December 20, 1959 Chess Chats by George Koltanowski, Press-Democrat, Santa Rosa, California

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Chess Chats 20 Dec 1959, Sun The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California) Newspapers.com

Chess Chats by George Koltanowski
International Chess Master

The Press Democrat Chess Chats by George Koltanowski, Sunday, December 20, 1959, Santa Rosa, California Problem No....

Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Friday, April 29, 2022

Problem No. 211
White to play and mate in two moves.
FEN 8/2Np4/6N1/1p1rpkBK/1q5p/5P1P/7Q/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Qa2 Rd4 2. Qf7#

One of the Texans who attended the Mississippi-Louisiana Open in Natchez, Miss., early this spring, relates the following story:
At the end of the second round the tournament director was making arrangements to have a number of games adjudicated. Upon arriving at the table where a fine southern gentleman, John R. Poole, was playing, he informed John and his opponent that each should select someone to act as judge in their behalf at the adjudication.

Where To Go
The southern gentleman immediately posed this question to the director: “Who shall Ah select?”
“Look around and find one of your friends,” the director replied.
John very slowly looked over the room full of chess players, turned to the director and remarked: “Ah can't — everywhere Ah looks is enemies!”

One of a number of rapid transit blindfold games at 10 seconds a play recently at Kansas City, Mo.

George Koltanowski (white) vs. NN (black)
French Defense: Exchange Variation

Descriptive 1. P-K4 P-K3 2. P-Q4 P-Q4 3. PxP PxP 4. B-Q3 N-KB3 5. N-K2 B-Q3 6. B-KB4 O-O 7. O-O B-K3 8. N-Q2 BxB 9. NxB QN-Q2 10. NxB PxN 11. P-KB4 P-B3 12. P-B3 Q-K2 13. Q-K2 P-QR3 14. QR-K1 KR-K1 15. N-B3 N-N5 16. P-KR3 N(5)-B3 17. N-K5 NxN 18. BPxN N-Q2 19. Q-N4 RxRch 20. RxR P-KN3 21. BxNP PxB 22. QxNPch K-R1 23. R-B7 Resigns

Algebraic 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Bd3 Nf6 5. Ne2 Bd6 6. Bf4 0-0 7. 0-0 Be6 8. Nd2 Bxf4 9. Nxf4 Nbd7 10. Nxe6 fxe6 11. f4 c6 12. c3 Qe7 13. Qe2 a6 14. Re1 Re8 15. Nf3 Ng4 16. h3 Nf6 17. Ne5 Nxe5 18. fxe5 Nd7 19. Qg4 Rxf1+ 20. Rxf1 g6 21. Bxg6 hxg6 22. Qxg6+ Kh8 23. Rf7 1-0

(a) Better Is 7. … B-KN5.
(b) This holds the King's pawn and now it's a matter of getting the pieces placed right to take advantage of Black's backward pawn!
(c) With 16. BxPch KxB; 17. N-N5ch K-Nl; 18. QxN, White win easy.
(d) Better is 20. … R-KB1 or 20. … N-B1.
(e) If 21. … Q-N2; 22. BxRPch KxB; 23. Q-R5ch K-N1; 24. QxRch, etc.

Played in the Southern Chess Tournament at Atlanta, 1944.

M. Southward (white) vs. William Nicoll Woodbury (black)
English Opening: King's English Variation, Two Knights Variation

Descriptive 1. P-QB4 P-K4 2. N-QB3 N-KB3 3. P-K3 P-Q4 4. N-KB3 P-K5 5. N-Q4 P-QB4 6. N-B2 P-Q5 7. N-N1 B-KN5 8. P-B3 PxKBP 9. PxKBP N-K5 10. P-KR4 B-Q3 11. PxP B-N6ch Resigns

Algebraic 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. e3 d5 4. Nf3 e4 5. Nd4 c5 6. Nc2 d4 7. Nb1 Bg4 8. f3 exf3 9. gxf3 Ne4 10. h4 Bd6 11. exd4 Bg3+ 0-1

(a) Better is P-Q4.
(b) Oh, mama!