Chess 11 Aug 1935, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
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By W. H. STECKEL
Five good men and true, fully representative of the highest chess skill developed on this side of the Atlantic, sailed for Poland to make an attempt to bring back to this country the Hamilton-Russell trophy, which, was only recently shipped to Europe, to be on hand on Aug. 15 when the next meeting of the International Chess Federation opens at Warsaw. Knowing from past experience (Prague and Folkestone) what to expect. European teams, prepared for the worst, will put forth their best. Another battle royal for the honors will surely ensue.
Harold M. Phillips, chairman of the National Chess Federations committee, announces the personnel of the American team, as finally decided upon, to be the following: Frank J. Marshall (captain): Abraham Kupchik, Reuben Fine, Arthur W. Dake and Israel Horowitz, Kupchik and Horowitz both reside in Brooklyn, with Marshall and Fine from New York City and Dake from Portland, Oregon.
A last-minute change was made necessary when Isaac Kashdan telegraphed from Milwaukee that he found it impossible to accompany the team. Thereupon was added to the list the name of Horowitz who was the one to score the deciding game four years ago at Prague.
Fortunately for America's prospects, there is not a single weak link in the lineup. Chairman Phillips has given instructions that the schedule of games with the 19 other countries be divided as equally as possible among the five players, of whom only four can participate in any one match.
Although their selection as members of the United States International team needed no justification, Reuben Fine, of New York, and Arthur W. Dake, of Portland, Oregon, nevertheless made good at Milwaukee and confirmed the judgment of their friends by capturing the first and second prizes in the annual western championship tournament of the American Chess Federation. Without doubt, Fine, who is at the top the fourth year in succession, is at the peak of his career. Only at Chicago, last year, did he share the honors of first place with Samuel Reshevsky, whom he outranked slightly at Detroit in 1933.
Both of the successful young masters went through the preliminaries, as well as the finals, without losing a single game. The fact that Dake drew one game more than his rival cost him his share of the chief honors. Both are now in splendid training for the ordeal ahead of them at Warsaw and with an ocean trip of 13 days thrown in much may be expected of them in the international.
Totals Players Won Lost Drawn W. L. Fine 6 0 4 8 2 Dake 5 0 5 7½ 2½ Kashdan 3 0 6 6 3 Chevalier 3 2 5 5½ 4½ Factor 2 1 7 4½ 4½ Simonson 3 2 4 5 4 Santasiere 2 2 6 5 5 Morton 1 3 6 4 6 Belson 0 4 6 3 7 Elo 1 6 3 2½ 7½ Ruth 1 7 2 2 8
Reuben Fine, slim New Yorker, originally brought to the front by way of the City College Chess club, is evidently intent upon living up to the good opinion expressed of him by Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris, who, when last in this country, gave it out that he believed Fine to be in line for the title which the Franco-Russian master now holds. Aside from his international adventures at Prague and Folkstone and his possession, for three years, of the Marshall Chess club's championship, Fine's most important successes have been at the western meetings at Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee.
Among those at Milwaukee, who suffered from the uncanny skill of the youthful New Yorker, was W. A. Ruth, veteran champion of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, who was defeated in thirty moves. Following is a selection of games from Milwaukee:
Sir George Thomas will defend his title of British champion at the annual tournament of the British Chess Federation, beginning at Yarmouth. At the same time a major open tournament, with Samuel Reshevsky among the twelve contestants, will get under way. The Congress will last until July 20.
Frank Redpath Drummond (white) vs. Harold Morton (black)
Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation
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Burton Oscar Dahlstrom (white) vs. Harold Morton (black)
Grünfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation, Petrosian System
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In the following game, from the Orebro tournament, Alekhine wins from a Swedish expert who, as White, adopted the exchange variation of the Ruy Lopez, with a view to avoiding trouble. But the world's champion was able to bring about complications and won rather simply.
Problem No. 315
By A. H. Goulty
Black 8 Pieces
FEN 8/7p/2n2K1Q/n2Bp3/3kP2p/7P/2R2b1B/2Nr1N2 w - - 0 1
White 9 Pieces
White mates in two
Solution to 314, B-N
Solutions received to No. 314
Fritz Rathman, Milwaukee, Wis.;
J. A. Fliegel, Medway, Mass.;
Harry Halberson, Wilmar, Minn.;
Walter Frolio, Memphis, Tenn.;
B. Holt. Jr., Columbus. Ga.;
John Hannan, Newburgh. N. Y.;
Lewis Sheppard, Hondo, Cal.;
A. T. Hays, Moultrie, Ga.;
A. J. Bastine, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.;
Alan Brown, South Orange, N. J.;
J. Garrison, Cleveland, O.;
W. J. Hecht, Atlanta, Ga.;
Peter Jacobson, Albany, N. Y;
H. L. Underhill, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.;
Max Miller, Russell, Kans.;
John Emery, Lorain, O.;
V. D. Neff, Jefferson City, Mo.;
J. F. Hubert, San Francisco;
George Baker, Paul Kruse, John Marks, Walter Smith, Philadelphia;
John Minnich, Fullerton;
Dick Hess, Leslie Buck, Floyd Snyder, Bethlehem;
Henry Martz, Macungei;
Ernest Noll, Emaus;
Harold Peters, Thomas Neff, Easton;
Paul Clay, Reading;
Robert Gutekunst, Thomas Gutekunst, Charles Koch, Roy Rockel, William Hodgson, Wilmer Jones, Robert Fatzinger, John Everett, John Moyer, John Harper, Richard Bogert, Jacob Shirk, Ernest Oswald, Norton Benfer, Victor Benner, Albert Weiss, Al Cassone, Paul Troxell, William Fritsch, Allentown.
