The Archive · 1938

Queer Ending

White (Keres in a match at Göte-borg): K on KKtl; Q on QRá; R's on QKtl, KBI; B's on Q2, KKt2; P's on QR2, 64, Ks, Kho, KKIZ, KB2. Black (Stahlberg): K on KKti; Q on Q2; R's on QBI, Qi: B on K2; Kt on 983 P's on QR2, QKts, K3, KB2, KKi2. KR2, Keres is exerting considerable pressure on the Q side, and has two Bishops against Bishop and Knight. Accordingly Stahlberg goes out for a most ingenious draw.

White midable than an attempt to recapture ihe lost provinces. It would mean war with Belgium, thereby repeat the follies of 1914 and uniting the world against the ager are told that in "Mein Kampf" Hitler wrote this and that. But every statesman in what Gladstone called "a position of greater freedom and less responsibility" hrs said things and suggested courses that he never contemplated carrying out when in power. What about the Ukraine? Germany could only attack her if Poland were an enemy or an ally, the 30,000,000 Poles permanently hostile to Germany would arise. If she became the ally of Germany in this venture which of the two countries would 23 Draw agreed (c)

(a) Of course, if Q x Q Kt Kich, winning a Pawn; or P x Kt, Q b Sine Q must protect the QB, or again lose a Pawn.

(c) By repetition of moves.—"Observer^ Ў I ised gather the spoils? If Poland did so she would become almost equal to Germany in power, and this certainly would not be to the latter's interest, A German Ukraine would place Poland in the nutcrackers, and she will avoid such a fate.

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