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THE HERALDSaturday, May 31, 1975 Section 3—21HarlwB.Daly*mastery spans gamemoderneraOn April 20, a very special telephone call was received in Lynn, Mass., by chess master Harry Lyman. Lynn was the site of the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Chess Assn. and a unique chess celebration called the “Harlow Daly Chess Tribute.”.0The call was from the U.S. Chess Federation (U.S.C.F.) secretary, Martin Morrison, in Chicago. He announced that Harlow B. Daly had been awarded a masteremeritus title by the U.S.C.F. policy committee.Who is Harlow Daly and why was he so honored in the spring of 1975? How does one describe with justice the chess career of a man born in 1883, whose own tournament record embraces a time span graced by every world champion from Steinitz to Morphy; a man who wras New England champion in 1908, when 25 years old, and Maine chess champion from 1959 to 1965, when he was 81.A MODEST and loving attempt tohonor Daly has been made in a very special booklet written by Stephen Dann and Harry Lyman (who is not at all coincidentally this columnist’s uncle). This collection of 139 of some 2,500 recorded Daly games is a 75-year diary of American chess from a New England vantage point.It includes games Daly played with a long list of top players, such as New England champions Franklin K. Young, George Walcott, Abe Suessman, John Barry, Harold Morton, Milton Kagan, Harry Lyman, Joe Fliegel and Walter Suesman, as well as U.S. Champions Frank Marshall, Weaver Adams, Abraham Kupchik and Herman Steiner.You will also find victories over the prestigious scholar and philanthropistGeoffrey L. Cabot and the famous American physicist Percy C. Bridgman, plus a number of encounters (usually victories) against such slight reputations as Emanuel Lasker, Alexander Alekhine, Carlos Torre, Jacques Mieses and Reuben Fine.If you are eager to see how the man plays and test your own mettle you might, for example, play over game Number 31, and see Daly announce and execute a mate in 21 moves. (Diagram 1) Or you might look at Game 71 (Diagram 2), a 12-move win over Dr. Ariel Mengarini, who once defeated Sammy Reshevsky when Resh-evsky was one of the top three players in the world. Here Daly won with 1. RxN, PxR; 2. N-KN5, N-B3; 3. N-Q5, PxN; 4. BxN, QxB; 5. QxP mate.IF YOU HAVE a sense of humor vou’ll read with delight of his memorable encounter with Karl Burger, one of America’s top 15 players in the 1960s. Daly’slifetime score with Burger is one win andtwo draws. .The much, much younger Burger was not able (in 1963) to beat the 80-year-old Daly in an 8Vfc-hour 168-move endurance contest. Ironically Burger had gone to Maine to earn some “easy” rating points with which to raise his rating, so as to qualify for the U.S. closed championship. But he was not able to outlast Daly who stubbornly held the draw for 168 moves, when the 50-move rule suspended play.The Daly booklet is available for $1.50from Harry Lyman, Boylston Chess Club, 48 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 02116. And you may look forward toLyman and Dann’s next publication, a Weaver Adams Volume to be available inApril 1976.Copyright 1975 by Shelby LymanShelby Lymanon chess(Diagram 2)(Diagram 1)BLACKSIMMONSBLACKMENGARINIBO NO 90 OBO NO 90 OX 9* NX BXX9X NX BXON QB QKKB KN KRH.B.DALYWHITEDALY WHITEWhite to playMate in 21.1?
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