Chess 06 May 1934, Sun Buffalo Courier Express (Buffalo, New York) Newspapers.com
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Chess Problem the Problem No 70 is a deceptive three-mover by the former chess editor of the Los Angeles Times who died last fall. Some of his contributions appeared in British Chess Magazine Black — 3 pieces White — 7 pieces White to move and mate in three. The least likely move on the board and probably the last to be looked at was the key to last week’s chess problem. Mattison vs Alekhin The recent death of Armand H Mattison at the Age of 34 was a loss to chess He had gained considerable distinction as an endgame composer His most notable achievement was the winning of the individual championship at the Olympiad in Parisi in 1924.
He also played board 1 for Latvia in international team championships and in the last Prague tourney he defeated Alekhin : Rubinstein and Vidmar which was quite an achievement Hens is his game with Alekhin: £ Chess fans wille be interested In learning that the date for the opening game between rank J Marshall and Isaac I Kashdan will be announced within the next few weeks Agreement has been reached on important conditions concerning play Only four games will be played each week nilowlng two days for possible adjournments and a full day for rest Unless otherwise agreed upon there will be four hours' play in the afternoon -and two in the evening There must be 32 moves made the first two hours and at the rate of sixteen moves thereafter A large portion of the games will be played at the World’s ait in Chicago with New York Philadelphia and Bostdn sharing the remainder.
Despite rumors to the contrary Asa Long has stated that he is playing in tije correspondence match between America and Great Britaip HIS opponent Is Sam Cohen champion of Great Britain lowing are some of the variations: 1— KI-KB7 RxKt(B7) 3— KI-QB3 mate 1— Kt-KB7 Kt-K5: 2— Kt-B3 mate 1— Kt-KB7 R-R8: Si-Kt-KtS mate 1— Kt-KB7 K-K5: Kt-Kt3 mate 1— Kt-KB7 RxKt: tKt-QB3 discovered mate 1— Kt-KB7 KtxB: 3— Kt-KKtS mate 1— Kt-KB7 Kt-Q4: — Kt-KU mate Correct solution to chAss problem No 69 was received from rank D Rogers Kenmore -K R Pfirman Erie and Stephen Wasniewski Lawrence Hans and Andrew J Straub Buffalo (Notes by Mattison) (a) — Not good The best continuation for black probably is: 9 —Q Q2: 10— P-KKt4 Kt-K4 11— B-K2 P-KKt4 etc (b) — Directed ag&lnst an eventual Kt-Kt5 stronger by far than B-K4 (c) — Dr Alekhin filans a pawn sacri fice In order to obtain a counter attack ' (d) — If 22— KR-kl then 23— K-Kt2 BxKt 24— pXbi etc (e) — If 28— (K2)-Q2 B-Kt2 would still follow i (f) — Both’ players already were short of thne: for that reason 1 avoided the complicated continuation 31 — KtxP RxP The text mote threatens Kt-K6 (g) — An error R-K8 would have led apparently to a draw MattisonWhite 2P-B3 23K-B2 24K-K3 25K-K4 28 KR-Ktl 37 RxP MK-B3 20 R-Kt2 30 KR-Q2 31 P-R5f) P-B3 33R-Q5 P-Q4 34 R-O7rh 33 R(Q1-Q5 R(B4)xR Kt-Q5(c MRO7)xR P-R3 K— (r-O’C KXK K-K4 K-B5 K-Kte P-BS Mattison Alekhin macs P-K4 5B-QB4 PxP S KtxP Kt-B3 7 Castles B-K2 Castle.
He also played board 1 for Latvia in international team championships and in the last Prague tourney he defeated Alekhin : Rubinstein and Vidmar which was quite an achievement Hens is his game with Alekhin: £ Chess fans wille be interested In learning that the date for the opening game between rank J Marshall and Isaac I Kashdan will be announced within the next few weeks Agreement has been reached on important conditions concerning play Only four games will be played each week nilowlng two days for possible adjournments and a full day for rest Unless otherwise agreed upon there will be four hours' play in the afternoon -and two in the evening There must be 32 moves made the first two hours and at the rate of sixteen moves thereafter A large portion of the games will be played at the World’s ait in Chicago with New York Philadelphia and Bostdn sharing the remainder.
Despite rumors to the contrary Asa Long has stated that he is playing in tije correspondence match between America and Great Britaip HIS opponent Is Sam Cohen champion of Great Britain lowing are some of the variations: 1— KI-KB7 RxKt(B7) 3— KI-QB3 mate 1— Kt-KB7 Kt-K5: 2— Kt-B3 mate 1— Kt-KB7 R-R8: Si-Kt-KtS mate 1— Kt-KB7 K-K5: Kt-Kt3 mate 1— Kt-KB7 RxKt: tKt-QB3 discovered mate 1— Kt-KB7 KtxB: 3— Kt-KKtS mate 1— Kt-KB7 Kt-Q4: — Kt-KU mate Correct solution to chAss problem No 69 was received from rank D Rogers Kenmore -K R Pfirman Erie and Stephen Wasniewski Lawrence Hans and Andrew J Straub Buffalo (Notes by Mattison) (a) — Not good The best continuation for black probably is: 9 —Q Q2: 10— P-KKt4 Kt-K4 11— B-K2 P-KKt4 etc (b) — Directed ag&lnst an eventual Kt-Kt5 stronger by far than B-K4 (c) — Dr Alekhin filans a pawn sacri fice In order to obtain a counter attack ' (d) — If 22— KR-kl then 23— K-Kt2 BxKt 24— pXbi etc (e) — If 28— (K2)-Q2 B-Kt2 would still follow i (f) — Both’ players already were short of thne: for that reason 1 avoided the complicated continuation 31 — KtxP RxP The text mote threatens Kt-K6 (g) — An error R-K8 would have led apparently to a draw MattisonWhite 2P-B3 23K-B2 24K-K3 25K-K4 28 KR-Ktl 37 RxP MK-B3 20 R-Kt2 30 KR-Q2 31 P-R5f) P-B3 33R-Q5 P-Q4 34 R-O7rh 33 R(Q1-Q5 R(B4)xR Kt-Q5(c MRO7)xR P-R3 K— (r-O’C KXK K-K4 K-B5 K-Kte P-BS Mattison Alekhin macs P-K4 5B-QB4 PxP S KtxP Kt-B3 7 Castles B-K2 Castle.
