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74 the ooston Sunday c.i,onR may 1 4, 1 oho Play smart, rather than safe, to enhance your chances ON BRIDGE South dealer Both sides vulnerable i NORTH 974 V8642 oa io KQ64 WEST EAST K5 10863 7J1097 P53 OJ9842 06 472 109853 SOUTH AQ2 OKQ753 AJ South West North East" 3 NT Pass 6 NT All Pass Opening lead monds break no worse than 4-2, you win all 13 tricks. In the actual hand, you give up one diamond trick at the end. This line of play works whenever the diamonds break 3-3 or 4-2. Your chance has risen to about 90 percent whether the diamond finesse wins or loses. You also make the slam if West happens to hold all six diamonds or five diamonds headed by the Jack.

Very unlikely, to be sure, but it costs you nothing to add this trifling chance. You don't really need to work out the exact or even the approximate figures. Logic should tell you that it's better to play for the diamonds to be either 3-3 or 4-2 than for them to be only 3-3. And it's better still to add the chance of 3, dummy's 8 of hearts will be good for your 12th trick. Since the hearts don't break so favorably, you throw spades on the king and queen of clubs.

Then you can lead a diamond to your hand, and the slam depends on how the diamonds break. You win all 13 tricks if the six missing diamonds divide 3-3. You even land on your feet if the diamonds are 4-2 pro- vlded that the player with four diamonds has only spades left when he gets his diamond trick. As the cards lie, you'd go down. You have about a 60 percent chance that one or both of the red suits will break 3-3, and perhaps you don't want anything better than that.

Jolly sporting of you (but not very shrewd) to settle for a mere 60 percent chance. SIIZINWOLD By Alfred Shelnwold Special to the Globe The kind of bridge you play at home Is a much easier game than I tournament bridge. At home, you play to make or defeat the tract. Overtrlcks don't concern In a tournament, especially In a pair contest, you must play for every trick that Isn't nailed down, even at the risk of the contract or of the setting trick. If you're a con-'.

firmed rubber bridge player, you scoff at such risks, and you may even go so far as to call toruna- ment players a bunch of lunatics, i Without going quite as far as that, assume that you're playing today's hand at rubber bridge. You're Interested only in making winning a finesse with the 10 of diamonds. CHESS 20 years later, another 'Man on ZZZZtiZZ ZIZZZZ I iZ 1 STAMPS By Belmont Faries Special to the Globe For most Americans over 30, the 1969 television picture of Neil Armstrong stepping off the ladder of the lunar landing module onto the dusty surface of the moon remains a vivid memory. The "First Man on the Moon" stamp of 1969 that duplicated the scene, remains one of the most popular and easily recognizable Stamps ever issued. To note the 20th anniversary of the event, the Postal Service will issue, not a commemorative stamp (20 years does not meet criteria for a commemorative), but $2.40 regular at the basic Priority Mail rate picturing Armstrong and his companion in the Eagle, Edwin E.

Aldrin planting the Stars and Stripes on the lunar surface. I The stamp is to be issued July 20 during a 20th anniversary celebration at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. It will be in the same large format as the $8.75 Express a be The tortoise wins the race; White to move and win. Answer elsewhere on page. Wieckiewlcz of Winthrop and Sharon Burtman of Stoughton.

But this club will be for fun. 'Tis said that White cannot go wrong in balanced symmetrical positions, since White continues with the initiative with little risk. Here, in this game from the 1988 Budapest International, White grabs a pawn from such a position. His Queen becomes cornered and finally trapped, but it never perishes. QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECUNEO Women organize for fun By Harold B.

Dondis Special to the Globe Some 10 or more years ago, the Boylston Chess Club, led by dedicated minister Lew Schultz of South Boston, made a good-faith effort to promote women's chess. It flopped, partly because some of the women insisted they would play chess with men only or not at all. Recently, a group of women met at the Boylston club (which is at the Boston YWCA) for a wom-en's-chess brainstorming session chaired by Gail Llngner of Lunen-berg. This time, the tone was considerably different. The theme, as stated by Rose Hurvitz Fein of Brookline, is that women should enjoy chess as a social game, as they do bridge, and not look at it as a brain-bashing contest with men.

The result was a date for the first meeting of the Boston Women's Chess Club 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.. May 20, at the eighth-floor quarters of the Boylston club at the Boston YWCA, 140 Clarendon St. For details, telephone Harry Lyman at (617) 233-5497 in Saugus or Larry Kadra of Lynn (617) 598-5881. You don't even have to be a decent player to attend; learners are welcome.

Tea, crumpets, self-support or whatever, and a little chess will take place. Judith Pol-gar of Hungary, top-rated 12-year-old, has proved that women cart play chess as well as men. In fact, she may become the greatest player of all time. We also have great women players in New England. The New England Women's Championship, recently held at the YWCA, was shared by Esther Epstein of Brookline, Krystyna You can Improve your chance to about 80 percent by leaving the top hearts uncashed.

Win the first heart, cash the ace-jack of clubs and lead a diamond to the ace. Discard spades on the king-queen of clubs and then resume playing the diamonds. This line of play will work whether the diamonds are 3-3 or 4-2, unless the player with four diamonds has a good club to cash. As the cards He, this plan will fall. You cannot quite withstand the 5-1 break in diamonds.

The best line of play adds one safety device to what we have seen so far. Win the first heart, cash the ace-Jack of clubs and then lead a diamond, finessing the dummy's 101 When that finesse succeeds, you have 12 sure tricks. If the dla- the Moon' signed the twin Decade of Space Achievement stamps of 1967 and was working with NASA as a member of the agency's Fine Art program. NASA provided photographs of the crew in training. Calle made a number of sketches, but the obvious choice was the one of Armstrong at the bottom of the lander ladder, stepping off on the moon's surface.

A model was quickly approved, plates and proofs made, but Blount ordered all of them destroyed, insisting that the stamps must be printed from plates made after the master die returned from the moon. They were, printed in the biggest format yet used, 50 percent larger in all dimensions than the usual commemorative. They were issued Sept. 9. Processing the record 8,743,070 first-day covers took five months.

Blount had what he had demanded from the beginning, a really spectacular space stamp for the first man on the moon. As for Paul Calle. he is still turning out top-quality stamps, most recently the Carousel Animals block of four, by far the most popular and most successful issue of 1988. His stamp credits also include the 6-cent Gen. Douglas MacAr-thur (1971), 10-cent Robert Frost and Retarded Children (1974)), 13-cent Nurse Clara Maass (1976), 1 3-cent Dr.

George Papanicolaou (1978), 15-cent International Year of the Child (1979), 15-cent Helen Keller (1980), 18-cent Frederick Remington (1981), 20-cent Aging Together (1982), 20-cent Volunteerlend a hand (1983), and 20-cent Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1984), an impressive solution to an almost impossible design problem. The Postal Service says that additional information on the new Moon Landing stamp, including production details and first-day ordering instructions, will be provided later. phone at (617) 324-0264 evenings. Tomorrow is the final acceptance date for EMass Memorial Scholarship applications by Helen Nee, 25 Walton Dorchester, MA 02124. Drum Corps East has changed its site for the July 22 championship finale.

Originally set for Lynn's Manning Bowl, the 11-corps contest is now scheduled at Foxboro's Sullivan Stadium. Reserved seats at $12 can be purchased at all Ticketron outlets or by contacting the stadium box office. CHESS CALENDAR May 21 Civilized Swiss 8, 3-SS In 8 12 player sections, 4090. SD45, Framingham Chess Club (American Legion), 11 Beech Framingham. Entry fee S15 (Framingham Chess Club members $13) advance.

$17 (FCC members $15) at site. Registration 9 rounds 10 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 5 p.m. Entries to Framingham Chess Club co Warren Pinches, 115 Bay State Road, 7. Boston, MA 02215. May 27-29 58th Massachusetts Open (State Championship), 6-SS, 452, 201, Sheraton-Lincoln Inn a Conference Center.

500 Lincoln St, exit 20 off Interstate 290, Worcester, MA 01605. Six sections, entry fees ranging from $25 to $50 if received by May 24: $10 more at site. Registration 9 a rounds noon-6 p.m.; 10 am. -4 p.m.: 9 JO am. p.m.

Entries to Massachusetts Open, ccfcubert Gos-seHng. 17 Kenney New Bedford. MA2746. Telephone (508) 996-1357. Checks payable to Massachusetts Chess Association.

your small slam, and you're not a bit concerned with your chance for an overtrlck. You must, therefore, look for the safest play for 12 tricks. Try not to peek at the East-West cards because you gain little by learning how to play with that kind of advantage. In real life, the opponents hold their cards close to the vest -especially If you have a reputation for peeking. You win the first trick with the queen of hearts.

What next? If you're greedy (and not very bright), you cash the other top hearts, clear the ace and jack of clubs out of the way and then lead a diamond to dummy's ace. If the six missing hearts have broken 3- Mail, $10 Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation (Duck) stamp, and the 45-cent French Revolution commemorative to be issued July 14. Like them, it is to be issued in panes of 30. The designer of the Moon Landing stamp is Christopher Calle of Rldgefleld, a major contributor of Great Americans design, with nine to date the 37-cent Robert Millikin (1982). 20-cent Harry S.

Truman (1984), 50-cent Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and the designs of Patricia Lewis Ver-ani of New Hampshire. The designs were chosen as the result of a limited competition in which 11 artists from the public in addition to the Mint's staff of engraversvwere invited to participate. Production of the coins will begin in late spring, immediately following a first strike ceremony. The US Mint will accept prepaid orders prior to the first strike cere-' mony.

Further information can be obtained by calling 1-301-436-7400, or write to Customer Service Center, US Mint, 10001 Aerospace Drive, Lanham, MD 20706. of the Class A title. New shire's Suburbanette Jrs. won in Class Sacred Heart of Roslin-dale topped Class B's field of four contenders. Fantasy of Woburn barely edged out the Classics of Winthrop in the high-school division.

Blessed Sacrament won the Open Class title. In a CYO color guard championship at Brookline High School, winners included Blessed Sacrament (cadets), St. Catherine of Somerville (B and C), and St. Therese of Everett (A). Dayton, Ohio, was the site of the annual Winter Guard International Olympics, and, in the Open Class there.

State Street Review of Wisconsin eked out a 98.40 to 98.20 victory over Blessed Sacrament of Cambridge over protests from a packed arena favoring the Cantabs. Four of the top 15 finishers were from the EMass circuit. Sacred Heart of Roslindale and St. Ann's of Neponset were among the top six of the Class A finalists. The Ambassadors of Maiden are to compete in the EMass Class drum corps division the Buccaneers of Chelmsford have request vwvvvvwvvwvwww Barclay J.

Horvath Barclay J. Horvath White Black White Black 1. d4 d5 13. Qc7 (B) Qa8 2. C4 c6 14.

0-0 (C) j(, Rc6 3. Nf3 Nf6 15. Nb5l Qa6 4. cxd5 cxd5 16.a4 Ke7 (D) 5. Nc3 Nc6 17.

Bd6 I Rxd6 6. BI4 BI5 18. Ne5! Bg6 (E) 7. e3 e6 19. Nxd6 Qxd6 8.

Bb5 Nd7 20. Qxb7 f6 9. Qa4 RcB(A) 21. Nc6 (F) Kf7 (G) 10. Bxc6 Rxc6 22.

a5 Be7 (G) 11. Qxa7 Qc8 23. a6 Resigns 12. Qa5 Ra6 COINS Congressional coins $5, $1 and to be issued (A) Trying to trap White's roving queen. 9 Qb6 10.

Nh4 favors white. 1 (B) ECO, the chessplayers' friend, shows 13. Qb5 Rb6 14. Qe2 Ba3 I. (C) A theoretical novelty? ECO gives only Ne5 Nxe5 15.

Bxe5 Bb4 favoring black. (O) Finally "trapping" White's queen, there seems no viable alternative. (E) Or 18 f6 19. Nxd6 fxe5 (19 Qxd6 20. Qxd6 Kxd6 21.

Nf7 20. dxeS winning also. (F) Better than 21. Nxg6 hxg6 when the mate threat gains a move. (G) The defense 22 Bd3 23.

Rfd1 delays matters very little. 22-cent John J. Audubon (1985), 3-cent Dr. Paul Dudley White, 4-cent Father Flanagan, 5-cent Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black and 17-cent Belva Ann Lockwood (1986).

His first design in the Transportation series was the 8.4-cent Wheel Chair issue of last August, followed by the 20.5-cent Fire Engine in September and the 24.1 -cent Tandem Bicycle in October. Calle's original mixed-media design for the Moon Landing stamp was based on NASA photographs of Armstrong and Aldrin in training before the flight. There is a family connection between the two Moon Landing stamps. Christopher Calle is the son of Paul Calle, the veteran illustrator who designed the 1969 "First Man on the Moon" stamp. Postmaster General Winton M.

Blount, who had taken office with the new Republican administration Jan. 20, 1969, realized that a Moon Landing stamp could be a spectacular issue, as had been the 1962 Project Mercury stamp, prepared in secrecy and issued only after Col. John H. Glenn has splashed down safely in the Pacific to complete the first American orbital flight. To the question "How can we top that?" Julian Scheer.

NASA's assistant administrator for public affairs, suggested having the Apollo 1 1 mission, scheduled for liftoff July 16, carry a printing plate to the moon' from which stamps could be printed on its return. Since a printing plate is rather bulky and weighs about 36 pounds, NASA balked at that. But someone remembered that plates are made indirectly from a small master die, a block of steel about 4 Inches by 3 inches, and about inch thick. PMG Blount, who had not yet appointed his Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee, insisted that the stamp design must be an outstanding one. Stevan Dohanos, an art member of the old committee who was carrying on with design problems in the interim, suggested his friend Paul Calle, who had de ed a classification change to the same bracket.

The Toreadors of Providence have been tentatively reinstated in Class B. May 30 Is the deadline for applications to compete in the 69th VFW State Convention Parade Contest in Lowell, scheduled for 4 p.m.. June 17. Submit applications to contest director Raymond C. O'Brien, Dept.

of Mass. VFW. Room 546. State House, Boston, MA 02133, to be eligible for any of the 10 categories in the line of march and a chance at the $5,300 prize money to be distributed among junior and senior drum corps and bands, pipe bands, rifle drill teams and color guards. Drum Corps Associates has mapped a 20-contest schedule for this summer to celebrate the silver anniversary of the organization.

Of particular interest to New England fans is the selection of Connecticut sites for three competitions. Formation of a new drum corps. East Coast Jazz, has set the July 4 weekend as a target date for Its first contest. NeW members can contact Tom Chopelas by tele By Joel Sable Special to the Globe The US Treasury will issue three coins commemorating the bicentennial of the Congress. Up to 1 million $5 gold coins, 3 million $1 silver coins and 4 million half-dollar clad coins will be struck.

The $5 gold coin will feature 'the designs of John Mercanti, sculptorengraverfor the USMint. William Woodward of Washington, D.C., created the designator the $1 silver coin and the reverse of the half-dollar clad coin. The obverse of the clad coin will depict Especially for parents! Guards pack up as musicians take the field DRUM CORPS By Herb Cole Special to the Globe The major tournaments are history and, except for a couple of parades and other public func-' tfons in the next couple of weeks, uniforms, rifles, sabers, flags and other color-guard paraphernalia are on the shelf until the start of the 1989-90 competitive season. The focus now is on junior and senior drum corps as they prepare for the June opening of the out- door season. Three tournaments closed the guard season last month.

In the EMass circuit color guard championship match at Everett High School, Blessed Sacrament of Cambridge and St. Ann's of Ne-ponset tied for the cadet-division title. St, Ann's was the sole owner CHESS ANSWER White's more advanced passed pawns win. 1. c7 Rxc7 (1 Kc8 2.

Ra8 Kd7 3. Rd8 2. Ra8t Kxa8 3. Kxc7 e2 4. b6 and Black resigned.

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