January 17, 1960 Los Angeles Times Chess by Isaac Kashdan

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Chess by Isaac Kashdan 17 Jan 1960, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com

Times Problem 3137 by Dr. L. Talaber. White mates in two.
FEN 5bB1/3pkPp1/p1P1N1R1/rp3p1p/pK3Qbr/P5Np/7P/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Qd4 dxe6 2. Qd7#

Times Problem 3138 by J. Hannelius. White mates in three.
FEN B7/1n3p2/7p/b2PN3/1P4B1/1R1p1p2/K2PPPkp/2Q4N w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. exf3 f6 2. Rb1 fxe5 3. Qf1#

Problem 3137 is an example of the Pickininny Theme, in which a black pawn has four different defenses. There is a similar situation with a white pawn in 3138.

Gligoric Wins In Hastings Tourney
Svetozar Gligoric, a 35-year-old journalist from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, took first prize in the international masters' tournament of the Hastings (Eng.) chess congress, according to a report from the New York Times.
The veteran Yugoslav grandmaster was undefeated, winning six games and drawing against William Winser of England, Yuri Averbakh of the Soviet Union and Cenek Kottnauer of Czechoslovakia. Gligoric's final score was 7½-1½.
In previous appearances Gligoric won the Hastings tournaments of 1951 and 1957. He recently tied for fifth with U.S. champion Bobby Fischer in the world championship challengers' tournament in Yugoslavia.
Auerbach, who was also undefeated in Hastings, tied for second at 6½-2½ with Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany. Fourth place was taken by Milko Bobotsov of Bulgaria, who tallied 5½-3½.
Kottnauer finished with an even score, 4½-4½, which was equalled by former British champion Harry Golombek. Next in the standings was Arturo Pomar of Spain, who started off with a fine score of 4-1, then lost four games in succession to win up at 4-5.
Heinrich Heemsoth of West Germany totaled 3-6. The only American representative, Dr. Karl Burger of Brooklyn, gained international experience but could do no better than 2½-6½. William Winser of England trailed the 10-man field with ½-8½.

Cunningham Leads In Combined Club Tourney
Walter R. Cunningham Jr. of Arcadia and the San Gabriel Chess Club continues to lead the first bi-club invitational tournament of the Monterey Park and the San Gabriel Chess Clubs. After four rounds 16-year-old Cunningham has a perfect 4-0.
Leo Thompson of Monterey Park and Allen Carpenter of Pasadena are tied for second with 3½-½. Neither of them has met the leader as yet but will probably do so in the remaining three rounds of the Swiss system event.
The tournament is planned to be an annual event by the two clubs. Both meet Friday nights at 7 o'clock, the Monterey Park Chess Club at Emerson and McPherrin Sts. and the San Gabriel Chess Club at 250 S. Mission Dr.
Following is a brilliant win by Cunningham over Gordon Barrett.

Walter Cunningham (white) vs. Gordon Barrett (black)
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-QB4 2. N-KB3 P-Q3 3. P-Q4 PxP 4. NxP N-KB3 5. N-QB3 P-QR3 6. B-KN5 P-K3 7. P-B4 B-K2 8. Q-B3 P-R3 9. B-R4 Q-N3 10. O-O-O NxP 11. NxN BxB 12. N-KB5! PxN 13. NxPch K-K2 14. Q-R5 B-K3 15. QxBch P-B3 16. B-B4 BxB 17. KR-Kch B-K3 18. RxBch KxR 19. Q-Kch K-Q2 20. N-B4ch K-B2 21. Q-K7ch Resigns

Algebraic 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8. Qf3 h6 9. Bh4 Qb6 10. 0-0-0 Nxe4 11. Nxe4 Bxh4 12. Nf5! exf5 13. Nxd6+ Ke7 14. Qh5 Be6 15. Qxh4+ f6 16. Bc4 Bxc4 17. Re1+ Be6 18. Rxe6+ Kxe6 19. Qe1+ Kd7 20. Nc4+ Kc7 21. Qe7+ 1-0

Samuel Reshevsky vs Raymond Weinstein
US Championship (1959/60), New York, NY USA, rd 7, Dec-27
King's Indian Defense: Petrosian Variation (E92) 1-0

Sidney Norman Bernstein vs Herbert Seidman
US Championship (1959/60), New York, NY USA, rd 9, Dec-29
Polish Opening: Queenside Defense (A00) 1-0

Raymond Weinstein vs Pal Benko
US Championship (1959/60), New York, NY USA, rd 6, Dec-26
Neo-Grünfeld Defense: Classical Variation. Original Defense (D78) 0-1

Arnold Denker vs Edmar Mednis
US Championship (1959/60), New York, NY USA, rd 6, Dec-26
King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation. Donner Defense (E94) 0-1