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

BRINCXMANN 49
Frar Clenens Honoratus Hemann JDsef Bren'
tano (1838-1917), a qell knos. Gernan philo
sopher who Iived in Vienna, f.eque.tly Plblished
analyses ot the openings.
BRESLAU VARIATION. 3&ll in the sp rnr
opENrNc. Black saoiices a piece (12 lJ Bd6 13
fxe4) but gels a sumcient allack as conPensation.
carl BerBmain orB.eslau (no* wroclaw) analysed
the line with lcal playes and published the
rcstlt in Deuxches Wache$chach, 1913. p. 111,
addingrhaihesanteditlobo knownaslheBreslau
Variarion. rARRAsor protested that he had thougnt
of the idea first. and he published it in a lccture at
Stockholm a lev days betorc the magazine
appcared. He did nor pursuc his accusadons shen
it was revealed rhat Bcrgmann s paper had bec.
delivered somc time earlier.
BREVIT Y! interesting ga,.e ol a fe{ ooves For
exa6ple,lNBc5 2b3Nc6 3Bb2Nf6 4c3{6 5
Bb5e6 6Ne5Oc7 7008d6 8Bxc6+bxc6 9I4
00 l0 Rfl Nd7 11Rh3g6? 12Qh5,andBlack
resigns, fo.heissoon maied (Placherla L. zinn,
Deain 1974). (See sEoRr GAME.)
BRBYIIR, GYULA (189{-1921), Hungariai
player, nalional champion in 1912. His play
rmproved raddly after ihe Eir( world War, and i0
x t.'trnimenr rr Berlin Dcc 1920. he \on liur
prize (+6=1 2) ahcad oI BocouuBow, rARrAxowER,
*ir. MAR6czY, and rARRAs.s. tn i921 he
madc a new blindfoid chess record, playing 25
gam€s simdlaneously. A career lhal seemed sel
for high honous was eflded abruptly by his dcath
Breycr h6 achieved more lame as a pioneer of
rhe\o-.,lled nppnMoDmN novement- and lor his
aphonsn aller thc frst move 1e,l Whitc'se9me n
in rhe last tnroes.' He n suggesring that lhe
unguarded pawn al e,l could bocone a larget tor
Black, that While should begin 1d4, or altenpt to
confol the .cnlre in otbei ways. (Hc did not
himsclf aba.don rhe openins mo,e I e4.)
Although Breyer\ name isnot associaled with any
new opening orlariation ola'hypetuodern kind
his enquiring mind, stimulaiedbynes ctcss ideas
of any kind, Nas a source ofinspiralioo to sone oI
his conlemporanes- not lc6t to his close frie.d
R€tii and lris aonotations are relreshingly uodoenatic.
For a rime he edited 4 nagajn.. S.ellni
Stor. devoted to puzzles oi all kinds including
chess Plobleds and at lcasl one briliant reho-
.nalylical sludy composed by him.
BEyer-K.Havasi Budape*lSt8 Ouccn\Pasiopen
ld4Nl6 2Nd2d5 3e3Bl5 4c4c6 5Ngl]e6 6!e2
Bd6 7c5Bc? 3MNbd7 9Bb2Ne4 roNxc,1drc4 ll
Nd2Nl6 t2g48g6 13h4h5 14gih5Nxh5 15Qc2N16
16001)815 17 tldgl KIS 13h5a5 19h5cxb5 20nxb5
R\n5 21 di R{h1 22 Rxhl Kg3 2r d6 Bb3 24 N.4 Ba7
27 d7 NxdT 23oh2l6 2s Bxc5 Nx.5 30Qh3+Kfl:rl
Bcs+ Black resiens. for hc mu$ lose his qneen.
BREIER GAMDIT, 624, a dubions line in the
KNcs c^Mr Accepted. analysed by CARRERA.
vh.\e n,ne it sometimes bears- and reintroduced
by BREYER, whosc ideawaslo answer 3. . . Qh4+
by 4 Ol2.
BREYER VARIATION.46 in the aUEEN's cAMBrr
Declined; 329 in ihe IIENNA GAME, introduced in
thc eame Blackbum+Judd, New York 1889.
Als 4tli in the srANrsH oENlNc. . varialion
allegedly suggested by DRIIER around 19i1, and
neglecteduntilthe l960ssbetrnbecameoncof the
accepred lines in the cm$ DEFEN.T. 392. Black
Esuallt redevelops his qucen's knight at dTwhich,
says EUWE, gives his position nore ncxibiliry.
?resunably Breyerwished to avoid the move . . .
Pc7-c5 which was iashionable in his time (see
BRILLIANCY PRIZE, or beauty prize, a pnze lor
a gamethatoniainsabrilliantmmbinalionchosed
Irom those played in a rournanent or natch. such
a game is noi necessanly disringuisncd on account
of the sound stralegy or the cx.euene oI Play
throughoul, the characteristics requi.ed for a sEsT
GeE pNz!. The 6rst b.illiancy prize, a slver
cup. was siven by the proprieloi ol the CaIi Internarional,
New York, where a tournament was held
in Sepr. and Oc1.1876.'This spnited offer should
have amarkcd innuence inprotecting us lrom thc
qearying round ol French. Sicilia., and nrcgular
opcninss . . . (see BBD fo( tne p.ize-sinnins
game. arNcs DETENCE.) The 6.st brilliancy Piize
lor a natch gamc.300 fr., was awarded to sEINnz
lor the eiehth game ot his world chanpioaship
matcb against csrcoEN in llj89.
F. Le Lionnais, aer P.d d. E.a uti aw Echecs (2nd
BRTNCKMANN, ALFRED (1891 1967), Gernan
player and author, Inlcrnalional Arbirer (1951),
Inlernatiooal Master (1953). His best tournament
qin sas in aco.test of ten playes alBe.lin in May
lgrJ$hen he.rme rhead ol B
vrrscE, and si{rscr. Brincknam is chiefly re
membered for hk books. all written in excellenl