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Chess by Howard L. Dolde 11 Mar 1923, Sun Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
Pittsburgh Daily Post Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sunday, March 11, 1923 Problem No. 244. Entered in Circus Theme Contest...
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Problem No. 244. Entered in Circus Theme Contest by J.A. Wilhelm, New Orleans, LA. Black 6 Pieces. White 9 Pieces. White mates in two moves.
FEN B2q4/1n1p4/N1n1R3/1N1k1P2/2p5/5PP1/8/4K1Q1 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Nc3#
Pittsburgh Daily Post Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sunday, March 11, 1923 Problem No. 245. Entered in Circus Theme Contest...
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Problem No. 245. Entered in Circus Theme Contest by J.A. Wilhelm, New Orleans, LA. Black 9 Pieces. White 9 Pieces. White mates inj two moves.
FEN 2n1R1B1/1nKN1qp1/Q1Np4/3k1P1b/8/1Pr1B3/3r4/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Qa4 Rc5 2. Qe4#
Pittsburgh Daily Post Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sunday, March 11, 1923 Problem No. 246. Entered in Circus Theme Contest...
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Problem No. 246. Entered in Circus Theme Contest By J.A. Wilhelm, New Orleans, LA. Black 9 Pieces. White 12 Pieces. White mates in three moves.
FEN 8/1Q2p3/1p1PKp2/R2P2p1/1RN1k3/1N1n4/2nBP2P/bB1r4 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Qxe7 Rf1 2. Bxc2 bxa5 3. Bxd3#
Pittsburgh Daily Post Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sunday, March 11, 1923 Problem No. 247. Composed for the Pittsburgh Post...
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Problem No. 247. Composed for the Pittsburgh Post by Frank E. Funk, Altonai, Manitoba. Black 10 Pieces. White 8 Pieces. White mates in two moves.
FEN 3K4/N1R3p1/pk3rR1/b7/1rp2p2/1bP1q3/1N6/1Q4B1 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Qf5 Rxg6 2. Qxg6#
Pittsburgh Daily Post Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sunday, March 11, 1923 Problem No. 248. Composed for the Pittsburgh Post...
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Problem No. 248. Composed for the Pittsburgh Post by E.M. Lang, Brooklyn, N.Y. Black 6 Pieces. White 11 Pieces.
FEN 2K2b2/Q1P1p2P/2R1n3/P2Pk1p1/7N/2nB2P1/5P2/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. h8=Q+ Bg7 2. Qg8 gxh4 3. Qxe6#
Problem No. 249. Composed for the Pittsburgh Post by L. Friedlander, New York. Black 9 Piecs. White 5 Pieces. White mates in five moves, not three.
FEN 8/8/q2p3Q/2bNkN1K/1p6/2p5/b1B2p2/3n4 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Qf4+ Ke6 2. Nd4+ Kd7 3. Qf7+ Kd8 4. Qc7+ Ke8 5. Qe7#
King's Knight Klub.
A number of college students have organized a chess club under the above name and issue challenges to the other chess clubs of the Pittsburgh district, not in the usual competitive spirit, merely a friendly match, but a match nevertheless, the idea being to get a line on the different high school clubs and other independent organizations for the purpose of forming a chess league with weekly matches between clubs.
All chess organizations are requested to write “King's Knight Klub,” 5529 Ellsworth avenue, Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh Daily Post Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sunday, March 11, 1923 Problem No. 250. Dedicated to Alain C. White by...
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Problem No. 250. Dedicated to Alain C. White by William B. Rice, Philadelphia, PA. Black 12 Pieces. White 7 Pieces. White self-mates in three moves.
FEN 8/B2p2p1/3N2R1/8/1p3p2/bp3k2/rp1Qrp1p/1K1B1R2 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Bxe2#
Pittsburgh Daily Post Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sunday, March 11, 1923 Problem No. 251. Composed for the Pittsburgh Post...
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Problem No. 251. Composed for the Pittsburgh Post by C.F. Trenkle IV., Kane, PA. Black 9 Pieces. White 8 Pieces. White mates in two moves.
FEN 2b1Q2B/1p1N4/p1nkN3/3n4/8/K6B/2R5/3R4 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Rc5 Bxd7 2. Rdxd5#
Metropolitan Brilliancy
Played between A.A. Cohen, Brooklyn C.C., and Walter Frere, Newark Rice C.C., in the Metropolitan League match at Newark, February 10, 1923.
A. A. Cohen (white) vs Walter Frere (black)
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Bd3 Line
Local Chess.
With S. Gerdets back in Pittsburgh for a short visit, local players were treated to some stellar chess during the past week. On Saturday all four Class A players of the Pittsburgh Chess Club, Paul Bowers, Kalman Erdeky, S. Gerdets and H.L. Dolde, were waging mimic battles. For some reason the Bowers-Erdeky games were the most entertaining, owing to the combination style with frequent though often unsound sacrifices. The other board held the kind of game in which a pawn was something to be had and held, and the loss of the exchange was fatal.
Questions are beginning to be asked: “What about the Western Pennsylvania championship tourney?”
Bornholz Defeats Marshall
The experience of winning a match from the United States champion does not come into the life of every chess player while still in college. It happened just once last year, when F. Worden of Columbia, accomplished that feat. This year the distinction falls to Robert L. Bornholz of Brooklyn, who, as a member of the New York University team, defeated Frank J. Marshall in the third round league match contested at the rooms of the Marshall Chess Club in Manhattan last Saturday.
It was a struggle which went to 67 moves and lasted six hours, during all of which time the young Brooklynite did not make a single serious slip. This marks him as a player of exceptional ability, whose progress and subsequent work in the league matches will be watched with keen interest.
Throughout the memorable game Bornholz played with great steadiness and refused to be drawn into compromising variations, as, for instance, at the 23d move, when, with B-QKt4, he might have invited lively complications. Marshall won a pawn on the 35th move, but gave it right back in order to neutralize an attack on the QR file.
The United States champion erred at his 40th turn by exchanging pawns and creating a weakness in the center, not having taken into consideration Bornholz's strong (illegible) move. Instead, Marshall should have advanced P-B5. From then on Bornholz had the whip hand, forced an exchange of queens and emerged with two passed pawns on the king's side. Marshall's single passed pawn was weak and of no avail.
Appended is the score of his great games with Marshall.
Robert L Bornholz vs Frank James Marshall
New York Metropolitan tt (1923), New York, NY USA, rd 7, Mar-17
Horwitz Defense: General (A40) 1-0
