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"IT'S YOUR MOVE" The Morning Call's Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, Positions in End Games and News Items Will Be Welcomed TO. H. STECKEL, Editor Chess Congress for California Californians, who have taken upon themselves the considerable task of holding a chess congress on as national a scale as the distances from the great chess centers of the East and Middle West will permit, are busy with ' the preparations which will culminate in a meeting scheduled for August 15 to 29 at the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena. A tournament for masters in which F. J. Marshall, Isaac J. Kashdan, Samuel Reshefsky and Arthur W.. Dake . among others., are expected to compete, will be the out standing ieature on tne program. Canada and Mexico .nave inquired concerning a proposed amateur team tournament to be international in scope, as well as intersectional insofar as the United States is concerned. Far Western sections will be represented by teams from lnter-mountain states, the Pacific Northwest, San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles. (New York Sun) The standing of the teams in the Metropolitan Chess League are as follows: Marshalls, 7-0: Manhattans, 7-0; Hungarian Workers, 5-lV3: Empire City, 5-2; Gramercy, 5-2; Rice-Progressives, 2'4-3; West Side, 24-3; City College, 2-4; Staten Island, 2-4; Hungarian Internationals, 6: Scandinavians, -6: New York University, 0-7. H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem, Pa., well known in . this section for his prowess in chess, gave a simultaneous chess exhibition in the lobby of the local Y. M. C. A. on Friday evening. Results of this exhibition will be given in our next Sunday s issue. After receiving favorable nments on the game (Hesse-Dra;....), published last Sunday, we are giving in this issue the defeat in the semi-final round of S. Sharp by the Bethlehem champion, H. V. see how White can accomplish anything.. Starting with this issue a series of sixteen problems (one eaeh Sunday) will be given to the chess fans to solve. To the winner or to the one who finds the most correct solutions to these problems will receive a year's subscription for the American Chess Bulletin. In case of any tie, a set of problems will be given- to the ones that are tied, this will of course mean an elimination, thus deciding the winner. Solutions of problems must be sent to the Morning Call, addressed to the Chess Editor not later than one week after publication.
Acknowledgement of correct solutions will be published two weeks after publication. No. 142 By G. HEATHCOTE Black, 12 Pieces White, 8 Pieces White mates in three moves.
Acknowledgement of correct solutions will be published two weeks after publication. No. 142 By G. HEATHCOTE Black, 12 Pieces White, 8 Pieces White mates in three moves.