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Chess by Herman Steiner Sunday, August 05, 1951 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Times Problem 2257 by...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Sunday, April 26, 2020

Times Problem 2257 by Nicholas Gabor (2nd Prize). White mates in two.
FEN 2Qb2Bn/q1NR1p1K/8/2p1P3/Ppk5/3N3R/P2PP3/1b6 w - - 0 1

Chess by Herman Steiner Sunday, August 05, 1951 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Times Problem 2258 by...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Sunday, April 26, 2020

Times Problem 2258 by H.M. Huse (1st Prize). White mates in three.
FEN b7/3pK2Q/8/P4Np1/Pr2k3/4p3/1rP1NnP1/6bn w - - 0 1

State Preliminaries
After the fourth round of the southern preliminaries of the annual State Tournament to be held over the Labor Day week end, Irving Rivise leads with four wins and no losses, clinching his present lead with a victory over Sam Geller. Morris Gordon had a fairly certain win over Blumenfeld, but overlooked a discovered check, the death of many a chess player, and lost. William Steckel came fighting back into the battle in a game with George Hunnex which tried to capture the record for sacrifices and number of checks.

Following are the results after the fourth round of play:

                  W    L
Rivise .......... 4    0
Almgren ......... 3    1
Blumenfeld ...... 3    1
Geller .......... 3    1
Jacobs .......... 3    1
H. Gordon ....... 2½   1½
Steckel ......... 2½   1½
Weiss ........... 2½   1½
Bersbach ........ 2    2
M. Gordon ....... 2    2
Wheeler ......... 2    2
Banning ......... 1½   2½
Hunnex .......... 1    3
Johnson ......... 1    3
Namson .......... 1    3
Paliwoda ........ 1    3

Here are two games from the preliminaries. In the following game from Round 4, Steckel had a psychological victory long before the game's conclusion.

Wing Gambit
George Hunnex (white) vs. William Steckel (black)
Zukertort Opening: Santasiere's Folly

Descriptive 1. N-KB3 P-Q4 2. P-QN4 P-QR4 3. P-N5 P-QB4 4. PxPe.p. NxP 5. B-N2 N-KB3 6. P-K3 B-N5 7. P-Q4 R-B 8. QN-Q2 P-K3 9. P-QR3 B-Q3 10. P-QB4 O-O 11. PxP PxP 12. B-Q3 R-K 13. Q-N3 N-K5 14. R-QN NxN 15. NxN Q-R5 16. P-N3 RxPch! 17. PxR BxPch! 18. PxB QxRch 19. N-B R-K 20. QxNP? RxPch 21. K-Q2 RxBch! 22. KxR Q-K5ch 23. K-Q2 Q-K7ch 24. K-B3 Q-B6ch 25. K-Q2 Q-K7ch 26. K-B3 Q-B6ch 27. K-Q2 Q-B7ch 28. K-B3 QxQPch 29. K-B2 B-B4ch 30. K-B Q-QB5ch 31. K-Q2 Q-Q6ch 32. K-K QxRch 33. K-B2 Q-B7ch 34. K-N Q-B4ch 35. K-N2 P-KR3 Resigns

Algebraic 1. Nf3 d5 2. b4 a5 3. b5 c5 4. bxc6e.p. Nxc6 5. Bb2 Nf6 6. e3 Bg4 7. d4 Rc8 8. Nbd2 e6 9. a3 Bd6 10. c4 0-0 11. cxd5 exd5 12. Bd3 Re8 13. Qb3 Ne4 14. Rb1 Nxd2 15. Nxd2 Qh4 16. g3 Rxe3+! 17. fxe3 Bxg3+! 18. hxg3 Qxh1+ 19. Nf1 Re8 20. Qxb7? Rxe3+ 21. Kd2 Rxd3+! 22. Kxd3 Qe4+ 23. Kd2 Qe2+ 24. Kc3 Qf3+ 25. Kd2 Qe2+ 26. Kc3 Qf3+ 27. Kd2 Qf2+ 28. Kc3 Qxd4+ 29. Kc2 Bf5+ 30. Kc1 Qc4+ 31. Kd2 Qd3+ 32. Ke1 Qxb1+ 33. Kf2 Qc2+ 34. Kg1 Qc5+ 35. Kg2 h6 0-1

Hyman Gordon vs. William Steckel
Queen's Gambit Declined: Three Knights Variation

Descriptive 1. P-Q4 P-Q4 2. N-KB3 N-KB3 3. P-QB4 P-K3 4. N-QB3 B-K2 5. Q-B2 O-O 6. P-K4 PxP 7. NxP NxN 8. QxN B-N5ch 9. B-Q2 BxBch 10. NxB N-Q2 11. N-N3 N-B3 12. Q-R4 P-QR4 13. B-K2 P-R5 14. N-Q2 Q-Q3 15. O-O Q-N5 16. Q-B4 QxNP 17. KR-N Q-B6 18. R-B Q-N5 19. QR-N Q-K2 20. R-B3 R-R4 21. R-KN3 P-K4 22. Q-N5 P-KN3 23. N-K4 K-N2 24. R-B3 N-N 25. Q-Q2 P-N3 26. P-B5 P-B4 27. PxP PxP 28. RxNP R-Q4 29. N-B5 QxN 30. PxQ RxQ 31. R-K3 P-K5 32. P-B3 N-B3 33. B-B4 R-B7 34. R-N4 R-Q 35. R-K2 RxB 36. RxR B-R3

Algebraic 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Qc2 0-0 6. e4 dxe4 7. Nxe4 Nxe4 8. Qxe4 Bb4+ 9. Bd2 Bxd2+ 10. Nxd2 Nd7 11. Nb3 Nf6 12. Qh4 a5 13. Be2 a4 14. Nd2 Qd6 15. 0-0 Qb4 16. Qf4 Qxb2 17. Rfb1 Qc3 18. Rc1 Qb4 19. Rb1 Qe7 20. Rc3 Ra5 21. Rg3 e5 22. Qg5 g6 23. Ne4 Kg7 24. Rf3 Ng8 25. Qd2 b6 26. c5 f5 27. cxb6 cxb6 28. Rxb6 Rd5 29. Nc5 Qxc5 30. dxc5 Rxd2 31. Re3 e4 32. f3 Nf6 33. Bc4 Rc2 34. Rb4 Rd8 35. Re2 Rxc4 36. Rxc4 Ba6

White resigns after a few more moves.
FEN 3r4/6kp/b4np1/2P2p2/p1R1p3/5P2/P3R1PP/6K1 w - - 0 1