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ChessStampIWatching playersequalability sometimes is dullBy GUST/The firsttive stamp honors A meBy SHELBY LYMANThe secret of winning brilliantly or merely decisively is to gain a suitable advantage in position. And those who looked for either result inThe World Chess Olympiad offers one of the best occa-(Diagram 4)sions for uneven match-ups For in that tournament, weBLACKKANbO NO 80 0 X SX NX BXjamin West, February 1Pennsylvanof a threlt;the Karpov-Korchnoi challengers’ finals have been disappointed if not bored.It is rare, unfortunately,that we are able to watch asee competing in the same preliminary section, teams asimposing as the U.S.S.R., theUnited States, and Yugoslavia on the one hand, and teamsBcbby Fischer of Michael Tal play. Never content with mere shadow-boxing, they effect keen struggles which effect a high proportion of decisive results.as unlikely as Rhodesia, Malta, and Trinidad-Tobago onthe other.(Diagram 1)BLACKHORTHO NO 80ex nx exIn our first example, from the most recent Olympiad, the unrated Tarazi (Lebanon)succumbs to grandmaster Hort (Czechoslovakia) and an embarrassing trap of thequeen, (see Diagram One). While has just blithely sailed into the black queenside posi-Arts Set to Other stair honor mol neered D.V. Paul LaureWest waSwarthmorAmerican-1 abroad, anQR ON GB Q K KB KN KRUNZICKERWHITEan intern:His painti subjects fr notably theThe venBlack tleeps ptactMlf(Diagram 31check will leave white a pieceahead.)designed b sen of RivBLACKKANbo NO 80 0 X 8X NX bXOR ON QB 0 KTARAZIWHITETht? trap wifi ctottKN KRIn our third position, Kan (Hong Kong) has earned a situation in which he is ill-equipped to defend a terrible weakness on the black squares in his fianchetto-minus-bishop kingside. TheWest German Unzicker is inis based of the art the NationFirstspired to operate like a surgeon.First 1. N-B6 check, K-N2;B-R4 . .0«* fIronically, some of the prettiest and-or most instructive play occurs when a stronger player meets a relatively weaker one. Then a positional imbalance (or a tactic-OR QN OB Q K KB KN KRUNZICKERWHITEal error) lending itself to a strong” conclusion is especially likely to occur.(Diagram 2)BlACKJANSSONWatch whit# operat#lion with 1. g-N5??, but after black’s response 1 . . P-QB5, Tarazi might have resigned immediately. In fact, he did give up a few moves later after 2. B-N2, R-Ql; 3. N-R2, R-R3. There was no answer toforces a queento retreat; Q-Bl. Then 3. N-N4, N-KB4; 4. B-B6 check,K-Nl: 5. N-R6 check, NxN; 6. QxN, These incisions and probes have set the stage for a terminal success. In fact, alter 6 . . .P-Q4; 7. R-Ql,black resigns. Diagram four shows us that his request for a mercy killing was well-motivated and even pardonable, us there is no defense to white’s intended R-Q3 and R KR3.requests s to Benj; Portmasti 19081.” P 10c for eenclosed d r e s s c must be than FebiDoctorhonoredsue of F January value hiversarv famous the lOOt!bitth. ilocal deiPost amDept, PHmnolvX 8X NX BXN-B2, trapping the queen.Nor does the stronger Jan- I sson (Sweden) fare much better against Helmut Pfleger (West Germany), who, after all, is a grandmaster, too. Jansson is also embarrassed, though by a different tactical rebuff, as shown in Diagram Two. Pfleger has just played 1. B-R3, in response to black’s blunder B-Bl. After 101; 2. BxB, blackQ-CH $N OB 0 * 1/0 KN KRPFLFGERWHITE»resigns,fhere is no way to avoid los-1 n g the exchange after2 ... Q or R takes bishop; 3. N x N and 4. N-K6. (If2*. * » NxN, * then «3» ** B-K61 -AFIGHwithKELP, LECITHIN CIDER VINEGAR B-6■ CMMMty III# M# C«»kPOMONA HEAI1625 INDIAN ttill* ttutft lt;• a Prwwayf
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