In this year’s championship, unlike his norm of playing recklessly, Arnold Denker, the defensing champion, played steady, but still imaginative chess and finished with 7 wins and 6 draws.
Even so, the outcome was not decided until the final round when Arthur Bisguier, trailing by half point, could not penetrate Denker's defense and had to be content with a draw and a second place finish.
Bisguier won more games than any of his rivals, but he had had a very poor start with losses to Edward Schwartz and Max Pavey in the first four rounds. Thereafter he simply could not make up his deficit.
Because of personal reasons, George Kramer played all but one os his games in advance of his schedule. Unfortunately, due to his moving to Boston Boris Siff was obliged to forfeit several
games, but they had no effect on the top standings.
A real surprise was the poor showing of George Shainswit, the previous year's co-champion with Denker. His four losses amounted to his poorest showing in the last few years.
The winner of the following complicated game was George Kramer (1929-2014, 93 years old) the 1945 New York State Championship, the 1951-52 Manhattan club championship and the 1964, 1967 and 1969 New Jersey State Championships. He was also Manhattan Chess Club Champion in 1973 and Co-champion in 1974.
He tied for 3rd-4th in the 1948 US Championship with Olaf Ulvestad. He was a reserve for the U. team at the 1950 Olympiad, winning an individual bronze medal.
Outside of chess he was Dr. Kramer and was recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Scientists for dedication, achievements and leadership as a chess player.
Kramer studied at Queen’s College in New York, earning a Bachelor of Science in 1951. Kramer served in the US Army, from 1952 to 1954. He then continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a Master of Science in 1955 and a PhD in 1957, and started working for Exxon (now Mobil) in research and engineering. Kramer also authored several published works, in his professional career. During his more than 35 years with the company, he rose to the rank of senior research associate and research chemist before his retirement in 1994.
It’s a little known fact, but Kramer was Samuel Reshevsky’s analysi partner in his competition for the world chess title in 1948.
Information on Richard Einhorn does not seem to be available, but in 1945 he was playing first board for the championship wining City College of New York chess team.
Richard Einhorn–George KramerD85Manhattan CC Champ, New York1951Stockfish 16
D85: Gruenfeld Defense, Exchange Vatiation 1.c4 f6 2.c3 d5 3.d4 g6 4.cxd5 xd5 5.e4 xc3 6.bxc3 c5 Normally black plays 6...Bg7, but at the time
it was believed that 6...c5 was necessary to break up white's center. It was
thought this would ebhabce the scope of black's dark squard B a little by
weakening the diagonal. 7.f4 An uncommon move that is a bit too ambitious.
The modern way is either 7.Nc4 or 7.Nf3 7.dxc5 c7 8.b3 g7 9.d3 0-0 10.e2 Black is better. Roux Cabral,L-Letelier Martner,R Buenos Aires 1939 7.e3 a5 8.b3 g7 9.d1 0-0 10.c4 cxd4 11.xd4 xd4 12.xd4 Black is
clearlyu better. Donovan,J-Pinkus,A Ventnor City 1942 7.d5 g7 8.b5+ d7 9.xd7+ xd7 10.e2 0-0 11.0-0 Equals. Pimenov,R-Khatenever,F (1981) St
Petersburg 2007 7...cxd4 8.cxd4 e5 Playing for complications. 8...Bg7 is
the safe continuation. 9.f3 9.fxe5 b4+ 10.f2 is OK, but the K's
position appears uncomfortable. 9.dxe5 b4+ 10.d2 d4 11.c1 xe4+ 12.f2 this position is also probably OK for white, but, again, his K is
uncomfortable. 9...g4 This is not best because it allows white so much
play. 9...Bb4+ is probab;y best, but Kramer is still playing for complications.
10.a4+ White now has a lot of pressure on black's uncastled K. d7 11.b5 11.b3 Intending Bc4 was much better. c6 12.c4 b4+ 13.f2 0-0 14.fxe5 with an excellent position. 11...exd4± 12.xd4 xb5 13.e5+
Unfortunately for white he has misjudged the position and as a result black is
right back in the game. 13.xh8 Black has no equalizing reply. It's odd,
but the original annotator (a NM) made no comment on 13.Qe5+ d3 is met by 14.f2 e2+ Perhaps it was thought that this was a dangerous situation for
white especially with his Q way over on h8, but in reality white is winning.
For example,,, 15.g3 c6 16.a3 d7 17.xf8 xf8 18.e5+ is winning for
white. 13...e7 14.xb5+ 14.xh8 is now neither better nor worse that
taking the B! c6 14...xe4+ 15.f2 c6 16.a3 wins as previously noted. 15.f2 0-0-0 16.b2 b4 17.g3 c6 18.e5 and black has enough play to
claim equality. 14...c6 15.b1 It would have been safer to play 15.Kf2 xe4+ 16.f2 16.e2 is a mistake. b4+ 17.d2 xd2+ 18.xd2 xe2+ 19.xe2 with an endgame advantage. 0-0-0 16...a6 17.xb7 c5+ 18.g3
0-0 19.e1 c2 This yields two pieces for a R. 20.b2! f2+ 21.h3 c5 22.xf2 fb8 23.d7 d8 24.b7 xf2 Black should have been in
serious difficulties after this! 24...db8 25.d7 d8 taking the draw by
repetition was his best course. 25.xc6 ac8 The original annotator
commented that a look at the position shows that black has two open files for
his Rs and white's K is awkwardly placed and ripe for exploitation. That was a
superficial comment that was typical in the pre-engine days. Annotators often
based their comments on the game's outcome.. Today, of course, engines are
much more coldblooded in their assessment of the players' moves! Here white is
winning...over 3.5 Ps according to Stockfish. 25...xa2± was the best
black had. 26.f6 26.e5 dc8 27.e4 ab8 27...xc1 28.xa8+ 28.d2 b1 29.a4 b6 Theoretically white is better, but would it be enough to win
OTB? 26...c2 26.xa6 This P snatch is worth two question
marks because it leads to the loss of the game. 26.f6 is the narrow road
that leads to a win. c5 27.b2 f5+ 28.xf5 gxf5 29.e3 d5 30.e5
I am not sure what the practical outcome OTB would be, but in Shootouts using
Stockfish white scored 5-- from this position. 26...c5 As the
original original annotator observed, there is no answer to this. 27.f5
This loses quickly, but even a better move would not have saved the game. 27.e5 is best, but it does not really help much. The variations might be rather
long winded, but the outcome is never in doubt. xc1 28.e2 28.f6 f8 29.a4 c3 30.a5 f1 31.g3 c2 32.e1 f2+ 33.h3 c3+ 34.g3 h6 35.a6 f1+ 36.g4 f2 37.a5 d2 38.a7 a8 39.e5 e3 wins 28...c5 29.f6 c8+ 30.g3 c6 31.g5 e8 32.xe8+ xe8 33.h6 Hoping for a ,iracle (Ng5) c5 34.g5 e1+ 35.h3 c3+ 36.f3 36.g3 xg3+ 37.hxg3 h1+ 38.g4 f5# 36...f1 Threatening Rxf3+ 37.g3 c2 38.h3 h5 39.h4 39.g5 f2# 39...xg2 Black mates in 19! 27...xf5 28.e2 This move allows mate in
7, but he was lost in any case. 28.h4 h5 29.e4 f5+ 30.g3 xe4 28...h5+ Black mates in 6 29.g4 d4+ 30.xd4 30.e4 f5+ 31.f4 fxe4 32.xe4 f5+ 33.g4 xg2+ 34.h4 h5# 30...h4+ It's mate next move
so white resigned. 
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