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Chess 20 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 Lehigh Valley and City Tourney The Lehigh Valley and City Chess thamplonships which the Y. M. C. A. iponsor each year by running an tlimlnation tournament Is progressing to a point where Interest runs high. In the first Tound of this tournament numerous upsets were record-id, some games were decidedly close, others were of short duration. One of the games lasted six hours and went to 78 moves.
This game was between A. Herrmann and W. H. Steeled, the latter winning in a complicated Rook and Pawn ending. First round results are as follows: C. Troxell, 1, E. Shollenberger. 0; W. Snyder, 1, R. Miller, 0; W. Hodgson. 1, E. Foley. 0; E. Kocher. 1, D. McKee, 0; A. Weiss, 1, H. Heffelfingcr, 0; T. Frydell, 1, R. Rockel, 0; C. Koch, 1, W. Shuler, 0; C. Geary, 1. W. Lumsden, 0; W. H. Steckel, 1, A. Herrmann, 0. The rest of the games in this round were adjourned.
The schedule for the secondround Is as. follows: W. Golasteln vs. D. Newhard; E. Kocher vs. O. Zanger; R. Smith vs. J. Fiddler; A. Weiss vs. r. Frydell; R. Miller vs. E. Foley; G. Bantee vs. R. Deibert; R. Rockel vs. D. McKee; R. Oswald vs. L. stroh: P. Kruse vs. E. Shollenberger; H. Hefllcfinger vs. W. Lumsden; W. Hodgson vs. W. Snyder; H. Buckley vs. C. Troxell; C. Koch vs. A. Warsau; W. Shuler vs. C. Geary; A. Herrmann vs. W. H. Steckel. As in the first round the same will apply in the second, the first name in each playing will play white pieces. Mir Sulton Khan Dethroned Mir Sultan Khan.
East Indian chess expert and British champion for the last two years has been dethroned, according to reports from the other side. Playing at the annual songress of the British Chess Federation at Worcester, Sultan Khan, although victorious in their personal encounter, lost the title to F. D. Yates of London, a former holder of it. Vates finished with a score of 8-3, while Sultan Khan and W. Winter of London scored 7' 4 -3 '4 each. Miss Vera Menchlk. world's woman champion, won first prize in the major open tournament with a score of 9-2. All the other competitors were males.
New York Times. Alekhine Still Undefeated Dr. Alexander Alekhine of France, In the fourteenth round scored still another victory, his eleventh, and holds a five-point lead in the inter national chess masters tournament at the Hotel Teplice. Dr. Alekhine conducted the wn e forces in a queen's pawn open I against G. Stoltz of Sweden. Lie champion found no difficulty in es tablishing a superiority in position ind forced the resignation of his op- oonent after thirty-seven moves. Isaac Kashdan of United States, jhampion of fho Manhattan Chess jiuu, HiHiiiiuiiieu ilia Jiuiu un st'tunu 5Jace. Pitted against Dr. L. Asztalc: Yugoslavia, he adopted the queen's pawn opening, but met with stout re jistance. The game was stubbornly contested throughout two sessions and then adjourned in an even position alter mty-seven moves. Rudolph Spielmann of Austria third in the standing, drew with B Kostlsch of Yugoslavia. E. , Colle of Belgium gamea a iuh point at me ex pense of G. Flohr of Czechoslovakia. Drawn games resulted in the en-Jounters between Geza Marcozy of . Hungary and Dr. S. Tartakower of Poland, V. Pirc of Yugoslavia and Aron Nimzowitsch of Denmark. The game between E. D. Bogoljubow of Germany and Dr. M. . Vidmar of Jfucoslavia, was adjourned. The Standing Won.
Alekhine 12,i Kashdan 7 Spielmann . . . , 7 Vidmar 7 Flohr 7 Nimzowitsch 7 Bogoljubow 6i Colle 6 Va Kostlsch 6 Maroczy 6 Stoltz 5Vi Asztalos 5 Tartakower 5 c 5 Correspondence Chess We have received the summer bulletin of the Correspondence Chess League of America. We suggest to those who wish to play chess by cor respondence to get in touch with Mr. z. L. Hoover, 205 Pomander Road, MIneola, N. Y. As the local playersare great admirers of Isaac Kashdan we are always on the lookout for games that are played by this young master.
Mr. Kashdan participated in the following three games, which incidentally were played at the International Team Tournament at Prague: . PROBLEMS Solutions to problems No. 113, by K. Makovasky Q-KT8; No. 114, by Sam Loyd, Q-KT3. No. 115 ' By C. S. Kipping Black 9 Pieces M. White 10 Pieces White mates in two moves No. 116 By C. Moore Black 2 Pieces White 5 Pieces White mates in three. Bingen-Coopersburg Series Ends Sunday The third and final game of the series between Bingen, of the Buck3 county league and the coopersDurg A. C. will be played this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, n the Coopersburg dia mond. Both teams have won one game and interest is high among the followers of the two clubs. Palmerton Bowling Team One defeated Team Two by a margin of six pins in a postponed Palmer-ton Bowlinn Association match ames rolled last evening on the Neiehborhood House alleys. ' The score: Team 1 ' Nicholas 186 198 137 516 Ebert 175 145 183 503 Bartholomew 175 163 128 466 Frants 182 167 134 438 Mohr 153 126 191 470 Totals 871 Team 2 Merics 133 Balliet 134 Kistler 200 Markell 127 Gearhart 174 799 7632438 115 165 176 172 174 147 345 172 471 164 540 172 516 174 522 Totals 813 802 8292444 Robby Dims Jack's Chance for 7th Hit By AL DEMAREE y "sw 1 m0 4 " Z ON6 If ffOBIHSON SfeCORD- QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED Kashdan R'steln Wime Bis I; 1 P-Q4 P-J4 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-KB3 3 P-B4 P-K1 4 Kt-Bl QKt-O-? 5 B-Kt5 6 F-K3 7 Q-B2 8 B-B4 9 BPxP lb KPxP It KtxKt 12 P-OR3 13 B-K2 14 B-B7 J OxB 18 Castles 17 OR-Kt 15 Q-Q3 Kashdan White 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-OB3 B-K2 Castles t-TP3 P-B4 BPxP KtxP PxKt B-K Kt-B3 B-KB4 OxB 0-Kt3 ORB P-R3 R 7Y LOPEZ Gr'nfeld Kash Blac.i P-K4 Kashdan wnite 19 Kt-R4 " 20 Kt-B5 21 KR-O 22 Q-KB3 23 K-K14 24 B-B3 25 Kt-K3 26 KtxP 27 K-B 28 B-K2 29 P-KKt3 30 Q-B4 31 OR-B 3.: B-Kt4 31 BxO 34 K-ivZ RcitUns.
Bla -k Kt-K5 B-B3 R-BS OR-B K-B P-Kt.3 BxP BxPch Q-Kt4oh Q-R3 B-R2 K-Kt2 0-K3 RxR RxRch R-Q7ch 1 3 B-Kt5 4 B-K4 5 Castles V 6 Q-K2 7 B-Kt3 8 P-OR4 9 P-B3 10 P-R3 11 P-Q4 12 PxKtP 13 B-QB4 14 PxP 15 KtxKt 18 RxP 17 Kt-02 18 B-Q3 19 P-OKt4 20 Kt-Kt3 21 RxR 22 Kt-R5 23 B-K3 P-OP1 B-K2 P-Kt4 P-Q3 B-Kt5 Castles . B-02 P-Kt RxP R-Kt2 OKtxP PxKt P-R3 B-03 R-K B-KB R-K3 BxR R-Kt3 O-B Vhite 24 B:;R 25 Kt-B4 26 KtxP 27 Kt-F3 28 BxP 29 Q-03 30 ;-Q 31 Kt-Q4 32 KtxB . 33 Q-KB3 34 B-B 35 P-Kt3 36 K-Kt2 37 R-B 38 R-Bfl 39 B-B4 40 RxP 41 KxO 42 R-R6 43 R-B7 44 K-K4 ' 45 R-B8ch Gr'nfeld Black PxB P-QKt4 OxP BxKtP Kt.-R4 Q-B2 B-R4 Kt-B5 PxKt Q-K4 B-Kt3 Kt-R4 Kt-B3 QxKP B-05 K-B' uxoch B-B4 Kt-Q2 Kt-K4ch BxP Resians OtlFEN'fl PAWN OPENING Andersen Kashdan Andersen Kashdan nr White Bl"ck 1 P-G4 K.t-K.B3 2 Kt-KB3 P-OKt3 B-Kt2 P-B4 . P-K3 Kt-B3 B-K2 Castlfs PxP KtxKt P-Q4 Kt-K5 P-B4 BPxKt B-B4 0-K2 BxB R-B4 QR-KB Q-OB2 , RxKP R-B3 R-R4 P-K4 KR-R3 QxP OxP R-B2 29 KR-QB KR-KB3 30 B-R5 P-Kt3 31 Q-B2 Q-Q5C1 32 K-R PxB 33 RxB 34 Q-B8ch K-Kt2 35 OxRch ' R-B2 3 P-K3 4 B-Q3 5 Castles 6 QKt-Q2 7 P-QKt3 . 8 B-Kt2 9 P-K4 10 KtxP 11 BxKt 12 P-K5 13 R-K A 14 KtxKt 15 B-B 16 P-OB3 17 P-OKt4 18 QxB 19 QR-Q 20 R-02 21 P-Kt3 22 B-R3 23 P-KB4 24 B-Kt4 25 Q-B2 26 P-B5 27 R-B2 28 K-B7 White 36 P-B6ch 37 Q-B3 38 O-KtRch 39 P-KR4 40 R-KKt, 41 K-R2 , 42 OxP 43 R-Kt2 44 KxR 45 K-R2 46 K-R3 47 K-R2 48 P-A4 49 Q-Kt7cb 50 Q-B6ch 51 Q-B7ch 52 Q-BSch 53 Q-R6 54 K-R3 55 G-K6ch 56 Q-B6ch 57 Q-B5ch 58 Q-B6ch 59 QxKPch 60 Q-Kt2cb 61 Q-R2ch 62 Q-Kt2ch 63 Q-R2ch 64 0-R3cn 65 K-R2 68 K-R3 67 Q-R4ch 68 Q-R3ch 69 Q-Kt3ch Resigns Black K-K13 RxP K-R3 0-K6 Q-B6ch Q-KtS R-B7ch RxRch U-B6ch Q-B7ch Q-Bch K-Kt2 P-K6 K-B3 K-K2 K-K ' Q-Q2 Q-Q7ch u-u K-( K-Q2 K-Q3 K-B4 K-K15 KxP K-Kt5 K-B5 K-B4 K-B3 Q-Q7ch P-K7 K-03 K-K3
This game was between A. Herrmann and W. H. Steeled, the latter winning in a complicated Rook and Pawn ending. First round results are as follows: C. Troxell, 1, E. Shollenberger. 0; W. Snyder, 1, R. Miller, 0; W. Hodgson. 1, E. Foley. 0; E. Kocher. 1, D. McKee, 0; A. Weiss, 1, H. Heffelfingcr, 0; T. Frydell, 1, R. Rockel, 0; C. Koch, 1, W. Shuler, 0; C. Geary, 1. W. Lumsden, 0; W. H. Steckel, 1, A. Herrmann, 0. The rest of the games in this round were adjourned.
The schedule for the secondround Is as. follows: W. Golasteln vs. D. Newhard; E. Kocher vs. O. Zanger; R. Smith vs. J. Fiddler; A. Weiss vs. r. Frydell; R. Miller vs. E. Foley; G. Bantee vs. R. Deibert; R. Rockel vs. D. McKee; R. Oswald vs. L. stroh: P. Kruse vs. E. Shollenberger; H. Hefllcfinger vs. W. Lumsden; W. Hodgson vs. W. Snyder; H. Buckley vs. C. Troxell; C. Koch vs. A. Warsau; W. Shuler vs. C. Geary; A. Herrmann vs. W. H. Steckel. As in the first round the same will apply in the second, the first name in each playing will play white pieces. Mir Sulton Khan Dethroned Mir Sultan Khan.
East Indian chess expert and British champion for the last two years has been dethroned, according to reports from the other side. Playing at the annual songress of the British Chess Federation at Worcester, Sultan Khan, although victorious in their personal encounter, lost the title to F. D. Yates of London, a former holder of it. Vates finished with a score of 8-3, while Sultan Khan and W. Winter of London scored 7' 4 -3 '4 each. Miss Vera Menchlk. world's woman champion, won first prize in the major open tournament with a score of 9-2. All the other competitors were males.
New York Times. Alekhine Still Undefeated Dr. Alexander Alekhine of France, In the fourteenth round scored still another victory, his eleventh, and holds a five-point lead in the inter national chess masters tournament at the Hotel Teplice. Dr. Alekhine conducted the wn e forces in a queen's pawn open I against G. Stoltz of Sweden. Lie champion found no difficulty in es tablishing a superiority in position ind forced the resignation of his op- oonent after thirty-seven moves. Isaac Kashdan of United States, jhampion of fho Manhattan Chess jiuu, HiHiiiiuiiieu ilia Jiuiu un st'tunu 5Jace. Pitted against Dr. L. Asztalc: Yugoslavia, he adopted the queen's pawn opening, but met with stout re jistance. The game was stubbornly contested throughout two sessions and then adjourned in an even position alter mty-seven moves. Rudolph Spielmann of Austria third in the standing, drew with B Kostlsch of Yugoslavia. E. , Colle of Belgium gamea a iuh point at me ex pense of G. Flohr of Czechoslovakia. Drawn games resulted in the en-Jounters between Geza Marcozy of . Hungary and Dr. S. Tartakower of Poland, V. Pirc of Yugoslavia and Aron Nimzowitsch of Denmark. The game between E. D. Bogoljubow of Germany and Dr. M. . Vidmar of Jfucoslavia, was adjourned. The Standing Won.
Alekhine 12,i Kashdan 7 Spielmann . . . , 7 Vidmar 7 Flohr 7 Nimzowitsch 7 Bogoljubow 6i Colle 6 Va Kostlsch 6 Maroczy 6 Stoltz 5Vi Asztalos 5 Tartakower 5 c 5 Correspondence Chess We have received the summer bulletin of the Correspondence Chess League of America. We suggest to those who wish to play chess by cor respondence to get in touch with Mr. z. L. Hoover, 205 Pomander Road, MIneola, N. Y. As the local playersare great admirers of Isaac Kashdan we are always on the lookout for games that are played by this young master.
Mr. Kashdan participated in the following three games, which incidentally were played at the International Team Tournament at Prague: . PROBLEMS Solutions to problems No. 113, by K. Makovasky Q-KT8; No. 114, by Sam Loyd, Q-KT3. No. 115 ' By C. S. Kipping Black 9 Pieces M. White 10 Pieces White mates in two moves No. 116 By C. Moore Black 2 Pieces White 5 Pieces White mates in three. Bingen-Coopersburg Series Ends Sunday The third and final game of the series between Bingen, of the Buck3 county league and the coopersDurg A. C. will be played this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, n the Coopersburg dia mond. Both teams have won one game and interest is high among the followers of the two clubs. Palmerton Bowling Team One defeated Team Two by a margin of six pins in a postponed Palmer-ton Bowlinn Association match ames rolled last evening on the Neiehborhood House alleys. ' The score: Team 1 ' Nicholas 186 198 137 516 Ebert 175 145 183 503 Bartholomew 175 163 128 466 Frants 182 167 134 438 Mohr 153 126 191 470 Totals 871 Team 2 Merics 133 Balliet 134 Kistler 200 Markell 127 Gearhart 174 799 7632438 115 165 176 172 174 147 345 172 471 164 540 172 516 174 522 Totals 813 802 8292444 Robby Dims Jack's Chance for 7th Hit By AL DEMAREE y "sw 1 m0 4 " Z ON6 If ffOBIHSON SfeCORD- QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED Kashdan R'steln Wime Bis I; 1 P-Q4 P-J4 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-KB3 3 P-B4 P-K1 4 Kt-Bl QKt-O-? 5 B-Kt5 6 F-K3 7 Q-B2 8 B-B4 9 BPxP lb KPxP It KtxKt 12 P-OR3 13 B-K2 14 B-B7 J OxB 18 Castles 17 OR-Kt 15 Q-Q3 Kashdan White 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-OB3 B-K2 Castles t-TP3 P-B4 BPxP KtxP PxKt B-K Kt-B3 B-KB4 OxB 0-Kt3 ORB P-R3 R 7Y LOPEZ Gr'nfeld Kash Blac.i P-K4 Kashdan wnite 19 Kt-R4 " 20 Kt-B5 21 KR-O 22 Q-KB3 23 K-K14 24 B-B3 25 Kt-K3 26 KtxP 27 K-B 28 B-K2 29 P-KKt3 30 Q-B4 31 OR-B 3.: B-Kt4 31 BxO 34 K-ivZ RcitUns.
Bla -k Kt-K5 B-B3 R-BS OR-B K-B P-Kt.3 BxP BxPch Q-Kt4oh Q-R3 B-R2 K-Kt2 0-K3 RxR RxRch R-Q7ch 1 3 B-Kt5 4 B-K4 5 Castles V 6 Q-K2 7 B-Kt3 8 P-OR4 9 P-B3 10 P-R3 11 P-Q4 12 PxKtP 13 B-QB4 14 PxP 15 KtxKt 18 RxP 17 Kt-02 18 B-Q3 19 P-OKt4 20 Kt-Kt3 21 RxR 22 Kt-R5 23 B-K3 P-OP1 B-K2 P-Kt4 P-Q3 B-Kt5 Castles . B-02 P-Kt RxP R-Kt2 OKtxP PxKt P-R3 B-03 R-K B-KB R-K3 BxR R-Kt3 O-B Vhite 24 B:;R 25 Kt-B4 26 KtxP 27 Kt-F3 28 BxP 29 Q-03 30 ;-Q 31 Kt-Q4 32 KtxB . 33 Q-KB3 34 B-B 35 P-Kt3 36 K-Kt2 37 R-B 38 R-Bfl 39 B-B4 40 RxP 41 KxO 42 R-R6 43 R-B7 44 K-K4 ' 45 R-B8ch Gr'nfeld Black PxB P-QKt4 OxP BxKtP Kt.-R4 Q-B2 B-R4 Kt-B5 PxKt Q-K4 B-Kt3 Kt-R4 Kt-B3 QxKP B-05 K-B' uxoch B-B4 Kt-Q2 Kt-K4ch BxP Resians OtlFEN'fl PAWN OPENING Andersen Kashdan Andersen Kashdan nr White Bl"ck 1 P-G4 K.t-K.B3 2 Kt-KB3 P-OKt3 B-Kt2 P-B4 . P-K3 Kt-B3 B-K2 Castlfs PxP KtxKt P-Q4 Kt-K5 P-B4 BPxKt B-B4 0-K2 BxB R-B4 QR-KB Q-OB2 , RxKP R-B3 R-R4 P-K4 KR-R3 QxP OxP R-B2 29 KR-QB KR-KB3 30 B-R5 P-Kt3 31 Q-B2 Q-Q5C1 32 K-R PxB 33 RxB 34 Q-B8ch K-Kt2 35 OxRch ' R-B2 3 P-K3 4 B-Q3 5 Castles 6 QKt-Q2 7 P-QKt3 . 8 B-Kt2 9 P-K4 10 KtxP 11 BxKt 12 P-K5 13 R-K A 14 KtxKt 15 B-B 16 P-OB3 17 P-OKt4 18 QxB 19 QR-Q 20 R-02 21 P-Kt3 22 B-R3 23 P-KB4 24 B-Kt4 25 Q-B2 26 P-B5 27 R-B2 28 K-B7 White 36 P-B6ch 37 Q-B3 38 O-KtRch 39 P-KR4 40 R-KKt, 41 K-R2 , 42 OxP 43 R-Kt2 44 KxR 45 K-R2 46 K-R3 47 K-R2 48 P-A4 49 Q-Kt7cb 50 Q-B6ch 51 Q-B7ch 52 Q-BSch 53 Q-R6 54 K-R3 55 G-K6ch 56 Q-B6ch 57 Q-B5ch 58 Q-B6ch 59 QxKPch 60 Q-Kt2cb 61 Q-R2ch 62 Q-Kt2ch 63 Q-R2ch 64 0-R3cn 65 K-R2 68 K-R3 67 Q-R4ch 68 Q-R3ch 69 Q-Kt3ch Resigns Black K-K13 RxP K-R3 0-K6 Q-B6ch Q-KtS R-B7ch RxRch U-B6ch Q-B7ch Q-Bch K-Kt2 P-K6 K-B3 K-K2 K-K ' Q-Q2 Q-Q7ch u-u K-( K-Q2 K-Q3 K-B4 K-K15 KxP K-Kt5 K-B5 K-B4 K-B3 Q-Q7ch P-K7 K-03 K-K3
