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Contents
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A Riddle of a Wise Man 7
On the Bridge 9
use4 Rivals in White and Black 13
Old Tappan, Chessmen on Parade L7
The King L7
The Queen 18
may be reproduced, The Book 19
uy form or by any The Bishop 20
mechanical, photo- The Knight 2L
pm-Lsion in writing The Pawn 22
When the King is in Danger 30
Tied Hand and Foot 37
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Once in the King's Life 42
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Stalemate and Perpetual Check 47
Without a Hitch 52
The Lone King 56
The Last Line of Defence 56
The Deadly Corridor 58
A Strong Gtip 61
The Chase 64
Close Friends 66
To Take or Not to Take? 7L
The Third Period 75
The Soul ofChess 82
"Ah, I Could Not Catch It!" 82
Which Is Better? 85
The Edge Pawn 88
The lJbiquitous Queen 92
The Rook's Hour 99
A Chameleon 107
The Opening: Questions and Answers 115
Check Your Solutions t26
Kasparov's Greatest Games L32
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A Riddle of a Wise Man
For about two thousand years, felt bored in his luxurious palace,
people have tried to uncover the and once, in order to entertain
secrets of chess. In many respects him, his courtiers showed him a
it has long ceased to be a mystery. new game called chess. Sheram
An orderly theory has been cre- liked the game and wished to see
ated to be used by millions of the inventor. A Brahmin bent by
chess players for study and per- old age came before his throne.
fection of their skill, but just as "Is it you who invented this
hundreds of years ago they still wonderfuI game, wise man?" asked
roam the interminable labyrinth the rajah. 'Ask for any reward. I'll
of the chessboard. not begrudge you anything."
At all times there existed play- "O, Dy sovereign! Your kind-
ers who were regarded as the best ness is unbounded," answered the
in the world. They thought that Brahmin, "but I only need bread.
they kept Ariadne's thread firmly Order your servants to take a
in their hands and that it would chessboard and put a wheat grain
lead them out of this labyrinth. onto one of the squares."
But every time new heroes ap- 'A wheat grain?" the rajah
peared and overthrew the former asked again, thinking that he not
champions. Nobody remained un- heard correctly.
defeated for Iong. "Yes, my sovereign. But order
Where did this wonderful game them to put two grains on the sec-
come from? Perhaps it was a pre- ond square, four grains on the
sent from our intelligent cosmic third square, eight grains on the
brothers? No, chess was invented fourth square and so on, every time
by u human being. His name is doubling the number of grains."
unknown but his native land was "You will get your sack of
India. Very long ago, at very out- grain!" answered the annoyed
set of the Christian era, the game rajah, "but God knows that your
that later won millions of hearts choice is unworthy of my gener-
all over the world made its trium- osity. Be gone, my servants will
phant start from this wonder- bring you the grain."
land. Many beautiful legends are The rajah called the court
connected with the invention of mathematicians and asked them
chess. This is the most popular. to count the number of grains the
Long, long ago, a rajah by the silly Brahmin would have as a re-
name of Sheram ruled India. He ward. There were no computers
Lcssons in Chess
at that time and the process of fantasy, and boundless possibili- Orl the Brir
calculation proved to be rather ties. He created a small model of
long. life itsel{, with its joys and griefs,
Next day Sheram asked the and gave it the form of a competi-
senior mathematician whether tion of intellects and personali-
the old man had got his meagre ties, touching the sensitive strain
reward. of human nature and the desire to
The mathematician answered measure oneself against a rival.
with trepidation: Chess is not only a fascinating
"O, Dy sovereign! This amount game, it is also a test of will, en-
of grain cannot be found either in durance and skill. And whereas
your rich granaries or indeed in the secret ofthe eternal youth of
the whole world..." chess is its inexhaustibility, the
"What then is this incredible secret of skill is knowledge and
number?" experience.
"O, Dy sovereign! It is eighteen To become a true expert, one
quintillion, four hundred and has constantly to perfect one's
forty-six quadrillion, seven hun- skill. The seeming ease with
dred and forty-four trillion, sev- which the eminent chess players
enty-three billion, seven hundred of the world gain their splendid
and nine million, five hundred victories is not only due to their
and frfty-one thousand, six hun- talent, but also the result of end-
dred and frfteen grains!" less effort.
Evidently, the Brahmin did not Everything starts at the begin-
get his reward. To gather in such ning. There is no mathematics
a harvest, one must sow eight without the multiplication table,
times the whole surface area of there is no figure skating with-
the earth, and in order to store out tuition. The same applies to
this amount of grain, one needs chess: one cannot achieve success
an elevator four meters high, ten without mastering the fundamen-
meters wide and ... 300 million tals of theory and practice.
kilometres long, or twice the dis- This is a small chess book, cov-
tance from the Earth to the Sun! ering the fundamentals. It will
The inventor of chess was a serve as a lighthouse in the
wise man indeed. He provided his boundless ocean of chess, to help
game with many properties that you boldly navigate your ship in
have made it immortal, namely stormy waters and lead you to the
the beauty of logic, the flight of joy of creation and to success.
undless possibili- On the Bridge
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lorm of a competi-
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in their splendid Here is a board divided into 64 The longitude is measured by
Gtr due to their squares, 32 light squares and 32 eight vertical lines called files and
tbe rezult of end- dark squares. This is the arena denoted by the initial letters of
where the chess battle takes the alphabet, i.e. a,b, c, d, e, f, g,
frts at the begin- place, but do not hurry to set up h.
m mathematics the chessmen. Before starting a
Liplicarion table, military action, you must learn to
ne skating with- take your bearings on the board.
,gnme applies to Otherwise you will not know how
t achieve success to give orders and read reports
ng the fundamen- from the battlefield.
d practice. The chessboard has its own ge-
I chess book, cov- ography. If a ship is wrecked in
rmentals. It will the open sea, the radioman sends
frthouse in the a distress signal "SOS" and the
t of chess, to help geographic co-ordinates, the lon-
gute your ship in gitude and the latitude. The ships
d tead you to the that go to its rescue seek the dis-
nd to success. tressed ship in the region of inter-
section of these co-ordinates. The
same principle is used to find any
square on the chessboard.
10 Lessons in Chess
The latitude is measured by is a connection between squares
horizontal lines, from the first to of the same colour. AII the squares
the eighth, called ranks. of the same colour running in an
The e-fiIe, for instance, em- inclined line are called diago-
braces eight squares from el to e8 nals.
and the fourth rank embraces
eight squares from a4 toh4.
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Every square is located on a
unique file and on a unique rank.
Thus, each square is denoted by l
the letter of the file and the
number of the rank at whose in-
tersection it is located.
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This is the notation of the
squares of the board. Now you
will not lose your way, and if you
hear that your chessman is in dis-
tress on the g6-square, you will
not nn like mad up and down the
board but will at once direct your
naval glasses at the necessary As opposed to ranks and files,
point. diagonals vary in length. For in-
If you look attentively at the stance, the a7-b8 diagonal con-
board, you are sure to notice there sists of only two squares whereas
