March 04, 1934 Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner

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Chess by Herman Steiner 04 Mar 1934, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com

The Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner Sunday, March 04, 1934 Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No....

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L.A. Times Problem No. 442. From the International Two-Mover Tourney of the Budapest Chess Club, 1933; second honorable mention by R. Mayer. White mates in two.
FEN 6b1/B1ppp3/P1k1r1Q1/7R/n3N3/2b1N3/4K3/2R4B w - - 0 1
Key: N-B4/Nc4
The tries are defeated as follows: RxBch by NxBch; QxB by R-K4; N-QB2 by B-K4; N-Q6 d. ch. by R-K5; and NxB d. ch. by P-Q4. Resigning was suggested.

The Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner Sunday, March 04, 1934 Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No....

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L.A. Times Problem No. 443. “Il Problema” by M.S. Birnof. White mates in three.
FEN 1BK1Rn2/1BNpN3/3k4/7r/1P6/2q5/4R1Q1/2br4 w - - 0 1
Key: Cooked! Q-N7; Q-K4; K-Q8
All these moves mate in three moves. It seems to the writer that none of these moves was the original intention of the solution. Possibly it was misprinted. All who sent in these three cooks will score three points for each.

Chess World Mourns Loss of Grand Master Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch
The sad news has just been received of the recent death of Grand Master Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch on February 18. The veteran grand master was 72 years of age, and was active until the very end of his brilliant career. He had the distinction of being one of the greatest tournament players of his time, and was known also as one of the best writers on the theory of chess. We shall publish one of his famous games which was played in Dresden in 1892. It is called the Tarrasch trap. The score is as follows:

Siegbert Tarrasch vs Georg Marco
DSB-07.Kongress (1892), Dresden GER, rd 7, Jul-22
Spanish Game: Berlin Defense. Tarrasch Trap (C66) 1-0

From The Southern California League Matches

Sidney Weinbaum, Caltech (White) vs. Meyer Schleifer, L.A.C. & C.C. (Black)
Four Knights Game: Spanish Variation

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. N-KB3 N-QB3 3. N-B3 N-B3 4. B-N5 P-Q3 5. P-Q4 PxP 6. NxP B-Q2 7. NxN PxN 8. B-Q3 B-K2 9. O-O O-O 10. P-QN3 P-Q4 11. P-K5 N-N5 12. Q-K2 R-K 13. P-KR3 B-N5 14. PxN BxN 15. BxPch K-R 16. Q-Q3 BxR 17. Q-R3 BxKP 18. B-B5ch K-N 19. Q-R7ch K-B 20. B-R3ch B-Q3 21. Q-R8ch K-K2 22. R-Kch 1-0

Algebraic 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 d6 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 Bd7 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3 Be7 9. 0-0 0-0 10. b3 d5 11. e5 Ng4 12. Qe2 Re8 13. h3 Bb4 14. hxg4 Bxc3 15. Bxh7+ Kh8 16. Qd3 Bxa1 17. Qh3 Bxe5 18. Bf5+ Kg8 19. Qh7+ Kf8 20. Ba3+ Bd6 21. Qh8+ Ke7 22. Re1+ 1-0