The beginning of the three-day weekend on September 1st had some really big news on the home front...the Agriculture Department removed the wartime ban on sale of whipping cream, the sale of which had been prohibited since 1943, and released 20 million pounds of butter to civilians and announced the public share of the 1945 canned salmon would more than double.
In New York City a mayoral candidate named Newbold Morris came out against sin of all kinds...things like burlesque shows, smutty shows and amusements, bingo and other forms of gambling.
In other news that weekend, Colonel James Stewart, the former movie star Jimmy Stewart, who traded making movies in Hollywood
for the Army, had returned home and wanted to get his old job back and return to movies.
Stewart came from a long line of military man and at the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the Army much to the dismay of MGM movie studios. He entered the Army as a private and at the end of WWII he was a colonel in the Army Air Corps and had been decorated as the result of the 20 combat missions he flew over Germany as leader of a squadron of B-24’s. Stewart continued his military career after WWII by serving in the Air Force Reserves and rose to the rank of Brigadier General.
Stewart said he wanted to make any movies but war films; he said, "People have had enough of that sort of stuff. They're in the mood for some good comedies."
It's interesting to note that two players, Dr. Victor Lemke and William Schaeffer, were playing in their first tournament and they tied for third.
The following is one of Schaeffer's wins. He should not have won it, but the game proves the point that playing the middlegame and endgame well is more important than playing the opening well. At least that's the case in non-master games which often go only a half dozen or so moves deep into the book lines.
William Schaeffer–Dr. Claude Spiker1–0C02W. Virginia Champ, Morgantown1945Stockfish 15.1 (10s)
French Defense, Advance Variation 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Rarely played,
but not at all bad. c5 4.c3 b6 5.f3 e7 Preferable is the immediate 5...
Nc6 followed by ...f6 attacking white's P center. 6.e2 f5 6...ec6 7.a3 d7 8.b4 cxd4 9.cxd4 a6 10.e3 e7 11.0-0 0-0 12.c3 f6 is the thematic
continuation. Lang,T (2055)-Simon,H/Bad Duerkheim 1993 7.0-0 c6 8.d3 cxd4 9.xf5 exf5 10.cxd4 e6 11.c3 c8 12.a4 b5 13.c5 This loses a P. 13.
Nc3 was solid. xc5 14.dxc5 xc5 15.g5 xe5 This is not especially good
as will soon become clear and it justifies white's 13th move. 15...O-O would
have kept a slight advantage. 16.e1 This gives black new life. 16.xe6 fxe6 17.e2 picks up the e-Pawn with check because d6 18.f4 wins a
piece. 16...d6 This is bad because it subjects black to a strong pin. 16...g4 is the move. White barely maintains equality after 17.f3 e7 18.f4 0-0 19.h3 f6 20.xf5 fe8 17.f4 Overlooking a tactic that would
have won the N. 17.xe6 xe6 17...fxe6 18.f4 wins the N 18.f4 f6 19.fxe5 fxe5 17...f6 18.xe6 Another imprecise move. 18.d4 0-0 19.xe5 fxe5 20.xe5 fe8 with equal chances. 18...xe6 Now that the N is
supported by the P all danger for black has passed. 19.a4+ 19.d4 0-0 20.xe5 c4 21.xf6 xd4 22.xe6 gxf6 with a double R ending that should
probably be drawn. 19...f7 20.xa7 c7 21.b3 hc8 22.e3 e7 It's
interesting that black's doubled Rs on the open c-file have no future, so he
switches to the e-file. 23.e2 This is a serious error that should lose. He
should have played 23.Rad1 when black's advantage is minimal. g5 23...d4
was even more potent. 24.h3 24.xd4 f3+ 25.gxf3 xe2 24...f3+
also wins the exchange. 24.xe5 xe5 25.xe5 xe5 Even better was 25...
fxe5 which would have left white pretty much helpless. 26.f1 White is
following the wrong strategy in exchanging Rs. Attacking the isolated d-Pawn
with 26.Rd6 would have made black's task much harder. ce8 This, too, is an
elementary error as he should not have allowed white to keep both Rs on the
board. Thus 26...Rxe2 was correct. 26...xe2 27.xe2 c2+ 28.f1 f4
and white is completely tied up. 27.ae1 Much, much better was activating
the R with 27.Rc2 then trying to play his one trump card...setting his Q-side
Ps in motion. xe2 Advancing the d-Pawn would have caused white grievous
problems. However, calculating the ramifications OTB would have been
impossible, so black correctly chooses the safe way. 27...d4 28.a4 d3 29.e3 f4 30.xe5 fxe5 31.d1 e4 32.b4 d8 33.a5 e6 34.b5 d5 35.b1 c5 36.e1 36.a6 bxa6 37.bxa6 a5 36...c2 37.a6 bxa6 38.b6 d2+ 39.d1 c1+ 40.xc1 dxc1+ 41.xc1 d6 and the P is stopped. 28.xe2 xe2
Black should have avoided this move because even though he has an extra P, in
the ensuing K+P ending white has a distant two to one P advantage on the
Q-side plus white's K can stop black's d-Pawn. 28...c8 keeps the
advantage, but would it have been enough to win? The answer is yes; in
Shootouts black won 5 and drew 1. Here is a likely continuation... 29.e1 c1+ 30.d2 h1 31.h3 h5 32.e1 h2 33.e3 g4 34.hxg4 fxg4 35.g1 h4 36.f4 f5 37.xf5 h3 38.gxh3 gxh3 39.e5 xf2 40.h1 h2 41.a4 d2 42.a5 g6 43.b4 g5 44.b5 g4 45.b6 g3 46.a6 bxa6 47.b1 b2 48.xb2 h1 49.b3+ f2 50.b7 e4+ 51.f6 f4+ 52.e7 b8 53.d7 d4 54.c6 a5 55.a3 d8
and black wins. 29.xe2 This position is drawn, but black's next move
loses the game because it allows white to get an outside passed P and black's
K is too far away b5 29...e6 Centralization. 30.d3 Likewise. f4 31.a4 d7 32.d4 c6 33.b4 d6 34.a5 loses. 34.c3 c6 34...e5 puts
his K out of play. 35.a5 d6 36.b5 c5 37.a6 bxa6 38.bxa6 b6 39.d4
White's K gobbles up the K-side Ps. 35.d4 All either side can do is keep
shifting their ks. 34...c6 35.f3 b5 36.xd5 xb4 37.e6 xa5 38.xf6 b5 39.xg5 b4 40.xf4 b3 wins 30.a4 bxa4 31.bxa4 e7 32.d3 d7 33.d4 c6 34.a5 b5 35.a6 xa6 36.xd5 There was no reasoin for black to waste
time by playing on. Clearly his K is too far away so it is futile to even
think about saving the game. It is possible that he was playing on to reach
the time control. b5 37.e6 f4 38.f3 h5 39.xf6 g4 40.f5 gxf3 41.gxf3 c4 42.xf4 d5 43.g5 e5 44.h4 e6 45.xh5 f7 46.g5 g7 47.h5 h7 48.f4 g7 49.f5 h7 50.f6 g8 51.e7 Black resigned. 51.e7 g7 52.f6+ h6 53.f7 xh5 54.f8 etc. 1–0
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