AAugust 18 1927
Kashdan Setting Pace 18 Aug 1927, Thu The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
Kashdan Setting the Pace In Junior Chess Tourney; National Meet Next Week by Hermann Helms
Albert S. Pinkus, who during the past two years has taken the lead among the younger experts of the metropolis and who only recently annexed the championship of the Marshall Chess Club, is experiencing hard sledding in the Junior masters' tournament now in progress at the rooms of the Manhattan Chess Club. Instead of his accustomed place at the head of the list, he is now last in a field of four, having lost his games in both the first and second rounds. On Saturday he started out with a defeat at the hands of I. Horowitz.
Last night he encountered I. Kashdan, who plans to go to Kalamazoo for the national meeting next week. The latter had the black side of a Ruy Lopez, which did not develop at all to his satisfaction. Pinkus had the better of it in the middle game, but could make nothing of it. In the ending Kashdan had a knight against his rival's bishop and outplayed him, winning in 45 moves.
Kashdan, with two wins to his credit, went into the lead. A third game of Kashdan's stands adjourned with Horowitz, who, with a pawn to the good, has some winning chances.
Pinkus, who has made such a surprisingly poor start, was the hero of the Albert Hallgarten tournament at the Manhattan Chess Club in December, 1925. His winning totals were 9½-2½. Herman Steiner, 9-3, was a close second and Kashdan, 7½-4½, third. In the Manhattan C. C. championship, which followed, Kashdan, with 11½-2½, was second, half a point behind A. Kupchik, and Horowitz, 9-5, third. Pinkus was in a triple tie for sixth place.
Once more Pinkus rose to the occasion in the Junior masters' tournament sponsored by the Manhattan and Marshall Chess Clubs last winter. He was first with 7-3, closely followed by Kashdan with 6½-3½. Pinkus' only loss was to Rudolf Smirka, who, early this month, won the State championship at Rome.
In all this, aside from the prize-Winning ability of Pinkus, the consistent showing of Kashdan is especially noteworthy. It will not be easy to elbow him out of first place in the pending tournament and he should be heard from also if he goes to Kalamazoo.
Today's pairing Berman vs. Horowitz.
Kashdan Setting Pace 18 Aug 1927, Thu The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) Newspapers.com
National Meet Thursday.
According to advices from Kalamazoo, Mich., the participation of Sammy Reshevsky of Detroit in the National Chess Federation championship tournament, which will begin at Kalamazoo a week from today, is definitely assured. Chess followers throughout the land, which the famous young Pole has covered pretty thoroughly, will await the outcome of his efforts with interest. In the Western tournament at Detroit in 1924, which Carlos Torre won without the loss of a game, Reshevsky was placed fifth in a field of 17.
He will have his hands full at Kalamazoo, especially if New York is represented by Kashdan. Another dangerous opponent will be Stasch Mlotkowski of Trenton, N. J, who is as well known in Eastern as in far-Western chess circles. The same can be said of Samuel Factor of Chicago, more than once Western champion.
There is just a possibility that Abraham Kupchik of the Manhattan and Rice-Progressive Chess Clubs may be among those present at Kalamazoo. This fine player is now a resident of Flatbush. Up to this morning he had not arrived at a decision. Negotiations, however, are still under way.
Dr. Arthur E. West, 101 W. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich., to whom entries for the national and Western tournaments and minor competitions should be sent, and John C. Cobb Jr., secretary of the Chicago City Chess League, have been doing the lion's share of the work in arranging this, the first meeting of the new federation.
An attractive item on the program is a game of living chess to be played out in the open, with the participants appropriately robed. Reshevsky and Factor will conduct it.
Playing to a Finish.
When young experts get together drawn games are not quite so much in evidence as among the grand masters of the game. This is as it should be and makes for days of real sport. Decisive results were the outcome of the two games in the first round of the four-cornered contest at the Manhattan Chess Club. I. Kashdan, who will go to Kalamazoo next week, and I. Horowitz were the victors. Both played exceedingly well.
Israel Albert Horowitz (white) vs. Albert Pinkus (black)
English Opening: Agincourt Defense
