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Chess 05 Dec 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. Fall Problem Tourney. SOME 40-odd problemists have competed in the fall problem contest, which so far has been devoted to presentation of two-movers.
According to the announced rules, each solver was requested to confine the individual key to every problem published on a separate sheet of papier. The tabulation is as accurate as our records show, but there may be an occasional error because two keys were posted on the same card and therefore not recorded. On the other hand, if the solver will advise me as to the correctness of his score, we shall make a special verification. Including No. 112, the current scoring: Ten Are Tied.
Melvin Bers R Willis H Wuldo R c. D Franks 42 Henry Lybrand 14 E. Simpson_ 34 William Burko 42 Max Levy 4 Dr. A. L. Phillips 8 R. W. Lewis 42 A. Kleinman 1 8. J. Kurtz 42 Clara L. Safford fi Norman LeRoux 2R Guy Smith 41 A. G Dreyer 42 Paul Hodges 12 Daniel Breeskln 38 Reuben S”ttkus 42 E. W. Allen 42- J. E. Cowling 28 David H Sibbet 4u R C. Wagner _ 3 Gibbs Myers 4 Carroll Meigs _ H W. F. Cook n8 Robert de Mast 7 Gorgonzola 37 G. M. Clemence 42 C. A. Carrico . 13 G. F Gorham 4" Janet Booth 12 Heinz Johannsen 0 Aucnst Wolfgram 5 Margaret Owens 4 Edward Ramler 1 Lewis M. Britton 11 C. V. Moore 21 Harry B Wirin 1 J. O. Wright 4 H. P. Murray 1 Problemists with 31* points are slow mailers for their score on December 2 does not include No. 112. Many of the low scorers have been In and out of the city: others have solved problems according to humor A number of problemists have written invariably concerning sundry problems, but wish their Identity concealed.
In the above list there Is a nom-de-plume. "Gorgonzola.” If any other solver has been posting keys under a ghost name or alias and failed to notify this department In the beginning, he is not eligible for any prize as one solver might adopt a number of aliases and thus edge in several different keys to doubtful problems. Chess Problem No. 114. By W K. WIMSATT, Jr., Washington. (Courtesy of "Chess." England.) BLACK—10 MEN. pLIiERMAN’S two-mover yields to: Q-Kt4. White interference mates are introduced by KtxP and Kt-B4, while Kt-K7 makes jb. Black interference.
- Three pointers to problem No. Ill: William Burko. C. V. Moore, E. W. Allen. Emanuel Simpson. A. G. Dreyer (so you want an “Angel?" What would the spouse say?). Gorgonzola. George F. Gorham. Stephen J. Kurtz. Janet Booth (glad to hear from you). C. D. Franks (yep. the admission that you read my column weakly Is honor enuf). Daniel Breeskln. Gerald M. Clemence. David H. Sibbet (neat analysis). Paul M. Hodges (“Just back from Florida . . . wa< born and bred In Mississippi.”). Reuben Suttkus ("Mrs. Suttkus and I spent a very delightful evening at the Social Chess Lounge.”), Guy Smith and Raymond W. Lewis. J. G. Wright, singles. Keys comes from aces. Emanuel wimpson, E. W. Allen (the splendid record of your football son merits our commendation). Reuben Suttkus. Stephen J. Kurtz. Daniel Breeskin. Gorgonzola. C. D. Franks. R. W. Lewis. William Burko, A. G. Dreyer and Gerald M. Clemence, that are correct to No. 112. H. P. Murray tallies a lone marker.
Don't let the three-movers thin your ranks. But let’s finish this contest by New Year Day. IF TWO PROBLEM KEYS ARE GIVEN ON THE SAME CARD NEITHER WILL BE COUNTED. Cheaspourri. TNTERHIGH CHESS ASSOCIATION commenced its winter semester team tournament this week with entries from Eastern, Western, Tech, Roosevelt, Central and Wilson .
. Round No. 2 is booked Friday afternoon, Social Chess Lounge, Parksidc Hotel . . . Reuben Fine Is functioning as a reporter . . . Nieuwe Rotterdamasche Courant publishes hii chess items on the world tournament . . . November’! Chess magazine, that emanates from Sutton Coldfield, England, has on page 79 somi of this column's “chesspourrl,” bu the magazine kindly fails to mention the source of its information . . . A fellow in Thompson, Ohio, is now promoting a "national chess divan,” thus .copying outright the original in Washington, which had its prototype in England a century ago ... In the United States when the words “Chess Divan” are used every one should know it is located in Washington and there is no substitute anywhere in this country . . . Each Thursday you may play chess at the Social Chess Lounge free . . . The Metropolitan Chess Association invites you to share its Yuletide spirit of good cheer and drop in on Thursdays . . . The address? 1336 I street N.W. . . . And if you wish to be a member of the Divan for 1938 and lend your support to the Social Chess Organized Program, then fill out the following pledge, clip, inclose SI and mail. A membership card wiil be sent promptly to you.
Dec. 6. 1937. Chess Editor The Washington Star. Please accept my support for 1938 of the organized Social Chess program, and I agree to be a member of the non-profit Washington Social Chess Divan for 1938 at the special rate of $1 per month, payable monthly or quarterly, In advance. Name _ Address _ Divan to Play Morphyites. 'T'OURNAMENT DIRECTOR SIMON NAIDEL of the Washington Social Chess Divan says the challenge of the Paul Morphy Chess Club to a 20board match has been accepted and the clubs will do battle probably this Friday, 8 p.m., Parkside Hotel. Each club will seek to muster its best players for the occasion and just who will play at the top boards is uncertain. However, the membership of the Department of Agriculture Chess Club will lend material strength to the Morphy aggregation, as the divan has no objections to one or more clubs | combining to assure the necessary playing strength for a first class 20board match. Alekhin on His Way.
r\UTCH press says in a news re^ lease from Rotterdam, dated December 1. ‘‘Dr. Max Euwe of Amsterdam, chess champion of the world, succeeded in drawing the 23d game of his title match with Dr. Alexander Alekhin of Paris after a total of 50 moves had been recorded. “This-result left Dr. Alekhin in the lead by the score of 8 to 4, with 11 games drawn. This is the equivalent of 13V& points for Dr. Alekhin who, upon reaching 15 Vi. will be declared the winner. Dr. Euwe has totaled only 9 V£ points.” It is amazing that up to the 23rd game the Dutch press were jubilant over a prospective triumph for Euwe, Dutch college teacher. Since the beginning of the match your columnist repeatedly has informed you that of the two grandmasters, Alekhin was the more ingenious positional and combination analyst and if lie adhered to his buttermilk diet he would stage the flrsl successful comeback since the era ol modem chess began In 1866. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR \/fRS. CHARLES BAKER rolled what is believed to be the highest game ever scored by a Washington woman in duckpins. She spilled 133 maples to be the first local woman on record to exceed 130.
Harry Stanford defeated Leo Tweedale 100 points to 61 in the pocket billiard tournament at Sherman’s. Oswald Saunders, former football and baseball star at Maryland State, now is a captain in the ;* Regular Army. Only 7 games remain to be played in the 30-game series. Dame Fortune still toys with the final outcome and . . . well, let's see what Kismet brings. Tenth Game—Queen's Gambit. (Nimzowitsch Defense.) White. Black, White.
By DR. GILBERT DOBBS. Carrollton. Ga (Courtesy of ‘Chess." England.) BLACK—8 MEN. YlfINFRED HORN once queriei your columnist as to whether i is proper to refer to pawns in a pub lished problem as “pieces,” observini that I adhere to the term “men.” In chess all characters are withij the general term "men.” The spe ciflc term “pieces” is restricted onl; to castles, knights, bishops, queen and kings. Pawns never are called pieces by a discerning writer.
They are “men.” Also, concerning the spelling of thi former world champion’s name. Mos books and magazines and newspaper spell it with an “e” ending as "Alek hine.” But that is a mistake and th' result of gross ignorance. At the Chicago World Pair in 193: the then champion of the world toll me the correct spelling was “A-lekh in” in English and "Aljechin” (pro nounced “Al-yerk-in”) in Russian. Th pronunciation “Al-lee-kine” is ridicu lous. I was glad indeed to note that ii the beautiful edition of Chess Pie commemorating the great Notting ham tournament, the scholarly edlto made a personal reference to “Alekh in” as being the correct spelling.
(Copyright, Dec. 5, 1937, by Paul Miller.)
According to the announced rules, each solver was requested to confine the individual key to every problem published on a separate sheet of papier. The tabulation is as accurate as our records show, but there may be an occasional error because two keys were posted on the same card and therefore not recorded. On the other hand, if the solver will advise me as to the correctness of his score, we shall make a special verification. Including No. 112, the current scoring: Ten Are Tied.
Melvin Bers R Willis H Wuldo R c. D Franks 42 Henry Lybrand 14 E. Simpson_ 34 William Burko 42 Max Levy 4 Dr. A. L. Phillips 8 R. W. Lewis 42 A. Kleinman 1 8. J. Kurtz 42 Clara L. Safford fi Norman LeRoux 2R Guy Smith 41 A. G Dreyer 42 Paul Hodges 12 Daniel Breeskln 38 Reuben S”ttkus 42 E. W. Allen 42- J. E. Cowling 28 David H Sibbet 4u R C. Wagner _ 3 Gibbs Myers 4 Carroll Meigs _ H W. F. Cook n8 Robert de Mast 7 Gorgonzola 37 G. M. Clemence 42 C. A. Carrico . 13 G. F Gorham 4" Janet Booth 12 Heinz Johannsen 0 Aucnst Wolfgram 5 Margaret Owens 4 Edward Ramler 1 Lewis M. Britton 11 C. V. Moore 21 Harry B Wirin 1 J. O. Wright 4 H. P. Murray 1 Problemists with 31* points are slow mailers for their score on December 2 does not include No. 112. Many of the low scorers have been In and out of the city: others have solved problems according to humor A number of problemists have written invariably concerning sundry problems, but wish their Identity concealed.
In the above list there Is a nom-de-plume. "Gorgonzola.” If any other solver has been posting keys under a ghost name or alias and failed to notify this department In the beginning, he is not eligible for any prize as one solver might adopt a number of aliases and thus edge in several different keys to doubtful problems. Chess Problem No. 114. By W K. WIMSATT, Jr., Washington. (Courtesy of "Chess." England.) BLACK—10 MEN. pLIiERMAN’S two-mover yields to: Q-Kt4. White interference mates are introduced by KtxP and Kt-B4, while Kt-K7 makes jb. Black interference.
- Three pointers to problem No. Ill: William Burko. C. V. Moore, E. W. Allen. Emanuel Simpson. A. G. Dreyer (so you want an “Angel?" What would the spouse say?). Gorgonzola. George F. Gorham. Stephen J. Kurtz. Janet Booth (glad to hear from you). C. D. Franks (yep. the admission that you read my column weakly Is honor enuf). Daniel Breeskln. Gerald M. Clemence. David H. Sibbet (neat analysis). Paul M. Hodges (“Just back from Florida . . . wa< born and bred In Mississippi.”). Reuben Suttkus ("Mrs. Suttkus and I spent a very delightful evening at the Social Chess Lounge.”), Guy Smith and Raymond W. Lewis. J. G. Wright, singles. Keys comes from aces. Emanuel wimpson, E. W. Allen (the splendid record of your football son merits our commendation). Reuben Suttkus. Stephen J. Kurtz. Daniel Breeskin. Gorgonzola. C. D. Franks. R. W. Lewis. William Burko, A. G. Dreyer and Gerald M. Clemence, that are correct to No. 112. H. P. Murray tallies a lone marker.
Don't let the three-movers thin your ranks. But let’s finish this contest by New Year Day. IF TWO PROBLEM KEYS ARE GIVEN ON THE SAME CARD NEITHER WILL BE COUNTED. Cheaspourri. TNTERHIGH CHESS ASSOCIATION commenced its winter semester team tournament this week with entries from Eastern, Western, Tech, Roosevelt, Central and Wilson .
. Round No. 2 is booked Friday afternoon, Social Chess Lounge, Parksidc Hotel . . . Reuben Fine Is functioning as a reporter . . . Nieuwe Rotterdamasche Courant publishes hii chess items on the world tournament . . . November’! Chess magazine, that emanates from Sutton Coldfield, England, has on page 79 somi of this column's “chesspourrl,” bu the magazine kindly fails to mention the source of its information . . . A fellow in Thompson, Ohio, is now promoting a "national chess divan,” thus .copying outright the original in Washington, which had its prototype in England a century ago ... In the United States when the words “Chess Divan” are used every one should know it is located in Washington and there is no substitute anywhere in this country . . . Each Thursday you may play chess at the Social Chess Lounge free . . . The Metropolitan Chess Association invites you to share its Yuletide spirit of good cheer and drop in on Thursdays . . . The address? 1336 I street N.W. . . . And if you wish to be a member of the Divan for 1938 and lend your support to the Social Chess Organized Program, then fill out the following pledge, clip, inclose SI and mail. A membership card wiil be sent promptly to you.
Dec. 6. 1937. Chess Editor The Washington Star. Please accept my support for 1938 of the organized Social Chess program, and I agree to be a member of the non-profit Washington Social Chess Divan for 1938 at the special rate of $1 per month, payable monthly or quarterly, In advance. Name _ Address _ Divan to Play Morphyites. 'T'OURNAMENT DIRECTOR SIMON NAIDEL of the Washington Social Chess Divan says the challenge of the Paul Morphy Chess Club to a 20board match has been accepted and the clubs will do battle probably this Friday, 8 p.m., Parkside Hotel. Each club will seek to muster its best players for the occasion and just who will play at the top boards is uncertain. However, the membership of the Department of Agriculture Chess Club will lend material strength to the Morphy aggregation, as the divan has no objections to one or more clubs | combining to assure the necessary playing strength for a first class 20board match. Alekhin on His Way.
r\UTCH press says in a news re^ lease from Rotterdam, dated December 1. ‘‘Dr. Max Euwe of Amsterdam, chess champion of the world, succeeded in drawing the 23d game of his title match with Dr. Alexander Alekhin of Paris after a total of 50 moves had been recorded. “This-result left Dr. Alekhin in the lead by the score of 8 to 4, with 11 games drawn. This is the equivalent of 13V& points for Dr. Alekhin who, upon reaching 15 Vi. will be declared the winner. Dr. Euwe has totaled only 9 V£ points.” It is amazing that up to the 23rd game the Dutch press were jubilant over a prospective triumph for Euwe, Dutch college teacher. Since the beginning of the match your columnist repeatedly has informed you that of the two grandmasters, Alekhin was the more ingenious positional and combination analyst and if lie adhered to his buttermilk diet he would stage the flrsl successful comeback since the era ol modem chess began In 1866. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR \/fRS. CHARLES BAKER rolled what is believed to be the highest game ever scored by a Washington woman in duckpins. She spilled 133 maples to be the first local woman on record to exceed 130.
Harry Stanford defeated Leo Tweedale 100 points to 61 in the pocket billiard tournament at Sherman’s. Oswald Saunders, former football and baseball star at Maryland State, now is a captain in the ;* Regular Army. Only 7 games remain to be played in the 30-game series. Dame Fortune still toys with the final outcome and . . . well, let's see what Kismet brings. Tenth Game—Queen's Gambit. (Nimzowitsch Defense.) White. Black, White.
By DR. GILBERT DOBBS. Carrollton. Ga (Courtesy of ‘Chess." England.) BLACK—8 MEN. YlfINFRED HORN once queriei your columnist as to whether i is proper to refer to pawns in a pub lished problem as “pieces,” observini that I adhere to the term “men.” In chess all characters are withij the general term "men.” The spe ciflc term “pieces” is restricted onl; to castles, knights, bishops, queen and kings. Pawns never are called pieces by a discerning writer.
They are “men.” Also, concerning the spelling of thi former world champion’s name. Mos books and magazines and newspaper spell it with an “e” ending as "Alek hine.” But that is a mistake and th' result of gross ignorance. At the Chicago World Pair in 193: the then champion of the world toll me the correct spelling was “A-lekh in” in English and "Aljechin” (pro nounced “Al-yerk-in”) in Russian. Th pronunciation “Al-lee-kine” is ridicu lous. I was glad indeed to note that ii the beautiful edition of Chess Pie commemorating the great Notting ham tournament, the scholarly edlto made a personal reference to “Alekh in” as being the correct spelling.
(Copyright, Dec. 5, 1937, by Paul Miller.)
