When he died at his country residence in Brentwood on Long Island, New York, chess circles in the New York area lost one of the outstanding figures who for 30 years had been President of the Metropolitan Chess League.
As an active member of the Brooklyn Chess Club he occasionally played on its teams. He was also elected an honorary member of the Manhattan Chess Club with which he had been identified in one way or another for nearly 40 years.
He captained the first Manhattan team in the first cable match ever played between the Manhattan and British chess clubs. Later, when the Brooklyn Chess Club perfected the system of conducting those matches, he was helpful in furthering the annual international matches between the Brooklyn Chess Club and the City of London Chess Club.
de Visser was born in New Orleans, but moved to New York in his youth. He was senior member of the importing and commission house of Thomas J. Owen & Co. in New York. A commission house was a company that executes orders to buy and sell listed securities or commodity future contracts. In that position he succeeded his father0in-law Charles A. Gilberg, a well known problem composer and chess book collector.
de Visser’s opponent in the following game was Walter Penn Shipley (1860-1942), a well known organizer and chess patron who was friendly with many famous players. He was the president) of the Franklin Chess Club in Philadelphia. Shipley was also a very strong amateur player.
This game ends with de Visser playing a long and entertaining double check, double Bishop mating combination that includes a sham queen sacrifice. I don’t think even Tal ever played such a brilliant game!
William de Visser (Manhattan)–Walter Penn Shipley (Franklin)1–0B20Club MatchNew York, NY30.05.1900Stockfish 16
B20: Sicilian: Wung Gambit 1.e4 c5 2.b4 This takes the opponent out of
the book and allows white to play d2-d4 and set up the classical P-center with
Ps on e4 and d4. Additionally, white also gets quick development if black
accepts the gambit. In my database wthe gambit enjoys a giid success rate...
among amateurs, of course. cxb4 2...e6 3.bxc5 xc5 4.d4 e7 4...b6
is probably not a good way to decline the gambit because black's B is not
especially well placed on b6. 5.d3 c6 6.c3 is unexplored. Black can
play 6...e5 or 6...Nf6 3.a3 This is the most often seen move, but white
also has other reasonable options. e5 3...d5 is probably the best way to
decline the gambit. 4.exd5 xd5 Now white should play 5.Nf3 when black is
only slightly better. But what he must NOT play is 5.axb4 e5+ 0-1 Kamran
Shirazi-John Peters, US Championship, 1984 3...bxa3 4.xa3 d6 5.b2 c6 6.d4 f6 7.d3 e6 8.f3 e7 9.0-0 0-0 The position id about equal. 4.f3 c6 5.axb4 xb4 6.c4 6.c3 e7 7.d4 exd4 8.cxd4 d5 9.e5 g4 10.e2 b6 11.e3 Black has only a slight dvantage, but in Tiarks,J (2231)-Jaskolka,
T (2238) chess.com INT 2023 he nursed it to a win. 6...f6 7.e2 7.c3 e7 8.b3 8.d4 0-0 9.d5 a5 10.xa5 xa5 11.d6 d8 12.0-0 Black is
considerably better. Nanu,C (2325)-Bernat,R (2140) Szeged 1998 8...0-0 9.g5 e8 10.0-0 favors black. Gorovykh,E (2447)-Yemelin,V (2571) St
Petersburg RUS 2010 7...0-0 8.0-0 d5 9.exd5 xd5 10.xe5 d4 11.d3 f4 11...c5 was a bit better. After 12.c3 f4 13.e4 h4 14.h1 14.d3 f5 wins. 15.xb7 ab8 16.a6 16.c7 b6 16...h3+ 17.gxh3 xh3 18.cxd4 xd4 19.d6 xf1 20.e3 xa1 21.xf1 xb1+ 14...f5 15.e3 c2 and the
complications are head whirling! Jist a sample of the possibilities... 16.xc5 xa1 17.d3 ac8 18.xa7 xg2 19.xf7+ h8 20.a3 f6 21.xf8 xe5 22.xg7+ xg7 23.xa1 xd3 12.e4 fe2+ Correct was the solid 12..
.Be6 13.xe2 f5 14.e3 xc2 This is the point of black's 12th move, but
he has completely misjudged the position; white has a decisive advantage! 15.f4 xa1 16.xf5 This is the right B to capture! 16.xb4 allows black to
equalize after c2 17.f4 17.xb7 is too risky. b8 18.xa7 d5 19.c7 19.f3 xb1 19...xb1 20.c4 b7 21.xd5 xc7 favors black, but it's
still a very complicated position to play! 17...d4 18.c4 e6 an
unbalanced position that offers about equal chances. 16...c7 At first
glance it may be hard to believe, but white is winning. 17.b2 b3 18.d3
It's rather amusing that both the Q and now the B have occupied this square in
front of the d-Pawn which has not made the thematic advance to d4 and bever
does. g6 Incredibly tjis allows a mate in 13! 18...fe8 avoids the mate,
but still loses. 19.xh7+ f8 20.h8+ e7 21.xg7 d8 22.xf7+ c8 23.f5+ b8 24.e5 White wins/ xe5 25.h8+ f8 26.xf8+ e8 27.xe8+ c8 28.xc8# 19.g4 19.f6 is a forced mate as follows... c3 20.xc3 xc3 21.xc3 xd2 22.g4 h5 23.h6+ h7 24.xf7 g8 25.g5+ h6 26.e6 f3+ 27.gxf3 h7 28.e5 h6 29.g5+ h7 30.xh5# 19...c3 The only move to
avoid immediate disaster...it prevents Nf6# 19...gxf5 20.f6+ 20.f6
A brilliant riposte. xf6 21.xf6+ g7 21...h8 22.e8+ 22.e8+ g8 23.xc7 ad8 24.e4 xd2 25.xd2 xd2 26.c3 e2 27.d5 f5 28.d3 a2 29.c4 a4 30.e7# A brilliant win by de Visser. 1–0
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