AHappy holidays, whichever cultural holidays you may be celebrating! A shout-out to all chess riddle solvers. Every one welcome to challenge your skills at resolving seemingly unsolvable chess games. Newspapers often made typesetter errors in chess columns, and while many minor typesetter errors within games can be resolved with minimal effort, others, not so easily. This icon will appear throughout the Chess Columns blog with any games that were not fully transliterated from its original Descriptive notation to the modern Algebraic form (after much brainstorming to find the right moves). Can you solve these mysteries? A helpful Chess Notation Conversion app is provided to any who would like to try, as well as an opportunity to become fluent in reading and recognition of Descriptive notation. Hundreds of long lost games by history's greatest chess experts have already been given a second life on the web... and entirely here, in honor of the great Robert J. Fischer.
The featured game appears in The Los Angeles Times Chess by Herman Steiner Sunday, October 7, 1951 Los Angeles, California, Harry Borochow vs. Sr. Eleazar Jimenez, Capablanca Chess Club of Havana and the Hollywood Chess Group tournament.
