Vol. VI Number 9 Offj cletl Publicati 011 of jffe Unltecl States (bess federat , \ on Saturday, J anuary 5, 1952 SHER-WIN WINS COLLEGIATE! Hearst Second, Wachs and Kaufman Tie for Third in 23 Player Event New York State Champion James T. Sherwin of Columbia won the Intercollcgiate Individual Championship with a 6-1, drawing in the final round with Saul Wachs of Temple University, the U. S_ Junior Cl1ampiOD. Sherwin also drew with Francis Mechner, also of Columbia, in the semi·final round. Formcr New York Statc Champion and CHESS LIFE columnist Eliot Hearst, also of Columbia, placed second with 5lh-liL Hearst lost a game to former team-mate Sherwin, and drew with Saul Wachs. Saul Waehs of Tcmple and Allen Kaufman of N.Y.U. tied for lhird with 5-2. Wachs, undefeated, drew four games. while Kaufman lost games to James Ricard oC Rensse laer Pol ytechnic and Jamcs Shcrwin. Next ranki ng players in the round Swil>S event wcre J< Tancis Mechner of Columbia and Robert D_ Sobel of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy who lied for fifth with 41,S_2% each. Seventh to cie\'enth with equal 4-3 scores were Herbert Hickman of Haverford, Marvin lWgan of Indiana, Kilrl Burger of Columbiil, .lames Ricard of Rensselaer Poly- technical, and Gil'ard Kay Rosell- bl um of Pcnnsylvani.a_ While not as largo nn event as so me previous lntcl'coll eg iilles, the lourn ament was notahlc in the number of new faces and tions rcpI'es ented (or thc first time in these (lnn"al <,)vents. Fourteen colleges were represcnted, includ- in g players from tridanil, Kentucky ilnd No. Carolina. Sherwin' s victory at Houston Hall or the UniversiLy of Penn- sylvania in I'hihdelphia gives him pos.';Cssion of the Arthur Nabel Mcmoriul Trollhy, now held by Paul L. Di etz oI Pittsburgh_ LEW TRIUMPHS IN MISSOURI Vcteran H. Lew or st. Louis scored 4-1 in the Missouri State Open Chamllionship to win the title on S-B points. Losiilg no games, Lew drew with Ii. Steinmeyer and A. C. Ludv.·lg. Second on SoH with 4-1 former Sla.Le Champion R. H_ Sleinmeyel', who drew with Lew and W. M. Byland_ Third place on S-B points with 3 I h -l % went to USCF Vice-Prcsi- dent W. M. Hyland o[ Pittsburgh. Byland lost to K R. Smith of Dallas and d,'Cw with Steinmeyer. Fourth with 31,2-1% was Walter Grombacher of Chicago, who lost to Steinmeyer and drew with E. Godbold or SL Louis_ Five sl ates were rcpresented in the 14 player 5 round Swiss event, held in St. Louis. BRAUER TAKES MIDLAND CITY Alvin Brauer won the double round Midland City Championship with a 7-3 s<:ore, losing one game each to Charles Starnes and Hans Grether and drawing with Starnes and Joseph Frank_ Second place went to Walter Cepcla ami Chnrles Starnes.in a tic at 6-4 each. Cepela l ost twice to Brauer and oncc each to Slames all d GI·cther. Starnes lost a game apiece to Cepeia, Frank and Frank Mk hliek, and drew a game cach wilh Bl-auer and Grcth- I er_ u .s. INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIP Final Standings James T. SherwIn (C"lurnbial r ... l Eliot U.ar"t (Cu,umb;n) ........ .. Salll Wachs (Temp)e) .............. _ ........5-2 Allen Kaufman (N,Y.U.) ....... ..5-2 I'rancls 1I1echnct· (Columbia) ...... __ ,. 4':\0-2';' ltnbert D. Sobel (Phila. Pharrl.) 4'h-2'h Herbert Hlckrnan (Haverford) . ___ ..... 4-3 Ma rvin Ros .. n (Indiana) ._ .......... _ .. 4_3 Karl B,,,·,::,,,. (Cult,mb! a) ... . . ... 4.3 James Wean! (Reosselaer) .. .... . ....... ... 4-3 Glnu'lI R<.>s ..,nblurn (P<!nnsy ivania) .. ..4·3 Kit I.:riU", ndcn INo. Carolina) . . _ .3' h _3' h J"",,"h (;o11",r (I' cnllsyl,'anla j Ph ilip ( Cul" ,nbl"l .. ___ ..... G. Ii . W,"' .... IL" f .. y" U .. , .... ,..... 3-4 .1 " Iu. Illr:!XIl I) ............. , ..... , .... J Im ll urk,'"" n<.!I11! ' ·"<.! , ...... 3-4 Wln""'ol' B.,;,,; h ( V"' e) .................. 2' ;".4'h - I v"" Ue ht"'"stlli" (Cohunbl"J ..... 2'h-4'h w. I'" (Hav c ..rurd) ................. 2-5 W Ll!in'll '1'. 1-low",.,1 .. 2-5 LARSEN TOPS 2ND OAHU OPEN II1v1l C, Larson, formerly of Yale, won tlle annual Oahu Open Championsh ip at Honolulu by 6'h - 'h in an 11 player 7 round Swiss event. drew with Charles Po well. Second place with 6-1 went to K. L_ Kum of Honolulu, who losl one gilme to Charles Powell was thjrd with 4%-2%, drawing with LUI'sen but losing to Kum. In the 13 p layer 7 round "B" Class cvent, honors went to Rob- ert L. Cummings with 5-'h-l %, Second place on SoB points went to H. D. Kirschman with 5-2, while Raymond Killgrove of the U_ S. Nuvy placed third, also with 5-2 score. KERES, GELLER HOLD USSR LEAD Alter 16 rounds, Keres ilnd Gel- ler are tied in the USSR Champ- ionship with lOlh;-4-'h each. Smys- lov and Taimanov foHow with 9%- 5-'h each. Then comes PetTo san with 9-5 and Botvinnik with 9-6 . Thc finilll7th rou nd and the re- sults of seven mlioumed games wHl decide the issue shortly_ FERRIS TRIUMPHS IN WOODPUSHERS' Stephen Fen'is with un 11-1 score topped the -Miami Wood- pushers' Tournament, losing one game to Anthony Talarczyk in the round robin event. A. Pederson and Anthony Talarczyk tied for second with 10-2 each. Pederson lost to Ferris and M. E. Ducklcs; Talarczyk to Pederson and Ernest Scheuplein. Tied for fourth with 8-4 each were C. Robert Adamson and M_ E. Dueklcs. Adamson lost to Ferris, Pederson , TuJarczyk :md Duekles; Duckles lost ga mes to Ferris, Tal- al'czyk, Scheupl ein and Victor Emanuel. Position No_ 8J By Robert Brieger Houston, Te xas White To Play And Win! Conducted by William ROjam Send all contrib u tions for thi s column to William Rojam, % CHESS LIFE, 123 No. Humphrey Ave nue, Oak Pllrk, lIIinois_ A Mlm lCAN int:e)Juity has produced very (cw end-game studies be- clluse there tire nlmost 110 end-gume composers In the USA, There- £QI'e, it is :. pteilsuro on this occilsion lo p"csen l two examp les by laten t I'osiiton No. 83 is il n interesting study in which lhe possibilities or stalemate , make White's strategy a lnatter of. very ', carelul planning. Position No. J;:!-::, is not only intercsting but important, for it upsets onc of the general dietil in Fine's Basic Chess Endings. Fine (p . 566) statcs that Bl<lck' R,P and K dl'aw lI gil inst White K ilnd Q, when the Black P is on R3_ MI'. Nash's study would indicate that this is true only when the Black K is on R2_ ' Composer Milos MilrsykQ writes from Prague thai his study No. 89 (December 20, W50) WilS incorrcctly printed and should have had il White P on QKt6. Addition of the P would destroy the suggestion of nusscll Chauvenet and Ne il Bernstein for an alternate solution_ For s olut ions please turn to page fOUT_ :Jt.e CapaUanca Ct. .. " Stamp" By PA ULINE NEAHlNC President, DUalu, CheSS Club O NE of the most fascinating phases oi stamp collecting is selecting a topic, collecting stamps related to this subject and specializing in this respectively_ The personal enjoyment and the vast ilmou, nt of knowledge to be acquired is unlimited_ When Bulgaria, in 1947, issued the first adhesive postage stamp honorin g The Royal Game of Chess, by depicting a "Knight" chessman, not much attention was given to this, excepting by those interested jrJ. "sports s talll!i's," But soon other coun tries issued stamps commemorat- ing world events in chess. 1948, Russia iss ued stamps commemorating " The Chess Championship of the Worl d_" Hungary in 1950 iss ued stamps in , honor of " The World Chess Championship Candidates' Tourn- ament." The same year, Yugoslavia issued stamps commemorating " The Ninth International Chess Team Championship Tournament. " On November 1st, 1951, a . large gro up met in the Post Office, Havilna, Cuba. The occasion was the first day of sale of a series of bi·colored slamps honoring Jose Raul Capablanca, World's Chess Champ- ion, 1921-1927_ These stamps, in seven denominat ions, and four designs, commemorate the 30th anniverSilry of Cupablanca's winning the World's Chess Championship tHle in a mateh with Dr_ Emmanuel Lasker, in Havana_ Senor Alberto Garcia, Director of Club Capablanca, Havana, who originated the idea of the stamps, and selected the color and de· signs, was the speaker for this occasion. . The one ' ccnt regular p<>stage, and the 25 cents air-mail stamp show the picture of Cupilblanca, taken from the famous pain ting by E_ Val- denama in 1938_ The 2 cents regular and the 8 cents air-mail show a later picture of Capablanca, seated at his chess board. The 5 cents regular postage and 10 cents special delivery stamp depict Club' Capa· blanca, in Havana. (This beautiful club WilS made possible 'by a gen· erous contribution of the Cuban Government, and was formally opened in 1947.) The 5 cents air-mail, in green and yellow, from a photo, shows Capablanca's own chess table and board, upon which the match with Dr. Lasker was played_ Chessmen are placed in the exact position of the game when Dr. Lasker resigned, and Capablanea became World Champ- ion, The first day of sale of these stamps exceeded all previous records in Cuba, wi th the exveption of the 2 cents Roosevelt commemorative. Over 50% of the "Fi rst Day Covers" had Ule complete set of stamps. By Nove mber 15th, all of the one and two cellt stamps were sold, and few of the others were to be found in Post OUices. Cl ub Capabl anca issu ed 120 specially designed CQurlesy covers, of which 100 were cancelled first day of issue. The writer was the proud (P lease turn to page J, co I. 2) EARNEST TAKES OKLAHOMA TITLE John Earnest at Tulsa staged an upsct victory to cap turc the Okla- homa State Championship 4*-*, drawing with runner-up John Blair in the final round of the 26 player 5 round Swiss ilt Tulsa. Second to four th on SoB points with 4-1 scores were John Blair of Tulsa, E. N. Andcrson of Owasso and AI Miller of Tulsa, Blair drew with ElIrncst and Anderson; Anderson drew with Blair and Robert Garver, while Miller lost a ga me to Earnest. F ifl h to seven th on SoB with equal 3lh- l' h scores were former champions Robert Garve.· of Tul sa and E_ H. Gill of Oklahoma City, ilnd Bcn Hernan. dez of Normlln_ Miss l\{axinc Cutlip who scored 2-3 for 19th place re- tained the Oklahoma Women's title as ranking womiln player_ In the B Class event, held con ... currently, the title went to Danny Davis of Midwest City with 4-1 on SoB points, losing one game to R E_ Lyon of Midwest City, with 4-1 scores. bul second a nd third on S -U points we l'e Bill Ilealh of Granion and Sander Davidso n oC .'J'ulsa. lost a j!allle to Davis, and O'avldson to T.yon. 10 nlayers contested in the 5 round Swiss event. GRKAVAC TOPS MILWAUKEE CITY .fohn n. Grkavac a fairly recent arri val from ¥ugoslav ill, won the Milwaukee City Chmnpionship (rom a fic ld of 35 plilyers in a 9 round Swiss wilh a score of 7%- 1%_ Grknvae no games, but drew with Arpad Elo, Dr. Wel'hlcy and Wendcll Bulger. Seeond pllJ cc went to former City titlist Averill Powers with 7-2, Powers lost to Gl'kavac and drcw with Elo and Ralph Abrams. Third to sevcnth on s·n points with equal 6-3 scores were former State champion Arpad E. Elo, Ralph Abrams, Marshall Rohland, Frank In busch, and OrviUe Fran- cisco. Of these Frilnciseo is a young player who has very re- cently become locally prominent The tournament was marred by a large number of forfeitUres, but was otherwise a very successfully managed event, notable for the number of new names in the top scoring players. Duting the course of the tourna- ment U. S. Champion Larry Evans visited :Milwaukec to hoI d a 58- board simultaneous.. Evans won 50, lost 2 anel drew 6. The two s uccessrul scorers ilgainst the U.S_ Champion were Averill Powers and Leonids Gaigills. ELO CAPTURES MILWAUKEE SPEED Arpad E. Elo won the 7 round Swiss Wisconsin State Speed Tournament in which 25 players parlieipa ted with a score of 6-1. Second on s-n points wi th 6-1 score was E. Rozkalns of Wilukesha while .T. Kraszewki of Milwaukee was thir'd with 5-2, Fourth to seve nth on SoB points with e'lual 4%-2-% scores were Dr. L_ Young of Madison , L. Gaigals, of Wauke- s ha, and M. Tohland and Gera ld Rutz of Milwaukce_