July 12, 1959 Boston Globe, Chess Notebook by Lyman Burgess

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Chess Notebook 12 Jul 1959, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Chess Notebook By Lyman Burgess
An addition to the already crowded calendar of Summer tournaments of national interest has been announced by E. Forry Laucks, president of the Log Cabin Chess Club. He will sponsor an invitational tournament limited to the top 10 ranked players in the country during August to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Laucks Club. Said Chess Life: “… In view of the prize fund offered by Laucks few refusals are expected.”

PLEA: According to Edwin Anthony (whose findings were used first by Irving Chernev and most recently by Fred Reinfeld) there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000, possible ways of playing the first 10 moves on each side of a chess game. And the possibilities in the first four moves only would be 318,979,584,000— a less unspeakable figure but still formidable. Will readers bear these statistics in mind when they feel like shooting questions on opening play to the Globe's chess oracle? How would answer this question: “How does Black win after White plays 1.P-K4?”

Leo Sveikauskas, West Roxbury writes: “Some of our local standouts really hit strong in the Greater New York Open. Shelby Lyman lost to Arthur Bisguier (in the last round!) who was rated 5th nationally in the latest ranking list … Geddy Sveikauskas lost to William Lombardy (4th ranked player) and in the last round to Walter Shipman (16th nationwide) … Geddy drew with Dr. Stephen Popel, No. 21, while compiling his 3½ points David Ames lost to Herbert Avram (33d player of the realm) while Martin Stein fell before Shipman.
Incidentally the Greater New York Open chess championship was won by Paul Benko.
This was a Swiss tournament and the Swiss system is designed to separate the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff in very few rounds. So when Shelby met Bisguier and Geddy played Shipman in the finale they indeed counted themselves among the cream of the wheat and the strongest of the men. Here is the Lyman-Bisguier game.

Shelby Lyman (white) vs. Arthur Bisguier (black)
Sicilian Defense: Kramnik Variation

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-QB4 2. N-KB3 P-K3 3. P-B4 N-QB3 4. N-B3 N-B3 5. P-Q3 B-K2 6. B-N5 O-O 7. Q-Q2 P-KR3 8. B-B4 P-Q4 9. O-O-O P-Q5 10. N-K2 P-R3 11. P-KR4 N-KN5 12. B-N3 P-K4 13. N-R2 P-QN4 14. NxN BxN 15. K-N R-N 16. R-B PxP 17. PxP R-N5 18. P-B4 Q-N3 19. R-B2 R-N 20. N-B B-Q8 21. N-Q3 BxRch 22. QxB Q-R4 23. NxR NxN 24. Q-N3 N-B3 25. Q-B2 PxP 26. BxP Q-K8ch 27. B-B BxP 28. Q-K2 QxQ 29. BxQ B-N4 30. BxB PxB 31. R-R3 R-K 32. R-QN3 RxP 33. B-B3 R-K8ch 34. K-B2 N-K4 35. B-Q5 P-Q6ch 36. K-Q2 R-K7ch 37. K-Q P-N3 38. R-N6 N-N5 Resigns

Algebraic 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 Nc6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. d3 Be7 6. Bg5 0-0 7. Qd2 h6 8. Bf4 d5 9. 0-0-0 d4 10. Ne2 a6 11. h4 Ng4 12. Bg3 e5 13. Nh2 b5 14. Nxg4 Bxg4 15. Kb1 Rb8 16. Rc1 bxc4 17. dxc4 Rb4 18. f4 Qb6 19. Rc2 Rb8 20. Nc1 Bd1 21. Nd3 Bxc2+ 22. Qxc2 Qa5 23. Nxb4 Nxb4 24. Qb3 Nc6 25. Qc2 exf4 26. Bxf4 Qe1+ 27. Bc1 Bxh4 28. Qe2 Qxe2 29. Bxe2 Bg5 30. Bxg5 hxg5 31. Rh3 Re8 32. Rb3 Rxe4 33. Bf3 Re1+ 34. Kc2 Ne5 35. Bd5 d3+ 36. Kd2 Re2+ 37. Kd1 g6 38. Rb6 Ng4 0-1

Bisguier, ex-United States champion, recently won the Manhattan title ahead of Paul Benko.