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Chess 15 Aug 1937, Sun Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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BY PAUL J. MILLER. JR.. AMERICA'S AUTHORITY ON SOCIAL CHESS. Gen. Bogoljubov, Speed Are. ITH lightning rapidity 12 players tilted In a rapid transit tourney at the Social Chess Lounge, averaging less than 10 seconds to the move, and Gen. Basil Bogoljubov, at one time in high command of the Siberian Army of the former Czar of Russia, marshaled his mimic soldiers of wood with the coolness of a veteran, to sweep triumphantly over the entire field without the loss of a single game. That chess is comparable to actual warfare is dogma. Great generals—Napoleon, Washington, Charlemagne—found unlimited pleasure in the bloodless war of the chessboard.
Gen. Bogoljubov delights in tackling the best that frequent the Social Chess Lounge and daily over-the-board practice sharpens the eye, whets the imagination, invigorates the mind so that victory In tournament play is a natural sequence. Robert Feeney opposed the general in the play-off for lightning honors. In midgame Robert forced an exchange of rooks, leaving himself with only two pawns and a king, while his adversary was the stronger by a pawn, which decided the course of the contest in short order. Individual scoring by sections: Section A.
W L G. B. Jones _ 4* 3 E. E. Williams_ 2 3 W. E. Bryant _ 2 3 R. J Feeney _ A <> P. Miller 2 •:* A. W. Whittaker_ 0 5 •—Forfeit. Section B. W. L. Gen. Bosoljubov_ 5 0 V. Sa porno _ 2 .‘t R. Hostler _ 4 3 N. Wigginton _ J 3Va M. McPherson _ O 5 L. W. Ferria .. .. 2‘a 2'^ In the bleachers enjoying the 10second fracas were Mrs. Pearl Spicknail, Dr. Tucker, Mrs. E. E. Williams, Robert Zachary, Harry Petty, Edith Johnson and William Reynolds, sr. Simon Naidel, tournament director, announces casual play for this Wednesday at the meeting of the Washington Social Chess Divan.
Five-man teams within the divan are being organized by Norvel Wigginton, assistant chess director. These teams will vie with each other for ranking in anticipation of the Fall open-team tournament for the District, conducted by the Metropolitan Chess Association. Scot Becomes British Champ. Yy. A. FAIRHURST of Glasgow, No. 1 chess player of Scotland, at the thirtieth annual congress of the British Chess Federation, held at the Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, succeeded | to the: British crown relinquished by | Williajn Winter, who failed to defend i hi.s tine in the recent congress. Sir George Thomas was runner-up | and H. E. Atkins.
H. Golombek and T. i H. Tylor tied for third, fourth and fifth place honors. Over 130 players entered the B. C. F. tourney, but the championship section embraced only a dozen picked playen. How the champion played Is illustrated with notes from the August issue of the British Chess Magazine. QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING.
while for the next few moves -, PxP or -, P-K.% is advisable. lei To guard against PxP and Kt-Q6. (fi White has the advantage of two good bishops. (gi Black must not attempt to exchange both rooks bv QR-Qt. etc., since Q-Kt'.l afterward would tie Black's queen to the first rank, and two bishops would soon win.
and rook would soon be in trouble. m White spent a long time examining -« RxKt BxR P-Q.VF BxB and obtains two rooks for the queen. *.11 It —-— B-B.'t. White has a brilliant queen sacrifice with 3(1 B-QR-f.
Kt-BKch; 1 -'ll PxKt, BxQ: .*17 BxB i threatening KR-Kli. QR-KI (or A); 33 RxR RxR: 34 B mates. tA) --, P-KKt4: 33 R-KU! and mates. 'kI If-. R-KKlt: 33 R-Q5.
PxR: 34 QxP ch. etc. Hi A particularly fine game by Fairhurst. Instructional Chess Lectures. ‘'WHAT EVERY BEGINNER f SHOULD KNOW" is the title! of the instructional lecture to be ‘ featured tomorrow evening a 8 o'clock at the Parkside Hotel, 1336 I street northwest, by Prof. Paul Mailer, chess editor of The Washington Star. Monday's lecture will be of especial Interest to beginners and would-be beginners at chess. The instructional lecture is the first to be delivered by Prof. Miller this Summer. Tuesday a second lecture, "What Every Beginner Doesn't Know.” is booked at the same hour and place.
Wednesday a third lecture, "How to Become a First-Class Tyro In the Shortest Period of Time," together with an educational display of chess miscellanies will be the entertainment. The public is welcome. Admission is 50 cents, or the series for $1. All monies received go toward advancing the cause of social chess within the District. If you would like to get an accurate and quick understanding of chess, these lectures will give you an infinite amount of information.
Women will find the lectures especially Instructive, for the queen is the most powerful of all the chess pieces. Chess Problem No. 91. B* K HAN NEAT ANN First Prjre. Weenink Memorial Tournament.
(Courtesy. Chess Review.)
While to Play and Mate in Three. JiROBLEM No. 90 responds to the correct key: P-K3. Come solutions from the eternals—Sergt. Alton O. Coppage, E. W. Allen and A. G Dreyer. Guy Smith's reply to No. 89 to hand. Any suggestions as to the Fall problem solving tourney? Chesspourri. ]y METROPOLITAN CHESS ASSOCIATION convenes Thursday, 8 p m., Parkside Hotel, to discuss the progress of the activity program planned at the July assembly. Each club and chess group in the District is entitled to two official delegates on the executive council of the association. Alexander Sturges, chairman of the Team Tournament Committee, has formulated some preliminary regulations for the District quintet battle that opens the first week in October at the Social Chess Lounge.
Any chess club or private unit may register for play, whether affiliated with the M. C. A. or not. Entry fee per team is $5 and each team shall furnish its own chessmen and boards.
Players failing to furnish their own equipment shall pay in addition to the team efitry fee a cover charge of 25 ; Olive cents to the Social Chess Lounge, which in turn will provide adequate playing equipment. Other regulations will be announced in this column soon. Lewis J. Lsaacs, treasurer of the Chicago committee for the forthcoming Paul Morphy Centennial Tournament, which begins August 23 at the Congress Hotel, reminds class A players throughout the country to file at once their credentials with $10 entry fee. Address: American Chess Federation, 724 West Roosevelt road, Chicago. Total prizes may aggregate $1,172.50. Read this column in Sports of The Washington Star every Monday, Wednesday. Saturday and Sunday as the only exclusive chess column in the Nation's Capital.
Gen. Bogoljubov delights in tackling the best that frequent the Social Chess Lounge and daily over-the-board practice sharpens the eye, whets the imagination, invigorates the mind so that victory In tournament play is a natural sequence. Robert Feeney opposed the general in the play-off for lightning honors. In midgame Robert forced an exchange of rooks, leaving himself with only two pawns and a king, while his adversary was the stronger by a pawn, which decided the course of the contest in short order. Individual scoring by sections: Section A.
W L G. B. Jones _ 4* 3 E. E. Williams_ 2 3 W. E. Bryant _ 2 3 R. J Feeney _ A <> P. Miller 2 •:* A. W. Whittaker_ 0 5 •—Forfeit. Section B. W. L. Gen. Bosoljubov_ 5 0 V. Sa porno _ 2 .‘t R. Hostler _ 4 3 N. Wigginton _ J 3Va M. McPherson _ O 5 L. W. Ferria .. .. 2‘a 2'^ In the bleachers enjoying the 10second fracas were Mrs. Pearl Spicknail, Dr. Tucker, Mrs. E. E. Williams, Robert Zachary, Harry Petty, Edith Johnson and William Reynolds, sr. Simon Naidel, tournament director, announces casual play for this Wednesday at the meeting of the Washington Social Chess Divan.
Five-man teams within the divan are being organized by Norvel Wigginton, assistant chess director. These teams will vie with each other for ranking in anticipation of the Fall open-team tournament for the District, conducted by the Metropolitan Chess Association. Scot Becomes British Champ. Yy. A. FAIRHURST of Glasgow, No. 1 chess player of Scotland, at the thirtieth annual congress of the British Chess Federation, held at the Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, succeeded | to the: British crown relinquished by | Williajn Winter, who failed to defend i hi.s tine in the recent congress. Sir George Thomas was runner-up | and H. E. Atkins.
H. Golombek and T. i H. Tylor tied for third, fourth and fifth place honors. Over 130 players entered the B. C. F. tourney, but the championship section embraced only a dozen picked playen. How the champion played Is illustrated with notes from the August issue of the British Chess Magazine. QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING.
while for the next few moves -, PxP or -, P-K.% is advisable. lei To guard against PxP and Kt-Q6. (fi White has the advantage of two good bishops. (gi Black must not attempt to exchange both rooks bv QR-Qt. etc., since Q-Kt'.l afterward would tie Black's queen to the first rank, and two bishops would soon win.
and rook would soon be in trouble. m White spent a long time examining -« RxKt BxR P-Q.VF BxB and obtains two rooks for the queen. *.11 It —-— B-B.'t. White has a brilliant queen sacrifice with 3(1 B-QR-f.
Kt-BKch; 1 -'ll PxKt, BxQ: .*17 BxB i threatening KR-Kli. QR-KI (or A); 33 RxR RxR: 34 B mates. tA) --, P-KKt4: 33 R-KU! and mates. 'kI If-. R-KKlt: 33 R-Q5.
PxR: 34 QxP ch. etc. Hi A particularly fine game by Fairhurst. Instructional Chess Lectures. ‘'WHAT EVERY BEGINNER f SHOULD KNOW" is the title! of the instructional lecture to be ‘ featured tomorrow evening a 8 o'clock at the Parkside Hotel, 1336 I street northwest, by Prof. Paul Mailer, chess editor of The Washington Star. Monday's lecture will be of especial Interest to beginners and would-be beginners at chess. The instructional lecture is the first to be delivered by Prof. Miller this Summer. Tuesday a second lecture, "What Every Beginner Doesn't Know.” is booked at the same hour and place.
Wednesday a third lecture, "How to Become a First-Class Tyro In the Shortest Period of Time," together with an educational display of chess miscellanies will be the entertainment. The public is welcome. Admission is 50 cents, or the series for $1. All monies received go toward advancing the cause of social chess within the District. If you would like to get an accurate and quick understanding of chess, these lectures will give you an infinite amount of information.
Women will find the lectures especially Instructive, for the queen is the most powerful of all the chess pieces. Chess Problem No. 91. B* K HAN NEAT ANN First Prjre. Weenink Memorial Tournament.
(Courtesy. Chess Review.)
While to Play and Mate in Three. JiROBLEM No. 90 responds to the correct key: P-K3. Come solutions from the eternals—Sergt. Alton O. Coppage, E. W. Allen and A. G Dreyer. Guy Smith's reply to No. 89 to hand. Any suggestions as to the Fall problem solving tourney? Chesspourri. ]y METROPOLITAN CHESS ASSOCIATION convenes Thursday, 8 p m., Parkside Hotel, to discuss the progress of the activity program planned at the July assembly. Each club and chess group in the District is entitled to two official delegates on the executive council of the association. Alexander Sturges, chairman of the Team Tournament Committee, has formulated some preliminary regulations for the District quintet battle that opens the first week in October at the Social Chess Lounge.
Any chess club or private unit may register for play, whether affiliated with the M. C. A. or not. Entry fee per team is $5 and each team shall furnish its own chessmen and boards.
Players failing to furnish their own equipment shall pay in addition to the team efitry fee a cover charge of 25 ; Olive cents to the Social Chess Lounge, which in turn will provide adequate playing equipment. Other regulations will be announced in this column soon. Lewis J. Lsaacs, treasurer of the Chicago committee for the forthcoming Paul Morphy Centennial Tournament, which begins August 23 at the Congress Hotel, reminds class A players throughout the country to file at once their credentials with $10 entry fee. Address: American Chess Federation, 724 West Roosevelt road, Chicago. Total prizes may aggregate $1,172.50. Read this column in Sports of The Washington Star every Monday, Wednesday. Saturday and Sunday as the only exclusive chess column in the Nation's Capital.
