April 05, 1931 Los Angeles Times Chess by Clif Sherwood

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Chess by Clif Sherwood Sun, Apr 5, 1931 – 74 · The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) · Newspapers.com

Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, April 05, 1931 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No. 217...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Tuesday, January 12, 2021

L.A. Times Problem No. 217 by A.J. Fink, San Francisco. First prize, Pittsburgh Times-Gazette, 1914. The favorite composition of the former California champion. White mates in two.
FEN 3K4/1Np4p/pPP1R1nr/q2k4/p1R4p/1b3p1B/2N3n1/B2rbQ2 w - - 0 1
Key: R-K2/Re2

World's Champion Alekhine once played correspondence chess. Here's one of his games played by mail in Russia, 1908. Shows how in his youth he oculdn't resist temptations to venture into combinations that offered brilliancies.

L.A. Times Game No. 234
Vienna Game
White-Wjakhireff vs. Black-Alekhine

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. N-QB3 N-KB3 3. B-B4 N-B3 4. P-Q3 B-N5 5. KN-K2 P-Q4 6. PxP NxP 7. BxN QxB 8. O-O Q-Q! 9. N-N3 O-O 10. P-B4 P-B4 11. QN-K2 Q-R5 12. K-R B-Q3! 13. P-Q4 P-K5 14. P-B4 R-B3 15. P-B5 R-R3 16. P-KR3 B-B 17. Q-N3ch K-R 18. Q-B3 N-K2! 19. B-K3 B-K3 20. B-B2 Q-B3 21. P-R3 B-Q4 22. B-K3 N-N3 23. P-N4 N-R5 24. K-N N-B6ch! 25. K-B2 Q-R5! 26. P-N5 R-N3 27. KR-B B-K2! 28. K-B RxN 29. NxR QxN 30. B-B2 Q-R7 31. PxN PxP 32. R-B2 R-K! 33. B-K3 Q-R8ch 34. ?-?? B-R5! 35. R-KR2 Q-N7ch! 36. RxQ PxR mate

Algebraic 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nc6 4. d3 Bb4 5. Ne2 d5 6. exd5 Nxd5 7. Bxd5 Qxd5 8. 0-0 Qd8! 9. Ng3 0-0 10. f4 f5 11. Nge2 Qh4 12. Kh1 Bd6! 13. d4 e4 14. c4 Rf6 15. c5 Rh6 16. h3 Bf8 17. Qb3+ Kh8 18. Qc3 Ne7! 19. Be3 Be6 20. Bf2 Qf6 21. a3 Bd5 22. Be3 Ng6 23. b4 Nh4 24. Kg1 Nf3+! 25. Kf2 Qh4! 26. b5 Rg6 27. Rc1 Be7! 28. Kf1 Rxg3 29. Nxg3 Qxg3 30. Bf2 Qh2 31. gxf3 exf3 32. Rc2 Re8! 33. Be3 Qh1+

Game was ommitted, but including in the following week's edition.