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Diagram 1}BLACK /COOPER f II ACCHO NO SO 0 X 8X NX bM | I J ^takes moves and more moves to show palpably.Thus a five, six, or tenmove game is always a curiosity. Especially if the player is not a rank beginner. “How did the victim contrive to lose so early is always the intriguing question.We have three brevities here, which (believe It or not) were played in the World Chess Olympics. The first two, from the recent Olympics in Nice, France, were lost by apparently unknown and urrated players from the Dutch Antilles and Monaco. Our third contributor was the great dadaist painter MarcelDuchamp, playing at the time on the 1928 French team. Helost the longest of the three. .. .i.e. the ten move game*The first game, Riqaud-Co-oper, shows us that any reader of this column could be advantage in playing ability an Olympic winner with ade-QR QN QB Q K KB KN KRRIGAUDWHITEBlack force* resignationBy SHELBY LYMAN“How many moves would you need to beat me the amateur frequently asks the chessmaster. The latter, if heis wise, will answer, “awhile. For against reasonably sound opening procedureand basic knowledge ofstrategy and tactics, minigames are not easily forthcoming'. Even a substantialquately suicidal tactics by one's opponent. After 1. P-K4,P-K4; 2. P-KB4, P-Q4; white mistakenly played 3. PxKP amd reached cur first diagram. A very elementarymistake! Naturally black now wins with 3 .. . . Q-R5 check. In fact, after 1. P-N3, QxP check; 5. K-B2, B-B4 check,white resigned.In our next game, Sharf of Monaco, playing the black pieces, resigned on his sixth move thojgii apparently prematurely (in the position given in diagram two.) It is true that white (Milford) threatens 7. QxP mate and the immediate wirlt; of a pieceafter 6 . . .N*R3 and 7. BxN But black could have continued with 7. . . .0-0! and the threat of PxB, PxNP, or N-N5 with some chances. (The score of the game is 1.P-K 4, P-K4; N-QB3; 3.2. N-KB3, B-K2; 4.B-B4,P-Q4, PxP; 5. P-B3, PxP??; 6. Q-Q5, resigns).Our last game is a bit more sophisticated. After the mod-emesque (for 1928) opening sequence, 1. P-QB4, P-K4; 2.N-KB3, N-QB3; 3. N-B3,N-B3; 4. P-Q4, PxP; 5. NxP, B-N5; 6. B-N5, P-KR3; 7. B-R4. , . .Marcel Duchamp tried a faulty simplifyingcombination. It was 7. . . .N-K5? 8. BxQ, KNxN; 9. NxN. NxQ check; 10. NxB, and thereupon resigned, a piece down.(Diagram 2)BLACKSHARFbO NO 00 0 X AM NX bMQR QN QB Q K KB KN KRMITFORD WHITEResigns?
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