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

cur back his chess activiies. Hh NiIe. ,!. Antonia
Ivanova (1931 )- Non the Bulganan womcn\
Championship six dnes.
BODEN, SAMI]EL STANDIDGE (T826-82),
En8lshpla]$adrvernrhe l85ns Ii l85l he$rore
A P.n'tnrthn dttirnL'th. Stud\ dnd rru.dceol
Cr;. an excenent gujde introdu;ine rhe Boije.
Kiesentky G.nbil which at once becan. popular.
in rhe samc year he *on the provincial
concurrenlly sith the Llndon
irternational lournament ,^t Manchester 185?, a
kn..krn,t rvent hc camesecond to Ldw.NrrrAL
he dres one eame oI lhe linal mat n aod then
withdrew In 1858 Boden dclcated oEN in a
natch (+7=2 3) and nc played nanr lriendly
games with MoRpN, who declared him to bc ihe
stronBest English playerr since STAUNIoN and
BUC(E had rctned tbn judgcmcnt was Probrbly
right Ako in 1858herestaricdthe chess colurn nr
'Ire F,.ld, handing ovcr to DE VERE in 1872 l he
colunE has continucd uninlerrptedly cvcr since.
Besides cncs and his work as a railNay mnpiny
enlloyee Boden iound time to beooe a compclenr
am.teur paintcr anLt an ar! cnlic
BODEN-KTESERITZKY CAMBIT, 141, 547,.n
interesting line lirs1 plblhhcd in BoD.N\ P.?"/a,
/,r/,drdi,n 1851. Afier ihe usual4. . . Nxc3 5
dxd 16 White has alastin8butPerbapsinadequate
attack lor his piwn. KESERrrzry had suggested the
ganbn in 1848, but thc truc invento. ma, have
BODEN'S MATE, a nate Silen to a king on thc
edge ol the board by lhe dossllre oftso bishops,
sonelimcs preceded b! . quccn sacrilice. The
name stems fiod the lollowing lriendly gane.
S.hnlde. Boden London,135:l Philidor Delence
I e4 ei 2 NB d6 3.3 15 4 Bc4 Nt6 5 d4lx.4 6 drc5
exl3 7crl6Qxr6 3gxBNc6 q14Bd? 10Bc3 4,10.0 l1
N'i2 Re3 12O13 tsI5 13 0'0-0 d5 ll Bxdl Qxcl+ 15
Bx.3 tsa3 marc.
BODEN VARIATION, 5:15 in lhc p xrDoR DErtrNc..
playcd by BoDEN againsr MoRpBy in 1858i
4lR in ihe..rDFr DFFFN.F n) thespANrsH.pFNrNG
given by Ruy 6pEz- played by srANLDy lgainsl
Rousseau,4lh maich gamc, 1645. Bothlariations
BOEY,JOSEF(1r3+ ).Belgianptaye..Interna'
lional Masrer (1973), Inlernational Correspon
dcnce chess Grandmasrer (1975). winnffor joint
winncr of the national ovcFthe-board chdnPionship
several ritues lrom 1959, he Played in scven
Olympiads trom 195,1 lo 1974, on the last three
occasions at fiBt board. Boe! s achievemenk in
postal play inclnde a second plae aftcr EsrRrN in
the 7lh World Correspondcncc Championship.
1972 5
BOCOLIUBOW 4I
BOCOLJUBOW. EFIM DMITRIYEVICH
(1889 1952). Intemational Gnndmasicr (1951),
onc olthe *orld s besrsixplaycn in the 1920s. A
Ukrainian, his name uses German spellin8: n is
pronounccd BogolFbov. and neans Deloved ol
God. Hesrudiedtheology, then agridltnr€,before
indine his true c.tling as a.hcs professional. His
careerbeganwnh minorsnccessesatKie!, nearhis
birrhplae, in 1911, md al lhe t-6dz tournamcnt,
1912-l3. ln lwo Russian champioaships conlested
ar St Pelersburg in 1911 and l914 he achieved only
nodesrresufts, but he earned the Rlssian Mastcr
dle by dclcating s^twE +5=2 3 at L6di, 1913.
While be was playing in the Mannheim tourna
ment in 191,1, thc Fnst World War hegan and he
had the good fortune to be inlemcdi in a pleasanl
area of rhe Black Foresl hc lound a pemanent
nome, a wile, and a last resting place. One ol lhc
few who substantially inproved hh playing
sfengrh during the Nar, BogoltuboN son five oi
the eight tou.nanenis arrangcd by and Io. lhe
intcrnces. I. 1920 be woa a nalch againsl
NrMzou$cs (+l 1) and lost narowly ro ruB'N-
Bogoljubowt gealesl successcs came in the
ycars 1922-9, although his results were erraticihe
played in 17 slrong touinamcnts. wi.nine eiSht Iirsl
prizes but on nve occasions scoring les $an lfly
per cenl His nnt importanl *ins {ere at PicSfany
1922 (+13:4 l), ahead of AL.KH,NE. and at
Carlsbad 1923, when he shared lhe pnze with
Alekhine (borh rcorcd +9=5 3) and MAR6czY.
Still a Sovict citizen. Bogoljubos cntcrcd the
USSR Championship in 1924 andwon by a margin
oiiwo and a halipoinls. AtBreslau in the toUowine
vear he won thc Gernan Open Championship
(+9: l- 1) ahead olRubinslein and Nimzowitsch,
and thus became the onlyplaycrto hold lhe Sovier
and Gem.n chinpionships at the sane dne. He
again won lhe USSR Chanpionship in 1915, and
the great Moscow tournamenl (aboulcategory 1l)
prodnccd his finest
at thc end ol th€ lear
achielenent: lisr prizc (+13=5 2) dbead of
LASreR, CAPAUI.ANCA. ANd RUbiNStCiN.
His vigorous and ingenious stylc was in con'
Iormiry wnh Soliet ideah. but after winning
(+6=2 1) the Berlin tournament oI1926he lailed
roreturn ro thc USSR and was a4ounteda traitor.
(Tscnty-6ve years alter his dealh hc was tehabili'
tated .) After beominA a Ccrman citizen in 192?
he won sever.lslronglournaments: Bad Hombuig
1927 (+5:4-1), Berlin sepr. 1928 (+?:3-l),
and Bad Knsingen 1928 (+6=,1 1) ahead oI
Capablanca, Rubinstein. and LU{E. Tbese succes
ses encouragcd him lo challenge Alekhi.c for the
worldiirle (1929). atuj alrhough in hisp.imehewas
outclassed (+5=9 1l)1 his TNDGAiIE lechnique
was noticeably bclos world chanpionship stan-
Alter this deleit Boaoliuhow
Ieser. He cane a poor sccond (+12=6 8) to
Alelhine in rhe grcal Bled tournamedr ol 1931,
a.d Non lhc Gcrman Chanpionship. then stroneer