Vol. TIl Number 6 OfficlCll Publication of ji)e Unlted.5tates (lJess~detation Saturday Nov~mber 20, 1948

N." Y. PLANS GALA TOURNEY MA;NHA TT AN CHESS CLUB PLANS

INTERNATIONAl 'TOURNAMENT .

f~we, NaidorF, Stahlberg To Meet Top American Masters In Tourney

The most Impel·tant inter national ehess mas tel's tournament held in this country since the .3 lx-coroered contest ot 1927 in New York City, which was WOIl by Ole late Jose R, Cnpablanca and preceded his world championshlp'1l1atch with the late Dr. Alexander Alekhine, will he held

.... in New York from December 24 to January 2, !ndusive. Announcement was made lJy th~ Manhattan Chess 'CI!!b, of wh ich

l\!..a.urlce Werth.eim, the banker, Is president, t hat th~ field would con-sist or ten invited players, incJulling seven Amel'lcans and three foreign· el'S, all of the highest rank. Acceptances have been received fmm Dr. Max Euwe of Amstenlam, world champion from 1935 to 1937, who is coming here to tour the coun try, and Mendel Najdorf, P olish master,' who has returned to Argentina 'Ilfter playing in the world championship trials ar Stockholm . • The third foreigner to he l{lvlted Is Gideon Stahl-

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" berg, Swedish mastCl', who also played at Stockholm but has been . making his home at Buenos Aires since 1939. ./ . According to Sidney Kenton, -

' chalrman of the tournament com- sky, Hel>man Steiner and Arthnr Ittee at l.he Manh a t tan Chess Dake tied for third; and the 1945

Club where t\e games wll l be Pan-American Tournamell t at Hol~ played, no dlr@c.t communication \ywoon, won by Samuel R@llhevsky lIas been received" f rom S tahlberg with Heube n ~~Iue second, H. ~ PII· who has been visl.ting..points III En· n'ik of ArgCJltlna third and I. A. ;n)lle. Indirectl)'. Ihrou"l.h II COIT{jS- Horowi t'l fourth. Neitner had. as pondent in the Noetherlnnds, It was Important a gl'oup Of TOl>elgn ma st-leamed that Stahlberg had r ecently ers competing. declared his intention ot coming --'---'------_ to the United States [0]" the pur-pose 01 playing in II tournament. The committee assumes that the s'"wedlsh expert had next month's contest in mind and that he will be

. h!"ard from soon. At a.uy rate a place will be reserved for him. llQth Najdorf and Stahl berg enter-tain world championship aspira-tions, although they tiuished just below the five that qualUied a;t Stockholm [or the 1919 tour llament ot cba.llengers.

The list ol Americans selected to meet these international masters includes Reuben .Flne, who halO been seed ed fOI" ne:K:L 'year's world tou rnament, although he dId go to the Hagu e and Moscow to try [or the Litle tbat was acquired by Mtkhail Botvlnnik, t h e SOViet grandmaster. He will be s n pported by Herman Steiner of Los Angeles, the present United States champ-ion, Arnold S. Denker, U.S. cllamJ}-ion in 1944, and Isaac J. Kaslldan , co-champion with Samuel Reshev-sky in 1942.

The oUler three places will be taken by Israe l A. Horowitz, former national open champion, Al~thnr Bisgnier, champiQIl of t he · Manhattan Chess Club and holder

- of -the national junior ti tle, and George Kramer, New York State champion in 1945. In addition to au adequate expense fund , th ere will be four cash pl"izes or ;1,000 .. $750, $500 and $250.

As the Intercollegiate T eam Tournament will be held Decem-ber 26-3(1 at Columbia University in !iew York _ chess fan s will be kept.J.Iusy commuting be tween the University a nd Manhnttan Chess Club during the hollda y season.

Since th'e 1927 tourne), In N ew Yor k, the only international a ffa irs m the United S tates of importance were the 1932 P asadena Internatio-nal Tournament, won by Dr. Alex-a nder Alekh ine with Isaac Kash-dan second and Samu el R esh ev-

LOG CABI N HOST TO SPEED EVENT

, . - -. The Seven th Annual U.S. Lightn-

in g elless Tournamont will be held at Ibe headquarters of the Log Cabin Chess Club .... ~o CollamOI'e T errace, West Orange, N.J. on Sunday> :-

CLEV' LAND LEAGU E STARTS SEASO N

The team challlpionships are well under' way In Clevela nd with 16 teama competing in the !udusb'ial Chess League. and wi t h 12 teams eugaged ill t he Clev('land Chess Association Club t.-eague. Industrial League members al'e: B"ush De-velopment Co .. Cleveland GI"aphl t e Brollze Co. , Cleveland Tw\st Drill Co.> Lubrozol Corp.> Ne ..... York Cell-tral R.n.. Perfection S tove Co., Strong-Cobb & Co., Thompson Co., Atlan tic Tool & Die Co .. Cleveland Form Tool Co.> Miok Construction Co., 'Ohio B('l1 Telephone Co.> and United States Post Office. T bomp-son Products has two teams en-tered o

In the ·Club Lengue tbe n~emhers are : Brooklyn ,Chess Nuts. AVOIl Lake Chess, Case Chess, Checkmate, Cleveland Chess_ East Side Chess, Fenn Cbessmen, Lakewood Chess, N.Y.C . "Y" Chess, P awns, Queens Chess, and Soutll E u clid Ch ess.

CHICAGO LEAGUE STARTS SEASON

The Greater Chicago Chess Lea-gue has begun it~ new seaaon with eight teams COlllpeting In the an· nnal t('am touruament. l'epl"esellt· ing Austin Chess & Checker Club, B~rwyu Chess Club, Electro-Mo· tive Chess, Club, Hawthorne Ch ess Clnb, H )'de Park YMCA Chess Clnb, Illinois Institute o f Techllo, logy Chess C1nb, \Vest Suburban Cbess Club, and Wilson Chess Clu o .

T he \Vilaon Chess Club repre-sents a reorganization of t he Irv-ing P a rk YMCA Chess Club which ten- years ago was always one o [ Ll-J e princlllal contenders (or the Champion',... nrl6r, It ,.11 . H41n and Oe,..ho. O. M. Lo'",ln wall tOl,,·rtllment dl. rector.

At Ihe nnllual meeting, held In Il le C'Ol1llllUlllty 11 ,.11 ()r t he T own 01 :\I ou n\ 110)'111 ( Molllr(\ll.l) tile followi ng OUit;CI·. W(".Te u!ttct,>tI ror th(' Quebec I>rov\n('lnl CheRI ,\ . so"lutlon: i\ lu),ol' H, 10:. Scliotl(lhl (Town o r MOll ll t. lloYIl J) hOIl\lnlry Ilatron.MaYOI· N. Courteman che (i\1oUlrea i East) honora r y pres .. DI·. J. Rauch (:'ITontreal) preSiden t, R. Troller (Quebec) 1st vice- presi-dent> E. Brisebois ("TonHen!) 2nd vice-president, J. A . Morissette (Quebec ) tl>easurel'> P . H. Nadeau (Que bec) jUllior cbess conven or, and D. M. LeDain (:'II ontreal) s ecre-tary.

HARKINS CHOSEN CHESS ORGANIZER ,

The 18-year old J ames Harkins of Cleveland has become one of the youngest-l! not the young-est- llaid school cbess instructor in the counlry. H arkins, an alum-nu a of th e famous Pa'Wns Clnb o r Cleveland and 1947 Oh io Junior Champion, now becomes Scholastic Chess Director for the ~chool sys· tem of Cleveland> and his first official HCt was to take ste{ls to form a Scho1.astic Chess Leagne enibl"acillg the 80 odd schools in the Greater Cleveland a·rea. .i u-nior chess has alwa)'1! been active in Cleveland, thauks to t h e Cleve-land Chess Association r

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The higb schools are competing for the Man;hall Chess Club trophy now held by t h e Bronx High School ot Science. The five round Swiss event look s like a win (or the Stuyvesant team headed by Elliot Hearst.

The Marshall (lnals sees Carl Piln iek hQldlng a nan 'Ow lead ahead of Evans, Halla ue r, Fajans, Mengarinl and DU ilst. Donovau, off to a poor ·start... s eems to have recovered Ills tl'ue form, and call he expected to climb up In the / s tandings. I

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Homework

T his th ril li ng p llne (".only a draw") Illustrates a phenomenon which Is net new Liu t wh ich bas been perfected in modern play. This is t he s trugl;le I.letween two ]llayers who h Ave prepared v.arla UolIs In the same line or play, Eacb mas ter has a rm ed IIImselt with clever fi nesses in Lh e ho pe .o f .ou twitt ing his .opponent . 'I'he contes t starts Ioug he fore t hey s it down In the tournamen t room . may the best surprise win!

FRENCH DEFENSE V ina de l Ma r , 1947

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){.Bl; 10. R PxP! (thr eaten ing 1], R·R3). fixP; 11 . Kt'QG! wHh a strong attack.

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10. R·R)! PxKl 10 . ... , PxB wo uld not do because of 11. R ·B3 ch e tc.

H . B~'! I Accord ing to Modern Chess Ope n. Ingll (Korn ) there is a dra w by 11 . ... :, P xB ; 12. QxPch, K-K1; 13. Q·R5cb ' etc. Bll t, as RaWer poin ts ou t, White can win with 13. B· Ktch !, P xB; 14. QxPch !, K·BI; 15. R·I{K t3 and if 15 . .... , Q·R4ch; 16. K·Q1.

11 ..... ~_ Q ·R4 g~ T he analysts ha ve o verloo ked that Black can fOI'c e an Im mediate draw (If h e wants It ) with 11. ':':. , PxB; 12. QxPch, K-B2! ; fol' now 13. R· Kt3? is defeated by 13 . .. , B·B1.

12. e.Q2 ....... . FOl'ced (12: K·Q11, PxB; 13. QxPch, I{·Kl a nd Biacij:'s King flees to the Qii6eii-SidcJ .

12. _H* Q·B~ Spurn lug the.draw by 12. , Q.Ql~ 18. B-R6, Q·R4ch; 14. B·Q2, Q--QI oiC. After the text, 13. B·R6! would be p. m lBlake.

1). R. I(O! PxQP! Thl'eatens to swa p Queens.

H . Kt·B)! Kh;P 15. FbP~ P·R3! !

Not 16. , KxR ( it 15. , Ktxl(t cll ; IG. K·Ql!! wins); 16. n·RGc h, I(·Kt l: 17. Q-KSch a11(1 ma te next move.

l'.8·Rm Avoiding 16. Bxnp?, B-K16ch!; l 7. K-K2, QxR ; 18. BxQch, KxB tltld White's Queen is lost ! An· ol her way Is 16 . ... , RxB! 17. QxR, 'lJ·Kt5ch!

16. _ KxR lJ. QxPeh O,. wn!

Both s ldcs must be coute nt wilh lh e Ilerpetuai check!

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CATALAN SYSTEM u. S. Jun ior ChampforlShlp

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