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Chess 12 Jul 1942, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
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CHESS BY HERMAN STEINER INTERNATIONAL CHESS MASTER . Address All Mail to the Chess Editor July 12. 1942 L.A. TIMES PROBLEM NO. 1311 W. E. Williams White mates in two. (Wh. 5; Bl. 9.) L.A. TIMES PROBLEM NO. 1312 By C D. Locock White mates in three. (Wh. 11: Bl. 8.) SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 1307; Q-K3. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 1308: "Cooked" four solutions: R-Q4. K-B5, P-B4 and R-Q6. The intended solution was R-Q6. We received solutions from the following: H. Bruhn, R. H. Hewes, S. J. McConnell. J. O. Dodge. Dr. F. B. Sheldon. C. J. Gibbs, G. D. Donald. F. Margaretten. W. L. Koethen, G. Francis. A. L. Buckman. F. D. Fuller. J. T. Watson, R. C. Mankowski. C. Henderson,, G. A. Hall. Rev. P. Prichard, D. M. Becker (welcome to our ladder,) F. Kelly (welcome to our ladder, 1 A. D. Reynolds Sr., M. Rudholm, A. S. Wells, Mrs. F. Tovar. O. J, Myers, R. H. Beals, D. A. Innes, L. A. Salgado. T. Harrington, E. Shimano, W. Slosson (welcome to our ladder. 1 C. B. Collins. W. C. Nolting. E. H. Schadee, J. Y. Ku-mugal (you may send money order to 1 me.) W. de Castro. P. B. Johnson, J. P. j Walsh. B. Bushueff. R. Benton (welcome iu our iauuer.i j. 1, urage.
FIGHT FOR THE CENTER By Kamat j The average Dlaver. who hn not delved idecp Into the scientific aspect of a chess! contest, usually tries to import into open-1 Ing, considerations which are reserved to the middle and the end game. Having a general idea that a game of chess concludes with the mating of the adverse King, ne starts with crude direct methods BISHOP'S GAMBIT AlUnan . Pinkus Altaian Pinkus White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-K4 16-Q-N6 QjtQ 2- P-KB4 PP 17-NxQ R-Kl 3- B-B4 N-KB3 18-R-Q1 N-Q2 4- N-QB3 B-QN5 19-NxP? PxN 5- N-B3 O-O 20-BxP N-K7 ! 6- 0-0 NitPi21-BxN RxB 7- N-Q5 P-QB3i22-BxP N-B3 8- NxB Q-N3 I 23-R-KB1 B-Q2 9- P-Q4 OxNi24-B-N5 N-K5 10- Q-K2 P-Q4125-B-R6 K-R2: 11- B-03 P-KB4 ; 26-B-B4 R-KNli 12- P-B3 Q-Q3 : 27-QR-K1 R NlxPj 13- N-K5 P-KN4II 28-K-R1 RxQNP, 14- Q-R5 P-KR3 29-P-R4 R-KN5 ! 15- P-KR4 N-N6' 30-Resigns j Isaac I. Kashdan who tied for premier j honors with Defending Champion Samuel ; Reshevsky in the recent United States : championship tournament won a speedy victory over H. Baker in that event.
The final "Knight Fork" proved fatall SICILIAN Kashdan Baker Kashdan Baker White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-QB4 10-PxN P-N3 2- N-KB3 P-Q3 11-B-K3 B-KN2 3- P-Q4 PxP 12-Q-Q2 B-QN2 4- NxP N-KB3 13-B-B3 P-QR4 5- N-QB3 P-QR3 14-P-QR3 N-QR3 6- B-K2 Q-B2 15-PxP NxP 7- 0-0 P-QN4 16-P-B3 NxP 8- P-B4 P-N5 17-BxN Resigns 9- N-05 NxN For after BxB: 18 N-N5. 0-B3: 19. QxB! OxQ comes the fatal "Knight Fork" 20. N-B7 and then 21. NxQ.
We came across this variation of the famed "Smothered Mate" finish in a game played between Fred Schmitg of Pough-keepeie and E. Wray of New York City, in the fifth grand national. New York State preliminaries tourney of the Correspondence Chess League of Amertoa. FRENCH DEFENSE Schmitg White 1- P-K4 2- P-04 3- N-OB3 4- P-K5 5- N-KB3 6- B-Q3 7- B-ON5? 8- 0-0 9- PxP 10- NQ4 11- 9-KN4 laj it is Wray Schmits Wray Black White Black P-K3 12-P-KB4 P-KB4 P-Q4 13-Q-R5 B-K2 N-KB3 14-B-K2 Q-QN3 KN-Q2 15-R-Olia) N-QB3 B-K2 16-NxN N-Q6 ! P-QB4 17-K-R1 N-B7 O-O 18.-K-N1 N-R6 P-KR3 19-K-Rl Q-N8! NxOBP 20-RxQ N-B7 P-QR3 Mate! B-N4 almost should avoid being axiomatic that you "pinned." Here 15. K-Rl was much better Xf you like to play chess by correspondence, you can Join this league for $3 a year, which will Include an annual subscription to The Chess Correspondent, a magazine devoted to league doings, games, analyses and problems.
Walter F. James. 4133 Tyler St., Sioux City, la., is the secretary. ALEKHINE'S DEFENSE Pllnlck Black B-N3 R-QB4 R-Kl B-R4 Gladstone Pilnick Gladstone White Black White 1- P-K4 N-KB3 20-Q-B1 2- P-K5 N-Q4 21-KR-K1 3- P-QB4 N-N3 22-O-Nl 4- P-B5 N-Q4 23-B-B4 5- N-OB3 P-K3 24-R-K2 6- NxN PxN 25-N-KN5 7- P-Q4 P-QN3 26-RxB(b) 8- B-K3 B-R3 27-RxR 9- BxB NxB 28-Q-K4 10- Q-R4 Q-Bl 29-QxBP 11- R-QB1 PxP 30-Q-K4 12- PxP R-QN1 31-Q-Q5 13- P-ON3 N-N5 32-R-Q2 14- R-B3 N-B3 33-RxBP 15- R-Q3 R-N5 34-RxP'Q7 16- Q-R3 ' P-Q5 35-OXR 17- B-Q2 BxP 36-RxP 18- N-B3 O-O 37-O.XQ 18-0-0 R-N4I (a) As good as anything n the position. If Black plays 25 . . . P-KR3: then 26. R-KR3, PxN; 27. Q-R7 , K-Bl; 28. Q-R8 , K-K2; 29. QxP and Black's position collapses. Or. if 25 . , . P-KR3: 26. R-KR3 Pn?p1 K-Bl!thp B-B6 P-B3a R-K3 Resigns PxB:;c that when he reaches the middle and the end game, he Is left with a lost position. While "what not to do" may be a useful prophylactic against unsound strategy, "what to do" m the opening will be a more helpful course for the student and the fight for the center furnishes a motive preventing him from going astray. The term "center" is easily understood when we say that It denotes the four squares "rt4." "d5," "e" fu v nich re "ntrally placed in lne board ou te a eonrrrte iriro ! !. what have we to fight for? is ihes'e1 uarenVag.
ZmZU or a misleading course appeals to the Player. The occupation of the center by pawns primarily and by pieces somehow strikes us as the best course though when these are attacked and when we are unable to prop them In the position they occupy we see the futility of the course. Our chessmen In the center squares will be like an invading army in the capital which is cut off from its comrades In the frontier. What Is more Important then will be the control of these center squares for purposes of offense and defense To ne an apt astrological term "aspectlng" of center is more important than actual occupation of It. ine great teacher and chess master.
calculated to that end and an advance P-KN3: 27. RxP. K-N2 .if 27 . . . NxP In his chess strength Is witnessed when! 28. BxN. either RxB: 29. RxP , K-Bl; 30. he abandons this primitive idea In favorlR-N8 etc.;) 28. NxP. etc. of the logical, yet archaic principle of I Or, If 25 . . . P-KB4; 28. RxB, fol- denuding the opponent of some of his Mowed br 27. QxKBP. fighting pieces. But these premature (bl If 28. R-KR3, PxN- 2"i. QxP , V" easuy repuiseo witn me result i K-Bl and Black can still tight. (CI Here If 33 . . . N-QB3: 34. RxN wins a piece, for the black queen cannot go on the back line and the black rook is pinned. Notes (a) and (b) are those of the winner. C. D. Locock. author of the amusing "Imagination in Chess." Is a brilliant player in his own right. Here Is a recent extraordinary "cavalry" engagement! FRENCH DEFENSE Locock Amateur! Locock Amateur White Black! White Black 1- P-K4 P-K3 7-N-N5 (a) N-Bl 2- P-04 P-Q4 8-P-QB3 P-QR3 3-N-QB3 N-KB3 9-Q-R4 B-Q2'bl 4-B-N5 B-K2!10-NXBP 5- P-K5 KN-Q2I 11-Q-R5 N-QB3 6- BxB QxB1 12-NxKPiResignsiei a The Initial onslaught by the cavalry. hi If Instead PxN: then 10. QxR! le) For after K-Bl: 13. Q-B7 Is mate and after K-Kl: 13, NxNP mate the cavalry is In at the death! vance of the center pawns threatens to rjnad driva back the enemy piecrs. An exam- 1 HHT.himi" enemy pieces. An ex pie: i. P.R4. P-K4: 2. P-Q4. PxP (the White KP Is ready to march and l only: ,or "n enemy Kt to show himself hls to flight ! 3 P-QB3. KI-KB3! Black let , thi? ' what every beginner should do in order to gain expenence of the conseouences of an ad.
'he center. 4 p-ks. ki-ks; The iKt c,n rnaintain himself here, for 5. B-Q3 win oe answered by a developing move f value, namely 5. ... P-Q4. Not of course a further wander ng b 9. . . Kt-B4 for this move, after . PxP. KtxB ;7 wt wnuirt yield an advantage of 4 i tempi to White.' (To bs Continued) The King's Gambit was tried out twice during the late United States tourney. On the first occasion Herman Hahlbohm' and alter a reptltlon of moves. But in the Benjamin Altman-Alhm S. Pinkus game B1clt 'or triumphed decisively, KINO S GAMBIT Hshlhohm Reshevsky Hshlbohra Reshevsky White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-K4 24-R-Kl RxR 2- P-KB4 PxP 25-KxR K-K3 3- N-QB3 N-K2 26-K-Q2 K-04 4- N-KB3 P-Q4 27-K-Q3 P-QR3 5- P-Q4 PxP 28-P-QR3 N-B3 6-NxP N-Q4 29-B-B7 N-Kl 7- Q-K2 B-N5 30-B-NB N-N2 8- P-B3 O-O 31-B-R7 N-K3 9- PxB R-Kl 32-B-K3 P-QN4 10-N-K5 P-KB3 33-B-O! P-KR4 ill-Q-RS P-KN3 34-B-K3 P-KN4 12-Q-R4 PxN 35-P-KN3 K-K4 13-QxQ RxO 36-P-KR3 K-B4 14-PxP B-B4 37-B-B2 K-K4 15-N-B6 NxN 38-B-K3 K-Q4 lS-PxN R-Kl 39-B-B2 N-Ql 117- K-B2 N-02 40-B-Nfi N-K3 118- B-B4 B-K3 41-B-K3 K-K4 10-P-P7 KxP 42-B-R7 K-04 20-BXB RxB 43-B-K3 I K-K4 21-BxP QR-K1 44-B-R7 K-Q4 132-KR-Kl P-QB3 43-B-K3 K-K4 23-RxR RxR
FIGHT FOR THE CENTER By Kamat j The average Dlaver. who hn not delved idecp Into the scientific aspect of a chess! contest, usually tries to import into open-1 Ing, considerations which are reserved to the middle and the end game. Having a general idea that a game of chess concludes with the mating of the adverse King, ne starts with crude direct methods BISHOP'S GAMBIT AlUnan . Pinkus Altaian Pinkus White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-K4 16-Q-N6 QjtQ 2- P-KB4 PP 17-NxQ R-Kl 3- B-B4 N-KB3 18-R-Q1 N-Q2 4- N-QB3 B-QN5 19-NxP? PxN 5- N-B3 O-O 20-BxP N-K7 ! 6- 0-0 NitPi21-BxN RxB 7- N-Q5 P-QB3i22-BxP N-B3 8- NxB Q-N3 I 23-R-KB1 B-Q2 9- P-Q4 OxNi24-B-N5 N-K5 10- Q-K2 P-Q4125-B-R6 K-R2: 11- B-03 P-KB4 ; 26-B-B4 R-KNli 12- P-B3 Q-Q3 : 27-QR-K1 R NlxPj 13- N-K5 P-KN4II 28-K-R1 RxQNP, 14- Q-R5 P-KR3 29-P-R4 R-KN5 ! 15- P-KR4 N-N6' 30-Resigns j Isaac I. Kashdan who tied for premier j honors with Defending Champion Samuel ; Reshevsky in the recent United States : championship tournament won a speedy victory over H. Baker in that event.
The final "Knight Fork" proved fatall SICILIAN Kashdan Baker Kashdan Baker White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-QB4 10-PxN P-N3 2- N-KB3 P-Q3 11-B-K3 B-KN2 3- P-Q4 PxP 12-Q-Q2 B-QN2 4- NxP N-KB3 13-B-B3 P-QR4 5- N-QB3 P-QR3 14-P-QR3 N-QR3 6- B-K2 Q-B2 15-PxP NxP 7- 0-0 P-QN4 16-P-B3 NxP 8- P-B4 P-N5 17-BxN Resigns 9- N-05 NxN For after BxB: 18 N-N5. 0-B3: 19. QxB! OxQ comes the fatal "Knight Fork" 20. N-B7 and then 21. NxQ.
We came across this variation of the famed "Smothered Mate" finish in a game played between Fred Schmitg of Pough-keepeie and E. Wray of New York City, in the fifth grand national. New York State preliminaries tourney of the Correspondence Chess League of Amertoa. FRENCH DEFENSE Schmitg White 1- P-K4 2- P-04 3- N-OB3 4- P-K5 5- N-KB3 6- B-Q3 7- B-ON5? 8- 0-0 9- PxP 10- NQ4 11- 9-KN4 laj it is Wray Schmits Wray Black White Black P-K3 12-P-KB4 P-KB4 P-Q4 13-Q-R5 B-K2 N-KB3 14-B-K2 Q-QN3 KN-Q2 15-R-Olia) N-QB3 B-K2 16-NxN N-Q6 ! P-QB4 17-K-R1 N-B7 O-O 18.-K-N1 N-R6 P-KR3 19-K-Rl Q-N8! NxOBP 20-RxQ N-B7 P-QR3 Mate! B-N4 almost should avoid being axiomatic that you "pinned." Here 15. K-Rl was much better Xf you like to play chess by correspondence, you can Join this league for $3 a year, which will Include an annual subscription to The Chess Correspondent, a magazine devoted to league doings, games, analyses and problems.
Walter F. James. 4133 Tyler St., Sioux City, la., is the secretary. ALEKHINE'S DEFENSE Pllnlck Black B-N3 R-QB4 R-Kl B-R4 Gladstone Pilnick Gladstone White Black White 1- P-K4 N-KB3 20-Q-B1 2- P-K5 N-Q4 21-KR-K1 3- P-QB4 N-N3 22-O-Nl 4- P-B5 N-Q4 23-B-B4 5- N-OB3 P-K3 24-R-K2 6- NxN PxN 25-N-KN5 7- P-Q4 P-QN3 26-RxB(b) 8- B-K3 B-R3 27-RxR 9- BxB NxB 28-Q-K4 10- Q-R4 Q-Bl 29-QxBP 11- R-QB1 PxP 30-Q-K4 12- PxP R-QN1 31-Q-Q5 13- P-ON3 N-N5 32-R-Q2 14- R-B3 N-B3 33-RxBP 15- R-Q3 R-N5 34-RxP'Q7 16- Q-R3 ' P-Q5 35-OXR 17- B-Q2 BxP 36-RxP 18- N-B3 O-O 37-O.XQ 18-0-0 R-N4I (a) As good as anything n the position. If Black plays 25 . . . P-KR3: then 26. R-KR3, PxN; 27. Q-R7 , K-Bl; 28. Q-R8 , K-K2; 29. QxP and Black's position collapses. Or. if 25 . , . P-KR3: 26. R-KR3 Pn?p1 K-Bl!thp B-B6 P-B3a R-K3 Resigns PxB:;c that when he reaches the middle and the end game, he Is left with a lost position. While "what not to do" may be a useful prophylactic against unsound strategy, "what to do" m the opening will be a more helpful course for the student and the fight for the center furnishes a motive preventing him from going astray. The term "center" is easily understood when we say that It denotes the four squares "rt4." "d5," "e" fu v nich re "ntrally placed in lne board ou te a eonrrrte iriro ! !. what have we to fight for? is ihes'e1 uarenVag.
ZmZU or a misleading course appeals to the Player. The occupation of the center by pawns primarily and by pieces somehow strikes us as the best course though when these are attacked and when we are unable to prop them In the position they occupy we see the futility of the course. Our chessmen In the center squares will be like an invading army in the capital which is cut off from its comrades In the frontier. What Is more Important then will be the control of these center squares for purposes of offense and defense To ne an apt astrological term "aspectlng" of center is more important than actual occupation of It. ine great teacher and chess master.
calculated to that end and an advance P-KN3: 27. RxP. K-N2 .if 27 . . . NxP In his chess strength Is witnessed when! 28. BxN. either RxB: 29. RxP , K-Bl; 30. he abandons this primitive idea In favorlR-N8 etc.;) 28. NxP. etc. of the logical, yet archaic principle of I Or, If 25 . . . P-KB4; 28. RxB, fol- denuding the opponent of some of his Mowed br 27. QxKBP. fighting pieces. But these premature (bl If 28. R-KR3, PxN- 2"i. QxP , V" easuy repuiseo witn me result i K-Bl and Black can still tight. (CI Here If 33 . . . N-QB3: 34. RxN wins a piece, for the black queen cannot go on the back line and the black rook is pinned. Notes (a) and (b) are those of the winner. C. D. Locock. author of the amusing "Imagination in Chess." Is a brilliant player in his own right. Here Is a recent extraordinary "cavalry" engagement! FRENCH DEFENSE Locock Amateur! Locock Amateur White Black! White Black 1- P-K4 P-K3 7-N-N5 (a) N-Bl 2- P-04 P-Q4 8-P-QB3 P-QR3 3-N-QB3 N-KB3 9-Q-R4 B-Q2'bl 4-B-N5 B-K2!10-NXBP 5- P-K5 KN-Q2I 11-Q-R5 N-QB3 6- BxB QxB1 12-NxKPiResignsiei a The Initial onslaught by the cavalry. hi If Instead PxN: then 10. QxR! le) For after K-Bl: 13. Q-B7 Is mate and after K-Kl: 13, NxNP mate the cavalry is In at the death! vance of the center pawns threatens to rjnad driva back the enemy piecrs. An exam- 1 HHT.himi" enemy pieces. An ex pie: i. P.R4. P-K4: 2. P-Q4. PxP (the White KP Is ready to march and l only: ,or "n enemy Kt to show himself hls to flight ! 3 P-QB3. KI-KB3! Black let , thi? ' what every beginner should do in order to gain expenence of the conseouences of an ad.
'he center. 4 p-ks. ki-ks; The iKt c,n rnaintain himself here, for 5. B-Q3 win oe answered by a developing move f value, namely 5. ... P-Q4. Not of course a further wander ng b 9. . . Kt-B4 for this move, after . PxP. KtxB ;7 wt wnuirt yield an advantage of 4 i tempi to White.' (To bs Continued) The King's Gambit was tried out twice during the late United States tourney. On the first occasion Herman Hahlbohm' and alter a reptltlon of moves. But in the Benjamin Altman-Alhm S. Pinkus game B1clt 'or triumphed decisively, KINO S GAMBIT Hshlhohm Reshevsky Hshlbohra Reshevsky White Black White Black 1- P-K4 P-K4 24-R-Kl RxR 2- P-KB4 PxP 25-KxR K-K3 3- N-QB3 N-K2 26-K-Q2 K-04 4- N-KB3 P-Q4 27-K-Q3 P-QR3 5- P-Q4 PxP 28-P-QR3 N-B3 6-NxP N-Q4 29-B-B7 N-Kl 7- Q-K2 B-N5 30-B-NB N-N2 8- P-B3 O-O 31-B-R7 N-K3 9- PxB R-Kl 32-B-K3 P-QN4 10-N-K5 P-KB3 33-B-O! P-KR4 ill-Q-RS P-KN3 34-B-K3 P-KN4 12-Q-R4 PxN 35-P-KN3 K-K4 13-QxQ RxO 36-P-KR3 K-B4 14-PxP B-B4 37-B-B2 K-K4 15-N-B6 NxN 38-B-K3 K-Q4 lS-PxN R-Kl 39-B-B2 N-Ql 117- K-B2 N-02 40-B-Nfi N-K3 118- B-B4 B-K3 41-B-K3 K-K4 10-P-P7 KxP 42-B-R7 K-04 20-BXB RxB 43-B-K3 I K-K4 21-BxP QR-K1 44-B-R7 K-Q4 132-KR-Kl P-QB3 43-B-K3 K-K4 23-RxR RxR
