April 15, 1951 Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner

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Chess by Herman Steiner Sunday, April 15, 1951 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Times Problem 2225 by...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Sunday, April 19, 2020

Times Problem 2225 by Julius Buchwald (3rd Prize). White mates in two.
FEN 3B4/3Bp3/rN2K3/p1k1nQbR/8/1RPpq2p/b2N4/8 w - - 0 1

Chess by Herman Steiner Sunday, April 15, 1951 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Times Problem 2226 by...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Sunday, April 19, 2020

Times Problem 2226 by Vincent L. Eaton (1st Prize). White mates in three.
FEN 5Q2/4p3/3NP1PB/pK3BrP/Rnp2kr1/2P2Np1/1pPP2P1/5b2 w - - 0 1

Hollywood Chess Group Championship
It looks as if the Hollywood Chess Group will have a new champion. Former California Junior Champion Eugene Levin, at present a student of UCLA, has two more games to play and he only needs one point to make sure of first place. So far he is undefeated. The following is a game between Hyman Gordon, last year's champion, and Levin. When the game was played each had the same score and this was the deciding game.
In the B group there was a wild scramble for first place. Fred Goetze lost his last game to Mrs. Piatigorsky, which put Maron ahead a half point, but he lost to Negley the same evening. This so upset him that he lost his next game to St. John, but he was so far ahead of the rest that second place was assured for him anyway. Third place most likely will go to W. Wheeler. Fourth and fifth is between Mrs. Piatigorsky and Marko.

Hyman Gordon (white) vs. Eugene Levin (black)
Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Stonewall Variation

Descriptive 1. P-Q4 P-K3 2. P-QB4 P-KB4 3. P-KN3 N-KB3 4. B-N2 B-K2 5. N-KB3 P-B3 6. O-O O-O 7. N-B3 P-Q4 8. N-K5 QN-Q2 9. P-B4 NxN 10. BPxN N-N5 11. P-KR3 N-R3 12. B-K3 N-B2 13. R-N P-QR4 14. P-R3 PxP 15. Q-R4 P-QN4 16. Q-B2 R-R3 17. N-Q P-R5 18. P-KN4 P-B4 19. PxQBP NxP 20. N-B3 P-B5 21. QR-Q Q-K 22. B-Q4 P-B6 23. PxP N-Q6 24. N-K4 P-K4 25. B-K3 B-N2 26. RxN PxR 27. QxQP K-R 28. N-B3 R(3)-KB3 29. N-K4 BxN 30. QxB Q-B 31. R-B Q-B2 32. Q-N4 P-R3 33. R-Q RxP! 34. BxR RxB 35. QxNP RxB 36. Q-K8ch K-R2 37. P-N5 BxNP 38. R-Q6 R-N6ch 39. K-B B-K2 40. R-QB6 Q-Q 41. QxQ BxQ 42. R-B8 B-K2 43. R-B7 B-B3 44. R-R7 R-N6 45. RxP RxNP 46. R-QB4 B-Q 47. P-B6 B-B2 48. P-QR4 K-N3 49. R-B5 P-K5 50. P-R5 P-K6 51. R-B BxP 52. P-B7 P-K7ch Resigns

Algebraic 1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 c6 6. 0-0 0-0 7. Nc3 d5 8. Ne5 Nd7 9. f4 Nxe5 10. fxe5 Ng4 11. h3 Nh6 12. Be3 Nf7 13. Rb1 a5 14. a3 dxc4 15. Qa4 b5 16. Qc2 Ra6 17. Nd1 a4 18. g4 c5 19. dxc5 Nxe5 20. Nc3 f4 21. Rd1 Qe8 22. Bd4 f3 23. exf3 Nd3 24. Ne4 e5 25. Be3 Bb7 26. Rxd3 cxd3 27. Qxd3 Kh8 28. Nc3 Raf6 29. Ne4 Bxe4 30. Qxe4 Qc8 31. Rc1 Qc7 32. Qb4 h6 33. Rd1 Rxf3! 34. Bxf3 Rxf3 35. Qxb5 Rxe3 36. Qe8+ Kh7 37. g5 Bxg5 38. Rd6 Rg3+ 39. Kf1 Be7 40. Rc6 Qd8 41. Qxd8 Bxd8 42. Rc8 Be7 43. Rc7 Bf6 44. Ra7 Rb3 45. Rxa4 Rxb2 46. Rc4 Bd8 47. c6 Bc7 48. a4 Kg6 49. Rc5 e4 50. a5 e3 51. Rc1 Bxa5 52. c7 e2+ 0-1

Fine and Evans Tie
Dr. Reuben Fine and Larry Evans tied for first honors in the masters tournament at the Marshall Chess Club in New York last week. Neither of them had been defeated.
Dr. Lasker won the third prize and Albert C. Simonson the fourth.
Dr. Lasker has received an invitation to play in the Schlechter Memorial international tournament, to be held in Vienna early in June. Your editor has been invited. The final standing: …

Larry Evans (white) vs Reuben Fine (black)
Neo-Grünfeld Defense: Delayed Exchange Variation

Descriptive 1. P-Q4 N-KB3 2. P-QB4 P-Q4 3. PxP NxP 4. N-KB3 P-KN3 5. P-KN3 B-N2 6. B-N2 O-O 7. O-O P-QB4 8. PxP N-R3 9. N-K N-B5 10. Q-B2 NxB 11. NxN Q-R4 12. B-Q2 QxBP 13. QxQ NxQ 14. B-B3 P-K4 15. B-N4 P-N3 16. N-B3 B-QR3 17. KR-Q KR-B 18. N-K3 N-K3 19. KN-Q5 B-B 20. N-K7ch BxN 21. BxB N-Q5 22. P-K3 N-B6ch 23. K-N2 B-N2 24. P-K4 ½-½

Algebraic 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d5 3. cxd5 Nxd5 4. Nf3 g6 5. g3 Bg7 6. Bg2 0-0 7. 0-0 c5 8. dxc5 Na6 9. Ne1 Nf4 10. Qc2 Nxg2 11. Nxg2 Qa5 12. Bd2 Qxc5 13. Qxc5 Nxc5 14. Bc3 e5 15. Bb4 b6 16. Nc3 Ba6 17. Rfd1 Rfd8 18. Ne3 Ne6 19. Nd5 Bf8 20. Ne7+ Bxe7 21. Bxe7 Nd4 22. e3 Nf3+ 23. Kg2 Bb7 24. e4 ½-½

Mikhail Botvinnik vs David Bronstein
Botvinnik - Bronstein World Championship Match (1951), Moscow URS, rd 5, Mar-25
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Normal Variation. Bishop Attack (E47) 0-1

David Bronstein vs Mikhail Botvinnik
Botvinnik - Bronstein World Championship Match (1951), Moscow URS, rd 6, Mar-26
Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer Variation. Traditional Vartiation (B63) 0-1