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

ZAGOROVSKY. I'LADIMIR PAVLOVICH
(1925 ).sovietplayei,lnter.ationalcorrespon'
dence chess Grandnastcr (1965), sience hisro
rian. Alterwinningrh€ Mosmw ChamPionship in
1952 and a fcw minor over the board clc.rs.he
took up postal chess atrhich hc bc.anre the nosl
fearedplayerolbn rime. Hc did nolconpetein$e
6rst tbree world Coircspondence Cbanpionships
but in lhc ncxt live he had an unnva[ed scrics of
resulh, norably a 6rst (+7=5) in thc ,ltb cham'
pionship, l9ar2 5. second atucr RITTER in the 6tb,
rhird equaiwith RrcnARDsoN after BrNN nnd Bory
in rhe 71h and a score ol +9=4 I ro sharc 66t
pta.c with slou in Ihe 8rh championship, 1975 9.
(Slolh was awarded thc title on tie break.)
ZAGORUIKO TIIEME, a problen themc that
consisls oI {]HAN6!D MArEs or chaneed mating
..niinn,rnrnsnrsr leastlwoblacknovesinthree
7t&',
%,ffi
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ZACRED VARIATION, 266. line nr lhe st.rlhN
DrrNcr popnlar in the 1950s.
ZAI'I'SEV. ALEXANDER NIKOLATGI.ICH
(1935 71) , Sovie r playe r, Inlernational Grandm as
ter (1967). Hn best inlemadodal lour.ameni
achicvenenl Ras at Sochi 1967 when he scored
+6=8 l to sharefirstp.izewitb Goclus.ssAMxoand
sP^ssn. ln his third USSR
Championship, Aima A1a 1968-9, he cane 6st
(+6=13) equal Nilh rc,.ucAyrlsn, but lost rhe
Flay oft. Zaitsev canre to a sad end. Wjshing to
n.iry, he dc.ided n$t to rededy a limp byhaving
onc leg lengthened; although hc rvas oiheNise a
robust and healthy man he died of thrombosis as a
onwquencc of the oPeralion.
ZAITSEV, TGOR ARKADYEVICH 0939- ),
solier ptayer. lnlemalional Crandmasrer (1976),
Moscow Champiofl 1969. His best tou.nment
(csnlts were at Moscow (oct. Dec.) 1967. rhnd
(+s=4 2) equir wirh BRoNsrErN arter rcr.u-
GAyFvsw and sMysrov: and the Moscow championship
1968. thnd (+5=8 1 and one pin by
defauhl after Bronstein and pEmosyAN. He aho
sh redIirstprizeatMoscoN 1968andDubna1979.
ZAITSEV VARIATION. 244 in the Sicilian De
ience or 420 in th. spANrs. opENrNc. rccomncndcd
hy L TArsEv iD 1973 aod 1968 respeclively.
ZATRIEON. see RoUND .EEss.
A piobLen by Packer, ,11I Chaqe Herc lt9l9).
There arc lwo sEr rl^y mates (sbai would happen
if Black were lo move lirn):
1...N(!1)- 2Obl
1...N(s7)- 2Oc6
Aftcrlhe kEy 1 Nd4 two varialions shb{ changed
1...N(!l)- 2Nc2
1...N(sr)- 2 NxI5
Tbe rHEM^ncrRy l Ncl isdeieatedonlyby 1
Nc2i otheraise fiere are changed malcs in the
L.Nb3 2 N5xb3
1...N(s7)-2Ne6.
George Frederick Harold Packd (1886-1956)
wis one olseleral tsrilish composers who invesli
garcd .HANdrD rl^l in the years 19i0 20. ld rhe
1950s changed pl.y becane note lashionablc and
this thene {.s n.ned afier the Sovici composer
Lconid Lanolich Zasoruiko (1921- ).
ZEBRA. . rrapPR invenred fir nse in FAnt
pRour tr{s. The co ordinates ol its leap are 3,2, and
the length ofits movc Vl3. A zcbrastandingoo d.l
wolld altacL a2, a6, b7. r, 96,92, f1, and b1.
ZEITNOT. German lor irME-rRouBlF. Russia
adopred the lord and n is sometioes used i. other
ZEPLDR, ERICH ERNEST (1898 1980)- Gel
man-born composer. Ifl ternalio.al Judgc of Ches
composirions (1957), Internarional Masrer lor
chess conposnions (1973). He was . pioneer oI
rhe NeN Gernan School found.d hy rcnrz a.d
ko.(EL(oRN aDdwrote an aulhoritaiive article on
rhe subject in tbe loumanent book of Tephz
scndnau 1922 He ,nd Adolf (raerer al,lgrF
1972), hoth amo.g thc lcadi.g Cerman composeB
between lhe two aodd wa$, often composed
togerher. Of Je*ish binh, Zeple r became a retu gee
in l9l5 and abandoning all his po$e$ions fled ii
hasrc to England. where he scttled. His considemble
electronic expertise sas putio sood use