January 06, 1929 Los Angeles Times Chess by Clif Sherwood

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Chess by Clif Sherwood Sun, Jan 6, 1929 – 16 · The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) · Newspapers.com

L.A. Times Problem No. 67 by W.A. Shinkman. St. Louis Globe Democrat, 1887. A freak position shown in Alain C. White's 1928 Christmas series, 'The Properties of Castling.'
White mates in eight.
FEN k7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/P7/R3K3 w - - 0 1
Solution No. 67: 1. Castles, KxP; 2. R-Q8 KxP; 3. R-Q7 KxP; 4. R-Q6 KxP; 5. R-Q5 KxP; 6. R-Q4 KxP; 7. R-Q3 K-R8; 8. R mates.

Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, January 06, 1929 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No. 68...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Saturday, September 26, 2020

L.A. Times Problem No. 68 by A.C. White and J.C.J. Wainwright. Les Tours de Force sur L'Echiquier, 1906). White mates in two.
The world's greatest problem authority, Alain C. White, writes that he is doing practically nothing with chess but might feel the urge again some time. His famous problem collection is now in custody of G. Hume of England, who contributes No. 68 above as a correction of our unsound No. 53 which we picked from one of the many chess mediums which reprinted same before discovering its unsoundness. Mr. Hume writes: 'This furnishes an excellent illustration of the difficulty of overtaking an error once it has been put into print.'
FEN 3r1B2/1p6/5Q1K/1Ppkp1P1/R1p1p2R/2q3p1/N1nPn1N1/1B1r2b1 w - - 0 1
Key: P-Q4/ Ten-fold sacrifice of a pawn.

While Capablanca is still arguing in favor of changing chess to a larger board and adding pieces, Alekhin says “Psychology is the most important factor in chess. My success against Capablanca was due solely to my superiority in the sense of psychology. Capablanca played almost entirely by a marvelous gift of intuition, but he lacked the psychological sense. From the commencement of the game a player must know his opponent; then the game becomes something more than the moving of pieces—it becomes a question of nerves, personality and vanity. Vanity plays a great part in deciding the result of a game.”

To become a champion, study a champion. Mebbe so. So here's a fast one by the present world's champion, played at St. Petersburg, 1912.

L.A. Times Game No. 91. Sicilian Defense. White, Potemkin; R.; Black Alekhine. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1011815

Here's another one just as fast. Played at Paris, 1913:
L.A. Times Game No. 92.
King Knight's Opening. White, J. de R.; Black, Alekhine.

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. N-KB3 N-QB3 3. B-B4 P-Q3 4. P-B3 B-N5 5. Q-N3 Q-Q2 6. N-N5 N-R3 7. BxPch NxB 8. NxN QxN 9. QxP K-Q2! 10. Q-R6 Q-QB5 11. P-B3 BxP! 12. PxB N-Q5! 13. P-Q3 QxQP 14. PxN B-K2 15. QxQ B-R5+

Algebraic 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 d6 4. c3 Bg4 5. Qb3 Qd7 6. Ng5 Nh6 7. Bxf7+ Nxf7 8. Nxf7 Qxf7 9. Qxb7 Kd7! 10. Qa6 Qc4 11. f3 Bxf3! 12. gxf3 Nd4! 13. d3 Qxd3 14. cxd4 Be7 15. Qxd3 Bh4+