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372 VIDMAR<br />
<strong>The</strong>n. ro rward h€r for hei vinue los,<br />
Gare her ihe men and chequeld board embos'd<br />
With Eold and silver curious\ inlay'd!<br />
And laugh her hN rhe srde *.s 6 bc play'd<br />
Ev n no* lis honou'd ,ith her happy namei<br />
And Rose and aU the world addiiE rhe gahc.<br />
VIDMAR, MILAN (1885 1962), Yu8oslav player,<br />
I.rernatiomt Graad6asler (1950). International<br />
Arbiter ( 19s l), electical onsi.e€r, Dean of Ljubljoa<br />
Univesiry. Fo. aboui 20 yeas he wd ranked<br />
amons the world's 66t h.lf dozen playe6. He was<br />
born at tiiba€h (LjrbljaM) and while studyinB nr<br />
Vienna 11902 7) <strong>to</strong>ok tie opportuily <strong>to</strong> play in<br />
slonS <strong>to</strong>urnaments at Bamen 1905, Nurembere<br />
1906. Vienna 1907, md Carlsbad 1907. His linl<br />
notable win (+6=2 t) N6 at the Gdtebors<br />
r.nmanent 1909. At San S€b6dnn 1911. one of<br />
the srongest four <strong>to</strong>Enmenls hetd up 10 that<br />
time. he sored +5=8 I and shared second prir<br />
with *uBNsrN hall a point afier cpduNG<br />
ahead ol sGLEcmR and rARN.E. WheD tbe<br />
FiBt World War begatr in 1914 the Mdnheim<br />
<strong>to</strong>nmmenl was broken off. 11 of the 17 routrds<br />
baving been played. Al€nnder ^LEGINE,<br />
haling<br />
the highest perce.tag€ smre, *as aqarded the 6ret<br />
prize sllhough vidmar was undefealed and had<br />
det stronger oPposition. (se<br />
MEfroDs.) DuinS the wd he won two shonS<br />
quadrdgular <strong>to</strong>umadents: Vienna 1917-18<br />
(+5=6 1) ahead olSchlechterr and Berlin (Apr.)<br />
1918(+3=3) ahead of Schlccht€r a Rubi.slein.<br />
Subsque.t,y he achioved five excellent louma<br />
ment results: r- on i9z, ftird (+9=4 2) ailer<br />
capablaoca and Alekhine ahead of Rubinstein and<br />
Bo@nEow;Hastings192tu,6ru1(+8=1)equal<br />
with Alekhine i Semmering 1926,lhnd (+9=6 2)<br />
after SEEIMNN dd Alekhine ahead of MUzowrsG<br />
and Rubinsteini New York 1927, ahoul<br />
cateAory 15, fourth ( + 3:14- 3) after C.pablanca,<br />
Alekhine, and NiruoeiBch; and Bad Sliaa 1932.<br />
6sr (+6=7) equal Nith Flohr ahead oI Bogor<br />
jubow. ln 1939 he wo. the strcqest Yusoslay<br />
clumpiomhip held up <strong>to</strong> lhal time..<br />
vidnar was a contemporary of Alekhine a.d<br />
Capablanca. blt in those dala oI 'private enler<br />
p.ise'wortd ch<strong>amp</strong>ionships he had no opportunily<br />
<strong>to</strong> challe4e Io.lhe *orld ride. His achievenenls<br />
are rhe nore remarkable in tiat he played<br />
thouglDut his life 6 a. amateur mons<br />
Drofesiomls. He w.ole l*o au<strong>to</strong>biographies, Pol<br />
S<strong>to</strong>letia ob Sahovnici (.1951) and Codene SchochzerrrS<br />
(1961). <strong>The</strong> lomer contains some of his<br />
bst games; lh. latter, atr oulslanding work,<br />
@trtaitrs a tuod of infomation about his @n1emporaries,<br />
includine some of lhen gams. N€irhei<br />
has beer lo.slared i.<strong>to</strong> English. Hil only <strong>to</strong>ma<br />
menr book carirbad l9ll (1912), wilten in<br />
Geman and eprinted 1969-?0, w6 not, he said,<br />
d good as il should have been because he Pas paid<br />
Vidmals son, also calted Milan (1909-80), a,<br />
electroniG ergineer. onpeted in a lev <strong>to</strong>umanenls<br />
atrd the Olympiad of 1950. obtainedthe lille<br />
oi Internatiof,al Master (1950). and refted iron<br />
master play soon aite ards.<br />
Alckhin+vidDar Semrenns 1926 Quccn\ Ganbn<br />
1d4N16 2NAd5 3c4.6 4e3e6 5Nbd2c5 6Be2N.6<br />
7rl0Bd6 3a3.xd4 9exd4a5 l0Bd30-0 11RelM 12<br />
b3Bb7 l3B62Ne7 14Ne5 N36 15NdBNe4 16cid5<br />
ei5 l7Bb5Qc7 l3Nd7Rrd3 19 Nxb6 Rablt 20Ne5<br />
Bre5 2l dxe5 Qc5 22 Qd4 Oxbs 23 c6 Nl6 24 Nd7<br />
RrdT 25 eidT QxdT 26Rac1h6 27AReS 23 Rre3+<br />
Qxe8 29 KI2 Qb5 30Qe3Ba6 31a4Q67 32Rc5Nh5<br />
33s3Qd7 S4KelQhl r5R\a5O$2 36QDQhl+ 37<br />
Kd2 Qbl l3 Qd4 Ofl 39 Qxd5 Qe2+ 40 Kc3<br />
'*,t w@<br />
w wr1&<br />
w%b<br />
,n,...Bb? 41Qib7Qe1+(rs.Es ) 42 k4O*5 43<br />
Bc3 Ql5 44 Qb8+ Kn7 45 35 QxA 46 Qc7 (if the<br />
.-oo*nadtr.esinskwered)4... Nxs 4r Kb4 Nf4<br />
d{ rc3 Neb 49 ors Ne4 t0 BM Q.B 5l Ka4 Nd4 52<br />
Od515 53 Qc4 Qdt 54Ba3 Qa1 55a6N.3+ 56Kb4<br />
Nc2+ 5? Kc5 Qxa3+ 53 (b6 Ne3 whire resisns<br />
I.IENNA DDFENCE, 591, th<br />
<strong>to</strong> the &NG's cAMB'r Ac.eprcd.<br />
IIIENNA CAMBII, 318, the K<br />
PI2-f4.playedinthe,rENNAGAMEalter2. . . Nc6.<br />
<strong>The</strong> play is akin <strong>to</strong> lhat i. the Kins's 6ambit. bul<br />
iepuredly les ravourable <strong>to</strong> white. (see<br />
MUUIoN or ADvANrAcEs, )<br />
^c.u-<br />
VIENNA GAME,315. the name now u*d ior tne<br />
Hadppe opening, also koo*n as the Quee.\<br />
ltuight Opening, given <strong>by</strong> rcNzaNr and fisr<br />
anallsed <strong>by</strong> rAEN6cB. (See M,Ess.)<br />
VIENNA VARIAIION, 104 in the auE s c^MBrr<br />
Declined, played io rhe gane Bogoljuboewolf,<br />
Carlsbad 1923. lested in a series of consultarion<br />
ganes betveen the vie.nese players GRLiNFELD,<br />
kuIiNN,BaldurHdnlinser(190! ),a.dvoLF<br />
in 1933. and malysed <strong>by</strong> anoiher viennese player<br />
Hans Miiller (189G1971).<br />
VIRTUAL PLAY, see nY-PLAv.<br />
VISSERMAN, EELTJE (1922 78), Dutch mnposer,<br />
International Judge ol Ches ComposilioN<br />
(19s8), civilseoant i. rhe MinislryorHousingand<br />
Btrildi.g. He was one of the 6rst lour <strong>to</strong> be awarded<br />
rhe riile of Inrern,ri6n,l Grrndma*er of <strong>Chess</strong>
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