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Chess 27 Sep 1931, Sun The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
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The Morning Call's Chess and Checker Column Problems, Games, Positions in End Games and News Items Will Be Welcomed W. II. STECKEL. Editor Championship Tournament The Lehigh Valley and City championship chess tournament will be In the stages of the fourth round this coming week. All the games are moving along at a rapid pace and we predict that the tourney will have an eerly ending as almost every one with few exceptions have a loss or a .drawn game charged to their column.
Comments are to be made on the exceptionally fine chess that is being played by C. Koch, who defeated .V. Shuler and A. Warsau In the first and second round respectively and T. Frydell a resident of Washington, D C. who defeated R. Rockel and A. Weiss. Both Mr. Rockel and Weiss were rated to defeat the Washinston contestant.
The results of the round are as ' il-lows: W. Goldstein, H, D. Newhard, J. Fiddler, 1, R. Smith, 0; T.
H. Steckel, chess editor of The Morning; Call and in charge of chess and checkers at the Al-lentown Y. M. C. A., celebrated his birthday on Tuesday, September 22. He received the felicitations of his many friends.
dell, 1, A. Weiss, 0; E. Foley. 1, R. Miller, 0; G. Santee, 1, R. Deibert, 0; R. Rockel, 1, D. McKee 0; R. Oswald, , L. stroh,i"; W. Lumcdeiv 1, H. Heffelfinger, 0; W. Snyder. 1, W. Hodgson, 0: P. Kruse, l, E. Shollenberger, 0; C. Koch, 1, A. Warsau, 0; W. Shuler, 1. C. Geary, 0: V7. : Steckel, 1, A. Herrmann, 0. The other two games were adjourned. The following six players lost their second game and thereby are eliminr ated from further competition: . Shollenberger. D; McKee, R. Miller. H. Heffelflnger, R. Deibert and A. Herrmann. The third round schedule Is es lol-lows: D. Newhard vs. R. Smith; W. Goldstein vs. J. Tiddler; G. Santee vs. L. Stroh; C. Troxcll vs. R. Oswald; W. Snyder vs. E. Foley; R. Rockel vs W. Todgson; W. Lumsden vs. H. Buckley; C. Geary vs. E. Kocher; P. Kruse vs. T. Frydell; A. Warsau vs. W. Shuler; O. Zanger vs. A. Weiss and W. H. Steckel vs. C. Koch. Champion Again Wins By defeating the Danish representative Aron Nimzowitsclrof Copenhagen, Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris placed another victory to his credit in the nineteenth round of the International Chess Masters tournament at the Hotel Teplice, Bled, Yugoslavia.
The world's champion conducted the black forces in a Caro-Kann defense and, by brilliant play, scored the game after thirty-six moves had been recorded. Nimzowltsch, for the s?cond time In the tournament met defeat at the hands of the Franco-Russian master. Although Rudolph Spielmann of Vienna defeated E. D. Bogoljubow of Triberg In the sixth round, the German expert divided the point) in today' round by drawing a well p ayed game with the Austrian.. In consequence, Bogoljubow moved into, second place. Isaac Kashdan,' of New York, now In third place, met with stout resistance on the part of G. Flohr ; of Czechoslovakia. - Kashdan had the black side of a queen's pawn opening tried hard to square accounts.
His opponent, however, played steadily and, after two sessions, the game was adjourned In an even position. Boris Kostlsch of Yugoslavia added a full point to his score by defeating E. Colle of Belgium. Drawn games were recorded between V. Pirc, Yugoslavia and Geza Maroczy, Hungary, and between Dr. L. Astalos, Yugoslavia, and Dr. S. Tartakower, Poland. The game between Dr. M. Vidmar. Yugoslavia, and G. Stoltz, Sweden, was adjourned. The Standing i Won Lost Alekhine 16 3 Bogoljubow 11 8 Kashdan 10 M 6i Vidmar 10 8 Nimzowitsch 9V 9Vi Spielmann 9J.i 9'i Stoltz 8i 8Vi Asztalos 8'2 9 Flohr 8H 9 Kostisch 8'i 10'i Maroczy 8'2 10'! Tartakower , IVz 11', -4 Pirc 6 12 - Colle 6i 12 & Dake Pays a Visit Arthur W. Dake, a member of the champion United States Chess team paid the local boys a visit the other evening.
One after another leading players of this country pay Allentown a visit all knowing that hospitality awaits them. The Western Chess association will hold its thirty-second chess congress at the Hotel Tulsa, Tulsa, Okla., f-om October 5 to 13, 1931. The events v.lll consist of a championship tournament, majorminor, ladies, rapid transit and problem-solving contests. The following three games are from the Lehigh Valley and City championship chess tournament which is now in progress at the local Y. M. C. A. Two exceptionally fine end game problems can be made out of the first two game. In the first game starting move 57 Black to play and win. In the second, starting move 66 White to play and win.
In the third game between the two contestants, W. Shuler and C. Geary, the ending Is obviously a win for white no matter what his opponent does. . GIUCO PIANO A. Herr- W. H. A. Herr- W. mann Steckel mann Steckel 1 P-K P-K4 40 R-Kt2 K-K3 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-OBl 41 P-KKt4 K-04 2 S'B.1 J?-g4 42 R"B2 p"Kt 4 Castles Kt-B.1 43 R-KB P-KKt5 5 Kt-B3 P-C3 44 R-B4 R-B5 6 P-03 B-KKl.5 45 R-O R-OR 7 B-K3 . Kt-OS 46 R-OKt P-R5 8 BxKt BxB 47 B-O PxP 9 R-Kt P-OK3 48 BxP P.xR 10 Kt-Q5 KtxKt 9 BxRch K-05 11 BxKt P-OB3 50 K-B B-B5 14 B-Kt3 0-B3 51 K-K2 K-BS 13 P-B3 B-R2 52 K-O R-KB 14 Q.-K2 Castas K 53 R-Kt3ch K-OS 15 B-O BxKt 54 K-K2 R-OR lfi OxKt OxO 55 R-Kt R-R6 17 BxO P-KB4 5fi R-Kt2 R-Bfi 18 P-OKt3 PxP , 57 K-B2 R-B8 19 BxP P-04 58 K-Kt2 B-K6 20 B-B3 R-PS 59 K-R2 RxB 21 R-Kt2 QR-KB 60 PxR KxP 22 B-Q P-KKU 61 K-Kt2 K-Q6 23 P-Kt3 . R-B3 62 K-B P-OB5 24 K-Kt2 P-KR3 63 RxP . P-B6 25 P-KR3 K-Kt3 64 R-Kt7 P-B7 26 R-Kt2 P-R3 , 65 R-B7 P-B8( ch 27 P-B3 B-Kt 66 RxO ExR 28 B-B2 P-KR4 67 P-R4 H-Si 29 OR-B2 K-R3 68 P-R5 K-Kit 30 B-O B-03 69 K-K2 KxP 31 P-OB4 B-B4 70 K-03 K-Kt4 32 R-K2 B-05 71 K-K4 B-B5 33 R-B2 PtT " 72 K-03 x K-Kt5 34 RxP P-B4 73 K-K2 K-B8 35 B-K2 K-K13 74 K-B2 K-06 36 R-B - K-B4 75 K-Kt K-K7 37 R-O P-R5 76 K-Kt2 B-K6 38 R-KR B-K6 77 K-R KxP 39 R-OKt P-R4 ' 78 Resigns. RET'13 OPENING (Dutch Defense! W. H. A. Herr- W. H. A. Herr-Steckel . mann -. Steckel mann 1 Kt-KB3 P-KB4 39 Kt-05 R-B2 2 P-OB4- P-K3 40 R-OB2 Xt-R 3 P-KKt3 Kt-KB3 41 RxP RxR 4 B-Kt2 Kt-OB3 42 KtxR K-Kt 5 Castles P-K2 43 K-Kt? K-B? 6 P-03 Castles 44 P-Kt4 ; K-K2 7 P-OR3 - P-QKt3 45 Kt-05ch K-K3 8 0-B2 , B-Kt2 48 KtxP KtxP 9 R-O P-K4 47 Kt-B4 P-O 10 P-K3 O-K 48 P-B5ch K-K2 11 OKt-O! P-03 49 PxP Kt-B6 12 P-OKt4 Kt-Q 50 P-06ch K-02 13 B-Kt2 Kt-BS 51 K-B3 Kt-Kt4 14 KtxP BxB 52 K-F4 KtxP 15 KtxKt i RxKt 53 KtxKt KxKt 16 KxB R-O 54 P-R4 K-K2 17 Kt-B3 P-KH3 55 K-K5 K-B2 18 R-K - K-R,- 56 P-Kt5 PxP 19 OR-Q - Kt-R2 - 57 PxP K-K2 20 P-Kt5 B-B 58 K-04 - K-B2 21 BxB RxB 59 K-OS K-K2 2'.! Kt-04 " Kt-Kt4 60 K-B8 K-O 23 P-B4 Kf-3 61 K-OS . K-K 24 Kt-BS R-S 62 K-K6 K-B 25 P-K4 i. Q-Kt3 63 K-07 P-Kn ?fi K-R PsP ' 64 P-B6 . K-B2 57 PxP , O-KtS 65 K-06 K-B 28 0-K2 , OxQ 66 K-B5 ;. K-B2 29 RxO , P-R3 67 K-B6 ' K-K3 30 P-OR4 Kt-Bt- ." 69 P-B7 , K-K2 31 Kt-Kt4 KtxRP,, 69 K-OS KxP 32 KtxP . R-B2' 70 K-06 K-3 33 R-R Kt-B4 ' . 71 K-K6 K-Kt2 34 OR-R2 , Kt-Kf! 72 K-K7 K-Kt 35 Kt-Kt4 Rxft ' 73 K-B6 K-R2 36 RxR Kt-R4 74 K-B7 K-R 37 R-OB2 - R-K2 75 KxP K-Kt 38 R-K2 - Ktx? 78 K-R3 Resigns GtTIOCO PIANO " W.huler . C Gearv , W. Shuler C GeatY White ' Black White . Black 1 P-K4 P-K4 27 PxR P-B5 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-OB3 28 R-OB , OxP 3 B-B4 B-B4 29 QxPeh ; OxO 4 P-B3 P-03 30 RxOrh K-Kt 5 P-Q4 if PxP 31 R-B2 - PxP PxP B-Kt3 32 PxP R-K 7 Castles. Kt-R4 33 K-Kt3 . P-KR3 8 B-Kt3 ,. KtxB 34 K-B4 R-Bch 9 OxKt J OB-K.V 35 K-K4 P-OKt3 10 P-Q5 B-02 36 Kt-KB4 " R-K 11 QKt-B3 ' Kt-K2 .
37 R-OB6 B-Kt4 12 Kt-K3 B-KKt5 " 38 P-KR4 BxP 13 P-KR3 .- B-R4 39 RxP BxKt 14 Kt-B4 BxKt . 40 KxB K-B2 15 OxB P-Kt3 41 K-K4 R-KR 16 K-R2 Q-Q2 42 R-02 R-K 17 Kt-Q3 CastlM O 43 K-B5 R-Bch 18 QxP P-B 44 K-K8 R-Kch 19 Q-Kt2 O-Ktt 45 K-B6 R-Bch 20 Q-OB3 P-OB4 46 K-K7 R-B4 21 B-Kt2 ,. B-O - '7 P-K6 R-Bfi 22 BxKt BxB 48 R-B2ch K-K2 23 P-KB4 KR-Kt . 49 K-K8 P-OR4 24 P-K5 P-KI4 50 P-K7 P-OK14 38 " RxR - " 2 Ri'Kns.
Comments are to be made on the exceptionally fine chess that is being played by C. Koch, who defeated .V. Shuler and A. Warsau In the first and second round respectively and T. Frydell a resident of Washington, D C. who defeated R. Rockel and A. Weiss. Both Mr. Rockel and Weiss were rated to defeat the Washinston contestant.
The results of the round are as ' il-lows: W. Goldstein, H, D. Newhard, J. Fiddler, 1, R. Smith, 0; T.
H. Steckel, chess editor of The Morning; Call and in charge of chess and checkers at the Al-lentown Y. M. C. A., celebrated his birthday on Tuesday, September 22. He received the felicitations of his many friends.
dell, 1, A. Weiss, 0; E. Foley. 1, R. Miller, 0; G. Santee, 1, R. Deibert, 0; R. Rockel, 1, D. McKee 0; R. Oswald, , L. stroh,i"; W. Lumcdeiv 1, H. Heffelfinger, 0; W. Snyder. 1, W. Hodgson, 0: P. Kruse, l, E. Shollenberger, 0; C. Koch, 1, A. Warsau, 0; W. Shuler, 1. C. Geary, 0: V7. : Steckel, 1, A. Herrmann, 0. The other two games were adjourned. The following six players lost their second game and thereby are eliminr ated from further competition: . Shollenberger. D; McKee, R. Miller. H. Heffelflnger, R. Deibert and A. Herrmann. The third round schedule Is es lol-lows: D. Newhard vs. R. Smith; W. Goldstein vs. J. Tiddler; G. Santee vs. L. Stroh; C. Troxcll vs. R. Oswald; W. Snyder vs. E. Foley; R. Rockel vs W. Todgson; W. Lumsden vs. H. Buckley; C. Geary vs. E. Kocher; P. Kruse vs. T. Frydell; A. Warsau vs. W. Shuler; O. Zanger vs. A. Weiss and W. H. Steckel vs. C. Koch. Champion Again Wins By defeating the Danish representative Aron Nimzowitsclrof Copenhagen, Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris placed another victory to his credit in the nineteenth round of the International Chess Masters tournament at the Hotel Teplice, Bled, Yugoslavia.
The world's champion conducted the black forces in a Caro-Kann defense and, by brilliant play, scored the game after thirty-six moves had been recorded. Nimzowltsch, for the s?cond time In the tournament met defeat at the hands of the Franco-Russian master. Although Rudolph Spielmann of Vienna defeated E. D. Bogoljubow of Triberg In the sixth round, the German expert divided the point) in today' round by drawing a well p ayed game with the Austrian.. In consequence, Bogoljubow moved into, second place. Isaac Kashdan,' of New York, now In third place, met with stout resistance on the part of G. Flohr ; of Czechoslovakia. - Kashdan had the black side of a queen's pawn opening tried hard to square accounts.
His opponent, however, played steadily and, after two sessions, the game was adjourned In an even position. Boris Kostlsch of Yugoslavia added a full point to his score by defeating E. Colle of Belgium. Drawn games were recorded between V. Pirc, Yugoslavia and Geza Maroczy, Hungary, and between Dr. L. Astalos, Yugoslavia, and Dr. S. Tartakower, Poland. The game between Dr. M. Vidmar. Yugoslavia, and G. Stoltz, Sweden, was adjourned. The Standing i Won Lost Alekhine 16 3 Bogoljubow 11 8 Kashdan 10 M 6i Vidmar 10 8 Nimzowitsch 9V 9Vi Spielmann 9J.i 9'i Stoltz 8i 8Vi Asztalos 8'2 9 Flohr 8H 9 Kostisch 8'i 10'i Maroczy 8'2 10'! Tartakower , IVz 11', -4 Pirc 6 12 - Colle 6i 12 & Dake Pays a Visit Arthur W. Dake, a member of the champion United States Chess team paid the local boys a visit the other evening.
One after another leading players of this country pay Allentown a visit all knowing that hospitality awaits them. The Western Chess association will hold its thirty-second chess congress at the Hotel Tulsa, Tulsa, Okla., f-om October 5 to 13, 1931. The events v.lll consist of a championship tournament, majorminor, ladies, rapid transit and problem-solving contests. The following three games are from the Lehigh Valley and City championship chess tournament which is now in progress at the local Y. M. C. A. Two exceptionally fine end game problems can be made out of the first two game. In the first game starting move 57 Black to play and win. In the second, starting move 66 White to play and win.
In the third game between the two contestants, W. Shuler and C. Geary, the ending Is obviously a win for white no matter what his opponent does. . GIUCO PIANO A. Herr- W. H. A. Herr- W. mann Steckel mann Steckel 1 P-K P-K4 40 R-Kt2 K-K3 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-OBl 41 P-KKt4 K-04 2 S'B.1 J?-g4 42 R"B2 p"Kt 4 Castles Kt-B.1 43 R-KB P-KKt5 5 Kt-B3 P-C3 44 R-B4 R-B5 6 P-03 B-KKl.5 45 R-O R-OR 7 B-K3 . Kt-OS 46 R-OKt P-R5 8 BxKt BxB 47 B-O PxP 9 R-Kt P-OK3 48 BxP P.xR 10 Kt-Q5 KtxKt 9 BxRch K-05 11 BxKt P-OB3 50 K-B B-B5 14 B-Kt3 0-B3 51 K-K2 K-BS 13 P-B3 B-R2 52 K-O R-KB 14 Q.-K2 Castas K 53 R-Kt3ch K-OS 15 B-O BxKt 54 K-K2 R-OR lfi OxKt OxO 55 R-Kt R-R6 17 BxO P-KB4 5fi R-Kt2 R-Bfi 18 P-OKt3 PxP , 57 K-B2 R-B8 19 BxP P-04 58 K-Kt2 B-K6 20 B-B3 R-PS 59 K-R2 RxB 21 R-Kt2 QR-KB 60 PxR KxP 22 B-Q P-KKU 61 K-Kt2 K-Q6 23 P-Kt3 . R-B3 62 K-B P-OB5 24 K-Kt2 P-KR3 63 RxP . P-B6 25 P-KR3 K-Kt3 64 R-Kt7 P-B7 26 R-Kt2 P-R3 , 65 R-B7 P-B8( ch 27 P-B3 B-Kt 66 RxO ExR 28 B-B2 P-KR4 67 P-R4 H-Si 29 OR-B2 K-R3 68 P-R5 K-Kit 30 B-O B-03 69 K-K2 KxP 31 P-OB4 B-B4 70 K-03 K-Kt4 32 R-K2 B-05 71 K-K4 B-B5 33 R-B2 PtT " 72 K-03 x K-Kt5 34 RxP P-B4 73 K-K2 K-B8 35 B-K2 K-K13 74 K-B2 K-06 36 R-B - K-B4 75 K-Kt K-K7 37 R-O P-R5 76 K-Kt2 B-K6 38 R-KR B-K6 77 K-R KxP 39 R-OKt P-R4 ' 78 Resigns. RET'13 OPENING (Dutch Defense! W. H. A. Herr- W. H. A. Herr-Steckel . mann -. Steckel mann 1 Kt-KB3 P-KB4 39 Kt-05 R-B2 2 P-OB4- P-K3 40 R-OB2 Xt-R 3 P-KKt3 Kt-KB3 41 RxP RxR 4 B-Kt2 Kt-OB3 42 KtxR K-Kt 5 Castles P-K2 43 K-Kt? K-B? 6 P-03 Castles 44 P-Kt4 ; K-K2 7 P-OR3 - P-QKt3 45 Kt-05ch K-K3 8 0-B2 , B-Kt2 48 KtxP KtxP 9 R-O P-K4 47 Kt-B4 P-O 10 P-K3 O-K 48 P-B5ch K-K2 11 OKt-O! P-03 49 PxP Kt-B6 12 P-OKt4 Kt-Q 50 P-06ch K-02 13 B-Kt2 Kt-BS 51 K-B3 Kt-Kt4 14 KtxP BxB 52 K-F4 KtxP 15 KtxKt i RxKt 53 KtxKt KxKt 16 KxB R-O 54 P-R4 K-K2 17 Kt-B3 P-KH3 55 K-K5 K-B2 18 R-K - K-R,- 56 P-Kt5 PxP 19 OR-Q - Kt-R2 - 57 PxP K-K2 20 P-Kt5 B-B 58 K-04 - K-B2 21 BxB RxB 59 K-OS K-K2 2'.! Kt-04 " Kt-Kt4 60 K-B8 K-O 23 P-B4 Kf-3 61 K-OS . K-K 24 Kt-BS R-S 62 K-K6 K-B 25 P-K4 i. Q-Kt3 63 K-07 P-Kn ?fi K-R PsP ' 64 P-B6 . K-B2 57 PxP , O-KtS 65 K-06 K-B 28 0-K2 , OxQ 66 K-B5 ;. K-B2 29 RxO , P-R3 67 K-B6 ' K-K3 30 P-OR4 Kt-Bt- ." 69 P-B7 , K-K2 31 Kt-Kt4 KtxRP,, 69 K-OS KxP 32 KtxP . R-B2' 70 K-06 K-3 33 R-R Kt-B4 ' . 71 K-K6 K-Kt2 34 OR-R2 , Kt-Kf! 72 K-K7 K-Kt 35 Kt-Kt4 Rxft ' 73 K-B6 K-R2 36 RxR Kt-R4 74 K-B7 K-R 37 R-OB2 - R-K2 75 KxP K-Kt 38 R-K2 - Ktx? 78 K-R3 Resigns GtTIOCO PIANO " W.huler . C Gearv , W. Shuler C GeatY White ' Black White . Black 1 P-K4 P-K4 27 PxR P-B5 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-OB3 28 R-OB , OxP 3 B-B4 B-B4 29 QxPeh ; OxO 4 P-B3 P-03 30 RxOrh K-Kt 5 P-Q4 if PxP 31 R-B2 - PxP PxP B-Kt3 32 PxP R-K 7 Castles. Kt-R4 33 K-Kt3 . P-KR3 8 B-Kt3 ,. KtxB 34 K-B4 R-Bch 9 OxKt J OB-K.V 35 K-K4 P-OKt3 10 P-Q5 B-02 36 Kt-KB4 " R-K 11 QKt-B3 ' Kt-K2 .
37 R-OB6 B-Kt4 12 Kt-K3 B-KKt5 " 38 P-KR4 BxP 13 P-KR3 .- B-R4 39 RxP BxKt 14 Kt-B4 BxKt . 40 KxB K-B2 15 OxB P-Kt3 41 K-K4 R-KR 16 K-R2 Q-Q2 42 R-02 R-K 17 Kt-Q3 CastlM O 43 K-B5 R-Bch 18 QxP P-B 44 K-K8 R-Kch 19 Q-Kt2 O-Ktt 45 K-B6 R-Bch 20 Q-OB3 P-OB4 46 K-K7 R-B4 21 B-Kt2 ,. B-O - '7 P-K6 R-Bfi 22 BxKt BxB 48 R-B2ch K-K2 23 P-KB4 KR-Kt . 49 K-K8 P-OR4 24 P-K5 P-KI4 50 P-K7 P-OK14 38 " RxR - " 2 Ri'Kns.
