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• America ~ Chejj 'f/eWJpaper Copyright 1957 by United States Chess Federation Vol. Xl, No. 16 Saturday, April 20, 1957 15 Cents Brasket Celebrates Return Home Conduclnd by ,:P~OJjlio" No. 206 IRWIN SIGMOND By Winning Minnesota State Event END solutions to Position No. U.S. Master Curt Brasket, former U.s. Junior Champion, celebrated S 2D6 to reach Invin Sigmond, his release from the armed forces and return to civilian life by winning 5200 Williamsburg Blvd., Arlington the 60th annual Minnesota State Championship with a perfect 6-0 score. 7, Va., by May 20, 1957. With your It was on all counts a record event in Minnesota history with a high of solution, plea~e send analysis or 97 pl'ayers competing (38 in the championship and 59 in the minor tour reasons SUPIJOrting your choice of nament). There was also 0 record withdrawal of 15 players from the "Best Move" or moves. minor tournament before its completion. Solution t o Position No. 106 will ap· Second to fourth with 5·1 each were Gerald Ronning of Minneapolis, pear in the June 5, 1957 issue. ' Karim M . Emami, a student at the University of Minneapolis from Iran, NOTE: Do not pIau so/Ulions to /wo and Fred Galvin of st. Paul. Ronning lost a game to .Milton Otteson; p",ilioM on oll~ (Md; be sure 10 jndjC4te Emami a game to Werner C. Schroedm'; and Galvin to Lester T. Knapp. c(Jm!(/ "umber of position being solf'cJ, Fifth to eleventh with equal 4-2 scores were Puerto Rican Champion "nd gi'll the full name and address of Arturo Colon, Victor Contoski, Werner C. Schroeder, Charles Weldon, the so/.,.u to tHsill in proptr crediting of Roger Gl'cason, Roger Seeland, and Petcr Muto. Not one game was ><>/u/ion, drawn by any of the top eleven players. Four former Minn~sota cham pions were in the contest- William Jones, Milton Otteson, William Kai ser, and K. N. Pedersen-and they all scored 3-3. San Fran Earthquake Fails To Daunt Harvey Lundin of Minneapolis won the \l.iinor Tournament 6·0. 115 Players at CFNC Spring Event KE RES VICTOR Second to fifth with 5-1 each were Despite the nerve-racking prelude of San Francisco's recent tremor, IN ARGENTINA Roger Seeland, Gerry Fiechtner, a few days later 115 chess players assembled for the first Spring (jpen Estonian grandmaster Paul Ker· John Hempel, and Andrew Man of tlie Chess Friends of Northern California. The net proceeds of the es tallied 15-2 (13 wins and 4 yak. Sixth to eighth with 4lh-l'h were. Duane Anderson, Bob Frank, tournament went into the "Chess for Youth" fund which is co-sponsoring .dray.os) to win the Mar del Plata the U.S. Junior Championship in San Francisco July 8th to 14th this International Tournament at Bue and Dick Coleston.'t. Lewis George year and for which the Spreckels-Russell Dairy Co. is donating use of directed both events. nos Aires. Argentinian grandmas. The strongest player present at its auditorium. ter Miguel Najdorf finished sec Ben Zeiler of San Francisco won San Francisco, placed third and the tournament was Dr. Max Euwe, ond with 14-3, losing to Oscar Pan in town on business. He was un· the Class A event by besting Rob· fourth. no in the final round after setting ert Dickinson of Redwood City in able to play in the tournament but the pace through most the tour gave a 25-board simultaneous at the final round. Second to fourth nament. Panno and Alexander Ko· with four points each were Mike SMYSLOV HOLDS the St. Paul Chess Club, winning tov shared third with 13-4 each, 22 games, drawing two and losing Bredoff and Dickinson of Redwood LEAD IN MATCH and U.S. master William Lorn· City, and Henry King of San Fran only one. Dr. Euwe was not the With fourteen games completed, bardy was fifth with 11112-5% (9 only player giving a simultaneous. cisco. Fifth to eighth were Steve Vassily Smyslov retains a 7%-6%. wins, 3 losses, and 5 draws). Four player, Roger Sceiand, Duane Joplin of Oakland, Monsur Sacs of lead over World Champion :r.lik Anderson, James Seifert, and Bill Sacramento, W. Stevens of San Final Standings hail Botvinnik in the World Title Walinski, entered both the major Fran, and Ronald Tllacker of Ber Match at Moscow. The 8th game Keres IS _ 2- Rossetto , - 9 keley. and minor tournaments, thus giv was won by Smyslov, the 9th, 10th, Najd(}rf 14 _ 3 Esposito n- 9. ing two·board simultaneous exhibi In the Class B event victory Kotov 13 - " Albert 8-11 ;md 11th games were drawn. Panno 13 _ " Adler SHU tions with docks in every round. went to Dan McLeod of San Bruno Smyslov won the 12th for a 7-5 LombardY 11)· 5.1 Behr ensen 5Hl! Seifert started this fad last year. who nosed out Lou Osternig of I'ead, but Botvinnik rallied to win Sanguinetti IO~- 6~ Jncutto 5Hl} This year Seeland did best of the Oakland in the final game. Leonard the 13th. The 14th game was a CUI'Uar 8.1- 8~ Wexler 5HH four, placing second in the minor Hill of Mountain View was second, Casas 8 - 9 Aguado " -13 draw. Ellskasl's 8 _ 9 Mangini " _13 and tenth in the major event. He W. Joplin of Oakland was third. was also the only player to best Colonel Lawrence Fuller of Palo Dr. Euwe in the simultaneous. Alto won the Class C event, with Wright Tallies 5-0 At Kansas City The Minnesota State Chess As Stan Shapiro of Oakland and David • sociation elected the following of· Krause of Palo Alto second and ficers: Sheldon Rein, president; third. Fuller won a special trophy, To Win Amateur Heart-ol-Nation Open Robert C. Gove, 1st vice-president; donated by A. Radinsky of Stock Dr. L. T. Knapp, 2nd vice-presi ton for the shortest game in the The USCF co·sponsored Heart of America Amateur Open at the dent; Fred Galvin, 840 Algonquin tournament. Kansas City YMCA Chess Club was won by. James M. Wright of Kansas Ave., St. Paul 6, Minn., secretary; A special tourney for juniors City with a perfect 5·0 scorc. Jack Simmonds, also of Kansas City, was William E. Kaiser, treasurer; Al under 14 years was won by Allen second with 4-1, losing one game to A. D. Walter. Third to fifth with den Riley, William R. Jones, Curt Haley, 12, of Nevada City. Janet 3!h-lY.: each in the 5 round Swiss event were Gerald M. Banker, A. J. Brasket, K. N. Pedersen, and Som Pattullo, youngest player in the Thompson, and Jack Hardy. Sixth to eleventh with 3·2 each were Jack ller Sorensen, directors. tourney at 9, placed second. Ivan Spence, Leslie G. Rathbun, Jay Martinson, Don Seifert, Arthur Saffron, Vegary and Mike Cooper, both o[ and A. D. Walter. Trophy and gold medal went to lar vote in recognition of the fact winner Wright, while gold medals he continued to play in the tour U. S. JUNIOR and third werc awarded Simmonds narllent in spite of not feeling well. 58TH U. S. OPEN and Banker. 1st and 2nd Class B International Master George Kol· CHAMPIONSHIP gold medals went to Thompson tanowski directed the event, spon· CHAMPIONSHIP July 8-14, 1957 and Rathbun, while the CIass C sored by the Kansas City YMCA medal went to W .. E. Ward who Chess Club in association with the August 5-17, 1957 scored 2Jf-2Jf for 12th place. A USCF in ,a program to provide San Francisco, Calif. special medal was given to ll-year more "amateur" tournaments for Cleveland, Ohio old Howard Killough, Jr. by popu- under-master·c1ass players. TO THE MEMBERS ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL OF THE USCF Colleg• This year, more thll n Iny other, Mastering the End Game it's Important that we !lend. STU· DENT TEAM abroad to compete In C!.... ofl/. By WALTER KORN, Editor of MCO the WORLD STUDENTS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP. C oniwdtJ by Our team II the s tron&e5.'!~;:~~,: Frederick H. Kerr A most difficult Ending on the Board and this would be a rlne ~! UCKIT..Y enough, there usually is a chance to look up the " book" , All play. rs art> after adjournment to study positions as of the kind shown in dia L Hurged'o. Ker., ~:;;;1~~.:~':;~IO In,I'raderlck Pftllt- gram no. 40. The more important it therefore becomeli to have the "book" sylvlnla Unlvanlt-, straight and we therefore correct a statement in BeE'", p. 564-it applies thl. team Pa.k, Pennsylvania. this JulJ>, be to positions that are most intricate and errors are bound to made are IllIen U1 e necessary ONGRATULATIQNS to both galore by composers, analysts and readers. assista nce. For U11.s rea son I uk eacb member to con_ C the host, Gannon, and the 180Ds, Guretzky·Cornitz, with the tribute ONE DOLLAR or MORE sO winner, Buffalo, for the success of thst YOU elin m.ke thb event pos the First Annual Gannon Invita· generalizing statement that Black sible CQr America to participate. to play loses, White to play can All donations may be Rnt to: tional Tournament. Details appear only draw. Thc explanation is too WIIIl.m Lomblrdy in the news section of this issue. long to be reproduced here and % Student Trall.llng. Fund The new Dartmouth College "I l'.iI. Strlat Chess Club defeated Deerfield the rcader should look it ·up in S roll)' ", New York BCE, but the statement is wrong Sincerely, Academy by a 6-2 score.