From: hwr@intercal.com (Hanon W. Russell)
Subject: Chess - 9/92 issue
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:21:03 GMT


                              CHESS
                         September, 1992

The latest issue of "Chess" contains, not surprisingly, in depth 
coverage of the Olympiad, with particular emphasis on the 
disappointing (from the English point of view) performance of 
the English men's team. There is a good report of the English 
women's team which follows. Many games and anecdotes are 
presented by the author of the feature, English GM Julian 
Hodgson. Of particular interest was the following sparkler with 
annotations by Hodgson:

Hsu-Nunn
King's Indian Defense
Round One, 1992 Olympiad, Manila
Singapore v. England

1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nf3 Bg7 4 g3 O-O 5 Bg2 c5 6 O-O d6 7 Nc3 Nc6 
8 d5 Na5 9 Nd2 e5 10 e4 Bd7 11 h3 a6 (At this stage, while I was 
still thinking about my second move, I looked up and saw that 
John had already reached this position. I had a sense of dj vu 
as I had seen this exact position only a few hours before on the 
Doc's chessbase - that is what I call good preparation!) 12 Qe2 
Rb8 13 a4 Ne8 14 Ra3?! (This looks very odd.) 14...Qb6 15 Kh2 f5 
16 Na2?! (This looks even odder!) 16...Nf6 17 Qe3 Qc7 18 Qc3 
Rbc8 19 f3?! (After this move I was sure that Doc was going to 
win. It was quite clear that White did not have a clue as to 
what he was doing, but John did! White's king on h2 was becoming 
a more juicy target with every move...) 19...Nh5 20 Re1 Rf7 21 
Qc2 Qd8! 22 Rc3 Ng3!! 23 Kg3 (After making this move White 
looked somewhat perplexed - where exactly was Black's 
compensation for the piece?) 23...Qh4!! (Beautiful! White's king 
is enticed into a mating net from which there is no escape.) 24 
Kh2 (This loses prosaically. But after 24 Kh4 Black mates as 
follows: 24...f4! - shutting off White's escape route and at the 
same time threatening Bf6 mate - 25 Kg5 - the only move - 
25...Rf5!! 26 ef5 h6 27 Kg6 - or 27 Kh4 Bf6 28 Kg4 h5 mate - 
28...Be8 mate. This would have been a fitting conclusion to the 
game.) 24...Qe1 (Black is now the exchange and a pawn up - the 
game only continues for a few more moves) 25 Nf1 fe4 26 Ng3 ef3 
27 Bf3 Nc4 0-1

One of the magazine's more recent features has been the 
highlighting of a promising junior player. This month Richard 
James takes a look at Luke McShane, who recently won the Under 
10 World Championship. The is a nice piece by GM Mickey Adams on 
his win at the SWIFT Rapid Play, while an historical item on the 
LaBourdonnais-McDonnell match of 1834 is intriguing.

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