Vol. V Number 1 Official Publication of me United States (bess 'federati on Tuesday, September 5. 1950

PETERS WINS NO. CAROLINA

White To Play And Win! Conducted by William Roiam

CONTINUING our survey of modern Soviet chess strategy, we devote this C(llumn to two brilliant recent examples which wcre brought devote this column to two brilliant recent e>l.aI[L(Jl~:s which were IJruughL to our nttenUon by our fe llow-columnlst, Edrn'und Nash. Position No. 84 is n very fine s tudy in the handling of minor p ieces and pawns aga ins t an enemy quecli with the £.inal entrapme nt o[ the laUer, which will merit close study. The simple looking Position No. 83 will also n:pay eareful attet:lion. Cor it is not .,edrly so easy of ' solution as it"" appen rs.

Pos ition No. 79 by Bron brought in a number oC letters to indi-catc that the published solution was faulty and gave a win for Black rather than a Urnw. But only one reader, Mr. F. A . Sorenson of Pitls-burgh, apparently continued the analysis further. Mr. Sorenson points out the curious lact that we inverted the sequence in the published solution and that: 1. P-Kt7, Kt-K2 ch; 2. K-BS, R-Kt3; 3. P-Kt8(Q)!, RxQ ch; 4. B-K8 ch, K-B3 draws quite easily.

USSR CONTENDERS TIE IN MATCH

The 12-game match between David Brontein and Isaac Bole-slavsky to determine which shall play Mikhail Botvinnik for the World Championship ended in a tie with 8 draws and 2 wins for each. Under }o'WE rules two more games will be played in an en-deavor to qualify a contender.

TOURNAMENT VIEWS T (Jp: CI)ar/~J N~~aJa (I~fl), Public

E~mtJ Manag." ollh~ Mi/wauka jau,nal, pre,enlJ Ihe n~.. M i/,..auku Jou",a/ j unior _Championship T rophy to ErnUl Olf~, j,,,,ior T Ollrn,,,,."nl Di,ccl(J'.

Sre-ond, Edward I. T,und (antu), uscr Vjc~.Pr~Jith"l, pr~untJ the G"",ge Slu'If)' Trop/ry 10 U, S. Open C""'mp. ion A,thu, BiJguiu ( ,ight), while Tou,na· mfllt Di,ator Hamann Helms (/efO kibit;m.

Thi,d, right: Tiu 5ht U. S. Open Championship in lull Stss;on .:t D etmil .

Third, hi!: C/.:yloll lV.:i.\::n, ym"'", Detmit chen p/.:yer, ,..1.0 h

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Cludd :lor :1t.. :liredBwinedd man By Fred Reinfeld

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T chigorin' 5 Heir i W HEN Tchigorin died, in 1908, it seemed that th,e gre,at R?illallticl tradition of attack In the grand ,manner had died WIt? hIm. Buti this was not true: it will never be true so long as chess contInues to be , played. It did not take long before the chess world realized thatl Tchigorin had a worthy successor in young Rudolf Spielmann.

Like Tchigorin, Spielmann was well grounded in the theory of the game, but like Tchigorin, he preferred the attack at all times, season-I able or unseasonable. Like Tchigorin, Spielmann left us an inexhaustible treasure of beautiful, combinative chess, . t

FRENCH . DEFENSE -Vienna, 1926

While , Black R. SPI ELMAN N R. WAHLE

1. P. K4 P·K3 2. P-Q4 P·Q4 3. KI-QB3 KI-KB3 4. P,? PxP s. B.KI5 B-K2 6. B.Q3 KI-B3 7. KKI_K2 KI_QKI5 s. Kt·KI3 KtxB ch 9. Q,Kt .. __ .

Tarrasch once made the jocular remark: "Without the King's Bish-op I am like Rousseau without his cat." Spielmann needed no mas-cots. ,

J~ ·~ants to prevent Kt:~5~3?but this is too ambitious a plan. True, the weakness he has just created on his black squares is guarded by his King's Bishnp; but, as Spiel-mann dcmonstrates with his cus· tomary tactical skill, this is a little obstacle which can be removcd very easily.

Much bcttcr was 9 . ........ , 0 -0 followed by 10. P-KR3.

10. 0·0 P-B} lI. QR-KI 0·0?

11 ....... .. , B-K3 WilS pl·cferable, although in that case the advance P -B4-5 would lcave Black in desper-ate siraits.

The text is a decisive blunder; but how mally players cou Id prove it?!

is weakness on

the black squal·CS is opened up to a pin whkh Icavcs Black helpless.

1). Q.~3 K·Kt2 At first sight 13. . ....... , B-B4

seems better. But after 14. KtxB, PxKi; Hi. Q·Kt3!!, K-Kt2 (I[ 15.

.. , P-B5 or 15. . ... , K-RI; 16. Q-R4 wins); 16. BxKteh!, KxB; 17. Q-R4 eh, K-K3; 18. n·Kl eh Black can resign!

14. QKI.K4!! Naturally forced. u. KhP Q.K}

Or 13. . .. , QxKt; 14. QxKt eh, K-KtJ; 15. B·R6 and Black's d e· fense caves in.

1'. B~KI ch "- K·Ktl If 16 ...... ...• K·R3; 17. Q-B4 eh

leads to mate. 17. Q.B4 Aul,ln,

He is defenseless against 18. Q. R6. i\ little gem of a game.

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player who puts in such a small effort that two or more games don't faze him. What do the other players think? The Open had its largest entry in history the Junior its smallest. At the Open were eleven Juniors who did not go to Milwaukee. Of these eleven, ten have finished in the upper brackets of other Juniors (15th or better).

As everybody knows the .Tunior is shorter and cheaper, bui none of these boys (who are certainly in bettcr physical shape than lhe adults) felt up to the annual rai race at the Junior.

Until these points can be an-swercd, I shall support the present system. Hurrah for status quo!

JACKIE MAYEH Loui sv ille, Kentucky

Dear Mr. Major: In the July 20t.h isslle of CH ESS

LIFE, Mr, HOUlClr Hyde ()f Delle-ville, Illinois, suggests that the Nu· tionnl Opcn be played off at t he raie of two games a day. I heartily endorse that idea.

With many playcrs, the greatest cxpense is not the rail.road or bus fare to the 1>lace of play but room tlnd board. Of course, some may eke out the thirieen days in a cheap hotel or by eating in "greasy spoon" restaurants but this is not conductive to good chess.

Another point, would 'it be p os-sible to hold a tournament in a place such as Turkey Run State Park in Indiana or at a lake re-sort? ThCJre must be an inex-pensive place somewhere with It rural or resort a tmosphere. For years, national checker tourna· meqts were held at Cedar Point, Ohio. The old Western Chess As-sociation also held its meeting there in 1925.

Of course, a small town could not bear the full responsibility. i\ nearby eity would have to assist.

It seems that this should make it very pleasant for the partici-pants and mllke it seem a little more like a vacation.

C. M. BURTON St. Louis, Missourl

BALTIC MENACE GROWS IN CHESS

The spread of the Daltie menace in chess becomes more apparent each month. Not only must we in the USA and Canadll contend wHh Lithuanian and Latvian dangers like Povilas Vailonis, Povilas Taut-vllisas, I. Zalys, etc., but even fllr Australia feels the menace.

The 1950 Adelaide (Austral ia) City Championship was 1V0n by J..tltvian G. Berzarins; the Cup Tournament of the Adclaide Ad· vertiser was won by Latvian Lid-urns, with Lithuanian Lelys third, La tvian Berzarins fourth and Lith-uania n Vaitkus fifth. In Tasmani a the championship was won by K. Reintals, a Latvian; and the cur· rent Victoria championship shows the leaders at the second round to be CrOWl, Dr. Learner and K. 01.ols with 2-0 each. Ozols, of course, is a Latvian.

HARTLEB TAKES LAKE ERIE OPEN

The six-round Swiss Lake Erie Open Championship resulted in a victory for USCF Membership Sec-retary Glenn E. Hartlob. Hartleb tied with Chester Fcll and Morton Siegel of Buffalo at 5-1 each, but placed first on SoB points whiTe Fell placed second and Siegel third. Richard Boyer and Vernon Gable with 4-2 each placed fourth and fifth respectively in the 16-player event. Hartleb lost to Fen, Fell lost to Boyer. and Boyer to Hartleb. -

Thls was the fii'st event of this nature in the Lake Erie area, and it is planned as an annual event. The · tournament was noteworthy in the fact thai only two draws were scored in the 46 games play-ed. Most of the players came from Buffalo, with represcntatives from Erie, Rochester, ,Jamestown, Niaga-ra Falls, Dunkirk and Depew.

MARTIN LEADS SO. CAL. PRELIM.

The Southern California Qualify-ing Tournament for the Staie Chumpionship resulted in the vic-tory of the Los Angeles Cpunty Champion Ray Martin with a 5%-1 % score. Also with 5%-Ph but second on S-B points was Sven Almgren. Third place went to Wil-liam Steckel wbo led in S-B points the group scoring 4%_2 Ih in the 14-playcr 7-round Swiss. Emil Bers-baejl was fourth, also with 41h-2%. Martin, Almgren a nd Steckel were qualified as the Southern Californ-ia contenders foa: the California State Championship, to be held in San Francisco. '

Martin lost one game to George Hunter, who placed fifth, and drew wiih Steckel. Almgren lost to Mar-tin and drew with Bersbach.

LOG CABIN GOES CHESS CRUISING

Plncing yet another firs t upon the record book, the Log Cabin Chess Club of New Jersey (firs t to pounce upon their victims by airplane) have suddenly become nnutieal and are tlceking the ehes.O,ilional ! Un. df 21). _._, Q. I\ IS or K: willi w;m';"1I" aUnek. 26 . ...... _ P · KIS 2J. R~KU ~_ Tho t l1rt'll l wu Itxl\t with fo)lowing KIX}\U' , etc. Whll G h.,I, a llhO"1r1l a I.oor, oWl ·" 01 n l ..... t p,ne: Ihl. hlnndc1·, h(lwe,·.r, dllltroy. hIm Qt ollee. 'rho ,,\lC< ..... J' "'O>'~ w •• l!7. Kt·lIl. ~ ft er whIch Ulaek h.d t he ch(l;"" .·lth~r lu 1'" .. ",lt Ihe OII

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FRENCH DEFENSE District of Columbi .. CIt .. mpionship

Wl5hington, 1950 NOlu by J. L.pi"

White mid< H. ROBINS

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LAKE ERIE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP Buffa lo. 1950

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