THE DALLAS TOURNAMENT New York State Championship Santasiere + Sturgis + Reinfeld + White
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HONOR PRIZE PROBLEM THOMAS S. McKENNA Lima, Ohio M-ATE IN FOUR MOVES TH&OFFICIAL ORGAN OfTHB UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CHESS FEDERATION THE DALLAS TOURNAMENT New York State Championship Santasiere + Sturgis + Reinfeld + White -===~--~ I OCTOBER, 1940 MONTHLY 30 cents ANNUALLY $3.00 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Vol. VIII, No.7 Publhhl!d M01llhly October, 1940 CHESS FEDERATION Published bi· monthly June · September; published monthly October · May by THE CHESS REVIEW, 25 West 43.rd Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone WlsconSln 7·3742. Domestic subscriptions: One Year $3.00; Two Years $5 .50; Five Years $12.50. Single copy 30 cents. Foreign subscriptions: $3.50 per year ex(ept U. S. Possessions, Canada, Mexico, Central and South Am erica. Sin gl e (Opy. 30 cents. Copyright 1939 by THE CHESS REVIEW "Reentered as second class matter July 26, 1940, at REVIEWI. A. HOROWiTZ . the post office at New York, N. Y ., under the Act FRED REINFELD of March 3, 1879. Editors World Championship One other aspect of the situation is worth noting: according to a T ;meJ interview, Capa. Run Around blanca stated that "aside from himself" the By FRED REINFELD most suitable candidates for a Championship Chess players will be delighted to hear that Match were Paul Keres and Mikhail Botvinnik. Dr. Alekhine's whereabouts have now been Having read t.his sort of thing more than once, ascertained, for the New York TimeJ reports I cannot aVOId the suspicion that these two that he recently communicated with J. R. Capa. players are hvored because of their geographi_ blanca regarding the world championship title. cal unavailability. There is of course not the It almost sounds like the piping times of peace, sli$~test que.stion as to their preeminence and however, to learn that a new act, no more ~bdlty, but It has beco~e quite the vogue to entertaining than the previous ones, is being Ignore ReJheVJky and Fllle ostentatiously when. added to the already interminable ballet of ever World Championship possibilities are match negotiations. being discussed. On August 4 the TillleJ headlined: This snootiness baffles the writer, because "CAPABLANCA HERE READY FOR Res.h evsky and Fine have very definitely held MATCH theIr own, to say the least, in the three great Cuhan Chess Star Would Play for Title, tournaments of recent years (Nottingham, Sem. hut Lacks Word on Fate of Alekhine." mering and Avro). Don't these ladJ even de_ On September 8, the headlines had changed JeJ'1,'e to be IIrwtioned?.I What goes on? to: P. S. With European chess blacked out for "ALEKHINE IS SAFE; PROPOSES MATCH the duration, and with a superb array of such Chess Champion in Marseilles, Seeks a Pass· masters as Capablanca, Dr. lasker, Marshall, Reshevsky, Fine, Horowitz and Kashdan -(to port to Cuba to Negotiate Terms mention no others) on hand, we have the mak. CAPABLANCA IS DOUBTFUL ings of a magnificent master tourney right in Says Only Clubs in Argentine Are Interested our own country. How about it, che!! patrons in Backing Contest for the Title." al/d fans?.' The August 4 item strewed buttercups all over the possibility of a match, as for example: Slaflghter.' ''The Cuban master is still hopeful that, when. Kemeri.Riga 19S9 ever Dr. Alekhine is available and amenable INDIAN DEFENSE to a match, the committee of the Argentine M. Feigin S. Szabo Chess Federation will continue the negotiations White BlaCk 1 P.Q4 Kt·KBS 13 R.Q1 for . an encounter between these two experts Kt. Kt2 2 P.QB4 P·KKtS 14 P·Q5 B. Kt2 whICh were begun in Buenos Aires immediately S Kt.QB3 P.Q4 15 Q·K4 p,p after the close of the international meeting." 4 Kt.B3 B. Kt2 16 KtxP Kt.K3 5 Q.Kt3 PxP 17 Kt.KtS Q.Q2 . But the real c~ux of the matter is expressed 6 QxBP 0·0 18 B.BS R_Qt tn a stray sentence from the September 8 ac_ 7 P·K4 P.BS 19 Q.KR4 Kt.Bl count: "They were both in Buenos Aires 8 B·K2 P.KtS 20 KtxRP Kt.B3 for the international meeting, but left there 9 Q.QS Kt-R4 21 KtxKt RxKt without an understanding." Etc., etc., etc., 10 0·0 Kt.Q2 22 B·Kt5 Q.K3 11 P_K5 Kt-Ktl 23 BxP Resigns etc, 12 P.KR3 B.R1 146 THE CHESS REVIEW Chess at Dallas • , GEORGE STURGIS By " The 1940 Open Tournament of the United • • States Chess Federation has just been held at .~- • Dallas, Texas. The games wcrc played in the • beautiful Adolphus Hotel which placed at our '" • disposal for the TOllrnament a large room on ~ the 21st fl oor, .high above the city. From the windows we enjoyed a magnificent view of the city of Dallas and the surrounding country, and contrary to the pessimism of many of my friends who predicted nothing but suffocating heat in Dallas in August, 1 .found the climate truly delightful- warm but not humid and with fresh breezes which kept the air circulating most of the time. Twenty_seven players entered the tourna. ment. Ten states and Canada were represented. Under the able directi on of Messrs. T hompson and McKee of the local committee every detai l was handled to the satisfaction of everybody. WEAVER ADAMS Upon M r. McKee devolved the duties of toUT. nament director as M e T hompson, Chairman of the local committee and one of the strongest followed. T he games of Adams were fol. players in the south, had elected to compete lowed with particular interest by many, since in the tournament. he is the welLknown author of "White to Play and W in"' and the spectators were curious Three sectio ns were formed of ni ne players to see if his theories would work against strong in each section. Reuben Fine, famous inter_ competition. Curiously enough, in the final nationalist, was seeded in one section; H erman round of play, Adams won all his games with Steiner of Los Angeles in another; and W eaver the blark pieces and failed to win a single Adams of Dedham in the third. Two games game with wh ite, although he succeeded with we re scheduled each day, afternoon and eve· white in drawing aga i n~t Elo. How do you ning. Adjourned games were completed on account fo r that, W eaver? the next fo llowing morning. During the course of the tournament many srl('ndid games were played. In the prelimi. naries Thompson, Roddy, and flo each suc· 'rbe Prot'fl'bi<il Two BiJbop,i cceded in drawing their games with Fine who S IC ILIAN D EFENSE did not actually lose a game during the tour. A. E lo A. Roddy nament. The first three players .from each White Bla Ck section qualifIed for the [lOal round in the 1 P· K4 P.QB4 22 Kt· K2 Q. R5 Masters' Division; the second th ree for the 2 Kt. KB3 Kt .QB3 23 P· Kt 3 Q. R3 Consolation Masters; and the last three for 3 P.Q4 p,p 24 R·QBl R,R 4 KtxP Kt . B3 25 KtxR B. B6 the Class A. Those who qualified for the final 5 Kt.QB3 P. Q3 26 R· Bl B. R6 round in the Masters' class were Fine, Steiner, 6 B. K2 P· KKt3 27 R· B2 B· Kt7 Adams, Marchand, Thompson, Kendall, Oh. 7 0 ·0 B.Kt 2 28 Kt-K2 Q. K6 man, Burdge, and flo. W eaver Adams, W . 8 Kt·Kt3 0 .0 29 Kt. Ktl Q, R 9 P. B3 B. K3 30 KtxB Q.Q5 M. P. Mitchell and I represented New England. 10 Kt·Q5 R. B1 31 Q. K2 B. R6 Mitchell and I both gualified for the Consola. 11 P·QB4 P·QKt4 32 B. B4 P. K3 tion Masters Final, but both of us fin ished 12 KtxKtc h BxKt 33 Kt.B4 K. Kt2 rather down in the final standing in that class_ 13 p , p Q. Kt3c h 34 K· Kt2 P. Kt4 14 K·Al Kt. Kt5 35 BxP R· B6 The tournament was won by Fine with a 15 B.Q2 Kt· B7 36 Kt· A5 c h K. Kt3 perfect score of B.O with Steiner finishing 16 A· Ktl Kt· K6 37 B· B5ch KxK t in second place in spite of the fact that he 17 BxKt Q,B 38 P. B4c h K. A3 dropped three of his first four ,games! Adams 18 Kt. B1 A· B2 39 PxPch K· Kt2 19 R· Kl Q. Ktl 40 Q. A5 R. B7ch and Marchand shared third.fourth place, and 2Q P.QKt3 KR· Bl 41 K. R3 K· Bl Thompson, Kendall, Ohman, flo and Burdge 21 B.Q3 Q. B7 Resig n-s OCTOBER, 1940 147 A curious situation developed in one of the SECTION I games in which one player announced a mate Player W' L in three, forgot to push his clock, his time ran W. W . Adams, Dedhams, Mass ..... 7 _1 out, and his opponent claimed the game on E. W . Marchand, Clayton, Mo ....... 7 _I time forfeiture! Shortly thereafter the players W. N. Kendall, San Antonio .... .. 6Yz-l Yz agreed upon a draw. But this agreement was Daniel Mayers, Tucson, Ariz........ 5 .3 subsequently nullified by the tournament di _ George Sturgis, Boston, Mass, .... .. 4Y2.3Y2 rector because the game was of vital conse. Walter F. Brown, Houston .