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Chess 02 Aug 1937, Mon Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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BY PAUL J. MILLER, JR. VERA MENCHIK, who will defend hpr crown as woman chess champion of the world In the current ladies’ tournament sponsored by the Federation Internationale des Echecs at Stockholm, has completed a series of 16 games against Sonia Graf of Munich at the Panhans Hotel, Semmering, Austria, scoring llH-4>/2. Miss Menchik, born in Czechoslovakia, resides in London, where she offers public instruction in the art of chess. As a girl she became the first girl champion of England, and 10 years ago she garnered the world title for women and successfully has withstood all attempts of challengers to wrest the crown from her.
Sonia Graf is a brilliant player, but not in Menchlk's class. There is a rheas eluh hi the world which never has a meet.
ing and whose member* never voluntarily Join. It Is the Menchik Club and Includes those masters who have lost a gam* of chess to Vera Menchik. Dr. Max Euwe. world champion.
U a veteran member, and so are many of the great masculine stars of the chess arena. Tandem Chess by the Hesses. 'J'HREE generations of Hesses hav* handled chessmen in the District, but next Wednesday, 8 pm., at th* Parkside Hotel, 1336 I street northwest, Father Anton Y. Hesse (also the daddy of the late D. C. Chess League) and son, Carl Hesse (one of the eminent young masters in Washington chessdom>, will meet all comers in an exhibition of simultaneous tandem chess. Tandem chess is more than a lark. It requires the alert co-ordination of two different minds as to imaginative conception and execution of a single tactical maneuver on the chessboard. As Father Hesse leads off. Son Carl will follow making the alternate move on each chessboard.
As the exhibition continues the real fun begins, for in succeeding moves if either exhibitor fails to note the proper, continuation of the line of play conceived by the other it means curtains for both, as their opponent will not hesitate to crash through with a dirert and unified plan of attack leading to effectual mating of the Hesses’ king. It is most unusual to have a father and son in District ches* circles with class A abilities that merit giving the public a tandem exhibition. But the Hesses are splendid plavprs and keen analysts and Wednesday'* ’’simul" will be well worth the prcser.c* of a 100 per cent turnout on the part of local chess nuts. A gratis membership in (he divan for August is the prize offered by Norval Wiggmton Simon Naidel, tournament director, suggests that reservations be made early.
Sonia Graf is a brilliant player, but not in Menchlk's class. There is a rheas eluh hi the world which never has a meet.
ing and whose member* never voluntarily Join. It Is the Menchik Club and Includes those masters who have lost a gam* of chess to Vera Menchik. Dr. Max Euwe. world champion.
U a veteran member, and so are many of the great masculine stars of the chess arena. Tandem Chess by the Hesses. 'J'HREE generations of Hesses hav* handled chessmen in the District, but next Wednesday, 8 pm., at th* Parkside Hotel, 1336 I street northwest, Father Anton Y. Hesse (also the daddy of the late D. C. Chess League) and son, Carl Hesse (one of the eminent young masters in Washington chessdom>, will meet all comers in an exhibition of simultaneous tandem chess. Tandem chess is more than a lark. It requires the alert co-ordination of two different minds as to imaginative conception and execution of a single tactical maneuver on the chessboard. As Father Hesse leads off. Son Carl will follow making the alternate move on each chessboard.
As the exhibition continues the real fun begins, for in succeeding moves if either exhibitor fails to note the proper, continuation of the line of play conceived by the other it means curtains for both, as their opponent will not hesitate to crash through with a dirert and unified plan of attack leading to effectual mating of the Hesses’ king. It is most unusual to have a father and son in District ches* circles with class A abilities that merit giving the public a tandem exhibition. But the Hesses are splendid plavprs and keen analysts and Wednesday'* ’’simul" will be well worth the prcser.c* of a 100 per cent turnout on the part of local chess nuts. A gratis membership in (he divan for August is the prize offered by Norval Wiggmton Simon Naidel, tournament director, suggests that reservations be made early.
