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

120 FLOHR-MIKENAS VARIATION
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Nc7 37KerKe7 33Bfl Nt5 r9h4Nc7 40Bh3Ne3'll
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XA h5 47 Be3 (d6 43 Bh6 Ne3 49 94 hrg4+ 50 Bie4
Nc7 5lBe3Nb5 52Ke2Nc7 53Kd3I5 54ef53xl5 55
Bxl5 Nxd5 56 Bd2 N7l6 57 Kc4 K.6 53 Bs6 b5+ 59
Kd3 Ne7 60 Be4+ NEd5 6r Bg5 Nhj 62 Br Nel 6r
Bd2 Kd6 64Bg4Nf6 65 Bc8 K.6 66Bel e4+ 67 (d4
Ngh5 63 Bl5 Kd6 69 Bd2 Black resisns: hc cannot
pr.vcnl rhe los ol one or more Pa* .
A pioneer problcm by ^rDEssEN,
//l6rt.
zenunq Oaipzig'), 18,18. The squares tf and 96.
called focal poi nts, are detended bt B I ack \ bisboP
which cannol maintain its gnard after 1 Kb1 (a
wAnNc MovE) 1 . . . Bhl 2 Rg6.
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FLOIIR-MIKENAS VARIATION, 16 in the English
Opening, playcd i. the game Flohr Thonas,
Halings 1931 2, bDt known earlier. (See SEIM
FLOIIR VARIATION. ]R:l .nd 136 in ihe G*irx -
ED DEMCEJ 673 iN 1hC ACSINE DEFENCE. UEd
by mnR rhen he had the bla.k pieces against
B@rNNr( ar Mosmw 1936and Nouinghan 1936i
3i in ihe auEEN s caMBrr AccEpDD. played in the
gamc Vidmar-Schlechter, San Sebastian 1911 . and
.evived by Flohr in the 1930s.
A problcm by rEn, S.t4.lploDlca., 1878. The
key k I Rg3. Black\queen guards focal points a1
b2andh8. llhe moves hisqueen, his bishop, ora
paM he willleav€ ooe ofthese squaresunguarded.
and lhcrc White moves bn queen l hc r.oblem is a
waitcr Gee BLoc() wirh rhe addcd mate l . . Kt6
2 Bd4.
fOGUELMAN, ALBERTO (192]- ). Argenline
pl.yer, lnlernational M61er (1963) Hn besr
rouinament a.hievement pas in the caP.blanca
Menorial Tournament, sandaso (Cuba) 1965,
when he took thnd pnze (+8:4-1) after sMYsrov
FOCAI PLAY, a problem tem for play featuring a
line-piece that camor mainlain its guard Df iBo or
more squarcs. This piec may defend along one
line (the Ande.sen focdi) or, more conmonly.
along 1*o lines. The lalter wd li6t shown, in crude
Iashion, by the English player and composer
Cnarles TANLEY in lhe Ilurared Londot Ne*s.
1849. The tern cane into general uc altcr ihe
German @mpo*r Walthe. vo. Holzhausen
(187G1935) pubhhed his book Brennpunktprob
FOLKDSIONE VARIATiON, 59 in the aUEDN's
caMBrr Declined; n pas infoduced bylhc Swedish
team al the Folkestone Olynpiad, 1933, and is
soBeiines callcd the SNedish Van.tion.
FOLlYs, JAN (1908-52), Inremanonal Master
(1950),. leadine Czech player Irom 1936 unlil his
death. His international iame began shen he toot
third prize after FLoHr and ALEturNE al Podebrady
1936, a performance lrc .ever bellered. He played