Suffering the usual conflicts with war and concurrent Eastern tournaments, the US Open drew only 18 players this year, and 14 might as well have stayed home. Steiner beat Horowitz, Horowitz beat Yanofsky, Yanofsky beat Steiner and everybody else got slaughtered. Except for local Master John C. Thompson, who managed to squeak a draw off Horowitz to make it a two-way rather than three-way tie for first.

Of course, it was a bit more exciting than that.

Horowitz knocked off Yanofsky in round 7, but was forced to concede that draw to Thompson in round 10. Steiner faltered next. First he had to adjourn in round 11 against Erich Marchand in the book draw ending of + vs. , and then Yanofsky beat him in round 12.

So Horowitz held the lead, 1/2-point ahead of Yankofsky, with Steiner a further point behind but with the adjournment in hand.

With the tight schedule of two games a day, Steiner still hadn't finished the adjournment when he defeated Horowitz in the 16th round. Now needing a win against Marchand, he went to work and ground out the victory two moves after Marchand committed a fatal blunder on move 118.

With no other surprises, Steiner and Yankofsky tied at 16-1 with Horowitz at 15.5-1.5.

                            1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1  Daniel Abraham Yanofsky  X 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 16.0
2  Herman Steiner           0 X 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 16.0
3  Israel Albert Horowitz   1 0 X ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 15.5
4  John Charles Thompson    0 0 ½ X 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1	13.0
5  Erich Watkinson Marchand 0 0 0 1 X 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12.0
6  William H Janes          0 0 0 0 0 X ½ 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 11.0
7  Al Lipton                0 0 0 0 1 ½ X 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11.0
8  George Sturgis           0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  9.5
9  Frank H McKee            0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ X 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1	 8.5
10 Robert B M Potter        0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 X 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1  8.0
11 Ted Rozsa                0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 X ½ 1 0 0 1 1 1  6.5
12 Don Kilgore              0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ X 0 1 1 1 1 1  6.0
13 Bela Rozsa               0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 X 1 0 ½ 1 1  6.0
14 Jack Hudson              0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 X 1 1 1 1  5.5
15 L R Norton               0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 X 0 1 1  4.0
16 Keller Watson            0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 X 0 1  2.5
17 James A Creighton        0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 X 1  2.0
18 C Rosenfield             0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X  0.0

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Sources:

American Chess Bulletin, September/October 1942, p.79-82; January/February 1943, p.12.

Chess Results 1941-1946 / Gino di Felice, p.60.

Chess Review, October 1942, p.181-183.

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