Chess Notebook 22 Nov 1959, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
Chess Notebook By Lyman Burgess
Richard Tirrell, Boylston Chess Club's master of the revels, has decided to postpone the Putzman Memorial tournament. Originally scheduled for the Thanksgiving weekend, Boylston's biggest annual shebang will probably be held after the Met League season.
Gediminas Sveikauskas and David Scheffer, Cambridge tied for first place in the 1959 Greater Boston chess championship. In the early stages of the run for the trophy Scheffer slowed down only once: when he drew his delayed second round game with David Ames, Quincy. In fact, the Cambridge David seemed almost like a shoo-in until he crossed pawns with Sveikauskas in the last round.
On the other hand, Sveikauskas, who commuted from New York for the tournament, did it the hard way. He dropped a half point to Deyfus in the first round and then lost to the ubiquitous Ames in the third round. However. Geddy recovered magnificently and rattled off three wins to catch Scheffer at the wire.
Ames went into the final round with four points and, after Sheffer's loss, needed only a draw to force a three-way tie for first. But Ames became embroiled in a game with Ricky Bacon, Needham, which went on long after all other play had stopped. Bacon finally won and so he and Ames shared third and fourth prizes.
Wesley Drew, Somerville, and Josiah Lynch. Natick, were equal first, in the Class B tournament (5-1). This time Drew was the front runner, but he was overtaken and defeated by Lynch in the fifth round. In an attempt to break the tie an extra game was played by Drew and Lynch. When this resulted in a draw, the boys called it a day and settled for the tie.
Paul Travers, Lincoln, and Sidney Schneider, Brighton, tied for third and fourth places. Travers is president of the Massachusetts State Chess Association.
Games, the old maestro once said, need not be good; they need be only important. With this in mind, there is placed below the key Sveikauskas-Scheffer from the 1959 Greater Boston, David Ames will let us know if our designation is incorrect.
And Black resigned.
The “B” and “C” divisions of the Metropolitan League opened the season November 6. Results: “B”: Winthrop 4½, Lithuanian ½; Quincy 3½, C. T Main 1½ Sharon 3, Mount Bowdoin 2; Boylston 2½, Harvard Club 2½; Brattle 3½, Brandeis 1½; GBI Boys 3, Cambridge 2;l and Harvard B II 3½, Checkmate Club 1½. Harvard BI is leading Johnson Club 2½-1½ with one game adjourned.
“C”: Harvard C 5, Boston YMCA 0; Arlington 4, Cambridge 0 (one adjourned).
November 13 Class “A” joined in. Results: “A”: Boylston 4½, Harvard Grad School ½; Cambridge 3, Sylvania 2. Others not reported.
Class “B”: Boylston 3, Cambridge 2: Johnson 4, Brandeis 1; Brattle 4½, Winthrop ½; Harvard B I 1, Lithuanian 3½; Harvard Club 1½; others missing.
Class “C”: Cambridge 4, Harvard C I is the only result in.
Gediminas Sveikauskas (white) vs. David Scheffer (black)
Unresolved Chess Game: Can you solve it?
Russian-Soviet Propaganda 26 Nov 1959, Thu The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
As far as propaganda effect of the Russian moon rocket on Tito is concerned, he was much more interested in the victories of Bobby Fischer, the youthful chess prodigy from Brooklyn, participating in an international chess tourney at Zagreb.
Tito said with a laugh: “When the United States and Russia get through fighting over the moon, I hope they will leave me about 300 hectares for hunting.”
