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Chess 04 Oct 1931, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
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"IT'S YOUR MOVE" The Morning Call's Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, Positions in End Games and News Items Will Be Welcomed W. H. STECKEL. Editor Lehigh Valley and City Tourney At the end of the third round of the Lehigh Valley and City Cher tournament which Is sponsored each year by the local Y. M. C. A., sixteen contestants remain out of the original thirty players that were entered. The feature game of the third round was between the two contestants, H: Buckley and W. Lumsden. Mr. Lumsden who ranks high in this section met uncomfortable stiff opposition at the hands of H. Buckley. We leel that Mr. Buckley was underrated, bo we suggest to those who are his opponents In the rest of the rounds In this tourney to beware. A new star is entering the select class.
Two players dropped from the undefeated class, Mr. Koch and T. :'ry-dell, this leaving only two players undefeated, Mr. Buckley and the defending champion, W. H. Steckel. Fourth round schedules: C. Koch vs. W. Snyder; H. Buckley vs. O. Geary; A. Weiss vs. W. Lumsden; P. Kruse vs. W. H. Steckel; O. Zanger vs. W, Hodgson; E. Foley vs. W. Shiltr; T. Fry dell vs. R. Oswald and W. Goldstein vs. D. Newhard, Alckhlne-Kashdan Again Play a Draw The second meeting between Dr. Alexander Alekhlne of Paris and Isaac Kashdan of New York in the International Chess Masters' tournament occurred In the twenty-third round played at the Hotel Teplice. As In the tenth round nearly three weeks ago, when they met for the first time, the result was a draw. Kashdan with the white pieces, adopted the four knights opening. Nicely calculated play on the Dart of the American enabled him to hold hli own against the world's champion at all stages of the game.
Play lasted for forty-nine moves after which a draw was agreed upon. Kashdan, thereby equaled the total number victories standing to the credit of E. D. Bogoljubow of Germany. The latter, however, with an adjourned game pending, keeps his hold on second place.
He was paired today with B. Kostisch of Yugoslavia, and It was the only game to be adjourned in the round. When play stopped Bogoljubow had the better of it, and hopes to win on resumption. In that case he will be a clear point ahead of Kashdan. Dr. Vidmar of Ljubljana scored a well-earned victory at the expense of E. Colle of Belgium. The university professor who conducted the tlack pieces in that match came up hvel with Kashdan. The only other winner was Aron Nimzowitech. of Denmark, who defeated Dr. L. Asztalos of Yugoslavia. Drawn games were recorded between S. Flohr of Czechoslovakia and G. Stoltz of Sweden; V. Pirc of Yugoslavia and Dr. 8. Tartakower of Poland and between G. Maroczy of Hungary and R. Spielmann of Austria.
The Standing Won Alekhlne 18 V4 Bogoljubow 124 Kashdan 13Vi Vldmar 12Vi NimEowitsch 12 . Spielmann 12 Lost 9 10 V4 10Vs 11 li. Flohr ,. 11 HVj Stoltz 11 Maroczy 11 12 Kostisch lOVi 11 Tartakower 10 13 Asztalos 9 12 Colle H Pirc 7 15 Another Invitation for Kashdan Isaac I. Kashdan, champion of the Manhattan Chess club, is among the experts invited to compete in an International Masters' tournament which will be held in Czechoslovakia early this month. The tournament will open at Tatrr. Lomitz, where the first four rounds will be played.
The rest of the games will be distributed among other health resorts, Including Alt-Schmecks, Ncu-Schmecks, Tatranska-Poljana and Stroske-Pleso. Others invited ii-clude E. D. Bogoljubow of Germany; Mir Sultan Khan, of India; 6. Flohr, of Czechoslovakia; Lajos Steiner of Hungary; V. Pirc of Jugoslavia; D. Noteboom, of Holland; V. Mikenas, of Lithuania; G. Stoltz, of Sweden; J. Rejfir, of Czechoslovakia; V. Petrow of Latvia, and A. Lilenthal, of Austria! Alekhlne Expects Challenge Harold M. Phillips, president of the Intercollegiate Chess League, who has returned after an absence of three months in Europe, reported at ihe Manhattan Chess club that he had interviewed Dr. Alexander Alekhlne, world champion, in regard to the challenge of Jose R. Capablanca, of Cuba, for a return match and had found the titleholder open to negotiations along any reasonable lines.
Until the funds for such a match can be raised or guaranteed, no definite plans can be formulated according to Mr. Phillips, who, however, believes that the prospects are bright and that the match is likely to be held in the United States. While in Holland, Mr. Phillips met Dr. Emanuel Lasker, of Berlin, who held the championship for twerly-seven years. Dr. Lasker was in excellent health and giving much of his time to the study of contract bridge from a scientific angle. He continues to take a lively interest in cness, out is definitely out of the match &nd tournament play. The following games arevtrom tne International Chess Masters' tournament at Bled. Jugoslavia. In this tourney America's representative, Isaac Kashdan is going great guns.
Among Kashdan's notable victories are two wins over the Danish representative, Aron 'Nimzowitsch, and two drawn games with the world's champion, Dr. Alexander Alekhlne. ZUKERTORT OPENING Kash dan White 1 Kt-KB3 2 P-B4 3 Kt-R3 4 P-KKt3 5 KtxP - 6 B-Kt2 7 P-Q3 8 Castles 9 KKt-Q3 10 Kt-K4 11 Kt-K3 12 Kt-B3 13 P.Kt3 li B-OR3 15 R-B 16 Kt-K4 17 Q-02 18 Kt-B3 19 P-B4 20 PxP 21 K-R 22 Kt-B4 23 Kt-R5 Alelr Wne X White 1 P-K4 2 P-Q4 3 Kt-OB3 4 Kt-K2 5 P-OR3 6 KtxB 7 P-B3 8 QxP S -Kt3 10 O-KtP Nimzo witsch BlBClC P-04 PxP P-C'34 Kt-B3 P-B3 P-K4 B-K3 KKt-K2 Kt-34 B-K2 0-02 Kt-Kt3 . Xt-O R-OB Castles W-Kt4 P-B4 Q-Q2 PxP KS-Q K-R B-B3 R-B2 FRENCH Blacic P-K3 P-04 B-KtS PxP BxKtrh P-KB4 PxP QxP Kt-KB3 Q-K4ch RUY LOPEZ Kash dan -White 24 P-K3 25 KtxKt 26 KtxP 27 BxR 28 BxKt 29 K-Kt 30 BxP 31 R-KB2 32 KxB 33 K-K 34 Q-KB2 . 35 Q-K2 3R B-Q4 37 R-B5 38 P-K4 39 PxP ' i 40 P-BS 41 Q-K3 42 Q-QB3 43 R-K5 44 B-B5 45 R-K7 DEFENSE White 11 B-K2 12 Q-R6 13 Q-R4 14 B-KKtS Nlrazo.
witsch BUclt Kt-Kt4 OxKt RxKt Kt-Q4 BxBch Q-R3 B-RS BxRch Q-R3 Q-KKt3 0-QP3 m R-Kt3 PxP . 0-Kt2 . R-03 K-Kt B-Q2 R-QB3 Q-B Resign Nimto-wttsnh Black R-F-t S-Kt3 B-C2 B-B3 IS Castles OR BxP 10KR-K B-K5 17 B-R5 KtxB 18 R-Q7ch K-B2 19 OxKt Resigns Stoltz White 1 P-K4 . 2 Kt-KB9 3 B-Kt5 4 B-R4 5 P-Q4 6 B-Kt3 7 KtxKt 8 B-Q5 9 B-B6eh 10 BxBch 11 OxP 12 Kt-B3 13 Castles 14 B-Q2 15 Q-Q3 18 Kt-K2 17 P-B3 18 PxP 19 OR-B 20 P-OB4 21 K-B2 Alekhlne Eiac P-K4 Kt-QB3 P-QR3 - P-Q3 P-OKt4 KtxP PxKt R.Kt B-Q2 OxB Kt-B3 B-K2 Cantles KR-K P-Kt5 Q-B3 P-Q4 KtxP B-P3 0-B4:h Kt-KB 8tnlt White 22 P-QKt3 23 BxKt 24 Q-B2 25 P-Kt3 26 R-B 27 K-Kt2 28 RxR 29 K-R3 30 R-B 31 Kt-B4 32 P-Kt4 33 Q-KKta 34 Kt-R5 35 0-K2 36 Kt-Kt3 37 Kt-K4 38 QxQ 39 RxP 40 KxB Resigns. Alekhlne Biacic GR-Q RxB B-R5 RxBP B-Kt4 RxRch 0-B3ch B-K6 R-Q4 Q-Q2CU R-05 P-QB3 B-Kt4 P-Kt3 P-KR4 QxPch PxOch RxKtch K-KtJI QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED Solelmann wmte 1 P-Q4 P-UH4 Kt-OB3 Kt-BJ B-K'5 P-URj P-K4 P-K5 B-R4 B-Kt3 11 P-KR4 12 Kt-Q2 13 KKt-K4 14 Q-Q2 15 B-K2 16 P-B3 17 PxKt 18 PxB 19 B-B4 20 OxB 21 Caktles 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pirc.
Black Kt-KB3 P-B3 P-Q4 P-K3 Pxf P-Kt4 P-KR3 P-Kt4 Kt-Q4 P-KKto P-KH4 B-OKt2 P-R3 P-OB4 KtxKt BxKt B-R3 rBxB PxP R-KB Soielmann White 22 PxP 23 KR-Q 24 K-R 25 PxP 26 Q-Kt3 27 P-K5 28 P-R4 29 PxP 30 R-R5 31 R-QKt 32 B-B3 33 BxR :4 KR-R 35 Q-Q3 36 Q-Kt8 37 Q-Kt7 38 Q-K7 39 Q-Q6 40 R-R7ch 41 Q-R3 42 Q-R6ch Plre Black Q-Kt3 Cast'cs P-B3 RxP 0-B2 Kt-Kt3 R-E2 PxP Q-B3 R-Q4 P-B6 K-Kt Kt-B2 R-B R-B P-Kt6 K-Kt2 K-Kt3 G-B5 Resigns PROBLEMS Solutions to problems No. 117, by M. Gunfeld, R-Q4; No. 118 by W. A. Beers, B-R8. No. 119 By A. J. Fink Black, 8 Pieces.
White 9 Pieces White mates In two. No. 120 By the Rev, L. Mortimer Black, 1 Piece. H .11. White 5 Pieces. White mates in three.
Two players dropped from the undefeated class, Mr. Koch and T. :'ry-dell, this leaving only two players undefeated, Mr. Buckley and the defending champion, W. H. Steckel. Fourth round schedules: C. Koch vs. W. Snyder; H. Buckley vs. O. Geary; A. Weiss vs. W. Lumsden; P. Kruse vs. W. H. Steckel; O. Zanger vs. W, Hodgson; E. Foley vs. W. Shiltr; T. Fry dell vs. R. Oswald and W. Goldstein vs. D. Newhard, Alckhlne-Kashdan Again Play a Draw The second meeting between Dr. Alexander Alekhlne of Paris and Isaac Kashdan of New York in the International Chess Masters' tournament occurred In the twenty-third round played at the Hotel Teplice. As In the tenth round nearly three weeks ago, when they met for the first time, the result was a draw. Kashdan with the white pieces, adopted the four knights opening. Nicely calculated play on the Dart of the American enabled him to hold hli own against the world's champion at all stages of the game.
Play lasted for forty-nine moves after which a draw was agreed upon. Kashdan, thereby equaled the total number victories standing to the credit of E. D. Bogoljubow of Germany. The latter, however, with an adjourned game pending, keeps his hold on second place.
He was paired today with B. Kostisch of Yugoslavia, and It was the only game to be adjourned in the round. When play stopped Bogoljubow had the better of it, and hopes to win on resumption. In that case he will be a clear point ahead of Kashdan. Dr. Vidmar of Ljubljana scored a well-earned victory at the expense of E. Colle of Belgium. The university professor who conducted the tlack pieces in that match came up hvel with Kashdan. The only other winner was Aron Nimzowitech. of Denmark, who defeated Dr. L. Asztalos of Yugoslavia. Drawn games were recorded between S. Flohr of Czechoslovakia and G. Stoltz of Sweden; V. Pirc of Yugoslavia and Dr. 8. Tartakower of Poland and between G. Maroczy of Hungary and R. Spielmann of Austria.
The Standing Won Alekhlne 18 V4 Bogoljubow 124 Kashdan 13Vi Vldmar 12Vi NimEowitsch 12 . Spielmann 12 Lost 9 10 V4 10Vs 11 li. Flohr ,. 11 HVj Stoltz 11 Maroczy 11 12 Kostisch lOVi 11 Tartakower 10 13 Asztalos 9 12 Colle H Pirc 7 15 Another Invitation for Kashdan Isaac I. Kashdan, champion of the Manhattan Chess club, is among the experts invited to compete in an International Masters' tournament which will be held in Czechoslovakia early this month. The tournament will open at Tatrr. Lomitz, where the first four rounds will be played.
The rest of the games will be distributed among other health resorts, Including Alt-Schmecks, Ncu-Schmecks, Tatranska-Poljana and Stroske-Pleso. Others invited ii-clude E. D. Bogoljubow of Germany; Mir Sultan Khan, of India; 6. Flohr, of Czechoslovakia; Lajos Steiner of Hungary; V. Pirc of Jugoslavia; D. Noteboom, of Holland; V. Mikenas, of Lithuania; G. Stoltz, of Sweden; J. Rejfir, of Czechoslovakia; V. Petrow of Latvia, and A. Lilenthal, of Austria! Alekhlne Expects Challenge Harold M. Phillips, president of the Intercollegiate Chess League, who has returned after an absence of three months in Europe, reported at ihe Manhattan Chess club that he had interviewed Dr. Alexander Alekhlne, world champion, in regard to the challenge of Jose R. Capablanca, of Cuba, for a return match and had found the titleholder open to negotiations along any reasonable lines.
Until the funds for such a match can be raised or guaranteed, no definite plans can be formulated according to Mr. Phillips, who, however, believes that the prospects are bright and that the match is likely to be held in the United States. While in Holland, Mr. Phillips met Dr. Emanuel Lasker, of Berlin, who held the championship for twerly-seven years. Dr. Lasker was in excellent health and giving much of his time to the study of contract bridge from a scientific angle. He continues to take a lively interest in cness, out is definitely out of the match &nd tournament play. The following games arevtrom tne International Chess Masters' tournament at Bled. Jugoslavia. In this tourney America's representative, Isaac Kashdan is going great guns.
Among Kashdan's notable victories are two wins over the Danish representative, Aron 'Nimzowitsch, and two drawn games with the world's champion, Dr. Alexander Alekhlne. ZUKERTORT OPENING Kash dan White 1 Kt-KB3 2 P-B4 3 Kt-R3 4 P-KKt3 5 KtxP - 6 B-Kt2 7 P-Q3 8 Castles 9 KKt-Q3 10 Kt-K4 11 Kt-K3 12 Kt-B3 13 P.Kt3 li B-OR3 15 R-B 16 Kt-K4 17 Q-02 18 Kt-B3 19 P-B4 20 PxP 21 K-R 22 Kt-B4 23 Kt-R5 Alelr Wne X White 1 P-K4 2 P-Q4 3 Kt-OB3 4 Kt-K2 5 P-OR3 6 KtxB 7 P-B3 8 QxP S -Kt3 10 O-KtP Nimzo witsch BlBClC P-04 PxP P-C'34 Kt-B3 P-B3 P-K4 B-K3 KKt-K2 Kt-34 B-K2 0-02 Kt-Kt3 . Xt-O R-OB Castles W-Kt4 P-B4 Q-Q2 PxP KS-Q K-R B-B3 R-B2 FRENCH Blacic P-K3 P-04 B-KtS PxP BxKtrh P-KB4 PxP QxP Kt-KB3 Q-K4ch RUY LOPEZ Kash dan -White 24 P-K3 25 KtxKt 26 KtxP 27 BxR 28 BxKt 29 K-Kt 30 BxP 31 R-KB2 32 KxB 33 K-K 34 Q-KB2 . 35 Q-K2 3R B-Q4 37 R-B5 38 P-K4 39 PxP ' i 40 P-BS 41 Q-K3 42 Q-QB3 43 R-K5 44 B-B5 45 R-K7 DEFENSE White 11 B-K2 12 Q-R6 13 Q-R4 14 B-KKtS Nlrazo.
witsch BUclt Kt-Kt4 OxKt RxKt Kt-Q4 BxBch Q-R3 B-RS BxRch Q-R3 Q-KKt3 0-QP3 m R-Kt3 PxP . 0-Kt2 . R-03 K-Kt B-Q2 R-QB3 Q-B Resign Nimto-wttsnh Black R-F-t S-Kt3 B-C2 B-B3 IS Castles OR BxP 10KR-K B-K5 17 B-R5 KtxB 18 R-Q7ch K-B2 19 OxKt Resigns Stoltz White 1 P-K4 . 2 Kt-KB9 3 B-Kt5 4 B-R4 5 P-Q4 6 B-Kt3 7 KtxKt 8 B-Q5 9 B-B6eh 10 BxBch 11 OxP 12 Kt-B3 13 Castles 14 B-Q2 15 Q-Q3 18 Kt-K2 17 P-B3 18 PxP 19 OR-B 20 P-OB4 21 K-B2 Alekhlne Eiac P-K4 Kt-QB3 P-QR3 - P-Q3 P-OKt4 KtxP PxKt R.Kt B-Q2 OxB Kt-B3 B-K2 Cantles KR-K P-Kt5 Q-B3 P-Q4 KtxP B-P3 0-B4:h Kt-KB 8tnlt White 22 P-QKt3 23 BxKt 24 Q-B2 25 P-Kt3 26 R-B 27 K-Kt2 28 RxR 29 K-R3 30 R-B 31 Kt-B4 32 P-Kt4 33 Q-KKta 34 Kt-R5 35 0-K2 36 Kt-Kt3 37 Kt-K4 38 QxQ 39 RxP 40 KxB Resigns. Alekhlne Biacic GR-Q RxB B-R5 RxBP B-Kt4 RxRch 0-B3ch B-K6 R-Q4 Q-Q2CU R-05 P-QB3 B-Kt4 P-Kt3 P-KR4 QxPch PxOch RxKtch K-KtJI QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED Solelmann wmte 1 P-Q4 P-UH4 Kt-OB3 Kt-BJ B-K'5 P-URj P-K4 P-K5 B-R4 B-Kt3 11 P-KR4 12 Kt-Q2 13 KKt-K4 14 Q-Q2 15 B-K2 16 P-B3 17 PxKt 18 PxB 19 B-B4 20 OxB 21 Caktles 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pirc.
Black Kt-KB3 P-B3 P-Q4 P-K3 Pxf P-Kt4 P-KR3 P-Kt4 Kt-Q4 P-KKto P-KH4 B-OKt2 P-R3 P-OB4 KtxKt BxKt B-R3 rBxB PxP R-KB Soielmann White 22 PxP 23 KR-Q 24 K-R 25 PxP 26 Q-Kt3 27 P-K5 28 P-R4 29 PxP 30 R-R5 31 R-QKt 32 B-B3 33 BxR :4 KR-R 35 Q-Q3 36 Q-Kt8 37 Q-Kt7 38 Q-K7 39 Q-Q6 40 R-R7ch 41 Q-R3 42 Q-R6ch Plre Black Q-Kt3 Cast'cs P-B3 RxP 0-B2 Kt-Kt3 R-E2 PxP Q-B3 R-Q4 P-B6 K-Kt Kt-B2 R-B R-B P-Kt6 K-Kt2 K-Kt3 G-B5 Resigns PROBLEMS Solutions to problems No. 117, by M. Gunfeld, R-Q4; No. 118 by W. A. Beers, B-R8. No. 119 By A. J. Fink Black, 8 Pieces.
White 9 Pieces White mates In two. No. 120 By the Rev, L. Mortimer Black, 1 Piece. H .11. White 5 Pieces. White mates in three.
