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Chess 17 Apr 1932, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
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The Morning Call's Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, Positions in End Games and News Items Will Be Welcomed W. H. STECKEL. Editor Isaac Kashdan, America's most promising '"hope" of annexing the chess championship of the world will give a simultaneous exhibition in ;he lobby of the Allentown Y. M. C A on the evening of Friday, May 13. Mr. Kashdan will tafce on all comers, no limit being set to the number of players he will play against, and it is expected that all of the best local players as well as several out-of-town experts are to be present and offer desperate and determined resistance against this chess master's genius. Chess players can rest a3sured that they will be entertained by the greatest American player since Harry Ptlls-bury astounded the chess world with his simultaneous and blindfold exhibitions. We will not dwell on Mr. Kashdan's past record for the readers of this column are too well acquainted with his past history through consistent publicity in this and other papers. Chess fans will also remember ri3 remarkable record on February a year ago in this city. Playing against 29 ocDonents he won 27, lost one and drew one. To make this exhibition more at tractive. Drizes will be given to all those who should win or draw their eames against this young master Tickets are on sale at the locrl Y. M. C. A. Out of city districts are taken care of by H. Martz, Macungie; P. Albrecht, Bethlehem; Parke Ulnch Palmerton: R. Smith, Northampton; C. Clark, Easton, and A. Weiss, Naz areth. According to word received from Norman T. Whitaker, the public will be elad to hear that this rrentiernan and another chess enthusiast have been collecting Rook and Pawn erfd inc3 to nut into book form. Little has been written in English on this r.if ficult though very common ending A book proposed and published such as this will be a big help even to the experts as well as to premature players. The final results of the Bethlehem Chess club has recently been received. The standing follows- H V. Hesse. 10-1; P. t Albrecht, 8-3; C. C. Schmidt. 7-3i; R. Reidelbach. 7-4; E. L. Schroonover, 6l'.-41i; W. Shuler. 6-4; Mrs. M. Brill, 5-6; W. F. Kemmerer, 4!-'-6': M. Panebeanco, 4-7; W. Brill, 2-9; J. L. Bowker. 0-11.
According to custom the men placing one two and three in the annual tcrj-naments of this club must plr..' a double round to decide the winner. In the forthcoming team ma' th; Allentown players made up of between 50 and 60 men will travel to Reading on this coming Thursday evening, April 21, to match their wits against the boys from the powerful Readies Chess club. All local players will inset at the Y. M. C. A. by 6:50 on said evening. There will De enough machines for transportation. According to word received from R. S. Goerlich, president of the Pennsylvania State Chess association, he i tates that H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem, has won the brilliancy prize in the 1932 state tourney against S. rrasin, Philadelphia. The standing in the touroamc.-t of the Castle Chess club of Allentow i is as follows: Group A: Foley, 2-0; Rockel. 1-1; Godfrey. 1-2: Hodgson, 1-2. Group B: Sterner, 1-0; Miller, 1-1; Snyder, 1-2; Babyjian, 0-0. The match between Salo Flohr and Dr. Max Euwe stands at two games each, with four games drawn.
Results so far in the Metropolitan Chess League still find the champion Marshalls and the Manhattan Chess ;lub tied for the lead with nine rtraight victories apiece. The ninth I round scores: Marshalls, 6',i; Stcten Island, l'i; Rice-Progressives, 6, N. Y. U., 2; Hungarian Workers, Gram- ercy, 2.i (two games unnnisnciu; West Side Y. M. C. A., 4. Scandma vians, 3 (one game adjourned) George KoltanowskL of Belgium. who already holds the world s record for thirty simultaneous bl-ndfold games, has now also won for himself the simultaneous world's reccr'' for games played with the sight cf the board. The Belgian star recently met 160 players at a single sitting, which last ed eleven hours.
He won 135, drew 18 and lost but seven games, thus ecl.nr-ing the previous record of 155 games made by Frank J. Marshall, the Unired States champion. The first of a series of weekly (Saturday afternoon) rapid transit tournaments was held on April 9, with the editor gaining first place after playing off the tie with C Geary. lhe standing follows: W. H. Steckel, 5Vfc- C. Geary. 5U-1: W. Lumsden, 5-2: A. Herrmann. 44-2'2; W. E'iu!er, 3-4: C. Koch. 3-4; E. Foley, R. Rockel, 1-6. In a simultaneous exhibition given at the Bridgeport Chess club William E. Napier, former Br:tish ch.mpion, made a clean score against sixteen opponents. The following game is the fourteenth of a fifteen game match between H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem, and the editor. The score is now 7.i tc 61i in Mr. Hesse's favor- Queen's Gambit Declined w. m. n. v. Steckel Htsse Ailen'n Bethle'm White Black and last cam' of this match will be played in Allentown. w. h. h v. Steckel Hesse Allen'n Bethle m VVhtte Black 1 P-Q4 Kt-KB3 2 P-QB4 - P-K3 3 Kt-QB3 P-Q4 4 B-Kt5 QKt-Q2 5 P-K3 P-B3 6 Kt-B3 B-K2 7 R-B Castles 8 B-Q3 PxP 9 BxP Kt-Q4 10 BxB QxB 11 Kt-K4 KKt-B3 12 Kt-Kt3 Q-KtSch 13 Q-Q2 QxQch 14 KxQ R-Q 15 KR-Q P-QPU3 NOTE: The next PROBLEM NO. 144 Prize Problem No. 3 By Sam Lloyd Black 2 Pieces J jfjpj ti4 Ikw 3D IS m I'M VJ WJt mi sal m m W m h ' tuuk mm 4 I White 4 Pieces White to play and mate In three. Correct solutions received to Prize Problem No. 1 are E. Garnet, H. V. Hesse, H. Peters, R. Fatzinger, E. Gardner and A. Guerber. Q-KTsq solves Problem No. 1. Quite a fe sent in Q-Ksq as a solution.
PxB makes this Incorrect. Solution to the above problem must be at the "Call" office one week after publication.
According to custom the men placing one two and three in the annual tcrj-naments of this club must plr..' a double round to decide the winner. In the forthcoming team ma' th; Allentown players made up of between 50 and 60 men will travel to Reading on this coming Thursday evening, April 21, to match their wits against the boys from the powerful Readies Chess club. All local players will inset at the Y. M. C. A. by 6:50 on said evening. There will De enough machines for transportation. According to word received from R. S. Goerlich, president of the Pennsylvania State Chess association, he i tates that H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem, has won the brilliancy prize in the 1932 state tourney against S. rrasin, Philadelphia. The standing in the touroamc.-t of the Castle Chess club of Allentow i is as follows: Group A: Foley, 2-0; Rockel. 1-1; Godfrey. 1-2: Hodgson, 1-2. Group B: Sterner, 1-0; Miller, 1-1; Snyder, 1-2; Babyjian, 0-0. The match between Salo Flohr and Dr. Max Euwe stands at two games each, with four games drawn.
Results so far in the Metropolitan Chess League still find the champion Marshalls and the Manhattan Chess ;lub tied for the lead with nine rtraight victories apiece. The ninth I round scores: Marshalls, 6',i; Stcten Island, l'i; Rice-Progressives, 6, N. Y. U., 2; Hungarian Workers, Gram- ercy, 2.i (two games unnnisnciu; West Side Y. M. C. A., 4. Scandma vians, 3 (one game adjourned) George KoltanowskL of Belgium. who already holds the world s record for thirty simultaneous bl-ndfold games, has now also won for himself the simultaneous world's reccr'' for games played with the sight cf the board. The Belgian star recently met 160 players at a single sitting, which last ed eleven hours.
He won 135, drew 18 and lost but seven games, thus ecl.nr-ing the previous record of 155 games made by Frank J. Marshall, the Unired States champion. The first of a series of weekly (Saturday afternoon) rapid transit tournaments was held on April 9, with the editor gaining first place after playing off the tie with C Geary. lhe standing follows: W. H. Steckel, 5Vfc- C. Geary. 5U-1: W. Lumsden, 5-2: A. Herrmann. 44-2'2; W. E'iu!er, 3-4: C. Koch. 3-4; E. Foley, R. Rockel, 1-6. In a simultaneous exhibition given at the Bridgeport Chess club William E. Napier, former Br:tish ch.mpion, made a clean score against sixteen opponents. The following game is the fourteenth of a fifteen game match between H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem, and the editor. The score is now 7.i tc 61i in Mr. Hesse's favor- Queen's Gambit Declined w. m. n. v. Steckel Htsse Ailen'n Bethle'm White Black and last cam' of this match will be played in Allentown. w. h. h v. Steckel Hesse Allen'n Bethle m VVhtte Black 1 P-Q4 Kt-KB3 2 P-QB4 - P-K3 3 Kt-QB3 P-Q4 4 B-Kt5 QKt-Q2 5 P-K3 P-B3 6 Kt-B3 B-K2 7 R-B Castles 8 B-Q3 PxP 9 BxP Kt-Q4 10 BxB QxB 11 Kt-K4 KKt-B3 12 Kt-Kt3 Q-KtSch 13 Q-Q2 QxQch 14 KxQ R-Q 15 KR-Q P-QPU3 NOTE: The next PROBLEM NO. 144 Prize Problem No. 3 By Sam Lloyd Black 2 Pieces J jfjpj ti4 Ikw 3D IS m I'M VJ WJt mi sal m m W m h ' tuuk mm 4 I White 4 Pieces White to play and mate In three. Correct solutions received to Prize Problem No. 1 are E. Garnet, H. V. Hesse, H. Peters, R. Fatzinger, E. Gardner and A. Guerber. Q-KTsq solves Problem No. 1. Quite a fe sent in Q-Ksq as a solution.
PxB makes this Incorrect. Solution to the above problem must be at the "Call" office one week after publication.
