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, • WHITE MATES IN THREE MOVES By FRANK M. TEED EDITED B Y I . KASHDAN IN THIS ISSUE, KI NG WANDERINGS _ _ _ - _ - - - _ _ _ _ _ IRVING- CHERNEV WHY WE PLAY CHESS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BARNIE F. WINKELMAN PROBLEM REVIEW -- -- - - - - - - _ _ _ - OTTO WURZBURG APRIL,, t 933 - - - MONTHLY 25 cts. - - - ANNUALLY $2. .50 • 'Jhe REVIEW • I. KASHDAN. Editor in Chief I. A. HOROWITZ. OTTO WURZBURG, Problem Editor • } A ssociutc Editors FRED REINFELD, BERTRAM KADISH, Art D irector FRITZ BRIEGER. 8usineu Manager - - ..---' = . - .'-=-· - --c - 0----'- - -- - =. ==-== ~-- .-, -===-~--==c=~""==oo=~==="_~ .. ~. VOL. I No.4 Published M onthly APRIL. 1933 - --_- _ --0-- --=0--"=-- --. ----"'~'-". --~---,-- =- '-=== ---_.- N EWS OF THE M ONTH · - - - 2 KING WANDERINGS • - • • - 4 L IVING C H ESS . - - - - - - 6 GAME STUDY - - - - - - - - - - • 7 CURIOUS CHESS FACTS • • - - • 9 H ELPFUL HINTS - - - · - - -- -- • 10 W HY W E P LAY CHESS - . I I GAME D E PARTMENT - - - . - . 13 ANALYTICAL COMMENT - . - - - 22 M ISTAKES OF THE MASTERS - - - - - 24 E ND- GAME ANALYSIS - - • • 26 BooK REVIEW • • - - - - 27 P ROBLEM REVIEW - - - • • - - • 30 ~-- --_.- Publ!shed monthly by C h es.~ Review Yearly subscription in the United Sta te s $2 .50 60- 10 Roosevelt Avenue, W oodside , N . Y. Elsewhere $3.00 - - - - Single Copy 25 cents Telephone HAvemeyer 9-3828 Copyri ght 1933 b y Chess Review CONTRIBUTING EDITORS, IRVING CHERNEV --- - - - - - - - -- ARTHUR W . DAKE REUBEN PINE - - -- - - - - -- - - DONALD M ACMURRAY 8ARN IE F. W IN KELMAN _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ LESTER W . BRAND \ 2 THE CHESS REVIEW APRIL. 1933 • This is a stirring and worthy cause. which should ensure the support of every NEWS OF • . American interested in the game. • • • THE MONTH I. A. Horowitz won an unexpectedly easy victory over A. W. Dake in their ten The United States Chess Team Com~ game match at the Manhattan Chess mittee, which, in cooperation with the Club. The final score was 4-0 in favor National Chess Federation, is striving to of Horowitz. and four draws. The rep have a representative American Team at maining two games were not played. as Folkestone this summer, has been active they could not affect the issue. in the cause. The first step has been to The first three games were drawn. with send an appeal for subscriptions to a large Dake having had the better of everyone. body of chess players. A copy of the The break came in the fourth, which Dake letter follows: lost very e~rly. and then he apparently collapsed. Horowitz won the next two Desr Sir: . games. and after drawing the seventh. You will remember the Summer of 1931 in the last one as well. in fairly easy style. Prague when America won the Chess Team • • • Championship {rom eighteen rival countries. Harold W. Snowden. 17 year old East Among the competitors were such players as Alckhinc. Rubinstein. Bogoijubow, TarfDkowcr. Orange lad, won the New Jersey Chess Spielmann, Maroczy, Flohr, Srr/tan Khan, and Championship in the tournament held at others. It was a proud moment for American the Newark-Rice Chess Club. He scored Chess. five consecutive wins against strong op· This ycar's ["ternstional Teo'rn Tournament position. He heat J. W. Brunnemer. the will be played at Folkestone, Eng/and between defending champion. in the first round. lune 12th arid 26th. We must defend the cup. We mllst send the strongcst team at our and n~thing could stop him thereafter. disposal. Frank I. Marshall and Isaac Kashdan, • • • stars of the former team, are with liS again, After seven rounds of the 37th annual enthusiastic in their support of American ChellS. Pennsylvania State Championship Tour· To determine who the other three contestants nament. N. T. Whitaker was leading with shall be, we are arranging a Tournament to the clean score of 7_0. It is an elimina· Itlke place, in New York City eluring the etlrly tion tournament. and the only others rep part of May. There are many brilliant young Chess experts anxious to fight for the United maining are H. Morris. 6-1. and 0, G. States, In defense of the Cup. Weiner. 5-1. All the five members of the Team go as, • • • amateurs without any compenSlltion whatever. The Beverly Hills Chess Club is leading All they require are their traveling expenses. with a clean slate of '1·0 in the tournament These must be raised from the American lovers for the Southern California Chess League 0/ Chess. Your subscription to this /Imd will Championship. With G. S. G. Patterson, , be thankfully received and grateful/v tleknow· ledged. Dr. R. B. Griffith. Austrian. and C J. Please make yOllr check payable to the Gibbs manning the top boards Beverly order of Alfred A. Link, Treasurer. Addrcss all Hills is well represented. and is favored communications to the Secretary. Mr. James to win. R. Newman. 551 Fifth Ave., New York City. • • • A list of contributors and a full statement will G. S. Barnes of Minneapolis success. be published in the American Chess Bulletin fully defended his title in the 36th Annual and in the Chess Reuiew. ' Yours very (mig, Minnesota State Chess Tournament last Harold M. Phillips, month. J. R. Towne was second, and -- Chairman. Dr, W. H. Rowe took third place, APRIL, 1933 THE CHESS REVIEW ' 3 The Metropolitan Chess League of with the Chess Reporter, is starting a New York is approaching its most inter number of new tournaments, and reports esting stage, when the leaders begin to increased activity. The Evans Gambit meet each other. The important matches has been selected for the March Gambit left are Manhattan vs. Empire City on Tournament. All interested can 'address April I. Marshall vs. Empire City on the League at 9441 Wilshire Boulevard. April 8, and in the final round. Marshall Beverly Hills. Cal. vs . Manhattan on April 15. The standing • • • of the teams after the eighth round, An International Tournament is an follows: nounced to take place at Brunn, Czecho Club Matchf.'s Games slovakia. early in April. Among the Manhattan .... 8- 0 55YJ-8).1 masters invited are S, Flohr. A. Nimzo Marshall ... .. 8- 0 48Yz - 12Yz vitch, R. Spielmann. L. Steiner. A, Rubin Empire City . 7).1-Yz 47Jt1 - 16Yz Hungarian . , . 5Y2-2,Vl 35_29 stein, V. Pirc and A. Lilienthal. This is West Side . , . 5_ 3 35_27 the most important tournament so far this City Collegf.' .. 4Y2 - 3!~ 36_27 year. and promises to produce some good International . .. 3Y2-4Yz 29Jt1-32).1 chess. Scandinavian .. 3- 5 28Jt1-35YJ • • • QUf.'f.'OS . .... 2-6 19YJ-44).1 New York Univ. 1_ 7 13).1-48).1 Rudolph Spielmann, the Austrian mast Caissa . .... 0-8 19-42 er, had an extended tOUI in Sweden re~ Columbia . ... 0-8 9).1 - 53Yz cently. During his stay he contested sev • • • eral matches with the younger Sv.:edish The Bell Telephone Co. has gained the experts. with varying succes. He beat honors in the Commercial Chess League G, Stoltz by but shortly after of New York. winning the annual tour 4:Y2-1Y2, lost to E, Lundin by and also nament with ,a score of 6-1. Brooklyn 3Y2-2Y2, to G. Stahlberg. 5-3. The large number Edison was second with 4:Y2-1Y2. • • • of simultaneous exhibitions which Spiel Jose R. Capablanca is due to arrive at mann undertook were undoubtedly a con Los Angeles on April 1. He has engage~ tributing cause of these reverses. ~ ments there for two weeks. On April 14: • • • S. Koshnitsky of New South Wales he is leaving for El Paso. and expects won the Championship of Australia. with then to proceed to Mexico for a short tour, the fine score of 11-2. He didn't lose a He will return to the States V{ith New game, The runners-up were F. A. Crowl York as his goal, where he should arrive and W, S. Viner, each 10-3. C. J, S. some time in May, • • • Purdy. Editor of the Australasian Chess We have received the March issue of Review, was apparently out of form, and the C. C. L. A, Bulletin of the Correspon only finished in -a tie for sixth, dence Chess League of America. It is • • • very tastefully gotten up. with a number Chess Review announces a good will of new features including cartoons and tour on the part of I. A. Horowitz, our shorts on various chess topiCS. The new Associate Editor. He has arranged a Secre,tary, Walter F. James. 2512 First number of exhibitions in clubs in New Avenue So., Minneapolis. promises lots of York City and the vicinity. There is no activity, The League should prosper un charge for his services. the only stipulation der his spirited guidance, being that the Secretary make every effort • • • to have a good crowd. Our idea is to The North American Correspondence stimulate chess interest, in which we hope Chess League, which is run in connection to have the support of the clubs. , • TH E CHE S S REVI EW APR IL, 1933 , The White Ki ng Is now "taken for a ride:' KING - 20 . .... R-Kt8ch 21 K-Ri B-Q2<h 22 K_R5 B-Q<h WANDERINGS 23 KxP B-Beh . 24 K_R7 B-Kt3ch By Irving Chernev 25 K.-R8 B-R3 mate • • • 11 BRI LLI ANCY in King wande rings ......rl is the fo llowing played in a N ew T he fo ll owing interesting position oc· York tournament: curted in a game played at S t. Petersburg in 1904 . FRENCH -D EFENSE . Langleben Sobenheim .. White Black 1 P-Ki P~K3 2 P-Qi P-Qi 3 Kt- QB3 Kt-KB3 i B- KKt5 B_K2 5 BxKt BxB 6 P-K5 B'--K2 , , 7 Q- Kti Ca s tl ~s 8 B- Q3 P- KIH 9 Q-R3 Kt-Q2 - 10 Kt- B3 P_Bi 11 PxP KtxBP Kojalowitsch Maljutin 120- 0 - 0 P-QKti W hite Black 13 BxKtP R- Kt 27 RxR Q-R8ch 14 KR_K P-QR3 28 K-B2 KtxPch 15 B- Q3 Q-Kt3 29 K-K2 Kt_B6ch \ 16 P- QKt3 Q - Kt5 Black in {l rtal time pre ssu~ ovedooks the win 17 K - Kt2 Q-R6ch! by 29 ..