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Shelby Lyman on ChessIt is seldom that more than a few pieces are involved in a winning sequence of moves or combination. To utilize two rooks, two bishops, a knight and a queen in a series of sacrifices and alternative checkmates, as in the following game, Rotlewi vs. Rubinstein, is tofDwgroi'. t)BLACK*5 Nd Id b X IK NX 1)1Q* QN QlKl KN KRWHITE(DiogromBLACKQk QN QBKB KN KR1HITEmas terpiececreate a combinational masterpiece.Diagramat K4 you could divert the queen with queen is helpless and cannot aid theBxB check and then mate. Why not take Pretend that you are Akiba Rubinstein the knight with the rook? Unfortunately, and have the black pieces. You would your queen is threatened, like to play QxP checkmate but your opponent’s queen guards thee KRP. Ifwhite’s knight did not guard the bishop(Dingr— 21BLACKlb Nb lb XQR QN QB QWHITE(Diagram 4)BLACKid Nd |Q 6 X IX NX IXvrrr.□irm\vi \. . I % ^ \ *vv .\N□m1 irii£in1 V * vQR QN QBKl KN KR1HITEHungarian Paul Lukacs, who now lives catch here. The king and queen of heartsin Tel Aviv, has long been famous for his are just excess baggage.single dummy problems. Today’s hand isYour play is to win the trump lead inprinted by courtesy of the Bridge World dummy; ruff a heart; enter dummy withWhat are you to do? Rubinstein played RxN and sacrificed the queen:Diagram 2After Rotlewi’s PxQ, Akiba came up with the star move, the point of the whole combination. What is it? Answer:2) — R-Q7!!!Black can afford to give up the rook in addition to the queen. The sweep of his bishops and the combining powers of rook and knight against white’s cornered king leave Rubinstein with sufficient material to win.After R-Q7, Rotlewi did play 3) QxR. Analyze the outcomes after 3) QxN, BxR, or BxB instead. Black will either matetrapped king.Although the preceding brilliancy has a dazzling effect, it is not beyond the capacity of most modern masters or many amateurs to have found the same moves as Rubinstein. Much harder to attain is the steady application of positional understanding and technique which Rubinstein needed to gain the initial position.Diagram 4As a final exercise, try another queen sacrifice. Diagram four. How does white mate in three? Answer: 1) QxN check,B-R6 check, K-Nl; 3) NxPPxQ;mate.2)Copyright 1973 by Shelby Lyman(Shelby Lyman will from time to time answer readers’ questions about chess inthis column but he cannot promise to an-the white kind or gain decisive material swer all inquiries. Address your ques-advantage.Diagram 3tions to Shelby Lyman, P.O. Box 280, Arlington Heights, 111. 60006.In the third position, we see the situation after 3) QxR and the obvious sequence 3)... BxB check 4) Q-N2.Black can now force white to resign. How? Answer: R-R6 and there is no way white can avoid checkmate. The pinnedHowchessmenmoveToday is Friday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 1973 with 311 to follow.The moon is approaching its last quarter.The morning stars are Venus, Mars and Jupiter.The evening stars are Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces.German composer George Frederic Handel was born Feb. 23,1685.On this day in history:,In 1942, a Japanese submarine fired 25 shells at an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, Calif., 2Vz months after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor catapulted the United States into World War Ii.magazine.a second trump and ruff the last heart.Insion1945, six members of the 5th Divi-of the U.S. Marines planted anTHE ROOK (occasionally called the castle) moves and captures horizontally and vertically, along the ranks and files.THE BISHOP moves and capturesdiagonally.THE QUEEN, the most powerful piece on the board, moves and captures diagonally, and horizontally and vertically, along the ranks andfUes.THE KNIGHT moves and captures in the form of a capital L — two spaces in either a horizontal or vertical direction and one space to the right or left. It is the only piece permitted to jump over other men.THE PAWN moves only forward one space, with the exception of its first move when it has the option of oving two spaces forward. It captures one square diagonally forward.THE KING moves and captures one square at a time in any direction.
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