Instruction / Clock Use
40. ... Qh4+ 41. Ke2 Qxh2+ 42. Kd1 Qg1+
More recently Kvakovszky thought White’s last was Ke1, and if so, ... Qg3+ was better. Though Black overlooks 42. ... Qh1+ 43. Ke2 Bf3+ 44. Kf2 Qg2+ 45. Ke1 Qg1+ 46. Bf1 Qg3+ 47. Rf2 Rd1 mate, his positional advantage remains.
43. Ke2 Qg2+ 44. Ke1 Qg3+ If 45. Kd1 then 45. ... Qf3+ 46.
Ke1 (46. Kc1 Qh1+) 46. ... Qxe3+
47. Kd1 Bf3+ 48. Kc1 Qe1+. Instead White’s flag fell, and
Black called it. Should White have tipped his king thereby? Yes, if the scoresheets were accurate. But both sides, at different points earlier in the game, had failed to record a move. White really had met time control. The diagram actually shows the position after Black’s 39th. (Moral: even under dire conditions, verify your failure to meet time control before capitulating.) Thanks to
George Kvakovszky for sending me his recent thoughts on this game and for recalling time trouble in both Donald Byrne - Samuel Reshevsky and Judit Polgar- Garry Kasparov. In Byrne-Reshevsky, New
York, July 1957, game one, overlook ing Byrne’s flag fall, Reshevsky offered a draw, which Byrne accepted. In game two, after both flags fell, Mrs. Reshevsky, in the audience, bizarrely claimed the game for herself. Then Byrne claimed the
TOURNAMENT—REAL LIFE SYNERGIES
“In your estimation, what’s the best example from your tournament games in which you also faced real-world time constraints?” they requested.
“For one tournament I had studied many applicable maps long before traveling to the area. On arrival I drove many of the main roads to become familiar with them. Up through the next-to-the-last round, my tournament performance was mediocre. The day of the last round, I overstayed at a tourist trap area. But then rush-hour traffic clogged the roads, threatening me with impending time forfeit.
“With laser-like focus I raced down the freeway while obeying all laws to sidestep the highway’s “finest,” listening to local news for traffic updates, always ready to detour. Meanwhile I made a mental check of the site, determined to play a safe opening line, to make up expected lost time. Based on the previous rounds’ pairings, I predicted correctly I would have White.
“I arrived and ran to the board, breathless. With only 10 minutes separat ing me from default, I opened and punched the clock.
Colle System (D04) David Dana-Bashian (1747) Donald Lieberman (1932) U.S. Open (12), Palo Alto, California, 21
⁄2 /50, 14 August 1981
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 Bg4 4. c4 e6 5. Nc3 Nbd7 6. h3 Bxf3 7. gxf3
Attempting to follow The Colle
Systemby George Koltanowski. The “Dean of Ameri can Chess,” inaugurated to that role only four days before, often preferred capturing the bishop with the g2-pawn, rather than with the queen.
7. ... dxc4 8. Bxc4 Nb6 9. Bb3 c6 10. e4
Results in the loss of the Exchange 10 moves later.
13. 0-0-0 Be7 14. Ne2 Nh5 15. f4 g6 16. f5 Ng7 17. Bh6
Forces Black to lose the e6- pawn.
17. ... Rg8 18. Bxg7 Rxg7 19. fxe6 Bg5+ 20. Kb1 Re7 21. exf7 Rgxf7 22. Bxf7 Rxf7 23. Nc3 Bh4 24. Qe2 h5
Black loses his bishop after
either 24. ... Rxf2 25. Qg4+ or 24. ... Bxf2 25. Rhf1 Qf4 (or ... Qh2) 26. Rd2.
25. f3 Rf4 26. d5 Qf7 27. Rhf1 cxd5 28. Nxd5 Nxd5 29. Rxd5 Rf6 30. Rc1+ Rc6 31. Rxc6+ bxc6 32. Qa6+ Kb8 33. Qxc6, Black resigned.
“At game’s end my clock was
the one way ahead on time! Shades of Rubenstein versus Norman, Hastings, 1926 (from Irving Chernev, The Bright Side of Chess, p. 21).” Such success in time/
This advance secures the center for White.
10. ... Qc7 11. Qc2 0-0-0 12. Be3 Rd7
resource manage ment carried over to academics. While a high school student I carefully shepherded my then-newly- designed grade point in dexing system through a tricky time management situation to become that school’s standard
ever since, and under that system I tied for third in a class of over 500 students, all while handling five part-time jobs plus participating in seven sep arate extracurricular activities. In six years of college that also included 21⁄2
summer
sessions, I accumulated 205 semester units, none of them in any truly free electives, to earn two degrees in mathematics and one in chemistry. Dur ing that time I also tutored in mathematics and performed other assorted jobs, fin ishing school with a financial surplus despite receiving relatively little assistance to supplement work wages and a previ ously earned scholarship. After college, I never missed
a work deadline for more than 20 years straight, before research became never-ending. Volunteering during seven consecutive winters, I interac- tively juggled numerous personal finance presentation segments jammed together in real time each week while seldom consulting any clock. Every technical paper I have presented has always been within time limits. Recently the University of California at Irvine certified me
as possessing “Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory.” Certification, which is a by- product of the University’s McGaugh Lab and Stark Lab, recognizes subjects who can readily associate personal memories with the calendar. Actress Marilu Henner was among the earliest that the group certified. Time management is also important throughout industry. My friend Dr. Art Hill, Associate Dean for MBA Programs and the John and Nancy Lindahl Professor in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, and passion ate chess player, notes the current interest in takt time (from the German word Taktzeit), one of the four elements of Just-in- time (along with Heijunka, Elimination of Waste, and Kanban), [
www.toyota-forklifts. eu/En/company/Toyota- Production-System/Just-in-time /Pages/
default.aspx?tabname= Takt+time] to set manufacturing lines’ pace.
[http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Takt_time] I credit strategic clock use as crucial for all these efforts.
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game for himself. Then an ad hoc appeals committee de clared the game a draw. [graeme.
50webs.com/chesschamps/ games/1957_byrne-
reshevsky.htm] In Judit Polgar-Garry Kasparov, XII Linares, February 1994 (in Chess Life, July 1994, p. 56, among other sources), Alex Dunne in 2010 Chess Oddities in 2003 mentioned both sides were in time trouble. So confusion attended both sides.
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