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men1, ln narch play he deleated NrMzowrrscE
(+4:l) al Hambu.C in 1911. Leonhardr n aho
renenbered as an analysr oiopenings, espe.ially
the spANrsB oENTNG about wbicb he w.ote a
nanoEt^ph. zur spani'che Par, (1913). He died
ol a heart atrack while playing a gabe ar the
Kitnigsberg chess club.
Cansbad 1907 lulian Opcning
le4e5 2NBNC6 3B.4Bc5 4c3d6 5d4exd4 6cxd4
Bb6 7 Nc3 NI6 3 G0 tro 9 Bbl Bg4 r0 Be3 Re3 11
Qd:l Bh5 12Rm18g6 13tsgsh6 14Bh4Bh5 15Nd5
Qt1 3 Nec2+ Qxe2 4Kb6Qc4 sOgT,aMoDEL
LESSER BISEOP'S GAMBIT, 580 in fie nNc s
6A@r Acepled. a line in which whirc's 3 Bc2
iakes thc bishop les lar than c4 (the EBHoCS
r;AMBr). TI'is ganbil was invented by rAENrscE in
1M2, pioneered by BrRD in rhe I880s, and playcd
rhree limes at the Ncs York tournament 1924 by
rARrArcwER, after whon it is sodetines naned.
Although rarely played, the gamhil is nor less
lavourabte to whire tnan thc Bishops or KNcs
LESSER GIUOCO PIANO,494, another nane lor
1hc SEM!]]ALI^N OPENINC.
l6Nxs5Nxd5 17 exd5llxs5 13 &c6g{h4 19db7 Rbs
20 Ql5 Brd4 2l Qih5 Qf6 22 Qe4+ KE 2l Rxe3+
Rxelt 24 Oc3 Od3 25 OxdB R\d3 26 Ba4 c5 27 Rel
Bc5 X8lhxg3 29 lL{93 a5 :10 b3 f6 3lr4Bd4+ 32Kg2
c,, 33 bxcl BaT 34 Rh1 Ke7 15 Rdl Kfl 16 Rdl Bc5
LEONIIAXDT VARIATION, 245 in the srcrlr^N
DE.ENCE. analysed by LtoNumr in 1910: 446 in
rhc poNzt^Nr orNrNc. .nalysed by hi6 in colruN\
Lnrobok, 19ll].467 in the d^Ns c^MBrr Acccpted
Ior which he publhhcd anallsn i. D."rJ.r6
Wochdschach, 1906. 395 in rhe srANrss oprNrNG.
LEpuscHij1z, HANS 0910- ), Austrian composer,
Intematio.al Judge oI Ches Compositions
(1957), Internationat Master tor Chess Conposi
tions (1966). a leadinA spccialist in MoR.-MovrRs
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r?g&, w "&r
ffi ffi ry&,,
nq& wt g*
A problen by Lepushiitz that Non 6rst prize in the
Ostetreichische SchachzeitunE loumey 1952. Each
side makes a swrtHBA.(: I Kb6 QxI6+ 2 Ka5
I,DI'DNTTSII- CRIGORY YA{OVLEVICH
( 1889- 1961), Internaiional Grandmasrer (r950), a
lcading Rnssian playei oi the gcncration lhat
learned the gane betore thc revolution and led
solietchessinthc 1920sand l930s,engineerinfie
glass industry. Afier winning rhe St letersburg
Championship in 1909. Levenlish playcd in severat
l.c2l elents andonc tour.ameni abroad. Carlsbad
1911. He won the Leningrad Championship in
1922. 1924, and 1925 (sb ed), and had !n
excellenr reord in USSR Chanpionsnip tournamenh:
rhird in 1920. sccond in 1923. equal thnd in
1924. sc.ond io 1925. m-chanpion in 1934. and
.bampion in 1937. (Five subsequen! artempts at
the ritle {ere less successful.) In matcb play he
drew with uon,NN,x in 1937 (+5=3 5) .nd
defcated ^hoRBE!
in 1940(+5=7 2)iandinlhc
Leningrad Mosow baining tonrnamenr 1939
(about caregory ll) hc sbared ihnd phce after
rlosn and RnsoEvsx}. LotE li,8r (1971)isthe
Englhb translation, Mlh relisions, of a hoot hc
and sMyslo! published ii 1957 . lzhran ye pann i
vospaninanta 1t967) is a. ^tiobios.apby,
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LEVENFISH ATIACI! 280, popular line ior
Wnire vhen he fr.es rhe DnAGoN vARrAToN.
deleioped by LEENFSI in thc 1930s.
LEVENFISH VARIATION. 190, line in the cRnN-
FELDDEFEN.Eabandonedbecaueof thc rcply8e5:
it 8 . . . Ba6 9 exi6, as in th€ game SabeBarcza,
LEVTTZKY VARIATION. 25. 129. the vEREsov
vAR'^!oN, named atter lhe Russian master Stepan
Mikhailoich Levitzky (187G1924)
LEwls. WILIAM (1787 1870), Enstish ptayer
and autho.. He lelt his oalive Bnningham as a
young nan.nd sorkcd for a tine witb . merchanl
in London Hc learned nuch of his chc$ tiom
saRRAr. adebtrhat wasnot repaid. Around 1819
he was operator ot fte ruRx. meeting all'oners
snccssrullv witt .ocaMNt he visited Paris in