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BROOKLYN DISPLAYS CHESS LIBRARY OPENS Columbia Chess Team Wins Intercollegiate Pt,)J;Lio Vol. V Saturday, Number 10 Official Publication of me Unlted States (lJessfedetation January 20, 1951 BROOKLYN DISPLAYS CHESS LIBRARY OPENS Columbia Chess Team Wins Intercollegiate Pt,)J;lio,. No. 49 CHESS DISPLAY The Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Li· In Hard Fought Battle At John Jay Holl brary has open a display of chess By JAMES T. SHERWIN sets and books which is attracting large crowds. Among the sets are Columbia College's Chess Team won a hard fought victory in the such rarities as an "Alice in Won­ Intereollegiate Team Tournament held at John Jay Hall, Columbia Uni­ derland" set designed by Alice versity, during the Christmas vacation, December 26-30. The Lions with f>rank Merriam, in which the Ten­ 19* points gained possession of the Harold M. Phillips trophy, which niel charactcrs become C!hess pice-­ had been held by City College for the last four years. es, as welt as several ancient earv· Columbia and City jumped ot! to early leads and it appeared lhat ed sets. At the opening night a their individual match would decide the tournament. City won 3-1, but match game between lormer U.S. the Lions rallied to take seven of the ir last eight points from Syracusc Champion Samuel Reshevsky and and Brooklyn, while City could score only five against lighting RP.I. Hermann Helms, veteran editor of and Michigan teams. City College finished a close ·second with 19 points the Amcrican Chess BuUetin_ while N.Y.U. wilh 17 * and Miami with 17 finished strong to capture third and fourth place. LUDWIG TAKES Individual scores of the winning Columbia Team: Captain and New CCLA REELECTS OMAHA EXPERTS York State Champion Eliot Hearst Victory in the 7-player round 4%-2*; James Sherwin 6-1 ; Fran­ TOP OFFICIALS robin Omaha Experts' Tournameot cis Mechner 41f.z-21h ; Karl Burger The ;l nnual election of the Cor­ went to A. C. Ludwig with 5'f.t:.* , 31h-l '-h;; Ernest Berget 1-1. respondence Chess League 0 f Finish It The Clever Way! drawing with David Ackerman. At the eonclusion ·of play prizes America, an affiliate of the United Second place went to J. L. Spence, were ;.warded to the high scorers Stutes Chess Federation, resulted CondlLcted by EdmlLnd Nash editor of the Nebraska Chess Bul­ Send . u cOftlnb"tlons 10' this 001"",,. '" Ed",,,nd HMh, 1530 21th PI-. 5.E_ . on each board. First board- Larry in the reelection of the top oUi· Washln u"'n 2U. D. e. letin, with 5-1, losing a game to Friedman, former U. S. Junior cials. Maj. J. B. Holt was rc· Ludwig. Third pJace was reserved Chnm l)ion, Ca~e Tech. 5'h-J'h. elected wesidcnt by GOl voles. W. N POSITION No. 49, Black resigned aHer White's first move. for youthful D. Ackerman with Second bonrd---Clarencc Kaleni:m. Slwckman. editot· of the Chess I Black in Position No. 50, by a five·move combination, wins 3'h-2'h, losing to Spence and Miami U. 61f.r.-Ih. Third board-­ Cun-cspundcnt, waN reelected ht bllck (he cxchanjle and oOwfns an easily drawn Jlosfllon. ur<lwlUb with Ludwtg, Antram and Roberl Cohen, City College 51h-H2. vice·president with 442 voles. In my previod:; column, the sentence in the middle of my discussion ' Underwood. f'':: '!Tlh . hn'lrtJ - .M:lrlin_ (,~':)CIL. F;lected 2nd vice-presidcnt w a;i of Position No. 40.should read: "To win, they demonstrate, Black moves The Ludwig·Aekel·man draw was ,'I.Y.U. 5-1. ' uSC ~' Direcl{'r E. N. Anderson 01 his }"Ook pawli otf.-,: wilen the Ehtck King is on B3 ulld the White King ilLo 3 cU;'icu:: incidllnt. .'\djourn:!d tit J: The ncw IntcrcoUegiatc Rapid Owassa, Okla.. with 383 voles. B2 or R2; also w'\'c n the Black King is on K4 and the White King on ,·ery crucial moment, before re· fransil Champion is Arthur Dis­ James R. campbell of Hot R3. However, it nppears that the Soviet analysts also missed their way suming play Ackerman offered a guier, Pace College. Larry Evans, Spt'i ngs, Ark., was reelected treas· in recommendinJ:! 1. ,K-B3; 2. K·R3, K-K3 ; 3. K-KtZ, K-K4; 4. draw because his private analysis City's star !irst board, received a: urer by 602 votes. (llr. Cllmpbell K-B2, K-B3(?), fOl' this leads nowhere after 5. K.Kt2(!), as Black docs or the position eonvinecd him that in non-chess moments iq Speaker prize for the best played game. nol have one oC the three winning positions dcscribed by them." he had u lost game. The draw of the Arkansas House oC Repre· Further analysis by D. [.evadi, J. Bolton and E. E. Hand indicates was acceptcd by Ludwig whose The difficult job of running the sentntives.) tournament <lnd finding accomoda­ that Position No. 42 is more eomplieated than it appeared earlier, and own pl'ivate analysis had convinc. According to regulations. threc that White cannot win with correct play by Black. A subtle line pointeci cd hi m that he had a lost posi_ t ions for the players was splend­ new Directors were elecl.<:d to t.he idly handled by Rhys Hays, Milton out by E. E. Hand and checked by J. Bolton refutes liIe claimed winning' tion. When both confessed their Bollrd, con~isting of Pic Wigren, reasoning, a post-mortem in which Finkelstein, and Josh Gross. move (1. Q·Bl)as follows : 1. ,Kt-B5; 2. B-Rt6, J'-K4(!) ; 3. R-R8 eh, Robert Bruce, and C. }>'. Tears KxR: 4. Q-KRl cll. Kt·R6 chI!); 5. P-Kt4, BxP. etc. .ill the players participated proved Of th~ , Pic Wigren repl'esents Please turn to PAge three for solutions. that the position for aU its appear. HYDE PARK HAS onc oC the few women who have ance was indeed a draw! come to the fore in national ad. CHESS COLUMN ministration in chess. In a scnse UNZICKER TOPS The Hyde Park (Chicago) Chess lhe directorship re presenL~ recol(. Club has been successful in in· nition of her efficient sen'ice a~ AT HASTINGS ratin, statistician for the CCLA Queens (N.Y.) Chess Ctub saw augurating a loe.al chess eolumll Racine (Wis., Chess Club saw Wolfgang Unzicker, 25-year old in its local weekly newspaper, thl) the past year. Mr. 8mce has the annual club l; hampionship go Cily Champion Art Domsky add Ule been active in the administraUon Lo David GJadstOIH! with 7-1 score, German student, topped the field Hydo Park lIe.·ald. This should speed title to his collection with at the ann ual Uastings (England) suggest a (ertile field of publicity of the giant postal tourn:,Unent be­ losing onc game to Dr. G. Soos. 6-1, lOSing a Single game to .Jim ing conducted by the Americ;1JI Second place went to CHESS LIFE Christmas Tournament by drawing to other chess t'11I!)!; in citics when) Weidner who finishl)d second with his last round game against Nich­ local newspapers are publishcd in Telephone and Telegraph Company annot,ltor E. J. KO l'panty with 6-2, 51k-1'-h. Third plllcc was a lic for its employees. Mr. Tears is while Dr. G. Soos lind Dr. H. Box­ olas Hossolimo of France. Um:iek­ addition to the citywide press. between Dan Clark nnd Dan An­ er, undefeated, scored 7·2. Second Celebrating its continued growth, a prominent player and chess er :;hared third with 5-3 each. N. derson with 5-3 each. wo rker in Texas. Babykin was fourth with 4 '-h; - place ended in a tic between AI. Hyde Park will have I. A. Horo· berie O'Kelly de Galway of Bel­ witz for a s imull4lncous exhibition CCLA Secrelary Dick Rees was 3%, defeating Dr. Boxer in the not up for election, as his term last round to depdve the latter CHESS CHAMPION gium and Rossolimo with 6 11,z-2% on February 3 at 6 p.m. for his each, while fourth place was a only Chicago appearance. Every of th ree years has two m 0 r c of a possible tie for second place. WINS CHECKERS YCars to go. quadruple tie at 4%-4'h betwccn opponent, win , lose or draw, will Omaha (Neb.) Chess Club's an­ J. M. Stull of the Wichita Vinccnzo Castaldi of Italy, Henry receive a COllY of the Chess Re­ nual New Year's nay simultaneous (Kans.>... Chcs.q Club, who won the Golombek, Jonathan Penrose and view Annual for 1946 or 1947, BALLET DANCES saw Rev. Howartl Ohman substi­ Kansas Chess Championship in A. R B. Thomas. Former U.S. which retails at $5.00. Fifty to CHESS TO MUSIC tUling ;It thc lasl minute lor Lee 1947 and the Wichita Chess Cham. Open Champion Weaver W. Ad­ sixty board~ will be played at the Magee who was rorced to rcturn pionship in 1045, took time out ams faired poorly, bcing ninth with simultuneous, and those desiring Among the features on the Sad­ to Fort Riley. Ohman won six, ler's Wells Ballet. now on tour in Crom chess to gather in the Kan­ 21h·6Y.t, scoring hi s two wins to play shoulll contact Dr. Leonard drew one and l o.~t four. Among the USA is a ballet entitled Check­ !:as Stale Checker Championship lit against ~nrose in the last round Pcal, 7103 Suo Ridgeland Avenue, his victims were David Ackerman I mute wiUI music by Arthur Bliss Beloi1 in Dct.'embcr.
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