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RESHEVSKY WINS WERTHEIM Euwe and Naidorl Tie for Second, P,Uitio Vol. V ThllTsday, Number 21 Officlal Publication of me United States (bessfederatloll July 5, 1951 RESHEVSKY WINS WERTHEIM Euwe And Naidorl Tie For Second, P,uitio" No. 71 MUGRIDGE WINS D. C. TOURNAMENT Fine Fourth, And Evans Fifth Donald Mugridge, chess editor of Washington, won the District or Adequate revenge for his second place behind Najdorf came to Columbia Championship impres­ Samuel Rcshevsky in the Wertheim Memorial Tournament at the lUh sively with a 71h.1k score, conced­ round at the Manhattan Chess Club when he drew with his formidable ing one draw to runner-up Oscar opponent from Argentina to win an undisputed first place. Never out Shapiro. Save for an appearance of the lead, Resbevsky, despite a loss to Dr. Max Euwe, showed def­ at Durham in 1950 where he plae· inite return to the form that made him five times U. S. Champion. He ed third behind N. T. Whitaker conceded draws to Najdorf, Fine, Horowitz and O'Kelly, but retained and Eliot Hearst, it was the first the lead throughout the event. tournament appearance of Mug­ l.Iendel Na jdorf was undefeated, but conceded too many draws to ridge for a number of years. Sec­ win top spot, drawing with Rcshevsky, Evans, Byrne, Horowitz, Guin.!ard, ond place went to Oscar Shapiro O'Kelly and Kramer. Thus he shared second place with Dr. Max Euwe with 6·2 losing to Nathaniel Cole­ who also scored 7 lh -3lf~, Dr. Euwc, showing to !Jetter advantage than burn and drawing with Mugridge in the last few years, scored a victory over Reshevsky, but lost games and Mott. Charles D. Motl" 1950 to Najdorf and Evans. He drew with O'Kelly and Bisguier. Southwestern Open Champion, was Dr. Re uben Fine in gaining PAYNE CAPTURES third with 51h:·21h:, losing games to fourth place with 7-4 needed a 'Mugridge and Whitaker, and draw­ dashing horsc·opera fi~i s~ to a- KENTUCKY TITLE ing with Shapiro. chieve this success, wmmng 31h White To Play And Win! Malcolm Wiener placed fourtb points out of his last four games. Fred F. Payne of Mayfield won Ihe Kentucky Championship by Conducted by William Rojam and Morton Seidelman fifth on S­ Lack o[ practice was evident in B points with equal 5-3 scores. his games, and his play did victory in the play-off match with OSITION No. 71 represents an amusing situation that docs not too Sixth to ninth on S·B points with not have the finish and surety dis­ W. B. Long, also of Mayfield. P infrequently occur in actual play-While has overwhelming super­ equal 41h-31h scores Nathaniel played when won the 1948 Man­ Payne and Long tied for first at iority in material, bul Black is in a stalemate position. The problem is Coleburn, Martin C. Stark, R. C. hattan International in 1948, ahead 4·1 each in the regular champion­ how White can rclease Black from stalemate and yet win. slup finals at Lou isville, Long Simpson and CHESS LIFE column­ oC Na jdorf, Euwe and Pilnik. But Position No. 72 represent emendations upon a position treated in ist Edmund Nash. 1950 Southern his recovery in the final rou nds drawing wilh Pllync and Schroeder Fine's Bllsic Endings. lot r. Edmund Hand with a new continuation dis· Champion N. T. Whitaker was lOth and Payne drawing with Long and lHites the conclusion that this position is a win for Black and seems to gave the first four places 10 t~e wi th SIh:-4Ih. Schroeder. Third place we nt to demonstrate a draw. four International Grandmasters In - --- the event. Fine lost his games to 1950 Ohio State Champion James For solutions, pleue turn to page four, Najdor[ and Euwe, and drew with £chroeder, now in the army at KUJOTH RETAINS Reshevsky, Evans, Byrne and Kra­ Fort Knox, with 3-2, while former McCOMASi TAKES HEARST LEADS State Champion Jack Moyse plac· MILWAUKEE CO. mer. MARYLAND TITLE LOG CABIN MEET Convincingly displaying a return In placing fifth Larry Evans c?n­ ed fourth with 2-3 in the 6 player round robin finals. Richard McComas, young Balti· Eliot Hearst, New York State to earlier form, former Wisconsin tinued to fulfill the great pronnse more student, topped the field in a The Western Di vision prelimin. Champion and CHESS LIFE colum­ State Champion Richard Kujoth he has shown, scoring a. vlttorr 6 round 12 player Swiss with 5-1 nries, held at LoUisville, were won nist, leads in the Log Cabin Chess for the third consecutive time won over Euwe and drawing With Nal­ to win the Maryland State title. by James Schroeder with &0, with Clu b Class A Tournament at West the Milwaukee County title with a dorf and Fine; while Robert McComas lost one game to runner­ William Long second with 4--1 in a Orange, N.J., by the slim margin 7 ~- 1 1h scorein a 9 round 35 play­ Byrne in a tie {or sixth wit~ I. ~ . up Garfinkel. Boris Garfinkel of er Swiss. tie with Jack Moyse, also 4-1. In of one·half point at the end of five Horowitz. justified his incluSIOn In Aberdeen was second on &B points rounds with 41h·lJ.r:. Hearst drew Kujoth lost a game to 1950 State his first appearance in an interna­ the Eastern Division, held at Lex­ ington, Fred Payne, Jack Mayer, with 41k-Ph, losing a game to with J. P. Quillen and has disposed Champion Averil Powers and drew tional tournament. U. S. 0 pen Bentz and drawing with Armin of R, Jones, E, S. Jackson, Jr., G. with Milwaukee City Champion champion Arthur Bisguier took a nnd Dr. Roberts qualified as the top scorers_ Surgies. David Bentz of Baltimore Partos, and R. Hurttlen. Right be­ Martin Ptacek. Powers placed see­ very disappointing 10th place af­ was third with 41h: -Ph, losing a hind the N.Y. Champion in the 12 ond with 7-2, losing a game to E. ter his triumphant tie for (irst at ---- game to Surgies and drawing with playcr round robin is 1949 U.S. Rozkal ns and drawing with ptacek Southsea last year. BAIN CAPTURES 1950 State Champion Lars Enequist. Open Champion Weaver W. Adams and Henry Giertych. Martin Placek Robert Simpson of Annapolis was with 4-1. In third spot are J. P. was third and E. Rozkalns fourth QUEBEC CITY fourth wi th 4-2 and George A. Lyle, on SoB points with equal 61k ·21h NO. CALIF. TOPS. Osias Bain, university student Quillen and Edgar McCormick with all10 of Annapolis, was fifth with 3-2 each. scores. SO. CALIF. TEAM and secretary of the Chess Federa­ 31h:-21h:. Fifth to ninth on S-B points with tion or Canadil, took the Quebec ---'-- In the annual Northern vs. equal 6·3 scores were Mark Sur­ -City Championship with 7-0 score ELEC~T=CR~O~T=O:-::, P~S TORONTO BESTS gies, .John Grkavae, R alp h Southern California team match at in 7 round 14 player Swiss. Second Abrahms, Marshall Rohland and Sa n Luis Obispo on 58 board, the Ip lace went to Jules Therien with GREATER CHICAGO BUFFALO CLUB James McCormick, while former Northern team scored a trium­ 1). 1, losing one game to Bain. M"ar­ The Electromotive Chess Club The Gambit Chess Club of Tor­ State Champion Arpad Elo was p,hant victory despite the presencc eel Dion was third with &2 and won the double-round Grealcr Chi­ onto scored a 11}.7 victory over of the California State and open cago Chess League title with 9¥l­ lOth with 5%-3¥l, and Henry Paul Si mard fo urth with 4·3. the Queen City Chess Club of Giertych 11th, also with 5lJ.r:-3. Champions on the Southern team Ih in matches and 46-1 5 in games. Buffalo, in a match held at Tor­ by a lopsided 3~Ph-191h score. Irving Park was second with 7 1h - onto. Victors for the Gambit were H. N. DAY TRIUMPHS On the 10 top boards Gross, 2lf.: and 40·20, while former league F. Anderson, N. GI asberg, R. RESHEVSKY PLANS FalC() ner, G. McClain, II. J . Ral­ IN N.H. TOURNEY champions Austin Chess & Checker Siemms, R. Orlando, M. Fischer, ston, E. Pruner, W. Adams and J. NAJDORF MATCH James Day of Milford won the Club finished third with 51h-41h S. Mallison, Emby, J. Shebaylo B. Gee provided 6 points for the Alexander Bisno, president of Ne w Hampshire State title 4-0 in a and 34%-25%. and J. Taker. For Buffalo the North while J. Kashdan, G. E. Manhattan Chess Club, announced 4 round 9 player Swiss at Man. Individual high scorer in the winners were R. Black, S. Smith, Croy, R. Travers, S. Almgren and at thc close of the Wertbeim Mem­ chester. Almon Kelley of Hudson league was Gutmanis of Electro G. Davenport, M. Holley, G. H Gordon could only gather 4 orial Tournament that arrange­ was second with 3-1, while Robert with 91h -lh: points. In second place Mauer, and Mrs. C. Diesen. Mantin ~ints for the South. Down the line ments had been concluded for a Hux of Dover with 2 lh·l lh was were Kalnin of Electro, with 7*­ and J , Greeberg of Toronto drew the proportion remained the same 20 game match between Resbevsky third. 1950 State Champion Fred *. Winikaitis and Block, both of respectively with C. Diesen and throughout, with sueb outstanding and Fine, beginning in Buenos Eschricb of Manchester and Alex Irvi ng Park, tied for third with A.
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