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Chess Federation North American Championship First Steps ., Popular Defense Doomed Kashdan • Purdy • Morton • HONOR PRIZE PROBLEM SIMON COSTIKYAN New York, N. Y. WHITE MATES IN THREE MOVES THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OP THE AMERICAN CHESS FEDERATION NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST STEPS ., POPULAR DEFENSE DOOMED KASHDAN • PURDY • MORTON SEPTEMBER, 1939 MONTHLY 30 cents ANNUALLY $3.00 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE Vol. VII, No.8 p"blish(d MOlllhly September, 19 ~9 AMEIlICAN CHESS FEDERATION Published monthly by THE CHESS REVIEW, 25 We.st 43 rd St., New York, N. Y. Telephone Wisconsin 7·3742. Domestic subscriptions: One Y~ar $3.00; Two Yeus $5.,0; Five Years $12.,o; SIX .M?nths $1.75. Single copy 30 CIS. Foreign subswpuons: $3.50 per year eXCept U. S. Possessions, Canada, Mex· ico, Central and South America. Single copy 3' cts. Copyright 1939 by THE CHESS REVIEW "Entered as second·class matter January 2', 1937, at REVIEW the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act ISRAEL A. HOROWliZ, EJilor of March 3, 1879." 1939 North American Championship "TOllI'II<lmellt of the Player/' sunlight.white milestone in American chess, was announced at the dosing dinner by George The unbroken record of the American Chess Sturgis, A. C. F. President and who is also Federation . a tournament every year for forty years ... was preserved as "The Tour. nament of the Players" was contested at New SPOT NEWS! York Gty in the beautiful Colonial Room of A Bloodloss Victory the George Washington Hotel from July 18th Dr. Max Euwe won the British Chess to July 29th. Federation Tournament at Bournemouth, Bereft of the benefit of any great advance England, clinching first place in the last round without risking a solitary move! pubiicity, and handicappe9 by the neces~ity Scheduled to play his townsman, S. Lan. (or so it seemed at the tIme) of scheduhng the Congress so as not to conflict with the dau, of Amsterdam, in the final round­ a loss would have enabled both Flohr departure of some leading American. players for lhe team tournament at Buenos Alfes, the .lOd Klein to share first place-a draw event was moulded into a wand success by was agreed upon without even the for . mality or a gesture of conflict. the well·co·ordinated effort of the A. C F. Who remembers Hastings 1934.35? President, George Sturgis, various di~ectors ~f An Englishman played an English man in the federation headed by N. Y. ReP'lOn~1 01. rector Milton 1. Hanauer, and Fred Remfeld, the last round. Michell versus Sir as well as leaders of the chess. playing frater. George Thomas. Thomas could ~ave nity. scored a mighty triumph ... a Hast mgs victory ahead of Flohr, Euwe, Capa. Twenty.eight entrants, drawn in. 'part from blanca, Botwinnik and Lilenthal!! ... far corners of the Western HemIsphere, as· all he needed was a draw for a clear sembled. Pinkus, a new face to many, but first prize. well known to those whose chess memory The game was played. reaches back fifteen years, iourneyed from Thomas lost. British Guiana, while Ulvestad and the fifteen. , year.old sensation of the Dominion, Yanofsky, . ably represented the far west. Denker Wins New York Title A hard fought last round draw by Three former North American titleholders, Arnold Denker with Albert S. Pinkus in Fine Reshevsky and Horowitz fought for a the New York State Championship Tour. new' emblazonment upon the Kirk D. Holland nament enabled him to repeat his title. trophy. taking conquest of last year as former • • • Manhattan Chess Oub champion, Robert Merger of the FederatiOI1! Willl)1an held Isaac Kashdan to a draw The outstanding achievement of the year, in the same crucial round. and one which is destined to be recorded as a 173 174 THE CHESS REVIEW a director of the National Chess Federation. SECTION THREE _ QUALIFICATIONS Soon there will be no American Chess POint totals r. Horowitz, New YOrk City _________ 4'h- llh Federation - nor will there be a National C. .TaITe. New York City ____ ________ 41h- llh Che>s Federation! M. GI·een. New York City __________ 3%- 2% S. Kltces, Montreal, Canada ______ _3 -3 The terms of a merger have been agreed M. Neckerman, New York City _____ 2lh- 3lh upon; not a .point lingers at issue, and the work S. Broughton, Brooklyn, N. Y. ___ ____ llh- 4lh or the past few years, which many times has .T. Fulop, New York City _____ ______ 1'h- 4lh seemed fore.doomed to failure, has been guided Horowitz maue no effort to exact full pen_ to successful fruition. All that is lacking is alties, takmg three draws, four wins and a the signatures, already promised, of the two certain share of first place in easy stride. Jaffe feaerations' presidents, whereupon from the lost to Kitces, drew quickly with Horowitz, ashes will rise the United States of America but won the rest. The Canadian, Kitces, Ches~ Federation. played well against Horowitz; ·he even beat M. S. Kuhns, octogenarian president of the DOth Jaffe and Green! - and didn't <]ualify!! N. C. F. is to be President Emeritus of the Neckerman and fulop were the stumbling U. S. of A. C. F., while George Sturgis is to blocks. carryon actively as president. SECTION FOUR - QUALIFICATIONS • • * PO int totals A. Pinkus, Brooklyn, N. Y. __ __ _____ 5 -1 THE PRELIMINARY TOURNEY B. Blumin, 'fo1"ol)to, Canada ________ 41h - 1% A. New SECTION ONE---QUALIFICATIONS Santasiere, York City ___ ___ 4'h- 1'h w. Suesman, Cranston, R. l. ______ 3'h- 2lh PoInt tc.tals C. Pilnick, New York City __ _______ 2 - 4 S. Reshevsky, New Yc.rk Clty ______ __ 5'h- lh T. Connelly, New York City _________ 1 - 5 O. Ulveslad, Seattle, Wash. _____ ____ 1Y.a-1lh J. Hltlalgo, Jr., New York City _____ 1h-51h W. Adams, Dedham, Mass. _________ 4 -2 J. Rauch, Montreal, Canada _________ 3 -3 Another orchid for the seeding committee 1. Rivise, Brooklyn, N. Y. _____ ______ 2'h-3lh as Pinkus, Santasiere and Blumin take the top N. Bellome, Waterbury, Conn. ___ ____1 -5 B. Walk, New York City ___ __ _____ %-5% three rungs. Suesman barelv missed the "S. S. Finals"; anything but two losses to Blumin and Rcshevsky, U1vestad and Adams all vindi_ Pinkus might have placed him aboard. cated the judgment of the seeding committee. Reshevsky insured qualnying (if you ever doubted) by beating both U1vestad and THE CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS Adams. He loaned his Queen to Bellome in Reuben Fine had one tremendous advantage a pretty game, but demanded Bellome's in re_ over other aspirants, and his win of the North turn, a few moves later. Adams lost to 'tJ:oth American Championship was due entirely to Ulvcstad and Reshevsky, but cleaned up agamst this fortuitOlls, but not unique "break" in the field. Only Rauch survived Reshevsky's the schedule. Reuben Fine did not have to wiles - with a headily conducted Sicilian. play Reuben Fine! Everybody else did. If Wolk, it seems, saved ibis strength for his his form and time_gauging were uncertain in eventual conquest of Class A. the preliminaries, his superlative play in the SECTION TWO _ QUALIFICATIONS finals banished all memory of it, for he scored Point lotals the "money games" with sureness and regu­ R. Fine, Forest Hills, L. I. _____ ____ 4.'h - llh larity. His middle_of-the_road tactics evidenced H. Seidman, Brooklyn, N. Y. _______ A - 2 a re"dy willingness to cope with the "pet B. Friend, Brooklyn, N. Y. ________ _3Y.a - 2'h openings" of his adversaries, all of which he G. Hellman, New York Cily _____ __3%-2'-h A. Yanofsky, Winnipeg, Canada ___ __3% - 2% left in crumpled heaps along the road to the B. Garftnkel, Butralo, N. Y. ____ ____ 1'h- 4lh title. Notable wrecks along the way were M. Peckar, Brooklyn, N. Y. ___ ____ ',2-5"- Adams' favorite Albin Counter, Horowitz and Fine's score might indICate .he qualified the Tarrasch, Inc., an English Opening where easy way, with a mixture of draws and wins. Seidman traded his QBP for the useful QP But his many time_pressure troubles were unavailingly, and UJvestad's elastic Stonewall. nerve.sin,geing. Fine withstood them better Fine also won the title in 1932, 1933, 1935 than the gallery! Unfortunately, a triple tie and shared it with Reshevsky in 1934. for the third qualifyine: post ~lad. to be ~ecided Rcshevsky drew with Fine, but with Pinkus, by a coin toss. Yanofsky dldn t let hiS poor too, which inspired his bemoaning, "Nowa_ showing as a coin_tosser mar his fine triumph davs, it seems, if you draw twice, you can't at chess in the Consolations. win a tournament." Reshevsky's anxiOlls mo_ S E P TEr,ll1ER,1939 I7l REUBEN F I NE - 1939 NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP W I NNER lTIents were an abundant' sunrise.to,sunset ncy play after an absence of many ye ~r s, clockful. Although he was in enou~h "hot Santasie re and $ci<lman graced the pri ze. water" to bathe the residents of N ewcastle wi nners' circle after highly creditable perfor. and W il kes· Bam:, one must generously ap. mances, the former being quite recovered from plaud the coolness, sk ill and in;::enuity with his indisposition of Ventnor City, which the American champion SO often ex· (riCalto himself hom denouements-but justly Yanofsky, talented fifteen.year.old Canad ian recogn ize that only liberal (C.operation by and the }'ou!l,l;est entrant of all, won the PlOkus and Adams, the latter's regwring a COlbolations with something to spare, not to heavy vei l of charitable excuse, rescued Resh.
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