USA—USSR - Chess. In 1. 94. 5, right after WWII ended, a team of United States players competed against a team of Soviet players in a chess match via radio. The unpleasant surprise was that not only did they not win, but they were massacred. ![]() Only then was the concealed power of Soviet Chess fully realized in the West. Also on board were Miss Anna Goldsborough, PR director from the American Society for Russian Relief, Hilda Tunic, secretary, as well as some spouses: Mrs. Dake. The Soviet line- up consisted of Mikhail Botvonnik, Paul Keres, Vasily Smyslov, Isaac Boleslavsky, Alexander Kotov, Salo Flohr, Viacheslav Ragozin, Andor Lilienthal and David Bronstein with Grigory Levenfish as team manager . The plane carrying the rest of the team took off from La Guardia en route to Stockholm, first landing in Copenhagen. The match didn't start until Sept. The formal opening of the match was at 5: 4. Hall of Columns at the House of Trade Unions with 1. Embassy and by Maurice Wertheim. Reshevsky - Botvinnik The US team lost the first round by 4 pts. Alexander Bisno, who represented the United States Chess Federation at the recent international chess assembly at Stockholm, reports that the proposal for such a match overshadowed most other business on the agenda. The Soviet group was persuaded by Bisno to consider proposals Final approval of the match will depend upon assent of the Soviet Chess Federation and the U. ![]() S. C. F —Louisville . The team members had been selected, the Hotel Roosevelt reserved, wall boards purchased, rooms for the visitors secured and paid for, visas approved through a special action by the U. S. Attorney General when suddenly everything just went to pieces. They wanted their team to stay at the Russian- owned Glen Cove Estate in Long Island (the former Killenworth Estate of George Du. Pont Pratt) but the visas, meticulously attained and very specific, were only for New York. At the time the arrangements for the match were being finalized, the U. S. Phillips, the USCF president. Championship ( May 2. June 1. 3) was wrapping up when the Soviets arrived in New York on June 1. The Soviet team visited the Marshall Chess Club where it was taking place. ![]() Arthur Bisguier won it undefeated with a score 1. Team Captain: Alexander Bisno. USSR Team Captain: Igor Bondarevsky. USSR Chess Chief: Dmitri Postnikov. Referee: Hans Kmoch The American team comprised of Samuel Reshevsky, Albert Denker, Max Pavey Donald and Robert Byrne, Israel Horowitz, Arthus Bisguier and Larry Evans with Alexander Kevitz and Arthur Dake as alternates. Reshevsky - Smyslov =4. Bd. 2 Denker - Bronstein - 3 Dake - Bronstein - 1 (Dake replace Denker who came down with a viral infection)Bd. Pavey - Keres +1- 2 Kevitz - Keres - 1 (Krevitz was substitued for Pavey by the decision of the team captain)Bd. Byrne - Averbach +3- 1. Bd. 5 Horowitz - Geller =2- 2 (Horowitz had a side- bet of $1. Byrne - Kotov +3- 1. Bd. 7 Bisguier - Petrosian =2- 2. Bd. 8 Evans - Taimanov +2=1- 1 It was a splendid afair for chess. The visiting team was treat like royalty and became darlings for the news media: For one glorious week chess was front- page news in the United States! Editors of the metropolitan press recognized the news value of the presence of a Soviet chess team, opened their columns to wide coverage of the contest. We regret to hear that he is slowly going blind and has only a few years of possible tournament competition remaining. Bronstein played skittles with Bisguier, drawing the first 4 and then winning 6 straight before drawing 3 more. Q- R6, a Queen- sacrifice which comes close to winning - but probably loses. At resumption after adjournment Horowitz still had a slight advantage but agreed to a draw without continuing. George Koltanowsky treated the Russian aggregation to a visit to Radio City Music Hall where 'Executive Suite' and the usual top- notch stage show were on the program. Bronstein's desire for lemon juice served to confuse many of the stewards at the hotel. A stamp printed in the USSR shows portrait of Yuri Gagarin, the world's first. A stamp printed in the USSR, shows portrait Yuri A. Gagarin devoted to 25. Find great deals on eBay for world globe ussr. Vintage Rand McNally 12' World Portrait Globe & Metal Stand Ocean Depths USSR. Old Vintage Chrome Art Deco Cigarette Case Stalin Portrait Ussr After World War. Stalin Soviet Generalissimo Communist Politic Leader Ussr Portrait Sculpture. News from the world of chess! I nbetween these two events were two another USA-USSR events. A visitor to the tournament rooms insisted on seeing the U. Don Byrne relates that he was very nervous before the start of the match games and to alleviate his nervousness he sat at home all day reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's best works rather than studying recent games. When Al Bisno asked his young son, Paul Morphy Bisno, whom he want to win, he got an answer he least expected: ! The banquet at the conclusion of the match revealed Taimanov and Smyslov as real masters in other fields. Mary Bain, dining with Postnikoff, Keres and Bronstein, won plaudits from this trio for her exhibition of the knight's tour blindfolded . The Rusian players at all times revealed themselves to be gentlemen and we hope that this attitude toward their American opponents will continue in the reports of the match which they'll give on their return to Russia (although one doubts whether the Soviet players themselves will be the ones to discuss the match!)Just before coming to New York, the Soviet Team was in South America to play a match with the Argentinian team. The Argentinian team score a half point less than the US team, but Smyslov didn't participate: Chess Life reported in the July 2. Soviet team (with the addition of Kira Zvorykina and Isaac Boleslavsky and with Elisaveta Bykova replacing Alexander Kotov) had just beaten the 1. British team 1. 8. July. However it was covered in the mainstream media including . Every country except the United States has conceded the Russians' mastery; in every international match the Russians have cleaned up everything for longer than anyone cares to remember (the English team last year did not win a single game in its match with Russia); and a good many Russian victories have been won with the equivalent of the second team. ![]() Everybody has had enough, except for the eight relatively (in this country) little- known Americans who have settled down in Moscow for 3. If nine Russians suddenly appeared in New York to take on the Yankees the situation would be roughly comparable to that of the Americans in Moscow. There is no element of chance in chess. The oldest game in the world that is still played in its original form, chess is strictly logical: the American team can hardly count on any outside circumstances providing breaks, blunders or flukes. But surprise, boldness, tenacity, the refusal to accept defeat are potent factors within a logical framework, and in that sense the appearance of the Americans in Moscow comes up to an exacting standard: it's good chess. Back in 1. 95. 0, when Arthur Bisguier, then 2. USSR, LENINGRAD - CIRCA. Portrait on white with soft backlight by Photocreo Michal., mousemade design content from independent creatives around the world. 900 Classic russian paintings . In the world Kramskoy Ivan. Portrait of Emperor Nicholas II. A PORTRAIT OF STALIN IN. A Portrait of Stalin: Mind Control. United States Open Chess Championship in Detroit, an automobile- load of homeward- bound players smashed up near Batavia, New York, and four players, including the first- place winner and two who tied for third in the tournament landed in Genesee Memorial Hospital. Since everybody in the car was a youthful chess prodigy, much of the present- day chess talent of the United States nearly vanished right there. Bisguier suffered broken ribs and a gashed forehead. Larry Evans, then 1. American player, and flying to Moscow. According to the book, the Americans have a heavy handicap against the Russians, but it would be much worse without these two. Portrait of cameraman Mikhail. Artists in Russia and around the world had rallied massively behind the revolutionary. In the Russian- American match of 1. Russians won 2. 0 to 1. Evans won two games, lost one and drew one—the highest score of any of the Americans, except Donald Byrne, who won three and lost one. Russia's chess masters are mature men, well- groomed, dignified, their appearance suggesting a group of prominent professors. In comparison the Americans suggest a group of revolutionaries—wild, unpredictable and unyielding in their resistance to Soviet chess authority. Donald Byrne is 2. Yale graduate now studying for a doctorate at the University of Michigan. His older brother, Robert Byrne, is on his way to his third match with the Russians: he won his game from Russia's Grand Master, David Bronstein, in 1. Olympics at Helsinki, which astonished the Russians so much they proclaimed him an international grand master. He lost one game and drew three in the Russian- American match last year. Israel Horowitz, editor of The Chess Review, Herman Steiner and Isaac Kashdan are the sixth, seventh and eighth members of the American team—veteran chess players, as are the alternates, Max Pavey and Alexander Kevitz.
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