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

GA(A orGADAforWhite. SAWA oTSAPA for
D. A. Grinemulh oI St Pelersburg saN thal
Ucdcmann\codehad asenousfl as: th. transposition
ol rwo letrers. . conmon transmission fault,
could gile a plausible movc. Hisnotation, obvial
ing lhnfaull, has longsupeBeded all olhes and is
n.s the oflicial FIDE code. bu1 it had an
unlo(unatc baptisn. The match bctwcen the
British Chess Club and the St Peremburg Ches
Clnb, 188G7. Nas playcd as a correspondence
natch. bur the movcs were senl b! telesraph. Thc
British Chcss Club was nned bv the umpne (ol's.r
for repeatedly oveBlepping tnc time limil and
resigned with iI gracc when bolh gades werc
GROB, HENRY (190+74), player and au$or,
InternarionalMasler ( 1950), arlist. He wasborn in
Braunau (now Bronmov) in Bohemia or Ssiss
parents who moved bact to Svircrland. nr tbe
early 1920s he (udiedpainlingin both Genevaand
vienn.. From 1923 he played in nany chcss
rournamcnts and matches besides winning lhe
Swis Championsbip rwicc (1939, 1951) and
playing in thre. Olympiads (1927,1935,1952). Hh
best match resnlt sas a win (+.1=1-r) against
Mrsrs i. 1934: and his onc ontstanding tourna
menllictorywas at Ostend 1937 Nhen he tied with
GRES and nNE. bolh of whom he defeatcd. Grob
sas aho fond of postal play, haling allegedly
tlayed more than 3,500 corrcspondence games.
Besides conpleling somc 500 portrans and land
scapes hc kqrt a bookshoP and publishcd a lcw
books himself, nokbly .4n*.r,f s2-84 (.1942) za,J
Henry Grab Del zekhn.t Lntl Mater 1t965). a
boollet which contains reproduclions oI56 ol his
paintings aDd drawings, including porl(airs of
EogR, (ot,TANows(. and
Mne chaudd de Silans (1919 ). for long
France s besr woman cheslptayer.
GROB OPENTNG, 69?, an old line anallsed
extensively by cRoB in his book /4aal/rf 82-A4
(1912). Olher nanes are:- Ahlhausen. Brown,
Colibri, Fria. Gcnoa,SanPierd Arena, and Spike
OROTESQUES, see coRcr.v.
GRUENFELD, 1EHUDA (195G ), Polisn-born
Israeli player, Internltional Grandmaste. (1980)
ln a zonal lournamcnt. Lucerne 1979, he was
sccond (+4:2 1) to EnBNlr, bu1 in lhe Riga
intezonal later !ha1 year hc a.nicved only a
doderate resulr. Subsequeotly Gruenleld won
Biel 1980 (+7=3 1) lnd New
GRiJNFELD, ERN6, see cExBEN.
GRtINFELD, ERNsr (1893-1962), vicnnese
playcr, Intcnrational Crandmaster (1950), aulhor.
ORUNFELD DEFENCE 135
Fo. a briefperiod after rhe FirstWorldWarheNas
one of rhe world\ sfongest eightor ni.c playcn.
Hn besr tourname.t ,ictories wcre: Meran 1924
(+9=3-1) ahead oI eELhNN and RUBNSENi
Budapest 1926. tie wnh MoNncELLr lhead ol
Rubinnein, Rin, and raRrA(owtrRi Vienna (Trebilsch
Memorial) 1928, a iie wilh r^d.sr and
Maihrisch-Oslrau 1933. G nleld took seond
place (+6=4 l) to alEGrNE at Rudapcst 1921,
and came third at Teplitz-Sch6nau 1922 (after
Spielnann andRitiJ andal Mahnsch Ostrau 1923
(after r.Ascx and R€ti). He played lor Aushia in
four Olympiads fron 1927 to 1935.
Grnnteld was one oI the leading openi.gs
experts of his time, and lhis phase oi the game so
,hsorhed hii inreresr rh it sonetimcs scemed as il
he denved lhe greatesl satisfaction f.on those
ganes in which he had dcmoosl.aled the sound
ne$ othis opc.ing play. Althoueh hePlayed man,
ol rhc openings thal characlerized thc lypERind
invented one of then
himsell, he{asnoladlenlurous in play, prelernng
a sound game and the avoidance of conPler
tlclics. He vrote a book on the auEEN s GAMnrr in
1924 and an openings oanual in 1953.
(niinfeld Ma hall Cr sbad 1929 Queei\ Indian De
1d,1Nl6 2Nre6 3c,lb6 4g:rBbl+ 5Bd2tsxd2+ 6
Nbxdz Bb7 7Bs2c5 8dxcs bxc5 90-00.0 10Q.2N.6
rlRadlOeT 12c3d5 13RIclRab3 14a3B$ l5cxdl
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Whi(c hEaks up thc H^NcrNc pas Ns alrer which hi: major
picces dom,nare rhe board. o(upyins rhc sEvEm uNx
lirhde.isiveelled.16Mc,1 17c4d4 13 Nxc4 Rroq l{l
BIl Ng4 20dBxc4 2l Bic4Nue5 22Nxo-Nrc5 23
Qr5 Rxcl 14 Rxei Ol3 25Rd5Rcl 26Rlxd1Rxdl 27
RdiRa6 23Od3Ral+ 29K32Re3 30Qc3Ra6 3lRl.l
Rcc6 32 Qc7 16 l:l Rd8 Re,l 3,1O.4+ Rac6 35 Rd?
R3e7 (ihn rook is overloadcd, having to euard borh e6 and
a1 36 R{a7 RxaT 37 Oxe6+ KhB 33 b5 h6 39 Qc6
Qfl 40b6Re7 4lRMRbT 42Rd4Kh7 43Rd3Re7 14
Rclt Ob3 4i Rr7 Rc5 46 Oxr6 Od5+ 47 Qtr Od6 43
Ql7 Rg"5 49 b7 Ohl i0 Rcn Rb5 5l b3=Q Rrb3 52
GRTNIELD DEIENCE, l?5, a popular ! ari ation
oi the $Nc's TNDTAN DEtsrN.E named alter the
grandmasterwhointroduceditin i922. lnthekey
variation,4cxd5 Nxd5 5 e4 Nxc3 6 bxc3, Black
hopes to gain sut'icient countcFplay by atlacking