January 18, 1959 Chess by Blake Stevens Express and News, San Antonio, Texas

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Championship Chess 18 Jan 1959, Sun Express and News (San Antonio, Texas) Newspapers.com

Championship Chess
Blake Stevens
Texas State Champion
Joel S. Quinones, a member of the San Antonio Chess Club, displayed his skill in his encounter with Chess Master George Koltanowski, and demonstrated that when he is in form he is a dangerous adversary.
The opening selected by Koltanowski, a Queen's Pawn Game, drifts into unknown channels early (about move 6). Then a Colle System evolves in which White's Queen Bishop Pawn has been overadvanced to QB4 (instead of QB3) and the Queen is misplaced on QN3. This is a case of striving for too much, which reacts in Black's favor.
This game caused “Kolty” to ponder each move for a considerable length of time, and all the other players who participated in the simultaneous exhibition were able to devote a few more precious seconds to their own games.

George Koltanowski (white) vs. Joel S. Quinones (black)

Unresolved Chess Game: Can you solve it?

Descriptive 1. P-Q4 P-Q4 2. N-RB3 N-KB3 3. P-K3 B-N5 4. P-QR4 P-B3 5. Q-N3 Q-B2 6. N-K5 P-K3 7. N-QB3 B-Q3 8. NxB NxN 9. P-KR3 N-KB3 10. B-Q3 O-O 11. O-O QB-Q2 12. P-K4 QP-KP 13. NxP NxP 14. BxN N-R3 15. B-B2 N-R3 16. B-N5 P-QN3 17. KR-N B-K2 18. R-R4? P-KR3 19. R-N3 Q-B5! 20. QR-?? QxQP 21. P-QR3 Q-B5 22. B-Q3 P-QN4 23. BxP PxP 24. Q-B2 Q-N3 25. R-K5 QR-Q1 26. RxR QRxR 27. RxR BxR 1/2-1/2

Algebraic 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 Bg4 4. a4 c6

1. Yielding the Two Bishops for development.
2. 17. QR-Q1! so as to answer 17. … P-KR3 with 18. B-QB1 and keep the attacking possibilities very much open.
3. Black keeps White busy with no chance to think of going over to a Kingside assault.
4. It could be a long, tedious win for Black, but the Two Bishops make the win negligible.

In the next game Mr. Quinones plays the opening indifferently and quickly gets an inferior game. Then his opponent makes an error, but his error — his single error — is greater than the sum total of minor inaccuracies committed by Quinones, which tilts the balance past the equal line. Now another weak move would probably swing it back again. This time Quinones plays the correct move (19) and from then on does not let up, each move mercilessly precise.

Unresolved Chess Game: Can you solve it?

J. S. Quinones (white) vs. C. Villareal (black)

Descriptive 1. P-Q4 N-KB3 2. P-QR4 P-QB4 3. N-QB3 PxP 4. QxP N-QB3 5. Q-Q1 P-R3 6. P-K4 B-N5 7. B-KN5 P-R3 8. B-R4 P-KN4 9. B-N3 NxKP 10. R-B3 Q-B3 11. KN-K2 P-QN3 12. P-QR3 NxB 13. RPxN B-B4 14. P-B3 B-N2 15. Q-B2 B-K6 16. N-K4 Q-K4 17. R-Q1 P-Q4 18. PxP PxP 19. RxQP4 Q-K3 20. RxQ6 Q-B7 21. N(2)-B3! Q-R8ch 23. R-Q1 N-Q5 24. BxNPch Resigns

Algebraic 1. d4 Nf6 2. a4 c5 3. Nc3 cxd4 4. Qxd4 Nc6 5. Qd1 h6 6. e4

1. 3. P-Q5 retains slight advantage whereas the move played relinquishes all of it.
2. 2.Weak, setting up a target for Black. 6. P-K3 B-N5; 7. KN-K2 is better. After 19. RxQP Black can not capture because of the Knight fork.

Holding Back
On checking results of the Hastings tournament we find that neither Tahl nor Olafsson played, only the minor masters Uhlmann, Darga, Duckstein, Wade, Barden, and a few others participated.
The main reason the stronger players declined to play is probably due in part to the fact that they did not want to reveal their latest opening stratagems, preferring to save them for the all important Candidate's Tournament.
This is not the case with Bobby Fischer. He is in the midst of the U.S. National Championship, and going strong. With two rounds remaining, he is leading such notables as Reshevsky, Bisguier, Evans, Lombardy, Donald and Robert Byrne, Sherwin, Mednis, and Benko. And he is only 15! Surely a future world champion!