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Progress-Bufletin, Pomona, California, Saturday, October 26, 1974CNLone9t Hameneipawn canimmobilize king▲yeartoBy SHELBY LYMANIn chess, the exception cf-t e n seems to be morethan the rule. Forfrequentexample, nothing should be more absolute than material values. But other factors, very often intervene and invisibly” tip the scales.Consider endgames. In general, a single pawn advantage is decisive. Yet there arethose instances in which an even larger surplus is morethan matched if the inferior” side (materially) hasadvanced a pawn far enough.*IOur problem for today lustrates this. Wo will see one king roam the board at will while the other sits glued to a single square (because of advanced pawn).In our first diagram, it is black to move. He is aheadan(Diagram 1)BLACKHO NO 00 O X EX NX HXQR QN QB Q K KB KN KRWHITEBlack must IomIfour pawns to two. But white has an advanced rock pawn on the sixth rank. And his other pawn is so placed that the black king may not move anywhere, without the white passed Uy.»»pawn queening eas-Surely a terrible calamity In a king-and-pawn endgame in which the king should the dominant piece!bere-On the queenside we have yet another curiosity. White’s king will engage and defeat the three black passed” but not advanced pawns.What how black inevitably” loses in all variations:I. If black advances the rook pawn, the white king will chase it, capture it, turn to the bishop and queen pawns and win them. The zugzwanged black king will then have to mcve and the white pawn will queen.II. If black plays 1 . . .Q3 check, white answers K-B6! (see diaeram Two). Again all the pawns must fall In similar fashion.P-••different but lovely possi-b i 1 i t y . Black can play 1 . . . P-B3 (see Diagram Three). Now the white king cannot win the three white pawns. (Try and see.) But he can force a queen himself by bringing his king around to support his own passed pawn!If you are one of those who is hankering to return to the good old days, hew about selecting 1892 as the year and Pomona as the place? In the light of history, I think you will have * ■ et once remarked, then if ever came•IfPlay wrould thus continue:1 . . . P-B3; 2. K-Q6!, P-R4; 3. KxP, P-K5; 4. K-KS, e-R3; 5. K-B8, P-R7; 6. P-R7, P-R8 and queen; 7. P-R8 and queen and check, winning the b’ack queen and the game! (See the final position.)In all variations the invmobilized king finally i? forced into motion and its Kingdom collapses.to agree that, as theperfect days. Who v10, 1892 issue of The Pomona Weekly Times that:‘‘On each day of the Catholic Fair, commencing on Thursday, a magnificent lunch consisting of turkey, chicken, etc., will be served for the small sum of 25 cents; and on each evening of the Fair, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., a most delicious repast will be spread also for the trifling sum of 25 cents.”Perhaps even more appealing to those who long to make thejourney back in time would be another Pomona Weekly Times report whicn stated:“Wells Fargo Co.’s employees never go on a strike. Whenthey get too old tor active service they are given easy work or paid for doing little or nothing.”(Diagram 2)(Diagram 3)(Diagram 4)BLACKBLACKBLACKHO NO 00 0 X 0X NX HXWO NO 00 0 X 0X NX HXHO NO 00 O0X NX HXQR QN QB Q K KB KN KRQR QN QB Q K KB KN KRQR QN QB Q K KB KN KRWHITEWHITEThe King mope upWHITEWhite wine! How?Here’e how 11III. Here we have a very HUMAN CHESS board Is formed bystudent members of the Massachu-with the aid of a cloth chess board wassetts Institute of Technology at theused for giant chess board with stumain entrance to MIT. Marble floordents acting as chess pieces. Picturewas shot from 90 feet up in rotunda.
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