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CHESS By Paul L Cromclin which Irregular Defense Games — Problems an early development com-possible only to the first is al- The voters for Black’s move Br A A Blasi Max er M Harkavy S Israel Reichert and H' O Smith The Mount Vernon Chess Club has lost its most ardent supporter Harold White Director of the Mount Vernon RecreationCommis-sion Mr White though not a chess player’ threw a great deal of effort into the organization of the local club and dreWconsiderable pleasure from the knowledge that he had been successful in giving new life to Caissa in Mount Ver- 1 non tenth Hack-R J.
THE READER’S GAME ONE may be assured that your editor is considerably encouraged by the mail received during the past week No less than six votes vcre cast by our opponents and no less than three of these were from people not previously heard from Albeit defeat in this game looms nearer we are still pleased to welcome to’ the ranks of THE READERS both the City Champion Dr A A Blasi and the County Titleholder Max Hacker All six votes were cast for 10 B-B4 our reply 11 KtxKt The game in detail: 1 P-K4 P-K4 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-KB3 3 KtxP KtxP 4 P-Q4 P-QB4 5 Q-12 P-Q4 6 P-QB3 '7 PxP B-Kt5ch 8 B-Q2 BxBch 9 KtxB’ Castles 10 Castles B-B4 11 KtxKt ? And we will look forward until next Tuesday for the otes will indicate Black’s mind " Max Hacker in his letter compliments us and adds that “I look for it (the column) eagerly every Thursday” Thanks for the support Max And just to allay your fears we have the editor’s solemn promise that we will be published every Thursday regardless of death and taxation.
Our selection for this week that of a game in which White lows himself to develop a cramped position later attempting to relieve himself by a sacrifice which we are able to prove unsound The position is interesting in' that Black obtains an early development commonly possible only 'to the first player Our selection for this week is that of a game in which White allows himself to develop a cramped position later attempting to relieve himself by a sacrifice which we are able to prove unsound The position is interesting in that Black obtains monly player (a) White’s opening allows Black to sUze the center The game as played provides an example of the Young theories in regards to development of the major pieces behind a pawn line which does double duty defence and offense ’ (b) It seem obvious that White will Castle on the Queen’s side yet we decided on this and the 15th move as waiting ones in order to allow him tn declare himself ’ I’ossibiy P-QR4 and QKt4 immediately would be more gressive (C) White throws down the gann iniur-k r-nn rnlpi't the ornffpred sacr without loss ot position but we accepted because of the weaknesses which we foresaw at the Masked Wonder’s Q133 and ‘QR3 as a result of the exchange of the Bishop (d) White has emerged with two passed pawns but a Rook against a Knight and a Bishop The passed pawns grow tu five! i O) A trap! “ Which the first player avoids Obviously KtxP is bad because of R-R6ch ! (f) Not R-QKtch because of K-Kt7 and we must lose a piece (g) Better would be B-B4 threatening KxP and Kt-Q5ch (h) orced or if K-Kt5 in order tndefend the Bishop then the MaskedWonder continues 49 P-B7! Il-B 50 P-Q6! winning ij Now to come back to the Qside and promote the QRP (j) And after about "0 more moves the Masked Wonder resigned Ben W McCready member of the Mount Vernon Chess Club who has moved to East Orange N J temporarily we understand has challenged us to a correspondence 'game This will make the fourth ’encounter of this type that wc are ‘engaged in at the present time i ' We wish to acknowledge a letter received recently from J Agricola Orestes who is spending the Summer in Europe To quote in part from his letter: "It is with regret that for a space I am leaving behind me the good U S A — and the privilege of reading your Chess Department in The Daily Argus which has given me a great deal of pleasure It is our regret that the address of such a cordial supporter of our efforts is unknown to us so leaving us enable to thank him directly for his rare brand of encouragement.
Masked Paul T Masked Paul L Wonder Cromelin Wonder Cromelin
THE READER’S GAME ONE may be assured that your editor is considerably encouraged by the mail received during the past week No less than six votes vcre cast by our opponents and no less than three of these were from people not previously heard from Albeit defeat in this game looms nearer we are still pleased to welcome to’ the ranks of THE READERS both the City Champion Dr A A Blasi and the County Titleholder Max Hacker All six votes were cast for 10 B-B4 our reply 11 KtxKt The game in detail: 1 P-K4 P-K4 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-KB3 3 KtxP KtxP 4 P-Q4 P-QB4 5 Q-12 P-Q4 6 P-QB3 '7 PxP B-Kt5ch 8 B-Q2 BxBch 9 KtxB’ Castles 10 Castles B-B4 11 KtxKt ? And we will look forward until next Tuesday for the otes will indicate Black’s mind " Max Hacker in his letter compliments us and adds that “I look for it (the column) eagerly every Thursday” Thanks for the support Max And just to allay your fears we have the editor’s solemn promise that we will be published every Thursday regardless of death and taxation.
Our selection for this week that of a game in which White lows himself to develop a cramped position later attempting to relieve himself by a sacrifice which we are able to prove unsound The position is interesting in' that Black obtains an early development commonly possible only 'to the first player Our selection for this week is that of a game in which White allows himself to develop a cramped position later attempting to relieve himself by a sacrifice which we are able to prove unsound The position is interesting in that Black obtains monly player (a) White’s opening allows Black to sUze the center The game as played provides an example of the Young theories in regards to development of the major pieces behind a pawn line which does double duty defence and offense ’ (b) It seem obvious that White will Castle on the Queen’s side yet we decided on this and the 15th move as waiting ones in order to allow him tn declare himself ’ I’ossibiy P-QR4 and QKt4 immediately would be more gressive (C) White throws down the gann iniur-k r-nn rnlpi't the ornffpred sacr without loss ot position but we accepted because of the weaknesses which we foresaw at the Masked Wonder’s Q133 and ‘QR3 as a result of the exchange of the Bishop (d) White has emerged with two passed pawns but a Rook against a Knight and a Bishop The passed pawns grow tu five! i O) A trap! “ Which the first player avoids Obviously KtxP is bad because of R-R6ch ! (f) Not R-QKtch because of K-Kt7 and we must lose a piece (g) Better would be B-B4 threatening KxP and Kt-Q5ch (h) orced or if K-Kt5 in order tndefend the Bishop then the MaskedWonder continues 49 P-B7! Il-B 50 P-Q6! winning ij Now to come back to the Qside and promote the QRP (j) And after about "0 more moves the Masked Wonder resigned Ben W McCready member of the Mount Vernon Chess Club who has moved to East Orange N J temporarily we understand has challenged us to a correspondence 'game This will make the fourth ’encounter of this type that wc are ‘engaged in at the present time i ' We wish to acknowledge a letter received recently from J Agricola Orestes who is spending the Summer in Europe To quote in part from his letter: "It is with regret that for a space I am leaving behind me the good U S A — and the privilege of reading your Chess Department in The Daily Argus which has given me a great deal of pleasure It is our regret that the address of such a cordial supporter of our efforts is unknown to us so leaving us enable to thank him directly for his rare brand of encouragement.
Masked Paul T Masked Paul L Wonder Cromelin Wonder Cromelin