March 14, 1937 Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner

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Chess by Herman Steiner 14 Mar 1937, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com

L. A. Times Problem No. 755
By P. H. Klett
White mates in two.
FEN 8/6p1/4P1P1/4KpPk/6Nb/3B4/5P2/2Q4R w - - 0 1
Solution: ?? PxP e.p.; ??

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L. A. Times Problem No. 756
Composed for the Los Angeles Times by Percy Bowater, Pasadena, California
White mates in three.
FEN 8/1bp1K3/2N5/P2N4/2kP4/p3PB2/2P5/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: B-K4;
1. Be4 Bxc6 2. Bd3+ Kxd5 3. c4#
1. Be4 Kb5 2. Nd3+ Ka4 3. Nc3#
1. Be4 a2 2. Bd3+ Kxd5 3. Nb4#

Shortly after the conclusion of the Hastings tournament, Birmingham, England, was the scene of a minor tournament in which the chief foreign competitors were the Austrian Eliskases, the Dutch Prins, the Belgian Koltanowski and the Russian Znosko-Borowski. Premier honors were shared by Eliskases and Prins, whose individual encounter appears below. Winter was third, with Koltanowski fourth.

Erich Eliskases (white) vs. Lodewijk Prins (black)
Grünfeld Defense: Three Knights Variation, Hungarian Variation

Descriptive 1. P-Q4 N-KB3 2. P-QB4 P-KN3 3. N-QB3 P-Q4 4. B-B4 B-N2 5. P-K3 O-O 6. N-B3 N-B3 7. B-K2 PxP 8. KBxP QN-R4 9. B-K2 B-K3 10. P-KR3 P-B4 11. O-O PxP 12. NxP B-B5 13. P-QN4 BxB 14. QxB N-R4 15. B-R2 R-B 16. QR-B N-B3 17. NxN RxN 18. KR-Q Q-B 19. N-Q5 B-B3 20. RxR QxR 21. P-N4 N-N2 22. P-K4 Q-R5 23. B-N3 N-K3 24. P-K5 B-N2 25. B-R4 P-KN4 26. B-N3 K-R 27. P-R4 R-Q 28. PxP NxP 29. K-R2 Q-B3 30. NxP N-B6ch 31. QxN QxQ 32. RxRch B-B 33. RxBch K-N2 34. R-N8ch K-R3 35. N-B5ch Resigns

Algebraic 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4 Bg7 5. e3 0-0 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be2 dxc4 8. Bxc4 Na5 9. Be2 Be6 10. h3 c5 11. 0-0 cxd4 12. Nxd4 Bc4 13. b4 Bxe2 14. Qxe2 Nh5 15. Bh2 Rc8 16. Rc1 Nc6 17. Nxc6 Rxc6 18. Rd1 Qc8 19. Nd5 Bf6 20. Rxc6 Qxc6 21. g4 Ng7 22. e4 Qa4 23. Bg3 Ne6 24. e5 Bg7 25. Bh4 g5 26. Bg3 Kh8 27. h4 Rd8 28. hxg5 Nxg5 29. Kh2 Qc6 30. Nxe7 Nf3+ 31. Qxf3 Qxf3 32. Rxd8+ Bf8 33. Rxf8+ Kg7 34. Rg8+ Kh6 35. Nf5+ 1-0

An easy win by the third-prize winner in the Birmingham tournament.

William Winter vs Arthur Reynolds
Birmingham (1937), Birmingham ENG
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical. Noa Variation San Remo Variation (E37) 1-0

(a) Thus far play is identical with Feigin-Fine, Hastings, 1937, played a few days earlier. Feigin continued with 18. K-N4, and lost. At the time, Alekhine suggested 18. K-N3 as a probable win for White.

By defeating R. Spielmann, thirty years his senior, in a ten-game match at Semmering, with a score of 5½-4½, Erich Eliskases became officially recognized as Austrian champion. In addition to editing the Wiener Schachzeitung, probably the best German-language chess periodical, Eliskases is a frequent competitor in European tournaments. In England recently, at Hastings, he was third, and at Birmingham he tied for first with the Dutch Prins.
The game below, the seventh in the match, will especially interest club players, since the opening is rare in recent master play, but is often met in offhand contests.

Rudolf Spielmann vs Erich Eliskases
Spielmann - Eliskases (1936), Semmering AUT, rd 7, Dec-08
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense. Polerio Defense Goering Variation (C59) 0-1

Lajos Steiner vs Charles Gilbert Marriott Watson
Pietzcker tournament (1936), Melbourne, rd 1
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation. General (B70) 1-0

Two games from Hastings Xmas Congress (1936:)

Milan Vidmar vs Georges Koltanowski
Hastings (1936/37), Hastings ENG, rd 1, Dec-28
Gruenfeld Defense: Brinckmann Attack (D82) 1-0

William Winter vs Georges Koltanowski
Hastings (1936/37), Hastings ENG, rd 3, Dec-30
King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation. Deferred Fianchetto (E72) 1-0