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CHESS January 14. 1940 L. A. TIMES PROBLEM NO. 1051 By V. Kukalnis. White mates In two. L. A. TIMES PROBLEM NO. 1052 By L. Noack
White mates in three. (Wh. 7! Bl. 8.) SOLUTION TO PROBLEM 1047: R-R8 SOLUTION TO PROBLEM 1048: R-KR3. We received solutions from the following L. Sheppard (your book is In the mail.) C. P. Ford, J. C. Drake, J. T. Watson E. H. Woodard. J. O. Dodge, R. Roslin. H. Bruhn. G. Sharp, A. Curry (welcome to our ladder, It is o.k.,1 Dr. R, H. Ross, J. f. waisn, o. A. innes. M. Huanoim, G. R. Halton. J. Davidson. G. A. Hall. J. B Ryan, B. Clews, H. J. Gilmore, W, Har mon, a. iv. tiogga, j. r. Myers, w, a Tudor, T. Zetzer. Due to the faet that the writer was away, the monthly score will appear In eur first issue of next month with two winners. CLl'B NEWS The Pacific Southwest Chess Chamninn ship Tournament played In the rooms of tne Los Angeles Chess Club.
1004 W. Sev enth St., er.rfed In a double tie. Morris treed and Morris Preenman tied for first and second places and Harry Graham and Albert jaqua for third and fourth places, Mr. Freed and Mr. Freedman Dlaved a series of games to decide the championship but this Dlay-off resulted in anmher tie.
mn we have Co-champlons Freed and Freedman ior tne pacmo southwest for 1940. The annual Los Angeles City Chess
HERMAN STEINER International Chess Master Address oil mail to Chesa Editor Championship Tournament for 19-10 will begin at the Los Angeles in days.
Anyone desiring to enter should register at the club. Robert M. Hyde la 1939 champion of Santa Barbara. His victory In the major chess tournament for the year of the Baiua Barbara Chess Club was announced by . A. Hall, club president. b n Hmith v.i riinner-un in the MS tourney, and David Cooke was third. The cup in the handicap tournament was woo by George E. Bescler, who defeated C. O. Ward in tne final rouna. . The 1939 season was among the most Interesting the club has ever had. according to Hall. In addition to lntraclub matches and tournaments, the Semana Nautlca and Trl-County League eontesta occupied the attention ot chess enthusiasts.
SECRETS OF THE CHESSBOARD By C. i. S. Purdy (Copyright) !. A Method of Tainllng In Chess.
,i.ki. ,.Anliirie thf. series. Which ran throughout the year. Complete sets ot the A.C.R. for the year, handsomely bound, can be obtained for $2.30.) Previous ar-tides: 1. Preliminary Iconoclasra; aA New Conception of Strategy and Tactics. ontroversiai mienuae; See Combinations; 5. Same (continued,) 6. More Rules lor Beelng Combinations! .
How to Plan; 8 ine urowin oi unca Principles: 9 Back to La Bouroonnaisi 10. The Soul of Chess: 11. A method of Thinking in Chess (introductory.) Tn no game does "form" vary mora than in chess. Borne "rook" or "knight players will occasionally break loose and play a game that. If ubllshed without names, might be credited to a first-ciasi amateur.
You can never safely bet on game of ehesg. it a piayer in i,ia j. gay, It means that his form varies be t..n n. 3 and Class 4: while a Clang 4 player ia one whose form varies front Class 3 to Class a, wnen mean n ui the Class 3 man may play In his Clasa 4 form, and the Class 4 man In his Clasa 3 form. Then the Class 4 man will win.
"Form" in chess depends partly on health and other external factors, as in other games But it varies chiefly through, sheer accident, we au mase oeiim, at times, which are not only avoidable by us, but are unworthy of players many classes below us. Sometimes fortune smiles on us and we play a whole game without any such oversight; other times, we maka several Why Is this? It Is simply because In chess we have to keep so MANY things before our attention, in tennis, mere ' Just one thing for a good player to attend to the ball. All his actions in hitting the ball are mechanical: and he hag already decided where to hit it. Even In bridge, a little analysts will show that there are far fewer things to attend to than In chess. The e-reater the number of things w hiva tn deal with assuming all the thlnga are different the greater the chance of a mistake.
In business, mistages are reduced to a minimum through card-indexing, double-entry bookkeeping and systems ot all sorts. Without such order and method, a business of any magnitude) would rapidly tall to bits. lint In chess, most of us use no method or system at all. It stands to reason that no system can make a bad player Into a good one only the acquirement of further skill can do that. But might not a good system enable that Class 3 player alwayi to play in either of nis class 2 or uiasi 3 form and avoid those graver blunders that put him sometimes In Class 4? Ot course, it might and thus put mm automatically In Class 2 '-a.
Might It not even enable him always to play in his Clasa a form and thus raise him a whole class? Certainly it might; more than that, it actually has done that and more. To quote one example witn a flavor or romance about It: a young girl of 13. who Played In the women's championship ot New South Wales some years ago, wag attended by a young man who informed me that they had taken up the game only a few months before and had been study ing it together entirely from the "How to improve series in tne A C K. ana Znosko-Borovsky'g little work "How Not to Play Chess." The young man had slight ly simplified the system given in tha A.C.R. of December, 1931 thereby showing a commendable Initiative so often lacking In students and the girl was religiously following the system in her games in the tourney, which was her first attempt at playing against other opponents than her friend.
There were 14 players, most of whom had been playing for many years, and I was anxious to see If the girl could manage to break 50 per cent. She gained fourth prize, with 10 points out of 131 It was an example of a player starting oft on efficient lines, without first having to "unlearn." Sad to say, chess has seen no more of either the girl or the efficient young man, though when J saw them both accidentally some years later, still together, they expressed a hope that they might some day return to it. After one game, which the heroine ot this tale played in nice, combinative style, and which a newspaper found good enough to publish. It was amusing to hear her in. quiring of her friend, with girlish enthusiasm, "And did you notice all tha function motifs?" Terminology that gray-beard players would have thought sheer gibberish though familiar enough ta students of Lasker's "Manual," which formed the foundation for my system.
Students of "Secrets," however, will remember that the idea of "function" may be profitably replaced by my pew idea ot "Jump-moves." By a system. T do not mean here a system of chess strategy, such as that put forward by Nimsovitch in "My System," but Just a set order of dealing with tha problems that arise in chess position! generally. Such a system was given ma by my schoolmaster in an elementary chemistry class, for analyzing an unknown salt. First one applied the physical tests of sight, smell and taste then tested for flame color In a Bunsen burner then applied certain chemical tests all in a certain order. Being convinced of the value of method la a different thing from being naturally methodical.
And I must confess that, being unmethodical by nature, I have never been able to train myself to use my own system throughout a game! However, as 1 said In the A.C.R. of February, 1931, "I have sometimes drawn up a list of tha mistakes I have made during a tournament, and have proved every time definitely to my own satisfaction that the system would have saved me from more than half oftheml" The new simplified gystem put forward In this article, however, will be found quite usable. I admit that the one given in 1931 would be found irksome to 95 per cent of players. The system consists of a scries of questions which a player is to ask himself at every move. Of course, if he finds tha best move with certainty before he haa asked all the questions as he often will .
he does not need to complete them. It goes without saying that you do not use the system in the opening while you are following a predetermined line. I might remark that it is vain to imagine that one can keep the system for important match games, and not bother to) use It at other times. One must train oneself to use It. The questions now follow.
The student might cony them out on a sheet of paper, and keep the sheet standing up facing him when playing over master games, on which he should practice the system. The questions or self-commands arc given in heavy type, and explanatory matter in light type. Of course, full explanations can only be found by reading previous articles in the series. (To be continued.) MANHATTAN CHESS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 1927 QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING Stelner Bartha iSieiner Bartha Black B-K O-O Q.Q4 P-QK14 P-QH3 P-GB4 Q-KtJ OR-K PxRP B-Q Q-Q4 P-Kt3 Resign White Black White 1-Kt-KB3 Kt-KB3 14-0-0 2-P-B4 P-B3 15-B-Q2 P-Q4 16-QR-B B-B4 17-Q-K2 P-K3 18-P-OR4 QKt-Q2 19-B-B3 KtxKt 20-QR-Q Kt-KS 21-R-B4 3- Kt-B3 4- P-Q4 5- P-K3 6- KI-K5 7- P-B4 8- BPxKt 9- KtxKt 10- Q-Q2 11- P-K13 12- B-Kt2 13- QxB BxKt 122-QR-KB Q-R5ch I23-Q-E5 Q-Q 24-R-Kt B.tB I25-Q-R6 PxP I26-R-B6 ENGLISH OPENING Samuels White 1- Kt-KB3 2- P-QB4 3- P-QKt3 4- B-K12 5- Kt-R4 B-P-KR3 7- P-KKt4 8- Kt-B3 9- B-K(2 Stelner Samuels Black White Kt-KB3 15-QR-Kt P-Q4 1B-Q-B B-B4 17-Q-B4 P-K3 18-KtPvP B-KKt5 19-B-KB3 B-R4 20-Q-B Kt-K5 21-B-R3 B-Kt3 22-KtxB QKt-2 23-PxP B-Kl5ch 124-K-KU Steiner Black R-Q B-QB4 PxP O-O P-K4 Q-PJ P-K5 BPxKt KtxKP B-BP Q-KtSrh B-05 10-P-Q3 11- K-B5 KUK51-B3 25-llxR 12- KI-R4 P-R3 126-K-B 13- Kt-R3 B-K2 ;27-Rcsigns 14- Kt-B2 Q-K',3 : MANHATTAN CHESS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT Nov. 29, 1929 POUR KNIGHTS OPENING Jackson 8teiner I Jackson Stelner White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-K4 14-BxKt KtPxB 2- Kt-OE3 Kt-QB3 13-Q-Q3 K-R, 3- Kt-B3 Kt-B3 16-Kt-OJ R-KKt 4- B-Kt5 B-Kt3 17-P-P3 B-03 5- 0-0 O-O 1R-P-QB4 P-B4 I 6-P-QJ P-03 19-P-QS QR-Q 7-B-KtS BxKtM-q-X3 R-K'3 S-PxB Q-K2!21-Q-F: K!-F4 9-R-K Kt-Q '22-Kt-Kt3 QH-KKt ;10-P-O4 B-Kt3 23-R-K2 Kt-K:5 111- B-KB Kt-K3i24-R-52 Q-HS 112- B-R4 P-KKf4 !:S-B-3 QPch! S-B-KtS Kt-35'26-Resurig I Rerman Stelner 'Rerman Seiner I White Bick While Black 1- P-K4 P-K4 10-KIxP Kt-K.4 2- K-KB3 Kt-OB),ll-B-K2 Kt-Ktl 3- B-B4 Kt-B3 UJ-P-B4 tt-K 4- P-Q3 B-B4 U3-B-U I P-H4 5- 0-0 P-Q3i:4-Ktu4i-Kt (i-P-KR3 P-KR3 i 1 J-KtvQP GxKt 7- Kt-BJ O-OilS-P-KJ Pxaj 8- Q Q2 K-R3 il7-Rs;sns -P-Q4 fxP i-p-k.
White mates in three. (Wh. 7! Bl. 8.) SOLUTION TO PROBLEM 1047: R-R8 SOLUTION TO PROBLEM 1048: R-KR3. We received solutions from the following L. Sheppard (your book is In the mail.) C. P. Ford, J. C. Drake, J. T. Watson E. H. Woodard. J. O. Dodge, R. Roslin. H. Bruhn. G. Sharp, A. Curry (welcome to our ladder, It is o.k.,1 Dr. R, H. Ross, J. f. waisn, o. A. innes. M. Huanoim, G. R. Halton. J. Davidson. G. A. Hall. J. B Ryan, B. Clews, H. J. Gilmore, W, Har mon, a. iv. tiogga, j. r. Myers, w, a Tudor, T. Zetzer. Due to the faet that the writer was away, the monthly score will appear In eur first issue of next month with two winners. CLl'B NEWS The Pacific Southwest Chess Chamninn ship Tournament played In the rooms of tne Los Angeles Chess Club.
1004 W. Sev enth St., er.rfed In a double tie. Morris treed and Morris Preenman tied for first and second places and Harry Graham and Albert jaqua for third and fourth places, Mr. Freed and Mr. Freedman Dlaved a series of games to decide the championship but this Dlay-off resulted in anmher tie.
mn we have Co-champlons Freed and Freedman ior tne pacmo southwest for 1940. The annual Los Angeles City Chess
HERMAN STEINER International Chess Master Address oil mail to Chesa Editor Championship Tournament for 19-10 will begin at the Los Angeles in days.
Anyone desiring to enter should register at the club. Robert M. Hyde la 1939 champion of Santa Barbara. His victory In the major chess tournament for the year of the Baiua Barbara Chess Club was announced by . A. Hall, club president. b n Hmith v.i riinner-un in the MS tourney, and David Cooke was third. The cup in the handicap tournament was woo by George E. Bescler, who defeated C. O. Ward in tne final rouna. . The 1939 season was among the most Interesting the club has ever had. according to Hall. In addition to lntraclub matches and tournaments, the Semana Nautlca and Trl-County League eontesta occupied the attention ot chess enthusiasts.
SECRETS OF THE CHESSBOARD By C. i. S. Purdy (Copyright) !. A Method of Tainllng In Chess.
,i.ki. ,.Anliirie thf. series. Which ran throughout the year. Complete sets ot the A.C.R. for the year, handsomely bound, can be obtained for $2.30.) Previous ar-tides: 1. Preliminary Iconoclasra; aA New Conception of Strategy and Tactics. ontroversiai mienuae; See Combinations; 5. Same (continued,) 6. More Rules lor Beelng Combinations! .
How to Plan; 8 ine urowin oi unca Principles: 9 Back to La Bouroonnaisi 10. The Soul of Chess: 11. A method of Thinking in Chess (introductory.) Tn no game does "form" vary mora than in chess. Borne "rook" or "knight players will occasionally break loose and play a game that. If ubllshed without names, might be credited to a first-ciasi amateur.
You can never safely bet on game of ehesg. it a piayer in i,ia j. gay, It means that his form varies be t..n n. 3 and Class 4: while a Clang 4 player ia one whose form varies front Class 3 to Class a, wnen mean n ui the Class 3 man may play In his Clasa 4 form, and the Class 4 man In his Clasa 3 form. Then the Class 4 man will win.
"Form" in chess depends partly on health and other external factors, as in other games But it varies chiefly through, sheer accident, we au mase oeiim, at times, which are not only avoidable by us, but are unworthy of players many classes below us. Sometimes fortune smiles on us and we play a whole game without any such oversight; other times, we maka several Why Is this? It Is simply because In chess we have to keep so MANY things before our attention, in tennis, mere ' Just one thing for a good player to attend to the ball. All his actions in hitting the ball are mechanical: and he hag already decided where to hit it. Even In bridge, a little analysts will show that there are far fewer things to attend to than In chess. The e-reater the number of things w hiva tn deal with assuming all the thlnga are different the greater the chance of a mistake.
In business, mistages are reduced to a minimum through card-indexing, double-entry bookkeeping and systems ot all sorts. Without such order and method, a business of any magnitude) would rapidly tall to bits. lint In chess, most of us use no method or system at all. It stands to reason that no system can make a bad player Into a good one only the acquirement of further skill can do that. But might not a good system enable that Class 3 player alwayi to play in either of nis class 2 or uiasi 3 form and avoid those graver blunders that put him sometimes In Class 4? Ot course, it might and thus put mm automatically In Class 2 '-a.
Might It not even enable him always to play in his Clasa a form and thus raise him a whole class? Certainly it might; more than that, it actually has done that and more. To quote one example witn a flavor or romance about It: a young girl of 13. who Played In the women's championship ot New South Wales some years ago, wag attended by a young man who informed me that they had taken up the game only a few months before and had been study ing it together entirely from the "How to improve series in tne A C K. ana Znosko-Borovsky'g little work "How Not to Play Chess." The young man had slight ly simplified the system given in tha A.C.R. of December, 1931 thereby showing a commendable Initiative so often lacking In students and the girl was religiously following the system in her games in the tourney, which was her first attempt at playing against other opponents than her friend.
There were 14 players, most of whom had been playing for many years, and I was anxious to see If the girl could manage to break 50 per cent. She gained fourth prize, with 10 points out of 131 It was an example of a player starting oft on efficient lines, without first having to "unlearn." Sad to say, chess has seen no more of either the girl or the efficient young man, though when J saw them both accidentally some years later, still together, they expressed a hope that they might some day return to it. After one game, which the heroine ot this tale played in nice, combinative style, and which a newspaper found good enough to publish. It was amusing to hear her in. quiring of her friend, with girlish enthusiasm, "And did you notice all tha function motifs?" Terminology that gray-beard players would have thought sheer gibberish though familiar enough ta students of Lasker's "Manual," which formed the foundation for my system.
Students of "Secrets," however, will remember that the idea of "function" may be profitably replaced by my pew idea ot "Jump-moves." By a system. T do not mean here a system of chess strategy, such as that put forward by Nimsovitch in "My System," but Just a set order of dealing with tha problems that arise in chess position! generally. Such a system was given ma by my schoolmaster in an elementary chemistry class, for analyzing an unknown salt. First one applied the physical tests of sight, smell and taste then tested for flame color In a Bunsen burner then applied certain chemical tests all in a certain order. Being convinced of the value of method la a different thing from being naturally methodical.
And I must confess that, being unmethodical by nature, I have never been able to train myself to use my own system throughout a game! However, as 1 said In the A.C.R. of February, 1931, "I have sometimes drawn up a list of tha mistakes I have made during a tournament, and have proved every time definitely to my own satisfaction that the system would have saved me from more than half oftheml" The new simplified gystem put forward In this article, however, will be found quite usable. I admit that the one given in 1931 would be found irksome to 95 per cent of players. The system consists of a scries of questions which a player is to ask himself at every move. Of course, if he finds tha best move with certainty before he haa asked all the questions as he often will .
he does not need to complete them. It goes without saying that you do not use the system in the opening while you are following a predetermined line. I might remark that it is vain to imagine that one can keep the system for important match games, and not bother to) use It at other times. One must train oneself to use It. The questions now follow.
The student might cony them out on a sheet of paper, and keep the sheet standing up facing him when playing over master games, on which he should practice the system. The questions or self-commands arc given in heavy type, and explanatory matter in light type. Of course, full explanations can only be found by reading previous articles in the series. (To be continued.) MANHATTAN CHESS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 1927 QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING Stelner Bartha iSieiner Bartha Black B-K O-O Q.Q4 P-QK14 P-QH3 P-GB4 Q-KtJ OR-K PxRP B-Q Q-Q4 P-Kt3 Resign White Black White 1-Kt-KB3 Kt-KB3 14-0-0 2-P-B4 P-B3 15-B-Q2 P-Q4 16-QR-B B-B4 17-Q-K2 P-K3 18-P-OR4 QKt-Q2 19-B-B3 KtxKt 20-QR-Q Kt-KS 21-R-B4 3- Kt-B3 4- P-Q4 5- P-K3 6- KI-K5 7- P-B4 8- BPxKt 9- KtxKt 10- Q-Q2 11- P-K13 12- B-Kt2 13- QxB BxKt 122-QR-KB Q-R5ch I23-Q-E5 Q-Q 24-R-Kt B.tB I25-Q-R6 PxP I26-R-B6 ENGLISH OPENING Samuels White 1- Kt-KB3 2- P-QB4 3- P-QKt3 4- B-K12 5- Kt-R4 B-P-KR3 7- P-KKt4 8- Kt-B3 9- B-K(2 Stelner Samuels Black White Kt-KB3 15-QR-Kt P-Q4 1B-Q-B B-B4 17-Q-B4 P-K3 18-KtPvP B-KKt5 19-B-KB3 B-R4 20-Q-B Kt-K5 21-B-R3 B-Kt3 22-KtxB QKt-2 23-PxP B-Kl5ch 124-K-KU Steiner Black R-Q B-QB4 PxP O-O P-K4 Q-PJ P-K5 BPxKt KtxKP B-BP Q-KtSrh B-05 10-P-Q3 11- K-B5 KUK51-B3 25-llxR 12- KI-R4 P-R3 126-K-B 13- Kt-R3 B-K2 ;27-Rcsigns 14- Kt-B2 Q-K',3 : MANHATTAN CHESS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT Nov. 29, 1929 POUR KNIGHTS OPENING Jackson 8teiner I Jackson Stelner White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-K4 14-BxKt KtPxB 2- Kt-OE3 Kt-QB3 13-Q-Q3 K-R, 3- Kt-B3 Kt-B3 16-Kt-OJ R-KKt 4- B-Kt5 B-Kt3 17-P-P3 B-03 5- 0-0 O-O 1R-P-QB4 P-B4 I 6-P-QJ P-03 19-P-QS QR-Q 7-B-KtS BxKtM-q-X3 R-K'3 S-PxB Q-K2!21-Q-F: K!-F4 9-R-K Kt-Q '22-Kt-Kt3 QH-KKt ;10-P-O4 B-Kt3 23-R-K2 Kt-K:5 111- B-KB Kt-K3i24-R-52 Q-HS 112- B-R4 P-KKf4 !:S-B-3 QPch! S-B-KtS Kt-35'26-Resurig I Rerman Stelner 'Rerman Seiner I White Bick While Black 1- P-K4 P-K4 10-KIxP Kt-K.4 2- K-KB3 Kt-OB),ll-B-K2 Kt-Ktl 3- B-B4 Kt-B3 UJ-P-B4 tt-K 4- P-Q3 B-B4 U3-B-U I P-H4 5- 0-0 P-Q3i:4-Ktu4i-Kt (i-P-KR3 P-KR3 i 1 J-KtvQP GxKt 7- Kt-BJ O-OilS-P-KJ Pxaj 8- Q Q2 K-R3 il7-Rs;sns -P-Q4 fxP i-p-k.
