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Shelby Lyman on chessJust call'fighting spirit'After 20-year-oid BillKoch won a surprise silver medal in a Winter Olympics long distance skiing event, he described the discomfort that normally accompanied such exertions Mental factors decided the winner among performers of the same physical ability, he said Michael Botvinnik, the most successful chessplayer of all during the last 40 years, would agree Tiiis Russian engineer wasw noeo* pN4 4 H*AN AHmm a (8otuf*on b#*o*)BEGINNER S CORNERHint and explanation: The black queen and king are on a dangerous diagonal which is blocked onlyWorld Champion in 13 years of the 15-year period iy48-1963. Since his reign, not one of four successive title-hokJers has had a significant tenure. Though the new champion, Anatoly Karpov. Bobby Fischer’s successor, may be the firstexception.It is interesting that young Karpov, an incomparable fighter on the chessboard himself, confesses a debt to the oldergrandmaster. “He (Botvinnik) made me aware of the seriousness of chess and of the fact that even the most talented of players could not go far without diligent and painstaking work .’*Now Botvinnik has new proteges. One of them, 12-yea r-old Harry Kasparov, has recently won the USSRchess championship forteenagers! Another of hispupils finished third.What secrets of will and fighting spirit has the ex-World Champion passed on to the youth‘ Will Botvinnik now dominate world chess by proxy?How to Lose Quickly?An international tournament is often a boon for local masters who get a rare opportunity to play some of the world’s better players.Last August at Olo-mouc, the indiginous Czechoslovakian Trauni-cek had such a chance. But he gained notoriety by losing an embarrassingly brief game to the tournament winner, ex-Soviet Champion Alexander Suetin.In the diagrammed position, Traunicek incorrectly assumed that the white knight was pinned down at KB3. He had apparently overlooked the vulnerability of his ownking When Suetin surprised with 6. NxN, Trau-nicek could only despairingly capture the black queen with his bishop. A few moves later, he resigned after 7.B-N5ch, Q-Q2; 8. BxQch Too much material would be lost.bO NOSOLVE-ITA5 ... U !\4TRAUNCtKSI-M tiW fcj ^06 O K KB ¥ \ KRsue? inHas 4 mce on*?*, t* fSuetin1. P-K42. N-KB3 3 P-QB3 4. P-Q45 P-Q5 6. NxN!7 B-N5 ch 8. BxQ chsc.vs)TraunicekP-QB4P-Q3N-QB3B-N5?N-K4??BxQQ-Q2ResignsSolution to BEGINNER’S CORNER - White wins with 1. P-Q5 The attacked black knight will either stay and be captured or move and allow 2. B-QN5!
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Pomona Progress Bulletin
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Sat, Mar 13, 1976
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