Chess 11 Dec 1937, Sat Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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By PAUL J. MILLER. Jr. ALTHOUGH Alexander Alekhin regained the world chess championship crown he lost to Max Euwe two years ago at the conclusion of the twenty-fifth game in the current series, garnering 15 >2 points out of a possible 30, the remaining games will be played for the tournament was so guaranteed by Lloyds of London. The twenty-sixth game ended in a drew after 30 moves, Alekhin essaying a Queen’s Gambit opening, to which Euwe replied with the Slav Defense.
At Amsterdam the twenty-seventh contest also resulted in another of those exasperating draws. Euwe led off with the white men, offering a Queen's Pawn opening. Alekhin countered with the Nimzowitsch variation in the Indian Defense. Mutual exchanges turned play into an end game with knights, queens and four pawns each. Positions being practically equal, a draw was agreed.
Tomorrow the twenty-eighth game is scheduled for Amsterdam. The International Chess Federation voted recently that Salo Fiohr would be the official challenger in a fray with Max Euwe, who they presumed would defeat Alekhin to retain the title. But now that Alekhin is world champion again, he says that he will use the championship as he deems best for the future of match play and that he is under no obligations to the political-minded oligarchy that has set up a chess dictatorship with the Netherlands as its base. Hats off to Champion Alekhin for his democratic attitude. Perchance he will favor now Jose Capablanca, Cuban expert, with a return bout.
Salo Fiohr is not the logical contender for the next individual championship tourney. The Americans, Samuel Reshevaky and Reuben Fine or Israel Horowitz, are entitled to the same challenge footing as the F. I. D. E. would accord the Czechoslovakian champion, Salo Fiohr. Chesspourri. ^LANCING in the show windows of the Equitable Life Insurance Co., 816 Fourteenth street JJ.W., the chess enthusiast is bound to pause for there on display is a picture of Frank J. Marshall, retired United States champion, in the act of resuming a game of chess with a friend, the contest being interrupted by the crash of cannon in 1914 and through the intervening years the two players never met to complete their friendly combat. Today in New York City they meet again and the chessboard portrays the set-up exactly as it was left 23 years ago.
Robert Hostler, president of the Interhigh Chess Association, has called a special assembly of school delegates for tomorrow, 2 p.m., Parkside Hotel. Walter Jacobs, one of the class A players in the major tournament of the Divan, will be present at the So cial Chess Lounge tonight to challenge any of the entrants in the championship tournament. Norval P. Wigginton is serving again as assistant chess director of the Social Chess Lounge and will accept membership applications for 1IU of the Divan. Current dues and fees should be paid either to Wigginton or the chess director.
Because of the press of military duties, Vincent Saporito has resigned as treasurer of the Divan and such matters in the future will be handled by Wigginton or the chess director. The intraclub tournament of the Omar Khayyam Chess Club of George Washington University is progressing slowly at the Thursday night gatherings in Columbian House. President George Derr advises that the winner will receive a copy of Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch's excellent treatise, "The Game of Chess.” Casual chess every evening at 133* I street N.W. Modern facilities.
At Amsterdam the twenty-seventh contest also resulted in another of those exasperating draws. Euwe led off with the white men, offering a Queen's Pawn opening. Alekhin countered with the Nimzowitsch variation in the Indian Defense. Mutual exchanges turned play into an end game with knights, queens and four pawns each. Positions being practically equal, a draw was agreed.
Tomorrow the twenty-eighth game is scheduled for Amsterdam. The International Chess Federation voted recently that Salo Fiohr would be the official challenger in a fray with Max Euwe, who they presumed would defeat Alekhin to retain the title. But now that Alekhin is world champion again, he says that he will use the championship as he deems best for the future of match play and that he is under no obligations to the political-minded oligarchy that has set up a chess dictatorship with the Netherlands as its base. Hats off to Champion Alekhin for his democratic attitude. Perchance he will favor now Jose Capablanca, Cuban expert, with a return bout.
Salo Fiohr is not the logical contender for the next individual championship tourney. The Americans, Samuel Reshevaky and Reuben Fine or Israel Horowitz, are entitled to the same challenge footing as the F. I. D. E. would accord the Czechoslovakian champion, Salo Fiohr. Chesspourri. ^LANCING in the show windows of the Equitable Life Insurance Co., 816 Fourteenth street JJ.W., the chess enthusiast is bound to pause for there on display is a picture of Frank J. Marshall, retired United States champion, in the act of resuming a game of chess with a friend, the contest being interrupted by the crash of cannon in 1914 and through the intervening years the two players never met to complete their friendly combat. Today in New York City they meet again and the chessboard portrays the set-up exactly as it was left 23 years ago.
Robert Hostler, president of the Interhigh Chess Association, has called a special assembly of school delegates for tomorrow, 2 p.m., Parkside Hotel. Walter Jacobs, one of the class A players in the major tournament of the Divan, will be present at the So cial Chess Lounge tonight to challenge any of the entrants in the championship tournament. Norval P. Wigginton is serving again as assistant chess director of the Social Chess Lounge and will accept membership applications for 1IU of the Divan. Current dues and fees should be paid either to Wigginton or the chess director.
Because of the press of military duties, Vincent Saporito has resigned as treasurer of the Divan and such matters in the future will be handled by Wigginton or the chess director. The intraclub tournament of the Omar Khayyam Chess Club of George Washington University is progressing slowly at the Thursday night gatherings in Columbian House. President George Derr advises that the winner will receive a copy of Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch's excellent treatise, "The Game of Chess.” Casual chess every evening at 133* I street N.W. Modern facilities.
