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World Championship 4.-3 • ess 1 e -4merica ~ Che:u n ew:Jpape,' Copyright IUS by United S'II'" ChHS federot' lon ~ol. X, No.4 Thuraday,' October 200, 1955 15 Cents Twenty Ladies Contend at, Moscow Conducted by PO/i/«m No. 17 J In Woman's 'world Championship RUSSELL CHAUVENET At the cad of four rounds in the Candidates Tourney at Moscow, END solutions to Position No. the lead was shared by U. S. Women's Co-Champion Mrs. Gisela K. Gres­ S 171 to Russell Chauvcnct, 721 ser and lame. M. Laz.arevie of Yugoslavia with 3~ ·'I.a each. Mlle.· Lazare­ Gist Avenue, Silver Spring, Md. vic gave Mrs. Sonja Gra[·Stevenson her first deteat, dropping the U. S. November 20, 1955. With your Women's Open Champion from a tie for first to a tie lor {lith with tion, plense send analysis or reason 21h·Ph. The third U. S. representative, former Women's Champion Miss supporting' your choice as "Best Mon'a May KarH, has had consistent bad luck to date, with three losses Move" or moves. and an adjourned game fOr an O-S score. Solution t o Position No. 171 wlll ep · Tied for third in the 4th rd, with pur In thl OIClmber 5th, 1955 Issu,: 3-1 each, are Mme. V,lentina Be· STANDINGS lova of lhe USSR and Mme. V. Aii.r j.ii"e Rounds NOJ'f , Do not pllK. 10/''''0''1$ It;> /"''' JoYa noY ic-Ncdeijkovic of Yugosla­ Lu:.revlc 1 ·2 Chaude 4~-O P<>~; t;o" , on 0'" c<J,d; be lUU to irulicllu Volpcrt yja. 1 ·1 Ic natlevll. 4~-41 rorrtd numb", 0/ position bei"1! ",IKIl, G...,sser 6 ·2 . Curflnkel 3H ~ Kelle r 6 ,·2 Heemskerk ,. d"J gin tht 1,,11 n ..m. f",J d J,.tI 01 Helova 5l-2i1 KlI.rfl ,., 'he 'O/YC'T /0 ,wist in p.opn ( fttJ;ting 0/ LOST A TOURNEY Craf- Kertesz solu,ion. White to play Steven'son S).2L Holuj ,.'"' U.S. SPEED EVENT Ncdeljkovlc SPi Mosehlnl Rubt.sova S~ - 31 Sucha '"', -, SANDRIN WINS MAYER TAKES The 14th annual U. S. Lightning ZvorklnN 5~·3~ Budlnlch !.&. Champions'hip will probably never Ivanovna 4.-3. ST. PAUL OPEN OHIO OPEN get into the official records since With a 6·1 score Angelo Sandrin .J:Jck Mayer oC Louisv ille, Ky.' the tournament director and the of Ch icago. Ill., wo n the 2nd an· won the Ohio Open Championship tournament management at Long 3 .MASTERS PLAN nual Sl. Paul Open Championship at Columbus on Solkoff points with Beach have bc!!n equally indiffer­ FOR EXHIBITIONS on SoB pOints, losing one game to 6-1 score, losing no games b ut en t about submitting an oUicial Ezra Budnllzky_ Second, also with drawing with. Malcolm Patrick and report. The Fall and Winter season of 6-1, was Hugh Myers oC Racine, Hoberl McC ready. Second, also with (:xhiil itiull lO un; wliJ be inau~ U l'at­ It is rumored, however, that the ed shortly wilh three International Wis., losing a ga me to Sandrin. 6·1, W:JS Charles Heising of Hamil­ event ended in an 18·3 tie between Stan Pcdlar o[ Winnipeg, Canada ton, who lost one game to Tim An. Donald Byrne and Larry EY ans, Mast ers available to clubs desiring such exhibitions for the encourage­ was thil'd with 51h-lih, losing a derson. Robert McCready of Cin· that James Sherwin was third with .. , game to Victor Co ntoski and drnw· clnnati WII S third with 5Jh.Ph, los· 17-4 and Abe Turner fourth. It is ment and education of their mem­ jng with K. N. Pedersen. Fourth to ing II gume to George Kellner and said that it wns directed by Mr. bers and the rcsulting local public­ sixth with equal 5·2 scores were drawing with Mayer in t h ~ final Guthrie McClain. Inquiries to Long ity for the chess club that such ex­ .Ezra Budilitzky of ' Yin nipeg, Milton round: Beach on the subject have brought hibition dcYelop . Otteson of st. Paul, and Victor Con­ Fourth to ninth on Solkoff with no further enlightment. In November International Mas· toski of ~lInneapoJis. Seventh to equal 5·2 scor es were George Kell· tcr George Koltanowski, chess edi­ elevcnth with 4.1h-2lh each werc K. ncr of lima. Malcolm Patrick of tor of the San Francisco Chronicle, Jakstas, Dane Smith, William E. Northfield, Richard Ling of Fair­ SHAPIRO TAKES will begin his tour. Key poi nts in Ka iser, George Tiers, and K. N. born, Robert Henry of Toledo, Kurt his itine rary wil l be Billings, Mont.; Pedersen. ' Loening of Columbus, and Richard N. MEXICO OPEN St. P aul, M,inn.; New HaYe n, Conn.; . Milton Otteson also won the Krause of Garfield Heights. 'The With a 5lh-1£ score Gene Shap­ J\.iiami, Fla.; St. Louis, Mo.; Pampa, Class A pri:te, while Ezra Budnit1.ky 49·player event was staged by the iro of Roswell won the New Mexico Tex. Clubs in approximate route of ~ and Victor Contoski shared the USCF Affiliated Ohio State Chess Open Championship, drawing with thL~ itinerary may arrange for Mr. Class B award. Conrad BatchedJer, Ass'n and was directed by James Hall ,J ones in the final round. Sec­ Koltanowski's appcurance by writ­ with '4-3 score, won the prize for H. Schroeder of Columbus. ond and third in the HI-player ing: George Koltanowsld, 200 AI· ranking hi gh school participant; Swiss on Solkoff points were Jack ham-bra St., Apt. 9, San }<~ranciseo and Glen F. Proechel with 3112-3 112 Shaw and Hall J ones, both of Al­ 23, Cali£. Mr. Koltanowski acts as the Class C award. The 40 player buquerque, with 4%-11,2 each. Shaw a Good Will Ambassador for the event was directed by Robert C. GO LOMBEK WINS lost a game to Shapiro and drcw USCF and wi!! be huppy to accept Gave, assisted by Dane , Smith, Eu· BRITISH TITLE with R. S. Underwood. Jones lost new USCF memberships or re­ gene Hoeflin, and Alden Riley, and to B. E. Thurston and drew with newals of membership while on H. Golombek, games editor of !.he Shapiro. Fourth to sixth with 4-2 was conducted under the new USCF British Chcss Magazine a nd now tour. Harkness System oC Pairings. each were Albert Harle of Albu­ Spanish International Master AI­ the "grand old man" of British q uerque, R. S. Underwood o f Lub­ Chess, won his third British Champ­ turito Pomar is again in New York, bock, Texas, and Warren Miller oC arriving scveral weeks ago f rom ACKERMAN TOPS ionship at Aberystwyth, Wales in Albuquerque. The event was staged an impressive 36-player Swiss by Spain, and would welcome dates by the Albuquerque YMCA Chess for simulhlllcoUS exhibitions. Intcr­ SWE NSON EVENT the score of 8% ·2*. He lost onc Club, a USCF Afmiale. David Ackerman with 4'h·lh on ga me to r unner·up R. G. Wade, and ested clubs may contact: Martin SoB points topped the 8th annual drew with F_ Parr, John Penrose, Nunez, 211 West 21st St., New York Swenson Memorial Tournament at and A. Phillips. Former New Zeu­ BU RDICK SCORES 11, N. Y. Omuha, drawing with runner-up land Champion R. G. Wade was Lastly, Grandmaster Sam u e I Jack Spence, the well-known editor 'second with 8-3, losing one gume to AT HUNTINGTON Reshevsky plans a ·tour b.egiflning of the American Tournament Book F. Parr, and drawing with A. R. B. USCF Life Member Donald Bur­ J anuary 1, 1955 fr om Pennsylvania series: Spence was sccond, also Thomas, P. H. Clarke, M. J / F rank­ ' dick tallied a per fect 8-0 score to through Maryland to Kentucky, with 4 1,i·lh. Third to sixth on 5-B Jin, und John Penrose. Third to win the Huntington CW. Va.) City Texas, Colorado, CaliIornia, to Van­ with equal 3-2 scores wer e Richard mth with 7%-3* were P . S. Milner· Championship. Second was Dr. S. couver and through Canada to mi­ Hervert, L. J. Conway, George Hal­ Barry, F. Pa rr, and A. P hiUips, Werthammer with 61h·BIl, losing nois, Michigan, Ohio and New Eng­ sey, and Bruce Price. The field of while B. J. Moore was sixth with a game to Burdick and drawi ng land , ending in March. Clubs on twe)ve participants was unusually 7-4. It was in the main the triumph with Cllarles 1\o10rgan. Morgan was this approximate itinerary may small for the event and several of 01 veterans over youth with only third with 5ih-21,i, and Tom Berg­ make arrangements by writing: the mOre prominent Omaha player~ the la·year old B. J. Moore of quist placed fourth with 4!h-3* SamueJ ResheYsky, 30 Joho St., failed to enter. Birmingham a mong the top six. in the 9-player round wbin event. Spring Valley, N. Y. COLLEGE CHESS ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL COMES TO LIF E CI.ed6 .Lf. Mastering the End Game With the opening 01 the Fall College season, Collegiate chess By WALTER KORN, Editor of MCO comes to JUe and in recognition of 3n r!ew 1jort its . importance CHESS LIFE has By Allen Kcru/man FINDING' THE MISSING TEMPO hastened to restore the "College . T ODAY it is all sciSSors and paste, applied to BCE· diagram 252, which Chess Life" column. This year, in BOUT ten years ago the City is our diagram no.
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