Article: 13299 of rec.games.chess.misc Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc Path: info!dregis From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (D.Regis) Subject: Re: Pillsbury bind? Message-ID: Organization: University of Exeter, UK. References: <55rmgu$jtt@library.airnews.net> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 10:10:39 GMT In article <55rmgu$jtt@library.airnews.net> canright@airmail.net (Robert Canright) writes: >I've seen one book refer to a knight posted on QB5 (c5) as being the >"Pillsbury" bind (after Harry Pillsbury). Is this true? Any other >conditions needed to qualify as a Pillsbury bind? I thought it was a >type of pawn formation. I owe what I know about this to Chernev's books like "Logical Chess" and "The Most Instructive Games...". There's a game Checkover-Rudakowsky which I think is in both books which ilustrates the formation. The use of the term in this context may be Chernev's own. The formation is: White Pawn on d4, Black Pawn on c6. White c-Pawn missing, and Black b-Pawn advanced past b6. You get a pawn formation with the Black c-Pawn backward on a half-open file. This gives an outpst for the Knight on c5, but if the place of the Knight was occupied by a Rook, I'd say White still had a bind. + - + - + - + - - + - + - P P P P - P - P - + - - P n + - + - + + - + p + - + - - + - + p + - + p p + - + p p p - + r + - + - + The bind occurs where Black defends the Queen's Gambit with ...e6, and later plays ...dxc4 (White recaptures Bxc4) and ...b5. If Black can't (or won't) follow-up ...b5 rapidly with ...c5 White may be able to restrain it forever, and pressurise the c-Pawn. As a result of games by Pillsbury and others most Black players know to get ...c5 in pretty damn quick. Now, Harry Pillsbury also practiced an attacking formation in the Queen's Gambit with Nf3-e5 and f2-f4, and my guess is that there are folk who refer to this formation as the Pillsbury bind. There are famous examples against Marco and Wolf. It is more common when Black adopts a system with ...b6 and ...Bb7, when clearly there is no outpost on c5 and ...c7-c5 cannot be prevented. Again, Black can avoid or neutralise the bind, but you do get modern examples, like Portisch-Petrosian, Candidate's Match 1974. Games ----- Chekhover,V - Rudakowsky,I (Moscow) [D61] 1945 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 0-0 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.Qc2 c6 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Nd5 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.0-0 b5 12.Be2 a6 13.Ne4 Bb7 14.Ne5 Rac8 15.Nxd7 Qxd7 16.Nc5 Qc7 17.Rfd1 Rcd8 18.Rac1 Bc8 19.Qe4 Nf6 20.Qh4 Qa5 21.a3 b4 22.a4 Nd7 23.b3 Nxc5 24.Rxc5 Qb6 25.Rdc1 Bb7 26.a5 Qa7 27.Bd3 g6 28.Qf6 Rd6 29.Qe7 Rfd8 30.h4 R8d7 31.Qf6 Qa8 32.Be4 Qe8 33.h5 Rd8 34.Bxc6 Bxc6 35.h6 Kf8 36.Rxc6 Rxc6 37.Rxc6 Rd7 [37...Qxc6 38.Qxd8+ Qe8 39.Qd6+ Kg8 40.Qxa6 threat Qb7 40...Qe7 41.Qb6] 38.Rc8 Qxc8 39.Qh8+ 1-0 Pillsbury,H - Wolf,H Monte Carlo, 1903 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.Nf3 Be7 6.e3 0-0 7.Rc1 b6 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Ne5 Bb7 10.f4 a6 11.Bd3 c5 12.0-0 c4 13.Bf5 b5 14.Rf3 Re8 15.Rh3 g6 16.Bb1 Nxe5 17.fxe5 Nd7 18.Bxe7 Rxe7 19.Qf3 Nf8 20.Rf1 Qd7 21.Qf6 b4 22.Na4 Qc7 23.Nc5 Bc8 24.Rh6 a5 25.Rf4 Rb8 26.Bxg6 Rb6 27.Qxb6 Nxg6 28.Qf6 Re8 29.Rf1 Be6 30.Qg5 Kh8 31.Qh5 Nf8 32.Nxe6 Rxe6 33.Rxe6 1-0 Portisch,Lajos - Petrosian,Tigran [D63] Palma de Mallorca (10), 1974 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bg5 0-0 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Rc1 a6 8.c5 c6 9.Bd3 b6 10.cxb6 c5 11.0-0 c4 12.Bc2 Nxb6 13.Ne5 Bb7 14.f4 Rb8 15.f5 Nbd7 16.Bf4 Rc8 17.Qf3 exf5 18.Bxf5 Nxe5 19.dxe5 Ne4 20.Nxe4 dxe4 21.Qh3 g6 22.Rcd1 Qb6 23.Rd7 Rce8 24.e6 gxf5 25.Rxe7 Rxe7 26.Qg3+ Kh8 27.Bh6 fxe6 28.Bxf8 Rd7 29.Bh6 Qa5 30.Qb8+ Qd8 31.Qe5+ Kg8 32.Qxe6+ Rf7 33.Rxf5 1-0 -- May your pieces harmonise with your Pawn structure and your sacrifices be sound in all variations D _ / "()/~ Dave Regis &8^D* WWW: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/chess.html || \_/| = DrDave on BICS ~\ / "...what else exists in the world but chess?" _|||__SHEU: ~/sheu.html -- NABOKOV From info!dregis Mon Nov 11 15:31:31 GMT 1996