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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 Chess 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 ~ nnMax Euwe, also a Netherlands topnotcher (he's at least 6'2"), one might suy that the ISOLATED PAWNS Hollanders had good material for T was a young chess player of Wushington who wrote: " I don't wunt a slrung basketball team ! (Just I to be un isolated Pawn, and I want my rating publishedl" in for· imagine Euwc dribbling the ball warding a check for his USCF dues for 1952. - upcourt whilc the two forwards, This player, as yet a high school cHampion, appreciated the fact Prins and Dunner, shout to him to that mallY of his cIders have yet to realize - that solidity through 8, 8, 8, 8, 2p.'i, lpll"I, 4R3, fiK2 ,·7, 5P2, 3klKlR, ·tp3, 2p3pl, 8, 8, 8 avoid violating tile "10 sec 0 n d o-rganization is the only eoursc that can make chess strong in the United White to play and win White to play and win rule" - move on the bell! ??). At Statcs. For so long as tournaments remain the matter of promotion by , any rate, Prins has certainly madc an enthusias ~ic few, the difficulties inherent . in promoting naUona 1 a fine impression on New York tournament will always curtail the number. So long as promotion of White To Play And Win! chess fans, and it is ~o be hoped chess on the playground and in the schools remains the work of an that he is as successful in othcr enterprising and unpaid minority, the lack of a sufficient number of J Conducted by William Ro;am exhibitions tllai he intends giving such enthusiasts will curtail the spread of chess adequately throughout in the United States as he was in the playgrounds and schools of the land. Send all contributions for this column to William Roi~m, % CHESS LIFE, 123 No. Humphrey Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois. his initial appeurance here. Critics have bewailed the contrast in the growth of chess in -the Larry Evans beg:ln his Eastern O!:.'Slf amI' In tnc Q'"nilctf !.'l·atcs, comp:u·fng condfHons w{(11 dcrogll(ory OS ITrON No. 81 i~ all eX:lllllllc v C the ~imple hul pruround skill vi luur recently with s uccessive ex r em nrks about our own chess productivily. But these crit ics them· P the Czech composer L. Prokes. Whitc draws easily, but .lhe pro hibitions at the .Jersey City Y.M. selves are almost without exception contributors to . the lack of pro· cedure is not readily fo und, although the key lies in a continued threat C.A. a nd the Marshall Chess Club. gressive growth in the USA, because they content themselves with of stalemate. Ttiis composition is one of several excellent examples The youthful champion won 43 out unprofilable. criti('isl"ll hut r...rll ~" 1.0 un ih> with other chess players to (rom thc pages of " Parallele 50" republished in "La Composition Con- of the 47 games he eo nt e~ted in create a strong chess body in the United States. temporainc." ' the two simullaneous exhibitions, Government subsidy of chess can increase the r apidity of its Position No. 82 is another example from "La Composition Con dropping only one gume - to Jer . growth (as we have seen in Soviet lands), at the cost of independence temporaine" in which the ingenious Roumanian composer fsenegger ry Shain of Seattle, who was in of nction. But government subsidies can do nothing for ches~ that its deftly engineers a win for inferior White forces, beginning with a quiet New York to enlist in the Navy own players could not do [or it as effectively, if they would only unite move that has subtle strength. and spcnt some of h is last few their efforts in one truly national o r ga ni z~ t io n of chess players; and do "free" days at the Marshall Chess 72 it without sacrifice of independence of action and tlJought. Reader James Bolton of Ncw Haven suggests that Position No. Club. Larry dl'ew 2 out of 24 in lhe What is needed in the United States is not a futile aUempt to tap (Vol. V, No. 21) r emains a win for Black after 5. , B-R6 ch. The city across the Hudson and halved the stream ul government spclluiug (Illakiug l:hess a s uppo!';ecastling, for I wrote a lett.er of inquiry to ly as a personal grievance, since contes tants. .Bryan (6·0) and 11· line clearance and vacating, for deflection, for King's Field disruption, Mr. Hans Kmoch in his capacity obviously it is too late to undo p ast derton (4·1) arc setting the p ace a nd for King Hunts. Each of these he illustrates with analysis and/ or as Tournament Dlrectm·. Specifical events. However, 1 am interested with the Manhattan Chcss C I u b games. And the list of m asters who bit the dust before Spielmann is ly I askcd him thc basis f m· the in in correcting a bad situation. championship prelims and are cer· impressive: Alckhine, CapabJanca, Rubinstcin, Nimzovich, ReU, Mieses, \'itations. His reply appeared to me How long shall we tolerate a tain 10 qualify from the field of Tarrasch, and so on. He was easily one of the greatest attacking as a mastei-pieee of double talk. double standard in American chess eighL .The N. Y. Interscholastic players oC all time; and his games, especially those here, show his For example, on the one hand he - a rating system for window League, once morc functioning now combina tive powers in brilliancy after brilliancy. said that he would have invited me dressing and a little black address that the teachers' strike is over , Thirty-seven games illustrate the type of sacrifice mentioned above, if hc had known 1 was eager to book for extending invitalions to will soon get under way with play sham and real. Each L<; closely annotated up to the crux and beyond, play, and on the other hand that the National Championship Tourna· on Saturday mornings at the Mar· with tlJe author's remarks occasionally cxtended by Reinfeld and Horo he tried to contact me but failed ments? shall Chess Club; Milwn Hanauer witz. Spielmann's first concern is to establish the feel or sense of the to do so. Consider this contradic· I Jay no claim to the infallibility is again in charge. . The London sacrifice. Patzers like tlJis reviewer will mourn the failure of immediate tion further in the light of these of- the U.S. Rating System or for Terrace Chess Club, the "0 n I y transference, but no book will supply what Providence didn't. Even facts: The USCF had canvassed (Please turn tG page 3, col. 3) " (Pleilse turn to page 4, eol. 5) ChiCClgo Chess & Checker Club P Clge 3 has elected R. Banks president, D. Something New In The Evans Gambit: Dahlstrom secretary, J. Charbon· creisc.o.d by his brother on the K_U2: ]2. !:·KU. fuses fact with fancy and pro victimized by his lraud, were the one hand, but not the least also 31. QxP Kt·R3 34. R·Ktl STU RM ]]. Q·KI6<:h K·81 duces a game which only existed Nebraska Chess Bulletin and the tllanks (u the influential position The nUmCON V".-i;.liun. Th .. ('nd. in its published fm'm in the re· S:icramento Chess News (which as Chief Governmcnt Commissar 34. 8 _Kt4 12. ,...... Px8 13. PxP ._ ..... ccsse~ of his own inimilable erca· fo r General Milit.Q7, It·ltl; 40. Q . Q~!. Spence of the Nebraska Chess tal powers of the adolescent gen P·Kt4 K. 112; 41. R·KI e h, lUK1.1; ~2 . Q.Kt3 e h , eer.Uy published forgeries in wh ich Bulletin : eration". K·U4; 4~. H · H ~ ch, (lIe. In bJ, 1£ 40 ...... , the alleged victims ol tlte lorger's Radalken and Quillen returned While this report is again not K·Q2; >I I. R·KI eh, K·J\3; 42. n ·K6eh, brilliancy were C. Bagby or San from Ft. "worth (Op,n Tournament) K·Kt 2; 43. Q·Q4 ell. K-82; 44. Q·U6eh, to Om;oh;o with Ludwig I nd M;ogee. quite correct in aU its details _ as FAIRHURST WINS ."'. F rancisco and A. Bisguier or New befor, they w.nt back to C;olif. will be seen shortly - the core of COMMONWEALTH Like the Black K, I now await York City. So long as CHESS R.d.lbn gave AI (Ludwig) the the story hils tbe nail on the head: tbe barrage-from the analysts! T.lFE was uncertuin regarding the ,;omes ;ond r.tlled them off without in retJ'ospect, we can easily ll ppre Scottish Cbampion William Fair • bo;ord. AI copied Ih,m and told means by which these games were him I (Spence) w(mld publish them. date that without the advent of hurst won the Iirst Commonwealth R.d.lken didn't nk him not tool! iI ~ lroducod it shielded the forger Ilyin-Zhenevsky Soviet Chess would ChxP Chi so. After Black's next move this I"' will Or. B. Roua F. Relnfe ld FRENCH DEFENSE the good Is Ileauln" for a slugfest with b e out on II Jj'nb. At the ume time J. 5 0 ud! it mild·looklng move to play B-Q3 would have malntaincd Black's 55. B·0 6 B·A2 60. B·0 2 in a gambit? U's 1111 pari. o)f Ihe plan, ~u p erlo r posllion. 56. II.B$ B·KtI though; the Q is readied 10 , ake ••wat 15. KI·R4 B.Q] 11. P.QKt 4? Whlle .ropes a round a bit In an efro rt at mack's CXlf" P. 16. 0.0"2 QR·KI to rtnd tile wJunlne: line. Arter Ihe S. ..••...• p.QKtl 6. Q-8t •...... With an obVious br;.oak.l hrough 51;Irlng Il"ame. Ihe fonner St. Louis ehamplon. Whilaker, II viSitor In 'Ncwbul'}'PQrt him In lhe face, White starts weaving L . W . • Ia llc r . pointed out Ihat (;11. B .shurtly .ncr lhl~ game willi played. daisy chains on the Q·slde. 17. QR·KI KIG wln ~ Imllle<1 Jately. 1r 00 ••...... • nxp ; coincld •.mlallY cnoullh, ny. he IIkc ~ was demanded. 61. R-R7. I( the Rl uck K moves, 62. K·R6. :lournarnent- mimieJ 17...... P·K5 18. KI·BS Q·K4 60...... B·0 3 62. P.A4 K·B2 ~'uc~~I~~ C ~I':~~C~ 6~n.... ~.t~c~b~. to In. T h l ~ will not win; Ulack thould have 61 . B·K3 B·KI1 Dtc~mb:r 22·23.- 29.JO 6...... B.Kt2 ' . Kt·KKll BxK t ! .•~kcn the I',·orre,.",d 1'. NOW lJlack 11 in 7.ug~w~n!;. The W hite 7. Kt·K2 B·Ql 9. RP x a Kt· Kt5 19. P·KB4 Pll P e.p, K .t lut n.aku a triumphant entry into Chicago City Chess League Socia l Black givc~ bad' the I" 1M whut he This t talles orr to a dnw. 19. B1aCk'R tront ynrcl. Tournament cOMlrlers to lie posltlonll) compenlu, Q.Q4 kept the pos.slbllltles. 63. K·K6 Kx P 65. I(·KI7 tk,n. Hilt It Is :' moot q llcHUon II t o !l.O. QxO RxQ 21. RxP A·K7 64. K·B7 K·B3 66. KxP Chicago, Illinois wheU'e" 01' nol Ih/) open fl lcs for The la$l or Black's .adv:>nta/:e, bu t Ihe White wHl ov/)rb:Il>\U~c hlR admltted l)' H ~annot 51:>y here for long. AII~r 66 . , K·K5 Open to <1 11 ; cntry fee $3.00 pl us llad I"s. In this particular I/um<:, Ihc 2"1. R·B2?? NEWBERRY NASH $2.00 returnilblc deposit; play Ollen CiJc$ werp. the dccldln/: factor. slarts 10:30 il.ln. and ends 6:00 10. KtxP KbB 12. Kt..Q2 0 ·Kt4 "2<1: K I_B~ 0 ·R5 15. B·04 A.B5 at 11 . PxKt P·KB4 13. K·B21 _.... _ Hlack's galliC i ~ hojlclen. II 2;,. p.m. ench day; no adjudications' It-Kt2; 26. 1'.1("7, R. tl< Rch? 23 .... , ... , nxB; 24. RxR. Kt·K5 <"i'; 25. K· RUY LOPEZ (Continued f rom page 2, col. 51 A Iia 2~9:;. ~i'C;~":'C"1r" KI (K-K2 is mat,,). D-KtS ch; 2G. K·QI. Southern Open Champ ions hip penthouse chess club in the world," n·UIl ch; 2'1. K·K2, R -B7 "h; 28. K·QI. rcports that irs annual champion' KI.Jy Solutions: of Qs), drcum:s up n schome to kecp of U ll" solver~ found this b,·I1· the mlllcrh,l ~ven. The trouble 15. White" or words to that eCfe<:t In his co,nbinaUon. Three discovered W hite to Play mI d Win 3noth,~r laic!" work. SB1P L E CHEs..<.;. there's co,,,1)I,,allon coming! Mtcr I . U·H~. Qxll: 2. Q·RS work~ Po~lt \n n Nn. 81: 1. K-KI, P-B6; 2. K· 31 . KxR Q.B2c h 14. O·ASc h O·Bl 3. P·Q3 ...... Q llltC ci<- Problcm World: S . T he SchHemunn Ilefense '~hicll I~ ade with chances for both s ides.. Sed~w",k quate as an oc<:I'~lonlll ~ hock e r . I t wu 18. Kt xKP RxKI "20. RxKt -$2.9~ per year (12 Isroes) "sed with su<:ceSS by Horowitz In the 19. Rx R KI·K2 I g 4~ U. S. Lllhtnin s:. and has heen In White must J:"lve back the ex<:hnnge ..s SUPER $1.00 VALUE Sp""imon cop~ ~'" c,·lden.,., In thl..'! year's Open. his Q Is "DOn driv<:" orr the runk, and HAVE YOUR TOURNAMENTS Specl,.1 thin-pap2r edition, sent ·by he must lhen lose Ihe R. Includ.. "Till" for Ch_ l'ro~'t"SI" Iud Airmail ..... 05 per year. 4. Kt·B3 ...... OFFICIALLY RATED! "&1""\0 4 Ch_" !.or J. V. a.lnhnTt. In 20...... QxA "2 1. Q·B3 ...... CHESS WOR LD Evolutlon of ll'e""y the Schllemann Send $I ~a.h, check Or :11 .0. \0: seems 10 Indle:.le this a~ hest (or Whitc. White could ~o P snatchin/: with 21. Under the USCF National Rat· CompTeL ~ ",j,·~ .\u.lralian ch... ",aKa· Tile reaction to I"'·KB4 hy 1'·Q4 which QxKtP but Black cou ld do llkewlsc with J . V. R.lnhrt. P.O . aox !liS ~!ne ~1ted by C. J . ;,. f'"m~. Ar1.icl .., ,s so satlsr~cl"r y In other 811ulltlon5 ...... , Q.1{7 or at least make Ihlnl!5 1I'" ing System, any round-robin or PEOR IA I, ILL INO IS aMotat.d ~"m e •• problem •• now •. comfo r t ahle by Invadlnl! the 7th ran1<. Swiss System tournnment of $~ . 2 ~ per year-12 issu es ~~, aKrX.rI~r<:6.b~xhl"'ft.t;j; ~~ll~~K~; five rounds or more. with at CHESS Y Avo. Q·R4 ch. n: p:B4 P~~~ ~~: ~'.~~ B ' ~~ ~~ Ll F~~ n 'fl3 N':y ~mpn •• Oak Park. III. 4...... P ll P S. QKtx P P-Q4 23. B-B3 0·K7 36. P·B3 P·QR4 Least two USCF members as It It's Th i ~ gambit 1.'1 the new blood In old 24. QXQ RxQ 37. P·Kf3 B· K2 contestants, will be rated with· m an Schllemlln n. 25. R· Kl RxAch 3S. B.Q4 B·B1 CHESS LITERATURE 26. BxR K_Ktl 39. 8 ·K3 B·R6 out charge. 6. Kt· B3? .•....•. Old·New; Rare·Common: Fo r n.w. of Ca nadian Ch... L1f • • K txP I. a themutlc rcquUille In thlli 27. B· B3 P.QKtJ 40. K·B2 · B·K2 Official rating forms should 28 . K_BI K·B2 41. B·Q2 B·B4 Do m estlc·Fore lgn Sub,c.lb" To T h. t ype of position, 'lnd could hllrdly be be secured In a dvance from: CAN ADI AN CHESS CHAT regarded as Du