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

NEWSIAPER COLUMNS 223
NEUMANN. GUSTAV RICHARD LUDW1G
(1838 8i), player tiom cermany who was among
rhe best hall-dozen in the world around 18?0. lle
was co-ednorBnhANDIRSS.N ot tne Neue Berliner
S.rd.l:€itu,8 lrom its inception in 186,1to 166r,
addduringthcsc],ea6lhe t*ool thcm mct in many
lriendly chcss encounres. (Morc than 70 gane
s..RF\ ire e\rrnr ) In 1116, Neumann took louirh
place alter (ol]scn. srEIN z. and wNAwrR ii the
Pans tournamcnt, son n.lches against Wnraw.'r
(+3) and RosEN,H^L (+5=6)- and won first Pnze
.head ol Steinitz in the Dundee tournanenl He
thcn stayed in Pans lor nore than lso ycan.
ostensiblv studynrs physics and chemislry, suff ered
i breakdoNn io Dec. 1869- rc.overed. rvenlback to
Ccrmany, and shlredthird prizervnhDLAC$URN.
afier Ande$sen and Steinitzin rhe lournament al
Baden Baden 1870. Neunln.-s lasi tou.nament
was a ninor crent at Allo.a in 1872 ifl which he
tooksc.ondplacealterA.de6sen. Fortbeieslot
hir lir. he q,ffe.edselcre menlal illness Nhich was
aitributed lo a hcad injury sust.incd in hisyouth.
Slcini, Ncunann r|n\ 136r KLtr8\ Knight Gambir
1e1e5 2t.1exl.1 3NBg5 1Bc4BB7 5d4d6 60.0h6 7
c3\c6 3Qb3Qc7 9NarNI6 10BdlNh5 llBdz00
12 Bc2 a6 l:l Qc.1Kh3 1.1R.cl Od3 li g3g4 16Nh1
13 17 Odl Nl6 13 h3 Nc7 19 N..1b5 ?0 Nc3 h5 ll
Neg2 c5 22 Bbl rig2 23 Rxl6 Bilri 21.5 N36 2i exr6
Oil6 16 dx.i sih3 27 d Kq3 23 B.r bx.4 29 Od5
ric-brcaking. lrequeDtly bul wrongly called soNNr
BoRN BTRGER scoRE, Ihis scoring mcihod iras fiNt
suegened by Hernann Ncustadtl (1862 1909). a
viennese doctorfrom Prague, in a letter he wrote
to ar.ss tudn, in 1882.
Neustadll made no mc.lion of the earlier
Gelbfuhs score whi.h is based on lhe sane
princjplcs. His melhod is simpler and eiles th.
sa,ne placings illhe codpetito6 hare all played lhe
same nudber ot games. Both nelhods were
onginilly i.tendcd ro supplant 1he nordal scoring
(1 rbr a wiD, ,r lor a drav. 0 ior ! lo$). Ncusiadll
scoring was used lo detcrnrinc Placings in lhe
Bi.ter rour.amc.t ol the Liveryool Chess Club
rHNr-i hnr ii wis c2lled rhe Gclbfuhs Aromic
System Some rhought ibe nrilials appropiare but
othe$were impicssed because thellN olconslant
proFrtioni was in harmont with -thc law ol
rcciprocal propoition-. A fcN other tournaments
Nere plaled on rhe same basis but Neusladll
scoringsoo.lcll ont ofuse lor its originalpurpo$to
be rcvivcd larer as a meansoitie-brcaking. (Scc
NEUTLdL Ms*, ! nan idvenred b! DA*soN in
1912 ior use inrAnypRonr FMs. A neuralpiccc or
pawn nray bc rcpardcd by eirher playeron bis turn
to move as beingoleither colour, ashesishes. A
neutral Pawn thrr is Promoted becones a neurral
piece. Orher pasns mat bc promotcd to nculral
19 Bb7 rl)axht(Alrer 30 0167 Rxcslh. at&k
pxserro!1ack.)l0 ..RJc3 31RdlN!-< 32.xd6Rad8
i3Qh7+ KI3 3lBf5a5 35d7Rer 16 Bxri RdxdT 37
RxdT NxdT r8 Bb4 ken _1e Kh2 (iI39 BxcT Qfi+)
19 . . s]=O+ 40 K\sl Qb6+ 11Lh2 Qrbl 12 Q.2
Rcl llNf5Rrdl 4lOrdl Oxb2+ .15 K{h3 Og2+ ,16
KhlBd5 rQer+Be6 48..rs7+ I