June 14, 1959 Boston Globe, Chess Notebook by Lyman Burgess

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Chess Notebook 14 Jun 1959, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Chess Notebook By Lyman Burgess
Louis Russell Chauvenet, Silver Spring, Md., the new U.S. amateur chess champion, won all of his six games in the recent U.S.C.F. tournament at Asbury Park, N.J. Dr. Erich W. Marchand, Rochester, N.Y., 1958 champion was runner-up with a score of 5½-½.
Other leading scores were: M. Rotov, Hammonton, N.Y.; H. C. Evans, Binghamton; E. T. McCormick, East Orange, N.J.; Dr. David Hamburger, Brigantine, N.J.; Larry Snyder, Philadelphia; Dr. Boris Garfinkel, Aberdeen, Md., and Thomas W. Benton, Trenton,N.J.,all tied at 5-1. Miss Lisa Lane, Philadelphia, the artistic and esthetic success of the New England amateur tourney, won the women's championship title with 5-1.
The tournament drew entries from 163 entries from 16 states. The youngest was 8-year-old Salvatore Matera, Brooklyn. He learned to play chess last Christmas and was good enough to draw three of his games.
L. R. Chauvenet played for many years in Boston's Met League and other local events but he left the Hub for better or worse during World War II.
Jack Trayers won the “Y” Club and City of Salem chess championship for the seventh time in a row with a score of 6½-½. J. R. Morse, Beverly, club president, was second with a score of 4½-2½. Trayers drew with Scott Merrill. Morse's minus was made up of losses to Trayers and Richard Duffy and a draw with Ben Shreve.
C. S. Jacobs, Winchester, is about to “graduate” another class of young women chess players, a species almost non-existent during my now non-existent youth. Perhaps the shining example of Lisa Lane is encouraging this charming invasion. Honor students are: Miss Margurite Wood, Brighton; Miss Catherine Evans, Jamaica Plain; Miss Selma Anthony, Brookline; Miss Thelma Cardin, Watertown; Miss Pat Crowley, Cambridge; Miss Catherine Gillis, West Roxbury; Miss Janet Crowley, Newton Center; Miss Marjorie McCarthy, Boston; Miss Jeanette Steel, Boston; Miss Jeanette Elias, Somerville, and Mrs. Huldura Alden, Boston.
Massachusetts champion John Curdo, Lynn, defeated Connecticut champion Ted Edelbaum at top board in the recent Massachusetts-Connecticut match.

John Curdo (white) vs. Ted Edelbaum (black)
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Poisoned Pawn Variation

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K3 2. P-Q4 P-Q4 3. N-QB3 B-N5 4. P-K5 P-QB4 5. P-QR3 BxNch 6. PxB N-K2 7. Q-N4 N-B4 8. B-Q3 P-KR4 9. Q-R3 P-KN4 10. P-KN4 N-R5 11. NPxP N-B3 12. Q-N4 PxP 13. BxP Q-R4 14. BxN QxPch 15. K-K2 QxR 16. Q-N7 R-B 17. P-R6 QxP 18. P-R7 P-QR4 19. N-B3 P-R5 20. R-KN K-Q2 21. P-R8=Q RxQ 22. QxR Q-B4 23. Q-B6 K-B2 24. QxPch K-N 25. R-N7 Q-N3 26. Q-B8 K-R2 27. Q-R3 K-N 28. B-K7 NxB 29. RxN R-R4 30. P-R4 Q-B4 31. QxQ RxQ 32. P-R5 P-R6 33. NxP P-R7 34. N-N3 R-R4 35. P-R6 R-R5 36. P-R7 R-QN5 37. N-R R-N8 38. P-R8=Q RxN 39. R-K8 R-K8ch 40. K-B3 Resigns

Algebraic 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 Nf5 8. Bd3 h5 9. Qh3 g5 10. g4 Nh4 11. gxh5 Nc6 12. Qg4 cxd4 13. Bxg5 Qa5 14. Bxh4 Qxc3+ 15. Ke2 Qxa1 16. Qg7 Rf8 17. h6 Qxa3 18. h7 a5 19. Nf3 a4 20. Rg1 Kd7 21. h8=Q Rxh8 22. Qxh8 Qc5 23. Qf6 Kc7 24. Qxf7+ Kb8 25. Rg7 Qb6 26. Qf8 Ka7 27. Qa3 Kb8 28. Be7 Nxe7 29. Rxe7 Ra5 30. h4 Qc5 31. Qxc5 Rxc5 32. h5 a3 33. Nxd4 a2 34. Nb3 Ra5 35. h6 Ra4 36. h7 Rb4 37. Na1 Rb1 38. h8=Q Rxa1 39. Re8 Re1+ 40. Kf3 1-0

(a) Messy!
(b) Better than 11. N-B3 (Curdo-Rubinow).
(c) Necessary is 11. … P-B4 (Rubinow-Evans).
(d) Forced.
(e) 25. … P-R6; 26. Q-B7ch K-R2; 27. B-K7 Q-B6; 28. BxP QxB; 29. QxN
(f) 26. … P-R6; 27. Q-Q6ch K-R2; 28. QxPch and it's all over.