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Chess by Herman Steiner 26 Jul 1936, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
The Los Angeles Times, Chess by Herman Steiner, International Chess Master, July 26, 1936, Los Angeles, California ....
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L. A. Times Problem No. 689
Composed for the Los Angeles Times by Ira Alexander, Los Angeles, Cal.
White mates in two.
FEN 2rn4/8/4p2r/4P3/1Np1K1pN/b1P1p1P1/BR1pkp1R/7Q w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Nc2 Bxb2 2. Nd4#
The Los Angeles Times, Chess by Herman Steiner, International Chess Master, July 26, 1936, Los Angeles, California L....
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L. A. Times Problem No. 690
Composed for the Los Angeles Times by James Stichka, Jr., Ontario, Cal.
White mates in three.
FEN 3B4/pR4p1/P2K2P1/8/2p1p3/3k4/6R1/3B4 w - - 0 1
Solution: 1. Rd7 Ke3 2. Ke5 c3 3. Bg5#
Radio To Carry Chess Matches 11 Jul 1936, Sat The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaii) Newspapers.com
Hawaii Draws With Hollywood In First Overseas Chess Bout
by Henry MacMahon
Flashing moves for distances aggregating far more than the astronomical mileage to the moon, Hollywood Chess Club of Southern California and Hawaii Army Chess Club of Territory of Hawaii, tangled in a six-hour draw match Sunday evening and Monday morning. The score:
Board One, Hollywood C.C. … 0
57 Moves (Griffith-MacMahon)
Board One, Hawaii Army C.C. … 1
(Sgt. Huth-Macconel)
Board Two, Hollywood C.C. … 1
18 Moves (Johnson-Chern)
Board Two, Hawaii Army C.C. … 0
(Saarela-Roberts)
Contestants sat at identical boards 2500 miles apart, the Hollywooders at 4421 West Sixty-third street, Los Angeles, and the Hawaii team at Schofield Barracks, T. H., twenty six miles inland from Honolulu.
Transmission was practically instantaneous. At this end Detective-Lieutenant Donald M. Draper, operating station W6GXM, generously gave the use of his home and his short-wave broadcasting to the Southern Californians, whilst at Schofield Barracks a United States Army operator received and transmitted. Both these men used the Morse code, the service proving fully as efficient as in commercial telegraphs.
For the first time an over-the-Pacific chess match was being played by wireless. Connection was made at 7:30 and continued uninterruptedly to 1:30 (5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Hawaii time.)
At Board One the Griffith-MacMahon pair undertook a Ruy Lopez. Huth and Macconel who had the Black pieces countered with the Steinitz Defense. At Move 7 White got away from the books by playing BxN. Black won a pawn; White recovered it strongly, but missed the footing on the nineteenth turn, essaying QR-K instead of R-N. This lost the game, albeit it took nearly forty moves to demonstrate it.
On Board Two, Hawaii as White (Messrs. Saarela and Roberts) offered an Evans Gambit which Hollywood accepted. Black, played by President Johnson and Secretary Chern of the Hollywood Club, rapidly acquired superiority in pawns and position, and after the eighteenth turn Hawaii capitulated.
The officers of the meet were Herman Steiner, chief umpire, and Albert C. Simonson, referee.
Arrangements of the match were made by North American Correspondence Chess League, 9441 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, which has stirred up a lively chess interest twist America and her island possession.
It is probable that there will be another match in the fall to determine the supremacy, also matches are being projected between Mexico and the South American countries.
It is a great tribute to the short-wave perfection that not a single error or confusion of moving occurred in the entire six hours. It means practically that any chessist can play with any other elsewhere on the planet, provided, of course, that the equipments are strong and the operators competent.
Appended are the scores of the two games played in the match, Hollywood vs. Hawaii:
Dr. Robert B. Griffith/Henry MacMahon vs. James L. Huth/Robert L. Macconel (black)
Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Closed Wolf Variation
Toivo I. Saarela/Griffith T. Roberts (white) vs. Le Roy Johnson and Adolph Chern (black)
Italian Game: Evans Gambit
Success in the following closely contested game in the final round enabled Weaver W. Adams of Boston, playing in Group B, at the Marshall Chess Club, New York City, to qualify for the United States championship finals.
Weaver W. Adams (white) vs. John William Brunnemer (black)
Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid
Appended are the scores of two games played in the recent international tournament at Dresden:
Paul Keres vs Gideon Stahlberg
Dresden (1936), Dresden GER, rd 1, Jun-07
French Defense: Advance Variation. Nimzowitsch System (C02) 0-1
Ludwig Engels vs Efim Bogoljubov
Dresden (1936), Dresden GER, rd 1, Jun-07
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical. Berlin Variation (E38) 0-1
