Chess no. 402

PHILIDOR

L. I. Loshinski (first prize, Turin 1958). White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week.

Solution to no. 401 (Holladay): R - K 3, no

threat. 1 . . . P x R; 2 Q - Q 1. 1 . Q - K 4;

2 Kt - B 4. 1 . . . Q else; 2 Kt - K 7. 1 . . . B - Q 1; 2 Kt- B 4. 1 . . B else; 2 Kt - Kt 6.

1 P - Q 6; 2 R x P. 1 . Kt any; 2 Q - B 3. Good block problem.

The following amusing and exciting game was played in the fourth round of this year's British championship at Bristol. The winner is one of the numerous rising young players (he is nineteen); the loser is a notoriously hard man to beat. Prob- ably Cafferty ought to have won; but in this type of game 'ought' does not mean much—the player wins who takes his chances and the theoretical merits of the position are of little importance.

White, Webb. Black, Cafferty. Opening, Alek- hine's Defence. (Bristol 1968.)

1 P-K 4 Kt-KB3 2 P-K5 Kt-Q4 3 P-Q 4 P-Q3 4 P-QB 4 Kt-Kt 3 5 Px P BP x P 6B-K3 P-KKt 3 7 P Q 5 . . . a bad idea. White loses too much time.

7 . . . B-Kt2 8 B-Q4 B x B 9 Q x B 0 - 0 10 Kt-QB3 P -K 4!

11 PxPe.p.Kt-B3 12Q--Q2

12 P x P e. p. ch, R X P gives Black too great an advantage in development.

. . . . B x P 13 0 - 0 - 0 Kt x P 14 B x Kt B x B 15 Kt-B 3 Q - R 4 R - Q B 1 is also strong and perhaps gives White fewer counterattacking chances.

16 Q-R 6 P-B3 17 R x P B x P 18 P - R 4 B - B 2? He should play 18 . . B - Kt 6 !; 19 Kt - Kt 5, R - B 2 ! and Black's attack gets home first : e.g. 20 Kt x R,Q-R 8 ch; 21 Kt-Kt 1,R-QB 1!, 19 Kt - Kt 5 ! Q- R 8 ch 20 Kt-Kt 1 P x Kt 21 P x P KR-QB1 22 Q xRPch K-B I 23 Q - R 8 ch B - Kt 1 24 R -B 6 ch K - K 1

25 Q x Bch K-Q2 26 Q-K 6ch K-B 2 27 Q-Q 6 ch K - Kt 3 28 Q - Kt 4 ch K- R 3

29 R -R 3 P - Kt 3 30 Q - B 4 ch K - Kt 2 31 R - R 7 ch Kt - K 2 Winning the queen-, but to no avail.

32 R x Kt ch K- Kt 1 33 Q x R ch Resigns

33 . . . K X Q; 34 R - B 8 mate.