This situation arises when a player simply neglects or de;ays castling or the King is either no longer able to castle or has been driven by the opponent away from the castling area. When that happens,im general, problem involved are identical.
Of course there are exceptions and a King has lost the right to castle does not always justify undertaking a mating attack. For a mating attack to be feasible, the loss of castling must also involve the exposure of a King that is vulnerable.
In the case of an uncastled King other problems can also arise, e.g. communication between the Rooks is more difficult. In that case the struggle for control of an open file is made more difficult.
Who was Tartaower’s opponent? Robert Frentz was sometimes listed as Maurice Frentz which may have been his middle name. Beyond that there seems to be no information on him. He was French and appears in a group photo at the bottom of the page HERE.
The following game is included in Chernev’s book, The Most Instructive Games Ever Played, and a good choice it is...Tartakower packs a lot of instruction into the game.
Savielly Tartakower–Robert Frentz1–0A18Paris1933Massie,Jasmes
A18: English Opening 1.c4 f6 2.c3 e6 3.e4 d5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.e5 d4
This line is relatively unexplored and black has an interesting option in 5...
Ne4. 6.exf6 dxc3 7.fxg7 cxd2+ 8.xd2 xg7 9.c2 9.c4 This is a viable
option. The position of black's K looks shaky, but his defensive resources are
sufficient so it may be said the chances are equal. 0-0 10.e2 c6 11.0-0 e5 12.b3 Krysa,L (2538)-Zacarias,M (2182) Asuncion PAR 2023/ After 12...
Bg4 the position would be equal. 9.b5+ is another good option. After c6 10.e2+ e6 11.c4 e7 12.xe6 xe6 13.xe6+ fxe6 14.0-0-0 Neither side
can claim any advantage. Batsiashvili,N (2477)-Antolak,J (2387) Bydgoszcz POL
2022 9...c6 Other reasonable moves have been tried here: 9...Qe7+, 9...
O-O and 9...B36. All of them are good for equality as is the text. 10.f3 g4 Black is neglecting the safety of his K. Chernev recommended 10...Bd7
intending to castle Q-side, but that does not seem to work out too well. 10...d7 11.0-0-0 e7 12.e1 e6 13.a6 with slightly the better of it. 10...e6 11.a6 bxa6 Best 12.xc6+ d7 13.c5 Here, too, white is
better. 10...e7+ This is black's best as chances are fairly equal after 11.e2 0-0 11.0-0-0 xf3 Correct was 11...Qf6! after which there are
numerous possibilities, but all seem to lead to equality. Here is a line
suggested by Komodo Human... 11...f6 12.g5 h6 13.h4 xf3 14.gxf3 xg5+ 15.hxg5 xg5+ 16.b1 f8 17.h3 d8 with equal chances. 12.gxf3
White now has a distinct advantage. d4 Chernev claimed this attacking move
is unjustified in view of the dangers facing his exposed K. However, it is the
best black has. 13.e4+ e7 14.xe7+ xe7 Even after the exchange of Qs
white remains with a strong initiative and black's K in the center is still in
danger. 15.b4+ e8 This move is as good as any. 16.b5+ c6 17.he1+ Every one of white's pieces are involved in the attack! e6 17...d8 would have allowed black to keep fighting, but OTB the ramifications
would be hard to calculate. 18.xc6 bxc6 19.c5 e8 20.xe8+ xe8 21.xd4 xd4 22.xd4 18.c4 d8 19.xe6 Very nice! Tartakower does not hold on to
the two Bs. There is no mating attack, so he transposes into a won endgame. xd1+ 20.xd1 fxe6 21.xe6+ Endgame KRB-KRB d8 22.e7
White has a R on the 7thg rank, black's K in confined to the 8th rank and his
R is pretty much useless. White's advantage is decisive. xb2 23.xb7 d4
An interesting position. Chernev sums up the situation very well when he
pointed out that black's B protects the a-Pawn and the R protects the h-Pawn,
so Tartakower solves the prblem with a problem-like move. 24.c5
A pretty move which wins the a-Pawn. It's obvious the B cannot be taken
because of Rb8+ winning the R. c8 24...e5 25.xa7 Of course the h-Pawn
is immune, so... b8 26.d4 g8 27.xh7 White wins. Note that black cannot
move his R off the 8th rank... g2 28.h8+ c7 29.e5+ 25.xa7 25.xd4
is less effective, but it would still win. d8 26.b4 c5 27.c4 b7 28.xc5 xd4+ 29.e2 h4 30.e3 xh2 31.f4 h5 32.f5 h4 33.f6 h3 34.f7 25...b8 26.xd4 Black will win the B back, but in the meantime white picks up the
h-Pawn. d8 27.xh7 xd4+ There can be little doubt that this is an easy
win for white and so black could resign in good conscience. 28.e2 a4 29.h4 xa2+ 30.e3 c8 The K is headed for the K-side in a futle
effort to hold up the white Ps. 30...c5 is an equally useless try. 31.h5 c4 32.h6 c3 32...a6 33.h8+ a7 34.h7 h6 35.d4 h4+ 36.c3 h3 37.xc4 xf3 38.g8 33.g7 c2 34.d2 31.h5 d8 32.h6 e8 33.c7 f8 34.h7 a3+ 35.f4 Black resigned 1–0
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