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Though women are grossly under- out of the junior ranks, he has for years represented in the chess world, feminists excited comment with his original attack-did score a major breakthrough in Mediev* ing ideas, a) Europe. A transformation of gender oc-cured on the chessboard. The “king’s counselor, the “ferz,” was renamed by the1 with its trifoldEuropeans: the “vierge,” connotations of virgin, lady and queen.Perhaps because chess in Europe symbolized a royal court rather than a battlefield, the notion and name queen” stuck and the most powerful piece on the boardthus became a female.• * #Hint and Explanation for Diagram I: Black has erred. He has squandered time with the debilitating move of his KBPIn the last U.S. Championship, perhaps the strongest ever, he broke even in the 13 games he played. But this modest 6 Vi-6 Vi score tied him for sixth place with grandmasters Lombardy and Bisguier, and left him only one half point behind 1973 inter* zonalists GMS Byrne and Reshevskv. _mWe see below a game Tarjan won in the 1974 Hollywood Tournament, in which he took first place.After an irregular opening and some indecisive middle game moves, Strauss hassnatched a pawn. But Tarjan has a sharp(King bishop pawn) and a passive move of kingside move which will regain the pawn his bishop. White may now at least win a and maintain a strong attack in Diagrampawn immediatelyhow?Do you see why andJames Tarjan is another one of America’s best young players. Though not long and 25 mate.)2. Do you see it?Tarjan played 23. B-R6!, and gained hisbreakthrough. (Notice black may not play23. . . . PxB, because of 24. Q-N4 checkNASA films offered free at AdlerFilms from the National AeronauticsAlso at the Planetarium is a lunar rockDagram 2)BLACKSTRAUSStlBLACKTARJANWHITEWHITEarws MinsPosition after black's 22 OP*« K PTarjan Strauss(White) (Black)1. P-QB4 P K42. N-QB3 N-KB33. N-B3 N-B34. P-K4 B-N55. P-Q3 P-Q36. P-KN3 P-QR37. B-N2 P-QN48. PxP PxP9. 0-0 BxN10. PxB 0-011. P-Q4 N-Q212. P-QR4 PxP Today’s solution to SOLVE-IT: White13. RxP B-QR3 may simply play 1. PxP, and black must14. R-Kl N-N3 decline recapture and lose the pawn. (1. . .15. R-R2 B-N4 , PxP would be brutally met by 2. Q-Q5,16. RxR QxR etc., and 1. . . . NxP by 2. NxN and the17. N-R4 N-K2 same.)18. N-B5NxN19. PxNB-B320. BxBQxB21. P-B6QxP22. PxKPPxKP23. B-R6!N-Q424. BxPR-Rl25. R-KBlQ-Q426. Q-R5N-K227. PxNKxB28. Q-N5 checkK-Rl29. Q-B6 checkK-Nl30. Q-QB6Resigns
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Sat, Nov 15, 1975
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