The score doesn’t tell the whole story though because three players could have nicked him for a point!
Alexander Kevitz was up a Pawn, but managed to lose. Like a lot of champions Capa was really dangerous when he found himself in a tight place. Dake found this out when he outplayed him, but by a miracle Capa managed to escape. Then in the semi-final round I.S. Turover had a book draw in a R and P ending, but Turover missed the drawing and lost in 75 moves.
Isaac Kashdan fulfilled expectations and acquitted himself well by winning six games and drawing five, including one with Capablanca in the last round.
Although he lost three games, Alexander Kevitz had every reason to be pleased with his score and third place.
As for the legendary Frank Marshall, he was lo longer the Frank Marshall of old. The Chessmetrics April 1931 rating list estimates his rating to have been 2596 ranking him number 23 in the world. Capa, at 2775, was number 2 behind Alekhine (2857). Marshall’s highest ever rating is estimated to have been 2762 in 1917 placing him at number 3 behind Lasker and Caoablance.
In the following snappy little game Marshal showed his old form when Dake blundered at move 18 and it was all over.
A game that I liked (Fritz 17)
Frank Marshall–Arthur Dake1–0D43New York Masters TournamentNew York, NY USA28.04.1931Stockfish 16
D36: Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation 1.d4 f6 2.f3 d5 3.c4 c6 4.c3 e6 5.g5 bd7 6.cxd5 The Exchange Variation strategy is: white has a
P-majority in the center and black on the Q-side. Therefore, white can either
advance his center Ps by means of Nge2, f2–f3, followed by e2–e4, or play
for a minority attack by playing Rb1, followed by b2–b4–b5, then bxc6.
This latter plan has the goal of creating wesk Q-side Ps in black's camp. For
Black, exchanging at d5 has released his light-squared B and opened the e-file,
giving him the use of e4 as a springboard for central and K--side play. Black
can use his piece activity to launch a piece attack against white's K. exd5 7.e3 e7 8.c2 0-0 9.d3 e8 10.0-0 h6 11.f4 f8 12.ae1 12.fe1 h5 13.e5 e6 14.h3 c8 15.ad1 equals. Arutunian,D (2446)-Lagowski,P (2395)
Olomouc 2005 12.a3 a5 13.ab1 d6 14.xd6 xd6 15.a4 8d7 16.bc1 e4 17.xe4 dxe4 18.d2 g6 19.f3 f6 20.b6 d5 21.dc4 xb6 22.xb6
A draw was soon agreed. Foisor,S (2235)-Katz,A (2429) Dulles USA 2019 12...h5 Other reasonable moves are 12...a6, 12...Be6 or 12...Ne6 13.g3 xg3= 14.hxg3 The position is equal and, truth be told, pretty boring. f6 15.a3 e6 16.e2 g5 This is not really a bad move, but the N serves little
purpose here. 16...g6 should be considered. 17.f4 d6 And now white's
best idea is to revert to the minority attack with either 18.b4 or 18.Rb1 18.xg6 as in the game is certainly a possibility, but it's less effective
because black's N is not misplaced on g5/ fxg6 19.xg6+ g7 20.xh6 17.d2 d6 18.f4 Another option is 18.f5 and the N would have a good post on e5. g6 This us nw a fatal error because his N in in a bad position, Both 18...a5
or 18...Bd7 are solid replies. 19.xg6 fxg6 20.xg6+ The difference
between this position and the one after 10.Qxg6+ in the note to black's 16th
move is that here the N cannot go to g7 which makes all the difference. f8 21.xh6+ e7 22.e4 Exposing black's K. h8 22...dxe4 was no better. 23.xe4 xe4 24.xe4+ d8 25.xe8+ xe8 26.e1+ d8 27.d5 This further
exposes the K and there is nothing black can do but await the end. e5 28.g5+ f6 29.g6 e5 30.f7 f6 30...xf4 31.e8# 31.e6+ xe6 32.dxe6 xf7 33.exf7 e7 34.xe5+ White has an easy win. xf7 23.g6+ Dake
resigned. 23.g6+ d8 24.xh8 e7 25.e5 xh8 26.xh8+ c7 27.f4 e6 28.f3 Black's position is hopeless. 1–0
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