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Chess Notebook 27 Sep 1959, Sun The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
Chess Notebook By Lyman Burgess
Bart King, bossman of the Metropolitan Chess League, has issued a call for all team captains and club representatives to meet at the Cambridge Y.M.C.A. Monday, Oct 5, at 7:30 p.m. Registration for the 1959-60 season and election of officers will be the major tasks of the assembly.
The State Chess Assn. has its first Fall executive meeting tomorrow night. Major work of Travers and Co. is preparation for the Greater Boston tournament in late October. The Greater Boston h the descendant of the old Boston championship originated by Franklin Sanborn in 1934. That seems to make this year's event some sort of silver anniversary.
Department of amplification: The Dr. Julian Keilson-David Ames game (No. 251) was drawn under odd circumstances. White's 19th move (P-B5) was played with 19. … KPxP; 20. RxP, PxR; (with mate or mayhem to follow) in mind. However, Black's simple 20. … B-Q2 kills the line. Dr. Keilson saw this, of course, but not in time to save his pawn. Uncompensated for his pawn White had to play for time which was something Black had little of. The 40 move limit was reached just as Black's flag was teetering; the flag fell just before Ames could stop his clock. Because of the position and the technical nature of the time fault a gentlemanly draw was agreed upon.
The recent Zurich tournament produced a very low percentage of drawn games and B. H. Wood has produced the reason for this switch. Each player was awarded 60 Swiss francs for each game he won (apart from any prize) and his opponent the loser a consolation of S.Fr. 10. A draw gained the two players S.Fr. 25 each. A patron drew Unzicker's name from a hat and then offered S.Fr. 100 for every win scored against Unzicker and S.Fr. 50 for every draw against him. The offer was made in the best of good humor and, if anything, it helped Unzicker for it tended to make his opponents overreach themselves. Bhend, for example, could have drawn easily and pocketed S.Fr. 75; he tried to win and gain S.Fr. 160 but failed and so got only S.Fr. 10. Kuper went off the rails in similar fashion.
David Ames, Quincy, won this much-praised game from Dr. Joseph Platz, Hartford, in the fourth round of the New England tournament.
David Ames (white) vs. Dr. Joseph Platz (black)
King's Indian Attack: Sicilian Variation
C. S. Jacobs, Winchester, USCF master emeritus, will conduct his chess classes once again at the Boston Center for Adult Education, 5 Commonwealth Av. Jacobs turned out some sprightly prospects last year.
