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

182 LEGALL'S MATE
Cafa, and wom the same green coa! lor a nuBber
ofyea6.. . . While he played at.ness hctooksnuff
in srch profusion that his chitlerli.g lrill was
literally saturaled with shong parti.les of lhe
powder. . . . He was in lhc habit o, enlilening the
company dunng the progress of a game by a varicty
of renarks vhich everybody admired Io. lhen
brnliane. He is said to hale onginated ihe
unorthodox pans caME, For the only loown
game played by him see LrgaUt male (below).
LEGALL'S MATD, a checknale sinilar lo tbe
tollowing protolype.
Lq.ll S! Bric Paris, l?50 Bishopl Opcning
1c4c5 2Bc4d6 3Nl3Bg4 4Ncl96? 5Nxe5Brdl 6
Bxa/+ Ke7 7 Ndi The sh.aDrr k,r i\ anoihei
LEGALL'S TRAP, an ope.ing t.ap that may be
compared with LEGALL S uE. A kniSht caplures a
man on K5 (e5 tor white, e4 for Black) thus leains
a qrccn EN pRrsEto a bishop. Thistrap,whi.n has
ensnded such nasteB as oPSLNG and dcoR
rN, slill claims its victims The gane Shon (white)
v. Kupreichik, Haslings 1981 2, began as iouowsl
1e4e5 2NBNC6 3 Bb5 Nd4 4Ba4Bc5 5d3
(]16 6 Nbd2 b5 7 Bb3 d6 8 Nxd4 Bxd4 9 Nu
Bg4 10.38b6 11a4bxa4 12Bxa4+ Klll 13Be3
LEMBERG GAMBII,690, lhe ENNrsoN cAMBr.
Whcn rc-invenled by Alexander Wagner (1868-
..1942) in 1924. he ftmed it alter his home lown
LDNGTE OF GAME is @stomarily Beasured by
the nunbe. of moles made by Wbitc. Il thc
dna'MolE raw were applied throuShotrt then the
longest possible game would las15,949 ooves (A.
H. F. Britlcn. l956J. In pacticethe avcragc lcnetn
of a gane is Lom 35 ro 4.0 noves, and ganes ra.ely
exeed 100 noves. The lonAesl game played in a
world championship match was thc sth gamc
berween (oR.rNor (White) and xNov in i9?8.
which ended in STALEMAE on the 124rh mo!e.
LENINGRAD VARIATION. 123 i. the Durcs
DEEN.E, used sueesstully by rhe Leningrad
players Nitolai Georsycvi.h Kopylov (1919- ),
Yevgeny Filippovich Kuni.ikh (1911 ),
Vladislav Petrovich Vinoeradov (1899 1962), and
rcRcNorr 161 in rhe NrMzo rNDAN DEFENCE. a line
played by ArxoNE and oth.s and restorcd by
spassn (afte. shon it is sometimes named),
Korcbnoi, and Vladimir Grigorievich Zak
(191! ), aU tom Leninerad;655 in the TRENCE
DEENGasplayedinthe Leningrad championship,
1949i bul thn nane is not ommonly Dscd in the
USSR,
LDNZERIIEIDE VARIATION, 405 in the SPANUI
orENiNc, alinen6r played inlheg ne s.hlechter
Bardeleben, Coburs 1904, and taken updurinsthc
Clare Bencdict tcam tournamenr held ar the Swiss
ski .esort oI Lenzerheide in 1956.
LEo, a fany piece lhal is moved litc a r.roN for
capturing movcs and like a qmen lor no.-
captu.ing moves. ln 1912. airer discovering the
mure of rhe P{. a Chine.e piece. Di$$n
rovented the leo and rhc v{',, rhu. makins a
'Chincsc family'of ihree pieces.
White gaitred a pawn by 14 Nxe5 and won the
LEIN, ANATOLY YAI'O1!-EVICH (1931 ),
Soviet born player, lntema(onal Grandmaster
(1968). mathcmalician. His best a.nielement in
the USSR Championship ras ar Tbilisi 1967, the
dird ot his si\ altenpts, when he took sixth placc
(+7:9-4). I. tbe early 19?0s hc bcgan to win
strong events i.cluding the Mosmw Chanpionship
in 1971 and four intemation.l loumadents: Mos
coN 190(+8:1 2. a shared victory) i Cienruesos
1972 (+9:10)i Novi sad 1972 (+9:6)i atrd Novi
Sad 1973 (+9-6). In 1976 Leitr eni8lated to the
USA since when his best resulh have been a shared
6^1 pl&e in rhc Swiss slsrem US Open Championship,
1976, and a shared thnd dace .fter
(oR.tsNor a.d rrumFra Sao Paulo 1979 Be
plaled for his adopled ou.try in the Buenos Aires
LEONARDO DI BONA DA CUTRI, GIOVANNI
(1542-87), Ncapolitan lawye., and ooe oI the
sr.ongest players ol bis tine. Knowa as I Puiino
(rhe baim) because orhis slighr build, he toured the
Iberian Peninsula and ltaly su@essfully, meetine
tnc strcngest opposition inclndi.g Ruy L6pEz.
Unlorrunately mosr ol *hat we kdow aboul
Leonardo cones from sAl,ro s chess roman@ .al
Pza,,o. Naplcs, 1634. in which it is dilficult to
disentangle lact and 6dion.
LEONIIARDT, }AUL SAT-ADIN 0877 1934),
player, jour.alist. Bom in Poznan, Leonhardl
becane keen on ches while studying a1 Laipzig.
and subequently spcnt mosl of his life in GeF
many. He achieved his besi results i. 1907 when he
took tust prize (+3=5) ahead of MAR6czy and
scELEcEm in a douhle-round
Copenhascn. and won rhnd prize (+9=9-2) after
RUDrNsldN atrd Mar6.zy in lhe Carlsbad louma