Established in 1914, Drueke’s Grand Rapids, Michigan company was known as a high quality game manufacturer in the United States because they used nothing but the finest walnut, maple and aspen for their products.
Besides chess pieces Drueke also made wooden chess boards, chess tables, cribbage boards, poker chip racks, backgammon sets, dominoes, checkers, card boxes, and other wooden accessories. Around 1949 they began manufacturing plastic pieces. In my day their Player’s Choice set was very popular. Drueke's name and product lines were assumed by The Carrom Company of Ludington, Michigan in 1991.
In 1922, there was an annul toy fair at the Hotel Breslin in New York City and Sammy Rzeschewski, the child prodigy, gave a simultaneous exhibition that was sponsored bu Drueke.
Rzeschewski scored 18 wins. Play stopped at 11:30pm after having been in progress for nearly two and a half hours. There were three games unfinished. US Champion Frank Marshall had bee present, but he had left so two of the remaining games were declared drawn by the acting referee, Samuel Katz, secretary of the Manhattan Chess Club. Rzeschewski was awarded the win in the other game after which he was lustily cheered by the large audience.
In the following game, after only 20 minutes of play, M. A. Goldsmith of Cleveland. Ohio resigned after only 23
moves. Goldsmith, a leading Ohio expert, was considered to be one of the best players Rzeschewski would be facing in the exhibition. After their game was finished Goldsmith showed everyone a published score of a game, also a Goring Gambit, that he had won from Frank Marshall in an exhibition on Cleveland the previous year.
Sammy Rzeschewski–M. A. Goldsmith1–0C44Simul, New York1922Stockfish 17
C44: Goring Gambut 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 Named after German player Carl
Goring, in this gambit white offers to sacrifice a P. ot sometimes two, in
order to open up lines for his pieces and to accelerate his development. dxc3 4.c4 c6 This is not the best reply. If black does not want to risk taking
another P with 4...cxb2 then he should play 4...Nf6 4...f6 Better is 5.
Nxc3 equals. 5.e5 c2 6.xc2 d5 and after either 7.Bb5+, 7.Bb3 or 7.exd6
black stands well. 7.exf6 This obvious move is white's least desirable
continuation/ dxc4 8.fxg7 xg7 9.xc4 e6 10.c2 e7 Black has a
comfortable lead in development. 5.f3 f6 5...cxb2 is still a
reasonable try. 6.xb2 b4+ 7.c3 f6 5...e7 turned out badly in the
following game. 6.0-0 h6 7.xc3 d6 8.d5 g4 9.f4 ce5 10.xe5 xe5 11.h5 b8 12.xe5 c5 13.xc7 d4 14.e5+ Black resigned. Zhang
Pengxiang (2583)-Chen Xueshen Wuxi 2005 6.xc3 b4 7.d2 7.0-0 xc3 8.bxc3 d6 9.b3 ge7 10.g5 with equal chances. Angarov,D-Ginzburg,A (2021)
Irkutsk 2009 was eventually drawn. 7...xc3 8.xc3 g6 9.0-0 ge7 10.e5 10.h4 is not as good as it might look at first glance. After xe4 11.xf7+ xf7 12.h5+ g6 13.h6 g8 There is no really effective way
of continuimg the attack. 14.ae1 d5 Note that 15.xh7+ is not
dangerous to black because afer e8 16.f3 f7 In Shootouts from this
position white scored +0 -2 =3 10...0-0 11.d3 h5 12.c2 Here the game
deviates from the sinul game Marshall-Goldsmith that was played the previous
year in Cleveland. 12.e1 d5 13.exd6 cxd6 14.e4 g4 15.e2 d5 16.f4 g6 17.a4 ge5 18.xe5 xe5 19.xe5 xe2 20.xd5 ad8 21.e4 fe8 22.e1 xe5 23.xb7 d1 24.xd1 xd1 25.h3 xa4 26.g3 e1+ 27.g2 e4+ 28.xe4 xe4 29.h4 e2 30.b3 c6+ 31.h3 xf2 0-1 Fran Marshall-M A Goldsmith
Simul, Cleveland, Ohio, 1921 12...d5 13.exd6 cxd6 14.fe1 f5 15.ad1 xd3 16.xd3 ad8 17.e4 f5 This give white a minuscule advantage. Instead,
17...d5 keeps things even. 18.h4 g6 19.h3 Black must now prevent Rg3. e5 Goldsnith has played an excellent game up to this point, but
this move is a onumental tactical blunder. 19...f4 and Black has nothing
to worry about. For example... 20.xg6 xg6 21.g5 f5 22.e6 22.xh7 ce5 Black is better because white's N and R are out play. 22...d7 23.hd3 f8 24.xd6 xd6 25.xd6 xe6 26.xe6 The position is completely
equal. 20.xe5 Probably spotted instantly by the prodigy! dxe5 21.xd8 xd8 22.xd8+ f7 22...e8 23.xe8+ f7 24.xe7+ xe7 23.xe5+ Black
resigned 1–0
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