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

7E ol Jamaica and H. F. W. La.e of Stroud.
EnEland, subnilted alnost idcntibal problens in .
formal tourney, winning firsl and third przes
respeclively. Ghe diagrms are in that orde..)
Both are BLo.( problens wilh the same key (1
Oa2l and *ve.al identical variations
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rcs!.. GRUNELD. od rMA(owER, and Scarborough
i930 (+6=5)ahead of MAR6.zti RUBINSTEN,
and suLrAN @N. The strength of rhese rouinamcnts
would be approxinately caregories 8 and 9
.espedively: in strotrger elents he made o y
modest scorcs. Wilh the While pieces he frequentlv.laved
rhe orEsysEM. whrh hE handled sirh
e.i,t i,.tuo",y..no "t'i.t' "r,en
led ro K,Nc s srDE
aitacks. He died afte. an oPeration lor a Saslric
colle-Ginnfcld Benin Nov) 1926 Ouecn\ PaM
ld4Nr6 2NAe6 3e3b6 4Bd3Bb7 5Nbd2c5 6rI0
Bei 7b3cxd4 3eid4d6 9Bb2Nbd7 10c40-0 llRcl
Rcs 12Re1O.? 13 Qe2 Rac3 14Nrt QbB 15 Ns3
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COLIBRI OPENTNG. 697. anothe. name tor thc
cxoB opENrNG. T he onnection with a humming_
bird is tuncitul.
COLLABORATION, now an acceptable practice
in @moos(ron hut nur rn nla, ercepl dur ng a
..^,,|i;ii.n 'ime
At one tne rl wa\ debateJ
whelher ft wa; ethical ro; mnposes to collaborate
and some tourncy orsanize$ 'erused
join! Nork,
bur since there h no praclical way of stoPping il the
dreument 6zleJ oul and sumr of the 6ne(
nr;bhms anJ nudics hale come from pddner
ihips For rhe sme pr&ncJl reason the.e r an
aceplance Lhar playe6 will reek help dmng an
ad ourned eame. rn rhis crse unquc{bnablv
asainsi the spirir ofches. (see u.na!,ouR for an
account of shat the la{s say about a play.r\
COLLE, EDGAR (189r-1932), Belgian nasler
skilled in onbinative plar. From 1922 to t93l hc
averaged about four loumamenh a tcar. many oi
tnem inlernalional: blt hc suffered lrail health
th.onghout his life. and his results vere not
cotuislent. His mosi notable {ins Nere at Meran
1926 ahead ol l2 plavers including s.rtd^NN,
lTNxrkf/ 13Qxe6+Kg7 19d5Nc5 20Nf5+Kfs 21
O.3 orr5 22 Oho+ KF/ ll B{5 Brds 24 Rre?+ tuc?
- o;b+ Kes 2h oM+ Kr, 2r aN3 Blr.k r\isn.
COLLE SYSTEM, tbe oPening moves, for While.
Pd4, NB, Pe3. Nbd2, Pc3, a.d Bd3i White
prepares 10 advance his e_PaM thus oPening a
dialoncl for ha DA$ BrsRoP PlaJ frequenrlv
heplns I d4 rl5 2NflNI6 lelc5 4cl(111),but
Bl:ck h orher qays of delcndinei tor crrmple,
thc sane Ahues-Alekhine. San Remo loumamenl
1930, opened I d4NI6 2Nf3b6 3e3Bb7 4Nbd2
Tlc slnem madc iE tust appcarance in rhe 1890r
when wx( 'tr..I
hv Black n the .HrLotuN
vA{aroN.76. Around l90On.slers began to use
rhe svstcm for Wlile and in ihis form .oLE nade il
his si,eciality in thc 1920s. His predilection has nor
been widely shared. (see.o'N.IDENcr.)
CoLLIJN, LUDVIG 0878-1939), ssedhh ches
adminisrr.ror and paron He ran tournrmrnts
over a oenod ot 4.Lr !eaE, plaled a lar8e p.rr n
Dreanrz;ng lhe Slolkholm Olympiad s lql7. and
wi\ DrenJEn! of tne Swedi