Evening star., 1951-02-11
Chess
By Donald H. Mugridee

By Donald H. Mugridee
At long last, a match has been
arranged between the two Amer
lean grandmasters. Samuel Re-
shevsky and DR.. Reuben Fine, at
the Manhattan Chess Club. The.
time limit, however. is surprisingly
fast for a contest OF this kind: 20
moves in the first two hours.
Neither player could keep up with
it In the first game, and moves o.
40 were played in rapid transit
style. Reshevsky, who excels In
this sort of thing, scored after AZ
moves on the black side Of a MINI
zoindian Defense.
The District champion, Hans
Berliner. during his recent visit
to New York took part in the
weekly rapid transit tourney at
the Marshall Chess Club. With ~
entries in single round robin. 1t
was a marathon affair. Berliner
tied for second, point behind the
winner. The top scores: James T.
Sherwin, 1913: Berliner and Eu-
gene Shapiro, 22-4; r. Einhorn,
20R-512; Karl Burger and Sol
Rubinow, 18a-71a. Back in
Washington, Berliner was nosed
out by an even narrower margin In
the Washington Chess Divan's
weekly rapid on February S.
The scores: D. H. Mugridge, 8h-
11a; Berliner, 3D.; C. D. Mott and
N. Robins, 7-3; S. Naidel, 51a-4h;
K. A. Baer, 41a-5la; M. Shultz. A.
Is; H. v. Klein, M. Kurtz and D. F.
Stetzer. 31a-61a, and F. M. Dubois,
I0-lO.
| Since the 18th and last round
fell on February 3, the divan
championship tourney should be
over, but is not because of ad-
journed or postponed games.
Seven remain unfinished at this
writing and the disposition of the
prizes depends upon their out
come. Four players have finished
their schedules. George S. Thom-
as was compelled by business rea-
sons to forfeit his four remaining
games, against Nash, Rice, Robins
and Underwood. He takes 18th
and last place with Oil. John
r. Rice had long and hard strug-
gle with Ernest M. Knapp in a
Ruy Lopez in round 10, but even
tually went wrong in the ending.
He finishes in 18th place, with
112-912. Hugh C. Underwood
picked up at the finish. He was
outplayed in a knight ending by
Russell Chauvenet in round 10,
but won his adjourned game from
the 9th in a crisp finish against
Florencio M. Campomanes.
Campomanes, menaced by mat
ing threats, effected an exchange
of queens, only to have Under
woods passed KIP crash through
to the 9th rank. In the last round,
Underwood played aggressively
against Edmund Nash's Kings
Indian and soon reduced the game
to a knight ending which he was
content to draw. With the extra
point garnered from Thomas for
felt, this brought Underwood's
score to 32-712; his place de-
| pends upon what Nash does in his
two unfinished games.
| Eugene SadoWski's last three
games had the same sharpness as
their predecessors. In round 9 he
lost a piece to Knapp, and ad-
journed in hopeless position,
which was duly lost. In the 10th
he secured winning advantage
against Robins, but failed to turn
it to account, and after much
maneuvering permitted himself
to be checkmated. In the 18th
he tricked Campomanes out of a
piece. and was conceded the point
without resumption of play after
an adjournment. Sadowski thus
finishes with 6-5.
The unfinished scores: H.
Berlinger, 80, to play; M. C.
Stark, 712-212. to play; r.
Chauvenet, and E. M. Knapp.
7-3, l to play; N. Robins, So, 4
to play: c. D. Mott. 5l2-412, l to
play; F. M. Campomanes, SIS,
to play E. Nash, 3-6, 2 to play.
The following game was played
in the simultaneous exhibition on
January 10: