November 01, 1959 Boston Globe, Chess Notebook by Lyman Burgess

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Chess Notebook 01 Nov 1959, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Chess Notebook By Lyman Burgess
Povilas Tautvaisas, U.S.C.F. master and champion of Illinois and Chicago, will give a simultaneous exhibition at the Boylston Chess Club, 43 Boylston st., Saturday, Nov. 7, at 4 p.m. Tautvaisas has played in international master tournaments and has represented Lithuania in international team tourneys.
Because he made his home in Boston for a short time before settling in the Midwest, Tautvaisas was invited here to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Lithuanian Chess Club of South Boston. The celebration will come to a climax with a banquet at the South Boston Lithuanian Citizens' Assn., 363 Broadway, next Sunday.
The fee for the simul has been set at $2 a head and players are asked to bring boards and sets.

Another anniversary, but one just recently past, is No. 40 for the Boylston Chess Club. Founded in 1919 with 25 charter members, several of whom are still members, the Boylston Chess Club did the Topsy bit until it achieved its present dimensions. Suffering of late from an unnatural lassitude, the club shows signs of returning to its former active condition. First sign on the horizon: the annual Putzman Memorial tournament, scheduled for late this month. And another simultaneous exhibition on the docket features George Koltanowski at the Pittsfield Chess Club, 202 North St., Pittsfield. Some of the games will be played blind fold and a lecture will precede play.
Koltanowski used to make annual cross-country tours but recently he has confined most of his activity to the West Coast where he seems to run everything connected with chess. He has been seen often recently as U.S.C.F. tournament director. His most glorious exploit was his establishment of a daily chess column in the San Francisco Chronicle. Just think, the equal of bridge!

The first half of the Greater Boston chess championship tournament (second part not finished at this writing) produced a dearth of dazzling games. Chessplayers, are odd about games. They are divided into two classes: (a) those who look with jaundiced eyes on all games and (b) those who like some games (i.e. their own wins). Therefore with the usual amount of trepidation I append this third round game wherein David Ames dealt what may have been a fatal blow to pre-tournament favorite Gediminas Sveikauskas (top-ranked player, 2118).

David Ames (white) vs. Gediminas Sveikauskas (black)
King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Yugoslav Variation, Advance Line

Descriptive 1. P-Q4 N-KB3 2. P-QB4 P-KN3 3. N-QB3 B-N2 4. P-KN3 O-O 5. B-N2 P-Q3 6. N-B3 P-B4 7. O-O N-B3 8. P-Q5 N-QR4 9. N-Q2 P-QR3 10. R-N R-N 11. P-QN4 PxP 12. RxP Q-B2 13. Q-B2 B-N5 14. P-KR3 B-Q2 15. Q-Q3 KR-B 16. N-R4 P-QN4 17. PxP RxP 18. R-Q4 Q-N2 19. B-R3 B-K 20. N-N N-Q2 21. N-B3 Q-R2 22. R-K4 N-K4 23. Q-Q N(R4)-B5 24. B-B R-N 25. P-K3 P-B4 26. R-Q4 N-Q2 27. R-Q3 N(5)-K4 28. R-Q2 R-B5 29. R-B2 R-B 30. P-B4 N-B2 31. B-Q2 BxN 32. NxB RxN 33. BxR QxPch 34. K-R2 RxB 35. R-B3 RxR 36. RxQ RxP 37. RxP N-B3 38. Q-N3 R-Q7 39. Q-QB3 Resigns

Algebraic 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. g3 0-0 5. Bg2 d6 6. Nf3 c5 7. 0-0 Nc6 8. d5 Na5 9. Nd2 a6 10. Rb1 Rb8 11. b4 cxb4 12. Rxb4 Qc7 13. Qc2 Bg4 14. h3 Bd7 15. Qd3 Rc8 16. Na4 b5 17. cxb5 Rxb5 18. Rd4 Qb7 19. Ba3 Be8 20. Nb1 Nd7 21. Nc3 Qa7 22. Re4 Ne5 23. Qd1 Nc4 24. Bc1 Rb8 25. e3 f5 26. Rd4 Nd7 27. Rd3 Ne5 28. Rd2 Rc4 29. Rc2 Rc8 30. f4 Nf7 31. Bd2 Bxc3 32. Nxc3 Rxc3 33. Bxc3 Qxe3+ 34. Kh2 Rxc3 35. Rf3 Rxc2 36. Rxe3 Rxa2 37. Rxe7 Nf6 38. Qb3 Rd2 39. Qc3 1-0

Ames scoresheet showed two black question marks at Black's 31st move.

02 Nov 1959, Mon The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Charles S. Jacobs, Ad Executive and Noted Chess Player
Private services for Charles S. Jacobs, 86, advertising and public relations executive and noted chess player, will be held Tuesday.
Mr. Jacobs, of 22 Fletcher st., Winchester, died Saturday at Winchester Hospital. Born at York, Pa., he studied at Dickinson College, York, and in 1896 became associated in the advertising field with a Des Moines, Iowa department store.
He later served as assistant advertising manager for the Montreal Star and served in a similar capacity with the Cleveland News and later the Boston American.
He was a member of the Boston Chess Club and taught chess at the Young Men's Christian Union on Saturdays in Boston and at the Boston Center for Adult Education for a time.
Mr. Jacobs leaves a wife, Laura (Creswell); a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Sumner C. Jacobs of Winchester, and a son-in-law, Frederick L. Churchill of Winchester.

Chess Winner at 11 15 Nov 1959, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Chess Winner at 11
Richmond, Va. (AP) It is not silver threads among the gold but just the opposite at the Richmond Chess Club. The gold is the blonde hair of Robin Church, 11, who is not only a regular player, but a regular winner. Oldsters, who do most of the playing, say the youngster wins three fourths of his games.

Double Hobby 15 Nov 1959, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

DOUBLE HOBBY Canton, Ohio. (AP)—Chess is a two-way hobby for 59-year-old Charles W. Corbett, president of the local chess club. Besides playing regularly for 30 years, he makes chess boards, spending up to 200 hours on each one.