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Chess 27 Aug 1932, Sat Pasadena Star-News (Pasadena, California) Newspapers.com
Chess
By Douglas A. Houghton
Pasadena Chess Congress of 1932 Nearing End; Dr. Alexander Alekhine Well In the Lead; Rev. Ohman of Nebraska Tops Minor Tournament; Miss Le Vieve Hines Unbeaten In Women's Contest.
Star News, August 27, 1932
Two days remain for the windup of the final sessions of the Pasadena International Chess Congress of 1932. Today and tonight in the chess arena at the Maryland Hotel the full quota of thirty contestants will swing into action. All adjourned games have been played off and the tenth and eleventh rounds will bring together the strongest players in each of the three tourneys.
Tomorrow, Sunday, at 1 p. m. the masters will meet in the final round of the international tournament. Dr. Alekhine, winner of the Berne, Switzerland, tourney, will encounter young Reuben Fine, winner of the Western championship title at Minneapolis three weeks ago. Harry Borochow, present California titlist, meets A. J Fink, three times winner of the California state championship; H. Steiner, former New York state champion. clashes with Fred Reinfeld, present New York state champ. Reshevsky vs. Dake and Factor vs. Kashdan will battle their strongest to break the .555 percentage tie in third to seventh place in the standings.
Chess enthusiasts and patrons will be thrilled at watching the games of the masters being reproduced move by move on the great wall boards Tournament Director Alexander V. Taylor has provided.
Tonight the master play starts promptly at 7 o'clock. Sunday the games are to start at 1 p. m. Admission to the chess arena is $1.
Pairings in the masters' round for tonight are: Fink-Steiner; Reinfeld-Factor; Kashdan-Reshevsky; Dake-Alekhine; Fine-Araiza; Bernstein-Borochow. Matches begin at 7 p. m.
Minor pairings are: Sullinger-Crain; Ohman-Spero; Bateman-Sobral; Jaffray-Woodward; Sheets-Broughton; Pearsall, bye. Play starts at 2 p. m.
Women's tourney pairings: Mrs. Hillman-Mrs. Wolff; Mrs. Hinchman-Mrs. Bain: Miss Fox-Miss Hines. Matches at 2 p. m., played in the patio of the Maryland Hotel.
Masters' Standings
W L Dr W L Pct Dr. Alekhine 7 0 2 8 1 .888 I. Kashdan 3 1 5 5½ 3½ .611 H. Steiner 4 2 3 5½ 3½ .555 H. Borochow 4 3 2 5 4 .555 S. Reshevsky 4 3 2 5 4 .555 S. Factor 3 2 4 5 4 .555 R. Fine 3 2 4 5 4 .555 A. W. Dake 2 1 6 5 4 .555 F. Reinfeld 2 4 3 3½ 5½ .388 J. Bernstein 1 3 5 3½ 5½ .388 J. Araiza 2 6 1 2½ 6½ .277 A. J. Fink 1 7 1 1½ 7½ .166
Minor Standings
W L Dr W L Pct Ohman 7 0 1 7½ ½ .537 Sobral 7 2 0 7 2 .777 Sheets 6 2 0 6 2 .750 Woodward 6 3 0 6 3 .666 I. Spero 4 2 1 4½ 2½ .642 Pearsall 4 4 1 4½ 4½ .500 Bateman 2 4 2 3 5 .375 Crain 2 5 1 2 5½ .357 Jaffray 2 6 1 2½ 6½ .277 Broughton 1 6 1 1½ 6½ .187 Sullinger 0 7 0 0 7 .000
Dr. Ohman's defeat of M. Sobral, his nearest adversary, puts him comfortably in the lead. This afternoon he is to play I. Spero and the game will be the high light of the session. Parings for Sunday, round No. 10, are: Sullinger-Broughton; Woodward-Sheets; Persall-Jaffray; Sobral, bye; Spero-Bateman; Crain-Ohman.
Women's Tourney
Minor Standings
W L Pct Miss Hines 7 0 .1000 Mrs. Wolff 6 3 .666 Miss Fox 4 3 .571 Mrs. Bain 5½ 4½ .555 Mrs. Hillman 2½ 6½ .277 Mrs. Hinchman 1 7 .125
Dr. Alekhine in Simultaneous
One hundred players, fifty tables, two consulting players to a table, is the program for the great simultaneous exhibition to be given by Dr. Alexander Alekhine, the grand master Chess player and world's champion at the Los Angeles Athletic Club on Thursday evening, September 1.
The champion is willing to meet the 100 ablest players in California all together, by detachments or individually, confident of his ability to win .950 per cent of the games or better. The master faces the tougher proposition, the consultants having 50 minutes to his one to perfect their plans. The fee is $2 for each player or $4 a table for two consulting partners. Reservations should be made early with A. V. Taylor at the Pasadena Chess Congress, or addressed to Henry MacMahon, 9441 Wilshire boulevard, Beverly Hills.
The masters now participating in the Pasadena Chess Congress and all readers of this column will be interested in reading some items taken from the newspapers of New York and environs. Here is a leader from Col. Northrop's chess column in the Newark Evening News, headed:
“Alekhine at Pasadena”
“Dr. Alexander A. Alekhine, the world's chess champion, made a slow start in the California Chess Congress. Perhaps we should not exactly use the word slow: rather he did not go in with his usual rush tactics. There was a mighty good reason. He was not entering this contest with a full knowledge of the players and their strength is would have been the case in Europe. Here he was to meet for the first time several youngsters of great genius and unheralded chess knowledge.
“He takes chances in chess only after he has reached the analytical conclusion of soundness and safety. It is not at all uncanny, as some writers say: it is a braw canny mon, is he. Therefore he was taking no chances with a new crop of American stars, every last one of them like young bulldogs, ready to get a chance at the big one. Dr. Alekhine is a good chess player; he knew that every one of these youngsters had a thing or two up his sleeve, and that they had boned up on all the traps, Stamma, Ruy Lopez, Philidor, down to Marshall and Abe Kupchik. He had to be careful at first.
“And besides there were Kashdan and Dake to reckon with. He knew the temper of their metal by having played against them and studying their games, which had been printed across the water”. Also from Col. Northrop we have the following page, Henry MacMahon, Alexander V. Taylor, et al.;
“What Next in Chess?”
“The promoters of the California Chess Congress at Pasadena are at least up to date. Some of the players assembled were taken up in a blimp for a joy ride, and while cruising around, Kashdan and Dake played game of chess for the championship of the air. It was a drawn game, Dr. Alekhine could not be inveigled into such a stunt, probably on the ground (sic) that he already is champion of the world, which, he said, covers the land, sea and air, at least within the three-mile limit. The affable champion acted as referee, however. It is not reported if a score of the blimpity bumpity game was kept, although Alekhine is said to have broadcast it.
“After the first' five rounds of play,” continues Col. Northrop, “we still adhere to our prognosis anent the fact.
Kashdan didn't get off so well, neither did the champion, probably for the same reason—hyper-caution.”
The score of the “blimpity, bumpity game was recorded by every chess player possessing a radio outfit in the Pasadena district. Charles Broughton, always alive to opportunities chessic, recorded the score as it came into the radio placed in the Maryland Gardens for the listening-in convenience of the guests assembled there. Here is the score as Mr. Broughton got it:
“Blimpity, Bumpity Game”
Game reported to have been played in a “blimp” sailing high in the air over the Maryland Hotel, Pasadena, August 15, 1932, opening day of Pasadena Chess Congress and International Masters' Tourney:
Chess Congress Games
Appended are the scores of Dr. Alekhine's lively victory over Captain Araiza and the draw between Reinfeld and Kashdan:
A “Quicky”
And we add here Harry Borochow's “quicky” with Reuben Fine, 1932 Western title holder.
Star-New Problem No. 142
From Newark Evening News
By J. Van Dijk
Black, 9 pieces
FEN 8/2p4b/k2pN3/1Q5p/5Rpr/4k3/4p1P1/N1n1B3 w - - 0 1
White, 7 pieces
Mate in two moves
Please send solution to Chess Department, Star-News, Pasadena, Cal., not later than September 8, 1932.
