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fH fcD C3 vt I un Ul OC a. Winning Contract 2 eo Ul EAST S. 8 5 2 II. D. Jf 7 3 18 By HOWARD SCHENKEN and RICHARD FREY One of the special bids which experts have developed for use against the weak no trump is the two club overcall, calling for a takeout in a major suit.

The reason for this bid is well illustrated by the following deal. Vul; N-S NORTH S. 9 7 H.AMK] 4 C. 2 WEST S. A 19 4 H.

9 7 D. 9 8 2 C. A 5 4 C. 18 7 I SOUTH S. 8 3 H.

1 I 2 D. A 18 5 3 C. 9 8 mum ortii I S.T. 2 rhifc, a AH jmo The weak no-trump bid requires from 12 to 14 points in high cards and a balanced hand. West had exactly 13, The fact that he held only a doubleton heart was no bar to a no trump opening.

Balanced distribution merely no singleton or void. Suppose that North doubles the cne no-trump bid. South's best course is to pass and play for penalties. But one no-trump cannot be defeated. A spade lead knocks out West ace, but declarer has five club tricks and will make a seventh trick whether he elects to lead up to the king of hearts or the king of diamonds.

North and South will win no more EAST SOUTH 4 Ararla than four spades and two aces. North have the kind of hand that lends itself too well to a penalty double; he does have the kind of hand that promises a good chance for a major suit game if West has a weak no- trump and the rest of the strength reasonably divided between East and South. So North uses the Landy convention-named for Alvin I.aundv executive secretary of the American Contract Bridge League-be bids two dubs, asking South to bid a major. South responds two hearts. North cannot do more than go to three hearts, but South is strong enough to move ahead to A low dub opening, letting East win the first trick with the king he could return a diamond would have defeated the game.

Perhaps East's double of the two- dub bid should have to this lead. However, West actually opened the ace of clubs and shifted to a heart If South had taken the finesse, East would win with the king and return a diamond before the spades could be established. But declarer was equal to the occa- mse ace of hearts and returned the king of spades. West won, but could not successfully lead a diamond away from the king. His trump con- tmuation was won by East, but the diamond shift was now too fare.

South rose with the ace and ran the spades, discarding his three losing diamonds. Losing only one club, one heart and one spade trick, South made ms game. Champ By BLAKE STEVENS Texas State Chess Champion A knight akme can not mate unless a position arises where the pawns are used against him. Such is the case in last problem. 1 N-K6, BB7; 2 K-Nl! (White must prevent K-R7), BxP; 3 N-B5 (threatening 4 B-Bl mate), P-N6; 4 B-B8! (the threat now being 5 K-R5; 6 N-B3 mate), B- K8; 5 N-Q3ch, N5; 6 PxB; 7 N-N2, P-R4; 8 Rl, P-R5; 5 N-B4 mate.

The Interzonal Tournament completed, lineup for the Candidates Tourney to be 1 In 1959, probably in a Scandinavian country, pits four top Russian players, Petrosian, Keres, and Smyslov, against Fridrik Olafsscn of Iceland, Sveto- xar Gligoric of Yugoslavia, a 1 Eenko, a defected Hungarian now residing in the USA, and Bobby Fischer of the USA. At first glance it appears that a class A team will play a class team. The Russian component Stevens Problem 1 P-K4 2 N-KB3 B-KN5 is very strong, but their play and strength is common knowledge, whereas each of the other competitors represents unknown strength and potentiality, and this is in their favor. It is quite possible a Western player could win. If it be Benko.

he would be placed in the uncomfortable position of playing a Russian on Russian soil. Benko is a Hungarian refugee! Some people intimate that the Russians, in a tournament of this kind, draw each other, and play to win against the rest of the field. True or not, this could prove more harmful than helpful as Olafsson or Gligoric, or Fischer or Benko would undoubtedly be out to beat the Russians as well as their other opponents. The enigma faced by the Soviet players is that they are having difficulty in judging the strength of their competitors. Take the case of Fischer.

In 1956 he placed 8th in the U.S. Open and then won the same tournament In 1957. A big jump. He tied for 5th and 6th in the Interzonal. A bigger jump; this time international scalps were added to his belt.

Perhaps the next hurdle will be a little too high, but the damage he may inflict against the Russian contingent might prove their undoing. Here follows a game by Fischer against Kenneth Smith of Dallas which shows that Fischer (then about 13) was a dangerous antagonist twenty-four months ago. Smith KMfai ACROSS 1 Small bed 4 From thai time 9 Baltimore pro football team 14 Collects in a body 20 Native metal 21 King of Troy 22 Horse endowed with power of speech 23 Retaliates 25 Ankle (pi.) 27 Geometric figure 29 Perspire 31 Gem weight 32 Make safe 34 Metal 36 Openings in nose 38 Chinese wax 39 Prepares for print 41 A direction 42 Aloft 44 Arnbary 45 River of Asia 47 Telegram (abbr.) 48 Symbol for samarium 50 Remain 52 Badger-like animal 55 Genus of soles 58 Prefix: 59 Greek letter 61 Kind of whale 63 Deserve 65 Month 67 Extension to a build- Ing (pi.) 69 Man name 71 Therefore 72 Sun god 74 Retract 77 Slats 79 Is without 81 Requires 84 Mongol 85 List of errors in a publication 87 Decoy for grift ex 89 Lower abode of departed spirits 91 Prefix: half 92 Kind of horse (pi.) 94 Roman roads 96 Percolates 98 Lair 99 While 101 A feigning 103 Huge 106 Old musical syllable 107 Timid 109 Long Roman outer garment 110 Scriptures of the hammedans 112 Allotted Piece of work 114 Cravats 116 A freshet 118 British Physicist 120 Begins 123 Speak in public 125 Steps, over a fence 127 Wooden shoe 129 Rub out 130 Dwell 132 Combining form: dawn 133 Child for mother 135 Loud raucous noise 189 Consumed 190 Ruined city on the NUe 191 Rants 192 Anglo- Saxon slaves 193 Escaped the destruction of Sodom 137 Plant modified by abnormal development 138 Tithe (Scotland) 140 Department of modern Greece (pi.) 143 Ancient Roman official 345 Period of time 146 Land measwe 148 Strikes with open hand 150 Light and fine as a line 152 Backbone 154 Symbol for tin 155 Corded cloth 157 French for 158 New Zealand native fort 160 Kind of palm 161 Hawaiian hawk 163 Leather strip 165 Footless animal 167 Excess of year 170 Kind of dance 173 Artist's stand (pi.) 176 Brazilian Indian 178 To bury 180 Cries 182 Civet-like animal 183 Attribute 185 Fruit 187 Continued attempt to gain possession For Solution to Puzzle, Turn to DOWN 1 Shed for sheep 2 Seaport in Algiers 3 Succinct 4 Alcohol 5 Symbol for iridium 6 Pinch 7 Vehicles 8 Sends out 9 Arrived 10 Correlative of either 11 Fleur-delis (her.) 12 Community smaller than a city 13 Pro golfer 14 officer 15 Avenue (abbr.) 36 Dry 17 Cooky 18 Bird 19 Closed securely 24 Not fresh 26 Soapy water 23 Fortune teller 30 Macaws 33 Storehouse 35 Stringed instruments 37 Of the sun 40 Gut line of fishhook 43 Former President of Argentina 46 Kind of cap 48 Greek gravestone 49 Of the cheek 51 The deadly carrot 53 Form of 54 51 (Rom, num.) 56 sacred Hindu word 57 City of Nimrod's kingdom 60 Extreme 62 That which is devised 64 Perfidious 66 Disliked intensely 68 Keen 70 Short comic Play (pi.) 73 Snake 75 Appointed 76 Threefold 78 Asterisks 80 Suave 82 Interjection of incredulity 83 Appears 88 Aids 88 Lawrence (abbr.) 90 stains 93 Halts 95 Becomes withered 07 An apartment 99 Early American capitalist 100 English county 102 Lift spirits of 104 Title of a Moslem prince 105 Trap 108 Leavening compound 111 Alleged force 113 Vestige 115 Pigpens Page 7 117 North Syrian deity 119 Thoroughfares 121 Former Russian rulers 122 Kind of car 124 Roman 126 Ant 128 Journeys 131 Growing out 134 A shield 136 Choice part 139 Displaced person (slang) 141 Chemical suffix 142 Symbol for selenium 344 Infuriates 146 Brazilian timber tree 147 Meal 149 Reach across 151 Hoar frost 153 Alleviate 156 Veranda 159 Stage performer 162 Fat 164 Of punishment 166 Dreadful 168 Pastry (pi.) 159 A tissue 172 Egyptian sacred bull 174 Mother of Apollo 175 Let it stand 177 Baby's napkin 179 Outfit 181 Japanese coin 384 Exist 186 Brother of Odin 188 Earth goddess 14-NxN 15 o-o IS 17 QR Ni 18 FxKP 18 FxKP tux twi nm FlNrbcr if KM F-OK3 F-K3 F-K3 N-N5 NxB Q-B2 Iff B-N4 8X1 04 BxP Q-K4 BBS: F-Q5 23 R4 24 OIMtl 25 N-B5 U3 27 It-RI RxKP 29 34 31 R-QI N-B4 33 NxB K2! R-Kl 34 3 5 RxKcb Q3 K7 37 Rl 38 K4J 39 K-N2 441 KM 41 KxK 42 43 44 K-ttf N3 RxNP HN4 BK3 Bl FN3 B-Rfi B-K3 R-B4 B2 BxR KKJ F-K4 K4P R-R4 BxR K-R4 KW (O fe if (a) White plays for quick devei- opment even at the cost of losing bishop for knight. (b) Applying pressure on K6 and hoping for 13 14 N-B3! (c) A clever parry. 14 PxP 15 PxPch, RxP wins.

(d) 19 P-Q5J? is tricky-20 QxP, KR-Q; 21 Q-B2, with pressure. The text threatens 20 PxP; 21 RxNPi; 22 RxR, QxN and 23 B-K6. (e) P-QN3, P-Q6! A tactical flurry follows now which affects most of the minor pieces. (f) It is difficult for Black to cape from the N-B4 discovery his rook, which simultaneous threatens to trade knight for bis op. Play has been forced Black for several moves.

24. N5 may have been faulty. (g) The remainder of the gan is handled well by both side Black can not make use of extra pawn in the end game. (h) A draw was agreed to ft few more moves..