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(Diagram 4) BLACKR»»Nsv*Ky(Diagram 2)(Diagram 1)BLACKRctfttvskyHO NO SO 0 X 8X NX HX(Diagram 3) BLACKReshevskyBLACKReshevskyHorowitzWHITEHorowitzWHITEHorowitzWHITEPosition a*?er 4 RxNPosition before move 1...P-Q4l lowgrandmaster makes a crucial game decisionSamuel Reshevsky faced the late A1Horowitz in the positionDiagram 1in Diagram 1 during the fourth round game of the 1972 U.S. Championship. Reshevsky. playing black, had to make a crucial dedsion. Should he play 1. . P-Q4. which would liberate his game and give him a substantial advantage?The only rub was that white might beable to successfully play 2) PxP and either hold the captured pawn and or win the king pawn without sufficient com-Shelby Lyman chess.'onReshevsky had (the concrete interchange th mediately take place) of theReshevsky. In other words 0f at worst maintaining a material bal- move my knight and unleash my blackA It a--4J----. .. .... ... . . . ...tactics ance, he was able to narrow the decisive bishop on his exposed rook.”tified the very desirable strategic idea advancing the queen pawn.Reshevsky, according to his own testimony after the game, calculated 10 or so moves ahead and did play 1. . .P-Q4! What was his justification? He obviously didn't check out all the possible moves. For if he had checked out 10 possible moves at each step, he wmild have had to calculate at least one billion vari-n* variations. I will sketchily indicate what jus- he might have thought at each stage andgive the moves he calculated. Try follow-Diagram 3At the third diagram“Here I caning his thinking from one diagram to the try 4.. .NxP; he must play 5) RxN. Af-next. ter 5.. .BxR, 6) BxB, he has two knightsAt Diagram 1 — Reshevsky: “If I play and a pawn for a rook, which is for the1. . .P-Q4, I fear 2) PxP, but I can play2.. .QR-Q, pinning his (extra) queen pawn and winning it with a fine game.Diagram 2“But wait, in the second position under consideration, Horowitz can play 3)moment a large advantage in material.But his bishop is still pinned.”Diagram 4At the fourth diagram — “I can attack the pinned bishop again with 6. . .Q-N4.ations.BxKP. After. . .NxB and 4) RxN, it is He must play 7) P-B4 (or lose the pawnadhering to the central notion true he is two pawns ahead, but I can outright) and then I have 7.. ,QxP!!,again exploiting the pin on the queen file.He must play 8) BxQ. After 8.. RxQcheck. 9) K-N2, BxP; 10) R-Nl, BxN; 11)RxB, RxR; 12) NxR, the move R-Bl skewers his bishop and knight and I’ll beahead.”Reshevskv' was satisfied at this point.Elk Grove debaters 15-3- in district tournevDebate teams at Elk Grove High and Cheryl Kettler recorded two wins School recorded 15 wins and 3 losses in and two losses. The novice team. Howard the recent High School Dist. 214 Invitational Debate Tournament at Wheeling High School.Teams from 22 high schools competedHess, Steve LaForge, Karen Bartenfel- piavec| the move 1. . P-Q4 and won the der and Alan Harvey, won the second game easilyplace trophy with five wins and one loss.Czamecki also was awarded the firstin a novice and tw’o varsity divisions, place speaker trophy.Don't be discouraged by Reshevsky'sapparently incredible mental feat. TheStan Quinn, Sue Sanders, Carol Sw'anson, and Ted Czamecki were undefeated andwon the first place trophy. Terri NeLsonThe teams will debate again in a tour- ability to think out “forced*’ chess se-nament Dec. 1 at Rockford Guilford High School.quences improves markedly with practice and Reshevsky is one of the ail timegeniuses of chess calculation.Copyright 1973 by Shelby Lyman Address your questions in care of this column to Paddock Publications, P. 0. Box 280, .Arlington Heights, 111., 60006.HoivchessmenmoveTHE PAWN moves onlv forwardWone space, with the exception of its first move when it has the option of moving two spaces forward. It captures one square diagonally forward.THE KNIGHT moves and captures in the form of a capital L — two spaces in either a horizontal or vertical direction and one space to the right or left. It is *he only piece permitted to jump ovei other men.THE QUEEN, the most powerful piece on the board, moves and captures diagonally, and horizontally and vertically, along the ranks andfiles.THE ROOK (occasionally calledW i;the castU4) moves and captures horizontally and vertically, along theranks and files.THE BISHOP moves and capturesdiagonally.THE KING moves and capturesone square at a time in any direction.
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