Chess

BY PHILIDOR No. 21. SAM LOYD (1892) * ' In The Art of the Checkmate (G. Bell, 12s. 6d.), Victor Renaud and Georges Kahn have produced another book of the well-known and popular' 'combinative brilliancy' type. The authors clan" sify positions and games by the types of Mote produced, a method to my mind no better and no worse than most of the alternative waYs classification; the value and the entertainment of a book of this kind lie in the stimulus it giV6 to the chess imagination, and judged by this test 1 would rate The Art of the Checkmate as a 0° average member of its class and worth having' A good feature is the inclusion of 80 'exercise' for the reader.' This week's game, taken from The Art of the Checkmate, is a win by Spielmann. one of the greatest attacking players of all tinle.

White, R. SPIELMANN Black, B. HoEssuNGLa Opening, Caro Kann.

1 P-K 4

P-Q 11 3 15 Kt-Kt 41 Q-K 1 le,),

2 NCI 4 P-Q 4 16 Kt-K 3! Kt-Q

3 Kt-Q B 3 P x P 17 Q-R 5 4 Kt x P Kt-B 3 18 Kt-Kt 4! lUtiCKtB3 75 Kt-Kt 3 (a) P-K 3 6 Kt-B 3 P-B 4 19 Kt x Bch Kt x K'

20 Q-R 6(1) R-B I

Kt-B 3 (6) 21 Q R-Q 1 Q-K x P 2232 Kt-K511( ..) Ql■tu-K4 I

8 P x P

9 P-Q It 3 0-0 10 0-0 P-Kt 4 P-Q Kt 3 24 R-K 5 13-Q 4(0

1213-Kt 2 B-K 2 25 Kt-K 7 ch x Kt 12 Q-U 27(c) 26 Qx RP ch K

13 P-Kt 5! 1(t-R 4 (d) 27 11-R 5 ch K-Kt 1

14 Kt-K 5 B-Kt 2 28 R-R 8 mate (a) 5 Kt x Kt ch is stronger, since Black could reply

text with 5 .. P-K 4!; with full equality at once, 3; th) 7 ... P x P; 8 Kt x P, 13-Q 2;, 9 0-0, Kt-% 4, is slightly better, the White knight being misplaced Oil (c) Very weak, as White quickly demonstrates. 12 6E; 13-Kt 2; is correct, but White still has the superior Posit' on both wings.

(d) After this knight is dead, but Kt 1 and equallyunsatisfactory. (e) 15 ... Kt x Kt; I6 Q x Kt, P-Kt 3; followed hi. P-K B 3 or B 4 and defence along rank is better (rhea" not very good) chance. (f) Tutus out badly, but Black is at a standstill and position is probably lost however lie plays. ii (g) There is no defence, e.g., 17 ... P-B 18 Kt I' (1‘,,, x P!, P is Kt; 19 Kt x ands mate in a few 110 - cannot he prevented. 7. 46) 18 ... P is Q??; 19 Kt-R (i'mate and 18... 19 Q-K 5, K-Kt 2: 20 Kt-R 5 chl and wins.

(1) Not 20 Q-K 5?, Q-Q 41; and Black escapes. svbac (I) Having brought every piece into the attack. 24 Plays the coup de grace. II 23 . . . ICl P is Ku; then B is P, P-13 3; 25 B is P ch. K-R I. 26 R-Q 7 or 23 • • • 0-132; 24 B-B 611 and mates or wins the queen. „ 10 (k) White announced mate in 4. s scintillating an's" a perfectly pissed attack. WHITE, 6 111C11.