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

156 JANOWSKI LARSEN VARIAT'ION
lournaneni. but died oI tuber.nlosh berore ii
began. A lund was raised to meet his funcral
expcnscs. for he had no deans oI any kind
MaEhaU,who knes Janowski sell, writes . . .
he b.d lntle foibles about rhe kind of game he
liked his weakde$ ior the tso bishoF was
notorious-aod he could be trenendously stubborn.
Janowski could lollor lhe srong path *nh
more delermination than any man I me1! He was
also sonethine ofa dandy and quitevain aboul his
aPPearance. (In lhe USA the two bishops were
called tne tvo Jans'.) ln Janorskis fomative
yea6 (l89rr4) pray rarcry wenr heyond the
MTDDLE c^ME and hn b.illiant play in this pnase
sulied lo eam hin,Ior a shorl rime, a place inrhe
world\ leading halt dozen pla yers ; but he denber
,laycd for thc ENDcaw norplayed ilwell, alailing
lhat preclnded his bc.oming a scrious contcndcr
for lhe world champio.ship. Whe. Ja.owski sas
shosn that the loss ofa game *as caused by lack ol
.ndeamc knosledse his answer, writes cApA
BUNG, was alwals ihc samcr'l detest lhe
cndgame A well played gane should be practicaly
decided in rhc middlc-ga6e.' Ourside cbess
Janomki liked to gamblc. and his gamcs shoNed a
sinil.r Endencyi he played i.tuitiyely. alNays to
win, and usuallydeated inr€ resring posilions, nor
always to his adlanlage i and although he played in
nany BOLLhNcy pRrzr games hc achieved the
unuualdistin don ol losing as many as he won.
J"noski Rubi,$ein l'rasue 1908 Oueen\ Pawn
I d4 d5 2 NA c5 3 cl c6 1 Bd:l N.6 5 0-0 Nf6 6 bl Bd6
7!620 0 8 Nbd2b6
12a3Nc6 13 Nxc,l dxe.l 14Oc1Q!7 15Nr.6Oxc6 16
.415 lTRdlQcT l3 QE3 Rrd3 19h4at 20a,lOfl 21
h5 Be7 22 Rd2 Rd7 2r Rfdr Rads 24 Qhr Qfll 25 g4
.xd4 26 Rxd4rad4 27 exd4tis4 23Qxg4tsc3 29Qs3
Bf6 30Qc3Bb7 llB34Qd6 32Bhle5 l3rxe5tsxe5 3-1
Rfl ts16 35 Bc3 Bcr 16 BxcB Rxcri l7 xg2 Reri
q& "%&,
"&tru^w
tww
38h6Re7 39oh3gxl6 10Qc3+KC7 41Q34+Kh8 41
d5Rt 4:l Rxf6Rxr6 41Qe6Qxe6 45dx.6 Kg7 16c7
Kfl 47 Bir6 Black reiisns.
JANOWSKI-LARSEN VARIAIION. 32 in thc
aUDEN's cAMBr A.CE{ED. lrom the game MaF
shall-Janowski, 51 Petersburg 191,1. LARSEN played
JANOWSKMRIATION,50 or 54, two unrelaled
li.es in lhe ouErN's cAMtrr Declined. Both were
infoduced by rANovs( in his matchcs againsl
JANSA, \'LASTIMIL (1942- ), Inlernalio.al
Grandmaster (1974), czech player. co-chanpion
of his counlry in 1964, chanpion in 197,1. A
competitor in scvcral Olympiads Irom 1164, hebas
als played in ma.y tonrnaments, notably.oming
fist (+7=6 2) equalwitbfrcv and r!{MArcv at
Anslerdam 1974 and winning ournSht at Trnava
1982.
JAPANESD CqESS. see sEocr.
JAVA TIIDME, a problen lhene showing DUAL
AvorDANcD: White\ line piees douhly command
lrom dil'Ierent dneciions one or mo.e sqMres in
theblack (Nc s HELDiiIBlack (i. reply to the key)
closes one ol these lines White nust aloid closing
the other line, or a parlicular one oilhe other lincsl
thc mating movc in cach main variation is the
line-closing move lhatmust be avoided in.nother
aw'aK
The pioDeer problen by M^NSIELD, Our Foller,
Apnl1919. Alter tbe key, 18h2, Wbile s rook at
cl andhis bishops doubly smmand.6 and c7. To
prcvcnt Whitc\ threalened 2 Bc7 Black shuls ofi
one of lhese line pieces:
1...893(ctosingrhelineh2 c7) 2 Nrl5 (not2
Nc4? closing rhe lnrc cl .7)
I . . Bc3 (closins the line c1 c7) 2Nc1(not 2
Nd5? closing tbe line hl c6).
Tbe by pl.y: 1 . . d6 2 Rc6il . . d5 2og6i I
'Ihis example sho$s a reciprocal relationship
beiween tbe lwo pnncipal lanldonsi lor an
er.dple ol a cFlic relaiionship sce cyclrc rhy.
Thc thcnrc was investigated by the Dutch conpos
cr Harry Viggo Tuxen (1878 1968) in the 1930s,
when he Bas living in Ja!a.
JEOPARDY, in medieval tines a chess posnioi
ihat seemed in ihe b.l.ne, the kind ot position
rhat aPPeas today in newspapcs and .hess
nisizincs as. n.ntalcxcrche lor the reader,lhe