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

3.I4 TANDEM CHESS
TANDEM CEESS, ganes lor which two playere
move the piefts of one colour making alte.nate
moyes vithoul consultatiDn. Sometimes two nas,
tes will give a sinultaneou display playing in
tandem. In social ches one tanden pair might
comPete againn anolher,
TA&IAN, JAMES EDWARD (1952- ), Amer
ican player. Intemalional Grandmaster (1976). A
member of thc US team thal qon the Wo.ld
Sludent Team Championship in 1970, he also
played tor lhe USA in several Olympiads from
1974. on the list occasion Mnning a p.ize for the
b.stlcore (+9=4) olthoseplayingseondresese.
In lhe US Championship 1978. aho a zonal
toumadenl, Tarjan took second place, and at the
Riga inlerzonal 1979 he cane elevenih.
TARRASCH,SIEGBERT (1862-1931), one ortbe
besl lonr playeB in the world for about 20 yeas.
doctor oi medicine. A Jew iron Breslau. TdrNch
lived most of his life in NurenberB, phere he
pradised. There he won the Geman masler tnh in
1883. and afler playing at Haoburg in 1885 a.d
Franklnrt in 1887, sharing *@nd and nfth places
respecdvely, he son 6ve sl.o.g tonrnane.k
consecutively: Nurenberg 1888i Breslau 1889
(+ 9= 8) i Maachcster 1890 (+12=7)rDresden1892
(+9=6 riandLeipzicl894(+r3:1 3).Hewon
marches against Taubenhaus in l89l (+6=1 1)
and waLBRoDr in 1891 (+7=1), and drew with
cn'coRrNin 1893(+9=4 9),analchinwhichihe
clash of ches styles produced many fine ganes.
Around 1893 Tarasch was probably playing as
well 6 or betle. than anyone else, and he mighr
hav€ cballengcd srErNrrz for the world championship
but he let the opportunity pas, pardy
beause ot professional denands. Al Hsrings
1895 hc was fourth after pLsBUry, Chigorin, and
ksrcRi a.d at Nurcmbcrg 1896 he qas lhird
(+9=6 3) equal with Pilhbury alter Laster lnd
MAR6czv Two of his hesr.chievemenh f.ll.v.d'
vien.a 1898, 6st (+21=13 2) eqdal with Pillsbury
whonhe defeated in thc play-off(+2=1 1)i
and Monle carlo 1903, fi.st (+17=6-3) ahead of
Pilhbury and scELEcm.
played a world championship match: now i. his
forly sevenrh year, he was decisi,ely tEaten by
AIter lhis deleal Tarasch pliyed in about 23
strory toumanenls, achievi.g his best rcsuh. a
Iourth pnze (+9=5 5), at san sebastiin i. 1912
(about catesory 13). He drew a darch Mrh
Schlechter in 1911 (+3=10-3). and deleared
MESB in 1916 (+7=4 2). Tarash played for
Gemany in rhe Olympiad oI1927. A patnor who
bravelyborcthe lossolhisonlysurvilingsonin the
Fnst World War, he was hounded byanti-Senites
The fastidiousness and elesan@ ofhk dres and
nan.e. we.e a p l oI his vaniry. His boots and the
nany chess columns he ediied were Nnflen with
wit and slyle, and also with aroganl selt
ssurance. Ccrmany was tncn 1he leading che$
nalion and he enjoyed lhe tille of Prac..p,ar
Gmaniae, ^hho!8h
his wndngs influened
playe$ well beyond the boundaries ol his counlry.
His cness tninking was sbaightforuard: in the early
part oI the game a player shonld abovc all seck
nobility ior his pieces. An isolated papn or a loose
pawn fomation was oI little ac@unl if one had
conpe.sating nobility, a viev acccpted wilh some
rewNalions by posienlyi lo concede one\ opponenl
a PAw GNnE, or even a
accepl a o.ENsrvE cEmE 6G1 be bad becaus
mobility might thereby be limited, a view which
disregarded the advanes made by Steini, and is
no lonser held. ftesumablv Tarash mellowed.
for in the 1920s he smetimes played tbe new
openings oI the dtENoDERN movcment, which
was largely a reacrion ro his dognatic .otions
.egarding thecentre. (See MoBrLniEpE rloN or
osrdoN; s.roor-s oF cHEss.)
'frta*h ptblished Dleihundert khachponieh
(1895), an aubbiographical sanes collection, and
Die nodeue Schochpa ie (1912), a sle.tion oI
niore tha. 2m ganes, most of them by well knosn
masteB and a lew, showing unexpectcd sknlishnes,
which were Ecrilious. D6 schachsp ie t 1193 1),
an instruclional boot, was lranslated and published
as flE Gdn. ,/ C/Bs (1935). He also
conhibuted to lhe last edition of Bileucr\ rrAND-
Ar rhn rime larra\ch had $on mo'e slrong f Rerntetd, ra,,r/, , Bpt Gahp\ or I h.s 1t947 |
toumanents than dnJ orher nlrjcr I ? oul or rhe I I con drn\ t8.r same.
in which he had ompeled) and he challensed
La\ker lor rhc sorlo ch.ooronllnD rerms $;re rartos.h br\mi-rs"T 'h'co''
l3or r'e'clr De
aSreed in O,' lml rhc m:rch ro'begn .bour d
tcnc'' r l'sorn \drar'on
year laler. Tatasch asked fo. a year\ postpone- 1e4e6 2Qe2c5 3g3N.6 4Bg2Nd4 j Od3Be7 6Nc3
menti tisker declined to acept, and there sas no 816 7Nb5Nxb5 8Qxb5 Qb6 9Qc2d6 10NBtsd7 11
match. Tarasch scored + 14= 8-4 to share seond crBb5 12d3Qa6 13c4Bc6 140{lh6 15Beleb6 t6
olace srll1 rsow![ dher Mdoo\ dr odend in Rab dl r dl.r ]3 R dre. toNd2 !!7 20\r' Bd
i905 L,ted b"dh ar Nu,emhere in t90h rnd hen 2tBd\6 ,Bc'\df i B\drctd, 2,BBo._ :5
::l
tl
: : , t t""rd T* ti;!T'r: 3:: T.tI''l Bf li"Si, i."i*i,;.^ ?fl i
ahead ot trs l5o.2|\gs looe g. r/Rg,Rn_ J3B.2Rs_ ro
Mar6ey and Schlechter; ostensibly this event was
-Bd1
edr ed7 40 oel 15 4t
"; Rrs" 42 Be2 f*.a a: r,ea
Iorthe world louhament chanpionship, althoneh Rsr 4lQdlb5 a5cxtr5 Bxb5 46Nh2Be3+,t7Khtg5
few.ecog.ized the title. In 1908 Tarasch finally c3Nll