January 27, 1929 Los Angeles Times Chess by Clif Sherwood

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Chess by Clif Sherwood 27 Jan 1929, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com

Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, January 27, 1929 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No. 73...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Sunday, September 27, 2020

L.A. Times Problem No. 73 by Rudolph L'Hermet. From the Two-Move Chess Problem. Has several delusive 'tries' which appear to solve, but don't. White mates in two.
FEN 7Q/2p1p3/2Pk4/1K1p2N1/8/6P1/8/8 w - - 0 1
Key: Q-R4/Qh4

Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, January 27, 1929 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No. 74...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Sunday, September 27, 2020

L.A. Times Problem No. 74 by J.F. Tracy, Ontario, California. First publication. White mates in three.
FEN 8/3Q4/2p5/2P3p1/4k2p/3Npb2/4N2R/3K4 w - - 0 1
Key: 1. R-R3/Rh3
If BxNch 2. KxK, etc. If P-N5; 2. RxB, etc. (If KxR 3. QxPmate). If B-N5; 2. QxBch, etc. If B-R4; 2. Q-K6ch, etc.

R. F. Lyon, a former Boston champion, was leading in the local club's major tourney when he withdrew a month ago, forfeiting his unplayed games. His vigorous style is shown pretty well in the following, from above tourney. He's another advocate of N for Knight.

Moses Scholtz (white) vs. Richard F. Lyon (black)
French Defense: Classical Variation, Richter Attack

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K3 2. P-Q4 P-Q4 3. N-QB3 N-KB3 4. QB-N5 B-K2 5. BxN BxB 6. P-K5 B-K2 7. Q-N4 P-KN3 8. N-B3 P-QB4 9. O-O-O N-B3 10. PxP BxP 11. N-K4 B-K2 12. B-N5 B-Q2 13. N-B3 Q-R4 14. KR-K O-O-O 15. BxN PxB 16. N-Q4 P-QB4 17. N-N3 Q-R3 18. K-N P-KR4 19. Q-B3 KR-B 20. Q-K2 QxQ 21. RxQ B-QB3 22. P-B3 K-B2 23. N-R5 B-K 24. N-N3 K-N3 25. P-B4 B-B3 26. P-N3 R-QN 27. P-KR4 R-N2 28. K-R KR-QN 29. N-B P-B5 30. P-QR3 K-B2 31. P-QN4 P-QR4 32. N-R2 PxP 33. PxP BxP 34. NxB RxN 35. N-R2 R-N7 36. R-Q2 B-R5 37. P-B3 R-N3 38. R-B R-QR 39. N-N4 B-B7ch 40. K-N2 B-K5 41. R-QR RxNch 42. PxR P-B6ch 43. KxP RxR Resigns

Algebraic 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Bxf6 Bxf6 6. e5 Be7 7. Qg4 g6 8. Nf3 c5 9. 0-0-0 Nc6 10. dxc5 Bxc5 11. Ne4 Be7 12. Bb5 Bd7 13. Nc3 Qa5 14. Re1 0-0-0 15. Bxc6 bxc6 16. Nd4 c5 17. Nb3 Qa6 18. Kb1 h5 19. Qf3 Rf8 20. Qe2 Qxe2 21. Rxe2 Bc6 22. f3 Kc7 23. Na5 Be8 24. Nb3 Kb6 25. f4 Bc6 26. g3 Rb8 27. h4 Rb7 28. Ka1 Rb8 29. Nc1 c4 30. a3 Kc7 31. b4 a5 32. Na2 axb4 33. axb4 Bxb4 34. Nxb4 Rxb4 35. Na2 Rb2 36. Rd2 Ba4 37. c3 Rb6 38. Rf1 Ra8 39. Nb4 Bc2+ 40. Kb2 Be4 41. Ra1 Rxb4+ 42. cxb4 c3+ 43. Kxc3 Rxa1 0-1

Carlos Torre, famous young Mexican master, included the following gamelet in a recent article in the Boletin de Jedrez, to which he is a regular contributor.

L.A. Times Game No 97.

Carlos Torre Repetto (white) vs. Subikursky (black)
Bishop's Opening: Philidor Counterattack

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. B-B4 P-QB3 3. QN-B3 P-Q3 4. N-B3 B-N5 5. P-Q4 N-Q2 6. PxP NxP 7. NxN!! BxQ 8. BxPch K-K2 9. BxN Q-R4 10. B-N5ch K-K 11. B-B7mate

Algebraic 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 c6 3. Nf3 d6 4. Nc3 Bg4 5. d4 Nd7 6. dxe5 Nxe5 7. Nxe5!! Bxd1 8. Bxf7+ Ke7 9. Bxg8 Qa5 10. Bg5+ Ke8 11. Bf7#

(a) In his notes, Torre states that to thoroughly judge the soundness of the queen sacrifice, account must be taken of the following: If P-KR3 10. N-N6ch, K-Q2; 11. NxR B-R4; 12. P-KN4 B-K; 13. P-KR4 to assure the withdrawal of the knight.