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Chess 11 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 WE might just as well pack up our men and retire to the home of Seymour Israel for he still is the only opponent left to us out of the eight who started Ho hum! That’s what comes from being too good One reaches the point at which it becomes hard to find opposition The game in detail: 1 P-K4 P-K4 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-KB3 3 KtxP KtxP 4 P-Q4 P-QB4 5 Q-K2 P-Q4 6 P-QB3 PxP 7 PxP 7 7' ’ The possibilities in Black’s seventh move look interesting.
Send in your vote forit by next Monday Chess Dinner The Westchester County Chess League will hold its annual dinner at Cromelin’s next riday Her-mann Helms Editor of the American Chess Bulletin will - be the1 guest of honor and no doubt‘will be persuaded to give a few examples of his skill over the board There will be a few — just a few — speeches Reservations are now being made with Robert J Reichert 173 Claremont Avenue Hillcrest 5871-W Indications are that between forty and fifty will attend Bring your pieces There'll be plenty of time to play after the dinner is over - Prize Awards With all due deference to the personality of Mr Helms probably the outstanding attraction of next riday’s dinner will be the awarding of prizes in the two County Championship series for 1931-32 In the -team matches White Plains emerged the victor by a score of and will re ceive the annual plaque In the Individual 'elimination tourney’ Max Hacker of Mount Vernon took all the honors to obtain a leg on a silver trophy donated by the Roger Smith Hotel of White Plains The two trophies will be on display during the evening MAX HACKER Chess players throughout ' the county are fairly well known t o each other due to the Interplay be-tween clubs continually going on.
Yet one so obscure as to be practically unknown- rises from our midst and overwhelms the lot of us We refer to Max Hacker an unknown quantity a few weeks ago until he entered the city championship play to come in second only to Dr Blasi Now history has repeated itself In his quiet way' wtihout benefit of panoply and clarion calls Hacker played his way through the Westchester County Individual play to take the crown or the second time he proved our nemesis in-tournament play besides winning from such strong players as George M Sharrard andDavid Hoffman of White Plains and C Dowd of Rye Below’ is given one of his games which provides a good example of his strong defensive tactics T'ETRO DEENSE L Mat Paul L Max C romclin JliH-kcr Cronwlin Harker Mhltu’ Black While BLack
(a) Th first ten moves were played very rapidly and made my opponent re mark that rj undoubtedly book chss My next mwi tMruptd from a desire to have th® Black QJB declare Its intentions I err nn mv twelfth move 12 Q-B2 followed by Kt-K5 more promising (b) The rather obvious answer t© tMx move was completely overlooked by m- (c) I here pondered over Q-B5 for 8 considerable time Whethr the nr-riflee i sound or not remains unproven The tension that Master Hacker lejects into -a game compelled me rather reluctantly to the exchange ( fl ) And here my Q moves to R5 under vastly different circumstance 1 becomes for the moment a mere awn protecting a brother Black manoevrej to exchange (e) Both sides have avoided Rook trades for the last eight move Hacker called this check "a food psytholoffieai move” The grame begin to look "drawey" (f) Here the KBP should be advanced to B5 m quickly as possible Black plays well and obtains e ’remote-1 passed pawn which wins for him (g) At this point I considerad the position lost but not for nothing have I earned the cognomen "Last Ditch” Crnmeiln The text move Is the obvious one but I arrived at It only after a enlld hour’s concentration on possibilltle The only reason for 49 KtxPch is that it gave my worthy adversary a chance to blunder He didn’t However later Harker remarked to one of the ap-c-latora that the hour’s wait "almost unnerved him’’ Had I been sure of this I would have takenanother twenty minute to finish the job’ Ed Note — Startin? next week this column will appear on an inside page on Thursday It hae boon appearing- on this page every Wednesday.
Send in your vote forit by next Monday Chess Dinner The Westchester County Chess League will hold its annual dinner at Cromelin’s next riday Her-mann Helms Editor of the American Chess Bulletin will - be the1 guest of honor and no doubt‘will be persuaded to give a few examples of his skill over the board There will be a few — just a few — speeches Reservations are now being made with Robert J Reichert 173 Claremont Avenue Hillcrest 5871-W Indications are that between forty and fifty will attend Bring your pieces There'll be plenty of time to play after the dinner is over - Prize Awards With all due deference to the personality of Mr Helms probably the outstanding attraction of next riday’s dinner will be the awarding of prizes in the two County Championship series for 1931-32 In the -team matches White Plains emerged the victor by a score of and will re ceive the annual plaque In the Individual 'elimination tourney’ Max Hacker of Mount Vernon took all the honors to obtain a leg on a silver trophy donated by the Roger Smith Hotel of White Plains The two trophies will be on display during the evening MAX HACKER Chess players throughout ' the county are fairly well known t o each other due to the Interplay be-tween clubs continually going on.
Yet one so obscure as to be practically unknown- rises from our midst and overwhelms the lot of us We refer to Max Hacker an unknown quantity a few weeks ago until he entered the city championship play to come in second only to Dr Blasi Now history has repeated itself In his quiet way' wtihout benefit of panoply and clarion calls Hacker played his way through the Westchester County Individual play to take the crown or the second time he proved our nemesis in-tournament play besides winning from such strong players as George M Sharrard andDavid Hoffman of White Plains and C Dowd of Rye Below’ is given one of his games which provides a good example of his strong defensive tactics T'ETRO DEENSE L Mat Paul L Max C romclin JliH-kcr Cronwlin Harker Mhltu’ Black While BLack
(a) Th first ten moves were played very rapidly and made my opponent re mark that rj undoubtedly book chss My next mwi tMruptd from a desire to have th® Black QJB declare Its intentions I err nn mv twelfth move 12 Q-B2 followed by Kt-K5 more promising (b) The rather obvious answer t© tMx move was completely overlooked by m- (c) I here pondered over Q-B5 for 8 considerable time Whethr the nr-riflee i sound or not remains unproven The tension that Master Hacker lejects into -a game compelled me rather reluctantly to the exchange ( fl ) And here my Q moves to R5 under vastly different circumstance 1 becomes for the moment a mere awn protecting a brother Black manoevrej to exchange (e) Both sides have avoided Rook trades for the last eight move Hacker called this check "a food psytholoffieai move” The grame begin to look "drawey" (f) Here the KBP should be advanced to B5 m quickly as possible Black plays well and obtains e ’remote-1 passed pawn which wins for him (g) At this point I considerad the position lost but not for nothing have I earned the cognomen "Last Ditch” Crnmeiln The text move Is the obvious one but I arrived at It only after a enlld hour’s concentration on possibilltle The only reason for 49 KtxPch is that it gave my worthy adversary a chance to blunder He didn’t However later Harker remarked to one of the ap-c-latora that the hour’s wait "almost unnerved him’’ Had I been sure of this I would have takenanother twenty minute to finish the job’ Ed Note — Startin? next week this column will appear on an inside page on Thursday It hae boon appearing- on this page every Wednesday.
