• A merica j C/"e,u 'f/ew:Jpape,. Copyright 1956 by UnlNd ,t.,,,, CheS$ Fede rat Lo n VoL X, No. 12 Monday. February 20, 1956 15 Cents Toledo's Silver Knights Tourney Conducted by P'Wllo" No. 179 Contributed by Won by Dr. Pence, Draws 34 Entries RU SSEll CHAUVENET ABE L R. BOMBERAUL T ;-:::-;:"'" The newly USCF affili ated Toledo Chess Club celebrated the oc· END solutions to Position No. casion of affiliation with a large city tournament drawing 34 entries in S 179 to Russel Chauvenet, 721 the Senior event and 16 entries in the Junior. Dr. Mark E. Pence of Gist Ave., Silver Spring, Md., by Adrian, ?lidl. tallied a 7-0 victory to win the event. Second place went March 20, 1936. WiLh your solution, to Woldemar J. 'Valter of FremonL, O. with 5'h-H2, losing one ga me to please send analysis or reasons Pence and drawing with Hobert J . Henry. Third to scventh on SoB points supporting your choice of "Best wilh 5-2 scores were Fl'ancis H. Ashley, Robert G. Lake, James H. Move" or moves. Cochrane. George E. Robinson, Archie R. Kendall, all of Toledo. Robert Sor""ion to Po sition No. 17' will "p. J. Henry. a!.so of Toledo, was eighth with 4Jf-21h. peilr In the Ap ril 5th, 1956 Issu•. Mrs. Exalena COllins won the ~---,-- woman's title with a 4-3 score as INTERCOLLEGIATE NOTE: Do n,,' p/4(, ,ol"ti<nu to hrO l'an king woman player , and Mrs. RIZE AWARDS pt>,ititnu "n _ c••• ; lot I1lU t. ifttIiCllft Mildred X. Gribbin was SC(»nd P cornrt " ... ",10 .... II/ p#Jilion brinf IO /-ml, with a 2·5 sCOte. In the Junior TIle special prizes for the 1955 .... Ii I;"f the 1,,/1 .... m' uw/ . JJ,en "I event, David Hatch tallied 6-1 to Intercollegale Championship in ,h, 'o/Yf'I' 10 o,.ilt in proper u el/itins 0/ win the title, representing Wash- New York last December have been ,,,lu/wfI, White to play ington Junior High. He lost one awarded as follows: game t·o runner-up A!11.hur_Hateh of Brilliancy 'Prize to Charles Witte B~RNHOLZ TOPS SCHMITT TOPS W.hitmer High who scored 5-2. of Columbia for h.is game a·gainst Third and fourtoh, also with 5-2 Anthony F. Saidy, Fordham, Hon­ PITTSBURGH CITY PUGET OPEN scores, were Joseph Smith of Syl· orable Mention to Edmar Mednis Th e Me<tro~litan Pittsburgh James N. Schmitt scored 5-1 to vania-Burnham High and Thomas of N.Y.U. for his game against AI­ Championship was won by Robert win the twenty player 'Puget Sound Tenney of Ottawa Hills High, while thur Freeman, Harvard. BornhoIz with a score of 4/h-lh. Open at Seattle Chess Club, losing Roger Underhill of W,aite High Be91-Pia.,-ed Game Prize to SheI- koond 'and (;hird wittJ. 4-1 were no games but drawing with Terry plaeed ffit:h with 4Jh-2Y.t. by Lyman of Harvard fQr his game Donak'! Sibbett lIno:l John Hobbs. Nelson and Ted · W'llrtler. SecoI1d The next three places went to anci (hinl with 4 lh. -Ilh. were Hugh Silver -trophies al,d siiver me"aO.', • . ap.inst-Edm.:tr }.te9.nis....NY .l}-H.t>n=.. were -awarded to winners and ooable Mention to Tim Anderson of David Spiro, Everett Coons, and Noland and Dr. G. H. Parker on Glenn Waltz with 3*·1 * scores. Median points. Fourth and fifth other prize winners. Dr. Pence reo Ohio State for his game against ceived an imposing 17*" silver Richard Friede'nthal, Bridgeport. Held at the downtown YM CA, with 4-2 were Ted Warner and Jim McCormick, Jr.. while sixth to trophy, as did Mrs. Collins. David The judges were CHESS LIFE the tournament was SPOIl5ored by Hatch received a 15" trophy; Wal. Games EditDr John W. ColliIl5 and the USCF aifiliated P ittsburgh tenth wUh 3%-2lh. each were Rus­ ter, AShley, Mrs. Gribbin, Arthur Dr. Haro-ld Sussma11.. Che&s Club. A total of twenty-four s~ ll Ve'llias, Daniel E. Wade, Terry players made t his the largest Met- Nelson. Dick Parsons, and Dr. A. A. Hatch and Smith were given 9lh" • ropolitan Pittsburgh to date. Bill MUlTay . trophies. Silver medals WeD! to OKLAHOMA CITY Byland directed the 5 rd Swiss; In I>iacing second Noland lost to Lake, Cochrane, Tenney and Under­ chief kibitzers were club president Schmitt and drew 'With McCormick, hill. In addition silver medals en­ CHESS CONSCIOUS Adam Bert a nd I. A. Horowitz. whilc Dr. Parker of Spokane lost scribed "Silver !Knights Patron" The tentative site of the 1956 Bornholz learned his chess as a to Deane Moore and drew with were given as tokens of apprecia· U. S. Open Tournnment, Oklahoma tion to !\lrs. Ruth Bartram, Mr. and ~I)t h in New York. A-t one time Wade. Wamer lost to Nol-and and City, is a chess conscious locality. he held down fi rst board for New drew with Schmit.t ·and Robert E. Mrs. Robert Beach , Mr. and ),frs. P...eshevsky's 4O·board simultaneous York Univcrsity in the N. Y. Metro­ &lbUl.·g, while McCormick lost to T. Kennetoh Boyd. Mr. and Mrs. exhibition rated a front page col­ politan League. He has been Warner and drew with Noland and Stanley Goscin, Dr. and Mrs. Ed­ umn in the Oklahoma CiLy Times champion of the Pittsburgh Chess Parsons. ward A. Gribbin, Mr. and Mrs, with a three column picture of 18- David J . Gribben, Mr. and Mrs. Club (to-rmerly knovnl. as the Down­ year old Dale Ruth who drew and town YMCA Chess Club) for two PLAN U. S. TEAM Harry Mayo, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Szy· 19-year old Ernie Chace who al­ straight years and he finished sec­ manskoi. Sr., 'and Mr. and Mrs. mOM drew the grandmaster. ond in the strong Tri·State Open TO STUDENT MEET Steven L. Markowski. Max Moldaw­ When Columbia picture star, sky acted as tournament director last year, proving that his' absence Eliot Hearst, president of the Kathryn Grant, in town to plug her for both events. of about 25 years from serious Inlereollegiate C h e s s League, new movie, "The Last Frontier," chess has not meant Joss of skiU. hopes ,to assemble funds to send a played Jerry Spann a ehess game, team of four college undergradu, that 'also earned a three column ates to eompete in the Inte.malional HASTINGS ENDS piclUre in the Daily Oklahoman. KASHDAN AGAIN Student Union Team Tournament in Sweden this April. If funds are IN TIE FOR 1ST CHESS EDITOR raised , it is planned to man the The annual Hastings Christmas I F YOU WANT Grandmaster Isaac I. Kashdan, team with the four top-ranking Congress, scene of Pillsbury's great The USA Represented in an who- some twenty Or more years USCF rMed collegians available. triumph in 1895, saw Victor Kor­ International Event · ago 'MaS associated with the editing Studen.ts who are undergraduates chnoi of the USSR and Icelandic YOU CAN HELP of Ohess Review, has resumed a.n in recognized co-lle·gcs and under Champion Fridrik Olafsson share By contributing to the ' Travel editorial toga to ~ssu me the post of 30 yeal'S old , who may wish to par­ finlt place with 7·2 scores each. Fund for a Team of Four to Ohess Editor of the Los Angeles ticipate in this team match and Boris Ivkov of Yugoslavia finished re present the USA at the Times, succeeding his brilliant pre­ 3rc free to travel in April are re­ third with 6'h ·21h, while grand­ INTE RNATIONAL decessor Herman Steiner in the quested by Mr. HearS t to send him master Mark Taimanov of the USSR STUDENT UN ION TOURN EY writing of one of the most influ­ all pertinent information concern· was a surprising fourth with 6·3. ential and important chess columns in Sweden this April ing themselves and their USCF Other results were: Klaus Darga (A FIDE endorsed event) in the American press. Kashdan's ratings. address 300 West l08th (W. Germany) 4lh -4 lh, J . A. Fuller background both as international St.. New York City. 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SHORT while ago Louis Wolff, T previous column about the possibility of letting Black's pawn ad- cnt's score for losses. In it, as ac. A master of countless Marshall vance almost to the point of queening and yet win with a White Rook cording to Mr.