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A study by Plaksh. Problen 188 193. Black
tb.eatensnare, bul Whiteplays 1 Nh6, complering
his liltielh move withoul a capture or Pawn
move I he 'genesiJ position. i
h:,lk1NN/p1pppp1p/2q2bp1/1p2n1n1/b7/Rr4P1/
PI?PPPP1/RO I ( I82. White Plays axb3, his last
crprure, and besins to counr 50 .roves (Black\
N.i1i.e moves are omilted):
lQ.2 2Rd lobl 4Rat 5Qr 6Oa3 ?Qd6 3
Rar 9R.al 10K.] llKbl LzKr2 LSRcl llKbl
liRa1 L6Ka2 l7Ka3 l3(b4Q6+ 19Ka5Qa3 20-
Ot 2l- Qbl l2 Ral O, 23 Ral Qbl 2,1- Qcl
25Rdl 26R3al 27Qa3 2ri OJ2 29QbL 30Ra3:11
Oa2 32 Rar 3r Obl 3.1 Qdl 15 Kbl 16 Rcl 37
R3al 38(a3 l9k2 40Khl llRa3 42 Ka2 1:lRal
1-1Kb1 45RlalNd3.16KalNIl 17Qhl Qdl 13Nh6
POCKET SET 257
PLEIADES, an iniuential bul ePhemeral (1837-
43) group oI Berlin piayers oI whom ihe most
important were von der LASA and BLtDow. The
name is denved IJon sevcn oflhe 12 daugbFis ol
Pleione Iathered by Atlas in Greek nythology. and
n conmonlyused ior any group olseven. Depend
ing on conditionsbetseen six and nine oI the nany
star in the constellario. oaned aller the Pleiades
are visible to ihe naked ele.
PLUS, an adv.nlage. (See.o
for sone ways in which thls might be indicated.)
PLUS-TLIGHIS, the loui FLIGHTS lateralLy adjoin
ing the square occupjcd by a king tbat does not
stand on the cdge oI the board. (ComP e
PLANINC (pron. Planints), ALBIN (194+ ),
Yusoslav player. lnternatiotul Grandmaslcr
(192). IIis besr tournamenl victories were at
Ljubljana 1969 i+7=7-1) ahead olcllcoRta, dnd
at Asnerdam l9?lwhen he scored +7=6 210de
with pmRosyAN ahead ol uvalE( ltd spAssxy
PLATOV, VASILY NIKOLAYEVICH-(1881
1952), Soviet conposer, epidcniolosist. With
rRorrzn.nd K. A. L. (UBBEL he pioneered sludy
composirgin Ru$ia. He cane iroB Latviawhere.
id rhe 18c0s, t h e art was being ac tivcly e ncouraged
in the .olumns ol rhe EiSddl ldSerlat and $e
Ba|itche S.huchblAuet. Many olhis srudies wcrc
conposed ii collaboration with his brother
Mikhail N Platov (188!1938) They publisbed
two collecrions ol deir joinl or irdividuaL conposi
rions: sannluns dn Endspi.lstul,e, (191a) and
:tbo ik Shdkhharhrkh Ettulov (1928), conrain'
ing 153 and 200 studies rcspedivelt For an
example oi their woik sce DoMINAnoN
PLAYER! specincaly the contcstant whose rurn n
n ro plar; gener.ily eilhcr conlestant or anyone
PLAY-OFa, whcn lhere n ! ie lor a p.ize in a
toutua6en1 a play-olf datch k sometines held
Morc comnonl)r a sialistically based rrE BREA(IN{;
A problen by BA(cs that won 6rst prize in the
Maglar Sakktlet tontney,197 3. The key is 1Oxb5.
follotred by a differert datine continuation lor
each of the plus flights:
...Ke5 2Bc6+ Kxd6 3Qe5
...KI6 2Be4Kg? 3Qe5
... Ke5 2 Be6+ Kh,l 3Ng6
. . Kf,l 2BclKe3 3Oes.
POCKET KNTGETCIIESS, an uno.thodox game
in whi.h belore plat commences bolh Playe6
rcmove a knight lrom the a.r.y (usually the
queen\ knight) and at any tine durine ihe game
mal placc rhn pocker' I'nighL anylvhere un lhe
board n \ubn turun lorJ move At rhe besinninA
ol the 20rh century this game ras popular in
conrinental Europewhereit*aslnown aslombola
chess. ln kleptonraniacchesssomepieceothertban
POCrcT SET, ! set designed lo be lblded lnd
carded in a pocket. Unlike a R{ELrrNc sFr it is
t*o dincnsional thenenlieiaton thesquares as
they qould appear in a diagra.r Perhaps lhe lirst
slch set *as delised by Peter Maik Rogct
(1779 1869) of lreJa",6 f!ne. In 18,15 he
regislered the design oi TIe Econonric Chess
Board, provided *ilh . complcte set of che$ menadapted
lor playng glmcs in cariages, or out oI
doos. and lor Ioldi.g up and carryirg in the