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Washington Chess Letter summaries - October to December 1953

WASHINGTON CHESS LETTER October 1953 By Russell (Rusty) Miller

Dan Wade’s helpers for this issue, Circulation: R. R. Merk, Assistant Editors: J.N. Nourse (Nourse Ad Nauseam), F. H Weaver (From Chess Life), O. LaFreniere (East Wash. News), E. Zemgalis (Game Annotations), Faulk, Mulford.

Greene and Mulford were still the top postal players on the rating list. Victor Pupols makes his first appearance in WASHINGTON CHESS LETTER. It was reported he downed Vernon Holmes in a match 7-5. He played for the Tacoma CC team in Puget Sound League match against Seattle Y. He and Russ Vellias on board one drew two games. Pupols' USCF rating was listed as 1947 and he last lived in Lincoln Nebraska. With Jim McCormick as reporter, the about 35 member Renton High School Club activities were reported.

The 1954 Washington Championship will be held Nov 14-15. The invited players were: J. Sheets, O.W. Manney, Dan Wade, Charles Joachim, Russell Vellias, V.W. Bever, John DeWitt, Dick Greenwood, Ted Warner, plus Tacoma CC Champion either Victors Pupols or Vernon Holmes. Also invited was defending champion Elmars Zemgalis. Also G.S.G. Patterson might play. The entry fee for the event was $3.50.

The Pasco CC held a picnic for Eastern Washington players in Sacagawea State Park that was well attended. Pasco also won the Eastern Washington League with match score of 5-3 over Yakima, Walla Walla Prison, Heppner, OR and Spokane.

Russell Blackler wrote and article about Dr. Max Baumwell who was born in Vienna Austria in 1896 and now plays for Pasco CC. He was a medical doctor with a specialty in chest diseases. He won a Swiss gold pocket watch for winning first place in a 1927 Vienna Open Swiss Tournament. He came to USA in 1938 and played no chess until 1953. In 1946 he took up a post at V.A. Hospital in Walla Walla. Herb Tedro, president of Pasco CC can take credit for getting the doctor to playing chess again. “The doctor considers his game very much on the decline, and says that chess is a young man’s game – and an old man’s pastime.”

The Nourse Ad Nauseam column this month was about chess play of Napoleon Bounaparte and gave three games he played, two wins and a loss. The rest of Ted Warner’s games from US Open were printed.

The tournament report from around USA reported James Schroeder who in 2003 lives in Vancouver WA as placing 3rd in a 47 player Ohio tournament. James was a long time Cleveland Ohio resident.

Puget Sound League results were Olympia 6.5-3.5 for Seattle, Tacoma 5-5 Seattle Y., West Seattle 5-5 McNeil Island, Kitsap 5-4 U of W (with a game yet to be finished).

WASHINGTON CHESS LETTER November 1953 By Russell (Rusty) Miller

16 page issue from Editor Dan Wade this month. Lead story is Puget Sound League results. Kitsap lead by Elmars Zemgalis downed Olympia 9-1. Tacoma Y team headed by Vernon Holmes topped Seattle 7-3. Viktors Pupols on board 2 for Tacoma won both his games over Dr. Shepard. Seattle YMCA team could only draw 4-4 with McNeil Island team. U of Wash. Team downed West Seattle 8-2. Later matches found Kitsap downing Tacoma 6-4, Seattle YMCA over Seattle 9-1, Olympia 6 to West Seattle 4 and U of W drawing McNeil Island 5-5. C. Roseburg of U of W team is 6-0 as is Zemgalis in PSL play this season. 50 players have taken part so far in matches.

In other team play it was reported that Bellevue CC defeated Jefferson Club chess team 6.5-4.5. Ten players took part in the Washington Woodpusher event which was won by James McCormick 4-0. The story of the event calls him a “future master” which proved to correct. Further is said “This just a beginning, fellows, watch out for McCormick!”.

Joke in the issue: Book Salesman “Buy these books on chess and you will know how to play chess twice as well as you do now.” Customer: “Heck, man, I already know how to play chess twice as well as I do.”

The nine player crosstable for the 1954 Washington State Championship appears with J.L. Sheets on top with a 7 wins and 1 draw score. Viktors Pupols was 2nd with 6 wins and two losses. First prize was a trophy and 2nd was $10.00. This was Pupols first of many appearances in the State Championship event. Sheets first won the State title in 1930. Other titles in 1931, 32, 33, 36, 40 and 1942. He stayed away for several years but was 2nd in 1953.

Arthur Dake of Portland took on Cottage Grove Oregon in simultaneous play. Dake got a $40.00 fee for the 20 wins and 1 draw event. The single blindfold game part of the exhibition was drawn.

WASHINGTON CHESS LETTER December 1953 By Russell (Rusty) Miller

18 pages in this Dan Wade Editor issue. It was reported that CHESS LIFE said “a group of chess players in Albany, Oregon are going to put out a printed chess magazine to take care of the Northwest”. Wonder if this ever happened.

Puget Sound League play report was Seattle YMCA team bounced the Kitsap group 7.5-2.5. Russell Vellias won 1(game with notes by winner was printed in this issue) and lost 1 to Elmars Zemgalis on board 1. U of W beat Olympia 5.5-4.5. Tacoma YMCA (Viktors Pupols played board 1 for Tacoma) beat West Seattle by the same score. Seattle CC downed McNeil 6-4. Now the top scores in league of the 55 players are: Charles Rosburg of U of W 8-0, Alan Clark of U of W 7-0-1, and Zemgalis of Kitsap 7-1.

WCL reports USCF ratings of Elmars Zemgalis 2282, Eugene Warner 2150, O.W. Manney 1993, J.L. Sheets 1939, Viktors Pupols 1935, Russell Vellias 1860, Charles Joachim 1806. Editor Wade says most of these ratings are lower than they should be. Very few events in Washington were USCF rated at the time. The top ranking US players at the time were: Samuel Reshevsky, Robert Byrne, George Kramer, Donald Byrne, Arnold Denker.

         
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