June 23, 1935 Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner

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Chess by Herman Steiner 23 Jun 1935, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com

Dake Wins Pacific Coast Championship
We congratulate Mr. Dake upon his achievement in winning this match. His score was 4½-1½. The proposed eight games were not played on account of illness of Mr. Steiner, and instead only six were played. The Chess and Checker Club of Los Angeles was responsible for the first four games, and Mr. E. P. Elliott, former western champion and secretary of the club, is directly credited for all arrangements. The Exposition Park Chess Club, through A. N. Pray and S. Wolff ably handed the fifth game, and the Santa Barbara Chess Club, through Mr. Pat Rafferty and L. A. Cooke arranged the sixth game at Hotel Mar Monet. The following are the last two games of the match:

Fifth game:

Arthur William Dake (white) vs. Herman Steiner (black)

Unresolved Chess Game: Can you solve it?

Descriptive 1. N-KB3 P-KB4 2. P-Q4 N-KB3 3. P-KN3 P-K3 4. B-N2 B-K2 5. O-O O-O 6. P-B4 P-Q3 7. P-N3 Q-K 8. N-B3 K-R 9. B-N2 Q-R4 10. Q-Q2 QN-Q2 11. Q-N5 Q-K 12. QR-K N-K5 13. Q-B QN-B3 14. N-Q2 NxN(Q2) 15. QxN Q-R4 16. P-K4 P-B5! 17. PxP Q-R5! 18. P-KB5 N-R4 19. P-B4 PxP 20. P-K5 PxP 21. N-Q5 P-K5! 22. R-K3! B-Q 23. K-R N-B3 24. R-R3 Q-N5 25. R-KN Q-N3? 26. NxN QxN 27. P-Q5 Q-B2 28. R-R6! K-N>> 29. B-KB P-KN3 30. R(N)xPch QxR 31. RxQch PxR 32. Q-N2!! P-KN4 33. PxP R-B2 34. P-N6 R-N2 35. Q-R3! 1-0

Algebraic 1. Nf3 f5 2. d4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. 0-0 0-0 6. c4 d6 7. b3 Qe8 8. Nc3 Kh8 9. Bb2 Qh5 10. Qd2 Nd7 11. Qg5 Qe8 12. Re1 Ne4 13. Qc1 Nf6 14. Nd2 (??No NxN)

Sixth game:

Herman Steiner (white) vs. Arthur William Dake (black)
Italian Game: Classical Variation, Tarrasch Variation

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K4 2. N-KB3 N-QB3 3. B-B4 B-B4 4. P-B3 Q-K2 5. O-O N-B3 6. P-Q4 B-N3 7. P-QR4 P-QR3 8. P-KR3 P-Q3 9. R-K O-O 10. B-KN5 P-R3 11. B-R4 K-R2 12. P-Q5 N-QN 13. P-KN4 P-N4 14. B-KN3 R-R 15. QN-Q2 QN-Q2 16. B-Q3 N-B 17. N-B4 B-R2 18. K-N2? N-N3 19. N-K3 N-B5ch 20. BxN NPxB 21. N-B5 BxN 22. KPxB K-N2 23. B-K4 Q-Q2 24. Q-N3?? P-KR4! 25. R-K2 PxP 26. PxP NxP 27. R-KN K-B3 28. K-B QR-KN! 29. QxNP QxRP! 30. R-N2? R-R8ch 31. N-N Q-Q8ch 0-1

Algebraic 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Qe7 5. 0-0 Nf6 6. d4 Bb6 7. a4 a6 8. h3 d6 9. Re1 0-0 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bh4 Kh7 12. d5 Nb8 13. g4 g5 14. Bg3 Rh8 15. Nd2 Nd7 16. Bd3 Nf8 17. Nc4 Ba7 18. Kg2? Ng6 19. Ne3 Nf4+ 20. Bxf4 gxf4 21. Nf5 Bxf5 22. exf5 Kg7 23. Be4 Qd7 24. Qb3?? h5! 25. Re2 hxg4 26. hxg4 Nxg4 27. Rg1 Kf6 28. Kf1 Rg8! 29. Qxb7 Qxa4! 30. Rg2? Rh1+ 31. Ng1 Qd1+ 0-1

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