September 06, 1931 It's Your Move by William Henry Steckel, Morning Call

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Chess 06 Sep 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 ; With some of the best chess players' in the Lehigh Valley participating, a two-point knockout tournament will start this coming week in the local Y. M. C. A. One round will be scheduled each week giving each player plenty o time to play off said scheduled game. In the case of one opponent not appear ing during the scheduled week for his game, the game is forfeited to his opponent. In the case of both players not appearing a loss will be credited to both: Opponents will be selected by lot, the first-, name drawn to play the white pieces.
The games scheduled must be played during the week allotted for their play. Names of opponents playing each ' other will be published in the dally ?Call" of Monday of each week. The committee in charge of this affair is composed of W. H. Steckel as chairman, and serving with him are Roy Rockel and Charles Troxell, New York Title Won by Reinfeld Fred Reinfeld, a member of the Marshall Chess Club of New York, carried off the first prize and ctate title in the annual championship tournament of the New York State Chess association at the Y. M. C. A. Rome, N. Y., thereby succeeding AE. San-tasure, of the same club, the victor at Utica last year. ; -t Reinfeld was unbeaten in eleven games. He won six and drew five, with a total of 8 -2. , The other prize winners were also from the Marshall Chess club, Reuben Fine, with 8-3, being placed second.
Santasure divided the third and fourth prizes that club, their scores being 7-4. . N. Lessing, of the Empire Chess with Arthur W. Dake, champion of club was fifth with 6-4, followed by S. Bernstein and D. Polland, each 6-5. Other scores were: N. Grossman and R. G. Guckemus each 5 -5'; E. B. Adas, 3-8; B. Gafinkel, 2-8Vi; T. Banan, tt-lO. L. Guckemus, of Utica, and F. Stevens, Jr.. of New York, divided the first and second prizes in the general tournament. Bpth made scores of 4-2.
W. A. Lyon of Syracuse, 31i-24 finished third, and G. N. - Cheney, of Syracuse, and N. Weber, of Utica, each 3-3, tied for fourth place. New York Times. - Kashdan Defeats Nimzowitsch The defeat of Aron Nimzowitsch of Copenhagen, one of the foremost of Europe's chess masters, by Isaac I. Kashdan of New York, was the out standing result in the fourth round of the International Chess Tourna-men.t It was the first time they had met and their table was the centre of attraction. Kashdan, playing the white pieces, opened with the Zukertort, which followed the lines made popular by Reti.
The rivals , were well matched until they approached the end-game stage -where Kashdan, by a clever maneuver, succeeded in obtaining a winning advantage. The game lasted forty-.fi ve mOVeS: .-. . Kashdan's total for the time being, surpasses that of Dr. Alexander Alek-hine, world champion, who failed to finish with Dr. M. Vidman of Yugoslavia, and gives the New Yorker the lead inthe tournament. The Franco-Russian opened with a queen's pawn game and succeeded in winning the exchange after a close struggle The champion who adjourned at the Close of the session, has hopes of being able to win eventually. v : Other victors besides Kashdan-. were E. D. Bogolyubow of .Germany, B. Kostisch of Yugoslavia, and G. Stoltz of Sweden.
They defeated Fire of Yugoslavia, Dr. Asztalos of Yugoslavia and Dr. Tartakower of Poland, respectively. Maroczy of Hungary drew with Colle of Belgium as did Spielmann of Austria with Flohr of Czechoslovakia. New York Times. The standing of the contestants: Players Won Lost Kashdan 3 1 Alekhine . 2 K Bogoljubow T-k lVz Kostisch 2'4 lVt Spielmann 2 1 Vidman 2 1 Maroczy 2 2 Stoltz 2 2 Asztalos 15 2 Nimzowitsch, Ha .2. Flohr 1 2M Pirc 1 2 Colle 1 3 Tartakower. 1 3 Here are some more games from the International Team Tournament at Prague: ZUKERTORT Alekhine A. Btelncr Alekhine A. Steiner France Hungary White Black France Hungary Black B-B4 OR-K Kt-K2 o-o B-K2 White .19 P-KR4 20 Q-R2 21 P-R5 22 OR-K 23 Kt-Kt5 1 Kt-KB3 Kt-KB3 2 P-B4 3 P-Q4 P-B4 PxP P-K3 4 KtxP' 5 P-OR3 6 P-K3 7 Kt-32 8 P-OKt3 9 B-Kt2 Kt-K5 P-B4 v 24 P-Kt4 Kt-KB3 23 -2 BxKKtP KtxKKtP KtxKtch R-K2 E-R O-Kt R-K2 2ft PxB Castles Kt-B3 Kt-K4 Kt-Kt3 Kt-Kt5 Q-B2 Kt-R3 P-Kt3 Kt-B2 R-Kt2 27 Q-Kt2 28 KxKt 10 B-C3 11 Castles 12 B-B2 13 P-B4 14 CS-K2 15 P-R3 16 P-KKU 17 P-Kt5 18 QKt-B3 29 Kt-Q3 30 P-K4 31 R-KKt3 32 KtxP. 33 PxR 34 B-K4 35 BxB 36 B-Q5ch P-K4 RxKt Kt-Q.S KtxP KtxR Resigns QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING Rnltfin Sultan Khan Mattlson Khan England Mattlson Latvia Black BxB O-K OKt-02 P-B4 PxP EnRland Latvia White BiacK 1 P-04 Kt-KB3 2 Kt-KB3 P-K3 3 P-K3 P-QKt3 4 B-Q3 B-Kt2 5 OKt-Q2 - P-Q4 6 Kt-K5 . B-Q? 7 P-KB4 Cnstlcs 8 Q-B3 KKt-Q2 9 0-R3 P-KB4 white 12 R-KKt 13 PxB 14 K-K2 15 Q-R4 16 B-B3 17 BxP 18 P-KKt4 19 KtxB 20 KtxP Kt-B4 BxKt PxP KtxKt 10 OKt-B3 Kt-KB3 21 RxKt P-Kt3 11 B-P2 B-R 22 OR-KKt Resigns QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED 6'iltan flitltan Neenink Khan England Black Kt-KB3 -. P-K3 P-04 B-K2 Castles P-QR3 OKt-02 Kt-K5 PxKt ' QxB P-B4 Kt-B3 B-Q2 Neenink Khan Holland England White Blaclc 26 Kt-K5 R-Q7ch 27 QxR ' P-K6n 28 OxP KtxQ 29 K Kt Q-R6cb 30 Kt-Q3 0-B3 31 KR-QKt Q-K5ch 32 K-Q2 QxKtPch 33 K-B3 OxP 34 R-Kt8 0-R4ch 35 QR-Kt4 P-Kt3 36 Kt-K5 R-Bch 37 K-Q3 Q-R6ch 38 K-Q2 R-R 39 R-Kt7 Q-R4rh 40 KR-Kt4 K-Kt 41 Kt-Q7 R-B2 Hon ana White 1 P-Q4 2 P-OB4 3 Kt-QB3 4 B-Kt5 5 P-K3 6 Kt-B3 7 P-B3 i 8 P-QKt4 9 KtxKt 10 BxB 11 Kt-02 12 Q-Kt3 13 P-B4 14 B-B4 F-OKt4 15 PxP e.n. PxP 16 R-QB P-OKt4 17 B-KZ 18 R-B5 19 P-KR4 KU04 42 R-KtBch K-B2 K-B 43 Kt-B5 R-K2 P-OR4 44 Kt-Q3 X-Kt2 RxP 45 Kt-BS K-R3 20 PxP 21 BxP BB 46 Kt-Q3 K-R4 22 RxB R-R6 47 K-K3 0-Q4 23 0-K12 RxPch 48 R-OB8 R-R2 24 K-B2 R-C8 49 R-B R-R6 25 Kt-B4 Q-OB2 Resigns. RtIV T.OPR7.
Kashdan Chrlstoffersen White Black 1 P-K4 ' P-K4 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-OB 3 B-Kt5 P-QR3 4 B-B4 Kt-B3 5 Castles B-K2 Chrlstoffe'sen White Black 17 Kt-Kt5! PxKtP(a 18 KtxPch K-R2 19 PxKtP KtxKtP 20 P-B3 B-K 6 Q-KZ P-OKt4 21 Kt-Kt5ch BxKt 1 -R.Ktt P-On 22 BxB KtR3 8 P-OR4 B-Kt5 23 Kt-Kt3 K-Kt3 9 P-B3 Castles 24 Q-Kt2 K-R2 10 P-R3 R-02 25 K-B2 B-B2 11 P-04 P-RT 26 BxKt BxB 12 R-Q ' Q-B 27 Kt-B5 P-Kt3 13 OKt-Q2 K-R 28 R-R RxKt 14 Kt-B R-OKt 29 B-B7ch K-Kt 15 PuKtP PxKtP 30 OxPeh KxB 16 P-Kt4 P-R4 31 R-KR8ch K-K2 32 RxQ Reslana INDIAN DEFENSE Andersen Alekhine Alekhine White 1 P-04 Andersen Black White Blaclc 13 PxB Kt-QB3 14 B-K3 BPxP 15 PxP R-B 16 0-Q21Kt-R4ld) 17 BxRP R-B3e 18 B-KKt5 Kt-K!6 19 0-B4 P-B3f Kt-KBT 2 QB4 P-QK13 3 Kt-QB3 B-Kt2 4 Q-B2 P-K3U) 5 P-K4 6 P-KB3 7 B-Q3 8 Kt-K2 9 BPxP B-Kt5 Castles P-KR3 P-Q4(b) PxP KKt-G2 20 PxP KtxR 21 B-R7clr K-R 10 P-K5 22 Q-R4 igfxP 23 Kt-B4 RMtns 11 RutlM P-OB4 BxKt 12 P-QR3(C) PROBLEMS Solutions to problems No. 108 by H Von Gottschall. 9-B2; No. 107, by W A. Beers, B-KT2.
No. 109 By W. A. Beers Black 8 Pieces White 10 Pieces White mates in two No. 110 By V. Nemo Black 6 Pieces White 5 Pieces White mates in three moves.