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

DoMINATIoN, a study lem indicating the dircd
or indirect @ntrol by Whire oi.tll the sqnares to
shich a certain black piece can be noved or.
according io GspARyAN. to which n needs lo be
moved. Tbe iNeniion oI rhe tern is altrihuted to
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A study hy BRoN, sh.l/,ftarzd M,rl. 1958. After
I d6 Kf6 2Nd5+Ke6 3d7RI4+ ,l Kel Kxd?
5s3 Blackloseshis rookallboueh itcanbe moved
t;any one ofeleven sqlarcs:5 . . . Rh3 6 KC2i 5
,..Rc4ora4 6 Nb6+i 5 . . . Rh5, 9,1. or e4 6
D'OR\.ILLE 9]
played in an inlcrenal toumameit (1955) Don
ner's play imp.oved sl€adily. and at BcveNijt
1963 he won 6Bt prize (+9=6 2) ahead of
BRoNsrErN. Donner shared lrsl pnze {nh Euwe ar
BeveNijk 19s8, Nas fist (+4=5) at Anslerdad
1965, and firsi (+9:4) ahead oI prrRoslAN ar
Venie 1967. In a caEgory 15 quadrangular
touinament. Leide. 1970, he ca6e second
(+1:10 l) alter spAss(y aheadoIBow,NNr( and
UNEN. From 1950 to 1978 Donner played in 12
Olympiads. He is probably rhe only strong player
sho remembes precisely the dale he learned the
moves ol chess: 22 August 1941i he v6 tauebt
lhen al school andrelumedhonetoRnd his latber
had been lakeo hosrage by the Nazis. (Scc citrlx
DORFMAN, IOSIF DAVIDOVICH (1952 ),
Sovier player. lnrernational Grandmasler (i978).
In 1976 he won thc Fnst League ioumamenl, a
qualifying event for lhe USSR Chanpionship
(+6=l l). one and a halfpoints ahcad or the 6eld.
and came 6llh in the following championship. In
1977he and cul(o (both soring +4=11) became
ioint USSR champions, ahead of pFrRosyaN,
po'.!r;AyE!sK!.andral.ln1983Dorfmanwonrhe
inrernarional loumament a! wa$aB (+6:8).
USSR Ch,n'pionship 1976
lNANf6 2.4e6 393x6 1d3c5 5Bg2Nc6 600Rb3 7
d4b5 3Br4 Rb't 9Nc3 bxc,1 10c4Bb7 1le5Nd5 12
Nxd5 exd5 13 dr.5 R\b2 14 NeJ Be7
AsruLlv bv V anJM PtAru\ tharw.nnrstPnzein
the Ri;ue; fdpeblu tnuney.Tuoo AtrerlBrbd4
2 Ne2 al:Q 3 Ncl Black s queen needs to be
onved to on. .t NU squares tu Pre\cnr mar< (4
8s5,. bur h.rh rre onir.rled i0drreLLl, bv Whrlc' l
()rLt 1B!5+orl Qa5 4B\Ll4+K\d4 5
Nh3+.If3..:h6 48e5. Thh srudl is aller€d to
hale been Lenin\ Iavourite and is consequenllv
the most widely loown stndy in thc Soviet Union.
(For another examplc see R'rz.)
K",.t^aa. Donualiuan 2,54.i Ladadn. StuAEs
(lqJrrr is a ,raNl.t,on "r
c Ru$ian q.rk n tso
I}ONNER. JOHANN IIENI)RICUS (I92? ).
Intcrnational GraDdnaster (1959) ln 195'1 hc
becane the firsi plaler since 1919 to win a Dulch
ChampioDship in which rlwE sls a comPetitor.
Donner also Non the nalional litle in 1957 and
1958. when Euwc did nol compete Alihough he
was u.su@essful on lhe o.ly occasion on ahich he
Lir-\fl Kxt] L6Brd5+ Ke8 lTBhrrQa5 13Br37 Rdz
19Qh5+ (dS 20BxcrtBxc6 21Bxh3 Qr.5 22QflK.7
2r Ra61.3 24Qb3Bb5 25a1.2 26rxb5 cxbl=Q 2?
Qibl Qd4 28e6 Q'15 2{r tse5+ Kd3 30 bia6 Rc5 ll
Bf6+K.7 32Qb7+Qib7 33arh7dE6 34Rh1Kh8 35
Be5+tsd6 :l6Bxd6+R!d6 :r7Rb5Rd3 :r3Ks2Rr3 3S
hlRd3 4014Rd 41Rb6Re3 42KI2Ro1 43h5c5 11
R.6 Rb4 .15 Re3+ (xb7 t6 Rt5 Black religns.
D'ORVTLLE. IETER AUGUST (I80+64). thE
most ontstanding ol tbose problemists *ho
pre.eled rh! ransrt u0Jl Ceri.d (See PRoBTFM
i6ron )E\cn dunnE rhF Nriod ruomn.\clkc
D'Orville was the hiehesr praise a problemist
could receive. Hisstatcdende.vour$asto provide
solurions coDsiling of noles a plarer would be