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Mystery game #39: Former Canadian champ misjudges, loses to Black's pesky opportunism
Mystery game #39: Former Canadian champ misjudges, loses to Black's pesky opportunism
Here is the text of an interesting game. You can discuss the game, offer variations, guess as to players' strengths, identities, era of game, setting, time controls, etc. I will supply all that data in a few days. Enjoy!!
NM Boris Blumin -- L. Walter Stephens, New York 1941, Manhattan Chess Club Championship.
Blumin was born in St. Petersburg in 1907, at a time when it was one of the major centres for world chess; renamed as Leningrad and then back to St. Petersbury, it has remained one of the world's strongest chess cities. Important and very strong international tournaments were held there in Blumin's era (1909 and 1914 just to reference two). Blumin was a bit older than Mikhail Botvinnik, world champion-to-be (born 1911 nearby); Botvinnik moved to St. Pete to attend engineering school in the late 1920s, and was a master by 1927. Blumin lived in Canada during the 1930s. He was five times Montreal city champion, and won the Canadian title twice in the late 1930s, finishing ahead of strong masters such as John S. Morrison and Maurice Fox, both multiple champions. Blumin moved to the United States in the late 1930s, settling in the New York region. He was much less active in chess after relocating to the U.S., and died in 1998.
Stephens (1883-1948) was a controversial figure in American chess. He had played board one for Princeton University (class of 1910) in collegiate matches, and led his team to the national title (at that time there were only a very few schools playing, mainly Ivy League). He graduated with a degree in theology; he served as a church minister. He was the club manager of the Manhattan Club, for some 20 years (1920s and 1930s), when it was one of the strongest clubs in the world. Stephens was probably a strong class 'A' player at his peak. At Ventnor City 1940, a master event, he could only score one draw in 11 games. He was also the TD for many U.S. Championship events, and this is where the controversy hits its peak. According to GM Arnold Denker in his great book "The Bobby Fischer I Knew And Other Stories" (Hypermodern, 1995), during the 1942 U.S. Championship, Stephens turned around the clock for the Reshevsky -- Denker game when Reshevsky's flag had fallen in a drawish position, and declared Denker forfeited. Stephens refused to reverse his decision. Reshevsky, the beneficiary of a gift point, eventually tied with GM Isaac Kashdan, and then won the playoff match.
In the game, a Queen's Gambit Baltic Defence (with an early ...Bf5), Denker gives 24.Be3 as winning for White. Stephens also drew as Black with Denker in this same tournament, in a very similar opening. White has a piece for three pawns, but Black's pawns do cause some problems. Black's queen builds an activity advantage over its counterpart, with White's king being more unsafe. Certainly by the time White plays 35.Bxg7, he is lost or very nearly so, as Black's bishop becomes very strong, and White has to try to defend. This was likely the biggest win of Stephens' career; according to Denker, he had the game framed!
This game is not in chessbase, 365chess.com, chessgames.com, or CanBase, so I thought I would offer it here!
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