Chess

By PHILIDOR

No. 54. W. J. FAULKNER WHITE (11 men)

mate in two moves: g L. solution next week.

Stallybrass: Kt-Q 7- no threat. 1 . • K x Kt; 2 B-B 5. I . . . K—Q 4; 2 l3-Kt 3. 1 . P-Q 4; 2 Kt-B 5.

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It is, to me at least, interesting to dip into the past from time to time and compare the games with those of the present day. This week I an1 giving a game from the 1928 Scheveningen ' tournament; the winner, Geza Maroczy, was n great master of the classical school—clear. accurate and systematic, he excelled in the defence of difficult positions, but (as this garlic, shows) could also attack with great vigour and. imagination when occasion offered. The chief difference between this and a typical 'grand' master' game of the present day is that in this game opening strategy is rather simpler and the ,opening struggle less tense.

White, G. MAROCZY Black, M. EUWE Opening, Sicilian I P-K 4 P-Q B 4 17 Q-B 2! P-Q Kt 4

2 Kt-K B 3 Kt-Q B 3 18 P x P P x P 3 P-Q 4 P x P 19 Kt-Q 41 (e) B-B 3 20 Q-Kt 3 R x R(/) 4 Kt x P Kt-B 3 5 Kt-Q B 3 P-Q 3 21 R x R R-Kt 1

6 B-K 2 P-K 3 (a) 22 P-B 5

P x P

7 0-0 (b) B-K.'2 23 Kt x B P B-B I 8 K-R I 0-0 24 B-B 4! (g) R-R 1 9 P-13 4 Q-B 2 25 R-Q B 1 (h) l'-K Kt 311'

10 Kt-Kt 3 P-Q R 3 , 26 P-K 6Q I

11 P-Q R 4 P-Q Kt 3 27 P-K 71 B--KKtt 2 2(i)

12 B-43 3 B-Kt 2 28KtxB K x Kt

13 B-K 3 Kt-Q Kt 5 (c) 29 Q-R 4 P-63

,14 Q-K 2 P-Q 4 30 Q-R 6 ch K-Kt

(a) The 'Scheveningen' variation. NowadayitseistiginssM(901.4 I 15 P-K 5 Kt-K 57 (d) 31 B-Q 6

16 B x Kt P x 13

usual to play an early P-Q II 3 and to delay decisil whether to play Kt-Q 2 or Kt-Q B 3 and to leave oPc choice of P-K 3 or P-K 4 as long as possible. ' (6) Richter attack, B-Kt 5, Q-Q 2 and 0-0-0 is Whites most dangerous weapon, though a double-edged one. '

(c) K R-Q 1 is a better way of preparing central advallq,i (d) He fails to see ingenious way in which WhiteWI, I use weakness of his Q Kt P to build up a combined attac

on both wings: 15 ... Kt-Q 2; protecting Kt P was better'

but White's position is still superior.

(a) White has now built up a splendid central 1)00011

from which he can operate on both sides of the board.

(.1) He must do what he can to reduce attacking to the position is, however, already lost. . (g) Threat P-K 6, followed by P-K 7. (ft) Not 25 It x Ft, B x R; 26 P-K 6 because of 26. • '

Q-B 5! threatening mate.

(I) Or 25 .. . Q-Q 2; 26 Kt x P!, B x Kt; 27 B-It o' P-B 3; 28 P x P with winning game. . „ 6 (11 27 ... 13 )i P; 28„ K1 w B ch, Q x Kt: 29 O-Az winning a piece. (k) Double threat of Q—B 8 ch and B x Kt will c011, Black 'a rook (first a knight, then the exchange). beautifhlly played attack.

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