Chess by Clif Sherwood Sun, Aug 21, 1932 – 40 · The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) · Newspapers.com
The Los Angeles Chess by Clif Sherwood Sunday, August 21, 1932 Times Los Angeles, California L.A. Times Problem No. 305...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Thursday, March 4, 2021
L.A. Times Problem No. 305 by G. Cristoffanini, Italy. Second prize, Bristol Times-Mirror, 1932. White mates in two.
FEN 5N2/1Q6/6n1/R3NkP1/2p2P2/3n2p1/2B5/K4R2 w - - 0 1
Key: B-Q/Bd1
The most exciting game in the Masters' Tourney, up to this writing, was played Wednesday night. Specatators thought for a while that Araiza had a win, and later a draw, but Alekhine squirmed around in his chair for some time and finally broke through for a win.
Jose Joaquin Araiza Munoz vs Alexander Alekhine
Pasadena (1932), Pasadena, CA USA, rd 3, Aug-17
Queen Pawn Game: Colle System (D04) 0-1
Full reports and schedules of the Pasadena congress are being shown daily in the news section of The Times.
Extracts from the Newark, New Jersey Evening News: “The Pasadena Congress will be a fine event; but infinitely more so were United States Champion Marshall and former World Champion Capablanca in it. Marshall wanted an honorarium in addition to expenses, and Alekhine demanded an extra $2000 (wow!) ([accounting for inflation, in 2021 that would come to $38,187]) if the Cuban took part. (When Morphy won first prize of about $600 in the First American Chess Congress of 1857 he gave the money toward purchasing household furniture for his principal rival, who needed it more than he.) The next big tourney in America, after that of next year in the Chicago World's Fair, will be for liberal money prizes and the usual expenses, but not a penny extra for any sort of champion. We expect Newark to have the biggest chess congress ever held in America, say in 1933 after the Chicago Fair. Most of the world's greatest players should be in the United States then. By that time the splendid group of Soviet Russian experts, just now almost equal to the great Alekhine, will be allowed abroad, and it will be an easy matter to take an airship and land here in a couple of days from Moscow. There has been some serious talk in that direction.”
