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

MODEL MATE 215
Tara*h-Tci.hiann O$e.d 1905 spanish Opening,
1c4c5 2NnNc6 3Bb5a6.1Ba4Nl6 5rloBc7 6Rcl
d6 7c3G0 lth3tsd? 9d4h6 10Bc2Re3 11Nbd2Br3
l2NIlgi 13Ng3Bg7 lcBe3KhT r5OdOeT 16d5
NdB l7 c4 al 18 b3 b6 19 a3 Nb7 20 M R.? 2l Qc3
NgB 22Nd2Rcr3 23BNl6 24Bb3BeB 25Rac1Nd7
26 Qc2 BA 27 Ne2 Bg7 2a Nc3 Nf6 29 Nb5 B$5 30
crb5 Ne3 11 Qd3 axb4 32 a$4 NdB ll Qfl Qd7 31
Ra1o.n 3iR*7R*7 36Ral Rial 37oxa1C)68 38
The mi'rorily aiack n in tull swins 17...Qs5 1314 Ql6
19 Od2 ts15 20 15 Qs6 2l Bxf5 Qxrs 22 a6 db5 2l
Nxb5 Od7? 24 .xb7 a6 25 Ncl QibT 26 l{bl 0.6 27
Rrcl Qd6 2.'l Ndl Ng6 (Black ha: delcndcd wca{y and
soon 6nds he cannor d elnd both of his nohred l)arns ) 2s
l0Q.2h4 3lQh5h4l l2hxg3Nl3 33Rc5Rd8
-q-1h5
34Rtc1g6 15 Ql3Ne6 36Rc3 Kg, 17 R!d3Nrd3 l3
Rcs Ne6 39 Qxd5 Qb6 4{ Rcl QM 4l Nf2 Qd2 42
Qc5+ 16 43 Qxf6+ Kxf6 aaNea+Kl5 a5Nxn235 ,16
d5 gxr4 47gxl4Nxf4 48exl4 X{4 49 Rd-Rd? 50Nc4
MINOR PIECE, rhe bishop or the knight. 1ne
endgames K+B !.K and K+N !. K are drarvn.
MIRROR MATE, a maie in which eigbr squares
.djoining the king\ position are unoccupied.
Bo*neQuimcrc Wijk aan Zcc 1974 Sicilia De
le4c5 2NAd6 3Bh5+Bd7 4Bxd7+ QidT 5c4Qg4?
(Blacl gcs rAwr srA,.n'rc ) 6 0{] Oxe4 7 d4 cxdl 3
Rcl Qc6 9 Nxd4 Qrc4 10 Na3 Q.a ll BI4 Qd7 12
t4Rxe5+ Be7 l5Rd5Q.a t6
N15 KI3 17 NxeT (xe7 13 Re5+ llack resies. The
dia8ram sho*s rhc mirrcr marc rh.i wouldoc.urafter l8
Kf6 19 QR+ Kre5 20 Rel
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MOBILIIY, Ireedot oI movenent ior the pieces
andpasns. A playefs pnncipal ain in the oFning
and one ol his ains.t any stagc of ihe gane is to
obrain ge.ter mobilily, tne normal prerequisile
for an attack. If he has greater dobihy lor his
pieces he may onbine then norc €asily or
resroup them more quictly. (Sec a^'r'oNAL pLA!,
spacE.) pH -rmn showed I h at gre aler mobility lor
the pawns (a nore flexible or nore el.sric pawn
rolmtion) could also be advantaseous.
Whi.chasmorcspacein*hichtomovehispiees.i.e. rhey
have greater mobiliry. By a sedes ol danauvrcs on borh
6mk he lnnher rBnricG his opponcnas mobihy and
incrcass his oPn. His DoUBLBD P
srreneth: ihey cramp Blach\ sm€ and unnot be
4Os3 Kl3 41h4Nd7 42BflKc3 43Bh3Bfs 44Nc4h5
45 94 Be7 46 BJ2 Bf6? 47 gxh5 gxhs 4lt Khr Ob7 49
Ne3 NI8 50Nl5Ob3 51Qa1Ng6 52B33BM 3rn2
Ob7 54 Bg2 Oc3 55 Qcl Qd7 56 Bh3 KflJ 57 Qh6+
KC3 5ltQxbi (le3 59Qg5xir 60h5N14 61Bh4f6 62
oh6+ Kgs 63 8:16 NI7 64 Ne7+ QieT 65 QxhS+
Nxh3 66Bxc7Na/ 67!e6Nih5 6,lBd8 Black resisns.
MODEL, ABRAM YAKOVLE\ICH (1895
1976), Soviel player and che$ instructor. Throughout
hn burnament career, wnich began in lh. mid
1920s, Model played alsays in Russia and usualy
in tf,ningrad, his home city. He entered the USSR
chanpionship o.ly t*ie,in 197 and 1929, oi the
nrsl occasion sharing third prize with DUz-
(' rorMrRso aftcr ihe joint prize'wimers BoHATR
.!u( and rcn^Novso. Playing hots .ot ours he
tied for 6rst pnze in rhe Beloru$ia SSR Championship
1928. Around this tim€ he becme
BonrNNrx\ trainer. He won the chadPionship oI
Le.ingrad in 1944 while he was director of the
chess club .t rhe Pionees Palace. where in the
samc ycar @rcHNor took his 6.st lesso.s.
MODEL MATE. a tuE GE in which aI rhe
atlacker's den wnh the possible exception of his
king and his pasns lake part. In BoHEMTAN
problems nodcl mates are always reqdred btrt
oiherwise they are no longer in tashion. The tern
was invented in 1902 by the English conposer
Hen D Oyly Bernard (1878-1954) as a subslitule
for 'pnre and cconomical maie'.