I am guessing most readers never heard of the two ladies who played the following game in the 1939 Women’s World Championship tournament that was held in Buenos Aires concurrent with the Olympiad.
Dora Trepat de Navarro (1910 - 1971, 61 years old) was women's champion of Argentina eight time (1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1959, 1960, 1964) and participated in two women’s world championship challenger tournaments (1939 and 1964).
She started played chess in Buenos Aires chess in the Club de Ajedrez Jaque Mate de la Capital Federal. From 1935 to 1939 and from 1954 she worked as a children’s chess instructor at the Lorenzo.
Her opponent in this game was Salome Reischer (February 19, 1899 – January, 1980, 80 years old), an Austrian player.
Reischer was born in Poland, then under Russian government.
Her meanderings due to wars are not entirely clear, but it seems she moved from Austria, first to Palestine and then to the USA. Apparently she returned to Austria after World War II.
Awarded the Women’s IM title in 1952, she participated in was a Women's World Championship Challenger tournaments in 1937 and 1939. She was Austrian Women's Champion in 1950, 1952 and 1954.
In the following game Reischer had the unfortunate experience of resigning in a position where she actually had a slight advantage! It probably was not enough to win because Shootouts with Stockfish 16 resulted in white scoring +1 =0 =4. Reischer probably resigned because blacsk’s two Rooks on the second rank LOOK intimidating!
Solome Reischer–Dora TrepatE61Womens Worpd Chp, Buenos Aires1939Stockfish 16
E61: King's Indian Defense 1.d4 f6 2.f3 g6 3.c4 g7 4.c3 0-0 5.h3 d6 6.f4 This move is not eapecially effective. 6.e4 is a better option. bd7 7.e3 h5 This game was played in the early days of the K-Indoian and theory
was not yet fully developed. While the text is haerdly bad, either 7...c6 or 7.
..Re8 are better. 8.h2 e5 9.dxe5 9.e2 exd4 10.xd4 hf6 11.0-0 c5
Or 11...Re8 12.c2 e8 13.f3 a5 14.fd1 is equal. Dzindzichashvili,R
(2550)-Southam,T (2325) New York 1993 9...dxe5 Or 9...Nxe6 which seems
more appropriate. 10.e2 f5 11.0-0 f4 11...c6 12.d2 hf6 13.c2 e7 14.fd1 a5 15.a4 c5 16.xc5 xc5 17.f3 e8 18.d2 e4 19.dd1 Draw
agreed. Giardelli,S (2438)-Szmetan,J (2394) Pinamar 2001 12.d5+ h8 13.ad1 e7 14.d3 14.exf4 is a promising alternative. After xf4 15.e4 c6 16.fe1 White has completed her development and so her position is the more
promising. 14...c6 15.a3 a5 16.e4 c5 17.xc5 xc5 18.b4 In view of
what is to come this opening of the a-file, while by no means bad, was
probably not such a good idea! Instead, white has several plausible moves: 18.
exf5 followed by 18.Nd4, 18.Ng5, 18.Nd4 followed by 18.Ne4 or even 17.Qd6 axb4 19.axb4 e7 19...xb4 There was no reason at all to avoid this. 20.h4 c5 21.xh5 gxh5 22.exf4 exf4 23.fe1 a3 24.e4 c3 25.c1 xc1 26.xc1 d4 Black has a slight advantage. 20.d6 xd6 21.xd6 a2 22.e1 It would has been a little more prudent to chase away the interloper on a2
with 22.Rd2 f5 22...e4 was nore active. Then if 23.d4 e5 24.c5 d2 24...xd6 25.cxd6 d2 26.b5 White has almost enough compensation for the
exchange. 25.b5 with complications. Although black can safely take the R
she can also keep the complications up with.... g3 26.bxc6 xe2+ 27.xe2 xd6 28.cxd6 fxe3 29.fxe3 bxc6 30.e5+ g8 31.c3 ff2 32.g4 and black
is slightly better. 23.b5 cxb5 24.cxb5 c8 25.g5 This should have lost,
but black misses the refutation. 25.d2 results in a completely even
position after xd2 26.xd2 f8 27.f1 c2 28.g4 fxg3 29.xg3 xg3 30.xg3 e4 31.g4 25...f6 Not really ad because even after this black has
the advantage, but she has missed the winning move. 25...xe2 26.ed1
The threat is 27.Rd8+ 26.xe2 c1+ 27.d1 xd1+ 28.e1 xe1# 26...f8 27.d8 xd8 28.f7+ g8 29.xd8 b2 Black is a piece up. 26.exf4
Another move that should have lost! 26.xh5 at least allows
white to play on after... xg5 27.f3 h4 28.g3 e7 29.dd1 e4 30.g4 exf3 31.gxf5 h4 32.f1 cc2 32...fxe3 33.fxe3 g2+ 34.h1 f2 is equal. 33.xf4 gxf5 Black is better, but white may be able to defend her position. 26...exf4 Another missed chance! 26...xe2 and wins! 27.dd1 xe1+ 28.xe1 exf4 Black is a piece up with a won position. 27.xh5 This saves the
game. xg5 27...gxh5 loses as follows... 28.xf6 g6 29.xf4 g8 30.e7 and black;s situation is grave. A sample line... h4 31.e6 e2 32.xb7 e1+ 33.h2 d3 34.b6 a6 35.g7+ h8 36.h6 d3 37.b7 e8 38.e7 mates in 7 d8 39.xd8 xe7 40.b8 g7 41.d6 e8 42.f6+ g8 43.f7+ h8 44.xe8+ g7 45.e6# 28.f3 cc2 White resigned, but there was absolutely no reason
to do so because black has no way of forcing a win. In fact, in this position
it's white who stands better, but in Shootouts from this position white only
scored one win and 4 draws. 28...cc2 29.g4 Thepoint of 28.Bf3 c8 29...fxg3 30.xg3 g7 31.b6 c8 32.xb7 and white should be able to win this
ending. 30.e8+ g7 31.d5 and it's white who has the more promising
position.
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