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THE HERALDSaturday, August 14,1976Section 3—19BEGINNER’S CORNERAFTER 29....K-R1 GEORGHIUSOLVE-ITOR ON QB Q K KB KN KRSheLymaAFTER 16....N-Q2GEORGHIUOR ON QBK KB KN KRonchess87OR ON QB Q K KB KN KRPOLUGAYEVSKY WHITE MATES; HOW?BEGINNER'S CORNER: Hint and ex-- Black's king pawn is pinned. Itnot defend his king-bishop-fiveplana tiondoes^H(Solut on below)squareWinbridgeby Oswald and James JacobySometimes it pays to go after overtricks in matchpoint play. On other occasions declarer should give the hand the same play 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.South saw that if the heart finesse was onhe would make six diamonds. He wouldwin 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 dubs and eventually ruff his jack of spades in the dummy.South also saw thatofirrespective 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 thehpArt wrnneNorth-South vulnerableNorthSouth6W54The many of our readers who followed3the recent World Olympic Games are now2especially aware of the exacting emotional1demands of such competitions.QR ON QB Q K KB KN KRWorld championship chess is at least asdemanding!POLUGAYEVSKYAccording to 2nd-3rd prize winner of the Manila Interzonal Tournament,SACRIFICE AND ATTACK(See textgame score)Vlastimil Hort: I simply failed in the finish,the nervous strain was a bit too much for corKeived knicht sacrifice.me. I found the climate, too, just as manyother participants, difficult to bear.99Thereafter,brilliant moves followed one on the other.Hort also observed that the failure ofBrowne (the American) can be blamed onAt the end, the threat of mate is unanswerable.his nervous system.99And that even Mecking (the 1st prizewinner) played not so well towards the end of the tournament. He was nervous.90Horfs last statement is especially interesting in the light of World ChampionAnatoly Karpov's observation, made thenext day, that Mecking played accordingto the principle: 'win from the weak and donot lose from the strong'.99The exactions of the tournament tooktheir toll on Mr. Mecking, nevertheless.* * *A notable performance in the Manila tournament was the effort of grandmaster Lev Polugayevsky of the Soviet Union, the other 2nd-3rd place winner, who accor-andPolugaevskyGeorghiu17.N-Q5HPxN18.PxPB-N219.P-Q6B-N420.Q-R5P-R321.P-KR4Q-B122.B-B5.P-N323.Q-K2PxB24.PxBB-K525.P-K6IPxP26.Q-R5P-K427.Q-N6chK-R128.QxPchK-N129.Q-NchK-R1mb30.R-B41Resigns* * *Solution to BEGINNER'S CORNER:ding to Karpov played ingeniousIN SOLVE-IT is an artistic99steady, achievementPolugayevsky played 30.R-B4!. The threat of 31.R-R4 mate could not be met.featuring a beautifully-Copyright 1976 by Shelby Lyman
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