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Chess 14 Feb 1943, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
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CHESS BY HERMAN STEINER INTERNATIONAL CHESS MASTER Addresse All Mail to the Chess Editor Fa. II. IMS LA. TIMES PROBLEM NO. 137 J Bt Sr. Thomsen (First Pme) White mates in two. Wh. 9; BI. 8.). L.A. TIMES PROBLEM NO. 137 By Dr. F. Rduch (Second Prize 7M White mtes in thret. Wh. 7; Bl. 10.) SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 13A9: Q-N5 SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 1370: B-R3 We received solutions from the following: H. BruhD, B. Bushuetf, C. E. Boyle (welcome to our Udder.) J. C. Drake, J. O. Dodge. C. P. Ford. O. A. Hll. W. Harmon, a. r. Holt-Hrlford (welcome to our ladder.) w. L. Koethen. R. Kingsbury. M. Morris, Capt. N. Maximov. M.C., H. I. Moses. G. 8. Peck, A. D. Reynolds Sr., M. Rudholm, Mrs. F. Tovar, J. E. Tyler, A. Von (welcome to our ladder,) J. P. Walsh, J. T. Watson, A. S. Wells, Private R. L. Bridses (welcome to our ladder.) C. B. Collins, W. B. Tudor, D. A. Innes, D. M. Poole, E. K. Quayle.
FROM THE CALIFORNIA OPEN STATE Martin While 1- P-KB4 2- N-KB3 3- P-ON3 4- B-N2 5- P-K3 6- N-B3 7- B-K2 8- N-KR4 9- NxB 10- O-O 11- P-OB4 12- PsN 13- Q-B2 14- P-KN4 15- P-NS 18-QxB CHAMPIONSHIP BIRDS OPENING Lenk Martin Lenk Black White Black P-Q4 17-P-KR4 N-QB3 N-KB3 18-P-R5 QR-Q B-B4 19-R-B2 R-Q2 P-K3 20-P-R6 P-N3 B-K2 21-R-R2 P-K4 O-O 22-K-R KR-Q P-QR3 23-OR-N PxP B-K5 24-PxP N-Q5 PxN 2S-B-R5 P-K6 N-04 26-BxP PxB NxKP 27-P-R7ch K-R BxN 28-R-R8 Q-K5ch P-KB4 29-R-N2 P-K7 B-B3 30-RxP P-K8(Qlcb BxB 31-Rcsisns Q-K2
FROM THE CALIFORNIA STATE OPEN LADIF TOIHNMENT SICILIAN DLi-ENSB ' Harrison Root . Harrison Kort Whu BmcklWnite Blar 1- P-K4 P-QB4 18-B-N5 BxN 2- N-KB3 JJ-CJB3 ; 19-OxB QxB 3- .N-B3 P-O3120-KR-Q P-KS 4- B-QB4? N-B3121-PXP BxN 5- P-KR3 P-KS3i22-PxB N-K4 6- P-G3 B-N2 i 23-Q-K3 P-B4 7- 0-0 O-O 24-Q-NS P-QB3 8- P-R3 P-CR3 2S-Q-N7 KR-B 9- B-K3 P-QN4l2n-K-B RxP 10-B-N3 B-N2 j 27-QxPtR6) ii.p.ks PiPl nrnii-ni 12- BxP N-Q2l28-QxNP RxRP 13- N-K4 X R ! 2!-Q-NRch K-N2 14- B-K3 NxB j 30-Q-N7CU. K-R3 15- PxN R-B 31-P-B3 R-R8ch 18-N-B3 P-K3I32-K-B2 Q-N6CO 17-k-k. e-B i JJ-Kesigna (Played by correspondence.)
IRREGULAR, OPENING Weisa White 1- N-QR3 2- P-QN3 3- P-K3 4- P-QB4 5- PxP 6-B-ON5 Towbin I Welaa Black I White P-04I 13-N-K P-K4 14-Q-R4 N-KB3 15-P-KB4 N-QB3 NxP B-Q2 7- Q-B3 N(B3'-N5 8- B-B4 B-QB5 9- Q-N3 P-KB3 10- N-B3 -Q2 11- O-O O-O (Ql 12- P-G4 P-K5 Towbin Blark B-Q3 P-KR4 PxP (e p ) P-KN4 P-KN5 P-N8 BxP QR-N BxQch Q-N2 N(N5)-QS 16-PxP 17- Q-B2 18- P-K4 19- PxP 20- QxB 21- QxRch 22- K-R2 23- B-B4 24- Resigns
LONG BEACH CITY CHES3 CHAMPIONSHIP Twenty-live playera are entered, two tame with each player making a total ol 48 games lor each. The games are being played in the rooms of the Municipal Auditorium Building. Open daily. Bert Fickes. secretary. The standing alter two weeks' play: W. L. W. L. Howard ...21 IS Slonf .... 4'.j Hi Bang 20 5 Larkey ... 4 14 Van Essen. 15 0 Rolo ..... 3'j 4' Fort 13 10 Bascom .. 2'j 14 Peterson . . 12 1 Lee 2 6 Feit 12 1 Gustafson. 2 8 Perrln 10! i 24 'a Ransom ..2 9 Scates .... 8 10 Franklin.. 2 9 Larcion .. 7lj S'i Roslin 1 1 Esptnoza .. 8Va 12Vi Chapman.. 1 5 DufT 6 5 Rintler ... O 2 Oldfather.. 6 10 Wollberg. 0 3 Seldler ... 5 3 Here are two tames from the current annual Marshall Chess Club championship.
CARO-KANN Ooldwater Santajierel Goldwater Santasier White 1- P-K4 2- P-Q4 3- N-OB3 4- NxP 9-N-KN3 6- N-KB3 7- N-R4 8- NxB 9- P-QB3 10- P-QR4 11- B-QB4 Black White P-QB3 12-B-KN5 P-04 PxP B-B4 B-N3 N-02 N N1.B3 RPxN S-B2 O-O-O P-K3 CARO-KANN 13-Q-Q2 14- 0-0-0 15- QxOP 16- BxN 17- K-N1 18- BxR 19- BxNP 20- B-Q4 21- Resigns Black P-B4 B-Q3 PxP N-N3! B-B5 ! RxO NxB R-Nl P-K4 Rivise Cass Rivise Cas White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-QB3 9-N-K5! B-N3iai 2- N-QB3 P-Q4 10-P-R5 -R4 3- N-KB3 PxP 11-Q-K2! N-02 4- NxP B-B4 12-NxN BxBP 5- N-N3 B-N3 13-N-K5 P-K3 G-P-KR4. N-B3 14-NxKBP B-N5(bl 7- B-B4 N-R4 15-OxP K-Bl 8- NxN BxN 1A-N-K5 Resigns (al Tf BxQ: 10. BxBP mate! (bl Black naturally la oulckly mated after KxN. A pretty short-short.
Carl Pllnick won the following game from Walter Goldwater In the current Marshall C. C. championship. Hia Rnnk sacrifice on his 25th turn gave an excitint turn to tne encounter, and again the nnal stages of the ending provided many thrills.
CENTER COUNTER Pilnlclc Goldwater Pllnick Goldwaler White v Black While Blark 1- P-K4 P-Q4 31-OxB P-B4 2- PxP N-KB3 32-N-Q6 RxN 3- P-Q4 NxP 33-PxR Q-Q2 4- P-QB4 N-KB3 34-Q-N3 R-KNI 5- N-OB3 P-K3 35-Q-KS K-B2 6- B-NS B-K2 3H-K-B1 P-B3 7- N-B3 O-O 37-P-QR4 O-Bl 8- B-Q3 QN-Q2 38-0-B5 OxQ 9- 0-0 P-B4 39-PxO R-QB1 10- O-B2 P-KR3 40-B-O4 R-B3 11- B-K3 P-ON3 41-R-N1 K-Kl 12- QR-Q1 PxP 42-R-N7 K-Qt 13- BxQP Q-B2 43-K-K2 P-K4 14- N-ON5 Q-B3 44-B-B2 P-KS 15- B-B3 B-N2 45-B-04 P-B5 16- N N5-Q4 Q-B2 46-P-RS P-Bfi 17- KR-K1 N-B4 47-K-B2 B-R5 18- N-K5 NxB 48-K-K3 P-B7 19- QxN OR-Q1 49-K-K2 R-Bl 20- P-B4 B-B4 50-R-KR7 B-N4 21- P-ON4 B-K2 51-KxP R-B3 22- R-K3 P-QN4 52-R-QN7 K-Bl 23- P-OB5 N-04;53-R-KB7 K-Ol 24- R-N3 NxBPlS4-K-K2 K-Kl 25- RXP KxRl 55-R-ON7 B-Ql 26- Q-N3 B-N4:Sfi-K-K3 BxP 27- R-K1 NxPj57-KxP K-Ol 28- NxNP Q-Bl;5R-K-05 R-Bl 29- N-B3 K-N3 59-B-B6 Resigns 30- QxN BxN I We have given several Caro-Kann tame lately and here is another from the Swerdlovsky tourney which is not without some theoreticai interest.
CARO-KANN RHROSin Boleslavsky Ragosln BoleslavskT White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-QB3 11-Q-K4 B-R4? 2- P-Q4 P-C34 12-N-KR4 N-Q2 3- N-QB3 PxP 13-Q-B5 N-N3ib 4- NxP N-KB3 14-OxB NxB 5- NxN-t. KPxNtal 15-B-Rfi!! Q-82ic 6- B-QB4 B-Q3 16-BxNP KxB 7- Q-K2 B-K2 17-N-B5 K-Rl 8- N-B3 O-O I8-R-K4 BxP fl-O-O B-03 19-K-RI Resigng 10-R-K1 B-KN5 (a) Supposedly a safe, drawish varia-tion, but one cannot always "draw" against an aggressive opponent! tbi If B-N3; 14. NxB, RPxN: 15. QxNP and the KBP is pinned! (c) Look at (he bind White gets on the position after 15. . . . PxB; IS. N-B5, B-KB5; 17. Q-KN4, B-N4: 18. P-KR4. K-Rl; 19. PxB. RPxP; 20. RK7, to be foU lowed by R-Kl. (From N.Y.E.P.)
HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIPS All the wlxhing (n participate In the hith school and rnlleie mutches plea contact Herman Steiner at the head-quartern of the Hollywood Chess Group, 1118 N. Formosa Ave., or on the telephone at WEbster 8H17 or WVoming 351(1, after 6 P.m. A meeting wan held last Sunday and another will he held today to determine the achedule of the players.
CALIFORNIA OPEN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP W. L. Steiner . . 14 Barzin ... 9'a Mrs. Roos. 8 Forti 8 Cohen ... 8 Finkelstein. 5 Htifnagei . n Llcht W. 3'i Chernls . Dobsevate Levienne . 3'a Henderson 3 Martin .3 K'pllowsky 2'- Von Bel . . . Ha Weisa .... 0 Everett. . . 0 L.
FROM THE CALIFORNIA OPEN STATE Martin While 1- P-KB4 2- N-KB3 3- P-ON3 4- B-N2 5- P-K3 6- N-B3 7- B-K2 8- N-KR4 9- NxB 10- O-O 11- P-OB4 12- PsN 13- Q-B2 14- P-KN4 15- P-NS 18-QxB CHAMPIONSHIP BIRDS OPENING Lenk Martin Lenk Black White Black P-Q4 17-P-KR4 N-QB3 N-KB3 18-P-R5 QR-Q B-B4 19-R-B2 R-Q2 P-K3 20-P-R6 P-N3 B-K2 21-R-R2 P-K4 O-O 22-K-R KR-Q P-QR3 23-OR-N PxP B-K5 24-PxP N-Q5 PxN 2S-B-R5 P-K6 N-04 26-BxP PxB NxKP 27-P-R7ch K-R BxN 28-R-R8 Q-K5ch P-KB4 29-R-N2 P-K7 B-B3 30-RxP P-K8(Qlcb BxB 31-Rcsisns Q-K2
FROM THE CALIFORNIA STATE OPEN LADIF TOIHNMENT SICILIAN DLi-ENSB ' Harrison Root . Harrison Kort Whu BmcklWnite Blar 1- P-K4 P-QB4 18-B-N5 BxN 2- N-KB3 JJ-CJB3 ; 19-OxB QxB 3- .N-B3 P-O3120-KR-Q P-KS 4- B-QB4? N-B3121-PXP BxN 5- P-KR3 P-KS3i22-PxB N-K4 6- P-G3 B-N2 i 23-Q-K3 P-B4 7- 0-0 O-O 24-Q-NS P-QB3 8- P-R3 P-CR3 2S-Q-N7 KR-B 9- B-K3 P-QN4l2n-K-B RxP 10-B-N3 B-N2 j 27-QxPtR6) ii.p.ks PiPl nrnii-ni 12- BxP N-Q2l28-QxNP RxRP 13- N-K4 X R ! 2!-Q-NRch K-N2 14- B-K3 NxB j 30-Q-N7CU. K-R3 15- PxN R-B 31-P-B3 R-R8ch 18-N-B3 P-K3I32-K-B2 Q-N6CO 17-k-k. e-B i JJ-Kesigna (Played by correspondence.)
IRREGULAR, OPENING Weisa White 1- N-QR3 2- P-QN3 3- P-K3 4- P-QB4 5- PxP 6-B-ON5 Towbin I Welaa Black I White P-04I 13-N-K P-K4 14-Q-R4 N-KB3 15-P-KB4 N-QB3 NxP B-Q2 7- Q-B3 N(B3'-N5 8- B-B4 B-QB5 9- Q-N3 P-KB3 10- N-B3 -Q2 11- O-O O-O (Ql 12- P-G4 P-K5 Towbin Blark B-Q3 P-KR4 PxP (e p ) P-KN4 P-KN5 P-N8 BxP QR-N BxQch Q-N2 N(N5)-QS 16-PxP 17- Q-B2 18- P-K4 19- PxP 20- QxB 21- QxRch 22- K-R2 23- B-B4 24- Resigns
LONG BEACH CITY CHES3 CHAMPIONSHIP Twenty-live playera are entered, two tame with each player making a total ol 48 games lor each. The games are being played in the rooms of the Municipal Auditorium Building. Open daily. Bert Fickes. secretary. The standing alter two weeks' play: W. L. W. L. Howard ...21 IS Slonf .... 4'.j Hi Bang 20 5 Larkey ... 4 14 Van Essen. 15 0 Rolo ..... 3'j 4' Fort 13 10 Bascom .. 2'j 14 Peterson . . 12 1 Lee 2 6 Feit 12 1 Gustafson. 2 8 Perrln 10! i 24 'a Ransom ..2 9 Scates .... 8 10 Franklin.. 2 9 Larcion .. 7lj S'i Roslin 1 1 Esptnoza .. 8Va 12Vi Chapman.. 1 5 DufT 6 5 Rintler ... O 2 Oldfather.. 6 10 Wollberg. 0 3 Seldler ... 5 3 Here are two tames from the current annual Marshall Chess Club championship.
CARO-KANN Ooldwater Santajierel Goldwater Santasier White 1- P-K4 2- P-Q4 3- N-OB3 4- NxP 9-N-KN3 6- N-KB3 7- N-R4 8- NxB 9- P-QB3 10- P-QR4 11- B-QB4 Black White P-QB3 12-B-KN5 P-04 PxP B-B4 B-N3 N-02 N N1.B3 RPxN S-B2 O-O-O P-K3 CARO-KANN 13-Q-Q2 14- 0-0-0 15- QxOP 16- BxN 17- K-N1 18- BxR 19- BxNP 20- B-Q4 21- Resigns Black P-B4 B-Q3 PxP N-N3! B-B5 ! RxO NxB R-Nl P-K4 Rivise Cass Rivise Cas White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-QB3 9-N-K5! B-N3iai 2- N-QB3 P-Q4 10-P-R5 -R4 3- N-KB3 PxP 11-Q-K2! N-02 4- NxP B-B4 12-NxN BxBP 5- N-N3 B-N3 13-N-K5 P-K3 G-P-KR4. N-B3 14-NxKBP B-N5(bl 7- B-B4 N-R4 15-OxP K-Bl 8- NxN BxN 1A-N-K5 Resigns (al Tf BxQ: 10. BxBP mate! (bl Black naturally la oulckly mated after KxN. A pretty short-short.
Carl Pllnick won the following game from Walter Goldwater In the current Marshall C. C. championship. Hia Rnnk sacrifice on his 25th turn gave an excitint turn to tne encounter, and again the nnal stages of the ending provided many thrills.
CENTER COUNTER Pilnlclc Goldwater Pllnick Goldwaler White v Black While Blark 1- P-K4 P-Q4 31-OxB P-B4 2- PxP N-KB3 32-N-Q6 RxN 3- P-Q4 NxP 33-PxR Q-Q2 4- P-QB4 N-KB3 34-Q-N3 R-KNI 5- N-OB3 P-K3 35-Q-KS K-B2 6- B-NS B-K2 3H-K-B1 P-B3 7- N-B3 O-O 37-P-QR4 O-Bl 8- B-Q3 QN-Q2 38-0-B5 OxQ 9- 0-0 P-B4 39-PxO R-QB1 10- O-B2 P-KR3 40-B-O4 R-B3 11- B-K3 P-ON3 41-R-N1 K-Kl 12- QR-Q1 PxP 42-R-N7 K-Qt 13- BxQP Q-B2 43-K-K2 P-K4 14- N-ON5 Q-B3 44-B-B2 P-KS 15- B-B3 B-N2 45-B-04 P-B5 16- N N5-Q4 Q-B2 46-P-RS P-Bfi 17- KR-K1 N-B4 47-K-B2 B-R5 18- N-K5 NxB 48-K-K3 P-B7 19- QxN OR-Q1 49-K-K2 R-Bl 20- P-B4 B-B4 50-R-KR7 B-N4 21- P-ON4 B-K2 51-KxP R-B3 22- R-K3 P-QN4 52-R-QN7 K-Bl 23- P-OB5 N-04;53-R-KB7 K-Ol 24- R-N3 NxBPlS4-K-K2 K-Kl 25- RXP KxRl 55-R-ON7 B-Ql 26- Q-N3 B-N4:Sfi-K-K3 BxP 27- R-K1 NxPj57-KxP K-Ol 28- NxNP Q-Bl;5R-K-05 R-Bl 29- N-B3 K-N3 59-B-B6 Resigns 30- QxN BxN I We have given several Caro-Kann tame lately and here is another from the Swerdlovsky tourney which is not without some theoreticai interest.
CARO-KANN RHROSin Boleslavsky Ragosln BoleslavskT White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-QB3 11-Q-K4 B-R4? 2- P-Q4 P-C34 12-N-KR4 N-Q2 3- N-QB3 PxP 13-Q-B5 N-N3ib 4- NxP N-KB3 14-OxB NxB 5- NxN-t. KPxNtal 15-B-Rfi!! Q-82ic 6- B-QB4 B-Q3 16-BxNP KxB 7- Q-K2 B-K2 17-N-B5 K-Rl 8- N-B3 O-O I8-R-K4 BxP fl-O-O B-03 19-K-RI Resigng 10-R-K1 B-KN5 (a) Supposedly a safe, drawish varia-tion, but one cannot always "draw" against an aggressive opponent! tbi If B-N3; 14. NxB, RPxN: 15. QxNP and the KBP is pinned! (c) Look at (he bind White gets on the position after 15. . . . PxB; IS. N-B5, B-KB5; 17. Q-KN4, B-N4: 18. P-KR4. K-Rl; 19. PxB. RPxP; 20. RK7, to be foU lowed by R-Kl. (From N.Y.E.P.)
HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIPS All the wlxhing (n participate In the hith school and rnlleie mutches plea contact Herman Steiner at the head-quartern of the Hollywood Chess Group, 1118 N. Formosa Ave., or on the telephone at WEbster 8H17 or WVoming 351(1, after 6 P.m. A meeting wan held last Sunday and another will he held today to determine the achedule of the players.
CALIFORNIA OPEN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP W. L. Steiner . . 14 Barzin ... 9'a Mrs. Roos. 8 Forti 8 Cohen ... 8 Finkelstein. 5 Htifnagei . n Llcht W. 3'i Chernls . Dobsevate Levienne . 3'a Henderson 3 Martin .3 K'pllowsky 2'- Von Bel . . . Ha Weisa .... 0 Everett. . . 0 L.
