December 15, 1929 Los Angeles Times Chess by Clif Sherwood

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Chess by Cliff Sherwood Sun, Dec 15, 1929 – 89 · The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) · Newspapers.com

Chess by Cliff Sherwood Sunday, December 15, 1929 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No....

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Friday, October 16, 2020

L.A. Times Problem No. 133 by J.C.J. Wainwright. Les Tours de Force. White mates in two.
FEN 5r2/5p2/2R5/r4kpp/2Q5/4R2P/5pN1/1bK5 w - - 0 1
Key: R-KR6/Rh6

“Women are seldom made welcome at chess clubs and are too proud to go where they are not wanted,” writes Clara Cameron, “and the Pasadena club, which caters so to women, should be congratulated for abandoing the cavemen theory of inferiority of women.” While most men will probably holler, let the women show they have brains enuf to play the game and we'll take 'em in.”

Here's something mighty neat from the recent international masters' tourney at Barcelona, Spain.

L.A. Times Game No. 153
French Defense
Fred Dewhirst Yates (White) vs. José Aguilera Bernabé (Black)

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K3 2. P-Q4 P-Q4 3. N-QB3 B-N5 4. P-K5 P-QB4 5. B-Q2 PxP 6. N-N5 B-B4 7. Q-N4 K-B 8. P-QN4 B-K2 9. N-KB3 N-QB3 10. P-QR3 B-Q2 11. QNxQP NxN 12. QxN Q-B2 13. B-Q3 P-B3 14. O-O P-QN4 15. QR-K PxP 16. NxP B-KB3 17. Q-B5ch Resigns * If QxQ; 18. NxBch

Algebraic 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. Bd2 cxd4 6. Nb5 Bc5 7. Qg4 Kf8 8. b4 Be7 9. Nf3 Nc6 10. a3 Bd7 11. Nbxd4 Nxd4 12. Qxd4 Qc7 13. Bd3 f6 14. 0-0 b5 15. Re1 fxe5 16. Nxe5 Bf6 17. Qc5+ 1-0