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In the course of one of his careful annotations of the play in the Netherlands match the "Manchester Guardian' Chess Correspondent said that Alek- hine broke all rules of develop |ment. Of his first eleven moves six were made with two pieces, which advanced and retired in All communications- intended for a manner more often seen in publicatio

be addressed to cafe chess than in world cham- the Editor, and be accompanied by pionship matches. Yet on the the Writer's Nam nd Address, seventeenth move he had actual- not necessarily for

ly the better position." This as a guarantes of good faith. gives the clue to Alekhine's

supremacy over the board. knows the "book" as well, haps, as Euwe, certainly no bet- ter, but he gets away from it as soon as he can, even at the cost of a theoretical error in de velopment, and trusts to his ex- traordinary insight into compli cated positions to outwit his opponent. This alsa explains his popularity with the ordinary player, to whom positional play, the accumulation of small ad- vantages, and all the catchwords of the modern school are repel- lent. Just as the ordinary con- cert-goer likes his music with a ACKNOWLEDGMENT tune in it, he likes his chess to be sparkling. Cafe chess may be George Lammert and family haphazard and unsound, but it is thank their friends for the kind often as exciting and as good to expressions” of sympathy received watch as village cricket, and

when it is played by a like Alekhine it produces which every novice and

Posta Abroad Extra

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and Family

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M.V. Neptuna

during their recent bereavement.” EXORTALOK

Hong Kong, Monday, January 10, 1938. master can enjoy.

CHESS

CHAMPIONSHIP

The defeat of Dr. Euwe in the

Autobiography for Beginners

genius

recent match for the chess cham-These are great days for writ- era of biography and autobio- pionship of the world is a result graphy. More of this type of without precedent in the history literature is published annually than ever before, and the best of the game. Not that there is of it vies in popularity with the anything unusual in a beaten best fiction. champion: all

champions

A new attitude has arisen on the part of publishers and the enough, public toward autobiography, and serv-virtually a fresh field has been

are beaten in the end lif they live long

for youth will be

for

ed. But there is no precedent opened to the youthful and aspir- ing author. One of the autobio- or the defent of a champion by graphies recently announced by an ex-champion. Steinitz “staged a London publisher is titled a come back," as prize-fighters "Now I'm 16. say, in 1896, but was again over-

Fiction has always been, for whelmed by Lasker, and since youth, the royal road to publica- then no other ex-champion has tion in book form; but there is even tried to regain his lost something to be said for this al- sceptre. Dr. Alekhine not only ternative. Inexperience is apt to tried but succeeded decisively. By weigh heavily against the writer of fiction, at least of realistic defeating the holder

of

the fiction. The necessary ability to title with a margin of six points portray characters, and especial- in twenty-five games, the re ly mature characters, demands established his position as the as understanding that is not to greatest living player and by the be gained entirely by the light of manner of his victory did much imagination, nor even by a com- to strengthen the belief that he bination of that and self-know- is the greatest player of all time. ledge. The difficulty may, of By his latest triumph he con- course, be lessened at the dis- founded those experts who saw cretion of the writer-the novel signs of deterioration in his play may be but an autobiography in and who predicted a second de- disguise; but however slight the feat for him. So confident were fictional web he weaves, it is one or two of them about the always liable to entangle the result of the Netherlands match young writer.

that they asserted their right to

challenge Dr. Euwe next. But, In the proportion that hẹ is not for the first time, Dr. Alek- able to rely on his own experience, hine astonished the experts. He rather than on imaginative con- astonished them when he over- ceptions, and on introspection threw the invincible Capablanca, instead of speculation, to that the smooth precision of whose extent, usually, is he seen at his play had failed the redoubtable best. Nor is this to set beore Lasker; and he astonished them himself a less worthy ideal, for still more when, two years ago the long, long thoughts of he lost to Dr. Euwe, a great and youth have their importance scholarly player but not generally the human perspective, and his thought to be a potential world is the standpoint. from which champion. His victory unlike they can best be

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