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Vol. XI. No. 10 Sunday. January 20, 1957 15 Cents The Sayre (Oklahoma) Story By BAKER BONNELL Conducted by 1'01./"m No. 200 IRWIN SIGMOND ELL! The wandering minstrel, George Koltanowski, w ~s W with us a full day j ust the 29th last: and many who warmed tbelr END solu tion to PosiUon No. hands at the fire he brings still shake their heads in wonder. They S 200 to reach irlVin Sigmond, wonder, first, that so outstanding a celebrity would give a day of his 5200 WiJliam~burg Blvd., Arlington time to our small community of but 3,000 population, and, second, 7, Va., by February 20, 1957. With that this small community, in turn, could provide sti ch graHfy!ng your solution, pJease send analysis audience for him tiloug our lew chcssiaes are notor iously hard to brlng or reasons supporting your choice toge th er at anyone time. The minstrel, in short, put on his minstrelsy or "Best Move" or moves, to 458 people. Solution to Po si tion No. 200 will ap· What did happen here on Nov· this "swanky" game that has come pear In the March S, 19$7 Inu•. ember, the 29th? Kolty and I go t down through all the years with NOTE: Do nOf pl ..(~ 10/wrio ns to two together at our lillIe hotel at about so much storied and legendary pOfi,ioM$ on 0"( "m/; b~ 1"'f 10 j",/ir"tr 9:30 in the morning. At 10:40 we aura. Too, the best people of any co rrect ""mbu 0/ JlQfition being #M1'C4. were In the high school auditorium community like to honOI' outstand· "ntl givt the 1,,1/ ""mt ""d ",M.elf of where he made his prepal'ations. ing celebrities if the way is pro­ the f O/v", to .venty-!ive sat at thai dinner. mo'·C. GRADE I ii tween O'Kelly de Galw1'ly and Olafs­ Kolty gave his talk, two of us en· WHO MAY PLAY? C . H . 0'0. Ale". nde r (1M) son at 6-3 each, while Peter Clarke Any resident of the United St. tel C. Kottnl uer (1M ) gaged him in his bJi ndfold demon· of England and Laszo Szabo of may play one gl"nLl. GRADE Ib sin lion, and twelve played him 1.n WHAT AR lo": THE RUl.ES OF PLAY? H. Golombek (1 M ) Hungary tied for fifth with 4YZ-4YZ. U.S.C.F. loul"nlment rules wUl ap­ J. Penrow (BM ) his regular exhibition of simulta.!l· The Major Section of the Premier eous play. Sayre provided only ply. GRADE 2. Reserves was won by A. Kluger of Colo.' is to be decided b y lot or J. A. Fuller three of the twelve players: the re­ Hungary with 7·2. d raw, al t he o ption of Ihe Loeal P. S. Milnu.Barry (BM) mai ning ni ne came from seven To u r n ament DI...,etor. R. J . A. Penih FINAL STANDINGS The u Sdraw in out­ FOR DETAILS: Write: list repl'esents the following National Chess Festival Program siders as well as chess·players. That NATIONAL CHESS FESTIVAL changes: 41 players have been pro­ may gain detail s by writing the tumed out to be perhaps the most J ose M. C.ldero n , moted, 52 have gone down, 136 are Committee Publicity Agent, Jose heart.warming event of the day. Publicity Agent unchanged, 52 have dropped out, 1\1. Calderon, National Chess Festi­ Co nsider! You ean find few people 1 Washington Mews and there are 93 newcomers on the val. 1 Washington Mews, New York anywhere who have not wondered New York 3, N. Y. list. 3, N, y, and wished to 'mow more about CALIF. WOMEN'S ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL TITLE TO GRAF Sonja Gra[ - Stevenson, Intcrna­ Mastering the End Game tional Women Master, won the California Women's Championship By WALTER KORN, Editor of Meo at the Herman Steiner , Cond .. ald by Los Angeles with a 6lh - 'h score, Frederick H. Kerr Drowning In One's Own Abundance drawing with runneNlp Lena Grumette. Mrs. Grumette tallied All cortege clubs and players are '[ HE announced pendant to Diugram 36 is found in the final phases 6-1, drawing also with Jacqueline urged to send news Items 10 Frederick _ of the game KOl OI'-Eliskascs, Helsinki 1952, which after Black's Piatigorsky who placed third with H. Kerr, Nlttany 32·13, Box 217, Penn­ 45th move arrived at the s;:tting depicted in Diagram No. 37, sylvania State University, Unlvenlty 5 - 2. Olga Higgins was fourth in P~rk, Pennsylvanl~. Dia?, '''m N o. 37 the 8-player round robin with 4 - 3 HE first place finish of the Uni­ Instead of falling for the wrong score. The event was sponsored by the California State Chess Federa· T versity of Chicago in Ihe 1956 46. RxP?, R-B8!, White played United States Intercollegiate Team • tion. 46. R·N7 chI, K-Kl; 47. RxQNP, R· Championship was a surprise to 87; 48. K·K6, R-K7 Chi 49. K·B5, many. It was not until the sixth KERR ELECTED round that the possibility of Chi­ poNS; SO. K-N6! Now it becomes cago winning by a close margin clear that Black's pawn has changed IClA PREXY was seen. As it turned out, City from an asset into an obslt'Ucti9n l"rederick H. Kerr was elected College of New York finished just president of the Intercollegiate to drawing the game!, as the equal- one game point behind the new Chess League of America to suc­ champions. Perhaps the winning of izer ...... , R-N7 ch is gone with the ceed Dr. Eliot Hearst. Kerr is this national title by a midwestern wind. 50...... , R·KB7; S1. P·B7 ch, known to readers of CHESS LIFE college will stimulate greater col­ K·Bl; 52. R·Na ch, K·K2; 53. R·K8 as its college editor. He is a former legiate chess activity in that area. president of the Pennsylvania State ch, Black resigns. 1 would like to thank the teams University Chess Club. Anthony in attendance at Philadelphia for Saidy, a USCF master, was chosen vice-president to succeed Albert their cxpression of confidence. As Weissman. Saidy is secretary of the president of the Intercoliegiate Fordham University Chess Club. Chess League of America, I will do my best to serve intercollegiate Last year he acted as captain of Growing interest in chess at high School of i\"lining and Technology the U. S. team in the World Stu­ chess and college chess players. The school lev~l in New Mexico is re­ in conncction with the State Sci­ dent Tournament at Uppsala. new vice-president of the ICLA, ported by Paul H. Johnson, Chemis­ ence Fair and was won by Las Anthony Saidy, is well known to try Instructor in the Espanola Cruces, which also won the third you as captain of the 1956 United Municipal Schools. Through the annual event. The principal pro· KOOYMAN SYSTEM States Student Team, captain of the Ncw Mexico High School Activities moters of this high school chess Fordham University team, and as Association a sectional High School activity have been Paul H. Johnson NEWLY REVISED a USCF master. He was a wise Tournament has been organized, and H. E. Alexander of Las Cruces. The Kooyman System· for index­ choice and will prove to be a divided into four sections with the Present plans look toward a few ing games for ready reference, great help to the ICLA. winner of each section competing out·of·state matches with high first described in CHESS LIFE No­ The ICLA congratulates the for the state title in a finals at school teams of neighboring states, vember 20, 1953, and again report­ Philadelphia committee for a splen­ Albuquerque. The first event was and those interested in such an ed in CHESS LIFE July 20, 1955 did job of making the 1956 tourna­ won by Santa Fe, with Las Cruces event may write Paul H. Johnson, when some important reVISiOns ment a success. They brought order second, Espanola third, and Tuln­ Box 513, Espanola, N. M. were made in the index card, to from chaos. rose fourth. The second annual which a "needle-selection" feature As you know, the 1957 inter­ event was held at the Socorro was added, has undergone a few collegiate will be an individual further refinements. tournament. The city for Ihis event "Chess For Fun"-the chess pro· After more than a year's re­ has not as yct been named. Any HAVE YOUR TOURNAMENTS gram on WOSU-TV, the Ohio State search, Ray Kooyman has simpli­ city or college may submit a bid OFFICIALLY RATED University educational TV station fied th.e coding of the cards until consisting of a list of reasons why -in November featured a double­ New Regulations all games indexed can be broken their location would be a good one. blindfold game betwcen James into six categories or groups and These offers should be sent as soon Effective March I, 1955 Schroeder and Daniel Fidlow (both it can be determined in which cate­ as possible to me at the address Tournaments, matches (Individual players performing without sight gory to search for the desired con· given above, for several cities have or team; round robin or Swiss) are of the board). Tim Anderson ref­ tinuation or game before any ref­ rateable when sponsored by USCI' already cast their municipal derbies afflll')led orgallizatlons, If played ereed the match and commented to erence is made to the card file. inlo the race. Here is your chance under FIDE laws, directed by a the spcctators on the moves shown The new "File Chess Cards" ac­ competent official, and played at to host a national championship on a demonstration board. This cording to Kooyman are so de· tournament with the probability of time limit of not more than 3{1 was probably the first double.­ move.. per hour. signed that you can "make a card participation by such stars as Ar­ Tho annual champlon!hip lourna­ blindfold chess performance on TV. so you can file it ... forget it ... Umr Feuerstein, Charles Kalme, ment of an USCF Club Chapter and In the past International Master and find it." The system is admir­ William Lombardy, Edmar Mednis, the annual championship Iourna_ George Koltanowski has several ably designed for those who wish ment of Iny USCI' affiliate wh~e and Anthony S:lidy. times appeared on TV as a blind­ to keep an up· to-date index on By-laWS provide Ihat 011 Its mem­ Arrangements have been made bers must ba USCF members also fold player in a simultainous ex­ openings by which they can locate ara rated without charge. hibition against seeing opponents. any given continllation in any book to supply news on a regular basis All other "Iiglble events are reted to the two other national chess in their library without the cum­ only If official report of event IS publications, American Chess Bul· accompanied by a remltt.nce cov­ bersome process of pasting clip. ering a nting fee of 10c per gama • pings into notebooks. Those inter­ letin, and Chess Review, as well as for all games actually played in the The Montreal Premier Reserves to several newspaper chess col­ contest. {In a Swiss one-half tha Championship was won by K. Kris­ ested may obtain details regarding this Wing system by writing to Ray umns. College clubs are now able number of players times the num_ tensen 4-1, with K. McEachern sec· to send news items to this column ber of rounds represents totel Kooyman, Box 103, Salt Lake City, glmn played if no byes or forfeits.) ond with 3-2, and S. Dubuc third Utah. and receive publicity in other pub­ Nole that 1O~ Haling fa ptr gam~ with 2%-2%. In the preliminaries lications as well as in Chess Life, is ~al!uted from all p1arrrs, w}W~r Kristenscn won Section 1 with 8..0, America's Chess Newspaper. This USCF m~mbrrs or not. S. Dubuc was second with 7-1, and is the latest addition to the grow­ Seml·annually ratings will be pub· E. Dolan third with 5lh-2%; while Red RO$e ing list of services by your ICLA. IIshed of "II p3rticipants In all McEachern won Section 2 with avenged a !JSCF·Rateci event!. 6~~·llh , with R. Teene second with winning the Official rating forms should 4!1.! ·3 \ <;, (rom 6-2, and P. H. Fudge and R. Vitins be secured in lIdvlInce from:­ Victors for the tied for third with 5lh-2lh. Sauder, R. YOUngquist, R. ShUTI". Montgomery Major R. Harer. For Lancaster J. Schultz, D. The Chicago Daily News for Sat­ 123 No_ Humphrev Avenue Schatanoff, and D. Grenda scored the urday, January 12, 1957 devoted Oak Park. illinois pOints. W. F,·eun!! of the Red Roses two pages of its rotogravure section drew w!th J . Lambert. Do ..at write to other USCP The annual Inglewood (Calif.) to pictures of chess activity in the tournament was won by Gerald Sublette Woodpushers {Pinedale, Wyo.) Chicago Chess & Checker Club, in­ olficktls lor thru rtlling /orms. Is a n e wl~· organized chess club of Schain with a perfect 8-0 score. twelve members. but growIng rapidly. cluding shots of women members Second was LeRoy Johnson with The first elub championship, a round at play and the nearly blind master 6%·1112 , losing to Schain and draw­ robin, is under way and other plans of Albert Sandrin in a tune-up game S,mdtty,- Page 2 actvlty are In progress of piannlng. Kar­ ing with Norman Goldberg. Gold­ lann Coughlin, BOl[ 1~, Pinedale, Wyo. before his six board simultaneous Jamu:1")' 20, 1957 berg was third with 6-2. Is secretary.trcasurer. blindfold exhibit at the club. Page 3 1957 LARRY EVANS CHESS eke66 .,Cile By International Master LARRY EVANS .!)n new Yort By AUen Kaufman HERE is a vast gap between amateur and master chess. In no sport, ...... T perhaps, is this disparity so evident . The average player reaches a The saving clause. N BRIEF; Nine have qualified 28...... R·NS for the Manhattan Championship plateau and stays there. Not everyone has the potential to be a master, Forced. If 28...... , B·N7 chi 29. QxB, I but everyone nas it within his ability to improve steadily and surely. RxQ; SO. RxB ch, K-N2: 31. KxR. Or 28. as a result of finishing high in the The best way to go about this is practice and mor e practice-with better ...... , B·N5; 29 . P·BS, B·B6eh; 30. RxB preliminaries. They are Brandts, players. The next step is to strengthen your theOl"C Ucal grasp of the wins. Vano, Ben e die t 0, McCormick, 211. P_B6 ... Myers, Tamargo, Baron, Greene, opening, middle, and endgame. This can be done by studying books 29...... , BxP; 30. QxP ch (II RxB, B· devoted to these areas of the gamc. More important is the study of N7 ch}, K-Rl still held out drawing Siegel. This list includes some new­ master chess-annotated by masters themselves. Game collections of chances for Black. comers, some veterans, some young­ 30. PxR R-Kl? sters and some oldsters. Hugh one player arc excellent but tend to be one-sided. After reading Capa­ Black is still cbaslng the chimera of the blanca, for example, you will probably be tempted to give l1P attacking win he missed. He should cont ent hIm. Myers recently came to New York, chess. The way to achieve a balance is to play over tournament books self with 30 ..... "'" BxPi 31. QxP ch, Q. from Decatur, Ill., and now lives N3 and, altho ugh a Pawn, his 2 Bishops and works here. Ed. Vano is also which contain games of all players with all styles. The clash of tempera­ and open lines compensate sufficl

By Montgomery Maior MALCOLM SIM N the last days of December Canada lost onc of its outstanding pioneers I in the and publicizing of chess when Malcolm Sim passed away at the age of 76. Much of t he history of Canadian Chess since 1900 is interlaced with the life of Sim, who also was present and active White mltu In two moves White mates in two movei in some notable moments for chess in the U.S.A. (Solution 0" p"g~ ~;ghl) (Solution on p"ge t ight) Sim was horn in Hampstead, London on November 6, 1881. At the age of 14 he learned the rudiments of chess from a youth of German descent, Walter Degerdel1, who later became noted as an expert in legerdemain. Entered in the at'chitectual profession, Sim's health broke do wn at 19 and in his idle hours of convalescence he began to take .a serious interest in chess. In 1902 an unsuccessful attempt to solve a beautiful mutate two·mover by W. A. Shinkman (8·6pl·sQ2p2-K7·5B2- Tie~Breaking Systems Still In Debate Slk5-1R2P3-1rrlb3-Key: 1. B·R6) started a lasting interest in problems. Doar MI'. Major: Sim composed over 400 problems, some of the very beautiful, and had In a lettor whiCh was published In the December 5th Issue of Chess Life, 1 pointed out that a t1e·breaklng system which 1 proposed dlHe>"ed from the Sol. a theme (the Sim theme) named after him. koff syst"m In thai It was a measure of the strength of the player rather than In 1903 he came to Ontario to visit relatives on a farm but soon an Inde" of the opponents' stNmgth. returned to London where he played in a postal tournament, placing After wriling that le tter, I developed a ployer rating system based upon a comparison of the actual with the potential tie·breaklng points. Besides being second, and composed problems for the Illustrated London News and quite accurate, It is affio quite Simple to compute, especially If the ties In the match Daily News. In 1906' his father acceptcd a position in Montreal and thc have been b,'oken by either the system I proposed 01' by the SolkoI! system, whole family sailed for Canada; in the following year they settled in and to a l es sc~ degree by the Sonneborn system. Toronto, which is hereafter identified with Sim's car eer in chess. Tho following ratings wore computed solely upon thC! pcrformance of the players In the 1956 U. S. Open Championship. Only the top 33 playors arc listed In his first visit to a chess club (the Toronto C. C. thcn in the Yonge and Some of the playel's who flnlshed below the S3rd place might have a higher Street Arcade) he saw Jacques Mieses give a simu!taneous. In 1910 he rating than the lowest rating In this hrlef list: participated in the Toronto Championship for the first time, not placing Mast~rs (1301 to 1500) Experts (continucd) high but dcfeating J. S. Morrison, thcn considercd Toronto's rising young Arthur B. Blsguier ...... 1477 Carl R. Freeman ...... 1102 AtUlio DICamillO ...... 1341 Denza Fuster ...... 1163 player. In 1914 he won the Toronto C. C. Handicap Tournament; in 1915 Edmar Mednls ...... 1356 Henry Gross ...... 1261 the Toronto City Championsbip. In tbe fo llowing ten years he participated S. Popel ...... 1329 G. E. Hartleb ...... 1110 in the local league and intercity matches, losing only one game in the Anlhony F. Saldy ...... 1336 John A. Hudson ...... 1152 period. In 1922 he placed fourth in tbe Canadian Championship at Mon· A. E. SantaslC!re ...... 1303 Derwin Kerr ...... 1283 James T. Sherwin ...... , ...... 1466 F. T. McCormick ...... 1205 treal, although he took sick during the tournament. In 1918 he won the H. H. Steinmeyer ...... :...... 1455 Ray J. Martin ...... 1277 Canadian Postal Championship. I. The<>dorevych ...... 1333 Joaquin Medina ...... 12-16 But it was not as a player, but as a publicist and promoter of chess Experts (1101 to 130B) Brian E. Owens ...... 1197 J ose J. Araiza ...... 112.5 Jack O'Keefe ...... 12-69 that Malcolm Sim will long be remembered. In 1910 he started on bis Herhert K. Avram ...... 1163 Orest Popovych ...... 1258 real chess career by editing a chess column for the Toronto Globe; in Paul Brentz ...... 1231 I. Romanenko ...... 1155 Robert Brieger ...... 1163 Kenneth R. Smith ...... * ...... 1221) 1915 he shifted the chess column to the Canadian Courier, a weekly Class A (901 to nOB) which folded uR in 1920. He then edited a column in the Toronto World C. C. Crittenden ...... 1258 J. F .... Donovan ...... 1159 Brlan GarfinkC!1 ...... 1083 for a short time until it was terminated by purchase of the paper. In Bobby Flschcr ...... 1284 Russell K. Kouts ...... 1000 1922 he became chess editor of the Toronto EVening Telegram-a post D. E. l-'Ischclmer ...... 1239 woieh was only terminated by his death in December, 1956 and from Anyone wishing t

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the opponent plays out of the pre­ pared line, then one can always CHESS TACTICS FOR ECiI ERS fall back on opening principles and simple logic. By U. S. Expert DR. ERlCH W. MARCHAND 3. Opening Principles Illus­ trated SICILIAN DEFENSE L ~ ke Erie Open Tourn. ment Or. Marcn . nd will antwer btginnen' quu t lon, on Ihls P. g_, If of ,uHlcl. nt thinks first o( moving the center Buffalo, 1956 l e ne r al inl e rut_ Thoie wbhlnl • p.rional reply sho uld enctose ,Iamped, HIf­ White Black Pawns (KP and QP), tben of de­ H_ BERGQUIST E. MARCHAND ,ddreued envelo pe. Add,ut: Dr. Erich W_ March,nd, 192 Sn-lile 0,1'1' , Roche,I" veloping the Kts (and these normal· 17, N_Y. 1. P-K4 P-Q1J4 ly go to QB3 and KB3). Aiter the Aready a compromlR with princiPle. 1. Answers to Readers' Questions KI lO one usually develops the Bish· Black strikes at Ihe center bul will have C. J . Cucullu, Jr_, New Orleans, La., asks about Tehigorln's Indian ops, the ideal squal"CS for these be· to make at least two more mo"e. In o r der ot develop hI. B'•. variation: 1. P-Q4, Kt-KB3; 2. P-QB4, P-Q3; 3. Kt-QB3, QKl-Q2; 4. P-K4, ing QB4 and KB4. Since the ideal 2. Kt·KlJl ... __ .. P-B3 _ The question is whether the last move, which the opening books squares can orten Dot be reached If 2. P_Q ~ at onc~, then 2. __ ._.... . PXP; ignore, is satisfactory. Answer: 4 ...... , P-B3 looks to me not much better saCely onc must compromise for a 3. Q>

GAMES BY USCF MEMBERS

Annotated by Chess Master JOHN W. COLLINS

White Is Cllllne .11 the sholJ. 13. Q.IM USCF MEMB ERS; Subm;/ 7°11. D