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fcl) CQ to to Ul OX to 00 00 es 0) cL to TJ 3 to Winning Contract WITH By HOWARD SCHENKEN and RICHARD L. FREY The weak no-trump bid shows a balanced hand of from 12 to 13 points. Perhaps its greatest virtue is that it narrows the range of the opening bid of one in a suit by removing from it all minimum bids except those baseii upon distributional assets. And perhaps its greatest weakness is that it shows its lack of power to the opponents as well as to partner. At any rate, the most effective weapon against the weak no-trump is the penalty double.

Here is a hand from the match in which the Roth team defeateil the Kaplan team in the recent Masters Knockout Team of Four championship. It illustrates what can happen when a weak no- trump faces a bu.st hand and opponents who know how to handle the situation. Vul: NORTH (D) N-S S. A 7 5 II. 9 3 D.

8 7 C. A 9 2 WEST EAST S. S. 10 9 8 2 11. 8 4 2 11.

A 10 D. A 2 D. 9 5 C. 10 8 4 C. SOUTH S.

4 3 H. 7 5 D. 10 0 4 3 C. 7 0 5 3 ViddiMg: Sonth (liiriihberK) N. T.

2 Uidinondii All Kmnt West (MUrhrll) nine Irad; Hrart When the weak no trump partner has a weak hand, his only hope of escaping a severe penalty is to get out of no- trump. When this retreat occurs before the no-trump bid has been doubled, it is often successful; it might also have been successful in this case against a less able pair than the formidable partnership of Ira Rubin and Victor Mitchell. With a heart suit that promised a virtually certain game and only three clubs many players would have bid the hearts on hand, llie result would have been no triumph for the weak no- trump; East and West would simply have bid their nonvulnerable game. But at least it would have averted the disaster that actually befell when West elected to double. South had no way of telling that he had found his best suit when he bid two clubs.

Seeking to improve the situation, he ran to two diamonds. Again, though he could not double diamonds himself, West refrained from bidding his hearts, giving East the opportunity to double if he could do so. He could and did! East overtook the king of hearts lead and returned a low trump. After three rounds of trump, East shifted back to hearts. South ruffed the fourth heart and led a club, but West had held onto all three clubs and retained a stopper, while East had discarded one club and was able to ruff king.

A spade continuation knocked out ace and East-West won the remaining tricks to round out a 5 trick prmalty. Cliampioiiship Chess By BLAKE STEVENS Texas State Chess Champion Jack London wrote a story about two fighters, a classic which concerned itself with the conflict between an aging but experienced man and his young, vigorous antagonist. On the chess level that same conflict is evident. Only here the younger player usually has stamina plus knowledge of the openings pitted against his older op only weapon experience. An age difference of 15 years makes the struggle approximately even.

A wider gap favors youth. Recently Stephen Jones, 18, won the Southwestern and placed second in the Texas State Championship, Bobby Fischer, 15, tied for fifth in the Portoroz Interzonal tourney in Yugoslavia, ahead of a field of players that reads like a who of Larsen, Paclr- man, Filip, Matanovic, Bronstein, Auerbach, and others. Jerry Milburn, 17, runner-up in last Southwestern, is an untiring, walking encylopedia on chess openings. In the following game he quickly obtains a good game. His middle game prospects are excellent.

Then a slight error in judgment (trading queens and heading for the end game) dissipates his advantage, and he loses his way in the ending. SiClMAN llEEENSE. Stevens Frolli cm Wkile J. Milhnrn 1 P-K4 2 N-IIB4 3 P-04 4 5 N-OB-1 B-K2 7 N-NS 4k) 9 P-B4 it) Q-Q2 1.7 0-0-4) 4f) 14 N-Q4 4b) 15 P-QN3 41) N-qs 17 P-QB4 4j) 19 q-Q2 99 B2 21 22 23 HR-Kl 24 B-Q4 B-M2 P-KiJ PmB 23 29 30 BxP 81 B-N3 32 K-NI S3 JK4l)-qi 34 KzR 35 N-Q4 .37 N-05 39 N-BK eh RxB 41 K-B2 42 R-B3 RsN 44 P-N4 45 P-N5! 46 R-Nl 47 P-OR4 P-N8J K-N3 50 P-R5 51 P-N7 52 P-R6 BUrk B. P-QB4 0B3 N-KH3 r-KN3 N2 B-K3 HI P-KH5 4d) N-Q2 P-QR3 N4 od B3 r-qiw3 BKl QN4 (k) N-B4 4) BxB B-N3 N-K3 NxP B-R3 H4KI)-Q1 RxR NsRP P-N5 N-N8 Nxp B-N4 N-B7 N-K5 NxB K-N2 P-B4 P-B5 K-B3? R-QRI K-Bt ch 4P) P-N4 P-B6 R-KBl ACROSS 1 Ancient cal culating Instrument 7 Impresses with grandeur 11 Soothing ointment 15 CharactCT- istic of old age 21 Wisest 22 Tibetan monk 23 Fencing sword 24 scolds 25 To cut, after, snick Sun god 28 Amended 30 Buddhist monk 31 Places 32 Swiss river 33 Remove mol store with cloth 35 Estimated 36 Electiio light globe 38 Pronoun 39 1050 (Rom.

num.) 40 42 Female ruff 43 Moisten 45 nickname 46 Movement of ocean waters (pi.) 47 Speech, writing in accord with common usage 50 name 52 Sculptured 54 Isles off Ireland 55 Winter vehicle 57 Makes merry 60 Kind of type 61 Vibration 63 Recompensed 65 European seaport 66 name 67 Encounter 68 Allow 70 Percussion Instrument 72 Bank pf a river 73 Elongated fish 74 Be Impudent to (var.) 75 'Turkish honorary tiUe 77 name 79 nickname 80 American explorer and general 82 Greek letter 83 One who draws exaggerated figures 86 Ancient 87 Large body of land 89 Prefix: three ao A commotion 94 Article 95 Abounding 99 Beverage 100 Observed 101 Concluding passage in music (pi.) 103 a African gold coin 104 Correlative of neither 105 Old Testament heroine 107 Disembark 109 Limb of body 110 Ventilates 111 name 112 Dialect 114 Buddhist cloirch in Japan 116 Play (pi.) 118 Pair 119 Puts ball In play in tennis 121 Tennis stroke (pi.) 123 Burden 124 Stanza of six lines 125 Weird 127 Division of time (pi.) 129 Kind of boat 130 Form of 132 Valleys of the moon 134 A people of Nigeria 135 Football team 137 nickname 139 Small rug 141 Nanate 142 Form 144 Son of Seth 145 name 146 148 Symbol for sodium 149 Lean back 151 Land measure 152 After awhile 153 Dramatic 155 Chew 156 A rail 158 Hire 160 Place devoted to some saint 161 River of Europe 162 Taunt 163 Destined to an adverse fate DOWN 1 Province of India 2 Hackneyed 3 Dyeing ap- for ageing material with steam 4 Letter of alphabet 5 Pronoun 6 Had battled vigorously 7 Mulberry 8 Armed conflict 9 Turkish Utle 10 Italian religious reformer 11 Is fitting 12 Mimicked 13 Directed 14 Pronoun 15 One who sells tickets at exorbitant prices 16 Interjection of incredulity 17 German kobold 18 Old Roman date 19 A draft of oblivion 20 Ancient British chariot 27 Egyptian sacred bull 29 Short news article 30 A protuberance 33 Broaden 34 measure 36 Symbol for barium 37 Seaport city of Brazil 40 Low sofa 41 Bird 43 Fear 44 At no time 46 Mexican dish 48 Male sheep 49 High mountain 51 Sign of the zodiac 52 Sorrow 53 Wanderer 54 God of war 56 Conduct 58 Genus of goose barnacles 59 Slope 61 Examination 62 Annulled 64 Old Russian council 67 English pick 69 Conjunction 71 Covering for hands (Pi.) 74 Alone; in stage directions 75 Language of ancient Carthage 76 Extent of land (pi.) 78 Enticed 81 Bright saying 82 Word of negation 84 Hotel 85 Border 87 Kind of coal 88 Implement of trade 90 City of France 91 Evade 92 Withdraw 93 Pummel 95 Covers with pitch 96 Inherent 97 For the time bein 98 Salute 102 One skilled in field crop production 103 Narrow inlets 106 Flutter 108 Wa.ste matter 110 Entertain 111 Incend- lari sm 11.3 Deserve 115 nickname 117 Connective 118 Former of Czechoslovakia 120 stillness 122 Not so abundant 124 Smacked of 126 Feminine name 7 28 Spoken 129 A representation of The Last Supper 130 Gather 131 Month 133 North Syrian deity 136 French article 137 Funeral oration 138 Ate 140 Row 142 Entertain lavishly 143 Enough (archaic) 145 Hindu charitable gift 147 Blackbird 149 To free of 150 Silkworm 152 Gone by 154 Weight (abbr.) 155 Buddhist monk 157 By 159 Negative For Solution to Puzzle, Turn to Page 7 White to play and win (a) 6 B-N5 is stronger (b) 8 0-0! The move selected is prefnature, (c) Ceding K-B1-QR6 diagonal to black and deciding to Castle Q-side. (d) Establishing an advanced post, N-R4-N6 in mind, (e) 12 N-KR-4 would be slightly better. (f) A definite line of action. 13 0 0 is not bad now, thanks to 12 th move, but then queen side prospects are not quite as good as Black's. (g) To the point.

The White King is already in danger from a w'ing and flank attack. (h) Activity in the center is the only hope. (i) Not 15 NxB, BxN! (k) 20 0 0 makes QNl potent. As it is White is practically forced to trade queens. (1) Overprotecting K4.

(m) 25 B-R3 is correct. (n) After a tactical flurry amid time pressure, Black plays weakly. 42 P-KB4! While would preserve his Bishop and difficult plays would ensue. (o) In this type ending Passed Pawns Must Be Pushed and quickly. (p) Recoiling from 48 RxP; 49 P-N7, R-N5; 50 R-QN, RxP; 51 RxR; and White wins.

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