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The Bobby Fische I Knew and Othe Stoies

Copyrght© 1995 by Arnod Denker and Larry Parr

Hypermoern Press is a registered trademark of Master Piece

Development, Inc San Francisco Caifornia

Great Chess Literature Series

Cover art by Wiliam Cone

Book desgn and typography by ML. Rantaa for Sisu Solutions

Set in Cason Gl Sans Belevue and Linares Diagram

ISBN: 1-886040-18

Library of Congress Cataog Card Number: 95-08503

Prnted in the USA1 3 5 9 10 8 6 4



Table of Contents

Forwor b Granastr arr Evans 1

ntroucton Babbitts an Botvinniks 5

Secto Me of the Mahaa

haptr Albrt Pinkus h Inana Jons o hss 1 5

haptr II: Dath B ot Prou o Dras Dstro 3 5

haptr II: Oscar nnr A haractr i Evrhr as On 43

haptr IV: A Daring oung Man on th Fling rapz 5 2

haptr V: h Frightn, tt Rabbit 1

haptr VI h ncoparabl Ma 7 1

haptr VII : A Knght in Shning Aror 7 5

haptr VIII h Knsaw Mountan anis o hss 85

Secto Chess Amog the Starshaptr X Starr Knights in Hollwoo 93

haptr X h Bobb Fschr I Knw 102

haptr XI On-on-On with Kasparov 13

haptr XI Fn Distinctons 20

haptr XII h tt Big Man o hss 132

haptr XIV: I A an Oicr o th zar 148haptr XV h Man ho Bat Aanr Akhin 1 5 5

haptr XVI An Or oulnt Rus 1 7 0

haptr XVII: h Gntl Giant o hss 1 7 8

haptr XVIII: Isaac Kashan: h Gntl, ScinticGranastr 1 9 1



haptr XIX: Horowitz: H Burn th anlat Both Ens 200

haptr XX h Parwski of hss 2 1 1

haptr I An Arican Original 2 2 1

haptr XXII : Mov Ovr, Valntino 236

Section ll: Chess Among the Bowery Boys

haptr XXIII: For Gorg rsan th Paas th hing 2 5

haptr XXIV: Storin oran: aissas onan 262

haptr V Roa to th Raptur 2 7 5

haptr XXVI h Potastr of hss 278

Section V: Chess Among the Scholarati

haptr XXVII : h Man of a Hunr Books 295

haptr XXVIII : Mr. Bliv It or ot . 306

haptr XXIX: A Gntlan of th Ol School" 314

haptr X Mr. Hls," a Prfct Gntlan 328

Aftrwor b Granastr v Aburt 339

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Foreword

'e Moves of the People

B Gndmt L Evn

ivtim US Chss Champion

Its not th movs o th pics ut o th popl thatintst m"Tim c autho o th musica Chess

though mo ooks hav n ittn aout chss than any othgam th a vy good chss mmoisand nothing quitik The Bbby Fischer I Knew and Other Stes.

nold Dnk is a sup acontu and amous gandmasthos chss ca spannd svn dcads om lkhin toKaspaov tamd up ith om Chess Le dito Lay a agacul stylist and tilss sach to poduc this spaking

mmoi containing pn potaits o som o th most aucous andcoou igus in 20th cntuy chss kn many o thm andotn catch mys saying Ys thy got it ust ight"

Th is Gog Tysmans ac lik th dath mask o a Mongol aio" O young Boy ischs hait o nv ooking upom th oad as i h had phaps doppd somthing and asstill looking o it" O t inkus a mildmannd N Yokmast hos hoy as cocting chss ooks Unti no ho

v I nv kn that h as aso th Indiana ons o chss hosought am and gloy in th dakst gions o South micaplacs ith lazy muddy ivs and illshavn soldis o otun hoa hit suits and anama hats and ho tavl on tamp stams into dsoat gn hlls"

Dnk and a hav a photogaphic y o th ting dtailand thy possss a git o siting among a thousand tivial vnts toind th on o to that somho captu th ssn o a psonsli o xamp tak thi tatmnt o man Stin th hot

oyood hunk o chss" man took m and oth young chss1



T Bobby isr Kn nd Otr Stos

talnts undr his ing in th 1940s ut I as suicintly ungratulto dat him in a match or th U.S. Championship in 1952. On thst o th movi Cass Timbelane h got aay ith tlling LanaTurnr Dont play chss. Sitting at a chss oard or hours mightmak you at and spoil that prct igur. That as rman. as a ladykillr.

This ork rcalls a orld no lost: lisurly dinnr partis at thSavoy ith Max Eu lgant vnins at th pnthous o chsspatron Mauric rthim carousing at istros ith Alxandrkhin; long lazy atrnoons at th Manhattan Chss Clu ithOscar Tnnr Al Simonson and so many othrs ho ar no addmmoris o my chss youth in Manhattannot to mntion thliks o Ossip Brnstin Salo lohr and Migul Najdor.

The Damon Runyons of ChessDnkr and ar rmind m a lot o Damon Runyon as thy rcratth livs and oils o th guys and dolls o N York chss. Notonly do thy chronicl giants lik Run in Boy ischrIsaac Kashdan and Sammy Rshvskyall o hom I had th plasur (and pain) to ac across th oardthy also dscri such priphral igurs as Irving Chrnv (th Riply o chss) ho oulduttonhol m ith a n chss study to solv hnvr ncountrd ach othr at a chss clu. Or th ratty Norman hitakr(o Lindrghkidnapping inamy). During th U.S. Opn in 194 Iaskd him to tak m to s The Outlaw ith Jan Russll a moviconsidrd too racy or minors unlss thy r accompanid y anadult gladly olig.

Thr is also plnty o hard chssaout 300 gams manyhithrto unpulishd, ith intrsting thortical idas that hav ithr n orgottn or nglctd in opning manuals. Yt th cor oth ook is aout popl Dnkr kn and otn ovd is on li

is skilully intrtind ith th unny and sad tragic and hartarming ats o mn ho otn ddicatd 30 40 S 0 yars toth ludicrous task o cornring a oodn king on a oodnoard as Stan Zig put it in The Royal Game.

A Haunting Memorial

This ook radiats li. So many popl in ths pags shads o thpast sm to mrg rom th alls to tak on last o Thy in

vitaly stp ackards into th alls as thir igurs rcd orvn Dnkr and arr cannot indinitly hold opn th door ommory

Arnold Dnkr appars to gnuinly ascinatd y ths



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popl. rndrs thir aturs ith a Dicknsian prcision andno chss ritr vr had a sharpr y or th complling dtail Unlik so many o his llo grandmastrs Dnkr can s byond thnd o his on nos. o ortunat or us that h and his collaborator hav th rar git to tll it lik it as.

arry EvansRno NvadaApril 1995





Introduction

cabbitts and cotinniks

ot oo ong agooh ust iv o six dcads ackh Manhatanhss Clu as considd o h stongst agation o chsslays in th old inning a Manhattan clu championship ash quivalnt o inishing ist in a song innational ounamnt.

Th gat mn o th Manhattan mad up a o o odhss Thy includd th liks o os Capaanca (ho kpt anpamnt just acoss h ay at 157 st 57th S) and Isaac

Kashdan Sammy Rshvsky and Run in man Sn and Simonson Athu Dak and A ooitzll you g h ida.

Unotunaly Capalanca sdom dignd to play ih us YoungTuks and usualy conind his activiis to giving Knigh odds to ALnk and Chai Saxon o o his old Columia Univsity conisBu so hat? got pnty o pactic among ouslvs not tomntion comptition om a last anoh 20 masts capal oatng any o us on a givn day.

h this usting tasuy o tant i is no ond tha thUnitd Stas on ou Oympiads duing th 1930s Also i is noond that mmship in th Manhaan Chss Clu as muchdsid.

Gttat and Ltat

Asid om th chss stas th gnal mmship o h oldManhatan ncludd many o h gliati and liati o N Dala N Yok. In hos days ga mn alkd h aiss noads and pondd th a o pans

Sval o this cntuys inst musicians spnt thi lisu housshiing ood at th cu Amos all o h gat Lopold Ausmos amous studnts Manhaan mms. Ths includdEddi Bon Mischa Elman ascha itz Lo Kahn IvoKaman Max Rosn and Toscha Sidl. Ggo iatigosky holdnond clist as also a mm and could occasionally ound playing a gam ith his ind and o clist immy

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6 The Bobby Fishe Kn nd Othe Stoes

l o th musicians playd a ptty stong gam ouis singth violinist ho taught Yhudi Mnuhin Ruio cci and IsaacStn as stong nough to ualiy o th 944 U.S Championship Tu h inishd last but that as bcaus as h xplaind itTh boads out o tun." H is a hadought loss o hisagainst oldclass violinist and atd mast David Oistakh

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Sinclai is th autho o sval Gat Aican Novlsshod up no and thn Soy I cant call hth h as aBabbitt o a Botvinnik at th boad. But do mmb that MoisSchapio this nations lading xpt on govnmnt bonds and

victo in match play ov both Chals Ja and Osca Chajsplayd isky attacking chss So also did Haold hillips and stSamuls to pominnt attonys To povid an ida o thlatt's playing stngth this casual club s smashd HmanStin in a match in 1931 ithout th loss o a gam

Still oth mmbs includd D. bt ulvmach th highlygadd Gman music citic; D Ely Moschkoitz ho alongith his both hadd th cadiac dpatmnt at th oldamous Mount Sinai Hospital Athu My ho gaind am osttling numous N Yok labo poblms as had o th Statabo Mdiation Boad and his both onad My hohadd th longgon Usona Shit Company and ho onc svd psidnt o th Manhattan On on occasion in anuay 1938 thisvy stong amatu also took th shit ight o th back oEmanul ask:

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Intodution 7

This gam playd at th Manhattan Chss Club is from a tooard consultation simultanous Laskr also facd th tam ofrnold DnkrHarold hillips in a matchup that h on. As itappns Lonard Myr as a notorious assassin of champions In atrboard consultation simultanous at th Manhattan Chss Clubn March 1929 h tamd ith Lstr Samuls (onc again

lack) to maul lxandr Akhin: 1. NKB3 Q4 2 3 NKB3 BN2 BB4 4. Q3 K3 5. N3 Q2 BN2 B3 7. 00 QB2H. B4 BK2 9 NB3 RQ 0. QB2 00 11 K4 xK 2. x B3 13. QRQ K4 4 N4 K1 15 NB? BB1 1 KR3B4 17 KN4? NK3 18 NK2 BB4 9. RxR RxR 20 RQ1?lRch 21 R K4 22 QR1? NQ2 23 NR4? QQ3 24 KB1QQ 25. NxB xN 2 KK1 BNch 27 BB3 NQ hit rsigns.

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rom th ord of high financ cam th liks of Hoard Hoit ofth all Strt firm of Hoit Ros & Trostr During th GratDprssion Hoard gav mploymnt to many of our top playrs as also an nthusiast of th Kingsid attack ho could batanyon on a good night

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Hoard as typical of many of th old Manhattanits. Rlativlyunschoold in th opning h rlid on ra tactical talnt to toppl



8 Th Bobby Fish Knw nd th Stois

top mastrsth kind o talnt h vidncd hn mploying acominational thm that th Grmans call a nette Doppelwendung .

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oard playd 1 Q-K3 ! and atr Black rspondd ith 1 . . .Rx h rplid ith th amazing mov 2 . Qch! ! ! . Black isustd. I 2 . . . . Q thn hit ins a pic ith 3 Qch and i2 . . . . KxQ hit inishs ith 3. RxRch R 4. N-Bch.

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Anothr Manhattan chss angl as Mauric rthim ankr

and philanthropist xtraordinair ho srvd on th ar roduction Board during orld ar II as a dollar-a-yar man Invstmntankrs acqus Co, Sidny Knton and Richard arurg ralso mmrsas as . Lssing Rosnald chss patron andsponsor o th amous Rosnald tournamnts o th 1950s and190s. Ths comptitions srvd as th US championships othos yars

our additional luminaris r ams Nman a layrauthor mathmatician and armamnts spcialist ho nt to

ashington in th 1940s to assist in th ar ort E. Schuylrackson a rich amatur ho playd tournamnt chss or aout 0yars and th rothrs Rort and Rudolph Rauitschk ho hitpay dirt in ral stat.

No rostr o grat Manhattanits ould complt ithoutmntioning nry Atlas an immigrant rom ungary ho rallyas kindr and gntlr and ho nvr aild to hlp struling chssplayrs sking him out at his cotton mporium And ho many

radrs rmmr lix Kahn o th amous stl amily? In a it odprssion atr losing a ortun in th Grat Crash lix jumpdrom his pnthous at th Majstic Apartmnts though not ortrating his llo clu mmrs to a grat arll party thprvious night. lix as vr a gnt o th beau geste



Ta Dinks, Kn Sapps

ntodution 9

h Manhatan Chss Club as not mly an intctual oasis oh ich and amous it as aso a gat joint o mting oddchaacts a dinks kn slapps Vchy at quasonagnaan kibitzs, amiabl customs"th plac as ld

ith ascinating popl anging om h chablis and bi st to thib and bib bunch to th don and ou cod

Onc I as paid against th mast, lx Simcho a chain taink No, that in itsl ould not hav bn so bad Bu vym h took a sip up nt his glasss to th top o his had andon nt his ings nto a box o suga cubs, hch h placdtn his tth so that th ta ould sluc though th suga onh ay to his stomach t ach gulp ould com a vy sot,atisid aahah" I took all o my il po to kp my ys ohis bautiully coodinatd opation, hich lx had don o a "

noth pic o good luck as to match its against a knapp, alays an intsting bd o chss play thuampot a succssul bank, cam o th club nay vyatnoon most chaming man, h spotd pctly coid hitculs on both sids o a lloild scalp lthough thu cvdKnight odds, h as as th saying gos, a good cusom" sinc h

nvaably lost at 25 cnts a gamLampot as, hov, a ough ight, and in his xcitmnt at

tying to n, h oud stat slappng hs ampl thighs ith hiscaully manicud hands Slapaslapasapaslapaslapahis handsand thighs ould soon b vbaing ik a iving gunthoughout th cub n on o th mmbs appoachd thunvaiaby stoppd and said, I kno, I kno!" bo thcomplainant could ut a od in minuts la, th slapa

apaslapaslapasapa ould stat all ov aganoad Chandl anoh outstanding custom did not us his

kn as a pogo stick Ths sophisticatd man as addictd to Vichyat usualy cam o th club th at ast to quats o thliqud playd ven up o quats though I could asily havgivn him odds t inishing o a bott o Vichy h ould ltloos ith tmndous pashapd bups that coud hav bnhad acoss Yank Stadium olloing ach bup, h smld andinkd at m as i shaing som sct Yas lat h

conidd hat Vich quaing as his mdy o a knd oovindulgnc

ny dicto casting a movi about th God Rush o '49 couldhav usd Old Ma Zckndo th Manhattans nonagnaian



10 Th Bobfy Fih Knw a Oth Sto

kibitz and poud mmb of th Gand Lodg of th Stat of NYok. aving onc on a chss gam fom Confdat GnalJams Longstt this custy soudough fom th Southst as ahug man i a had of tousld hit hai and plnty of nos andchin. is mssiv shoulds stoopd but only slightly andctainly no badly fo a man of 90plus

Louis Zkndos main ambition as to liv to 100 hich hfaild to fufill by lss than on month dying in Mach 193 7. sldom plad. is gat joy as to bt a quat on m sit quitlyat th sid of th playing tabl his hug hand foldd ov a canand atch thoughtflly as th gam pogssd Whn my opponntas about to los this Civil a vtan oul lt out a hoop ofdlight by announcing Bustd" hil simultanously holding outa hand to collct Of cous h as non too lasd hn I lost

n all th yas that Old Man Z cam to th club nv hadhim say anything xcpt Bustd" hich lads m to ond ifthats hat h said hn his vat and chauffu mad off ith hisbond coupons.

And hil on th subjct of gtting bustd am mindd of thhandsom Sd Bust onman ho md a mint in xpotand impot This amiabl amtu ould hav gladly sold his soulto in just on Rook odds gam against Isaa Kashdan At $10 a

gam this mania must hav cost him thousans but h nv quittying. is on of thi immotal contsts in hich hitmovs his Qun Rook

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ntodution 11

Brilian masrs famous ariss capains of indusry magnasof all Sr lfs losrshy r all mn of h Manhaan.Thy mad h clu gra

Thanks gnlm for h mmoris

Acknowldgmns

or any ffor of rbranc hr ar alays hros ho laborihou chargohis ho aid in adding y anohr paric ofinformaion o h mounan of human knoldg Thos hoaidd h rsarc susons incud Dal Brandrh Grand

masr Robr Byrn L Hydr Jams Schrodr and rd ilson also hank ack Collins his la sisr Ehl Collins and Grandmasr Arhur Dak for sharing mmoris h us Thos hohlpd ih rsah includ M Ron Burn John CampbllRoglio Caparros Rbr Dudly Gi Ellihorp rmy Gaig NMSphn Gordon Mh Grn John Hillry Alan Kanor AlnKaufman r Lah Larnc Alic Loranh (dircor of hin Ars and Spca Cocions Dparmn of h Clvlandublic Library) Huh Myrs Bob Nasiff ack O'Kf Larnc

inkus Edard Qunal David Saponara IM ar Shipmanrank Skoff, Jm an Hln arrn IM Ello inso and RobVrhovn of h Vn dr LindNimijr chss collcion a ThHagu. Imporan nalyical commns cam from GrandmasrsLv bur and Lar Evans. Th lar aso shard mmoris of hisgood frnd Bobby ischr.

Spcal rcogniin gos o Chess Le dor Glnn rsn andformr Manhaan hss Club managrs Russ Garbr and h laBilly Coias for pring us o consul h chss librars of hir

rspciv insiuions ar graful o Nigl Eddis for his suprbphoography. Our abiding graiud gos o M.L Ranala for hr fnbook dsign and vuabl diorial susions. indlibl hankyou gos o bssling d book auhor Dr Marin Kaahn hos



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Men of the Manhattan





Chapter I

lbert Pinkus:

'e IndianaJones of Chess second late was up in panic heat pounding eyesstaing feally into the blackness aound Something was inthe hammock with me: some thing that cawled snake!at else of that size cawled? ny second expected thestke-it was as could feel the ceepi numbness thepain and wthings waited toented by a antic mind

feeding on its own feas But nothi happened and painlseconds lengthened to the poebial minute of eteity

nd yet it waited y? Was it all really a deam? Just atendefoot's nightmae? Maybe had imbibed too eely ofjunglebook myste and stealthy blackness became boldeMy hand stole cautiously to the tickling spot inch by inch thaay to its objectie it paused Stained nees esisted

the pogess and its newfound da witheed undethe logic of possibili Thee was just a chance an outside

chance that something was thee - Lost Wold Beckons by brt inkus and Milton auly

lbrt inkusyoung mrican Tal o th 1920s porul kingpino both th Manhattan and Marshall chss clubs vntual onr oth svnth bst onost rcord in U.S Championship historyintrpid jungl xplorr bttr rmmbrd at N Yorks Musumo Natura istory than by th chss orld and th man hom I

call th Indiana ons o Chssas spnding his irst night in thungls o British Guiana

Th yar as 1932. nd as out to in am and glory in thdarks rgions o South mricain placs ith lazy muddy rivrsand illshavn soldirs o ortun ho ar hit suits and anamahats and ho travl on tramp stamrs into dsolat grn hlls.s mission as to Bng 'Em Back lie as in th titl o rankBucks hit movi o th sam yar Th Em r rar plants and

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16 e Bobby ier Knew and Oter Strie

colctions o mn ith th mans to ay

Short srious and sotsokn as not a hadturnr isdark road and lat Savic ac as as squar as a ock o granitand lookd a ot ik th ma o currnt Surm Court usticntonin Scaia Most o roay mistook l or a consrvativ

uttonddon usinssman ith a nchant or thric instris ny movi dirctor sking somon to ay a sho salsman ould hav cast l on th sot

But kn ttr l as not an accidnta tourist in th troicsut a man in hom cstia ir urnd Its lams shot u in hisys and glintd o his id toothy smil ossssd o hat a NewYrk Times rortr trmd a quick sur mannr o sch las dscrid in Raymond Ditmars and illiam Bridgs SnakeHunters Hliday (935 as a soidly uilt young lo muscdlik a rizightr and a dmon o nrgy

That got it just right

Boy wth a Butty Nt

Born March 20 1903 inkus gr u in a small thirdlooraku on st 82nd tn mstrdam and Broaday toughnighorhood in thos days l and his rothr Miton ound that

th ric or ing udding Tom Sits intrstd in chmistryham radios and natural scinc as having to dnd thmsvsagainst nighorhood toughs

I ndurd th scia attntion o gangs o hoodlums hoancid any oy ith a uttrly nt dlicious ait l rot in thautoiograhical Lst Wrld Bekns ought ith istsairy no chains cus or lts Nvr as thr to or thragainst on and airings usually gravitatd to contndrs o quaag and ight In al justic our oonnts r rough gnt

mn though grdy or our susrvincl cam an Eag Scout in 1917 and his arly intrst in

natural scinc lossomd into d study comild a notauttrly collction and as aturd in a toag srad in th odNew Yrk Wrld My mcca h rot as th Musum oNatura istory a convnint locks rom hom th curatorsthr r my hros Thy sun tals o xciting incidnts instrang lands ith th nvial as o thos ho hav sn almy

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Lk a Mik Tyson Uppcut

Capter I 17

n pil 27 924 th young and unknon inkus sat don tolay against lxand lkhin in a 2oad lindold simulnous Th xhiition a codraking aai as hld shotlyloing th amous N Yok Intnational and on his gam

om th gat man as did anoth unknon Isaac Kashdan.Th olloing ya cam into his on Indd h hit th N

ork chss scn lik a Mik Tyson uppcut Not only did hcriic chss pics lik th young Tal h on vry tournamntin sight. om 1925 to 1928 inkus outpacd al o th prs in hisg goup including Kashdan ooitz Sammy Rshvskyony Santasi and man Stin.

Consid s rcod In Octor 1925 h on on o Eddi

imocks thm tounamnts a particulaly stong vnt playd tost th Mllr ttack in th Giuoco iano. inishd ahad oank Marshall Calos To Santasir and Stinr. In Dcmram th lt allgatn Tounamnt in hich h scod 92to outstip Kashdan and Stinr. In arly 192 h taid 41 toti ith Mashal o top spot in anoth Dimock vnt inningval ing Gamits in scoching styl

Abet Pinku-Antony Santasee

Dmock Theme Touamen, 926

Scian Defene

PK4 P-QB4 . P-QN4 PxP 3 PQR3 PxP 4 NxP PQ4 5 PxP QxP 6 N-3 B-NS 7 B4 Q-KSh 8. K-B PQR3 9. PQ3 BxN . PxB QRS NNS K-Q 1 . P3 P-K3 3. Q-R4 Q-R6h 4 KK NQB3 S. NQ4 QR46 NxN PxN 1 7 R-QN Q-K4h 1 8. B-K3 BQ3 1 9 RN7h B- . PQ4QQ3 1 PQS! PxP BxQP N-K 3 BxP KB

4. Q-N4h! KxR 5 RN h BN3 6 RxBh! K- 7 BKB4 QxB 8.QxQh KxR 9. QN4h K 3 QxNh Bla resigns

t aout this point I alays lik to quot hat ohn damsonc ot to Thomas son Ou ast sourc is signation.



18 Te Boy ier I new and Oer Soe

bcam champion o th Marshall Chss Club in 1927 asuccss that h ollod by inning th prstigious Young MastrsTournamnt o th sam yar H scord 73 to inish in ront oKashdan Santasir Erling Tholsn and othr comrs.

tr hich nothing Tournamnt apparancs bcam scarc,

and in arly 1928, tallid an inxplicabl 0 in a doub-roundquad in N York H ould not play sriously again until 1939!Hr is a por gam rom his irst li in chss or hich hrcivd th Bst Gam riz

Abe Pinkus-lsaac KasdanManattan C.C. Camponsip 1 928

Queens ndian Defense

Q4 N-KB3 -B4 -K3 3 N-QB3 -QN3? 4 -K4 B-N 5 -B3 B

NS 6 BQ3 N-B3 7 -QR3 BxNc 8 xB -K4 9 B-K3 Q-K I NK - I - -Q3 N-N3 BB 3 Q-K N-QR4 4 QR-K B4 5. B4 NNS I 6 Bx Q-RS

7. R3! QxN 8 B-B4 Q-RS 9 xN xK Bx x x Bx QK3 QR-B I 3 BQ6 KR-Q I 4 -BS x 5 Bx R-B3 6 Q-B4 QR47 R-N R-KR3 8 R-N8 NB3 9. RxRc NxR 3 B-K7 N-B3 3 BKNSR-K3 3. -QS R-K 33. xN -KR3 34. B-B4 B-K3 35. BxB xB 36. BK7

Blac ss

Stt Smats

lt chss or a n gam th dizzying lunacy o 920s allStrt Hird by Hoard Hoit a strong club playr ho aschairman o Hoit Ros & Trostr, quickly bcam h irmsyoungst junior partnr and according to Horoitz, mad0000 in 929. In todays dbasd dollars that translats to a

cool hal mil or mr. Not badand bttr than th liks oKashdan and Horoitz ho orkd at th sam company. inkushad hat th boys cad Strt smarts"

But thn cam Black Tusday Octobr 29, 929, a disastr



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escribed by John Kenneth Gabraith in The eat Cash as notny the most devastating day in the history of the New York stockarket but aso as the most devastating day in the history ofarkets. Share vaues of some issues punged from $0 to threeoarsjust ike that Brokers with margin cas sticking out ofeir suit pockets were fished from the Hudson ver and quite

teray scraped off a Street, which became known as aiinga Street.

A got caught up in the horror As a junior partner, he had toep make good the firms osses, which eft him broke and deepyepressed. For the first and probaby ast time chess mastersmpoyed at the stock market went back to chess in order to make iving. I returned to chess, A Horowitz once said about eavingte exchange in 1932 on the theory that coud win a quarter a

�ae and that a quarter coud buy a mea.As for Pinkus, he took a vacation to British Guiana in eary 1932

stensiby to catch butterfies for New Yorks Museum of Naturaistory but in truth to escape from a Street hen the butterfyodge fizzed, he stayed on to form a business partnership with one>antagenet Lechmere Guppy who was the son of the man forhom tiny minnows are named. P.L. as he was caed ran an outfittat suppied rare and expensive fish to the highy successfu Empireropica Fish Import Company in New York City.

rote A hat did I know about catching tropica fish? Nothng! But with my pocketbook skinny and my eyes peeed for paythe-way adventures, I jumped at the chance to become Guppyspartner Seemingy fish fanciers had taken the bait and were gad toe hooked even for fancy prices and so I agreed to bring em backavedeivery, price, and payment in New York City. asocontracted to provide snakes and izards to the Bronx Zoo.

Thus did As career as a scientific sodier of fortune beginandis ife as a chess master neary end. Over the next eight years, Apayed in one or two Metropoitan League matches, competed in acoupe of Manhattan Chess Cub championships and according tothe Btish Chess Magazine conducted a simutaneous exhibitionat the Roya Victoria Institute in Trinidad. Thats a

One of s ast games from his first career in chess was thefoowing win over Aekhine from a nine-board cock exhibition inhch the word champion scored an extraordinary + 1 =2

against severa of this countrys top masters



20 Te Bobby ier new and Oter Stoe

Aexande Aekine-Abe PnkusManaan Cess Cub (Mac 23 1 929)

Ruy Lopez

. P-K4 P-K4 2. K3 Q3 3. S PQR3 4 -R4 3 5. 0-0 -K2 6 .Q-K2 P-Q3 7 P3 00 8. PQ4 -S 9 . RQ Q 0. P-KR3 -R4 .

2 RK 1 2. K3 - 1 3. QQ2 PQ4 1 4. PKP QP S. PP P 1 6K- c 1 7 P -4 1 8. PK4 P 1 9. P P 20. -4 PQ42 R QS RP 22 Pc K I 23. /4KS RQ 24 KR 25. Q 3 26. K4 Q-K3 27 R-R RK 28. R-R8c K-K2 29 6c K-Q2 30.RR QRK 3 1 . K-Q3 P3 32. PR4 P4 33 -3 QK8 34. PP PP 35.-8c KK3 36. RP Q8c 37. K2 Q-8c 38 K-K3 Q-KSc 39. K2 Q-Sc 40. K-K Q-K6 4 1 . -6 -6c 42 K-Q -S 43. -Q4c K3 44 -3 Q-KS 45 Q2 QRSc 46. -3 Q-KS 47. Q2 QR8c48 P-3 49. R-4 P-4 50. RQ4 P-4 5 1 . R-Q8 QKS 52 -Q3 Q

RSc 53 P3 QPc 54 . -2 QP 55. R-8c KK3 56 RP Qc 57.KQ KR Wite resigns

Dang Was A's Businss

In hs sandoff wh he hng ha was no onger movng APnkus had become mmobzed by fear. Swea roed from hs faceand he abored a breahng ar hcker and weer han any he hadknown before.

ereupon wroe Pnkus somehng ong and quvery sdacross my bare anke. I jumped my ensed body a reeased sprnghng he wooden foor wh a mos-panfu jar. Mady I fung offhe ange of neng and raced bndy for he door; nsead myshouder sruck bruay agans a wa sendng me sprawngbackward o he foor. Groggy I rose and fed n he opposedrecon un my knee sabbed suddeny no somehng hard andsharphe pan excrucang! I groped n agony for he achng onbu nsead found he runk ha I hazy recaed was near he door

and few sragh ahead hrough a gray-back openng no hearms of a man knockng hm down.

he man As hos was a oca mssonary named Archer whohen heped our hero search for he hng, whch urned ou o bea foo-ong back cenpede As scurred on a housandsynchronzed egs for he safey of some dark nche A wroe ofhe deady nsec I ook am and hrew a shoe ucky hng hemark he hngs remans spaerng n a quverng oahsome

mudde of bood and egs.anger was As busness. I was a busness ha ncuded a

mdngh bae on a junge ra agans he red-eyed eha ferdelance; severa hours up a Mora ree as hosage from a phaanx of



Caper 2

angr wid pigs ust a few feet beow; and even a stint as a generadirecting members of one of his expeditions in a desperate batteagainst Braziian bandits. About which more anon.

Of course there were ighter momentssuch as the time that Aarrived in New York with a vast coection of animas for the Saint

ouis and Bronx zoos but found himsef eft with an extra giantanteater and two 20-foot anacondas A never tired of teing how heinveiged a taxi driver to deiver both him and the tropica animasto his mothers home where he hid the creatures in her warm cear.

And whie on the topic of animas A woud return ever earrom the unges and regae us with hiarious taes about Boswe aet monke that foowed him everwhere M wife Nina wascharmed b the stories and during a car trip up north to pa in the939 New York State Championship A promised to bring us back aonke from his next ourne

e chess paers know that the threat is often worse than thexecution and for months I worried that he might actua keepthe promise

Into h Lost Wold

On September 6 1938 A eft Georgetown British Guiana on the

trip of his ife a six-month expedition to Mount Roraima. ocatedaong the borders of Venezuea Brazi and British Guiana thisnear inaccessibe peak was made famous b Sir Arthur Conanoe in The Lst Wld and b Howood in countess movies asthe home of 65-foot brontosauruses and other beasts a a Juassicak. In reait the 9100-foot red-sandstone tabe mountain withits 25square mie pateau contains a power far mightier than athousand prehistoric monsters for it is the source of the AmazonEssequibo and Orinoco rivers.

was eader and soe financia backer of a 200-man force whichwas caed the PinkusPeberd Expedition into the ost ordPau S Peberd was the curator of the British Guiana MuseumAs goa in this his th and fina fora for fora and fauna was tobecome on the 13th white man to scae Mt Roraima For sixmonths as the New Yk Times put it he hacked his wa throughbrush and swamp to coect rare specimens of birds and animas.

Picking off birds was a speciat of the aborigines Experts with

bamboo bow-pipes wrote the Times, the natives woud creepwithin 10 feet of a sitting bird and with a short noiseess puff odgea dart in its breast. A too became adept with a bow-pipe thoughI dont reca m friend ever skewering a sitting chess opponent



22 T Bobby Fir Kw a Or Sori

Conditions on the trek were tough exediton membermoaned, Nowhere ese have I ever seen pubshed an officia reportof the temperature in the sun, but yesterday it wa 56 degrees Asfor food, oved the particuary fine meat of the Laba. It is arodent, he wrote, perhaps the words argest rat as big as a smapig. There s a saying that if you eat Laba and drnk swamp water,

then you wi aways return to British GuianaOr never eave it

n an od etter on yeowing, parchment-ike pper, describedhis Christmas dinner of 1938 in The Lost ord. t consisted, Ascratched in his sma, pinched script, of Breast of Marudi and idPigeon, cooked in casserate (a dark brown sauc made from theposonous juice of the cassava), raw fried potatoes, rice yams, gravy,N.Y coffee, yeow crysta sugar and grapefrut. A further notedthat the food was seasone _op�, fr div· vampire�

.

No one ever said that bein_ t h1i o{Cas a ark.

On November 16, after ws, of cetn pes, thePinkusPeberdy Expedition reac• th H{ uing MtRorama's pateau Adjecties' wt; t teu, paebefore its smooth, peend re ss i spout 24cascading 1,000foothigh waes tht e e ope fuets of abathtub. It was as if a gatua h · wre squeeg a wetsponge The roar even fro u e aw, w� intent andpeading It seemed aive pn t iny notinanimate, truy the Indians e oe'

The expedition to The Los r m¢ i bc to ts wordor, if you wi, to Georgetow Mr 3 1 It beme a egenda success The materiace re t orgetownDaily gsy numbers ove 70 s f· br, pants,

insects fishes repties batrachians ad nd and fesh watermousca From this huge coection, sent some 700 birds to theUniversity of Michigan and about 300 rare or new ower species (atota of 3,000 specmens) to New York's Botanica Gardens. Hundreds of the more marketabe monkeys, soths, snakes and so onwere sod to anima deaers

After eght yars spent soggng through steamng junges, hadfinay scaed the heights of a profession that he caed scientifcadventure One of his discoveries, a hitherto unknown rubber tree,was named Vchysia pinkusii. A neary transparent fish wth redeyes that found in an isoated mountain poo was dubbed thePinkusis by curators at the Museum of Natura Histo

But before a of this fame and gory came a .



ight at Night

Cper 23

aving assmbld thousands of th abovmntind spcimns Alndd to pack thm back to civilization. Lavig Mt Roaima onanuay 22 h st out at th had of a lin of mach that sttchdfo mils

Not supisingly" Al wot of th sixwk 30-mil tunouny to Gogtown ou pac quicknd oc th xpditionsft w pointd homwad w alady imagining thcclaim of a bathss waiting wod ndd had w notconqud Roaima and lft vidncnams and dats of ou visitn a stonpotctd bottld cach on its pak? w tavllingan asy downhil cous fom appoximatly 900 to 2000 ft

But sistd bing caught up in th uphoia hy? Bcaus

w w bing followd "Th attack on Als goup cam th hous bfo dawn. Thanks

to an agmnt signd in advanc by th ajo mmbs of thxpdition Al was th unqustiond lad His ods w lawand h now wokd out a statgy wothy of ny gnal

About 3 a.m." h wot w had ominous noiss: shillwhistling wanings fist fom ou at Acawoio Indian scouts thnth quick shots in apid succssion. umpd up lik lasd

spings wapons of all kinds cockd.vyon glancd in my diction and I mad a quick dcision.

Rounding up all but a handfu of mn gambd on a fontalattack not cditing th nmy with a dcptiv anking manuv;but just in cas I lft bhind Pby and a handful of bavs assvs

uickly instucting my bavs to shout at th top of thi lungsand to shoot into th ai 2 of us stakd fowad shouting lik

banshs But w ncount ony th sound of baly audibtating ft ylld Back back' pointing towad camp stillconcnd about th manuv bing a divsion. I had somdifficuty with th mo imptuous youngsts. Howv thy soonsaw my asoningthat it was not cowadicand followd thods

At camp ou ss cam out of thi statgic hiding spotswith disappointd facs showing in th wt gaystakd dawn."

Nw Zion in th Topics

Shoty aft tuing fom Th Lost old Al bcam involvdthough both Milton in a littlown Amican ffot to cat a



24 Te Bobby ier new and Oter Storie

havn o ling uopan ws in th wildnss o Bitish Guiana.

In spons to a Bitish o to donat 42000 squa mils oagly unxplo titoy, Psidnt anklin Roosvlt stablishd th Bitish Guiana Commission to th Advisoy Committon Politial Rugs h Commission using unds povidd by

Anthony d Rothsid was to ondut asibility studis o what Iall a Nw Zion in th opis

At this point, nt Al h Commission ndd to addss indtai th suitability o th pod titoy o Euopansttlmnt whih mant studying th agiultu, natual sous,tanspotation and limat o th aa. As an Old Guiana Hand, Alwas ontatd by osph Rosn, th Commissions agiultualxpt hav ha many indly talks, A wot to his bothon Apil 6 1939 noiially Im su th ws a oming h,

but Rosn an t you mo about it H says that h ls too oldnow to do th ild wok, so I guss h will giv way to youngmn. h plan wi b to stt xpimntal goups (001000) invaious plas and lt thm xplo th ounty o th bst sits.

Continud I am sing many pitiul sights o ws goingdown to nh Guiana om h So a 14 hav om thu butIm aaid th plan is a aiu h mn a woking on a sugastat o 1 ans a day ( 4 nts) whih hady an pay o ood,

and th pla is malaial, so in as o sinss thy a gons. hav bn hlping out som ugs who om h On omdiamond polish got an ovss job on an stat. Salay, $33 amonth and a xpnss paid. I dont think I v saw a happi manat w got him th job

In May 1939, th Commission submittd its pot whihonudd that th titoy undoubtdly posssss potntiapossibilitis that would ully justiy th aying out o a tiasttlmnt pojt on a substantial sal. But th stat o olda II ou months lat ndd wish migation om Euop

Hs Scond Ca n Chss

By uly 1939 Al was in Nw Yok sling o his hug olltion oloa and auna. Clbatd in th New Yok Times as th ExBok Bak om Exploing Conan oyls Lost old andtoutd in sval nwspaps as that on man in a million who isdoing just what h wants to do, plannd a nw, still mo

ambitious xpdition. In Sptmb, Al tod a Times pot Ist out o a ompltly unhatd titoy in Cntal BitishGuiana. Im going staight to th Mma Mountain ang, and Ihop to ind vn a bids and basts than any Iv ound so a.





2 he Bobby Ficher Knew nd Oher Soe

Futh u llwd. Mt ntably A d vy wll inu .S hamnh nihing 4thth in 1940 3d4th in194 ith n 1944 and ighth in 1946 Hi vall d 316 6 th vnth bt in S Chaminhi hty Othu nludd winnng th Manhattan Ch Club haminh 1941 and 194 In th latt vnt h d 10 t inih

ahad bth ahdan and myl In Augut 1946 h wn a tngtaining tunamnt with a ild that nludd val mmb aS natinal tam that mt a Svt uad th llwing mnth

"L Styl st L'Homm Mm

Nv wa Gg Bun inight that th tyl i th man mtu than n th a A Pinu. a yung man my ind wadtinguihd by at h and unbidld nidn ut a in

tun h ditinguihd hml by ding-d a a t tad andattang mat In mddl-ag h mllwd ntably and ignda a taty with hi ali ambitin ut a n tun thi amilyman bgan t m ldly ath than billiantly a ttad and itinal mat.

F a lng tim I blamd th had wind li th aantdimming ' andla nvntinal and bably hallw xlanatn Yu A wa by natu and dign a Gat Wht Huntwh wa a ih ut wat whn llng uti and laying ha-tm in Nw Y I in th ungl a A wt tit adhn t a d that lav nthng t han unl vy alulatd man tayng aliv thn th umnt mttinin ivl ity v th h bad a a dint Paadxially bld advntu battlng natu mut xi um autin whil buinmn and h mat battling th mtitinmut ulat i thy a t aumulat

hat avd A m bmng a h dn wa that alng with

autin h al bught t u at a ntit ain tuth An h analy an val a lt abut a n haatbau all tn i at aid; and A li th hilh ld wh d thugh hity in utl attmt t xlain tanalyzd hi blvd Ruy Lz and th ning t ah imlygundd nluin nt t int. I will nv gt thlttl ml that alway lit u hi a whn at dgging d andd int a tin h nally hit aydit

uing th 1940 A and I bam gd ndand ival. In divd that th utm a givn gam n matt hwimtant mant l t him than hldng th gam u t th lightand tuning it thi way and that duing th t-mtm Ta xaml u gam in th 1946 Manhattan Ch Club Chamin



Chater I

p which dpivd m t titl and gand m th billiancyiz.

On my t mv I d a pawn n immdiat advantagt tan apid dvlpmnt and cntl th bad. Manyat wud hav pad n t pawn. But nt A t Scntit

w chully ntd int my ppd xpimnt t vd I nticd tat wt mthing n hi c t hn lt t tabl I land v t ad tw wd typical Pinkuw m. I mad my nxt cupl mv pickd up hi ct and addd th wd nt wy I will. w ik twntit pitly diaging abut th mit a nw dicvy.

Aod Dee-Abe Pusanhaan CC Champoshp I 946

Qeen's Gamb Declned

PQ4 P-Q4 2 PQ4 P-K3 3. NQ3 P-Q3 4. P-K4 PKP 5. NP -NSc6 N3 PQ4 7 P-QR3 Nc 8 P NK3 9. N3 N3 0 Q3

th pawn aca nvty at th tm

1 0 . . PP I PP

. . . NP

lwing thi mv A pnnd Sw m

1 2 00 N3

Black cannt play 12 . . . NxNch bcau 13. N 0-0 14. B-N2B-Q 1 R- B-B3 16 -R3 wn hit win

3 -N2 -Q2 1 4. R-K

And I wt nt wy I will But t b ai t , wtn lt t m bcau a cntiic cvaly m pactcal in alabaty than in a ch gam playd und a tim imt a upb apid tant t n wich h batt m biliantlyPinkunk (Nw Yk 1948) 1 P-K4 P-B4 2. N-KB3 N-B3







h Bbby Fischer Knew nd Oher Soes

piks up t pawns and wins asily.

Old-Fashond Sns of th Fttng

smn w t ask m wat st A apat m t mn Iknw, I wuld it a tait tat maind unangd tugut is

li: An ld-asind sns t itting. Im nt talking aut isvntmpd avi is invaial ga in dat. Nt at allIm talking aut is pati pisly tailing psnal ndutt it t dmands a situatin

Typial t man was a littl inidnt na t nd a spdtunamnt at t Masall Css Clu in wi A did vy wll.is sn Lay mms wanting t ang aund t sav isats suss and t milk t glius day still m un ButA said quitly, Lay, w ad u un, s lts g manxampl vluntay sl-staint, a quality n tis sitysndangd spis list Yu s, A knw tat a psn an gt tmu a gd ting Evn t mu un Paps tats wy Inv mt anyn w divd m gnuin njymnt m tun tat did av Mitul is a wd nt tn usd ts days,ut it ptly dsis Als laug.

Als gat y and gntlmans sssin was t mv tindings m a tunamnt ks and ind tm wit t

mst autiul gilt vs t und utsid a mdivalmnasty Tips t is m w a tat aus w always gtaund t xamining t ks and pning tm t play vsm lassi gams T last tim I visitd im ad aladyund undds ks wi md n t inst liais int wld

In tdays makt tis ltin wuld pilss, and tnwnd wat appnd t it

His Fina Yas

uing t 190s, ntinud t play in Manattan Css Cluampinsips, tug ts appaans am lss qunt isinal ya in ss s a as I av n al t dtmin, was1973, wn mptd in t Wld Opn. is a gam wnin t Gat Nw Yk Opn tat ya.

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