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Shelby Lyman: On ChessShuttleOne of the thorniest demands in life is the creative application of what we have “learned in the past to the present. Woe to the person, in chess or any other endeavor, who fails to grasp what is unique in a new situation and instead mechanically heedssacrosanct maxim.someAll principles, axioms and rules of thumb must be cautiously, if not skeptically employed.No exception is the notion, gleaned through centuries of sometimes bitterexperience, that it isdangerous and unsound to “develop” the queen tooearly in a chess game, that it is both dangerous and foolhardy, too. to move thew •queen several times in the early stages.The “inevitable result of premature queen moves, we learn in all primers, is catastrophe. The time employed will be “lost” time, and will accrue to the opposing player as extra moves. His pieces will descend on us as a maddened. overpowering horde.A beautiful and rare example of a contrary instance occurred in the 1975 Las Palmas Tournament. Canary Islands, between Podgaetz and Hort.Thestarted withgamethe unusual sequence, 1. P-Q4, N-KB3; 2. B-N5, P-B4; 3. P-Q5, N-K5; 5. B -R4 . . (See Diagram One)Here Hort made his first queen move, 4. . . Q-N3, threatening the white QNP.BLACKHORTdo no ao o x ax nx axQR QN OB O K KB KN KRPODGAETZ WHITEagainNow Hort made anotherqueen move, the very original 7 . . Q-KR3 !, which threatens 8. NxB and a rupture in the white kingside pawn position. Podgaetz avoided thatpitfall by playing 8. BxN;Hort has sacrificed a pawn so as to reach this position and have the privilege of again moving his queen!13 . . Q-QR3 was the move as black shuttled back to the queenside.The rest of the game was easy. The combined forces of the bishop, rook, and queen were too much. After losing a succession of pawns, white resigned. Theconcluding moves were: 14. R-Bl, Q-R6; 15. P-K4, R-QN8; 16. K-Ql, BxBP; 17. Q-B2, RxR check; 18. QxR. Q-N5; 19. B-Q3, R-Nl; 20. N-B3, RxP; 21. R-Nl, Q-R5 check; 22. Q-B2, QxQcheck; 23. KxQ, RxR; 24. NxR, B-Q5; 25. N-R3, P-Q3; 26. B-B1, P-KR3; 27. Resigns.A marvelous example of creative chess.and againBlack moves his Queen 1Podgaetz defended with 5. Q-KBl, and Hort continued the assault with 5 . . P-KN4; 6. B-N3, B-N2; 7. P-' B3 . . (See Diagram Two)BLACKHORTdO NO 90 O X 8X NX dXPODGAETZWHITEbut after 8 . . RxN, black was set up for a rapid blitz on the queenside.There followed 9. N-Q2, NxN; 10. QxN, P-N4!; QNP-N5; 12. NxP. PxBP; 13 PxP. (See Diagram Three)BLACKHORTPODGAETZWHITE
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