, Vol. IX. No. 2

HERNANDEZ · KEEPS FLORIDA TITLE

For the third consecutive year, Nestor Hernandez of Tampa won the Florida State litle, scoring this year 6lk·1h. He h,tls not lost a game in three years, but has con­ceded one draw in each tourna­ment, this time to runner-up Bobby Ludlow, ' a lS-year sensalion (rom Orlando who won the Florida Jun­ior tille. Second and third on S-B wilh 5ifl ·llh were Ludlow and R. C. Eastwood. Ludlow lost onc game to W. R. Kimball\ while d,rawins with Hernandez, and Eastwood lost to Hernandez while drawing with John H. Divine 3rd. W. R. KimbeJl, formerly champion of Mississippi was fourth with 5-2, whi le !iIth to eighth on SoB with 41" .2* were Murray G. Cohen, R. A. Carlyle, Charles B. Stallings, and William F. B. Clevenger. The 30 player Swiss was directed by Horace P. Taylor with R. C. East· wood as assista nt director.

The team title (based on four highest scorers from (,<lch city rep.. resented in the tournament) wimt to Tampa with 19 points for the third year in a row. St. Petersburg was second with 17 points and Homestead third with 14 points. The winning Tampa team consist· cd of Hernandez, Stallings, Clev· enger, and Mink. .

Murray G. Cohan of 'Miami was elected president of the Florida Chess League, with Col. F. D. Lynch of ,St. Petersburg 1st vice­president, and Bob Eastwood of Homestead 2nd viee·president Ma· jor J ." B. Holt of Sarasota, who was unable 10 attend because of serio ous illness, was reelected secretary· treasurer, with B. L. Roberson of Tampa appointed acting secrelary until Major Holt recovers.

MAGEE TAKES NORTHWEST OPEN

Lee Magee of Omaha scored 6-1 to win the 41 player Swiss N. West Open, losing no games but drawing with Curt Brasket of Tracy and John Penquite 'of Des Moines. Sec­ond and third on S-B with 51,2·111.: each were Brasket and Penquite. Basket drew with Magee, Dr. L. C. Young, and George V. D. Tiers. Penquite lost to Brasket and drew with Magee.

Fourth to seventh on S·B wilh 5-2 scores wcre Leo Ratermanis, Somner Sorenson, William E. Kai· ser, and K. N. Pederson. Four states and Canada were represent.. ed in the event which was direct.. cd by Eugene Haeflin.

The Northwest Opcn doubled at· tendance over the earlier St. Paul Open under same sponsors.

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CUMMINGS TOPS LOUISIANA MEET

Fred Cummings, New Orleans, won the Louisiana State Chnmpion' sh ip at Natcbotoches with 5-1, edg· ing out W. T. Miller on Kuhns morliiicntion of Sonneborn·Berger points. Miller also scor~d 5·1. Third and fourth with 4¥.t·Ph each were A. L. McAuley and Frank W. Glad· ney. Fifth to tenth on S·B wilh 4·2 each in the 25 player event were Newton Grant, Fenner Parham, Orlean C. Dupree, David A. Wals· dorf, Jr., James S. Noel, Otto S. ClaitOl·.

Cummings received a tournament s i:re ceramic chess set made by Mr. Kenner of the Natchitoches Chess Club as a special {jrst prize, also a swivel top table on which was mounted a lueite chess board. In addition his name will be' inscribed on the permanent state trophy.

A rapid tnmsit tourney saw A. L. l'aIcAuley pla~e first with 12·1 with James Noel and Woodrow W.'Crew tied .Cor second with 11·2 each, Noel getting the nod for second on s.:a points. Newton Grant directed both events.

At the annual meeting of the Louisiana Chess Association, OUo Claitor of Baton Rouge was elected president, and A. L. McAuley· of New Orleans reelected secretary· treasurer and editor of the month· ly News bu lletin. Shreveport was chosen site for the 1955 tourna· ment. Frank W. Gladney was nam· ed USCF director for Louisiana.

BURDICK WINS W. VA. TITLE

The West Virginia Championship went to 17·year old Donald Burdick, a freshman at Duke University, who outpointed his nine rivals for a 4*·PI.: score in the 16th annual sta te event held in the new Coca Cola Building, Charleston. Burdick. was the only undefeated player in the championship division, winning three and drawing with Charles Morgan, Siegfried Werthammer and John F. Hurt. He also ended the six·year reign of 01". S. \Vertham· mer of Huntington who failed for the {jrst lime since 1947 to fin ish in first place.

Tied for second with 4·2 each were Dr. Werthammer, Joseph Foucher, and Charles Morgan, while William R. Cuthbert was fifth with 3-3.

Howard Cartee repeated as the Junior Champion in the five player round robin, scoring 40. John Ran· dolph finished second with 3-1. In the Open Tournament veleran Rudd T. Neel again won with 5'"h· '"h in the ten player event, draw· ing with George Hendrick in the

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Ragan Takes Heart Of American Open,

Tops Hearst By One Solkoff Point By JACK SPENCE

John Ragan, St. Louis Expert, edged Eliot Hearst, New York Master, by the slender margin of 1 Solkoff point after the two players toppcd a 54 player, 6 round Harkness Modified Swiss System to tie at 5lfl·lh. The even wru; sponsored by the Kansas City Chess Club nnd the Missouri Chess Association , both USCF affiliatcs, and was conducted by Mort Ltlebbert.

Th~ event was exceptionally strong for a regional aHair as the enlry list incl uded Eliot Heart, Lee Magee, J . Ragan, F. S. Anderson, B. Rozsa, and H. Horak, all lis ted by lhe USCF as Experts. In addition 16 players rated as Class A entered to present a formidable barricr to the stronger players.

Hearst had the diHicuit task of defeating Victor Pupols, Seattle, in the opencr, then went on to win from Lee Magee as the laUer's nag dropped on t he 38th move at a time when Magee had a promisin g position. His third round test was not a difficult one as he down ed DuBois, K.C., in a brief game. In the meanwhile Ragan defeated Frankcnstein, K.C., !o~. S. Anderson, St. L., and Leo Ratermanis, Iowa City, to set the s tage for their fourth round meeting. The game was clearly drawn aftcr Hearst sac· rificed a piece to insure a drawn ending. The linal position showed Hearst wilh a Rand P against a Band 3 Ps. Hearst had another easy test in Rd 4 as he defeated R. MacGregor, Wyoming, while Ragan had his hands fu ll edging Dr. L. C. Young, Wis., in a ticklish end· ing. In the £inale Hearst rolled over Leo Ratermanis while Ragan again had a tough task in' downing Jim Callis, Wichita, in what may well have been a drawn game!

Third place went to Dr. L. C. Young with a 5·1 score after he de· feated Jack Spence in a rather con· troversial position which arosc from a Falkbeer:. Counter Gambit .essayed by ' the latter. The loss sent Spence to 10th place with a 4·2 score and proved of great import· ance to the winners since under the rules of the Solkoff method of breaking tics Ragan earned an ad· ditional point on his Solkoff points due to Dr. Young's victory which was the ultimate margin of victory.

Lee Magee, Omaha, cdged Harold Lecf, Chicago, at 41h·B 2 each . Leo Ratermanis 4·2 and F. S. Anderson 4·2 completed the list o[ prize·win· ners.

Mrs. I'hil Morrell won the 1954 Heart o[ America's Woman Champ· ionship, finishing ahead 01 Phil Morrell; and Leo Ratermanis, 19 years old, won the Hcart of Ameri· ca Junior title. There were three undefeated players in the event: Ragan, Hearst, and Doyle Satterlee of Elmhurst, Ill . . who drew four and won two.

Serious illness prevented the presence of Charles W. Graham, originator of the event.

LOMBARDY TAKES NEW YORK STATE

By drawing his final game with F. Campomanes, William Lombar. dy, Marshall Chess Club Junior Champion, gained the New York State title at the age of 16, He was on Ihe white side oI a King's In· dian Defense lasting 52 moves. Lombardy had some anxiety in the mid·game but after an ex· change of Queens the draw was in· dicated. Lombardy is a high school student, graduati ng in }o~eb. 1955, and hopes to go to college. He playcd in lhe U.S. Open at Mi1~ waukee in 1953 with an 8lhA¥.t score and scor ed 7!h ··Hi: at New Orreans in the 1954 U.S. Open. He sCQl'ed 7·2 in the New York Cham· pionship, being undefeated but drawing with Burger , Santasiere, Collins, and Campomanes.

Edmar Mednis, who also lost no games, and Campomanes ticd for second with 6'h·2¥.t. Mednis is an· other r iSing young junior player and Campomanes, wbo lost a game to Collins, is from the Philippines and has 'been in New York for the last live years studying interna· tional law.

Fourth place saw a four·way tie ·between Jack Collins, Eliot Hearst, Tony Santasiere, and Alex Sucho. beck at '6-3 each. Suchobeck, who lives in Albany, gained the l'aul Morgan memorial trophy [or the best score by an up·state player. Santasiere's last. round victory over Roy T. Black of Buffalo robbed Black of a cha nce for the Morgan trophy.

Other top players in the 32 player Swiss were: Burger, Feuer· stein, and Fleischer 5Y.l·3y': each; Black, Sch midt, and Sul1ivan 5-4 each. F.tucella, Kupersmith, Nash, Ph ill ips, Sibbett, and Wassner 4!h· 4 1h each.

Erwin Sobin with 61fl··1!h won the 16 player Experts tournament, with Chester 1.. Hinaman second wHh 6·2, and Jilcob Brainin third with 5!h.2*, with William Rusch fourth with 5-3.

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ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Mastering tl;e End Game

By WALTER KOHN, Edilor of Meo EVERYBODY CAN MAKE A M ISTAKE •• .

. . . and we afC chagrined if that everybody is ourselves, and some­times malevolently pleased whon it is the other fellow's fault.

Actually, although the tludicnce expecls father to be almost infallible it is not so. AIter (.'Overing sheets or e'xhausticc analysis, authors oitc~ have disastrous flaws discovered in a vital place! Moreover with the produclion, daily, of innumerable games, many or which flow over an editor's desk, it is almost the rule that ' the established line takes pr~~dent, l~e lradit!-0nal view is taken as granted and the experts OpInion as correct. It IS therefore not surprising that when ever for some speci!ic r,cason we take a deeper than conventional look into a position, we flOd It the rule rather than the exccpti,)D to discover the former view of the authori ty to be wrong!

Such is the case with tbe analy· sis of an ending, betw~n Cherta· Donner, Berga 1952, that was part of Euwe's serial "The Endgame of the Month" which is syndicated to some ma(::azines, such as "Schac, echo," etc. Sidney Bernstein, who is a profound prober, pointed out to me a f law in tbis critical posi· lion which Euwc, at the conclusion of a long article, adjudged a d raw.

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K-Q3, 16. B·N7 (not 16. KxP, P­N41), B·N6; 17. BxP, BxP; 18. KxP "with little promise for Black," and other Black losing lines_ But it is Black who wins after Sidney's "deeper look" 18 . ........• K-1(4, fol· lowed by 19. .. ...... , PXP and ZO.

...... , K·B3!, e.g. (1) 19. B-N1, PXP; 20. PxP, R-B3; 21. P-RS, B-K7; or (2) 19. B-B3, PXP; 20. PxP, K-B3; 21. K-M, &Q6; or (3) 19. B-N6, PxP; 20. PXP, K-B3; 21. P-K4, B·K7; etc.

H may appear that White can ~old the game by playin&.18. PXP!, Instead of 18. KxP? This only shows however that instead of Euwe's sequence, Black more precisely employs Sidney's earlier P -ex­change 17 . ........• PxP; 18. PxP, BxP; 19. I(xP, I(-K4 and 20 . ........ , K·B3 as above.

A "Bust?" Yes, but a fortuitous one for the original winner, Donner (Black), involved. The gamc was won by him and diagram No. 11 scemed the only Hne that spoiled the otherwise foreed win and might have saved White. The "bust" re­s tores a perfect fina le.

the annu .. 1 I"lorida State Cham· pionship united to send Major Holt, who is also secrelary-treasurer of the Florida Chess Lcague, a get­well card signed by all prcsent. It was the first Florida Statc tour­nament in many years that Major Holt had not attended.

At the MSCA semi-annual meet­ing at Pembroke, Mass., President Stanley W. D. King and Treasurer Joseph H. Hurvitz announced that the JI,ISCA had now become MSCA Inc. Fealure of the mecting was ~ 6-team 30 second tournament, won by the " Rooks" team (Harry Ly­man, D. Levin, A. Gring, Mrs. A.d­rian), while serond was ''Kings'' team headed by S. King, and third "Queens" captained by Kazys Mer­kis. Best individual record on first board went· to K. Merkis with 4-1 winning from H. Lyman, Dr. Putz: man, Sven Brask, and J. White, while losing to S. King_

C'o lumbus Y (Ohio) Chess Club: Form. cr MaSllaehuseUS State Ctamplon Er· vin £. Underwood won a two-game play· off Z.O from J. Cox to take tile club litlc. Underwood won Section A with 7~, with T. Anderson I!('cond with 6-1, while Cox won Section B with 7~, with J ames Schroeder second with 5·2.

STEINER TAKES CALIFORNIA OPEN

Herman Steiner of Los Angeles, California State Champion and for­mer U.S. Champion, won the Cali· fornia Open at Santa Barbara by defeating Isaac Kashdan, Tujun­ga, in the final rfJund. Steiner's score was 6lh ·'h. Kashdan tied for third wtih 5lh-H" while Univer­sity of California student J im Schmitt, San Francisco, won sec­ond prize with a 6-1 score.

Tied for third in S-B order wiUi 5'h-]1h each were Vlademars Ze­mitis, Berkley; Isaac Kashdan; Svcn Almgren. Los Angeles; and Vladimir Pafnutieff, San Francis­co. In a seve n-way tie for 7th through ten1h prizes with 5·2 each were Dr. Peter l..apiken, Irving Ri­vise, Hcnry Gross, Eugene Levin, Larry Remlinger, Ray Martin, and .Jerry Siavich . A record turnout of 81 players competed in lhe three· day event which was directed by W. G. McClain, editor of the Cali­Cornia Chess Reporter.

Among out·of-slate competitors were Nevada Champion Maurice Gedance of Las Vegas with 41h·21h and former Washington State Champion Charles Joachim of Seat­tle with 4-3. --- --

CORRECTION CORRECTED Regarding the correction made

by Mr. Bernard Freedman of Tor­onto on the position of the Canad­ian team at Buenos Aires in 1939 (r;hess LiCe, July 20, 1954), H. Gol-­ombck, Games Editor of the Britisb Chess Magazine, who was a mem­ber of the British team in 1939 sends in the following correction of the correction:

On consulting Ihe rKords I found Ihe following facts. There were four preliminary sKlions and out of each .... cllon fou r team s qUalified for the final. In our sec:tlon (Section A ) Clechoslovakla a nd Poland l ied w ith I'v:. points, Engl~nd was third with 13'h. Sruil fourlh wllh 121>':1 I nd Canida fifth wi th IT. As r egards m atch vic:tor~, the two leaders won five and drew with each other; Eng la nd won four, Bruil three and Canida t wo.

The ever-wand~ring Log Cabin­ites have been heard from variously from Chicago, Rapid City, Butte, and Missoula as they combine sight­seeing with chess on a summer vacation tour. According to tour director E. Forr y Laucks, the Log Cabin team has seen the Bad Lands, the Black Hills, a dog race, Indian Dances, caverns and mountains be­tween chess matches.

Captained by H. Hesse, the Log Cabin team consists of L. Coplin, R. Houghton, Ted Miller and E. F. Laucks. They lost a 4-1 match to Chicago Chess & Checker Club wherc Hesse salvaged a win while his team mates lost to H. Leer, D. Fischheimer, L. Silverman and .T. Warren. Then they scored a 21£ ­] 'h victory over Rapid City Chess Club, an . 8-0 rout of Butte Chess Club with H. Hesse winning the firs t four boards simultaneously, and a 3-2 win (rom the MisSoula Chess Club.

The itinerary of the Cabinites called for further chess contests at Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Seattle, Vancouver, Boise, and Salt Lake.

DAHLBERGS TOPS SEATTLE SEAFAIR

IvaI' Dahlbergs of Portland won . the Seattle Seafa ir Open with 41h· Ph , topping Eugene Warner o( Seattle who a lso scored 41h·l 'h by 3 1h s-n points. Dahlbcrgs lost no gamcs but drew with Edward Tan­gen , Charles Ros berg, and Charles Joachim, while Warner lost a game to Joachim and drew with Russell VeUias in the 20 player, 6 round .swiss di rected by John S. DeWitt.

'fh ird to eighth with 4·2 scores were Charles Joachim, Charles Ros­berg, Russell Vellias, O. W. ),tan­ney, Danicl Wade, and Hobert Ed­bUrg.

The fint foul' rounds o( the Sea· fair pl"ovidcd the Seattle City Championship with only encoun­leI'S between Seattle residents counted and in this toumey with· in a tourney, Charles Rosburg was credited with 3lfl-1k for City Ch am· pion, with D. Wade second wiLh 3-1, and Tcd Warnel' third wHh 2'h-11h. W.:Il"Ocr's early round loss 10 Joachim put hi m out or l he r un­ning for the Seattle title .

In a meeti ng (If the officials of the Chess Federation of Canada at Toronto, it was determ ined thal Canada would enter a te;lm in thc In ternational Team Matches at Amsterdam. F. R. Andcrson, i\J. Fox, and D. A. Yanofsky have sailed on the Dutch liner Grontc­Beer, whilc Dr. F. Bohatirchuk P. Vaitonis, and Dr. N. Divinsky will lt~ave later by plane.

Officers elected at the meeting were: B. Freedmiln of Toronto, president; J. G. P I'entice of Vancou­vcr, 1st vice-president; P. G. Haley of Sarni:!., 2nd vice-president; C. L.. Kirton or Calgary, treasurer; J .' B. Be rgevin of Ottawa, secretary; M. Guze of Montreal, au rl itor; and D. A. Ma~dam of Montreal, pat· ron. Ottawa placed 11 hid {or the 1955 Canadian Championship Tour· namenL

Chairman A. Wyatt Jones of thc USCF Tournament CommiUee has announced the membership of his committee as consisting of New­ton Grant, Kennelh Harkness, Eliot Hearst, and Dl·. J. H. Ralston. This committee replaces the Tourna­ment Plans CommiUee and t.he Tournament Rules CommiUee, uniting the func tions of both, in accordance with a USCF Board of Di.reclor rcsoluLion passed at New Orleilns this year.

South Boston (Man.) Lithullnian Chen Club: Kuys Merkls won the club rapid transIt 7·3, while Jona~ Starlnska8 and Andrhl5 Kcturakis tied ror second with 64 each. In the B group Vytauhs won with 5-0 and In Wc Juniors ROIJ",n Veneku$ with 4-0.

AtaSCade ro (Ca lif., Chess Club, a ned~llng organization. scored a 4-2 vie­tory over !.he scarcely oldcr Shandon Chcss Club. F. Stanton, D. Roosenbe rg, R. E. Russell, and Mrs. l'I . Horton W· lied for Atascadero. whil e N. Hopper and H. HICklin scoI'cd fOI Sbandon.

Yakima (Wash .) Chen Club h cld Its annual Yak ima County Chnuu>lonshlp wltb Ell Trelsnlltn (victor In 1950) win_ nl nC" thc Utle 18-2. Sccolld wcnt to William Hogl! (1953 victor) ",Uh 15-3, w h ile n oll Wlvlk and Stephcn Fnlk tied ror third with 14-:5 cach in the 12-player double round eve nt.

By Charles Morgan

CAPTAIN MACKENZIE

GEORGE Henry Mackeruic was born on ).larch 24,. 1837 at Rosshirc, Scotland, He w~s the young,st o! four sons o! John Mackenzie :md

Ann Douglas, Due to his father's death the follow ing year, the family moved to Aberdeen, whcre he obtained bis primary education. He received his high school education at Southhampton. With a mercantile career as his goat, Mackenzie entered a business at, Rouen, France. During this high school and apprenticeship period, be played chess regularly, including several correspondence games wilh his oldest brothel".

In .1854, he went to Germany ' ---;To.h-.-yC,C'-'-1~88::::5~w-,,-ClhC,-y~,-,-,-o-1 where hc accepted an invitation Mackenzie 's greatest t r i u mph: to join the German legion, an aHer winning only last prize at army of Brilish soldiers. When he Hamburg and fourth at He reford, returned to Scotland in 1856, he he forged ahead of such masters purchased a commission in The as Blackburne, Gunsoorg, and King's Royal Rifle Corps. Under Zukertort to win lirst prize at mi li tary orders, he eventually FrankIort. Due to his new vie-1'C3chcd India to help fight the tories, the Captain was immedi· Sepoy Mutiny. Soon , he received atcly invited to play matches with his Iicutenancy in a newly·formed the Cuban masters Golmayo and division and was ordered to join Vasquez in Havana; he won both. it in Dublin. He was quite active In 1886 in London, Mackenzie m !.?e Ubr.?r}' Chets Club there. drew a match with Amos Burn,

In 1861 , l\Inckcnzie sold his com- 4-4-2. At the tournament t..hat year mission in order to become active In London, he failed for the only in the Lonrlon chess circles, where time in his career to win a prize. hc did well against such players Later, in New York, he defeated as narnes, Boden, and KoJisc:h. Simon Lipschuetz.

The £ollowill, year, Mackenzie Returning to Europe in 1888, he entered the International HOindi- won second prize at Bradford be­cnp Tournament in London. Here hind Gunsherg. At umdon that he caught the eyes or the ehess year, he lost.a return match with world when he twiee deleated the Biackburne, 2.{).l, World Champion Adolph Ander. His health began to fail ltae ssen, who was under a handicap of roUowina: years: he had to with­pawn and move. Luter in the year, draw rrom the New York Tourna­Mackenzie confirmed his newly mcnt of 1889 and it weakened him aequ it'Cd mastcr r,lOk by drawing during the Manchester Tourna· a match with the Rev. G. A. Me- mcnt of 1889 although he won Donnell, one o[ England's ranking third prize. Mackenzie died on players, 10-10·4. April 14, 1891 in New York. Like

In 186.1, Maekcnzie came to Morphy and Andcrsscn, Macken· America and enlisted as a private zie never married. in the Ullion Army. The next year, The power of l't1acken1.ie's play he was givcn a captaincy in the is seen in holding plus scores Tcnth U"nited Statef! Infantry. agninst such international masters

After the Civil Wa!', Macltende a.~ Dr. S. Tarrasch, J. H. Black­lived in New York where he soon burne, Dr. J. H. Zultertort, H. E. joined the Manhattan Chess Club Bird, and Max Weiss.

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CHAMPIONSH IP and won the New York Club Tournament for four straight years. Buffalo. 1954

Before lIle .Second American Chess Congress, Mackenzie was generally regarded as the strong· est player in the United Sta tes since Morphy had already retired from chcs.~. Winning lirst pri7,c in that event in Cleveland in 1871 , the Captain confir med this and oHicially became the United States Chess Champion. Tn 1874. he again won the championship whcn he fini shed first in the Th ird Amcrien n Ches5 Congress at Chicago.

In 1878. he finished fourth, with nil'd, at Paris.

Macken:,de returned {rom EUl'ope in 1800 in time to win the Fifth American Chess Congress in New YU!·k. The following year, he won a mateh [rom Max Judd of St. Louis, 7·5-1.

The Captain won fourth pri:«l at Vienna in 1882.

When in London the followin i yeilr. he \V()n CUth prize, with Mason ,lOll Englisc.h. He ddeated J. IT. Blackburne, 2-1-0. but lost to James J.bson, 0-}-2, in matches that year,

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•• C. Fell .. .................................. __ .... 0 , • • , • , , 0 , 0 1 • 1 11-41 .. J . Barret! ................ __ ....... ____ ... 0 • • • , • 1 • 1 • , , , • g}-4) 5. Z. Slop'"' ''' _ ......... _ .................. 0 0 0 0 • • 1 ., 0 1 , , • I 81·51 •• V. Cillble ·_. __ · .. ·· ............................ 1 , • • 0 • , 0 • 0 • • , 0 U ,. A. Kro' .. .... _ ........ __ ... _ ... __ ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 • , , , • , , , H ,. R. M~ku. .............. _. __ .... __ ..... 0 • , • 0 , 0 • , 1 1 0 , , , .. .. N. Wilder Ii~·n; '". G. Mauer 6H~ : U. U. ?otceau.hey 5-9: n. n. LeBlanc ... Ill; 13. II . I •. Frelbr 3~. I O!; ... G. Ch:.ac 3-11: 10. W. Rusch l 1rn~.

KI'UI forfeited to Vonler. CLASS A DIVISION

I. Edward Sehmitt .......... _ ...... _._._ .......... . " X I , 1 1 I I 1 1 7 .1 1. Amlr.:: ... A. G;oge _ ...... _ ...... _. ___ ........ __ .......... __ .. ~ t X X I 1 1 1 IOB·1 3. Donald w. H.-ney ~; of. C. f'r<:ld Chnrlton 3-5: S. Nleholl).l DIPaolo ' ·7. DlP.olo forrelted twice to Sr.h mltt lind once to Chorlton.

CHARLESTON Cw. VAl CITY CHI).MPIONSHIP Charleston, 1954

100% USC F R.ted EYlnt I. EdwIn! M. ~'oy .................................... _ .... x 1 1 I 1 I t ·0

~: ~~~e';. ii. ~~~I~r ........ _~:=:=:::::::=:::::::::::::::::::g ~. ! ~ ~ ~ ~:~: 4. Georre Hendrick ... __ ...... __ ..... _ ............... _ ..... 0 0 I x 0 I St·3t ~. WI!U. m F. HlI"tIlnJ: __ . ___ ._ ....... _._ ........ __ ... 0 0 0 I x I 0 I • I 4Hi II. David· Y . Mal'1)lu 3t-51; 7. H. Bruel! Marples 3~..s ~ ; e. l1an Lowder 1-7; 9. Paul All ... " 2-7; 10. Wa lter Privette 1-8.

LONDON TERRACE CHESS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP New York, 1953-54

1~ USCF Ihted EYlflt 1. lI.ared Ouehamp __ . .I 0 1 t St.lt 2. Hillrold M. PhIllips __________ .1 II: 0 i Sl-ll 1. Ma tthew De Lleto ____________ 0 1 II: • '1"' I~

4. Da"ld Holtmann _ 0 i • xl, 1 1 4i-2i II. Rld'l.rd Brennels 3--4: I. A~st N. Tow.-n 3--4; , . Samuel MoUor 1-0; .. Wil. I.rd Wl4D.ey 0.1.

ft)fSS tile M,.'." P'g' 3 S~pUmbtr 20, 1914

de •• ofl/e !In flew 1}ort

By Eliot Hears(

,.,-,HE New York State Champion­.J. ship bas more than once in the past provided the " proving grounds" for a young player who had not previously made a serious bid for chess stardom. Larry Evans, George Kramer, and Jimmy Sher· win, to name but three of the most recent, have scored their first major victories in New York State encounters and each of them pocketed the state title while still less than seventeen years of age. Youth(ul Willy Lombardy, only 16, has just attained the same hon· or and, if one can generalite from the future chess careers o( the above-mentioned trio, Lombardy, too, seems destined to be one of the U.S.'s top masters in the years tG rome.

Previous to the stale champion­ship at Binghamton Willy had per· formed well for the Marshall Jun­ior team in the MetropoliLan League, toppling more than one master in this j nter~lub eompe· tition. The U.S. Opens at Milwau· kee and New Orleans found Lorn· bardy scoring 81,2 and 71k points respei:tively and just this year he added the Marshall Junior Cham­pionship and the N.Y. InterschD­Jastic Champicnshlp to his list o( laurels. Willy is primarily a fine positional player and, as most chess Cans will agree, thi! type of player is more likely to reach the chess heig hts tha n is one whose play emphasizes tac. tics and risky aUacks. Lombardy'S consuming interest in chess and his manifest ambitions to improve his play arc other factors which lead one to predict a glowing Cu· ~ure fc~ ~e New York youngster; lD add itIOn, he doesn't like to lose! . Edmar Mednl!, 17, also exhib­Ited great skill in this, his first state tourney, with on ly a missed checkmate against Collins (the game was drawn by perpetual check) preven ting his tying Lom­bardy Cor first place. Mednls has performed well in the four U.S. Opens in which he has competed, has held the Marshall Jun ior and N.Y. In terscholastic tilles and has carried off prizes in the Mar­shall Senior Championship as well. Were he more ambitious and con­fident abou t his play, he mJght well have already ,become one of the U.S.'s top masters!

Florcncio Campomanes, who tied with Mcdni!l for second, was the surprise of the tourney. Unranked and recently only a third prize win· ner in a Manhattan C.C. non·master tournament, be upset Burger, Hearst, Suchobeck and Sullivan and drew with Black, Lombardy and Santasiere among others. His tournament behavior is most dis­tinctive, to say the least! He ar· rived for each game with blaek cof· lee and two oranges which were usually consumed by the tenth

(Ptease tu rn to page B, col. 1)

Vol. IX, Number 2 Monday, .Seplember 20, 1954

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, ____________________ CB"Y~K"e='c'e"'_=scvc.n=doe~=.O_ _____________ ~ FIFTY·FOURTH UNITED STATES OPEN CHESS. CHAMPIONSHIP, MIl.WAUKEE 1953: A SELECTION OF GAMES. Edited by Jack Spence. American Tournament Series Vol. IX. Order from Jack Spence, 208 South 25th Ave., Omah", Neb. 42 pp. mimeographed, spiral bound. ,

TUS selection of 218 games from the biggest and strongest of U. S. Opens is a worthy addition to J ack Spence's long line of limited

cditions. Competition was so powerful that players of the caliber o( Angelo Sandrin, Saul Yarmak, E. Zemgal is, and Kit Crittenden fin ished in the second SO. Larry Evuns did not make the fi rst 10. Bisguier fin· islled 23rd. Some extraordinary chess was produced ; and the editorial board '0£ Spence, Lee Magee, and Richard McLellan had nearly cleven hund red games to choose from. TIle scores arc given patagraph style, double colum n, without nole~ . 1I1imcographing is sharp and dear, score. tables and indexes supplement the text, and brief preliminary reports are repl'i nled from William Rojam's round!by·rou nd aeeouQt and Eliot Hearst's column in CHBSS LIFE. The tournament was a great credit to wi nner Donald Byrne; the book l'efJecls Similarly upon the editors. ,Spence now plans volumes on the 1954 Championsh ip won by Bisguier, the New Orleans Open now ti nder way, and best of all perhaps, a trans· lalion of Alekhine's NEW YORK H127. This last, he tclls me, is defini tely scheduled for fall publication.

SCHACHGENIE ALJECHIN LEBEN UND WERK. Edited by H"ns Muller "nd A.. Pawelczek. Berlin.Frohl'lau : Siegfried El'lgleh"rdt, 1953. 276 pp., 176 diags., 17 iIIus. P"per DM 9.20 (about $1.75); boards, DM 12.40 (about $2.36).

A LEKIIINE is easily the best·edited of modern masters. In addition to his own great collections there are thc thousands of annotations

in anthologies of masterpieces, not to speak of Rein(eld's "The Un· known Alekhine" and AJexander's complelion of the trilogy begun by the genius hi mself. The, prescnt study reaffirms the common opinion that Alekhine's games are an inexhaustible source o[ ideas for modern play. The book is biographical and critical, with emphasis on the psy. chology of the subject and his handling of the middle game. It is in· deed as the subtiUe p romises "cin Lchrbuch des Mitlelspiels." Each of the hundred games given has been heavily annotated by these two masters who knew Aickhine personally and have kept up with chess since his death.

Their psychological analysis does not aim at completeness nor technical or clinical method. They do offer a discussion of his hand· wrUing in which the graphological anlysis tends ' to support what is com­monly known of Alckhine's incredible drive and inspired attacking play. The biography is subordinated, properly, to the chess; and so there is still room for a study of Alekhine like Ernest J ones's faSCinating essay on Morphy.

As to ~he games, the editors cxcl'cisc a wide knowledge of modern chess to produce the same sort of comparative annotation Alekhine him­self wrote. Salient points of middle game stra teI!)' are emphasized ; and one sees in print the working out of the proverb that a plOlyer had to beat AJekhinc three times: in the opening, in the middle game, and in the ending. The debate over AJekhine's personal integrity (if there is one) may leave US with the impression of a sord ill human being. But the man won more fir!>t pri1.~ than anyone else in the world, and his record will not he equalled in chess as we know it today. His genius lIas Jeft the world a her itage of beauty which it is not likely to let die,

A final word should be offered about the illustrations, several of which do not appear elsewhere. The familiar-and for many masters forebod ing-picture of Alekhine dead in n duttercd room, the 1929 match with Bogoljubow, the relaxed pose with his Siamese cat "Check· mate," these are supplemented by the rarely seen picture of Alekhine with his son AJexander and several groups with Alekhine and his wife of that time. Unusual in a ehessbook but appropriate enough for a life hi~tory is the picture of the Lisbon mausoleum and crypt where his coffin rests.

STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS . S5TH ANNUAL CONGRESS AND OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP AND ,

WOMEN 'S OPEN AND ZONAL NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, AUG. a-14TH, 1954

Receipts: Contributions (List of Oonon be ltlw) U. S. Open ...... ................... $1,573.50 Contdbutions U. S. Women's ................ .............. .. ............ _.. ....... ............ 22 .15 Receiph from AI. Willi Exhitlllion .................. ........................... 71 .00 New Orluns Clutl Piggy Bank .............. ...... :.. .... .................................... 17.58 Tourn 'Jment Entry Feet U\ S. Open ......... .. _._ .... ......................... ........... 1,730.00 Tourn.m~nt Eotry Feel U. S. Women', ........... ......... _.. ................... 165.00

Disbursements: Tourn;Jment Olreclor (Newton Grant) ................................ . .. ... $ 150.00 SI'JmPI and Printing ...... _ .................. ................ ........ .. _................... 106.32 Cash Prires U. S. Open .... .. _. ......... ........... .. .... .. .. ...... .. .. ... . .. .... 2,000.00 Cash Prizes U. S. Wemen's ........... ".............. ........... ... ......... 125.00 Merchandise Prires U. S. Open .. .. .... ..................... ... 150.90 Merchandise PrileS U. S. Wornen's .... .... ..... _ ... _ ........... _ ..................... _ 1$.50 USCF share of e ntry he U. S. Open (109 @ $S.) 545.00 USCF s hare of entry fee U. S. Wome n's (11 ® $5.) 55.00 Memtlers hips , ln USCF (19 @ $S.l ... ,' ......... ........................ ....... 95 .00 Stenographer and typing (USCF meetings) .................. _..... ............... n.oo Misc. Expenses (see be low) .... ....... .... ........... ........ ............... ....... 74.61

Schedule of Donors for 55th Annu,,\ Congress and U, S. Open Championship Tournament

~l,579.33

$3,S79.33

A. Wyatt Jones ...... ............................ $500.00 Patrick, Carl Stevenson, N. Tr.p~gnler, Tht follo ... ing .tlona/etl in the amount Tasso Plantation Food., Milurlce Vlgne'.

01 $100.00 t<lC":. Jack P . Gwln .... .......... ............................ 3.00 Otto Claltor, Woodrow W. Crew, W . Wasley Nail .......... ............ ..................... 1.CoO

Frank Gladoe y, Jam·e.. S. Noel Eugene 'r~ I"I/owing donat~J i" 1& "'''''lfMt Walson. "I $1.00 cMh : O. A. ,Walsdorf .... .......... ....... _ ...... ........ ' 1.00 Clilud Creech, Da n Chandle r, A. Cu· A. l. McAule y .... .................................... 55.00 cull .... Hele n Bladon, George Ilobln.oll, New Orleans C. C ....................... .. . 5'.00 J . Settle, John A. Whellehan.

Th( /"lIo wi"g do"a/ed in Iht 4",oi ... , 01 Richard Adams .............. ........ ........... .. .50 $25.011 CM/': From th . AI. Wilh Exhihition:

Fran k Chavu, l. Godchaux, Thomas Andrew Lockett, Jr . ........................ 15.00 Jorden. Edgar 8 . Stern. O. A. Walsdorf ...... ".. lO.CO

Tht I"I/o ll'i"g tI"n",t</ in ih. "mount Th. /ol/owing j" I~ "mo"'" 0/ $'.IHI tllch: of $111.00 (lIeh: '

Edward M . Borsodi, W. W . Cloud, Mr. Mrs. Il. MOise, C. A. Albrlzlo, Mr. and and MI'S. C. l. O"nle l, Frank Oay. Mrs. K. N. Vints. Gary B. Erdal .............................. MM .... 15.00 The fo!lo ... ;ng i" 11K "mo,m' o f $V IO

Th~ /ol/o",i"g do"oted in fht dmorm/ 0/ $ 111.00 eorh:

Ernes t Edwards. Hugh N. Evans, Blr· ney W. Hav iS. O. C. Jack, Fnncls Lee, And .... w Locke tt. Jr •• R . P . l.ocke " , John Lively, John l.uneau, I. L. l.yons, C. ft. McClendon. Meyer Bros., W. P . Nase r, Mrs. K. N. Vines.

TM. follo",j~1! JOlla'ctl in Ih. nm",mf 01 .p.OI) <'orh:

Berg Motor Sales. Louis 8ellot, F red Cumm ings, Frank Low, A. J . Gaudet, Robert E. Cra ig, E. Jochum, Geofge S.

<'ar h: Ed Bonodl, Fred Cummings, Frank

Ch"vn, John live ly, A. l. McAuley. Ridgely Moise.

The 'o/l07l'ins jn Ihc ""'''''''f "I $1_00 t"d"

C. Arendt, A. Bilker, O. n I=hendle r. John Barnes. C. creech, A. Cucul1u. C. L. Daniel, Mrs. C. l. Oenlel, Gary Erdal, Mike Hinch, H. L. J.nnen, Bar· ney HaviS, A. M. Muelle r, Hugh Morlon, R. Johnson, James Wa gner, E. Jochum, C. ClTpe, J . Settle. New Orleans C.C. Piggy Bank ........ 17.58

Schedule of Disbursements Cash Prlle Aw u ds (U. S. Open Ch;omplonshlp)

I,arry Evans $700.00; Arturo Pomar $700.00; It. Steit,,,,,,yer $187.$0; Arthur 1I1s. Guier $187.$0; James ~herwln $75.00; MMtln Harrow $7;;.00; Allen Kuufmnn $75.00.

Cash Prile Awards (U. S. Women's Open Championship) Mrs. C. Gre~ S~'r $100.00; Mrs. S. G. Stevcn~"n U2.r.o; Miss M. May Korff $6ViC;

Merchandise Prins in U. S. Open awarded 8th through 50th places $250.90 8th plnce-che~s clock; 9ih plncc--t(l\ll'n~nlent s i,.<' ch~~~ set: 10th·19 p laccs­~Iub ~I·,.e ~hOlU ~cts; 2Oth·29th p hlce!O-(:h",ss li e clip and clI ff. llnk seb; 3llth. 3!) t h plnces-$tandard s"-e chess ~ets ; 39th·50th places_ RolI·Flex Plastic chess boards.

Me rchandise Prizes in Women's O pen aw.rded ~Ih and Sth pllces $15.50 Tournam~nt size chess set; s t andard size che!)S set.

Miscellaneous ElCpenses PhotOJ:'rnpbe r (John E. Kuhlman) 5 111.25: Florist CA. Schenluk) $15.45; T e l /!­phonOl (long fllslancOl) $15.92; Hutel T il) $10.00; A!,preelallon Gifts 515.00.

SAN ANTONIO CITY CHAMPIONSHIP San Antonio, 1954

10.0% US CF R. ted Event I. !,con Pollakotr ............. .. ... .. ... ............ . ........... 05 WIO W9 D3 W>\ >\ · 1 10.75 2. m ake W . Stevens .................... 1.4 WI3 W7 W8 W3 4 ·1 10.00 3. R. L. Gllrver ..... .... __ ....... .. ..... .. WJ2 WS W4 Dr L2 3Hj, ' 9.50 4 . Allen . If. Bake l', Jr. _... .. ....... W2 W7 f,3 WIO Ll 3 ·2 9.00 5. Tony 8 erlnw .................... .. .................... D1 L3 WI4 W9 ' D6 3·2 6.00 6. J. B. Woollln il ......... .. .... ... _ ................ _ ........... WII D9 1,10 W t3 05 3 ·2 5.75 7. J. R. Pay ne .... ___ ....................... ........................ WI3 IA L2 W11 WID :1·2 5.00 II. F ,'"nk W . n "mmetl ........................ _ ...... I ..... LI0 W 14 WII L2 0 12 21·21 2.75 9. Shc.rwln t n y ..... .... _ ................... .................... W 14 D6 Ll L5 W 13 2!.2~ 2.50

10. Jame~ M. Wrl.ll:h t W (5.5-0); 11. Murr ay Adams 203 (1.50); 12. Carlos Mangus 1~.J;' (1.25); 13. RulWn R. Nunez 14 (1.50): 14. nm Well s 0.5.

I..cvy forfe ited to Barlow and Wells to Adams.

The Readers Have Words To Say Reactions to the action of the USCF annual meeting and New Orleans

and the result.ant discontinuance of several CHESS LIFE features arc illustrated in the excerpts from selected Jette" to the Edi tor: Members <If U.S.C.".:

, am a ehesll-player, not a e hC$l'master, but an ordinary, run-or·the·mlno ehe. player IIko most oC you w ho read. Ihls. Without WI t he ex istence of che_n .... te~ would be IIOmewhat palnlle... Like you, I Uke to rneo:! a nd play weu with other p layen, a t Lo,s ' Anceles. San Antoni .... Denver. Ka nsas City, New Orleall5. wherever chess toumamen ta are he ld. Like you. I'd rathe r just Iro. pay my ent ry rcc. and play e helll! withou t havln, to bo ther about other considera tions.

I n:a llze. however, al -;m I~l", you do. that beCore you an d I can d o tbe~e things there must be $Ome o rgllnhll ilon through which It e,m be known that ther" are ehesa-pllyeU who will be In le rested IInll th roug h which they ean b e Intormed or lime. a nd plac .. of toumamenta, resulta, a nd 5(1 em. As member. oC the U.s.C.F., Y"''' and I know th llt without that organiza tion (or I t I e'llllv:olent) mucb. if n ot mOllt. o r ou r opportuni ty t ... p l:.y In ~uch tou r n:onlenLs wOll ld not exist. The continued healthy runctlon ln ll ot that o r lil anlza tlon, then, I. definitely to our I nte re~l.

Men.bers of IIny or ganlutlon pre ap t to be m ... ro InWre~ted In wh llt ever the orlranization was created to promote tha n In the u rg anlzatlon Itself. Neverthe· less, it tbe o r lanlzation be democratle. as the U.S.C.F. Is. main tenanc e of 01" P"'rtUnlty t ... exprea Intere st in whutuver \I wu,s created t o promoto occl'51 ... nlllly require. that menlb,;rI ln t~ re~l lhcm~e lve. In the o l'gllnl~l> t ion IIle iC.

It _m~ 10 me the r e 18 II gl>od chance Ihat Ihe eonUnu<.'(I hea lthy f unctioning oC t he U .S.C.l". may be t hreatened- n ow. I th{nk the threat may arise, as a thre at has a risen In the case ot many I nothe r democratic or &anization, throu!it:h the Operfttlon ... r t he quo r um.

E fUlentlally. the quorum Is simply:. parl1nmen(ary devls() fo r ~!I!I" rlng the transaction of neceuary bU51ne!l.l In democra tic or~anbat1ons, b usl neu th"-t. how· ever nt'ee""ry, may p rove unlntercIUnl to many members. When a ll members are c:o" ccrni!<l pr' nu'r·"'" .... nh the ... elfare of tb() o rganluollon, ordinarily no dama,,, will rcJOul t from the operation Of the quorum. however low It be set. If, however. an nrg"niu t J,on Inc lUde a m inority wiUing to ...., it ror u!lerior purpo .... s , damate Is almost unaln to be done. In the United States, for el(ample. the ''ery exilll.,.,.,., of some labor union., youth ,roups. ol1lanlzallons for promotion of peacc. educa· tional orean lza tlons, hu been threa tened by small minorities that put thOISe or,anlzallons in tlIe elau, "communist fronL" The m inorities of communist memo bers, by Calthtuf.bo attendln, meellngs (which Is not reprehen&tble). by ncedlcq)y p r olon61n. dlscu .. lon (Which 11), and by outsittln, members who might oppose ·them (the vk:e lhal b roulht chess clocks into emlenee). hjlv~ been a ble to pu t the organizations on r«erd .. ' Ivorlng pa l1clcs not approved by a nu.jorlly 01 memo bers. As a relUn, the organlutlons hIVe either been,repudlate<l by the majority a nd bave died or been kept alive only alter terrific debllitaUng l ig hts.

I don't know. and certainly a m not "ylng tha t the U.s.C.F. has been i n fll· trated by eommun lll , who a r e tryln~ to use It Cor their p urposes. t do "",y tha t that could h..:lppen . t>«:ause It has happened to othcr QfIl'"n I1;o. U ... ns. I do say that action has been taken by a mlnel'lty In Ihe n ame oT the U.s.C.F. Ihe benetlt 0' whk:h to a m ajority 0' memool'll Is, at best, doubttuJ. These are the fach as I know Ihem: -1. A t N ew Orleans In Au,ust a reso lu tion wu passed censuring the editor of

CHESS U .t'E ror hla con.men .. Inc:lu<llnc tho",", made In certain special fCRture. thilt have ~ppCared .... nder the pseudonyms of Wllli,un Roj"m and GulihennO! GroeS8er. -

1. AI a re.ult or tha t acll ... n, the s pecia l features have been discontinued. 3 . T he relolullon of censure is r"ported to have passcd with twent,...,lght afflrma·

Uve voles. ". I have counted the n ames of .over IIKty s uccessfu l II<)lver$ ... r one position 1m b.

IIshed In What's The Bu t Move? ((lullhO!nne Groe~ser). tr to that II.st be added the nllmea ot unll.ucee$ll ru l solvers tI was one) and the nllmes of tho,,", who ",ad and enJOYM the f eature bu t d id nol .ubmlt .... 1"lIon.$ (l know of severa l who do so re,ularly) an d Ihe nameR of those who. Ic nnrln l:" W h;l t'S The Bed Move?, h ave e njoY<.-d :Rojam', .rtk:les, I'm sure that the 10t,,1 number of n pm"" w ould 00 lI.eve r a l Urnes the a '£Irm1O\1 '1e vu te o n th" resolution of ecnsur ...

J do not usert that the 10 .. ot t hO! special featuUI from the pazC5 or CHESS LIFE is a v lt:ol \0lil. thouCh It seem s to mu an Im portII.nt len. I do not ~Mert dogmaUcolly t h at the resolution oC Ci!nsure .... 01. wr ... ng. thou gh the facts 3.!1 J kno ... thcm Indleate to me tb;,t It ... a~ wrong. I can't know that .!I. vote by Ihe fuil membership of U .S.C.Y. would no t contlrm th., vote al Ncw Orleans, Ihou,h I am forced to doubt tlIat It woul(l.

I do 3$5Crt Ihat It a minori ty h .. uken action 00 ... ,nin ... r matte r contrary to the w is hes and inlere,", of the n>lJol'lty today II "'Ill almost certainly take slmliar action on a vital matter tomorro ... aDd that t he time to scotch such action is now.

I s uggest , thererore, that, by wrltln, to the editor ... f CHESS LWE or the pre"ldent of U.S.CoY., Or hoth , we ca ll lor a sho ... ..:Io .. n; tha t we mak .. clear, once for all. that minority action must be either justified Or repudiated; thai. in ahor!, we run ... ur own orJ:anhaUon.

Just a I>u,rl<.-d note betw een touma· ments CI leave ~·rl . ror OIn, ham ton) to let you know I'm lOO<X, behind you In YOUr prcsent IInnoyunce •. I love e ver y· thin, yo u do lind ~ay_nd you may quote me.

ANTHONY E. SANTASIERE N~,.. Yo,'\: Cit·" N. Y.

I wu shocked to read Of the t ragic pawn. 0' Mr. Groesscr and Mr. RoJam ~it ia a v .. ry lad afra lr.

I have o nly ,ood fai th' and p r a ise for you and you r staff, for all you r ",. forts to protnot t better chess. It aeems to me very VktOUI .... hy .ome people think they know ,,11 l he answers and

' have the p ll to abu 5e and eenlUre othe,. to a point to eau.e a tn,edl'.

WM. 8 . W ILSON A mlurltb .. ,g, Onto

W . E . STEVENS t..,..."it, Wyo.

II 15 with rel ret that J read of Ihe p~ssi .... of Gullhc r ..,e Groesser a nd Wil. II nm RoJaon. I h3ve e njoyed th.,l r eheQ wrll l n~s fnr m .,ny years. 50 wl1l mls!; these inlerestin g {ea\ures, as I know other e he,,* love rs wlt!. It l ~ too b:od , Polit ies mu~t e nter eh~ ~~. The g3me Is 50 fine and h as such a univ" rs,11 ap· peal, It wou ld bc Wonde r ful If ch ess a nd the pJayerR could be rated on ihe I:am .. a lone. and wo r k In h am .ony to p romole chess.

D. J . GRAY .1, .. ..1". Colo.

It docs ""cm to me that your unllrl".g and hlJ:h-q uallly crrorb on behalf of tlw; USF deserve a vote of c:onndence r athe r than censure.

H UGH E. HA RT

O"Ie.""", ll/.

J ust reeoh'ed the Au.. 20th CHESS Ut'E-notcd the blld NEWS a bout Groe'!lCr lind RoJllnl.

WHO IN H~'LL IS n ils JOliN A LEX· ANOEn or San Ole,o!??

WHAT COUJ.O liE POSSIBLY DO TO CAUSE SUCH A FURORE!?1? There is alway. /O()me<1 ne In ache" club-<lr well o r lCan luUon to castle OD the wrong .We -"t .. ke block a move"_ d irty the ' Ield o r battle.

CU8SS LI .. E without "Wh"t ' l t he Bul lfove!N .. III n ... l be the .. me In Inlere~I to m"ny- un leSlf the gap IS tllIed- Rojam'l Russia n -chess ana lysis stmek me al particularly EXCELLENT.

Same old 4 tOry-d"y artcr d.IIy_AN It:'lfP1'Y HEAD RATTLES_nd I can 1m!"lne Alexander's 11 portlcuror ly n On occupied.

CHA ~ L ES S. JACOBS Wmcll<'lttt, Mall.

I w", .orry til lee that t he undllclos­<. .. 1 ~ct1on ... , tho USC .. and AI()xondcr r '!!lulted In the 10Sl! ... r tw ... Interesll ng fClO tur e. In o ur p aper . I hav" heen very p lea~ed with CHESS LI P!; duri ng the a ppr oxhronle ye~ r or 11:1 months that I h"ve been a member or USCF. One can not object to men tion of the Comnmn­I ~l •. when It I>Crll"n~ I ... ch e ... , a nd Is unfa vnrah le to them u well. I t 111 <Jet. \nlte ly ou t or fashion to lovc the Ru ... 81<> ns. Soln() hllve thoua:ht thcr e w as a little mort, me (l tlon of them and . ueh th"n w"" " e,,<lcd, but people ellnn ot evcn a,ree over the llIble, .... It Is no t ..... hl thDt cdltorlol comm ent rinds a dJrCe ' 'i!nee oC OI)I .. lon. Poor La~l<er g ... t 1 ... ld orr for running ... 'f at the moul h too much. but wh'llt can be done! It would be nloce to opente In a friend· ly, 10.leal WlOy al a ll Urnes. bu t some IOOd like AI"",ander alwayl mu:rt take an abusive aland a nd Inject • pclliOlial at· tack. No one I, perCed o r can uodu· stand the problem. Or 1 11 the people around hI 'n.

R. E, BURRY 1'1. L4 .. J~,J,J~, FL..

ShO(:k.!fl by !<udden end of " What'a 'l'he Hell "l ove?", one ... C your lea· ture. .

It J ... hn ... Iex. ,ule r ha. IlrOOUeed some "'IIetion" which woukl I cad you to re­lin: ' .... F.d llor of CIIESS l .l FE, I ~hall probably not rene w by USCF member­~hlp. I hOlle II haa not come to this.

RUSSELL CHA UVENET Sj/f~f Spring, Md.

1\ Wit. :. rcal blow to read o f the d is­L·(.",ll nu.1n~e nr "·Wh.t·. the Dest Move?" IJ I hay. enjoyed Ihll m",$t of aU the rcn l urCJS, "rod' t,·" . t ynu will be swamp­<.'(1 with PNlteltl . I nd be pt:l"IUad<.'(I to r,"sclnd your d cc\tlon. As you know, I like end·g~mes. und the 'act that tlIls w:o~ n c ... nten addocd spice to It. J also grea tly c'!nJ')ved t he vllrlous writings of "Wll ll im RoJam," "nd gather that this and "Gull!!!!rn..., GI'Of!8Hr" are your own n(>m d""'P!u"' .... T hlnkin, of these and all Iho other devoted work you h 'llve done Cor Ihe Fedc ... U ... n and tlIe paper , It 15 hard to _ how cemrure would be directed at you.

~EIL P. W ITTING 5.tl~ni, Or~.

Although not pel'l>Ona t aequalni;;mces, it wu q ui te a s hock to me to read In the AUI. 20 luue 0' CHI::SS LD'E of Ihe 1>105IIIn" or two Chesa Lire stalwarts, M'~.';>;rs. (JroeMer I nd RoJam.

Mav on.. rllt to a~k just who this Mr. J ohn AlcMunde r of San Diego l&­I never bcfot'il heart! o{ him. Anyone who ohJer.t8 tn the wrlUngs In CHESS 1.II"E needs to be kicked eut of t he USCF Inlo the USSltCJo' :ond see h ow they like It.

Anyway. Mr. TAilo r , I am for you, rlllhi or ... rong.

GEORGE W. PAYNE lV"bltt, GU1'J'U, Mo .

Clon't know what hll.ppencd in N .. w OrleaN! with Gullherme ' Gl'OCSS<' r :IIJ>d W11I1'11n. Rojlln •• hul I'm reliev .. d that their demlse. did not Inc:1ud., Monlgom' ery Major!

WILL IAM PLAMPIN W .uhirl8tOn. D. C.

<1J)ess I:ife Mo"J." P,g- 5 Srpt~",bt, 20, 1914

J W 85 V"I')' disappointed to he.!l.r of .the disc:ontlnu>lnee or this CO lr m n. I 'll miss the problem. very much. In . e ... "ral ye"r! or reading your Cine publl. .::atlon I h ,vc neVer been offended by any of your remlrks.

J. E. COMSTOCK Du/ .. th, Mi"n.

Who the 'ell Is J . Alexa nder ? Brlnl tnek Gullherme GroSier and William Rojam., and I'm not kldd lncm

FRED D. KHUPPEL N~. Yo/'\: C.ly, N. Y .

I regret leam lnl: Ih" t C. Gr nesser'. and ' V. RoJ:om's column~ huve been discon tinued. The r elumptlon oC butb these fealures wou ld be v~ry dasl rable.

YURY V. OGANESOV MOlllcrty Pa,t Calif.

J eujoyed your editoria ls In the Au~. 20 C. L. MJl p laudlnl sU .. nlly your "Y ..... This W:o~ An Accide nt" nnd enjoyln, Ihe I ...... "obituaries." "'Ia"y will prubo ably wrlle asklnll' Cor a third "obituary" headed MO/li'J'GOMtRy !MAJOR but not m .. ! No sir t I can ICe Ih10t y ... ur v ... le Is worth all of lhe ao-n ll<."CI "yates'" of Ole other USCF ofCle,,~ and membeTi com· bined! Why should I be a sUly k!eal.lst .... orryi'" about derendl ..... ~democracy'" or YideaLs"- ... r wha t 11 " rlCht" or "wrong!" f';o. we ln1art r . u ows wW faU Into line behind t he liajor, no Ua. bull or maybes eithe r!

T he$(' J ohn Alexander uPll:orl.4l will be smash<.'d. by our bully boy., n eve r r ear. Why not dLto!ve tha pretent lilt of USCF' oUlcers a nd. appoInt only the " right pe ... p k:" to represen t each Itlte1 I nomlnale a rlnc. loyal., dOlm.atlc cit!· ~n of our Cair I ta te to ~prescnt W"sh­lng-ton In "the New Order ." You m Q have heilrd 0' him. Mr. Oliver La­Io'r e niere ... r Yakima. I am lure elleh state h31 at least ono l. nFrcnlcre type.

P oor Grnesseri Only II c hild too. And poor, dear Rojam . SI III 110 youn.e Wbll t a pity he hlld lu die. YOU elln be lure tbci r dl:ll th~ will be aVengl:li. An ey e for an eye and I loolh for a tooth. you know. Anyone MjI""lust you mUlt be: a di rty eommunbt or a dirty pinko.

You can whip the rabble Into line easily en ... uc h. The 310gan ror victory cou l(l r ead-"1'o Major. No ChcII LI'e!" Did anyone offer t l> contrlbute the blood. sweat a nd tears Iwle .. each monlh in your place in case you rc.Ilgned! Most chess p laye~ are , r elll with the £;a b hul ~hort with Ihe action. AI a fo,.m~·r promoter. I know!.

U ... w enme t hcy clected thq olll dur. fer, Gravel, pre.lde"t? I hop e he doesn't ad like hb name. Hc look. like he has one hoo' In the ,r" ve. 01 course he Is j .... t a tliUr c-helld and, no d.oubt. h<lnn l""", He Is probah ly 50 Inexper· ienced. th"t he will an.w"r the letters he asked reI' in a civil manner!

The USC}' p rexy sits on h4 ta ll lrom JanuuY UllIU De(:ember, getUng up Only to t:lke Ihe bowa while you Ilave aU ye.ar puttln, out CbeI. Ule and wrillng- let t .. rs ami a ll yO\l .ecm to cel for your pains Is ah u.c. P e r haps you could lake ov~r Ih" \Itle or prelidcnt ami get a IIU le ... f t ha t olel jl lory.

Why do thne awfu l people write such spitefu l, mallCloul Iturf, Iny"'ay? I am $ure YO'" have alwlly8 been cour t· eous and Cr lend ly In your eorn:spond· enee. J'1I het Y ... 1\ h avO! neve r been spite­rul or n.altc l ... ust

D. E. WADE Srtltll~. W tllh.

Berore staUn~ my p roblem . I want to eommend y<)u {or yoo r conduct a nd ad· herenc:e to prlnc1plel Collowlnc t he oc­corene", ~I r-.'ew Orlean. and t h.c con· iroversy over the dliles lor the Russian· America n m'll t ch. I al~rely hope )'OU will continue 1.0 ""rve chellS in the United Statel und.unted by petty grlev· "'nee" Cr ... m minorltlCII.

W. D. M cLAUGHLIN lVichi,,,, K""I.

GAMES BY USCF MEMBERS Annotated by Che •• Ma.ster JOHN W. COLLINS, Marshall Che .. Club Champion, 1954

USCF MEMBERS; S.''"';' )'0.' /nil ,,,,,,a /0' ,bis depn''"tfli '0 JOHN W. COU.INS,91 unox H,o.J, Broolj7" 16. N.Y. Sp«c brill, U .. ;u4, M •• Colli", will "In, Ihe "Oil mltlcfl;", .,,4 ,"/IIWli"c 101 ,ublic4l;on. Unlcn OlbenriH " ",d nOlt) 10 I""'tl "It by M,. Collin,.

STlUKE T lJREE Wllil e twl~ mlmr.t cl lOncu for a

.rtroog mid(lIe game fllit/aUUfI. A tlllrd chance- to drolu tlte end ,am.­al.ro goc' by. T/lere II no fourth .

QUEEN'S GAMB IT MCO: pag' 1S4

Kansas City Championship Ken", City, 1954

Note! by U. S. Ervert lIug/l E. Mile" \Vblte Dlack

P . w. MOAAELL L. E. GA A HAM I , P-Q4 P..Q4 " Kt,Q.' Kt.lC81 2. P..QB4 P. K1 4, P . l(l QKt-Q2 Whi te's conscrvllllve d eve lopment al· lows h is OPllonent a choice or .Mvual vllrl,nons le.dlng to e qu llllty, l1ere, Blaek mi, h t prderably h ave pl~ed p .84 or the varilltlon B·X2, O..Q, P-QKt1, a nd 1'.84 or Jl.Kt2. S, Kt·B3 B-K1 II.. 8..Q1 P..QR3 Blade evidently det;lre. to t ranspose In­to the Qu~n's Gambit Aeeepled. But i t would be beUer to .hnply do so by PxP now or On the next move. 7. 0..0 O..() .. P · K" __ An In,pulsive mo\·e. Be t ter is P ·QKU o r K t..KS. L _ ..... Black I . still lhlDkln' sbout the QGA, but more 10Cleal. would be 8. __ • PxKP; 9. KUP. KlxXt; 10. BxKt. Kt..W: 11. 8-B1, P·M. t. BxP PoQKt .. Het t..r p .B4 finlt .

10. 8oQ3 B· Kt'.Z

11. Q .B2 P·84 12. PoQKtl With P ·KS, W hite esn , et a stron " although complles ted, 1I thek u In l1. p .KS, Kt-Kt5; 13. P·KR1, f'xP ; 14. PxKt, P xKt ; 15. BxP ch, K . ltl; 16. K·R2 fol· lowed by R· IU. 12. _~.... P · A3 13. R·K1 Kt·KU 14. B.K1 P·B5

15. PxP Ill. BXKt

KtxBP

It's n"tural to want to .c:et r id Of this w ... ll·posted K t , b u t Iince It , ives Insek " " .,,;,,cd l,aWII an ... U", two Oa, t would p rercr B-B4. 16. _.... PxB 17. Kt..Q2 A·8t 1 .. QR.Ktl 8 ·RI It. P·B3 P.QR4 20. KR.QI 8 ·KU

21. Q · Kt'.Z 22. 1(1·8 1 23. B·84 24, Q-Q2

Q·K2 R·Kn .... ,

White's last .1ICven movell wcre h U. f aclory, bu t here he s hould p"'y 24. BxB. QxB; 25. Q-K1, Q.B2 (25. _ ...... RxR; 26. KtxR, Q·B2; 21. R·BI, R ·B I : 28. Kt ...JO w ins a pawn); 26. Kt-K3 with tM IIU· perlor position. 24. __ ... K4 25. Kt.Kn __ This seems to hllve little more point than It beln.c: a dever w~ 1.0 , Ivc away a pawn. Either 25. PxP or 25. B-K3 are

good mO~'r.:'C.-'f'"t--JF..,r:i:lF"l

25. ~ ...... 26. Kt . B5 27. KbB 28, P ·KS Q .Kl Sol" compenSlltlon ror tho p.wn is his pasud QP, so It'l foolish to ex. change It. 11. Q..Q4 or P·Q6 ue piIlY. able.

MonJ.." P . ge 6

&,umbt;r 10. 1954

11. _._ Ax R 3t. Ax A Q x P ll. Q x BP QoQ5 ch l4. K ·RI p .... n. Q..Q2 QXO Or 39. R·U2, UxRP.

36.. Kt. Q 37. Kt-Bl 31., A·81 39, P..QRl

.... ..... R·B'

39. __ I-KI, 40. Kt.Kn P ·Kt'l Unnee:euar7. M~l preel >lO Is 40 .. _.M_' r .B7; 41. KllcP. n .Q I: "2. Kl-X$. R0Q6 and i t'l 111 over. "1. K.Kn P ·B1.,. K· B2 A·BS Black is "Iwhnmlnl". n .... t looks like 42. ... ~._, n .Ql : 43. KI,..Kl, P ·K t4 lolluwed by n.QG, B-1I5, and Rx ll, or of course. n .Q8 It White sends his Kt out of p l!\)'. 43. KI ·K2 P·.5 46. K..Q3 R. B! 44. I( ·Kl P ·Kt+ 47. Kt· B3 45. K..Q2 K, B2

While mlucR h ls lIut ollportunlly. Uc would win the p;own ba(:k a nd "hould draw with 41. Kt..Q4, u.s:; ch (47 • . __ ., R.QJ : 48. K·W): 408. K-Ql!, n -Ql • • 9. K·Hl. Kow no more problelllil bce Ulaek and 1'10 wins quickly. "7 ... __ R.QI ch 51. K· Kl 41. K·K2 p.R.S S2. Kt·K2 ch 4t. K· Kt K·Kl Sl. K·B2 50. K·K2 K·K4 S4. Kt·Kt!

Ae$19D$

ONE. ERROR

..... ..... R·KI .... ,

BI«fr. only ",..tie olle ~nor, bill it . " , ~"""8h to tost him .... Olhnwist bt",'i. f .. 1y plqtJ «""'t on his /N"I. This ."s E". .. ,' 07117 10Jl in ' his tonmt"/' H t.."t.

SICILIAN DEFENSE Meo: page 286, column 110 InD) U.S, Biennial Championship

New York, 1954 Nottf try U. S. Mtlslor Eliot H ed./t White Blaek

E. HEARST L EVANS 1. P· K.. P.Q84 ... Ktx P Kt·KB3 2. Kt·K83 P ·Ql S. Kt·Q83 ,..QIU 3. P·Q4 PxP Arter years 01 playin, t his variation on the Black side, this was my tl rsl chance 1.0 eonduct the Whit.. fon:etl In a tou r • nament game! ... P· B4 _._ Con5ldered best b), most masters. OUler alternatives include B-K2, P·KKt3 and P·KJU. , . .. ~._ Q.B2 7. B-Q3 .. _.M Recent an alysis has lndleated tha t Ul I~ I_ the be_t 8quare ror the 0 , rather than Kl whleh had Connerly been eon· sldered superio r. At Q3 the B protects tbe KP an d .allows Whit.. to place hl.s Q on thc good Square K2. 7 . ..... _ P ·K4 7 . ..... ~., p .K3 would lead Into variltiOns or 1h e Schevcnlngen setup. • • Kt· Bl P.QK t .. " t. Q .K2 B·Ktl In t be Itoasollmo-Heant gamc.lrom an earlier round or the tou rney 9. _., D-K.1 ... 115 played, dter ... hleb- .Whlte mil'h t have continued 10. p·W! since the anSWer Jl..8S? loses to 1 t. BxB, Px.8; 12. Kt.Q2~ wi nning a pawn. 10. 0..0 QKt..cn 11. ,.,aR)

12. I(.Rl • • I( t1 14. Q-. 2 11. PxJi PXP White pn;:PIOn;:. an attac'k 011 Black' .. ""O).lu:n.(I K-lIld. Iqu ...... ... _ 0.(1 15, Q.R. tct-J!:41 A nne cklen-'v, plan. Blade prepa .... KI'US with Q.Ql In mind U • eonsoli­datin, ma nClU "" ". 16. Kt·KIS _ To force. wo;:akDeM In Black's K-slde :lml p ' 'event Ih' poutbUlty 01 Kt-BS alt ... U'I, subMQ\lcnl retreat to Rl. , .. __ P-R3 'I. Q.8 1 Q-B' 17. K'· R3 Q-Ql '9. Q-1(1I '_"M On a move Ilk' 19. Q.KI, Q.lt$! prove. • nne posl lor Ulaek" Q. 11, __ Q-Q' 20. 8 ·K2 Kt (4)-83 20 •• _ .... . KIC2}-Bl I. Il lso pOMI!)l c with the Idea cd continuing P_K' ''' and KI·85. 21. Q _It' __ ,,_

Preparing the dublO\I, aac r\rlce 10 fol ­low. 0 ·a3 or 843 'f(l the .lI.e rnaUvu a lliO prolectln , Whltc'. threatened K P . 21 . _M" ,.. I(141? On K. lt2 Wh it. could ,)111)' 22. '!Ct.-KU eh wllh • t/r. w by N!peUlion If bulh aid" are content with INCh n sequence ! However, EVlln. wu rI.c:hUnll It out fu r n n l plll~ ;lind I w&¥ 1ryln.c: to belter my poor -'COre, !IO 'uch .In Qutcome ..... 8.1 unlike ly. Perhaps bel t In 11'11" position was 21. _ ... , Kt .04 ! to meet 22.. BxRP with QKI.x.P l. 22 . 8 x KKt PI? _._

22. ..... P x B U . Ktx KKtP Q·K2 1'0 meet the thn.lIl t of QIt.QI and QRx Kt. Uu t U ......... . KR.Ktl wal be t ter and .. rter 24. QR-QI, Q·82; 1$. R.Q3. Kl-B1 ! llJaek appe .. ", ure enoul:h (16. R-K tl, Kt-KU!) • 24. QA·Ql Thnakni ng Rx Kt(7) followed after Qx.K, by R"Kt(6)! 24 . _.~.. K R.Q1 25. B-RS O n 1$. U..Q1, K("81 hold5 for Black. 25 . _..... KbBI 26. Rx P QxR Ol)vlou!!l), rurced, but still .trong! 27. KtxQ Kx Kt 29. Q·8 S? 2'. Q x Kt ch K·K Il A meanlnCIHI:I move. Kt,.QS at once is stronger. n . ........ I(t·B4 11. P x B 30. Kt·QS Bx Kt Black n ow has both a POOIltlQn.al and m a­te r ial IIdvanta,e and ~lOu1d proceed with either R·KDI or Jt..QJ. WUh such a plan he O!, .r;:hl 10 scor" tbe point eventually. Instead. ha m a kes a h or · rlble blunder which turn. his c ame trom a won j>Q3lUon to a lost one 1m· ' nedlately. 31 . _~.. Ax P1'? 37. A..Q7 eh K·B3 32. Ax R R·KBI lI. R·QR7 KI·84 n . QxA chI B)lQ " . P..QKI4 KI·KS U. Ih,,. K·82 40. R", P c;h K·K4 3S. R·B5 ch K·KI2 41. A·A5 Kt·B6 36. A·Q5 KI· AS 42 . P·QR" ........ White , In time pressure, thou ght this 10 bc the cll ~le$t way to win. 12 . .. ~ ".. BxP 44. Pxl(t 43. RxP "h KfltR 45. P· Kt3 Lu~e~ quickly. bu t attempts to Wh ltc" King buxed in (sa)" by and K6 ) .... ould lose evcntually 1{·lIde pawn ad vance.

PERSON AL SERVICE

B·B4 K·QS keep K·K.>

'" . T M E/ito. 01 , hi, Dt/N"lmnll will

,1." 7'"' " «"mt I1y ... .,;1, co ...... tfII 0 .. n"., .......... "ruI «ir" 701< " thoro .. , h poll. , ..... t ....Jy'i'. F« 110.

M,. Col"'" ... 11 .Jro _ .. olm Itrr'f OM

ot YOllr f "l"t' I.r " It( -I /1,

.... K.K t2 K·BS S2. K·8S ..... " 7. K. 8l ••• Sl. K· I(, 8 ' Kt5 .... K· Ka .·as S4. PoKt' 8 · B' 4t . p ·K14 K·B' 55. P·R5 K· KS SCI. p ·KIS ... u.. P·R' RHllln ' 51. P·A4 . .",

CONSUMMATE SKll.L

BiJ~nin &'"Jltl lbe Ritht" V "r""io" oj ,he: Sitifj"" ",ilh con/Olmm"u ,till. His mit/'r;"'''t ""J t"J',"lIIt pI.., It""" lill/c to h" Ittired. Thil 7011"8 "tin,," i, "I ,he: /1<:4ft: of hil (tIlter. "nJ il i, '""I opinion he: .ill hol4 hi, 0"''' in lhe lor/h. co ... i,,/: U . S. Champion/hi, ""J 1M USA·USSR "'"lch. (Prophe:lktlI/7. 0,. SOlUm,," . ,olt Ihut Ii"", bt/ort 1M lI"rt 01 lhe: u. S. Ch..""ion,hi, Toum","'rt ' -Eii/or). '

SICILIAN DEFENSE (By T ran lpol ltlo n )

MCO: P a , a 21', coJllmn 10 M e tropolit.n Le .gue Match

New York, 1954 NOin by V. S. Mtlilcr H"roIJ S"JI,"1'"

While 8 1/1ck A . BISGUIER A . C. SIMONSON (M..nhalta n C .C.) (Marshall C.C .) 1. P.Q.. P,aU The Bo.nonl Counter Gambit which has some .... bat of II reviva l recently In the form or a variation o r the Ktnr. I n. dia.n Defense. 2. P·K"I __ Oril:lnal a nd very e1e ver. The au tomat. Ic (and also I t ron,) ' move here is 2. P-Q5 and Wh ite can secure n powerrul p awn <>ente r. Howeve r, It h al be<en s hown that Black ca n fia nche tto hts KB and rea(:h a (alrly Road pO£ltlon In the Klng'~ Indian. ArthUr C<J nvert~ 11'1" gam ... I"t" a SI(:\lIl1n .... rl.tlon In whiCh h c t reads On flnu.ll nr arround. At thD

" 5:1me tim ... he avoid" IOny pG;!llble p re. pared d ... fe nse. 2 . .... M_ P x P 3. Kt· I(B l Kt.QB l Rou tine, but 3 . ........ . Kt-KB:II Is a load III tel'flativ... . A rter 4. f' ·K5, K t ·Q4; S. Q"P (or 65. K txP, KI,..R1, even .c:ll m,,). Kt-B2; 6. Kt-Bl, K t.QIU. msek hu.", an e.en gam.... Another a lternative I~ 3 . ._._., P·K4!? hOldlna: the ext r a pawn (if 4. KlxKP, Q.R.. ch , ek.). bu t ... P-QD3, P"P; S. KlxQ6P a:1\'es Wh ite a PO .... erful attaekm.- .c:a 'oe. a . KfltP Kt·B3 S. K t ..Q83 P..Q3 LeSli a nalyzed and quite ICnod here is 5. _ .... , P·IO threal.en lns U.K15. ... model eontlnu aUon is 6. Kt(Q4).l{w, H-K15; 7. P-QRl, DxXt c b : II. K txn, P-Q4; !t. n.Ql, P1F. 10. KllcP, KtxKI; 11. B xKt, ClxQ cb; 12. KxQ. P·KlU. J with an e.en game. 6. 8·KKtS TIl... Rich ter -V;~IMHon . a dan/,le rou~ line Cor both sides. Otho:r ~tronc Ih..,~ he re are 6. P.KB4, I.. P.K8 3, and the routine 6. fl..K2. 6. M~'_ Q.R4 The old reply- atmOOIt uld enough to ""' n ... w. Its value, however , ... dubiOUS. Th" solid procedu re Is 6 .. __ , f' .K:! ; 1. Q-Q2, U·KZ; 9. 0.0-0. O..Q with li t· lacking chances for both s.ldes on op. pOSjng wi~ ... 7. BxKI KIPx B t . Q·RSI

• • B..QKI5 BoQ,,' :;-.,....,.;;:;;_-.

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Hlro\d SUlim an, M.D.

= Bbguier h ili a learlest .lyle. This move. 1I::IIn orllllnill here. putll pru· lUre on black 'a KSr a nd eon taIns SOY· e r l l traPL The .smpl e trap proeeeda t . __ • p.IU!!; 10. Kl.I;KP !. nllKt~!;

11. BllKt eh. a':lIln wi n nln, the Queen. t . _._. P .QIU 12. 0.01 0 ·K13 10. Kt-Kt3 O.Ql 13. Olt-QI 11. II-K1 P-K3 Th1a II pl lYed lo ItOP Kt·QS. wblc.h ... ould .:Iyc Ulae k COOd derenllve poe­IIbilltiel ror the Queen on the 41h rank. yil K4 or QR4 (after Ihe ell­ehlln&"C of Kl.). 11. __ II·K1 14. K· ltl o·o·o l'r SlmonlOn la I clever taeUclln . ... d t he move ie typlell l n f h lll ICJ: ... .,ave . tylc. Should Illsqu lcr re ply 15. QxBP!, p­KR4! e ndanllel""ll the Qlleen and II dlf­licult t o IIIC1ll. I.e. 16. Kt.QS? lllll. dUll 10 "xKII; 11. P xP . QR-Bl; IS. Qo Kt7. Kt· K"; 19. Qx8. It-X"2! winning the Queen. IS. P-Q1t41 S·Kl 17. P · B4 )( .KII 16. P· RSI Q·62 18. R·Q2J ._ ..... 81aquler wid me ho .pcnl m u ch time on IS. Kt-R4. Kt-Kt5; II. n..Q4 with InteresUnl:: JIWlSlbUlUu .. both 19. __ ., XUP a ... d 1!1. .. __ ..• Qxl' favor White. tie dlseanled t he line. however, at; White enn tee no !lood eonlinuaUoa Jllte r lB. Kt.-R4, P-QoI l!, ete. I I ... __ P· 84? ,",is Lc probably lhe lUlilnc move but mad has iI very e.nlllped , all\(! IIId can nO lon~r contam hlnue lC_ 16. _._, D-BI is :II pou:ibllily bul his prospeCts .... none LOn lavvnbIe. " . P x P P-Cl4 10. Q-IIt'" p .QS An Inl(: ... "tl~ reply to Whltc" pow_ erful 2Olh. There II nO really ull. r..el.Ory Une.. 21. KbP! _. 21. Q-J{t7 hnmedlalely is also ,oot! but

Simonson could 'ae' the e"eh l n le with 21. ..H .. _' P"KI; 21. Itxft ch. Qxll; 13. QxR. P·K81 and 24. ._H.' !'xP and White f aCOl!! a slc r ner tNk thlln with the lcxt ilae. 21_ ._.~_ KtxK t 22. IbKt B-Q1!I3 Naturally 22. _. __ • RllR Is met by Q.Kt7 and White IIIwlOyS I ta),' one or two pawna up. 23_ R,,1It ~h Ox. 24. R.Q I A very rine movc. Instead 24. PaP would be provoking da~r. e ...... 14. ._.. U.K1J; 25. S.M. BxB; 36. R>tB, Q.Q7. e te. Now. mUtit moves other than Q.Kl1 are .tr onCIY nlcl by Q·K17. 24. _ .. _ Q-Itn 11. Q-K31 Q-62 15. Q· It, PlII P 29. KI· R41 R..qJ 16. 6-1Il 0.Q81 ltI. 1It1llR e.h Qx. 1t 27. B" a Px.1 31 . Q. )(f6 e.h Arthur h aa p lllJ'ed perl..:t ehe" Iroln the UUI move un an<!.. here forecl .:on endln, completely In his favor. Black la ll'! Ih'en a " Iook·ln". 31. ~__ Q" Q.lS. )(·Kt2 n. KbQ K-1I2 36. )(·B3 31. P'KKIl 6-83 27. P-Kt3 34. 1(1·84 P·II . 31. ItI·K31

TIle masterful key to lhll ewl ln". Ulaek'i «ply mak~ m.:oUers euy but On mOlit other movcs. White ..,unUnu"s with K-K2: to dcr..,nd Ihe QJlP. The Kt

..,ould Ihen rollmo abou t pickinl up 100M Pawn •. A nne lin e. however, 1s. 38 •••..•. _. B·Qt; st. Kt-QS e.h! Now 39. .. ~._ .• K"P Ia met by 40. P-B4! rug­ltw;lni! The thre:ot ie P ·KKt4, etc. J! 40. ...• _. P-R4; 41. K-B2, U.K\.S; 42. K.KI.2. U.Q I ; U . X-IU. finla. If 40. _ .• P.R4; oiL K-8.2, P· M. Ulen 42. P·W e nd. the redlltlnee (or Ihe Kltp Ia umnlll­Iltlbl e. 31 . •.... _ II-QS 41. K·I(2 K-1I6 3t. Kt" p K·B6 42. K-QI P-R4 40. Kt.1I K"Kt II ... _. P·84. then 43. p.JU who .. 43. P-BS P_B3 45. K-K2 I(·K5 44. P·R3 K.QS 46. P-lIll Reslgnl While thla deeld<.>n Ill&¥ secm prema· lure II flnol IIl::ht. It ie nonethetets a eor~t une. On <Ie .•• H_' KJd' (wba t 'lIte?) ; 47. P-QKt4. Pd'; &I. P XP. K.K4; .t. P -KU. X.q3; 50. p .KtG (or PxP). matte... are quite ele ar. A very fioe !laone by Illquler In a ll UI st"lIas. Simonson ..... handleapped by h1a openln. and .urely b)' hil lack or prlOC­lice.

'rhe bUt Cor m any eommcnt.s m these nolel w..,no IUpplk .... by the win· ner h lm.Mlf.

NIMZ OINDIAN DEFENSE MCO: pale 101

U. S. Biennial Ch.mpionsh ip New Y ork. 1954

While K. IIURGeR I . P-Q4 Kt.K83 2. P.Q84 P·K3 3. KI-Qal 8 _KIS 4. P· K3 0-0 s _ 8..01 P-B4 '- Kt-83 P.Q4 1. 0-0 Kt·a3 I. P-QR3 a "Kt t. Pll8 PxBP 10. 8xP 0 ·B2 11. a ·KI P · K4

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11. KlaP KtxKt 11 P xKt QxP 14. O·BI 8 -84 15. B.Q3 8 x B 1 • . Qxa KIt.QI 17_ Q.KU Kt-KtS II. P · 1t3 Q-R7 ICh I'. I(.B1 Kt-K4 20. Q)CP KI-Q6 11 . It.Ql Q.R8 ch 21. )(.K2 Kr·8S do RHlgns

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N.Y. TOURNEY (Continue d f rom page 1, e.ol . 4) In lhc speed tournnmcnt. Lom­

b·ardy won thc finals 8-0. Collins was second with 6lh -l lk. and Bur­ger third with 5Yl -2Y.!:. In the pre­Uminaries Lombardy won Section A 7-0. with Burger second wllh 5-2; Black won Section 8 witb 6-1 with BaUeH and Schmidt tied for second with 4~-2Y.z each; Collins won Setlion C with 5Y..: -l 'A, with M:lrch:lnd and Hardman tied for second with 5-2 each.

In the Susquehanna Vnllcy Cup team matches. BuUalo seured 7l,ft· 2lh . downing Syracuse 31J.z-J lk and Binghamton 4-1. Syracuse was sec­ond with 5-5. winning 3l1,,: ·H2 over Binghamton. 'I'he win ning Buffalo team consisted of George J. Mauer. Normlll C. Wilde.I·, Jr., Hcrber t W. McCaughey, Dr. Andrew A. Gage, and Samuel J . Traina.

Officcrs or the New York State Chess Association electcd wcre: Dr. S. Finkelstein, presidcntj J . C. Cummings, vice-president; W. Hull. .secretary; H. M. Phillips, treasurer; H. C. Evans. assistant treasurer; R. T. Black, Marcel Duehamp. L. Persinger. A. E. Santas.iere. Ches­ler Hinaman. Benjamin Smith. Dr_ M. Herzbe rger, and Dr. E. W. Mar­chand, the Board or Governers.

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Sot .. llDt< ::1 .. UJ/.aJ'6 51.. Bd t mou.?

Position No. 146 ThiS final "Be~t Move" pOlOlUon is

Rossolimo-N.N., Paris, 1944; and as m O>lt of our soh'ers dis~..,vered begins with a slil'ring slIcrlflce of Ihe ' ex­chanl!ic; 1. RxKI !, PxR; 2. QxRP ch i, KxQ ' 3. R-Rl ch K-Kt3; 4. K':B4! (Ihe p oint oI [he who1c eomblnalon~ threat­ening 5. B·R5 ch, K·R2; 6. BxB.r mate), Q·K3; S. R·JUI! and mate cannot be­stappc,",. Truly a brilliant conCtlpUon. Note that 1. IIxKt, PxR; 2. -Qx.RP ch, .PxQ continnes 3. KI.-B6 ch, K-RI; .... n·K18 mate. .

On J. KI·B6 eh, PxKt; 2. "B·Q3 b an-swere,", nol by, 2 ......... , K -RI but by 2. ........ , PxKP ani:] If .3. l3xKt ch, PxB; 4. R·R4, F_B5! an,", White's attack has <>v;,porateq.

Cor rect solu tions fire acknowlede:cd received from; P rof. A. Bruce A nthony (Macon, Ga.), FOrr()Sl Alhcy, Jr. (St . Petershurg), Kurt Blumberg (San Jo'ran­cisco), M . D. Blumenthal (BellaIre), Murray BU)'n (Dron,,), Don ald Burdick (HunUngton), Capt. 1\. E. Car-oe (An­drews AFB), J . D. Carpcnter (Peli;,), Russell Chau vend (Silver Sprlnl!i)/ J. Eo Comstock (Dulu th ), N . CUnnlngnam (Oblong), Carl E. DleO'en (Tonawanda), Ed Gault (Bainbridge), D. Hambu re:er (illltsl;\lrl/I\)" .... 'fl.'!\: ~;: n nrt ]'Orul.wl1l1dl, It. 8. lIayc$ (Grecnvllle), Robert K lIItchcock (An" Arbor). I.yman " . John~ton. Jr. (ScaUlc), Edw. J. Kor­pan ty (Woodslde)_ IIc1no Kurn,k (San Fernando), Kenne th Lay (Nerrm). J. L. McDonald (New York), Dr. J . Mel· nick (T'urUand ), P. Murtha (Monroe), Charle8 MU$lI"OvC (Northlake), Ed NUh {Washlngtonl, Ronald O'Neil (Norris­townl, G. W. Paync (Webs,,",r Grovu), N. Reider (San FUnclsco), l"..dmund Ro­man (New Hrltalnl...: or. r. Schwartl (D"" and), Walter ~hulfert , Jr. (Red­wood City). llrUC(l J. Sidey (Cincinnati). Irwin SI,mond (Col wick), David S liver (New York). W . Eo Stevcns (Laramlcl; Gcorge V. n. Tie .... (St. P "ull, A. Trucis (philadelphia), HuCh C. Underwood (W""hlngtan), Victor F. Volk (Brook_ lyn), J . WclnlnJ;er (Scotln), H . D. Wil­bur (Corpus Christl}, Wm. B. Wilton (Amhenotbur,), N. P. w ttlll\l (Salem); Norman Umke (1)<!Irolt),

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