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  • Wednesday, June 26, 2024

    Short and Sweet

     
        
    The year 1927 saw Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic in their first solo flight. The price of a man's racoon coat was $295 - $395. That’s the equivalent of $5,295 to over $7,000 in today’s purchasing power. Twenty-seven to thirty raccoons had to give up their lives to make one of these fur coats which were actually quite warm. 
         A man named Edwin Perkins invented Fruit Smack...we know it as Kool-Aid. You don’t see them much today, but they are still being used, the foot-measuring tool called the Brannock Device was invented by Charles Brannock. When it comes to measuring the feet for shoes it’s the gold standard device...it has a 96 percent accuracy. 
        The German Fritz Lang's silent film "Metropolis" opened to widely negative reviews, including one that accused it of portraying "foolishness, cliche, platitude, and muddlement about mechanical progress and progress in general." It was a science-fiction film about a futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia existed above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers. 
        In 1927, the International Correspondence Chess Association was founded; it was replaced in 1946 by the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF). 
        Efim Bogoljubov (1889-1952) was banned from the USSR because of his “bourgeois vice of putting his pocket book above his principles." He got the boot when he expressed his desire to give up his Soviet citizenship in order to be able to attend the tournament from which today’s game is taken On January 15, 1927, David Janowsky (1868-1927) died in France of tuberculosis..
        On March 14, 1927, Max Weis (1857-1927) died in Vienna. He had given up chess to pursue his banking career. Jose Capablanca won the New York International; Alekhine took second. They agreed to play a match in Buenos Aires for the world title which Alekhune won with a +6 -3 =25 score. 
        The first chess Olympiad was held in London. There were 16 teams and Hungary took 1st. The first women's world championship was held London and the winner was 21-year-old Vera Menchik. 
        Bogoljubow didn’t get to plat in Merano which was won by Edgard Colle of Ghent, Belgium. Colle had participated in international events for several years with no special success until this tournament. He was tied for first place after the semi-final round with Prepiorka of Poland, but the latter lost his last game to Gruenfeld while Colle drew with Sacconi.
     
     
        The players in the following game were Stefano Rosselli del Turco, Marquis (18770 - 1947) who was the Italian champion five times and Poloish champion David Przepiorka (1880 – 1940). The Gestapo raided his apartment where some players were neeting and they were all arrested. The non-Jewish players were released, but Przepiorka and the other Jewish players weren’t and were subsequently executed.

      A game that I liked (Fritz 17)

    Stefano Rosselli del TurcoDavid Przepiorka1–0B13MeranoMeran ITA18.12.1926Komodo Dragon 3
    B13: Caro-Kann: Exchange Variation 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 The Exchange Variation. cxd5 In recent times Vladimir Kramnik has developed some 9nteresting ideas in this line. 4.d3 The Panov-Botvinnik Attack (4.c4) is the main alternative. It usually leads to typical isolated d-Pawn positions. White obtaining rapid development, a grip on e5 and K-side attacking chances. With 4.Bd3 white takes control of f5 so black can't play ...Bf5. c6 This is the main continuation. 5.c3 f6 6.f4 White develops his Bs first. by delaying Nf3 he avoids than annoying pin ...Bg4. g4 7.b3 d7 At Beograd in 1970, Petrosian played the less effective 7...Na5 against Fischer. 8.h3 h5 9.d2 g6 9...e6 10.gf3 d6 11.xd6 xd6 12.0-0 0-0 equals. Hambleton,A (2420)-Hajiyev,K (2183) chess.com INT 2023 10.xg6 hxg6 11.gf3 e6 12.0-0-0 In more modern times white has played 12.Ne5 and 12.O-O. Castling on opposite sides leads to a dog fight. a5 12...d6 is an interesting alternative. 13.xd6 xd6 14.xb7 b8 15.a6 0-0 16.he1 b6 and black has slightly the better of it. 13.c2 b5 14.e5 b7 15.b1 c4 16.he1 16.g4 has a greater impact. e7 17.dxc4 dxc4 18.g5 hoping to get in h4. 16...a3 This is a simple miscalculation. Black probably expected 17.b3, but even then white would stand better. Correct was 16...Nxe5 and no matter how white recaptures the chances would be equal. 17.dxc4 dxc4 17...bxc4 opening the b-file is met by 18.a4+ d7 White can capture either on d7 or a3. In either case there is nothing black can accomplish on the b-file because of white's B. 18.bxa3 xg2 19.f3 xh3 Black has snagged a couple of Ps for the B, but they don't mean anything. White now crashes through against black's K in the center. 20.d5 Of course.. .white finishes with a flair. xd5 21.xd5 The only followup that wins outright. Other moves leaves white with the advantage, but not more. exd5 22.xg6+ d7 23.e7+ d8 24.c7+ c8 25.xh8 Black resigned. Near perfect play by Rosselli del Tirco. 25.xh8 xh8 26.f5+ b7 27.xd5+ mate next move. 1–0

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