• HONOR PRIZE PROBLEM • J, F, TRACY Ontario, California • , • WHITE MATES IN THREE MOVES . Philadelphia! - Nottingham! - Munich! Annotations by Euwe, Kashdan, Reinfeld. Steiner THE MUNICH OLYMPIAD . - LAJOS STEINER MY BEST GAMES OF CHESS . • • _ ISAAC KASHDAN ADDENDA TO GRIFFITH AND WHITE • .. FRED REINFELD PLACHUTTA INTERFERENCE IN THE ENDGAME . • . TH. C. r., KOK NOVEMBER, 1936 MONTI:ILY 30 CtS. ANNUALLY $3.00 (Abro4J jJ m.)' _____________ ?he Do Your Share! The first annual report of the American Chess Federation reveals a record of accom. plishment anJ a pIOwam for the future thar merits the cooper:ltion of ;ti l chessplayers. Things that were done : REVIEW A yeal'book comprising the stOry of the 1935 :-'fi]waukl'1' Tournament was published. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ~50 new Individual and 12 new Club Members AMERICAN CHESS FEDERATION were enrolled. Two bulletin ~ \\'('1'(' Issued to fammarize chessplayers with t he wot'k of the A. C. F. ISRAEL A. HOROWITZ, Editor Over 3,000 copie8 of eac h bulletin were dlstrl· S. S. COHEN, Managing Editor buted among m embers and non· members. THE CHESS REVIl<~W was enlisted as the FRED REINFELD, Auociate Editor Olliclal Organ of the l<~ ede ration to keep the wOI'k of thc J<'erl cration conUnually before the BARNIE F. WINKELMAN, Associafe Editor phe.>;!) public. R. CHENEY, Problelll Editor AWOl-king arrangemenl wa~ consummated BERTRAM KADISH, Art Director with the Natloual Recreation Association. This agreement will have the most far reaching and permanent influence on the status of eh,"_ The 37th a nnual toUnlament 01' the A. C. F. Vol. JV, No. 11 P"blhhd Monthly November,1936 was held in Philailf'lphla with 50 f'lItrants-an all t ime high. Things that are planned: A year book comprl8ing the story and best Do Your Share! ...... .. .. ..... 249 games of thp Philadelph ia Congt'f'S8. The Munich Olympiad . .. .... .. 250 The cooperati\'e agn:etll ellt with the National Plachutta Interference in (he Endgame . 255 Recreation Ass'n will be put loto ('(fect. Sel" The Philadelphia Congress ... .. ... 257 eral bulletins s uch as '"T he 'I'('achlng of Chess." "Social Val ups of CIJ('!<~." e tc," are tlOlI" in pre' My Best Games of O\ess . .. 259 lla t'allon and will be distributed to A. C. F. Farewell to Nottingham .. .. ..... 261 members and to rec reational ag('llcies as Nat· Canadian Section .. .. 264 ional Recreation AS S'II Bulletins. Addenda to Griffith and White . .. 265 The 31;th annual lournamenl will be held as ft. " Paul i\[orphy Memorial Tournament" to cele· News Events .. .. .... .. .. .. 267 brate tht> 11)0 th anniversary of the birth of PaUl Morphy. Because of the significance or this Problem Department . .. ,........ .. .. 268 particular event it Is planned to rU Il It on a more preteutious scale than el'(>I' bet'ore. 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Wisconsin Ave ., Milwaukee, Wis. IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT, send $25.00 for a life membership. DO YOUR SHARE! CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: LAJOS STEINER LESTER W . BRAND JOHN B. SNETHLAGE IRVING CHERNEV JAMES R. NEWMAN F. W. WATSON 249 The Munich Olympiad By LA}OS STEINER The H ungarian team won the O lympic Team The absence of che tWO great powers in chess Tournament held at Munich, Germany, from today- Soviet Russia and the United Srates­ Au gust 17 to 31. The majo rity (if not aJl ) of was keenly felL Soviet Russia has not yet en_ the competing reams acknowledged this victory tered a tcam tournament, but the United States to be well earned. The Hungarian tcarn not was the victor in the last three competitions, only won the tournament by adding the total and it would 'have been of great interest to see points of its individual members, as is the cus­ them perform with a team of eight. I would tom in team tOurnaments, but also as a team have picked them a cenain winner, but go and defeated every other team entered in the com­ ugue with our young Stars. After a victory they petition. would not hear of any lessening of our glory. As a member of the viaorious team I find it So please let us indulge ourselves, until next a ha rd (ask to repon the event objectively, in year, in the ~ Ii e f that in any eveR{ we would fact I must confess that rhis (as k surpasses my have a good chance for success especial ly in powers. I ask rhe reader to take thiS ci rcum­ view o f tht!' faa that Lilienmal could not com_ stance into consideration, and to pardon me if ·pete for us this yea r. In justice to some of the r seem, at any 'point, to be boasting. other teams it must be- related that they also The tournament was arranged as a competi_ missed some of their Stars: Poland playing tion fo r teams of eight. Each team, however, without Tanakower and a few others, and had the rrivilege of having on its roster twO Czechoslovak ia minus Flohr, Opocensky, etc. additiona players, listed as reserves, to be used To return to the tournament itself, the com_ as replacements fo r any of the first eight players. petition was ket!'n from start to finish. Having OffiCial team tournaments of the F. 1. D. E. are an early bye we remained in the backg round arranged fo r reams of fou r, plus one restrve. for a long while, letting Poland and Germany Si nce the Munich O lympiad was not officially St!'t the pace. Later Jugoslavia joined in the sponsored by rhe F. I. D. E. ( Intern ational battle fo r the lead, and after Germany and Chess Fedel"ll.tion), it was possible ro double the Poland had taken their bye it looked as though number o f contestants on each team with the the battle for premier honors would be settled objea of giving an advantage to countries with by the matGh between Jugoslavia and Hungary. broader chess cultute. But after losing to us Jugoslavia appeared to Let us take a look at the top ranking teams have lost its equ ilibrium and allowecf both the at Warsaw (the last F. I. D. E. tourney .held in second and third prizes to slip out of its hands. For those with a flait for statistics, a list of August, 193~ ) , and Munich. the individual competitors, the outstanding Wanaw Munirh scores, and the cross table of play should prove 1. U. s. A. t. Hungary 2. Swed~ 2. Poland of interest. 3. Poland 3. Germany Aust rIa : Elis kases, Beeker, Lokvenc, Muller, 4. Hungary 4. Jugoslav ia Pl);S chau ko, Len ner, P al me, W eil, KrassDlg, ) . Czechoslovak ia 5. Czechoslovakia Weiss. 6. Au sn i. 6. La tv ia Brazil: Mendez, Cha rlie r, W. Cmz, Rocha , 7. Argenti na 7. A.ust ria Trom powskl, Pulcherlo, Carlos, O. Cruz. 8. Jugoslavil 8. Sweden Bulga ria: Gesehetf, ?'wetcoff, Dantschetf, What do we see? Six of the first eight KJprol'l', WOin orf, T09che ff, Francez, Max, Malt· scheff, Horlnc. coumries are the same in both tournamems, and Czechoslovakia: Foltys, ReJflr, Zinner, Hrom­ of the remaining four the United States and adka, P elikan, E. RIchter, Pok orny, Zlta., A rgentina did not compete at Munich and Ger. Herman. many did not compete at Warsaw. De nmar k : Andersen, Norman-H ansen, D. Nielsen, H age, J . Ne!\se n, Sorensen, Christen· For all practical purposes there seems to be sen, Petersen, POUl sen, H . Neilsen. no difference whether a team tournament is Esthonia: Keres, Rand, Frledemanu, Turn, Laurentius, Villard, UuJberg. Tchernov. Sepp. arranged for teams of fou r o r teams 01 eig ht. WeIdemann, Using the Warsaw and Munich tournaments as F inland : Book. KroglU8, Solin, 8 alo, H ellm o, a basis of comparison the theory that countries Ojanen, Kalla., CaDdoUn, Brelder, Collla.nde r. with the g reatest number of chess players wi ll Fra nce: Be t beder, Glbaud, C l"e peaulI:, JU Dg , Rometti, Gottl, Penel, Bary, Anglares, Conrte. produce more good individual players seems to Germa ny : K. Rlehter, Ahues, E ngels, Carls, triumph, the one exception only confi rming the Rellstab, SaID18ch, Rodl, Heinicke, F.rn st , rule. Michel. • 2~ O NOVEMBER, 1936 Holland: Van Doesburgh, Prins, Felderhof, Switzerland: Naegel!, P. Jahner, Grob, VoeU­ Van Seheltinga, Hamming, Muhl'ing, De Groolo my, Gygli, Staehelin, Pluss, Dikenmann, Or· Cortlevel', Koomen. mond, Strehle. A. Hungary: Maroczy, L. Steiner, Steiner, Yugo~lavia; Pire, Trifunovic, Schreiber, Asz­ Havasl, Szabo, Barcza, Vajda, Gereben, Balogh, talos, Konig, Kostic, Vukovlc, Broder, Tot, Korody.