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cfarr!! Gila".. On Ct. ••• PAVEY MANHATTAN

WINNER

B, InttrMho1l4/

M"Jt.:r

LARRY EVANS u. S. Chm

Chttmpion

U . S. o~" Ch..mpion. 1911-12

U. S. T,mn " __ .II~_'" M,m~ •• 19111, J911 I should like to write a book someday devoted entirely to the mistakes of the masters (God knows there are enough!). My own blunders would find a most wel-come place in the nntllology. In the following position, however. Smyslov finds the right continua-tion, onJy to go astray at the last minute and take a draw by perpet-ual check . In a similar posi tion, Tchigorin, a hal{ a century be-fare, found the winning m 0 v e where Smyslov accepted the draw!

1 .... , Q-R6 (threatening 2 ... I RxB ch i 3. QxR, R-KKtI); 2. Q-

SULLIVAN WINS TENNESSEE TITLE

Jerry Sullivan or Knoxville won the Tennesscc Opl.'n Chumpionship at Oak Ridge with 4Y'.l-!lh ; he held the tille previously in 1948 and 1951. Tied Cor 5(!cond with 4·2 each were L. C. Nodercr of Oak Ridge. Martin SOuthern of Knox-ville and G. W. Sweets oC Chat-tanooga. Sullivan lost no ga mes , but drew with SOuthern. Sweets, and R. R. Coveyou. Noderer lost ga mes to Sulliv;ln and Sweets; Southern lost to Noderer, and drew with Sullivan a nd Sweets; Sweets lost to Coveyotl and drew with Sullivan and SOuthern.

Robert R. Coveyou of Oak Ridge was reelected prc~idcnt oC the Ten· ncssee Chess Ass'n ; J aek Murphy of Alcoa secretary·treasurer; and in appreciation of his " persistent, patient, and gentlemanly cHarts to make chess a game that a1l can enjoy equally" the president of the Tennessee Ch!!ss Ass 'n ap-pointed William A . ScoU of Atlan-ta, Ga. honorary vicc-president of the association ..

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LU NDIN Gron ingen, 1,,*,

BlaCk to p l .. y .nd win

KI , Q-B6; 3, K-Rl, RxB !; 4. RxR . R·Q7; S. Q-Bl, Kt·B7 Chi 6. K-Ktl, KI·RS chi 7. K-RI. and Black took a draw with 7 ___ . , Kt-R6 ch, and so on. But he has a one-movc wiD in this position: 7 ... .• R-KB7! and White must face a dedsive loss of matcrial.

Go ahcad - gloat!

LIEPNIEKS WINS LINCOLN CITY

For the third successive year Alcxander Liepnicks won the Linc-oln (Neb.) City Championship, los· ing one game to Vladimir Rajno-hat and drawing with Robert Kal-nins and' Joe Warner, for an 8-2 score. Second went to Victor Pu-pols with 7Y.. -2~, losing to Licp-nicks and Kalnins, while drawing with Julian SObolevskis. Rajnoha placed third with 6Jh-31h, while Ka lnins and Sobolcvskis shared fo urth with 6-4 each.

J II the second division Pet e r Tumek scored 6 'f.. · 1h for first place while John Danenfelds was sec-ond with 6-1 and Jacob Dresman-is third with. 5-2. In the third di· vision Stanley Reeder tallied 7-1 for first. while Tom Jo' isher was sccond with 6-2 and J ack Schwa· bauer third with S'k-2!f.z.

MARCHAND KEEPS ROCHESTER TITLE

Dr. Erich W .. Marcha nd retaiD· ed the Rochester (N.Y.) City title with 9-0 score. Dr. Max Herzberg-e r and ViDcenl Weig shared sec-ond with 6'1.z-2'f.., while Dr. Walter Rudin scored 6-3 for fourth. Dr. Herzbergt'll lost to Marchand and drew with Weig. Rudin and A. Ca ndee; Weig lost to Marchand and Rudin, and drew with Herz-berger. Dr. Rudin lost to Marc-hand and G. Switzer.

Max Pavey, in his student days Champion o( Scotland , in an excit-ing finish won the Manhattan Chess Club tiUe by defeating J . Nussbaum in a hard·lought struggle, while chief contender Abe Turner was held to a draw by the Turkish expert Mubin Boysan.

It was Pavey's first Manhattan title, although the former New State Champion and former U. S. Lightening Champion bas long beeD one of the top masters at the Manha .. t:ta~n~C~h~""~~C~I~"~h~. ______ _

Final r ankings in this most hotly -contested event were: Max, Pavey 10!f.z-2'h, Abe Turner IG-3, Herbert Seidman a nd Alexander Kevih: 9'1J-3'1.z each, and William Bryan

USCF SENDS ONE TO WORLD JUNIOR

USCF President Harold M. Phil-lips has announced that the USA, as FIDE Zone 4, will send one repr~sent.ative to thc second World Junior Championship Toumament, to be held at Copenhagen, Dcn-mark from July 3 to July 23. 1953 at the hall of the newspaper " Po-litiken R

White To Play And Win! by William Rojam POlition No. IJJ

L. I. Kubbe l Nov. 1952

Posilia .. No. 214 By N. Kovaley

Shakhmaty, Dec. 1952 ,---;-.",..,

W E turn again to the masters of the Soviet Union for the examples in this issue. While Rinck of Spain was the greatest endgame composer of this age, is we seck to fill the! second spot we must concecle the title to a Russia-n, be the choice Troitsky, Kubbel or another. Position No. 213 rCI>rC5ents Kubbcl in a n unusually fest ive mood. Bishop and Knight can male, if the bothersome Black Pawns arc removed. White solves this problem neaUy. mating Black in e ight moves in the mam varfatlon.

Position No. 214 has a solution that works wi.th clock-like precision. White's salvation, of course, lies In wInning a. Black piece or sUppIng into a stalemate. It sounds dilficult, but Kovalev makes it seem very easy.

For $olutions ple,u,e turn to P.ge eight·

$end .11 conlrlbullon, for thl, column to W III"m Rol;1lm, " CHESS LIFE., 123 No. Humphr.y Av.nu., O.k P.rk. Illinois.

Durham (N.C·) Chess Club plans a specialS round "Centenary Chess Championship" as a part of the City of Durham Centennial Year celebrations from April 26 to Ma'Y 2. • Miami won the Southeastern Florida Chess Con{crence at Boca Raton, directed by Frank Uthoff. Miami with a team of C. Rasis, A. Pederson, tlfld G. Moyer, bested Delray 3-0 3nd west Palm Beach 2-1, while West I'alm Beach downed. Hollywood 2-1, and lIolly· wood defeated Delray 3·0· After the matches in an informal contest Hollywood, consis ting of F. B. Rose, J. W. Harvey, and J. W. Hutchinson, seored a sl.arUi~ up-set by lakina: victorious Miami 3·0.

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4lIess tift S .. ,,,/4'/, P.ge 2 April J. 1913

In the New York City Hi g h Scbool Championship (mentioned rrequenUy in Chess LiCe in New York) final results were Edmar :r .. Iednis (Stuyvesant) victor with 91h-Ih"drawing witb Paul Monsky. Klcillman (Bronx Science) and Monsky (Brooklyn Tech) tied (or second in games and SoB points with 8-2 each, while Sass (Brook-lyn Tech) was fourth with &-4. Filth to seventh on SoB with equal 5M= "* sores were Ginsoorg (Brook. Tech), lo~eldhcim (Lafayette), and Arnusb (Stuyvesant). In second place, Kleinman lost games to Mednis and Ginsberg, while Mon· sky lost to Kleinman and drew with Mednis and Shapiro (Seward Park).

Rcshevsky on tour encountered an unusual upset at Cleveland when Ronald Rosen bested him twice in one afternoon. 'Ole exhi-bition began with Reshevsky playing blindfold games aga inst Rosen and Lawrence Lipkiog in which Rosen scored a victory. In the 5()..board sjm ll1t:In~Us that (01-lowed, Reshevsky won 45, drew 2, and lost 2 and the losses were to Roscn and Allred Robooctoy. while Dr, I. E. Halpern and Albert Oh· I'alik held the draws.

Spokane's first reported Cit y Cha mpionship, sponsored hy t he Spok3ne ( Wash.) Chess Club was an 18 player Grd Swiss event. First and second respectively on S B with 5-1 each were Gordon Corne· lius and Morris Finelieb. Other prize·winners w ere Robert Kit· tredge, Ray Kromer, Dr. G. H. Parker, and William Vogel, Jr. in order named.

PLAN U. S. JUNIOR AT KANSAS CITY

The U.S. Chess Federation has accepted the invitation extended by loll'. Charles W. Graham on be-half of the Kansas City YMCA Chess Club to hold the 1953 U.S. Junior Cha mpionship Tournament in Kansas City. TentaLive dates fo r the event are August 10 to August 15 inclusive, beginning on the Monday (ollowing the comple-tion of the U.S. Open Tournament at Milwaukee. The event will be a 10 rounei Swiss, and details will be announced in an early issue.

BOTVINNIK WINS T AIMANOV MATCH

World Champion Mikhail Botvin· nik regained Ule Soviet Chllmpion· ship title by bestiug l'oI. Taimanov 3 \~J·2'1J in lht! title match played to break their 13'h·5'h tie in the USSR Cha mpionship Tournament. Bolvinnik won two ga mes, lost one and drew three.

Score or the li l'st match game (oHows :

SLAV DEFENSE While Black

TAIMA NOV BOTVIMMIK .. '.0, KI·KB' U. P xKt ,., ,. P-QB" P-B' H . KI·KI B·KS ,. KI.KB3 '.0< )(I. BKB ,n. .. Kt ·8 3 P-K3 31. R·B2 K-Rl .. P·K] QKI-Q2 12_ KI·K12 R·KKII .. Q.B2 BoO' 31. KI·B" ""', ,. .. , ~ . :u. P·82 Kt-Kt4 B. .. "" .... J5. R-Q Kt2 P· K'" .. PIIQP .~. U. R·Kl QR·KI 10. K_Kn P-QRJ U. P·KR4 Kt·K3 11. B·BI P-85 31. KlxKI RxKO 12_ .. · KKI .. K"Kt] It. P·K4 RIKnl-KI U. "·KA3 A·Kf 40. RIKIl)-K2 14. 8 ·1(12 8-K15 P-KIS 15. 1(1·1(5 BlIKI 4l . Q·Q2 .. ., 16. QlIB KI·K5 42. P-KS P x BP 11. Q·B2 Kt-Ql 43. QlIP Q·KI5 I I. B.Q2 poORe "4. Q-l(t2 ••• .,. B·1(1 P-83 "5. QxQ ~Q 2D. KI·1I3 '.0' e6. AlIP ••• 21. A·QBI .. ., "'. AlIR o.. 22. Q· K2 B.Kt4 el. PxA '.0' 21. S'S3 KI·AS 4t. P·"6 K·Kt2 2e. P.KIS ... , UI. r -B4 K·BJ 25. P II " 8-S" c h 51. P·B5 '.0' U. " ·AT .... 52. K-Kn P-R" 27. Q·Ql KlxB Rnigns

AI Wills won the New Orleans City Championship the hard way lJy scuriuK nVh In tbe play-off to take the title. Tied with Wil.l.s in the final six player round-robin title event were A. L. McAuley who scored 1-1 in the play-off, and 1952 City Champion Ed Borsodi who scored 'h·1Y.! in the play-off. Other finalists were Ben Saltman, Bill Naser, and R. Roscher in or-der named.

By winning a play-off game from J . E. Murrhee, Dave Wals-dor! took the New Orlea ns Reserve eveut WiUl Murrhee second and Ken Vines thlrd in the 11 player tourney.

1n Battlc Creek Reshevsky scored 35 wins and 2 draws with no losses. William Morris of Lans-ing and Henry Meifert of Kala-mazoo were the successful battl· ers. 'The Battle Creek exhibition followed closely aIter an exhibi-tion at Detroit where the formid· able Sammy scored 38 wins and 2 draws in a 40 board simultaneous.

W U h l"1lton ID.C.) Chess Diun: WiD-ner (It the Clan O. Finals ....... .Iosepb E. Callaw» with 4-4 IIDd Charlu E. SpOnagle w" _ lid with l'h·H!z.

CARL PILNICK YOUNG MASTER

By WILLIAM ROJAM Sltljf W,itt,

Although he bas been playing high-grade chess from highschool days onward in a career that. W3S interrupted by World War n, Carl Pilnic);; is not as well known na-tionally as his sJciU and reeord merit - probably because he has seldom participated outside New York City.

Taking up h is chess play, unlm· paired by army service Pilnick placed second in the 194.7-48 Mar· shall Chess Club Championship with 14 'h-4'h, behind Larry Ev-ans, but ahead of Sllntllsiere, Seid-man and Donovan. In thc same year he tied for s ixth with 31h-5\.'"~ in the Manhattan Chess C I u b Championship. He did not do so well in the Area Seven Preliml· naries for the U.S. Championship, plllcing 12th with 5-5 score. In the U.S. Open at Baltimore he tied for 12th with 7'h-4Yl.

In the Marshall Chlb Champion. ship of 1948-49, Carl was sixth with ll'l.o-6\o1z; in the Marshall Club Championship of 1949-50. he tied Cor eighth with 10-8 but received a special prize (or the best game scored against a prizewinner. Thus Pilnick was only classed as an Ex· pert in the first USCF Rating List.

In 1951 Pilnick placed third with 10\1:...f'h in the Marshall C h e s s Club Championship and climbed in the USCF Rating List 01 October 5, 1951 to Master rank. But in the 1951-52 .Marshall Championship Cart suHercd a relapse and sank to ninth with 8'h-7"h - his lowest spot in this annual event lor many years. He staged a quick reeovery by placing filth in the U.S. Open at Tampa with 8-4 -his second appearance in 11 na· tion31 event. And then topped the year hy tif'ine ·with A. E. Santa· siere (or f irst place in the 1952·53 Marshall Chess Club Championship with 12-3, ahead oC New York State Champion John W. Collins and for-mer New York State Champion James T. Sherwin.

Possibly Pilnick's loo in[requl!llt appearances outside New York City - be has not even contest-ed in recent New York Stale events - have combined to limit his style of play, lor versatility comes easiest from meeting a host o( strange and unfamiliar oppon-ents. But as New York City does not lack strong Cilmpetition, Cart has had adequate opportunity to develop his talents - and his reo cent victory at the MarShall sug· ge~t~ that they have alr

YOUNG MASTE'RS' FORUM America's Leading Young Masters A nnotate

Outstandi"/f Games from Recent Chess Events

Bishops of the Same Color By U. S. Master CARL PlLNICK

O NE oC the more realistic aspects of chess is that often the laws of Horatio Alger come undone, and blunderers stagger into riches. Thus in the fol-lowing game, Black plays the opening well and gets a strategicnlly won game. A mental aberration follows, but instead of retribution Black Calls iuto an ending more beautiful than that which went bc.Core.

SICILIAN DEFENSE Marshall Chess Club Chllmpio" 5hip

NO., York, I9S] While mack

A. E. SANTASIERE 1. P_K4 P-QB4 1_ 2. Kt-QB3 Kt-Q83 4 .

5. P-Q3

C. PI LNIC K P · KKtl P -KKtl B·Kn B.Kt1 K"83

A £"ood altcrn:ltc 1..1 B-K3. KI.-QS.

5. ___ • p.K3; IS.

6. 8-K3 P-Q3 1. P-K R3 0-0 8. KKI-1(2 R.Kn

Removing the Rook from the long diag oDal and prepal1n.&: Cor P_QKt4. 9 _ P-Q4

~~~"""""',.....,-..--.

Dubious. With th l5 system. \'/hUe usu-ally playa for ('-KD4 Instead.

13. KI-05 14. PlfKt 15. P-Q83 f6. QxKt

Diad, emerges from t he o pe ning clutch. Ing two Bishops and a future.

Contributors to th e YOU NG MASTERS' FORUM

Jeremiah Dono ... ., Elio t Hearst C.r l PilnOck

J ames Sherwin Walter Shipnu,"

who have a vague remembrance of wa s unwise to fix your pawns on squares as your bishop. the end-a classically instrucUve example

point painfully clear-

17. QR.Kl 11. P·KB4

f" P-R.3 ... ,

P.Q KI4

P·QR4

23. PII P

to. P-KKt4 21 . RPxP 2'2.. R.B2

Q _BS

TIle pressure rises. 24. P·B5 PxPJ 25. Px P ....... .

P·KU ,.p P.p

25. KtxP.

". ll.xKt and the QBP is !loomed.

B·K8l 29. KlfR R·RI 26. 8 -K 4 K-RI 30. K _Kt2 R·Ktl ch 21. K-R! 28. R· KKtl

R-KKtl 31. K -RI Q· R5 RxR ell 32. R·KKt2

Q·R8 eh? ~~~""""~~-r=

I1alJuclnaUon . BIA('k delude~ h im self with varlatioru; such a~ 3.'. Q.KKtI. QlfQ eh; 34. IllfQT!. R>

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THE ELEMENTS OF CHESS By International Master HERMAN STEINER

Hypothetical Game Illustrating Principles, Rules, a!,d Objectives

W ITH the men in their original posit.ions at the start of the game, it is evident that the student can piny for Time and Spaee only, s ince there arc no weaknesses. Therefore, he must look lor the move which combines the greatest possible number of objectives as well as Cor the one for which there arc the greatest number of reasons. In oUter words, the preliminary consideration of Time and SpaCe is what. makes the best move possible.

For example, to deveJop (Time), and to control the greatest num-ber oC your opponent's squares (Space), you sbould attack, threaten, or defend for each oC these means cUher a gain or loss of Time, depending upon how each is played- Here then are three reasons for making the best move. The fourth is one in which you prevent your opponent from making his best move. This again results in & gain or loss of both Time and Space, depending upon the time each move is made, a nd whiCh side makes iL

The first two objectives arc noth-ing more than the ga ining ol 'fime turd Spaee, in order to gain the Third Objective _ l'~orce. 'I' h e Third Objective is to create .a weakness or weaknesses and thereupon take advantage which eventually becomes Force. Of course, you need judgment in' order to decide when an occasion arises in which you may mistaken-ly give up more than you get. As to the value of Force, sometimes you give up more than you gain in Time a nd Space. In such a case the given Force is called a sacrifice, and should not be inter· preted as a weakness.

The good chess player ba ses his game on a combination of con-structive ideas built upon sound principles . The student will never learn to play a good game until he has t horoughly mustered these and learned to apply them in prac-tice. The greater amount ot prac-tice the casicr the upplication. The foUowing game is used to illus-trate a combination of these princi-ples, and the reader is enabled to p lace himself on either side, White or Black.

W hat should t he student do first ? He should decide what his first move should be. 'fo the stu-dent who remembers. the F irs t ob--jective, there a re two moves which appear to be practical. Both arc

One is P-K4 , the

A /In JVhitt plays; 1. P-K4 Deve loping Move Controls greilltellt number of OP-

ponen t's squill r ell Threllt of Fint Oblective

1. P·K4 is· a developing move, for it develops tbe Queen and King-Bishop and also controls the great. cst number of squares of oppon· ent's territory, such as KR5 with the Queen, QR6 and QKt5 with the Bishop, and Q5 and KB5 with the Pawn (on K4 square) - a total of five squares. Also it threatens P-Q4, which is the First Objective.

This opening move will Jead the student to an Open Ga me, if his opponent answers with the sa me move (P-K4). H the student opens with 1. P -Q4 as his first move, his Fir s t Objective is harder to achieve than the one in which he plays P-K4. You should be quite experienced before t ackling the Queen Pawn Opening. On the oth-er hand, as mentioned, P-K4 is a developing move, and controls the greatest number of squares of the opponent's territory (five)_ It threatens the First Objective ( P_ Q4) with safety. This would add four more squares to the five al-ready controlled which would en· able the student to control Dine squares against his opponent's none. Everything else being equal, this gives the student an advan-tage in space. So the student can readily see that from the first move White has a threat.

Developing Move Control. g",ates t n u mber of op-

ponent's squares Nullifies threilt of Fint Oblecti .. e

Now Black answers with 1 _ •• , P-K4 because of the following r eas· ons: 1) It develops Queen and Bishop; 2) It controls five of the opponent's squares: the Queen con· trois the squjlIe 9f J(R5, the Bishop

controls the squares of QR6 and QKts, the Pawn controls the QS and KB5; 3) It nulliries White's threat of First Objective - the control of his own Q5 square.

Why doeS this move nullify this threat? To analyze it let us refer to the fundamental principles (see Objectives, March 5 issue, p .7).

Whenever we make a threat we should do it with salety, which means we do not lose any of the three elements - Force, Time, or Space. We know that when White plays 2. P-Q4 , Black answers with 2 .. . , PxP. White's move then is 3. QxP Then Black pltlys 3 .. . , Kt-QB3.

and develops and gains Time Space. This should not be allowed_ Therefore, Black's lasl move (1 .. P-K4 ) nullifies White' s threat of his F irst Objective . It also equal-izes the position by controlling the sa me a mount of his opponent's squares (live ) as his opponent con-trols oC his.

A /ur Whit~ plcry$: 2. Kt-KBJ De .. e loping Mo .. e Conlrols greate$t number of op.

ponent's $CIuil re$ Athckl Thru t of Flnt Obi ective

We now come to White 's second move : 2. Kt-KBJ. Why this parti-cular move? White asks hjmself, "What docs Black threaten? " He already knows why 2. P -Q4 cau-not be made. So he makes the abovc move (2. Kt-KB3) aft e r questioning himself, thus: "D a e s Black thre aten anything? No. What can I threaten? Are there possible captures, checks, pins, or forks?" U none of these things is possible 00 the firs t or second moves, he now considers the reas-ons {or making the move. These arc : 1) Does i t develop? 2) Does

dbess tift S""J." P ••• 5 Ap,il '. 1911

it control the greatest number of his opponent's squares? 3) Does it attack or defend? 4) Docs it prevent the opponent from mak· ing his best move? 5) Does it in· elude playing for First Objective with safety?

It can retldily be seen that Kt· KB3 is a developini move; it con-trols two new squares, KKtS and K5 ; it also attacks the enemy's Pawn at K5, tlnd threatens First Objective (P-Q4) with safety.

U Black plays PxP then White recaptures this Pawn with his Knight - a ga in of Space. "What does my opponent threaten?" We already know that White threat-ens the King·P awn plus his First Objective. This is a double threat, und Black must make a move w hie h defends his unprotected King-Pawn as well' as nullifying the threat Of his opponent's First Objective. Remember, it must al-so be a developing move which conlrols lhe maximum number of h is opponent 's squa res. We cannot miss the an~wer: 2 .. . . , Kt-QBJ_

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GAMES BY USCF MEMBERS A,mouu.ed by Chess Master JOHN W. COLLINS, New York State Champion, 1953

U:iU: MEMBERS: S"h..,;/ ),Ollt best 8amel '0' this dcpartmtnt to JOHN W . COLLINS, 91 UIIO% Road, B,ook!)'" 26, N.Y. SPtKC being limited, Mr. Colfj"s .... iIl ulul tilt moSI i"/(1(sli"g .md iIH/",ain /0' tmblk"tion. U n/cst oth< . .. is( sttfteJ no/ (S to 8"""'t'S .me by M,. Collins.

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(Conti nued from page 6, col. 4) White reall~s hls Bishop will be worlb more than a Rook. 17. ........ Bx R? Cauti.;m prompted 17. .., 1.I·K3. 18. Qx B P·B.? Again. 18. ... B·K3. 19. K'xQP Q·K2 NeccSIlary to prevent 20. Q·K5. 10. KI·QS Q·Kl 21. Q. R6 The dlrcet matln&" threal.a bei"\n. 21. KR·B2 11. KtxQR

Even Slronger IS 22. KtxKR, for It 22 . .. , QxKt(n2 ); 23. Kl·B6ch. K·R l ; 24. KtxPch, K-KU; 2(1. Kt-KtS and m ate In two; or II 22. . ... ..• KxKt; 23. Q·Kt7ch, K·Kl; 24. Kt- 86ch, K.QI; 25. B·K5! and male In two or three. 22. Kt·83 If 22 . ....... QxKt(Bl); 23. Kt·B6ch. RxKt; 24. uxn, wins. 23. 8·K12 PxP 24. R·KBH

Qx Kt(Q4) On 24. _._. QxKt{Bl); 25. RxR, Kxil.; 26. Q·Kt7ch, K·R3; 27. Kl·B7e h. K-Q3; 28. B-R3ch wins. 25. Rx R QxR 26. Kt·Q6 Q-Q2 White h as cut it rather thin but could win the ending with 26 .......... Q·Bl; 27. QxQch . KxQ; 28. KtxKtP. 27. Q·B4 Now White has It easy. 27. ...... Q·K3 30. K·B2 2 •. KtxKP B·84 31. KtxP 29. Kt·Bkh K·B2 'rh!"c;,tenlng a ramlly chec k. 31 . ..... Q-Q83 33. 0.Q4 32. P·B4 Kt-Q4 Going In f or the kill.

Kt·K2

33. ........ Kt·K2 35. Kf·Bkh K-Ql 34. Q.Kt7ch K·K1 36. Q·BIch Resigns The Slack Knight gooll. White won on the dark squares.

RUY LOPEZ MCO: page 231, COlumn 19 IiI

Washington State Championship Seattle. 1953

White BlaCk E. ZEMGALIS C. JOACHIM 1. P· K4 P·K4 3. B'KtS P-QR3 2. Kt·KB3 Kt-QB3 4. B·R4 P·Q3 This 180 the Steinib: Dclcnse Dererred. II favorite of more than one World Champion. S. P· B4 _ .. _ .. Wilh lhi.s, lhe Dural< Variation, White geu something llke a slranzle hold on Q$. Alterna tives are 5. 0-0. S. 1!.xKtch, and 5 . p.Ba. $. ........ B-Kts Resh evsky played this :lg:llnst Keres ·in the 1948 Ch amplotulhlp Tournament at Mo~cow. It il; logical because White has weakened his Q4 square. ,. P· KR3 ........ 6. Kt·B3 and 6. p.Q4 are p lay;;"b le. , ......... . B· R4? Weak. Correct is 6 . ....... BltKt; 7. QxB. Kl-K2; 8. Kt-B3. Kt·KU; 9. 0-0. B.K2; 10. Kt·Q5. 0-0. 7. KI·B] Kt·83 •. P ·KK t .

K'xKtP? The saerl(lcc Is unsound. but so Is Black's position arter 8 ....... . B.Kt3; 9. P-Q4, PxP; 10. KtIP. Q-Q2; 11. P·B3. 9. PXKt Bx P 11. KI·QS P·B4 10. R· KKtl P·KR4 12. P-Q3! ___ . A nicely ealcuJated move with a Queen $ll.c rUice Involved In the resulting complications. 12. .. P·QKt4. II 12 . ...... , P.llS; 13. Kt·Xt4, Q·Q2; J4. KtxKt. PxKt; 15. P.Q4, PXP; 16. Q-Q3, I3xKt; 17. QxB. White hilS !l won lIame. And simple developing moves. like 12 ..... ., B-K2; are Insufflelent too. U. PxKIP Kt·QS 14. P· Kt6ch P·B3 Or 14 .. _ .... K·B2; 15. K t-Kt5ch , K.Kt1; (15 . ...... , QxKt; 16. BxQ. UxQ; 17. Rx8 wins) 16. B-Kt3!. B"Q; 17. Kt-B6 mate! Very pretty!

15. KI·B7ch K-Q2 U 15 . ....... K.D2; 16. B·KUch wins.

16. K'''Ktl

Taking the Queen loses as follows: 16 . .. ..... B",Q ; 17. BxPch. K·BI; (17 ....... . K.K2; 16. B-Ktseh wins) 18. P·Kt7ch. KxKt; 19. P"R-Q and White wlns. 17. Q·B2 Re signs White IS Il K night ahead and has the wlnnln.\: threat of 18 . Q:xPch. Aa Presl. dent O. W·. Manney writes in the fiut rat e state publication "Washington Chess Letter": OIlC or Elma!"s Zcmgalls' creat fluallUe. Is "the clcareut way In which he winds up a won came."

GUEST ANNOTATORS In This Issue

Eliot Hearst

N. Y. CHESS LIFE (Continued from page 3, col. 4)

Ielt that Turner could reach the top if he could curb his "drawish" ten-dencies and he has shown this to be a good d iagnosis! Seidmann was contending for first place most of the way until the unexpect-cd defeat by Bryan knocked him out of the running in the closing rounds; both he and Kevitz, rec-ogni:red U.S. masters, appear to have suffered somewhat from their relative lack of competition in reccnt years. And

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April " 1951

Whal'" :11.. Bedl mOVe? By Guil/wnne Gr«Htr

Position No. 114

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Send solu Hons 10 JlOSIUOII No. i 14 to the Editor, CHESS LIFE , by May 5, 1953.

Solution to Position No. 111 Our solvers were smarter than the

Master Kramer in handllng this pnsl_ tion, Matanovlc·Kramer, Bad-P yrmont, 1951. In this pOSition Kramer played 1. .. .. , R.KZ, and Matanovic, who ap-parently saw the danger, replied 2. R-Rt! and finally won the game.

Actually Black can win with 1. •.•... , R·KB! If 2. KxR, P -R? and the queening cannot be prevented. II 2 . B-Bl. P-R7; 3. B-Kt2, P-R8 (Q ): 4 . BxQ, RxB. winning a piece and w ith it the game ultimately. If 2 . K-Kt3. R-Kt8 ch; 3. K-lU (If 3. K -B2, P-R7!), Il-Kt7 chi; 4. K-IU. Kt.B6; 5. any, R-R7 mate (the Arabian mate).

Cor""ct solutions are acknowledged received from: D. Arganian (Racine), .I. A . B:ake .. (Mankato). I. Blzar (Bronx). F. Cabot ro (sturge on Bay). R. Chau-vend (Silver Spring). J . E. C oms tock CDuluth). W. J. Couture (Charleston). E. Gault (Philadelphia), E. Godbold (St. Louis). A / 2C R. Grande (Denver ). D. Hamburg er (Pittsburg h ), W .. James (Fox Lake), C . Joachim (SeatUc), A_ Kauf-man (Chicago). E. J . Ko r panty (\Vood_ side), D. C_ McDaniel (Los Angeles), Dr. J. Me l nick (Portland). Ii:. 1". Muller (Flint), E. Nash (Washington), W . Rcldcn (San Francisco), Dr. I. Scbwarb: CDurand), H. C. U nderwood (Washing-ton), F . J. Valvo (Cuid erland Ccnter ). D. A. Wal!;dorf, Jr. (New Orleans). W. B. Wilso n (Amherstburg), N. 1-'. Wilting (Salem).

Journalnenl cfl/e "In" 11·14

Oregon State Open Champio nship Portland, Ore.

Begins 10 :00 3.m. June 13 at Portland Chess Club; open; entry Cec $3.00; Don Turner tournament director.

j,m" 5-7 29th Trans.Miss issippi Open

Championship Davenport, Iowa

(Revised). At Chamber of Com· merce; opcn to all; 20 prizes, $505 cash plus merchandise; $150 first ; $60 for Classes B & C and other specials; free souvcnier bulletin; entries close 6:45 p.m. June 5; play ends 7:30 p.m. Sunday; cntl·y fee $6.00 plus $1.00 rating fee for non-USCF members; for details, write: Karl Wiegmann, 2610 Ninth St., Rock Island, Ill.

100% USCF ra t e d event.

5oul'nalnenl oflle May 2·)

Monta na State Championship Great Falls, Mont.

At Farmer's Union Hall; 5 round Swiss; open to s tate residents; be· g ins 1:30 p.m. May 2; for de tails write : J . w. Stevenson, 3809 2nd Ave., No., Great Falls, Mont.·

M tty 1.) North Carolina Championship

Durham, ·N. C. Open to N.C. reSidents, military

personnel and s tudents in N.C·; 5 round Swiss; begins 7:30 p .m . Fri· day, MIlY 1; prizes for first six places; entry f(.'C and NCCA memo bcrship ; for details write: S. A. Angello, 917 Burch Ave., Durham.

Mtty 16-17, 2).24 Michiga n Open Championshi p

Mt. Clemens, Mich. Open ; 8 round Swiss played on

conseculive weekends at Colonial Hotel; entry fee $1.50 plus USC}--membership ($5JXI) for non·mem· bers; highest ranking playe r 18 or under IHlmed Junior Champion; speed championship held May 16 at 6 :00 p.m., open to all; for details write V. E- Vandenbur g, 505 W. Lenawee St., Lansing.

100% U.S .C.F. uled event.

Mtly 16_17 Michigan Children's Tourney

Mt. Clemons, Mich. Open to boys and girls under

10th grade; entry fee $1.00, no membership required; held at Colonial Hotel; wr ite; V_ E. Van-denburg:, 505 W. Lenawee St., Lansing.

Mily 16-17 Indiana State Championship

Logansport, Ind . Open to residents of slate and

students attending schools in state; a t Barnes Hotel; begins 7:00 p.m. May 16; 5 round Swiss; please bring sets and clocks; tournament direc-tor: Floyd B. Bolton, 7431 Baring Parkway, Hammond, Ind.

M.ry 21 ·23 South Dakota Open Championship

Verm·ill ion, So. Oak. At Union BJdg. of University,

beginning 7:30 p.m· Thursday; open Swiss, state title to highest ranking resident ; cash and merc· handise prizcs, 1st prize probably $35.00; on modified HarkneSs plan pairings so plcase notify three weeks in advance M. F . Ander son, Box 1466, Rapid City, S.D. if planning to enter.

M tIy 30-3 1 Texas State Cha mpionship

San Antonio, Tex. For Texas residents and military

personnel; at Lions Field Tourist Center, Broadway and Mulberry; trophies; 6 rd Swiss; cntry fee $5.00 plus membership in USCF and TCA ($5.00) if not member ; for details write J. B. P ayne, 809 Gar-rity Road, San Antonio, Tex_

100 per c:ent USCF rated event.

]un" 12-14 CarOlinas Cham(,)ionship

Wilmington, N.C. Open to residents, students and

servicemen in No. and So· Carolina; at Community Center; begins 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 12; entry fee and membership in NCCA or SCCA; 5 round Swiss; ten prizes; for details ,,"Tite: Mr. Harris, Re-creation Dir., Community Cen ter.

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