In other news the Memorial Day Massacre took place when union steel workers threw a tree branch at police who open fire on the crowd and use clubs to break up the protest. As a result police bullets kill ten people and injure 30 plus another 28 suffer serious head injuries from police clubbing. As we would expect even today, a Coroner's Jury declared the killings to be justifiable homicide and no police were ever convicted.
In US chess news George Koltanowski (1903-2000) played 34 simultaneous blindfold games and scored +24 -0 =10. Adele Rivero won the first US Women’s Championship. The US team (Reshevsky, Fine, Kashdan, Marshall,\ and Horowitz) took first place in the Chess Olympiad was held in Stockholm. The Western Chess Association (US Open) in Chicago was won by David Polland.
In New York Isaac Kashdan and Albert Simonson tied for first in the Manhattan Chess Club Championship with a convincing 2.5 point lead ahead of Robert Willman, a former club champion, who had been in the lead in the early rounds, but then suffered losses to both Kashdan and Simonson.
As a result of the first place tie for the third successive year, a playoff for the title was necessary. Kashdan scored a win and
two draws to take the title.
The deciding point occurring in the
first game where Simonson had a draw in hand when he made an incredible blunder in a fairly simple endgame position.
Almost nothing is known of Samuel S. Cohen except that in in the 1930s he was an editor for Chess Review magazine and he participated in the 1938 US Championship (won by Reshevsky) where he finished +4 5 =7 and tied for places 12-14 (out of 17) with Milton Hanauer and Fred Reinfeld. He drew with Reshevsky and defeated Kashdan. His opponent, Albert Simonson (1914-1965), was one of the country’s strongest players in the 1930s.
[Event "Manhattan CC Champ. New York"]
[Site "New York"]
[Date "1937.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "S.S. Cohen"]
[Black "Abraham Kupchik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B40"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 15"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "1937.??.??"]
{A34: Symmetrical English} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 {The opening has become a
Symmetrical English with Sicilian overtones.. Either player may make an early
break in the centre with the d-Pawn.} d5 4. exd5 exd5 5. d4 Nf6 6. Nc3 (6. cxd5
Nxd5 7. Bb5+ Nc6 8. O-O Be7 9. dxc5 O-O 10. Bc4 {is equal. Kozak,A (2532)
-Aggelis,N (2281) chess.com INT 2022}) 6... cxd4 (6... Nc6 7. Be3 cxd4 8. Nxd4
Bb4 9. Be2 {equals. Rausis,I (2470)-Kirov,N (2445) Cannes 1990}) 7. Nxd4 {
[%mdl 32]} a6 {Both 7...Bc5 and 7...Be7 have been played here. Kupchik's move
prevents a piece from going to b5 and/or preparing ...b5, but it is not really
necessary.} 8. Bg5 dxc4 {This is inaccurate; he had to play 8...Be7 with an
equal position.} 9. Bxc4 {White's huge lead in development assures him of the
advantage.} Be7 {White is better.} 10. Qa4+ (10. Qb3 {is interesting, bit it's
unsound. After} Qxd4 11. Bxf7+ Kf8 12. Bxf6 gxf6 13. O-O Qb4 14. Qd5 {Blacks'
K is quite safe and there is no way for white to continue the attack.}) 10...
Nbd7 (10... Bd7 11. Qb3 {attacks both f7 and b7}) 11. Nf5 {Clearly trouble is
brewing for black.} O-O {He has a threat ...Nb6.} 12. Rd1 Bc5 (12... Qe8 {
was his best chance, but white remains quite well. Even so, play can get very
tricky.} 13. O-O Nb6 14. Nxe7+ Qxe7 15. Qb3 Nxc4 {And noe 156.Qxc4 only
results in eqwal chances, but white has...} 16. Nd5 Qe5 17. Bxf6 gxf6 18. Rfe1
{Now it's black's turn to get clever with} Nd2 19. Qd3 (19. Rxd2 Qxe1#) 19...
Qg5 20. Rxd2 Be6 21. Nc7 Rad8 {White onbly has one satisfactory move and that
is} 22. Qxd8 Rxd8 23. Rxd8+ Kg7 24. Nxe6+ fxe6 25. Rd6 e5 {Theoretically white
is better, but practically thing might turn out differently.}) 13. O-O Qc7 14.
Bd3 {A very fine move. Nxg7! is in the atmosphere.} b5 {At first glance it may
not look like it, but white has a decisive advantage.} 15. Qh4 Bb7 16. Nxg7 {
A stellar finish!} Qc6 17. Nd5 {[%mdl 128] This moce is also pretty nifty! Oc
course 17...Qxd5 is met by 18.Bh7+ and if 17...Nxd5 18.Qxh7#} Qxd5 {This loses
instantly.} (17... Kxg7 {is a much stouter defense.} 18. Bf5 (18. Bxf6+ Nxf6
19. Qg5+ Kh8 {[%eval 35,19] [%wdl 60,937,3] [%emt 0:00:00]} 20. Qxf6+ Qxf6 21.
Nxf6 Bd4 {with equal chances.}) 18... Rg8 {Technically white is winning, but
there are still some problems to overcome.} 19. Rd3 {Adding the R to the
attack is by far the best way to continue the attack.} Kh8 20. Rg3 Rxg5 21.
Qxg5 Rg8 22. Bxd7 Rxg5 23. Bxc6 Rxg3 24. hxg3 Nxd5 25. Bxb7 {with a won ending.
}) 18. Bxh7+ Nxh7 19. Rxd5 Bxd5 20. Rd1 {[%mdl 32]} Kxg7 {Resigning was a good
alternative.} 21. Rxd5 Rfe8 {With the forlorn hope that white will overlook
the mate threat on e1.} 22. h3 Ra7 23. Bd2 Re6 24. Rh5 Nhf8 25. Bc3+ f6 26.
Rg5+ Ng6 27. Qg4 Re1+ 28. Kh2 Bd6+ 29. g3 Ndf8 (29... Re7 30. Rxg6+ Kf7 31. Rh6
Rc7 32. Rh7+ Ke8 33. Qh5+ Kd8 34. Rh8+ {finishes it.}) 30. Bxe1 fxg5 31. Qd4+ {
Black finally resigned.} 1-0
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