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AUGUST, 1937 Montifly 30 Cts. ANNUALLY $3.00 • HONOR PRIZE PROBLEM, J. F. TRACY Ontario, Calif. , WHITE MATES IN THREE MOVES • THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A.MERICAN CHESS FEDERATION DR. EUWE • SPIELMANN • Alt\TORTSEV THE KEMERI TOURNAMENT PAUL MORPHY AND PAUL KERES ADDENDA TO GRIFFITH AND WHITE. • • • • FRED REINFELD WOMEN IN CHESS • • • • • • • . EDITH L. WEART - ---- -~ AUGUST, 1937 MONTIfLY 30 Cts. ANNUALLY $3.00 'Jhe PAUL MORPHY and PAUL KERES Paul Morphy has aptly been called "tile pride and the sorrow of chess."' At tlle age of 22, REVIEW thefe were no worlds left for him to conquer! He lw.d attracted attention as a dlild prodigy, OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE he -had won the American Championship at the AMERICAN CHESS FEDERATION age of 20, and the following year he had de. feated Lowenthal, Harrwitz and Andersscn in set matches, had distinguished himself by some I.!.dilof ISRAEL A. HOROWnZ, of the finest blindfold games that have ever S. S. COHEN, Alallagillg Edilor been played, and had generally defeated his 01" ponents with an case and unexampled brilliance FRED RE INFELD, Associllfe Edilor tInt have remained proverbial for almost a cen. BARN IE F. WINKELMAN, ASJoriate EdilOr tury. W e still use the expression ··Morphy.like R. CHENEY, Problem Edifor elegance," and Blackburne had no need to ex· plain in more detail whenever he ca ll ed a com. BERTRAM KADISH, Art Dirutor bination "a bit of Morplly," Vol. V, No. B I'lIblhhed IIlolllhl)' August. 1937 Paul Morphy and Paul Keres 169 Miniature Games - • • 171 The Kelneri Tournament 172 Addenda to Griffith and White m W omen in Chess - 177 Checking the News 178 Game Studies 179 Book Rev iews • • 183 Combination Studies • • 184 Selected Games IRo Problem Department • 187 Published flloll!hly by THE CJlESS REVIEW, 55 We,t 42nd 51., New York, N. Y. Telephone WIsconsin 7-3742. Dome'S!;, subscriptions: One Year $).00; Two Years $5.'0; Five Years $12.~O: Six Momhs 51.75. Single copy 30 CIS. Foreign subscriptions: S}.~O per )'(m except U. S. Possessions. Canada, Mex· ico. Cerural and SOUlh Arner;c:!. Sin/<k copy 3' CIS. Copyright 19.17 by THE CH~:SS Rllvtf.W ··Entert·d as st"(ond·class maner Janu,ny 25, 19.>7. at til(" poSt "tf,C{' at New York, N . Y., under the Act of l'>brch 3. IR79."· PAUL MQRPHY And yet, so far as serious chess was con· cerned, Morphy died at the age of 22! He CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: came back (rom Europe a ,hero, with all the world (all the chess world!) at his feet. He LAJOS STE INER D. MllcMURRA Y was young, famous, a scion of a well.off and J. B. SNETHI.AGE IRVI NG CHERNEV even aristocratic family. Yet the rest of his LEST ER BRAND JAMES R. NEWMAN w. life was wrapped up in illusions, disappoint. EDITH L. WEART JOSEPH GANCHER ments, bitter guarrels, futile law.suits, indiffer. 169 170 THE CHESS REVIEW cner and even aversion for chess. A tragic fate! amazing combinative abilities (or at least their That is why Paul Morphy -has been called "the development) may be credircd to the large pri de and the sorrow of chess." amount of correspondence chess which he has It may SOllnd heartless to point out that there played; for, prior to his winning the Estonian is one angle from which this sorry end of Mor_ Championship in December 1934, he had phy's chess_playing days does not seem so played only in such local tOi.lrnaments as the bitterly ipoignant. For he retired into the Students' Championship and t-he Championship shadows at the -height of his fame, at the very Tournament of Parnau. apex of his playing strength. In the years that have passed since his retirement, the d1CSS world has often had to witness the pitiful decline of the powers of a great master. Stcinitz is per_ haps the best example of this tendency. But in Morphy's record there arc no dark spots. Everything is dear and bright and joy_ ous, and beautiful moves Aow endlessly from the inexhaustible cornucopia of his genius. One always chinks of Morphy as a young man­ another Mozart. Morphy"s chess has an aristo­ cratic character: hi s games are elegant without being lifeless, his combinations arc brilliant 'without being flamboyant- for they are rarely unsound and just as rarely superfluous. This rigorous self_control, this sense of harmony, of good taste, the impression of achieving great effects with seemi ng effortlessness- all of these were new in Morphy's day. PARIS, 1858 (Black to Move) PAUL KERES But once he participated in internationai tournaments, he made a name for himself very guickly. Playing top board fo r Estonia in the Warsaw Team Tournament in 1935, he achieved the fine score of 12 wins, 5 losses and 3 draws. The following year he tied Alekhinc Delannoy for first 'place at Bad Nauhcim, and then tied The conclusion was: 1 .•• KR·Kl ! 2 BxB, Tartakower for third at Zandvoort (both of RxR; 3 KxR (if 3 Q_Kt5, KR_K7 wins), R.K7 these tournaments had very strong fields). ch!! 4 KxR, QxPch; 5 K.Kl, Q_KtSch; 6 K.K2, B_R4ch; 7 K.Q2, Q.B7 mate. Shortly thereafter he made the best score of all the players at the Munich Team Tournament (12 wins, 1 loss and 7 draws!). During the Perhaps it is only one of History"s well_ current year ·he has done so well that he is now known little ironies that in the ve ry year of the ranked among the grand masters, although he centenary of Paul Morphy"s birth, a namesake is not yet 22! He tied with Fine at Margate, of his should have risen to fame. and a few weeks later they repeated the same Paul Keres was born in Pamau, in what is performance (Ostend), with Grab being added now Estonia, on January 7th, 1916. Like Capa_ to figure in a triple tic for first. He then went blanca, he learned the game as a child while on to Prague, annexing another first prize with_ watohing his father play chess with friends. His out the loss of a game. And in the recent tour_ AUGUST, 1937 171 nament at Kemeri, he tied with Alekhine, miss_ ing a tie for first by only half a point. With these triumphs already behind him, Miniature Games Keres seems destined to become one of those FROM A SIMULTANEOUS EXH I BITION great masters who stand our not in one tourna_ Valga, 1936 ment or one year or one generation; one of PH I LI DOR'S DEFENSE those who, like Morphy, will be remembered as p. Kere·$ Amateur long as chess is played. 'White Black While Keres is just as "brilliant" as Morphy, 1 P-K4 P_K4 8 Kt_KtSch K_Kt1 2 Kt-KB3 P_Q3 9 Q.B4ch P_Q4 it is a different kind of brilliancy that is needed 3 B-B4 Kt-KB3 10 KtxQP Kt_K4 nowadays. In Morphy"s time, his opponents 4 Kt-B3 QKt_Q2 11 KtxKtch K.B1 often p layed so badly that Morphy's combin_ 5 P-Q4 p,p 12 Kt(5)xPch RxKt ations simply developed inexorably out of his 6 Q,P B.K2? 13 Q_Kt8 mate 7 BxPch! K,B positional advantage. This state of affairs stead­ ily recedes to the background nowadays, as the average strength of weaker players steadily rises. A brilliant contemporary player like Keres must AN OPENING TRAP be cO[ltinually keyed up on every move to find Played by Correspondence, 1936 something [lovel. something "different," some­ QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLIrfED thing which will give the game a difficult twist Demetriescu Dr. Nagy so that ·he can utilize his superior tactical White Black 1 ·P_QB4 P_K3 8 0_0 0_0 abilities. 2 P_Q4 P-Q4 9 PxP P_QS 3 Kt_QB3 P_QB4 10 Kt-QR4 8_B4 CORRESPONDENCE, 1935 4 BPxP KPxP 11 B_Q2? B-K5 (White to move) S Kt_B3 Kt_QB3 12 Kt·R4 BxB 6 P-KKt3 Kt_B3 13 KtxB Kt_KS ~~SchaPiro 7 B_Kt2 B. K2 14 Q.B2? P_Q6!! W.hite resigns, as he must lose a piece no matter how he Jliays ! If 15 Qx p. QxQ; 16 PxQ. KtxB. If 15 PxP, K t-Q5; 16 Q-Ql, KtxB; 17 QxKt, Kt·B6ch. If J5 Q·Ql , PxP; 16 QxP, K tx B; 17 KR-Ql, Kt-Q5! ECHO THEME Murau, 1935 CENTER GAME Haecke Dr. Reinle White Black 1 P_K4 P_K4 5 B_QB4? Kt_K4 2 P_Q4 PxP 6 B_Kt3 B_KtSch! 3 QxP Kt..QB3 7 P.B3? B_B4! Keres 4 Q-K3 Kt..B3 8 Q.Kt3 BxPoh!! White resigns. as he must lose the Q (9 QxB, There followed: 21 QxBP! KtxB; 22 PxP, Ktx Kt·Q6ch, or 9 KxB, KtxPch). KP; 23 Kt-Q5ch, K_K3; 24 QR_K1 (threatening mate in three), Q_B1; 25 Kt.B7ch, K_K2; 26 Rx Ktchl PxR; 27 Kt·QSch, K_Q1; 28 RxBch! RxR; 29 Q_Q6ch, Q _Q2; 30 QxQRch, Q_B1; 31 Q-Q6ch, REPULSING A PREMATURE ATTACK Q-Q2; 32 QxRch, Q-K1; 33 QxP, resigns. Jurata Tournament May, 1937 NIMZOWI TSCH DEFENSE Schaechter Woiciechovsky White Black 1 P-Q4 Kt.KB3 11 p.QS P_KS! REMEMBER 2 P-QB4 P_K3 12 Kt.Q2 Kt_K4 3 Kt-QB3 B_KtS 13 P_R3 KtxQP! TO RENEW 4 Q_B2 Kt_B3 14 B,Q KtxQ S Kt·B3 0·0 15 B,P Kt·Q6ch! YOUR 6 B-Kt5 R_K1 16 PxKt PxPch 7 ·P.QR3 BxKtch 17 Kt_K4 P_Q7ch! SUBSCRIPTION 8 QxB Q.K2 18 K,P KtxKtoh 9 B_R4 P_Q3 Resigns 10 P.KKt4? P_K4 172 THE CHBSS REVIEW A.
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