Vol. IV Tuesday, Number 20 Offj ciCll Publlcatioll of me Unltecl States (bess Tederati on June 20, 1950 USA WINS BORDER MA-TCH! NIAGARA FALLS Position No. 31 Position No. 36 Final Call For Detroit As Open Nears; Foltys vs. GHgoric Kovacs vs. Beni SEES TEAMS TIE Venice, 1949 Vienna, 1949 SPECIAL: The USA won the sec­ ond Annual USA-Canada 3000 Mile Let Your Vacation Plans Include Chess Border Match by a 120lh to 721h Arrangements for ihe 51st Annual Congress of the Uniied States score, although the largest individ· Chess Federation and the U. S. Open Championship, Woman's Open ual contest at Niagara Falls, Onto Chllmpionship and U. S. Lightning Chess Championship Tournaments are ended in a 47·47 draw. Matches in completed; and every player is assured a fine time at what promises the Coast-to-Coast event were play· to be one of the finest of a long line of Open Tournaments. ed June 18 at Bangor, Me; Ber lin, Hermann Helms, the "dean of American Chcss" and Editor of the N. H.; Niagara F'alls, Ont.; Detroit, American Chess Bulletin, will ofIiciate as Tournament Director, as­ Mich.; Grand Marais, Minn.; and sisted by Malcolm Sim, chess editor of the Toronto Telegram, and Mount Vernon, Wash. Flood con­ USCF Membership Secretary Glenn E. Hartleb. These oHicials assure ditions in Manitoba cancelled the the player of a s mo~thly conducted meeting, running efficiently usual Minneapolis-Winnipeg con­ throughout the course of t he tournament. test at Detroit Lakes, and apparent­ The Federation was very fort· ------------,--­ ly the scheduled match at Interna· u.s. Open Champion Albert tional Peace Gardens, Dunseith, unate in being able to cn1ist Mr. N. D. was not played. A match be· Helms as director when Hans Sandrin plans to defend his title at the Tournament, and letters tween Alberta and Montana will Kmoch had to cancell his engage­ be held at Glacier Park, Mont., ment as Tournament Director in from New York indicate that an unusually strong and interesting on July 2nd. order to sail for Europe to un­ \.ISA T~am Canadl u Tea m dertake the organization and di­ group can be expected from that Wa.ohington ...... __ .. 28 JJritioh 001. ...... _.. 14 Finish It The Clever Way! llinn...au. .. _.. _...... UII Ontario ...... ___... _.... 1 rection of the International Team area; P uerto Rico will send a Miehigon .... _..... ...... _.. 6 Ontario .... _.... _.. .... __ .. 2 Tournament in Yugoslavia. Mr. de legation, and due to the close­ :Conducted by Edmund Nash Ohio, P a., N.Y ...* 41- Ontario .... __ .... _...... ..47 ness to the border, and except­ Sond . 11 c01Ilributlon, for t~r l column lo Edmund Null, 1530 21th PII.(:I, S-E •. .N. lIam polli,.., .. _ ..161 Quebec _.__ .......... __ .. S! Sim i~ in a sense coming home, W.. hlnuton 20. D. C. I Maine .... ~ ..• __ ... __ ... .s! The Maritimes ........ ! for he directed the first bonafide ionally strong entry from Canada is expected. N POSITION NO. 35 White resigned after Black's first move. Most of USA .... _ .............. l20l Ca"ada ......... _..... 'r2ii Open Tournament of the Federa· I us, of course, if playing White, would have waited until Black's Details of match will be publish­ tion, held at the Lawson L in Chi­ Present indications show that combination unrolled for several more moves before resigning. ed in next issue. (",,0 fll HJ~4-nlld fa wull known the tlltIles wf1l not be neglected, In position No. 36 White forces mate in 6, unless Black gives up ror hill work as director or the ror IIdvllllce notices 1>l"Qmisc an his Queen. This position is taken from the Viennese Sehach-Magazin New York Stale Tournaments unusually strong gathering of (November, 1949), the most enjoyable German-language chess magazine MANHATTAN CLUB {or many years, as well as for women players to compete for the that has come to my attention. his ac ~'\"~ 10le ..,t t::e U.S. Champ· :;-, :CII c"bb Trophy bm\ the U .S. Corr e ~l hm ; 1/: Positior, No. 34 a BlilCk Pawn !:;,hould be on BUlck's DOWNS MARS,HALL lonshlp a ~ South I ~n ll sburg in \'v'om;m's Open Championship. Q3. 1 With the championship of the 1040. Glenn Hartleb will Ix! re· Mizs N. May Knrrf, present title­ Please turn t~ page four for solutions. Metropolilan Chess League of New membered for his uxcc llcnl work holder, has indiented thllt she I York at stake, the Manhattan as Assistllnt Oit'ector at the U.S. nULY be expected to defend the MARTIN, SUESMAN TABER WINS OPEN Chess Club triumphed over the OPCIl at Dmah;1 in 1949. tiUe won at Baltimore in 1948. Marshall Chess Club 9-7 in a spec· TIE IN R.I. MEET KIMPTON, IDAHO tacular match which saw A. C. Albert C. Martih of Providence, Former Nevada State Champion Simonson come from retirement to defending champion, and Walter William F. Taber won the Idaho best Samuel Reshevsky, while Reu· B. Suesman, chess editor of the Open Championship with 6'h­ ben Fi ne gained his revenge from Providenee Journal, tied for first P h in an 8·round 14-man Swiss A. S. Denker for Denker 's spec. place in the Rhode Island Stale event at the Rogerson Hotel, Twin tacular win in the 1944 U. S. Cham· Championship with 5·1 each. Third F a l1~ . Second place and the Idaho pionship which did much to cost place went to P. P. Chen, also of State Championship went to La· Fine the U. S. title. Providence, with 2·4, and William VerI Kimpton of Twin Falls with The match assembled what was Kiraly of Woonsocket was fourth 6·2 on $oB points. Placing third possibly the greatest group of with ().6 in the double·round event. and fourth r espectively on S·B American " name" players ever to Martin and Suesman each won one points with equal scores of 6·2 as be gathered together for a single game from the other, and two e,teh well were G. Buckendorf of Buhl team contest. Two (ormel" U. S. from the othel' contestants. The and Lloyd Kimpton of Twin Falls. Champions, one U. S. Junior Rhode Island Chess Ass'n's first Fifth place went to 1949 Champion Champion, one former U. S. Inter· championship was held in 1887. C. W. Stewart o£ Boise wilh 51h- collegiate Champion, and five for­ The C l a~s "A" Section of the 2'!.!. me r U. S. Open Champions were State Tournament was won by Jo­ Among the players was Don among the contestants. seph S. Wholey, Jr. of Stillwater Crawford of Boise, who placed sev­ with 4..(). Wholey is 15 years old enth, despite the handicap 01 blind­ und another promising junior play­ ness. Crawford used a special peg· NO. CALIF. WINS er. Second place went to Carl board and is a consistent tourna· BY TIGHT SCORE Grossguth of Cranston, 14 years ment player. GalCf>'ay 10 lhe Fo,d Empirt al Detroil, .md Ont 01 many 'mpot'ng beardi_ old, with 3·1. Gilber t Boisvert of At the annual meeting of the By the slim margin in a 45-board ,ui buildings in tbe aulomobilt tapilal 01 lbe world-Junl 0/ the 1910 U. S. North Providence was third. Idaho Chess ASSOC iation, LaVer! match of 241J.:-20Y.!. North Calif· Open Chtlmpiomh;p ill J,,/y. The Rhode Island Rapid Transit Kimpton was elected president and ornia triumphed over Soulhern title was won by Walter Suesman D. Murphy of Twin Falls secretary.. California at San Luis Obispo in with 101h.'h. OUo Hoffer of Provi· treasurer. Boise was selected as tbe most recent of this historical dence wa ssecond with 10.. 1, and the site for the 1951 State Tourna. series of matches. The South won Albert Martin third with 9·2. ment. tcn out of the first thirteen boards, but lost the match on the lower IVOMEN'S boards. USCF Vice-President Her­ CHAMPlONSHIP man Steiner won on board one, CANDIDATE while USCF Vice·President J. B. Miss Juli~tte D~ Mea, Gee lost on board eight. On thc 19, you"gul m,mIH, 0/ top boards Steiner, Martin, Cross I/', Qrlrttr'I Wom,n's and Borochow scored for the CheH Club in Cln-,land, South whiJe Falconer and Barlow ;s 41 $ophomOTt til Slau/· garnered points for the North. lu ColI,gt, mdioring ,n $O€;dl ...or.\:. She pfans to play '" the USA. SAVE THESE DATES! Cdnadd MaldJ 411 Nitl8. tI,a Fdllr On Jun, 18th Last Week of July d"d hopes to enter Ihe FOR THE U. S. Womert's Open Tournament dl DtI,oi/ 5th Annual U. S. in July, log,tln, .,ith uverdl ol/'er members of Junior Tournament SITE OF 1'1-11:: HJI U. S. O PEN CHAMPIONSHIP - - AT __ tbe al/· ... omen Que,n In the 10tfg,ound, II. Delroi,·Ldand Houl, Headqua,urs 01 tbe Tournd· Cheu Club. Aside fro m ment. AbM't a7ld to Ih~ right (the bu ildirtg iu<1 above tM "Debo;t" in Ihe houl MILWAUKEE, WIS. chtss, Miss D, Mco sign) ;s 'he Se,viu B.. i/Jill8 0/ Ihe Dwoit Edison Com,.., .. y alld homc 01 II., F.Of d,taJll: .,Il, E,n,d Olf• • DIP I. of Edison Ch,u & Chcdcu Club, . ,hcrt II., lourntlm,nl ,.,ill bt h,ld. pld}'1 Iht ~ioli". P",motlcn and RaJ.. ,ch, Mllw.uk .. Jou,na' Milwaukee 1, W i,.