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

Mt 60 Memorobk eMd. a classic of painslaking
and objcctive analysis thar nodesdy includes ibree
oI his losss. (See B6sops or oprcsnE cor.uR;
CLEAN SCOREJ f]VE-MINUE CHESS,)
Frank Brady, Sobry Fi!.n.r (1974), a revhed and
enlarsed editiofl of P/or& ol d Ptodisr lt96s).
contains an exlensive biography and90gamesi R.
G. Wade and K. r. Oconnell.'he Aoh.s of
Raben J. Pitcher (1912) coarains every rraceable
gane (totalling 660) fron serious play.
Fish.r Spasky 6th malch sme world Chanpionship
1972 Queen\ Gambit Declin.d. Tan.kove r variriion
I ct e6 2 Nf3 d5:l d4 N16.1Ncl Be 7 5 tsg5 0 0 6 c3 h67
Bh4b6 3qd5Nxd5 9Bxe7Qxe7 loNxd5exJ5 llRrl
Bc6 12Qa4ci 13Qa3Rcs 14Bb5a6 15dxc5bxc5 l6
00Ra? 17Bc2Nd7 lSNd4OA 19Nxe6fxe6 20e4d4
2114 Oc7 22e5 Rb3 23B.4Kh3 24QhlNfit2563a5
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Black: hansing pi{ns arc blocked and he has no
.ounrc.play. The rc{ofrhe same n, inrAL\ *ords, a
Enb@kexinplcof an atackonrhe king. 2r. Nh7
28 Rd1 Qd3 29 Qg3 Rc7 l0 h4Rbb7 31 e6 Rb.7 32
Qc5 Qe3 33a4QdB 34RrDO.8 25R2rQdB 368d3
Qe3 37 Qe4 Nl6 33 RII6 3xl6 39 Rxr6 KeB 40 Bc4
rh3 4l QI4 Bla.k resi8ns
FISCHER ATTACK, 273, a st.ndard lin. in lh€
sr.rxAN DETENC!. When playing against the Sicilian
Detence nscHER lited ro develop his king s
bishop on rhe TTALAN DAGoNAL. and he also
played the sozN and Lrpnrrs( ArAcxs (244, 263)
FISCHER DEFENCE, 584. a vanadon oi the
KNc-s GAMBr Aaepted advocated by STAMMA in
17.15 and by is.HEx in the 1960s. Black rescnes
the optio. of detendine his ganbit pasn as in
vanadons 603-5 whilc avoiding lhe hazaids oi the
KrEsERrrzo and ALLGdm cAMBm (608, 618).
Compa.e Btc$R DETENG, 623, which h. perhaps,
a less comnendable {ay to achieve lhe same
TISKE, DANIEL WLLARD (I83T I9O4).
American ediror, wnrer, and bibliophile. Fiske
was a nan oi great cncrgy, perhaps inheriled lrom
his motncr sho learnl Iralian al79 and bad a book
of shortsionespublishedin hcreighty-eighthyeai.
As well as chess his i n leresrs i.clu ded joumalism.
lravel, librarianship, bibliography, teaching. .ivil
IT!'E-MINUTE CHESS I17
service reform, rhe Egyptian alphabet (hewaited
moder. Arabic with a Roman alphabet to onst
classical A.abic), and, nost endunngly, Iceland.
As a cbild he bad been lascinated i,y talcs ofthe
early dis@vcryof Amcrica by Vikings. Suspended
from college, he weni to Copenhagen ind Uppsala
to study Scandinavian languages- and in 1868
becane prolessor ol Norlh European languagcs
and librarian at the newly founded C.mell Uni
vereny. He coUected an tcelandic library ol 10,000
voh,mes and sfter a lir€rine\ r.scarch wrote
Chess in lceland ond lulahdic Litcruturc. ptbhhedposthumouslyin
Flo.ence (1905). Hevisiled
Iccland only once, in 1879. Fiske ediled a chess
column in tbe N., lo Satudnr Pres 11858
1860), playcd in ihe6.stAmerican Chess Congres
185?. compiled the toutuanent book, and edited
Cn.ss ito,rhb Iron ns inception in 1857 to 1860, a
few nonths beiore it ccascd publication. MoRPTY
was co-cdilor. but hh contrihudon aas slight.
Fiske's wife. Jennie Mccraw, died two years
after ihe sedding lealing. as one of hcr bcqucsts.
$2 nillion to Cornell UniveFiiy, whose charte.
nade the gif1 unacceptable. A le8al wrangle
ensu€d. Fiske resigned his proles$nhip (1881)
and noved to Villa Landor (!he supposcd setting of
tne Decanoon) in FIoren.c. There he made a
Rheto-Romanic libra.y of 1.200 books, which he
collc.red in six weeks. a Dante collectron of7,000
books. add a Petrar.h ollection of3,550volumes.
Tralelling ro neet a friend. hc died ar Fra.ktu.t.
He bcqucatncd his.hess books to lhe Reykjavik
library. His brother Willian Oiville Fiske (1835-
1909), amusi.ian, was aho achcssplaye.; he wote
the dance lunes Chcss Polka' (1857) and 'Caissa
Ouickstep ( 18s9) and edited a chess colmn in the
srrucEe Daitr stundard 11857-9).
FIVE-LEAPER, a Vz5leaper invented tor use in
hrRy sroBLEMs. on the nomal board it always
atlacks four squdes. lfplaced on al afveleapcr
sould atrack a6 aodfl (for which the co-ordi.ates
ofits move a.e s,0,) and d5 and e,l (for which lhe
FM-MINUTE CHESS. Each player has a lixed
time ol 6ve minutes ior the whole gane. Il one
player nakes an illegal nole his opponenr nay
claim a sin providing hc has not made hn rcply.
Othesne illegal mo,es stand. TIE gane is lo be
declared drawn: il both flags lail belore either
player dains a *in on line; ifa player has a bare
king- K+N v. x+O, (+B v. K+O, o' (+B v.
K+R and hh oppotrent exceeds lhe time linittil
ilre materialis reduced ro K+B v. K+B nhen the
bishops are moved on squares of the same colour,
Kv. K, l(+Nv. K. or K+B v. K. These and olher
rules {o. five-minute cbes (and ten minute ches)
were pubhhed by FIDE in 1976.
This kind oI chcss 661 became popular in the
early yeaB of lhe 20th ce.lury. cd^BuNc^, lhen a
sludent, played many tast games .gainst N$R at