AThe Guardian London, Greater London, England Thursday, August 03, 1961 - Page 5
Chess Problem No. 638
Defensive errors
In chess the great majority of players find attack easier than defence; and even good defensive players are handicapped by the fact that an error on their part is usually more costly than any mistake by the attacker.
The psychological difficulties of defence are emphasized by the high success rate of positional and intuitive pawn sacrifices which may prove unclear or even unsound in the post-mortem examination, but which are often successful over the board.
This week's example is from the interesting match now in progress between Bobby Fischer, who at 18 has already been United States champion four years running, and Samuel Reshevsky, formerly the best American master and a player unbeaten in set matches. The stake—$7,000—is enough to make Botvinnik and Tal feel they were playing for mere pin-money.
