Chess 13 Nov 1937, Sat Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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By PAUL J. MILLER, Jr. RESUMPTION of the adjourned sixteenth game of the world championship series tonight at Rotterdam slightly favors Challenger Alexander Alekhin, who so far has maintained a 3-point lead over Dr. Max Euwe, world champion. In the sixteenth game Alekhin opened with a variation of the queen's pawn game known as the Catalan variation and succeeding in obtaining a pawn advantage after the eighteenth move.
Fighting against time pressure, the challenger failed to see that a queen exchange could have been forced to increase already deeply complicated positional play, with the distinct chances of a win for himself. Euwe put up a stubborn defense and, as Alekhin sealed hig forty-first move, the set-up appeared to be almost a toss-up. Colonials Stage O. K. Tourney.
^EORGE DERR, president of the Omar Khayyam Chess Club of George Washington University, initiated a triple section tournament. Audrey Fuller, secretary, is accepting entries Thursday night, Colum bian House, for the third section. Sections 1 and 2, with eight con-' testants each, have been paired for play in a double round robin. Robert Knox, one-time interhigh champion, has entered the tourney, thus giving it a merit standing. William Reynolds, inter-high champion this last year, now is a frosh at G. W. and, should he decide to compete. then the college boys and girls are in for a real shellacking. The tourney offers the award of a book prize. If a title were involved, then the fracas would thin down to a tug-of-war between Reynolds and Knox.
But for a mere book—pshaw, you can see Reynolds shrugging indifferently his shoulders now. Only cham-peen-ship” chess interests him. Position Play by Euwe. “FUNDAMENTALS OF POSITION PLAY” is the title of the second article in the series being published by the British publication. Chess, the contributions emanating from the mathematical brain of Champion Max Euwe.
Says Euwe: “Pawns have verying values and the same pawn may alter in value in the course of a game. . . . The first pawn moves have a wider purpose than the mere creation of an outlet for the pieces; these pawns must also be able to safeguard the developed pieces against attack by hostile pawns.
. . . "Never abandon pressure against the enemy center unless by so doing you gain some clear advantage.” Anton Y. Hesse and Robert J. Feeney adjourned their game for the Social Divan championship. Youthful Feeney offered time and time again tricky sacrifices, but the sagacious Hesse parried the traps with his veteran skill..
Fighting against time pressure, the challenger failed to see that a queen exchange could have been forced to increase already deeply complicated positional play, with the distinct chances of a win for himself. Euwe put up a stubborn defense and, as Alekhin sealed hig forty-first move, the set-up appeared to be almost a toss-up. Colonials Stage O. K. Tourney.
^EORGE DERR, president of the Omar Khayyam Chess Club of George Washington University, initiated a triple section tournament. Audrey Fuller, secretary, is accepting entries Thursday night, Colum bian House, for the third section. Sections 1 and 2, with eight con-' testants each, have been paired for play in a double round robin. Robert Knox, one-time interhigh champion, has entered the tourney, thus giving it a merit standing. William Reynolds, inter-high champion this last year, now is a frosh at G. W. and, should he decide to compete. then the college boys and girls are in for a real shellacking. The tourney offers the award of a book prize. If a title were involved, then the fracas would thin down to a tug-of-war between Reynolds and Knox.
But for a mere book—pshaw, you can see Reynolds shrugging indifferently his shoulders now. Only cham-peen-ship” chess interests him. Position Play by Euwe. “FUNDAMENTALS OF POSITION PLAY” is the title of the second article in the series being published by the British publication. Chess, the contributions emanating from the mathematical brain of Champion Max Euwe.
Says Euwe: “Pawns have verying values and the same pawn may alter in value in the course of a game. . . . The first pawn moves have a wider purpose than the mere creation of an outlet for the pieces; these pawns must also be able to safeguard the developed pieces against attack by hostile pawns.
. . . "Never abandon pressure against the enemy center unless by so doing you gain some clear advantage.” Anton Y. Hesse and Robert J. Feeney adjourned their game for the Social Divan championship. Youthful Feeney offered time and time again tricky sacrifices, but the sagacious Hesse parried the traps with his veteran skill..
