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BUCKLE 51<br />

shosing what mighl have omred. He Mites that<br />

'rhe nov6 played i. each gane sene 10 annotate<br />

the anihor's ideas'. a rveBal of the nomal<br />

praclie, and that the formal i! lhal of a lilerary<br />

rort.' Bronsrein has a grear interest in literarure,<br />

and .spocially in shrkespeare (his English is<br />

flueno. and he has the apprcach of an arlist. <strong>The</strong><br />

author', vrote Spasky, is proseni in its pages.'<br />

Inproved <strong>by</strong> a revision i. 1960 the book has<br />

be@ne a classic. arguably the best oI a[ louma<br />

ment books. Two EDglish fmslatioos of the<br />

revised ve.sion were published: Zwi.h l4telnononal<br />

<strong>chess</strong> Touttu ent 1953 \t979) nad <strong>The</strong><br />

<strong>chess</strong> St.ussle in Pructi.e (1980). Bronstein has<br />

made sevo.al mtrr.ibudons 10 openings knowledge,<br />

in particular be and Boleslavsky inlroduced<br />

new stralegic ideas in rhe Kingt Indian Delence as<br />

a consequene of whjch this opening, regarded as<br />

inadequate in rhe 1930s, h.cane lashionable for<br />

moy years afte. the s&ond world war. (see<br />

B. s. vainstein. /aplaetaaira v Shakhnohon<br />

r*6st,e (l976) conraiN . biography of Bronstein,<br />

some ol his wrirings, and 52 an.otated games; D.<br />

Bnnsteii.2fi Opek Games | 1974) is a lransla(on<br />

of the Ru$ian origi.al published in 1970.<br />

Brcn$cin Tal UssR club chanpionship RiSa l9&9<br />

1e4e5 2tud5 3exd5e4 4d3Nl6 5die4Nxe4 6N13<br />

Bc5 7Qe2Bt5 sNdQe7 9Be3N(3 1oBxdNrc2<br />

11tsxe? N:I4 12Ba3Nd7 13G00Bc4 14 Ng5 Bxd5<br />

i4&awtwt<br />

clainants <strong>to</strong> rhis bizaEe opening: he @ud a well<br />

have been Jon€s or Robi6on,<br />

BRowND. WALTER SIJAWN (1949 ), tnter<br />

nationalGra master (1970), a prolessional chesp,ayer<br />

fron the age ol 18. Bom in Sydney,<br />

Australia, and taken <strong>to</strong> the USA when a boy, he<br />

joined the Manhattatr Ches Club at the age of 13.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re he l€amed his .hess and in 1968 he wetrt<br />

bact <strong>to</strong> his hodeland for about nve yeds before<br />

*1rli.! h the USA. He wo.<br />

veni; 1971 r+7=l- t, dnd wiik aan z.e 1974<br />

(+s=6 1), aid played in lhe Manila interzonal<br />

1976 in which, however. he made o y a modest<br />

score. Sin@ then h. has achieved good results at<br />

Reyklaqk I9?8, 6rsr(+7=4 2)aheadoluRsEN.<br />

HoFr. and tuLUcAYElss, Buenc Aires (July)<br />

1979, rhird (+7=4 2) aft€r xoR.Hdor and<br />

uus@{.i wiik aa0 zee 1080, 6Er (+7=6) equal<br />

wnh ssMwaN ahead of krchnoi dd nMtN i and<br />

Surakarta Denpasar 1982 (+11=13-1), 6tsr<br />

equal wilh HENLLY. Browde was chmPion or<br />

@-chmpron ui rhe USA in 1974 (+6-7). 1475.<br />

1977, and 1981 ( +6=6-2 ro tie with senawan). In<br />

Olynpiads he played for Aulralia in 1s?0 and<br />

1972 and subseqrcntly lor the USA. (See MNoR<br />

BRi,EL, HANS MORTTZ (173G1809), Saxon<br />

diplomatht who nade London hishome, md sare<br />

great suppod ro PH!DoR. From the app.oximtely<br />

30 games ol his lhat have strnived, Count Briihl<br />

.an be seen <strong>to</strong> have been one oI the slrongesl<br />

playoE of his day. Posibly hh love of nusic may<br />

nrst have drawn hiD <strong>to</strong> Philidor and they beome<br />

regular oppooents ai ihe chesebo.rd. Eighte€n of<br />

their games are k.o*n.<br />

BRUNNDR CHESS, alorn of<br />

twfrw<br />

HW&AWH<br />

1593Blh] 16*J,lo- 17Bc,lBc6 13Nxflb5 lsNd6+<br />

Kc7 20 Nxb5 RnI3 21 Nd4 Bg2 22 Neri Rf5 23 Rsl<br />

Bc1 24Nc7 Rd3 25 RxgT+ xl6 261{17+ Ks6 2? Rc?<br />

Nl6 23Ne6RcB 29b3Rhs 3{N!58d5 ll Bd3+Kh6<br />

32Bb2c4 33BI5c3 l4Bx.acxb2+ 3i Ktrb2 Rxn2 36<br />

RxaTRE 37Ra4Kg6 33Rd4h5 39a4h4 40oJBg2 4l<br />

a6 Nh5 42 Bb7 Nx14 ,13 L!l4 Bl.ck rcsiSns.<br />

BRONSTEIN CAMBIT. 261 in tne srcrlraN Dr-<br />

BRONSIEIN VARIATION, 155. a linc in ihe<br />

NrMzojoaN DETENCE played in the lTth match<br />

game Bolvinnik-Bronsteini wo.ld ch<strong>amp</strong>ionship,<br />

i95l Gee roBNrR). Also 208 in the KrNcs<br />

'NDTAN<br />

BROWN OPENINC, 697, the GRoB opENrNG. No<br />

one has bodered ro idenlity Brown, onc ofmany<br />

BRYAN COUNTER-GAMBII, 572, a variation ol<br />

tie xrNc's ceBr Accepted analysed <strong>by</strong> the<br />

American amareur Thomas Jefferson Bryan<br />

(.. 180G70). who was adive in the ches circles oI<br />

PadsandLo.doninthediddleollh.l9thce.tury.<br />

EsE{rzp dlso analysed and played this dubious<br />

counleFganbit, phich somelimes beaB his nane.<br />

IIUCSEOLZ SCORD, an auxiliary scoring nethod<br />

devised <strong>to</strong> supplant the Svensson system (basically<br />

lhe sane as NEUSADIL, in Swiss syslem <strong>to</strong>urname.ts.<br />

A pl,yer's iotal score mulriplied <strong>by</strong> lhe sum<br />

ofhisopponents scores is his Buchholz score. This<br />

s.oring melhod was Dsed, probably lor the l]trt<br />

time. in a lournament ar Bilterleld 1932, in which<br />

thc odgina<strong>to</strong>r, Bruno Buchholz of MagdeburE,<br />

competed. An account is giveo ir Ranneforth\<br />

BUCKLE, HENRYTHOMAS(1821 62l,EnBlish<br />

DIcrcr. his<strong>to</strong>nan. Lle r\u\ually resdrded a\\ccond<br />

imi:nA EnE[sh plircr( onlJ tu srtuNroN duing

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