June 08, 1930 Los Angeles Times Chess by Clif Sherwood

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Chess by Clif Sherwood Sun, Jun 8, 1930 – 78 · The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) · Newspapers.com

Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, June 08, 1930 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No. 170...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Wednesday, November 25, 2020

L.A. Times Problem No. 170 by W. Von Holzhausen, Akademisches Monatscheft fur Schach, January, 1906. White mates in two.
FEN Q7/4K3/8/2pN4/4k3/5N2/2P3P1/1B3b2 w - - 0 1
Key: Q-R6/Qa6

lol "Professor Harry Bateman ... Led a Cambridge University team against the ladies' chess team of London and got...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Professor Harry Bateman ... Led a Cambridge University team against the ladies' chess team of London and got walloped--but later found that the ladies had smuggled in the famous Herr Mieses to help them, which accounts for it.

Won against world's champion Alekhine, in the latter's 1929 exhibition in Los Angeles. Dr. Bateman says, “I find chess very stimulating; it is a great game with a great literature.” Here is one of his favorite games (first publication) played at Cambridge, 1902, and blindfold at that, something he never does now.

L.A. Times Game No. 186.
Scotch Gambit

White (Bateman) vs. Black (Rouse)

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. N-KB3 N-QB3 3. P-Q4 PxP 4. P-B3 PxP 5. B-QB4 Q-B3 6. NxP B-N5 7. B-Q2 N-R3 8. O-O N-K4 9. N-Q5 NxNch 10. PxN Q-B3 11. BxB QxB 12. R-B QxRP 13. NxPch K-Q 14. Q-Q6 R-K 15. N-K6ch RxN 16. Q-B7ch K-K 17. QxBch RxQ 18. RxR mate

Algebraic 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. c3 dxc3 5. Bc4 Qf6 6. Nxc3 Bb4 7. Bd2 Nh6 8. 0-0 Ne5 9. Nd5 Nxf3+ 10. gxf3 Qc6 11. Bxb4 Qxc4 12. Rc1 Qxa2 13. Nxc7+ Kd8 14. Qd6 Re8 15. Ne6+ Rxe6 16. Qc7+ Ke8 17. Qxc8+ Rxc8 18. Rxc8#