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8 Port IV-Sun, Oct 12, 1975 toi Sngclts! Zimti Such a mishap is reported by C. IS. Bent in the September issue of the British Chess Magazine. Following is the diagram that he had sent to a Czechoslovakian chess magazine, with the caption, "White to Play and Draw." At first sight. White is BLACK BY ISAAC KASHDAN INTERN AtlONAL GRANDMASTER TlMt IILS5 EDITOR CHESS BLACKS When Spassky, who was divorced for the second time; earlier this year, recently asked permission to marry? again, there were difficulties.

The girl was Marina Stcherbatcheff. a secretary in the French Embassy in, Moscow. She was born in France of Russian parents. Spassky was told that the wedding could not take" place until November. Marina, however, was notified that she would have to leave the country before that This seemed like an impossible time problem, but the resulting' publicity evidently changed the thinking in official cir-' cles.

Permission was finally forthcoming and Spassky again had a wife. He then stated, "I hope to improve my because now I have an extra queen." The story might have been even better in chess circles, if Spassky had taken, instead of a French, a Czech mate. 1 iiUf vm Tim'; ra t- i I lost. Both bishops are attacked, and if 1 B-R2ch, KxP: 2 KxP, R-B7ch wins, or if 2 BxP, R-B6ch. and wherever the king goes, R-B7, with or without check, still wins a piece.

Here is the composer's plan, slow to unfold, but really ingenious. 1 P-Q8(Q)ch, BxQ. But not KxQ; 2 B-N6ch, followed by BxP draws. White continues 2 B-R2ch, K-B3 (this is best, as will be seen later): 3 BxP. R.RKrh- K.R4.

R.B7. Oct. 12.1973 TIMES PROBLEM 4303 Bj E. Ferron White Males in Three The duel between the rooks is the main idea, once the mating threat is set up. After the key-move, White must still wait for Black to move.

Solution to Problem 4302: QQ6 number of games are interspersed. There evidently was little in the way of local news in the previous month, which takes little more than a page. The second and concluding installment of a major article on Karpov fills a dozen pages. There are a number of diagrammed positions from Karpov's games, with con-. tinuations fully annotated.

These illustrate various facets of the champion's technique, under such headings as Pawn Stake-Out, Double Trouble, and Vitamin K. Regular features are Hundred Years Ago, with items appearing at the time in the magazine, and Quotes Queries, replies to questions of unusual interest. Other departments are Practical Chess Endings, Studies and Problem World. The annual subscription price to the U.S. is $11.50 for regular mail or for airmail.

The address is BCM, 9 Market St. Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, Great Britain. STALEMATE IDEA IS FOILED On occasion we have endgame positions, or "studies," as they are called, that were composed to show particular ideas that would rarely occur in a game. Solving such studies is excellent training in technique, and can be quite helpful in analysis of the simpler positions generally encountered. The composers often show that only one line of play will accomplish the objective.

Other "moves may come close, but do not succeed. You must find the very best move each time, not an easy task. At times the composer goes wrong. He has thought of an interesting final position, has tried many ways to bring this about, and finally worked everything out to his satisfaction. He then sends" the diagram and analysis to a newspaper or magazine for publication, or enters it in a prize contest.

Then someone finds something new, that the composer had not suspected was possible in the position. Perhaps he can win or draw in a much simpler way than the composer had intended, or change the result completely. The new solution may even aad to the interest of the original idea. white 6 IBM toi iioi.nvn CATALAN OPENING Uhlmann Lubojevic 12-P-K4 O-NI 26-R-N1 B.P-. GermanyYugoslavia 13-N-Q2 R-B1 27-R-N3 6-68: White Black 14-0-K3 P-ON4 28-NxP R.R&; 1- P-OB4 P-OB4 15-PxP PP 29-P-N5 B-P6 2- N-KB3 N-KB3 16-P-OR3 B-B3 30-N-B4 B-B! 3- N-B3 P-K3 17-P-ON4 N-N3 31-N-K5 4- P-KN3 P-ON3 1B-QR-B1 N-NS 32-R-KB3 R-OI 5- B-N2 B-N2 I9-Q-B4 N-K4 33-B-B4 R-B7f 6- P-04 PxP 20-B-B1 ON-B5 34-B-N3 R-N7J 7- OxP P-OR3 21-NxN 8-N4 35-K-N2 R(1)-Q7 8- 0-0 P-03 22-NxN BxO 36-N-03 RxB 9- P-N3 ON-Q2 23-NxB BxR 37-NxB RxR 10- B-N2 B-K2 24-NxO BxB White lost on time 11- KR-01 0-0 25-NxP KRxN i.i.in ivrKRwnovM, toi rmmfyt ALEKHINE DEFENSE Matanovic Luboievrc 12-R-Kt P-OR3 25-PxNP PxNP White Black 13-P-05 BxN 26-N-02 P-NS 1- P-K4 N-KB3 14-BxB P-K4 27-PxP B-N4.

2- P-K5 N-04 15-N-Q? 28-N-K4 BxR 3- P-04 P-03 16-P-ON4 ON-Q2 29-RxB PxP 4- N-KB3 N-N3 17-P-B4 N-K1 30-PxP 01 5- P-OR4 B-Nfi 18-B-K? RBI 31-OxP O-RS 6- P-R5 Nl3i-0? I9-Q-N3 K-R1 32-N-N5 R-QN1 7- PxP EPP 20-B-N2 P-B4 33-0-B6 O-NS 8- P-KR3 B-R4 21-N-B3 B-B3 34-0-R6 N-BJ 9 B-K2 P-K3 22-OR-B1 P-KN4 35-N-K8 OxNP 10- P-B3 B-K2 23-B-B1 N-N2 36-BxKP Resigns 11- 0-0 0-0 24-P-B5 P-N5 What now? A piece is still WHITE lost. True, but White can draw by 3 B-K5! RxB; 6 B-N2! Black finds that RxB is stalemate, and White is threatening K-K3 to win the rook. Bent certainly deserves credit for this very clever sequence, but a solver name of R. Fontana of Zurich was not content. He accepts Black's first three moves, but then, instead of attacking the bishops, plays for mate with 4 B-K2! Note the importance of the black king at B3.

After the forced 3 comes B-B4. Now Black Li in complete control, and needs only a couple of more moves for the finale. This comes after 6 B-K5 (or 5 B-NS. R-Bl wins). 7 B-R2.

R-K6: 8 B-K3. R-RVh. SPASSKY TAKES ANOTHER QUEEN Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky is the second best known chess player in modern times. It was he who lost the world championship to Bobby Fischer in the tempestuous match in Iceland in 1972. Thus Spassky's activities are worth reporting.

His chess 1 successes have been scant. He has been out of favor with Soviet authorities, and has had little opportunity to enter major tournaments. This must be considered a form of punishment for giving up a valuable title. REPORT ON BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE By far the oldest chess magazine in English is the British Chess Magazine, founded in 1881, and published mohttily ever since. The average issue has 40 to 50 pages, full of material on every phase of chess.

Naturally, a fair amount of space is devoted to British activities, but international tournaments are also fully covered, with results, cross-tables and a good selection of games. Both algebraic and descriptive notations are used in games and analysis, so readers should be familiar with both to get full value. The September issue starts with a good report on the Vidmar Memorial Tournament in Yugoslavia, won by Anatoly Karpov in his first appearance as world champion. A complete cross-table and 12 games are included. Overseas News is the next heading, with items from a number of countries in alphabetical order.

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