Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-30
in CHESS CIRCLES
by FRANK B. WALKER

THE final scores In the German
i American tournament, played at
Berlin, Germany, recently were as
follows: Isaac Kashdan of New York,
won S, lost /; Karl Helling, Germany,
won 3la, lost 212; Herman Steiner,
American, won az, lost 3la; Fritz
Saemisch, German, won / "a, lost 3I2.
Kashdan's lost game was because of two
draws scored against him by Steiner,
his fellow countryman.
IMMEDIATELY following the interna-
/ tional tournament at Liege, Belgium,
there will be held a. similar tourna-
ment in connection with the jubilee
celebration of the Frankfurt Chess Club
of Frankfurt, Germany. Twelve play
ers have been invited to participate.
Isaac Kashdan of the United States has
been invited, also Ahues, Cole, List,
Mannheiner, Mieses. Nimzowitsch, Or
ZACH, PRO Przepiorka, Saemisch and
Thomas 1t will be interesting to watch
Kashdan's playing in this tournament
and compare 1t with that of Thomas,
who played at the top board for Lon
don in the cable matches.
NORMAN T. WHITAKER, captain of
~ the Washington team in the Lon
dom Washington cable matches,
says he has asked Edward s. Tinsley,
chess editor of the London Times, to
act again as umpire at London for
Washington in the next match, to be
held March 81.
HOPE has not been given up Of the
4 \ holding an annual tournament by
the Western Chess Association this
year. Norman T. Whitaker is chair
man of the Committee of Arrange
ments, and Is bending every energy to
induce one of the Western cities to
hold the tournament Arrangements
had been made to hold 1t at Akron,
Ohio, but death interferred with
those plans.
THE AMERICAN CHESS BULLETIN
\ gives a list of subscribers, show
ing that $685. was raised in the
East to send Marshall to Hamburg to
represent the United States in the in
ternational team match Word comes
from ST. Louis that $521 was raised by
the friends of j. A. Anderson, the st.
Louis champion, for the same event.
The amounts raised or spent by the
three other players is not at hand.
nROBLEM in three moves, by r.
n
KR4. PS at K2 and OBS pieces.
Black-K at KR8, B at Or Ps at KR2,
KR7 and KS. A difficult problem.
Send solutions to Chess, 1886 MERIDIAN
place northwest
Solution to end-game study by Wit
torio de Barbieri, given last week. KIT
Kt4, P-K8 (Q); R-Q, QxR; Kt-B7ch,
BxKt; stalemate and draw.
ON June 81, the first annual San
~ Gabriel Valley Morphy day chess
carnival was held at Sierra Madre,
Calf. Twenty-eight Southern Cali
fornia cities were represented by 1913
players who participated in the days
events, and 200 more fans came to look
on. Orange County and the Pasadena
Chess Club played team match of II
boards. the county winning by 6l2. to
512 Lieut.. c. H. Whipple. jr., former
ly of this city. took part and won his
game @. S. G. Patterson, Los Angeles
champion. played simultaneously against
AZ boards and won 81, drew 10 and
lost /. Other events were blindfold
playing, simultaneous playing against
women and q lecture on the immortal
Morphy by Harry Borochow, who COM
mented extensively on one of Morphy's
best games.
Nov that Mir Sultan Khan, cham
IN pion of Great Britain, has come to
the front in the Liege tournament,
and especially as he may play for Lon
don next year In the London WASH
ington cable match interest attaches to
his games. Following is the score of a
game played by him at Hamburg in
the international team tournament,
against o. M. Olsen, champion of Nor
way: