Chess Nuts

Chess Bulletin of the San Quentin Chess Club

December 1955 (Brown is 1st on the chess club ladder.)

January 1956 (San Quentin CC beat the Marin CC by a score of 14.5-2.5. IM George Koltanowski gave a Simultaneous Exhibition at the San Quentin CC and scored 20 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. Dave Hansen won the 1st San Quentin CC Championship.)

February 1956 (IM Herman Steiner passed away during the recent (November) California Championship. 1st San Quentin Rating List. Short fiction story, 'The Mate in Skunk Hollow'.)

March 1956 (IM Imre Konig gave a Simultaneous Exhibition at the San Quentin CC and scored 13 wins, 1 loss and 6 draws. Guthrie McClain gave a Simultaneous Exhibition and against the San Quentin CC and scored 8 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw.)

April 1956 (IM George Koltanowski gave a Simultaneous Exhibition at the San Quentin CC and scored 46 wins, 1 loss and 13 draws.)

May 1956 (Four 6-Person chess teams from the Chess Friends of Northern California came to the San Quentin CC and played four 6-man teams, twice; the visitors scored 4 wins, 2 losses and 2 draws - the individual game score totals were 26.5-21.5. San Quentin CC beat the Phi Delta Epsilon Fraternity CC by a score of 12.5-2.5. Dave Hansen played Carter for the San Quentin CC Championship and retained the title of club champion.)

June 1956 (San Quentin CC beat the Marin CC by a score of 7.5 to 4.5. San Quentin CC beat the Black Bishop High School CC of Hayward by a score of 46-14. A short history of the award winning Black Bishop High School CC is given.)

July 1956 (Carter is 1st on the chess club ladder. Brief bio of IM George Koltanowski by E. Scott Flohr.)

August 1956 (IM George Koltanowski gave a chess lecture on the games of GM Paul Keres. Campos won the San Quentin CC Championship.)

September 1956 (San Quentin CC beat the Precita Valley CC by a score of 8-7. Dave Hansen is 1st on the chess club ladder.)

November 1956 (Results for ongoing San Quentin CC Open Championship.)

December 1956 (Carter is 1st on the chess club ladder. San Quentin CC beat a combined team of 4 Bay Area chess clubs by a score of 11-8. Brarens won the San Quentin CC Open Championship.)

January 1957 (Albritton is 1st on the chess club ladder. The San Quentin Morphy Team won their first CFNC El Camino Real League Match against the Colle Team by a score of 5.5-.5. The CFNC Evans Team (SF) beat the San Quentin Morphy Team by a score of 4-2. San Quentin CC beat the UC Medical School CC by a score of 9.5-6.5.)

February 1957 (San Quentin CC beat the Crockett CC by a score of 19-5. The CFNC San Quentin Team drew the Nimzovitch Team 3-3. Bobby Fischer's 'Game of the Century' was reprinted.)

March 1957 (IM George Koltanowski gave a Simultaneous Exhibition at San Quentin CC and scored 103 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss. Al Horowitz gave a lecture at the San Quentin CC.)