HONOR PRIZE PROBLEM G. GOELLER Pasing, Ob. Bayern, Germany
ScHmate in 5
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JULY. 1937 MONTHLY 30 cts. AN NUALLY $3.00 (Abroad Ii N.) 'Jhe "IS THIS PROGRESS?" By D~. J. Haonak 101". Hannak is a distinguished Viennese authority on the game. He is one of the co-editors of the Wi(on ~ r Schachzeitung and he has written a fine book on Steiniu;_F. R.) REVIEW In the May number of the Deutsche Schachzeitung, T. Gerbec published an OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE article (under the title of Is This Pro AMERICAN CHESS FEDERATION gress?) in which, in rather heated terms. he assailed the style of the young grand ISRAEL A. HOROWITZ, Editor masters of the present day. Gerbec re S. S. COHEN. M binations in Flohr's games, it is true; but Published lllonthly by THE CHESS REVIEW. these are of a purely technical nature 55 West i2nd St. . New York. N. Y. Telephone: and not to be confused with the com Wisconsin 7-37i2. • Domestic subscriptions: binations of a Marshall. a Spielmann or One year $3.00-Two years $5.50-Fivc years an Alekhine. An even more depressing $12.50. Six lllonths $ 1.75. Single copy 30 CIS •• circumstance is that recently there has Foreign subscriptions: $3.50 per year except appeared another representative of this U. S. Possessions. Canada. Mexico. Central and system, who, if anything, is even duller South America. --___ Single copy 35 cents. than Flohr. This is . the American player Copyright 1937 by THE CHESS REVIEW. Reuben Fine, who does not strive for an "Entered as second-class matter January 25. 1937. at the post office at New York, N. Y.. under the advantage even with the white pieces, but Act of March 3. [879:· plays a waiting game from the very first move. Flohr has never begun a tourna~ CONfRIBUTING EDITORS ment game with any other move but 1 LAJOS STEINER P-Q4 or I P-QB4. But Fine: is even more D. MacMURRAY cautious: he plays only I P-QB4 ·and then J. B. SNETHLAGE IRVING CHERNEV 2 Kt-KB3 and only then 3 P-Q4; else his JAMES R. NEWMAN LESTER W. BRAND opponent might adopt the enterprising JOSEPH GANCHER EDITH L. WEART Budapest Defense or the Albin Counter liS 1<6 'THE CH ES S RE V IEW Gambit.· T his style signifies nothing enter Pa radise and receive d ivine grace; more than the Am~ r ican i %atio n of chess. (or Gerbec has justified their nagging a nd the sterile mechanical spirit o f w hich the name ~ ca ll ing: Steinitz was just a duffer skyscraper is the ultimate manefestation. after all! Thus Herr Gerbec. It w ould be a waste of time to attempt I was compelled to give this brief sum ~ to conv ince H err Gerbec that he is mary of the contents of the article, because wrong. Tastes differ: one man likes Gerbec has violated (unwittingly and un skyscrapers. a nother one prefers the intentionally. I am sure) a basic rule o f S iegesallee in Berlin. For my part I pre "fair play," namely that in the course of (er "The N ight Watch" by Rembrandt or an in tellectual controversy. one should Michelangelo's Moses. But the question is select a medium through which the oppo far (rom being what the individual likes: nent may also present his side of the case. the question is, what is the typical char But in selecting the D eutsche Schachzei acteristic of a n era? Had Fine and Flohr tung. Gerbec has chosen a medium . which been contemporaries of Anderssen. they for all too obvious reasons will not be would very likely have played like him. available to F ine and F lohr for some time Bu t Fine a nd F lohr are living in the year to come. Incidentall y, Gerbec might have 1937; they are liv ing in a period which named other masters who ha ve a style abounds in chaos and con fU Sion: they a re similar to that of Fine and Flohr, but who living in a period when the anachronis would find it less difficult to secure a ticall y romantic phrase is in frightful con ~ hearing from the D eutsche Schachzeitung. trast to the bloody reality: they are liv ing for example Eliskases, GruenEeld, Ahues. in a period w hi ch is as cruel and danger ~' Pifc. Oake and the outstanding represen~ ous and false as the period of the Borgias tative of this style: Capablanca. But G er and the Condottieri . P rim itive d rives have bec has not done this. been unleashed a nd consciously whipped Very well : after a ll, it is not absolutely up to a state of uncontrollable fury which essential to have a reply in the Deutsche is steadily forcing our continent (Europe) S chachzeitung, and perhaps it is not even toward a catastrophe which will be u n ~ worth the trouble to ma ke too much of a precedented. fu ss over it. For. Herr Gerbec's poignant The only hope for our planet is that pla ints about the degeneration of chess these evil spirit which have been re ~ a re just as old as chess itseW Good o ld leased , will be exorcised by cold~blooded G utmayer·'" will la ugh in his gra ve w hen good sense. by clear-headed intelligence, he lea rns that a new a rticle has been a s~ by self-control and fo resight. T hat requir sembled from those books of his which es cautious deliberation. an " un. heroic" long since crumbled into dust. And those but far~si9ht ed and sober attitude. it people w ho once heaped insults on the means keeping one's powder dry until the "drawing master" M orphy when he ex decisive moment, it means being able to changed Queens in a won position in or wait. being able to resist all provocation der to shorten his opponent's sufferings until the proper opportunity has arrived. these people w ill turn joyfully in their T hat is how I see the style of Fine a nd graves and whisper to each other : " Ex Flohr, and it has my allegiance. I admire ossibus utor."o And all those imitators of Alekhine tremendously and 1 love the Beckmesser who made poor Steinitz's life games of Marshall and Spielmann: but at miserable, w ill now leave P urgatory and the same time I affirm my faith in Fine and Flohr. for they are the true represen ~ '" The un<:o nditioDal fabilf of this prepo5lerou$ claim goes far to dis.:redit Hen' Getbe<:'s whole tatives of this age. They are the consci~ article. be<:auK if made in good faith, it shows ence of the age. T hey a re the hrave that be has hardly sun any 01: Pint's gamu!_P. R. fighters (o r a better (uture . ... •• A German. writer whose mediocre un.der {T ranslated by F red Reinfeld l . standing of the game prevented him from liking a game unless it was full of bing-bang-biff combl. DON'T FORGET natlons.- P. R. RENEW YOUR o The thought here is that the same kind of • • people who once critici:z:ed Morphy. Istu praised SUBSCRIPTION ! him at 'he u ~n se of subsequent players. J U L Y. I 9 3 7 ,<7 KHMERI INTERNATIONAL that Gruenfeld does not all ude to this analysis in TOURNEY his article in last month's Qess Review. The second alternative available to White is After setting a pace which netted him 7 PxP. which looks as if it might cause Black a lead of close to two points. Samuel some difficualty: for if 7 ... PxP: 8 BxKt QxB: Reshevsky. Champion of the United 9 KtxP. Q xP7 10 QxO. Kt xQ : II 0 -0 -0. Kt·KJ; States, slipped a bit toward the close of 12 B_Kt5ch. Or 9 .. . Q·KJch; 10 Q_K2. KtxP? th e tournament. to finish in a tie with II Kt·B7ch, K-K2: 12 KtxQ, KtxQ: 13 Kt-B 7, etc. Salo Flohr and V . Petrow for premier However. the Russian master YUOOVlTCH honors. Appended is the final sta nding has published a very interesting ana lysis 01 this and two games from the early rounds. variation beginning with 9. . . . Q_K3ch; 10 A more complete story will appear in our Q_K2, B·KtS ch! II KtxB (if II K-QI. 0-0; 12 next issue. Kt·B7. Q -Q3! 13 KtxR. KtxP; 14 0 -84. B·Kt5ch with a winning attack). KtxKt: 12 K·Q2! 0 -0; Player Woo Lo .. S. Plohr (Czechoslovak ia) 12 5 13 QxQ (if lJ P-OR3. Q·Kt6 1) . BxQ: Ii P-OR3, V . Petrow (Latvia) 12 5 Kt·B3: 15 Kt·B3. B-04; 16 B·K2 . BxKt: 17 S. Ru hevsky (U. S. A.) 12 5 BxB. KtxP and Black has nothinq to fear. Dr. A. Alekhine (Prance) IIYl 5Y: 1 • • . PxP 8 SxP B.K2 P. Keres (Esthonia) 11Yl 5Yz A. Steiner (Hungary) II 6 .90-0 0_0 A frequently seen position in this opening: Dr. S. T artakower (Poland) IDYl 6Yz R. Fine (U. S. A) 9 8 White has the freer position. pressure on K5 and G . Stahl berg (Sweden) 8J1 8JO prospects of K side attack. Black's chances lie in V . Mlke nas (Lithuania) 8 9 his observation of the isolated QP and the posting A. Ap$Cheneek (Latvia) 7J1 9JO of a Kt at Qi. E. Book (Finland) 7J.1 9Y: 10 R_B! P-QR3 L. Rellstab (Germany) 7!;2 9JO II P-QRJ • • • H . Be rg (Latvia ) 6JO JOJ1 Creating a retreat lor his KB and abo prevent M. Felgin (Latvia) 5Yl 11 K ing . . . QKI.Kt5 -Qi. A possibly even better line S. Landau (Holl and) 5>1 11K is 11 B-QJ. P-R3: 12 B-Ki! (more aggressive than W. Hasenfuss (Latvia) 3)1 13).1 B_K3. as played by Botwinnik vs. Euwe at Has· K. Ozol$ (Latvia) 3>1 13:.1 tings 1935-36. Black soon taking the initiative ). R_KI ; 13 P-QRl Kt-Oi; Ii B· Kt3. KtxKt: 15 Kemeri lnla-national Tournament RxKt. B-B3; 16 B-K5! with a very good game June, 1931 (Weiss·Podhor1.er. Vienna 193i) . CARO-KA NN DEfENSE 11 . . . P_Kt'i (Notes by Fred Reinfeld) 12 B-R2 8 -Kt2 W . Hasenfuss S. Flohr 13 Q-Q3 Kt _Q'i White Black H Kt -K11 • • • I P-Ki P-QB3 With this plaUsi ble move. White misses his cue. 2 P_Q4 P_Q4 He should have ut1li~ e d the removal of Black's Despite th e new hnes of attack whic h have been KKt from the K side to play Ii B-KI II If then evolved against this li ne of pla y in recent years. I'i . . . P-Kt3; 15 B_R6. R_KI ; 16 Kt·K1 with Flohr i$ still fond of it. And his faith is vi ndi strong play on the black squares (Kt·BS etc.). Or cated In the present game. Ii .. . P-B'! : IS B"B followed by KR ·KI wi th J PxP P. P play on the backward KP. i P-QBi Kt-KB3 I'i . . . Kt (B3) _KtS! .5 Kt_QB3 Kt-B3 W ith this surprisi ng reply Black's hitherto pas 6 B-KtS P-K3 sive pieces come to life! If now 15 PxKt. KtxP: The crUCial position. In his match with Botwin. 16 BxB. QxB; (not 16 . . . KtxO; 17 BxQ. KtxR; 18 nik. Plohr played 6 . . . PxP: 7 P-Q5. Kt -Ki: 8 RxKt!) and Black regains his pitte wi th a P to Q -Q'I. Kt-Q6ch; 9 BxKt. PxB. leavinq Black wi th the good. a difficult game after 10 Kt -B3. Later researches. 15 Q-Kti Kl xB howe ver. have shown that 7 . . . Kt -QR1! gi ves 16 Q.Xt BxB Black very qood prospec ts. 11 KI (K1) . B P-R3 7 KI -B3 ... 18 Kt ~ Kt Kt-BS The simplest way. transposing into a well·known With very clear and simp le moves. Flohr stead line of the Queen's Gambit Accepted. There are ily forces his Opponent back from this point on. two al ternatives worth considering here: one is the 19 QR.KI ••• form idable_looking 7 P_B5. which Lajos Stei ner This leads to a traqi-comic imprisonment of his robbed of its sting in hls very fi ne notes to the Q . but he has no choice: if 19 KR·KI. Kt-Q6; if game Botwinnlk- Kmoch. ~n lngrad . 19Ji (see The 19 Kt·B3? or KI ·B5 ? BxKt wins; if 19 Q .Ktl. or Oteu Review, Decembu 193i): it is surprising QKt·Q2. Kt·Klch. 118 THE C HES S REV I EW 19 . . . 8-Q41 B· KBi instead of B-Kt5) offers Blac k little diff i. Black Is relentl ess. The threat 01 . .. B-85 culty when he has been able to play . . . P-51 forces White's a bject reply, leaving W hite's (inste ad of the more customary . . . P.B)). pieces disorganized and out of touch wi th each of • • • • Kt·B3 other. 5 P·83 B·Kt5 20 P.QKt3 P_M! T he usual contlnuatlon here is 5 . .. P·K3; 6 21 Kt(Ki)-Q2 Q_B3 QKt-Q2, Q-Kt 3; 7 O-BI . B·K2 fo llowed by . . . 22 K-RI QR-Bl B-Q2 and . .. OR·B I, the initia ti ve r('s ting with 23 Q-KII .•• Black. An ahernnti ve plall is 5" . . . P-K3 fol. If 23 R.K3. R-B 2 followed by ... KR·B 1 and lowed by ... 6-0 3. to cha llen",!: White's hold .. R·B7. Or 23 R-BI. P-K t4 with a w in ning PO- on K5. The telCt IS an interesting novehy. Resh· silieD. evsky's idea doubtless being to rid himself of the S. FLOHR OB. which is oth erWise destined to II1!lg uish pa tiently at 0 2. This exch In the last few years Fritz Brieger. sturdy physique and strong will to sus founder and long the guiding spirit of the tain him. the temptation to point a moral Queens Chess Club. has played an in is great. Certainly it seems clear that ours creasing part in staging our national tour is still a land of miracles. that the golden naments, and in making possible the par age of the pioneer is not yet over. - and ticipation of that man still America j n i s amenable the i n t e r to the magic nationa l team o f :ve r sonal~ even ts. iC Y, v i sio n Now in his and hard 58th year he work. can l oo k Mr. Brieger b a c k with was born in jus tif i a b 1 e Glatz, a little pride to many town in Sile a n d varied si lSi 152 THE CHESS REVIEW learn that at an age when most boys are Stratford and the Bingham Hotels in in high school. their distinguished neigh Philadelphia. and the Arena in NewYork. bor was touring Germany as a fullfledged All the while aided and abetted by his Thespian. His varied list of roles included wife, who lent a helping hand at all times, Major von Tellheirn. in Lessing's, "Minna and particularly when things looked von Barnhelm", Omat in the "Talisman" dreariest. he was saving his money. Not of Fulder. and the old man Stauffacher in even the care of three young daughters "William Tell." who were born during this trying period However, this young Paul MUlli was could hold back the ambitious pair. not fated to further progress on the stage. He undertook his first business venture, After a brief year on the road. he found a saloon in the Bronx opposite Borough himself bc:ck in Berlin. Whether his com Hall. A year's trial convinced him that pany had achieved an artistic triumph, here was another role not suited for his theatrical history doesn't record; but fin talents; all but a few hundred dollars of ancially it touched bottom. However, as his hard earned capital was gone. will be seen. Fritz was not to write his With this little sum he purchased a own dramatic experience in red ink. printing plant on 96 Fulton Street. (Man~ He secured a white-collar job in a flour hattan) - his second venture, and the mill. where in the next three years he was most important step in his bUSiness life. to learn business fundamentals. Acting was still in his blood . .:md as a member 'Thereafter for 22 years Mr. Brieger. of a dramatic society nmned in honor of commercial printer. was building up a Joseph Kainz, a leading actor of the day. business that outgrew its quarters each he took part in many amateur perfor six months. For the first J 5 years his wife mances. In this work he met a young lady assisted him as his book-keeper, and who was similarly interested in the the proofreader. Thereafter. always on a 24 atre, - the talented Renate Schoen. hour schedule. his establishment expanded daughter of a leading manufacturer of the until 1928 when over 150 employees were city. on the pay-roll. By thiS time new interests Having always determined to make his had developed in his life: he sold his wayan his own. and having arrived at business to give more time and attention the mature age of 17. young Brieger an to them. nounced his engagement. The response . Among other things he had been build from his family was not encouraging. Un ing homes in Woodside, _ an activity able to obtain parental consent, the young that resulted quite aCCidentally from the man packed a not over-bulky satchel and ownership of several parcels of ground. took passage to the United States. The building venture had grown; he built Arriving on March 6th. 1897 he found 89 houses in 1921. In 1926 he built a the~ he had 20 marks in his purse, and the atre in Woodside for the Loew Company. prospect of a job in Philadelphia. On the In 1927 he formed the Woodside National boat he had met Henry Widmaier, a Bank and for many years served on its small manufacturer and evidently Fritz ~oard of Directors. He had always been was able to sell liimself. The salary of $1 mterested in athletics, - bowled regular a week and board was nothing to write ly. fished whenever he could spare the home about. but he did most promptly. time. Beginning in 1928 he went abroad Two months later his fiancee arrived. On each year. visiting not only Europe and May 17th they were married. Northern Africa, but Central and South In the next few years he essayed a America. variety of jobs. scorning nothing that In 1929 he took a plunge into politics. would enable him to earn a livelihood. Prevailed upon by the Borough President He worked in a tanning factory at $6 per of Queens to become Commissioner of week; dug foundations in Washington at Street Cleaning, he resigned after three $1.25 a day .. He mastered the art of bar~ months. As he now indicates. he found bering at the expense of his first cus that politics could not be run on a business tomers and to the dismay of his first em~ basis. He said a lot of other things at the players; became suscessively bus-boy, time - in full page statements in the waiter and steward in the Bellevue~ leading New York papers. But all that is ) 1I L Y. I 9 3 7 153 now just " one o f those things" to Mr. Most important. however. has been his Brieger. sponsorship of the Am erican T eam in the H e had long been a n active supporter international tourneys. a nd his acti ve sup of The Steuben Society of America . and port. making possible their participation he has taken part in all the communa l a f. at P rague. f o lkstone. W msaw . . . . fairs o f his cit y. H e read much. keeping Such is the chess contrihl1tion of Fritz abreast of the new books as we)) as delv Brieger. and if in reviewing his career. ing into the old classics. He pla yed bridge. we note it merely as the outward man regula rly. enthusiastic 13 Q .K2 B·KI Notes on the Caro,. Kann Defense H B-Q 3 Q R-B I By ERNST GRUNFELD 15 P_KR3 Kt-QKtS (Continued from June issue) With a ~ati s facto r y position for Black (PH is T his is a crucial position. It occurs not bury-Stcinitz, St. Petersburg. 1896). only in the: Caro.-Kann Defense. but also, In this same line ~ hou l d Wh:te deviate on his by transposition in the Queen's Gambit 10th move with 10 Q -Q 2 • • • Declined (see the Hasenfuss-Flohr game On 10 Kt..QKt5 follows 10 .. . P-QR3!; I I in this issue). Kt-B7. R-R2! Black 10 . . . Kt·Q Kt5! II KR-QI P·QKI3 12 Q-K2 B-Kt2 13 Kt_K5 Kt(Kt).Q4 1-1 B·KKIl R-QBl 15 QR-BI KtxKt! 16 PxKt Kt·Q'f And the Black position appears to be somewhat better (Salwe-Rubinsteln. Lodz. 1907). C. 9 B-KKfS Kt_B) 10 QR-BI .. Now 10 0 -K2 is not poSSible because oL...... KtxP. 10 • . . P·QR3 In the ga me Dr. Tarrasch-Janowskl. Hastings. It195 the contin uation wa s ~ 10 ... Q ·R4; I I B-KBf. R-OI; 12 Kt-QKtS. Kt-KI; 13 B·K3. etc. T he English master , Blackb\,rne held 10 ... W hite 0 -Kt3 to be a strong move. Position arrived :ill after IP.K4. P. QB3. 2 p. 11 B-Q3 P-RJ Qi, P-Qi ; 3 PXP. PxP: 9 .. . P·QR3; 10 B~KKt5 (or 10 B.KBi, p. B2. KI_Kt5; 19 KR·KI. P-KtJ with Black having Q Kti ; 11 8-Q3, B- Kt2!; 12 KR·Q t. QKt·Q2; 13 a good game. Kt~K 5, Kt~ K t3 : 1-1 QR ~Bl. KI(Kt)..Qi; 15 B·Kt3, The pawn sacri fice 12 Kt·K5 tried by Spielmann KtxKt; 16 PxKI, Q-Q'I, elc. _ V , Hob.hauWl, - against Fischer (V ienna, 1923) is not good due Rellstab, P yrmont, 1933), P..QKti ; II B·Q3, to 12 .. . KtxKt; 13 P"Kt. QJ(P; 11 8-83, Q-Q4! B.KI2; 12 KR..Q I. QKt..Q2 (also 12 . .. Kt·B3: 12 , • • 0 ·0 ·0 16 ·P.B4 P·QB'i 13 OR.S I, Q R. BI; 11 B·Ktl. Kt_QKt5; 15 Kt.K5, 13 K. Ktl B-Q3 17 B-B3 Kt. B3 Kt(Kt).Q1, as In the game N,marakow·Mieses, It Kt.K'i Kt"Kt 18 Q. K2 · PxP St. Petersburg, 1909. Black's po ~ iti on is sa fe.) 13 15 QxKt K·Ktl 19 KlxP ••. OR. Bl, P·R3, 11 B.R1, R·B!; 15 Kt·K5, Kt-Kt3; And the White poSition deserves preference 16 B·KIJ. Kt (Kt )-Q4, with a good game for Black. Mar6<:::y· Keres, Z andvoort, 1936) . Gygli_ FJ ohr, Bern, 1933. _0_ 10 B-Kt3 Kt-Ktl 1-1: KI·K5 KR-Ql N evertheless, Black can obtain equality II S-KBi Kt (Kt) .Qf 15 Q . B3 B-K l even in this va riation by playing 9 • . . 12 B-KtJ Q .Rt 16 KR-KI OR.BI KKt-B3 ( instead of 9 ... P-K3), The 13 QR· S I B-Q2 continuation; with a good game (Z ukertort-Steinitz, 1886) , IOB-Q2 •••• Based on the above expo.s ition, there s-eems 10 Il instead 10 8 ·B4. ,Q _R'ich!; I I B_Q2, Q·B2; be no doubt that the move 5 . . . P·K31 In tht 12 0·0·0, P.K3 followed by , . . B-Q3. exchange variatioa of the Care-Kalin Defense 10,... P.K3 guarantees theoretical . equality. II 0·0·0 B·Q3 Translated from Tijdschrift J. B, S, 12 Kt·K4 KtosKt ------13 Qxr~1 Q·BZ! Therefore:. if White wishes to secure The old continuation was 13 . . . Kt-.B3; 14 an opening advantage in the Ca ro. Kann. Q.K2, Q·B2; 15 Kt·K51, 0 -0-0; etc. (Tschigorln. it Cohn, Hanover 1902 an d Tschig orin_Yudovltch, he must, would seem, revert to the o lder 1903). method of combating it I P. Ki , P-QB3, 1+ KR. KI Kt· BJ 17 RxB 0-0-0 2 P.Q4. P.Q 1: 3 Kt-QB3! • 15 Q·KZ B-BS! 18 Q -B3 )(R·Bl Black 16 Kt-K5 Bx:&h (SpieJmann.Capablanca, New YHk 1927) . - ~~.- Finally, the move 2 P-QB4 (instead of 2 P-Q1) deserves attention, This is the move w ith which most analysts have at· tempted to exploit the funda mental weak. ness of the Ca ro~ Ka nn. Blllck White 3 __ . pJ:p 6 P·KRi P·KR3 i KlxP B.-Bt 7 Kt·B3 • • • 5 KI -Kf3 B. KG (Grunfeld does not me ntion the possibility of Kt-R3t. a powerful conti nuation as ShOWll by A. Steiner against Ruwald in the June o.u s Re view page J39- S.S.C. ) 7 • • . Kt. QZ JO B-QZ KKt.B3 8 B-Qj BxB II 0-0-0 Q . B2 White 9 QJ:B P· K3 12 KR.KI .• _ Po~it ion arrived at after: 1 P.K4, P~QB3: 2 p. L. Steiner tried 12 K·Ktl agains t Spielmann QB4, P·Q4!; 3 BPxP, PxP; 4 PxP. QxP. (Vienna, 1935) and their followed: 12 , , , B·Q3; SQKt_B3 . • , . 13 Kt.K4 , KlxKt; 14 QxKt, Kt-B3; 15 Q.K2 . 5 P..Q4 transposes rnto a well known varia. 0·0-0 : 16 P ·B4, K R ~ Kl; 17 B·B3. K-Ktl!: 18 Q_ tion of the Skllian Defense: 5 . . . Kt.QB3; 6 'K ! ~ 156 THE CHESS REVIEW Combination Studies Telephone Match- Apdl, 1937 REINHARDT D, s. u:s 28th Tourney Master Class Match 25, 1937 (Hamburg) E. ANDERSEN = • J, ENEVOLDSEN K. RICHTER White wins quickly. How? (Ikrlin) 1 Kt-K6! QR_BI 3 QxPch!! Resigns. Black has just played .. , P-Q7. 2 KtxKtP! KxKt How shonld White continue! K83. B-KtS!: 7 8 -K2. P-K3; 8 Kt-83: Q_Q2: 9 1 QxPch!! 3 Kt-K3 Resigns. B-](3. B-03; 10 0-0, Kt-KB3; etc. (Dr. Perlis 2 RxPch Rubinstein, Vienna 1908 ) . 5.". Q_QR4! 6P.Q1 . ". , Or 6 B-B4, Kt_KB3; 7 Kt-Bl P-K3; 8 0 -0, B-K2; 9 P-Q4. 0 -0: 10 B_KKt5 (if instead 10 B_B4 Black pl Contflins the stratagems employed by the ')''0 I' j".,,, world masters_ indexed, explflined, and C" ,·" ,. l I(" ;,,ht illustrated. Niemzowitsch has systematized chess play. • He has removed the haphazard and intro ORDER duced the scientific. And not in pedantic from style, _ Chess Review. THE Price $5.00 Postpaid. CHESS DAVID McKAY CO. REVIEW 604 SO. WASHIN9TON SQUARE 55 W. 12 St. PHILADELPHIA, P A. New Yorll Chess & Checket Catalogues Sent on Request. N. Y. J U L Y. I 9 3 7 157 P RAGUE INTERNATIONAL MASTERS TOURNAMENT Seated. left to rillht: K. Hromadka. P . Keres, M iss Sonia G raf. Penizka and V acinek. Standing. left to rillht: Kauder. Z matlik, J. Pelikan, Fric. J. Foltys, E . Zinner. Dr. J. H annak. K. Gilg. F. }. Prokop. E. Eliskases, Prof. Svalina. M . Dobias. Benes. Dr, Trifunovic, K. Opocensky. ICo,,".sy of Ce.ko., ]ovcn, ky Sach ) More complete details regarding the Prague In II P_K4 B,Kt3 22 R_B3 P-B4? tem", lion",1 M"'Slers Tournament ment ioned in the 12 P~B 4 B-R4 23 P_Q5! p , p June Chess Review are now available. 13 Q _KB 2 BxKt 24 P-K6! BPxP Prague In ternational Masters T ourney 14 BPxB Kt-Q 2 25 Q xPch K_QI May, 1937 15 B_Q 2 B·Kt3 26 B_KBi Q-B3 Rank Player Won Lost DrawlI T otal 16 Kt-K2 P .QR4 27 Q -Kt5ch Kt-K2 L P. Keres 9 0 2 10 . _I 17 Kt-Bi Kt-Kt3 28 Q xKtP R_KtI? 2. E Z inner 6 1 4 8 _ 3 18 KtxB RPxKt 29 B_K5! R-KI 3. E . Eliskases 5 2 , 7 _ 4 19 B-Kt3 R·QI 30 R ~B8 p, p 3. ,. Poltys 4 1 6 7 _ 4 20 B·K3 R_Q2 31 RxRch K,R 5. K. Hromadk", 4 3 4 6 _5 21 Q~Kt3 Kt-BI 32 Q "CHECKING THE NEWS" The Australian Championship T ourna~ With Joseph Gancher ment resulted in a quadruple tie between C. J. S. Purdy, G, Koshnitsky. M. E. Carlos Guimard is the new champion of Argentina. having decisively defeated Goldstein and G, Hastings. In the play. Roberto Grau in a match of eight games. offs, Goldstein defeated Hastings, and the winner scoring four wins and fou r Purdy defe ated Koshnitsky, leaving the draws. Considering Grau's notable show issue to be decided by a match between ing in international play. as well as his the t'\.vo finalists, having held the Argentine title since .. .. :fI;+ - 1934. his successor merits heartiest ap plause and congratulations for a truly Lajos Steiner writes that his Antipode remarkable feat. an tour occasioned a total of 722 games in simultaneous play, of which he won 619, lost 47 and drew 56. Regarding the Match for Argentine Championship little controversy between himself and 2nd Game of Match Edward Lasker anent the games of 'Shagi' April 2'1, 1937. and 'Go' (Chess's counterparts in Japan), Q:IEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED he states definitely that Shogi is by far R. Grau C. Guirnarc the more widely played. although Go has White Black numerous adherents too. In addition, it 1 P,Q4 Kt-KB3 21 q ·Q3 P-IH would seem that Japanese preference en 2 P·QBo! P·K) 22 R.R4 B·Ql masse leans to our tastes, for Shogi is 3 KI.QB) P.Q4 23 Q-Ktl R.IW much closer to chess in character than is i Kt-B3 B-K2 2-1 B-B-I B-KtJ Go. We still like chess best of the three! 5 B-Kt5 0·0 25 Q-Q3 Q.Q2 And three isn 't the limit. either. We don't 6 P-K3 P.KR3 26 P· KR3 K_RI even want to know about the fun in 7 BxKt B,B 27 P_KKt-I Q·K2! Monopoly, the splendid features of 5 Q.B2 P_Hi 28 P.B41 p,p 9 R·QI BPxP! 29 R:'I:BP Q_Kt4! Parchesi-or the bottomless depths of 10 KKtxP Kt-B3 30 Q.KB3 P_Q6! IOO - squares-on-a-board-plus-ncw- pow· 11 P .K4 B·IO 31 K-BI P_Q7 ered-pieces super chess. 12 PxP BP:'I:P 32 K-K2 RxB! - ' ~ .{·{I.1 0· · - 13 Q -KB2 BxKt 33 RxR QxQKtP Weaver W , Adams who recently won 140. 0 L-Kt2 3-1 P-Kt3 R-QI 15 Kt-Kt5 B· R3 35 K.QI Q -K4! the Massachusetts state title was award 16_.Q _Q2 Q·Kt3 36 R-B3 B.R4! ed the brilliancy prize by the referee, 17 P-QR4 BxKt Ji R:'I:P B,R John F, Barry, for the following game. 18 PxB QR·Bl 38 R·B5 Q.K3! __.. ,n·.. __ 19 R-RI 0'·45 39 QxB QxKP _IT, 20 poKi Q·Kt2 Resigns May, 1937 -''''ft.'' -- KING'S nISHOP OPENING G . J. Loewenfisch, recent winner of the W. W. Adams F. J. Keller 10th annual Russian Championship Tour White Black ney, is to meet M. M, Botwinnik in a I P_K4 P.K-I 17 BxPch K_K2 match for the title. Botwinnik has held the 2 B-B4 B-B4 18 Q-Kt5 ""B honors before, and his ranking In the 3 Kt-QB3 P-Q3 19 p .Q-I P·Kt5 chess world IS so high that scarcely a -I Q -B3 Kt_KB3 20 PxB R _Kt2 commentator presumes to have any 5 P-KR3 Kt-B3 21 Q~P PxKt doubts as to the outcome of the contest. 6 KKt_K2 Kt·K2 22 RxP PxPch However, upsets in all competition have 7 P-Q3 P-KR3 23 K·Ktl Q , K2 become so frequent that we refuse to 8 P-KKt4 Kt _Kt3 24 P·K5 B_K3 plead indifference, and so look forward 9 P·Kt5 Kt-R5 25 PxKt Q,P with keenest interest to September 15 , 10 Q · Ktl p,p 26 Qxqch K,Q when play is scheduled to start. Shades of II BxP Kt·Kt3 27 Kt·Q-I R.KI 12 P_KR4 P·B3 28 R. K\ KR·K2 Capablanca.Alekhine, 1927-: the better lJ 0·0·0 P.Kt4 29 P-R6! K_B2 man must score six victories outright, 14 P-R5! Kt-B5 30 QRxB R,R draws not to count! Are we in for i'lI1oth~ 15 BxQKt KPxB 31 RxR R·Ql er 34 game marathon? 16 QxKtP R· R2 32 R-Q6 Resigns r U l Y. 1 9 3 7 159 The Canadian Championship Tourna. T he inter national team match between ment w ill be he ld in Quebec either th e Holla nd and Engla nd resulted in a victory last week in August or th e earl y part of for the former by the narrowest possible September. It is hoped' to stage the event margin. The N etherlanders scored 10Yz at the Chateau Frontenac. Canada's most to the Britons' 9Yz. T he opponents were picturesque hotel. lined up on ten boards. each pair playing - DEFENDERS OF THE CUP Gathered nround famous Hn seH Trophy are: ( Loll '" m gh' ) Mrs. Kashd,1n. Issac Kashdan. F rank J. Marshall, Israel A . Horowitz, Mrs. M arshall. ICou rte., y o f Mr. J. N . . d- " . Contributors to 1937 Willter Penn Shipley. Philildelphiil ...... 10.00 Stockholm Team Fund Denver Athletic C lu b. Denver __ _.. ____ _...... 10.00 AnonYlllous ...... _. ______...... $ 600,00 f. David Stern. New York City ...... 10.00 Samuel W. Addleman , Chicago ...... 11 5.00 Shepilrd Morgan, New York ety ...... 10.00 George B. Ogden, New York City...... 100.0:) Ray Morris, New York City ______.. __ . 10.00 George E. Roosevelt. New. York City ...... 100.00 J. J. WatsOll. Weirton. \V. Va ...... 10,00 Frank Altschul. New York City ...... 100.00 M. S. Wightman. New York City ...... 10.00 100.00 Dr. Eli Moschowitz. New York Cit)' ...... 10_00 HOIl. Cll GAME STUDIES pawn to open the game. The following game is typical of the 19 . . . KtxKt chess played by the average amateur. It 20 PxKI Q,P took place in l:Harritz (near San Sebas 21 KB_B3 ... And now a second pawn. Instead R-B3 would tian, Spain) and as the game progressed le ad to interesting play and preserve the pawn. the players could hear the distant thunder 21 . • • QxKPch of Spain's civil strife, Mr. Thomas Emery 22 K~RI Q-KH is an Am'erican amateur. His opponent. 23 P-KKt3 • • • • Mr. J. Katchenko, is a Russian who has A third pawn sacrifice made with the intent to the distinction of having w~m from Alek keep Black's Q side undeveloped. hine in a simultaneous exhibition. As in 23 . . . QxP 27 BxR KtxRch most amateur games. the pendulum of 24 R_B2 Q-R5 28 K-KI2 Q.B victory swings from side to side influenced 25 R-KKtl Kt-B5 29 KxKt ... perhaps in this case by the alternating rise 26 B_BI Kt-R6 and fall of distant gunfire. Having given up three pawns. White does not bother to defend a fourth. Frank J. Marshall 29 • . . QxPch 32 Q_B3 Q-KI6ch Played in Ma~ch, 1937 30 B-Kt2 P-B5 33 QxQ PxQch QUEEN'S PAWN OPENING 31 Q-K2 B-Q2 34 KxP R-KI (Notes by Frank J. Marshall) Black of course has a won game. but like all THOMAS EMERY J. KATCHENKO amateurs th e technique of winning a won game White Black is not his strongest point. From this point on I P-Q4 P-Qi White first begins to play. He gets an idea and 2 P-Kl KKt_B3 carries it out. Against all close openings P.QBi is \'jen- 35 R-KI R_K2 erally considered best for Black 36 8-R3 B-KI KKt-B3 3 P-K3 37 BxPch K·Bt1 i B-K2 • • • • Of course • .. B-B2 would ex change pieces and In the Colle variation of this opening the Bishop simplify th e win. goes to Q3. 38 K-iW B_Kt3? i . , . Kt-B3 would be P-QRi. 39 K·Ks B-K5 Stronger was . . . 10 . . . P-QR4 iO K·Q6 ••• P-QBi. 11 B-Kt2 P-R5 The first part of White's objective has been 5 0-0 B-Q3 12 Q-B2 ... achieved_ wilh Black's kind aSsistance. Now the 6 QKt-Q2 Kt_K2 With the Queen's \Nhite King is in a dominating posilion and Black 7 P-St P-B3 wing blocked. Wh:te has worries, 8 P-BS 8-82 has the best of it. 10 .•• K_KI i7 R-Kt5 P-R5 9 P-QKti P-QKti 12 . . . Kt-K; il R-KBI P·R4 48 KMQ6 P-R6 Black prevents P- A bluff move. Bluck i2 B-8S B,B 49 P-B6 P-R7 Kt5. offers a pawn unjust_ H RxB P-Kt3 50 R-R5 R-Q7 IOP_QR3.,. ifiably. +t R·KI5 R-K5 51 P_B7 ..d White M ~ r e ngg ressive 45 RxKtP RxQP won. White ignores the simple win of the pawn. Like i6 KxP K-B2 most amaleurs he looks for complications. 13 Kt-K5 ••• .",•. . 10th Russian Champion$hip Tournament 13 . . . P_iW FRENCH DEFENSE Ii P-Bi 0-0 17 KlxB R-R3 (Note$ by M. M. Yudovitch) 15 QKt_B3 R_B3 18 Kt·B3 Kt-Kt3 V. N. Panov M. M. Yudovitch 16 QR-KII BxKt 19 KI-KIS ••• White Black White still intent on complications. gives up a I P-Ki P-K3 4: B-KKtS B-K2 Clive C. Caldwell. Boston ...... 2.00 2 P_Qi P_Q4 5 P-KS KKt-Q2 John C. MacLane, Boston ...... 2.00 3 KI-QB3 KI_KB3 6 P-KRi P_KD3! Raymond T. Parke. Boston ...... 2.00 The old move. prematurely condemned. The Wm. J. Hodges. W eymouth. Mass...... 1.00 studies by Belavenetz and Yudovitch show that Harlow B. Daly. Basion ... :...... 1.00 this continuation renders doubtful the correctness Stanley M. Dc~e. Boston ...... 1.00 of Chatard's attack. Malcolm S. Nichols. Boston ...... :...... 1.00 7 B-Q3 .•• F. A. Lothrop. Boston ...... 1.00 . This move was shown by Dr. Alekhine as far Mrs. Mitchell. Boston ...... 1.00 back as 1924 (International Tournament. New John J. Rehr. Readin\'j. Pa...... 1.00 York) to give White a very strong attack. But Black's energetic counter_stroke 7 ... P-QBi; Total ...... $2.251 .00 appears to give a satisfactory line of defense. 162 THE CHESS REVIEW 7 . • , P-QBil 13 . • • 8 Q_R5ch • • • H QxR Black would have a better game after 8 PxKBP. The appearance of a second Queen at the 15th KtxP; because White's center is very weak. move is very rare in an actual game. 8,.. K-Bl 15 K-K2 P-R8(Q) 17 Kt~RSch QxKt 16 Kt-Kt6ch K_B2 9 KtxP!? • • • A logical continuation. If 9 PxKBP, then 9 ... It is the simplest. After 17 . ..K-KI; 18 Q_ KlxP; 10 BxKt, BxB, and Black has a good game. Kt8ch, K-Q2: 19 R-Qlch, K-B2 some complications al'e possible. 9 • . . PxB! 18 QxQ Kt-B3 20 Kt-R3 This daring continuation is quite correct. But 19 Q-RSch K~KtI Black can also obtain an equal g(lme playing Avoiding the trap: 20 ... QxR?; 21 Q-KSch, 9 . .. PxKt, for instance: 10 P_K6, Q-Kl; 11 PxKt, B_Bl; 22 Kt-Kt5, KtxP; 23 Q-R5, and draws. BxP; 12 QxQch, KxQ; 13 B-K3. PxP; 14 BxQP, 21 Q-K8ch B-Bl 23 P-QBi • • • Kt-B3; 15 B·K3, Kt-Kt5!, etc. 22 Kt_KtS KhP 10 R-R3 P·Kt5! Despair! If 23 Q-R5, then 23 ., Q-Kt5ch. An important moment. If I I QxKtP, then 11 ... Black threatened . . ,P-QKt3, followed by . .. PxKt; 12 R.B3ch. Kt-B3, and Black keeps one B-R3ch. piece more and can beat off all the menaces. 23. .. Q_KtSch 26 K_Bl B-Q2 2i K-BI QxBPch 11 Kt.B4 KtxP! Resigns 25 K-Ktl Q-Kt5ch White threatened 12 KtxPch (or Kt-Kt6ch) , (Notes from the Bulletin of the tournament as 12 PxKt PxR translated in the British Chess Magazine). M. M. YUDOVITCH - - ~{j!..- Grand National Correspondence Ty. 1935 Semi_Finals Gruoco PIANO (Moller Attack) Notes by the winner A. G. Pearsall H. A. Dittmann White Black 1 P-Ki P_Ki 8 0-0 BxKt 2 Kt~KB3 Kt-QB3 9 P-Q5 B_B3 3 B-Bi B_Bi 10 R_Kl Kt-K2 -1 P-B3 Kt-B3 II RxKt P-Q3 5 P_Qi p,p 12 B-KKt5 B,B 6 PxP B-Kt5ch 13 KtxB 0-0 7 Kt-B3 KtxKP 11 KtxRP • • • The Therkatz-Ohls variation. H. • • KxKt 16 R-Ri P-KBi V. N. PANDV 15 Q-R5ch K_Kd 17 P-KKt3 • • • 13 BxP • • • Paul Keres writing in the Deutsche Schachzei White has here three continuations more;- tung suggests 17 R-R3 as W hite's best move. Analyzing the four replies at Black's disposal (1) 13 Kt-Kt6ch; PxKt; 14 QxRch, K-B2; 15 (B-Q2~R-KI_Q_KI~aod P -B5) the Esthonian Q -R7, QxB!; 16 PxQ, P_R7: 17 0 -0 -0, P~R8(Q); master concludes that only the last gives Black [S Kt-B3, QxKtP: 19 R-Ktl, QxKt; 20 QxP equality. The main line: 17 R-R3, P-B5; 18 P-KKti. (Kt6)ch, K-BI and wins. PxPe.p,; 19 Q-R7ch, K-B2: 20 Q-R5ch. K-Ktl; 21 (2) 13 KKtxP, K_Kt1: 14 0_0_0, Q-B1; 15 B Q -R7ch, etc. B4. Q-B2: 16 Q-Kt4, Kt-B3, and White's attack 17 , . • B_Q2 19 RxKt ... is repulsed. 18 R-Kl R-B3 (3) 13 0-0-0, P-R7; H KKt_R3, P-RS(Q); 15 Instead 19 R_K6!1, Black need not capture RxQ, K-Ktl; and the position is very complicated, but can play 19 . . .. Kt-Kt3 , but Black probably has the advantage. It is pos 19 . . . QxR 21 QxR· Q_K$ch sible that White can play more strongly, but the 20 Q~RSch K-B2 22 K_K:2 P~BS! game shows the vitality of Black's idea (9 ... White has no good answer to this move. Black PxB) . threatens P-B6 mate and also Q-K5ch. winning (The last of these continuations bears confir_ the B. mation. 16 Kt-Kt5 seems to lead to an irresistible 23 P-B3 p,p 25 K-Bl attack_I. A. H,) 2i PxP Q -Q7ch Rcsig.t\s. PROBLEM DEPARTMENT ByR. CHENEY AddreSli all correspondence relating to t h!~ dep1l rtme nt to R. Cheney. 1339 East Avenue. Rochester. NY. THEME PALAESTRA cle a r a n ce~t h is was strategy to be expec ted . b ut. surpris ingly. it proved feasible Instead o ( our ra ndom study o f several to show pin mates. cross-checks. halfpin . the mes. we a ce presenting a poction o f and even interference unp in l a monograph on the miniature two-mover As must be true o f any work composed by GeoHrey Me tt-Smith. O t,her . brief under na rrow, self-imposed restrictions, sections will be given in succeed ing Issues. the interest of the result is largely in the MICROCOSM feat o f construction. T he sign ifica nce of T he Miniature T wo-M ove C hess the miniature lies not so much in the sin gle Problem example as in the totality of examples. by To savor the piquancy of a miniature, GEOFFREY MOTT_SM1TH one must not only solve it, not only recog nize its strategical raison d'etre, but must H as the two-move chess problem been also perceive the particular task of con exhausted? Can anythin.9 n ew b~ . con struction that the composer set him self structed in that form? D oes the poly and must compare the problem with other thematic variation", such as the blend of miniatures that a ttack the same task. half-pin. un p in, and cross-chec k. represent It is easy to become acqua inted with the outer limit of strategical possibility? the entire content of th is microcosm - T he Good Companion folders made the number of exta nt problems is, great inroads. Yet in two directions I see comparatively. so small l I have sea rched domains rema ining to be explored. through about thirty books, collections of F irst, a new world is opened once we problems, aggregating probably between a bandon the traditio na l canons that grew tw o and three thousand two-move direc t out of the conceptio n o f the problem as an mates, and have found less than one hun endgame. I mean the world named F a iry dred miniatures. M y own contributions Chess. Elsewhere I ha ve wrin en o f the have more tha n doubled this number: still wond ers of P luribox (the use o f pi eces there a re only a li ttle over two hundred w ithout restriction as to number. o f Mul examples. tiboa rd (the use o f a boa rd o f un li mited M y object has been to show fu ll y what size) , a nd o f the T ranscendenta l M en has already been done and what rema ins agerie (the use o f new pieces - Chancel to be accomplished . This necessitates the lor, G ra sshopper, Duke, Knight-Rider. ) inclusion of many examples that a re. from Little serious stud y has been made even the solver's point o f v iew, fe eble or dull of the orthodox pi eces and board under productions. But they have theoretic value arbitrary stipulations such as Maximate, as the best of the only extant solutions Reflex Mate. Demotion. of particular tasks in construction. They Second , there a re un exploi ted mi challenge composers to find better sol crocosms within the fi eld of orthodoxy, utions. with barriers drawn even closer. For - +~H.:.. · example, suppose that instead o f a llowing BIBLIOGRAPHY ourselves thirty -two pieces to work with. Miniatures found in the followin g works are we limit ourselves to seven. What can be herein cited: done under such a ustere restraint? As ASYMMET RY. Daw~on & Pauly. (Xmas The following pages seek to answer series. ) the last question. At the outset of my in BG BOHEMIAN GARNE.TS. Hllvel. (Xmas quiry. the evident a nswer seemed to be seri es. ) B-S 200 Bauernumwandlungs.Schachaufgahe.n. ~ very li ttle. But a ft er I had been col ACW. lecting a nd ma king two-move minia tures CCP CANADIAN C H E S S PROBLEMS. lor a fe w months. I was astoun ded a t the Stubbs. w ide ra nge o f stra tegy that they could Col T CLASSIFICATION O F T WO.MO V_ embody. A mbush. selfblock. interference. ERS. ACW. 163 164 T H E C.H E S S REV I E W ~------~' ~~~~~~~ ORIGINAL SECTION l"o. 736 N., 739 G. MOTT_ SMITH BILL BEERS New York , M.lln. Mate in 2 Mate in 2 Mate ill 2 Nc . 737 No. 740 . No. 743 BlIKOPZER Dr. G. DOBBS L. 1. Carrollton. Ga. Mate jn 2 Male in 2 Mate in 2 N\"I. 738 No. 74 1 No. 71<1 BILL BEERS MAXWELL BUKOFZBR FRANZ BlLLIK , Minn. Bellaire" 1. I. , Mate in 2 Mate ill 2 Mat~ ;n 3 SOLUTIONS TO T HESE PROBLEMS ARE DUE AUGUST 10th, 1937 1 U L Y, I 9 3 7 165 ORIGINAL SECTION (cont'd) No. ii5 No. 748 No. 751 V. L. EATON, WALTBR JACOBS K. HOWARD ~o. C. New York P•• Mate in 3 M,lte in 3 Mute in 5 No. 7% No. 752 A. O. GIBBS LEONARD ElSNER N. Y. Matt in 3 M .. te in 3 Whit No. ii7 No. 750 No. 753 K. S. HOWARD R. CHENEY MAXWELL BUKOFZER Eri Mate tn 3 Mate in 3 $ SOLUTIONS TO THESE PROBLEMS ARE DUE AUGUST 10t h. 1937 ------ 166 THE CHESS REVIEW QUOTED SECTION No. 757 No. 754 E. SALARDINI No_ 760 T. FELDMANN 1st Prize O. NEMO 1st Prize Niederbayer Schachztg, - 1st Prize Fleck Theme :g:;;:;!!~ Memorial_1936 Mate in 2 in 3 No. 755 No. 758 No. 761 H. J. TUCKER VEIKKO HAURO T. FJELD 1st Pri,;e l~t Prize 1st Prize The Leader~ 1936 • Mate in .! in 2 Mate in 3 No. 756 No. 759 No. 762 1. OHMAN Dr. G. PAROS v. MARIN Ist Prize 1st Prize 1_2. Prize Rev. Rom, d, Sah-1936 Sakk.-1936 Memodal.-193ti Mate in 2 M"k in 2 M~tc in 4: SOLUTIONS TO THESE PROBLEMS ARE DUE AUGUST 10th, 1937 I U L Y. 1 9 3 7 167 No . 690 by M. Suko " t . K " , Bb3 Echo ECHO . Dedrle. (Xmas series.) I. 8d1 . KeS: 2. Sd7e h. Kd5 Or K.. : . m.. t GA THE GOLDEN ARGOSY. Shinm an. I . .. __ . K9S : 2. !k7e h Very diUkult_ H. a . ~ I y (Xmas " riu .) Fin. model ..a ter - Or. C. Dobbo GCT THE GOOD COMPANION TWO~ No. 691 by M . GcrshUlSoa In ttn.lon: 1. Sc2 MO VER. (Xmas series.) Cooh d by:1. Sg1 and 1. P~7 L SAM LO YD AND HIS CHESS PROBLEMS. No. 692 by M. Conulu Pawn a. 06 oko .. ld b. a t 16 . with h y ACW. J. Sg1 K",; 2. 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