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White to play and win.

A. Liang-A.Lenderman

US Championship 2020

Last week: 1...Rxb2+!2 Rxb2 d3+ 3

Kb1 Qb3+ and matesor 3 Kc1 Qc5+ 4

Kd2 Qc2+5 Ke1 Bh4+.

1 d4 .................... d5

2 c4......................c6

3 e3....................Nf6

4 Nc3.................. e6

5 b3 .................... b6

6 Bb2................Bb7

7 Bd3..............Nbd7

8 Nge2..............Bd6

9 O-O................O-O

10 Ng3.................c5

11 cxd5........... cxd4

12 Nce4..........Bxg3

13 Nxg3.......... dxe3

14 dxe6 .........exf2+

15 Rxf2............ fxe6

16 Qe2..............Nc5

17 Bc2 ..............Ba6

18 Qe1............Qe8?

19 Rd1 ............Rc8?

20 b4 ................Nb7

21 Ne4..............Nd5

22 Rxf8+ .........Qxf8

23 Bb1............Qxb4

24 Nf6+!...........Kh8

25 Qxe6............Ra8

26 Qxd5.....Resigns

SLAV DEFENSE

Stavanger 2020

Magnus Carlsen Jan-Krzysztof Duda

From the word or phrase above, form at

least 27 five-letter words, without using

more than one form of the same word.

For example, drink or drank, not both.

Sunday PREFIGURED

Word

Force

Ignatz Kolisch was the

world’s best player in the

1860s, when he met a chess

patron, Albert Rothschild, of

the famous banking family

Rothschild suggested that

Kolisch apply his calculating

mind to finance. Kolisch

made a fortune on the Paris

stock exchange, earned a bar-

onage and retired from chess.

Magnus Carlsen, who turns

30 this month, is far from re-

tiring. But in one day he

topped Kolisch’s stock wind-

fall.

Carlsen and two partners

created an app seven years

ago called Play Magnus.

Their company grew into a

Web site sensation, with

more than 3 million regis-

tered users on its various

platforms.

Last month Play Magnus

began trading on the Oslo

Stock Exchange. Carlsen’s in-

itial $13,000 investment, was

worth more than $12 million

in one day.

In this week’s game,

24...Nxf6 25 Qxb4 and 24...Kf7

25 Qxb4 Nxb4 26 Rd7+ would

lose.

Plays & trades

By Andy Soltis

Chess

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15 8

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10 23

16 5

13 6

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Place 1 to 9 in

each white cell.

To choose the

right number, you

need to work

from the clues in

around the edge.

The numbers

below the

diagonal lines are

the sums of the

solutions in the

white cells

immediately

beneath. The

numbers above

the divide are the

sums of the

solutions

immediately to

the right. Rows

and columns do

NOT have to be

unique.

All Sunday puzzle answers

are on Page 48

Kakuro

It’s said that when the origi-

nator of CliffsNotes was asked

how he came up with the idea,

his response began thus: “Well,

to make a long story short ...”

In many deals, the play is over

as soon as it gets

started. The fate of

the contract is de-

cided at Trick One

-- often because de-

clarer is or is not

careful to avoid

playing without

thinking.

When today’s

North-South got to

four hearts, East-

West could have

saved at five clubs

for down two, dou-

bled, minus 300

points. The sacri-

fice was correct in

theory -- four

hearts was cold for

plus 620 -- but not in practice.

When West led the jack of

clubs, South carelessly played

low from dummy. East signaled

with the deuce, and West

shifted to a spade: four, king, six.

East then tried to cash a sec-

ond club. South ruffed that but

still had to pick up the trumps

to make his game, and he went

wrong by taking the A-K.

South should play dummy’s

queen on the first club, forcing

East to win so West

can’t shift to a spade

through dummy.

East takes the king

and leads the ace.

South ruffs and

still must be careful.

If he takes the A-K

of trumps and then

starts the diamonds,

West can win and

shift to a spade, and

South loses a trick

in each suit.

South must avoid

an early spade shift.

After he ruffs the

second club, he lets

the ten of trumps

ride. As the cards

lie, he makes an overtrick, but

if East had the queen, he

couldn’t lead a spade effec-

tively. South would have time to

set up dummy’s diamonds for

spade discards and 10 sure

tricks.

South must avoid an early spade

shift. After he ruffs the second club,

he lets the ten of trumps ride. As the

cards lie, he makes an overtrick, but

if East had the queen, he couldn’t

lead a spade effectively. South

would have time to set up dummy’s

diamonds for spade discards and 10

sure tricks.

North dealer

N-S vulnerable

NORTH

♠A Q 4

♥A J 5

♦J 10 9 8 5

♣Q 6

WEST EAST

♠8 7 3 2 ♠K 9 5

♥Q 6 2 ♥ 4

♦A 2 ♦7 6 4

♣J 10 4 3 ♣A K 9 8 5 2

SOUTH

♠J 10 6

♥K 10 9 8 7 3

♦K Q 3

♣ 7

Nort h East South West

1 ♦ 2 ♣ 2 ♥ 3 ♣

3 ♥ Pass 4 ♥ All Pass

Opening lead—♣J

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Bridge

Each row and

each column

must contain

the numbers 1

through 4

(easy) or 1

through 6

(challenging)

without

repeating.

The numbers

within the

heavily

outlined

boxes, called

cages, must

combine using

the given

operation (in

any order) to

produce the

target

numbers in

the top-left

corners.

Freebies: Fill

in single-box

cages with the

number in the

top-left

corner.

KENKEN