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Chess by Clif Sherwood 20 Jul 1922, Thu Los Angeles Evening Express (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
Los Angeles Evening Express Los Angeles, California Thursday, July 20, 1922 Express Problem No. 77. By Dr. W.R.I....
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Thursday, January 23, 2020
Express Problem No. 77. By Dr. W.R.I. Dalton, Seattle, Washington. First Publication. White mates in two moves.
FEN 3Q4/1p1n4/8/4pp2/3pk1p1/3N2Pn/B2P2P1/3K4 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Qb6 Nxb6 2. Nc5#
Los Angeles Evening Express Los Angeles, California Thursday, July 20, 1922 Express Problem No. 78. By Clif Sherwood,...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Thursday, January 23, 2020
Express Problem No. 78. By Clif Sherwood, Los Angeles. First publication. An example of “Dr. Dalton theme.” White mates in two moves.
FEN 2k5/2rNr2R/4B1N1/B7/5b2/2Q5/8/1Kn5 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Qb4 Rxe6 2. Qb8#
The second annual California championship tourney, to be held at the Los Angeles Athletic Club starting September 4, will be limited to 12 entries. Prizes of approximately $100, $70, $65, $60 and $50 are announced by the tournament committee for the best scores from first to fifth, respectively, with other side prizes. Gibbs, of San Diego, and Smythe, of San Francisco, have applied for entrance and been accepted. State Champion Gruer, of Oakland and Fink, of San Francisco, are regarded as sure to compete, and it is rumored that Schrader of San Diego may enter. The four leading Los Angeles experts, Grabill, Perry, Mlotkowski and Borochow, are already booked to compete.
The local experts are playing off-hand individual and team matches quite regularly to get in shape for the state championship tourney. E.W. Grabill contributes the following snappy game played in one of the recent team matches.
E. W. Grabill (white) vs. Charles H. Whipple (black)
Four Knights Game: Double Spanish
(a) An error of which White takes proper advantage. The correct move is Castles.
(b) This sacrifice takes Black into deep water and is quite sound and very attacking.
(c) To carry out the combination perfectly soundly, White should here play 11. P-QN4, which wins back the piece and an advantage in position.
(d) If PxP; 12. P-QB3; N-K3, 13. NxNch, K-B; 14. QxQch, RxQ; 15. N-K4, NxB; 16. NxN with a good game.
(e) Either Q-B2 or Q-KB is preferable, although White retains the superiority in either case.
Time of game: White, 20 minutes; Black 40 minutes.
The Pan-American cable match between the Manhattan Chess Club, New York City, and the Buenos Aires Chess Club, Argentina, has resulted in a win for the New York team, 3½ to 2½, following the adjudication by Capablanca of the four unfinished games.
The London congress has accepted the Canadian champion, J.H. Morrison, to fill the vacancy of Boris Kostich, Serbian champion, caused by the question of traveling expenses.
Our local expert, Stasch Mlotkowski, has received an advance copy of a new book by Richard Reti, “New Ideas in Chess,” published by Rikola Verlag, Berlin and Vienna. Mr. Mlotkowski gives the following brief review of same: “This is an extremely stimulating book of 121 pages. Reti's contention is that chess has changed to the extent that players of the highest rank no longer aspire to mere development in the opening, but each move is made in pursuance of a definite plan. If this plan necessitates employing the same piece twice before development of other pieces is completed, well and good. Steinitz was especially noteworthy for following systematic plans and the same may be said of Pillsbury. The great Philidor was perhaps the supreme example of adherence to definite plans formulated in the early stages of the game. There is no doubt that Reti is in the main correct.”
NOTES BY THE WINNER.
Oh, this wise ancient chess,
'Tis a wonderful game;
Like life, ever changing,
'Tis never the same.
Its pathway all checkered
With shadows and light;
Like life, too, it proves
A continual fight.
And also, like life,
After once you begin,
You'll find it takes heaps
Of brain power to win.
So get our your chessboards
And set up your men;
Then sharpen your wits
And go at 'em again.
— Nellie Cameron Bates, Pomona
