By SAM LOYD WHITE MATES IN THREE MOVES EDITED B Y I. • K ASH DAN IN THIS ISSUE: CURIOUS CHESS FACTS _ _ --- -- - _____ I.CHERNEV WHAT'S THE ODDS? - __ --- -- ----- -I.KASHOAN CONTRACT BRIDGE _ _ ""'" _ _ _ _ --- GEORGE REITH FEBRUARY, 1933 - - MONTHLY 25 cts••• ANNUALLY $2.50 • • .'Jhe REVIEW • I. KASHDAN. Editor in Chief I. A. HOROWITZ, Associate Editor BERTRAM KADISH. Art Director OTTO WURZBURG, Problem Editor GEORGE REIT H, Bridge Editor FRITZ BRIEGER. Business Manager VOL. 1 No. 2 Published M onthly FEBRUARY 1933 • NEWS OF T HE M ONTH • • • • • • • • • • 2 CURIOUS CHESS F ACTS • • • • • • 4 GAME STU DIES • • • • • • • • • 5 WHO'S W HO IN CHESS • • • • • • • • 9 GAME DEPARTMENT • • II LOOKING A H EAD • • • • • • • • 19 H ELPFUL H INTS • • • • • • • • 20 END GAME ANALYSIS • • • • • • • • • • • 21 ANALYTICAL COM MENT • • • 22 W HAT'S THE ODDS • • • • 23 ~ CONT RACT BRIDGE • • • • • • • • 25 MISTAKES OF THE MASTERS • • • • 26 P ROBl.:EM REVIEW • • • • • • • 29 Publisht'd monthly by Chess Review Yearly subscription in the United -States $2.50 60-10 Roosevelt Avenue, W oodside , N . Y. Elsewhere $3.00 - - - - Single Copy 25 cents T elephone HAvemeyt'r 9-3828 Copyright 1933 by Chess Review CO NTRIBUTING EDITO RS, I FRED REINFELD - - - - - - - - - _ _ - _ ARTHUR W . DAKE REUBEN FINE - _ _ - ,.I... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ DONALD MAcMURRAY BARNIE F. W INKLEMAN - - ~ - - _ _ _ _ _ _ LESTER W . BRAND • I j 2 T H E C H ESS REV I ,EW FeBRUARY, 1933 round, however. he lost to Michell. striving NEWS OF too hard for a win, which left him in a tie , (or third with Lajos S teiner. THE MONTH In the Pre,m ier Reserves T ournament the leaders were: J. RtiBr . .......... 7).1 - 2).1 HE 13th Annual Christmas Congress L. Rclbtab ...... 6).1-3).1 T of the Hastings and St. Leonards Max W alter ... ... 6).1-3Yz Chess Club was held at Hastings, En9 ~ G. K ol t anow~k l .. 6_4 land, between December 28 and January T he Hastings Tourna ment is gaining 6. T he winner of the Premier event was each y~ar in prestige and traditional value. Sa10 Flo hr, of Czechoslovakia, who was T he Committee is leaning towards the also the victor the previous yea r, The youDger players , many of the most prom ~ competition was quite close, as the table ising receiving their Arst chance in these will show. V asja Pice, young Jugoslavian. competitions. Flohr has a perfect record ran him a good race for awhile, but fa1. in Hastings. In 1930 he played in the teted a bit towards the end. Sultan Khan Premier Reserves. winning handily in that started out with two losses, to Flohr and section. In 193 1. advanced to the main Pice. H e then' won 5Yz out of 6 to as· event, he made the Ane score of 8 ~ 1 , with ~ , sume a threatening position. In the last ,ou t the loss of a game. SCORE OF THE H ASTI NGS T OU RNAME NT I 2 3 , 5 6 7 8 9 10 T otal I Salo Flohr . .. - ~ I I ~ ~ I I I ~ 7 2 V. Plrc . •. .. ~ - ~ I I I I ~ 0 I 6~ 3 Lajos Stei ner ... .. .. ... ...... 0 ~ - ~ I I ~ 0 I I 5!1 , Sultan Khan . .. 0 0 ~ 0 I I 1 I I 5Yz 5 R. P. Miche;l ......... .. ....... ~ 0 0 I ~ ~ I ~ ~ 4% . - 6 . C. H. O' D. Alexande r ... ....... ~ 0 0 0 ~ 0 ~ I 1 3Y2 - , 7 Vera Menchik .... .. ... ........ 0 0 ~ 0 ~ I - ~ I 0 3).1 8 Sir G. A. Thomas .. .... ........ 0 ~ I 0 0 ~ ~ - ~ ~ 3.Yz 9 E. M. I Jackson ................. o · I 0 0 ~ 0 0 ~ - 1 3 10 T. H. T ylor . ~ 0 0 0 ~ 0 I ~ 0 - 2~ Professor Albert Becker scored a good American Chess, a nd attracts the s tro n g ~ victory in the fi fteenth annua l Leopold est players available, Abraham Kupchik. T rebitsch T ournament in Vienna. H e often title holder in the past, and Robert didn't lose a game in a strong fi eld. Young Willman, formerly of the City College Erich E liskases. who defeated .Spielmann team. tied for first. They are to play off in a match recently. tied for third with the tie in a supplementary match of three H oenlinger. :fhe leaders were: games. Following are the leading scores: Prof. A. Becker . 9_2 A. Kupehik .... .. 9.Yz - 2J.1 E. Gruenfeld . .... 7Yz - 3J.1 R. W ill man .. ... 9J.1-2).1 E. Eliskases ... ... 7_' 1. A. Horowilt . 7J.1 -3J.1 B. HoenlinQer .... , 7_' A. S. Pink us ..... 6J.1 -iY2 • • • D. MacMurray .... 6_5 After a lapse of two years. during which E. Schwartt ..... 6_ 5 1. Kashdan retained the title, the M a n ~ • • • hattan Chess Club resumed its annual Charles Jaffe. the internationally known Championship T ournament. T his is usu~ master. is celebrating his fiftieth birthday ally one of the b l ue ~ rjbbon events of next month. His friends are arranging • FEBRUARY. 1933 THE CHESS REVIEW 3 a concert and chess spectacle in his honor. and the vicinity. An imposing list of names is on the com ~ • • • . mittee. They ace Frank J. Marshall. U . Dr. Alekhine had a n enjoyable visit in S. cha mpion. ' Ha rold M . Phillips. Presi­ Honolulu. stopping oH for two exhibitions dent of the Intercollegiate C hess League. on his tour around th e world. ·On January Alfred Krc:ymborg, well-known poet and 3 he played 20 simultaneously. including chess player, Jacob Berp-stein of the Stuy­ two blindfolded games. The champion vesant C hess Club. and E. Farago of the won them all. He played fifteen blind~ Rice Progressive Chess Club. fo lded the next day. the results of which Besides the musical part of the program. are not yet at hand. the main attraction 'is to be a living chess • • • spectacle. with Jaffe and L Kashdan con­ I. Kashdan gave an exhibition at Read ~ ducting the pieces. The idea is to have ing. Pa .• on Ja nuary 16. He won 46 and a limit of 20 seconds per move. which will lost I. There is great interest in chess in call fo r quick action on the part of the this region. A match is to be played at gayly costumed figures. Reading between Lehigh County and Jaffe , has had an active career botq as Berks County. The sponsors claim ' there player and writer of chess. His successes will be at least a hundred players on each in Metropolitan T ournaments are numer­ side. ous, and he has victories over D r. Lasker, • •• Cap3:blanca. and others of the greatest Herman Steiner of New York gave a masters to his credit. monster simulta neous exhibition at the Los , . Angeles Athletic Club on January 7. He played 80 board s with four players at The M etropolitan Chess League of each table. His score was excellent-70 New York will start its season Febru­ wins. 7 losses. and 3 draws. Steiner re­ ary 4. T welve teams have entered the mained in Los Angeles after the Pasadena competition this year. The first round • Congress last August. According to the will bring together: West Side Y. M . C. la test reports he finds chess in a very A. vs Queens Chess Club; M anhattan healthy, thriving state t!lere. and means Chess C lub vs Columbia: H ungarian to stay indefinitely. W orkers ' vs Scandinavians; Marshall • •• • Chess Club vs New York U nive rsity; Plans have been perfected for a tel­ Empire City vs International C hess C lub. ephone chess ma tch between Boston and C ity College vs Caissa C hess Club. and Philadelphia, to. be played early in T here will be eleven rounds of play. on February. The teams will consist of ten Saturday nigh'ts. T he Manhattan and men each. The sponsors are the Boston Marshall Chess Clubs have shared the City Club. and the Mercantile Library leading honors for several years: Their Chess Association of Philadelphia. meeting in the fina l round is awaited with • • • •• keen interest. • • • • Jose R Capablanca is about to come out of his retirement in ' Havana. He plans The 37th Annual Pennsylvania C hess to visit Panama, and later will proceed to C ha mpionship Tourney will commence California. where he expects to arrive. February 22 at the Benjamin Franklin some time int March. He may stay there Hotel in Philadelphia. This is a time­ for a while. and then if there is enough honored event and is awaited eagerly by interest. will tour across the country. the rabid chess players of Philadelphia Continued on page 32 '- • , THE CHESS REVIEW PEBRUARY, 1933 9. In the match played between Euwe CURIOUS and Reti in 1920. Reti sacrifled two rooks in one game and followed it up in' the CHESS FACTS next game by sacrificing ·two rooks again, By I. Cherney winning both games brilliantly. 10. Possibly the most incongruous 1. The shortest tourney game ever profession for a chess master was that of played occurred between Gibaud and F. Harmon isl, royal ballet dancer. I:.azard in a tourna ment for the champion~ 11 . Mrs. Gilbert. of Hartford, Conn., ship of Paris. The moves were: playing 2 games of chess by correspond~ I P-Q4 Kt-KB3 ence with Mr. Gossip. announced mate in ' 2 Kt_Q2 P-K4 35 in 1 game and mate in 21 in the other. 3 PxP Kt-Kt5 12. In a match between Schlechter and • 4 P_KR3 Kt-K6 Tarrasch played in 1911 at Cologne, 5 Resigns.