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

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.r1r . . . d5 49 Nd2 8.6 50 exd5 Bxd5 5i Ne4 Qc6 52
Ral Rf4 53 Kh2 Rro4 54 d:e4 Bxe4 55 811 Bxs2 56
Big2 Rl2 57 Qhl e4 53 Qb1 Qd6+ 59 Khl Rrg2
IARRASCE DEfENCE, 56 i. thc oUEEN'scAMBrr
Declined. Bla.k is likely io g
afte.4 cxd5 exd5, b!1 he gains active play for his
pieces. rAnRAscH, bclieving this to be a good
deience, fonghr a lotrg baitle sith his conrcmpor
aries, many oi whon abhoied rhe isolal ed pawn;
and in rhc 191ft il seemed thal he had los1. Sine
rhe 1940s, howe!e., nastem have bcen les
sensilive abour isolated pavns. With this defcn(
spassxv $ored a win and four drass againsr
pErRct^N in the World Chamtionship march oI
1969.
Aho, 371, the opEN DEF .r lo the spANrsfl
opEN'Ncl here- too, Tar.asch believed ihat the
nobilily of Blact\ pieces Nould oulweigh the
vulnerability of his queen's side pAwN rcRMAnoN.
TARRASCII IRAP, two diffe.ent lraps in ihe
spANrsE opNrNc. Id 382 While *ins a piece by 12
Nxe6 because Black\ d'pawn will be pin.ed
shichever way bc recaptDresi instead of 11 . . .
Qd7 he should enter ihe BRESLAU v MrroN (383).
In 424 Blach castling is .n eror thal loses,at ieasr
apawn, e.s.8 Bxc6 Bxc6 9dxe5dxe5 l0Oxd8,
shen a game Tar6cb-Marco. D.esden tournament1892,continued
10. . .Raxds(10 . .Rexd8
als lose, 11Nre5 Bxe4 12Nxe4Nxe4 13Nd3
f5 l4AB.5+ lsNxdNxcs 16BC5Rdl l?Bc,
and Black resigned, for if 17 . . . Rt/ 18 c4,
winning the exchange. rAescH had published lhis
ttap in Deutsche Schachz.ituE about 18 nonths
TARRASCIMRIATION. 364 in lhe spANrsH
oENrNc, an old line played t{ice acai.st MoRPHY in
1858, adopted by rAescs in the 1890s, and
regarded as one of lhc strongcst lines at white\
disposal tor sone years afteNardi &15 in the
FRrNcn DETENCE, played by Tarasch at Nuren
berg 1888, lale, supeseded by the RUBTNSETN
Also 652, a popular line in lhe French Dele.ce
introduccd by G B. Fr6er in 1874, srAuxroN
remartitrg that it wB 'a novelty not undeseoing
attention . Tarasch adopted this variation i. th.
1880s but abandoned it because he believed thar
TARTAKOWER 345
White would be at a disadvartage on accounl oI
Biack s gaining an isolaied qtre!'s pawn (the
nornaloutmme). Masten nor play the variadon
be.ause they hope to prove that Black s IOP is
disadvanlageous, and not a sDnrce ol strenglh as
Tarasch supposd. $Rov played n nine tines in
his matches againsr (oR.sNor in 1974and 1978. All
nine canesweredra*n. (See srolrz; vAcANyAN.)
TARTAKOWDR. SAVIELY GRIGORYE.
VICH (1887 1956). I.te.national Grandnater
(1950), a proiessional player rankidS about
eighthorninlhinrhesorldalhisbcst(192G30) A
Jes of ALstrian andlolish parentage. he was born
ar Rostov-on-Don and leamed tbe moles a1 the
age oI len. ld 1899, after both hisparcntsnad been
nurdered, he left Rusia and compleled his
education. list i. Geneva a.d thed in Vienna,
whe.e he lived for nany yea6, and where hc
obtained his doctorate oflav in 1909. He gained
the Geman masler tille in the Nuremberg tuuE-
TRN]ER 1906. a.d from lhen unril 1914 Played in
aboui 18 roumanents vi1h varying results and won
natbes against SPTELBNN in 1913 (+5=5-2)and
REr in 1914 (+3=1-2). Alter sening in the
Ausrro-Hunganan army during &e FiBt Worid
W2r T?n,kower recommenced his chess .rreer
rakinsseotrd prize (+3=8 i) atter VTDMAR ahead
of scslE srER in lhe quadruplc{onnd vienra
lonrnamenli 1917-18. In the following yeaB he
lwicedefeated R€ii inmatchplay (1919, +3=5 2,
and 1920, +3=3) and achieved several good
rournament rcsults:'rhe Hague 1921, ssond
(+5=1) afte. lLEkd'Nr ahead oI RUBTNSENI
Vienna 1922, second (+7=6 1) ailer Rubinslein
ahead otAlekhine. and Vicnn ^
1913.66r l+1:4)
In 1924 Tartakower setlled in Parn. Phying in
lhree or tour rournadents a year, he rhen won or
shared ii^l prize in five strong evenis: Ghcnl1926
(+5=.r-1); Bad Nicndorf1927 (+4:3), a tie wirh
NrMzowrscHi London 1927 (+6:4 1),atiewirh
NimoNilsch ahead of Vidmar and Bo@DUBopi
Liage 1930 (+6 = 5), two points ahead of a neld thal
included suLrAN KEAN, Nimzowilsch, and RubinsteiFTa.takowcls
best achievement: and t-6di
1935(+5-J 1)aheadolrrNE.I.1933hedeleated
LrLrEro in natch play (+3=9). in sii odsecu
rive Ollhpiads from 1930 10 1939 Tatakower
played for Poland although he had neirher lived
lhe.e nor leamed the language, and on rhe second
o@sion, 1931, he nade the besl second board
score (+10=7-1). During tne Sccond world war
he seNed with lhe Free French lores under the
name Lt Carlier, and he subsequently tool French
.atio.ality, playing tor Fran@ in tne Olympiad of
1950.
Tartakoser olten chose opeding van.tions lhar
were neilher rell known ior hichly resarded,
remarkingrhat as long as an oFning n repuled to
be weak ii cd be played.' To explore urcharted
ground suited his ingenious style and stinulaled his
imaginalion: @nventional openings would have