Bill Wall's prodigious chess site informs us that in January, Austrian master Wolfgang Weil (1912-1945) died in combat in Croatia and Dutch master Arnold van der Hoek (1921-1945) was killed in an Allied bombardment on a labor camp at Watenstedt, a suburb of Brunswick, Germany. Also in January, Hungarian master Kornel Havasi (1892-1945) died in Austria where he was working as a forced laborer for the Nazis.
In April, Hungarian master Zoltan von Balla (1883-1945) died in Budapest in a traffic accident with a Soviet tank. The same month the promising German master and fervent Nazi, Lieutenant Klaus Junge, was killed when he refused to surrender in a shootout with Allied troops on April 17th in the battle for Hamburg, just three weeks before the war ended.
In May, German master Heinz Nowarra was (1897-1945) was possibly killed in an Allied bombardment in Berlin.
For the United States, the war in Europe ended on May 8, 1945, and on September 2, 1945, the Japanese signed formal surrender documents.
The 1944-45 Marshall Chess Club Championship concluded during the early part of March. Because of the war a number of contenders were missing: Corporal Milton Hanauer, Lieutenant Carl Pilnick, Corporal Louis Levy, Private Solomon Weinstock and Lieutenant Harold Sussman. Civilians Reuben Fine and Samuel Reshevsky were absent because they were living outside of New York City.
The championship resulted in an undefeated victory for Army Private First Class Herbert Seidman. It was the second year in a row he was the club champ. Second place went to a young Irving Rivise who was to later become a prominent California master. Four-time title holder Anthony E. Santasiere finished third.
Seidman drew with both of his nearest rivals, Rivise and Santasiere.
The Santasiere-Seidman game was adjourned and between them a total of twenty-six hours was spent analyzing the adjourned position. On resumption of play, they agreed to a draw after one minute.
In the following game the interesting character Walter Goldwater gets outplayed by an equally interesting character, Anthony Santasiere. It is noteworthy how white's position disintegrates, not by any outright mistakes, but by sight technical inaccuracies that have a disastrous cumulative effect.
Another notable thing about the game is that when it was annotated by Fritz 17 using Stockfish, the program's Weighted Error Value for Santasiere was 0.09 which is considered flawless. Goldwater's was 0.61 which is not bad! It means his moves were, on average, only a little over a half a P inferior to the best engine move.
Walter Goldwater–Anthony Santasiere0–1B12Marshall CC Champ (1944-45)New York, NY USA28.01.1945Stockfish 14.1
Caro-Kann: Advance Variation 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 An old Tal favorite.
The Advance Variation has gained popularity after having been been widely
regarded as inferior for many years. f5 4.d3 The Bayonet Attack (4. g4)
is always interesting! This move exchanging off his good B is suspect. Usual
is 4.Nf3 and then develop the B on e2. 4.g4 d7 5.c3 e6 6.e3 e7 7.d2 h5 8.g5 g6 9.d3 a6 10.a3 c7 11.ge2 Nepomniachtchi,I (2732)-Anand,V
(2786) Leuven BEL 2017. The position is equal. 4...xd3 5.xd3 e6 6.f3
This is strategically incorrect because the N belongs on e3 where it does not
obstruct the advance of his f-Pawn which is necessary in this formation. a5+ 7.d2 Better was 7.c3. With the B on d2 black has no good square by which to
get the N into play. a6 This forces the trade of Qs because it white
doesn't he will experience difficulty in castling. 8.xa6 xa6 9.c3 e7 With Qs off the board the chances of an
attack against black's K are greatly reduced and his endgame prospects are
brighter. His P-formation is sounder and he can force open the c-file to his
advantage. Note that white's advantage in space is meaningless unless he can
build up with f4, g4, f5 etc. 9...c7 10.0-0-0 0-0-0 11.e2 e7 12.g5 xg5+ 13.xg5 h6 White has the uooer hand, but the game ended uo being
drawn in Moiseev,V (2425)-Tishin,P (2425) Bogoroditsk RUS 2013 10.d1
Castling was better. c5 11.dxc5 This is wrong because white wilfully
removes the support of his e-Pawn. It was imperative that he play 11.c3. xc5 12.d4 This explains white's last move...he has made d4 available and
cleared the way for the advance of his f-Pawn. c6 Compelling white to make
another exchange because his e-Pawn is attacked. 13.xc6 Goldwater was
under the misapprehension that exchanges offered him drawing chances. But with
each exchange, he improves black's position. Here, he fortífies black's
center and has left himself weak on the b-file. bxc6 14.b4 Consistent with
his exchange policy, but inconsistent with the requirements of the position. 14.f4 was called for, but after f5 15.f2 e4 and black is better. 14...a5 15.a3 b8 16.e2 16.0-0 was worth a try. d7 17.xf8 xf8 18.e1 e7 19.b3 c5 Black is clearly better thanks to his more active position. 16...d7 17.xf8 xf8 18.f4 f6 19.exf6 xf6 20.f1 b4 Black's pieces
are very active while white's are sorely undeveloped. 21.g3 e5 22.f5 Forced. 22.fxe5 e4+ 23.e3 xf1 24.xf1 d4 wins a piece. 22...g6 23.fxg6 This is very bad. 23.c3 was his best try, Then after b8 24.b3 xf5 25.xf5 gxf5 26.e3 f6 27.xf5 Black still has the better game,
but at least white has managed to his pieces into play. 23...e4+ The
point...black wins a piece and whiye can resign. 24.e3 d4 He does not need
to recapture as he can stop the adverse Pawn in his good time. 25.xf6 25.gxh7 xe3+ 26.d2 h6 with an easy win. 25...xe3+ 26.d2 xf6 27.gxh7 xh7 With only one P for the piece, white may safely resign. He
was no doubt encouraged by having two passed Ps, but Santasiere makes a quick
end to the game. 28.c3 g5 29.cxd4 exd4 30.d1 White is just going through the motions. f3+ 31.c2 d3+ The
threatened N fork facilitates matters. 32.c3 d2+ 33.c2 e1 Now all black
must do is exhaust white's P moves and white will be in Zugzwang. 34.h4 f7 35.g4 g6 36.a3 a4 Goldwater resigned. 36...a4 37.xd2 37.g5 h5 37...xd2 38.xd2 g1 39.g5 g4 0–1
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