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

294 SANGUINETI
follow.d b! 15 ooves in one hour could not be
aaommodared. ln rhc 1880s rheyqeresuperseded
SANGUINETI, RAUL C 093! ), Argenti.c
player, Inremationai Grand66ter(1982). Heson
the national chaBpionship seven tines fron 1956
to 1974 and played in many Sonth American
toumanentsi notahly takins 6nt prize (+7:3) at
Buenos Aires 197?. Apart irom tNo interzonals.
Portoroz 1958 and Biel1976, he competedin leN
European lournaments. A comp€tilor in sevcral
olt@r Ds irom 1956 he made the besl smre
(+7=1) oi those playing li$l reserve at Moscor
1956.
SAN PIER D'ARENA OPENING, 697, the GRoB
op.NrNc. Tnis qas naned by r^RlrkowER after a
suburb ol Genoa. {here he gave a sinnltaneous
rlisplay in 1930ithe.e hewas shown the opening by
the llalian player Luigi Penco (189!r955).
SANS VOIR, see BLTNDFoLD cHrss.
SANTASIERE'S EOLLY, 681, a ielative oI the
5. At Portsmonth 1923,
already asured of nBt prize in lhc
^LEGI\E. lournadenl. played thls opening against Drewiit
Larcr it sas taken up b! Anthony Edqlrd
Sanlasiere (190+17), a colourlul Amcrican playei
wbo tned it against ksHD^N in rhe US Chan!
pionsbip, 1938, and subsequently pubhhed analy
sis i. rhe Che$ Cotr.spo dehl.
SARAGOSSA OPENING, 6, an 181h cenrur!
opening lhich became popular in the Saragossa
.ness club- Spain, in 1919. A membe., Jos€
Juncosa ( r 887-1972J. pubrished anatysis in R.yirrd
del Club ArE nfito. 1920i a.d thc opening was
tesled in a snall tournamenr played atMannhcim
192, whcn the conpetuo^, raRRas.H.
rEoNMRDrj andMrEsEs,scrc required to plav thn
opening in every 8ane.
SARRATT, JACOB HENRY (..1772 l8l9). repul€dly
thc best player in England fton around
1805 unlil his death. As a young nan he met
PETLIDoR. Subsequendy be deleloped hisgame by
practice with a slronB French player Hippolyte du
Bourblanc (d. 1813). with Nho6 he had a long
tiiendsbip daline irom 1798, and with v.RDoNr
Sarralt\ irst imporlant contribution to the game
was i. connection aith the raws oE csEss: be
persuaded the London club,lounded in 180r, 10
accepr rhal a gane edding in stalenate should be
regarded as a dra{ an.l not as a win lor lhe player
who is stalemated. Hebecame aprofessional al the
Salopian cotfee house at Chdnng Cros. London.
and in 1808 srotc hi\'f&tise an the Ca e of
Cl?ss. This, largely a compilation lron the work oI
the Modenese n.sieB. advocared thar playcs
should seck dnecl altack upon the enemy king, a
stylethatdominarcdrhc pame until the 1870s (See
scHools oF.H*s.) An Oxrbrd n4eon. w.
Tuckwell. wrote tbat he leartred chcss l..n rhe
famous Saftart- rbe gre.t chess reacher. whosc lce
xas a gui.ca a lesson . Lrwrs, who played maDy
games with Sa.ratt from l816 j wrote in 1822 (alter
he had oer b ol h DEscH^pELrrs and eruRDoNNArl
tlrai Samit was the (ost linished player he had
ever met. sarart iranslatcd the {orks oi several
early rvriters on the gane. nrakingthcm known tor
the 6rsr time ro Englnh reade$: The Wotks .f
Dahia"o, Raf Lopz ahd Selenar (1813) and fl,.
wort: of Gianutio ahd G6ta,u' se/.,,s O817).
He died impolerisbed on 6 Nov. 18i9 aftera long
illncss during aaich he was udable to earn a
Iivelihood by rcaching. l.stcad he {rote his Ne,
beathe an the Gan. ol C/,.ss. publishcd poslhumously
in 1821. This n fie Iirst book to include a
comprchcnsivc beginneis section: in dore than
200 pages Sarralt teaches by Dcans of question and
answer. Anolher ieature is a gs'page analysis ot
Had llbeen Sairatr'sambirion to hecomeachess
professional there would have been scant oppor
tunily during the liietine olPhilidor and Verdoni.
A tall- lean, yet nuscular nan. sociable and
ialkltive. he seems in hh_loungerdays ro havebad
inierests ol a different kind, among thcm priz.-
fighling and the breeding ofighting dogs. IIazliri,
who nelSafatt around l8l2wrote Hewasaereal
.eadcr. but had not thc lcasi tastc. Indeed the
liolence ol his nremory t_vraDnised ovcr and
destroyed aU power oI selection He could repeat
Ossian by hean, withourknowing rhe hesrpassage
Sarratr's ea rly pu blication s wet e Hisra a- of Man
(1802): transhrions ot lso Ciotbic noleis. rne
Thrce Monks!!! (1801), from the French oI
Elisabelh Guanard. and r,.nigshark thc Robb*
(1803). Lom the Geman ofR E. Raspei,.l N",
Pkture ol Lon.lon (1803). an ercellenr suide thar
ran to scveral edilions.lhe last in l8l4 when sar
hrokeoniNnh Frin..ln 1301S,rt,ih..xm. f.r 2
shon penod, a lieurenanl in the Royal York
Mary le Bone volunreers and pubhhed d? ol
Buonapatu . aprapae nd^booktetdetailingNapo
leon\ alleged war cdnres, and sarfling oi rhc
desolanon that would iollo{ itbe*ere to invade.
Not long after rhe bnlh ol his second child in
1802 Sarart\ wile died and in 1804 hc mairied a
D.ury Lane singer, Elisibetb Camilla Dulour 'It
qould be diiicult ro nnd a more acconphhed, a
nore aniable, or a happicr couplc tnan Mr and
Mrs Sarratl Mary Julia Yonng, Mdans of M^
Cro!., (1806). M^ Sarralr roo vas a wnler
contributing tales lo various journals aid publishiaq
A rarn ot the Mlstetio$ Ada r, (1803), a
lranslation ol a French novel. She survived her
husband uniil 18.16. ending her days eiling chess
lessons io lhe arnio.racy in Parh. I. i8,13
Louis Philippe and nany playeB irom England
and France sub$nbed to a lund on her behalf.