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

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Nx14 gxf4 2 Bie4 Bxhl+ 23 Nxh3 Qxh3+ 24 KIz
Qg3+ 2iKe2Rh2+ 26Kdr Rrc2 2?Bxc2Kha 23ru11
Re3 29Bxh7KE? 30Bc2 KI6 31Rn6+ Ker 32e*4+
Kdll 33 Rd6+ Kc7 :r4 Rxc6+ bxc5 :15 RxcS QiI4 16
RclQxd,l+ 37K!1c5 IRdrOe5 39K61Kc6 40Bh:l
c4 4lRclKb5 42 Bxc,l+ dxc,l ,13 a3 Qe4+ 44Kras
.r5 Rc3 a4 46 Rh] Kc5 47 Rh5+ Kd4 43 Rh3 Qd3 ,19
Rn4+ rc3 50 Rh2 Kl,1 51 RD+ Kg3 52 Rflr Qbl+
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ALAPIN. SEMYON ZINOVIEVTCH (185e
1923),playerand openingsanalyst. HCwasbornin
Vilnius but spedt the later yea6 of nh lile in
Heidelbere. While a student at Sl Petersburg he
ded wnh csrcoRtN lorfrstprizc ahead ot scHrFEns
in aradonal tournamenr,StPete*burg 1878 9: his
only loss was to Chigorin who alsowonbothgamcs
ot the play-off. Beginni.g vilh Frankfurt 1887.
Alapin entered nearly a score ol internalional
tour.amcnlsduringlhetolloring25 yeami hisbest
.esulh were nfth pla.c at Monte Carlo 1901. ihe
stronge( tou..ament oI lhe ycar, and n$r pnze
( +l=:l) ahead or RoLEu. sprlLM^NN, andFAIRN,
at Munich 1911. In a national tournamenl. St
Petersburg 1906, be look lisl prizc, lwo and a balt
points ahe.d of his .earesi val. He is bctter
known as a wriler, publishing openings analyses up
ro his death and often illusrating then *nb
nctitions sames betNeen 'Arakinsky' (shi1e) lnd
ALAPIN DETENCE, 416, rarely played line in thc
analysed by ALeN in aa
,dIEEB. the seond ^!oMAn)N
to hec.ne fxmous,
w6 made in 1868 by a Bdstol cabinel naker
Charles Alfted Hooper (1825 ..1100). Ajeeb. a
lifc-size dark skinned Indian 6gurc with mohile
head, trunk, and right arm, sat on a cushion
mounled on a largc box. Beiore a display thc box
wd opened to sho$ an elaboraie clockwork
mechanism, wound onspicuously by a huge key.
Many ofthevneeh were otrubber, pushed aside
when lhe operator dcs@.ded lron the cushion.
After a long md successtul run in Lo.don Hooper
took Ajecb to Getuany, Belgium. France, and, in
1885, to New Yorkwhere it was a great atiraction:
s great lhal Hooper madc another Aieeb which
performed concurently in othcr cities, and tbe
enslence of thk copy and sone uflautho.ned
copies nakes the story hard ro lke. Anong tne
masters who operaled an 'olficial' Ajeeb i. tne
USA wcrc Charles Moehle (1859 ..1903). Alberr
BeaureEard HodAes (186e1944), Co.stanl Ferdi
nand Burille (186G1914) and prLsBURy. Hooper
rctired to England in 1895 bur Ajeeb contiflued
successtully, although an angry westerner empded
hn six.eun inro itqto^u o0 one o(a(ion. woun,jrnB
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