September 11, 1949 The Press Democrat Chess Chats by George Koltanowski

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Chess Chats 11 Sep 1949, Sun The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California) Newspapers.com

Chess Chats by George Koltanowski Sunday, September 11, 1949 The Press Democrat Santa Rosa, California Problem No. 103...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Saturday, March 21, 2020

Problem No. 103 by Walter S. Ivens, Tucson. Solution to play and mate in two moves.
FEN 3B4/5n2/6bn/2NP1k1N/2p3R1/8/4P1P1/1K1B4 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Nd7 Nxg4 2. Bc2#

California State Championship

As reported during the week, the California State Championship was won by George Croy with 5½ out of 6. A tremendous score and well merited too as Croy played the best chess. Here, by the way, is the shortest game played in the tournament.

George Croy (white) vs. Clark Jonas (black)
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Bogoljubov Variation

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K3 2. P-Q4 P-Q4 3. N-QB3 B-N5 4. P-K5 P-QB4 5. B-Q2 P-QR3 6. PxP N-QB3 7. Q-N4 NxP 8. QxB Resigns

Algebraic 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. Bd2 a6 6. dxc5 Nc6 7. Qg4 Nxe5 8. Qxb4 1-0

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In the Open tournament our two representatives, Judge B.C. Jenkines and Roland Goudswaard did extremely well. For our veteran player the hard schedule was a tremendous handicap, for Roland Goudswaard, who came second, this was a great triumph. He has fine ideas and goes after his objectives. He still lacks good and solid end-game knowledge. Practice will bring Roland to the forefront very soon now, and Santa Rosa may within a short period of time have two chess masters within its city limits! And here is a game by young Roland.

Wade Hendricks (white) Oakland vs. Roland Goudswaard (black)
King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation, Deferred Fianchetto

Descriptive 1. P-Q4 N-KB3 2. P-QB4 P-Q3 3. N-QB3 P-KN3 4. P-K4 B-N2 5. P-KN3 O-O 6. B-N2 R-K1 7. KN-K2 P-B3 8. O-O B-N5 9. P-B3 B-Q2 10. P-K5 PxP 11. PxP N-R4 12. P-KN4 BxKP 13. PxN Q-B2 14. P-B4 B-N2 15. N-N3 P-KB4 16. PxP PxP 17. Q-B3 P-K4 18. PxP BxP 19. N(B3)-K2 B-K3 20. P-B5 B-QB5 21. R-B2 N-Q2 22. B-B4 N-B3 23. BxB QxB 24. N-B4 QxP 25. K-R1 R-K6 26. Q-Q1 RxN 27. R-Q2 R-N5 28. R-Q8ch RxR 29. QxRch K-N2 30. Q-B7ch K-R3 31. R-Q1 Q-K6 32. Q-Q8 N-K5 33. N-R3 N-B7ch 34. NxN QxN 35. Q-R8ch K-N4 36. Q-Q8ch Drawn

Algebraic 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 g6 4. e4 Bg7 5. g3 0-0 6. Bg2 Re8 7. Ne2 c6 8. 0-0 Bg4 9. f3 Bd7 10. e5 dxe5 11. dxe5 Nh5 12. g4 Bxe5 13. gxh5 Qc7 14. f4 Bg7 15. Ng3 f5 16. hxg6 hxg6 17. Qf3 e5 18. fxe5 Bxe5 19. Ne2 Be6 20. c5 Bc4 21. Rf2 Nd7 22. Bf4 Nf6 23. Bxe5 Qxe5 24. Nf4 Qxc5 25. Kh1 Re3 26. Qd1 Rxg3 27. Rd2 Rg4 28. Rd8+ Rxd8 29. Qxd8+ Kg7 30. Qc7+ Kh6 31. Rd1 Qe3 32. Qd8 Ne4 33. Nh3 Nf2+ 34. Nxf2 Qxf2 35. Qh8+ Kg5 36. Qd8+ ½–½