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NATIONAL CHESS RATINGS Cond - • Vol. Xl, No. 17 Sunday, May 5, 1957 15 Centa NATIONAL CHESS RATINGS Cond" ..od !Iv Potilwlt No. 2(}7 By KENNETH HARKNESS USCF Rati"g SMillie;",. IRWIN SIGMOND • N Ihis issue we publish the eleventh national chess rating list. The END solutions to Position No. I re(orocd players of master rank competed in rated contests during S 207 to reach Irwin Sigmond. the years 1955 and 1956. Players below master rank look part in rated 5200 Williamsburg Blvd., Arling· contests fiDished in 1956 only. AU masters who did not compete in 1955 ton 7, Va., by Junc 5, 1957. With or 1956, anti all other players who did' nol enter 1956 rated tournaments your solution, please send analysis or matches, are considcrl!d inactive, and their naml!s are not published. or re .. sons supporting your choice Tournament directors who wish to find the latest ratings of inactive of "Best Move" or moves. players should ronsult previous lists. Ranking List No. 10 was published Solution to Posillon No. 207 will ~p­ in thl! issue of May 20, 1956. p"lr In the June 10. "S1 Issu •. With two exceptions, performances in tournaments ending after NOTE, Do no/ p/"u .olu/ion, /0 /"'0 December 31st, 1956, were not included when computing averages for pOli/;olt, on ont ,,,.d; be , .... /0 ;"dic4lr the current list. (The excelltions: New Orleans Semi·Final Tournament, ~ corral " .. ""ber of potilio" bti"g Jol".d, ending January 4th, and the Inglewood, Cal., Tournament, ending Jan­ "nd gi~t tht / .. 11 n"mt ""'/ "ddrtJs of uary 2nd.) the ,ol~tr to "stilt in prope. (1edili"8 of Supplementary Lists to Appear ments and matches belonged fOf .. to ,i"". Quarterly the USCF or were required by the In fu ture. it is our intl!ntion to tournamcnt organizers to join tbe FIFTEEN TOP-RANKING FIFTEEN TOP-RANK,ING national Federation. ACTIVE U.S. PLAYERS WOMEN PLAYERS publish supplementary rating lists {1 9SS-S61 (1 9S5-56) at intervals of about three monlhs. Still more unfortUnate Is the Each of these will conlain only the fact that the Class B &: C players. ,. ,... 1. Sonil Gref 1037 ,. .• 1593 2. Nlney II.I>OS .. · 1008 names and ratings of players who who should form the backbone of ,. .. .. ... 2590 3. Mon. MlY K.rff •. .... 21104 competed In contests reported dUro the U.S. Chess Federation. made •• ...... .. ..............1533 4. l ucillo KolI" o. .• . l t14 ing the quarter preceding the clos· the most miserable showing. as in· •• •...•............ ~ ......... 1525 S. GI.. II K. Grener •... .................... 1913 . .....•... ... t468 • . Ire... Vlno• •• ing date of the list. Thus, the first dicated in the following tab.le: •••• 1. M.rth. Ch ue ..""IUD' supplement wit! include players -", .. • • lEvI Aronson 193D . ~ •• ... who took part in tournaments and .c • • ..144' , . Klthryn SI.ler 1145 -.' ••,n .,-. •• 10. J acqu.nn. Pi.tlgorsky matches reported January 1st .•• - ". •• "., · 1112 1 <z.- .' ,.• • • Denker .. 1420 11. Mrs. DI" McLeod 1113 through March 31st, 1957. This , . ,• . < Dike 2412 12. Dorothy WIIU.ms · 1811 supplement will be published in • • • Plvey .. 2411 n. Mrs. Ouln.n ;.•• .. the near future. A complete rat· Medn!, . .... 1405 14. M.ry Sllonsky ... .. ........ 17to".. ,. Kramor . .. .. •.14 04 15. W il l. White Owens ,,.. ing list, similar to the one in this Masters ................ .. 66" issue , will be published annually. EXperts .•.. ............ 296. " % Cla.u A ....... ......... • ... '" .... OHIO COLLE"GIATE CHESS MATCH Coyerag. of Rating List No. 11 Cl~s B • C ....- 20l2 '" " % FINISHES IN TIE IS TELECAST The current list contains the T oil is ~ ••••.• _• •.••.33S0 namcs of 3,350 players. With the "" " .. Emil L. Bereczky of Cleveland ex:cepUon of a few masters whose If the non·members in 1956 tour· and Charles Vaughn of Greenwich. Through the promotional efforts of Alexander Victor, of RCA·Victor. last performances were in 1955, naments alone had been required Conn. each tallied 4-1 to tie for on behalf of the Presidio Chess these players competed in 180 tour­ 10 join the Fedetation, the USCF first in the Ohio Intercollegiate In· would nolV have about 4500 mem­ dividual Championship held at Club of Monterey a chess match naments and matches finished du r- ing the ycal' 1956. • bers instead of 2100. And if the C3SC Institute of Technology in between U.S. Expert Alexander Suchobeck of the Presidio Club and UnIortunately. only 1022 of these non·members in tournaments rated Cleveland. Bereczky drew with players arc members of the UseF. during the past years had joined Richa.rd W. Noel and Edward Step· International Master Nicolas Hos· In other words, only 30% of the the USCF, we would now have aos. while Vaughn lost a game to soUmo was broadcast over Station KXXL in Mo nterey. contestants in 1956 rated touroa- about 15,000 members! Noel. Third and fourth on Solkoff It has been demonstrated count­ with 31f.z·l'h each were Noel of less times that the players in most Chagrin Falls and Stepans of Cleve· INVITATION TO HOLD CHESS tournaments would be quite willing land: while fifth and sixth in the to pay USCF dues if all contestants 12·pi"ay er Swiss event with 3·2 each were required to do so. This is were Clara R. MI!Curdy of Ada, and OLYMPICS IN AMERICA WITHDRAWN: now being done by the State Asso­ Monroe Newborn of Athens. It Wi1S my pleasure in August 1956 to attend the Congress of FIDE ciations of Connecticut, Michigan, Pro,ld lo (Monte rIY) Chon Club : The at Moscow USSR as the official representative of USCF. Our invitation New Jersey. Oklahoma, Pennsyl· dub ,peed champlon.hlp e nded In I to FIDE to hold the 1958 Chess Olympics and 59 candidates Tourna· vania, and Texas. Some other or­ :>-1 tie ~lween Lewis Melton and Bruce ment in America was graciously aceepled and I, together with the chess ganizations (notably the Log Cabin Price. Al11><andcr .,l.d.n was Utlrd. with Chess Club) conduct 100% USCF 4 .... ·1\.;. and Ed"·.rd L. J ohns f ourth fraternity of America. was very much elated. At that time we had in with 4-2 In the 17.playcr Sw\.ss evenl. mind certain plans for raising the necessary funds to finance such events membership tournaments. These A groll p or ten junlors (,chool alre) are and immediately upon return to America we began development of those Associations and Clubs have no dif-f ettendlng regularly the "Student Chess ficulty wh,atsoever in collecting . Clinic" r ecently inaugunled by the plans. We have left nothing undone, so far as we know. to assure suc· club. (Please turn to page 4, col. 1) ' • cess but now, after seven months of earnest effort we regreUuJly arr ive at the conclusion that we will not be able to finance the two events. and therefore. in keeping with our pledge and obHgation to FIDE and in fair· U. S. JUNIOR ness 10 all other Federations of FIDE we have been obliged to withdraw 58TH U. S. OPEN our invitation and release FIDE to award the events 10 some other coun· • CHAMPIONSHIP try. We have written to Mr. Folke Rogard, President of F IDE and so CHAMPIONSHIP July 8-14. 1957 informed him and withdraw the invitation. Your disappointment. I know, is keen and I share it with you. Au.lt\lst 5-17. 1957 RespecUuUy, San Francf.sco. Calif. FRAN K 11.. GRAVES Cleveland. Ohio PmiJt1Il U.s.C.F. , Finish It The Clever Way! Iry Edm"d N~. TO THE MEMBERS P",i/UJR No. 199 P",i/;oll No. 200 OF THE USC F eollego Cioc:altea vs. Unzicker Smyslov vs. Bohinnik This yea r, mOre Ulan any otber. USSR, 1956 Fourth Match Game, 1957 it b Importan' that we send a STU· DENT TEAJ',t mbroad to compete In e~ Ojj oflf. r- r- the WORLD STUDENTS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP. Conaucttd by O\.\r team 15 the strongest ever Frederick H. KeN' • ami th15 would be a fine opportun· Ity to gain the coveted tlUe of WORLD STUDENTS TEAl'oI CHAl'tI. All college clubs and pt ......, .r. PIONS tor the UNITED STATES of urged 10 send news Items to F reder ick AMERIC .... H. Ken , Nltt. ... y 31.11, !!l ox 211, P. nn· BUT, we cannot send tbls team s ... t"an i. Sllte Uni"enlly. Un,,.. ... It... or six masters to Iceland this J uly. p,rt<. Pennsyl".nl •. unleSS we are ,Illven the neeellf.;ln' llnanetal aSSistance. For this rea­ EW YORK'S Marshall Chess son I u k each member to con· N Clu\l plays host each• year to trlbJ,tle ONE DOLLAR or MORE so a match betwecn the United States that YOU can make this event pos­ sibl" tor Amerlca to participate. Military Academy and the United All donations may be 'ent to, States Naval Academy. This year William Lombardy the men of Annapolis won 4'h·3Y.t. '" St udent T nvel ing Fund Navy winners were Midshipmen ,.1 F.ne Street IIronx S9. New Yorio: Pat Greene, Ben Simonton, Per ry Sincerel .... Jackson, and George Blessing. Win­ WI LL IAM LOM IIAROY OSITION No. 199 occurred in thc Alekhine Memorial Tournament. ners {or West Point · were Cadets P Black cannot take the 'White Quee n because of stalemate; yet Black . Jack Hesse, Dave Rogers, and Walt made one move (bis 95th!) and White resigned. BATCHELDER WINS Brown. Midshipman M. Spillane In playing over the first 17 games of the Botvinnik-Smyslov match drew with Cadet Georg~ Blessing. fot:....the World Chess Championship, I found most pleasing the finish to KENTUCKY OPEN As the Philadelphia CoUeg~ te the.
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