November 29, 1959 Boston Globe, Chess Notebook by Lyman Burgess

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Chess Notebook 29 Nov 1959, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com

Chess Notebook By Lyman Burgess
Some 200 guests helped celebrate the Lithuanian Chess Club's 10th birthday recently. Kazys Merkis and Dr. Kapochy, president of the club, arranged the banquet.
Povilas Tautvaisas, current chess champion of Illinois and Chicago, was the guest of honor. Tautvaisas had been a member of the Lithuanian club in 1949 and was the first member of that organization to win the Boston title.
Merkis came up with a surprise when he added to the head table William Lombardy, winner of the recent Log Cabin invitational tournament.
Lombardy has compiled in the past few years a record in national and international events that has been surpassed only by Bobby Fischer. In 1957 Lombardy won the world junior championship with a clean score, 11-0; a rare feat He has competed in international tournaments and team tournaments in Iceland, Sweden, Germany, Argentina and Colombia.
Young Lombardy is now living and studying in Boston. He intends to become a priest.

Charles S. Jacobs, Winchester, died Oct. 31. He was 86 years old. Jacobs was master emeritus of the U.S.C.F. and had been for many years a pillar of Boston chess. Up to the end he was a member of the Boylston Chess Club and he taught classes in the game at the Boston Center for Adult Education. In his youth he was a friend of the legendary Harry Nelson Pillsbury. This association began in the 1890's when Pillsbury was a touring maestro and Jacobs was a young Des Moines advertising man fresh from Dickenson College.
Later, Mr. Jacobs shifted to newspaper work and brought his advertising skill to dailies in Montreal, Cleveland and, finally, Boston.

When McLeod won the “Western Championship” forerunner of the U.S. Open, in 1901, Mr. Jacobs, then Iowa state champion, challenged him to a match of six games. McLeod had been Canadian champion and Chess Life said the match was “in effect, for the championship of the whole country.” McLeod won the match 3½-2½. Below is the fifth game which by some stretch of the imagination might be called a Dutch Defense but which I prefer to call Irregular.

Charles S. Jacobs (white) vs. Nicholas Menelaus MacLeod (black)
French Defense: Normal Variation

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K3 2. P-Q4 P-QN3 3. N-QB3 P-Q3 4. B-Q3 B-N2 5. P-KB4 P-KB4 6. N-B3 PxP 7. NxP N-KB3 8. NxNch QxN 9. P-B3 N-Q2 10. O-O O-O-O 11. Q-K2 P-KR3 12. B-R6 B-K2 13. BxBch KxB 14. P-QR4 P-QR3 15. P-QB4 P-KN4 16. PxP PxP 17. BxP Q-N2 18. BxB QxB 19. P-R5 QR-KN 20. PxP BPxP 21. Q-K4ch K-R2 White announced mate in three…

Algebraic 1. e4 e6 2. d4 b6 3. Nc3 d6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. f4 f5 6. Nf3 fxe4 7. Nxe4 Nf6 8. Nxf6+ Qxf6 9. c3 Nd7 10. 0-0 0-0-0 11. Qe2 h6 12. Ba6 Be7 13. Bxb7+ Kxb7 14. a4 a6 15. c4 g5 16. fxg5 hxg5 17. Bxg5 Qg7 18. Bxe7 Qxe7 19. a5 Rdg8 20. axb6 cxb6 21. Qe4+ Ka7 White announced mate in three… 22. Rxa6+ Kb8 23. Qa8+ Kc7 24. Ra7#

If 1. RxPch K-N; 2. Q-R8ch K-B2; 3. R-R7 mate. If 1. … K-?; 2. R-R mate.

Met League results for Nov. 20: Class “A”—Sylvania 3½, Harvard Graduate School 1½; Boylston 3½, Harvard 1½; Northeastern 4½, Lithuanian ½. Class “B”—Sharon 4½, Winthrop ½; Brattle 3½, Boylston 1½; Harvard B.I. 3. Quincy 2; Mount Bowdoin 4. Harvard Club 1; Cambridge 3, Lithuanian 2; Checkmate Club 3, C.T. Main 2. Class “C”—Only one score in, and that's incomplete: Arlington 3, Harvard 0 with two adjourned.

Imported French Chess Men 02 Dec 1959, Wed The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com