Kq 1
If 60 K B 6, P Kt 8 Q 61 B X Q stale mate. For the next two years I devoted my attention to finishing my High School course. In 1904 I went to the U. S. A. to learn English and to prepare myself to enter Columbia University. In 1905 I paid my first visit to the Manhattan Chess Club of New York. Although I had not played for a long time I won the first game, in good style, against one of the many first-class players of that famous club. I became a Sunday afternoon visitor, and one year later, in...
PKt
A careful examination will show that Black could not safely take the P on account of Kt Q 5. The object of White's previous move is accomplished. The B no longer holds two diagonals, one offensive and the other defensive, but only one, and as he has weakened the defence of his K it is now time to carry on the assault. This is to my mind the finest move in the game, though all annotators have overlooked the fact. Before making it I had to plough through a mass of combinations which totalled at...