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

282 RICE GAMBIT
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RICE GALBIT. 6l'1 in thc (rN.s 6^MBIr
Accepted. a groresquc monunrent to a ich nan s
vdniq. kaac Lcopold Rice (1850 1915)- a Gc!
man-bon American indunri.ljsr, 6.rnccd man!
rournaments and nnrches restri.tcd to this gambn,
and gnve pri7.s for othcr lanres in vhicn n w.s
uscd white s sacri6ce oI a knigbl is nelth.r good
nor necessary. Eriensi!. a.alysh has lailed t!
sbow rhal hc eanrssufii.ient compensationi.nd if
rhn Ncrc proved Black has severnl good qa_vs of
avoiding the Bambn. No dore tnnc was{astcdon
the ganbir alrer Ri.c dicd.
RTCIIARDSON. KEITH BEVAN (I!,12 ),
English player. lnlernalional Cotrcspondence
che$ Grandnistcr (19?5). bank nanager.
Around 196l Ri.hardson dec ed thal over lhe
hoard pla!, which had brot-shl him son'e s&.e$cs
as a junior, Fould iilencrc $ith hn prclessional
.areer and he took lo Poslal chess instead. His
bcsl perlornance in this field was his shanng ol
thnd place qilh zAcoRovs(y after ESNN and Borr
in rhe 7th wond Corespofldence Ch.npionship,
1968 71.
RI(THARDSON ATTACK. ,180. This !.iiation oI
rhe E!^Ns G,rMB,rwrs i.roduccd bydr. Nc{ York
plaler Philip Richardson (l8ll 1920) and pub
lishcd by him wirh a norebyM^soNin lhe Drb&qu.
RICHTER, KURI (1900 69). German player aml
anthor. lntemational MAler (1150). Hn mosr
succeslul year as a plaler sas l9l5: hc ilon drc
Gernan Championship and shared firstpla.c wilh
Bocorruuow nr a.atcgory'8 tournament al Berlin.
S.on alie.ihc Second Workl Warbe larsely sive
up play for w ting His books include rlr:8.-
sch i. hten um S. hachlsuren (1947) an