Chess

By PHILIDOR 230. C. MANSFIELD (1st Prize, Evening Standard, 1930) BLACK (6 men)

WHITE (to men)

1!I rt: to play and mate in two moves; solution next k. Solution to No. 229 (Howard): R—Kt 8, threat t„t 7.1 . . . Kt (Kt 4) any ; 2 Kt—Kt 4. x . . ° 4; 2 Q x P. x . . . R any ; 2 Q x Kt. When on Kt 4 moves, this pins WQ—but also self-pins other Black knight : when Kt on Q 6 goes to B ,Prevents mate and pins W Kt—but self-pins c'c knight on Kt 4 and interferes with bishop. Good 41131c of half-pinning theme.

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I prefer 9 . . . /3—B 4 at once. to Kt—K 4 ? is

now met by to . . . Kt xQP1 and if to 0-0 then to.. . Kt—Kg..41

B—B 4

rr Ks—K R 4 B—K 5? Now It . Kt x Q ? 12 Kt x Kt, Q x Kt; 13 Kt—B 7, but it Ks--K 5 is better than the text.

• P x P Kt x P 22 P—B sl RP P but after 14 Kt x B! White is winning, e.g. (a 14 ..• B—Q 5 ch ? He must play . X B—Q 5 ch?; 15 Kt—B 2 and wins a piece or (b) 14 x Kt; 15 Q x Kt, Q x Kt; 16 Q x•P ch and ;7 B—B 3or (c) 14 . • Q x Kt; 15 Q x Kt, Q x Kt; ;6 Q x P ch, K—It z; R—B 3l Q x Ell P x Q zg Px BP ch X—Ke 2 Or t5. K—R 1; 16 B—Kt 51 or 15...K—B I; x6 B—R 6 ch,K—K 2;17B—Kt5 ch.

• P x Q x Q

1-7 Kt x B Q x Kt • Kt—B 5 ch K—Kt 3 K—Kt I; 59 B-13 3 and zo x Kt ch winning or rS. K—R t; 19 Kt—Kt 3, Q moves; 20 P x Kt and the R and two Bs will be far too good for the Queen. rg B—R 5 chi . . Very pretty. 19 ...K. X B; 20 Kt—Kt 3 ch, any; 21 Kt x Q leaves Black a rook down and 19 K—B 3; 20 Kt x P ch is even worse, so

Resigns

statistics from the Tel Aviv chess Olympiad in its March number. The longest game (Garces, Ecuador v. Nora, France) lasted 132 moves and the shortest (nine moves I) was the win by Uhlmann (E. Germany) against Andersen (Denmark), who had a successful tournament in spite of this disaster. A very interesting fact is that White beat Black decisively, winning 658 games against 557 with 605 drawn ; when one realises that in many of the games the winner would have won with White, Black, Green or any other colour, this is an impressive margin. Here is another game to show how nice it is to be white.

White, DESINGER. Black, AUER. Opening, BENONI. (Austria, 1964) P—QkB 4 Kt— B3 P—Q P—A Kt 3 B—Kt 2

0-0

P—K 3 Px P R—K z P—Q 4 P—Q 3 P—Q B4 4 RI—Q B 3 5 P—K 4 6 P—B 4 7 Kt—B

8 B—K 23 51KP x P