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EVANS ON CHESS. July 16, 1993.
Copyright by GM Larry Evans.
--Q-----
-----Rpk
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-p--p--p
-P--Pn-P
-----Pq-
----r---
-------K
White to play and draw
(Position after 48...Qxg3)
CHESS SWINDLES
A chess swindle is just a clever way to rob someone of victory. It's the only
form of larceny that's legal on the 64 squares.
Swindles are last-ditch traps to evade a sure loss. To succeed, they require
an unsuspecting opponent -- and luck. The bait is hidden in plain view, and
any sucker is fair game.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Frank Marshall, USA national
champion for 25 years, was so notorious for extricating himself from hopeless
positions that he proudly titled a book of his games "Marshall's Swindles."
In today's lingo, swindles are often called cheapos. We tend to relax and get
careless with victory in our grasp, which is probably why won games are so
hard to win. Pesky, alert, and cunning opponents keep throwing roadblocks in
our path. Those guys don't know when to quit.
Hey, that's us! We all dream of saving a bad game by some miracle, and this
Houdini-escape was dubbed "swindle of the century." A Knight down, on the
verge of defeat, I set a snare and made a wish in my game with the redoubtable
Samuel Reshevsky at the 1964 USA Championship.
That year Bobby Fischer swept the field with 11 straight wins, the stuff of
legends. I was runner-up with the normally winning score of 7.5- 3.5 --
prompting Chess Review to quip that Fischer won the exhibition while Evans
won the tournament.
White released the pressure with the hasty 23 Rd6. A few moves later 26 Bc3!
was correct. I saw too late that on 26 Qe3? Ncd7 27 Rxa6? Qc8! snares a piece
due to the double attack on a6 and c2. So White had to plod on a pawn down
and fight for a draw.
Reshevsky missed 48...Qg6! 49 Rf8 Qe6 50 Rh8 Kg6 51 gxf4 Re1 52 Kh2 Qa2 53
Kg3 Rg1 54 Kh3 Qg2 mate. He still had no inkling of my plot as I stretched
across the board to make move 49 (diagram). He assumed I was giving up and
rose to shake my hand.
Suddenly Reshevsky blanched. He was shocked. Dumbfounded. When the draw
dawned on him, he smiled wryly. And cursed himself. With unseemly glee, I
strained to hear him.
He said just one word: "Stupid!"
White: LARRY EVANS
Black: SAMUEL RESHEVSKY
Nimzo-Indian Defense 1964
1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 e3 c5 5 Bd3 0-0 6 Nf3 d5 7 0-0 dxc4 8 Bxc4 Nbd7 9
Qe2 a6 10 a3 cxd4 11 axb4 dxc3 12 bxc3 Qc7 13 e4 e5 14 Bb2 Nb6 15 Bb3 Bg4 16
Ra5 Rac8 17 c4 Nbd7 18 h3 Bxf3 19 Qxf3 Rfe8 20 Rd1 Ra8 21 c5 Rad8 22 Ba4 Re7
23 Rd6 b5! 24 Bc2 Nxc5 25 Rxd8 Qxd8 26 Qe3? Ncd7 27 Qd3 Qb6 28 Bc1 h6 29 Be3
Qb7 30 f3 Nb8 31 Ra2 Rd7 32 Qa3 Kh7 33 Kh2 Qc7 34 Bd3 Nh5 35 Rc2 Qd8 36 Bf1
Rd1 37 Rc1 Rd6 38 Qa2 Qf6 39 Rc7 Nd7 40 Ra7 Nf4 41 Qc2 h5 42 Qc8 Rd1 43 Bxb5
Qg5 44 g3 axb5 45 Rxd7 Re1 46 Rxf7 Rxe3 47 h4 Re2 48 Kh1 Qxg3? (See diagram
and solution for drawing method.)
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SOLUTION: 49 Qg8!! Kxg8 50 Rxg7! If 50...Kxg7 stalemate! If 50...Kf8 51 Rf7
Ke8 52 Re7 perpetual check! (A revised past column.)