Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 125

STAMPS COINS BRIDGE CHESS By LEON UNDHEIM Did you know mat someday someone mfeht "cfiscover" a 1964 United States sOver dollar? Among my papers is a reprint of an article, entitled -J I South dealer Both sides vufoenMa NORTH KQI 9 64 OAJ.S1 AQJ WEST EAST 4 9743 I65 9 QJ109 172 04 Q1087 7643 952 SOUTH A102 9AKSS 0X95 K10S South West Norfii East 1 NT Pan 1 Pass 3 Pass 4 Pass 4 0 Pus 4 NT Pass I Pass NT Pass A Pais 4 NT All Paw Opening lead tyQ nesse with the nine. There is no danger if this finesse loses since then the suit will break normally. As the cards lie, the nine wins and there are no other to the House Committee on Banking and Currency in June, 1965, which stated: "A large number of silver dollar trial strikes were made at the Denver mint However, under established security control procedures, these trial strikes are accounted for on a weight basis rather than a piece-count basis, and the trial strikes did not reach the final stage of being counted and bagged. All trial pieces have been meited as required" by mint regulations. "From mint control records of the number of troy ounces of materials processed in the pressroom, it is estimated that approximately 316,076 pieces were processed.

The dollar trial strikes were dated 1961" Larsen concluded with, "It should not surprise anyone if at some time the future, one or more excessively rare silver dollars of 1964 might turn up somewhere, which in some unexplicable manner escaped the melting pot." COIN Q'S 'Tor what purpose would England make a quarter farthing coin?" (L.N.) Only in 1839, 1851, 1852 and 1853 did England strike this unusual coin denomination withjavalue of one sixteenth of a penny. It was coined solely for use in Celon to compete with the local coinage of the time, the Indian one-half pie (192 pies equal one rupee). i By ALFRED SHEINWOLD You don't have to tell other people how you play bridge; your play will do its own talking. Just let a hand like today's come along and you wont be able to hide your light under a bushel. -The 'average player takes the king of hearts and immediately wins the king of diamonds.

He next leads a low diamond, and West's spade discard provokes a loud wail of distress. South complains about terrible luck and explains to all the world that the bidding was beautiful There's nothing wrong with the bidding, but any pair of hacks should get to sue no-trump with 35 points in high cards and a long suit. The luck was terrible, but South should have protected himself by executing a routine safety play. After taking the king of hearts South should lead a low diamond to the ace and then return a low diamond from dummy. This method of playing the suit identifies South as a fine player even though not a single word is spoken.

South is perfectly safe no matter how the diamonds break. If East follows with a low diamond, South tries to afflicted will sometimes take unnecessary risks to capture Knights. THE KNIGHT may be indicated in chess notation by the use of the letters Kt or N. In the interest of clarity this column uses the letter when referring to the Knight in problems, games and openings. CHESS JA "RATING" is the dassifying of chess players according to their playing strength.

All chess clubs and associations group their members by a system of points (raised or lowered as a result of so-called "ladder which serve as an index to their In this way, players can be paired according to approximate equal skill. Larger clubs elect a "RATING ADMINISTRATOR" for this purpose. United States Chess Federation "rates" its members as follows: "Grandmaster" -above 2599 points. "Senior Master" 2400 to 2599. "Master" 2200 to 2399.

"Expert" -2000 to 2199. 1800 to 1999. 1600 to 1799. -below 1600 points. AMERICAN WINS: An international chess tournament played recently in Israel was by the United States chess champion, Bobby Fischer, who scored 11 and one-half (out of 13).

A stalemate is counted one-half. Fischer later toured Greece for a series of exhibition chess games. problems. East could not save himself by putting up the 10 of diamonds since South would win with the king and return the nine to force out the queen. South would be equally safe if West had the length in diamonds.

In that case East would discard on the second diamond, and South would take the king of diamonds and return the nine of diamonds through West Daily Question As dealer, you hold: Spades-K Hearts- 6 4 Diamonds-A 6 3 2 Clubs- A J. What do you say? Answer: Bid one diamond. The hand is too strong for an opening hid of 1 NT since you have 18 points and a five-card suit. This is more like a 19-point hand than an 18-point hand. Moreover, the weak doubleton in hearts is another argument against an opening notrump bid.

Cur. T-M INt, Gen. Fa. Corp. AGO ington, D.C.

20013, to arrive prior to midnight Jan. 20, 1969. The outer envelope to the Postmaster should be en-dorsed "Inauguration Covers." Did you ever wonder what happens to stolen stamps? Well, like stolen paintings or other aristic objects, they are usually sold to unsuspecting (sometimes) collectors in another part of the country or even another country, reports the American Philatelic Society's Stamp Theft Committee. One method of sale is via itinerant peddlers, often referred to as "satchel dealers" who go from city to city and from stamp club to stamp club peddling their wares from a briefcase or a suitcase. These transactions are risky and could boomerang on a weU meaning purchaser.

The Committee urges collectors to buy only from well established and reputable dealers or stamp sources. STAMPS FREE! Mm I 1 Cofi- trin Trigln KOCKFTS OLYMPICS SCOUTS BWDS FLOWERS AN I-MAU ALSO OM Canadian and US. Stamps. Pkn cowalata Maratrataa Canadian Stamp Catalan. Sand 10 for atan-Ina.

CRAY STAMP Toroata, Canada. 2S DIFFERENT Mint French Cofonias. Only 14 tin aanavan. Global Stamp, an 427, Urarmara. Calif.

MSS. diHaraat US. tram 1 191 Cohmbians ta- AhmiSi. Oaty 10 with appravals. MARCO tm 1S, Santa Rota, Cat.

-CLOSE STAMP STORES 2126 Center TH 3-7174: Berkeley 1515 Cypren, YE 5-1246, Walnut Creek IS yaaw aaivtoa Ray Area OAKLAND STAMP COLLECTORS SHOP S7S 1 7th Stmat. AStnan, Haw tman, achats ft malir naafca. S93-404. Sarrhta Oakland 22 GIANT I aanweii. Ever Of I st 47-RO, White N.T.

4 -at. Type' of Silver Dollar Struck and Remelted in 1964 "The United States Silver Dollar of 1964" by L. V. Larsen, Coshocton, Ohio, that appeared in Seaby's "Coin and Medal Bulletin" (London, England) in the March, 1966, issue. In the article Larsen quotes a statement by Secretary of the Treasury Fowler (3C3GGG By AL PLASTRIK SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO.

24: (I) Q-N3. PROBLEM NO. 25: White to play and mate in two moves. Board position: WHITE: K-KB-8; Q-K8; R-Q3; N-Ql; P-KS; P-QB4; BLACK; K-QN5; N-QN6; P-QR4; P-QR-5. Solution next Sunday.

if GAME DU JOUR:" SICI-LIAN DEFENSE: Finish this game White mates in two moves after (19) KxQ. (1) P-K4; P-QB4 (2) N-KB3; N-QB3 (3) P-Q4; PxP (4) NxP; N-B3; (5) NxN; (6) B-Q3; P-Q4 (7) PxP; PxP NPxN; (8) Castles; P-K3 (14VB-Q4; P-QR4 (15) R-B3; N-K5 (16) R-R3; P-N3 (17) BxN; PxB (18) Q-R5; B-R5 (19) QxRPch; KxQ (20) (21) mate. OPENI NGS: After (1) P-K4; P-K4 the following second moves by White are a 1 1 (2) P-Q4 Center Game. (2) P-KB4 Kings Gambit. (2) N-KB3 King's Knight Opening.

(2) B-B4 King's Bishop Opening. (2) N-QB3. Vienna Game. CLOAK AND DAGGER: When William Stetaite, Chess Champion of the World (1888-1894), sent a chess move to MikhaU Tchigorin, a Rus-. sian government official, dur-i tog a game of chess by correspondence, he' was ar-.

rested as a suspected spy. The secret police thought the GTATJIP Australia will issue a five cent stamp to mark the sixth biennial conference of the International Association of Ports and Harbours which wiH be held in Melbourne over the period March 3-8 next year. The stamp which will be issued on Feb. 26 was designed by John Mason of Melbourne. portrays a typical Melbourne Harbour scene with ships and a tug and the city skyline in the background.

In horizontal format it will be printed by the rotogravure process in tones of red, black, blue and yellow-brown at the Note Printing Branch of the Reserve Bank of Australia. A temporary post office will be established at the Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne the of the conference over March 3-8 and a special postmark will be used. Overseas collectors can purchase stamps from the Philatelic Bureau, Australian Posts Telegraphs -Department, Melbourne 3000, Victoria. The postmaster general has authorized a special cancellation with the wording "inauguration Day" in the bars for the benefit of collectors who desire inauguration covers on Jan. 20, 1969.

It has been the policy for -many years to provide a special service for Presidential inaugurations. There were 653,590 covers canceled when President Johnson took office on Jan. 20, 1965. obtahi this special cancellation, collectors should send STAMPED -addressed envelopes to the Postmaster, Wash i i nww.tm it chess code was a secret message for revolutionists. CHESS CLUBS: LOCKHEED CHESS CLUB is open to all employes of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

in Sunnyvale. For information contact James E. Hurt, P.O. Box 451, Sunnyvale, Calif. 94088.

(408) 7424321. MARTINEZ CHESS CLUB meets every Monday p.m.) at 1111 Ferry Martinez. For information contact Rudy Quinfero, 305 Christie Drive, Martinez, Calif. 94553. 228-7332.

CONCORD CHESS CLUB meets each Friday p.m.) at the Concord Recreation Center, 2974 Salvio Concord 94520. For information contact Jerry Long 687-2585. The club has scheduled its third annual Concord Open Chess Championship Tournament for Feb. 1969, at their meeting place. The tourney is sponsored by both the United States Chess Federation and the Central California Chess Association.

CHESS TOURNAMENTS scheduled for March 1969: OAKLAND CHESS CLUB'S FOUR LEAF CLOVER CHESS TOURNEY. Send in-quiries to Oakland Chess Club, P.O. Box 1622, Oakland, Calif. 94604. IBM CHESS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEY in Los Gates.

Send inquiries to Laron Jacobsen, P.O. Box 1311, Los Gatos, Calif. 95030. KNIGHTPHOBIA is an inordinate fear. of.

an opponent's Knights oh the chessboard. Chess players who are thus.