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Shelby LymanOn chessBEGINNER’S CORNER — Hint Explanation: Set-up a winning knight fork.BEGINNER’S CORNERBLACK WINS A PIECEThe National Chess League is a minileague, indeed, by professional sporting standards. Though it features world-renowned grandmasters, its spectators usually number only in the dozens.But its colorfully named teams, i.e. the New York Threats (this year’s champions), the Cleveland Kinghunters, the Washington Plumbers, the Chicago Prairie Dogs, theHartford No-Faults, the Lincoln Mid-Americans, etc. have created dizzifying hi-jinksnot to mention some damn good chess, as they compete by telephone.Ironically, this innovative but unlikely league, which includes a team representing Berwick Bay of the Louisiana Gulf Coast (a town of 5000!) and players of Class E strength as well as its grandmasters, has generated a fantastic press.Some unusual and exemplary sports writing, for example, can be found in a recent Sports Illustrated article which begins: “Consider this pro league, stretching coast to coast, in which cheering is taboo, teams never meet and a crowd of 14 is good. One star played with a cast on his leg and another’s game was disrupted by Siamese cats. A foulHO NO 80 O X 8X NX HXOR ON OB O K KB KN KRis putting your opponent on hold. ”And earlier, Clark Whelton of the Village Voice reported on “New York’s Winning Team: N.Y. Threats-from Russia with Love.’’ The Big Apple, he said, now had at least one team to be proud of, despite the abysmal to disappointing performances of its Jets, Mets, Giants, Knicks, Cosmos, and Yankees.SOLVE-ITAFTER M....M4 * * IZNJINHO NO 80 O X 8X NX HXOR ON OB Q K KB KN KRVEREZJUKWHITE DAZZLES IHmnnn ... I wonder? Perhaps the retiring Pele of the N.Y. Cosmos soccer team, a sometimes chessplayer, could be inveigled to spend another year in New York, this time with the Threats.Then he, grandmaster Leonid Shamkovich, and 13-year-old master Joel Benjamincould be used as trade bait to lure backTom Seaver. And then...* * + #Here is a sizzler of some theoretical importance from the 1976 School Spartakiad USSR. See if you can anticipate the finish.].\rrz)ukPK4 P QB411.l/njin*0-0^0 B-N22.N-KB3P Q312Q-N4 QxP3.P-Q4PxP13.BxP! pxB4.NxPN-KB314QNxP P-KR4?5.N QB3P QR315.N-B7ch! QxN6BKN5P K316N-KP! QK47.P B4P-QN417.N B7ch! QxN1P K5PxP18.Q K2ch? N-K49.PxPQ B219.QxNch! Resfensa)JOQ K2KN-Q2 a) If 19.. QxQ, then 20 RQ« mat*. * « * •Solution to BEGINNER’S CORNER: 1 QxB! 2 QxQ N-B6ch; 3 K moves NxQ.lt; 'opyright 1977 by Shelby Lyman
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