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

I86 LILIENTHAL
neilhersoonernorlate.. Tlereare noomcialrulesbul
organizeB usually declare a game drawn il a
daycr cxceeds the lime linil when his opponent
hasinsuricienr marinsforce (c.c. aBARInNc). An
e arly reterene lo liebt.ing chess was in 1897. wh en
a l-ondon che$ club organized a rournamenl in
which llayc6 vcre alloived 30 se@nds a nove.
Subscqncnlly a period olten seconds becane more
nsnal. The word bliiz (Cerman for liehhing).
sonelimes used. should nol be confused with
bitzkneg, an unorlhodoxgane. Once believed lo
be conducive 10 bad play, lightning chess has
bc.omc part of tnc trainingof ,nastcrs. developing
their ability to make quick judgemenis aod
decisions. Fa( games are otten marked by sh rp
tactical play as in the following cxamplc from a
lighhing cvcnt. rAr. had to evaluale his combination
pre.isely dcspite rime-pressur€.
Tal I Ney trSSR,1953
acrNc6 5 NBQb6 6Bdr da
7qd4Bd7 30-0Nxd4 9Nxd4 Qxd4 10 N.3 Qrcs 1l
Rel Qd6 lzNt'5Qb3 llQaBd6 14Qxd5Bxh2+ r5
Khr Bc6 16Os5Nf6 17l,lh6 13Qxs7Rgs 19R\e6+
txc6 20 ne6+ Kd3 21Qir6+ Rlack resiens.
T,ILTDNTEAL, ANDREI ARNOLDOVICH
(l9ll ), Inlemalional crandnaster (1950).
Born in Mos@w ot Hungarian parents. he $as
liken lo Ilungary at thc age oI two. In lhe eady
1930s he made lour notable touname.t achieve
ments: Bad Sluben (Stubnanske Teplicc) 1930,
66r (+8=2-2) ahcad of prRc and noER: Hastinss
1933-4, second (+5:3 l) eqnal wilh ALEGTNE
after Flohri Hunganan Chanpionship, l9l4.list
equal sith Pal R€1hy (1902i2); a.d Budapest
1934, 6rst (+7:8) ahead ol Flohr. Playing for
Hungary id three Olympiads, 1931, 1915, add
1937. hc made the best seco.d-board score
(+11:8) on thc sccond occasion. In 1935 hc
emigraled lo the Soviet Union, where he bok a
posl as lrainer to the rradesunions, a.d laler thar
year he playcd three Balches, drawing sith
AlAroRrsrv (+4=4 4) dcfcalins BELAVENETS
(+3:s) and yuoovrcn (+1=1). rn 1937 he de
feated LBTNTN (+2=3-l)i in 1938, ptaying n,rt
.?u.o /s. he .amc 66t in the RSFSR (Russian
Federation) Championship. In 1939 he became a
Soviel citizen. Subsequendy hc madc seleral good
results in tournametrr play: Lenins.ad-Mos@v
1939. ihnd cqual Nilh LEVENESE after Flonr and
REssEvsoi USSR Cnampionship 1939 -10. firsl
(+8=i1) equal with loNDAREvsru aneadol(mEs
a.d BNTNNT(i Moscow 1942, thnd (+9=3-3)
equal with rcrcv aftcr sMysrcv and Bondarevskyi
Ba(u 1944,661(+6=4-l)i and Parnu 1947, thi.d
altcr (eres and (olov. Lilienthal's lasr importanr
achievement was a shared thnd dace afte. AVERuaxs
and lNYUkov, Moscow 1962. Shordy aiteF
wards he withdrer lronnasre.playandin 1976 he
went ba.k to Hunsary.
Pn. L'lienihal wana- olynpiad 1935 Englnh Oper
i.g, Four rrish* Vanation
1c.le5 2Nc3Nf6 3NBNc6 4c3Bb4 5Q.20.0 6Ndi
Bc7 7i3d6 3Be2Nxdl 9cxd5 NbB l0b4Nd7 11d4
Nb6 12dxesdxe5 13Bb2Bd6 1,10-0 Oc7 15RIdl.i
16 b5 a4 17 Q.3 Rc3 13e4 Bg4 19 Rel Nd7 20 Ndl
Bxc2 2l Rxe2 Nc5 22 Rfl Od7 23 M *b6 24 Nc.l Oc7
xtun6 26Nxd6Oxd6 2?tre5t:c5 23Rt5Nd7 29Rcl)
RJ8 30RiA+ RilS 3l Rxf3+ QrfS 32 gr Qc5+ 3l
Kg2 Qb5 l1Kfl h6 :15 Ke3 Kh7 16 Kd2 Ot1 37 Od3
Ohl r3 Qe2 Qbr re Ke3
m
't&
n
G1
B
39 .. b5 40 Qxb5 Nc5 (Thc Lnighr n indncc.ly gu.rded
by rhe rhrcar oI a sruwER.) al Ocab5! a2 axb5 Qxea+
a3 Kd2 Oxd5+ aa Kc3 Qda+ 45 Kc2 Of2+ 46Kb1
Ql5+ 47KrO.2 43OMNc4 19Qc1Nd2 50Qcl
Qb3+ 5l KalNc4 52Od Orb2+ 53 Qxb2Nxb2 54
Kxlr2 Kg6 whire resigns.
LINDI], ANTONIUS VAN DER 083}97).
Dutch chess hGbnan. born Anronie van der
t-inde.. A theologiao andptilosopher (his doctor
al ihesis was on Spinoza), he possessed great
energy lor research, a penetraling mind. and an
acidpen.In l8T0bepublished his demolilion ol lhe
popularlegend rhal the lather ol prinling ras no1
-Gntcnbcrg but L. J. Costcr who. like van der
Linde, Nas bo.. in Haadem. As a consequence he
became the unpopular participant in a lilerary var,
and Nhen the real war broke oul the FDnco
Prussian. hc fonnd himsclfcvcn norc atoddswith
the niddle and upper classes, whose sympathies
were Nilh France. He went to Berlin in 1871and
livcd in Gcrmany for thc resl ofhis days.
llis Geschicht und Linenrut dd Schacn\piel\
(Berrin, 1874, t*a \nts.), Quettenstudien zul
Cekhi.hte des S.na.rrp,e[ (Berlin, 1881), and
Dd\ e^te la ausehd d.r kha.hlilterutl. (B.rlin,
1881) are sumciently nnpo.lani to have been
rep.inted a cenrury laler (1979, 1968, and 1978).
'Ihe mosl valublc of hk olhcr chcss boots are D.
schaakpattiien von Giaachina G/e.o (Nijnesen,
1865) and D6 ltla.*rpiel ler xvt Jah undets
(Bcrlii.1874).
Va. der Linde was the fi.st chess historian to
clear the nylhs about the ongin ot ches d to
establish the game s early history. He had followed
Dnncan FoRBEs nntil bc discovc.ed thal Forbes had
labricaled evidence to support his own theories: