USCF Vol. V Number 9 Offi ciCll Publicati on of jlie United States (oessfederatl on Friday. January ·5, 1951 • COLUMBIA TOPS COLLEGIATE City College, Twice Vi clor, Takes Second, NYU Third in Sixteen College Team Event Columbia University team, not a top contender in recent years, outpointed the pcrcn ni el victor City College of New York to win the 1950 Intercollegiate Team Championship, sponsored by the Inter- collegiate Chess League and the United States Chess k'ctlcratioll, with a 19lh-8'h game score. City College, vi ctors ill 1948 and 1946, lo st posses- sion of the Harold M. Phillips Trophy by one-half point. finishing sec- ond with 19-9. Third place went to New Yo rk Univers ity with 17lh- 10%. Miami University. showin g un,cxpectcd strengt h, fin ish ed fou rt h with 17-11. Sixteen colleges entered teums into this annual event, und while several familial' names were mi ssillg from the list this year, new fu ees replneed them in entries from Mic hi gan and Case Institute of Clevela nd. Details of the tournament will appcur in the next issue of CHESS LIF E. Fin .. ' Standi ngs C(lh"nhl,1 li n h'c rsi ty . • City Cu ll ege or f\I.,w York ..... •. I!!-!! New VO" k Univf:rslly University ..• ........... . 17-1 1 Mlchlg" " Unl ven;ity , .. . ...... University M Poly. I nst ........ , .... . 16-12 Sy r a(:UiIe .......... . ...... 15-1:! ..... ""' '''1, 1 <) ... . ..... 1I,,,oklyn c.:.,lJe!:c ""hI .. ... ](1·16 Cn ...",11 ..• M""h:,U"" ........... U·20 I' dnc"'"" ........ KERES REGAINS USSR TITLE 'Regih nill. g: \!.<\t <l uce made him the most promising of young Soviel ma sters, Paul Kercs again won the Champio nsh ip 0 [ the USSR at. :1 tOUI'nament in Moscow in which fo ur other gnmd· mas ters compe ted. W;lh losseS It) Alatortsev and Petrosan, und draws with Smyslov, Bondarevsky, Konstanlinopolsky, Lipnitsky, So- kOl sky, Suetin and Tolush, Keres compiled un 11 !h.·5'h score in the 18 phlyer tournament. Second plm:c wilh equul ll - 6 SC01'CS wus slwl"cd hy L. A)"OlIin, I. Lipnit.l;ky, A. 'l'olush. r'i(lh :md sixth were sllared by A. Konslant· inopolsky li nd Vassity Smyslov with 10-7 each. The other grand- ma sters (there were live in the event) did not i lO we ll. Bole· :; Iavsky and Flohr shared a t ic for seventh wilh the bl"il1ianl young Hcller, while could only pl ace in a lie fu r twelfth with Pet roSH n. li'or an undisclosed reason neither Bronste in nor Ko - tov played in the event, although both were ol'iginally announced as entered. ---- L.A. EMPLOYEES HOLD CITY MEET Thc cmployces or the City of Los Angcles held their own cham- pions hip ev ent, conducted by the Departmenl of Wa ter und Power Chess Club; and victory went to Simon Spero of the Bureau 0 f Assessments with on S-B points. Spero lost a ga me to Richard Burkey and d rew with l\Ianuel Kroman. Second place went to C. E. Kodil of t tJ.c Dcpt. of Watcr and Po w"! r, also wit h 81k-Hi, losing to Spero and draw- ing with A. C. Thompson. Joseph Bell oC Water and Power placed third with 7-3, losing games to Spero, Kodil and Kroman. Eight City bu rea us wcre repre· sented in the event, Water and Power, Street OP. and Wid., Public Utilitie s, Fire , Parks und Recreation, Engincel '- jng, and Building and Safety. GILL CAPTURES OKLAHOMA TITLE E. H. Gill of Okluhoma City was victorious in the 5·round, 27· player Orlen Oklahomu Slate Champions hi p with a 41h-lf..: score, d rawing W iUl Peter Mulo. Dr. Bel a Ht}zSU was second on S-B points with 4-1, losing his 1{;IIllC agil inst Gill. A. G. MiliCI" of FL. Wnrth, Tr;X;IS, W:l. tj ll!!r!j Wi lh 1·1, !Q1jl!]o hi s game against Cill; anti H oll- crt McVay, also wilh 4· 1, W:'IS Iourth, lOSing a game to Ilr. noz· sa. eight h wUII 'NII•• 1 scores or 3% -1 1h were J. L. Dietz, Dr. 1\. S. Neal ;1Ilt! CIlb:SS J.IF'g rcviewer Dr. Kester Svend s(' n. Special prizes were awarded I f' . J. L. Die lz a nd It E. Pe nil as the top ("unking junior players in the event. P TAC EK CAPT URES MILWAUKEE TITLE Viclory in the ever strong Mil- wa ukee City Ci"!lImpionship we nt to Marli n Ptacek, all aggressive 25 year old player WllO has bcen stelld il y increasing in perform- ance. By besting Arpad Elc in the final I'otmd, Placek scored 6-1 lop the 7·round 33·pl ayer Swiss, drawing with Al Gl'oves and Murk Surgies. Second place 011 S-D poinL<; went 10 Mmk Slll'Sics wit h 5lh-Hfl, drawing with Ptacek, Eto and Ra lph Ab t·ums. Third and fou rlh resl }(:ctive ly with equa l 5%-Jlh scores we 1 'e A. E. Elo and Averil Powe l' s, while fifth to eighth with 5-2 eneh were }{alph Abrams, Eric Lup1'echt, Jumcs Weidner a II d Geo "ge Hurley. The tournament was sponsored by the Milwaukee Dep:lrtment of Municipal Recrea- tion. DR. LOUIS A. MILLER Tolcdo players were griev- ed by lhe recent death of Dr. Louis A. Miller, promin ent neurol· ogist, who was past president of the Toledo Chess Club and OlIoI" mer Ci ty Champion, Dr. Miller died November 19th at the age of 79. He was a great s tudent of the game and Cor ma ny years had furthered chess interest in Toledo. Nampa (Id aho) Chess Club has been organized under the sponsor- ship oC the Nampa City Recrea- tion Department wh ich prov id es quar ters in the Lakevi ew Park House ill Lakcview Park. OUicen; elccted wcre J erry E. Stankc pres- ident and A. B. Ellis Correspond- ing secretary, 108 21st Avenue South, Naml)a, Ida. OUT OF THIS WORLD .. •. By Fred Wolters "N obody knows !Jow [oll g /.lwy' v{J been "I flyi ng, /Jut it mll .st be (J toug/l OIIC." Rochester (N. Y.) Chess and Che cker Clu b saw the club tine pass 10 John lIasenoehrl, a. Cormer Buffalo champion, wilh 81k-l % score on three draws. Second was Clmss LIFE annotator Dr. M;lX lIc/"I .berger wilh 8·2 and third was CHBSS L Wg Ga me Ed itor Eri ch W. Mareh;Hld wi th 7if.!-2'h in :1 tightly c()ntcstc(\ event. The Ro- t hestel' City Chamllio!lship bcgi ns on Janua l)' (; \.\·ilh Dr. Herzbergcr :IS deCe ndi ng champion. Oh io Uni versity chcss leam held to a draw by the University oI Michigan in a m .. tch nt Colu mbus with Kaplan (Ohio) dra wing against Eucher on OOnrd olle. Straus nnd Church scored the full points for Michig;m while Loening and Wolf gained the Ohio victories. Columbus Un iversity defeated Harvard 2lh-l% to retain the Bel- den-$lephens Trophy in the ClI- y-p League meeting at New York ove r the Xmas weekend with ne i- ther Princeton nor Dartmouth nor Ya le represented this ycur in a collegiate onnual event that dates back to 1892. CHESS LIFE co l- umni st Eli ot Hearst drew fo r Col· umbia on fir st board against . L. Ba um. T. Sherwin and K. nurger talli e4 the lwo wins lor Columbia while N. Bauman saved 0 point for Harvard. Gambit (To ronto) Che ,s C I u b saw Frank R. Anderson become first hold er of the Belson memorial trophy by 21h-Jt2, druwing with Si· emms. R. Siemms placed second in the club championship with 1%· 1112, losing a game to Kerns. J. Greenberg and K. Kerns finished with 1-2 each. Cour l esy: The Des ere! News, Salt L.ke Citro ut th Hart Hoos!) (Toronto) drew:l match with Cornell UniversiLy by a 4·4 score at Hh:lca. Scoring f01" Hart Housc we re R. F. Rod g· ers, W. K. JT;lstings, R. n. Robin· son and D. V. H:lti. Co rnell victors we l 'e .I . Landau, L. TOPl)Cr , L. Slu tsky and J. Windmulle l'. Salt Lake City YMCA C h e s s Club elected S:l1n 'l'cilelllaum pt'es- idcnt, Fan-ell L. Clark vice.presi_ dent, Harold Lundstrom, chess edi- tor of the Dcscl"ct News, seel'c- \.ury, :md e ....l Schack treasurC r. ALTON Y WINS ST. lOUIS LEAGUE With in match score and ]5·9 ill games, the Alton (01.) YMCA Chess Club captured the SI. Lou is Chess League Champion. ship. Willium H. C. Ncwberrv played top board, supported by Math Roth, Will ia m Homan, Ed, Ju hn , Richard Hibbs, Laurence Wescott, Dr. J. W. Chambers and Stuart McGriff. Second place went to Independ· ent Chess Club with 2% -l Yz and 131f.!·10'h in games. YMCA Juniors placed . L hird with 2-2 and Mallin- ckrodt Chcss Club fourth w j t h Ou tstanding individual playcr on top boa rds was District Champion Robert H. Steinmeyer who scored 3%-% for the YMCA Juniors. Another distinguished first board player wa s Mrs. Rlls- lic ll Willi oms of Mallinkrodt with losing only to Stei nmeyer and d1'awing with Newberry. Uvan Hundy of thc Independents scored 3·0 C or best score on the lower boards. STECKEL WINS L.A. COUN TY Aften tcn-year retireme nt, Wil- liam Steck el, Cormer Pe nnsylvania State champion, returned to the checkered board to win the 1950 Los An geles County Championship in an extremely strong field that in cluded 1949 and 1950 State cham- [li ons George Croy and Ray Mar- tin. Losing to John Keckhut and Robert Jacobs, and drawing with Ir ving Rivise, Steckel defeated Almgl'en, Croy und Spiller among other sl l 'o ng contenders to win 7lh-2t,2 in a 21 -man lO-round Swiss. Second place on S·B po in ts wcnt to Ca lifornia Open Champion Ar· th ur Spiller with 7-3, wh Ue Robert J acobs placed third with 7- 2. Spil. lei' lost gumes to Bersbach and Steckel, and drew with Steven and l\1iIrtin. Jacobs lost to Spil- ler and Standers, and drew with Bcrsbach and Ri vise. Irving Riv isc, Sven Almgren and Robert Standen; placed f ou rth to sixth on S-B l)oints with equul (j' /.: ·cHZ s cores, w hil e Ca li lorni ,1 Stnte Cllamlli on Ray Ma rlin was seventh with 6-4. KALEN IAN WINS IN MIAMI CITY Florida State Champion Clar- ence Kalenian added the Mia mi City Chumpions hi p to his Jaurels by winning the 7-round IS-player Swiss tournoment and a play·of! match with Aaron Go ldman. Both finished with 6·1 scorcs in the re gular event, but Katenian won the play-off by a 2·1 score. Thi nl place jn the event went to Stephcn Shuw wi th 5th-11k, whil e Martil! Donon placed fourth with 5-2. N. B. Church, .Charles d\l- Poul, Joe Zucker, Charles Shaw and L. L. QI'kin Iini shed equal 4·3 SCOt'eS in tie fo r fifth plllce. 32 players entered the event, but tbe fi nalists werc re- d uced to 18 contestants. SKE MA TAKES BOSTON TITLE Kazys Skelll,l, fairly recently a rri ved Lithuunian master, cap- tured the Ci ty Champion. ship with 6Ifl ' %, drawing a game with White. Skema placed second em'li er in the year in the New England Championship. Second place went to White with 5·2, lOSing to Mitchell and drawing wilh Skcma and Heising. R eising was third with 41h .21h, and Hal'low Daly placed fourth wiLh 4-3, whilc W.M.P. :MileheU was fifth with 3'h-3lf..:. In the Class B Tournament the victory went to P. Konstauta s, D.n. othel' member of the Lithuanian Chess Club of Boston, with 5- 1. Hadidian was second witb 4¥.! .Hfl and J. Starinskas was third with PLAY BEGINS IN CONN. LEAGUE The Co nnecticut Chess League has begun its season with ten teams of five pluyers each, repre . senting Hartford, New· Hnvcn, Yale, Storrs, Wesleyan, Middle. town, Deep River, Nianti c, :Br is tol and New Britain.