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Chess 06 Apr 1932, Wed Mount Vernon Argus (White Plains, New York) Newspapers.com
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Your Move — ByPaul L. Cromelin
THE READERS GAME The readers games against the writer which we inaugurated last week with the move 1 P-K4 brought forth responses from two of the local supporters of Dame Caissa That more ballots were not cast may be laid to the fact that we omitted to state last week that all replies must be in by Monday in order to be accepted fortunately the two ballots cast were for the same move A split in opinion at this earliest stage of the game would have placed ‘ye editor” in a quandary Our readers call for 1P-K4 as their answer to our first move and to this we reply 2Kt-KB3’ What will Black’s second move be. Send in your vote for The Readers’ Move but be sure to have it in the office of The Daily Argus bv Monday The game so far is 1P-K4 P-K4 2Kt-KB3 pionship of the City of Mount Vernon We consider it one of the most interesting defeats that we have suffered in a considerable time and so have no'hesitancy in publishing it Mr Hecker has been a resilient of Mount Vernon for the past eight years but had no knowl edge of the Mount Vernon Chess Club until the City Championship brought it to his attention much to our discomfiture A number of years ago Mr Hecker was a member of the City College Chess Team and we understand intends to try for a position with the local warriors Our game was commenced last riday night at the Campbell House was adjourned while we removed to the McCready menage' and was there bitterly contested until 2:30 Saturday morning QUEEN’S GAMBIT DECLINED During the course of the past seven days rumors reached our ears that certain members of tno Mount Vernon High School Chess Club would campaign for votes in favor of the Sicilian Defense that yet another clique would strive for the Alekhine Defense.
However it must have been mere rumor since neithr of the two groups were heard from No doubt the aforementioned players will add weight of their science to that of the two reader-players who have already pitted themselves against us The voters for Black's first move were Dr B M Scfiolder and H Oram Smith The annual tournaments to-decide the Chess and Checker Cham pions of Mount Vernon were begun last Thursday at the Campbell House The play to decide the Checker Championship was completed on Thursday and Louis Davis last year's champion successfully defended his title By riday night the chess tournament was approaching the semifinal stage In the upper bracket Alexander Eolis is scheduled to meet Max Hacker who eliminated “ye editor” in the quarter-finals At this writing Ben McCready and Robert Reichert are engaged in a game which will decide the player to oppose Dr Blasi in the semifinals in the lower bracket Single game elimination play decided the players who enter the semi-finals but in this next to the last step( two out of three wins will name the finalists In the last step two out of three wins will decide the champion of the city Play will continue ' tomorrow night and riday at which time it is hoped that the champion will be named The regular session of the Chess Club will be held tomorrow also in spite of the tournament play which will be going on at the Campbell House Since there will be only two boards in play for the City Championship there will be ample space for the members of the club to continue with their Intra-Mural Tournament.
Appended Game The appended game is the one which eliminated your correspondent from the play for the Cham- M IN HACKER White CR0MEL1X Black bet move But I pointed out tp would win as follow: 25 27ILrQ-B7cli - X8 QxQJUQ K-K2 25 QxBrcbJ-Q3: 23 Q-K5uh and mates next move at QBS This move crowds the BlacK piefi more closely together than ever Bette would be Q-B for the exchange would favor Black If 20 Q-Q3 then 20 fa) The foundation 'of the attack against the Black King th) One nf the spectators afterwards said it is suicide to make this move in Hip position In spite of the loss of this game I disagree My mistakes lay in too defensive play ccmbined ’with a Queen Rifle attack which was too slow (r) Here I should have played - P-KKtS which Is considerably stronger since it allows the KH to aid the defense from KKt2 The loss of the game might he attribuifd Io the question put tc me here -Wlikh pawn? (cl Better would be -I’-Ki which prevents White from castling on his n d i ie certainly "White against both KtxBP KxKt 19 Q-KtfirhK-B 20 R-KRKtxKt 21 K-B3chB“B8 2 1 result a nt xchangM Niinp'Uv iiti pi -! u (e) Obviously not K-K because of KtxP mate ' (f)
At the conclusion of the play Dr Blasi pointed nut a win for Whits starting’ with KtxP Both of -us denied it and were backed up in the denla1 by the rest of the kibitzers Whereupon the n ii'i pioj Hacker and his QB followed by KR-QB which certainly cculd not be worse than tht actual play (h) The Queen side play is too slow Probably Q-K14 would be better here since it would in a measure delay the a(O most reniaikable position Two major White pieces are en prise esd nothing can b'1 done about it The ticn Is lost or my 26th move T seriously considered Q-B3 which I thought had possibilities of breaking up the mating attack for a loss of the ex- 1 PQ4 Kt-KB3 2 P-QB4 P-K3 3 R-Kt5 B-K2 4 Kt- QB ‘ 3 P-Q4 fi -RxKt 1 BxB 6 T-K3 P-B3 7 Kt-R3 Kt-Q2 K Q-B2(a) Castles (b) 9 B-Q3 H-KR3? (c) 10 P-KR4 R-K(d) 11 Castles QR PxP 12 BxP PQKU 13 B-Q3 Kf-Kt3 1 I P-KKT4 B-K2 15 P-R5 B-Q2 16 Kt-K5 Kt-Q4 M IIA KER I’ L ROM! White Black- 17 B-R7rh K-Bfe) IS KtxKt (f) BPxKt 19 K-Kt R-B(g) 20 Q-Q3 B-Q3 21 1’-KB4 BxKf 22 BPxR P-QR1(h) 23 QR-B' Q-Kta 21 Q-KI6! R-K2 25 R-B6! R-R2 26 P-Kt5! PxP() 27 -P-R6 K-K 28 J’xP K-Q 29 -'P-KtS-Qch B-K 30 QxKtP Q-Kt2 31 RxBP Q-B3 32 KxR Resigns. 29 BxRPxll: 111 rirR-K 3t Jt-Ktl and mate in twntwc wayg.
The Mount Vernon Public Library has added three more volumes to its present collection of literature on Chess They are: The Chess layers Compendium by William Cook a treatise on the openings Common Sense in Chess by Emanuel Lasker which consists of 12 talks on the game and Pitfalls of the Chess Board by E A Grieg which takes in all of the traps which await the unwary We understand that the Library is quite receptive to suggestions as to titles which may be of interest to the chess players of the vicinity.
THE READERS GAME The readers games against the writer which we inaugurated last week with the move 1 P-K4 brought forth responses from two of the local supporters of Dame Caissa That more ballots were not cast may be laid to the fact that we omitted to state last week that all replies must be in by Monday in order to be accepted fortunately the two ballots cast were for the same move A split in opinion at this earliest stage of the game would have placed ‘ye editor” in a quandary Our readers call for 1P-K4 as their answer to our first move and to this we reply 2Kt-KB3’ What will Black’s second move be. Send in your vote for The Readers’ Move but be sure to have it in the office of The Daily Argus bv Monday The game so far is 1P-K4 P-K4 2Kt-KB3 pionship of the City of Mount Vernon We consider it one of the most interesting defeats that we have suffered in a considerable time and so have no'hesitancy in publishing it Mr Hecker has been a resilient of Mount Vernon for the past eight years but had no knowl edge of the Mount Vernon Chess Club until the City Championship brought it to his attention much to our discomfiture A number of years ago Mr Hecker was a member of the City College Chess Team and we understand intends to try for a position with the local warriors Our game was commenced last riday night at the Campbell House was adjourned while we removed to the McCready menage' and was there bitterly contested until 2:30 Saturday morning QUEEN’S GAMBIT DECLINED During the course of the past seven days rumors reached our ears that certain members of tno Mount Vernon High School Chess Club would campaign for votes in favor of the Sicilian Defense that yet another clique would strive for the Alekhine Defense.
However it must have been mere rumor since neithr of the two groups were heard from No doubt the aforementioned players will add weight of their science to that of the two reader-players who have already pitted themselves against us The voters for Black's first move were Dr B M Scfiolder and H Oram Smith The annual tournaments to-decide the Chess and Checker Cham pions of Mount Vernon were begun last Thursday at the Campbell House The play to decide the Checker Championship was completed on Thursday and Louis Davis last year's champion successfully defended his title By riday night the chess tournament was approaching the semifinal stage In the upper bracket Alexander Eolis is scheduled to meet Max Hacker who eliminated “ye editor” in the quarter-finals At this writing Ben McCready and Robert Reichert are engaged in a game which will decide the player to oppose Dr Blasi in the semifinals in the lower bracket Single game elimination play decided the players who enter the semi-finals but in this next to the last step( two out of three wins will name the finalists In the last step two out of three wins will decide the champion of the city Play will continue ' tomorrow night and riday at which time it is hoped that the champion will be named The regular session of the Chess Club will be held tomorrow also in spite of the tournament play which will be going on at the Campbell House Since there will be only two boards in play for the City Championship there will be ample space for the members of the club to continue with their Intra-Mural Tournament.
Appended Game The appended game is the one which eliminated your correspondent from the play for the Cham- M IN HACKER White CR0MEL1X Black bet move But I pointed out tp would win as follow: 25 27ILrQ-B7cli - X8 QxQJUQ K-K2 25 QxBrcbJ-Q3: 23 Q-K5uh and mates next move at QBS This move crowds the BlacK piefi more closely together than ever Bette would be Q-B for the exchange would favor Black If 20 Q-Q3 then 20 fa) The foundation 'of the attack against the Black King th) One nf the spectators afterwards said it is suicide to make this move in Hip position In spite of the loss of this game I disagree My mistakes lay in too defensive play ccmbined ’with a Queen Rifle attack which was too slow (r) Here I should have played - P-KKtS which Is considerably stronger since it allows the KH to aid the defense from KKt2 The loss of the game might he attribuifd Io the question put tc me here -Wlikh pawn? (cl Better would be -I’-Ki which prevents White from castling on his n d i ie certainly "White against both KtxBP KxKt 19 Q-KtfirhK-B 20 R-KRKtxKt 21 K-B3chB“B8 2 1 result a nt xchangM Niinp'Uv iiti pi -! u (e) Obviously not K-K because of KtxP mate ' (f)
At the conclusion of the play Dr Blasi pointed nut a win for Whits starting’ with KtxP Both of -us denied it and were backed up in the denla1 by the rest of the kibitzers Whereupon the n ii'i pioj Hacker and his QB followed by KR-QB which certainly cculd not be worse than tht actual play (h) The Queen side play is too slow Probably Q-K14 would be better here since it would in a measure delay the a(O most reniaikable position Two major White pieces are en prise esd nothing can b'1 done about it The ticn Is lost or my 26th move T seriously considered Q-B3 which I thought had possibilities of breaking up the mating attack for a loss of the ex- 1 PQ4 Kt-KB3 2 P-QB4 P-K3 3 R-Kt5 B-K2 4 Kt- QB ‘ 3 P-Q4 fi -RxKt 1 BxB 6 T-K3 P-B3 7 Kt-R3 Kt-Q2 K Q-B2(a) Castles (b) 9 B-Q3 H-KR3? (c) 10 P-KR4 R-K(d) 11 Castles QR PxP 12 BxP PQKU 13 B-Q3 Kf-Kt3 1 I P-KKT4 B-K2 15 P-R5 B-Q2 16 Kt-K5 Kt-Q4 M IIA KER I’ L ROM! White Black- 17 B-R7rh K-Bfe) IS KtxKt (f) BPxKt 19 K-Kt R-B(g) 20 Q-Q3 B-Q3 21 1’-KB4 BxKf 22 BPxR P-QR1(h) 23 QR-B' Q-Kta 21 Q-KI6! R-K2 25 R-B6! R-R2 26 P-Kt5! PxP() 27 -P-R6 K-K 28 J’xP K-Q 29 -'P-KtS-Qch B-K 30 QxKtP Q-Kt2 31 RxBP Q-B3 32 KxR Resigns. 29 BxRPxll: 111 rirR-K 3t Jt-Ktl and mate in twntwc wayg.
The Mount Vernon Public Library has added three more volumes to its present collection of literature on Chess They are: The Chess layers Compendium by William Cook a treatise on the openings Common Sense in Chess by Emanuel Lasker which consists of 12 talks on the game and Pitfalls of the Chess Board by E A Grieg which takes in all of the traps which await the unwary We understand that the Library is quite receptive to suggestions as to titles which may be of interest to the chess players of the vicinity.
