Chess

By PHILIDOR

267. E. VISSERMAN (3rd Prize, B.C.F. Tourney No. 107)

BLACK (ii men)

witrrE to play and mate in two moves ; solution next week. Solution to No. 266 (Heathcote) : R (B r)—B 7, threat Kt—B 3. r . . . Kt—K 3 ; 2 R (K 7)—Q 7. . . . Kt—B 3 2 R (B 7)—Q 7. I • • . Kt—Kt 4 ; 2 R—B 5. . Kt x P ; Q—Q 3. Kt—B 7; 2 P—Kt 4. 1 . . Kt—K 7; z Q x R. 1 . . . Kt—B 6; 2 Q—K 4. t. Kt—B 4; 2 R—K 5. Wonderful knight wheel problem, with eight different mates for the eight knight moves.

In Richard Red's Modern Ideas in Chess (first published by Bell in 1923). one sees chess through the eyes of a great master who was by nature an artist and saw chess as an art in which new ideas could prove themselves through the objective test of victory : to quote him, 'the artists who . follow their own ideas instead of imitating nature [should know] . . . that in the narrow domain of chess these new ideas in a struggle with the old ones are proving victorious.'

And if you are Philistine enough to regard this as twaddle (in which you would be wrong) you can still in your materialistic way enjoy a number of excellent games such as : White,Bocujunow. Black, SPIELMANN. Opening, FRENCH DEFENCE. (Stockholm, 1919)

P—K 4 P—K 3

2 P—Q 4 P—Q 4 3 B3 Kt—K B 3

4 B—Kt 3 B—K 2 5 P—K g K Kt—Q 2

6 P—K R 4 . . . The Alekhine-Chatard attack: nowadays few players would accept the pawn but would attack the White centre with P—K B 3 or P—Q B 4 or P—Q R 3 and then P—Q B 4- 6 B B 7 .P.x.I9 Q P

8 Kt—R 3 Q—K 2

9 Q—Kt 4 P—K It13 P—K B 4 may be a little

better.

10 N1-13 4 P—Q R3 to . . . P—Q B 4?; xi Kt—Kt 5. ix 0-0-0 P—Q B 4 Better Kt—Kt 3. 12 Q—Kt 3 . . . Threatening 13 Kt (B 4) x QP,PxKt; x4KtxP,Q—Qi; 15 P—K 6,PxP;16Kt—B 7 ch. White's play from now on is directed to sacrificing a piece to break Black's central defence.

1(1-1:1 3 z3 PxP Qx P

14 R—Q 3 • • • Threat 75 B x Kt P, B P x B; 16 Kt Kt P, R—K Kt r; 17 R P followed by Q-:-.Kt 5—B 6. 74 . . . Q B z Red says that immediately after the game Bogofiubow gave the following line against 14 • Kt—B5 : 15.B x Kt, Q R; t6 Kt al 4) Q P, P Kt; r7KtxP, B—B 4; 43 Kt—B 6 ch, K—I3 x (18 K—K 2; 19 Q--R 3 th); 19 R--Q 8 ch, K—K 2; 20 Kt—Q 5 ch!, K R; 21 Q—Kt 5 ch and mates or wins the queen. is B—K Px B • Otherwise White takes on Qs • Q Kt xP Q Kt—Q 2 17 Q—Q B3! Q—Kz

• lit—B 6 ch Kix Kt • Px Kt Q—B z 20 Q—B 7 Kt--Q 2

zt Kt—Q 5! PY Kt Otherwise Kt—Kt 6.

• K R—Ki ch Kt—K 4 • R x Kt ch B—K 3

_4 K—Kt 2! and not 24 Q R P?, Q—R 3 rill; 25 K—KCI, 6—o. R—Q t =4 . . . Q—Kt 5?; 25 P- R 3!, Q—B x would be futile. zsQ RxP R x R

26 R x R B x R

27 Q—B 8 111010 A beautiful game vskatever .air ChM plikeepity.