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THE HERALDSaturday, August 14, 1976Section 3—19BEGINNER’S CORNERAFTER 29....K-R1 GEORGHIUQR QN QB Q KKB KN KR123ShelbyLyma**45onchess..s678QR QN QB Q K KB KN KRPOLUGAYEVSKY WHITE MATES;HOW?BEGINNER'S CORNER: Hint and ex-■ Black's king pawn is pinned. Itdefend his king-bishop-fiveplanationdoes not(Solution below)squareby Oswald and James JacobySometimes it pays to go after overtricksin matchpoint play. On other occasionsdeclarer should give the hand the sameplay that he would in rubber bridge. The test is to compare the possible results at your contract with those that will be attained by other declarers.NORTHAQ72V AQ85♦ J953South saw that if the heart finesse was onWESTEASThe would make six diamonds. He would4k K 10 5 44k 9 8 6 3win the first trick with the queen of hearts, knock out the ace of trumps, draw trumps, discard two of dummy's spades on the long clubs and eventually ruff his jack of spades in the dummy.South also saw thatV J932V K 10 6♦ 64♦ A7*853* 9 7 4 2ofirrespective where the heart and spade kings were located, North could make at least fournotrump.Therefore, South reasoned that his onlychance for any match points at all would be to play safe for five diamonds and beat anyone who reached six and found theheart finesse wrong.Cm ith rallorl fr\r rlt irrvm\/c arn r\fSOUTH (D)4k A J♦ K Q 10 8 24k K Q 10 6North-South vulnerableWestNorth East South1 ♦n_______wThe many of our readers who followed the recent World Olympic Games are nowespecially aware of the exacting emotionaldemands of such competitions.World championship chess is at least as demanding!According to 2nd-3rd prize winner ofthe Manila InterzonalTournament,Vlastimil Hort: I simply tailed in the finish, the nervous strain was a bit too much forme. I found the climate, too, just as many other participants, difficult to bear.nHort also observed that the failure ofBrowne (the American) can be blamed onhis nervous system.//And that even Mecking (the 1st prizewinner) played not so well towards the end of the tournament. He was nervous.ftHort's last statement is especially interesting in the light of World Champion Anatoly Karpov's observation, made thenext day, that Mecking played accordingto the principle: 'win from the weak and donot lose from the strong'.ttThe exactions of the tournament tooktheir toll on Mr. Mecking, nevertheless.it ir *A notable performance in the Manilatournament was the effort of grandmasterLev Polugayevsky of the Soviet Union, theother 2nd-3rd place winner, who accor-andding to Karpov playedIN SOLVE-ITttsteady, achievementingenious is an artisticfeaturing a beautifully-SOLVE-ITAFTER 16....N-Q2GEORGHIUQR QN QB Q K KB KN KR87654321QR QN QB Q K KB KN KRPOLUGAYEVSKYSACRIFICE AND ATTACK(See text game score)conceived knight sacrifice. Thereafter,brilliant moves followed one on the other.At the end, the threat of mate is unanswerable.PolugaevskyGeorghiu17. N-Q5!!PxN18. PxPB-N219. P-Q6B-N420. Q-R5P-R321. P-KR4Q-B122. B-B5.P-N323. Q-K2PxB24. PxBB-K525. P-K6!PxP26. Q-R5P-K427. Q-N6chK-R128. QxPchK-N129. Q-NchK-R130. R-B4!Resigns* * *Solution to BEGINNER'S CORNER:Polugayevsky played 30.R-B4!. The threat of 31.R-R4 mate could not be met.Copyright 1976 by Shelby Lyman
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