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Chess 04 May 1932, Wed Mount Vernon Argus (White Plains, New York) Newspapers.com
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CHESS Games — -Problems By Paul L Cromelin THE READER’S GAME Our opponents in the game being played in this column have dwindled to a unit We are forced to believe that our style of play has confused the majority to the point of retirement However now that the position takes on more of interest than the opening usually presents we look forward to a stronger response Black's fifth move which changes the game from the Petroff to the Israel Defense is P-Q4 our reply: 6 P-QB3 The game in detail: 1 P-K4 P-K4 2 Kt-KB3:3 Kt-KB3 3 KtxP KtxP 4 P-Q4 P-QB4 5 Q-K2 P-Q4 6 P-QB3 ?
Black's next move will considerably affect the future course of this game What will it be? Send in your vote before next Monday and watch for the result next Wednesday Our lone opponent this week: Seymour Israel We wish to acknowledge tardy receipt of a vote for Black's fourth move from Mervyn L Mayer Jr who also favored the move which was the majority selection as recorded above ROGER SMITH MATCH Play in the elimination tournament sponsored by and held at the Roger Smith Hotel in White Plains began Sunday night ’Participating in the first round were H C Hacker drew with M J of Rye Ye editor was scheduled to play Martin Harkavy in the second round but the game was adjourned until Thursday Mount Vernon won both doubles — - - - - - - - — - ‘ by defeating Seymour Israel and Mar Scharf k Seidler respectively prj H Oram Smith Louis Davis and Martin Harkavy who won by default Mav Hacker and Ben W McCready who drew byes Paul L Cromelin and Seymour Israel who won from Harry Brown and both nlav- from White Plains and Charles w La ley Jr who lost to Svigals of White Plains.
In the second round nlaved on last Monday McCready lost to Dowd of Rye and Louis Davis succumber to a Danish Gambit played against him by David Hoffman who is seeded first player on the White Plains team H Oram Smith provided a surprise matches easily In the first match Marcus and reudenheim defeated Simpson and Doug London 6 — 1 6—2 Bill Jenter and Jessie Hensle paired in the other match to outplay Bill Dorris and his brother Charles 6 — 3 6 — &2 The Mount Vernon squad will travel up to Scarsdale riday for a match and will be played during the weekly session of the local Chess Club H Oram Smith played his third round match with David Hoffman and was eliminated in the end game the fatal spot where many a hope is dashed UTURE EVENTS Plans are in progress at the present to play a match with the Bergen County Chess League of N J A 20 to 25 man team wall be made up and a date is being arranged for later in the month In addition to this match it is planned to hold a Westchester County Elimination Tournament with play to be held on successive ridays until completition.
The point of play has not yet been decided definitely but the probabilities are that it will be held in Mount Vernon this city being the most central point to all contenders The game given below brought the laurels of victory to Dr A A Blasi It is game 2 in the finals for the City title and provides an interesting theme on the Queen's Gambit Declined Early the new champion found himself in a rather cramped position but found a way to squeeze out the win of a pawn on his 25th move rom then on it seemed merely a matter of “shifting wood" correctly We found it interesting because of the fact that Blasi has always maintained that “the best way to win a game is to first win a pawn" or once in our life we agree with him.
QUEEN’S GAMBIT DECLINED Dr Max Dr Max Hbixl Harker Itla-i Hacker Hllite Hlark White Black 1 r-ljt Kt-KRS 2D Kt-B' Q-K 2 r-Qi p-qi b-kis r-K2 3 I’-KS 31 K-KB4 B-K3 4 B-K15 P-B3 32 K1-K4 RQ 5 P-K3 QK1-Q2 33 KI-Q6 Q-K2 S KI-B3 Q-TU 34 Q-B3 TSxB 7 BxKl KtxB 35 PxB QxP S -O-B2 B-Ktn 33 KlxBP (D QQ4! 9 B-Q3 PxP 37 QxQ RxQ 10 BxP KI-K5 33 -B3 K-Kt- 11 QR-B KtxKt 39 P-KRI? B-B3! 13 PxKt R-Q3 40 Kl-HS R-K5 13 R-QKt P-QR3 41 K-K12 BxP 14 Castles P-QKH a 42 R-7ch KxKt 15 B-Q3 Q-B2 43 TxB RxP 15 P-Kt3 r-Kt3 44 R-QR7 R-KtA 17 -K4 P-K4 45 RxP RxP B KR-K Castles 45 RxP K-Ktl! 19 P-B4 PxQP 4 7 R-B5ch K-Kt-6 20 KtxP R-R2 4 R-B7 P-KR4 21 P-B5 B-K2 43 R-KKt" P-Kt4 22 -K5 R-Q 50 R-KB7 K-R5 23 Q-B3 Q-Q2 (b) 51 R-K7 R-Kt5 24 R-K4 Q-Q4 52 R-K3 P-Kt5 25 R-Q BxP 53 R-K5 R-KtS 26 Kt-QKt3 B-Kt3 54 P-B4 R-Kt7ch 27 B-B2 Q-K3 55 K-Kt K-KtH 23 RxRch BxR 56 K-B KxP 57 Resigns (al Dr Blasi lated blamed (?) this pawn formation on our influence What a feeling it is to have influenced a City Champion (b) White has come out of the last few moves with two isolated pawns Black now maneuvers to control the renter and attack these weaknesses However here Blasi overlooks an immediate win of one of White's advanced pawns R-Q4 besides effecting this result would develop the Rook In front of the Queen which seems better on general principle (c We here suggest "UQ-K2 followed by 30B-Kt3 and the White Knight cannot be maintained at its advanced post P-QK4 and 5 would then shut out the White Bishop from QKt3 and Black would have a dangerous passed pawn (d) liackor overlooks his adversary’s answer and so enters the end game with far the Inferior position t (e) Black builds up his position step by step effects the win of another Pawn wins methodically.
Black's next move will considerably affect the future course of this game What will it be? Send in your vote before next Monday and watch for the result next Wednesday Our lone opponent this week: Seymour Israel We wish to acknowledge tardy receipt of a vote for Black's fourth move from Mervyn L Mayer Jr who also favored the move which was the majority selection as recorded above ROGER SMITH MATCH Play in the elimination tournament sponsored by and held at the Roger Smith Hotel in White Plains began Sunday night ’Participating in the first round were H C Hacker drew with M J of Rye Ye editor was scheduled to play Martin Harkavy in the second round but the game was adjourned until Thursday Mount Vernon won both doubles — - - - - - - - — - ‘ by defeating Seymour Israel and Mar Scharf k Seidler respectively prj H Oram Smith Louis Davis and Martin Harkavy who won by default Mav Hacker and Ben W McCready who drew byes Paul L Cromelin and Seymour Israel who won from Harry Brown and both nlav- from White Plains and Charles w La ley Jr who lost to Svigals of White Plains.
In the second round nlaved on last Monday McCready lost to Dowd of Rye and Louis Davis succumber to a Danish Gambit played against him by David Hoffman who is seeded first player on the White Plains team H Oram Smith provided a surprise matches easily In the first match Marcus and reudenheim defeated Simpson and Doug London 6 — 1 6—2 Bill Jenter and Jessie Hensle paired in the other match to outplay Bill Dorris and his brother Charles 6 — 3 6 — &2 The Mount Vernon squad will travel up to Scarsdale riday for a match and will be played during the weekly session of the local Chess Club H Oram Smith played his third round match with David Hoffman and was eliminated in the end game the fatal spot where many a hope is dashed UTURE EVENTS Plans are in progress at the present to play a match with the Bergen County Chess League of N J A 20 to 25 man team wall be made up and a date is being arranged for later in the month In addition to this match it is planned to hold a Westchester County Elimination Tournament with play to be held on successive ridays until completition.
The point of play has not yet been decided definitely but the probabilities are that it will be held in Mount Vernon this city being the most central point to all contenders The game given below brought the laurels of victory to Dr A A Blasi It is game 2 in the finals for the City title and provides an interesting theme on the Queen's Gambit Declined Early the new champion found himself in a rather cramped position but found a way to squeeze out the win of a pawn on his 25th move rom then on it seemed merely a matter of “shifting wood" correctly We found it interesting because of the fact that Blasi has always maintained that “the best way to win a game is to first win a pawn" or once in our life we agree with him.
QUEEN’S GAMBIT DECLINED Dr Max Dr Max Hbixl Harker Itla-i Hacker Hllite Hlark White Black 1 r-ljt Kt-KRS 2D Kt-B' Q-K 2 r-Qi p-qi b-kis r-K2 3 I’-KS 31 K-KB4 B-K3 4 B-K15 P-B3 32 K1-K4 RQ 5 P-K3 QK1-Q2 33 KI-Q6 Q-K2 S KI-B3 Q-TU 34 Q-B3 TSxB 7 BxKl KtxB 35 PxB QxP S -O-B2 B-Ktn 33 KlxBP (D QQ4! 9 B-Q3 PxP 37 QxQ RxQ 10 BxP KI-K5 33 -B3 K-Kt- 11 QR-B KtxKt 39 P-KRI? B-B3! 13 PxKt R-Q3 40 Kl-HS R-K5 13 R-QKt P-QR3 41 K-K12 BxP 14 Castles P-QKH a 42 R-7ch KxKt 15 B-Q3 Q-B2 43 TxB RxP 15 P-Kt3 r-Kt3 44 R-QR7 R-KtA 17 -K4 P-K4 45 RxP RxP B KR-K Castles 45 RxP K-Ktl! 19 P-B4 PxQP 4 7 R-B5ch K-Kt-6 20 KtxP R-R2 4 R-B7 P-KR4 21 P-B5 B-K2 43 R-KKt" P-Kt4 22 -K5 R-Q 50 R-KB7 K-R5 23 Q-B3 Q-Q2 (b) 51 R-K7 R-Kt5 24 R-K4 Q-Q4 52 R-K3 P-Kt5 25 R-Q BxP 53 R-K5 R-KtS 26 Kt-QKt3 B-Kt3 54 P-B4 R-Kt7ch 27 B-B2 Q-K3 55 K-Kt K-KtH 23 RxRch BxR 56 K-B KxP 57 Resigns (al Dr Blasi lated blamed (?) this pawn formation on our influence What a feeling it is to have influenced a City Champion (b) White has come out of the last few moves with two isolated pawns Black now maneuvers to control the renter and attack these weaknesses However here Blasi overlooks an immediate win of one of White's advanced pawns R-Q4 besides effecting this result would develop the Rook In front of the Queen which seems better on general principle (c We here suggest "UQ-K2 followed by 30B-Kt3 and the White Knight cannot be maintained at its advanced post P-QK4 and 5 would then shut out the White Bishop from QKt3 and Black would have a dangerous passed pawn (d) liackor overlooks his adversary’s answer and so enters the end game with far the Inferior position t (e) Black builds up his position step by step effects the win of another Pawn wins methodically.
