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

296 SCHE\'ENINGEN VARIATION
SCHEVENINGEN VARTATION, 249, line in the
sr.rlr4N DL.ENG lhat has bccn commonly used
since theScheve.inecn rournancntof t923 whenn
las Plaled in lhe gane Mar6cz, Euwc. Ih
essenrial characteristic h Black\ sMrL cENrkr.
a pawn fomatio. that was not ncs in 1921 bur
sas consistent wnh the spirit of the HypERMoDEnN
movenent Subsequendy 2?l also came to bc
re-Earded as a Scbevedingen Va.iation and in tbis,
its mostpopularlorn, Black teserles the optiodol
developing hk quccn s knighl at c6 or d7 (See
EOS''O\^T PhY,)
'NIERFEREN'E;
SCHIFFERS, EMANUEL STEPANOVICH
(1850 190!l), for many yea$ the second player in
Russiaafter.HH)RrNibothlivedinStPetersburg,
lhe birthplace oI Russian chcs. when id 1873 the
lwo fi61 mel Chigonn received thc odds ol a
knight, but thcywere olabout the sane stre.gih in
1878- when Schitlen won lhe se.ond .r rN.
malches (+7-1 6). Schiffers ptaycd in eighl
mator rournafeirs abro.d irom Franklurt r887ro
Cologne 1898. achicving hisbesl result. sixthprize,
ar lhe great Hasrings tournamcnt ol 1895. At
Rosto!-on-Don in 1896 Scbiffes lost a nalch
against srurrrz (+4=l 6).
Schiiters was known in his time as Russia sgreat
chcss tcacherj trom 1889he gave publiclecluieson
the Same in many cilies, $e 66t to be givcn in
Russia- and at the .nd of hn lire he wr.te a
rey].boak. Sanouchitel Shakhftarroi igr},, Nhich
was pubtished in 1906. After five reprinlings ir was
revned and rcpublished bt NE\aRo(ov in 1926.
Tall, well built. and distinguished looking, Scbilic6
cafted his tiveiihood largely bt,givingpnvaE
SCHTFFMAN DETENCE, a problem rern lor the
iollowingmaneuvrci topreventa thiealened nate
hydiscoveredcheckBlack movcs oneof histuen so
that it bccomes pinned (asEL!-flN)i should white
attenpt to carry out his thieal thn man becomcs
lnpinned andcan prevcnl mar€i horveler, because
lhn man ispinned Wbnecan mate i. another$ay
G nN-MAr4. MANSFTELD codsidered this onc oI the
nostinteresting mancuvresthatcould beused in a
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A problem by Schilfnan tbat won sccondpnze in
the Britisb Chess Fcderation tourney, 1928. The
rey I Bgl threatens 2 f4 male: three moves tlat
prclcnt lhis lead to pin,mates.
l...Oxc4 2 Oxr6
1...Nxe4 2Qal
This manauvrc h namcd after Israel Abrano
vicb Schiffman (1903 30). rvho wrorc a papcr on
the subjed id 1928. Anative ofOdessa. he went to
O-manv 10 complelc his education. There he
contracled alungillnessatlhe ageof 2l and haling
tiDe on hishands while in a sanaloriunhebegan to
composc problcms. Soon altcrwards he ooved lo
Ronania where he died ol influenza a lcN ycas
later. During slx yea6 oIcomposing he won about
60 tolrnetr awards, nosdy tor orthodox Mo
SCHLECIIIER, CARL (187,1-1918), Viendes
pla],crwho fro6 1900 undlhGdeaih.ankcdatbesr
Iourthandatworstscventh inlheworid. andoneol
the fes grandnasters who aho composed problems.
He teamed lhe moves around 1890 and soon
gavc uI his siudies to devote himscll to ches,
beoni.g good cnough to draw natches against
MARco (1892, =10. and 189,1. +4:3 4).rANowskr
(1896, +2=3 2), and ^LAprN
(1899, +1=4 1),
and to s.ore NeU in several inrer.ational evenh.
From 1900 to 1908 he had seve.al exccllcnt
rourdanent resuhs: Muni.h 1900, rirst (+9:6)
cqualwilh MAR6czy and lrLsBURyi Monte C.rlo
1901, sccond (+9=6 2) after Janowskii Monte
carlo 1903. rourth (+12=10 1) after 1ARRAS.H,
Mar6czy, and PiUsburyi Monte Carlo 190,1. second
(+4=6) halr a point aier Mar6czyi vienda 1905
{Austro-Hungarian Chanpionshipl, 6rsti Oslend
-1906, first (+4=4) ahead oi Mar6oy and RUsrNsrEN
in the 6nal stage and nrst overall; Ostend
Grandmasie6 1907, second (+7=10 3) afrer
Tarras.h: Vicnna 1908- fiBt (+9=10) cqLal Nilh
DUMS and Mar6czv ahcad ol Rubidsteinr Prague
1908, 66t (+9=9 1) equal with Duras ahead ot
Rubinstein and Mar6czy. In match play be de
feated Ja.owski in 1902 (+6=3 1).
ln 1910 Schlechte.challe.ged LAscRlo a nalch
for the world tille. Thirty games were proposed,
whnded down to ten for lack ol fnnds. Tte
.onditionswere nol published and il isnol k.own
whcther the title was at stake. (Laskervould have
been justified in declining to play su.h a short
malch ior the championship.) Alter nine games
Schlechrerbd +1:8 and hc made great efforts ro
wi. lhc last gane. He losrj and thc nalch was
dra*n. Meanvhile the public had decided that it
$6 a chanpionship match. de facto il not de jurel
a.d the releree, perhaps bowing to this vie*,
declared that Lasker had rerained bis ri{e. The
Eanes ol this natch, full ol Eght, are unnsually