June 21, 1959 Boston Globe, Chess Notebook by Lyman Burgess

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Chess Notebook 21 Jun 1959, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Chess Notebook By Lyman Burgess
The Venetian and Tapestry Rooms of the Astor Hotel, Milwaukee, will be the scene of the third Western Open chess tournament July 2, 3, 4 and 5. There will be two rounds daily at 50 moves for the first 2½ hours. Information may be obtained from: Milwaukee Chess Foundation, Miss Pearle Mann, secretary, 1218 Exchange Building, Milwaukee 2, Wis.

Mikhail Tal, U.S.S.R., won the Jubilee tournament at Zurich with a score of 11½-3½. Second was Svetozar Gligoric, Yugoslavia, with 11-4. U.S. champion Bobby Fischer and Paul Keres, U.S.S.R., tied for third, 10½-4½.

Bob Merchant, Danvers, won the Danvers Open with a score of 6-0. Losing only to Merchant. J. R. Morse, Beverly, was second, 5-1.

From the pen of David M. Scheffer, Cambridge: “You might be interested to know that a number of my friends who know absolutely nothing about chess check your column each week to see whether I've lost again. Let's fool them and publish a win.”

David Scheffer (white) vs. NN (black)
King's Indian Defense: Sämisch Variation, Closed Variation

Descriptive 1. P-Q4 N-KB3 2. P-QB4 P-KN3 3. N-QB3 B-N2 4. P-K4 P-Q3 5. P-B3 O-O 6. B-K3 P-K4 7. P-Q5 QN-Q2 8. Q-Q2 P-QR4 9. P-KN4 N-B4 10. P-KR4 K-R 11. P-R5 PxP 12. P-N5 NxKP 13. NxN NxN 14. PxN B-N5 15. B-K2 P-B4 16. PxP BxP 17. O-O-O Q-K 18. BxB PxB 19. N-K2 P-R5 20. N-N3 P-N4 21. P-B5 P-R6 22. P-N3 PxP 23. BxP B-K2 24. BxB QxB 25. N-B5 Q-B4ch 26. K-N R-R3 27. RxPch KxR 28. R-Rch K-N 29. Q-N5ch K-B2 30. R-R7ch K-K 31. N-N7ch Resigns

Algebraic 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 0-0 6. Be3 e5 7. d5 Nbd7 8. Qd2 a5 9. g4 Nc5 10. h4 Kh8 11. h5 gxh5 12. g5 Nxe4 13. Nxe4 Nxe4 14. fxe4 Bg4 15. Be2 f5 16. gxf6e.p. Bxf6 17. 0-0-0 Qe8 18. Bxg4 hxg4 19. Ne2 a4 20. Ng3 b5 21. c5 a3 22. b3 dxc5 23. Bxc5 Be7 24. Bxe7 Qxe7 25. Nf5 Qc5+ 26. Kb1 Ra6 27. Rxh7+ Kxh7 28. Rh1+ Kg8 29. Qg5+ Kf7 30. Rh7+ Ke8 31. Ng7+ 1-0

(a) Here N-R4 is usual. Kmoch and Gligoric favor P-B3 combined with P-KR4 to keep the KR file closed. White's object is to open the KR file — by force if necessary.
(b) Much too slow.
(c) P-KR4 may be better.
(d) P-KN4 might be; better, keeping the file closed! at the cost of a pawn.
(e) N-N; 13. RxP, P-R3; 14. PxP, B-B3; costs too much. “X” decides passive play leads to strangulation; prefers his own brand of hemlock.
(f) Rome is burning on the King side and “X” is fiddling on the Queen side.
(g) White's problem has been how to get rid of this key defensive piece; White solves it for him.
(h) The natural outpost.
(i) The Queen should stay on the K side.
(j) Too late! Black is protecting against RxP, KxR; Q-R6, K-N; Q-N7.

Boston won a match against Providence June 12 scoring 7½-3½.

DICTIONARY OF MODERN CHESS by Byrne J. Horton, Ph.D. 224 pp. New York: Philosophical Library $6.
Dr. Horton's avowed aim is in offering his Dictionary of Modern chess “primarily to all those who are seeking information which will help them to obtain a greater enjoyment and satisfaction in understanding and appreciating the language of chess players.”
The accuracy of much of this dictionary is questionable. Dr. Horton places the 1904 Cambridge Springs tournament in England instead of Pennsylvania; he confuses the From Gambit (an offshoot of Bird's Opening) with the Danish Gambit; he refers to the Alekhine-Chatard as the Albin-Chatard; he gives an erroneous definition of losing the exchange: and he mentions the quick C. H. O'D. Alexander on page 4, calls him the late Alexander twice on page 173 and then brings him back to life on page 205. There is also a fantastically inept diagram on page 89.