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fi in D. jj in a. 3 in ip Chess By BLAKE STEVENS Texas State Champion no, place in chess for Indecision', but there is a worse sin-- a lack of plan. As (he opening unfolds, ypu can work' with a principals of development -(de- of contest- ing the center, king safety), soon a stage is reached where these generalities must be dis- pensed with. In fact there 16 the danger of banality in too strighlforward a development.

A player can bring out both knights, both bishops, and castle, and suddenly discover that his pieces have no place to go, except, perhaps, backwards, which could mean -a disastrous loss of time. That is why a player of the "old school" has a hard time against a player steeped in hyper- modern chess training. In olden. both sides developed quick- Jy. In an open game then the center was liquidated, al! the pieces swapped, pawns exchanged, a draw a likely prospect.

(This Is not to say dull games were played then, but they were only exciting when one player violated opening principals and was punished.) Today, the "old school" player has to play against a closed game He develops quickly, and nets way ahead In development. He thinks of a king side attack, but black has protected his king well, What to do? 'Here Is the crux of the matter. The first player has reached a maximum development, and has run out of Ideas, while Black has continued more slowly. Black's position "grows," whilo White's position decomposes. Many Ideas The modern player can find many ideas for continuing his game.

He can attack weak, overextended pawns which have brasli- ly come into his territory, or occupy "holes" In the enemy position a by ill-considered pawn moves), and soon the 19th- century type player 1 Is defending (but at last he has a All of this is not conjecture or hypothesis, tt Is chess history. Chess was becoming stale until Nimzovilch, Reti, Breyer, Tarta- kower, Bogojulbov, and 11 came along. They dethroned titans of the chessboard, and breathed new life into the game With their ideas of "remote control of the center" (i.e. fianchettoed bishops, Tlank pawn altacks). What happens whon two "modern" players meet? The games produced are usually highly Interesting, the struggle a more subtle, yet more intense.

Complications I. P-K4, P-QB4 brings about extreme complications. White sees a partial hole at his queen-five square. He can "aim" to occupy this square by a Knight, which could prevent the freeing P-Q4, thereby cramping Black's game considerably. Black plays P-K3 and drives the Knight away, and this Knight goes, say to K3.QB4 (a possibility, us White has no pawn on that and a real hole at Black's queen-three square.

A keen fight could around White's atlempt to carry out this plan and Black's effort to stop him. If Black fails, he has lost a small piece of ground In the giant battlefield. A chain re-a i can set Sri, with another tiny concession (giving up his bishop for knight) followed by yet pawns), until finally, a pawn goes, and will) i probably the' game. Chess has become refined, distilled, and the cudgel has given way to the foil. But you of the "old guard," coffee-house school, do not take too seriously this disparagement on the old style of playing chess--I have seen, all too often, the fencer lambasted by the cave man.

Tablcaul i AW ft i Posillon after 17 NxPU (A sneak preview of the combinative game to be discussed next week.) (V ract By HOWARD SCHENKEN and RICHARD L. FREY If pre-emptive bidding makes it difficult for tho opponents to reach their optimum contract and It certainly does It sometimes boomerangs by helping the opponents to read the defenders' distribution. doesn't make preemptive tactics less desirable; it only evens things up a bit--provided declarer Is able to take advantage of the tlpoff. He missed his ooporlunlty to do co in tfie following deal. MODERNIZED CLOUDCROFT, N.M.--The nation's highest golf course, 8,000 feet up at Cloudcroft, has been The nine-hole, 70-par course, 50 years old, has been revamped so that 30 per cent more players can use it at one time.

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North's distribution was far from Ideal for a takeout double, but what other action was -available? To South, the problem was purely one how many aces and kings North held. His four no-trump bid elicited a five-club response--which. It will be news to some," OS 20 103 ACROSS 1 Poo tics 8 66 Bun god 67 News 119 Observe 120 Kxclnmatlon fi Eorio 10 Estimated 16 AaaestbBUfl jnedan mysticism 81 EoiodSffl 71 Phlllpplng 22 alil'a nafflft 83 Watered 72ProOjcj 2 New Zea- 54 Opposed to 103 Arab land natlva awentUer outer is- SSPotfflftf iOTiio. 28 80 Paid noUca SI Redaotot 81 Legal -ssa. I SB Aleo dilnlt 87 A piano curve (Qeom.) 40 Dedicates 42 Planted ,33 Asia em Mj between two or mote states (rJ.) .43 Progenltci of tea violin 47 Word of negation 48 Landed JSxplodo B5 Ptonotm 68 Syllable.

Of- eoalo 67 la niuolc-: hJsh 60 Danish raeaauio 62 Mokes surface even, 63 grow fat 65 carry oa person 8S Stoto 183 category OS Reputed ist upper houao of French tne Greeks Parliirrinc B8 5 nc i ioin.t 167 Wooden a For Sohtlion to Puzzle, Turn to Page 8 Indicates either no aces or alt four. In this case, It was apparent to South what ths bid when he asked for kings, however, HID news was unpromising so South seltled for a small bid. Even this-proved beyond him. He won dummy's club ace and cashed the spade aee, gelling the ili Udlngs that all the missing trumps were with West. This flashed the warning that the normal lino of play--surrendering a heart trick and ruffing the fourth heart In dummy--would not work.

So South cashed five more rounds of trumps. Then.he led a heart and ducked It Into East's hand, A club or a heart return would have set up a double squeeze, West would, havo (o hold a high club; East would have Jo hold a high heart; neither defender could guard the diamond But East smashed the double squcezo by returning a diamond, knocking out dummy's entry. Deep thought about West's probable distribution might have produced a winning line of play. If West held seven clubs--likely from his vulnerable pro-omptlvc bid-- and three spades, he could have only three red cards. When East showed out on the first frump, dummy's ace of diamonds Is cashed nnd a diamond ruffed.

Two more trump leMs, if followed by a third diamond on which South discards a heart, would put West on lead With the high diamond. Soulh ruffs the club return and runs all the trumps, comes down to the ace-eight of hearts and the eight of diamonds. Soulh holds three hearts to tha king. And East tosses in lha sponge whatever card he losses..