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.
S.S. Cohen–Abraham Kupchik1–0B40Manhattan CC Champ. New YorkNew York1937Stockfish 15
A34: Symmetrical English 1.e4 c5 2.f3 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 f6 6.c3 6.cxd5 xd5 7.b5+ c6 8.0-0 e7 9.dxc5 0-0 10.c4 is equal. Kozak,A (2532)
-Aggelis,N (2281) chess.com INT 2022 6...cxd4 6...c6 7.e3 cxd4 8.xd4 b4 9.e2 equals. Rausis,I (2470)-Kirov,N (2445) Cannes 1990 7.xd4
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.g5 dxc4 This is inaccurate; he had to play 8...Be7 with an
equal position. 9.xc4 White's huge lead in development assures him of the
advantage. e7 White is better. 10.a4+ 10.b3 is interesting, bit it's
unsound. After xd4 11.xf7+ f8 12.xf6 gxf6 13.0-0 b4 14.d5 Blacks'
K is quite safe and there is no way for white to continue the attack. 10...bd7 10...d7 11.b3 attacks both f7 and b7 11.f5 Clearly trouble is
brewing for black. 0-0 He has a threat ...Nb6. 12.d1 c5 12...e8
was his best chance, but white remains quite well. Even so, play can get very
tricky. 13.0-0 b6 14.xe7+ xe7 15.b3 xc4 And noe 156.Qxc4 only
results in eqwal chances, but white has... 16.d5 e5 17.xf6 gxf6 18.fe1 Now it's black's turn to get clever with d2 19.d3 19.xd2 xe1# 19...g5 20.xd2 e6 21.c7 ad8 White onbly has one satisfactory move and that
is 22.xd8 xd8 23.xd8+ g7 24.xe6+ fxe6 25.d6 e5 Theoretically white
is better, but practically thing might turn out differently. 13.0-0 c7 14.d3 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.h4 b7 16.xg7
A stellar finish! c6 17.d5 This moce is also pretty nifty! Oc
course 17...Qxd5 is met by 18.Bh7+ and if 17...Nxd5 18.Qxh7# xd5 This loses
instantly. 17...xg7 is a much stouter defense. 18.f5 18.xf6+ xf6 19.g5+ h8 20.xf6+ xf6 21.xf6 d4 with equal chances. 18...g8 Technically white is winning, but
there are still some problems to overcome. 19.d3 Adding the R to the
attack is by far the best way to continue the attack. h8 20.g3 xg5 21.xg5 g8 22.xd7 xg5 23.xc6 xg3 24.hxg3 xd5 25.xb7 with a won ending.
18.xh7+ xh7 19.xd5 xd5 20.d1 xg7 Resigning was a good
alternative. 21.xd5 fe8 With the forlorn hope that white will overlook
the mate threat on e1. 22.h3 a7 23.d2 e6 24.h5 hf8 25.c3+ f6 26.g5+ g6 27.g4 e1+ 28.h2 d6+ 29.g3 df8 29...e7 30.xg6+ f7 31.h6 c7 32.h7+ e8 33.h5+ d8 34.h8+ finishes it. 30.xe1 fxg5 31.d4+
Black finally resigned. 1–0
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