Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-23
IN CHESS CIRCLES
BY FRANK B. WALKER

THE International Chess Congress.
Il held at Liege, Belgium; In conneC-
ton with centennial celebration Of
Belgium, opened with simultaneous
exhibition by Or. Alexander Aekhine,
world champion. He was opposed by %
players. At the end Of three and .
half hours play all had been disposed
Of. Alekhine won 81 Of the games.
The regular masters tournament
commenced on Tuesday and Will con-
tinue for two weeks. There are IL
participants, viz. Sir George A. Thomas
Of England, Mir Sultan Khan, British
and Indian champion; c.. Ahues Of
Germany, E. Cole of Belgium, Frank
j. Marshall of the United States, d.
Przepiorka, "A Rubenstein and s.. Tar
takower of Poland; v. Soultanein OF
Russia, N. A. Niemzowitsch Of Dem
mark, H. Weenink of Holland and
Pilci Of Argentina. Niernzowitsch won
first prize ut the big Carlsbad tourna-
ment last year and probably viii play
Alekhine for the world title in case
Capabianca fails to make arrangements.
In the first round Rubenstein de-
feated Collie In . queens ganibit de-
clined in 40 moves, and sultan Khan
won from Soultanein in an Indian de-
tense after 20 moves. Three games
were drawn, viz: Marshall United
States champion, with Przepiorka; Pilct
with Sir Thomas and Ahues with MINI
zowitsch. Weenink and Tartakower
adjourned after 40 moves, with the posi-
ton favorable TO Tartakower.
In the tournament played ct Scar
borough, England, In June and July,
IL entrants, 66 games were played. OF
jority, were drawn. Greenfield led with
10 draws, Sir Thomas had o, Miss
Menchik, 8; Mitchell. Yares, Winter and
Sergeant, all Of the London team which
played washington. IL between them.
1t seems to be case Of safety frst.
There is no further news about the
proposed match for the world cham
pionship between Alekhine and Capa-
blanca, though both are living in Paris.
1t appears that they are not on friendly
terms It Is related that when Capa-
blanca visited the international team
tournament ct Hamburg In July he
passed by the board where Alekhine
was playing and watched the games at
other boards. II they ever meet again
over the board it win be battle royal.
Playing for France In the team
match tournament at Hamburg in July,
DR.. Alekhine, the world champion, had
as his opponent A. Baratz of Rumania.
On his twenty-fourth turn Alekhine
made mistake which cost him q pawn
and should have lost him the game.
The prospect must have been too much
| for his opponent, who made mistake
and lost on his thirty second move. In
his sixth game for. the. world cham
pionship with Bogoljubow he made q
lapse, as he terms IL, which cost him
the game. Capablapca has made mis-
takes In two games which cost him. q
piece in each garne-irst, playing at ST.
Petersburg in 1914 against DR.. Tarrasch.
and last year ct Carlsbad, playing
against Saemisch. Then DR.. Lasker
made q mistake In his game with DR..
Alekhine, which deprived him Of the
opportunity to win and permitted
Alekhine to draw by perpetual check.
IF these topnotchers make mistakes,
there Is good excuse for those lower
down to. do the same. never heard
Of any one other than Capablanca who
holds that chess has come to be too
easy for good players"
Budapest Is planning another inter-
national masters tournament, to. be
held this year, probably In November.
II Is understood that Capablanca Is to
be invited TO participate.
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End game study by yittoria de Bar
bieri from Christian Science Monitor.
White-K at KRIS, r at OF, Kt at KRIS
% pieces. Black-K at KRIS, B at
QB4, p at K7-3 pieces. White to play
and draw. A profitable, position to
study.
| Solution to the end-game problem
| given last week: R-Bsch; Z ExR,
Kt-Kt6ch; s XXX, Q-K6ch; Z K.o,
| Q-K7ch; s K-B, Q-Ksch; 8 K-B2,
QxBch; z K-B. Kt-K7ch; Ok moves,
QxQ and wins.
N. Bacon Of Takoma Park, Nd, sug-
gests RxPch, but KxR would win for
white.
Jacob Frech, the well known local
| problem solver. has written in regard
| to John Hane's 3-move problem He
| says 1t gave him hours OF pleasure in
unsuccessfully trying to solve 1t. It
generates about 100000 series. After
feeling that ] had examined about
| 765,000 of them, felt that white cam
| not force mate in three moves. For
tunately stated this to friend Norman
T. Whitaker and he glanced at the
problem and in 5h seconds announced
Q-KKt2 to be the key move, and II
| proved to be So" Mr.. Frech attributes
his failure Of success to an ohsession
that Q-B could not possibly be more
effective than Q-B2.
A recent game. played ct scar
borough, England, which 10 interesting