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Milton Loeb Hanauer vs Schoenberg
Metropolitan Chess League (1938), New York, NY USA, rd 4, Mar-05
English Opening: Agincourt Defense. Catalan Defense (A13)  ·  1-0

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Feb-05-19  Robert Samuels: Does anyone know if this is Arnold Schoenberg, the composer? He certainly played chess, and indeed invented a variant called "coalition chess". He was teaching at the University of California in 1938 (the date given for this game). I haven't previously found any games attributed to him. White is presumably Milton Loeb Hanauer.
Feb-05-19  Granny O Doul: There was also Harold Schonberg (who seemed to spell it thus), longtime music critic at the New York Times, who occasionally covered chess as a reporter even while Robert Byrne held down the chess columnist's job. Schonberg also published a book called "Grandmasters of Chess", per his Wikipedia entry.
Feb-06-19  Robert Samuels: Thanks, <Granny O Doul>, that's certainly possible. Schonberg would have been a 23 year-old grad student in 1938. I still wonder which Scho(e)nberg it was. It's not the composer of Les Miserables, anyway.
Sep-24-20
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  Phony Benoni: The game was published in <Chess Review>, July 1938, p. 174, and described as being from the Metropolitan League Match between the Marshall CC (Hanauer) and the Brox CC (Schoenberg). This would have been round 4 on March 5, 1938.

Black's name was given as <A Schoenberg>, but this could not have been the composer Arnold Schoenberg. . Though he had fled Germany for the United States in 1933 to avoid Nazi persecution, by the middle of the decade he was firmly established in Los Angeles, not New York.

Vearious reports in the <Brookly Daily Eagle> confirm "A Schoenberg" as a member of the Bronx CC, but I have been unable to find the actual first name.

Dec-19-21  Parlour Panther: Nevertheless Atonal
Jan-06-22  jerseybob: While playing through this game and trying to guess the next moves, I stereotypically predicted white's 12th as Ndf3, but 12.f3! got my attention. A fine game by Hanauer. BTW, on black's last name, Schoenberg may have been a fairly common name in NYC. The banker/horse trainer August Belmont Sr, was originally named Schoenberg, but changed his name to Belmont, which is the French translation of Schoenberg.

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