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World of Chess - Tourney Passes Half-Way Mark 20 Oct 1956, Sat Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
World of Chess
Tourney Passes Half-Way Mark
By T. M. Cherrington
The third annual Lessing J. Rosenwald Trophy tournament has passed the half-way point. Invited to compete were 12 leading players: Sam Reshevsky, Sidney Bernstein, Donald Byrne, Arthur Feuerstein, Bobby Fischer, I. A. Horowitz, Edmar Mednis, Max Pavey, Herbert Seidman, and Eliot Hearst. The referee is Hans Kmoch.
Reshevsky's penchant for consuming most of his time in profound analysis of the opening tripped him in his first game with Donald Byrne.
He is capable of swift and accurate play in the middle game, but in this instance he lost while playing Black in a Benoni-Indian his clock ran out on the 38th move in a complicated ending.
Tourney Hosts
Hosts for the important tourney are the Marshall and Manhattan Chess Clubs.
Moscow is the scene of the Alekhine Memorial tournament scheduled to end Nov. 10. The 20 entrants include World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik and Grand Masters Bronstein, Keres, Smyslov, Taimanov, Dr. Euwe, Szabo and Stahlberg.
The match between Botvinnik and Smyslov will start in March. Salo Flohr will second the title-holder while Lilienthal will back the challenger.
Grand Masters
The Federation Internationale des Echecs recognized as grand masters Isaac Kashdan, of Los Angeles, W. Unzicker, of West Germany, L. Pachman, of Czechoslovakia, and George Stoltz, of Sweden.
Dr. Fedir Bohatyrchuk, of Ottawa, Canada, was dubbed a master.
Because Gennadi Popov, second secretary of the Soviet Embassy, proselyted for spy talent in the Ottawa Chess Club, the executive committee of the Civil Service Recreational Association, which runs the club, has voted to bar foreign diplomats. Popov offered $5,000 to J. S. Staples for information on the CF-105 jet interceptor.
The election of oppositionist Gutherie McClain as a vice president of the U.S. Chess Federation has not brought harmony to the organization. Editor Montgomery Major, of Chess Life, Federation fortnightly, who is resigning as of the New Year, speaks of “blades in the back.” Nevertheless we feel that tensions are relaxing.
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, World of Chess by T. M. Cherrington Number 154. White to play and...
Posted by Chess Problems on Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Number 154.
White to play and mate three.
FEN 8/8/1Q6/1pP5/k7/8/K7/8 w - - 0 1
Solution: Q-KR6;
1. Qh6 Kb4 2. Qc1 Ka5 3. Qa3#
1. Qh6 Ka5 2. Kb3 b4 3. Qb6#
1. Qh6 b4 2. Qa6#
