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America ~ Ct.~ N.W61'41't!R • America ~ Ct. ~ n.W61'41't!r Copyright 1960 by Unit.... t atu c "... ,,',,'=" o'=' =" O""--_ _ _____________-';-,,-;;--;:-_ Vol. XIV, No. 22 Wednesday, fuly 20, 1960 IS Cents LAST CALL FOR U.S. JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT-JULY 29-AUGUST 5 MANHATTAN TAKES MET LEAGUE TITLE SucccssfuUy defending its tiUc for the second year in succession MORE PRIZES FOR T HE U.S. J UNIOR the Manhattan Chess Club won the Metropolitan Chess League Cham­ AS ANNOUNCE!) I.V THE JULY 5 I SSU E OF CHESS LIFE, THE pionship by defeating its perennial rival the Marshall Chess Club by rOU.VGSTEHS WIIO COM PET/'." IN THE U S. JU.VIOR C HAMI'ION­ a decisive score 6 ~:" ·31h. As usual the competition was hot and heavy SIIII' TillS rEAR WILL ENJOr SOM I~ FINE PHIZES (BOTI/ CASU and both clubs had their best possiblc tearns competing with exception liND nWI'HIES) AND AS WE GO TO NIESS, EDGAR MCCOR­ of the lower boarus on the Marshall Club. Thc match was conducted at M ICK I-lt\S ANNOUNC£D THAT TilE A.\tERICAN CHESS FOUN­ the Jl,[ar~hall C.C. and J ack Stuppler and Everett Raffell acted as ref­ DATION IS DONATI.VG 8100 FOH 2ml PL t\C /~ ,_ AND THE N .j. erees. STAn: CIIESS FF.DEHA1"10N SSO FOR l'IflHD PL.1CE. ('filE \vIN­ The resuits: N E H WILL IUX EIVE $'200 I' L US '/"liANSPORTATION TO TilE BO ARD MARSHALL MANHATTAN U.S. OPEN, PHO\'/IJED BY /': . FORR), l.,\UCKS). 1. Raymond Weinstein ................ 1 Pal Benko .............. ..... ......... ........ 0 All. TO 13£ It JUNIOH AGAI N! 2. Edmar Mednis .... ............... ..... 1h Arthur Bisguier ........................ 'h: 3. James Sherwin ...... ... ..... ..... ... If.z William Lombardy ....... .. ......... lh LUTES WINS AMATEUR ANNOTATION CONTEST 4. Anthony Saidy .......................... 0 Samuel Reshevsky .................... 1 Wendell Lutes of the King's Gambit Chess Club in Elkhart, Indiana 5. Sidney Bernstein ...................... 0 Arnold Denker ..................... ..... 1 has been declared the win ner of the annotatio n contest announced in the 6. Anthony Santasiere ................ 1 L A. Horowitz ............................ 0 April 20 issue of CHESS LIFE. His prcsentation of the Spassky-Bronstein 7. Car! Pilnick .......... ... ................. 0 .. A. DiCamillio .............................. 1 8. Jack Collins ...................... ........ 0 Karl Burger ................................ 1 game appears elsewhere in this issue. 9. John Westbrock ........................ 0 Dr. Graydon Lee Schrieber of Timonium, Maryland was a close Harold_Sussman .......................... 1 second, and appears wel1 qualified to take over Mr. Lutes' annotations 10. Stuart Margulies .............. ...... lh George Shainswit .................... % whenever the latter goes on tour with his Indianapolis King's Gambiteers. In third place came W. E. Stevens of Laramie, Wyoming. Honorable 6\1 mention must be made for several olher entries: David R. Stevenson of New Haven, Conn., who submitted the most complete and attractive TOURNAMENT REMINDERS annotation of al1, and who was ruled out as one of the three finalists only because bis game and notes would have laken up nearly an entire, July 29, 30, 3J-CAROLINAS OPEN, Charledon, S.C, (CL·7/ 5/ 60) 1.9.A;'g. S-U. S. JUNIO R, Log Ca bin CC, W. Orange, N.J. (Cl· :-,,'ft:e of CHESS UFE; H. L. Marks, West Virginia, whose comments 5/ 5/ 60) up to and including move 12 were excel1ent, and who then refrained 3o.31-TEXAS J UNIOR, Oall u, Texas (CL-12!20/ 59) [rom comment on the crucial moves which followed one another in quick 30-31_ARKANSAS OPEN, Hot Springs, Ark. (CL-6/ 5/ 60) succession; Ca ptain Edwin F. O'Brien of Springfield, Mi ssouri, and James 31_VALLEY OF THE MOON FESTIVAL, Sonoma, Cali· Rider of Irving, Texas, each of whom questioned White's 15. N-Q6 and fornia (CL-6/ 5/ 60) Black's 15 ......... , N-Bl, but who both got lost in the intricate alternate August 8-19_ U. S. OPEN, St. l ouis, Mi ssouri (CL·5!20/ 60 and variations; and James Yee of Marysville, California. 6/ 5/ 60) And we must not forget the veteran Dr. Theodore Bullockus of 27·28-PAN HA NDLE OPEN, Lubboc k, Tun (12/20/ 59 ) California, now of Lexington, Mass., whose entry was received too late Sept. 3,4, S-SOUTHWEST OP EN, Albuquerque, N.M. (Cl·5/ 5/ 60) to be eligible lor the competition, but whose fine analysis, mentioned elsewhere in this issuc, is causing some well-known professional com­ mentators considerable concern. To all these, as well as those others PHILADELPHIA QUARTERMASTER DEPOT whose entries have remained unmentioned, our tbanks for having made HOSTS MASTER EMERITUS RUTH this first amateur annotation contest so interesting and so successful. The active chess club of the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot, We'll try it again someday soon. U.S. Army. recently enticed US CF Master Emeritus Bill Ruth to attend ::-c-c-=-=-c-c-c-::=-,----,- one of their weekly meetings, where he gave a lecture, and took on all comers in simultaneous exhibition. The photograph below shows Mr. FOUR U.S. GRANDMASTERS NOW PLAYING Ruth at left, playing Mr. Leo Paquin, president of the club. Center left, IN ARGENTINE TOURNAMENT Ll·Col. R. G. D. Buckeridlle. visiting British Liaison Officer; center right, Bobby Fischer, ISamuel Reshevsky, Pal Benko, and Larry Evans Deputy Chicf of Staff for Logistics (U.S. Army) General Anderson. arc now pl ayi ng in an invitational master tournament, sponsored by the Argentine Government-a master tournament in which thirteen of the twenty participants are international grandmasters! They will play for a solid month-June 23 10 July 23. Eight national champions are competing: Fischer. USA : Korchnoi, USSR; Gligoric, Yugoslavia; Pachman, Czechoslovakia; Szabo, Hungary; Wexler. Argentina; Unzicker, West Germany; Uhlmann, East Germany. In addition to these are Reshevsky, Benko, and Evans from the USA; Taimanov. USSR; Ivkov, Yugoslavia; Olafsson, Iceland; R. G. Wade, of N. Zealand and England, and Eliskases, Rosetto, Guimard, Bazan, and Foguelman. all of Argentina. U. S. Junior Championship U. S. Ope n Championship July 29·August 5 August 8·19 Log Cabin Cheu Club She raton-Jefferson Hotel 30 CoUamore Terrace St. Louis, Mo. West Orange, N.J . For full details concerning these major events in U.S. Ch~ss, see CHESS LIFE, May 5, 1960, concerning the Junior, and May 20, about the Open. And please note that for either ev~n t advance entries should be addressed to Frank Brady, USCF Busineu Manager, 80 East 11th St., New York 3, N.Y., rather than to the playing sites, or to the local promotion committees, as previously announced. r------------------------~sooo -MEMBERS Operation -By July By r eate, Svenwell 1960 --~~~~~~~~~~---~ A New Approach to Chess MlIs~ry, THE "CALIFOR NIA SIMUL"- AND HOlY By Fred Reinfeld. Gar den City, New York: Hanover Hoo.e. 168 pp., S6 dlags, $1.95 IT IS USED TO BUILD MEMBERSHIP The latest de\·ice in do·it·yourself instruction IS move·by·move analysis. :"IS in the Logical Chess of Irving Chernev. Reinfeld's new book From: Harry Boroc how, Southern Ca lifornia Membership Chairman conforms to this type, but with major differences deriving from his To : Fred Cramer, General Membership Chairman method in his earlier text Chess Mastery by Question lind Answer. In Western Chairman Lena Grumetle has coordinated and done the . "th e new a]}proal:h he provides eight games, annotating the moves first work as to organization of the Wednesday evening simuls and lectures wi th qUt'stions and then, repeating the game score with answers. The by masters arid experts at the Herman Steiner Chess Club. Each eight chapters deal in Ihis fashion with the principles of development, Wednesday we pick up two, three, or four for USC F and a like number mobility. attacking undevcloped positions, attacking constricted pOSI· for HSCC-that's over 100 per year! tions, and the like. Each affords opportunities for instructive qUestions The success of these events lies in part III the efficient advance and rlcar appliciltion of principles in the answers. As readers of this planning and promotion. Each event needs a special "come·on," such column will know, the reviewer recommends the use of two boards as the performer's 40th birthday, which would call for 20 boards at with this, or indeed, any kind of chess book: one for the mam line, $2.00. Or the 50th birthday could be used-for 25 boards, 6r ally other the other for variations. And as we knights of the flat hat have known anniversary. (On ly our small HSCC quarters pl'evented me from trying since the time of Socrates, the ability to ask the right questions is the for my 62nd birthday!) Incidentally, call it a birthday even if the actual mark of a great teacher. Reinfeld's questions arc the right ones because day is a few months away. (This is Hollywood showmanship, perfectly they require immediate attention to questions of strategy as well as of legitimate!) tactics, and they enforce the return to principles. This book is aimed The advance announcement, featul'ing the "come·on" and all the at the intermediate player, and except for some introductory matter details, should go out to a good mailing list. !,'riends of the performer, which may be thought unnecessary to one of that level, the book is a roster of the club, and additional names suggested by individuals, will success. form a list that gets good results. A typical advance announcement IS one HSCC used May 11 : "Dear Friend: We hereby in· the true professionals in time. But WITH THE CLUBS vite you to attend the "Double· even the lee need not b(> sacri­ The eighth ~ n"u a l Bankers Athletic The Denver YMCA CC team won the Lc ~g u e Chcss T ou rname nt Dinn<' r was COlorado State C h e & & Asso ciation Header" event at the Herman fic ed : In some iru>lanccs the per­ held o n April 2H M Ihe Ncw York Steiner Chess Club, rear of 108 [ormcr can be allowed $l.00 a Times Service Dining Itnorn h, New championship by edging out the Boulder N0i1h Formosa, Los Angeles, board, and let the memberships go York City.
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