The Archive · 1939

Alexander A. G. Conde White Black

PIN Q nsch Bx Kt—93 ce) 3 ich k K2 (ay (a) Bx Piss but who Knows much nowadays about that dear old antique, the Bishop's Gambit?

(b) Mr. Conde is in rather too much of a hurry to exchange pieces. Kt K2 and Castles would be stronger, keeping up pressure, instead of relieving it His P on KB5 cannot be comfortably held: og. P—KKA, 11. P KR4, opening the KR file. Black therefore goes for the White P on Q5 but Mr. Alexander's quick development worries his K.

(d) To hold the QP, but now his position is bad.

(e) It K—HI 16. B x Peh, and allis over.

(f) Or R—HI. when White can amuse himself in various way. B x P (threatening B—Kӛeh) being the most evident

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