• • « • • • #• ft • •• • » •ft • • •• • • •• •• ft • •• • • •• •• ft • •• ft• ft• ft• • ft ft• • 0 ft• ft• ftft ft 0 ft ft ft 0 ft• ft 0 ft• * ft ft• ft 0 •ft ft• ft• ft• ft ft Vft ft ft ft 0 ft ft ft 0 ft ft ft 0 ft• ft 0 ft ft ft ■ ftft ft 0 ft• ft 0 ft ft ft 0 ft ft ft 0 ftShelbyLymanChess• •0 •• • t • ft ft 0 ftft ft 0 • ft ft 0 ft ft • t ft ft ft • ft • •• • ft ftft ft 0 ft ft0 ft• ftft • ftft ft I ft ft • ft ft ft » ft ft ft» •• • 0 ft • • 0 • ft ft 0 ft ft • 0 ft ft • 0 ft• ft • • ft • 0 ft ft ft 0 ft• •• ft♦ I• ftft 0 ft ft ft 0 ft ft• 0• ft0*0The endgame has exceptional value for the inquisitive student, who, unhampered by extraneous complexities, would like to explore basic chess principles. The advantaged player may define a plan, and have the pleasure of managing his position through a series of consecutive phases, which develop as if by law.It surprises some players who rarely reach the endgame ane even more rarely see one properly played, that the same chess principles he comes to value as his tools in te opening and middle-game phases are often employed in purer forms and surprising clarity as the game winds up.BLACKLASKERdO NO 90 O * 9* NX dMQR QN QB QKB KN KRMARSHALLWHITELasker seizes the initiative HowOur first diagram gives an endgame position with Emanuel Lasker (Black) Marshall (White). Lasker wins with surprising ease although at first glance his advantage seems slight.Watch how it happens! Uisker’s first move is 1) R-Nl, which forces 2) P-N3 and thus deprives Marshall of the best square for his knight i as you will see). After 2) P-N3, Lasker continues with 2 . . . R-N4! Now, employing the empty fourth rank, the rook will make itself felt on both sides of the board. It has impressively developed from its original corner square, while white has done nothing. Marshall, somewhat desperately, responds to the sudden black pressure with 3) P-B4?!BLACKI ASKER8HO NO BO 0 9X Nl H* - —— ■All n i^8r wb5^18QR QN QKN KRMARSHALLWHITEBlack to movtReachingoursecondposition, with one move he has granted to Laker a vital“passed” pawn on the queen file. Apparently he feared . . . R-QB4 and the attack on the pawn, if it stayed at B2.The remaining moves seem to play themselves. There ensued 3) . . . R-KR4; 4) K-Nl, P-B4; 5) N-Q2, K-B2; 6) R-B1 check, K-K2; 7) P-QR3, R-R3; 8) P-KR4, R-R3; 9) R-rl; B-N5; 10) K-B2, K-K3; 11) P-R4, K-K4; 12) K-N2, R-KB3; 13) R-Kl, P-Q6; 14) R-KB1, K-Q5; 15) RxR, PxR; 16) K-B2, P-B3; 17) P-QR5, P-QR3.BLACKLASKERMARSHALLWHITEZug/wang 1In the preceding play, Lasker’s rook tied down the white rook to a mere defensive function. Freed from harassment, himself, black nicely centralized his king and prepared powerful threats. When I^asker finally played 13 . . . P-Q6, Marshall, in his despair at stopping the advancing pawn supported by the superbly placed black king, offered the trade of rooks. Lasker accepted, and after two more moves, black was in zugzwang!Then 18) N-Bl ceded the king pawn to KxP and the rest was only mop-up which was not of enough interest to include here.The mobility of the blackftrook, the dynamic of the centralized king, and the effectiveness of Ixisker’s permanent initiative were underscored throughout by the crowded, passive floundering of the white pieces.Name ChangedThe “Pete and Tillie” pilot, if it sells, will not be called “Pete and Tillie.” Even though Universal paid a lot of money for the title, which was used for the successful Carol Burnett-Walter Matthau movie, they have elected to change it, in honor of its star. It w ill be “The Cloris Leachman Show.”Cloris says the only things they are retaining from the movie are the ages of the characters (she’ll be 39, her co-star, Carmine Caridi, 43) and the fact that he strips down to his shorts and plays the piano.AXXVS.V