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

26 BASIC MATES
1975. The tolloNina position discovered by the
conpurer can be won, but only if the lifty-nove law
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w'&e w w
1. . .Ob4+ 2Kc6Qg4+ 3 Kl6 Ql4+ 4 Kg6 Qcr+ 5
Ke"5 Q*+ 6rh5QB+ 7Kh6Oh1+ 3q5ad5+ e
KI6 Qd4+ 10Kl/Qd7+ 11Ks6Qg4+ 12 Kh7 Qh:l+
1lK33Qf5 r4Qr+Kc1 15Qh2Qd5+ r6KhrlQd4 17
Oc7+ Kbl 13Kh7Oe4+ 19Kh6Oe3+ 20K96 Oc6+
21 Kg5 Qd5+ 22 KI6 QB+ 23 Kc7 Oc4+ 24 Kd3
Q.3+ 25 Kd7 Qd5+ 26 Kc3 Qc6+ 27Kb3Qd+ 2a
Ka7 aa.a+ 2e Kb6 abr+ l0 ru6 Qal+ 31 oa5 os8
32 Qb4+ Ka2 33 Od4 (lhe key square for thc vhnc
queen) 33. .Qe6+ 34K65Qe8+ 35K61Qb3+ 16
Kc3 Og3+ 37Kd2 Os2+ 33K.1Qhl+ 39 Kl2 Oh2+
40 Klr Qh3+ 41 Kf4 Qhz+ a2 Kg5 O$+ a3 K6
QB+ ,14 !(e6 Q.n+ 45 Ke5 Qe8+ 46 Kf4 OO+ 47
IQ3 0g6+ 43 Kh3 Qh?+ 49&2096+ 50Kf1Ob1+
51Ke2Q65+ 52Kd2Qb3 53Oa7+ Kb2 54ODOg3 55
Qb6+Ki3 560b7 Ka4 57KdK,5 53QM+Ka6 59
Limited idlom.tion about basic endganes is
given in many lextbooks bu1 IeN qiters have
specializcd on this subjecl. Ch6ron's four-volume
treatise contai.s the most extensive coveragc. but
the pre*ntalion is not well suited lo lhe needs o{
players. Conputer analyses are no! yet generally
arailable in a praclical lorm. D. Hooper's,4 P..te,
Guide ta chey EndEarus $.v. 1973) summarn s
the orrent staie of basic endgane knowledge in
one volume.
.eply Pe4{5 i he delays moving his d-paw. so lhat
he retains the option of advancing his dark bishop
a1 b,l, d, or even d6. He has orher choies: to
devclop rapidlyonlhe queon\ sido (. . . Pa6.. . .
Pb5), lo play as in lhe scEEv
249, (. . . Pd6). Tte variation is naned atter the
soliet player Geo.gy Vladimirovich Basbiko!
(1914-79). (sce uuBoJEv,..)
DAIIDRY, a problen term for one of ihe two
tinds of AMBUSE: a line-piec would comnand a
Ii.e iI moiher man ol the sane colour qet noved
offihat line. Discovered checks arise frcm thk kind
ofambush, as shown in thc TND,AN raEME. Play€(
occaionauy u* the pord baitery io descnbe
doubled or tnpbd line pieces; composes rarely
Ne the *o.d in this ene.
BAUER, JOHANN HERMANN (1861-91). Bo.tr
in Prague. he settled in Vienna as a youth, and
gained his naster file by qinning tbe Franuurt
1887. His nosr notable a.hio!emeot
was a se@nd plae (+3=3) arter 6