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

360 TRAXLER VARIAfiON
ratherlhan therso-dimensional poccr s[r. In the
18th century Frencb noblenen had chessnen *ilh
spikes a1 rhe base and cushions enbroideied as
chcqucrcd boards. In thc ncxt ccnlury scts wcre
devisedwith ahole in thecenireoleachsquareola
wooden board, each man havins a pes at its base.
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Whoeler has the dove Ioses the game. A similar
situarion could arise on other raoks and nles. a?
tub chd cadd be interpr€ted as mcaning the
trap : eilher playe. nusl avoid reaching this
posilion unless he can ensure that n would be his
opponenls turn to play. when DURAND and pREn
inlroduced the tefln in 1811 lhcy used it for a
different position: White Kf5. Pd4. Bla.k Kb5,
Pd5. Whne to play 1Ke6Kc6-, orl KJ.l Kb4, b6,
or c6=, blt no1 I Ke51 Kc4. Black !o play 1 . . .
K.6 or b6=. bul not I . . Kb4? 2 (e6 Kc4 :l
Ke5. Playmightproceed 1 Kl4Kb4 2 Kf5Kb5and
so on, lhe up and down nolenenrs ol rhe kings
suggcsling rhe opemtion of a balance, another
Travelling ser, showing a posi.ion lion ihc 1933 Candi.
darcs malch: Belyasky (Black) ro nove. resicned rhe
and rheRbylon the natch to Kr$rov.
Came
Wirh asuirable lid the selcould be closed and put
away wilhout dislurbing thc posidon. A dore
sophiticated dcsign, /tr S,ar, Ou,, has a lolding
board wnh a bcting device to keep rhe me. in
placc when rhe boaid is iolded. Larer sets used
magnetism lo stop thc picces sliding vhile the
players were in molion.
TRAXLER VARIATION. 502 in thj po KNrcsrs
DEEENCE. Peter Karel Traxler (1866-1936). a
weu knosn Czech problcmisl, played thk line in
1890: it is aho known as the Wilkes-Bare
TREYBAL, KAREL (1885 1941), Czech player,
oagisbare He played in lhree Olympiads 0930,
1933. 1935), and in several strong tournaments in
which his best result was at Carlsbad 192:1. {hen he
sbaredsixth piace wirh NrMzowrrscr one and a half
poinh below the joint sinner
,uBow. and MAr6.zy. He died a victim of tbe
TRIANGULATION, a manau!.e by the king
that bsfs rHL MovE and sets up or leads to a
souEEzE or a zuczwNc. ln the lollowing
examplewhire skirgisnovedon atriangularpath
(b3-a3-b2-b3). The rerm probably orisinated
because thisis 1he pauemoinoves nost irequedt
lyseen, butotheipalterns occur from time lo time.
TREBITSCH, LEOPOLD (1842-1906). Ausrrjai
indusr alist who learned chess hali-Nay through
hn Iife and became agenerouspatron Asenesoi
20Trebitsch Mcmorial tournamcnls took place in
Vienna lrom l9O7 ro 1938i the stro.eesi oI rhen
were rhe 6rsl (1907, Nod by rBEs), rhe sevenrh
(1915, won by scslEcsrER), the rwellih (1928.qon
by GRtNTELD and rAx,ics), and thc eighreenth
(1935. son by ELutusEs and L. srE,NER).
TRTBUCHET, a type of zuczwANc shown id rbe
w vw v/&,
A position publhhed in 1841
supposed it to be drawn.