Chess 20 Dec 1937, Mon Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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By PAUL J. MILLER, Jr., DURING the next two weeks Eastern colleges will contend for two chess league championships. The H. Y. P. D. Chess League, composed of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, has scheduled its four-man matches at Marshall Chess Club, New York City. The annual team matches of the larger college unit, known as the Intercollegiate Chess League, founded two decades ago by Harold M. Phil Bps, and embracing most of the universities in New York City and adjoining suburbs, immediately follow those Of the H. Y. P. D. Across the Atlantic the eighteenth annual Christmas Inter’ national Masters’ Tournament at Hastings. England, begins on December 28. Probably the United States will be represented by Reuben Pine, erstwhile Western Chess Association champion, And Samuel Reshevsky, United States titleholder.
* Other foreign masters who will compete are Vera Menchlk, woman chess champion of the world; Paul Keres, national champion of Estonia, and V. Mikenas of Lithuania. Salo Flohr, Csschoslovakian master and the choice of the International Chess Federation as the next official challenger for the world crown recently regained by Alexander Alekhin, naturalized Frenchman, may enter according to reports. Divan Challenge Matches. yyiNFRED HORN states without equivocation that the general tournament of the Washington Social Chess Divan will be concluded by Christmas Day.
Players who fall to complete their schedule by then will be ranked and seeded into A, B and C classes and will progress up the ladder according to the Naidel system of challenge scoring. Tomorrow evening at > o’clock members at the divan will stage a pro-Christmas rally and all old associates and entrant active members are Invited to the entertainment The major championship tournament of the divan will complete the first half of the booked games this week. Carl Hesse seems to have a slight lead over Simon Naidel and William Reynolds. ^|OW available for problemists is T. R. Dawso’s brochure, “Caissa's Wild Roses in Clusters,” a sequel to “Caissa’s Wild Roses.” Dawson is a great enthusiast for Fairy Chess and is problem editor of British Chess Magazine, 2 Lyndhurst road, Thornton Heath, Surrey, England. Chapter VI of J. Du Mont’s “The Elements of Chess” gives in notation form 19 quick and easy checkmates. Beginners will profit by these stratagems and the thirteenth illustration is purported to have been won by Napoleon.
* Other foreign masters who will compete are Vera Menchlk, woman chess champion of the world; Paul Keres, national champion of Estonia, and V. Mikenas of Lithuania. Salo Flohr, Csschoslovakian master and the choice of the International Chess Federation as the next official challenger for the world crown recently regained by Alexander Alekhin, naturalized Frenchman, may enter according to reports. Divan Challenge Matches. yyiNFRED HORN states without equivocation that the general tournament of the Washington Social Chess Divan will be concluded by Christmas Day.
Players who fall to complete their schedule by then will be ranked and seeded into A, B and C classes and will progress up the ladder according to the Naidel system of challenge scoring. Tomorrow evening at > o’clock members at the divan will stage a pro-Christmas rally and all old associates and entrant active members are Invited to the entertainment The major championship tournament of the divan will complete the first half of the booked games this week. Carl Hesse seems to have a slight lead over Simon Naidel and William Reynolds. ^|OW available for problemists is T. R. Dawso’s brochure, “Caissa's Wild Roses in Clusters,” a sequel to “Caissa’s Wild Roses.” Dawson is a great enthusiast for Fairy Chess and is problem editor of British Chess Magazine, 2 Lyndhurst road, Thornton Heath, Surrey, England. Chapter VI of J. Du Mont’s “The Elements of Chess” gives in notation form 19 quick and easy checkmates. Beginners will profit by these stratagems and the thirteenth illustration is purported to have been won by Napoleon.
