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Chess 13 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 'Championship Tournament Starts During the past week considerable interest was shown when the flist round of the annual Y. M. C. A. Chess tournament started. Some of the best chess players In this section are participating, In fact every we!l knov 1 player has entered, excepting A. r.ex, our ever popular and well known club president, who begs to be excused this year. Thirty players are entered in thi; tournament, this speaks well r.nd vouches for the success of chess in this city.
To the editors knowledge, nowhere In this section have th. r been more than fifteen enter a tournament of this kind, let alone thirty. Many fans expected, two, namely A. Herrman and W. H. Steckel, to be in at the finals but this luck of the drawing for the first round broufjht these two together, unfortunately as this column went to press before ell the results of the first round wpre completed we are obviously unable to give the final results till next Sunday. In the first round the pairings ar: as follows, with the first named in each case playing the white pieces: D. Newhard vs. J. Tiddler; R. Smith vs. P. Deibert; L. Stroh vs. W. Goldstein; Ft. Oswald vs. O. Santee; C: Troxell vs. E. Shollcnbcrger; W. Snyder vs. R. Miller; E. Foley vs. W. Hodgson; W. McKee vs. E. Kocher; H. Heffelflnger vs. A. Weiss: T. Frydell vs. R. Rockel; O. Zanger vs. H. Buckley; W. Shuler vs. C. Kach; P. Kruse vs. A. Warsau; C. Geary vs. W. Lumsden and A. Herrmann vs. W. H. Steckel, Alekhine Wins Again E. D. Bogolpubow cf German. unsuccessful tiontender for the world's championship, was unequal to the tack of stopping Dr. Alexander Alekhine in the International Chess Misters' tournament, the ninth round of which was contested at the Hotel Teplice. The outcome of their encounter .s still another triumph for the champion, who adopted the Indian Defense to his oponent's queen's pawn opening and scored in fifty-five moves. Dr. Alckhine's total was increased to Z'.2. Rudolph Spielmann of Austria retained hfc hold on second place, his game with Dr. M. Vidman of Yugoslavia, resulting in a draw. Dr. Vidman was tied in third place by Isaac Kashdan, champion of the Manhattan Chess Club of New York, who won from Geza Maroczy- of Hungary. The latter resorted to Albin's counter-gambit and suffered defeat in thirty-four moves.
Victories were also scored ov . 1,. Asztalos of Yugoslavia and G. Ctolt . of Sweden who defeated Colle of Belgium and Pirc of Yugoslavia, respectively. Nimzowitch of Denmark and Dr. Tartakower of Poland drew and the game between Flohr of Czechoslovakia and Kostesch of Yugoslavia was adjourned. New York Times. The following are the results of the first nine rounds of this tournament: . ROUND 1 Alekhine. 1, Stoltz, 0; Pirc, 1, Nimzowitsch, 0; Kashdin. Vi, Asztalos. V. Tatarakower, . Mar oczy, Vi Kostisch. 4. Spielmann, 'i; Vidman, 1, Bogoljubow. 0; Colle, Vi, .Flchr, H. ROUND 2 Alekhine, 1. 'Iart-kower, 0; Spielmann, 1; Pirc, 0; Bogoljubow, 1; Colle, 0; Kashdan, Vi, V.d-man, Vi; Marczy, Vi, Asztalos, Vi; Nimzowitsch, X, Flohr, 0; Koctisih. Vi, Flohr. -i. ROUND 3 Kashdan, 1, Colle, 0; Alekhine, Vi, Asztalos, Vi: Nimzowitsch, Vi. Bogoljubow, Vi; Tartakower, a. Kostisch, 4; Pirc, V4. Flohr. i; Vidman, Vi. Maroczy, Vi; Spielmann, Vi, Stoltz. Vi. ROUND 1 4 Kashdan, 1, Nimzowitsch, 0; Bogoljubow, 1, Pirc, 0. Kt .-tlsch, 1, Asztalos. 0; Stoltz, 1. Tartakower, 0: Maroczy, Vi, Colle, Spielmann, Vi. Flohr, Vi: Alekhine, 1, Vidman, 0. ROUND 5 Alekhine, 1. Colle, 0; Spielmann, Vi, Tartakower, V4:"Vid-mar, 1, Kostisch.- 0; Kashdan, . Vi, Pirc, Nimzowitsch,": 1. Maroczy, 0; Asztalos, 1, Stoltz, 0; Bogoljubcw, 1, Flohr. 0. j ROUND 8-Colle,: 1, Kostisch, 0; Flohr,- 1 ; Kashdan, ' o; Alekhine, 1 : Nimzowitsch, 0; Stoltz, Vi; Vidmar, Vi; Spielmann, 1, Bogoljubow, 0: Tar- kower, Vi, Asztalos, ; Maroczy, , Pirc, Vi- ROUND 7 BoKollubow, 1, Kash dan, 0 Alekhine, 1, Pirc, 0; Vidmar, ?, Tartakower, Colle, Stoltz, Nimzowitsch, Kostich, Flohr, Maroczy, Asztalos, Splelman, 0. ROUND 8 Alekhine, 1, Flohr, f; Maroczy. 1, Bogoljubow, 0; Stoltz, 1, Nimzowitsch, 0; Kostisch, 1, Pirc, 0; Tartakower, 1, Colle, 0; Asztalos, Vs. Vidmar, Vi; Kashdan, Vi, Spielmann, 'i. ROUND 9 Alekhine, 1, Bogoljubow, 0; Kashdan, 1, Maroczy, 0; Vidmar. Vi. Spielmann, V2; Asztalos, 1, Colle, 0; Stoltz, 1, Pirc, 0; Nimzowitsch. Vi, Tartakower, Vi; Flohr, Kostisch. Standing Up to Ninth Round Won Lost Alekhine 84 Vi Spielmann 6 3 Kashdan S Vidmar 5 4' Asztalos 4Va 4 'a Bogoljubow 4'i 4Vi Stoltz 4Vi 4Vi Kostisch 4 4 Tartakower 4 5 7 Flohr 3Vi 4Vi Maroczy 5V Nimzowitsch 3Vj 5Vj Colle 3 6 Pirc 2Vi 6 The following games are from recently conducted tournaments in Europe. The fir: two games are from a masters' tournament at Antwerp, Belgium, and the next two are a tournament conducted at Brunn, Czechoslovakia : ZUKERTORT OPENING Dale. Perouin Dake.
Perauin White Bind? White Black 1 Kt-KB3 Kt-KB3 12 BxKt R-K 2 P-B4 P-B4 13 0-02 P-Kt3 3 Kt-B3 Kt-B3 14 KR-Q R-R2 4 P-04 FtP 15 B-R4 Kt-K4 5 KtxP P-KKtl 16 P-Kt3 R-K2 6 P-KKt3 B-K'.2 17 Kt-K4 P-04 7 B-Kt2 Ca'tl.s 18 B-KtS OR-Q2 8 Castles P-K3 19 Kt-B6 BsKt 9 KKt-Kt5 P-OR3 20 BxB S PxP 10 Kt-06 Kt-K 21 Q-R8 RxR 11 B-B4 KixKt 22 PxR Resinsa) fa For If 22 Q-B: 23 R-08. R-K: 24 RjtR. etc or 22 QxR'i 2" B"0EEN,3 PAWN OPENING , Rubin- Kol- Rubin- Kol- stein tanowslci stein tanowskl White Black White Black 1 P-04 Kt-KB3 19 Kt-03 Kt-Kt3 2 P-QB4 P-KKt3 20 B-B Q-B2 4 B-Kt2 C3 sties 21 B-Kt2 R-K2 5 Kt-OB3 P-Q3 22 P-B5 , PxP 3 P-KKt3 B-Kt2 23 KtxP Kt-Kt5 6 P-K4 P-K4 24 PxKt BxOP 7 KKt-K2 P-B3 25 Kt-Kt5 BxO 8 P-nR3 P-KR3 26 KtxQ BxR 9 B-K3 QKt-Q2 27 B-B6 OR-02 10 Q-02 K-R2 28 KtxR RxKt 11 P-Kt3 0-K2 29 Kt-K8 B-R4 12 R-O R-K 30 P-K5 R-Q7 13 Castles Kt-B 31 Kt-Q6 BxP 14 K-P2 B-Q2 32 KtxKtP B-B2 15 P-B4 PxBP 33 K-R BxP 16 KtxP OR-O 34 BxBP B-R6 17 QR-K B-B Rejmns. 18 G-KB5 P-KKt4 QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING Fteiner Zinner Steiner Zinner White Blnck White Black 1 P-04 Kt-KB3 19 R-03 P-QKt4 2 Kt-KB3 P-K3 20 R-Kt3 BxKt 3 B-Kt5 P-KR3 21 PxB R-B5 4 BxKt QxB 22 R-KB3 0-B2 b P-K4 P-OKt3 23 B-03 RxP 6 B-Q3 B-K12- 24 Q-K3 Q-K4 7 OKt-Q2 P-Bl Z5 QxP Q-Kt2 8 P-B3 XP 26 Q-Kt5 R-QB 9 KtxP B-B4 27 P-KR4 Q-B 10 QKt-B3 Kt-B3 28 P-R5 tt-Bl 11 KtxKt BxKt 29 Q-K3 Q-Kt2 12 Q-K2 Castlrs 30 P-R6 Q-R 13 Castles KR-Q 31 Q-B4 R-B4 14 QR-Q Q-B5 32 P-R7ch KxP 15 Kt-Q4 B-Kt2 33 R-R3ch K-Kt2 18 B-B2 KR-QB 34 Q-K3 QxR 17 KR-K P-Kt3 35 PxQ Rectans 18 R-Q2 P-R QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING Steiner RellBtab tjtetner Rellstab Whit- Black Wlijte Blnck 1 P-Q4 Kt-KB3 26 itxKt P-B4 i Kt-KB3 P-B4 27 Kt-Kt5 P::P 3 P-Q5 P-K3 28 Kt-B4 R-Bc!i 4 P-B4 P-QKt4 29 K-K3 R-B6ch 5 B-Kt5 PxP 30 KxP- RxP 6 Kt-B3 P-Q3 31 KKtxOP R-K-B 7 P-K4 P-K4 32 Kt-QB7 R-B7 8 BxP B-K2 33 Kt-B4 R-K7ch 9 Castles Castles 34 K-B4 R-Q6 10 Kt-Q2 Kt-Kt5 35 R-QB R-K2 11 BxB Q-B 36 P-Q6 RxP 12 P-KR3 Kt-KR3 . 37 KtxR RxKt 13 P-B4 PxP 38 R-QKt P-R3 14 RxP Kt-Q2 39 Kt-Kt7 R-B2ch 15 Q-R5 Q-K4 40 K-K5 JP-B5 16 QxQ KtxQ 41 K-Q4 P-Kt4 17 B-K2 B-Q2 42 KtxP R-B5c!i 18 P-QKt3 OR-Kt 43 K-B3 P-Kt5 19 R-B2 KR-K 44 KtxP K-Kt2 20 P-KKt4 P-B3 45 P-R5 P R4 21 K-R2 P-R4 46 P-R6 F-B 22 P-OR4 BxKtP 47 P-R7 P-Kt6 23 PxB KKtxPch 48 R-Kt7ch K-R3 24 BxKt KtxBch 49 R-K18 P-Kt7 25 K-Kt3 KtxR 50 RxR Refluns PROBLEMS Solutions to problems No. Ill, by A, Marl, B-KT7; No. 112, by W. A. Shinkmann: , No. 113 By K. Makorsky Black 3 Pieces g M h P txat SSW'X m"m Mi m iz&z firm: tmm mi wm .mm m 1 White 4 Pieces White mates In two. No. 114 By Sam Loyd Black 4 Pieces White 2 Pieces White mates in three.
To the editors knowledge, nowhere In this section have th. r been more than fifteen enter a tournament of this kind, let alone thirty. Many fans expected, two, namely A. Herrman and W. H. Steckel, to be in at the finals but this luck of the drawing for the first round broufjht these two together, unfortunately as this column went to press before ell the results of the first round wpre completed we are obviously unable to give the final results till next Sunday. In the first round the pairings ar: as follows, with the first named in each case playing the white pieces: D. Newhard vs. J. Tiddler; R. Smith vs. P. Deibert; L. Stroh vs. W. Goldstein; Ft. Oswald vs. O. Santee; C: Troxell vs. E. Shollcnbcrger; W. Snyder vs. R. Miller; E. Foley vs. W. Hodgson; W. McKee vs. E. Kocher; H. Heffelflnger vs. A. Weiss: T. Frydell vs. R. Rockel; O. Zanger vs. H. Buckley; W. Shuler vs. C. Kach; P. Kruse vs. A. Warsau; C. Geary vs. W. Lumsden and A. Herrmann vs. W. H. Steckel, Alekhine Wins Again E. D. Bogolpubow cf German. unsuccessful tiontender for the world's championship, was unequal to the tack of stopping Dr. Alexander Alekhine in the International Chess Misters' tournament, the ninth round of which was contested at the Hotel Teplice. The outcome of their encounter .s still another triumph for the champion, who adopted the Indian Defense to his oponent's queen's pawn opening and scored in fifty-five moves. Dr. Alckhine's total was increased to Z'.2. Rudolph Spielmann of Austria retained hfc hold on second place, his game with Dr. M. Vidman of Yugoslavia, resulting in a draw. Dr. Vidman was tied in third place by Isaac Kashdan, champion of the Manhattan Chess Club of New York, who won from Geza Maroczy- of Hungary. The latter resorted to Albin's counter-gambit and suffered defeat in thirty-four moves.
Victories were also scored ov . 1,. Asztalos of Yugoslavia and G. Ctolt . of Sweden who defeated Colle of Belgium and Pirc of Yugoslavia, respectively. Nimzowitch of Denmark and Dr. Tartakower of Poland drew and the game between Flohr of Czechoslovakia and Kostesch of Yugoslavia was adjourned. New York Times. The following are the results of the first nine rounds of this tournament: . ROUND 1 Alekhine. 1, Stoltz, 0; Pirc, 1, Nimzowitsch, 0; Kashdin. Vi, Asztalos. V. Tatarakower, . Mar oczy, Vi Kostisch. 4. Spielmann, 'i; Vidman, 1, Bogoljubow. 0; Colle, Vi, .Flchr, H. ROUND 2 Alekhine, 1. 'Iart-kower, 0; Spielmann, 1; Pirc, 0; Bogoljubow, 1; Colle, 0; Kashdan, Vi, V.d-man, Vi; Marczy, Vi, Asztalos, Vi; Nimzowitsch, X, Flohr, 0; Koctisih. Vi, Flohr. -i. ROUND 3 Kashdan, 1, Colle, 0; Alekhine, Vi, Asztalos, Vi: Nimzowitsch, Vi. Bogoljubow, Vi; Tartakower, a. Kostisch, 4; Pirc, V4. Flohr. i; Vidman, Vi. Maroczy, Vi; Spielmann, Vi, Stoltz. Vi. ROUND 1 4 Kashdan, 1, Nimzowitsch, 0; Bogoljubow, 1, Pirc, 0. Kt .-tlsch, 1, Asztalos. 0; Stoltz, 1. Tartakower, 0: Maroczy, Vi, Colle, Spielmann, Vi. Flohr, Vi: Alekhine, 1, Vidman, 0. ROUND 5 Alekhine, 1. Colle, 0; Spielmann, Vi, Tartakower, V4:"Vid-mar, 1, Kostisch.- 0; Kashdan, . Vi, Pirc, Nimzowitsch,": 1. Maroczy, 0; Asztalos, 1, Stoltz, 0; Bogoljubcw, 1, Flohr. 0. j ROUND 8-Colle,: 1, Kostisch, 0; Flohr,- 1 ; Kashdan, ' o; Alekhine, 1 : Nimzowitsch, 0; Stoltz, Vi; Vidmar, Vi; Spielmann, 1, Bogoljubow, 0: Tar- kower, Vi, Asztalos, ; Maroczy, , Pirc, Vi- ROUND 7 BoKollubow, 1, Kash dan, 0 Alekhine, 1, Pirc, 0; Vidmar, ?, Tartakower, Colle, Stoltz, Nimzowitsch, Kostich, Flohr, Maroczy, Asztalos, Splelman, 0. ROUND 8 Alekhine, 1, Flohr, f; Maroczy. 1, Bogoljubow, 0; Stoltz, 1, Nimzowitsch, 0; Kostisch, 1, Pirc, 0; Tartakower, 1, Colle, 0; Asztalos, Vs. Vidmar, Vi; Kashdan, Vi, Spielmann, 'i. ROUND 9 Alekhine, 1, Bogoljubow, 0; Kashdan, 1, Maroczy, 0; Vidmar. Vi. Spielmann, V2; Asztalos, 1, Colle, 0; Stoltz, 1, Pirc, 0; Nimzowitsch. Vi, Tartakower, Vi; Flohr, Kostisch. Standing Up to Ninth Round Won Lost Alekhine 84 Vi Spielmann 6 3 Kashdan S Vidmar 5 4' Asztalos 4Va 4 'a Bogoljubow 4'i 4Vi Stoltz 4Vi 4Vi Kostisch 4 4 Tartakower 4 5 7 Flohr 3Vi 4Vi Maroczy 5V Nimzowitsch 3Vj 5Vj Colle 3 6 Pirc 2Vi 6 The following games are from recently conducted tournaments in Europe. The fir: two games are from a masters' tournament at Antwerp, Belgium, and the next two are a tournament conducted at Brunn, Czechoslovakia : ZUKERTORT OPENING Dale. Perouin Dake.
Perauin White Bind? White Black 1 Kt-KB3 Kt-KB3 12 BxKt R-K 2 P-B4 P-B4 13 0-02 P-Kt3 3 Kt-B3 Kt-B3 14 KR-Q R-R2 4 P-04 FtP 15 B-R4 Kt-K4 5 KtxP P-KKtl 16 P-Kt3 R-K2 6 P-KKt3 B-K'.2 17 Kt-K4 P-04 7 B-Kt2 Ca'tl.s 18 B-KtS OR-Q2 8 Castles P-K3 19 Kt-B6 BsKt 9 KKt-Kt5 P-OR3 20 BxB S PxP 10 Kt-06 Kt-K 21 Q-R8 RxR 11 B-B4 KixKt 22 PxR Resinsa) fa For If 22 Q-B: 23 R-08. R-K: 24 RjtR. etc or 22 QxR'i 2" B"0EEN,3 PAWN OPENING , Rubin- Kol- Rubin- Kol- stein tanowslci stein tanowskl White Black White Black 1 P-04 Kt-KB3 19 Kt-03 Kt-Kt3 2 P-QB4 P-KKt3 20 B-B Q-B2 4 B-Kt2 C3 sties 21 B-Kt2 R-K2 5 Kt-OB3 P-Q3 22 P-B5 , PxP 3 P-KKt3 B-Kt2 23 KtxP Kt-Kt5 6 P-K4 P-K4 24 PxKt BxOP 7 KKt-K2 P-B3 25 Kt-Kt5 BxO 8 P-nR3 P-KR3 26 KtxQ BxR 9 B-K3 QKt-Q2 27 B-B6 OR-02 10 Q-02 K-R2 28 KtxR RxKt 11 P-Kt3 0-K2 29 Kt-K8 B-R4 12 R-O R-K 30 P-K5 R-Q7 13 Castles Kt-B 31 Kt-Q6 BxP 14 K-P2 B-Q2 32 KtxKtP B-B2 15 P-B4 PxBP 33 K-R BxP 16 KtxP OR-O 34 BxBP B-R6 17 QR-K B-B Rejmns. 18 G-KB5 P-KKt4 QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING Fteiner Zinner Steiner Zinner White Blnck White Black 1 P-04 Kt-KB3 19 R-03 P-QKt4 2 Kt-KB3 P-K3 20 R-Kt3 BxKt 3 B-Kt5 P-KR3 21 PxB R-B5 4 BxKt QxB 22 R-KB3 0-B2 b P-K4 P-OKt3 23 B-03 RxP 6 B-Q3 B-K12- 24 Q-K3 Q-K4 7 OKt-Q2 P-Bl Z5 QxP Q-Kt2 8 P-B3 XP 26 Q-Kt5 R-QB 9 KtxP B-B4 27 P-KR4 Q-B 10 QKt-B3 Kt-B3 28 P-R5 tt-Bl 11 KtxKt BxKt 29 Q-K3 Q-Kt2 12 Q-K2 Castlrs 30 P-R6 Q-R 13 Castles KR-Q 31 Q-B4 R-B4 14 QR-Q Q-B5 32 P-R7ch KxP 15 Kt-Q4 B-Kt2 33 R-R3ch K-Kt2 18 B-B2 KR-QB 34 Q-K3 QxR 17 KR-K P-Kt3 35 PxQ Rectans 18 R-Q2 P-R QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING Steiner RellBtab tjtetner Rellstab Whit- Black Wlijte Blnck 1 P-Q4 Kt-KB3 26 itxKt P-B4 i Kt-KB3 P-B4 27 Kt-Kt5 P::P 3 P-Q5 P-K3 28 Kt-B4 R-Bc!i 4 P-B4 P-QKt4 29 K-K3 R-B6ch 5 B-Kt5 PxP 30 KxP- RxP 6 Kt-B3 P-Q3 31 KKtxOP R-K-B 7 P-K4 P-K4 32 Kt-QB7 R-B7 8 BxP B-K2 33 Kt-B4 R-K7ch 9 Castles Castles 34 K-B4 R-Q6 10 Kt-Q2 Kt-Kt5 35 R-QB R-K2 11 BxB Q-B 36 P-Q6 RxP 12 P-KR3 Kt-KR3 . 37 KtxR RxKt 13 P-B4 PxP 38 R-QKt P-R3 14 RxP Kt-Q2 39 Kt-Kt7 R-B2ch 15 Q-R5 Q-K4 40 K-K5 JP-B5 16 QxQ KtxQ 41 K-Q4 P-Kt4 17 B-K2 B-Q2 42 KtxP R-B5c!i 18 P-QKt3 OR-Kt 43 K-B3 P-Kt5 19 R-B2 KR-K 44 KtxP K-Kt2 20 P-KKt4 P-B3 45 P-R5 P R4 21 K-R2 P-R4 46 P-R6 F-B 22 P-OR4 BxKtP 47 P-R7 P-Kt6 23 PxB KKtxPch 48 R-Kt7ch K-R3 24 BxKt KtxBch 49 R-K18 P-Kt7 25 K-Kt3 KtxR 50 RxR Refluns PROBLEMS Solutions to problems No. Ill, by A, Marl, B-KT7; No. 112, by W. A. Shinkmann: , No. 113 By K. Makorsky Black 3 Pieces g M h P txat SSW'X m"m Mi m iz&z firm: tmm mi wm .mm m 1 White 4 Pieces White mates In two. No. 114 By Sam Loyd Black 4 Pieces White 2 Pieces White mates in three.
