Chess 07 Jul 1937, Wed Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
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BY PAUL J. MILLER. Jr. QRGANIZED chess in the District is booming, as evidenced from the spirit of co-cperation that characterized the conclave of delegates from all chess groups in. the District at the Parkside Hotel last night, when the Metropolitan Chess Association announced its activity program for the Fall and Winter season.
On the calendar are any number of tournaments, the salient ones being: Champion of champions tournament, amateur championship of the District, quintet championship. Interhigh Chess Association team tourney, individual interscholastic championship, ladies’ championship of the District and records for simultaneous exhibition play and skittles. The Metropolitan Chess Association was organized in 1936 and is the strongest chess aggregation of clubs and private chess groups that has been developed in the Nation’s Capitol. All the official titles of the District are those only recognized and approved by the M. C. A. To have a bona fide District tournament of any kind it is all important to have the endorsement of the association which speaks officially for organized cooperative chess throughout the District. It is of no consequence to publicise fly-by-the-night tournaments that some over-zealous fan may choose to dub an official tournament. The public likes the real thing and the M. C. A. seeks to lend weight and authority to any formal chess activity in the District. Only by means of a policy of organized co-operative chess may the royal game be advanced. Schisms and personal differences are millstones around Caissa’s neck and no player is at his best in any tournament when he feels there is some doubt as to the value of the crown at issue. The officers of the M. C. A. have hitched their little red wagon to a star of the first magnitude and are whizzing along the rocky road to success—l^ocky^becausethCTeareever a few rugged individualists who loath team work, principally because they still live in a world of one-horse buggies. gIMON NAIDEL, chairman of the Washington Social Chess Divan Tournament Committee, says an open tourney will be initiated tonight at 8 o’clock at the Social Chess Lounge, 1336 I street northwest. Members of the divan and July additions may compete on an equal basis in the match.
Norval Wigginton, secretary, will be present to extend July membership cards to any interested fans. The fee is $1.25 for July, or $3 for July, August and September.
On the calendar are any number of tournaments, the salient ones being: Champion of champions tournament, amateur championship of the District, quintet championship. Interhigh Chess Association team tourney, individual interscholastic championship, ladies’ championship of the District and records for simultaneous exhibition play and skittles. The Metropolitan Chess Association was organized in 1936 and is the strongest chess aggregation of clubs and private chess groups that has been developed in the Nation’s Capitol. All the official titles of the District are those only recognized and approved by the M. C. A. To have a bona fide District tournament of any kind it is all important to have the endorsement of the association which speaks officially for organized cooperative chess throughout the District. It is of no consequence to publicise fly-by-the-night tournaments that some over-zealous fan may choose to dub an official tournament. The public likes the real thing and the M. C. A. seeks to lend weight and authority to any formal chess activity in the District. Only by means of a policy of organized co-operative chess may the royal game be advanced. Schisms and personal differences are millstones around Caissa’s neck and no player is at his best in any tournament when he feels there is some doubt as to the value of the crown at issue. The officers of the M. C. A. have hitched their little red wagon to a star of the first magnitude and are whizzing along the rocky road to success—l^ocky^becausethCTeareever a few rugged individualists who loath team work, principally because they still live in a world of one-horse buggies. gIMON NAIDEL, chairman of the Washington Social Chess Divan Tournament Committee, says an open tourney will be initiated tonight at 8 o’clock at the Social Chess Lounge, 1336 I street northwest. Members of the divan and July additions may compete on an equal basis in the match.
Norval Wigginton, secretary, will be present to extend July membership cards to any interested fans. The fee is $1.25 for July, or $3 for July, August and September.
