• , • . , • HONOR PRIZE PROBLEM .;. GEOFFREY MOTT-SMITH New York City " , WHITE SELF·MATES IN FOUR MOVES THE OFI;ICIAL ORGAN OF THE AMERICAN CHESS FEDERATION ,'Ii THE HOROWITZ-KASHDAN. MATCH CHESS IN THE SOVIET UNION A. v. R. O. TOURNAMENT • RESHEVSKY • CAPABLANCA > KOLTANOWSKI • RABINOWITSCH • CHENEY - NOVEMBER. 1938 MONTHLY 30 cis. ANNUALLY $3.00 'Jbe EN PASSANT A. V.R. O.TOURN AMEN T T ime, tide and our printer wait for no man. Much as we would h ave liked to include a. game from the fi rst round, it has proven im. possible. We shall of course, publ ish ef'et')' gal/l e in our next few issues. W e have made REVIEW arrangements to secure all the highl i ght~ and OFFICIAL O RG/IN OF THE human interest features that may occur. A MERICAN CHESS FEDERATION Our last m inute report was received by short wave wireless from Holland. All the famous Editon: chess masters with the exception of Capablanca, ISRAEL A. HOROWITZ who was detained in Paris, gathered in Am. sterdam to draw lots for the pairi ngs. Chair. SAM UEL S. COHEN man Clercq of the Aig Vereen Radio Omroet Tournament Committee made the formal wel. AfJoc;ale Editor5 : coming speech . Dr. Max Euwe of Amsterdam, FRED REINFELO former World Champion, and Dr. Alexander BARNIE F. W INKELMAN A lekhinc of Paris, the titleholder, responded briefly in behalf of the players. Dr. Alekhine Problem Editor: announced that he wotdd feel ""der no obliga. R. CHENEY tion to play the willller ill a title lIIatch. At the same time, he stated hiJ willillgneu to elicolllltel' allY one of hi.l lel/oll' contestallts Vol. V I, No. 11 Publhhed MOllthi), November, 193 8 if he would comply with his known conditioliJ. The results of the drawing follow : N o. 1: D r. Max Euwe, T he N etherl ands. En Passant 253 N o.2: Salo F lohr, Czec hos lovakia. N O. 3 : Dr. A l exander A l ek hine, France. The Horowitz.KashJan M atch 256 N o. 4 : Reuben F i ne, United Stat es. N o. 5: D r. M i khail Botwinnik, Russia. My Favorite End.Game Compositions 260 N o. 6 : Samuel Reshevsky, U nit ed States. N o.7 : Jose R. Capablanca, Cu ba. Cross Country 261 N o.8 : Pa ul Keres, Esthonia. T he fi rst round pairings will be Flohr vs. Would You Have Seen It? 264 Capablanca; Alekhine vs. Reshevsky; Fine vs. Chess In the Soviet Union 265 Botwinnik ; Euwe vs. Keres. In each instance the first named player receives the white pieces. Miniature Games 268 Novelty is the Spice of Letter Problems - 270 "SAM MY" RESHEVSKY TAKES A BOW Problem Department 272 It is not our desire to " muscle in" on the Problern Department. But we just can't over_ come the temptation to let the chess world in Published mOlllhly by THE CHESS R EV JEW, 55 We~ ( on a good story. We offer the .following 420d St., N ew York, N . Y. Telephone W isconsin evidence to justify our act. YON be the jury. 7_3742. Domestic subscriptions: One Year $3 .00 ; Some time ago one of our readers from the Two Years $',50; Five Years $ 12.'0: Six Monchs state famous for Wenatchee apples mailed us $1.75. Single copy 30 CIS . Foreign subscriptions: $3.50 per year except U. S. Po,sessions, C an~ d ~, Mex· a letter alld a four move problem. And what ico, Central and South America. Sin;;le cop)' 3~ ct., . a problem! T ime and again we've solved Copyright 1938 by THE CHESS REVIEW four movers, and we expected to take this one "Entered a, second·class maner January 25, 19:.7, at in stride. But hold, we read further-and we the POSt office at New York, N. Y., under the Act learned that three long years had been spent of March 3, 1879." in attempts to unfold its intricacies. Our fi rst impulse was to '"file" the letter. ' Three long years", we pondered. Pe ~ h aps CONTRIBUTING EDIT ORS: it has no solution. To throw good time after LAJOS STEINER N. I. GREKOV bad would indeed be a pity. Indecision and J. B. SNETHLAGE IR VING CHERNEV hesitation gripped us. And while in this mud. JAMES R. NEWMAN D. MAcMURRAY died state, in walked America's premier p roblem PAUL HUGO LI TTLE ED ITH L WEART solver, Isaac Kashdan. Slyly we palmed off 2>3 254 THE CHESS REVIEW the task. "How would you like to try your Presenting an outwardly (]u iet and dignified hand at a four mover?" we <Iueried. "Set it exterior, ther are both in reality full of dynamic up", responded K. And even before we .had energy. Mrs. Koltanowski has done wonders the position completed, we wefe presented with in arranging exhibitions for her talented lms_ the solution. "This is a creatioll of Havel", band. A business woman to ,her fingertips, remarked K, "and is one of the prize problems yet she is amiable and charming. From ac _ in my collection of miniatures", COUntS that have reached uS we know she has Such depth, such difficulty, such beauty . .. left no stone untutoed to make her husband's we marvelled. That explains the three years. tour a success. And she has done it in so But the re is more to tell. Some one should tactful a manner that she has made many friends. be made to solve this, we mused. Who? And And what about Koltanowski himself? A as luck WQu id have it, who should happen colorfu l personality. Friendly, full of interest_ along, but "Sammy" Reshevsky. "Bet you fifty ing experiences, inclined to look upon rhe cents you can't solve this four mover in an whimsical side of life. hour", say we. "It's II bet", says "Sammy" . A few days after our first meeting we had It would have done your 'heart good to watch the pleasure of lunching with him and hearing him. For thirty_five minutes R hovered over some of ,his tales. He told uS about his -pre_ the board~not touching a single 'Piece ~ his parations for his exhibition in Winnipeg. How forehead cupped in the palm of ,his right hand he had been told that it would be terrifically (a characteristic pose) - not even moving an cold and arrived there dressed in a heavy fur eyelash. And then .. seven distinct vari_ coar. Actually the temperature proved to be ations were ratt led off. quite mild. He had to go around withOtlt Try it. even a topcoat. He ~howed us two photo_ M. HAVEL graphs to prove his point. Both wece taken in Winnipeg. One shows him wrapped up like a bear with just the tip of his nose and eyes showing. The other shows him without a coat sitting on a bench in the open air with Rowers growing nearby. Then he switc,hed over to his exhibition at the Marshall Chess Club a few days pre_ viously. He mentioned how proud it made him feel when Dr. Emanuel Lasker shook him by the -hand and said wistfully, "r wish I had played chess the way you do," He reo alized that Dr. Lasker was referring to the type of chess he plays, not the quality. He found it difficult to describe how happy he felt to learn that the great former World Champion \Vhite envied him his knack of absorbing the humor Mate in 4 in chess and distilling it for the benefit of the chess world. Blindfold Exhibition MR. KOLTANOWSKI COMES TO TOWN Marshall Chess Club The door was open so they stepped right in . New York-October 31, 1938 It was the noon hour. Our faithful steno was ENGLISH OPENING out for a snack. We were in our inner sanctum G. Koltanowski Anderson giving a chess Jesson- of all things! Naturally, While we took some time before inquiring who was Black 1 P.QB4 P_K4 14 QxKt Kt·R4 there. Under such circumstances did we first 2 Kt.QB3 Kt_KB3 15 P_K4 KtxB meet Mr. and Mrs. Koltanowski. 3 Kt.B3 Kt·B3 16 PxKt Q·Kt4 W e cannot say thar we were surprised to 4 P_Q4 P.P 17 P-B4 Q_QB4 see them. We had received advance notice 5 KtxP B.Kt5 18 P_B5 P.QKt3 6 B·Kt5 BxKtch 19 K.R2 B_Kt2 that they would stop in some time during the 7 PxB Kt·K4 20 R·B4 QR_K1 day. But we can say that it was a pleasure 8 P.K3 P_KR3 21 R_K1 P·Q4 to make their acquaintance. A charming pair 9 B·R4 Kt_Kt3 22 BPxP B.P - at first glance no different from many other 10 B.Kt3 O~O 23 P-B6 P·Kt3 "i1 B.Q3 P.Q3 24 Q_Q2 B_Kt2 couples we know. But in this case appearances 12 0·0 Kt·K4 25 R·B5 Resigns are deceptive. 13 p.B3 KtxB NOV E MBER , 1938 • of the International Team Tournament next summer and hopes 10 play as a member of > the Belgian Team. A summary of his exhibition results to dale follows: • < Plac e X. < ~ > o o •~ ~ o Quebec, Ca nada "S ", o Que bec, Cana da B 5 , o T oronto, Ca nada B " , 4 Londo n, Canada B "8 o , W innipeg, Canildil S 20 , 3 W innipeg, Canad a B 8 o , Milwa u kee, W is. S o , Milwaukee, Wis. B "3 o , C hicago, I II.