January 01, 1928 Los Angeles Times Chess by Clif Sherwood

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Chess by Clif Sherwood 01 Jan 1928, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com

Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, January 01, 1928 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No. 8...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Tuesday, October 20, 2020

L.A. Times Problem No. 8 by Mrs. W.J. Baird and T.R. Dawson, Chess Amateur, Feb. 1924.
This is not a joint composition but an independent duplication. Taken from Alain C. White's 1927 Christmas Series, “Assymetry,” a book of over a hundred symmetrical problems. Mate in two.
FEN 8/4N2k/6R1/8/4n2N/8/2K5/8 w - - 0 1
Key: N(R4)-B5/Nhf5

Here is an extraordinary gamelet in which Black won in six pawn moves, without move a piece!

Descriptive 1. P-Q4 P-Q4 2. P-QB4 P-K3 3. B-B4 P-QB4 4. N-QB3 BPxP 5. BxN PxN 6. B-K5 PxP 0-1 as Black threatens B-N5ch.

Algebraic 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Bf4 c5 4. Nc3 cxd4 5. Bxb8 dxc3 6. Be5 cxb2 0-1

Here's a remarkable game played in a tourney for the championship of Paris, 1927.

L.A. Times Game No. 16
Two Knights Defense
Gudju (White) Bogdanowski (Black)

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. N-KB3 N-QB3 3. B-B4 N-B3 4. P-Q4 PxP 5. O-O NxP 6. R-K P-Q4 7. N-B3 B-K3 8. NxN PxB 9. QN-N5 Q-Q4 10. NxBP KxN 11. N-N5ch K-N 12. NxB R-B 13. B-R6 B-N5 14. NxNP N-K4 15. R-K2 P-Q6 16. P-B3 N-B2 17. N-R5 Q-B4 18. B-K8ch RxR 19. Q-N4ch Resigns

Algebraic 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. 0-0 Nxe4 6. Re1 d5 7. Nc3 Be6 8. Nxe4 dxc4 9. Ng5 Qd5 10. Nxf7 Kxf7 11. Ng5+ Kg8 12. Nxe6 Rc8 13. Bh6 Bb4 14. Nxg7 Ne5 15. Re2 d3 16. c3 Nf7 17. Nh5 Qc5 18. Re8+ Rxe8 19. Qg4+ 1-0