The book is aimed at beginners and intermediate players and allegedly will improve their chess skills with the focus on strategies that can lead to a quick win. Hogwash!
One of the brilliant miniatures in the book was played by a couple of unknown players. The loser is known only as Falling who fell hard. A bit more is known about the winner.
It's a correspondence game played in 1920 by by John W. Brunnemer of South Nyack, New York.
He was born in Brooklyn in 1895 and passed away on December 24, 1948.
He was a rabid fan of baseball’s Brooklyn Dodgers; the team moved to Los Angeles in 1958. They play Toronto tonight in game 7 to determine the winner of the World Series. He played for the old Brooklyn Chess Club in its heyday, won the American Correspondence Championship in 1919.
While living in New Jersey hrwas President of the
North Jersey Chess League. He also held the state championship there from 1921 to1932. At one stretch during those championship years he went five years without losing a game.
He was a notable postalite (as they were called) with Chess Review where he had a Postal Master rating.
Brunnemer had a classical style and prferred 1.e4 and was well versed in opening theory at a time when Hypermodern opening were all the rage.
[Event "Correspondence"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1920.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "John W. Brunnemer"]
[Black "Falling"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B45"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 17.1"]
[PlyCount "35"]
[EventDate "1920.??.??"]
{B45: Sicilian Four Knights} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3
e6 6. Be2 Bb4 7. O-O Bxc3 8. bxc3 Nxe4 {This whole line is not without its
dangers for black.} 9. Bf3 {This move has not goven white good results. He
does better with 9.Bd3 or 9.Nxc6} Nxc3 {The annotator in Chess Review gave
this a question mark commentig that it was not the best. Actually, it is the
best...engines say so. Equally good, and more popular, is 9...d5} 10. Qd3 {
According to a note in Chess Review this line has accounted for a lot of
brilliancies on white's part as shown in Reinfeld's book. That may be the case,
but if black plays correctly (10...Qf6!) the position offers equal chances.}
Nd5 {[%mdl 8192] This loses.} (10... Nxd4 {While this does not lose, it leaves
white with a condiserable advantage.} 11. Qxd4 Qf6 12. Qxf6 gxf6 13. Bb2 Na4
14. Bxf6 Rg8 15. Be4 {White is better. Zelcic,R (2495)-Bennett,J (2190) Geneve
1996}) (10... Qf6 {This is the coorect move as it maintains equal chances.} 11.
Be3 Nd5 12. Nxc6 bxc6 {White can try either 13.Bd4 or 13.Bc5 with equality.})
11. Bxd5 {The refuration of black's last move.} exd5 12. Re1+ {This forces
black's K to run, but some ingenuity in white's part will be required.} Kf8 13.
Nf5 d6 {There is no way of saving the game.} 14. Nxg7 {[%mdl 512] The N cannot
be taken.} Ne5 (14... Kxg7 15. Qg3+ {Black can only delay mate by surrendering
a lot of material.} Kf8 (15... Kf6 16. Qg5#) 16. Bh6#) 15. Nh5 {Threatens to
win with Rxe5!} Be6 (15... a6 {A pass ti show the threat.} 16. Rxe5 dxe5 17.
Ba3+ Ke8 (17... Kg8 18. Qg3+ {wins}) 18. Ng7+ Kd7 19. Qxd5+ Kc7 20. Qxe5+ Kc6
21. Qc5+ Kd7 22. Qd6#) 16. Rxe5 {[%mdl 512]} dxe5 17. Bh6+ Ke8 18. Qb5+ {
Bkack resigned} (18. Qb5+ Bd7 {This avoids mate, but requires white to
demonstrate some clever play.} 19. Ng7+ Kf8 (19... Ke7 20. Qb4+ Kf6 21. Qh4+
Kg6 22. Qh5+ Kf6 23. Qg5#) 20. Qxb7 Rb8 21. Qxd5 Qf6 22. Nf5+ Ke8 23. Nd6+ Ke7
24. Ne4 Qxh6 25. Qc5+ Kd8 26. Qxe5 {picks up one of the Rs.}) 1-0
