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Chess 31 Dec 1932, Sat Mount Vernon Argus (White Plains, New York) Newspapers.com
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CHESS Games — Problems By Paul L Cromelin “New Yenr’s Greetings” Do Let All due our 3’4 14 vet next ri- w IK ‘4 6 chess as PE IE PROBLEM No 15 by J L MILLINS 3 October 1920 6 G Black — 9 pieces IVhlli Kluk 3 QxKP i ll BlsHOI Hi h 6 1 0 a bye for match is Vernon present S Scham-C Ceruzzi Hogrefe 1 Let them die "Old Year's sad is a will Ver- University en-D H McClel-G Rosenblatt Uni-only and ad-the the llUitia LAR 'V Mojnir NxRP R— H or your convenience the diagram contrary to usual custom is printed with the Black side of the Board at the bottom This method Will continue throughout the game IVe await your move! It seems fitting that the readers of this column should have a hand in closing another year of chess news Here is a message from a chess player to his fellow “Chess Enthusiasts” Columbia Brooklyn Yeshiva Pitthurgh Brown £t John’s 1 N— KB3 Whit 20'1 2 6'- it is Black 1 ? White 2 Q-B5 mate 2 Q-B3 mate 2 Q-B7 mate B-QN3 is defeated Department 13 which involves a bishop and de-p a w n defences William Aceto Louis McCready playing in at the Marshall Chess & With best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Y’ear.
JOHN C ROL The Reader’s Game week we announced that we again take on the readers column in a correspondence particularly since we had Intercollegiate Chess The Intercollegiate Chess League held its annual tournament last week at the Marshall Chess Club 23 West Tenth Street New York City- City College of New York successfully defended its title of league ’champion by defeating all of the seven other colleges entered and scoring a game total of of a possible 28 New York versity finished second losing to City College in the seventh final round Columbia University and Brooklyn College tied for third position and Yeshiva of Manhattan filled the fifth place Pittsburgh Brown and St John’s followed in the order given Two tounds of play were held daily from Tuesday to Thursday and yesterday City College and New York University met in a final match to decide the championship all other colleges playing hut unable to overtake the leaders Players on the winning City College team were N Beckhardt D Hellman W Jacobs and M Ham- ermesh New York tered H D Cutler lan M- W Herrick and E B Hodes White — 8 pieces While Mates in Two Solutions mrut b tn th tmily A-cn office by the setnn-t Wednesday following ruhllcailon The theme will be de-ecrlbed two weeks after publication Three examples of played in the colleges Taken from the Intercollegiate matches played at the Marshall Chess Club.
The first a comedy of errors The second a seven move mate The third puts a sting in its tail by announcing mate in three IRREGULAR II M-Clpllnn If If If ”he “try” of by 1 P-K3 Correct solutions were received from A J Bastine J C A R Dwyer red Higgins and John C Rolff (We apologize for not spelling your name correctly last week) We express our thanks to our fans for the good wishes which have been extended to us during the holiday week and wish them all in return “A Happy and Prosperous New Year” P— KI X-Qlll Ben W Vernonite tournament Club has added another point to his score He has now scored six wins and two losses There pretty good chance that he end up in the money Mount non’s pulling for you Ben p— K X— K B3 R— Bl BOX SCORE M at-hes IV I ex-Mount the “B” Problem Problem No the sacrifice of feat of three seemed to provide a little trouble for a few of our solvers The notation: 7 K 3 p p 1 p 1 6 R n 4 k 1 N 1 2 B 2 p 1 R 8 1 N Q n 4 6 B 1 The Key Move 1 B-K6 The Pawn Defences: Black 1 PxB 1 P-Q3 1 P-Q4 Let us forget Longings” All fool desires And with the belongings” Let's build a bonfire reaching to the sky And as the flames grim spectres of the past upward flare as madly they carouse oir immortal souls from out them cast unworthy thought so quickly they espouse More worthy cause — and in turn arouse High noble aims within our breasts or these are the tests.
That stamp true greatness On MAN’s groping soul These are the beacons that point unto The Goal V Shnpwin John’ Black j r— While Black Per RIrk announced mate In Games 14 7 The first round of team matches which constitute the chief activity of the Westchester County Chess League ended last night after a oerween Mount and White Plains the county champions Mount Vernon won 4-1 with three wins and two draws This gives Mount Vernon a full point lead toward the championship Second place is tied for by the Rye Chess Club and the Holsatia Chess Club of Yonkers The Yonkers Jewish Community Center which formed its chess club this Winter is in fourth place The reiblts in last night’s match vhich vav played at the Mount Vernon Chess Club 9 South Third Avenue is as follows: White Plains players listed first in each pair: D Hoffman ’2 A S Meyer 1i G M Sharrard 0 Dr A A Blasi 1 K Blake M Hacker H uhs 0 J W Earnhardt 1 Dotsch 0 M Krieger 1 The following table gives the box score as it stands at the end of the first round Two more rounds between the same clubs re main to be played Club Matches jiouni vernon i’i Holsatia 2 Bye 2 illite Plain! 1 J C C Yonkers P— Q4 P— K4 N— KH3 R— Q B J B— Q5 BxN ch T— QB4 B— B3? QR3 Resigns OPIAING the “Old Year’s Last would of this game received a definite challenge from Albert R Dwyer With the best of intentions we started the play However with Christmas breaking into things work on the diagrams was delayed The diagram below shows our first move 1 N — KB3 Each week the chart will record Black an- swers and our replies Send all suggestions for Black Moves to The Daily Argus Chess Editor.
Replies must be in by Wednesday 9 s The three games that were journed in the match between Mount Vernon Chess Club and Jewish Community Center of Yonkers added two and one-half points to Mount Vernon’s score Arthur Meyer’s game with Leon Blumenthal and Alexander Eolis’ game with S Moskowitz were judged wins for the local players and the game between Max Hacker and I Machtey was decided a draw The final score for the match gave Mount Vernon the win by 4-lIL The Jewish Community Center played its first round game with Rye at the Mount Vernon Chess Club last Wednesday ive players were entered on each side and Rye won three and one-half points of the total Individual sscores: Rye players listed first: C Dowd 1 L Blumenthal 0 M J Scharf 0 I Machtey 1 ach 1 T Blumenthal 0 Is S Moskowitz H Dr William Singer 0 Mount Vernon draws next week The next scheduled for January 11 at Rye Mount Vernon C C Max Hacker and Milton Krieger are tied for the lead in the championship tournament at the Mount Vernon Chess Club Each has played through three rounds without loss Dr Blasi is second yith 2-0 P L Cromelin H Schipf H oley and P Stevens Jr have one point each In the secondary tournament Albert R Dwyer and J W Murphy are in first place with three wins each Davis and Harry Bradbury two winning points each The fourth round begins today and will continue until day KM 14 Q— B5ch 14 K— K2 15 B— Qo 15 p S3 16 B— B4 IS P— KR3 17 K— R 17 K— Q2 IS RxPch IS KxR 19 RQ cli la x — B2 IjsQ co QRjR 1 Q— K3 ci p— Qi C2 P— QR4 C2 B— N4 23 B — Q3 23 B — B 24 P— QN3 24 R — Q2 25 P — B3 25 P — KR4 2S P—Rj Rxp K — 27 QR — B2 2S QxP7 26 R-RS N 2a’ 2’- B— K c n K— R jo RxB nla County League follow: 1 r— KI l P— K4 2 R— B4 2 N— KB3 3 N— KR3 3 N— B3 4 P— Qi 4 QXiP Rxfrh 5 K— K2 a R— QH NxN r-h ? QxN 7 K— K R— KNS B— KJ 9 r— QN3 U N— QBI R— NJ 11 on— Q 11 p— Q3 K B— K8 12 R— KB M BlB.
JOHN C ROL The Reader’s Game week we announced that we again take on the readers column in a correspondence particularly since we had Intercollegiate Chess The Intercollegiate Chess League held its annual tournament last week at the Marshall Chess Club 23 West Tenth Street New York City- City College of New York successfully defended its title of league ’champion by defeating all of the seven other colleges entered and scoring a game total of of a possible 28 New York versity finished second losing to City College in the seventh final round Columbia University and Brooklyn College tied for third position and Yeshiva of Manhattan filled the fifth place Pittsburgh Brown and St John’s followed in the order given Two tounds of play were held daily from Tuesday to Thursday and yesterday City College and New York University met in a final match to decide the championship all other colleges playing hut unable to overtake the leaders Players on the winning City College team were N Beckhardt D Hellman W Jacobs and M Ham- ermesh New York tered H D Cutler lan M- W Herrick and E B Hodes White — 8 pieces While Mates in Two Solutions mrut b tn th tmily A-cn office by the setnn-t Wednesday following ruhllcailon The theme will be de-ecrlbed two weeks after publication Three examples of played in the colleges Taken from the Intercollegiate matches played at the Marshall Chess Club.
The first a comedy of errors The second a seven move mate The third puts a sting in its tail by announcing mate in three IRREGULAR II M-Clpllnn If If If ”he “try” of by 1 P-K3 Correct solutions were received from A J Bastine J C A R Dwyer red Higgins and John C Rolff (We apologize for not spelling your name correctly last week) We express our thanks to our fans for the good wishes which have been extended to us during the holiday week and wish them all in return “A Happy and Prosperous New Year” P— KI X-Qlll Ben W Vernonite tournament Club has added another point to his score He has now scored six wins and two losses There pretty good chance that he end up in the money Mount non’s pulling for you Ben p— K X— K B3 R— Bl BOX SCORE M at-hes IV I ex-Mount the “B” Problem Problem No the sacrifice of feat of three seemed to provide a little trouble for a few of our solvers The notation: 7 K 3 p p 1 p 1 6 R n 4 k 1 N 1 2 B 2 p 1 R 8 1 N Q n 4 6 B 1 The Key Move 1 B-K6 The Pawn Defences: Black 1 PxB 1 P-Q3 1 P-Q4 Let us forget Longings” All fool desires And with the belongings” Let's build a bonfire reaching to the sky And as the flames grim spectres of the past upward flare as madly they carouse oir immortal souls from out them cast unworthy thought so quickly they espouse More worthy cause — and in turn arouse High noble aims within our breasts or these are the tests.
That stamp true greatness On MAN’s groping soul These are the beacons that point unto The Goal V Shnpwin John’ Black j r— While Black Per RIrk announced mate In Games 14 7 The first round of team matches which constitute the chief activity of the Westchester County Chess League ended last night after a oerween Mount and White Plains the county champions Mount Vernon won 4-1 with three wins and two draws This gives Mount Vernon a full point lead toward the championship Second place is tied for by the Rye Chess Club and the Holsatia Chess Club of Yonkers The Yonkers Jewish Community Center which formed its chess club this Winter is in fourth place The reiblts in last night’s match vhich vav played at the Mount Vernon Chess Club 9 South Third Avenue is as follows: White Plains players listed first in each pair: D Hoffman ’2 A S Meyer 1i G M Sharrard 0 Dr A A Blasi 1 K Blake M Hacker H uhs 0 J W Earnhardt 1 Dotsch 0 M Krieger 1 The following table gives the box score as it stands at the end of the first round Two more rounds between the same clubs re main to be played Club Matches jiouni vernon i’i Holsatia 2 Bye 2 illite Plain! 1 J C C Yonkers P— Q4 P— K4 N— KH3 R— Q B J B— Q5 BxN ch T— QB4 B— B3? QR3 Resigns OPIAING the “Old Year’s Last would of this game received a definite challenge from Albert R Dwyer With the best of intentions we started the play However with Christmas breaking into things work on the diagrams was delayed The diagram below shows our first move 1 N — KB3 Each week the chart will record Black an- swers and our replies Send all suggestions for Black Moves to The Daily Argus Chess Editor.
Replies must be in by Wednesday 9 s The three games that were journed in the match between Mount Vernon Chess Club and Jewish Community Center of Yonkers added two and one-half points to Mount Vernon’s score Arthur Meyer’s game with Leon Blumenthal and Alexander Eolis’ game with S Moskowitz were judged wins for the local players and the game between Max Hacker and I Machtey was decided a draw The final score for the match gave Mount Vernon the win by 4-lIL The Jewish Community Center played its first round game with Rye at the Mount Vernon Chess Club last Wednesday ive players were entered on each side and Rye won three and one-half points of the total Individual sscores: Rye players listed first: C Dowd 1 L Blumenthal 0 M J Scharf 0 I Machtey 1 ach 1 T Blumenthal 0 Is S Moskowitz H Dr William Singer 0 Mount Vernon draws next week The next scheduled for January 11 at Rye Mount Vernon C C Max Hacker and Milton Krieger are tied for the lead in the championship tournament at the Mount Vernon Chess Club Each has played through three rounds without loss Dr Blasi is second yith 2-0 P L Cromelin H Schipf H oley and P Stevens Jr have one point each In the secondary tournament Albert R Dwyer and J W Murphy are in first place with three wins each Davis and Harry Bradbury two winning points each The fourth round begins today and will continue until day KM 14 Q— B5ch 14 K— K2 15 B— Qo 15 p S3 16 B— B4 IS P— KR3 17 K— R 17 K— Q2 IS RxPch IS KxR 19 RQ cli la x — B2 IjsQ co QRjR 1 Q— K3 ci p— Qi C2 P— QR4 C2 B— N4 23 B — Q3 23 B — B 24 P— QN3 24 R — Q2 25 P — B3 25 P — KR4 2S P—Rj Rxp K — 27 QR — B2 2S QxP7 26 R-RS N 2a’ 2’- B— K c n K— R jo RxB nla County League follow: 1 r— KI l P— K4 2 R— B4 2 N— KB3 3 N— KR3 3 N— B3 4 P— Qi 4 QXiP Rxfrh 5 K— K2 a R— QH NxN r-h ? QxN 7 K— K R— KNS B— KJ 9 r— QN3 U N— QBI R— NJ 11 on— Q 11 p— Q3 K B— K8 12 R— KB M BlB.
Mount Vernon Chess Club Rises Fast in 18 Months 31 Dec 1932, Sat Mount Vernon Argus (White Plains, New York) Newspapers.com
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Mount Vernon Chess Club Rises ast In 18 Months Group Boasts Many Victories — Holds ull Point Lead In March for County Crown By PAUL L CROMELIN Chess Editor Throughout the world interest in chess has been marked by a steadily rising line on the graph ot progress rank Janet in a recent talk to the Mount Vernon Chess Club compared the present increasing activity with similar occurrences in other post-war periods in history explaining that this phenomenon is a natural sequence to an emotional disruption of man’s ordinarily tranquil existence ' The increased mental activity caused by a war finds itself abruptly after armistice with no outlet for intelligences geared for action The natural result is that interests of a mental theme find a prominent position in the lives of a people seeking readjustment Coinciding with this period another- element has added to the present interest in chess.
New ideas have been brought to the game These have destroyed the statements ot many masters who held that all there was to know about the board play had been discovered The natural reaction to such deleterious thought would be a falling oft of interest Such was the actual reaction But men of stature arose and applied themselves and produced ideas which they backed up by ovex- the board play Aroxx Nim-zowitsch who revived the Paulsen Variation of the rench Defense not only revived it but gave it new life — Richard Retl who conceived the idea that neither 1 P-K4 nor 1 P-Q4 might be the best opening of a game ox- the best defense and developed the Reti Games — Alexander Alekhine the present world’s champion after whom the Alekhine Defense was rightly named — Saviel-5 ly Taxtakower specialist in the Dutch Defense — Capablanca Bog-oljubow Gruenfeld Saemisch Torre and others All of these contributed ’ to ' the literature of chess the king of games for more than 5000 years and by doing so caused the game to be talked about- Interest rose the press picked up the stories and more and more the general public brought forth their neglected boards Little cliques of players formed chess clubs grew in size and number publications appeared — The Twentieth Century chess era had arrived Action In City Chess players in Mount Vernon rose to the new banner About a year and xi half ago the first active chess club known to this city was formed Orrin C Cross and the late Harold White both of the Mount Vernon ’ Recreation Commission formed the nucleus ’of a club and authorized the use of the Campbell House 36 irst Avenue on 'Thursday nights Devoted to both chess and checkers the group met weekly A championship tournament was held and Dr Anthony A Blasi played against nine others to take the title undefeated Ben W McCready finished second and third place was tied for by Paul L Cromelin and Robert J Reichert former city champion rom a secondary group of 11 players Michael J Lyons won first prize.
Henriette Eolia finished second and Louis Davis well known already as the checker champion of the city won third place During this tournament the Mount Vernon Club had been participating in the Westchester County League team matches Each week a match was played with a club from White Plains Yonkers Crestwood and Greenwich Conn The season ended with Mount Vernon tied for second place with the Holsatia C C of Yonkers White Plains won the series losing only 1 1-2 points out of a possible 12 Mount Vernon the youngest entry ot all had been the only club to score against it The Mount Vernon Recreation Commission organized a tournament to decide the city champion Dr Blasi again finished unbeaten winning in the finals from Max Ilgtcker4 On May 1 at the Roger Smith Hotel in White Plains the firt open tournament ever held to decide the county champion began Entries included such strong players as Mr Hacker Seymour Is-rael Martin Harkavy and Mr Cxomelin of Mount Vernon George M Sharrard David Hoffman Harry Svigals Richard Stoughton and Kaj Seidler ot White Plains: Max Scharf and Charles Dowd of Rye Mr Hacker won the title and the first leg on the trophy presented by the Roger Smith Hotel by defeating Dowd in the finals Holds Dinner On riday May 13 the league held its first “Chess Dinner” at Cromelin’s Restaurant here Herman Helms editor of the American Chess Bulletin and guest ot honor spoke on organized activity.
He praised The Daily Argus for its interest in local affairs as evidenced to him by the chess column Mr Cromelin presented the league trophy to White Plains and the Roger Smith trophy to Mr Hacker Plans were made to hold the dinner annually During the Summer chess activity died down and on July 7 the chess column was suspended for a few weeks The foundation for the present Mount Vernon Chess Club was laid in conferences during July and August and on September 5 the club moved Into permanent quarters at 9 South Third Avenue After this Informal opening the membership increased gradually and today numbers in excess of 40 Meetings are held every night The official opening of the Mount Vernon Chess Club was set for October 1 and on that date rank J Marshall champion of the United States made his first appearance in Mount Vernon He played simultaneously against 25 before a great throng which packed Crom-elin’s Colonial room and scored 20 wins four draws and one loss to George M Sharrard White Plains rank Janet dedicated the club with a talk on the history of chess The chess column reappeared on September 24 On August 15 Dr Alexander Alekhine world’s champion began play in a master’s tournament at Pasadena under the auspices of the California Chess Congress Emerging with first prize which hnd been expected he traveled to Mexico City where he was compelled to divide first money with young Isaac Kashdan champion ot the Manhattan C' C nt New York City Neither playex '' lost a game and they drew their own meeting rom Mexico he returned to New York to fill engagements for simultaneous exhi-A bitions.
Upon his arrival on November 3 The Daily Argus scooped the Metropolitan district by assigning the chess editor to interview the world’s title holder The Interview appeared in The Daily ’ Argus November 7- - ij ! On November 6 at the Hun-ii garia International Chess Club in-Yorkville New York City Alek- hine met 40 opponents and blindfolded on one board won 28 including the blindfoldex! game' drawing 5 and losing 7 Mrs Paul L Cromelin Mount Vernon was one of his successful opponents Meet Alekhine On-Election Day 50 teams of 4 players each a total of -200 adversaries met Alekhine on the drill floor of the 7th Regiment Armory Park Avenue New York City The Daily Argus entered a team composed of Mr Cromelin Dr Blasi Mr Hacker and Milton Krieger Play began at 3 o’clock In the afternoon and at 3 in the morning after 12 continuous hours of play The Daily Argus team emerged victorious Alekhine’s score was 28 wins 16 draws and six losses a slightly better showing than the one made by Capablanca in 1931 These successes drew attention and members to the Mount Vernon Chess Club Visitor’s nights were Inaugurated Rapid transit tournaments an Innovation to many were held A handicap tournament had been installed and met with immediate approval The club championship tournament began three weeks ago and a secondary tournament paralleled it The club entered the Westchester County Chess League and at present holds a full point lead In the march for the county championship Surely 1932 has bem a signal year in Mount Vernon’s chess history And 'with the continuation of present activities in addition to plans formulated for future events further growth of chess interest may be safely predicted
New ideas have been brought to the game These have destroyed the statements ot many masters who held that all there was to know about the board play had been discovered The natural reaction to such deleterious thought would be a falling oft of interest Such was the actual reaction But men of stature arose and applied themselves and produced ideas which they backed up by ovex- the board play Aroxx Nim-zowitsch who revived the Paulsen Variation of the rench Defense not only revived it but gave it new life — Richard Retl who conceived the idea that neither 1 P-K4 nor 1 P-Q4 might be the best opening of a game ox- the best defense and developed the Reti Games — Alexander Alekhine the present world’s champion after whom the Alekhine Defense was rightly named — Saviel-5 ly Taxtakower specialist in the Dutch Defense — Capablanca Bog-oljubow Gruenfeld Saemisch Torre and others All of these contributed ’ to ' the literature of chess the king of games for more than 5000 years and by doing so caused the game to be talked about- Interest rose the press picked up the stories and more and more the general public brought forth their neglected boards Little cliques of players formed chess clubs grew in size and number publications appeared — The Twentieth Century chess era had arrived Action In City Chess players in Mount Vernon rose to the new banner About a year and xi half ago the first active chess club known to this city was formed Orrin C Cross and the late Harold White both of the Mount Vernon ’ Recreation Commission formed the nucleus ’of a club and authorized the use of the Campbell House 36 irst Avenue on 'Thursday nights Devoted to both chess and checkers the group met weekly A championship tournament was held and Dr Anthony A Blasi played against nine others to take the title undefeated Ben W McCready finished second and third place was tied for by Paul L Cromelin and Robert J Reichert former city champion rom a secondary group of 11 players Michael J Lyons won first prize.
Henriette Eolia finished second and Louis Davis well known already as the checker champion of the city won third place During this tournament the Mount Vernon Club had been participating in the Westchester County League team matches Each week a match was played with a club from White Plains Yonkers Crestwood and Greenwich Conn The season ended with Mount Vernon tied for second place with the Holsatia C C of Yonkers White Plains won the series losing only 1 1-2 points out of a possible 12 Mount Vernon the youngest entry ot all had been the only club to score against it The Mount Vernon Recreation Commission organized a tournament to decide the city champion Dr Blasi again finished unbeaten winning in the finals from Max Ilgtcker4 On May 1 at the Roger Smith Hotel in White Plains the firt open tournament ever held to decide the county champion began Entries included such strong players as Mr Hacker Seymour Is-rael Martin Harkavy and Mr Cxomelin of Mount Vernon George M Sharrard David Hoffman Harry Svigals Richard Stoughton and Kaj Seidler ot White Plains: Max Scharf and Charles Dowd of Rye Mr Hacker won the title and the first leg on the trophy presented by the Roger Smith Hotel by defeating Dowd in the finals Holds Dinner On riday May 13 the league held its first “Chess Dinner” at Cromelin’s Restaurant here Herman Helms editor of the American Chess Bulletin and guest ot honor spoke on organized activity.
He praised The Daily Argus for its interest in local affairs as evidenced to him by the chess column Mr Cromelin presented the league trophy to White Plains and the Roger Smith trophy to Mr Hacker Plans were made to hold the dinner annually During the Summer chess activity died down and on July 7 the chess column was suspended for a few weeks The foundation for the present Mount Vernon Chess Club was laid in conferences during July and August and on September 5 the club moved Into permanent quarters at 9 South Third Avenue After this Informal opening the membership increased gradually and today numbers in excess of 40 Meetings are held every night The official opening of the Mount Vernon Chess Club was set for October 1 and on that date rank J Marshall champion of the United States made his first appearance in Mount Vernon He played simultaneously against 25 before a great throng which packed Crom-elin’s Colonial room and scored 20 wins four draws and one loss to George M Sharrard White Plains rank Janet dedicated the club with a talk on the history of chess The chess column reappeared on September 24 On August 15 Dr Alexander Alekhine world’s champion began play in a master’s tournament at Pasadena under the auspices of the California Chess Congress Emerging with first prize which hnd been expected he traveled to Mexico City where he was compelled to divide first money with young Isaac Kashdan champion ot the Manhattan C' C nt New York City Neither playex '' lost a game and they drew their own meeting rom Mexico he returned to New York to fill engagements for simultaneous exhi-A bitions.
Upon his arrival on November 3 The Daily Argus scooped the Metropolitan district by assigning the chess editor to interview the world’s title holder The Interview appeared in The Daily ’ Argus November 7- - ij ! On November 6 at the Hun-ii garia International Chess Club in-Yorkville New York City Alek- hine met 40 opponents and blindfolded on one board won 28 including the blindfoldex! game' drawing 5 and losing 7 Mrs Paul L Cromelin Mount Vernon was one of his successful opponents Meet Alekhine On-Election Day 50 teams of 4 players each a total of -200 adversaries met Alekhine on the drill floor of the 7th Regiment Armory Park Avenue New York City The Daily Argus entered a team composed of Mr Cromelin Dr Blasi Mr Hacker and Milton Krieger Play began at 3 o’clock In the afternoon and at 3 in the morning after 12 continuous hours of play The Daily Argus team emerged victorious Alekhine’s score was 28 wins 16 draws and six losses a slightly better showing than the one made by Capablanca in 1931 These successes drew attention and members to the Mount Vernon Chess Club Visitor’s nights were Inaugurated Rapid transit tournaments an Innovation to many were held A handicap tournament had been installed and met with immediate approval The club championship tournament began three weeks ago and a secondary tournament paralleled it The club entered the Westchester County Chess League and at present holds a full point lead In the march for the county championship Surely 1932 has bem a signal year in Mount Vernon’s chess history And 'with the continuation of present activities in addition to plans formulated for future events further growth of chess interest may be safely predicted
