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Chess Mates Club, which over time became the Ridgewood Chess Club, performing well. He remains a perennial top board at the World Team Championship every February. At 65, he was rated in the top ten players in the world in his age group. And don’t get the idea that just because Arthur is now in his ’70s, he can’t still trade combinations with the best. As recently
as the International Chess Academy’s Winter 2010 Open Cham- pionship in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, life master Feuerstein defeated both GM Sergey Kudrin and IM Mikhail Zlotnikov to score a perfect 4-0, racking up a performance rating of 2534. And Alice assures us that he again knows what a tooth-
brush is. .
Feuerstein Over the Board Queen’s pawn opening (D00)
Arthur Feuerstein Dr. E.W. Marchand N.Y. State Championship, 1954
This was the game that first drew atten- tion to Feuerstein, then still a teenager.
1. d4 d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. Bd3 c5 4. c3 Nbd7 5. f4 Feuerstein’s favorite Stonewall Attack. 5. ... g6 6. Nd2 Bg7 7. Qf3
“A queen move Ulvestad showed me.”— Feuerstein.
7. ... Rb8 8. Ne2 b5 9. 0-0 Qc7 10. g4!? Nxg4 11. Qxg4 Ne5
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After 11. ... Ne5
12. Qxc8+!? Black may have expected a nice plus
after 12. Bxb5+ and 13. Qg2. But White, with youthful confidence in his tactical skills, goes for a complicated game of “differently composed forces.” White has one piece and will get two more for the queen. The resulting position, however, leaves White with the challenge of activat- ing his queenside pieces.
12. ... Qxc8 13. fxe5 0-0 14. Nf4 Qd7 15. Kh1 b4 16. Nb3 bxc3
This move should make it easier for 24 Chess Life — January 2012
White to uncork his pieces. A better line was 16. … c4 17. Nc5 Qc6 18. Bc2 Bxe5!.
17. Nxc5 Qc6 18. Nb3 White gets his queenside pieces out
faster with 18. b4 Rxb4 19. Ba3 Rbb8 20. Rac1, but the game is still very difficult to assess.
18. ... cxb2 Black again makes it too easy for White
to develop: 18. … f6! 19. e6 (if 19. exf6, then 19. … Rxf6 when Black’s better piece development gives him the edge) 19. … g5 20. Ne2 (play is similar after 20. Nh5) 20. … cxb2 21. Bxb2 Qxe6 and Black is better.
19. Bxb2 e6 20. Ba3 Rfe8 21. Bd6 Rbc8 22. Rfc1
Now White’s pieces are all in the game
and, whatever else is true, his side of the board looks more fun to play.
22. ... Qa8 23. Ba6 Rc6 24. Nc5 Rb6 25. a4 Bf8
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After 25. ... Bf8 26. a5
White may do a bit better with an in- between move: 26. Bxf8 Rxf8 27. a5 Rb2 28. Nd7 Rd8 29. Nf6+, and if Black tries to save his h-pawn with 29. … Kh8, then 30. Nxe6!! fxe6 (30. … Rdb8 31. Nc7) 31.
Rc7 and Black is lost in the face of the mate threat.
26. ... Rxd6 27. exd6 Bxd6 28. Bb5 Rb8 29. Bd7 Bxf4 30. exf4 Kg7?
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After 30. ... Kg7
30. ... Rf8 or 30. ... Kh8 keeps Black in the game. 31. Nxe6+! This move wins again, as it did in the
variation after White’s 26th move, but with a different follow-up in mind.
31. ... fxe6 32. Bc6 Rb7 33. a6 Black resigned in four more moves.
Marchand would go on to four New York State titles.
Feuerstein was feared for his tactical
eye. He could blow apart an opponent’s position in a few sharp moves. Below is a selection, from games before and after his auto accident.
King’s Indian Defense (E60)
Arthur Feuerstein David Bennet New York, 1955
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 c6 4. d5 cxd5 5. cxd5 Qa5+ 6. Nc3 Ne4 7. Qd4 Nxc3 8. Bd2
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