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Chess 03 Jan 1932, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
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IT'S YOUR MOVE V The Morning Call's Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, Fositions in End Games and News Items Will Be Welcomed . W. H. STECKEL, Editor Dr. M. Euwe. Dutch chess champion and candidate for the world title, gave an exhibition on December 21, meeting simultaneously thirty of the strongest Dutch chess players. Dr. Euwe won seventeen games, lost five and eight were draws. The match, which lasted six hours was arranged by a combination of Dutch newspapers, which conceived the plan after the former world champion Capablanca, had given a similar exhibition here last August.
The Polish chess master, Rubenstein, w ho is on a tour of Holland, was tne arbiter. Several hundred fans wt-nessed the contest New York Times. The following is the standing in the tournament of the' Capital City Chess Club of Washington, D. C: Otteu, Knapp, 8-l; Bettlngcr. 9-2; Sullivan, 9-2; C. A. Hesse, 8-3; Hickam; 7-3; Roberts, 5-4; Stark, 46-5; Davis, 4-6; A. Y. Hesse, 3-54; Gleason, 3-..; Simmon:., 3-6; Drysdale, 2-6; Clinton, 3-9; Parsons, 2-10; Clark, 0-11. The following is the standing in the tournament of the Newark Rice Cne&3 Club, of Newark,- N. J.: Parnelee, 3-; D. Meisel, 3-1; Schor, 814-1; Frere, 2-2; Brady, Driscoll and Bau-derman, 2-3; Ungerleider, 1-3; Mosh, 't1. .-, . . , , By playing "a tie in their match with Harvard, Princeton gained the championship of the H. Y. P. D. College Chess League and thereby wins possession of the - Selden-Stephens Trophy. The final standing of lic teams are as follows: Princeton, 7Ji-4; Harvard, 6-6; Dartmouth, 5-6 and Yale, 5-7.
The following are the individual scores:' Princeton: McCor-mick, 3-0; Forbes, 2V2'1A; Rothschild, 2-0; Stern, 0-3. Harvard: Mergen-theim and Eaton each, 2-1; Long and Malkan, each 1-2. Dartmouth: Isaac;, 2-: 'Wood, 2-1; Fowle, 1-2; Maratz, 0-3. Yale: Fennell and Leaser, each 2-1 i Strong, 1-2; Borsodi, 0-3. - The following is. the standing -of the Bethlehem Chess club's tournament: Hesse, 10-1; Albrecht, 6-1, Reidelbach, 6-2; Schmidt, 4 -2; Kem-merer, 3-3: Schoonover,. 2-2; Oa-gen, 3-4; Schuler, 2 -3; W. Billi, 2-4; Panebianco, 2-S; M. Brill, 1-i; Bowker, 0-7. By winning the tenth game in the fifteen game match from the Central Pennsylvania champion, H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem, the editor drew ahead by one point. The score standings 5- 4 in the editor s favor. , . Visitors to the annual chess congress of -the Hastings and St. Leonard s Chess club were treated to a surprise when Dr. Max Euwe, of Amsterdam who outranked Jose Capablanca of Cuba here a year ago, suffered defeat at the hands of Miss Vera Menchik, of Czecho-Slovakia, woman chess champion of the world, in the second round of the International Master' tournament at the White Rock pavilion. Miss Menchik, who also finished her adjourned game from the first round with Isaac Kashdan, of New York and lost it in 45 moves, had the pieces against the Dutch expert. The latter, - too eager to force a victory from what seemed to be an even position, found himself in trouble in the ending, from which he was unable to recover. Miss Menchik was heavily congratulated upon her 'notable success.
She holds the championship of the Hastings and St. Leonard's CLess Club. Kashdan adopted the Petroff defense against F. D. Yates, the British champion. The game was adjourned after 35 moves with Kashdan three pawns ahead. The American is expected to win upon resumption. The standing to the end of the second round s as follows: Flohr, 2-0, Kashdan, 1-0; Euwe. 1-1; Menchik, 1-1; Stoltz, 1-1; Sultan Khan, 1-1; Thomas, 1-1; Jackson, 1-1; Mich-ell, -l; Yates, 0-1 New York Times.". Sweeping everything before them, including Columbia, one of the moist formidable of their rivals, the players of the City College took a commanding lead In the championship tournament of the Intercollegiate Chess League, the second and third rounds of which were contested at the rocms of the Marshall Chess club. The following is the standing of the teams: C. C. N. Y., 3-0; Columbia, 2-1; N. Y. U., 1-0; Brown, 1-1; Pennsylvania, 0-1; Brooklyn, 0-2; Pittsburgh. 0-2. Games won and lost: C. C. N. Y., 11-0; Columbia, 6-5; N. Y. U., 4-l; Brown, 6-4; Pennsyl vania, 1-5; Brooklyn, 2 -8; Pittsburgh, -7. In the play-off for the champion ship of the Central Pennsylvania Chess association, H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem, defending champion, lost his title to A. N. Towsen, of Harrisburg, thus giving the title back to Towsen who Incidentally won the championships in 1927, 1928 and 1929. Correspondence H. G. Martz; Concerning move No. 32 in the game (10th) Hesse-Steckel. The move you suggest would not be advisable. This move incidentally would give me the exchange and give Mr. Hesse the inferior position.
' The following game is considered by Dr. Emmanuel Lasker to be his best played game: Pillsbury tusker- Pillsbury White Westburg, KT-K3. . . No. 133 By A. Wities " ( Black 5 Pieces fed ' Sl White 5 Pieces White mates in three Sir Alfred Yarrow, 89. grand old man of British shipbuilding, Is touring Europe by air. Japan's government steel works will probably show a deficit of nearly $10.- 000,000 for 1931.. A. N. TOWNSEN of Harrisburg, winner of Central Pennsylvania championship chess matches held in AUentown recently.
