June 09, 1935 Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner

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The Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner Sunday, June 09, 1935 Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No. 571...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Wednesday, December 1, 2021

L.A. Times Problem No. 571 Composed for the Los Angeles Times by Alexander Kish, Dannemora, N.Y. White mates in two.
FEN 1B6/3pn1R1/NRb1kn2/1p2N1P1/2qP2P1/3p1Q2/8/3B3K w - - 0 1
Key: B-N3/Bb3

The Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner Sunday, June 09, 1935 Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No. 572...

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Wednesday, December 1, 2021

L.A. Times Problem No. 572 Composed for the Los Angeles Times by Vincent L. Eaton, N.Y. White mates in three.
FEN 7Q/8/8/8/3BP2K/7B/1pr4k/8 w - - 0 1
Key: K-N5/Kg5

Defeated By Reshevsky At Margate
Miss Vera Menchik of Czecho-Slovakia, world's woman champion, and Jacques Mieses, 70-year-old veteran from Leipsic, were among those defeated by Samuel Reshevsky of New York, victor in the recent international tournament at Margate. A direct attack against the castled king disposed of the former and a closely calculated ending was the undoing of Mieses.
A game between Jose R. Capablanca, runner-up to Reshevsky, and B. S. Milner-Barry come to an untimely end after eighteen moves. The scores:

Samuel Reshevsky vs Vera Menchik
Margate (1935), Margate ENG, rd 6, Apr-30
Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern. Knight Defense (D51) 1-0

Jacques Mieses vs Samuel Reshevsky
Margate (1935), Margate ENG, rd 7, May-01
Caro-Kann Defense: Main Line (B15) 0-1

Jose Raul Capablanca vs Philip Stuart Milner-Barry
Margate (1935), Margate ENG, rd 7, May-01
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Neo-Archangelsk Variation (C78) 1-0

Here is the victory obtained by Paul Johnson in the B Division of the Metropolitan Chess League of New York which gained him a special prize:

Johnson (White) vs. Macormac (Black)
Scotch Game: Haxo Gambit

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. N-KB3 N-QB3 3. P-Q4 PxP 4. B-QB4 B-QB4 5. P-QB3 PxP 6. NxP P-Q3 7. Q-N3 Q-Q2 8. Q-B2 N-B3 9. B-KN5 N-KN5 10. O-O P-KR3 11. B-R4 O-O 12. QR-Q1 KN-K4 13. B-K2 Q-K3 14. N-Q5 NxNch 15. BxN B-N3 16. Q-B3 Q-K4 17. Q-Q2 N-Q5 18. K-R1 NxB 19. PxN Q-R4 20. Q-B4 K-R1 21. R-KN1 P-KB3 22. NxKBP Q-K4 23. RxP! KxR! 24. R-KN1ch K-B2 25. QxP B-N5 26. Q-R7ch K-K3 27. Q-Q7 mate

Algebraic 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Bc5 5. c3 dxc3 6. Nxc3 d6 7. Qb3 Qd7 8. Qc2 Nf6 9. Bg5 Ng4 10. 0-0 h6 11. Bh4 0-0 12. Rd1 Nge5 13. Be2 Qe6 14. Nd5 Nxf3+ 15. Bxf3 Bb6 16. Qc3 Qe5 17. Qd2 Nd4 18. Kh1 Nxf3 19. gxf3 Qh5 20. Qf4 Kh8 21. Rg1 f6 22. Nxf6(a) Qe5 23. Rxg7! Kxg7!(b) 24. Rg1+ Kf7 25. Qxh6 Bg4 26. Qh7+ Ke6 27. Qd7#

(a) Now Black cannot play 22. … PxN because of 23. BxPch K-R2 (If 23. … RxB; 24. QxRch and 25. Q-N7 mate;) 24. R-N7ch K-R1; 25. R-Q7! discovered check, K-N1; 26. R-KN1ch Q-N4; 27. RxQch PxR; 28. QxNP mate.
(b) If 23. … QxQ; 24. R-R7 is mate.
If 28. … RxN; 24. QxQ PxQ; 25. BxR B-K3; 26. R(Q1)-N1 and wins easily, as mate by 27. R-KB7 is threatened.

Gosta Stoltz vs Alexander Alekhine
Orebro (1935), Orebro SWE, rd 4, Apr-10
Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack (B14) 0-1