AJanuary 03 1918
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, January 03, 1918
Ocean Hill Chess Club
The Ocean Hill Chess Club of Brooklyn, now in its twelfth year, has elected the following officers: J. W. Brunnemer, president; Ray McNeany, vice president; John McNeany, treasurer; Joseph C. Ritter, 1200 Decatur street, secretary; L. W. Jennings, Metropolitan League delegate. The members will be without the services of John Curtin, now at Camp Upton, and George Sims, who is with the Canadian forces in England. The club members voted to send both of them pocket chess boards, suitably inscribed. New members will be welcome.
January 19 1918
The Chat, Brooklyn, New York, Saturday, January 19, 1918
Chess Club Travels.
Saturday evening the Ocean Hill Chess Club of Brooklyn traveled to Stapleton, S. I., to play off their postponed match in the Metropolitan League with the Staten Island Chess Club. They were none the worse for their long journey, however, for after the smoke of the battle had cleared they emerged the victors by a score of 5 to 3. The Staten Islanders up to now were tied for first place with the Isaac L. Rice Progressive Chess Club, which team they are scheduled to play next week in the final round. It would have been the championship match had not this disastrous defeat come upon them so unexpectedly.
May 30 1918
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, May 30, 1918
To determine the right to the captaincy of Class 1A, at the Brooklyn Chess Club, John W. Brunnemer and Lester McCudden have started a match, the first two games of which resulted in favor of Brunnemer. In the first, McCudden essayed an unsound king's side attack and lost after 40 moves. The score:
John Lester McCudden (white) vs. John William Brunnemer (black)
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rubinstein Variation
September 12 1918
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, September 12, 1918
Ocean Hill Championship
The members of the Ocean Hill Chess Club of Brooklyn, which meets now at the Boys Welcome Hall, 185 Chauncey street, have started their annual championship tournament with nin entries, including J. W. Brunnemer, L. McCudden, H. Borochow, C. A. Larsson, J. C. Ritter, A. V. Taylor, J. McNeany, W. Q. Stevens and A. B. Barker. In the first round the following results were recorded:
Brunnemer, 1; Sarsson, 0; McCudden, 1; McNeany, 0; Taylor, 1; Stevens, 0; Ritter, ½; Borochow, ½; Barker, a bye.
The following is the score of the game won by Brunnemer, with comments by the winner:
(a) 2. P-KB4 B-B4 (a) This avoids the complications of the gambit and gives Black a perfectly satisfactory game.
(b) 7. P-B5 (b) Much better would have been 7. P-KR3, BxN; 8. QxB N-Q5; 9. Q-N3, after which Black must play very carefully to avoid the pitfalls. The next move is good only when the QB is still at home.
(c) 13. B-B2 (c) He should have waited until Black played P-KN4.
(d) 15. P-KR4 (d) Not very good. R-N3 seems to be White's only chance.
(e) 17. KxN QxPch (e) Of course, NxQBP, dis. ch was considered, but the position did not call for it.
(f) 20. N-R4 (f) This move should have been made early in the game, removing the hostile bishop. Now Black gains an important tempo and wins the game.
(g) 21. NxB PxB (g) Removing the menace to his KN square.
(h) 22. N-R4 (h) Now the White knight is out of play and Black also gains a move.
(i) 22. … RxP (i) An unexpected stroke, by means of which Black completely disrupts his opponent's position. Or he might have continued more prosaically with 22. … R-N; 23. R-N4 RxRch; 24. PxR R-B; 25. Q-Q2 QxPch; 26. K-R R-N, etc.
(j) 23. RxR (j) There is nothing else to be done. If Q-K, then NxQBP and wins.
(k) 26. K-K3 QxQch (k) Black might have announced mate in a few moves from this point.
Charles A. Larsson (white) vs. John William Brunnemer, (black)
King's Gambit Declined: Classical Variation
John William Brunnemer, September 12, 1918, Brooklyn, New York, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards
September 15 1918
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, September 15, 1918
CAPABLANCA TO PLAY.
Jose R. Capablanca, Cuban chess champion, will have his work cut out for him next Saturday afternoon when, pitted against forty opponents, he will give an exhibition of simultaneous play under the auspices of the Correspondence Chess League of America, in Room 501, 381 Fourth ave., Manhattan.
Z. Leslie Hoover, William N. Woodbury, William P. Hickok, Charles L. Rand, Brooklyn; Harry Borochow and J. W. Brunnemer, Brooklyn, are the committee in charge of the exhibition.
December 01 1918
New York Herald, New York, New York, Sunday, December 01, 1918
J. W. Brunnemer, with a score of 8-1, representing seven victories and two drawn games, leads in the championship tournament of the Ocean Hill Chess Club of Brooklyn. F. Taylor, 7-3, and L. McCudden, 4½-1½, are his nearest competitors. Recently the Ocean Hill team defeated the Lyceum Chess Club by 5 to 3.
