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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY JANUARY 1 1959 5 FIRST HYMNS FROM NEW CATHEDRAL Builders' thanksgiving From our Special Correspondent "Half a century By Cecil Sprigge. All of a sudden I have found Manor House which gave the school myself intervening in conversation periodic free runs of the straw- i. berry beds proceeded astoundtngly. with Now half a century ago marry that renegade gentleman, and I observe that this time signal that sidfiy Radical bounder Winston no longer prefaces some very Churchill. Yet somehow the world childish recollection such as being seemed to take it calmly, and lifted up by Nannie to see Queen Churchill with top hat and tatton-Victoria or being told that the hIe ranked apparently as a gentle-policemen wouldn't allow dancing man after all: and the school bears outside the house any more survived undisgraced.

(recollections these of close on An-d meanwhile as a Radical sixty vears back). No, when now I scoundrel he took second place to a say "half a century ago" I jdedly more diabolic figure, the drawing on the memories of an Welsh upstart who meant to ruin Edwardian teenager who was able the country gentlemen of England, to reel off correctly the names But I had bought a pamphlet of his of the sovereigns of Europe, the speeches With burning excitement possessions of the British Empire. I learned how on the one hand the our Cabinet Ministers and Arch- Dukes Iive with their fleets -of bishops, the chief cricketers (but carriages, bevies of lackeys, Sar- this was a diplomatically feigned danapalian feasts, and how on the interest) of Yorks, Lanes, Notts, other hand 'their London tenants Surrey, and Middlesex, also could led like sardines in airless attics, advise with accuracy where the mulcted weekly of the rent which London red, green, blue, yellow, and oi diamonds. A Tiol and far- fi-om rtvnn WJUIC VVVV llltn sv CJ. whistle all tunes of "The Merry Widow," knew the right words of rfed justices being perpe-" Let's all go down the Strand," and trated retributions to come was well up in the last instalment P3St spaciouTand current real mysteries like tne j.ii fancied identity between a certain I jfVnvl hlrlf r-on rrmat Flute, anrl a rprfain fnvnitum there might be envy-breeding con-great Duke-and a certain immune trasj.

household, it had aiways if. as. wpi, in mvstPi-iouq been understood, touched the very yf twf margin of supportable austerity for London to carry aiound one of those gent1efolk( ping its bget large sixpenny Reporters Albums rai Tenong such provided by Strakers, especially if as Oxford Marmalade you were, like myself, editor of the Sunaay newspapers. y0er rsTeteofe of ihe new Coventry Cathedral last night. The delivery of the lights a part of the in the ruins of the old cathedral were brought to the first part of the new one MISCELLANY another fabulous adventure of our friend who had been trained on the "Warrine- Coventry, Wednesday.

To-day, for the first time, hymns and prayers have sounded in Coventry's new cathedral. They came not from choir, and chapter but from the unaccustomed voices of the masons and carpenters, scaffolders and labourers, tilers and glaziers, and plumbers, whose hands are raising the walls of what to-day we. heard called This great fortress of God in Coventry." This evening five hundred people, heaflefl toy the Lord Mayor ol Coventry, crowded the undercro'Et of the cathedral -for the blessing by the Bishop, Dr Cuthbert Bardsley, of the Chapel of the Cross. But a little after noon the Bishop, in his purple cassock, had. sat at the back of a far different congregation sixty or so workmen, youths in jeans and jerkins, middle-aged men with their caps rolled tidily in their hands, a coloured face and head of crisp curls above a polo-neck jersey for a.

service that was primitive in its directness and simplicity. The wise builder The men sang two well-known hymns to the piano accompaniment the Precentor, Canon J. Poole, and "stood for the short prayers. One of their, Mr Jack Taylor, a foreman carpenter, read the lesson the passage of St Matthew about the wise man who built his house on the rock. Then they listened to the Provost, the Very Rev.

H. C. N. -Williams, thanking them "in the name of Almighty God. the great Designer of life and energy" to whose glory their work was dedicated.

Afterwards the Bishop led them all to the canteen, where they were the guests at luncheon of the Cathedral Reconstruction Committee. So ended a. thanksgiving which the Provost has described as the most important of the day's three services. splendours of this evening have marked not a rebirth but the continuance of the Christian witness and worship on this spot which the destruction of. November.

1940, failed to quench. Within weeks of the raid, through the energy and devotion of the then Provost, the Very Rev. R. T. Howard, an altar of stone was built in the that was open to the sky, and the underground East Crypt Chapel was in full use for Sunday worship.

The faithfulness and growth of the congregation have to inspire the furnishing and blessing of the undercroft as a chapeL Originally intended as a store, it is so fit for its present purpose that ft seems likely 1 to be more than 'temporary. The building is narrow and immensely long and it is from a distance that the altar cross, which with the candlesticks is the gift of the architect. Professor Basil Spence, is intended to be seen. Designed and made by Geoffrey Clarke, it is- of white metal, studded irregularly with crystal. The white-painted walls lead the eye to the altar and the gold curtained apse.

Some l.ights of the stained-glass windows made for the new building have been set for the time being in those of the undercroft they burn in gold and crimson and stream with the cold fires of El Greco blues and greens. Roof and walls rang to-night to a fanfare of trumpets heralding the arrival of the Bishop at the west porch. Then his pastoral stall thundered three times on the closed door till the light standards rattled while he cried Lift up your heads. ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors and then the King of Glory shall come in." The doors were flung open. Professor Spence delivered the keys to the Bishop, who came forward to say "Peace be to this House." Then the long procession, the cathedral cross of crystal and silver at its head, moved up to the altar.

Behind came the men and women of the voluntary choir, the cathedral chaplains, and trie chapter, Before trie Bishop, in cope and mitre of gold and rose, there was borne the cross that has become the symbol of Coventry, the gaunt sign made of three nails from the timbers of the old roof. The Bishop blessed the Chapel and consecrated the altar, placing on it the ornaments "and vessels. There followed a section of the service which was unique the commendation of the work in progress and of those who carry it out. The words had been provided for just such an occasion by Dorothy Sayers in her play The Zeal of Thy House May God grant that none of these men, whose truth is in their craft, may miss the true knowledge of Himself, whose truth is in Jesus Christ, our Maker and Redeemer." And the choir admonished them Be strong and of good courage, and do it," to the setting of Dr Sidney Campbell, organist of Canterbury, who with Mr Gerald Knight, Director of the Royal School of Church Music, had provided other settings for the service. Delivery of the Light Its heart, for many of the congregation, was the Delivery of the Light.

The altar candles," which had been lit for this morning's celebration of holy communion in the Wyley Chapel in the crypt of the old cathedra, had been left burning all day. To-night a light was kindled at them and the Provost Emeritus carried it in procession, headed by the two crosses and escorted by representatives of most trades and professions in Coventry into the Chapel of the Cross. At the gate of the sanctuary the present Provost received it from him and with it kindled the lights on the newly consecrated altar where to-morrow morning the Bishop will celebrate holy communion. As he did so, choir and congregation sang what is perhaps our oldest surviving hymn Gladsome Li2ht." The Bishop's sermon vas short and exultant. In centuries to come, he said, people would look back to that moment when the flame of worship was carried from the crypt of the old cathedral to the new and glorious cathedral.

It was the demonstration of God's eternal victory of love and faith over man's insensate wilfulness and rebellion. The Nicene Creed, the Bishop's blessing, and another fanfare, then slowly the. chapel emptied, to be filled again later for a watchnight service. Above it the roofless walls of the old cathedra! rise in austere perfection. The undamaged.

West Tower drives up at the stars like a sword. Behind the altar the apse has been inscribed in letters to last as long as the stone endures Father There is not in Christendom-a war memorial to match this. public interests and causes. Its matter was home chaff and exhibi AnHt iTri. lonism.

And at boarding-schools where most boys arrived from SHSnSJ ffTf VX I TSSnnfi tS vi Ll LS2tei did. Yet at least one political hSlrnflaS Mendelssohn's bpnng bong: "Put me upon an island. 81c. but for pity's sake don't leave me near; a ruffraette" This I boldly tried" to Quiet room As a former member of Room the reporters' room at the Guardian (writes R. 1 was much diverted by Misrpllftnv'(; rpminisepmpp nf thp invasion of that stronghold of the hand- written word by the typewriter and well recalled the hero of Mr Wrigley's story about Gladstone remarking to me.

pomooso. "I have reported Gladstone, solus." The point of his remark (if I may explain for a younger generation) was that Mr Gladstone was never reported except bv a team of expert shorthand writers. In those days of the thirties, when I was new to the paper, the typewriter had not feeen admitted to the Reporters' Room (nor Had tne telepnone). as tne very youngest reporter, on lunch-time duty. I was once given the task of meeting a distinguished American woman journalist who was arriving at the inconsiderate hour of two o'clock, ana of holding her in play until some big cheese on the Corridor arrived at the office about three.

It was about the time when been published recently, one in Washing-American newspaper- Alms, full of type- ton, D.C., the other in Sydney, New South writers, telephones, eye-shaded news Wales. The Washington force seems to editors, and screams of "Hold the first be wen on ils way to becoming a univer-edition!" were in vogue. sUy f(Jr CWef pride howl down, for almost alone in the 1 mC at Lni 1 at home nor at scnool did L-nT itfcif foreign affairs worry us. Yet passing tenof fn- the Nelson column on a Trafalgar SrlSSSn ESda r1utshhe0SteSwd in honour of the grave and gracious BcVd Mrs Emmelme Pankhurst whom Spain in the past. England's turn maybe a bit later, I myself heard to an end and this pleading the cause to the Kensing- fJlmf, A 1 tonians.

flanked by the formidable gg hf Stlon 'better Christabel and the still budding i "Lt Sylvia. Not only in the suffrage ,8 unised kteTsIich issue were our American friends wfjf jfwr vfL educative. They entertained Mar- 'ft J'J 3 t-xi tji, Canada and heard irom my many hL TTn Canadian relatives that before long Jenkfns uith the pSkhursts Canada would be the centre of th Showffoundmfwayto dim 1 quarters near the British Museum, Ef-lp where tweedy, bearded men and JlLf vague ladies, vegetarian and peace- if 1th' loving, studied Esperanto grammar, fU ty nfuLJl-and in 1909 I addressed a meeting a tn 1' in the new tongue. No world is t.edJ1 -entirely enclosed, and I came to IfLhL ae, 7 discover that my father, as editor Sua of a celebrated scientific periodical. J'Sl'M ionSoi knew something of some of these eJ lLJ9- linguistic idealists.

They belonged hat the come were going to rather the same world as own to be very exciting. changeful, mar-CorSjor whlTk2 2eTmoS woulftt an dTclottt' wilTmon 5 ttSto tetLTguZ day clothes under a wild mop of lace of the dat loomed specially hair and "had been a Revolutionary Siarvellous. A pular sog wa the Commune." I felt appreciably airearjy heraldinits wonders- nearer now to a queer sort of i. unaers-danger world lurking behind our 1 gggSrfe5nd own. Paris had evidently much to Began to crow.

do with it, and the first time I had nineteen hundred and 'ten a glimpse of that city (1909) many It was fabulous that such a walls were appropriately covered futuristic year should be going to with angry red placards urging the take its place in reality. Inscru- conscripts to refuse military service, table great changes to come thus School knew nothing of these threw a sobering relativity over all things, yet did not remain untouched one's intense concern for the by political sensation. A boy's aunt transient excitements of 1908-9, but and he was a boy from the local meanwhile they were on one's plate. CHESS Telephones at hand The lady arrived. She glanced round, Where are the typewriters she asked, in a bewildered voice, after reassuring herself with the question, lou din say tnss was tne Keporters Room I explained that we not type, but wrote everything out by hand.

"Do you use the telephone she then inquired, in growing wonder. I explained that if she went out at the door, turned left and along the passage she would find some telephones. 'Gee, as near as that?" was her comment. I was beginning to feel that this was a very poor show. And where are the reporters she finally asked, with that quick American Rift for striking at the root of a problem.

1 could not really explain that they were all absorbed in dominoes at the nearest Kardomah. or in other similar pursuits. It was a great relief. I remember, when three o'clock came. Pedals or pigeons? Incidentally, if Mr Wrinley ever writes his memoirs 1 heme he will include resigned 30 moves later.

Fischer leads the tournament with four out of five. The modern forms the King's Indian Defence, in which Black combines the fianchetto of his KB with a general pawn advance on the queen's wing, are so popular nowadays that there is a tendency to underestimate White's opportunities for a central break-through if Black carries out his plans The following example was won bv trie young Hungarian champion, who is" now competing at Hastings MODERN BENONI DEFENCE disagreeable thrill came over rhe as weeklies I poured over depictions of that untroubled brow, those iron mzt-u 4.i, xJ "'T a ntritatinn SJelSSrcSit To street with the suggestion (from thZ kindlv Asquith relative who had fixprj nrX thaf hrmld spp the PrfmeiyiPmstoSimtfld Alas tl" '7 1 but the Premier had been called away, and I could but interview a S5 he was FREE TRADE HALL rhnrsday. January 1959. 7 30-1 a.m. The Social Event of the Season THE HALLE BALL HALLE ORCHESTRA Viennese Dancing LEW STONE HIS ORCHESTRA Modern Dancing FLOOR SHOW Tickets: 1 5s each (including cHtrrei) Now obtainable from the HalEe Booking Offloa.

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B-B3 KI-B4 Ac the service of dedication oE the crypt ceremony at which lights kindled Television Notes TWO OUTSTANDING OCCASIONS Events of the year By our Television Critic In British television 1958 mut be remembered as the year in which there were two splendid outside broadcasts the State opening of Parliament and the Coronation of the new Pope. The first was probably the biggest and technically most brilliant television operation since the Coronation of the Queen in 1953. The second was, of course, done by the Italian Television -Service and brought here by Eurovision. In both Richard Dimbleby was unsurpassed by anything in his long career as a commentator, while Father Agnellus Andrew did outstanding work on the religious part of the papal ceremony. For the I.T.A..

taking the B.B.C.'s pictures, there were separate commentaries. The drama of these events tends to put others in the shade. But viewers will have noticed the increasing number of news flashes and films which have come over Eurovision. In serious programmes the B.B.C.'s Monitor has become rirst-class. and ITV's talks by Sir Kenneth Clark on "Is Art Necessary were outstanding.

In current affairs the B.B.C.'s "To-night" with ils light and sophisticated touch, has found no obvious rival. ITV's Roving Report has been full of interesting and up-to-date matter. Last night there was billed a retrospective review of 1958, but this was not seen in tne North, which instead had a special northern feature. The B.B.C."s series with Lord Montgomery must certainly be counted an event of the year; ITV has, so far, no rival to either Sir. Brian Horrocks or Lord Montgomery.

But it had perhaps the most publicised play of the year. John Gabriel Borkman," with Sir Laurence Olivier in the chief part. Tne B.B.C. did an ambitious Midsummer Night's Dream and an excellent production of Gogol's "The Lower Depths." It was noticeable in the last months of the year that the tendency for the B.B.C. to push all its more serious programmes into the later hours, and do similar programmes to ITV at peak hours, had been checked.

One of the most controversial series of television programmes was the B.B.C.'s "Your Life in Their Hands" on medical matters; A report on this just issued by the B.B.C. Audience Research Department showed an average audience of eight millions, and that the programmes had little effect, one way or the other, on anxiety. The esteem in which doctors and hospitals are held did not diminish, and people showed less reluctance to ao to hospital and more confidence in the outcome of treatment. The programmes also increased, among London viewers, belief in the adeauacy of provincial Hospital facilities. NIGHT SKY IN JANUARY Bv Astronomic.il Correspondent The sketch map shows the planets and brighter stars as they now appear shortly before 9 30 p.m.

The stars will all be slighilv farther to the we6t after each complete 24 hours, and the map will accordingly show their positions about 8 30 p.m. around the middle of -the month and about 7 30 p.m. towards the end. Its centre represents the sky overhead, and its circumference is the horizon. It should be held vertically with that point on its circumference undermost which corresponds to the direction in which the observer is looking.

Venus will gradually improve its position as an early evening star, but it will set too soon to be shown on the map. Towards the end of the month it will remain visible above the south-western horizon till nearly 6 30 pjn. Mars will be conspicuous high in the south, but it will suffer a further marked diminution in brightness, due to its rapidly increasing distance. Jupiter will continue to rise earlier and become more prominent in the south-east before sunrise. To the left of Mars is the cluster of the Pleiades with its well-known seven stars.

Below these and farther to the left are the Ilyades forming a letter with "the bright reddish star Aldebaran at the end of the lower arm. Below in the south-east are the bright stars of Orion, with Sirius. m06t brilliant of them all. nearer to the horizon. Farther east across the Milkv Way are Proeyon and the Twins, while Capella and the stars of Perseus are nearly overhead.

The Square of Pegasus is the chief feature of a rather dull western sky. Vega shines brightly near the north-western horizon, and the "sickle" of the Lion is just rising in the east. MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL ThurtwUy (CircuracUjtm of Our i.m.: Holy CtMnrmmion. JO 30 a.m.: Wielni. it Holy Communion.

5 30 p.m.; ETenon. Swan Pole Star ho Cassuptia it? Twins I procyon -r "QMw3m Orion' z. JSirius "t'set V. PROBLEM No. 506 By J.

de C. Andrade Black (6) White (7) White mates in two moves SOLUTION NO 505 (Baxter)' 1 K-KKM llhreat 2 B-Kt2). K((KL2)-B4: 2 Kt P. or 1 Kt-OJ: 2 Kt-K7. or 1 Q-115: 2 O.

or 1 KMK31-B4: 2 or 1 Kt-B5: 2 An cxceUeBt Key, followed by Interference and self-blocking play. Nor Kl ctl. B. Fischer's great win The United States champion, Bobby Fischer, has just broushl off another astonishing victory in the current American championship by winning Reshevskys queen in only twelve moves. Reshevsky is considered by.

many the world's greatest player outside Russia. The game went (Fischer, White) 1 P-K4, P-QB4: 2 Kt-KB3. Kt-QB3 P-Q4. PxP: 4 KtxP, P-KKt3 5 B-Kt2 6 B-K3. Kt-B3; 7 B-QB4; Castles 8 B-Kt3, Kt-QR4? (correct is P-Q3) 9 P-K5.

Kt-Kl: 10 BxP ch. KxB; 11 KLK6. PxKt (11 KxKt: 12 Q-Q5 io.mate); 12 QxQ. Reshevsky 11 IB iiijiL lip a WMA WWi ill Love conquers dialectic: a Soviet jarce at Scarborough "Squaring The Circle," by Valentin of stout Soviet n.u-tv ton Guardian." It concerned another Hreat political meeting of long ago. He had put, his trust in a new device, the i a to the town where the meetms was to be neid (Oldham.

I think) he was horrified to catch sight of his deadly rival, bearine a basket of carrier pigeons. He could jmaeine the Diaeons winsin.e their wav to tne enemy office while he pedalled at a tenth of their SBeed. In the upshot all vas wen. pigeons will not fly in heavy rain. The heavens opened as the mpet'nie rinsed, anrl as nnr fripnrl nut his head down to the lashinE rain he had just time to observe a pigeon take off.

eirt.ie orlCe or twice then come to rest on a neiehbourinc buildins. where it remained until long after all that night's editions had gone to press. Stt(dioiK bolicc lwo remarkably different views of what is meritorious in a police force have that since he took over command four vears aao Congressmen have been nomi- nating such studious young men that Eome 60 per cent of the entire force are now studying for degrees in law. archi- tecture, dentislrv, medicine, and theo- One wonders how most of them have any time left to study police work. There is some reassurance, however, in the Chief's note that the more earthy job ot protecting Congress from such disturbances as the shooting affair of March.

1954, is in the hands of a nucleus of "well-trained men who could be called professionals." Most taxpayers surely would prefer the report of the Chief of the Criminal Investigation Branch in Sydney. He does not appear to be greatly interested theology, dentistry, or other learned i 4. It will be the envy of many a chief con stable in all parts of the world, for he can say that the New South Wales police this year have cleared up 82 per cent of reported crimes in the State, solved 49 out of 50 murders, accounted for 84 per cent of stolen property, and prevented any increase in crime over 1957, in spite of an increasing populate and triumph of medieval love. Mr Basil Ashmore has given the piece a lively adaptation, but the preponder- ance of party allusions and jargon jokes soon liquidates much of the fun. And nobly as the company struggles against 'he inevitable pressure of pjaying with an audience on all sides, we feel too often filat tne thing should be funnier than it is- Nevertheless.

Alan Ayckbourn, Dona Martyn, Faynta JetTery, and David Sutton keep the joke against the party much longer than we expect, yT ment the next two plays in their repertoire will be Harold Pinter's "The u-t IdLlt-g'sm to the lllltl. ana fatrmdbcrg Easier, A brave prosper! E.S. THEATRES, ETC. IO-I2, 2-5. iind 7-iri, 2fj.

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W. 2.30. S. 5 and 8. Lesley Storm's ROAR I.IKE A DOVE.

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Joan Plowright in HOOK. LINE AND SINKER. Morley is as usual magnificent." Daily Express. PRINCE OF WALES. (Whi.

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Pat KJrkwood. Hubert Grega in LHKISANIHEMUM." gayest musical hi nusical bit ROYAL COURT. (Slo. 1745.) Last week 7.30. Th.

2.3d. sat. 5.0 and 8.15. Earlc Hyman. Vinnetle Carroll in Moon on Rainbow Shawl, by Erroll John.

ROYAL COURT. (Slo 1745.1 Opening Wed. nut rrm 7.30. THE LONG ti THE SHORT VtUE TALL! A THRILLER FOR CHILDREN "Radio Rescue" In selecting Charlotte Chorpenning's to find that by the middle of the second plav Radio Rescue as its holiday act tjey, too, are squattine in suspense nrTtCrin." for children the rts Theatre 5n of their This pro-onerm'g ior cnuaren, xne xneaue duction is the work ot a woman who was Club has made a shrewd choice. This rightly ranked as one of the foremost is an unabashed thriller, set in themoun- children's playwrights in America and Ti- Jt 's markedly different in flavour from tarn country of Pennsylvania.

It haa the usual chiWreli's plays by been provided with handsome sets by domestic authors now on view for the Ken Calder, who is wise enough to know holiday season. There is no sentiment that when it comes to such matters as rn idihlt fallibFed Tnd an old mill complete with mill-race and credtWe Uibte, and grinding stones junior audiences will not- The heroes 'are a 14-year-old boy and be content with clever, improvisations. hjs sister, who operate a "ham" radio They want the real tnnig or at least station in the attic. They pick up an what looks like the real thing and this emergency message about a washout on they get full measure. ihe railway up in the mountains, and by There arc camp fires that are lit on a.

combination of wits and energy they stage so real that they give off smoke, get there in time to signal the driver of Tnere are radio transmitters, a stretch the train and avert a crash. Melo- of railway bridge that is smashed by an dramatic stuff, but obviously very satis- avalanche, and snowy mountains topped factorv to judge from its reception among by racing grey clouds. the younger theatregoers at the Arts. Perhaps the most interesting thin? Clifford Williams has directed with about this production is its effect spirit, and his leadirtg players, Richard parents. These more sophisticated Palmer and Carol Wolveridge.

have members or the audience, arriving responded with a certain Juvenile braced for inevitable boredom, are apt panache. P. C. K. "The modern form or Hie llenoni Defence quhc nowitar el urescro.

since it K'adW in mu totally ehitrp atuicks in wiiicli ihe plr usiiallj1 wigs. Here White ha set up on centre frrmation aiminii on eariy P-K5. and DLiCk thmiU in turn mobilise hi queen's side pawn majority as Boon an ponihlc. Tne beM way to do tins was 9 P-QKU: for if Kl Ki V. tO.

KP or Ui P. K-t s. KP; li Kt Kt. O-RJ ch 2. A well-known manoeuvre: from QfH the knJurbt controls the important wiuares Q6 ami K5.

at well as rcvirainlrtM Black's queen's side arMck. J. In the dais of Steinicz and Tarrasch such a move, accenting doubted pawns, would have been unvdemncd: it is a stun of the revolution in chess theory fri the ins 50 vears tnat to-day it la almost a routine operation. If 11 Kt. ihe weakness of the duubled pawns is outweighed by Iilnck's enhanced priMpects on the QKt and the w-htc squares.

J. An JnteresTfnn pawn sacrifice White r.jrhtly dejlme. for 13 P. Q-Ktl ch: K-RI with a Ntrortg attack 5 Ihe pawn mus: non hr deferred bv 13 P-QKU; althoush afjer P-QR4, While faai the 6 An escellen-Uv juciscd comb.nii;on results in a deceive Or 16 Q-KiJt: 17 B-K3. KtfB3v-QZ; 1 P-OKU.

S. Justifiably. Black dtctdr to piav T-banque. for if l) Kt-02: 2ft Kt-K wir.6 easily 9 There is rto time for 22 23 R-KS ch. R-Bl: -4 ch 25 P-Q7 d4fi.

ch arld mite ne.xt move lo. Now. zj. i B-BSch. K-Ktl; ift B-R6 matt.

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