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Steinmeyer Tops St. Louis Club Annual

Bob Steinmeyer went undefeat· ed through a seven round Swiss sponsored by the Sl. Louis Chess Club over a two month schedule. Conceding draws to Hardy and ~u...rtt)" , who firushffi fourth and seventh, respectively, he won from Ragan and Define, the t ..... o runners­up, to finish a half point above them with 6·1.

Ragan and Define drew their in· dfvidual game, and they tied for second and third places with game scores of 5!h ·l lf.!, but median points gave the top. spot to Ragan. Hardy took fourth place with 4112 -2lh. A four-way tie lor fifth to eignth places with scores of 4·3, was broken in the following order; Alpiser, (18 med.); Darrough, (l7 med.~24lh Solk.); Burlon, (17 med.- 24 Solk.); Smith, (12ih med.)

Brice-Nash Captures Kansas Title

Bert Brice-Nash of Galena, Kan­sas, won live and lost one at Wicb· ita, to take the Kansas State Chess Tournament, sponsored by the Kansas Stale Chess Association, with a score oC 5·1. Alpen Murphy, of Topeka, whose only loss was to Brice·Nash, but who conceded a draw, fini shed second with 4¥.! -1" .

Tie breaking points placed the fOllowing-named players, each of whom scored 4-2, in the order in which they are listed: Carl A. We­berg, of Salina; Dr. Wesley A. Per­kins, of Topeka; Gayle Hershey of Wichita; Robert V. Leewright, of Wichita.

Other playcrs with plus scores were William P. Gillespie, of Fort Riley, and William D. McLaughlin, of Wichita, each of whom had 3Y.t-2".

The eighteen-entry event was ef­ficiently directed by King MacDon­>!d.

Berliner D. C. Rapids Champ

Hans Berliner celebrated Wash· ington's Birthday by making a clean sweep oC the District oC Co­lumbia Rapids Championship Tour· Dam eDt to score 10-0. In second place, with 8-2, was US Master and CHESS LIFE contributor, Eliot Hearst. US Master Herbert Avram came third with 7lh-2'-h. George Meyer and Russell Chauvenet tied for fifth and sixth with 5-5. The strength of ' the event is demon­strated by the fact that C. C. Crit­tenden and Doctor Richard Cant· well finished with minus scores, 4-6, and 3'-h -6 Ih , respectively.

Otten Sweeps Gold Coast Open

August C. Otten o[ Miami, 195~ Florida State champion, registered a convincing 8-0 victory in the 18 player Florida Gold Coast Open february 1-9. at Hollywood. Fla.

Second, with 7-1 , was Marvin Sills, Miami. Third to fifth on Sol· koH points, alter each scored 5·3, were: Bob Eastwood, Homestead ; Schuyler Broughton, West Palm Beach: and Warren TeiUeman, Miami.

Morrill Goddard of Miami scored 31,~4lh to win the "Amateur" title by pacing those rated 1799 or low· oc.

USCF BULLETIN BOARD Membership

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Bob Eastwood says; There will be tournament play for everyone at Sarasota, J uly 3-6.

Botvinnik Overwhelms Smyslov Takes First Three Games In Retu;n Match

For World Championship Mikhail Botvinnik, former world champion, ·appearing in ·the role

of a challengcr for the first time since he won .the title in 1948, has taken a commanding lead in the return match with Vassily Smyslov, who won the crown from him a year ago. The match. now being played in Moscow is to be ·a twenty-four game affair, unless one of the players scores 12Jf.r points in fewer games. Botvinnik has taken the first three games, to lead 3·0.

Playing the Black pieces in the first game, he adopted the Caro· Kann Defense, refrained [rom castling, and at adjournment after 40 moves, h.e was two pawns ahead. The following day, when play was resumed, Smyslov tried desperately to eqUalize, but Botvinnik clung doggedly to his pawn plus, and won after 62 moves.

In the second game Smyslov played a King's Indian Odense, ob­tained a cramped posit ion, and had to yield a pawn while fend ing off Botvinnik's powerful attack. At adjournment. Botvinnik was a pawn ahead, with connected and supported passed pawns. His sealed 41st move, described by the Soviet commentators as being "problematical in nature" caused Smyslov to resign without further play.

Playing Black in the third game., Botvinnik again ""chose the Caro­Kann. After nn end game i!l which he pitted hi'" bishop anu kniJlt h.t against Smyslov's rook, he forced the latter's resignation in 66 moves.

The first two games of this match afe found on page 6, column 4, of ·this issue.

MARSHALL-MANHATTAN­MAR DEL PLATA

TOURNAMENTS UNDER WAY The big news from the Manhattan Chess Club is that U.S. Cham­

pion Robert Fisch.er decided not to compete in the annual event in wh.ich. he was a seeded entrant. His withdrawal, the day before tbe tourney began leaves nine players, headed by the defending champion Arthur Bisguier, who is favored to retain his crown.

The Marsh.all Chess Club tourney is in full swing, and, as Indicated in Abcn Rudy's column in this issue, the figb t for t he title is wide open, with six players covered by a half-point score spread at the top of the list.

The annual International Masters Tournament at Mar del Plata opened with sixteen players from six diffe rent countries, including William Lombardy from the United States, who drew his first round game with Herman Pi.lnik of Argentina, a previous winner o[ the event. Bent Larsen of Denmark is tbe only European representative this year. Oscar Panno, the Argentine grandmast'\?r who recently captured the Firs t Tournament of the Americas at Bogota, is favored to win -the title.

PfI,.Jellef'f1nCe pa~ 011 For more than 6 months Paul Leith has been fighting an apparently

losing battle with the City Fathers of New York, trying to wangle from them some official recognition of the astounding chessboard feats of U.S. Champion Robert Fischer, and World Junior Champion, William Lombardy. To one letter he received the reply that "prior oUidal com­mitments" precluded compliance with his request. To others he received' no replies at aiL He finally <:licked, however, in a letter wh.ich. con­tained a rc1crence to our editorial "Thank You , Philadelphia" in th.e Feb. 5 issue. In a letter dated March 3, Mr. William R. Peer, Executive Secretary to the Mayor, wrote as follows:

Dt'" Mr. Ltith .. Wt h""'t ut tt,iat WttiMsd;ry, Mauh 191h, til HJ:4J AM ~ II M.r-yor Wa, nt r'S (tlltnd .. r ~t ",hich ,i77l~ ht ",i/l b~ ""pp, .,~ ,'~d U..,t'" 01rJ ROM" Fitrhtr ""d 20·,t'" oIti Willi<I1, .. Lo77lI>tI.ti" III ),,,u 'tqutsltJ i" ,0"" Itlt~, "f Ftl>,,,~ ,., Z2nti. Tht M;ryor look" !"",,tI,d 10 Iht O<"~ .... ion.

Too bad Lombardy will be in Argentina then. And we hope Champ Fischer's teacher will let bim oU for the occasion.

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ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Mastering 1M End Game

By WALTER KORN, Editor of MCO

The Perpetual Cycle Further to our theme R versus 2 Ps. Diagram 50 is considered an

appropriate practical case of the typical draw. It is from the game Keres­Eliskases, Noordwijk, 1938.

Blick to mOve Ind d rlW

Initiative Oscillates

II continued 1. ........ , K·861 2. K-Nl , R·R31 3. P·N7. We should remember this characteristic sci­up of the pawns in one row, as it is the ever-recurring landmark in these end games. 3 . ......... R·N3ch; 4. K.81 l4. K-Rl R-R3ch with a "perpendicular check"), R·K R3; 5. K.QI, K·Q6; 6. K·K l K·K6; 7. K·81 , K.86; B. K·Nl , R-N3ch; 9. K·81 , R.KR31 10. K·Kl , K·K61 and so forth into infinity.

As usual, artistic composition, wh ich abstracts the very essence of the leading motif, may bring the valid poi nts of the pOSition into still better focus, and our next diagram 51 will be devoted to such illustration.

Readers who were interested in the article, THE SIGNIF IC ANCE OF THE INITIATIVE IN CHE SS, which appeared In the November 20, 1957 issue of CHESS LIFE. will enjoy the fo llowing comments by Q. M. Hus­sain Professor of Statistics, Dacca University. East Pakis tan. The com· men't.s, which appeared in the form of a [etter·lo·the·editor in the . Feb­ruary, 1958, issue of T HE AMERICAN STATI STI CIAN, ~r~ reprll~ted here through the courtesy of Mr. Rubin, author of the ongmal article, and CHESS LIFE columnist Ed Nash, who co llaborated in obtaining the necessary permission from the copyright owners.

• " Dear Sir: I have greally enjoyed men! of 1953: He asserts tbat the re the article entitled 'The Signifi· appe~s to be a greater variation cance of 'the Initiative in Chess' in of strength among the players your publication No.3. Vol. II, than the difference between the 1957, The conclusions drawn by first and second moves, When this the contributor are in agreement is true for a selC!eted group of the with expeC!tations from the pre· Grandmasters, how much more sumptive knowledge (or assump· true it must be in general ! tion) that initiative constitutes an advantage in games of skill. But I think the magnitude of the initio ative also comes into consideration.

Can an ini tiative obtained by having the first move be main· tained throughout the course of a game, or can it be exchanged by force with some other form of ad­vantage? I think, it was Tartakow· er who remarked that the win­ner of a ga me of chess is tbat player who makes the ncxt to last blunder! Tbough chess is pre­dominently a game of skill, it may equally well be regarded as a gllme of blunders of a\l shades of intensity. In other words, one may say that initiative is an oscillating function taking alternatively posi· tive and negative values.

1 agree with the contributor about the complex nature of tbe study of initiative; and, in fact, think it to be such a confounded business that it is Ynpossible either to isolate the single factor of 'the

·advantage of the move' or to design a balanced experiment with many factors permitting separate evalu­ation of the eUects due to the different factors. Not only are these factors dillicult to estimate and allow for, but some of them are actually more important than the eUect we seek to assess. This is virtually admitted by the con­tributor while discussing the re­sults of the Grandmasters' Tourna·

My chief objection to the meth· od used by the author is connected wit h his ignoring the drawn games and considering only the won and lost games. This is tantamount to throwing away valuable recorded information. The test if skill is reflected in all possible results which are rightly assessed by awarding 1, a and ih points to ,the won. lost and drawn games, reo spectively. Drawing is half·wi n· ning, and is by no means a mean achievement! Of course. in the instances cited in his statistical analysis, the final conclusions would have remained substantially the same. though the levels of significanl'e would have been less stri ngent in all cases, had he con· s idered the drawn games in their t rue status of haU-won games. I think, a more relevant criterion for decision of the point at issue would be the number of 'points' gained with white pieces r at her than the number of games 'won.'

Capablanea's Hun d red Best Games of Chess, The Russians Play Chess, Chess Marches On. My Best Games of Chess. and World's Great Chess Games--or similar compila· tions--cannot be considered as un· biased sa mples. Short and brilliant games have a greater chance of inclusion in such treatises. Drawn games and games won by Black

(Continued on IMV- 7, col. 1)

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By Aben Rudy

Grandmaster Arthur Bisguier ar· rived home in fine fettle from his latest jaunt to South America. Hav· ing regained much of his stature in the eyes of numerous admirers. Bisguier found himseU the center of a vigorously brewing contro­versy. Would this former U.S. Champion be able to turn the lide of recent events and prevent Bob­by Fischer from making off with his Manhattan Chess Club crown? Opi nion on this hot question has been sharply divided.

Matters will soon come to a head however, and this realm of con­jecture will be quickly replaced by th e sixty·four square battle· field. From all indications cvents have moved swiftly at New York's Manhattan Chess Club. The pre­liminary round of its championship has concluded; the finals are about to begin. Eight players-Howard Cohen. Vic Gunia, George Kramer, Eddie Schwartz, George Shainswit, Abc TurnCT, and that gt'and veter­an, Harold M. Phillips-all bave survived the introductory skirm· ishes. These eight, along with Bis· guier and Fischer, will fonn the Final Section of the Max Pavey Memorial Tournament for the Man­haltan Championship.

Readers will note that the name of World Junior Champion Wil· liam Lombardy is missing from this line·up. From the kibit2er's angle this is to be greatly regret­ted. The participants however are much delighted, for in these infla· tionary times Lombardy is but an­other Bill they could 'just as well do without. IN BRIEF:

Play at the Marshall Chess Club in its annual Championship has so fa r failed to produce a run·away leader. In fact the opposite is true. All those in the top half of the tourney arc just about stepping on each others toes. Leading, on a percentage basis. with 6!.h -2!.h is New York State Champion August Rankis. He is very closely fol· lowed by Sydney Bernstein, Allen Kaufman and Lou Levy, all with 7·3. In their shadows, but certainly not completely eclipsed. are Moe Osher and Anthony Santasierre with 6%·8!.h. There are not many rounds left to this event so an exciting finish is naturally in the offing .... Arthur Feuerstein, the slowest 10 second player on earth , again has shown his strength. He captured both the Marshall and Manhattan "Rapids," two weeks running. . . . Robert Coveyou of Oak Ridge, Tennessee was the lat­est "foreigner" seen touring New York chess trails. He seemed to be having a fine time too.

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President David A. Harris of the reorganized Tulane University of Louisiana Chess Club reports that his group now has 118 activc, dues· paying members! It holds three five·hour meetings every week at the Tulane Student Center. The tremendous resurgcnce of chess in­terest at the New Orleans school is proof that an active chess program will produce a large, active memo bership. During the past month, simultaneous exhibitions have been held by two of the outstanding players in Louisiana. A. L. MeAu· ley, and Andy Lockett. The Tu· lane team was soundly beaten by the New Orleans Chess Cl ub, bul the event gained many new memo bers through good publicity. Big things are in store for chess at Tulane. Follow the 'details right herc in Ch in Life.

The University of Pennsylvania team defeated Dickinson College 5·2 in a recent seven·b03rd match. Penn played without their two star players, Charles Kalme and Robert Sobel, but the Quakers con· tinued on their winning ways. PENN SYLVA N IA DIC K INSO N Frederick 1 Hollinger 0 . r.rMlrnh 1 T llk llC' - D"""' BrO$1 ~ H, nklns ~ canto r 1 McKee c: Kelly 1 Th omlion 0 M acN.mll.. 0 Dilvls 1 Zobler I Dolin I

Virgil Rizzo, Lester Shapiro, and Norman Belle came through with wins as the University of Plus­burgh drew a match 3lh ·3!h with the McKeesport YMCA. Gerald Or­ner, who has just returned from Fort Knox, scored a draw against Ray Dennis of McKeesport. In an· other match, the same Panthers swamped Ihe Pittsburgh High School All·Stars 6% -3%. Winners for Pitt were Virgil Rizzo, Gerald Orner, Paul Love, Norman Belle, Ron Wesf, and Ron Trautman. On second board, Lester Shapiro of Pitt drew with Ed Becker of the scholastic squad. Winners {or the Ail-Stars were Emmett O'Hara, Howard Spodek, and Tom Roth. More college clubs should eneour· age high-school chess and play against such all·star teams.

In a similar match, Rutgers Uni­\'ersity lost to the Union County High School AIl·Stars 41. M. Rich· ter was the lone winner for the state university of New Jersey. L. H. Ault. R. Ault. R. LeBow, and J . MacDonald scored for Union County.

Oem's da chances ya takes! Play 'em, but watch out!

Will the person who mailed a five dollar bill and a mem­bership renewal blank in a USCF business reply envelope from North Hollywood, Califor­nia, on March 5, please send name and address to USCF, 80 East 11th St., New York?

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BITS OF MAST , By International MASTER WILLIAM LOMBARDY

World JuniQr Champion

Bisguier Recoups As of latc our former United States Champion, Arthur Bisguicr has

been in surprisingly poor form. His showing of tenth in the last United Sta\cs Championship and Rosenwald tourney showed him fo be thor­oughly out of practice, losing some eight games straight.

After this disnslrous performance ArthuJ' dCl"idcd to participate in the Championship Tournament of the Amerkas in Bogota, Columbia. Here he didn't lose any time piling up the points and although he only came equal fourth and fifth with Najdorf, International Grandmaster from Argentin:!, his play was by no means disappointing. Bisguier played some fine tactical chess and this play was rewarded by the productlon of a number of pretty games.

In the following game played agllinst 'Walter Ader of Chile. Bis­~icr obtai ns an immediately decisive advantage in the opening but WIth one move throws this advantage entirely to the wind. But this is our fortune. for because of this blunder there is produced a most inter­esting tactical game In which Arthur managed to maintain the upper hand. by a hail'. to a neat conclusion.

Ist Tournamellt of tile Americas 1-­PIRC DEFENSE

BISGUIE R White

I. P·K4 2. P·Q4 3. N·QB3 4. B·NS S. P·B4 (I) 6. P·K5! Ic)

7. B·NSch a. P·Q5 t. PI(NI (f ) 10. P" NP! (Q)

11. QxN (h) 12. QN·K2 (I) 13. PxP 14. P·B3 15. Q·R3 16. B·Q2 11. N·KB3 18. PxP I •• · Q·R4 20. 1'1 '-"" Im l 11. R·B1c:b 22. 0-0 23. N.B"I?) In) 24. Q-B2

ADER Blick

P·Q3 N·K83 P·KN3 8 ·N2 p.e. Ib) N.NSI?) (eI )

N·Bl (I) P·QR3

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P· NS ... BI(KP P·8~ (I) Q·R4 0 .0 ·0 (k) R·0 6 (I ) ... KR.Ql .... K·NI 8lfQNP P·N~ I Col

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25. PxR ('I) 26. 8 'Q6chl! (r)

27. QR·QI 18. BlIBP n. K_RI 30. P·K R4!! luI 31. R·KNI :no 8·K3 33. B·N6 34. K·R2 (wI 35. R·NII

g.Bl R·Nlch (t ) P-K4 Q_RS Iv) R·QBI P·85 Q·R6 BxP (x) Black oversteps the tIme limit.

(a) Bisguier Is quite fond of this type pawn formation which usually lends It$e]( to wlid attacking i'ames. For an e"3mple sec Bisguler vs. Reshevsky. RO~cnwald Trophy Tournament 195-1.

(b) Thl3 might be eon~idered the 10!f­Ing move, although to be sure, It (:lkes aecurnte play on Whlte's part to reo fule It. Better would have been lin ImmedIate 0·0 followed by P_B4 on the next linn.

(e) The rc rutallon. a move which Bla~k undoubtedly thought WOuld weak_ en the White center.

(d) [r 6 .. ____ .. , KN..Q2; 7. Pl<QP. BP"P; 8. N·N5. Q-R4ch; 9. K·B2 and Rlack ap. peal'S lost . If 6 . ...... _. N-N I; 7. QPltP and Black 1$ In dlfOeulty. If 6. __ ._ •• N. Rt; 7. QPxP. The Dilly move seems to

:~d 6·m;;;-it .. , can :;L~E~~~ (e) Thl.$ loses a I~

only Wa3 K-HL In Evidently Blaek had not consld·

e red thls re ply when he p layed 7 ......... . N_BJ. lie mU$1 have thought 9. B-R4, P·QN~ l or B.K2, N·QS!

Iii The cruel poInt . B);lel\ must ahan­don the derense of the KIn g Kni ght.

(hi BeI'e Black can safely resign . But that's the beauly of Chess. One !lIay play without ~ny money In the hank; not 10 In roulette.

(II 12. N·Ql 1~ sItter and offen Black no counte r chance l at all.

III White has permitted hlmseU to cct Involvod In unnecessary tactics ""hen he h u • $hnple win with a pIece more . \

(k) Black must go all oul for an Mtnck sInce he i$ II pIece down; he therefore can w.,~te no Ume ~ast\[ng Klnll '¥ side.

(\) Obvlously WhIte already has 30mI' d ifficulty, u the pcnlUin Is mlghller

,.lhan the '''''ordfl sh ! (m) ;\"Ihur would rather be ingenl.

ous t h . n pl.y the Il m ple QxNP! In) U. R..QB2 wu simple and good.

Now Dlaek relt ts v iolently! White musl no w work to win OIls g.me!

(0 1 Thb Is the m ove While has failed to (orc~c. U now 25. NxP, Q·Q5ch r ... i'.l n ln i the pIece .nd kl 25. QxNP, BxR!

(pI T hc po int or P·KN4. Black Is In t he game .galn !

1'1 ) If 25. QxB c lth H R"N or RxRth wilt $uUlce.

Ir) White 's only chaote t o win. tr Rook moves B.Qs I. too s ironi' and 11 Q.:dI. R·Nlch Is anno)'lng to sa)' the leul! .

II) ff 26 . ......... RlI:B; 27. QxB. R.N3eh; 28 . K·HI and White Is lafe be~ause of tho pIn on the alack Bbhop.

(t) Black cannot a lford the exchange or Rooks beeausc 01 Whlte·s Passed QRP.

lu) White hAS freed hImself of a ll matlnlt threQts on the Ion" diagonal.

(v) A last gasp now Black Is lost. (w) A neat IIt11e trap. tr 34 ... ...... , Bx!>;

3~. R·QN I wins A pIece. Ix) Black tails · for the eheapo. A remarkable and thrilling per.

formance by Bisguier and one oC the bes t games in the tournament despite the fact that it was marred by many blunders in the early stages.

Scholastic Chess In Florida

A record.breaking total of 51 s tudents parlid pated in the fifth annual Dale County Interscholas. t ie January 27th at Homestead. Fla.

'Yarren Tcitelman , Miami High senior, with 61h -lh retained his title. iy'eammate Mike Lieberman was second with 6-1. Joe Sokooff of MiamI Beach was -third and topped the 11 th graders with a 51h -Jlh score.

High scorers in tbe other school .erades were : 10th. Alan Levinson. Miami Edison: 9to·. Teddy Zwerd· ling. Miami Beach: and all Crom Homestead. 8th, Danny Peskoe; 7th. Anthony Peluso: 6th. Janice Engleh3rdl: 51h, Martha Sue Hend­ley: 4th( Jon Englehardt; and 3rd. Joe Englehardt.

Miami High retained its team-of­five title with 25 points; South Dade was s~nd with 22. In J unior High. Homestead won the team title for tbe third (but not comecu·

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WHODUNIT? Our "Whodunit" game from Feb.

5 issue of CHESS LIFE. was cor· rectly identified by the following readers. listed in the order in which their letters and postcards arrived at the Editor's office:

1. J . Don~ld Ottflnl, Fla.lsWlnt, MI$­sourl

2. Clifford s. Phillips, Flint, MIchl.

"" 3. Richard S. c, lIalJhan, Chnlottl'" "iIIe, Virginia

4. GUild Filldlng, R'lIlnl, Snk., Canada

5. Mike Valvo (Dr Vllosl, Naw York, N.Y.

The game was Yanofsky (Cana' da) vs Dulanto (Peru), Internation· al Team Tournament, Buenos Aires, 1939. game and notes were . from Yanofsky's book, HARD WAY, by speCial permission of .the author.

Two of the five chess·sleuths listed above claimed that we were wrong in stating that ,the winner of the game was only fourteen years old. Each thought he ~as fifteen. The probable explanation is that in the introductory para· graph to this game in the book Yanofsky quoted a laudatory news· paper report wri tten by the late Gra ndmaster Tartakower, reading in part n ... Yanofsky-only fifo teen years old--created a sensa­tion, and his elegant s tyle will lead him to become a great s tar in chess." While Dr: Tartakower might have been a year off on the boy's age, he scored 100% on his prophesy, for Yanofsky went on to win many national and Inter­national tiUes. Now one of Win­nipeg's legal lights, he is also Edi· tor of CANADIAN CHESS CHAT. the official monthly publication of the Chess Federation of Canada. Too bad CHESS LIFE doesn't have an Editor who could boast, as could Yanofsky, were he t he hoast· ing type. that, in major interna· tional tournament play, he defeat.­ed ' Botvinnik:. drew with Smyslov, and actually administered mate to Reshevsky!

No correct identification has yet been received of the game pub­Lished in the February 20 iu ue of ,CHESS LIFE. This may be our own faul t. In view of the hassle over Yanofsky'S age at the time Game 1 was played, we did a little checking on ·the participants in Game 2. We are sorry to have to report that our "Thirteen.year-old" had been a fourteen.year·oHi (or about four months at the .time that game was played.

live) time, as Miami Beach placed second.

The turn-out included 31 players from Homestead, a city of 6,800; the remaining 20 came from that 750 000 person suburban area north of the city called Greater Miami.

Bob Eastwood as usual was pro­moter and tournament director for the event.

Homestead is to be the site of the 1958 U.S. Junior, July 7·11 . From the size of this county tour· nament, it appears that the attend: lOce record for .tbe national event may be shattered this year,

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Vol. XII, Number 14 March 20, 1958

PubUabfll t wlee a month on the 5th and roth by THE UNITED STATES CH&SS f"EOERA TION. Entered as second dan matter Septeml)f: r 5, 1946, at tbe pOit ornce at Dubuque, Iowa, und"r the act of March 9, 18N.

Editor : FRED M. WREN POSTMAST ER: P lena return undel1ve rable up'" with Fo r m 3S7t to Kenneth H~ rknall. USC F 8ullnen M.nager, 80 Ellt 11th St r .. '. New Yo r k J, N. T.

m.nt,v s,,-'m ... t,v ::D.! Remember the theory expressed by some famous mathematician that

it was within the realms of mathematical possibility that an ape, tapping away at random on the keys of a typewriter, might come up with an exact copy of any literary classic, Darwin's ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES for example. This theme was developed entertainingly by one of our fjlvorite humorists, who ended his satire by having the scientist con· dueting the experiment shoot the accomplished animal just as the tatter was pounding out the word FlNlS to the final volume of the Encyclo· pedia Britanni.,..

We recall discussing the application of this theory to chess one night in the bygone d ays, after a hot session at the Boston City Club . The consensus of the assemblage, composed of two masters and several woodpushers, was that while they would not venlure 10 charge' the math· ematician with being of{ his rocker. they would be willing to bet that the ape would give up in frustrated disgust before fini shing Griffilh end White, as the then recently·published Fifth Edition of MCO was familiarly known. We then went on to more difficult problems. one of which dealt wi th the mathematica l chances which would permit two apes, moving chess pieces at random. to duplicate the moves of any of the classic immort:!l games. As the proprielor shooed us out into the chill, foggy dawn, we agreed that mathematician or no mathemati.­cian, that was one feat abSolutely beyond Ih·" limits of imaginative pos­sibility. Little did we know that we should live to face the accomplished CHct in the 2nd Round of tht> 1957·58 Hastings Congress.

Keres and Filip, who eventually fini shed in Iirst and third places, respectively, embarked upon a Ruy Lopez. Barden and Clarke, who finished fourt h and eighth, deciding that any variation good e nough for Keres and Filip was good enough for them, played the same game. CHESS. th" Britjsh magazine, reports. "Soon the spectators noticed that each time a move by Keres went up on the demonstration board, it was copied by Barden; each reply by Filip was as faithfully duplicated by Clarke." In reporting the game for The Briti5h Chess Megnine, Heiden' feld wrote, "There was quite a buzz jn the audience when Barden per· fectly openly left his own game alone occasionally to have a look on the proceedings on Kcres ' board ; since the line played was new. it was only natural that ,the great theoretican should be interested in how one of the greatest contemporary masters handled ii , and that he happened to play the same line on the sa me day was just a minor detail." Keres and Filip called it a day and a draw after sixteen moves, while Barden and CLarke, to quote again from Heidenfeld's report, "batUed on ( if this IS the term 1 mean) £01' another seven moves."

The game, which is printed elsewhere in this issue , (see page 7, column 2), appears to be a legitimate draw, so far as Keres and Filip are concerned. As for Barden and Clarke. although we personally feel that if the facts are as reported, each should be charged with a loss for that game, we reaHze that their oHense was against an unwritten code, rather than against the FIDE or the BCF rules of chess. Their punish· ment_ if any-will. therefore, have to be of an unofficial nature-prob­ably consisting entirely of gnawing consciences. needled a bit by the contemptuous sarcasm which we seemed to detect in British reports of the event. We hope that after thinking it over, and realizing the impli· cations of ·their actions, they will find the intestinal fortitude to make joint apology to their leliow competitors and to the spectators who had paid for the privilege of watching the farce. And. if they can't think of any good excuse, we can even suggest one-although the British commentators did not mention this possibility-the game(sl took place on New Year's Eve!

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CHESS TACTICS FOR ' BEGI ERS By U. S. Exper! DR. ERICH W. MARCHAND

Or. Marchand will ""swu beginners' questions on this page, If of sufflc:lent genenl interest. Those wishing a personal reply should enclon stamped. self, addressed envelope, Address: Dr. Erich W. Merchand, 192 Sevllle Drive, Rochelftr 17. N.Y.

1, Answers to Readers' Questions Dr. R. Y. Hubbard, Holly Hill, Florida, asks about the solution of

the following problem which he says origina ted in the fertile mind of the famous problem composer, Sam Lloyd. (Answer: The move which Dr. Hubbard suggested, namely 1. R·R6, lS

correct. He verified most of the variations but had trouble with one or two. Here are a few: 1. ........ , KxB; 2. R·B6 Mate; 1 .... ..... , PxB; 2. B·Kt5 Mate; 1. ........ , RxB; 2. RxR Mate; 1. ........ , P·K7; 2. Q·B2 Mate; 1. ... : .... , RxR; 2. Q·Bl Mate; 1. ...... .. , KtxB; 2. B-Kt5 Mate. A very pretty probJem. Try it on your friends.

2. Having a Plan In the opening, as everyone knows, there is one plan which must

always be adopted. This is the development of the pieces. There are, of course, some minor plans which suggest certain ways of carrying out the development. This might be (1) build a strong center (2) prepare for a K·side attack (3) prepare for a Q·side attack (4) create a blocked position for defensive pill'poses (especially if playing Black), etc.

Many players, however, are guided through the opening by their memory of book variations. Whether or not they know the reasons behind their moves, they often get safely into the middle·game with a satis· factory position. The question then is What Next? The player must formulate a plan. Sometimes this must be short·range only. Immediate threats must, of course, be met. But usually short·range plans must be supplemented in a player's mind by long·range strategy as well. Who was it who said that tactics is knowing what to do when thcre is some­thing to do, while strategy is what to do when there is nothing to do?

In choosing a plan one must be guided by the special features of the partiCUlar position at hand. Don't try to launch a vigorous K-side at· tack if. your pieces are ~ot properly in play, your center is weak. , your own King is in grave danger and your opponcnt's King ' is more than amply defended. In short don't choose a plan which is too ambitious. If you try for too much, you may end up with nothing.

Some reasonable plans might be (1) improving the .prospects of certain pieces (2) discommoding certain of the opponent's pieces (3) forc· ing open a file (4) gaining control of a file (5) creating a bole or other weakness in the opponent's Pawn formation (6) e'xchanging dangerous attacking pieces (7) strengthening the center. In most games both sides casUe on the K-side am! keep a rather solid defense around their castled Kings. When a K·side attack does not seem promising and improvement in one's center control does not offer any particular prospects a good third alternative often is a Q·side advance. This is particularly attrac. tive since one does not fear pushing the Q·side Pawns fairly d.aringly, wh~rea~, of course~ ad~ancing Pawns in front of one's castled King would ordmanly leave hlm III considerable danger, either immediately or for the future.

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3. A Procedure against the King's Indian

The illustrative game given be­low shows not only a rather long and subtle strategical plan but al­so an effective method of operat­ing against the popular King's In­dian Defense. The plan is objec­tively no better than a number of others and cannot be regarded as a theoretical refutation of the

King's Indian. However, it has a considerable impact in practice because (1) it differs considerably fl'om the standard methods of oper­ation fDr White against this de­fense, so that Black, when meet­ing this idea for the first time, must revise his habits and thinking and adopt new measures and (2) because White's rather long and subtle plan is not revealed much in advance, and Black has a hard time perceiving what the plan is until it has been carried out. This procedure has been tried with con· siderable ,$uccess against several of the top players in the country.

4. A Man with a Plan KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE

ROCHESTER CITY CHAMPIONSHIP PRELIMIHARIES

Rochester, N.Y .• 1951 White Black

E. MARCHAND L. M. SHUPP 1. P·QB4 KI·KB3 There Is nothing wrop g with the regular English Opening w)lleh follows after 1. ..•... ..• P·K4. However. playe rs who have ~arned the Klng's Indian Defense tor use against the Queen'. Gambit orten like to convert into tbeir prepared detensc.

1. Kt·KBl P·KKtl3. Kt.B3 B.Kt2 1f Black trlcs to grab a share of th" cent,, !" with 3. ... .. ...• P.B4, the n 4. P·K4, ](t,B3; S. P.Q4 leads to the Ma. roCZy Bind Val"lation of tbe Sidlian De· ' f ense, lo n g eonslde,'ed favorabl" ["­W hile because of his strong center. In recent year$ methods have been found t or Black to surv ive In the Marotzy variation, but White still seems to have distinctly thc better chances. 4. P·K4 P·Q3

On 4 ........ . , P.ll4; 5. P·Q4 the Marony Uno .. gain arises. AIter the text.move a reo:ular Kin g's Indian Defense Is l"cnched which might have Come from I. P'Q4 etc.

It should be pointed out that In the • egular Klng's Indian Whlto often holdS the KP back and plays P·KKt3 and n·KtZ. Against this Black hBS ade. q u ate s trategies based on (1) the ad· vances P·K4 and P·KB4 and (2) the cventual act!o n of Black's KS on the long (\Ingonal. So already the present game Illustrates a deviation from the most COmmon treatment of the White side of th is opening. S. P·Q4 0·0 6. B·K2 P.K4 This is Ih" class ical freclng move for Black. Th .. pawn sacrifice Is onl y ap· parently daring since 7. PxP. PxP; 8. KtxP, QxQch; 9. SxQ, KtxP reCOverS the P with a good game. Most White player s . therefore, avoid the exchange of center Pawns hoping to gain ad· vantage by maintaining the te nsion In Ihe center.

Her" Is the second place where our suggested procedure departs from CommOn practice. By exchanging cen· ter Pawns White bottles up BlaCk's KB leaving White Iree for his intended, operations on the Q-sl.de. 7. PxP PxP 6. B·K3 On I. \l·Kt5. P·Kn3 White gains no!h · Ing. Besides. the text·move Is In line with White's plan. Note that 8. . ....... , Kt·KtS : 9. n·B5. n .KI; 10. P.KRJ favo!"s White. Al so 8 . .... .... , QxQch; 9. R"Q gives White an extra developing move (the development of the Rook). 8. ..... ... QKt.Q2 9. P·KR3 Not 9. P·BS, Kt·Kt5. In f3ct the text· move Is, of cou rse, Intended to pre­vent Kt.Kt5 (and also later B-KtS) by ' Black. 9. ..... ... P·BJ Here Black seems to be led a~tr-ay by his habits In the standard varlatlons whcre this moVe Is nOI·mal. 9 . •....•.. , P·B4 would leave a strOng point for White at his QS but would also leave Black one At his QS. 10. 0 ·0 Q·B1 Even noW (or on the next move) Black should play P·B4. 11. Q·B1 Not yet 11. P·BS because of n. . .......• Q.R4: 12. Kt·QR4. Kb:KP. n. ..... .. . R·Kl An error In planning due pa,.tJy to the fact that White has not yet re· vealcd what his slrategic Idea is going to bc. 11 . .... ... . , R.QI would not only control the Q· f!le but also leave KI free for the KKt If need be. 12. P·BS The first stagc of the plan. White clears his QB4 square ror use and. what Is mo,... tmp<ltlant. creates an outpost at Q6. This does not seem sil(. niflcan t at the momen,t. How can White .l(et any advantage out of It? So Black placldly continues In a normal mlln· ner when he should play 12. . .... ... , p. QKt4, as lalc r events reveal. 12. ....... . Kt·Bl 13. Kt·QR4 The secnnd move of Ih" plan. It In· cldentally prevents 13 • ........ , P·QK!4 or 13. . ... ..... P .QR3 (the latter creating a had hole at Kt6\. The real point of White's move is . however, the leisurely sequence P.QKt4, Kt.Kt2. Kt.B4, and KI.Q6. But who would guess It eve n now?

Incidentally Black's besl stratej(y aside from det"nlng Wlllte's Intentlons before Ihey !let started o n the Q·slde, should be ~ction on the K·stde . How. ever, 13 . ..... ...• Kt.R4; 14. R.K}, KI.B5: 15. B·B! will provide White with a fairly solid K·slde position.

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Il • . ,...... B·K3 14. P·QKt4 B·Q1 Not me r ely vacillation on B1ack's part. He fel t Ihat l~. P·KtS was threatened . Adual1v Whites real plan I" not yet clearly ' revealed. On the next m o ve It

". 15. Kt·Kt2 KR·Ql 17. P.QR4 P·B3 16. Kt·B4 Kt·Kl 1'rObDhly bette r was 17 . ... ... .. , Kt·K3 or 17 •...... ..• p·B. IS. P·RS QR.Ktl Relatively better was IS. . ... .. .. , P·QR4 yie lding Ihe hole at KI6 for a bl ocked formatlon. 19. P·R6 _ ....... . S acrificing a Pawn for some pronu$lng pressul·e. For In~tance Ill . ........• 1'xP; 20. RxP. RxP; 21. B.Q2, R(5)·Ktl (21. ....... .. Q.Kt2; 22. Kt·R5 and the KB protects the R ~ 6) ) ; 22. B·nS, Q.Kt2; 23. BxR. Q~R; 24. Kl (4)xP (o" 24. Kt-Q6) . 19. .... .... B·K3 Not . 19 . ....... . , P ·Kt3; 20. PXP, PxP; 21. P .R1, n·RI; 22. BxP. mack's game 1$ now ve ry backward b~cause his Kt's and Ws are hardly In the gam~. The present sltualion Illustrates well an advant r'ge of space, an ab~traet con· cepl which enn l"ad to very real reo sults. While has lots of squares to maneU"Cr over, and this soo,\ I~ads to Ih;" win of a Pawn . 20. KR·Kt1 B·B2 2~. Kt·RS R(2 ).Ktl 11. p"p R"P 23. Q.R4 B·K3 O r 23 ......... R (KI1)·BI; 24. B.QRS. qiac k Iwefers to' invite thc variation 24. KtxP, B·Q2: 25. Kt.](1ch, ](·B21 . 24. QxP R(QI)·BI 21. P·B6 Kt·Kt3 25. Q"Q RxQ 2S. Kt·Kt7 R(I)xKt 26. P·KtS Kt·Q2 Desperallon. Black pref"rs to be the Exchange down with ~ome freedom Instead of being two Pawn" down and completely tied uP • . 29. P"R RxP 30. R.Q1 ....•... . White relaxes a b it. Black could make thc win mor~ difficult now by 30. ..•... ..• Kt.B5 exchanging the Q·s lde pawns. 30. Kt.Q2 g e lling the Kt Into play was better. :;0. •....... K·B2 32. BxKt . .-31. R·QS B·Bl The only hope was In 32 .......... PxP. Giving a Pawn 'and the 8th rank with cheek was pUl"1l charity. ,

33. RxPch. B·1(2 35. R·R6 Kt·B\ 34. R(8)'R8 Kt.Q~ • Or 35. ~ ........ , it·Kt2; ~6. RxBch. KxR; 37. RxB. . l6. RxPch K·Sl .... .... 37. R·B7 R·Ktl A cute alternative was 38. R.RS eh, K· Kt2 (38. . ..... .. , Il·Ktl; 39. B·B41; 39. RxBch! Kill (39 . ....... . , Ktx);l; 4,0. &xRl; 40. RxB. 31. •.•..... Re.lgns Because of 3B • .... ....• B·82; 39. R·~eh. B· ](1 I : 40. B·B4 or 38. . ....... , B-Q3; 39. KtxPch.

NOTICE TO USCF MEMBERS

The USCF Nominating Com­mittee invites recommendations • from the members in . regard to the nomination of candidates for the followin g USCF offices: Vice President; Secretary.

Ptease submit recommenda· tions to any member ' of the Committee as soon as possible.

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FRENCH DEFENSE TAC

While I. P·K4 2. P·Q4 \ 3. N.Q83 4. P·K5 S. P·QR3 6. PxB 7. Q.N4 8. B.Q3 9. Q·R3 10. N·B3 11. R.QN 12. P·N4 13. p"p \4. B·KB4 IS. B·N3 16. N"N 17. K·B 11. Q,R4

P·K3 P·Q4 B·NS

P·QB4 B·Nch NxK2 N·B4

P·KR4

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QN.B3 N·N3

KN"P .,. ."" P·@3

KORCHNOI

19. BxN 10. R"P 11. RxRch 12. Q·KN4 13. RxN

BliCk. ••• R.QN QxR ' K·.

P·N4. K·N1 P·R4

Q.Nlch Q·N2

P·QSch 8·B3

24. PxP. e.p. :25. P·K~4 26. P·N3 17. K·N2 21. P·R5 29. B·K4 30, B"B 31. K·N 32. Q·B4 33. P·R6ch 34. QXRch 35. P·N7 Re~19ns

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GAMES BY USCF MEMBERS Annotated by Che .. Malter JOHN W. COLLINS

USCF MEMBERS: s .. 6", ;, ~ .. r I"" ,.",u flu /hU J~,<p'mmJ to JOHN W. COLLINS, 'I LntOlt RtNJ, B,Df'ft)7" 26, N. Y. S'dU b~j"B jjmilN, M,. Co/u..1 will u!r<I ,hr mOil ;nultS/"'B .rId irul""t'''r I,,, p .. 6Iil<Jlio". Unlru ot~t ItllltJ MIll 10 If"m(, O,t by M" Cofljnf.

ATTACKING PLAY BY BOTH PLAYERS

SICILIAN DEFENSE Meo ,: Plige 132, t ol, 56

MASTERS TOUR;.IAMENT, HER. MAN STEINER CHESS CLUB,

LOS ANGELES, 1958 NQIU by H",,'1 Bo,o(hg~,

HAklly BOROCHOW tOL TAN KOVACS Whil"

1. P·K. 2. KI-KB3 3. P·04 4. KlxP 5. KI·083 6. 8·KKIS 7. 0·02 8. 0 ·0 ·0 9. P·84 10. KI·B3 11. 8-Q3 12. KI·K2 13. K·KI 14. P-B5 Ib ) 15. P·KR1 16. P ·B4 17. "1· KI3 III) 18. KR·" It. R·OB 20. S ·"l 21. S .K82

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22. P·BS 23 . SliP 24. IIxK' 25. OR·B 26. S ·S4 27. Q-Q1I2 2 • . KI·II It. KflIP 30. PxP 31. O,.P 32. P·KI4 33. Q·03 3-4 . KlxP 35. P·KIS 34. PxK' 37. O·QS 38. QxR 39. O·QS 40. KI· K3 41. 0 ·K6 lk ) 42. P·KI3 43. R·1I3 44. Oxs 45. B·QS 46. K·B 47. R(1lxB 46. K·02 49. K'03 so. K·B4 51. K·Kt4

P·OS4 KI·OIU ... KI· Sl P·03 P ·Kl P·OR3 S·02 8'K2 P·KI4 P.Kt$ Q.B2 (a) P .K4 P·OA4 (cJ KI·R2 B·B3 (d ) KI·B KI·KU OKI·02 O·Kt2 B-Q(f )

... KIlIlI KI·02 0 ·0 KI·B3 l11 ". P·RS P' K" .... 0 ·R2 B. RS 0 ' K2 (h ) RxKI K·R (I I IIlIP m R' KS O·KU B' KKI4 ... R.QKI Q·R6 B·Ol II )

••• Q·R1 ch SxKlch 0 ·R8 ch R·R7 ch O·O •• h 0 · KB8ch RESIGNS

SI.ck

la) Wllh threat$ Juc h lIS P ·KtS . It would seem here. howe,·e r . thai mack prepares ror more threats with Q.KIl ralhl' r Ihan Ihl' tl'xt.

fbI As Ihe frt \!lng mo,'e f or Blick. P ·Q4. Is nol a" a llable. Ihe t~xt l e nds 10 k ...,p Black mo~ cramped, partleu. larly 51 n « CI"ntn.ll KR Is quite hazard . OU $ In th\! faN o f the ImPi!ndlng p. KRl. P·KKt4. B·K3. KI·KI3. P.KKt5 t h n-a t by White, whose p ll1-('\!' Ire bd. ler p laeed ro r attack o n the Klo .. •• Jl,de tban Black'. o n t h e Quun'. /lid", .

•

re j Prepa.in!: rD. the KnIght maneuv· .. r ... hlch Is too SID ... , particularly sln~t! ('asUln" has nellh('. bee" aehle"ed nor 15 con templated In the Immediate fu_ lu . ... Blac k would need a1l Ills plecu In n Queen's side thrust. So perhaps castling K·s lde would prove tho luse. of Iwo ev!!s .

(d) 16. _ ___ ... , PxP e.p. 17. KtxP (53); 0·0; 18. R.QB followed ... by P_KKt4 n nd Blnck Is sllli beset with the prob.

- Iem of ob t aini n g freedom In the center, t hou~h SOme measure of attnck On the Q_s lde Is posslblc .

(e) 17. Q·B2 Is too defenSive and e " · poses the Q to attack vi a •.... ,.,' P. R.5 fa llowed by P·KtS. Whll c theretore d ... cides to lose t empi against hl8 KJ(IP ad,·nne" to malntaln the prelSUn! ud o,·er.defen d. If nccessary·. Ih" K Pawn.

If) 21. _ ... __ •• Kt-B4 Is now Indlca led , for U. BxKl. PxB; 23. KtxP, B-Ql etc. ... "uld win. White's KP helng unde r a!lack by four pieces ... ltb only Ibree d c f"nders, be couldn't afford I he la· borlous task o f Q·K3 etc.. beeau!Ie

I 00 the Queen's wl n l

~

Th. was 33. ; .... lII:alnst ~,

P·Kt6.

n problem. He nee H . the good bish op and

one. should nbout nlthough In tha t

P""'n adva nce h im man! ,,·Inolng

blochde o f pawns a tt ack on the

permll.\l the QR Into ae-

to at· a de. wllh· lame

onslau,hl . p05Jlble move

which Is h o pe leu to bc foll owed by

(I) 35 •.......• K-Bls o f n o help elth"'r. hceaus.. of P·KtS.

(j) An error under Ume pressure. How","cr. on 36 . .... .... , Q.BP; 37. RxR and thanks to the ImP{lTlant Q5 square , .. well .. Ihe p1tS"ed K Pawn. Black ,,·ould gel there fi rst beca u'le of a.1l hl$ material advantage. White thnat­enS Mate a t KKIS. as well as Ihe QR, whereupon Black might well r esign, bu t he h .. a fe ... · tricky tnps up hl$ sleeve. whleh. under time pressure. White mlli:ht o,'erlook. fI'Im e limit 50 maves In 2\o!t h{lu rs.l

Ikl or course not 41 . Q.X5. B-KB3 aod While mud lose his Quun to ,,·eri m ale .

CII T antamount 10 "'Signing. bn t playfli becau$e of Ihe nna l t rap 0 ' 44. QxB, R·R; threatening. If Whit", Is C~rl'le55 ",lth XI-B2. Q_R7 mat", .

AN EARLY PAWN WIN VAN'T KRUVoS OPENING

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t . P.K3 ? P·OS4 3. 1('·OB3 4. P·S4 5. I(I·B3 6. PxP 7. 11 .1(1 R. IIxl(l (b) • . P ·KIl 10. B-Q5 II . O·Ktl It . KI·K4 13. 0 .0 (c) U y O-'O I~. "1_IUoh 16. P·04 /",) n. ",",eu U . ,,·1(4 I'. S·KUch 20. KhlP

H",,,, Borocho ... HARRY BOROCHOW

Slick P'01l4 KI·OB3 P·1("1(13 B·K12 P· K4 ICflIP KhtKlch (.111 0·R5ch QxSP Q.R] KI·R3 0 ·1(1] P·B4 •• 0 I(.D? fd l IC·K11 (f) .~,

B-021 ... Bx"(h (g )

;;;i;;;";;;;;;;';,",c. . ... _ ... 21 . K· I(12 K·K12 22. P·KS KI·Kts. (H ) 23. P·K6 8·083 24. 8xS ,.,.S U . P· K7 BXP {I) 26. OIl.K (J ) KR· K 27 . KlxRch RxKt 28. P· Klll (k l Kt·K4 29. RoQK. Kt·B5 10. R·B4 II-QS 31. R·R4 P· R4 32. P·KI. " ·Kt4 33. PxRP PxP 14. RxRP (I ) K·KI1 3S. R·R6ch KxS U . Rx8P RlI" 37. P· R4eh ICxP 31. R·K" R-K7eh 39. )(·83 1m' R·87 "'ite

(a) Audae!ous. b u t when ean Black hope fo r an Important P awn win. 50 early In t he ,aml', with White fa f from fully developed tor ~ttaek?

(bl 8. I'xKt. W. R5ch : 9. K.B, P-Q3; 10. p .B4 (fo reed), 8-R6ch and Whlte 'a pam. t10n Is sickly. '

(e) Of ' COUT$(! not 13. :BxKtP. B,.8: 14. QxQ. PxQ; IS. Kt-Q6ch, K.Q; IS. KtxBch. K·U2 nnd the Kt has no n· cape.

(d) An IllUSiOn c.rrled over from Ihe prior po"l l lon, that costs a valu· able tempo .nd almost the game. 15. ' ... .... , K·K2! and It White wins blck hi s P awn. he h n bul two developed pieces, whlle, Block I. r\luy d evelope'd, fa r off_ setting the value of the Two Bishops. If While choo~u IS . Kt·B4 Or Kt-KtS he hn no COmpenf<ltlon ror the s.aerl. nced P.wn.

("') The tcmpllUon to saeriflct for a ... ·lnnln.IC ))051t10n b ctrtAlnly there. But s imple 16. P .q3 ,,·o\lld h mv\! posed mOre prohlems for Black In ,itw o f the li n\'! .... 'blte ac lua lly ( 0110""11.

CO Black .ckno,,"'It'dles Iht error o f his way I lmost too Il le! The QP Is polson, fo r a fte r 18. __ .... PXP; 17. PxP. IbPc h : K movu, h is K Is h o pe­leasly exPO~d 10 mltlng tnelrclement.

(,I Ibd Whll", play",d 14. P ·Q3, thIs p would 5UII b", alive. White «Iuld Ih\!n p oulbJy contlnue with the forced ,,·In or the EXCh . n g", a nd have winning IJ well n drawing e hances In the ae· tu~L Un\! ta ken. Of cour"" he h I d h oped fo r th", openln.. or the center rues earlier. with d rlUtle effect.

(hI Ohvtously not 22 .......... B"KP; 23 • 8"Ktch. Kx8; 24. Kt-87c h wlonlng t be 8 .

m No w mack can take the Pawn with Impunity. for l ook at all the lime White 1 0~t pu.hlnl( hI.. KP for the mere win o f an exehange.

(1) 26. QR·KI. 8 ·83; 27. P ·K8IQl. KRx Q; ZS. KtxRe h, RxKt ; se",u no purpo!e . f or R·K7ch b threattned, and if the B trndll8, . 1so Kt·Kt!<:h to win the E,.· ch nnlle.

(k l mack I1k",w", threatened P·R3 .n Ihere IS 1I1tl", hope of holding the ad,·anCfil Pa,,·n .

{II White hod but 10 mlnu"'! for 17 move~. henef! Ihe huty move. but he Is lost anyw.y.

f"') n oplng for 39 •... __ .• R1P; ~ O. R·R m. te.

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FIRST GAME

CARO-KANN DEFENSE 5MYSLOV

Wh ile I. P·K4 '1. "1·OS3 3. KI·S3 •. P·"R3 5. OxS 6. P-Q3 7. B-K2 8. 0 ·K13 t. Castles 10. S·S. 11. QR· Kt 12. B-S7 13. S ·B3 14. B-Q6 IS. 8·R3 16. PxP 11. KR-Q 18. P'Ktl It. B·S 20. S-K3 21 . P-OR4 22. P-KI4 23. 8 ·K2 24. PxP 25. RliR 26. 8 ·KI' 27. P·B3 21.Q.K U . 8·8 lO. 8·B5 31. 8oQ3 32. BxKI

P.QB3 P·g4

B-Kts SxKt Kt· S] P·K3

OKt'02 P·KKtl

B·KI2 O·KI3

Castles ... , p·K4

KR·K

••• P-QKt4 O·Ktl KI·B4 0 ·S2

Kt·Kl PoOR] Q'~ 0-K2

RPxP

••• ••• R· R6 R· R3

KI.QS o.., K'-Q2 .. ,

BOTVINNIK

33. KI·K2 34. K· II 35. O·KB 34. P· KB4 ]7. PxKI 38. g ·83 39. R·K8 40 . P·K5 41. KI·KI3 42. P· BS 43. P-K6 44. PxKI .. 45. KtxA oW. 0 · B6 47 . K· R2 48. KtxS

alack B.Kkh

KI'K4 g ·Ol KtXB

••• ... , QllKIP

0 -8S R·QB'

R·B8 "XKP

IIxAeh • •• P·KI$ P· Kt4

49. O_KIPeh P.KI K·B2

P' K" 50. O,.P 51. 0 ·K5 52. Q·B7ch 53. 0 ·K18 S4. Q.Bleh n . O·B' 56. 0 ·83eh 51. OoQ' h 51. g ·K2eh SI. g ·Akh 60. O·R?eh 61. 0 ·R7 62. )(·A RIIllgnl

P· 84 K' KU K· U K·K5 0 ·04 ... , K·K4 ... , K' K2 K·B3

g'K4eh ft.Kt7

SECONO GAME

KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE BOTVINNIK

Whit", I . P-Q4 2. P-QB4 1. Kt-QII] 4. P·K4 5. P·B3 6. B·K3 7. B.Q] 8. KKt-K2 9. P'OA3 10. B-Kt 11. B·R2 12. PliP 13. P'OKI4 14. S_KI 15. Casllu 16. 0·02 17. 8·R6 18. OxB It. P-QA4 20. KR·KI 21. g .J{2

S·Kt2 P·Q3

Cutills P·QR3 KI·B] R-Kt

Kt.Q2 KI·R4

P'OKI4 ••• KI-BS

••• P-QS3 Kt·KI3

••• .. ·S3 ICI-A

P·KB4 •••

SMYSLOV

32, PxP 23. tt.QS 24. PxP 25. A·KB

' 26. 0 ·04 27. PxP 28. Q.Kt4 29. KI'04 30. OR·O 31. 0 ·84 n. Kt·B6 33. QxPch 14. oxS 35. 0 -Kt6 36. 0 ·04 37. KA·K 31. RliR If. P.KIS 40. 0 · R7 41. KI·K4

Black Kt·.2

••• S ·KI2 ... , P' K] KlxP KII-" Q·Kt2 KI·82 R· K4 BxKt P' 04 .~

Q'K2 ... , OIt·K

••• Kt·K] ... ' Res lgnl

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(Mor, g""1 0" P4,tf 1 4"J 7)

KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE SRONSTEIN KROGIUS

Whlta I. P '04 N·KS3 2. P·OS4 P·KNl 3. N·OB3 B-N2 4. P·K4 PoQ] 5. P·B3 P·K4 6. KN·K2 KN·Q2 7. B·K] Cutles •• B-B2 S·A3 t. P·KR4 P-QB4 10. P' 05 R_K II . P-K N4 N·R3 12. P·NS B· N2 13. N.Nl N·S2 14. S·K1 N·B 15. 0·B2 A·N 16. P_R3 P·Nl 17. P·N4 P·S. II. PxP. e.p. BxP n . Q.K R2 P·KR4 20. P·NS N·R2 21. R·R2 K·R n . R·KN] 0 ·1(2 23. B.gl BoQ2

24. K.Q2 25 . KN·K2 26. KR ' KN 27. 1(·82 U . N· B 2t. B· K2 30. B-Q2 31. N·Ol 12. P·B4 33. PxP 34. N.g 35. B·Q S3 36. P ·R4 37. R· B 3a. BxRP If. RPllP 40. PxN 41. N· N4 42 . RxKB 43. N. " 44 . NxP 45 . RllN oW. N·g7

S lick R· KN QR·K 0 ·S2 •. , QR-S B·02 0 ·1C 2 , .• a ,S2

••• P·R3

••• KR·8 B· N2

••• NxNP " ·SS .. , ... ... , N·a3 ...

Rnls n l

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The first six issues of this four-page folio-size journal contain arti. cles on Capablanca, Marshall, and Smyslov-and on Paolo Boi, Greco, and ? W. Fiske! It turns French, Czech. POlish, and Russian into English;

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Initiative (Co ntinued from page 2)

tend to be inconveniently lengthy and are therefore usually excluded from such collections. This makes tbe apparently favorable pictUres for White, as derived by the author from an examination or the games include.d in the above-mentioned _:{'1)r~,':.t5!)ns. rather suspect and> statistically invalid.

The long and short of t he con­clUsion boils down .to what the author has aptly described as sug­~estive rather tban conclusive. I 10 not, however, share the 'au·

thor's implied optimism about the future possibility of arriving at a conclusive judgment. It is true tbat 'initiative in chess' does not belong exclusively to the ilrst play­er. (Alekine's Defense has been described as conferring the 'initia· tive' of the defense!) It may be true that the first move has some­.thing like 50.05% cbance of main­taining the initiative between two 'exacLly' balanced players. But this may not be sufficient for a Wi,D. I think that Tartakower is righi, alter all, and Ihat a win is, as a rule, acbieved by the gift of tbe opponent wbo makes the last de­cisive slip, aided, perhaps, by a last-minute fla sh of genius of the wIDner in discovering the winning liRe!

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Those Ce ntu ry Old Problems We must admit that we have not

received any indication that any reader saw, solved, or was un­able to solve the problems appear­ing on Page 3 of the Feb. 20 issue of CHESS LIFE. In case anyone is interested, and to close the ac· count, the solutions are: 3 mover by DOMINO-I. B-K8; 4 mover by White-I. K-N7.

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I . P·K4 P_K4 2. N-K Bl N-Q Bl 3. B·N5 P.Q Rl 4_ 8 ·R4 P-Q3 5. P·B3 B-Q2 6. P-Q4 P.KN) 7_ 0·0 B_N2 8_ PxP PlI P 9. Q·K2 KN.K2 10. R·QI 0 .0 11. QN-Q2 N.Q5 12. NxN BxB 13. N(Q4 )- N) Q.Q) 14. N·B4 Q.K3 I S. N-K3 Bx N 16. PxB (a) QR_QI 17. Q·B4 RxR 18. NxR R.QI 19. N·K3 Q.Q2 10. K· BI P.KR4 21. Q-K2 Q.K3 22. Q-B2 Q.Q2 _ 23. Q-K2 Draw agreed

(e) At this point Filip offered a draw, Dntl Keres agreed, thro\rlng Bilnlen and Clarke on theil' own rilSOUrffS.

KING'S INlilAN DEFENSE KOTOV

Wh ite 1_ P-QB4 2. N-Q &3 1. P-Q4 4. P-K4 5_ P ' B3 , _ 8 ·K3 7_ P-QS 8. P-K N4 9. P-KR4 10_ B·Q3 11 . Q-Q2 l2. KB xP 13. P' RS 14. 8 ·Q3 15_ Pxp 16. Q-R2 17. N-R3

N·KB3 P-KN3

8 -N2 P-Q3

Cu lles P-K4 P·B4 N·K

P.gRl P·QN4

'" N·Q1 N·Nl P·R4 . ex, N·B3 Q-K2

SICILIAN KORCHNOI

Whit e 1, P'K4 2. Kt·KBl 3_ P·Q4 4. KtxP 5. Kt-QBl 6. a ·KKt5 7. Q·Q2 I. Cutlel 9. QxKt 10. P·K5 11. Qx KP

P·QB4 Kt·QB l ,.,

Kt_B3 P-Q3 . P-K3 B-K2

KtxKt Cn tl .. ,., ... ,

S PASSKY Black

18. N·K2 R. N 19. N·N3 P·BS 20. B-QB2 QNxP 21. P xN RlI P 22_ N·N5 P.Rl 23. N(5)- K4 NxQP 24_ BxP N-NS 25. B·N5 Q.QB2 26_ Q·R7ch K· B2 27,. R_R6 NXBch 11. K·B N.Q5 29. QXPch K· N 30. Q,V Fh K_82 31. NXPch QxN l2. RxQ N.K3 33. N-8 S R-R :14. N·R6 R .. ig ns

DEFENSE FURMAN

Blllck 12. P·KR4 R-B 13. R·R3 R·84 14. Q·K3 Q-B 15. Rx8 QxR 16. BxKt Px B 17. Kt ·K4 It-K4 18. B.Q) K.P 19_ Q-R6 RxK t 20. BxR P ' B4 21 . B·83 R-QB

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ProblCIII No. 885 By D, A. Smedley

Tyeru ll Pa rk, Singllpore "Gamage Memorial" International Contest

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No. 861 P' . 'tt: close tries 1. Q-B2-R·K51 and 1. Q_R4--B_B5? Keyn!. ove: 1. Q.R8 threat 2. Q.Q4 ruate. 4 variations_ No. 86B Montanari: IIpplrenlty: 1. ......... R-B5, 2. N.N5; 1. ........ , B-B5, 2. N-QB2. Key 1. N-QB5 threat 2. R_K4 mate. 1 ......... , R.Q3, 2. BxP lind 1 . ......... B·Q3; 2. N-KS. Mutual Interference' of a-B8 and R-Bl (Grim-$hllw) are ellllnifed to th~e of BN and R. No. 869 W lrtlnen: set: I ........ " NUS. 2. B-N4; L ._, .... , N_B3, 2. B-N5. Try 1. N.QB3 only defeat 1. ........ , R-QS. Key 1. N.B? threat 2. Q-Q5. (Zalforujko theme.) No. 170 Bu d: key 1. Q.B5 threat 2. N.B4 maU. 1. ......... B or RxQ. 2. R-Q2. I ......... , N·Q4, 2. QxB. 1. •. _._,. N·K3, 2. Ql<NP. No. 871 Rietveld: key L Q-QB2. threat 2. NxPB7 chi follo ..... e d by 3. N-NS ma~. alliin pillys dter I ....... _. QxBP. 2. N·N7 ch i and 1. ....... .. Bl<lJp, 1. N·KBf ch. etc. No. In Il IVensc rofl- HllWes: due to confllM!d Ind confusing requesta of the compo5C!u, this problem wu publi5bed in unsou.nd form. It will be r e-publbbed soon_ ApOlo.-les! -

ThumJIt], P , g e B

M~7lb 10, 1918

Posi tion N o. 225

Because of the omission of a Black pawn from Whitt-'s QB4 in Position 225, as originally printed, and the exte nsion of time allo\\'ed to solvers. the solution will appear in the next issue, instead or this one.

WORLD CHESS IN 1958 By P .. ul L e it h

M .. ,.ch -Ap ril. At Moscow. Re­lurn match for world title. Wmld Champion Vassily Smyslov (USSR) ddends against Mikhail Botvinnik. Wodd Champion, 1948·57. Twenty· foul' games. Botvinnik must get 12 1h points to win.

July. Annual World Student Team Tournament at Warna, Bul­garia. A l Uppsala . Sweden in 1956, our students fini shed eighth: and advanced to fifth place at Reyk­javik. Iceland in 1957.

A ug. 5·S e pt. 1 5. The 41h Inter­zonal Tournament. at Portorol. Yugoslav ia . Our Represc nta!i \·cs: Bobby Fischer and Sa muel Reshe\'­sky. 21 players. Top five. p l us first two in the 1956 Candidates Toumamenl. play in Candidates malch-toul'Oamenl in 1959, the winner to clmllenge for the world ti t le in 1960. At the Gothenhurg. Sweden Interzonal in 1955, Bisgu i· er tied for 17th-18th places. In the Zurich, Switzerland Candidates Tournamen t in 1953. (won by Smy­slov), Reshevesky tied for second place wi th Bronstein and Keres. ,

S e pt. 30·0 c t . 23. T he- 13th World Tea m Tournament - at Munich , Wes t Germany. USeF President Spann has announced that sending a US team 10 this tournament is a USeF objective for 1958. We did not parli('ipalc at Ams terdam 1954 nor a l :\Ioscol\' 1956. We fin· ished f ourth at Dubrovnik. Yugo­slavia in }950 and fifth al Helsinki. Finland in 1952.

S e pte mber. In PaL'is, France. World Women Candidates Tourna­ment. 18 players. Ou r representa· tives: Mrs. Gisela Gresse r o f New York City and !\trs. Sonja Gral Stevenson of Pa lm Spri ngs, Cali· fornia. Co-winners of 1957 U.S. Women's Cha mpionshi]J. In the 1955 Candidates Tournament, these players scored 9¥.!·9 ¥t. end ing up in a quadruple tie fo r 10th place , with Miss Karff in 17th place. in a field of twenty players.

XX II U .S .S .R . Championship Fo r the f ir st l ime In English t he

,,-, II 1~(Ount of I ' Runlan cham· pion,hlpl 1. Geller; 1. SmYllov; 3. Botvin" lk, etc. Complill with Gel· ler.Smy,lov P I .. y-off mal~" . I" all I" g.mes with notl!s by H. Golom· uk. Vlrllyped/ Duplical~d ed it lo". Send n b ill t o t he " BrI'lsh Chen Magnlne," 20, Chestnu t Road, West No ...... ood, London, S. E. 27, Great Brl l .I" .

LET' S SEND A U .S . TEAM TO

MUNICH IN OCTOBER.

Send 10 CHESS LIF E, Gov. House, Perry M,ine, f or ~ppliutlon form for .nnounclng tournament In th is column.

Marrh }O.Jl, Ap,il 1·1 C I.vela nd Junior Ope n

Open 10 p la)·l! r. under 21; SwiU. 8 rds; ~ 5 nl,,"e' In 2 h r s: pl3yed t wo rd~. I><'r day on Ma rch 30-31 .. nd Ap r l.i

Ap,il n.1J Apri/16 (/ 17

KENTUCKY STATE OPEN 1958 low. St. t . Chen Anoddion CHAMPIONSHIP Stlte Ch, mpionship Tourn.mlnt

Open to uscr members; non·mllm· y" C A"" • K '" Do. . . .., .. ' eo .. ay. bers m.y become m"mbers by P')'me nt Mol.nes. l ow •. $5.00 dUd up to time e ntries close at Limite d to state residents. Reglatra. 1 P.M., Satul'day , April 11, 19.58, at tlon dose. at I P.M. April as. E"lry Y,i\l.C.A .. Ii. lUgh st.. Le)(lnlfton, Ky . fee $5.00 with . &2.00 refund 10 pl.yen Sponsored by Ll)Xln lfton YMCA Che$1 completing all tlve rounds . Junio r dl. Club: 5-rd Swl~s; Ume limit, 4S move. vision limited to 17 years of age . " d In 2 houl's, or 4\1 hour playlnl! ses- under, with entry fee of $1.50 .nd a sian. Lnl r y fel!. $3.00 plus uscr memo 5Gc: refund. F ive IS) Round Swill SY. bershlp ca rd o r dues recelpl. Guaran. t ern T ou rna me nl. 2 rounds Sat urd.y. 3 teed prbu: $2$ to u'lnner, and S howal. rounds Sund.y. Round 1 bea:lns . t 1:30 ler Trophy 10 highest r aoklna: s ta le P .M. Saturday. TIme Limit : N movu pl;')er. B Division. e n try fl!l! $2.00 . nd per hour ... hOUri per game. Prtua: proof men,bl!rshll' USCF; p r ln •• ceord- Trophle. to ) It ,. 2nd In Ch.mplon. Inli: to receip ts from I!n try feu. Tin ship Section. Dnd Irophy for lst pl'ei! lu be broken by Sonnenborn·Ber,er In Junio r d IvIsion.

1-2; at Ch~" eland Chl!ss Cenlcr, 1610 Euclid A"e. Ent.y ree $2.00 plus ratlni: fee; 15~ prl~" I:ua ran teed $SO; other cash and book prIzes; Cleveland J unio r title. wllh 5p~ciai trophy to relldent of CI~"eiand finish ing hlghcst In flnal score; tourn. director, Richard KausR; entries ,nd Inquiries t o lI.lchard lIoUeo. .... bauah, Cuyaholi:a Savings and Loan,

polnu. Tournament dIrector, JamCi A. For addltlon.1 Infonnatlon write 10: Roal'k, 352 Clifton Ave., Lc )( lnlfton. Ky.. P resident Arthur W. DavIs, 1217 Mars-to whom enl!"!,,~ ",d Inquiries may be lon, Ames. low.; Vice.Pr esldent Mil. addre .sed. • lord M. Mott , 2116--3Sth ' St .• Des

Ap,,/ 16·17 ~"J M it] }·4

MARYLANO OPEN CHAMPION· S HIP

Moines. Iowa; Secy.-Treas. Jobn l'ol . O. ness. 606 Lonlf fellow Ave. , Wa te rlOO, T,,"'a.

920 Prospecl, Cie"etand , Ohio.

Ap,,1 12th and Ihh P acific N o r t hwest Ope n , 195B

At I'urllam.l, O"C&On, Y.M.C.A. Ol,en to aIL Fh'~ n,und Swiss, wllh UOrknes. pairings and ",edi"n tie·bre~klng. '1"ro· phil'S lor first. sccond and third places; ,,1.0 tor fIrst In CI~ss B. and for first in Cla51 C. Play bel,':ins al 11: 45 A.M. on April 12. For furlhc r information o r r~gl5lraUon write 10 D. W. JOhnson, 6705 N. Uorthwlck, Portland 17, Oreao n.

Ap,,1 /Z.Jj SOUTH TE X AS OPEN C HAMPION­S HIP- COR P US CHRISTI , TE X AS

sponsored by SouLh Texas Chen A". SOciUluln ~"d Buccanee,' [)D)'~ CommIS­s ion al Nt:eees 1I0t .. 1. Starts Saturday !l ;'.m., 5 round s,,;ss, :;0 mo'· ... in 2 houu. (;lIaratlleed $"15.00 fl nt p r lle. OIlIl' r casto prIzes and l rol.hles for No. I ~nd ~o. 2. best junior and best lady.

L nt l'y fee $-01.00. Registration stut.:; 3 .1.In. ,\11 hotels "'Ill be ful1 du r in!: Buccaneer Ft'sHvals; make your res· er ... "Uon early. Fo, dclRI13 wrlle lIenry YOllnllnlllll. P. O. Bo," 844. Corpus ChrISti.

.~p ,,1 1l·IJ, /9 -111, 26-17 1958 PHILAOElPHIA MEtRO·

POLITAN CHAMPIONSHfp At the f'ra nk lln·llero:-anlllc ChI!"

Club. 1616 L.ocust !it...,.,l. Philadelphia 3, 1>l!nn~ylvanl a . Open. lOor.., USCF raLed. Enlry fee 52.. Six ruund SwiSS; "ach round sla,·ts 3t 2:30 p.m.: forty n"'\'e~ In lw,", hours: adjudications as nc~u~a"f. Directed by USC~· Master· Eone' ritu$ Wi11l~m A. Rulh . Trophy. Cash p r l1.es 10 be announced: scpuate WUllle n. Junior, and Colleiliale p rlze~. Sponsored by the Philade lphia ChI''''' AssoclallOn. USC F afflliall!. F.nlrln ac­~pled by Morde D. Treblow at Ihe abo,'''' addreu until Ap ril 12. 2 I).m.

AI"" 12·/J .1IIJ /1(·19·1!' 1958 C LEVELA N D OP EN

C HAMPION S HIP Open : at Cleveland Chl!SS Cenler. 1610

E\I~lId ,,,..... Cleveland. Ohio. Spon· sorl!d hy Cleveland Chus AS5oclatlon. ~ USC.' "ULllale. ;· rd Swiss: tlml! li mit. 50 mo, es In 2'';' hours. £ nlry fee: ':;.00 fu r USC.- member s. plus "'.00 USC F membershIp dues for non·members. Prize fund confiisllng o f GlY'Q of entry fees collec led will be ~"nrded 10 (our !llghcst rankin~ players: lsi plac~. 5!1" ~ ; 2nd. 15";': 3rd. 15";': 4th. Ill'! ... Title: C ll!"el~nd Open Champion to higheSI p l ~clng playe r . Tournament 01· reclo r : Howard Corfman. 1479 Well 1I41h St .. CIl!veland II. OhIo. 10 " 'hom advanee enl r l,·s and InquirIes may be addressed.

M", 1, J , 4 Wi5con si n C hampions hip

Tournament l'oladl5011. WisconsIn at the l.orralne

Hotel. Scv('n Itound Swiss E,'enl ~Iart lnlf

F riday. May 1. 8:00 P .M. Open to WIs­('o nsln re&ldenl~ and 10 rel!ular memo bets of Wisconsin Chess Clubs. Tro­phle. "UI be aU'a tlled fo r tho: nNlt S IK pO~ltlOn5 and al50 to thl! hl,ho:st rank· Inc woman player and to the highest r anking Junior pla}·et. Enlry fee $5.00 including mcmbershlp In thl! WI~co n. sin Chess Association. f'or Intormallon write 10 Dr. L. C. Young; 55.12 (,akc Mendota Drl\·e .. lIta(lI son. Wiscons in. Spon~orl!d by: Wiscon.ln Chell As~o> clatlon: a loo~;, USCF rated tourna· ment.

O~n: al J unio r I.O.A.M. Ha U, lG-i Norlh P~CII St.. Baltimore, Md. Spon· sored by Maryland Chess ~·ederatlon. a USC~· chapter. 7-rd Swiss . TIme 11m· It. 50 mo,'e& In 2 hours. Entry fee; $7.00. of which $2.00 wlJl be relurned to .. ach en t ran l who completes 7 rounds. Cub prizes fo r lot, 2nd. 3rd. and ~.h 10"eral1), pl us prizes fo r l It '.,\,' 1'1 ~)'e r. Iii "n" ph'yl! r , 1st " C" pl ayer, anti 1st J unior (under alte 20) . T op 1>Iar)'land playe r to "in t1 Ue "Mar)'. land Statl! Ch,mplon, 19SB" wllh top Maryland WOmAn playe.. to ... ·In tllle "Maryl.nd Woman Slate Champion. 1958." Tournr,,"ent director. William C. Koenll:, ~10 Braeslde Road, Baltl· more 29. Md .. to ",!lorn entries and inquiries may be addressed.

U. S. JUNIOR CHAMPIONSH I P

July 7-11 , 1958 HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA

}"/" J, 4, " 6 Se<:ond N ew Western Open

Tournament Milwaukee. WIsconsin ; Hotel Astor,

Venetian Room. Eight round Swb. event 'tartlng

Thursday. July 3. 2:00 P.M. Central Dayligh t Time. Spon~ored by the M.LI· ... aukee Chess Foundation and t ho: Mil­..... aukee MunIcipal Chess Assoeiatlon. Guaranteed P rIze Fund $1000, Includ!", : First P rIze »00. Second $200, Th ird $100. Merll cash prizes will be also awarded 10 .11 p layers who sCore over flvl! (5) pOints II thl! r ate of $2~ per point scorl!d above the five polnl.s. Entry fee $10.00 for USC~- member •• for non·member. $15.00 whlcb will In· clude USCF membership. Two r oundll per day at a rate of :;0 moves In 2\oi hou ... ,\'Ill be played. Last round wUl cOmmenl!e t he a ft ernoon of S und. y.

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