THE LEADING MO News • Pictures. Games. Problems LE T TER S CHESS H E O I O N 'T N O TIC E Sirs: REVIEW Your last issuc sure i ~ a honey. You cel" tainly gave it a necessary "hypo:' Vol. IX. No.9. November, 19~1 When 1. \Irimflrily a proble m soll'er. didn't OFFICIAL QHGAN OF THE noLlee that problems had bcen omitted from U. S. CHESS FEDERATION the issue until I read your explanation. It s urely is something. EDITOR I. A. HorOll'lU , particularly liked. auoJ herein I feel you M ANAGING EDITOR K enneth Hrtrkness are rendering an invaluable service to your DEPARTillENT EDlTOl{S readers, your annotations of the amateur Reuben Fi ne- Game or the iI! onth games for ""pushel's" like myself. It's all right Vincent L. Eaton- Problem Department to MO RE LIKES AND D IS LIKES Sirs: I wouloJ like to put In illY t wo bits about Illy likes and oJlsllkes. [ enjoy the 10Ul'name nt game s anoJ rspOi"tS I'ery much. [ woul oJ like to see IllOI'e fully An inge nious :tro d Intensely pr~c t l c ~1 new annotated and analyze oJ games, such as F lue type of pocket c hess set. T he pieces sta r:d does with the Game of the Month. I would up and fa il down by t hemselves ;1S you o pen !ike to see articles on sllch IOlli cs as the or close t he boa rd . Slots at t he side lor Theory of Position Play. The ~liddle Game, ca pt u red m en. C losed slz.e 4Y2"' x 6~~H . The Choice of Strategical I.ines of Play, etc. [ am not interested in problems, cross-wonl CAT. NO. 233-La test M odel , Stay. puzzles, or the Quiz - primarily because I put P ocket Chess Set, w ith z ipper $2 00 l allener, complete w ith men and never have time to look at them. eigh t extra paw ns for playing chec kers. iltOJt'l'ON JACOnS Kansas City, ."110. CHESS EQUIPMENT CO. We are increasing the number of annotated 250 W EST 57th S T ., N E W YORK , N. Y. games, beli evi ng th is is what our readers wa nt. - Ed. 193 OR. TREVBAL. REPORTED EXECUTED According to CHARLES CROMPTON. chell!! columnist o f the Toronto Star, DR. KAREL TREVBAL., famous Czec h chess mas ter. has CHESS BOOKS been executed In Prague a s the reSult o f a recent tribunal held by t he Hille r h irellng Here are the books you can't a.fford Heydrlch. to do without.· If yOu don't own them Dr. Treybal. who held a post as District a ll now, your !ibnlry Is not complete. Judge, Ilrst e ntered into inte l'11 11.tlonal chess \Yo highly recommend each and every competition nt the Prague tourney or 1908. His best per formance was at Knl'lsbad in 1923 O!le of them. when he won his individual encou nter with Dr. Alekhine . Modern Chess Openings- Dy Reuben Dr. T reyi>al was a good chess 1)layer, a ..'j ne (Griffith & While). An abso cultured gentie nllln, a distinguis he d c itizen a nd a staunch patrlot. lute ~I U S T . The reference book o f the openings ______$2.50 FRONT COVER My Best Games of Che3s (1924-1937) Front cover photo of Adele Rivero (now By Dr. A. A. AleJlhlllc. T he world's J'.Irs. Adele Be lcher ) is by CIH~SS REVIEW chamll iol) annotates r. nd eXl)iai ns photographer Haoul Echeverria. 80 West 40th his best games. Full of vital In· St., New York. fOr mation ______$ 3.50 Statement 0' the Owne rthlp, Management. Clr. My Belt Games of Chcl8 (1908·1923) cUlatlon, et ~ ., Requ ired by the Acts of Congreu of Augu.t 24, 1912. and MarCh 3, 1933. Oy Dr. A. A. Alekhlne, Reprinted ot Che ss Review. pnbtished monthly Oct. to IIl ay. bl-monthly Juno 10 Supt., at New York, New York. from the original which sold at R fo r Oct. 1. 19U. much higher price ______$1 .70 S TATE Ol~ NT!:W YOllK, COU NTY 01·' i\'l':W YORK. SiI. Beforo me. I' NotlU':r Public in und lor the Slate How to Play Chen Endings Dy E u ILnd county u.fOre>lllJ . pcuon"lty >(ppenr ed I. A. Horowitz. w ho. hnv lng been duly *"'orll according gene Znosko-Dorowskl. Study this to Inw. d ep03el flUd Ia)' B that he 1M t ho Bditor of t h e Cheu Hcvlew, a nd t hat t he follOwing III, to book and your e nd-game play will t ho bC BI of hll knOwledge a nd beli e f. IL t rue IItate s how a big im provement ______$4.00 men l of Ih" ow n c r ~ hl l" m"na g em ClIl. ct<: .. or the I\. fore~al d publ kllllo" for the dute s hown In the fl.bo ve cltptlon. required by Ihe Act ot August 24. Practical End-Game Play By Fred 1~12. as amended 1.0)' t h e Act of .\lurch 3. 1933 . em b0511ed In l QU EEN'S PAWN OPEN I NG R. T abachnl k M. Fox SICILIAN DEFENSE White Black A. Y anofsky W . J. Shaw 1 P·Q4 P·04 16 B·B4 P_K4 While Black 2 Kt_KB3 K t- KB1 17 B.Kt3 P·QR4 1 P_K4 P_Q B4 14 Q.K2 KR_OBl 3 P_K 3 P_B4 18 Q-QR4 Q-B4 2 Kt_KB3 Kt_QB1 15 B.Kt3 Q_Ql 4 P-B3 QKt -Q2 19 QR_Q1 P.QKt4 3 P_Q4 p , p 16 KR_Ql K t_Kl 5 8-Q3 Q.B2 20 Q.R4 R ( Rl )_ R2 4 KtxP Kt.K83 17 Q.Q2 R.8 2 6 QKt-Q2 P-KKt3 21 P_KR3 P_KR3 5 K t.Q83 P.Q3 18 P_RS p, p 7 0-0 B.Kt2 22 B.R2 P·Kt4 6 B_K2 P. K3 19 Rx P B.QB3 8 P_K4 p,p 23 Q_Kt3 P.B3 7 B.K3 KtxKt 20 KR_Rl Q. Ktl 9 KtxP 0·0 24 Kt_Q2 Q.Q4 8 BxKt P_K4 21 Kt.QS R.Kt2 10 PxP KtxKt 25 Q.B3 B.B7 9 B_K3 B_K2 22 Q-B3 BxKt 11 BxKt KtxP 26 QxQ R,Q 10 0-0 0·0 23 BxB R· B2 12 Q·82 R.Q1 27 P_S3 .,R 11 P-QR4 P.QKt3 24 Q-Q3 Q,P 13 Q.K2 Ktx B R,. QR-Q2 12 P.B3 B_Kt2 25 BxR R,P 14 QxKt B.84 Resigns 13.B_QB4 Q-B2 26 Q.Bl Resigns 15 Q_QKt4 R_Q2 " 197 CHESS QUI Z -- By IRVING CHERNEY (Answers on Page 20 5) You have lOlli' unfinished tournament games In',the posi· tions sh own In diagrams 1, 2, 3 and 4. In each case you are playing white and your OIH)one nts have offered draws. Would you be justified in trying t o win? No. 1 ------No.2 ------.-----.------No.3 N o.4 ------.------. No. 2 No. 3 N o. 4 White to play W hite t o play \\lhfte t o play N o.5 The positions shown in diagrams 5 to 8 are trom actual. games. The first move oC the combination was a complete surp.rlse. Can you find the firs t move ? NO.5 ------.------._- - No.6 ------.------No. 7 ------No.8 ------W h ite to play No.6 No.7 No. 8 White to play White to play W hite to play 198 Members of the Sc henectady Chess Club enjoy a Simultaneous Exhib ition by I nternational Master I. A. H OROW ITZ. Photo t aken last year, durin,,, his fifth trans.continental tour. Horowitz To Make Exhibition Tour CH ESS REVIEW'S Editor 1. A. HOROWITZ, January famous International Chess Master, will start 1_ '-New Jersey and Pennsylvania on his annual trans_continental exhibition tour 10---Washington, D. C. ll- Plttsburgh, Pa. on January 1st, 1942. H e will give lectures 12- Lebanon, Ohio and exhibitions of simultaneous and blindfold 14- Charleston, \V. Va. play at all the leading ':hess Clubs of the Uni_ 15- lndianapolis, Ind. ted States and Canada in his 13,000 mile tour. 16- St. Louis, Mo. 18- Springfleld, ~I o. A special feature of his exhibitions will be a 19- Tulsa, Okla. short lecture in which Horowitz will present 20.27- Texas the highlights of his match with Reshevsky. 29- Tucson, Ariz. He will explain what was going on in the 31 - San Diego, Cal. minds of the two masters during one or two F ebr uary of the games. l - Los Angeles, Cal. Last year, H orowitz gave exhibitions at 60 4- Carmel, Cal. 5- San Francisco, Cal. clubs. Dates already arranged for the present a- Portland, Ore. tour in dicate that he will top this figure by a ' - Longview, \Vash. wide margin. The approximate itinerary is 1O- Seattle, Wash. g iven below. 11r. Horowitz expects to be ill 13-Great f,~alls, .Mont. 14- 5alt Lake City, Utah ' fbe l'icinif)' oj these cities al1d /ocalilieJ on or 16- Denver, Colo. Ileal" tbe daleJ J/lecified. When final arrange_ 17- 0maha, Nebr. ments are made the actual dates may be slightly 18-i\linneapolis, Minn. changed. 20- Milwaukee, Wis. 21 - Chicago, m. Clubs wis hing to take advantage of this op_ 22- Detroit, l\lich. portunity to receive a visit from the Editor 23- Toledo, Ohio of CHESS REVIEW and enjoy one of his highly 24--Cleveland, OhIo popular exhibitions should communicate at 28-Erie, Pa. once with I. A. H orowitz, 2~O West 57th March Street, New York, N. Y. 1.20---New York and New England Slates. 199 The Game of the Month By REUBEN FINE EMh momh Grand"uHler Fine exf,/,Ii//J Imd ,mllo/aUJ " 'funlly phqed Kam e conJidered of greale.rl ouren! in/ereIl to CHFSS RRVIEW 'S ret/den. The Game of Ihe Monlh lor this iJJllt j ,' the fifth gilme 0/ the Euwe-Bogo/;ubow maf(h a' Ca,hbdd, 1941 . To my mind Euwe is the most underrated 3 B-Kt5 P_QR3 player in the world. The common opinion, 4 B-R4 Kt_B3 (rarely heard in public but held by many 5 0·0 KtxP This open defense is a favorite of Euwe's peopk), is that he won the fir~t championship and he knows it backwards and forwards. It march in 1935 because Alekhine drank: too is more risky, but more promising, than the heavily, and that he lost the return match conservative Tchigorin line, 5 . .. B·K2. because Alekhine had restored his health. 6 P-Q4 ••• Nothing could be further from the truth. Ii R-Kl at once is useless because of 6 • • • Alekhine's chess in the first match was no Kt-D4. worse than the quality of chess he had been 6 ' " P-QKt4 7 B_Kt3 P.Q4 producing in the four or five years preceding 8 PxP B.K3 the 1935 debacle, while Euwe's play in the 9 P-B3 B_QB4 return encounter was considerably below his Not an innovation, but a cnrions revival. best form. For example, Alekhine's games Nowadays the alternative 9 . .. B-K2 is a lmost in his 1934 match against Bogoljubow were always chosen. Of t he many attempted refuta tiOllS or that move, the most dangerons, as certainly no masterpieces, but Bogoljubow sim_ shown by the recent Horowitz- Reshevsky ply was not good enough to take advantage of match, is 10 P'QR4, P-Kt5; 11 K t-Q4! it. And again in the second match Euwe 10 QKt_Q2 • • •• made a number of incredible blunders. Bogoljubow, apparently afraid that his stu Of course, it is true that Euwe has never dious opponent has something np his sleeve, scored the spectacular tournament victories does not choose thc strongest move. Theor etically 10 Q-Q3 is supposed to give White a which Lasker always booked, and Capablanca minimal advantage, but E uwe had undonbtedly and Alekhine on a number of occasions. In prepared something agai'lst it. my opinion this is due chiefly to a lack of 1 0 . . • • 0 ·0 fighting spirit which leads him to prepare 11 B.B2 ... openings to a degree undreamed of by other Bu t this is deflnit8ly inferior'. since the Bis. masters. When he comes up against anything hOI) has to go back again late!'. 1: Q-K2, to new he is thrown off balance and loses his compel the exchange of Black's nasty Knight, was more to the l)oint. head. If he had been able to overcome this slight weakness in the 1937 match he would 11 . . . . P_B4 12 Kt_Kt3 . . haw beaten Alekhim: badly. But there can be · . 12 PxP e. p., KtxP(B3); 13 Kt-Kt5, Q-Q2 no doubt that there is no player in the world need not be feared by Bla.ck . today who is significantly his superior. 12 . . . . B_K t3 A few months ago Euwe trounced Bogol_ 13 K K t_Q4 · . . . jubow in a match at Carlsbad, an event re The cnstomary con tin nation : 'White solidities miniscent of happier days. The fifth game is his center and opens the QB tile. But Biack's a typical Euwe product- original and accurate counterplay on the King's side is too strong. in the openings, aggressive in the middle game. 13 . . . . KtxKt 14 KtxKt Q_K 2 Bogoljubow gave up before the ending was 15 B-Kt3 reached. · . . . ForCing Black to do- what he wants to (Io! RUY LOPEZ However. the only other pOSsibility is 15 P-B3, E. D. Bogoljubow Dr. M. Euwe K t-Kt4; 16 P-KB4 (else ... P-D5), Kt·K5 and now 17 B-Kta, BxKtch; 18 ?xB, P-B4 leaves White Dlack Black with an almost perfect game. The whole 1 P_K4 P-K4 line beginning with 11 B-Bt 1s apparently bad 2 Kt_KB3 Kt-QB3 for White . 200 15 . . . . BxKt 22 R.B2 · . . . The only way to defend the QP. 01" 22 K-Bl, BxP!; 23 PxB, Q-R7: 2·, R-K2. 16 PxB P.B5! RxPch; 25 K·Kl, RxB !; 26 RxR, P -Kt7 and After this conSll'lcting maneuver Black has it wins. A l)retly va.riatiOn ! a ll h is own wfl Y. 22 . . . . Q_R7eh RxPeh! 17 P. B3 . . . . 23 K-Bl 24 QxA · . . . E lse . . . P·DG will be m u rderous. Desperation. 24 PxR, B-RS ch leads lo mate. 17 . . . . Kt_Kt6 24 . . . . Q_RSc h T ilis sacMnce ha rdly deserves aD exclamation 25 K·K2 • • • • mark s ince It was fi rs t oJlered about seventy Or 25 B-Ktl, BxQ; 26 PxD, QxPc h. e tc. years ago. But the contl nuatlou Is energetic 25 . _ . . Q",Peh and eleganL , 26 K -Q3 QxQ 18 R_Kl . . . Tbe rest is simple. Dogoljubow m igh t just ItS On 18 BxBP, KuR Ivi ns. Now BxBP Is a well ha~'e resigned he re. . th,·cal. 27 RxP R.QBl 18. . . . Q.R5 28 RxRch BxA 29 K_B3 P-QR4 Black: Dr. M. Euwc 30 B_Q 1 Q.K5 31 B_B2 Q. Kt7 32 B-Q3 P.K t5ch 33 K·Kt3 P.R5ch 34 KxRP QxP 35 R_QKtl Q-R5e h 36 Resigns Just Pu blished! BASIC CHESS ENDINGS By REUBE N FI N E T he outstanding book ot the year! A W hite: E. D. Bogoljubow classic! An Indispensable g uide to the Posit ion after Blaek', 18th move end-game for study, cons ultation amI Nlf ercnee. Every type of e nding covereo Intending ... R-D4·R4. 19 DxDP, RxD; 20 PxKt, Qx P does not help a ny, wh ile 19 Q·B2, fully and thorough ly expla ined. Au im· Kt·tH ; 20 R·Ql, KtxP! ; 21 QxP!, R-JH! gives med iate best-seller. A few aulograllhed Black a mating f\ttack. While Is a ll'ca dy 10SL copies left if you order quic kly. 19 PxKt PxP 20 B.K3 P.B3! CHESS EQUIPMENT CO. A beautiful "qulet" move w hich f!'ees lhe ' 250 W es t 57th St. New York, N. Y. Bishop fo r decisive action on t he King's ·s lde. • 21 R-QBl .... 590 Pages All u rule, Bogoljubow does not shine in the defense RIHI he re he goes to pieces. The best • chance, R line which Lasker would have said is di ctated by the ethics of defense, Is 21 K.Bl , 610 to escape with tile 1 Part one of this series beqan in our October issue. These articles are condensed ex cerpts from the book- of the same title. to be published early in the new year by Horo witz and Harkness. New York. This rare photo . hows Marshall in the period of hi, life covered by t his month's Instal lment. -'The cha.atOte.I,U" that m ost Im prOIl.1 one In To say that I was disappointed is putting Frank Marlhall. the younll Brooklyn c:he.. cham. pion, I, I'll' fearleunen and utter dl,regard of it mildly. 111ere I was in London, sent over perlon, when f;\(:e to face w ith them at the chen as the representative of the lea Latest picture of author Frank J. Marsha ll and co-author Thorn· as Emery at the latter's home. Friends for 25 years, Marsha ll and Emery co ll aborated in pro_ duci ng the biography of Mar_ shal l's chess career. 203 One year later I again went to Europe to 9 BxKt compete for the first time against the world's 10 P_KR4 . . . . leading masters in the tourney at Paris, 1900. Made him think on that one - and he still didn't have the pipe going, The threat is A total of 17 entries were accepted, including ExPch, KxB; Kt·Kt5ch, known as the Pills Dr. Emanuel Lasker, who had won the world's bury attack. championship from Steinitz in 1894, Pillsbury, 10 P_Kt3 Tschigorin, Janowski, Maroczy, Burn, Schlech- 11 P_R5 R_K1 ter, Marco and other masters. . 12 PxP RPxP It was an experience I will never forget. I Now he was looking [or matches. was full of con1:idence in my own ability but 13Q_B2 B_Kt2 I had never met competition like this before. ~A;mos Burn I was the rookie playing in the big league for the first time. When I sat down to play Dr. Lasker in one of the early rounds 1 was both nervous and thrilled. How would I fare? Would he dis. pose of me in shan order or, would he, perhaps, underrate this young newcomer from -America? At this period Lasker was at the very peak of his form, When the game started I forgot all about my opponent and concentrated on the board. At his 11 th turn, Lasker made a risky pawn capture with his Knight. On my 22nd move I won the piece. Probably surprised to find himself in this predicament, Lasker fought Marshall on for 36 moves, almost succeeded in drawing 14 ax?! the game, but finally resigned. This was the He struck a match, allpeared nervous. The only game in the tournament which Lasker match burned his fingers and went out. lost. 15 Qx? Kt.Q2 When it was all over, I found ' myself in Another match was on its way. third place, tied with the H;ungarjan master 16 Kt-KKt5 Q_83 Geza Maroczy. In the individual games of He was puffing away and lighting up at last. the tourney I had triumphed over Dr. Lasker, No time left. first prize winner, and the American champion 17 R·R8ch Resigns Pillsbury, who took second prize. I had won For if 17 .. . KxR; 18 Q-R7 male. my international spurs. Poor Burn. I think I swindled him ont or I have room for only one game from this that one. If he could only have got that pipe event; so I have selected the following little going, it might have been a different story, He took it good-naturedly and we shook hands, classic. I attribute the winning of this game Then his pipe went out. largely to the fact that my opponent never had (Part:3 of -this series next month) time to get his pipe lit! Paris, 1900 QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED Dritisher Amos Burn was a very conservative Order Marshall's player and liked to settle down for a long New Book Now session of close, defensive chess. He loved to A limited first edition of "My Fifty smoke h is pipe while he studied the board. Yeal'S of Chess," auto.graphed by Mar_ As I made my second move, Burn began shall, will be available on or about Feb hunting through his pockets for his pipe and ruary 1st. tobacco . , ... The book contains the complete auto F. J. Marshall Amos Burn biography of Frank J. Marshall and White Black includes 140 of his brilliant games, fully 1 P_Q4 P_Q4 3 Kt.QB3 Kt-KB3 annotated. 2 P_QB4 4 B-Kt5 B. K2 To obtain your copy of this first edi· P-K3 tion, 'you must order NO\V, in advance Not much thought needed on these moves of publication. The price is the same but Burn had his pipe Out and was looking as fOl" the regular edition-$3.oo. Order for a pipe clean!'!r. ' from 5 P_K3 0"0 7 B_Q3 B_Kt2 6 Kt_B3 P_QKt3 8 PxP PxP HOROWITZ and HARKNESS He began filling up his pipe. I speeded up 250 West 57th St. New Yori<, N. Y. my moves. Chess Review's Editor I, A. Hor-o w ltz: visited Washing,ton, D. C. recently. tll'oppell In nt the CHESS BRIEFS Chess Divan and lost t hree skittle gameM t o members Sowers, J ones and WIgginton! The CONCISE - CURRENT - CONDENSED catch is that Hoz'owitz announced, beforelu!. nd, t hat he would compel a ll three or his op Jose R. Capablanea, former wol'ld champion, pone nts to m a te him . The players all strove gave a simultaneous e xhibition at t he Marshall mightily to lose bu t fi nished by mating a Chess Club. New \'ork, on Novembel' 6t h. He master! won 19 games, lost 2, drew 1. The winners w ere J OB LEW IS of the Bronx, and :U iss N. The Commercia l Chell League of New York MA Y KAUFF, WOm fU\ champion of lhe Mar begall its series of teltm matc hes to determine shall Club and challenger for the title o f U.S. the c hampionship of the league on October woman champion. T H EODORE ANGEL drew 17th. Te a ms l'epresenUng the N, y , 'I'elellhone his game with CaJmblanca. Co. and the Real Esta te Board won theIr first two r ounds. Reuben Fine has received an Rill/oint ment as Lajos Steiner, (amous H ungarian mastel' a nd lranalalOl' for a government department in IIOW a residenl o f Australia, won t he 1941 Washington, D. C. He took up his dut ies early tournament fOI' the c hampionship of l\'ew South this monili. U n rOl'tl1 nntely 1'01" nil of li S, Fine \Vales. G. Koshnltzky took second place and will be le~s active In chells Ilnd will proba bly C. J. S. Purdy, sev~ral times Australian cham· be unable to pia)' In the coming U. S. Cham Ilion, fini shed thln l. pionship T oul'lley. Wladimer Grlgorieff of the Pitts fi-eld C. C. In a sj m u1tllneoll~ nt. the Ma r sha ll Club on was elect ed presldeu t of the \Vest ern Mltssa· Nov. 17th, Fine poII~he(] orr 16 OjJPonellts in chusetts Chess League at the organization 's short order, drew with Lours pgRSINGER, allnual meeting last month. Kad B, Alluret.! of Northampton was na med secretary-treasur er. Wor ld Champion Alekhlne !lnlshed In a t ie fOr second Illace with Lundin In the Inter, Oh io State UniverSity C, C. j)luyet.! host to national TOurnament he ld at MuniCh r ecently, the University o f Cincinnati C, C. 011 Nov, 9tll Oustaf Stoltz of Sweden won t he t ourney, as in a seven-board match. Ohio Stllte won report ed last month , The score~ ~iven in 5';i-l%. t he October Issue were t he fi nal scores, Or. Anton io Barreras, :\taglstl'!\te of t he T he Manhattan Che .. Club Championsh ip Court of Appea ls, Pinal' del Rio, Cuba, Is Tourney began t hb month. Flnt round reo writing a biograp hy of Capablanca and will s uIts: Bernstein .1, Moscowltz 0: Denker 1, be gratefu l for a ny anecdotes, records or games Diumln 0 ; Feldman 1, Pinkus 0; Adams 1, or other matel'ial about h im. Saxon 0; Shaillswit *, Rein reld lot; Gl'eene VS. Tenner. a djourned: J ackson, a bye. Lou is T. W a rd, oC Abilene, Texas, is collect inl\' specimens of ha rdwood rrom various parts The Marshall Chen Club Championship of the Westel'n Hemis phere and will make a Tourney b scheduled t o begin on Sunday, chess set and Inial:! board w ith the wood thus No\·. 23rll. AmonI\' the seeded players who COllected. Wa rd received fou r plecea o f wood w1ll proba bly compe te a re F' I'ank J . :\18.rshall, from P residen t Roosevelt, grown on his Hyde Milto n Hanauer, ,\ nthony E, Sa nta slerc (his P a rk esta.le. Specime ns received Include ebony a nd c hicle from l\l exlco, yew from 20th a ppearance In this tourney1), Edwar d Alaska, maple from 'Canada, yamaquey t rom Lasker, Olnf !. Ulvestlul , Duvl d Polland, H er· Cuba. and oak from Guatemala. bert Se ldmltn, Matthew Green, Ha l'old Suss· ma.n and Ja.ek W. Collins, Four pl'ellmlnary sections have completed their ~cbe dul es and the following pluyers quallfled for the fi nals: ANSWERS TO CHESS QUIZ J . Hl1dago. D. Levine. C. Pllnlck, L. Levy, H. Fa jans , F. Grobman. l. Ulvlse anti A. BakSt. No, 1. No. The Knight canuot gain a move and the position is a tlraw. NO.2. Yes. This type of position. with the New York Univeralty Chess team played \Vhite King in front of the pawn, Is It win willI Rutgers on Nov, 8th, won by 5-3 in a llracUce either side to move, session for the forthcoming Intercollegiate No, 3, No. Rook Pawn and BIshop tlo not team matches. win if the Bishop does not command the pawn's queening ~{IUare and the Ollposing Twenty-o ne schoolboy' are competlng in King cannot be tl l'iven out of the eOI'ner. three prellm lnary sections ror the I'ight to No.4. Yes, Tills is tile stnndltl'd winnIng enter the fi na ls o j the In terborough Chesa position in the ending of Hook and Pawn League Individual Chaml)l ons h lp T ournament. aga inst Rook, discovered by Lucena as far Edward T ot h of the 1-l1gh School of Science baCk ItS 1497. has qualified from ~ee tlo n 2 with a clean score No_ 5, Q-KtS. Rubl nMeln-H I'Omadka, Mah of 6-0. H sns W yn berg o r Brooklyn 1'ech Is risch·Os trau . 1923. a I\'ood second with 4,1. In sec tion 1, Kelvin No. 6. P·B6. Vld ma r·Seitz, Hastings, 1926. ])omovs of Ne w Utrecht has won nve straight. NO.7. B-B6. Laskel'· Tar rasch, St. Peters With 8 j)layers In t his section he can stili burg, 1914. be overt aken by Alv in Rubi n of J ames :\lonroe No. 8. Q·B3, PlIIsbury·l\'ewman, Philudel- and J . Hidalgo, J r. oC Comme rce. pllia, 1902. 20' SOVIET CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES Annotated by problem of the Queen's Gambit- the develop- ment of t h e Q-Bishop, BOTVI N NIK and KERES 3 . . . . B_Kt5 4 P_B4 P.K3 5 Kt· B3 Kt_Q2 6 B_Q3 K Kt.B3 7 0·0 B.K2 More active was 7 ... B·Q3. In reply to 8 P·K4 Black coulrl play X ... PxBP arriving at a position similar to that of the well-known variant of the Queen's Gambit, but with the advantageouS localion or the Uishop on Kt5 and not on HI as usual.. In othet' cases, Black's B ishop on Q3 would htlve eontt'ibuted to the important advance P·K4. 8 P.QKt 3 · . . , Anel' 1\ P -K'I, PxKP; 9 KtxP, KtxKt; 10 BxKt, Kt-TIa; 11 B-H2, BxKt White is com pellet! to play 12 PxB weakening the K·side Pawns, 8 . . . 0-0 9 B.Kt2 P.K4! E nergetic measures are necessary ; other wise, after Ii) Q-K2. followed by QR-Kl a nd P·K4 \Vhite will obtain an adva lltage. The move ill the text IS apparently right in all variations. 10 B-K2 · . . A Quiet retl" EXA MINE T HI S BOOK AT OUR R IS K \Ve orrer you the opJ)Ol'Wl1lty to e xam ille this Dew book fo r fi ve days entire ly at O\U' ri" k. Order your cop), noll' and if you don't like it, send it back within five dnys; we w ill refund ~' our money withoul question. You need send no money III a d vance. Jus t write you r orde r on a post·card and mail to tile add ress be low. W hen t he book a n ·jvell, pay t he 1)C»I tman $2.iiO plu!! a felY cents posta l charges'". HOROWITZ and HARKNESS . Y o" «1'1, if )'0" u-i,h, " we pm"" (h",geJ by Jlliidillg $2.50 ill dd,r,IMe. Sam e gilardI/Icc. 250 WEST 57th ST. N EW YORK, N. Y. 208 New Chess Books Reviewed RUBINSTEIN'S CHESS MASTERPIECES the guide, and for the e nd-game Bergel"S Compiled and !lllnotated by Hans Kmoch; Theorie and Praxis bOUl essential and inval translated by Barnie F. Winkelman; Published uable, by Horowitz and Harkness, New YOl'k, Novem But t he last is available only in German, and ber, 1941. 192 pp. Price $2.50. mauy important games and a greater number or composed endings have beeil added in the For more than a quarter of n centu)'y, Ru past twen'ty years. There have been a number binstein has enjoyed the reputation of being of books that have dealt with the end·game the greatest artist among the chess masters of and with the mOl'e recent material, and this all time. The hundred choice games assembled reviewer has been among those who sought to in t his superb volume tell us how this repu classify some of the modern conccpts, chart a tatlon was acquired. There is an almost be few paths thl'ougll difficult terrain, and em wlldCl'ing richness of material here, embodying phasize the importance of the /ina! phases of just about every conceivable way of winning a game of chess. a. game of clless in beautiful style! It's im However, an e)(haustive work that would re possible to say tllat such and such a game is view the whole field and would bring the re your favorite, because a few pages latcr you sults of model'll research right up to date, could come across another which seems even finer, be undertaken by only haH a dozen of the which is soon topped by another one, etc" etc, greatest masten. Capablanca would not have Rubinstein is particularly famous ror his beguu such a task, and Lasker probably could mastel'yof position play, and it is there tore no never have finished it. Neither to Rubinstein SUI'prise to fmd magnificent examp'!es or such nor to Reshevsky were giYen the academic themes as encirclement, exploitation of weak gifts requisite fOr so vast a project. And, of COlor squares, manoeuning against a hostile course, Berger spent a lifetime gathel'ing his weakness, and the like, material and wOl'king over it.. No less eminent is Rubinstein In the domain Only Reuben Fine, whose endings have long of endgame play, whether in his beloved Rook bcen on a pal' with the rest of his game, com· and Pawn endings 01' the subUe utilization of bined the many qualifications. He has given two mighty Bishops or the wizardry of winning the chess wOl'ld a handbook of the endgame what seems to be a drawn ending with Bishops comparable to, but infinitely mOl'e ol'iglnal and of oppOSite COlor, exacting, than his revision of Modem Chess But it is the brilliant attacking style which Openings, This is a book or nearly 600 pages, interests most players, and this book is par and its thoroughness can be gathered [rom the W;uln.I'!y rich in sacrIficIal piay, You can choose fact that the chapters on Rook and Pawn E nd· from among several amazing Queen sacrifices, ings alOne cover 170 pages, other combinations Involving a sacrifice of a Every phase of the end-game is covered, aud Rook or the exchange, and several-the most covered fully and authoritatively. The signifi delightful of all, perhaps- games which are cance of this can be realized if it be I'emem featured by Pawn sacrifices or really amazing bered that knowledge and skill in this field are depth (against Thomas, Hastings 1922: and the chief carmarks of the mas tel'. Long ex agaiust Wolf, Teplitz-Schoenau, 1922). .My pel"ience has taught that most players arc ca· fa.vorlte among these games Is one against lIable of ollenlng the game in good rash ion- if Spielmann (Baden-Baden 1925), a thrilling bat· only because a few safe lines cnn be I'eadlly tle In which Rubinstein parries his opponent's imparted; and the average natnral player sacrifices with still better 1;acrifices! handles the mid·game with assurance, But the Still another way of estimating this book's e nding-and particularly as related to the grand qual!tles is to note the names or some opening and mid·game- shows even the pro or the defeated opponents : Lasker, Capnblanca, fessional floundering dismally. Reti, Marshall, Bogoljuhow, Vidmar, Tarta In fact, a. notable end·game expert like Kash kover, Spielmann, DUras. Alekhinc, Janowski, dan has to be on his guard lest his calm COII Kashdan, 'l'arrasch, Maroczy, 1\1 ieses, Schlech· fidence ' in the supel'iority o( the endIng lead tel' and many, many more. him to rell0;: In the opening and mid-game. A grand book, not to be missed by anyone This is not a I'e"iew of the Fine book. It Is who enjoys beautiful games ! not a book that can be read-much less re - Fred Reinfeld viewed. It is for study and consultation: It Is a guide- a companion for frequent I'eference. BASIC CHESS ENDINGS It wl1l add to the strength of every chess en. By Reuben Fine thusiast, whether he be an average playel', an PUblis hed by David McKay CO" November, 1941 expert, or like this writer, a stu(le1lt in the field. 590 pp. Price $3.50 Fine ha·s done for the endings what· Modern 'I'h is is a classic! Che~s Openings did for the initial phase or the Once iu a. decade a book appears 'which takes game. The chess world is going to be more Its plllce with the half dozen major wOl'ks that conscious o( the ending (rom now on, even as every chess player and expert must read and nearly twenty years ago Griffith and ' His prize_winnin,ll: effort at H amilton is ,Il: iven below. (Notes by Fred Hein fe ld) QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING A. E, Santasiere G. Shainswit "Vhite Black 1 P_Q4 Kt_KB3 2 Kt_KB3 P.Q4 3 P_K3 P_K K t 3 A simpler continuation is 3 . .. P-R1. Arter the text, Slmtasierp is able to play his favorite "O,'ang-out.ang-"' moye: 4 P_QKt4 B·Kt2 , P-B4 0-0 9 B·K2 P_Kt3 , QKt_Q2 P_QR4 10 0 -0 B_Kt2 , P_K t5 P_B4 11 R·B1 R_B1 8 B_Kt2 QKt_Q2 12 Q.Kt3 BPxP Here agaill. Ulac\{ couln seled a si mpler line by ... R-132 followed by .. Q.R1 and . . KH-DI. As actually playod, mack has morc ditrlcult pl'oblems, which, however, he ANTHONY E. SANTASIERE hanrlks ably. He won the Best_P layed Game P r ize 13 KPxP p,p 18 RxR P·KS 14 KtxP B.Q4 19 R_B2 8_KG 15 Q-RS B_ R3 20 Kt_B6 Q_R1 As reported last month, the prize for the 16 Kt_KS R_K 1 21 B_QS B_B1 17 Kt_K5 R,R 22 Q_Kt3 P_R5 best_played game at the 19-11 New York State This allvHnce look~ risky, but a-ct.ually it. is Chess ConJ.;fcss was awarded to ANTHONY E. Willi thoug-ht out. T he 'Vhite QKtP should SANTA,S IE RE for his game with GEORGE SHAINS IJrove weflker t.han mack's QRP. W IT . 23 Q-BS P_R6 29 R. B4 R_R1 24 B_QB1 BxB 30 K _B1 Kt_K5 The award was announu;:d by H . M . PHIL 25 QxB Q_R 5 31 P_Q5 p,p LIPS, Chairman of the Committee of Judges 26 Q_B4 QxQ S2 Ktx P Kt.Q3 which included FRANK J. MARSH{\L L, HER_ 27 KtxQ R_R1 33 R_QKt4 K .Kt2! 28 Kt,K3 R_ R5 34 P·Kt4 MAN HELMS and L A. HOROWITZ. Shainswit An exponent of "romantic" chess, Santasiere is a man of many t:l lents. Known to chess. pl ayers throughout the world for his efforts in countless major tournaments and for his witty, entertaining style of annotating games for the AMERICJ,N CHESS BULI.ETIN, Santasiere earns his living as a teacher in one of New York's puhlic schools, is an accomplished pianist and artist. The walls of hi~ balhelor apartment are LOvered with his oi l paintings, including one of the entrance to Paul Morrhy's home in New Orleans. We can also testify that Santasierc is a first class chef, plays pretty good bridge and is the possessor of one of the most infectious laughs Santasiere in captivity. Ueing in great lime difficulties, Black now mi~ ~CB tho right continuation 3·1 .• , KtxP! Santasie re is a leading member of the Mar_ 35 HxKt, Jt-B I regaining the piece or 36 Kt(5) shall Chess Ch,h, plays. regularly in the Metro_ Kt-1? DxKi wins). ;\'"ote thai 33 . . . K -Kt2! politan League matches. This summer he com was the nece~~ary prelimiuHry to this man peted at Ventoor City and Hamilton, made a oeuvre, ~o as to rule out the eventual K t·K7ch. After the slip that followH, 'Vhite actually good showing in both tournaments. In each wins a Pawli. nut Black has enough reo case he started well, made an impressive SLOTe sourecs Lo lIraw, thank~ to the ensuing sim· in the carll' rounds but tired towards the end. plifica tionb. 210 ONE OF TH ESE twin hypnotizer s i s SHAI N. SWIT. We t hink he'·s th e one at the left, 34 . . , , R_Bl ? 3. P_Kt5 R_B4 RUV LOPEZ 35 BxP KtxP 39 RxR BxR (Notes by Fred R el n feld) 36 B_Kt2c h P_B3 4. BxPCh K _B2 H . Seidman 37 Rx Kt RxKt 41 8-0' K _K 3 E, Lasker 42 Kt.K 3 Kt_K4 White Black , ' , DxKl should draw also, b llt Black al· 1 P-K4 P_K4 6 Q_K2 P_QKt4 ways chooses the more arduous way! 2 Kt-KB3 Kt_QB3 7 S.Kt3 0 ·0 3 8.Kt5 P_Q R3 S P.QR4 R_Ktl 43 K _K2 Kt-B2 51 P_R3 Kt.R3 4 8_R4 Kt. B3 9 PxP PxP 44 B_B6 P_R3 52 KtxP Kt_B4c h 5 0·0 8 ,K2 10 P.B3 P.Q4 45 P.KR4 PxP 53 K.B3 B.K8 46 PxP P_Kt4 54 K_K3 K .B4 Black has adoptod a variation which gives 47 K .Q3 Kt-K4<:h 55 Kt·Q6ch K . Kt5 him rather a cr.ulliloli gllme; he therefore 48 K.K4 Kt-B3 56 Kt·B7 Kt. K 3 offe )'~ a Pil.wn in onle)' to obtain gOOd play 49 Kt.Q5 Kt.Kt5 57 K _K 4 B·Q7 (0)' his pieces after 11 PxP, Klx P ; 12 Ktxt>, 50 Kt.83 BxP 5' K_K 5 Kt_B4 Kt·135: 13 Q·K4, KtxKt; H Q x e ither Kt, B·Q3 leaxing White wit h .. n uncomfor table l)()siliOIl, After the general exchanges res ull ing from Seidman therefore I)refers to continuo his de 58 ... KlxP? the ad,'ance of the Qlt l' would "elOIJlnenL be decisive. While has miulOe ll vred ,'ery skll· fu lly, but the game is still a draw ! 11 P·Q3 B.K3 Not good. Eithor .11 . . . p ·Q5 , , D· 59 K·Q5 Kt.Kt6 63 KtxP 8xP KKt5 was prefOrlible. ". 60 Kt-K5ch K . B4 64 Kt-K Sch K _B5 61 Kt,B3 B_K6 65 Bx8ch KxB 12 Kt.Kt5 B.K Kt5 16 Kt-Kt5 BxKt 62 Kt.R4c h K.Kt5 66 Kt.B6 K .B3 13 P.B3 B. B l 17 BxB KtxP 14 p,p KtxP PxKt OxB At li rllt sight one would t.h ink that Blll ck 15 KtxRP R_Kl 19" P. KB4 ! Q_Kt3 is lost. because his J In'thiJ department Wi' 1mblfIh gamN by readas with annoJaJioilS by noted W}lJmffltator Fred Rfinfeld. Any subscriber 10 CHESS REVIEW i f welcome, Ii) UJe thir free service. Submit your galiles 10 RitaJIff!' By FRED REINFELD Games Depattment, CHESS REVIEW, 2)0 JJ7eJJ :r 71h Strut, NO'", Yo.-iz. This department was launched in the Oc () K-BZI threatening B·Kt5ch followed by R-Kl, tober issue and made an instantaneous hit with giving -White a decidedJy bater game . our readers. 1t will be continued as a regular ' . 5 B.B4 B_RSch?! feature. This cur.fous .move leads to an ext remely in ter esting position. The main objed of this service is to use your games as a means of giving helpful 10- struction to. all. Games will be selected for their general interest. The department is "not limited to the efrotts of any particular class of player. Garnes by recognized masters, of course, will not appear in t~is' section but ac:y other player, weak or strong, can use thIs serVICe. Roger B'. Johnson of Mercer, Pa. sends us " the following game with this note: ' "I am now ' ·enjoyingmy second issue of your very, very fine publication. In response to your published request for amateur games noted in the last The correct procedure for White is now 6 issue, I am sending you a game between myself K-Bl ! wit h these possibiliti es: - 1 6 .. . Kt-KR3 (Black wants t o castle,aud and H . G. M ichels of Cleveland; it being one this is the only available square for t he Kt); playe d in the ,current A. E. Russ Tournament. 7 p ·Q3! Q-B3; 8 KtxE! QxKt; 9 Q-Kl ch! QxQ; I would appreciate being told just where White 10 KxQ. And now ther e is o nly one way to made his mistake in this game." pr otect the idvallced KEP, namely 10 . . . p- ' KKt4. But then comes 11 P ·KR4! br ea king up Game No.1 Black's P"wn (or mation; this is a typical and power ful p iece of str ategy which is wor th FALK BEER COUNT ER GAMBIT knowing. (Note, by the way, t h at it White H. G. Miche ls R. B. Johm~on had played the seemingly s tronger 7 P 'Q,j, White Black Blae!!: could now play 11 . .. Kt·B4 winning the 1 P_K4 P_K4 KRP or ,th e QP.) \ 2 P_KB4 P_Q4 After 11 P-KR4 ! Black's whole plan may be considered refuted. Let us now see the other The object of this ellterl,J1"ising move is to possibility: avoid aU the manifold 'attacks at White's dis II 6 . . . B-Kt5; 7 Q-K2ch! Kt·K2 ; 8 Q-K4! posal aft er t he 1tcCel,Jtance of the gambit; at or 7 . . . K-Bl; 8 Q-K4; Q-B3 ; 9 P-Q3 and i n t he same time, Black indicat es his de sire to either ca se the advanced KBP either falls or seize the initiative. is-very sick. ,-, 3 KPxP PxP? These variations ar e worthy o f study, be But this is very illogical (if he wanted to cause they s how how one must pick out a ca ptur e t he BP, why not do it on move two?!) . pr omising plan (exploiting the weakness of t h e F u r thermore, as will b e seen, it Is ea sier for KBP) and must then a void moves which would W hite t o defend his advaneed P awn thaJl for lose the advantage (as for example, a prema Black to hold on to the KBP . ture P-Q4). For t hese reasons, the t ext h as always been 6 P-Kt3? eons idered inferior to g .. . P -KS! which im pedes Whit e's development and give s BlaCk at But tlhis is Quite out of place. White is pre tacking chances. sumably thinking of t he Cunning ham Gambit (1 P·K1, l?-K4; 2 P·KB4, PxP; 3 E&t..KB3, B-K2; 4 Kt.K B3 B_K2 4 £ -£4, B-IUich; 5 P -Kt3, PxP; 6 0-0, Pxp ch; 4 . . . QxP? runs up against the weU-known 7 K-Rl). But the analogy is not a workable inadv isability of brin-glng out one's Queen very one, because in the CUnningham Gambit early in the ga me and t hus subjecting it to en White's KB has a free diagonal, so that the.at emy attack. For examp:re: 5 Kt,B3, Q-K3ch; tack or two White pieces cOll verges on the pro- 212 , ve rbially we ak point KD7, He re the grand at When White's KKt Is pinne d, ' . , Kt·Q5 is tacking diagonal Is closed, thus rullng out In t hrea.te aed (br'caking up White 's cas tled posi a dvance the [)osslbllltr that White can ever t ion), F'unhe1'lnore, Ihe obsu'el)el'OU s Black ~ et rca l ,'aille for the sacrificed Pawns, QU cannot be ddl'e n off by P·KR3 and P·KKt4 6 ' , , , PxP because thllt would leave White's castled King 7 0-0 PxPch too e :q)Qsed, Now you ea n realize why the 8 K_Rl Kt_KR3 early 5 O·O ? was a mistake , On the othel' hand, White 's n ·KKI5 Is not to '" U,Rt; Is also ver r strong, be feared, nOI' is Kt'Q5 to be fe a red, becaus e 9 Q,K2eh K_Sl the r esultant captuI'e of Black's KKt would 10 P_Q4 Kt_S4 only opcn the KKt fil e for hi1ll, creat ing a Even at t his early date , Black has already powerful line of attack aga inst White's castled Ki ng. F u rthC I'more, Black can play , , , P ~e iz ed t he initiative, Q,Kt 2 was pr'obably the be"t reply, KR3 aud , , . P ,KKt4 with impunity, as he hasn't castled yet, 11 B,B4 B_Kt6 So, as you see. the fact that Whit e 's Ki ng is 12 Q_Q2 Kt,Q2 a t KKt1 and t he Bla ck King at Kl . coaditions 13 Kt,B3 Kt_B3 the course or the s ubseque nt play, 14 Kt_KKt51 Q-Q21 6 ' . , , P.KR3 Simply H , , , Kt,R-I win" the exchange, for 7 8.R41 , .. , if 15 B,K 3, B,R5 (threatening , , , Kt-Kt6ch, and also , , , KtxB followe d by , , , DxKt) wins, This is not good, as It virtually buries the Bishop allve , 7 B-KS would be more useful. 15 Kt(5) ,K4 Kt_R4 16 Kt-K2? , , , , 7 , • . , B-KKt5 H e s hould have sa ved the e xchange with B Above all me nacIng . . . Kt-Q5, bre akIng up KS anll If 16 , , , B-Q3 ; 17 B,B2, But even then WhIte's King-side, he would be on the defens ive, with II decisive S P. B3 P.KKt4! dl" ad l" Cat. No. 190. Peg-in Chess Set. , .. $3.50 A complete chess set in miniature. 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