Word: ulvestad
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Mild-looking little Samuel Reshevsky hunched over the chess board, prodded his temples, thoughtfully munched a finger. His opponent, Olaf Ulvestad, paced the floor between moves like an expectant father. A few doors away, in an auditorium safely insulated from the ears of the players, fans watched the progress of the game on a huge chess board, happily kibitzed: "No, no, the bishop!" "Now, I would have played it this...
After six hours of grueling play, Reshevsky was two pawns to the good. Suddenly, after the 66th move, Ulvestad resigned. To the parlor chess player, who doesn't know when he is licked, and thinks he has a fighting chance until he is behind by a rook, two knights and his queen, it was an outrage. But Reshevsky, Ulvestad and the initiates knew that, between masters, Ulvestad's position was no longer tenable. Reshevsky, four-time winner of the biennial U.S. championship, had clinched it again...
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