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Chess 25 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. It STECKEL, Editor Editor Wins; Championship The semi-finals and finals of the Lehigh Valley and AUentown City Chess tournament were played during the past week In the lobby of the local Y. M. C. A.
Your chess editor win ning both titles by defeating William Shuler, of Nazareth, the other finalist, from a group of thirty leading chess players from Nazareth, Northampton. Catasauqua, Washington, D. C. and the two local clubs, the Castle and AHentown Chess clubs. In winning the championship the editor found W. Shuler at his best. The game lasting approximately three hours and went to twenty-eight moves. Third place In this tournament went to H. Buckley of this city. Shuler and Buckley each received appropriate prizes for winning second and third place, respectively.
The editor receives possession of the Y. M. C A. cup for a year. Others who hold legs on the cup are, A. Roberts, A. Rex, A. Hermann, all of AHentown, and H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem.
The cup Incidentally must be won three times for permanent possession. Samuel Reshevsky Wins Championship The following are the names of (.he championship players in the Western Chess Association Congress assembled at Tulsa, Oklahoma, from October Eth to 13th: N. T. Whltaker, Washington, D. C, Samuel Factor, Illinois, Samuel California, S. Molotkowskl, New Jersey, Reshevsky, Illinois, Harry Borocrnw, J. A. Anderson, Missouri, G. S. Barnes, Minnesota, Arnold Davis, Kansas, Dan Rundell, Kansas and W. D. Wilbur, of Michigan. Among these players, Samuel Reshevsky showed his heels over the dust with N. T. Whltaker and Samuel Factor, a close second.
Final Standing Won Lost S. Reshevsky 1i lMs S. Factor 7 2 J. A. Anderson 5Vi 3Vi D. Rundell 5 4 S. Mlotkowskl 44 4!i H. Borochow 4 5 A. Davis 26 fiVs G. S. Barnes 2 7 W. D; Wilbur 0 l Chess Masters Will Tour V. S. Jose R. Capablanca, of Havana, Cuba, former world's chess champion, returned from Cuba, while Isaac I. Kashdan, champion of the Manhattan Chess club arrived from Europe on board the steamship New York of the Hamburg-American line. Both of these masters are planning to tour this c aun-try. Capablanca, before he returns to his native land, hopes to advance .somewhat his negotiations for return match with Dr. Alexander Alek-hlne, of Parts, the present title-holder. Kashdan was a member of the victorious United States team which captured the Hamilton Russell trophy in the tournament of the International Chess Federation at Prague.
While we are on the subject :.bout the above two masters, we mav add that United States Champion Frank J. Marshall would like to give a simultaneous exhibition here. A letter was received to this effect the other lay. Israel Horowitz, secretary of the Manhattan Chess club, and a member of the undefeated United States chess team, gave a simultaneous exhibition at the Manhattan Chess club, winning eleven games and losing one to M. Caragano.
We are giving a little brilliancy Ly Horowitz at the expense of D. Mac-Murray. It exemplifies the weakness of a positional error in the Philidor Defense: 1. P-K4, P-K4; 2. Kt-KB3, P-03; 3. P-04, OKt-02; 4. B-B4, P-KR3; 5. PxP, PxP; 6. BxPch, KxB; 7. KtxPch, K-B3; 8. 0-05, 0-K2; 9. Kt-Kt4ch, K-Kt3; XO. 0-B5 ch mate. (Black must play P-OB3 early in the Philidor to avoid this and similar combinations.) We have received an announcement of the completion of the new Marshall Chess club at 23 West 10th street. New York City.
Annual mem- Dersnip ernes are: Resident, $30; nonresident, $15; associate, $5, and sustaining, $50. Plus tax. The editor had encasements to eive simultaneous and blindfold exhibitions at the Nazareth Y. M. C. A. and Northampton Chess club at 961 Main street on Thursday and Friday ve-nings of the past week, respectively. A novelty has been arranged for the evening of Friday. Mr. Ita'ph Smith, the proprietor of where the exhibition was held will give to each and every one who defeats editor $1 In trade.
Philip Albrech or Bethlehem has agreed to be one of the referees in the proposed match between W. H Steckel of AHentown and H. V. Hecse of Bethlehem. In the first game between World's Champion Dr. Alexander Alekhine f nd Dr. Asztalos (this game ended in a draw) a win was missed by the latter on the 24th move. Instead of playing the text move RPxP he should have played OxRch. This move obviously would have given Dr. Asztalos a win.
FRENCH DEFENSE Asztalos Alekhine Asztalos Alekhine White Biack White Black 1 P-K4 P-K3 28 R-K2 Kt-K.t5 1 P- P- 29 R-Q6 Q-B4 3 Kt-QB3 Kt-KBJ 30 QxQ RxQ 4 B-Kt5 PxP 31 K-Kt2 K-K2 5 KtxP B-K2 32 R-Kt6 P-QR4 6 BxKt PxB 33 Kt-K5 7 Kt-KB3 P-K13 R(B1)-QB1 8 B-Kt5ch P-B3 34 R-Kt7ch 9 B-Q3 B-K12 K(B1)-B2 10 Q-K2 Q-B2 35 RxRch RxR 11 Castles P-QR3 36 P-Kt3 P-B3 12 KR-K1 Kt-Q2 37 Kt-B3 P-K4 13 K-Ktl P-QB4 38 R-Q2 K-K3 14 PxP PxP 39 Kt-Kl Kt-Q4 15 Kt-Kt3 Kt-Kt3 40 P-OB4 Kt-K2 16 Kt-R5 P-B5 41 K-R3 K-B4 17 B-K4 Kt-R5 42 R-Q6 Kt-B3 18 Q-K3 P-R3 43 Kt-B2 K-KS 19 BxB QxB 44 RxP Kt-QS 20 Q-Q4 R-QKtl 45 K-Kt2 P-R5 21 P-QKt3 Q-B3 46 K-B3 PxP 22 KtxPch BxKt 47 KtxKt PxKtch 23 QxB PxP 48 KxP K-Q6 24 RPxP? Kt-BBch 49 R-B3ch K-K7 25 K-Bl R-KB1 50 R-B4 K-Q6 26 R-03 Kt-Q4 51 R-B3ch ' K-K7 27 Q-K5 R-B4 52 R-B4 Drawn The following game caused ciuite a sensation. Kashdan's sacrifice on move fixteen was a delightful as well brilliant conception for over-the-board play. QUEEN'S PAWN E. Cnlle Kf'Kinn E. Colle Kfl'hdari White Black Whit Black 1 P-04 P-Q4 26 Q-B2 P-KKt4 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-'fn 27 BxPch K-Bl 3 P-K3 P-B4 ?R B-B5 PxKI 4 P-B3 P-K3 29 R-K3 R-K2 5 B-03 Kt-FH 30 R-Kl B-Kt.5r-h fi OKt-Q2 B-03 31 BxB Kt-Q6 7 Castles Castas 32 OxRP Kt-B5ch B PxP ' BxBP 33 K-Kt3 OxOch 9 P-K4 -B2 34 KxO KtxPch 10 PxP PxP 35 K-Kt5 RxR 11 Kt-Kt3 B-Kt3 36 P-KR4 Kr.-KO 12 Q-B2 R-Kl 37 B-B3 Kt-B5 13 B-KKt5 Kt-KR 38 Kt-B5 R-KKtB-h 14 OR-K1 B-KB4 39 K-B4 R-KBR 15 B-K3 B-Kt3 40 Kt-K3 R-B7 16 Kt-R4 KtxKBP 41 Kt-Ol R-R7 17 BxKt BxBch 42 P-R5 KtxP' 18 KxB 0-Kt3ch - 43 Kt-K3 Kt-Ofi-h 19 K-Kt3 R-K6ch 44 K-Kt3 RxORP 20 RxR OxRch 45 BxP R-QKt7 2t R-B3 ,0-Kt4ch 46 P-R6 Kt-K4 22 K-R3 Kt-K4 47 K-B4 Kt-Kt3rh 23 R-Kt3 0-R3 48 K-K4 P-Kt3 24 B-B5 R-Ksa 49 Kt-B5 Kt-K2 25 Kt-Q4 B-R4 50 Reslsns The following game is one of 'he defeats suffered by Bogoljubow.
tectmd prize dinners In the recently concluded tournament at Bled, Jugoslavia SICILIAN DEFENSE BoeoI- Botrol-Snlelmann 1ubow Snlelmann fiibnw Whit Black White Black 1 P-K4 P-OB4 29 PxP PxP 2 Kt-KB3 P-K3 .30 R-03 Kt-Kt, 3 P-04 PxP 31 RxP . RxR 4 KtxP Kt-KB3 '32 OxR R-Q2 5 Kt-OB3 P-03 33 R-OB2 P-KKt3 6 KKt-K2 Kt-B3 34 Q-K4 Kt-B3 7 P-KKt3 B-K2 35 P-K6 -Q5 8 B-Kt2 P-OR3 36 OxQ RxO 9 Castles 0-B2 37 BxP PxP 10 P-OR4 Castles 38 B-B4 R-03 11 P-Kt3 R-Q 39 R-R2 Kt-Kt5 12 B-K12 Kt-OKt5 40 R-K2 K-B2 13 Kt-R2 KtxKt 41 R-K5 R-Q7ch 14 RxKt P-Q4 42 K-B3 Kt-Q4 15 P-K5 Kt-K5 43 K-K4 Kt-B3ch 16 P-B3 Kt-B4 44 K-K3 R-Q3 17 B-04 B-Q2 . 45-R-QKt5 18 P-R5 B-OKt4 Kt-Kt5ch 19 R-K Kt-02 46 K-K2 R-Q2 20 Q-R KR-OB 47 R-Kt6 R-K2 21 B-B BxKt 48 P-Kt4 P-R4 22 RxB B-Kt5 49 P-Kt5 Kt-B3 23 R-K3 B-B4 50 P-R6 PxP 24 P-KB4 BxB 51 PxP P-R5 25 QxB Q-B4 52 RxP P.-R2 26 Q-Q2 0-R2 63 R-Kt6ch K-K2 27 K-Kt2 R-B2 54-R-Kt7ch 28 P-B4 R-Q Resigns
Your chess editor win ning both titles by defeating William Shuler, of Nazareth, the other finalist, from a group of thirty leading chess players from Nazareth, Northampton. Catasauqua, Washington, D. C. and the two local clubs, the Castle and AHentown Chess clubs. In winning the championship the editor found W. Shuler at his best. The game lasting approximately three hours and went to twenty-eight moves. Third place In this tournament went to H. Buckley of this city. Shuler and Buckley each received appropriate prizes for winning second and third place, respectively.
The editor receives possession of the Y. M. C A. cup for a year. Others who hold legs on the cup are, A. Roberts, A. Rex, A. Hermann, all of AHentown, and H. V. Hesse, of Bethlehem.
The cup Incidentally must be won three times for permanent possession. Samuel Reshevsky Wins Championship The following are the names of (.he championship players in the Western Chess Association Congress assembled at Tulsa, Oklahoma, from October Eth to 13th: N. T. Whltaker, Washington, D. C, Samuel Factor, Illinois, Samuel California, S. Molotkowskl, New Jersey, Reshevsky, Illinois, Harry Borocrnw, J. A. Anderson, Missouri, G. S. Barnes, Minnesota, Arnold Davis, Kansas, Dan Rundell, Kansas and W. D. Wilbur, of Michigan. Among these players, Samuel Reshevsky showed his heels over the dust with N. T. Whltaker and Samuel Factor, a close second.
Final Standing Won Lost S. Reshevsky 1i lMs S. Factor 7 2 J. A. Anderson 5Vi 3Vi D. Rundell 5 4 S. Mlotkowskl 44 4!i H. Borochow 4 5 A. Davis 26 fiVs G. S. Barnes 2 7 W. D; Wilbur 0 l Chess Masters Will Tour V. S. Jose R. Capablanca, of Havana, Cuba, former world's chess champion, returned from Cuba, while Isaac I. Kashdan, champion of the Manhattan Chess club arrived from Europe on board the steamship New York of the Hamburg-American line. Both of these masters are planning to tour this c aun-try. Capablanca, before he returns to his native land, hopes to advance .somewhat his negotiations for return match with Dr. Alexander Alek-hlne, of Parts, the present title-holder. Kashdan was a member of the victorious United States team which captured the Hamilton Russell trophy in the tournament of the International Chess Federation at Prague.
While we are on the subject :.bout the above two masters, we mav add that United States Champion Frank J. Marshall would like to give a simultaneous exhibition here. A letter was received to this effect the other lay. Israel Horowitz, secretary of the Manhattan Chess club, and a member of the undefeated United States chess team, gave a simultaneous exhibition at the Manhattan Chess club, winning eleven games and losing one to M. Caragano.
We are giving a little brilliancy Ly Horowitz at the expense of D. Mac-Murray. It exemplifies the weakness of a positional error in the Philidor Defense: 1. P-K4, P-K4; 2. Kt-KB3, P-03; 3. P-04, OKt-02; 4. B-B4, P-KR3; 5. PxP, PxP; 6. BxPch, KxB; 7. KtxPch, K-B3; 8. 0-05, 0-K2; 9. Kt-Kt4ch, K-Kt3; XO. 0-B5 ch mate. (Black must play P-OB3 early in the Philidor to avoid this and similar combinations.) We have received an announcement of the completion of the new Marshall Chess club at 23 West 10th street. New York City.
Annual mem- Dersnip ernes are: Resident, $30; nonresident, $15; associate, $5, and sustaining, $50. Plus tax. The editor had encasements to eive simultaneous and blindfold exhibitions at the Nazareth Y. M. C. A. and Northampton Chess club at 961 Main street on Thursday and Friday ve-nings of the past week, respectively. A novelty has been arranged for the evening of Friday. Mr. Ita'ph Smith, the proprietor of where the exhibition was held will give to each and every one who defeats editor $1 In trade.
Philip Albrech or Bethlehem has agreed to be one of the referees in the proposed match between W. H Steckel of AHentown and H. V. Hecse of Bethlehem. In the first game between World's Champion Dr. Alexander Alekhine f nd Dr. Asztalos (this game ended in a draw) a win was missed by the latter on the 24th move. Instead of playing the text move RPxP he should have played OxRch. This move obviously would have given Dr. Asztalos a win.
FRENCH DEFENSE Asztalos Alekhine Asztalos Alekhine White Biack White Black 1 P-K4 P-K3 28 R-K2 Kt-K.t5 1 P- P- 29 R-Q6 Q-B4 3 Kt-QB3 Kt-KBJ 30 QxQ RxQ 4 B-Kt5 PxP 31 K-Kt2 K-K2 5 KtxP B-K2 32 R-Kt6 P-QR4 6 BxKt PxB 33 Kt-K5 7 Kt-KB3 P-K13 R(B1)-QB1 8 B-Kt5ch P-B3 34 R-Kt7ch 9 B-Q3 B-K12 K(B1)-B2 10 Q-K2 Q-B2 35 RxRch RxR 11 Castles P-QR3 36 P-Kt3 P-B3 12 KR-K1 Kt-Q2 37 Kt-B3 P-K4 13 K-Ktl P-QB4 38 R-Q2 K-K3 14 PxP PxP 39 Kt-Kl Kt-Q4 15 Kt-Kt3 Kt-Kt3 40 P-OB4 Kt-K2 16 Kt-R5 P-B5 41 K-R3 K-B4 17 B-K4 Kt-R5 42 R-Q6 Kt-B3 18 Q-K3 P-R3 43 Kt-B2 K-KS 19 BxB QxB 44 RxP Kt-QS 20 Q-Q4 R-QKtl 45 K-Kt2 P-R5 21 P-QKt3 Q-B3 46 K-B3 PxP 22 KtxPch BxKt 47 KtxKt PxKtch 23 QxB PxP 48 KxP K-Q6 24 RPxP? Kt-BBch 49 R-B3ch K-K7 25 K-Bl R-KB1 50 R-B4 K-Q6 26 R-03 Kt-Q4 51 R-B3ch ' K-K7 27 Q-K5 R-B4 52 R-B4 Drawn The following game caused ciuite a sensation. Kashdan's sacrifice on move fixteen was a delightful as well brilliant conception for over-the-board play. QUEEN'S PAWN E. Cnlle Kf'Kinn E. Colle Kfl'hdari White Black Whit Black 1 P-04 P-Q4 26 Q-B2 P-KKt4 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-'fn 27 BxPch K-Bl 3 P-K3 P-B4 ?R B-B5 PxKI 4 P-B3 P-K3 29 R-K3 R-K2 5 B-03 Kt-FH 30 R-Kl B-Kt.5r-h fi OKt-Q2 B-03 31 BxB Kt-Q6 7 Castles Castas 32 OxRP Kt-B5ch B PxP ' BxBP 33 K-Kt3 OxOch 9 P-K4 -B2 34 KxO KtxPch 10 PxP PxP 35 K-Kt5 RxR 11 Kt-Kt3 B-Kt3 36 P-KR4 Kr.-KO 12 Q-B2 R-Kl 37 B-B3 Kt-B5 13 B-KKt5 Kt-KR 38 Kt-B5 R-KKtB-h 14 OR-K1 B-KB4 39 K-B4 R-KBR 15 B-K3 B-Kt3 40 Kt-K3 R-B7 16 Kt-R4 KtxKBP 41 Kt-Ol R-R7 17 BxKt BxBch 42 P-R5 KtxP' 18 KxB 0-Kt3ch - 43 Kt-K3 Kt-Ofi-h 19 K-Kt3 R-K6ch 44 K-Kt3 RxORP 20 RxR OxRch 45 BxP R-QKt7 2t R-B3 ,0-Kt4ch 46 P-R6 Kt-K4 22 K-R3 Kt-K4 47 K-B4 Kt-Kt3rh 23 R-Kt3 0-R3 48 K-K4 P-Kt3 24 B-B5 R-Ksa 49 Kt-B5 Kt-K2 25 Kt-Q4 B-R4 50 Reslsns The following game is one of 'he defeats suffered by Bogoljubow.
tectmd prize dinners In the recently concluded tournament at Bled, Jugoslavia SICILIAN DEFENSE BoeoI- Botrol-Snlelmann 1ubow Snlelmann fiibnw Whit Black White Black 1 P-K4 P-OB4 29 PxP PxP 2 Kt-KB3 P-K3 .30 R-03 Kt-Kt, 3 P-04 PxP 31 RxP . RxR 4 KtxP Kt-KB3 '32 OxR R-Q2 5 Kt-OB3 P-03 33 R-OB2 P-KKt3 6 KKt-K2 Kt-B3 34 Q-K4 Kt-B3 7 P-KKt3 B-K2 35 P-K6 -Q5 8 B-Kt2 P-OR3 36 OxQ RxO 9 Castles 0-B2 37 BxP PxP 10 P-OR4 Castles 38 B-B4 R-03 11 P-Kt3 R-Q 39 R-R2 Kt-Kt5 12 B-K12 Kt-OKt5 40 R-K2 K-B2 13 Kt-R2 KtxKt 41 R-K5 R-Q7ch 14 RxKt P-Q4 42 K-B3 Kt-Q4 15 P-K5 Kt-K5 43 K-K4 Kt-B3ch 16 P-B3 Kt-B4 44 K-K3 R-Q3 17 B-04 B-Q2 . 45-R-QKt5 18 P-R5 B-OKt4 Kt-Kt5ch 19 R-K Kt-02 46 K-K2 R-Q2 20 Q-R KR-OB 47 R-Kt6 R-K2 21 B-B BxKt 48 P-Kt4 P-R4 22 RxB B-Kt5 49 P-Kt5 Kt-B3 23 R-K3 B-B4 50 P-R6 PxP 24 P-KB4 BxB 51 PxP P-R5 25 QxB Q-B4 52 RxP P.-R2 26 Q-Q2 0-R2 63 R-Kt6ch K-K2 27 K-Kt2 R-B2 54-R-Kt7ch 28 P-B4 R-Q Resigns
