The intention was that the players would be the state champion and the second place finisher. If any of the eligible players was unable to attend, the next player in line in the state championship would get the call.
The second Tri-state Chess Championship tournament was held in Cleveland, Ohio in 1947 and the players were H. Landis Marks and Dr. Siegfried Werthammer both from Huntington, West Virginia. Pennsylvania sent Attilio DiCamillo, a Philadelphia player who had won his second consecutive state title and Mike Yatron of Reading, who had an undisputed second behind DiCamillo. It appear that Yatron was replace by William Byland of Pittsburgh. The Ohio contestants were Thomas Ellison of Cleveland and Lawrence Jackson, Jr. of Toledo.
I was unable to locate any other information on the 1947 event other than the winner was H. Lanais Marks.
Older players from the tri-state area will no doubt remember most, if not all, of the participants of the 1947 event. I do with two exception.
In the late 1960s I attended college in Toledo and never heard of Lawrence Jackson, Jr. He appeared on the USCF’s 1958 rating list with a rating of 1881. That’s all I could find on him.
Nor have I ever heard of Mike Yatron. Doing a search for him, I discovered that Dr. Michael Yatron of West Reading, Pennsylvania passed away, June 30, 2008 at the age of 86.
He was born in Reading on July 20, 1921, and was awarded a full scholarship to study Economics at Harvard University, but left after one semester to enroll in the Army where he served during World War II.
After obtaing a couple of degrees he taught college English and earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English in 1957. Subsequently he taught English and Literature at the college level. His scholarly book, America's Literacy Revolt, published in 1959, is still referred to.
A strong amateur player, he dominated local tournaments for many years. He won the Pennsylvania State Class "A" championship in 1943.
The following game from the 1947 tri-state tournament that I discovered has an amusing position...after move 19 black has his Knights posted on g3 and g4 and they end up on h1 and h2!
The post that I did on H. Landis Marks can be read HERE, but the game has disappeared because the site on which it was posted has ceased working. William M. Byland (1917-1997) of Pittsburgh founded the state chess federation in 1939 and was state champion in 1949.
William H. Byland–H. Landis Marks0–1A00Tri-State Champ, Cleveland, Ohio1947Stockfish/Komodo
Falkbeer Counter Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 As commentator Kevin
Butler put it, the Falkbeer "destroys all the lines that a K-Gambit player
may have planned on using. There are also lots of traps that white will have
to look out for as his King is very exposed…" He also noted that King
safety is extremely important and many games do not last more than 30 moves as
the game is decided by whoever can get to their opponent’s King first. 3.exd5 3.fxe5 loses to h4+ 4.g3 4.e2 xe4+ 5.f2 c5+ 6.d4 xd4+ 7.g3 g6+ 8.h4 f2+ 9.g3 e4+ 10.h5 g6+ 11.g5 h6# 4...xe4+ 3...e4
This is the main line. 4.d3 xd5 This is not recomended. Better is 4...Nf6 4...exd3 5.xd3 xd5 White can play either 6.Bc3 or 6.Nf3 or even 6.Qe2+
with equality. 5.c3 b4 6.d2 xc3 7.xc3 f6 8.dxe4 xe4+ 9.e2 f5 9...0-0 10.xf6 xe2+ 11.xe2 gxf6 12.0-0-0 e8 White is better. Tica,S
(2439)-Svane,F (2577) chess.com INT 2023 10.0-0-0 Capturing 10.Bxf6 first
was better. bd7 11.d2 11.h3 0-0 12.f2 Either 12.Qxe4 or 12.Rd4 are
better. a4 13.b1 e4 14.d4 xc3+ Black is better. Kovshoj,S-Bonnelykke,
O (2087) Esbjerg 2007 15.xc3 0-1 (64) 11...0-0-0 12.d3 d5 13.b3
After this black quickly gets the better game. 13.xf5 xf5 14.h3 e4 15.e3 xc3 16.xc3 he8 17.he1 is drawish. 13...c5 White has
no good reply to this move. 14.xf5+ 14.xf6 This is best. After xd3+ 15.cxd3 gxf6 16.f3 c6+ 17.c2 d6 18.b2 he8 19.he1 xe1 20.xe1 xd3 Black stands well. 14.f3 xd3 15.cxd3 xd3+ White has lost not only a
P, but the game because after 16.b1 e4 17.c2 f5 18.h4 xc3+ 19.xc3 xf4 20.xd3 xd3 21.xd3 xh4 The ending is lost. 14...xf5 15.e3
It's hard to believe, but white is dead lost! Watch what happens. xd1+
Black is clearly winning. 16.xd1 g4 17.f3 e8 The threat is ...Re3
trapping the Q. 18.d2 18.d4 d8 19.e2 e6 and white has no good reply.
20.c3 b1+ 21.d2 21.c1 xd4 22.xg4+ f5+ 23.e2 c2+ 24.f1 24.f3 xc3+ 25.f2 e3+ 26.f1 xc1+ 24...xc1+ 21...xa2+ 22.c1 22.d3 c5+ 23.c4 xb3+ 24.xc5 b6+ 25.c6 d6# 22...a1+ 18...e4 19.e1
Defending f2, but watch the nimble Ns. g3 Again, the threat of ...Re3
winning the Q rears its ugly head. 20.d2 xh1 21.h3 xh2 White resigned.
Very precise play by Marks. 0–1
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