chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

S2 DTI,WORTT{ VARIAfiON
DMRSIONARY SACRII,ICE. a DEoy ofrered as
a sadifice, especialy a piee $ oifered in the
The piee shown d a bkhop is a nL (A). I Rh8+
Kxh8 2 Af5+ Kg8 3 Rn8+ Kxh8 ,l g7+ Kg8 5
Nh6. Firdewsi at-Talnbal, a Turkish poel who
w.ote the world s longest poen (allcgedly 890,000
veser, conpleted a chess book in 1503 and
included aveBionotthisp.oblem, adding a lale. A
nobleman staked his favodite wife Dilarim
(neains heart s ea*) on a game ofchcss. when it
seemed he must be checkmated sbe called out
ta.ri6.e your rooks. not me', and he dnovered
lhe winning .onbinaion. Tte story has bccn
I,LWO*TIMRIATION. 177 in the spaNrsE
opENrNc, sometides naned afler Jan Kleczynski ol
Poland who played i1 unsu@csstully against thc
Spa.ia.d Rey Ardid in aiournament held concure.tly
Nilh the Olympic Games. 1924. The vana
lion was re examined by lhe English .oateur
veinoi Dilsonh (1916 ) in 1939 andplaycdby
hin in the kish Correspondence Chanpionship
1941. Arou.d 1944 a fes leading Soviel piayers
experidenred wilh lhis line: since then n has
sainedlittle supporl arsrandnasterlevel inspircof
Dilworth\ penhtent advocacy.
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DIRECT MATE PROBLEM! a problem with tbe
stipulation ihat Whne is to nove tust and to Bive
checknate in a given nunberolmoves againsr any
black delene. The lerm is somclimcs limitcd lo
problems in which play otheNise conlorms to th€
laws, as disiincl from FdRy proBLEMS.
DISCOVERED AITACIq an atlack made by a
line pie@ when another piece or paNn has beei
DISCOVERED CHECK, check lrom a line'piece
whed anorher man has been bored oul ot the way.
The line piece gives check with ont m oving bul t he
move made by the othe. man nay create an
additional th.eat, a fom of DoUBLE AnAcK ofren
leading to advantage. (see ror exanple srr{Aw.)
DISTANT OPmSITION. a kind oI oPosmoN in
which the king,s standon lhe same 6le or rank with
rhree sqnares bet*een rhem.
Borvinnit Capablanca AVRO lournamenl 1933
Ninzo-Indian Dcfcne, Rubiturein Vanation
ld4N16 2c4e6 3Nc3BM 1e3d5 5a3Bxcr+ 6bxcl
c5 7dd5erd5 38d30{ 9Ne2b6 l000Ba6 llBxr6
Nxa6 12Bb2Od7 t3r41.lea 14Qd3c.l l5QrNb3 16
Rael Nc6 t7Ns3 Na5 18 B (whire advanes hn pau.s
.o ana.k on rhc *ing\ sidc, . drarqy lavofcd by
Borvinnikinrhisopenins.)l3 ..Nbr leeaana 20e5
Nd? 21 Qf2 g6 2214 f5 23 exl6 N 6 24 f5 ltlel 25
Rxcl RcA 26 Rc6 Rxc6 27lxc6 Kg7 23 Ql4 Qc3 29
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r0 Bar (a divemionary sacrilice thai focs rbe game) 30
. . . Qxal 3l Nh5+ gxh5 12 QC5+ Kit 33 Ox16+ K33
34e7Qct+ 35 KOQC2+ 36Ks3Qd3+ 3?Kh4Qe4+
3s rrp- Oe2+ 39 Kh4 Qc1+ 40 91Qe1+ {1 xn5
DJINDJIHASI'VLI. ROMAN YAKOVLE
\rIcH (19,14 ), soviet bom playe( f'om GcoF
sia, lnremddonal Grandnaster (197). He played
in theUSSRChampionshipsoI19?l and l9Z.with
moderate rcsults, andwon ihe USSR Fist League
tournament. 1973, but did not play in the championship
lor which he had thus qualified. In 1976 he
enigrared to Israel and tiree ycars laler to the
USA Since leavine RLsia he has had good rcsults
in tournane.t play, nolably shann8 nrst place al
Naranva 1977 and winnins a1 Hastings 1974
(+7=7). At Tilbure r978 (catesory 14)he sdred
+2:8-1 afld sha.ed thnd dace wnh siiENER and
rLEs alte. rcnns.H atrd rMMs .head of sPAs(.
ln lhe USA he won rhe Ssiss systcm L,ne Pine
Touraament 1980 and small lournaments at Neq
York, Nov. 1979 and May 1980.
DOI,MATOV, SERGEY VIKTORO\1CH
(19s9 ), sovier player,Intefrational Grandoa$
ter(1982), roild jlniorchampion 1978. In 1979he
won 1wo catcgory 8 tourname.ts, Ansterdan
masteB (+7=6) and UssR Fnst Leagle. Further
vidories lolloped ar Bucharest 1981 (+8:5) and
Hrade. Krrbve 1981 (+8:6)i at Minsk 1982, a
calegory ll tournamenr, he came se6nd
(+7:6-2) after 66Exovsni and at Frunze 1983