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Vol. VI Wednesday, Number 7 offj clal Publication of The Unltecl States (bess federati on December 5, 1951 TELECAST CHES S LESSONS! Salt Lake City Club Cooperates 'With University And Deseret News

Chess is not new to the television channels, for simultancous exhi· bilions anti m a tches have lx'Cn telecast upon sevcral occasions, and nol(.."(] chess pl ayers havc becn interviewed ovcr telcvision as well as r adio. But someUliJlg new in telecasting chess ha:; been wntributed by the che:;s cnthusiasts o( Sail Lake City. RCCOt,.'llizing the value of chess as a I'eereutional program for the invalid, the crippkod and thc shut-in beeause it demands no physical cxercise 0 1' movement. these Sail Lake chess players realized that the principle difficulty wns the teaching o( thcse scattered individuals. And inspiration gavc them the clue to ovcrcome this difficulty of space by televis ion. As a rcsult a series of lessons in chcss elementals, demonstrated Vi SU:llly on a wall board will be BENEDITTI WINS given over the facilities or KST... UTAH OPEN EVENT TV in So lt Lake City. The in· Will ia m Bc neditli of Las Vegas structor wj\\ be Sam Teitckbaum, Ncv.:I da State Champion, won the Pilst prcsident of the Salt Lake Utah Opcn Championship with City YMCA Chess Club and one or 5-1, culling down all poncnts 11ft· tile ranking local players, 011 the er a first J'4lHnd loss to h'vin Tay· " l J and Culture" PI'OSI'am, pro· lor of Sail Lake City, and obtain­ duced (0 1' the University of Utah ing possession of the Sam '['eitel· by }tCX. Camllbcll. The series of baum Trophy. Second place on S·B chcss lessons will be co-s ponsol'ed poinls wenl to Phil Nert, Univer· hy til(! Univen;i!y, tllC Salt LII"--c sHy or Vlah student, who also was <.,;hess Cl ub ;Hld the J)cscl'e t News, accorded the Utah Slate Champ­ which h;ls ;a h-cady done much 10 ionship - a title he. had won pre· 1)1'0111 01 (' ch,-.<:." t h rollgh it~ " r ,('t':.; viously several yea .. " .. gu. I II scor· Play Chess" column, w nducted ir.g 4-2, Neff lost to Bene!!itti a!ld by Harold Lundstrom. Gredancc in the last two J·ounds. Plans in telecasting the chess Tied also with 4-2 each but Ic ~n s include provisions ror the thit'd on S-B points were Farrell attendance of a number of ha ndi· L. <..1ark or Salt Lake City and Mau· capped children at the telecast in rice Gredance of Las Vegas. Clark person to participate in the show lost gamcs to Neff and Beneditti; as wcll as serving as a studio Gredance lost to Clark and drew audience. with Lewis Page and William Ta· - ---- bor . Tied with 3lh-2¥.r each, but EL'TRONIC BRAIN fifth a nd si:dh on S·B points were 1950 winncr William Tabor of RCDO , DODGES MATCH and Don Crawford, the blind ex· pert from Boise. Twelve playcrs PI., C~1I in J(J M inutd' on A portable electronic brain, de­ vised to cost a mere $80,000.00 (4 from Ncvada and 1 from Idaho) and weighing 500 pounds, has been participated in the 6 round Swiss INDIVIDUAL WACHS VICTOR SORENSON TOPS developed by the Computer Re· event directed by Carl Schack and Harold Lundstrom. Gold a nd Bronze INTERCOLLEGIIITE search Corp. of Hawthorne, Cali!. IN .TRI-STATE OHIO VALLEY _ a baby compared with such m(:d als were awarded to the first CHAMPIONSHIP Saul P. W,lchs of P hiladelphia, k'red A. Sol'enson of Pittsburgh giants as Harvard 's, MIT's and (our place winners. December 26-30, 1951 U.S. Junior Champion, won the topped the Ollio Valley Open other million dollar brains. One Houston Ha ll 1951 Tri·State title with n score or C1W ml)ionship with 11 41h·Y~ score, of its designers, Richa rd Sprague, GOULD TRIUMPHS University of Pe nnsylvani. '(inter approaches, New EntCTed ~ , '"""ond eJag, m.ller SeptemheT ~, 19!G, at the po.t ofli~e at Dubuque, low:>., bination more exactly, and I had to rely entirely on my conviction :>.nder the act 01 March 9, 1879. that favorable variations would occur as a Il}utter of course. And A York's chess clubs :lre quite events proved me to he right." It should ue added that Spielmann won aclice, what with annual champ· Subscription-$2.00 pet yeM; Single copies 10c each this Dutch Defense from the greut Rubinstein in the incredible "Rubin­ ionships alread y begun or about to Address all subs<:riptions to:- 845 Bluff Street OR 3219 Wa.hington AvO!.. stein year," when Akiba won five internutional tournaments in twelve begin. There are, however, a few relatively unusual events to report Glenn E. Hartleb, M ~ m. S(C'" Dubuque, Iowa Eti ~ , P ~ nn