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

CYC]TC PLAY 83
outsranding analrsr, ne made two imponant
ontnbutions 10 endgame k.ovledge: a position in
the endganeR+B v. R that.a. be ponontyillhe
En-MovE uw h suspended, atut King and Queen
oqoi$t KinE onrl Rook, a dennilile work. published
undei the pen name Euclid in 1895.
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I Bd3 Rcl 2 Br5 Re3 3 Bd7 Kbl 4 Rg4 Rbl 5 Be6
Rhz 6 Bc4 Rh2 7 RgS+ (a7 3 Re7+ Ka3 9 Bd3
Rh6+ 10Kc7 Rl6 llRhTKaT l2Re7(tslaclisnouin
zuczw Nc) l, RI3 1lBb5Rg8 14RclR37+ 15
Rdr Reh r.BeoRcT+ l7r..bRgo 13I:l+1.. 1q
Rbr+_(r7 :o Rh?] K.[ :] RcTRsz 22!t5 Po 2l
Res Rl3 2,1Be6 Kb3 25 Rb5+ Ka7 26Ra5+ Kb3 27
BdsRsr zriRbs+ Ka7 29Rb7+ Ka3 30Rh7Rs6+ 3l
(r+k, rru"aR,5 33k6+ Kh3 3.tRh3+Ka7:r5
sain"r rnatr+ius lTBelRcl+ l3KdbR.3 lq
Rh7+ias 4rlR +Khs 4rBr5R(:4lRh7+r..b 4t
Ra7Kd3,14RflRe2 15 Rs7 Rcl 46Rb7Rcl 478b3
Rs3 4ne6 Rd3+ 49Bd5 Rd 50Rd7+ Kc3 5l R
Kb3 52R67+ K.3 53 RblKd3 54Bc4Kc3 55 Bc6+
Kd3 56 Rba+ Rc3 57 Rrc3 6are
CROSSTAjLE, atahle showingtheresullof every
ga6e in a lournamenl. These nay be civcn in
alphabetical seqnence, in result scquence, or in
pairing sequence. Each nas its advaniages. Tbe
last, ior exanple, nay be Eed in conjundion wilh
pairing lablcs thns enabting thie readerto know in
which round each game Nas played and sbo bad
the phite pieces. Howevcr. the resuli sequence is
rhe nostpopular. fie example(below)is lron thc
double round AvRo toumanent held a1 Amstcrdam
in 1938. Each pair ot ngures shows the playeas
results against tbe opponeflt whose nunber is al
1he head of the column. the left band ligure beinC
the fint of thc tso rounds. (see carcE.)
CSOM (pron. Chom), ISTVAN 0940 ).
HunBanao Ilayer, Inrerncrional Gra0dmaner
(1071), nahonal champion in 1972. He alhieved
thrce good toumamcnt results in the 19?0s:
cleveland (Ohio) 197s, frBt; Kecskem;t 1979,
second (+?:7-1) equal witn Nosueiros atter
rARAcd; Berlin i979, nrst equal sith swsLo,.
From i968 he played in several Olynpiads, .olably
in 1978 *hen Hungary won tbe gold medal ahead
of tbe USSR.
CUNNINGIIAM, ALEXANDER 065+1737).
Scoitisb hislorian and scholar who gare his namc lo
a eamhrrqhich Llrles brck at lean locRE.n Oling
lo-natronaqe by rhe Ddke ut ArgyllCunnrngnam
a.hieved enincnce as a diPlomathtand from l?15
to 1720 was the Bniish Ministcr lo the Republic oi
Venice. The firsl albibution of the ganbit to
Cunningham n in an unpublisbed manNcnPt by
Cue. daied Amslerdan, U06.
CINNINGIIAM, ALDaANDER (c.1655 1?30),
Scotthh c.itic and s.holar. Like th€ above he was
pat.onizedbyaWhigpolitician; helivediorawhile
in The H.gue and was an excellenl cheslplayer.
There Nas contusion about the idenrity oI lhe
'gambii'Cnnningban bequse ol thc close para,lels
ol lbe tpo lives. At one timc it was ihoughl thal
lhey wererhesarepetson. but a letler in the,S.,, r
Magau@., Oct. 1804, eslablished they w.re two,
lhc writer having exanined the wills in Doctort
Comnons. Tben rhe gambitwas attnbuted to the
cntic, an opinion nol reversed unlil MURtuY
publishcd his indings in the A.nith Chds MaSo
CUNNINGIIAM OAMBIT, 585, a line in tbe
KNG s caMBrrAcceptcdthatwasevohed..1706by
ihe Scottish historian Alexander cuNN'NcnaM.
Aftcr 4 Bc4 he advocated 4. . . Bh,1+, probably a
sound continuation bur slpesedcd by 4 . . . Nf6 as
redndended byscnr..cHrrR in the eighlh edition
oi Bilguer's IANDBU.H, 191G21.
CYCLIC PLAY, a probtcm 1$m lor the pattern
thal is formed by the contrasl belNeen noves
played in o.e v^{hrroN or pesE and tbose played
in anolher. For ex.mple, suppose a b and c
represenl black moves and A B and C White s
repliesithcn thc sequence aA bB cCinonephase
and aB bC cA in anolher phase would show tbe
patrern knosn as cyclic shift. The cycle sould be
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