CHESS

Evening Star, Issue 16993, 15 March 1919, Page 4

CHESS

[Conducted by J.H.F.H.]

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PROBLEM. No. 1,017, By "P.E." . Black, 7 pieces.

White, 7 pieces. White to play and mate in two moves. Ibqs; plktlp3; k2pR3; 2PS; IR6; 1K1B2B2; 8; 5K2.

SOLUTION OF PROBLEM So. 1,014 Key move: P-Q B 4.

GAME, No. 1,217. Ruy Lcpez. Black, Capablanca; Wliife, Black, 1 P-K 4......P-K 4 2-Kt-K B 3 Kt-Q B 3 3 B-Kt 5 P-Q II 3 4 B-R 4 P-Q 3 (a) 5 Castles (b) B-Q 2 <c) 6 P-B 3 (d) I'-K Kt 3 7 P-Q 4 (e) B-Kt 2 ft) 8 B-K Kt 5 (g) K Kt-K 2 9 R-K P-K R 3 10 B-K 3 Castles 11 Q Kt-Q 2 P-tet 3 (hj) 12 Kt-B Q-K 13 B-B 2 (i) B-Kt 5 14 Q-Q 2 (j) B x Kt 15 P x B P-K Kt 4 (k) 16 Kt-Kt 3 Kt-Kt 3 17 Kt-B 5 Q Kt-K 2 18 Q-Q 3 Q-Kt 4 U) 19 Kt x Kt eh ... Kt x Kt 20 Q x Q P x Q 21 P-K R 4 (m) P x Q P 22PxQ P P x P 23 P-B 4 P-Q. B 4 24 P-K 5 P x Q P 25 B x P Kt-B 3 26 B x P P x P 27 B-K 4 R-R, 3 28 B-B 5 R-Q 29 P xP Kt x P 30 Q R-Q R x R 31 R x R B-B 3 32 B-Kt Kt-B 6 ch 33 K-Kt 2 Kt-Kt 4 34 R-Q 3..., .P-K 6 ch 35 K-R R. x R. 36 B x R B x P 37 B-Q 3 K-Kt 2 33 P-B 4 Kt-K 3 39 B x P K-B 3 40 B-Q 3 B-B 8 41 B-K 5 ch K-K 2 42 P-B 5 Kt-B 4 43 B-B 2 .. ..Kt-Q 2 44 B-K Kt 3 B-R 6 Brawn.

(a) Black knows well enough that 4 .., Kt-B 3is the stronger move. In the present instance we take it the text move is one which awaits favorable developments, and thoy are. not long in coming. (t>) It is hard not to castle, if there is j nothing to prevent it. The necessity for I early castling is in most cases not at nil obvious, and we are almost tempted to say, from close observation, that the better the player the longer ho delays it. Not infrequently, as in this case, it amounts to clear loss of time. White's best courso is 5 B x Kt, P x B; 6 P-Q 4, P x P; 7 Kt x P, B-Q 2, etc. (c) Continuing to give White a chance to nibble at the cheese. (d) He bites. The. move, with its correlate, P-Q 4, is good only when Black has already developed his K Kt-B 3, as witness the game in the present tourney between Capablanca and Marshall. White should wait tuitil Black has started to develop his K's side, which he must presently do. 6 R-K would have served that purpose very well. (e) Seeing that the Black B will presently occupy the diagonal, White should advance the Q P only one square to Q 3; see the sequel. if) The shoe now fits on the other foot,. Black exerting a pressure against the adverse centre, to maintain which White must abandon any enterprise in other directions. (gi) The action of the long range B should be deferred, and White should proceed with 8 B x Kt. P x B (or B x B); 9 R-K, followed bv bringing Q Kt over K's side by way of Q 2 "and B. (hj) Preparatory to P-K B 4, guarding against a check by the Q at Kt 3 and the loss of tho Q Kt P, ho refrains from pushing tho P two squares and dislodging the B, in order to avoid the routine attack on the Kt P by P-Q R 4. ' (i) Black threatened to win a V by Kt s Q P. He should, however, proceed 13 B x Kt, followed by B-Q 2. (j) Necessary to keep up the semblance of an attack, and, anys'/ay, P-K B 4 was threatening-. (k) One of Capablsinca's favorite manoeuvres when he plays the White pieces. Here it comes in handy with the Black side. (1) Black exchanges Q's in the hope, probably, of outplaying While in the difficult end game which now follows. (rn) White is enterprising. The pawn is sacrificed in the hope of getting a strong centre. However, he reckons without his host, for Bl'ick frustrates easily all efforts of Whito built on his phalanx of P's. Instead of the text move. White could have had the better position, although hardly any winning chance, by playing 21 P-Q 5, Kt-Kt 3; 22 K-B, Kt-B 5; 23 K R-Q, R-R 3; 24 B-Kt 3, K R-Q R; 25 P-Q R 3, B-B 3; 26 Q R-B, B-Q; 27 P-Q B 4, P x P; 28 R x P, and Black is well defended at all points. What little initiative there is rests with White, but there is not enough of it to develop into a menace, and a draw is accordingly tho, legitimate outcome. —Notes from the 'American Chess Bulletin.'