The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 20

A 20 Akron Beacon Journal Sunday, July 16, 1972 Once You Know Chess Moves So What or are just bored with a par- prepared for, B-Q2 indicates the bishop has been moved to the second square from its end of the board and in front of the queen's original position. "O-O" means castling. In brief, the thing to remember when following a championship chess match is you are fighting on two fronts: Trying to understand the game and trying to understand the notator's comments. Zngtwug. When you can't move without getting yourself into trouble.

It's usually a sign of imminent defeat Notation. stands for king, for knight, for queen, for rook, for bishop, for pawn. The hyphen indicates a move, the a capture of a piece and the numbers the position on the board. Thus, comeback after generations of neglect. (It is rather as if the Los Angeles Rams revived the old Statue of Liberty play.) But it works, for new lines of play have been discovered following the characteristic first three or four moves of this opening.

There are openings called "defenses," which offer a good reply for black, which plays second, in a given situation. There are openings A backward paivn can be a racial liability ticularly insipid game. Until modern times it was considered un gentlemanly to seek it deliberately. Threat A threat sometimes is worse than its execution. The invasion of Normandy must have come as something of a relief to the Nazi high command, since the alternatives no longer had to be TWO ALUMINUM CONBINATION STORM AND SCREEN DOORS COMPLETELY INSTALLED 124.95 Wings Over Streetsboro It was Francois Philidor who really invented modern chess in the ISth century, for he found in the pawns a means of turning a chessboard from a site of unrelated skirmishes into a true battleground.

Good players set up their pawn structures with care and fight to keep them stable, like a string of mines across a harbor through and around which the pieces flow. Ideally, these pawns all defend each other. A backward pawn is one which has fallen out of line and requires a piece to defend it, a dangerous waste of manpower. A passed pawn is one that has pushed past its opposite numbers and thus has a good chance of being queened. As forces are whittled down toward the end of a game (Called, with fine precision, the endgame), the meek pawns and king are apt to turn suddenly into important aggressive forces.

Simplifying out of trouble. All chess notators love this phrase, which means deliberately exchanging pieces in hopes of cutting down the enemy firepower should it be getting too concentrated for comfort. It is a useful device but can be a destructive habit. Fianrherto. A bishop is placed on the N2 square so that it is trained on the long diagonal.

First systematically used by the Englishman Howard Staunton, it was an early form of positional play, still popular today. The Draw. In formal competition you get a half point for a draw, and good players are adept at obtaining a draw when they see trouble ahead If purchased separately 130.90 For the front door: Colonial white with scalloped frame, black straps. Separately 74.96 For side or screen inserts. Separately 55 95.

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It is simple enough to learn the moves, but then you discover the real question is "which move when?" Furthermore, as in football, you need a special language to talk about it. Here Is a little course in that language. Checkmate. The object of the game is to checkmate the enemy king, that is, to be in a position where you are about to move one of your attacking pieces onto his square and he can't prevent it since he is unable to move into or remain in any piece's line of fire. It is good to remember that chess, probably of ancient Persian origin, represents a war between two kingdoms in which two armies consisting of infantry (pawns), cavalry (knights), fortress outposts or armored elephants (Rooks), political intriguers and fifth-columnists (bishops) and a general (the queen) fight each other to get at the opposing king.

Though the armies may be decimated, the king itself never is actually killed but is captured, rendered immobile. The Center. AH chess strategy has to revolve around the center one way or another. Once you control the center, you can pivot to either enemy flank, and usually the very first moves of the game, with the center pawns, are attempts to concentrate force on those four central squares. Sometimes a player will deliberately freeze the center jamming pawns in there so nothing can get through and then mount a flank attack.

But he must still watch the center for counter-pressure. Openings. For centuries, players have been trying various ways of developing, or playing, their pieces quickly to form a coherent attack. Books have been written that simply list hundreds of opening variations. Serious players memorize many of liiese, saving much time in match play.

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The volunteer pilots receive no pay for their work. "They even pay for the gas," Justice says. The air checks seem fairly successful. About 15 pet. of the speeders caught a year have been netted in the checks, he says.

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"We call WKNT radio and broadcast warnings, saying we are making the checks," he said. Neff and Associates measured the speed strips for the city for $450. Equipment used in the checks accurate stop watches cost $28 apiece. "We Invested in two of them," Justice said. THE TOLICE have been using the planes, which fly Out of a private airport on Ohio 43, for about a year.

The Frost rd. speed strip was the first check point used. Justice says at the present time there are no plans to survey additional zones. Though the use of planes by city police departments to catch speeders is rare Justice is modest. "It's only another method to catch speeders." 19 for $450 20 for $474 5 PM rW called "gambits," which involve sacrifice of a pawn to obtain advantage in territory but which are almost unknown in modern chess where the tiniest weakness will be exploited instantly.

Open or Closed Game. Different openings have different purposes. Many that start with the king's pawn, for instance, lead to a fast, brutal, "open" game with pieces being exchanged right and left. Bobby Fischer almost always opens with the king's pawn when he has white. On the other hand, many queen-side openings lead to slower development, subtle webs of power, slow strangulation.

Combinational or positional play. Paralleling the open and closed game are two contrasting styles of play. The combinational, is essentially tactical featuring a house-of. cards effect that often begins with a surprise sacrifice. The positional, is basically strategic, where a player may actually sacrifice a piece just to gain access to a given square, or to open a vital diagonal for his bishop or file, for his rook, or to provoke a weakness in the enemy's pawn structure.

Strong and weak squares. Wilhelm Stainitz, an early world champion who was also one of the game's great thinkers, developed a theory of strong and weak squares, but all you need to know for now is that if a player has lost his white bishop, for example, or has several pawns frozen on black squares where they cannot bear on the white, then clearly that player is weak on the white squares. This is a fact his opponent should exploit, if in fact he did not deliberately create the situation himself. Backward or passed pawn. Chairs in durable Nylon SAVE $169.95 Reg.

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