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ShelbyLymanOn chessBEGINNER S CORNERHint and explanation: Set up a winning “skewer.• • • •According to Carmen, an outdoor amphitheatre in the nearby Jacob Riis HousingProject is the rallying, point for the area’s chessplayers Not uncommonly, a youth looking for an opponent can be seen wandering with chess set and board under arm,while others already play.One of Carmen’s friends, Ricky, attests that at least sixty of his friends and acquaintances frequently play chess. Ricky, who Carmen discovered did not know that the chessboard must be placed with a whitesquare in the right-hand corner, nevertheless, owns and plays chess with a clock.In the 1920s and 1930s, lower east side coffeehouses catering to Eastern EuropeanJewish immigrants spawned many of thiscountry’s top chessplayers.* • • •The British magazine Chess called the first-place tie gained by Nona Gaprindasviliat Lone Pine with Balashov (U.S.S.R.),Panno (Argentina) and Sahovic (Yugoslavia) “the greatest woman’s chess success of alltime.” No wonder! Eleven other grandmasters and nine international masters lagged behind the winners.The position in SOLVE-IT shows the culmination of a brilliant idea by Ms. Gaprindasvili. Here the women’s world champion played 20 N-Q7! and after ... BxN; 21 P-K6B-BI; 22 P-K7 BxP; 23 RxB . . she had achieved (at the cost of a pawn) a winning domination of the seventh rank and the cen-ter of the board.0Gtprindast iliTarjan1.P K4PK42.N-KBJNQB33.B S5PQK34.B R4N B35.P04PxP6.OOB K27.RK10-08.P-KSN K19.B B4P B310.BxNQPxB11.QxPWxQ12.NxQP-KB413.N-KB3P H314.P-KR4BK315.N-B3P B416.QRWlP B317.N-R4!P^)N418.N-N6!KQ118.RxR!BxR20.N-4J7IBxN21.P K6BBl '22.P K7BxP23.RxBNB324.R-R7RKl2S.B-K3P-B536.BQ4P-B527.PB3KB128.R-QB7N-N520.BxPchK Nl30.N-KSNxN31.BxNRxB32.RxBchK-N233.R-B7chK-N334.RxPcbK-R435.K-BlPR*36.RB6K-N537.RxPAnd while won♦ • ♦ *Solution to BEGINNER’S CORNER: 1 lt;^R4chK*N1; 2 Q-N3ch K-Rl; 3 B-B3 etc.copyright 1977 by Shelby LymanBEGINNER'S CORNERao NO 80 O X 8* NX axCarmen Nieves, a student who lives on the “Lower East Side” of Manhattan (Avenue D and 12th Street), tells me that chess is thriving in her mainly Puerto Rican neighbor-hood.“Most of my friends play and surprising-a number of adults more than thirty (previously a generation of domino players) have learned to play chess.”OR ON OB Q K KB KN KR WHITE WINS MATERIALSOLVE-ITAFTER IS....TARJANao NO 80 O X 8X NX axOR ON OB O K KB KNGAPRINDASVILIWHITE’S KNIGHT IS ATTACKED.SO? I
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Arlington Heights Herald
Arlington Heights, Illinois, US
Sat, May 28, 1977
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