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Chess 01 Aug 1937, Sun Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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BY PAUL J. MILLER. Jr., America's Authority on Social Chess. A Chess Tragedy. The KING was in his counting-house— His ledger open lap Cash had not been so t'oht with him For many a weary day.
He bit his nails, he tore his hair. With worry he perspired A new Spring bonnet. Pans made. Was uhat his QUEEN desired. "To wear my old one Sunday next." She cried, ‘ would break my heart.
The BISHOP is to preach and so I feel I must be smart." Her royal mate, who loved her well. Was seen his brow to smite In sheer despair for lack of funds He muttered. Oh, good KNIGHT' ' On all the CASTLE fell a olnom. And when a courtier spoke It was to sau with bated b’er.th, ' His Majesty's stone broke. At length the monarch slowly rose With a determined frown.
Strode boldly through the. startled throng. And went and PAWN d his crown —Chess Potpourri. Social Chess Courtesy Cards. pFFECTIVE today the Social Chess Lounge at the Parkside Hotel, official headquarters for the Metropolitan Chess Association and its co-ordinate units, inaugurates the plan of ‘ social chess courtesy cards" for the benefit of players and would-be players who are not members of the Washington Social Chess Divan, which by special arrangement has unlimited use of all facilities of the only up-to-date chess quarters in the Nation's Capital.
The Social Chess Lounge Is located at 1336 I street northwest and is equipped to accommodate 40 players daily in an evening of entertainment. Additional sets of chessmen, folding and inlaid boards will be installed during the Fall to provide modern facilities for a minimum of 75 players. Lighting is excellent and the library boasts more different chess magazines than possessed by any chess club in America. Membership in the Washington Social Chess Divan is $3 per quarter, that is. the facilities of the lounge are available to divan members during August.
September and October for only $3. which may.be paid in monthly installments of $1. Divan membership also includes instructional lectures, educational exhibits, rapid transit tourneys, intradivan tournaments, simultaneous exhibits—to list a part of the activity program. There is no such classification as membership in the Social Chess Lounge for it is the purpose of the chess director of the lounge to provide local and visiting chess fans with adequate game facilities on a nonprofit. co-operative basis.
Monthly dues of the divan, which has regular meetings each Wednesday at the Parkside Hotel, go toward defraying the expenses of the lounge. Non-members of the divan—chance players and casual visitors to the lounge—have been paying the small cover charge of 25 cents for an evening's entertainment. So that such players may come and play at the lounge as often as they choose in a single day, "social chess courtesy cards" are being issued now. To obtain a "daily courtesy’ card" the visitor merely has to stop by the desk on the right of the entrance to the lounge, pay the cover charge and j receive a guest card, or contact any I ! member present of the Membership 1 Committee of the divan, who may issue courtesy cards. Any visitor, spectator, or player within the game rooms of the Social Chess Lounge must have a "daily courtesy card.” However, the wife or husband of a member of the divan does not need a courtesy card as they are extended the same privileges as the regular members.
Membership in the divan is by invition only. If you would like to co-operate with the organized chess program and be a chess fan. today's application form j should be clipped and mailed to the j chess editor. The Sunday Star. Chess Editor.
; The Sunday Star, Washington, D. C. I wish to boast organized social chess in the District and herewith apply for membership in the Washington Social Chess Divan. NAME . ADDRESS . TELEPHONE. My classification is: Please check (X). Beginner □ Amateur □ Veteran □ The Social Chess Lounge never closes. Playdng equipment always is ! available. Chess Problem No. 89. By H. W. BARRY. Deceased.
Allen A G Dreyer and Sergt Alton O Coppage— are trumps again. These aces are gobbling up all offerings, but boys when my vacation starts next month I shall give you the * woiks.’’ Daniei Breeskln rings the bell. too. Pop-ups come from Guy Smith. Andrew Bakonyi and Charles C Ragsdale, the latter suggesting that memberships in the divan be substituted for May ladder awards In the American Chess Federation.
Another Sarratt Gem. pAMOUS during the period 18081821 as the first British master at chess. J. H. Sarratt is the pioneer of the combination school.
Of his style, it is said, "he played sufficiently well to beat the other players of his day, and that is the most that any player need exert himself to do." Sarratt guides the White pieces in the following game, while an unknown plays the Black. QI F.EVS PAWN' GAME. (Courtesy, British Chess Magazine, 1 While Blark. White. Black.
(a) William Lewis suggests IS QxPch. rhessnnurri. jyjAX EUWE. chess champion of the world and professor of mathematics at a small, but exclusive, girls’ school near Amsterdam, Holland, has released his book. "Strategy and Tactics in Chess." through George Bell & Sons, London. Price, 7s. 6d. Stranger than fiction is real life, and that goes for chess.
For oddities on the royal game peruse Irving Chernev's latest work. "Curious Chess Facts," published by the Black Knight Press, 173 Clarkson avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Retail, 75 cents. "Chess Strategy and Tactics,’1 by Chernev and Fred Reinfeld, is an asset toward improving one's middle-game technique.
Norval Wigginton, assistant chess director of the Washington Social Chess Divan, announces a simultaneous exhibition this Wednesday, 8 p.m., Parkside Hotel. The public is welcome. Moviegoers are apt to observe that the cinema is sprinkling an occasional bit of chess in many of its 1937 hits. Bing Croeby appears owlishly wise as he plays chess in "Pennies From Heaven" . . . "Emperor's Candlesticks,” starring William Powell, has a neat shot on the royal game . . . And, of course, you know Victor MacLaglen plays chess with pieces over 3 feet tall. . . Leake & Goodlett (a lumber firm) at Tupelo, Miss., manufacture mammoth chessmen, which sell for as much as $600 per set. under the name. “Kingsbattle” or "Chess on the Lawm." This column welcomes chess news, facts and views, and appears in The Washington Star every Sunday, Monday. Wednesday and Saturday as the only exclusive chess column in the. Nation’s Capital. A stamped envelope brings a reply to aueries. Copyright August 1. 2037, by Paul Miller.
He bit his nails, he tore his hair. With worry he perspired A new Spring bonnet. Pans made. Was uhat his QUEEN desired. "To wear my old one Sunday next." She cried, ‘ would break my heart.
The BISHOP is to preach and so I feel I must be smart." Her royal mate, who loved her well. Was seen his brow to smite In sheer despair for lack of funds He muttered. Oh, good KNIGHT' ' On all the CASTLE fell a olnom. And when a courtier spoke It was to sau with bated b’er.th, ' His Majesty's stone broke. At length the monarch slowly rose With a determined frown.
Strode boldly through the. startled throng. And went and PAWN d his crown —Chess Potpourri. Social Chess Courtesy Cards. pFFECTIVE today the Social Chess Lounge at the Parkside Hotel, official headquarters for the Metropolitan Chess Association and its co-ordinate units, inaugurates the plan of ‘ social chess courtesy cards" for the benefit of players and would-be players who are not members of the Washington Social Chess Divan, which by special arrangement has unlimited use of all facilities of the only up-to-date chess quarters in the Nation's Capital.
The Social Chess Lounge Is located at 1336 I street northwest and is equipped to accommodate 40 players daily in an evening of entertainment. Additional sets of chessmen, folding and inlaid boards will be installed during the Fall to provide modern facilities for a minimum of 75 players. Lighting is excellent and the library boasts more different chess magazines than possessed by any chess club in America. Membership in the Washington Social Chess Divan is $3 per quarter, that is. the facilities of the lounge are available to divan members during August.
September and October for only $3. which may.be paid in monthly installments of $1. Divan membership also includes instructional lectures, educational exhibits, rapid transit tourneys, intradivan tournaments, simultaneous exhibits—to list a part of the activity program. There is no such classification as membership in the Social Chess Lounge for it is the purpose of the chess director of the lounge to provide local and visiting chess fans with adequate game facilities on a nonprofit. co-operative basis.
Monthly dues of the divan, which has regular meetings each Wednesday at the Parkside Hotel, go toward defraying the expenses of the lounge. Non-members of the divan—chance players and casual visitors to the lounge—have been paying the small cover charge of 25 cents for an evening's entertainment. So that such players may come and play at the lounge as often as they choose in a single day, "social chess courtesy cards" are being issued now. To obtain a "daily courtesy’ card" the visitor merely has to stop by the desk on the right of the entrance to the lounge, pay the cover charge and j receive a guest card, or contact any I ! member present of the Membership 1 Committee of the divan, who may issue courtesy cards. Any visitor, spectator, or player within the game rooms of the Social Chess Lounge must have a "daily courtesy card.” However, the wife or husband of a member of the divan does not need a courtesy card as they are extended the same privileges as the regular members.
Membership in the divan is by invition only. If you would like to co-operate with the organized chess program and be a chess fan. today's application form j should be clipped and mailed to the j chess editor. The Sunday Star. Chess Editor.
; The Sunday Star, Washington, D. C. I wish to boast organized social chess in the District and herewith apply for membership in the Washington Social Chess Divan. NAME . ADDRESS . TELEPHONE. My classification is: Please check (X). Beginner □ Amateur □ Veteran □ The Social Chess Lounge never closes. Playdng equipment always is ! available. Chess Problem No. 89. By H. W. BARRY. Deceased.
Allen A G Dreyer and Sergt Alton O Coppage— are trumps again. These aces are gobbling up all offerings, but boys when my vacation starts next month I shall give you the * woiks.’’ Daniei Breeskln rings the bell. too. Pop-ups come from Guy Smith. Andrew Bakonyi and Charles C Ragsdale, the latter suggesting that memberships in the divan be substituted for May ladder awards In the American Chess Federation.
Another Sarratt Gem. pAMOUS during the period 18081821 as the first British master at chess. J. H. Sarratt is the pioneer of the combination school.
Of his style, it is said, "he played sufficiently well to beat the other players of his day, and that is the most that any player need exert himself to do." Sarratt guides the White pieces in the following game, while an unknown plays the Black. QI F.EVS PAWN' GAME. (Courtesy, British Chess Magazine, 1 While Blark. White. Black.
(a) William Lewis suggests IS QxPch. rhessnnurri. jyjAX EUWE. chess champion of the world and professor of mathematics at a small, but exclusive, girls’ school near Amsterdam, Holland, has released his book. "Strategy and Tactics in Chess." through George Bell & Sons, London. Price, 7s. 6d. Stranger than fiction is real life, and that goes for chess.
For oddities on the royal game peruse Irving Chernev's latest work. "Curious Chess Facts," published by the Black Knight Press, 173 Clarkson avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Retail, 75 cents. "Chess Strategy and Tactics,’1 by Chernev and Fred Reinfeld, is an asset toward improving one's middle-game technique.
Norval Wigginton, assistant chess director of the Washington Social Chess Divan, announces a simultaneous exhibition this Wednesday, 8 p.m., Parkside Hotel. The public is welcome. Moviegoers are apt to observe that the cinema is sprinkling an occasional bit of chess in many of its 1937 hits. Bing Croeby appears owlishly wise as he plays chess in "Pennies From Heaven" . . . "Emperor's Candlesticks,” starring William Powell, has a neat shot on the royal game . . . And, of course, you know Victor MacLaglen plays chess with pieces over 3 feet tall. . . Leake & Goodlett (a lumber firm) at Tupelo, Miss., manufacture mammoth chessmen, which sell for as much as $600 per set. under the name. “Kingsbattle” or "Chess on the Lawm." This column welcomes chess news, facts and views, and appears in The Washington Star every Sunday, Monday. Wednesday and Saturday as the only exclusive chess column in the. Nation’s Capital. A stamped envelope brings a reply to aueries. Copyright August 1. 2037, by Paul Miller.
