Evening star., 1933-03-17
in CHESS CIRCLES
BY FRANK B. WALKER

tors. The club champion Is q. =.
Bishop. The financial condition Of the
club is such that 1t was decided to re-
duce the dues as per cent. 80 that resi-
dent members pay $l.50 per month,
nonresident members, rs cents per
per year. It II believed that this action
will increase the membership.
No match was played in the five-man
team tournament sponsored by the Dis
trict Chess League. Geological Survey
forfeited to Model Basin and withdrew
from the tournament. The score Of
the teams at the end Of the flrst round
is as follows:
M.''hi.- y. {. w. o'n'i: /
s:::;';s:: ss:; :s:s$:: ~ ss':a: IL il H!s il
assIssl;ssi survey; M O., 4. ,x. e a:n.i TX Z
The Junior district championship
tournament Is well under way. 4.
Seidenberg and Paulson, both OF Cen
trail, are tied for first place, each hav-
ing won two games. SeidenbeFg won
from Erwin and Mannion, both Of Tech
nical, and Paulson won from Mannien
of Technical and Magnusson OF West
ern. MagnuSson has won one game
from Mannion, who has not won any,
and Tollson has not played.
A TEAM from Allentown, Pa, re-
n Gently defeated the Military Acad-
emy at West Point, 5 to 2. In the
lineup for West Point was L. de Les
dernier, well known here among the
junior chess players. who won his game.
The next day, the Allentown team
played the strong Marshall Chess Club
team, and was defeated, ~ to IL
w. H. Steckel, Central Pennsylvania
champion, playing board l for Allen
town, defeated A. C. Simonson. one of
the participants in the recent Marshall
Club championship tournament.
At the end Of five rounds in the
thirty-seventh annual champon1hip
tournament Of the Pennsylvania State
Chess Association. the number OF con-
testants has been reduced from 10 to
city, is in the lead with five straight
wins Following him are Sharp, Levin,
Weifner, Ruth, Morris and Hesse, each
Al; Charlsen, Flaccus and Gordon,
each 81. Whitaker recently gave 4
simultaneous exhibition at the German
American Club against 81 opponents,
winning ~. losing and drawing T..
End game No. 7s. from q game,
JanowsN VS.. Schlechter: White-K on
KR, @ on KRIS, Rs on XXI and KKt5,
Kt on KR4. Ps on KRIS. KR3. K4. g.,
QB4, QK3; IL pieces. Black-K on KKt,
G on oKt7, Rs on KH2- and K2, 3 on
OBJ. Ps on KR2, KKt2, KB5, QS, OBJ,
QKt5 and QRS; IL pisces. Black Is
. pawn ahead, and more in sight, yet
White. with the move, wins easily.
Solution to end game No. 70. Rubin
stein vs.. Grunfeld (the r should be
2 RxR, RxR; 5 RxRPch. K-Rl; 1
P1Bs and Black resigned.
Salo Flohr Of Czechosiovakia defeat
ed H. Grob of Berne In . match Of six
games just completed at Aroea. Swiss
mountain resort, by the score Of ~
to ~.
IN the metropolitan chess leagues. 10
i Gated In New York City, Phh.
delphia, Boston. Chicago and Los
Angeles, there are from eight to twelve
teams of from five to eight players each.
gether the strongest players IN each
community. There Is keen rivalry be-
tween the teams.
Here Is the score of game in which
United States Champion Frank ].
Marshall, playing for the Marshall
Chess Club In the Metropolitan League,
New York City, was defeated BY Dr.. M.
Hassialis Of the West Side Chess Club,
who formerly played for Columbia Uni
versity In the intercollegiate Chess
League: