By R N Coles
Many collections of video games were made during which the brilliancies that are past the common participant are superbly displayed. We respect them yet can't relate them to our personal play over the board. We watch the defeated grasp within the ineluctable toils, yet our personal competitors wriggle out of our greatest laid schemes and as like as now not we then need to fight to prevent defeat ourselves; we search to realize supremacy basically to discover our opponent securing the ascendancy on another a part of the board. this is often chess as we all know it and as we need to play it.
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Winning. 68. 69. 70. K— Kt2 K— R2 Q— R3ch. Kt— Rsch. Q— B i After this, which breaks White’s mating threat, posi tional and material superiority must tell. 71. Q— Kt6 72. K— Kt2 73. K— Bi Resigns. Kt— B6ch. Q— Ktsch. R— K2 BURN— MACKENZIE 41 G. H. Mackenzie (1837-1891) was a Scotsman who in 1863 emigrated to New York and became an American citizen. He was an exceptionally brilliant player and besides being American champion for many years, frequently played in European master tournaments. H js best results were 1st at Frankfort, 1887 and 2nd at Bradford, 1888.
K— B i (b l a c k ) TCHIGORIN PxB PxB R— QR3 The open QR file is good com pensation to Black for his pawn. White dare not open the QKt file as well by 21 Q x P because of R— K t i ; 22 Q— K2, R x RP. Equally 21 P— QR3 will allow Black to open the QKt file by 21 . , R— R 5 ; 22 Q— Q2, P— Kts. 21. R— K ti 22. R— K ts (w h i t e ) p il l s b u r y Position before White's 27th move. (D i a g r a m 22) PILLSBURY— TCHIGORIN 27. , K— Q2 ; 31 R— Kt 7ch. , and mates. 28. 29. R— Kt8ch. K— K2 RxR Q— R5 Black now seems to be in great trouble, having lost a whole rook.
8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Kt— Q2 P— KKt4 B— Kt2 PxP Kt— B3 O— O Q xP P— KB4 B— K2 Q— R4 Kt— KB3 O— O Q— B4ch. An indifferent method of de fending the bishop. Kt— B3 at once was preferable. 13. K— R i 14. K t— Kt3 15. K K t— Q4 16. Kt x Kt Kt— B3 QxKBP KtxKt Q— B4 Had he omitted 12 . , Q— B4ch. ; 13 K— R i, he could now play 16 . , B— B4 ; pin ning the knight. 17. Kt— K6 18. Q x Bch. 19. B— K 3 20. Q— Kt3 21. QR— Qi 22. B— Q2 BxKt K— R i Q— q 3 P— B 3 Q— B2 In order to bring the queen over to the K side.