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

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Sz.bGKcrcs Budarist 1952 Queent lndirn Delene
1c4Nr6 2d4e6 lNf3b6 1s3Bb? 5Bg2Be7 6rl0
G0 7Nc3Ne4 3 Oc2Nr.3 qQxdlBe4 l0Bf4d6 l1
Oe3Bb? 12RId1Nd7 13MNr6 l4a4od7 15 a5b5
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16 Nc5 dxc5 17 dxe5 Qc8 13 crl6 Bxf6 19 Racl 842
20 Kig2e5 2lBs5Bxe5 22 Qie5 Q67+ 23Kg1Rac3
2.1sbs Orb5 25 RxcT Qxe2 26Qd2Oa6 27QdlQe6
23Rra7e4 z9QelRds 3{R{'13 Rid3 rlQd4QeB 3l
Qc5 Rclt 33oc7Qxc? llRxe7r5 35a6h5 36a?h4 37
Rb7 Kh7 33 Kg2 e3 39 tre3 Rc2+ 40 KB Black
szAI6 VARIATION, 191, also called thc Bolcslarsk!
Variation, intic GRINFELD DrrENcEi215 in
the KrNcsrNDrAN DEFEN.T. played bysza6infte
Amsterdam Candidales Tournanent 1956. but
sztN(pion Scn), J6szEF(1805 57).Hun8anan
player, one of the world\ best hall-dozci ii tnc
ls.los, Ianed forhisENDGAM.still in bolh analysis
add plal. Of a nild iaturc. thotrghlinl, acliveninded.
palicnt. shy, and timid in nanner', SzCn
lacked worldly ambiiion. Alter a longperiod in nis
fatheas offie he became a paid ofhcial in the
Deparrmenl ol Archivcs. He had Nanled to siudy
mathematics bur in deference lo his lather- a
norary, he studied law. withoursuccess. ArParis in
SZEN VARIATION 339
l&6 ne wcnt dailyto the GEDE LAntcNcEr rhe
playeB .ould see him coming from a dislancc on
dccounl oi his conspicDous h.t, calling hin affectio.ately
I'Hongrois au chapeau blanc. He met
.ouRDoNNArswhosave himodds(pawn and move.
or pawn and tso), and they played many games.
The advanrage lay with Szen, but whelher he led by
a narow or decisive majonty of sames is no1
known. He a.quitled himself*ell in olher cities,
his wo6l resnll a narrow defeat by BLEDow at
Berlin in 1839. G. wrcR notes in 1837 thatSzen
was slronge. than any player in Vic.na. tnat hc
could beat all the Londo. playe6, ihai he was
about as stone as s{Nr AMM bur 'plays the
cndgane betrea. F(on 1842 to 1846 Szin tcd a
Hunga.ian team in a correspondene malch
againsl Paris; Hmgary's decisve viclory narked
her oming of age in the cbess world, Nilh Sz€n her
He e age rly accepled an inlilad on to the so(ld's
6rst international lournament. an un*eded series
of knock-out matches. Londoo 1851. Afte. defearing
Samnel Newham ( i796 1875), Engtand\ lead
ing provincial player, he losr to ANDETSSEN, rhe
eventual ainner, in thc sccond round. (AItcr lhe
lhnd game of this match Szen Nas leading, + 2 - I ,
and the playeE aereed lhal il either Non ihe 6st
prize he wodd give a third of his *innings lo lhe
other.) Szen won the rhird round against mRwtrz
(+4), thc fourlh and last round against Hugh
Aleiander Kennedy (1809 78) (+4=1), and sas
placed 6tth overal. In 1853 Sz€n losr a tu.tch to
nARnwrz (+1=1 3), then in his prime. sz€n\
heahh, .cvcr robust, was nos lailing. Hc returned
lo Pest where, during his last da,s, 'the chessboard
and the men were hh constant companions. (see
n[E PAWS PRos,IM')
sziN vAtuaTIoN, 288. sounrl line in rhe srcrlr^N
DE.ENCE, played successfully by szrN against
aNDnLss.N at tne London tourn.ment l85l znd
regard€d as so strong that rhe sicilian Dcfcnce
went oui oI fashion lor most of the 1850s. (see
B^CN^D P^wN: lBERzoN')
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