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Chess 17 Apr 1943, Sat The Minneapolis Star (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Newspapers.com
The Pawn Pusher
by O. A. HOLT, Willmar, Minn.
George S. Barnes, state chess champion, gave a novel chess exhibition at the Minneapolis Chess and Checker club Wednesday.
The club sponsors an open house entertainment every Wednesday evening, to which the public is cordially invited.
Corp. Loren Dahlager, home on furlough, says he learned to play chess at the army camp last fall. “Wish I had learned chess before. We get a great kick out of it down there and the kibitzers seem to have more fun than the players. A grand game,” he concluded.
A mammoth chess-skiing-skating-swimming tournament was held in the Dynamo stadium, Moscow, in February. It featured participation of famous Russian chess masters and athletes who have been serving in the Red army. G. Sturgis, president of the U. S. chess federation, dispatched a special cablegram in honor of the occasion, Feb. 6.
CHECKERS
Therkel Jorgenson, Tyler school, has been doing well in the present state correspondence play. His score is even with Hy Lober, state champ, and also with George Heinl of Austin. Below is one of games contested with Lober.
Hy Lober, St. Paul vs. T. Jorgenson, Tyler
11- 15 6-m? lnxlfl 1-8 1M7 24-20 24-21) 22-17 17-13 25-21 12- 16. 8-12 M-24 27-31 23x14 .20x11 32-28 i7x10 23-19 10-11 7xlo 10-H 24-28 1tix23 17-22 22-18 27-24 10-7 2Bxlfl 11x4 15x22 2-7 2?-32 31-27 H-10 25x18 24-19 7-2 7x16 15-11 8-11 15x24 32-27 27-23 22-26 29-25 28x19 2-7 18-15 11-8 4-8 7-10 27-31 9-14 26-31 28-24 31-26 25-22 22-18 8-3 10-15 3-8 31-27 5-9 31-27 26-22 19-15 21-17 30-25 21-17!
White wins.
There is still a little play left but no way Black can recover.
GAME NO. 578
(From Chess Review)
QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED
Rudolph Smirka (white) vs. Marcy Hanft (black)
Semi-Slav Defense: Stoltz Variation
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM
No. 776 by R. C. Beito
Key:
Bd2 (B-K2) l.KxP 2.Rb2ch
Bd2 1. Kb4 2. Nb2
Beito can display any idea in problems and do it well. Black, white diagonal anticipation coupled with purity is a rare achievement.—O. Aarhus.
Presenting the astigmatic and unknown of mating positions that defies me each and every time it occurs. Blast it, beautiful as it is. A peach.—W. C. Nolting.
A problem with five dandy mates. I liked the mate with B1 King on a6 best.— E. C. Johnson.
Marvelous! Every major white piece participates in a battery.—N. Guttman. If its by Beito, its good!—J. B. Wilson.
Can't get wise to No. 776. Seems it has a touch of April First about It. Am anxious to see solution.—H. R. Tonning.
Give Mr. Beito a vacation, We need it. I've never seen more misses with so few pieces before, and after those three whiz-bang mates, I think I've seen everything. Beito should get a medal for that one.—Randolph Johnson.
After solving the last two 3ers so successfully. I feel myself getting top heavy.— W. Wandel.
Beito is an artist.—K. Pederson.
O. Aarhus gives us a 3er today on the “Zugzivang” or “Mate surrender” theme. The three variations on the Black Knight moves are surprising and spectacular with a couple of pretty self blocks. Aarhus writes: “I do not go out of my way anymore to make a problem difficult. I'd rather put the pressure on the idea, a worthier cause.” The writer enjoyed today's 3er much and you solvers will too.
PROBLEM NO. 779
Original for the Minneapolis Star Journal
by O. Aarhus, St. Paul, Minn.
Black 5 Pieces
White 9 Pieces
FEN N2B4/7n/2K5/3Rp3/4pkB1/4p2P/4P3/R4N2 w - - 0 1
White to play and mate in three moves.
