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Chess by Clif Sherwood 29 Dec 1921, Thu Los Angeles Evening Express (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
Express No. 23, by Donald Mugridge, Los Angeles. Our local 16-year-old expert's first composition. White mates in two...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Express No. 23, by Donald Mugridge, Los Angeles.
Our local 16-year-old expert's first composition. White mates in two moves.
FEN 7Q/1pk1p3/1Rb5/2N5/1P2p2B/2N1K3/8/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Qa8 Ba4 2. Nd5#
Express Problem No. 24 by Clif Sherwood, Los Angeles. (American Chess Bulletin, November...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Express Problem No. 24 by Clif Sherwood, Los Angeles. (American Chess Bulletin, November 1921).
White self-mates in two moves. Above Problem No. 24 is the first one shown in this column where White forces Black to do the mating and this is a good, simple example to start with.
FEN 3k4/8/2Q2P2/3bB3/5p2/5N2/5PP1/3R3K w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Rxd5#
It will probably interest our lady readers to know that Maria Mora, high school girl chess prodigy of Havana, Cuba, won her recent match with Jose Van der Gutz, the first prize winner in the recent Havana Chess Club tourney, Miss More winning three games, losing two and two draws.
In the second play-off the British ladies championship was finally won by Mrs. Anderson, who defeated Miss Price in the final game.
The president of the Los Angeles Chess Club has named the following tournament committee for 1922: S. Mlotkowski, H. Borochow and C.E. Richardson.
The finals tournament at the local club is progressing more slowly during the absence of our three representatives at the state championship tourney at San Francisco. The following game from the finals tourney features a bit of unusual play at the end.
Gowdy (white) vs. Stasch Mlotkowski (black)
Queen's Gambit Declined: Capablanca Variation
Notes By The Winner
(a) Keeping the Bishop in connection with the Queen side. If B-R4 Black plays B-N5ch and if White answers N-B3, then BxNch followed by PxP, an idea of Janowski's.
(b) Apparently dangerous as it leaves the Bishop without escape, but at K5 it holds a commanding position and cannot be dislodged without giving White a passed pawn.
(c) Inviting the advance of the KNP; QPxB was more conservative.
(d) This allows Black to push the QP;
(e) White suggested after the game that R-KB would have been better; he cannot play P-B5 on account of P-KN4.
(f) If NxR Black retakes with Queen and gains the KP and remains with two pawns for the exchange and a powerful passed pawn.
(g) Extremely ingenious, regaining the piece, but the position now turns against White.
(h) Q-R6ch followed by R-KB was much stronger; the text leads to immediate loss.
(i) Winning easily with two pawns ahead; if instead QxR White draws by perpetual check.
