online form. In due time we can probably look forward to another free video on how to use the new USCF online ratings report form. While it might be dated, the current free video can be found on YouTube by searching for “theeightytwentytd.”
Reshevsky Corrections Readers have helped with a few correc-
tions to my November 2011 cover story on Samuel Reshevsky’s centenary, some sent to my Facebook page (
al.lawrence). IM Anthony Saidy and Bill Brock pointed out that Tulsa 1931 would have been Reshevsky’s second round-robin, not—as I wrote—his first, because 11-year-old Sammy’s very first tournament, New York 1922, was a round-robin. And Saidy asked me to identify Ed Lasker, the winner of that tournament, second from little Sammy’s left in the photo on page 44. Larry Storch pointed out the typo on
page 52. Reshevsky was of course nearing 80, not 90, when he gave the sell-out 1990 simul at the Las Vegas National Open. Most of all, I’m indebted to Mr. Kai Rup-
pert, who clears up the mystery of Sammy’s note to the Reshevsky-Capablanca, Mar- gate, 1935. I re-visited Reshevsky’s Best Games of Chess, and Sammy had 51. R7b2 in mind, as Mr. Ruppert reconstructed by logical inference, not 51. R1b2. After 51. R7b2, 51. ... c3! indeed wins, just as Reshevsky wrote. Nice work, Kai!
Al Lawrence Wallkill, New York 100% versus Sammy
The story of how Isaac Kashdan was deprived of being the sole winner of the U.S. Chess Championship tournament by Reshevsky being given a win on time against Denker when in fact he had over- stepped has been told often. I do not believe that Mr. Stephens was “confused,” but that he had deliberately reversed the clock position to give Reshevsky the game. All those involved are now dead, but I
think there is enough evidence available to justify Isaac Kashdan being awarded, posthumously, the title that he had evi- dently actually won. Here is a game I won against Reshevsky
the only time I played him. It was in a rapids invitational tournament in the Mar- shall Chess Club. I forget the year, but
Corrections
In the November 2011 issue, in the article “Lenderman is First Among Equals,” GM Alonso Zapata and GM Tamaz Gelashvili were mistakenly identified as the other • In the October 2011 issue, in the article “2011 North American Youth Chess Cham- pionship,” the photo credit for Dora Letica Martinez was inadvertently left out.
Reshevsky was old and not in good physi- cal shape. There were two preliminary sections; I came first in one of them but did- n’t do well in the final which was won by Arthur Bisguier. This game was in the final.
Sicilian Defense, Kan Variation (B43) Neil McKelvie Samuel Reshevsky
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Bd3 b5 7. 0-0 Bb7 8. Re1 Nf6 9. Bd2 Nc6 10. Nxc6 Qxc6 11. a4 b4 12. Nd5 Nxd5 13. exd5 Qc7 14. c4!? (Tal played Be4) 14. ... bxc3 e.p. 15. Bxc3 Bxd5 16. Bxa6 Bxg2 17. Bb5 Bc6 18. Be5 Qb7 19. Bxc6 Qxc6 20. Rc1 Qb6 21. Bc7!?
To push the a-pawn, but this is surely
unsound, since after 21. ... Qb2 Black can even give up his bishop for the a-pawn
and have three pawns for it. Here Reshevsky thought for most of his remain- ing time, and then played:
21. ... Qb7? So: 22. a5 Bb4? 23. Qb3 Ke7? 24. Bb6 Bxe1? 25. Bc5+
Wins the queen. Of course he didn't
resign, but played on until checkmated— when I didn’t have much time left! His comment: “Well, you made it.” He was right: I was also a queen up against Don- ald Byrne, and did overstep. But Donald was a gentleman, and had offered a draw shortly before which I stupidly declined. It isn't fair in Reshevsky’s memory to
give a game in which he played so many weak moves, but it left me with a 100 per- cent record against him!
Neil Mckelvie via e-mail
uschess.org
Chess Life — January 2012
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