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PROMOTIONAL PLAN BEGINS USCF Expands Membership Value Pos;Lion No USCF Vol. VII Saturday, Number 8 OffjelCll Publication of The Unltecl Stotes (oessfederation De ee~ber 20, 1952 PROMOTIONAL PLAN BEGINS USCF Expands Membership Value Pos;lion No. 96 N . P. Plat%. FINLAND ADDS With Added Benefits for 1953 CHESS STAMP By PAULINE NEAnING Ac(.."()rd in g to the announcement of USCF Business Manager Kenneth DU<I/ur Chesr Club Harkness, the first fr uits of the Promotional Plan adopted at Tamp~ will be increased privileges and advantages to USCF Members. In addI­ A commemorative stamp honor­ tion to the expansion of CHESS LIFE, to which new features wi,II be ing the 10th Olympic Chess Team added in the early months of 1953, Business Manager Harkness lists a Championship held in Helsinki, number of other special advantages and privileges which will accrue to Finland, was issucd August 10, USCF members in 1953. 1952. This 25 markka stamp, in Among these are the rating of gray black, fe atures the design of team matches and tournaments in NEWBERRY TO PS a chess board in the background, addition to the Swis and round­ with a bl ack: knight and a white r obin tournaments aJready rated, MISSOURI OPEN rook. Certainl y, this is a most ap­ with the publication (free of charge With 4%·% w. H. c. Ncwberry propriate selection, the board to USCF members) twice a year of of Alton, TIL won the Missouri which is the most ancient and en­ the average ratings and classifi­ Open at St. Louis, drawing with during implement of chess, and cations of aU members. runner-up Hugh Myers of Decatur, the two chess pieces, the knight and the rook, whose moves have USCF dues also now include ill., who scored 4-1, drawing also with Harold Branch. Branch of SL never changed since the origin of membcrship in the State Chess As­ the game. sociation (provided it is affiliated Louis was third with 3¥.! .1lh, gain­ ing the State title as the ranking Finish It The Clever Way! Finland's foremost designer, with the USCF). Membership in Mrs: Signe Hammarstein.Jannsson, the local organizution is automatic Missouri player. Branch lost one Conducted by Edmund Nash game to Newberry and drew witb deSigned the stamp, and B. Ekholm if its ducs are $1.00 per year. Sertd all contr ibutions for this column t o Edmund Nash. 1530 2ath pr ace, S.E., was the engrager. (W here the local dues are $2.00, Myers. Third to seventh on S-B Washington 20, D. c. with equal 3·2 scores were 1951 The first da y of sale was August yo u need only to pay the $1.00 dif­ HE positions nbove nre interesting because in the actunl gamcs 10th, in a speciaL post office set ference for local membership). champion Harry A. Lew and C. M. Burton of St. Louis, and J. T Whi le in each case failed to lind thc right continuation. In Position up in the Commercial High School Chc.5!' 1190k,$ and equipment arc t<:dwflrd Cflin find Jcrr'y 'f. O'Nc it No. 95, which occurred in the Virj:(ini,1 Championship tournament, in Helsinki . fo r one day only. After now made !LVililable to USC I;' memo of Columbi:l. .14 Il lnyc rs co ntcslctl While took il dr;nv by perpetUa l chcck: I. Q.K8ch. K·f(12: 2. Q·lJ(jch. thnt dale, the stilmp was sold in bers at su bstanluill discounts. Buy­ in thc event which prescnted a K·BI ; :1. Q·Q6ch, K·KI2; 4. Q·B6ch. Five years hlter, he discovered a othcr post uffi cc:; in l-~i nland . One ers of chess books save mo ney by fo rced ma te or win of the Queen in 6 moves. strong field despite t~ ubsence million stamps wcre printed in the .,,.l.:"" 1.in'!r to t,h~ tISCF, and !hose ... [ 1&50 ';lampion Robert Stein· In Position Nn. ~6, White actu:t!ly rcsigr.cd thc gamd after 1. KxP 1, isslle. In co:npt:1"ison to 110 J:'i'.! • who buy chess books regularly will meyer and several other ranking P-Kt7; 2. R·KtB, K·R3!; 3. R·QR8 ch, K·Kt2. The next day, thinking to lion U. S. commemorative stamps soon find that their savings amount Missouri players. make an endgllme study or the position, he discovcred an amazingly in each issue, this might be con­ to more than the USCF dues. simple and instru' tive drawing continuation. sidel-ed a small printing. (Nov. 21, Members arc now also enabled For solutions, ,please- turn to page four, 1952, first day of sale of the U. S. to save money by renewing memo ROZMAN TAKES commemorative bi-colored Inter· bership in advance of expiration. MARITIME EVENT n.. tional Red Cross stamp held in A three year renewal in ndvance D. 1. D. Rozman won the Mari­ ."fa.t Round New York City, totaled three mil· costs $12.75 whereas a three-year lion.) renewal after expiration is $13.50 time Championship at Dieppe (N. By DR. KESTER SVENDSEN and three separate one·year re· B.) with 4lh-lh, drawing with O. Uni"usiry 0/ Oit!.llOma newals $15.00. A two-year renewal M. MacConnel who finished sec· (Continued ·f rom December 5th Issue) ond on s..B with 3/h ·Ph . Third in advance is $9.00 as against A moment's hesitation, and then .. p.rwn tttkts p,non, th" qluen js place went to O. P. Doucet with if $9.50 for a two-year membership he placed the knight at knight five. /gsl ... .,&'1', the old man alit'? .. 31h .1h, while Geo. Beals placed after expiration. There. Now would Rolavsky move no, t~t rook is pinntJ .. • it won't 'Un Other advantages and benefits fourth with 3-2 in the 10 player the pawn? The precisionist ,.DI"1. accruing from USCF Membership event at the Brunswick Hotel, di· wouldn't. The arrogant refuter of At last Rolavsky switched the will be announced later in the rected by D. A. MacAdam, editor gambits would. Did there linger threatened knight to knight five. year as the five-year Promotional of Canadian Chess Chat. smt a trace of something from tlie The Old Master moved the pawn to Plan is placed into full motion. Roz.man, a native of Yugoslavia lhird move? Would this Russi:)D king six and found himself pray­ and a resident of Chariollestown, weaken? Rook and pawn, did he iog that Rolavsky would not take it won the Colpitts Trophy for the think, for bishop and knight? with (he bishop. The continuation MAGEE CAPTURES seeond time, having wo n the title Rolavsky studied the psition al- darkened his mind: he takes with also in 1950. The Haligonians won WICHITA. OPEN mo ~ t interminably. Then he push- his bishop, I'll take with mine; he the team championship, repeating cd his pawn to king rook three _ threatens mate, qucen to rook five; . Lee Magee of Omaha scored their victory of last year when the then dropped his hand as if burnt, I take the rook and check; he takes another triumph in the 3rd Wichita team tournament was inaugurated. as if too late he had seen beneath the bishop with the king; I check Open Championship at the YMCA, the surface of the board "steady at bishop three with the queen; he tallying 51f.z -lh in the 28 player CAIN, GOULD TOP fire. And now the crowd was quiet, goes to the knight square, thcn Swiss, and conceding one draw to waiting, and there began to break pawn to king rook three nnd he's youthful Jim Callis of Wichita. 4T NEWBURYPORT into the Old Ma ster's brain a long lost. But lost in a brutal way after Second to fourth on s..B with equal Clifford Cain won the Teen·Age shaft of light. A combination, the a blunt struggle. No cbarm there, 5-1 scores were Henry Georgi of Championship event sponsored by moves tumbling over one another no beauty, only a win. For a m~ ··It is a custom in Europe to Lawrence, Alfred Ludwig of Oma· the Newburyport (Mass.) Chess with sweet promise. A game of ml:: nt the Old Master cursed this in· honor important chess events with ha, and Jim CaUas of Wichita, a Club in a field of six, with second equilibrium, a perfect t.cnsion of sane undesire to win that had cost a special cancellation. For the trio which lost no gamcs but con­ place going to John O'Keefe and pieces, everything held in suspense him so many a tournament; and Finnish stamp, the cancel carried ceded two draws apiece. Georgi third place to Charles Pike. In by a perpetual check from Black, he hoped that Rolavsky would take the motif of the stamp, a knight drew with Ludwig and Oscar Mar­ the Junior Championship (under a fantasy of eternal motion caught with the bishop. The pun of the and rook, and printed within the ing; Ludwig with Georgi and Henry 12) the title we nt to Thomas Gould, in the fl owing lines of a knight's title spun the chess board before circle of the cancel is: "Helsinki, Amsden; and Callis with Carl We· 7-year old, with 3lh-'12, while Al­ pendulum move. He could force him as he thought of the fifty Helsingfors, X Schakkiolrnpiadi, berg and Oscar Maring. Fifth to bert Pariseau placed second and nolavsky to play for a draw.
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