June 07, 1959 Boston Globe, Chess Notebook by Lyman Burgess

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Chess Notebook 07 Jun 1959, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Chess Notebook By Lyman Burgess
In one of the final events of the season Boylston will play a 15-board match with Providence at the Boylston Chess Club June 12.
There is a strong tournament in progress at the Cambridge Chess Club.
Weaver Adams has produced a companion piece to his “How to Play Chess” pamphlet. The new arrival is called “Absolute Chess” and concerns itself with Adams' system for selecting moves. In 1939 McKay published the first Adams opus “White to Flay and Win.” In Chapter II of that work Adams first expounded the system which he reiterates in “Absolute Chess.”
Credit David Ames with once again unearthing a sharp end-game study. The position: White: K at QB, B at QN8, P at KR6; Black: K at KR5, B at Q5; P at K4. White to play and win.
The solution: 1. B-R7, B-R8; 2. K-N. B-B6; 3. K-B2. B-R8; 4. K-Q4! Black is helpless, if he takes the Bishop the King then moves away the King blockades the pawn which masks the queening square and Whites RP goes through. If the Black Bishop moves off the KR1-QR8 diagonal White pushes the Rook Pawn immediately, of course.
The Swiss system of running chess tournaments was strained to its uttermost in the 1959 Connecticut championship. The six rounds allotted proved too few and produced, instead of a champion, no less than a six-way tie for first place. The tournament committee decided upon a small, independent 3-round Swiss among the winners to settle all titles.
The final round brought Ted Edelbaum, Windsor, and Eliot Wolk, Storrs, together for the second time. In their first encounter Edelbaum played his usual Stonewall and lost. But in their second meet Edelbaum, once again with white, improved his opening with 9. P-K4 and went on to win, despite losing a tempo with 13. B-K3.
With this win Edelbaum took the 1953 Connecticut championship.

Ted Edelbaum (white) vs. Eliot Wolk (black)
Bird Opening

Descriptive 1. P-KB4 P-QB4 2. N-KB3 N-KB3 3. P-K3 P-KN3 4. P-Q4 B-N2 5. P-B3 P-QN3 6. QN-Q2 B-N2 7. B-Q3 P-K3 8. O-O P-Q3 9. P-K4 O-O 10. P-K5 N-K 11. N-K4 BPxP 12. BPxP N-QB3 13. B-K3 N-N5 14. B-N N-Q4 15. B-Q2 P-B4 16. N(4)-N5 N(1)-B2 17. Q-K P-KR3 18. Q-R4 R-K 19. P-KN4 N-N4 20. NPxP KPxP 21. Q-R3 B-QB 22. P-R3 NxQP 23. B-R2 PxP 24. PxP NxNch 25. NxN P-KN4 26. Q-R5 B-K3 27. BxP PxB 28. NxP Q-Q2 29. Q-R7ch K-B 30. NxBch QxN 31. RxPch K-K2 32. QxBch K-Q 33. R-B7 R-QB 34. Q-N5ch R-K2 35. RxR Resigns

Algebraic 1. f4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 g6 4. d4 Bg7 5. c3 b6 6. Nd2 Bb7 7. Bd3 e6 8. 0-0 d6 9. e4 0-0 10. e5 Ne8 11. Ne4 cxd4 12. cxd4 Nc6 13. Be3 Nb4 14. Bb1 Nd5 15. Bd2 f5 16. Ng5 Nc7 17. Qe1 h6 18. Qh4 Re8 19. g4 Nb5 20. gxf5 exf5 21. Qh3 Bc8 22. a3 Nxd4 23. Ba2 dxe5 24. fxe5 Nxf3+ 25. Nxf3 g5 26. Qh5 Be6 27. Bxg5 hxg5 28. Nxg5 Qd7 29. Qh7+ Kf8 30. Nxe6+ Qxe6 31. Rxf5+ Ke7 32. Qxg7+ Kd8 33. Rf7 Rc8 34. Qg5+ Re7 35. Rxe7 1-0

On The Move 08 Jun 1959, Mon The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

ON THE MOVE Bobby Fischer of New York, 16-year, old chess phenom, drew with Russian grand master Mikhail Tal in the last round of the international tournament at Zurich, Switzerland. Tal already has clinched the tournament. Fischer stands to finish second or third.

Globe Man's Daily Story 12 Jun 1959, Fri The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Globe Man's Daily Story
An attractive ad in the Globe the other day on the sale of chess sets reminded a Hub visitor of the tranquil life in his small town. One day he watched two avid chess player under an ancient elm in a painfully slow contest. Suddenly, one moved his knight and murmured. “Check!” The opponent arose angrily and shouted: “I'll be hanged if I'll play chess with a darned old chatterbox!”