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Chess by Clif Sherwood 16 Apr 1933, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
The Los Angeles Times Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, April 16, 1933 Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No. 362...
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L.A. Times Problem No. 362 by R. W. Clark, England. Sports Referee, 1932. White mates in two.
FEN 4R3/6p1/2pprr2/3k1P2/1QNqR1Np/3b3K/B2B2P1/8 w - - 0 1
Key: B-K3/Be3
The Los Angeles Times Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, April 16, 1933 Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No. 363...
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L.A. Times Problem No. 363 by Dr. E. Palkoska. Wochenschach 1903. White mates in three.
FEN 8/8/K7/1R6/N2p4/kN6/8/6b1 w - - 0 1
Key: 1. N-R/Na1
If K any; 2. N-B2. If P-Q6; 2. N-B3. Others; 2. N-B2ch.
Former World Champion Jose Capablanca of Cuba gave his first exhibition at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, playing thirty-two boards, with twenty-five wins, six draws, and one loss to Allen and Carlson in consultation. Tuesday night the Cuban opposed Herman Steiner, local expert, at the Athletic Club in a game with living pieces in costume. Cecil B. De Mille refereeing. Capablanca showed his class in the most brilliant fashion.
Jose Raul Capablanca vs Herman Steiner
Living Chess Exhibition (1933) (exhibition), Los Angeles, CA USA, Apr-11
Four Knights Game: Spanish. Symmetrical Variation (C49) 1-0
Chess Champion Drops One Game
Jose R. Capablanca, Cuban chess wizard, matched his skill against forty-six opponents on thirty-two boards at the Los Angeles Athletic Club last night to win twenty-five games, lose one and draw six.
He was defeated in the one game by a team consisting of E.W. Carlson and J.P. Allen, young men not widely known in Southern California chess circles, who “dropped in” and paid the $2 charge for the privilege of meeting the master.
One of those beaten by Capablanca was La Vieve Hines, woman's Pacific Coast chess champion.
Chess Champion Drops One Game 10 Apr 1933, Mon The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
A Queen in the Hand Is Worth—
Anyway Jose R. Capablanca, former world's champion chess master, thinks so. Beside Mr. Capablanca is Miss Finis Barton, of the Hedda Gabler company, and Dr. Herman Steiner, local chess master, who is a member of the Olympic Chess Game. Tonight the former champion will play a “living chess” match at the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Beautiful girls play the part of the pieces in this novel contest.
Capablanca Will Play “Living Chess” Match
Queens, kings, bishops, knights, rooks and pawns impersonated by human beings, some of whom, according to Clark Thomas, who is arranging the spectacle, will show more animation, agility and intelligence than the wooden pieces ordinarily used in the game, will feature a gigantic “living chess” match to be played in the Los Angeles Athletic Club tonight at 8 o'clock.
Jose R. Capablanca, former world's champion, and Prof. Herman Steiner, member of the American chess team, will be the opponents in this novel contest, said to be the first of the kind ever held in Los Angeles. This will be the last Los Angeles appearance of Capablanca, who leaves for Mexico City Wednesday to match wits with the best players in the Mexican capital.
Pulchritudinous chorus girls and dancers from the Ernest Belcher troupe will impersonate the feminine characters of the game, while club athletes are to be decked out as kings, knights and such. Neuter roles, according to Thomas, will be recruited among local millionaire and prohibition forces.
A huge sixty-four-piece chessboard has been painted on the floor of the athletic club gymnasium, arena for the action. The show will be open to the public.
Capablanca Will Play 'Living Chess' Match 11 Apr 1933, Tue The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
