Chess 03 Oct 1915, Sun The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
The following game was contested on board number one of the match between Los Angeles and San Francisco, played September 6, 1915.
(a) Had Black now played 9. B-Q2, the following continuation would most probably have followed.
(b) Mlotkowski states that he had first intended to have played PxQP and if Black replied KPxP, then B-R5, but changed my mind during the adjournment, for after 13. Q-QB BxN; 14. QxQ BxQ; 15. N-N3 B-B2 the position seemed drawish.
(c) The only move to save a Pawn, as P-QR4 would have been played in answer to either R-B3 or R-R2.
(d) Best. If 26. N-N4, then N-N3 follows and black regains the Pawn. If Black had, however, replied to 26. N-N4 with QRxP, then 27. RxR RxR; 28. P-Q5 would have yielded white a fine game.
Elmer Gruer (white) vs. Stasch Mlotkowski (black)
Queen's Gambit Declined: Barmen Variation
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The following game played in Los Angeles, Cal., September 15, illustrates a new trap that Mlotkowski has worked out in the French defense.
(a) Mlotkowski's new move.
(b) Likely B-Bsq was the best combination.
(c) NxNP was probably stronger.
(d) Threatening N-Q6ch, also B-B5 and if Black moved either the King or Rook or Castled, Black's game appears to be hopeless.
Stasch Mlotkowski (white) vs. Wilbur Lyttleton Moorman (black)
French Defense: Advance Variation, Milner-Barry Gambit
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