmon, J. Davidson. H. Bruhn, D. A. Innes, G. A. Hall, C. B. Collins. J. P. Walsh. R. Roslin. G. Kibbey, J. T. Watson, C. P. Ford. A. L. Buckman, M. Morris, J. O. Dodge. W. L. Koethen. S. J. McConnell, Mrs. P. Tovar, A. D. Reynolds Sr., M. Rudholm. A. S. Wells, G. D. Donald. Mrs. M. Gordon. F. Marearetten, F. Filan, J. B, Staihncs, B. Bell.
END GAME HINTS By Kamat. Deficiency In end-game play 1 the usual result of an absence of worthy opponents for. In an encounter between players of different classes of chess strength, the game is oden decided in the opening itself. This explains the seemingly incongruous phenomenon of a nrst-ciass chess amateur losing game after game to a master in spite of excel while the strong amateur lacks end-game practice and does nothing toward an lm provement in that section the master de votes hours of systematic study to end game technmue. It is always best to be gin with fundamentals as we know several strong amateurs in this part of our country at least who need a good ground ing in these fundamentals. In the meet ing between a master and an amateur the inner advantage in the position is discernible only to the expert eye and the procedure of converting these advantages into victories is revealing inexhaustible possibilities day by day. To quote B. F Winkelman: "The remarkable studies of Henri KincK ot Barcelona. Johann Ber. ger of Graz. Leonid Kubbel of Moscow. Alexis xroitsky or Leningrad, the PlatofI brothers and other gifted end-game composers, have familiarized the average expert with the procedure essential to convert slight advantages In the endgame into victories. They have brought auout a vast change In the mental outlook of the players and have tended to relegate the mid-game combination to a Place secondary to the positional struggle for a favorite ending."
The older masters were content to treat end-games os they arose while with Dr. Alekhine the entire strategy from the opening in some games is subordinated to the underlying idea of a favorable end-game. This research on the pari of the moderns into the complexities of the end-game arose out of the necessity imposed by a very high average chess talent in these days as contrasted with the classical years where a handful of masters were far in advance of their less-tslented adversaries and most of their games were decided long before the end-same stage was reached. In this as well in future articles we propose to give our readers the salient principles of end-game play with reference to each chess mn and we start with the chess unit, the pawn. In the first section, we will deal with each chess man and kings alone and later on the play of such men in conjunction with other men and kings.
1. THE PAWN It Is well for the student to remember even at the start of the game that an extra pawn, if not utilized for dynamic ends, confers in a large number of cases nothing but a draw with the kings alone on tne board. This Idea is Important at least for the purpose of chasing the per nicious habit of pawn grab out of the mind when we are playing, as we must do in every one of. our encounters, for a tin. By way of digression we have to state that it la our confirmed opinion that whatever be at the stake, we are not Justified in playing for anything else but a win In either tournament or matches as otherwise We will be treacherous to Our hobby, which is in every aspect a struggle between two minds.
We believe in giving at the outset a classical example in every section as the storing of such examples to our memory acts subconsciously at least in the realization of the maximum potency of pieces. From "Tattersall:" Black White to play and win. A study of the possibilities hidden In the above position will make everyone realize tnat a draw by agreement among masters is more an instance of nervous ness in having to face defeat in an attempt to win than a realization of the utter impossibility of the position reached m giving anything but a draw. Excepting the restrictive position of the black king which is more reminiscent of "draughts" than "chess" there is nothing to suggest a win for a white.
But note the following line of play which confers the win. 1. P-R5. P-R6; 2. P-Kt4 K-R5; 3. P-R3, P-R4; 4. P-Kt5. PxP: 5. P-R4. P-Kt5; 6. K-B4, P-Kt6: 7. PxP, mate. A forced mate in seven and white has no other method of winning and we can with confidence ariirm tnat it is very neariy impossible to discover that the pawn at R6 Is the traitor! The isolated pawn. The Isolated pawn is one that has no pawns of its own color on either of its adjacent files. In this definition we seek to bring the cause for the well-known weakness of the isolated pawn in end-game play.
Though most of us are aware of the pronounced end-game weakness of the isolated pawn, few are aware wherein the weakness lies. It cannot be that the isolated pawn is more open to attack or less defensible than any other pawn if we can bring as much force for its defense as the opponent has to effect Its capture, and with this balance of power, we don't see any reason why the isolated pawn alone should be the sufferer. Here again the moderns have achieved a great deal In emphasizing on the weakness of squares as opposed to weakness of chess men. It is not so much the pawn that suffers by being isolated as the square in front or such pawn. The said square is an ex cellent resting ground for adverse pieces, sneiterea Irom any frontal attack by the Isolani" (to borrow a term from Nlm zowilsch and relatively immune from any flank attack by the absence of pawns on either of the adjacent files.
This square is so weak that besides the minor and the major powers, the adverse king Itself Is enabled to join in the "fray" there being no pawns to check its advance. In this connection we would recommend to the reader to realize how potent two adjacent pawns are in checking the march of an adverse king. Yet another weakness of the "Isolani" consists in its inability to reach the goal. Its "lust to expand" is nipped In the bud as any close advance is out of question with no pawn support. An uneconomical expenditure of force is necessitated by the absence of any flank pawn, even though the march of the said pawn is unhampered by any adverse pawn.
A wnoie rook has to be devoted exclusively to be stationed behind such pawn to necessitate the advance with the result that such ambitious schemes are thwarted early by the opponent ignoring such ad vance ana bestowing his unwelcome attention on the king. And lastly, the "isolani" Itself suffers from want of pawn protectors. With these defects in mind, the player who had bestowed upon his opponent an isolated pawn or pawns would shape the strategy of the game toward a progressive simplification by exchanges while the player with an "Isolani" will end must strive lor a decision In the mid-game itself. Now the next question arises: are all isolanles" equally disadvantageous. Prom the end-game point of view, an "Isolani" in the rook file Is not so defective as one in the center; indeed there are occasions when an "isolani" in either of the extreme sides of the board confers an advantage on the player possessing it as it attracts the attention of the enemy pieces to one wing to the derti-ment of the solidarity of the other.
The edge of the board also serves as a protection to the "Isolani" as it cannot be attacked by both sides: hence It is we find masters recommending a recapture at B3 square with a kt pawn, though by such course the rook pawn gets isolated. The student must, however, be cau tious oeiore venturing to give an "isolani for getting way pronounced end-game by BY HERMAN STEINE3 Internotionol Chess Master Address all moil to Chess Editoe forced exchanges. As an "isolanl" tm plies absence of pawns on the adjacent files, the possesser of the "isolani" gets "open" or semi-open" files for play rf his pieces In particular his rooks. Hence it Is that while an "isolani" is end-game weakness, it often is a "midgame' strength and cTves the player with as open style plenty of scope for the exercise of his ingenuity. This explains the innumerable Instances, where a centrally Placed "isolani" a definitely weak pawn in the end-game is often the means o( attack.
To quote A. Nimzowitsch: "Many players with an 'isolani' proceed much tea violently but it seems to me that there n no objective motive for 'plunging' on a desperate attack. At first the utmost solidity is called for. The attack will come of itself in good time." The one thing needful, however, is to proceed calmly with the strengthening of the center squares In different, if not altogether forgetful of the psychology of weaknesi of an isolated pawn. We think it was Dr. Tarrasch who said: "A player who cannot endure an Isolated pawn without wur-age should not play chess!"
NIMZOWITSCH DEFENSE Reshevsky Denker Reshevsky Denkef White Black White Black 1- P-Q4 Kt-KB3 24-BxB QxB 2- P-QB4 P-K3 25-PxP KR-BJ 3- Kt-QB3 B-Kt5 26-Q-Kt5 P-BJ 4- P-QR3 BxKtch 27-BxP K'.sH 5- PxB P-B4 28-QxKt RvP 6- P-K3 Castles 29-RxR Rx 7- B-Q3 P-Q4 30-Q-Q8ch K-M 8- PxQP QxP 31-Q-Q7ch K-S 9- Kt-B3 PxP 32-P-R3 e-KtJ 10- KPxP- P-QKt3 33-K-R2 R-B8 11- P-B4 -Q3 34-R-K2 Q-Kt8cH 12- Castlej B-Kt2 35-K-Kt3 R-B6ch 13- Kt-K5 Kt-B3 36-K-R4 Q-B4 14- B-Kt2 KR-Q 37-QxKRP Q-K2ch 15- KtxKt QxKt 38-QxQch KxQ 16- P-B3 OR-B 39-P-R4 K-B3 17- Q-K2 Q-Q3 40-R-K4 R-R 18- P-B4 P-K13 41-P-Kt P-R4 19- QR-K R-K 42-R-B4 R-KBS 20- R-B2 Kt-R4 43-R-B5 RxP 21- Q-Kt4 B-R3 44-RxP P-Kt4r! 22- R-OB R-K2 45-K-K13 R-Kt5ial 23- P-QB5 PxP (a-llmit.) Black forfeits by exceeding the time
ENGLISH OPENING Kashdan Reshevsky Kashdan Reshevsky White Black White Black 1- P-QB4 KI-KB3 18-B-KB4 B-K4 2- Kt-QB3 P-Q4 19-BxB QxR 3- PxP KtxP 20-B-BS B-K3 , 4-P-KK13 P-QB4 21-Kt-B3 Kt-C4 5- B-Kt2 Kt-B2 22-KtxKS BxKI 6- Kt-B3 Kt-B3 23-BxB QxB 7- Castlei P-K4 24-Q-R4 R-KH 8- P-Q3 B-K2 25-KR-Q R-KI 9- B-K3 Castles 26-P-K3 R-B 10- R-B R-Kt 27-R-B4 Q-BS 11- Kt-QR4 P-QKt3 28-R-Q2 P-KR4 12- P-QKI4 KtxP 29-Q-B2 R-3 13- KtxKP B-B3 30-P-KR4 R(K2-GJ 14- Kt-BS KtxKt 31-Q-K13 Q-C4 15- BxKt Kt-G4 32-P-R4 Q-KJ 16- B-Q2 Q-Q3 Drawn 17- B-QKt5 Kt-B2 SICILIAN DEFENSE Kashdan Baker Kashdan Bakef White Black White. Black 1- P-K4 F-QB4 10-PxKt P-KtJ 2- Kt-KB3 P-Q3 11-B-K3 B-KKH 3- P-Q4 PxP 12-Q-Q2 B-K: 4- KtxP Kt-KB3 13-B-B3 P-QR4 5- Kt-QB3 P-QR3 14-P-OR3 Kt-RJ 6- B-K2 Q-B2 15-PxP KtxP 7- Castles p-QKt4 16-P-B3 Ktx 8- P-B4 P-Kt5 17-BxKt Resignsist 9- KU05 KtxKt (a) For If BxB; 18. Kt-Kt5, Q-B3i 1. QxB. QxQ: 20. Kt-B7ch. etc.
END GAME HINTS By Kamat. Deficiency In end-game play 1 the usual result of an absence of worthy opponents for. In an encounter between players of different classes of chess strength, the game is oden decided in the opening itself. This explains the seemingly incongruous phenomenon of a nrst-ciass chess amateur losing game after game to a master in spite of excel while the strong amateur lacks end-game practice and does nothing toward an lm provement in that section the master de votes hours of systematic study to end game technmue. It is always best to be gin with fundamentals as we know several strong amateurs in this part of our country at least who need a good ground ing in these fundamentals. In the meet ing between a master and an amateur the inner advantage in the position is discernible only to the expert eye and the procedure of converting these advantages into victories is revealing inexhaustible possibilities day by day. To quote B. F Winkelman: "The remarkable studies of Henri KincK ot Barcelona. Johann Ber. ger of Graz. Leonid Kubbel of Moscow. Alexis xroitsky or Leningrad, the PlatofI brothers and other gifted end-game composers, have familiarized the average expert with the procedure essential to convert slight advantages In the endgame into victories. They have brought auout a vast change In the mental outlook of the players and have tended to relegate the mid-game combination to a Place secondary to the positional struggle for a favorite ending."
The older masters were content to treat end-games os they arose while with Dr. Alekhine the entire strategy from the opening in some games is subordinated to the underlying idea of a favorable end-game. This research on the pari of the moderns into the complexities of the end-game arose out of the necessity imposed by a very high average chess talent in these days as contrasted with the classical years where a handful of masters were far in advance of their less-tslented adversaries and most of their games were decided long before the end-same stage was reached. In this as well in future articles we propose to give our readers the salient principles of end-game play with reference to each chess mn and we start with the chess unit, the pawn. In the first section, we will deal with each chess man and kings alone and later on the play of such men in conjunction with other men and kings.
1. THE PAWN It Is well for the student to remember even at the start of the game that an extra pawn, if not utilized for dynamic ends, confers in a large number of cases nothing but a draw with the kings alone on tne board. This Idea is Important at least for the purpose of chasing the per nicious habit of pawn grab out of the mind when we are playing, as we must do in every one of. our encounters, for a tin. By way of digression we have to state that it la our confirmed opinion that whatever be at the stake, we are not Justified in playing for anything else but a win In either tournament or matches as otherwise We will be treacherous to Our hobby, which is in every aspect a struggle between two minds.
We believe in giving at the outset a classical example in every section as the storing of such examples to our memory acts subconsciously at least in the realization of the maximum potency of pieces. From "Tattersall:" Black White to play and win. A study of the possibilities hidden In the above position will make everyone realize tnat a draw by agreement among masters is more an instance of nervous ness in having to face defeat in an attempt to win than a realization of the utter impossibility of the position reached m giving anything but a draw. Excepting the restrictive position of the black king which is more reminiscent of "draughts" than "chess" there is nothing to suggest a win for a white.
But note the following line of play which confers the win. 1. P-R5. P-R6; 2. P-Kt4 K-R5; 3. P-R3, P-R4; 4. P-Kt5. PxP: 5. P-R4. P-Kt5; 6. K-B4, P-Kt6: 7. PxP, mate. A forced mate in seven and white has no other method of winning and we can with confidence ariirm tnat it is very neariy impossible to discover that the pawn at R6 Is the traitor! The isolated pawn. The Isolated pawn is one that has no pawns of its own color on either of its adjacent files. In this definition we seek to bring the cause for the well-known weakness of the isolated pawn in end-game play.
Though most of us are aware of the pronounced end-game weakness of the isolated pawn, few are aware wherein the weakness lies. It cannot be that the isolated pawn is more open to attack or less defensible than any other pawn if we can bring as much force for its defense as the opponent has to effect Its capture, and with this balance of power, we don't see any reason why the isolated pawn alone should be the sufferer. Here again the moderns have achieved a great deal In emphasizing on the weakness of squares as opposed to weakness of chess men. It is not so much the pawn that suffers by being isolated as the square in front or such pawn. The said square is an ex cellent resting ground for adverse pieces, sneiterea Irom any frontal attack by the Isolani" (to borrow a term from Nlm zowilsch and relatively immune from any flank attack by the absence of pawns on either of the adjacent files.
This square is so weak that besides the minor and the major powers, the adverse king Itself Is enabled to join in the "fray" there being no pawns to check its advance. In this connection we would recommend to the reader to realize how potent two adjacent pawns are in checking the march of an adverse king. Yet another weakness of the "Isolani" consists in its inability to reach the goal. Its "lust to expand" is nipped In the bud as any close advance is out of question with no pawn support. An uneconomical expenditure of force is necessitated by the absence of any flank pawn, even though the march of the said pawn is unhampered by any adverse pawn.
A wnoie rook has to be devoted exclusively to be stationed behind such pawn to necessitate the advance with the result that such ambitious schemes are thwarted early by the opponent ignoring such ad vance ana bestowing his unwelcome attention on the king. And lastly, the "isolani" Itself suffers from want of pawn protectors. With these defects in mind, the player who had bestowed upon his opponent an isolated pawn or pawns would shape the strategy of the game toward a progressive simplification by exchanges while the player with an "Isolani" will end must strive lor a decision In the mid-game itself. Now the next question arises: are all isolanles" equally disadvantageous. Prom the end-game point of view, an "Isolani" in the rook file Is not so defective as one in the center; indeed there are occasions when an "isolani" in either of the extreme sides of the board confers an advantage on the player possessing it as it attracts the attention of the enemy pieces to one wing to the derti-ment of the solidarity of the other.
The edge of the board also serves as a protection to the "Isolani" as it cannot be attacked by both sides: hence It is we find masters recommending a recapture at B3 square with a kt pawn, though by such course the rook pawn gets isolated. The student must, however, be cau tious oeiore venturing to give an "isolani for getting way pronounced end-game by BY HERMAN STEINE3 Internotionol Chess Master Address all moil to Chess Editoe forced exchanges. As an "isolanl" tm plies absence of pawns on the adjacent files, the possesser of the "isolani" gets "open" or semi-open" files for play rf his pieces In particular his rooks. Hence it Is that while an "isolani" is end-game weakness, it often is a "midgame' strength and cTves the player with as open style plenty of scope for the exercise of his ingenuity. This explains the innumerable Instances, where a centrally Placed "isolani" a definitely weak pawn in the end-game is often the means o( attack.
To quote A. Nimzowitsch: "Many players with an 'isolani' proceed much tea violently but it seems to me that there n no objective motive for 'plunging' on a desperate attack. At first the utmost solidity is called for. The attack will come of itself in good time." The one thing needful, however, is to proceed calmly with the strengthening of the center squares In different, if not altogether forgetful of the psychology of weaknesi of an isolated pawn. We think it was Dr. Tarrasch who said: "A player who cannot endure an Isolated pawn without wur-age should not play chess!"
NIMZOWITSCH DEFENSE Reshevsky Denker Reshevsky Denkef White Black White Black 1- P-Q4 Kt-KB3 24-BxB QxB 2- P-QB4 P-K3 25-PxP KR-BJ 3- Kt-QB3 B-Kt5 26-Q-Kt5 P-BJ 4- P-QR3 BxKtch 27-BxP K'.sH 5- PxB P-B4 28-QxKt RvP 6- P-K3 Castles 29-RxR Rx 7- B-Q3 P-Q4 30-Q-Q8ch K-M 8- PxQP QxP 31-Q-Q7ch K-S 9- Kt-B3 PxP 32-P-R3 e-KtJ 10- KPxP- P-QKt3 33-K-R2 R-B8 11- P-B4 -Q3 34-R-K2 Q-Kt8cH 12- Castlej B-Kt2 35-K-Kt3 R-B6ch 13- Kt-K5 Kt-B3 36-K-R4 Q-B4 14- B-Kt2 KR-Q 37-QxKRP Q-K2ch 15- KtxKt QxKt 38-QxQch KxQ 16- P-B3 OR-B 39-P-R4 K-B3 17- Q-K2 Q-Q3 40-R-K4 R-R 18- P-B4 P-K13 41-P-Kt P-R4 19- QR-K R-K 42-R-B4 R-KBS 20- R-B2 Kt-R4 43-R-B5 RxP 21- Q-Kt4 B-R3 44-RxP P-Kt4r! 22- R-OB R-K2 45-K-K13 R-Kt5ial 23- P-QB5 PxP (a-llmit.) Black forfeits by exceeding the time
ENGLISH OPENING Kashdan Reshevsky Kashdan Reshevsky White Black White Black 1- P-QB4 KI-KB3 18-B-KB4 B-K4 2- Kt-QB3 P-Q4 19-BxB QxR 3- PxP KtxP 20-B-BS B-K3 , 4-P-KK13 P-QB4 21-Kt-B3 Kt-C4 5- B-Kt2 Kt-B2 22-KtxKS BxKI 6- Kt-B3 Kt-B3 23-BxB QxB 7- Castlei P-K4 24-Q-R4 R-KH 8- P-Q3 B-K2 25-KR-Q R-KI 9- B-K3 Castles 26-P-K3 R-B 10- R-B R-Kt 27-R-B4 Q-BS 11- Kt-QR4 P-QKt3 28-R-Q2 P-KR4 12- P-QKI4 KtxP 29-Q-B2 R-3 13- KtxKP B-B3 30-P-KR4 R(K2-GJ 14- Kt-BS KtxKt 31-Q-K13 Q-C4 15- BxKt Kt-G4 32-P-R4 Q-KJ 16- B-Q2 Q-Q3 Drawn 17- B-QKt5 Kt-B2 SICILIAN DEFENSE Kashdan Baker Kashdan Bakef White Black White. Black 1- P-K4 F-QB4 10-PxKt P-KtJ 2- Kt-KB3 P-Q3 11-B-K3 B-KKH 3- P-Q4 PxP 12-Q-Q2 B-K: 4- KtxP Kt-KB3 13-B-B3 P-QR4 5- Kt-QB3 P-QR3 14-P-OR3 Kt-RJ 6- B-K2 Q-B2 15-PxP KtxP 7- Castles p-QKt4 16-P-B3 Ktx 8- P-B4 P-Kt5 17-BxKt Resignsist 9- KU05 KtxKt (a) For If BxB; 18. Kt-Kt5, Q-B3i 1. QxB. QxQ: 20. Kt-B7ch. etc.
